答案：D

　　B

　　Reading poetry brings people from different places and different times together. More than any other form of literature poetry plays with sounds words and grammar. That makes poetry difficult to write，but very interesting to read. Poetry also calls up all the colours feelings experiences and curious images of a dream world.

　　 Despite its short history，there is a lot of good English poetry around. The earliest English poetry was written in a kind of English that is now difficult to understand. Modern English started around the time of William Shakespeare，towards the end of the sixteenth century. The seventeenth century was a great time for English poetry. Shakespeare is famous for his plays. His sonnets however belong to the best English poetry. In the next generation of great English poets we meet John Donne. Chinese readers admire his works because of his use of surprising images that reminds them of the works of poets such as Su Dongpo. Before the end of the century there was another famous writer John Milton. Once published his works became famous for the absence of rhyme at the end of each line. In the eighteenth century it was Alexander Pope who wrote the finest poetry in England.

　　 The next period that produced a great number of fine poets was the nineteenth century. Greatly loved in China are the English Romantic poets. The style and atmosphere in poems by William Wordsworth George Gordon，Byron and Keats have often led us to think of some poets such as Du Fu and Li Bai.

　　 Finally modern poets have their special attraction because they stand closest to us both in the language and images they use. Among them we find the American poet Robert Frost.

　　 The introduction of English poetry to China came late. Towards the end of the nineteenth century Chinese writers started reading more foreign poetry. The great moment for European literature to come to China is between 1910 and the late 1930s when famous writers such as Lu Xun and Guo Moruo translated both poetry and novels into Chinese.

　　5．From the first paragraph，we can know that ________.

　　 A．poets pay less attention to sounds，words and grammar than novelists

　　 B．people like reading poetry together with others who come from different places

　　 C．poetry is easier to write and read than any other form of literature

　　 D．colours feelings experiences and images in the poem will be felt if you understand the poem well

　　解析：细节理解题。由第一段最后一句知，诗歌能唤起人们对梦幻世界的色彩、感情、经历及奇特的影像联想。

　　答案：D

　　6．Paragraphs 2－4 are mainly about ________.

　　 A．the history of English poetry

　　 B．the popularity of English poetry

　　 C．the feature of English poetry

　　 D．some famous English ooets

解析：段意理解题。由第二段"The earliest English poetry ..."，第三段"The