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Once upon a time there lived two brot
hers named Jacob and William in Germany. They liked to listen to old stories and then write them down. So they had enough stories to make a book. You can guess the name of the book! It is Grimms’ Fairy Tales.
The story of this little book began when the brothers were still in school. And it started with a good teacher. The teacher liked to find out how things happened. Soon the two brothers were doing the same thing. They asked questions and then looked for answers.
Among the questions the brothers asked, “Who made up the old fairy tales? Who first told about Cinderella ? Why made up the story of the 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 the days before people knew how to write. People told the stories to one another and to their children. But only a few old people still remembered them.
“When old people die, the stories will die with them,” said the brothers. “We must write down all the stories we can find.”
Jacob and William hunted for stories for five years. At last they had 89 tales written. Just before Christmas in 1812, the first book was published.
People love the book! They asked more fairy tales. So Grimms put tales into two more books. In all, they collected 210 stories to put into their books.
1.Who wrote Grimms’ Fairy Tales?
A. Jacob and his teacher. B. William and his teacher.
C. Jacob and William. D. Some old people.
2. What did the teacher like to do?
A. To ask questions and look for answers. B. To make up stories.
C. To tell the stories to his students. D. To asked some old people to tell stories.
3. Most of the tales in the Grimms’ books were made up __________.
A. in five years’ time
B. when Jacob and William were students
C. before people knew how to write
D. by some old people
4. The two brothers wrote down all the stories because _________.
A. their teacher asked them to do so
B. their parents asked them to do so
C. they liked all stories very much.
D. they didn’t want to the stories to die with the old people
5. Grimm’s Fairy Tales came out _____________.
A. in 1218 B. in 1812 C. In 1912 D. in 1918