英语语言学概论总习题

英语语言学概论总习 题 快递公司问题件快递公司问题件货款处理关于圆的周长面积重点题型关于解方程组的题及答案关于南海问题 精编资料 《英语语言学》概论总习题第一套复习试卷I. Choose the one that would best complete the statement below. (30 points, 2 points each)... 语言学 《英语语言学》概论总习题 第一套复习试卷 I. Choose the one that would best complete the statement below. (30 points, 2 points each) 1. John Dryden called ______ the father of English poetry. A. Geoffrey Chaucer B. Edmund Spencer C. John Milton D. John Donne 2. ______ is regarded today as the national epic of the Anglo-Saxons. A. Beowulf B. The Canterbury Tales C. Don Juan D. Paradise Lost 3. The Merchant of Venice is a ________. A. tragedy B. comedy C. history play D. tragicomedy 4. Hamlet faces the dilemma between ______. A. action and mind B. dream and reality C. money and power D. hate and love 5. John Milton’s masterpiece is his ______. A. Paradise Lost B. Paradise Regained C. Samson Agonistes D. Areopagitica 6. Robert Frost is a regional poet in the sense that his poems depict mostly ______. A. the frontier life B. The sea adventures C. the Puritan community D. New England landscape 7. The novel ________ is not written by Henry James. A. The Ambassadors B. The Wings of the Dove C. The Bostonians D. The Mysterious Stranger 8. In the 1920s decade, O’Neill established an international reputation with such plays as ______. A. The Emperor Jones B. Anna Christie C. The Hairy Ape D. all of the above 9. Fitzgerald’s fictional world is the best embodiment of the spirit of the Jazz Age, in which he shows a particular interest in ______ society. A. the middle-class B. the upper-class C. the lower-middle-class D. the working-class 10. Apart from the dislocation of time and the modern stream-of-consciousness, the other narrative techniques Faulkner used to construct his stories include ______, symbolism and mythological and biblical allusions. A. impressionism B. expressionism C. multiple points of view D. first person point of view 11. The following are Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies except __________. A. Hamlet B. Othello C. Twelfth Night D. King Lear 12. __________ is a novella about a young American girl who gets “killed” by the winter in Rome, and it brought Henry James international fame for the first time. A. The American B. The Europeans C. Daisy Miller D. The Portrait of A lady 13. John Donne is the leading figure of ________. A. Lake Poets B. Graveyard School C. Satanic Poets D. Metaphysical School 14. In Jane Austen’s novels, life and human nature are exposed __________________. A. at moments of crisis B. during the battles C. in the most trivial incidents of everyday D. through the traveling 15. The following writers were awarded Nobel Prize for literature except ________. A. William Faulkner B. F. Scott Fitzgerald C. John Steinbeck D. Ernest Hemingway II. Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase. (30 points, 2 points each) 16. Edmund Spenser’s masterpiece is _________, a great poem of its age. 17. Marlowe’s greatest achievement lies in that he perfected _________ and made it the principle medium of English drama. 18. As a lexicographer, Samuel Johnson distinguished himself as the author of the first English dictionary by an Englishman: _________, a gigantic task which Johnson undertook single-handedly and finished in over seven years. 19. Pope’s An Essay on Criticism is a didactic poem written in _________. 20. _________ has been regarded by some as “Father of the English Novel” for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel. 21. Mark Twain preferred to have his own region and people at the forefront of his stories. This particular concern about the local character of a region came about as _____________, a unique variation of American literary realism. 22. Pound was the leader of a new movement in Poetry which he called “_________” movement. 23. Dreiser broke away form the genteel tradition of literature and dramatized the life in a very _________ way 24. One of the most familiar themes in American naturalism is the theme of human _________, especially as an explanation of sexual desire. 25. Two major figures of black fiction in America are ________ and Ralph Ellison. 26. Apart from Darwinism, the two thinkers whose ideas had the greatest impact on the Modernism period were the German ________ and the Austrian Sigmund Freud. 27. With the Norman Conquest starts the ________ Period in English Literature. 