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07年4月 《英美文学选读》主观题及参考答案
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07年4月 《英美文学选读》
主观题及参考答案
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.“For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
they flash upon that inward eye"
Questions: A.Identify the author and the title.
Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answer in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.
41.“For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
they
Questions: A.Identify the author and the title.
B.What does the phrase
"inward eye "mean?
C.Write out the main idea of the passage in plain English.
C.Write out the main idea of the passage in plain English.
42.“The duties of her married life, contemplated as so great beforehand, seemed to be inking with the furniture and the white vapour - walled landscape. The clear heights ere she expected to walk in full communion had become difficult to see even in her imagination; the delicious repose of the soul on a complete superior had been shaken o uneasy effort and alarmed with dim presentiment. When would the days begin of it active wifely devotion which was to strengthen her husband's life and exalt her own?"
Questions:A.Identify the author and the title of the story from which the passage is taken
B. Explain the meaning of "the white vapour-walled landscape".
C.How do you undersdand " the delicious repose of the soul on a complete superior" ?
43.“It was you that broke the new wood,
Now is a time for carving.
We have one sap and one root—
Let there be commerce between us. "
Questions:Whom does the "us "refer to?
What does the phrase "broke the new wood "mean here?
What is the intention of the poet in writing the poem "A Pact" from which these lines are taken?
44.“There was music from my neighbor's house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the
whisperings and the champagne and the stars. At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft, or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motor -boats slit the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of foam. On week ~ ends his Rolls - Royce became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city between nine in the morning and long past midnight, while his station wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug to meet all trains. And on Mondays eight servants, including an extra gardener, toiled all day with mops and scrubbing - brushes and hammers and garden - shears, repairing the ravages of the night before. ”
Questions: A. Identify the author and the title of the novel from which this passage is taken.
B. What can you imply by reading this passage?
C. What do the "moths "symbolize?
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. William Shakespeare is one of the most remarkable playwrights the world has ever known.
(1) Name his four greatest tragedies.
(2) What are the characteristics of the four tragedies in common?
(3) Briefly summarize each hero' s weakness of nature.
46. " Though his fair daughter' s self, as I avowed
At starting, is my object. Nay, we' 11 go
Together down, sir. Notice Neptune, though,
Taming a sea horse, though a rarity,
Which Claus of Innsbruck cast in bronze for me!"
The lines above are taken from Robert Browning' s "My Last Duchess. "Taking the whole poem into consideration, what kind of person do you think the duke is?
47.What is generally the view Washington lrving expressed in his“Rip Van Winkle”about the radical changes that happened to the American society in his time?
48.What is the most famous theme in Henry James' s fiction? And what is his favourite approach in characterization, which makes him different from Mark Twain and W. D. wells as realists? Give two titles of his works in which this theme and this approach employed.
Ⅳ.Topic 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.Analyze the character of Jane Eyre based on the selection taken from Chapter X X Ⅲ of
50.Symbolism is an important literary practice in literature and it has been widely used by many American writers. Discuss the way symboliom is used in Faulkner' s story "A e for Emily. "
参考答案：
II. Reading Comprehension (16 points in all,
4 for each)
41. A. Wordsworth; I wondered lonely as a cloud
41. A. Wordsworth; I wondered lonely as a cloud
B. human soul
C. The poet expressed his love for the
daffodils.
42. A. George Eliot; Middlemarch
42. A. George Eliot; Middlemarch
B. The landscape covered with white
snow.
C. It refers to Dorothea' s dream of fulfilling something great by marrying somebody superior, somebody who can guide her.
43. A. Whitman and Pound (the Imagists)
C. It refers to Dorothea' s dream of fulfilling something great by marrying somebody superior, somebody who can guide her.
43. A. Whitman and Pound (the Imagists)
B. Made experiments with the conventions of
the traditional poetry
C. In this poem, Pound started to find some agreement between "Whitmanesque" free verse, which he had attacked for its carelessness in composition, and the " verse libre" of the Imagists who showed more concern for formal values.
