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1、中央广播电视大学期末复习英语专业 文学英语赏析 试题Part I: Literary Fundmentals 30 pointsSection 1. Match the works with their writers. (10 points)Works1 The Importance of Being Earnest2 Of Studies3 An Inspector Calls4 The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde5 Jane EyreWritersA. Charlotte BronteB. Francis BaconC. Robert Lo

2、uis StevensonD. Walt WhitmanE. Ernest HemingwayF. JB PriestleyG. Charles DickensH. Oscar WildeSection 2. Decide whether the following statements are True (T) or False (F). (10 points)6. Lord of the flies is a thought-provoking novel authored by William Golding.7. King Lear, Hamlet, Othello and Macbe

3、th are well-known tragedies by William Shakespear.8. Authur 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. Walt Whitman is a well-known american po

4、et known for his collection Leaves of Grass.Section 3. Choose the correct answers to complete the following sentences. (10 points)11. _ is written to commemorate someone who has died. A. An epic B. A sonnet C. An elegy D. A haiku12. _ can be established by describing the place where the action takes

5、 place, or the situation at the start of the story. A. Climax B. Point of view C. Flashback D. Setting13. _ novels are called “Novels of Character and Environment”. His well-read novels include The Mayor of the Casterbridge, Tess of the DUrbervilles and so on. A. Thomas Hardys B. Charlotte Brontes C

6、. Joseph Conrads D. Charles Dickens14. Which figure of speech is used in the following lines? “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of follishness ”A. MetaphorB. ParallelismC. SimileD. Personification15. In the poem “_” by Wilfred Owen, the sp

7、eaker feels distressed at the loss of his comrade-in-arms and beweildered at the meaning of the _. To him the war was futile. A. futility, war B. Love Your Enemy, negotiationC. The War Process, warD. Futility, negotiationPart Reading Comprehnesion (50 points)Read the extracts and give brief answers

8、to the questions below.Text 1The shark was not an accident. He had come up from deep down in the water as the dark cloud of blood had settled and dispersed in the mile deep sea. He had come up so fast and absolutely without caution that he broke the surface of the blue water and was in the sun. Then

9、 he fell back into the sea and picked up the scent and started swimming on the course the skiff and the fish had taken.Sometimes he lost the scent. But he would pick it up again, or have just a trace of it, and he swam fast and hard on the course. He was a very big Make shark built to swim as fast a

10、s the fastest fish in the sea and everything about him was beautiful except his jaws. His back was as blue as a sword fishs and his belly was silver and his hide was smooth and handsome. He was built as a sword fish except for his huge jaws which were tight shut now as he swam fast, just under the s

11、urface with his high dorsal fin knifing through the water without wavering. Inside the closed double lip of his jaws all of his eight rows of teeth were slanted inwards. They were not the ordinary pyramid-shaped teeth of most sharks. They were shaped like a mans fingers when they are crisped like cl

12、aws. They were nearly as long as the fingers of the old man and they had razor-sharp cutting edges on both sides. This was a fish built to feed on all the fishes in the sea, that were so fast and strong and well armed that they had no other enemy. Now he speeded up as he smelled the fresher scent an

13、d his blue dorsal fin cut the water. When the old man saw him coming he knew that this was a shark that had no fear at all and would do exactly what he wished. He prepared the harpoon and made the rope fast while he watched the shark come on. The rope was short as it lacked what he had cut away to l

14、ash the fish. The old mans head was clear and good now and he was full of resolution but he had little hope. It was too good to last, he thought. He took one look at the great fish as he watched the shark close in. It might as well have been a dream, he thought. I cannot keep him from hitting me but

15、 maybe I can get him. Dentuso, he thought. Bad luck to your mother. The shark closed fast astern and when he hit the fish the old man saw his mouth open and his strange eyes and the clicking chop of the teeth as he drove forward in the meat just above the tail. The sharks head was out of water and h

16、is back was coming out and the old man could hear the noise of skin and flesh ripping on the big fish when he rammed the harpoon down onto the sharks head at a spot where the line between his eyes intersected with the line that ran straight back from his nose. There were no such lines. There was onl

17、y the heavy sharp blue head and the big eyes and the clicking, thrusting all-swallowing jaws. But that was the location of the brain and the old man hit it. He hit it with his blood mushed hands driving a good harpoon with all his strength. He hit it without hope but with resolution and complete mal

18、ignancy. The shark swung over and the old man saw his eye was not alive and then he swung over once again, wrapping himself in two loops of the rope. The old man knew that he was dead but the shark would not accept it. Then, on his back, with his tail lashing and his jaws clicking, the shark plowed

