Question

Gwendolyn Brooks wrote hundreds of poems during her lifetime. She was known around the world for using poetry to increase understanding of black culture in America.

During the 1940’s and the 1950’s, Gwendolyn Brooks used her poems to describe conditions among the poor, racial (種族的) inequality and drug use in the black community. She also wrote poems about the struggles of black women.

But her skill was more than her ability to write about struggling black people. She combined traditional European poetry styles with the African American experience.

Gwendolyn Brooks once said that she wrote about what she saw and heard in the street. She said she found most of her materials through looking out of the window of her second-floor apartment in Chicago, Illinois.

In her early poetry, Gwendolyn Brooks wrote about the South Side of Chicago, where many black people live. In her poems, the South Side is called Bronzeville. It was “A Street in Bronzeville” that gained the attention of literary experts in 1945. Critics praised her poetic skills and her powerful descriptions about the black experience during the time. The Bronzeville poems were her first published collection.

In 1950, Gwendolyn Brooks became the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Literature. She won the prize for her second book of poems called “Annie Allen”. “Annie Allen” is a collection of poetry about a Bronzeville girl as a daughter, a wife and a mother. She experiences loneliness, loss, death and poverty (貧窮).

Gwendolyn Brooks said that winning the prize changed her life.

Her next work was a novel written in 1953 called “Maud Martha”. “Maud Martha” attracted little attention when it was first published. But now it is considered an important work by some critics. Its main ideas about the difficult lives of many women are popular among female writers today.                                                      

1.Gwendolyn Brooks became world-famous because     .

A．she was an expert on the language of poetry

B．she introduced black culture by writing poems

C．she fought for black rights by writing poems

D．her poems showed the lives of black women

2.Which of the following can we learn from the text?

A．Gwendolyn Brooks’ poems focused on black people in Africa.

B．Winning the Pulitzer Prize for Literature was important to Brooks.

C．Gwendolyn Brooks used to suffer a lot from drugs.

D．Gwendolyn Brooks was very strict with herself.

3.How did Gwendolyn Brooks get ideas for most of her poems?

A．By observing life.                       B．By having talks.

C．By reading widely.                       D．By traveling.

4.We can infer that the book “Annie Allen” mainly deals with      .

A．family life         B．inequality         C．adventure         D．failure

 

Answer 1

【答案】

1.B

2.B

3.A

4.A

【解析】

試題分析：本文介紹了布魯克斯在她的一生中創作了大量的詩歌，她是全世界著名的用詩歌的語言來增強人們對美國黑人文化的了解的人。她的詩歌描寫了黑人社會中的貧窮、種族不平等和吸毒的現象，她還創作了反映黑人婦女抗爭的事跡。布魯克斯成為第一位獲得普利策文學獎的非洲裔美國人，她因為她的第二部詩集< Annie Allen>(<安妮.艾倫>)而獲得此獎。

1.細節理解題。根據She was known around the world for using poetry to increase understanding of black culture in America.她介紹了黑人文化，故選B。

2.細節理解題。根據She won the prize for her second book of poems called “Annie Allen”. Gwendolyn Brooks said that winning the prize changed her life.故選B。

3.細節理解題。根據Gwendolyn Brooks once said that she wrote about what she saw and heard in the street. She said she found most of her materials through looking out of the window of her second-floor apartment in Chicago, Illinois通過觀察生活獲得素材，故選A。

4.推理判斷題。根據“Annie Allen” is a collection of poetry about a Bronzeville girl as a daughter, a wife and a mother.故推出是關于家庭生活的，故選A。

考點：人物傳記類短文閱讀。

點評：推理判斷題屬于主觀題，是層次較高的題目。它包括判斷和推理題。這兩類題常常相互依存，推理是為了做出正確的判斷，正確的判斷又依賴于合乎邏輯的推理。該題要求在理解表面文字的基礎上做出判斷和推論，從而得到文章的隱含意思和深層意思，也就是通過文章中的文字信息，上下邏輯關系及事物的發展變化等已知信息，推斷出作者沒有直接表達的態度和觀點。