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【正文】 If she considers it to be best to end the marriage, they will accuse her of causing them “paternal deprivation syndrome” and obliging them to grow up in “a oneparent situation”. If you try to shield your children from the weary realities of life, they will say you were absurdly overprotective. If you try to share your troubles with them, they will say that you overburdened them with responsibilities and cheated them of their childhood. If you have but a single child, the child will say afterwards that you selfishly deprived it of siblings, and will tell sad stories about the loneliness of its childhood. If you have two children, they will describe their family background as typical, stereotyped, neurotic, introverteda nuclear family. Truly, a mother’s place is in the wrongand, yea, it goes on even 中國最大的管理資源中心 (大量免費資源共享 ) 第 9 頁 共 12 頁 unto the third generation. When your children encounter trouble or difficulties as adults, in their own marriages or in their personalities, whom do they blame? You’ve got it in one: mother! 16. Having thought about her motherinlaw’s advice, the author_________. A. was inclined to doubt the advice B. interviewed women whose children had grown up C. decided to put the advice to the test D. asked adults about their childhood 17. The passage suggests that local schools______________. A. make children feel insecure B. have a poor educational record C. allow children too much freedom D. are for the children of “suburban cabbages” 18. According to the passage, a women who divorces her husband will___________. A. be backed by her children B. be blamed by her children C. usually blame her husband D. soon lose the children’s affection 19. It can be concluded from the passage that mother________. A. are willing to take the blame B. are blamed unfairly C. can not be blameless D. cannot avoid blame 20. What would be the best title for this passage? A. A Great Mother Should Fulfill Herself B. A Typical And Stereotyped Family C. The Generation Gap D. Motherhood Is A NoWin Situation Questions 6～ 10 A child who has once been pleased 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. It is always much better to tell a story than to read it out of a book and, if a parent can produce 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 arousing his sadistic impulses. To prove the latter, one would have to show in controlled experiment that children who have read fairy stories were more often guilty of cruelty than those who had not. On the whole, their symbolic verbal discharge seems to be rather a safety valve than an incitement to overt action. As to fears, there are, I think, wellauthenticated cases of children being dangerously terrified by some fairy story. Often, however, this arises from the child having been told the story on only one occasion. 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, twoheaded dragons, magic carpets, etc. do not exist。 and that instead of indulging 中國最大的管理資源中心 (大量免費資源共享 ) 第 10 頁 共 12 頁 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 case 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 kisses in the belief that it was their enchanted girlfriend. No fairy story ever claimed to be a description of the external world and no sane child has ever believed that it was. 21. The author considers that a fairy story is more effective when it is_________. A. repeated without variation B. treated with reverence C. adapted by the parent D. set in the past 22. The word“ overt” (paragraph 2) means__________. A. acute B. authentic C. apparent D. artificial 23. According to the passage, great fear can be stimulated in a child when a story is_______. A. filled with excitement B. heard only once C. repeated too often D. read out of a book 24. According to the passage, the advantage claimed for repeating fairy stories to young children is that it_______. A. makes them e to terms with their fears B. develops their power of memory C. convinces them there is something to be afraid of D. encourages them not to have ridiculous beliefs 25. The author39。s mention of broomsticks and telephones is meant to suggest that_______. A. fairy stories are still being vividly made up B. children do not easily accept fairy tales as they are C. people try their best to modernise old fairy stories D. there is more concern for children39。s fears nowadays Questions 26～ 30 What are we? To the biologist we are member of a subspecies called Homo sapiens sapiens, which represents a division of the species known as Homo sapiens. Every species is unique and distinct: that is part of the definition of a species. But what is particularly interesting about out species? For