Part I Reading Comprehension Part I Reading Comprehension Directions: In this part of the exercise you will have 15 passages followed by questions about the meaning of the material. You are to choose the ONE best answer, A, B, C, D to each question. Answer all questions following a passage on the basis of what is stated or implied in that passage. Questions 1 to 4 are based on the following passage: For Emily Dickinson there were three worlds, and she lived in all of them, making them the substance of everything that she thought and wrote. There was the world of nature, the things and the creatures that she saw, heard, felt about her; there was the "estate" that was the world of friendship; and there was the world of the unseen and unheard. From her youth she was looked upon as different. She was direct, impulsive, original, and the droll wit who said unconventional things which others thought but dared not speak, and said them incomparably well. The characteristics which made her inscrutable to those who knew her continue to bewilder and surprise, for she lived by paradoxes. Certainly the greatest paradox was the fact that the three most pervasive friendships were the most elusive. She saw the Revernd Charles Wadsworth of Philadelphia but three or four times in the course of her life, and then briefly, yet her admiration of him as an ideal and her yearning for him as a person were of unsurpassed importance in her growth as a poet. She sought out for professional advice the critic and publicist Thomas Wentworth Higginson and invited his aid as mentor for more than twenty years, though she never once adopted any counsel he dared to hazard. In the last decade of her life, she c ame to be a warm admirer of the poet and novelist Helen Hunt Jackson, the only qualified judge among Emily Dickinson's contemporaries who believed her to be a great poet, yet Emily Dickinson steadfastly refused to publish even though Mrs. Jackson's importunity was insistent. 1. What is the author's main purpose in the passage? a. To provide information about the childhood of Emily Dickinson b. To discuss some of Emily Dickinson's critics c. To give some insight into Emily Dickinson's character and personality d. To comment on the quality of Emily Dickinson's poetry 2. According to the passage, many of the people who knew Emily Dickinson thought of her as a. sociableb. unusualc. sadd. insensitive 3. According to the passage, HelenHunt Jackson wanted a. as much recognition as Emily Dickinson receive
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