PART TWO (60 POINTS)
Ⅱ. Reading Comprehension (16 points, 4 for each)
Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answer in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.
41.“Words are like leaves; and where they most abound,
Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found”
Questions:
A. Identify the poem and the poet.
B. What idea do the two lines express?
Answers:
A. Alexander Pope: An Essay on Criticism.
B. On friut trees, where leaves are plentiful, fruit will be few. Similarly, in a piece of writing, where too many fine words are used, good sense will be much reduced.

42.“To be so distinguished, is an honor, which, being very little accustomed to favors from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge.”
Questions:
A. Identify the work and the author.
B. What is the tone of author?
Answers:
A. Samuel Johnson: "To the Right Honorable the Earl of Chesterfield", or "Letter to Lord Chesterfield."
B. Sarcastic and ironic.

43.“‘Faith! Faith!’cried the husband. ‘Look up to Heaven, and resist the Wicked One.’”
Questions:
A. Identify the work and the author.
B. What idea does the quoted sentence express?
Answers:
A. Nathaniel Hawthorene: " Young Goodman Brown".
B. Goodman Brown here is obviously addressing the image of his wife, urging her to resist the devil. At the same time he is exhorting himself to have faith, to look heavenward, to withstand the infernal eloquence of the Wicked One.

44.“We passed the School, where Children strove
At Recess—in the Ring—
We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain—
We passed the Setting Sun—”
Questions:
A. Identify the poem and the poet.
B. What do“the School,” “the Fields”and“the Setting Sun”stand for respectively?
Answers:
A. Emily Dickinson: (712) or "Because I could not stop for Death".
B. The three stages of life: childhood, adulthood and old age.

Ⅲ. Questions and Answers (24 points in all, 6 for each)
Give brief answers to each of the following questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.

45.As a rule, and allegory is a story in verse or prose with a double meaning: a surface meaning, and an implied meaning. List two works as examples of allegory. What is the implied meaning an allegory is usually concerned with?
Answers:
A. Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress and Spenser's The Faerie Queene, etc.
B. It is usually concerned with moral, religious, political, symbolic or mythical ideas.
评分参考：A点2分，B点4分。语言错误酌情扣分。

46.“Let it not be supposed by the enemies of‘the system,’that during the period of his solitary incarceration, Oliver was denied the benefit of exercise, the pleasure of society, or the advantages of religious consolation.”
What do you think Charles Dickens intends to say in the above ironic statement taken from Oliver Twist?
Answers:
A. The sentence is a typical example of irony. What Dickens intends to say is just the opposite of the sentence's literal meaning.
B. For the "benefit" of exercise, Oliver was whipped every morning in a stone yard; for the "pleasure" of society, he was carried every other day into the dining hall and flogged as a public warning and example to the boys; and as for the "advantages" of religious consolation, he was kicked into the same apartment every evening at prayer time and listened to the boys' prayer to be guarded against his sins and vices.
C. The ironic statement is, in fact, a bitter denunciation and fierce attack at the brutal, inhuman treatment of the poor orphan by the workhouse authority.
评分参考：A、B、C三点每点各2分；只要考生答对任意两点即可给满分。语言错误酌情扣分。

47.Whitman has made radical changes in the form of poetry by choosing free verse as his medium of expression. What are the characteristics of Whitman’s free verse?
Answers:
A. It doesn't have fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.
B. The poetic lines are simple and prose-like, varying in length, which allows him to express his ideas freely.
C. Whitman also applies oral English in his free verse to make it an effective way to express freely the feelings of common people.
评分参考：A、B、C三点每点各2分；只要考生答对任意两点即可给满分。语言错误酌情扣分。

48.Some of Hemingway’s heroes are regarded as the Hemingway code heroes. Whatever the differences in experience and age, they all have something in common which Hemingway values. What are the characteristics of the Hemingway code hero?
Answers:
A. They have seen the cold world and for one cause or another, they boldly and courageously face the reality; whatever the result is, they are ready to live with grace under pressure.
B. Almost all his heroes are "soldiers" either in a narrow or broad sense. They are out there to fight against nature or the world, or even themselves. But no matter where the battleground is and how tragic the ending is, they will never be defeated.
C. Hemingway himiself is one of those Code heroes; some critics say his protagonists are autobiographical, for they share something that is Hemingway.
评分参考：A、B、C三点每点各2分；只要考生答对任意两点即可给满分。语言错误酌情扣分。

Ⅳ. Topics for Discussion (20 points in all, 10 for each)
Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.

49.Elizabeth Bennet, the heroine in Pride and Prejudice, is often regarded as the most successful character created by Jane Austen. Make a brief comment on Elizabeth’s character.
Answers:
A. Elizabeth is clever, alert, observant. She is more observant and less charitable than Jane in recognizing the characters of Bingley's sisters. She recognizes Mr. Collins' character in his letter and after meeting him turns down firmly and with dignity his patronizing proposal. She is able to match wits with Darcy several times and with Colonel Fitzwilliam, earning their respect and admiration.
B. Fearless and frank, not rattled by the attack of Lay Catherine de Bourgh, she wins a notable victory, sending her Ladyship away completely routed. She is independenet but not infallible in her judgment-taken in by the charm of the worthless Wickham. She cannot be blamed for misjudging Darcy.
C. She shows flexibility,discernment, and honesty of mind when she reads Darcy's defense in his letter and admits the justice of much of what he says. Thus beginning to lose her prejudice against him. She recoginzes and values true worth when she encounters it in Jane, the Gardiners, and, near the end of the novel, in Darcy. She sees more clearly than her father the danger of sending Lydia to Brighton.
D. She is able to control her emotions at times of stress - when she first encounters Darcy at Pemberley; when she realizes that she loves Darcy and has good reason to fear that she has lost him, she waits without repining for time to bring a solution. She is witty, fun-loving, recognizes humor in herself and in others, but ridiculing only folly, nonsense, and inconsistencies. She recognizes the follies of her own family and their shortcomings as well as their virtues.
E. She is considerate of others but quite capable of asserting herself when occasion demands. She has a playful and unaffected manner, sunny disposition, natural animation, sense of fun, and sweet reasonableness. She is ready to laugh at herself and everything save "what is wise and good." She shows a sense of humor by telling what Darcy has said about her at the Meryton ball.
评分参考：A、B、C、D、E五点每点各2分；只要考生答对任意三点即可给满分。语言错误酌情扣分。

50.Take Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as an example to illustrate the statement that Mark Twain was a unique writer in American literature.
Answers:
A. Mark Twain shaped the world's view of America and made an extensive combination of American folk humor and serious literature.
B. The novel has became a great contribution to the legacy of American literature.
C. The novel is written in a language that is totally different from the rhetorical language used by his contemporary writers such as Emerson, Poe and Melville. It is simple, direct, lucid and faithful to the colloquial speech. This style of colloquialism is best described as "vernacular".
D. He successfully used local color and historical settings to illustrate and shed light on the contemporary society. That's why he is known as a local colorist.
E. Mark Twain's humor is remarkable, too. Most of his works tend to be funny, containing some practical jokes, comic details, witty remarks, etc. Some of them are typical of tall tales. And a great deal of his humor is characterized by puns, straight-faced exaggeration, repetition and anti-climax. He uses his humor to criticize the social injustice and satirize the decayed romanticism.

评分参考：A、B、C、D、E五点每点各2分；只要考生答对任意三点即可给满分。语言错误酌情扣分。

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