试卷代号：1062
2 0 1 9年春季学期期末统一考试
文学英语赏析试题
2019年7月
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Information for the examinees:
This examination consists of 3 parts. They are:
Part I:Literary Fundamentals (30 points)
Part II: Reading Comprehension (50 points)
Part III: Writing (20 points)
● The total marks for this examination are 100 points. Time allowed for completing this examination is 90 minutes.
● There will be no extra tlme to transfer answers to the Answer Sheet; therefore, you should write ALL your answers on the Answer Sheet as you do each task.
Part I Literary Fundamentals [30 points]
Section l. Match the works with their writers (10 points).
Works
- Hills Like White Elephants
- Eveline
- A Christmas Carol
- An Inspector Calls
- The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Writers
A. J B Priestley
B. John Steinbeck
C. James Joyce
D. Robert Louis Stevenson
F. Charles Dickens
G. Thomas Hardy
H. Ernest Hemingway
Section 2. Decide whether the following statements are True (T) or False (F) (10 points).- The Pearl is a novel about the strength and endurance of one man pitted against the forces of nature.
- Macbeth is a well-known tragedy by William Shakespeare.
- Lady Bracknell is a comic character created by Oscar Wilde in his play The Importance of Being Ernest.
- Harold Pinter is a master of dialogue as demonstrated in his play The Birthday Party.
- “Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone” is a protest poem against racial discrimination.
Section 3. Choose the correct answers to complete the following sentences (10 points).
- ____is a type of poetry that commemorates someone who has died.
A. A sonnetB. A ballad
C. A quatrain D. An elegy
12.____is a standpoint from which the narrator sees the story and tells readers directly about what happened.
A. Coda
B. Third person point of view
C. First person point of view
D. Opening - A writer can show character by giving a physical description, through____ and through deeds.
A. dialogue
B. climax
C. setting shifts
D. points of view - ___ is an example of parallelism.
A. Childhood is like a swiftly passing dream.
B. He has a heart of stone.
C.Government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.
D. Soon night will steal hours from the day. - In his essay “Of studies”, Bacon warns against an over reliance on bookish study thus :
A. “Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested…”.
B. “To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation, to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humor of a scholu.”
C. "Histories make men wise; poets witty, the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and thetoric able to contend. "
D. "Reading maketh a full man~ conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. "
Part II Reading Comprehension [50 points]
Read the extracts and choose the best answer to each question.
Text 1
Elizabeth :I think you must go to Salem, John.(He turns to her. ) I think so.You must tellthem it is a fraud.
Proctor (thinking beyond this) : Aye, it is, it is surely.
Elizabeth: Let you go to Ezekiel Cheever - he knows you well.And tell him what she said to you last week in her uncle,s house. She said it had naught to do with witchcraft, did she not?
Proctor (in thought): Aye, she did, she did.(Now a pause. )
Elizabeth (quietly , fearing to anger him by proddin. ) : God forbid you keep that from the court, John.I think they must be told.
Proctor (quietLy, struggling with his thoughts. ) Aye, they must. they must. It is a wonder they do believe her.
Elizabeth: I would go to Salem now, John - let you go tonight
Proctor: 1,11 think on it.
Elizabeth (with her courage now. ) : You cannot keep it, John.
Proctor (angering. ) : I know I cannot keep it.I say I will think on it!
Elizabeth (hurt , and very coLdLy. ) : Good, then let you think on it.(She stands and starts to -r.valk out of the room. )
Proctor: I am only wondering how I may prove what she told me.If the girl’s a saint now, I think it not easy to prove she’s a fraud, and the town gone so silly. She told it to me in a room alone - I have no proof of it.
Elizabeth: You were alone with her?
Proctor (stubbornly) : For a moment alone, aye.
Elizabeth: Why, then, it is not as you told me.
Proctor (his anger rising) : For a moment, I say.The others come in soon after.
Elizabeth (quietly - she has suddenly lost a// faith in him): Do as you wish, then.(she starts to turn).
Proctor: Woman(She turns to him. ) I’II not have your suspicion any more.
Elizabeth (a Little loftily) : I have no -
Proctor: I’Il not have itl
Elizabeth: Then let you not earn it.
