《高级英语阅读(二)》期末考试A卷
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一、客观题( 60分,每题2分)
I 判断对错: 对的写“T”, 错的写“F”
Read lesson 4 Text B , Do True or Fal Questions(阅读教材第4课课文B ,判断对错):
Washington Irving’s Sunnyside in Tarrytown, New York
检讨书5000Accompanying a plan of Sunnyside (unprinted here), a former residence of Washington Irving in New York, is the following text. We have left out its title, which indicates clearly its purpo, in the hope that the reader will reconstruct it after reading the text.
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Sunnyside is one of the few surviving and best-documented examples of American romanticism in architecture and landscape南方基金招聘 design. Andrew Jackson Downing featured Sunnyside in his Treati on the Theory and品牌分类 Practice of Landscape Gardening (1841) as an example of the "progressive improvement in ide硬盘" which, he explained, strives to be in "perfect keeping" with "surrounding nature" by its "varied" and "picturesque" outline. 'Architectural beauty,"梦见家里人 he taught, "must be considered conjointly with the beauty of the landscape,"
Walking the 24-acre grounds is a pleasure in every ason. Swans glide on the pond Irving called "the little Mediterranean", and a stone flume delights the ear with the sound of rushing water. A path leads up a small ri and from there down into "the glen," and up
to the hou. Behind the hou, another path winds along the Hudson for views of the river at its widest point, the Tappan Zee.
The modest stone cottage which was later to become Sunnyside was originally a tenant farmer's hou built in the 大灯标志late-venteenth century on the Philipsburg Manor. During the eighteenth century, the cottage was owned by a branch of the Van Tasl family, the name Irving later immortalized in "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow".
Irving purchad the cottage in 1835 and directed the remodeling, adding Dutch-stepped gables, ancient weathervanes, and developing Gothic and Romanesque architectural features for other parts of the hou. He was so plead with his home that in 1836 he wrote to his brother, Peter: "I am living most cozily and delightfully in this dear, bright little home, which I have fitted up to my own humor. Everything goes on 健力宝广告cheerily in my little houhold and I would not exchange the cottage for any chateau in Christendom."