2018-2019学年度选修六Unit2PoemsSectionⅡLearning about Language, Using Language(6页word版)
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答案:The little trees are more likely to survive on the rainy day.

5我多么希望每个家庭都住上带有漂亮花园的大房子啊!(wish)

答案:How I wish every family had a large house with a beautiful garden!

★三、完形填空

  Reading and writing  1 is a very personal experience.Poets use language as a way of  2 their feelings,whether positive ones of love,happiness and hope,or negative feelings like  3 and fear.Poems can describe the beauty of nature,a person,a dream or a memorable event.Most 4 have tried writing poetry at some time,for example at school.For children,it is a good way to explore language and have  5 with words as well as to express themselves.

  But teachers and psychologists have found another use for poetry as a form of therapy(治疗) to help people with problems. 6 are benefits for people of all different backgrounds and ages.Writing poetry can help people deal with 7  in their lives-death or feelings of sadness,drug or alcohol problems or serious illness.By writing down your feelings, 8 can learn to understand yourself better and give yourself a voice if you feel you are being ignored.A poem might be a way of telling someone something when you do not feel able to talk about it  9 .And just because people are  10 or having difficulties in their lives,it doesn't mean they have lost their sense of humour.Poems  11 as therapy can be funny too,as laughter is also considered to be very good medicine.

  Students at a special school in Dudley,in England,read and write poems  12 .Their reason for writing poems is not just to 13  creative.All of them have problems.Some of them have long-term  14 conditions,such as cancer,while others have personality disorders or psychological problems.By writing poems students are growing  15 self-confidence.The poems provide a channel through  16 they can communicate with the world,and express their feelings.They  17 help them to recognize and explore their problems and to develop a positive attitude to life.

  But the poems are helping  18 people,too.The school has collected some of the students' poems and published them in a book which is  19  to raise funds for a local hospital.The book has proved very popular,giving students  20 sense of achievement.

1A.poem        B.the poems

C.poet D.poetry