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If you can see the magic in a fairytale, you can face the future.” —Danielle Steel

Who have not read fairytales? We all have had the experience of reveling in the beauty and innocence of fairytales. May it be Cinderella or Sleeping Beauty... fairytale is a word which cannot be new to us. But have you ever traveled ages back to the earliest of times and uncovered the fascinating facts about these stories? Well, if not, then here are some mystical finds I discovered when I undertook this journey.

A fairytale or fairy story is a fictional tale that usually features folkloric characters (such as fairies, talking animals). A fairytale often stars transformed princes, princesses, animals, as in “fairytale ending” where the humble but heroic princes defeat the wicked enemies or as in “fairytale romance” where after much ado the beautiful princesses marry their Prince Charming.

One distinct feature of fairytales is that, they take place “once upon a time”. The history of the fairytale is particularly difficult to trace. The oral tradition of the fairytale came long before the written page. The oldest known fairytales stem from ancient Egypt around 1,300 B.C and now, after traveling through various periods of time, they have grown and matured in various aspects and have become the most popular genre of stories for young children.

The most famous authors of fairytales are the Grimm Brothers whose works include Cinderella, Rapunzel, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and many more; The Grimm Brothers collected their tales from farmers and edited them to suit their audience.

But whatever may the form be, fairytales are after all fairytales! G. K. Chesterton said, “Fairytales do not tell children the dragons exist; they tell the dragons can be killed.” This quote has great weight. Every child believes in fairies, dragons, etc. They do not need fairytales to tell them that. Instead fairytales tell that good always succeed over evil. So fairytales are necessary for young minds.

Fairytales are narrated to children when they are young. This is very essential indeed, for if in the beginning of our lives our minds are touched by the beauty, innocence and the morals in these tales, we will be able to trace the optimistic side of happenings. The fairies are like our wildest dreams, which seem unreachable but we can make them plausible（真實(shí)的）.

1. What does paragraph 2 mainly tell us?

A. The definition of fairytale.

B. The characters in the fairytale.

C. The brief introduction of fairytale.

D. The plot of the fairytale.

2. What implies in the passage?

A. The fairytale first appeared as a written form.

B. The spoken form of fairytale came earlier than the written form.

C. The fairytale came from ancient Egypt and hasn’t changed much since then

D. The fairytale always begins with “once upon a time”.

3. By saying “Fairytales do not tell children the dragons exist; they tell the dragons can be killed.”, G. K. Chesterton meant________.

A. the dragons are evil things

B. good always win over evil

C. every child believes the existence of the dragon

D. every child can know how to kill a dragon from the fairytale

4.What does the writer think about the fairytale?

A. He believes that we can make fairytale come ture.

B. He thinks the fairytale makes no difference to our lives.

C. He feels doubtful of the fairytale.

D. He thinks the fairytale is unreachable.

 

Answer 1

1.C

2.B

3.B

4.A

【解析】

試題分析：本文講述了童話的起源以及其必要性。作者相信那些比較夢(mèng)幻的事情都能實(shí)現(xiàn)。

1.

2.The oral tradition of the fairytale came long before the written page.可知口頭敘述形式的童話比書寫形式的要早。故選C

3.Instead fairytales tell that good always succeed over evil.可知童話故事是反映了正義終將戰(zhàn)勝邪惡的主題。故選B

4.which seem unreachable but we can make them plausib可知作者相信這些看起來比較不可能的事情都能夠?qū)崿F(xiàn)。故選A

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