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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。

英美文学选读试题详解

英美文学选读-阶段测评3成绩：87.5分一、Multiple Choice 共40 题题号: 1 本题分数:2.5 分wrence’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 Lover（P370.para2）劳伦斯的成名作是《儿子和情人》，而其代表作是《虹》和《恋爱中的女人》标准答案：A考生答案：A本题得分：2.5 分题号: 2 本题分数:2.5 分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 Ballads（P358.para3）“Gerontion”是一部用戏剧式独白写成的诗歌，是《荒原》的前奏曲，也采用了意识流派的文风。

标准答案：B考生答案：B本题得分：2.5 分题号: 3 本题分数:2.5 分wrence’s autobiographical novel is( ).A、The RainbowB、Women in LoveC、Sons and LoversD、Lady Chatterley’s Lover（P369.para1）劳伦斯的作品大多都是从心理上去探求让人的本能的，同时也反映人性中最内在的东西。

其作品《儿子和情人》真实地反映了自己在童年时期的家庭状况，被视为其半自传体小说。

英美文学选读自考题-3

英美文学选读自考题-3(总分：100.00，做题时间：90分钟)一、Ⅰ.Multiple Choice(总题数：40，分数：40.00)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 expansion（分数：1.00）A.B. √C.D.解析：主要考查的知识点为激发文艺复兴的历史事件。

文艺复兴是由一系列的历史事件激发、推动的，其中包括对古希腊罗马文化的重新发现，地理天文领域的新发现，宗教改革及经济发展。

2.The Petrarchan sonnet was first introduced into England by ______.A. SurreyB. WyattC. BlakeD. Milton（分数：1.00）A.B. √C.D.解析：主要考查的知识点为十四行诗的领导人物。

怀亚特将彼特拉克的十四行诗引进美国，而萨里引进了无韵体诗，他们共同开创了英国式的十四行诗。

3.The most famous dramatists in the Renaissance England are all the following EXCEPT ______.A. Francis BaconB. Christopher MarloweC. William ShakespeareD. Ben Jonson（分数：1.00）A. √B.C.D.解析：主要考查的知识点为文艺复兴时期英国最著名的戏剧家。

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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。

2020年自考《美国文学选读》练习试题

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but to Hawthorne and Melville, everybody is potentially a sinner.A．Washington IrvingB．EmersonC．Henry JamesD．Emily Dickinson24．Washington Irving’s ______ was written in England, filled with English scenes and quotations from English authors and faithful to British orthography.A．Bracebridge HallB．Tales of a TravelerC．The Sketch BookD．The Alhambra25．The American Romantic writers celebrated America’s landscape with its virgin forests, meadows, groves, endless prairies, streams, and vast oceans.______ came to function almost as a dramatic character that symbolized moral law.A．The Atlantic OceanB．The Rocky MountainsC．The Pacific OceanD．The wilderness26．Which one of the following statements is NOT true of Washington IrvingA．He was regarded as Father of the American Short Story.B．He was one of the first American writers to earn an international reputation.C．He enjoyed the honor of being “the American Goldsmith〞for his literary craftsmanship.D．He was one of the advocates of the New England Transcendentalism.27．Which one of the following statements is NOT true of Ralph Waldo Emerson and his works A．Emerson’s essays often have a formal style, for most of them were derived from his journals or lectures.B．In his essays, Emerson put forward his philosophy of Transcendentalism, focusing on the importance of the individual and the nature.C．Emerson based his philosophy on an intuitive belief in an ultimate unity, which he called the 〞over—soul〞.D．Emerson is affirmative about man’s intuitive knowledge, with which a man can trust himself to decide what is right and to act accordingly.28．〞The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other, who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood〞. This is the voice of the book _____ written by Emerson, which pushed American Romanticism into a new phase, the phase of New England _________.A．Nature…SymbolismB．The American Scholar…NaturalismC．Nature…TranscendentalismD．the American Scholar…Realism29．Which one of the following statements about Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter is trueA．Hawthorne intended to tell a love story in this novel.B．Hawthorne intended to tell a story of sin in this novel.C．Hawthorne intended to reveal the human psyche after they sinned, so as to show people the tension between society and individuals.D．Hawthorne focused his attention on consequences of the sin on the people in general, so as to call the readers back to the conventional Puritan way of living.30．Walt Whitman is a poet with a strong sense of mission, having decoted all his life to the creation of the “single〞poem, ________.A．ChicagoB．My Lost YouthC．Leaves of GrassD．A Pact31．Redburn is a semi —autobiographical novel written by ________, concerning the sufferings of a genteel youth among brutal sailors.A．Walt WhitmanB．Nathaniel HawthorneC．Herman MelvilleD．Ralph Waldo Emerson32．The period ranging from ________ to ________ has been referred to as the Age of Realism in the literary history of the United States.A．1865 (1945)B．1865 (1914)C．1783 (1945)D．1783 (1914)33．________thought that the writer should use language to probe the deepest reaches of the psychological and moral nature of human beings rather than simply hold a mirror to the surface of social life in particular times and places. 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在自考的全部专业中，英语本科的淘汰率一直高居“榜首”，同时《英美文学选读》又是整个本科专业的瓶颈课程。

我们随机抽取了两刀（40本）试卷进行统计，发现该门课程的通过率大致在12%左右，可能是自考全部课程最低的。

绝大部分成绩徘徊在40分到58分之间，大约占了44.7%。

我们批改到的最高分大约是82分，成绩相当出色！一、试卷构成《英美文学选读》全国卷由四部分组成：第一部分是40分的选择题，每题1分，覆盖面十分广泛。

从以往几次试卷来看，该部分主要考核英美文学史，也包括少量选读中的内容，多属于常识性知识，例如今年14题要求辨别If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?的作者；2001年11题要求辨别It was a miracle of rare device, A sunny pleasure done with caves of ice.的作者和出处；还有每年必定会有一题考核作品中出现的人物，例如2001年第8题是Sheridan’s The School for Scandal中的人物，今年28题是The Scarlet Letter的人物。

由于内容大多属于大纲中的“识记”性知识，不需要多少理解，因此正确率相应比较高。

但有时题目的切入点十分灵活比如2001年第6题，需要考生有较好的基本功。

第二部分是四道共16分的阅读理解。

考题内容均取自选读部分，一般是两篇诗歌，两篇小说，要求指出：A）作者和作品出处（1分）B）作品中具体某个词或词组的确切意义（1分）C）表述该选段的思想内容（2分）。

