2026年江苏省徐州市睢宁二中中考英语模拟试卷(4月份) 一、阅读五选五:本大题共5小题,。 Storytelling Storytelling has caught the human imagination for thousands of years.People everywhere have told stories to amuse,to teach,to remember,and just to pass the time.People started telling stories long before writing was invented.(1)_____ But people all over the world still tell one another stories out loud.A person who can tell a good story nearly always finds listeners. Before people developed writing,storytelling was the most important way to pass along information.Anything a culture wanted to protect-its beliefs,its history,and its traditions-had to be told out loud.Each generation would tell the culture's stories to the next.(2)_____ Knowledge passed on in this method is called the spoken tradition.Even cultures that know how to write still pass along some information in this way. (3)_____ In other cultures only special storytellers were trusted to do this important job.A culture's best storytellers had good memories.They could also make the stories very interesting,so people would listen and remember them.Sometimes people would sing the stories or tell them in the form of poems.(4)_____ However,stories told aloud change over time as different people tell them.A storyteller might change a story in order to make it better.Or a teller may simply not remember all the details of a story.Unlike written stories,the spoken tradition is not created by any one person.(5)_____ Sometimes the stories are collected and written down long after they have been created. A.In this way the stories were passed along. B.In some cultures everyone would pass along the stories. C.Almost everyone likes to listen to stories. D.Instead,a whole culture helps shape the changing stories throughout history. E.Today stories are also written down in books and acted out in movies TV shows,and plays. F.Songs and poems can both make stories easier to remember. 1.A. A B. B C. C D. D E. E F. F 2.A. A B. B C. C D. D E. E F. F 3.A. A B. B C. C D. D E. E F. F 4.A. A B. B C. C D. D E. E F. F 5.A. A B. B C. C D. D E. E F. F 二、单选题:本大题共10小题,。 6.--I don't know where to go during Chinese New Year. -- Why not visiting Xuzhou?There are many places of interest.( ) A. regard B. consider C. risk D. suggest 7.—Do you want to become a painter in the future, Leo? —Maybe. I am still young. The _____ are endless.( ) A. achievements B. treatments C. personalities D. possibilities 8.—This novel has helped me a lot through my hard times. —Good books can teach us things _____subject knowledge.( ) A. above B. beyond C. over D. against 9.—What do you learn in "Tiangong Class"? —The gravity in the space station is about 90% of on the Earth. A. it B. this C. that D. those 10.—Kitty, did you enjoy the farewell party? —Yes. We _____ well by our hosts.( ) A. were treated B. are treated C. treated D. have treated 11.--Do you know_____this dictionary bel ... ...