C．Washington Irving
D．Walt Whitman
34．Altogether, Emily Dickinson wrote 1775 poems, of which only ______ had appeared during her lifetime. A．three C．seven
B．five D．nine
35．The ______ Age of the 1920s characterized by frivolity and carelessness is brought vividly to life in The Great Gatsby. A．Lost C．Reason
B．Jazz D．Gilded
36．Robert Frost is generally considered a regional poet whose subject matters mainly focus on the landscape and people in
______. A．the west C．Alaska
B．the south D．New England
37．As ______ saw it, poetry could play a vital part in the process of creating a new nation. It could enable Americans to
celebrate their release from the Old World and the colonial rule. A．Wordsworth Longfellow C．Walt Whitman
B．William Bryant D．Robert Frost
38．Walt Whitman is a poet with a strong sense of mission, having devoted all his life to the creation of the “single” poem,
______.
A．The Love Song of J．Alfred Prufrock C．Murder in the Cathedral
B．The Waste Land D．Leaves of Grass
39．Realism was a reaction against Romanticism and paved the way to ______. A．Modernism C．Post-Modernism
B．Scientism D．Feminism
40．Mark Twain employed an unpretentious style of ______ in his novels which is best described as “vernacular”. A．standard English C．colloquialism
B．Afro-American English D．urbanism
II．Reading Comprehension （16 points in all,4 for each）
Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the Answer Sheet.
41．“Shall I compare thee to a summer?s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer?s lease hath all too short a date:” Questions:
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A．Identify the poet and the poem from which the quoted lines are taken. B．Name the figure of speech employed in the poem. C．What is the theme of the poem?
42．“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? —You think wrong!… And if
God had gifted me with some beauty, and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you…—it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God?s feet, equal—as we are!” Questions:
A．Identify the author and the novel from which the quoted part is taken. B．To whom is the speaker speaking?
C．What does the quoted part imply about the speaker? 43．“The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.” Questions:
A．Identify the poet and the poem from which the quoted lines are taken. B．What does the word “sleep” mean? C．What idea do the four lines express? 44．“I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
I loafe and invite my soul,
I learn and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.” (from Walt Whitman?s “Song of Myself”) Questions:
A．Whom does “myself” refer to?
B．How do you understand the line “I loafe and invite my soul”? C．What does “a spear of summer grass” indicate? III．Questions and Answers（24 points in all, 6 for each）
Give a brief answer to each of the following questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the Answer Sheet.
45．“ ?My boy!? said the old gentleman, leaning over the desk. Oliver stated at the sound. He might be excused for doing so,
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for the words were kindly said, and strange sounds frighten one. He trembled violently, and burst into tears.”（from Charles Dickens? Oliver Twist）
Explain why Oliver Twist started first, then trembled violently and burst into tears when the words were “kindly” said. 46．It is said that B. Shaw?s play, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, has a strong realistic theme, which fully reflects the dramatist?s
Fabianist idea. Try to summarize this theme briefly.
47．“In your rocking-chair, by your window dreaming, shall you long, alone. In your rocking-chair, by your window, shall
you dream such happiness as you may never feel.”（from Theodore Dreiser?s Sister Carrie） What idea can you draw from the “rocking-chair”? 48．Why are naturalists inevitably pessimistic in their view? IV．Topic Discussion（20 points in all, 10 for each）
Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the Answer Sheet.
49．Daniel Defoe?s novel Robinson Crusoe was a great success partly because the protagonist was a real middle-class hero.
Discuss Crusoe, the protagonist of the novel, as an embodiment of the rising middle-class virtues in the mid-eighteenth century England.
50．“ ?My faith is gone!? cried he（Goodman Brown）,after one stupefied moment. ?There is no good on earth; and sin is but
a name. Come, devil! For to thee is this world given.? ”（from Nathaniel Hawthorne?s “Young Goodman Brown”） Make a comment on this passage.
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