【題目】Directions: Read the following passage. Fill in each blank with a proper sentence given in the box. Each sentence can be used only once. Note that there are two more sentences than you need.

A Marked Shift in Toy Boxes

Sometimes the smallest of things have the biggest of impacts. Last week Lego showed its first ever wheelchair-using mini-figure at a toy fair in Germany. For an inch-tall plastic boy, he's been making big waves, inspiring global press coverage and online celebrations from Lego fans, parents and disability groups.

“But he’s just a little guy” some may say, “a plastic guy out for a wheel in the park with his dog and a bunch of other mini-figures. What's the big deal?”

1 His birth in the toy box marks a significant shift within children’s industries. There are 150 million children with disabilities worldwide, yet until now they have scarcely ever seen themselves positively reflected in the media and toys they consume.

In her recently published book Disability and Popular Culture , Australian academic Katie Ellis writes: “Toys mirror the values of the society that produce them... ” 2 Whether intentionally or not, it has sent out a powerful message of inclusion.

The toys, TVfilms, games, apps and books that entertain and educate our children barely feature children with any kind of impairment or difference. When did you last see disability represented positively in a children's film, cartoon, or computer game? Have you ever seen a set of emojis that reflect the disabled experience? Then, how could disabled children gain positive self-esteem when the culture around them appears to place no value on their existence? 3 There is a danger that these children will feel like permanent outsider in the world.

4 However, it seems no one knows quite how to fix it. We dance delicately around disability, scared to offend or get it wrong, so we don't do it. This exclusion is causing damage to millions of children, yet the answer is quite simple. Let’s hope that one day, positive representations of disability are included so seamlessly across children’s industries that they cease to be noteworthy at all.

A. If Lego is mirroring, it’s reflecting a better world.

B. Lego is behind disabled kids and they are part of the cultural mainstream.

C. Everyone knows there’s something wrong with how we represent disabled people.

D. Has Lego been prepared for the excitement its wheelchair-using boy would cause?

E. Their hopes, dreams, imaginations and experience are ignored.

F. The message behind Lego’s wheelchair boy is so much larger than his tiny stature.

【答案】

1F

2A

3E

4C

【解析】

這是一篇說明文。上周,樂高在德國的一個玩具博覽會上展示了它有史以來第一個使用輪椅的迷你人偶。對于一個一英寸高的塑料男孩來說,他已經(jīng)引起了巨大的轟動,激發(fā)了全球媒體的報(bào)道以及樂高粉絲、家長和殘疾人組織的在線慶;顒。同時也引起了人們對于殘疾人的方式的深思,作者希望有一天,殘疾的積極表現(xiàn)能夠在兒童行業(yè)中如此無縫地體現(xiàn)出來,以至于它們沒有引人注目。

1根據(jù)下文His birth in the toy box marks a significant shift within childrens industries.(他在玩具盒里的誕生,標(biāo)志著兒童產(chǎn)業(yè)的重大轉(zhuǎn)變。)可知樂高輪椅男孩背后的信息遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)大于他小小的身材。故選F。

2根據(jù)上文Toys mirror the values of the society that produce them...(玩具反映了生產(chǎn)它們的社會的價值觀。)中mirror對應(yīng)到A選項(xiàng)中的mirroring,可知如果說樂高是一面鏡子,那么它反映的是一個更美好的世界。故選A。

3根據(jù)下文There is a danger that these children will feel like permanent outsider in the world.(有一種危險是,這些孩子會覺得自己永遠(yuǎn)是這個世界的局外人。)可知上文應(yīng)是孩子們的希望、夢想、想象力和經(jīng)歷被忽視時,他們會覺得自己是世界的局外人。故選E。

4根據(jù)下文However, it seems no one knows quite how to fix it.(然而,似乎沒有人知道如何解決這個問題。)可推測上文是指每個人都知道我們代表殘疾人的方式有問題,但是沒有人知道如何去解決。故選C

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