中英文双语阅读8文学英语赏析

Music and the Brain1、Music surrounds us and we wouldn't have it any other way. An exhilarating orchestral crescendo can bring tears to our eyes and send shivers down our spines. Background swells add emotive punch to movies and TV shows. Organists at ballgames bring us together, cheering, to our feet. Parents croon soothingly to infants.1、音乐环绕在我们周围，这是音乐唯一的方式。

振奋人心的管弦乐的高潮部分会使我们热泪盈眶，精神振奋；背景音乐的推进增加了电影和电视剧的情感色彩；球类比赛中风琴演奏使我们共同起立欢呼；父母的轻唱使婴儿得到安抚。

2、And our fondness has deep roots: we have been making music since the dawn of culture. More than 30,000 years ago early humans were already playing bone flutes, percussive instruments and jaw harps ─and all known societies throughout the world have had music. Indeed, our appreciation appears to be innate. Infants as young as two months will turn toward consonant, or pleasant, sounds and away from dissonant ones. And when a symphony’s denouement gives delicious chills, the same kinds of pleasure centers of the brain light up as they do when eating chocolate or taking cocaine.2、我们对音乐的喜好根深蒂固：自从文化诞生之日起，我们就开始创造音乐。

英语阅读精读之雅思8含译文AJapan has a significantly better record in terms of average mathematical attainment than England and Wales.日本的数学平均分，是英国和威尔士望尘莫及的。

Large sample international comparisons of pupils' attainments since the 1960s have established that not only did Japanese pupils at age 13 have better scores of average attainment, but there was also a larger proportion of 'low' attainers in England, where, incidentally, the variation in attainment scores was much greater.20世纪60年代起国际间，大量的学生成绩对比显示：日本13岁孩子们不但比英国同龄孩子的平均分更高，而且他们高低分差距（分值波动）也比他们小很多。

The percentage of Gross National Product spent on education is reasonably similar in the two countries, so how is this higher and more consistent attainment in maths achieved?两个国家在教育中的投资比率相似，为何日本数学能持续取得稳定高分？BLower secondary schools in Japan cover three school years, from the seventh grade (age 13) to the ninth grade (age 15).日本的初中从7年级到9年级共三年。

英语专八考试阅读练习及答案解析英语专八考试阅读练习及答案解析no pain, no gain. 以下是我为大家搜寻整理的英语专八考试阅读练习及答案解析，期望能给大家带来帮忙!更多精彩内容请准时关注我们应届毕业生考试网!The British psychoanalyst John Bowlby maintains that separation from the parents during the sensitive "attachment' period from birth to three may scar a childs personality and predispose to emotional problems in later life. Some people have drawn the conclusion from Bowlbys work that children should not be subjected to day care before the age of three because of the parental separation it entails, and many people do believe this. But there are also arguments against such a strong conclusion.Firstly, anthropologists point out that the insulated love affair between children and parents found in modern societies does not usually exist in traditional societies. For example, we saw earlier that among the Ngoni the father and mother of a child did not rear their infant alone--far from it. Secondly, common sense tells us that day care would not so widespread today if parents, caretakers found children had problems with it. Statistical studies of this kind have not yet been carried out, and even if they were, the results would be certain to be complicated and controversial. Thirdly, in the last decade, there have been a number of careful American studies of children in day care, and they have uniformly reported that day care hada neutral or slightly positive effect on childrens development. But tests that have had to be used to measure this development are not widely enough accepted to settle the issue.But Bowlbys analysis raises the possibility that early day care has delayed effects. The possibility that such care might lead to, say, more mental illness or crime 15 or 20 years later can only be explored by the use of statistics. Whatever the long-term effects, parents sometimes find the immediate effects difficult to deal with. Children under three are likely to protest at leaving their parents and show unhappiness. At the age of three or three and a half almost all children find the transition to nursery easy, and this is undoubtedly why more and more parents make use of child care at this time. The matter, then, is far from clear-cut, though experience and available evidence indicate that early care is reasonable for infants.1. This passage primarily argues that ___.A. infants under the age of three should not be sent to nursery schools.B. whether children under the age of three should be sent to nursery schools.C. there is not negative long-term effect on infants who are sent to school before they are three.D. there is some negative effect on children when they are sent to school after the age of three.2. The phrase "predispose to' (Para. 1, line 3) most probably means ___.A. lead toB. dispose toC. get intoD. tend to suffer3. According to Bowlbys analysis, it is quite possible that ___.A. childrens personalities will be changed to some extent through separation from their parents.B. early day care can delay the occurrence of mental illness in children.C. children will be exposed to many negative effects from early day care later on.D. some long-term effects can hardly be reduced from childrens development.4. It is implied but not stated in the second paragraph that ___.A. traditional societies separate the child from the parent at an early age.B. Children in modern societies cause more troubles than those in traditional societies.C. A child did not live together with his parents among the Ngoni.D. Children in some societies did not have emotional problems when separated from the parents.5. The writer concludes that ___.A. it is difficult to make clear what is the right age for nursery school.B. It is not settled now whether early care is reasonable for children.C. It is not beneficial for children to be sent to nursery school.D. It is reasonable to subject a child above three to nursery school.答案：BDCAD文档内容到此结束，欢迎大家下载、修改、丰富并分享给更多有需要的人。

