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【题型：阅读】【100 分】1 “Never did sun more beautifully steepIn his first splendor, valley, rock or hill;Neer saw I, never felt, a calm so deep !The river glideth at his own sweet will:Dear God! The very houses seem asleep;And all that mighty heart is lying still!”( From Wordsworths sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge)Questions:A. What does this sonnet describe?B. What does the phrase “mighty heart” refer to?C.What is the form of the poem?得分： 30分答： A In the first eight,he describes early morning in London in detail ,and then goes on in the final six to compare the city in that moment to nature womders. B The poetwants to keep a cool ang calm mind. C Lake Poets【题型：阅读】【100 分】2 1. “When the stars threw down their spears,And water d heaven with their tears,Did he smile his work to see?Did he who made the Lamb make thee ?”Questions:A. Whos the poet of the quoted stanza?B. Whom does the “he” refer to?C. What does the “Lamb” symbolize?得分： 100分答： A.William Blake B.The God C.Lamb symbolizes peace and purity【题型：阅读】【100 分】3 43. “My tongue, every atom of my blood, form d from this soil, this air,Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their parents the same,I, now thirty- seven years old in perfect health begin,Hoping to cease not till death”Questions:A. Whos the poet of the quoted stanza, and whats the title of the poem?B. What do “soil” and “air” represent in the first line?C. What does the poet try to say in the above quoted lines?得分： 25分答： A.Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself”; B.His native land, America or his country C. I was born and nurtured byfrom now on devote my whole life to the country【题型：阅读】【100 分】4 Is dying hard, Daddy?No, I think its pretty easy, Nick. It all depends. ”Questions:A. Whos the author of the quoted part, and whats the title of the work?B. What was Nick preoccupied with when he asked the question?C. Why did the father add “It all depends” after he answered his sons question?得分： 0分答： A.Ernest Hemingway, India Camp B.Life and death C.When the father says that dying is pretty easy, he might b self-murdered husband. But when he reflects on the wifes miracle survival of the violent pain in the whole adds the final sentence. Dying is both hard and easy, it all depends on individuals.【题型：阅读】【100 分】5 “He neither spoke, nor loosed his hold 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 thereshe was fated, sure to die.”A. Identify the author and the work.B. What does the rocking-chair symbolize?得分： 20分答： A Emily Jane Bront Wuthering Heights B.The “rocking-chair” is a symbol standing for fate.【题型：阅读】【100 分】6 “It is when the feet weary and hope seems vain that the heartaches and the longings arise. Know, then, that for you is neither surfeit nor content. In your rocking chair, by your window dreaming, shall you long, alone. In your rocking-chair, by your window, shall you dream such happiness as you may never feel.”A. Identify the author and the work.B. What does the rocking-chair symbolize？得分： 75分答： A. From Theodore Dreisers Sister Carrie. B. It symbolizes that Carries fate is unstable and she is unabl course of life.【题型：阅读】【100 分】7 Had I as many souls as there be stars.Id give them all for Mephistophilis!By him Ill be great emperor of the world,And make a bridge through the moving airTo pass the ocean with a band of men;Ill join the hills that bing the Africa shoreAnd make that country continent to Spain,And both contributory to my crown;The Emperor shall not live by my leave,Nor any potentate of Germany.Now that I have obtained what I desireIll live in speculation of this art.Till Mephistophilis return again.”A. Identify the author and the title of the work from which the passage is taken.B. Based on the passage, write down in one or two sentences the theme of the play.得分： 40分答： Dr. Faustus, Christopher Marlowe, Mans aspiration, bounding achievement【题型：阅读】【100 分】8 “The curfew tolls the knell o fparting day,The lowing herd wind slowly oer the lea,The plowman homeward plods his weary way,And leaves the world to darkness and to me.”A. Scan the first line of the stanza.B. Briefly explain the significance of this irregularity.得分： 0分答：【题型：阅读】【100 分】9 “ Do you think I can stay to become nothing to you? So you think I am an automoton?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 as you and full as much heart! And 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, or 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 Gods feet, equal as we are!”A. Identify the author and the work.B. Summarize the speakers meaning.得分： 25分答： A.Charlotte Bront?,Jane Eyre B.你以为我能够呆在这儿对你无动于衷吗？ 你以为 我贫穷，不美，卑微，我就没有灵 和你同样的灵魂和充满了等量的情感。