1 . 【课文原文】

WIND ON THE HILL

No one can tell me，

Nobody knows，

Where the wind comes from，

Where the wind goes.

It’s flying from somewhere

As fast as it can，

I couldn’t keep up with it,

Not if I ran.

But if I stopped holding

The string of my kite，

It would blow with the wind

For a day and a night.

And then when I found it，

Wherever it blew,

I should know that the wind

Had been going there too.

So then I could tell them

Where the wind goes ...

But where the wind comes from

Nobody knows.

A．A.Milne

DREAM

Hold fast to dreams，

For if dreams die

Life is a broken­winged bird

That cannot fly.

Hold fast to dreams，

For when dreams go

Life is a barren field

Frozen with snow.

Langston Hughes

A MATCH

If love were what the rose is,

And I were the leaf,

Our lives would grow together

In sad or singing weather,

Brown fields or flowerful closes,

Green pleasure or grey grief；

If love were what the rose is,

And I were like the leaf.

A．C.Swinburne

1. According to the poem Wind on the hill,what is the possible way to find out where the wind goes?

A．To be told by someone else.

B．To find the place where the kite drops.

C．To keep up with the wind day and night.

D．To hold the string of the kite and run with it.

2. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the poems?

A．The writer eventually found out where the wind came from.

B．The writer succeeded in finding a way of knowing where the wind went.

C．The poem Dream doesn't rhyme at all.

D．Aphoristic rhetoric is made full use of in the poem A Match.

3. Metaphor (暗喻) is used in ________ .

A．Wind on the hill	B．A Match
C．Dream	D．Dream & A Match

4. What does the “match” mean in the poem A Match?

A．Contest.	B．Opponent.
C．Partner.	D．Matchstick.

3 . In the 19th century the novel came into its own. Thousands upon thousands of novels were published. Of those novels, very few are remembered today. However, there are exceptions: the works of Jane Austen—Pride and Prejudice (《傲慢与偏见》)，Sense and Sensibility (《理智与情感》)—for example. They achieved only modest success at first but grew and grew in fame (名声) and reputation.

How did Jane Austen become so popular? Of course, the novels are romantic (浪漫的). Everyone knows the love story of Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennett (in Pride and Prejudice), and how they overcome their own pride and prejudice to live happily ever after. The lovers are almost as famous today as Romeo and Juliet.

But there is more to Austen’s popularity than the fact that she wrote about love. The books are very witty (机智的) and ironic (讽刺的), and show a great understanding of society and of people. Pride and Prejudice opens with what must be the most famous sentence in the English novel: “It is a truth universally acknowledged (认可), that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”

The truth, of course, is the opposite: wealthy, unmarried young men are extremely attractive to young women. And women—especially penniless (身无分文) or near­penniless ones—are the subjects of Austen’s tales.

Women nowadays may be more equal to men than they were in Jane Austen’s day. However, a sense that women still basically live in a world dominated (控制) by men ensures that Austen still has many keen readers.

1. What is the point of the article?

A．To describe the status of women in Jane Austen’s time.

B．To promote Jane Austen’s novels among teenagers.

C．To explore the characteristics of Jane Austen’s novels.

D．To analyze why Jane Austen’s novels have such a lasting appeal.

2. What can be concluded from the first paragraph?

A．Jane Austen wrote a total of four novels in her lifetime.

B．Most of the novels written in the 19th century are romances.

C．Jane Austen is one of the most successful novelists of the 19th century.

D．Jane Austen’s novels were a hit when they were first published.

3. According to the article，most of the heroines in Austen’s works________ .

A．are poor and young

B．are happily married

C．marry wealthy men

D．are penniless but witty

4. According to the author, what made Jane Austen’s works so popular?

a．They are mostly love stories.

b．Most of them have a happy ending.

c．They are full of wit and irony.

d．People can still relate to them today.

e．They explain how to succeed in a male­dominated society.

A．a，b，c	B．a，c，d
C．c，d，e	D．b，c，e

4 . Whitman was one of the most original and inspiring American poets, well known for his art and his role as a poet. He devoted himself to poetry praising the native American’s experience. As America’s first epic poem, Leaves of Grass ran nine editions with more than 400 poems all written in free forms, that is, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme. The tide implies rebirth, renewal, or green life. As Whitman once said, “Leaves of Grass was the outcropping of my own emotional and other personal nature — an attempt, from first to last, to put a person, a human being freely, fully and truly on record.”

For Whitman, science, democracy (民主) and spirituality (灵性) were the three things that underlay the structure of modern poetry. Whitman tried to combine the world of science, the democracy and the spiritual feeling of life into his poetry. For Whitman, the poetic form should be free. Therefore, he threw aside the traditional form and had his own form. Both the form and content of his poems are revolutionary. With its frequent use of oral language and everyday events, his poem represented a turning point in the history of American poetry — poetry fashioned out of specially American experience in a clear American idiom. Whitman’s unique poetic creation has developed a very significant tradition in American poetry.

