1 . 任务型读写
认真阅读短文，在表格的空中填入恰当的单词，每空仅限一词，注意正确形式。

When a thought has found words

Poetry is the forgotten child of literature. Few people read it for pleasure. In Western high schools, poetry is seldom taught because it is considered to be out of date and have little to do with the life of today’s students.

However, compared with the situation in the West, poetry is still an important part of the curriculum (课程) in China. Recently, the Ministry of Education has increased the number of ancient Chinese poems for students to memorize and recite, from 14 to 72. Why is it important to learn poems?

First of all, poetry is a necessary part of learning traditional Chinese culture. It is a path to understanding your history and your society. It is also the key to understanding the thoughts and feelings that are common to everyone but that we may be unable to express, the joy of Li Bai dancing with the moon, for example. Everyone has feelings of joy, love, loneliness, sadness and even anger, and a good poem can put those feelings into words and bring us self-understanding.

Poems can also express beauty. In a few short lines, even something common can become beautiful. Here is a poem called Fog by Carl Sandberg: The fog comes/on silent haunches (弓腰) /and then moves on. Yes, a fog does move smoothly, silently and like a cat, and Sandberg catches that feeling and image, and makes it beautiful.

Of course, to really enjoy poetry, it has to be read aloud. After all, a poem is really just a song without music. Most ancient poems, like Homer’s Epics (《荷马史诗》) and China’s Book of Songs, were spoken for hundreds of years before they were written.

The American poet Robert Frost said, “Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.” You are lucky that you now have seventy-two poems to learn!

Title: When a thought has found words
Outline	Detailed information
1	In the West, poetry is considered to be     2     from the life of today’s students.
	In China, poetry remains an important part of the curriculum.
3     for learning poetry	◇Poems help you     4     history and society. ◇Poems help express your personal thoughts and feelings. ◇Poems can express beauty of common things with very few lines.
A     5     on enjoying poetry	6     aloud is the best way to enjoy poetry. In fact, many ancient poems were spoken before they were written.

2 . 听下面一段较长对话，回答以下小题。
1. What is the woman doing?

A．Hosting a TV show.

B．Giving a lecture on poetry.

C．Conducting a radio debate.

2. How did the man’s mother contribute to his success in poetry?

A．She sent him to poetry classes.

B．She taught him to write business plans.

C．She asked him to read from early childhood.

3. What does the man find most difficult in writing?

A．Choosing the right words.

B．Describing real experiences.

C．Getting an appropriate opportunity.

4. What does the man say about his own writing?

A．Creative.

B．Successful.

C．Encouraging.

4 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

More than three decades after writing his first poem     1     a teenager in the mountains of northern China, Chen Nianxi is living a literary dream. He has published two critically     2     (receive) books among people. For more than 15 years, he labored in gold, iron and zinc mines across China, detonating explosives (引爆炸药) by day and     3     (create) poems on the backs of newspapers at night.

His poems speak of the     4     (lonely) of the mines, the deaths of fellow workers and the distance between modern life and his work underground. “There will     5     (definite) be people who treat you as a spectacle,” he said. This summer, two years after publishing his first poetry collection, he published a book of essays, To Live Is to Shout at the Sky,     6     title comes from a poem written after a night of singing with his fellow workers at     7     mine in Xinjiang.

Chen     8     (struggle) for inspiration for the past few years. “We still need abundant, diverse works to support contemporary literature and culture, “Chen said, adding that he insisted on his works     9     (judge) on its artistic merits     10     hoped his works ”will broaden modern people’s perspectives or remind them to look downward a bit”.

5 . Two hundred years ago the English poet William Wordsworth wrote I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, a poem that was inspired when he came across a field of daffodils (水仙花). It ________ a basic spirit of early English Romanticism (浪漫主义).

What makes this poem a(n) ________ of Romantic thinking? It isn’t that Wordsworth ________ to write about a natural scene: it is the way he describes the scene as if it had human ________. For him, nature is not only a neutral (无感情色彩的) ________ of scenery, colors, plants, rocks, soil, water and air. It is a ________ force that feels joy and sadness and even tries to educate us human beings and show us the beauty of life.

