完形填空 先通读下面的短文,掌握其大意,然后在每小题所给的四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Most parents, I suppose, have had the experience of reading a bedtime story
____ their children. And they must have realized how difficult it is to write a good children’s book. Either the author has aimed too
____, so that children can’t follow what is in his ( or more often, her ) story,________
the story seems to be talking to the readers.
The best children’s books are
____ very difficult nor very simple, and satisfy the child who hears the story and the adult who reads it. Unfortunately, there are in fact few books like this,
_____ the problem of finding the right bedtime story is not
____ to solve. This may be why many of the books regarded as works of children’s literature were in fact written for
____. “Alice in Wonderland” is perhaps the most obvious(明显)of this.
Children, left for themselves, often
____ the worst possible interest in literature. Just leave a child in a bookshop or a library and he will more willingly choose the books written in an unimaginative way, or have a look at the most children’s comics, full of the stories and jokes which are the rejections of teachers and righting-thinking parents.
Perhaps we parents should stop
_____ to brainwash(洗脑)children into accepting our taste in literature. After all, children and adults are so
____ that we parents should not expect that they will enjoy the same books. So I suppose we’ll just have to compromise over the bedtime story.
15. 16. A.easy | B.short | C.high | D.difficult |
17. 18. A.both | B.neither | C.either | D.very |
19. A.but | B.however | C.so | D.because |
20. A.hard | B.easy | C.enough | D.fast |
21. A.grown-ups | B.girls | C.boys | D.children |
22. 23. A.going | B.liking | C.trying | D.preferring |
24. A.same | B.friendly | C.different | D.common |