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. 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 are the characteristics of Fielding's writing?
In Fielding's writing, his language is easy, unlaboured and familiar, but extremely vivid and vigorous. His sentences are always distinguished by logic and rhythm, and his structure carefully planned to-wards an inevitable ending. His works are "also noted for lively, dramatic dialogues and other theatrical devices such as suspense, coincidence and unexpectedness.
2. What are the features of Whitman's poetry related to his brand-new means?
A. His poetic style is marked by the use of the poetic "I."
B. He adopted "free verse," poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.
C. The image in his poems is unconventional.
D. He uses oral English.
E. His vocabulary is amazing.
F. Parallelism and phonetic recurrence are used at the beginning of the lines.
3. "Let it not be supposed by the enemies of 'the system,' that, during the period of his solitary incarceration, Oliver was denied the benefit of exercise, the pleasure of society, or the advantages of religious consolation." What do you think Charles Dickens intends to say in the above ironic statement taken from Oliver Twist?
A. The sentence is a typical example of irony. What Dickens intends to say is just the opposite of the sentence's literal meaning.
B. For the "benefit" of exercise, Oliver was whipped every morning in a stone yard; for the "pleasure" of society, he was carried every other day into the dining hall and flogged as a public warning and example to the boys; and as for the "advantages" of religions consolation, he was kicked into the same apartment every evening at prayer time and listened to the boys' prayer to be guarded against his sins and vices.
C. The ironic statement is, in fact, a bitter denunciation and fierce attack at the brutal, inhuman treatment of the poor orphan by the workhouse authority.
4. Frost's poem is mostly concerned with his contemplation on nature, and the relationship between nature and man. What are Robert Frost's features related to his poetry?
By using simple spoken language and conversational rhythms, Frost achieved an effortless grace in his style. He combined traditional verse forms—the sonnet, rhyming couplets, blank verse—with a clear American local speech rhythm, the speech of New England farmers with its idiosyncratic diction and syntax. In verse form he was assorted; he wrote in both the metrical forms and the flee verse, and sometimes he wrote in a form that borrows freely from the merits of both, in a form that might be called semi-free or semi-conventional.
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. Analyze the character of Jane Eyre based on the selection taken from Chapter XXⅢ of Jane Eyre.
A. Jane Eyre, an orphan child with a fiery spirit and a longing to love and be loved, a poor, plain, little governess who dares to love her master.
B. In Chapter XXⅢ, Jane finds herself hopelessly in love with Mr. Rochester but she is aware that her love is out of the question. When forced to confront Mr. Rochester, she desperately and openly declares her equality with him and her love for him.
2. Symbolism has been widely used by many American writers. Discuss the way symbolism is used in Faulkner's story A Rose for Emily.
A. Rose, as a symbol of love, may refer to the love between Emily and the Northerner, yet used rather ironically, in the way it is associated with decay and death in the story.
B. Rose could also stand for the pity, sympathy, or the lament "we" shows for Emily.
C. The pity and lament goes not only to Emily but all those who are imprisoned in the past and fail to adapt to the change.
D. Emily, an eccentric spinster who refuses to accept the passage of time,is the symbol of the Old South imprisoned in the past.