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1.“T o be , or not to be—that is the questio n; 生存还是毁灭，这是一个值得考虑的的问题；Whether’tis nobler in the mind to suffer默然忍受命运暴虐的毒箭，或是挺身反抗人生无涯的苦难The sling and arrow of outrageous fortune, 通过斗争把它们扫清，这两种种行为，那种高贵？
Or to take arms against a a of troubles”
A Who is the author of the play?----William Shakespeare
B. Who is the speaker ? -----( Hamlet)
C. What does he mean when he says ―To be ,or not to be --- that is the question?‖r
T o live on in this word or to die ;to suffer or to take action.
2.“Studies rve for delight ,for ornament ,and for ability. Their chief u for delight is in privateness and retiring ;for ornament ,is discour;and for ability ,is in the judgement and disposition of business.‖
读书足以怡情，足以博采，足以长才。其怡情也，最见于独处幽居之时；其博采也，最见于高谈阔论之中；其长才也，最见于处世判事之际。
Questions:
A Identify the essay and the writer. Of Studies,Francis Bacon造型师培训
B What does ―Privateness and retiring‖mean?Private life and retirement.
C. What does the essay reveal to us ? It reveals to us Bacon’s mature attitude towords
learning.。成熟的
3.“To bow and sue for grace
With suppliant knee,and detify his power
……---that were low indeed,
That were an ignominty,and shame beneath
This downfall;……‖
(经过这一次战争的惨烈，好容易才使他的权动摇，)这时还要弯腰屈膝，向他哀求怜悯，拜倒在他的权力之下，那才是真正的卑鄙、可耻，比这次沉沦还要……
Question:
A.Who is the author? John Milton
B.What is the title of the poem? Paradi Lost
C.What is the main idea? T o beg God for mercy and worship his power ,were more shameful
than this downfall.
4.”Peots,like painters,thus unskilled to trace
The nakes nature and the living grace,
With gold and jewels cover every part,
And hide with ornaments their want of art.‖
诗人也像画家一样，不善于描绘现实生活中不加藻饰的自然美，于是便在在作品中处处镶金嵌玉，以这些外在的饰物来掩盖其艺术的缺失。
Questions:
A.Who is the author of the peom? Alexander Pope
B.What does the underlined ntence mean? T o portray(in the paintings or writings) nature
in its plainness and the beautiful objects from real life
C.What does ―want of art ―mean? The shortcoming of his writing and art.
5. In Hamlet‘s soliloquy he says ,‖To sleep ;perchance to dream .Ay ,there‘s the
睡着了也许还会做梦；嗯，阻碍就在这儿。
rub.‖
Questions :
A: What does ―perchance ―mean her ?-----mayby or perhaps
B:What does ―the rub ―refer to ?----The doubt or difficulty
C:What is he primarily thinking about?----The fact that if dying is like going to sleep ,then perhaps after death we have had bad dreams
6.Almost five thousand years agone ,there were pilgrims walking to the
差不多五千年前就有旅客像这两位忠实的人一样到天国去；
Celestial City ,as the two honest persons are ;and Beelzebub ,Apollyon ,and
魔王、魔鬼和众喽罗从旅客所走的路线看出，浮华市面上是他们到天国
Legion ,with their companions ,perceiving by the path that the pilgrims made ,that their
去的必经之地，way to the city lay through this town of V anity……‖
Questions :A.Who is the author ?---John Bunyan
B. What is the title of the novel ?----The Pilgrim’s Progress.
C.What does ―the celestial city‖mean?—The heavenly city the pilgrims are gong to .
7.‖Two roads diverged in a yellow wood ，深黄的林子里有两条岔路
And sorry I could not travel both .‖很遗憾，我，一个过路人，没法同时踏上两条征途Questions:A. Who is the author ? ---Robert Lee Frost
B .Who does ―diverged ―mean?---Separated and went on in different directions
C .What does the line imply?—One has to make choice ,especially ,in the cour of one‘s life.
