2011年7月自考真题英美文学选读
高等教育自学考试英美文学选读试题及答案
课程代码：0604请将答案填在答题纸相应的位置上(全部题目用英文作答)I. Multiple Choice(40 points in all, 1 for each)Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question orcompletes the statement and write the corresponding letter on the answer sheet.1. In Renaissance, the European humanist thinkers and scholars made attempts to dothe following EXCEPT ______.A. getting rid of those old feudalist ideasB. getting control of the parliament and governmentC. introducing new ideas that expressed the interests of the rising bourgeoisieD. recovering the purity of the early church, from the corruption of the RomanCatholic Church2. The Petrarchan sonnet was first introduced into England by ______.A. SurreyB. WyattC. SidneyD. Shakespeare3. As the best of Shakespeare's final romances,______ is a typical example of hispessimistic view towards human life and society in his late years.A. The TempestB. The Winter's TaleC. CymbelineD. The Rape of Lucrece4. John Milton's greatest poetical work ______ is the only generally acknowledgedepic in English literarure since Beowulf.A.AreopagiticaB. Paradise LostC. LycidasD. Samson Agonistes5. The British bourgeois or middle class believed in the following notions EXCEPT______.A. self - esteemB. self - relianceC. self - restraintD. hard work6. “Graveyard School〞writers are the following sentimentalists EXCEPT______.A. James ThomsonB. William CollinsC. William CowperD. Thomas Jackson7. The best model of satire in the whole English literary history is Jonathan Swift's______.A. A Modest ProposalB. A Tale of a TubC. Gulliver's TravelsD. The Battle of the Books8. As a representative of the Enlightenment,______ was one of the first to introducerationalism to England.A. John BunyanB. Daniel DefoeC. Alexander PopeD. Jonathan Swift9. For his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel,______has been regarded by some as “Father of the English Novel〞.A. Daniel DefoeB. Henry FieldingC. Jonathan SwiftD. Samuel Richardson10. Which of the following descriptions of Gothic Novels is NOT correctA. It predominated in the early eighteenth century.B. It was one phase of the Romantic movement.C. Its principal elements are violence, horror and the supernatural.D. Works like The Mysteries of Udolpho and Frankenstein are typical Gothic romance.11. “Byronic hero〞is a figure of the following traits EXCEPT ______.A.being proudB. being of humble originC.being rebelliousD. being mysterious12. Robert Browning created ______ by adopting the novelistic presentation ofcharacters.A. the verse novelB. the blank verseC. the heroic coupletD. the dramatic poetry13. Charles Dickens' novel ______ is famous for its vivid descriptions of theworkhouse and life of the underworld in the nineteenth- century London.A. The Pickwick PaperB. Oliver TwistC. David CopperfieldD. Nicholas Nickleby14. Charlotte Bronte's works are all about the struggle of an individualconsciousness towards ______, about some lonely and neglected young women witha fierce longing for love, understanding and a full, happy life.A. self - relianceB. self - realizationC. self - esteemD. self - consciousness15. The symbolic meaning of “Book〞 in Robert Browning's long poem The Ring and theBook is ______.A. the common senseB. the hard truthC. the comprehensive knowledgeD. the dead truth16. Thomas Hardy's pessimistic view of life predominated most of his later worksand earns him a reputation as a ______ writer.A. realisticB. naturalisticC. romanticD. stylistic17. After the First World War, there appeared the following literary trends ofmodernism EXCEPT ______.A. expressionismB. surrealismC. stream of consciousnessD. black humour18. The masterpieces of critical realism in the early 20th century are the threetrilogies of ______.A. Galsworthy's Forsyte novelsB. Hardy' s Wessex novelsC. Greene's Catholic novelsD. Woolf's stream-of-consciousness novels19. In the mid - 1950s and early 1960s, there appeared “______〞 who demonstrateda particular disillusion over the depressing situation in Britain and launcheda bitter protest. against the outmoded social and political values in theirsociety.A. The Beat GenerationB. The Lost GenerationC. The Angry Young MenD. Black Mountain Poets20.The following are English stream-of-consciousness novels EXCEPT ______.A.PilgrimageB. UlyssesC.Mrs.DallowayD. A Passage to Inida21. The leader of the Irish National Theater Movement in the early 20th centurywas ______.A. W.B.Yeats B. Lady GregoryC. J.M.SyngeD. John Galworthy22. T.S.Eliot's most popular verse play is ______.A. Murder in the CathedralB. The Cocktail PartyC. The Family ReunionD. The Waste Land23. The American writer ______ was awarded the Nobel Prize for the anti-racist In-truder in the Dust in 1950.A. Ernest HemingwayB. Gertrude SteinC. William FaulknerD.T.S. Eliot24. Hemingway's second big success is ______ , which wrote the epitaph to a decadeand to the whole generation in the 1920s, in order to tell us a story about the tragic love affair of a wounded American soldier with a British nurse.A. For Whom the Bell TollsB. A Farewell to ArmsC. The Sun Also RisesD. The Old Man and the Sea25. With the publication of ______ , Dreiser was launching himself upon a long careerthat would ultimately make him one of the most significant American writers of the school later known as literary naturalism.A. Sister CarrieB. The TitanC. The GeniusD. The Stoic26. Henry James is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th -century “stream-of-consciousness〞novels and the founder of ______.A. neoclassicismB. psychological realismC. psychoanalytical criticismD. surrealism27. In 1849, Herman Melville published ______ ,a semi-autobiographical novel, con-cerning the sufferings of a genteel youth among brutal sailors.A. OmooB. MardiC. RedburnD. Typee28. As a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,______ marks the climax of Mark Twain'sliterary activity.A. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnB. Life on the MississippiC. The Gilded AgeD. Roughing It29. Realism was a reaction against ______ or a move away from the bias towards romanceand self- creating fictions, and paved the way to Modernism.A. RomanticismB. RationalismC. Post-modernismD. Cynicism30. When World War II broke out,______ began working for the Italian government,engaged in some radio broadcasts of anti- Semitism and pro- Fascism.A. Ezra PoundB.T.S. EliotC. Henry JamesD. Robert Frost31. In 1915 ______ became a naturalized British citizen, largely in protest againstAmerica's failure to join England in the First World War.C. W.D.Howells D. Ezra Pound32. What Whitman prefers for his new subject and new poetic feelings is “______ ,〞 that is, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.A. blank verseB. free rhythmC. balanced structureD. free verse33. The American woman poet ______ wanted to live simply as a complete independentbeing, and so she did, as a spinster.A. Emily ShawB. Anna DickinsonC. Emily DickinsonD. Anne Bret34. The Birthmark drives home symbolically ______ point that evil is a man's birthmark,something he was born with.A. Whitman'sB. Melville'sC. Hawthorne'sD. Emerson's35. The Financier ,The Titan and The Stoic written by ______ are called his “Trilogyof Desire〞.A. Henry JamesB. Theodore DreiserC. Mark TwainD. Herman Melville36. Disregarding grammar and punctuation,______ always used “i〞 instead of “I〞in his poems to show his protest against self-importance.A. Wallace StevensB. Ezra Pound37. Though Robert Frost is generally considered a regional poet whose subject mattersmainly focus on the landscape and people in ______ , he wrote many poems that investigate the basic themes of man's life in his long poetic career.A. the westB. the southC. New EnglandD. Alaska38. Most critics have agreed that Fitzgerald is both an insider and an outsider of______ with a double vision.A. the Gilded AgeB. the Rational AgeC. the Jazz AgeD. the Magic Age39. In the American Romantic writings,______ came to function almost as a dramaticcharacter that symbolized moral law.A. fireB. waterC. treesD. wilderness40. The desire for an escape from society and a return to ______ became a permanentconvention of the American literature.A. the family lifeB. natureC. the ancient timeD. fantasy of loveII. Reading Comprehension (16 points in all, 4 for each)Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.41. Wherefore feed and clothe and saveFrom the cradle to the graveThose ungrateful drones who wouldDrain your sweat- nay, drink your bloodQuestions:A. Identify the poet and the title of the poem from which the stanza is taken.B. What figure of speech is used in Line 2C. Whom does “drones〞 refer to42. The following quotation is from one of the poems by T. S. Eliot:No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;Am an attendant lord, one that will doTo swell a progress, start a scene or twoAdvise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool,Deferential, glad to be of use,Politic, cautious, and meticulous,Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse;Questions:A. Identify the title of the poem from which the quoted part is taken.B. Who's the speaker of the quoted linesC. What does the first line show about the speaker43．There was a child went forth every day,And the first object he look'd upon, that object he became,And that object became part of him for the day or a certain part of the day, Or for many years or stretching cycles of years.Questions:A. Identify the poet.B.From which poem and which collection of the poet are these lines takenC.What does the poet describe in the poem44. I heard a Fly buzz- when I died-The Stillness in the RoomWas like the Stillness in the Air-Between the Heaves of Storm-The Eyes around- had wrung them dry-And Breaths were gathering firmFor that last Onset- when the KingBe witnessed - in the Room-Questions:A. Identify the poet.B. What does “the King〞 refer toC. What moment is the poem trying to describeIII. 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. List at least two leading neoclassicists in England. What did Neoclassicistscelebrate in literary creation46. Jane Eyre is one of the most popular and important novels of the Victorian Age.Why is Jane Eyre such a successful novel47. Who are the three dominant figures of the American Age of Realism and what arethe differences in their understanding of the “truth〞48. What's Dreiser' s naturalistic belief Please discuss the question with Carrie,a character in Sister Carrie as an example.IV. Topic Discussion(20 points in all, 10 for each)Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in thecorresponding space on the answer sheet.49. Briefly discuss William Shakespeare's artistic achievements in characterization,plot construction and language.50. Briefly discuss Mark Twain's art of fiction in terms of the setting,the language,and the characters, etc.,based on his novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.全国高等教育自学考试英美文学选读真题答案及评分参考〔课程代码0604〕I. Multiple Choice (40 points in all, 1 for each)1. B2. B3. A4. B5.A6.D7.A8.C9.B 10.A 11.B 12.A13.B 14.B 15.B 16.B 17.D 18.A 19.C 20.D 21.A 22.A 23.C24.B 25.A 26.C 27.C 28.A 29.A 30.A 31.A 32.D 33.C 34.C35.B 36.D 37.C 38.C 39.D 40.BII. Reading Comprehension (16 points in all, 4 for each)41. A. From Percy Shelley’s “Men of England〞(1)B. Metonymy (1)C. Here “drones〞refers to the parasitic class in human society. (2)42. A. “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock〞(1)B. J. Alfred Prufrock (1)C. Prufrock is conscious of the fact that he is like Hamlet in some respects. But he is sensibleenough that he cannot be compared with Hamlete. (2)43. A. Walt Whitman (1)B. “There Was a Child Went Forth〞from “Leaves of Grass〞(1)C. The poem describes the growth of a child who learned about the world around him andimproved himself accordingly. In the poem, Whitman’s own early ex perience may well be identified with the childhood of a young, growing American. (2)44. A. Emily Dickinson (1)B. The God of Death. (1)C. The poem is trying to describe the moment of death. (2)III. Questions and Answers (24 points in all, 6 for each)45. A. Alexander Pope, John Dryden, Samuel Johnson (任选2位作家). (2)B. They believed that the artistic ideals should be order, logic, restrained emotion andaccuracy and that literature should be judged in terms of its service to humanity. (2) They seek proportion, unity, harmony and grace in literacy expression, in an effort to delight,instruct and correct human beings. Thus a polite, elegant, witty and intellectual artdeveloped. (2)46. A. It is noted for its sharp criticism of the existing society. (2)B. It is an intense moral fable. (2)C. The success of the novel is also due to its introduction to the English novel the firstgoverness heroine. (2)47. A. William Dean Howells, Mark Twain, Henry James. (3)B. Mark Twain and Howells seemed to have paid more attention to the “life〞of theAmericans. Howells focused his discussion on the rising middle class and the way theylived; Mark Twain preferred to have his own region and people at the forefront of his stories;Henry James had apparently laid a greater emphasis on the “inner world〞of man. (3)48. A. Dreiser believes that while men are controlled and conditioned by heredity, instinct andchance, a few extraordinary and unsophisticated human beings refuse to accept their fatewordlessly and instead strive, unsuccessfully, to find meaning and purpose for theirexistence. (3)B. Carrie, as one of such, senses that she is merely a cipher in an uncaring world yet seeks tograsp the mysteries of life and thereby satisfies her desires for social status and materialcomfort, but in spite of her success, she is lonely and dissatisfied. (3)以上各题言语错误酌情扣分。
英美文学与翻译2011年真题回忆版
827英美文学与翻译2011年真题回忆版Part one literature第一题：someone say that “a good literary work is a combination of pleasure and disquietness”what do you think of it? Select a work and point out where u can find pleasure and disquietness.第二题：someone say that “a good literary work is a question minus answer”,what do you think of it? Select a work or play and point out how the writer pose the question and what extent he answers the question.第三题：this is a short passage taken from the preface of the《leaves of grass》from Walt WhitmanThe Americans of all nations at any time upon the earth have probably the fullest poetical nature. The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem. In the history of the earth hitherto the largest and most stirring appear tame and orderly to their ampler largeness and stir. Here at last is something in the doings of man that corresponds with the broadcast doings of the day and night. Here is not merely a nation but a teeming nation of nations. Here is action untied from strings necessarily blind to particulars and details magnificently moving in vast masses. Here is the hospitality which forever indicates heroes . . . . Here are the roughs and beards and space and ruggedness and nonchalance that the soul loves. Here the performance disdaining the trivial unapproached in the tremendous audacity of its crowds and groupings and the push of its perspective spreads with crampless and flowing breadth and showers its prolific and splendid extravagance. One sees it must indeed own the riches of the summer and winter, and need never be bankrupt while corn grows from the ground or the orchards drop apples or the bays contain fish or men beget children upon women.Other states indicate themselves in their deputies . . . . but the genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges or churches or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors . . . but always most in the commonpeople. Their manners speech dress friendships – the freshness and candor of their physiognomy –the picturesque looseness of their carriage . . . their deathless attachment to freedom – their aversion to anything indecorous or soft or mean – the practical acknowledgment of the citizens of one state by the citizens of all other states – the fierceness of their roused resentment – their curiosity and welcome of novelty – their self-esteem and wonderful sympathy – their susceptibility to a slight – the air they have of persons who never knew how it felt to stand in the presence of superiors – the fluency of their speech – their delight in music, the sure symptom of manly tenderness and native elegance of soul . . . their good temper and openhandedness – the terrible significance of their elections – the President's taking off his hat to them not they to him –these too are unrhymed poetry. It awaits the gigantic and generous treatment worthy of it.Question1: what’s your understanding of Whitman’s view of poet?Question2: write a comment of this passage .第四题：this is “a very short story” written by Hemingway .then write a comment of this passagePart two: translation汉译英：旧王府艺术研究院的变迁英译汉：idleness+三个短句翻译4.2.1真题解析及技巧指导Part one literature注意答题书写步骤：第一题：1.I take Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as an example to explain the idea.2. pleasure 体现在远离“文明”的，自然的，单纯的河上生活；disquietness体现在河岸上现实的阴暗面即血腥杀戮等3. 总结。
全国2011年7月高等教育自学考试综合英语一试题
全国2011年7月高等教育自学考试综合英语(一)试题课程代码：00794I．语法和词汇。
从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个最佳答案，并将所选答案的字母填写在答题纸相应位置上。
(本大题共20小题，每小题1分，共20分)1. Everybody wants ______ properly for what they do.A. to payB. being paidC. to be paidD. to be paid for2. I’m sorry______the glass. But I really didn’t see it in my hurry.A. to have brokenB. to breakC. to have been brokenD. to be broken3. A: I don’t have any CD at home.B:______.A. Neither do IB. So do IC. Neither did ID. So did I4. ______ I waved to him again and again did he see me.A. UntilB. TillC. Not untilD. When5. Don’t tell the boss about it, ______ ?A. will youB. won’t youC. do youD. don’t you6. The teacher tried to make her class as enjoyable as possible______ the students would take agreater interest in the subject.A. soB. so thatC. thatD. since7. I found a man following me; ______ I turned around, he was always there.A. howeverB.whateverC. whileD. whenever8. The workers were made ______ like slaves.A. workB. workingC. to workD. for working9. Do you remember ______Tom about this before?A. to tellB. tellingC. to have toldD.tell10. Never______such a beautiful place before.A. did I seeB. had I seeingC. have I seenD.will I see11. I had no time the other day. Otherwise I ______ to visit you.A. would have comeB. would comeC. must have comeD. came12. As ______ matter of fact, there was ______ exploration in ______ last hours I visited.A. a, an, theB. the, an, aC. a, the, theD. the, an, the13. China is larger than ______ in Europe.A. some other countriesB. any other countriesC. any countryD. all countries14. Three days ______ too long for me to wait.A. isB. areC. takesD. take15. The manager ______him with responsibility for running the shop.A. madeB. leftC. toldD. let16. They called ______ the waiter in a loud voice.A. forB. toC. intoD. up17. There is no use _______that I should have worked harder.A. to sayB. to have saidC. having saidD. saying18. ______ to remind him, the church clock struck seven.A. As ifB. Even thoughC. Only ifD. So that19. We’re going to the countryside ______ next week.A. some timeB. sometimesC. sometimeD. some times20. He arranged ______ the letter to arrive on her birthday.A. atB. inC. toD. forI I．阅读理解。
7月英语阅读(一)自考试题
