appear very different from the experience of most kids reading it today. But Lee?s words make her story feel alive and present.
In 2006, however, critic Thomas Mallon expressed his regret about the book?s avoiding moral complexity in The New Yorker. But her novel makes a great teaching tool for teenagers precisely because its moral view is as clear as that of one of Aesop?s fables. That absence of ambiguity in this novel doesn?t mean the novel is free of challenging ideas, either. Will Serratelli, another literature student at Brown says, “There aren?t many hard moral questions being asked…but it opens up all these other questions that I hadn?t thought about before. My English teachers always asked, ?Do you sympathize with this character? Would you want to hang out with them?? When you give a kid a book where those questions don?t even need to be asked, it forces them to dig deeper.”
Mallon?s criticism is accurate in that this novel may present too limited a view of racism in America. That?s especially problematic because it is one of the only books consistently assigned to American students that acknowledges racial discrimination at all. However, To Kill a Mockingbird may owe some of its popularity as a teaching text to the fact that the narrative voice is a white one. Naomi Varnis, an African Studies student at Brown says, “It?s another practice of telling stories about black people through white central characters,” she says.
While the novel is undoubtedly worth its place in the classroom, English teachers may do well to consider that it is a white author?s perspective—and ought to be the only beginning of a dialogue about race and never the final word. But as a gateway to more mature ideas, and as a YA (young adult) distillation（提炼）of complex concepts young people may not have grasped before, Lee?s novel is invaluable.
65. According the passage, the novel To Kill a Mockingbird can help us_________. A. know more about the past U.S. economic situation B. understand what the real personality of human is C. reduce much anxiety for fear of losing ourselves
D. find and deal with some other complicated questions
66. What does the underlined word “trailed” most probably mean in Paragraph 1? A. Was as good as. B. Tried hard to defeat. C. Went along the same route as. D. Had a lower score than. 67. What can we conclude from Will Serratelli?s statement underlined in Paragraph 5?
A. The kids are motivated to think further.
B. The kids have to face more moral questions. C. The kids tend to sympathize with the characters.
D. The kids are unwilling to answer challenging questions. 68. Why is the novel well received by teenagers in the US? A. Because it reveals racial discrimination in America. B. Because it makes some serious adult issues accessible. C. Because a white author tells the stories about black people.
D. Because it is widely used as a tool for moral judgments in society. 69. Who points out straight the shortcoming of the novel? A. Thomas Mallon. B. Naomi Varnis. C. Will Serratelli. D. Gaby Hick. 70. What is the author?s purpose in writing the passage?
A. To tell us about the content of the novel. B. To introduce some different comments.
C. To explain the reasons for its popularity. D. To approve of the creative writing style.
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