文学英语赏析样题及答案 开放教育本科英语专业“文学阅读与欣赏”（《文学英语赏析》）样题Information for the examinees:This examination consists of 3 parts. They are:Part I: Literary Fundamentals (30 points)Part II: Reading Comprehension (50 points)Part III: Writing (20 points)The total marks for this examination are 100 points. Time allowed for completing this examination is 90 minutes.There will be no extra time to transfer answers to the Answer Sheet; therefore, you should write ALL your answers on the Answer Sheet as you do each task.[30 points]Part I Literary Fundamentals Section 1. Match the writers with their works (10 points).Works1. The Pearl 2. Lord of the Flies 3. The Dumb Waiter 4. An Inspector Calls The Old Man and The Sea 5. WritersA. John Steinbeck B. Robert Frost C. Harold Pinter E. Ernest HemingwayF. JB Priestley G.. Arthur Miller H. William Golding(10 points).Section 2. Decide whether the following statements are True (T ) or False (F)The Crucible in 1950s. The play is aimed to exposing the hypocrisy of the 6. Arthur Miller wrote his play property-owning class of the United States.Macbeth is one of Shakespeare‟s tragedies. 7. 8. What has been termed confessional poetry in widely associated with American poets such as Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath. 9. “I have a dream” is a famous speech made by President Lincoln during the American Civil War., is based on the story of Jane Eyre.Wide Sargasso Sea, is based on the story of 10 . W ideSection 3. Choose the correct answers to complete the following sentences (10 points).11. Usually ______ works by starting a story at a point in the recent past, then switching the action back to an earlier time, farther back in the past. At the end it will then usually bring us back to the same time zone we started from. A. climaxB. point of viewC. flashbackD. setting12. A stanza is a grouping of the verse lines in a poem. There are various stanzas containing two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight lines, etc. A _____is a pair of rhymed lines that are equal in length. A. couplet B. balladC. sonnetPart II Reading Comprehension [50 points](A Christmas Carol)Questions (10 points)?16. Why wouldn‟t children like to ask Scrooge the time17. What is the reaction of the blind men‟s dogs when they encountered Scrooge?Text 2“Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone”…He was my North, my South, my East and West,My working week and my Sunday rest,My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.For nothing now can ever come to any good.Questions (10 points)18. What does the poet mean by the line “He was my North, my South, my East and West，/My working week and my Sunday rest, / My moon, my midnight, my talk, my song”?19. Identify the key verbs the poet uses to call for things to be got rid of. Text 3 Lady Bracknell:… What is your income?Jack: Between seven and eight thousand a year.Lady Bracknell (m akes): In land, or in investments?makes a note in her bookJack: In investments, chiefly.of one during one‟s lifetime, and the duties Lady Bracknell: That is satisfactory. What between the duties expected exacted from one after one‟s death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That‟s all that can be said about land.Jack: I have a country house with some land, of course, attached to it, about fifteen hundred acres, I believe; but I don‟t depend on that for my real income. In fact, as far as I can make out, the poachers are the only people who make anything out of it.Lady Bracknell: A country house! How many bedrooms? Well, that point can be cleared up afterwards. You have a town house, I hope? A girl with a simple, unspoiled nature, like Gwendolen, could hardly be expected to reside in the country.Of course, I can get it Jack: Well, I own a house in Belgrave