【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 s as well as athletic petitions. Now, poetry petitions have been revived. This year 120,000 high school students peted in the first Poetry Out Loud national recitation contest, performing poems from memory for $100,000 in prizes. The first petitions were held in classrooms. The winners went on to schoolwide contests, and then they peted in city and state petitions, and then the 50 state champions, along with the District of Columbia champion came to Washington, D. C. last week for the last showdown(對決 ). After the 51 champions peted against one another,12 went on to the finals. Then the field was narrowed to five. The final five had one last chance to perform a poem. The overall champ, Jackson Hille, a high school senior from Ohio, won a $20,000 scholarship. The National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation started Poetry Out Loud because they realized that hearing a poem performed is a different experience from reading it on a page. It39。s not just a matter of saying the words in the right order. It39。s the tone of voice, the pauses, the gestures, and the attitude of the person performing that bring the words to life. Each time we hear somebody recite a poem, we understand again what we found fresh and interesting about it,‖ says National Public Radio broadcaster Scott Simon, master of ceremonies for the finals. Hearing it in a new voice offers something new to the listener. Not only do the people hearing poems have a new experience, memorizing and presenting poems helps the participants understand those poems in a new way. Another benefit of a petition such as Poetry Out Loud is that the participants learn publicspeaking skills that can help them for life. 41. From the first paragraph, we can know________. A. the Greeks were the first to write poems B. the Olympics used to start with poem reciting C. poems were spread orally in the past D. athletes were asked to recite poems before peting 42. How many rounds of petitions did the champions take before they went to Washington, D. C. ? A. Three. B. Four C. Five. D. Six. 43. According to the passage, hearing a poem recited in a new can________. A. bring a new life to listeners B. help listeners find their interest C. make listeners learn the words D. offer something new to listeners 44. One benefit the participants get from a petition such as Poetry Out Loud is that they can________. A. bee confident while speaking in public B. write good poems themselves C. change their attitudes towards life D. make friends with many great poets 45. What39。s the best title for the passage? A. Reciting poems improves your memory. B. Remembering a lot of poems is fun. C. Poets have a great time. D. Poetry rocks the microphone C It was the summer of 1965. Deluca, then 17, visited Peter Buck, a family friend. Buck asked DeLuca about his plans for the future. I39。 m going to college, but I need a way to pay for it, DeLuca recalls saying. Buck said, 39。You should open a sandwich shop. 39。 That afternoon, they agreed to be partners. And they set a goal: to open 32 stores in ten years. After doing some research, Buck wrote a check for $ 1,000. DeLuca rented a storefront (店面 ) in Connecticut, and when they couldn39。t cover their startup costs, Buck kicked in another $ 1,000. But business didn39。t go smoothly as they expected. DeLuca says, After six months, we were doing poorly, but we didn39。t know how badly, because we didn39。t have any financial controls. All he and Buck knew was that their sales were lower than their costs. Deluca was managing the store and going to the University of Bridgeport at the same time. Buck was working at his day job as a nuclear physicist in New York. They39。d meet Monday evenings and brainstorm ideas for keeping the business running. We convinced ourselves to open a second store. We figured we could tell the public, 39。We are so successful, we are opening a second store.39。 And they didin the spring of 1966. Still, it was a lot of learning by trial and error. But the partners39。 learnasyougo approach turned out to be their greatest strength. Every Friday, DeLuca would drive around and hand deliver the checks to pay their suppliers. It probably took me two and a half hours and it wasn39。t necessary,