题目内容
【题目】根据短文内容的理解，选择正确答案。
Tell a story and tell it well, and you may open wide the eyes of a child, open up lines of communication in a business, or even open people's mind to another culture or race.
People in many places are digging up the old folk stories and the messages in them. For example, most American storytellers get their tales from a wide variety of sources, cultures, and times. They regard storytelling not only as a useful tool in child education, but also as a meaningful activity that helps adults understand themselves as well as those whose culture may be very different from their own.
"Most local stories are based on a larger theme," American storyteller Opalanga Pugh says, "Cinderella, or the central idea of a good child protected by her goodness, appears in various forms in almost every culture of the world."
Working with students in schools, Pugh helps them understand their own cultures and the general messages of the stories. She works with prisoners too, helping them knowing who they are by telling stories that her listeners can write, direct, and act in their own lives. If they don't like the story they are living, they can rewrite the story. Pugh also works to help open up lines of communication between managers and workers. "For every advance in business," she says, "there is a greater need for communication". Storytelling can have a great effect on either side of the manager-worker relationship, she says.
Pugh spent several years in Nigeria, where she learned how closely storytelling was linked to the everyday life of the people there. "The benefits of storytelling are found everywhere," she says.
"I learned how people used stories to spread their culture," she says, "What I do is to focus on the value of the stories that people can translate into their own daily world of affairs. We are all storytellers. We all have a story to tell. We tell everybody's story."
（1）What do we learn about American storyteller from Paragraph 2?
A.They share the same way of storytelling.
B.They prefer to tell the stories from other cultures.
C.They learn their stories from the American natives.
D.They find storytelling useful for both children and adults.
（2）The underlined sentence (Paragraph 4) suggests that prisoners can _____.
A.start a new life
B.settle down in another place
C.direct films
D.become good actors
（3）Pugh has practiced storytelling with _____ groups of people.
A.2
B.3
C.4
D.5
【答案】
（1）D
（2）A
（3）B
【解析】文章介绍了美国故事讲述者Opalanga Pugh和其对于讲故事的理念、经历和贡献。
（1） 细节理解题。根据文章第二段最后一句话They regard storytelling not only as a useful tool in child education, but also as a meaningful activity that helps adults understand themselves as well as those whose culture may be very different from their own.可知，他们发现讲故事对孩子和成年人都有用。故选D。
（2） 句意猜测题。划线句句意为"如果他们不喜欢他们的生活故事，他们可以重写这个故事。"这说明如果犯人认为做犯人不好，也可以开始新的生活，重新做人。故选A。
（3） 细节理解题。根据文章第四段：Pugh 与在校学生一起，和犯人们一起讲故事，还开办经理工人间的交流热线，所以一共是三种人。故选B。
