英美文学选读模拟题二

A. Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement and put the letter in the brackets. (20×1points)
( ) 1. ________is regarded as the pioneer of English drama.
A. William Shakespeare
B. Christopher Marlowe.
C. Edmund Spenser
D. John Donne
( ) 2. "She I compare thee to a summer's day?" This is the beginning line of Shakespeare's _________.
A. songs
B. plays
C. comedies
D. sonnets
( ) 3. Thomas Gray's masterpiece, ________ once and for all established his fame ass the leader of the sentimental poetry of the day, especially "The Graveyard School".
A. Ode on the Spring
B. Ode on a Distant Prospect Of Eton College
C. Hymn to Adversity
D. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
( ) 4. Which play is regarded ass the best English comedy since Shakespeare?
A. She Stoops to Conquer
B. The Rivals
C. The School for Scandal
D. The Conscious Lovers
( ) 5. The publication of "_______" marked the beginning of Romantic Age.
A. Don Juan
B. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
C. The Lyrical Ballads
D. Queen Mab
( ) 6. As a new kind of ideology, ____ was widely accepted and practised in the later Victorian period.
B. utilitarianism
C. respectability
D. modesty
( ) 7. In his novels, Charles Dickens depicted a lot of child characters except _________.
A. Oliver Twist
B. Little Nell
C. Little Dorrit
D. Charles Surface
( ) 8. _______ is acknowledged by many as the most original poet of the Victorian period.
A. Robert Browning
B. Alfred Tennyson
C. George Eliot
D. John Keats
( )9. _______ is the last important novelist and poet of the 19th century.
A. Thomas Hardy
B. George Eliot
C. Alfred Tennyson
D. Robert Browning
( ) 10. ______ does not belong to the post - modernism after the Second World War.
A. Existentialist literature
B. Black Humor
C. Heater of the Absurd
D. Stream of consciousness
( ) 11. In the works of E. M. Forster and D. H. Lawrence, the subject matter is ________.
A. the social turmoil
B. the hypocrisy of the capitalism
C. love and marriage
D. human relationships
( ) 12. James Joyce's works are popular with the readers for in his writings Joyce uses the following kinds of expressing methods.
A. sentimental romance
B. historical stylistics
C. inversion
D. counterpoint
( ) 13. _______'s "Leaves of Grass" established him as the most popular American poet of the 19th century.
A. Edger Allen Poe
B. James Russel Lowell
C. John Greenleaf Whitter
D. Walt Whitman
( ) 14. In his essays, Ralph Waldo Emerson put forward his philosophy except of ______.
A. religion
B. the over - soul
C. the importance of the individual
D. nature
( )15. In the following statements, _______ is not true about the local colorism in American literary realism.
A. Their writings are concerned with the life of a small, well - defined region or province.
B. The characteristic selling is the isolated small town.
C. Their materials were extensive or wide - ranging, and the topics were connective.
D. Local colorists were consciously nostalgic historians of a vanishing way of life, recorders of a present that faded before their eyes.
( ) 16. "_____", a novella about a young American girl who gets "killed" by the winter in Rome, brought James international fame for the first time.
A. The American
B. Daisy Miller
C. The Europeans
D. The Portrait of a Lady
( ) 17. In his "______", Dreiser's focus shifted from the pathos of the helpless protagonists at the bottom of the society to the power of the American financial tycoons in the late 19th century.
A. Sister Carrie
B. An American Tragedy
C. The Genius
D. Trilogy of Desire
( ) 18. ______ is not among those greatest figures in "The Lost Generation" or modern American literature.
A. Ezra Pound
B. Robert Frost
C. Walt Whitman
D. William Carlos Williams
( ) 19. Robert Frost recited "______" at President Kennedy's inauguration.
A. The road Not Taken
B. Mending the Wall
C. The Gift Outright
D. Birches
( ) 20. Mark Twain's best works were produced when he was in the prime of his life. All these masterworks drew upon________.
A. the scenes and emotions of his boyhood and youth
B. the hypocrisy of the capitalism
C. the bleak view of human nature
D. the miserable life of the lower - class poor
B. Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase according to the textbook. ( 20×1 points)
1. In "The Canterbury Tales", Chaucer employed the _________ with true ease and charm for the first time in the history of English literature.
2. Christopher Marlowe is the most gifted of the " ________".
3. The term "_________" is commonly used to name the work of the 17th - century writers who wrote under the influence of John Donne.
4. Spenser is generally regarded as the greatest nondramatic poet of the Elizabethan age. His fame is chiefly based on his masterpiece "_________".
5. Swift is a master ______, his satire is usually masked by an outward gravity and an apparent earnestness which renders his satire all the more powerful.
