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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 collections of European folk tales. Written evidence exists to prove that the folk tales they recorded existed long before then though. 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 To reject folk tales as historical evidence because they cannot be dated and situated with precision like other historical documents is to turn one's back on one of the few points of entry into the previous centuries.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 to punctuate actions. 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.
What do the collections of folk tales made in the late 19th and early 20th provide the historians?
A. lot of information about famous people in the past.
B. Kinds of stories and books that are popular then.
C. good chance to know the life of people in the past.
D. A rare opportunity to contact with the people who couldn't read and write.
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 collections of European folk tales. Written evidence exists to prove that the folk tales they recorded existed long before then though. 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 situated with precision like other historical documents is to turn one's back on one of the few points of entry into the previous 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 to punctuate actions. 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.
What do the collections of folk tales made in the late 19th and early 20th provide the historians?
A. lot of information about famous people in the past.
B. Kinds of stories and books that are popular then.
C. good chance to know the life of people in the past.
D. A rare opportunity to contact with the people who couldn't read and write.
Kỹ năng: Đọc
Giải thích:
Những bộ sưu tập truyện dân gian sản xuất cuối thế kỉ 19 và đầu thế kỉ 20 cung cấp điều gì cho các nhà sử học:
A. rất nhiều thông tin về người nổi tiếng trong quá khứ
B. Những loại truyện và sách phổ biến ngày trước
C. cơ hội để biết về cuộc sống trong quá khứ
D. một cơ hội hiếm có để liên hệ với nhữn người không biết đọc và viết.
Thông tin ở chỗ: "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."
Dịch nghĩa: "Các bộ sưu tập các câu chuyện dân gian vào những năm cuối thế kỷ 19 và đàu thế kỉ 20 cung cấp một cơ hội hiếm có để liên hệ với quần chúng mù chữ đã biến mất mà không để lại một dấu vết."
Giải thích:
Những bộ sưu tập truyện dân gian sản xuất cuối thế kỉ 19 và đầu thế kỉ 20 cung cấp điều gì cho các nhà sử học:
A. rất nhiều thông tin về người nổi tiếng trong quá khứ
B. Những loại truyện và sách phổ biến ngày trước
C. cơ hội để biết về cuộc sống trong quá khứ
D. một cơ hội hiếm có để liên hệ với nhữn người không biết đọc và viết.
Thông tin ở chỗ: "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."
Dịch nghĩa: "Các bộ sưu tập các câu chuyện dân gian vào những năm cuối thế kỷ 19 và đàu thế kỉ 20 cung cấp một cơ hội hiếm có để liên hệ với quần chúng mù chữ đã biến mất mà không để lại một dấu vết."
Đáp án D.