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  3. A child who has once been pleased with a tale likes, as a rule, to have it retold in identically the same words, but this should

A child who has once been pleased with a tale likes, as a rule, to have it retold in identically the same words, but this should

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问题    A child who has once been pleased with a tale likes, as a 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 to 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 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 other pleasure of the fear faced and mastered.
   There are also people who object 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 girlfriend.
   No fairy story ever claimed to be a description of the external world and no sane child has ever believed that it was.  
Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?
选项 A、Fairy stories are anything but beneficial to the growth of children.
B、No fairy story should be taken as the true description of the reality.
C、Fairy stories teach children the way to adapt to the society.
D、No fairy story should be told to the children without modification.
答案B
解析 事实细节题。最后一段指出，没有任何一个神志清醒的孩子会相信神话是对外在世界的描绘。[B]项是对原文的转述，故为答案。
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