Is traditional fairytales good all the time? Recent research found one in five parents have abandoned those old classics such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarves and Hansel and Gretel and they’re in favor of more modern books.

One third of parents said their children have been left in tears after hearing the terrible details of Little Red Riding Hood. The survey of 2,000 adults was carried out to mark the launch of the hit US drama GRIMM, which starts tonight at 9:00 pm on Watch, and sees six series based on traditional fairytales. The research found a quarter of parents wouldn’t consider reading a fairytale to their child until they had reached the age of five, as they cause too many awkward questions. And 52 percent of the parents said Cinderella didn’t send a good message to their children as it portrays (描绘) a young woman doing housework all day. Similarly, Goldilocks and the Three Bears was also a tale likely to be left on the book shelf as parents felt it condones (宽恕) stealing.

Steve Hornsey, General Manager of Watch, said: “Bedtime stories are supposed to relax the children and send them off to sleep soundly. But as we see in GRIMM, fairytales can be dark and dramatic tales so it’s understandable that parents worry about reading them to young children. As adults we can see the innocence in fairytales, but a five year old with an over active imagination could think they are true. Despite the dark nature of classic fairytales, as we see in GRIMM, good will defeat evil and there is always a moral to the story.”

Though half of parents said traditional tales are more likely to have a strong moral message than a lot of modern kids’ books, two thirds of mums and dads said they were no longer appropriate to soothe youngsters before bed. On the contrary, they might give their children nightmares.

1.Why aren’t some traditional fairytales read by parents to children?

A. They are forbidden to read according to the rules.

B. They are difficult for their children to understand.

C. They are too scary for their young children to hear.

D. They don’t have any strong moral messages in them.

2.Which of the traditional fairytales tells one can get away with stealing?

A. Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.

B. Little Red Riding Hood.

C. Goldilocks and the Three Bears.

D. Hansel and Gretel.

3.What’s the author’s attitude towards traditional fairytales?

A. Objective.B. Supporting.C. Disapproving.D. Doubtful.

4.The underlined word “soothe” in the last paragraph means “________”.

A. surprise B. astonish C. stress D. comfort

One day a poor man was cutting a big piece of wood near a river. Suddenly his old axe fell into the water. He felt very sad because he lost his only axe. Then all at once a beautiful fairy came out and asked the man what was the matter.

“I have lost my axe, ”he said. It fell into the water when I was cutting the wood.

The fairy showed him a gold axe and asked, “Is this yours?”.

“No,” said the man.

The fairy then showed him a silver axe and asked again, “Is this yours?” “No,” again answered the man.

Then she showed him the old axe.

“Yes, that is mine,”called out the happy man.

“I know that well enough,” said the fairy.“I only wanted to see if you would tell me the truth, and now I'll give you the gold axe and the silver axe besides your own one.”

1.One day when the man was cutting something, ________.

A. he fell into the water

B. his axe dropped into the river

C. his axe fell into a lake

D. he saw a beautiful fairy

2.The man was sad because ________.

A. he was poor and had no other axes

B. he could not go on working

C. he liked his axe very much

D. his axe was a gold axe

3.The fairy gave him a gold axe and a silver axe but he didn't take them, because he ________.

A. did not like them

B. did not know they were made of gold and silver

C. was very rich

D. knew these axes were not his

4.At the end of the story the man had ________.

A. only one axeB. two axes

C. three axesD. many axes

5.The fairy helped the man because he was ________ man.

A. an old B. a young C. a poor D. an honest

Tuy Sereivathana was born in 1970. In 1975 his family fled from the city to rural village where Tuy’s parents, both well-educated, taught school in the mornings to the local children and farmed in the afternoons to make ends meet.During his childhood, Tuy developed a deep respect for nature and elephants. ___1.____

After graduation from university, he returned to Cambodia to save his country’s natural resources. ____2.__ Its most famous building, the Angkor Wat temple, was built out of stone with the help of elephants.However, with their habitat decreasing, elephants were destroying farms as they looked for food.__3.__

As a ranger(国家公园管理员) in Cambodia’s national parks, Tuy worked throughout the country, connecting with rural communities and learning more about elephant migration and ecosystem.In Prey Proseth and Trang Troyeng, there lived 30,000 people on the forest’s edge, where he was aware of the lack of capacity within these communities to manage the human-elephant conflict._4.__ More importantly, he taught the farmers to work together, encouraging them to organize overnight guard groups to protect the fields.Tuy also informed the communities of the national and religious pride attached to the elephants.

___5.__ As a result of Tuy’s involvement with the project, there wasn’t a single confirmed elephant death due to human-elephant conflict since 2005.

A.The elephant there are in danger of dying out.

B.More and more farmers had to kill them to protect their crops.

C.Later, he majored in forestry in Belarus University.

D.Since his work began, Tuy has been a significant success.

E.Cambodia has a long history of peaceful coexistence between people and elephants.

F.Now the villagers have begun to realize the importance of protecting animals.

G.Tuy began to teach villagers how to use fences, fireworks and fog horns to keep off elephants.

阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从36---55各题所给的四个选项(A,B,C和D)中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Flora was a carnivorous(食肉的) plant. She lived in a supermarket, next to her friend, Porky, who worked there. Porky ________ her with great affection and attention, and always gave her some meat at the end of each day. But one day, Porky didn’t give her meat any more. Flora got so worried that she decided to ________ why Porky did this to her.

After several days, she found out that Porky ________ lots of meat in a big yellow box. ________ not to know anything about it, Flora asked Porky if she could have a little of the food that was ________ in the yellow box. He responded very ________that she could not.

Flora felt hurt, as well as ________, and she couldn’t stop ________ who Porky was keeping all that delicious-looking meat for. She was filling up with anger. That night, when the shop was ________, she went over to the box, opened it, and ________ the meat.

The next morning, Porky arrived and found the meat had gone. Flora felt terrible. He asked her several times ________ she had taken the meat. At first she ________ it, but seeing Porky’s worried face, she ________ to admit to it.

“What have you done?” Porky ________. “I told you not to touch it! All that meat was ________!That’s why I haven’t been able to give you ________ for days. They sent us a spoiled(变质的)delivery.”

Without delay, Flora was taken to a hospital, and the doctors there ________ to save Flora’s life. Flora was very ________ and it taught her a big lesson. She learnt to stick to the ________ set by those who loved her, because that was much ________. than doing whatever she wanted.

1.A. missedB. treatedC. taughtD. waited

2.A. figure outB. pull outC .give outD. turn out

3.A. stoleB. cutC. putD. wasted

4.A. PretendingB. SupposingC. RememberingD. Promising

5.A. protectedB. keptC. hungD. prepared

6.A. carelesslyB. sadlyC. seriouslyD. confidently

7.A. thirstyB. lonelyC. tiredD. hungry

8.A. wonderingB. doubtingC. askingD. proving

9.A. crowdedB. closedC. quietD. open

10.A. threwB. ateC. bitD. stored

11.A. whyB. whereC. whetherD. when

12.A. refusedB. deniedC. forgotD. reminded

13.A. forcedB. decidedC. informedD. hesitated

14.A. warnedB. whisperedC. shoutedD. requested

15.A. poisonousB. freshC. cheapD. common

16.A. everythingB. nothingC. anythingD. something

17.A. failedB. managedC. triedD. expected

18.A. disappointedB. surprised

C. sorryD. embarrassed

19.A. examplesB. rulesC. limitsD. comments

20.A. simplerB. fasterC. saferD. stronger

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