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 (提出) 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.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 nowadays

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

A．they are full of 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

【答案】

1.C

2.B

3.A

4.B

5.B

【解析】

试题分析：本文是一篇议论文，是作者对于给孩子讲故事的看法。作者认为给孩子讲经过父母改编的故事，对孩子是有好处的。

1.C 推理题。根据文章第一段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.说明C项正确。

2.B 细节题。根据文章第二段Often, however, this arises from the child having heard the story once.说明是第一次听的时候就有了恐惧。故B正确。

3.A 细节题。根据文章第二段最后一句Familiarity with the story by repetition turns the pain of fear into the pleasure of a fear faced and mastered.说明这样做会让他们不是那么害怕。故A正确。

4.B 推理题。从第三段“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.“一句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。

5.B推理题。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.”一句可知很多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。

【考点定位】考查推理判断能力。

考点：考查教育类短文阅读

点评：本文讨论的是给孩子讲故事的好处，要求考生在阅读理解整体语篇的基础上，把握文章的真正内涵。要吃透文章的字面意思，从字里行间捕捉有用的提示和线索，这是推理的前提和基础;要对文字的表面信息进行挖掘加工，由表入里，由浅入深，从具体到抽象，从非凡到一般，通过分析、综合、判定等，进行深层处理，符合逻辑地推理。不能就是论事，断章取义，以偏概全。要忠实于原文，以文章提供的事实和线索为依据。