2007年4 月份英美文学历年真题
2007年4月全国自考英语(一)真题参考答案
做试题,没答案?上自考365,网校名师为你详细解答!2007年4月全国自考英语(一)真题参考答案一、Vocabulary and Structure(10 points,1 point for each item)1.Mary______be Canadian,for she‟s got a British passport.A.can‟tB.isn‟t able toC.mustn‟tD.needn‟t答案：A2.As his parents died when he was young,he was______by his uncle.A.brought upB.grown upC.brought outD.taken out答案：A3.What do you_____to do about the problem now that this solution has failed?A.inclineB.intendC.pretendD.think答案：B4.I had never expected you to turn____at the meeting. I thought you were inShanghai.A.aroundB.onC.inD.up答案：D5.They have to stay with us______the time being because they have not found aplace yet.A.duringB.inC.forD.since答案：C6.Sixty percent of television viewers chose him as their______host.A.popularB.preferredC.favoriteD.favored答案：C7.Don‟t call me at the office_____it‟s absolutely necessary.A.exceptB.unlessC.sinceD.if答案：B8.Each one of us,______old or young, is a valuable member of society.A.howeverB.wheneverC.whoeverD.no matter答案：A9.Diamonds are the hardest substance_______in nature.A.findB.foundC.findingD.to find答案：B10.Tony likes walking in the country and_______.A.also does MaryB.Mary does alsoC.so Mary doesD.so does Mary答案：D二、Cloze Test(10 points,1 point for each)1. A study by the World Wildlife Fund reveals that the human race is destroyingthe earth at a pace that is(1)fast for its capacity to support life.(2), it pointsout that the extra planets (equal to the earth in size) will be required by the year2050 as(3)resources are exhausted.The report, (4)on scientific data from across the world, shows that over(5)of thenatural world has been destroyed by human beings over the past three decades. Itwarns that consumption rates must be rapidly lowered,(6)the earth will no longer beable to support population growth.The report offers a clear warning(7)people either stop their present life style orrisk(8)the burden on scientists to locate another planet that can support human life.It is not just humans who are at risk.(9), who examined data for 350 kinds of mammals (哺乳动物), birds and fish, found that the(10)of many species had reduced more than a half during the period.(1).(A).so(B).too(C).very(D).much答案：B(2).(A).However(B).Too(C).Except for(D).In addition答案：D(3).(A).producing(B).developing(C).existing(D).affecting答案：C(4).(A).insisted(B).blamed(C).debated(D).based答案：D(5).(A).three(B).thirds(C). a third(D).third答案：C(6).(A).or(B).and(C).so(D).but答案：A(7).(A).that(B).which(C).whose(D).when答案：A(8).(A).left(B).leaving(C).leave(D).to leave答案：B(9).(A).Scientists(B).Reporters(C).Officials(D).Clerks答案：A(10).(A).accounts(B).members(C).amounts(D).numbers答案：D三、Reading Comprehension(30 points,2 points for each)1.There was a strange girl in my high school whom we all called the Bird. Wecalled her that because of her nervous, birdlike movements. Her skin looked as if it had never felt the sun, and there was usually a red spot in the middle of herforehead. She had thin black hair on her arms long enough to comb, and she wore clothes that h ad been out of fashion since Shirley Temple‟s time. She was so often laughed at that it shames me to this day to think that I was part of it. Oh, Inever laughed at her in her face; I wasn‟t that brave. I‟d wait until she hurriedby and join the oth er guys. And it‟s important when you‟re a teenager to join inthe laughter so that the laughter will not turn on you.I remember one day when the Bird was surrounded by three or four rude guys who had stopped her in the hall between classes. They were moving their arms up and down like birds and shouting in her ear. She was terrified and there was fright in her eyes. A couple of her books fell to the floor. Then this girl came out of nowhere.I‟d never seen such anger in a girl before. She went up to the leader of the guys and shouted angrily, “Stop it! Can‟t you see what you‟re doing?”The guys backed off, astonished. Then the girl went over to the Bird and put her arm around her shoulders and walked her to class.I thought about the Bird when I read about Nathan Faris, the little boy who shot a classmate and killed himself after being laughed at by the kids in his school. I thought of how I had been part of her misery, how more than twenty years later itstill bothered me. But I also thought of what I had learned that day about respect and bravery, about being a human being, from a girl whose name I don‟t even know. And I wonder whether that one act of kindness might have saved another girl‟s life.(1).The girl was called the Bird mainly because of her____.(A).outdated dress(B).color of her hair(C).birdlike actions(D).physical appearance答案：C(2).The author joined other teenagers in laughing at the Bird because he____.(A).feared that they would laugh at him(B).did not dare to laugh at her in her face(C).shared their opinion of her nervous actions(D).was ashamed of her peculiar movements答案：A(3).When the kind girl came to the Bird‟s help, the teenagers were____.(A).shocked(B).afraid(C).angry(D).ashamed答案：A(4).The story of Nathan Faris reminded the author that____.(A).he should have asked the girl‟s name(B). a kind act may change a person‟s life(C).the girl had saved the life of the Bird(D).boys were not as brave as girls in school答案：B(5).What the author learns from the kind girl is____.(A).shame and misery(B).shame and kindness(C).respect and courage(D).respect and lovePassage Two答案：C2. A group of college students were telling frightening stories. Eventually, agirl from a small town in Michigan broke in. “I know a more frightening story than any of those!”she announced. “And the most fright ening thing is, this one istrue. It happened to a girl my sister knew.”She began her story.“One stormy evening, the girl went to babysit at a houseway out in the country. She was feeling a little nervous when the phone rang. When she answered, a man said, …Have you checked the child?‟and laughed strangely. She was scared to death when a few minutes later the guy called again and said the same thing. She checked the child and called the operator to get the calls traced. Soon the operator called back to say,…Get out of the house! He‟s in the house withyou!‟So she got hold of the child and ran out into the rain. Later, the policefound this escaped prisoner in the parents‟upstairs bedroom.”“But wait a minute!”called out the girl‟s roommate from Iowa.“That didn‟thappen in Michigan. It happened near my hometown long ago when my mother was in school. The guy had escaped from a madhouse.” “Well, it sounds an awful lot like something that happened a few years ago to a friend of my brother‟s inColor ado,”said another student.“Only the guy actually caught the babysitter.”What‟s going on here? How could the same event have happened to three different babysitters in three different parts of the country at three different times? It iswhat we call urban legend (都市传奇), which is the modern version of American folk tales. Urban legends are modern and sound real to us. They are humorous, unexpected, and often frightening, though they probably never happened.(1).The girl from Michigan believed her story to be the most frightening because____.(A).it actually happened(B).it happened on a stormy night(C).it involved a dangerous person(D).it happened far away in the country答案：A(2).In the story told by the girl from Michigan, the prisoner____.(A).escaped from the house(B).caught the babysitter(C).was arrested by the police(D).called from the girl‟s home答案：C(3).According to the girl from Iowa, the guy in the house was____.(A). a runaway prisoner(B).an escaped mad person(C). a classmate of her mother(D). a friend of her brother‟s答案：B(4).The author uses three different versions of the same story to____.(A).illustrate what urban legend is(B).show the false nature of the story(C).emphasize the truth of the story(D).prove life in the country is dangerous答案：A(5).According to the passage, urban legends are____.(A).always horrible and scary(B).very difficult to believe(C).enjoyed by college students(D).part of the folk tale tradition答案：D3.By the time she got the box open, Nancy was so excited that she could hardly contain herself. Eagerly she removed the cotton surrounding the small object inside the box, and held it up to the light. It glittered and sparkled (闪闪发光)—made alive by the bright sunlight pouring through the window.Nancy turned the object slowly in her hands, first this way and then that way. It continued to sparkle and shine as if it had a light of its own. She cried out in delight. Her diamond engagement ring had been found and returned to her, just as the woman on the phone had promised.For two weeks, Nancy almost collapsed after losing the ring on the subway. She had placed ads in the newspapers and on the radio, offering a reward for the returnof the ring. And, she had almost given up hope when the phone call came.A kind, elderly female voice informed her that she had found the ring between seat cushions (坐垫). She had called, she said, to make sure of the exact addressand had promised to return the ring by insured mail the next day. And then she had added sweetly:“There‟s no need to send a reward either. I lost my engagement ringonce when I was young, and some kind, unknown person returned it to me the next day.I feel I‟m only paying back an old debt of thanks.”Nancy had thanked the finder profusely and asked her name, but the other woman had said that it wasn‟t important. And, now, here was the ring once again in herhand. She put it back on her finger and breathed a huge sigh of relief.(1).The word “object” in the first and second paragraphs refers to the____.(A).box(B).ring(C).cotton(D).sunlight答案：B(2).After she lost the ring, Nancy did all the following EXCEPT____.(A).she placed ads on the radio(B).she placed ads on the radio(C).she offered a reward for its finder(D).she called the kind, elderly woman答案：D(3).The elderly woman told Nancy that she found the ring____.(A).in a box(B).in the cotton(C).on the subway(D).in the insured mail答案：C(4).The woman refused to accept Nanc y‟s offer of reward because____.(A).the reward was not important to her(B).an unknown finder gave the ring to her(C).she did not consider it a sincere offer(D).she had had the same experience before答案：D(5).Nancy breathed a huge sigh of relief because____.(A).she had finally paid off her debt of thanks(B).she had finally got the engagement ring back(C).the woman had refused her offer of reward(D).the woman had promised to send her the ringPART TWO答案：B四、Word Spelling(10 points,1 point for two words)1.将下列汉语单词译成英语。
历年英美文学选读真题及答案
2004年4月高等教育自学考试全国统一命题考试英美文学选读试题（课程代码0604）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。
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 correct answer on the answer sheet.1.“And we will sit upon the rocks, /Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks,/By shallow rivers to whose falls/Melodious birds sing madrigals.” The above lines are taken from ______.A. Milton’s Paradise LostB. Marlowe’s “The Passionate shepherd to His Love”C. Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 18”D. John Donne’s “The Sun Rising”2.The English Renaissance period was an age of ______ .A. poetry and dramaB. drama and novelC. novel and poetryD. romance and poetry3.Here are four lines taken from Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene: “But on his brest a bloudie Crosse he bore,/The deare remembrance of his dying Lord,/For whose sweete sake that glorious badge he wore,/And dead as living ever him adored.” Who is the “dying Lord” discussed in the above lines?A. BeowulfB. King ArthurC. Jesus ChristD. Jupiter4.In Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, Antonio could not pay back the money he borrowed from Shylock, because ______.A. his money was all invested in the newly-emerging textile industryB. his enterprise went bankruptC. Bassanio was able to pay his own debtD. his ships had all been lost5. Which of the following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18?A. The speaker eulogizes the power of Nature.B. The speaker satirizes human vanity.C. The speaker praises the power of artistic creation.D. The speaker meditates on man’s salvation.6. In English poetry, a four-line stanza is called ______.A. heroic coupletB. quatrainC. Spenserian stanzaD. terza rima7. “Let not Ambition mock their useful toil,/Their homely joys, and destiny obscure;/Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile /The short and simple annals of the poor.”The above lines are taken from .A. Alexander Pope’s Essay on Criticism-第1 页共11 页-B. Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan”C. John Donne’s “The Sun Rising”D. Thomas Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”8. By making the truth-seeking pilgrims suffer at the hands of the people of Vanity Fair, John Bunyan intends to show the prevalent political and religious ______of his time.A. persecutionB. improvementC. prosperityD. disillusionment9. The 18th century witnessed a new literary form－the modern English novel, which, contrary to the medieval romance, gives a ______ presentation of life of the common people.A. romanticB. realisticC. propheticD. idealistic10. As a whole, ______is one of the most effective and devastating criticisms and satires of all aspects in the then English and European life—socially, politically, religiously, philosophically, scientifically, and morally.A. Moll FlandersB. Gulliver’s TravelsC. Pilgrim’s ProgressD. The School for Scandal11. An honest, kind-hearted young man, who is full of animal spirit and lacks prudence, is expelled from the paradise and has to go through hard experience to gain knowledge of himself and finally to have been accepted both by a virtuous lady and a rich relative .The above sentence may well sum up the t heme of Fielding’s work .A. Jonathan Wild the GreatB. Tom JonesC. The Coffe-House PoliticianD. Amelia12. In Sheridan’s The School for scandal, the man who wins the hand of his beloved as well as the inheritance of his rich uncle is ______ .A. Charles SurfaceB. Joseph SurfaceC. Sir Peter TeazleD. Sir Benjamin Backbite13. Which of the following works best represents the national spirit of the 18th-century England?A. Robinson CrusoeB. Gulliver’s TravelsC. Jonathan Wild the GreatD. A Sentimental Journey14. Shelley’s masterpiece, Prometheus Unbound, is a verse drama, which borrows the basic story from ______ .A. the BibleB. a German legendC. a Greek playD. One Thousand and One Nights15. In the first part of the novel Pride and prejudice, Mr. Darcy has a (n) ______ of the Bennet family .A. high opinionB. great admirationC. low opinionD. erroneous view16. In Byron’s poem “Song for the Luddites,” the word “Luddite” refers to the ______ .A. workers who destroyed the machines in their protest against unemploymentB. rising bourgeoisie who fights against the aristocratic classC. descendents of the ancient king ,LudD. poor country people who suffered under the rule of the landlord class-第2 页共11 页-17. Mr. Micawber in David Copperfield and Sam Well in Pickwick Papers are perhaps the best ______ characters created by Charles Dickens.A. comicB.tragicC. roundD.sophisticated18. A typical feature of the English Victorian literature is that writers became social and moral ______ , exposing all kinds of social evils.A. revolutionariesB. idealistsC. criticsD. defenders19. “Is it not sufficient for your infernal selfishness, that while you are at peace I shall writhe in the torments of hell?”(Heathcliff uttered the sentence in the death scene of Catherine from Chapter XV of Wuthering Heights.) The word “hell” at the end of the quoted sentence refers to ______ .A. HeavenB. HadesC. the next worldD. this world20. A typical Forsyte, according to John Galsworthy, is a man with a strong sense of ______ ,who never pays any attention to human feelings.A. justiceB. humorC. moralityD. property21. “He was silent with conceit of his son. Mrs. Morel sniffed, as if it were nothing.”(Sons and Lovers by wrence)From the above quotation, we can see that Mrs. Morel’s attitude to her husband is ______ .A. sincerely warmB. genuinely kindC. seemingly angryD. merely contemptuous22. A boy makes a quest of his idealized childish love through painful experience up to the point of losing his innocence and coming to see the drabness and harshness of the adult world.The above sentence may well sum up the major theme of ______.A. Eliot’s poem The love Song of J. Alfred PrufrockB. Bernard shaw’s play Mrs. Warren’s ProfessionC. Joyce’s story ArabyD. Lawrence’s story The Horse Dealer’s Daughter23. Linguistically, compared with the writings of Mark Twain, Henry James’s fiction is noted for his ______.A. frontier vernacularB. rich colloquialismC. vulgarly descriptive wordsD. refined elegant language24. Which of the following statements about Washington Irving is NOT true?A. Literary imagination should breed in a land rich in the past culture.B. He is preoccupied with the Calvinistic view of original sin and the mystery of evil.C. His stories are among the best of the American literature.D. Some of his works are based on the materials of the European legendary tales.25. Which of the following is NOT one of the main ideas advocated by Emerson, the chief spokesman of New England Transcendentalism?A. As an individual, man is divine and can develop and improve himself infinitely.B. Nature exercises a healthy and restorative influence on human beings.C. There exists an emotional communication between an individual soul and the universal-第3 页共11 页-“Oversoul.”D. Evil and sin are ever present in human heart and will pass on from one generation to another.”26. Whitman’s poems are charac terized by all the following features EXCEPT ______ .A. the strict poetic formB. the free and natural rhythmC. the easy flow of feelingsD. the simple and conversational language27. “Then all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled o n as it rolled five thousand years ago.” In the quoted sentence, the author might imply that ______.A. nothing changes in the 5000 years of human historyB. man’s desire to conquer nature can only end in his own destructionC. nature is evil as it was 5000 years agoD. nature has the ultimate creative power28. “Standing on the bare ground,—my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space ,—all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball. I am nothing. I see all. The currents o f the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.”The above passage is taken from ______.A. Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s CabinB. Cooper’s “Leatherstocking Tales”C. Emerson’s “Nature”D. Dreiser’s Sister Carrie29. Which of the following works best illustrates the Calvinistic view of original sin?A. Stowe’s Uncle Ton’s CabinB. James’s The Portrait of a Lady.C. Hemingway’s A Farewell to ArmsD. Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter.30. Beside symbolism, all the following qualities EXCEPT ______are fused to make Melville’s Moby-Dick a world classic.A. narrative powerB. psychological analysisC. speculative agilityD. optimistic view of life31. In all his novels Theodore Dreiser sets himself to project the ______ American values. For example, in Sister Carrie, there is not one character whose status is not determined economically.A. PuritanB. materialisticC. psychologicalD. religious32. In Daisy Miller,Henry James reveals Daisy’s ______ by showing her r elatively unreserved manners.A. hypocrisyB. cold and indifferenceC. grace and patienceD. Americanness33. The raft with which Huck and Jim make their voyage down the Mississippi River may symbolize all the following EXCEPT ______.A. a return to natureB. an escape from evils, injustices, and corruption of the civilized societyC. the American society in the early 19th centuryD. a small world where people of different colors can live friendly and happily-第4 页共11 页-34. Emily Grierson, the protag onist in Faulkner’s story “A Rose for Emily,” can be regarded as a symbol for all the following qualities EXCEPT______.A. old valuesB. rigid ideas of social statusC. bigotry and eccentricityD. harmony and integrity35. As a Modernist poet ,Pound is noted for his active involvement in the ______ .A. cubist school of modern paintingB. Imagist MovementC. stream-of-consciousness techniqueD. German Expressionism36. The statement that a boy’s night journey to an Indian village to witness th e violence of both birth and death provides all the possibilities of a learning experience may well sum up the major theme of ______ .A. Faulkner’s story “A Rose for Emily”B. Hemingway’s story “Indian Camp”C. Irving’s story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”D. James’s story “Daisy Miller”37. Which of the following plays by O’Neill can be read autobiographically?A. The Hairy ApeB. The Emperor JonesC. The Iceman ComethD. Long Day’s Journey Into Night38. When we say that a poor young man from the West tried to make his fortune in the East but was disillusioned in the quest of an idealized dream, we are probably discussing about ______’s thematic concern in his fiction writing.A. Henry JamesB. Scott FitzgeraldC. Ernest HemingwayD. William Faulkner39.After his experiences in the forest, Young Goodman Brown returns to Salem ______.A. desperate and gloomyB. renewed in his faithC. wearing a black veilD. unaware of his own sin40. According to Mark Twain, in river town s up and down the Mississippi, it was every boy’s dream to some day grow up to be ______.A. Methodist preacherB. a justice of the peaceC. a riverboat pilotD. a pirate on the Indian oceanPART TWO (60POINTS)Ⅱ.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. “One short sleep past, we wake eternally,And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die.”Questions:A. Identify the poem and the poet.-第5 页共11 页-B.What does the word “sleep” mean?C. What idea do the two lines express?42. “Never did sun more beautifully steepIn his first splendor, valley, rock, or hill;Ne’er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!The river glideth at his own sweet will:Dear God! The very houses seem asleep;And all that mighty heart is lying still!”(William Wordsworth’s sonnet: “Composed upon Westminster Bridge” September 3, 1802) Questions:A. What does the word “glideth” in the fourth line mean?B. What kind of figure of speech is used by wordsworth to describe the “river”?C. What idea does the fourth line express?43. “With Blue—uncertain stumbling Buzz—Between the light—and me—And then the Windows failed—and thenI could not see to see—”Questions:A. Identify the poem and the poet.B. What do “Windows” symbolically stand for?C. What idea does the quoted passage express?44. “‘Is dying hard, Daddy?’‘No, I think it’s pretty easy, Nick, It all depends.”’Questions:A. Identify the work and the author.B. What was Nick preoccupied with when he asked the question?C. Why did the father add “It all depends” after he answered his son’s question?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. It is said that B. Shaw’s play, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, has a strong realistic theme, which fully reflects the dramatist’s Fabianist idea. Try to summarize this theme briefly.46. Emily Bronte used a very complicated narrative technique in writing her novel Wuthering Heights.Try to tell Bronte’s way of narration bri efly.47. “In your rocking-chair, by your window dreaming, shall you long, alone. In your rocking-chair, by your window, shall you dream such happiness as you may never feel.” The two sentences are taken from Theodore Dreiser’s novel, Sister Carrie. What idea can you draw from the “rocking-chair”?48. The literary school of naturalism was quite popular in the late 19th century. What are the major characteristics of naturalism?-第6 页共11 页-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 the possible theme in W.B. Yeats’s “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” and how that theme is presented in the poem.50. “My faith is gone!” cried he (Goodman Brown), after one stupefied moment. “There is no good on earth; and sin is but a name. Come, devil! For to thee is this world given.”Comment on this passage from Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown”.-第7 页共11 页--第8 页共11 页--第9 页共11 页--第10 页共11 页- -第11 页共11 页-。
07年考研英语真题
07年考研英语真题07年考研英语真题一、阅读理解1、答案：D解析：本文主要讲述了一种可以通过研究大脑活动来判断一个人是否对某个决策持有坚定立场的方法。
研究者通过检测大脑中“纠结区”的活动来判断个体对某个决策的坚定度。
文章给出了针对这种方法的研究结果，并指出了这种方法可能存在的局限性。
2、答案：A解析：文章主要讲述了古埃及社会的特点和重要的社会群体，以及这些群体在古埃及社会中的地位和作用。
文章首先介绍了古埃及的社会特点，然后分别介绍了法老、贵族、农民和奴隶在古埃及社会中的地位和作用。
最后简要总结了古埃及社会的组成和特点。
3、答案：C解析：本文主要讲述了有关恐龙的一些新发现和研究。
文章首先介绍了近年来科学家对恐龙的新发现，包括一些新的种类和新的特征。
然后介绍了科学家对恐龙速度和行为的研究，指出了一些可能的解释和争议。
最后讨论了科学家对恐龙灭绝的原因的不同观点。
4、答案：B解析：本文主要讲述了创意对于认知能力的重要性。
文章指出创意是一种能够改变和创造事物的能力，是人类认知能力的核心。
文章介绍了创意的定义、特征以及创意在不同领域的应用。
文章最后强调了创意对于个人和社会发展的重要性。
5、答案：D解析：本文主要关注的是研究发现，在吸烟者之间比在抽烟者和非吸烟者之间差异更大的基因突变。
研究者发现，与吸烟有关的基因突变在吸烟者中比在非吸烟者中更常见。
文章最后总结了研究结果，并提出了进一步研究的可能性和重要性。
6、答案：C解析：本文主要讲述了海底火山喷发对周围环境的影响。
文章介绍了海底火山喷发的成因、过程和效应。
文章提到，海底火山喷发会造成海水变热、增加微生物数量等现象。
最后，文章指出，通过对海底火山喷发的研究，可以更好地了解地球内部的活动和地球的演化过程。
二、完形填空1、答案：B解析：本文主要讲述了一个名叫Walt的青年艺术家的成长故事。
Walt从小就喜欢艺术，并对色彩有着独特的感觉。
他经历了许多困难和挫折，但始终坚持自己的梦想。
北京外国语大学英语语言文学专业英美文学真题2007年.doc
