人教版（2019）选择性必修三高中英语Unit 5 Poems Period 2素养检测

I Found You by Lisa Jewell

Lisa Jewell is one of Britain's best-selling writers — and reading her new novel, it's not hard to see why. I Found You is a high-class combination of popular women's fiction and interesting psychological thriller.

In the classic manner, the central character Alice is slightly disorganized but good-hearted — and in this case living on the Yorkshire coast with her three children. By the third page, the plot is already under way, when she spots a handsome fortysomething man sitting on the beach. His name is… well, he doesn't know, because he's suffering from severe amnesia (健忘症) that also means he doesn't know why he's there or where he has come from. Meanwhile in Surrey, a wife is reporting the disappearance of her handsome fortysomething husband to the police.

At this stage, people who haven't read Jewell before may think they realise what's going on. In fact, the truth— uncovered with enormous teasing skill — is packed with more twists (转折), and real sadness, than anybody could possibly expect. Admittedly, the book does have moments of contrivance (矫揉造作) — but they're exceptionally well-contrived.

The Allegations by Mark Lawson

In 2014, Lawson left BBC Radio 4's arts programme Front Row amid accusations of bullying. Now, Tom Pimm, one of the main characters here, is a history professor accused of the same thing — even though all he has done is standing up for intellectual rigour (缜密) and common sense.

Worse, his friend and colleague Ned Marriott is arrested for "historic" violence — despite not being guilty either. But what both men come to understand is that at a time when offence-taking has become a national pastime and all accusers are described as "victims", innocence is largely irrelevant.

The result is a book that, although highly readable, is essentially a cry of middle-aged male anger at what Ned calls "the Bonfire(篝火) of the Vanities (虚荣心)" in the age of critical social media. And for my money, Lawson hits most of his targets bang-on.

No poem should ever be discussed or "analyzed", until it has been read aloud by someone, a teacher or a student. Better still, perhaps, is the practice of reading it twice, once at the beginning of the discussion and once at the end, so the sound of the poem is the last thing one hears of it.

All discussions of poetry are, in fact, preparations for reading it aloud, and the reading of the poem is, eventually, the most concrete "interpretation (解释)" of it, suggesting tone, rhymes, and meaning all at once. Hearing a poet read the work in his or her own voice, on records or on films, is obviously a special reward. But even those aids to teaching cannot replace the student and the teacher reading it or, best of all, reciting it.

I have come to think, in fact, that time spent reading a poem aloud is much more important than "analyzing" it and "exchanging of views", if there isn't time for both. I think one of our goals as teachers of English is to have students love poetry and take it easy when we are reading a poem. Poetry is "a criticism of life", and "a heightening (提升) of life". It is "a most appropriate approach to the truth of feeling", and it "can transform your life". It also deserves a place in the teaching of language and literature (文学) more central than it presently occupies.

I am not saying that every English teacher must try out poetry-teaching. Those who don't like it should not be forced to convey that negative feeling to anyone else. But those who do teach poetry must keep in mind a few things about its essential nature, about its sound as well as its sense, and they must make room in the classroom for hearing poetry as well as thinking about it.

Men and women may have different experiences in shopping for clothes.

A man goes shopping because he needs something. His purpose is settled and decided in 1. He knows what he wants, and his 2 is to find it and buy it. All men 3 walk into a shop and ask the shop assistant for what they want. If the shop has it in stock (库存), the deal can be done and 4 is completed in less than five minutes, with hardly any chat to everyone's 5. Sometimes, the salesman tries to sell them something else. Few men have 6 with this treatment.

For a woman, buying clothes is always done in the 7 way. Her shopping is not often 8 on need. She has never fully decided what she wants, and she is only "having a look around". She is always 9 to persuasion, willing to try on any number of things. Deep in her mind is the thought of finding something that 10 thinks suits her. Most women have an excellent sense of value and are always on the lookout for the unexpected 11. Faced with a roomful of dresses, a woman may easily spend an hour going from one rail to another 12 selecting the dress she wants to 13. It is a tiresome process, but clearly a(n) 14 one. Most dress shops provide chairs for the waiting 15.

Over 2, 200 years ago, Emperor Qin Shihuang, the first Emperor in Chinese history, established the official Chinese writing characters. The new, simplified characters made writing calligraphy (书法) less (complicate). It allowed people to use characters with more straight strokes, thus (make) it easier to write with brushes. This (create) the official script(隶书). Over time, other variations were also developed, eventually led to the formation of the five genres in Chinese calligraphy. As

result, calligraphy became (wide) accepted. Calligraphy also had its practical values because it was a good way to make friends and was more presentable as a gift rather than jewelry or money. Does calligraphy still have these practical functions now? Yes. Many people practice calligraphy as a way (raise) their cultural accomplishment. Older people use calligraphic writing as a method to keep fit. They believe that when a person concentrates on writing calligraphy, his inner wellbeing (幸福) is (inspire). I had thought computer would lead to the (disappear) of Chinese calligraphy. Now I understand that's not likely to happen. How can you give your boss computer-printed calligraphy as a gift? You don't, you want him to fire you!