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《英国文学》课程考试试卷 (A卷)专业：英语年级：2010级考试方式：闭卷学分：3 考试时间：110分钟Ⅰ. Multiple Choices (每小题1分，共20分)that best answers the question.1. It was during the ________ that Christianity was introduced to Britain.A. Roman ConquestB. Norman ConquestC. English ConquestD. Anglo-Saxon Conquest2. Which one of the following statements about Beowulf is False?A. Beowulf is the first epic in the English history.B. The most striking feature in its poetical form is the use of alliteration.C. Other features of Beowulf are the use of similes and of overstatements.D. Beowulf is a folk legend brought to England by Anglo-Saxons.3. _____ marks a turning point in the literary creation of Mrs. Gaskell, who now abandoned critical realism for a kind of writing more acceptable to the bourgeois public.A. Mary BartonB. All the Year RoundC. CranfordD. North and South4. _________ is one of Dickens’s masterpieces of social satire, famous for its criticism of both the British and American bourgeoisie.A. Dombey and SonB. Martin ChuzzlewitC. Hard TimesD. Bleak House5. The romantic poet, _______ maintains that “all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling”.A. Samuel ColeridgeB. George ByronC. William WordsworthD. Robert Burns6. In Renaissance period, ______ wrote the first English blank verse, the form of poetry to be later masterly handled by Shakespeare.A. Earl of SurreyB. Thomas WyattC. Sir Philip SidneyD. Christopher Marlowe7. In The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer used the rhymed couplet of iambic pentameter inEnglish, which is to be called later _________.A. the Spenserian StanzaB. the heroic coupletC. the blank verseD. the free verse8. Dr. Faustus is a play based on the _______ legend of a magician aspiring for knowledge and finally meeting his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the Devil. A. British B. DanishC. GermanD. French9. _________ has been regarded by some as “Father of the English novel”for its contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.A. Daniel DefoeB. Jonathan SwiftC. GermanD. Henry Fielding10. The poem “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”is regarded as the most representative work of _______.A. the Metaphysical SchoolB. the Gothic SchoolC. the Romantic SchoolD. The Graveyard School11. Jonathan Swift is a master of satire. He satirizes philosophers and projectors and also makes a reference to the relationship between Ireland and England. It is obvious in _______ in Gulliver’s Travels.A. LilliputB. BrobdingnagC. Flying IslandD. Horse Island12. The two major novelists of the English Romantic Period are ________ and Walter Scott.A. Washington IrvingB. Jane AustenC. Charles DickensD. George Eliot13. Shelley’s greatest achievement is his four-act poetic drama, ________.A. Childe Harold’s PilgrimageB. The Revolt of IslamC. Prometheus UnboundD. Ode to the West Wind14. Most of Hardy’s novels are set in _______, the fictional primitive and crude region which is really the home place he both loves and hates.A. LondonB. ParisC. YoknapatawphaD. Wessex15. John Galsworthy’s masterpiece, The Forsyte Saga includes the following except ________.A. The White MonkeyB. T he Man of PropertyC. In ChanceryD. To Let16. In his famous essay “Tradition and Individual Talent,” ________ puts great emphasis on the importance of tradition both in creative writing and in criticism.A. D.H. LawrenceB. James JoyceC. George Bernard ShawD. T.S. Eliot17. “And where are they? And where art thou,My country? On thy voiceless shoreThe heroic lay is tuneless nowThe heroic bosom beats no more!” (George Gordon Byron, Don Juan)In the above stanza, “art thou” literally means ________.A. art thoughB. are thoughC. are youD. art you18. G.B. Shaw’s play, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, is a realistic exposure of the ______ in the English society.A. inequality between men and womenB. slum landlordismC. economic exploitation of womenD. political corruption19. We can perhaps describe the west wind in Shelley’s poem “Ode to the West Wind”with all the following terms except _______.A. swiftB. tamedC. proudD. wild20. The enlighteners of the 18th century believed that _______ should be usedas the yardstick for the measurement of all human activities and relations.A. educationB. scienceC. emotionD. reasonⅡ.Identification of Fragments (每小题10分，共30分)Directions: please give the name of the author and the title of the literary work from which it is taken and then briefly comment on it. Please writedown the answers on the Answer Sheet.21. “Now might I do it pat, now he is praying:And now I’ll do it: and so he goes to heaven:And so am I revenged. That would be scanned.”22. “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.However little known the feelings or views of views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighborhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.”23. “All is not lost; the unconquerable will,And study of revenge, immortal hate,And courage never to submit or yield,And what is else not to be overcome;That glory never shall his wrath or might extort (夺取) from me.”Ⅲ.Short Essay Questions （每小题10分，共30分） Directions: Please write down the answers on the Answer Sheet .24. Write a short essay on Byron ’s Don Juan .25. Please comment on Charles Dickens ’ literary achievements .26. Why is Jane Eyre a successful novel?