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Storytelling
Storytelling has caught the human
imagination for thousands of years. People everywhere have told stories to
amuse, to teach, to remember, and just to pass the time. People started telling
stories long before writing was invented.But
people all over the world still tell one another stories out loud. A person who
can tell a good story nearly always finds listeners.
Before people developed writing,
storytelling was the most important way to pass along information. Anything a
culture wanted to protect—its
beliefs, its history, and its traditions—had to be told out loud. Each
generation would tell the culture's stories to the next.Knowledge passed on in this method
is called the spoken tradition. Even cultures that know how to write still pass
along some information in this way.
In other cultures only special
storytellers were trusted to do this important job. A culture's best
storytellers had good memories. They could also make the stories very
interesting, so people would listen and remember them. Sometimes people would
sing the stories or tell them in the form of poems.
However, stories told aloud change over
time as different people tell them. A storyteller might change a story in order
to make it better. Or a teller may simply not remember all the details of a
story. Unlike written stories, the spoken tradition is not created by any one
person. Sometimes the
stories are collected and written down long after they have been created.
A. In this way the
stories were passed along.
B. In some cultures
everyone would pass along the stories.
C. Songs and poems
can both make stories easier to remember.
D. Instead, a whole
culture helps shape the changing stories throughout history.
E. Today stories are
also written down in books and acted out in movies, TV shows, and plays.
答案:【1】E【2】A【3】B【4】C【5】D