三、还原信息
1.
E
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.
A
Knowledge passed on in this method is called the spoken tradition.
3.
C
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.
D
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. Instead,a whole culture keeps on shaping the stories throughout history. Sometimes the stories are collected and written down long after they have been created.
A. In this way the stories were passed along.
B. Now,storytelling is not as popular as before.
C. In some cultures everyone could pass along the stories.
D. Songs and poems can both make stories easier to remember.
E. Storytelling has a long history.
F. What's more,storytellers don't need to have a lot of knowledge.
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三、还原信息
1. ______ 几千年来，它一直激发着人类的想象力。在文字出现很久以前，人们就开始讲故事了。一个能讲好故事的人总能找到听众。
任何一种文化想要传承的东西——它的历史和传统——都必须通过口头讲述。每一代人都会把本文化的故事讲给下一代听。
2. ______ 以这种方式传承的知识被称为口头传统。
3. ______ 在其他文化中，只有特定的讲故事的人被信任来做这项重要的工作。一种文化中最优秀的讲故事的人记忆力很好。有时人们会把故事唱出来，或者以诗歌的形式讲述。
4. ______ 然而，口头讲述的故事随着不同的人讲述会发生变化。与书面故事不同，口头传统不是由某一个人创造的。相反，整个文化在历史进程中不断塑造这些故事。有时，这些故事在被创作很久之后才被收集并记录下来。
A. 就这样，故事被传承下去。
B. 现在，讲故事不像以前那么受欢迎了。
C. 在一些文化中，每个人都可以传承这些故事。
D. 歌曲和诗歌都能让故事更容易被记住。
E. 讲故事有着悠久的历史。
F. 而且，讲故事的人不需要有很多知识。