Ⅳ.Appreciating a Literary Work (共20分) Directions : In this part, you are required to write a commentarypaper in no less than 150 words.27. The Rocking-Horse Winner (by D.H. Lawrence)There was a woman who was beautiful, who started with all the advantages, yet she had no luck. She married for love, and the love turned to dust. She had bonny （漂亮的） children, but she did not love them. They looked at her coldly, as if they were finding fault with her. Nevertheless, when her children were present, she was all the more gentle and anxious for her children, as if she loved them very much. Only she herself knew that at the centre of her heart was a hard little place that could not feel love, no, not for anybody. Everybody else said of her: “She is such a good mother. She adores her children.” Only she herself, and her children themselves, knew it was not so. They read it in each other ’s eyes.There were a boy and two little girls. They lived in a pleasant house, with a garden, and they had servants, and felt themselves superior to anyone in the neighborhood. Although they lived in style, they felt always an anxiety in the house. There was never enough money. The mother had a small income, and the father had a small income, but not nearly enough for the social position which they had to keep up. There was always the grinding sense of the shortage of money, though the style was always kept up.The children were growing up, they would have to go to school. There must be more money. The father, who was always very handsome and expensive in his tastes, seemed as if he never would be able to do anything worth doing. And the mother, who had a great belief in herself, did not succeed any better, and her tastes were just as expensive.And so the house came to be haunted by the unspoken phrase: There must be more money! There must be more money! The children could hear it all the time though nobody said it aloud. They heard it at Christmas, when the expensive and splendid toysfilled the nursery. Yet nobody ever said it aloud. The whisper was everywhere, and therefore no one spoke it. Just as no one ever says: “We are breathing!” in spite of the fact that breath is coming and going all the time.“Mother,” said the boy Paul one day, “why don’t we keep a car of our own? Why do we always use uncle’s, or else a taxi?”“Because we’re the poor members of the family,” said the mother.“But why are we, mother?”“Well - I suppose,”she said slowly and bitterly, “it’s because your father has no luck.”“Oh!” said the boy. “Then what is luck, mother?”“It’s what c auses you to have money. If you’re lucky you have money. That’s why it’s better to be born lucky than rich. If you’re rich, you may lose your money. But if you’re lucky, you will al ways get more money.’“Well, anyhow,” he said stoutly, “I’m a lucky person.”“Why?” said his mother, with a sudden laugh.He stared at her. He didn't even know why he had said it. “God told me,” he asserted. “I hope He did, dear!”, she said, again with a laugh, but rather bitter.“He did, mother!” Paul assertedHe went off by himself, and in his room he would sit on his big rocking-horse, driving madly. “Now!”he would silently command the horse. “Now take me to where there is luck! Now take me!” He knew the horse could take him to where there was luck, if only he forced it. At last he stopped forcing his horse and slid down. “Well, I got there!”he announced fiercely, his blue eyes still flaring. “Where did you get?” asked his uncle, “Could you know its name?”“Well, he has different names. He was called Sa nsovino last week.”“Sansovino, eh? Won the Ascot horse-racing. How did you know this name?” asked his uncle.“My horse told me and now I have won 300 pounds by betting the race already. You won’t tell others, right?” answered the boy.“Now, son,” Uncle Oscar said doubtedly, “Let’s check it. There will be a race today. I’m putting twenty on Mirza, and I’ll put five on any horse you fancy. What’s your pick?”“Daffodil this time, uncle.”At last, Daffodil came in first, Lancelot second, Mirza third. His uncle brought himfour five-pound notes, four to one. （四比一的胜率）“What am I to do with these?” the uncle cried, waving the money before boys’ eyes.“I suppose we’ll talk to Bassett, our gardener and he is also my partner in horse-racing,” said the boy. “I expect I have had fifteen hundred now.”Uncle Oscar turned to Bassett and asked how they wined in horse racing. “It’s Master Paul, sir,” said Bassett in a secret, religious voice. “It’s as if he had the news from heaven.” Later, his uncle joined them and Paul even had made ten thousand in a race.“But what are you going to do with your money?” asked the uncle.The boy said, “I started it for mother. She said she had no luck, because father is unlucky, so I thought if I was l ucky, it might stop whispering.”“What might stop whispering?”“Our house. I hate our house for whispering.”“What does it whisper?”The boy answered: “I don't know. But it’s always short of money, you know, uncle. The house whispers, like people laughing at you behind your back. It's awful, that is! I thought if I was lucky,…”“You might stop it,” added the uncle.“Well, then!” said the uncle. “What are we doing?”“I shouldn't like mother to know I was lucky,” said the boy.“All right, son! We’ll manage it without her knowing.”They managed it very easily. Paul, at the other’s suggestion, handed over five thousand pounds to his uncle, who deposited (存入) it with the family lawyer, who was then to inform Paul's mother that a relative had put five thousand pounds into his hands, which sum was to be paid out a thousand pounds at a time, on the mother’s birthday, for the next five years.“So she’ll have a birthday present of a thousand pounds for five succes sive years,”said Uncle Oscar. “I hope it won’t make it all the harder for her later.”Paul’s mother had her birthday in November. The house had been “whispering”worse than ever lately, and, even in spite of his luck. She was down to breakfast on the morning of her birthday. Paul watched her face as she read her letters. He knew the lawyer’s letter. As his mother read it, her face hardened and became more expressionless. Then a cold, determined look came on her mouth. She hid the letter under the pile of others, and said not a word about it.But in the afternoon Uncle Oscar appeared. H e said Paul’s mother had had a longinterview with the lawyer, asking if the whole five thousand could not be advanced at once, as she was in debt.