考生需要认真研读作品，和作品后面的注释，平时做一些读书笔记。

第三部分是四道共24分的简答题，内容的跨越比较大，既有阅读理解部分的延伸，也有某一时期的文学思潮，还有对某一断代史的简论，答对率非常低。

第四部分是两题共20分的问答题。

一般是某个重要作家或作品的特色以及对他们的评价。

二、试卷评析文学术语（俗称的名词解释）是基本的文学常识，是对文学中共性问题的抽象概括，因此对于这些术语不可等闲视之。

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文艺复兴从本质上是欧洲人文主义者竭力摒弃中世纪欧洲的封建主义，推行代表新兴城市资产阶级利益的新思想，并恢复早期**的纯洁性，远离腐败的罗马天主教廷的一场运动。

2.______ was the first to start the attack on middle-class privileges and power in his novel Lucky Jim.A. JohnBraine B. Kingsley AmisC. AlanSillitoe D. John WainSSS_SIMPLE_SINA B C D分值: 1答案:B3.For his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel, ______ has been regarded as "Father of the English Novel. "A. DanielDefoe B. Jonathan SwiftC. Henry FieldingD. Oliver GoldsmithSSS_SIMPLE_SINA B C D分值: 1答案:C主要考查的知识点为英国小说之父。

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The impact of Darwin’s evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the 19th century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to yet another school of realism: American __________.4. More than five hundred poems Dickinson wrote are about nature, in which her general __________ about the relationship between man and nature is well-expressed.5. In the history of American literature, Ezra Pound was regarded as a leading spokesman of the1famous “__________ Movement”.6. Eugene O’Neill is considered the leading __________ of the modern period in American literature.7. Robert Frost is generally considered a regional poet. In his poetry, he made the colloquial __________ speech into a poetic expression .8. Hemingway’s first novel The Sun Also Rises casts light on a whole generation after the __________ and the effects of the war by way of a vivid portrait of “The Lost Generation.”9. John Steinbeck is a novelist of the 1930s. 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As a man of literary craftsmanship, Hawthorne is good at __________.( )A. exploring the complexity of human psychology, especially the power of blackness deep inpeople’s heartB. exploring the goodness hidden deeply in people’s heartC. exploring the complexity of human psychology, especially the puritans’confusion before thereal worldD. both A and C6. As to the great novel Moby-Dick which of the following statements is right?( )A. It is a symbolic voyage of the mind in quest of the truth and knowledge of the universe.B. It’s a spiritual exploration into man’s deep reality and psychologyC. It is only a simple whaling tale or sea adventureD. both A and B7. The greatest realist Mark Twain has coined the term“The Gilded Age”, which later usually refers to __________ in American history.( )A. the Romantic PeriodB. the Realistic PeriodC. the Modern AgeD. the Postmodern Age8. About the American Naturalism, which of the following statements is right?( )A. 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She has become a celebrated cultural type who embodies the spirit of the New World.B. She comes from the new world but remains traditional and conservative.C. Her innocence turns out to be an admiring but a dangerous quality in the new word.D. The author’s sympathy for her, a tender flower crushed by the harsh winter in Rome was easily felt.12. The subjects of Emily Dickinson’s poems are mainly about __________. ( )A. religionB. death and immortalityC. love and natureD. all of the above13. In her quiet and solitary life, Emily Dickinson makes enchanting poetry out of __________.( )A. a happy and active lifeB. adventurous experiencesC. a single household and an inactive lifeD. a hard and suffering life14. About the novel Sister Carrie , which of the following statements is right?( )A. The story is about a young sailor, who struggles to reach the upper society but soon gets disillusioned.B. It is about a Southern aristocratic woman, who refuses to come to terms with the present.4C. It tells a story of a country girl, who strives to gain her material rise in big cities but soon gets tired of her success.D. It is about a young vain girl, who indulges herself in grand parties and luxurious trips but soon becomes penniless.15. The Civil War had transformed America from __________ to __________.( )A. an agrarian community ... a society of freedom and equalityB. an agrarian community ... an industrialized and commercialized societyC. an industrialized and commercialized society ... a highly developed societyD. a poor and backward society ...an industrialized and commercialized society16. At the end of the 19th century, the realists rejected the portrayal of idealized characters and events and, instead, sought to __________.( )A. describe the wide range of American experienceB. present the subtleties of human personalityC. show animal nature of human beingsD. both A and B17. About the first few decades of the 20th century, which of the following is right?( )A. There was a rise in moral standard and it was best described as a spiritual land of promiseB. Individual power and hope became part of the American experience as a result of the First World War.C. There was a decline in social standard and it was described as a spiritual wasteland.D. all of the above.18. Eugene O’Neill is remembered for his tragic view of life and most of his plays are about__________. ( )A. the root, the truth of human desires and human frustrationsB. the moral nature of the modern mankindC. the relationship between man and nature as well as man and womanD. the inner contradiction of men before the real world19. In general terms, much serious American literature written from 1912 onwards attempted to convey __________. ( )A. a vision of social breakdown and moral decay5B. a vision of social continuity and harmonyC. the continuity and discontinuity between the past and the modern timeD. all of the above20. Which of the following is not said about Pound’s The Cantos?( )A. It traces the rise and fall of eastern and western empires.B. It reflects the moral and social chaos of the modern world.C. It concerns particularly the corruption of America after the heroic time of Jefferson.D. all of the above21. In his poetic creation, Robert Frost looked upon nature as__________.( )A. the opposite of human societyB. a storehouse of analogies and symbolsC. a contrast to human civilizationD. an ennobling force to purify human soul22. Which of the following is not said about the thematic concerns of Robert Frost ?( )A. The terror and tragedy in nature as well as its beautyB. The relationship between man and societyC. His love of life and his belief in a serenity coming from workingD. The loneliness and poverty of the isolated human being23. In the play The Hairy Ape, the major character Yank __________.( )A. has a sense of belonging nowhere, hence homelessness and rootlessnessB. is typical of the mood of isolation and alienation in the early twentieth century in the United States onlyC. reflects the problem of modern man’s identityD. both A and C24. Which of the following is properly said of Fitzgerald’s writing style?( )A. The scenic method is explored, each of which consists of one or more dramatic scenes.B. His intervening passages of narration leaves the tedious process of transition to the author’s imaginationC. The device of having events observed by a “central consciousness”is dropped off.D. His diction and metaphors are not completely original and details sometimes inaccurate.625. Faulkner’s first novel A Rose for Emily is set in the town of __________ in Yoknapatawpha.( )A. JeffersonB. CambridgeC. OxfordD. New AlbanyPart Ⅳ: Interpretation(16%)Read the following selections and then answer the questions.Passage 1Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel bothAnd be one traveller , long I stoodAnd looked down one as far as I couldTo where it bent in the undergrowth;Then took the other, as just as fair,and having perhaps the better claim,Because it was grassy and wanted wear;Though as for that the passing thereHad worn them really about the same,And both that morning equally layIn leaves no step had trodden black.Oh, I kept the first for another day!Yet knowing how way leads on to way,I doubted if I should ever come back.I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I —I took the one less traveled by,7And that has made all the difference.1. What does the poet mean symbolically by “road”?2. Why did the speaker choose the road less travelled by?Passage 2There was music from my neighbor’s house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft, or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motor-boats slit the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of foam. On week-ends his Rolls Royce became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city between nine in the morning and long past midnight, while his station wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug to meet all trains. And on Mondays eight servants, including an extra gardener, toiled all day with mops and scrubbing-brushes and hammers and garden-shears, repairing the ravages of the night before.…I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby’s house I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited. People were not invited-they went there. They got into automobiles which bore them out to Long Island, and somehow they ended up at Gatsby’s door. Once there they were introduced by somebody who knew Gatsby, and after that they conducted themselves according to the rules of behavior associated with an amusement park. Sometimes they came and went without having met Gatsby at all, came for the party with a simplicity of heart that was its own ticket of admission.I had been actually invited. A chauffeur in a uniform of robin’s-egg blue crossed my lawn early that Saturday morning with a surprisingly formal note from his employer: the honor would be entirely Gatsby’s, it said, if I would attend his “little party”that night. He had seen me several times, and had intended to call on me long before, but a peculiar combination of circumstances had prevented it-signed Jay Gatsby, in a majestic hand.Dressed up in white flannels, I went over to his lawn a little after seven, and wandered around rather ill at ease among swirls and eddies of people I didn’t know-though here and there was a face I had noticed on the commuting train. I was immediately struck by the number of young Englishmen dotted about; all well dressed, all looking a little hungry, and all talking in low,8earnest voices to solid and prosperous Americans. I was sure that they were selling something: bonds or insurance or automobiles. They were at least agonizingly aware of the easy money in the vicinity and convinced that it was theirs for a few words in the right key.As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host, but the two or three people of whom I asked his whereabouts stared at me in such an amazed way, and denied so vehemently any knowledge of his movements, that I slunk off in the direction of the cocktail table-the only place in the garden where a single man could linger without looking purposeless and alone.3. Which novel is this passage taken from? Who is the writer?4.How do you interpret the atmosphere of contradiction which is evoked in this chapter?Part V: Give brief answers to the following questions. (14%)1. Please give a brief analysis of Irving’s “Rip Van Winkle”.2. What is American naturalism? Please make a brief analysis.9。

