Part Ⅳ. Reading Comprehension:

Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answers on the answer sheet. (20 points in all, 5 points for each)

45. “They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience; for nature abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.”.

Questions:

A. Which essay is this passage taken from? Who is the author?

B. Briefly interpret this part.

46. “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighborhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters”.

Questions:

A. Which novel is this passage taken from? Who is the author?

B. Briefly interpret this passage.

47. “For oft, when on my couch I lie

 In vacant or in pensive mood,

 They flash upon that inward eye

 Which is the bliss of solitude;

 And then my heart with pleasure fills,

 And dances with the daffodils.”

 Questions:

A. Identify the poem and the poet.

B. Briefly interpret this passage.

48. “She frankly wanted him to climb into the middle class, a thing not vey difficult, she knew. And she wanted him in the end to marry a lady ”.

Questions:

A. Which novel is this passage taken from? Who is the author?

B. Briefly interpret this passage.

Part Ⅴ. Topic Discussion:

Give brief answers to the following questions. Write your answers on the answer sheet. (20 points in all, 10 points for each)

49. Discuss the theme of “Araby” in relation to the works of Joyce.

50. Discuss the main poetic features of John Keats.