1 . 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。

The Book of Songs, also known as Shi Jing, is the oldest existing     1     (collect) of Chinese poetry. Three years ago, when Chinese musician Fang Jinlong read Shi Jing, he was interested in the stories told through the poems. Because he couldn’t     2     (full) understand the ancient Chinese language     3     (use) in the poems, he turned to experts whose elaboration further attracted him to explore the poems.

Then he decided to portray the poems with musical language by inviting composer Ma Jiuyue     4     (create) an album. Titled Music and the Book of Songs, the album was released on Jan. 18,     5     (feature) 10 original songs composed by Ma. They     6     (perform) by Fang and won great popularity.

The 10 songs are based on 10 poems from Shi Jing, including Qiong Yao, which conveys gratitude to people     7     are eager to help others; Swallows, which sends farewell messages to friends and Jia Yu, which portrays the scenes of a joyful banquet.

“Young people gave warm feedback about traditional Chinese music     8     they had watched my performance. It inspired me to create more works for them, which helps popularize traditional Chinese music,” says Fang.

“The 10 pieces sound     9     (enjoy) and easy. For the listeners, it’s a fresh way to comprehend poems from Shi Jing,” says Ma. “We spent three years working on     10     project. There are so many meanings in the poems and we want to display them as deep as possible with music,” Ma says. “It’s our mutual goal to have traditional Chinese music reach a wider audience.”

3 . 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”.

4 . 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

6 . 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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7 . 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.

8 . 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.

9 . Ancient China produced many types of beautiful works of art. Among them, calligraphy, poetry and painting are the most famous. Often they would be put together in art.These became important starting with the Song Dynasty.

Calligraphy is the art of handwriting. In the old times the Chinese considered writing as an important form of art. Calligraphers would practice for years to learn to write perfectly, but with style. Each of the over 40,000 characters needed to be written correctly. And each stroke (笔画) in a character had to be written in a certain order.

Poetry is also an important form of art. Great poets were famous all over the country, and all educated people were expected to write poetry. During the Tang Dynasty poetry was so important that writing poetry was part of the examinations to become a civil servant (文官) and work for the government.

Chinese painting is often connected with calligraphy. It is one of the oldest artistic traditions in the world. The most traditional way of Chinese painting is known as “national painting” or “native painting” which is quite different from Western painting. People can draw mountains, buildings, birds, trees and water.

1. Calligraphers needed to write over ______ characters correctly in the old times.

A．10,000	B．20,000
C．30,000	D．40,000

2. What was part of the civil servant examinations during the Tang Dynasty?

A．Painting.	B．Calligraphy.
C．Writing poetry.	D．Playing music.

3. What’s the passage mainly about?

A．Chinese art.	B．Chinese examinations.
C．Chinese history.	D．Chinese dynasties.

10 . One early morning, I went into the living room to find my mother reading a thick book called Best Loved Poems to Read Again and Again. My interest was aroused only by the fact that the word “Poems” appeared in big, hot pink letters.

“Is it good?” I asked her.

“Yeah,” she answered. “There’s one I really like and you’ll like it, too.” I leaned forward.

“‘Patty Poem,’”she read the title. Who is Patty? I wondered. The poem began:

She never puts her toys away, Just leaves them scattered①where they lay,...

①散乱的

The poem was just three short sections. The final one came quickly:

When she grows and gathers poise②, I’ll miss her harum-scarum③noise, And look in vain for scattered toys.

②稳重 ③莽撞的

And I’ll be sad.

A terrible sadness washed over me. Whoever Patty was, she was a mean girl. Then, the shock.

“It’s you, honey,” My mother said sadly.

To my mother, the poem revealed a parent’s affection when her child grows up and leaves. To me, the “she” in the poem was horror. It was my mama who would be sad. It was so terrible I burst out crying.

“What’s wrong?” my mother asked.

“Oh Mama,” I cried. “I don’t want to grow up ever!”

She smiled. “Honey, it’s okay. You’re not growing up anytime soon. And when you do, I’ll still love you, okay?”

“Okay,” I was still weeping. My panic has gone. But I could not help thinking about that silly poem. After what seemed like a safe amount of time, I read the poem again and was confused. It all fit so well together, like a puzzle. The language was simple, so simple I could plainly understand its meaning, yet it was still beautiful. I was now fascinated by the idea of poetry, words that had the power to make or break a person’s world.

I have since fallen in love with other poems, but “Patty Poem” remains my poem. After all, “Patty Poem” gave me my love for poetry not because it was the poem that lifted my spirits, but because it was the one that hurt me the most.

1. Why was the writer attracted by the book Best Loved Poems to Read Again and Again?

A．It was a thick enough book.	B．Something on its cover caught her eye.
C．Her mother was reading it with interest.	D．It has a meaningful title.

2. After her mother read the poem to her, the writer felt _________ initially.

A．sorrowful

B．excited

C．horrified

D．confused

3. The writer’s mother liked to read “Patty Poem” probably because _________.

A．it reflected her own childhood	B．it was written in simple language
C．it was composed by a famous poet	D．it gave her a hint of what would happen

4. It can be concluded from the passage that “Patty Poem” leads the writer to _________.

A．discover the power of poetry	B．recognize her love for puzzles
C．find her eagerness to grow up	D．experience great homesickness