十四、语篇填空
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When John Milton,the writer of Paradise Lost,entered Cambridge University,in 1625,he was already skilled in Latin after seven years of 1. (study) it as his second language at St.Paul’s School,London.Like all English boys who prepared 2. college in grammar schools,he 3. (learn) not only to read Latin but also to speak and write it smoothly and correctly.He spoke Latin smoothly,4. ,it seemed to have sounded strange to his friends when he later visited Italy.
Schoolboys gained their skill in Latin in a bitter way.They kept in mind the rules to make learning by heart 5. (easy).They first made a word-for-word translation and then an idiomatic translation into English.As they increased their skill,they translated their English back into Latin without referring to the book and then compared their translation with the original.The schoolmaster was always at hand 6. (encourage) them.All schoolmasters believed Latin should be beaten in.
After several years of study,the boys began to write 7. (composition) in imitation of the Latin writers they read.And as they began to read Latin poems,they began to write poems in Latin.Because Milton was already 8. poet at ten,his poems were much better than those 9. (painful) put together by the other boys.During the seven years Milton spent at university,he made regular use of his command of Latin.He wrote some excellent Latin poems,10. he published among his works in 1645.
答案1.studying 2.for 3.had learned 4.however
5.easier 6.to encourage 7.compositions 8.a 9.painfully 10.which
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When John Milton,the writer of Paradise Lost,entered Cambridge University,in 1625,he was already skilled in Latin after seven years of 1. (study) it as his second language at St.Paul’s School,London.Like all English boys who prepared 2. college in grammar schools,he 3. (learn) not only to read Latin but also to speak and write it smoothly and correctly.He spoke Latin smoothly,4. ,it seemed to have sounded strange to his friends when he later visited Italy.
Schoolboys gained their skill in Latin in a bitter way.They kept in mind the rules to make learning by heart 5. (easy).They first made a word-for-word translation and then an idiomatic translation into English.As they increased their skill,they translated their English back into Latin without referring to the book and then compared their translation with the original.The schoolmaster was always at hand 6. (encourage) them.All schoolmasters believed Latin should be beaten in.
After several years of study,the boys began to write 7. (composition) in imitation of the Latin writers they read.And as they began to read Latin poems,they began to write poems in Latin.Because Milton was already 8. poet at ten,his poems were much better than those 9. (painful) put together by the other boys.During the seven years Milton spent at university,he made regular use of his command of Latin.He wrote some excellent Latin poems,10. he published among his works in 1645.
答案1.studying 2.for 3.had learned 4.however
5.easier 6.to encourage 7.compositions 8.a 9.painfully 10.which