北京外国语大学英语语言文学专业英美文学真题2007年(总分：149.99，做题时间：90分钟)一、Section Ⅰ Matching(总题数：1，分数：30.00)●Passage 1●1. But the Idols of the Marketplace are the most troublesome of all: idols which have crept into the understanding through the alliances of words and names. For men believe that their reason governs words; but it is also true that words react on the understanding; and this it is that has rendered philosophy and the sciences sophistical and inactive.●Passage 2●2. I, John Faustus of Wittenberg, Doctor, by these presents do give both body and soul to Lucifer, Prince of the East...●Passage 3●3. To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly words, will separate between him and vulgar things.●Passage 4●4. Most Utopians, however, and among these all the wisest, believe nothing of the sort: the believe in a single power, unknown, eternal, infinite, inexplicable, far beyond the grasp of the human mind, and diffused throughout the universe, not physically, but in influence.●Passage 5●5. Nature, in its ministry to man, is not only the material, but is also the process and the result. All the parts incessantly work into each other"s hands for the profit of man. The wind sows the seed; the sun evaporates the sea; the wind blows the vapor to the field; the ice, on the other side of the planet, condenses rain on this; the rain feeds the plant; the plant feeds the animal; and thus the endless circulations of the divine charity nourish man.●Passage 6●6. The passions that build up our human Soul,Not with the mean and vulgar works of man,But with high objects, with enduring things,With life and nature, purifying thusThe elements of feeling and of thought,And sanctifying, by such discipline,Both pain and fear; until we recognizeA grandeur in the beating of the heart.●Passage 7●7. Success is counted sweetestBy those who ne"er succeed.To comprehend a nectarRequires sorest need.●Passage 8●8. Of man"s first disobedience, and the fruitOf that forbidden tree whose mortal tasteBrought death into the world, and all our owe,With loss of Eden, till one greater ManRestore us, and regain the blissful seat●Passage 9●9. It the censure of Yahoos could any way affect me, I should have great reason to complain that some of them are so bold as to think my book of travels a mere fiction out of mine own brain.●Passage 10●10. I told you in the course of this paper that Shakespeare had a sister; but do not look for her in Sir Sidney Lee"s life of the poet. She died young—alas, she never wrote a word. She lies buried where the omnibuses now stop, opposite the Elephant and Castle. Now my belief is that this poet who never wrote a word and was buried at the crossroads still lives. She lives in you and in me, and in many other women who are not here tonight, for they are washing up the dishes and putting the children to bed.●Authors●A. Christopher MarloweB. Emily DickinsonC. Flannery O"ConnorD. Francis BaconE. John MiltonF. Jonathan SwiftG. Ralph Waldo EmersonH. Sir Thomas MoreI. T.S. EliotJ. Virginia WoolfK. William ShakespeareL. William Wordsworth（分数：30.00）二、Section Ⅱ Short Stor(总题数：1，分数：100.00)Story of an HourKate ChopinKnowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as Possible the news of her husband"s death.It was her sister Josephine who told her, in broken sentences, veiled hints that revealed in half concealing. Her husband"s friend Richards was there, too near her. It was he who had been in the newspaper office when intelligence of the railroad disaster was received, with Brently Mallard"s name leading the list of "killed". He had only taken the time to assure himself of its truth by a second telegram, and had hastened to forestall any less careful, less tender friend in bearing the sad message.She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance. She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sister"s arms. When the storm of grief had spent itself she went away to her room alone. She would have no one follow her.There stood, facing the open window, a comfortable, roomy armchair. Into this she sank, pressed down by a physical exhaustion that haunted her body and seemed to reach into her soul.She could see in the open square before her house the tops of trees that were all aquiver with the new spring life. The delicious breath of rain was in the air. In the street below a peddler was crying his wares. The notes of a distant song which someone was singing reached her faintly, and countless sparrows were twittering in the eaves.There were patches of blue sky showing here and there through the clouds that had met and piled above the other in the west facing her window.She sat with her head thrown back upon the cushion of the chair quite motionless, except when a sob came up into her throat and shook her, as a child who has cried itself to sleep continuesto sob in its dreams.She was young, with a fair, calm face, whose lines bespoke repression and even a certain strength. But now there was a dull stare in her eyes, whose gaze was fixed away off yonder on one of those patches of blue sky. It was not a glance of reflection, but rather indicated a suspension of intelligent thought.There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully. What was it? She did not know; it was too subtle and elusive to name. But she felt it, creeping out of the sky, reaching toward her through the sounds, the scents, the color that filled the air.Now her bosom rose and fell tumultuously. She was beginning to recognize this thing that was approaching to possess her, and she was striving to beat it back with her will—as powerless as her two white slender hands would have been.When she abandoned herself a little whispered word escaped her slightly parted lips. She said it over and over under her breath: "Free, free, free!" The vacant stare and the look of terror that had followed it went from her eyes. They stayed keen and bright. Her pulses beat fast, and the coursing blood warmed and relaxed every inch of her body.She did not stop to ask if it were not a monstrous joy that held her. A clear and exalted perception enabled her to dismiss the suggestion as trivial.She knew that she would weep again when she saw the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that had never looked save with love upon her, fixed and gray and dead. But she saw beyond that bitter moment a long procession of years to come that would belong to her absolutely. And she opened and spread her arms out to them in welcome.There would be no one to live for during those coming years; she would live for herself. There would be no powerful will bending her in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a fight to impose a private will upon a fellow-creature. A kind intention or a cruel intention made the act seem no less a crime as she looked upon it in that brief moment of illumination.And yet she had loved him—sometimes. Often she had not. What did it matter! What could love, the unsolved mystery, count for in face of this possession of self-assertion which she suddenly recognized as the strongest impulse of her being!"Free! Body and soul free!" she kept whispering.Josephine was kneeling before the closed door with her lips to the keyhole, imploring for admission. "Louise, open the door! I beg; open the door—you will make yourself ill. What are you doing, Louise! For heaven"s sake open the door.""Go away. I am not making myself ill." No; she was drinking in a very elixir of life through that open window.Her fancy was running riot along those days ahead of her. Spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own. She breathed a quick prayer that life might be long. She arose at length and opened the door to her sister"s importunities. There was a feverish triumph in her eyes, and she carried herself unwitting like a goddess of Victory. She clasped her sister"s waist, and together they descended the stairs. Richards stood waiting for them at the bottom. Someone was opening the front door with al latchkey. It was Brently Mallard who entered, a little travel-stained, composedly carrying his gripsack and umbrella. He had been far from the scene of accident, and did not even know there had been one. He stood amazed at Josephine"s piercing cry; at Richards" quick motion to screen him from the view of his wife.But Richards was too late.When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease—of joy that kills.（分数：99.99）(1).Summarize the plot of the following story in your own words (around 200 Words). （分数：33.33）__________________________________________________________________________________________(2).What does Louise"s house symbolize? （分数：33.33）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (3).What is the theme of the story?（分数：33.33）__________________________________________________________________________________________三、Section Ⅲ Critical T(总题数：5，分数：20.00)1.Think of all the families of the murder victims. Think of their suffering. Think of their pain and agony. Support capital punishment—for their sake.（分数：4.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 2.Either we raise taxes by 10% or we drown ourselves in a budget deficit.（分数：4.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 3.When two people steal the national flag and the pole from the top of a building, a citizen says that this just demonstrates the lack of law and order.（分数：4.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 4.A doctor can consult books to make a diagnosis. Why can"t a medical student consult books when being tested.（分数：4.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 5."Most men who have never been married are obsessed with girls.""Oh? I don"t know.""Well, I do, because I know all bachelors are."（分数：4.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________。
2007年浙江大学英语专业(英美文学)真题试卷.doc
2007年浙江大学英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷(总分：30.00，做题时间：90分钟)一、名词解释(总题数：10，分数：20.00)1.The Red Badge of Courage（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 2.The Rivals（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 3.The Wings of the Dove（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 4.The Dynasts（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 5.O"Pioneers!（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 6.Tamburlaine（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 7.Dry September（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 8.A Psalm of Life（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 9.The Faerie Queene（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 10.Dangling Man（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________二、评论题(总题数：3，分数：6.00)11.Speak what you think now in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradicts everything you said today.—"All, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood." —Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 12.Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labors, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligation where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 13.Oh Carrie, Carrie! Oh, blind strivings of the human heart! Onward, onward, it saith, and where beauty leads, there it follows. Whether it be the tinkle of a lone sheep bell o"er some quiet landscape, or the glimmer of beauty in sylvan places, or the show of soul in some passing eye, the heart knows and makes answer, following. It is when the feet weary and hope seems vain that the heartaches and the longings arise. Know, then, that for you is neither surfeit nor content. In your rocking-chair, by your widow dreaming, shall you long, along. In your rocking-chair, by your window, shall you dream such happiness as you may never feel.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________三、分析题(总题数：2，分数：4.00)14.Analyze the theme of the following poem. (Use at least three of the following elements develop and reinforce your analysis: diction, tone, image, figures of speech, symbols, irony, syntax, rhythm, rhyme) (15 points)Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3,1802William WordsworthEarth has not anything more to show more fair;Dull would he be of soul who could pass byA sight so touching in its majesty;This City now doth, like a garment, wearThe beauty of the morning; silent, bare,Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lieOpen unto the fields, and to the sky;All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.Never did the sun more beautifully steepIn his first splendor, valley, rock, or hill;Ne"er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!The river glideth at his own sweet will;Dear God! The very houses seem asleep;And all that mighty heart is lying still!（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 15.Choose one of the following authors and make a comment on any one of his/her literary works.(20 points)George Bernard Shaw Ralph Waldo Emerson Ezra Pound Doris Lessing（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________。
2007年国际关系学院英语专业(英美文学)真题试卷.doc
2007年国际关系学院英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷(总分：78.00，做题时间：90分钟)一、填空题(总题数：9，分数：18.00)1.Beowulf is the national epic of (1) .（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________2.(2) is generally considered to be Chaucer"s masterpiece.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________3.The Renaissance was an epoch of social and cultural development embracing all parts of (3). It first rose in (4) in the (5) century.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________4.Ezra Pound"s lifelong endeavor had been devoted to the writing of (6). which contains (7) poems.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________5.In 1927, T. S. Eliot announced that he was a royalist in (8) . a classicist in (9) . and an Anglo-Catholic in (10).（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________6.The title of James Joyce"s fiction (11) shows that the author intends to model his fiction on the Homeric story of (12).（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________7.Thomas Hardy divided his own novels into (13) series, and Tess of the D"Urbervilles is among the (14) group of his novels（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________8.In Memoriam is often regarded as the most important of (15) "s longer poems. It started as (16) in memory of Arthur Hallam and grew into a full expression of the poet"s (17) and (18) views.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________9.The first book to treat the (19) theme is Joseph Heller"s (20) .（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________二、名词解释(总题数：10，分数：20.00)10.Ballad（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 11.Simile（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 12.Transcendentalism（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 13.Imagism（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 14.Trochee（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 15.Allegory（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 16.The Jazz Age（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 17.Freudianism（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 18.Determinism（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 19.Gothic Romance（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________三、问答题(总题数：16，分数：38.00)20.How many parts are there in The Waste Land?（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 21.What are the basic Calvinist tenets?（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 22.Which of Emerson"s works is called "America"s Intellectual Declaration of Independence"?（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 23.What are the most striking features of Hemingway"s writing style?（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 24.Why is Mark Twain considered as a social critic?（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 25.How does Henry James describe the Americans in his novels?（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 26.How does Edgar Allan Poe anticipate the 20th century literature?（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 27.What does the white whale in Moby Dick symbolize? Why do you think so?（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 28.What is the major thematic concern of Walden?（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 29.What modernist technique does Virginia Woolf employ in her novels like Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse?（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 30.Why is Alexander Pope known as a representative of the Enlightenment?（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 31.What are the two famous epics of John Milton?（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 32.Who are the "Lake Poets" in English literature? To which literary movement do they belong?（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 33.Which of William Faulkner"s works impresses you most? Why?（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 34.Which play of Eugene O"Neill"s is autobiographical?（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ Read the following paragraph and answer the questions on your ANSWER SHEET.When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse. Of an intermediate balance, under the circumstances, there is no possibility. The city has its cunning wiles, no less than the infinitely smaller and more human tempter. There are large forces which allure with all the soulfulness of expression possible in the most cultured human. The gleam of a thousand lights is often as effective as the persuasive light in a wooing and fascinating eye. Half the undoing of the unsophisticated and natural mind is accomplished by forces wholly superhuman. A blare of sound, a roar of life, a vast array of human hives, appeal to the astonished senses in equivocal terms. Without a counselor at hand to whisper cautious interpretations, what falsehoods may not these things breathe, into the unguarded ear? Unrecognized for what they are,their beauty, like music, too often relaxes, then weakens, then perverts the simpler human perceptions.（分数：8.00）(1).Who is the author of the novel from which this paragraph is taken? What is the title of the novel? (6 points)（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (2).With which literary school is the author usually identified? (4 points)（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (3).How does the paragraph express the main points of that school? (5 points)（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (4).What do you think about the author"s way of writing as reflected in the paragraph? (5 points)（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________四、评论题(总题数：1，分数：2.00)35.Paraphrase the following poem in your own words and then make a comment on its theme.My Heart Leaps UpWilliam Wordsworth My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began;So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old.Or let me die!The Child is father of the Man;And I could wish my days to beBound each to each by natural piety.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________。
2007年上半年高等教育自学考试统一命题考试
2007年上半年高等教育自学考试统一命题考试论文写作之英美文学部分试卷Directions:1. Time limit: 150 minutes.2. All the questions should be answered in English.3. Write your answer clearly and neatly on the Answer Sheet.Read the story and answer the following questions in a critical essay around 500-600 English words. Y our answer will be judged on the basis of your understanding, analytical ability, writing skill, the organization and language quality of your essay. (40 points)Questions:1. A summary of the plot.ment on the three characters: the mother, Maggie, and Dee.3.An analysis of the conflict/conflicts and irony/ironies in the story. What is thesignificance of the title in relation to the central conflict?4.An analysis of the theme.Everyday Use(1973)Alice WalkerI will wait for her in the yard that Maggie and I made so clean and wavy yesterday afternoon. A yard like this is more comfortable than most people know. It is not just a yard. It is like an extended living room. When the hard clay is swept clean as a floor and the fine sand around the edges lined with tiny, irregular grooves, anyone can come and sit and look up into the elm tree and wait for the breezes that never come inside the house.Maggie will be nervous until after her sister goes: she will stand hopelessly in corners, homely and ashamed of the burn scars down her arms and legs, eying her sister with a mixture of envy and awe. She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one hand, that "no" is a word the world never learned to say to her.You've no doubt seen those TV shows where the child who has "made it" is confronted, as a surprise, by her own mother and father, tottering in weakly from backstage. (A pleasant surprise, of course: What would they do if parent and child came on the show only to curse out and insult each other?) On TV mother and child embrace and smile into each other's faces. Sometimes the mother and father weep, the child wraps them in her arms and leans across the table to tell how she would not have made it without their help. I have seen these programs.Sometimes I dream a dream in which Dee and I are suddenly brought together on a TV program of this sort. Out of a dark and soft-seated limousine I am ushered into a bright room filled with many people. There I meet a smiling, gray, sporty man like Johnny Carson who shakes my hand and tells me what a fine girl I have. Then we are on the stage and Dee is embracing me with tears in her eyes. She pins on my dress a large orchid, even though she has told me once that she thinks orchids are tacky flowers.In real life I am a large, big-boned woman with rough, man-working hands. In the winter I wear flannel nightgowns to bed and overalls during the day. I can kill and clean a hog as mercilessly as a man. My fat keeps me hot in zero weather. I can work outside all day, breaking ice to get water for washing; I can eat pork liver cooked over the open fire minutes after it comes steaming from the hog. One winter I knocked a bull calf straight in the brain between the eyes with a sledge hammer and had the meat hung up to chill before nightfall. But of course all this does not show on television. I am the way my daughter would want me to be: a hundred pounds lighter, my skin like an uncooked barley pancake. My hair glistens in the hot bright lights. Johnny Carson has much to do to keep up with my quick and witty tongue.But that is a mistake. I know even before I wake up. Who ever knew a Johnson with a quick tongue? Who can even imagine me looking a strange white man in the eye? It seems to me I have talked to them always with one foot raised in flight, with my head fumed in whichever way is farthest from them. Dee, though. She would always look anyone in the eye. Hesitation was no part of her nature."How do I look, Mama?" Maggie says, showing just enough of her thin body enveloped in pink skirt and red blouse for me to know she's there, almost hidden by the door."Come out into the yard," I say.Have you ever seen a lame animal, perhaps a dog run over by some careless person rich enough to own a car, sidle up to someone who is ignorant enough to be kind to him? That is the way my Maggie walks. She has been like this, chin on chest, eyes on ground, feet in shuffle, ever since the fire that burned the other house to the ground.Dee is lighter than Maggie, with nicer hair and a fuller figure. She's a woman now, though sometimes I forget. How long ago was it that the other house burned? Ten, twelve years? Sometimes I can still hear the flames and feel Maggie's arms sticking to me, her hair smoking and her dress falling off her in little black papery flakes. Her eyes seemed stretched open, blazed open by the flames reflected in them. And Dee. I see her standing off under the sweet gum tree she used to dig gum out of; a look of concentration on her face as she watched the last dingy gray board of the house fall in toward the red-hot brick chimney. Why don't you do a dance around the ashes? I'd wanted to ask her. She had hated the house that much.I used to think she hated Maggie, too. But that was before we raised money, the church and me, to send her to Augusta to school. She used to read to us without pity; forcing words, lies, other folks' habits, whole lives upon us two, sitting trapped and ignorant underneath her voice. She washed us in a river of make-believe, burned us with a lot of knowledge we didn't necessarily need to know. Pressed us to her with the serf' oust way she read, to shove us away at just the moment, like dimwits, we seemed about to understand.Dee wanted nice things. A yellow organdy dress to wear to her graduation from high school; black pumps to match a green suit she'd made from an old suit somebody gave me. She was determined to stare down any disaster in her efforts. Her eyelids would not flicker for minutes at a time. Often I fought off the temptation to shake her. At sixteen she had a style of her own: and knew what style was.I never had an education myself. After second grade the school was closed down. Don't ask my why: in 1927 colored asked fewer questions than they do now. Sometimes Maggie reads to me. She stumbles along good-naturedly but can't see well. She knows she is not bright. Like good looks and money, quickness passes her by. She will marry John Thomas (who has mossy teeth in an earnest face) and then I'll be free to sit here and I guess just sing church songs to myself. Although I never was a good singer. Never could carry a tune. I was always better at a man's job. I used to love to milk till I was hooked in the side in '49. Cows are soothing and slow and don't bother you, unless you try to milk them the wrong way.I have deliberately turned my back on the house. It is three rooms, just like the one that burned, except the roof is tin; they don't make shingle roofs any more. There are no real windows, just some holes cut in the sides, like the portholes in a ship, but not round and not square, with rawhide holding the shutters up on the outside. This house is in a pasture, too, like the other one. No doubt when Dee sees it she will want to tear it down. She wrote me once that no matter where we "choose" to live, she will manage tocome see us. But she will never bring her friends. Maggie and I thought about this and Maggie asked me, "Mama, when did Dee ever have any friends?"She had a few. Furtive boys in pink shirts hanging about on washday after school. Nervous girls who never laughed. Impressed with her they worshiped the well-turned phrase, the cute shape, the scalding humor that erupted like bubbles in lye. She read to them.When she was courting Jimmy T she didn't have much time to pay to us, but turned all her faultfinding power on him. He flew to marry a cheap city girl from a family of ignorant flashy people. She hardly had time to recompose herself.When she comes I will meet—but there they are!Maggie attempts to make a dash for the house, in her shuffling way, but I stay her with my hand. "Come back here," I say. And she stops and tries to dig a well in the sand with her toe.It is hard to see them clearly through the strong sun. But even the first glimpse of leg out of the car tells me it is Dee. Her feet were always neat-looking, as if God himself had shaped them with a certain style. From the other side of the car comes a short, stocky man. Hair is all over his head a foot long and hanging from his chin like a kinky mule tail. I hear Maggie suck in her breath. "Uhnnnh, " is what it sounds like. Like when you see the wriggling end of a snake just in front of your foot on the road. "Uhnnnh."Dee next. A dress down to the ground, in this hot weather. A dress so loud it hurts my eyes. There are yellows and oranges enough to throw back the light of the sun.I feel my whole face warming from the heat waves it throws out. Earrings gold, too, and hanging down to her shoulders. Bracelets dangling and making noises when she moves her arm up to shake the folds of the dress out of her armpits. The dress is loose and flows, and as she walks closer, I like it. I hear Maggie go "Uhnnnh" again. It is her sister's hair. It stands straight up like the wool on a sheep. It is black as night and around the edges are two long pigtails that rope about like small lizards disappearing behind her ears."Wasuzo-Teano!" she says, coming on in that gliding way the dress makes her move. The short stocky fellow with the hair to his navel is all grinning and he follows up with "Asalamalakim, my mother and sister!" He moves to hug Maggie but she falls back, right up against the back of my chair. I feel her trembling there and when I look up I see the perspiration falling off her chin."Don't get up," says Dee. Since I am stout it takes something of a push. You can see me trying to move a second or two before I make it. She turns, showing white heels through her sandals, and goes back to the car. Out she peeks next with a Polaroid. Shestoops down quickly and lines up picture after picture of me sitting there in front of the house with Maggie cowering behind me. She never takes a shot without making sure the house is included. When a cow comes nibbling around the edge of the yard she snaps it and me and Maggie and the house. Then she puts the Polaroid in the back seat of the car, and comes up and kisses me on the forehead.Meanwhile Asalamalakim is going through motions with Maggie's hand. Maggie's hand is as limp as a fish, and probably as cold, despite the sweat, and she keeps trying to pull it back. It looks like Asalamalakim wants to shake hands but wants to do it fancy. Or maybe he don't know how people shake hands. Anyhow, he soon gives up on Maggie."Well," I say. "Dee.""No, Mama," she says. "Not 'Dee,' Wangero Leewanika Kemanjo!""What happened to 'Dee'?" I wanted to know."She's dead," Wangero said. "I couldn't bear it any longer, being named after the people who oppress me.""You know as well as me you was named after your aunt Dicie," I said. Dicie is my sister. She named Dee. We called her "Big Dee" after Dee was born."But who was she named after?" asked Wangero."I guess after Grandma Dee," I said."And who was she named after?" asked Wangero."Her mother," I said, and saw Wangero was getting tired. "That's about as far back as I can trace it," I said. Though, in fact, I probably could have carried it back beyond the Civil War through the branches."Well," said Asalamalakim, "there you are.""Uhnnnh," I heard Maggie say."There I was not," I said, "before 'Dicie' cropped up in our family, so why should I try to trace it that far back?"He just stood there grinning, looking down on me like somebody inspecting a Model A car. Every once in a while he and Wangero sent eye signals over my head."How do you pronounce this name?" I asked."You don't have to call me by it if you don't want to," said Wangero."Why shouldn't 1?" I asked. "If that's what you want us to call you, we'll call you.""I know it might sound awkward at first," said Wangero."I'll get used to it," I said. "Ream it out again."Well, soon we got the name out of the way. Asalamalakim had a name twice as long and three times as hard. After I tripped over it two or three times he told me to just call him Hakim-a-barber. I wanted to ask him was he a barber, but I didn't really think he was, so I didn't ask."You must belong to those beef-cattle peoples down the road," I said. They said "Asalamalakim" when they met