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tation by Emerson for a long time, and until my heart healed, I left it where my mother had written it. When I finally went to get the glass cleaner, my mother knew everything was all right again. I don?t remember ever slamming my door in anger at her and shouting, “you just don?t understand!” because she did understand. One month before my highschool graduation, my father died of a heart attack. My feelings ranged from grief to abandonment, fear and overwhelming anger that my dad was missing some of the most important events in my life. I became pletely uninterested in my uping graduation, the senior class play and the prom. But my mother, in the midst of her own grief, would not hear of my skipping any of those things. The day before my father died, my mother and I had gone shopping for a prom dress. We found a spectacular one, with yards and yards of doted swiss in red, white and blue, it made me feel like Scarlet O?Hara, but it was the wrong size. When my father died I fot about the dress. My mother didn?t. The day before the prom, I found that dress in the right size draped majestically over the living room sofa. It wasn?t just delivered, still in the box. It was presented to me beautifully, artistically, lovingly. I didn?t care if I had a new dress or no. But my mother did. She wanted her children to feel loved and lovable, creative and imaginative, imbued with a sense that there was magic in the world and beauty even in the face of adversity. In truth, my mother wanted her children to see themselves much like the gardenia lovely, strong, and perfect with an aura of magic and perhaps a bit of mystery. My mother died ten days after I was married. I was 22. That was the year the gardenias stopped ing. Questions (20 points) 22. Who sent the white gardenias? Why were the flowers sent ? 23. When and how did the father die? How did the narrator feel at her father?s death? 24. What two traits of the mother?s characters are highlighted in the story? Cite examples from the story to support your points. 25. Explain the role of the gardenia in the story. Part III Writing [20 Points] Summarize the story “Mystery of the White Gardenia” in about 150 words. 《文學(xué)英語賞析》試題答案及評分標(biāo)準(zhǔn) Part I Literary Fundamentals [30 points] Section 1. Match the writers with their works (2 points each). 1. A. 2. H 3. C 4. F 5. E Section 2. Decide whether the following statements are True (T ) or False (F) . (2 points each) 6. F 7. T 8. T 9. F 10 T Section 3. Choose the correct answer to plete the following sentences (2 points each) . 11. C 12. A 13. A 15. D Part II Reading Comprehension [50 points] l 5 points each. l Every 5 mistakes in grammar, spelling or of any other kind will lead to the reduction of one point. 16. Because Scrooge is a meanspirited miserly person. He won?t help anybody. 17. The dogs would tug their owners into doorways and up courts。 and then would wag their tails, indicating to their owners that this man is an evil person. 18. The poet is celebrating the importance of the loved / dead one to the poet/ or the dead is everything is to him or any similar idea. 19. Award one point for one of the following expressions: 1) put out 2)pack up 3) dismantle 4) pour away 5) sweep up 20. Clearly ine, property and family connections. For example, she asks Jack directly questions such as “What?s your ine?” “You have a town house, I hope?” 21. She prefers investment to land. She feels land involves too many expenses during life, and is then taxed heavily after one?s death. Quotation: 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. 22. The narrator?s mother. The mother sent the flowers to remind her daughter that a person could bee all that the gardenia symbolised—loving, strong, and perfect. She kept it a secret so that the daughter could have the selfkn