Wordsworth’s home is now one of the most popular ________ in the Lake District. You can go on a tour of the garden where wild flowers still ________ now regardless of the change of the time. The place, where Wordsworth saw the daffodils, is at the southernmost end of the lake. When you are walking in the ________ of William from two centuries ago, the first group of daffodils appear, but they aren’t tall yellow trumpets (小号状的花) ________ swinging in the gentle wind as described in Wordsworth’s ________. They are just tiny wild daffodils grouped around individual trees rather than ________ together. But as you look north, from beside a huge ancient oak tree, you realize this is what ________ Wordsworth: group after group of daffodils, spread out to left and right but coming together in your sight so that they ________ a beautiful, pale yellow carpet. What you’re seeing at last is nature transformed by human sight and ________.

1.

A．expresses

B．raises

C．breaks

D．compares

2.

A．cause

B．series

C．example

D．proposal

3.

A．volunteers

B．chooses

C．refuses

D．hesitates

4.

A．identities

B．emotions

C．appearances

D．characters

5.

A．balance

B．shape

C．pattern

D．mixture

6.

A．violent

B．economic

C．physical

D．living

7.

A．masterpieces

B．destinations

C．activities

D．performances

8.

A．shakes

B．escapes

C．survives

D．responds

9.

A．footprint

B．direction

C．possession

D．charge

10.

A．proudly

B．casually

C．sharply

D．regularly

11.

A．sight

B．mind

C．memory

D．poem

12.

A．floating

B．waiting

C．collecting

D．trembling

13.

A．confused

B．delighted

C．persuaded

D．confirmed

14.

A．form

B．decorate

C．destroy

D．change

15.

A．capability

B．flexibility

C．expectation

D．imagination

7 . 假定你是李华，是伦敦孔子学院的一名助教。按照学院安排，你近期要开设一门线上课程，介绍中国唐诗宋词。请你写一封电子邮件，邀请你的学生们报名参加。
内容包括：
1. 课程安排；
2. 报名方式；
3. 希望学生们都参加。
注意：词数80左右。
参考词汇：唐诗宋词（poetry of the Tang and Song dynasties）
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8 . Directions: Fill in each blank with a proper word chosen from the box. Each word can only be used once. Note that there is one word more than you need.

A. bidding       B. formerly       C. survived       D. classify       E. version     F. exceeded G. specializing       H. necessarily        I. authenticity       J. overstated        K. antiquarian

Rare copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio sold for almost $10 million Wednesday, becoming the most expensive work of literature ever to appear at auction.

The First Folio is considered among the most important collections of literature in the English language. It contains 18 works that had not     1     appeared in print, and would otherwise have been lost to history, including “Macbeth” and “Twelfth Night.”

Published in 1623 by the actors John Heminge and Henry Condell, friends of the English playwright, the book is formally titled “Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies,” based on the three genres the part used to     2     the plays.

The     3     sold on Wednesday was the first complete copy to appear at auction since one went for $6.1 million in 2001. After a six-minute     4     battle between three telephone buyers, the item was purchased by book dealer and     5     Stephan Loewentheil for $9.98 million. In a phone interview following the sale, he described Shakespeare’s original folios as the “holy grail(圣杯)of books.”

“It is the greatest work in the English language, surely the greatest work of theater, so it’s something that anyone who loves intellectualism has to consider a holy object,” said Loewentheil, who owns stores     6     in rare books and photography in New York and Maryland.

Although around 750 copies of the First Folio were produced, just 235 are known to have     7     to the present day. Of these, only 56 are considered to be complete, with almost all of them now held by institutions in the US and UK, according to Christie’s, whose sale catalog said the item’s “extraordinary rarity ... cannot be     8    .”

The book came in a binding dating back to the early 19th century. It was sold alongside a letter by Shakespeare scholar Edmond Malone from 1809 confirming its     9    .

The final sale price     10     the auction house’s estimates, which had predicted top bids of $4 million to $6 million.

