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.

　　1. 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

　　答案解析：答案为A。本题为细节题。由第二段 “Reading them was a social act as well as an individual one, and perhaps even more social than individual. Writing poems to share with friends and relations was, ...”可知，在十九世纪读诗是一种社会行为，因为人们读诗写诗都是和朋友以及与自己有关的人分享，也就是说读诗在人们之间建立起一种联系，故答案为A。

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

　　”.

　　A. concentration B. change C. amusements D. stories

　　答案解析：答案为C。本题为词义猜测题。由第二段 “It is true that there was no television at the time, nor movie theaters, nor World Wide Web, to provide diversion. However, poems were a source of pleasure,…”可知，在十九世纪，没有电视机、电影院和宽带网，然而诗歌是快乐的源泉，因此可以推断，电视机、电影院和宽带网提供的是娱乐，故答案为C。

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