【题型：阅读】【100 分】10 But it seemed that both his audacity and his respect were lost on Miss Daisy Miller. I guess mother wouldnt gofor you, she smiled. And she aint much bent on going, anyway. She dont like to ride round in the afternoon. After which she familiarly proceeded: But did you really mean what you said just nowthat youd like to go up there? Most earnestly I meant it, Winterbourne declared.A. Identify the author and the work.B. Where are they going to visit？得分： 100分答： A.From Henry Jamess Daisy Miller B.They are going to visit an old castle.【题型：阅读】【100 分】11 “I like to see it lap the MilesAnd lick the Valleys upAnd stop to feed itself at TanksAnd then-prodigiosu step”A. Please give the name of the author.B. What idea does this poem express?得分： 50分答： A.Emily Dickinson B.This poem is a vivid memory of the poets working experience on the farm. The poet feels as well. In this part the poet hints that he will never forget the scene of harvest even in his human sleep,【题型：阅读】【100 分】12 “I celebrate myself, and sing myself,And what I assume you shall assume.For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.”A. Identify the author and the work.B. What are the two principal beliefs that the poet set forth in this poem?得分： 75分答： A.From Walt Whitmans “Song of Myself“ B.The two beliefs are the theory of universality and the belief in equality of all beings in value.【题型：阅读】【100 分】13 “Nor lose possession of that fair thou owst;Nor shall Death brag thou wanderst in his shade,When in eternal lines to time thou growst:So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. ”Questions:A. Whos the poet of the quoted stanza, and whats the title of the poem?B. What does the word “this” in the last line refer to?C. What idea do the quoted lines express?得分： 25分答： Shakespeare, Sonnet 18, permance of poetry【题型：阅读】【100 分】14“To be or not to be- that is the question.“ Questions:A. Identify the author.B. From which work is the above sentence taken?得分： 70分答： A.William Shakespeare B.Hamlett【题型：阅读】【100 分】15 Then I saw in my dream, that when they were got out of the wilderness, they presently saw a town before them, and the name of that town is Vanity; and at the town there is a fair kept, called Vanity Fair; it is kept all the year long; it bearth the name of Vanity Fair because all that is there sold, or that cometh thither, is vanity. As is the saying of the wise, All that cometh is vanity.Questions:A. Identify the author and the title of the book.B. Who are “they“ in this excerpt?C. What type of writing is this book?D. What is the theme of this book? 得分： 40分答： A.John Bunyan,The Pilgrims Progress B.I and Evangelist【题型：阅读】【100 分】16 It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good forturen must be in want of a wife.However little known the feelings or views of such a man many be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrouding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters. Questions:A. Identify the author and the title from which the above passage is taken.B. What is this passage describing?得分： 50分答： A. Jane Austen ,Pride and Prejudice B.No matter it has a happy or sad, comic or tragic, plain or magnified end. I of itself. Since everything in it seems to be true, and I have learned a lot about British society during 18t without “pride”, there would be no “prejudice”, and such great love would not happen.【题型：阅读】【100 分】17 Then where are our relatives? My father? Our family friends? You claim the rights of a mother: the right to call me fool and child; to speak to me as no woman in authority over me at college dare speak to me; to dictate my way of life; and to force on me the acquaintance of a brute whom anyone can see to be the most vicious sort of Lodon man about town. Before I give myself the trouble to resist such claims, I may as well find out whether they have any real existence.Questions:A. From which work is this quotation taken?B. Which character is speaking?C. What does this work expose? 得分： 20分答： A.Mrs. Warrens profession B.The play is about the economic oppression of women. C. Vivie is a kind of ne and well educated, with a strong sense of injustice and a passion for “honest” work.【题型：阅读】【100 分】18 When the minister spoke from the pulpit, with power and fervid eloquence, and, with his hands on the open bible, of the sacred truths of our religion, and of saint-like lives and triumphant deaths, and of future bliss of misery unutterable, then did Goodman Brown turn pale, dreading, lest the roof should thunder down upon the gray blasphemer and his hearers.Questions:A. Identify the title of the short story from which this part is taken.B. What had happened in the story before this church scene?C. Why was Goodman Brown afraid the roof might thunder down? 得分： 25分答： A.Hawthornes “Young Goodman Brown“ B.Brown has attended a witchespart where he saw many prominent people of the t included. C.Brown was shocked by the minister, secretly a member of the evil club,who could talk about sacred tr o