中央广播电视大学2002—2003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试题

1、_中央广播电视大学20022003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试题 中央广播电视大学20022003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试题 2003年1月注意事项 一、将你的准考证号、学生证号、姓名及分校(工作站)名称写在答题纸的规定栏内。考试结束后，把试卷和答题纸放在桌上。试卷和答题纸均不得带出考场。监考人收完考卷和答题纸后才可以离开考场。 二、仔细阅读题目的说明，开按题目要求答题。答案一定要写在答题纸的指定位置上，写在试卷上的答案无效。 三，用蓝、黑圆珠笔和钢笔答题，使用铅笔答题无效。instructions: you are requir

2、ed to answer all questions of both paper one reading and paper two writing. you should write all your answers in clear and coherent english. you should write all your answers in the appropriate spaces provided in the answer sheet.paper one reading (110 minutes) (70 points). text 1 (questions 1-4 are

3、 based on the following text. )( 15 points)municipal gum * by oodgeroo noonuccalgumtree in the city street,hard bitumen(沥青) around your feet,rather you should bein the cool world of leafy forest hailsand wild bird calls.here you seem to melike that poor cart horsecastrated, broken, a thing wronged,s

4、trapped and buckled, its hell prolonged,whose hung head and listless face expressits hopelessness.municipal gum, it is dolorous(忧伤的)to see you thusset in your black grass of bitumeno fellow citizen,what have they done to us?*an austalian tree that is considered as a national symbol of australia.*ood

5、geroo noonuccal is a famous aboriginal(土著) australian writer.questions on text 11. the rhyme scheme for the beginning 5 lines of the poem is b. (2 points)2. identify two examples of figures of speech used in the poem. (6 points)3. identify two words or phrases in the poem that convey the tone of the

6、 poem to the reader. (2 points)4. what meaning do you think the poet is trying to convey to the reader in the last two lines of the poem? (5 points). text 2 (questions 5-12 are based on the following text. ) (25 points): oh, please dont get up, mr. crawley. i was just wondering ifyou meant what you

7、said the other day about showing me the runof things.frank: of course, i did,: what are you doing now?frank:notifying all the tenants that in celebration of maxims return,with his bride, this weeks rent will be free.: oh, was that maxims idea?frank: oh, yes. all the servants get an extra weeks wages

8、, too.: he didnt tell me. oh cant i help you? i could atleast lickthe stamps.frank: thats terribly nice of you. wont you sit down?: oh yes, thank you. i was down at the cottage on the beach theother day, and there was a man there, a queer sort of person.jasper kept barking at him.frank: oh, yes-must

9、 have been ben, hes quite harmless.we give himodd jobs now and then.: that cottage place seeing to be going to rack and ruin. why isntsomething done about it?frank: oh, i think if maxim wanted anything done about it, hed tellme.: are those all rebeccas things down there?frank: yes, yes they are.: wh

10、at did she use the cottage for?frank: the boat used to be moored near there.: what boat? what happened to it? was that the boat she was cryingin when shewas drowned?frank: yes, it capsized and sank. she was washed overboard.: wasnt she afraid to go out like that, alone?frank: she wasnt afraid of any

11、thing.: where did they find her?frank: near edgecomber, about forty miles up channel, about two monthsafterwards. maxim went up to identify her. it was horrible forhim.: yes, it must have been, mr. crawley, please don5 think me morbidly curious-it isnt that. its just that i feel at such adisadvantag

12、e. all the time, whenever meet anyone maxims sister,even the servants, i know theyre all thinking the same tiring.theyre all comparing me with her, rebecca.frank: oh, you mustnt think that. i cant tell you bow glad i am thatyou married maxim. its going to make all the difference to hislife. and from

13、 my point of view its very refreshing to findsomeone like yourself who is not entirely-er-in tune, shall wesay, with manderley.questions on text 25. what literary genre do you think the above piece of writing could come from? choose the most correct answer from the choices below. (3 points)a. comedy

14、 b. romancec. science-fiction d. drama6. who do you think the main character of the writing is? (2 points)7. what do you think is the setting for the above conversation? (3 points)8. what (if any) was the relationship between "i" and "frank"? (2 points)9. what importance/signific