“What do you think, uncle?” said the boy. The uncle said, “I leave it to you, son.”“Oh, let her have it, then! We can get some more with the other,” said the boy.So Uncle Oscar signed the agreement, and Paul’s mother touched the whole five thousand. Then something very curious happened. The voices in the house suddenly went mad, like a chorus of frogs on a spring evening. “There must be more money! Oh-h-h; there must be more money. More than ever! More than eve r!”“I’ve got to know the result for the Derby horse-racing! I’ve got to know for the Derby!” the child reiterated (反复说), his big blue eyes blazing with a sort of madness.Paul’s secret of secrets was his wooden horse, that which had no name. To keep it, he had his rocking-horse removed to his own bedroom at the top of the house.“Surely you’re too big for a rocking-horse!” his mother had remonstrated.（告诫）“Well, you see, mother, till I can have a real horse, I like to have some sort of animal about,” had been his answer.The Derby was drawing near, and the boy grew more and more tense. He hardly heard what was spoken to him, he was very frail, and his eyes were really strange.Two nights before the Derby, she was at a big party in town. But an unrest was so strong that she had to leave the dance and go downstairs to telephone her house. “Are the c hildren all right, Miss Wilmot?”“Oh yes, they are quite all right.”Paul’s mother said: “It's all right. Don’t sit up. We shall be home fairly soon.”It was about one o’clock when Paul’s mother and father drove up to their house. All was still. Pau l’s mother went to her room and slipped off her white fur cloak. She had told her maid not to wait up for her. She heard her husband downstairs, mixing a whisky and soda.And then, because of the strange anxiety at her heart, she stole upstairs to her son’s room. Noiselessly she went along the upper corridor. Was there a faint noise?Then suddenly she switched on the light, and saw her son, in his green pajamas, madly surging on the rocking-horse. The blaze of light suddenly lit him up, as he urged the wooden horse, and lit her up, as she stood, blonde, in her dress of pale green and crystal, in the doorway.“Paul!” she cried. “Whatever are you doing?”“It’s Malabar!” he screamed in a powerful, strange voice. “It’s Malabar!”“What does he mean by Malabar?” asked the heart-frozen mother.“I don’t know,” said the father stonily. “What does he mean by Malabar?” she asked her brother Oscar, who came here as soon as he heard Paul was ill.“It’s one of the horses running for the Derby,” was the answer.The third day of the illness was critical: they were waiting for a change. The boy, with his rather long, curly hair, was tossing ceaselessly on the pillow. He neither slept nor regained consciousness, and his eyes were like blue stones. His mother sat, feeling her heart had gone, turned actually into a stone.The gardener tiptoed into the room and stole to the bedside, staring with glittering, smallish eyes at the tossing, dying child.“Master Paul!” he whispered. “Master Paul! Malabar came in first all right, a clean win. I did as you told me. You've made over seventy thousand pounds, you have; you’ve got over eighty thousand. Malabar c ame in all right, Master Paul.”“I never told you, mother, that if I can ride my horse, and get there, then I’m absolutely sure - oh, absolutely! Mother, did I ever tell you? I am lucky!”“No, you never did,” said his mother. But the boy died in the night.And even as he lay dea d, his mother heard her brother’s voice saying to her, “My God, Hester, you’re eighty thousand to the good, and a poor devil of a son to the bad. But, poor devil, poor devil, he’s best gone out of a life where he rides his rocking-horse to find a winner.”ABC大学2012-2013学年第一学期《英国文学》课程考试试卷答案适用班级：英语系2010级卷型：（A卷）Part I Multiple Choices (每小题 1分，共20分)Part II Identification of Fragments (每小题10分，共30分)21. From William Shakespeare’s Hamlet; (5分)Hamlet has a good chance to kill his uncle, but he hesitated. The reason Hamlet gives for his refusing to kill the king is that if he kills the villain now, he would send his soul to heaven; he would fain kill soul as well as body. What he considers now is no longer his personal wrong but the fate of his country.（5分）22. From Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice; (5分)This is the beginning sentences of the novel. During that time, girls’ marriage is the most important thing in a family, especially in those families whose daughters don’t have much pension. These sentences are ironical. It is not those single man who needs a wife but those young maids who are in need of a rich husband. 5分)23. From John Milton’s Paradise Lost; (5分)It’s through Satan’s mouth. Although defeated, he prevails. Since he has won from God the third part of his angels. Though wounded, he triumphs, for the thunder which hit upon his head left his heart invincible. (5分)Part III Short Essay Questions (每小题10分，共30分)24. Don Juan is Byron’s masterpiece, written in Italy during the years 1818-1823. （2分）It is 16,000 lines long, in 16 cantos, and written in ottava rima, each stanza containing 8 iambic pentameter lines rhymed abababcc.