7月自考英美文学选读试题及答案解析

全国2018年7月自考英美文学选读试题课程代码：00604全部题目用英文作答，并将答案写在答题纸相应位置上，否则不计分。

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.”Shakespe are’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.1A. 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 Tale 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 thescenes and events of everyday life and the speech of ordinary people were the raw material of which poetry2could and should be made. Who is that poet?（）.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 want3of a （）.”This quotation in Austen’s Pride and Prejudice sets the tone of the novel.A. houseB. titleC. wifeD. fame16.Tennyson’s poem Ulysses not only expresses the poet’s own determination and courage to brave the struggle 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 Wessex 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 Tess 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.“No rth Richmond Street, being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers’4School 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.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. quiet B. lonelyC. ambitiousD. unstable23.In Young Goodman Brown by Hawthorne, the name of Good man 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 War of IndependenceB. the 18th century…the American Civil WarC. the 17th century…the American Civil WarD. the 18th century…the U.S.-Mexican War25.“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 outlook527.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-Classicalism28.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 Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle is（）.A. the conflict of human psycheB. the fight against racial discriminationC. the familial conflictD. the nostalgia for the unrecoverable past30.Heming way 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 Twain633.（）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’ classic.A. Allen GinsbergB. E.E. CummingsC. J.D. Salinger D. Henry James34.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 others7D. 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. truth40.（）,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,8And 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?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 New England Transcendentalism. In this book Emerson discusses his idea of the Oversoul. How do you understand theEmersonian “Oversoul”?9Ⅳ. 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.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.10。

