中央广播电视大学英语专业文学阅读与欣赏试题含参考答案.doc

中央广播电视大学2008—2009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试题
PAPER ONE Reading (110 minutes) (70 points)
Ⅰ. Text 1 (Questions 1--4 are based on the following text. )( 15 points)
Municipal Gum *
By Oodgeroo Noonuccal
Gumtree in the city street,
Hard bitumen(沥青) around your feet,
Rather you should be
In the cool world of leafy forest hails
And wild bird calls.
Here you seem to me
Like that poor cart horse
Castrated, broken, a thing wronged,
Strapped and buckled, its hell prolonged,
Whose hung head and listless face express
Its hopelessness.
Municipal gum, it is dolorous(忧伤的)
To see you thus
Set in your black grass of bitumen
O fellow citizen,
What have they done to us?
* An Austalian tree that is considered as a national symbol of Australia.
* Oodgeroo Noonuccal is a famous aboriginal(土著) Australian writer.
Questions on Text 1
1. The rhyme scheme for the beginning 5 lines of the poem is
b .
2. Identify two examples of figures of speech used in the poem. 3. Identify two words or phrases in the poem that convey the tone of the poem to the reader. 4. What meaning do you think the poet is trying to convey to the reader in the last two lines of the poem? (5 points)
Ⅱ. Text 2 (Questions 5--12 are based on the following text. ) (25 points)
Ⅰ: Oh, please don"t get up, Mr. Crawley. I was just wondering if
you meant what you said the other day about showing me the run
of things.
Frank: Of course, I did,
Ⅰ: What are you doing now?
Frank: Notifying all the tenants that in celebration of Maxim"s return,
with his bride, this week"s rent will be free.
Ⅰ: Oh, was that Maxim"s idea?
Frank: Oh, yes. All the servants get an extra week"s wages, too.
Ⅰ: He didn"t tell me. Oh can"t I help you? I could at least lick
the stamps.
Frank: That"s terribly nice of you. Won"t you sit down?
Ⅰ: Oh yes, thank you. I was down at the cottage on the beach the
other day, and there was a man there, a queer sort of person.
Jasper kept barking at him.
Frank: Oh, yes--must have been Ben, he"s quite harmless. We give him
odd jobs now and then.
Ⅰ: That cottage place seeing to be going to rack and ruin. Why isn"t
something done about it?
Frank: Oh, I think if Maxim wanted anything done about it, he"d tell
me.
Ⅰ: Are those all Rebecca"s things down there?
Frank: Yes, yes they are.
Ⅰ: What did she use the cottage for?
Frank: The boat used to be moored near there.
Ⅰ: What boat? What happened to it"? Was that the boat she was crying
in when she was drowned?
Frank: Yes, it capsized and sank. She was washed overboard.
Ⅰ: Wasn"t she afraid to go out like that, alone?
Frank: She wasn"t afraid of anything.
Ⅰ: Where did they find her?
Frank: Near Edgecomber, about forty miles up channel, about two months
afterwards. Maxim went up to identify her. It was horrible for
him.
Ⅰ: Yes, it must have been, Mr. Crawley, please don5 think me morbidly
curious-it isn"t that. It"s just that I feel at such a
disadvantage. All the time, whenever meet anyone Maxim"s sister,
even the servants, I know they"re all thinking the same tiring.
They"re all comparing me with her, Rebecca.
Frank: Oh, you mustn"t think that. I can"t tell you bow glad I am that
you married Maxim. It"s going to make all the difference to his
life. And from my point of view it"s very refreshing to find
someone like yourself who is not entirely-er-in tune, shall we
say, with Manderley.

Questions on Text 2
5. What literary genre do you think the above piece of writing could come from? Choose the most correct answer from the choices below. (3 points)
A. comedy B. romance
C. science-fiction D. drama
6. Who do you think the main character of the writing is? (2 points)
7. What do you think is the setting for the above conversation? (3 points)
8. What (if any) was the relationship between "I" and "Frank"? (2 points)
9. What importance/significance could Ben and the cottage have in relation to Rebecca? (3 points)
10. What do you think was the purpose of the author in writing the above conversation in the first person point of view "I"? (2 points)
11. How could the story develop based on what you have read? (4 points)
12. Write a sentence to describe each of the following characters: Rebecca; I； Maxim. (6 points)

