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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 (上帝的)
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
(施虐狂的) 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. As to fear, I think, we also need well-
documented cases of children being
dangerously
terrified (恐惧) by some fairy story. 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 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 (女巫),
two-headed dragons, magic carpets (魔毯), etc., do
not exist;
and that, instead of indulging (沉溺)
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 (女巫乘骑的扫帚柄) or
covering a telephone with kisses in the belief
that it was their
enchanted (中魔法的) girl-
friend.
No fairy story ever claimed to be
a description of the external world and no sane
(精神健全的)
child has ever believed that it was.
1. The author considers that a fairy
story is more effective when it is _______.
A. repeated without variation
B. treated with
respect
C. adapted by the parent
D. set
in the present
2. Some people dislike fairy
stories because they feel that they ________.
A. tempt people to be cruel to children
B.
show the primitive cruelty in children
C.
lend themselves to undesirable experiments with
children
D. increase a tendency to have
sadistic impulses in children
3. According to
the passage great fear can be stimulated in a
child when the story is ________.
A. set in
reality
B. heard for the first time
C.
repeated too often
D. dramatically told
4. The author's mention of broomsticks and
telephones is meant to suggest that ________.
A. fairy stories are still being made up
B.
there is confusion about different kinds of truth
C. people try to modernize old fairy stories
D. there is more concern for
children's fears nowadays
5. Which of the
following statements is TRUE according to the
passage?
A. Fairy stories are anything but
beneficial to the growth of children.
B.
Fairy stories teach children the way to adapt to
the society.
C. No fairy story should be
taken as the true description of the reality.
D. No fairy story should be told to the children
without modification.
Questions 6 to 10 are
based on the following passage or dialog.
Standing alone at the Browns' party, Anna
Mackintosh thought about her husband Edward,
establishing him clearly in her mind's eye. He
was a thin man, forty-one years of age, with fair
hair that was often untidy. In the seventeen
years they'd been married he had changed very
little;
he was still nervous with other
people, and smiled in the same embarrassed way,
and his face
was still almost boyish.
She
believed she had failed him because he had wished
for children and she had not been able to
supply any. She had, over the years, become
neurotic (神经机能病的) about this fact and in the
end, quite some time ago now, she had
consulted a psychiatrist (精神病学家), Dr. Abbat, at
Edward's pleading (恳求).
In the
Browns' rich drawing room, its walls and ceiling
gleaming (发微光) with a metallic (金属般
的) surface
of imitation gold, Anna listened to dance music
coming from a tape recorder and
continued to
think about her husband.
In a moment he
would be at the party, since they had agreed to
meet there, although by now it
was three-
quarters of an hour later than the time he had
promised.
The Browns were people he knew
in a business way, and he had said he thought it
wise that he
and Anna should attend this
gathering of theirs. She had never met them
before, which made it
more difficult for her,
having to wait about, not knowing a soul in the
room.
When she thought about it she felt
hard done by, for although Edward was kind to her
and always
had been, it was far from
considerate to be as late as this. Because of her
nervous condition she
felt afraid and had
developed a sickness in her stomach. She looked at
her watch and sighed.
6. Why did Anna
feel awkward at the party?
A. She came to the
party too early.
B. She was neglected by the
host.
C. She felt uncomfortable with the
atmosphere of the party.
D. She didn't know
anyone there.
7. What made Anna feel
inadequate?
A. She did not make a good mother
to her children.
B. She was unable to satisfy
her husband's desire to have children.
C. She
did not get along well with her husband.
D.
She was unable to have a better understanding of
her husband.
8. As time went by, Anna started
to get angry as ________.
A. she found the
Browns were much wealthier than they were
B. her husband was usually more
thoughtful
C. she noticed that no one was
willing to talk to her
D. her husband was
bad-mannered in the party
9. According to the
passage, Edward wanted Anna to attend the party
because ________.
A. he wanted her to have
more of a social life
B. he tried to distract
her from some unpleasant thoughts
C. he
needed her support
D. he thought she would
impress the Browns
10. What kind of woman Anna
was according to the passage?
A. Sensitive
and worried.
B. Open and talkative.
C.
Imaginative and cheerful.
D. Sensible and
easygoing.
Questions 11 to 15 are based on the
following passage or dialog.
In the primary
school, a child is in a comparatively simple
setting and most of the time forms a
relationship with one familiar teacher. On
entering secondary school, a new world opens up
and
frequently it is a much more difficult
world. The pupil soon learns to be less free in
the way he
speaks to teachers and even to his
fellow pupils. He begins to lose gradually the
free and easy
ways of the primary school, for
he senses the need for a more cautious approach in
the
secondary school where there are older
pupils. Secondary staff and pupils suffer from the
pressures of academic work and seem to have
less time to stop and talk. Teachers with
specialist
roles may see hundreds of children
in a week, and a pupil may be able to form
relationships with
very few of the staff. He
has to decide which adults are approachable; good
schools will make
clear to every young person
from the first year what guidance and personal
help is available—but
whether the reality of
life in the institution actually encourages
requests for help is another
matter.
Adults often forget what a confusing picture
school can offer to a child. He sees a great deal
of
movement, a great number of people—often
rather frightening-looking people—and realizes
that an increasing number of choices and
decisions have to be made. As he progresses
through
the school the confusion may become
less but the choices and decisions required will
increase.
The school will rightly expect the
pupil to take the first steps to obtain the help
he needs, for this
is the pattern of adult
life for which he has to be prepared, but all the
time the opportunities for
personal and group
advice must be presented in a way which makes them
easy to understand
and within easy reach of
pupils.
11. According to the passage one
of the problems for pupils entering secondary
schools is that
________.
A. they are
taught by many different teachers
B. they do
not attend lessons in every subject
C. the
teachers are not so friendly and helpful
D.
the teachers give most attention to a few pupils
12. In secondary schools every pupil having
problems should ________.
A. know how to ask
for help
B. go to ask any teacher he can find
C. discuss his problem in class
D. turn to his parents for help
13. It can be
inferred from the passage that the author is
mainly concerned about ________.
A. academic
standards
B. the role of specialist teachers
C. the training of the individual teachers
D. the personal development of pupils
14.
Which of the following statements is TRUE?
A.
All the secondary schools know the way to
encourage students' requests for help.
B. The
secondary schools are responsible for offering
personal and group advice to new
pupils.
C. Secondary school pupils enjoy greater freedom
in communicating with teachers and
fellow
pupils.
D. Secondary school pupils can easily
get the help they need.
15. The most
appropriate title for the passage is ________.
A. Primary School and Secondary School
B. Problems for New Secondary School Teachers
C. Problems for New Secondary School Pupils
D. Academic Work and Personal Relationship