28. Emily Bronte’s masterpiece is ___________ 29. Ulysses gives an account of man’s life during one day in ________ 30. In the mid-1950s and early 1960s, there appeared a group of young novelists and playwrights with lower-middle-class or working class background, they demonstrated a particular disillusion over the depressing situation in Britain and launched a bitter protest against the outmoded social and political values in their society. They were known as “_______________”. III. For each of the quotations listed below please give the name of the author and the title of the literary work from which it is taken and then briefly interpret it. (18 points, 6 points each) 31“Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st; Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st: So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.” 32. His father picked the baby up and slapped it to make it breathe and handed it to the old woman. “See, it’s a boy, Nick,” he said. “How do you like being an internee?” Nick said, “All right.” He was looking away so as not to see what his father was doing. 33. “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth;” IV. Give brief answers to the following questions. (22 points, 11 points each) 34. Why do we say Hawthorne is a master of symbolism? Give at least two examples of symbols from The Scarlet Letter. 35. Why is Thomas Hardy often regarded as a transitional writer? 第二套复习试卷 I. Choose the one that would best complete the statement below. (30 points, 2 points each) 1.Romance,which uses narrative verse or prose to tell stories of ___ adventures or other heroic deeds, is a popular literary form in the medieval period. A.Christian B.knightly C.Greek D.primitive 2.Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his production of ___. A.Piers Plowman B.Sir Gawain and the Green Knight C.Confessio Amantis D.The Canterbury Tales 3.Which of the following historical events does not directly help to stimulate the rising of the Renaisssance Movement? A.The rediscovery of ancient Greek and Roman culture. B.The new discoveries in geography and astrology. C.The Glorious revolution. D.The religious reformation and the economic expansion. 4.Which of the following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare's Sonnet 18? A.The speaker eulogizes the power of Nature. B.The speaker satirizes human vanity. C.The speaker praises the power of artistic creation. D.The speaker meditates on man's salvation. 5.“And we will sit upon the rocks,/Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks,/By shallow rivers to whose falls/Melodious birds sing madrigals.”The above lines are probably taken from __. A.Spenser's The Faerie Queene B.John Donne's “The Sun Rising” C.Shakespeare's “Sonnet 18” D.Marlowe's “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” 6.“Bassanio:Antonio,I am married to a wife Which is as dear to me as life itself; But life itself, My wife, and all the world. Are not with me esteem'd above thy life; I would lose all, ay, sacrifice them all, Here to the devil, to deliver you. Portia:Your wife would give you little thanks for that, If she were by to hear you make the offer.” The above is a quotation taken from Shakespeare's comedy The Merchant of Venice. The quoted part can be regarded as a good example to illustrate ____. A.dramatic irony B.personification C.allegory D.symbolism 7.The ture subject of John Donne's poem,“The Sun Rising,” is to ___. A.attack the sun as an unruly servant B.give compliments to the mistress and her power of beauty C.criticize the sun's intrusion into the lover's private life D. lecture the sun on where true royalty and riches lie th8.Of all the 18century novelists Henry Fielding was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a “___ in prose,”the first to give the modern novel its structure and style. A.tragic epic B.comic epic C.romance D.lyric epic 9.The Houyhnhnms depicted by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels are ___. A.horses that are endowed with reason B.pigmies that are endowed with admirable qualities C.giants that are superior in wisdom D.hairy,wild, low and despicable creatures, who resemble human beings not only in appearance but also in some other ways. 10.Here are four lines from a literary work:“Others for language all their care express,/And value books,as women men, for dress.”The work is ___. A.Thomas Gray's “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” B.John Milton's Paradise Lost C.Alexander Pope's Essay on Criticism D.Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream 11.The phrase “to urge people to abide by Christian doctrines and to seek salvation through constant struggles with their own weaknesses and all kinds of social evils” may well sum up the implied meaning of ___. A.Gulliver's Travels B.The Rape of the Lock C.Robinson Crusoe D.The pilgrim's Progress 12.William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following EXCEPT ___. A.the use of everyday language spoken by the common people B.the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings C.the use of humble and rustic life as subject matter D.the use of elegant wording and inflated figures of speech 13.Which of the following is taken from John Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn”? A.