PART ONE
Ⅰ。Multiple Choice （40 points in all， 1 for each ）
Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Write the answers on the answer sheet.
1.For a week after the commission of the impious and profane1 offence of asking for more， Oliver remained a close prisoner in the dark and solitary2 room （Dickens ， Oliver Twist ） What did Oliver ask for？
[A]More time to play. More food to eat.
[C]More book to read. [D]More money to spend.
2. Mrs. Warrens Profession is one of George Bernard Shaws plays. What is Mrs. Warrens profession then ？
[A]Real estate. Prostitution.
[C]House-keeping. [D]Farming.
3. Dr. Faustus is a play based on the German legend of a magician aspiring3 for
and finally meeting his tragic4 end as a result of selling his soul to the Devil.
[A]immortality political
[C]money [D]knowledge
4. The statementA demanding mother turns away from her husband and gives all her affection to her sons sums up the main plot of D. H. Lawrences .
[A]Lady Chatterleys Lover Women in love
[C]Sons and Lovers [D]The Plumed5 Serpent
5.Come to me－come to me entirely6 now ， said he； and added， in his deepest tone， speaking in my ear as his cheek was laid on mine ，Make my happiness －I will make yours.
The above passage presents a scene in .
[A]Emily Bronte s Withering7 Heights
Charlotte Brontes Jane Eyre
[C]John Galsworthys The Forsyte Saga
[D]Thomas Hardy8 s Tess of the D Urbervilles
6.Which of the following is NOT written by William Butler Yeats ？
[A] Sailing to Byzantium. The Lake Isle9 of Innisfree.
[C] Leda and the Swan. [D]The Waste Land.
7.Drive my dead thought over the universe
Like withered10 leaves to quicken a new birth.
（Percy Bysshe Shelley，Ode to the West Wind）
What rhetorical device does the poet use in the quoted lines？
[A]Synecdoche. metaphor11.
[C]Simile. [D]OnomaTOPoeia.
8.Crusoe is the hero in The life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Grusoe，of York ， Mariner（also known as Robinson Crusoe ）by .
[A]Jonathan Swift Daniel Defoe
[C]George Eliot [D]D.H.Lawrence
9.Beauty is truth ， truth beauty is an epigrammatic line by .
[A]John Keats William Blake
[C]William Wordsworth [D]Percy Bysshe Shelley
10.ChrisTOPer Marlows The Passionate13 Shepherd to His Love is a （n ） .
[A]pastoral lyric14 elegy15 [C]eulogy [D]epic
11.Which of the following is NOT regarded as one of the characteristics of Renaissance16 humanism？
[A]Cultivation of the art of this world and this life.
Tolerance17 of human foibles.
[C]Search for the genuine flavor of ancient culture.
[D]Glorification of religious faith.
12. In dream vision Arthur witnessed the loveliness of Gloriana ， and upon awaking resolves to seek her. The two literary figures Arthur and Gloriana are form .
[A]Edmund Spenser s The Faerie Queene
William Shakespeare s Romeo and Juliet
[C]ChrisTOPher Marlowes The Passionate Shepherd to His love
[D]John Donne s A Valediction18 ： Forbidding Mourning
13.Which of the following best describes the nature of Thomas Hardy s later works？
[A]Sentimentalism. Tragic sense.
[C]Surrealism. [D]Comic sense.
14. This grew ： I gave commands；
Then all smiles sTOPped altogether
（Robert Browning ，My Last Duchess ）
The above lines imply that .
[A]the Duchess was killed by her husband
the Duchess sTOPped smiling at her husbands order
[C]the Duchess died of laughing too much
[D]the Duchess did not want to smile as much as her husband requested
15.In which of the following works can you find the proper namesLilliput，Brobdingnag，Houyhnhnm ， andYahoo ？
[A]James Joyces Ulsses.
Charles Dickens s Bleak19 House.
[C]Jonathan Swift s Gullivers Travels.
[D]D. H. Lawrence s Women in love.
16.As a literary figure ， Belinda appears in Alexander Popes .
