Question

Most parents, I suppose, have had the experience of reading a bedtime story to their children. And they must have   11   how difficult it is to write a   12   children’s book. Either the author has aimed too   13  , so that the children can’t follow what is in his (or more often, her) story,   14   the story seems to be talking to the readers.

The best children’s books are   15   very difficult nor very simple, and satisfy both the 16   who hears the story and the adult who   17   it. Unfortunately, there are in fact few books like this,   18   the problem of finding the right bedtime story is not   19   to solve. This may be why many of the books regarded as   20   of children’s literature(文学) were in fact written for   21  . “Alice in wonderland” is perhaps the most obvious of this.

Children, left for themselves, often   22   the worst possible interest in literature. Just leave a child in a bookshop or a   23   and he will more willingly choose the books written in an imaginative way, or have a look at most children’s comics(连环画), full of the stories and jokes which are the objections of teachers and right-thinking parents.

Perhaps we parents should stop   24   to brainwash children into accepting our taste in literature. After all children and adults are so   25   that we parents should not expect that they will enjoy the same books. So I suppose we’ll just have to compromise（妥协） over the bedtime story.

1.A. hoped          B. realized       C. told             D. said

2.A. short            B. long        C. bad             D. good

3.A. easy             B. short          C. high            D. difficult

4.A. and           B. but           C. or                D. so

5.A. both         B. neither        C. either                  D. very

6.A. child         B. father         C. mother            D. teacher.

7.A. hears             B. buys            C. understands       D. reads

8.A. but            B. however       C. so                D. because

9.A. hard        B. easy          C. enough            D. fast

10.A. articles       B. work        C. arts             D. works

11.A. grown-ups     B. girls          C. boys            D. children

12.A. become      B. show         C. find             D. add

13.A. school        B. home          C. office              D. library

14.A. going         B. liking   C. trying           D. preferring

15.A. same         B. friendly        C. different         D. common

Answer

1.B

2.D

3.C

4.C

5.B

6.A

7.D

8.C

9.B

10.D

11.A

12.B

13.D

14.C

15.C

【解析】略