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WELCOME UNIT
Unit 4 Exploring poetry
课外拓展阅读——用英语传播中国文化
阅读下面短文,在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Poetry in the Tang Dynasty reaches the __1__ (high) point in the development of poems, and it really __2__ (deserve) its fame as a treasure of Chinese culture. Its impressive value consists in an ideal (理想的) __3__ (combine) of thoughts and art.
During the Tang Dynasty, scholars were required __4__ (master)
poetry for the civil service exams, but the art was __5__ (theoretical)
available to everyone. This led to a large record of poetry, a partial (部分
的) record of __6__ survives today. Tang poetry has had an uninterrupted
influence on modern poetry and world literature.
课外拓展阅读——用英语传播中国文化
When __7__ (consider) authors, we find that poets exist in all walks of life, ranging from emperors, officials, monks (僧侣), peasants, fishermen __8__ even children. The themes of Tang poetry include politics, history, landscapes, street scenes, love and so on. As for quantity, __9__ total of over 50,000 poems have been collected and no one has any idea how many more have been lost.
Depending on the period of its development, poetry dating from the Tang Dynasty can __10__ (classify) into four groups, namely the early Tang Dynasty, the Flourishing Tang Dynasty, the Mid-Tang and the late Tang Dynasty.
课外拓展阅读——用英语传播中国文化
1.________ 2.________ 3.________ 4.________ 5.________
6.________ 7.________ 8.________9.________ 10.________
答案:1.highest 2.deserves 3.combination 4.to master 5.theoretically 6.which 7.considering 8.to 9.a 10.be classified
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The subjects of Tang poetry are rather extensive, ranging from natural phenomena, political dynamics, social customs to personal feelings.
唐诗的题材非常广泛,包括自然现象、政治动态、社会风俗、个人感受等。
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