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YABANCI DİLLER YÜKSEKOKULU 2022-2023

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L KURU 3. KUR SONU
READING
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READING&VOCABULARY (20 PTS)

THE BROTHERS GRIMM

Long before J.K Rowling- the writer of Harry Potter books- there were Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm- two
young men from Germany who loved good stories. The Grimm brothers never expected to be storytellers for
children, but today their fairy tales are read and loved by children in over 160 languages.

Jacob and Wilhelm were introduced to folktales- traditional stories people memorized and told again
and again- as university students. The brothers loved these stories of adventure and magic. Soon they began to
collect traditional folktales from storytellers in Germany. Many of these were similar to stories told in France,
Italy, Japan, and other countries. Between 1812 and 1814, The Grimm brothers published two books which
included stories like Hansel and Gretel and Little Red Riding Hood.

Grimms’ tales reflected traditional life and beliefs in Germany. For example, forests are common in
Germany, and this image appears often in Grimms’ stories. For Medieval 1 Germans, the forest was a dangerous
place. In Grimms’ fairy tales, witches, talking animals, other magical beings live in the forest. People’s lives
change forever when they visit this place.

The brothers wrote their stories for adults although their fairy tales are now considered children’s
stories. Many of the early tales were dark and a little scary. In the original version of Cinderella, for example,
wishing to get the opportunity to gain power and status, the stepsisters cut off parts of their feet so that
they might fit in the glass slipper. They lose a lot of blood and their eyes because birds attack them and
scratch their eyes out.

Later, the brothers changed the text of some of the original stories. They softened many of the tales
and also added drawings. This made them more appropriate for children. And also Walt Disney, who has a great
ability to create family friendly animations, may have helped to make the tales become stories that are nice
with happy endings in his versions.

Although the brothers wrote some frightening stories where the good are rewarded and the bad are
severely punished, their fairy tales are now all around the world and are read by children of various nations.
The original stories have slightly changed but one thing remained. Like the early tales, each of today’s stories
still has a moral: work hard, be good, and listen to your parents.

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Medieval period is the time in European history from A.D. 476 to about A.D. 1500
A) Read each question and circle the letter of the best answer. (2 pts each)

1. What is the main idea of the reading?

A. The Grimm brothers are famous storytellers who wrote stories like Hansel and Gretel and Little Red Riding
Hood.
B. Although they didn’t intend to write children’s stories, the stories of Grimm Brothers are now loved and read
by children.

C. The tales of Grimm brothers originally involved violence as a punishment of bad people.
ANSWER: B

2. What is the purpose of paragraph 2?

A. To give information about the famous Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm Brothers.

B. To explain how the tales became good for children rather than adults.

C. To explain how Grimm brothers got interested in stories and became storytellers.

ANSWER: C

3. What is the topic of paragraph 3?

A. The stories written by the Grimm brothers reflected the traditional life and beliefs of German people.

B. In every story the forest is a dangerous place and a person’s life will definitely change if he/she goes there.

C. In Grimms’ fairy tales there are many magical beings like talking animals and witches.

ANSWER: A

B) Mark the statements T (true) or F (false). Correct the false statements. (1 point for “true”; 1 point
for “false”; 1 point for corrections)

_____ 1. The fairy tales written by Grimm Brothers are translated into a hundred languages.

ANSWER: F

_____ 2. The Grimm Brothers were introduced to folk tales when they were at university.

ANSWER: T

_____ 3. The brothers’ stories were about magical beings, talking animals and witches.

ANSWER: F

_____ 4. Many of the early tales were dark and a bit horrifying.

ANSWER: T

_____ 5. The brothers changed the text of some tales to make them appropriate for adults.

ANSWER: F

_____ 6. The morals of the recent stories are slightly different from the early ones.

ANSWER: T
C) Complete the sentences with the words from the box. (0.5 pts each)

figure out / take advantage of / turn out / boarded / approximately /

compositions /worth / process /after all / confused

1. The restoration of the old house will take _______________ six months. Then we can move on to
decoration of it.

ANSWER: approximately

2. People who _______________you are not your true friends. They will disappear when they can’t get
anything from you.

ANSWER: take advantage of

3. The machine is very expensive but it is _______________buying because it will make everything easier for
us.

ANSWER: worth

4. It is not easy to live in a foreign country. It is a difficult _______________to learn the language and
customs of a new culture.

ANSWER: figure out

5. Just before the take-off, two police officers suddenly _______________the plane and arrested a
passenger.

ANSWER: boarded

6. I was _______________when I started learning Japanese because the letters were so hard to learn.

ANSWER: confused

7. You should use high quality ingredients if you want the dish to _______________well.

ANSWER: turn out

8. You should talk to a counselor to _______________what kind of job your son wants to do in the future.

ANSWER: process

9. Like many people, I love Beethoven. I really enjoy listening to his wonderful _______________.

ANSWER: compositions

10. I thought you could help us find a good technician. _______________, you are the man with connections.

ANSWER: after all