Unit 4 Exploring literature Reading 课文填空-2023-2024学年高中英语译林版(2020) 必修第二册

Unit 4 Exploring Literature 课文填空 Reading The Wonder Of Literature A child and a man were walking on the beach 1. ________ the child found a shell and held it to his ear. Suddenly he heard strange, low, musical sounds. These sounds seemed to be from another world and the child listened to them 2. ________ wonder. Then the man explained that the child heard nothing strange, and 3. ________ the shells caught a range of sounds too faint for human ears. 4. ________ amazed the child was not a new world, but the unnoticed music of the old. Some such experience as this lies 5. ________ store for us when we begin the study of literature. Let a little song appeal 6.________ the ear, or a great book to the heart, and we discover a new world, a world of dreams and magic. 7.________(enter) and enjoy this new world, we need to love literature, and make an effort 8.________ (explain) it. Behind every book is a man, behind the man is the race, and behind the race 9.________ the natural and social environments. We must know all these, if the book is to speak its whole message. In a word, we have now reached a point where we wish to enjoy and understand literature. The first step is to determine some of its 10. ________(significance) qualities. The first quality of literature is its 11. ________ (describe) of truth and beauty. Some truth and beauty remain 12. ________ (notice) until a sensitive human soul brings them to our attention, just as the shell reflects the unnoticed sounds. A hundred men may pass a field and see only 13. ________ (die) grass; but a poet stops, looks deeper, sees truth and beauty, and writes, "Yesterday's flowers am I." One who reads it is capable 14.________ seeing the beauty that 15. ________ ( hide) from his eyes before. The second quality of literature is its appeal to our feelings and 16. ________ (imagine). Its attraction lies more in what it awakens in us than what it says. When Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus asks in the 17. ________ (presen