Questions 9 to 12 are based on the passage you have just heard.
9
A.He never established his fame in America.
B.He was well-known when he first began to write poems.
C.He was not famous in America before he was forty years old.
D.He was an English poet.
10
A.His father's drunkenness, abuse and early death.
B.His kept doing a same job.
C.He was very sensitive and easily got hurt.
D.He was always sick.
11
A.He had friends there.
B.He had to go there to meet his publisher.
C.He couldn't afford to support his family in America.
D.The living cost there was low and the atmosphere was favourable.
12
A.Uniting American poetry with British language.
B.Combining traditional forms of poetry with American words.
C.Suffering from his childhood.
D.Using delicate words and forms.