you, too, but they didn't shake hands. Always too busy: feeding the cattle, fixing the fences, putting up salt-lick shelters, throwing down hay. When the white folks poisoned some of the herd the men stayed up all night with rifles in their hands. I walked a mile and a half just to see the sight.Hakim-a-barber said, "I accept some of their doctrines, but farming and raising cattle is not my style." (They didn't tell me, and I didn't ask, whether Wangero (Dee) had really gone and married him.)We sat down to eat and right away he said he didn't eat collards and pork was unclean. Wangero, though, went on through the chitlins and com bread, the greens and everything else. She talked a blue streak over the sweet potatoes. Everything delighted her. Even the fact that we still used the benches her daddy made for the table when we couldn't effort to buy chairs."Oh, Mama!" she cried. Then turned to Hakim-a-barber. "I never knew how lovely these benches are. You can feel the rump prints," she said, running her hands underneath her and along the bench. Then she gave a sigh a nd her hand closed over Grandma Dee's butter dish. "That's it!" she said. "I knew there was something I wanted to ask you if I could have." She jumped up from the table and went over in the corner where the churn stood, the milk in it crabber by now. She looked at the churn and looked at it."This churn top is what I need," she said. "Didn't Uncle Buddy whittle it out of a tree you all used to have?""Yes," I said."Un huh," she said happily. "And I want the dasher, too.""Uncle Buddy whittle that, too?" asked the barber.Dee (Wangero) looked up at me."Aunt Dee's first husband whittled the dash," said Maggie so low you almost couldn't hear her. "His name was Henry, but they called him Stash.""Maggie's brain is like an elephant's," Wangero said, laughing. "I can use the chute top as a centerpiece for the alcove table," she said, sliding a plate over the chute, "and I'll think of something artistic to do with the dasher."When she finished wrapping the dasher the handle stuck out. I took it for a moment in my hands. You didn't even have to look close to see where hands pushing the dasher up and down to make butter had left a kind of sink in the wood. In fact, there were a lot of small sinks; you could see where thumbs and fingers had sunk into the wood. It was beautiful light yellow wood, from a tree that grew in the yard where Big Dee and Stash had lived.After dinner Dee (Wangero) went to the trunk at the foot of my bed and started rifling through it. Maggie hung back in the kitchen over the dishpan. Out came Wangero with two quilts. They had been pieced by Grandma Dee and then Big Dee and me had hung them on the quilt frames on the front porch and quilted them. One was in the Lone Star pattern. The other was Walk Around the Mountain. In both of them were scraps of dresses Grandma Dee had won fifty and more years ago. Bits and pieces of Grandpa Jattell's Paisley shirts. And one teeny faded blue piece, about the size of a penny matchbox, that was from Great Grandpa Ezra's uniform that he wore in the Civil War."Mama," Wanegro said sweet as a bird. "Can I have these old quilts?"I heard something fall in the kitchen, and a minute later the kitchen door slammed."Why don't you take one or two of the others?" I asked. "These old things was just done by me and Big Dee from some tops your grandma pieced before she died.""No," said Wangero. "I don't want those. They are stitched around the borders by machine.""That'll make them last better," I said."That's not the point," said Wangero. "These are all pieces of dresses Grandma used to wear. She did all this stitching by hand. Imag' ine!" She held the quilts securely in her arms, stroking them."Some of the pieces, like those lavender ones, come from old clothes her mother handed down to her," I said, moving up to touch the quilts. Dee (Wangero) moved back just enough so that I couldn't reach the quilts. They already belonged to her."Imagine!" she breathed again, clutching them closely to her bosom."The truth is," I said, "I promised to give them quilts to Maggie, for when she marries John Thomas."She gasped like a bee had stung her."Maggie can't appreciate these quilts!" she said. "She'd probably be backward enough to put them to everyday use.""I reckon she would," I said. "God knows I been saving 'em for long enough with nobody using 'em. I hope she will!" I didn't want to bring up how I had offered Dee(Wangero) a quilt when she went away to college. Then she had told they were old-fashioned, out of style."But they're priceless!" she was saying now, furiously; for she has a temper. "Maggie would put them on the bed and in five years they'd be in rags. Less than that!""She can always make some more," I said. "Maggie knows how to quilt."Dee (Wangero) looked at me with hatred. "You just will not understand. The point is these quilts, these quilts!""Well," I said, stumped. "What would you do with them?""Hang them," she said. As if that was the only thing you could do with quilts.Maggie by now was standing in the door. I could almost hear the sound her feet made as they scraped over each other."She can have them, Mama," she said, like somebody used to never winning anything, or having anything reserved for her. "I can 'member Grandma Dee without the quilts."I looked at her hard. She had filled her bottom lip with checkerberry snuff and gave her face a kind of dopey, hangdog look. It was Grandma Dee and Big Dee who taught her how to quilt herself. She stood there with her scarred hands hidden in the folds of her skirt. She looked at her sister with something like fear but she wasn't mad at her. This was Maggie's portion. This was the way she knew God to work.When I looked at her like that something hit me in the top of my head and ran down to the soles of my feet. Just like when I'm in church and the spirit of God to uches me and I get happy and shout. I did something I never done before: hugged Maggie to me, then dragged her on into the room, snatched the quilts out of Miss Wangero's hands and dumped them into Maggie's lap. Maggie just sat there on my bed with her mouth open."Take one or two of the others," I said to Dee.But she turned without a word and went out to Hakim-a-barber."You just don't understand," she said, as Maggie and I came out to the car."What don't I understand?" I wanted to know."Your heritage," she said, and then she turned to Maggie, kissed her, and said, "You ought to try to make something of yourself, too, Maggie. It's really a new day for us. But from the way you and Mama still live you'd never know it."She put on some sunglasses that hid everything above the tip of her nose and chin.Maggie smiled; maybe at the sunglasses. But a real smile, not scared. After we watched the car dust settle I asked Maggie to bring me a dip of snuff. And then the two of us sat there just enjoying, until it was time to go in the house and go to bed.。
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2011年7月英美文学选读试题I. Multiple Choice(40 points in all, 1 for each)Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Mark your choice and write the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the answer sheet.1.All of Charles Dickens‘ works, with the exception of _________, present a criticism of the more complicated and yet most fundamental social institutions and morals of the Victorian England.A. Bleak HouseB. Hard TimesC. Great ExpectationsD. A Tale of Two Cities2. From ____________ on, the tragic sense becomes the keynote of Thomas Hardy‘s novels, the conflict between the traditional and the moden is brought to the center of the stage.A. The Return of the NativeB. The Mayor of CasterbridgeC. Tess of the D‘UrbervillesD. Jude the Obscure3. George Bernard Shaw‘s play ____________ shows his almost nihilistic bitterness on the subjects of the cruelty and madness of World War I and the aimlessness and disillusion of the young.A. Getting MarriedB. Too True to Be GoodC. Widowers‘ HousesD. The Apple Cart4. It was only after the publication of ____________ that D.H. Lawrence was recognized as aprominent novelist.A. The TrespasserB. The White PeacockC. Sons and LoversD. The Rainbow5. T. S. Eliot‘s poem ____________ is heavily indebted to James Joyce in terms of the stream- of -consciousness technique, also a prelude to The Waste Land.A. ―Prufrock‖B. ―Gerontion‖C. The Hollow MenD. Lyrical Ballads6. Charlotte Brontё‘s ____________ is noted for its sharp criticism of the existing society, e. g. the religious hypocrisy of charity institutions.A. The ProfessorB. Wuthering HeightsC. VilletteD. Jane Eyre7. Shelley‘s greatest achievement is his four - act poetic drama ____________ , which is an ex- ultant work in praise of humankind‘s potential.A. AdonaisB. Queen MabC. Prometheus UnboundD. Kubla Khan8. Among the Romantic poets ____________ is regarded as a ―worshipper of nature‖.A. William BlakeB. William WordsworthC. George Gordon ByronD. John Keats9. The most perfect example of the verse drama after Greek style in English is John Milton‘s ____________.A. Paradise LostB. Paradise RegainedC. Samson AgonistesD. Areopagitica10. The major theme of Jane Austen‘s no vels is____________.A. love and moneyB. money and social statusC. social status and marriageD. love and marriage11. T. S. Eliot‘s most important single poem ____________ has been hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th-century English poetry.A. The Hollow MenB. The Waste LandC. Murder in the CathedralD. Ash Wednesday12. According to the subjects, William Wordsworth‘s short poems can be classified into two groups, poems about____________.A. nature and human lifeB. happiness and childhoodC. symbolism and imaginationD. nature and commonlife13. Among the following writers ____________ is considered to be the best -known English dramatist since Shakespeare.A. Oscar WildeB. John GalsworthyC. W. B. YeatsD. George Bernard Shaw14. Wil liam Blake‘s ____________ composed during the climax of the French Revolution playsthe double role both as a satire and a revolutionary prophecy.A. The Book of UrizenB. The Book of LosC. Poetical SketchesD. Marriage of Heaven and Hell15. Charles D ickens‘ works are characterized by a mingling of ____________ and pathos.A. metaphorB. passionC. satireD. humor16. Daniel Defoe describes ____________ as a typical English middle -class man of the eigh- teenth century, the very prototype of the empire builder, the pioneer colonist.A. Robinson CrusoeB. Moll FlandersC. GulliverD. Tom Jones17. In Thomas Hardy‘s Wessex novels, there is an apparent ____________touch in his de- scription of the simple and beautiful though primitive rural life.A. nostalgicB. tragicC. romanticD. ironic18. Of all the eighteenth - century novelists ____________ was the first to set out, both in the-ory and practice, to write specially a ―comic epic in prose‖, the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.A. Thomas GrayB. Richard Brinsley SheridanC. Jonathan SwiftD. Henry Fielding19. Shakespeare‘s authentic non-dramatic poetry consists of two long narrative poems: Venus and Adonis and____________.A. Julius CaesarB. The Winter‘s TaleC. The Rape of LucreceD. The Two gentlemen of Verona20. John Milton‘s ____________ is probably his most memorable prose work, which is a greatplea for freedom of the press.A. Paradise LostB. Paradise regainedC. AreopagiticaD. Lycidas21.D. H. Lawrence‘s novels ____________ are generally regarded as his masterpieces.A. The Rainbow; Women in LoveB. The Rainbow; Sons and LoversC. Sons and Lovers; Lady Chatterley‘s LoverD. Women in Love; Lady Chatterley‘s Lover22. The best representatives of the English humanists are Thomas More, Christopher Mar-lowe and____________.A. William ShakespeareB. John MiltonC. Henry FieldingD. Jonathan Swift23. Mark Twain‘s particular concern about the local character of a region came about as ―local colorism,‖ a unique variation of American literary____________.A. romanticismB. nationalismC. modernismD. realism24. As a poet with a strong sense of mission, Walt Whitman devoted all his life to the creation of the ―single‖ poem,____________.A. Drum TapsB. North of BostonC. A Boy‘s WillD. Leaves of Grass25. William Faulkner creates his own mythical kingdom that mirrors not only the decline of the ____________ society of America but also the spiritual wasteland of the whole American society.A. EasternB. WesternC. SouthernD. Northern26. In his final years, Herman Melville turned again to prose fiction and wrote what is probably his second famous work, ____________ , which was published after his death.A. Billy BuddB. RedburnC. Moby - DickD. Typee27. The Sun Also Rise casts light on a whole generation after ____________ and the effects of the war by way of a vivid portrait of ―the Lost Generation. ‖A. the Spanish Civil War B. the American- Mexican WarC. WWID. WWII28. Herman Melville went to the South Seas on a whaling ship in 1841, where he gained the first -hand information about whaling that he used laterin____________.A. TypeeB. RedburnC. Moby - DickD. Omoo29. According to ____________ , the life - death cycle, the spring and winter of the earth, the birth and death of the animals is reality.A. Theodore DreiserB. William FaulknerC. Henry JamesD. F·Scott Fitzgerald30. ―Though life is but a losing battle, it is a struggle man can dominate in sucha way that loss becomes dignity. ‖ Th is is an outlook towards life that____________ had been trying to illustrate in his works.A. F·Scott FitzgeraldB. Ernest HemingwayC. Theodore DreiserD. William Faulkner31. More than five hundred poems ____________ wrote are about nature, in which his (her) general skepticism about the relationship between man and nature is well -expressed.A. Robert FrostB. Emily DickinsonC. Ezra PoundD. Walt Whitman32. In 1954, the Nobel Prize for literature was granted to ____________ , one of the greatest of American writers.A. Ernest HemingwayB. Robert FrostC. Henry JamesD. Theodore Dreiser33. North of Boston is described by Robert Frost as ―a book of poople,‖ which shows a brilliant insight into ____________ character and the background that formed it.A. EasternB. WesternC. SouthernD. New England34. Walt Whitman is radically innovative in terms of the form of his poetry. What he prefers for his new poetic feelings is ― ____________ ‖.A. standardized rhymingB. regular rhymingC. free verseD. strict verse35. Henry James‘ fame generally rests upon his novels and stories withthe____________ theme.A. internationalB. localC. colonialD. post-modern36. The Financier, The Titan and The Stoic by Theodore Dreiser are called his ―Trilogy of _________. ‖A. HatredB. DeathC. DesireD. Fate37. In 1920, F·Scott Fitzgerald‘s first novel ____________ was published, which was, to some extent, his own story.A. This Side of ParadiseB. Tales of the Jazz AgeC. All the Sad Young MenD. Taps at Reveille38. In 1837, Nathaniel Hawthorne published Twice - Told Tales, a collection of ____________ which attracted critical attention.A. poemsB. short storiesC. essaysD. plays39. William Faulkner set most of his works in the American ____________ , with his emphasis on the ________subjects and consciousness.A. North... NorthernB. East... EasternC. West... WesternD. South... Southern40. The House of the Seven Gables was based on the tradition of a curse pronounced on ____________‘s family when his great - grandfather was a judge in the Salem witchcraft trials.A. Nathaniel HawthorneB. Washington IrvingC. Ezra PoundD. Walt WhitmanII. Reading Comprehension (16 points in all, 4 for each)Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.41. ―Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow‘st;Nor shall Death brag thou wander‘st in his shade,When in eternal lines to time thou grow‘st:So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. ‖Questions:A. Who‘s the poet of the quoted stanza, and what‘s the title of the poem?B. What does the word ―this‖ in the last line refer to?C. What idea do the quoted lines express?42. ―Never did sun more beautifully steepIn his first splendor, valley, rock or hill;Ne‘er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep !The river glideth at his own sweet will:Dear God! The very houses seem asleep;And all that mighty heart is lying still!‖( From Wordsworth‘s sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge) Questions:A. What does this sonnet describe?B. What does the phrase ―mighty heart‖ refer to?C. The sonnet follows strictly the Italian form. What is the feature of the Italian form of sonnet?43. ― The woods are lovely, dark and deep,But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep,And miles to go before I sleep. ‖Questions:A. Who‘s the poet of the quoted stanza, and what‘s the title of the poem?B. What does the word ―sleep‖ mean?C. What idea do the four lines express?44. ― I celebrate myself, and sing myself,And what I assume you shall assume,For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.I loafe and invite my soul,I lean and loafe at my ease ob serving 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 a brief answer to each of the following questions in English.Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answersheet.45. What‘s the theme of the poem Paradise Lost? What‘s the author‘s intention to create it and the implication that the poem expresses?46. The Waste Land is T. S. Eliot‘s most important single poem. What‘s the theme of the poem?47. In American literature, Emily Dickinson‘s poetry is unique and unconventional in its own way. W hat are the features of Dickinson‘s poems? 48. What‘s the theme of F. Scott Fitzgerald‘s The Great Gatsby?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. Summarize Ernest Hemingway’s artistic features.2011年4月英美文学选读试题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 the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the answer sheet.1. One of Shelley‘ s greatest political lyrics is ________, which was later to become a rallying song of the British Communist Party.A. ―Ode to Liberty‖B. ―Ode to Naples‖C. ―Sonnet: England in 1819‖D. ―Men of England‖2. In Charles Dickens‘ work ________, the Utilita rian principle rules over the English education system and destroys young hearts and minds.A. Little DorritB. Hard TimesC. Great ExpectationsD. Bleak House3. The tragic sense turns into despair in Thomas Hardy‘s ________, where cornered by the traditional social morality, the hero and the heroine have to kill their own will and passion and return to their former destructive way of life.A. The Return of the NativeB. The Mayor of CasterbridgeC. Tess of the D‘ UrbervillesD. Jude the Obscure4. The typical representatives of G. B. Shaw‘ s early plays are ________.A. Man and Superman; The Apple CartB. Widowers‘ House; Mrs. Warren‘ s ProfessionC. Candida; Mrs. Warren‘ s ProfessionD. The Apple Cart; Widowers‘ House5. As a critic of music and drama, ________ held that art should serve social purposes by reflecting human life, revealing social contradictions and educating the common people.A. T. S. EliotB. Oscar WildeC. George Bernard ShawD.W. B. Yeats6. Symbolism and complex narrative are employed more richly in D. H. Lawrence‘s ________, which are generally regarded as his masterpieces.A. Women in Love; Sons and LoversB. The Rainbow; Women in LoveC. Sons and Lovers; Lady Chatterley‘s LoverD. Lady Chatterley‘ s Lover; The Rainbow7. T. S. Eliot won the Nobel Prize of Literature in ________.A. 1945B. 1948C. 1952D. 19568. Thomas Hardy‘s pessimistic view of life predominates most of his later worksand earns him a reputation as a ________ writer.A. realisticB. naturalisticC. romanticD. stylistic9. ―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 yo u. ‖ The quoted lines are most probably taken from ________.A. Great ExpectationsB. Wuthering HeightsC. Jane EyreD. Pride and Prejudice10. The most distinguishing feature of Charles Dickens‘ works is ________.A. the vernacular and large vocabularyB. his humor and witC. character-portrayalD. pictures of pathos11. G. B. Shaw‘ s play ________ established his position as the leading playwright of his time.A. Widowers‘ HousesB. Too True to Be GoodC. Mrs. Warren‘ s ProfessionD. Candida12. Jan e Austen‘ s first novel ________ tells a story about two sisters and their love affairs.A. Sense and SensibilityB. Pride and PrejudiceC. Northanger AbbeyD. Mansfield Park13. ―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 LostD. John Keats‘― Ode on a Grecian Urn‖14. All of the following poems by William Wordsworth are masterpieces on nature EXCEPT ________.A. ―I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud‖B. ―An Evening Walk‖C. ―Tinter Abbey‖D. ―The Solitary Reaper‖15. William Blake‘s ________ marks his entry into maturity.A. Poetical SketchesB. Songs of InnocenceC. Marriage of Heaven and HellD. Songs of Experience16. Henr y Fielding‘ s ________ brings him the name of ―Prose Homer‖.A. The History of Jonathan Wild the GreatB. The History of T om Jones, a FoundlingC. The History of AmeliaD. The History of Joseph Andrews17. Among the three major poetical works by John Milton, ________ is the most perfect example of verse drama after the Greek style in English.A. Samson AgonistesB. Paradise LostC. Paradise RegainedD. Areopagitica18. T.S. Eliot‘ s ________ not only presents a panorama of physical disorder and spiritual desolation in the modern Western world, but also reflects the prevalent mood of disillusionment and despair of a whole post- war generation.A. The Hollow MenB. The Waste LandC. Murder in the CathedralD. Ash Wednesday19. In ________, Shakespeare has not only made a profound analysis of the social crisis in which the evils can be seen everywhere, but also criticized the bourgeois egoism.A. HamletB. OthelloC. King LearD. Macbeth20. John Milton‘s greatest poetical work ________ is the only general ly acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf.A. AreopagiticaB. Paradise LostC. LycidasD. Samson Agonistes21. The work ________ by William Blake is a lovely volume of poems, presenting a happy world, though not without its evils and sufferings.A. Songs of InnocenceB. Songs of ExperienceC. Poetical SketchesD. Lyrical Ballads22. The plays known as ―the Lawrence trilogy‖ are all the following EXCEPT ________.A. A Collier‘ s Friday NightB. Lady Chatterley‘ s LoverC. The Daughter - in - LawD. The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyed23. Greatly and permanently affected by the ________ experiences, Hemingway formed his own writing style, together with his theme and hero.A. miningB. farmingC. warD. sailing24. ―The dignity of movement of a n iceberg is due to only one -eighth of it being above water. ‖ This ―iceberg‖ analogy about prose style was put forward by ________.A. William FaulknerB. Henry JamesC. Ernest HemingwayD. F·Scott Fitzgerald25. In Go Down, Moses, ________ illuminates the problem of black and white in Southern society as a close- knit destiny of blood brotherhood.A. William FaulknerB. Jack LondonC. Herman MelvilleD. Nathaniel Hawthorne26. In Death in the Afternoon ________ presents his philosophy about life anddeath through the depiction of the bullfight as a kind of microcosmic tragedy.A. William FaulknerB. Jack LondonC. Ernest HemingwayD. Mark Twain27. William Faulkner once said that ________ is a story of ―lost innocence,‖ which proves itself to be an intensification of the theme of imprisonment in the past.A. The Great GatsbyB. The Sound and the FuryC. Absalom, Absalom!D. Go Down, Moses28. Walt Whitman believed, by means of ―________,‖ he has turned poetry into an open field, an area of vital possibility where the reader can allow his own imagination to play.A. free verseB. strict verseC. regular rhymingD. standardized rhyming29. Herman Melville‘s second famous work, ________, was not published until 1924, 33 years after his death.A. PierreB. RedburnC. Moby-DickD. Billy Budd30. In 1920, ________ published his first novel This Side of Paradise which was, to some extent, his own story.A. F·Scott FitzgeraldB. Ernest HemingwayC. William FaulknerD. Emily Dickinson31. Unlike his contemporaries in the early 20th century, ________ did not break up with the poetic tradition nor made any experiment on form.A. Walt WhitmanB. Robert FrostC. Ezra PoundD.T. S. Eliot32. While Mark Twain seemed to have paid more attention to the ―life‖ of the Americans, ________ had apparently laid a greater emphasis on the ―inner world‖ of man.A. William HowellsB. Henry JamesC. Bret HarteD. Hamlin Garland33. At the age of eighty -seven, ________ read his poetry at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy in 1961.A. Robert FrostB. Walt WhitmanC. Ezra PoundD.T. S. Eliot34. Of all Herman Melville‘s sea adventure stories, ________ proves to be the best.A. TypeeB. RedburnC. Moby – DickD. Omoo35. Man is a ―victim of forces over which he has no control. ‖ This is a notion held strongly by ________.A. Robert FrostB. Theodore DreiserC. Henry JamesD. Hamlin Garland36. With the publication of ________, Theodore Dreiser was launching himself upon a long career that would ultimately make him one of the most significant American writers of the school later known as literary naturalism.A. Sister CarrieB. The TitanC. An American TragedyD. The Stoic37. Nathaniel Hawthorne was affected by ________‘s transcendentalist theory and struck up a very intimate relationship with him.A. H. W. LongfellowB. Walt WhitmanC. R. W. EmersonD. Washington Irving38. Among the following writers ________ is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th -century ―stream - of - consciousness‖ novels and the founder of psychological realism.A. T. S. EliotB. James JoyceC. William FaulknerD. Henry James39. Walt Whitman wrote down a great many poems to air his sorrow for the death of President ______, and one of the famous is ―When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom‘ d. ‖A. WashingtonB. LincolnC. FranklinD. Kennedy40. The Marble Faun by Nathaniel Hawthorne, a romance set in______, is concerned about the dark aberrations of the human spirit.A. FranceB. SpainC. EnglandD. ItalyII. 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.―Shah I compare thee to a summer‘s day?Thou art more lovely and more temperate:Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,And summer‘s lease hath all too short a date:‖Questions:A. Who‘s the poet of the quoted stanza, and what‘s the title of the poem?B. What figure of speech is employed in the poem?C. What is the theme of the poem?42. ―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. Who‘s the poet of the quoted stanza, and what‘s the title of the poem?B. 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. Who‘s the poet of the quoted stanza, and what‘s the title of the poem?B. What do ―soil‖ and ―air‖ represent in the first line?C. What does the poet try to say in the above quoted lines?44. ― ‗Is dying hard, Daddy?‘‗No, I think it‘s pretty easy, Nick. It all depends. ‘‖Questions:A. Who‘s the author of the quoted part, and what‘s the title of the work?B. What was Nick preoccupied with when he asked the question?C. Why did the father add ―It all depends‖ after he answered his son‘s question? III. Questions and Answers (24 points in all, 6 for each) Give a brief answer to each of the following questions in English.Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.45. What‘s the theme of Emily Bronte‘ s Wuthering Heights?46. It is said that B. Shaw‘ s play Mrs. Warren‘ s Profession, has a strong realistic theme, which fully reflects the dramatist‘s Fabianist idea. What‘s the theme of the work?47. What‘s the theme of Nathaniel Hawthorne‘ s Young Goodman Brown?48. Daisy Miller brought Henry James international fame for the first time. What‘s the character of Daisy Miller, the protagonist?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. Make a comment on the character of Jane Eyre, the heroine of the novel by Charlotte Bronte.50. Why are naturalists inevitably pessimistic in their view?2010年7月英美文学选读试题Ⅰ. Multiple Choice(40 points in all, 1 for each)Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.1. T. S. Eliot‘s ______ is a poem of dramatic monologue and a prelude to TheWaste Land, helping to point up the continuity of Eliot‘s thinking.A. ―Prufrock‖B. ―Gerontion‖C. The Hollow MenD. Four Quartets2. Defoe‘s group of four novels are t he first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower-class people. They are the following EXCEPT ______.A. Captain SingletonB. Moll FlandersC. RoxanaD. Robinson Crusoe3. Charles Dickens‘ novel, ______, is famous for its vivid descri ptions of the work-house and life of the underworld in the nineteenth-century London. A. The Pickwick Paper B. Oliver TwistC. David CopperfieldD. Nicholas Nickleby4. D. H. Lawrence‘s autobiographical novel is ______.A. The RainbowB. Women in LoveC. Sons and LoversD. Lady Chatterley‘s Lover5. Jonathan Swift‘s greatest satiric work is ______.A. A Tale of a TubB. The Battle of the BooksC. Gulliver‘s TravelsD. A Modest Proposal6. Dickens‘best- depicted characters are the following. EXCEPT ______.A. innocent, virtuous, persecuted and helpless child charactersB. horrible and grotesque charactersC. broadly humorous or comical charactersD. simple, innocent and faithful women characters7. George Bernard Shaw‘s ______ explored his idea of ―Life Force‖, the power that would create superior beings to be equal to God and to solve all the social, moral, and metaphysical problems of human society.A. Man and SupermanB. The Apple CartC. PygmalionD. Too True to Be Good8. For his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel, ______ has been regarded as ―Father of the English Novel‖.A. Daniel DefoeB. Jonathan SwiftC. Henry FieldingD. Oliver Goldsmith9. Charlotte Bronte‘s autobiograghical work ______ largely based on her experience in Brussels.A. The ProfessorB. ShirleyC. VilletteD. Jane Eyre10. D. H. Lawrence‘s artistic tendency is mainly ______ , which combinesdramatic scenes with an authoritative commentary.A. romanticismB. realismC. naturalismD. modernism11. In ______ opinion, human nature is seriously and premanently flawed. Tobetter human life, enlightenment is needed, but to redress it is very hard.A. Daniel Defoe‘sB. Charles Dickens‘C. Jonathan Swift‘sD. Henry Fielding‘s12. The major theme of Ja ne Austen‘s novels is ______ toward which she holdson a practical idealism.A. love and moneyB. marriage and moneyC. love and familyD. love and marriage13. Hardy‘s ______ is a fierce attack on the hypocritical morality of thebourgeois society and the capitalist invasion into the country and destruction of the English peasantry towards the end of the century.A. Tess of the D‘UrbervillesB. The Mayor of Caste BridgeC. The Return of the NativeD. Jude the Obscure14. Henry Fielding adopted ―______‖ to relate a story in his novel in which theauthor becomes the ―all- knowing God‖.A. the first- person narrationB. the epistolary formC. the picaresque formD. the third -person narration15. In ______ , Shelley created a Platonic symbol of the spirit of man, a force ofbeauty and regeneration.A. ―To a Skylark‖B. ―The Cloud‖C. ―Ode to Liberty‖D. Adonais16. The success of ______ is also due to its introduction to the English novelthe first governess heroine.A. The ProfessorB. Jane EyreC. Wuthering HeightsD. Far from the Madding Crowd17. John Milton‘s ______ is the only generally acknowledged epic in Englishliterature since Beowulf.A. Paradise LostB. Paradise RegainedC. Samson AgonistesD. Areopagitica18. Wordsworth‘s ______ is pe rhaps the most anthologized poem in English。
