Question

April is National Poetry Month in the United States. The Academy of American Poets started the celebration in 1996. The goal was to help more Americans add poetry to their lives.

The academy chose April as National Poetry Month because of a line in a poem. 1       And many Americans think April is the crudest month because they must pay their income taxes by April 15th.

National Poetry Month brings together publishers,booksellers,poetry groups,libraries,schools and poets around the country. 2       In the southern state of Florida,the Miami Poetry Festival tries to bring a poem to everyone of the 2. 5 million people who live in the area. The group has dropped poems out of airplanes,sewn them into clothes,and put them on every bus in the city.

Poetry is very popular in the United States. America even has a chief poet,known as the Poet Laureate. Robert Pinsky was the Poet Laureate from 1997 until 2000. 3       He chose 200 poems by poets from the United States and from many other countries. The poems are included in a book called Americans' Favorite Poems.4       Robert Frost was perhaps the most popular and beloved one of American poets in the twentieth century. 5       He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry four times. He often wrote about the land and people of the northeastern American states. His poems combine images of nature with ideas about how to live one's life.

   A. It was edited by Robert Pinsky and Maggie Dietz.

   B. T. S. Eliot called April "the cruelest month" in his poem The Waste Land.

   C. Thousands of Americans wrote to Mr. Pinsky about their favorite poems.

   D. He started the Favorite Poem Project,to find out which poems Americans liked best.

   E. His work often spoke plainly about the difficult lives of black people living in big cities.

   F. So it is not surprising that six of his poems are included in the book Americans' Favorite Poems.

   G. They encourage people to write,read,and listen to poetry.

1.                  2.                  3.         4.          5.         

Answer 1

本文介绍了美国国家诗歌月的一些情况。

1. B根据前句"The academy chose April as National Poetry Month because of a line in a poem."可知，后句内容跟将四月定为诗歌月有关，因此选B.

2. G根据前句"National Poetry Month brings together publishers,booksellers,poetry groups,libraries,schools and poets around the country."可知，出版商、书商、诗歌团体等被召集在一起，后句继续讲他们对于诗歌月所起到的作用，因此选G。

3. D根据前句"Robert Pinsky was the Poet Laureate from 1997 until 2000."可知，后句继续讲这位挂冠诗人的贡献，因此选D.

4. A本段主要讲Robert Pinsky的一些贡献，前句提到了一本书，因此选A.

5. F本段重点介绍了Robert Frost及其诗歌的受欢迎程度，因此选F。