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广东省广州市2020年中考英语试卷
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.
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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. |
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A. Can you show me the way, please？ B. Then let's go to that bus stop. C. But Bob doesn't know where the factory is. D. he doesn't know where to go. E. do you know where the Red Star Factory is? |
Bob comes out of the station and at first{#blank#}1{#/blank#} This is the first time he has come to this town. He comes to see his good friend, Peter. Peter is a worker. He works in a factory. {#blank#}2{#/blank#}
He walks in the streets. He passes a hospital, a post office, a bookshop and at last he gets to a school. Some students are coming out. He asks one of them, "Excuse me? {#blank#}3{#/blank#}"
"Of course, I know. I live near there. My father works in that factory. It's outside this town，" answers the boy.
"Is it far from here？{#blank#}4{#/blank#} " Bob asks again.
"I'm going home now. You can come with me. I'll take you there. "
"That's great! Thank you very much!" says Bob.
"You're welcome. {#blank#}5{#/blank#} We'll take the No. 1 bus there. "
There are many eating habits in the world. What are the eating habits in your country? In many countries, people usually have three main meals: breakfast, lunch, and dinner. {#blank#}1{#/blank#}. They have breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea and dinner.
In England, people have breakfast from seven to nine in the morning. They have porridge, eggs or bread. English people also drink tea or coffee for breakfast. {#blank#}2{#/blank#}.
One different meal in England is afternoon tea. It is from four to five o' clock in the afternoon. Dinner is at about half past seven. {#blank#}3{#/blank#}. Then they have meat or fish with vegetables. After that, they eat some other things like bananas, apples or oranges. But not all the English people eat like that. Some of them have their dinner in the middle of the day— at about twelve o' clock. {#blank#}4{#/blank#}. They think dinner is very important. They call the last meal of the day" supper".
All in all, English and Chinese people have different eating habits. Different people may eat in different ways, but their meals are still an important part of their life.
A. For dinner, they have soup first. B. In many English homes, people eat four meals a day. C. People usually eat lunch at one o' clock. D. All the family members come home to eat together. E. There are different kinds of vegetables and meat in them. |
What do you think is the most important meal of the day, and why?( no more than 25 words) {#blank#}5{#/blank#}
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