布置完场景后，作者即移向第二段里的故事情节。尽管语言几乎有些苍白，但句子结构却相当简单。

And, having set the scene, he moves on to the action in Para 2. And despite the almost (16) lurid language, the sentence construction is quite simple.

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[解析]文章第二段中提到一些神话故事会使孩子受到惊吓，但这种情况只发生在故事只对孩子说了一遍的情况下。

From the passage, we learn that great fear can be stimulated in a child when a story is told ______ time (s).

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It's okay to stick around for a while, but if the high point of the story occurs in chapter 2 and then there are another 67 chapters after that, you think, this was not a well-constructed novel.

有一段下跌并没有关系，但是如果故事高潮在第二章出现2,后面还有67章，你会觉得这部小说结构不好。

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