課程名稱︰大一英文
課程性質︰大一共同必修
課程教師︰陶漢威
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考試日期(年月日)︰98/4/14
考試時限(分鐘):70
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試題 :
1. At the banquet, only Macbeth can see the spectre. The word "spectre" means
1)traitor 2)ghost 3)murderer 4)butcher
2. By becoming,1)the Thane of Glamis 2)the Thane of Fife 3)the Thane of Cowdor
4)the Thane of Northumberland, Macbeth realizes that one of the prophecies
of witches has at once come true.
3. According to Liang Shiqiu, which of the following text is NOT the source of
inspiration for Shakespeare's "Much Ado About Nothing"?
1)Spanish romance "Tirante el Blanco" 2)"Orlando Furioso" of Ariosto
3)"Faery Queen" of Spenser 4)English romance "Sir Gawain and the Green
Knight"
4. In"Much Ado About Nothing", the lines"Well,as time shall try": "In time sa-
-vage bull doth bear the yoke." belong to
1)Don Pedro 2)Leonato 3)Benedick 4)Watch
5. "That function is smothered in surmise, and nothing is but what is not."
The word "surmise" means
1)conjecture 2)doubt 3)hesitation 4)suspense
6. According to Liang Shiqiu, Dogberry is a character created by Shakespeare
mainly to poke fun at English 1)bureaucracy 2)hypocrite 3)arrogance
4)gallantry
7. Lady Macbeth becomes racked with guilt from the crimes she and her husband
have committed. The phrase "racked with" means to
1)feel culpable 2)suffer 3)be jealous 4)endeavor
8. In "Macbeth", 1)Donalbain 2)Ross 3)Siward 4)Macduff is a person "from
his mother's womb untimely ripped"
9. In"Much Ado About Nothing": A Modern perspective ",Gail Kern Paster says
that"Benedick's dissmive mention of his mother as the woman who conceived
me" betrays her real importance to the structure of repressed memory" The
word "dismissive" means showing 1)compassion 2)discontent 3)indifference
4)sadness
10.In the same essay,Paster argues that if "cuckoldry jokes are in the air in
Messina," it is because Elizabethan society is dominated by a
1)misongynistic 2)misanthropist 3)mischievious 4)miscreant attitude.
11.In "Macbeth", Macbeth says,"Why hathit given me earnest of success, comm-
-encing in a truth?" The word "earnest" means precisely a
1)token 2)promise 3)possibility 4)bad omen
12.In the same play, Macbeth compares life to a "poor player that struts and
frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more." The word "strut"
means 1)to laugh in a mocking manner 2)to wlak in a pompous manner
3)to speak in a eloquent manner 4)to sing in a ridiculous manner.
13.The Renaissance interpretation of imagination or "fantasy" is equivocal in
that it refers on the one hand to 1)artistic madness 2)literary criticism
3)musical creation 4)poetic furor and to a loss-in-reality on the other.
14.In her essay, on "Macbeth", Marilyn French argues that "Ross alludes to the
depredation of the feminine principle" in Scotloand. In this statement,the
word "depredation" can be replaced by 1)deprivation 2)understnading
3)promotion 4)appearance
15.In the word "regicide", the suffix "cide" means etymologically 1)destorying
2)killing 3)cutting 4)exterminating
16.Shakespeare's plays as blank verse is composed mainly of 1)iambic pentameter
2)11-syllable 3)alexandrine 4)iambic hexameter lines.
17.In"Much Ado About Nothing": A Modern perspective" Paster contends that for
Benedick, the fear of women is less generic than personal.The word "generic"
means 1)generous 2)general 3)generative 4)genetic.
18.In the same essay, the author belives that the real source of patriarchal
anxiety is patriarchy's inevitable dependence on the 1)labor 2)sacrifice
3)chastity 4)service of wives and mothers.
19.Also, according to him,"in psychoanalytic narratives of male repression,
the mother's lack of 1)patience 2)the breasts 3)love 4)the phallus
is a distributing image for the child.
20.In"Much Ado About Nothing", Benedick asks himself,"Shall quips and sentences
and these paper bullets of the brain awe a person from the carrer of his
humor? The word "quip" means 1)stupid jokes 2)clever, sarcastic remarks
3)saddening words 4)disappointing comments.
21.In the same play, it is 1)Claudio 2)Hero 3)Leonato 4)Beatrice who compa-
-res "wooing, wedding, and repenting" to three different types of dance.
22.Marilyn French takes the conflict between the 1)capitalist 2)paternal
3)maternal 4)heroic culture and the code of civilization for the subject
"Macbeth".
23.In"Much Ado About Nothing", Dogberry is a bumbling and officious character.
The word "bumbling" is used to describe a person who 1)speaks in a flatter
manner 2)rushes in an indifferent manner 3)does anything in an uninterse-
-ting manner 4)walks in a stately manner.
24.following question 23, The word "officious" means 1)putting on a mask 2)s-
-usceptible to lying 3)fond of silly jokes 4)offering unwanted help.
25."What is in a name? That which we call a rose/By any other smell as sweet."
