Question

A child who has once been pleased with a tale likes, as a rule, to have it retold in almost the same words, but this should not lead parents to treat printed fairy stories as formal texts. It is always much better to tell a story than to read it out of a book, and? if a parent can produce what, in the actual situation of the time and the child, is an improvement on the printed text, so much the better.

A charge made against fairy tales is that they harm the child by frightening him or making him sad think?ing. To prove the latter, one would have to show in a controlled experiment that children who have read fairy-stories were more often sorry for cruelty than those who had not. As to fears, there are, I think, some cases of children being dangerously terrified by some fairy story. Often, however, this arises from the child having heard the story once. Familiarity with the story by repetition turns the pain of a fear into the pleasure of a fear faced and mastered.

There arc also people who object to fairy stories on the grounds that they are not objectively true, that gi?ants ,witches, two-headed dragons? magic carpets, etc. do not exist and that ， instead of being fond of the strange side in fairy tales, the child should be taught to learn the reality by studying history. I find such people, I must say so peculiar(奇異的)that I do not know how to argue with them. If their cases were sound* the world should be full of mad men attempting to fly from New York to Philadelphia on a stick or covering a tele?phone with kisses in the belief that it was their beloved girlfriend.

No fairy story ever declared to be a description of the real world and no clever child has ever believed that it was.

5.    The author considers that a fairy story is more effective when it is .

A.    repeated without any change

B.    treated as a joke

C.    set in the present

D,  made some changes by the parent

6.    The advantage claimed for repeating fairy stories to young children is that it .

A.    develops their power of memory

B.    makes them less fearful

C.    makes them believe there is nothing to be afraid of

D.    encourages them not to have strange beliefs

7.    The author's mention of sticks and telephones is meant to suggest that .

A.    fairy stories are still being made up

B.    there is some misunderstanding about fairy tales

C.    people try to modernize old fairy stories

D.    there is more concern for children's fears nowa?days

8.    One of the reasons why some people are not in fa-vour of fairy tales is that A.    they are full of imagination

B.    they make teachers of history difficult to teach

C.    they are not interesting

D.    they just make up the stories which are far from the truth

Answer 1

【文章大意】本文是一篇議論文，主要闡明了作者對給孩子講童話故事的看法：作者認為給孩子講童話故事，特別是經過父母改編的故事，對孩子有好處。

D 細節理解題。根據第一段中的"It is always much better to tell a story than to read it out of a book, and, if a parent can produce what, in the actual situation of the time and the child, is an improvement on the printed text, so much the bet-ter."可推知此題答案為D。

B細節理解題。根據第二段最后一句話"Familiarity with the story by repetition turns the pain of a fear into the pleas?ure of a fear faced and mastered.，，可知答案。

B 推理判斷題。從第三段"I find such people, I must say so peculiar(奇異的)that I do not know how to argue with them. If their case were sound, the world should be full of mad men attempting to fly from New York to Philadelphia on a stick or covering a telephone with kisses in the belief that it was their beloved girlfriend."可知作者并不贊同那些認為童話故事不現實，應該讓孩子了解現實的說法，認為有些人對童話故事存在誤解。

D 推理判斷題。從第三段"...and that, instead of being fond of the strange 

side in fairy tales, the child should be taught to learn the reality by studying history."可知一些人認為童話故事里都是虛構的人物或動物等，應該讓孩子通過學習歷史來了解現實，故選D。