2011年7月英语阅读(一)自考试题全国2011年7月自考英语阅读(一)试题课程代码：00595全部题目用英文作答（翻译题除外），请将答案填在答题纸相应位置上I. Careful Reading. (40 points, 2 points for each)Directions: Read the following passages carefully. Decide on the best answers antl then write the corresponding letters on your Answer Sheet.Passage OneQuestions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage.The old fashioned general store is fast disappearing. This is, perhaps, a pity, because shopping today seems to lack that personal element which existed when the shopkeeper knew all his regular customers personally. He could, for instance, remember which brand of tea Mrs. Smith usually bought or what sort of washing powder Mrs. Jones preferred. Not only was the shop a center of buying and selling, but a social meeting place.A prosperous general store might have employed four or five assistants, and so there were very few problems in management as far as the staff was concerned. But now that the supermarket has replaced the general store, the job of the manager has changed completely. The moderm supermarket manager has to cope with a staff of as many as a hundred, apart from all the other everyday problems of running a large business.Every morning the manager must, like the commander of an army division, carry out an inspection of his store to make sure that everything is ready for the business of the day He must see that everything is running smoothly. He will have to give advice and make decisions as problems arise; and he must know how to get his huge staff to work efficiently with their respective responsibilities. No matter what he has to do throughout the day, however, the supermarket manager must be ready for any emergency that may arise. They say in the trade that you are not really an experienced supermarket manager until you have dealt with a flood, a fire, a birth and a death in your store.1. The main purpose of the passage is to show ______.A. how the supermarket replaces the old general storeB. how the old fashioned general store is fast disappearingC. how supermarket managers deal with problems every morningD. how the role of the shop manager undergoes an overall change2. It is a pity that there are fewer old general stores now because _______.A. there is less trading businessB. there used to be more social activities in the old daysC. supermarket managers have more problemsD. there is less personal contact between manager and customer3. Who are Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Jones mentioned in the first paragraph?A. People representing any of the regular customers of the old general store.B. Shop assistants.C. Friends of the shop manager’s.D. Two regular customers of the store.4. How has the job of the store manager changed?A. He doesn’t sell tea or washing powder any more.B. He has a much larger staff to take care of, to say nothing of all the other daily problems of running the store.C. He must try hard to remember the names of the regular customers.D. He has to give advice and make decisions every day.5. The author compared the supermarket manager to ______.A. a military leaderB. a school inspectorC. a traffic supervisorD. an orchestra conductorPassage TwoQuestions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage.By the Treaty of Paris of 1763, which ended the war with the French and the Indians, England gained possession of Canada and all the territory east of the Mississippi River. French influence on this continent thus came to an end; England now controlled most of North America. But the war had been long and expensive. England had many debts. George III, king of England, after consulting with his advisers, decided that the American colonists should help pay some of the expenses of this war. A standing English army of 10,000 men had been left in the colonies for protection against the Indians. The English government also felt that the colonists should share in the expenses of maintaining this army. The result was a Series of measures, the Grenville Program, passed by Parliament and designed to raise money in the colonies. Some of thesemeasures were accepted by the colonists, but one in particular, the Stamp Act, was met with great protest. The Stamp Act required that stamps, ranging in price from a few cents to almost a dollar, be placed on all newspapers, advertisements, bills of sale, wills, legal papers, etc. The Stamp Act was one of the causes of the American Revolution. It affected everyone, rich and poor alike. Some businessmen felt that the act would surely ruin their businesses.Of all the voices raised in protest to the Stamp Act, none had greater effect than that of a young lawyer from Virginia-Patrick Henry. Henry had only recently been elected to the Virginia Assembly. Yet when the Stamp Act came up for discussion, he opposed it almost single-handedly. He also expressed, for the first time, certain ideas that were held by many Americans of the time but that never before had been stated so openly. “Is life so dear or peace so sweet, as to be bought at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!”6. From the passage we learn that ______.A. Britain took over Canada from the Indians in 1 763B. there had been a war between the French and the Indianswhich ended in 1763C. France used to have control of Canada and some areas east of the Mississippi RiverD. the French still kept some influence in North America through the Treaty of Paris7. The Grenville Program refers to ______.A. King George III’s plan to gather money in North AmericaB. the British government’s desire to raise money in North AmericaC. a plan to share the expenses of maintaining an army in the American coloniesD. a decision of the British Parliament to collect money in the American colonies8. The Stamp Act ______.A. was an act about selling stamps at prices from a few cents to almost a dollarB. was one of the causes of the American RevolutionC. required that all commercial and legal documents in America have stamps on themD. chiefly affected business people who felt it would ruin their businesses9. From the passage we learn that Patrick Henry ______.A. had been a member of the Virginia Assembly for a long timeB. didn’t know what courses to tak e to complete his studies as a lawyerC. was almost the only one who openly protested against the Stamp ActD. didn’t value life or peace as much as other people did10. This passage is mainly about ______.A. one of the events leading to the American RevolutionB. the Treaty of Paris between Britain and FranceC. the Grenville Program to raise money in the American coloniesD. Patrick Henry, a hero who opposed the Stamp Act Passage ThreeQuestions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage.In the past, American families tended to be quite large. Parents raising five or more children were common. Over the years, the size of the family has decreased. One reason for this is an increase in the cost of living. On the average, children attend schools for more years than they used to, making them financially dependent on their families. Moreover, children nowadays are better dressed and have more money to spend on entertainment. The parents usually take the responsibilityfor all the expenses. Meanwhile, families are less close than they used to be. More and more American mothers work away from home.The breakup of the family occurs when the parents divorce. A lot of children in the U.S. live part of their young lives with only one parent. Broken families usually result in problems for children and parents alike. Children blame themselves when their parents separate. They grow up feeling unsettled as they are moved back and forth between parents. Usually one parent is responsible for raising the children. These single parents must care for the children’s emotional and psychological needs while also supporting them financially. This is very demanding and leaves very little time for the parent’s own personal interests. Single parents often marry other single parents. In this type of family, unrelated children are forced to develop brother or sister relationship.The situations of many American families today are not good. However, recent signs indicate that things are getting better. The divorce rate is declining. The rate of childbirth is rising. Perhaps Americans have learned how important families are.11. In the past, American families tended to be ______.A. quite smallB. medium-sizedC. quite largeD. small12. To parents who take the responsibility for children’s expenses, the cost of living increases because ______.A. children attend school for less yearsB. children are worse dressedC. children have more interests nowadaysD. children spend more money on entertainment13. What problems would broken families bring to children and parents respectively?A. Children grow up feeling unsettled and parents didn’t pay much attention to children.B. Children grow up feeling free and one parent is responsible for raising the children.C. Children are moved back and forth between parents and the single parent is busy working to make money to support himself or herself.D. Children grow up feeling unsettled, and the parents have little time for his or her own interests because one parent is too busy taking care of children.14. According to the author, the situations of American families in the future may ______.A. become worseB. remain the sameC. get betterD. keep unchanged15. The title of the article might be ______.A. American ChildrenB. American FamiliesC. American MotherD. American ParentsPassage FourQuestions 16 to 20 are based on the following passage.In a family where the roles of men and women are not sharply separated and where many household tasks are shared to a greater or lesser extent, notions of male superiority are hard to maintain. The pattern of sharing in tasks and in decisions makes for equality and this in turn leads to further sharing. In such a home, the growing boy and girl learn to accept equality more easily than did their parents and to prepare more fully for participation in a world characterized by cooperation rather than by the “battle of the sexes”.If the process goes too far and man’s role is regarded as less important—and that has happened in some cases—we are as badly off as before, only in reverse.It is time to reassess the role of the man in the American family. We are getting a little tired of “Momism” —but we don’t want to exchange it for a “neo-Popism”. What we need, rather, is the recognition that bringing up children involves a partnership ofequals. There are signs that psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and specialists on the family are becoming more aware of the part men play and that they have decided that women should not receive all the creditnor the blame. We h ave almost given up saying that a woman’s place is in the home. We are beginning, however, to analyze man’s place in the home and to insist that he does have a place in it. Nor is that place irrelevant to the healthy development of the child.The family is a co-operative enterprise for which it is difficult to lay down rules, because each family needs to work out its own ways for solving its own problems.Excessive authoritarianism（命令主义) has unhappy consequences, whether it wears skirts or trousers, and the ideal of equal rights and equal responsibilities is pertinent (相关的，中肯的) not only to healthy democracy, but also to a healthy family.16. The danger in the sharing of household tasks between the mother and the father is that ______.A. the role of the father may become an inferior oneB. the role of the mother may become an inferior oneC. the children believe that life is a battle of sexesD. sharing leads to constant arguing17. The author states that bringing up children ______.A. is mainly the mother’s jobB. belongs to the duties of the fatherC. is the job of schools and churchesD. involves a partnership of equals18. The ideal of equal rights and equal responsibilities is ______.A. fundamental to a sound democracyB. not pertinent to a healthy familyC. responsible for MomismD. what we have almost given up19. According to the author, the father’s role in the home is ______.A. minor because he is an ineffectual parentB. irrelevant to the healthy development of the childC. pertinent to the healthy development of the childD. identical to the role of the child’s mother20. Which of the following statements would the author be most likely to agree with?A. A healthy, co-operative family is a basic ingredient of a healthy society.B. Men are basically opposed to sharing household chores.C. Division of household responsibilities is workable only intheory.D. A woman’s place in the home now is the same as that in the past.II. Speed Reading. (10 points, 1 point for each)Directions: Skim or scan the following passages. Decide on the best answers and then writethe corresponding letters on your Answer Sheet.Passage FiveQuestions 21-25 are based on the following passage.You’re busy filling out the application form for a position you really need. Let’s a ssume you once actually completed a couple of years of college work or even that you completed your degree. Isn’t it tempting to lie just a little, to claim on the form that your diploma represents a Harvard degree? Or that you finished an extra couple of years back at State University? More and more people are turning to utter deception like this to land their job or to move ahead in their careers, for personnel officers, like most Americans, value degrees from famous schools. A job applicant may have a good education anyway, but he or she assumes that chances of being hired are better with a diploma from a well-known university.Registrars at most well-known colleges say they deal withdeceitful claims like these at the rate of about one per week. Personnel officers do check upon degrees listed on application forms, then. If it turns out that an applicant is lying, most colleges are reluctant to accuse the applicant directly. One Ivy League school calls them “impostors (骗子)”; another refers to them as “special cases”. One well-known West Coast school, in perhaps the most delicate phrase of all, says that these claims are made by “no such people”. To avoid outright lies, some job-seekers claim that they “attended” or “were associated with” a college or univer sity, After carefully checking, a personnel officer may discover that “attending” means being dismissed after one semester. It may be that “being associated with” a college means that the job-seeker visited his younger brother for a football weekend. One school that keeps records of false claims says that the practice dates back at least to the turn of the century——that’s when they began keeping records, anyhow. If you don’t want to lie or even stretch the truth, there are companies that will sell you a phony diploma.One company, with offices in New York and on the West Coast, will put your name on a diploma from any number of nonexistent colleges. The price begins at around twenty dollars for a diploma from “Smoot State University”. The pricesincrease rap idly for a degree from the “University of Purdue”. As there is no Smoot State and the real school in Indiana is properly called Purdue University, the prices seem rather high for one sheet of paper.21. The main idea of this passage is that ______.A. employers are checking more closely on applicants nowB. lying about college degrees has become a widespread problemC. college degrees can now be purchased easilyD. employers are no longer interested in college degrees22. According to the passage, “special cases” refer to cases that ______.A. students attended a school only part-timeB. students never attended a school they listed on their application formsC. students purchased false degrees from commercial firmsD. students attended a famous school23. Fr om the sentence “job-seeker visited his younger brother for a football weekend” (Para.2), we can infer that _____.A. the job-seeker is a student in that collegeB. the job-seeker’s brother is a student in that collegeC. neither the two are students in that collegeD. the job-seeker lives in that college24. We can infer from the passage that ______.A. performance is a better judge of ability than a college degreeB. experience is the best teacherC. past work histories influence personnel officers more than degrees doD. a degree from a famous school enables an applicant to gain advantage over others in job competition25. The underlined word “phony” (Para.2) means ______.A. thoroughB. falseC. ultimateD. decisivePassage SixQuestions 26-30 are based on the following passageAre you happy? Do you remember a time when you were happy? Are you seeking happiness today?Many have sought a variety of sources for their feelings of happiness. Some put their hearts and efforts into their work. Too many turn to drugs and alcohol. Meanwhile, untold numbers look for it in the possession of expensive cars, exotic vacation homes and other popular “toys”. Most of their efforts have a root in common: people are looking for a lasting source of happiness.Unfortunately, I believe that happiness escapes from many people because they misunderstand the journey of finding it. I have learned many people say that, “I’ll be happy when I get my new promotion,” or “I’ll be happy when I get that extra 20 pounds.” It is dangerous bec ause it accepts that happiness is a “response” to having, being or doing something.In life, we all experience stimulus and response. Today, some people think that an expensive car is a stimulus. Happiness is a response. A great paying job is a stimulus. Happiness is a response. This belief leaves us thinking and feeling: “I’ll be happy when ...”It has been my finding that actually the opposite is true. I believe that happiness is a stimulus and response is what life brings to those who are truly happy. When we are happy, we tend to have more success in our work. When we are happy, we more naturally take better care of our bodies and enjoy good health. Happiness is not a response but a stimulus. Happiness is a conscious choice we make in daily life. For unknown reasons to me, many choose to be upset and angry most of the time. Happiness is not something that happens to us after we get something we want. On the contrary, we usually get things we want after we choose to be happy.26. According to the second paragraph, which of the following is NOT true?A. Some people are happy when they work hard.B. Some people are happy when they drink or take drugs.C. Some people are happy when they get well-paid jobs.D. Some people are happy when they possess their own expensive cars.27. Generally speaking, most people feel happy because ______.A. they think happiness is rooted in their deep heartsB. they get what they want to haveC. they get a long vacationD. they get a great paying job28. In the author’s opinion, which of the following.is the most important if you want to be happy?A. Losing weightB. An expensive carC. Success in workD. Feeling happy29. Which of the following is right according to the author?A. Most people today are happy.B. Most people choose to be unhappy most of the time.C. Work is a necessary part in our daily life.D. We try to get more and then we’ll be happy.30. From the viewpoint of the author, happiness is ______.A. limitedB. out of reachC. unconditionalD. based on our needsIII. Discourse Cloze. (10 points, 1 point for each)Directions: The following passage is taken from the textbook. Read the passage and fill in the numbered spaces (there are more suggested answers than necessary). Write your answers on the Answer Sheet.Miller uses the techniques of the modern theatre to the full. He is not satisfied with simply employing the devices oflights and sound as an addition to the acting, 31. ______. This is a deliberate attempt to make the theatre as a whole, not merely the actors, express the messages of the play. Mechanical devices assume, then, a symbolic significance—they represent an essential meaning or idea in the play in physical terms. They express a meamng — 32. ______.Miller was writing for a middle-class audience. His plays were performed on Broadway,33. ______. Therefore they reached only a small proportion of the population Miller uses this fact (that the plays reached only a relatively small proportion of the population) to advantage in Death of a Salesman, where he examines American middle-class ideas and beliefs. He was able to place before his audience Willy Loman, 34. ______, oneswhich have been summed up by the phrase “the American Dream”. The American Dream is a combination of beliefs in the unity of the family, the healthiness of competition in society, the need for success and money, and the view that 35. ______. Some of these are connected: America seemed at one stage in history to offer alternatives to the European way of life; she seemed to be the New World, vast, having plenty of land and riches for all of its people, all of whom could share in the wealth of the nation. America was a land of opportunity. This belief is still apparent, even in twentieth-century America, with its large urban population, and Miller uses it in his plays, in order to state something significant about American society. In such a land, where all people have a great deal of opportunity, success should come fahly easily, 36. ______. To become successful in the American Dream means to believe in competition, to reach the top as quickly as possible by proving oneself better than others. Success is judged by the amount of wealth which can be acquired by an individual. 37. ______. Money and success mean stability; and stability can be seen in the family unit. The family is a guideline to success. 38. ______. These ideas should always be kept in mind when Death of a Salesman is considered.Another point to consider is Miller’s conception of what the theatre should do. He is both a psychological and a social dramatist.39. ______. Often, these people are ordinary, everyday types, but ones whose actions are made significant by the dramatist. For example, the lives of ordinary citizens going about their daily business in their homes may not obviously appear interesting, but the dramatist can indicate that their daily lives are important, that they are interesting or unusual as people and that the audience may see their own situations and psychological states reflected in the characters the dramatist has created. Death of a Salesman is a good example of this. Of course, all dramatists and novelists try to make the actions of their characters relevant to other people, and most analyze closely the minds of the characters they have created in order to establish what makes them function as individuals. Where Miller differs from many of the others is 40. ______. Most of his heroes are ordinary people: they do not seem to be different from anyone who can be met in any street; and this, it might be argued, adds force to his plays, since none of the characters are remote—we share their feelings, and understand their difficulties. Also, Miller is able to show that everyday people can rise above the ordinary when challenged.(From Miller’s Theatre and Miller’s Idea s)A. a man who shared many of their idealsB. America is the great land in which free opportunity for all existsC. hence the term “expressionist” is often used to describe Miller as a dramatistD. but indicates in the stage directions of his plays precisely when a particular form of lighting or piece of sound is to be usedE. so an unsuccessful man could feel bitter about his failure, excluded as he was from the success around himF. This means that Miller has often been regarded as an ally of the American LeftG the center of New York’s theatrical and cultural life, and in London’s West EndH. As a psychological dramatist he studies character, the motives and reasons behind the behavior of individuals, and presents them to his audiences so that his individual characters become convincingly aliveI. People were not as stable financially because of the depression and then the 1939-45 war, and so their way of life seemed to be challengedJ. It also provides emotional stability, and a good family shares its hopes and beliefsK. Success is extemal and visible, shown in material wealth and encouragedL. in the type of person that he has createdIV. Word Formations. (10 points, 1 point for each) Directions: Complete each of the following sentences with the proper form of the word in the brackets. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet.41. (complete) In his life, each stage of his development depends on the satisfactory ______ of the one before .42. (achieve)I felt a great sense of ______ when I reached the top of the mountain.43. (shock)He’s ______ at the prevalence of bribery among these officials.44. (relief)He smoked frequently to _____his nervous tension.45.(imply)The new report has far-reaching ______ for the future of Chinese education.46. (doubt)Because of a long drought, the farmers are ______ about the prospect of a good yield.47. (horrify)I was ______ at the idea of having to give a speech in front of so many people.48. (polite)______ is the attribute of a gentleman.49. (deception)You are ______ yourself if you still believe that she will help you.50. (treat)First aid is emergency care for a victim of sudden illness or injury until more skillful medical ______ is available. V. Gap Filling. (10 points, 1 point for each)Directions: The following passage is taken from the textbook. Fill in the numbered gaps with the correct form of the words or phrases in the box (there are more words than necessary). Write your answers on the Answer Sheet.than wish suspect know forfear headquarters in close againstmany foreign evenIn big cities, the Police Commissioner (Head of the Force) is often appointed by Mayor and therefore senior police officers tend to be too 51. ______ linked to politics. Their ambitions sometimes tempt them to turn a blind eye or to accept bribes, which lowers the morale of the ordinary cop. The structure of the many different American police forces is said to be the most varied in the whole world.The city police often come into conflict with the FBI —the Federal Bureau of Investigation. FBI men, do not wear uniforms,have the right to cross State borders if they are pursuing a 52. ______. They are responsible to the US Department of Justice, and have their 53. ______ in Washington, D. C. The head of the FBI is chief domestic intelligence adviser to the President. The FBI men are more concerned with spies and agents hostile to the USA, radicals and Mafia（黑手党）bosses 54. ______ they are with ordinary criminals, but they do keep a record of all crimes, which city and State police can consult if they 55. ______. The FBI laboratory services, among the best in the world, are also available to local law enforcement agencies. The activities of the CIA—the Central Intelligence Agency— are now well 56. ______ in every country in the world. The job of the CIA is to keep the Government informed of the activities of 57. ______ agents and the secret preparations of hostile powers. CIA agents also work in countries where it is felt that aid, or the promise of aid, will maintain sympathy 58. ______ the USA. Sometimes the CIA’s actions do just the reverse, and in many parts of the worldincluding countries friendly to the USA, they are disliked and even 59. ______.However, the CIA is just one of the many secret services all countries use to protect themselves 60. ______ possible enemies.。
