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 (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 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 (奇怪的) 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.According to the passage, great fear can take place in a child when the
story is （）.
第1题：
A.has climbed
B.has been climbing
C.has been climbed
D.climbed
第2题：
Aare
Bhave been
Cis
D has been
第3题：
(A)when
(B) once
(C) which
(D) since
正确答案：D
解答参考：D此题考察句型It has been…since that… 自从……以来有多久了【译文】从铁路建成以来有一个多世纪之久了。
第4题：
My money______. Could you please lend me some?
A. has run out of
B. has run out
C. was run out of
D. has been run out
9．答案为B 我的钱用完了。你能借我点吗?run out“用完”，主语一般为物，无需用被动语态，run out of“用完，耗尽”，后需接宾语，主语一般是人。
第5题：
A、are
B、is
C、have been
D、has been
第6题：
A.facility
B.fascination
C.faculty
D.assassination
第7题：
A.has been sent
B.was sent
C.had been sent
D.was being sent
第8题：
Would you please keep silent? The weather report and I want to listen.
A. is broadcast B. is being broadcast
C. has been broadcast D. had been broadcast
第9题：
Text 2
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
第10题：
It has been documented that during World War Ⅱ, America's armed forces once tried formation flight to save fuel.