Proctor (with a violent undertone) : You doubt me yet?
Elizabeth (with a smile , to keep her dignity) : John, if it were not Abigail that you must go to hurt, would you falter now? I think not.
Proctor: Now look you -Elizabeth: I see what I see, John.
Proctor (with sotemn warning) : You will not judge me more, Elizabeth.I have good reason to think before I charge fraud on Abigail, and I will think on it.Let you look to your own improvement before you go to judge your husband any more. I have forgot Abigail,and -
Elizabeth :And I
Proctor: Spare mel You forget nothin’ and forgive nothin’. Learn charity, woman. I have gone tiptoe in this house all seven month since she is gone.I have not moved from there to there without I think to please you, and still an everlasting funeral marches round your heart.I cannot speak but I am doubted, every moment judged for lies, as though I come into a court when I come into this house!
Elizabeth: John, you are not open with me. You saw her with a crowd, you said Now you -
Proctor: I’II plead my honesty no more, Elizabeth.
Elizabeth (now she would justify herseLf) : John, I am only-
Proctor: No more! I should have roared you down when first you told me your suspicion.But I wilted, and, like a Christian, I confessed. Confessed! Some dream I had must havemistaken you for God that day.But you’re not, you’re not and let you remember itl Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
Elizabeth: I do not judge you. The magistrate sits in your heart that judges you. I never thought you but a good man, John - (with a smile ) - only somewhat bewildered.
Proctor (laughing bitterly) : Oh, Elizabeth, your justice would freeze beer!
Questions 16-19 (12 points) - The extract is taken from____.
A. The Birthday Party
B. An Inspector CnZZs
C- The Crucible - Which of the following is true according to the extract?
A. There is competition for clients between Proctor and Elizabeth.
B. Proctor is not ready to testify against Abigail.
C. Abigail felt guilty because he has charged fraud on Proctor. - What does Proctor imply by the statement “…Elizabeth, your justice would freeze beer” ?
A. "…Elizabeth, you only wore the cloak of justice to hide your extreme coldness. "
B. "…Elizabeth, you become so frigid and cold after you drink beer. "
C. "…Elizabeth, you should drink some cold beer before you go and seek justice. "
19.According to what Proctor says, Elizabeth is ____.
A. extremely superstitious
B. a strong believer of witchcraft
C. full of suspicions
Text 2
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the Emancipation Proclamation.This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice.It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity. But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free.
One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity.One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land.
Questions 20-22 {9 points) - The speaker of the speech is____.
A. Martin Luther King
B. Abraham Lincoln
C. George Washington
21 Who is the “great American” referred to in the first paragraph?
A. Martin Luther King
B. Abraham Lincoln
C. George Washington - According to the speaker, even though the blacks are liberated theoretically, they____ in the USA.
A. can enjoy only limited freedom in the predominately white community
B. face three insurmountable problems-poverty, discrimination and war
C.still suffer from. poverty,segregation,and racial discrimination in their day-to-day lives
Text 3
The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both,
And be one traveler, long I stood,
And looked down one as far as I could,
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that, the passing there,
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay,
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another dayl
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh,
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Questions 23-25 (9 points) - The poem is set ____.
A. by a fork in the road in a yellow wood
B. on a train to a distant city
C. by a country road to a big city - What is the speaker’s initial response to the divergence of the two roads?
A. He sighs bitterly.
B. He was sorry.
C. He got excited. - What might be the symbolic meaning of the two roads?
A. The conflicts between man and nature.
B. The difference in simple country life and rich city life.
C. The different paths we take in life.
Text 4
Read the extract and give brief answers to the questions 26-29 that follow.
Please note: This reading task will be relevant to the writing task in Part III.
The Man Who Talked to Trees
1.They were twins; boys born five minutes apart in the dark days of the Civil War fifty days earlier. The elder was named Torbash, which means ‘hero’ in our language. The younger one’s name was Milmaq, <bringer of peace. ’ Torbash had struggled like a hero to escape from his mother, s womb, almost tearing her apart Milmaq had slid out with merciful swiftness.- They were identical twins. When they were children strangers could not tell them apart. They both had dark black hair and piercing green eyes. They were strong, tall and erect.Until they reached their early teens, they were always together. They slept together, ate together, played together, went to school together, got into trouble together-they even fell ill together. And they looked after each other.Anyone who tried to bully one of them would face the anger of the other. And of course they used their physical likeness to play tricks on people, especially at school.
