口說測驗基礎 III Homework 5

Listen to the song and complete the gaps:

Starry starry night 
paint your palette ___ (1) ___ and ____ (2) ___ 
look out on a ___(3)____ day 
with eyes that know the 
____(4)____ in my soul. 
Shadows on the hills 
sketch the ___(5)___ and the daffodils 
catch the breeze and the ___(6)___ chills 
in colors on the snowy linen land. 


And now I understand what you tried to say to me 
how you suffered for your sanity 
how you tried to set them free. 
They would not listen 
they did not know how 
perhaps they'll listen now. 

Starry starry night 
flaming ___(7)__ that brightly blaze 
swirling ___(8)___ in violet haze 
reflect in Vincent's ___(9)___ of China blue. 
Colors changing hue 
____(12)____ fields of amber grain 
weathered ___(13)___ lined in pain 
are soothed beneath the artist's loving ___(14)___. 

And now I understand what you tried to say to me 
how you suffered for your sanity 
how you tried to set them free. 
perhaps they'll listen now. 


For they could not love you 
but still your love was ___(15)__ 
and when no ___(16)___ was left in sight 
on that starry starry night. 
You took your life 
as lovers often do; 
But I could have ___(17)___ you 
Vincent 
this world was never 
meant for one 
as beautiful as you. 

Starry starry night 
portraits hung in ____(18)___ halls 
frameless heads on nameless walls 
with eyes that watch the world and can't forget. 
Like the ___(19)____ that you've met 
the ragged men in ragged clothes 
the silver thorn of bloody ___(20)____ 
lie crushed and broken 
on the virgin ___(21)___. 

And now I think I know what you tried to say to me 
how you suffered for your sanity 
how you tried to set them free. 
They would not listen 
they're not 
list'ning still 
perhaps they never will.