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PAGE PAGE 5 复旦大学外国语言文学学院 2010～2011学年第一学期期末考试试卷 □A卷 ■B卷 课程名称：_英美短篇小说___ 课程代码： FORE130205.01 开课院系：_外文学院英文系___ 考试形式：开卷/闭卷/课程论文/ 姓 名： 学 号： 专 业： 题 号 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 总 分 得 分 (以下为试卷正文) I. Paraphrase the underlined parts in the following sentences. 30% 1. …and all the long afternoon I bore her in my arms, miles upon miles, and it never occurred to either of us that there was anything remarkable in a youth like me being able to carry that sweet bundle around half a day without some sense of fatigue or need of rest. There are many dream-worlds, but none is so rightly and reasonably and pleasantly arranged as that one. (from “My Platonic Sweetheart” by Mark Twain) 2. Her skeleton was small and spare; perhaps that was why what would have been merely plumpness in another was obesity in her. (from “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner) 3. As soon as you could get out of bed your mother rushed you off to Florence and married you. People were rather surprised – they wondered at its being done so quickly; but I thought I knew. I had an idea you did it out of pique – to be able to say you’d got ahead of Delphin and me. (from “Roman Fever” by Edith Wharton) 4. What innumerable follies laid waste my waking and sleeping thoughts after the evening! I wished to annihilate the tedious intervening days. (from “Araby” by James Joyce) 5. Sometimes I’m so mad about it I want to fight someone. It gives me the fantods. What did he do it for? I want to know why. (from “I Want to Know Why” by Sherwood Anderson) II. Briefly define THREE of the following terms. 30% allegory irony symbol fantasy III. Read the following short story, and then write a short comment on it. 40% The Man With The Scar by William Somerset Maugham It was on account of the scar that I first noticed him, for it ran, broad and red, in a great crescent from his temple to his chin. It must have been due to a formidable wound and I wondered whether this had been caused by