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2009山东省成人学士学位考试试题 2009年成人高等教育本科毕业生申请学士学位外语考试 英语试卷一 注意事项： 1. 答试卷一前，请考生务必将姓名和准考证号填涂在答题卡上。 2. 本试卷全部为选择题（客观题），正确答案请在答题卡上填涂，在试卷一上答题无效。 Part I Reading Comprehension (35minutes, 40points) Directions: There are 4 reading passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. After you read a passage, you should deicide on the best choice and then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the centre. Passage 1 Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage. 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 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 story 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 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 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 to peculiar(奇怪的) that I do not know how to argue with them. If their case were sound