(2022更新）国家开放大学电大《文学英语赏析》形考任务6试题及答案

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1、最新国家开放大学电大【文学英语赏析】形考任务6试题及答案形考任务6 在线自测 题目1Macbeth is William Shakespeares well-known comedy.选择一项：对错题目2The Crucible by Arthur Miller, concerns a real historical incident, involving witchcraftand an attack of mass hysteria.选择一项：对错题目3Lady Bracknell is a comic character created by Oscar Wilde in his pla

2、y The Importance of Being Ernest.选择一项：对错题目4“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is a protest poem against racial discrimination.选择一项：对错题目5Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost are well-known American poets.选择一项：对错 题目6In the poem aAcquainted with the Night , the speaker expressed his distress at the death of

3、his lover and bewilderment of the meaning of life. 选择一项： 对错题目7The Old Man and the Sea is one of Ernest Hemingway s best-known short stories.选择一项：对错题目8Pip is a character created by Charles Dickens in his novel A Christmas Carol.选择一项：对错题目9The novel The Heart of Darkness exposes the corruption, cruelty

4、 and greed of the colonial system in Africa.选择一项：对错题目10“I Have a Dreamv is a famous speech made by President Lincoln during the American CivilWar.选择一项：对错题目11Usuallyworks by starting a story at a point in the recent past, then switching theaction back to an earlier time, farther back in the past.选择一项

5、：A. codaB. climaxC. flashbackD. point of view题目12 occurs when a writer repeats a particular grammatical or phonological pattern inclose proximity.选择一项：A. parallelismB. punC. alliterationD. climax题目13 can be established by describing the place where the action takes place, or the situation at the sta

6、rt of the story.选择一项：A. SettingB. ClimaxC. CodaD. Point of view题目14 is written to commemorate someone who has died.选择一项：A. An elegyB. A limerickC. An epicD. A sonnet题目15A writer can show character by giving a physical description, through and throughdeeds.选择一项：A. settingB. climaxC- point of viewD. d

7、ialogue题目16 is an example of simile-选择一项：A. “ Her tongue is a sharp knife.B. Her eyes twinkled like stars. C. “ The windows waves violently in the wind. D. She has a heart of stone. 题目17 is an example of parallelism.选择一项：A. “The street shone out, like a fire in the forest. B. “All the worlds a stage

8、 and all the men and women are merely players.C. “Childhood is like a swiftly passing dream. D. Government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth题目18 contains an example of alliteration.选择一项：A. “Soon, night will steal hours from the day. B. “ Her tongue is like

9、a sharp knife.C. “He was secret, self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. vD. Her eyes twinkled like stars.题目19 contains examples of metaphor.选择一项：A. “ United we stand, divided we fall.B. “The street shone out, like a fire in the forest.C. “The Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the mids

10、t of a vast ocean of material prosperity.D. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness.题目20 is an example of personification.选择一项：A. aChildhood is like a swiftly passing dream. vB. “The years have silvered her hair. C. “Life is a jour

11、ney. Travel it well.D. “All the world s a stage, And all the men and women are merely players. Text 1Elizabeth: I think you must go to Salem, John. (He turns to her.) I think so. You must tell them it is a fraud.Proctor (thinking beyond this): Aye, it is, it is surely.Elizabeth: Let you go to Ezekie

12、l Cheever - he knows you well. And tell him what she said to you last week in her uncle s house. She said it had naught to do with witchcraft, did she not?Proctor (in thought): Aye, she did, she did. (Now a pause.)Elizabeth (quietly, fearing to anger him by proddin.): God forbid you keep that from t

13、he court, John. I think they must be told.Proctor (quietly, struggling with his thoughts.) Aye, they must, they must. It is a wonder they do believe her.Elizabeth: I would go to Salem now, John - let you go tonight.Proctor: I 11 think on it.Elizabeth (with her courage now.): You cannot keep it, John

14、.Proctor (angering.): I know I cannot keep it. I say I will think on it!Elizabeth (hurt, and very coldly.) : Good, then let you think on it. (She stands and starts to walk out of the room.)Proctor: I am only wondering how I may prove what she told me. If the girl s a saint now, I think it not easy t

15、o prove she s a fraud, and the town gone so silly. She told it to me in a room alone 一一 I have no proof of it.Elizabeth: You were alone with her?Proctor (stubbornly): For a moment alone, aye.Elizabeth: Why, then, it is not as you told me.Proctor (his anger rising): For a moment, I say. The others co

16、me in soon after.Elizabeth (quietly - she has suddenly lost all faith in him): Do as you wish, then, (she starts to turn).Proctor: Woman. (She turns to him.) I 11 not have your suspicion any more.Elizabeth (a little loftily): I have no -Proctor: T 11 not have it!Elizabeth: Then let you not earn it.P

17、roctor (with a violent undertone): You doubt me yet?Elizabeth (with a smile, to keep her dignity): John, if it were not Abigail that you must go to hurt, would you falter now? I think not.Proctor: Now look you -一Elizabeth: I see what I see, John.Proctor (with solemn warning) : You will not judge me