“I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!” B.“They are both gone up to the church to pray.” C.“Earth has not anything to show more fair.” D.“Beauty is truth, truth beauty”. 14.“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind!” is an epigrammatic line by __. A.J.Keats B.W.Blake C.W.Wordsworth D.P.B.Shelley 15.“Ode o na Grecian Urn”shows the contrast between the ___ of art and the ___ of human passion. A.glory „ugliness B.permanence„transience C.transience„sordidness D.glory„permanence ?.Reading Comprehension (20 points,) Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English.Write your answer in the corresponding space on the answer sheet. 16.“Her eyes met his and he looked away.He neither believed nor disbelieved her,but he knew that he had made a mistake in asking;he never had known,never would know,what she was thinking.The sight of her inscrutable face,the thought of all the hundreds of evenings he had seen her sitting there like that,soft and passive,but so unreadable, unknown, enraged him beyond measure.” Questions: A.Identify the writer and the work. B.What does the phrase “inscrutable face” mean? C.What idea does the quoted passage express? 17.“And when I am formulated,sprawling on a pin, When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall. Then how should begin To spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways.” Questions: A.Identify the poem and the poet. B.What does the phrase “butt-ends” mean? C.What idea does the quoted passage express? ?.Questions and Answers(30 points in all, 15 for each) Give brief answers to each of the following questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet. 18.As a rule,an allegory is story in verse or prose with a double meaning: a surface meaning, and an implied meaning.List two works as examples of allegory. What is an allegory usually concerned with by its implied meaning? 19.Inspiration for the romantic approach initially came from two great shapers of thought. Who are the two? And what ideas they expressed inspire the romantic writers? ?.Topic Discussion(20 points) Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet. 20.How is Romanticism different from Neoclassicism? Provide brief evidence from the literary works you know best. 第三套复习试卷 I. Choose the one that would best complete the statement below. (30 points, 2 points each) 1.In the statement“—oh,God! would you like to live with your soul in the grave?” the term “soul” apparently refers to ___. A.Heathcliff himself B.Catherine C.one's spiritual life D.one's ghost 2.The typical feature of Robet Browning's poetry is the ___. A.bitter satire B.larger-than-life caricature C.Latinized diction D.dramatic monologue 3.The Victorian Age was largely an age of ____,eminently represented by Dickens and Thackeray. A.poetry B.drama C.prose D.epic prose 4.___is the first important governess novel in the English literary history. A.Jane Eyre B.Emma C.Wuthering Heights D.Middlemarch 5.The major concern of ______ fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature. A.D.H.Lawrence's B.J.Galsworthy's C.W.Thackeray’s D.T.Hardy’s 6.___is considered to be the best-known English dramatist since Shakespeare, and his representative works are plays inspired by social criticism. A.Richard Sheridan B.Oliver Goldsmith C.Oscar Wilde D.Bernard Shaw 7.Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Modernism? A.To elevate the individual and inner being over the social being. B.To put the stress on traditional values. C.To portray the distorted and alienated relationships between man and his environment. D.To advocate a conscious break with the past. 8.The Romantic writers would focus on all the following issues EXCEPT the ___ in the American literary histrory. A.individual feelings B.idea of survival of the fittest C.strong imagination D.return to nature 9.Henry David Thoreau's work,__,has always been regarded as a masterpiece of New England Transcendentalism. A.Walden B.The pioneers C.Nature D.Song of Myself 10.The famous 20-years sleep in “Rip Van Winkle”helps to construct the story in such a way that we are greatly affected by Irving's ___. A.concern with the passage of time B.expression of transient beauty C.satire on laziness and corruptibility of human beings D.idea about supernatural manipulation of man's life 11.Walt whitman was a pioneering figure of American poetry. His innovation first of all lies in his use of __,poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme. A.blank verse B.heroic couplet C.free verse D.iambic pentameter th century are generally 12.The literary characters of the American type in early 19 characterized by all the following features EXCEPT that they ___. A.speak local dialects B.are polite and elegant gentlemen C.are simple and crude farmers D.are noble savages( red and white) untainted by society 13.Hester Pryme, Dimmsdale,Chillingworth and Pearl are most likely the names of the characters in ___. A.The Scarlet Letter B.The House of the Seven Gablest C.The Portrait of a Lady D.The pioneers 14.