【正文】 電大文學英語賞析形成性考核作業(yè) 1參考答案 第二部分 作業(yè) 1 參考答案 1. Read the following fables and figure out the morals of the fables Passage A. The moral of the story is C. You can’t please everybody. PassageB The moral of the story is B. Look before you leap. The Chinese translation could be “三思而后行 ” . Passage C The moral of the story is A ____________________. A. One good turn deserves another. The Chinese translation could be “善有善報 ”. 2. Name the figures of speech used in the following lines A. Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit. （ simile） B. Out,out, brief candle! / Life is but a walking shadow. （ Metaphor） C. Edelweiss, edelweiss, every morning you greet me, small and white, clean and bright, you look happy to meet me. （ Personnification） D. He has the microwave smile that warms another person without heat. （ Metaphor） E. An Englishman thinks seated。 a Frenchman, standing。 an American, pacing。 an Irishman, afterward. （ Parallelism） F. Wit without learning is like a tree without fruit. （ simile） G. Kind hearts are the gardens。 kind thoughts are the roots。 kind words are the flowers。 kind deeds are the fruits. （ Metaphor） Units 3 and 4 and finish any ONE of the following tasks. Task 1 Choose the correct answer to plete each sentence: 1). D 2). B 3). C 4). C 5). D 6). D 7). A 8). B 9). B 10). A Task 2 Give brief answers/ choose the proper answers to the following questions: 1) John Steinbeck 2) They pretended to not want to buy this pearl. 3) They all saik the pearl is worthless. And they pretended not to interested in this pearl. 4) The dealers did the dirty on Kino. 5) These words were in forceful expression. The following words were not in a derogatory sence. Task 3 Give brief answers/ choose the proper answers to the following questions: 1) Charlotte Bront 2) Jane Eyre 3) In the narrator’s bedroom 4) B 5) C Task 4 Give brief answers/ choose the proper answers to the following questions: 1) James Joyce 2) Eveline 3) She lived a hard life both physically and mentally. She had to put up with her father’s threatening behaviour due to his heavy drinking. 4) She wants to escape from her present life. 作業(yè) 3 參考答案 1. Name the figures of speech used in the following lines: A. parellelism B. simile C. personification D. parellelism E. metaphor 2. Read the speeches and essays in Unit 5 and copy the matching parts of the following. A. The momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. B. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. C. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be selfevident: that all men are created equal. ” D. I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Geia the sons of former slaves and the sons of the former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. E. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. 3. Complete any ONE piece of writing below by filling in the missing information. Consult the relevant revision sections in Unit 8 while you do the task. A. “Love your enemy” is written by Yusef Iman. It belongs to a genre of poetry called “Protest poetry”. In this poem, the writer expresses his anger and protest at the fate of the descendants of the black slaves and exposes the hypocrisy of injustice. The line “Love your enemy” is repeated 18 times. The repetition drums into us the irony of the situation of the black people. “ The War Process” is also a protest poem. In it Benjamin Zephaniah ments critically on the failure of the United Nation to control outbreaks of violence around the world. In the poem, he protests against the ineffectiveness of the United Nations to prevent war and violence. B. The poem “40love” can be classified as a visual poem. The shape of the poem mimics the in a game of tennis. The words can be visualized as crossing the like a tennis ball. By paring the game of tennis with the condition of middleaged marriage, the poet is painting a picture of married life of the middleaged couplesa married life without intimac