大学英语四级综合-54
(总分：180.00，做题时间：90分钟)
一、Unit 7(总题数：4，分数：180.00)
Passage One
A child who has once been plead with a tale likes, as a rule, to have it retold in identically the same words, but this should not lead parents to treat printed fairy stories as sacred texts. ①It is always much better to tell a story than read it out of a book, and, ifa parent can produce what, in the actual circumstances of the time and the individual child, is an improvement on the printed text, so much the better.
A charge made against fairy tales is that they harmthe child by frightening him or arousinghis sadistic(残暴的) impuls. To prove the latter, one would have to show in a controlled experiment that children who have read fairy stories were more often guilty of cruelty than tho who had not. Aggressive, destructive, sadistic impuls every child has and, on the whole, their symbolic verbal discharge ems to be rather a safety valve than a
n incitement to overt action. As to fears, there are, ! think, well-authenticated cas of children being dangerously terrified by some fairy stories. Often, however, this aris 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.
②There 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 indulging his fantasies in fairy tales, the child should be taught how to adapt to reality by studying history and mechanics. I find such people, I must confess, so unsympathetic and peculiar that I do not know how to argue with them. If their ca were sound, the world should be full of madmen attempting to fly from New York to Philadelphia on a broomstick or covering a telephone with kiss in the belief that it was their enchanted girl friend.
No fairy story ever claimed to be a description of the external world and no sane child had ever believed that it was.
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(1).In the writer's opinion, a fairy tale______（分数：9.00）
A.cannot be read to children without variation becau they find no pleasure in it
B.will be more effective if it is adapted by parents √
打嗝原因 C.must be made easy so that children can read it on their own
D.is no longer needed in developing children's power of memory
解析：推断题。文章第一段第二句提到，如果家长能根据实际情况和孩子的特点对童话加以改编会更好，故选B。
(2).According to the passage, some people who are openly against fairy tales argue that______（分数：9.00）
A.fairy tales are harmful to children in that they show the primitive cruelty in children
南山滑雪场官网 B.fairy tales are harmful to children unless they have been adapted by their parent
C.fairy tales increa a tendency to sadism in children √
D.children who have read fairy stories pay little attention to the study of history and mechanics
解析：细节题。文中第二段第一句指出，童话故事以恐怖的情节唤起暴虐的欲望，故选C。
(3).In the writer's opinion to rid children of fears, fairy stories should be______（分数：9.00）
&ld only once
&peated many times √
&ld in a realistic tting
D.prented vividly
解析：细节题。第二段倒数第一、二句解释了孩子们感到恐惧的原因，并讲述了消除这种恐惧的方法，即by repetition。
(4).In the writer's opinion, fairy stories ______（分数：9.00）
A.have a very bad effect on children
B.have advantages in cultivating children's imagination
C.help children to come to terms with fears √
D.harm children greatly
解析：推断题。第二段倒数第一句说，多次重复一个故事会把恐惧的痛苦变为面对恐惧并战胜它的一种快乐，所以C(帮助孩子应付恐惧)最为符合。
(5).According to the passage, which of the following statement is NOT true about fairy stories?（分数：9.00）
莫扎特死因
A.If children indulged his fantasies in fairy tales instead of being taught how to adapt to reality by studying history and mechanics the world should be full of madmen. √
歌唱家 B.Children can often be greatly terrified when the fairy story is heard for the first time.
C.Fairy tales may beneficially direct children's aggressive, destructive and sadistic impuls.
D.Fairy tales are no more than stories about imaginary figures with magical powers which has nothing to do with the external worl
小汽车嘀嘀嘀解析：推断题。A项的内容不是作者的观点，而是作者在末段要批判的观点，故选A。其他三项均符合文意。
Passage Two
Everyone knows how the story of Cinderella ends, but did you ever really think about how she spent her days before she met the prince? Her daily routine was not fascinating. She did everything from sweeping the floor to cooking the meals. If someone had asked Cind
erella, "Are there any kinds of houhold work that you particularly hate?" she probably would have answered, "Why, none, of cour. Houwork is my duty!" In the real world, however, most people have definite dislikes for certain sorts of houhold work. Two of the tasks are ironing clothes and washing dishes.
Ironing clothes is most hated becau it is not a task that can be completed quickly or thoughtlessly. Each piece of clothing must be handled individually, so ironing a basket of laundry can take hours! After ironing a piece of clothing with great caution, which requires smoothing out the fabric, and following the ams, you need to place it on a hanger as soon as possible. If you do not follow the directions carefully, it might become wrinkled and you have to start over. Perhaps that is why ironing is not a favorite thing to do. It calls for extreme attention to detail from beginning to end.
Another houhold job that many people dislike is washing dishes. Of cour, some people claim that this work is no longer a problem becau we have dishwashers now! However, no one would argue that dishes, silverware, and especially pots and pans washed in a dishwasher don't come out as clean as they do when washed by hand. For t
his reason, many of us continues to wash our dishes by hand, but we are not necessarily happy doing it. Cleaning dishes is a job that not only takes a lot of energy but also requires the patience to wash and dry them. In addition, unlike ironing clothes, washing dishes is a thing that usually must be done every day. I don't know how Cinderella felt about this particular task, but I believe that most people hate it as much as I do.
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(1).For Cinderella, doing houhold work is ______（分数：9.00）
A.an assignment
地红霉素 B.a compulsion
C.an obligation √
D.a burden
解析：细节题。文章引文中提到，灰姑娘说家务是她的职责，由此可知她把做家务当作自己的责任和义务，故选C。
(2).Most people hate to do clothes-ironing becau______（分数：9.00）
A.it has to be done by one person
B.it must be handled skillfully
C.it involves careful planning
D.it is time-consuming √
解析：细节题。文章第二段首句提到，多数人讨厌熨衣服，因为这可不是件可以不费脑子又可以快速完成的事情，由此可知熨衣服既费时间又费脑筋，与这两层意思有关的只有D项，故选D。
(3).To avoid ironing the clothes over again, one should ______（分数：9.00）
A.know how to iron certain clothes material
猪蹄汤 B.spare no care through all the procedures √
C.find some proper hangers for the ironed
D.pay special attention to the ams
燔诗书而明法令
解析：细节题。文章第二段末句提到，熨衣服从头到尾都得聚精会神，由此可知为了避免重新熨衣服，一个人需要从头到尾都集中精力，故本题选B。
(4).Many people still prefer washing dishes by hand to washing machines becau（分数：9.00）
