D. Too much drinking.

　　2. Which of the following is WRONG?

　　A. Wang Guozhen majored in literature in university.

　　B. 1990 was called "The year of Wang Guozhen".

　　C. Wang Guozhen wrote over 50 books from 1990 to 2000.

　　D. Wang Guozhen is not popular among those born in the 60s.

　　3. The writer mentioned President Xi Jinping to show ________.

　　A. President Xi is knowledgeable

　　B. Wang's poems are popular

　　C. China's determined to reform

　　D. China has stressed the importance of education

　　4. According to Wang Ling, we can know ________.

　　A. her Chinese teacher didn't like Wang's poems

　　B. she liked Wang Guozhen's poems very much

　　C. she did not like Wang's poems any longer

　　D. she once made great efforts to learn how to write poems

　　B

　　Gwendolyn Brooks was born on June 17, 1917 in Topeka, Kansas. Her family moved to Chicago when Brooks was four. At the age of seven, Brooks began learning how to write poems, and by the young age of thirteen she had her first poem published.

　　She wrote hundreds of poems during her lifetime. She had more than twenty books published. She was known around the world for using poetry to increase understanding about black culture in America. Gwendolyn Brooks wrote many poems about black people during the 1940s and 1950s. Her poems described living conditions of the poor, racial inequality (种族不平等) and drug use in the black community. She also wrote poems about the struggles of black women.

But her skill was more than her ability to write about struggling black people. She was an expert at the language of poetry. She mixed traditional European poetry styles with the African­American experience. She once said that she wrote about what she saw and heard in the street. She said she found most of her material looking out of the window of her second­floor apartment house in Chicago, Illinois. In her early poetry, she wrote about the South Side of Chicago. The South Side of Chicago is where many black people live. In her poems, the South Side is called Bronzeville. It was A Street in Bronzeville that gained the attention of literary