Poets failed the reader, so did teachers. They want their students to know something about the skills of a poem, they want their students to see that poems mean something. Yet what usually occurs when teachers push these concerns on their high school students is that young people decide poems are unpleasant crossword puzzles.

　　29. Reading poems is thought to be a social act in the nineteenth century because ______________.

　　A. it built a link among people

　　B. it helped unite a community

　　C. it was a source of self-education

　　D. it was a source of pleasure

　　30. The underlined word “diversion”(in Paragraph 2) most probably means “_________”.

　　A. concentration

　　B. change

　　C. amusements

　　D. stories

　　31. In the last paragraph, the writer questions ____________.

　　A. the difficulty in studying poems

　　B. the way poems are taught in school

　　C. students’ wrong ideas about poetry

　　D. the techniques used in writing poems

　　32. According to the passage, what is the main cause of the great gap between readers and poetry?

　　A. Students are becoming less interested in poetry.

　　B. Students are poorly educated in high school.

　　C. TV and the Internet are more attractive than poetry.

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