寒假作业（7）Unit 4 Exploring poetry-2021-2022学年高二英语牛津译林版（2020）选择性必修第一册

（7）Unit 4 Exploring poetry 第一部分 阅读理解（共两节，满分50分） 第一节 （共15小题；每小题2.5分，满分37.5分） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。 A     Five American teenagers were officially named the 2018 National Student Poets on Thursday at a ceremony in Washington, D.C. The award is the highest honour for young poets in the United States and the students represent states from all over the country. The teenagers were first chosen in August from among thousands of award-winning young poets in the United States.     Virginia McEnery leads the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, which plays a part in choosing the national student poets. She says poetry is powerful because it is open to everyone. "It's so democratic, you don't need more than a pencil and piece of paper and everyone likes it." McEnery says she hopes the national student poet programme will support the winners not only as writers, but as activists.     Many of the student poets have already held literary leadership positions, McEnery said. "For many of the