Ⅱ. Text 3 (Questions 13--20 are based on the following text. ) (30 points)
Here is an abridged short story, Indian Camp, written by Ernest Hemingway. Read it and answer Questions 13 20 that follow.
Please note: This reading task will be relevant to the writing task in Paper Two.
Indian Camp
By Ernest Hemingway
At the lake shore there was another rowboat drawn up. The two Indians stood waiting. Nick and his father got in the stern(船尾部) of the boat and the Indians shoved it off and one of them got in to row. Uncle George sat in the stern of the camp rowboat. The young Indian shoved the camp boat off and got in to row Uncle George.
"Where are we going, Dad?" Nick asked.
"Over to the Indian camp. There is an Indian lady very sick. "
"Oh," said Nick.
Across the bay they found another boat beached. Uncle George was smoking a cigar in the dark. The other Indian pulled the boat way up on the beach. Uncle George gave both the Indians cigars.
They walked up from the beach through a meadow that was soaking wet with dew and followed a logging trail ... They came round a bend and a dog came out barking. Ahead were the lights of the huts of the Indian bark peelers. In the doorway of one of the huts an old woman stood iii the doorway holding a lamp.
Inside on a wooden bunk lay a young Indian woman. She had been trying to have her baby for two days. All the old women in the camp had been trying to help her. She screamed just as Nick and the two Indians followed his father and Uncle George into the hut. She lay in the lower bunk, very big under a quilt. Her head was turned Io one side. In the upper bunk was her husband. He had cut his foot very badly with an ax three days before. He was
smoking a pipe and the room smelt very had.
"This lady is going lo have a baby, Nick," he said.
(1) "l know", said Nick.
"You don"t know," said his lather. "Listen to me. What she is through is called being in labor. The baby wants to be born and she wants it to be born. All her muscles are trying to gel the baby born. That is what is happening when she screams."
"I see," Nick said.
(2) Just then the woman screamed.
"Oh, Daddy, can"t you give her something to make her stop screaming?" asked Nick.
"No. I haven"t any anesthetic," his father said. "But her screams are not important. I don’t hear them because they are not important."
The husband in the upper bunk rolled over against the wall.
The woman in the kitchen motioned to the doctor that the water was hot. "Those must boil," he said, and began to scrub his hands preparing for the delivery of the baby. When he had made himself ready, he re-entered and went to work.
"Pull back that quilt, will you George?" be said. "I"d rather not touch it."
Later when he started to operate Uncle George and the three Indian men held the woman still. She bit Uncle George on the arm and Uncle George said, "Damn squaw bitch!" and the young Indian who had rowed Uncle George Over laughed at him. Nick held the basin for his lather. It all took a long time.
His father picked the baby up and slapped it on the bottom to make it breathe and handed it to the old woman.
"See, it"s a boy, Nick," he said. "How do you like being a doctor"s assistant?"
Nick said, "All right." He was looking away so as not to see what his father was doing.
"Now," his father said, "there"s some stitches to put in. You can watch this or not,
Nick, just as you like. I"m going to sew up the incision I made. "
Nick did not watch. His curiosity had long since gone. His father finished and stood up, looked at the woman who seemed so pale and then said, "I"ll be back in the morning to see
how she is, the nurse from town should be here by then."
"That"s one for the medical journal, George," he said. "Doing a caesaerian with a jack knife(折叠刀) and tying it up with three metres of nylon fishing line."
Uncle George was standing against the wail, looking at his arm.
"Oh, you"re a great man, all right." he said.
"Ought to have a look at the proud father. They’re usually the worst sufferers in these little affairs," the doctor said. "I must say he took it all very quietly."
He pulled back the blanket from the Indian"s head. His hand came away wet. He mounted the edge of the lower bunk with the lamp in one hand and looked in. The Indian lay with his face towards the wall. His throat had been cat from ear to ear. The blood bad flowed down into a pool where his body sagged the hunk. His head rested on his left arm. The open razor lay, edge up, in the blankets.
"Take Nick out of the hut, George," the doctor said.
There was no need of that. Nick, standing in the door of the kitchen, had a good view of the upper bank when his father, the lamp in hand, tipped the Indian"s head back.
It was just beginning to be daylight when they walked along the track leading to the lake.
"Urn terribly sorry I brought you along, Nickie," said his father, all his post operative exhilaration gone. "It was an awful mess to put you through."
"Do ladies always have such a hard time having babies?" Nick asked.
"No, that was very, very exceptional."
"Why did he kill himself, Daddy?"
"I don"t know, Nick. He couldn"t stand things, I guess."
"Do many men kill themselves, Daddy?"
"Not very many, Nick."
"Do many women?"
"Hardly ever. "
"Don"t they ever?"
"Oh, yes. They do sometimes."
"Daddy?"
"Yes."
"Where did Uncle George go?"
"Hell turn up all right."
(3) "Is dying hard, Daddy?"
"No, I think it"s pretty easy, Nick. it alt depends."
They were seated in the boat, Nick in the stern, his father rowing. The sun was coming up over the hills. A bass (fish) jumped, making a circle in the water. Nick trailed his hang in the water. It felt warm in the sharp chill of the morning.
In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die.
Questions on Text 3
13. Who was the main character of the story? (2 points)
14. Based on the dialogue between Nick and his father in the story, what was then relationship, other than father and son? (2 points)
15. What was the most unexpected event that happened in this short story? (3 points)
16, What role did Uncle George play in the story? (3 points)
17. Read the first underlined section in the story. Why did Nick say he knew, yet his father said he didn"t know? (5 points)
18. Read the second underlined section in the story. Why were the woman"s screams unimportant? (5 points)
19. Why do you think the Indian cut his throat? (5 points)
20. What reasons can you give for Nick"s father saying that dying was "pretty easy" (in the third underlined section)? (5 points)

