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請認真閱讀下面短文,并根據(jù)各題所給首字母的提示,寫出一個合適的英語單詞完整、正確的形式,使短文通順。

When a thought has found words

Poetry (詩歌)is the forgotten child of literature. Few people read it for pleasure. In Western high schools, poetry is s 1.taught because it is considered to be out of date and have little to do with the life of today's students.

In China, however, poetry is s2. an important part of the curriculum (課程). Recently, the Ministry of Education has i3.the number of old Chinese poems for students to memorize and recite, from 14 to 72. Why is it important to learn poems?

First of all, poetry is a necessary part of learning traditional Chinese c4.. It is a path to understanding your history and your society. It is also the key to understanding the thoughts and feelings that are c5. to everyone but that 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 feelings into w6.and bring us self-understanding.

Poems can also express beauty. In a few short 17. even something common can become beautiful. Here is a poem called Fog by Carl Sandberg: The fog comes/ on silent haunches (弓腰)/ and then moves on. Yes, fog does move smoothly, silently and like a cat, and Sandberg c8. that feeling and image (形象),and makes it beautiful.

Of course, to really enjoy poetry, it has to be read aloud. After all, a poem is really just a song without music. Most a9.poetry, like Homer's Epics (《荷馬史詩》)and China's Book of Songs (《詩經(jīng)》),was spoken for hundreds of years before it was w10.. The American poet Robert Frost said, "Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words."

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