2007年英语专业四级真题+答案
TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS (2007)PART III CLOZE [15 MIN]Until I took Dr Offutt’s class in DeMatha High school, I was an underachieving student, but I left that class (31) _______never to underachieve again. He not only taught me to think, he convinced me, (32) ________by example as words that it was my moral (33) _______to do so and to serve others. (34) _____of us could know how our relationship would (35) _______over the years. When I came back to DeMatha to teach English, I worked for Dr Offutt, the department chair. My discussion with him were like graduate seminars in adolescent (36) ______, classroom management and school leadership.After several years, I was (37) _______department chair, and our relationship (38)________again. I thought that it might be (39)______chairing the department, since all of my (40)______English teachers were (41)_______there, but Dr Offutt supported me (42)_______.He knew when to give me advice (43)_______curriculum, texts and personnel, and when to let me (44)______my own course. In 1997, I needed his (45)______about leaving DeMatha to become principal at another school.(46)_______he had asked me to stay at DeMatha,I might have .(47)_______, he encouraged me to seize the opportunity.Five years ago, I became the principal of DeMatha.(48)________, Dr Offutt was there for me, letting me know that I could (49)_______ him. I have learned from him that great teachers have an inexhaustible (50)________of lessons to teach.31. A. concerned B. worried C. determined D. decided32. A. as much B. much as C. as such D. such as33.A. work B. job C. duty D. obligation34.A. Both B. Neither C. Either D. Each35. A. evolve B. stay C. remain D. turn36.A. process B. procedure C. development D. movement37.A. called B. named C. asked D. invited38.A. moved B. altered C. went D. shifted39.A. awkward B. uneasy C. unnatural D. former40.A. older B. experienced C. former D. /41. A. / B. still C. even D. already42. A. through B. throughout C.at the beginning D. all the way43. A. for B. at C. over D. about44. A. chart B. head C. describe D. manage45.A. opinion B. request C. permission D. order46.A. Even if B. Although C. If D. When47.A. Naturally B. Instead C. Consequently D. Still48.A. Once again B. Repeatedly C. Unusually D. Unexpectedly49.A. count in B. count down C. count out D. count on50.A. stock B. bank C. wealth D. storePART IV GRAMMER &VOCABULARY [15MIN]51. There are as good fish in the sea _____ever came out of it.A. thanB. likeC.asD.so52.All the President’s Men ______one of the important books for historians who study the Watergate Scandal.A. remainB. remainsC. remainedD.is remaining53.’You ______ borrow my notes provided you take care of them,’ I told my friend.A. couldB. shouldC. mustD. can54.If only the patient ______a different treatment instead of using the antibiotics, he might still be alive now.A. had receivedB. receivedC. should receiveD. were receiving55.Linda was _____the experiment a month ago, but she changed her mind at the last minute.A.to startB.to have startedC.to be startingD.to have been starting56.She _____fifty or so when I first met her at the conference.A. must beB. had beenC. could beD. must have been57.It is not ______much the language as the background that makes the book difficult to understand.A. thatB.asC.soD. very58.The committee has anticipated the problems that ________in the road construction project.A. ariseB. will ariseC. aroseD. have arisen59.The student said there were a few points in the essay he _______impossible to comprehend.A. had foundB. findsC. has foundD. would find60.He would have finished his college education, but he _______to quit and find a job to support his family.A. had hadB. hasC. hadD. would have61.The research requires more money than ________.A. have been put inB. has been put inC. being put inD.to be put in62.Overpopulation poses a terrible threat to the human race. Yet it is probably ________a threat to the human race than environmental destruction.A.no moreB. not moreC. even moreD. much more63.It is not uncommon for there _______problems of communication between the old and the young.A. beingB. would beC.beD.to be64.________at in his way, the situation does not seem so desperate.A. LookingB. LookedC. Being lookedD.to look65.It is absolutely essential that William ________ his study in spite of some learning difficulties.A. will continueB. continuedC. continueD. continues66.The painting he bought at the street market the other day was a _______forgery.A. man-madeB. naturalC. crudeD. real67.She’s always been kind to me –I can’t just turn ______on her now that she needs my help.A.my backB.my headC.my eyeD. shoulder68.The bar in the club is for the ______use of its members.A. extensiveB. exclusiveC. inclusiveD. comprehensive69.The tuition fees are ______to students coming from low-income families.A. approachableB. payableC. reachableD. affordable70.The medical experts warned the authorities of the danger of diseases in the _______of the earthquake.A. consequenceB. aftermathC. resultsD. effect71.This sort of rude behaviour in public hardly ______a person in your position.A. becomesB. fitsC. supportsD. improves72.I must leave now. _______,if y ou want that book I’ll bring it next time.A. AccidentallyB. IncidentallyC. EventuallyD. Naturally73.After a long delay, she ______replying to my e-mail.A. got away withB. got back atC. got backD. got round to74.Personal computers are no longer something beyond the ordinary people; they are______ available these days.A. promptlyB. instantlyC. readilyD. quickly75.In my first year at the university I learnt the _______of journalism.A. basicsB. basicC. elementaryD. elements76.According to the new tax law, any money earned over that level is taxed at the ______of 59 percentA. ratioB. percentageC. proportionD. rate77.Thousands of _______at the stadium came to their feet to pay tribute to an outstanding performance.A. audienceB. participantsC. spectatorsD. observers78.We stood still, gazing out over the limitless ______of the dessert.A. spaceB. expanseC. stretchD. land79.Doctor often ______uneasiness in the people they deal with.A. smellB. hearC. senseD. tough80.Mary sat at the table, looked at the plate and ______her lips.A. smackedB. openedC. partedD. separatedPART V READING COMPREHENSION [25 MIN]TEXT AIf you like the idea of staying with a family, living in house might be the answer. Good landladies – those who are superb cooks and launderers, are figures as popular in fiction as the bad ones who terrorize their guest and overcharge them at the slightest opportunity. The truth is probably somewhere between the two extremes. If you are lucky, the food will be adequate, some of your laundry may be done for you and you will have a reasonable amount of comfort and companionship. For the less fortune, house rules may restrict the freedom to invite friends to visit, and shared cooking and bathroom facilities can be frustrating and row-provoking if tidy and untidy guest are living under the same roof.The same disadvantages can apply to flat sharing, with the added difficulties that arise from deciding who pays for what, and in what proportion. One person may spend hours on the phone, while another rarely makes calls. If you want privacy with guest, how do you persuade the others to go out; how do you persuade them to leave you in peace, especially if you are student and want to study?Conversely, flat sharing can be very cheap, there will always be someone to talk to and go out with, and the chores, in theory, can be shared.81.According to the passage, landladies are ________.A. usually strictB. always meanC. adequately competentD. very popular with their guest82.What is the additional disadvantage of flat sharing?A. Problems of sharing and paying.B. Differences in living habits.C. Shared cooking and bathroom facilities.D. Restriction to invite friends to visit.83.What is NOT mentioned as a benefit of flat sharing?A. Rent is affordable.B. There is companionship.C. Housework.D. There is peace and quiet. TEXT B1. Travelling through the country a couple of weeks ago on business, I was listening to the talk of the late UK writer Douglas Adams' master work "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" on the radio and thought-I know, I'll pick up the next hitchhikers I see and ask them what the state of real hitching is today in Britain.2. I drove and drove on main roads and side roads for the next few days and never saw a single one.3. When I was in my teens and 20s, hitchhiking was a main form of long-distance transport. The kindness or curiosity of strangers took me all over Europe, North America, Asia and southern Africa, some of the lift-givers became friends, many provided hospitality on the road.4. Not only did you find out much more about a country than when traveling by train or plane, but there was that element of excitement about where you would finish up that night. Hitchhiking featured importantly in Western culture. It has books and songs about it. So, what has happened to it?5. A few years ago, I was asked the same question about hitching in a column of a newspaper. Hundreds of people from all over the world responded with their view on the state of hitchhiking.6. Rural Ireland was recommended as a friendly place for hitching, as was Quebec, Canada-"if you don't mind being criticized for not speaking French".7. But while hitchhiking was clearly still alive and well in some places, the general feeling was that throughout much of the west it was doomed.8. With so much news about crime in the media, people assumed that anyone on the open road without the money for even a bus ticket must present a danger. But do we need to be so wary both to hitch and to give a lift? 9. In Poland in the 1960s, according to a Polish woman who e-mail me,＂the authorities introduced the Hitchhiker's Booklet. The booklet contained coupons for drivers, so each time a driver picked somebody, he or she received a coupon. At the end of the season, drivers who had picked up the most hikers were rewarded withvarious prizes. Everyone was hitchhiking then".10. Surely this is a good idea for society. Hitchhiking would increase respect by breaking down barriers between strangers. It would help fight global warming by cutting down on fuel consumption as hitchhikers would be using existing fuels. It would also improve educational standards by delivering instant lessons in geography, history, politics and sociology.11. A century before Douglas Adams wrote his "Hitchhiker's Guide", another adventure story writer, Robert Louis Stevenson, gave us that what should be the hitchhiker's motto:＂To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive." What better time than putting a holiday weekend into practice. Either put it to the test yourself or help out someone who is trying to travel hopefully with thumb outstretched.84.In which paragraph (s) does the writer comment on his experience of hitchhiking?A. （3）B. （4）C. （3）and （4）D. （4）and （5）85.What is the current situation of hitchhiking?A. It is popular in some parts of the world.B. It is popular throughout the west.C. It is popular in Poland.86.What is the writer's attitude towards the practice in Poland?A. Critical.B. Unclear.C. Somewhat favourable.D. Strongly favourable.87.The writer has mentioned all the following benefits of hitchhiking EXCEPTA. promoting mutual respect between strangersB. increasing one's confidence in strangersC. protecting environmentD. enrich one's knowledge88. "Either put it to the test yourself…"in Paragraph mea nsA. to experience the hopefulnessB. to read Adams' bookC. to offer someone a liftTEXT CI am afraid to sleep. I have been afraid to sleep for the last few weeks. I am so tired that, finally, I do sleep, but only for a few minutes. It is not a bad dream that wakes me; it is the reality I took with me into sleep. I try to think of something else.Immediately the woman in the marketplace comes into my mind.I was on my way to dinner last night when I saw her. She was selling skirts. She moved with the same ease and loveliness I often saw in the women of Laos. Her long black hair was as shiny as the black silk of the skirts she was selling. In her hair, she wore three silk ribbons, blue, green, and white. They reminded me of my childhood and how my girlfriends and I used to spend hours braiding ribbons into our hair.I don't know the word for "ribbons", so I put my hand to my own hair and, with three fingers against my head, I looked at her ribbons and said "Beautiful." She lowered her eyes and said nothing. I wasn't sure if she understood me (I don't speak Laotian very well).I looked back down at the skirts. They had designs in them: squares and triangles and circles of pink and green silk. They were very pretty. I decided to buy one of those skirts, and I began to bargain with her over the price. It is the custom to bargain in Asia. In Laos bargaining is done in soft voices and easy moves with the sort of quiet peacefulness.She smiled, more with her eyes than with her lips. She was pleased by the few words I was able to say in her language, although they were mostly numbers, and she saw that I understood something about the soft playfulness of bargaining. We shook our heads in disagreement over the price; then, immediately, we made another offer and then another shake of the head. She was so pleased that unexpectedly, she accepted the last offer I made. But it was too soon. The price was too low. She was being too generous and wouldn't make enough money. I moved quickly and picked up two more skirts and paid for all three at the price set; that way I was able to pay her three times as much before she had a chance to lower the price for the larger purchase. She smiled openly then, and, for the first time in months, my spirit lifted. I almost felt happy.The feeling stayed with me while she wrapped the skirts in a newspaper and handed them to me. When I left, though, the feeling left, too. It was as though it stayed behind in marketplace. I left tears in my throat. I wanted tocry. I didn't, of course.I have learned to defend myself against what is hard; without knowing it, I have also learned to defend myself against what is soft and what should be easy.I get up, light a candle and want to look at the skirts. They are still in the newspaper that the woman wrapped them in. I remove the paper and raise the skirts up to look at them again before I pack them. Something falls to floor. I reach down and feel something cool in my hand. I move close to the candlelight to see what I have. There are five long silk ribbons in my hand, all different colours. The woman in the marketplace! She has given these ribbons to me!There is no defense against a generous spirit, and this time I cry, and very hard, as if I could make up for all the months that I didn't cry.90.Which of the following in NOT correct?A. The writer was not used to bargaining.B. People in Asia always bargain when buying things.C. Bargaining in Laos was quiet and peaceful.D. The writer was ready to bargain with the woman.91.The writer assumed that the woman accepted the last offer mainly because woman ________.A. thought that the last offer was reasonableB. thought she could still make much moneyC. was glad that the writer knew their way of bargainingD. was tired of bargaining with the writer any more92.Why did the writer finally decide to buy three skirts?A. The skirts were cheap and pretty.B. She liked the patterns on the skirts.C. She wanted to do something as compensation.D. She was fed up with further bargaining with the woman.93.When did the writer left the marketplace, she wanted to cry, but did not because ________.A. she had learned to stay cool and unfeelingB. she was afraid of crying in publicC. she had learned to face difficulties bravelyD. she had to show in public that she was strong94. Why did the writer cry eventually when she looked at the skirts again?A. she suddenly felt very sadB. she liked the ribbons so muchC. she was overcome by emotionD. she felt sorry for the womanTEXT DThe kids are hanging out. I pass small bands of students, in my way to work these mornings. They have become a familiar part of the summer landscape.These kids are not old enough for jobs. Nor are they rich enough for camp. They are school children without school. The calendar called the school year ran out on them a few weeks ago. Once supervised by teachers and principals, they now appear to be "self-care".Passing them is like passing through a time zone. For much of our history, after all, Americans arranged the school year around the needs of work and family. In 19th-century cities, schools were open seven or eight hours a day, 11 months a year. In rural America, the year was arranged around the growing season. Now, only 3 percent of families follow the agricultural model, but nearly all schools are scheduled as if our children went home early to milk the cows and took months off to work the crops. Now, three-quarters of the mothers of school-age children work, but the calendar is written as if they were home waiting for the school bus.The six-hour day, the 180-day school year is regarded as something holy. But when parents work an eight-hourday and a 240-day year, it means something different. It means that many kids go home to empty houses. It means that, in the summer, they hang out."We have a huge mismatch between the school calendar and realities of family life, “says Dr. Ernest Boyer, head of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.Dr. Boyer is one of many who believe that a radical revision of the school calendar is inevitable.＂School, whether we like it or not, is educational. It always has been."His is not popular idea. School are routinely burdened with the job of solving all our social problems. Can they be asked to meet the needs of our work and family lives?It may be easier to promote a linger school year on its educational merits and, indeed, the educational case is compelling. Despite the complaints and studies about our kids' lack of learning, the United State still has a shorter school year than any industrial nation. In most of Europe, the school year is 220 days. In Japan, it is 240 days long. While classroom time alone doesn't produce a well-educated child, learning takes time and more learning takes more time. The long summers of forgetting take a toll.The opposition to a longer school year comes from families that want to and can provide other experiences for their children. It comes from teachers. It comes from tradition. And surely from kids. But the most important part of the conflict has been over the money.95.Which of the following is an opinion of the author’s?A. "The kids are hanging out."B. "They are school children without school."C. "These kids are not old enough for jobs."D. "The calendar called the school year ran out on them a few weeks ago."96.The current American school calendar was developed in the 19th century according to ________.A. the growing season on nation's formB. the labour demands of the industrial ageC. teachers' demands for more vacation timeD. parents' demands for other experiences for their kids97.The author thinks that the current school calendar ________.A. is still validB. is out of dateC. cannot be revisedD. cannot be defended98. Why was Dr. Boy's idea unpopular?A. He argues for the role of school in solving social problems.B. He supports the current school calendar.C. He thinks that school year and family life should be considered separately.D. He strongly believes in the educational role of school.99."The long summers of forgetting take a toll" in the last paragraph but one means thatA. long summer vacation slows down the progress go learningB. long summer vacation has been abandoned in EuropeC. long summers result in less learning timeD. long summers are a result of tradition100.The main purpose of the passage is ________.A. to describe how American children spend their summerB. to explain the needs of the modern working familiesC. to discuss the problems of the current school calendarD. to persuade parents to stay at home to look after their kidsIII.31-35 CADBA 36-40 CBDAC 41-45 BBDAA 46-50 CBADC IV.51-55 CBAAB 56-60 DCDAC 61-65 BBDBC 66-70 DABDA 71-75 BBDCA 76-80 DCCCAV.81-85 DADCA 86-90 DBDBA 91-95 BCDCB 96-100 ABDCC。
2007年考研英语真题和答案
2007年考研英语真题和答案Section I Use of EnglishDirections:Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark [A], [B], [C] or [D] on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)By 1830 the former Spanish and Portuguese colonies had become independent nations. The roughly 20 million of these nations looked to the future. Born in the crisis of the old regime and Iberian Colonialism, many of the leaders of independence the ideals of representative government, careers to talent, freedom of commerce and trade, the to private property, and a belief in the individual as the basis of society. there was a belief that the new nations should be sovereign and independent states, large enough to be economically viable and integrated by a set of laws.On the issue of of religion and the position of the church, , there was less agreement the leadership. Roman Catholicism had been the state religion and the only one by the Spanish crown. most leaders sought to maintain Catholicism the official religion of the new states, some sought to end the of other faiths. The defense of the Church became a rallying for the conservative forces.The ideals of the early leaders of independence were often egalitarian, valuing equality of everything. Bolivar had received aid from Haiti and had in return to abolish slavery in the areas he liberated. By 1854 slavery had been abolished everywhere except Spain’s colonies. Early promises to end Indian tribute and taxes on people of mixed origin came much because the new nations still needed the revenue such policies . Egalitarian sentiments were often tempered by fears that the mass of the population was self-rule and democracy.1. [A] natives[B] inhabitants[C] peoples[D] individuals2. [A] confusedly[B] cheerfully[C] worriedly[D] hopefully3. [A] shared[B] forgot[C] attained[D] rejected4. [A] related[B] close[C] open[D] devoted5. [A] access[B] succession[C] right[D] return6. [A] Presumably[B] Incidentally[C] Obviously[D] Generally7. [A] unique[B] common[C] particular[D] typical8. [A] freedom[B] origin[C] impact[D] reform9. [A] therefore[B] however[C] indeed[D] moreover10. [A] with[B] about[C] among[D] by11. [A] allowed[B] preached[C] granted[D] funded12. [A] Since[B] If[C] Unless[D] While13. [A] as[B] for[C] under[D] against14. [A] spread[B] interference[C] exclusion[D] influence15. [A] support[B] cry[C] plea[D] wish16. [A] urged[B] intended[C] expected[D] promised17. [A] controlling[B] former[C] remaining[D] original18. [A] slower[B] faster[C] easier[D] tougher19. [A] created[B] produced[C] contributed[D] preferred20. [A] puzzled by[B] hostile to[C] pessimistic about[D] unprepared forSection II Reading ComprehensionPart ADirections:Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing [A], [B], [C], or [D]. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET1. (40 points)Text 1If you were to examine the birth certificates of every soccer player in 2006’s World Cup tournament, you would most likely find a noteworthy quirk: elite soccer players are more likely to have been born in the earlier months of the year than in the later months. If you then examined the European national youth teams that feed the World Cup and professional ranks, you would find this strange phenomenon to be even more pronounced.What might account for this strange phenomenon? Here are a few guesses: a) certain astrological signs confer superior soccer skills;b) winter-born babies tend to have higher oxygen capacity, which increases soccer stamina; c) soccer-mad parents are more likely to conceive children in springtime, at the annual peak of soccer mania;d) none of the above.Anders Ericsson, a 58-year-old psychology professor at Florida State University, says he believes strongly in “none of the above.” Ericsson grew up in Sweden, and studied nuclear engineering until he realized he would have more opportunity to conduct his own researchif he switched to psychology. His first experiment, nearly 30 years ago, involved memory: training a person to hear and then repeat a random series of numbers. “With the first subject, after about 20 hours of training, his digit span had risen from 7 to 20,” Ericsson recalls. “He kept improving, and after about 200 hours of training he had risen to over 80 numbers.”This success, coupled with later research showing that memory itself is not genetically determined, led Ericsson to conclude that the act of memorizing is more of a cognitive exercise than an intuitive one. In other words, whatever inborn differences two people may exhibit in their abilities to memorize, those differences are swamped by how well each person “encodes” the information. And the best way to learn how to encode information meaningfully, Ericsson determined, was a process known as deliberate practice. Deliberate practice entails more than simply repeating a task. Rather, it involvessetting specific goals, obtaining immediate feedback and concentrating as much on technique as on outcome.Ericsson and his colleagues have thus taken to studying expert performers in a wide range of pursuits, including soccer. They gatherall the data they can, not just performance statistics and biographical details but also the results of their own laboratory experiments with high achievers. Their work makes a rather startling assertion: the trait we commonly call talent is highly overrated. Or, put another way, expert performers – whether in memory or surgery, ballet or computer programming – are nearly always made, not born.21. The birthday phenomenon found among soccer players is mentioned to[A] stress the importance of professional training.