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1、文学阅读与欣赏 作业01(第1-3单元)AThe total marks for this assignment are 100 points. Time allowed for completing this assignment is 1 hour (60 minutes).PLEASE WRITE ALL YOUR ANSWERS ON THE ANSWER SHEET.Understanding 1、 Act IThis scene follows the beginning of this act , Directions: Here s an extract from Bernar
2、d Shaw s play Pygmalion. Read it and answer questions below. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet. (Note： A few parts of the following excerpt are shortened or simplified) Act I This scene follows the beginning of this act , when Freddy returns back to the portico (柱廊)of St. pauls where his mother
3、 and sister are waiting for him to find a cab to go back home. In torrents 0f heavy summer rain, he has to rush out again to try to find a cab since it is 11 p. m. While doing so he comes into collision with a flower girl, who is hurrying in for shelter, knocking her basket of flowers out of her han
4、ds. Some of her flowers dropped in the mud THE FLOWER GIRIL：Nah then, Freddy, look why gowin, deah. (Nay then, Freddy look! Where are you going, dear. )Freddy：Sorry he rushes offTHE FLOWER GIRL picking up her scattered flowers and replacing them in the basket : Theres menners fyet! Te-oo banches o v
5、oylets trod into the mad. (Theres manners for you. Two bunches of violets trod into the mud. )She sits down on the plinth of the column, sorting her flowers, on the ladys right. She is not at all an attractive person. She is perhaps eighteen, perhaps twenty, hardly older. She wears a little sailor h
6、at of black straw that has long been exposed to the dust and soot of Loudon and has seldom if ever been brushed. Her hair needs washing rather badly t its mousy color can hardly be natural. She wears a shoddy black coat that reaches nearly to her knees and is shaped to her waist. She has a brown ski
7、rt with a coarse apron. Her boots are much the worse for wear. She is no doubt as clean as she can offord to be; but compared to the ladies she is very dirty. Her features are no worse than theirs: but their condition leaves something to be desired; and she needs the services of a dentist. THE MOTHE
8、R： How do you know that my sons name is Freddy, pray?THE FLOWER GIRL： Ow, eez ye-ooa san, is e? Wal, fewd dan y de-ooty bawmz a mather should, eed now better to spawl a pore gells flahrzn than ran away athaht pyin. Will ye-oo py me fthem?(Oh, is he your son, is he? If youd done your duty as a mother
9、 should, hed know better to spoil a poor girls flowers than ran away without paying. Will you pay me for them?) THE DAUGHTER: Do nothing of the sort, mother. The idea! THE MOTHER: Please allow me, Clara. Have you any pennies? THE DAUGHTER： No. Ive nothing smaller than sixpence. THE FLOWER GIRL： hope
10、fully I can give change for a tanner (六便士) , kind lady. THE MOTHER: To Clara) give it to me. Clara parts reluctantly) Now To the girl：This is for your flowers. THE FLOWER GIRL： Thank you kindly, lady. THE DAUGHTER： Make her give you the change, These things are only a penny a bunch. THE MOTHER: Do h
11、old your tongue, Clara. to the girl You can keep the change. THE FLOWER GIRL： Oh, thank you, lady. THE MOTHER： Now tell me how you know that young gentlemans name. THE FLOWER GIRL： I didnt. THE MOTHER： I heard you call him by it. Dont try to deceive me. THE FLOWER GIRL： protesting Whos trying to dec
12、eive you? I called him Freddy or Charlie the same as you might yourself if you was talking to a stranger and wished to be pleasant. She sits down beside her basket). THE DAUGHTER： Sixpenny thrown away! Really, mamma, you might have spared Freddy that. She retreats in disgust behind the pillar. An el
13、derly gentleman of the amiable military type rushes into shelter, and closes a dripping umbrella. He is in the same plight as Freddy, very wet about the ankles. He is in evening dress, with a light overcoat. He takes the place left vacant by the daughters retirement. THE GENTLEMAN： Phew! THE MOTHER
14、to the gentleman) ： Oh, sir, is there any sign of its stopping? THE GENTLEMAN: Im afraid not. It started worse than ever about two minutes ago he goes to the plinth beside the flower girl; puts up his foot on it and stoops to turn down his trouser ends) . THE MOTHER： Oh dear! She retires sadly and j
15、oins her daughter). THE FLOWER GIRL taking advantage of the military gentleman s proximity to establish friendly relations with him： If it s worse, its a sign its nearly over. So cheer up, Captain; and buy a flower off a poor girl. THE GENTLEMAN： Im sorry. I havent any change. THE FLOWER GIRL： I can
16、 give you change, Captain. THE GENTLEMAN： For a sovereign (一镑金币)? Ive nothing less. THE FLOWER GIRL： Gain! Oh do buy a flower off me, Captain. I can change half-a-crown. Take this for tuppence. (two pence) THE GENTLEMAN: Now dont be troublesome; theres a good girl. Trying his pockets) I really havent any change. Stop; heres three half-pence, if t