6. From the middle part to the end of the 18th century, in English literature _______ flourished. They were mostly stories of mystery and horror which take place in some haunted or dilapidated middle age castles.
7. As a leading romanticist, Byron's chief contribution is his creation of the "________", a proud, mysterious rebel figure of noble origin.
8. _________ is regarded as a "worshipper of nature".
9. All of Charles Dickens's later works, with the exception of "_________"(1859), present a criticism of the more complicated and yet most fundamental social institutions and morals of the Victorian England.
10. Bernard Shaw began his career as a dramatist in 1892, when his first play "_______"(1892) was put on by the independent theater society.
11. __________ was regarded as father of the American short stories.
12. The way in which ______ wrote "The Scarlet Letter" suggests that American Romanticism adapted itself to American puritan moralism.
13. The most important feature of Mark Twain's language is the use of vernacular, or __________.
14. "_________" is Browning's best - known dramatic monlogue.
15. Ezra Pound's major work of poetry is the long poem called _________.
16. Hemingway's "____________" (1936) tells a brilliant short story about a martially wounded American writer who attempts to redeem his imagination from the corrosions of wealth and domestic strife.
17. __________ stands as a great dividing line between the nineteenth century and the contemporary American literature.
18. Pound was the leader of a now movement in poetry which he called the "________" movement.
19. "After Apple - Picking" is a well - known poem written by __________.
20. George Eliot's greatest achievement is "_________".
C. Decide whether the following statements are true or false and write your answers in the
( ) 1. "Dr. Faustus" is a play based on the English Legend of a magician aspiring for knowledge and finally meeting his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the Devil.
( )2. Swift is a master satirist. His satire is usually masked by an outward gravity and an apparent earnestness which renders his satire all the more powerful. His "A Modest Proposal" is generally taken as a perfect model.
( )3. Shelley's greatest achievement is his four - act poetic drama, "Prometheus Unbound". (1820)
( )4. Though Naturalism seems to have played an important part in Hardy's works, there is also bitter and sharp criticism and even open challenge as the irrational, hypocritical and unfair Victorian institutions, conventions and morals which strangle the individual will and destroy natural human emotions and relationships.
( )5. Hardy is the founder of the "stream of consciousness" school of novel writing.
( )6. American romanticism was in a way derivative; American romantic writing was some of them modeled on English and European works.
( )7. With the publication of "Daisy Miller", Henry James' reputation was firmly established on both sides of the Atlantic and Daisy Miller has ever since become the American girl in Europe, a celebrated cultural type who embodies the spirit of the old world.
( )8. Altogether, Dickinson wrote 1775 poems of which most had appeared during her lifetime.
( )9. Hemingway develops the style of colloquialism initiated by Thomas Hardy.
( )10. Transcendentalism exalted reason over feeling, individual expression over the restraints of law and custom.
D. Name the author of the following literary works. (5×1 points)
1. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
2. A Journal of the Plague Year
4. The Lake Isle of Innisfree
5. There Was a Child Went Forth
E. Define the literary terms listed below. (2×4 points)
1. Dramatic Monologue
2. Symbolism
F. For each of the quotations listed below please give the name of the author and the title of the literary work from which it is taken and then briefly interpret it. ( 2×4 points)
1. "I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze."
2. "The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough".
G. Give brief answers to the following questions. (3×5 points)
1. What's the theme of "Jane Eyre"?
2. What's the theme of John Galsworthy's "The Man of Property"?
3. How did Walt Whitman make use of the poetic "I" in his works?
H. Short essay questions. (2×7 points)
1. Read the excerpt from chapter I of "Pride And Prejudice" in our textbook, and answer the following questions.
(1) What is this passage describing?
(2) What's the style of this passage?
(3) Analyze the characters of the main roles of this passage: Mr. And Mrs. Bennet.
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全国高等教育自学考试模拟试卷（二）
英美文学选读参考答案
A.
1. B
2. D
3. D
4. C
5. C
6. B
7. D
8. A
9. A
10. D
11. D
12. C
13. D
14. A
15. C
16. B
17. D
18. C
19. C
20. A
B.
1. heroic couplet
2. University Wits
3. metaphysical poetry
4. The Faerie Queene
5. satirist
6. Gothic novels
7. Byronic hero
8. Wordsworth9. A Tale of Two Cities10. Widowers' House
11. Washington Irving12. Hawthorne13. Colloquialism
14. My Last Duchess15. The Cantos16. The Snows of Kilimanjaro
17. The First World War18. Imagist19. Robert Frost20. Middlemarch
C.
1. F
2. T
3. T
4. T
5. F
6. T
7. F
8. F
9. F10. F
D.
1. Henry Fielding
2. Daniel Defoe
3. John Keats
4. William Bulter Yeats
5. Walt Whitma
E.
