世新大學九十三學年度日間部二年級轉學生考試

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I. Paraphrase:30%（Paraphrase the following poem in about 120 to 150 word.）

“If you were coming in the fall”

If you were coming in the fall,

I’d brush the summer by

With half a smile and hale a spurn,

As housewives do a fly.

If I could see you in a year,

I’d wind the months in balls,

And put them each in separate drawers,

Until their time befalls.

If only centuries delayed,

I’d count them on my hand,

Subtracting till my fingers dropped

Into Van Diemen’s land.

If certain, when this life was out,

That yours and mine should be,

I’d toss it yonder like a rind,

And taste eternity.

But now, all ignorant of the length

Of time’s uncertain wing,

It goads me, like the goblin bee,

That will not state its sting.

（By Emily Dickinson）

II. Composition:70%（Write a composition of about 300 words.）

Topic: “Why I Will Buy My Children Toy Guns”

Or “Why I Will Not Buy My Children Toy Guns”