“This is my letter to the World” is a poetic expression of Emily Dickinson's __ about her communication with the outside world. A.indifference B.anger C.anxiety D.sorrow 15.With Howells,James,and Mark Twain active on the literary scene, __ became the major thtrend in American literature in the seventies and eighties of the 19century. A.sentimentalism B.romanticism C.realism D.naturalism ?.Reading Comprehension (16 points, 4 for each) Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English.Write your answer in the corresponding space on the answer sheet. 16.“God knows,„I'm not myself—I'm somebody else—„and I'm changed,and I can't tell what's my name,or who I am.” Questions: A.Identify the work and the author. B.The speaker says he is changed.Do you think he is changed, or the social environment has changed? C.What idea does the quoted sentence express? 17.“I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” Questions: A.Idenfity the poem and the poet. B.What does the phrase “ages and ages hence” mean? C.What idea does the quoted passage express? ?.Questions and Answers (24 points in all,6 for each) 18.The white whale,Moby Dick,is the most important symbol in Melville's novel.What symbolic meaning can you draw from it? 19.Nature is a philosophic work, in which Emerson gives an explicit discussion on his idea of the Qversoul.What is your understanding of Emersonian “Oversoul”? ?.Topic Discussion(20 points in all, 10 for each) 20.Summerize the story of Mark twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in about 100 words,and comment on the theme of the novel. 第四套复习试卷 I. Choose the one that would best complete the statement below. (30 points, 2 points each) 1.“And we will sit upon the rocks, /Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks,/By shallow rivers to whose falls/Melodious birds sing madrigals.” The above lines are taken from ______. A. Milton's Paradise Lost B. Marlowe's “The Passionate shepherd to His Love” C. Shakespeare's “Sonnet 18” D. John Donne's “The Sun Rising” 2.The English Renaissance period was an age of ______ . A. poetry and drama B. drama and novel C. novel and poetry D. romance and poetry 3.Here are four lines taken from Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene: “But on his brest a bloudie Crosse he bore,/The deare remembrance of his dying Lord,/For whose sweete sake that glorious badge he wore,/And dead as living ever him adored.” Who is the “dying Lord” discussed in the above lines? A. Beowulf B. King Arthur C. Jesus Christ D. Jupiter 4.In Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, Antonio could not pay back the money he borrowed from Shylock, because ______. A. his money was all invested in the newly-emerging textile industry B. his enterprise went bankrupt C. Bassanio was able to pay his own debt D. his ships had all been lost 5. Which of the following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare's Sonnet 18? A. The speaker eulogizes the power of Nature. B. The speaker satirizes human vanity. C. The speaker praises the power of artistic creation. D. The speaker meditates on man's salvation. 6. In English poetry, a four-line stanza is called ______. A. heroic couplet B. quatrain C. Spenserian stanza D. terza rima 7. “Let not Ambition mock their useful toil,/Their homely joys, and destiny obscure;/Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile /The short and simple annals of the poor.” The above lines are taken from . A. Alexander Pope's Essay on Criticism B. Coleridge's “Kubla Khan” C. John Donne's “The Sun Rising” D. Thomas Gray's “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” 8. By making the truth-seeking pilgrims suffer at the hands of the people of Vanity Fair, John Bunyan intends to show the prevalent political and religious ______of his time. A. persecution B. improvement C. prosperity D. disillusionment 9. The 18th century witnessed a new literary form,the modern English novel, which, contrary to the medieval romance, gives a ______ presentation of life of the common