Robert Frost was at heart a mean-spirited human being, not the kind of man one w

Robert Frost was at heart a mean-spiritedhuman being, not the kind of man one would expect to write poetry. He was bornin San Francisco. Frost entered Dartmouth University in 1893, but dropped out,and switched to Harvard, which he attended for two years. He started a briefteaching career, where he was inspired to become a poet by some of hisstudents’ work. Frost stopped teaching and became a farmer. During this time hewrote numerous poems, and a couple of short stories. While he was a farmer hestarted to think seriously about becoming a famous poet.

In almost all of his poems, Frost wrote inthe first person. The first widely-read poem that he published was called MyButterfly. At first his audience was very small, but with his Collected Poemshe became famous. Robert Frost received almost all the awards that there werefor poetry. His poetry describes the forces of nature, and the violence anddeep emotional(情感的)needs of human beings, which reflect the experiences of his childhood.

Robert Frost will always be known as one ofthe best poets in history. His way of putting emotion and violence into wordsis remarkable(非同寻常的).His talent for poetry is natural-born and he had discovered this when hestarted to farm. Even though he treated his wife and children terribly, hestill became one of the best-known poets of his and our day.

1.We can learn from the passage that________.

2. According to the passage, Robert Frostwas famous for ________.

3.The last paragraph of the passage mainlytells us ________.

4.From the passage we know that ________.

试题答案

【答案】

1.B

2.C

3.B

4.C

【解析】略