试卷代号：1062
国家开放大学2 0 1 9年秋季学期期末统一考试
文学英语赏析试题
2020年1月
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Information for the examlnees:
● This examination consists of 3 parts. They are:
Part I:Literary Fundamentals (30 points)
Part II: Reading Comprehension (50 points)
Part III: Writing (20 points)
● The total marks for this examination are 100 points. Time
allowed for completing this examination is 90 minutes.
● There will be no extra time to transfer answers to the Answer
Sheet; therefore, you should write ALL your answers on the
Answer Sheet as you do each task.
Part I Literary Fundamentals [30 points]
Section l. Match the works with their writers (10 points).
Works
1. Hills Like White Elephants
2. The Mayor of Casterbridge
3. The Importance of Being Ernest
4. An Inspector Calls
5. The Pearl
Writers
A. Oscar Wilde
B. John Steinbeck
C. Martin Luther King
D. Walt Whitman
E. Sherwood Anderson
F. JB Priestley
G. Thomas Hardy
H. Ernest Hemingway
Section 2. Decide whether the following statements are True (T) or False (F) (10 pointsl.
6. Hamlet is one of Shakespeare' s well-known tragedies, the other three being
Macbeth , Othello and King Lear.
7. Scrooge is a character created by Charles Dickens in his novel Great Expections.
8. Arthur Miller' splay The Crucible is aimed at exposing the hypocrisy of the
property-owning class of the United States.
9. The novel The Heart of Darkness exposes the corruption, cruelty and greed of the
colonial system in Africa.
IO. Walt Whitman is a famous American poet.
Section 3. Choose the correct answers to complete the following sentences ( 10 points).
11. is a type of poetry that commemorates someone who has died.
A. An epic B. A ballad
C. An elegy D. A haiku
12. is the repetition of initial consonant sounds in words close together in a
text.
A. Pun B. Allusion
C. Flashback D. Alliteration
13. In his essay "Of studies". the writer makes the point that education shapes and
refines an individual ' s innate abilities thus:
A. ". . . for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study '.
B "To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament,
is affectation . . . "
C. "Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural
philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and thetoric able to contend. "
D. "Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use
14. What figures of speech is used in the ~ollowing lines?
"Suspicions amongst thoughts are like bat amongst birds, they ever fly by
twilight. "
A. Irony B. Simile
C. Pun D. Parallelism
15. All the following were awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature except .
A. John Steinbeck B. Robert Frost
C. Harold Pinter D. Ernest Hemingway
Part II Reading Comprehen.sion [50 points]
Read the extracts and choose the best answer to each question.
Text 1
Lady Bracknell: (sitting down) You can take a seat, Mr. Worthing.
(looks in her pocket for notebook and pencit. )
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.
Questions 16-19 (12 points)
16. The extract is taken from .
A. The Birthday Party
B. The Importance of Being Earnest
C. An Inspector Calls
17. In this extract, Lady Bracknell is interviewing Jack Worthing on his suitability as a
possible .
A. investment advisor
B. live-in domestic helper
C. husband for her daughter
18. Which of the following statement is true of the extract?
A. Lady Bracknell uses highly exaggerated language and shifts from one topic to
another abruptly.
B. Lady Bracknell believes it is important to own land because it is a safe and
continuous source of income.
C. Few of Lady Bracknell's questions focus on Jack Worthing's income, property
and family connections.
19. Lady Bracknell is portrayed as _ .
A. an open-minded career counselor
B. a snobloish woman
C. a shrewd human resource manager
Text 2
External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no
wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more
intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty. Foul weather didn, t know
where to have him. The heaviest rain, and snow, and hail. and sleet, could boast of the
advantage over him in only one respect. They often ' came down' handsomely, and Scrooge
never did.
Nobody ever stopped him in the street to say, with gladsome looks, ' My dear Scrooge,
how are you? When will you come to see me?' No begars inplored un to bestow a trifle, no
children asked him what it was o, clock, no man or woman ever once in all his life inquired
the way to such and such a place, of Scrooge. Even the blind men's dogs appeared to know
him; and when they saw him coming on, would tug their owners into doorways and up
courts; and then would wag their tails as though they said, 'No eye at all is better than an
evil eye, dark master. '
Questions 20-22 ( 9 points)
20. Which of the following summarizes the method of characterisation of Scrooge?
A. Through the protagonist's thoughts.
B. Through the words of the others.
C. Through the narrator's exposition.
21. The sentence underlined in paragraph 2 can be paragraphed as .
A. No beggars would ask him for money
B. No beggars would leave him alone
C. No beggars would seek his company
22. Which of the following statements best summarizes the text?
A. The text creates a positive impression of Scrooge.
B. The text describes the physical features of Scrooge.
C. The text conveys the anti-social character of Scrooge.
Text 3
There Is No Frigate Like a Book
There is no frigate c舰船) like a book
To take us lands away,
Nor any coursers (骏马)like a page
Of prancing poetry.
This traverse may the poorest take
Without oppress of toll,
How frugal is the chariot
That bears a human soul.
( Emily Dickinson)
Questions 23-25 (9 points )
23. Which of the following summarizes the main idea of the poem?
A. No journey is as cool or as inexpensive as reading a book.
B. Reading books can touch a person's soul.
C. Saved money should be spent on travelling.
24. The speaker's tone is best described as .
A. selfishly sincere.
B. forcefully ironic
C. gently persuasive
25. Which of the following does the poem imply?
A. Boats are unlike books.
B. It is better to have a vehicle for the body than for the mind.
C. Books are excellent ways to experience the world.
Text 4
Read the extract and give brief answers to the questions 26-29 that follow.
Please note : This reading task will be relevant to the writing task in Part III.
