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中央广播电视大学2010年”期末复习英语专业 文学英语赏析 试题Part I: Literary Fundmentals [30 points]Section 1. Match the works with their writers. (10 points)Works1． The Importance of Being Earnest2． Of Studies3． An Inspector Calls4． The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde5． Jane EyreWritersA. Charlotte BronteB. Francis BaconC. Robert Louis StevensonD. Walt WhitmanE. Ernest HemingwayF. JB PriestleyG. Charles DickensH. Oscar WildeSection 2. Decide whether the following statements are True (T) or False (F). (10 points)6. Lord of the flies is a thought-provoking novel authored by William Golding.7. King Lear, Hamlet, Othello and Macbeth are well-known tragedies by William Shakespear.8. Authur Miller’s play The Crucible is aimed at exposing the hypocrisy of the property owning class of the United States.9. Scrooge is a character created by Charles Dickens in his novel Great Expectations.10. Walt Whitman is a well-known american poet known for his collection Leaves of Grass.Section 3. Choose the correct answers to complete the following sentences. (10 points)11. ______________ is written to commemorate someone who has died. A. An epic B. A sonnet C. An elegy D. A haiku12. _____________ can be established by describing the place where the action takes place, or the situation at the start of the story. A. Climax B. Point of view C. Flashback D. Setting13. ______________ novels are called “Novels of Character and Environment”. His well-read novels include The Mayor of the Casterbridge, Tess of the D’Urbervilles and so on. A. Thomas Hardy’s B. Charlotte Bronte’s C. Joseph Conrad’s D. Charles Dickens’14. Which figure of speech is used in the following lines? “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of follishness …”A. MetaphorB. ParallelismC. SimileD. Personification15. In the poem “_____________” by Wilfred Owen, the speaker feels distressed at the loss of his comrade-in-arms and beweildered at the meaning of the _____________. To him the war was futile. A. futility, war B. Love Your Enemy, negotiationC. The War Process, warD. Futility, negotiationPart Ⅱ Reading Comprehnesion (50 points)Read the extracts and give brief answers to the questions below.Text 1The shark was not an accident. He had come up from deep down in the water as the dark cloud of blood had settled and dispersed in the mile deep sea. He had come up so fast and absolutely without caution that he broke the surface of the blue water and was in the sun. Then he fell back into the sea and picked up the scent and started swimming on the course the skiff and the fish had taken.Sometimes he lost the scent. But he would pick it up again, or have just a trace of it, and he swam fast and hard on the course. He was a very big Make shark built to swim as fast as the fastest fish in the sea and everything about him was beautiful except his jaws. His back was as blue as a sword fish's and his belly was silver and his hide was smooth and handsome. He was built as a sword fish except for his huge jaws which were tight shut now as he swam fast, just under the surface with his high dorsal fin knifing through the water without wavering. Inside the closed double lip of his jaws all of his eight rows of teeth were slanted inwards. They were not the ordinary pyramid-shaped teeth of most sharks. They were shaped like a man's fingers when they are crisped like claws. They were nearly as long as the fingers of the old man and they had razor-sharp cutting edges on both sides. This was a fish built to feed on all the fishes in the sea, that were so fast and strong and well armed that they had no other enemy. Now he speeded up as he smelled the fresher scent and his blue dorsal fin cut the water. When the old man saw him coming he knew that this was a shark that had no fear at all and would do exactly what he wished. He prepared the harpoon and made the rope fast while he watched the shark come on. The rope was short as it lacked what he had cut away to lash the fish. The old man's head was clear and good now and he was full of resolution but he had little hope. It was too good to last, he thought. He took one look at the great fish as he watched the shark close in. It might as well have been a dream, he thought. I cannot keep him from hitting me but maybe I can get him. Dentuso, he thought. Bad luck to your mother. The shark closed fast astern and when he hit the fish the old man saw his mouth open and his strange eyes and the clicking chop of the teeth as he drove forward in the meat just above the tail. The shark's head was out of water and his back was coming out and the old man could hear the noise of skin and flesh ripping on the big fish when he rammed the harpoon down onto the shark's head at a spot where the line between his eyes intersected with the line 。