Question

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.

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

2.According to the passage, Robert Frost was famous for ________.

A. his teaching career

B. his life experiences

C. showing strong feeling in his poems

D. his interest in poems

3.The last paragraph of the passage mainly tells us ________.

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

4.From the passage we know that ________.

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

Answer

1.B

2.C

3.B

4.C

【解析】

试题分析: 本文介绍的是罗伯特·弗罗斯特是个心胸狭窄的人但他写的诗用第一人称，带有暴力与深沉的情感，是童年生活的反映，虽然他对妻子孩子不好，但并不影响他成为著名的诗人。

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2.nown 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.他的诗在历史也很有名，他把强烈的情感投入到诗中，所以选C项。

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考点：人物类阅读。