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Text 3?
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.?
56. 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??
57. 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
58. 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??
59. 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??
60. 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. ?
Part B?
Directions: ?
Read the texts from an article in which five people talked about smoking. For questions 61 to 65, match the name of each person (1 to 5) to one of the statements (A to G) given below. Mark your answers on your ANSWER SHEET.
Hadley?
If you smoke and you still don't believe that there's a definite link between smoking and bronchial troubles, heart disease and lung cancer, then you are certainly deceiving yourself. Just have a look at those people in hospital with these diseases and count how many of them do not smoke, you may be surprised at the number. Even these few people might be passive smokers without realising it.
Randy?
Tobacco is a wonderful commodity to tax. It's almost like a tax on our daily bread. In tax revenue alone, the government of Britain collects enough from smokers to pay for its entire educational facilities. So while the authorities point out ever so carefully that smoking may be harmful, it doesn't do to shout too loudly about it.
Sampson?
The advertising of tobacco is one of the problems. We are never shown pictures of real smokers coughing up their lings early in the morning. That would never do. The advertisements always depict handsome, clean?shaven young men. They suggest it is manly to smoke, even positively healthy! Smoking is associated with the great openair life, with beautiful girls, true love and togetherness.
What utter nonsense!?
Rowley?
Of course tobacco can help government to raise money. However, while money is eagerly collected in vast sums with one hand, it is paid out in increasingly vaster sums with the other. Enormous amounts are spent on cancer research and on efforts to cure people suffering from the disease. Countless valuable lives are lost. In the long run, there is no doubt that everybody would be much better off if smoking were banned altogether.
Bernice?
Smoking can provide constant consolation. When I feel worried or nervous, I just get a cigarette and everything seem to get right. After a day's hard work, the thing I want to do most is smoking. It can be even better with a cup of coffee. It's so enjoyable and relaxing that it relieves stresses of every day life. So why bother to ban it and take the pleasure from us.?
Now match each of the people (1 to 5) to the appropriate statement.?
Note: there are two extra statements.?
61. Hadley
62. Randy?
63. Sampson?
64. Rowley?
65. Bernice
Statements?
[A] Smoking brings many psychological benefits. ?
[B] Tobacco is an important source of income to the government. ?
[C] Smoking is sure to cause diseases.?
[D] It's a short?sighted policy to depend on tobacco for money.
[E] The advertisement for it is dishonest and harmful. ?
[F] The tobacco industry makes high?quality advertisement for smoking. ?
[G] It's doubtful whether there is link between smoking and cancer.
