Question

A good deal of fascinating research has been done about the reading patterns of young people，and it is surprising to discover at what an early age children start expressing preferences for particular kind of books. A recent report，which examined in detail the reading habits of primary-school children．showed that even seven-year-old boys and girls have clear views about what they want to read. Girls，in general，read more，and far more girls than boys preferred reading stories. Boys were showing a taste for the more instant appeal of picture stories，or else books about their hobbies．

These tastes continue unchanged until the children are teenagers. Apparently girls read more in general，but more fiction in particular .You could say that there are more opportunities for girls to read fiction：magazines encourage the fiction habit in girls in their early teens，and by their late teens they have probably moved on to the adult women’s magazines．Teenage boys tend to buy magazines about their hobbies：motorcycles，heavy transport and to on．

Adult reading tastes are also the subject of research．Again the number of women who read for pleasure is considerably higher than the number of men. It seems that the majority of women still want love stories．There has also been some analysis of what men actually read Apparently only 38 percent of men read anything，but 50 percent of what they read is fiction in the form of action-packed(内容丰富有趣的)stories of space or gunmen

1. What has the recent research into children’s reading show?

A. Children begin to read very fast at an early age

B. Children examine in detail what they read at school

C．Children can read clearly in primary schoo1．

D. Children form their reading tastes by the time they are seven

2.If we have a close look at the reading habits of boys and girls we’ll find that_______

A.girls are more interested in fiction than boys

B. girls are more interested in action-packed stories than boys

C .boys read much more than girls

D．boys have no interest in fiction

3.It can be inferred from the passage that_________．

A．boys change their reading tastes more often than girls

B．people usually do not change their reading tastes when they grow up

C．boys and girls form their reading habits by reading magazines

D. people have no definite(确切的)reading tastes

Answer 1

1.D

2.A

3.B

【解析】

试题分析：本文讲述孩子很小的时候就已经表现出对特定种类书的偏好，而最近的一份报告则详细研究了小学生的阅读爱好，表明7岁的孩子就已经形成阅读爱好，并且女孩比男孩更偏好科幻小说。

1. recent report，which examined in detail the reading habits of primary-school children．showed that even seven-year-old boys and girls have clear views about what they want to read.一份最近的报告，详细地研究了小学生的阅读爱好，表明七岁的孩子就已经明确知道他们想要读什么，可知七岁孩子们就形成了阅读爱好了，故选D

2. girls read more in general，but more fiction in particular明显女孩总的来说读更多的科幻小说，可知女孩比男孩更对科幻小说感兴趣，故选A

3. tastes continue unchanged until the children are teenagers.这些爱好直到孩子长大都不会改变，故选B

考点：考查科普文阅读