期末考试试题结构及命题原则

　　试题结构
　　第一部分：文学基础知识 30% （多项选择/判断正误/配对/填空）
　　第二部分： 作品阅读理解 50% （简答）
　　第三部分：写作 20% （命题作文）

　　命题原则
　　根据教材所涵盖的有关知识内容以及与教材难度相当的书面语言材料命题，涉及教材内容不少于50%。

文学基础知识考核形式及复习重点

　　考核形式
　　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

Important authors

　　1. Ernest Hemingway, American novelist and short story writer, Nobel prize winner.

　　2.James Joyce, Irish novelist, poet, one of the innovative writers of the 20th century.

　　3.John Steinbeck, American novelist, also a Nobel prize winner.

　　4. Harold Pinter, British dramatist, also a Nobel prize winner.

　　5. Sherwood Anderson, American writer who influenced American short story writing between World War I and II.

6.Thomas Hardy, British novelist and poet.
　　7.William Golding, British novelist, also a Nobel prize winner.
　　8.Charles Dickens, British novelist.
　　9.Joseph Conrad, Polish-born English novelist and short story writer.
　　10. Charlotte Bronte, British woman novelist, eldest of the Bronte sisters.
　　11.William Shakespeare, British playwright and poet.
　　12.Oscar Wilde, Irish playwright, poet, novelist and literary critic.
　　13. Arthur Miller , American playwright.
　　14. Robert Frost, American poet.
　　15.Walt Whitman, American poet.
　　16. J. B. Priestly, British novelist and playwright.

Section 2. Decide whether the following statements are True (T ) or False (F) (10 points).

　　1. Arthur Miller wrote his play The Crucible in 1950s. The play is aimed at exposing the hypocrisy of the property-owning class of the United States. （F）
　　2. Macbeth is one of Shakespeare's tragedies. （T）
　　3. What has been termed confessional poetry is widely associated with American poets such as Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath.（T）
　　4．"I have a dream" is a famous speech made by President Lincoln during the American Civil War. （F）
　　5． Wide Sargasso Sea, is based on the story of Jane Eyre. （T）

Section 3. Choose the correct answers to complete the following sentences (10 points).
　　1．Usually ___C___ 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

　　2. 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 _A____is a pair of rhymed lines that are equal in length.
　　A. couplet 　　B. ballad
　　C. sonnet　　D. limerick

3. ____A_______ 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
　　4.Which figure of speech is used in the following lines by Martin Luther King? B
　　"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
　　5. 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 ____D____".
　　A. tasted, skimmed　　　　B. skimmed, scanned　
　　C. scanned, perfected　　D. tasted, digested

长篇小说考核形式及复习重点

　　Reading Comprehension Novel Extract
　　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
　　1. Why wouldn't children like to ask Mr. Scrooge the time? Because he is a means person, he won’t help anybody.

2. What is the reaction of the blind men's dogs when they encountered Mr. Scrooge? Indicating that this man is an evil person.

Important novels

　　Jane Eyre
　　A Christmas Carol
　　Great Expectations (重点自学)
　　The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
　　Heart of Darkness
　　Lord of the Flies
　　The Old Man and the Sea (重点自学)
　　The Pearl

诗歌考核形式及复习重点

　　Poetry extract
　　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
　　1.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"?

The poet is celebrating or expressing the importance of love to one of the loved one to the death

2. Identify the key verbs the poet uses to call for things to be got rid of.

Put out, pack up, dismantle, pour away, sweep up

Important Works
　　Rain
　　The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
　　Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone
　　I think I could turn and live with animals
　　Words
　　Love Your Enemy
　　Futility
　　Acquainted with the Night
　　The War Process
　　Too Soon
　　Leisure

戏剧考核形式及复习重点

　　Play extract
　　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
　　1.What are Lady Bracknell's main criteria for choosing a husband for her daughter? Support your answer with a quotation from the text.

Income,
　　2. Which does Lady Bracknell prefer, investment or land? Support your answer with a quotation from the text.

Investment; 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.

Important Works

　　Macbeth
　　The Dumb Waiter
　　The Importance of Being Earnest
　　An Inspector Calls
　　The Crucible　

散文及演讲辞考核形式及复习重点
　　Non-fiction extract

　　Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of captivity. But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free.

　　One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land.
　　 (I have a dream)

　　Questions
　　1.The speech is made by ________.
　　A. Abraham Lincoln　　B. Martin Luther King　　C. Francis Bacon

　　2. Find an example of figure of speech used in the extract.
metaphor: as a great beacon light of hope; in the flames of withering injustice.

3. Summarize the speaker's points in two or three sentences.
the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. the Negro is still languishing in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land.
　　Important Works
　　The Gettysburg Address
　　I Have a Dream
　　Of Studies

短篇小说复习重点
　　Important works
　　The Sniper
　　The Way Up to Heaven
　　Bluebells and Autumn Leaves
　　Words Long Unspoken
　　The Man Who Talked to Trees
　　The End of Something
　　Hills Like White Elephants
　　Eveline
　　he Thief
　　Paper Pills

　　写作考核形式
　　根据试卷第二部分所读的或教程中所学的文学作品写摘要、评论或读后感受等。