[A] The Dunciad An Essay on Man
[C] An Essay on Criticism [D]The Rape20 of the lock
17. The novel is structured around the discovery of the heros origin. This novel is most probably .
[A]Charles Dickenss David Copperfield
James Joyce s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
[C]Thomas Hardy s Far from the Madding Growd
[D]Henry Fielding s Tom Jones
18. To wage by force or guile21 eternal war ，
Irreconcilable22 to our grand Foe12.（John Milton ， Paradise lost）
By what means were Satan and his followers23 to wage this war against God ？
[A]By planting a tree of knowledge in the Garden of Eden.
By turning into poisonous snakes to threaten mans life.
[C]By removing God from His throne.
[D]By corrupting24 man and woman created by God.
19. When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table.
（T. s. Eliot ，The Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock ）
What does the image in the quoted lines suggest ？
[A]Violence. Horror. [C]Inactivity. [D]Indifference.
20.Which of the following is NOT typical of metaphysical poetry best represented by John Donnes works ？
[A]Common speech. Conceit25.
[C]Argument. [D]Refined language.
21.William Wordsworth ， a romantic poet， advocated all of the following except .
[A]normal contemporary speech patterns
humble26 and rustic27 life as subject matter
[C]elegant wording and inflated28 figures of speech
[D]intensely subjective29 feeling toward inpidual experience
22.In Samuel Taylor Coleridge s Kubla Khan，A sunny pleasure dome30 with caves of ice .
[A]refers to the palace where Kubla Khan once lived
vividly31 describes a building of poor quality
[C]is the gift given to a beautiful girl called Abyssinian
[D]symbolizes the reconciliation33 of the conscious and the unconscious
23.The hightide of Romanticism in American literature occurred around .
[A]1820 1850 [C]1880 [D]1920
24.The subject matter of Robert Frost s Poems focuses on .
[A] ordinary country people and scenes
battle scenes of ancient Greek and Roman legends
[C]struggling masses and crowded urban quarters
[D]fantasies and mythical34 happenings
25.Which group of writers are among those who may be called early pioneers of American literature？
[A]Mark Twain and Henry James.
Fenimore Cooper and Washington lrving.
[C]Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner
[D]Jack London and OHenry.
26.To Theodore Dreiser， life isso sad， so strange ， so mysterious and so inexplicable35.No wonder the characters in his books are often subject to the control of the natural forces，especially those of and heredity.
[A]fate morality
[C]social conventions [D]environment
27.Hawthorne generally concerns himself with such issues as in his fiction.
[A]the evil in mans heart the material pursuit
[C]the racial conflict [D]the social inequality
28. provides the main source of influence on American naturalism.
[A]The puritan heritage
Howells ideas of realism
[C]Darwin s theory of evolution
[D]The pioneer spirit of the wild west
29.In Mark Twains The Adventures of huckleberry Finn， Huck writes a letter to inform against Jim ， the escaped slave， and then he tears the letter up. This fact reveals that.
[A]Huck has a mixed feeling of love and hate
there is a conflict between society and conscience in Huck
[C]Huck is always an indecisive person
[D]Huck has very little education
30.Which terms can best describe the modernists concern of the human situation in their fiction？
[A]Fragmentation and alienation36.
Courage and honor.
[C]Tradition and faith.
[D]Poverty and desperation.
31.Whitmans poems are characterized by all the following features except .
[A]a strict poetic37 form
a simple and conversational38 language
[C]a free and natural rhythmic39 pattern
[D]an easy flow of feelings
32.All his novels reveal that ， as time went on， Mark Twain became increasingly.
[A]prolific artistic40.
[C]optimistic [D]pessimistic
33.The poem I like to see it lap the Miles－ is an interesting poem written by Emily Dickinson. What doesit in the poem stand for？
[A]The hound. The star.
[C]The horse. [D]The train.
34.Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Henry James s writing style？
[A] exquisite41 and elaborate language
minute and detailed42 descriptions
[C]lengthy psychological analyses
[D]American colloquialism
35.In the beginning paragraph of Chapter 3， The Great Gatsby ， Fitzgerald describes a big party by saying thatmen and girls came and went like moths43. The author most likely indicates that .
[A]there was a crowd of party-goers
such life does not have real meaning
[C]these people were light-hearted
[D]these were crazy and ignorant characters
36.In Hemingway s Indian Camp ， Nick ， the main character ， witnesses
[A]a tragic killing44 of the Indians by the white men
real friendship between the white men and the Indians
[C]a senseless killing of each other
[D]terrible scenes of birth and death
37.Which one of the following statements is NOT true of William Faulkner？
[A]He is master of stream-of-consciousness narrative45.
