必修六 Unit 2 Poems

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一、詞形變化 用所給詞的適當(dāng)形式填空。

1. Such______as Keats and Shelley wrote Romantic______. One of the most well-known______of Shelley is Ode to the West Wind, whose______utterance is admired by lots of people. (poem)

2. The boy who was full______was very______. He could always tell some______stories, therefore, his teacher, Mr. Brown said the boys bright future as a writer could be______. (imagine)

3. Thanks to the contributions of many excellent______, the______of many good pomes can be enjoyed by people worldwide. (translate)

4. What you are saying is a______of what you said before. And we have proved that your remark was______to the truth. (contradict)

5. Whenever I go to the______, I will be greeted by the warm smile of the______working there. (library)

6. The lecturer______his speech with one sentence: “Though our life is short, the effort we should devote to our career will be______.” (end)

二、單詞故事 選擇所給單詞的適當(dāng)形式填入下列空格中。

bridegroom, darkness, rhyme, exchange, translation, sorrow, endless, eventually

When I was a little girl, I was always afraid of______.At that time, my elder sister would read me some nursery______to bed. I was attracted to the______imagination of the poets. Among those poems I showed great interest in the one telling how a brave and clever______won the heart of his beloved girl, in which I shared his______and happiness. After I grew up, I was able to read some poems on my won. Every time I read a good one, I felt like______my ideas with my elder sister. I______took up translating pomes from the foreign poets as my job and I hope my______would bring poem lovers together in the world of poems.

三、詞組運(yùn)用 用所給詞組翻譯下列句子。再將下列句子組成一段話。

1. 經(jīng)過(guò)數(shù)百年的發(fā)展,人類幾乎用完了大部分的非可再生能源。(run out of)

2. 盡管很多人都擔(dān)心能源危機(jī)的到來(lái),有少部分人,尤其是一些無(wú)知的人,仍然還說(shuō):“放心好了,我們還有大量的能源?！?in particular; take it easy)

3. 一支由專業(yè)人員組合的研究小組正在思考解決這個(gè)問(wèn)題的方法。(make up of)

4. 專家小組陸續(xù)試驗(yàn)出一些新的能源。(try out)

5. 當(dāng)專家們宣布發(fā)明了一種太陽(yáng)能汽車時(shí),公眾們爆發(fā)出一陣歡呼。(let out)

四、摘要導(dǎo)寫(xiě) 根據(jù)課文回答下列問(wèn)題,并根據(jù)問(wèn)題的答案概括成大約30個(gè)詞的摘要。

1. How many kinds of poems are mentioned in the text and what are they?

2. What are the readers of the nursery rhymes and what is the characteristic of its language?

3. What are the pattern and the rhythm of the list poems?

4. How many lines are there in the cinquain?

5. Where does Haiku come form? And what is the specialty of it?

6. Besides Haiku, what other forms of Asian poetry do English speakers enjoy?

五、語(yǔ)法填空

閱讀下面短文, 按照句子結(jié)構(gòu)的語(yǔ)法性和上下文連貫的要求, 在空格處填入一個(gè)適當(dāng)?shù)脑~或使用括號(hào)中詞語(yǔ)的正確形式填空。

William Shakespeare (baptized 26 April 1564 – died 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the___1___(great) writer in the English language and the worlds excellent dramatist. He is often called Englands national poet and the “Bard of Avon”. His surviving works,___2___(include) some collaborations, consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and several___3___poems. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed___4___often than those of any other playwright.

Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon.___5___the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, who bore him three children. Between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an actor, writer, and part owner of a playing company called the Lord Chamberlains Men, later___6___(know) as the Kings Men. He appeared to have retired to Stratford around 1613,___7___he died three years later.___8___records of Shakespeares private life survive, and there has been considerable speculation(推測(cè)) about such matters as his physical appearance, sexuality,___9___(religion) beliefs, and___10___the works attributed to him were written by others.

六、閱讀理解

閱讀下列短文, 從每題所給的A、B、C和D項(xiàng)中, 選出最佳選項(xiàng)。

Quiet as a mouse. Blind as a bat. Crazy as a fox. It seems there is no end to the simile-making possibilities of animals. Ever-present in poetry, animals in many cases are used to describe the beloved. There is also a long tradition of poems addressed to pets, either celebrating their deeds or mourning their loss. Perhaps one of the most well known verses(詩(shī)歌) for a pet comes from Christopher Smarts eighteenth century “Jubilate Agno.”

The wild and fierce nature of animals is often admired by poets, such as Marianne Moores self-described “menagerie(獸群)”. Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell traded poems describing the animals and the awkward intrusion of humans, including Bishops “The Moose,”“The Armadillo,”and Lowells “Skunk Hour.”

There are poems of mythical creatures and fantastical beasts, both terrifying and majestic, and even verses relating the tragic results of coupling between humans and animals. The Greek myth of Leda and the Swan has been retold by many poets, including W. B.Yeats. In “The Sheep Child,” James Dickey tells the story of a creature born of a human and sheep pairing, a tale that is both darkly amusing as well as heartbreaking.

Finally, animals offer poets a mirror through which to explore themselves, an unwitting(不知不覺(jué)的) foil(陪襯物) used to understand what it means to be human. Sometimes the comparison finally reveals dissatisfaction with humanity, as in “Meditatio” by Ezra Pound and “Dog Poem” by Philip Levine, which concludes with his curse upon the dogs of the world.

In other cases, the animal becomes a metaphor to venerate(敬畏) humanity, or more specifically, the poet, as in “The Albatross” by Charles Baudelaire. The poem follows a majestic bird after it is caught for fun by the crew of a ship, and describes its awkward(尷尬的) appearance on board and its humiliation(羞辱) by the deck hands. The final stanza(詩(shī)歌中的段), here translated by Richard Howard, declares:

The Poet is like this monarch(統(tǒng)治者) of the clouds

Riding the storm above the marksmans(神槍手) range(射程);

Exiled(被放逐) on the ground, hooted and jeered,

He cannot walk because of his great wings.

1. What does the unlined word “mourning” in paragraph one probably mean?

A. Feeing surprised.B. Feeling sad.

C. Feeling angry.D. Feeling delighted.

2. Which of the following statement is NOT true according to the passage?

A. The animals appearing in the poems sometimes represent the beloved ones of the poet.

B. Marianne Moore is one of the poets who show great admiration to the nature of animals written.

C. The Sheep Child is a poem that makes its reader feel amused and relaxed.

D. Philip Levine wrote Dog Poem actually reflect his dissatisfaction upon humanity.

3. Why does the author mention moose, bat and fox in the first sentence?

A. To tell the difference among these animals.

B. To show the authors special preference to them.

C. To show why people use the those adjectives to modify them respectively.

D. To indict animal is one of the most widely used themes in poems writing.

4. What can be inferred in “The Albatross” in the last paragraph?

A. It was pathetic that the majestic bird was caught.

B. The majestic birds felt awkward and humiliated after being caught.

C. The remark by Richard Howard indicated the theme of the poem.

D. The pomes showed the greatness of humanity and the poet directly.

5. What is the main idea of the passage?

A. The poems describing animals.

B. The relationship between the poets and their beloved animals.

C. The natures of the animals are good topics in poetry.

D. Why and how poets use animals to express their thoughts in life.