单选题
A child who has once been pleased with a tale likes,
as a rule to have it retold in identically the same words, but this should not
lead parents to treat printed fairy stories as sacred 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 circumstances of the time and the individual child, it 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
arousing his sadistic impulses. To prove the latter, one would have to show in a
controlled experiment that children who have read fairy stories were more often
guilty of cruelty than those who had not. Aggressive, destructive, sadistic
impulses every child has and, on the whole their symbolic verbal discharge seems
to be rather a safety valve than an incitement to overt action. As to fears,
there are, I think, well-authenticated cases of children being dangerously
terrified by some fairy story. Very often fear arises from the child who has
heard the story only 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 tree, that giants, witches two-headed dragons, magic carpets,
etc., do not exist, and that, instead of indulging his fantasies in fairy tales,
the child should be taught how to adapt to reality by studying history and
mechanics. I find such people. I must confess that they are so unsympathetic and
peculiar that I do not know how to argue with them. If their case were sound,
the world should be full of madmen attempting to fly from New York to
Philadelphia on a broomstick or coveting a telephone with kisses in the belief
that it was their enchanted girl-friend. No fairy, story ever
claimed to be a description of the external world and no sane child has ever
believed that it was.
单选题
By saying that "read it out of a book", the author here probably means
______ .
A. reading a book completely
B. reading a book carefully
C. adapting a book for a particular use
D. adopting a book in a special way
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】
单选题
We can learn from the text that some people dislike fairy stories
because ______ .
A. they will stir children's cruelty to other people
B. they will arouse children's interest in learning
C. they will lead children to nowhere
D. they will influence children's future life
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】
单选题
According to the author, if we repeat a fairy story, children probably
will ______ .
A. be frightened
B. not be scared
C. be satisfied
D. not be content
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】
单选题
We can learn from the text that the author ______ with the people are
not in favor of fairy stories.
A. agress
B. disagrees
C. is satisfied
D. argues
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】
单选题
It can be inferred from the text the author would probably ______ .
A. prohibit his child from listening to a horrible fairy story
B. encourage his child to read an interesting fairy story
C. teach his child how to value a fairy story
D. allow his child to listen to an adapted fairy story