Passage Three
Robert Frost was born in San Francisco in 1875 and was sent at the age of ten to live in New England, an area which inspired almost all of his poetry. He was educated at Dartmouth College, New England, and Harvard University. He became a schoolmaster for a short time, and then a farm laborer. During this period he wrote poetry but with little recognition. [33]From 1912 to 1915, he lived in New England, where he became friendly with several poets, including Edward Thomas, and published A Boy's Will in 1913 and North of Boston in 1914. In America his poetry was soon admired, and he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize on four occasions between 1924 and 1943. He went on writing throughout his life, publishing Steeple Bush at the age of seventy-two. He died in 1963. [34]Frost's poems are revolutionary because they lack the exaggeration of rhetoric. Many of his lines and sentences are plain and in themselves nothing. But they are bound together and made beautiful by a calm eagerness of emotion. [35]With his close observant eye and touch, we can feel the daily activities of farming and the landscape be it their background-mowing, apple-picking, or mending a wall. These poems reflect a humane quiet concern and satisfaction in their rhythms and their gentle lyricism. Often there is an explicit or near-explicit "moral", though sometimes this is hinted at rather than stated, and frequently there is an almost proverbial tone. We learn to trust Robert Frost. The very lack of glamour or display in his poem gives them a stability and honesty.
答案解析:
33. What do we learn about Robert Frost from the passage?
[C]解析:短文談到,從1912年到1915年,Robert Frost住在新英格蘭,他和一些詩人成為了朋友,包括Edward Thomas,故選C。
34. What does the speaker say about Frost's poems?
[A]解析:短文談到,Frost的詩歌沒有夸張的修辭,故選A。B過于絕對化。
35. What is described in Frost's poetry according to the passage?
[A]解析:短文說從詩人的視角,我們可以感受到農場的日常生活,還有一些背景場景,比如犁地、摘蘋果或者補墻,故選A。D項是強干擾項,"moral"是Frost詩歌中蘊涵的感情,并不是詩歌的主題。