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PART TWO (60POINTS)

Ⅱ.Reading comprehension(16 points,4 for each)

Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answer in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.

41. “One short sleep past, we wake eternally,

And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die.”

Questions:

A. Identify the poem and the poet.

B.What does the word “sleep” mean?

C. What idea do the two lines express?

42. “Never did sun more beautifully steep

In his first splendor, valley, rock, or hill;

Ne’er 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!”

(William Wordsworth’s sonnet: “Composed upon Westminster Bridge”September 3, 1802)

Questions:

A. What does the word “glideth” in the fourth line mean?

B. What kind of figure of speech is used by wordsworth to describe the

“river”?

C. What idea does the fourth line express?

43. “With Blue—uncertain stumbling Buzz—

Between the light—and me—

And then the Windows failed—and then

I could not see to see—”

Questions:

A. Identify the poem and the poet.

B. What do “Windows” symbolically stand for?

C. What idea does the quoted passage express?

44. “‘Is dying hard, Daddy?’

‘No, I think it’s pretty easy, Nick, It all depends.”’

Questions:

A. Identify the work and the author.

B. What was Nick preoccupied with when he asked the question?

C. Why did the father add “It all depends” after he answered his son’s

question?

41.Read the quotation carefully and then answer the questions:

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,

The lowing herd wind slowly o"er 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.Find the irregular foot in the second line.

C.Briefly explain the significance of this irregularity.

42.The following is a passage taken from a dramatic work:

Had I as many souls as there be stars

I"d give them all for Mephistophilis!

By him I"ll be great emperor of the world,

And make a bridge thorough the moving air

To pass the ocean with a band of men;

I"ll join the hills that bind the Afric shore

And make that country continent to Spain,

And both contributory to my crown;

The emperor shall not live but by my leave,

Nor any potentate of Germany.

Now that I have obtained what I desire

I"ll live in speculation of this art

Till Mephistophilis return again.

A. Name the playwright and the title of the work from which the passage

is taken.

B. Name the speaker of the passage quoted above.

C. Use the above passage as a guide and write down in one or two

sentences the theme of the play.

43.Read the following passage and then answer the questions:

…I glanced back once. A wafer of a moon was shining over Gatsby"s house, making the night fine as before, and surviving the laughter and the sound of his still glowing garden. A sudden emptiness seemed to flow now from the windows and the great doors, endowing with complete isolation the figure of the host, who stood on the porch, his hand up in a formal gesture of farewell.

A. Identify the author and the title of the novel from which this passage is taken.

B. The passage describes the end of an event. What is it?

C. What implied meaning can you get from reading this passage?

44.Read the following part of a poem and then answer the questions:

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.

A. Identify the poet and 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 four lines?

41.“Not on thy sole, but on thy soul, harsh Jew,

Thou mak’st thy knife keen; but no metal can,

No, not the hangman’s axe, bear half the keenness

Of thy sharp envy.”

Questions:

A. Identify the author and the title of the play from which this part is taken.

B. What figure of speech is used in this quoted passage?

C. What idea does the passage express?

42. “Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless

and heartless? —You think wrong!… 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…—it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God’s feet, equal—as we are!”

Questions:A．Identify the author and the novel from which the quoted part is taken.B．To whom is the speaker speaking?C．What does the quoted part imply about the speaker?

43.“The woods are lovely, dark and deep,But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep,And miles to go before I sleep.”

Questions:A. Identify the poem and the poet.B. What does the word“sleep”mean?C. What idea do the four lines express?

44.Read the following passage and then answer the questions:

A. Identify the author and the title of the novel from which this passage is taken.

B. The passage describes the end of an event. What is it?

C. What implied meaning can you get from reading this passage?

Ⅲ.Questions and Answers （24 points, 6 points for each）

Give brief answers to each of the following questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sh eet.

　45. "'My boy!' said the old gentleman, leaning over the desk. Oliver started at the sound. He might be excused for doing so, for the words were kindly said, and strange sounds frighten one. He trembled violently, and burst into tears." （Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist）

Explain why the boy [Oliver Twist] started first, then trembled violently and burst into tears when the words were "kindly" said.

46.Novum Organum（"New Instrument"）, along with other works, won the author the honour "Father of modern science." Who is the author? What is the main concern of the work? Why the work is so important for the development of modern science?

47. Why are naturalists inevitably pessimistic in their view?

Please discuss the above question in relation to the basic principles of literary naturalism.

48.The white whale, Moby Dick, is the most important symbol in Melville’s novel. What symbolic meaning can you draw from it?　

45.The following quotation is the ending of a poem by Robert Browning: Nay, we"ll go

Together down, sir, Notice Neptune, though,

Taming a sea horse, though a rarity,

Which Claus of Innsbruck cast in bronze for me.

