题目内容
Fear can be a wonderful feeling in our lives, protecting us from dangerous situations and keeping us safe. But fear can also limit our lives significantly. While it may not be conscious, fear may make us think we are unacceptable or that what we have to offer isn’t valuable. Fear may make us feel that we are not safe being ourselves.
To avoid feeling fear, we may limit our lives greatly, living in tiny boxes. Living this way gives us the illusion(假象) of safety but leaves us with an unfulfilling life of no passion. If we shine a light on many of our fears, we see they have a very limited view of what is “safe” and how to “protect” us. Many of our fears are concerned only with protecting us from humiliation(羞辱) and failure. While these fears are doing their jobs incredibly well, they are doing so with faulty and outdated programming. Many fears we have as adults are trying to protect us as they protected us when we were children. Indeed, many of our current, automatic reactions to fear were actually formed when we were children.
Even so, it’s important not to judge ourselves for feeling these types of fears. If we judge ourselves, we will bury our fears or disguise them. By denying our fears, however, we also deny our energy, creativity and passion.
So what do we do with fear? We recognize the fear for what it is--- a feeling we’ve experienced many times in the past and a feeling we will experience many times in the future. We become very familiar with our own particular brand of fears and how we allow them to control our lives. It is especially beneficial for each of us to become aware of the particular behavior patterns we’ve adopted when we feel fear, so we can look at our reactions with a sense of humor and compassion. Then, if we wish, we can choose a different response, which can be a scary yet very exciting experience.
1.According to the first paragraph, fear sometimes .
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A．protect us when we’ve made mistakes |
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B．makes sure our feelings are not hurt |
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C．brings great change to our everyday life |
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D．makes us lose confidence in ourselves |
2.It can be inferred from the passage that the author .
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A．thinks it difficult to control our fear |
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B．believes fears protect us negatively |
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C．thinks it’s good to criticize ourselves |
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D．values the advantages of feeling fear |
3.According to the author, the ways we react to fear .
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A．vary from person to person |
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B．have been formed since childhood |
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C．develop during our growth |
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D．will not change until we get old |
4.The last paragraph mainly tells us .
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A．what is the essence of fears |
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B．usual reactions we have when feeling fear |
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C．how to deal with fears reasonably |
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D．the importance of humor and compassion |
5.What would be the best title for the passage?
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A．Is fear managing your life? |
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B．Be calm when feeling fear |
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C．What do you fear most? |
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D．Passion, chance and fear |
1.D
2.B
3.B
4.C
5.A
【解析】文章讲述的是在我们小时候就形成的害怕，对于我们的生活常常起着消极作用。
1.推理判断题，根据地一段fear may make us think we are unacceptable or that what we have to offer isn’t valuable可知，害怕会让我们对自己没有足够的信心。
2.推理判断题，根据第二段Living this way gives us the illusion(假象) of safety but leaves us with an unfulfilling life of no passion. If we shine a light on many of our fears, we see they have a very limited view of what is “safe” and how to “protect” us可知，害怕对我们的保护有时候起到消极的作用、
3.事实细节题，根据第二段 Indeed, many of our current, automatic reactions to fear were actually formed when we were children可知，我们的害怕是在小时候就形成了。
4.推理判断题，根据最后一段的开头So what do we do with fear可知，该段主要讲的是克服害怕的方法。
5.主旨大意题，文章讲述的是害怕对我们生活的消极方面的影响和提出的一些建议，
A child who has once been pleased with a tale likes, as a rule, to have it retold in almost the same words, but this should not lead parents to treat printed fairy stories as formal texts. It is always much better to tell a story than read it out of a book, and, if a parent can produce what, in the actual situation of the time and the child, is an improvement on the printed text, so much the better.
A charge made against fairy tales is that they harm the child by frightening him or making him sad thinking. To prove the latter, one would have to show in a controlled experiment that children who have read fairy stories were more often sorry for cruelty than those who had not. As to fears, there are, I think, some cases of children being dangerously terrified by some fairy story. Often, however, this arises from the child having heard the story once. Familiarity with the story by repetition turns the pain of fear into the pleasure of a fear faced and mastered.
There are also people who object to fairy stories on the grounds that they are not objectively true, that giants, witches, two - headed dragons, magic carpets, etc. do not exist; and that, instead of being fond of the strange side in fairy tales, the child should be taught to learn the reality by studying history. I find such people, I must say so peculiar that I do not know how to argue with them. If their case were sound, the world should be full of mad men attempting to fly from New York to Philadelphia on a stick or covering a telephone with kisses in the belief that it was their beloved girl -friend.
No fairy story ever declared to be a description of the real world and no clever child has ever believed that it was.
1.The author considers that a fairy story is more effective when it is ____ .
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A．repeated without any change |
B．treated as a joke |
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C．made some changes by the parent |
D．set in the present |
2.According to the passage, great fear can take place in a child when the story is ____ .
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A．in a realistic setting |
B．heard for the first time |
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C．repeated too often |
D．told in a different way |
3.The advantage claimed (提出) for repeating fairy stories to young children is that it ____.
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A．makes them less fearful |
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B．develops their power of memory |
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C．makes them believe there is nothing to be afraid of |
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D．encourages them not to have strange beliefs |
4.The author's mention of sticks and telephones is meant to suggest that ______.
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A．fairy stories are still being made up |
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B．there is some misunderstanding about fairy tales |
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C．people try to modernize old fairy stories |
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D．there is more concern for children's fears nowadays |
5.One of the reasons why some people are not in favor of fairy tales is that _______.
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A．they are full of imagination |
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B．they just make up the stories which are far from the truth |
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C．they are not interesting |
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D．they make teachers of history difficult to teach |