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《文学阅读与欣赏》作业A参考答案
(1)、Directions: Here’ s an extract from Bernard Shaw’ s play Pygmalion. Read it and answer questions below. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet.
(Note：A few parts of the following excerpt are shortened or simplified)
Act I
[This scene follows the beginning of this act , when Freddy returns back to the portico (柱廊)of St. paul’s where his mother and sister are waiting for him to find a cab to go back home. In torrents 0f heavy summer rain, he has to rush out again to try to find a cab since it is 11 p. m. While doing so he comes into collision with a flower girl, who is hurrying in for shelter, knocking her basket of flowers out of her hands. Some of her flowers dropped in the mud]
THE FLOWER GIRIL：Nah then, Freddy, look wh’y gowin, deah. (Nay then, Freddy look! Where are you going, dear. )
Freddy：Sorry [he rushes off]
THE FLOWER GIRL [picking up her scattered flowers and replacing them in the basket] : There’s menners f’yet! Te-oo banches o voylets trod into the mad. (There’s manners for you. Two bunches of violets trod into the mud. )
[She sits down on the plinth of the column, sorting her flowers, on the lady’s right. She is not at all an attractive person. She is perhaps eighteen, perhaps twenty, hardly older. She wears a little sailor hat of black straw that has long been expod to the dust and soot of Loudon and has ldom if ever been brushed. Her hair needs washing rather badly t its mousy color can hardly be natural. She wears a shoddy black coat that reaches nearly to her knees and is shaped to her waist. She has a brown skirt with a coar apron. Her boots are much the wor for wear. She is no doubt as clean as she can offord to be; but compared to the ladies she is very dirty. Her features are no wor than theirs: but their condition leaves something to be desired; and she needs the rvices of a dentist. ]
THE MOTHER：How do you know that my son’s name is Freddy, pray?
THE FLOWER GIRL：Ow, eez ye-ooa san, is e? Wal, fewd dan y’ de-ooty bawmz a mather should, eed now better to spawl a pore gells flahrzn than ran away athaht pyin. Will ye-oo py me f’them?
(Oh, is he your son, is he? If you’d done your duty as a mother should, he’d know better to spoil a po
or girl’s flowers than ran away without paying. Will you pay me for them?)
THE DAUGHTER: Do nothing of the sort, mother. The idea!
THE MOTHER: Plea allow me, Clara. Have you any pennies?
朋友问候语THE DAUGHTER：No. I’ve nothing smaller than sixpence.
THE FLOWER GIRL：[hopefully] I can give change for a tanner (六便士) , kind lady.
THE MOTHER: [To Clara) give it to me. [Clara parts reluctantly) Now [To the girl]：This is for your flowers.
THE FLOWER GIRL：Thank you kindly, lady.
THE DAUGHTER：Make her give you the change, The things are only a penny a bunch.
THE MOTHER: Do hold your tongue, Clara. [to the girl] You can keep the change.
THE FLOWER GIRL：Oh, thank you, lady.
THE MOTHER：Now tell me how you know that young gentleman’s name. THE FLOWER GIRL：I didn’t.
THE MOTHER：I heard you call him by it. Don’t try to deceive me.
THE FLOWER GIRL：[protesting] Who’s trying to deceive you? I called him Freddy or Charlie the same as you might yourlf if you was talking to a stranger and wished to be pleasant. [She sits down beside her basket).
THE DAUGHTER：Sixpenny thrown away! Really, mamma, you might have spared Freddy that. [She retreats in disgust behind the pillar].鹤冲天
大豆异黄酮作用[An elderly gentleman of the amiable military type rushes into shelter, and clos a dripping umbrella. He is in the same plight as Freddy, very wet about the ankles. He is in evening dress, with a light overcoat. He takes the place left vacant by the daughter’s retirement.]
THE GENTLEMAN：Phew!
THE MOTHER [to the gentleman) ：Oh, sir, is there any sign of its stopping? THE GENTLEMAN: I’m afraid not. It started wor than ever about two minutes ago [he goes to the plinth beside the flow
er girl; puts up his foot on it and stoops to turn down his trour ends) .
THE MOTHER：Oh dear! [She retires sadly and joins her daughter).
THE FLOWER GIRL [taking advantage of the military gentleman’ s proximity to establish friendly relations with him]：If it’ s wor, it’s a sign it’s nearly over. So cheer up, Captain; and buy a flower off a poor girl.
THE GENTLEMAN：I’m sorry. I haven’t any change.
THE FLOWER GIRL：I can give you change, Captain.
THE GENTLEMAN：For a sovereign (一镑金币)? I’ve nothing less.
THE FLOWER GIRL：Gain! Oh do buy a flower off me, Captain. I can change half-a-crown. Take this for tuppence. (two pence)
THE GENTLEMAN: Now don’t be troublesome; there’s a good girl. [Trying his pockets) I really haven’t any change. Stop; here’s three half-pence, if that’s any
u to you [he retreats to the other pillar).
THE FLOWER GIRL [disappointed, but thinking three half-pence better than nothing ]：Thank you, sir.
THE BYSTANDER [to the girl]：You be careful; give him a flower for it. There’s a bloke(小子) here behind taking down every blesd word you’re saying. [All turn to the man who is taking notes].
