电大文学阅读与欣赏(文学英语赏析)（小抄参考） .doc

专业好文档试卷代号：1062 中央广播电视大学20062007学年度第一学期“开放本科”期末考试 英语专业 文学阅读与欣赏(文学英语赏析) 试题Part I: Literary Fundamentals '30 pointsSection 1. Match the works with their writers (10 points).Works 1. Hills like White Elephants 2. I Have a Dream 3. An Inspector Calls 4. The Importance of Being Earnest 5. The PearlWriters A. John Steinbeck B. Robert Frost C. Oscar Wilde D. Walt Whitman E. Ernest Hemingway F. JB Priestley G. Arthur Miller H. Martin Luther KingSection 2. Decide whether the following statements are True (T) or False (F) ( 10 points). 6. Robert Frost is a well-known Scottish poet. 7. Hamlet, Othello and King Lear are well-known tragedies by William Shakespeare,together with Macbeth. 8. Arthur Miller's play The Crucible is aimed at exposing the hypocrisy of the property-owning class of the United States. 9. Scrooge is a character created by Charles Dickens in his novel Great Expectations. 10. Lord of the Flies is a thought-provoking novel authored by William Golding.Section 3. Choose the correct answers to complete the following sentences ( 10 points. 11. _ can be established by describing the place where the action takes place, orthe situation at the start of the story. A. Climax B. Point of view C. Flashback D. Setting 12. A _ is a pair of rhymed lines that are equal in length. A _ is aourteen-line lyric poem which rhymes in a highly controlled way. A. Couplet, ballad B. Sonnet, limerick C. Couplet, sonnet D. Ballad, haiku 13. Which figure of speech is used in the following lines? "h was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it wasthe age of foolishness'". ' A. Metaphor B. Parallelism C. Simile D. Personification 14. was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005. A. Harold Pinter B. John Steinbeck C. James Joyce D. Walt Whitman 15. In his essay "Of studies", Bacon classified books thus: "Some books are to betasted, others to be , and some few to be chewed and '. A. swallowed, skimmed B. swallowed, digested C. scanned, perfected D. skimmed, scannedPart U: Reading Comprehension 50 points Read the extracts and give brief answers to the questions below. Text 1 1 tried to sleep; but my heart beat anxiously, my inward tranquillity was broken. Theclock, far down in the hall, struck two. Just then it seemed my chamber-door was touched,as if fingers had swept the panels in groping a way along the dark gallery outside. I said,'Who is there?' Nothing answered. I was chilled with fear. All at once 1 remembered that it might be Pilot, who, when the kitchen door chanced tobe left open, not infrequently found his way up to the threshold of Mr Rochester's chamber:I had seen him lying there myself in the mornings. The idea calmed me somewhat: I laydown. Silence composes the nerves; and as an unbroken hush now reigned again through thewhole house, I began to feel the return of slumber. But it was not fated that I should sleepthat night. A dream had scarcely approached my ear, when it fled affrighted, scared by amarrow-freezing incident enough. This was a demoniac laugh-low, suppressed, and deep-uttered, as it seemed, at thevery keyhole of my chamber door. The head of my bed was near the door, and I thought atfirst the goblin-laugher stood at my bedside -or rather, crouched by my pillow. But 1 rose,looked round, and could see nothing; while, as I still gazed, the unnatural sound wasreiterated, and I knew it came from behind the panels. My first impulse was to rise andfasten the bolt; my next, again to cry out, 'Who is there?'Questions (12 points) 16. From which novel is the extract taken from? (Write the letter representing yourchoice on the answer sheet. ) A. Heart of Darkness B. Jane Eyre C. The Old Man and the Sea 17. What time of the day did the marrow-freezing incident happen? 18. What words did the author use to describe the laugh she heard? 19. What did the narrator" I ' observe after she rose from her bed? Text 2 I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd, ! standand look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and ,eep for their sins, They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago, Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth. So they show their relations to me and I accept them, They bring me tokens of myself, they evince them plainly in their possession. ( Song of Myself)Questions (9 points 20. Which of the following is the message Whitman is conveying to average man andwoman? (Write the letter representing your choice on the answer sheet. ) A. People should love the earth and the sun and the animals. B. People should love themselves for what they are and bc themselves. C. People should despise riches and give their wealth away to those in need. 21. Does Whitman use traditional device like regular meter and rhyme in this poem?What's the form of the poem (sonnet or free verse or visual poetry)? 