Questions:
A．Identify the author and the title of the novel from which this passage is taken.
B．What can you imply by reading this passage?
C．What do the “moths ” symbolize?
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．William Shakespeare is one of the most remarkable playwrights the world has ever known.
(1)Name his four greatest tragedies.
(2)What are the characteristics of the four tragedies in common?
(3)Briefly summarize each hero’s weakness of nature.
46．“Though his fair daughter’s self, as I avowed
At starting, is my object. Nay, we’ll go
Together down, sir. Notice Neptune, though,
Taming a sea horse, though a rarity,
Which Claus of Innsbruck cast in bronze for me! ”
The lines above are taken from Robert Browning’s “My Last Duchess.” Taking the whole poem into consideration, what kind of person do you think the duke is?
47．What is generally the view Washington lrving expressed in his “Rip Van Winkle” about the radical changes that happened to the American society in his time?
48．What is the most famous theme in Henry James’s fiction? And what is his favourite approach in characterization, which makes him different from Mark Twain and W.D. Howells as realists? Give two titles of his works in which this theme and this approach are employed.
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．Analyze the character of Jane Eyre based on the selection taken from Chapter X X Ⅲ of Jane Eyre.
50．Symbolism is an important literary practice in literature and it has been widely used by many American writers. Discuss the way symboliom is used in Faulkner’s story “A Rose for Emily.” |
