Question

My son Jack, a fourth grader, was having a hard time in getting interested in story books recently, so I offered to read the first few chapters to him. In the early pages of ‘Incident at Halk Hill’, a quiet little boy has a special meeting with a female badger (獾).Soon after, another badger is caught in a steel leg trap(陷阱), and the author describes in detail the pain and scare of an animal struggling to its death. We meet the cruel hunter and his ill treatment of a dog; we see the badger being skinned by the boy's father；and we experience the child's confusion when beaten by his father in anger. Pretty heavy going for ten-year-olds, I thought.
Last night , I returned from a weekend away to find that Jack had finished the whole book on his own. “It was really, really good and sad, and violent，” he reported. “There was a lot of killing.”
“Were there any happy parts?" I asked,
"The boy's life was saved by the badger, and that was good. But then that badger got caught in a trap again and at the end it's dying, too. ” Jack said, "It was so sad that I almost cried. ”
I told him that many books have made me cry, beginning with Heidi, when I was just his age, right on up to the novel I finished last week.
“Well，” he admitted then, “I actually did cry. Reading that book just reminded me of all the sadness in the world, and it made me feel sad ,too. ”
So, I think, now he has been through the sad tone of the passage , the discovery that words on a printed page can give rise to such strong emotion ，that a book can move you right out of your own comfortable little self and into someone else's pain. Thus we come to realize that if we are to remain fully engaged in life, open to its mysteries and feel sorry towards its suffering, we indeed need stories to grab（抓住） us by the neck and remind us of the sadness in the world that is not our own

1. 1.
   ‘Incident at Halk Hill’ is a _______story
   1. A.
      sad
   2. B.
      happy
   3. C.
      funny
   4. D.
      boring
2. 2.
   The underlined sentence “Pretty heavy going for ten-year-olds" means____
   1. A.
      the book is too long for a ten year old child
   2. B.
      the book is too difficult for a ten year old child
   3. C.
      the book is too violent(暴力) for a ten year old child
   4. D.
      the book is too pretty for a ten year old child
3. 3.
   According to the passage , stories can be something to help you_____
   1. A.
      enjoy your spare time
   2. B.
      develop your care for animals
   3. C.
      realize the truth of life
   4. D.
      think about your own life
4. 4.
   By writing the passage, the writer mainly wants to____
   1. A.
      tell a story that interested his son
   2. B.
      show the importance of reading stories
   3. C.
      share an experience between himself and his son
   4. D.
      show how to make children interested in books

Answer 1

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試題分析：本文敘述了如果孩子讀一些充滿血腥殺戮內容的書對于10歲的孩子來說太暴力太殘忍了。作者指出引導大家要探索生活的奧妙,同情生活中的受難者,人們真的需要去讀書。
1.推理判斷題。由第一段介紹這本書的內容及Jack said,“It was so sad that I almost cried.”可知,答案為A。
2.句義猜測題。由第一段介紹的這本書的內容可推斷出,這樣充滿血腥殺戮內容的書對于10歲的孩子來說太暴力太殘忍了。因此答案為C。
3.推理判斷題。最后一段最后一句we indeed need stories to grab us by the neck and remind us of the sadness in the world that is not our own.可知我們真正地需要讀故事書,以提醒我們世上存在不發生在我們自己世界里的憂傷。由此可推理出閱讀故事書可使我們意識到生活的真相,感悟生活的真實。
4.主旨大意題。文章最后一段點明文章主題,也就是作者的寫作目的。引導大家要探索生活的奧妙,同情生活中的受難者,人們真的需要去讀書。因此答案為B。
考點：日常生活類短文閱讀。
點評：句意猜測該題型主要考查考生根據上下文推測詞義和語義的能力，突出考查根據上下文語境的分析和把握能力。考查內容主要有猜測某個生詞、熟詞生義、短語或句子的意思以及猜測代詞的指代等。