（2分）The story of the poem takes place in the latter part of the 18th century. Don Juan, its hero, is a Spanish youth of noble birth. The vicissitudes of his life and his adventures in many countries are described against varied social backgrounds, and he is seen to take part in different historical events, thus giving a broad panorama of contemporary life. (2分)Don Juan, a noble man, falls in love with Julia, a married woman. But the affair is soon discovered and Juan is sent abroad. Juan alone comes out alive and swims to a Greek island, where he is saved by Haidee. Haidee dies, heart-broken and Juan is sold as a slave to Turkey and then to St. Peterburg. The writer intended to let Don Juan go on a tour through Europe, take part in the French Revolution and die fighting against the reigning tyranny. He called this poem an “epic satire.” (4分)25. Charles Dickens is the greatest writer in critical realism. He wrote lots of novels. (2分)Dickens’s literary creation can be divided into three periods: in the first period, Dickens shows strong belief that social evils can be settled if only every employer reformed himself according to the model set by the benevolent gentlemen in his novels, such as The Pickwick Papers and Oliver Twist. In the second period, Dickens came back from America. His travel to America impressed him most there was the rule of dollars and the enormously corrupting influence of wealth and power, such as Martin Chuzzlewit and Dombey and Son. In the third period, Dickens became pessimistic and his major works include Bleak House and Hard Times etc. (4分)As a novelist, Dickens is remembered first of all for his character-portrayal. Another feature of Dickens’s fictional art is his humor and satire. In Dickens’s novels’’construction, the main plot is often interwoven with more than one sub-plot so that some interesting minor characters as well as a broader view of life may be introduced. (4分) 26. The work is one of the most popular and important novels of the Victorian age. It is noted for its sharp criticism of the existing society, e.g. the religious hypocrisy of charity institutions, the social discrimination and the false social convention as concerning love and marriage. At the same time, it is an intense moral fable. (4分)Jane, like Mr. Rochester, has to undergo a series of physical and moral tests to grow up and achieve her final happiness. The success of the novel is also due to its introduction to the English novel the first governess heroine. （2分）Jane Eyre is a completely new woman image. She represents those middle-class working women who are struggling for recognition of their rights and equality as a human being. The vivid description of her intense feelings and her thought and inner conflicts brings her to the heart of the audience. （4分）Part IV Appreciating a Literary Work (计20分)答题要点：Plot. Theme：desire for money causes alienation of human relationship, 3rd person point of view, repletion, language features, short conversations, character analysis, your personal ideas about luck.《英国文学》A卷第11页共11页。

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课程代码：0604请将答案填在答题纸相应的位置上(全部题目用英文作答)I. Multiple Choice(40 points in all, 1 for each)Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question orcompletes the statement and write the corresponding letter on the answer sheet.1. In Renaissance, the European humanist thinkers and scholars made attempts to dothe following EXCEPT ______.A. getting rid of those old feudalist ideasB. getting control of the parliament and governmentC. introducing new ideas that expressed the interests of the rising bourgeoisieD. recovering the purity of the early church, from the corruption of the RomanCatholic Church2. The Petrarchan sonnet was first introduced into England by ______.A. SurreyB. WyattC. SidneyD. Shakespeare3. As the best of Shakespeare's final romances,______ is a typical example of hispessimistic view towards human life and society in his late years.A. The TempestB. The Winter's TaleC. CymbelineD. The Rape of Lucrece4. John Milton's greatest poetical work ______ is the only generally acknowledgedepic in English literarure since Beowulf.A.AreopagiticaB. Paradise LostC. LycidasD. Samson Agonistes5. The British bourgeois or middle class believed in the following notions EXCEPT______.A. self - esteemB. self - relianceC. self - restraintD. hard work6. “Graveyard School〞writers are the following sentimentalists EXCEPT______.A. James ThomsonB. William CollinsC. William CowperD. Thomas Jackson7. The best model of satire in the whole English literary history is Jonathan Swift's______.A. A Modest ProposalB. A Tale of a TubC. Gulliver's TravelsD. The Battle of the Books8. As a representative of the Enlightenment,______ was one of the first to introducerationalism to England.A. John BunyanB. Daniel DefoeC. Alexander PopeD. Jonathan Swift9. For his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel,______has been regarded by some as “Father of the English Novel〞.A. Daniel DefoeB. Henry FieldingC. Jonathan SwiftD. Samuel Richardson10. Which of the following descriptions of Gothic Novels is NOT correctA. It predominated in the early eighteenth century.B. It was one phase of the Romantic movement.C. Its principal elements are violence, horror and the supernatural.D. Works like The Mysteries of Udolpho and Frankenstein are typical Gothic romance.11. “Byronic hero〞is a figure of the following traits EXCEPT ______.A.being proudB. being of humble originC.being rebelliousD. being mysterious12. Robert Browning created ______ by adopting the novelistic presentation ofcharacters.A. the verse novelB. the blank verseC. the heroic coupletD. the dramatic poetry13. Charles Dickens' novel ______ is famous for its vivid descriptions of theworkhouse and life of the underworld in the nineteenth- century London.A. The Pickwick PaperB. Oliver TwistC. David CopperfieldD. Nicholas Nickleby14. Charlotte Bronte's works are all about the struggle of an individualconsciousness towards ______, about some lonely and neglected young women witha fierce longing for love, understanding and a full, happy life.A. self - relianceB. self - realizationC. self - esteemD. self - consciousness15. The symbolic meaning of “Book〞 in Robert Browning's long poem The Ring and theBook is ______.A. the common senseB. the hard truthC. the comprehensive knowledgeD. the dead truth16. Thomas Hardy's pessimistic view of life predominated