05级文学选读试卷A

英专05级《英美文学作品选读》试卷A

June 2008

Section One (40%)

Directions:Match each of the following ten passages with its author.

1. The woods are lovely, dark and deep,

But I have promises to keep,

And miles to go before I sleep,

And miles to go before I sleep.

2. So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

3. So I got a piece of paper and a pencil, all glad and excited, and set down and wrote,

Miss Watson your runaway nigger Jim is down here two mile below Pikesville and Mr.

Phelps has got him and he will give him up for the reward if you send.

HUCK FINN 4. I cannot express what a satisfaction it was to me, to come into my old hutch, and lie

down in my hammock-beck. This little wandering journey, without settled place of abode, had been so unpleasant to me that my own house, as I called it to myself, was a perfect settlement to me, compared with that. It rendered everything about me so comfortable that I resolved I would never go a great way from it again while it should be my lot to stay on the island.

5. Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear,

And the rocks m elt wi’ the sun;

And I will luve thee still, my dear,

While th e sands o’life shall run.

6. The waves beside them danced; but they

Outdid the sparkling waves in glee;

A poet could not but be gay,

In such a jocund company;

7. Until on the threshold of the prison-door, she repelled him by an action marked with natural dignity

and force of character, and stepped into the open air, as if by her own free-will. She bore in her arms a child, a baby of some three months old, who winked and turned aside its little face from the too vivid light of day; because its existence, heretofore, had brought it acquainted only with the gray twilight of a dungeon, or other darksome apartment of the prison.

8. “I tell you I must go!” I retorted, roused to something like passion. “Do you think I can stay to

become nothing to you? Do you think I am an automaton? – a machine without feelings? And can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? –You think wrong? – I have as much soul as you, – and full as much heart! If God had gifted me with some beauty, and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: –it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God’s feet, equal, –as we are!”

9. The day what belongs to the day – at night the Party of young fellows, robust, friendly, / Singing

with open mouths their strong melodious songs.

10. It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in

want of a wife.

Authors:

William Shakespeare: ; Daniel Defoe: ; Robert Burns: ; Walt Whitman: ;

William Wordsworth: ; Jane Austen: ; Charlotte Bronte: ;

Nathaniel Hawthorne: ; Mark Twain: ; Robert Frost: .

Section Two (40%)

Directions: Read the story and answer questions.

Story of an Hour

By Kate Chopin

Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband’s death.

It was her sister Josephine who told her, in broken sentences, veiled hints that revealed in half concealing. Her husband’s friend Richards was there, to o, near her. It was he who had been in the newspaper office when intelligence of the railroad disaster was received, with Brently Mallard’s name leading the list of “killed.” He had only taken the time to assure himself of its truth by a second