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广东省广州市荔湾区2016届九年级上学期英语期末测试
Many, many years ago most people did not have beautiful books. Some families did not have books at all. The people 1 did have books had only a few.
Instead of 2 books, people told stories. They would remember things 3 happened to them and would retell these tales to friends.
Some stories you read in books today 4 to children many years ago by their fathers and mothers. 5 those girls and boys grew up, they, in turn, told their children the same tales.
Sometimes the stories changed as one man told 6. That is why today there are different beginnings and different endings to the same folk tales. You 7 different names for all kinds of characters in the different versions(版本) of the tales. In this way the stories almost seem 8 different ones and not your favorite tales at all.
Some people 9 stories. They would suppose 10 things which had happened could not really have happened. Such people became 11 as storytellers.
In many of the tales, animals did the talking. In others, good men came to help bad men.
Strange, exciting things 12. The different ideas made interesting stories.
Some of the early tales, 13 them Mother Goose verses were told in rhyme. The poems were learned by boys and girls at home and at school.
What Mother Goose rhymes do you know and remember? Do you think there was 14 a Mother Goose? Mother Goose stories and rhymes are 15 good ones that we read and enjoy them today, years after they were first told.
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