In his poems, he celebrated new America rather than regretted it. He was against slavery, idolized (崇拜) Lincoln, supported strikes, and combined the ideal of the common people and that of the ragged individual.

1. Which of the following is RIGHT?

A．Whitman called on others to write poems like him.

B．Whitman praised the native rich Americans.

C．Whitman wrote poems to tell about the native American’s experience.

D．He wanted to become a great poet.

2. ________ in Whitman’s poems.

A．There are fixed beats and regular rhyme schemes

B．We could see rebirth, renewal or green life

C．We could only see science, wars and damage

D．There is no emotional nature

3. Whitman invented his own poem form ________.

A．by giving up the traditional form

B．without colloquial (通俗的) language

C．by telling English history

D．against poetic creation

4. What does the underlined phrase “the ragged individual” mean?

A．The rich people.

B．The poor people.

C．The poem writers.

D．The American lawyers.

5 . Have you ever listened to the sound of a raindrop? You might call the small sounds earth songs. Is it possible to catch earth songs, to put them into words?

Long ago, poets in Japan listened, watched, and did catch the beauty of the earth’s songs. They did this with the tiniest poems in the world, called haiku. A haiku is a poem that is just three lines and seventeen syllables long. And the poets who wrote them watched and listened, not only with their eyes and ears, but also with their hearts!

In their haiku, the early Japanese poets caught the colors, sounds, and beauties of the seasons of the year. They sang of their islands’ beauties. Their miniature poems were not meant to fully describe a scene or to explain it but rather were a flash impression.

The old poets are not the only writers of haiku. Today Japanese farmers, shopkeepers, grandparents, and students write it, and because of its strong appeal, haiku is written in many other countries throughout the world.

Interestingly enough, Japanese poetry has had a long and colorful history. In the prehaiku period in the early eighth century, Japanese poets wrote katauta, poems in a question-­and-­answer form, using two people. Each three­-line verse (诗节) contained about seventeen syllables that could be delivered easily in one breath — just as one would naturally ask or answer a question. This has remained the basic pattern for traditional Japanese poetry throughout the centuries.

Another form that appeared was the tanka, which contained five lines and thirty-­one syllables (5-7-5-7-7), written by either one or two persons. From that evolved (发展) the renga, which contained more than one verse, or link. Written by three or more people, it could have as many as 100 links! The first verse of the renga introduced a subject. It had three lines and was called the hokku, or starting verse. Renga parties became a great pleasure.

Around 1450, haikai no renga became popular. This style of linked verse contained puns (双关) and was humorous and amusing. The opening three lines were still called a hokku, and from haikai and hokku the term haiku evolved.

1. What does the underlined word “miniature” in Paragraph 3 mean?

A．Easy.	B．Little.
C．Detailed.	D．Selected.

2. We know from the text that katauta ________ .

A．was humorous and amusing

B．contained thirty-­one syllables

C．could have as many as 100 links

D．was written in a question-­and­-answer form

3. According to the text, what was the main activity at a renga party?

A．Creating a group poem.

B．Changing haiku into tanka.

C．Studying the history of renga.

D．Competing to write earth songs.

4. Information in this text would be of most value to readers who want to ________ .

A．teach how to write haiku

B．research the history of haiku

C．compare Japanese and American poetry

D．find suggestions about hosting a renga party

6 . Guernsey International Poetry Competition — Poems on the Move

Your poem could be on show in 2024. Winning entries are displayed in two stages: 21 bus poems will be chosen, and the top 9 of these will take part in a second, larger exhibition, first at Guernsey Airport, then all over the island.

How to enter

·Online by completing the online entry form and payment, at www.poemsonthemove.com.

·By email: PotM@guernseyliteraryfestival.com .

·By post: Poems on the Move 2024, Guernsey Literary Festival, PO Box 174, St. Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands, UK,GY1 3LG.

Fees

·Entries are £4 per poem or 3 poems for £10.

·Fees are not refundable.

·Young People’s Poetry: Aged 11-17, entries FREE

Rules

·Entries must be no longer than 14 lines and must be typed and fit on a single A4 page.

·Please do not write your name or age on the same sheet as your poems.

·Enter each poem on a separate page and enclose another separate sheet with your name, address, telephone number, email address, plus the title(s) of your poems.

·Entries must be entirely the work of the entrant and must never have been published, self-published, published on any public website or broadcast, nor winning or placed in any other competition.

·Closing date for receipt of entries: February15, 2024

The prize is open to anyone except those involved in organizing the competition. Winners will be contacted by March 5, 2024. Winning poems will be shown on Guernsey buses, and 9 of these poems will become part of the Poems on the Move exhibition, for no less than six months.

1. What should entrants do?

A．Show their poems on the bus.	B．Deliver their poems in person.
C．Start entering after February 15, 2024.	D．Have the poems typed as requested.

2. What is expected of the entries?

A．They should be original.

B．They must be over 14 lines.

C．They should be around two pages long.

D．They must be published works on any site.

3. Who is not entitled to the prize?

A．A young man aged 16.	B．A poet involved in the competition.
C．A writer organizing the competition.	D．A teacher writing a poem.

