中央广播电视大学2006-2007学年度第一学期"开放本科"期末考试
英语专业 文学阅读与欣赏(文学英语赏析) 试题
Part I: Literary Fundamentals ['30 points]
Section 1. Match the works with their writers (10 points).
Works
1. Hills like White Elephants
2. I Have a Dream
3. An Inspector Calls
4. The Importance of Being Earnest
5. The Pearl
Writers
A. John Steinbeck
B. Robert Frost
C. Oscar Wilde
D. Walt Whitman
E. Ernest Hemingway
F. JB Priestley
G. Arthur Miller
H. Martin Luther King
Section 2. Decide whether the following statements are True (T) or False (F) ( 10 points).
6. Robert Frost is a well-known Scottish poet.
7. Hamlet, Othello and King Lear are well-known tragedies by William Shakespeare,
together with Macbeth.
8. Arthur 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. Lord of the Flies is a thought-provoking novel authored by William Golding.
Section 3. Choose the correct answers to complete the following sentences ( 10 points}.
11. __ 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. Setting
12. A __ is a pair of rhymed lines that are equal in length. A ____ is a
{ourteen-line lyric poem which rhymes in a highly controlled way.
A. Couplet, ballad B. Sonnet, limerick
C. Couplet, sonnet D. Ballad, haiku
13. Which figure of speech is used in the following lines?
"h was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was
the age of foolishness'". '
A. Metaphor B. Parallelism
C. Simile D. Personification
14. was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2005.
A. Harold Pinter B. John Steinbeck
C. James Joyce D. Walt Whitman
15. In his essay "Of studies", Bacon classified books thus: "Some books are to be
tasted, others to be , and some few to be chewed and '.
A. swallowed, skimmed
B. swallowed, digested
C. scanned, perfected
D. skimmed, scanned
Part U: Reading Comprehension [50 points]
Read the extracts and give brief answers to the questions below.
Text 1
1 tried to sleep; but my heart beat anxiously, my inward tranquillity was broken. The
clock, far down in the hall, struck two. Just then it seemed my chamber-door was touched,
as if fingers had swept the panels in groping a way along the dark gallery outside. I said,
'Who is there?' Nothing answered. I was chilled with fear.
All at once 1 remembered that it might be Pilot, who, when the kitchen door chanced to
be left open, not infrequently found his way up to the threshold of Mr Rochester's chamber:
I had seen him lying there myself in the mornings. The idea calmed me somewhat: I lay
down. Silence composes the nerves; and as an unbroken hush now reigned again through the
whole house, I began to feel the return of slumber. But it was not fated that I should sleep
that night. A dream had scarcely approached my ear, when it fled affrighted, scared by a
marrow-freezing incident enough.
This was a demoniac laugh--low, suppressed, and deep--uttered, as it seemed, at the
very keyhole of my chamber door. The head of my bed was near the door, and I thought at
first the goblin-laugher stood at my bedside --or rather, crouched by my pillow. But 1 rose,
looked round, and could see nothing; while, as I still gazed, the unnatural sound was
reiterated, and I knew it came from behind the panels. My first impulse was to rise and
fasten the bolt; my next, again to cry out, 'Who is there?'
Questions (12 points)
16. From which novel is the extract taken from? (Write the letter representing your
choice on the answer sheet. )
A. Heart of Darkness B. Jane Eyre
C. The Old Man and the Sea
17. What time of the day did the marrow-freezing incident happen?
18. What words did the author use to describe the laugh she heard?
19. What did the narrator" I ' observe after she rose from her bed?
Text 2
I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd, ! stand
and look at them long and long.
They do not sweat and whine about their condition,
They do not lie awake in the dark and ,eep for their sins,
They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God,
Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things,
Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago,
Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.
So they show their relations to me and I accept them,
They bring me tokens of myself, they evince them plainly in their possession.
( Song of Myself)
Questions (9 points}
20. Which of the following is the message Whitman is conveying to average man and
woman? (Write the letter representing your choice on the answer sheet. )
A. People should love the earth and the sun and the animals.
B. People should love themselves for what they are and bc themselves.
C. People should despise riches and give their wealth away to those in need.
21. Does Whitman use traditional device like regular meter and rhyme in this poem?
What's the form of the poem (sonnet or free verse or visual poetry)?
