2018年自考《英美文学选读》试题五

Ⅱ.Reading Comprehension (16 points, 4 for each)

Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English.Write your answer in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.

41.“Her eyes met his and he looked away.He neither believed nor disbelieved her,but he knew that he had made a mistake in asking;he never had known,never would know,what she was thinking.The sight of her inscrutable face,the thought of all the hundreds of evenings he had seen her sitting there like that,soft and passive,but so unreadable, unknown, enraged  him beyond measure.”

Questions:

A.Identify the writer and the work.

B.What does the phrase “inscrutable face” mean?

C.What idea does the quoted passage express?

42.“And when I am formulated,sprawling on a pin,

When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall.

Then how should begin

To spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways.”

Questions:

A.Identify the poem and the poet.

B.What does the phrase “butt-ends” mean?

C.What idea does the quoted passage express?

43.“God knows,…I'm not myself—I'm somebody else—…and I'm changed,and I can't tell what's my name,or who I am.”

Questions:

A.Identify the work and the author.

B.The speaker says he is changed.Do you think he is changed, or the social environment has changed?

C.What idea does the quoted sentence express?

44.“I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.”

Questions:

A.Idenfity the poem and the poet.

B.What does the phrase “ages and ages hence” mean?

C.What idea does the quoted passage express?