18、more, Elizabeth. I have good reason to think before I charge fraud on Abigail, and I will think on it. Let you look to your own improvement before you go to judge your husband any more. I have forgot Abigail, and -一Elizabeth: And LProctor: Spare me! You forget nothin and forgive nothin Learn charity

19、, woman. I have gone tiptoe in this house all seven month since she is gone. I have not moved from there to there without I think to please you, and still an everlasting funeral marches round your heart. I cannot speak but I am doubted, every moment judged for lies, as though I come into a court whe

20、n I come into this house!Elizabeth: John, you are not open with me. You saw her with a crowd, you said. Now youProctor: I 11 plead my honesty no more, Elizabeth.Elizabeth (now she would justify herself) : John, I am only -Proctor: No more! I should have roared you down when first you told me your su

21、spicion. But I wilted, and, like a Christian, I confessed. Confessed! Some dream I had must have mistaken you for God that day. But you re not, you re not and let you remember it! Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.Elizabeth: I do not judge you. The magistrate sits in yo

22、ur heart that judges you. I never thought you but a good man, John - (with a smile ) 一 only somewhat bewildered.Proctor (laughing bitterly) : Oh, Elizabeth, your justice would freeze beer!题目21In this text, the relationship between the man and the woman is that of 选择一项：A. lawyer and clientB husband a

23、nd wifeC. teacher and student题目22Proctor is not ready to 选择一项：A. testify against Abigail.B. help his neighborsC. testify against Elizabeth题目23What does Proctor，s line “ Elizabeth, your justice would freeze beer. reveal about his true feelings?选择一项：A. Proctor is confused by what Elizabeth saysB. Prot

24、or is jealous of Elizabeth because her friendship with lawyers.C. Proctor is upset and irritated by Elizabeth s extreme coldness.题目24From the dialogue between Proctor and Elizabeth, we can be sure 选择一项：A. Proctor is secretly and madly in love with another girl.B. there is tension between Proctor and

25、 Elizabeth.C. Proctor is making up for his past neglect of Elizabeth.题目25In the text, Elizabeth is portrayed as 选择一项:A. guilty and depressedB. self-disgusted and terrifiedC. insistent and suspiciousText 2Lady Bracknell: (sitting down) You can take a seat, Mr. Worthing.(looks in her pocket for notebo

26、ok and pencil.)Jack Worthing: Thank you, Lady Bracknell, I prefer standing.Lady Bracknell (pencil and notebook in hand) : I feel bound to tell you that you are not down on my list of eligible young men, although I have the same list as the dear Duchess of Bolton has. We work together, in fact. Howev

27、er, I am quite ready to enter your name, should your manners be what a really affectionate mother requires. Do you smoke?Jack Worthing: Well, yes, I must admit I smoke.Lady Bracknell: I am glad to hear it. A man should always have an occupation of some kind.There are far too many idle men in London

28、as it is. How old are you?Jack Worthing: Twenty-nine.Lady Bracknell: A very good age to be married at. I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing. Which do you know? Jack Worthing (after some hesitation): I know nothing, Lady Bracknel

29、l.Lady Bracknell: I am pleased to hear it. I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces n

30、o effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square. What is your income? Jack Worthing: Between seven and eight thousand a year.Lady Bracknell (makes a note in her book): In land, or in investments?Jack Wort

31、hing: In investments, chiefly.Lady Bracknell: That is satisfactory. What between the duties expected of one during one s lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one s death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That

32、s all that can be said about land.Jack Worthing: I have a country house with some land, of course, attached to it, about fifteen hundred acres, I believe; but I don t depend on that for my real income. In fact, as far as I can make out, the poachers are the only people who make anything out of it.La

33、dy Bracknell: A country house! How many bedrooms? Well, that point can be cleared up afterwards. You have a town house, I hope? A girl with a simple, unspoiled nature, like Gwendolen, could hardly be expected to reside in the country.题目26The relationship between Lady Bracknell and Gwendolen is that

34、of .选择一项：A. estate owner and tenantB. employer and employeeC mother and daughter题目27In this extract, Lady Bracknell is interviewing Jack Worthing on his suitability as a possible选择一项：A. live-in domestic helperB. investment adviserC. husband for Gwendolen题目28Why does Lady Bracknell prefer investments

35、 to owning land?选择一项：A. She believes it is a safer source of income than investment.B. She expects owning land can give her daughter a higher social position.C. She believes Land involves too many expenses during life, and is then taxed heavily after one s death.题目29Which of the following statement

36、is true, according to the text?选择一项：A. Lady Bracknell prefers her daughter to marry a well-educated man, rather than a well-connected men with plenty of money.B. Few of Lady Bracknell s questions focus on Jack Worthing s income, property and family connections.C. Lady Bracknell uses highly exaggerated language and shifts from one topic to another abruptly.题目30Lady Bracknell is portrayed as 选择一项：A. dedicated follower of fashionB. a snobbish womanC. a shrewd human resource manager