Question

WHY WE MUST CHERISH THE ROLE OF IMAGINATION IN CHILDHOOD


I read recently about a six-year-old girl falling to her death from a high building in Japan after 1. _________ a cartoon in which children could fly. It struck a chord because I too, at about the same age (after seeing Peter Pan), almost had an accident trying to summon the courage to fly. If I just believed it enough, I told myself, I would be able to do it.


I couldn’t do it and was consequently more 2. _________ than the poor Japanese girl, whose belief in her imaginative powers was 3. _________ greater than mine. Although I was horrified by the story, I am actually surprised that such accidents don’t happen more often. We encourage tremendously the imaginative powers of our children. We insist on Santa, fairies, magic, and much more.


Rousseau described childhood as "the sleep of reason" and childhood imagination is part of that. We all use imagination, but when we are infants, we a

Answer 1

Resposta:

1-watching

2-fortunate

3-tragically

4-unable

5-despite

Explicação: