4.(2011·福建卷)D

　 Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis was one of the most private women in the world, yet when she went to work as an editor in the last two decades of her life, she revealed (展现) herself as she did nowhere else.

After the death of her second husband,Greek shipping magnate AristotieOnassis laqueline’s close friend and former White House social　 ?　 Letitis Baldrige made a suggestion that she consider a career in publishing.After consideration,

　　　 Jacqueline accepted it.Perhaps she hoped to find there some ideas about how to live her own life .She became not less but more interested in reading.For the last 20 years of her life, Jacqueline worked as a publisher’s editor, first at Viking,then at Doubleday ,pursuing(追求)a late-life career longer than her two marriages combined.During her time in publishing, she was responsible for managing and editing more than 100 sucessfully marketed books.Among the first books were In the Russian Style and Inventive Paris Clothes.She also succeeded in persuading TV hosts Bill Moyers and Joseph Campbell to transform their popular television conversation into a book ,The Power of Myth.The book went on to become an international best-seller.She dealt　 too.with Michael Jackson as he prepared his autobiography(自传)，Moonwalk.

Jaequelinered for her name and for her social relations,but she soon proved

Her worth.Her shoicas,suggestions and widespread social relations were of benefit both to the publishing Since and to Jacqueline herself.In the books she selected for publication,she built on a lifetime of spending time by herself as a reader and left a record of the growth of her mind.Her books are the autobiofraphy she never wrote,Her role as First lady,in the end,was overshadowed by her performance as an editor.However,few knew that she had achteved so much.

71. What is the passage mainly about?

A. Yeats’s literary achievements.

B. Yeats’s historical influence.

C. Yeats’s artistic ambition.

D. Yeats’s national honor.

[答案]DCDA

70. What kind of feeling is expressed in W.H.Auden’s lines?

A. Envy.　　　　　　　　　　　　 B. Sympathy.

C. Emptiness.　　　　　　　　　　 D. Admiration.

69. According to thse passage, what do we know about Yeats’s life?

A. Yeats founded the first Irish theater.

B. Yeats stuck to modern forms in his peotry.

C. Yeats began to produce his best works from the 1910s.

D. Yeats was not favored by the publie until the 1923 Noble Prize.

68. Which of the following can describe Yeats’s family?

A. It filled Yeats’s childhood with laughter.

B. It was shocked by Yeats’s choice.

C. It was a typically wealthy family.

D. It had an artistic atmosphere.

3.(2011·重庆卷)D

William Butler Yeats, a most famous Irish writer, was born in Dublin on June 13,1865. His childhood lacked the harmony (和睦) that was typical of a happy family. Later, Yeats shocked his family by saying that he remembered “little of childhood but its pain”. In fact, he inherited (继承) excellent taste in art from his family-both his father and his brother were painters. But he finally settled on literature, particularly drama (戏剧) and poetry.

Yeats had strong faith in coming of new artistic movements. He set himself the fresh task in founding an Irish national theatre in the late 1890s. His early theatrical experiments, however, were not received favorably at the beginning. He didn’t lose heart, and finally enjoyed success in his poetical drama.

Compared with his dramatic works, Yeats’s poems attract much admiring notice. The subject matter includes love, nature, history, time and aging. Though Yeats generally relied on very tradisional forms, he brought modern sensibility to them. As his literary life progressed, his poetry grew finer and richer, which led him to worldwide recognition.

He had not enjoyed a major public lift since winning the Nobel Price in 1923. Yet, he continued writing almost to the end of his life. Had Yeats stopped writing at age 40, he would probably now be valued as a minor poet, for there is no other example in literary history of a poet who produces his greatest works between the age of 50 and 75. After Yeats’s death in 1939, W. H. Auden wrote, among others, the falling liners:

Earth, receive an honoured guest:

William Yeats is laid to rest.

Let the Irish vessel (船) lie

Emptied of its poetry.

52． In which of the following aspects was Irene Cuire different from her mother?[C]

A.Irene worked with radioactivity.　　 B.Irene combined family and career.

C.Irene won the Nobel Prize once　　 D.Irene died from leukemia.

51．When was the second child of Irene Curie and Frederic Joliot born?[A]

A. In 1932.　　 B. In 1927.　　　 C. In 1897.　　 D. In　 1926.

50．Where did Irene Curie meet her husband Frederio joliot?[A]

A.At the Curie Institute.　　　 B.At the Cniversity of Paris.

C.At a military hospital.　　　 D.At the College of Sevigne.

49．Why was Irene Curie awarded a Military Medal?[B]

A.Because she received a degree in mathematics.

B.Because she contributed to saving the wounded.

C.Because she won the Nobel Prize with Frederic.

D. Because she worked as a helper to her mother.