1. A kind of narrative poem in which one character speaks to one or more listeners whose replies are not giver in the poem. The occasion is usually a crucial one in the speaker's life, and
Robert Browning. In the poems including "My Last Duchess", Browning chooses a dramatic moment or a crisis, in which his characters are made to talk about their lives, and about their minds and hearts. In "listening" to those one - sided talks, readers can form their own opinions and judgements about the those one - sided personality and about what has really happened.
2. Symbolism is the writing technique of using symbols. A symbol is something that conveys two kinds of meaning; it is simply itself, and it stands for something other than itself. In other words, a symbol is both literal and figurative. People, places, things and even events can be used symbolically. A symbol is a way of telling a story and a way of conveying meaning. The best symbols are those that are believable in the lives of the characters and also convincing as they convey a meaning beyond the literal level of the story. Hawthorne and Melville were the two masters of symbolism. For example, the scarlet letter "a" on Hester's breast can give you symbolic meanings. If the symbol is obscure or ambiguous, then the very obscurity and the ambiguity may also be apt of the meaning of the story.
F.
1. The name of the author is William Wordsworth, and the title of the literary work is "I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud".
译文如下：
我独自游荡，像一朵孤云
高高地飞越峡谷和山巅，
突然，我望见密密的一群，
那是一大片金黄色水仙;
它们在那湖边的树荫里，
在阵阵微风中舞姿飘逸。

2. The author is Erza Pound, and the title of this poem is "In a Station of the Metro".
译文如下：
出现在人群里这一张张面孔;
湿的黑树枝上的一片片花瓣
G.
1. The work is one of the most popular and important novels of the Victorian Age. It is noted for its sharp criticism of the existing society, e. g. the religious hypocrisy of charity institutions such as Lowood school where poor girls are trained, through constant starvation and humiliation, to be humble slaves, the social discrimination Jane experiences first as a dependent at her aunt's house and later as a governess at Thornfield, and the false social convention love and marriage. At the same time, it is an intense moral fable. Jane, like Mr. Rochester, has to undergo a series of physical and moral tests to grow up and achieve her final happiness.
2. The theme of this novel is that of the predominant possessive instinct of the Forsytes and its effects upon the personal relation - ships of the family with the underlying assumption that human relationships of the contemporary English society are merely and extension of property relationships. The harsh satire on this inhuman sense of property is brought out very effectively in the early Chapters of the novel. But in the later part of the novel, the harsh tone gradually changes into a more tolerant one, and finally it becomes a distinctly sentimental one, thus weakening the effect of the novel.
3. Whitman's poetic style is marked, first of all, by the use of the poetic "I". Speaking in the voice of "I," Whitman becomes all those people in his poems, and yet still remains "What Whitman," hence a discovery of the self in the other with such an identification. Usually, the
and "you", the reader. In such a manner, Whitman invites us, as we read his lines, to participate in the process of sympathetic identification.
H.
1. (1) It is describing the parents of Bennet girls. Mr. And Mrs. Bennet are busy considering the prospects of their daughter's marriages, shortly after hearing of the arrival of a rich, unmarried young man as their neighbour, mild satire may be found here in the author's seemingly matter - of - fact description of a very ordinary, practical family conversation, though unmistakable sympathy is given to both Mr. and Mrs. Bennet
(2) This passage is taken from the first chapter of the novel. Chapter I has been universally acknowledged to be very well - written as an opening chapter. The style is lucid and graceful, with touches of humor and mild satire. The conversations are interesting and amusing, and immediately bring the characters to life. The author only inserts her observations ccasionally.
(3) Mr. Bennet is skeptical of conventional marriage and has no good words for his beautiful wife. Mrs. Bennet is a beautiful but empty - headed, snobbish and vulgar woman. Her only goal in life is to marry her five daughters to rich, handsome young men.
2 Although James and Twain both worked for realism, there were obvious differences between them. In thematic terms, James wrote mostly of the upper reaches of American society, where as Mark Twain dealt largely with the lower strata of society. Technically, James pursued the psychological realism, but Mark Twain's contribution to the development of realism and to American literature as a whole was partly through his theories of local colorism in American fiction, and partly through his colloquial style.
Henry James believed that reality lies in the impressions made by life on the spectator, and not in any facts of which the spectator is unaware. Such realism is therefore merely the obligation that the artist assumes to represent life as he sees it, which may not be the same life as it "really" is. James shifted the ground of realistic art from the outer to the inner world.
Mark Twain preferred to represent social life through portraits of local places which he knew best. He drew heavily from his own rich fund of knowledge of people and places. He confined himself to the life with which he was familiar. By quoting from his own experience, Mark Twain managed to transform into art the freedom and humor, in short, the fines elements of western culture.。