Tell a story and tell it well, and you may open wide the eyes of a child, open up lines of

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(灰姑娘), 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 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 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 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.”
【小题1】What do we learn about American story tellers from Paragraph 2 ?A．They share the same way of storytelling.B．They prefer to tell stories from other cultures.C．They learn their stories from the American natives. D．They find storytelling useful for both children and adults.【小题2】The underlined sentence (Paragraph 4) suggests that prisoners can . A．direct filmsB．settle down in another placeC．start a new life D．become good actors【小题3】Pugh has practised storytelling with groups of people. A．2 B．3 C．4D．5【小题4】What is the main idea of the text?A．Storytelling can influence the way people think.B．Storytelling is vital to the growth of businesses.C．Storytelling is the best way to educate children in school.D．Storytelling helps people understand themselves and others.D

(答案→)D 解析：文章介绍了讲故事可以让人们更好的理解自己和他人，不仅对孩子有教育意义对成年人也是有好处的。【小题1】细节题：由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.” 可知美国讲故事的人发现讲故事对孩子和成年人都是有好处的。选D。【小题2】句意理解题：句意：如果他们不喜欢他们的生活故事，他们可以重写这个故事。说明如果犯人认为做犯人不好，可以开始新的生活，争做新人。选C。【小题3】细节题：由文章第四段：Pugh 与在校学生一起，还有囚犯，还开办经理工人间的交流热线，故一共是三人。选B。【小题4】主旨题：由文章第一、二段的句子：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.和 but also as a meaningful activity that helps adults understand themselves as well as those whose culture may be very different from their own.可知这篇文章讲的是讲故事会让人们更加理解自己和其他人，A、B、C太片面。选D。

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