Answer the questions according to the reading.

Rousseau (1712-78) was one of the forerunners of the Romantic movement, and also one of
the prophets of the French Revolution. He was by nature a rebel against existing
conceptions of religion, art, education, marriage, government, and in book after book he
propounded his own theories on these subjects. Rousseau advocated a return to nature. In
the natural state, he held, man is happy and good, and it is only society that, by making life
artificial, produces evil. His Emile, a treatise on education, advocated that children should
be brought up in an atmosphere of truth, and it condemned the elaborate lies that society
imposed on the average child including myths and fairy-stories.

1. According to the passage, Rousseau ----.

A) is the unique person who is a member of the Romantic movement

B) is among the pioneers of the Romantic movement
C) is rebellious against the French Revaluation
D) is the advocate of marriage
E) Emile is one of his daughters who was brought up in an atmosphere of
truth

2. We can conclude that Emile ----.

A) is an essay on education
B) has been thoroughly discussed by academicians
C) has no philosophical background at all
D) is in favor of myths and fairy stories
E) is a work of Rousseau on how children should be brought up

3. According to Rousseau, by making life artificial ----.

A) Rousseau wrote a treatise on education

B) Rousseau's works produced evil concept
C) civilized man may become happy
D) children can be brought up safely
E) civilization corrupts the human being
Poetry
People seldom feel neutral about poetry. Those who love it sometimes give the
impression that it is an adequate substitute for food, shelter, and love. But it isn't.
Those who dislike poetry on principle sometimes claim, on the other hand, that
poetry is only words and good for nothing. That's not true either. When words
represent and recreate genuine human feelings, as they often do in poetry, they
can be very important. Poems provide, in fact, a language for feeling, and one of
poetry's most insistent merits involves its attempt to express the inexpressible. One
of the joys of experiencing poetry occurs when we read a poem and want to say,
"yes, that is just what it is like; I know exactly what that line means but I have never
been able to express it so well." Poetry can be the voice of our feelings even when
our minds are speechless with grief or joy.

1. One can understand from the passage that people ----.

A) seldom feel that poetry is an equivalent for life itself

B) rarely take a biased opinion about poetry
C) generally think that poetry expresses what might otherwise seem
unutterable
D) never differ in their opinions about a poem
E) generally think of poetry as extremely important or totally useless

2. One point made by the author in the passage is that poetry ----.

A) tends to make the reader disappointed

B) is an adequate substitute for food, shelter, and love
C) is only words and good for nothing
D) often captures real human feelings
E) is impossible to be defined

3. The author points out in the reading that ----.

A) poetry is not closely concerned with feelings

B) poems are primarily about how people think rather than how people feel
C) poetry can't be the expression of one's deepest feelings
D) few people think that poetry is neutral
E) poetry tries to express what people feel but find it hard to describe