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 situation of the time and the child, is an improvement on the printed text, so much the better.

A change 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, I think, some cases of children being dangerously terrified by some fairy story. Often, however, this arises(出現(xiàn)) 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 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(奇怪的)that I don’t 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 girl-friend.

No fairy story ever declared to be a description of the real world and no clever child has ever believed that it was.

72. The author considers that a fairy story is more effective when it is______.

A. repeated without any change B. treated as a joke

C. set in the present D. given some changes by the parent

73. According to the passage, great fear can take place in a child when the story is____.

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

　　　 C. repeated too often D. told in a different way

74. The author’s mention of sticks and telephones is meant to suggest that______.

　　　 A. fairy stories are still being made up　　　　

　　　 B. people try to modernize old fairy stories

　　　 C. there is some misunderstanding about fairy tales　　　　　　　　　　

　　　 D. There is more concern for children’s fears nowadays

75. One of the reasons why some people are not in favor of fairy tales is that_____.

　　　 A. they are full of imagination　　　　　　　　　　

　　　 B. they are not interesting

　　　 C. they just make up the stories which are far from the truth　　　　　

　　　 D. they make teachers of history difficult to teach

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