15、ance could ben and the cottage have in relation to rebecca? (3 points)10. what do you think was the purpose of the author in writing the above conversation in the first person point of view "i"? (2 points)11. how could the story develop based on what you have read? (4 points)12. write a se

16、ntence to describe each of the following characters: rebecca; i； maxim. (6 points). text 3 (questions 13-20 are based on the following text. ) (30 points) here is an abridged short story, indian camp, written by ernest hemingway. read it and answer questions 1320 that follow.please note: this readin

17、g task will be relevant to the writing task in paper two.indian campby ernest hemingway at the lake shore there was another rowboat drawn up. the two indians stood waiting. nick and his father got in the stern(船尾部) of the boat and the indians shoved it off and one of them got in to row. uncle george

18、 sat in the stern of the camp rowboat. the young indian shoved the camp boat off and got in to row uncle george. "where are we going, dad?" nick asked. "over to the indian camp. there is an indian lady very sick. " "oh," said nick. across the bay they found another boat

19、 beached. uncle george was smoking a cigar in the dark. the other indian pulled the boat way up on the beach. uncle george gave both the indians cigars. they walked up from the beach through a meadow that was soaking wet with dew and followed a logging trail . they came round a bend and a dog came o

20、ut barking. ahead were the lights of the huts of the indian bark peelers. in the doorway of one of the huts an old woman stood iii the doorway holding a lamp. inside on a wooden bunk lay a young indian woman. she had been trying to have her baby for two days. all the old women in the camp had been t

21、rying to help her. she screamed just as nick and the two indians followed his father and uncle george into the hut. she lay in the lower bunk, very big under a quilt. her head was turned io one side. in the upper bunk was her husband. he had cut his foot very badly with an ax three days before. he w

22、assmoking a pipe and the room smelt very had. "this lady is going lo have a baby, nick," he said. (1) "l know", said nick. "you dont know," said his lather. "listen to me. what she is through is called being in labor. the baby wants to be born and she wants it to b

23、e born. all her muscles are trying to gel the baby born. that is what is happening when she screams." "i see," nick said. (2) just then the woman screamed. "oh, daddy, cant you give her something to make her stop screaming?" asked nick. "no. i havent any anesthetic,&quo

24、t; his father said. "but her screams are not important. i don’t hear them because they are not important." the husband in the upper bunk rolled over against the wall. the woman in the kitchen motioned to the doctor that the water was hot. "those must boil," he said, and beg

25、an to scrub his hands preparing for the delivery of the baby. when he had made himself ready, he re-entered and went to work. "pull back that quilt, will you george?" be said. "id rather not touch it." later when he started to operate uncle george and the three indian men held th

26、e woman still. she bit uncle george on the arm and uncle george said, "damn squaw bitch!" and the young indian who had rowed uncle george over laughed at him. nick held the basin for his lather. it all took a long time. his father picked the baby up and slapped it on the bottom to make it

27、breathe and handed it to the old woman. "see, its a boy, nick," he said. "how do you like being a doctors assistant?" nick said, "all right." he was looking away so as not to see what his father was doing. "now," his father said, "theres some stitches to

28、put in. you can watch this or not,nick, just as you like. im going to sew up the incision i made. " nick did not watch. his curiosity had long since gone. his father finished and stood up, looked at the woman who seemed so pale and then said, "ill be back in the morning to seehow she is, t

29、he nurse from town should be here by then." "thats one for the medical journal, george," he said. "doing a caesaerian with a jack knife(折叠刀) and tying it up with three metres of nylon fishing line." uncle george was standing against the wail, looking at his arm. "oh, yo

30、ure a great man, all right." he said. "ought to have a look at the proud father. they’re usually the worst sufferers in these little affairs," the doctor said. "i must say he took it all very quietly." he pulled back the blanket from the indians head.his hand came away

31、 wet.he mounted the edge of the lower bunk with the lamp in one hand and looked in. the indian lay with his face towards the wall.his throat had been cat from ear to ear. the blood bad flowed down into a pool where his body sagged the hunk. his head rested on his left arm. the open razor lay, edge u

