The author believes that written versions of folk tales _________

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on you answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.

A little more than a hundred years ago, a number of European scholars began to record stories being told in peasant cottages and compile them into the first great collection of European folk tales. Written evidence exists to prove that the folk tales they recorded existed long before then thought. Collections of sermons from the 12th to the 15th century show that medieval preachers knew of some of the same stories as those recorded by the 19th century folklorists.
The collections of folk tales made in the late 19th and early 20th centuries provide a rare opportunity to make contact with the illiterate masses who have disappeared into the pass without leaving a trace. To reject folk tales as historical evidence because they cannot be dated and situation with precision centuries. But to attempt to penetrate that world is to face a daunting set of obstacles, the greatest of which is the impossibility of listening in on the story tellers. No matter how accurate they may be the versions of the tales recorded in writing cannot convey the effects that the storytellers must have used to bring the stories to life: the dramatic pauses, the sly glances, the use of gestures to set scenes, and the use of sounds punctuate action. All of those devices shaped the meaning of the tales, and all of them elude the historian. He cannot be sure that the limp and lifeless text he holds between the covers of a book provides an accurate account of the performance that took place in earlier times.

The author believes that written versions of folk tales _________

• A. should be rejected as historical evidence.
• B. show how illiterate the masses were before the 19th century.
• C. changed dramatically from the 19th to the 20th century.
• D. are valid historical documents.

• Câu 2: Mã câu hỏi: 39819

  What problems of folk tale collections does the author discuss?

  • A. They are used as historical evidence.
  • B. There is no way to tell which version of s story is the original system.
  • C. They don’t preserve the original performance style of the storytellers.
  • D. They contain historical inaccuracies.

• Câu 3: Mã câu hỏi: 39820

  The author’s main purpose in the passage is to ________

  • A. explain why historians must study the illiterate masses of the past.
  • B. criticize historians who use folk tales as historical documents.
  • C. argue that folk tales are authentic historical documents.
  • D. convince readers that modern versions of folk tales are probably not the same as the originals.

• Câu 4: Mã câu hỏi: 39821

  According to the passage, peasant folklore was recorded by ________

  • A. historians in the 12th to 15th centuries.
  • B. 19th century peasants.
  • C. 19th century preachers. 
  • D. 19th century folklorists.

• Câu 5: Mã câu hỏi: 39822

  The author talks about “limp and lifeless” text because ________

  • A. the original texts have been damaged.
  • B. the text do not reveal how the storytellers presented their folk tales.
  • C. the text provide an accurate account of life in earlier times.
  • D. some of the texts are no longer relevant to historians.

• Câu 6: Mã câu hỏi: 39823

  The word “He” refers to ___________.

  • A. the author
  • B. the reader
  • C. the historian
  • D. the storyteller

• Câu 7: Mã câu hỏi: 39824

  What do the collections of folk tales made in the late 19th and early 20th provide the historians?

  • A. Kinds of stories and books that are popular then.
  • B. Good chance to know the life of people in the past.
  • C. Lot of information about famous people in the past.
  • D. A rare opportunity to contact with the people who couldn’t read and write.