雅思阅读真题+题目+答案：Children’s literature studies today

雅思阅读真题+题目+答案：Children’s literature studies today

Who studies children’s literature and what is it that they study? The answers to this question are complex and messy, because of the many confounding factors which exist in this field.

Firstly, unlike literature for adults. Children’s literature is not generally written by its own readers. Adults write for children, and thus adult perceptions of what children are and of what they could and should be become woven into the literature.

Furthermore, some of those who study children’s literature (and those who write certain kinds of children’s books) are less interested in literary values than in the kinds of lessons it can teach- either in terms of creating better children or in terms of serving a particular curriculum. The issue of how a teacher can use a children’s book is often contentious, but even outside the classroom, much material for children is still didactic.

Thirdly, while almost all literature is currently promoted within a strong commercial matrix, children’s literature is often especially targeted for marketing initiatives. This fact means that readers are often recruited with a message that is negligibly literary and significantly oriented to ideas of consumption. Daniel Hade (2002) has raised useful questions about whether children’s experience of reading is altered when their books are part of a larger marketing framework involving the movie, the game, and the toy of a popular children’s book. How children perceive and respond to their stories in this new context is an important question.

It is also important to note that texts in an ever-increasing range of new media compete with print media for the attention of the child reader, and create definitional issues for scholars. Does the term literature’ exclusively imply a verbal text? If not, where are the limits? Could a literary computer game ever be considered a work of literature? If not, what kind of attention should be paid to it, since children themselves undoubtedly perceive their print literature as part of a broader continuum? The internet provides one forum through which children now communicate with each other. (In 2003, the internet search engine Google listed 7,920,000 sites relating to the Harry Potter novels; even allowing for duplication and dead ends, that is a number with revolutionary implications.)

Finally, in the context of the higher education institutions where the formal study of children’s literature of often located, at least three disciplinary frameworks (English, education, and librarianship) fragment the focus of scholarly study of children’s literature.

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QUESTIONS 1-3

Choose the correct letter A, B, C or D.

Write the correct answer on boxes 1-3, on your answer sheet.

1. Which of the following best summarises the writer’s argument in the second paragraph?

A Children are portrayed as adults see them.

B Children are unable to write their own stories.

C Adults fail to stimulate children’s imaginations.

D Adult literature is too difficult for children.

2. In the third paragraph, what does the writer say is the main interest of some people who study children’s literature?

A the quality of the writing

B the imaginative content of stories

C the instructive nature of children’s books

D the way children are written about in stories

3. The main point of the writer’s argument in the fifth paragraph is to

A demonstrate that academics consider computer games to be a logical extension of children’s literature.

B explore the impact of computers on the boundaries of children’s literature.

C illustrate that literature and computer games have from different origins.

D prove that children are using computers more than they are reading literature.

QUESTIONS 4-8

Do the following statements agree with the views of the writer in Reading Passage?

In boxes 4-8 on your answer sheet, write

YES if the statement agrees with the views of the writer

NO if the statement contradicts the views of the writer

NOT GIVEN if it is impossible to say what the writer thinks about this

4  Children tend to make a clear distinction between print literature and electronic media.

5  The study of children’s literature at higher education institutions is restricted to one subject area.

6  Exploring children’s perceptions of reading will assist parents to choose suitable books for children.

7  Adults may appreciate the appeal of illustrated stories better, if they have more information on how children read.

8  Children should be asked what features they would like digital games to include.

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