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【題目】 If you go shopping in any toy store, you can see clearly the different games and toys for boys and girls: there are a lot of pink toys on one side of the store for girls and dark colored cars, guns, and soldiers for boys. Some big stores with toys may even have a pink floor for girls and a blue floor for boys. In fact, it is difficult to buy a toy for a girl that is not pink.

Some people think that too much pink is bad for girls. Sue Palmer, writer of Toxic Childhood, is very worried that most girls over the age of three are crazy about the color. According to some scientists, this happens for two reasons. Firstly, most companies offer too many products in pink. Also, many parents think their little daughter looks cute in pink. Sue Palmer says that girls at this age cannot make proper decisions by themselves, but the pink can affect (影響) the choices and the decisions they will make in the future.

Some parents are worried too. For example, Vanessa Holburn, thirty-two, who has two girls under the age of four. Their bedrooms are a sea of pink and Vanessa is not happy. “Pink says that you are soft and gentle. Blue says that you are strong and powerful. I want my daughters to be strong and powerful. I'm worried that pink will not help them with that,” she says.

But not everyone thinks there's something wrong with pink, Grayson Turner is a father of three girls and he isn't worried at all, “People forget that things change all the time,” he says. “My girls used to love pink when they were little but as they get older, they change.” Turner explains that his twelve-year-old daughter never wears pink clothes anymore. “This love of pink is just a fashion and all fashions change,” he adds. “It’s only since the 1940s that people have started dressing girls in pink-before that it was a color for boys.”

根據(jù)短文內(nèi)容，選擇正確答案。

【1】How many reasons are there for most girls are crazy about pink?

A.TwoB.ThreeC.Four

【2】Which of the following best shows the structure of the passage?

A.①②/③④B.①/②/③/④C.①/②③/④

【3】The underlined word "that" in Paragraph 3 means ________.

A.being soft and gentle

B.being strong and powerful

C.being gentle but powerful

【4】According to Grayson Turner, ________.

A.parents needn't worry about pink toys

B.all little kids love the color pink

C.pink has always been a color for girls

【5】The purpose of this passage is to ________.

A.explain why girls are crazy about the color pink

B.make parents less worried about the color pink

C.show people's different opinions about the color pink.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】A

【2】C

【3】B

【4】A

【5】C

【解析】

女孩子買玩具或者衣服的時候愛好粉色的，而男孩的是藍色的。人們就女孩喜歡粉色提出不同的觀點和看法，有人擔心粉色對女孩不好，有人覺得無需為此擔憂。

【1】

細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第二段“According to some scientists, this happens for two reasons.”可知根據(jù)一些科學家的說法，大多數(shù)女孩都喜歡粉紅色有兩個原因，故選A。

【2】

篇章結構題。根據(jù)文意可知，第一段提出了問題，第二段和第三段分別介紹了擔心粉色對女孩不好的一些人和一些家長的看法；第四段則提出了反面的觀點，一些家長覺得粉色沒有什么不好；由此可知C選項符合文章的篇章邏輯，故選C。

【3】

詞義猜測題。that是一個代詞，代指上文提到的事情，根據(jù)第三段“Pink says that you are soft and gentle. Blue says that you are strong and powerful. I want my daughters to be strong and powerful. I'm worried that pink will not help with that" she says”可知Vanessa想讓自己的女兒強壯、有力，但她擔心粉色不能幫助女兒們那樣�？芍� that 代指的是上句話中提到的strong and powerful；故選B。

【4】

細節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第四段“But not everyone thinks there's something wrong with pink, Grayson Turner is a father of three girls and he isn't worried at all,”可知Grayson Turner覺得無需為女孩喜歡粉色玩具擔憂，故選A。

【5】

主旨大意題。根據(jù)短文第二段第一句話Some people think that too much pink is bad for girls.第三段第一句話 Some parents are worried 及第四段第一句話But not everyone thinks there's something wrong with pink可知，這篇短文介紹了人們對粉色給孩子帶來的影響的不同看法。故選C。