【正文】 derstand. 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。 or she wisely scribbled a quotation from Emerson on her daughter?s mirror instead of directly talking her teenage daughter into accepting the loss of her boyfriend. b. Her strength in the face of adversities: she stood strong when her husband died. 25. The gardenia is the essential symbol in the story, helping to bring about the theme of the story: mother?s love. The gardenia symbolizes the qualities that the mother hoped for her daughter, qualities such as magical (aura of magic, a bit of mystery), loving, strong, perfect , etc. (Points should be given when ideas are similar or stand to reason.) Part III Writing [20 Points] 請您刪除一下內(nèi)容， O(∩ _∩ )O 謝謝！??！ 2021年中央電大期末復(fù)習(xí)考試小抄大全，電大期末考試必備小抄，電大考試必過小抄 Basketball can make a true claim to being the only major sport that is an American invention. From high school to the professional level, basketball attracts a large following for live games as well as television coverage of events like the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) annual tournament and the National Basketball Association (NBA) and Women39。s games measures in (7576 cm) in circumference, and a women39。s bounce. Inside the covering or casing, a rubber bladder holds air. The ball must be inflated to a pressure sufficient to make it rebound to a height (measured to the top of the ball) of 4954 in ( m) when it is dropped on a solid wooden floor from a starting height of 6 ft ( m) measured from the bottom of the ball. The factory must test the balls, and the air pressure that makes the ball legal in keeping with the bounce test is stamped on the ball. During the intensity of high school and college tourneys and the professional playoffs, this inflated sphere mands considerable attention. Basketball is one of few sports with a known date of birth. On December 1, 1891, in Springfield, Massachusetts, James Naismith hung two halfbushel peach baskets at the opposite ends of a gymnasium and outlined 13 rules based on five principles to his students at the International Training School of the Young Men39。s five basic principles center on the ball, which was described as large, light, and handled with the hands. Players could not move the ball by running alone, and none of the players was restricted against handling the ball. The playing area was also open to all players, but there was to be no physical contact between players。 smaller gyms used five players on a side, and the larger gyms allowed seven to nine. The team size became generally established as five in 1895, and, in 1897, this was made formal in the rules. The YMCA lost interest in supporting the game because 1020 basketball players monopolized a gymnasium previously used by many more in a variety of activities. YMCA membership dropped, and basketball enthusiasts played in local halls. This led to the building of basketball gymnasiums at schools and colleges and also to the formation of professional leagues. Although basketball was born in the United States, five of Naismith39。 England in 1894。 and Japan in 1900. From 1891 through 1893, a soccer ball was used to play basketball. The first basketball was manufactured in 1894. 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