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.         

本文介紹了美國(guó)國(guó)家詩(shī)歌月的一些情況。

1. B根據(jù)前句"The academy chose April as National Poetry Month because of a line in a poem."可知,后句內(nèi)容跟將四月定為詩(shī)歌月有關(guān),因此選B.

2. G根據(jù)前句"National Poetry Month brings together publishers,booksellers,poetry groups,libraries,schools and poets around the country."可知,出版商、書(shū)商、詩(shī)歌團(tuán)體等被召集在一起,后句繼續(xù)講他們對(duì)于詩(shī)歌月所起到的作用,因此選G。

3. D根據(jù)前句"Robert Pinsky was the Poet Laureate from 1997 until 2000."可知,后句繼續(xù)講這位掛冠詩(shī)人的貢獻(xiàn),因此選D.

4. A本段主要講Robert Pinsky的一些貢獻(xiàn),前句提到了一本書(shū),因此選A.

5. F本段重點(diǎn)介紹了Robert Frost及其詩(shī)歌的受歡迎程度,因此選F。

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