high social position but also common people. Poets recited poems, women singers sang poems and other ranks of people, including old women and children, read Tang poems. This atmosphere affected foreigners who visited the country at that time. As a result, Tang poetry was introduced to some adjacent countries, like Japan and Vietnam.

　　Tang poetry is a most brilliant page in the history of ancient Chinese literature. It's a miracle (奇迹) in the cultural history of mankind. The Tang Dynasty was a powerful empire with a vast territory. It inherited (继承) Chinese civilization that went back to ancient times, was combined with the best of other cultures and adopted the benefits of other nations in the world. Tang poetry wasn't the only spiritual wealth created by the Tang Dynasty people. Philosophy and religion, handwriting and painting, and music and dance all gained new peaks of development. Tang poetry, however, was the jewel in the crown and its greatest achievement.

　　语篇解读：本文是一篇说明文。通过本文，我们可以更深入地了解唐诗的影响力和其对世界文化的贡献。

　　5．We can conclude from the passage that ________.

　　A．only people in the Tang Dynasty created poems

　　B．in total there were four famous poets in the Tang Dynasty

　　C．the Tang Dynasty probably existed for about three centuries

　　D．in the Tang Dynasty most common people were poets

　　解析：选C　推理判断题。根据第一段可推断出C项正确。

　　6．Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?

　　A．Why the poets created poems.

　　B．Some other kinds of spiritual wealth in the Tang Dynasty.

　　C．The significance and influence of the Tang Dynasty.

　　D．The editors of Poems of the Tang Dynasty.

　　解析：选D　细节理解题。A项在第三段中提到了；B、C两项在最后一段提到了。根据第一段内容可知，文章没有具体交代Poems of the Tang Dynasty这本书是谁编辑的。故选D项。

　　7．The underlined word "adjacent" in Paragraph 4 probably means "________"．

　　A．strong　　　　　　 B．neighboring

　　C．poor D．rich

解析：选B　词义猜测题。根据句中的"like Japan and Vietnam"可推测出，adjacent意为"邻近的"。故B项意思相符。