WhenIwasinthe8thgradeinOhio,ag-优题课

Robert Frost was one of America’s best known and most honored serious writers. But his fame came __ in his life. He was forty __ Americans began to read his poems and praise them. Once his __ was set up, however, it grew stronger and stronger during the rest of his long life. His success came from __ traditional forms of poetry with American words, in a clearly American way.
Frost the same speaker for many poems, so the poems formed a larger unity. He created this speaker carefully. He felt that his readers would believe his poems if he put the words into the mouth of a _ person who lived in the country, not the _ .
Many people thought the speaker was Frost himself. In fact, the speaker was （10 ）person. Frost, the , tried to become the imaginary person he for his poetry.
Robert Frost is always linked to the land of cold winters in the northeastern United States, the area called New England. he came from the other side of the country, San Francisco, California. He was born there in 1874. He lived in California during his early .
This man who was born in the and became linked with New England was named for the chief southern general in American’s Civil War. The general’s name was Robert Edward Lee. The poet was named Robert Lee Frost, because his father wanted to the general.
Someone once asked another American , Ernest Hemingway, how to become a writer. The _ thing, he said, was to have an _ childhood. If this is true, Robert Frost’s childhood was unhappy enough to make him a very writer.

A．soon B．late C．quickly D．early

A．since B．until C．before D．after

A．fame B．name C．poem D．family

A．working B．using C．putting D．uniting

A．spoken B．made C．built D．formed

A．thought of B．practiced C．used D．met

A．old B．separate C．famous D．excellent

A．common B．young C．wise D．grown-up

A．city B．village C．state D．continent

A．a famous B．a real C．an imaginary D．a historic

A．artist B．man C．lady D．officer

A．loved B．respected C．admired D．created

A．In this way B．Yet C．Though D．Therefore

A．childhood B．writings C．work D．paintings

A．East B．North C．West D．South

A．learn from B．know C．study D．honor

A．teacher B．writer C．painter D．leader

A．quickest B．worst C．best D．hardest

A．exciting B．interesting C．unlucky D．unhappy

A．good B．poor C．young D．able

In Britain, people have different attitudes to the police. Most people generally them and the job they do-although there are certain people who do not believe that the police have the power that they do.
What does a policeman actually do? It is not job to describe. After all, a policeman has a number of jobs in . A policeman often has to control traffic, either foot in the center of a town, or in a police car on the roads. Indeed, in Britain, he might be in the Traffic Police and spend all, or a lot of, his time up and down main roads and motorways. A traffic policeman has to help keep the traffic moving, stop motorists and help when there is an accident.
A policeman has to help keep the , too. If there is a fight or some other disturbance, we the police to come and restore order. And they often have to situation at great risk to their own .
We expect the police to solve crimes, of course, so an ordinary policeman, he is not a detective, will often have to help and arrest criminals.
And do we call when there is an emergency-an air crash, a , a road accident, or a robbery? We call the police. a policeman has to be to face any unpleasant emergency that may happen in the world.
The police do an absolutely, necessary job, they do it well and I support them, but I do not envy policeman, I do not think that I could do the job of a policeman.
A. dislike B. joinC. appreciated D. admire
A. shouldB. wouldC. couldD. must
A. a funnyB. a pleasant C. an interesting D. an easy
A. ut B. oneC. hisD. them
A. onB. byC. underD. with
A. walkingB. driving C. wanderingD. searching
A. resting B. tired C. speedingD. drunken
A. peaceB. silence C. situationD. condition
A. wait for B. call C. think ofD. expect
A. turn toB. avoid C. deal withD. treat
A. safetyB. families C. futureD. friends
A. althoughB. as if C. howeverD. even if
A. get rid of B. question C. kook forD. sentence
A. howB. where C. whatD. who
A. power failure B. fire C. thunder stormD. thief
A. YetB. Then C. AsD. So
A. provided B. promised C. preparedD. presented
A. future B. modern C. realD. whole
A. extremely B. speciallyC. surprisinglyD. particularly
A. hardly B. forever C. everD. never

If you have a watch, don’t repair it! I know it __. Once I had a beautiful watch. And this watch __perfect time. But one night it happened that I forgot to __it up. The next morning I went to a watchmaker as I wanted my perfect watch to __by the exact time. The watchmaker examined my watch and said: “The regulator(校准器) is to be pushed up __your watch is four minutes __.”
I tried to stop him, and tried to __him understand that my watch kept perfect time, but he did not listen to me and pushed the regulator.
My beautiful watch began to gain time. It __faster and faster day by day. By the end of the second month it __all the clocks and watches of the town far behind.
What did I have to do? To take it to another watchmaker to be regulated. I expected him to regulate the watch immediately __he asked me to come in a week’s time. When at last I took my watch from him it began to __down. And I began to be late for trains, business appointments and even missed my dinners.
Now I went to __watchmaker. While I waited for him to repair my poor watch, he __it to pieces and said that he could finish this work __three or four days. I could do nothing but __ . That time my watch went for half a day and then stopped.
So I kept __ my watch from one watchmaker to another for a considerable period of time.
And as a result of it the cleverest main in the world could not __ the time by my watch. The thing was getting __. My watch had __two hundred dollars originally but I paid for repairs more than two hundred. At last I decided to buy _watch, which I did.
A.for reality B.for truthC.for certainD.for certainty
A.kept B.told C.observedD.struck
A.turn B.wind C.pick D.put
A.be turnedB.be taken C.be putD.be set
A.asB.as ifC.when D.if
A.fast B.slowly C.fasterD.slow
A.getB.persuade C.makeD.explain
A.gainedB.lost C.went D.won
A.had remained B.had leftC.had stayed D.had fallen
A.however B.andC.but D.therefore
A.go B.walkC.slow D.take
A.the thirdB.the secondC.the firstD.the forth
A.brokeB.took C.toreD.cut
A.afterB.beforeC.overD.in
A.to agree B.agreeC.agreeing D.agreed
A.takingB.bringing C.carryingD.fetching
A.recognizeB.tell C.know D.understand
A.seriouslyB.pleasant C.badly D.serious
A.spentB.took C.costD.paid
A.another B.the other C.oneD.one more

