PART TWO (60POINTS)
Ⅱ.Reading comprehension(16 points,4 for each)
南通市如皋市Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answer in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.
41. “One short sleep past, we wake eternally,
逼迫And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die.”
Questions:
A. Identify the poem and the poet.
B.What does the word “sleep” mean?
C. What idea do the two lines express?
42. “Never did sun more beautifully steep
In his first splendor, valley, rock, or hill;
Ne’er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!
The river glideth at his own sweet will:
Dear God! The very hous em asleep;
And all that mighty heart is lying still!”
(William Wordsworth’s sonnet: “Compod upon Westminster Bridge”September 3, 1802)
Questions:
A. What does the word “glideth” in the fourth line mean?
B. What kind of figure of speech is ud by wordsworth to describe the
“river”?
C. What idea does the fourth line express?
43. “With Blue—uncertain stumbling Buzz—
Between the light—and me—
And then the Windows failed—and then
I could not e to e—”
Questions:
A. Identify the poem and the poet.
B. What do “Windows” symbolically stand for?
C. What idea does the quoted passage express?
44. “‘Is dying hard, Daddy?’
‘No, I think it’s pretty easy, Nick, It all depends.”’
Questions:
A. Identify the work and the author.
B. What was Nick preoccupied with when he asked the question?
C. Why did the father add “It all depends” after he answered his son’s
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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,
无我之境The plowman homeward plods his weary way,
And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
A.Scan the first line of the stanza.
B.Find the irregular foot in the cond line.
C.Briefly explain the significance of this irregularity.
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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!
By him I"ll be great emperor of the world,
And make a bridge thorough the moving air
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,
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
I"ll live in speculation of this art
Till Mephistophilis return again.
A. Name the playwright and the title of the work from which the passage
is taken.
B. Name the speaker of the passage quoted above.
C. U the above passage as a guide and write down in one or two
ntences the theme of the play.
43.Read the following passage and then answer the questions:
…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 fig
ure 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.
B. The passage describes the end of an event. What is it?
C. What implied meaning can you get from reading this passage?
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,
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,
Hoping to cea not till death.
A. Identify the poet and the title of the poem.
B. What do "soil" and "air" reprent in the first line?
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C. What does the poet try to say in the above four lines?
41.“Not on thy sole, but on thy soul, harsh Jew,
Thou mak’st thy knife keen; but no metal can,
No, not the hangman’s axe, bear half the keenness
Of thy sharp envy.”
Questions:
A. Identify the author and the title of the play from which this part is taken.
B. What figure of speech is ud in this quoted passage?
C. What idea does the passage express?
42. “Do you think, becau I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless
and heartless? —You think wrong!… And if God had gifted me with some beauty, and much wealth, I
should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you…—it is my spirit that address your spirit; just as if both had pasd through the grave, and we stood at God’s feet, equal—as we are!”
Questions:A．Identify the author and the novel from which the quoted part is taken.B．To whom is the speaker speaking?C．What does the quoted part imply about the speaker?
43.“The woods are lovely, dark and deep,But I have promis to keep,And miles to go before I sleep,And miles to go before I sleep.”
Questions:A. Identify the poem and the poet.B. What does the word“sleep”mean?C. What idea do the four lines express?
44.Read the following passage and then answer the questions:
…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.
B. The passage describes the end of an event. What is it?
C. What implied meaning can you get from reading this passage?
Ⅲ.Questions and Answers （24 points, 6 points for each）
Give brief answers to each of the following questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sh eet.
45. "'My boy!' said the old gentleman, leaning over the desk. Oliver started at the sound. He might be excud for doing so, for the words were kindly said, and strange sounds frighten one. He trembled violently, and burst into tears." （Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist）
Explain why the boy [Oliver Twist] started first, then trembled violently and burst into tears when the words were "kindly" said.
46.Novum Organum（"New Instrument"）, along with other works, won the author the honour "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?