What is the title of the poem? Who is the speaker? What is the importance of the allusion "Neptune…/Taming a sea horse" in the whole poem?

46. Here is the last stanza of Byron's "The Isles of Greece":Place me on sunium's mardle steep,Where nothing, save the waves and I,There, swan-like, let me sing and die:May hear our marbled murmurs sweep;A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine ——Dash down you cup of Samian wine!Determine the speaker first and then discuss BRIEFLY the main idea of the stanza or of the whole excerpt. You may want to consider the possible implications of the last two lines.

47.Ezra Pound is one of the pioneers in modern poetry. What is the poetic

school of which he is a chief member?

What is Pound"s representative work of many years of poetic creation? What is the title of his frequently quoted one-image poem?Pound has translated some literary works from two great ancient civilizations.

One is Greece. What is the other? How do you understand his famous comment "The image itself is the speech"?

48.How do you understand Henry James’ international theme? Please exemplify it based on his novels.

45. It is said that B. Shaw’s play, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, has a strong realistic theme, which fully reflects the dramatist’s Fabianist idea. Try to summarize this theme briefly.

46. Emily Bronte used a very complicated narrative technique in writing her novel Wuthering Heights. Try to tell Bronte’s way of narration briefly. 47. “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.” The two sentences are taken from Theodore Dreiser’s novel, Sister Carrie. What idea can you draw from the “rocking-chair”? 48. The literary school of naturalism was quite popular in the late 19th century. What are the major characteristics of naturalism?

Ⅳ.Topic Discussion（20 points, 10 points for each）

Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.

49.A possible theme of James Joyce"s short story "Araby" is disillusionment. Briefly discuss the symbolism Joyce employs in presenting this theme. 50.. Mark Twain presented the 19th century America in his own unique way. Discuss Twain's art of fiction: the setting, the language, and the characters, etc., based on his novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

49. Discuss the possible theme in W.B. Yeats’s “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”and how that theme is presented in the poem.

50. “My faith is gone!” cried he (Goodman Brown), after one stupefied moment. “There is no good on earth; and sin is but a name. Come, devil! For to thee is this world given.”

Comment on this passage from Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown”. 49. Daniel Defoe's novel Robinson Crusoe was a great success partly because the protagonist was a real middle-class hero. Discuss Crusoe, the protagonist of the novel, as an embodiment of the rising middle class virtues in the mid-eighteenth century England.

50.What makes Mark Twain"s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn more than a child"s adventure story? Briefly discuss the question from THREE of the following aspects: the setting, the language, the character（s）, the theme and the style.

PART TWO(60 POINTS)

II. Reading Comprehension(16 points in all，4 for each)

Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English．Write your answers in the corresponding space on the Answer Sheet．

41. “The fiver glideth at his own sweet will：Dear God! the very houses seem asleep；

And all that mighty heart is lying still!”(from William Wordsworth’s “Composed upon Westminster Bridge”)

Questions：A. What figure of speech is used in the quoted lines?B. What does “that mighty heart’’ refer to?

C. What does the poem decribe?

42. “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. Identify the poet and the poem from which the quoted lines are takenB. Whom does the “he’’ refer to?C. What does the “Lamb”symbolize?

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. Identify the poet and the poem from which the quoted lines are taken.

B. What do “soil” and “air” represent in the first line?

C. What does the poet try to say in the above four lines?

44. “I cannot rub the strangeness from my sight I got from looking through a

pane of glassI skimmed this morning from the drinking trough

And held against the world of hoary grass.”

Questions：A. Identify the poet and the poem from which the quoted lines are taken.B. What does the word “strangeness’’ refer to?

C. What do the quoted lines imply?

III．Questions and Answers(24 points in all，6 for each)

Give a brief answer to each of the following questions in English．Write your answers in the corresponding space on the Answer Sheet．

45. As a leading Romanticist，Byron’s chief contribution is his creation of the “Byronic Hero”．Briefly explain the literary term “Byronic Hero’’.

46. TheWaste Land is T．S．Eliot’s most important single poem．Try to state the theme and the significance of the poem briefly.

47．What is the most famous theme in Henry James’s fiction?And what is his favourite approach in characterization，which makes him different from Mark Twain and W·D.Howells as a realist? Give two titles of his first period works in which this theme and this approach are employed.

48. As a leading spokesman of the “Imagist Movement”，what principles does Ezra Pound endorse?

IV. Topic Discussion(20 points in all，10 for each)

Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the Answer Sheet.

49. Discuss Charles Dickens’ art of fiction：the setting，the character —portrayal，the language，etc．，based on his novel Oliver Twist．

50. Greatly and permanently affected by the war experiences, Hemingway formed his own writing style，together with his theme and hero. Please discuss Hemingway’s writing style in relation to his novels you have read.

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