英国文学选读 试题I. Prose selection：In this section, you are required to read the selection taken from some famous literary works, and then answer the questions below. Writeyour answers on the Answer Sheet (30 points). To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humor of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience: for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves, do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation. Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Questions: 1. Which book is this passage taken from? And whats the title of the essay? Who is the author of it? 2. How many abuses or misuses of studies the author summarized in this passage, and do you agree with him, why or why not?3. What is the relationship of practice and studies, try to illustrate it by relating your own experience.According to the author, what is the most effective way to pursue ones studies and why?II. Poem selection： In this section, you are required to read the selection taken from some famous literary works, and then answer the questions after the selection. Writeyour answers on the Answer Sheet (30 points).Death, be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so ; For those, whom thou thinkst thou dost overthrow, Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me. From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be, Much pleasure, then from thee much more must flow, And soonest our best men with thee do go, Rest of their bones, and souls delivery. Thourt slave to Fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell, And poppy, or charms can make us sleep as well, And better than thy stroke ; why swellst thou then ? One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more ; Death, thou shalt dieQuestions:1. What type of poem is this one, and who is the poet? What is the poets attitude toward Death?2. What is the Renaissance idea of sleep, can you describe deaths image and compare it to that expressed in Hamlets soliloquy (To be or not to be, that is the question).3. Why does the poet say that Death is “slave to fate, chance, kings and desperate men”, do you think death is powerful enough to choose who is to die?4. What is your idea about death, do you think Death can be swelling with pride today?III. Novel Selection: In this section, you are required to read the selection taken from some famous literary works, and then answer the questions after the selection. Writeyour answers on the Answer Sheet (40 points). IT is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters. My dear Mr. Bennet, said his lady to him one day, have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last? Mr. Bennet replied that he had not. But it is, returned she; for Mrs. Long has just been here, and she told me all about it. Mr. Bennet made no answer. Do not you want to know who has taken it? cried his wife impatiently. You want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it. This was invitation enough. Why, my dear, you must know, Mrs. Long says that Netherfield is taken by a young man of large fortune from the north of England; that he came down on Monday in a chaise and four to see the place, and was so much delighted with it that he agreed with Mr. Morris immediately; that he is to take possession before Michaelmas, and some of his servants are to be in the house by the end of next week. What is his name? Bingley. Is he married or single? Oh! single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls! How so? how can it affect them? My dear Mr. Bennet, replied his wife, how can you be so tiresome! You must know that I am thinking of his marrying one of them. Is that his design in settling here? Design! nonsense, how can you talk so! But it is very likely that he may fall in love with one of them, and therefore you must visit him as soon as he comes. I see no occasion for that. You and the girls