47. Why are naturalists inevitably pessimistic in their view?
Plea discuss the above question in relation to the basic principles of literary naturalism.
48.The white whale, Moby Dick, is the most important symbol in Melville’s novel. What symbolic meaning can you draw from it?
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? Who is the speaker? What is the importance of the allusion "Neptune…/Taming a a hor" in the whole poem?
46. Here is the last stanza of Byron's "The Isles of Greece":Place me on sunium's mardle steep,Where nothing, save the waves and I,There, swan-like, let me sing and die:May hear our marb
led murmurs sweep;A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine ——Dash down you cup of Samian wine!Determine the speaker first and then discuss BRIEFLY the main idea of the stanza or of the whole excerpt. You may want to consider the possible implications of the last two lines.
47.Ezra Pound is one of the pioneers in modern poetry. What is the poetic
school of which he is a chief member?
What is Pound"s reprentative work of many years of poetic creation? What is the title of his frequently quoted one-image poem?Pound has translated some literary works from two great ancient civilizations.
One is Greece. What is the other? How do you understand his famous comment "The image itlf is the speech"?
48.How do you understand Henry James’ international theme? Plea exemplify it bad on his novels.
45. It is said that B. Shaw’s play, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, has a strong realistic theme, which fully reflects the dramatist’s Fabianist idea. Try to summarize this theme briefly.
46. Emily Bronte ud a very complicated narrative technique in writing her novel Wuthering Heights. Try to tell Bronte’s way of narration briefly. 47. “In your rocking-chair, by your window dreaming, shall you long, alone. In your rocking-chair, by your window, shall you dream such happiness as you may never feel.” The two ntences are taken from Theodore Dreir’s novel, Sister Carrie. What idea can you draw from the “rocking-chair”? 48. The literary school of naturalism was quite popular in the late 19th century. What are the major characteristics of naturalism?
Ⅳ.Topic Discussion（20 points, 10 points 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.A possible theme of James Joyce"s short story "Araby" is disillusionment. Briefly discuss the symbolism Joyce employs in prenting this theme. 50.. Mark Twain prented the 19th century America in his own unique way. Discuss Twain's art of fiction: the tting, the language, and the characters, etc., bad on his novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
49. Discuss the possible theme in W.B. Yeats’s “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”and how that theme is prented in the poem.
50. “My faith is gone!” cried he (Goodman Brown), after one stupefied moment. “There is no good on earth; and sin is but a name. Come, devil! For to thee is this world given.”
Comment on this passage from Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown”. 49. Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe was a great success partly becau the protagonist was a real middle-class hero. Discuss Crusoe, the protagonist of the novel, as an embodiment of the rising middle class virtues in the mid-eighteenth century England.
50.What makes Mark Twain"s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn more than a child"s adventure story? Briefly discuss the question from THREE of the following aspects: the tting, the language, the character（s）, the theme and the style.
PART TWO(60 POINTS)
II. Reading Comprehension(16 points in all，4 for each)
头文字d漫画Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English．Write your answers in the corresponding space on the Answer Sheet．
41. “The fiver glideth at his own sweet will：Dear God! the very hous em asleep；
And all that mighty heart is lying still!”(from William Wordsworth’s “Compod upon Westminster Bridge”)
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Questions：A. What figure of speech is ud in the quoted lines?B. What does “that mighty heart’’ refer to?
C. What does the poem decribe?
42. “When the stars threw down their spears,And water’d heaven with their tears,Did he smile his work to e?Did he who made the Lamb make thee?”Questions：A. Identify the poet and the poem from which the quoted lines are takenB. Whom does the “he’’ refer to?C. What does the “Lamb”symbolize?
43. “My tongue，every atom of my blood，form’d from this soil，this air,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，Hoping to cea not till death”
Questions： A. Identify the poet and the poem from which the quoted lines are taken.
B. What do “soil” and “air” reprent in the first line?
C. What does the poet try to say in the above four lines?
44. “I cannot rub the strangeness from my sight I got from looking through a