22. Identify the literary devices you find in this poem. Name the device, and note down
one example.
Text 3
Macbeth: My dearest love,
Duncan comes here tonight.
Lady Macbeth: And when goes hence?
Macbeth: Tomorrow, as he purposes.
Lady Macbeth: O, never
Shall sun that morrow see.
Your face, my thane, is as a book where men
May read strange matters. To beguile the time,
Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye,
Your hand, your tongue; look like the innocent flower,
But be the serpent under't. He that's coming
Must be provided for; and you shall put
This night's business into my dispatch,
Which shall to all our nights and days to come
Give solely sovereign sway and masterdom.
Macbeth: We will speak further.
(Macbeth)
Questions ( 9 points)
23. Which of the [ollowing is the proper paraphrase for the line "'Fo beguile the time,
look like the time"? (Write the letter representing your choice on the answer sheet. )
A. Seize the hour. Seize the day.
B. Make your appearance fit the occasion.
C. Enjoy as you may, for tomorrow you may die.
24. In her speech, Lady Macbeth. (Write the letter representing your choice on
the answer sheet. )
A. tells Macbeth to behave normally as a hospitable host and leave the mt rdering
part to her to arrange
B. persuades Macbeth to act as a serpent and carry out the murder in person
C. asks Macbeth for suggestions as how to entertain Duncan
25. What does Lady Macbeth mean by "Your face'"is as a book where ...men may read
strange matters"?
Text 4
Please note: This reading task will be relevant to the writing task in Part m.
The Man Who Talked to Trees
1. They were twins; boys born five minutes apart in the dark days of the Civil War fifty
days earlier. The elder was named Torbash, which means 'hero' in our language. The
younger one*s name was Milmaq, 'bringer of peace. ' Torbash had struggled like a hero to
escape from his mother's womb, almost tearing her apart. Milmaq had slid out with merciful
swiftness.
2. They were identical twins. When they were children strangers could not tell them
apart. They both had dark black hair and piercing green eyes. They were strong, tall and
erect. Until they reached their early teens, they were always together. They slept together,
ate together, played together, went to school together, got into trouble together--they even
fell iii together. And they looked after each other. Anyone who tried to bully one of them
would face the anger of the other. And of course they used their physical likeness to play
tricks on people, especially at school.
3. By the time they were fourteen the family had returned to its lands in the Nirmat
valley. Their father had rebuilt the old farmhouse, destroyed by the retreating rebel army at
the end of the war. He farmed the bottom of the valley, growing wheat and tending the rich
almond orchards for which the valley was then famous. On the lower slopes he had vineyards
from which he produced the strong Nirmat Kashin (Lion of Nirmat) wine. The higher land
was forested. The chestnut trees gave nuts in the autumn. The oaks and beeches, as well as
the chestnut trees, were carefully tended. Their valuable timber was sold to furniture
makers and builders in Jalseen, the town lower down the valley. The trees were cut
according to a strict rotation. For every tree they cut down, another was planted. These
were what we, the ones who remember, still call 'The Days of Contentment'.
4. It was about this time that the two boys began to grow apart. There was nothing
sudden about this. They did not argue about a girl, or fight over an imagined insult as so
many young people do. It was simply that they gradually began to do things by themselves
which, before that, they would have done together. So each began to develop different
interests.
5. Torbash spent his spare time hunting in the forests. He had been given a shotgun for
his fifteenth birthday. He would proudly return after a day's hunting with wild pigeons,
with rabbits, their eyes glazed in death, and sometimes with a deer. His greatest ambition
was to bring back a wild boar. His other main occupation was to visit Jalseen, where there
were girls with 'modern' ways. It was there that he got to know the 'contacts' who were to
help him later.
6. Milmaq was a solitary person. He would spend hours in the forests, not hunting,
simply sitti~ng still, watching, waiting for something to happen. A spider would swing its
thread across the canyon between two branches. A woodpecker would drum at the trunk of a
chestnut tree, its neck a blur of speed. Above all, the trees themselves would speak to him.
He would be aware of them creaking and swaying in the wind. He could sense the sap rising
in them in the springtime~ feel their sorrow at the approach of winter. If he put his ear to the
trunk of a tree, he could hear it growing, very slowly; feel it moving towards its final
magnificent shape.
