2023年江苏省无锡市中考 – 阅读理解B

Poems play with sounds, words, and grammar. That makes poems difficult to write but very interesting to read. They use colours, feelings, experiences, and images to paint a picture in your mind. Let’s have a look at the following Chinese classical poem:
诗歌是声音、文字和语法的艺术。这使得诗歌很难写，但读起来很有趣。他们用色彩、感觉、经历和图像在你的脑海中描绘一幅画面。让我们来看看下面这首中国古典诗歌：

On the Stork Tower
登鹳雀楼

By Wang Zhihuan
王之涣

The sun along the mountain bows,
白日依山尽，

The Yellow River seawards flows,
黄河入海流，

You can enjoy a grander sight,
欲穷千里目，

If you climb to a greater height,
更上一层楼。

Translated by Xu Yuanchong
许渊冲译

In Chinese classical poems, the form is very important: the correct number of lines and the number of words in each line. Poems often follow special models of rhythm（节奏）and rhyme. However, modern poets begin to reject traditional forms and structures for poems in the 20th century. As a result, most poems today are written in free style, with lines of different lengths.
在中国古典诗歌中，形式是非常重要的：行数正确，每行的字数正确。诗歌通常遵循特殊的韵律模式。然而，现代诗人在20世纪开始拒绝传统的诗歌形式和结构。因此，今天的大多数诗歌都是以自由的风格写成的，有不同长度的诗句。

Today many Chinese people are becoming more interested in reading poems, no matter in what language they are written. Translations can be good, but being able to read in the original language is best.
今天，许多中国人对阅读诗歌越来越感兴趣，无论它们是用什么语言写的。翻译可能很好，但能够用原始语言阅读是最好的。