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考研《英语一》2023年怀化市中方县模拟预测试卷 Section I Use of English Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on the ANSWER SHEET. (10 points) William Butler Yeats, a most famous Irish writer, was born in Dublin on June 13, 1865. His childhood 1 the harmony that was 2 of a happy family. Later, Yeats shocked his family by saying that he remembered “little of childhood but its pain”. In fact, he 3 excellent taste in art from his family — both his father and his brother were painters. But he finally 4 literature, 5 drama and poetry. Yeats had strong 6 in the coming of new artistic movements. He set himself the 7 task in founding an Irish national theatre in the late 1890s. His early theatrical experiments, 8 , were not received 9 at the beginning. He didn’t lose heart, and finally enjoyed 10 in his poetical drama. 11 with his dramatic works, Yeats’s poems attract much 12 notice. The subject matter includes love, nature, history, time and aging. Though Yeats generally relied on very traditional forms, he brought modern 13 to them. As his literary life 14 , his poetry grew finer and richer, which led him to worldwide 15 . He had not 16 a major public life 17 winning the Nobel Prize in 1923. Yet, he continued writing almost to the end of his life. Had Yeats stopped writing at age 40, he would probably now be 18 as a minor poet, for there is no other example in literary history of a poet who 19 his greatest works between the ages of 50 and 75. After Yeats’s death in 1939, W.H.Auden wrote, among others, the following lines: Earth, receive an 20 guest: William Yeats is laid to rest. Let the Irish vessel (船) lie. Emptied of its poetry. 1、A．held B．lacked C．expected D．desired 2、A．typical B．special C．awkward D．capable 3、A．inherited B．developed C．abandoned D．formed 4、A．carried on B．decided on C．put on D．based on 5