PART TWO (60POINTS)

Ⅱ .Reading comprehension(16 points,4 for each)

Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answer in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.

41. “One short sleep past, we wake eternally,

And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die.”

Questions:

A. Identify the poem and the poet.

B.What does the word “sleep” mean?

C. What idea do the two lines express?

42. “Never did sun more beautifully steep

In his first splendor, valley, rock, or hill;

Ne’er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!

The river glideth at his own sweet will:

Dear God! The very houses seem asleep;

And all that mighty heart is lying still!”

(William Wordsworth’s sonnet: “Composed upon Westminster Bridge” September 3, 1802)

Questions:

A. What does the word “glideth” in the fourth line mean?

B. What kind of figure of speech is used by wordsworth to describe the “river”?

C. What idea does the fourth line express?

43. “With Blue—uncertain stumbling Buzz—

Between the light—and me—

And then the Windows failed—and then

I could not see to see—”

Questions:

A. Identify the poem and the poet.

B. What do “Windows” symbolically stand for?

C. What idea does the quoted passage express?

44. “‘Is dying hard, Daddy?’

‘No, I think it’s pretty easy, Nick, It all depends.”’

Questions:

A. Identify the work and the author.

B. What was Nick preoccupied with when he asked the question?

C. Why did the father add “It all depends” after he answered his son’s question?

Ⅲ . Questions and Answers(24 points in all, 6 for each)

Give brief answers to each of the following questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.

45. 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.