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   Marianne Moore (1887-1972) once said that her writing could be called poetry only because there was no other name for it. Indeed her poems appear to be extremely compressed essays that happen to be printed in jagged lines on the page. Her subject were varied: animals, laborers, artists, and the craft of poetry. From her general reading came quotations that she found striking or insightful. She included these in her poems, scrupulously enclosed in quotation marks, and sometimes identified in footnotes. Of this practice, she wrote, “Why many quotation marks?’ I am asked ... When a thing has been so well that it could not be said better, why paraphrase it? Hence, my writing is, if not a cabinet of fossils, a kind of collection of flies in amber.” Close observation and concentration on detail and the methods of her poetry.

   Marianne Moore grew up in Kirkwood, Missouri, near St. Lois. After graduation from Bryn Mawr College in 1909, she taught commercial subjects at the Indian School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Later she became a librarian in New York City. During the 1920’s she was editor of The Dial, an important literary magazine of the period. She lived quietly all her life, mostly in Brooklyn, New York. She spent a lot of time at the Bronx Zoo, fascinated by animals. Her admiration of the Brooklyn Dodgers-before the teammoved to Los Angeles-was widely known. Her first book of poems was published in London in 1921 by a group of friends associated with the Imagist movement. From that time on her poetry has been read with interest by succeeding generations of poets and readers. In 1952 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her Collected Poems. She wrote that she did not write poetry “for money or fame. To eam a living is needful, but it can be done in routine ways. One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one’s happiness to express

The word “succeeding” in line 19 is closest to _____________  .

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Although at that time my knowledge of German was very poor, I _____________ most of what they said.

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This property is owned communally now, so everyone must take care of it.

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With unemployment at a record level, retraining programs would _____________ off in the long run.

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It was such strong coffee that he couldn’t drink it.

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“I’m sorry I didn't tell you about my trip earlier,” Lan said.

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Linda seems to have very little record for other people’s feelings.

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It’s time we bought some new furniture. Look at these chairs. They’re _____________ to pieces.

It is people who are of voting age who make up the _____________  of a country.

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It was a(n) _____________ conversation. We were both talking about different things without realising it.

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The economy has ground to a halt because of the civil war.

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He prefers _____________ water to tap water.

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   The technique to (23) _____________ a kite was described very accurately by Marco Polo, the European explorer who went to China m ore than seven hundred years (24) _____________ . The men Polo saw flying a kite were (25) _____________ engaged in a game, or a pastime. They were a ship’s crew superstitious (26) _____________ all sailors are, and they believed the kite would show them whether or not their voyage would be prosperous. If the (27) _____________ went straight up, it was a good sign, and they would immediately

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We can win only if we remain united, and so we must support them the moment they _____________on strike.

Before her injury, my sister _____________ tennis professionally.

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We can go by _____________ road, because _____________ are normally free from heavy traffic at this time of day.