[考研类试卷]英语专业（英美文学）模拟试卷19
一、问答题
1 Speak little, do much.
A word to the wise is enough.
Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue.
2 My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards, had sunk;
3 Such being our chief scene, the date of our story refers to a period towards the end of the reign of Richard I., when his return from his long captivity had become an event rather wished than hoped for by his despairing subjects, who were in the meantime subjected to every species of subordinate oppression.
4 Oh sir, she smiled, no doubt,
When'er I passed her; but who passed without
Much the same smile? This grew; I gave commands; Then all smiles stopped together. There she stands As if alive.
5 We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
6 I, John Faustus of Wittenberg, Doctor, by these presents do give both body and soul to Lucifer, Prince of the East...
7 I told you in the course of this paper that Shakespeare had a sister; but don't look for her in Sir Sidney Lee's life of the poet.
8 Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night,
Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
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9 Come, my friends,
Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite
The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die.
10 Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
10 Read the poem and answer the questions below.(40 points) Acceptance
When the spent sun throws up its rays on cloud And goes down burning into the gulf below, No voice in nature is heard to cry aloud
At what has happened. Birds, at least, must know It is the change to darkness in the sky. Murmuring something quiet in her breast, One bird begins to close a faded eye; Or overtaken too far from his nest,
Hurrying low above the grove, some waif Swoops just in time to his remembered tree At most he thinks or twitters softly, \Now let the night be dark for all of me. Let the night be too dark for me to see Into the future. Let what will be, be.\
11 Identify the poet and the rhyme scheme of this sonnet.(10 points)
12 What does the tone in the poem and how do you interpret the line \be\
13 \poet's creation and philosophy of life.(20 points)
13 Read the short story or an excerpt from a novel and answer the questions.(40 points) Young Goodman Brown
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Young Goodman Brown came forth, at sunset, into the sunset of Salem village, but put his head back, after crossing the threshold, to exchange a parting kiss with his young wife. And Faith, as the wife was aptly named, thrust her own pretty head into the street, letting the wind play with the pink ribbons of her cap, while she called to Goodman Brown. \ear, \lone woman is troubled with such dreams and such thoughts, that she's afeard of herself, sometimes. Pray, tarry with me this night, dear husband, of all nights in the year!\
\one night must I tarry away from thee. My journey, as thou callest it, forth and back again, must needs be done twixt now and sunrise. What, my sweet, pretty wife, dost thou doubt me already, and we but three months married!\
\when you come back.\
\no harm will come to thee.\
So they parted; and the young man pursued his way, until, being about to turn the corner by the meeting-house, he looked back, and saw the head of Faith still peeping after him, with a melancholy air, in spite of her pink ribbons.
\on such an errand! She talks of dreams, too. Methought, as she spoke, there was trouble in her face, as if a dream had warned her what work is to be done to night. But, no, no! 't would kill her to think it. Well; she's a blessed angel on earth; and after this one night, I'll cling to her skirts and follow her to Heaven.\
With this excellent resolve for the future, Goodman Brown felt himself justified in
making more haste on his present evil purpose. He had taken a dreary road, darkened by all the gloomiest trees of the forest, which barely stood aside to let the narrow path creep through, and closed immediately behind. It was all as lonely as could be; and there is this peculiarity in such a solitude, that the traveler knows not who may be concealed by the innumerable trunks and the thick boughs overhead; so that, with lonely footsteps, he may yet be passing through an unseen multitude.
\and he glanced fearfully behind him, as he added, \my very elbow!\
His head being turned back, he passed a crook of the road, and looking forward again, beheld the figure of a man, in grave and decent attire, seated at the foot of an old tree. He arose, at Goodman Brown's approach, and walked onward, bide by side with him.
\came through Bostonl and that is full fifteen minutes agone.\
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\by the sudden appearance of his companion, though not wholly unexpected.
It was now deep dusk in the forest and deepest in that part of it where these two were journeying. As nearly as could be discerned, the second traveler was about fifty years old, apparently in the same rank of life as Goodman Brown, and bearing a considerable resemblance to him, though perhaps more in expression than features. Still, they might have been taken for father and son. And yet, though the elder person was as simply clad as the younger, and as simple in manner too, he had an indescribable air of one who knew the world, and would not have felt abashed at the governor's dinner-table, or in king
William's court, were it possible that his affairs should call him thither. But the only thing about him, that could be fixed upon a remarkable, was his staff, which bore the likeness of a great black snake, so curiously wrought. This, of course, must have been an ocular deception, assisted by the uncertain light.
\of a journey. Take my staff, if you are so soon weary.\
\by meeting thee here, it is my purpose now to return whence I came. I have scruples, touching the matte thou wot'st of.\
\reasoning as we go, and if I convince thee not, thou shalt turn back. We are but a little way in the forest, yet.\
\never went into the woods on such an errand, nor his father before him. We have been a race of honest men and good Christians, since the days of the martyrs. And shall I be the first of the name of Brown, that ever took this path, and kept\—
\\one among the Puritans; and that's no trifle to say. I helped your grandfather, the
constable, when he lashed the Quaker woman so smartly through the streets of Salem. And it was I that brought your father a pitch-pine knot, kindled at my own hearth, to set fire to an Indian village, in king Philip's war. They were my good friends, both; and many a pleasant walk have we had along this path, and returned merrily after midnight. I would fain be friends with you, for their sake.\
\matters. Or, verily, I marvel not, seeing that the least rumor of the sort would have driven them from New-England. We are a people of prayer, and good works, to boot, and abide no such wickedness.\
\acquaintance here in New-England. The deacons of many a church have drunk the
communion wine with me; the selectmen, of divers towns, make me their chairman; and a
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majority of the Great and General Court are form supporters of my interest. The governor and I, too—but these are state-secrets.\
\companion, \their own ways, and are no rule for a simple husbandman, like me. But, were I to go on with thee, how should I meet the eye of that good old man, our minister, at Salem village? Oh, his voice would make me tremble, both Sabbath-day and lecture-day!\
Thus far, the elder traveler had listened with due gravity, but now burst into a fit of
irrepressible mirth, shaking himself so violently, that his snakelike staff actually seemed to wriggle in sympathy.
\Goodman Brown, go on; but, pr'y thee, don't kill me with laughing!\
\\own!\
\would not, for twenty old women like the one hobbling before us, that Faith should come to any harm.\
As he spoke, he pointed his staff at a female figure on the path, in which Goodman
Brown recognized a very pious and exemplary dame, who had taught him his catechism, in youth, and was still his moral and spiritual adviser, jointly with the minister and deacon Gookin.
\he. \this Christian woman behind. Being a stranger to you, she might ask whom I was consorting with, and whither I was going.\
\Accordingly, the young man turned aside, but took care to watch his companion, who advanced softly along the road, until he had come within a staffs length of the old dame. She, meanwhile, was making the best of her way, with singular speed for so aged a woman, and mumbling some indistinct words, a prayer, doubtless, as she went. The
traveler put forth his staff, and touched her withered neck with what seemed the serpent's tail.
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\leaning on his writhing stick.
\in the very image of my old gossip, Goodman Brown, the grandfather of the silly fellow that now is. But, would your worship believe it? my broomstick hath strangely
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