2004年4月英美文学选读试题答案
I Multiple choice
1-7 B A C D C B D
8-14 A B B B A A C
15-21 C A A C D D D
22-28 C D B D A B C
29-35 D D B D C D B
36-40 B D B A C
II readming comprehinsion
41 A. John Donne:”Death Be Not Proud.”
B. Death
C. Shortly after our death(compared to “sleep”), our soul will enter heaven and live happily forever.
42. A. To move smoothly and quietly, as if no effort was being made.
B. Personification. Here the river is personified so that it has its own will.
C. Wordsworth emphasizes that the river runs freely ( in the early morning because there is no barges or steamers or other kind of man-made burdens imposed on it to hinder its running.)
43. A. Emily Dickinson: (465) “I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died”.
B. Eyes, for they are considered as the windows of human soul.
C. The last thing the dying person saw and heard was the fly and its buzz. When the eyes failed, the human soul was closed and the person died. (The speaker could not see any of the afterlife or God or angels she expected to see.)
44. A. Ernes Hemingway: Indian Camp.
B. Life and death.
C. When father says that dying is pretty easy, he might be thinking about the self-murdered husband. But when he reflects on the wife’s miracle survival of the violent pain in the whole process of birth, he adds the final sentence. Dying is both hard and easy, it all depends on individuals.
III Questions and Answers
45. A. The play reveals that guilt for prostitution lies more upon the social system than the immoral woman.
B. In the play, Shaw shows clearly that all human sufferings are consequences of the cruel economic exploitation, which is pursued shamelessly by the so-called respectable members of the society through the lowest and the dirtiest means.
46. A. Emily Bronte starts the story from towards the end when Heathcliff is master of both Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange and little Cathy and Hareton are still in his clutch, and then goes back to the very beginning and moves back and forth as the occasion requires.
B. Most of the story is told by Nelly, Catherine’s old nurse, to Mr. Lockwood, a temporary tenant at Thrushcross Grange.
C. Part of it is told by Mr. Lockwood himself, and part through Catherine’s diary and Isabella’s letters to Nelly.
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