Ⅰ.Multiple ChoiceSelect from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Mark your choice by blackening the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the answer sheet. Ⅱ.Reading ComprehensionRead the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.1. Wherefore, Bees of England, forge
Many a weapon, chain, and scourge,
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?
A．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.
2. Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table;
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,
The muttering retreats
Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels
And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells:
(The lines above are taken from "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T. S Eliot. )
Questions:
A. What does the poem present?
B. What form is the poem composed in?
C. What does the poem suggest?
A. presenting the meditation of an aging young man Over the business of proposing marriage.
B. in a form of dramatic monologue.
C. suggesting an ironic contrast between a pretended "Love song" and a confession of the speaker's incapability of facing up to love and to life in a sterile upper-class world.
3. This is my letter to the World
That never wrote to Me—
The simple News that Nature told—
With tender Majesty
Questions:
A. Identify the poet.
B. What idea does the poem express?
C. Why does the poet use dashes and capital letters in the poem?
A. Emily Dickinson.
B. The poem expresses the poet's anxiety about her communication with the outside world.
C. Dashes are used as a musical device to create cadence and capital letters as a means of emphasis.
4. There was music from my neighbor's house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft, or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motor-boats slit the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of foam. On week-ends his Rolls-Royce became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city between nine in the morning and long past midnight, while his station wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug to meet all trains. And on Mondays eight servants, including an extra gardener, toiled all day with mops and scrubbing-brushes and hammers and garden-shears, repairing the ravages of the night before.
(The passage above is taken from The Great Gatsby)
Questions:
A. What time does the story reflect?
B. What does the novel evoke?
C. What does Gatsby's failure magnify?
A. the twenties.
B. a haunting mood of glamorous, wild time that seemingly will never come again.
C. the end of the American dream.
Ⅲ.Questions and AnswersGive a brief answer to each of the following questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.1. Working through the tradition of a Christian humanism, Milton wrote Paradise Lost, intending to expose the ways of Satan and to "justify the ways of God to men." What is Milton's fundamental concern in Paradise Lost?
A. At the center of the conflict between human love and spiritual duty lies Milton's fundamental concern with freedom and choice.
B. The freedom to submit to God's prohibition on eating the apple.
C. The choice of disobedience made for love.
2. Briefly introduce Blake's Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience.
A. Songs of Innocence is a lovely volume of poems, presenting a happy and innocent world though not without its evils.
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.
3. What are the factors that gave rise to American naturalism?
A. The impact of Darwin's evolutionary theory on the American thought.
B. The influence of the 19th century French literature on the American men of letters.
4. Briefly state Mark Twain's magic power with language in his novels.
A. His words are colloquial, concrete and direct in effect, and his sentence structures are simple, even ungrammatical spoken language.
B. His characters speak with a strong accent, which is true of his local colorism.
C. Different characters from different literary or cultural backgrounds talk differently.
Ⅳ.Topic DiscussionWrite no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.1. Why is Hardy regarded as a naturalistic writer in English literature? Discuss in relation to his novels you know.
A. He read Darwin's The Origin of Species and accepted the idea of survival of the fittest.
B. He was also influenced by Spencer's The First Principle, which led him to the belief that man's fate is predeterminedly tragic, driven by a combined force of "nature".
C. The outside nature is shown as some mysterious supernatural force.
D. Man proves impotent before Fate.
E. Discuss in relation to his novels. In his works, man is shown inevitably hound by his own inherent nature and hereditary traits which prompt him to go and search for some specific happiness or success and set him in conflict with the environment. (Tess, Jude the Obscure, etc. )
2. Please discuss Henry James' contribution to American literature in regard to his representative works, themes, writing techniques and language.
A. works: Daisy Miller, The Portrait of A Lady, The Wings of the Dove, The Ambassadors, The Golden Bowl. (listing any two of the novels will be enough)
B. international themes.
C. his psychological emphasis and narrative point of view.
D. Language: highly refined and insightful.
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