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。

2020年7月浙江自考真题美国文学选读

浙江省2018 年7 月自考真题美国文学选读课程代码：10055Part I : Choose the releva nt match from Column B for each item in Column A.(10 points in all, 1 point for each)Group 1Column A Column B( ) 1. Nathaniel Hawthorne a.Sound and Fury( ) 2. Henry James b.The Scarlet Letter( ) 3. Walt Whitman c.The Ambassadors( ) 4. Mark Twain d.The Gilded Age( ) 5. William Faulkner e. Leaves of GrassGroup 2Column A Column B( )1. M ildred Douglas a. Moby Dick( )2. A hab b. A Rose for Emily( )3. H urstwood c. The Hairy Ape( )4. T om Buchanan d. Sister Carrie( )5. E mily Grierson e. The Great GatsbyPart n : Each of the follow ing stateme nts below is followed by four alter natives. Choose the one that would best complete the statement. (50 points in all, 2 points for each)1. Born of one common cultural heritage, the American Romanticists shared some common features... ______ , with the English Romanticists.( )A. an increasing emphasis on the free expression of emotions1B. an increasing attention to the psychic states of their charactersC. an increasing emphasis on the desire to return to natureD. both A and B2. ____ was the first great American writer to earn international fame.( )A. IrvingB. CooperC. EmersonD. Whitman3. In 1836, a little book came out which made a tremendous impact on the intellectual life of America. It was entitled Nature by( )A. ThoreauB. EmersonC. HawthorneD. Melville4. About the basic principles of American Transcendentalism, which of the following statements is NOT right?( )A. Individualism is elevated by the Transcendentalists.B. Intuition is less important than experience.C. Nature is only another side of God.D. Transcendentalists have a new and delight thrill in nature.5. _____, Melville ' s masterpiece, is regarded as the first American prose epi)c.(A. TypeeB. OmooC. White JacketD. Moby Dick6. Pearl is the heroine in Hawthorne ')s novel(A. Moses from an Old ManseB. Twice-Told TalesC. The Scarlet LetterD. The Blithedale Romance7. As a philosophical and literary movement, Transcendentalism flourished in New England from the 1830s to ( )A. 1914B. 1890C. 1900D. the Civil War8. Irving was best known for his famous short stories such as( )A. The Legend of Sleepy HollowB. Legend of the AlhambraC. Life of GoldsmithD. Life of Washington29. In the history of American literature, Realism was a reaction against _____ a nd paved theway to Modernism.( )A. RationalismB. RomanticismC. NeoclassicismD. Enlightenment10. American _______ , another school of realism, resulted mainly from the impact ofDarwin ' s evolutionary theory and the influence of the 19th century French literature.( )A. TranscendentalismB. NaturalismC. EnlightenmentD. Freudianism11. In Rip Van Winkle, which is written by ____ , Rip falls into sleep for 20 years, duringwhich the Revolutionary War takes place.( )A. Mark TwainB. Washington IrvingC. WilliamD. Howells D. Theodore Dreiser12. _____ is considered the founder of Psychological realism.( )A. Henry JamesB. Jack LondonC. Mark TwainD. Nathaniel Hawthorne13. John Steinbeck is a novelist of the 1930s. His novel _____ is a record of the life of thedispossessed and the wretched farmers during The Great Depression.( )A. The Grapes of WrathB. The Waste LandC. The Sun Also RisesD. The Sound and the Fury14. The American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne is known for his “ black vision. ” The t “ black vision ” refers to)(A. Hawthorne ' s observation that every man faces a black wallB. Hawthorne ' s belief that all men are by nature evilC. that Hawthorne employed a dream vision to tell his storyD. that Puritans of Hawthorne 's time usually wore black clothes15. As a great innovator in American literature, Walt Whitman wrote his poetry in an unconventional style which is now called ______________________________ ; that is ______ .( )A. hymn...poetry with chanting refrains3B. blank verse...poetry without rhymes at the end of the lines but with a fixed beatC. free verse...poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme schemeD. ode...poetry in an irregular metric form and expressing noble feelings16. In her life, Emily Dickinson makes enchanting poetry out of( )A. a happy and active lifeB. adventurous experiencesC. a single household and an inactive lifeD. a hard and suffering life17. Generally speaking, all those writers with a naturalistic approach to human reality tend to be( )A. transcendentalistsB. optimistsC. pessimistsD. idealists18. It was a sort of first attempt at writing his masterpiece __________ , (1925) which made Fitzgerald one of the greatest American novelists.( )A. This Side of ParadiseB. Tender is the NightC. The Great GatsbyD. Tales of the Jazz Age19. With the publication of The Sun Also Rises, ______ became the spokesman for what Gertrude Stein had called “The Lost G.e(neratio)n ”A. FitzgeraldB. FaulknerC. HemingwayD. Steinbeck20. The 1950s American writers often used the narrative techniques derived from( )A. William FaulknerB. Henry JamesC. Ernest HemingwayD. James Joyce21. _____ was the leader of a new movement in poetry which he called “ Imagist ”movement.( )A. EliotB. PoundC. FrostD. Dickinson422. Capping his career and leading to his receipt of the Nobel Prize, _____ is about an oldCuban fisherman Santiago and his losing battle with a giant marlin.( )A. The Old Man and the SeaB. For Whom the Bell TollsC. The Sun Also RisesD. A Farewell to Arms23. The modern stream-of-consciousness technique was frequently and skillfully exploited by_______ to emphasize the reactions and inner musings of the narrator. He captured thedialects of the Mississippi characters, including Negroes and the redneck, as well as more refined and educated narrators like Quentin.( )A. FaulknerB. FitzgeraldC. HemingwayD. Steinbeck24. ____ won the Pulitzer Prize four times and was the only dramatist ever to win a NobelPrize. He is widely acclaimed “ founder of the American drama, ” and recognized even more as a major figure in world literature.( )A. MillerB. WilliamC. HellerD. O ' Neill25. As one of the best-known American authors of 20th century, Ernest Hemingway wrote allthe following novels EXCEPT( )A. For Whom the Bell TollsB. The Green Hills of AfricaC. A Rose for EmilyD. The Old Man and the SeaPart III: Interpretation (20 points in all, 5 points for each)Read the following selections and then answer the questions.Passage 1There was music from my neighbor 'hsouse through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. 