1 . Most parents, I suppose, have had the experience of reading a bedtime story to their children. And they must have
_______ how difficult it is to write a
_______ children’s book. Either the author has aimed too
_______, so that the 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 both the
_______ who hears the story and the adult who
_______ 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
________ of children’s literature(文学) 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 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
________ to brainwash 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. A.hoped | B.realized | C.told | D.said |
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. 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 |