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【题目】As any parent knows too well, sometimes a little white lie is the only way to make a naughty child quiet. Indeed, parents have shared the top white lies they’ve told their children. While some of them are amusing, others are somewhat cruel.

“Father Christmas is watching you,” “Carrots will make you see in the dark” and “Your pet has gone to live on a farm” are among the top white lies parents tell their children. The top 20 list of little lies that adults use shows that four in five parents have told their children something that isn’t true. The threat of Father Christmas is on the top, with 62 percent of parents employing St. Nick to keep their kids under control. The second on the list is: “We’ll see”, which any little one knows really means “no”.

The majority of British people say that they lie to their children to protect their innocence, to save them from being upset or to stop them behaving badly. The top white lie told to kids about their pets is “your pet has to live on a farm in the countryside”, which is employed after one dies or has gone missing. On average, parents think that children are ready to start learning about death at the age of seven and a half.

One 62-year-old recalled that when he was four, his cat ran away, because it kept having its tail pulled. It was 53 years later that it was revealed that the cat had actually been given away to stop it from scratching the furniture. One respondent (应答者) said that he still remembered that when he was young, he believed his father’s statement that the entire world used to be in black and white before colour photography came along.

Forty percent of parents say that they would definitely lie to their children to keep up their belief in Father Christmas, and over all say they’d certainly tell the truth about a pet dying. However, one in ten parents say they’ve replaced their children’s dead pet with a one looking the same to cheat their children into believing it was still alive and well, found the study by Blue Cross pet charity.

【1】The threat of Father Christmas which is used to control children shows that .

A. some children fear and respect Father Christmas

B. Father Christmas is more important than parents

C. children should learn more about festivals

D. Father Christmas does live in the world

【2】What can we conclude from Paragraph 4?

A. Children don’t understand why their parents tell white lies.

B. Parents’ white lies may do harm to their children.

C. Children don’t really mind their parents’ white lies.

D. Parents’ white lies may leave a deep impression on their children

【3】What is the main idea of the last paragraph?

A. Parents’ different understandings of while lies.

B. Parents’ different attitudes to telling white lies.

C. Parents’ different worries about white lies.

D. Parents’ different white lies.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】A

【2】A

【3】B

【解析】文章分析了父母在孩子儿时说的善意的谎言的内容、作用、对孩子的深远影响和现在父母对此不同的态度。

【1】A推理判断题。许多父母用“Father Christmas is watching you,”来使淘气的孩子变安静，并且一直延用有效，表明一些孩子从内心害怕和崇敬圣诞老人，故选A。

【2】A推理判断题。第四段的例子说明：一个62岁的老人回忆父母在他4岁时说的谎言，他53年后才知道了事情的真相；另一个例子孩子小时候，父亲告诉他世界完全是黑白色的，直到彩色照片出现前他一直以为父亲说的是对的。这两个例子说明父母的谎言会给孩子留下很深的印象，故选A。

【3】B主旨大意题。根据最后一段Forty percent of parents say that they would definitely lie to their children to keep up their belief…, over half say they’d certainly tell the truth和one in ten parents say they’ve replaced their children’s dead pet…可知，本段主要讲述父母对善意谎言的不同态度，故选B。