下载后可任意编辑 上学吧( ) 专家解析大学英语四级考试阅读真题 .12阅读第一篇Passage OneQuestions 57 to 61 are based on the following passage.In this age of Internet chat, videogames and reality television, there is no shortage ofmindless activities to keep a child occupied. Yet, despite the competition, my 8-year-old daughterRebecca wants to spend her leisure time writing short stories. She wants to enter one of her storiesinto a writing contest, a competition she won last year.As a writer I know about winning contests, and about losing them. I know what it is like towork hard on a story only to receive a rejection slip from the publisher. I also know the pressure oftrying to live up to a reputation created by previous victories. What if she doesn’t win the contestagain? That’s the strange thing about being a parent. So many of our own past scars and dashedhopes can surface.A revelation (启示) came last week when I asked her, ”Don’t you want to win again?” ”No,”she replied, ”I just want to tell the story of an angel going to first grade.”I had just spent weeks correcting her stories as she spontaneously (自发地) told them. Tellingmyself that I was merely an experienced writer guiding the young writer across the hall, I offeredsuggestions for characters, conflicts and endings for her tales. The story about a fearful angelstarting first grade was quickly ”guided” by me into the tale of a little girl with a wild imaginationtaking her first music lesson. I had turned her contest into my contest without even realizing it.Staying back and giving kids space to grow is not as easy as it looks. Because I know verylittle about farm animals who use tools or angels who go to first grade, I ...
