1、Passage 1: Katherine Mansfield，新西兰女作家Passage 2: Australian Parrots，澳洲的鹦鹉Passage 3: amusia，失乐症四、篇章分析：Passage 1：文章内容文章主旨：讲述了小说家Katherine Mansfield的成长经历。提到她励志成为小说家的缘由、代表作、如何成名等，按照时间顺序交代了她一生的轨迹。题型分布与答案参考1-7）判断题1. 作者的笔名是原名：False2. 作者在女王学院上学时不受欢迎：3. 作者在女王学院上学时萌生当作家的想法：4. 小说中对毛利人的描述是favorable way： True5. 作
2、品获奖了：Not Given6. /7. 作者在伦敦时对政治不感兴趣：True8-14）填空题8. 19069. Australia10. family （对家庭和当地生活厌倦了）11. bankruptcy12. writers13. reputation相关拓展Katherine Mansfield revolutionised the 20th Century English short story. Her best work shakes itself free of plots and endings and gives the story, for the first time,
3、 the expansiveness of the interior life, the poetry of feeling, the blurred edges of personality. She is taught worldwide because of her historical importance but also because her prose offers lessons in entering ordinary lives that are still vivid and strong. And her fiction retains its relevance t
4、hrough its open-endednessits ability to raise discomforting questions about identity, belonging and desire.Katherine Mansfields brief life was also a lesson in casting off convention. Famously, Mansfield remarked risk, risk everything. In the words of one of her biographers, It was largely through h
5、er adventurous spirit, her eagerness to grasp at experience and to succeed in her work, that she became ensnared in disaster . . . If she was never a saint, she was certainly a martyr, and a heroine in her recklessness, her dedication and her courage.Virginia Woolf once said that Katherine Mansfield
6、 had produced the only writing I have ever been jealous of. Woolf also, jealously, wrote, . . . the more she is praised, the more I am convinced she is bad. D.H. Lawrence, with whom Mansfield had a fraught friendship, visited Wellington, her birthplace, and was moved to send Mansfield a postcard bea
7、ring a single Italian word, Ricordi （memories）. It was a small and cryptic gesture of reconciliation; theyd fallen out badly and in his previous letter he had said You are a loathsome reptileI hope you will die. T.S. Eliot found her a fascinating personality but also a thick-skinned toady and a dang
8、erous woman. And, if we want to add one more voice to this roll-call of mixed, self-clashing responses: the Irish writer Frank OConnor, in his classic study of the short story, The Lonely Voice, called Mansfield the brassy little shopgirl of literature who made herself into a great writer.As New Zea
9、landers we tend to think we have invented the ambivalence that surrounds our most famous writer. Our often grudging admiration perhaps has the cast of a distinctively local attitude to high artistic achievement. Yet Katherine Mansfield was always divisive, wherever she was received. The impression s
10、he left on those who knew her was strong and ambiguous. She affects her readers in a similar way.After Mansfield died, Virginia Woolf often dreamed at night of her great rival. The dreams gave her a Mansfield who was vividly, shockingly alive, so that the emotion of the dream encounter remained with
11、 Woolf for the next day. Hermione Lee, Woolfs biographer, writes that Katherine haunted her as we are haunted by people we have loved, but with whom we have not completed our conversation, with whom we have unfinished business. It is a formulation that captures wonderfully the current position of Ma
12、nsfield. She is a key figure in the development of the short story and yet she remains somehow on the margins of literary history. She is also the great ghost of New Zealand cultural life, felt but not quite grasped.Unfinished business lies at the heart of the Mansfield life story, not least because
13、 she died youngin 1923 at the age of thirty four, the author of just three books of short stories （a fourth and fifth would appear after her death）. Her own feeling, as she was dying of tuberculosis, was that she had only just started as a writer. Two weeks before she died, she expressed, with chara
14、cteristic restlessness, her dissatisfaction and her ambition: I want much more material; I am tired of my little stories like birds bred in cages. Yet there are other aspects of the life that also bear the stamp of incompletion.Mansfield left for London in 1908 aged 20, never to return to New Zealan
15、d. In the context of a long and arduous sea journey six or seven weeksthis might not appear significant. And yet by the time Mansfields father, whod been born in Australia, came to write his memoirs, he could boast that hed made the trip back to Mother England twenty-four times. Later in her life, o
16、f course, Mansfield was frequently incapacitated by illness. Even allowing for this, it is obvious that she saw no point in a return voyage to her birthplaceand that has had an effect on how we, as New Zealanders, see her. Though D.H. Lawrence believed the most important fact about her was that she
