photos; others played with the sand on the beach.The most exciting thing was that we took a cruise ship to Monkey Island to see the monkeys.We fed them with bananas, which made them happy.We enjoyed our lunch by the seaside and the sea breeze was very cool.We headed back at five in the afternoon.

　　What a great day！I hope such trips should be arranged regularly because they can help students relax.

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　　Ⅰ.阅读理解

　　He was once referred to as the Picasso of poetry.Beloved by Chileans of all classes, he is one of the most widely read and respected poets in history.

　　Born with the name Neftali Ricardo Reyes Basolto, he was a tall, shy and lonely boy.He loved to read and started to write poetry when he was ten.The American poet Walt Whitman, whose framed picture Neruda later kept on his table, became a major influence on his works.

　　However, his father did not like the idea of having a poet for a son and tried to discourage him from writing.To cover up the publication of his first poem, he took the pen name Pablo Neruda.

　　In 1924 Neruda gained fame with his most widely read work Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair.Yet his rich experience as a diplomat and exile made him go beyond the theme of love.His work also reflected the political struggle of the left and development of South America.He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1971.

　　Neruda loved the sea which he saw as creative, destructive and forever moving.He found inspiration in the power and freedom of the waves and the seabirds on the coast."I need the sea because it teaches me，" he wrote."I move in the university of the waves."He loved how the sea forever renewed itself, a renewal echoed in his works.

　　语篇解读：本文主要讲述了Neruda的生平及作品特点和文学成就。

　　1. The underlined word "Picasso" in Paragraph 1 can probably be replaced by "________".

　　A. poem fan

　　B. most important person

　　C. freedom fighter in Picasso

　　D. famous person from Picasso

解析：选B　词义猜测题。下一句提到他被各个阶层的人所爱戴着，他的作品广为传诵