most of his later worksand earns him a reputation as a ______ writer.A. realisticB. naturalisticC. romanticD. stylistic17. After the First World War, there appeared the following literary trends ofmodernism EXCEPT ______.A. expressionismB. surrealismC. stream of consciousnessD. black humour18. The masterpieces of critical realism in the early 20th century are the threetrilogies of ______.A. Galsworthy's Forsyte novelsB. Hardy' s Wessex novelsC. Greene's Catholic novelsD. Woolf's stream-of-consciousness novels19. In the mid - 1950s and early 1960s, there appeared “______〞 who demonstrateda particular disillusion over the depressing situation in Britain and launcheda bitter protest. against the outmoded social and political values in theirsociety.A. The Beat GenerationB. The Lost GenerationC. The Angry Young MenD. Black Mountain Poets20.The following are English stream-of-consciousness novels EXCEPT ______.A.PilgrimageB. UlyssesC.Mrs.DallowayD. A Passage to Inida21. The leader of the Irish National Theater Movement in the early 20th centurywas ______.A. W.B.Yeats B. Lady GregoryC. J.M.SyngeD. John Galworthy22. T.S.Eliot's most popular verse play is ______.A. Murder in the CathedralB. The Cocktail PartyC. The Family ReunionD. The Waste Land23. The American writer ______ was awarded the Nobel Prize for the anti-racist In-truder in the Dust in 1950.A. Ernest HemingwayB. Gertrude SteinC. William FaulknerD.T.S. Eliot24. Hemingway's second big success is ______ , which wrote the epitaph to a decadeand to the whole generation in the 1920s, in order to tell us a story about the tragic love affair of a wounded American soldier with a British nurse.A. For Whom the Bell TollsB. A Farewell to ArmsC. The Sun Also RisesD. The Old Man and the Sea25. With the publication of ______ , Dreiser was launching himself upon a long careerthat would ultimately make him one of the most significant American writers of the school later known as literary naturalism.A. Sister CarrieB. The TitanC. The GeniusD. The Stoic26. Henry James is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th -century “stream-of-consciousness〞novels and the founder of ______.A. neoclassicismB. psychological realismC. psychoanalytical criticismD. surrealism27. In 1849, Herman Melville published ______ ,a semi-autobiographical novel, con-cerning the sufferings of a genteel youth among brutal sailors.A. OmooB. MardiC. RedburnD. Typee28. As a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,______ marks the climax of Mark Twain'sliterary activity.A. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnB. Life on the MississippiC. The Gilded AgeD. Roughing It29. Realism was a reaction against ______ or a move away from the bias towards romanceand self- creating fictions, and paved the way to Modernism.A. RomanticismB. RationalismC. Post-modernismD. Cynicism30. When World War II broke out,______ began working for the Italian government,engaged in some radio broadcasts of anti- Semitism and pro- Fascism.A. Ezra PoundB.T.S. EliotC. Henry JamesD. Robert Frost31. In 1915 ______ became a naturalized British citizen, largely in protest againstAmerica's failure to join England in the First World War.C. W.D.Howells D. Ezra Pound32. What Whitman prefers for his new subject and new poetic feelings is “______ ,〞 that is, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.A. blank verseB. free rhythmC. balanced structureD. free verse33. The American woman poet ______ wanted to live simply as a complete independentbeing, and so she did, as a spinster.A. Emily ShawB. Anna DickinsonC. Emily DickinsonD. Anne Bret34. The Birthmark drives home symbolically ______ point that evil is a man's birthmark,something he was born with.A. Whitman'sB. Melville'sC. Hawthorne'sD. Emerson's35. The Financier ,The Titan and The Stoic written by ______ are called his “Trilogyof Desire〞.A. Henry JamesB. Theodore DreiserC. Mark TwainD. Herman Melville36. Disregarding grammar and punctuation,______ always used “i〞 instead of “I〞in his poems to show his protest against self-importance.A. Wallace StevensB. Ezra Pound37. Though Robert Frost is generally considered a regional poet whose subject mattersmainly focus on the landscape and people in ______ , he wrote many poems that investigate the basic themes of man's life in his long poetic career.A. the westB. the southC. New EnglandD. Alaska38. Most critics have agreed that Fitzgerald is both an insider and an outsider of______ with a double vision.A. the Gilded AgeB. the Rational AgeC. the Jazz AgeD. the Magic Age39. In the American Romantic writings,______ came to function almost as a dramaticcharacter that symbolized moral law.A. fireB. waterC. treesD. wilderness40. The desire for an escape from society and a return to ______ became a permanentconvention of the American literature.A. the family lifeB. natureC. the ancient timeD. fantasy of loveII. Reading Comprehension (16 points in all, 4 for each)Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.41. Wherefore feed and clothe and saveFrom the cradle to the graveThose ungrateful drones who wouldDrain your sweat- nay, drink your bloodQuestions:A. Identify the poet and the title of the poem from which the stanza is taken.B. What figure of speech is used in Line 2C. Whom does “drones〞 refer to42. The following quotation is from one of the poems by T. S. Eliot:No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;Am an attendant lord, one that will doTo swell a progress, start a scene or twoAdvise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool,Deferential, glad to be of use,Politic, cautious, and meticulous,Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse;Questions:A. Identify the title of the poem from which the quoted part is taken.B. Who's the speaker of the quoted linesC. What does the first line show about the speaker43．