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Reading comprehension

Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.

1.Read the quotation carefully and then answer the questions:

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,

The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea,

The plowman homeward plods his weary way,

And leaves the world to darkness and to me.

Q：

A.Scan the first line of the stanza.

B.Find the irregular foot in the second line.

C.Briefly explain the significance of this irregularity.

A：

A.Iambic pentameter with the rhyming scheme of abab.

B.The third foot contains two accented syllables.

C.Two accented syllables slow down the pace in keeping with the literary meaning of the phrase "wind slowly."

2.He neither spoke nor loosed his hold for some five minutes, during which period he bestowed more kisses than ever he gave in his life before, I dare say: but then my mistress had kissed him first, and I plainly saw that he could hardly bear, for downright agony, to look into her face! The same conviction had stricken him as me, from the instant he beheld her, that there was no prospect of ultimate recovery there--she was fated, sure to die.

Q：

A:Identify the author and the title of the novel from which this passage is taken.

B:Who is the narrator?

C:What does the passage describe?

A:

A:the passage is taken from Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights.

B:The narrator is Nelly, Catherine's old nurse

C:The passage describes the poignant meeting between Heathcliff and Catherine when the letter is dying

3. I CELEBRATE myself，and sing myself，

And what I assume you shall assume，

For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

I loafe and invite my soul，

I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.

Q:

A:Take the fifth line as a hint, can you write out the name of the poet' s completed collections of poems?

B:What is the verse structure?

C:Who is the poet celebrating? Whom do lines 2 ~ 3 also include in the celebration?

A:

A:Leaves of Grass

B:Free verse

C:The poet is celebrating himself, his own life. Lines 2-3 also include "you”, the readers and their lives in the celebration.

4.And so she died. Fell ill in the house filled with dust and shadows, with only a doddering Negro man to wait on her. We did not even know she was sick; we had long since given up trying to get any information from the Negro.

He talked to no one, probably not even to her, for his voice had grown harsh and rusty, as if from disuse.

Q：

A:Identify the author and the title of the work from which this passage is taken.

B:Who dies in this passage?

C:What kind of relationship exist between her and her neighbors?

A：

A:The passage is from William Faulkner's A Rose for Emily.

B:Emily dies.

C:Emily is secluded from her neighbors.

Questions and answers

1.The following passage is taken from The Merchant of Venice. Read it carefully and find the dramatic it contains. Use it as an example to illustrate what dramatic irony is.

“Bassanio: Antonio, I am married to a wife

Which is as dear to me as life itself;

But life itself, my wife, and all world,

Are not with me esteem'd above thy life;

I would lose all, ay, sacrifice them all

Here to this devil, to deliver you.

Portia: Your wife would give you little thanks for that,

If she were by to hear you make the offer.”

A：