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1、Unit 5 Poems课时素养检测 十七Unit 5Period 1. 阅读理解AElizabeth Bishop is considered one of the best American poets of the 20th century. She was born in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1911. Her dad died when she was just a baby and her mom never recovered from the loss. She went to live with her grandparents in No
2、va Scotia, Canada when she was five. Eventually Bishop attended Vassar College, where she began to write poetry. At Vassar she discovered Marianne Moores poetry and met Ms Moore and began their life-long friendship. She later met poet Robert Lowell. She wrote tons and tons of letters to both of them
3、, which is good for us because we would otherwise(否则) know very little of her personal life. Bishops poetry is sometimes considered objective and cold because it shows almost nothing about the poet or her life. Bishop published her first book of poetry in 1946 and wrote until her death in 1979. She
4、would spend years working on a single poem. Her poems are not the result of hasty scribbling(匆忙乱写) on paper while eating breakfast. Over a lifetime of writing, she only published about 275 pages of poetry, and about 40 of those are translations. She would look through drafts(草稿) of poems again and a
5、gain and improve them until they were as close to perfect as she could get them. Reading Elizabeth Bishop is like being transported to the very place, the very moment shes writing about. She leads us to a microscope(显微镜)so we can see every smallest part of the scene. It seems shes always asking us t
6、o notice more, and more until the poem is so clear in our minds that its almost painfullike a light thats too bright. It might take your eyes a while to get used to it, but once they do, youll like what you see. 【语篇概述】本文介绍了20世纪美国著名女诗人伊丽莎白毕肖普, 并对其诗歌进行了评价。1. What do we know about Bishops early life? A
7、. She started to write poems at five. B. She was always encouraged by her parents. C. She spent her childhood mainly in Worcester. D. She was mainly brought up by her grandparents. 【解析】选D。细节理解题。根据第一段中的“She went to live. . . when she was five. ”可知, 毕肖普是由祖父母带大的。2. Why are Bishops letters to Moore and
8、Lowell important? A. They have a deep influence on other poets. B. They offer much information about her life. C. They help us study Moore and Lowells poetry. D. They prove she had friendships with famous poets. 【解析】选B。细节理解题。根据第二段中的“She wrote tons and tons of letters to both of them, which is. . . o
9、f her personal life. ”可知毕肖普与穆尔和洛威尔的书信为人们提供了毕肖普日常生活方面的信息, 因此这些书信很重要。3. What can we say about Bishops poetic creation? A. She liked to write in the morning. B. She could write poems at high speed. C. She tried her best to achieve perfection. D. She published hundreds of books of poetry. 【解析】选C。细节理解题。根
10、据第三段最后一句“She would look through. . . could get them. ”可知, 毕肖普把诗稿看了一遍又一遍, 力求完美。BWhitman was one of the most original and inspiring American poets, well known for his art and his role as a poet. He devoted himself to poetry praising the native Americans experience. As Americas first epic poem, Leaves
11、of Grass ran nine editions with more than 400 poems all written in free forms, that is, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme. The tide implies rebirth, renewal, or green life. As Whitman once said, “Leaves of Grass was the outcropping of my own emotional and other personal naturean at
12、tempt, from first to last, to put a person, a human being freely, fully and truly on record. ”For Whitman, science, democracy(民主) and spirituality(灵性) were the three things that underlay the structure of modern poetry. Whitman tried to combine the world of science, the democracy and the spiritual fe
13、eling of life into his poetry. For Whitman, the poetic form should be free. Therefore, he threw aside the traditional form and had his own form. Both the form and content of his poems are revolutionary. With its frequent use of oral language and everyday events, his poem represented a turning point
14、in the history of American poetrypoetry fashioned out of specially American experience in a clear American idiom. Whitmans unique poetic creation has developed a very significant tradition in American poetry. In his poems, he celebrated new America rather than regretted it. He was against slavery, i
15、dolized(崇拜) Lincoln, supported strikes, and combined the ideal of the common people and that of the ragged individual. 【语篇概述】这是一篇说明文, 介绍了惠特曼及其诗歌的特点和影响力。4. Which of the following is right? A. Whitman called on others to write poems like him. B. Whitman praised the native rich Americans. C. Whitman wr
16、ote poems to tell about the native American experience. D. He wanted to become a great poet. 【解析】选C。 细节理解题。从第一段第二句“He devoted himself to poetry praising the native Americans experience. ”可知, 他通过写诗来赞颂美国原住民的经历。故选C。5. _ in Whitmans poems. A. There are fixed beats and regular rhyme schemesB. We could see rebirth, renewal or green lif
