题目内容
Robert Frost was at heart a mean-spirited human being, not the kind of man one would expect to write poetry. He was born in San Francisco. Frost entered Dartmouth University in 1893, but dropped out, and switched to Harvard, which he attended for two years. He started a brief teaching career, where he was inspired to become a poet by some of his students’ work. Frost stopped teaching and became a farmer. During this time he wrote numerous poems, and a couple of short stories. While he was a farmer he started to think seriously about becoming a famous poet.
In almost all of his poems, Frost wrote in the first person. The first widely-read poem that he published was called My Butterfly. At first his audience was very small, but with his Collected Poems he became famous. Robert Frost received almost all the awards that there were for poetry. His poetry describes the forces of nature, and the violence and deep emotional(情感的) needs of human beings, which reflect the experiences of his childhood.
Robert Frost will always be known as one of the best poets in history. His way of putting emotion and violence into words is remarkable(非同寻常的). His talent for poetry is natural-born and he had discovered this when he started to farm. Even though he treated his wife and children terribly, he still became one of the best-known poets of his and our day.
【小题1】We can learn from the passage that ________.
| A．Robert Frost had been a famous writer before he started teaching |
| B．Robert Frost wrote his poems mostly in the first person |
| C．Robert Frost was very famous at the beginning of his writing career |
| D．Robert Frost began to write poems when he was a teacher |
| A．his teaching career | B．his life experiences |
| C．showing strong feeling in his poems | D．his interest in poems |
| A．why Robert Frost stopped farming |
| B．why Robert Frost was so famous |
| C．about his masterpieces(杰作) |
| D．about the way he treated his wife and children |
| A．Robert Frost’s most famous poem is My Butterfly |
| B．Robert Frost began to write when he was in college |
| C．Robert Frost gave up studying at Dartmouth University |
| D．his poetry showed the violence of war and his childhood |
【小题1】B
【小题2】C
【小题3】B
【小题4】C
解析
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| The True Story of Treasure Island It was always thought that Treasure Island was the product of Robert Louis Stevenson's imagination. 1 , recent research has found the true story of this exciting work. Stevenson, a Scotsman, had lived 2 for many years. In 1881 he returned to Scotland for a 3 . With him were his American wife and his son 4 . Each morning Stevenson would take them out for a long 5 over the hills. They had been 6 this for several days before the weather suddenly took a turn fro the worse. Kept indoors by the heavy rain, Lloyd felt the days 7 . To keep the boy happy, Robert asked the boy to do some 8 . One morning, the boy came to Robert with a beautiful map of an island. Robert 9 that the boy had drawn a large cross in the middle of 10 ."What is that?" he asked. " That's the 11 treasure ,"said the boy. Robert suddenly 12 something of an adventure story in the boy's 13 .While the rain was pouring, Robert sat down by the fire to write a story. He would make the 14 a twelve-year-old boy, just like Lloyd. But who would be the pirate (海盗) ? Robert had a good friend named Henley, who walked around with the 15 of a wooden leg. Robert had always wanted to 16 such a man in a story . 17 Long John Silver, the pirate with a wooden leg, was 18 . So, thanks to a 19 September in Scotland, a friend with a wooden leg, and the imagination of a twelve-year-old boy, we have one of the greatest 20 stories in the English language. | |||
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B. Therefore B. next door B. story B. Robert B. rest B. missing B. dull B. writing B. noticed B. the house B. buried B. drew B. reply B. hero B. problem B. produce B. Also B. born B. sunny B. love |
C. Besides C. at home C. holiday C. Henley C. walk C. planning C. busy C. drawing C. decided C. Scotland C. discovered C. made C. picture C. writer C. use C. include C. But C. hired C. cool C. real-life |
D. Finally D. abroad D. job D. John D. game D. enjoying D. cold D. exercising D. recognized D. the island D. unexpected D. learned D. mind D. child D. bottom D. accept D. Thus D. written D. windy D. adventure |