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 is on the printed text in the actual situation, so much the better.

A charge (指责) made against fairy tales is that they harm the child by frightening him or making him sad. 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 (出现) 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 are against 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 strong that I do not know how to argue with them. If their case were sound, the world should be full of mad men trying 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 time

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

A．in a realistic setting (背景)                 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.One of the reasons why some people are against 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

【解析】

试题分析：本文主要讲了对于孩子们阅读童话故事存在一些争议。

1.细节题。根据文章的第一段的第二句话“It is always better to tell a story than read it out of a book.”可知父母对故事做一番讲解，效果会更好。 故选C。

2.细节题。根据文章的第二段的最后一句话的意思：通过反复对故事的熟悉；能把恐惧的痛苦变成能面对并控制恐惧的快乐。 故答案应为B。

3.根据As to fears, there are, I think, some cases of children being dangerously terrified by some fairy story. Often, however, this arises (出现) from the child having heard the story once，故选A。

4.根据There are also people who are against fairy stories on the grounds that they are not objectively true，故选B。

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点评：这类文章比较枯燥，需要学生有比较好的耐心。从题目设置的角度看，本题侧重对学生把握文章中心段落和各段落的中心句的能力的考查，所以遇到这类题后，要注意把握好文章结构，了解文章中心意思，找到各段落中心句。不要让文中的一些生词影响了注意力。