1. ⋯ 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武乡县公安局
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.
F. 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 life
of pleasure- eking. There is a tragic n that the “ party ” will be over.
2. 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,
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Hoping to cea not till death.
A.Identify the poet and the title of the poem.
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?
I was born and nurtured by this land and shall from now on devote my whole life to the
country.
3. “ I celebrate mylf, and sing mylf,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
I loafe and invite my soul,
I lean and loafe at my ea obrving a spear of summer grass. ”
(From Walt Whitman?s “ Song of Mylf 古诗江畔独步寻花”)
A. Who does “ mylf ” refer to ?
The poet himlf and the American people.
B. How do you understand the line “ I loafe and invite my soul? ”
The line indicates a paration of the body and the soul.
C. What does 玩具小熊“ a spear of summer grass ” symbolize?
The phra indicates Whitman?s optimism and experience.
4. "And the native hue of resolution/Is sicklied o?er with the pale cast of thought." (Shakespeare, Humlet)
A. What does the "native hue of resolution" mean?
determination (determinedness, action, activity, ...)
B. What does the "pale cast of thought" stand for?
consideration (indecision, inactivity, hesitation, ...)
C. What idea do the two lines express?
庞淯Too much thinking (consideration,...) made (makes) activity (action) impossible.
5. "Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere; /Destroyer and Prerver; hear, O hear!" A. Identify the poem and the poet.
Shelley?s Ode to the West Wind
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B. What is the "Wild Spirit"?
The West Wind; "breath of Autumn?s being"
C. What does the "Wild Spirit" destroy and prerve?
It destroys things that are dead, it prerves new life.
6. "When the minister spoke from the pulpit, with power and fervid eloquence, and, with hi
s hands on the open bible, of the sacred truths of our religion, and of saint-like lives and triumphant deaths, and of future bliss or miry unutterable, then did Goodman Brown turn pale, dreading, lest the roof should thunder down upon the gray blasphemer and his hearers.
A. Identify the title of the short story from which this part is taken.
Hawthorne?s Young Goodman Brown
B. What had happened in the story before this church scene?
Brown had attended a witc hes? party where he saw many prominent people of the
village, the minister included.
C. Why was Goodman Brown afraid the roof might thunder down?
Brown was shocked by the minister, cretly a member of the evil club, who could
talk about sacred truths of the religion openly and unashamedly. He thought God would
punish such hypocrites down on them.
7. (A lot of common objects have been enumerated before, and here are the last two lines of
There Was a Child Went Forth :)
The horizon?s edge, the fly ing a-crow, the fragrance of salt marsh and shore mud.
The became part of that child who went forth every day, and who now goes, and will
always go forth every day.
A. Who is the author of this poem? What is the title of the poem?
家庭经济困难说明Whitman. There was a Child Went Forth
蕈样肉芽肿B. What does the "Child" stand for in the poem?
The young growing America.
C. In one or two ntences, interpret the implied meaning of the two lines.
