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1. 选择题 20分 2. 匹配题 10分 3. 名词解释 20分 4. 选读 30分 5. 论述题 20分 II. Read the quoted part and answer the questions: 1. Time grew worse and worse with Rip Van Winkle as years of matrimony rolled on: a tart temper mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener by constant use. For a long while he used to perpetual club of the sages, philosophers, and other idle personages of the village. Questions: 1) Please identify the author and the title of the work.2) What’s the meaning of this passage? 参考答案: 1) This is an excerpt from Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving. (P408) 2) With his wife’s dominance at home, the situation became harder and harder for Rip Van Winkle. His wife’s temper became worse and she scolded him for more often. He had to stay in the club with idle people. (P407) 附:Question: Please describe the changes Rip Van Winkle experienced. Answer: 1) Rip Van Winkle was the hero in Irving’s works. He was a good-natured man, a henpecked (惧内的，妻管严的) husband. 2) Because his wife’s shrewish (泼妇一样的) treatment, Rip had to escape from his home to the little inn in the village. When it failed to give him some restful air, he had to go hunting in the high mountain, where Rip met a stranger, and the man asked Rip to carry keg for him. Then Rip reached the place in the valley, where many strangers were playing nine-pins. Later Rip got drunk after drinking the liquor, which made him sleep for 20 years. 3) Rip woke up as an old man, entering the village learned that his wife had died, he got the freedom of his own,; and the American had been dependent from the control of Britain, he had changed from a subject of the King (George III) into a citizen of the independent new U.S..... 2. I celebrated myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you Questions: 1) Please identify the author and the title of the poem that had used when published. 2) What is the theme of this poem