22. Identify the literary devices you find in this poem. Name the device, and note downone example. Text 3Macbeth: My dearest love, Duncan comes here tonight.Lady Macbeth: And when goes hence?Macbeth: Tomorrow, as he purposes.Lady Macbeth: O, never Shall sun that morrow see. Your face, my thane, is as a book where men May read strange matters. To beguile the time, Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye, Your hand, your tongue; look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under't. He that's coming Must be provided for; and you shall put This night's business into my dispatch, Which shall to all our nights and days to come Give solely sovereign sway and masterdom.Macbeth: We will speak further. (Macbeth)Questions ( 9 points) 23. Which of the ollowing is the proper paraphrase for the line "'Fo beguile the time,look like the time"? (Write the letter representing your choice on the answer sheet. ) A. Seize the hour. Seize the day. B. Make your appearance fit the occasion. C. Enjoy as you may, for tomorrow you may die. 24. In her speech, Lady Macbeth. (Write the letter representing your choice onthe answer sheet. ) A. tells Macbeth to behave normally as a hospitable host and leave the mt rdering part to her to arrange B. persuades Macbeth to act as a serpent and carry out the murder in person C. asks Macbeth for suggestions as how to entertain Duncan 25. What does Lady Macbeth mean by "Your face'"is as a book where .men may readstrange matters"? Text 4 Please note: This reading task will be relevant to the writing task in Part m. The Man Who Talked to Trees 1. They were twins; boys born five minutes apart in the dark days of the Civil War fiftydays earlier. The elder was named Torbash, which means 'hero' in our language. Theyounger one*s name was Milmaq, 'bringer of peace. ' Torbash had struggled like a hero toescape from his mother's womb, almost tearing her apart. Milmaq had slid out with mercifulswiftness. 2. They were identical twins. When they were children strangers could not tell themapart. They both had dark black hair and piercing green eyes. They were strong, tall anderect. Until they reached their early teens, they were always together. They slept together,ate together, played together, went to school together, got into trouble together-they evenfell iii together. And they looked after each other. Anyone who tried to bully one of themwould face the anger of the other. And of course they used their physical likeness to playtricks on people, especially at school. 3. By the time they were fourteen the family had returned to its lands in the Nirmatvalley. Their father had rebuilt the old farmhouse, destroyed by the retreating rebel army atthe end of the war. He farmed the bottom of the valley, growing wheat and tending the richalmond orchards for which the valley was then famous. On the lower slopes he had vineyardsfrom which he produced the strong Nirmat Kashin (Lion of Nirmat) wine. The higher landwas forested. The chestnut trees gave nuts in the autumn. The oaks and beeches, as well asthe chestnut trees, were carefully tended. Their valuable timber was sold to furnituremakers and builders in Jalseen, the town lower down the valley. The trees were cutaccording to a strict rotation. For every tree they cut down, another was planted. Thesewere what we, the ones who remember, still call 'The Days of Contentment'. 4. It was about this time that the two boys began to grow apart. There was nothingsudden about this. They did not argue about a girl, or fight over an imagined insult as somany young people do. It was simply that they gradually began to do things by themselveswhich, before that, they would have done together. So each began to develop differentinterests. 5. Torbash spent his spare time hunting in the forests. He had been given a shotgun forhis fifteenth birthday. He would proudly return after a day's hunting with wild pigeons, with rabbits, their eyes glazed in death, and sometimes with a deer. His greatest ambition was to bring back a wild boar. His other main occupation was to visit Jalseen, where there were girls with 'modern' ways. It was there that he got to know the 'contacts' who were to help him later. 