Section C

Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the missing information. For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the

Robert Frost was born in San Francisco in 1875. When he was at the age of ten, he was sent to New England, an area which【B1】______almost all of his poetry. He got a good education at Dartmouth College, New England, and Hard【B2】______. He became a school for a short time, and then a farm laborer. During this period he wrote poetry but with little【B3】______. From 1912 to 1915, he lived in New England, where he became【B4】______with several poets, including Edward Thomas, and published a Boy's Will in 1913 and North of Boston in 1914. In America his poetry was soon【B5】______, and he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize on four【B6】______between 1924 and 1943. He went on writing【B7】______throughout his life, publishing Steeple Bush at the age of sy-two. He died in 1963.

Frost's poems are revolutionary because they lack the【B8】______of language skills. Many of his lines and sentences are plain and in themselves nothing.【B9】______.With his acute eye and much, we can feel the daily activities of farming and the landscape, such as applepicking or mending a wall.【B10】______.often there is a clearly expressed "moral",though sometimes this is hinted at rather than stated, and frequently there is an almost well-known tone. We learn to trust Robert Frost.【B11】______.

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