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全国2014年4月高等教育自学考试英美文学选读试题_第4页

来源:考试网 [ 2014年5月16日 ] 【大 中 小】

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  用黑色字迹的签字笔或钢笔将答案写在答题纸上,不能答在试题卷上。

  II. Reading Comprehension (16 points in all, 4 for each)

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

  41. Wherefore, Bees of England, forge

  Many a weapon, chain, and scourge,

  That these stingless drones may spoil

  The forced produce of your toil?

  Questions.

  A. Identify the poet and the poem from which the stanza is taken.

  B. What do you know about the poem' s writing background?

  C. What do you think the poet intends to say in the poem?

  42. Let us go then, you and I,

  When the evening is spread out against the sky

  Like a patient etherized upon a table;

  Let us go, through certain half -deserted streets,

  The muttering retreats

  Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels

  And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells:

  (The lines above are taken from “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T. S Eliot. )

  Questions..

  A. What does the poem present?

  B. What form is the poem composed in?

  C. What does the poem suggest?

  43. My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree

  Toward heaven still,

  And there's a barrel that I didn't fill

  Beside it, and there may be two or three

  Apples I didn't pick upon some bough.

  Questions.

  A. Identify the poet and the title of the poem from which the above lines are taken.

  B. What experience does the poem describe?

  C. What are the feelings of the speaker?

  44. This is my letter to the World

  That never wrote to Me —

  The simple News that Nature told —

  With tender Majesty

  Questions.

  A. Identify the poet.

  B. What idea does the poem express?

  C. Why does the poet use dashes and capital letters in the poem?

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