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

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C.COPE A.KEEP LIVING【T7】______TO THAT IMAGE

B.IF YOU CAN【T8】______WITH THREE DAYS RUNNING

C.WAYS OF【T9】______AN IDEA WHAT YOU DESCRIBE IS A HABIT OF LYING THAT IS MORE SERIOUS THAN THIS.I SUSPECT THAT THELIES YOU TELL ARE【T10】______YOU HAVE OF YOUR OWN WORT

H.PEOPLE WHO HAVE DOUBTS ABOUTTHEIR OWN SELF-ESTEEM OFTEN WORRY THAT OTHERS WILL JUDGE THEM AS HARSHLY AS THEY FEEL THEY DESERVE BECAUSE OF A SECRET IDEA THAT THEY ARE PRETTY WORTHLESS.IN OTHER WORDS, THEY CREATE A FALSE PICTURE OF THEMSELVES, A PICTURE OF SOMEONE WHO MEETS ALL THE EXPECTATIONS THEY THINK OTHERS HAVE OF THEM, AND AS YOU SAY, THAT CAUSES PROBLEMS—SINCE THEY HAVE TO【T11】______.AT THE SAME TIME, THEY HAVE TO TELL FURTHER LIE TO COVER THE STORIES THEY HAVE ALREADY TOL

D.ACCORDING TO SOME AUTHORITIES, THIS IS PARTICULARLY AMONG WOMEN ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO HAVE FEW OPPORTUNITIES TO DEVELOP AN ADEQUATE SENSE OF SELF-WORT

H. I SUGGEST YOU GIVE YOURSELF ONE DAY DURING WHICH YOU STICK SOLIDLY TO THE TRUTH ABOUT YOURSEL

F.GIVE YOURSELF A SMALL TREAT AT THE END OF THE DAY IF YOU HAVE MANAGED TO KEEP IT UP.WAIT A WEEK AND THEN TRY IT AGAI

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K.DON"T MAKE A PROMISE TO YOURSELF THATYOU WILL NEVER LIE AGAIN BECAUSE ALMOST CERTAINLY YOU WILL—IT"S TOO MUCH TO TAKE ON AT ONC

E.TRY TO CHANGE THINGS LITTLE BY LITTLE, BY SETTING YOURSELF MANAGEABLE TARGETS.AFTER A WHILE, YOU"LL WONDER WHY YOU EVER HAD THE PROBLEM AT ALL.

If parents bring up a child with the sole aim of turning the child into a genius, they will cause a big problem. According to several leading educational psychologists, this is one of the biggest mistakes which ambitious parents make. Generally, the child will be only too aware of what the parent expects, and will fail. Unrealistic parental expectations can cause great damage to children. However, if parents are not too unrealistic about what they expect their children to do, but are ambitious in a reasonable way, the child may succeed in doing very well—especially if the parents are very supportive of their child. Michael Lee Chao Tin is very lucky. He is crazy about music, and his parents help him a lot by taking him to concerts and arranging private piano and violin lessons for him. They even drive him 50 kilometers a week for violin lessons. Although Michael’s mother knows very little about music, Michael’s father is a good trumpet player. However, he never makes Michael enter music competitions if he is unwilling. Michael’s friend, Winston Chiu Fang Weng, however, is not so lucky. Although both his parents are successful musicians, they set too high a standard for Winston. They want their son to be as successful as they are and so they enter him for every piano competition held. They are very unhappy when he does not win. “When I was your age, I used to win every competition I entered,” Winston’s father tells him. Winston is always afraid that he will disappoint his parents and now he always seems quiet and unhappy.

61.Which of the following mistakes are parents likely to make according to the passage?

A.To neglect their child’s education.

B.To help their child to be a genius.

C.To expect too much of their child.

D.To make their child become a musician.

62.What should parents do in order to help their children succeed?A.They should push the children into achieving a lot.

B.They should try to have their own successful careers.

C.They should arrange private lessons for their children.

D.They should understand and help their children in difficult times.

63.Which of the following statements about Michael Lee’s parents is true?

A.His father is a very poor player of trumpet.

B.His parents are quite rich and have a car.

C.His parents help him in a proper way.

D.His mother knows much about music.

64.Winston’s parents push their son so much that __________.

A.he has succeeded in a lot of competitions

B.he is unhappy because he is not self-confident

C.he feels he cannot learn anything about music from them

D.he has already become a better musician than his father

65.The two examples illustrate the principle that __________.

A.successful parents often have unsuccessful children

B.it is important to let children develop in the way they want

C.parents who want their child to be musical should also be good musicians

D.the more money spent on a child’s education, the better the child will do

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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, 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 seen is 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 stories.

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 the 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 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, 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 mad men attempting to fly from New York to Philadelphia on a broomstick or covering 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.

26. The author considers that a fairy story is more effective when it is ______.

A) repeated without variation

B) treated with reverence

C) adapted by the parent

D) set in the present