15．She _____ his number in the phone book to make sure that she had got
it right.
A. looked up C. looked for C. picked out D. picked up
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Most
parents, I suppose, have had the experience of reading a bedtime story 1 their children. And they must have 2 how difficult it is to write a 3 children’s book. Either the author has
aimed too 4 ,so that children can’t follow
what is in his (or more often, her) story, 5 the story seems to be talking to the
readers.
The
best children’s books are 6 very difficult nor very simple, and
satisfy both the 7 who hears the story and the adult who 8 it. Unfortunately, there are in fact 9 books like this, 10 the problem of finding the right bedtime
story is not 11 to solve.
This
may be why many of the books regarded as 12 of children’s literature were in fact
written for 13 .“Alice
in Wonderland”is perhaps the most 14 of this.
Children,
left for themselves, often 15 the worst possible interest in
literature. Just leave a child in bookshop or 16 and he will 17 willingly choose the books written in an
unimaginative way, or have a look at most children’s comics, full of the
stories and jokes which are the 18 of teachers and right-thinking parents.
Perhaps
we parents should stop trying to brainwash children into 19 our taste in literature. After all
children and adults are so 20 that we parents should not expect that
they will enjoy the same books. So I suppose we’ll just have to compromise over
that bedtime story.