Unit 4 Exploring Literature 基础知识检测-2023-2024学年高中英语牛津译林版（2020）必修第二册

B2U4基础知识检测 单句语法填空 1. A child and a man were walking on the beach when the child found a shell and held it to his ear. Suddenly he heard strange, low, __________ (music) sounds. 2. The man explained that the child heard nothing strange, and __________ the shell caught a range of sounds too faint for human ears. 3. __________ amazed the child was not a new world, but the unnoticed music of the old. 4. __________ (enter) and enjoy this new world, we need to love literature, and make an effort to explain it. 5. The first quality of literature is its __________ (describe) of truth and beauty. 6. The second quality of literature is its appeal to our feelings and __________ (imagine). 7. Its attraction lies more __________ what it awakens in us than what it says. 8. The first quality of literature, __________ (come) out of the other two, is its permanence. 9. __________ (achieve) permanence, literature should contain two elements: universal interest and personal style. 10. One important feature of classic literature is __________ it often reflects an author’s own experiences and therefore help us understand the important issues of his or her time. 11. This is one reason __________ the best works of literature still appear to readers long after there were written. 12. No doubt __________ (draw) on his own experiences, Cao Xueqin gives a detailed description of what life was like at that time. 13. The novel contains a great number of details such as __________ the upper class wore and ate. 14. As a result, readers are capable __________ better understanding the gap between rich and poor, men and women, the learned and uneducated in the historical context. 15. In __________ (summarize), we can learn much about a specific period in history from classic literature. 16. Some people believe that classics are old and boring and have nothing to do with life today. __________, this is not true. 17. If you are not sure what to read, you can get ideas from different sources, ______