[单项选择]Robert Lee Frost’s poetry focuses on people in （　）
A. New Orland
B. New York
C. New England
D. New Jersey

[简答题]Comment briefly on Robert Frost’s nature poetry.

[单项选择]Robert Lee Frost’s ______ won him the first Pulitzer Prizes, which includes "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening".
A. North Boston
B. The Gift Outright
C. New Hampshire
D. A Boy’s Will

[单项选择]

People seldom feel neutral about poetry(诗). Those who love it sometimes give the impression that it is an adequate substitution for food, shelter, and love. It isn’t. Words, no matter how satisfying, are never an equivalent for life itself and its human experiences. Those who dislike poetry on principle sometimes claim, on the other hand, that poetry is only words and good for nothing. That’s not true either. It is easy to become frustrated by words—in poetry or in life—but when words represent and recreate genuine human feelings, as they often do in poetry, they can be very important. Poetry is, in fact, more than just words. It is an experience of words, and those who know how to read poetry can easily ex- tend their experience of life, their sense of what other people are like, their awareness of themselves, and their range of human feelings.
One reason poetry can be so important is that it is so closely concerned with feelings. Poetry is often
A. few people think that poetry is neutral
B. people always differ in their views about poetry
C. people rarely take a biased opinion about poetry
D. people generally think of poetry as extremely important or totally useless

[填空题]

In Dr. Lee’s exercises, people are asked to visualize

[填空题]
A. Poetry doesn’t matter to most people. They go about their business as usual, rarely consulting their Shakespeare, Wordsworth, or Frost. One has to wonder if poetry has any place in the 21st century, when music videos and satellite television offer daunting competitions for poems, which demand a good deal of attention and considerable analytic skills, as well as some knowledge of the traditions of poetry.
B. In the 19th century, poets like Scott, Byron and Longfellow had huge audiences around the world. Their works were best sellers, and they were cultural heroes as well. But readers had few choices in those days. One imagines, perhaps falsely, that people actually liked poetry. It provided them with narratives that entertained and inspired. It gave them words to attach to their feelings. They enjoyed folk ballads, too. In a sense, music and poetry joined hands.
C. In the 20th century, something went

[单项选择]Passage 2