一、词汇检测
1. The writer of the novel is one of the greatest (讲故事的人)in the world.
2. My sister likes to watch (浪漫的)films best.
3. Of the two new films, he prefers the (西部电影).
4. It's not suitable for everyone to enter the acting (产业).
5. Have you read the film s? Who wrote it?
6. When he first showed his talent for acting, he was expected to be a s.

() 1. — Have you seen film *Ne Zha 2*?
— Yes, I have. It tells us different story of Ne Zha.

A.a; an
B.an; the
C.a; the
D.the; a

() 2. Little Jack has learned to do lots of things on his own, ______ he is only four years old now.
A.if
B.though
C.for
D.since

() 3. He offered ______ valuable advice that ______ people disagreed.
A.such; a few
B.such; few
C.so; a few
D.so; few

() 4. — Does Tom want to go with us to the film festival tonight?
— No. He ______ go to a football match than the film festival.

A.had better
B.prefers
C.likes
D.would rather

() 5. — The light in her office is still on. Do you know ______?
— In order to prepare for tomorrow's speech.

A.if she works hard
B.why she stays up so late
C.why is she so busy
D.when she will stop working

() 6. — I hope to be an engineer of a world - famous company one day.
— ______. You can hardly pass the Maths exams now.

A.Put all your eggs in one basket
B.In your dreams
C.Better late than never
D.Of course

三、信息还原
1. It has caught the human imagination for thousands of years. People started telling stories long before writing appeared. A person who can tell a good story can always find listeners.
Anything a culture wanted to protect — its history and tradition — had to be told out loud. Each generation (一代人) would tell the culture's stories to the next. 2. Knowledge passed on in this method is called the spoken tradition.
3. In other cultures, only special storytellers were trusted to do this important job. A culture's best storytellers had good memories. Sometimes people would sing the stories or tell them in the form of poems. 4.
However, stories told aloud change over time as different people tell them. Unlike written stories, the spoken tradition is not created by any one person. 5. Sometimes the stories are collected and written down long after they have been created.
A. In this way the stories were passed along.
B. Storytelling has a long history.
C. Now, storytelling is not as popular as before.
D. In some cultures, everyone could pass along the stories.
E. Songs and poems can both make stories easier to remember.
F. Instead, a whole culture keeps on shaping the stories.
G. What's more, storytellers don't need to have a lot of knowledge.