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Walt WhitmanB. Ezra PoundC. Washington IrvingD. Nathaniel Hawthorne24. Most literary critics think that Fitzgerald is both an insider and an outsider of ______ with adouble vision.A. the Jazz AgeB. the Age of Reason and RevolutionC. the Babybooming AgeD. the Post- Modern Age25. The Nobel Prize Committee highly praised ______ for “his powerful styleforming mastery ofthe art” of creating mode rn fiction.A. T. S. EliotB. Ernest HemingwayC. William FaulknerD. Mark Twain26. The attitude towards life that ______ had been trying to demonstrate in his works is known as“grace under pressure”.A. William FaulknerB. Theodore DreiserC. Ernest HemingwayD. F·Scott Fitzgerald27. In 1841, ______ went to the South Seas on a whaling ship, where he gained the first- handinformation about whaling that he used later in Moby -Dick.A. Herman MelvilleB. Nathaniel HawthorneC. Robert Lee FrostD.T.S. Eliot28. 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Thistendency is known as ________.3. The poem Elegy Written in a Country Church once and for all established ________’s fame asthe leader of the sentimental poetry of the day, especially “the Graveyard School”.4. In 1798, ________ and Samuel Taylor Coleridge published a joint volume of poetry entitledLyrical Ballads, which becomes a landmark in English poetry.5. With violence, horror, and the supernatural as its major elements, ________ is a type ofromantic fiction that predominated in the late 18th century.6. American fiction in the 1960s and 1970s proves to be different from its predecessors and isalways referred to as “________ fiction. ”7. ________ is the most representative Victorian poet. His poetry voices the doubt and the faith,the grief and the joy of the English people in an age of fast social changes.8. ________ is regarded as the first American prose epic. Although it is presented in the form of anovel, at times it seems like a prose poem.9. As a most representative figure of the 1920s, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote much of his own1experience into the novel________.10. Almost all of James Joyce’s literary works have the same setting: ________.Ⅲ. Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement. Please write your answer on the Answer Sheet.(40 points, 2 for each)1. ________ employed the heroic couplet with true ease and charm for the first time in the historyof English Literature.A. Geoffrey ChaucerB. George Gordon ByronC. Edmund SpenderD. Robert Browning2. Which of the following is William Shakespeare’s history play?A. MacbethB. Henry IVC. Romeo and JulietD. King Lear3. For his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel, ________ has beenregarded as “Father of the English Novel”.A. Henry FieldingB. Daniel DefoeC. John BunyanD. James Joyce4. “The apparition of these faces in the crowd;Petals on a wet, black bough. ”These two lines are quoted from ________’s poem?A. Emily DickinsonB. Robert FrostC. Ezra PoundD. William B. Yeats5. Jane Austen wrote within a very narrow sphere. The subject matter, the social setting, and plotsare all restricted to the provincial life of the ________.A. late 19th -centuryB. 17th -centuryC. 20th -centuryD. late 18th -century6. Usually basing on her own experiences, Emily Dickinson addresses issues that concern thewhole human beings. Which of the following is NOT a usual subject of her poetic expression?A. Life and DeathB. ReligionC. Love and NatureD. War and Peace7. Walden is a ________.A. Transcendentalist workB. epic in proseC. lyric poemD. short story8. Henry James’realism is different from others, because he pays more attention to ________.A. the traditional styleB. the common peopleC. the inner world of human beingsD. the class struggle9. ________ is considered Mark Twain’s greatest achievement.A. The Gilded AgeB. Innocents Abroad2C. The Adventures of Tom SawyerD. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn10. At the beginning of Faulkner’s A Rose for Emily, there is a detailed description of Emily’s oldhouse. The purpose of such description is to imply that the person living in it ________.A. is a wealthy ladyB. is a conservative aristocratC. is a prisoner of the pastD. has good taste11. ________ is NOT a Nobel Prize winner.A. Eugene O’NeillB. F. Scott FitzgeraldC. Ernest HemingwayD. William Faulkner12. Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Mark Twain’s language?A. VernacularB. ElegantC. ColloquialD. Humorous13. The most distinguishing feature of Charles Dicken’s works lies in his ________.A. social criticismB. optimismC. character－portrayalD. social setting14. As the representative of the Enlightenment, Pope was one of the first to introduce ________ toEngland.A. rationalismB. romanticismC. criticismD. realism15. Shelley’s greatest achievement is his four-act poetic drama ________.A. AdonaisB. To a SkylarkC. A Song: Men of EnglandD. Prometheus Unbound16. The Victorian Age is most famous for its ________.A. playsB. novelsC. poemsD. essays17. Which of the following women does not belong to the famous Bronte Sisters?A. Mary BronteB. Charlotte BronteC. Emily BronteD. Anne Bronte18. “Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep;moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. Abeunt studia in mores. ”This sentence appears in ________.A. The Advancement of LearningB. A Dictionary of the English LanguageC. An Essay on CriticismD. Of Studies19. In his novel, Robinson Crusoe, Defoe eulogizes the hero of the ________?A. aristocratic classB. enterprising landlordsC. rising bourgeoisieD. hard-working people20. Which of the following works does not belong to John Milton?A. Paradise LostB. Paradise RegainedC. AdonaisD. Llycidas3Ⅳ. Give a brief explanation to each of the following items. Please write your answer on the Answer Sheet.(20 points, 5 for each)1. Dramatic Monologue2. The theme of Hawthron’s “The Scarlet Letter”3. American Naturalism4. Hemingway Code heroesⅤ. Write a short essay on the following question. Please write your answer on the Answer Sheet.(10 points)The most clearly defined literary movement in Romantic period is New England Transcendentalism. Please make a comment on this philosophical and literary school.4。

