閱讀理解。
Why read, and sometimes even write poetry? That question is not difficult to answer if we change the
word poetry to songs.
I sing when I feel good. When I sing my favorite songs, I feel better. Sometimes when I am listening
to music and to the song words, I feel that it was written for me. A good song always makes me feel
something. There are songs that I sing in my head between classes and songs that I want to sing when the
school bell rings by the end of the day. They help me get through the day.
They are like bright and warm colours in the middle of greys and shades. I like songs about love and
friendship. The extraordinary thing is, my feelings are more special when I sing my favorite songs in English.
I also like reading. I used to avoid poetry until an e-pal told me I should recite poems and not look up the
meaning of the words. Poetry uses many difficult words and idioms, but the best thing is to just forget about
them. In the beginning I felt quite strange. Now I always lock the door. Reading aloud gives you a strange
feeling, but when you have some practice and fall into the rhythm, the rhyme and the sounds of the words,
it is really a special experience.
I started with small poems, but now I think I most like long poems. I have different feelings with
different poems. When I have had a bad day at school, I read Keats and forget everything. when I am sad I
read Wordsworth by the light of candle. When the poem is finished, I close the book and my sadness is gone.
1. I like song words because _________.
A. they are bright
B. they are colorful
C. they are greedy
D. my feelings given by them are more special
2. Choose the best explanation of the word " e-pal".
A. a machine
B. a person
C. a piece of information
D. a friend online
3. From Paragraph 4,we can learn _____.
A. we should read poems aloud
B. poems are strange
C. poems are difficult to understand
D. I am special
4. What's the main idea of the passage?
A. We should read poems with doors closed
B. We should first sing songs then read poems
C. Reading poems can bring people pleasure just like singing a song
D. We should first read short poems then long ones
5. From the passage,we can infer that ______.
A. the writer used to like poetry very much
B. songs and poems are the same
C. the writer fell in love with poems as soon as e-pal told him something.
D. now reading poems is part of the writer's life.
