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日期：2004-12-28 作者：Cathy  

 

31. After The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Twain gives a literary independence to Tom’s buddy Huck in a book entitled
A. Life on the Mississippi
B. The Gilded Age
C. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
D. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
Answer: C

32. However, the keynote of Daisy Miller’s character, turns out to be an admiring but a dangerous quality and her defiance of social taboos in the Old World finally brings her to a disaster in the clash between two different cultures.
A. experience
B. sophistication
C. worldliness
D. innocence
Answer: D

33. Generally speaking, all those writers with a naturalistic approach to human reality tend to be
A. transcendentalists
B. idealists
C. pessimists
D. impressionists
Answer: C

34. Emily Dickinson wrote many short poems on various aspects of life. Which of the following is NOT a usual subject of her poetic expression?
A. Religion and immortality
B. Life and death
C. Love and marriage
D. War and peace
Answer: D

35. In "After Apple- Picking," Robert Frost wrote: "For I have had too much / Of apple -picking: I am overtired/ Of the great harvest I myself desired." From these lines we can conclude that the speaker is
A. happy about the harvest
B. still very much interested in apple-picking
C. expecting a greater harvest
D. indifferent to what he once desired
Answer: D

36. Chinese poetry and philosophy have exerted great influence over

A. Ezra Pound
B. Ralph Waldo Emerson
C. Robert Frost
D. Emily Dickinson
Answer: A

37. The Hemingway Code heroes are best remembered for their
A. indestructible spirit
B. pessimistic view of life
C. war experiences
D. masculinity
Answer: A

38. In The Emperor Jones and The Hairy Ape, O’Neill adopted the expressionist techniques to portray the of human beings in a hostile universe.
A. helpless situation
B. uncertainty
C. profound religious faith
D. courage and perseverance
Answer: A

39. In Hemingway’s "Indian Camp", Nick’s night trip to the Indian village and his experience inside the hut can be taken as
A. an essential lesson about Indian tribes
B. a confrontation with evil and sin
C. an initiation to the harshness of life
D. a learning process in human relationship
Answer: C

40. Which of the following statements about Emily Grierson, the protagonist in Faulkner’s story " A Rose for Emily," is NOT true?
A. She has a distorted personality.
B. She is physically deformed and paralyzed.
C. She is the symbol of the old values of the South.
D. She is the victim of the past glory.
Answer: B

PART TWO
Ⅱ Reading Comprehension
41. "Her eyes met his and he looked away. He neither believed nor disbelieved her, but he knew that he had made a mistake in asking; he never had known, never know, what she was thinking. The sight of her inscrutable face, the thought of all the hundreds of evenings he had seen her sitting there like that, soft and passive, but so unreadable, unknown, enraged him beyond measure."
Questions:
A. Identify the writer and the work.
B. What does the phrase "inscrutable face" mean?
C. What idea does the quoted passage express?

Answers:
A. John Galsworthy "The man of property"
B. It means that in his eyes, she is mysterious and cannot be understood by him.
C. It expresses that Soames doesn’t understand his wife, Irene, and the predominant possessive instinct of the Forsytes and its effects upon the personal relationship of the family with the underlying assumption that human relationship of the contemporary English society are merely and extension of property relationship.

42. "And when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin,
When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall,
Then how should I begin
To spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways."
Questions:
A. Identify the poem and the poet.
B. What does the phrase "butt-ends" mean?
C. What idea does the quoted passage express?

Answers:
A. T. S. Eliot "The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
B. It means the speaker’s unsatisfied desires.
C. It expresses the speaker’s incapability of facing up to love and to life in a sterile upper-class world.

43. "God knows, ... I’m not myself-I’m somebody else-- ... and I’m changed, and I can’t tell what’s my name, or who I am."
Questions:
A. Identify the work and author.
B. The speaker says he is changed. Do you think he is changed, or the social environment has changed?
C. What idea does the quoted sentence express?

Answers:
A. Washington Irving " Rip van winkle"
B. The social environment has changed.
C. It expresses the background of the inevitably changing America.

44. "I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I---
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."
Questions:
A. Identify the poem and the poet.
B. What does the phrase "ages and ages hence" mean?
C. What idea does the quoted passage express?

Answers:
A. Robert Lee Frost "The Road Not Taken"
B. It means a long time later from now.
C. It expresses that man is learning form nature the zones of his own limitations.

Ⅲ. Questions and Answers
45. As a rule, an allegory is a story in verse or prose with a double meaning: a surface meaning, and an implied meaning. List two works and examples of allegory. What is an allegory usually concerned with by its implied meaning?
Answer:
John Bunyan’s "The pilgrim progress"
John Milton’s "Paradise Lost"
It is concerned with something spiritual and the relevance to the time.

46. Inspiration for the romantic approach initially came from two great shapers of thought. Who are the two? And what ideas they expressed inspire the romantic writers?
Answer:
Jean- Jacques Rousseau and Thomas Paine
The new ideas about nature, society and education, that is liberty, equality and fraternity they expressed inspire the romantic writers.

47. The white whale, Moby Dick, is the most important symbol in Melville’s novel. What symbolic meaning can you draw from it?
Answer:
Its symbolic meaning is a voyage of the mind in quest of the truth and knowledge of the universe, a spiritual exploration in man’s deep reality and psychology.

48. Nature is a philosophic work, in which Emerson gives an explicit discussion on his idea of the Over-soul. What is your understanding of Emersonian "Over-soul"?
Answer:
It means the religion on an intuitive belief in an ultimate unity.

Ⅳ. Topic Discussion
49. How is Romanticism different from Neoclassicism? Provide brief evidence from the literary works you know best.
Answer:
In the field of literature, the Enlightenment Movement brought about a revival of interest in the old classical works. This tendency is known as neoclassicism. It requires that all forms of literature are to be modeled after the classical works of the ancient Greek and Roman writers and those of the contemporary French ones, artistic ideals should be order, logic, restrained emotion and accuracy, and that literature should be judged in terms of its service to humanity. In this case, Human beings are instructed and corrected primarily as social animals. Romanticism emphasizes the special qualities of each individual’s mind and constitutes a change of direction from attention to the outer world of social civilization to the inner world of human spirit. It tends to see the individual as the very center of all life and all experience. It also places the individual at the center of are. For example, "An essay on criticism"(Neoclassicism) is orderly and logical with restrained emotion and accuracy while "I wondered loely as a cloud" (Romanticism) is just the opposite.

50. Summarize the story of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in about 100 words, and comment on the theme of the novel.
Answer:
Huck escapes from a lonely cabin where he has been punished by his father. He meets Jim, a run-away slave, and they start down the river on a raft. After several adventures, the raft is hit and they are separated. Huck is saved and later he discovers Jim. They set out again, giving refuge to a gang of frauds. Huck interferes on behalf of three daughter but fails. Then he finds that Jim has been sold by the "King". He and Tom try to rescue Jim. In the rescue, Tom is shot and Jim is recaptured. Later, Tom reveals that the rescue is necessary only because he wants the adventure of it. At last, Huck is safe because his father dies.
The theme of the novel is to expose the pre-civil war American society. It presents a sample of the small -town world of America and a survey of the social world from the bank of the river that runs through the heart of the country.