I． Multiple Choice(40 points in all, 1 for each)
Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Write the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the answer sheet.
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12.Romanticism was a literary trend prevailing in English during the period from 1798 to 1832. The Romantic writers（ ）.
A. paid great attention to the spiritual and emotional life of man
B. were discontent with the development of industrialism and capitalism, and presented the social evils minutely in their works
C. took pains to portray a world of harmony and balance
D. tended to glorify Rome and advocated rational Italian and French art as superior to the native traditions
18．Which of the following poems is a landmark in English poetry?
A．Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge B．“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” by William Wordsworth C．“Remorse ” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge D．Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
19．The literary form which is fully developed and the most flourishing during the
Romantic Period is ______________.
A．prose B．drama C．novel D．poetry
20．English Romanticism, as a historical phase of literature, is generally said to have
ended in 1832 with ______.
A．the passage of the first Reform Bill in the Parliament
B．the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads C．the publication of T．S．Eliot’s The waste Land D．the passage of the Bill of Rights in the Parliament
10．Literature of Neoclassicism is different from that of Romanticism in that ______________.
A．the former celebrates reason, rationality, order and instruction while the latter sees
literature as an expression of an individual’s feeling and experiences B．the former is heavily religious but the latter secular
C．the former is an intellectual movement, the purpose of which is to arouse the middle class for political rights while the latter is concerned with the personal cultivation
D．the former advocates the “return to nature” whereas the latter turns to the ancient Greek and Roman writers for its models. 8. The major British Romantic poets Blake，Wordsworth，Coleridge，Byron，Shelley and Keats started a rebellion against the neoclassical literature，which was later regarded as _____.
A. the poetic romance B. the poetic movement C. the poetic revolution D. the poetic reformation
14. All of the following poets are regarded as “Lake Poets” EXCEPT ______.
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A. Samuel Taylor Coleridge B. Robert Southey C. William Wordsworth D. William Blake
20. English Romanticism,as a historical phase of literature,is generally said to have begun with the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge’s_____.1 A. Poetical Sketches B. A Defence of Poetry C. Lyrical Ballads D. The Prelude 13. The Romantic period is an age of _____. a. prose b. drama
c. poetry d. both a and c
14. The two major novelists of the Romantic period are _____. a. William Wordsworth and John Keats b. John Keats and Jane Austen c. Jane Austen and Walter Scott d. William
10. Which of the following descriptions of Gothic Novels is NOT correct? 6 A. It predominated in the early eighteenth century. B. It was one phase of the Romantic movement.
C. Its principal elements are violence, horror and the supernatural.
D. Works like The Mysteries of Udolpho and Frankenstein are typical Gothic romance.
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7. “Where intelligence was fallible, limited, the Imagination was our hope of contact with eternal forces, with the whole spiritual world.” was said by ______. A. William Wordsworth B. William Blake C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge D. John Keats
7.In his poem “Tyger, Tyger,”William Blake expresses his perception of the“fearful symmetry”of the big cat. The phrase“fearful symmetry”suggests（ ）. A. the tiger’s two eyes which are dazzlingly bright and symmetrically set B. the poet’s fear of the predator
C. the analogy of the hammer and the anvil
D. the harmony of the two opposite aspects of God’s creation
13.The poems such as“The Chimney Sweeper”are found in both Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience by（ ）. A. William Wordsworth B. William Blake C. John Keats D. Lord Gordon Byron
13.“Tiger! Tiger! Burning bright/ In the forests of the night, / What immortal hand or eye / Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”(“The Tiger”by William Blake) The above lines（ ）.
A. describe the tiger’s fierce eyes and forceful hands at night B. express the poet’s curiosity for the skillful creation of the tiger
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C. express the poet’s surprise at the sight of the tiger’s well-proportioned body D. express the poet’s terror at the sight of the tiger in the forest at night 5．William Blake’s central concern in the Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience is_______, which gives the two books a strong social and historical reference. A．youthhood B．childhood C．happiness D．sorrow
17. The declaration that “I know that This World is a World of IMAGINATION & Vision，” and that “The Nature of my work is visionary or imaginative’’ belongs to ______.
