第二节：完形填空（共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分） Most paren

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第二节：完形填空（共20小题，每小题1.5分，满分30分）

Most parents, I suppose, have had the experience of reading a bedtime story to their children. And they must have   36   how difficult it is to write a   37   children's book.  Either the author has aimed too   38. , so that the children can't follow what is in his (or more often, her) story,   39   the story seems to be talking to the readers.

The best children's books are  40   very difficult nor very simple, and satisfy both the 41  who hears the story and the adult who   42    it. Unfortunately, there are in fact  43   books like this,  44   the problem of finding the right bedtime story is not   45   to solve.

This may be why many of books regarded as  46   of children's literature were in fact written for   47 . “Alice's Adventure in Wonderland” is perhaps the most   48   of this.

Children, left for themselves, often 49  the worst possible interest in literature. Just  leave a child in bookshop or  50 and he will more  willingly choose the books 51 in an imaginative way, or have a look at most children's comics (连环画), full of the stories and jokes to which both teachers and right-thinking parents  52  .

Perhaps we parents should stop trying to persuade children into   53   our taste in literature. After all children and adults are so   54  that we parents should not expect that they will enjoy the  55  books. So I suppose we'll just have to compromise（妥协） over that bedtime story.

36.A.hoped     B. realized      C. told    D. said

37.A.short      B. long    C. bad     D. good

38.A. easy      B. short   C. high    D. difficult

39.A. and       B   . but          C. or          D. so

40.A. both      B. neither       C. either                D. very

41.A. child     B. father  C. mother              D. teacher

42.A. hears     B. buys   C. understands              D. reads

43.A. few       B. many  C. little         D. much

44.A. but B. however     C. so                          D. because

45.A.hard       B. easy    C. enough              D. fast

46.A.articles   B. work        C. arts              D. works

47.A. adults    B. girls    C. boys          D. children

48.A. difficult B. hidden       C. obvious             D. easy

49.A. are B. show   C. find           D. add

50.A. library   B. school       C. home         D. office

51.A. read      B. designed     C. printed              D. written

52.A. favor    B. interest       C. object        D. read

53.A.receiving       B. accepting    C. having              D. refusing

54.A.same      B. friendly      C. different            D. common

55.A.common B. average      C. different            D. same