—Daddy，will you come home for supper with US today?
— , but I might be a little late.
A．I'm busy B．No problem C．I'm sorry D．It's hard to say
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If you have read Sylvia Plath’s poetry ,you wil probably wonder what it is about and why she wrote the way she did . Her work always has strong feelings .
Born in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Massachusetts , Plath became an author , whose writings students all over the world have tried to analyze（分析）and understand . Plath’s mother , Aurelia Schober Plath , was a first-generation American from Austria , and her father , Otto Emile Plath , was from Grabow , Germany . Plath had a very close relationship with her father . She wrote about her father in the poem “ Daddy ” , which later became one of her most famous pieces of work . And when her father died in 1940 , eight-year-old Plath said , “ I’ll never speak to God again .” Her poem shows her great love for her father .
In 1995 , Plath graduated from Smith College with highest honors , and obtained a scholarship to Newnham College , Cambridge . It was there that she met the poet Ted Hughes and married him on June 16 , 1956 . It is said that she “ met her match ”. Plath and Hughes experienced a happy life as fully as possible for a while . Plath described Hughes as a “ singer , story-teller , lion and world-wanderer（流浪者）” with a “ voice like the thunder of God .”
Their daughter Frieda was born on April l st 1960 , and their son Nicholas was born in January , 1962. Plath’s poem “ Morning Song ” expresses her feelings as her son was born . She wrote , “ Love set you going like a fat gold watch … ” She compared her baby son to “ a fat gold watch ” , which shows her deep love and great imagination . Beginning in October , 1962 , Plath experienced a great burst of creativity and wrote most of the poems on which her reputation now rests . In 1963 , Plath dead from carbon monoxide poisoning（一氧化碳中毒）. In 1982 , she became the first poet to win a Pulitzer after passing away for The Collected Poems .
56. We can learn from the text that .
A. Plath’s poetry is famous all over the world
B. Plath didn’t like her father very much
C. Plath lived in Germany when she was youn
D. Plath’s mother was born in America
57. What can we learn from the underlined sentence in Paragraph 3 ?
A. Hughes was also an excellent poet .
B. Hughes always competed with Platch .
C. Hughes was not a good husband .
D. Hughes didn’t like to be a poet .
58. What can we learn about Plath’s poetry ?
A. It has nothing to do with her life .
B. It shows her life in the country side .
C. It is full of feelings and imagination .
D. Its language is simple and common .
59. According to the text , Sylvia Plath died .
A. in her twenties B. in her thirties C. in her forties D. in her fifties
60. What’s the main purpose of the text ?
A. To tell how Sylvia Plath became a poet .
B. To describe the features of Sylvia Plath’s poetry .
C. To explain why Sylvia Plath won a Pulitzer Prize .
D. To introduce Sylvia Plath and her poetry .
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