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模拟试题四 PART V READING COMPREHENSIONIn this section there are several reading passages followed by twenty questions or unfinished statements, each with four suggested answers marked [A]、[B]、[C] and [D]. Choose the one that you think is the correct answer. Mark your answers on your ANSWER SHEET. ? 题?82?-?84 Does childhood have a history? At the turn of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries William Worthworth wrote of childhood and youth as a uniquely privileged time of innocence and insight-- Heaven lies about us in our infancy, a paradisal state from which growing up was a progressive exile and disenchantment-- Shades of the prison-house begin to close upon the growing boy. After Freud we cannot quite subscribe to so idealized an understanding of the dreaming innocence of youth. Nevertheless the distinctiveness of childhood as a state utterly different from adulthood is deeply ingrained in our culture, and enclosed in icons of childhood as different as Peter Pan and Huckleberry Finn. Childhood did have a history, but it was a short and comparatively recent one, for the very concept of childhood was a product of modern thought. Before the seventeenth century, though children existed, childhood did not. Medieval children lived in the margins of adult life, with little or no distinctive cultural identity of their own. Their clothes were miniaturized versions of adult wear, they had no special culture of play, no childrens literature, there was no Worthworthian idealization of the innocence or carelessness of childhood. The reasons for this absence were complex. Many children died young, and so the bonds of affection between parents and children were of necessity looser than those in the modern West, where most children can be relied on to survive into adulthood. The consequent culture of detachment manifested itself from the very beginning of infancy, for every woman who could afford it sent her infant children to wet nurses to be breast-fed, thereby depri