William Butler Yeats was born in Sandymount，County Dublin，Ireland on June 13th，1865.His father John was a law student who later pursued art，and young William and his siblings moved back and forth between Dublin and London during much of their（1）

A

A

.
   Most of their holidays were（2）

B

B

with their mother's family in Sligo，a region whose landscape，culture and folklore（民俗）（3）

D

D

his own work.
   While his family belonged to the main Protestant minority which（4）

A

A

themselves with the British，Yeats firmly considered himself Irish.Indeed many of his poems and plays reflect Irish legends and castles.In 1885，Yeats started（5）

A

A

poems as a young man of 20.Many of his early works were later published as The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems.
   He became（6）

C

C

in politics，which resulted in his becoming an Irish senator（參議員）in 1922 when the Irish Free State was formed.He（7）

B

B

for 6 years but continued to（8）

D

D

well into his seventies.
   Later in London，he also co-founded the Rhymer's Club for（9）

C

C

to share their verses，with his own contributions becoming popular with other poets.In 1899，as Yeats began writing dramas，he established the Irish Literary Theater（10）

D

D

other like-minded people to stage Irish plays.His plays were influenced by Japanese Noh style of writing，a type of traditional Japanese theater which tended to be musical rather than focus on prose.
   Yeats became（11）

C

C

when he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923，becoming one of the first Irish laureates（桂冠詩人）.His book The Tower was set in his own（12）

B

B

，which he had bought and restored.（13）

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A

，many of his best works were written when he was well past 50，and they continue to be popular today.
   In 1939，Yeats died in France on a trip tjye.aire.He was（14）

D

D

at Roquebrune，but according to his（15）

B

B

，his remains were later taken to Sligo and buried at Drumcliff in 1948.

（1）	A．childhood	B．life	C．holiday	D．education
（2）	A．wasted	B．spent	C．sponsored	D．scheduled
（3）	A．a(chǎn)ttracted	B．explained	C．based	D．influenced
（4）	A．a(chǎn)ssociated	B．provided	C．related	D．mixed
（5）	A．composing	B．reading	C．a(chǎn)ppreciating	D．a(chǎn)nalyzing
（6）	A．sensitive	B．independent	C．a(chǎn)ctive	D．mild
（7）	A．prepared	B．served	C．waited	D．a(chǎn)pplied
（8）	A．perform	B．learn	C．teach	D．write
（9）	A．singers	B．politicians	C．poets	D．musicians
（10）	A．for	B．of	C．a(chǎn)bout	D．with
（11）	A．wealthy	B．powerful	C．famous	D．a(chǎn)ggressive
（12）	A．church	B．castle	C．palace	D．square
（13）	A．Unusually	B．Fortunately	C．Hopefully	D．Humorously
（14）	A．burned	B．buried	C．located	D．honored
（15）	A．expectation	B．promise	C．determination	D．will