自考习题整合
2000年
41. Read the quotation carefully and then answer the questions:
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea,
The plowman homeward plods his weary way,
And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
Questions:
A. Scan the first line of the stanza.
Iambic pentameter with the rhyming scheme of abab
B. Find the irregular foot in the cond line.
The third foot contains two accented syllables
C. Briefly explain the significance of this irregularity.
Two accented syllables slow down the pace in keeping with the literary meaning of the phra “wind slowly.”
42.The following is a passage taken from a dramatic work:
Had I as many souls as there be stars
I'd give them all for Mephistophilis!
民主评议党员自我鉴定
By him I'll be great emperor of the world,
And make a bridge thorough the moving air
口腔护士To pass the ocean with a band of men;
I'll join the hills that bind the Afric shore
And make that country continent to Spain, 曾经的最美
And both contributory to my crown;
The emperor shall not live but by my leave,
Nor any potentate of Germany.
Now that I have obtained what I desire 书读后感
I'll live in speculation of this art
Till Mephistophilis return again.
Questions:
A. Name the playwright and the title of the work from which the passage is taken.
Dr. Faustus, a play by Christopher Marlowe
B. Name the speaker of the passage quoted above.
Dr. Faustus
C. U the above passage as a guide and write down in one or two ntences the theme of the play.
Man’s aspiration, bounding achievements, and the inevitable failure
43.Read the following passage and then answer the questions:
明天是星期六
…I glanced back once. A wafer of a moon was shining over Gatsby's hou, making the night fine as before, and surviving the laughter and the sound of his still glowing garden. A sudden emptiness emed to flow now from the windows and the great doors, endowing with complete isolation the figure of the host, who stood on the porch, his hand up in a formal gesture of farewell.
A. Identify the author and the title of the novel from which this passage is taken.
Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
B. The passage describes the end of an event. What is it?
It is a description of the end of a big party
C. What implied meaning can you get from reading this passage?
The passage hints at the meaninglessness, spiritual emptiness and vanity of such a lift of pleasure-eking. There is a tragic n that the “party” will be over.
44.Read the following part of a poem and then answer the questions:
My tongue, every atom of my blood, form'd from this soil, this air, 良凤江国家森林公园
Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their parents the same,
I, now thirty-ven years old in perfect health begin, 日本写真美女
Hoping to cea not till death.
A. Identify the poet and the title of the poem.
Walt Whitman, “Song of Mylf”
B. What do "soil" and "air" reprent in the first line?
America, his country, his native land
C. What does the poet try to say in the above four lines?
江水东流He was born and nurtured by this land and shall from now on devote his whole life to the country.
Ⅲ.Questions and Answers （24 points, 6 points for each）
45. The following quotation is the ending of a poem by Robert Browning:
Nay, we'll go
Together down, sir, Notice Neptune, though,
Taming a a hor, though a rarity,
Which Claus of Innsbruck cast in bronze for me.
What is the title of the poem?
“My Last Duchess”
Who is the speaker?
The Duke, or the husband of the Duchess.
What is the importance of the allusion "Neptune…/Taming a a hor" in the whole poem?
Placed at the end of the poem, the allusion rves as the conclusion that tells the reader-listener that the speaker is a tyrant.
46.Novum Organum（"New Instrument"）, along with other works, won the author the honor "Father of modern science.”Who is the author? What is the main concern of the work? Why the work is so important for the development of modern science?
A. Francis Bacon
B. The work is an argument for the inductive reasoning in place of the Aristotelian deductive reasoning.
C. The Aristotelian reasoning only states the fact, not capable of discovery while the inductive reasoning, although starting with a hypothesis and developing with experiments, may lead to the discovery of true knowledge.
47. Ezra Pound is one of the pioneers in modern poetry.
What is the poetic school of which he is a chief member?
Imagism
What is Pound's reprentative work of many years of poetic creation?
The Cantos
What is the title of his frequently quoted one-image poem?
