Ⅲ.Questions and Answers(24 points in all, 6 for each)
Give brief answers to each of the following questions in English.Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.
45.As a rule,an allegory is story in verse or prose with a double meaning: a surface meaning,and an implied meaning.List two works as examples of allegory.What is an allegory usually concerned with by its implied meaning?
46.Inspiration for the romantic approach initially came from two great shapers of thought.Who are the two?And what ideas they expressed inspire the romantic writers?
47.The white whale,Moby Dick,is the most important symbol in Melville's novel.What symbolic meaning can you draw from it?
48.Nature is a philosophic work, in which Emerson gives an explicit discussion on his idea of the Qversoul.What is your understanding of Emersonian “Oversoul”?
Ⅳ.Topic Discussion(20 points in all, 10 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.How is Romanticism different from Neoclassicism?Provide brief evidence from the literary works you know best.
50.Summerize the story of Mark twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in about 100 words,and comment on the theme of the novel.
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Ⅰ.Multiple Choice(40 points in all,1 for each)
1.B 2.D 3.C 4.C 5.D
6.A 7.B 8.B 9.A 10.C
11.D 12.D 13.D 14.D 15.B
16.B 17.D 18.C 19.A 20.A
21.D 22.B 23.B 24.A 25.A
26.C 27.B 28.A 29.C 30.C
31.C 32.D 33.C 34.D 35.D
36.A 37.A 38.A 39.C 40.B
Ⅱ.Reading Comprehension (16 points, 4 for each)
41.A.John Galasworthy:The Man of Property.
B.A face does not show any emotion or reaction so that it is impossible to know how that person is feeling or what he is thinking about.
C.it presents the inner mind of Soames in face of his wife's coldness.He can never know what is on his wife's mind because the makeup of his and her mentality is different. His wife Irene, whose mind is romantically inclined, is disgusted with her husband's possessiveness. Being unable to read his wife's mind is as good as saying that he really can't regard her as his property- this is the very reason why he is enraged beyond measure.
42.A.T.S.Eliot:“The Love Song of J.Alfred Pruforck.”
B.The ends of cigarettes,meaning trivial things here.
C.Here,Prufrock's inability to do anything against the society he is in is made strikingly clear by using a sharp comparison .Prufrock imagines himself as a kind of insect pinned on the wall and struggling in vain to get free.This image vividly shows Prufrock's current predicament.
43.A.Washington Irving:“Rip Van Winkle”.
B.The social environment is changed.
C.When Rip is back home after a period of 20 years,he finds thta everything has changed.All those old values are gone,and he can hardly feel at home in a changed society.One of the functions that Rip serves in the story is to provide a measuring stick for change. It is through him that Irving drives home the theme that a desire for change,improvement,and progress could subvert stable society.
44.A.Robert Frost:“The Road Not Taken”.
B.Many many years later.
C.The speaker is telling his experience of making the choice of the roads.But he is conscious of the fact that his choice will have made all the difference in his life.He seems to be giving a suggestion to the reader.“Make good choice of your life.”本新闻共 6页,当前在第 5页 1 2 3 4 5 6 |
