【推荐1】 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
_______ children’s book. Either the writer 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 should be _______ very difficult nor very simple, and satisfy the _______ who hears the story and the adult who _______ it. Unfortunately(不幸的是), 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 ________ of children’s literature were in fact written for __________― “Alice in Wonderland” is perhaps the most obvious of this.
Children, left for themselves, often ________ the worst possible interest in literature. Just leave a child in a bookshop or a ________ 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(妥协) over the bedtime story.
1. 2. 3. | A．easy | B．short | C．high | D．difficult |
4. 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. 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 |
