江苏高考英语百日训练之任务型阅读(93)含答案解析

江苏高考英语百日训练之任务型阅读（93）含答案解析

【题文】

When a thought has found words

Poetry is the forgotten child of literature. Few people read it for pleasure and modern poets are looked upon as odd creatures from a strange universe. In Western high schools, poetry is seldom taught because it is considered old-fashioned and not relevant to the needs of today’s students.

In China, however, poetry is still an important part of the curriculum and, with recent changes announced by the Ministry of Education, the number of poems students will have to memorize and recite is being increased from fourteen to seventy-two. Now, before you gasp in horror, let’s think about the reasons why studying so many poems, especially ancient poems, is important.

First of all, poetry is an essential part of traditional Chinese culture. It is a pathway to understanding your history and your society. It is also the key to understanding the thoughts and emotions that are common to everyone but which we may be unable to express—the joy of Li Bai dancing with the moon, for example. Everyone has feelings of joy, love, loneliness, sadness and even anger, and a good poem can put those emotions into words and bring us self-understanding.

Poems can also express beauty. In a few short lines, even something commonplace can become beautiful. Here is a poem called “Fog” by Carl Sandberg: The fog comes / on silent haunches (弓腰蹲着) / and then moves on. Yes, fog does move smoothly, silently and mysteriously like a cat, and Sandberg captures that feeling and image, and makes it beautiful.

Of course, to really appreciate poetry, it has to be really aloud. After all, a poem is really just a song without music. Most ancient poetry, especially Western poetry, was actually spoken before it was written. Take Homer’s Iliad (伊利亚德), the story of the Trojan War (特洛伊战争), for example. That epic saga (史诗般的故事) of Helen’s kidnapping and the war that followed was apparently told for hundreds of years in palaces, taverns (客栈) and on street corners before Homer wrote it down and was given credit for it.

The American poet Robert Frost said, “Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.” And poems are very concise—there is not a wasted word. You are lucky that you now have seventy-two poems to learn!

【答案】51. far 52. measure 53. Increasing 54. Reasons

55. understanding 56. hard 57. exists/is

58. few 59. appreciation 60. spoken/oral

【解析】

【分析】

这是一篇社会文化类阅读，主要介绍在中国，诗歌仍然是课程的重要组成部分。诗歌是学习中国传统文化不可缺少的一部分，它是了解中国历史和社会的一条途径。它也是理解思想和感情的关键，诗歌也可以表达美。当然，要真正享受诗歌，就必须大声朗诵。

【51题详解】

归纳题。根据文章第二段Few people read it for pleasure and modern poets are looked upon as odd creatures from a strange universe. In Western high schools, poetry is seldom taught because it is considered old-fashioned and not relevant to the needs of today’s students.可以归纳出，诗歌被认为远离人们的生活。短语far from远离。故填far。

【52题详解】

归纳题。根据表格后面的详细信息及文章第三段内容可知，这里为中国最近所采取的措施。故填measure。

【53题详解】

词形转化题。根据文章第三段the number of poems students will have to memorize and recite is being increased from