参考答案：错

解析：[听力原文]John Ciardi was born in 1916 in Boston, Massachusetts, the child of Italian immigrants. He attended Bates College and Tufts College and received his master’s degree from the University of Michigan in 1939. He is the author of more than forty volumes of poetry.

[分析]： 事实细节的找寻和判断。 将题干中的细节信息与原文对照，发现原文说John Ciardi写诗的数量为“more than forty volumes of poetry”即“四十多卷诗歌”，而不是题干所言的四十多首(more than forty poems)。因此，该题的说法是错误的。[解题关键] 注意数字后面的量词。量词经常会成为听力考查的对象。