8．“This is my letter to the World 这是我写给世界的信
That never wrote to Me—它从末写给我----
The simple News that Nature told ---告诉我自然以温柔的尊严---
With tender Majesty.‖讲叙的简单信息
Questions:
A.Who is the author?—Emily Dickinson
B.What does ―the World ―mean?—The human world
What does the author think about‖The nature‖?—In Dickinson‘s eye,nature is more frindly than human world .She could communicate with nature easily.Nature usually reveals the truth of life ,i,e the simple news.
9.The following lines are from The Merchant of Venice:
―For herein Fortune shows herlf more kind 因为命运对我已经特别照顾了
Than is her custom. It is still her u 她往往让一个不幸的人在家产荡尽以后继续活下去
To let the wretched man outlive his wealth ,
To view with hollow eye and wrinkled brow 让他凹陷的眼睛和满是皱纹的额角去接受
juice是什么意思
An age of poverty ;from which ling‘ring penance 贫困的暮年；这一种拖延时日的刑罚
Of such miry doth she cut me off.‖她已经把我豁免了。
Questions :
A . Who is the author of the play?----Wiliam Shakespeare
B. What does ―she‖refer to ?-----fortune
最好听的背景音乐C. What does the statement mean?-----Antonio thinks Fortune is more kind toword him becau Fortune is taking away both his wealth and life
10.When my mother died I was very young，我母亲死的时候我还很小
And my father sold me while yet my tongue 我父亲把我拿出来卖给别人
Could scacely cry‖‗weep !weep!weep !‘weep‖!我当时还不大喊得清“扫呀，扫呀
So your chimney I sweep ,&in soot I ep.我就扫了你们的烟囱，裹煤睡觉。
Questions:
A.Who is the author of the poem?---William Blake,
B.What does ―weep‖mean?----Sweep
C.What does the author concern? ---Blake concerns the poor children .He is
aware of the economic exploitation of children and particulauly the practice
of lling young children into apprenticeships.
11.I shall be telling this with a sigh 隔了多少岁月，流逝了多少时光
Somewhere ages and ages hence；我将叹一口气，提起当年的旧事；
Two roods diverged in a wood ,and I---林子里有两条路，朝着两个方向，而我--
I took the one less traveled by，我走了一条更少人迹的路。
And that has made all the difference.于是带来完全不同的一番景色。
Questions:
A.Who is the author? --Robert Lee Frostforinstance
B.What does ―diverged ―mean? ---S eparated and went on in different directions.
hallmark
C.What does the author try to tell us ?He is just conscious of the fact that his choice
will have made all the diferenc in his life .He ems to give us a suggestion:Make good choice of your life‖
12.‖ When Miss Emily Grierson died ,our whole town went to her funeral ;the men
艾米莉·格里尔小姐过世了，全镇的人都去送丧；男子们是出于敬慕之情，因为一个纪念碑倒下了。through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument..‖
妇女们呢？……
Questions :
A.Who is the author?—William Faulkner
B.How many parts is the story divided into ?Five parts.
C.What does ―a fallen monument ―refer to ?Emily regrarded as the symbol of
tradition and the old way of life .Thus her death is like the falling of a
monument
13.“The boast of heraldry ,the pomp of power ，门第的炫耀，有权有势的显赫,
And all that beauty ,all that wealth e‘er gave ，凡是美和财富所能赋予的好处
Awaits alike the inevitable hour.前头都等待着不可避免的好处,
The paths of gory lead but to the grave .‖光荣的道路无非是引导到坟墓.
(Thomas Gray ,Elegy Written in a Country Churchyars〈墓园挽歌〉) Questions:
A.What does “heraldry”mean?-----Noble birth
B.What does “inevtable hour “refer to ?----Time of death
C.What does Thomas Gray intend to say?----Thomas Gray intends to say that
great family ,power ,beauty and wealth will never prevent people from their final destination ---grave
14.‖Tyger !Tyger!burnig bright 老虎！老虎！黑夜的森林中
In the forests of the night, 燃烧的煌煌的火光
What immortal hand or eye 是怎样的神手或天眼
Could frame thy fearful symmetry ?‖造出了你这样的威武堂堂
Questions :
A.Who is the author?-----William Blake
B.What does ―symmetry ―mean?----The well-proportioned(匀称的) body of the
tiger
C.What does ―tyger‖refer to?—There are different opinions about the
tiger .Some say the tiger is made by God .Others say it is made by men.One
more idea thinks that The Tyger is a poem about work ,about artistic creation.
