可锐教育官网 http:/www.kaoyan1v1.com2018 年可锐考研英语阅读理解精选（一）Text1He emerged, all of a sudden, in 1957: the most explosive new poetic talent of the English post-war era. Poetry specialised, at that moment, in the wry chronicling of the everyday. The poetry of Yorkshire-born Ted Hughes, first published in a book called The Hawk in the Rain when he was 27, was unlike anything written by his immediate predecessors. Driven by an almost Jacobean rhetoric, it had a visionary fervour. Its most eye-catching characteristic was Hughess ability to get beneath the skins of animals: foxes, otters, pigs. These animals were the real thing all right, but they were also armorial devices-symbols of the countryside and lifeblood of the earth in which they were rooted. It gave his work a raw, primal stink.It was not only England that thought so either. Hughess book was also published in America, where it won the Galbraith prize, a major literary award. But then, in 1963, Sylvia Plath, a young American poet whom he had first met at Cambridge University in 1956, and who became his wife in the summer of that year, committed suicide. Hughes was vilified for long after that, especially by feminists in America. In 1998, the year he died, Hughes broke his own self-imposed public silence about their relationship in a book of loose-weave poems called Birthday Letters.In this new and exhilarating collection of real letters, Hughes returns to the issue of his first wifes death, which he calls his big and unmanageable event. He felt his talent muffled by the perpetual eavesdropping upon his every move. Not until he decided to publish his own account of their relationship did the burden begin to lighten.The analysis is raw, pained and ruthlessly self-aware. For all the moral torment, the writing itself has the same rush and vigour that possessed Hughess early poetry. Some books of letters serve as a personalised historical chronicle. Poets letters are seldom like that, and Hughess are no exception. His are about a life of literary engagement: almost all of them include some musing on the state or the nature of writing, both Hughess own or other peoples. The trajectory of Hughess literary career had him moving from obscurity to fame, and then, in the eyes of many, to life-long notoriety. These letters are filled with his wrestling with the consequences of being the part-private, part-public creature that he became, desperate to devote himself to his writing, and yet subject to endless invasions of his privacy.可锐教育官网 http:/www.kaoyan1v1.comHughes is an absorbing and intricate commentator upon his own poetry, even when he is standing back from it and good-humouredly condemning himself for its fantasticalia, its pretticisms and its infinite verballifications. He also believed, from first to last, that poetry had a special place in the education of children. What kids need, he wrote in a 1988 letter to the secretary of state for education in the Conservative government, is a headfull sic of songs that are not songs but blocks of refined and achieved and exemplary language. When that happens, children have the guardian angel installed behind the tongue. Lucky readers, big or small.1.The poetry of Hughess forerunners is characteristic of _A its natural, crude flavor.B its distorted depiction of peoples daily life.C its penetrating sight.D its fantastical enthusiasm.2.The word vilified most probably means _A torturedB harassedC scoldedD tormented可锐教育官网 http:/www.kaoyan1v1.com3.According to the third paragraph, Hughess collection of letters are _A personal recollection of his life.B personalised historical chronicle of his literary engagement.C reflections of his struggle with his devotion and the reality.D his meditation on the literary world.4. From the letters, we may find the cause of Hughess internal struggle is _A his devotion to the literary world.B that he is a part-private, part-public creature.C that he is constrained by the fear of his privacy being invaded.D his fame and notoriety.5. By lucky readers in the last sentence, the author means_A children who read poetry.可锐教育官网 http:/www.kaoyan1v1.comB children who have a headfull of songs.C children who own blocks of refined and achieved and exemplary language.D children who have the guardian angel installed behind the tongue篇章剖析：本文讲述了英国著名诗人特德休斯作品的特点和其所反映的诗人的一些情况。第一段讲述休斯诗歌的特色;第二段讲述因其妻子的原因而创作了一部书信集的情况。第三段讲述这本书信集的特点和反映的内容。第四段讲述休斯对诗歌的看法和态度。词汇注释：wry adj. 枯燥乏味的predecessorn. 前辈, 前任rhetoric n. 浮夸与修饰fervour n.热情armorial adj.徽章的, 家徽的可锐教育官网 http:/www.kaoyan1v1.comlifeblood n. 生命力或生命之源的力量stink n. 气息，气味vilifie vt.诽谤, 辱骂, 贬低, 轻视muffle vt.压抑;阻止eavesdropping n.偷听trajectory n. 道路选择好的或采用的路径：notoriety n.恶名, 丑名, 声名狼藉absorbing adj.吸引人的, 非常有趣的难句突破：(1)But then, in 1963, Sylvia Plath, a young American poet whom he had first met at Cambridge University in 1956, and who became his wife i