Task 5
Questions 21-25
Read the text below.
For each question (21-25), choose the answer (A, B or \(\mathbf{C}\) ) that best completes the sentence.
Mark your answer on the answer sheet.
There is an example at the beginning \(\mathbf{0} \rightarrow \mathbf{A}\).
Fairy Tales as Old as Time
No matter your year of birth, chances are that you were introduced to stories and fairy tales from an early (0) ______ . For most children in the so-called Western world that meant they were listening to or reading stories written down by one of (21) ______ three most famous authors of fairy tales - the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen or Charles Perrault.
Naturally, there are also other authors and sources of stories, depending (22) ______ where in the world you were born, but these well-known tales written between the 17^{\text {th }} and 19^{\text {th }} centuries have been the influence behind most storylines we find in today's children's books, cartoons, and films.
A recent study, (23) ______ , has found that the sources behind these stories date back further than the 16^{\text {th }} century that we had previously assumed they originated in. According to the findings of the study, most of the stories we base our fairy tales on are (24) ______ 4,000 and 5,000 years old.
Incredibly, researchers have even managed to trace a story called 'The Smith and the Devil' to as far back as 6,000 years (25) ______ . So, remember that the next time you read a fairy tale, you really will be travelling back in time.