五、任务型阅读。
阅读短文，从短文后 A 至 F 六个选项中选出五个可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
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. 1 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. 2 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.
3 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. 4
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. 5 Sometimes the stories are collected and written down long after they have been created.
1.
E
2.
A
3.
B
4.
F
5.
D
解析：
【分析】
本题为任务型阅读的句子还原题，解题思路是：先通读全文，理解每段主旨；再分析每个空格前后的语境，关注句子间的逻辑关系（如指代、并列、转折、顺承等），结合选项中的关键词匹配对应空格，最终选出正确答案。
【解析】
1. 第1空：空格前提到“文字发明前人们就开始讲故事”，空格后用“but”转折说明“现在人们仍大声讲故事”，E选项“Today stories are also written down in books and acted out in movies, TV shows, and plays”衔接了过去与现在的情况，符合语境，故选E。
2. 第2空：空格前说明“每代人将文化故事传给下一代”，A选项“In this way the stories were passed along”中“In this way”指代前文的传递方式，与后文“这种方法传递的知识叫口头传统”衔接紧密，故选A。
3. 第3空：空格后出现“In other cultures”，B选项“In some cultures everyone would pass along the stories”中“In some cultures”与后文的“In other cultures”构成并列的不同文化情况，故选B。
4. 第4空：空格前提到“人们有时会唱故事或用诗歌形式讲”，F选项“Songs and poems can both make stories easier to remember”对应前文的“Songs and poems”，说明其作用，符合语境，故选F。
5. 第5空：空格前指出“口头传统不是某个人创造的”，D选项“Instead, a whole culture helps shape the changing stories throughout history”用“Instead”承接前文，说明口头传统的真正塑造者，与后文“故事被收集写下来”衔接合理，故选D。
【答案】
1.E 2.A 3.B 4.F 5.D
【知识点】
任务型阅读（句子还原）、英语语境衔接、代词指代
【点评】
本题通过句子还原考查学生对文章逻辑关系和语境的理解，需结合上下文的关键词（如some/other、in this way等）快速匹配选项，整体难度适中，是任务型阅读的常见题型。
【难度系数】
0.6
