12级英语阅读欣赏期末考试试卷

2013-2014学年第二学期

期末考试试卷

年级 13级大专 专业 各专业 层次 各层次 科目 英语阅读欣赏

I. Multiple Choice (30 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. Mark the corresponding letter A, B,

C or

D on the answer sheet.

1. “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” This humorous speech is from___ B _______.

A. Jane Austen ’s Emma

B. Jane Austen ’s Pride and Prejudice

C. Charles Dickins ’ The Great Expectation

D. Charlotte Bronte ’s Jane Eyre The most

2. The important contribution of __ B ____ is that he not only started the modern poetry, but also changed the course of English poetry by using ordinary speech of the language and by advocating a return to nature.

A. William Blake

B. William Wordsworth

C. G. G. Byron

D. John Keats

3. In the Victorian Period __ B ____ became the most widely read and the most vital and challenging expression of progressive thought.

A. poetry

B. novel

C. prose

D. drama

4. Thomas Hardy’s _ A _____ view of life predominates most of his works and earns him a reputation as a ________ writer.

A. pessimistic, naturalistic

B. pessimistic, humorous

C. romantic, realist

D. determinist, stylistic

5. “Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? ... And if God had gifted me with some beauty, and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. ” The quoted lines are most probably taken from ___ C _____.

A. Great Expectations

B. Wuthering Heights

C. Jane Eyre

D. Pride and Prejudice

6. Jane Austen’ s first novel __A ______ tells a story about two sisters and their love affairs.

A. Sense and Sensibility

B. Pride and Prejudice

C. Northanger Abbey

D. Mansfield Park

7. “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” comes from __A______.

A. Shelley’s Ode to the West Wind

B. Walt Whitman’ s Leaves of Grass

C. John Milton’s Paradise Lost

D. John Keats’ Ode on a Grecian Ur n

8. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” is __D______ masterpiece on ________.

A. G. G. Byron’s, love

B. John Keats’, nature

C. P. B. Shelley’s, love

D. William Wordsworth’s, nature

9. T.S. Eliot’s __B____ not only presents a panorama of physical disorder and spiritual desolation in the modern Western world, but also reflects the prevalent mood of disillusionment and despair of a whole post-war generation.

A. The Hollow Men

B. The Waste Land

C. Murder in the Cathedral

D. Ash Wednesday

10. John Milton’s greatest poetical work __B______ is the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf.

A. Areopagitica

B. Paradise Lost

C. Lycidas

D. Samson Agonistes

11. “The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water.” This “iceberg” analogy about prose style was put forward by ___C_____.

A. William Faulkner

B. Henry James

C. Ernest Hemingway

D. F. Scott Fitzgerald

12. Among the following writers ___B____is generally regarded as the great master of the 20th century “s tream-of-consciousness” novels in British literature.

A. T. S. Eliot

B. James Joyce

C. William Faulkner

D. Henry James

13. In William Faulkner’s writings, the modern _A_____ technique was frequently and skillfully used to emphasize the reactions and inner musings of the narrator.

A. stream-of-consciousness

B. impressionism

C. imagism

D. dramatic monologue

14. “Byronic hero” is a figure of the following traits EXCEPT __D____.

A. being proud

B. being self-independent

C. being rebellious

D. being of humble origin

15. Charles Dickens' novel ___B___ is famous for its vivid descriptions of the workhouse and life

of the underworld in the nineteenth-century London.

A. The Pickwick Paper

B. Oliver Twist

C. David Copperfield

D. Nicholas Nickleby

16. ____C_____ is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning English author _______ about a group of British boys stuck on an uninhabited island who try to govern themselves, with disastrous results.

A. A Passage to India, E. M. Forster

B. The Rainbow, D. H. Lawrence

C. Lord of the Flies, William Golding

D. To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf

17. Jane Austen is well-known for her elaborative depiction of five different marriages in her novel ____D____.

A. Emma

B. Sense and Sensibility

C. Mansfield Park

D. Pride and Prejudice

18. ____A___begins and ends by posing the question of whether it is possible for an Englishman and

an Indian to ever be friends, at least within the context of British colonialism.