A. William Blake B. William Wordsworth
C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge D．George Gordon Byron
11. William Blake’s work ______ marks his entry into maturity. A. Songs of Experience B. Marriage of Heaven and Hell C. Songs of Innocence D. The Book of Los
7. “Where intelligence was fallible, limited, the Imagination was our hope of contact with eternal forces, with the whole spiritual world.” was said by ______. A. William Wordsworth B. William Blake C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge D. John Keats
22. The declaration that “I know that This World is a World of IMAGINATION & Vision,” and that “The Nature of my work is visionary or imaginative” belongs to ______.
A. William Blake B. William Wordsworth C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge D. George Gordon Byron
15. Blake's Songs of Experience paints a world of _____ with a melancholy tone. a. misery, poverty, disease, war and repression b. happiness and love and romantic ideals
c. misery , poverty mixed with love and happiness d. loss and institutional cruelty with sufferings
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12.William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following EXCEPT ___. A.the use of everyday language spoken by the common people B.the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings C.the use of humble and rustic life as subject matter
D.the use of elegant wording and inflated figures of speech
21.William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all of the following except . [A]normal contemporary speech patterns [B]humble and rustic life as subject matter
[C]elegant wording and inflated figures of speech
[D]intensely subjective feeling toward individual experience
10.William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following except（ ）.
A. the using of everyday language spoken by the common people
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B. the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings C. the humble and rustic life as subject matter D. elegant wording and inflated figures of speech
10. A poet asserted that poetry originated form “emotion recollected in tranquillity”. He maintained that the scenes and events of everyday life and the speech of ordinary people were the raw material of which poetry could and should be made. Who is that poet?（ ）. A. William Blake B. Alfred Lord Tennyson C. William Wordsworth D. John Keats
13．The assertion that poetry originates from “emotion recollected in tranquility”
belongs to ______. A．William Wordsworth B．Samuel Taylor Coleridge C．Robert Southey D．William Blake
14．All of the following poems by William Wordsworth are masterpieces on nature EXCEPT ______.
A．“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” B．“An Evening Walk” C．“Tintern Abbey” D．“The Solitary Reaper”
10. Among the following British Romantic poets ______ is regarded as a “worshipper of nature”.
A. William Blake B. William Wordsworth C. George Gordon Byron D. John Keats
10. Wordsworth’s_____ is perhaps the most anthologized poem in English literature. A. “To a Skylark” B. “I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud” C. “An Evening Walk” D. “My Heart Leaps Up”
12. Poetry is defined by ______ as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, which originates in emotion recollected in tranquility”. A. William Wordsworth B. William Blake C. Percy Bysshe Shelley D. Robert Southey
12. In subject matter, William Wordsworth’s poems have two concerns. One is about nature, the other is about ______. A. French Revolution B. literary theory C. death D. common life of ordinary people
18. Wordsworth’s ______ is perhaps the most anthologized poem in English literature. A. “To a Skylark” B. “I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud” C. “An Evening Walk” D. “My Heart Leaps Up”
20. The major representatives of the poetic revolution in English Romantic period were Samuel Taylor Coleridge and ______. A. William Blake B. William Wordsworth C. John Keats D. Percy Bysshe Shelley
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14.“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind!” is an epigrammatic line by __.
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A.J.Keats B.W.Blake C.W.Wordsworth D.P.B.Shelley 7. “Drive my dead thoughts over the universe Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth.” (Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Ode to the West Wind”)
What rhetorical device does the poet use in the quoted lines? [A]Synecdoche. [B]Metaphor. [C]Simile. [D]Onomatopoeia.
14. Shelley’s masterpiece, Prometheus Unbound, is a verse drama, which borrows the basic story from ______ . A. the Bible B. a German legend C. a Greek play D. One Thousand and One Nights
15. Shelley’s greatest achievement is his four-act poetic drama ________. A. Adonais B. To a Skylark C. A Song: Men of England D. Prometheus Unbound 12.“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”is an epigrammatic line by（ ）. A. J. Keats B. W. Blake C. W. Wordsworth D. P. B. Shelley
12．Shelley’s greatest achievement is his four-act poetic drama ______, which is an exultant work in praise of humankind’s potential. A．Adonais B．Queen Mab C．Prometheus Unbound D．A Defence of Poetry
19. “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?’’ The quoted line comes from ______.
A. Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind’’ B. Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass C. John Milton’s Paradise Lost D．John Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn” 12. Best of all the Romantic well- known lyric pieces is Shelley’s_____. A. “The Cloud” B. “To a Skylark” C. “Ode to a Nightingale” D. “Ode to the West Wind”
2. Shelley’ s political lyrics ______ is not only a war cry calling upon all working people to rise up against their political oppressors, but an address to them pointing out the intolerable injustice of economic exploitation. A. “Ode to Liberty” B. “Ode to Naples” C. “Ode to the West Wind” D. “Men of England”
15. In ______ , Shelley created a Platonic symbol of the spirit of man, a force of beauty and regeneration. A. “To a Skylark” B. “The Cloud” C. “Ode to Liberty” D. Adonais
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4 Jane Austen
15. In the first part of the novel Pride and prejudice, Mr. Darcy has a (n) ______ of the Bennet family . A. high opinion B. great admiration C. low opinion D. erroneous view
5. Jane Austen wrote within a very narrow sphere. The subject matter, the social setting, and plots are all restricted to the provincial life of the ________. A. late 19th -century B. 17th -century C. 20th -century D. late 18th -century 8.“What is his name?” “Bingley.”
“Is he married or single?”
“Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!”
The above dialogue must be taken from（ ）. A. Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice B. Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights C. John Galsworthy’s The Forsyte Saga D. George Eliot’s Middlemarch
15.“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a （ ）.”This quotation in Austen’s Pride and Prejudice sets the tone of the novel. A. house B. title C. wife D. fame
10．“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good for-tune, must be in want of a wife.” The quoted part is taken from ______. A．Jane Eyre B．Wuthering Heights C．Pride and Prejudice D．Sense and Sensibility
11．Because of her sensitivity to universal patterns of human behavior, ______ has brought the English novel ,as an art of form, to its maturity. A．Charlotte Bront? B．Jane Austen C．Emily Bront? D．Ann Radcliffe 9. Jane Austen’s main literary concern is about ______. A. human beings in their personal relationships B. the love story between the rich and the poor C. maturity achieved through the loss of illusions
D. the daily country life of the upper-middle-class English 9. The major theme of Jane Austen’s novels is_____. A. love and money B. money and social status C. social status and marriage D. love and marriage
5. Jane Austen’ s practical idealism is that love should be justified by ______ and disciplined by self-control. A. reason B. sense C. rationality D. sensibility
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10. Because of her sensitivity to universal patterns of human behavior, ______ has brought the English novel, as an art of form, to its maturity. A. Charlotte Bronte B. Jane Austen C. Emily Bronte D. Henry Fielding
12. The major theme of Jane Austen’s novels is ______ toward which she holds on a practical idealism. A. love and money B. marriage and money C. love and family D. love and marriage
13. Through the character of Elizabeth, Jane Austen emphasizes the importance of ______ for woman. A. marriage B. physical attractiveness C. independence and self-confidence D. submissive character
17. The major theme of Jane Austen’s novels is love and marriage. Which of the following is not a couple that appeared in Pride and Prejudice? A. Catherine and Heathcliff B. Lydia and Wickham C. Jane and Binley D. Charlotte and Collins
18. The sentence “three or four families in a country village are the very thing to work on” can best reflect the writer’s personal knowledge and range of writing. This writer is ______.
A. Walter Scott B. Thomas Hardy C. Jane Eyre D. Jane Austen
II. Reading Comprehension (16 points in all, 4 for each)
Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet. William Blake
42. “When the stars threw down their spears, And water’d heaven with their tears, Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?” Questions：
A. Identify the poet and the poem from which the quoted lines are taken B. Whom does the “he’’ refer to?
C. What does the “Lamb” symbolize? 42. A. “ The Tyger”, William Blake B. The God
C. Lamb symbolizes peace and purity.
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42. “A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye! －Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky.”
Questions:
A. Identify the author and the title of the poem from which this stanza is taken. B. Pick out the metaphor used in this stanza.
C. What quality does the author intend to show by using the metaphor?
42. A. The stanza is taken from “She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways” written by
W. Wordsworth.
B. The flower (violet) is used as a metaphor.
C. By comparing a country girl (Lucy) to a violet, the poet intends to show her quality of beauty and her virtue which are often neglected by the common people just like a wild flower blooming by an untrodden road. 42. “Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendor, valley, rock, or hill; Ne’er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! The river glideth at his own sweet will: Dear God! The very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still!”
