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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．
C．Making them believe there is nothing to be afraid of．
D．Encouraging them not to have strange beliefs．
4．The author’s mention of sticks and telephones is meant to suggest that _______．
A．fairy stories are still being made up
B．there is some misunderstandings about fairy tales
C．people try to update old fairy stories
D．there is more concern for children’s fears nowadays
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Most importantly, it will be of interest to a wide audience．It may describe an event in the news: a train crash, a clash in the streets, crazily happy fans the moment the big game is won．
Uniqueness is eye-catching．A picture that no one else took has much more news value than one taken alongside a rank of other photographers．A good news picture will tell a story without words．It will have context by showing the surrounding scene, or show the emotion on the faces of the people in the picture．
Timeliness is critical．Whatever the content, a news picture can lose its value in a short space of time．News events move quickly, and the shot of a mini tornado you took last week may have been destined for the front page when you took it, but of no interest to a newspaper or a website a week later．
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64．The following are the features of a good news photograph except that ．
A．it is unique B．it is timely
C．it respects others’ privacy and the law D．it can arouse specialists’ interest
65．Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?
A．You Witness News is a popular column of a website．
B．The photos or videos you take are only shared by Yahoo! and Reuters.com．
C．Attach a brief description of yourself when submitting your photos and videos．
D．Any photo or video you take will be accepted by You Witness News．
66．The purpose of the passage is ．
A．to teach you how to take photos
B．to tell people what makes a good news photo
C．to encourage you to share the take
D．to remind people not to disturb others while taking photos
67．Which of the following is a good news photograph?
A．A bird escapes from the cage．
B．A policeman is robbed in the street．
C．Two dogs fight in the park．
D．An old couple quarrel at home．
The writer Margaret Mitchell is best known for writing Gone with the Wind, first published in 1936. Her book and the movie based on it, tell a story of love and survival during the American Civil War. Visitors to the Margaret Mitchell House in Atlanta, Georgia, can go where she lived when she started composing the story and learn more about her life.
Our first stop at the Margaret Mitchell House is an exhibit area telling about the writer’s life. She was born in Atlanta in 1900. She started writing stories when she was a child. She started working as a reporter for the Atlanta Journal newspaper in 1922. One photograph of Ms. Mitchell, called Peggy, shows her talking to a group of young college boys. She was only about one and a half meters tall. The young men tower over her, but she seems very happy and sure of herself. The tour guide explains: “Now in this picture Peggy is interviewing some boys from Georgia Tech, asking them such questions as ‘Would you really marry a woman who works?’ And today it’d be ‘Would you marry one who doesn’t?’ ”
The Margaret Mitchell House is a building that once contained several apartments. Now we enter the first floor apartment where Ms. Mitchell lived with her husband, John Marsh. They made fun of the small apartment by calling it “The Dump ” .
Around 1926, Margaret Mitchell had stopped working as a reporter and was at home healing after an injury. Her husband brought her books to read from the library. She read so many books that he bought her a typewriter and said it was time for her to write her own book. Our guide says Gone with the Wind became a huge success. Margaret Mitchell received the Pulitzer Prize for the book. In 1939 the film version was released. It won ten Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
【小题1】The book Gone with the Wind was _________.
| A．first published on a newspaper |
| B．awarded ten Academy Awards |
| C．written in “The Dump” |
| D．adapted from a movie |
| A．be very pleased with |
| B．show great respect for |
| C．be much taller than |
| D．show little interest in |
| A．Because she was rich enough. |
| B．Because she was injured then. |
| C．Because her husband didn’t like it. |
| D．Because she wanted to write books. |
| A．her height made her marriage unhappy |
| B．her interest in writing continued as an adult |
| C．writing stopped her working as a reporter |
| D．her life was full of hardship and sadness |
| A．A Trip to Know Margaret Mitchell. |
| B． Gone with the Wind: A Huge Success. |
| C．An Introduction of the Margaret Mitchell House. |
| D．Margaret Mitchell: A Great Female Writer. |
The writer Margaret Mitchell is best known for writing Gone with the Wind, first published in 1936. Her book and the movie based on it, tell a story of love and survival during the American Civil War. Visitors to the Margaret Mitchell House in Atlanta, Georgia, can go where she lived when she started composing the story and learn more about her life.