英美文学选读试题自学考试答案解析（完整版）
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I.Multiple Choice(40points in all,1for each)Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement.Mark your choice by blackening the corresponding letter A,B,C orD on the answer sheet.1.Shakespeare has established his giant position in world literature with his______plays,154sonnets and2long poems.BA.27B.38C.47D.522.john Milton’s literary achievement can be divided into three groups:the early poetic works,the middle prose pamphlets and the last______.CA.romancesB.dramasC.great poemsD.ballads3.The novels of______are the first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower—class people.CA.John MiltonB.Daniel DefoeC.Henry FieldingD.Jonathan Swift4.The work ranked by many critics as William Wordswoth’s greatest work was______.BA.Lyrical BalladsB.The PreludeC.Poems in Two VolumesD.The Excursion5.The author of The History of Tom Jones,a Foundling is ______.CA.Daniel DefoeB.Johathan SwiftC.Henry FieldingD.William Blake6.The works of______are famous for the depiction of the life of the middle—class women,particularly governess.*BA.Charlotte BrontewrenceC.Thomas HardyD.Jane Austen7.All of the following writings are created by William Wordsworth EXCEPT______.DA.“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.”B.“Composed upon Westminster Bridge,Septemer3,1802.”C.“The Solitary Reaper.”D.“The Chimney Sweeper.”8.The most important representative work by Jonathan Swift is______.DA.A Tale of a TubB.The Battle of the BooksC.A Modest ProposalD.Gulliver's Travels9“If winter comes,can Spring be far behind?”comes from Shelly’s______.DA.“To a Skylark”B.“Adonais”C.“Ode to Liberty”D.“Ode to the West Wind”10.In Jane Austen's first novel______,she tells a story about two sisters and their love affairs.BA.Pride and PrejudiceB.Sense and SensibilityC.EmmaD.Persuasion11.Charles Dickens is one of the greatest______writers of the Victorian Age.DA.romanticB.modernistC.socialistD.critical realist12.Charlotte Bronte's most autobiographical work,______ is largely based on her experience in Brussels.AA.Jane EyreB.ShirleyC.VilletteD.The Professor13.William Wordsworth's theory of poetry is calling for simple themes drawn from humble life expressed in the language of ordinary people.The preface to the second edition of______acts as a manifesto for the new school and sets forth his own critical creed.AA.Lyrical BalladsB.The PreludeC.Poems in Two VolumsD.The Excursion14.George Bernard Shaw's play______established his position as the leading playwright of his time.*CA.Widowers’HousesB.Too True to Be GoodC.Mrs.Warren's ProfessionD.Candida15.Eliot's most important single poem______,has been hailed as a landmark and a model of the20th-century English poetry.BA.The Hollow MenB.The Waste LandC.Prurrock and Other ObservationsD.Poems1909-2516. D. /doc/info-926f89635dbfc77da26925 c52cc58bd630869377.htmlwrence’s autobiographical novel, ______shows the conflict between the earthy,coarse, energetic but often drunken father and the refined,strong —willed and up—climbing mother.AA.Sons and LoversB.The White PeacockC.The TrespasserD.The Rainbow17.“To be,or not to be—that is the question;/Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer./The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,/Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,/And by opposing end them?”These words are from ______.DA.King LearB.RomeoC.AntonioD.Hamlet18.John Milton’s last important work,______is the most powerful dramatic poem on the Greek model.AA.Paradise LostB.Paradise RegainedC.Samson AgonistesD.Lydidas19.The author of Moll Flanders and Captain Singleton is ______.BA.John MiltonB.Daniel DefoeC.Henry FieldingD.Jonathan Swift20.Drapier is the pseudonym of______.AA.Jonathan SwiftB.Daniel DefoeC.Henry FieldingD.William Blake21.One of Dickens'later works,______in which he presents a criticism of the governmental branches which run an indefinite procedure of management ofaffairs and keep the innocent in prison for life.BA.Bleak HouseB.Little DorritC.Hard TimesD.A Tale of Two Cities22.In the second part of Gulliver's Travels,Gulliver told his experience in______.AA.BrobdingnagB.LilliputC.Flying IslandD.Houyhnhnm23.Faulkner used the narrative techniques to construct his stories,which include______and mythological and biblical allusions.AA.symbolismB.free indirect speechC.contrastD.dialogue24.Ernest Hemingway,had been trying to demonstrate in his works an unvarying code,known as“______,”which is actually an attitude towards life.BA.facing the realityB.grace under pressureC.honesty with benevolenceD.security coming first25.The Blithedale Romance is a novel written by Hawthorne to reveal his own experience on the Brook Farm and his own methods as a______novelist.CA.naturalistB.imagistC.psychologicalD.feminist26.Theodore Dreiser's focus shifted from the pathos of the helpless protagonists at the bottom of the society to the power of the Americanfinancial tycoons in the late19th century in his work ______.DA.The GeniusB.An American TragedyC.Dreiser Looks at RussiaD.“Trilogy of Desire”27.Emily Dickinson frequently uses personae to render the tone more familiar to the reader,and______to vivify some abstract ideas.DA.imagesB.metaphorC.symbolsD.personification28.In his later works,Melville becomes more reconciled with the______,in which he admits,one must live by rules.BA.womenB.world of manC.familyD.politicians29.Walt Whitman's______has always been considered a monumental work which commands great attention in America.BA.The Pilgrim’s ProgressB.Leaves of GrassC.A Passage to IndiaD.Rip Van Winkle30.Mark Twain’s full literary career began to blossom in1869with a travel book______,an account of American tourists in Europe.AA.Innocents AbroadB.The Portrait of A LadyC.The Grapes of WrathD.The Great Gatsby31.With the development of the modern novel and the common acceptance of the______approach,Henry James's importance,as well as his wide influence as a novelist and critic,has been all the more conspicuous.AA.deconstructionB.romanticC.FreudianD.analytic32.Emily Dickinson addresses the issues that concern the whole human beings in her poems,which include religion, death,______,love,and nature.AA.immortalityB.wealthC.powerD.politics33.In Sister Carrie Theodore Dreiser expressed his______ pursuit by expounding the purposelessness of life and attacking the conventional moral standards.BA.romanticB.realisticC.naturalisticD.modernistic34.Profound ideas in Robert Frost's poems are delivered under the disguise of______.AA.the plain language and the simple formB.the vivid descriptionsC.metaphorsD.the complicated narration35.In______Hemingway presents his philosophy about life and death throughthe depiction of the bullfight as a kind of microcosmic tragedy.BA.The Green Hills of AfricaB.Death in the AfternoonC.The Snows of KilimanjaroD.To Have and Have Not36Of Faulkner’s literary works,four novels are masterpieces by any standards:The Sound and the Fury, Light in August,Absalom,Absalom!and______.AA.Go Down,MosesB.The FableC.The Snows of KilimanjaroD.To Have and Have Not37.As Whitman saw it,______could play a vital part in the process ofcreating a new nation.CA.musicB.fictionC.poetryD.painting38.In many of Hawthorne's stories and novels,the Puritan concept of life is condemned,especially in his The house of the Seven Gables and______.BA.Go Down,MosesB.The Scarlet LetterC.As I Lay DyingD.Song of Myself39.Henry James is generally regarded as the forerunner of the______and the founder of psychological realism.BA.“stream-of-consciousness”novelsB.metaphysical poemsC.short storiesD.literary criticism40.Generally considered to be Henry James’s masterpiece,______incarnates the clash between the Old World and the New in the life journey of an American girl in a Europe an cultural environment.BA.The AmbassadorsB.Daisy MillerC.The AmericanD.The Portrait of A Lady非选择题部分注意事项：用黑色字迹的签字笔或钢笔将答案写在答题纸上，不能答在试题卷上。
2011年7月自考真题英美文学选读
全国2011年7月自学考试英美文学选读试题1课程代码：00604Ⅰ.Find the items in the right column which fit the left column the best and write your letters on the AnswerⅡ.Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase according to the textbook.(20%)1.In the field of literature, the Enlightenment Movement brought about a revival of interest in the old classical works. This tendency is known as .2.Swift is one of the greatest masters of English prose. He is almost unsurpassed in the writing of simple, direct, precise prose. He defined a good style as “_______.”3.Wordsworth is regarded as a “_______.”He can penetrate to the heart of things and give the reader the very life of nature.4._______ is the most distinguishing feature of Charles Dickens’ works.5.In his long dramatic career, Shaw wrote more than _______ plays.6.James Joyce is regarded as the most prominent _______ novelist, concentrating on the revealing in his novels the psychic being of the characters.7.Galsworthy is essentially a bourgeois liberal, a_______.8.Structurally and thematically, Shaw followed the great tradition of _____.9.Most of Faulkner’s works are about people from a small region in _______, Y oknapatawpha County.10.In Our Times is the first book to present a Hemingway hero—_______.Ⅲ.Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement and write you answer on the Answer Sheet.(10%)1._______ is regarded as “worshipper of nature.”A. ColeridgeB. WordsworthC. T.S.EliotD. Robert Browning2.Marlowe’s play Dr.Faustus is based on _______ of a magician aspiring for knowledge and finally meeting his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the devil.A. the ScandinavianB. the GermanC. the ancient EnglishD. the French3.Who defined a good style as “proper words in proper places?”A. Jonathan SwiftB. Charles Dickens第 1 页C. Edmund SpencerD. George Bernard Shaw4._______ is central to Blake’s concern in the Sogns of Innocence and Songs of Experience?A. innocence and experienceB. the poorC. societyD. childhood5.As a novelist _______ wrote within a very narrow sphere, the provincial life of the late 1818-century England.A. Jonathan SwiftB. Jane AustenC. Thomas HardyD. Henry Fielding6.“Trust thyself,”Emerson wrote in his_______.A. The American ScholarB. The Sketch BookC. Self-RelianceD. Nature7.Hawthorne’s view of man and human history originates, to a great extent ,in _______.A. PuritanismB. TranscendentalismC. his childhoodD. his unhappy marriage8.As _______ saw it, poetry could play a vital part in the process of creating a new nation.A. EmersonB. HawthorneC. WhitmanD. Emily Dickinson9._______ was the first American writer to conceive his career in international terms.A. EmersonB. Henry JamesC. Mark TwainD. Ernest Hemingway10.According to Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury is a story of “______.”A. lost generationB. lost innocenceC. farmersD. industrial laborsⅣ.For each of the questions listed below please give the name of the author and the title of the literary work.(20%) 1.“Come live with me and be my love,And we will all the pleasures proveThat valleys, groves, hills, and fields,Woods, or steepy mountain yields,And we will sit upon the rocks,Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks,By shallow rivers to whose falls,Melodious birds sing madrigals.”2.“The apparition of these faces in the crowd;Petals on a wet, black bough.”3.“He pulled back the blanket from the Indian’s head. His hand came away wet. He mounted on the edge of the lower bunkwith the lamp in one hand and looked in. The Indian lay with his face toward the wall. His throat had been cut from ear to ear.”4.“Then I saw in my dream, that when they were got out of the wilderness, they presently saw a town before them, and thename of that town is vanity; and at that town there is a fair kept, called vanity Fair,…”5.“And because I am happy & dance & singThey think they have done me no injury,And are gone to praise God & his Priest & king,Who make up a heaven of our misery.”第 2 页Ⅴ.Give brief answers to the following questions.(20%)1.Why has Fielding been regarded as “Father of the English novel?”2.What’s the symbolic meaning of Browning’s poem,“The Ring and the Book?”3.What is literary naturalism?4.How’s Y eats’ style like?Ⅵ.Short Essay Questions:(20%)1.What’s the artistic tendency of wrence?2.Give a brief discussion of Henry James’ literary achievement.第 3 页。
学历类《自考》自考专业(英语)《英美文学选读》考试试题及答案解析
学历类《自考》自考专业(英语)《英美文学选读》考试试题及答案解析姓名:_____________ 年级:____________ 学号:______________1、Opposition leaders will be watching carefully to see how the Prime Minister ________ the crisis.A、handlesB、conductsC、observesD、directs正确答案：A答案解析：A应付，对付，控制B引导，进行，实施C观察，监测，遵守D指导，监督2、Now many major employers are beginning to demand _______ the completion of schoolA、morethanB、ratherthanC、otherthanD、betterthan正确答案：A答案解析：morethan：多于，不只。
句意：现在很多雇主开始不仅仅要求学业的完成。
3、In the original test，all the animals in a test group are given a substance _______ half of them dieA、unlessB、untilC、lestD、provided正确答案：B答案解析：本题考查词义辨析。
until：直到。
符合句意，表示givenasubstance持续到halfofthemdie。
4、Nobody but you _______ what he said.A、agreeswithB、agreesoutC、agreewithD、agreeto正确答案：A答案解析：主语为nobody时，谓语动词用单数，如果主语被but,aswellas,with等短语修饰，谓语仍与主语的数保持一致。
该题易误选C、D，选D的原因在于词组记忆不清，用介词to时之后应加具体项目。
英美文学自考试题及答案
英美文学自考试题及答案一、选择题（每题2分，共20分）1. 《哈姆雷特》是哪位英国剧作家的作品？A. 威廉·莎士比亚B. 奥斯卡·王尔德C. 查尔斯·狄更斯D. 托马斯·哈代答案：A2. 美国作家海明威的代表作是哪部小说？A. 《了不起的盖茨比》B. 《老人与海》C. 《白鲸》D. 《红字》答案：B3. 下列哪部作品不是简·奥斯汀的小说？A. 《理智与情感》B. 《傲慢与偏见》C. 《曼斯菲尔德庄园》D. 《简·爱》答案：D4. 谁是“美国现代主义文学之父”？A. 爱德加·爱伦·坡B. 华尔特·惠特曼C. 艾米莉·狄金森D. 马克·吐温答案：A5. 《动物农场》是哪位英国作家的政治讽刺小说？A. 乔治·奥威尔B. 弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫C. 约翰·弥尔顿D. 丹尼尔·笛福答案：A6. 《白鲸》的作者是谁？A. 赫尔曼·梅尔维尔B. 纳撒尼尔·霍桑C. 埃德加·爱伦·坡D. 华盛顿·欧文答案：A7. 《简·爱》的作者是谁？A. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特B. 艾米莉·勃朗特C. 安妮·勃朗特D. 伊丽莎白·巴雷特·勃朗宁答案：A8. 下列哪部作品是威廉·福克纳的代表作？A. 《喧哗与骚动》B. 《熊》C. 《老人与海》D. 《永别了，武器》答案：B9. 《乌托邦》是哪位英国作家的政治哲学著作？A. 托马斯·莫尔B. 约翰·洛克C. 托马斯·霍布斯D. 约翰·弥尔顿答案：A10. 美国文学中的“迷失的一代”是指哪些作家？A. 爱德加·爱伦·坡B. 弗·斯科特·菲茨杰拉德C. 马克·吐温D. 纳撒尼尔·霍桑答案：B二、填空题（每题2分，共20分）11. 《麦克白》是莎士比亚的四大悲剧之一，其他三部分别是________、《奥赛罗》和《李尔王》。
全国2011年7月高等教育自学考试英语试题范文
全国2011年7月高等教育自学考试英语词汇学试题课程代码：00832I. Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that best completes the statement and put the letter in the bracket. (30 %)1. Grammarians insist that a word be a __________ form that can function in a sentence.( )A. smallB. largeC. fixedD. free2. In the earliest stage of English, the written form of a word should ________ that of the oral form. ( )A. agree withB. disagree withC. be the same asD. be different from3. ____________consists of technical terms used in particular disciplines and academic areas as in medicine, mathematics, etc. ( )A. TerminologyB. JargonC. SlangD. Argot4. Social, economic and political changes bring about such new words as the followings EXCEPT_________. ( )A. fast foodB. TV dinnerC. Mao jacketsD. Watergate5. Reviving archaic words also contributes to the growth of English vocabulary. For instance, “loan”, which was prevalent in the thirteenth century, was replaced by “ __________ ” in American English. ( )A. ownB. letC. rentD. lend6. If we say that Old English was a language of __________ endings, Middle English was one of leveled endings. ( )A. fullB. shortC. longD. paralleled7. The plural morpheme“-s” is pronounced as /z/ in the following words EXCEPT ______________. ( )A. bottlesB. eggsC. zoosD. maps8. There is/are _____________ free morphemic word(s) in the following words: wind, man, reddish, collection. ( )A. lB. 2C. 3D. 49. The following words have inflectional affixes EXCEPT ____________. ( )A. likesB. dislikeC. likingD. liked10. The most productive means of word-formation are the following EXCEPT _______________. ( )A. affixationB. blendingC. compoundingD. conversion11. Prefixes generally do not change the __________ of the stem. ( )A. meaningB. formC. word classD. pronunciation12. The word “dorm” is formed by _________clipping. ( )A. backB. frontC. phraseD. front and back13. The word “reading-lamp” is _______ motivated. ( )A. onomatopoeicallyB. morphologicallyC. semanticallyD. etymologically14. The synonymous pair of “ask-question” has the same___________. ( )A. motivationB. valueC. functionD. concept15. In the sentence “East or west, home is best”, “home” has its __________ meaning of “family, safety, love”, etc. ( )A. grammaticalB. connotativeC. stylisticD. collocative16. Semantically, a word which is related to other words is related to them in____________。
2011年7月自学词汇学真题及答案
2011年7月高等教育自学考试全国统一命题考试英语词汇学试题课程代码：00832I. Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers.Choose the one that best completes the statement and put the letter in the bracket. (30 %)1. Grammarians insist that a word be a __________ form that can function in a sentence. ( D )1.1-6A. smallB. largeC. fixedD. free2. In the earliest stage of English, the written form of a word should ________ that of the oral form. ( A )1.3-8A. agree withB. disagree withC. be the same asD. be different from3. ____________consists of technical terms used in particular disciplines and academic areas as in medicine, mathematics, etc. ( A )1.5.1-13A. TerminologyB. JargonC. SlangD. Argot4. Social, economic and political changes bring about such new words as the followings EXCEPT_________. ( C )2.3-30A. fast foodB. TV dinnerC. Mao jacketsD. Watergate5. Reviving archaic words also contributes to the growth of English vocabulary. For instance, “loan”, which was prevalent in the thirteenth century, was replaced by “ __________ ” in American English.( D )2.4-32A. ownB. letC. rentD. lend6. If we say that Old English was a language of __________ endings, Middle English was one of leveled endings. ( A )2.2.2-28A. fullB. shortC. longD. paralleled7. The plural morpheme“-s” is pronounced as /z/ in the following words EXCEPT ______________. ( D )3.2-38A. bottlesB. eggsC. zoosD. maps8. There is/are _____________ free morphemic word(s) in the following words: wind, man, reddish, collection. ( B )3.3.1-39A. lB. 2C. 3D. 49. The following words have inflectional affixes EXCEPT ____________. ( B )3.3.2-41A. likesB. dislikeC. likingD. liked10. The most productive means of word-formation are the following EXCEPT _______________.( B )4-45A. affixationB. blendingC. compoundingD. conversion11. Prefixes generally do not change the __________ of the stem.( C )4.1.1-46A. meaningB. formC. word classD. pronunciation12. The word “dorm” is formed by _________clipping. ( A )4.5-65A. backB. frontC. phraseD. front and back13. The word “reading-lamp” is _______ motivated. ( B )5.2.2-84A. onomatopoeicallyB. morphologicallyC. semanticallyD. etymologically14. The syno nymous pair of “ask－question” has the same___________. ( D )5.1.2-83A. motivationB. valueC. functionD. concept15. In the sentence “East or west, home is best”, “home” has its __________ meaning of “family, safety, love”, etc. ( B )5.3.2-88A. grammaticalB. connotativeC. stylisticD. collocative16. Semantically, a word which is related to other words is related to them in____________.( A )6-95A. senseB. spellingC. morphemeD. root and stem17. _____________, the derived meanings, no matter how many, are secondary in comparison.( A )6.1.1-97A. SynchronicallyB. DiachronicallyC. EtymologicallyD. Onomatopoeically18. The antonyms used in the proverb “Speech is silver; silence is golden” are ____________.