In Britain, people have different attitudes to the police. Most people generally them and the job they do-although there are certain people who do not believe that the police have the power that they do.
What does a policeman actually do? It is not job to describe. After all, a policeman has a number of jobs in . A policeman often has to control traffic, either foot in the center of a town, or in a police car on the roads. Indeed, in Britain, he might be in the Traffic Police and spend all, or a lot of, his time up and down main roads and motorways. A traffic policeman has to help keep the traffic moving, stop motorists and help when there is an accident.
A policeman has to help keep the , too. If there is a fight or some other disturbance, we the police to come and restore order. And they often have to situation at great risk to their own .
We expect the police to solve crimes, of course, so an ordinary policeman, he is not a detective, will often have to help and arrest criminals.
And do we call when there is an emergency-an air crash, a , a road accident, or a robbery? We call the police. a policeman has to be to face any unpleasant emergency that may happen in the world.
The police do an absolutely, necessary job, they do it well and I support them, but I do not envy policeman, I do not think that I could do the job of a policeman.
A. dislikeB. joinC. appreciated D. admire
A. should B. wouldC. couldD. must
A. a funny B. a pleasant C. an interestingD. an easy
A. us B. oneC. hisD. them
A. on B. byC. under D. with
A. walking B. drivingC. wanderingD. searching
A. restingB. tiredC. speeding D. drunken
A. peaceB. silenceC. situation D. condition
A. wait for B. callC. think ofD. expect
A. turn to B. avoidC. deal withD. treat
A. safety B. familiesC. futureD. friends
A. although B. as ifC. howeverD. even if
A. get rid of B. questionC. kook forD. sentence
A. howB. where C. whatD. who
A. power failure B. fireC. thunder storm D. thief
A. YetB. ThenC. AsD. So
A. providedB. promisedC. preparedD. presented
A. futureB. modernC. realD. whole
A. extremely B. specially C. surprisinglyD. particular
A. hardlyB. forever C. everD. never

My friend Michelle is blind, but you’d never know it. She makes such good use of her other __that guests rarely realize that she’s __anything.
One day, my six-year-old daughter Kayla went to play at her home.. When Kayla came home, she was very __about her day. She told me they had baked cookies, played games and done art projects. But she was __excited about her finger-painting project. “I learned how to __colors today! Blue and red make purple, and yellow and blue make green! And Michelle ____ with us. She said she liked the way the paint felt through her fingers,” said Kayla.
Something about my child’s excitement caught my __, and I realized that I had never finger-painted with Kayla. As a result, my child had learned about __from a blind friend.
I realized Kayla didn’t know that Michelle was blind. It had just never __in conversation. When I told her, she didn’t __ me at first. “But Mommy, Michelle understood exactly what was in my __!”Kayla insisted. “Michelle told me that my picture showed joy, __ and a sense of accomplishment. She really __what I was doing !” Kayla said she had never felt how good finger-painting was __Michelle taught her. I knew my child was __--Michelle had listened to Kayla when she __her artwork. Michelle had also __Kayla express her pride in her work, and her excitement at her __of the way colors mix.
We were __for a minute. Then Kayla said slowly, “You know, Mommy, Michelle really did ‘see’ my picture. She just used my __.”
Yes, she uses a special type of “vision” that all mothers have.
A.ways B.methods C.talentsD.senses
A.enjoyed B.succeeded C.missed D.found
A.satisfiedB.movedC.excitedD.enjoyed
A.hardlyB.especially C.reallyD.mostly
A.mixB.drawC.findD.talk
A.cooked B.played C.stayedD.painted
A.sightB.attentionC.interestD.observation
A.colorB.art C.finger D.fun
A.come around B.come acrossC.come through D.come up
A.agreeB.accept C.believeD.approve
A.attitudeB.picture C.worldD.life
A.regretB.sorrowC.prideD.achievement
A.heard B.saw C.touched D.felt
A.untilB.after C.when D.since
A.right B.wrongC.confusedD.clear
A.createdB.described C.designed D.produced
A.heardB.seenC.madeD.imagined
A.studyB.research C.knowledgeD.discovery
A.silentB.worriedC.confusedD.sad
A.hands B.eyes C.works D.feelings