[单项选择]The poet William Carlos Williams was a New Jersey physician.
A. doctor
B. professor
C. physicist
D. resident

[单项选择]The poet William Carlos Williams was a New Jersey physician.
A. doctor
B. professor
C. teacher
D. student

[单项选择]Statistics issued in New Jersey suggested that ______.


A. Many drivers were not of legal age
B. Young drivers were often bad drivers
C. The level of drinking increased in the 1960s
D. The legal drinking age should be raised

[单项选择]In the eastern part of New Jersey ______, a major shipping and manufacturing center.


A. lies the city of Elizabeth
B. the city of Elizabeth lies there
C. around the city of Elizabeth lies
D. there lies the city of Elizabeth around

[单项选择]"That year in New Jersey lives in my mind...", as the author intended, means ______.


A. that was a year in which awful things happened to me
B. that was a year that I will never forget
C. that was a year that only existed in my mind; but never happened to exist
D. that was a year when I lived in New Jersey

[单项选择]American literature produced only one female poet during the nineteenth century. This was ______.
A. Anne Bradsteet
B. Jane Austen
C. Emily Dickinson
D. Harriet Beecher

[单项选择]The poet who wrote the philosophical Mending Wall was ______.


A. Ezra Pound
B. Robert Frost
C. T. S. Eliot
D. Wallace Stevens

[单项选择]C. Poet William Stafford once said that we are defined more by the detours(绕行路)in life that by the narrow road toward goals.I like this image.But I as quite by accident that I discovered the deep meaning of his words. For years we made the long drive from our home in Seattle to my parents’ home in Boise in nine hours.We traveled the way most people do:the fastest,shortest easiest road,especially when ai was alone with four noisy,restless kids who hates confinement(限制)and have strong opinions about everything. Road trips felt risky,so I would drive fast,stopping only when I had to.We would stick to the freeways and arrive tired. But then Banner,our lamb was born.He was rejected by his mama days before our planned trip to Boise.I had two choices:leave Banner with my husband,or take him with me.My husband made the decision for me. That is how I found my self on the road with four kids,a baby lamb and nothing but my everlasting optimism to see me through.
A. It was less time
B. It would be faster and safer
C. Her kids would feel less confined
D. She felt better with other drivers nearby

[单项选择]The unfortunate death of the genius poet caused （　） loss to this country.
A. priceless
B. countless
C. incalculable
D. imaginable

[单项选择] Which of the following is NOT a romantic poet
A. William Wordsworth.
B. George Elliot.
C. George G. Byron.
D. Percy B. Shelley.

[单项选择]As a romantic poet, William Wordsworth advocated the following EXCEPT


A. the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.
B. the use of colloquialism spoken by the masses.
C. elegant wordings and inflated figures of speech.
D. the humble and rustic life as subject matter.

[单项选择]William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all of the following EXCEPT______.


A. normal contemporary speech patterns
B. humble and rustic life as subject matter
C. elegant wording and inflated figures of speech
D. intensely subjective feeling toward individual experience

[单项选择]Chaucer has been called the Father of English Poetry by _______ generations.


A. aggressive
B. progressive
C. successive
D. comprehensive