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 　A child who has once been pleased with a tale likes,as 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 seems 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 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 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 madmen 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 had ever believed that it was.
　　1、According to the passage,which of the following statement is not true about fairy stories?
　　A.If children indulged his fantasies in fairy tales instead of being taught how to adapt to reality by studying history and mechanics the world should be full of madman.
　　B.Children can often be greatly terrified when the fairy story is heard for the first time.
　　C.Fairy tales may beneficially direct children's aggressive,destructive and sadistic impulses.
　　D.Fairy tales are no more than stories about imaginary figures with magical powers which has nothing to do with external world.
　　参考答案：A
　　参考解析：在第二段倒数第一、二句中作者解释了孩子们恐惧的原因，并讲述了消除这种恐惧的方法，即"by repetition"。
　　2、In the writer's opinion,a fairy tale.
　　A.cannot be read to children without variation because they find no pleasure in it
　　B.will be more effective if it is adapted by parents
　　C.must be made easy so that children can read it on their own
　　D.is no longer needed in developing children's power of memory
　　参考答案：B
　　参考解析：答案可从第一段第二句中推出。"produce what,in the actual circumstances of the time and the individual child,is an improvement on the printed text"指的就是对童话加以改编。
　　3、In the writer's opinion,fairy stories.
　　A.have a very bad effect on children
　　B.have advantages in cultivating children's imagniativity
　　C.help children to come to terms with fears
　　D.harm children greatly
　　参考答案：C
　　参考解析：在第二段倒数第一、二句中作者解释了孩子们恐惧的原因，并讲述了消除这种恐惧的方法，即"by repetition"。
　　4、In the writer's opinion to rid children of fears,fairy stories should be.
　　A.told only once
　　B.repeated many times
　　C.told in a realistic setting
　　D.presented vividly
　　参考答案：B
　　参考解析：在第二段倒数第一、二句中作者解释了孩子们恐惧的原因，并讲述了消除这种恐惧的方法，即"by repetition"。
　　5、According to the passage,some people who are openly against fairy tales argue that.
　　A.fairy tales are harmful to children in that they show the primitive cruelty in children
　　B.fairy tales are harmful to children unless they have been adapted by their parent
　　C.fairy tales increase a tendency to sadism in children
　　D.children who have read fairy stories pay little attention to the study of history and mechanics
　　参考答案：C
　　参考解析：文中第二段第一句中的"arousing his sadistic impulses"即是答案所在，这里指的就是“唤起暴虐的欲望”。
　　参考译文：
　　一个曾经对故事感到满意的孩子，通常喜欢用同样的话重新讲述，但这不应该导致父母把印刷的童话故事当作神圣的文本。讲故事总比从书本上读出来要好得多，而且如果父母能够根据当时的实际情况和孩子的个体情况对印刷文本进行改进，那就更好了。
　　对童话的一个指控是，童话通过吓唬孩子或激起他施虐的冲动来伤害他。为了证明后者，人们必须在对照实验中表明，读过童话故事的孩子比没有读过童话故事的孩子更经常犯有虐待罪。每个孩子都有攻击性的、破坏性的、施虐的冲动，总的来说，他们象征性的语言表达似乎更像是一个安全阀，而不是一个公开行动的煽动。至于恐惧，我认为，有确凿的事例表明孩子们被一些神话故事吓坏了。然而，这往往是因为孩子曾经听过这个故事。通过重复熟悉这个故事，把恐惧的痛苦变成面对并掌握的恐惧的快乐。
　　也有人反对童话，理由是童话在客观上不真实，巨人、女巫、双头龙、魔毯等不存在；而且，应该通过学习历史和力学来教孩子如何适应现实，而不是沉迷于童话故事。我必须承认，我发现这样的人如此缺乏同情心，如此古怪，以至于我不知道如何与他们争论。如果他们的情况是合理的，那么这个世界应该充满了疯子，他们试图用扫帚把从纽约飞到费城，或者用亲吻覆盖电话，相信那是他们被施了魔法的女朋友。
　　没有哪个童话故事声称是对外部世界的描述，也没有哪个神智正常的孩子相信这是真的。