Question

My husband is reading The Secret Garden aloud to our kids. They are at the part where Mary has told Colin that she’s found the garden her mother loved. It’s an exciting moment. But the passage I’m waiting for is a few chapters on, after Colin has tasted his first breaths of fresh air and Mary has grown strong running in the garden. It’s just a detail, but my kids will notice it: a delicious description of roasted potatoes and eggs.

We have a tradition of trying foods from the books we read aloud. It started when we read Elizabeth Enright’s The Saturdays, and one of the boys asked, “What are petit fours?” An answer, my husband and I felt, wouldn’t be as good as a sample. So one Saturday we all sat down having tea and little cakes, covered with pink, green, and yellow. It was exciting for the kids to try a dessert they had learned about in a book. The petit fours they tried didn’t tell them what it was like to live in New York City 60 years ago, but tasting them made the book’s words alive.

Later, when we read C.S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, we had Turkish delight. We read The Penderwicks, written by Jeanne Birdsall, and had gingerbread (姜饼). We read Paddington Bear and tried marmalade.

Soon we will reach the part of The Secret Garden where Mary, Colin, and Dickon roast potatoes and eggs in a small oven (炉) in the earth. My kids will go out into the woods to find the perfect place for an oven of our own. Yes, we’ve eaten potatoes and eggs, but never in the open air.

The world that a good book creates is whole and real, but it lies flat on the page until a reader gives life to it.

1.The text is written mainly to    .

A. show the importance of reading aloud

B. provide a new means of family education

C. discuss food culture in children’s books

D. introduce some interesting books

2.The author believes tasting foods from the books may help children    .

A. understand the books better

B. be friendlier to each other

C. know more about history

D. enjoy more healthy food

3.From the fourth paragraph, we can learn that the author’s family    .

A. will look for a secret garden in the woods

B. will read The Secret Garden in the open air

C. will cook potatoes and eggs in the woods

D. will eat roasted potatoes and eggs at home

4.Which of the following could be the best title of the passage?

A. The best way to make kids learn

B. Eating means more than reading

C. The taste of a good book

D. Our roasted potatoes and eggs

Answer

1.B

2.A

3.C

4.C

【解析】

试题分析：一本书，一段文字将作者的一家人沉溺在幸福的生活当中，书总是作为家人度过欢乐时光的伴侣，并有人生教育意义，本文就这一线索记录了他们的生活。

1.B 考查文章主旨要义。文章的主线是通过阅读等其他方式，教育自己的孩子，从书中明白了许多道理，所以是以另一种方式来教育孩子的，所以答案选择B项。

2.A 考查细节理解。根据原文的 tasting them made the book’s words alive.（书中的内容跃然纸上，变得生动活泼）言外之意，使内容更加生动，所以选择A。

3.C 考查细节理解。根据原文的 Yes, we’ve eaten potatoes and eggs, but never in the open air.（是的，我们能够在书中吃到美味的马铃薯和鸡蛋，而不是在空气中）。

4.

考点：考查记叙文文体。