题型:阅读理解 题类:常考题 难易度:普通
江苏省沭阳县2020-2021学年高二下学期英语期中调研测试卷(含听力音频)
Most of us get our earliest life lessons from fairy tales, like "True love can overcome anything", and "Even a frog can turn into a prince". However, at a certain age, we start to learn new things about life, particularly that love doesn't always win, and that a frog is just a frog. But somehow, our love for fairy tales never dies. Just look at animated films like The Lion King and Frozen, which have millions of fans, young and old.
"Fairy tales stay here because they are the stories of our lives in the simplest form," wrote US author Laura Packer on the National Storytelling Network website. "They are stories of love and loss, desire and death, riches and ruin." Fairy tales are all about reality. But if children only see just one side of reality, adults usually see the other.
For example, in the 2014 film Maleficent, we're told the tale of Sleeping Beauty from the perspective (视角) of the evil queen. Unlike the children's version of the story, we see that the queen wasn't born evil. Instead, she suffers great losses growing up, leading to the creation of her "evil" side.
It looks as if 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.
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