国家开放大学电大《文学英语赏析》形考任务6试题及答案

1、最新国家开放大学电大文学英语赏析形考任务6试题及答案形考任务6 （在线自测）题目1Macbeth is William Shakespeare's well-known comedy.选择一项：对错题目2The Crucible by Arthur Miller, concerns a real historical incident, involving witchcraft and an attack of mass hysteria.选择一项：对错题目3Lady Bracknell is a comic character created by Oscar Wilde in hi

2、s play The Importance ofBeing Ernest.选择一项：对错题目4“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is a protest poem against racial discrimination.选择一项：对错题目5Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost are well-known American poets.选择一项：对错 题目6In the poem aAcquainted with the Night" , the speaker expressed his distress

3、at the death of his lover and bewilderment of the meaning of life.选择一项： 对错题目7The Old Man and the Sea is one of Ernest Hemingway' s best-known short stories.选择一项：对错题目8Pip is a character created by Charles Dickens in his novel A Christmas Carol.选择一项：对错题目9The novel The Heart of Darkness exposes the

4、 corruption, cruelty and greed of the colonial system in Africa.选择一项：对错题目10“I Have a Dreamv is a famous speech made by President Lincoln during the American CivilWar.选择一项：对错题目11Usually works by starting a story at a point in the recent past, then switching theaction back to an earlier time, farther

5、back in the past.选择一项：A. codaB. climaxC. flashbackD. point of view题目12 occurs when a writer repeats a particular grammatical or phonological pattern in close proximity.选择一项：A. parallelismB. punC. alliterationD. climax题目13 can be established by describing the place where the action takes place, or th

6、e situation at the start of the story.选择一项：A. SettingB. ClimaxC. CodaD. Point of view题目14 is written to commemorate someone who has died.选择一项：A. An elegyB. A limerickC. An epicD. A sonnet题目15A writer can show character by giving a physical description, through and through deeds.选择一项：A. settingB. cli

7、maxC- point of viewD. dialogue题目16 is an example of simile-选择一项：A. “ Her tongue is a sharp knife."B. ” Her eyes twinkled like stars. C. “ The windows waves violently in the wind. ”D. " She has a heart of stone. 题目17 is an example of parallelism.选择一项：A. “The street shone out, like a fire in

8、 the forest. ”B. “All the world's a stage and all the men and women are merely players."C. “Childhood is like a swiftly passing dream. ”D. "Government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth” 题目18 contains an example of alliteration.选择一项：A. “Soon, n

9、ight will steal hours from the day. ”B. “ Her tongue is like a sharp knife."C. “He was secret, self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. vD. "Her eyes twinkled like stars."题目19 contains examples of metaphor.选择一项：A. “ United we stand, divided we fall."B. “The street shone out, li

10、ke a fire in the forest."C. “The Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity.D. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness."题目20 is an example of personification.选择一项：A

11、. aChildhood is like a swiftly passing dream. vB. “The years have silvered her hair. ”C. “Life is a journey. Travel it well."D. “All the world" s a stage, And all the men and women are merely players. ”Text 1Elizabeth: I think you must go to Salem, John. (He turns to her.) I think so. You

12、must tell them 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):

13、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

14、 Salem now, John - let you go tonight.Proctor: I' 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 walk

15、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 一一 I have no proof of it.Elizabeth: You were alone with her?Proctor (stubbor

16、nly): 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 all faith in him): Do as you wish, then, (she starts to turn).Proctor: Woman. (She turns to him.) I&#

17、39; 11 not have your suspicion any more.Elizabeth (a little loftily): I have no -Proctor: T 11 not have it!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, wo

18、uld you falter now? I think not.Proctor: Now look you -一Elizabeth: I see what I see, John.Proctor (with solemn 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

19、 judge your husband any more. I have forgot Abigail, and -一Elizabeth: And LProctor: Spare me! 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, a

20、nd 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: I' 11 plead my honesty

21、 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 have mistaken you for God that day. But you"

22、 re not, you' re 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

23、bitterly) : Oh, Elizabeth, your justice would freeze beer!题目21In this text, the relationship between the man and the woman is that of 选择一项：A. lawyer and clientB husband and wifeC. teacher and student题目22Proctor is not ready to 选择一项：A. testify against Abigail.B. help his neighborsC. testify against E

24、lizabeth题目23What does Proctor，s line “ Elizabeth, your justice would freeze beer. ” reveal about his true feelings?选择一项：A. Proctor is confused by what Elizabeth saysB. Protor is jealous of Elizabeth because her friendship with lawyers.C. Proctor is upset and irritated by Elizabeth" s extreme co

25、ldness.题目24From the dialogue between Proctor and Elizabeth, we can be sure 选择一项：A. Proctor is secretly and madly in love with another girl.B. there is tension between Proctor and Elizabeth.C. Proctor is making up for his past neglect of Elizabeth.题目25In the text, Elizabeth is portrayed as 选择一项：A. gu

26、ilty and depressedB. self-disgusted and terrifiedC. insistent and suspiciousText 2Lady Bracknell: (sitting down) You can take a seat, Mr. Worthing.(looks in her pocket for notebook and pencil.)Jack Worthing: Thank you, Lady Bracknell, I prefer standing.Lady Bracknell (pencil and notebook in hand) :

27、I feel bound to tell you that you are not down on my list of eligible young men, although I have the same list as the dear Duchess of Bolton has. We work together, in fact. However, I am quite ready to enter your name, should your manners be what a really affectionate mother requires. Do you smoke?J

28、ack Worthing: Well, yes, I must admit I smoke.Lady Bracknell: I am glad to hear it. A man should always have an occupation of some kind. There are far too many idle men in London as it is. How old are you?Jack Worthing: Twenty-nine.Lady Bracknell: A very good age to be married at. I have always been

29、 of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing. Which do you know? Jack Worthing (after some hesitation): I know nothing, Lady Bracknell.Lady Bracknell: I am pleased to hear it. I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is

30、 like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violen

31、ce in Grosvenor Square. What is your income? Jack Worthing: Between seven and eight thousand a year.Lady Bracknell (makes a note in her book): In land, or in investments?Jack Worthing: In investments, chiefly.Lady Bracknell: That is satisfactory. What between the duties expected of one during one&qu

32、ot; 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 Worthing: I have a country house with some land, of course, attac

33、hed to it, about fifteen hundred acres, I believe; but I don' t 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 cleared 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 country.题目26The relationship between Lady Bracknell and