“How to Train Your Dragon” by British author Cressida Cowell is one of the best pieces of children’s literature. A child can make a whole alternative universe with a vivid imagination and Toothless, the hero’s hunting dragon, thus turning a rainy day into an adventure of a lifetime. However, if you have never read the book but instead choose to see the film version, you might think you were seeing a new-age war movie meant for adults rather than children.
Let’s look at “Where the Wild Things Are” for further discussion. The story centers around a lonely eight-year-old boy named Max, who sails away to an island. Creatures living there declare Max their king.
What an amazing piece of children’s literature! A treasure for every child’s library. Yet, children were crying in the movie theatre. Owls were falling from the sky, chicken’s arms were being torn off, and a child was running around a dark abandoned world fighting evil as the only human. It was almost as if Hollywood could not imagine children enjoying a movie for its basic literature content. Hollywood might be right. But more and more its audiences are complaining that there is an increased amount of violence in children’s stories today than in the past.
While there appears to be a trend in our society to make more violence more accessible to younger children, books and literature are generally an exception. I truly believe that children’s literature has become more vivid, and more colorful. This is a great treasure for the children, and is certainly not violent. What has changed the children’s stories of today is not the writers, but the film industry. In some way, children’s literature is just being strangely twisted. I wonder how much influence the author have over this.
小題1:The Text is mainly about ________.
A．two good books for children
B．how a book is adapted into a film
C．whether children should go to movies
D．whether children’s literature is getting more violent
小題2:It can be inferred that the film “Where the Wild Things Are” is _______.
A．movingB．frighteningC．interestingD．a(chǎn)mazing
小題3:According to the text, the author thinks that ________.
A．the film industry’s treatment of children’s literature is wrong
B．writers should provide more colorful works for children
C．there is an increase in violence in children’s literature
D．children should read books rather than see films.
小題4:How does the text mainly develop?
A．By inferring.B．By giving explanations.
C．By providing examples.D．By making comparisons.

小題1:D
小題2:B
小題3:A
小題4:C

試題分析：文章講述了好的兒童文學(xué)作品是孩子的文化寶庫，豐富了孩子們的想象力和創(chuàng)作力。然而一些好萊塢的電影改編作品摻加了太多的暴力元素，對(duì)孩子的成長(zhǎng)產(chǎn)生了不好的影響。
小題1:主旨題：文章介紹了兩部好的兒童文學(xué)作品，然而改編成電影之后摻加很多暴力元素，并不適合兒童觀看，由此引出兒童文學(xué)作品是否有太多暴力元素。故選D。
小題2:推理題： 根據(jù)第三段中“children were crying in the movie theatre. Owls were falling from the sky, chicken’s arms were being torn off, and a child was running around a dark abandoned world fighting evil as the only human”孩子們?cè)陔娪霸嚎蘖恕Ｘ堫^鷹從天上掉下來,雞的胳膊被撕掉,和一個(gè)孩子在四處黑暗被拋棄的世界中成為對(duì)抗邪惡唯一的人。由此可知這部電影是很可怕的。故選B。
小題3:細(xì)節(jié)題：根據(jù)最后一段中“What has changed the children’s stories of today is not the writers, but the film industry. ”今天改變孩子們故事的不是作者，而是電影行業(yè)。故選A。
小題4:推理題：根據(jù)文章內(nèi)容可知文章以兩部?jī)和膶W(xué)作品文字版和電影版為事例引出文章主旨。故選C。
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