Read the text English Poetry ,and then complete the following chart. Item Time

Characteristic Poets

Chinese

poetryHas a long history Du fu, Lib ai , Wang wei

English

poetry

Early English poetry

１ _______________

17th century The use of surprising

2______

Shakespeare, Donne, 3_____

The end of 17th century

The 4______________at the end of each line

John Milton

18th century 5______ and Johnson

19th century 6 ______ poems

Long poems

Wordsworth, Byron shelley , Keats

Modern poets

Stand close to us both in the language and7______ the use

Auden,theAmerican

poet Robert Frost

The end of the 19th century

Be8 to China Be9 by Lu Xun and Guo Moruo

Difficult to understand

images Marvell

absence of rhyme

Pope

Romantic

images

introduced translated

§1.1 细枝末节（ passage 1 ）1 ． John Milton’s work became famous for _________ .A. his work is exactly written with sounds ， words and grammarB. his work calls up the feelings,curious images of a dream worldC. his work had a special pattern of rhyme at the end of each lineD. none of the above

2 ． The style and atmosphere in Shell

ey’ poems is just like the poems of___

______ .

A. Marvell and Donne

B. Li Bai and Du Fu

C. Auden and Robert Frost

D. John Milton

3 ． From the passage ， we got the idea(s):_________ .A. poetry belongs to all human beingsB. poetry plays with sounds,words and grammarC. poetry often follows special patterns of rhythm and rhymeD. all of the above

(Passage 2 )4 ． I like song words because_________ .A. they are brightB. they are colorfulC. they are greedyD. my feelings given by them are more special

5 ． Choose the best explanation

of the word “e-pal”.

A. a machine

B. B. a person

C. a piece of information

D. a friend online

6 ． From Paragraph 4,we can learn

_________ .

A. we should read poems aloud

B. poems are strange

C. poems are difficult to understand

D. I am special

§1.2 主旨大意7 ． What’s the main idea of Passage 1?

A. Poetry is a good bridge to connect th

e East with the West.

B. Different periods of English poems.

C. Modern poems of English.

D. Differences between Chinese and En

glish poetry

8 ． What’s the main idea of Passage 2 ?A. We should read poems with doors closed.B. We should first sing songs then read poemsC. Reading poems can bring people pleasure just like singing a song.D. We should first read short poems then long ones.

§1.3 推理判断9 ． From Passage 1

we can infer that___________ .

A. we’d better read poems in English

B. translated poems can’t express intrinsi

c meaning of original poems

C. there is no advantage of reading Englis

h poetry in Chinese translation

D. Chinese translation poems are as good

as English poems

10 ． From Passage 2,we can infer that______ .A. the writer used to like poetry very much B. songs and poems are the sameC. the writer fell in love with poems as soon as his e-pal told him somethingD. now reading poems is part of the writer’s life