19、over the water as a speedboat does. The water was white where his tail beat it and three-quarters of his body was clear above the water when the rope came taut, shivered, and then snapped. The shark lay quietly for a little while on the surface and the old man watched him. Then he went down very slo

20、wly. He took about forty pounds, the old man said aloud. He took my harpoon too and all the rope, he thought, and now my fish bleeds again and there will be others. He did not like to look at the fish anymore since he had been mutilated. When the fish had been hit it was as though he himself were hi

21、t. Questions 16-19 (12 points) (Write the letter representing your choice on your answer sheet.)16. the extract is taken from a novel entitled _.A. The Old Man and the SeaB. The PearlC. Farewell to Arms17. Paragraph 2 _.A. describes how strong and cunning the man wasB. describes in detail what the s

22、hark looked likeC. explains why the shark feeds on all the fishes in the sea18. In the text, the writer used a lot of violent verbs such as “broke the surface”, “knifing through the water”, “rammed the harpoon down on to the sharks head”. By using such highly physical verbs, the writer was able to _

23、.A. make the scene more vivid and its easy for readers to visualise the actionB. emphasize the idea that fishing is a physical and exhausing activityC. bring out the contrast between the cruelness of the shark and the kindness of the fisherman19. Read the last two paragraphs again. How does the old

24、man feel about the fishs he has caught?A. He feels great anger at the death of the fish, as he has taken so long to catch it and now it is useless.B. He feels distreassed and fearful. He was afraid that more sharks might be on their way to attack him.C. He feels a great attachment to the fish he has

25、 taken so long to catch. He admires it a regrets its loss to the shark.Text 2Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed theEmancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope tomillions of Negro slaves who had been seared

26、 in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discriminati

27、on. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land. Questions 20-22 (9 points)20. Find an

28、example of figure of speech used in the extract. Name the extract and explain its meaning.21. Who does the great American refer to? George Washington, Thomas Jefferson or Abrahma Lincoln?22. Summarize the speakers points in 2 or 3 sentences.Text 3He was my North, my South, my East and West,My workin

29、g week and my Sunday rest,My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;I thought that love would last for ever; I was wrong.The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.For nothing now can ever come to any good.Questions 2

30、3-25 (9 points)(Writer the letter representing your choice for Question 23 on your answer sheet)23. These two stanzas are taken from _ by _.A. ballad of Reading Goal Oscar WildeB. Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone W.H. AudenC. Wild Nights! Wild Nights! Emily Dickinson24. What does the poet

31、mean by the lines “He was my North, my South, my East and West, /My working week and my Sunday rest, /My moon, my midnight, my talk, my song”?25. Whats the rhyme scheme of the peem?Text 4Please note: This reading task will be relevant to the writing task in Part .The Man Who Talked to Trees 1. They

32、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. The younger one*s name was Milmaq, bringer of peace. Torbash had struggled like a hero to escape from his mothers womb, almost tearing her apar

33、t. Milmaq had slid out with merciful swiftness. 2. They were identical twins. When they were children strangers could not tell them apart. They both had dark black hair and piercing green eyes. They were strong, tall and erect. Until they reached their early teens, they were always together. They sl

34、ept together, ate together, played together, went to school together, got into trouble together-they even fell iii together. And they looked after each other. Anyone who tried to bully one of them would face the anger of the other. And of course they used their physical likeness to play tricks on pe

35、ople, especially at school. 3. By the time they were fourteen the family had returned to its lands in the Nirmat valley. Their father had rebuilt the old farmhouse, destroyed by the retreating rebel army at the end of the war. He farmed the bottom of the valley, growing wheat and tending the rich al

36、mond orchards for which the valley was then famous. On the lower slopes he had vineyards from which he produced the strong Nirmat Kashin (Lion of Nirmat) wine. The higher land was forested. The chestnut trees gave nuts in the autumn. The oaks and beeches, as well as the chestnut trees, were carefull

37、y tended. Their valuable timber was sold to furniture makers and builders in Jalseen, the town lower down the valley. The trees were cut according to a strict rotation. For every tree they cut down, another was planted. These were what we, the ones who remember, still call The Days of Contentment. 4

38、. It was about this time that the two boys began to grow apart. There was nothing sudden about this. They did not argue about a girl, or fight over an imagined insult as so many young people do. It was simply that they gradually began to do things by themselves which, before that, they would have do

39、ne together. So each began to develop different interests. 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 death, and sometimes with a dee

