【题型：阅读】【100分】 [1] “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!” ( From Wordsworth’s sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge) Questions: A. What does this sonnet describe? B. What does the phrase “mighty heart” refer to? C.What is the form of the poem? 得分： 30分 答： A In the first eight,he describes early morning in London in detail ,and then goes on in the fithe city in that moment to nature womders. B The poetwants to keep a cool ang calm mind. 【题型：阅读】【100分】 [2] 1. “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. Who’s the poet of the quoted stanza? B. Whom does the “he” refer to? C. What does the “Lamb” symbolize? 得分： 100分 答： A.William Blake B.The God C.Lamb symbolizes peace and purity 【题型：阅读】【100分】 [3] 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. Who’s the poet of the quoted stanza, and what’s 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 quoted lines? 得分： 25分 答： A.Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself”; B.His native land, America or his country C. I was born annow on devote my whole life to the country 【题型：阅读】【100分】 [4] ‘Is dying hard, Daddy?’ ‘No, I think it’s pretty easy, Nick. It all depends. ’” Questions: A. Who’s the author of the quoted part, and what’s the title of the work? 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? 得分： 0分 答： A.Ernest Hemingway, India Camp B.Life and death C.When the father says that dying is pretb self-murdered husband. But when he reflects on the wife’s miracle survival of the violentadds the final sentence. Dying is both hard and easy, it all depends on individuals. 【题型：阅读】【100分】 [5] “He neither spoke, nor loosed his hold some five minutes, during which period he bestowedever he gave in his life before, I dare say; but then my mistress had kissed him first, and Ihe could hardly bear, for downright agony, to look into her face! The same conviction had stto die.” A. Identify the author and the work. B. What does the rocking-chair symbolize? 得分： 20分 答： from the instant he beheld her, that there was no prospect of ultimate recovery there—shA Emily Jane Bront Wuthering Heights B.The “rocking-chair” is a symbol standing for fat【题型：阅读】【100分】 [6] “It is when the feet weary and hope seems vain that the heartaches and the longings arise.for you is neither surfeit nor content. In your rocking chair, by your window dreaming, shallIn your rocking-chair, by your window, shall you dream such happiness as you may never fe A. Identify the author and the work. B. What does the rocking-chair symbolize？ 得分： 75分 答： A. From Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie. B. It symbolizes that Carrie’s fate is unstablecourse of life. 【题型：阅读】【100分】 [7] 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 through the moving air To pass the ocean with a band of men; I’ll join the hills that bing the Africa shore And make that country continent to Spain, And both contributory to my crown; The Emperor shall not live 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. Identify the author and the title of the work from which the passage is taken. B. Based on the passage, write down in one or two sentences the theme of the play得分： 40分 答： Dr. Faustus, Christopher Marlowe, Man's aspiration, bounding achievement 【题型：阅读】【100分】 [8] “The curfew tolls the knell o fparting 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. Briefly explain the significance of this irregularity. 得分： 0分 答： 【题型：阅读】【100分】 [9] “ ‘Do you think I can stay to become nothing to you? So you think I am an automoton?—a machineAnd can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water daDo you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless?——I have as much as you and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty,I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. I am nnow through the medium of custom, conventionalities, or even of mortal flesh: — it is my spiryour spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God’s feet, equaA. Identify the author and the work. B. Summarize the speaker’s meaning. 得分： 25分 答： A.Charlotte Bront?,Jane Eyre B.你以为我能够呆在这儿对你无动于衷吗？ 你以为 我贫穷，不美，卑你同样的灵魂和充满了等量的情感。 【题型：阅读】【100分】 [10] But it seemed that both his audacity and his respect were lost on Miss Daisy Miller. ‘I guet go—for you,’ she smiled. ‘And she ain’t much bent on going, anyway. She don’t likethat you’d like to go up there?’ Most earnestly I meant it, Winterbourne declared. A. Identify the author and the work. B. Where are they going to visit？ 得分： 100分 答： A.From Henry James's Daisy Miller B.They are going to visit an old castle. the afternoon.’ After which she familiarly proceeded: ‘But did you really mean what you【题型：阅读】【100分】 [11] “I like to see it lap the Miles— And lick the Valleys up— And stop to feed itself at Tanks— And then-prodigiosu step”
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