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CARIFF, Wales¹桺oets, singers and musicians from across the globe gathered Wales to celebrate the tradition(传统)of storytelling.
"It might seem strange that people still want to listen to instead of watching television, but this is an unusual art form whose time has come again, "said David Amibrose, director² of Beyond the Border, an international storytelling festival(节)in Wales.
"Some of the tales, like those of the Inuit from Canada, are thousands years old. So our storytellers have come from distant lands to connect us with the distance of time. " he said early this month.
Two Inuit women, both in their mid³ 60s, are among the few remaining who can do ?Kntadjait, or? throat singing, which has few words and much sound.
Their art is governed by the cold of their surroundings⁴, forcing them to say little but listen attentively⁵.
Ambrose started the festival in 1993, after several years of working with those reviving(coming back into use or existence)storytelling in Wales.
"It came out of a group of people who wanted to reconnect with traditions and as all the Welsh are storytellers, it was in good hands here." Ambrose said.
61. Ambrose believes that the art of storytelling.
［A］ will be more popular than TV
［B］ will be popular again
［C］ started in Wales
［D］ are in the hands of some old people
62. From the tales told by the Inuit, people can learn.
［A］ about their life as early as thousands of years ago
［B］ why they tell the stories in a throat?singing way
［C］ how cold it has been where the Inuit live
［D］ how difficult it is to understand the Inuit
63. According⁶ to the writer, which of the following is not true?
［A］ Storytelling once stopped in Wales.
［B］ Storytelling has a long history in Wales.
［C］ Storytelling is always well received in Wales.
［D］ Storytelling did not come back until 1993 in Wales.
64. The underlined⁷ phrase⁸ in good hands means⁹.
［A］ controlled by rich people
［B］ grasped by good storytellers
［C］ taken good care of
［D］ protected by kind people
C
Greek¹⁰ soldiers sent messages by turning their shields(盾)toward the sun. The flashes reflected light could be seen several miles away. The enemy did not know what the flashes meant, but other Greek soldiers could understand the messages.
Roman soldiers in some places built long rows of signal¹¹ towers. When they had a message to send, the soldiers shouted it from tower to tower. If there were enough towers and enough soldiers with loud voices, important news could be sent quickly over distance.
In Africa, people learned¹² to send messages by beating on a series¹³ of large drums(鼓). Each drum was kept within hearing distance of the next one. The drum beats were sent out in a special way that all the drummers understood. Though the messages were simple, they could be sent at great speed for hundreds of miles.
In the eighteenth century, a French engineer found a new way to send short messages. In this way, a person held a flag in each hand and the arms were moved to various positions representing¹⁴ different letters of the alphabet¹⁵. It was like spelling out words with flags and arms.
Over a long period of time, people sent messages by all these different ways. However, not until the telephone was invented in America in the nineteenth century could people send speech sounds over a great distance in just a few seconds.
65. According to this passage, the Roman way of communication depended very much upon .
［A］ fine weather
［B］ high tower
［C］ the spelling system
［D］ arm movements
66. Which of the following statements¹⁶ is true?
［A］ Neither the Greek soldiers nor their enemy could understand the message.
［B］ African soldiers shouted from tower to tower to pass message.
［C］ Telephone was invented by a French engineer.
［D］ Only by using telephone could people send speech sounds quickly.
67. The African way of communication sent messages.
［A］ in a special way
［B］ over a very short distance
［C］ by a musical instrument
［D］ at a rather slow speed
68. The way of communication made use of visible¹⁷ signs.
［A］ French
［B］ Roman
［C］ African
［D］ American
D
Because we can feel that things are heavy, we think of weight as being a fixed¹⁸ quality in an object, but it is not really fixed at all. If you could take a one?pound packet of butter ?4, 000? miles out from the earth, it would weigh only a quarter of a pound.
Why would things weigh only a quarter as much as they do at the surface of the earth if we took them 4 000 miles out into space? The reson is this: All objects have a natural attraction¹⁹ for all other objects; this is called gravitational attraction, but this power of attraction between two objects gets weaker as they get farther²⁰ apart. When the butter was at the surface of the earth, it was 4 000 miles from the centre (in other words the radius(半径)of the earth is 4 000 miles). When we took the butter 4 000 miles out, it was 8 000 miles from the centre, which is twice the distance.
If you double the distance between two objects, their gravitational attraction decreases(减少)two times two. If you treble(翻三倍)the distance, it gets nine times weaker(three times three). If you take it four times as far away, it gets sixteen times weaker(four times four)and so on.
69. The best title for this passage is.
［A］ The Earth Weight
［B］ Weight in Space
［C］ Changing Weight on the Earth
［D］ Weight on and off the Earth
70. We can feel things are heavy because.
［A］ weight is a fixed quality in an object
［B］ they are far away from the centre of the earth
［C］ of the earth's strong attraction for them
［D］ they are not taken away from the surface of the earth
71. If the distance between two objects is shortened²¹ by half, their gravitational attraction will.
［A］ double
［B］ become four times stronger
［C］ be the same
［D］ get four times weaker
72. If an object weighed one pound 8 000 miles above the earth, it would weighon the surface of the earth.
［A］ 6 pounds
［B］ 4 pounds
［C］ 9 pounds
［D］ 1/9 pound

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