- By the time they were fourteen the family had returned to its lands in the Nirmat valley.Their father had rebuilt the old farmhouse, dest:royed by the retreating rebel army at the end of the war. He farmed the bottom of the valley, growing wheat and tending the rich almond orchards for which the valley was then famous. On the lower slopes he had vineyards from which he produced the strong Nirmat Kashin (Lion of Nirmat) wine. The higher land was forested.The chestnut trees gave nuts in the autumn. The oaks and beeches, as well as the chestnut trees, were carefully tended. Their valuable timber was sold to furniture makers and builders in Jalseen, the town lower down the valley. The trees were cut according to a strict rotation For every tree they cut down, another was planted. These were what w.e, the ones who remember, still call &The Days of Contentment’’
4.It was about this time that the two boys began to grow apart.There was nothing sudden about this. They did n ot argue about a girl, or fight over an imagined insult as so many young people do. It was simply that they gradually began to do things by themselves which, before that, they would have done together. So each began to develop different interests.
5.Torbash spent his spare time hunting in the forests.He had been given a shotgun for his fifteenth birthday.He would proudly return after a day’ s hunting with wild pigeons, with rabbits, their eyes glazed in death, and sometimes with a deer.His greatest ambition was to bring back a wild boar. His other mam occupation was to visit Jalseen, where there were girls with ’ modern’ ways.It was there that he got to know the ’ contacts’who were to help him later. - Milmaq was a solitary person. He would spend hours in the forests, not hunting,simply sitting still, watching, waiting for something to happen. A spider would swing its thread across the canyon between two branches. A woodpecker would drum at the trunk of a chestnut tree, its neck a blur of speed. Above all, the trees themselves would speak to him. He would be aware of them creaking and swaying in the wind.He could sense the sap rising in them in the springtime; feel their sorrow at the approach of winter. If he put his ear to the trunk of a tree, he could hear it growing, very slowly; feel it moving towards its final magnificent shape.
7.Sometimes he would speak aloud to a tree.More often he would communicate with it silently.Sometimes he would lose all sense of himself.It was as if he had become part of the tree.This may sound like nonsense to you. Things are different now. But we still have an expression for this in the old language:’ Ahashinat ain kashul,.It means~’ Finding the centre , . - Please do not think that the brothers lost touch with each other, in that special way that twins have. There was the time, one winter’s evening, when Milmaq suddenly got up from the table, pulling his father with him, and set off for the upper slopes of the valley. Snow had fallen, and they soon found the tracks of boots and, soon after that, boar tracks. They found Torbash crouching in the branches of an oak tree. Beneath the tree there was a full-grown wild boar, grunting angrily.
- It had a wound in its side. Their father killed it with the two barrels of his own hunting gunAnd no one, least of all Torbash, ever asked how Milmaq had known he was in danger.
- Just as Milmaq himself did not ask when Torbash arrived, as if by magic, to fight off the gang of thugs who hadattacked Milmaq in the street on one of his rare visits to Jalseen . They were twins-4majeen taq asnaan’ (‘a plum with a double stone’).It was natural No one thought it in the least bit strange.
- It was not long after the incident with the boar that their father died. It was the time of the grape harvest. He had gone out after supper to check on the fermentation of the grapes in the vat. They found him floating in the vat, face downwards.He must either have had a heart attack or been overcome with the powerful fumes. Whichever, he was well and truly dead, and there was nothing anyone could do about it. As we say. Fashan kat maan nat, maan q’a nat. , (When the time comes~ the time has come. ) He was a brave man, respected by all, and regretted by all.
- He and his wife had survived many hardships together. But she could not bear to live alone. Within three months, she had followed her husband to the place where all sufferings cease. The two boys were left alone.
