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. Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st:
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Questions:
A. Where does the poem come from? Who wrote it?
B. What does "lines" mean?
C. Interpret the poem briefly.
A. The poem is Sonnet18; Shakespeare.
B. "lines" means the lines of the poem and other sonnets.
C. A nice summer's day is usually transient, but the beauty in poetry can last for ever.
2. 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. Who is the author of the poem?
B. What does "Bees of England" refer to?
C. What figure of speech is used here?
A. Percy Bysshe Shelley.
B. The laboring people in England.
C. Metaphor.
3. Then where are our relatives? my father? our family friends? You claim the rights 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. From which work is this quotation taken?
B. Which character is speaking?
C. What does this work expose?
A. Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession.
B. Vivie.
C. This play realistically exposes the economic oppression of women in English society.
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.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
Questions:
A. Who wrote this poem?
B. What's the title of this poem?
C. What is the poem mainly about?
A. William Wordsworth.
B. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.
C. This poem is about the beauty of nature. There is a vivid picture of the daffodils here, mixed with the poet's philosophical and somewhat mystical thought.
Ⅲ.Questions and AnswersGive a brief answer to each of the following questions in English. 1. Why are naturalists inevitably pessimistic in their view? Please discuss the above question in relation to the basic principles of literary naturalism.
A. The American naturalists accepted the more negative implications of Darwin's evolutionary theory, and used it to account for the behavior of those characters in literary works who were conceived as more or less complex combinations of inherited attributes, their habits conditioned by social and economic forces.
B. They believed that man's instinct, the environment and other social and economic forces played an overwhelming role and man's fate is "determined" by such forces beyond his control.
2. "Even then he stood there, hidden wholly in that kindness which is night, while the uprising fumes filled the room. When the odor reached his nostrils, he quit his attitude and fumbled for the bed. 'What's the use?' he said, weakly, as he stretched himself to rest. " The above is quoted from Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie. Briefly tell the situation that leads to Hurstwood's suicide and interpret his final words—"What's the use?".
A. When they live together, Carrie becomes mature in intellect and emotion, while Hurstwood, away from the atmosphere of success on which his life has been based, steadily declines. So their relations become strained. At last, she thinks him too great a burden and leaves him. After Carrie deserts Hurstwood, he is in great despair. Feeble and penniless, Hurstwood wanders in a cold winter night with nobody trying to help. Extremely hopeless and totally devastated, he turns the gas on in a cheap lodging-house and ends his life.
B. By making that comment, Hurstwood seems to have realized that it is useless to continue to fight against fate. His fate is not controlled by his own efforts but by some social forces too strong for him to resist, so he decides to give up.
3. The white whale, Moby Dick, is the most important symbol in Melville's novel. What symbolic meaning can you draw from it?
A. The white whale, Moby Dick, symbolizes nature for Melville, for it is complex, unfathomable, malignant, and beautiful as weU. For the character Ahab, the whale represents only evil.
B. For the author, as well as for the reader and Ishmael, the narrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, an ultimate mystery of the universe. inscrutable and ambivalent, and the voyage of the mind will forever remain a search, not a discovery, of the truth.
4. The three dominant figures of the American Age of Realism understand the "truth" differently. Who are they and what are the differences?
A. William Dean Howells, Mark Twain, Henry James.
B. Mark Twain and Howells seemed to have paid more attention to the "life" of the Americans. Howells focused his discussion on the rising middle class and the way they lived. Mark Twain preferred to have his own region and people at the forefront of his stories. Henry James had apparently laid a greater emphasis on the "inner world" of man.
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. Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, as a whole, is one of the most effective and devastating criticisms and satires of all aspects in the English and European life of his day. Please give a brief comment on Gulliver's Travels.
A. As a whole, the book is one of the most effective and devastating criticisms and satires of all aspects in the then English and European life-socially, politically, religiously, philosophically, scientifically, and morally. Its social significance is great and its exploration into human nature profound.
B. Gulliver's Travels is an artistic masterpiece. In structure, the four parts make an organic whole, with each contrived upon an independent structure, and yet complementing the others and contributing to the central concern of study of human nature and life. The first two parts are generally considered the best paired-up work.
C. In the novel, man is observed from both ends of a telescope. The exaggerated smallness in Part 1 works just as effectively as the exaggerated largeness in Part 2. The similarities between human beings and the Lilliputians and the contrast between the Brobdingnagians and human beings both bear reference to the possibilities of human state. Part 3, though seemingly a bit random, furthers the criticism of the western civilization and deals with different malpractices and false illusions about science, philosophy, history and even immortality. The last part, where comparison is made through both similarities and differences, leads the reader to a fundamental question: What on earth is a human being?
2. Summarize the story of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in about 100 words, and comment on the theme of the novel.
A. The story takes place along the Mississippi River before the Civil War in the United States. The novel relates the story of the escape of Jim from slavery and, more important, how Huck Finn, floating along with Jim and helping him as best he could, changes his mind, his prejudice, about black people, and comes to accept Jim as a man and as a close friend as well. During their journey, they experience a series of adventures: coming across two frauds, the "Duke" and the "King, " witnessing the lynching and murder of a harmless drunkard, being lost in a fog and finally Tom's coming to rescue.
B. The theme of the novel may be best summed in a word "freedom": Huck wants to escape from the bond of civilization and Jim wants to escape from the yoke of slavery. Mark Twain uses the raft's journey down the Mississippi river to express his thematic contrasts between innocence and experience, nature and culture, wilderness and civilization.
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