His writing is often complex and difficult to understand.
[C]He often depicts46 slum life in New York and Chicago.
[D]He represents a new group of Southern writers.
38.American Transcendentalists most typically believe that .
[A]man is pine in name art is superior to life
[C]man can transform nature [D]poetry is the highest form of art
39.By the end of Sister Carrie， Dreiser writes ，It was forever to the pursuit of that radiance of delight which tints47 the distant hillTOPs of the world. Dreiser implies that .
[A]there is a bright future lying ahead
there is no end to mans desire
[C]one should always be forward-looking
[D]happiness is found in the end
40.We can perhaps describe Emily Grierson in Faulkner s short story A Rose for Emily in all the following ways except that .
[A]she is psychologically deformed
she is wicked and morally corrupted
[C]she is a symbol of the Old South
[D]she is a prisoner and victim of the past
PART TWOⅡ。Reading Comprehension （16 points in all， 4 for each ）
Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.
41. The boast of heraldry ， the pomp of power，
And all that beauty ， all that wealth eer gave.
Awaits the inevitable48 hour.
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Questions ：
A. Identify the author and the title of the poem from which this passage is taken.
B. What does the phrase inevitable hour mean ？
C. Write out the main idea of the passage in plain English.
42. A violet by a mossy stone
Half hidden from the eye！
－Fair as a star， when only one
Is shining in the sky.
Questions ：
A. Identify the author and the title of the poem from which this stanza49 is taken.
B. Pick out the metaphor used in this stanza.
C. What quality does the author intend to show by using the metaphor？
43. We passed The School， where Children strove
At Recess50 －in the Ring －
We passed The Fields of Gazing Grain
We passed The Setting Sun －
Questions ：
A. Who is the author of this stanza taken from the poem Because I could not sTOP for Death －？
B. What do the underlined parts symbolize32 ？
C. Where were we heading toward ？
44. It was you that broke the new wood.
Now is a time for carving51.
We have one sap and one root－
Let there be commerce between us.
Questions ：
A. Whom does theus refer to ？
B. What does the phrase broke the new wood mean here？
C. What is the intention of the poet in writing the poemA Pact from which these lines are taken ？
Ⅲ。Questions and Answers （24 points in all， 6 for each ）
Give brief answers to each of the following questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.
45.In Chapter 15 of Wuthering Heights ， Heath cliff said to Catherine：Why did you betray your own ， Cathy？ You loved me －then what right have you to leave me？ I have not broken your heart －you have broken it－and in breaking it， you have broken mine.
Taking the whole novel into consideration ， do you think Heathcliffs above accusation52 of Catherines betrayal can be justified53 ？ If you think so， what reasons does Catherine have to betray Heathcliff and their love？
46.John Bunyans The Pilgrim s Progress is generally regarded as a religious allegory. What does the work symbolically54 concern ？ What is the predominant metaphor that is carried on through the whole work ？ And what is the author s purpose in writing such a book？
47. The following passage is taken from The Merchant of Venice. Read it carefully and find the dramatic it contains. Use it as an example to illustrate55 what dramatic irony56 is.
Bassani Antonio ， I am married to a wife
Which 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 all
Here to this devil， to deliver you.
Portia： Your wife would give you little thanks for that，
If she were by to hear you make the offer.
48. What is the most famous theme in Henry Jamess fiction ？ And what is his favourite approach in characterization， which makes him different from Mark and W. D. Howells as realists？ Give two titles of his works in which this theme and this approach are employed.
Ⅳ。Topic Discussion（20 points in all， 10 for each）
Write no less than 150 words on each of the following TOPics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.
49.In Pride and Prejudice ， Jane Austen explored three kinds of motivations of marriage the middle-class people had in the second half of the 18th century. Try to make a brief discussion about them with specific examples from the novel. Make comments on Austen s attitude towards these motivations.
50.Retell in a few sentences the story of the last chapter（Ch， 135）The Chase－Third Day of Melvilles novel Moby-Dick. Discuss the meaning of the ending of the story.
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