Most parents, I suppose, have had the experience of reading a bedtime story to their children.And they must have 1 how difficult it is to write a 2 children's book.Either the author has aimed too 3 , so that the children can't follow what is in his (or  more often, her) story, 4 the story seems to be talking to the readers.

The best children's books are 5 very difficult nor very simple, and satisfy both the 6 who hears the story and the adult who 7 it.Unfortunately, there are in fact 8 books like this, 9 the problem of finding the right bedtime story is not 10 to solve.

This may be why many of books regarded as 11 of children's literature were in fact written for 12 .“Alice's Adventure in Wonderland”is perhaps the most 13 of this.

Children, left for themselves, often 14 the worst possible interest in literature.Just leave a child in bookshop o 15 and he will 16 willingly choose the books written in an imaginative way, or have a look at most children's comics, full of the stories and jokes which are the 17 of teachers and right-thinking parents.

Perhaps we parents should stop trying to brainwash childrensintos 18 our taste in literature.After all children and adults are so 19 that we parents should not expect that they will enjoy the 20 books.So I suppose we'll just have to compromise over that bedtime story.  

1.A.hoped      B.realized       C.told     D.said

2.A.short B.long     C.bad      D.good

3.A.easy        B.short    C.high     D.difficult

4.A.and   B.but      C.or D.so

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.few   B.many           C.a great deal of  D.a great number of

9.A.but   B.however      C.so D.because

10A.hard B.easy     C.enough D.fast

11.A.articles   B.work    C.arts      D.works

12.A.grown ups     B.girls     C.boys    D.children

13.A.difficult  B.hidden C.obvious       D.easy

14.A.are        B.show    C.find     D.add

15.A.school    B.home   C.office   D.library

16.A.more      B.less      C.able     D.be

17.A.lovingness     B.interests      C.objections    D.readings

18.A.receiving       B.accepting     C.having D.refusing

19.A.same      B.friendly       C.different      D.common

20.A.common B.avarage       C.different      D.Same

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                                                         Walt Disney: A Short Biography
     Walt Disney was born on December 5,1901 in Chicago Illinois, to his father Elias Disney, and mother
Flora Call Disney. Walt was one of five children, four boys and a girl. 
                                                                
     After Walt's birth, the Disney family moved to Marceline Missouri, Walt lived most of his childhood here.
     Walt had very early interests in art, he would often sell drawings to neighbors to make extra money. He
pursued his art career, by studying art and photography by going to McKinley High School in Chicago.
     Walt began to love, and appreciate nature and wildlife, and family and community (社区), which were a
large part of agrarian (农业的) living. Though his father could be quite stern (严格的), and often there was
little money, Walt was encouraged by his mother, and older brother, Roy to pursue his talents.
     During the fall of 1918, Disney attempted to enlist (入伍) for military service. Rejected because he was
under age, only sixteen years old at the time. Instead, Walt joined the Red Cross and was sent overseas to
France, where he spent a year driving an ambulance (救护车) and chauffeuring (驾驶) Red Cross officials.
     Once Walt returned from France, he began to pursue a career in commercial (商业的) art. He started a
small company called Laugh-O-Grams, which eventually fell bankrupt (破产). With his suitcase and twenty
dollars, Walt headed to Hollywood to start anew.
     After making a success of his "Alice Comedies", Walt became a recognized Hollywood figure. OnJuly13,
1925, Walt married one of his first employees, Lillian Bounds, in Lewiston, Idaho. Later on they would be
blessed with two daughters, Diane and Sharon.
     In 1932, the production entitled Flowers and Trees (the first color cartoon) won Walt the first of his
studio's Academy Awards. On December 21, 1937, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the first full-length
animated (有生命的) musical feature, premiered (最初的) at the Cathay Theater in Los Angeles. The film
produced at the unheard cost of $1 499 000 during the depths of the Depression (不景气).
     Walt Disney's dream of a clean, and organized amusement park, came true, as Disneyland Park opened
in 1955.Walt also became a television pioneer, Disney began television production in 1954,and was among
the first to present full-color programming with his Wonderful World of Color in 1961.
     Walt Disney is a legend (传奇); a folk (民间的) hero of the 20th century. His worldwide popularity was
based upon the ideals (理想) which his name represents: imagination, optimism, creation, and self-made
success in the American tradition. He brought us closer to the future, while telling us of the past, it is certain,
that there will never be such as great a man, as Walt Disney.
【个性思考】 Walt Disney's bases on his imagination, optimism, creation as mentioned above. If you want
make your career in the future, what experience can you learn from him?
     In my view ___________________________________________________________________________
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       In spite of the instructions he had been given, Tommy did not hurry straight round to Mrs. Blakey’s house with the note. Reading the toy-shop window with its decorated Christmas tree, he could not tear himself away from it until he had spent ten minutes staring at the gift he most wanted: a gun that fired corks. Where the road began to run downhill to Mrs. Blakey’s house he met some of his friends who were throwing snowballs. He joined in the fight, and by the time it finished, another twenty minutes had gone by. Ten more minutes were lost looking for the note for Mrs. Blakey, which had somehow dropped from his pocket during the fight, When, with the help of his friends, his finally found it, it was not only very wet, but, to his horror, he found that part of it was torn way and missing. That meant a further search, but in vain. So it happened that, now looking very untidy, Tommy reached Mrs. Blakey’s house nearly an hour late and carrying a dirty piece of paper that contained only the words:

                             

for tea this afternoon

                         important to talk about

                        u. If it is inconvenient,

tell Tommy; otherwise,

ur house at four o’clock.

                             Yours sincerely,

                              Alice Hendry

       Mrs. Blakey was puzzled over the note for a while, then, imagining she knew what the missing words were, told Tommy to tell his mother it would be all right.

       Tommy returning home in much the same way as he had made the outward journey to Mrs. Blakey’s, arrived not long before four o’clock to find his mother very angry and already putting her hat on.

       “You naughty boy, where have you been?” she cried, and without waiting for an answer, “What did Mrs. Blakey say?”

       Tommy told her.

       “All right, you’d better come with me,” Mrs. Hendry said.And so once again Tommy found himself on the downhill road to Mrs. Blakey’s.

       At about the same moment that Mrs. Hendry and her son Tommy reached Mrs. Blakey’s door, Mrs. Blakey herself, having taken a different road, was waiting outside the Hendry’s home, wondering why there was no answer to her knock. Who could blame her for thinking that the torn note was an invitation to tea at the Hendry’s, instead of which Mrs. Hendry had in fact been asking herself out to tea with Mrs. Blakey?

1.In “he could not tear himself away from it” ‘it’ refers to________.

A.Mrs. Blakey’s house                              B.the message

C.the toy-shop window                            D.the road

2.Tommy’s mother told him_________

       A.to hurry straight round to Mrs. Blakey’s house with the note

       B  to play snowfight with the other kids

       C.to look at the toy-shop window

       D.to look for the note

3. Mrs. Blakey “told Tommy to tell his mother it would be all right” means_______.

       A.she didn’t mind the note being torn

       B.Mrs. Hendry’s request was inconvenient

       C.she thought she could accept Mrs. Hendry’s invitation

       D.she would find the missing words

4.Which of the statements is true according to the story?

       A.After taking the note to Mrs. Blakey, Tommy hurried straight home

       B.Tommy looked for the missing part of the note but could not find it

       C.Mrs. Blakey guessed correctly what the missing words were

       D.Mrs. Blakey expected to find Mrs. Hendry when she was going to her home at four o’clock

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