In terms of rhythm, these two lines are marked first by the device of
1)metaphor 2)simile 3)caesura 4)suggestion,
26.Following question 25, then by that of 1)enjambment 2)sarcasm 3)contrast
4)comparsion.
27."A battle culminates in the slaying of the young Siward and Macduff's
confliction with Macbeth" The word "culmivates" means 1)take place
2)occur 3)reach the climax 4)call to account
28.In the movie "Macbeth", where the plot develops against the background of
a restaurant, what we have in place of the witches prophecy about the
movement of Birnam Wood is 1)Angel will appear 2)Sheep will howl
3)Tje sun will rise in the west 4)Pigs will fly
29.The source of inspiration for Shakespeare's "Macbeth" is 1)Holinshed's
2)Spenser's 3)Bandello's 4)Chronicle
30.From the essay on the figurative language of "Much Ado About Nothing",
we learn that the wit of Beartice lies in her 1)ironic 2)creative
3)literal 4)metaphoric interpreation of a figurative pharse.
31.In "Macbeth", Macbeth says, "Two truth are told, as happy prologues to the
swelling act of the imperial theme." The word "prologue" means 1)predicition
2)forecast 3)prelude 4)prophecy
32.At the end of the movie "Much Ado About Nothing", a modern adaption by BBC
, the directer endows the role of Hero with a sense of 1)artistic awakening
2)female individuation 3)male domination 4)artistic deception.
33.In the play "Much Ado About Nothing", when the messenger say to Beartuce,
"I see, lady the gentleman is not in your books.",he actually means the
gentleman is not 1)an intersting person for her 2)a person in her favor
3)a person she respects for his erudition 4)a person in her charge
34."A kind of overflow kindness", says Leonato. As a pun, the word "kind" means
both 1)sort and good 2)sort and warmhearted 3)natural amd warehearted
4)good and natural.
35.Following question 34, The word "kindness" as another pun means both 1)like-
-ness and affection 2)likeness and effection 3)kinship amd affection 4)kins-
-hip and effect
36.Discussing Macbeth's imagination, Harold Bloom proposes that we understnd
character bt traeting him as our paradigm of 1)fate's fool 2)the victim
pf ambition 3)impossible dreams 4)confound expectations.
37.The word "fain" in the line "which the poor heart would fain deny and dare
not" means 1)sadly 2)hastily 3)gladly 4)emotionally".
38.The expression "pretty pace" in the lines "Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorr-
-ow/ Creeps in this pretty pace from day to day",constitutes, with the
repetition of the /p/ sound, an example of 1)iambic 2)feminine rime
3)alliteration 4)blank verse
39.Although dominated by the values inherited from Catholicism, Elizabethan
society faces the emergence of a new ideal about 1)religion 2)marrige
3)society 4)art. And this cultural situation is said to be at the root
of the double plot of "Much Adi About Nothing".
40.Instead of encouaging his or her readers to be man-haters, by revealing
how the masculine society fuctions, or its underlying logic, a feminist
critic tries to remid them of the importance of not 1)taking what is
natural for what is social 2)adapting what is social to what is divine
3)take what is social foe what is natural 4)adapting what is divine to
what is moral.
41."Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow: soliloquy is perhaps the most famous
one in Macbeth. The word soliloquy means 1)dialogue 2)conversation
3)communication 4)monologue.
42.The example of Macbeth being praised as valor's 1)progency 2)reincarnation
3)minisetr 4)minion for his fightinf prowess demonstrates the fact that he
lives in a culture that burchery.
43.Lady Macbeth believes that "fate and metaphysical aid doth seem to have [her
husban] crowned". The word "metaphysical' means 1)philosophical 2)physical
3)surrealist 4)supernatural
44.In "Much Ado About Nothing": A Modern Perspective , Paster suggests that
"anxiety about sexual betrayal in marriage seems endemic in Messina."
Thw word "endemic" means 1)peculiar to 2) belonging to 3)attached to
4)bound to
45.One of Shakespeare's critics considers that "Much Ado About Nothing" as a
whole can be read as brilliant repartee. The word "repartee" means a conve-
-rsation marked by 1)intellgent comparsions 2)witty retorts 3)nonsensical
repetitions 4)meaningless murmurs.
46.In her soliloquy, Lady Macbeth wants to chastise all that might hinder
Macbeth on the way to the throne. "Chastise" means to 1)accelerate
2)ameliorate 3)be favorable to 4)remove
47.The author of "Much Ado About Nothing": A Modern Perspective , suggests
that cuckoldry jokes reflect in reality men's dominant 1)self-criticism
2)celibacy 3)suspicion 4)status quo in relation to women's subordination.
48.Mavbeth thinks that "the supernatural soliciting [on the part of witches]
cannot be ill, cannot be good." "Solliciting" means
1)begging 2)imploring 3)enticing 4)invoking.
49.This is how Macbeth is described as a valiant warrior:"He unseamed[the slave]
from the nave to chops." The word "nave" means the
1)chin 2)mouth 3)appendix 4)abdomen
50.Following question 49, The slave in question refers to 1)Donalbain
2)Malcolm 3)Macduff 4)Macdonwald
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