III. Questions and Answers ( 24points in all , 6 points for each ) Give questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet

　　45. .In Hamlet’s soliloquy, when he says, “ To sleep, perchance to dream: ----ay, there’s the rub .” What is he primarily thinking about? Why does he think there is the rub ?

　　46. “ I loaf and invite my soul, / I lean and loaf at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.”

　　What does the underlined part mean ?

　　47. “I fall upon the thorns of life ! I bleed !

　　A heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed

　　One too like thee : tameless, and swift, and proud.”

　　The above quotation is taken from Shelley’s poem “Ode to the West wind”. What does the underlined part mean?

　　48. In “ Indian Camp”, Hemingway makes a successful use of situational irony. Please illustrate this with some examples.

　　IV. Topic discussions ( 20 points in all , 10 for each )

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

　　49. Charles Dickens is one of the greatest Victorian writers in his own unique way . Discuss Dickens’s art of novels : the setting, the language , and the characters, etc . based on his novel Oliver Twist.

　　50. “Sister Carrie” is the greatest literary work by Theodore Dreiser. Discuss Carrie Meeber, the protagonist of the novel .