Tune（曲调）: Pride of Fishermen
When autumn comes to the frontier, the scene（风景）looks drear,
South-bound wild geese won’t stay
E’en for a day.
An uproar rises with horns blowing far and near.
Walled in by peaks, smoke rises straight
At sunset over isolate town with fastened gate.
I hold a cup of wine, yet home is far ▲ ,
The Northwest is not won and I’m obliged to stay.
At the flutes’ doleful sound
Over frost-covered ground,
None fall asleep,
The general’s hair turns white and soldiers weep.
Fan Zhongyan (989-1052) was famous for his work Notes on the Yueyang Tower. Its line “To be the first in the country to worry about the affairs of the state and the last to enjoy oneself is often used.Fan was not just a ci composer（词人）, but also a famous statesman（政治家）.
In the early Song Dynasty(960-1279), ci composers usually wrote about love and court（宫廷）life. But Fan Zhongyan’s ci included different topics. He focused on the life of soldiers. Pride of Fishermen is a good example.
Based on the writer’s own experience, this ci shows the hard life soldiers had and their homesickness（思乡）. At the time, Fan led an army to fight against the Western Xia, which was to the northwest of Song. As he grew up in Suzhou, much farther south, he couldn’t get used to the weather. That’s why the first line of the piece uses the word “drear”. The following lines in the first part describe more about the hardship. For example, the isolated town was in great danger. The second part shows how much Fan and the soldiers missed home.
However, the ci doesn’t only focus on homesickness. Instead, it mixes both patriotic（爱国的）love with homesickness, creating a sad but real poetic atmosphere（氛围）.
1．What is the Chinese for the tune of this ci?
2．The suitable word which can be put in the seventh line （
▲ ）of this ci is ________.
| A．near | B．straight | C．way | D．away |
3．Why did Fan Zhongyan use the word “drear” in the first line of the piece?
| A．He hated to stay in the northwest of Song. |
| B．He couldn’t bear the hardship of being a soldier, so he didn’t like the scene. |
| C．The weather in the northwest was so different from his hometown, so he felt sad. |
| D．He thought things in the northwest were not good. |
4．From this ci, we know Fan Zhongyan ________.
| A．was good at fighting and guiding. | B．owned deep feeling for soldiers and homeland |
| C．played an important role in Song’s history | D．was a great ci composer and a famous statesman |
5．What’s the main idea of the piece?
| A．The hard life and the patriotic love of soldiers. | B．The anger to the enemy and the war. |
| C．Sadness and disappointment to the emperor. | D．Deeply missing families and hometown. |
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