( A )6-131A. speech-silenceB. golden-silverC. speech-silverD. silence-golden19. In Shakespearean line ‘Rats and mice and such small ‘deer’,‘deer’obviously designates ‘anima’ in general. Therefore ‘deer’ is a typical example of _________. ( C )7.1.2-137A. extensionB. elevationC. narrowingD. degradation20. Observation shows that it is much more common for word meanings to change in denotation from neutral to ____________ than it is for them to go the other way. ( D )7.1.4-139A. importantB. agreeableC. respectiveD. pejorative21. Among the following words only“________ ” expresses the property of elevation. ( C )7.1.3-138A. lustB. criticizeC. knightD. silly22. Which of the following is NOT one of the main functions of context? ( C )8.2-154A. Elimination of ambiguity.B. Indication for referents.C. Understanding of cultural background.D. Provision of clues for inferring word-meaning.23. Which of the following is NOT a context clue? ( D )8.2.3-157A. Definition.B. Example.C. Synonymy.D. Sentence structure.24. The sentence “The ball was attractive” is ambiguous dueto_______________. ( C )8.2.1-155A. grammatical structureB. lexical contextC. homonymyD. polysemy25. Which of the following is one of the characteristics of idioms? ( A )9.1-162A. Semantic unity.B. Lexical manipulation.C. Phonetic unity.D. Structural variation.26. Which of the following is NOT one of the rhetoric characteristics of idioms in general?( B )9.3.2-169A. Stylistic features.B. Syntactical features.C. Rhetorical features.D. Occasional variations.27. The idiom “bed of dust” is a ___________ as far as figures of speech are concerned.( B )9.3.2-175A. simileB. metaphorC. metonymyD. personification28. Collins COBUILD English Language Dictionary is a(n) _____________ dictionary.( B )10.1.3-187A. unabridgedB. deskC. pocketD. encyclopedic29. When we choose a dictionary, we should not pay attention to whether it is _____________.( D )10.2.1-188A. monolingual or bilingualB. general or specializedC. early or lateD. unabridged or abridged30. Readers will usually find in a general dictionary the following areas of information of a word EXCEPT _______________ . ( D )10.2.2-191A. spellingB. definitionC. pronunciationD. difference with its synonymsII. Complete the following statements with proper words or expressions according to the course book. ( 15% )31. The jargon of criminals is generally referred as ___argot__________.1.5.1-1532. From the historical overview of the English vocabulary, the language spoken from 1150 to 1500 is called ___Middle__________ English. 2.2.2-2633. The morpheme is the smallest ____functioning___unit in the composition of words. 3.1-3834. The formation of new words by joining two or more stems is called __compounding____. 4.2-5135. Unlike conceptual meaning, ____associative______________ meaning is open-ended and indeterminate. 5.3.2-8736. From the ___diachronic___ point of view, polysemy is assumed to be the result of growth to be the result of growth and development of the semantic structure of one and same word. 6.1.1-9637. Changing in word _____meaning_________ has never ceased since the language came into being and will continue in the future. 7-13538. Based on the ______lexical________________ context, we can determine the meaning of “do the flowers” as “ arrange the flowers”. 8.1.2-15239. The stylistic features of idioms are ____colloquialisms____, slang and literary expressions. 9.3.1-17140. The user-friendly features of Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English are its clear grammar codes, _____usage______ and language notes.10.3.1-197III. Define the following terms. ( 15% )41. free morphemes 3.3.1-39答案：Morphemes which are independent of other morphemes are considered to be free. These morphemes have complete meanings in themselves and can be used as free grammatical units in sentences.42. allomorphs 3.2-38答案：Some morphemes, however, are realized by more than one morph according to their position in a word. Such alternative morphs are known as allomorphs .43. affixation 4.1-46答案：Affixation is generally defined as the formation of words by adding word-forming or derivational affixes to stems.44. polysemy 6.1-95答案：Polysemy is a common feature peculiar to all natural languages. This is particularly true of highly developed languages like English.45. linguistic context 8.1-149答案：Context is used in different senses. In a narrow sense, it refers to the words, clauses, sentences in which a word appears. This is known as linguistic context,which may cover a paragraph, a whole chapter and even the entire book.IV. Answer the following questions. Your answers should be clear and short.Write youranswers in the space given below. ( 20% )46. What is the difference between root and stem? 3.4-42答案：A root is the basic form of a word which cannot be further analysed without total loss of identity. A stem may consist of a single root morpheme as in iron or of two root morphemes as in a compound like handcuff. It can be a root morpheme plus one or more affixational morphemes.47. What is collocative m eaning of a word? Please take “pretty” and “handsome” as an example to illustrate your point. 5.3.2-91答案：Collocative meaning is that part of the word-meaning suggested by the words before or after the word in discussion. The synonyms of pretty and handsome offer good illustration. These two words share the conceptual meaning of ‘good-looking’, but are distinguished by the range of nouns they collocate with.48. By the criterion of grammatical functions, idioms may be classified into five groups. Name the five groups and match the following expressions with them as their examples respectively. 9.2-165“white elephant” “look into” “beyond the pale”“tooth and nail” “Never do things by halves. ”答案：Idioms Nominal in Nature. eg: white elephantIdioms Adjectival in Nature. eg:beyond the paleIdioms Verbal in Nature.eg: look intoIdioms Adverbial in Nature. eg:tooth and nailSentence Idioms. eg:Never do things by halves.49. What contextual clues do you often use to help you in guessing the meanings of new words?Demonstrate these clues with examples. 8.2.3-157答案：Context clues vary a great deal but can be summed up as follows：(1) Definition . Often we find that the author gives formal definition immediately after the new term, e.g.Perhaps the most startling theory to come out of kinesics, the study of body movement, was suggested by Professor Bird- whistell.(2) Explanation.If the concept is complicated and must involve technical terms in its definition, the author might explain the idea in simple words. That is, he might make a restatement in known words e.g.It's just one more incredible result of the development of microprocessors—those tiny parts of a computer commonly known as ‘silicon chips，.(3) Example. In some cases, instead of giving a formal definition or explanation, the author may cite an example which is sufficient to throw light on the meaning of the term, e.g.Many United Nations employees are polyglots. Ms. Mary, for example, speaks five languages.V. Analyze and comment on the following. Write your answers in the space given below. ( 20% )50. Analyze and comment on the following TWO sentences to illustrate the differences between blending and clipping.The program will be telecast simultaneously to nearly 150 cities.It sounds much better in stereo. 4.4-4.5(63-64)答案：Blending is the formation of new words by combining parts of two words or a word plus a part of another word. In the first sentence, the word telecast is a blend, which comes from television+ broadcast.The way of making a word is to shorten a longer word by cutting a part off the original and using what remains instead .This is called clipping. stereo (stereophonic) in the second sentence is made by back clipping.51. Analyze the following dialogue and comment on the rhetoric use of homonym in italicized font.A: “Why is Sunday the strongest day?”B: “Because all the others are week days. ”6.2.4-102答案：As homonyms are identical in sound or spelling, particularly homophones, they are often employed to create puns for desired effect of, say, humour, sarcasm or ridicule.Week days means days from Monday to Friday. And week and weak are homophones which identical only in sound but different in spelling andmeaning. The answer use week’s homophone weak be cause it is the antonym of strong.。
2011年7月自考真题英美文学选读
全国2011年7月自学考试英美文学选读试题4课程代码：00604请将答案填在答题纸相应的位置上（全部题目用英文作答）PART ONE (40 POINTS)I．Multiple Choice(40 points in all, 1 for each)Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.1. The first mass movement of the English working class and the early sign of the awakening of the poor, oppressed people is_____.A. The Enclosure MovementB. The Protestant ReformationC. The Enlightenment MovementD. The Chartist Movement2. Daniel Defoe’s works are all the following EXCEPT_____.A. Moll FlandersB. A Tale of a TubC. A Journal of the Plague YearD. Colonel Jack3. “Metaphysical Poetry” refers to the works of the 17th - century writers who wrote under the influence of_____.A. John DonneB. Alexander PopeC. Christopher MarloweD. John Milton4. The most important play among Shakespeare’s comedies is _____.A. A Midsummer Night’s DreamB. The Merchant of V eniceC. As You Like ItD. Twelfth Night5. The most perfect example of the verse drama after Greek style in English is Milton’s _____.A. Paradise LostB. Paradise RegainedC. Samson AgonistesD. Areopagitica6. Which of the following descriptions of Enlightenment Movement is NOT true?A. It was a progressive intellectual movement that flourished in France.B. It was a furtherance of the Renaissance of the 15th and 16th centuries.C. The purpose was to enlighten the whole world with moderu philosophical and artistic ideas.D. The Enlighteners advocate individual education.7. Neoclassicists had some fixed laws and rules for prose EXCEPT_____.A. being preciseB. being directC. being flexibleD. being satiric8. A good style of prose“proper works in proper places”was defined by_____.A. John MiltonB. Henry FieldingC. Jonathan SwiftD.T.S. Eliot9. The major theme of Jane Austen’s novels is_____.A. love and moneyB. money and social statusC. social status and marriageD. love and marriage10. Wordsworth’s_____ is perhaps the most anthologized poem in English literature.A. “To a Skylark”B. “I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud”C. “An Evening Walk”D. “My Heart Leaps Up”11. William Blake’s work ______ marks his entry into maturity.A. Songs of ExperienceB. Marriage of Heaven and HellC. Songs of InnocenceD. The Book of Los12. Best of all the Romantic well- known lyric pieces is Shelley’s_____.A. “The Cloud”B. “To a Skylark”C. “Ode to a Nightingale”D. “Ode to the West Wind”13. In the V ictorian Period _____ became the most widely read and the most vital and challenging expression of progressive thought.A. poetryB. novelC. proseD. drama14. In Charles Dickens’early novels, he attacks one or more specific social evils, _____is a good example of describing the dehumanizing workhouse system and the dark, criminal underworld life.A. David CopperfieldB. Oliver TwistC. Great ExpectationsD. Dombey and Son15. Thomas Hardy’s most cheerful and idyllic work is_____.A. The Return of the NativeB. Far from the Maddin CrowdC. Under the Greenwood TreeD. The Woodlanders16. The rise of _____ and new science greatly incited modernist writers to make new explorations on human natures and human relationships.A. the existentialistic ideaB. the irrational philosophyC. scientific socialismD. social Darwinism17. In Modern English literature, the literary interest of _____ lay in the tracing of the psychological development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehu-manizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature. A. George Bernard Shaw B.T.S. EliotC. Oscar WildeD.D.H. Lawrence18. George Bernard Shaw’s _____ is a better play of the later period, with the author’s almost nihilistic bitterness on the subjects of the cruelty and madness of WWI and the aimlessness and disillusion of the young.A. Too True to Be GoodB. Mrs. Warren’s ProfessionC. Widowers’HousesD. Fanny’s First Play19. Renaissance first started in Italy, with the flowering of the following fields EXCEPT_____.A. architectureB. paintingC. sculptureD. literature20. English Romanticism,as a historical phase of literature,is generally said to have begun with the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge’s_____.A. Poetical SketchesB. A Defence of PoetryC. Lyrical BalladsD. The Prelude21. Charlotte Bront e ’s work _____is famous for the depiction of the life of the middle - class working women, particularly governesses.A. Jane EyreB. Wuthering HeightsC. The ProffessorD. Shirley22. The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot is a poem concerned with the _____ breakup of a modern civilization in which human life has lost its meaning, significance and purpose.A. spiritualB. religiousC. politicalD. physical23. Perhaps Emily Dickinson’s greatest interpretation of the moment of _____ is to be found in “I heard a Fly buzz--when I died—”, a poem universally regarded as one of her masterpieces.A. fantasyB. birthC. crisisD. death24. The fiction of the American _____ period ranges from the comic fables of Washing-ton Irving to the social realism of Rebecca Harding Davis.A. RomanticB. RevolutionaryC. ColonialD. Modernistic25. The modern _____ technique was frequently and skillfully exploited by Faulkner to emphasize the reactions and inner musings of the narrator.A. stream - of - consciousnessB. flashbackC. mosaicD. narrative and argumentative26. By means of “_____,”Whitman believed, he has turned the poem into an openfield, an area of vital possibility where the reader can allow his own imagination to play.A. balanced structureB. free verseC. fixed verseD. regular rhythm27. In 1954, _____ was awarded the Nobel Prize for “his powerful style -forming mas tery of the art”of creating modern fiction.A. Ernest HemingwayB. Sherwood AndersonC. Stephen CraneD. Henry James28. The period ranging from 1865 to 1914 has been referred to as the Age of _____ in the literary history of the United States, which is actually a movement or tendency that dominated the spirit of American literature.A. RationalismB. RomanticismC. RealismD. Modernism29. When he was eighty - seven he read his poetry at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy in 1961. This poet was_____.A. Ezra PoundB. Robert FrostC. E. E. CummingsD. Wallace Stevens30. The renowned American critic H. L. Mencken regarded _____ as “the true father of our national literature.”A. Bret HarteB. Walt WhitmanC. Washington IrvingD. Mark Twain31. We can easily find in Theodore Dreiser’s fiction a world of jungle, where “kill or to be killed”was the law. Dreiser’s _____ found expression in almost every book he wrote.A. naturalismB. romanticismC. cubismD. classicalism32. A preoccupation with the Calvinistic view of _____ and the mystery of evil marked the works of Hawthorne, Melville and a host of lesser writers.A. love and mercyB. bitterness and hatredC. original sinD. eternal life33. “H e possessed none of the usual aids to a writer’ s career: no money, no friend in power, no formal education worthy of mention, no family tradition in letters. ”This is a description most suitable to the American writer_____.A. Henry JamesB. Theodore DreiserC. W.D. Howells D. Nathaniel Hawthorne34. People generally considered _____ to be Henry James’ masterpiece, which incar nates the clash between the Old World and the New in the life journey of an American girl in a European cultural environment.A. The EuropeansB. Daisy MillerC. The Portrait of A LadyD. The Private Life35. The Jazz Age of the 1920s characterized by frivolity and carelessness is brought vividly to life in_______.A. The Great GatsbyB. The Sun Also RisesC. The Grapes of WrathD. Tales of the Jazz Age36. Guided by the principle of adhering to the truthful treatment of life, the American _______ introduced industrial workers and farmers, ambitious businessmen and vagrants, prostitutes and unheroic soldiers as major characters in fiction.A. romanticistsB. modernistsC. psychologistsD. realists37. The American literary spokesman of the Jazz Age is often acclaimed to be_______.A. Henry JamesB. Robert FrostC. William FaulknerD.F. Scott Fitzgerald38. By writing Moby - Dick, _______ reached the most flourishing stage of his literary creativity.A. Herman MelvilleB. Edgar Ellen PoeC. William FaulknerD. Theodore Dreiser39. Faulkner once said that _____ is a story of “lost innocence,”which proves itself to be an intensification of the theme of imprisonment in the past.A. Light in AugustB. The Sound and the Fur yC. Absalom, Absalom!D. The Hamlet40. Hawthorne was not a Puritan himself, but his view of man and human history origina ted, to a great extent, in_______.A. CalvinismB. PuritanismC. RealismD. NaturalismPART TWO (60 POINTS)Ⅱ. Reading Comprehension (16 points in all, 4 for each)Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.41. Behold her, single in the field,Y on solitary Highland lass!Reaping and singing by herself;Stop here, or gently pass!Alone she cuts and binds the grain,And sings a melancholy strain;O listen! For the V ale profoundIs overflowing with the sound.Questions:A. Identify the poet.B. What’ s the rhyme scheme for the stanza?C. What’s the theme of the poem?42. The following quotation is from Mrs. Warren’s Profession:VIVIE: [ intensely interested by this time] No; but why did you choose that business?Saving money and good management will succeed in any business.MRS. WARREN: Y es, saving money. But where can a woman get the money to save in any other business? Could you save out of four shillings a week and keep yourself dressed as well? Not you. Of course, if you’ re a plainwoman and cant earn anything more ; or if you have a turn for music, or the stage, or newspaper - writing ;that’s different...Questions :A. Identify the playwright of the above quotation.B. What business do you think Mrs. Warren is involved in?C. What's the theme of the play?43. My little horse must think it queerTo stop without a farmhouse nearBetween the woods and frozen lakeThe darkest evening of the year.Questions:A. Identify the poet and the title of the poem from which this stanza is taken.B. What figure of speech is used in this stanza?C. Briefly interpret the meaning of this stanza.44. “Where are we going, Dad?”Nick asked.“Over to the Indian camp. There is an Indian lady very sick. ”“Oh,”said Nick.Across the bay they found the other boat beached. Uncle George was smoking a cigar in the dark. The young Indian pulled the boat way up on the beach. Uncle George gave both the Indians cigars.Questions :A. Identify the author and the title of the work from which the passage is taken.B. What does Dad imply when he says “There is an Indian lady very sick”?C. Why is Dad going to the Indian camp?Ⅲ. Questions and Answers (24 points in all, 6 for each)Give a brief answer to each of the following 9uestions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.45. What’ s the literary style of Shelley as a Romantic poet?46. What are the main features of Bernard Shaw’s plays with regard to the theme, charac-terization and plot?47. Henry James’ literary criticism is an indispensable part of his contribution to literature. What’s his outlook in literarycriticiam?48. Local colorism is a unique variation of American literary realism. Who is the most famous local colorist? What are localcolorists most concerned?IV. T opic 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. Define modernism in English literature. Name two major modernistic British writers and list one major work by each.50. Briefly discuss the term “The Lost Generation”and name the leading figures of this literary movement (Give at leastthree).。
英美文学选读(自考)Chapter1
