This Examination Consists of FIVE Sections. They Are
ENBACE1010
高级英语文学文化模块
“文学阅读与欣赏”课程终结考试笔试
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课程编号：ENBACE1010 学籍号：______
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Information for the Examinees:
This examination consists of FIVE sections. They are:
Section I: Literary Fundamentals (35 points, 25minutes)
Section II: Understanding English Poetry/Drama (8 points, 15 minutes)
Section III: Understanding Shakespeare’s Work (12 points, 10 minutes)
Section IV: Short Story (25 points, 30 minutes)
Section V: Writing (20 points, 40 minutes)
The total marks for this examination are 100 points. Time allowed for completing this examination is 2 hours (120 minutes).
YOU MUST WRITE ALL YOUR ANSWERS ON THE ANSWER SHEET.
Section I Literary Fundamentals [35 points]
Part 1. Questions 1-10. (20 points)
Choose the best answer from A, B, C and D. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet.
1. Scrooge is a character created by ______.
A. Jane Austen
B. William Shakespeare
C. Charles Dickens
D. William Wordsworth
2. Of the following, which type of the text would you consider as literature?
A. Newspaper stories
B. Short stories
C. business letter
D. Memo
3. "Hearts and Hands" is a ______by ______.
A. short story, Bernard Shaw
B. short story, O. Henry
C. poem, W.B. Yeats
D. drama, W.B. Yeats
4. Ballad stanza is used in "A Red, Red Rose". This poetic form usually contains ______rhymed lines in each stanza.
A. 4
B. 6
C. 2
D. 8
5. In literary language, especially, in the language of poetry, poets are 'privileged' to break some of the commonly observed rules in their use of language. This is what is known as ______.
A. dramatic measurement
B. artistic ways
C. poetic licence
D. reader's digest
6. A speech, often of some length, in which a character, alone on the stage, expresses his thoughts and feelings, is known as ______.
A. speculation
B. figure of speech
C. soliloquy
D. flashback
7. Hamlet, Othello and King Lear are well-known tragedies by Shakespeare, together with ______.
A. Merchant of Venice
B. Midsummer Night's Dream
C. As You Like It
D. Macbeth
8. The term ______is the jargon used to indicate the essential structure in a story, the pattern, the order in which a story is built up and which holds it together, the storyline.
A. exposition
B. plot
C. climax
D. classic plot structure
9. In the novel "Wuthering Heights" the main characters live ______.
A. on a plain
B. on a moor
C. in a valley
D. in a hill
10. The method that the writer uses to start his story in the middle of the event, rather than in the beginning is called ______, a Latin phrase, literally translated as "in the middle of things."
A. tension
B. elaboration
C. denouement
D. in medias res
Part 2. Questions 11-15. (15 points)
Fill in each blank below according to what you have learned from this course. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet.
11. Please list 3 types of literary genres ______, ______, ______.
12. In discussing themes of the literary works, the writer usually uses four ways to give his or her ideas, please write 3 of them______, ______, ______.
13. There are usually 5 elements involved in reading fictions and dramas. They are setting, ______, ______, ______and conflict.
14. An author usually creates a narrator to tell a story from a certain “point of view” List three types of narrator’s point of view. ______, ______, ______.
15. List 3 types of conflicts mentioned in the textbook ______, ______, ______.
Section II Understanding English Poetry [8 points]
Questions 16-19.
Below is a short poem by American poet Joyce Kilmer. Read it carefully and answer the questions that follow. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet.
Trees
I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the earth's sweet flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.
Joyce Kilmer
Questions on the poem:
16. What's the rhyme scheme of the poem?
17. Find two examples of figures of speech used in the poem.
18. What does the poet intend to say in the last two lines?
19. Find two images in the poem, what do they symbolize?
Section II Understanding English Drama [8 points]
Questions 16-19.
Below is an extract from Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion. Read it carefully and answer the questions that follow. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet.
Bernard Shaw (1856–1950). Pygmalion.1916.
ACT 1
London at 11.15 p.m. Torrents of heavy summer rain. Cab whistles blowing frantically in all directions. Pedestrians running for shelter into the portico of St. Paul's Church, where there are already several people, among them a lady and her daughter in evening dress. They are all peering out gloomily at the rain, except one man with his back turned to the rest, who seems wholly preoccupied with a notebook in which he is writing busily.
The church clock strikes the first quarter.
THE DAUGHTER:
[in the space between the central pillars, close to the one on her left]
I'm getting chilled to the bone. What can Freddy be doing all this time? He’s been gone twenty minutes.
THE MOTHER:
[on her daughter’s right]
Not so long. But he ought to have got us a cab by now.
A BYSTANDER:
[on the lady's right]
He won’t get no cab not until half-past eleven, missus, when they come back after dropping their theatre fares.
THE MOTHER:
But we must have a cab. We can’t stand here until half-past eleven. It's too bad.
THE BYSTANDER:
Well, it ain’t my fault, missus.
THE DAUGHTER:
If Freddy had a bit of gumption, he would have got one at the theatre door.
THE MOTHER:
What could he have done, poor boy?
THE DAUGHTER:
Other people got cabs. Why couldn’t he?
Freddy rushes in out of the rain from the Southampton Street side, and comes between them closing a dripping umbrella. He is a young man of twenty, in evening dress, very wet around the ankles.
THE DAUGHTER:
Well, haven’t you got a cab?
FREDDY:
There’s not one to be had for love or money.
THE MOTHER:
Oh, Freddy, there must be one. You can’t have tried.
THE DAUGHTER:
It's too tiresome. Do you expect us to go and get one ourselves?
