科目：高中英語 來源： 題型：閱讀理解
CARDIFF, Wales Poets, singers and musicians from across the globe gathered in Wales to celebrate the tradition(傳統) of storytelling.
“It might seem strange that people still want to listen in age of watching television, but this is an unusual art form whose time has come again,” said David Ambrose, director of Beyond the Border, an international storytelling festival(節) in Wales.
“Some of the tales, like those the Inuit from Canada, are thousands years old. So our storytellers have come from distant lands to connect us with the distance of time,” he said early this month.
Two Inuit women, both in their mid 60s, are among the few remaining who can do Kntadjait, or throat singing, which has few words and much sound. Their art is governed by the cold of their surroundings, forcing them to say little but listen attentively.
Ambrose started the festival in 1993, after several years of working with those reviving (coming back into use or existence) storytelling in Wales.
“It came out of a group of people who wanted to reconnect with traditions. and as all the Welsh are storytellers, it was in good hands here.” Ambrose said.
1. Ambrose believes that the art of storytelling _______.
A. will be more popular than TV
B. will be popular again
C. started in Wales
D. are in the hands of some old people
2. From the tales told by the Inuit, people can learn _______.
A. about their life as early as thousands of years ago
B. why they tell the stories in a throat-singing way
C. how cold it has been where the Inuit live
D. how difficult it is to understand the Inuit
3. According to the writer, which of the following is NOT true?
A. Storytelling once stopped in Wales.
B. Storytelling has a long history in Wales.
C. Storytelling is always well received in Wales.
D. Storytelling did not come back until 1993 in Wales.
4. The underlined phrase in good hands means _______.
A. controlled by rich people B. grasped by good storytellers
C. taken good care of D. protected by kind people
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科目：高中英語 來源：2007年高考浙江卷英語試題 題型：閱讀理解
Tell a story and tell it well,and you may open wide the eyes of a child,open up lines of communication in a business,or even open people’s mind to another culture or race.
People in many places are digging up the old folk stories and the messages in them.For example,most American storytellers get their tales from a wide variety of sources,cultures,and times.They regard storytelling not only as a useful tool in child education,but also as a meaningful activity that helps adults understand themselves as well as those whose culture may be very different from their own.
“Most local stories are based on a larger theme,”American storyteller Opalanga Pugh says,“Cinderella(灰姑娘),or the central idea of a good child protected by her goodness,appears in various forms in almost every culture of the world.”
Working with students in schools,Pugh helps them understand their own cultures and the general messages of the stories.She works with prisoners too,helping them know who they are by telling stories that her listeners can write,direct,and act in their own lives.If they don’t like the story they are living,they can rewrite the story.Pugh also works to help open up lines of communication between managers and workers.“For every advance in business,”she says,“there is a greater need for communication.”Storytelling can have a great effect on either side of the manager-worker relationship,she says.
Pugh spent several years in Nigeria,where she learned how closely storytelling was linked to the everyday life of the people there.The benefits of storytelling are found everywhere,she says.
“I learned how people used stories to spread their culture,”she says.“What I do is to focus on the value of stories that people can translate into their own daily world of affairs.We are all storytellers.We all have a story to tell.We tell everybody’s story.”
【小題1】What do we learn about American storytellers from Paragraph 2?
| A．They share the same way of storytelling. |
| B．They prefer to tell stories from other cultures. |
| C．They learn their stories from the American natives. |
| D．They find storytelling useful for both children and adults. |
| A．start a new life |
| B．settle down in another place |
| C．direct films |
| D．become good actors |
| A．2 | B．3 | C．4 | D．5 |
| A．Storytelling can influence the way people think. |
| B．Storytelling is vital to the growth of businesses. |
| C．Storytelling is the best way to educate children in school. |
| D．Storytelling helps people understand themselves and others. |
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科目：高中英語 來源：河北省20092010學年高一下學期期末考試試題（英語） 題型：完型填空
完形填空（共20小題；每小題1.5分，滿分30分）
閱讀下面短文，從短文后各題所給的四個選項（A、B、C和D）中選出可以填入空白的最佳選項，并在答題卡上將該項涂黑。
Around the end of my stay in Yellowknife, I had a chance to ride in a dogsled (狗拉雪橇). I went to 36 a man who had 37 dogsled tournaments more than four times. In his house, there were lots of awards on the shelves. I had a girl take my picture in 38 of the awards.
Finally, the time came to take a 39 in a dogsled. The instructor asked me time and time again if the clothes I was 40 were warm enough. Because it wasn’t so 41 outside, I thought I was wearing 42 .
However, my thinking 43 right after the 12 dogs started to 44 the sled on the frozen lake. It was freezing! I don’t know how fast they were running, but I lost all 45 in my hands and feet. Sometimes the snow which the dogs 46 up hit me.
After my ride in the dogsled, I went to see an igloo (圓頂建筑),which is a house 47 snow. There I had a 48 to hear the stories about Eskimos(愛斯基摩人).
Of course, as a person from Japan, I couldn’t 49 what they were talking about. 50 , there was a(n) 51 beside me, so he translated everything the Eskimo was saying. Then the Eskimo kindly 52 me some of the tools that they used. I had 53 seen such strange things before.
He talked about the 54 he needed to learn while traveling in the Arctic, such as how to make an igloo, how to make water from ice, and how to hunt using their inventions. I 55 that I didn’t take pictures of their tools because I didn’t have my camera at that time.
