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Unit 8 · Reading Comprehension English · 2020 cycle (Shift 1)

Which best describes the lady's face as she lies asleep at dawn?

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Correct answer: B. The side-view of her face looks like that of a sculpted angel.

Explanation

'Profile' (side-view) plus 'carved face' of an angel.

Note: Passage I is Stephen Spender's 'Daybreak', which is copyrighted and not reproduced. At dawn the speaker watches his beloved asleep: her hair 'a harp' played by 'the hand of a breeze', her cheek a rose on cloud-like pillows, her profile like 'the carved face' of an angel. She wakes, speaks his name, and says 'my dream has come true', and their two dreams flow together.

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