7. Sometimes he would speak aloud to a tree. More often he would communicate with it
silently. Sometimes he would lose all sense of himself. It was as if he had become part of the
tree. This may sound like nonsense to you. Things are different now. But we still have an
expression for this in the old language: 'Ahashinat ain kashul '. It means, 'Finding the
centre~.
8. Please do not think that the brothers lost touch with each other, in that special way
that twins have. There was the time, one winter's evening, when Milmaq suddenly got up
from the table, pulling his father with him, and set off for the upper slopes of the valley.
Snow had fallen, and they soon found the tracks of boots and, soon after that, boar tracks.
They found Torbash crouching in the branches of an oak tree. Beneath the tree there was a
full-grown wild boar, grunting angrily.
9. It had a wound in its side. Their father killed it with the two barrels of his own
hunting gun. And no one, least of all Torbash, ever asked how Milmaq had known he was in
danger.
10. Just as Milmaq himself did not ask when Torbash arrived, as if by magic, to fight
off the gang of thugs who had attacked Milmaq in the street on one of his rare visits to
Jalseen. They were twins--'majeen taq asnaan' ('a plum with a double stone'). It was
natural. No one thought it in the least bit strange.
I1. It was not long after the incident with the boar that their father died. It was the
time of the grape harvest. He had gone out after supper to check on the fermentation of the
grapes in the vat. They found him floating in the vat, face downwards, tie must either have
had a heart attack or been overcome with the powerful fumes. Whichever, he was well and
truly dead, and there was nothing anyone could do about it. As we say, 'Fashan kat maan
nat, maan q'a nat. ' (When the time comes, the time has come. ) He was a brave man,
respected by all, and regretted by all.
12. He and his wife had survived many hardships together. But she could not bear to
live alone. Within three months, she had followed her husband to the place where all
sufferings cease. The two boys were left alone.
13. It was not long before Torbash left home. He had never enjoyed the hard work of
the farm. He needed to see things happen fast. He took a room in Jalseen and was soon
working in one of the newer places there. It was a sort of restaurant, but nothing like
anything we had seen before. It sold flat cakes of minced beef mixed with the sawdust (or
that's what it tasted like to us), grilled and served between two pieces of bread. The prices
were high but young people loved it. Torbash began by washing up the dirty dishes. Within
weeks he was 'supervising'. Soon afterwards, one of his 'contacts' offered him a better job
with a company selling a new type of drink. It was brown and had a sweet, perfumed taste.
And instead of quenching your thirst, it made you want to drink more. Give me a bottle of
Nirmat Kashin any day! The drink was made in a factory in the capital and, before long,
Torbash was promoted and went to work there in the head office. We did not see him for
several years.
14. Meantime Milmaq continued to farm the family land. He did not marry, and seldom
le(t the farm. When he was not on the land he would be in the woods. There were rumours
that he was becoming more and more strange. Hunters had found him deep in conversation
with an oak tree. He would walk through the woods greeting individual trees like old
friends. And he completely stopped the cutting of timber for sale. The only trees he cut were
dead or diseased. After several years, he closed up the old farmhouse and moved to an old
forester's hut up on the edge of the woods. He only took a few essential belongings with
him--a bed, a table, a chair, an old cooking stove and such like. Here he was closer to his
beloved trees. He had become a sort of hermit, what we ,',sed to call ' Horat vannah ' (holy
man). We respected him and left him alone, though occasionally one of us would pass by
just to ask if he needed anything.
15. One day Torbash arrived unexpectedly. He was dressed in one of those modern
suits, a shirt with red stripes and a bright red tie to match. He was driving a big red car
which made a lot of dust when it roared into the village. He told us he was now a big man in
another company. What sort of company? It made 'paper products', things like toilet paper
and paper handkerchiefs. (We didn't know what these were but we didn't show it. ) They
also made paper for printing books and newspapers. And a special part of the cmnpany made
furniture.
16. He had come to see his brother about selling the woods. We directed him to the
forester's hut. He left his car and went on foot up the steep path. Now I should explain
that, under our laws of inheritance, everything is left to the eldest son, 'Zirmat akal' (first
born). So the farm and the woods belonged to Torbash, even though it was Milmaq who
worked them.
