阅读理解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.1.The author considers that a fairy story is more effective when it is _______.A.repeated without any changeB.treated as a jokeC.made some changes by the parentD.set in the present2.According to the passage, great fear can take place in a child when the story is _______.A.in a realistic settingB.heard for the first timeC.repeated too oftenD.told in a different way3.The advantage claimed(提出) for repeating fairy stories to young children is that it _______.A.makes them less fearfulB.develops their power of memoryC.makes them believe there is nothing to be afraid ofD.encourages them not to have strange beliefs4.The author’s mention of sticks and telephones is meant to suggest that _______.A.fairy stories are still being made upB.there is some misunderstanding about fairy talesC.people try to modernize old fairy storiesD.there is more concern for children's fears nowadays5.One of the reasons why some people are not in favor of fairy tales is that _______.A.they are full of imaginationB.they just make up the stories which are far from the truthC.they are not interestingD.they make teachers of history difficult to teach
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CBABB解析本文为论说文,作者驳斥了对神话故事的种种指责和误解。1.细节题。根据 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. 可推知此题