people. A. romantic B. realistic C. prophetic D. idealistic 10. As a whole, ______is one of the most effective and devastating criticisms and satires of all aspects in the then English and European life— socially, politically, religiously, philosophically, scientifically, and morally. A. Moll Flanders B. Gulliver's Travels C. Pilgrim's Progress D. The School for Scandal 11. An honest, kind-hearted young man, who is full of animal spirit and lacks prudence, is expelled from the paradise and has to go through hard experience to gain knowledge of himself and finally to have been accepted both by a virtuous lady and a rich relative . The above sentence may well sum up the theme of Fielding's work . A. Jonathan Wild the Great B. Tom Jones C. The Coffe-House Politician D. Amelia 12. In Sheridan's The School for scandal, the man who wins the hand of his beloved as well as the inheritance of his rich uncle is ______ . A. Charles Surface B. Joseph Surface C. Sir Peter Teazle D. Sir Benjamin Backbite 13. Which of the following works best represents the national spirit of the 18th-century England? A. Robinson Crusoe B. Gulliver's Travels C. Jonathan Wild the Great D. A Sentimental Journey 14. Shelley's masterpiece, Prometheus Unbound, is a verse drama, which borrows the basic story from ______ . A. the Bible B. a German legend C. a Greek play D. One Thousand and One Nights 15. In the first part of the novel Pride and prejudice, Mr. Darcy has a (n) ______ of the Bennet family . A. high opinion B. great admiration C. low opinion D. erroneous view ?.Reading comprehension(16 points,4 for each) Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answer in the corresponding space on the answer sheet. 16. “One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die.“ Questions: A. Identify the poem and the poet. B. What does the word “sleep” mean? C. What idea do the two lines express? 17. “Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendor, valley, rock, or hill; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! The river glideth at his own sweet will: Dear God! The very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still!“ (William Wordsworth's sonnet: “Composed upon Westminster Bridge” September 3, 1802) Questions: A. What does the word “glideth” in the fourth line mean? B. What kind of figure of speech is used by wordsworth to describe the “river”? C. What idea does the fourth line express? ?. Questions and Answers(24 points in all, 6 for each) Give brief answers to each of the following questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet. 45. It is said that B. Shaw's play, Mrs. Warren's Profession, has a strong realistic theme, which fully reflects the dramatist's Fabianist idea. Try to summarize this theme briefly. 46. Emily Bronte used a very complicated narrative technique in writing her novel Wuthering Heights. Try to tell Bronte's way of narration briefly. ?. Topic Discussion(20 points in all, 10 for each) Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet. 49. Discuss the possible theme in W.B. Yeats's “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” and how that theme is presented in the poem. 第五套复习试卷 I. Choose the one that would best complete the statement below. (30 points, 2 points each) 1. In Byron's poem “Song for the Luddites,” the word “Luddite” refers to the ______ . A. workers who destroyed the machines in their protest against unemployment B. rising bourgeoisie who fights against the aristocratic class C. descendents of the ancient king ,Lud D. poor country people who suffered under the rule of the landlord class 2. Mr. Micawber in David Copperfield and Sam Well in Pickwick Papers are perhaps the best ______ characters created by Charles Dickens. A. comic B. tragic C. round D. sophisticated 3. A typical feature of the English Victorian literature is that writers became social and moral ______ , exposing all kinds of social evils. A. revolutionaries B. idealists C. critics D. defenders 4. “Is it not sufficient for your infernal selfishness, that while you are at peace I shall writhe in the torments of hell?”(Heathcliff uttered the sentence in the death scene of Catherine from Chapter XV of Wuthering Heights.) The word “hell” at the end of the quoted sentence refers to ______ . A. Heaven B. Hades C. the next world D. this world 5. A typical Forsyte, according to John Galsworthy, is a man with a strong sense of ______ ,who never pays any attention to human feelings. A. justice B. humor C. morality D. property 6. “He was silent with conceit of his son. Mrs. Morel sniffed, as if it were nothing.”