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 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 thinking. 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 fear into the pleasure of a fear faced and mastered.

There are also people who object to fairy stories on the grounds that they are not objectively true, that giants, 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 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 girl-friend.

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

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

A. repeated without any change

B. treated as a joke

C. made some changes by the parent

D. set in the present

2.According to the passage, great fear can take place in a child when the story is _______.

A. in a realistic setting

B. heard for the first time

C. repeated too often

D. told in a different way

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

A. makes them less fearful

B. develops their power of memory

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

D. encourages them not to have strange beliefs

4.One of the reasons why some people are not in favor of fairy tales is that _______.

A. they are full of absurd imagination

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

C. they are not interesting

D. they make teachers of history difficult to teach

Answer

1.C

2.B

3.A

4.B

【解析】

试题分析：本文讲述了对童话的一些观点。为什么有些人不喜欢童话，一方面，有些童话令孩子们害怕，另一方面，童话脱离现实。但童话尤其存在的必要。

1. 细节理解题。根据第一段中It is always much better to tell a story than 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.可知，家长如果不照书上的讲，而是对印刷文本有所提高，这样的效果会更好。故选C。

2. 细节理解题。根据第二段最后两句Often, however, this arises from the child having heard the story once. Familiarity with the story by repetition turns the pain of fear into the pleasure of a fear faced and mastered.可知，当孩子们第一次听恐怖故事的时候会非常害怕，但当故事被重复讲述，恐惧的痛苦就变成面对和掌握的快乐，故选B。

3. 细节理解题。根据第二段最后一句Familiarity with the story by repetition turns the pain of fear into the pleasure of a fear faced and mastered.可知，通过重复故事，恐惧的痛苦就变成面对和掌握的快乐，故选A。

4. 细节理解题。根据倒数第二段第一句There are also people who object to fairy stories on the grounds that they are not objectively true...可知，一些人不赞成童话故事的原因在于童话故事编了一些远离事实的故事，故选B。

【名师点评】本文说明了为什么有些人不喜欢童话，一方面，有些童话令孩子们害怕，另一方面，童话脱离现实。这篇文章相对而言比较难，需要仔细推敲文章的意思。

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