آزمون "Simple Prose Texts" Final Exam به صورت دیجی فرم

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Times grew worse as years of matrimony rolled on.

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He is a devout hero-worshipper.

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Lean, although husky and ashamed.

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I am no more lonely than a brook or the North Star.

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Thoreau was very eccentric.

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A) Once a day a gaudy steamboat arrived.

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He looked up with admiring reverence to the sages.

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…the men having to lower their glances to the turf.

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to discover an unpleasant disposition in a person.

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The proud sufferer maintains his look of grim defiance to the end.

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B) My father was a justice of the peace.

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…with such uncouth lackluster countenances that his heart leaped in his breast.

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Then they turn back, churning the water to foam, and the steamer is at rest.

Read the following passage and answer the questions.

At the time Jane Austen's novels were published – between 1811 and 1818 – English literature was not part of any academic curriculum. In addition, fiction was under strenuous attack. Certain religious and political groups felt novels had the power to make so called immoral characters so interesting young readers would identify with them; these groups also considered novels to be of little practical use. Even Coleridge, certainly no literary reactionary, spoke for many when he asserted that "novel-reading occasions the destruction of the mind's power. These attitudes towards novels help explain why Ausjten received little attention from early nineteenth century literary critics. (In any case, a novelist published anonymously, as Austin was, would not be likely to receive much critical attention). The literary response that was accorded her, however, was often as incisive as twentieth century criticism. In his attack in 1816 on novelistic portrayals "outside of ordinary experience,” for example, Scott made an insightful remark about the merits of Austen's fiction. Her novels, wrote Scott, "present to the reader an accurate and exact picture of ordinary everyday people and places, reminiscent of seventeenth –century Flemish painting. “Scott did not use the word realistic probability in judging novels. The critic Whitely did not use the word realism either, but he expressed agreement with Scott's evaluation, and went on to suggest the possibilities for moral instruction in what we have called Austen's realistic method. Her characters, wrote Whitely, are persuasive agents for moral truth since they are ordinary persons so clearly evoked that was feel an interest in their fate as if it were our own Moral instruction, explained Whitely, is more likely to be effective when conveyed through recognizably human and interesting characters then when imparted by a sermonizing narrator. Whitely especially praised Austen's ability to create characters who “mingle goodness and villainy, weakness and virtue, as in life they are always mingled”. Whitely concluded his remarks by comparing Austen's art of characterization to Sicken's, stating his preference for Austin's which anticipated the reservations of twentieth-century critics. An example of such a response was Lewes' complaint in 1859 that Austen's range of subjects and characters was too narrow. Praising her verisimilitude, Lewes added that nonetheless her focus was too often upon only the unlofty and the common place. (Twentieth-century Marxists, on the other hand, were to complain about what they saw as her exclusive emphasis on a lofty upper-middle class) in any case, having been rescued by some literary critics from neglect and indeed gradually lionized by them, Austen's steadily reached, by the mid-nineteenth century, the enviable pinnacle of being considered controversial.

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1) The primary purpose of the passage is to



A. demonstrate the nineteenth-century preference for realistic novels rather than romantic ones.



B. Explain why Jane Austen's novels were not included in any academic curriculum in the early nineteenth century



C. Urge a reassessment of Jane Austen's novels by twentieth-century literary critics



D. Describe some of the responses of nineteenth – century critics tol Jane Austen's novels as well as to fiction in general



E. Argue that realistic character portrayal is the novelist's most difficult task as well as the aspect of novel most likely to elicit critical response.





2. The passage supplies information for answering which of the following questions?



A. Was Whitely aware of Scott's remarks about Jane Austen's novels?



B. Who is an example of a twentieth-century Marxist critic?



C. Who is an example of twentieth-century critic who admired Jane Aujsten's novels?



D. What is the author's judgment of Dickens?



E. Did Jane Austen's express her opinion of those nineteenth-century critics who admired her novels?



3. The authors mentions that English literature "was not part of any academic curriculum " in the early nineteenth century in order to



A. emphasize the need for Jane Austen to increate ordinary, everyday character in her novels.



B. give support to those religious and political groups that had attacked fiction



C. give one reason why Jane Austen's novels received little critical attention in the early nineteenth century.



D. Suggest the superiority of an informal and unsystematized approach to the study of literature



E. contrast nineteenth-century attitudes towards English literature with those towards classical literature



4. The passage supplies information to suggest that the religious and political groups mentioned and Whately might have agreed that a novel



A. has little practical use



B. has the ability to influence the moral values of its readers



C. is of most interest to readers when representing ordinary human characters.



D. should not be read by young readers.



E. Needs the sermonizing of a narrator in order to impart moral truths



5. The author quotes Coleridge in order to



A. refute the literary opinions of certain religious and political groups



B. make a case for the inferiority of novels to poetry



C. give an example of a writer who was not a literary reactionary



D. illustrate the early nineteenth-century belief that fiction was especially appealing to young readers



E. indicate how widespread was the attack on novels in the early nineteenth century

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… either maudlin sorrow or insane rage.

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I would draw the shade down.

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…to be my model for the old hermit miner.

 

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The settler was a rawboned fellow with an inveterate habit of winking.

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The repose is never complete.

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He was mounted on a beautiful mottled white and brown horse.

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His integrity was extremely pure.