牛津译林版（2019）选择性必修第一册Unit 4 Exploring poetry 课文语篇填空（含答案）

选必一 Unit4 语篇填空
A
Poetry is a (1)____________(combine) of "sound" and "sense". More than any other type of literature, it usually (2)____________(imply) a deeper meaning beyond the words on the page. So, how (3)___________(reveal) this hidden dimension
First, follow your ears. While you may ask "What does it mean " as you begin reading a poem, (4)___________ is better to ask "How does it sound " Even if its true meaning appears to be (5)___________your grasp, you can always say something about how the poem sounds (6)___________you read it aloud. Do you detect a rhythm Are there any repeated words, rhymes or other special effects All of these are good (7)___________(quality) to notice, and they may lead you (8)___________a better understanding of the poem in the end.
Second, approach the poem as if you were an (9)___________(explore) in an unfamiliar landscape. Ask some (10)___________(base) questions about the poem. As you explore the poem, you will begin to see images in your mind. This combination is often complex or even (11)___________(contradict). As you slowly explore your (12)___________(surround), you will start to dig (13)__________ clues that give you a greater understanding of the poem. Read these lines, pay attention to the image of the caged bird (14)__________try to find out what it means.
Third, if you are still struggling (15)__________(interpret) the meaning of a poem even with much painstaking effort, just have some (16)__________(patient). You cannot really understand a poem (17)__________you have only read once. Sometimes (18)__________(read) a poem can be a lifelong job. So if you do not get it, set the poem (19)__________and come back to it (20)__________(late). As an explorer, you will not reach your goal immediately—you need to go on a journey to a remote and unknown destination. This may seem difficult at first, but when you finally make your great (21)__________(discover), your efforts will (22)________________(reward). Poems that are easy to understand are often (23)________________(interesting) than those that constantly reveal deeper and (24)__________(previous) unrecognized meanings.
Finally, remember that you do not have to (25)__________(full) understand a poem (26)_____________(appreciate) it. You might need to abandon (27)__________(logic) thinking to discover its true inner beauty. (28)__________long as the journey of poetry reading makes you feel something or lets you perceive another level of (29)__________(mean), it will have been worth your effort.
Poetry's combination of "sound" and "sense" makes you see the world in a new way and allows you to go beyond normal (30)__________(real) for the everlasting beauty. Enjoy your journey in the world of poetry!
B
I love reading poetry and I try to set aside some time each day to read poems. Poetry can take me to remote mountaintops (1)_________(cover) with mist; it can also take me inside someone else's mind. Poetry can describe things that are too complex (2)_________(express) in any other way; it can also display the hidden beauty of simple and ordinary things.
I like poems (3)_________are contradictory: it is exciting when the poet starts with one particular image, and then adds something that seems to be out of place—(4)_________is the lines which stick (5)_________that make a poem interesting.
(6)_________(interpret) poetry can be difficult, but what I love about poetry is that it makes me wonder—sometimes it is like a riddle that I want to solve, or a question that I want to answer. When I start reading a new poem, I may say to myself, “This is (7)_________(confuse)—I don't like it.” However, many of my favourite poems are the ones I did not like at first. With poetry, I know I have to be (8)_________(patience): I will not be rewarded immediately, but when I finally understand a poem, it will stay with me for a long time. Also, when I read poetry regularly, I (9)_________(constant) discover new things—even in poems that I have read many times before. Reading poetry is like trying to find and dig up a treasure: I can use a poem as a treasure map that will eventually guide me (10)_________exciting new discoveries.
C
Romanticism was a cultural movement from the late 18th to the mid-19th century. It was a time when many painters, musicians, (1)_________(novel) and poets looked at the world in new and different ways. The aim of the Romantics was to break (2)_________the ideals of the 18th century: they refused (3)_____________(follow) rigid rules; instead, they put emphasis (4)_________the importance of (5)_________(imagine) and feeling, the love of nature and a return to the past. In England, the greatest achievements of the Romantic movement lay in poetry, (6)_________(especial) that of William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, George Gordon Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley. During that time, England was undergoing a process called industrialization. Large factories were being built and people were made to work long hours. Romantic poets were often not pleased with (7)_________was happening in their country and they were not always interested in the improvements in science. Instead, they advocated (8)_________(go) back to nature. As a result, (9)_________(celebrate) the beauty of nature and country life became a common theme in Romantic poetry. The poets also wrote about individual feelings and beliefs. Exploring the world of emotion and showing the beauty of nature, the poetry of the Romantic era is one of the greatest (10)_________(treasure) in Western literature.
