短文试题

Questions 9 to 12 are based on the passage you have just heard.

9
A.He never established his fame in America.
B.He was well-known when he first began to write poems.
C.He was not famous in America before he was forty years old.
D.He was an English poet.

10
A.His father's drunkenness, abuse and early death.
B.His kept doing a same job.
C.He was very sensitive and easily got hurt.
D.He was always sick.

11
A.He had friends there.
B.He had to go there to meet his publisher.
C.He couldn't afford to support his family in America.
D.The living cost there was low and the atmosphere was favourable.

12
A.Uniting American poetry with British language.
B.Combining traditional forms of poetry with American words.
C.Suffering from his childhood.
D.Using delicate words and forms.

短文文本

Passage One

(9) Robert Frost was one of America's best-known and most honored serious writers. But his fame came late in his life. He was forty years old before Americans began to read his poems and praise them. Once his fame was established, however, it grew stronger and stronger during the rest of his long life.

Someone once asked another American writer, Ernest Hemingway, how to become a writer. The best thing, he said, was to have an unhappy childhood. If this is true, Robert Frost's childhood was unhappy enough to make him a very good writer.

Robert Frost's father was a reporter who wanted to be a politician. (10) He often drank too much alcohol and became angry. Robert was the victim of his anger. He was eleven when his father died. As a child, Robert was afraid of the dark. (10) All his life he suffered from imaginary sicknesses. He spent the several years working at different jobs. At one time, he worked in a factory. Later, he repaired shoes. He was a teacher. He was a reporter. Always, he wrote poetry.

(11) In 1912, he took his family to Britain. The cost of living was low and there was an interest in what was then called a "new poetry". In Britain, Frost found a publisher for his first book of poems. The book was called, A Boy's Will. When it appeared in 1913, Frost received high praise from British readers. Praise was something he had not received in his own country.

(12) His success came from uniting traditional forms of poetry with American words, spoken in a clearly American way.

Question 9. What do we know about Robert Frost?
Question 10. What caused Robert Frost's unhappy childhood?
Question 11. Why did Robert Frost take his family to Britain in 1912?
Question 12. Where did Robert Frost's success come from basically?

文章一

罗伯特·弗罗斯特是美国最有名望和最受尊崇的严肃作家之一(mnMYDdIh2。然而其成名很晚SLx;r*!wUXb^&MXt1Y。在他40岁时，美国民众才开始阅读和称赞他的诗歌m|&a^IR#P.7。不过，他的名气一经确立，在此后漫长的生命中便一发不可收tNBTRBhU=[3=+g。

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1912年，罗伯特.弗罗斯特举家迁至英国PDPagRvhAWlqcUh.+。英国的生活费用较低，并且英国民众对“新诗”感兴趣v1CjpTk&Z#C&SI#2[Z。在英国，弗罗斯特找到了一家出版商来出版他的第一本书籍a5ar=nEEcc]=-。那本书名为“ABoy'sWill”Ek#m9DEhz9sRW~。当它在1913年面世时，弗罗斯特受到了英国读者的高度称赞e#DbEHmClz。他在自己的国家并没有受到过赞赏uIuLejv#2lvm;VYK-~。

罗伯特·弗罗斯特的成功源自以一种明显的美国的叙述方式，将传统的诗歌形式与美国的语言融合Vf@T@=gj0-zPQi-_。

问题9 关于罗伯特·弗罗斯特，我们知道些什么？
问题10 什么造成了罗伯特·弗罗斯特不幸的童年？
问题11 1912年罗伯特·弗罗斯特为什么举家迁至英国？
问题12 罗伯特·弗罗斯特的成功源自哪里？

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习题答案解析

参考答案：

【小题9】C
【小题10】A
【小题11】D
【小题12】B

习题解析：

【小题9】短文开门见山提到，罗伯特·弗罗斯特是美国最有名望和最受尊崇的严肃作家之一，然而其成名很晚，在他40岁时，美国民众才开始阅读和称赞他的诗歌，故选CClE=Th;MTd7;EGT,。
【小题10】短文中明确提到，罗伯特·弗罗斯特的父亲酗酒，且酒后易怒，年幼的他成了受害者xN*&Jp)ICsTR(o=ly。另外，在罗伯特·弗罗斯特才11岁的时候，他父亲就去世了fK,KGK;O8|u29g。B、D两项不符合原文，C选项是不幸童年造成的后果而非原因，故选AI,a(0W4zQ-M。
【小题11】短文中提到，1912年，罗伯特.弗罗斯特举家迁至英国LVH.FRHoepc]otoU~。英国的生活费用较低，并且英国民众对“新诗”感兴趣，即氛围较好，故选D3xlddpo,R@rd3X70#T。
【小题12】短文最后提到，罗伯特·弗罗斯特的成功源自以一种明显的美国的叙述方式，将传统的诗歌形式与美国的语言融合，故选Bby*7uA9**GWvW=fp1q2~。