There was a child went forth every day,And the first object he look'd upon, that object he became,And that object became part of him for the day or a certain part of the day, Or for many years or stretching cycles of years.Questions:A. Identify the poet.B.From which poem and which collection of the poet are these lines takenC.What does the poet describe in the poem44. I heard a Fly buzz- when I died-The Stillness in the RoomWas like the Stillness in the Air-Between the Heaves of Storm-The Eyes around- had wrung them dry-And Breaths were gathering firmFor that last Onset- when the KingBe witnessed - in the Room-Questions:A. Identify the poet.B. What does “the King〞 refer toC. What moment is the poem trying to describeIII. Questions and Answers (24 points in all, 6 for each)Give brief answers to each of the following questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.45. List at least two leading neoclassicists in England. What did Neoclassicistscelebrate in literary creation46. Jane Eyre is one of the most popular and important novels of the Victorian Age.Why is Jane Eyre such a successful novel47. Who are the three dominant figures of the American Age of Realism and what arethe differences in their understanding of the “truth〞48. What's Dreiser' s naturalistic belief Please discuss the question with Carrie,a character in Sister Carrie as an example.IV. Topic Discussion(20 points in all, 10 for each)Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in thecorresponding space on the answer sheet.49. Briefly discuss William Shakespeare's artistic achievements in characterization,plot construction and language.50. Briefly discuss Mark Twain's art of fiction in terms of the setting,the language,and the characters, etc.,based on his novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.全国高等教育自学考试英美文学选读真题答案及评分参考〔课程代码0604〕I. Multiple Choice (40 points in all, 1 for each)1. B2. B3. A4. B5.A6.D7.A8.C9.B 10.A 11.B 12.A13.B 14.B 15.B 16.B 17.D 18.A 19.C 20.D 21.A 22.A 23.C24.B 25.A 26.C 27.C 28.A 29.A 30.A 31.A 32.D 33.C 34.C35.B 36.D 37.C 38.C 39.D 40.BII. Reading Comprehension (16 points in all, 4 for each)41. A. From Percy Shelley’s “Men of England〞(1)B. Metonymy (1)C. Here “drones〞refers to the parasitic class in human society. (2)42. A. “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock〞(1)B. J. Alfred Prufrock (1)C. Prufrock is conscious of the fact that he is like Hamlet in some respects. But he is sensibleenough that he cannot be compared with Hamlete. (2)43. A. Walt Whitman (1)B. “There Was a Child Went Forth〞from “Leaves of Grass〞(1)C. The poem describes the growth of a child who learned about the world around him andimproved himself accordingly. In the poem, Whitman’s own early ex perience may well be identified with the childhood of a young, growing American. (2)44. A. Emily Dickinson (1)B. The God of Death. (1)C. The poem is trying to describe the moment of death. (2)III. Questions and Answers (24 points in all, 6 for each)45. A. Alexander Pope, John Dryden, Samuel Johnson (任选2位作家). (2)B. They believed that the artistic ideals should be order, logic, restrained emotion andaccuracy and that literature should be judged in terms of its service to humanity. (2) They seek proportion, unity, harmony and grace in literacy expression, in an effort to delight,instruct and correct human beings. Thus a polite, elegant, witty and intellectual artdeveloped. (2)46. A. It is noted for its sharp criticism of the existing society. (2)B. It is an intense moral fable. (2)C. The success of the novel is also due to its introduction to the English novel the firstgoverness heroine. (2)47. A. William Dean Howells, Mark Twain, Henry James. (3)B. Mark Twain and Howells seemed to have paid more attention to the “life〞of theAmericans. Howells focused his discussion on the rising middle class and the way theylived; Mark Twain preferred to have his own region and people at the forefront of his stories;Henry James had apparently laid a greater emphasis on the “inner world〞of man. (3)48. A. Dreiser believes that while men are controlled and conditioned by heredity, instinct andchance, a few extraordinary and unsophisticated human beings refuse to accept their fatewordlessly and instead strive, unsuccessfully, to find meaning and purpose for theirexistence. (3)B. Carrie, as one of such, senses that she is merely a cipher in an uncaring world yet seeks tograsp the mysteries of life and thereby satisfies her desires for social status and materialcomfort, but in spite of her success, she is lonely and dissatisfied. (3)以上各题言语错误酌情扣分。

2011年10月自考《外国文学史》00540真题及答案

2011年10月自考《外国文学史》真题及答案课程代码00540单项选择题本大题共26小题，每小题1分，共26分。

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1、希腊化时期最著名的新喜剧作家是()A．希罗多德B．米南德C．修昔底德D．色诺芬正确答案：B2、欧里庇得斯以反对侵略战争为主题的剧作是()A.《特洛亚妇女》B.《美狄亚》C.《安提戈涅》D.《波斯人》正确答案：A325、.欧洲中世纪流传至今最完整的一部早期英雄史诗是()A.《贝奥武甫》B.《罗兰之歌》C.《熙德之歌》D.《尼伯龙根之歌》正确答案：A4、“七星诗社”的代表诗人是()A.蒙田B.维加C.龙沙D.乔叟正确答案：C5、法国人文主义作家拉伯雷的代表作是()A.《十日谈》B.《巨人传》C.《小癞子》D.《羊泉村》正确答案：B6、《威尼斯商人》中的高利贷者形象是()A.安东尼奥B.麦克白C.高布赛克D.夏洛克正确答案：D7、莫里哀最优秀的喜剧作品是() A．《吝啬鬼》B．《恨世者》C．《伪君子》D．《可笑的女才子》正确答案：C8、拉辛在《安德洛玛克》中强调的是() A．感性的重要B．爱情的重要C．理性的重要D．情欲的重要正确答案：C9、被誉为“第一部英国现代小说”的作品是()A.《帕美勒》B.《鲁滨逊漂流记》C.《克拉丽莎》D.《弃儿汤姆·琼斯的故事》正确答案：A10、法国启蒙运动的领袖是()A.狄德罗B.伏尔泰C.卢梭D.雨果正确答案：B11、拜伦浪漫主义诗歌的代表作是()A.《东方叙事诗》B.《恰尔德·哈洛尔德游记》C.《唐璜》D.《曼弗雷德》正确答案：C12、被称为“美国文学之父"的作家是() A．欧文B．库珀C．霍桑D．惠特曼正确答案：A13、《一个世纪儿的忏悔》的作者缪塞是()A.英国作家B.法国作家C.德国作家D.意大利作家正确答案：B14、斯丹达尔抨击古典主义，为浪漫派辩护的论著是()A.《论爱情》B.《〈克伦威尔〉序言》C.《意大利绘画史》D.《拉辛与莎士比亚》正确答案：D15、英国唯美主义文学的代表作家是()A.王尔德B.戈蒂耶C.魏尔伦D.马拉美正确答案：A16、马克·吐温揭露人性的卑劣虚伪和贪欲的中篇小说是()A.《王子与贫儿》B.《镀金时代》C.《傻瓜威尔逊》D.《败坏了赫德莱堡的人》正确答案：D17、苏联“全景小说”的重要作品是()A.西蒙诺夫B.恰科夫斯基C.邦达列夫D.斯塔德纽克正确答案：C18、高尔斯华绥最有影响的作品是()A.《尾声》三部曲B.《现代喜剧》三部曲C.“欲望三部曲”D.《福尔赛世家》三部曲正确答案：D19、萨特“境遇剧”的代表作是()A.《禁闭》B.《苍蝇》C.《脏手》D.《恶心》正确答案：A20、《尤利西斯》在结构写法上多处模拟的古代史诗是()A.《伊利昂纪》B.《罗摩衍那》C.《奥德修纪》D.《摩诃婆罗多》正确答案：C21、希伯来抒情诗中被称为“歌中之歌”的是() A．《诗篇》B．《雅歌》C．《哀歌》D．《酒歌》正确答案：B22、印度古代戏剧《沙恭达罗》的作者是()A.迦梨陀娑B.首陀罗迦C.蚁垤仙人D.伊克巴尔正确答案：A23、阿拉伯文学史上第一部成文的散文巨著是()A.《一千零一夜》B.《斗篷颂》C.《卡里莱和笛木乃》D.《古兰经》正确答案：D24、普列姆昌德长篇小说《戈丹》的主人公何利是()A.警察B.农民C.地主D.资本家正确答案：B25、创作散文诗集《先知》的作家是()A.努埃曼B.塔哈·侯赛因C.纪伯伦D.纳吉布·马哈福兹正确答案：C26、川端康成的小说《雪国》的女主人公是()A．叶子B．驹子C．文子D．苗子正确答案：B多项选择题(本大题共6小题，每小题2分，共12分)。

