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Unit 1 · British Literature English · June 2023 (Shift 2)

Match List I with List II:

List I: Passage (paraphrased)List II: Swift's work
A. A garden-like countryside seen on a journeyI. 'A Description of a City Shower'
B. A proposal to use infants as foodII. Gulliver's Travels
C. Semen turned to choler and rising to the brainIII. A Modest Proposal
D. Street filth carried along by a floodIV. A Tale of a Tub

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Correct answer: B. A-II, B-III, C-IV, D-I

Explanation

The cultivated landscape recalls Gulliver's travels; the cannibal economics is A Modest Proposal (1729); the physiology of 'vapours' rising to the brain is the 'Digression on Madness' in A Tale of a Tub (1704); the overflowing kennels close 'A Description of a City Shower' (1710).

Note: List I passages are paraphrased.

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