2020年7月美国文学选读自学考试浙江试题及答案解析试卷及答案解析

浙江省2019年7月高等教育自学考试美国文学选读试题课程代码：10055请将答案填在答题纸相应位置上Part Ⅰ: Choose the relevant match from column B for each item in column A.(5%)Group 1Column A Column B1. Ezra Pound A. The Sound and the Fury2. F. Scott Fitzgerald B. For Whom the Bell Tolls3. William Faulkner C. The Cantos4. Mark Twain D. Innocents Abroad5. Ernest Hemingway E. The Great GatsbyGroup 2Column A Column B1. Myrtle Wilson A. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn2. Huck Finn B. Indian Camp3. Yank C. The Great Gatsby4. Charles Drouet D. Sister Carrie5. Nick E. The Hairy ApePart Ⅱ: Each of the following statements below is followed by four alternative answers.Choose the one that would best complete the statement. (60%)1. Despite strong foreign influences, American romantic writings are typically American which can be revealed in the following __________.A. a desire for an escape from civilized society and a return to the ennobling natureB. the American national experience of “pioneering into the west”.C. American type of characters speaking local dialects appeared in the fictionD. all of the above2. About Washington Irving, Father of American short stories, which of the following statement is right?A. Many of his writings focused on American subjects, landscapes, particularly the legends of the Hudson River region of the fresh young land.B. His writings preferred the Old World to the New.C. As a writer, his taste remained a democratic and always exalted a disappearing past.D. He is well-known for his international theme across the Atlantic.3. In the well-known story Rip Van Winkle, Rip falls into sleep for 20 years, during which __________ takes place.A. the Revolutionary WarB. the Civil War1C. the War for IndependenceD. World War I4. According to Emerson, which of the following is said about nature ?A. Nature is emblematic of the material world, alive with God’s overwhelming presence.B. Nature exercises a healthy and restorative influence on human mind.C. Without nature man can improve himself and become spiritually whole.D. both A and B5. Which of the following cannot be said of American literature from the early 1800s to the beginning of the Civil War ?A. American type of characters speaking local dialects appeared in the fiction.B. There was a desire for an escape from civilized society and a return to the ennobling nature.C. There was a stress on law and reason in literary writings of the time.D. There was faith in the value of individualism and self-reliance.6. Which of the following statements is said about most of the poems in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass?A. They identify his ego with the conservative America.B. They celebrate the self and ignore sexuality.C. They sing of the “en-masse”and the self as well.D. They reject the pursuit of love and happiness of individuals.7. Realism was a reaction against Romanticism and paved the way to __________.A. PuritanismB. ModernismC. PostmodernismD. Materialism8. Which of the following is not right about Mark Twain?A. In his writings, he made a more extensive combination of American folk humor and serious literature than previous writers had ever done.B. His The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is usually considered a classic book written for boys about their particular horrors and joys.C. His caustic and increasingly bleak view of human nature began to appear in his early books.D. As a sequel to Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn marks the climax of his literary creativity.9. One of Henry James’s literary techniques innovated to cater for his psychological emphasis is his__________.A. technique of stream of consciousnessB. first person narrativeC. author’s participation in narratingD. narrative point of view10. The great American realist Henry James treated with great care __________ in the first period.A. ancient European civilization which is satirized severely in his writingsB. the emotional and moral problems of Americans in Europe, or Europeans in AmericaC. the clashes between two different cultures, European and AmericanD. both B and C211. The subjects of Emily Dickinson’s poems are mainly about the following except__________.A. religionB. death and immortalityC. love and natureD. man and morality12. Theodore Dreiser, one of the great American naturalist writers, emphasized determinism in his works and therefore created characters who __________ .A. were always haunted by their past memories and could not reconcile themselves with the realitiesB. could never get rid of the control of their environment and heredityC. were punished for the sins of their ancestors and could never get their salvationD. without any exception ended up in tragic deaths13. Which of the following statements can be said about the novel Sister Carrie ?A. Its heroine is a country girl, who strives to gain her material rise in big cities but soon gets tired of her success.B. Its heroine is a Southern aristocratic woman, who refuses to come to terms with the present.C. It tells about a young sailor, who struggles to reach the upper society but soon gets disillusioned.D. The heroine is a young vain girl, who indulges herself in grand parties and luxurious trips but soon becomes penniless.14. All of the following can be said of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s works except __________.A. man’s moral natureB. the dark side of the human characterC. the impact of nature on human spiritD. sin and deliverance15. As to the American realists, which of the following statements is right?A. They tried to explore the harsh realities of life as well as the illusion of heroism.B. Their attention was directed to the great events of the contemporary time.C. They aimed at the interpretation of the actualities of any aspect of life, free from subjective prejudice, idealism, or romantic color.D. all of the above16. During the first part of the 20th century, with a series of wars the whole world had undergone a dramatic social change, a transformation __________.A. from order to disorderB. from disorder to orderC. from disorder to chaosD. from chaos to disorder17. Which of the following writers do not belong to the Lost Generation of modern American literature?A. Ezra Pound and Robert FrostB. W.C. Williams and Gertrude SteinC. F.S. Fitzgerald and Ernest HemingwayD. William Faulkner and Theodore Dreiser318. In the 1960s and 1970s, there appeared the writers of the “new fiction”in America, who shared almost the same belief that __________.A. neither God nor man can make sense of the human conditionB. human beings are trapped in a meaningless worldC. human beings are living in a prosperous and lively world.D. both A and B19. All of the following can be said about Ezra Pound’s The Cantos except__________.A. It