Paper Pills
He was an old man with a white beard and huge nose and hands. Long before the time
during which we will know him, he was a doctor and drove a jaded white horse from house to
house through the streets of Winesburg. Later he married a girl who had money. She had
been left a large fertile farm when her father died. The girl was quiet, tall, and dark, and to
many people she seemed very beautiful. Everyone in Winesburg wondered why she married
the doctor. Within a year after the marriage she died.
The knuckles of the doctor, s hands were extraordinarily large. When the hands were
closed they looked like clusters of unpainted wooden balls as large as walnuts fastened
together by steel rods. He smoked a cob pipe and after his wife's death sat all day in his
empty office close by a window that was covered with cobwebs. He never opened the
window. Once on a hot day in August he tried but found it stuck fast and after that he forgot
all about it.
Winesburg had forgotten the old man, but in Doctor Reefy there were the seeds of
something very fine Alone in his musty office in the Heffner Block above the Paris Dry
Goods Company' s store, he worked ceaselessly, building up something that he himself
destroyed. Little pyramids of truth he erected and after erecting knocked them down again
that he might have the truths to erect other pyramids.
Doctor Reefy was a tall man who had worn one suit of clothes for ten years. It was
frayed at the sleeves and little holes had appeared at the knees and elbows. In the office he
wore also a linen duster with huge pockets into which he continually stuffed scraps of paper.
After some weeks the scraps of paper became little hard round balls, and when the pockets
were filled he dumped them out upon the floor. For ten years he had but one friend, another
old man named John Spaniard who owned a tree nursery. Sometimes, in a playful mood, old
Doctor Reefy took from his pockets a handful of the paper balls and threw them at the
nursery man. "That is to confound you, you blithering old sentimentalist," he cried,
shaking with laughter.
The story of Doctor Reefy and his courtship of the tall dark girl who became his wife
and left her money to him is a very curious story. It is delicious, like the twisted little apples
that grow in the orchards of Winesburg. In the fall one walks in the orchards and the ground
is hard with frost underfoot. The apples have been taken from the trees by the pickers. They
have been put in barrels and shipped to the cities where they will be eaten in apartments that
are filled with books, magazines, furniture, and people. On the trees are only a few gnarled
apples that the pickers have rejected. They look like the knuckles of Doctor Reefy's hands.
One nibbles at them and they are delicious. Into a little round place at the side of the apple
has been gathered all of its sweetness. One runs from tree to tree over the frosted ground
picking the gnarled. twisted apples and filling his pockets with them. Only the few know the
sweetness of the twisted apples.
The girl and Doctor Reefy began their courtship on a summer afternoon. He was forty-
five then and already he had begun the practice of filling his pockets with the scraps of paper
that became hard balls and were thrown away. The habit had been formed as he sat in his
buggy behind the jaded white horse and went slowly along country roads. On the papers
were written thoughts, ends of thoughts, beginnings of thoughts.
One by one the mind of Doctor Reefy had made the thoughts. Out of many of them he
formed a truth that arose gigantic in his mind. The truth clouded the world. It became
terrible and then faded away and the little thoughts began again.
The tall dark girl came to see Doctor Reefy because she was in the family way and had
become frightened. She was in that condition because of a series of circumstances also
curious.
The death of her father and mother and the rich acres of land that had come down to her
had set a train of suitors on her heels. For two years she saw suitors almost every evening.
Except two they were all alike. They talked to her of passion and there was a strained eager
quality in their voices and in their eyes when they looked at her. The two who were different
were much unlike each other. One of them, a slender young man with white hands, the son
of a jeweler in Winesburg, talked continually of virginity. When he was with her he was
never off the subject. The other, a black-haired boy with large ears. said nothing at all but
always managed to get her into the darkness, where he began to kiss her.
For a time the tall dark girl thought she would marry the jeweler's son. For hours she
sat in silence listening as he talked to her and then she began to be afraid of something.
Beneath his talk of virginity she began to think there was a lust greater than in all the others.
At times it seemed to her that as he talked he was holding her body in his hands. She
imagined him turning it slowly about in the white hands and staring at it. At night she
dreamed that he had bitten into her body and that his jaws were dripping. She had the dream
three times, then she became in the family way to the one who said nothing at all but who in
the moment of his passion actually did bite her shoulder so that for days the marks of his
teeth showed.
After the tall dark girl came to know Doctor Reefy it seemed to her that she never
wanted to leave him again. She went into his office one morning and without her saying
anything he seemed to know what had happened to her.
In the office of the doctor there was a woman. the wife of the man who kept the
bookstore in Winesburg. Like all old-fashioned country practitioners, Doctor Reefy pulled
teeth, and the woman who waited held a handkerchief to her teeth and groaned. Her
husband was with her and when the tooth was taken out they both screamed and blood ran
down on the woman,s white dress. The tall dark girl did not pay any attention When the
woman and the man had gone the doctor smiled. "I will take you driving into the country
with me." he said.
For several weeks the tall dark girl and the doctor were together almost every day. The
condition that had brought her to him passed in an illness, but she was like one who has
discovered the sweetness of the twisted apples, she could not get her mind fixed again upon
the round perfect fruit that is eaten in the city apartments. In the fall after the beginning of
her acquaintanceship with him she married Doctor Reefy and in the following spring she
died. During the winter he read to her all of the odds and ends of thoughts he had scribbled
on the bits of paper. After he had read them he laughed and stuffed them away in his pockets
to become round hard balls.
Questions 26-29 (20 points)
26. What do you think the title "Paper Pills" refer to?
27. Why do you think the tall dark girl married Doctor Reefy?
28. What details did the writer provide to instill a sense of Doctor Reefy's loneliness?
29. What function do the twisted apples play in the novel?
Part III Writing [20 Points]
30. Summarize the story "Paper Pills" in about lOO words.