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试题习题、尽在百度 课时作业 27 Ⅰ.阅读理解 (2017·湖北省枣阳市白水高中月考) Walt Whitman was born in 1819 in Long Island, New York. Whitman receivedmost of hiseducationoutsideof theclassroom.At theage of eleven,he worked in a law officeas an officeboy where he became interested in reading. He was soon reading the works of famous authors likeWilliam Shakespeareand Homer, and was well on his way to becoming one of Americas most well-known poets. By the time Whitman was seventeenyears old,he had already with his students; he even allowed them to adress him by his first name. He also developed fresh teaching techniques and learning games to help hisstudentswith spellingand maths.Inhisearlytwenties,however,he gave up teachingtopursue (追求) a full-timecareeras a journalistand poet. When Walt Whitman firstappearedas a poet,hisarrivalonto the poems, Leaves of Grass,was so unusualthatno commercialpublisher would print the work. In 1855 Whitman published, at his own expense, the first edition of his collection of twelve poems. Whitmans poeticstylewas uncommon in the sensethathe wrote poems ina form calledparallelism(对句法),inwhich hisgoalwas to copy the flow of the sea and the quickly-passing nature of human emotion. A common theme inWhitmans poetryisself-realization.In hiswork, Whitman moves from conventional patterns of rhyme to create a unique 仔细审题、认真作答 试题习题、尽在百度 rhythm and a multi-layered, but truly American voice. “Although Whitman was considered a revolutionary by many, there is 俚 语) and various images, or voices, to create a sense of national unity. Fo affectionately as he has absorbed it.” Whitman has undoubtedly become a part of the cultural history and image of America. 1．Paragraph 2 mainly talks about ________. A ．Whitmans education B ．