traces the rise and fall of eastern and western empires.B. It predicts the moral and social chaos of the modern world.C. It concerns particularly the corruption of America after the heroic time of Jefferson.D. It reflects the moral and social chaos of the modern world.20. Despite all its apparent simplicity, Robert Frost’s poetry often shows__________.A. his speculative thought about religion and the universeB. a harmonious nature in which men find an ecstasy of delightC. his busy farm life in New England, which is highlighted by abundant harvestsD. men standing alone in the bleak and chaotic landscapes, unaided and perplexed21. Which of following is not right about the thematic concerns of Robert Frost ?A. The terror and tragedy in nature as well as its beauty.B. His sense of failure and meaninglessness about human life.C. His love of life and his belief in a serenity coming from working.D. The loneliness and poverty of the isolated human being.22. Which of the following can be said about O’Neill’s plays?A. His plays concerns especially the relationship between man and women of the modern age.B. His expressionistic experimentations contained his optimistic vision in some non-realistic forms.C. His plays of expressionistic experimentation daringly penetrate into race religions, class conflicts, sexual bondage, social critiques.D. Many of them are attached with a profound insight into nature and tremendous skill and logic.23. About the major plot of the novel The Great Gatsby, which of the following is right?A. The hero finally won Daisy’s love.B. The hero realized his dream in the end.C. The heroine eluded with his neighbor.D. The hero became a victim of the society.24. Hemingway’s heroes are always measured against an unvarying code, known as“__________”.A. experiments under pressureB. absurdist vision under pressureC. grace under pressureD. both B and C25. In his novels, Hemingway dramatizes __________ among the post-war generation who are physically and psychologically scarred.4A. the sense of faith and successB. the sense of loss and despairC. the transcendence of the over-soulD. the disorder and chaos26. Which of the following can be said of the recurring themes of Ernest Hemingway’s writings ?A. The evitability of world wars and their impacts in individuals.B. The affinities between the idealistic and the materialistic, and the human effort to reconcile the extremes.C. Life’s tragedies and the courage required to face them.D. The coexistence of different races and the clashing of conflicting values.27. As to Hemingway’s writing style , which of the following statements is right?A. It is seldom polished and loosely controlled though seemingly simple and natural.B. It’s colloquialism make his characters dull and boring.C. It’s simple and natural thus not very suggestive and connotative.D. The use of short , simple and conventional words and sentences has an effect of clearness, terseness and great care.28. Traditional fiction featured an authoritative narrator in telling a story, while modern fiction tended to employ the first person narration or limit the reader to“__________”.A. one character’s point of viewB. the central consciousnessC. the first person narrationD. all of the above29. Which of the following is depicted as the mythical county in William Faulkner’s novels?A. CambrigeB. OxfordC. MississippiD. Yoknapatawpha30. In Faulkner’s A Rose for Emily, Miss Emily Grierson’s tragedy mainly lies in __________.A. her obsessive love for Homer Barron, a man from the NorthB. her total withdrawal from any contact with human beingsC. her abnormal relation with the Negro man who looked after herD. her refusal to accept any changes accompanying the passing of timePartⅢ: Interpretation(21%)Read the following selections and then answer the questions. Write your answerson the Answer Sheet.Passage 1There 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 certainpart of the day,Or for many years or stretching cycles of years.The early lilacs became part of this child,And grass and white and red morning-glories, and white andred clover, and the song of the phoebe-bird,5And the Third-month lambs and the sow’s pink-faintlitter, and the mare’s foal and the cow’s calf,And the noisy brood of the barnyard or by the mire of the pondside,And the fish suspending themselves so curiously below there,and the beautiful curious liquid,And the water-plants with their graceful flat heads, all becamepart of him.1. What is the title of this poem? Who is the poet?2. What is written about in this poem?Passage 2This is my letter to the WorldThat never wrote to Me—The simple News that Nature told—With tender MajestyHer Message is committedTo hands I can not see—For love of Her—Sweet—countrymen—Judge tenderly—of Me3. Who is the writer of the poem? What can we learn about the poet’s state of mind from the poem?Passage 3Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel bothAnd be one traveller, long I stoodAnd looked down one as far as I couldTo where it bent in the undergrowth;Then took the other, as just as fair,and having perhaps the better claim,Because it was grassy and wanted wear;Though as for that the passing thereHad worn them really about the same.And both that morning equally layIn leaves no step had trodden black.Oh, I kept the first for another day!Yet knowing how way leads on to way,I doubted if I should ever come back.6I shall be telling this with 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.4. Who is the writer of this poem? What does the poet mean symbolically by “road”?5. Why did the speaker choose the road less travelled by?Passage 4Later when he started to operate Uncle George and three Indian men held the woman still. She bit Uncle George on the arm and Uncle George said, “Damn squaw bitch!”and the young Indian who had rowed Uncle George over laughed at him. Nick held the basin for his father. It all took a long time.His father picked the baby up and slapped it to make it breathe and handed it to the old woman. “See, it’s a boy, Nick,”he said. “How do you like being an internee?”Nick said, “All right.”He was looking away so as not to see what his father was doing. “There. That gets it,”said his father and put something into the basin.Nick didn’t look at it.“Now,”his father said, “there’s some stitches to put in. You can watch tisor not, Nick, just as you like. I’m going to sew up the incision I made.”Nich did not watch. His curiosity had been gone for a long time.6. What story is this passage taken from? Who is the writer?7. What happened in the passage? What influence did it have on the boy Nick?Part Ⅳ: Give brief answers to the following questions. (14%)1. Please give a brief analysis of Irving’s Rip Van Winkle.2. Please give a brief interpretation of the symbolism in the novel Moby Dick.7。

