Ⅰ.Multiple ChoiceChoice Select 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. A violet by a mossy stone
Half hidden from the eye!
—Fair as a star, when only one
Is shining in the sky.
Questions:
A. Identify the author and the title of the poem from which this stanza is taken.
B. Pick out the metaphor used in this stanza.
C. What quality does the author intend to show by using the metaphor?
A. William Wordsworth; She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways.
B. A violet is used as a metaphor.
C. By comparing a country girl to a violet, the poet intends to show her quality of beauty and her virtue which are often neglected by the common people just like a wild flower blooming by an untrodden road.
2. 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 author and the work.
B. What are the two principal beliefs that the poet sets forth in this poem?
A. Walt Whitman; Song of Myself.
B. The two beliefs are the theory of universality and the belief in the singularity and equality of all beings in value.
3. 'Poor little Faith!' thought he, for his heart smote him. 'What a wretch am I, to leave her on such an errand! She talks of dreams, too. Methought, as she spoke, there was trouble in her face, as if a dream had warned her what work is to be done tonight. But, no, no!'t would kill her to think it. Well; she's a blessed angel on earth; and after this one night, I'll cling to her skirts and follow her to Heaven. '
Questions:
A. Identify the author and the title of the work.
B. Who is Faith?
C. How do you interpret the speaker's feeling?
A. Nathaniel Hawthorne; Young Goodman Brown.
B. Goodman Brown's wife.
C. He feels guilty of his evil deed and is determined to return to his wife after it, never leaving her again.
4. The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
Questions:
A. Who is the writer of this poem and what is the title of his poem?
B. What kind of feeling does this stanza show?
C. How do you appreciate this poem?
A. Robert Lee Frost; Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.
B. It shows a kind of sad, sentimental but also strong and responsible feeling.
C. It is one of the most quietly moving of Frost's lyrics. On the surface, it seems to be simple, descriptive records of close observation, graphic and homely pictures. It uses the simplest terms and commonest words. But it is deeply meditative, adding far-reaching meanings to the homely music. It uses its superb craftsmanship to come a climax of responsibility: the promise to be kept, the obligation to be fulfilled.
Ⅲ.Questions and AnswersGive a brief answer to each of the following questions in English. 1. As a unique variation of American literary realism, local colorism makes American literature a different. Who is the most famous local colorist? What are local colorists most concerned?
A. Mark Twain is the most famous local colorist.
B. Local colorists' writings are concerned with the life of a small, well-defined region or province.
C. They worked from personal experience; they recorded the facts of a unique environment and suggested that the native life was shaped by the curious conditions of the locale.
2. What's Henry James' outlook, which is an indispensable part of his contribution to literature, in literary criticism?
A. It is both concerned with form and devoted to human values.
B. He also advocates the freedom of the artist to write about anything that concerns him, even the disagreeable, the ugly and the commonplace.
C. The artist should be able to "feel" the life, to understand human nature, and then to record them in his own art form.
3. Related to the theme, characterization and plot of Bernard Shaw's plays, what are the main features?
A. Structurally and thematically, Shaw followed the great traditions of realism. He took the modern social issues as his subjects with the aim of directing social reforms.
B. One feature of Shaw's characterization is that he makes the trick of showing up one character vividly at the expense of another.
C. Much of Shavian drama is constructed around the inversion of a conventional theatrical situation.
D. Shaw's plays have plots, but they do not work by plots.
4. As a Romantic poet, Shelley has his own literary style. What's it?
A. Shelley is one of the leading Romantic poets, an intense and original lyrical poet in the English language.
B. He has a reputation as a difficult poet: erudite, imagistically complex, full of classical and mythological allusions.
C. His style abounds in personification and metaphor and other figures of speech which describe vividly what we see and feel, or express what passionately moves us.
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. In Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen explored three kinds of motivations of marriage the middleclass people had in the second half of the 18th century. Try to make a brief discussion about them with specific examples from the novel. Make comments on Austen's attitude towards these motivations.
A. Motivation one: to pursue material interest through marriage; Wickham, Miss Bingley and Charlotte Lucas are examples of this kind.
B. Motivation two: to seek sensual pleasure and beauty; Lydia is example of this kind.
C. Motivation three: to search for true love and also take personal merits and financial positions into consideration; Elizabeth Bennet is a typical example of this kind.
D. Austen celebrated the third kind of motivations of marriage while criticizing the first two wrong motivations.
2. Mark Twain presented the 19th-century America in his own unique way. Discuss Twain's art of fiction: the setting, the language, and the characters, etc., based on his novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
A. Mark Twain used the Mississippi valley as his fictional kingdom, writing about the landscape and people, the customs and the dialects of one particular region, and is therefore known as a local colorist.
B. He creates life-like characters, especially the uncoventional Huckleberry Finn, who runs away from civilization and stands opposite to conventional village morality.
C. He uses a simple, direct vernacular language, totally different from any precious literary language. It is the kind of colloquial language belonging to the lower class, the living local American English.
D. He has created a special humor to satirize social injustices and the decayed convention.