文章大意：这是一篇说明文。文章主要讲述了《诗经》的一些相关知识。作为最早的中国诗集，由311首来自西周早期到春秋中期的诗歌被收录，孔子则被认为是该书的编者，内容丰富，被分为“风”，“雅”，“颂”三部分。文章以《关雌》作为举例让读者体会其美。《诗经》是中华文明的瑰宝。
4 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处境入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
Shijing, also The Book of Songs or Shih Ching, is the 1 (early) collection of Chinese poetry. It 2 (make) up of 311 poems dating from the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle stage of the Spring and Autumn Period. Nowadays, Confucius is generally believed to be the 3 (edit) of the book.
Shijing is rich in content, 4 (describe) love and labour, war and slavery, customs and marriage, ancestor worship and special events. It is called a mirror of social life.
Poems included in Shijing fall into three sections-poems that come from villages belong to Feng; those written to persuade or praise the rulers belong to Ya; those used at religious 5 (ceremony) belong to Song. Ya and Song are flowery and serious in language. 6 , Feng is relatively inspiring and full of passion.
The opening poem of Shijing, “Cooing and Wooing” (《关雌》), is about love, 7 reads:
By riverside are cooing, a pair of turtledoves;
A good young man is wooing, a fair maiden he loves.
It is vivid that the man is longing 8 (win) over the girl.
Shijing enables people to have a better understanding of Chinese civilization and is also 9 beginning of ancient Chinese poetry. Additionally, it is also frequently quoted in other Chinese texts and has always been referred to 10 moral truth and lessons.