17、was a colonial, Mansfield can seem to us, at first glance, too English; her associations with the Bloomsbury set, her marriage to an English man-of-letters, keep her rather at a distance from our concerns. Irrationally, we feel abandoned.And yet her masterpiecesthe long stories At the Bay and Prelud
18、eare lovingly detailed recreations of a New Zealand childhood, reports from the fringethe edge of the world as she felt it to be. She wrote as if shed stayed. Of course these luminous re-imaginings are lit with the affection and nostalgia of the expatriate. They would not exist without their authors
19、 estrangement from the scenes and places and people she describes. They are set in a New Zealand of the mind, composed at the edge of Mansfields memory.At the Bay and Prelude are Mansfields most innovative and widely-read works and as such they are often the only point of contact an international re
20、adership has with this obscure country at the bottom of the world. And so our sense of abandonment is corrected slightly by a feeling of pride.Mansfields relationship with her country of birth was, like most of her relationships, marked by extremes. In the beginning, as a precocious, literary school
21、girl, she despaired of her uncouth colonial home where people dont even know their alphabet. As a mature writer she found in that hopeless material a way of pushing the boundaries of the formin the words of her biographer, Antony Alpers, a means of revolutionising the English short story.Passage 2：第
22、一段和第二段说一共有300多种鹦鹉的种类，其中在澳大利亚就有几分之几，有一个制造地图的人，他把澳大利亚描述成为非常多鹦鹉的地方;一个艺术家画家，他也描述了澳大利亚鹦鹉的多样性。这两段就是填空。为什么会有那么多鹦鹉在澳大利亚。因为在一开始南半球只有一块大陆，后来裂开才分开3个，南半球有很多鹦鹉的祖先，因此这就是为什么现在鹦鹉大多在南半球。鹦鹉的嘴为何有那么多种样子，因为植物和果实的多种多样，他们的喙的形状也是多种多样的。植物也会去适应鹦鹉，颜色会鲜艳，来吸引鹦鹉，帮助传粉。鹦鹉的居住地在之前在大陆的比较潮湿的树林中，但是由于气候的改变和人类活动的影响，鹦鹉要去重新适应环境。去适应环境的过程当中，
23、有的鹦鹉就灭绝了。有一种鹦鹉的存活是建立在另一种鹦鹉的灭绝之上。人类去人造鸟巢的缺点，少，贵，只是一个居住的地方，但是不是一个生存的环境。大树不仅能提供住宿，还能提供食物。15-18）段落信息配对题15. 一个关于别的物种影响另外的物种的例子：I16. two species：F17. 食物的颜色会为了适应动物而变化：G18. 南半球适合鹦鹉生存：J19. The varied Australia landscape是的鹦鹉种类很多：C20-22）选择题20. 关于鹦鹉起源：C. in the continent which split up21. parrot beaks:D. adjust
24、 to their suitable diet22. Box-nesting的缺点没有提及的是：D.should be frequently maintained23-27）填空题23. one-sixth24. 16 century25. Gerald Mercator26. Jonh GouldA familiar sight in Australia, the Australian king parrot is a somewhat rare pet in the United States and other parts of the world. They make relative
25、ly calm and quiet pets if hand-raised, however, and their striking colors make them ideal for a bird enthusiast looking for an unusual specimen. Australian king parrots are not overly affectionate birds, and most tend to prefer not to be handled. While there is the occasional exception, it is rare f
26、or a king parroteven one that was hand-fed as a babyto bond as strongly with their owners in the same way that cockatoos and some other parrot species do. This is not to say that these birds are anti-socialto the contrary, many Australian king parrots do enjoy interacting with their owners and even
27、learn to say a few words. But if you are looking for a cuddly parrot, then this is not the best species for you.Although these are large parrots, Australian king parrots are known to be among the more quiet parrot species and they tend to not scream in the same manner as the other large hookbills su
28、ch as macaws. Instead, they tend to pleasantly vocalize at an audible but very agreeable level and will entertain their owners with their whistles and chatter. When properly socialized and motivated, Australian king parrots can learn to talk, but they are not especially noted for remarkable speaking
29、 ability.Australian king parrots are a dimorphic bird speciesand dramatically so. Males have bright red plumage on their heads and chests, vivid green feathers on their backs and tails, and blue feathers underneath their wings. they are the only parrot with entirely red heads.Females of the species
30、have green feathers on their heads, backs, and chests, red on their bellies, and a patch of blue on their rumps. Both sexes have dark gray skin on their feet and legs.While highly sought after due to their quiet nature and beautiful colors, it can be hard to find an Australian king parrot. If you ar
31、e looking to adopt one as a pet, try contacting your local exotic bird club or aviculture society and ask about breeders in your area. Once you are in contact with breeders, ask plenty of questions and try to make an appointment to visit with them and their birds. It is important to understand exactly what it is like to live with an Australian king parrot before bringing one home.Although the vast majority of Australian king parrots pr