英国文学史及选读__期末试题及答案

考试课程：英国文学史及选读考核类型：A 卷考试方式：闭卷出卷教师: XXX考试专业：英语考试班级：英语xx班I.Multiple choice (30 points, 1 point for each) select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement.1._____，a typical example of old English poetry ,is regarded today as the national epic of the Anglo-Saxons.A.The Canterbury TalesB.The Ballad of Robin HoodC.The Song of BeowulfD.Sir Gawain and the Green Kinght2._____is the most common foot in English poetry.A.The anapestB.The trocheeC.The iambD.The dactyl3.The Renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events, which one of the following is NOT such an event?A.The rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek culture.B.England’s domestic restC.New discovery in geography and astrologyD.The religious reformation and the economic expansion4._____is the most successful religious allegory in the English language.A.The Pilgrims ProgressB.Grace Abounding to the Chief of SinnersC.The Life and Death of Mr.BadmanD.The Holy War5.Generally, the Renaissance refers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries, its essence is _____.A.scienceB.philosophyC.artsD.humanism6.“So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,/So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”(Shakespeare, Sonnets18)What does“this”refer to ?A.Lover.B.Time.C.Summer.D.Poetry.7.“O prince, O chief of my throned powers, /That led th’ embattled seraphim to war/Under thy conduct, and in dreadful deeds/Fearless, endangered Heaven’s perpetual king”In the third line of the above passage quoted from Milton’s Paradise Los t, the phrase“thy conduct”refers to _____conduct.A.God’sB.Satan’sC.Adam’sD.Eve’s8. It is generally regarded that Keats’s most important and mature poems are in the form of ______.A.elegyB.odeC.epicD.sonnet9.“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”The sentence is the beginning of Shakespeare’s_______.edyB.tragedyC.sonnetD.poem10. Daniel Defoe’s novels mainly focus on _____.A.the struggle of the unfortunate for mere existenceB.the struggle of the shipwrecked persons for securityC.the struggle of the pirates for wealthD.the desire of the criminals for property11. Francis Bacon is best known for his_____which greatly influenced the development of this literary form.A.essaysB.poemsC.worksD.plays12. Most of Thomas Hardy’s novels are set in Wessex____.A.a crude region in EnglandB.a fictional primitive regionC.a remote rural areaD.Hardy’s hometown13. In terms of Pride and Prejudice, which is not true?A.Pride and Prejudice is the most popular of Jane Austen’s novels.B.Pride and Prejudice is originally drafted as “First Impressions”.C.Pride and Prejudice is a tragic novel.D.In this novel, the author explores the relationship between great love and realistic benefits.14. Chronologically the Victorian Period refers to _____A.1798-1832B.1836-1901C.1798-1901D.the Neoclassical Period15. In the following figures, who is Dickens’s first child hero?A.Fagin.B.Mr.Brownlow.C.Olive Twist.D.Bill Sikes16. “And where are they? And where art thou,”My country? On thy voiceless shoreThe heroic lay is tuneless now-The heroic bosom beats no more! (George Gordon Byron, Don Juan)In the above stanza,“art thou”literally means_____.A.“art you ”B.“are though”C.“art though”D.“are you ”17. Of the following writers, which is not the representative of the Romantic period?A.William Blake.B.John Bunyan.C.Jane Auten.D.John Keats.18. In Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, what is the utmost concern of Blake?A.LoveB.ChildhoodC.DeathD.Human Experience19. Paradise Lost is actually a story taken from____.A.the RenaissanceB.the Old TestamentC.Greek MythologyD.the New Testament20. Jane Austen’s first novel is _____.A.Pride and PrejudiceB.Sense and SensibilityC.EmmaD.Plan of a Noel21. Of the following poets, which is not regarded as “Lake Poets’”?A.Saumel Taylor Coleridge.B.Robert Southey.C.William Wordsworth.D.William Shakespeare.22.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.Robinson CrusoeB.Moll FlandersC.GulliverD.Tom Jones23. The lines“Death, be not proud, though some have calld thee/Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;”are found in ______.A.William Wordsworth’s writingsB.John Keats’ writ ingsC.John Donne’s writingsD.Percy Bysshe Shelley’s writings24.The Pilgrim’s progress by John Bunyan is often said to be concerned with the search for_____.A.self-fulfillmentB.spiritual salvationC.material wealthD.universal truth25.With so many poems such as “The Sparrow’s Nest,”“To a Skylark,”“To the Cuckoo”and “To a Butterfly”,William Wordsworth is regarded as a “______”.A.poet of genius.B.royal poet.C.worshipper of nature.D.conservative poet.26.In the first part of Gulliver’s Travels, Gulliver told this experience in ____.A.LilliputB.BrobdingnagC.HouyhnhnmD.England27.Which of the following can not describe“Byronic hero”?A.Proud.B.Mysterious.C.Noble origin.D.Progressiv e.28.The poetic form which Browning attached to maturity and perfection is ____.e of ironic languagee of lyrics29.The term “metaphysical poetry”is commonly used to name the work of the 17th-century writers who wrote under the influence of ____.A.John MiltonB.John DonneC.John KeatsD.John Bunyan30. Which of the following writings is not created by William Wordsworth?A.I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.B.She Dwelt Among the Untrodden WaysC.The Solitary Reaper.D.The Chimney Sweeper.II. Find the relevant match from colunm B for each item in Colomn A (10 points in all. 1 point for each)A B1.Geoffrey Chaucer E A. A Red, Red Rose2.Francis Bacon C