1 . For centuries, people have had a strong sense that it is absolutely beneficial to read fairy tales to children. However, the benefits might have been ____. Some researchers are reassessing this long-established belief and after years of surveys and observations, they are sending out the message: reading too much Cinderella to your daughter may ____ damage her in later life. A paper to be developed at the international congress of cognitive psychotherapy (认知心理疗法) suggests a link between the ____ of women abused (虐待) by their partners and early exposure to the wrong sort of fairy tales. It says girls who ____ Cinderella, Rapunzel and Beauty in Beauty and the Beast were more likely to stay in ____ relationships as adults.
The theory was developed by Susan Darker Smith, a psychotherapist at the University of Derby. She interviewed sixty-seven female abuse survivors and found that sixty-one ____severe abuse because they believed they could change their partners with patience and love. The same view was ____ by male survivors who had been abused as children. Hardly any of the women and men in a control group, who had not ____ abuse, thought they could change their partners in this way. These women and men said they would ____ a relationship rather than suffer the abuse from a partner. Ms. Darker Smith found that these abused women were much more likely to sympathize with Cinderella and other female characters who tended to obey instead of ____.
Although most girls heard the stories, damage appeared to be done to those who ____the characters as role models. “They believe if their love is strong enough they can change their partners’ ____,” she said. “____ in children to stories that emphasize the transformational qualities of love may make women believe they can change their partners.” For example, they might never have understood the obvious ____ in the story of Rapunzel, who remained locked in a high tower until rescued by a knight on a white horse, who broke the door down. “The question,” said Ms. Darker Smith, “is why she did not break the door by herself? After all, being ____ is a desirable characteristic that children should learn to possess from the early age and prevail in the life time. ”
1. A.enhanced | B.overestimated | C.highlighted | D.justified |
2. A.physically | B.intellectually | C.academically | D.emotionally |
3. A.attitude | B.conflict | C.uncertainty | D.coincidence |
4. A.acted as | B.identified with | C.turned to | D.accounted for |
5. A.imaginary | B.deceiving | C.destructive | D.mysterious |
6. A.made up for | B.had control over | C.fell off into | D.put up with |
7. A.shared | B.disclosed | C.contrasted | D.argued |
8. A.exploded | B.challenged | C.undergone | D.blamed |
9. A.restore | B.leave | C.restrict | D.survive |
10. A.resisting | B.enduring | C.concealing | D.adapting |
11. A.excluded | B.revealed | C.imposed | D.adopted |
12. A.prejudice | B.fate | C.behavior | D.ignorance |
13. A.Overexposure | B.Contribution | C.Access | D.Commitment |
14. A.plot | B.conclusion | C.moral | D.weakness |
15. A.confident | B.independent | C.innocent | D.optimistic |