【1】　　The Poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks has been praised for deepening the significance of personal and social experiences so that these experiences become universal in their implication. She has also been praised for her "sense of form, which is basic and remarkable." Many of her poems are concerned with a Black community named Bronzeville, on the south side of Chicago. Her literary skill makes Bronzeville more than just a place on a map. This community, like all important literary places (Robinson's Tibury Town and Masters' Spoon River, for example), becomes a testing ground of personality, a place where the raw material of experience is shaped by imagination and where the joys and trials of being human are both sung and judged. The qualities for which Brooks's poetry is led are (as one critic has pointed out) "boldness, invention, a daring to experiment, and a naturalness that does not scorn literature but absorbs it."

　　Her love for poetry began early. At the age of seven. she "began to put rhymes together," and when she was thirteen, one of her poems was published in a children's magazine. During her teens she contributed more than seventy-five poems to a Chicago newspaper. In 1941 she began to attend a class in writing poetry at the South Side Community Art Center, and several years later, her poems began to appear in Poetry and other magazines. He first collection of poems, A Street in Bronzeville, was published in 1945. Four years later, Annie Allen, her second collection of poems, appeared. In 1950 Annie Allen was awarded a Pulitzer prize for poetry. A novel, Maud Martha, about a young black girl growing up in Chicago, published in 1953, was praised for its warmth and insights. In 1963 her selected Poems appeared.

　　1. The main subject of the passage is Gwendolyn Brooks's _____.

　　[A] personal background

　　[B] hometown

　　[C] literary achievements

　　[D] childhood

　　2. Why does the author mention Tibury Town and Spoon River?

　　[A] To give credit to tow great writers.

　　[B] To provide examples of important literary places.

　　[C] To suggest similarities between Brooks's style and that of other writers.

　　[D] To encourage the reader to read Robinson and Masters.

　　3. The author uses quotations in the first paragraph primarily to _____.

　　[A] help emphasize the significance of Brooks's poetry

　　[B] introduce biographical information about Brooks

　　[C] present opposing points of view about Brooks's work

　　[D] state little-known facts about Brooks's novel

　　4. According to the passage, Brooks's poetry was first published when she was _____.

　　[A] seven years old

　　[B] attending a class in writing

　　[C] in her teens

　　[D] an established novelistＷww.KaＯ8.CC

　　5. Her novel was praised because _____.

　　[A] she wrote something about the Black people

　　[B] she had a good personality

　　[C] her works were shaped by imagination

　　[D] she had promoted social and personal experiences

　　参考答案：C B A C D

【2】　　The significance of trust is that it allows the parties involved in the relationship to indicate how they feel, what they behave, and where they disagree without fear of contradiction or reprisal(报复). Trusting relationship encourage people to disclose their plans and perceptions without hurting them selves or others. Hurt, whether real or imagined, is one of the most harmful consequences of personal relationships with other human beings. In situations which you feel that the other person has the power and intent to hurt you, trust diminishes quickly. Thus a climate of distrust appears in your relations with others. Conversely, if I can say whatever comes to my mind without getting hurt, a climate of trust pervades the relationship. Trust is a perceptual phenomenon that evolves from our experiences with others. If trusting were so easy, we would not need to make such a point of its importance in human relationships. To say that a person should trust others is to diminish the difficulty of producing trust. In mutual relationships, both parties must be have toward one another in trusting ways. Even though it hurts in the pit of the stomach(心窝), you must trust the other person and encourage him or her to say those things that demand a trusting response. No one likes to get hurt and few like to hurt others, especially not those others who are close to us in person-to-person relationships. We avoid expressing our true feelings lest we become the target of a revenging attack from the other person. If I indicate that I do not appreciate having you smoke in my car, I may love you as a friend or I may become the subject of ridicule for allowing little things like that to bother me. If that happens, I will be less open and less trusting of you the next time.

　　1. The significance of trues lies in the fact that _____.

　　[A] trust is not easy to reach between human beings

　　[B] trust allows people to say whatever comes to their minds

　　[C] one likes to get hurt

　　[D] few like to trust others

　　2. What will not happen if a person feeds he will be hurt by the other?

　　[A] Trust diminishes quickly.

　　[B] He will disclose his plans and perceptions.

　　[C] A climate of distrust pervades the relationship?

　　[D] One of the most harmful consequences of personal relationships with others appear.

　　3. Trust is a phenomenon that _____.

　　[A] results from our expericences with others

　　[B] comes from our perceptions

　　[C] may trust in the pit of the stomach

　　[D] none of the above

　　4. People avoid expressing their true feelings because _____.

　　[A] they become the target of revenging attack from others

　　[B] they are not so open and trusting others

　　[C] they do not want to become the target of revenging attack from others

　　[D] they do not want to lose friends

　　5. Implied but not stated _____.

　　[A] People usually do not like to trust those who are close to us

　　[B] People will usually get reprisal or ridicule for their trust

　　[C] If trust has been established,it will never disappear

　　[D] The negative response will usually result in the diminishing of trusting between persons

　　参考答案：B B A C D