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    Poets die young—younger than novelists, playwrights（剧作家） or any other type of writers, a US researcher says．

        It could be because poets are tortured（煎熬） and likely to self-destruct（毁灭） ,or it could be that poets become famous when they are young, so their early death is more noticeable, said James Kaufman of the Learning Research Institute at California State University, San Bernardino, US．

        The research, published in the Journal of Death Studies, used almost 2,000 dead writers from several centuries, from the US, China, Turkey and Eastern Europe．

        “Female poets were much more likely to suffer from mental illness than any other kind of writer or any other famous women．” he said．

        There could be a more common explanation for a poet’s early passing．” Poets produce twice the amount of their work as novelists do, in their 20s,”Kaufman said．

        So when a budding（初露锋芒）novelist dies young, few people may notice．

        “A great novelist or non-fiction（小品文）writer who dies at 28 may not have yet produced her or his great novel．”

         Kaufman said poets should not worry , but should perhaps pay attention to their health．

    1．The second paragraph mainly tells us ____．

           A．how James Kaufman felt                            B．why poets die young

           C．how to make poets live longer               D．people’s attitudes to life

    2．Compared with women who take up other careers, female poets____．

           A．are easy to become famous                    B．are easier to experience pain

    C．are nothing                                        D．can hardly write more famous poems

    3．Kaufman thought a poet’s early passing_____．

           A．lied in his absence of exercise                B．was because of his overwork

           C．didn’t arouse（唤起） people’s attention    D．lied in social customs

    4．The best way to avoid early death is to ____．

           A．give up writing poems                      B．widen their sights

           C．value their health                          D．turn to doctors for help

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    　　Little is actually known about African-American artist Robert Scott Duncannon．Robert was born in 1821 in Fayette, New York．He was the son of freed slaves from Virginia．

    　　One day, in 1848, a stern-looking(表情严肃的)man walked into Robert’s gallery with a strange request．The man, Charles Avery, wanted Robert to paint a picture of his copper mine in Northern Michigan．Robert took a trip to the Lake Superior area．Excited by the natural beauty of the place, he made many sketches of shining lakes and blue mountains．These were the scenes he’d always dreamed of painting, and he suddenly realized that his greatest paintings would be large landscapes．Robert had long admired the works of Frederic Church, Thomas Cole, and the other Hudson River School painters．They were inspired by the beauty of nature．Now he felt moved by the romantic glory of America’s wild places．

    　　In 1850 Robert moved back to Cincinnati．He set up a studio and began working as an full-time artist．he got an offer from Nicholas Longworth, an important Cincinnati lawyer, to decorate(装修)his mansion(公寓)with large wall paintings．It was the toughest and a big job that Robert had ever attempted．

    　　Two years later, when the murals(壁画)were complete, visitors were amazed．Each of the eight murals was nine feet tall and seven feet wide．Each was enclosed in its own frame that looked so real, viewers had to touch them to believe whether they were true or not!

    　　In Cincinnati in 1866, artists, black and white, clamored(要求)to set up studios near Duncannon’s．They wanted to learn his techniques, and Robert welcomed them all．His old dream of unconditional acclaim as a master artist had finally come true．

    　　Sadly, at the height of his career, Robert’s physical and mental health began to fail．In 1870 he was in a state of near collapse．Often he was too weak and confused to paint at all．It’s possible that Robert may have had a nervous breakdown brought on by overwork or stress．Some people now believe his illness may have been caused by the paint he used in his early house-painting days．Paint then had a great deal of poisonous lead in it．Too much lead in the body can cause odd behavior and, eventually, even death．But nobody knew that then．

    　　A few months later， Robert’s condition improved, and he returned to work．For a while everything seemed fine．Then one day in October 1872, while hanging paintings for a new exhibition in Detroit, he collapsed．He died on 21st, December．Robert was remembered as “the best landscape painter in the West”．

    (1)

    Why did the author say Robert was an African-American artist?

    [　　]

    A．

    Because Robert was born in African and studied and worked in American．

    B．

    Because his parents were African slaves．

    C．

    He learnt his painting skills in America．

    D．

    He learnt his painting skills in Africa．

    (2)

    A copper mine owner changed his life, because __________．

    [　　]

    A．

    he found landscape was his favorite in the preparation for the picture

    B．

    a stern-looking man promised to pay him a large sum of money

    C．

    Robert’s teacher was a romantic painter

    D．

    the copper mine owner liked him best

    (3)

    Which is Not true?

    [　　]

    A．

    Canadian artists admired Robert for his landscape paintings．

    B．

    Duncannon only accepted white artists．

    C．

    Robert’s health was damaged by the lead in his paint, as well as his hard work and little rest．

    D．

    Duncannon devoted his life to the landscape art．

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