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(非同尋常的). 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.
【小題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
【小題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
【小題3】The last paragraph of the passage mainly tells us ________.
A．why Robert Frost stopped farming
B．why Robert Frost was so famous
C．a(chǎn)bout his masterpieces(杰作)
D．a(chǎn)bout the way he treated his wife and children
【小題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


【小題1】B
【小題2】C
【小題3】B
【小題4】C

解析試題分析: 本文介紹的是羅伯特·弗羅斯特是個(gè)心胸狹窄的人但他寫的詩用第一人稱，帶有暴力與深沉的情感，是童年生活的反映，雖然他對(duì)妻子孩子不好，但并不影響他成為著名的詩人。
【小題1】B 細(xì)節(jié)推斷題。根據(jù)第二段第一句話提到In almost all of his poems, Frost wrote in the first person.在他所有的詩中，主要是第一人稱，所以選B項(xiàng)。
【小題2】C 細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)最后 一段提到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(非同尋常的). His talent for poetry is natural-born and he had discovered this when he started to farm.他的詩在歷史也很有名，他把強(qiáng)烈的情感投入到詩中，所以選C項(xiàng)。
【小題3】B 細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)最后 一段提到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(非同尋常的)他的把強(qiáng)烈的情感投入到詩中，而最后一句話說，盡管對(duì)孩子與妻子很不好，但他仍然成為最著名的詩人，所以在講他為什么成名的原因，故選B項(xiàng)。
【小題4】C 細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第一段提到Frost entered Dartmouth University in 1893, but dropped out, and switched to Harvard, which he attended for two years.他進(jìn)入Dartmouth University但卻輟學(xué)了，轉(zhuǎn)向哈佛，在那他又上了兩年，所以C項(xiàng)是正確的。
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