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. Into this fence or fortress, with infinite labour, I carry'd all my fiches, all my provisions, ammunition, and stores, of which you have the account above; and I made me a large tent, which, to preserve me from the rains that in one part of the year are very violent there, I made double, viz. one smaller tent within, and one larger tent above it, and covered the uppermost with a large tarpaulin which I had saved among the sails.
Questions:
A. Identify the author and the title of the novel from which this passage is taken.
B. Who is the narrator?
C. What are the narrator's characteristics and whom does he represent?
A. From Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe.
B. Robinson Crusoe.
C. Robinson is a typical 18th century English middle-class man, with a great capacity for work, inexhaustible energy, courage, patience and persistence in overcoming obstacles, in struggling against the hostile natural environment. He is the very prototype of the empire builder, the pioneer colonist.
2. MRS. WARREN. [after looking at her helplessly, begins to whimper] Vivie—
VIVIE. [ springing up sharply] Now pray dont begin to cry. Anything but that. I really cannot stand whimpering. I will go out of the room if you do.
MRS. WARREN. [piteously] Oh, my darling, how can you be so hard on me? Have I no rights over you as your mother?
VIVIE. Are you my mother?
MRS. WARREN. [appalled] Am I your mother! Oh, Vivie!
VIVIE. Then where are our relatives? my father? our family friends? You claim the fights of a mother: the right to call me fool and child; to speak to me as no woman in authority over me at college dare speak to me; to dictate my way of life; and to force on me the acquaintance of a brute whom anyone can see to be the most vicious sort of London man about town. Before I give myself the trouble to resist such claims, I may as well find out whether they have any real existence.
Questions:
A. Identify the author and the title of the play from which the part is taken.
B. Summarize the theme of the play in one or two sentences.
C. What kind of person is the protagonist Vivie?
A. George Bernard Shaw, Mrs. Warren's Profession.
B. The play is about the economic oppression of women.
C. Vivie is a kind of new woman, intelligent arid well educated, with a strong sense of injustice and a passion for "honest" work.
3. I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
Questions:
A. Identify the poet and the title of the poem from which the stanza is taken.
B. What does the word "you" refer to?
C. What does the poet express in the stanza?
A. From Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself".
B. The democratic "en-masse" of America.
C. The genuine participation of a poet in a common culture was to behave as a supreme individualist; however, the poet's essential purpose was to identify his ego with the world, and with the democratic, "en-masse" of America.
4. We slowly drove—He knew no haste,
And I had put away
My labor and my leisure too,
For His Civility—
We passed the School, where Children strove
At Recess—in the Ring—
We passed the Fields Of Gazing Grain—
We passed the Setting Sun—
Questions:
A. Identify the poet and the title of the poem from which the above stanzas are taken.
B. What figure of speech is used in Line 1 and Line 4?
C. What do "the School", "the Fields of Gazing Grain" and "the Setting Sun" represent?
A. From Emily Dickinson's "Because I Could not Stop for Death—".
B. Personification.
C. They represent three stages of life: "the School"—youth; "the Fields of Gazing Grain"—mature period; "the Setting Sun"—end of life.
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. What is the theme of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice?
Pride and Prejudice, originally drafted as "First Impressions" in 1796, is the most delightful of Jane Austen's works. The title tells of a major concern of the novel: pride and prejudice.
2. What does the poem "The Chimney Sweeper (from Songs of Experience)" reveal?
The two "Chimney Sweeper" poems are good examples to reveal the relation between an economic circumstance, i. e. the exploitation of child labor, and an ideological circumstance, i. e. the role played by religion in making people compliant to exploitation. The poem from the Songs of Experience reveals the true nature of religion which helps bring misery to the poor children.
3. What is "Hemingway Code Heroes"?
Hemingway's world is limited. He deals with a limited range of characters in quite similar circumstances and measures them against an unvarying code, known as "grace under pressure", which is actually an attitude towards life that Hemingway had been trying to demonstrate in his works. Those who survive in the process of seeking to master the code with the honesty, the discipline, and the restraint are Hemingway Code Heroes.
4. Give a brief analysis of Emily Grierson, the protagonist of A Rose for Emily by Faulkner.
Set in the town of Jefferson in Yoknapatawpha, the story focuses on Emily Grierson, an eccentric spinster who refuses to accept the passage of time, or the inevitable change and loss that accompany it. As a descendent of the Southern aristocracy, Emily is typical of those in Faulkner's Yoknapatwapha stories who are the symbols of the Old South but the prisoners of the past.
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. Discuss briefly Thomas Hardy's literary achievement in terms of the setting, the literary tendency and literary features.
A. Hardy's novels are all Victorian in date. Most of them are set in Wessex, the fictional primitive and crude rural region which is really the home place he both loves and hates, such as The Return of the Native, Tess of the D' Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure. These works, known as "novels of character and environment", are the most representative of him as both a naturalistic and a critical realist writer.
B. Living at the turn of the century, Hardy is often regarded as a transitional writer. In him we see the influence from both the past and the modem. The pessimistic view of life predominates most of Hardy's later works and earns him a reputation as a naturalistic writer. Though Naturalism seems to have played an important part in Hardy's works, there is also bitter and sharp criticism and even open challenge of the irrational, hypocritical and unfair Victorian institutions, conventions and morals.
C. He tells very good stories and he is a great painter of nature. His heroes and heroines, those unfortunate young men and women in their desperate straggle for personal fulfillment and happiness, are all vividly and realistically depicted. And all the works of Hardy are noted for the rustic dialect and a poetic flavor which fits well into their perfectly designed architectural structures. They are the product of a conscientious artist.
2. Comment briefly on Robert Frost's nature poetry.
A. Unlike his contemporaries in the early 20th century, Robert Frost did not break up with the poetic tradition nor made any experiment on form. Instead, he learned from the tradition, especially the familiar conventions of nature poetry and of classical pastoral poetry, and made the coUoquial New England speech into a poetic expression.
B. Many of his poems are fragrant with natural quality. Images and metaphors in his poems are drawn from the simple country life and the pastoral landscape that can be easily understood. But it would be a mistake to imagine that Frost is easy to understand because it is easy to read.
C. Profound ideas are delivered under the disguise of the plain language and the simple form, for what Frost did is to take symbols from the limited human world and the pastoral landscape to refer to the great world beyond the rustic scene.
D. These thematic concerns include the terror and tragedy in nature, as well as its beauty, and the loneliness and poverty of the isolated human being. But first and foremost, Frost is concerned with his love of life and his belief in a serenity that only came from working usefully, which he practiced himself throughout his life.
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