8 . One afternoon in late September, little Zhang Feng sat down with his school friends and read out a poem he had just written:

In the eyes of a frog,

______ form seas,

Big and small,

Wherever they fall,

But me, too,

I see those seas.

It was a rainy day, and the children had been ______ inside during their break. Eleven-year-old Zhang’s poem was ______ by the rhythm of the raindrops, the first sign of autumn.

As soon as he ______ reading his poem, his classmate Liu Jie ______ shared his own verse:

It is raining.

Ordinary raindrops fall on the ground,

But the naughty（调皮的） ones slip off the wall,

Into my soul.

“You must be a naughty raindrop,” one boy joked, and they ______ laughter.

The children are members of a poetry club ______ in 2019 in a rural school in Henan province’s Xiuwu county, which has about 50 ______, all natives studying in Dananpo, a mountain village that is home to about 1,000 people.

These young poets, ______, have written more than 2,000 poems, and their works have been ______ into three books since the club was founded four years ago.

Liang Yawen, the poetry club’s ______, says that many rural children are feeling ______ because they are separated from their parents, who are working in faraway cities. “Some children, due to a lack of security, are ______ to open up to their families, teachers or peers, but now they have learned to pour out their ______ in writing,” she says.

The teacher thinks that poetry is like a ______ light that helps us understand life better.

1.

A．Clouds

B．Raindrops

C．Waves

D．Oceans

2.

A．sheltering

B．planning

C．cleaning

D．arguing

3.

A．created

B．recalled

C．written

D．inspired

4.

A．finished

B．avoided

C．started

D．imagined

5.

A．easily

B．eagerly

C．secretly

D．gradually

6.

A．engaged in

B．gave off

C．burst into

D．joined in

7.

A．discovered

B．established

C．exposed

D．involved

8.

A．students

B．teachers

C．parents

D．players

9.

A．therefore

B．instead

C．moreover

D．however

10.

A．folded

B．translated

C．collected

D．poured

11.

A．applicant

B．member

C．fellow

D．tutor

12.

A．angry

B．happy

C．excited

D．lonely

13.

A．unwilling

B．proud

C．ready

D．ambitious

14.

A．outcomes

B．courage

C．emotions

D．confidence

15.

A．grey

B．cool

C．bright

D．natural

9 . 语法填空

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), an American writer of novels and short stories, is well thought of for his unique writing style. He is extremely good at describing the adventures of tough men who he believes “can be destroyed but not     1     (defeat). The Old Man and the Sea, one of his most important novels, tells the story of a fisherman named Santiago. After coming in empty-handed for eighty-four days, Santiago attempts       2     (catch) a huge fish.

The fish was coming in on his circle now calm and beautiful looking and only his great tail moving. The old man pulled on him all that he could to bring him closer. For just a moment the fish turned a little on his side. Then he     3     (straight) himself and began another circle.

“I moved him,” the old man said. “I moved him then.”

He felt faint again now but he held on the great fish all the strain that he could. I moved him, he thought. Maybe this time I can get him over. Pull, hands, he thought. Hold up, legs. Last for me, head. Last for me. You never went. This time I’ll pull him over.

But when he put all of his effort on, starting it well out before the fish came alongside and pulling with all his     4     (strong), the fish pulled part way over and then righted himself and swam away.

“Fish,” the old man said. “Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?”

That way nothing     5     (accomplish), he thought. His mouth was too dry to speak but he could not reach for the water now. I must get him alongside this time, he thought. I am not good for many more turns. Yes you are, he told himself. You’re good for ever.

On the next turn, he nearly had him. But again the fish righted himself and swam slowly away.

You are killing me, fish, the old man thought. But you have a right to. Never have I     6     (see) a greater, or more beautiful, or a calmer or more noble thing than you, brother. Come on and kill me. I do not care who kills who.

Now you are getting     7     (confuse) in the head, he thought. You must keep your head clear. Keep your head clear and know how to suffer like a man. Or a fish, he thought.

“Clear up, head,” he said in     8     voice he could hardly hear. “Clear up.”

Twice more it was the same on the turns.

I do not know, the old man thought. He had been on the point     9     feeling himself go each time. I do not know. But I will try it once more.

He tried it once more and he felt himself going when he turned the fish. The fish righted himself and swam off again slowly with the great tail weaving in the air.

I’ll try it again, the old man promised, although his hands were mushy now and he could only see well in flashes.

He tried it again and it was the same. So he thought, and he felt himself going     10     he started . I will try it once again.

10 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What does John think of Amy’s poetry?

A．It is very classic.

B．It is very romantic.

C．It is very unique.

2. What day is the conversation probably taking place?

A．On Monday.

B．On Tuesday.

C．On Thursday.

3. What topic of poetry will the speakers read about this Thursday?

A．Love.

B．Nature.

C．Friendship.

4. Whose works will the speakers read this week?

A．Edgar Allen Poe’s.

B．Emily Dickinson’s.

C．Maya Angelou’s.