上一篇我们和大家分享GRE阅读技巧之如何巧妙处理长文章。如今，gre阅读短文章在现行GRE阅读中所占比例较高，而此处短文章的定义为只有一段的文章。在进行短文章阅读练习时，小编建议考生在阅读的过程中作一些必要的标记。总之，任何关乎文章结构和细节的内容都值得标记。

下面请阅读文字，并在文中作标记，回答段落总结四问题，并画出文章的逻辑简图。

Extended debate concerning the exact point of origin of individual folktales told by Afro-American slaves has unfortunately taken precedence over analysis of the tales' meaning and function. Cultural continuities with Africa were not dependent on importation and perpetuation of specific folktales in their pristine form. It is in the place that tales occupied in the lives of the slaves and in the meaning slaves derived from them that the clearest resemblances to African tradition can be found. Afro-American slaves did not borrow tales indiscriminately from the Whites among whom they lived. Black people were most influenced by those Euro-American tales whose functional meaning and aesthetic appeal had the greatest similarity to the tales with deep roots in their ancestral homeland. Regardless of where slave tales came from, the essential point is that, with respect to language, delivery, details of characterization, and plot, slaves quickly made them their own.

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