FREDDY:
I tell you they’re all engaged. The rain was so sudden: nobody was prepared; and everybody had to take a cab. I’ve been to Charing Cross one way and nearly to Ludgate Circus the other; and they were all engaged.
THE MOTHER:
Did you try Trafalgar Square?
FREDDY:
There wasn’t one at Trafalgar Square.
THE DAUGHTER:
Did you try?
FREDDY:
I tried as far as Charing Cross Station. Did you expect me to walk to Hammersmith?
THE DAUGHTER:
You haven’t tried at all.
THE MOTHER:
You really are very helpless, Freddy. Go again; and don’t come back until you have found a cab.
FREDDY:
I shall simply get soaked for nothing.
THE DAUGHTER:
And what about us? Are we to stay here all night in this draught, with next to nothing on. You selfish pig.
FREDDY:
Oh, very well: I'll go, I'll go.
[He opens his umbrella and dashes off Strandwards, but comes into collision with a flower girl, who is hurrying in for shelter, knocking her basket out of her hands. A blinding flash of lightning, followed instantly by a rattling peal of thunder, orchestrates the incident].
THE FLOWER GIRL:
Nah then, Freddy: look wh' y' gowin, deah.
FREDDY:
[he rushes off]
Sorry
THE FLOWER GIRL:
[picking up her scattered flowers and replacing them in the basket]
There’s menners f' yer! Te-oo banches o voylets trod into the mad.
[She sits down on the plinth of the column, sorting her flowers, on the lady's right. She is not at all an attractive person. She is perhaps eighteen, perhaps twenty, hardly older. She wears a little sailor hat of black straw that has long been exposed to the dust and soot of London and has seldom if ever been brushed. Her hair needs washing rather badly: its mousy color can hardly be natural. She wears a shoddy black coat that reaches nearly to her knees and is shaped to her waist. She has a brown skirt with a coarse apron. Her boots are much the worse for wear. She is no doubt as clean as she can afford to be; but compared to the ladies she is very dirty. Her features are no worse than theirs; but their condition leaves something to be desired; and she needs the services of a dentist].
Questions on the extract:
16. What is the function of the first paragraph?
17. Among all the characters who actually appear in the piece of writing, who do not talk but is mentioned in particular?
18. What is Freddy trying to do?
19. Who do you think will be the central character(s) of the play, and why?
Section III Understanding Shakespeare’s Work [12 points]
Questions 20-22.
The following is an extract from Shakespeare's the Seven Ages of Man. Read it carefully and choose the most appropriate paraphrase for the underlined parts. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet.
All the World's a Stage
(20) And all the men and women merely players:
they have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
(21) And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel.
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woful ballads
Make to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
(22) seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lin'd.
20.
A. All the men and women are actors and each of them has a part to play. They came to the stage and left it as arranged.
B. All the men and women are playing their roles. They were born into this world and death would take them away from this world.
C. All the men and women are pretending to be other people. They were born into this world with their true self and then changed to be somebody else.
D. All the men and women are playing different roles. They had to adapt to this world.
21.
A. Then the man plays the part of a school-boy whose face shines in the morning. He walks very slowly toward school, carrying his school bag, for he is very unwilling to go to school.
B. Then the school boy comes with his school bag and shining face and he crawls to school for fun.
C. And then there is a school boy who carries his bag and dresses formally and goes to school proudly.
D. And then the man comes to his second stage. He wears school uniform and goes to school proudly.
22.
A. They were looking for reputation with their speaking power and expecting to achieve a position in the world.
B. They were looking for power in the war so that they can destroy their enemies.
C. They were seeking reputation even at the risk of their lives in the war. Yet the reputation will not last for ever.
D. They were seeking fame in the public, hoping they would be recognized.
Section IV Short Story [25 points]
Questions 23-30.
Below is a complete short story A Day's Wait, written by Ernest Hemingway. Read it carefully and answer the questions that follow. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet. (Please note: This reading task will be relevant to the writing task in Section V.)
A Day's Wait
Ernest Hemingway
He came into the room to shut the windows while we were still in bed and I saw he looked ill. He was shivering, his face was white, and he walked slowly as though it ached to move.
"What's the matter, Schatz?"
"I've got a headache."
"You better go back to bed."
"No. I'm all right."
"You go to bed. I'll see you when I'm dressed."
But when I came downstairs he was dressed, sitting by the fire, looking a very sick and miserable boy of nine years. When I put my hand on his forehead I knew he had a fever.
"You go up to bed," I said, "you're sick."
"I'm all right," he said.
When the doctor came he took the boy's temperature.
"What is it?" I asked him.
"One hundred and two."
Downstairs, the doctor left three different medicines in different colored capsules with instructions for giving them. One was to bring down the fever, another a purgative, the third to overcome an acid condition. The germs of influenza can only exist in an acid condition, he explained. He seemed to know all about influenza and said there was nothing to worry about if the fever did not go above one hundred and four degrees. This was a light epidemic of flu and there was no danger if you avoided pneumonia.
Back in the room I wrote the boy's temperature down and made a note of the time to give the various capsules.
(29) "Do you want me to read to you?"
"All right. If you want to," said the boy. His face was very white and there were dark areas under his eyes. He lay still in the bed and seemed very detached from what was going on.
I read aloud from Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates; but I could see he was not following what I was reading.
"How do you feel, Schatz?" I asked him.
"Just the same, so far," he said.
I sat at the foot of the bed and read to myself while I waited for it to be time to give another capsule. It would have been natural for him to go to sleep, but when I looked up he was looking at the foot of the bed, looking very strangely.