36. A. instruct B. invite C. take D. visit
37. A. beaten B. won C. received D. defeated
38. A. front B. need C. honor D. celebration
39. A. drive B. look C. ride D. tour
40. A. buying B. wearing C. choosing D. borrowing
41. A. cool B. warm C. cold D. hot
42. A. enough B. obviously C. comfortably D. fully
43. A. gathered B. reminded C. remained D. changed
44. A. push B. pull C. drive D. carry
45. A. blood B. temperature C. feeling D. movement
46. A. kicked B. picked C. turned D. made
47. A. covered with B. decorated with C. made of D. filled with
48. A. chance B. time C. moment D. message
49. A. hear B. understand C. realize D. admire
50. A. Therefore B. Otherwise C. However D. Besides
51. A. villager B. teacher C. instructor D. translator
52. A. lent B. showed C. sold D. gave
53. A. ever B. also C. usually D. never
54. A. skills B. materials C. experiments D. conditions
55. A. think B. consider C. regret D. infer
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科目：高中英語 來源：2010-2011學年浙江省高三上學期11月月考英語卷 題型：閱讀理解
你將閱讀的是一篇關于鯊魚襲擊的文章。有五處段落從文章中被取出了。請從A-F這六個選項中選出正確的選項填入空格中。選項中有一項是多余選項。
When I was eight, my parents, my younger brother, Stewart, and a girl called Margo Edwards, who was at school with us, went on holiday to Mozambique. One day, we took out a small rowing boat with an outboard motor on it, and went fishing on a lagoon at a place called San Martina.
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Suddenly, as if out of nowhere, there was this disturbance in the water. I remember at first everyone thought it was a dolphin, but it wasn't leaping in and out of the water, and before long we could see this grey fin moving purposefully towards us.
It then circled around our rowing boat, and I remember my father saying: 'Well, I think that's a shark . . .'
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My mother was screaming, and father was shouting obscenities at this thing, which he was to bash (痛擊) back with one of the oars. I had never seen my parents in obvious terror before, and that's something which never leaves you.
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My mother clutched the three of us around her. I remember she had a navy blue robe, with huge starfishes and sunflowers on it, and us three kids gratefully huddled together inside it.
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As soon as we were in the fishing boat there was this almost hysterical laughter, and I remember feeling very cold, and being unable to stop trembling.
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We all talked about it continually, too, and probably made out we were far braver than we were. And there was lots of re-enactment(表演). I remember that we made mud pools. One of us would be crawling along, playing the shark, and the others screaming and shouting: 'Kill the shark'.
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E. Eventually, people in a fishing boat heard us screaming, and came alongside, and a fisherman tied our boat up to his. He was very careful, or he seemed to be, and he and my father handed first us kids, and then mother, through to his boat, and our rowing boat was towed behind. |
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F. This monster started bashing our boat, which began rocking from side to side. We were just terrified because the boat was by now rocking so much we thought we were going to be tipped into the water and bitten up by this thing. I remember assuming that we were going to die. |
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科目：高中英語 來源：2010-2011學年北京市東城區高三上學期期末統一檢測英語卷 題型：閱讀理解
Has anyone noticed how, with the passage of time, one’s relationship with one’s grown-up daughters and sons becomes changed? I’ve been aware of this for some time but I’m not quite sure how to deal with it.
Take the kitchen sink for example.
Following a family get-together at my place, I walked into the kitchen to find Kate, my daughter carefully cleaning the sink.
“Don’t do that; what are you doing that for?” I said, unhappy about the hidden criticism.
“Mum,” she said, “you really ought to put your glasses on when you clean the sink. Behind the tap here was black!”
But it’s not just things like kitchen sinks. Another time Kate arrived to pick me up to lunch. She looked at me and then asked, “Mum, why do you use brown eyebrow pencil when your hair is grey?”
A sudden memory of her, aged 14, going to her first mixed party flooded back. She had come in to say goodbye. For a moment I thought she’d been an accident. Both eyes were black. I remember suggesting that perhaps a little less eye make-up might be more effective.
Now I told her, “My hair used to be brown.”
“It looks absurd.”
“Mrs. Menzies had dark eyebrows with grey hair.”
“Yes, but you’re not Mrs. Menzies, are you?” she said triumphantly, as if that proved her point.
But a recent event made me realize that something really must be done.
She had returned some for a few weeks before getting married. One evening I went out on a dinner date. By the time my companion left me at the front door, it was about 2am. As I stepped in, an angry figure in a white nightgown stopped me.
“Well, what time of night is this to be coming home?” she shouted. “Where have you been? I’ve been worried sick!”
Shades of the past come back to disturb me. But what should I do about all this? Nothing, probably. Maybe, after all, it’s only a stage young people are going through.
1.The daughter thought her mother didn’t clean the kitchen sink well because of her .
A．laziness B．carelessness C．unhappiness D．poor-quality glasses
2.From the passage we know the daughter .
A．didn’t want to help with the sink
B．didn’t like brown eyebrow pencils
C．had an accident when she went to her first party
D．shouted at her mum because she came home late
3.How does the mother feel after all these have happened?
A．Shocked. B．Proud. C．Envious. D．Confused.
4.The author writes the stories to prove that .
A．their relationship became stronger
B．their roles changed as time passed
C．her daughter very much cared about her
D．her daughter got upset as she grew up
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