2023年电大本科文学英语赏析样题及答案资料小抄.docx

电大本科文学英语赏析样题及答案资料小抄
　　开放教育本科英语专业“文学阅读与欣赏”（《文学英语赏析》）样题
Information for the examinees:
        This examination consists of 3 parts. They are:
Part I: Literary Fundamentals (30 points)
Part II: Reading Comprehension (50 points)
Part III: Writing (20 points)
        The total marks for this examination are 100 points. Time allowed for completing this examination is 90 minutes.
       There will be no extra time to transfer answers to the Answer Sheet; therefore, you should write ALL your answers on the Answer Sheet as you do each task.
Part I  Literary Fundamentals                           [30 points]
Section 1. Match the writers with their works (10 points).
Works
1.  The Pearl
2.  Lord of the Flies 
3.  The Dumb Waiter 
4.  An Inspector Calls 
5.      The Old Man and The Sea 
Writers
A. John Steinbeck
B. Robert Frost
C. Harold Pinter
D. Walt Whitman
E. Ernest Hemingway
F. JB Priestley
G.. Arthur Miller
H. William Golding
Section 2.  Decide whether the following statements are True (T ) or False (F)  (10 points).
6. Arthur Miller wrote his play The Crucible in 1950s. The play is aimed to exposing the hypocrisy of the property-owning class of the United States.
7.      Macbeth is one of Shakespeare’s tragedies.
8. What has been termed confessional poetry in widely associated with American poets such as Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath.
9. “I have a dream” is a famous speech made by President Lincoln during the American Civil War.
10 . Wide Sargasso Sea, is based on the story of Jane Eyre.
Section 3.  Choose the correct answers to complete the following sentences (10 points).
11. Usually ______ works by starting a story at a point in the recent past, then switching the action back to an earlier time, farther back in the past. At the end it will then usually bring us back to the same time zone we started from.
A. climax
B. point of view
C. flashback
D. setting
12.  A stanza is a grouping of the verse lines in a poem. There are various stanzas containing two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight lines, etc. A _____is a pair of rhymed lines that are equal in length.  
A.     couplet
B.     ballad
C.     sonnet
D.     limerick
13. ___________ novels reflect the complexity and the inhuman aspects of Victorian society. His well-read novels include Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations and so on.
A. Charles Dickens’
B. Charlotte Bronte’s
C. Joseph Conrad’s
D. Graham Greene’s
14.Which figure of speech is used in the following lines by Martin Luther King?
“With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.”
A. Metaphor    B. Parallelism    C. Simile    D. Personification
15. In his essay “Of studies”, Bacon classified books thus: “Some books are to be _______,
others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and ________”.
A.     tasted, skimmed
B.     skimmed, scanned
C.     scanned, perfected
D.     tasted, digested
Part II  Reading Comprehension                      [50 points]

Read the extracts and give brief answers to the questions below.
Text 1
Nobody ever stopped him in the street to say, with gladsome looks, ‘My dear Scrooge, how are you? When will you come to see me?’ No beggars implored him to bestow a trifle, no children asked him what it was o’clock, no man or woman ever once in all his life inquired the way to such and such a place, of Scrooge. Even the blind men’s dogs appeared to know him; and when they saw him coming on, would tug their owners into doorways and up courts; and then would wag their tails as though they said, ‘No eye at all is better than an evil eye, dark master.’
(A Christmas Carol)
Questions  (10 points)
16. Why wouldn’t children like to ask Scrooge the time?
17.  What is the reaction of the blind men’s dogs when they encountered Scrooge?
Text 2  
“Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone”
…
He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.
The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.
For nothing now can ever come to any good.
Questions (10 points)
18. What does the poet mean by the line “He was my North, my South, my East and West，/My working week and my Sunday rest, / My moon, my midnight, my talk, my song”?
19. Identify the key verbs the poet uses to call for things to be got rid of.
Text 3
Lady Bracknell:… What is your income?
Jack: Between seven and eight thousand a year.
Lady Bracknell (makes a note in her book):  In land, or in investments?
Jack:  In investments, chiefly.
Lady Bracknell: That is satisfactory. What between the duties expected of one during one’s lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one’s death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That’s all that can be said about land.
Jack: I have a country house with some land, of course, attached to it, about fifteen hundred acres, I believe; but I don’t depend on that for my real income. In fact, as far as I can make out, the poachers are the only people who make anything out of it.
Lady Bracknell: A country house! How many bedrooms? Well, that point can be cleared up afterwards. You have a town house, I hope? A girl with a simple, unspoiled nature, like Gwendolen, could hardly be expected to reside in the country.
Jack:  Well, I own a house in Belgrave Square, but it is let by the year to Lady Bloxham.  Of course, I can get it back whenever I like, at six months’ notice.
Lady Bracknell:  Lady Bloxham?  I don’t know her.
Jack:  Oh, she goes about very little.  She is a lady considerably advanced in years.
Lady Bracknell: Ah, nowadays that is no guarantee of respectability of character.  What number in Belgrave Square?
Jack: 149.
Lady Bracknell (shaking her head): The unfashionable side….I thought there was something. However, that could easily be altered.
Jack: Do you mean the fashion, or the side?
Lady Bracknell (sternly) :  Both, if necessary, I presume.
(The Importance of Being Earnest)

