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北京成人本科学士学位英语考试真题 PartⅠ Reading Comprehension (30%) Directions： There are three passages in this part. Each passage is followed 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. Passage 1 Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage： The most famous collections of fairy tales are the ones by Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm. The Grimms published their first fairy-tale collection in 1812.They disappearing German folk culture. Their first 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 received little payment for their first book. At one point Wilhelm complained there wasn‘t a chair in 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 much longer ， and polished up the language. He didn’t add morals ， but he did slip in character judgments and moralizing comments wherever he could. 成人英语网上学习：/kcnet1810/ 1 The Grimms‘ 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” eaten by a wolf. When he revised the tales for children， Wilhelm Grimm retained the violence. In fact， he sometimes even ramped it up. For example， in the first edition， the one intended for children， that her birds peck(啄)out their eyes. Why ， then ， have the Grimms‘ fairy tales become classic of children’s literature， so much so that it is hard to imagine a child