V. Identification. (10 points, 1 point for each blank)
Directions: In this part of the test, there are five excerpts. Judge the authors and titles of these works and write the corresponding answers on the ANSWER SHEET.
50. That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall,
Looking as if she were alive. I call
That piece a wonder, now: Fr Pandolf’s hands
Worked busily a day, and there she stands.
Will’t please you sit and look at her? I said
“Fr Pandolf” by design, for never read
Strangers like you that pictured countenance,
The depth and passion of its earnest glance,
But to myself they turned (since none puts by
The curtain I have drawn for you, but I)
And seemed as they would ask me, if they durst,
How such a glance came there; so, not the first
Are you to turn and ask thus.
Author: ________
Work: ________
51. Then I saw in my dream, that when they were got out of the wilderness, they presently saw a town before them, and the name of that town is Vanity； and at the town there is a fair kept, called Vanity Fair; it is kept all the year long; it bearth the name of Vanity Fair because the town where it is kept is lighter than vanity; and also because all that is there sold, or that cometh thither, is vanity. As is the saying of the wise, “All that cometh is vanity”.
Author: ________
Work: ________
52. 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, throuth certain half-deserted streets,
The muttering retreats
Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels
And sawdust restaurants with oyster shells:
Streets that follow like a tedious argument
Of insidious intent
To lead you to an overwhelming question…
Oh, do not ask, “What is it?”
Let us go and make our visit.
Author: ________
Work: ________
53. Behold her, single in the field,
You solitary Highland lass!
Reaping and singing by herself;
Stop here, or gently pass!
Along she cuts and binds the grain,
And sings a melancholy strain;
O listen! For the Vale profound
Is overflowing with the sound.
Author: ________
Work: ________
54. To be， or not to be-that is the question;
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die, to sleep-
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to，’tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish’d.
Author: ________
Work: ________
VI. Answer the Questions. (20 points, 5 points for each)
Directions: In this part of the test, there are four questions. Give brief answers to them and write your answers for each separately on the ANSWER SHEET.
55. What is a “heroic couplet”?
56. What does “critical realism” in the Victorian period mean?
57. Why does Pride and Prejudice become a classic novel?
58. What is the theme of Jane Eyre?
VII. Comment. (11 points)
Directions: In this part of the test, there is one question. Make a comment on this question and write it on the ANSWER SHEET.
59. What do you know about Modernism in British literature?
