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III. Text Structure (5%)Edward Thomas was one of England’s best-known poets in the early 1900s. Thomas was born on March 3, 1878 in London, England, as Philip Edward Thomas. He studied at St. Paul’s School and Lincoln College in Oxford. ___40.___ Edward Thomas started his literary career writing prose (散文). He wrote about local history and literary reviews. ___41.___In 1912, he tried publishing poetry under the pen name Edward Eastway. ___42.___ Frost encouraged him to write more poems. Later, Thomas became part of a group of romantic English poets called the Georgian poets. ___43.___ For instance, his poem “Adlestrop” refers to a little village in Gloucestershire and the beautiful sight of trees, grass, and birds there.However, compared with his poetry, his friendship with Robert Frost is perhaps better-known. ___44.___ Even after Thomas was killed in World War I in 1917, Robert Frost kept up a correspondence with Thomas’ wife, Helen Thomas, for many years.
(A) He graduated in 1900 with a degree in history but was determined to be a writer.
(B) In the following year, he met American poet Robert Frost in England.
(C) Thomas and Frost were such close friends that Frost once said, “Edward Thomas was the only brother I ever had.”
(D) He also wrote biographies of literary figures like Richard Jeffries, John Keats, and Algernon Charles Swinburne.
(E) Like Robert Frost, Thomas expressed his love of nature in his poems and spoke of the wonderful scenes of the English countryside.
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答案：B[無官方正解]
難度：困難0.333333
統計：A(3),B(3),C(1),D(1),E(1)

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