1、1河南省糗爆叔专插本英美文学专题训练题（完整更新最后的二十分 Discussion，昨晚上传的缺了这个部分已经补回来）选择题中有二十分是英国文学部分，二十分是美国文学部分。意思是说 EX6 还有 EX7 里面有二十分选择题的内容，大家必须去看。 （糗爆叔自己透露的）Reading comprehensionRead the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet. 1.Read the
2、 quotation carefully and then answer the questions:The curfew tolls the knell of parting 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.Q：A.Scan the first line of the stanza.B.Find the irregular foot in the second line.
3、C.Briefly explain the significance of this irregularity.A：A.Iambic pentameter with the rhyming scheme of abab. B.The third foot contains two accented syllables. C.Two accented syllables slow down the pace in keeping with the literary meaning of the phrase “wind slowly.“ 2.He neither spoke nor loosed
4、 his hold for 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 m
5、e, from the instant he beheld her, that there was no prospect of ultimate recovery there-she was fated, sure to die.Q：A:Identify the author and the title of the novel from which this passage is taken.B:Who is the narrator?C:What does the passage describe?A:A:the passage is taken from Emily Brontes W
6、uthering Heights.B:The narrator is Nelly, Catherines old nurse2C:The passage describes the poignant meeting between Heathcliff and Catherine when the letter is dying3. I CELEBRATE myself， and sing myself，And what I assume you shall assume，For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.I loafe
7、 and invite my soul，I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.Q:A:Take the fifth line as a hint, can you write out the name of the poet s completed collections of poems? B:What is the verse structure?C:Who is the poet celebrating? Whom do lines 2 3 also include in the celebration
8、?A:A:Leaves of GrassB:Free verseC:The poet is celebrating himself, his own life. Lines 2-3 also include “you”, the readers and their lives in the celebration.4.And so she died. Fell ill in the house filled with dust and shadows, with only a doddering Negro man to wait on her. We did not even know sh
9、e was sick; we had long since given up trying to get any information from the Negro.He talked to no one, probably not even to her, for his voice had grown harsh and rusty, as if from disuse.Q：A:Identify the author and the title of the work from which this passage is taken.B:Who dies in this passage?
10、C:What kind of relationship exist between her and her neighbors?A：A:The passage is from William Faulkners A Rose for Emily.B:Emily dies.C:Emily is secluded from her neighbors.Questions and answers1.The following passage is taken from The Merchant of Venice. Read it carefully and find the dramatic it
11、 contains. Use it as an example to illustrate what dramatic irony is.“Bassanio: Antonio, I am married to a wifeWhich is as dear to me as life itself;But life itself, my wife, and all world,Are not with me esteemd above thy life;I would lose all, ay, sacrifice them allHere to this devil, to deliver y
12、ou.Portia: Your wife would give you little thanks for that,If she were by to hear you make the offer.”A：3（1）When the audience is aware of a discrepancy between a characters perception of his or her own situation and the true nature of that situation, that is dramatic irony. （2）In the given example,
13、Portia, Bassanios newly-married wife, disguised herself as a lawyer to take charge of the case, Portia herself and the audience know all this, but Bassanio is ignorant of it, so when Bassanio offers in front of his disguised wife to sacrifice her in order to deliver Antonia, he makes himself behave
14、in a ridiculous way in the eyes of the audience. Thus an effect of dramatic irony is achieved.2.Based on Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, discuss the theme of her works and the image of women protagonists.A:（1）Charlottes works are all about the struggle of an individual consciousness towards self-real
15、ization, about some lonely and neglected young women with a fierce longing for love, understanding and a full happy life. （2）All her heroines highest joy arises from some sacrifice of self of some human weakness overcome.（3）The image of women protagonists in her works mostly reflect the life of the
16、middle-class working women, particularly governesses.（4）Her works present a vivid realistic picture of the English society by exposing the cruelty, hypocrisy and other evils of the upper classes, and by showing the misery and suffering of the poor. Especially in Jane Eyre, she sharply criticizes the
17、 existing society, e.g. religious hypocrisy of charity institutions. 3.In what way are Emily Dickinsons poems unique and unconventional?A：（1）Dickinsons poems have no titles, hence are always quoted by their first lines. （2）In her poetry, there is a particular stress pattern, in which dashes are used
18、 as a musical device to create cadence and capital letters as a means of emphasis. （3）The form of her poetry is more or less like that of the hymns in community churches, familiar, communal, and sometimes irregular. （4）Dickinsons irregular or inverted sentence structure also confuses readers. （5）How
19、ever, her poetic idiom is noted for its laconic brevity, directness and plainness. Her poems are usually short, rarely more than twenty lines, and many of them are centered on a single image and focused on one subject matter. （6）Her poems tend to be very personal and meditative. She frequently uses
20、personae to render the tone more familiar to the reader, and personification to vivify some abstract ideas. （7）Dickinson s poetry, despite its ostensible formal simplicity, is remarkable for its variety, subtlety and richness, and her limited private world has never confined the limitless power of h
21、er creativity and imagination. Topic Discussion1.Comment briefly on John Keats poem Ode to Grecian UrnA:(1)In the poem Keats shows the contrast between the permanence of art and the transience of 4human passion. The poet has absorbed himself into the timeless beautiful scenery on the Grecian urn: th
22、e lovers, musicians and worshippers carved on the urn, and their everlasting joys. They are unaffected by time, stilled in expectation. This is the glory and the limitation of the world conjured up by and object of art. The urn celebrates but simplifies intuitions of joy by defying our pain and suff
23、ering. But at last, the urn presents his ambivalence about time and the nature of beauty.(2)The poem can be divided into two parts, with the first 4 stanzas as part I, and the last stanza as part II. In the first stanza, Keats looks at the urn subjectively. In the second part he looks at it objectiv
24、ely. As a result of both ways of observation, he is finally able to see it as a friend to man, to whom beauty is truth , truth beauty.2.Based on The Great Gatsby, discuss the characteristics of Fitzgeralds works.A:(1)Fitzgeralds fictional world is the best embodiment of the spirit of the Jazz Age, i
25、n which he shows a particular interest in the upper-class society, especially the upper-class young people. The Jazz Age is brought vividly to life in the Great Gatsby.(2)Fitzgeralds fictions often deal with the bankruptcy of the American Dream.Gatsbys failure predicts to a great extent the end of t
26、he American Dream.(3)He is a great stylist in American literature. His style, closely related to his themes,is explicit and chilly. His accurate dialogues, his careful observation of mannerism,styles, models and attitudes provide the reader with a vivid sense of reality.(4) He used the scenic method
27、 in his chapters, each one of which consists of one or more dramatic scenes, sometimes with intervening passages of narration, leaving the tedious process of transition to the readers imagination.(5)He also skillfully employs the device of having events observed by a “central consciousness“ to his great advantage. The accurate details, the completely original diction and metaphors, the bold impressionistic and colorful quality have all proved his consummate artistry.
