words, but this should not lead parents to treat printed fairly 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, in
think, some cases of children being dangerously terrified 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 faces 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 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 girlfriend.
No fairy story ever declared to be a description of the real world and no clever child has ever
believed that it was
B. treated as a joke
C. make some changes by the parents
D. set in the present
B. heard for the first time
C. repeated too often
D. told in a different way
B. develops their power of memory
C. makes them believe there is nothing to be afraid of
D. encourages them not to have strange beliefs
B. there is some misunderstanding about fairy tales
C. people try to modernize old fairy stories
D. there is more concern for children"s fears nowadays
B. they just make up the stories which are far from the truth
C. they are not interesting
D. they make teachers of history difficult to teach
represent, in fact, what I call 1 and love.
I don"t remember my father ever getting into a swimming pool. But he did 2 the water. Any kind
of 3 ride seemed to give pleasure. 4 he loved to fish; sometimes he took me along.
But I never really liked being on the water the way my father did. I liked being 5 the water, moving
through it, 6 it all around me. I was not a strong 7 , or one who learned to swim early, for I had
my 8 . but I loved being in the swimming pool close to my father"s office and 9 those summer
days with my father, who 10 come by on a break. I needed him to see what I could do. My father
would stand there in his suit, the 11 person not in swimsuit.
After swimming, I would go 12 his office and sit on the wooden chair in front of his big desk,
where he let me 13 anything I found in his top desk drawer. Sometimes, if I was left alone at his desk
14 he worked in the lab, an assistant or a student might come in and tell me perhaps I shouldn"t be
playing with his 15 . but my father always 16 and said easily, "Oh, no, it"s 17 ." Sometimes he
handed me coins and told me to get 18 an ice cream…
( )1. A. desire ( )2. A. avoid ( )3. boat ( )4. A, But ( )5. A. On ( )6. A. having ( )7. A. swimmer ( )8. A. hopes ( )9. A. spending ( )10. A. should ( )11. A. next ( )12. A. away from ( )13. A. put up ( )14. A. the moment ( )15. A. fishing net ( )16. A. stood up ( )17. A. fine ( )18. A. the student ( )19. A. memory ( )20. A. which | B. joy B. refuse B. bus B. Then B. off B. leaving B. rider B. faiths B. saving B. would B. only B. out of B. break down B. the first time B. office things B. set out B. strange B. the assistant B. wealth B. who | C. anger C. praise C. train C. And C. by C. making C. walker C. rights C. wasting C. had to C. other C. by C. play with C. while C. wooden chair C. showed up C. terrible C. myself C. experience C. what | D. worry D. love D. bike D. Still D. in D. getting D. runner D. fears D. ruining D. ought to D. last D. inside D. work out D. before D. lab equipment D. lab equipment D. funny D. himself D. practice D. whose | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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"It hurts me more than you", and "This is for your own good" -these are the statements my mother | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1. Children are becoming more inactive in study because _______. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A. they watch TV too often B. they have done too much homework C. they have to fulfill too many duties D. teachers are too strict with them | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2. We learn from the passage that the author"s mother used to lay emphasis on _______. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A. learning Latin B. discipline C. natural development D. education at school | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
3. By "permissive period in education" (L.1, Para.2) the author means a time _______. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A. when children are allowed to do what they wish to B. when everything can be taught at school C. when every child can be educated D. when children are permitted to receive education | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
4. The main idea of the passage is that _______. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
A. parents should leave their children alone B. kids should have more activities at school C. it"s time to be more strict with our kids D. parents should always set a good example to their kids | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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My husband and I sat outside. A small child about three came up the street, accompanied by her mother. As she saw another girl a few feet away, she gave her admiring comment, "Mommy, I like her dress." Her mom 1 , "Well, why don"t you go and tell her?" The little girl walked 2 toward the girl wearing the pretty dress. The other one, 3 the same age, was standing with her 4 turned, alongside her parents. They had not heard the compliment (赞美). Receiving no answer, this little one 5 . My husband said to the other girl, " 6 wants to tell you something." As she turned around, connection was made. Once again, the little one 7 "I like your dress," and upon hearing those words, the other one gave her a big smile and excitedly 8 "Look, it"s a spinning (旋转) dress!", at which moment she began to spin in 9 . Both of them smiled widely. Now, the one stopped spinning and said, "It"s my favorite dress and I have (a) 10 that match!" She 11 running toward a stroller (婴儿车) parked nearby. The mom and the daughter started to 12 down the street, 13 the encounter (邂逅) had ended. Moments later, the "spinning dress girl" reappeared, shoes in hand, 14 her new friend who had seemingly disappeared. Now, an elderly couple, seated on a bench, had obviously been 15 of all this. The man 16 the child, saying, "There"s someone coming behind you." Then we saw one showed and the other 17 the beautiful shoes. If you can make a 18 better, do it. I have no idea how many others that evening might have 19 this act, hoping to help good things to happen. But such brief moments, 20 together, make up what might very well be the important times in our lives.
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