44. A. F. Scott Fitzgerald; The Great Gatsby?
C. In this poem, Pound started to find some agreement between "Whitmanesque" free verse, which he had attacked for its carelessness in composition, and the " verse libre" of the Imagists who showed more concern for formal values.
44. A. F. Scott Fitzgerald; The Great Gatsby?
B. This passage describes Gatsby' s
extravagance.
C. Moths are used metaphorically to refer to those people who are drawn to the party simply for its glamour, for the wealth of Gatsby.
III. Questions and Answers (24 points in all, 6 for each)
45. A. Shakespeare's four greatest tragedies are: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear,and Macbeth.
B. Each portrays somke noble hero, who faces the injustice of human life and is caught in a difficult situation and whose fate is closely connected with the fate of the whole nation.
C. Each hero has his weakness of nature: Hamlet, the melancholic scholar; Othello' s inner weakness is made use of by the outside evil force; the old king Lear who is unwilling to totally give up his power; and Macbeth' s lust for power stirs up his ambition and leads him to incessant crimes.
46. A. His apparent intelligence, excellent taste for art superiority and aristocratic manners are paradoxical.
B. hispride，jealousy and brutality.
47. A. living laments the radical changes in his time, thinking that the changes have taken away some of the most endeared values in American life.
B. Irving' s pervasive theme of nostalgia for the unrecoverable past is unforgettable.
48. A. His most fanous theme is international theme.
B. Psychological approach
C. The Portrait of A Lady; Daisy Miller
Ⅳ. Topic Discussion ( 20 points in all, 10 for each )
49. A. Jane Eyre, an orphan child with a fiery spirit and a longing to love and be loved, a poor, plain, little governess who dares to love her master.
B. In Chapter X X Ⅲ, Jane finds herself hopelessly in love with Mr. Rochester but she is aware that her love is out of the question. When forced to confront Mr. Rochester, she desperately and openly declares her equality with him and her love for him.
50. A. Rose, as a symbol of love, may refer to the love between Emily and the Northerner, yet used rather ironically, in the way it is associated with decay and death in the story.
C. Moths are used metaphorically to refer to those people who are drawn to the party simply for its glamour, for the wealth of Gatsby.
III. Questions and Answers (24 points in all, 6 for each)
45. A. Shakespeare's four greatest tragedies are: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear,and Macbeth.
B. Each portrays somke noble hero, who faces the injustice of human life and is caught in a difficult situation and whose fate is closely connected with the fate of the whole nation.
C. Each hero has his weakness of nature: Hamlet, the melancholic scholar; Othello' s inner weakness is made use of by the outside evil force; the old king Lear who is unwilling to totally give up his power; and Macbeth' s lust for power stirs up his ambition and leads him to incessant crimes.
46. A. His apparent intelligence, excellent taste for art superiority and aristocratic manners are paradoxical.
B. hispride，jealousy and brutality.
47. A. living laments the radical changes in his time, thinking that the changes have taken away some of the most endeared values in American life.
B. Irving' s pervasive theme of nostalgia for the unrecoverable past is unforgettable.
48. A. His most fanous theme is international theme.
B. Psychological approach
C. The Portrait of A Lady; Daisy Miller
Ⅳ. Topic Discussion ( 20 points in all, 10 for each )
49. A. Jane Eyre, an orphan child with a fiery spirit and a longing to love and be loved, a poor, plain, little governess who dares to love her master.
B. In Chapter X X Ⅲ, Jane finds herself hopelessly in love with Mr. Rochester but she is aware that her love is out of the question. When forced to confront Mr. Rochester, she desperately and openly declares her equality with him and her love for him.
50. A. Rose, as a symbol of love, may refer to the love between Emily and the Northerner, yet used rather ironically, in the way it is associated with decay and death in the story.
B. Rose could also stand for the pity,
sympathy, or the lament" we "shows for Emily.
C. The pity and lament goes not only to Emily but all those who are imprisoned in the past and fail to adapt to the change.
D. Discuss in relation to the story.
C. The pity and lament goes not only to Emily but all those who are imprisoned in the past and fail to adapt to the change.
D. Discuss in relation to the story.
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