Directions: Please read the following passages and then answer IN COMPLETE SENTENCES the questions which follow each passage. Use only the information from the passage you have just read and write your answer in the corresponding space in your Answer Sheet.

Without a knowledge of mythology (神话) , much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated. When Byron calls Rome “the Niobe of nations, ” or says of Venice, “She looks a Sea- Cybele fresh from the ocean, ” he calls up to the mind of one familiar with our subject, illustrations more vivid and striking than the pencil could furnish, but which are lost to the reader ignorant of mythology. Milton abounds in similar allusions. The short poem “Comus” contains more than thirty such, and the ode “On the Morning of the Nativity” half as many. Through “Paradise Lost” they are scattered abundantly. This is one reason why we often hear persons, by no means illiterate, say that they cannot enjoy Milton.