2012年5月北京成人学位英语考试真题及答案解析
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Part I Reading Comprehension Directions: There are three 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. You should decide on the best choice and blacken the corresponding letter on the Answer sheet.
The most famous collections of fairy tales(童话)are the ones by Jakob and Wilhelm GrimmThe Grimms published their first fairy.tale collection in l812.They didn’t think they were wnnng for children.They thought they were preserving disappearing German folk culture.Their In'st edition(版本)was a scholarly book that carefully recorded the oral tales.They were surprised when some of their early readers suggested that the stories might be interesting to children.
But the Grimms needed money.They had made a bad deal with their publisher and recelVedlittle Dayment for their first book.At one point Wilhelm complained there wasn’t a chair m his house one could sit on without worrying it would break.So he took the hint and set to Work to make a book that would be suitable for children.He selected a few of the tales，made them mucn longer.and polished up the language.He didn’t add morals，but he did slip in character Jud9ments and moralizing comments wherever he could.
ThP Gnmms’Fairy Tales also have one characteristic that would seem to make them unsuitable for children.Many of them include violent incidents.In Hansel and Gretel，an old woman lsbumed to death in an oven。and in Little Red Riding Hood，a child is eaten by a wolf·When he re。vised the tales for children。Wilhelm Grimm retained the violence.In fact，he sometimes even ramped it up.For example.in the first edition of the tales，Cinderella forgives her sisters at the end.It，s only in the second edition，the one intended for children，that her birds peck(啄)out their eyes.
Why.then，have The Grimms’Fairy Tales become classics of children’S literature，SO mucn so that it is hard to imagine a child who doesn’t know Cinderella’s story or Snow White’s?
One answer is that onlV a few of the tales survived into modem times.The first edition of The Gnmms’Fairy Tales had 210 tales.By l825 it was down t0 50.And today only a dozen or so otthe tales are often reprinted in children’s collections.
But the deeper answer is that the tales that have lasted are magical adventures that help childrendealwith the struggles and fears of their everyday lives.
第1题 Why did Wilhelm Grimm set out to adapt his book for children?
A.To deal with readers’complaints. B.To improve his financial situation.
C.At the request of his publisher. D.To preserve the ancient stories in print.
答案：B
第2题 When revising the fairy tales，Wilhelm did all of the following EXCEPT_________.
A.adding character judgments B.making the tales much longer
C.deleting the violent scenes D.polishing up the language
答案：C
第3题 What does the expression“ramped it up”in Paragraph 3 probably mean?
A.Started. B.Allowed. C.Classified. D.Increased.
答案：D
第4题 Which of the following statements about the Grimms’fairy tales is TRUE according to the passage?
A.They were originally intended to be children’s stories.
B.Generally speaking，the tales that have endured can help children deal with the challengeslife brings to them.
C.A large number of the tales made it to the modern age.
D.They are less violent than the children’s stories being wriUen today.
答案：B
第5题 What is the passage mainly concerned with?
A.History of fairy tales. B.Ways to preserve the oral tradition.
C.The Grimms’fairy tales. D.Violence in fairy tales.
答案：C