Childhood was an illusion (错觉）and the illusion was this: everything was bigger. No, I mean everything, not just houses and shops and grown-ups, but colors and flowers and journeys, especially journeys which seemed endless. “Are we there yet, Daddy?”
Funfairs (游乐场） were huge things that spread for miles around you with noise and lights and exciting danger. Rainy days at home when you were ill seemed to last for ever. Being a grown-up yourself was an unthinkable distant possibility. Every sound was louder, every game was grander, every pain unbearable.
As I’ve grown old, life has bee smaller. Tastes have dulled. Surprises have turned into shocks. Days go by unnoticed. How can I regain childhood when it was an illusion?
I have only one repeatable and wonderful way and even in this way I can regain only part of that larger world. I can play upon the stage like a child and make the crowd laugh and laugh with them, sometimes helplessly like a child, and then, even though I’m a sixty-one-year-old man, I can almost catch the colors and sounds and stillness of those bigger years when I was little.
【小题1】How does the author feel about his childhood?A．It was endless.B．It was unpleasant.C．He is glad that it is over.D．He misses it as a grown-up【小题2】The author thinks that everything was bigger in childhood because A．children could not make proper judgments.B．children were curious and eager about lifeC．things appeared really big in children’s eyesD．to grow up seemed so long for children【小题3】The world seems to have bee smaller to the author because .A．life is disappointingB．time goes by too fastC．he has had too many surprisesD．foods no longer taste delicious【小题4】The author enjoys playing on the stage so as to .A．act like a childB．live an unusual lifeC．make the crowd laughD．regain his childhoodD
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(答案→)D
解析：总述本文讲述一位61岁的老人对自己童年的总结和回忆将童年时期与成人后看待世界的不同角度予以比较从而感慨人生的短暂。
【小题1】本题是对作者观点的判断。根据第三段内容可知成年后世界变小了一切都暗淡无趣日子在不知不觉中一天天地逝去故感慨 “How can I regain childhood when it was an illusion” 显然作者怀念童年时的感觉。答案选D。
【小题2】深层含义理解。根据文章第二段可知孩子对未知世界充满好奇而感到everything was bigger 而文章第三段表述了当作者长大后没有Tastes和Surprises 故life has bee smaller. 答案选B。
【小题3】细节推理题。依据第三段Tastes have bulledSurprises have turned into shocksDays go by unnoticed当作者长人后对外面的世界的感觉不再新鲜好奇生活很平淡越来越“令人失望”。答案选A。
【小题4】细节推理题。根据最后一段的句子：I have only one repeatable and wonderful way and even in this way I can regain only part of that larger world. I can play upon the stage like a child and make the crowd laugh and laugh with them,可知作者通过在舞台上表演重新获得童年的感觉。选D。