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 change 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 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 don’t 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.
【小题1】The author considers that a fairy story is more effective when it is .A．repeated without any changeB．treated as a jokeC．set in the presentD．given some changes by the parent【小题2】According to the passage, great fear can take place in a child when the story is .A．heard for the first timeB．in a realistic settingC．repeated too oftenD．told in a different way【小题3】The author’s mention of sticks and telephones is meant to suggest that .A．fairy stories are still being made upB．people try to modernize old fairy storiesC．there is some misunderstanding about fairy talesD．There is more concern for children’s fears nowadays【小题4】One of the reasons why some people are not in favor of fairy tales is that .A．they are full of imaginationB．they are not interestingC．they just make up the stories which are far from the truthD．they make teachers of history difficult to teachD
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(答案→)D
解析：
【小题1】D 细节题。根据第一段后三行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.说明如果父母能够改编这样的故事，效果会更好，故D正确。
【小题2】A 推理题。根据第二段1,2行A change made against fairy tales is that they harm the child by frightening him or making him sad thinking.说明看这样的故事会让孩子害怕，故A正确。
【小题3】C 推理题。根据第三段后三行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.说明有些人对神话故事有误解认为这样的故事对孩子有不好的影响，故C正确。
【小题4】C 细节题。根据第三段1,2行There 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;说明这些人认为神话故事都是编出来的远离实际情况，故C正确。