题目内容
As a teacher, my daily activity involves driving to a new school almost every day.
On one particular day during my lunch break, I drove to a nearby square to get a coffee. Upon returning to the 36, I realized I had locked my phone and my 37 inside! I had about 15 minutes to get back to the 38. So I hurried into a McDonald’s in the same square, and asked the man at the counter, who happened to be the 39, to call a taxi for me. After I 40 explained my situation to him, he rushed inside to make the phone while I waited anxiously in the restaurant. I had less than 10 minutes to 41 to my school at this point.
A moment later, the manager returned only to tell me that the line was 42, and that he had not been able to 43 the taxi yet. I think both 44 and fear could be seen in my face.
Without a thought, he grabbed his coat and 45 to drive me to the school. Without hesitation, I followed him into his car and got back to the classroom with two minutes to 46 before the bell rang!
This experience made me 47 that out of every seemingly hopeless situation, there is the opportunity for acts of kindness to happen, which has an unimaginable influence on those who receive them.
36. A. shop B. bar C. counter D. car
37. A. textbooks B. cards C. keys D. gloves
38. A. home B. school C. party D. restaurant
39. A. manager B. secretary C. guest D. waiter
40. A. slowly B. briefly C. effectively D. successfully
41. A. get across B. get around C. get back D. get over
42. A. busy B. broken C. full D. ready
43. A. take B. repair C. drive D. get
44. A. excitement B. anger C. hopelessness D. surprise
45. A. offered B. refused C. wanted D. hesitated
46. A. wait B. go C. waste D. spend
47. A. doubt B. argue C. regret D. realize
36—40 DCBAB 41—45 CADCA 46—47 BD
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 ____ .
A.repeated without any change |
B.treated as a joke |
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 ____ .
A.in a realistic setting |
B.heard for the first time |
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 ____.
A.makes them less fearful |
B.develops their power of memory |
C.makes them believe there is nothing to be afraid of |
D.encourages them not to have strange beliefs |
4.The author's mention of sticks and telephones is meant to suggest that ______.
A.fairy stories are still being made up |
B.there is some misunderstanding about fairy tales |
C.people try to modernize old fairy stories |
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 _______.
A.they are full of imagination |
B.they just make up the stories which are far from the truth |
C.they are not interesting |
D.they make teachers of history difficult to teach |