自学考试英美文学选读Selected Readings In English And American LiteraturesPart one: English literatureAn Introduction to Old and Medieval English Literature 1. The Old English poetry that has survived can be divided into two group:the religious group and the secular one. The poetry of the religious group is mainly on biblical themes………In addition to these religious compositions, Old English poets produced the national epic poem, Beowulf, a typical example of Old English poetry, is regarded today as the national epic of the Anglo-Saxons.2. Romance which uses narrative verse or prose to sing knightlyadventures or other heroic deeds is a popular literary form in the medieval period. R omantic love is an important part of the plot in romance.3. I t is Chaucer alone who, for the first time in English literature,presented to us a comprehensive realistic picture of the English society of his time and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life in his masterpiece The Canterbury Tales.Geoffrey Chaucer is the greatest writer of this period. I n short, Chaucer develops his characterization to a higher artistic level by presenting characters with both typical qualities and individual dispositions. Chaucer introduced from France the rhymed stanzas of various types to English poetry to replace the Old English alliterative verse. Chaucer dominated the works of his15th-centtruy English followers and the so-called Scottish Chaucerians. For the Renaissance, he was the English Homer.Chapter 1 The Renaissance Period1. The Renaissance arks a transition from the medieval to the modernworld. Generally, it refers to the period between the14th and mid-17th centuries.T he Renaissance is a historical period in which the European humanist thinkers and scholars made attempts to get rid of those old feudalist ideas in medieval Europe, to introduce new ideas that expressed the interests of the rising bourgeoisie, and to recover thepurity of the early church form the corruption of the Roman Catholic Church. B ut it was not until the reign of Henry VIII that the Renaissance really began to show its effect in England.The English Renaissance had no sharp break with the past. Attitudes and feelings which had been characteristic of the 14th and 15th centuries persisted well down into the era of Humanism and Reformation.2. Humanism is the essence of the Renaissance. T hus, by emphasizingthe dignity of human beings and the importance of the present life, they voiced their beliefs that man did not only have the right to enjoy the beauty of this life, but had the ability to perfect himself and to perform wonders.3. S trong national feeling in the time of the Tudors gave a greatincentive to the cultural development in England. W ith classical culture and the Italian humanistic ideas coming into England, the English Renaissance began flourishing.T he first period of the English Renaissance was one of imitation and assimilation. T he Elizabethan drama, in its totality, is the real mainstream of the English Renaissance.4. F rom Wyatt and Surrey onwards the goals of humanistic poetry are:skillful handling of conventions, force of language, and, above all, the development of a rhetorical plan in which meter, rhyme, scheme, imagery and argument should all be combined to frame the emotional theme and throw it into high relief. P oetry was to be a concentrated exercise of the mind, of craftsmanship, and of learning.I. Edmund Spenser (埃德蒙·斯宾塞)1. Spenser’s masterpiece is The Faerie Queene, a great poem of its age.A ccording to Spenser’s own explanation, his principal intention is topresent through a “historical poem” the example of a perfect gentleman: “to fashion a gentleman or noble person in virtuous and gentle discipline.”2. The five main qualities of Spenser’s poetry are 1) a perfect melody;2) a rare sense of beauty; 3) a splendid imagination; 4) a lofty moralpurity and seriousness; and 5) a dedicated idealism.II. Christopher Marlowe（克里斯托夫·马洛）1. M asterpieces: Tamburlaine, Parts I ⅈ Dr. Faustus; The Jew ofMalta; Edward II2. Tamburlaine is a play about an ambitious and pitiless Tartarconqueror in the fourteenth century who rose from a shepherd to an overpowering king. I n fact, Tamburlaine is a product of Marlowe’s characteristically Renaissance imagination, fascinated by the earthlymagnificence available to men of imaginative power who have the energy of their convictions.3. D r. Faustus is a play based on the German legend of a magicianaspiring for knowledge and finally meeting his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the Devil. I t celebrates the human passion for knowledge, power and happiness; it also reveals man’s frustration in realizing the high aspirations in a hostile moral order. A nd the confinement to time is the cruelest fact of man’s condition. Marlowe praises his soaring aspiration for knowledge while warning against the sin of pride since Faustus’s downfall was caused by his despair I god and trust in Devil.4. M arlowe’s greatest achievement lies in that he perfected the blankverse and made it the principal medium of English drama. Marlowe employed hyperbole as his major figure of speech, which, instead of referring to the exaggeration of the language, indicates the poetic energy and intensity conveyed through the verseMarlowe’s second achievement is his creation of the Renaissance hero for English drama. D ifferent from the tragic hero I medieval plays, who seeks the way to heaven through salvation and God’s will, he is against convention al morality and contrives to obtain heaven on earth through his own efforts.III. William Shakespeare （威廉·莎士比亚）1. T he first period of Shakespeare’s dramatic career was one ofapprenticeship.(Henry VI; Richard III; The Comedy of Errors.In the second period, Shakespeare’s style and approach became highly individualized. B y constructing a complex pattern between different characters and between appearance and reality, Shakespeare made subtle comments on a variety of human foibles. (The M idsummer Night’s Dream;The Merchant of Venice; Romeo and Juliet.S hakespeare’s third period includes his greatest tragedies and his so-called dark comedies. (Hamlet; Othello; King Lear)T he last period of Shakespeare’s work includes his principal romantic tragicomedies.2. S hakespeare’s history plays are mainly written under the principlethat national unity under a mighty and just sovereign is a necessity.3. I n his romantic comedies, Shakespeare takes an optimistic attitudetoward love and youth, and the romantic elements are brought into full play. T he most important play among the comedies is The Merchant of Venice. T he sophistication derives in part from the play between high, outgoing romance and dark forces of negativity and hate. T he traditional theme of this play is to praise the friendship between Antonio and Bassanio, to idealize Portia as a heroine of great beauty,wit and loyalty, and to expose the insatiable greed and brutality of the Jew.C ompared with the idealism of other plays, The Merchant of Venicetakes a step forward in its realistic presentation of human nature and human conflict. T hough there is a ridiculous touch on the part of the characters restrained by their limitations, Shakespeare’s youthful Renaissance spirit of jollity can be fully seen in contrast to the medieval emphasis on future life in the next world.4. T he successful romantic tragedy is Romeo and Juliet, which eulogizesthe faithfulness of love and the spirit of pursuing happiness. T he play, though a tragedy, is permeated with optimistic spirit.5. S hakespeare’s greatest tragedies are: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear,and Macbeth. T hey have some characteristics in common. Each portrays some noble hero, who faces the injustice of human life and is caught in a difficult situation and whose fate is closely connected with the fate of the whole action. E ach hero has his weakness of nature. W ith the concentration on the tragic hero, we see the sharp conflicts between the individual and the evil force in the society, which shows that Shakespeare is a great realist in the true sense.6. T he hero Hamlet in Shakespeare’s play Hamlet is noted for hishesitation to take his revenge, his melancholy nature of action only to deny possibilities to do anything. H e came to know that his father was murdered by his uncle who became king. He hated him so deeply that he wanted to kill him. B ut he loved his widowed mother who later married his uncle, and he was afraid to hurt his mother. A nd also, when everything was ready for him to kill his uncle, he forgave him for his uncle was praying to God for his crime. T hus he lost the good chance.H amlet represented humanism of his time.7. S hakespeare takes the bare outlines of Revenge Tragedy, but whathe adds is infinitely more interesting than what he adopts. A nd the timeless appeal of this mighty drama lies in its combination of intrigue, emotional conflict and searching philosophic melancholy. T his play is also Shakespeare’s most detailed expose of a corrupted court—“an unweeded garden” in which there is nothing but“a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours.”B y revealing the power-seeking ,the jostling for place the hidden motives, the courteous superficialities that veil lust and guilt, Shakespeare condemns the hypocrisy and treachery and general corruption at the royal court.8. Shakespeare, as a humanist of the time, is against religiouspersecution and racial discrimination, against social inequality and the corrupting influence of gold and money. I n his plays, he does not hesitate to describe the cruelty and anti-natural character of the civil wars, but he did not go all the way against the feudal rule.9. S hakespeare’s views on literature:Shakespeare has accepted the Renaissance views on literature. H e holds that literature should be a combination of beauty, kindness and truth, and should reflect nature and reality. Shakespeare also states that literary works which have truly reflected nature and reality can reach immortality.10. T he characteristics of Shakespeare’s characters:S hakespeare’s major characters are neither merely individual ones nor type ones; they are individuals representing certain types. E ach character has his or her own personalities; meanwhile, they may share features with others.11. T he characteristics of Shakespeare’s plot:S hakespeare’s plays are well-known for their adroit plot construction.S hakespeare seldom invents his own plots; instead, he borrows them from some old plays or storybooks, or from ancient Greek and Roman sources.12. T he characteristics of Shakespeare’s language:I t is necessary to study the subtlest of his instruments—thelanguage. Shakespeare can write skillfully in different poetic form, like the sonnet, the blank verse, and the rhymed couplet. H e has an amazing wealth of vocabulary and idiom. H is coinage of new words and distortion of the meaning of the old ones also create striking effects on the reader.IV. Francis Bacon （弗兰西斯·培根）1. Francis Bacon, a representative of the Renaissance in England, isa well-known philosopher, scientist and essayist.2. T he most important works of his first group include The Advancementof Learning; Novum Organum. H is philosophical works also belong to the first group. H is literary works are in the second group, among which the most famous is Essays. Maxis of Law and The Learned Reading upon the Statute of Uses are the two famous works from the third group.3. N ovum Organum is a successful treatise written in Latin on methodology.I t is the most impressive display of bacon’s intellect. T he argumentis for the use of inductive method of reasoning in scientific study.B ut Bacon first expounds the four great false conceiving that beset men’smind and prevent them from seeking the truth. B acon suggests the inductive reasoning, i.e. proceeding from the particular to the general, the deductive reasoning, putting forward this theory. B acon shows the new empirical attitudes toward truth about nature and bravely challenges the medieval scholasticists.4. T he Advancement of Learning is a great tract on education. B aconhighly praises knowledge, refuting the objections to learning and outlining the problems with which his plan is to deal. A ccording to Bacon, man’s understanding consists of three parts: history to man’smemory, poetry to man’s imagination and creation, and philosophy to man’s reason.5. B acon cares more about axioms under the guidance of which man thinkand acts than human nature or morality.B acon’s essays are famous for their brevity, compactness andpowerfulness. T he essays are well-arranged and enriched by Biblical allusions, metaphors and cadence.6. O f Studies is the most popular of Bacon’s 58 essays. I t analyzes whatstudies chiefly serve for, the different ways adopted by different people to pursue studies, and how studies exert influence over human character. F orceful and persuasive, compact and precise. O f Studies reveals to us Bacon’s mature attitude towards learning.V. J ohn Donne （约翰·邓恩）1. T he term “metaphysical poetry”is commonly used to name the work ofthe 17th-century writers who wrote under the influence of John Donne.W ith a rebellious spirit the metaphysical poets tried to break away from the conventional fashion of the Elizabethan love poetry. T he diction is simple as compared with that of the Elizabethan or the Neoclassic periods, and echoes the words and cadences of common speech. T he imagery is drawn from the actual life. T he form is frequently that of an argument with the poet’s beloved, with God, or with himself.2. T he Elegies and Satires; The Songs and Sonnets.VI. J ohn Milton （约翰·弥尔顿）1. Paradise Lost ; Paradise Regained; Samson Agonistes.2. P aradise Lost is about Eve, seduced by Satan’s rhetoric and her ownconfused ambition—as well as the mere prompting of hunger—falls into sin through innocent credulity. A dam falls by consciously choosing human love rather than obeying God. T his is the error wherein his greatness lies.I n the fall of man Adam discovered his full humanity. B ut man’s fallis the sequel to another and more stupendous tragedy.3. W orking through the tradition of a Christian humanism, Milton wroteParadise Lost, intending to expose the ways of Satan and to “justify the ways of God to men.”A t the center of the conflict between human love and spiritual duty lies Milton’s fundamental concern with freedom and choice; the freedom to submit to God’s prohibition on eating the apple and the choice of disobedience made for love.4. T he freedom of the will is the keystone of Milton’s creed. H is poemattempts to convince us that the unquestionable truth of Biblical revelation means that an all-knowing God was just in allowing Adam and Eve to be tempted and, of their free will, to choose sin and its inevitable punishment. A nd, thereby, it opens the way for the voluntarysacrifice of Christ which showed the mercy of God in bringing good out of evil.5. I n his life, Milton shows himself a real revolutionary, a master poetand a great prose writer. H e fought for freedom in all aspects as a Christian humanist, while his achievements in literature make him tower over all the other English writers of his time and exert a great influence over later ones.莎士比亚1. 莎士比亚戏剧生涯的第一阶段是作为一名学徒。
2011年7月自考真题英美文学选读
全国2011年7月自学考试英美文学选读试题7全部题目用英文作答，请将答案填在答题纸相应位置上PART ONE (40 POINTS)I. Multiple Choice(40 points in all, 1 for each)Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Mark your choice and write th e corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the answer sheet.1.All of Cha rles Dic ke ns’ works, with the e xce ption of _________, pre se nt a c ritic ism of the m ore c om plicated a nd ye t m ost funda me nta l soc ia l institutions a nd m ora ls of the Victoria n E ngla nd.A. Bleak HouseB. Hard TimesC. Great ExpectationsD. A Tale of Two Cities2. From ____________ on, the tragic sense becomes the keynote of Thomas Hardy’s novels, the conflict between the traditional and the moden is brought to the center of the stage.A. The Return of the NativeB. The Mayor of CasterbridgeC. Tess of the D’UrbervillesD. Jude the Obscure3. George Bernard Shaw’s play ____________ shows his almost nihilistic bitterness on the subjects of the cruelty and madness of World War I and the aimlessness and disillusion of the young.A. Getting MarriedB. Too True to Be GoodC. Widowers’ HousesD. The Apple Cart4. It was only after the publication of ____________ that D.H. Lawrence was recognized as aprominent novelist.A. The TrespasserB. The White PeacockC. Sons and LoversD. The Rainbow5. T. S. Eliot’s poem ____________ is heavily indebted to James Joyce in terms of the stream- of -consciousness technique, also a prelude to The Waste Land.A. “Prufrock”B. “Gerontion”C. The Hollow MenD. Lyrical Ballads6. Charlotte Brontё’s ____________ is noted for its sharp criticism of the existing society, e. g. the religious hypocrisy of charity institutions.A. The ProfessorB. Wuthering HeightsC. VilletteD. Jane Eyre7. Shelley’s greatest a chievement is his four - act poetic drama ____________ , which is an ex- ultant work in praise of humankind’s potential.第 1 页A. AdonaisB. Queen MabC. Prometheus UnboundD. Kubla Khan8. Among the Romantic poets ____________ is regarded as a “worshipper of nature”.A. William BlakeB. William WordsworthC. George Gordon ByronD. John Keats9. The most perfect example of the verse drama after Greek style in English is John Milton’s ____________.A. Paradise LostB. Paradise RegainedC. Samson AgonistesD. Areopagitica10. The major theme of Jane Austen’s novels is____________.A. love and moneyB. money and social statusC. social status and marriageD. love and marriage11. T. S. Eliot’s most important single poem ____________ has been hailed as a landm ark and a model of the 20th-century English poetry.A. The Hollow MenB. The Waste LandC. Murder in the CathedralD. Ash Wednesday12. According to the subjects, William Wordsworth’s short poems can be classified into two groups, poemsabout____________.A. nature and human lifeB. happiness and childhoodC. symbolism and imaginationD. nature and commonlife13. Among the following writers ____________ is considered to be the best -known English dramatist since Shakespeare.A. Oscar WildeB. John GalsworthyC. W. B. Y eatsD. George Bernard Shaw14. William Blake’s ____________ composed during the climax of the French Revolution playsthe double role both as a satire and a revolutionary prophecy.A. The Book of UrizenB. The Book of LosC. Poetical SketchesD. Marriage of Heaven and Hell15. Charles Dickens’ works are characterized by a mingling of ____________ and pathos.A. metaphorB. passionC. satireD. humor16. Daniel Defoe describes ____________ as a typical English middle -class man of the eigh- teenth century, the very prototype of the empire builder, the pioneer colonist.A. Robinson CrusoeB. Moll FlandersC. GulliverD. Tom Jones第 2 页17. In Thomas Hardy’s Wessex novels, there is an apparent ____________ touch in his de- scription of the simple and beautiful though primitive rural life.A. nostalgicB. tragicC. romanticD. ironic18. Of all the eighteenth - century novelists ____________ was the first to set out, both in the-ory and practice, to write specially a “comic epic in prose”, t he first to give the modern novel its structure and style.A. Thomas GrayB. Richard Brinsley SheridanC. Jonathan SwiftD. Henry Fielding19. Shakespeare’s authentic non-dramatic poetry consists of two long narrative poems: Venus and Adonisand____________.A. Julius CaesarB. The Winter’s TaleC. The Rape of LucreceD. The Two gentlemen of Verona20. John Milton’s ____________ is probably his most memorable prose work, which is a greatplea for freedom of the press.A. Paradise LostB. Paradise regainedC. AreopagiticaD. Lycidas21.D. H. Lawrence’s novels ____________ are generally regarded as his masterpieces.A. The Rainbow; Women in LoveB. The Rainbow; Sons and LoversC. Sons and Lovers; Lady Chatterley’s LoverD. Women in Love; Lady Chatterley’s Lover22. The best representatives of the English humanists are Thomas More, Christopher Mar-lowe and____________.A. William ShakespeareB. John MiltonC. Henry FieldingD. Jonathan Swift23. Mark Twain’s particular concern about the local character of a region came about as “local colorism,” a unique variation of American literary____________.A. romanticismB. nationalismC. modernismD. realism24. As a poet with a strong sense of mission, Walt Whitman devoted all his life to the creation of the “single”poem,____________.A. Drum TapsB. North of BostonC. A Boy’s WillD. Leaves of Grass第 3 页25. William Faulkner creates his own mythical kingdom that mirrors not only the decline of the ____________ society of America but also the spiritual wasteland of the whole American society.A. EasternB. WesternC. SouthernD. Northern26. In his final years, Herman Melville turned again to prose fiction and wrote what is probably his second famous work,____________ , which was published after his death.A. Billy BuddB. RedburnC. Moby - DickD. Typee27. The Sun Also Rise casts light on a whole generation after ____________ and the effects of the war by way of a vivid portrait of “the Lost Generation. ”A. the Spanish Civil WarB. the American- Mexican WarC. WWID. WWII28. Herman Melville went to the South Seas on a whaling ship in 1841, where he gained the first -hand information about whaling that he used later in____________.A. TypeeB. RedburnC. Moby - DickD. Omoo29. According to ____________ , the life - death cycle, the spring and winter of the earth, the birth and death of the animals is reality.A. Theodore DreiserB. William FaulknerC. Henry JamesD. F·Scott Fitzgerald30. “Though life is but a losing battle, it is a struggle man can dominate in such a way that loss becomes dignity. ” This is an outlook towards life that ____________ had been trying to illustrate in his works.A. F·Scott FitzgeraldB. Ernest HemingwayC. Theodore DreiserD. William Faulkner31. More than five hundred poems ____________ wrote are about nature, in which his (her) general skepticism about the relationship between man and nature is well -expressed.A. Robert FrostB. Emily DickinsonC. Ezra PoundD. Walt Whitman32. In 1954, the Nobel Prize for literature was granted to ____________ , one of the greatest of American writers.A. Ernest HemingwayB. Robert FrostC. Henry JamesD. Theodore Dreiser33. North of Boston is described by Robert Frost as “a book of poople,” which shows a brilliant insight into ____________ character and the background that formed it.第 4 页A. EasternB. WesternC. SouthernD. New England34. Walt Whitman is radically innovative in terms of the form of his poetry. What he prefers for his new poetic feelings is “ ____________ ”.A. standardized rhymingB. regular rhymingC. free verseD. strict verse35. Henry James’ fame generally rests upon his novels and stories with the____________ theme.A. internationalB. localC. colonialD. post-modern36. The Financier, The Titan and The Stoic by Theodore Dreiser are called his “Trilogy of _________. ”A. HatredB. DeathC. DesireD. Fate37. In 1920, F·Scott Fitzgerald’s first novel ____________ was published, which was, to some extent, his own story.A. This Side of ParadiseB. Tales of the Jazz AgeC. All the Sad Young MenD. Taps at Reveille38. In 1837, Nathaniel Hawthorne published Twice - Told Tales, a collection of ____________ which attracted critical attention.A. poemsB. short storiesC. essaysD. plays39. William Faulkner set most of his works in the American ____________ , with his emphasis on the ________subjects and consciousness.A. North... NorthernB. East... EasternC. West... WesternD. South... Southern40. The House of the Seven Gables was based on the traditi on of a curse pronounced on ____________’s family when his great - grandfather was a judge in the Salem witchcraft trials.A. Nathaniel HawthorneB. Washington IrvingC. Ezra PoundD. Walt WhitmanPART TWO (60 POINTS)II. Reading Comprehension (16 points in all, 4 for each)Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.41. “Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;第 5 页Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shad e,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. ”Questions:A. Who’s the poet of the quoted stanza, and what’s the title of the poem?B. What does the word “this” in the last line refer to?C. What idea do the quoted lines express?42. “Never did sun more beautifully steepIn 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!”( From Wordsworth’s sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge)Questions:A. What does this sonnet describe?B. What does the phrase “mighty heart” refer to?C. The sonnet follows strictly the Italian form. What is the feature of the Italian form of sonnet?43. “ The woods are lovely, dark and deep,But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep,And miles to go before I sleep. ”Questions:A. Who’s the poet of the quoted stanza, and what’s the title of the poem?B. What does the word “sleep” mean?C. What idea do the four lines express?44. “ I celebrate myself, and sing myself,And what I assume you shall assume,For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.I loafe and invite my soul,I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass. ”第 6 页( From Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself)Questions:A. Who does “myself ” refer to?B. How do you understand the line “I loafe and invite my soul” ?C. What does “a spear of summer grass” symbolize?III. Questions and Answers (24 points in all, 6 for each)Give a brief answer to each of the following questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.45. What’s th e theme of the poem Paradise Lost? What’s the author’s intention to create it and the implication that the poem expresses?46. The Waste Land is T. S. Eliot’s most important single poem. What’s the theme of the poem?47. In American literature, Emily Dicki nson’s poetry is unique and unconventional in its own way. What are the features of Dickinson’s poems?48. What’s the theme of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby?IV. T opic 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 Charles Dickens’ art of fiction: the setting, the character- portrayal, the language, etc. , based on his novel Oliver Twist.50. Summarize Ernest Hemingway’s ar tistic features.第 7 页。