9 . I was 68 when I first stepped on stage as a standup comedian in 2003. I’d never set foot in a comedy club before. I’ve always been a performer-I’ve worked as a singer, actor and musician-but all that came to an end after I found people around didn’t want to go out and entertain themselves.

It was then that I started to think about comedy. I realized people needed to laugh, to enjoy themselves again, and thought that with a little training I could do it. I took a few classes, tried to work out a routine, and finally plucked up the courage to get up on stage. That first time was terrifying. I had no idea what the audience would make of me.

In New York, comedians are typically young men with beards. It’s hard enough to break through, even harder as someone old enough to be their grandmother. As I stepped on stage that first time, people laughed nervously. But by the time I tried my first joke , people were properly laughing. 1 was enchanted (陶醉) by the charm and power of comedy.

Now, 1 might be on stage for 10 minutes in front of a dozen people, or my one-woman show is a full hour in front of a crowd of 100. After a show, people young and old come up to me, saying what an inspiration I am.

They say they want to be as active as me when they reach my age. I’m pleased 1 can show that as an old person you don’t need to take a back seat in life.

Last year, I was recognized as the oldest female standup comedian in the world. My friends think I’m mad. They don’t understand why I wouldn’t choose to take it easy. But I like engaging with the world and you’ve got to be in touch to be funny. I’ve no intention of stopping comedy. I’m trying to stay alive, and I hope to still be performing when I’m 100.My goal is to still be up there making people laugh. It’s hard work, but it stops me being bored.

1. Why did the author want to be a comedian?

A．She was tired of her previous job.

B．She wanted to explore new territory.

C．She was interested in performing training.

D．She wanted to make people laugh.

2. Which of the following can best describe the author?

A．Humorous and humble.	B．Brilliant and confident.
C．Determined and adventurous.	D．Calm and cautious.

3. What can we learn about the author from the last paragraph?

A．Her family doesn’t understand her.

B．She often feels bored in daily life.

C．She likes traveling around the world.

D．She will continue her comedy career.

4. Where can the text be found?

A．In a history book.	B．In a newspaper.
C．In a science magazine.	D．In a biography.

10 . Book Express

About the translator (翻译家)

Xu Yuanchong (1921—2021) was a professor of literary translation at Peking University. In 1994, British publishing company Penguin published his 300 Tang Poems.

Drinking Wine

Tao Qian, more widely known for his other name Tao Yuanming (陶渊明), was a Chinese poet (诗人) of the Eastern Jin Dynasty (东晋) (317—420). The poet lived a peaceful life, and is known to have enjoyed country life, farming, reading and drinking wine.

Golden Treasury of Chinese Poetry in Han, Wei and Six Dynasties/Translated by Xu Yuanchong/Published by China Intercontinental Press

Mooring by Maple Bridge at Night

Zhang Ji, a Chinese poet who was born during the Tang Dynasty (唐朝) (618—907). Zhang’s poem Mooring by Maple Bridge at Night was one of his most famous poems and is still known to many readers today.

300 Tang Poems/Translated by Xu Yuanchong/Published by China Intercontinental Press

On the Height

Du Fu, a Chinese poet of the Tang Dynasty. The poet was a good friend with another famous poet of the same time who was called Li Bai.

300 Tang Poems/Translated by Xu Yuanchong/Published by China Intercontinental Press

Lake Dongting Viewed from Afar

Liu Yuxi, a well-known Chinese poet during the Tang Dynasty. The poet was especially interested in writing poetry that reflected (反映) real social problems in common people’s everyday lives.

300 Tang Poems/Translated by Xu Yuanchong/Published by China Intercontinental Press

1. Who enjoyed the country life best?

A．Tao Qian.

B．Zhang Ji.

C．Du Fu.

D．Liu Yuxi.

2. What do we know about Mooring by Maple Bridge at Night?

A．Its poet was born in the Tang Dynasty.	B．It is unknown to young readers.
C．It was born earliest of the four poems.	D．It is the most popular in China.

3. What is special about Liu Yuxi’s poems?

A．Interesting.

B．Real.

C．Creative.

D．Relaxing.