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1、 * There will be no extra time to transfer answers to the Answer Sheet; therefore, you shouldwrite ALL your answers on the Answer Sheet as you do each task.Section I: Checking understanding of general literary concepts and course content awareness （25 points）Questions 1-10 （10 points）There are 10 in

2、complete sentences in this part. For each sentence, there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the answer that best completes the sentence. Then circle the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet. 1. Scrooge is a character created by _. A. Jane Austen B. William Shakespeare C. Charles Dick

3、ens D. William Wordsworth 2. Which type of the text would you consider as literature? newspaper stories short stories business letter memo 3. “Pygmalion” is a _ by _. short story, Bernard Shaw play, Bernard Shaw poem, W. B. Yeats play, W. B. Yeats 4. “A Red Red Rose” is known as “ballad stanza”. Thi

4、s poetic form usually contains _ rhymed lines in each stanza. 4 6 2 8 5. In literary language, especially, in the language of poetry, poets are “privileged” to break some of the commonly observed rules in their use of language. This is what is known as _. dramatic measurement artistic ways poetic li

5、cence readers Digest 6. A speech, often of some length, in which a character, alone on the stage, expresses his thoughts and feelings, is known as _. speculation figure of speech soliloquy flashback 7. Hamlet, Othello and King Lear are well-known tragedies by Shakespeare, together with _. Merchant o

6、f Venice Midsummer Nights dream As you Like it Macbeth 8. The term _ is the jargon used to indicate the essential structure in a story, the pattern, the order which a story is built up and which holds it together, the storyline. exposition plot climax classic plot structure 9. “Wuthering Heights” is

7、 a house where the main characters live _ according to the novel. on a plain on a moor in a valley in a hill10. The method that the writer uses to start his story in the middle of the event, rather than in the beginning is called _, a latin phrase, literally translated as “in the middle of things.”

8、tension elaboration denouement in media restQuestions 11-15 （15 points）There are 5 incomplete sentences in this part. Fill in the blanks with proper words or phrases to complete each sentence. Write your answers on the answer sheet.11. Please list 3 types of literary genre _, _, _.12. In discussing

9、themes of the literary works, the writer usually uses four ways of giving his or her ideas, please write at least 3 of them _, _, _.13. There are usually 5 elements involved in reading fictions and dramas. They are setting, _, _, _ and conflict.14. Is Jane Eyre a round character or flat character? G

10、ive at least one reason to support your point. _.15. List at least 3 different types of conflicts mentioned in the textbook. _, _, _. Checking Understanding of English Poems （16 points） （Questions 16-19）Here is a short poem by American poet Joyce Kilmer. He talks about trees in the poem. Read the po

11、em carefully and answer questions below. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet. Trees I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earths sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day, And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that m

12、ay in Summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree. Joyce KilmerQuestions on the poem.16. Whats the rhyme scheme of the poem? （4 points）17. Find two examples of figures of speec

13、h used in the poem. （4 points）18. What does the poet intend to say in the last two lines?19. Find two images in the poem, what do they symbolize? （4 points） Checking Understanding of English Drama （14 points）Part A （Questions 20-23） （8 points）Heres an extract from Bernard Shaws play Pygmalion. Read

14、it and answer questions below. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet.Bernard Shaw （1856-1950）. Pygmalion. 1916.ACT 1Covent garden at 11. 15 p.m. Torrents of heavy summer rain. Cab whistles blowing frantically in all directions. Pedestrians running for shelter into the market and under the portion o

15、f St. Pauls Church, where there are already several people, among them a lady and her daughter in evening dress. They are all peering out gloomily at the rain, except one man with his back turned to the rest, who seems wholly preoccupied with a notebook in which he is writing busily.The church clock

16、 strikes the first quarter.THE DAUGHTER in the space between the central pillars, close to the one on her left Im getting chilled to the bone. What can Freddy be doing all this time? Hes been gone twenty minutes.THE MOTHER On her daughters right Not so long. But he ought to have got us a cab by now.

17、A BYSTANDER on the ladys right He wont get no cab not until half-past eleven, missus, when they come back after dropping their theatre fares.THE MOTHER. But we must have a cab. We cant stand here until half-past eleven. Its too bad.THE BYSTANDER. Well, it aint my fault, missus.THE DAUGHTER. If Fredd

18、y had a bit of gumption, he would have got one at the theatre door. What could he have done, poor boy? Other people got cabs. Why couldnt he?Freddy rushes in out of the rain from the Southampton Street side, and comes between them closing a dripping umbrella. He is a young man of twenty, in evening

19、dress, very wet around the ankles. Well, havent you got a cab?FREDDY. Theres not one to be had for love or money. Oh, Freddy, there must be one. You cant have tried.THE DAUGHTER. Its too tiresome. Do you expect us to go and get one ourselves? I tell you theyre all engaged. The rain was so sudden: no

20、body was prepared; and everybody had to take a cab. Ive been to Charing Cross one way and nearly to Ludgate Circus the other; and they were all engaged.THE MOGHER. Did you try Trafalgar Square? There wasnt one at Trafalgar Square. Did you try? I tried as far as Charing Cross Station. Did you expect

21、me to walk to Hammersmith? You havent tried at all.THE MOGTHER. You really are very helpless, Freddy. Go again; and dont come back until you have found a cab. I shall simply get soaked for nothing. And what about us? Are we to stay here all night in this draught, with next to nothing on. You selfish

22、 pig. Oh, very well: Ill go, Ill go. He opens his umbrella and dashes off Strandwards but comes into collision with a flower girl, who is hurrying in for shelter, knocking her basket out of her hands. A blinding flash of lightning, followed instantly by a rattling peal of thunder, orchestrates the incident.THE FLOWER GIRL. Nah then, Freddy: look why gowin, deah.F