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　　CARDIFF, WalesPoets, singers and musicians from across the globe gathered Wales to celebrate the tradition of storytelling.

　　“It might seem strange that people still want to listen in age of watching television, but this is an unusual art form whose time has come again,” said David Ambrose, director of Beyond the Border, an international storytelling festivals in Wales.

　　“Some of the tales, like those of the Inuit from Canada, are thousands of 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 mid 64s, are among the few remaining who can do throat singing, which has few words and much sound.

　　Their art is governed by the cold of their surroundings, forcing them to say little but listen attentively.

　　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.

1．Ambrose believes that the art of storytelling ________.

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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

2．From the tales told by the Inuit, people can learn ________.

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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

3．According to the writer, which of the following is not true?

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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.

4．The underlined words “in good hands” mean ________.

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A．controlled by rich people

B．grasped by good storytellers

C．taken good care of

D．protected by kind people

The police arrived, after ________ the situation became more peaceful.

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At the ________ of the bell, the students rushed into the classroom.

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I ________ to catch the 2:00 plane, but no such luck.

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I watched the basketball match last night.

It must have been pretty exciting, ________?

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Who's that man over there?

It is ________ Bob.

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What made the boss so angry?

________.

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So excited and joyful ________ that we were soon completely lost in playing and laughing.

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He tried his best, but he couldn't ________ the college entrance exams last year.

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If they were going to kill us, this was as good a place as ________.

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