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 fortable little self and into someone else's pain. Thus we e 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.
【小题1】‘Incident at Halk Hill’ is a story.A．sadB．happy C．funny D．boring【小题2】The underlined sentence “Pretty heavy going for ten-year-olds means A．the book is too long for a ten year old childB．the book is too difficult for a ten year old childC．the book is too violent(暴力) for a ten year old childD．the book is too pretty for a ten year old child【小题3】According to the passage , stories can be something to help you A．enjoy your spare timeB．develop your care for animalsC．realize the truth of lifeD．think about your own life【小题4】By writing the passage, the writer mainly wants to .A．tell a story that interested his sonB．show the importance of reading storiesC．share an experience between himself and his sonD．show how to make children interested in booksA
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(答案→)A
解析：本文叙述了如果孩子读一些充满血腥杀戮内容的书对于10岁的孩子来说太暴力太残忍了。作者指出引导大家要探索生活的奥妙,同情生活中的受难者,人们真的需要去读书。
【小题1】推理判断题。由第一段介绍这本书的内容及Jack said,“It was so sad that I almost cried.”可知,答案为A。
【小题2】句义猜测题。由第一段介绍的这本书的内容可推断出,这样充满血腥杀戮内容的书对于10岁的孩子来说太暴力太残忍了。因此答案为C。
【小题3】推理判断题。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.可知我们真正地需要读故事书,以提醒我们世上存在不发生在我们自己世界里的忧伤。由此可推理出阅读故事书可使我们意识到生活的真相,感悟生活的真实。
【小题4】主旨大意题。文章最后一段点明文章主题,也就是作者的写作目的。引导大家要探索生活的奥妙,同情生活中的受难者,人们真的需要去读书。因此答案为B。