Achildwhohasoncebeenpleasedwithatalelikesasaruletohaveitretoldinalmostthesamewordsbutthisshouldnotleadparentstotreatprintedfairystoriesasformaltexts．Itisalwaysmuchbettertotellastorythan

题目详情

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 circumstances（情况） of the time and the individual child is an improvement on the printed text that’s much 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 guilty of 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 from the child who has 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 are opposed to fairy stories in that they are not 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 how to adapt to reality by studying history and mechanics．I find such people I must say so strange that I do not know how to argue with them．If their cases 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 has ever claimed（声称） to be description of the real world and no clever child has ever believed that it was．

1．The author considered that a fairy story is more effective _______．

A．when a story is repeated without any change

B．when we treat a story as a joke

C．when the parent makes some changes about a story

D．when the story is set in the present time

2．According to the passage when can great fear take place in a child?

A．When a story is in a realistic setting． B．When a story is heard for the first time．

C．When a story is repeated too often． D．When a story is told in a different way．

3．What is the advantage claimed for repeating fairy stories to young children?

A．Making them less fearful．

B．Developing their power of memory．