英美文学练习题

Passage 1I 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 learn and loa, fe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass. Questions:1.2.3.4.5. These are the first two stanzas in the first section of a long poem entitled The name of the poet is___________ . Who is the poet celebrating? Whom do lines 2 ~ 3 also include in the celebration? What is the verse structure? Take the fifth line as a hint, can you write out the name of the poet' scompleted collections of poems?Passage 2Because I could not stop for Death—He kindly stopped for me—The Carriage held but just Ourselves—Questions:1.2.3. Who is the writer of these lines? In which category would you place this poem? A. narrative B. dramatic C. lyric Emily Dickinson is noted for her use of_____________ to achieve special effects.A. perfect rhymeB. exact rhymeC. slant rhyme∙Passage 3It is impossible to conceive of a human creature more wholly desolate∙and forlorn than Eliza, when she turned her footsteps from Uncle Tom' s cabin.Questions:1. This is taken from a famous novel. What is the name of the novel?2.3. What is the name of the writer? Who is Uncle Tom?Passage 4Tom Sawyer stepped forward with conceited confidence and soared∙into the unquenchable and indestructible "Give me liberty or give me death" speech, with fine fury and frantic gesticulation, and broke down in the middle of it. A ghastly stage fright seized him, his legs quaked under him, and he was like to choke. True, he had the manifest sympathy of the house----------- but he had the house' s silence, too, which was even worse than its sympathy. The master frowned, and this completed the disaster. Tom struggled awhile and then retired, defeated.Questions:2. Which novel is this passage taken from? Who is the author?Passage 5I took the sack of corn meal and took it to where the canoe was hid,∙and shoved t, he vines and branches apart and put it in; then I done the same with the side of bacon; then the whisky-jug. I took all the coffee and suga, r there was, and all the ammunition; I took the wadding; I took the bucket and gourd; took a dipper and a tin cup, and my old saw and two blankets, and the skillet and the coffee-pot. I took fish-lines and matches and other things—everything that wasworth a cent. I cleaned out the place. I wanted an ax, but there wasn' t any, only the one out at the woodpile, and 1 knew why I was going to leave that. I fetched out the gun, and now I was done.Questions:1.2. Which novel is this passage taken from? Analyse the language style of this passage.Passage 6On his bench in Madison Square, Soapy moved uneasily. When wild∙geese honk high of nights, and when women without sealskin coats grow kind to their husbands, and when Soapy moves uneasily on his bench in the park, you may know that winter is near at hand.Questions:1.2. This passage is taken from a short story entitled____________ . The author's name is William Sidney Porter. What is his pen name?Passage 7∙∙Isabel always felt an impulse to pull out the pins; not that she imagined they inflicted any damage on the tough old parchment, but because it seemed to her her aunt might make better use of her sharpness. She was very critical herself-it was incidental to her sex, and her nationality but she was very sentimental as well, and there was something in Mrs. Touchett' s dryness that set her own moral fountains flowing. "Now what' s your point of view?" she asked of her aunt. "When you criticize everything here you should have a point of view. Yours doesn' t seem to be American you thought everything over there so disagreeable. When I have mine; it' s thoroughly American!" "My dear young lady", said Mrs. Touchett, "there are as many points of view in the world as there are people of sense to take them. You may say that doesn't make them very numerous. American? Never in the world; that' s shockingly narrow. My point of view, thank God, is personal!" Isabel thought this a better answer than she admitted; it was a tolerable description of her own manner of judging, but it would not have sounded well for her to say so.∙Questions:2.3.4. This passage is taken from a well-known novel. What is the name of the novel? Who is the author of this novel? Make a brief comment on the heroine Isabel Archer. What is Jamesian theme?Passage 8∙∙He went back to the text and lost himself. He did not notice that a young woman had entered the room. The first he knew was when he heard Arthur' s voice saying: "Ruth, this is Mr. Eden." The book was closed on his forefinger, and before he turned he was thrilling to the first new impression, which was not of the girl, but of her brother' s words. Under that muscled body of his he was a mass of quivering sensibilities. At the slightest impact of the outside world upon his consciousness, his thoughts, sympathies, and emotions leapt∙and played like lambent flame. He was extraordinarily receptive and responsive, while his imagination, pitched high, was ever at work es-tablishing relations of likeness and difference. "Mr. Eden," was what he had thrilled to—he who had been called "Eden" or "Martin Eden" or just "Martin" all his life. And "Mister!" It was certainly going some, was his internal comment. His mind seemed to turn, on the instant, into a vast camera obscure.Questions:1.2.3. What is the name of the novel from which this passage is taken? Whom does the first word "He" refer to? Who is the author of this novel?Passage 9When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse. Of an intermediate balance, under the circumstances, there is no∙possibility. The city has its cunning wiles, no less than the infinitely smaller and more human tempter. There are large forces which allure with all the soulfulness of expression possible in the most cultured human. The gleam of a thousand lights is often as effective as the persuasive light in a wooing and fascinating eye. Half the undoing of the unsophisticated and natural mind is accomplished by forceswholly superhuman. A blare of sound, a roar of life, a vast array of human hives, appeal to the astonished senses in equivocal terms.Without a counsellor at hand to whisper cautious interpretations, what falsehoods may not these things breathe into the unguarded ear!Unrecognised for what they are, their beauty, like music, too often relaxes, then weakens then perverts the simpler human perceptions. Questions:1.2.4. From which novel is this paragraph taken? Who is the author of this novel? How do you understand "the cosmopolitan standard of virtue"? Is there any naturalist tendency in this passage?Passage 10At length as the craft was cast to one side, and ran ranging along with the White Whale’s flank, he seemed strangely oblivious of its advance—as the whale sometimes will---and Ahab was fairly within the smoky mountain mist, which,thrown off f rom the whale’s spout, curled round his great Monadnock hump; he was even thus close to him; when, with body arched back, and both armslengthwise high-lifted to the poise, he darted his fierce iron, and his far fiercer curse into the hated whale.Question:1. From which novel is this paragraph taken?2. What is the name of the novelist?3. What is the theme of the novel?。