题文
Childhood was an illusion (错觉）and the illusion was this: everything was bigger. No, I mean everything, not just houses and shops and grown-ups, but colors and flowers and journeys, especially journeys which seemed endless. “Are we there yet, Daddy?”Funfairs (游乐场） were huge things that spread for miles around you with noise and lights and exciting danger. Rainy days at home when you were ill seemed to last for ever. Being a grown-up yourself was an unthinkable distant possibility. Every sound was louder, every game was grander, every pain unbearable.
As I’ve grown old, life has become smaller. Tastes have dulled. Surprises have turned into shocks. Days go by unnoticed. How can I regain childhood when it was an illusion?
I have only one repeatable and wonderful way and even in this way I can regain only part of that larger world. I can play upon the stage like a child and make the crowd laugh and laugh with them, sometimes helplessly like a child, and then, even though I’m a sixty-one-year-old man, I can almost catch the colors and sounds and stillness of those bigger years when I was little.
小题1:How does the author feel about his childhood?A．It was endless.B．It was unpleasant.C．He is glad that it is over.D．He misses it as a grown-up小题2:The author thinks that everything was bigger in childhood because ________A．children could not make proper judgments.B．children were curious and eager about lifeC．things appeared really big in children’s eyesD．to grow up seemed so long for children小题3:The world seems to have become smaller to the author because _______.A．life is disappointingB．time goes by too fastC．he has had too many surprisesD．foods no longer taste delicious小题4:The author enjoys playing on the stage so as to _______.A．act like a childB．live an unusual lifeC．make the crowd laughD．regain his childhood 题型：未知难度：其他题型
答案
小题1:D
小题2:B
小题3:A
小题4:D
解析
总述本文讲述一位61岁的老人对自己童年的总结和回忆将童年时期与成人后看待世界的不同角度予以比较从而感慨人生的短暂。
小题1:本题是对作者观点的判断。根据第三段内容可知成年后世界变小了一切都暗淡无趣日子在不知不觉中一天天地逝去故感慨 “How can I regain childhood when it was an illusion” 显然作者怀念童年时的感觉。答案选D。
小题2:深层含义理解。根据文章第二段可知孩子对未知世界充满好奇而感到everything was bigger 而文章第三段表述了当作者长大后没有Tastes和Surprises 故life has become smaller. 答案选B。
小题3:细节推理题。依据第三段Tastes have bulledSurprises have turned into shocksDays go by unnoticed当作者长人后对外面的世界的感觉不再新鲜好奇生活很平淡越来越“令人失望”。答案选A。
小题4:细节推理题。根据最后一段的句子：I have only one repeatable and wonderful way and even in this way I can regain only part of that larger world. I can play upon the stage like a child and make the crowd laugh and laugh with them,可知作者通过在舞台上表演重新获得童年的感觉。选D。
考点
据考高分专家说，试题“Childhood was an ill.....”主要考查你对 [人生感悟类阅读 ]考点的理解。人生感悟类阅读
人生感悟类阅读的概念：
生活感悟类的文章就是指能给人心灵以启迪，使人从中受到教育的文章。这类文章的体裁可以是记叙文，如生活中一些感人故事或情感故事，有点类似心灵鸡汤一样的短文。
生活感悟类阅读解题指导：
一、文章特点：
生活感悟类的文章就是指能给人心灵以启迪，使人从中受到教育的文章。这类文章的体裁可以是记叙文，如生活中一些感人故事或情感故事，有点类似心灵鸡汤一样的短文。有时故事的结尾会有一句“点睛之笔”，点出全文的中心思想，就像《伊索寓言》里的寓言一样。还可能是夹叙夹议的哲理散文或生活随笔。散文随笔通常会阐述一种朴素易懂，耳熟能详的人生道理或宝贵品质。文章的结构和议论文类似，一般是总分总或总分结构。每段首句或尾句为主题句（论点），其它句子围绕主题展开论述（论据），论证方法多种多样，或举例，或引用名言，或正反对照等。
二、解题技巧：
针对生活感悟类文章的特点，做这类文章的完形填空时，要特别注意以下几点：
1、重点理解全文的首句。如果是记叙文，找出when，where，who，what等基本要素。如果是散文随笔，充分理解文章的中心句—全文的主题。
2、阅读全文的结尾段或结尾句，有助于理解文章所阐述或蕴含的哲理、感悟或忠告等。
3、调动自己的背景知识和情感。这类文章不会讲大道理也不会涉及到一些很专业的知识技术领域，而是谈一些小事和简单的道理，所以如果读者能和作者产生感情上的共鸣，读者会更好地把握作者的意图态度，从而提高做题的准确度。因此，考生在平时要做一个有心人，即用心去感悟生活中发生的小事，思考人生的一些基本道理，多阅读一些短小精悍的美文，多写写自己的心情故事和对生活学习的感悟。只有平时多用心，做题时才能调动自己的背景知识和情感。