昏昏
THE FLOWER GIRL (springing up terrified)：I ain’t done nothing wrong by speaking to the gentleman. I’ve a right to ll flowers if I keep off the kerb. (街头的边石) (Hysterically) I’m a respectable girl so help me, I never spoke to him except to ask him to buy a flower off me. (General hubbub, mostly sympathetic to THE FLOWER GIRL. . . .
[THE FLOWER GIRL, distraught and mobbed , breaks through them to THE GENTLEMAN, crying wildly] Oh, sir, don’t let him charge me. You dunno (don’t know) what it means to me. They’ll take away my character (名誉) and drive me on the streets for speaking to gentlemen. They. . .
THE NOTE TAKER (coming forward on her right , the rest crowding after him)：There, there, there, there! Who’s hurting you, you silly girl? What do you take me for?
THE BYSTANDER: It’s all right：he’s a gentleman：look at his boots. (Explaining to THE NOTE TAKER) She thought you was a copper’s nark (警察的线民) , sir.
THE NOTE TAKER [with quick interest)：What’s a copper’s nark?
THE BYSTANDER [inapt at definition]：It’s a- well, it’s a copper’s nark, as you might say. What el would you call it? A sort of informer.
1.Suppo this is the very beginning of a play. Can you write at least two ntences to give the tting of the scene?
2.What are the phras in capital letters to the left of the text (e.g. THE MOTHER)?
形单影只的近义词3.What are the phras in the brackets?
4.What are the rest of the words in the text?
5.A scene in a play may rve different purpos：to create an atmosphere, to develop a character, or to advance an action, etc. What are the purpos of the scene in the first act of this play?
6.Do you think the mother and the daughter are of a rich family or from the upper class? Give your reasons.
甘肃高考状元7.Why do you think that the playwright makes arrangements for the poor flower girl to meet the note taker, who turns out later in the play to be a professor of phonetics, in such a way?
参考答案：
Key :
1.Scene: A group of people gathered inside the portico of St. Paul’s to ek shelter from a heavy rain. It is getting very late at night. (for reference only)
2.The phras in capital letters refer to the CHARACTERS in the play.
3.The phras in the brackets are WHAT THE CHARACTERS DO OR FEEL.
4.The rest of the words in the text are what the characters SAY on the stage.猜字组词
5.The purpos of this scene are to develop a character and to advance an action.
6.No. One obvious reason is that they don’t have their own cab to go outside and have to find and hire one. Another is the daughter’s words to warn her mother not to pay for the damaged flowers and to ask for change.
7.Since a professor of phonetics and a poor flower girl belong to different social class, it is most unlikely they would meet each other and notice each other in their usual social circles. So the writer arranges a small accident to arou people’s interest in the girl as well as the professor’s. He also makes the professor behave in a strange way so as to create the misunderstanding of the girl to bring them clo to each other.中国人民银行贷款
(2)、Instructions:Read the excerpt from Charles Dickens’ famous Christmas story ‘A Christmas Carol’ in Unit 3: Activity 5, Task 2, then answer the following questions.
"A merry Christmas, uncle! God save you!" cried a cheerful voice. It was the voice of Scrooge’s nephew, who came upon him so quickly that this was the first intimation he had of his approach.
"Bah!" said Scrooge, "Humbug!"
He had so heated himlf with rapid walking in the fog and frost, this nephew of Scrooge’s, that he was all in a glow; his face was ruddy and handsome; his eyes sparkled, and his breath smoked again.
"Christmas a humbug, uncle!" said Scrooge’s nephew. "You don’t mean that, I am sure?"
"I do," said Scrooge. "Merry Christmas! What right have you to be merry? What reason have you to be merry? You’re poor enough."
"Come, then" returned the nephew gaily. "What right have you to be dismal? What reason have you to be moro? You’re rich enough."
Scrooge, having no better answer ready on the spur of the moment, said, "Bah!" again; and followed it up with "Humbug".
"Don’t be cross, uncle," said the nephew.
"What el can I be" returned the uncle, "when I live in such a world of fools as this? Merry Christmas! Out upon merry Christmas! What’s Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourlf a year older, and not an hour richer; a time for balancing your books and having every item in ’em through a round dozen of months prented dead against you? If I could work my will," said Scrooge, indignantly, ’every idiot who goes about with ’Merry Christmas’ on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should!"
"Uncle!" pleaded the nephew.
"Nephew!" returned the uncle, sternly, "Keep Christmas in your own way, and let me keep it in mine."
"Keep it!" repeated Scrooge’s nephew. "But you don’t keep it."
"Let me leave it alone, then," said Scrooge. "Much good may it do you! Much good it has ever done you!"
"There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say," returned the nephew: "Christmas among the rest. But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round --apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that --as a good time: a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year that men and women em by one connt to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-pasngers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. And therefore, uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold, or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!"
The clerk in the tank involuntarily applauded: becoming immediately nsible of the impropriety, he poked the fire, and extinguished the last frail spark for ever. "Let me hear another sound from you" s
aid Scrooge, "and you’ll keep your Christmas by losing your situation. You’re quite a powerful speaker, sir," he added, turning to his nephew, "I wonder you don’t go into Parliament." "Don’t be angry, uncle. Come! Dine with us tomorrow."
Scrooge said that he would e him --yes, indeed he did. He went the whole length of the expression, and said that he would e him in that extremity first. "But why?" cried Scrooge’s nephew. "Why?"
"Why did you get married?" said Scrooge.
"Becau I fell in love."
