Ⅰ.Multiple ChoiceSelect from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Ⅱ.Reading ComprehensionRead the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. 1. Wherefore feed and clothe and save
From the cradle to the grave
Those ungrateful drones who would
Drain your sweat—nay, drink your blood?
Questions:
A. Who wrote the poem? What's its name?
B. Explain "drones. "
C. Interpret the passage.
A. Shelley; A Song: Men of England.
B. The male of the honey-bees that don't work, referring here to the parasitic class in human society.
C. The poet called all working people to rise up against their political oppressors, but pointed out to them the intolerable injustice of economic exploitation. It expressed the love for freedom and the hatred to tyranny of the author.
2. To be, or not to be—that is the question;
Whether' tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them?
Questions:
A. Who is the author of the play?
B. Who is the speaker?
C. What does he mean when he says "To be, or not to be—that is the question"?
A. William Shakespeare.
B. Hamlet.
C. To live on in this world or to die; to suffer or to take action.
3. Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
Questions:
A. Who is the author?
B. What does "symmetry" mean?
C. What does "tyger" refer to?
A. William Blake.
B. The well-proportioned body of the tiger.
C. There are different opinions about the tiger. Some say the tiger is made by God. Others say it is made by men. One more idea thinks that The Tyger is a poem about work, about artistic creation.
4. I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Questions:
A. Who is the author?
B. What does "A host, of" mean?
C. Give a short explanation of the quotation.
A. William Wordsworth.
B. A large number of.
C. While the poet was taking a walk in the woods, he felt lonely and detached from earthly fellowship just like a lonely cloud, wandering and floating the sky.
Ⅲ.Questions and AnswersGive a brief answer to each of the following questions in English.1. Jane Eyre is the greatest governess image in the literature history; please analyze briefly the character of her.
A. Jane Eyre was a little plain governess with quick wit, honesty, frankness, loving heart and her spirit of independence and self-dignity.
B. In literature, she is an individual conscious to self-realization. She was a lonely and neglected young woman with a fierce longing for love, understanding and a full, happy life. In the author's mind, man's life is composed of perpetual struggle between sin and virtue, good and evil. The heroine's joy, comes from the sacrifice of self and the overcome of some weakness. By Jane's experience, we can see the cruelty, hypocrisy, and other evils of the upper class and the misery and the suffering of the poor, and the false social conventions on love and marriage.
2. Please cite examples from "Gulliver's Travels" to explain briefly how did Swift criticize and allude to the government and the society.
A. In the first part of the "Gulliver's Travels," Swift described the tricks and practices in the competition held before royal members to allude to the fact that the success of the officials was not for their wisdom and excellence but for their skills in the games.
B. In the part four of the book, Swift made horses with reason and good qualities. The citizens who are hairy, wild, low and despicable brutes, who resemble human beings not only in appearance but also in almost every way criticize all aspects of the English and European life, and urge people to consider the nature of the human and life.
3. Mrs. Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw, has a strong realistic theme, which fully reflects the dramatist's Fabianist idea. Try to summarize this theme briefly.
A. The play reveals that guilt for prostitution lies more upon the social system than the immoral woman.
B. In the play, Shaw shows clearly that all human sufferings are consequences of the cruel economic exploitation, which is pursued shamelessly by the so-called respectable members of the society through the lowest and the dirtiest means.
4. English Romanticism is generally said to have begun in 1798 with the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads. Why is Lyrical Ballads considered the milestone to mark the beginning of English Romanticism?
A. In this book, Wordsworth and Coleridge explored new theories and innovated new techniques in poetry writing.
B. The preface to the Lyrical Ballads act as a manifesto for the new school. In the preface. Wordsworth defines poetry and poets.
C. Wordsworth's poems in this book differ in marked ways from his early poetry: simplicity of the language, sympathy for the poor, and expressions of inward states of mind.
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. Hamlet is the first of the great tragedies. It is generally regarded as Shakespeare's most popular play on the stage, because it has the qualities of a "blood-and-thunder" thriller and a philosophical exploration of life and death. Try to give a brief comment on the theme of Shakespeare's Hamlet.
A. Shakespeare depicts the image of Hamlet as a Renaissance humanist to embody the dramatist's own ideals, personal ideal, and social and political one.
B. In Hamlet's case, first and foremost is his own personal ideal, that of filial piety and a strong sense of justice that demands revenge. But he has his social and political ideals too. On the one hand, he eulogizes the infinite capabilities of man: "What a piece of work is man; how noble in reason! How infinite in faculty!" On the other hand he sees and hopes to get rid of the social evils besetting human beings, as he speaks of a "sea of troubles. "
C. So Hamlet engages himself in personal revenge but at the same time intends to set right the "time" that is "out of joint. " The burden of these duties makes Hamlet a man of contemplation rather than of action, which leads to the soliloquies revealing the inner working of his mind. Then, the struggle between good and evil dominatively controls the scene of Hamlet's tragedy, a tragedy of a humanist who is always to see and construct a better world.
2. Robinson Crusoe is universally considered as Daniel Defoe's masterpiece. Robinson, apparently, is cast as a typical 18th-century pioneer colonist. Give a brief comment on Robinson Crusoe.
A. In Robinson Crusoe, Defoe traces the growth of Robinson from a naive and artless youth into a shrewd and hardened man, tempered by numerous trials in his eventful life. The realistic account of the successful struggle of Robinson single-handedly against the hostile nature forms the best part of the novel.
B. In describing Robinson's life on the island, Defoe glorifies human labor and the Puritan fortitude, which save Robinson from despair and are a source of pride and happiness. He toils for the sake of subsistence, and the fruits of his labor are his own.
C. Robinson is here a real hero: a typical eighteenth-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.