2020青海军队文职招聘考试：公共基础知识模拟试题及解析42

　　Question 56-60 are based on passage two.

　　Passage two:

　　Franz Kafka wrote that "a book must be the ax for the frozen sea inside us. " I once shared this sentence with a class of seventh graders, and it didn't seem to require any explanation.

　　We’d just finished John Steinbeck's novel Of Mice and Men. When we read the end together out loud in class, my toughest boy, a star basketball player, wept a little, and so did I. "Are you crying?" one girl asked, as she got out of her chair to take a closer look. "I am," I told her, "and the funny thing is I've read it many times. "

　　But they understood. When George shoots Lennie, the tragedy is that we realize it was always going to happen. In my 14 years of teaching in a New York City public middle school, I've taught kids with imprisoned parents, abusive parents, irresponsible parents; kids who are parents themselves; kids who are homeless; kids who grew up in violent neighborhoods. They understand, more than I ever will, the novel's terrible logic—the giving way of dreams to fate.

　　For the last seven years, I have worked as a reading enrichment teacher, reading classic works of literature with small groups of students from grades six to eight. I originally proposed this idea to my headmaster after learning that a former excellent student of mine had transferred out of a selective high school--one that often attracts the literary-minded children of Manhattan's upper classes—into a less competitive setting. The daughter of immigrants, with a father in prison, she perhaps felt uncomfortable with her new classmates. I thought additional "cultural capital" could help students like her develop better in high school, where they would unavoidably meet, perhaps for the first time, students who came from homes lined with bookshelves, whose parents had earned Ph. D.'s.

　　Along with Of Mice and Men, my groups read: Sounder, The Red Pony, Lord of the Flies, Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth. The students didn't always read from the expected point of view. About The Red Pony, one student said, "it’s about being a man, it’s about manliness.” I had never before seen the parallels between Scarface and Macbeth, nor had I heard Lady Macbeth's soliloquies read as raps, but both made sense; the interpretations were playful, but serious. Once introduced to Steinbeck's writing, one boy went on to read The Grapes of Wrath and told me repeatedly how amazing it was that "all these people hate each other, and they're all white.” His historical view was broadening, his sense of his own country deepening. Year after year former students visited and told me how prepared they had felt in their first year in college as a result of the classes.

　　Year after year, however, we are increasing the number of practice tests. We are trying to teach students to read increasingly complex texts, not for emotional punch but for text complexity. Yet, we cannot enrich the minds of our students by testing them on texts that ignore their hearts. We are teaching them that words do no. amaze but confuse. We may succeed in raising test scores, but we will fail to teach that reading can be transformative and that it belongs to them.

　　56. The underlined words in Paragraph 1 probably mean that a book helps to________

　　A. realize our dreams B. give support to our life '

　　C. smooth away difficulties D. awake our emotions

　　57. Why were the students able to understand the novel Of Mice and Men?

　　A. Because they spent much time reading it.

　　B. Because they had read the novel before.

　　C. Because they came from a public school. ,

　　D. Because they had similar life experiences.

　　58. The girl left the selective high school possibly because_______.

　　A. she was a literary-minded girl B. her parents were immigrants

　　C. she couldn't fit in with her class D. her father was then in prison

　　59. To the author's surprise, the students read the novels ________.

　　A. creatively B. passively C. repeatedly D. carelessly

　　60. The author writes the passage mainly to________.

　　A. introduce classic works of literature

　　B. advocate teaching literature to touch the heart

　　C. argue for equality among high school students

　　D. defend the current testing system
 

　　56. 答案：D

　　【解析】句意理解题。这句话运用了明喻和暗喻的修辞手法，“一本书就是能融化我们冰冻着的内心的一把斧子”，这是表面意思，即指一本书能够唤醒我们内心深处的情感，引起共鸣之意。故选D项。

　　57. 答案：D

　　【解析】细节理解题。根据第三段“But they understood. When George shoots Lennie, the tragedy is that we realize it was always going to happen”可知，D项正确。

　　58. 答案：C

　　【解析】细节理解题。根据第四段“The daughter of immigrants, with a father in prison, she perhaps felt uncomfortable with her new classmates”可知C项正确。

　　59. 答案：A

　　【解析】推理判断题。根据第五段第四句“I have never before seen the parallels between Scarface and Macbeth, nor had I heard Lady Macbeth’s soliloquies read as raps, but both made sense; the interpretations were playful, but serious.”可推断作者对孩子阅读小说的创造力感到惊讶，字里行间流露出自豪，故A项正确。

　　60. 答案：B

　　【解析】主旨大意题。纵观全文，主要介绍了作者讲述在自己教学生涯中，教学生文学阅读的亲身体验，故B项正确。

　　【长难句解析】

　　1. When we read the end together out loud in class, my toughest boy, a star basketball player, wept a little, and so did I.

　　When 引导的时间状语从句，后面是so 引导的句型，表示“…和前面的主语也一样。”

　　2. When George shoots Lennie, the tragedy is that we realize it was always going to happen.

　　本句是when 引导的时间状语， 主句中是that 引导的表语从句， realize 引导的宾语从句。

　　3. For the last seven years, I have worked as a reading enrichment teacher, reading classic works of literature with small groups of students from grades six to eight.

　　本句reading classic works of literature with small groups of students from grades six to eight. 为I 的伴随状语。