person who lived in the country，not the __9__.

　　 Many people thought the speaker was Frost himself. In fact the speaker was __10__ person. Frost the __11__， tried to become the imaginary person he __12__ for his poetry.

　　 Robert Frost is always linked to the land of cold winters in the northeastern United States the area called New England. __13__ he came from the other side of the country San Francisco California. He was born there in 1874. He lived in California during his early __14__.

　　 This man who was born in the __15__ and became linked with New England was named for the chief southern general in America's Civil War. The general's name was Robert Edward Lee. The poet was named Robert Lee Frost because his father wanted to __16__ the general.

　　 Someone once asked another American __17__， Ernest Hemingway how to become a writer. The __18__ thing，he said，was to have an __19__ childhood. If this is true Robert Frost's childhood was unhappy enough to make him a very __20__ writer.

　　1．A.soon　　　　　　　　　B．late

　　C．quickly D．early

　　解析：从后文可知他成名很晚。由文中第三句"He was forty ..."可知。

　　答案：B

　　2．A.since B．until

　　C．before D．after

　　解析：据前后逻辑关系，在他的诗被大家所读或认可之前他就40了。

　　答案：C

　　3．A.fame B．name

　　C．poem D．family

　　解析：表示"名望"。

　　答案：A

　　4．A.working B．using

　　C．putting D．uniting

解析：他的成功在于把诗歌的传统形式与美国语言结合了起来。