自测题(戏剧)文学英语赏析

1、read the extracts and give brief answers to the questions belowtext 1lady bracknell: what is your income?jack: between seven and eight thousand a yearlady bracknell (makes a note in her book): in land, or in investments?jack:in investments, chief!y.lady bracknell: that is satisfactory. what between

2、the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. it gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. that's all that can be said about land.jack: i have a country house with s

3、ome land, of course, attached to it, about fifteen hundred acres, i believe; but i don5t depend on that for my real income. in fact, as far as i can make out, the poachers are the only people who make anything out of it.lady bracknell: a country house! how many bedrooms? well, that point can be clea

4、red up afterwards. you have a town house, i hope? a girl with a simple, unspoiled nature, like gwendolen, could hardly be expected to reside in the countryjack: well, i own a house in belgrave square, but it is let by the year to lady bloxham. of course, i can get it back whenever i like, at six mon

5、ths' noticelady bracknell: lady bloxham? i don't know her.jack: oh, she goes about very little. she is a lady considerably advanced in years-lady bracknell: ah, nowadays that is no guarantee of respectability of character.what number in belgrave square?jack: 149.lady bracknell (shaking her h

6、ead): the unfashionable side i thought there was something.however, that could easily be alteredjack: do you mean the fashion, or the side?lady bracknell (sternly): both, if necessary, i presume.(the importance of being earnest)questions1. why does lady bracknell prefer investments to land? identify

7、 a quotation to support this.2. what are lady bracknelfs main criteria for choosing a husband for her daughter?3. do you agree or disagree with the statement "lady bracknell is portrayed as a terrible snob”？ use details from the extract to support your ideas参考答案l she feels that land involves to

8、o many expenses during life, and is then taxed heavily after one's death she says, tt gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up/'2. income, property (land and houses) and family connections.3. (possible answer) yes, she is a terrible snob. she has too high an opinion of herself

9、 she implies that, because she does not know lady bloxham, that lady hardly exists. in her reasoning，only people she knows are worth knowing! she speaks disparagingly of no49 belgrave square, one of the richest districts of london as being on the unfashionable side. she even suggests that it is in h

10、er power to change the fashion or the side of the square where jack's house is.text2inspector:youlc not even sorry now, when you know what happened to the girl?mrs. birling：rm sorry she should have come to such a horrible end.but i accept no blame for it at all.inspector:who is to blame then?mrs

11、. birling:first, the girl herself.sheila (hitterly):for letting father and me have her chucked out of her jobs!mrs. birling: (question 1 )secondly, i blame the young man who was the father of the child she was going to have.if； as she said、he didn't belong to her class, and was some drunken youn

12、g idle, then that's all the more reason why he shouldn't escape.he should be made an example of.if the girl，s death is due to anybody、it's due to him.inspeclocand if her sloi y is irue 二 lhal he was stealing money 二mrs. birling (rather agitated now):there's no point in assuming that

13、inspector:but suppose we do, what then?mrs. birling:then he'd be entirely responsible because the girl wouldn't have come to us, and been refused assistance, if it hadn't been for him inspector:so he's the chief culprit anyhow.mrs. birling:certainly.and he ought to be dealt with very

14、 severely sheila (with sudden alarm):(question 2) mother stop stop!birling:be quiet, sheila!sheila:but don't you see 一mrs. birling (severely):you"re behaving like an hysterical child tonight. (sheila begins crying quietly.mrs. birling turns to inspector)and if you'd take some steps to f

15、ind this young man and then make sure he's compelled to confess in public his responsibility instead of staying here asking quite unnecessary questions - then you would be doing your duty.inspector (g刃"y):don't worry, mrs. birling.i shall do my duly.(/£ looks at his watch.)mrs. bir

16、ling (triumphantly):fm glad to hear it.inspector:no hushing up, eh?make an example of the young man, eh?pub!ic confession of responsibility 一 um?mrs. birling:certainly.i consider it your duty.and now no doubt you'd like to say good night.inspector:not yet.tm waiting.mrs. birling:waiting for what

17、?inspector:to do my duty.sheila (distressed):now, mother doit you see?mrs. birling (understanding now):but surely.i mean. .it's ridiculous(she stops, and exchanges a frightened glance with her husband.)birling terrified now):look, inspector, you're not trying to tell us that that my boy is m

18、ixed up in this 一？inspector (question 3)：if he is, then we know what to do, don't we?mrs. birling has just told us.birling thunderstruck):my god!but look here mrs. birling (agitated) :i don't believe it.i won't believe itsheila:mother i begged you and begged you to stop (inspector holds

19、up a hand.we hear the front door.they wait, looking towards door.eric enters, looking extremely pale and distressed.he meets their inquiring stares.(curtain falls quickly.)questions1. read the underlines parts closely. what "horrible end has come to the working-class girl?2. why docs sheila say

20、 “motherstopstop!"?3- how do you think the inspector would say the lines in bold type (黑体部分)sternly? distressed? or with sudden alarm?参考答案1 she has committed suicide2. because sheila can see where the inspector's questions are leading. she knows that he will force her mother into a trap, so

21、 that she will condemn her own son3. he would have said the lines sternly.text3elizabeth: i see what i see, john.proctor: (question 4)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

22、 you go to judge youi husband any more. i have forgot abigail and elizabeth: and i.proctor: spare me! you forget nothin5 and forgive nothin'. learn charity, woman. 1 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 y

23、ou, 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 youproctor：ril plead my honesty no

24、more, elizabeth.elizabeth (now she would justify herself): john, i am onlyproctor: 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 have mistaken you for god that day. but you're not, y

25、ou，rc not and let you remember it! 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 ) 一 only somewhat bewildered.proctor laughing bitterly): oh, elizabeth, your jus