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Do you know how to tell a story? The following are some tips:

Who Will Listen?

Will you tell your story to people of your own age? Will they be friendsor young people you haven’t met before? Perhaps you will tell it to younger children, or will it be an audience of adults? Will it be just a few people, a small group, or a large audience?

Why Are You Telling It?

There are many reasons for telling a story. Knowing why you are telling it may be the most helpful reason in choosing a story for a particular audience.

Many storytellers choose tales just to entertain(娱乐). They tell jokes or silly stories. Others want to teach something, such as how to be kinder to animals, the environment, or other people. One storyteller likes to encourage his listeners to try new things. Some babysitters tell stories to help children not to be afraid of thunder, lightning or frightening shadows in their rooms. Others want to make people think or to help people remember. Some like to frighten their audience with ghost (鬼) stories.

Where Will You Speak?

How you tell your story and what story helpers you use will depend on where you will be speaking. Will you be talking at an evening party, in your classroom, in a library storytelling program, at a family dinner, at a museum, or at a storytelling festival?

1.The passage is mainly about ___________.

A. the audience to whom you tell stories

B. the situation where you can tell a story

C. the reasons for telling a story

D. important tips for telling a story

2.The author shows his ideas by ______.

A. description B. listing questions

C. making comparisons D. reciting

3.The purpose of knowing why you are telling a story is to ____________.

A. decide what helpers you need

B. do something good to animals, the environment or other people

C. choose stories suitable (合适的) for certain audience

D. satisfy different listeners

4.What decides how you tell your story according to the passage?

A. The place where you will tell your story.

B. The type of the story you will tell.

C. The purpose of telling your story.

D. What kind of people you will tell your story to.

阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的四个选项(A、B、C和D)中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

We live in a world where there is so much competition. Every single person has a(n)_______ to succeed and be the best at what they can. There are college basketball players _______ reaching the professional level and students trying their best to get an "A" on their math test. We meet businessmen that have _______ a lot of money. We all have a role _______ we look up to, or have looked up to at some point in life, whether it is a respected elder in our family, a trusted friend around us, or a(n) _______ person often appearing on TV screens or magazine covers.

It is _______ having role models and looking up to people that _______ us. However, how often do you ask yourself, "why is he smarter than me?" or "How did this person achieve such a great _______ at such a young age?" I went to a great high school that was very _______ and demanding; I saw many very _______ student graduate and get into Ivy League a famous school. I also _______ when I got my math test papers back, I sometimes _______ why I never got consistent "A"s like the student sitting two seats away from me.

However, what I _______ after entering college was that one should never _______ their skills or levels of success with other people's. Every single person is_______ and we all have some sort of unique talent. If you are not good at _______ or want to improve a specific skill, you have to learn how to be patient and understand your _______ and try to overcome them.

The _______ is you can all become an honor student if you want to or even improve your running skills. But you have to keep in _______ that understanding your weaknesses and strength is a very _______ step in the process. You have to learn how to look at yourself and set goals step by step so that you can track your improvement.

1.A. stress B. choice C. desire D. ability

2.A. dreaming of B. informed of C. getting into D. broken into

3.A. spent B. taken C. earned D. offered

4.A. style B. model C. type D. pattern

5.A. cheerful B. strange C. famous D. awkward

6.A. funny B. astonishing C. ashamed D. great

7.A. oppose B. persuade C. motivate D. follow

8.A. prizes B. goals C. tendency D. success

9.A. competitive B. acceptable C. diverse D. positive

10.A. careful B. delicate C. bright D. curious

11.A. suspect B. suggest C. advocate D. remember

12.A. noticed B. wondered C. explained D. believed

13.A. achieved B. learnt C. checked D. removed

14.A. combine B. compare C. adopt D. relate

15.A. perfect B. simple C. ordinary D. different

16.A. anything B. nothing C. something D. everything

17.A. advantages B. weaknesses C. potential D. personalities

18.A. problem B. question C. truth D. doubt

19.A. contact B. touch C. action D. mind

20.A. important B. difficult C. interesting D. obvious

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