B．First Children's Poet Laureate Named

C．Children's Love for Poetry Increased

D．Jack Prelutsky Awarded Nationwide

2．What is Jack Prelutsky famous for?

A．Creating new words in his poems.

B．His productivity.

C．His long time of writing.

D．His poems about American holidays.

3．What can we infer from the passage?

A．It was A Gopher in the Garden that brought him fame

B．The poet will be kept busy over a lot of activities.

C．Jack Prelutsky will no longer write about American holidays.

D．The poem It's Halloween must have been written for adults.

4．Put the following items in RIGHT order according to the passage.

a．two public readings

b．A Gopher in the Garden

c．Behold the Bold Umbrellaphant and Other Poems

d．My Sister Is a Werewolf

A．b-c-d-a　　　　　　 B．d-a-c-b

C．b-d-c-a D．a-b-c-d

　　[语篇解读]　本文介绍了美国的第一位儿童桂冠诗人Jack Prelutsky。

1．解析：主旨大意题。根据第一段第一句话中的as the nation's first children's poet laureate."可知应选B。

答案：B

2．解析：细节理解题。根据第四段的主题句"Jack Prelutsky is well-known for creating new words by..."可知正确答案为A项。

答案：A

3．解析：推理判断题。根据第二段内容可知Jack Prelutsky成为桂