Grierson
2) The Sound and Fury 《喧哗与骚动》 3) Light in August《八月之光》
IV. Read the following excerpts and answer the questions. (5分 x 5题 = 25 分)
Passage 1
The trader caught a full glimpse of her just as she was disappearing down the bank; and throwing himself from his horse, and calling loudly on Sam and Andy, he was after her like a hound after a deer. In that dizzy moment her feet to her scarce seemed to touch the ground, and a moment brought her to the water\'s edge. Right on behind they came; and, nerved with strength such as God gives only to the desperate, with one wild
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cry and flying leap, she vaulted sheer over the turbid current by the shore, on to the raft of ice beyond. It was a desperate leap – impossible to anything but madness and despair;… The huge green fragment of ice on which she alighted pitched and creaked as her weight came on it, but she staid there not a moment. With wild cries and desperate energy she leaped to another and still another cake; stumbling -- leaping -- slipping -- springing upwards again! Her shoes are gone -- her stockings cut from her feet -- while blood marked every step; but she saw nothing, felt nothing, till dimly, as in a dream, she saw the Ohio side, and a man helping her up the bank. Questions:
1) Which book is this part taken from?
--- From a famous novel entitled Uncle Tom\'s Cabin 2) The author of the book is --- Harriet Beecher Stowe .
3) Sum up the part above.--- She throws open the door to her room, which faces the river, grabs Harry, and leaps over the rushing currents onto a raft of ice. Haley sees her and gives chase, but Eliza jumps onto a huge floating chunk of ice. She springs from one chunk of ice to the next, oblivious to all pain and cold, until she reaches the other side. A man on the other side helps her up. Carrying the boy, she leaps from cake to cake of ice as her pursuers watch in horror and amazement. She reaches the Ohio side and is helped onto shore by a Kentucky farmer.
Passage 2
Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.
Questions:
1. Which poem is the stanza above quoted from? --- 2. Who is the poet of this poem? --- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
3. Summarize the lines above. --- Though art can exist forever and it survives
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everything, time fleets and therefore, human life is limited. Though our heart is strong and brave, still, it is beating like the muffled drums at a funeral towards the grave.
Passage 3
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. Questions:
1. Which work is the passage quoted from? --- The Declaration of Independence 2. Who is the author of the work? --- Thomas Jefferson
3. Summarize the passage above: --- To safeguard these rights, Governments are established among people, obtaining their just powers from the agreement of the people.
Passage 4
I see the wife misused by her husband, I see the treacherous
Seducer of young women,
Questions: 1. 2. 3.
Which work are the 2 lines above quoted from? --- I Sit and Look Out Who is the author of the work? --- Walt Whitman
Summarize the 2 lines above --- I see the wife was mistreated by her
husband; I see some men deceitful to seduce the innocent young women.
Passage 5
I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And What I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
I loafe and invite my soul,
I learn and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass. Questions:
1. Who is the writer of this poem? --- Song of Myself 2. What is the title of this poem? -- Walt Whitman
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3. Who is the poet celebrating? ---The poet is celebrating himself, his own life.
Passage 6
To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds will separate between him and vulgar things. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in the heavenly bodies, the perpetual presence of the sublime. Seen in the streets of cities, how great they are! If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these preachers of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile. Questions:
1. This paragraph is taken from a famous essay. What is the name of the essay?--- Nature
2. Who is the author? ---Ralph Waldo Emerson
3. What does the author say would happen if the stars appeared one night in a thousand years?
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