Question

根据短文内容和所给的首字母，写出短文中所缺的单词，使短文完整，合乎情景

I really like r1. and writing short stories. These stories are usually about 6 to 20 pages long which focus on an interesting person, a problem which the person had, and what happened when the person tried to solve the problem. All societies seem to have an oral story-telling tradition in which people met t2. to tell each other short stories, and in which parents told their children stories at bedtime. This was certainly true in England, in India. in Kenya, in Mexico and in Japan. Was it true in China, too? In many countries; oral story telling is still important, but in most countries now~ stories are written down and p3. in books. My favorite collection of short stories is a book called The Story Giant by Brian Patten in which a giant knows all the stories in the world e4. one. If he doesn't find the last story he'll die.  In the book he gets four children from different parts of the world to tell him stories in the hope that

he will find the last story so he can stay a5. and pass the world's stories on forever. Do you think he finds the last story?

I also like reading novels. One of my favourite novels is called Life of Pi. It is written by a Canadian called Yann Martel,and is about an Indian boy who spends a long time at sea after a shipwreck (海滩)  a 6. with nobody but a tiger. What about you? Do you have a favourite novel?

Not many people read plays these days, but many people still enjoy watching them at the theatre or on television. Perhaps the l 7. popular form of literature(文学)  is poetry.  This is because many poems are very d8.to understand, and often seem to be written and read by very clever people. I wish I c 9. write poems which e 10. can understand．

Answer

1.reading

2.together

3.printed

4.except

5.alive

6.alone

7.least

8.difficult

9.could

10.everybody/everyone

【解析】

文章大意：作者喜欢阅读和写作短小的故事。在很久之前，很多人们都会聚在一起，相互分享故事，随着书籍的发展，人们开始通过阅读来分享故事，但是口头说故事的形式在一些西方国家还非常的流行。作者也喜欢看小说。作者认为最不流行的文学形式是诗歌，因为许多诗歌很难理解，作者希望能够写出让大家都可以读懂的诗歌。

1.句意：我真的喜欢阅读和写短篇小说。like doing sth.喜欢做某事，and前后连接两个相同的成分，故答案为reading。

2.句意：在这种传统中人们聚在一起互相讲述短篇故事。文中提到"tell each other short stories"相互之间分享短篇故事，由此推测应该是聚在一起之后互相分享，由此判断填写together。

3.句意：但现在大多数国家，故事被写下来并印在书本上。文中提到"stories are written down"很多的故事都被写下来，后文又提到了books，由此推测是所有的故事写下来，并印在了书本上，故事被印在书本上，属于被动语态，助动词 are后跟过去分词，构成被动语态，结合句意可知，答案为printed。

4.句意：我最喜欢的短篇小说集是布莱恩·佩顿写的一本名为《故事巨人》的书，书中有一个巨人知道世界上所有的故事，只有一个例外。文中提到"a giant knows all the stories"那个巨人知道世界上所有的故事，后面又提到了one一个，由此可以确定那个巨人知道除那一个以外的所有故事，所以填写连词except。

5.句意：在书中，他让来自世界各地的四个孩子给他讲故事，希望他能找到最后一个故事，这样他就能活着，把世界的故事永远传下去。文中提到"If he doesn't find the last story he'll die"如果不能找到那个最新的故事，他就会死，由此可知他不断地收集新故事是为了活下去，stay alive译为活着，由此确定填写alive。

6.句意：这是一个关于印第安男孩在海上沉船后除了一只老虎外，独自一人在海上漂泊很长时间的故事。文中提到"with nobody but a tiger"没有人，只有一只老虎，由此推测是男孩独自在船上，答案为alone。

7.句意：也许最不流行的文学形式是诗歌。文中提到"This is because many poems are very difficult to understand"诗歌是很难理解的，由此可以推测应该是最不受欢迎的一种文学题材，由此可以知晓是用诗歌和其他题材的文学作品作对比，所以用形容词最高级形式来表示最不受欢迎的，the least popular译为最不受欢迎的，由此确定填写least。

8.句意：这是因为很多诗都很难理解。根据后面的句子“and often seem to be written and read by very clever people.”常常被非常聪明的人所写和阅读。可知诗歌很难理解，故答案为difficult。

9.句意：我希望我能写出大家都能读懂的诗歌。在这里使用的是虚拟语气，结合句意以及首字母提示可知，答案为could。

10.句意：我希望我能写出大家都能读懂的诗歌。前面提到许多诗歌都很难理解，因此作者希望能够写出让大家都可以读懂的诗歌，故答案为everybody/everyone。