15.‖ I heard a Fly buzz ---when I died --- 我听到了苍蝇的嗡嗡声----在我死时---
no nameThe Stillness in the Room 房间里的寂静
Was like the Stillness in the Air—仿佛风暴起伏之间的----
Between the Heaves of Storm—―空气中的寂静-----
Questions‖
A.Who is the author of the poem ? -----Emily Dickinson
B.What does ―I‖ refer to ? ----The author
C.Try to give an explanation of ―Fly ―----Flies of all species are creatures with
negative symbolic associations .In certain culture contexts ,they were en as embodies of demonic powers,and in everyday life , a fly is always associated with the rotten food ,so in this poem the fly first come to look for food on the dead. But it may also refer to death itlf.
16.‖Whether fagged by the three days ‗running cha ,and the resistance to his
这条白鲸究竟是由于遭到三天连续迅猛追击而疲累了，和身上背了七缠八缠的绳索而妨碍了swimming in the knotted hamper he bore ;or whether it was some latent
它的游速，还是它怀有奸诈和恶意…….
deceitfulness and malice in him …‖
Questions‖
A .Where is it taken from ?----Moby Dick
B.Who is the author?---------Herman Melville(赫尔曼·麦尔维尔)
C.What does ―he ,his ,him‖refer to ? The White While ,All through the novel ,the whale is personified and referred to as ―he‖.
17．“Y ou and the girls may go ,or you may nd them by themlves ,which perhaps will be still better ,for , as you as handsome as any of them ,Mr.Bingley might like you the best of the party .‖
Questions:
A.What is the title of the novel?—Pride and Prejudice
rapelayB.Who is the author?------Jane Austen
C.What figure of speech is ud in the underlined----Irony.koukou
18.“I will ari and go now ,and go to Innisfree.我现在就要动身，多少个日夜
And a small cabin build there ,of clay and wattles made：在那儿用枝条与篱巴做一间小屋Nine live b
ean-rows will I have threre,a hive for the honeybee，种上九排豆子，和蜜蜂栖息的蜂房
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.‖独自居住在蜂声嗡嗡的林间空地Questions:
A.From which poem the stanza is taken ?—William Bulter Y eats‖The Isle of Innis
free‖.
B.What is the tting of the poem ?—Tired of the life of his day ,Y eats sought to
escape into an ideal ―fairyland‖where he could live calmly as a hermit,and
enjoy the beauty of nature ,then he wrote this poem.
C.From the style of the poem ,which period can we deduce the writer belong to?
The Modern Period.
19.‖I wondered lonely as a cloud 我好似一朵孤独的流云
That floats on high ,o‘er vales and hills，高高地飘游在山谷之上
When all at once I saw a crowd.突然我看见一大片鲜花，
A host ,of golden daffodils；是金色的水仙遍地开放
Beside the lake ,beneath the trees ，它们在湖畔，开在树下
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.‖它们随风嬉舞，随风波荡。
Questions
A.Who is the author?—William Wordsworth
B.What does ―a host ,of ―mean?—A large number of
C.Give a short explanation.---While the poet was taking a walk in the woods, he felt lonely and detched from earthly fellowship just lkie a lonely cloud ,wandering and floating in the sky.
20.‖The woods are lovely ,dark and deep，树林真可爱，幽暗而深远
But I have promi to keep ，可是我还得赶赴一个约会
And miles to go before I sleep.还得赶好多里才能安睡
And miles to go before I sleep.‖还得赶好多里才能安睡
imdeQuestions:
A.Who is the author of the poem?-Robert Lee Frost.
B.What deos‖promi ―refer to ?—It has veral kind of meaning,It might be
promis to a person.It might refer to the abstract obligations of a human
being .The poet is fully aware of his social responsibility.
C.What does the repetition rve as?—On one hand ,the repetition is a technical
solution for the rhyme scheme ,On the other hand, the poet remember his social obligations .The road is also the read of life ,He has to fufill his promis before he can sleep or die.
21．“At the lake shore there was another rowboat drawn up .The Indians stood waiting .Nick and his father got in the stern of the boat and the Indians shoved it off and one of them got in to row.‖