2011年7月自考真题英美文学选读
全国2011年7月自学考试英美文学选读试题2课程代码：00604I. Multiple Choice（40 points in all, 1for each）Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answer the question or completes the statement. Write the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.1．The Renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events EXCEPT_________.A．the rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek cultureB．the vast expansion of British colonies in North AmericaC．the new discoveries in geography and astrologyD．the religious reformation and the economic expansion2．Henry Fielding has been regarded by some as “_______”,for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.A．Father of the English Novel B．Father of the English PoetryC．Father of the English Drama D．Father of the English Short Story3．T．S．Eliot‟s most important single poem _______has been hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th-century English poetry.A．The Hollow Man B．The Waste LandC．Murder in the Cathedral D．Ash Wednesday4．George Bernard Shaw‟s play _______ established his position as the leading play-wright of his time. A．Widowers’ Houses B．Too True to Be GoodC．Mrs. Warren’s Profession D．Candida5．William Blake‟s central concern in the Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience is_______, which gives the two books a strong social and historical reference.A．youthhood B．childhoodC．happiness D．sorrow6．All of the following works are known as Hardy‟s “novels of character and environment”EXCETP_______.A．The Return of the Native B．Tess of the D’UrbervillesC．Jude the Obscure D．Far from the Madding Crowd7．Among the works by Charles Dickens _______ presents his criticism of the Utilitarian princ iple that rules over the English education system and destroys young hearts and minds.A．Bleak House B．Pickwick Paper第 1 页C．Great Expectations D．Hard Times8．The most distinguishing feature of Charles Dickens‟ works is his _______.A．simple vocabulary B．bitter and sharp criticismC．character-portrayal D．pictures of happiness9．Among the following writers _______ created the verse novel by adopting the novelistic presentation of characters. A．Robert Browning B．Matthew ArnoldC．Alfred Tennyson D．Edward Fitzgerald10．“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good for-tune, must be in want of a wife.”The quoted part is taken from ______.A．Jane Eyre B．Wuthering HeightsC．Pride and Prejudice D．Sense and Sensibility11．Because of her sensitivity to universal patterns of human behavior, ______ has brought the English novel ,as an art of form, to its maturity.A．Charlotte BrontëB．Jane AustenC．Emily BrontëD．Ann Radcliffe12．Shelley‟s greatest achievement is his four-act poetic drama ______, which is an exultant work in praise of humankind‟s potential.A．Adonais B．Queen MabC．Prometheus Unbound D．A Defence of Poetry13．The assertion that poetry originates from “emotion recollected in tranquility” belongs to ______.A．William Wordsworth B．Samuel Taylor ColeridgeC．Robert Southey D．William Blake14．All of the following poems by William Wordsworth are masterpieces on nature EXCEPT ______.A．“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”B．“An Evening Walk”C．“Tintern Abbey”D．“The Solitary Reaper”15．All of the following are stream –of- consciousness novels EXCEPT________.A．Pilgrimage B．UlyssesC．Mrs. Dalloway D．Tess of the D’ Urbervilles16．Shakespeare‟s four greatest tragedies are ________.A．Romeo and Juliet, Othello, King Lear, HamletB．Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, The Merchant of VeniceC．Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, MacbethD．Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, Othello, Hamlet第 2 页17．As one of the greatest masters of English prose, ________ defined a good style as “proper words in proper places”. A．Henry Fielding B．Jonathan SwiftC．Samuel Johnson D．Alexander Pope18．All of the following novels by Daniel Defoe are the first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower-class people EXCEPT ______.A．Robinson Crusoe B．Captain SingletonC．Moll Flanders D．Colonel Jack19．Among the three major works by John Milton ______ is indeed the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf.A．Paradise Regained B．Samson AgonistesC．Lycidas D．Paradise Lost20．English Romanticism, as a historical phase of literature, is generally said to have ended in 1832 with ______.A．the passage of the first Reform Bill in the ParliamentB．the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge‟s Lyrical BalladsC．the publication of T．S．Eliot‟s The waste LandD．the passage of the Bill of Rights in the Parliament21．Contrary to the traditional romance of aristocrats, the modern English novel gives a realistic presentation of life of ______.A．the common English people B．the upper classC．the rising bourgeoisie D．the enterprising landlords22．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．John Galsworthy‟s B．Thomas Hardy‟sC．D．H．Lawrence‟s D．Charles Dickens‟23．The Nobel Prize Committee highly praised ______ for “his powerful style-forming mastery of the art”of creating modern fiction.A．Ezra Pound B．Ernest HemingwayC．Robert Frost D．Theodore Dreiser24．In 1950,______ was awarded the Nobel Prize for the anti-racist Intruder in the Dust.A．William Faulkner B．Robert FrostC．Ezra Pound D．Ernest Hemingway25．Herman Melville wrote his semi-autobiographical novel ______ concerning the sufferings of a genteel youth among brutal sailors.第 3 页A．Typee B．RedburnC．Moby-Dick D．Mardi26．The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and, especially, its sequence ______ proved themselves to be the milestone in the American literature.A．The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn B．Life on the MississippiC．The Gilded Age D．Roughing It27．The Portrait of A Lady is generally considered to be ______ masterpiece, which describes the life journey of an American ________ in a European cultural environment.A．Henry Adams‟…widow B．William James‟…girlC．Henry James‟…girl D．Theodore Dreiser‟s…widow28．Hawthorne intended to ______ in The Scarlet Letter.A．tell a story of parental loveB．tell a story of sin and bloody violenceC．call the readers back to the plantation way of livingD．reveal the human psyche after they sinned29．“The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water.” This “iceberg” analogy is put forward by ______.A．Mark Twain B．Ezra PoundC．William Faulkner D．Ernest Hemingway30．In many of Hawthorne‟s stories and novels, the Puritan concept of life is condemned, or the Puritan past is shown in an almost totally negative light, especially in his ______ and The Scarlet Letter.A．Twice-Told Tales B．The Blithedale RomanceC．The Marble Faun D．The House of the Seven Gables31．The white whale, Moby Dick, symbolizes ________ for Melville, for it is complex, unfathomable, malignant, and beautiful as well.A．society B．natureC．ocean animals D．both A and C32．After the American Civil War, the literary interest in the so-called “reality” of life started a new period in the American literary writings know an the Age of ______.A．Realism B．Reason and RevolutionC．Romanticism D．Modernism33．H．L．Mencken considered ______ “the true father of our national literature”.A．Bret Harte B．Mark Twain第 4 页C．Washington Irving D．Walt Whitman34．Altogether, Emily Dickinson wrote 1775 poems, of which only ______ had appeared during her lifetime.A．three B．fiveC．seven D．nine35．The ______ Age of the 1920s characterized by frivolity and carelessness is brought vividly to life in The Great Gatsby. A．Lost B．JazzC．Reason D．Gilded36．Robert Frost is generally considered a regional poet whose subject matters mainly focus on the landscape and people in ______.A．the west B．the southC．Alaska D．New England37．As ______ saw it, poetry could play a vital part in the process of creating a new nation. It could enable Americans to celebrate their release from the Old World and the colonial rule.A．Wordsworth Longfellow B．William BryantC．Walt Whitman D．Robert Frost38．Walt Whitman is a poet with a strong sense of mission, having devoted all his life to the creation of the “single” poem, ______.A．The Love Song of J．Alfred Prufrock B．The Waste LandC．Murder in the Cathedral D．Leaves of Grass39．Realism was a reaction against Romanticism and paved the way to ______.A．Modernism B．ScientismC．Post-Modernism D．Feminism40．Mark Twain employed an unpretentious style of ______ in his novels which is best described as “vernacular”. A．standard English B．Afro-American EnglishC．colloquialism D．urbanismII．Reading Comprehension （16 points in all,4 for each）Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the Answer Sheet.41．“Shall I compare thee to a summer‟s day?Thou art more lovely and more temperate:Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,And summer‟s lease hath all too short a date:”Questions:第 5 页A．Identify the poet and the poem from which the quoted lines are taken.B．Name the figure of speech employed in the poem.C．What is the theme of the poem?42．“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? —Y ou think wrong!… And if God had gifted me with some beauty, and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you…—it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God‟s feet, equal—as we are!”Questions:A．Identify the author and the novel from which the quoted part is taken.B．To whom is the speaker speaking?C．What does the quoted part imply about the speaker?43．“The woods are lovely, dark and deep,But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep,And miles to go before I sleep.”Questions:A．Identify the poet and the poem from which the quoted lines are taken.B．What does the word “sleep” mean?C．What idea do the four lines express?44．“I celebrate myself, and sing myself,And what I assume you shall assume,For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.I loafe and invite my soul,I learn and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.”(from Walt Whitman‟s “Song of Myself”)Questions:A．Whom does “myself” refer to?B．How do you understand the line “I loafe and invite my soul”?C．What does “a spear of summer grass” indicate?III．Questions and Answers（24 points in all, 6 for each）Give a brief answer to each of the following questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the Answer Sheet.45．“…My boy!‟ said the old gentleman, leaning over the desk. Oliver stated at the sound. He might be excused for doing so,第 6 页for the words were kindly said, and strange sounds frighten one. He trembled violently, and burst into tears.”（from Charles Dickens‟Oliver Twist）Explain why Oliver Twist started first, then trembled violently and burst into tears when the words were “kindly” said. 46．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.47．“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.”（from Theodore Dreiser‟s Sister Carrie）What idea can you draw from the “rocking-chair”?48．Why are naturalists inevitably pessimistic in their view?IV．T opic 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．Daniel Defoe‟s novel Robinson Crusoe was a great success partly because the protagonist was a real middle-class hero.Discuss Crusoe, the protagonist of the novel, as an embodiment of the rising middle-class virtues in the mid-eighteenth century England.50．“…My faith is gone!‟ cried he（Goodman Brown）,after one stupefied moment. …There is no good on earth; and sin is buta name. Come, devil! For to thee is this world given.‟”（from Nathaniel Hawthorne‟s “Y oung Goodman Brown”）Make a comment on this passage.第 7 页。
高等教育自学考试英美文学选读试题及答案
课程代码：0604请将答案填在答题纸相应的位置上(全部题目用英文作答)I. Multiple Choice(40 points in all, 1 for each)Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question orcompletes the statement and write the corresponding letter on the answer sheet.1. In Renaissance, the European humanist thinkers and scholars made attempts to dothe following EXCEPT ______.A. getting rid of those old feudalist ideasB. getting control of the parliament and governmentC. introducing new ideas that expressed the interests of the rising bourgeoisieD. recovering the purity of the early church, from the corruption of the RomanCatholic Church2. The Petrarchan sonnet was first introduced into England by ______.A. SurreyB. WyattC. SidneyD. Shakespeare3. As the best of Shakespeare's final romances,______ is a typical example of hispessimistic view towards human life and society in his late years.A. The TempestB. The Winter's TaleC. CymbelineD. The Rape of Lucrece4. John Milton's greatest poetical work ______ is the only generally acknowledgedepic in English literarure since Beowulf.A.AreopagiticaB. Paradise LostC. LycidasD. Samson Agonistes5. The British bourgeois or middle class believed in the following notions EXCEPT______.A. self - esteemB. self - relianceC. self - restraintD. hard work6. “Graveyard School〞writers are the following sentimentalists EXCEPT______.A. James ThomsonB. William CollinsC. William CowperD. Thomas Jackson7. The best model of satire in the whole English literary history is Jonathan Swift's______.A. A Modest ProposalB. A Tale of a TubC. Gulliver's TravelsD. The Battle of the Books8. As a representative of the Enlightenment,______ was one of the first to introducerationalism to England.A. John BunyanB. Daniel DefoeC. Alexander PopeD. Jonathan Swift9. For his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel,______has been regarded by some as “Father of the English Novel〞.A. Daniel DefoeB. Henry FieldingC. Jonathan SwiftD. Samuel Richardson10. Which of the following descriptions of Gothic Novels is NOT correctA. It predominated in the early eighteenth century.B. It was one phase of the Romantic movement.C. Its principal elements are violence, horror and the supernatural.D. Works like The Mysteries of Udolpho and Frankenstein are typical Gothic romance.11. “Byronic hero〞is a figure of the following traits EXCEPT ______.A.being proudB. being of humble originC.being rebelliousD. being mysterious12. Robert Browning created ______ by adopting the novelistic presentation ofcharacters.A. the verse novelB. the blank verseC. the heroic coupletD. the dramatic poetry13. Charles Dickens' novel ______ is famous for its vivid descriptions of theworkhouse and life of the underworld in the nineteenth- century London.A. The Pickwick PaperB. Oliver TwistC. David CopperfieldD. Nicholas Nickleby14. Charlotte Bronte's works are all about the struggle of an individualconsciousness towards ______, about some lonely and neglected young women witha fierce longing for love, understanding and a full, happy life.A. self - relianceB. self - realizationC. self - esteemD. self - consciousness15. The symbolic meaning of “Book〞 in Robert Browning's long poem The Ring and theBook is ______.A. the common senseB. the hard truthC. the comprehensive knowledgeD. the dead truth16. Thomas Hardy's pessimistic view of life predominated most of his later worksand earns him a reputation as a ______ writer.A. realisticB. naturalisticC. romanticD. stylistic17. After the First World War, there appeared the following literary trends ofmodernism EXCEPT ______.A. expressionismB. surrealismC. stream of consciousnessD. black humour18. The masterpieces of critical realism in the early 20th century are the threetrilogies of ______.A. Galsworthy's Forsyte novelsB. Hardy' s Wessex novelsC. Greene's Catholic novelsD. Woolf's stream-of-consciousness novels19. In the mid - 1950s and early 1960s, there appeared “______〞 who demonstrateda particular disillusion over the depressing situation in Britain and launcheda bitter protest. against the outmoded social and political values in theirsociety.A. The Beat GenerationB. The Lost GenerationC. The Angry Young MenD. Black Mountain Poets20.The following are English stream-of-consciousness novels EXCEPT ______.A.PilgrimageB. UlyssesC.Mrs.DallowayD. A Passage to Inida21. The leader of the Irish National Theater Movement in the early 20th centurywas ______.A. W.B.Yeats B. Lady GregoryC. J.M.SyngeD. John Galworthy22. T.S.Eliot's most popular verse play is ______.A. Murder in the CathedralB. The Cocktail PartyC. The Family ReunionD. The Waste Land23. The American writer ______ was awarded the Nobel Prize for the anti-racist In-truder in the Dust in 1950.A. Ernest HemingwayB. Gertrude SteinC. William FaulknerD.T.S. Eliot24. Hemingway's second big success is ______ , which wrote the epitaph to a decadeand to the whole generation in the 1920s, in order to tell us a story about the tragic love affair of a wounded American soldier with a British nurse.A. For Whom the Bell TollsB. A Farewell to ArmsC. The Sun Also RisesD. The Old Man and the Sea25. With the publication of ______ , Dreiser was launching himself upon a long careerthat would ultimately make him one of the most significant American writers of the school later known as literary naturalism.A. Sister CarrieB. The TitanC. The GeniusD. The Stoic26. Henry James is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th -century “stream-of-consciousness〞novels and the founder of ______.A. neoclassicismB. psychological realismC. psychoanalytical criticismD. surrealism27. In 1849, Herman Melville published ______ ,a semi-autobiographical novel, con-cerning the sufferings of a genteel youth among brutal sailors.A. OmooB. MardiC. RedburnD. Typee28. As a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,______ marks the climax of Mark Twain'sliterary activity.A. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnB. Life on the MississippiC. The Gilded AgeD. Roughing It29. Realism was a reaction against ______ or a move away from the bias towards romanceand self- creating fictions, and paved the way to Modernism.A. RomanticismB. RationalismC. Post-modernismD. Cynicism30. When World War II broke out,______ began working for the Italian government,engaged in some radio broadcasts of anti- Semitism and pro- Fascism.A. Ezra PoundB.T.S. EliotC. Henry JamesD. Robert Frost31. In 1915 ______ became a naturalized British citizen, largely in protest againstAmerica's failure to join England in the First World War.C. W.D.Howells D. Ezra Pound32. What Whitman prefers for his new subject and new poetic feelings is “______ ,〞 that is, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.A. blank verseB. free rhythmC. balanced structureD. free verse33. The American woman poet ______ wanted to live simply as a complete independentbeing, and so she did, as a spinster.A. Emily ShawB. Anna DickinsonC. Emily DickinsonD. Anne Bret34. The Birthmark drives home symbolically ______ point that evil is a man's birthmark,something he was born with.A. Whitman'sB. Melville'sC. Hawthorne'sD. Emerson's35. The Financier ,The Titan and The Stoic written by ______ are called his “Trilogyof Desire〞.A. Henry JamesB. Theodore DreiserC. Mark TwainD. Herman Melville36. Disregarding grammar and punctuation,______ always used “i〞 instead of “I〞in his poems to show his protest against self-importance.A. Wallace StevensB. Ezra Pound37. Though Robert Frost is generally considered a regional poet whose subject mattersmainly focus on the landscape and people in ______ , he wrote many poems that investigate the basic themes of man's life in his long poetic career.A. the westB. the southC. New EnglandD. Alaska38. Most critics have agreed that Fitzgerald is both an insider and an outsider of______ with a double vision.A. the Gilded AgeB. the Rational AgeC. the Jazz AgeD. the Magic Age39. In the American Romantic writings,______ came to function almost as a dramaticcharacter that symbolized moral law.A. fireB. waterC. treesD. wilderness40. The desire for an escape from society and a return to ______ became a permanentconvention of the American literature.A. the family lifeB. natureC. the ancient timeD. fantasy of loveII. Reading Comprehension (16 points in all, 4 for each)Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.41. Wherefore feed and clothe and saveFrom the cradle to the graveThose ungrateful drones who wouldDrain your sweat- nay, drink your bloodQuestions:A. Identify the poet and the title of the poem from which the stanza is taken.B. What figure of speech is used in Line 2C. Whom does “drones〞 refer to42. The following quotation is from one of the poems by T. S. Eliot:No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;Am an attendant lord, one that will doTo swell a progress, start a scene or twoAdvise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool,Deferential, glad to be of use,Politic, cautious, and meticulous,Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse;Questions:A. Identify the title of the poem from which the quoted part is taken.B. Who's the speaker of the quoted linesC. What does the first line show about the speaker43．