17. I don't know what happened when they met but, when Torbash came back down,
his face was black with anger. He drove off without greeting us. A week later great
machines began to arrive, ploughing up the tracks as they went up the hillsides. The trees
began to be torn savagely, not in the old way. ()n the hillside away fr0m the forester's hut
there were no trees left, only a tangle of fallen trunks and smashed branches waiting to be
sawn up and dragged away.
18. When I called to see Milmaq I found him in his bed. He was terribly thin and had a
high fever. I kept watch over him for the next three days. During this time, the machines
were moving closer and closer to the hut. Soon there Were only a few trees standing. Until,
through the window, I could see just one tree left. It was a magnificent oak, the one which
Milmaq had often spoken to. The men moved in wixh their evil-sounding saws and began
work. I watched, hypnotized by the enormity of tiffs massacre of trees. Behimt me I heard
Milmaq stir. He staggered to his feet and leaned on tile window sill. The oak shuddered,
swayed and, with a gut-wrenching groan, crashed in a pile of splintered hram'hes. As it hit
the ground, Milmaq himself collapsed. He was dead. I looked at the clock, h was three in
the afternoon. In the distance I heard the rumble of thunder from the next valley.
19. We only heard about Torbash later. He had apparently left a meeting in his office
and driven off at high speed. All he had said was, 'My brother. My brother.' In his
desperate haste, he had taken a short cut along a forest track leading from the next valley to
our own. A violent thunderstorm had blown up--the one I had heard from Milmaq's hut. An
enormous oak tree had been struck by lightning. It had fallen across the track, crushing tile
car and Torbash with it. The crash had stopped the car clock. Its hands pointed to three.
20. 1 have finished. My story is told. 'Fashankat maan nat, inaanq~a nat '. (When the
time comes, the time has come. )
Questions (20 points)
26. In what aspects are the twins --Milmaq and Torbash similar?
27. In what aspects are the twins different'?
28. What role do you think the oak trees (forest) play in the short story?
29. Reread paragraphs 15 and 16 again. What do you think had happened when the twin
brothers met?
Part]II: Writing [20 points']
Summarize the story "The Man who Talked to Trees" in about 120 words.
试卷代号：1062
中央广播电视大学2006-2007学年度第一学期"开放本科"期末考试
英语专业 文学阅读与欣赏(文学英语赏析)
试题答案及评分标准
Part I: Literary Fundamentals [30 points']
Section 1. Match the writers with their works (2 points each}.
1. E. 2. H 3. F 4. C 5. A
Section 2. Decide whether the following statements are True (T) or False (F). (2 points each}
6. F 7. T 8. F 9. F 10. T
Section 3. Choose the correct answer to complete the following sentences. (2 points each)
11. D 12. C 13. B 14. A 15. B
Part lI: Reading Comprehension [-50 points-]
~ 3 points each for questions 16--25, 5 points each for questions 26--29.
~ Every 5 mistakes in grammar, spelling or of any other kind will lead to the reduction of
one point.
Text 1
16. B.
17. It was around two in the morning / It was after midnight.
18. It was a demoniac laugh--low, suppressed/ deep or unnatural/ goblinlaughter,
etc.
19. The narrator looked around but she could see nothing.
Text 2
20. B.
21. No. It is a free verse.
22. Any ONE of the devices anti the illustrative examples..
Repetition:
They do not sweat and whine about their condition,
They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins,
They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God"'
Parellelism and repetition:
Not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with ".
Not one kneels to another, nor to his kind that lived thousands of years ago,
Not one is respectable or unhappy over the whole earth.
Text 3
23. B.
24. A.
25. Your face is giving you away or your looks betray your feelings. (Points should be
given when ideas are similar. )
Text 4
26. They are similar in many ways: the time of birth, the family background, the
appearance, the common memory of their upbringing.
27. Award 5 points for any 2 of the following:
a. differences in their characters;
b. their ways of thinking and living;
c. their attitudes toward nalure and society;
d. their treatment of nature etc.
28. Any ideas similar to the following.
The oak tree/ forest is an important symbol in the story, helping to bring about the
theme of the story: the power of nature. When man live in harmony with nature, mother
nature is protective, h is a bringer of peace, happiness, contentment. When man acts
against the power of nature, disaster will fall.
29. Answers should be focused on the quarrel between the two brothers.
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