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ith students in schools, Pugh helps them understand their own cultures and the general messages of the stories. She works with prisoners too, helping them know 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 munication between managers and workers. “For every advance in business,” she says, “ there is a greater need for munication.” Storytelling can have a great effect on either side of the managerworker 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.” 72. 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. 73. The underlined sentence (Paragraph 4) suggests that prisoners can _____. A. start a new life B. settle down in another place C. direct films D. bee good actors 74. Pugh has practised storytelling with _____ groups of people. A. 2 B. 3 C. 4 D. 5 75. What is the main idea of the text? A. Storytelling can influence the way people think. B. Storytelling is vital to the growth of business. C. Storytelling is the best way to educate children in school. D. Storytelling helps people understand themselves and others. 第二卷(一部分,共 35 分) 第四部分:寫作(共三節(jié),滿分 35 分) 第一節(jié) : 單詞拼寫(共 10小題,每小題 分,滿分 5分) 76. Let’s go and ask him if he has any ______(具體的 ) thoughts on how to deal with it. 77. Being a crazy art ______(熱衷者 ), the businessman spent most of his money collecting famous works of arts. 78. There are still some people holding the ______(保守的 ) view that a woman’s place is in the house. 79. The lighting of the Olympic torch ______(象征 ) peace and friendship among the nations of the world. 80. We are ______(籌集 ) money for the construction of a new school. 81. They s______ have nothing in mon in appearance, but actually they share a lot of interests and hobbies. 82. The talk between the two countries broke down with no c______ reached on the matter. 83. Every classroom in our school is e______ with a puter. 84. The man was fired by the boss because he was c______ with stealing. 85. We consider it very important that students understand the past, so History is a c______ subject. 第二節(jié):對(duì)話填空(共 10小題,每小題 1分,滿分 10 分) W: In what (86) w______ is your school different from other schools? M: Our school is for all children. A few of the children are (87)p______ disabled, and some of the others have (88)l______ difficulties. We have fast learners and slower learners as well. W: What made you decide to start this new school? M: We realized that disabled children has no (89 k______ of those in ordinary schools. We thought it was (90) i______ that all human beings should grow up together. W: Do the slower learners hole up(躲藏 ) the faster learners? M: No. For some classes, slower and faster learners are (91) s______. In other Classes they all work together. W: How does that (92) w______? M: Well. The faster learners help the slower ones. That way they bee very (93) s______ teachers. W: What do the parents think of the school? M: Some of them (94) d______ whether this school would be successful. So we took them into the classroom and showed them how well the students were working together. That (95) p______ to them that our school is a success. 第三節(jié):書面表達(dá)(滿分 20 分) 時(shí)下,各類電視節(jié)目廣泛使用短信參與方式,對(duì)此人們?cè)u(píng)價(jià)不一。 quite the contrary, I think we need to separate the basic fact of our shyness from our ability to take part in a social environment. Look at one of the most famous shy people of them all, Johnny Carson. This man is painfully shy, yet for decades he made a living talking and associating(交往 ) with different people every night, in front of a national audience. Carson has never done away with his shyness, but he has successfully found a way to deal with it to the extent that he could be, not just a talk show host, but a legend (傳奇 ) among talk show hosts. Look also at Sally Fields, who has recently admitted her problem with shyness. This is a woman who has appeared in many films, TV shows and interviews, yet in her early years she was so shy that she turned down a lunch invitation from Jane Fonda because she was terribly afraid of meeting her. I guess that our shyness is there because each of us is born wi