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核心素养测评 三十九 　选修8　 Unit 4　Pygmalion (限时35分钟) Ⅰ. 阅读理解 A 　　Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the poet, publisher, painter, social activist and bookstore owner, has been San Francisco’s honored poet. He turned 100 last year, and the city made preparations to celebrate him in style. Readings and performances and an open house took place at City Lights, the sacred bookstore he co-founded in 1953. On March 24, 1919, Lawrence Ferlinghetti was born in Yonkers, New York. After spending his early childhood in France, he received his BA from the University of North Carolina, an MA from He is the author of more than thirty books of poetry, including Poetry as Insurgent Art;A Coney Island of the Mind. He has translated the works of a number of poets, including Nicanor Parra, Jacques Prevert, and Pier Paolo Pasolini. In addition to poetry, he is also the author of more than eight plays and three novels, including Little Boy: A Novel, Love in the Days of Rage and Her. In 1953, Ferlinghetti and Peter Martin opened the City Lights bookstore in San Francisco, California. It became a nerve center for the beats and other writers. Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and other writers from that era were Easterners who dropped into San Francisco for a spell. In 2001 it was made an official historic landmark. Now City Lights is almost certainly the best bookstore in the If City Lights is a San Francisco institution, Ferlinghetti himself is as much of one. As a poet, he’s never been a critical favorite. But his flexible and plain-spoken and often powerful work—he has published more than 50 volumes—has found a wide audience. His collection “A Coney Island of the Mind” has sold more than 1 million copies, making it one of the best-selling American poetry books ever  published. 【文章大意】这是一篇人物传记类阅读。文章主要介绍了Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 并对他的成就进行了赞扬。 1. What can we learn about Ferlinghetti from Paragraph 2? A. He had a happy childhood. B. He received normal education. C. He had a gift for writ