2007年成人高考治试题及答案下(专升本).docVIP

（1） Instructions:Read the poem A Day by Emily Dickinson in Unit 6: Activity 1, Task 1, and answer the questions that follow. A Day Ill tell you how the sun rose, --- ?A ribbon at a time. The steeples swam in amethyst, The news like squirrels ran. The hills united their bonnets, The bobolinks begun. Then I said softly to myself, That must have been the sun! … … … But how he set, I know not. There seemed a purple stile Which little yellow boys and girls ?Were climbing all the while Till when they reached the other side, A dominie in gray Put gently up the evening bars, --- ?And led the flock away. Questions: 1.Which metaphorical phrase describes clouds on the horizon?? ?2.What are the evening sunbeams described as?? ?3.What are the sunbeams climbing over? 4.How is evening personified?? ?5.What have the children become at the end?? ?6.What does the sun rose refer to?? ?7.What is the poets attitude to the birth? ?8.What does sunset refer to? 9.What does the title mean? 10.Please list at least 5 images in the first two stanzas. Understanding （1） Instructions:Read the complete short story A Horseman in the Sky in Unit 5: then answer the following questions. ?A Horseman in the Sky Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) 1　One sunny afternoon in the autumn of the year 1861, a soldier lay in a clump of laurel by the side of a road in Western Virginia. He lay at full length, upon his stomach, his feet resting upon the toes, his head upon the left forearm. His extended right hand loosely grasped his rifle. But for the somewhat methodical disposition of his limbs and a light rhythmic movement of the cartridge box at the back of his belt, he might have thought to be dead. He was asleep at his post of duty. But if detected he would be dead shortly afterward, that being the just and legal penalty of his crime. 2　The clump of laurel in which the criminal lay was in the angle of a road which, after ascending, southward, a steep acclivity to that point, turned sharply t