Explain why Oliver Twist started first, then trembled violently and burst into tears when the words were “kindly” said.

　　46．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.

　　47．“In your rocking-chair, by your window dreaming, shall you long, alone. In your rocking-chair, by your window, shall you dream such happiness as you may never feel.”（from Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie）

　　What idea can you draw from the “rocking-chair”?

　　48．Why are naturalists inevitably pessimistic in their view?

　　IV．Topic Discussion（20 points in all, 10 for each）
　　Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the Answer Sheet.

　　49．Daniel Defoe’s novel Robinson Crusoewas a great success partly because the protagonist was a real middle-class hero. Discuss Crusoe, the protagonist of the novel, as an embodiment of the rising middle-class virtues in the mid-eighteenth century England.

　　50．“ ‘My faith is gone!’ cried he（Goodman Brown）,after one stupefied moment. ‘There is no good on earth; and sin is but a name. Come, devil! For to thee is this world given.’ ”（from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown”）

　　Make a comment on this passage.

[1] [2] [3] [4]