32、p, in the blankets. "take nick out of the hut, george," the doctor said. there was no need of that. nick, standing in the door of the kitchen, had a good view of the upper bank when his father, the lamp in hand, tipped the indians head back. it was just beginning to be daylight when they w

33、alked along the track leading to the lake. "urn terribly sorry i brought you along, nickie," said his father, all his post operative exhilaration gone. "it was an awful mess to put you through." "do ladies always have such a hard time having babies?" nick asked. "n

34、o, that was very, very exceptional." "why did he kill himself, daddy?" "i dont know, nick. he couldnt stand things, i guess." "do many men kill themselves, daddy?" "not very many, nick." "do many women?" "hardly ever. "dont they ever?&

35、quot; "oh, yes. they do sometimes." "daddy?" "yes." "where did uncle george go?" "hell turn up all right." (3) "is dying hard, daddy?" "no, i think its pretty easy, nick. it alt depends." they were seated in the boat, nick in the

36、stern, his father rowing. the sun was coming up over the hills. a bass (fish) jumped, making a circle in the water. nick trailed his hang in the water. it felt warm in the sharp chill of the morning. in the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt qu

37、ite sure that he would never die.questions on text 313. who was the main character of the story? (2 points)14.based on the dialogue between nick and his father in the story, what was then relationship, other than father and son? (2 points)15. what was the most unexpected event that happened in this

38、short story? (3 points)16, what role did uncle george play in the story? (3 points)17. read the first underlined section in the story. why did nick say he knew, yet his father said he didnt know? (5 points)18. read the second underlined section in the story.why were the womans screams unimportant? (

39、5 points)19. why do you think the indian cut his throat? (5 points)20. what reasons can you give for nicks father saying that dying was "pretty easy" (in the third underlined section)? (5 points)paper two: writing (40 minutes) (30 points)title: indian camp (about 200 words)instructions: im

40、agine you are nick. retell the story from his point of view. you should slick to the original story line and keep the basic content of the story. use specific words to express your feelings and experiences as you imagine would he true of nick. note! do not simply copy nicks words from the text-以下是答案

41、解析-中央广播电视大学20022003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试题答案paper one reading (70 points)the ideas must be correct.the wording can be different. all answers must be grammatically correct. questions 1-4 are based on text 1. (16 points) 1. aabcc (2 points) 2 (a) simile: "you(the trees) seem to me like tha

42、t cart-horse"(3 points) (b) personification: "(municipal gum) whose hung head and listless face." (3 points) 3 (words similar to imprisoned or bound/tied up) examples: strapped and buckled; castrated; hell prolonged; listless face (2 points, 1 point for one correct answer, award a max

43、imum of 2 points.) 4 like the gum tree, bound and encased in black bitumen (symbolism), and bound and controlled like a cart horse (beast of burden) the author feels that black aboriginal australians are similarly treated by white australian society. (or similar answer) (5 points) . questions 5-12 a

44、re based on text 2. (25 points) 5. d (3 points) 6. rebecca (because there is a mystery aspect to her character)(2 points) 7. the home of maxim (or large house near the beach) (3 points) 8. frank may have been a friend of maxim or a servant of the household.he probably had no relationship to "i&

45、quot; other than as a friend. (2 points) 9. uncertain, but there could have been some link lo rebeccas death.the cottage and/or ben may have bad a role to play. (3 points) 10 to emphasize from whose point of view the story is being told. also to place the focus on a specific character (or similar an

46、swer). (2 points) 11. any answer providing it is relevant lo the extract and characters is plausible. (4 points) 12. ( 1 ) rebecca: died in a boating accident and was married to maxim. may bare been a difficult person to understand. people thought she was very nice. (2 points) (2) "i": abo

47、ut to be married to maxim and was the subject of gossip by relatives and servants. trying to find out more about maxims first wife, rebecca. (2 points) (3) maxim: previously married to rebecca, may have been unhappily married and is marrying someone who seems to be quite different in some ways to rebecca.(2 points) . questions 13-20 are based on text 3. (30 points) 13. nick (or both nick and his father) (2 points) 14. a close loving and understanding relationship. the father is acting as