2019版高考英语一轮复习Unit2Poems夯基提能作业新人教版选修.docVIP

PAGE PAGE 6 Unit 2　Poems Ⅰ.阅读理解 A (2017吉林梅河口阶段测试) Walt Whitman was born in 1819 in Long Island, New York. Whitman received most of his education outside of the classroom. At the age of eleven, he worked in a law office as an office boy where he became interested in reading. He was soon reading the works of famous authors like William Shakespeare and Homer, and was well on his way to becoming one of Americas most well-known poets. By the time Whitman was seventeen years old, he had already worked as a printers learner, a worker, and a teacher. Though he disliked teaching, he excelled in t