雅思阅读真题+题目+答案：Ancient Storytelling

雅思阅读真题+题目+答案：Ancient Storytelling

A It was told, we suppose, to people crouched around a fire: a tale of adventure, most likely-relating some close encounter with death; a remarkable hunt an escape from mortal danger; a vision, or something else out of the ordinary. Whatever its thread, the weaving of this story was done with a prime purpose. The listeners must be kept listening.They must not fall asleep. So, as the story went ont its audience should be sustained by one question above all What happens next?

B The first fireside stories in human history can never be known. They were kept in the heads of those who told them. This method of storage is not necessarily inefficient. From documented oral traditions in Australia, the Balkans and other parts of the world we know that specialized storytellers and poets can recite from memory literally thousands of lines, in verse or prose, verbatim-word for word. But while memory is rightly considered an art in itself, it is clear that a primary purpose of making symbols is to have a system of reminders or mnemonic cues—signs that assist us to recall certain information in the mind’s eye.

C In some Polynesian communities a notched memory stick may help to guide a storyteller through successive stages of recitation. But in order parts of the world, the activity of storytelling historically resulted in the development or even the invention of writing systems. One theory about the arrival of literacy in ancient Greece, for example, argues that the epic tales about the Trojan War and the wanderings of Odysseus— traditionally attributed to Homer一were just so enchanting to hear that they had to be preserved. So the Greeks，C.750-700BC, borrowed an alphabet from their neighbors in the eastern Mediterranean, the Phoenicians.

D The custom of recording stories on parchment and other materials can be traced in many manifestations around the worlds from the priestly papyrus archives of ancient Egypt to the birch.back scrolls on which the North American Ojibway Indians set down their creation-myth. It is a well-tried and universal practice: so much so that to this day storytime is probably most often associated with words on paper The formal practice of narrating a story aloud would seem-so we assume_to have given way to newspapers, novels and comic strips. This, however, is not the case. Statistically it is doubtful that the majority of humans currently rely upon the written word to get access to stories. So what is the alternative source?

E Each year, over 7 billion people will go to watch the latest offering from Hollywood, Bollywood and beyond. The supreme storyteller of today is cinema. The movies, as distinct from still photography, seem to be an essentially modem phenomenon. This is an illusion, for there are, as we shall see, certain ways in which the medium of film is indebted to very old precedents of arranging 'Sequences' of images. But any account of visual storytelling must being with the recognition that all storytelling beats with a deeply atavistic pulse: that is, a 'good story' relies upon formal patterns of plot and characterization that have been embedded in the practice of storytelling over many generations.

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Questions 14-18

Reading Passage 2 has eight paragraphs, A-H.

Which paragraph contains the following information?

Write the correct letter, A-H, in boxes 14-18 on your answer sheet

14. A misunderstanding of a modern way for telling stories

15. The typical forms mentioned for telling stories

16. The fundamental aim of storytelling

17. A description of reciting stories without any assistance

18. How to make story characters attractive

Questions 19-22

Classify the following information as referring to

A. adopted the writing system from another country

B. used organic materials to record stories

C. used tools to help to tell stories

Write the correct letter, A, B or C in boxes 19-22 on your answer sheet.

19, Egyptians 20. Ojibway 21. Polynesians 22, Greek

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