Unit 4 课文语篇填空- 高一英语牛津译林版（2020）必修第二册

1、Unit 4 课文语篇填空The wonder of literatureA child and a man were walking on the beach when the child found a shell and held it to his ear. Suddenly he heard strange, low, 1._ (music) sounds. These sounds seemed to be from another world and the child listened to them with wonder. Then the man explained th

2、at the child heard nothing strange, and 2._ the shell caught a range of sounds too faint for human ears. What amazed the child was not a new world, but the unnoticed music of the old.Some such experience as this lies in store for us when we begin the study of literature. Let a little song appeal to

3、the ear, or a great book to the heart, and we discover a new world, a world of dreams and magic. 3._ (enter) and enjoy this new world, we need to love literature, and make an effort to explain it. Behind every book is a man, behind the man is the race, and behind the race are the natural and social

4、environments. We must know all these, if the book is to speak its whole message. In a word, we have now reached a point 4._ we wish to enjoy and understand literature.The first step is to determine some of its significant qualities.The first quality of literature is its 5._ (describe) of truth and b

5、eauty. Some truth and beauty remain unnoticed 6._ 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 dead grass; but a poet stops, looks deeper, sees truth and beauty, and writes, “Yesterdays flowers am I.

6、” One 7._ reads it is capable of seeing the beauty that was hidden from his eyes before.The second quality of literature is its appeal to our feelings and imagination. Its attraction lies more in what it awakens in us than what it says. When Christopher Marlowes Doctor Faustus asks in the 8._ (prese

7、nt) of Helen, “Was this the face that launched a thousand ships?” he opens a door through which our imagination enters a new world, a world of love, beauty and heroism.The third quality of literature, 9._ (come) out of the other two, is its permanence. To achieve this, it should contain two elements

8、: universal interest and personal style. Good literature reflects the most basic of human naturelove and hate, joy and sadness, fear and hope. It also takes on a personal styleno writer can describe human life without reflecting his own life and experiences.In summary, literature is the expression o

9、f life in forms of truth and beauty, the 10._ (write) record of mans thoughts and feelings, and the history of the human soul.(Adapted from WilliamJ.Longs English Literature: Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World)【答案】 1. musical; 2. that; 3. To enter; 4. where;

10、5. description; 6. until; 7. who 8. presence; 9. coming; 10. writtenThe Old Man and the Sea(excerpt)Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), an American writer of novels and short stories, is well thought of for his unique writing style. He is extremely good at describing the adventures of tough men who he bel

11、ieves “can be destroyed but not 1._ (defeat). The Old Man and the Sea, one of his most important novels, tells the story of a fisherman named Santiago. After coming in empty-handed for eighty-four days, Santiago attempts 2. _ (catch) a huge fish.The fish was coming in on his circle now calm and beau

12、tiful looking and only his great tail moving. The old man pulled on him all that he could to bring him closer. For just a moment the fish turned a little on his side. Then he 3._ (straight) himself and began another circle.“I moved him,” the old man said. “I moved him then.”He felt faint again now b

13、ut he held on the great fish all the strain that he could. I moved him, he thought. Maybe this time I can get him over. Pull, hands, he thought. Hold up, legs. Last for me, head. Last for me. You never went. This time Ill pull him over.But when he put all of his effort on, starting it well out befor

14、e the fish came alongside and pulling with all his 4._ (strong), the fish pulled part way over and then righted himself and swam away.“Fish,” the old man said. “Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to ill me too?”That way nothing 5._ (accomplish), he thought. His mouth was too dry

15、to speak but he could not reach for the water now. I must get him alongside this time, he thought. I am not good for many more turns. Yes you are, he told himself. Youre good for ever.On the next turn, he nearly had him. But again the fish righted himself and swam slowly away.You are killing me, fis

16、h, the old man thought. But you have a right to. Never have I 6._ (see) a greater, or more beautiful, or a calmer or more noble thing than you, brother. Come on and kill me. I do not care who kills who.Now you are getting 7._ (confuse) in the head, he thought.You must keep your head clear. Keep your

17、 head clear and know how to suffer like a man. Or a fish, he thought.“Clear up, head,” he said in 8._ voice he could hardly hear. “Clear up.”Twice more it was the same on the turns.I do not know, the old man thought. He had been on the point 9._ feeling himself go each time. I do not know. But I will try it once more.He tried it once more and he felt himself going when he turned the fish. The fish righted himself and swam off again slowly with the great tail weaving in the air.Ill try it again, the old man promised, although his hands were mushy now and