There was a child went forth every day,And the first object he look'd upon, that object he became,And that object became part of him for the day or a certain part of the day, Or for many years or stretching cycles of years.Questions:A. Identify the poet.B.From which poem and which collection of the poet are these lines takenC.What does the poet describe in the poem44. I heard a Fly buzz- when I died-The Stillness in the RoomWas like the Stillness in the Air-Between the Heaves of Storm-The Eyes around- had wrung them dry-And Breaths were gathering firmFor that last Onset- when the KingBe witnessed - in the Room-Questions:A. Identify the poet.B. What does “the King〞 refer toC. What moment is the poem trying to describeIII. 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. List at least two leading neoclassicists in England. What did Neoclassicistscelebrate in literary creation46. Jane Eyre is one of the most popular and important novels of the Victorian Age.Why is Jane Eyre such a successful novel47. Who are the three dominant figures of the American Age of Realism and what arethe differences in their understanding of the “truth〞48. What's Dreiser' s naturalistic belief Please discuss the question with Carrie,a character in Sister Carrie as an example.IV. Topic Discussion(20 points in all, 10 for each)Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in thecorresponding space on the answer sheet.49. Briefly discuss William Shakespeare's artistic achievements in characterization,plot construction and language.50. Briefly discuss Mark Twain's art of fiction in terms of the setting,the language,and the characters, etc.,based on his novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.全国高等教育自学考试英美文学选读真题答案及评分参考〔课程代码0604〕I. Multiple Choice (40 points in all, 1 for each)1. B2. B3. A4. B5.A6.D7.A8.C9.B 10.A 11.B 12.A13.B 14.B 15.B 16.B 17.D 18.A 19.C 20.D 21.A 22.A 23.C24.B 25.A 26.C 27.C 28.A 29.A 30.A 31.A 32.D 33.C 34.C35.B 36.D 37.C 38.C 39.D 40.BII. Reading Comprehension (16 points in all, 4 for each)41. A. From Percy Shelley’s “Men of England〞(1)B. Metonymy (1)C. Here “drones〞refers to the parasitic class in human society. (2)42. A. “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock〞(1)B. J. Alfred Prufrock (1)C. Prufrock is conscious of the fact that he is like Hamlet in some respects. But he is sensibleenough that he cannot be compared with Hamlete. (2)43. A. Walt Whitman (1)B. “There Was a Child Went Forth〞from “Leaves of Grass〞(1)C. The poem describes the growth of a child who learned about the world around him andimproved himself accordingly. In the poem, Whitman’s own early ex perience may well be identified with the childhood of a young, growing American. (2)44. A. Emily Dickinson (1)B. The God of Death. (1)C. The poem is trying to describe the moment of death. (2)III. Questions and Answers (24 points in all, 6 for each)45. A. Alexander Pope, John Dryden, Samuel Johnson (任选2位作家). (2)B. They believed that the artistic ideals should be order, logic, restrained emotion andaccuracy and that literature should be judged in terms of its service to humanity. (2) They seek proportion, unity, harmony and grace in literacy expression, in an effort to delight,instruct and correct human beings. Thus a polite, elegant, witty and intellectual artdeveloped. (2)46. A. It is noted for its sharp criticism of the existing society. (2)B. It is an intense moral fable. (2)C. The success of the novel is also due to its introduction to the English novel the firstgoverness heroine. (2)47. A. William Dean Howells, Mark Twain, Henry James. (3)B. Mark Twain and Howells seemed to have paid more attention to the “life〞of theAmericans. Howells focused his discussion on the rising middle class and the way theylived; Mark Twain preferred to have his own region and people at the forefront of his stories;Henry James had apparently laid a greater emphasis on the “inner world〞of man. (3)48. A. Dreiser believes that while men are controlled and conditioned by heredity, instinct andchance, a few extraordinary and unsophisticated human beings refuse to accept their fatewordlessly and instead strive, unsuccessfully, to find meaning and purpose for theirexistence. (3)B. Carrie, as one of such, senses that she is merely a cipher in an uncaring world yet seeks tograsp the mysteries of life and thereby satisfies her desires for social status and materialcomfort, but in spite of her success, she is lonely and dissatisfied. (3)以上各题言语错误酌情扣分。
英美文学选读试题及答案
英美文学选读试题Ⅰ.Multiple Choice (40 points in all, 1 for each)Select from the four choices [A],[B],[C],[D] of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement and write the letter on the answer sheet.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.Christian2.Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his production of ___.A.Piers PlowmanB.Sir Gawain and the Green KnightC.Confessio AmantisD.The Canterbury Tales3.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 f eed their flocks,/By shallow rivers to whose falls/Melodious birds sing madrigals.〞The above lines are probably taken from __.A.Spenser's The Faerie QueeneB.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 wifeWhich 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 irony7.The ture subject of John Donne's poem,“The Sun Rising,〞is to ___.A.attack the sun as an unruly servantB.give compliments to the mistress and her power of beautyC.criticize the sun's intrusion into the lover's private lifeD.lecture the sun on where true royalty and riches lie8.Of all the 18thcentury novelists Henry Fielding was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specificall y a “___ in prose,〞the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.A.tragic epic B ic epicC.romanceD.lyric epic9.The Houyhnhnms depicted by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels are ___.A.horses that are endowed with reasonB.pigmies that are endowed with admirable qualitiesC.giants that are superior in wisdomD.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 LostC.Alexander Pope's Essay on CriticismD.Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream11.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 TravelsB.The Rape of the LockC.Robinson CrusoeD.The pilgrim's Progress12.William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following EXCEPT ___.A.the use of everyday language spoken by the common peopleB.the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelingsC.the use of humble and rustic life as subject matterD.the use of elegant wording and inflated figures of speech13.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 pary.〞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.KeatsB.W.BlakeC.W.Wordsworth15.“Ode o na Grecian Urn〞shows the contrast between the ___ of art and the ___ of human passion.A.glory …uglinessB.permanence…transienceC.transience…sordidnessD.glory…permanence16.In the statement“—oh,God! would you like to live with your soul in the grave?〞the term“soul〞apparently refers to ___.A.Heathcliff himselfC.one's spiritual lifeD.one's ghost17.The typical feature of Robet Browning's poetry is the ___.A.bitter satirerger-than-life caricaturetinized dictionD.dramatic monologue18.The Victorian Age was largely an age of ____,eminently represented by Dickens and Thackeray.A.poetryB.drama D.epic prose19.___is the first important governess(家庭女教师) novel in the English literary history.A.Jane EyreHeights20.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.wrence'sB.J.Galsworthy'sC.W.Thackeray’sD.T.Hardy’s21.___is considered to be the best-known English dramatist since Shakespeare, and his representative works are plays inspired by social criticism.A.Richard SheridanB.Oliver GoldsmithC.Oscar WildeD.Bernard Shaw22.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.23.The Romantic writers would focus on all the following issues EXCEPT the ___ in the American literary histrory.A.individual feelingsB.idea of survival of the fittestC.strong imaginationD.return to nature24.Henry David Thoreau's work,__,has always been regarded as a masterpiece of New England Transcendentalism.B.The pioneersC.NatureD.Song of Myself25.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 timeB.expression of transient beautyC.satire on laziness and corruptibility of human beingsD.idea about supernatural manipulation of man's life26.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 verseB.heroic coupletC.free verseD.iambic pentameter27.The literary characters of the American type in early 19th century are generally characterized by all the following features EXCEPT that they ___.A.speak local dialectsB.are polite and elegant gentlemenC.are simple and crude farmersD.are noble savages( red and white) untainted by society28.Hester Pryme, Dimmsdale,Chillingworth and Pearl are most likely the names of the characters in ___.A.The Scarlet LetterB.The House of the Seven GablestC.The Portrait of a LadyD.The pioneers29.“This is my letter to the World〞is a poetic expression of Emily Dickinson's __ about her communication with the outside world.A.indifferenceB.anger30.With Howells,James,and Mark Twain active on the literary scene, __ became the major trend in American literature in the seventies and eighties of the 19thcentury.31.After The adventures of Tom Sawyer, Twain gives a literary independence to Tom's buddy Huck in a book entitled ___.A.Life on the MississippiB.The Gilded AgeC.The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnD.A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court32.However,___,the keynote of Daisy Miller's character,turns out to be an admiring but a dangerous quality and her defiance of social taboos in the Old World finally brings her to a disaster in the clash between two different cultures.C.worldliness33.Generally speaking,all those writers with a naturalistic approach to human reality tend to be ___.A.transcendentalists34.Emily Dickinson wrote many short poems on various aspects of life.Which of the following is NOT a usual subject of her poetic expression?A.Religion and immortality.B.Life and death.C.Love and marriage.D.War and peace.35.In “After Apple-Picking,〞Robert Frost wrote:“For I have had too much/Of applepicking:I am overtired/Of the great harvestI myself desired.〞From these lines we can conclude that the speaker is ___.A.happy about the harvestB.still very much interested in apple-pickingC.expecting a greater harvestD.indifferent to what he once desired36.Chinese poetry and philosophy have exerted great influence over ____.A.Ezra PoundB.Ralph Waldo EmersonC.Robert FrostD.Emily Dickinson37.The Hemingway Code heroes are best remembered for their __.A.indestructible spirtieB.pessimistic view of life38.IN The Emperor Jones and The Hairy Ape,O'Neill adopted the expressionist techniques to portray the ___ of human beings in a hostile universe.A.helpless situationC.profound religious faithD.courage and perseverance39.In Hemingway's “Indian Cmap〞,Nick's night trip to the Indian village and his experience inside the hut can be taken as ____.A.an essential lesson about Indian tribesB.a confrontation with evil and sinC.an initiation to the harshness of lifeD.a learning process in human relationship40.which of the following statements about Emily Grierson, the protagonist in Faulkner's story “A Rose for Emily,〞is NOT true?A.She has a distorted personality.B.She is physically deformed and paralyzed.C.She is the symbol of the old values of the South.D.She is the victim of the past glory.PART TWOⅡ.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.41.“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?42.“And when I am formulated,sprawling on a pin,When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall.Then how should beginTo 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?43.“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?44.“I shall be telling this wi th a sighSomewhere 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 ag es hence〞mean?C.What idea does the quoted passage express?Ⅲ.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.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?46.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?47.The white whale,Moby Dick,is the most important symbol in Melville's novel.What symbolic meaning can you draw from it?48.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〞?Ⅳ.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.How is Romanticism different from Neoclassicism?Provide brief evidence from the literary works you know best.50.Summerize the story of Mark twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in about 100 words,and comment on the theme of the novel.Ⅱ.Reading Comprehension (16 points, 4 for each)41.A.John Galasworthy:The Man of Property.B.A face does not show any emotion or reaction so that it is impossible to know how that person is feeling or what he is thinking about.C.it presents the inner mind of Soames in face of his wife's coldness.He can never know what is on his wife's mind because the makeup of his and her mentality is different.His wife Irene, whose mind is romantically inclined, is disgusted with her husband's possessiveness.Being unable to read his wife's mind is as good as saying that he really can't regard her as his property- this is the very reason why he is enraged beyond measure.42.A.T.S.Eliot:“The Love So ng of J.Alfred Pruforck.〞B.The ends of cigarettes,meaning trivial things here.C.Here,Prufrock's inability to do anything against the society he is in is made strikingly clear by using a sharp comparison .Prufrock imagines himself as a kind of insect pinned on the wall and struggling in vain to get free.This image vividly shows Prufrock's current predicament.43.A.Washington Irving:“Rip Van Winkle〞.B.The social environment is changed.C.When Rip is back home after a period of 20 years,he finds thta everything has changed.All those old values are gone,and he can hardly feel at home in a changed society.One of the functions that Rip serves in the story is to provide a measuring stick forchange.It is through him that Irving drives home the theme that a desire for change,improvement,and progress could subvert stable society.44.A.Robert Frost:“The Road Not Taken〞.B.Many many years later.C.The speaker is telling his experience of making the choice of the roads.But he is conscious of the fact that his choice will have made all the difference in his life.He seems to be giving a suggestion to the reader.“Make good choice of your life.〞Ⅲ.Questions and Answers (24 points in all,6 for each)45.A.Buyan's pilgrim's Progress and Spenser's The Faerie Queene.B.It is usually concerned with moral ,religious,political,symbolic or mythical ideas.46.A.The French philosopher,Jean Jacques Rousseau and the German writer Johna Wolfgan von Goethe.B.It is Rousseau who established the cult of the individual and championed the freedom of the human spirit;his famous announcement was “I felt before I thought.〞Goethe and his compatriots extolled the romantic spirit.47.A.To Ahab,the whale is either an evil creature itself or the agent of an evil force that controls the universe,or perhaps both.B.To Ishmale,the whale is an astonishing force,an immense power,which defies rational explanation due to a sense of mystery it carries.It is beautiful,but malignant at the same time.It also represents the tremendous organic vitality of the universe,for it has a life force that surges onward irresistibly, impervious to the desires or wills of men.C.As to the reader, the whale can be viewed as a symbol of the physical limits that life imposes upon man.It may also be regarded as a symbol of nature, or an instrument of God's vengeance upon evil man.In general,the multiplicity and ambivalence of the symbolic meaning of the whale is such that it becomes a source of intense speculation, an object or profound curiosity for the reader.48.A.The Oversoul is believed to be an all-pervading power for goodness,omnipresent and omnipotent from which all things come and of which all are a part.It exists in nature and man alike and constitutes the chief element of the universe.B.According to Emerson,it is a supreme reality of mind, a spiritual unity of all beings, and a religion regarded as an emotional communication between an individual soul and the universal Over-soul of which it is a part.C.He holds that intuition is a more certain way of knowing than reason and that the mind could intuitively perceive the existence of the Oversoul and of certain absolutes.Ⅳ.Topic Discussion (20 points in all, 10 for each)49.a.Neoclassicists upheld that artistic ideals should be order,logic,restrained emoticon and accuracy,and that literature,should be judged in terms of its service to humanity,and thus,literary expressions should be of proportion,unity,harmony and grace.Pope's An Essay on Criticism advocates grace,wit (usually though satire/humour),and simplicity in language(and the poem itself is a demonstration of those ideals,too);Fielding's Tom Jones helped establish the form of novel;Gray's “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' displays elegance in style,unified structure,serious tone and moral instructions.b.Romanticists tended to see the individual as the very center of all experience,including art,and thus,literary work should be “spontaneous overflow of strong feelings,〞and no matter how fra gmentary those experiences were (Wordsworth's “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,〞or “The Solitary Reaper,) or Coleridge's “Keble Khan〞),the value of the work lied in the accuracy of presenting those unique feelings and particular attitudes.c.In a word, Neoclassicism emphasized rationality and form but Romanticism attached great importance to the individual's mind (emotion, imagination, temporary experience…)50.A.Mark Twain's novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a Sequa to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.The Story takes place along the Mississippi River before the Civil War in the United States, around 1850.Along the river, floats a small raft, with two people on it; One is an ignorant,uneducated black slave named Jim and the other is little uneducated outcast white boy about the age of thirteen, called Huckleberry Finn or Huck Finn.The novel relates the story of the escape of Jim from slavery and ,more important, how Huck Finn, floating along with Jim and helping him as best he could, changes his mind ,his prejudice, about Black people, and comes to accept Jim as a man and as a close friends as well.During their journey, they experience a series of adventures:coming across two frauds, the “Duke〞and the “King〞,witnessing the lynching and murder of a harmless drunkard, being lost in a fog and finally Tom's coming to rescue. B.The theme of the novel may be best summed in a word “freedom〞: Huck wants to escape from the bond of civilization andJim wants to escape from the yoke of slavery.Mark Twain uses the raft's journey down the Mississippi River to express his thematic contrasts between innocence and experience, nature and culture, wilderness and civilizati。
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英美文学选读自考题-7(总分100,考试时间90分钟)Ⅰ.Multiple ChoiceSelect from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Mark your choice by blacking the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the answer sheet.1. The Renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events. Which one of the following is not such an event?______A. The rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek culture. B. England's domestic rest. C. New discovery in geography and astrology. D. The religious reformation and the economic expansion.2. The Renaissance refers to the period between 14th and mid-17th centuries, which was under the reign of Queen ______ and absolute monarchy in England reached its summit, and in which the real mainstream was ______.A. Victoria, poetry B. Elizabeth, drama C. Mary, novel D. James, drama3. In the second period, Shakespeare's style and approach became highly individualized. He wrote **edies. Which one doesn't belong to them?______A. Titus Andronicus. B. A Midsummer Night's Dream. C. The Merchant of Venice. D. Twelfth Night.4. William Shakespeare's greatest tragedies are: Hamlet, ______, King Lear and ______.A. Romeo and Juliet, Othello B. Othello, Macbeth C. The Tempest, Macbeth D. Othello, Henry IV5. 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. Milton once had an ambition to write an epic which England would "______".A. justify the ways of God to men B. lust all for men C. not willingly let die D. not let all lost7. ______ is not written by John Milton.A. Samson Agonistes B. Paradise Lost C. Paradise Regained D. Tamburlaine8. In terms of the Age of Enlightenment, **ment is not true?______A. The Age of Enlightenmentis also thought as the Age of Reason. B. Its purpose was to enlighten the whole world with the light of modern philosophical and artistic ideas. C. The enlighteners advocated universal education. D. John Milton is one of the representatives of the Enlightenment Movement.9. The modern English novel came into being in ______.A. the middle of the 17th century B. the 17th century C. the late 18th century D. the middle of the 18th century10. Daniel Defoe's novels mainly focus on ______.A. the struggle of the unfortunate for mere existence B. the struggle of the shipwrecked persons for security C. the struggle of the pirates for wealth D. the desire of the criminals for property11. ______ is a typical feature of Swift's writings.A. Elegant style B. Casual narration C. Bitter satire D. Complicated sentence structure12. Statement "______" is true in describing Romanticists.A. To Romanticists, poetry is an expression of an individual's feeling and experiences no matter how fragmentary and momemtary these feelings and experiences are B. Romanticists are not patient people; they would leave before the revelation of the theme C. Poetry should present the apparent and tangible D. Romanticists take delight only in sound effect; the theme of a work is not their concern13. ______ is a lovely volume of poems, presenting a happy and innocent world.A. Songs of Experience B. Songs of Innocence C. Song of Myself D. There Was a Child Went Forth14. Wordsworth thought that ______ is the only subject of literary interest.A. nation B. past experience C. common life D. nature15. P.B. Shelley's greatest political lyric is "______".A. Men of England B. An Essay on Criticism C. The Prelude D. A De fence of Poetry16. The major themes of Jane Austen's novels are the stories of ______.A. love and money B. money and social status C. social status and marriageD. love and marriage17. Robert Browning created the verse novel, transferring the thematic interest from mere narration of the story to revelation and study of characters' inner world and brought to the Victorian poetry ______.A. some psycho-analytical element B. some romantic element C. some realistic element D. some classical element18. The most distinguishing feature of Charles Dickens' works lies in his ______.A. social criticism B. optimism C. character portrayal D. social setting19. ______ represents those middle-class working women who are struggling for recognition of their basic rights and equality as a human being.A. Tess B. Jane Eyre C. Dorothea D. Elizabeth20. In Thomas Hardy's works, the conflict between the old and the modern is very pervasive. His attitude toward those traditional characters is ______.A. contempt B. sympathetic C. indifferent D. interested21. The trilogy of ______ novels are masterpieces of critical realism in the early 20th century.A. Galsworthy's Forsyte B. Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Sunset Song C. D.H. Lawrence's Women in Love D. E.M. Foster's A Passage to India22. The leader of the Irish National Theater Movement in the early 20th century was ______.A. W.B. Yeats B. Lady Gregory C. J.M. Synge D. John Galsworthy23. The **ments on George Bernard Shaw are true except ______.A. George Bernard Shaw's career as a dramatist began in 1892, when his first play Widowers' Houses was put on by the Independent Theater Society B. Shaw began his literary career by writing novels soon after his settling down in London C. Shaw's writings reflect **bination of realism and naturalism D. Shaw's plays can be termed as problems plays24. T.S. Eliot's most popular verse play is ______.A. Murder in the Cathedral B. The Cocktail Party C. The Family Reunion D. The Waste Land25. ______ was one of the first novelists to introduce themes of psychology into his works. He believed that the healthy way of the individual's psychological development lay in the primacy of the sexual impulse.A. T.S. Eliot B. George Eliot C. James Joyce D. Ｄ.H. Lawrence26. The desire for an escape from society and a return to ______ became a permanent convention of American literature.A. history B. past C. nature D. simple life27. ______ tells a simple but very moving story in which four people living in a **munity are involved in and affected by the sin of adultery in different ways.A. Young Goodman Brown B. Moby-Dick C. The Scarlet Letter D. Daisy Miller28. Hawthorne intended to ______ in The Scarlet Letter.A. tell a story of parental love B. tell a story of sin and bloody violence C. call the readers back to the plantation way of living D. reveal the human psyche after they sinned29. Whitman prefers for his new subject and new poetic feelings is "______," that is, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.A. blank verse B. free rhythm C. balanced structure D. free verse30. Which of the **ments on the writings by Herman Melville is not true?______A. "Bartleby, the Scrivener" is a short story. B. "Benito Cereno" is a novella. C. The Confidence-Man has something to do with the sea and sailors. D. Moby-Dick is regarded as the first American proseepic.31. Realism was a reaction against ______ or a move away from the bias towards romance and self-creating fictions, and paved the way to Modernism.A. Romanticism B. Rationalism C. Post-modernism D. Cynicism32. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and, especially, its sequence ______ proved themselves to be the milestone in the American literature.A. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn B. Life on the Mississippi C. The Gilded Age D. Roughing It33. The Portrait of A Lady is generally considered to be masterpiece, which describes the life journey of an American ______ in a European cultural environment.A. Henry Adams's, widow B. William James's, girl C. Henry James's, girl D. Theodore Dreiser's, widow34. Which of the following works by Henry James is the most famous one during his last and major period?______A. The Turn of the Screw. B. The Middle Years. C. What Maisie Knows. D. The Portrait of A Lady.35. However, ______, the keynote of Daisy Miller's character, turns out to be an admiring but a dangerous quality and her defiance of social taboos in the Old World finally brings her to a disaster in the clash between two different cultures.A. experience B. sophistication C. worldliness D. innocence36. Which of the following is not a work of Emily Dickinson's? ______A. This is my letter to the World. B. I heard a Fly buzz—when I died—. C. The Road Not Taken. D. I like to see it lap the Miles—.37. ______ is another human desire that Dreiser explored to considerable lengths in his novels to reveal the dark side of human nature.A. Sex B. Hunger C. Thirst D. Competition38. The defining formal characteristics of the modernistic works are ______.A. discontinuity and fragmentation B. contorted and obscure C. traditional and glorious D. prosperous and innovative39. Most critics have agreed that ______ is both an insider and an outsider of the Jazz Age with a double vision.A. F. Scott Fitzgerald B. Robert Lee Frost C. E.E. Cummings D. Ernest Hemingway40. "Grace under pressure" is a major feature of ______'s novels.A. William Faulkner B. Henry James C. Theodore Dreiser D. Ernest HemingwayⅡ.Reading ComprehensionRead the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.1. "Some men there are love not a gaping pig;/Some that are mad if they behold a cat;/And others, when the bagpipe sings i' th, nose,/Cannot contain their urine; for affection,/Mistress of passion, sways it to the mood/Of what it likes or loathes."Questions:A. Identify the author and the work.B. Who is the speaker of the quoted passage?C. What idea does the quotation express?2. "Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere;/Destroyer and Preserver; hear, O hear!"Questions:A. Identify the poem and the poet.B. What is the "Wild Spirit"?C. What does the "Wild Spirit" destroy and preserve?3. "I celebrate myself, and sing myself,/And what I assume you shall assume,/For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you./I loafe and invite my soul,/I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass." (from Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself") Questions:A. Whom does "myself" refer to?B. How do you understand the line "I loafe and invite my soul"?C. What does "a spear of summer grass" indicate?4. "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 travelled by,/And that has made all the difference."Questions:A. Who is the author of this poem?B. Identify the title of the short poem from which this part is taken.C. In one or two sentences, interpret the implied meaning of the last two lines.Ⅲ.Questions and AnswersGive a brief answer to each of the following questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.1. According to the neoclassicists, what are the standards for literature during the neoclassical period?2. What are the features of Charles Dickens' novels?3. What is the background of American Romanticism?4. What are the similarities and differences between the three literary giants Howells, Mark Twain, Henry James, in terms of their literary orientation?Ⅳ.Topic DiscussionWrite no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.1. Make a **ment on John Milton's literary achievements.2. Based on Hawthorne's work The Scarlet Letter, discuss the characters of his writings.。
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Ⅰ. Multiple Choice (40 points in all, 1 for each)Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Write your answer on the answer sheet.1.With classical culture and the（）humanistic ideas coming into England, the English Renaissance began flourishing.A. FrenchB. GermanC. ItalianD. Greek2.“Come live with me and be my love, / And we will all the pleasures prove / That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, / Woods, or steepy mountain yields.”The above lines are taken from Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”, which derives from the（）tradition.A. pastoralB. heroicC. romanticD. realistic3.“Metaphysical conceit”is a strategy characteristic of John Donne’s poetry. It is（）.A. a confession that avoids questions of moral accountabilityB. the linking of images from very different ranges of experienceC. self-definition through images based on the four primal elementsD. the chaining of images representing solid and gaseous elements4.“So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, / So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 includes three stanzas according to the content with these last two lines as a（）, which completes the sense of the above lines.第 1 页A. preludeB. coupletC. epigraphD. exposition5.“Therefore at this fair are all such merchandise sold, as houses, lands, trades, places, honors, preferments, titles, countries, kingdoms, lusts, pleasures, and delights of all sorts, as whores, bawds, wives, husbands, children, masters, servants…”The above sentences are taken from（）.A. John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s ProgressB. Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s TravelsC. Henry Fielding’s Tom JonesD. Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe6.Jonathan Swift is a master satirist in English literature. His A T ale of a Tub is an attack on（）.A. the governmentB. greedC. the churchD. the abuse of power7.Chaucer was the first English writer to adopt heroic couplet in his writhing of poems. In the early 18th century, the chief proponent of the heroic couplet was（）.A. Alexander PopeB. William WordsworthC. Lord ByronD. Thomas Gray8.As a lexicographer, he distinguished himself as the author of the first English dictionary—A Dictionary of the English Language. What is his name?（）.A. Jonathan SwiftB. Samuel JohnsonC. Ben JonsonD. John Milton9.Which of the following statements about Neo-Classicism and Enlightenment Movement is true?（）.A. The Enlightenment was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in the 17th century.B. Neo-Classicism found its artistic models in the classical literature of the ancient Greek and Roman writers like Homer, Virgil, Horace, Ovid, etc. and in the contemporary French writers such as V oltaire and Diderot.C. Neo-Classicism put the stress on the classical artistic ideals of order, logic, proportion, spontaneous emotion, and passion.D. Satire was much used in writing in the neo-classic works. English literature of this age produced a distinguished satirist Daniel Defoe.10.A poet asserted that poetry originated form “emotion recollected in tranquillity”. He maintained that the scenes and events of everyday life and the speech of ordinary people were the raw material of which poetry could and should be made. Who is that poet?（）.第 2 页A. William BlakeB. Alfred Lord TennysonC. William WordsworthD. John Keats11.The composition of “Kubla Khan”by S.T. Coleridge was based on （）.A. a storyB. a dreamC. a dialogueD. an experience12.Romanticism was a literary trend prevailing in English during the period from 1798 to 1832. The Romantic writers （）.A. paid great attention to the spiritual and emotional life of manB. were discontent with the development of industrialism and capitalism, and presented the social evils minutely in their worksC. took pains to portray a world of harmony and balanceD. tended to glorify Rome and advocated rational Italian and French art as superior to the native traditions13.“Tiger! Tiger! Burning bright/ In the forests of the night, / What immortal hand or eye / Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”(“The Tiger”by William Blake) The above lines（）.A. describe the tiger’s fierce eyes and forceful hands at nightB. express the poet’s curiosity for the skillful creation of the tigerC. express the poet’s surprise at the sight of the tiger’s well-proportioned bodyD. express the poet’s terror at the sight of the tiger in the forest at night14.Which of the following statements about Victorian literature is NOT true?（）A. Novels became the most widely read and the most vital and challenging expression of progressive thought.B. Victorian novelists were angry with the inhuman social institutions, the decaying social morality, the widespread misery, poverty and injustice.C. Influenced by a particularly strict set of moral standards, Victorian writers like Oscar Wilde, advocated the old moderate, respectable life-style.D. Victorian prose writers joined forces with the critical realist novelists in exposing and criticizing the social reality.15.“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a （）.”This quotation in Austen’s Pride and Prejudice sets the tone of the novel.A. houseB. titleC. wifeD. fame第 3 页16.Tennyson’s poem Ulysses not only expresses the poet’s own determination and courage to brave the strug gle of life, but also reflects the restlessness and aspiration of the age. The poem is written in the form of（）.A. epicB. elegyC. dramatic monologueD. ode17.In Hardy’s W essex novels, there is an apparent（）touch in his description of the simple and beautiful though primitive rural life.A. realisticB. nostalgicC. romanticD. sentimental18.“If I’ve done wrong, I’m dying for it. It is enough! You left me too; but I won’t upbraid you! I forgive you. Forgive me!”These above lines are uttered by the heroine in（）.A. Shapespeare’s Romeo and JulietB. Emily Bront e ’s Wuthering HeightsC. Thomas Hardy’s T ess of the D’UrbervillesD. Bernard Shaw’s Mrs. Warren’s Profession19.Modernism takes the irrational philosophy and（）as its theoretical base.A. the theory of psycho-analysisB. Darwin’s evolutionary theoryC. the French symbolismD. Utilitarianism20.The beginning of “The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock”moves from a series of fairly concrete physical settings —a cityscape( the famous“patient etherized upon a table”)and several interiors (women’s arms in the lamplight, coffee spoons, fireplaces)—to a series of vague ocean images. It aims to convey（）.A. Prufrock’s emotional distance from the world as he comes to recognize his second-rate statusB. Prufrock’s eagerness to meet his dating loverC. Prufrock’s reluctance to meet his dating loverD. Prufrock’s excitement about the modern world21.“North Richmond Street, being blind, was a quiet street ex cept at the hour when the Christian Brothers’ School set the boy free. An uninhabited house of two storeys stood at the blind end, detached from its neighbours in a square ground. The other houses of the street, conscious of decent lives within them, gazed at one another with brown imperturbable faces.”The above passage is the first paragraph of Araby by James Joyce. It sets a(n)（）tone of the story.第 4 页A. optimisticB. activeC. gloomyD. serious22.“I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, / And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made: / Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee, / And live alone in the bee-loud glade.”(“The Lake Isle of Innisfree”by Samuel Butler Yeats) The above lines present the state of a(n)（）life.A. quietB. lonelyC. ambitiousD. unstable23.In Young Goodman Brown by Hawthorne, the name of Goodman Brown’s wife is（）, which also contains many symbolic meanings.A. RuthB. HesterC. FaithD. Mary24.The Romantic Period, one of the most important periods in the history of American literature, stretches from the end of __________ to the outbreak of ___________.（）A. the 17th century…the American W ar of IndependenceB. the 18th century…the American Civil WarC. the 17th century…the American Civil WarD. the 18th century…the U.S.-Mexican W ar25.“The apparition of these faces in the crowd; / Petals on a wet, black bough.”This is the shortest poem written by （）.A. E.E. CummingsB. T.S. EliotC. Ezra PoundD. Robert Frost26.Emily Dickinson’s poem“This is my letter to the World”expresses her（）about her communication with the outside world.A. anxietyB. eagernessC. curiosityD. optimistic outlook27.Realism was a reaction against Romanticism or a move away from the bias towards romance and self-creating fictions, and paved the way to（）.A. CynicismB. ModernismC. TranscendentalismD. Neo-Classicalism第 5 页28.In（）, William Faulkner illuminates the problem of black and white in the American Southern society as a close-knit destiny of blood brotherhood.A. Go Down, MosesB. Light in AugustC. The Marble FaunD. As I Lay Dying29.The theme of W ashington Irving’s Rip V an Winkle is（）.A. the conflict of human psycheB. the fight against racial discriminationC. the familial conflictD. the nostalgia for the unrecoverable past30.Hemingway once described Mark Twain’s novel（）the one book from which “all modern American literature comes.”A. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnB. The Adventures of Tom SawyerC. The Gilded AgeD. The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg31.As a genre, naturalism emphasized（）as important deterministic forces shaping individualized characters who were presented in special and detailed circumstances.A. theological doctrinesB. heredity and environmentC. education and hard workD. various opportunities and economic success32.（）is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th century “stream-of-consciousness”novels and the founder of psychological realism.A. Theodore DreiserB. William FaulknerC. Henry JamesD. Mark Twain33.（）is considered to be a spokesman for the alienated youth in the post-war era and his The Catcher in the Rye is regarded as a students’ cla ssic.A. Allen GinsbergB. E.E. CummingsC. J.D. Salinger D. Henry James第 6 页34.Which one of the following statements in NOT true of Indian Camp by Hemingway?（）A. A young Indian woman had been trying to have her baby for two days.B. Nick’s father delivered this woman of a baby by Caesarian section, with a jack-knife and without anesthesia.C. Nick witnessed the violence of both birth and death in the Indian camp.D. This woman’s husband was murdered while she was in labor.35.（）is often acclaimed literary spokesman of the Jazz Age.A. Carl SandburgB. Edwin Arlington RobinsonC. William FaulknerD. F.Scott Fitzgerald36.Nathaniel Hawthorne held an unceasing interest in the“interior of the heart”of man’s being. So in almost every book he wrote, Hawthorne discussed（）A. love and hatredB. sin and evilC. frustration and self-denialD. balance and self-discipline37.Which of the following has gained its status as a world classic and simultaneously marks the climax of Eugene O’Neill’s literary career and the coming of the age of American drama?（）A. The Hairy ApeB. Long Day’s Journey Into NightC. Desire Under the ElmsD. Lazarus Laughed38.In the last chapter of Sister Carrie, there is a description about Hurstwood, one of the protagonists of the novel,“Now he began leisurely to take off his clothes, but stopped first with his coat, and tucked it along the crack under the door. His vest he arranged in the same place.”Why did he do this? Because （）.A. he wanted to commit suicideB. he wanted to keep the room warmC. he didn’t want to be found by othersD. he wanted to enjoy the peace of mind39.In Moby-Dick, the white whale symbolizes（）for Melville, for it is complex, unfathomable, malignant, and beautiful as well.A. natureB. human societyC. whaling industryD. truth第 7 页40.（）,disregarding grammar and punctuation, always used“i”instead of “I”in his poetry to show his protest against self-importance.A. Wallace StevensB. Ezra PoundC. E.E. CummingsD. William Carlos WilliamsⅡ. Reading Comprehension (16 points, 4 for each)Reading the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answer in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.41.“Not on thy sole, but on thy soul, harsh Jew,Thou mak’st thy knife keen; but no metal can,No, not the hangman’s axe, bear half the keennessOf thy sharp envy.”Questions:A. Identify the author and the title of the play from which this part is taken.B. What figure of speech is used in this quoted passage?C. What idea does the passage express?42.“Whene’er I passed her; but who passed withoutMuch the same smile? This grew; I gave commands;Then all smiles stopped together.”Questions:A. Identify the poem and the poet.B. What does the line “Then all smiles stopped together”imply?C. What kind of person do the lines indicate the speaker is?43.“The woods are lovely, dark and deep,But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep,And miles to go before I sleep.”Questions:A. Identify the poem and the poet.B. What does the word“sleep”mean?第 8 页C. What idea do the four lines express?44.“I celebrate myself, and sing myself,And what I assume you shall assume,For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.I loafe and invite my soul,I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.”(From Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself”)Questions:A. Who does“myself”refer to ?B. How do you understand the line“I loafe and invite my soul?”C. What does“a spear of summer grass”symbolize?Ⅲ. 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.Edmund Spenser is one of the poets of English Renaissance. What are the qualities of his poetry?46.The Man of Property is the first novel of the Forsyte trilogies by Galsworthy. What is the theme and the tone of the novel?47.Eugene O’ Neill, America’s greatest playwright, was constantly experimenting with new styles and forms for his plays, especially during the twenties when Expressionism was in full swing. What techniques did O’ Neill use in his expressionistic plays?48.Emerson’s book Nature established him ever since as the most eloquent spokesman of N ew England Transcendentalism. In this book Emerson discusses his idea of the Oversoul. How do you understand the Emersonian “Oversoul”?Ⅳ. 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 Charles Dickens’s art of fiction: the setting, the character-portrayal, the language, etc, based on his novel Oliver Twist.第 9 页50.A Rose for Emily is one of Faulkner’s short stories. Comment on the character of the protagonist, Emily Grierson, and analyze how this character is depicted.第 10 页。