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  Poet Dean Young has dealt with impermanence(无常)a lot in his career, but it's a particularly strong theme in Young's latest collection, Fall Higher.The new collection was published in April, just days after the poet received a life-saving heart transplant(移植)after about a decade of living with a weakening heart condition.

  Young, whoso work is often frank and rich with twisted humor, tells NPR's Renee Montaigne that as he recovers from operation, he's also slowly returning to his everyday writing habits.

  "I'm getting back to it, " Young says."Not with the sort of concentration and sort of flame that I look forward to in the future, but I am blackening some pages."

  And on those blackened pages you'll find poems like " How Grasp Green, " which carries themes of springtime and rebirth.It's one of the first poems Young has written since his transplant.

  It's easy to spot clues(线索)to Young's awful health situation in the lines of his poetry.Fall Higher's "Vintage" opens with, "Because I will die soon, I fall asleep, during the lecture on the ongoing emergency." And the poem "-The Rhythms Pronounce Themselves Then Vanish-published in The/Vew Barker in February -opens with the CT scan that revealed Young's heart condition.

  Young says "Rhythms" was written about the beginning of his illness.

  "I had been having a lot of physical pain so that I could hardly walk a block.I got sent to a gastroenterologist and he did a series of tests, and then the tests came back to me and it was all heart related, " he says." And the outlook wasn't good.

  Hearts tend to come up a lot in poetry, and that's especially true of Young's work, which has clearly been influenced by the troubles of his own heart,

  "A lot of times, it's not just a metaphor(比喻), " Young says."For me, it's an actual concern because I've been living with this disease for over 10 years.My father died of heart problems when he was 49, so it's been a sort of shadowy concern for me my whole life.

  But Young's poems also deal with more abstract matters of the.heart.He wrote Fall Higher's, "Late Valentine" for his wife."We've been married since late November and most of it has been spent in the hospital, " Young says of his marriage to poet Laurie Saurborn Young, who says " 'Late Valentine' is very sweet.

  Today, Young says, his friends can't help but comment on how pink his cheeks have become-the result of a new heart and better circulation(循环).But Young wrote the poems of Fall Higher before the transplant, at a time when, at its weakest point, his old heart was pumping at 8 percent of what it should have been.

  He was staring death in the face-but he was still able to look at his life and see art in it.

  Young's work also touches on themes of randomness and fate-two factors that contributed to him getting a second chance in the form of a new heart from a 22-year-old student.

  "Everything in life is molecules(分子)bouncing against molecules, " Young says, and having a successful transplant is no different." Somebody had to die; it had to be a fit; my blood and his blood had to not have an argument; the heart had to be transported; I had to get it."

  There were, in short, an amazing number of variables(变量)that led to Young being here today.

  "I just feel enormous gratitude, " he says of his donor(捐献者)."He gave me a heart so I'm still alive-"I'm sure I'm going to think about this person for the rest of my life."

(1)

The poetry collection.Fall Higher ________.

[  ]

A.

was published in February

B.

refers darkness as its main theme

C.

is Young's latest collection of poetry

D.

was written after Young's heart transplant

(2)

We can learn from the text that Young ________.

[  ]

A.

was born with heart disease

B.

received a heart transplant in February

C.

married a female poet after he wrote "Late Valentine"

D.

wrote a poem for his wife in his collection

(3)

What does the writer try to say in Paragraph 3?

[  ]

A.

The writer expected some.bright future, but he was disappointed.

B.

The writer had less enthusiasm than before, but he still kept on writing.

C.

The writer devoted more time to poems, so he grasped a good chance.

D.

The writer wrote poems with less enthusiasm, so he quitted for a while.

(4)

Which of the following statements is TRUE?

[  ]

A.

"How Grasp Green" is the first poem in Fall Higher.

B.

Young began all his poems with his illness.

C.

Young's father died when Young was 49 years old.

D.

Young's health situation is mentioned in his poetry.

(5)

What is the text mainly about?

[  ]

A.

Dean Young and his latest collection.

B.

Dean Young and his heart problems.

C.

The meaning of Fall Higher.

D.

An analysis of Dean Young's poems.

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  Most young architects-particularly those in big cities-can only dream about working in a building of their own.And marking that dream come true often means finding a building no one else seems to want, which is exactly what happened to David Yocum and his partner, Brain Bell.Their building is a former automobile electrical –parts firm in Atlanta.Form the outside, it looks too old, even something horrible, but open the door and you are in a wide, open courtyard, lined on three sides with rusting(生锈的)walls.

  In 2000, Yocum and Bell found this building in the city’s West End.Built in 1947, the structure had been abandoned years earlier and the roof of the main building had fallen down.But the price was right, so Yocum bought it.He spent eight months of his off-hours on demolition(拆除),pulling rubbish out through the roof, because it was too dangerous to go inside the building, The demolition was hard work, but it gave him time to think about what he wanted to do, and “to treasure what was there-the walls, the rust, the light,” Yocum said.” Every season, more paint falls off the walls and more rust develops.It’s like an art installation(装置)in there-a slow-motion show.”

  Since the back building had been constructed without windows, an all-glass front was added to the building to give it a view of the courtyard, and skylights were installed in the roof.The back of the building is a working area and a living room for Yocum and his wife.A sort of buffer(缓冲)zone between the front and the back contains a bathroom, a kitchen and a mechanical room, and the walls that separate these zones have openings that allow views through to the front of the studio and the courtyard beyond.

  Yocum and Bell, who have just completed an art gallery for the city, feel that the experience from deoration of their building, focusing on the inside rather than the outside, has influenced their work.It has also given these architects a chance to show how they can make more out of less.

(1)

According to the passage, it is ________ for most young architects in big cities to work in a building of their own.

[  ]

A.

easy

B.

unnecessary

C.

unrealistic

D.

common

(2)

Yocum bought the old building because ________.

[  ]

A.

it was a bargain to him

B.

it was still in good condition

C.

it was located in the city center

D.

it looked attractive from the outside

(3)

Working on the old building, Yocum and bell ________.

[  ]

A.

pulled rubbish out through the roof

B.

removed the skylights from the bathroom

C.

presented a slow–motion show in an art gallery

D.

built a kitchen at the back part of the old building

(4)

It can be inferred from the passage that Yocum and Bell ________.

[  ]

A.

benefited a lot from pulling down the roof

B.

turned more old buildings into art galleries

C.

got inspiration from decorating their old building

D.

paid more attention to the outside of the gallery

(5)

The main idea of the passage is that ________.

[  ]

A.

people can learn a lot from their failures

B.

it is worthwhile to spend money on an old building

C.

people should not judge things by their appearance

D.

creative people can make the best of what they have

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