河南省杞县2017高考英语一轮复习 阅读理解训练（二）2.doc1 河南杞县 2017 高考英语阅读理解一轮训练(二) 阅读下列短文, 从给的四个选项(A、B、C和 D)中, 选出最佳选项。体裁:记叙文话题:人物介绍时间: 7 分钟 The son ofap iano producer , Elwyn Brooks White was born in Mount Vernon ina wealthy he was raised with the mix of sophistication( 高水平) mon sense that would mark his writing. After gradu ation , Elwyn Brooks White spent a year asa newspaper reporter in New York City , and then decided to drive across the country with a trip gave Elwyn Brooks White a lifetime of anecdotes. “ When they ran out of money ,” Elwyn Brooks White's friend , James Thurber , noted, “ they played for their supper and their gasoline on an interesting musical instrument that Elwyn Brooks White had made out of some pieces of wire and an old shoe. ” When Elwyn Broo ks Whi te returned to New York City in the mid - 1920s , he spent a few years bouncing between advertising jobs and unemployment before trying his hand again at very seriously , he sent some essays toa new magazine called The New Yorker .Since its founding in 1925 , the magazine had struggled to find its _ niche , and Elwyn Brooks White's work helped put The New Yorker on the essays were funny and sophisticated ; they spoke equally to socialites( 社会名流) and cab drivers , professors and his essays , which he wrote for nearly 50 years , Elwyn Brooks White helped give The New Yorker its voice and identity. In
