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专业好文档文学英语赏析模拟试题(简答) Reading ComprehensionRead the extracts and give brief answers to the questions below.Text 1 I tried to sleep; but my heart beat anxiously, my inward tranquility was broken. The clock, 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 I remembered that it might be Pilot, who, when the kitchen door chanced to be left open, not infrequently found his way up to the threshold of Mr Rochesters chamber: I had seen him lying there myself in the mornings.  The idea calmed me somewhat: I lay down.  Silence composes the nerves; and as an unbroken hush now reigned again through the whole house, I began to feel the return of slumber.  But it was not fated that I should sleep that night.  A dream had scarcely approached my ear, when it fled affrighted, scared by a marrow-freezing incident enough.This was a demoniac laugh low, suppressed, and deep uttered, as it seemed, at the very keyhole of my chamber door.  The head of my bed was near the door, and I thought at first the goblin-laugher stood at my bedside or rather, crouched by my pillow.  But I rose, looked round, and could see nothing; while, as I still gazed, the unnatural sound was reiterated, and I knew it came from behind the panels.  My first impulse was to rise and fasten the bolt; my next, again to cry out, Who is there?  Questions  1. From which novel is the extract taken from? (Write the letter representing your choice on the answer sheet.)A. Heart of Darkness       B. Jane Eyre       C. The Old Man and the Sea2. What time of the day did the marrow-freezing incident happen? It was around two in the morning / It was after midnight. 3. What words did the author use to describe the laugh she heard?It was a demoniac laugh- low, suppressed, deep or unnatural, goblin-laughter, etc. 4. What did the narrator “I” observe after she rose from her bed?The narrator looked around but she could see nothing.  Text 2   I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-containd,I stand and look at them long and long.They do not sweat and whine about their condition,They do not lie awake in the dark and weep 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 1. Which of the following is the message Whitman is conveying to average man and woman?  (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 be themselves.2. Does Whitman use traditional device like regular meter and rhyme in this poem? Whats the form of the poem (sonnet or free verse or visual poetry)? . No. It is a free verse. 3. Identify the literary devices you find in this poem. Name the device, and note down one example.3. Any ONE of the devices and the illustrative examples:  Repetition: They do not sweat and whine about their condition,They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins,They do not make me sick discussing their duty to GodParallelism and repetition:Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with 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.Text 3 Macbeth: 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 menMay 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 undert. He thats comingMust be provided for; and you shall putThis nights business into my dispatch,Which shall to all our nights and days to comeGive solely sovereign sway and masterdom.Macbeth: We will speak further. (Macbeth)Questions  1. Which of the following is the proper paraphrase for the line “To beguile the timelook like the timA.     Seize the hour. Seize the day.  B.     Make your appearance fit the occasion.2. In her speech, Lady Macbeth _. (Write the letter representing your choice on the answer A. tells Macbeth to behave normally as a hospitable host and leave the murdering part to her to arrange3. What does Lady Macbeth mean by “Your faceis as a book where men may read strange matters”?3. Your face is giving you away or your looks betray your feelings. (Points should be given when ideas are similar.)"If we don't do that it will go on and go on. We have to stop it; we need the courage to do it."His comments came hours after Fifa vice-president Jeffrey Webb - also in London for the FA's celebrations - said he wanted to meet Ivory Coast international Toure to discuss his complaint.CSKA general director Roman Babaev says the matter has been "exaggerated" by the Ivorian and the British media.Blatter, 77, said: "It has been decided by the Fifa congress that it is a nonsense for racism to be dealt with with fines. You can always find money from somebody to pay them."It is a nonsense to have matches played without spectators because it is against the spirit of football and against the visiting team. It is all nonsense."We can do something better to fight racism and discrimination."This is one of the villains we have today in our game. But it is only with harsh sanctions that racism and discrimination can be washed out of football."The (lack of) air up there Watch mCayman Islands-based Webb, the head of Fifa's anti-racism taskforce, is in London for the Football Association's 150th anniversary celebrations and will attend City's Premier League match at Chelsea on Sunday."I am going to be at the match tomorrow and I have asked to meet Yaya Toure," he told BBC Sport."For me it's about how he felt and I would like to speak to him first to find out what his experience was."Uefa has opened disciplinary proceedings against CSKA for the "racist behaviour of their fans" during City's 2-1 win.Michel Platini, president of European football's governing body, has also ordered an immediate investigation into the referee's actions.CSKA said they were "surprised and disappointed" by Toure's complaint. In a statement the Russian side added: "We found no racist insults from fans of CSKA."Baumgartner the disappointing news: Mission aborted.The supersonic descent could happen as early as Sunda.The weather plays an important role in this mission. Starting at the ground, conditions have to be very calm - winds less than 2 mph, with no precipitation or humidity and limited cloud cover. The balloon, with capsule attached, will move through the lower level of the atmosphere (the troposphere) where our day-to-day weather lives. It will climb higher than the tip of Mount Everest (5.5 miles/8.85 kilometers), drifting even higher than the cruising altitude of commercial airliners (5.6 miles/9.17 kilometers) and into the stratosphere. As he crosses the boundary layer (called the tropopause),e can expect a lot of turbulence.The balloon will slowly drift to the edge of space at 120,000 feet ( Then, I would assume, he will slowly step out onto something resembling an Olympic diving platform.Below, the Earth becomes the concrete bottom of a swimming pool that he wants to land on, but not too hard. Still, he'll be traveling fast, so despite the distance, it will not be like diving into the deep end of a pool. It will be like he is diving into the shallow end.Skydiver preps for the big jumpWhen he jumps, he is expected to reach the speed of sound - 690 mph (1,110 kph) - in less than 40 seconds. Like hitting the top of the water, he will begin to slow as he approaches the more dense air closer to Earth. But this will not be enough to stop him completely.If he goes too fast or spins out of control, he has a stabilization parachute that can be deployed to slow him down. His team hopes it's not needed. Instead, he plans to deploy his 270-square-foot (25-square-meter) main chute at an altitude of around 5,000 feet (1,524 meters).In order to deploy this chute successfully, he will have to slow to 172 mph (277 kph). He will have a reserve parachute that will open automatically if he loses consciousness at mach speeds.Even if everything goes as planned, it won't. Baumgartner still will free fall at a speed that would cause you and me to pass out, and no parachute is guaranteed to work higher than 25,000 feet (7,620 meters).cause there6