文学阅读与欣赏(文学英语赏析)

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中央广播电视大学2006—2007学年度第一学期“开放本科”期末考试

英语专业文学阅读与欣赏(文学英语赏析) 试题

Part I: Literary Fundamentals ['30 points] Section 1. Match the works with their writers (10 points).

Works

1. Hills like White Elephants

2. I Have a Dream

3. An Inspector Calls

4. The Importance of Being Earnest

5. The Pearl

Writers

A. John Steinbeck

B. Robert Frost

C. Oscar Wilde

D. Walt Whitman

E. Ernest Hemingway

F. JB Priestley

G. Arthur Miller

H. Martin Luther King

Section 2. Decide whether the following statements are True (T) or False (F) ( 10 points).

6. Robert Frost is a well-known Scottish poet.

7. Hamlet, Othello and King Lear are well-known tragedies by William Shakespeare, together with Macbeth.

8. Arthur Miller's play The Crucible is aimed at exposing the hypocrisy of the property- owning class of the United States.

9. Scrooge is a character created by Charles Dickens in his novel Great Expectations.

10. Lord of the Flies is a thought-provoking novel authored by William Golding. Section 3. Choose the correct answers to complete the following sentences ( 10 points}.

11. __ can be established by describing the place where the action takes place, or

the situation at the start of the story.

A. Climax

B. Point of view

C. Flashback

D. Setting

12. A __ is a pair of rhymed lines that are equal in length. A ____ is a

{ourteen-line lyric poem which rhymes in a highly controlled way.

A. Couplet, ballad

B. Sonnet, limerick

C. Couplet, sonnet

D. Ballad, haiku

13. Which figure of speech is used in the following lines?

"h was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was

the age of foolishness'". '

A. Metaphor

B. Parallelism

C. Simile

D. Personification

14. was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005.

A. Harold Pinter

B. John Steinbeck

C. James Joyce

D. Walt Whitman

15. In his essay "Of studies", Bacon classified books thus: "Some books are to be tasted, others to be , and some few to be chewed and '.

A. swallowed, skimmed

B. swallowed, digested

C. scanned, perfected

D. skimmed, scanned

Part U: Reading Comprehension [50 points] Read the extracts and give brief answers to the questions below.

Text 1

1 tried to sleep; but my heart beat anxiously, my inward tranquillity was broken. The clock, far down in the hall, struck two. Just then it seemed my chamber-door was touched,

as if fingers had swept the panels in groping a way along the dark gallery outside. I said,

'Who is there?' Nothing answered. I was chilled with fear.

All at once 1 remembered that it might be Pilot, who, when the kitchen door chanced to be left open, not infrequently found his way up to the threshold of Mr Rochester's chamber: I had seen him lying there myself in the mornings. The idea calmed me somewhat: I lay down. Silence composes the nerves; and as an unbroken hush now reigned again through the whole house, I began to feel the return of slumber. But it was not fated that I should sleep that night. A dream had scarcely approached my ear, when it fled affrighted, scared by a marrow-freezing incident enough.

This was a demoniac laugh--low, suppressed, and deep--uttered, as it seemed, at the very keyhole of my chamber door. The head of my bed was near the door, and I thought at first the goblin-laugher stood at my bedside --or rather, crouched by my pillow. But 1 rose, looked round, and could see nothing; while, as I still gazed, the unnatural sound was reiterated, and I knew it came from behind the panels. My first impulse was to rise and fasten the bolt; my next, again to cry out, 'Who is there?'

Questions (12 points)

16. From which novel is the extract taken from? (Write the letter representing your choice on the answer sheet. )

A. Heart of Darkness

B. Jane Eyre

C. The Old Man and the Sea

17. What time of the day did the marrow-freezing incident happen?

18. What words did the author use to describe the laugh she heard?

19. What did the narrator" I ' observe after she rose from her bed?

Text 2

I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd, ! stand and look at them long and long.

They do not sweat and whine about their condition,

They do not lie awake in the dark and ,eep for their sins,

They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God,

Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things,

Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago,

Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.