Questions:

 A. Who is the poet of the quoted lines? What is the title of the poem?

 B. What does the child stand for in the poem?

 C. How do you understand “These became part of the child”?

44. “I cannot rub the strangeness from my sight

 I got from looking through a pane of glass

 I skimmed this morning from the drinking trough

 And held against the world of hoary grass.”

 Questions:

 A. Who is the poet of the quoted stanza? What is the title of the poem?

 B. What does the word “strangeness” refers to?

 C. What does the quoted part imply?

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. What’ s the theme of Shakespeare’ s great tragedy Hamlet?

46. What’s the theme of Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind”? What does the west wind symbolize?

47. What issuses does Emily Dickinson address in her poems? What are features of her poems?

48. What’s Ernest Hemingway’s “iceberg” analogy?

Ⅳ. Topic Discussion (20 points in all, 10 for each)外语学习网

   Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.

49. Make a comment on Thomas Hardy’s contribution to English literature.

50. Based on the novel The Great Gatsby, discuss the features of F · Scott Fitzgerald’s works.

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