[B] spotlight the soccer superstars in the World Cup.[C] introduce the topic of what makes expert performance.[D] explain why some soccer teams play better than others.22. The word “mania” (Line 4, Paragraph 2) most probably means[A] fun.[B] craze.[C] hysteria.[D] excitement.23. According to Ericsson, good memory[A] depends on meaningful processing of information.[B] results from intuitive rather than cognitive exercises.[C] is determined by genetic rather than psychological factors.[D] requires immediate feedback and a high degree of concentration.24. Ericsson and his colleagues believe that[A] talent is a dominating factor for professional success.[B] biographical data provide the key to excellent performance.[C] the role of talent tends to be overlooked.[D] high achievers owe their success mostly to nurture.25. Which of the following proverbs is closest to the message thetext tries to convey?[A] “Faith will move mountains.”[B] “One reaps what one sows.”[C] “Practice makes perfect.”[D] “Like father, like son.”Text 2For the past several years, the Sunday newspaper supplement Parade has featured a column called “Ask Marilyn.” People are invited to query Marilyn vos Savant, who at age 10 had tested at a mental level of someone about 23 years old; that gave her an IQ of 228 – thehighest score ever recorded. IQ tests ask you to complete verbal and visual analogies, to envision paper after it has been folded and cut, and to deduce numerical sequences, among other similar tasks. So itis a bit confusing when vos Savant fields such queries from the average Joe (whose IQ is 100) as, What’s the difference between love and fondness? Or what is the nature of luck and coincidence? It’snot obvious how the capacity to visualize objects and to figure out numerical patterns suits one to answer questions that have eluded some of the best poets and philosophers.Clearly, intelligence encompasses more than a score on a test. Just what does it mean to be smart? How much of intelligence can be specified, and how much can we learn about it from neurology, genetics, computer science and other fields?The defining term of intelligence in humans still seems to be the IQ score, even though IQ tests are not given as often as they used to be. The test comes primarily in two forms: the Stanford-BinetIntelligence Scale and the Wechsler Intelligence Scales (both come in adult and children’s version). Generally costing several hundred dollars, they are usually given only by psychologists, although variations of them populate bookstores and the World Wide Web. Superhigh scores like vos Savant’s are no longer possible, because scoring is now based on a statistical population distribution among age peers, rather than simply dividing the mental age by the chronological age and multiplying by 100. Other standardized tests, such as the Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) and the Graduate Record Exam (GRE), capture the main aspects of IQ tests.Such standardized tests may not assess all the important elements necessary to succeed in school and in life, argues Robert J. Sternberg. In his article “How Intelligent Is Intelligence Testing?”, Sternberg notes that traditional test best as sess analytical and verbal skills but fail to measure creativity and practical knowledge, components also critical to problem solving and life success. Moreover, IQ tests do not necessarily predict so well once populations or situations change. Research has found that IQ predicted leadership skills when the tests were given under low-stress conditions, but under high-stress conditions, IQ wasnegatively correlated with leadership – that is, it predicted the opposite. Anyone who has toiled through SAT will testify that test-taking skill also matters, whether it’s knowing when to guess or what questions to skip.26. Which of the following may be required in an intelligence test?[A] Answering philosophical questions.[B] Folding or cutting paper into different shapes.[C] Telling the differences between certain concepts.[D] Choosing words or graphs similar to the given ones.27. What can be inferred about intelligence testing from Paragraph 3?[A] People no longer use IQ scores as an indicator of intelligence.[B] More versions of IQ tests are now available on the Internet.[C] The test contents and formats for adults and children may be different.[D] Scientists have defined the important elements of human intelligence.28. People nowadays can no longer achieve IQ scores as high as vos Savant’s because[A] the scores are obtained through different computational procedures.[B] creativity rather than analytical skills is emphasized now.[C] vos Savant’s case is an extreme one that will not repeat.[D] the defining characteristic of IQ tests has changed.29. We can conclude from the last paragraph that[A] test scores may not be reliable indicators of one’s ability.[B] IQ scores and SAT results are highly correlated.[C] testing involves a lot of guesswork.[D] traditional test are out of date.30. What is the author’s attitude towards IQ tests?[A] Supportive.[B] Skeptical.[C] Impartial.[D] Biased.Text 3During the past generation, the American middle-class family that once could count on hard work and fair play to keep itselffinancially secure had been transformed by economic risk and new realities. Now a pink slip, a bad diagnosis, or a disappearing spouse can reduce a family from solidly middle class to newly poor in a few months.In just one generation, millions of mothers have gone to work, transforming basic family economics. Scholars, policymakers, and critics of all stripes have debated the social implications of these changes, but few have looked at the side effect: family risk has risen as well. Toda y’s families have budgeted to the limits of their new two-paycheck status. As a result, they have lost the parachute they once had in times of financial setback – a back-up earner (usually Mom) who could go into the workforce if the primary earner got laid off or fell sick. This “added-worker effect” could support the safety net offered by unemployment insurance or disability insurance to help families weather bad times. But today, a disruption to family fortunes can no longer be made up with extra income from an otherwise-stay-at-home partner.During the same period, families have been asked to absorb much more risk in their retirement income. Steelworkers, airline employees, and now those in the auto industry are joining millions of families who must worry about interest rates, stock market fluctuation, and the harsh reality that they may outlive their retirement money. For much of the past year, President Bush campaigned to move Social Security to a saving-account model, with retirees trading much or all of their guaranteed payments for payments depending on investment returns. For younger families, the picture is not any better. Both the absolute cost of healthcare and the share of it borne by families have risen – and newly fashionable health-savings plans are spreading from legislative halls to Wal-Mart workers, with much higher deductibles and a large new dose of investment risk for families’ future healthcare. Even demographics are working against the middle class family, as the odds of having a weak elderly parent – and all the attendant need for physical and financial assistance – have jumped eightfold in just one generation.From the middle-class family perspective, much of this, understandably, looks far less like an opportunity to exercise more financial responsibility, and a good deal more like a frightening acceleration of the wholesale shift of financial risk onto their already overburdened shoulders. The financial fallout has begun, and the political fallout may not be far behind.31. Today’s dou ble-income families are at greater financial risk in that[A] the safety net they used to enjoy has disappeared.[B] their chances of being laid off have greatly increased.[C] they are more vulnerable to changes in family economics.[D] they are deprived of unemployment or disability insurance.32. As a result of President Bush’s reform, retired people may have[A] a higher sense of security.[B] less secured payments.[C] less chance to invest.[D] a guaranteed future.33. According to the author, health-savings plans will[A] help reduce the cost of healthcare.[B] popularize among the middle class.[C] compensate for the reduced pensions.[D] increase the families’ investment risk.34. It can be inferred from the last paragraph that[A] financial risks tend to outweigh political risks.[B] the middle class may face greater political challenges.[C] financial problems may bring about political problems.[D] financial responsibility is an indicator of political status.35. Which of the following is the best title for this text?[A] The Middle Class on the Alert[B] The Middle Class on the Cliff[C] The Middle Class in Conflict[D] The Middle Class in RuinsText 4It never rains but it pours. Just as bosses and boards have finally sorted out their worst accounting and compliance troubles, and improved their feeble corporation governance, a new problem threatens to earn them – especially in America – the sort of nasty headlines that inevitably lead to heads rolling in the executive suite: data insecurity. Left, until now, to odd, low-level IT staff to put right, and seen as a concern only of data-rich industries such as banking, telecoms and air travel, information protection is now high on the boss’s agenda in businesses of every variety.Several massive leakages of customer and employee data this year –from organizations as diverse as Time Warner, the American defense contractor Science Applications International Corp and even the University of California, Berkeley – have left managers hurriedlypeering into their intricate IT systems and business processes in search of potential vulnerabilities.“Data is becoming an asset which needs to be guarded as much as any other asset,” says Haim Mendelson of Stanford University’s business school. “The ability to guard c ustomer data is the key to market value, which the board is responsible for on behalf of shareholders.” Indeed, just as there is the concept of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), perhaps it is time for GASP, Generally Accepted Security Practices, suggested Eli Noam of New York’s Columbia Business School. “Setting the proper investmentlevel for security, redundancy, and recovery is a management issue, not a technical one,” he says.The mystery is that this should come as a surprise to any boss.Surely it should be obvious to the dimmest executive that trust, that most valuable of economic assets, is easily destroyed and hugely expensive to restore – and that few things are more likely todestroy trust than a company letting sensitive personal data get into the wrong hands.The current state of affairs may have been encouraged – though not justified – by the lack of legal penalty (in America, but not Europe) for data leakage. Until California recently passed a law, American firms did not have to tell anyone, even the victim, when data went astray. That may change fast: lots of proposed data-securitylegislation is now doing the rounds in Washington, D.C. Meanwhile,the theft of information about some 40 million credit-card accountsin America, disclosed on June 17th, overshadowed a hugely important decision a day earlier by America’s Federal Trade Commission (FTC) that puts corporate America on notice that regulators will act iffirms fail to provide adequate data security.36. The statement “It never rains but it pours” is used tointroduce[A] the fierce business competition.[B] the feeble boss-board relations.[C] the threat from news reports.[D] the severity of data leakage.37. According to Paragraph 2, some organizations check their systemsto find out[A] whether there is any weak point.[B] what sort of data has been stolen.[C] who is responsible for the leakage.[D] how the potential spies can be located.38. In bringing up the concept of GASP the author is making the point that[A] share holders’ interests should be properly attended to.[B] information protection should be given due attention.[C] businesses should enhance their level of accounting security.[D] the market value of customer data should be emphasized.39. According to Paragraph 4, what puzzles the author is that some bosses fail to[A] see the link between trust and data protection.[B] perceive the sensitivity of personal data.[C] realize the high cost of data restoration.[D] appreciate the economic value of trust.40. It can be inferred from Paragraph 5 that[A] data leakage is more severe in Europe.[B] FTC’s decision is essential to data security.[C] California takes the lead in security legislation.[D] legal penalty is a major solution to data leakage.Part BDirections:You are going to read a list of headings and a text about what parents are supposed to do to guide their children into adulthood. Choose a heading from the list A—G that best fits the meaning of each numbered part of the text (41-45). The first and last paragraphs of the text are not numbered. There are two extra headings that you do not need to use. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)A. Set a Good Example for Your KidsB. Build Your Kids’ Work SkillsC. Place Time Limits on Leisure ActivitiesD. Talk about the Future on a Regular BasisE. Help Kids Develop Coping StrategiesF. Help Your Kids Figure Out Who They AreG. Build Your Kids’ Sense of ResponsibilityHow Can a Parent Help?Mothers and fathers can do a lot to ensure a safe landing in early adulthood for their kids. Even if a job’s starting salary seems toosmall to satisfy an emerging adult’s need for rapid content, the transition from school to work can be less of a setback if the start-up adult is ready for the move. Here are a few measures, drawn from my book Ready or Not, Here Life Comes, that parents can take to prevent what I call “work-life unreadiness.”You can start this process when they are 11 or 12. Periodically review their emerging strengths and weaknesses with them and work together on any shortcomings, like difficulty in communicating well or collaborating. Also, identify the kinds of interests they keep coming back to, as these offer clues to the careers that will fit them best.Kids need a range of authentic role models – as opposed to members of their clique, pop stars and vaunted athletes. Have regular dinner-table discussions about people the family knows and how they got where they are. Discuss the joys and downsides of your own career and encourage your kids to form some ideas about their own future. When asked what they want to do, they should be discouraged from saying“I have no idea.” They can change their minds 200 times, but having only a foggy view of the future is of little good.Teachers are responsible for teaching kids how to learn; parents should be responsible for teaching them how to work. Assign responsibilities around the house and make sure homework deadlines are met. Encourage teenagers to take a part-time job. Kids need plenty of practice delaying gratification and deploying effective organizational skills, such as managing time and setting priorities.Playing video games encourages immediate content. And hours of watching TV shows with canned laughter only teaches kids to process information in a passive way. At the same time, listening through earphones to the same monotonous beats for long stretches encourages kids to stay inside their bubble instead of pursuing other endeavors. All these activities can prevent the growth of important communication and thinking skills and make it difficult for kids to develop the kind of sustained concentration they will need for most jobs.They should know how to deal with setbacks, stresses and feelings of inadequacy. They should also learn how to solve problems and resolve conflicts, ways to brainstorm and think critically. Discussions at home can help kids practice doing these things and help them apply these skills to everyday life situations.What about the son or daughter who is grown but seems to bestruggling and wandering aimlessly through early adulthood? Parents still have a major role to play, but now it is more delicate. They have to be careful not to come across as disappointed in their child. They should exhibit strong interest and respect for whatevercurrently interests their fledging adult (as naive or ill conceivedas it may seem) while becoming a partner in exploring options for the future. Most of all, these new adults must feel that they are respected and supported by a family that appreciates them.Part CDirections:Read the following text carefully and then translate the underlined segments into Chinese. Your translation should be written clearly on ANSWER SHEET 2. (10 points)The study of law has been recognized for centuries as a basic intellectual discipline in European universities. However, only in recent years has it become a feature of undergraduate programs in Canadian universities. (46) Traditionally, legal learning has been viewed in such institutions as the special preserve of lawyers,rather than a necessary part of the intellectual equipment of an educated person. Happily, the older and more continental view oflegal education is establishing itself in a number of Canadian universities and some have even begun to offer undergraduate degreesin law.If the study of law is beginning to establish itself as part and parcel of a general education, its aims and methods should appeal directly to journalism educators. Law is a discipline which encourages responsible judgment. On the one hand, it provides opportunities to analyze such ideas as justice, democracy and freedom.(47) On the other, it links these concepts to everyday realities in a manner which is parallel to the links journalists forge on a daily basis as they cover and comment on the news. For example, notions of evidence and fact, of basic rights and public interest are at work inthe process of journalistic judgment and production just as in courts of law. Sharpening judgment by absorbing and reflecting on law is a desirable component of a journalist’s intellectual preparation forhis or her career.(48) But the idea that the journalist must understand the law more profoundly than an ordinary citizen rests on an understanding of the established conventions and special responsibilities of the news media. Politics or, more broadly, the functioning of the state, is a major subject for journalists. The better informed they are about the way the state works, the better their reporting will be. (49) In fact, it is difficult to see how journalists who do not have a clear graspof the basic features of the Canadian Constitution can do a competent job on political stories.Furthermore, the legal system and the events which occur within itare primary subjects for journalists. While the quality of legal journalism varies greatly, there is an undue reliance amongst many journalists on interpretations supplied to them by lawyers. (50)While comment and reaction from lawyers may enhance stories, it is preferable for journalists to rely on their own notions ofsignificance and make their own judgments. These can only come from a well-grounded understanding of the legal system.Section III WritingPart A51. Directions:Write a letter to you university library, making suggestions for improving its service.You should write about 100 words on ANSWER SHEET 2.Do not sign your own name at the end of the letter. Use “Li Ming” instead.Do not write the address. (10 points)Part B52. Directions:Write an essay of 160-200 words based on the following drawing. In your essay, you should1) describe the drawing briefly,2) explain its intended meaning, and then3) support your view with an example/examples.You should write neatly on ANSWER SHEET 2. (20 points)答案Section I: Use of English (10 points)1. B2. D3. A4. C5. C6. D7. B8. A9. B 10. C11. A 12. D 13. A 14. C 15. B16. D 17. C 18. A 19. B 20. DSection II: Reading Comprehension (60 points)Part A (40 points)21. C 22. B 23. A 24. D 25. C26. D 27. C 28. A 29. A 30. B31. C 32. B 33. D 34. C 35. B36. D 37. A 38. B 39. A 40. DPart B (10 points)41. F 42. D 43. B 44. C 45. EPart C (10 points)46. 长久以来，法律知识在这类学校里一起被视为律师们专有的，而不是一个受教育者的知识素养的必要组成部分。
2007年04月自考英语(二)真题及解析
2007年4月高等教育自学考试全国统一命题考试英语（二）试卷及答案（课程代码：00015）Ⅰ.Vocabulary and Structure(10 point each)从下列各句四个选项中选出一个最佳答案，并在答题纸上将相应的字母涂黑。
1. It is difficult to __ the implication between the lines.A. get toB. get withC. get atD. get down答案：C解析：要在字里行间找出隐含的意思（或言外之意）是很难的。
2. The volleyball match was televised __ on CCTV.A. aliveB. lifeC. liveD. lively答案：C解析：live adj. 活的；生动的；实况转播的；精力充沛的3. The newspaper will have to close down if it cannot increase its __ .A. distributionB. contributionC. prescriptionD. circulation答案：D解析：如果不能增加发行量这家报纸就要倒闭了。
4.The central theatre has a seating __ of more than 3,000 people.A. capabilityB. capacityC. abilityD. facility答案：B解析：中央剧院有能够容纳超过3000人的座位。
5. The furniture in her bedroom is quite different from __ in the living room.A. thatB. itC. oneD. which答案：A解析：代指前文提到的物品用that。
6. Because of the bad weather, the sports meet had to be __.A. shut downB. done awayC. taken offD. called off答案：D解析：call off表示取消。
(完整版)《美国文学》期末考试试卷(A卷)答案
湖州师范学院外国语学院2008- 2009学年第二学期《美国文学》期末考试试卷（A卷）答案暨评分标准I. Write the names of the authors。
（10％）①Walt Whitman②Edgar Allen Poe③Wallace Stevens④Franklin Norris⑤Stephen Crane⑥William Faulkner⑦Sinclair Lewis⑧John Steinbeck⑨Langston Hughes⑩Tennessee WilliamsII. Fill in the following blanks with appropriate information。
（10％）①New England②Regionalism or Local color writing③semi-autobiographical④anti-realism⑤Imagist⑥Santiago⑦multiple narrations or points of view⑧1930⑨Harlem Renaissance⑩Eugene O'NeillIII. Choose only one answer form the four choices as the most appropriate answer。
(20％）1－5. A D C B B 6－10. D B E B AIV。
Identify the author and the title of the work from which each of the following excerpts is taken。
And then answer the question after each excerpt. (20%)Passage 1the author： Walt Whitman （1％)the title of the work : Songs of Myself (1％）Question： What is the poet celebrating？ (2％)➢The poet is celebrating individualism and nationalism, singing of all those people who form the American nationality。
2007年4月英语阅读一试题
全国2007年4月高等教育自学考试英语阅读（一）试题课程代码：00595请将答案填在答题纸相应位置上1.CAREFUL READINGRead the following passages carefully. Decide on the best answer and write your answer in the corresponding space on the ANSWER SHEET.(40 points, 2 points each)Passage 1Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage.One of the qualities that most people admire in others is the willingness to admit one’s mistakes .It is extremely hard sometimes to say a simple thing like “I was wrong about that,” and it is even harder to say,“ I was wrong, and you were right about that.”I had an experience recently with someone admitting to me that he had made a mistake fifteen years ago. He told me he had been the manager of a certain grocery store in the neighborhood where I grew up, and he asked me if I remembered the egg cartons. Then he related an incident and I began to remember vaguely the incident he was describing.I was about eight years old at the time, and I had gone into the store with my mother to do the weekly grocery shopping. On that particular day, I must have found my way to the dairy food department where the incident took place. There must have been a special sale on eggs that day because there was an impressive display of eggs in dozen and half-dozen cartons. The cartons were stacked three or four feet high. I must have stopped in front of a display to admire the stacks. Just then a woman came by pushing her grocery cart and knocked off the stacks of cartons. For some reason, I decided it was up to me to put the display back together, so I went to work.The manager heard the noise and came rushing over to see what had happened. When he appeared, I was on my knees inspecting some of the cartons to see if any of the eggs were broken, but to him it looked as though I were the culprit. He severely reprimanded me and wanted me to pay for the broken eggs. I protested my innocence and tried to explain, but it did no good. Even though I quickly forgot all about the incident, apparently the manager did not.1．How old was the author when he wrote this article?浙00595#英语阅读（一）试题第1 页共16 页A. About 8.B. About 15.C. About 18.D. About 23.2．The stacks of cartons were actually knocked off by______________.A. the authorB. the managerC. a woman customerD. the author’s mother3．When the manager came, the author was__________________.A. inspecting the eggsB. putting the cartons backC. paying for the broken eggsD. pushing the cart for the woman4．The word “culprit”(Para.4)may be replaced by_______________.A. foolB. clownC. thiefD. wrongdoer5．The author’s attitude towards admitting one’s mistakes is basically_____________.A. ironicB. criticalC. indifferentD. appreciativePassage 2Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage.Interest in pursuing international careers has soared in recent years, enhanced by chronic(长久的) personnel shortages that are causing companies to search beyond their home borders for talent.Professionals seek career experience outside their home countries for a variety of reasons. They may feel the need to recharge their batteries with a new challenge. They may want a position with more responsibility that encourages creativity and initiative. Or they may wish to expose their children to another culture, and the opportunity to learn a second language.When applying for a job, one usually has to submit a résumé or curriculum vitae (CV) .The two terms generally mean the same thing: a one-or two-page document describing one’s educational qualifications and professional experience. However, guidelines for preparing a résumé are constantly changing. The best advice is to find out what is appropriate regarding the corporate culture, the country culture, and the culture of the person making the hiring decision. The challenge will be to embrace(包含)two or more cultures in one document. The following list is a good place to start:●Educational requirements differ from country to country. In almost every case of “cross-border” job hunting, just stating the title of your degree will not be an adequate description.浙00595#英语阅读（一）试题第2 页共16 页Provide the reader with details about your studies and any related experience.●Pay attention to the résumé format you use—chronological or reverse-chronological order. Chronological order means listing your “oldest”work experience first. Reverse-chronological order means listing your current or most recent experience first. Most countries have preferences about which format is most acceptable. If you find no specific guidelines, the general preference is for the reverse-chronological format.●If you are submitting your résumé in English ,find out if the recipient（收件人）uses British English or American English because there are variations between the two versions. For example, university education is often referred to as “tertiary education ” in the United Kingdom, but this term is rarely used in the United States. A reader who is unfamiliar with these variations may assume that your contains errors.6．Companies are searching for talent outside their home countries because________.A. they need to expand their business globallyB. they have difficulty hiring employees at homeC. they can benefit from international professionalsD. foreign employees are more capable than those at home7．According to the passage, professionals looking for international careers________.A．