Section 1. Literary Fundamentals (40 points, 2 points each).
Decide whether the following statements are True (T ) or False (F) .
1．Macbeth is William Shakespeare’s well-known comedy.
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2．The Crucible by Arthur Miller, concerns a real historical incident, involving witchcraft and an attack of mass hysteria.
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3．Lady Bracknell is a comic character created by Oscar Wilde in his play The Importance of Being Ernest.
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4．“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” is a protest poem against racial discrimination.
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5．Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost are well-known American poets.
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6．In the poem “Acquainted with the Night”, the speaker expressed his distress at the death of his lover and bewilderment of the meaning of life.
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7．The Old Man and the Sea is one of Ernest Hemingway’s best-known short stories.
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8．Pip is a character created by Charles Dickens in his novel A Christmas Carol.
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9．The novel The Heart of Darkness exposes the corruption, cruelty and greed of the colonial system in Africa.
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10．“I Have a Dream” is a famous speech made by President Lincoln during the American Civil War.
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Choose the correct answer.
11．Usually ______ 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.
point of view
flashback
coda
climax
12．________ occurs when a writer repeats a particular grammatical or phonological pattern in close proximity.
alliteration
parallelism
pun
climax
13．______ can be established by describing the place where the action takes place, or the situation at the start of the story.
Climax
Point of view
Coda
Setting
14．_____ is written to commemorate someone who has died.
A limerick
A sonnet
An epic
An elegy
15．A writer can show character by giving a physical description, through _________ and through deeds.
dialogue
climax
setting
point of view
16．_____ is an example of simile.
“ Her tongue is a sharp knife.”
” Her eyes twinkled like stars.”
” She has a heart of stone.”
“ The windows waves violently in the wind.”
17．_____ is an example of parallelism.
“Childhood is like a swiftly passing dream.”
“All the world’s a stage and all the men and women are merely players.”
“Government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth”
“The street shone out, like a fire in the forest.”
18．_______ contains an example of alliteration.
“Her eyes twinkled like stars.”
“He was secret, self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.”
“Soon, night will steal hours from the day.”
“ Her tongue is like a sharp knife.”
19．_____ contains examples of metaphor.
“The Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity.
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness.”
“The street shone out, like a fire in the forest.”
“ United we stand, divided we fall.”
20．_____ is an example of personification.
“Childhood is like a swiftly passing dream.”
“The years have silvered her hair.”
“All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women are merely players.”
“Life is a journey. Travel it well.”
Section 2. Reading Comprehension (60 points, 6 points each).
Text 1
Elizabeth: I think you must go to Salem, John. (He turns to her.) I think so. You must tell them it is a fraud.
Proctor (thinking beyond this): Aye, it is, it is surely.
Elizabeth: Let you go to Ezekiel Cheever — he knows you well. And tell him what she said to you last week in her uncle’s house. She said it had naught to do with witchcraft, did she not?
Proctor (in thought): Aye, she did, she did. (Now a pause.)
Elizabeth (quietly, fearing to anger him by proddin.)： God forbid you keep that from the court, John. I think they must be told.
Proctor (quietly, struggling with his thoughts.) Aye, they must, they must. It is a wonder they do believe her.
Elizabeth: I would go to Salem now, John — let you go tonight.
Proctor: I’ll think on it.
Elizabeth (with her courage now.): You cannot keep it, John.
Proctor (angering.): I know I cannot keep it. I say I will think on it!
Elizabeth (hurt, and very coldly.): Good, then let you think on it. (She stands and starts to walk out of the room.)
Proctor: I am only wondering how I may prove what she told me. If the girl’s a saint now, I think it not easy to prove she’s a fraud, and the town gone so silly. She told it to me in a room alone — I have no proof of it.
Elizabeth: You were alone with her?
Proctor (stubbornly): For a moment alone, aye.
Elizabeth: Why, then, it is not as you told me.
Proctor (his anger rising): For a moment, I say. The others come in soon after.
Elizabeth (quietly — she has suddenly lost all faith in him): Do as you wish, then. (she starts to turn).
Proctor: Woman. (She turns to him.) I’ll not have your suspicion any more.
Elizabeth (a little loftily): I have no —
Proctor: I’ll not have it!
Elizabeth: Then let you not earn it.
Proctor (with a violent undertone): You doubt me yet?
Elizabeth (with a smile, to keep her dignity): John, if it were not Abigail that you must go to hurt, would you falter now? I think not.
