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【正文】 .I loafe and invite my soul,I learn and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.My tongue, every atom if my blood, form39。d from this soil, this air,Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and there parents the same,I, now thirtyseven years old in perfect health begin,Hoping to cease not till death.Creeds and schools in abeyance,Retiring back a while sufficed at what they are, but never forgotten,I harbor for good or bad, I permit to speak at every hazard,Nature without check with original energy, is the poet celebrating? Whom do lines2—3 also include in the celebration? beliefs of the poet are set forth in this poem?Passage 2 Every Friday five crates of oranges and lemons arrived from a fruiterer in New York—every Monday these same oranges and lemons left his lack door in a pyramid of pulpless halves. There was a machine in the kitchen which could extract the juice of two hundred oranges in half an hour if a little button was pressed two hundred times by a butler39。s thumb. … As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host, but the two or three people of whom I asked his whereabouts stared at me in such an amazed way, and denied so vehemently any knowledge of his movements, that I slunk off in the direction of the cocktail table — the only place in the garden where a single man could linger without looking purposeless and alone. … I was on my way to get roaring drunk from sheer embarrassment when Jordan Baker came out of the house and stood at the head of the marble steps, leaning a little backward and looking with contemptuous interest down into the garden. Wele or not, I found it necessary to attach myself to some one before I should begin to address cordial remarks to the passersby. … “I like to e”, Lucille said. “I never care what I do, so I always have a good time. When I was here last I tore my gown on a chair, and he asked me my name and address — inside of a week I got a package from Croirier39。s with a new evening gown in it.” “Did you keep it?” asked Jordan. “Sure I did. I was going to wear it tonight, but it was too big in the bust and had to be altered. It was gas blue with lavender beads. Two hundred and sixtyfive dollars.” “There39。s something funny about a fellow that39。ll do a thing like that,” said the other girl eagerly. “He doesn39。t want any trouble with anybody.” novel is this passage taken from? Who is the writer? is the narrator here? Were the people to the parties familiar with host?Why did they go to his parties?Ⅴ.Give brief answers to the following questions.(14%) Write your answers on the Answer sheet. give a brief analysis of the major features of American romanticism. do you think about the hero Gatsby in The Great Gatsby and its significance in American literature?第 7 頁 共 7 頁
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