are usually creative and have the initiativeB．are no longer satisfied with their own life at homeC．aim to improve their foreign language skillsD．aim at opportunities for themselves and their children8．When it comes to résumé writing, it is advisable to________.A．take cultural factors into considerationB．learn about the company’s hiring processC．follow appropriate guidelines for job huntingD．find out the employer’s personal likes and dislikes9．When writing about qualifications in the résumé, job applicants are advised to________. A．emphasize their academic potential to impress the decision makerB．start with the title of the degree they have obtained at homeC．provide a detailed description of their studies and work experiences浙00595#英语阅读（一）试题第3 页共16 页D．show intense interest in pursuing international careers10．According to the author’s last piece of advice, job applicants should be aware of __________.A．the different educational systems in the US and the UKB．the differences between American English and British EnglishC．the recipient’s preference with regard to résumé formatD．the distinctive features of American and British culturesPassage 3Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage.On a January day in 1975, Ken and Catalina Brugger wandered through an ancient forest in Mexico on a high mountain slope eighty miles west of Mexico City .The air was damp and cool. The sky was cloudy, so little light reached through the trees. As the Bruggers walked along, they realized they were hearing a quiet, constant noise. It was like rain falling on the fir tress. But there was no rain. They looked around for the source of the sound. Suddenly, sunlight broke through the clouds and lit up the forest. The Bruggers gasped in delight. All around them, the trees shimmered with the beating of brilliant orange and black wings. The Bruggers were surrounded by millions of monarch butterflies, resting in their winter home.The Brugger’s discovery was important in the world of butterfly study. Butterfly lovers knew that, late every summer, monarchs migrate from Canada into Mexico. More than 300 million of the fragile creatures make the 2,500-mile flight. But no one knew what became of the butterflies once they reached Mexico. Within the next few years, twelve more monarch roosts were discovered. They were all along the same mountain range where the Bruggers had made their find. Now the mystery was solved.The monarch’s stay in Mexico is just one part of an amazing life cycle. Every spring, in Mexico, female monarchs lay enormous numbers of eggs. One female may lay more than four hundred a month. She attaches her eggs to milkweed plants. The milkweed provides a perfect first home for the young monarchs .Because milkweed is poisonous to most creatures, birds and other butterfly enemies avoid it. But monarchs love milkweed. The eggs hatch in three to twelve days, and out come worm-like larve（幼虫）which feed on the milkplant. The poison does not hurt them. But it does have an important effect. It makes the monarch as poisonous the plant was. A bird that浙00595#英语阅读（一）试题第4 页共16 页eats a monarch will become very sick—and never eat another one.After living for two weeks as larvae, the monarchs attach themselves to leaves. Then they spin cocoons(茧).After a week, the cocoons open and the butterflies emerge, soon to begin their 2,500-mile flight northwards. Many of them die as they pass through such southern states as Texas and Louisiana. But first they lay more eggs. After a few weeks, a new generation of monarchs is ready to continue the journey. They—or their children or grandchildren—will reach Canada, where they spend the summer.11．The Bruggers did not know where the quiet, constant noise came from because it was _______.A．raining B．cloudy C．too bright D．windy 12．By the time the article was written, people had discovered______________.A．1 monarch roost B．12 monarch roostsC．13 monarch roosts D．400 monarch roosts13．Before the Brugger’s discovery, people did not know_____________________.A．how monarch butterflies lived in CanadaB．when monarch butterflies left CanadaC．what happened to monarch butterflies in MexicoD．where monarch butterflies in Mexico came from14．The monarch butterflies make their winter home in ___________________.A．Canada B．MexicoC．the U.S. D．Texas or Louisiana15．The article provides information about monarchs’__________________.A．migration, food and size B．food, size and number C．migration, food and number D．migration, number and sizePassage 4Questions 16 to 20 are based on the following passage.The Yanomami are a people living in villages between 40 and 250 people in the Venezuelan rain forest. Since the 1960s, Napoleon Chagnon has studied several Yanomami villages, written a widely-read book called The Fierce People about the Yanomami and helped to produce several films about them.浙00595#英语阅读（一）试题第5 页共16 页Chagnon’s writings and films have promoted a long-standing view of the Yanomami as exceptionally violent and war-loving. According to Chagnon, about one third of adult Yanomami males die violently, about two thirds of all adults had lost at least one close relative through violence, and over 50 percent had lost two or more close relatives. He has reported that one village was raided 25 times during his first 15 months there.Chagnon provides a sociobiological explanation for the fierceness of the Yanomami. He explains that village raids and warfare are carried to obtain wives. Although the Yanomami prefer to marry within their village, there is a shortage of potential brides because the Yanomami practice the killing of female infants, which creates a scarcity of women. While the Yanomami prefer to marry within their own group, taking a wife from another group is preferable to remaining a bachelor. Men in other groups, however, are unwilling to give up their women; hence the necessity for raids. Chagnon also argues that, as successful warriors will be able to gain a wife or more than one wife, they often have more children than unsuccessful ones. Successful warriors, Chagnon suggests, carry a genetic advantage for fierceness, which they pass on to their sons, leading to a high growth rate of groups with violent males through genetic selection for fierceness. Male fierceness, in this view, is biologically determined.Marvin Harris, who has a cultural materialist perspective, says that food scarcity and population in the area are the underlying causes of warfare. The Yanomami lack plentiful sources of meat, which is highly valued. Harris suggests that when hunting in an area was exhausted, the Yanomami would venture into territories of neighboring groups, thus giving rise to conflicts. Such conflicts in turn resulted in high rate of adult male deaths. Combined with the effects of female infant killing, this meat-warfare complex kept population growth rate down to a level that the environment could support.In contrast, Patrick Tierney, a journalist, points the finger of blame to a large extent at Chagnon himself. Tierney presents evidence that it was the presence of Chagnon and his team of co-researchers and many boxes of trade goods that triggered a series of deadly raids, for the Yanomami competed with other groups for his trade goods. In addition, Tierney argues that Chagnon intentionally prompted the Yanomami to act fiercely for his films and to stage raids that actually led to bad feelings where they had not existed before.16．The first sentence in the second paragraph implies that_________________.浙00595#英语阅读（一）试题第6 页共16 页A．the Yanomami are fierce by natureB．the Yanomami are historically a fierce peopleC．Chagnon influenced people’s view of the YanomamiD．Chagnon was the discoverer of the Yanomami fierceness17．According to Chagnon’s explanation, the fierceness of the Yanomami originates from_______. A．the lack of men B．the shortage of womenC．the desire to marry out D．the fear of marrying within 18．Chagnon’s explanation of the Yanomami suggests that individual personality is_________. A．inborn B．learnedC．reshaped D．acquired19．Marvin Harris explains the fierceness of the Yanomami in terms of ___________. A．biology B．raceC．history D．environment20．In contrast to other researchers, Patrick Tierney interprets issues concerning the Yanomami as the result of their___________.A．native culture B．primitive societyC．modern researchers D．primitive enemiesⅡ. SPEED READINGSkim or scan the following passages, and then decide on the best answer and write your answer in the corresponding space on the ANSWER SHEET.(10 points, 1 point each)Passage 5Questions 21-24 are based on the following passage.English is a vacuum cleaner language; it is able and willing to adopt any words it finds useful.Places, peoples, tongues from around the world all have become part of the English vocabulary. They give it flexibility and provide a certain sense of familiarity for people who speak it as a second or foreign language.According to the Oxford English Dictionary, English contains worlds from more than 350 living languages.浙00595#英语阅读（一）试题第7 页共16 页“English is a free market,”says Allan Metacalf, author of The World in So Many Words. “Guardians of other languages tend to become alarmed when they notice foreign words creeping in . They say ,‘That’s a terrible thing; keep them out.’But English is multicultural.”Linguistic historians believe that English began to absorb other languages on a large scale in 1066. That was the year when King William, a Norman from what is now France, conquered England. That meant English speakers were ruled by French speakers. The English language had to make some changes.During the Renaissance, words flowed into English form Latin and Greek. The Age of Exploration introduced new terms from all corners of the world.And America changed everything. America began as an English-speaking land but its language has been and is still shaped by generations of immigrants. Each new group brings new ideas and new expressions. Irish, Italians, Germans, Eastern Europeans, Latinos, Africans, Asians —all change English in some degree.Mass culture makes adoptions easier. Today, words like kungfu and chow are no longer odd Chinese words; they have gone mainstream.Then there are words invented or given new meanings when English needs them. Some words like e-mail , blurb and fax enter the mainstream. Others like laser begin life as acronyms(首字母缩略)for things that otherwise would be too difficult to say in everyday conversation.Of course, language cannot be separated from culture, and importation depends on the situation. It also depends on whether the word remains useful.Linguists predict that foreign words will flow into English even faster as more non-native speakers reach global leadership positions. The pace will increase, but it still will be English, which always is ready to accept new words. This is because English is a practical language with a long tradition of borrowing.21．The best title for the passage would be__________.A．Borrowed Words in English B．History of English Words C．Mass Culture and Adoptions D．Word Inventions and Adoptions 22．King William was___________________.A．Italian B．French浙00595#英语阅读（一）试题第8 页共16 页C．Norman D．Greek23．The word borrowed from Chinese is __________________.A．chow B．e-mailC．fax D．laser24．According to linguists, the borrowing of foreign words will____________.A．stop B．continueC．speed up D．slow downPassage 6Questions 25-27 are based on the following passage.Suggested Readings:Anne Allison, Nightwork: Sexuality, Pleasure and Corporate Masculinity in a Tokyo Hostess Club.Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1994. Based on the author’s participant observation, this book explores what it is like to work as a hostess in a club that caters to corporate male employees and discusses how that microculture is linked to men’s corpoerate work culture.Fraces Dahlber, ed. Woman the Gatherer. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981. These path-breaking essays examine the role of women in four different foraging societies, provide insights on human evolution from studies of female chimpanzees, and give an overview of women’s role in human cultural adaptation.Elliot Fratkin, Ariaal Pastoralists of Kenya: Surviving Drought and Development in Africa’s Arid Lands. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1988. Based on several phases of ethnographic research among the Ariaal beginning in the 1970s, this book provides insights about pastoralism in general and the particular cultural strategies of the Ariaal, including attention to social oragaization and family life.David Uru Iyam, The Broken Hoe: cultural Reconfiguration in Biase Southeast Nigeria. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1995. Based on fieldwork among the Biase people by a scholar who is a member of a Biase group, this book examines changes since the 1970 in the traditional forms of subsistence—agriculture, fishing, and trade—and related issues such as environmental deterioration and population growth.Katherine S. Newman, Falling from Grace: The Experience of Downward Mobility in the 浙00595#英语阅读（一）试题第9 页共16 页American Middle Class.New York: The Free Press, 1988. This book providesethnographic research on the downwardly mobile of New Jersey as a “special tribe,”with attention to loss of employment by corporate managers and blue-collar workers,and the effects of downward mobility on middle-class family life, particularly women. Richard H. Robbins, Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism. Boston: Longman, 1999.Robins takes a critical look at the role of capitalism and global economic growth increating and sustaining many world problems such as poverty, disease, hunger, violence,and environmental destruction. The last section includes extended case studies tosupport the argument.Deborah Sick , Farmers of the Golden Bean: Costa Rican Households and the Global Coffee Economy. Dekalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1999. This book is anethnography of coffee-producing households in Costa Rica that describes the difficultiesfacing coffee farmers due to unpredictable global forces and the uncertain role of thestate as a mediator between the global and the local.25．Among the books on the list, the number of those published in the 1990s is _____________. A．2 B．3 C．4 D．526．The two books published by the University Press of Chicago were written or edited by__________.A．Anne Allison and David Uru IyamB．David Uru Iyam and Deborah SickC．Anne Allison and Katherine S. NewmanD．Richard H. Robbins and David Uru Iyam27．The book that contains coffee farmers was published in ____________.A．1988 B．1994 C．1995 D．1999Passage 7Questions 28-30 are based on the following passage.Following World War II, the oil boom contributed to major economic changes in the Middle East especially the Gulf states. This unprecedented prosperity has been used to provide many social benefits, such as subsidized health, housing and education. In Kuwait, a major division in the distribution of the benefits of this wealth is between citizens and non-citizens. Foreign浙00595#英语阅读（一）试题第10 页共16 页migrants are the majority of the population: In 1989, the population composition was 650,000 Kuwaitis, 1.3million migrant workers, and about 250,000 bedu (former or current pastoral nomads.) Foreign migrants do not have citizenship.Some state benefits are distributed to everyone living in Kuwait, including health care, subsidized water, electricity and gasoline. Kuwaiti citizens receive additional benefits and pay no income taxes. Citizens receive free education and practically free housing. They are guaranteed a job in the government sector if they want one, and they are entitled to several state financial supports: living allowances, bride-wealth grants for first marriages, and subsidies for wedding celebrations. Foreigners are subject to residence and labor laws that prevent them from settling permanently in Kuwait. They cannot own real estate or other permanent assets and they cannot join trade unions.28．In 1989, most people in Kuwait were ____________,A．Kuwaitis B．beduC．migrant workers D．pastoral nomads 29．Foreigners are not entitled to social benefits such as_______________.A．gasoline B．free educationC．health care D．electricity30．Those who do not pay income taxes are ____________________.A．bedu B．non-citizensC．Kuwaiti citizens D．migrant workersⅢ.DISCOURSE CLOZEThe following is taken from the textbook. Read the passage and fill in the numbered spaces(there are more suggested answers than necessary). Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET.(10 points, 1 point each)The English, as a race, have the reputation of being very different from all other nationalities, including their closest neighbors, the French, Belgians and Dutch. It is claimed that living on an island separated from the rest of Europe has much to do with it. Whatever the reasons,(31)______.Broadly speaking, the Englishman is a quiet, shy, reserved person who is fully relaxed only among people he knows well. In the presence of strangers or foreigners he often seems inhibited, even embarrassed. You have only to witness a commuter train any morning or evening to see the浙00595#英语阅读（一）试题第11 页共16 页truth of this. (32)__________; no one speaks. In fact, to do so would seem most unusual. An English wit,(33)_________, once suggested, “On entering a railway compartment shake hands with all the passengers.”Needless to say, he was not being serious. There is an unwritten but clearly understood code of behavior which, if broken, makes the person immediately the object of suspicion.It is a well-known fact that the English have an obsession with their weather and that, given half a chance, (34)____________. Some people argue that it is because English weather defies forecast and hence is a source of interest and speculation to everyone. This may be so. Certainly Englishmen cannot have much faith in the meteorological experts—the weathermen—who, after promising fine, sunny weather for the following day, (35)____________. The man in the street seems to be as accurate—or as inaccurate—as the weathermen in his predictions. This helps to explain the seemingly odd sight of an Englishman (36)____________. So variable is the weather that by lunchtime it could be pouring.The overseas visitors may be excused for showing surprise at the number of references to weather that the English make to each other in the course of a single day. Very often conventional greetings are replaced by comments on the weather. “Nice day, isn’t it?”“Beautiful!” may well be heard (37)_____________. Although the foreigner may consider this exaggerated and comic, it is worthwhile pointing out that it could be used to his advantage. If he wants to start a conversation with an Englishman (or woman) (38)_____________.It is a safe subject which will provoke an answer from even the most reserved of Englishmen.In many parts of the world it is quite normal to show openly extremes of enthusiasm, emotion, passion etc., often accompanied by appropriate gestures. The Englishman is somewhat different. Of course, an Englishman feels no less deeply than any other nationality, but he tends to display his feelings far less. This is reflected in his use of language. Imagine a man commenting on the great beauty of a young girl. Whereas a man of more emotional temperament might describe her as “an exquisite jewel,”“divine,”“precious,” (39)_____________. An Englishman who has seen a highly successful and enjoyable film recommends it to a friend by commenting, “It’s not bad, you know,” or on seeing a breathtaking landscape he might convey his pleasure by saying, “Nice, yes, very nice. ” The overseas visitor must not be disappointed by this apparent lack of interest and involvement; (40)_____________. This special use of language, particularly浙00595#英语阅读（一）试题第12 页共16 页common in English, is known as understatement.(from The English Character) A．leaving home on a bright, sunny, summer morning with a raincoat slung over his arm and an umbrella in his handB．instead of “Good morning ,how are you ?”C．he must realize that “all right,”“not bad,” and “nice ” are very often used as superlatives with the sense of “first-class ”, “excellent, ”“beautiful”D．it may be fairly stated that the Englishman has developed many attitudes and habits which distinguish him from other nationalitiesE．The country’s intellectuals are also being taken to task for their failure to speak out against the regimeF．they will talk about it at lengthG．Serious-looking businessmen and women sit reading their newspapers or dozing in a corner H．pretending to be giving advice to overseas visitorsI．tends to be attracted in the display of his feelingsJ．but is at a loss to know where to begin, he could do well to mention the state of the weather K．are often proved wrong when an anti-cyclone over the Atlantic brings rainy weather to all districtsL．the Englishman will flatly state “Um, she’s all right”Ⅳ.WORD FORMATIONSComplete each of the following sentences with the proper form of the word in the brackets. Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET.(10 points, 1point each)41．（rely）The major educational distinction between on-campus and distance teaching is the ________________on group-based strategies in the former and the individualized instruction in the latter.42．(produce)The only growing population in Asia is that of the poor. Much of the___________ land is being used for city expansion and building roads.43．(grow) World demand for paper and board is now expected to increase faster than the general economic_____________ in the next 15 years.浙00595#英语阅读（一）试题第13 页共16 页浙00595# 英语阅读（一）试题 第 14 页 共 16 页44．（destroy ）Understanding how fire grows indoors is the first step in limiting its potential fordeath and______________ .45．（reason ）Is the American Dream over? That ’s the question any_____________,well-informed person might ask these days.46．(strength) He hoped to___________ the position of the sciences in the leading universities.47．(invest) Many of the more reputable green products, however, represent verylarge________ in research and design, and in new materials and technology.48．(entertain) Television, tapes, CDs, VCRs and audio-visual cameras have turned the homeinto an ______________center.49．(legal) They were yesterday convicted of___________________ using a hand gun.50．(science) Australian__________________ have advised Ecuador on how to protect the seasaround the famed Galapagos Islands.Ⅴ.GAP FILLINGThe following is taken from the textbook. Fill in the numbered gaps with the correct form of the words or phrases in the box(there are more words than necessary). Writeyour answers on the ANSWER SHEET.(10 points, 1 point each)nose,is or hidden behind? Even the way we dress and colours we wear communicate things to others.So, do animals communicate? Not in words, although a parrot might be (54)_____________ to repeat words and phrases which it doesn ’t understand. But, as we have learnt, there is more to communication than words.Take dogs for example. They bare their teeth to warn, wag their tails to welcome and stand。
全国2007年4月高等教育自学考试
全国2007年4月高等教育自学考试英美文学选读试题Ⅰ.1．The work that presented, for the first time in English literature, a comp rehensive realistic picture of the medieval English society and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life is most likely ____________. A．William Langland’ s Piers PlowmanB．Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury TalesC．John Gower’s Confession AmantisD．Sir Gawain and the Green Knight2．The tragedy of Dr. Faustus, the protagonist in Christopher Marlowe’s The Tragic History of Dr. Faustus , is the very fact that______________. A．man is confined to time B．he tried to join Africa to SpainC．he became a man without soul after he sold itD．he conjured up Helen, the lady who was partially responsible for the breaking-up of the Trojan War3．The sentence “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare’s ______________. A．comedies B．tragedies C．sonnets D．histories4．Paradise Lost is actually a story taken from ______________.A．the Renaissance B．the Old TestamentC．Greek Mythology D．the New Testament5．Spenser’s masterpiece _____________ is a great poem of its time.A．The Faerie Queene B．The Shepheardes CalenderC．The Canterbury Tales D．Metamorphoses6．______________ is the essence of the Renaissance.A．Poetry B．Drama C．Humanism D．Reason7．The most famous dramatists in the Renaissance England are Christopher Marlow e, William Shakespeare and ______________.A．John Milton B．John Marlowe C．Ben Jonson D．Edmund Spenser8．“To be, or not to be—that is the question”is a line taken from______________.A．Hamlet B．Othello C．King Lear D．The merchant of venice9．Francis Bacon’s essays are famous for their brevity, compactness and ______________. A．complicity B．complexity C．powerfulness D．mildness10．Literature of Neoclassicism is different from that of Romanticism in that _ _____________.A．the former celebrates reason, rationality, order and instruction while the l atter sees literature as an expression of an individual’s feeling and experiencesB．the former is heavily religious but the latter secularC．the former is an intellectual movement, the purpose of which is to arouse th e middle class for political rights while the latter is concerned with the pers onal cultivationD．the former advocates the “return to nature” whereas the latter turns to th e ancient Greek and Roman writers for its models.11．Daniel Defoe describes ______________ as a typical English Middle- class ma n of the eighteenth century, the very prototype of the empire builder or the pi oneer colonist.A．Tom Jones B．Gulliver C．Moll Flanders D．Robinson Crusoe12．______________ is a typical feature of Swift’s writings.A．Bitter satire B．Elegant styleC．Casual narration D．Complicated sentence structure13．The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan is often said to be concerned with the search for ___ ___________.A．material wealth B．spiritual salvationC．universal truth D．self- fulfillment14．Alexander Pope strongly advocated ______________ , emphasizing that literar y works should be judged by rules of order, reason, logic, restrained emotion, good taste and decorum.A．Sentimentalism B．Romanticism C．Idealism D．Neoclassicism15．“Metaphysical poetry” refers to the works of the 17th- century writers wh o wrote under the influence of ______________.A．John Donne B．Alexander Pope C．Christopher Marlowe D．John Milton16．It is generally regarded that Keats’ s most important and mature poems are in the form of ______________.A．ode B．elegy C．epic D．sonnet17．______________ is the most outstanding stream of consciousness novelist, wi th ___________ as his encyclopedia – like masterpiece .A．James Joyce, Ulysses B．E.M. Foster, A Passage to India C．D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers D．Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway18．Which of the following poems is a landmark in English poetry?A．Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor ColeridgeB．“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” by William WordsworthC．“Remorse ”by Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD．Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman19．The literary form which is fully developed and the most flourishing during the Romantic Period is ______________.A．prose B．drama C．novel D．poetry20．Which of the following poems by T.S. Eliot is hailed as a landmark and a mo del of the 20th century English poetry?A．Poems 1909-1925 B．The Hollow ManC．Prufrock and Other Observations D．The Waste Land21．“My last Duchess” is a poem that best exemplifies Robert Browning’s ______________.A．sensitive ear for the sounds of the English languageB．excellent choice of wordsC．mastering of the metrical devicesD．use of the dramatic monologue22．Dickens’ works are characterized by a mingling of ______________ and patho s.A．humor B．satire C．passion D．metaphor23．Walt Whitman, whose ______________ established him as the most popular Amer ican poet of the 19th century.A．Leaves of Grass B．Go Down, MosesC．The Marble Faun D．As I Lay Dying24．______________ has always been regarded as a writer who “perfected the bes t classic style that American Literature ever produced”.A．Edgar Ellen Poe B．Walt WhitmanC．Henry David Thoreau D．Washington Irving25．