Proctor: Now look you —
Elizabeth: I see what I see, John.
Proctor (with solemn warning): You will not judge me more, Elizabeth. I have good reason to think before I charge fraud on Abigail, and I will think on it. Let you look to your own improvement before you go to judge your husband any more. I have forgot Abigail, and —
Elizabeth: And I.
Proctor: Spare me! You forget nothin’ and forgive nothin’. Learn charity, woman. I have gone tiptoe in this house all seven month since she is gone. I have not moved from there to there without I think to please you, and still an everlasting funeral marches round your heart. I cannot speak but I am doubted, every moment judged for lies, as though I come into a court when I come into this house!
Elizabeth: John, you are not open with me. You saw her with a crowd, you said. Now you —
Proctor: I’ll plead my honesty no more, Elizabeth.
Elizabeth (now she would justify herself) : John, I am only —
Proctor: No more! I should have roared you down when first you told me your suspicion. But I wilted, and, like a Christian, I confessed. Confessed! Some dream I had must have mistaken you for God that day. But you’re not, you’re not and let you remember it! Let you look sometimes for the goodness in me, and judge me not.
Elizabeth: I do not judge you. The magistrate sits in your heart that judges you. I never thought you but a good man, John — (with a smile ) — only somewhat bewildered.
Proctor (laughing bitterly): Oh, Elizabeth, your justice would freeze beer!
21．In this text, the relationship between the man and the woman is that of _________.
lawyer and client
teacher and student
husband and wife
22．Proctor is not ready to ______.
testify against Elizabeth
help his neighbors
testify against Abigail.
23．What does Proctor’s line “ Elizabeth, your justice would freeze beer.” reveal about his true feelings?
Proctor is confused by what Elizabeth says
Proctor is upset and irritated by Elizabeth’s extreme coldness.
Protor is jealous of Elizabeth because her friendship with lawyers.
24．From the dialogue between Proctor and Elizabeth, we can be sure ________.
Proctor is making up for his past neglect of Elizabeth.
there is tension between Proctor and Elizabeth.
Proctor is secretly and madly in love with another girl.
25．In the text, Elizabeth is portrayed as _________.
insistent and suspicious
guilty and depressed
self-disgusted and terrified
Text 2
Lady Bracknell: (sitting down) You can take a seat, Mr. Worthing.
(looks in her pocket for notebook and pencil.)
Jack Worthing: Thank you, Lady Bracknell, I prefer standing.
Lady Bracknell (pencil and notebook in hand): I feel bound to tell you that you are not down on my list of eligible young men, although I have the same list as the dear Duchess of Bolton has. We work together, in fact. However, I am quite ready to enter your name, should your manners be what a really affectionate mother requires. Do you smoke?
Jack Worthing: Well, yes, I must admit I smoke.
Lady Bracknell: I am glad to hear it. A man should always have an occupation of some kind. There are far too many idle men in London as it is. How old are you?
Jack Worthing: Twenty-nine.
Lady Bracknell: A very good age to be married at. I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing. Which do you know?
Jack Worthing (after some hesitation): I know nothing, Lady Bracknell.
Lady Bracknell: I am pleased to hear it. I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square. What is your income?
Jack Worthing: Between seven and eight thousand a year.
Lady Bracknell (makes a note in her book): In land, or in investments?
Jack Worthing: 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 Worthing: 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.
26．The relationship between Lady Bracknell and Gwendolen is that of ______.
employer and employee
mother and daughter
estate owner and tenant
27．In this extract, Lady Bracknell is interviewing Jack Worthing on his suitability as a possible ________.
husband for Gwendolen
investment adviser
live-in domestic helper
28．Why does Lady Bracknell prefer investments to owning land?
She believes it is a safer source of income than investment.
She believes Land involves too many expenses during life, and is then taxed heavily after one’s death.
She expects owning land can give her daughter a higher social position.
29．Which of the following statement is true, according to the text?
Lady Bracknell uses highly exaggerated language and shifts from one topic to another abruptly.
Lady Bracknell prefers her daughter to marry a well-educated man, rather than a well-connected men with plenty of money.
Few of Lady Bracknell’s questions focus on Jack Worthing’s income, property and family connections.
30．Lady Bracknell is portrayed as ______.
dedicated follower of fashion
a shrewd human resource manager
a snobbish woman
