Question

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Once upon a time there lived in Germany two brothers named Jacob Grim and William Grim. They liked to listen to old stories and then wrote them down. Then they had enough stories to make a book. You can guess the n   1.   of their book! It is Grimms’ Fairy Tales (《格林童话》)

The story of this little book began when the brothers were still at school. And it started w   2.  a good teacher. This teacher liked to find out how things happened. S   3.   the two brothers were doing the same thing. They asked questions and then looked for a  4.   to them.

Among the q   5.    the brothers asked were. “Who made up the old fairy tales?” “Who first told about Cinderella (灰姑娘)?” “Who made up the story of Snow White and the story of Sleeping Beauty?”

They found that no one knew the answers to such questions. The tales were made up in very early times. Most of them were made up in days before people knew h  6.   to write. People told the stories to one another and to their children. But only few still r   7.   them. “When these old people die, the stories will d   8.   with them.” said the brothers. We must write d   9.   all the stories we can find.”

Jacob and William hunted for stories for five years. At last they had 89 tales. Just before Christmas in 1812 and first book was published.

People loved the book! They asked for more fairy stories. So the two brothers published two m 10.   books. In all, they collected 210 stories to put into their books.

Answer

1.name,

2.with

3.soon

4.answers,

5.questions

6.how

7.remembered

8.die/ disappear,

9.down

10.more

【解析】

试题分析：本文讲述了格林兄弟撰写《格林童话》的历史背景和童话的来源及成书的过程，他们弟兄俩具有很高创造力，将当时民间的文学资料搜集起来，并合而为一，最后他们共同编成《格林童话》，倍受世人欢迎。

1.根据他们弟兄俩的名字和书的名字可知，此处的句意应该是你可以想象得到书的名字；故答案为name。

2.这本书是在他们弟兄俩上中学时就开始着手写了，是在老师的帮助下即和一位优秀的老师一起写的；故答案为with。

3.这位老师喜欢发现事情的发展缘由，很快老师的这种探求新事物的精神也被格林兄弟学到，即很快他们弟兄俩也做相同的事情：也在探索事情的发展缘由；故答案为soon。

4.既然是探求事物的缘由，自然是发现问题并探求问题的答案；故答案为answers。

5.后面列举的都是一些问题，所以这些是他们探究的问题的一部分，即在他们询问的问题中有下面的这些；故答案为questions。

6.在人们知道如何写这些故事之前，许多故事都是编造的；故答案为how。

7.人们将这些故事相传并且传给了自己的子女，但是只有少数人记得这些故事；故答案为remembered

8.本句是弟兄俩的担心：当这些老人去世以后，这些优秀的故事也会随之消失；故答案为die/ disappear。

9.接下来就是弟兄俩的志向：要把这些故事写下来，即write down；故答案为down。

10.《格林童话故事》面世后备受人们的喜欢，所以，格林弟兄俩又出版了两本书来满足人们的要求；故答案为more。

考点：短文填空。