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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 stated dressing girls in pink-before that it was a color for boys.”

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

A. B. C. D.

【2】The underlined word “that” in Paragraph 3 means _____.

A. being soft and gentleB. being strong and powerful

C. being gentle but powerfulD. being cute and beautiful

【3】According to Grayson Turner, _____.

A. parents needn’t worry about pink toysB. all little kids love the color pink

C. pink has always been a color for girlsD. his girls now prefer the color blue

【4】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. encourage girls to give up playing with pink toys

D. show people’s different opinions about the color pink

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】B

【2】B

【3】A

【4】D

【解析】

在給孩子買玩具或者衣服的時(shí)候，我們會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)很多女孩的玩具或衣服都是粉色的，而男孩的是藍(lán)色的。但現(xiàn)在一些人擔(dān)心太多的粉色對(duì)女孩是不好的，對(duì)于這個(gè)問題不同的家長有不同的看法。

【1】主旨大意題。這個(gè)題目考查文章結(jié)構(gòu)，根據(jù)文意可知，短文第一段提出了問題，第二段和第三段分別介紹了擔(dān)心粉色對(duì)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(diǎn)，即覺得粉色沒有什么不好的這樣的家長的看法。由此可知B選項(xiàng)符合文章的邏輯，故選B。

【2】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。that是一個(gè)代詞，代指上文提到的事情，根據(jù)它所在的語境“Pink says that you are soft ad 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.可知，Vanessa想讓自己的女兒強(qiáng)壯、有力，但她擔(dān)心粉色不能幫助女兒們那樣。因此that代指的是上句話中提到的strong and powerful，故應(yīng)選B。

【3】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)短文第四段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，Turner不覺得粉色有什么不好的，他覺得家長們不必為此擔(dān)心。故應(yīng)選A。

【4】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 too以及第四段第一句話But not everyone thinks there’s something wrong with pink.可知，這篇短文介紹了人們對(duì)粉色對(duì)孩子的影響的不同看法。因此應(yīng)選D。