Question

    If you go shopping in any toy store, you can see clearly the different games and toys for boys and girls: there are a lot of pink toys on one side of the store for girls and dark colored cars, guns, and soldiers for boys. Some big stores with toys may even have a pink floor for girls and a blue floor for boys. In fact, it is difficult to buy a toy for a girl that is not pink.

Some people think that too much pink is bad for girls. Sue Palmer, writer of Toxic Childhood, is very worried that most girls over the age of three are crazy about the color. According to some scientists, this happens for two reasons. Firstly, most companies offer too many products in pink. Also, many parents think their little daughter looks cute in pink. Sue Palmer says that girls at this age cannot make proper decisions by themselves, but the pink can affect (影响) the choices and the decisions they will make in the future.

Some parents are worried too. For example, Vanessa Holburn, thirty-two, who has two girls under the age of four. Their bedrooms are a sea of pink and Vanessa is not happy. “Pink says that you are soft and gentle. Blue says that you are strong and powerful. I want my daughters to be strong and powerful. I'm worried that pink will not help them with that,” she says.

But not everyone thinks there's something wrong with pink, Grayson Turner is a father of three girls and he isn't worried at all, “People forget that things change all the time,” he says. “My girls used to love pink when they were little but as they get older, they change.” Turner explains that his twelve-year-old daughter never wears pink clothes anymore. “This love of pink is just a fashion and all fashions change,” he adds. “It’s only since the 1940s that people have started dressing girls in pink-before that it was a color for boys.”

根据短文内容，选择正确答案。

1.How many reasons are there for most girls are crazy about pink?

A.Two B.Three C.Four

2.Which of the following best shows the structure of the passage?

A.①②/③④ B.①/②/③/④ C.①/②③/④

3.The underlined word "that" in Paragraph 3 means ________.

A.being soft and gentle

B.being strong and powerful

C.being gentle but powerful

4.According to Grayson Turner, ________.

A.parents needn't worry about pink toys

B.all little kids love the color pink

C.pink has always been a color for girls

5.The purpose of this passage is to ________.

A.explain why girls are crazy about the color pink

B.make parents less worried about the color pink

C.show people's different opinions about the color pink.

Answer

1.A

2.C

3.B

4.A

5.C

【解析】

女孩子买玩具或者衣服的时候爱好粉色的，而男孩的是蓝色的。人们就女孩喜欢粉色提出不同的观点和看法，有人担心粉色对女孩不好，有人觉得无需为此担忧。

1.

细节理解题。根据第二段“According to some scientists, this happens for two reasons.”可知根据一些科学家的说法，大多数女孩都喜欢粉红色有两个原因，故选A。

2.

篇章结构题。根据文意可知，第一段提出了问题，第二段和第三段分别介绍了担心粉色对女孩不好的一些人和一些家长的看法；第四段则提出了反面的观点，一些家长觉得粉色没有什么不好；由此可知C选项符合文章的篇章逻辑，故选C。

3.

词义猜测题。that是一个代词，代指上文提到的事情，根据第三段“Pink says that you are soft and gentle. Blue says that you are strong and powerful. I want my daughters to be strong and powerful. I'm worried that pink will not help with that" she says”可知Vanessa想让自己的女儿强壮、有力，但她担心粉色不能帮助女儿们那样。可知 that 代指的是上句话中提到的strong and powerful；故选B。

4.

细节理解题。根据第四段“But not everyone thinks there's something wrong with pink, Grayson Turner is a father of three girls and he isn't worried at all,”可知Grayson Turner觉得无需为女孩喜欢粉色玩具担忧，故选A。

5.

主旨大意题。根据短文第二段第一句话Some people think that too much pink is bad for girls.第三段第一句话 Some parents are worried 及第四段第一句话But not everyone thinks there's something wrong with pink可知，这篇短文介绍了人们对粉色给孩子带来的影响的不同看法。故选C。