阅读理解+阅读七选五+书面表达分类综合训练 一、阅读理解 A “The Road Not Taken” is one of Robert Frosts most familiar and popular poems. It is made up of four stanzas (节) of five lines each. The popularity of the poem is largely a result of the simplicity of its symbolism: the speaker must choose between diverging (分叉的) paths in a wood, and he thinks that choice is like choosing between different directions in life. Though it is a simple poem, different people have different interpretations of how the speaker feels about his situation and how the readers view the speaker. Frost wrote the poem in the first person, which raises the question of whether the speaker is the poet himself or a persona, a character created for the purposes of the poem. According to a biography, Robert Frost: The Years of Triumph by Lawrence Thompson, Frost would often introduce that the speaker was based on his friend Edward Thomas, “A person who, whichever road he went, would be sorry he didn’t go the other.” In the first stanza, the speaker must choose between two paths in different directions. He regrets that he cannot follow both roads, so he pauses for a long while to consider his choice. In this stanza and the next, one road seems preferable; however, in the third stanza he has decided that the two paths are roughly equivalent (相同的). And then he tries to cheer himself up by comforting himself that he will return somed