A.E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India

B. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

C. D. H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers D. Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights

19. “Beauty is truth, truth beauty”, which comes from ___A_____ famous poem ________, is surely the most famous metaphysical equation.

A. John Keats’ Ode on a Grecian Urn

B. Shelley’s To a Skylark

C. Byron’s She Walks in Beauty

D. William Wordsworth’s The Solitary Reaper

20. Robinson Crusoe is the true prototype of the British colonist. The whole Anglo-Saxon spirit is in Crusoe except____D_____.

A. the manly independence

B. the persistence

C. the slow yet efficient intelligence

D. the thirst for knowledge

21. Charles Dickens’ novel, _B_____, is famous for its vivid descriptions of the work-house and life of the underworld in the nineteenth-century London.

A. The Pickwick Paper

B. Oliver Twist

C. David Copperfield

D. Nicholas Nickleby

22. 4. D. H. Lawrence’s autobiographical novel is _C_____.

A. The Rainbow

B. Women in Love

C. Sons and Lovers

D. Lady Chatterley’s Lover

23. 8. For his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel, ___C___ has been r egarded as “Father of the English Novel”.

A. Daniel Defoe

B. Jonathan Swift

C. Henry Fielding

D. Oliver Goldsmith

24. 12. The m ajor theme of Jane Austen’s novels is __D____ toward which she holds on a practical

idealism.

A. love and money

B. marriage and money

C. love and family

D. love and marriage

25. 14. Henry Fielding adopted “___D___” to relate a story in his novel in which the author becomes

the “all- knowing God”.

A. the first- person narration

B. the epistolary form

C. the picaresque form

D. the third -person narration

26. 16. The success of __B____ is also due to its introduction to the English novel the first governess

heroine.

A. The Professor

B. Jane Eyre

C. Wuthering Heights

D. Far from the Madding Crowd

27. 17. John Milton’s __A____ is the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since

Beowulf.

A. Paradise Lost

B. Paradise Regained

C. Samson Agonistes

D. Areopagitica

28. Wordsworth’s ___B___ is perhaps the most anthologized poem in English literature.

A. “To a Skylark”

B. “I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud”

C. “An Evening Walk”

D. “My Heart Leaps Up”

29. The Nobel Prize Committee highly praised ____B __ for “his powerful styleforming mastery of

the art” of creating mode rn fiction.

A. T. S. Eliot

B. Ernest Hemingway

C. William Faulkner

D. Mark Twain

30. The attitude towards life that __C___ had been trying to demonstrate in his works is known as

“grace under pressure”.

A. William Faulkner

B. Theodore Dreiser

C. Ernest Hemingway

D. F ·Scott Fitzgerald

Ⅱ. Reading Comprehension ( 10 points in all, 2 for each)

Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English.

Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.

1. “Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless?___you are wrong!_____ I have as much soul as you, ____ and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you.”

Questions:

A. What’s the title of the work? （Jane Eyre ）

B. Who is the writer of this work?(Charlotte Bront)

2. “To be, or not to be —— that is the question;

Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer

The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,

Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,

And by opposing end them?”

Questions:

A. Who is the writer of this work? What’s the title of the work?(Shakespeare and Hamlet)

B. What does the phrase “to take arms against a sea of troubles ” mean?

(To take up arms against troubles that sweep upon us like a sea.)

C. How do you understand the quotation “To be, or not to be -that is the question”?

（Whether to live on in the world or to die is a question. It reflects Hamlet ’s dilemma and has become the eternal questioning of human action.）

III. Put the following sentences into Chinese. ( 30 points in all, 3 for each)

1.No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shape the soul and let the

glory out.

不论败得多惨，失利跟胜利一样，完善心灵，光耀千秋。

2.Hemingway was raised with the conservative Midwestern values of strong religion, hard work, physical fitness and self determination; if one adhered to these parameters, he was taught, he would be ensured of success in whatever field he chose.