Square, but it is let by the year to Lady Bloxham. back whenever I like, at six months‟ notice.I don‟t know her.Lady Bracknell: L ady Bloxham? Lady Bloxham? I don‟t know her.She is a lady considerably advanced in years.Jack: Oh, she goes about very little. What number in Belgrave Lady Bracknell: Ah, nowadays that is no guarantee of respectability of character. Square?Jack: 149.): The unfashionable side….I thought there was something. However, that could shaking her head): The unfashionable side….I thought there was something. However, that could Lady Bracknell (s hakingeasily be altered.Jack: Do you mean the fashion, or the side?Both, if necessary, I presume.sternly) : B oth, if necessary, I presume.Lady Bracknell (s ternly(The Importance of Being Earnest)Questions (10 points) answer with a 20. What are Lady Bracknell‟s main criteria for choosing a husband for her daughter? Support yourquotation from the text.21. Which does Lady Bracknell prefer, investment or land? Support your answer with a quotation from the text.Text 4Please note: This reading task will be relevant to the writing task in Part III.Mystery of the White GardeniaBy Marsha AronsEvery year on my birthday, from the time I turned 12, a white gardenia was delivered to my house in Bethesda, Md. No card or note came with it. Calls to the florist were always in vain -- it was a cash purchase. After a while I stopped trying to discover the sender‟s identity and just delighted in the beauty and heady perfume of that one magical, perfect flower nestled in soft pick tissue paper.Some of the happiest moments were spent But I never stopped imagining who the anonymous giver might be. daydreaming about someone wonderful and exciting but too shy or eccentric to make known his or her identity.My mother contributed to these imaginings. She‟d ask me if there was someone for whom I had done a special t be showing appreciation. Perhaps the neighbor I‟d helped when she was unloading a car full kindness who migh t be showing appreciation. Perhaps the neighbor I‟d helped when she was unloading a car full of groceries. Or maybe it was the old man across the street whose mail I retrieved during the winter so he wouldn't have to venture down his icy steps. As a teen-ager, though, I had more fun speculating that it might be a boy I had a crush on or one who had noticed me even though I didn't know him.When I was 17, a boy broke my heart. The night he called for the last time, I cried myself to sleep. When I awoke in the morning, there was a message scribbled on my mirror in red lipstick: Heartily know, when half-gods go, the gods arrive. I thought about that quotation 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 high-school 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 completely uninterested in my upcoming 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, swiss in red, white and blue, it made me feel like Scarlet O‟Hara, but it was the with yards and yards of doted wrong size. When my father died I forgot about the dress. -- in the right size -- draped majestically over the My mother didn‟t. The day before the prom, I found that dress -- beautifully, artistically, living room sofa. It wasn‟t just delivered, still in the box. It was presented to me 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. Part III Writing [20 Points]Part I Literary Fundamentals [30 points] Part II Reading Comprehension [50 points]23. The father died of heart attack close to her graduation from high school. She felt sad, disappointed that her father would not experience the important events in her life. to encourage kindness in her daughter: to send flowers 24．a. The mother‟s wisdom: She thought of a wise way secretly; 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]。