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In the later summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains. In the bed of the river there were pebbles and boulders, dry and white in the sun, and the water was clear and swiftly moving and blue in the channels. Troops went by the house and down the road and the dust they raised powdered the leaves of the trees. The trunks of the trees too were dusty and the leaves fell early that year and we saw the troops marching along the road and the dust rising and leaves, stirred by the breeze, falling and the soldiers marching and afterward the road bare and white except for the leaves.…Poor, poor dear Cat. And this was the price you paid for sleeping together. This was the end of the trap. This was what people got for loving each other. Thank God for gas, anyway. What must it have been like before there were anesthetics? Once it started, they were in the mill-race. Catherine had a good time in the time of pregnancy. It wasn" t bad. She was hardly ever sick. She was not awfully uncomfortable until toward the last. So now they got her in the end. You never got away with anything, Get away hell! It would have been the same if we had been married fifty times. And what if she should die? She won" t die. People don" t die in childbirth nowadays. That was what all husbands thought. Yes, but what if she should die? She won"t die. She" s just having a bad time. Afterward we" d say what a bad time and Catherine would say it wasn" t really so bad. But what if she should die.
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a. Identify the author and the work from which the passage is selected.
【正确答案】正确答案：The passage is selected from A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway.
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b. What is the symbolic meaning of the title?
【正确答案】正确答案：The title has two symbolic meanings: First, it means Henry says goodbye to the war, for the word "arms" has the meaning of "weapon". The second meaning is that Henry says goodbye to his dear wife Catherine Berkley who dies in the hospital. The "arms" also symbolizes Catherine " s arms.
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c. How do you understand the features of heroes in the author" s works?
【正确答案】正确答案：Hemingway" s world is a world essentially chaotic and meaningless, in which man fights a solitary struggle against a force he does not even understand. The Hemingway hero possesses "despairing courage. " It is this courage that enables a man to behave like a man, to assert his dignity in face of adversity. The typical Hemingway hero is one who, wounded but strong, enjoys the pleasures of life in face of ruin and death and maintains, through some notion of a code, an ideal of himself. A Hemingway code hero can be destroyed but not defeated.
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d. Comment on author" s writing style and philosophy underlying all his works?
【正确答案】正确答案：Hemingway uses short sentences and paragraphs and vigorous and positive language. He always manages to choose words concrete, specific, more commonly found, more Anglo-Saxon, casual and conventional, and employ them often in syntax of short, simple sentences, which are orderly and patterned, conversational, and sometimes ungrammatical. The philosophy underlying his works is Iceberg Principle. Hemingway said: "If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A good writer does not need to reveal every detail of a character or action. "