请认真阅读下列短文,根据所读内容在文章后表格中第56~65小题的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词,并将答案填写在答题卡标号为56~65的相应横线上。注意:每个空格只填1个单词。Most of us get our earliest life lessons from fairy tales (
童话故事), like “True love can overcome (
战胜) anything” and “Even a frog can turn into a prince”. However, when we grow up, we start to learn new things about life, especially that love doesn’t always win, and that a frog is just a frog. Even so, our love for fairy tales never dies. Just look at cartoons like
The Lion King and
Frozen which have millions of fans young and old.
“Fairy tales are always there because they are the stories of our lives in the purest (
纯粹的) form,” wrote US writer Laura Packer. “They are stories of love and loss, happiness and sadness, riches and dreams.”
Fairy tales are all about the real world. But if children only see just one side of life, adults usually see the other. For example, in the 2014 film
Maleficent, we’re told the tale of
Sleeping Beauty from the views of the evil (
邪恶的) queen. Unlike the children’s version (
版本) of the story, we see that the queen wasn’t born evil. Instead, she experiences great lossers, leading to her “evil” side. And in US writer James Garner’s bedtime story books, he tells the classic story of
Little Red Riding Hood (
小红帽), but with a modern touch: When the wolf tells Red Riding Hood that it isn’t safe for a little girl to walk through the woods alone, she calls the wolf sexist (
性别歧视者), which connects with today’s women’s rights movement.
It looks like fairy tales aren’t just stories our parents read us at bedtime. They may usually start with “Once upon a time …”, but as we grow older, we learn that every story doesn’t always need a “Happily ever after” to be a good one.
Learning From Fairy Tales |
Introduction | We get our 56 from fairy tales at our early age. Fairy tales are mainly stories that come from our daily 57 . Fairy tales are 58 among millions of people young and old. |
Different 59 | Children think the queen in Sleeping Beauty is a 60 evil. Adults think that the queen’s experience 61 her evil side. The wolf thinks it 62 for Red Riding Hood to walk through the woods alone. James Garner thinks of the wolf 63 a sexist. |
Conclusion | Fairy tales are 64 than stories our parents read us at bedtime. Not every fairy story needs a 65 ending. |