内容正文:
When a Thought Has Found Words
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Do you like reading poems? If so, what is your favorite poem? Why? How did you feel when you learned the number of Chinese poems high school students will have to memorize and recite had been increased from fourteen to seventy-two? Why?
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FUN QUIZ Can you complete the following blanks?
I. Chinese poems
1. 亭亭山上松,__________________。
2. ___________________,又岂在朝朝暮暮?
3. 长亭外,古道边,_________________。
4. 天生我材必有用,_________________。
5. 人之初,性本善。_________,_________。
6. 君生我未生,我生君已老。___________, ___________ 。
7. _________________,只留清气满乾坤。
8. 苔花如米小,_________________。
9. 滚滚长江东逝水,_______________。是非成败转头空。_____________,_____________。
瑟瑟谷中风
两情若是久长时
芳草碧连天
千金散尽还复来
性相近
君恨我生迟
不要人夸颜色好
也学牡丹开
浪花淘尽英雄
我恨君生早
青山依旧在
几度夕阳红
习相远
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FUN QUIZ Can you complete the following blanks?
II. English poems
1. Two roads diverged (岔开) in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by; ______________________________.
2. If you can dream — __________________________; If you can think — ____________________________; ...
3. Through the battle; through defeat, _______________________; Pioneers! O, pioneers!
4. O, Wind! If Winter comes, ___________________?
5. ______________________, / That floats on high o’er vales (山谷) and hills ...
And that has made all the difference
and not make dreams your master
and not make thoughts your aim
moving yet and never stopping
can Spring be far behind
I wandered lonely as a cloud
In China, however, poetry1 is still ... and, with recent changes announced by ..., the number of poems1 students will have to memorize and recite2 is being increased from fourteen to seventy-two.3
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SENTENCES
1 poem是指一首一首的诗,如a poem、a selection of poems。poetry统指“诗”,前面一般不加a。
2 此处memorize和recite依次对应中文里的“背”和“诵”。需要注意的是,recite的意思是to say a poem or story that you have learned to an audience,没有“背”、“记忆”的含义。
3 这个句子是由两个分句组成的复合句,因此较长。第二个分句中包含了一个with复合结构(作句子的状语,其中又有一个过去分词作后置定语)及一个修饰poems的定语从句。
It is also the key to1 understanding the thoughts and emotions that are common to