Read the following passage and choose the best answer (A, B, C, D):
Fairy tales are the stories that adults, especially parents, tell young children. In view of their name, it is surprising that hardly any of them are actually about fairies. (33) ________ most fairy tales have happy endings, the stories usually deal with very (34) ________ situations - children abandoned in the forest, terrifying giants, cruel stepmothers. However, despite being scared when they are told the stories, children will often ask to hear them over and over again. Many psychologists believe that what fairy tales do, in addition to (35) ________ children's imagination, is to show that there are problems in the world and they can be overcome. Just like adults, children have fears and worries: theirs are of things such as abandonment, loss, injuries, witches. Fairy tales present real problems in a fantasy form (36) ________ children are able to understand. This, it is claimed, allow them to (37) ________ their fears and to realise, if ever in their unconscious mind, that no matter how difficult the circumstances, there are always ways of coping
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Lời giải:
Báo saiGiải thích: adj +N, noun ở đây là situations
Tạm dịch: những câu chuyện thường đề cập đến những tình huống rất đáng sợ - những đứa trẻ bị bỏ rơi trong rừng, những gã khổng lồ đáng sợ, những bà mẹ ghẻ độc ác