Charles Dickens was born on February 7th, 1812, the son of a clerk at the Navy Pay Office. His father,【小题1】(continuous) living beyond his means, was imprisoned for debt in the Marshalsea in 1824. Twelve-year-old Charles 【小题2】(remove) from school and sent to work at a boot-blacking factory, earning six shillings a week to help support the family.

This dark experience cast a shadow over the clever, sensitive boy. The childhood poverty and feelings of abandonment would be a heavy influence【小题3】Dickens’ later views on social reform and the world he would create through his fiction.

Thomas Stearns Eliot OM was thought 【小题1】 (be) one of the most influential poets of the 20th century. He also wrote plays and some important essays about literature.

He was born in St.Louis, Missouri, and went to college in Harvard. 【小题2】 (spend) most of his adult life in London, England, he 【小题3】 (become) a British citizen in 1928.

One of his books 【小题4】 (write) for children is called Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats. The 【小题5】 (song) in the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats are based 【小题6】 poems in it. He also wrote a famous poem, The Waste Land, and helped start a new style called Modernism. His friend, Ezra Pound, another modern poet, helped 【小题7】 (he) finish it. His poem The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock and his play Murder in the Cathedral were also very 【小题8】 (success).

He worked at a bank in England and later as the head editor of a famous publishing company in London 【小题9】 is now called Faber and Faber. In 1948, at 【小题10】 age of 60, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. He died in London in 1965.

Du Fu is considered to be one of the【小题1】 ( great) poets of the Tang Dynasty in China. His mother died while he was young, and【小题2】 aunt helped raised him. Though he studied for the civil service exam to become a civil servant like his father, Du Fu failed【小题3】 ( pass ) and spent many years traveling. His early poems combined incidents from his travels【小题4】the hardships he experienced.

DuFu【小题5】 (appoint) registrar(登记员) in the prince’s palace, but the An Lushan Rebellion(叛乱) of 755 prevented him from【小题6】 (occupy) the post. The rebellion, 【小题7】lasted for nearly eight years, severely disrupted Chinese society. In these years, he led a hard life, writing poems about the events he witnessed.

DuFu【小题8】 (final) moved to Sichuan, where he lived in a cottage and【小题9】 (write) many poems describing his relatively happy life. His last years were spent moving from place to place , including a two-year period at Kuizhou. He is described as a poet-historian, and his works record many political and social【小题10】 ( event).