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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全国自考2018年7月英美文学选读试题课程代码：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 on the Answer Sheet.1. Of all the eighteenth—century British novelists ______ was the first to set out，both in theory and practice，to write specially a “comic epic in prose”，the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.A. Thomas GrayB. Richard Brinsley SheridanC. Jonathan SwiftD. Henry Fielding2. The poem “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” established ______ as the leader of the sentimental poetry of the day，especially “the Graveyard School”.A. Thomas GrayB. Samuel JohnsonC. John BunyanD. John Milton3. “Do you think, because I am poor，obscure，plain，and little，I am soulless and heartless?... 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. ”The quoted part is taken from ______.A. Great ExpectationsB. Wuthering HeightsC. Jane EyreD. Pride and Prejudice4. The most famous dramatists in the Renaissance England are all the following EXCEPT ______.A. Francis BaconB. Christopher Marlowe1C. William ShakespeareD. BenJonson5. George Bernard Shaw’s play Mrs. Warren’s Profession is about______.A. slum landlordismB. the economic oppression of womenC. the political corruption in EnglandD. the religious corruption in England6. All of the following statements can correctly describe the Enlightenment Movement EXCEPT ______.A. The movement flourished in France.B. The movement was a furtherance of the Renaissance.C. The purpose of the movement was to enlighten the whole world.D. The purpose of the movement was to enhance the religious education.7. Among the three major poetical works by John Milton ______ is the most perfect example of the verse drama after the Greek style in English.A. Samson AgonistesB. Paradise LostC. Paradise RegainedD. Areopagitica8. The major British Romantic poets Blake，Wordsworth，Coleridge，Byron，Shelley and Keats started a rebellion against the neoclassical literature，which was later regarded as _____.A. the poetic romanceB. the poetic movementC. the poetic revolutionD. the poetic reformation9. Jane Austen’s main literary concern is about ______.A. human beings in their personal relationshipsB. the love story between the rich and the poorC. maturity achieved through the loss of illusionsD. the daily country life of the upper-middle-class English10. Among the following British Romantic poets ______ is regarded as a “worshipper of nature”.2A. William BlakeB. William WordsworthC. George Gordon ByronD. John Keats11. Jonathan Swift’s greatest satiric work is ______.A. A Tale of a TubB. The Battle of BooksC. Gulliver’s TravelsD. “A Modest Proposal’’12. Among the following writers ______ is considered to be the best—known English dramatist since Shakespeare.A. Oscar WildeB. John GalsworthyC. W. B. YeatsD. George Bernard Shaw13. As a representative of the Enlightenment，______ was one of the first to introduce rationalism to England.A. Francis BaconB. Alexander PopeC. Thomas GrayD. T. S. Eliot14. All of the following poets are regarded as “Lake Poets” EXCEPT ______.A. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeB. Robert SoutheyC. William WordsworthD. William Blake15. “To be, or not to be — that is the question；／wheth er’ 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?” The quoted lines are taken from ______.A. King LearB. Romeo and JulietC. OthelloD. Hamlet16. Daniel Defoe describes ______ as a typical English middle — class man of the eighteenth century，the very prototype of the empire builder，the pioneer colonist．A. Robinson CrusoeB. Moll FlandersC. GulliverD. Tom Jones17. The declaration that “I know th at This World is a World of IMAGINATION & Vision，”3and that “The Nature of my work is visionary or imaginative’’ belongs to ______.A. William BlakeB. William WordsworthC. Samuel Taylor Coleridge D．George Gordon Byron18. Although writing from different points of view and with different techniques，writers in the Victorian Period shared one thing in common，that is，they were all concerned about ______．A. the fate of the upper classB. the reformation of the governmentC. the fate of the common peopleD. the future of their family clans19. “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?’’ The quoted line comes from ______.A. Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind’’B. Walt Whitman’s Leaves of GrassC. John Milton’s Paradise Lost D．John Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn”20. Among the following figures ______ is Dickens’ first child hero.A．Little Nell B．David CopperfieldC．Oliver Twist D．Little Dorrit21. In the play The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde，the upper — class people are described all of the following EXCEPT ______.A. corruptB. snobbishC. hypocriticalD. ambitious22. In Thomas Hardy’s Wessex novels, there is an apparent ______ touch in his description of the simple and beautiful though primitive rural life.A. nostalgicB. humorousC. romanticD.ironic23. “Life is but a losing battle, it is a struggle man can dominate in such a way that loss becomes dignity；man can be physically destroyed but never defeated spiritually.” This notion4is typically held by ______．A. Mark TwainB. Ezra PoundC. William FaulknerD. Ernest Hemingway24. The literary spokesman of the Jazz Age is ______.A. Henry JamesB. Robert FrostC. F. Scott FitzgeraldD. William Faulkner25．North of Boston is described by the author，Robert Frost，as “a book of people，’’ which shows a brilliant insight into ______ character and the background that formed it．A. the cowboyB. New EnglandC. Ivy ColleagueD. ivory tower26．People 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 James D．Mark Twain27. According to ______, “There is evil in every human heart，which may remain latent，perhaps，through the whole life；but circumstances may rouse it to activity．”A. Nathaniel HawthorneB. Edgar Ellen PoeC. William Faulkner D．Theodore Dreiser28. Hemingway once described _____ the one book from which “all modern American literature comes.”A. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnB. The Adventures of Tom SawyerC. The Gilded AgeD. Innocents Abroad29. What Walt Whitman prefers for his new subject and new poetic feelings is “______，”that is，poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme．A. fixed verseB. free verseC. fixed endingD. free ending530. By writing _______ Melville reached the most flourishing stage of his literary creativity.A. TypeeB. OmooC. MardiD. Moby-Dick31. Shortly before his death in 1945，______ joined the Communist Party.A. Theodore DreiserB. Mark TwainC. Henry JamesD. Ezra Pound32. Naturalism is evolved from ______ when the author’s tone in writing becomes less serious and less sympathetic but more ironic and more pessimistic.A. RomanticismB. ModernismC. RealismD. Scientism33. One of the most familiar themes in American naturalism is the theme of human ______.A. peacefulnessB. joyfulnessC. bestialityD. civilization34. Hawthorne’s view of man and human history originated，to a great extent，from ______.A. TranscendentalismB. PuritanismC. HumanismD. Expressionism35. In general, the American woman poet _____ wanted to live simply as a complete independent being，and so she did，as a spinster.A. Anne BretB. Emily DickinsonC. Anna DickinsonD. Emily Shaw36. Theodore Dreiser’s ______ found expression in almost every book he wrote in which “kill or to be killed” was the law.A. romanticismB. naturalismC. cubismD. classicalism37. William Faulkner creates his own mythical kingdom that mirrors not only the decline of the ______ society but also the spiritual wasteland of the whole American society.6A. southernB. northernC. westernD. eastern38. Almost every book written by Hawthorne discusses _____，which reflects his unceasing interest in the “interior of the heart” of man’s being.A. sin and evilB. 1ove and hatredC. frustration and self - denialD. balance and self - discipline39. A preoccupation with the ______ view of original sin and the mystery of evil marked the works of Hawthorne，Melville and a host of lesser writers.A. optimisticB. CalvinisticC. PlatonicD. Socratic40. The American ______ as a cultural heritage exerted great influences over American moral values in the American Romantic period.A. Puritanism B．AtheismC. DeismD. CynicismPART 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. “The fiver glideth at his own sweet will：Dear God! the very houses seem asleep；And all that mighty heart is lying still!”(from William Wordsworth’s “Composed upon Westminster Bridge”)Questions：A. What figure of speech is used in the quoted lines?B. What does “that mighty heart’’ refer to?C. What does the poem decribe?742. “When the stars threw down their spears,And water’d heaven with their tears,Did he smile his work to see?Did he who made the Lamb make thee?”Questions：A. Identify the poet and the poem from which the quoted lines are takenB. Whom does the “he’’ refer to?C. What does the “Lamb” symbolize?43. “My tongue，every atom of my blood，form’d from this soil，this air, Born here of parents born here from parents the same，and their parents the same，I，now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin，Hoping to cease not till death”Questions：A. Identify the poet and the poem from which the quoted lines are taken.B. What do “soil” and “air” represent in the first line?C. What does the poet try to say in the above four lines?44. “I cannot rub the strangeness from my sightI got from looking through a pane of glassI skimmed this morning from the drinking troughAnd held aga inst the world of hoary grass.”Questions：A. Identify the poet and the poem from which the quoted lines are taken.B. What does the word “strangeness’’ refer to?C. What do the quoted lines imply?III．Questions and Answers(24 points in all，6 for each)8Give a brief answer to each of the following questions in English．Write your answers in the corresponding space on the Answer Sheet．45. As a leading Romanticist，Byron’s chief contribution is his creation of the “Byronic Hero”．Briefly explain the literar y term “Byronic Hero’’.46. TheWaste Land is T．S．Eliot’s most important single poem．Try to state the theme and the significance of the poem briefly.47．What is the most famous theme in Henry James’s fiction?And what is his favourite approach in characterization，which makes him different from Mark Twain and W·D.Howells as a realist? Give two titles of his first period works in which this theme and this approach are employed.48. As a leading spokesman of the “Imagist Movement”，what principles does Ezra Pound endorse?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’ art of fiction：the setting，the character —portrayal，the language，etc．，based on his novel Oliver Twist．50. Greatly and permanently affected by the war experiences, Hemingway formed his own writing style，together with his theme and hero. Please discuss Hemingway’s writing style in relation to his novels you have read.9。