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Unit 5 Poems Learning about Language课时练习（原卷版）
- She was （对…感到悲伤） over the loss of her beloved pet dog.
- Broad leaves shone and swung gayly in .（有节奏）
- Don’t （取笑） him about his weight. You are so impolite.
- He often （通信） with his friends.
- Our excitement was beyond （无以言表） when the news came.
- Long ago, poems were recited out loud instead of being written down. When the Greeks first started the Olympics,they held poetry contests as well as athletic competitions.
- Now,poetry competitions have been revived(恢复). This year 120, 000 high school students competed in the first Poetry Out Loud National Recitation Contest, performing poems from memory for 100,000 in prizes.
- The first competitions were held in classrooms. The winners went on to school-wide contests ，and then they competed in city and state competitions. Finally, the 50 state champions, along with the District of Columbia champion came to Washington, D.C. for the last showdown. After the 51 champions competed against one another, 12 went on to the finals. Then the field was narrowed to five. The final five had one last chance to"perform"a poem. The overall champ, Jackson Hille, a high school senior from Ohio, won a 20,000 scholarship.
- The National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation started Poetry Out Loud because they realized that hearing a poem performed is a different experience from reading it on a page.
- It's not just a matter of saying the words in the right order. It's the tone of voice, the pauses, the gestures ,and the attitude of the person performing that bring the words to life. "Each time we hear somebody recite a poem,we find something fresh and interesting about it,"says National Public Radio Broadcaster Scott Simon, master of ceremonies for the finals. Hearing it in a new voice offers something new to the listener.
- Not only do the people hearing poems have a new experience, memorizing and presenting poems helps the participants (选手)understand those poems in a new way. Another benefit of a competition such as Poetry Out Loud is that the participants learn publicspeaking skills that can help them for life.
- 1．From the first paragraph ，we can know______________.
- A.the Greeks were the first to write poems
- B.the Olympics used to start with poem reciting
- C.poems were spread orally in the past
- D.athletes were asked to recite poems before competing
- 2．How many rounds of competitions did the champions take before they went to Washington, D.C.?
- A. Three. B. Four. C. Five. D. Six.
- 3．One benefit the participants get from poem recitation competitions is that they can_________.
- A.become skilled in speaking in public
- B.write good poems themselves
- C.change their attitudes towards life
- D.make friends with many great poets
- 4．What's the main idea of the passage?
- A.Reciting poems improves your memory.
- B.Remembering a lot of poems is fun.
- C.Poets have a great time.
- D.Poetry competitions freshen us up.
- As a combination of "sound" and "sense"，poetry usually implies a deeper meaning beyond the words on the page.So，how to understand poetry easily and 1.______ （thorough）？Firstly，follow your ears.When beginning to read a poem aloud，it is better 2.______ （ask）"How does it sound？" Focus 3.______ its rhythm，repeated words or other special effects，4.______will help you have a better understanding of the poem in the end.Secondly，approach the poem as if you were 5.______explorer in an unfamiliar landscape.Ask some basic 6.______ （question）about the poem.As you slowly explore your surroundings，you 7.______ （dig）up clues that give you a better understanding of the poem.Thirdly，if you are still struggling to interpret the meaning of a poem，even with much painstaking effort，just have a little bit 8.______ （patient）.Generally speaking，a poem can not 9.______（understand） if you only read it once.Finally，remember that you don't have to fully understand a poem to appreciate it.You might need to abandon 10.______ （it） true inner beauty.As long as the journey to poetry reading makes you feel something or lets you perceive another level of meaning，it is worth your effort.
- 阅读下面短文，根据所给情节进行续写，使之构成一个完整的故事。
- Pumpkin (南瓜）carving at Halloween is a family tradition. We visit a local farm every October. In the pumpkin field, I compete with my three brothers and sister to seek out the biggest pumpkin. My dad has a rule that we have to carry our pumpkins back home, and as the eldest child I have an advantage — I carried an 85-pounder back last year.
- This year, it was hard to tell whether my prize or the one chosen by my 14-year-old brother, Jason, was the winner. Unfortunately we forgot to weigh them before taking out their insides, but I was determined to prove my point. All of us were hard at work at the kitchen table, with my mom filming the annual event. I’m unsure now why I thought forcing my head inside the pumpkin would settle the matter, but it seemed to make perfect sense at the time.
- With the pumpkin resting on the table, hole uppermost, I bent over and pressed my head against the opening. At first I got jammed just above my eyes and then, as I went on with my task, unwilling to quit, my nose briefly prevented entry. Finally I managed to put my whole head into it, like a cork (软木塞) forced into a bottle. I was able to straighten up with the huge pumpkin resting on my shoulders.
- My excitement was short-lived. The pumpkin was heavy. “I’m going to set it down, now,” I said, and with Jason helping to support its weight, I bent back over the table to give it somewhere to rest. It was only when I tried to remove my head that I realized getting out was going to be less straightforward than getting in. When I pulled hard, my nose got in the way. I got into a panic as I pressed firmly against the table and moved my head around trying to find the right angle, but it was no use. “I can’t get it out!” I shouted, my voice sounding unnaturally loud in the enclosed space.
- I was stuck for five or six minutes though it felt much longer.
- That video was posted the day before Halloween.
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