2020年精编外研版英语资料
.Module 2 课下能力提升(五)
阅读理解
A
“A rious attack on the fantasy story for children comes from tho who do not wish children to be frightened.” C．S. Lewis writes in an essay named Three Ways云南国税网上办税服务厅 of Writing for Children. Tho who say that children must not be frightened mean two things. Firstly, they mean that we mustn't do anything likely to give children fears, and condly, they want to keep out of their minds that they are born into a world of death, violence (暴力), wounds and evil (邪恶). C．S. Lewis says he agrees with the first reason, but not the cond.
He goes on to comment, “Since it is so likely that they will meet cruel (残酷的) enemies, let them at least hear of brave fighters and heroic courage. By limiting your child to perfect and nice stories of child life in which nothing alarming ever happens, they would fail to face fear
s and hardships.” “It would be nice，” he continues, “if no little boy in bed ever hears a frightening sound. But if he is to be frightened, I think St. George, or any bright champion in armor (盔甲), is a better comfort than the idea of the police.”
ll名词Bruno Bettelheim, a wellknown child psychologist, also points out that fantasy stories provide children with a valuable education about good and evil. He believes that all children have many personal fantasies filled with fears and fantasy stories comfort them and offer solutions. Happy endings tell them that solutions and hope are real and model the kind of happy life children want to find.
A good fantasy suggests rather than teaches possible answers to life. It's believed that reading fantasies quickens the ability to get and put ideas from books to reality. It's what good literature does — it makes life larger.
1．According to the first paragraph, C．o型和a型S. Lewis thinks that ________．
A．children shouldn't read any fantasy story becau it is bad
B．adults shouldn't do things that may frighten their children
C．death and badness should be kept out of children's minds
D．writing a fantasy story is the best way of writing for children
2．清爽壁纸What probably is St. George according to the text?
A．He is a policeman in real life.
B．He is a murderer caught by the police.
C．He is a brave man in a fantasy novel.
D．He is a frightening person in a story.
3．Why should children read fantasy literature according to Bruno Bettelheim?
A．Becau it encourages children to have a lot of fantasies.
B．Becau it helps children overcome fears and find solutions.
C．Becau it teaches children to write their own fantasy stories.
上大学网D．Becau it gives children a happy memory when they grow up.
4．It can be inferred from the last paragraph that ________．
A．literature can give readers more frightening stories
B．fantasies can improve one's ability to solve problems
C．品牌泳衣personal fantasies can help children get away from danger
D球马陆．most children can understand what fantasy literature is
B
The Magic Pen of J．K.Rowling
“I really wrote it for me, it was what I found funny and what I liked.”Tho are the words of J．K.Rowling, the author of the greatly popular Harry Potter books.The quote refers to th
e first in a ries of novels starring a young character who has built a lasting place unlikely to change for his creator in the world of children's literature.
Joanne Kathleen Rowling was born in England in 1965, and wrote her first story at the age of six.She was in her mid20s when the idea for the Harry Potter novels came to her, during a long train ride.By the end of that journey, she says, the character of Harry and the school for wizards which he attended were more or less fully formed in her mind.
It would be veral years, however, before the novel was completed.By that time, Rowling had been through a failed marriage.Living on welfare as a single parent, she wrote about Harry Potter while sitting in an Edinburgh café with her daughter asleep beside her.She could not have dreamed of the fame and success which Harry would bring her in the years to come.
Harry Potter is not your average superhero.He is 12 years old, skinny, wears glass, and tends to worry a lot.Yet, he has taken the imagination of children and adults the world over, and has introduced millions to the joys of reading.
Harry's attractiveness comes from his role as a very ordinary boy who finds himlf in extraordinary situations.Orphaned (沦为孤儿) as a baby, Harry spends the next ten years being mistreated by the very bad relatives with whom he lives.On his 11th birthday, he learns that he has magical powers and is admitted for training at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
