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(奇异的)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】本文是一篇议论文，主要阐明了作者对给孩子讲童话故事的看法：作者认为给孩子讲童话故事，特别是经过父母改编的故事，对孩子有好处。

D 细节理解题。根据第一段中的"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."可推知此题答案为D。

B细节理解题。根据第二段最后一句话"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 推理判断题。从第三段"I find such people, I must say so peculiar(奇异的)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."可知作者并不赞同那些认为童话故事不现实，应该让孩子了解现实的说法，认为有些人对童话故事存在误解。

D 推理判断题。从第三段"...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."可知一些人认为童话故事里都是虚构的人物或动物等，应该让孩子通过学习历史来了解现实，故选D。