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【题目】Neil Gaiman is an English author of lots of science fiction and fantasy works.【1】His argument is that children shouldn’t be discouraged from reading what adults may think of as bad books. He is dead right.

A child in a library is an explorer venturing into a land where he has no map to guide him. This is part of the excitement. Everything is new.【2】His taste is yet unformed, and it cannot be formed until he has tried a variety of thing.

Not knowing what books are good or bad, an eager child will try very different things. 【3】At the age of eleven or twelve, I still read Enid Blyton Stevenson’s Kidnapped, was happily terrified by ghost stories and desperately wanted to be Rupert of Hentzau, a most attractive evil character in literature.

A child reads for enjoyment from all sorts of books. I can’t remember when I stopped reading comics like the Wizard and Hotspur, but I’m pretty sure that my reading of them continued even while I was delighted in Sherlock Holmes or in the short stories of HG Wells.

【4】 Never say “Don’t read that rubbish” or “You’re too young for that”. If he is really too young and the book is beyond him, he’ll put it aside. If he doesn’t, then he’s not too young, even if he misses much that an adult reader would find in it.

The only useful thing an adult can do is to give a child a book and say, “I think you might enjoy this.” Don’t complain if he doesn’t like it and turns to something that you think is bad. 【5】

A. Anything he reads may be attractive，too.

B. Everybody has a secret world inside of themselves.

C. For the young reader even a bad book has its own value.

D. Adults should be careful in what they say to a child about his reading.

E. Almost everyone who reads widely as an adult has read wildly as a child.

F. The world always seems brighter when you’ve just made something that wasn’t there before.

G. He is also a productive blogger and the point he gave in one of his blogs surely makes sense.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】G

【2】A

【3】E

【4】D

【5】C

【解析】本文介绍英国科幻作家和多产博客作者Neil Gaiman，他阐述了成年人应该如何看待孩子们阅读的书。因为“对年轻读者来说，即使是一本糟糕的书也有其自身的价值。”

【1】G

根据上句：Neil Gaiman是一位写了许多科幻小说和幻想作品的英国作家。G项中的also是关键词，说明他也是一位多产的博客作者。故选G。

【2】A

根据上句：一切都是新的。再根据下句：他的品味尚未成形。可知，他读的任何东西也都很可能吸引人。故选A。

【3】E

根据上句：不知道什么书是好的还是坏的，一个热切的孩子会尝试不同的东西。由此可推知，几乎每个广泛阅读的成年人作为一个孩子时就已经疯狂地阅读。故选E。

【4】D

根据下文：从来不要说---。never从来没有，在此处是关键词。可知，成年人对孩子说的话要小心。故选D。

【5】C

根据上句：如果他不喜欢这本书，而是转向你认为不好的东西，不要抱怨。因为“对年轻读者来说，即使是一本糟糕的书也有其自身的价值。”故选C。

做七选五时，“当心文中小also”，also是“也”的意思，这就说明前文一定存在它的一个分支了，这样的例子比比皆是：前文交代“It helps you practice what you have learnt during the day and establish study habits that will be important in college ”虽然看上去很长的一句话，从句就有两个，但是重点就三个单词“It helps you”，此时在空中填上“It can also help you prepare for your classes and get a sense of progress.”，（关键词It can also help you）这样一对应就很工整了。当然“also”只是一个代表罢了，可以表示递进的词还有很多：what’ more, besides, in addition等等。本题第1小题，根据上句：Neil Gaiman是一位写了许多科幻小说和幻想作品的英国作家。G项中的also是关键词，说明他也是一位多产的博客作者。故选G。