Questions (10 points)
20. What are Lady Bracknell’s main criteria for choosing a husband for her daughter? Support your answer with a quotation from the text.
21. Which does Lady Bracknell prefer, investment or land? Support your answer with a quotation from the text.
Text 4  
Please note: This reading task will be relevant to the writing task in Part III.
Mystery of the White Gardenia
By Marsha Arons
Every year on my birthday, from the time I turned 12, a white gardenia was delivered to my house in Bethesda, Md. No card or note came with it. Calls to the florist were always in vain -- it was a cash purchase. After a while I stopped trying to discover the sender’s identity and just delighted in the beauty and heady perfume of that one magical, perfect flower nestled in soft pick tissue paper.
But I never stopped imagining who the anonymous giver might be.  Some of the happiest moments were spent daydreaming about someone wonderful and exciting but too shy or eccentric to make known his or her identity.
My mother contributed to these imaginings. She’d ask me if there was someone for whom I had done a special kindness who might be showing appreciation. Perhaps the neighbor I’d helped when she was unloading a car full of groceries. Or maybe it was the old man across the street whose mail I retrieved during the winter so he wouldn't have to venture down his icy steps. As a teen-ager, though, I had more fun speculating that it might be a boy I had a crush on or one who had noticed me even though I didn't know him.
When I was 17, a boy broke my heart. The night he called for the last time, I cried myself to sleep. When I awoke in the morning, there was a message scribbled on my mirror in red lipstick: Heartily know, when half-gods go, the gods arrive. I thought about that quotation by Emerson for a long time, and until my heart healed, I left it where my mother had written it. When I finally went to get the glass cleaner, my mother knew everything was all right again.
I don’t remember ever slamming my door in anger at her and shouting, “you just don’t understand!” because she did understand.
One month before my high-school graduation, my father died of a heart attack. My feelings ranged from grief to abandonment, fear and overwhelming anger that my dad was missing some of the most important events in my life. I became completely uninterested in my upcoming graduation, the senior class play and the prom. But my mother, in the midst of her own grief, would not hear of my skipping any of those things.
The day before my father died, my mother and I had gone shopping for a prom dress. We found a spectacular one, with yards and yards of doted swiss in red, white and blue, it made me feel like Scarlet O’Hara, but it was the wrong size. When my father died I forgot about the dress.
My mother didn’t. The day before the prom, I found that dress -- in the right size -- draped majestically over the living room sofa. It wasn’t just delivered, still in the box. It was presented to me -- beautifully, artistically, lovingly.  I didn’t care if I had a new dress or no. But my mother did.
She wanted her children to feel loved and lovable, creative and imaginative, imbued with a sense that there was magic in the world and beauty even in the face of adversity. In truth, my mother wanted her children to see themselves much like the gardenia -- lovely, strong, and perfect -- with an aura of magic and perhaps a bit of mystery.
My mother died ten days after I was married. I was 22. That was the year the gardenias stopped coming.
Questions (20 points)
22.  Who sent the white gardenias? Why were the flowers sent ?
23.  When and how did the father die? How did the narrator feel at her father’s death?
24.  What two traits of the mother’s characters are highlighted in the story? Cite examples from the story to support your points.
25.  Explain the role of the gardenia in the story.
Part III  Writing                     [20 Points]
Summarize the story “Mystery of the White Gardenia” in about 150 words.
《文学英语赏析》试题答案及评分原则
Part I  Literary Fundamentals                      [30 points]
Section 1. Match the writers with their works (2 points each).
1. A.   2. H     3. C      4. F     5. E  
Section 2. Decide whether the following statements are True (T ) or False (F) . (2 points each)
6. F    7. T     8. T      9. F     10 T
Section 3.  Choose the correct answer to complete the following sentences (2 points each) .
11. C   12. A    13. A     14.B    15. D
Part II   Reading Comprehension                   [50 points]
l        5 points each.
l        Every 5 mistakes in grammar, spelling or of any other kind will lead to the reduction of one point.
16. Because Scrooge is a mean-spirited miserly person. He won’t help anybody.
17. The dogs would tug their owners into doorways and up courts; and then would wag their tails, indicating to their owners that this man is an evil person.
18. The poet is celebrating the importance of the loved / dead one to the poet/ or the dead is everything is to him or any similar idea.
19. Award one point for one of the following expressions: 1) put out   2)pack up   3) dismantle  4) pour away  5) sweep up
20. Clearly income, property and family connections. For example, she asks Jack directly questions such as “What’s your income?” “You have a town house, I hope?”
21. She prefers investment to land. She feels land involves too many expenses during life, and is then taxed heavily after one’s death. Quotation: What between the duties expected of one during one’s lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one’s death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure.
22. The narrator’s mother. The mother sent the flowers to remind her daughter that a person could become all that the gardenia symbolised—loving, strong, and perfect. She kept it a secret so that the daughter could have the self-knowledge of her own good deeds as she speculated about who the sender might be.
23. The father died of heart attack close to her graduation from high school. She felt sad, disappointed that her father would not experience the important events in her life. 
24．a. The mother’s wisdom: She thought of a wise way to encourage kindness in her daughter: to send flowers secretly; or she wisely scribbled a quotation from Emerson on her daughter’s mirror instead of directly talking her teenage daughter into accepting the loss of her boyfriend.
b. Her strength in the face of adversities: she stood strong when her husband died.
25. The gardenia is the essential symbol in the story, helping to bring about the theme of the story: mother’s love. The gardenia symbolizes the qualities that the mother hoped for her daughter, qualities such as magical (aura of magic, a bit of mystery), loving, strong, perfect , etc. (Points should be given when ideas are similar or stand to reason.)
Part III   Writing                                  [20 Points]
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