(William Wordsworth’s sonnet: “Composed upon Westminster Bridge” September 3, 1802) Questions:
A. What does the word “glideth” in the fourth line mean?
B. What kind of figure of speech is used by wordsworth to describe the “river”? C. What idea does the fourth line express?
42. A. To move smoothly and quietly, as if no effort was being made.
B. Personification. Here the river is personified so that it has its own will. C. Wordsworth emphasizes that the river runs freely ( in the early morning
because there is no barges or steamers or other kind of man-made burdens imposed on it to hinder its running.)
41．“For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, they flash upon that inward eye” Questions:
A．Identify the anthor and the title.
B．What does the phrase “inward eye” mean?
C．Write out the main idea of the passage in plain English.
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41. A. Wordsworth; I wondered lonely as a cloud B. human soul
C. The poet expressed his love for the daffodils. 41. “The fiver glideth at his own sweet will： Dear God! the very houses seem asleep； And all that mighty heart is lying still!”
(from William Wordsworth’s “Composed upon Westminster Bridge”) Questions：
A. What figure of speech is used in the quoted lines? B. What does “that mighty heart’’ refer to? C. What does the poem describe? 41. A. Personifecation B. London
C. The poem describes a vivid picture of a beautiful morning in London. 41. Behold her, single in the field,
Yon solitary Highland lass! Reaping and singing by herself; Stop here, or gently pass!
Alone she cuts and binds the grain, And sings a melancholy strain; O listen! For the Vale profound Is overflowing with the sound. Questions:
A. Identify the poet.
B. What’ s the rhyme scheme for the stanza? C. What’s the theme of the poem? 41. A. William Wordsworth B. ababccdd
C. The poet uses rural figures to suggest the timeless mystery of sorrowful
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41. Wherefore feed and clothe and save From the cradle to the grave
Those ungrateful drones who would
Drain your sweat- nay, drink your blood? Questions:
A. Identify the poet and the title of the poem from which the stanza is taken. B. What figure of speech is used in Line 2?
C. Whom does “drones” refer to?
41. A. From Percy Shelley’s “Men of England” B. Metonymy
C. Here “drones” refers to the parasitic class in human society. 41. Wherefore, Bees of England, forge Many a weapon, chain, and scourge,
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That these stingless drones may spoil The forced produce of your toil? Questions:
A. Identify the poet and the poem from which the lines are taken. B. What do you know about the poem’ s writing background? C. What do you think the poet intends to say in the poem? 41. A. Percy Shelley, A Song :“Men of England”
B. The poem was written in 1819, the year of the Peterloo Massacre.
C. To call on all working people of England to rise up against their political
oppressors; to point out the intolerable injustice of economic exploitation.
42. “Beside a pumice isle in Baiae’s bay, And saw in sleep old palaces and towers Quivering within the wave’s intenser day, All overgrown with azure moss and flowers So sweet, the sense faints picturing them! Thou For whose path the Atlantic’s level powers” (From Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind”) Questions:
A. In what form is the poem written?
B. What does the quotation “the sense faints picturing them” mean? C. What idea does Shelley express in this poem? （107）
42. A. The terza rima form Shelley derived from his reading of Dante. B. Seeing the images so beautiful one feels faint to describe them.
C. He eulogizes the powerful west wind and expresses his eagerness to enjoy the boundless freedom from reality.
III. Questions and Answers (24 points in all, 6 for each)
Give a brief answer to each of the following questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.
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46. Inspiration for the romantic approach initially came from two great shapers of thought. Who are the two? And what ideas they expressed inspire the romantic writers? 46. A.The French philosopher,Jean Jacques Rousseau and the German writer Johna Wolfgan von Goethe.
B. It is Rousseau who established the cult of the individual and championed the freedom of the human spirit; his famous announcement was “I felt before I thought.” Goethe and his compatriots extolled the romantic spirit. Blake
46. Briefly introduce Blake’ s Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience.
46. A. Songs of Innocence is a lovely volume of poems, presenting a happy and
innocent world, though not without its evils.
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B. Songs of Experience paints a different world, a world of misery, disease, war
and repression with melancholy tone.
C. The two books hold the similar subject-matter, but the tone, emphasis and
conclusion differ.
Shelley
45. What’ s the literary style of Shelley as a Romantic poet?
45. A. Shelley is one of the leading Romantic poets, an intense and original lyrical
poet in the English language.
