Before and during the Civil War,（ ）stood firmly on the side of the North and wrote a series of poems gathered as a collection under the title of Drum Taps.

• A、Walt Whitman
• B、Nathaniel Hawthorne
• C、Herman Melville
• D、Mark Twain

阅读理解题:

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one travel, long I stood

And looked down as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as far that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same.

Question:

A. Identify the poet.

B. What does the phrase "wanted wear" mean?

C. What does the speaker want to tell us?

In 1724, Jonathan Swift published a series of litters cling on the county to refuse the English（ ）So he is still respected in Ireland.

• A、government corruption
• B、political hypocrisy
• C、copper coins
• D、heavy taxes