The Romantic Period, one of the most important periods in the history of Am erican 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 War26．Which of the following statements is NOT true of American Transcendentalism ?A．It can be clearly defined as a part of American Romantic literary movement. B．It can be defined philosophically as “the recognition in man of the capacit y of knowing truth intuitively”.C．Ralph Waldo Emerson was the chief advocate of this spiritual movement. D．It sprang from South America in the late 19th century.27．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 past28．The unofficial manifesto for the Transcendental Club was ______________, Em erson’s first little book, which established him ever since as the most eloquent spok esman of New England Transcendentalism.A．The American Scholar B．Self— reliance C．Nature D．The Over—Soul29．Nathaniel Hawthorne held an unceasing interest in the “interior of the hea rt ”of man’s being. So in almost every book he wrote, Hawthorne discusses______________. A．love and hatred B．sin and evilC．frustration and self—denial D．balance and self—discipline30．In Young Goodman Brown by Hawthorne, the name of Goodman Brown’s wife is ______________, which also contains many symbolic meanings.A．Ruth B．Hester C．Faith D．Mary31．Which of the following statements might be true of the theme of Song of Mys elf by Whitman?A．This poem describes the growth of a child who learned about the world around him and improved himself accordingly.B．This poem shows the author’s cynical sentiments against the American Civil War.C．This poem reflects the author’s belief in Unitarianism or Deism.D．This poem reflects the author’s belief in the singularity and equality of all beings in value.32．In Moby---Dick, the white whale symbolizes ______________ for Melville, for it is complex, unfathomable, malignant, and beautiful as well.A．nature B．human society C．whaling industry D．truth33．Realism was a reaction against Romanticism or a move away from the bias tow ards romance and self—creating fictions, and paved the way to ______________. A．Cynicism B．Modernism C．Transcendentalism D．Neo—Classicalism34．Hemingway once described Mark Twain’s novel ______________ the one book from which “all modern American literature comes”.A．The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn B．The Adventures of Tom Sawyer C．The Gilded Age D．The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg35．__________ is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th—century “stream—of—consciousness” novels and the founder of psychological realism.A．Theodore Dreiser B．William Faulkner C．Henry James D．Mark Twain36．Which of the following statements is NOT true of Emily Dickinson and her poetry?A．She remained unmarried all her lifeB．She wrote, 1,775 poems, and most of them were published during her life time C．Her poems have no titles, hence are always quoted by their first lines. D．Her limited private world has never confined the limitless power of her crea tivity and imagination.37．As a genre, naturalism emphasized ______________ as important deterministic forces shaping individualized characters who were presented in special and det ailed circum-stances.A．theological doctrines B．heredity and environmentC．education and hard work D．various opportunities and economic success38．Ezra Pound, a leading spokesman of the “______________” , was one of the most important poets in his time.A．Imagist Movemen B．Cubist Movement C．Reformist Movement D．Transcendentalist Movement39．Eugene O’Neill’s first full—length play, ______________, won him the first Pulitzer Prize. Its theme is the choice between life and death, the interaction of subjective and objective fac tors.A．Bound East for Cardiff B．The Hairy ApeC．Desire Under the Elms D．Beyond the Horizon40．Hemingway’s “Indian Camp ” is one of the fourteen short stories collected under the tit le of ______________. This title is very ironic because there is no peace at al l in the stories.A．Three Stories and Ten Poems B．Across the River and into the Trees C．The Green Hills of Africa D．In Our TimeⅡ.Reading Comprehension (16 points, 4 for each)41．“For oft, when on my couch I lieIn vacant or in pensive mood,they flash upon that inward eye”Questions:A．Identify the anthor and the title.B．What does the phrase “inward eye” mean?C．Write out the main idea of the passage in plain English.42．“The duties of her married life, contemplated as so great beforehand, seem ed to be shrinking with the furniture and the white vapour—walled landscape. The clear heights where she expected to walk in full communio n had become difficult to see even in her imagination; the delicious repose of the soul on a complete superior had been shaken into uneasy effort and alarmed with dim presentiment. When would the days begin of that active wifely devotion which was to strengthen her husband’s life and exalt her own?”Questions:A．Identify the author and the title of the story from which the passage is tak en.B．Explain the meaning of “the white vapour—walled landscape”C．How do you undersdand “the delicious repose of the soul on a complete super ior”?43．“It was you that broke the new wood,Now is a time for carving.We have one sap and one root—Let there be commerce between us.”Questions:A．Whom does the “us” refer to?B．What does the phrase “broke the new wood ” mean here?C．What is the intention of the poet in writing the poem “A Pact” from which these lines are taken?44．“There was music from my neighbor’s house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and w ent like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. At high t ide 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 t he morning and long past midnight, while his station wagon scampered like a bri sk yellow bug to meet all trains. And on Mondays eight servants, including an e xtra gardener, toiled all day with mops and scrubbing—brushes and hammers and garden—shears, repairing the ravages of the night before.”Questions:A．Identify the author and the title of the novel from which this passage is ta ken.B．What can you imply by reading this passage?C．What do the “moths ” symbolize?Ⅲ.Questions and Answers (24 points in all, 6 for each)45．William Shakespeare is one of the most remarkable playwrights the world has ever known.(1)Name his four greatest tragedies.(2)What are the characteristics of the four tragedies in common?(3)Briefly summarize each hero’s weakness of nature.46．“Though his fair daughter’s self, as I avowedAt starting, is my object. Nay, we’ll goTogether down, sir. Notice Neptune, though,Taming a sea horse, though a rarity,Which Claus of Innsbruck cast in bronze for me! ”The lines above are taken from Robert Browning’s “My Last Duchess.” Taking the whole poem into consideration, what kind of p erson do you think the duke is?47．What is generally the view Washington lrving expressed in his “Rip Van Win kle” about the radical changes that happened to the American society in his ti me?48．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 realists? Give two titles of his works in which this theme and this approach are employed.Ⅳ. Topic Discussion (20 points in all, 10 for each)49．Analyze the character of Jane Eyre based on the selection taken from Chapte r X X Ⅲ of Jane Eyre.50．Symbolism is an important literary practice in literature and it has been w idely used by many American writers. Discuss the way symboliom is used in Faulk ner’s story “A Rose for Emily.”2007年4月英美文学选读试题答案l.B 2. A 3.C 4.B 5. A 6. C 7. C 8. A 9. C 10. A 11. D 12. A 13. B 14.D 15. A 16. A 17. A 18. A 19. D 20. D 21. D 22. A 23. A 24. D 25.B 26. D 27. D 28.C 29. B 30. C 31.D 32. A 33. B 34. A 35. C 36.B 37. B 38. A 39. D 40. DII. Reading Comprehension (16 points in all, 4 for each)41. A. Wordsworth; I wondered lonely as a cloud B. human soul C. The poet expressed his love for the daffodils.42. A. George Eliot; Middlemarch B. The landscape covered with white snow.C. It refers to Dorothea' s dream of fulfilling something great by marrying somebody superior, some¬body who can guide her.43. A. Whitman and Pound (the Imagists) B. Made experiments with the conventions of the traditional poetryC. In this poem, Pound started to find some agreement between "Whitmanesque" free verse, which he had attacked for its carelessness in composition, and the " verse libre" of the Imagists who showed more concern for formal values.44. A. F. Scott Fitzgerald; The Great Gatsby? B. This passage describes Gatsby' s extravagance.C. Moths are used metaphorically to refer to those people who are drawn to the party simply for its glamour, for the wealth of Gatsby.III. Questions and Answers (24 points in all, 6 for each)45. A. Shakespeare's four greatest tragedies are: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear,and Macbeth.B. Each portrays somke noble hero, who faces the injustice of human life and is caught in a difficult situation and whose fate is closely connected with the fate of the whole nation.C. Each hero has his weakness of nature: Hamlet, the melancholic scholar; Othello' s inner weak¬ness is made use of by the outside evil force; the old king Lear who is unwilling to totally give up his power; and Macbeth' s lust for power stirs up his ambition and leads him to incessant crimes.46. A. His apparent intelligence, excellent taste for art superiority and aristocratic manners are paradoxi¬cal.B. hispride，jealousy and brutality.47. A. living laments the radical changes in his time, thinking that the changes have taken away some of the most endeared values in American life.B. Irving' s pervasive theme of nostalgia for the unrecoverable past is unforgettable.48. A. His most fanous theme is international theme.B. Psychological approachC. The Portrait of A Lady; Daisy MillerⅣ. Topic Discussion ( 20 points in all, 10 for each )49. A. Jane Eyre, an orphan child with a fiery spirit and a longing to love and be loved, a poor, plain,little governess who dares to love her master.B. In Chapter X X Ⅲ, Jane finds herself hopelessly in love with Mr. Rochester but she isaware that her love is out of the question. When forced to confront Mr. Rochester, she desperately and open¬ly declares her equality with him and her love for him.50. A. Rose, as a symbol of love, may refer to the love between Emily and the Northerner, yet used rath¬er ironically, in the way it is associated with decay and death in the story.B. Rose could also stand for the pity, sympathy, or the lament" we "shows for Emily.C. The pity and lament goes not only to Emily but all those who are imprisoned in the past and fail to adapt to the change.D. Discuss in relation to the story.。
英语三级2007年 4月真题及答案
2007年4月真题Part I Reading Comprehension (30%)Directions: There are three passages in this part. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.Passage 1Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage:Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer.(76) I always encourage such people, but I also explain that there’s a big difference between “being a writer’ and writing. In most cases these individuals are dreaming of wealth and fame, not the long hour alone at a typewriter. “You’ve got to want to write,” I say to them, “not want to be a writer”.The reality is that writing is a lonely, private and poor-paying affair. For every writer kissed by fortune there are thousands more whose longing is never rewarded. When I left a 20-year career in the U.S. Coast Guard to become a freelance(自由栏目)writer, I had no prospects at all. What I did have was a friend who found me my room in a New York apartment building. It didn’t even matter that it was cold and had no bathroom. I immediately bought a used manual typewriter and felt like a genuine writer.After a year or so, however, I still hadn’t gotten a break and began to doubt myself. It was so hard to sell a story that I barely made enough to eat. But I knew I wanted to write, I had dreamed about it for years. I wasn’t going to be one of those people who die wondering: What if ? (77 ) I would keep putting my dream to the test even though it meant living with uncertainty and fear of failure. This is the shadowland of hope, and anyone with a dream must learn to live there.1.The passage is meant to ______.A.warn young people of the hardships that a successful writer has to experienceB.advise young people to give up their idea of becoming a professional writerC.show young people it’s unrealistic for a writer to pursue wealth and fameD.encourage young people to pursue a writing career2.What can be concluded from the passage?A.Genuine writers often find their work interesting and rewarding.B. A writer’s success depends on luck rather than on efforts.C.Famous writers usually live in poverty and isolation.D.The chances for writer to become successful are small3.Why did the author begin to doubt himself after the first year of his writing career?A.He wasn’t able to produce a single book.B.He hadn’t seen aching for the better.C.He wasn’t able to have a rest for a whole year.D.He though that he lacked imagination.4.“…people who die wondering: What if ?”(Lin4-5, Para-3) refers to “those _____”.A.who think too much of the dark side of lifeB.who regret giving up their career halfwayC.who think a lot without making a decisionD.who are full of imagination even upon death5.“Shadowland” in the last sentence refers to _____.A.the wonderland on often dreams aboutB.the bright future that one is looking forward toC.the state of uncertainty before one’s final goal is reachedD. a world that exists only in one’s imaginationPassage 2Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage:Man is a land animal, but he is also closely tied to the sea. Throughout history the sea has served the needs of man. The sea has provided man with food and a convenient way to travel to many parts of the world. Toady, experts believe that nearly two-thirds of the world’s population live within eighty kilometers of the seacoast.(78)In the modern technological world the sea offers many resources to help mankind survive. Resources on land are beginning to grow less. The sea, however, still offers hope to supply many of man’s needs in the future.The riches of the sea yet to be developed by man’s technology are impressive. Oil and gas explorations have existed for nearly thirty years. Valuable amounts of minerals such as iron, copper and so on exist on the ocean floor.Besides oil and gas, the sea may offer new sources of energy. For example, warm temperature of the ocean can be used as the steam in a steamship. Sea may also offer a source of energy as electricity for mankind.Technology is enabling man to explore even deeper under the sea. It is obvious that the technology to harvest the sea continues to improve. (79) By the 2050, experts believe that the problems to explore the food, minerals and energy resources of the sea will have been largel7y solved.6. What is the beat title for the passage?A. Needs of Man.B. Sea Harvest and FoodC. Sea and Sources of EnergyD. Sea Exploring Technology.7. It can be inferred from the passage that ______.A. man hasn’t completely made use of the riches of the seaB. technology for exploring the sea has been solvedC. harvesting rice in the sea will be made possibleD. in the near future man can live on the ocean floor8. Why does the author mention a steamship?A. To illustrate that man can make use of sources of energy from the sea.B. To show that a steamship is better than other kinds of ships.C. To argue that man should use steamships.D. To indicate that it is warmer in the ocean than on land.9. According to the author, technology is important because ______.A. resources on land are running short in ten yearsB. man can use it to explore the deeper seaC. it is a lot of fun diving into the seaD. ancient people used it to explore the sea10. According to the author, when will the problems to explore the deeper sea largely be solved?A. In the next generation.B. By the end of the 20th century.C. In the near future.D.By the middle of the 21st century..Passage 3Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage:Today, cigarette smoking is a common habit. About forty-three percent of the adult men and thirty-one percent of the adult women in the United States smoke cigarettes regularly. It is encouraging to see that millions of people have given up smoking.It is a fact that men as a group smoke more than women. Among both men and women the age group with the highest proportion of smokers is 24-44.Income, education, and occupation all play a part in determining a person’s smoking habit. City people smoke more than people living on farms. Well-educated men with high incomes are less likely to smoke cigarettes than men with fewer years of schooling and lower incomes. On the other hand, if a well-educated man with a higher income smoked at all, he is likely to smoke more packs of cigarettes per day.The situation is somewhat different for women.(80)There are slightly more smokers among women with higher family income and higher education than among the lower income and lower educational groups. These more highly educated women tend to smoke more heavily.Among teenagers the picture is similar. There are fewer teenaged smokers from upper-income, well-educated families, and fewer from families living in farm areas. Children are most likely to start smoking if one or both of their parents smoke.11. What do we know from the first paragraph ?A.More and more people take up the habit of smoking.B.There are more smoking women than smoking men in USA.C.It is good news that more people have given up smoking.D.The U.S. has more smoking people than any other country.12.What factors determine a person’s smoking habits ?A.Age, income and education.B.Age, sex and income.C.Occupation, income and sex.D.Occupation, income and education.13.Which of the following is true according to the passage ?A.City people are less likely to smoke.B.People in rural areas are more likely to smoke.C.Men with higher income tend to smoke.D.Well-educated men with high incomes are generally less likely to smoke.14.What is the smoking situation for women ?A.The situation is quite the same for women as for men .B.Better-educated women are likely to smoke heavily.C.There are more women smokers with low incomes.D.Women with higher incomes and higher education do not tend to smoke.15.What can we say about teenaged smokers ?A.The picture about the teenage smokers is similar to that of women smokers.B.The situation among teenagers is quite the same with men.C.High school students are more likely to smoke than college students.D.Farmers’ children tend to smoke more.Part ⅡVocabulary and Structure (30%)Directions: In this part, there are 30 incomplete sentences. For each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C and D . Choose the ONE answer that best completes the sentence. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.16. If you go to the movie tonight, so ______ I .A. willB. doC. amD. can17. You don’t know about the difficulty I had ______ the work then at all.A. doneB. to doC. for doingD. in doing18. ______ is well-known, the environment in China is badly in need of improvement.A. ItB. ThatC. AsD. What19. Charles Babbage is generally considered ______ the first computers.A. to inventB. inventingC. to have inventedD. having invented20. With oil prices keeping ______, people are hesitating whether to buy a car or not.A. risingB. arisingC. raisingD. arousing21. I walked out of the cinema, ______ to return to see the wonderful film the next Sunday.A. determineB. being determinedC. determinedD. to be determined22. We were very disappointed at the ______ to our advertisement, and our products didn’t sell well.A. repliesB. responseC. answersD. words23. My suggestion yesterday was that a meeting ______ to discuss the matter.A. should holdB. must be heldC. would be heldD. be held24. Before the guests come, I must get the glasses ______.A. washedB. to be washedC. being washedD. to wash25. Who would you rather have ______ the computer, Mr. Lin or Mr. Chen?A. repairedB. repairC. repairingD. to repair26. It turned out that the man was an excellent policeman working in New York, _____ had contributed a lot to the case.A. thatB. whichC. whoD. where27. _____ you don’t know the rule won’t be a sufficient excuse for your failure.A. It isB. ThatC. BecauseD. What28. She is very ____ to ring me tonight. I can sense that.A. liableB. possibleC. likelyD. likeable29. Small talk is a good way to kill time, make friends and ____ something with others.A. argueB. replaceC. shareD. match30. Some people like drinking coffee, for it has _____ effects.A. promotingB. stimulatingC. enhancingD. encouraging31. _____ you’re early you can’t be sure of getting a seat.A. IfB. UnlessC. WhenD. Because32.John likes Chinese food, but he _____ eating with chopsticks.A. doesn’t used toB. doesn’t use toC. isn’t used toD. used not to33. His wife had the front door painted green yesterday, _____ she?A. didB. didn’tC. hadD. hadn’t34.After the war , a new school building was put up _____ there had once been a theatre.A. thatB. whereC. whichD. when35.It shames me to say it, but I told a life when _____ at the meeting by may boss.A. questioningB. having questionedC. questionedD. to be questioned36.. A modern city has been set up in _____ was a wasteland ten years ago .A. whatB. whichC. thatD. where37. Professor Smith, along with his assistants, ______ on the project day and night to meet the deadline.A. workB. workingC. is workingD. are working38. The president spoke at the business meeting for nearly an hour without ______ his notes.A. bringing upB. referring toC. looking forD. trying on39. It is certain that he will ______ his business to his son when he gets old.A. take overB. think overC. hand overD. go over40. The Internet has brought ______ big changes in the way we work.A. aboutB. outC. backD. up41. When climbing the hill, John was knocked unconscious by an ______ rolling stone.A. untouchedB. unfamiliarC. unexpectedD. unbelievable42. Her brother ______ to leave her in the dark room alone when she disobeyed his order.A. declaredB. threatenedC. warnedD. exclaimed43. Alice trusts you. Only you can ______ her to give up the foolish idea.A. suggestB. attractC. temptD. persuade44. A man is being questioned in relation to the ______ murder.A. advisedB. attendedC. attemptedD. admired45. Modern plastics can ______ very high and very low temperatures.A. standB. holdC. carryD. supportPart ⅢIdentification (10%)Directions: Each of the following sentences has four underlined parts marked A, B, C and D. Identify the one that is not correct. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.46.He invited me to go to a party and I did not want to join him that evening.A B C D47.The information which she was injured in the accident was given by Liz.A B C D48.Look at the beautiful flowers here ! How wonderful they are smelling.A B C D49.Dear Helen, please forgive him for his rudeness, can you ?A B C D50.Did anyone inform you with the change of the schedule thatA B Chad been decided yesterday ?D51.Despite his old age, he is still very healthful and often works in the field.A B C D52.This equipment is based upon advanced techniques and it isA B Chighly reliable.D53.It is about time that we go to supper, for we still have a meeting to attend this evening.A B C D54.Every now and then he would come here paying a visit to his old aunt,A B Cwho lived all alone in a small house.D55.The passengers saw the thief stole on the bus, but they didn’t say anything.A B C DPart ⅣCloze (10%)Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage, and for each blank there are 4 choices marked A, B, C and D at the end of the passage. You should choose ONE answer that best fit into the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.When I was 16 years old, I made my first visit to the United States it wasn’t the first time I had been _56_. Like most English children I learned French at school and I had often _57_ to France, I so I was used _58__ a foreign language to people who did not understand __59_. But when I went to America I was really looking forward to _60__ a nice easy holiday without any __61_ problems.How wrong I was ! the misunderstanding began at the airport. I was looking for a _62__ telephone to give my American friend Danny a _63__ and tell her I had arrived. A friendly old man saw me _64__ lost and asked _65__ he could help me. “Yes,” I said, “I want to give my friend a ring.”“Well, that’s _66__ “ he exclaimed. “Are you getting_67__? But aren’t you a bit _68__?”“Who is talking about marriage?” I replied. “I _69__ want to give a ring to tell he I’ve arrived. Can you tell me where there’s a phone box?”“Oh!”he said, “There’s a phone downstairs.”When at last we _70__ meet up, Danny _71__ the misunderstandings to me. “ Don’t worry,” she said to me . “I had so many _72__ at first. There are lots of words which the Americans _73__ differently in meaning from _74__. You’ll soon get used to _75__ things they say. Most of the time British and American people understand each other!”56. A. out B. aboard C. away D. abroad57. A. gone B. been C. got D. come58. A. to speak B. for speaking C. to speaking D. to speaking of59. A. English B. French C. Russian D. Latin60. A. having B. buying C. giving D. receiving61. A. time B. human C. money D. language62. A. perfect B. popular C. public D. pleasant63. A. ring B. letter C. word D. message64. A. to look B. looking like C. looking D. feeling like65. A. that B. if C. where D. when66. A. well B. strange C. nice D. funny67. A. to marry B. marrying C. to be married D. married68. A. small B. smart C. little D. young69. A. very B. just C. so D. just now70. A. did B. could C. do D. can71. A. described B. explained C. talked D. expressed72. A. trouble B. difficulties C. fun D. things73. A. write B. speak C. use D. read74. A. us British B. British us C. us Britain D. we British75. A. such B. these C. some D. all thePart ⅤTranslation (20%)Section ADirections: In this part, there are five sentences which you should translate into Chinese. These sentences are all taken from the 3 passages you have just read in the part of Reading Comprehension. You can refer back to the passages so as to identify their meanings in the context.76. I always encourage such people, but I also explain that there’s a big difference between “being a writer” and writing.77. I would keep putting my dream to the test even though it meant living with uncertainty and fear of fai8lure.78. In the modern technological world the sea offers many resources to help mankind survive.79. By the year 2050, experts believe that the problems to explore the food, minerals and energy resources of the sea will have been largely solved.80. There are slightly more smokers among women with higher family incomes and higher education than among the lower income and lower educational groups.Section B81．事实上，水污染的危害远不止这点。
[考研类试卷]2007年武汉大学英语专业(英美文学)真题试卷.doc
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[考研类试卷]2007年武汉大学英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷一、分析题1 Write a short essay to tell what you know about essayists in British and American literatures. Name at least two well-known essayists, respectively, in UK and US. Write out their names and give a brief introduction to them.(1 x 10 =10 points)2 Identify the following two poems and make a brief summary of their main points to compare their attitudes toward death.(1 x20 =20 points)Poem 1Death be not proud, though some have called theeMighty and dreadful, for, thou art not soe:For those whom thou think' st thou dost overthrowDie not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.From rest and sleepe, which but thy picture be,Much pleasure: then from thee much more must flow,And soonest our best men with thee do go,Rest of their bones, and soul' s delivery.Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,And dost with poison, war, and Sickness dwell,And poppy, or charms can make us sleep as well,And better than thy stroke: why swell' st thou then?One short sleep past, we wake eternally,And death shall be no more: Death, thou shalt die.Poem 2Death is a Dialogue betweenThe Spirit and the Dust."Dissolve" says Death—The Spirit "SirI have another Trust" —Death doubts it—Argue from the Ground—The Spirit turns awayJust laying off for evidenceAn Overcoat of Clay.3 Charles Dickens and Mark Twain are both well-known literary realists. Name one of the masterpieces by each of them and make a brief comparison and/or contrast so as to tell the similarities and/or differences between British and American realism.(1 x 20 =20 points)。
