The play（ ）though a tragedy, is permeated with optimistic spirit.

• A、Hamlet
• B、Othello
• C、King Lear
• D、Romeo and Julie

閱讀理解題:

By chance or nature's changing course untrimmed;

But thy eternal summer shall not fade,

Nor lose possessions of that fair thou ow'st;

Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade,

When it eternal lines to time thou grow'st:

So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,

So long lives this, and thus gives life to thee.

Question:

A. ldentify the poet of the stanza.

B. What's the theme of the poem?

C. What do the last two lines express?

Before and during the Civil War,（ ）stood firmly on the side of the North and wrote a series of poems gathered as a collection under the title of Drum Taps.

• A、Walt Whitman
• B、Nathaniel Hawthorne
• C、Herman Melville
• D、Mark Twain