海明威受到的是保守的中西部的价值观的教育。这种价值观是只要一个人有虔诚的信仰，努力工作，身体健康，有决心，无论做什么都会成功。

3. But the man is not made from defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

一个人并不是生来要给打败的，你尽可以把他消灭，可就是打不败他。

4. Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgement and disposition of business.

读书足以怡情，足以傅彩，足以长才。其怡情也，最见于独处幽居之时；其傅彩也，最见于高谈阔论之中；去长才也，最见于处世判事之际。

5. Reading makes a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

读书使人充实；讨论使人机智；笔记使人准确。

6.

Heights

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The heights by great men reached and kept

Were not attained by sudden flight,

But they, while their companions slept,

Were toiling upward in the night.

高度

亨利.沃兹沃斯.朗费罗

高山仰止伟人业，

不是一步就登天；

同伴酣入梦乡时，

他们深夜苦登攀。

6. How many loved your moments of glad grace.

And loved your beauty with love false and true,

But one man loved the piligrim soul in you,

And loved the sorrows of your changing face;

多少人爱你青春欢畅的时辰，

爱慕你的美丽，假意或者真心，

只有一个人爱你那朝圣者的灵魂，

爱你衰老了的脸上痛苦的皱纹。

8. Histories make men wise; poets witty;the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend. Abeunt studia in mores.

读史使人明智，读史使人灵秀，数学使人周密，科学使人深刻，伦理学使人庄重，逻辑修

辞之学使人善变：凡有所学，皆成性格。

9. And we see China that is becoming one of the most dynamic and creative societies in the world, as demonstrated by the knowledge and potential right here in this room.

同时， 我们所看到的中国正日益成为世界上一个最富有活力和最富有创造力的国家之一，这一点最佳的验证便是在座诸位所具备的知识和潜力。

10. You will grow wiser as you grow older.

随着你年龄的增长，你会变得更聪明。

IV . Put the following sentences into English . ( 20 points in all, 2 for each)

1. The sun rising in the east and sets in the west .

太阳东升西落。

2 He stood there with his hands crossed before him.

他站在那里双手抱肩。

3. I regret not having accepted your help.

我后悔没有接受你的帮助。

4. He always avoids answering my question.

他总是对我的问题避而不答。

5 I still remembering being taken to the Summer Palace as a child.

我还记得小时候被带走着去颐和园的情景。

6. The nearer an object is to you, the bigger it looks.

一个物体离你越近，它越显得大。

7. The teache walded about the classroom, using his hand to help him in his explanation.

老师在教室里走来走去，用手势帮助解释。

8 .Our decision to wait was wise.

我们决定等待是明智的。

9． I have nothing to say on this question.

对这个问题，我无可奉告。

10. Don ’t hang about___ we have a train to catch!

别磨磨蹭蹭了，我们还要赶火车呢。

V . IV . Topic Discussion(10 points in all)

Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topic in English in

the corresponding space on the answer sheet.

The Old Man and the Sea is Hemingway ’s novel.Discuss the character of the old man and give your reasons

2012-2013学年第二学期

期末考试试卷

年级 12级大专 专业 各专业 层次 各层次 科目 英语阅读欣赏

I. Multiple Choice (30 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. Mark the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the answer sheet.

1____ 2_____ 3_____ 4______ 5______ 6_____ 7_____ 8______ 9_____10______ 1____12_____13_____14_____15_____16_____17_____18_____19_____20_____

21____22_____23_____24_____25_____26____27_____28_____29_____30____ Ⅱ. Reading Comprehension ( 10 points in all, 2 for each)

Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.

1 A____________________________________________________________________ B____________________________________________________________________

2 A____________________________________________________________________ B____________________________________________________________________C______________________________________________________________________III. Put the following sentences into Chinese. ( 30 points in all,

3 for each)

1___________________________________________________________________

2___________________________________________________________________ 3___________________________________________________________________ 4___________________________________________________________________ 5___________________________________________________________________ 6___________________________________________________________________ 7___________________________________________________________________ 8___________________________________________________________________ 9___________________________________________________________________10_________________________________________________________________

IV. Put the following sentences into English. ( 20 points in all, 2 for each)

Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topic in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.

___________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________

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