For a long while we just stood there, looking down at the profound and fleshless grin.The body had apparently once lain in the a

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titude of an embrace, but now the long sleep

 

that outlasts love, that conquers even the grimace of love, had cuckolded him. What was

 

left of him, rotted beneath what was left of the night-shirt, had become inextricable from

 

the bed in which he, lay, and upon him and upon the pillow beside him lay that even

 

coating of the patient and biding dust.

Nathaniel Hawthorne's literary world tums out to be a most disturbed, problematical and（ ）one which is possible to imagine.

• A、terrible
• B、scared
• C、tormented
• D、complex

In America, people regard（ ）as the first American prose epic.

• A、Adventures of Huckleberry Fin
• B、Daisy Miller
• C、Moby-Dick
• D、Sister Carrie