[单项选择]Fairy stories are a means by which children’s impulses may be ______.


A. beneficially channeled
B. given a destructive tendency
C. held back until maturity
D. effectively suppressed

[单项选择]Fairy stories are a means by which children's impulses may be______.


A. beneficially channeled
B. given a destructive tendency
C. held back until maturity
D. effectively suppressed

[单项选择]How should fairy stories be told to children according to the author
A. Fairy stories should be adapted by the parent when being told.
B. Fairy stories should be read from printed books with no variation.
C. Fairy stories have a bad influence on children and should not be read to children.
D. The author did express his ideas clearly.

[单项选择]There are means by which the constitution has been______over so long a time to the needs of a changing society.


A. altered
B. changed
C. adapted
D. revised

[单项选择]

The process by means of which human beings arbitrarily make certain things stand for other things many be called the symbolic process.
Everywhere we turn, we see the symbolic process at work. There are (41) things men do or want to do, possess or want to possess, that have not a symbolic value.
Almost all fashionable clothes are (42) symbolic, so is food. We (43) our furniture to serve (44) visible symbols of our taste, wealth, and social position. We often choose our houses (45) the basis of a feeling that it "looks well" to have a "good address." We trade perfectly good cars in for (46) models not always to get better transportation, but to give (47) to the community that we can (48) it.
Such complicated and apparently (49) behavior leads philosophers to ask over and over again, "why can’t human beings (50) simply and naturally."
A. meaning
B. reason
C. time
D. doubt