2007年厦门大学英语专业英美文学真题试卷_真题-无答案(542)
2007年厦门大学英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷(总分46,考试时间90分钟)3. 名词解释1. stream of consciousness2. heroic couplet3. black humor4. anti-hero5. psychoanalytic criticism6. narratology4. 匹配题1. The Autobiography(first published in 1791)2. "A Psalm of Life"3. Bleak House4. "Ulysses"(a poem)5. Lord of the Flies6. Satanic Verses7. Go Down Moses8. A Farewell to Arms5. 问答题1. Please explain the characteristics and social influence of James Joyce" s works.2. Why the decade of the 1920s can be termed the second renaissance in the history of American literature?7. 评论题1. Ahab(from: Moby Dick)2. Benjy(from; The Sound and the Fury)3. Montresor(from; The Cask of Amontillado)4. Hamlet(from: Hamlet)5. Jane Ayre(from; Jane Eyre)6. Santiago(from; The Old Man and the Sea)8. 分析题1. Read the following poem and write a short essay based on the following questions in about 100 words(8 points): At the Un-National Monument Along the Canadian Border By William Stafford(1914 - 1993)This is the field where the battle did not happen, where the unknown soldier did not die. This is the field where grass joined hands, where no moment stands, and the only heroic thing is the sky.Birds fly here without any sound, unfolding their wings across the open. No people killed—or were killed—on the ground hallowed by neglect and an air so tamethat people celebrate it by forgetting its name. Questions:A. What nonevent does this poem celebrate?B. What is the speaker" s attitude toward it?C. The speaker describes an empty field. What is odd about the Way in which he describes it?。
07级美国文学1B卷
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班级:_____________姓名:_____________American LiteratureI Choose the most appropriate answer for the following questions. 50’1. Who was considered as the "Poet of American Revolution"?_________A. Michael WigglesworthB. Edward TaylorC. Anne BradstreetD. Philip Freneau2. During the Reason and Revolution Period, Americans were influenced by the European movement called the____________ .A. Chartist MovementB. Romanticist MovementC. Enlightenment MovementD. Modernist Movement3. As a philosophical and literary movement, ____________ flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War.A. modernismB. rationalismC. sentimentalismD. transcendentalism4. Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in___________and Henry David Thoreau.A. Thomas JeffersonB. Ralph Waldo EmersonC. Philip FreneauD. Oversoul5. _________ was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club.A. Henry David ThoreauB. Ralph Waldo EmersonC. Nathaniel HawthorneD. Walt Whitman6. Transcendentalists recognized__________ as the "highest power of the soul. "A. intuitionB. logicC. data of the sensesD. thinking7. Led by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson and _______________ , there arose a kind of teachings of transcendentalism in the early nineteenth century.A. Herman MelvilleB. Henry David ThoreauC. Mark TwainD. Theodore Dreiser8. A new___________ had appeared in England in the last years of the eighteenth century. It spread to continental Europe and then came to America early in the nineteenth century.A. realismB. critical realismC. romanticismD. naturalism9. Which book is not written by Ralph Waldo Emerson? _________A. Representative MenB. English TraitsC. NatureD. The Rhodora10. Which essay is not written by Ralph Waldo Emerson? _________A. Of StudiesB. Self-RelianceC. The American ScholarD. The Divinity School Address11. From Henry David Thoreau' s jail experience, came his famous essay, ___________ , which states Thoreau's belief that no man should violate his conscience at the command of a government.A. WaldenB. NatureC. Civil DisobedienceD. Common Sense12. The finest exa mple of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s symbolism is the recreation of Puritan Boston in__________ .A. The Scarlet LetterB. Young Goodman BrownC. The Marble FaunD. The Ambitious Guest13. The House of Seven Gables is a famous mystery-haunted novel written by_________A. Nathaniel HawthorneB. Nathaniel HathorneC. Nathanal HawthorneD. Nathanial Hathorne14. Which is generally regarded as the Bible of New England Transcendentalism?A. NatureB. WaldenC. On BeautyD. Self-Reliance 15. Which is regarded as the "Declaration of Intellectual Independence"?A. The American ScholarB. English TraitsC. The Conduct of LifeD. Representative Men16. _________ is an appalling fictional version of Nathaniel Hawthorne' s belief that "the wrong doing of one generation lives into the successive ones" and that evil will come out of evil though it may take many generations to happen.A. The Marble FaunB. The House of Seven GablesC. The Blithedale RomanceD. Young Goodman Brown17. Mark Twain created, in____________ , a masterpiece of American realism that is also one of the great books of world literature.A. Huckleberry FinnB. Tom SawyerC. The Man That Corrupted HadleyburgD. The Gilded Age18. American literature produced only one female poet during the nineteenth century. This was _____.A. Anne BradstreetB. Jane AustenC. Emily DickinsonD. Harriet Beecher19. The publication of the novel____________ stirred a great nation to its depths and hurried ona great war.A. My Bondage and My FreedomB. Stanzas on FreedomC. Voices of FreedomD. Uncle Tom' s Cabin20. Where Mark Twain and William Dean Howells satirized European manners at times,__________ was an admirer.A. O. HenryB. Henry JamesC. Walt WhitmanD. Jack London21. While embracing the socialism of Marx, London also believed in the triumph of the strongest individuals. This contradiction is most vividly projected in the patently autobiographical novel___________ .A. The Call of the WildB. The Sea WolfC. Martin EdenD. The Iron Heel22. In 1900, London published his first collection of short stories, named___________A. The Son of the WolfB. The Sea WolfC. The Law of LifeD. White Fang23. "The Lure of the Spirit; The Flesh in Pursuit" is the title of one chapter in Dreiser'snovel___________ .A. An American TragedyB. Sister CarrieC. Dreiser Looks at RussiaD. Jannie Gerhardt24. The main theme of___________ The Art of Fiction reveals his literary credo that representation of life should be the main object of the novel.A. Henry James'B. William Dean Howells'C. Mark Twain'sD. O. Henry's25. With William Dean Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the scene, _______ became the major trend in the seventies and eighties of the nineteenth century.A. sentimentalismB. romanticismC. realismD. naturalism26. The best-selling American books in the first decades of the twentieth centurywere__________ .A. traveling booksB. commercial booksC. historical romancesD. news reports27. Early in the 20th century, _________ published works that would change the nature of American poetry.A. Ezra PoundB. T. S. EliotC. Robert FrostD. Both A and B28. The American social upheavals and the literary concerns of the Great Depression years ended with the prosperity and turmoil brought by the _____________ . A. First World WarB. Second World WarC. Civil WarD. War of Independence29. In the Thirties, poets like Archibald Macleish and______________ wrote compassionately about common people, workers and farmers.A. Emily DickinsonB. Ezra PoundC. Robert FrostD. Langston Hughes30. "The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.” This is the shortest poem written by____________ .A. Thomas Stearns EliotB. Robert FrostC. Ezra PoundD. E. E. Cummings31. __________ showed great interest in Chinese literature and translated the poetry of Li Po (Li Bai) into English, and was influenced by Confucian ideas.A. Ezra PoundB. Robert FrostC. T. S. EliotD. E. E. Cummings32. Ezra Pound' s long poem____________ contained more than one hundred poems loosely connected.A. The Waste LandB. The CantosC. Don JuanD. Queen Mab33. When Robert Frost was eighty-seven, he read his poetry at the inauguration ofPresident__________ .A. Thomas JeffersonB. Theodore RooseveltC. Abraham LincolnD. John F. Kennedy34. Carl Sandburg had also taken interest in folk songs which he tried to collect and sing during his travels. These folk songs appeared eventually in print in his well-known___________ .A. Good Morning, AmericaB. The People, YesC. In Reckless EcstasyD. The American Songbag35. Thomas Sutpen is a character in William Faulkner's novel _______________ .A. Absalom, Absalom!B. Light in AugustC. Go Down, MosesD. The Sound and the Fury36. Wallace Stevens' s poetry is primarily motivated by the belief that true ideas correspond with an innate order in nature. Many of his good poems derive their emotional power from reasoned revelation. This philosophical intention is supported by the titles Wallace Stevens gave to his volumes such as_____________ .A. HarmoniumB. Ideas of OrderC. Parts of a WorldD. all of the above37. __________ tells the Joad family' s life from the time they were evicted from their farm in Oklahoma until their first winter in California.A. Of Mice and MenB. The Grapes of WrathC. The Great GatsbyD. For Whom the Bell Tolls38. In William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, he used a technique called_____________ , in which the whole story was told through the thoughts of one character.A. stream of consciousnessB. imagismC. symbolismD. naturalism39. William Faulkner's novel___________ describes the decay and downfall of an old southern aristocratic family, symbolizing the old social order, to了d from four different points of view.A. The Sound and the FuryB. StartorisC. The UnvanquishedD. The Town40. William Faulkner's novel___________ is about a poor white family' s journey through fire and flood to bury the mother in her hometown, Yoknapatawpha.A. Intruder in the DustB. As I Lay DyingC. Absalom, Absalom!D. Light in August41. The establisher of Jamestown was the famous explorer and colonist ____________ .A. John WinthropB. John SmithC. William BradfordD. John Goodwin42. The early history of___________ Colony was the history of Bradford' s leadership.A. PlymouthB. JamestownC. New EnglandD. Mayflower43. __________ usually was regarded as the first American writer.A. William BradfordB. Anne BradstreetC. Emily DickinsonD. Captain John Smith44. Anne Bradstreet was a Puritan poet. Her poems made such a stir in England that she became known as the " ________ " who appeared in America.A. Ninth MuseB. Tenth MuseC. Best MuseD. First Muse45. The ship "__________ " carried about one hundred Pilgrims and took 66 days to beat its way across the Atlantic. In December of 1620, it put the Pilgrims ashore at Plymouth, Massachusetts.A. SunflowerB. ArmadaC. MayflowerD. Pequod46. In American literature, the eighteenth century was the age of the Enlightenment._________ was the dominant spirit.A. HumanismB. RationalismC. RevolutionD. Evolution47. The English colonies in North America rose in arms against their parent country and the Continental Congress adopted____________ in 1776.A. the Declaration of IndependenceB. the Sugar ActC. the Stamp ActD. the Mayflower Compact48. From 1732 to 1758, Benjamin Franklin wrote and published his famous __________ , an annul collection of proverbs.A. The AutobiographyB. Poor Richard's AlmanacC. Common SenseD. The General Magazine49. The first pamphlet published in America to urge immediate independence from Britainis__________ .A. The Rights of ManB. Common SenseC. The American CrisisD. Declaration of Independence50. "These are the times that try men' s souls", these words were once read to George Washington' s troops and did much to shore up the spirits of the revolutionary soldiers. Who is the author of these words? _________A. Benjamin FranklinB. Thomas JeffersonC. Thomas PaineD. George WashingtonII. Identify the fragments. ----writing your answers on the answer sheet20’Passage One•These are the times that try men’s souls: The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now,deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easilyconquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly— This dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods.Questions:1.Which book is this passage taken from? 1’2.Who is the author of this book? 1’3.Whom is the author praising? Whom is the author criticizing? 2’4.What do you think of the language? 1’Passage Two•Hester Prynne' s term of confinement was now at an end. Her prison-door was thrown open, and she came forth into the sunshine which, falling on all alike, seemed, to her sick and morbid heart, as if meant for no other purpose than to reveal the scarlet letter on her breast.Perhaps there was a more real torture in her first unattended footsteps from the threshold of the prison, than even in the procession and spectacle that have been described, where she was made the common infamy, at which all mankind was summoned to point its finger.Then, she was supported by an unnatural tension of the nerves, and by all the combative energy of her character, which enabled her to convert the scene into a kind of lurid triumph. Questions:1.Which novel is this selection taken from? 1’2.What is the name of the novelist? 1’3.What are the symbolic meanings of the scarlet letter on Hester's breast? 3’Passage Three•It was not very long after speaking the Goney that another homeward-bound whaleman, the Town-Ho, was encountered. She was manned almost wholly by Polynesians. In the short gam that ensued she gave us strong news of Moby Dick. To some the generalinterest in the White Whale was now wildly heightened by a circumstance of theTown-Ho's story, which seemed obscurely to involve with the whale a certain wondrous, inverted visitation of one of those so called judgments of God which at times are said to overtake some men. This latter circumstance, with its own particular accompaniments,forming what may be called the secret part of the tragedy about to be narrated, neverreached the ears of Captain Ahab or his mates. For that secret part of the story wasunknown to the captain of the Town-Ho himself. It was the private property of threeconfederate white seamen of that ship, one of whom, it seems, communicated it toTashtego with Romish injunctions ofsecrecy, but the following night Tashtego rambled in his sleep, and revealed so much of it in that way, that when he was wakened he could not well withhold the rest. Nevertheless, so potent an influence did this thing have onthose seamen in the Pequod who came to the full knowledge of it, and by such a strange delicacy, to call it so, were they governed in this matter, that they kept the secret amongthemselves so that it never transpired abaft the Pequod' s main-mast . Interweaving in its proper place this darker thread with the story as publicly narrated on the ship, the whole of this strange affair I now proceed to put on lasting record.Questions:1.From which novel is this paragraph taken? 1’2.What is the name of the novelist? 1’3.Who is Ahab? 1’4.What is Pequod? 1’5.What is the theme of the novel? 1’Passage Four In a Station of the MetroThe apparition of these faces in the crowd;Petals on a wet, black bough.Questions:1.Who is the author of this short poem? 1’2.What two images are juxtaposed, or placed next to each other in this poem? 1’3.How do you appreciate this poem? 3’III. Essay Questions ----writing your answers on the answer sheet 30’1. What is the significance of American Puritanism in American literature? 15’Uncle Tom's Cabin by Mrs. Stowe. 15’2. Analyze。
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第 1 页 共 8 页2007年4月高等教育自学考试全国统一命题考试英美文学选读试题请将答案填在答题纸相应位置上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 in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.1．The work that presented, for the first time in English literature, a comprehensive realistic picture of the medieval English society and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life is most likely ______________.A ．William Langland ’ s Piers PlowmanB ．Geoffrey Chaucer ’s The Canterbury TalesC ．John Gower ’s Confession AmantisD ．Sir Gawain and the Green Knight2．The tragedy of Dr. Faustus, the protagonist in Christopher Marlowe ’s The Tragic History ofDr. Faustus , is the very fact that______________. A ．man is confined to time B ．he tried to join Africa to SpainC ．he became a man without soul after he sold itD ．he conjured up Helen, the lady who was partially responsible for the breaking-up of the Trojan War3．The sentence “Shall I compare thee to a summer ’s day?” is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare ’s ______________. A ．comedies B ．tragedies C ．sonnets D ．histories 4．Paradise Lost is actually a story taken from ______________. A ．the Renaissance B ．the Old Testament C ．Greek Mythology D ．the New Testament 5．Spenser ’s masterpiece _____________ is a great poem of its time. A ．The Faerie Queene B ．The Shepheardes Calender C ．The Canterbury Tales D ．Metamorphoses 6．______________ is the essence of the Renaissance. A ．Poetry B ．Drama C ．Humanism D ．Reason7．The most famous dramatists in the Renaissance England are Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare and ______________. A ．John Milton B ．John Marlowe C ．Ben Jonson D ．Edmund Spenser 8．“To be, or not to be —that is the question ”is a line taken from______________. A ．Hamlet B ．Othello C ．King Lear D ．The merchant of venice 9．Francis Bacon ’s essays are famous for their brevity, compactness and ______________. A ．complicity B ．complexity C ．powerfulness D ．mildness第 2 页 共 8 页10．Literature of Neoclassicism is different from that of Romanticism in that ______________.A ．the former celebrates reason, rationality, order and instruction while the latter sees literature as an expression of an individual ’s feeling and experiencesB ．the former is heavily religious but the latter secularC ．the former is an intellectual movement, the purpose of which is to arouse the middle class for political rights while the latter is concerned with the personal cultivationD ．the former advocates the “return to nature ” whereas the latter turns to the ancient Greek and Roman writers for its models.11．Daniel Defoe describes ______________ as a typical English Middle- class man of the eighteenth century, the very prototype of the empire builder or the pioneer colonist. A ．Tom Jones B ．Gulliver C ．Moll Flanders D ．Robinson Crusoe 12．______________ is a typical feature of Swift ’s writings. A ．Bitter satire B ．Elegant style C ．Casual narration D ．Complicated sentence structure13．The Pilgrim ’s Progress by John Bunyan is often said to be concerned with the search for ______________. A ．material wealth B ．spiritual salvation C ．universal truth D ．self- fulfillment14．Alexander Pope strongly advocated ______________ , emphasizing that literary works should be judged by rules of order, reason, logic, restrained emotion, good taste and decorum. A ．Sentimentalism B ．Romanticism C ．Idealism D ．Neoclassicism15．“Metaphysical poetry ” refers to the works of the 17th- century writers who wrote under the influence of ______________. A ．John Donne B ．Alexander Pope C ．Christopher Marlowe D ．John Milton16．It is generally regarded that Keats ’ s most important and mature poems are in the form of ______________. A ．ode B ．elegy C ．epic D ．sonnet17．______________ is the most outstanding stream of consciousness novelist, with ___________ as his encyclopedia – like masterpiece . A ．James Joyce, Ulysses B ．E.M. Foster, A Passage to IndiaC ．D.H. Lawrence, Sons and LoversD ．Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway18．Which of the following poems is a landmark in English poetry?A ．Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor ColeridgeB ．“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud ” by William WordsworthC ．“Remorse ”by Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD ．Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman19．The literary form which is fully developed and the most flourishing during the Romantic Period is ______________.第 3 页 共 8 页A ．proseB ．dramaC ．novelD ．poetry20．Which of the following poems by T.S. Eliot is hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th century English poetry? A ．Poems 1909-1925 B ．The Hollow Man C ．Prufrock and Other Observations D ．The Waste Land21．“My last Duchess ” is a poem that best exemplifies Robert Browning ’s ______________.A ．sensitive ear for the sounds of the English languageB ．excellent choice of wordsC ．mastering of the metrical devicesD ．use of the dramatic monologue22．Dickens ’ works are characterized by a mingling of ______________ and pathos. A ．humor B ．satire C ．passion D ．metaphor 23．Walt Whitman, whose ______________ established him as the most popular American poet of the 19th century. A ．Leaves of Grass B ．Go Down, Moses C ．The Marble Faun D ．As I Lay Dying24．______________ has always been regarded as a writer who “perfected the best classic style that American Literature ever produced ”. A ．Edgar Ellen Poe B ．Walt Whitman C ．Henry David Thoreau D ．Washington Irving25．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 War26．Which of the following statements is NOT true of American Transcendentalism?A ．It can be clearly defined as a part of American Romantic literary movement.B ．It can be defined philosophically as “the recognition in man of the capacity of knowing truth intuitively ”.C ．Ralph Waldo Emerson was the chief advocate of this spiritual movement.D ．It sprang from South America in the late 19th century.27．The theme of Washington Irving ’s Rip Van Winkle is ______________. A ．the conflict of human psyche B ．the fight against racial discriminationC ．the familial conflictD ．the nostalgia for the unrecoverable past 28．The unofficial manifesto for the Transcendental Club was ______________, Emerson ’s first little book, which established him ever since as the most eloquent spokesman of New England Transcendentalism. A ．The American Scholar B ．Self — reliance C ．Nature D ．The Over —Soul29．Nathaniel Hawthorne held an unceasing interest in the “interior of the第 4 页 共 8 页heart ”of man ’s being. So in almost every book he wrote, Hawthorne discusses______________. A ．love and hatred B ．sin and evil C ．frustration and self —denial D ．balance and self —discipline30．In Young Goodman Brown by Hawthorne, the name of Goodman Brown ’s wife is ______________, which also contains many symbolic meanings. A ．Ruth B ．Hester C ．Faith D ．Mary31．Which of the following statements might be true of the theme of Song of Myself by Whitman?A ．This poem describes the growth of a child who learned about the world around him and improved himself accordingly.B ．This poem shows the author ’s cynical sentiments against the American Civil War.C ．This poem reflects the author ’s belief in Unitarianism or Deism.D ．This poem reflects the author ’s belief in the singularity and equality of all beings in value.32．In Moby —Dick , the white whale symbolizes ______________ for Melville, for it is complex, unfathomable, malignant, and beautiful as well. A ．nature B ．human society C ．whaling industry D ．truth33．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 ．Cynicism B ．Modernism C ．Transcendentalism D ．Neo —Classicalism34．Hemingway once described Mark Twain ’s novel ______________ the one book from which “all modern American literature comes ”. A ．The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn B ．The Adventures of Tom SawyerC ．The Gilded AgeD ．The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg35．__________ 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 Twain36．Which of the following statements is NOT true of Emily Dickinson and her poetry?A ．She remained unmarried all her lifeB ．She wrote, 1,775 poems, and most of them were published during her life time.C ．Her poems have no titles, hence are always quoted by their first lines.D ．Her limited private world has never confined the limitless power of hercreativity and imagination.37．As a genre, naturalism emphasized ______________ as important deterministic forces shaping individualized characters who were presented in special and detailed circum-stances. A ．theological doctrines第 5 页 共 8 页B ．heredity and environmentC ．education and hard workD ．various opportunities and economic success 38．Ezra Pound, a leading spokesman of the “______________” , was one of the most important poets in his time. A ．Imagist Movement B ．Cubist Movement C ．Reformist Movement D ．Transcendentalist Movement39．Eugene O ’Neill ’s first full —length play, ______________, won him the first Pulitzer Prize. Its theme is the choice between life and death, the interaction of subjective and objective factors. A ．Bound East for Cardiff B ．The Hairy Ape C ．Desire Under the Elms D ．Beyond the Horizon40．Hemingway ’s “Indian Camp ” is one of the fourteen short stories collected under the title of ______________. This title is very ironic because there is no peace at all in the stories. A ．Three Stories and Ten Poems B ．Across the River and into the TreesC ．The Green Hills of AfricaD ．In Our Time Ⅱ.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．“For oft, when on my couch I lieIn vacant or in pensive mood, they flash upon that inward eye ” Questions:A ．Identify the anthor and the title.B ．What does the phrase “inward eye ” mean?C ．Write out the main idea of the passage in plain English.42．“The duties of her married life, contemplated as so great beforehand, seemed to be shrinking with the furniture and the white vapour —walled landscape. The clear heights where she expected to walk in full communion had become difficult to see even in her imagination; the delicious repose of the soul on a complete superior had been shaken into uneasy effort and alarmed with dim presentiment. When would the days begin of that active wifely devotion which was to strengthen her husband ’s life and exalt her own?” Questions:A ．Identify the author and the title of the story from which the passage istaken.B ．Explain the meaning of “the white vapour —walled landscape ”C ．How do you undersdand “the delicious repose of the soul on a complete superior ”?43．“It was you that broke the new wood, Now is a time for carving.We have one sap and one root — Let there be commerce between us.” Questions:A ．Whom does the “us ” refer to?B ．What does the phrase “broke the new wood ” mean here?第 6 页 共 8 页C ．What is the intention of the poet in writing the poem “A Pact ” from which these lines are taken?44．“There was music from my neighbor ’s house through the summer nights. Inhis 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.” Questions:A ．Identify the author and the title of the novel from which this passage is taken.B ．What can you imply by reading this passage?C ．What do the “moths ” 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．William Shakespeare is one of the most remarkable playwrights the world has ever known.(1)Name his four greatest tragedies. (2)What are the characteristics of the four tragedies in common? (3)Briefly summarize each hero ’s weakness of nature. 46．“Though his fair daughter ’s self, as I avowed At starting, is my object. Nay, we ’ll goTogether down, sir. Notice Neptune, though, Taming a sea horse, though a rarity,Which Claus of Innsbruck cast in bronze for me! ”The lines above are taken from Robert Browning ’s “My Last Duchess.” Taking the whole poem into consideration, what kind of person do you think the duke is?47．What is generally the view Washington lrving expressed in his “Rip VanWinkle ” about the radical changes that happened to the American society in his time?48．What is the most famous theme in Henry James ’s fiction? And what is hisfavourite approach in characterization, which makes him different from Mark Twain and W.D. Howells as realists? Give two titles of his works in which this theme and this approach are employed. 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．Analyze the character of Jane Eyre based on the selection taken fromChapter X X Ⅲ of Jane Eyre .50．Symbolism is an important literary practice in literature and it has beenwidely used by many American writers. Discuss the way symboliom is used in Faulkner ’s story “A Rose for Emily.” 第7 页共8 页 第8 页共8 页。