电大文学阅读与欣赏(文学英语赏析)（小抄参考）

1、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

2、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

3、king lear are well-known tragedies by william shakespeare,together with macbeth. 8. arthur millers 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

4、 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 v

5、iew 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

6、 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

7、 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 be

8、low. 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 a

9、nswered. 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 rochesters chamber:i had seen him lying there myself in the mornings. the idea calmed me somewhat: i laydown.

10、 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

11、 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, a

12、s 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 t

13、he 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

14、 turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-containd, ! 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

15、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 the

16、ir 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

17、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?whats the form of the poem (sonnet or free verse or visual poetry)? 22. identify the literary devices yo

18、u 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

19、 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 coming must be provided for; and you shall put this nights business into my dispatch, which shall to all our nights and days to come

20、 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

21、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

22、 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 faceis as a book where .men may readstrange matters? text 4 please note: this reading task will be relevant to the writing t

23、ask 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 toesca

24、pe from his mothers 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 e

25、arly 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 t

26、heir 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 valle

27、y, 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

28、 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, stil

29、l 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, b

30、efore 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 days hunting with wild pigeons, with rabbits, their eyes glazed in de

31、ath, 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 hour

32、s 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 hi

33、m. 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.

34、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 lan

35、guage: 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 winters evening, when milmaq suddenly got upfrom the table, pulling his father with him, and set off for the upp

36、er 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 wi

37、th 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 toja

38、lseen. 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 fermentatio

39、n 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 qa nat. (when the

40、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

41、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 f

42、lat cakes of minced beef mixed with the sawdust (orthats 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 offer

43、ed 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 prom

44、oted 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. h

45、unters 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

46、 an oldforesters hut up on the edge of the woods. he only took a few essential belongings withhim-a bed, a table, a chair, an old cooking stove and such like. here he was closer to hisbeloved trees. he had become a sort of hermit, what we ,sed to call horat vannah (holyman). we respected him and lef

47、t him alone, though occasionally one of us would pass byjust to ask if he needed anything. 15. one day torbash arrived unexpectedly. he was dressed in one of those modernsuits, a shirt with red stripes and a bright red tie to match. he was driving a big red carwhich made a lot of dust when it roared

48、 into the village. he told us he was now a big man inanother company. what sort of company? it made paper products, things like toilet paperand paper handkerchiefs. (we didnt know what these were but we didnt show it. ) theyalso made paper for printing books and newspapers. and a special part of the

49、 cmnpany madefurniture. 16. he had come to see his brother about selling the woods. we directed him to theforesters hut. he left his car and went on foot up the steep path. now i should explainthat, under our laws of inheritance, everything is left to the eldest son, zirmat akal (firstborn). so the

50、farm and the woods belonged to torbash, even though it was milmaq whoworked them. 17. i dont know what happened when they met but, when torbash came back down,his face was black with anger. he drove off without greeting us. a week later greatmachines began to arrive, ploughing up the tracks as they

51、went up the hillsides. the treesbegan to be torn savagely, not in the old way. ()n the hillside away fr0m the foresters hutthere were no trees left, only a tangle of fallen trunks and smashed branches waiting to besawn up and dragged away. 18. when i called to see milmaq i found him in his bed. he w

52、as terribly thin and had ahigh fever. i kept watch over him for the next three days. during this time, the machineswere moving closer and closer to the hut. soon there were only a few trees standing. until,through the window, i could see just one tree left. it was a magnificent oak, the one whichmil

53、maq had often spoken to. the men moved in wixh their evil-sounding saws and beganwork. i watched, hypnotized by the enormity of tiffs massacre of trees. behimt me i heardmilmaq stir. he staggered to his feet and leaned on tile window sill. the oak shuddered,swayed and, with a gut-wrenching groan, cr

54、ashed in a pile of splintered hramhes. as it hitthe ground, milmaq himself collapsed. he was dead. i looked at the clock, h was three in the afternoon. in the distance i heard the rumble of thunder from the next valley. 19. we only heard about torbash later. he had apparently left a meeting in his officeand driven off