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【正文】 Donovan Rossa, or a ballad about the troubles in our native land. These noises converged in a single sensation of life for me: I imagined that I bore my chalice safely through a throng of foes. Her name sprang to my lips at moments in strange prayers and praises which I myself did not understand. My eyes were often full of tears (I could not tell why) and at times a flood from my heart seemed to pour itself out into my bosom. I thought little of the future. I did not know whether I would ever speak to her or not or, if I spoke to her, how I could tell her of my confused adoration. But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires. Question A: According to the passage, what places are the most hostile to romance? Answer: From the description in the extract, it is evident that the narrator considers that the noisy and dirty market and the church is the most hostile to his romance. Question B: What does the passage suggest about the social reality described? Answer: The market and the church symbolize respectively the secular/material life and the spiritual life of the people described in the story. Since both places are most hostile to the romance from the perspective of the narrator, we may infer that the social reality concerned must be depressing and repulsive to genuine human emotion. Example And even as he lay dead, his mother heard her brother’s voice saying to her: “My God, Hester, you’re eightyodd thousand to the good, and a poor devil of a son to the bad. But, poor devil, he’s best gone out of a life where he rides his rocking horse to find a winner.” 5 Question: In what way does Uncle Oscar’s ment reveal the theme of the story? Answer: Uncle Oscar’s ment reveals a
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