40、r. 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

41、, 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

42、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 alou

43、d 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 an expression for this in the old language: Ahashinat ain kashul

44、. It means, Finding the centre. 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 up from the table, pulling his father with him, and set off for the upper slopes of the valley. S

45、now 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 a full-grown wild boar, grunting angrily. 9. It had a wound in its side. Their father killed it with the two barrels of h

46、is ownhunting gun. And no one, least of all Torbash, ever asked how Milmaq had known he was in danger.10. Just as Milmaq himself did not ask when Torbash arrived, as if by magic, to fight off the gang of thugs who had attacked Milmaq in the street on one of his rare visits to Jalseen. They were twin

47、s-majeen taq asnaan (a plum with a double stone). It was natural. No one thought it in the least bit strange.11. 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 the grapes in th

48、e vat. They found him floating in the vat, face downwards, tie must either have had a heart attack or been overcome with the powerful fumes. Whichever, he was well and truly dead, and there was nothing anyone could do about it. As we say, Fashan kat maan nat, maan qa nat. (When the time comes, the t

49、ime 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 to live alone. Within three months, she had followed her husband to the place where all sufferings cease. The two boys were left alone.13. It wa

50、s not long before Torbash left home. He had never enjoyed the hard work of the farm. He needed to see things happen fast. He took a room in Jalseen and was soon working in one of the newer places there. It was a sort of restaurant, but nothing like anything we had seen before. It sold flat cakes of

51、minced beef mixed with the sawdust (or thats what it tasted like to us), grilled and served between two pieces of bread. The prices were high but young people loved it. Torbash began by washing up the dirty dishes. Within weeks he was supervising. Soon afterwards, one of his contacts offered him a b

52、etter job with 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 of Nirmat Kashin any day! The drink was made in a factory in the capital and, before long, Torbash was promoted a

53、nd went to work there in the head office. We did not see him for several years. 14. Meantime Milmaq continued to farm the family land. He did not marry, and seldom left the farm. When he was not on the land he would be in the woods. There were rumours that he was becoming more and more strange. Hunt

54、ers had found him deep in conversation with an oak tree. He would walk through the woods greeting individual trees like old friends. And he completely stopped the cutting of timber for sale. The only trees he cut were dead or diseased. After several years, he closed up the old farmhouse and moved to

55、 an old foresters hut up on the edge of the woods. He only took a few essential belongings with him-a bed, a table, a chair, an old cooking stove and such like. Here he was closer to his beloved trees. He had become a sort of hermit, what we ,sed to call Horat vannah (holy man). We respected him and

56、 left him alone, though occasionally one of us would pass by just to ask if he needed anything. 15. One day Torbash arrived unexpectedly. He was dressed in one of those modern suits, a shirt with red stripes and a bright red tie to match. He was driving a big red car which made a lot of dust when it

57、 roared into the village. He told us he was now a big man in another company. What sort of company? It made paper products, things like toilet paper and paper handkerchiefs. (We didnt know what these were but we didnt show it. ) They also made paper for printing books and newspapers. And a special p

58、art of the cmnpany made furniture. 16. He had come to see his brother about selling the woods. We directed him to the foresters hut. He left his car and went on foot up the steep path. Now I should explain that, under our laws of inheritance, everything is left to the eldest son, Zirmat akal (first

59、born). So the farm and the woods belonged to Torbash, even though it was Milmaq who worked 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 great machines began to arrive, ploughing up th

60、e tracks as they went up the hillsides. The trees began to be torn savagely, not in the old way. ()n the hillside away fr0m the foresters hut there were no trees left, only a tangle of fallen trunks and smashed branches waiting to be sawn up and dragged away. 18. When I called to see Milmaq I found

61、him in his bed. He was terribly thin and had ahigh fever. I kept watch over him for the next three days. During this time, the machines were 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

62、 oak, the one which Milmaq had often spoken to. The men moved in wixh their evil-sounding saws and began work. I watched, hypnotized by the enormity of tiffs massacre of trees. Behimt me I heard Milmaq stir. He staggered to his feet and leaned on tile window sill. The oak shuddered, swayed and, with

63、 a gut-wrenching groan, crashed in a pile of splintered hramhes. As it hit the 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 apparen

64、tly left a meeting in his officeand driven off at high speed. All he had said was, My brother. My brother. In his desperate haste, he had taken a short cut along a forest track leading from the next valley to our own. A violent thunderstorm had blown up-the one I had heard from Milmaqs hut. An enormous oak tree had been struck by lightning. It had fallen across the track, crushing tile car and Torbash with it. The crash had stopped the car clo