D
Born in 1770, William Wordsworth was one of the (1)_________(lead) poets of the Romantic movement in England. (2)_________(grow) up in the beautiful Lake District, Wordsworth had a childhood that was perfect for a developing poet. (3)_________(educate) at Cambridge, Wordsworth received his degree in 1791. He spent a lot of time (4)_________(tour) in Europe. Travelling obviously provided Wordsworth (5)_________plenty of ideas for his poems. In 1795, he met Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the two (6)_________(talent) young men became close friends. (7)_________(meet) Coleridge had a huge impact on Wordsworth. Lyrical Ballads, a (8)_________(collect) of poems written together with Coleridge, was Wordsworth's first great work. It (9)_________(publish) in 1798 and marked the start of the Romantic era in poetry. Wordsworth explained that they wanted to write poetry (10)_________ordinary people could use to express their feelings. Many of the poems in the collection were about returning to nature. Like other Romantics, Wordsworth preferred to live in the country rather than in the city.
E
It is believed that the poem “A Night Stay at a Mountain Temple” (1)_________(write) by Li Bai in his teenage years. With (2)_________(strike) imagination in expressions like "scaring dwellers on high", this early poem already displayed signs of a romantic style, (3)_________was later to characterize Li Bai's poetry.
Li Bai's love of reading and travelling from an early age (4)_________(contribute) to his romantic style. He started studying the classics (5)_________he was only five years old, and was reading ancient philosophers of different (6)_________(school) at the age of ten, including Confucianism and Taoism. By reading books of all kinds, from legends to historical stories, he familiarized himself (7)_________classical Chinese culture, and more importantly, he acquired the (8)_________(wise) of previous generations.
(9)_________(drive) by a burning desire for adventure and travel, Li Bai left home and started to travel around in his early (10)_________(twenty). His footsteps covered almost the whole country.
During his travels, he visited famous mountains and great rivers, (11)_________(encounter) different customs and practices. These travelling experiences also nourished his love of nature and inspired him (12)_________(write) numerous poems in the romantic style.
Li Bai's romantic style was also (13)_________(deep) rooted in the social and historical context (14)____________he lived. Li Bai grew up in the most (15)_________(glory) period of the Tang Dynasty, a time of economic boom and social (16)_________(stable). This open and tolerant atmosphere allowed Li Bai the liberty (17)______________(develop) a free and unconstrained personality, which, in turn, had a huge impact (18)___________his poetic production.
(19)_________(give) his personal experiences and the historical background, it is only natural to see that the (20)_________(major) of Li Bai's poems are characterized by the romantic style.Even the most uninformed reader would not fail to (21)_________(impress) by the poet's rich imagination. The moon and stars in the sky, the natural landscape and the figures in legends all become a vehicle for his imagination. (22)_________(equal) impressive is Li Bai's free expression of strong feelings, which breathes vitality (23)_________the lifeless objects he describes, and which distinguishes him (24)_________other landscape poets. These features are inseparable from Li Bai's wide use of exaggeration, metaphor and other artistic techniques. The poem below, written in his fifties, is (25)______________(represent) of his romantic style:
With his extraordinary imagination, free expression of strong feelings and mastery of language, Li Bai is widely recognized (26)_________the greatest romantic poet after Qu Yuan. Generations of poets, both in China and abroad, owe a debt (27)_________his inspirational poems. One such poet is Ezra Pound, a 20th-century American poet. He was fascinated (28)_________Li Bai's poems and translated some of them in his 1915 poetry collection (29)_________(entitle) Cathay. Today Li Bai's poetry continues to be enjoyed by (30)_________(count) readers around the world.
A
combination 2. implies 3. to reveal 4. it 5. beyond
when 7. qualities 8. to 9. explorer 10. basic
contradictory surroundings 13. up 14. and 15. to interpret
patience 17. that/which 18. reading 19. aside 20. later
discovery 22. be rewarded 23. less interesting 24.previously 25. fully
to appreciate 27. logical 28. As 29. meaning 30. reality
B
covered 2. to express 3. that/which 4. it 5. out
Interpreting 7. confusing 8. patient 9. constantly 10. to
C
1. novelists 2. with 3. to follow 4. on 5. imagination
especially 7. what 8. going 9. celebrating 10. treasures
D
1. leading 2. Growing 3. Educated 4. touring 5. with
6. talented 7. Meeting 8. collection 9. was published 10. that/which
E
1. was written 2. striking 3. which 4. contributed 5. when
schools 7. with 8. wisdom 9. Driven 10. twenties
11.encountering 12. to write 13. deeply 14. in which 15. glorious
16. stability 17. to develop 18. on 19. Given 20. majority
21. be impressed 22. Equally 23. into from representative
26. as to by entitled countless