《2025年天星教育金考卷一轮复习单元滚动双测卷英语》

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[2025江苏徐州质检]Good children’s literature is a serious business, serious about beauty and wonder, about sadness and difficulty, and about silliness and joy.
Good children’s books, from picture books to 500 - page novels, can be seriously hard to write. Mark Haddon published 17 books. His wise and beautiful The Sea of Tranquility took two years and 50 drafts, 50,000 words becoming 500. He has written, “If kids like a picture book, they’re going to read it at least 50 times. Read anything that often and even minor imperfections start to feel like gravel (砾石) in the bed.”
But there are concerns about a lazy assumption that creating works for children is easier, and that a writer or an artist would approach it with a lesser degree of sincerity than when creating for an adult audience.
Since the ascendance(崛起) of J. K. Rowling and Philip Pullman, children’s books have increasingly been seen as a quick route to intellectual, and social status, treated as just one more element in a celebrity brand.
It isn’t to argue against popularity, which is important in its own right. But a varied, good - quality diet is important too. Yet marketing budgets so often go to those who have ready - made fans. State school libraries sometimes rely on donations, which can be mainly concerned with celebrity authors; in supermarkets, up to 40% of a small offering can be by a handful of celebrity authors.
The children’s writer Lauren Child argues that these trends risk fundamental losses. “We are like trees, and the things that happen to us when we’re first growing will affect the roots. This applies to nutrition, and to love and affection, but it also applies to the imagination,” she says. “Good children’s literature literally impresses upon a growing brain how the world can be. We must take care not to devalue(贬低) the seriousness of writing for children, because by doing so we risk devaluing and narrowing childhood too.”
1. What does the example of Mark Haddon illustrate?
A. Drafting a children’s book is very essential.
B. Creating good children’s books is demanding.
C. He is a world - class writer of children’s books.
D. A good children’s book is worth reading often.
2. What’s a trend in children’s books?
A. Celebrity writers dominate the market.
B. Varieties of themes have been created.
C. They represent knowledge and wealth.
D. They have seen improvement in quality.
3. What can be inferred from Lauren Child’s words?
A. Children’s books often lack variety.
B. Children need nutrition and affection.
C. Children’s books are vital to their growth.
D. Children are often compared to young trees.
4. Which of the following is a suitable title for the text?
A. Value children’s reading
B. Return a clean world to children
C. Children’s books: Take them seriously
D. Children’s books: Make them a top priority

答案： 1.B　推理判断题。根据第二段的“Good children’s books, from picture books to 500 - page novels, can be seriously hard to write”和“His wise and beautiful The Sea of Tranquility took two years and 50 drafts, 50,000 words becoming 500”可知，作者先提出“创作好的儿童书籍很难”的论点，然后说明Mark Haddon创作《宁静之海》花费了两年功夫。故可推知，作者是用Mark Haddon的例子论证自己的观点，即创作优秀的儿童书籍是一个非常严格且要求高的过程。
2.A　细节理解题。根据第四段的“Since the ascendance(崛起)…a quick route to intellectual, and social status”和第五段的“Yet marketing budgets so often go to those who have ready - made fans…up to 40% of a small offering can be by a handful of celebrity authors”可知，随着J.K. Rowling和Philip Pullman的崛起，儿童书籍被视为提升智力和社会地位的快速途径，市场上名人作者占据了重要位置，如市场营销往往宣传有粉丝的作者、公众捐给公立学校图书馆的书也大多出自名人作者之手，即名人作家主导市场是现在儿童书籍的趋势。
3.C　推理判断题。根据最后一段Lauren Child的话可知，Lauren Child将儿童的成长类比树木，强调早期经历，包括想象力的培养，对成长的重要影响，并指出优秀的儿童文学深刻影响着成长中大脑对世界的认知，故可推出儿童书籍对孩子的成长至关重要。
4.C　标题判断题。
Paras.1 - 2优质儿童文学创作的严肃性和难度。
Para.3　对儿童文学创作的误解。
Paras.4 - 5　名人效应对儿童文学的影响。
Para.6　优质儿童文学的重要性和对儿童成长的影响。
根据上述内容可知，本文讨论了优质儿童文学的价值及其创作难度，并分析了当前市场中名人作家主导的现象，呼吁人们重视儿童书籍创作。故C项“儿童书籍:认真对待它们”适合作本文的标题。