Section 1. Literary Fundamentals (50 points).
Decide whether the following statements are True (T ) or False (F). ( 2 points each).
1．Hamlet, The Merchant and Macbeth, Othello are 4 well-known tragedies by William Shakespeare.
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2．The play The Crucible 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．Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson 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 Hemmingway’s best-known works.
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8．Scrooge 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 （3 points each).
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.
setting
flashback
coda
climax
12．________ occurs when a writer repeats a particular grammatical or phonological pattern in close proximity.
Coda
parallelism
pun
alliteration
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
Flashback
Setting
14．_____ is the point in a play or novel where everything comes to a head, where the maximum emotional reaction of the reader is created.
Alliteration
Allusion
Flashback
Climax
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.”
“He has a heart of stone.”
“Government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth”
“Soon night will steal hours from the day.”
18．_______ contains an example of alliteration.
Better late than never.
“He was secret, self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.”
“United we stand, divided we fall.”
“ 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.”
“ Her tongue is like a sharp knife.”
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.”
“My face is an open book.”
Section 2: Reading Comprehension (50 points, 5 points each).
Text 1
‘There’s going to be a moon tonight,’ said Nick. He looked across the bay to the hills that were beginning to sharpen against the sky. Beyond the hills he knew the moon was coming up.
‘I know it,’ Marjorie said happily.
‘You know everything,’ Nick said.
‘Oh, Nick, please cut it out! Please, please don’t be that way!’
‘I can’t help it,’ Nick said. ‘You do. You know everything. That’s the trouble. You know you do.’
Marjorie did not say anything.
‘I’ve taught you everything. You know you do. What don’t you know, anyway?’
‘Oh, shut up,’ Marjorie said. ‘There comes the moon.’
They sat on the blanket without touching each other and watched the moon rise.
‘You don’t have to talk silly,’ Marjorie said; ‘what’s really the matter?’
‘I don’t know.’
‘Of course you know.’
‘No, I don’t.’
’Go on and say it.’
Nick looked on at the moon, coming up over the hills.
‘It isn’t any fun any more.’
He was afraid to look at Marjorie. Then he looked at her. She sat with her back towards him. He looked at her back. ‘It isn’t fun any more. Not any of it.’
She didn’t say anything. He went on. ‘I feel as though everything was gone to hell inside of me. I don’t know, Marge. I don’t know what to say.’
He looked at her back.
‘Isn’t love any fun?’ Marjorie said.
‘No,’ Nick said. Marjorie stood up. Nick sat there, his head in his hands.
‘I’m going to take the boat,’ Marjorie called to him. ‘You can walk back around the point.’
‘I’ll push the boat off for you.’
‘You don’t need to,’ she said. She was afloat in the boat on the water with the moonlight on it. Nick went back and lay down with his face in the blanket by the fire. He could hear Marjorie rowing on the water.
He lay there for a long time. He lay there while he heard Bill come into the clearing, walking around through the woods. He felt Bill coming up to the fire. Bill didn’t touch him, either.
‘Did she go all right?’ Bill said.
‘Oh, yes,’ Nick said, lying, his face on the blankets.
‘Have a scene?’
‘No, there wasn’t any scene.’
‘How do you feel?’
‘Oh, go away, Bill! Go away for a while.’
Bill selected a sandwich from the lunch basket and walked over to have a look at the rods.
( Ernest Hemingway. The Essential Hemingway.).
21．In this text, the writer depicts character through _________.
how the characters look
what the characters say and how they say it
what the characters say
22．At the beginning of the text, Nick says to Marjorie “ You know everything.” This line can reveal that __________.
Nick is proud of Marjorie’s wide range of knowledge
Nick is accusing Marjorie of hiding her knowledge
Nick is irritated that his relationship with Marjorie is not going on well
23．What does Nick’s line “ Oh, go away, Bill! Go away for a while.” reveal about Nick’s true feelings?
Nick is confused by what Bill says.
Nick is upset by Bill’s insistent question.
Nick is irritated by Bill’s friendship and intimacy with Marjorie.
24．From the dialogue between Nick and Marjorie, we can be sure ________.
Nick is making up for his past neglect of Marjorie
there is tension between them
Marjorie is madly in love with Nick
25．In the text, we get just the barebones of __________, we rarely get _________.
what the character says, how the words are spoken
the characters’ future intentions, how the characters are feeling
the setting , the narrator’s attitude towards the characters
Text 2
The dealers did not glance at one another nor at the pearl. The man behind the desk said, “ I have put a value on this pearl. The owner here does not think it fair. I will ask you to examine this – this thing and make an offer. Notice,” he said to Kino, “I have not mentioned what I have offered.”
The first dealer, dry and stringy, seemed now to see the pearl for the first time. He took it up, rolled it quickly between thumb and forefinger, and then cast it contemptuously back into the tray.
“Do not include me in this discussion,”he said dryly. “I will make no offer at all. I do not want it. This is not a pearl – it is a monstrosity.” His thin lips curled.
Now the second dealer, a little man with a shy soft voice, took up the pearl, and he examined it carefully. He took a glass from his pocket and inspected it under magnification. Then he laughed softly.
“Better pearls are made of paste,”he said. “I know these things. This is soft and chalky, it will lose its color and die in a few months. Look –.” He offered the glass to Kino, showed him how to use it, and Kino, who had never seen a pearl’s surface magnified, was shocked at the strange-looking surface.
The third dealer took the pearl from Kino’s hands. “One of my clients likes such things,” he said. “I will offer five hundred pesos, and perhaps I can sell it to my client for six hundred.”
Kino reached quickly and snatched the pearl from his hand. He wrapped it in the deerskin and thrust it inside his shirt.
The man behind the desk said, “I’m a fool, I know, but my first offer stands. I still offer a thousand. What are you doing?” he asked, as Kino thrust the pearl out of sight.
“I am cheated,”Kino cried fiercely. “My pearl is not for sale here. I will go, perhaps even to the capital.”
Now the dealers glanced quickly at one another. They knew they had played too hard; they knew they would be disciplined for their failure, and the man at the desk said quickly, ‘I might go to fifteen hundred.’
But Kino was pushing his way through the crowd. The hum of talk came to him dimly, his rage blood pounded in his ears, and he burst through and strode away. Juana followed, trotting after him.
26．The text is taken from ______.
Heart of Darkness
The Pearl
Lord of the Flies
27．It is obvious that the three dealers _________.
conspired together to cheat Kino.
were not interested in Kino’s pearl.
didn’t know much about the shapes and sizes of pearls.
28．Which of the following is true of the third dealers?
He wanted to pay Kino only after his clients had paid him
He just went through the prearranged plot with other buyers.
He was not interested in Kino’s pearl.
29．In context, the word “played” is closest in meaning to ______.
conspired together to cheat
behaved playfully
bargain playfully
30．The sentences in the last paragraph suggest that _____.
the dealers and the crowd became angry and they pushed Kino out of the shop
Kino’s wife had a violent temper and tended to get angry easily
Kino was angry beyond words and was becoming violent in his anger
