2016-2017学年四川省射洪县实验小班高一(上)期末加试英语试卷.pdf

2016-2017 学年四川省射洪县实验小班高一（上）期末加 试英语试卷 一、阅读理解（本大题共 6 小题，共 18.0 分） A Last year ，the most-read children's books at least in the U ．K ．were almost all fantasy novels ．But why is this the case ？What exactly does fantasy offer to young readers ？ What's important to point out here is that fantasy writing has come to be considered as belonging to popular culture ，and is therefore generally regarded as being of lower quality than realism ． This idea was formed in me during childhood by my mother ，who believed that fantasy was"rubbish" ．She was always trying to persuade my two brothers to let go of their dogeared copies of American author David Eddings'books and read something"proper" ． I had also met some people who were against reading fantasy．While living in Finland ，where I joined a book club I was told at my first meeting that the club didn't read"genre"hooks which ， ， meant that realism was"in" ，but everything else including fantasy was"out" ．When it comes to the subject of children ，discussions about which books are"better"for them often focus on the fantasy and realism debate ，causing Professor John Stephens to write that ：One of the more curious sides to the criticism of children's literature is the strong wish to separate fantasy and realism into competing types ，and to state that children prefer one or the other ， or"progress"from fantasy to realism or vice versa （反之亦然）． A quick survey of the big children's publishing trends over the past ten years confirms that fantasy is as popular as ever in the children's book scene From the 450million copies of Harry ． Potter books sold over this period to the more recent Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series ，it