- It was not long before Torbash left home.He had never enjoyed the hard work of the farm. He needed to see things happen fast.He took a room in Jalseen and was soon working in one of the newer places there.It was a sort of restaurant, but nothing like anything we had seen before. It sold flat cakes of minced beef mixed with the sawdust (or that’s what it tasted like to us) , grilled and served between two pieces of bread.The prices were high but young people loved it.Torbash began by washing up the dirty dishes. Within weeks he was’ supervising’.Soon afterwards,one of his ’ contacts, offered him a better job with a company selling a new type of drink. It was brown and had a sweet, perfumed taste. And instead of quenching your thirst, it made you want to drink more. Give me a bottle of Nirmat Kashin any dayl The drink was made in a factory in the capital and, before long, Torbash was promoted and went to work there in the head office. We did not see him for several years.
14.Meantime Milmaq continued to farm the family land.He did not marry, and seldom left the farm.When he was not on the land he would be in the woods.There were rumours thathe was becoming more and more strange. Hunters had found him deep in conversation with an oak tree. He would walk through the woods greeting individual trees like old friends. And he completely stopped the cutting of timber for sale. The only trees he cut were dead or diseased. After several years, he closed up the old farmhouse and moved to an old forester’s hut up on the edge of the woods.He only took a few essential belongings with him-. a-bed, a table, a chair, an old cooking stove an d such like.Here he was closer to his beloved trees. He had become a sort ofhermit, what we used to call 'Horat vannah~ (holy man). We respected him and left him alone, though occasionally one of us would pass by just to ask if he needed anything. - One day Torbash arrived unexpectedly. He was dressed in one of those modern suits, a shirt with red stripes and a bright red tie to match. He was driving a big red car which made a lot of dust when it roared into the village. He told us he was now a big 'man in another company. What sort of company? It made *paper products7, things like toilet paper and paper handkerchiefs.(We didn’t know what these were but we didn’t show it. ) They. also made paper for printing books and newspapers.And a special part of the company made furniture.
- He had come to see his brother about selling the woods. We directed him to the forester’s hut. He left his car and went on foot up the steep path. Now I should explain that, under our laws of inheritance, everything is left to the eldest son, 62irmat akal’ (first born). So the farm and the woods belonged to Torbash, even though it was Milmaq who worked them。
- I don’t know what happened when they met but, when Torbash came back down, his face was black with anger. He drove off without greeting us. A week later great machines began to arrive, ploughing up the tracks as they went up the hillsides. The trees began to be torn savagely, not in the old way. On the hillside away from the forester’s hut there were no trees left, only a tangle of fallen trunks and smashed branches waiting to be sawn up and dragged away.
18.When I called to see Milmaq I found him in his bed.He was terribly thin and had a high fever. I kept watch over him for the next three days. During this time, the machines were moving closer and closer to the hut. Soon there were only a few trees standing. Until, through the window, I could see just one tree left.It was a magnificent oak, the one which Milmaq had often spoken to. The men moved in with their evil-sounding saws and began work. I watched, hypnotized by the enormity of this massacre of trees. Behind me I heard Milmaq stir. He staggered to his feet and leaned on the window siIL The oak shuddered, swayed and, with a gut-wrenching groan, crashed in a pile of splintered branches. As it hit the ground, Milmaq himself collapsed.He was dead.I looked at the clock. It was three in the afternoon.In the distance I heard the rumble of thunder from the next valley. - We only heard about Torbash later.He had apparently left a meeting in his office and driven off at high speed.All he had said was~'My brother.My brother. , In hisdesperate haste, he had taken a short cut along a forest track leading from the next valley to our own. A violent thunderstorm had blown up -the one I had heard from Milmaq’s hut. An enormous oak tree had been struck by lightning.It had fallen across the track, crushing the car and Torbash with it The crash had stopped the car clock. Its hands pointed to three.
- I have finished. My story is told.‘Fashan kat maan nat, maan q’a nat’(When the time comes, the time has come. )
Questions 26-29(20 points) - Describe briefly the contrast of character/personality between the twin brothers.
- Whose point of view is the extract told from? Does he play any part in this story himself ?
- What role do you think the oak trees (forest) play in the short story?
- Reread paragraphs 15 and 16 again. What do you think had happened when the twin brothers met?
Part III Writing[20 Points] - Write a plot summary of “The Man Who Talked to the Trees” in about 100 words.
