单选题
Questions 14 to 17 are based on the following passage. At the end of the passage, you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions.
单选题
The discussion topic of the previous class meeting was A. new England mystery stories. B. the life of Emily Dickinson. C. a comparison of poems between Dickinson and Whitman. D. the poems of Walt Whitman.
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】[解析] 14-17 [14][Compared with Walt Whitman whom we discussed last week,I found Emily Dickinson strikingly different．]She seemed in fact to be the complete opposite of Whitman in her life and in her work．I would like to share briefly with the class some of the trial facts of her biography．Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, in 1830, nearly a decade after Whitman．In her early 20s for reasons that still re- main a mystery she began to withdraw her ordinary contact with the world．[15][For the remaining 30 years of her life, she was seldom seen outside her home．In this respect she was quite unlike Whitman who love outdoors. ]Emily Dickinson spent her solitary days corresponding with her friends and writ- ing hundreds of remarkable poems，notably I Heard a Fly Buzz and the poem we have read for today I'm Nobody．Although she showed none of her poems to her family and sent none in letters to friends only four were published in her life time．[16][Most of the almost 12 poems were discovered in her room after she died in 1886 at the age of 56.] These poems established her as a major poet, and several modern critics consider her the greatest woman poet in the English language．Eh, that's about all I have．Are there any questions? If not, [17][we should probably begin talking about Dickinson's I'm Nobody,the poem Professor May assigned for this week's class discussion．]
[解析] 事实细节题。短文开头提到，last week讨论的是Whitman，题目中的previous对应last，因此D为正确 选项。预览题目时要注意关键词previous class meeting。B是本次上课讨论的内容。A未提及，且与文章主题 无关。C容易误选。但如果没有理解短文开头，可以根据后来的线索进行推断。短文提到这节课要介绍 Dickinson的生平，由此可知之后才会比较她与Whitman，因此上节课不可能将二者进行比较。
单选题
How did Emily Dickinson differ from Walt Whitman? A. She published poems more frequently. B. She seldom left her home. C. She lived in an earlier era. D. She spoke a different language.
单选题
What will the class do now? A. Hear another report. B. Discuss one of Emily Dickinson's poems. C. Hear a lecture by the teacher. D. Discuss poems they have written themselves.