6. Milmaq was a solitary person. He would spend hours in the forests, not hunting, simply sitting still, watching, waiting for something to happen. A spider would swing its thread across the canyon between two branches. A woodpecker would drum at the trunk of a chestnut tree, its neck a blur of speed. Above all, the trees themselves would speak to him. He would be aware of them creaking and swaying in the wind. He could sense the sap rising in them in the springtime feel their sorrow at the approach of winter. If he put his ear to the trunk of a tree, he could hear it growing, very slowly; feel it moving towards its final magnificent shape. 7. Sometimes he would speak aloud to a tree. More often he would communicate with it silently. Sometimes he would lose all sense of himself. It was as if he had become part of the tree. This may sound like nonsense to you. Things are different now. But we still have anexpression for this in the old language: 'Ahashinat ain kashul '. It means, 'Finding thecentre. 8. Please do not think that the brothers lost touch with each other, in that special waythat twins have. There was the time, one winter's evening, when Milmaq suddenly got upfrom the table, pulling his father with him, and set off for the upper slopes of the valley.Snow had fallen, and they soon found the tracks of boots and, soon after that, boar tracks.They found Torbash crouching in the branches of an oak tree. Beneath the tree there was afull-grown wild boar, grunting angrily. 9. It had a wound in its side. Their father killed it with the two barrels of his ownhunting gun. And no one, least of all Torbash, ever asked how Milmaq had known he was indanger. 10. Just as Milmaq himself did not ask when Torbash arrived, as if by magic, to fightoff the gang of thugs who had attacked Milmaq in the street on one of his rare visits toJalseen. They were twins-'majeen taq asnaan' ('a plum with a double stone'). It wasnatural. No one thought it in the least bit strange. I1. It was not long after the incident with the boar that their father died. It was thetime of the grape harvest. He had gone out after supper to check on the fermentation of thegrapes in the vat. They found him floating in the vat, face downwards, tie must either havehad a heart attack or been overcome with the powerful fumes. Whichever, he was well andtruly dead, and there was nothing anyone could do about it. As we say, 'Fashan kat maannat, maan q'a nat. ' (When the time comes, the time has come. ) He was a brave man,respected by all, and regretted by all. 12. He and his wife had survived many hardships together. But she could not bear tolive alone. Within three months, she had followed her husband to the place where allsufferings cease. The two boys were left alone. 13. It was not long before Torbash left home. He had never enjoyed the hard work ofthe farm. He needed to see things happen fast. He took a room in Jalseen and was soonworking in one of the newer places there. It was a sort of restaurant, but nothing likeanything we had seen before. It sold flat cakes of minced beef mixed with the sawdust (orthat's what it tasted like to us), grilled and served between two pieces of bread. The priceswere high but young people loved it. Torbash began by washing up the dirty dishes. Withinweeks he was 'supervising'. Soon afterwards, one of his 'contacts' offered him a better jobwith a company selling a new type of drink. It was brown and had a sweet, perfumed taste.And instead of quenching your thirst, it made you want to drink more. Give me a bottle ofNirmat Kashin any day! The drink was made in a factory in the capital and, before long,Torbash was promoted and went to work there in the head office. We did not see him forseveral years. 14. Meantime Milmaq continued to farm the family land. He did not marry, and seldomle(t the farm. When he was not on the land he would be in the woods. There were rumoursthat he was becoming more and more strange. Hunters had found him deep in conversationwith an oak tree. He would walk through the woods greeting individual trees like oldfriends. And he completely stopped the cutting of timber for sale. The only trees he cut weredead or diseased. After several years, he closed up the old farmhouse and moved to an oldforester's hut up on the