PAPER TWO: Writing (40 minutes) (30 points)
Title: Indian Camp (about 200 words)
Instructions:
• Imagine you are Nick. Retell the story from his point of view.
• You should slick to the original story line and keep the basic content of the story.
• Use specific words to express your feelings and experiences as you imagine would he true of Nick. [Note! Do not simply copy Nick"s words from the text]

答案

Ⅰ. Questions 1--4 are based on Text 1. (16 points)
1. aabcc (2 points)
2． (a) Simile: "You(the trees) seem to me like that cart-horse" (3 points)
(b) Personification: "(Municipal gum) whose hung head and listless face..."
(3 points)
3． (Words similar to imprisoned OR bound/tied up) examples: strapped and buckled; castrated; hell prolonged; listless face
(2 points, 1 point for one correct answer, award a maximum of 2 points.)
4． Like the gum tree, bound and encased in black bitumen (symbolism), and bound and controlled like a cart horse (beast of burden) the author feels that black Aboriginal Australians are similarly treated by white Australian society.
(OR similar answer) (5 points)

Ⅱ. Questions 5--12 are based on Text 2. (25 points)
5. D (3 points)
6. Rebecca (because there is a mystery aspect to her character) (2 points)
7. The home of Maxim (OR large house near the beach) (3 points)
8. Frank may have been a friend of Maxim or a servant of the household. He probably had no relationship to "I" other than as a friend. (2 points)
9. Uncertain, but there could have been some link lo Rebecca"s death. The cottage and/or Ben may have bad a role to play. (3 points)
10 To emphasize from whose point of view the story is being told. Also to place
the focus on a specific character (OR similar answer). (2 points)
11. Any answer providing it is relevant lo the extract and characters is plausible.
(4 points)
12. ( 1 ) Rebecca: Died in a boating accident and was married to Maxim.
May bare been a difficult person to understand. People thought
she was very nice. (2 points)
(2) "I": About to be married to Maxim and was the subject of gossip
by relatives and servants. Trying to find out more about Maxim"s first
wife, Rebecca. (2 points)
(3) Maxim: Previously married to Rebecca, may have been unhappily married
and is marrying someone who seems to be quite different in some ways
to Rebecca. (2 points)

Ⅲ. Questions 13--20 are based on Text 3. (30 points)

13. Nick (OR both Nick and his father) (2 points)
14. A close loving and understanding relationship. The father is acting as Nick" teacher. (2 points)
15. The Indian husband cutting his throat. This action was unexpected and seemed out of place (surprise element) when he was about to become a father.
(3 points)
16. A supporting role, giving a relationship depth to Nick and his father. Another
focal point for