B. Like Blake, he has a reputation as a difficult poet: erudite, imagistically
complex, full of classical and mythological allusions.
C. His style abounds in personification and metaphor and other figures of speech
which describe vividly what we see and feel, or express what passionately moves us.
IV. Topic Discussion(20 points in all, 10 for each)
Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.
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49.How is Romanticism different from Neoclassicism? Provide brief evidence from the literary works you know best.
49.a.Neoclassicists upheld that artistic ideals should be order, logic, restrained emoticon and accuracy, and that literature, should be judged in terms of its service to humanity ,and thus,l iterary expressions should be of proportion, unity, harmony and grace. Pope's An Essay on Criticism advocates grace, wit (usually though satire/humor), and simplicity in language(and the poem itself is a demonstration of those ideals,too);Fielding's Tom Jones helped establish the form of novel; Gray's “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' displays elegance in style, unified structure, serious tone and moral instructions.
b.Romanticists tended to see the individual as the very center of all experience, including art, and thus, literary work should be “spontaneous overflow of strong feelings,”and no matter how fragmentary those experiences were (Wordsworth's “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,” or “The Solitary Reaper,) or Coleridge's “Keble Khan”),the value of the work lied in the accuracy of presenting those unique feelings
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and particular attitudes.
c. In a word, Neoclassicism emphasized rationality and form but Romanticism attached great importance to the individual's mind (emotion, imagination, temporary experience…) Wordsworth
49. Please elaborate Wordsworth’s theory of poetry, taking examples from the poems you have learned to support your ideas.
49. A. Poetry originates from “emotion recollected in tranquility”. (Take “I Wondered
Lonely as a Cloud” as example)
B. He maintained that the scenes and events of everyday life and the speech of
ordinary people were the raw material of which poetry could and should be made. (Take “The Solitary Reaper” as example)
Jane Austen
49.In Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen explored three kinds of motivations of
marriage the middle-class people had in the second half of the 18th century. Try to make a brief discussion about them with specific examples from the novel. Make comments on Austen’s attitude towards these motivations. 49. A. Motivation one: to pursue material interest through marriage; Wickham, Miss
Binley and Charlotte Lucas are examples of this kind.
B. Motivation two: to seek sensual pleasure and beauty; Lydia and Mr. Bennet are
examples of this kind.
C. Motivation three: to search for true love and also take personal merits and financial positions into consideration; Elizabeth Bennet is a typical example of this kind.
D. Austen celebrated the third kind of motivation of marriage while criticizing the first two wrong motivations.
49. Elizabeth Bennet, the heroine in Pride and Prejudice, is often regarded as the most successful character created by Jane Austen. Make a brief comment on Elizabeth’s character.
49. A. Elizabeth is clever, alert and observant. She is more observant and less
charitable than Jane in recognizing the characters of Bingley’s sisters. She recognizes Mr. Collins’ character in his letter and after meeting him she turns down firmly and with dignity his patronizing proposal. She is able to match wits with Darcy several times and with Colonel Fitzwilliam, earning their respect and admiration.
B. Fearless and frank, not rattled by the attack of Lady Catherine de Bourgh, she
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wins a notable victory, sending her Ladyship away completely routed. She is independent but not infallible in her judgment --- taken in by the charm of the worthless Wickham. She can’t be blamed for misjudging Darcy.
C. She shows flexibility, discernment, and honesty of mind when she reads
Darcy’s defense in his letter and admits the justice of much of what he says. Thus she begins to lose her prejudice against him. She recognizes and values true worth when she encounters it in Jane, the Gardiners, and, near the end of the novel, in Darcy. She sees more clearly than her father the danger of sending Lydia to Brighton
D. She is able to control her emotions at times of stress --- when she first
encounters Darcy at Pemberley; when she realizes that she loves Darcy and has good reason to fear that she has lost him, she waits without repining time to bring a solution. She is witty, fun-loving, recognizes humour in herself and in others, but ridiculing only folly, nonsense, and inconsistencies. She recognizes the follies of her own family and their shortcomings as well as their virtues.
E. She is considerate of others but quite capable of asserting herself when
occasion demands. She has a playful and unaffected manner, sunny disposition, natural animation, sense of fun, and sweet reasonableness. She is ready to laugh at herself and everything save “what is wise and good.” She shows a sense of humor by telling what Darcy has said about her at the Maryton ball.
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