Robert Frost was at heart a mean-spirited human being, not the kind of man one would expect to write poetry. He was born in San Francisco. Frost entered Dartmouth University in 1893, but dropped out, and switched to Harvard, which he attended for two years. He started a brief teaching career, where he was inspired to become a poet by some of his students’ work. Frost stopped teaching and became a farmer. During this time he wrote numerous poems, and a couple of short stories. While he was a farmer he started to think seriously about becoming a famous poet.
In almost all of his poems, Frost wrote in the first person. The first widely-read poem that he published was called My Butterfly. At first his audience was very small, but with his Collected Poems he became famous. Robert Frost received almost all the awards that there were for poetry. His poetry describes the forces of nature, and the violence and deep emotional(情感的) needs of human beings, which reflect the experiences of his childhood.
Robert Frost will always be known as one of the best poets in history. His way of putting emotion and violence into words is remarkable(非同寻常的). His talent for poetry is natural-born and he had discovered this when he started to farm. Even though he treated his wife and children terribly, he still became one of the best-known poets of his and our day.
小题1:We can learn from the passage that ________.
A．Robert Frost had been a famous writer before he started teaching
B．Robert Frost wrote his poems mostly in the first person
C．Robert Frost was very famous at the beginning of his writing career
D．Robert Frost began to write poems when he was a teacher小题2: According to the passage, Robert Frost was famous for ________.
A．his teaching career
B．his life experiences
C．showing strong feeling in his poems
D．his interest in poems小题3:The last paragraph of the passage mainly tells us ________.
A．why Robert Frost stopped farming
B．why Robert Frost was so famous
C．about his masterpieces(杰作)
D．about the way he treated his wife and children小题4:From the passage we know that ________.
A．Robert Frost’s most famous poem is My Butterfly
B．Robert Frost began to write when he was in college
C．Robert Frost gave up studying at Dartmouth University
D．his poetry showed the violence of war and his childhood