Our first stop at the Margaret Mitchell House is an exhibit area telling about the writer’s life. She was born in Atlanta in 1900. She started writing stories when she was a child. She started working as a reporter for the Atlanta Journal newspaper in 1922. One photograph of Ms. Mitchell, called Peggy, shows her talking to a group of young college boys. She was only about one and a half meters tall. The young men tower over her, but she seems very happy and sure of herself. The tour guide explains: “Now in this picture Peggy is interviewing some boys from Georgia Tech, asking them such questions as ‘Would you really marry a woman who works?’ And today it’d be ‘Would you marry one who doesn’t?’ ”
The Margaret Mitchell House is a building that once contained several apartments. Now we enter the first floor apartment where Ms. Mitchell lived with her husband, John Marsh. They made fun of the small apartment by calling it “The Dump ” .
Around 1926, Margaret Mitchell had stopped working as a reporter and was at home healing after an injury. Her husband brought her books to read from the library. She read so many books that he bought her a typewriter and said it was time for her to write her own book. Our guide says Gone with the Wind became a huge success. Margaret Mitchell received the Pulitzer Prize for the book. In 1939 the film version was released. It won ten Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
1. The book Gone with the Wind was _________.
A. first published on a newspaper
B. awarded ten Academy Awards
C. written in “The Dump”
D. adapted from a movie
2.The underlined phrase “tower over” in Paragraph 2 is closest in meaning to_________.
A. be very pleased with
B. show great respect for
C. be much taller than
D. show little interest in
3.Why did Ms. Mitchell stop working as a reporter according to the passage?
A. Because she was rich enough.
B. Because she was injured then.
C. Because her husband didn’t like it.
D. Because she wanted to write books.
4.Which is the best title for the passage?
A. Gone with the Wind: A Huge Success.
B. Margaret Mitchell: A Great Female Writer.
C. An Introduction of the Margaret Mitchell House.
D. A Trip to Know Margaret Mitchell.
My son Jack, a fourth grader, was having a hard time in getting interested in story books recently, so I offered to read the first few chapters to him. In the early pages of ‘Incident at Halk Hill’, a quiet little boy has a special meeting with a female badger (獾).Soon after, another badger is caught in a steel leg trap(陷阱), and the author describes in detail the pain and scare of an animal struggling to its death. We meet the cruel hunter and his ill treatment of a dog; we see the badger being skinned by the boy's father；and we experience the child's confusion when beaten by his father in anger. Pretty heavy going for ten-year-olds, I thought.
Last night , I returned from a weekend away to find that Jack had finished the whole book on his own. “It was really, really good and sad, and violent，” he reported. “There was a lot of killing.”
“Were there any happy parts?" I asked,
"The boy's life was saved by the badger, and that was good. But then that badger got caught in a trap again and at the end it's dying, too. ” Jack said, "It was so sad that I almost cried. ”
I told him that many books have made me cry, beginning with Heidi, when I was just his age, right on up to the novel I finished last week.
“Well，” he admitted then, “I actually did cry. Reading that book just reminded me of all the sadness in the world, and it made me feel sad ,too. ”
So, I think, now he has been through the sad tone of the passage , the discovery that words on a printed page can give rise to such strong emotion ，that a book can move you right out of your own comfortable little self and into someone else's pain. Thus we come to realize that if we are to remain fully engaged in life, open to its mysteries and feel sorry towards its suffering, we indeed need stories to grab（抓住） us by the neck and remind us of the sadness in the world that is not our own.
1.‘Incident at Halk Hill’ is a _______story.
A．sad B．happy C．funny D．boring
2.The underlined sentence “Pretty heavy going for ten-year-olds" means____
A．the book is too long for a ten year old child
B．the book is too difficult for a ten year old child
C．the book is too violent(暴力) for a ten year old child
D．the book is too pretty for a ten year old child
3.According to the passage , stories can be something to help you_____
A．enjoy your spare time B．develop your care for animals
C．realize the truth of life D．think about your own life
4.By writing the passage, the writer mainly wants to____.
A．tell a story that interested his son
B．show the importance of reading stories
C．share an experience between himself and his son
D．show how to make children interested in books
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