(Sons and Lovers by D.H.Lawrence)From the above quotation, we can see that Mrs. Morel's attitude to her husband is ______ . A. sincerely warm B. genuinely kind C. seemingly angry D. merely contemptuous 7. A boy makes a quest of his idealized childish love through painful experience up to the point of losing his innocence and coming to see the drabness and harshness of the adult world. The above sentence may well sum up the major theme of ______. A. Eliot's poem The love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock B. Bernard shaw's play Mrs. Warren's Profession C. Joyce's story Araby D. Lawrence's story The Horse Dealer's Daughter 8. Linguistically, compared with the writings of Mark Twain, Henry James's fiction is noted for his ______. A. frontier vernacular B. rich colloquialism C. vulgarly descriptive words D. refined elegant language 9. Which of the following statements about Washington Irving is NOT true? A. Literary imagination should breed in a land rich in the past culture. B. He is preoccupied with the Calvinistic view of original sin and the mystery of evil. C. His stories are among the best of the American literature. D. Some of his works are based on the materials of the European legendary tales. 10. Which of the following is NOT one of the main ideas advocated by Emerson, the chief spokesman of New England Transcendentalism? A. As an individual, man is divine and can develop and improve himself infinitely. B. Nature exercises a healthy and restorative influence on human beings. C. There exists an emotional communication between an individual soul and the universal “Oversoul.” D. Evil and sin are ever present in human heart and will pass on from one generation to another.“ 11. Whitman's poems are characterized by all the following features EXCEPT ______ . A. the strict poetic form B. the free and natural rhythm C. the easy flow of feelings D. the simple and conversational language 12. “Then all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.” In the quoted sentence, the author might imply that ______. A. nothing changes in the 5000 years of human history B. man's desire to conquer nature can only end in his own destruction C. nature is evil as it was 5000 years ago D. nature has the ultimate creative power 13. “Standing on the bare ground,—my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space ,—all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball. I am nothing. I see all. The currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.” The above passage is taken from ______. A. Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin B. Cooper's “Leatherstocking Tales” C. Emerson's “Nature” D. Dreiser's Sister Carrie 14. Which of the following works best illustrates the Calvinistic view of original sin? A. Stowe's Uncle Ton's Cabin B. James's The Portrait of a Lady. C. Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms D. Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. 15. Beside symbolism, all the following qualities EXCEPT ______are fused to make Melville's Moby-Dick a world classic. A. narrative power B. psychological analysis C. speculative agility D. optimistic view of life ?.Reading Comprehension (20 points,) Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English.Write your answer in the corresponding space on the answer sheet. 16. “With Blue—uncertain stumbling Buzz— Between the light—and me— And then the Windows failed—and then I could not see to see—“ Questions: A. Identify the poem and the poet. B. What do “Windows” symbolically stand for? C. What idea does the quoted passage express? 17. “'Is dying hard, Daddy?' 'No, I think it's pretty easy, Nick, It all depends.“' Questions: A. Identify the work and the author. B. What was Nick preoccupied with when he asked the question? C. Why did the father add “It all depends” after he answered his son's question? ?.Questions and Answers(10 points) Give brief answers to each of the following questions in English.Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet. 18. “In your rocking-chair, by your window dreaming, shall you long, alone. In your rocking-chair, by your window, shall you dream such happiness as you may never feel.” The two sentences are taken from Theodore Dreiser's novel, Sister Carrie. What idea can you draw from the “rocking-chair”? ?.Topic Discussion(40 points,20 points for each) Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet. 19. The literary school of naturalism was quite popular in the late 19th century. What are the major characteristics of naturalism? 20. “My faith is gone!” cried he (Goodman Brown), after one stupefied moment. “There is no good on earth; and sin is but a name. Come, devil! For to thee is this world given.” Comment on this passage from Hawthorne's “Young Goodman Brown”.