B. Ode to a Nightingale3.Jonathan Swift F C. Of Truth4.William Blake G D.Northanger Abbey5.Robert Burns A E.The Canterbury Tales6.John Keats B F.A Modest Proposal7.Jane Austen D G.The Tiger8.Charles Dickens I H. Ulysses9.Tennyson H I.David Copperfield10.Robert Browning J J.My Last DuchessIII. Fill in the following blanks (10 points in all, 1 point for each)1. In the year__1066__,at the battle of Hastings, the Normans headed by william, Duke of Normandy, defeated the Anglo-saxons.2. Since historical times, England, where the early inhabitants were celts, has been conquered three times. It was conquered by the Romans, the ANGLO-SAXONS____,and the Normans.3.Remeo and Juliet____is regared as shakespeare’s successful romantic tragedy.4. No sooner were the people in control of the government than they divided into hostile parties: the liberal whigs and the conservative__Tories___.5. The Glorious Revolution in 1688___meant three things the supremacy of parliament, the beginning of modern English, and the final triumph of the principle of political liberty.latter half of the 18th___century.7. With the publication of william Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballad____in collaboration with S.T Coleridge, Romanticism began to bloom and found a firm place in the history of English literatare.8. Woman as _novelists ___ appeared in the Romantic age. It was during this period that women took, for the first time ,an important place in English literature.9. The most important poet of the victoria Age was__ Tennyson __, Next to him, were Robert Browning and his wife.10. The ____movement appeared in the thirties of the 19th cenfury.1. 10662. Anglo-Saxons3. Romeo and Juliet4. Tories5. 16886.18th7.Lyrical Ballads 8.novelists 9. Tennyson 10.ChartistIV. Questions and Answers (20 points in all ,10points for each) Give brief answers to each of following questions in English.(1)A selection from a poemWherefore feed and clothe and saveForm the cradle to the graveThose ungrateful drones who wouldDrain your sweat_nay, drink your blood?Whrefore, Bees of England, forgeMany a weepon, chain, and scourgeThat these stingless drones may spoilThe forced produce of your tail?Questions (10’)1. These lines are taken from a poem entitled_A Song: Men of England)written by __ Shelley _2. The rhyme scheme in the selection of the poem is _aabb ccdd___.(1’)3.What idea does the quotation express?(7’)1. 1’) (1’)This poem is a war cry calling upon all working people to rise up against their political oppressors, it points out the intolerable injustice of economic exploitation. The poet calls the exploiters “ungrateful drones”, Who drain the sweat and drink the blood of the labouring people, He illustrates with concrete examples the relationship of economic exploitation between the ruling class and the working people.(7’)(2) A Selection from a workSome books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some books also may be read by deputy and extracts made of them by others, but that would be only in the less important arguments and the meaner sort of books; else distilled bookd are like common distilled waters.Question(10’)1. This passage is taken from a well-known work entiled___,(2’) written by ____.(1’)2. What’s the main idea of the whole work. (7’)V. Topic Discussion (30 points in all,15 points for each). Write no less than 100 words on each of the following topics in English , in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.1. Based on Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, discuss the theme of her works, the image of woman protagonists and what and how her novels truthfully present.(15’)2. In Pride and Prejudice, Jane Aasten explored three kinds of motivations of marriage that the middle-class people had in the second half of the 18th century. Try to make a brief discussion about them with specific examples from the novel. Make comments on Austen’s attitude towards these motivations.(15’)200x－200x学年度第一学期期末考试试卷答案及评分标准考试课程：英国文学史及选读考核类型：A 卷考试方式：闭卷出卷教师: XXX考试专业：英语考试班级：英语xx班I. Multiple Choice (1’×30=30’)01-05 C C B A D 06-10 D B B C A11-15 A B C B C 16-20 D B D B B21-25 D A C B C 26-30 A D A B DII. Find the relevant match from column B for each item in colamn A (1’×10=10’)1-E 2-C 3-F 4-G 5-A6-B 7-D 8-I 9-H 10-JIII. Fill in the following blanks (1’×10=10’)1. 10662. Anglo-Saxons3. Romeo and Juliet4. Tories5. 16886.18th7.Lyrical Ballads 8.novelists 9.Tennyson 10.ChartistIV. Questions and Answers (20 points in all )(1) A PoemQuestions(10’)1. A Song: Men of England(1’) Shelley(1’)2. aabb ccdd (1’)3. This poem is a war cry calling upon all working people to rise up against their political oppressors, it points out the intolerable injustice of economic exploitation. The poet calls the exploiters “ungrateful drones”, Who drain the sweat and drink the blood of the labouring people, He illustrates with concrete examples the relationship of economic exploitation between the ruling class and the working people.(7’)(2) A Selection from a work1. Of Studies(1’) Bacon(1’)2. It analyzes the use and abuse of studies ,the different ways adopted by different people to pursue studies. And how studies exert influence over human character.V .Topic Discussion (30 points in all, 15 points for each)A. Charlotte’s works are all about the struggle of an individual consciousness towards self-realization, about some lonely and neglected young women with a fiece longing for love, understanding and a full, happy life.B. All ber heroines’ highest joy arises from some sacrifice of self or some human weakness overcome.C. The image of woman protagonists in her works are mostly the life of the middle-calss working women, particularly governesses.t0D. Her works present a vivid realistic picture of the English society by exposing the cruelty, hypocrisy and other evils of the upper calsses, and by showing the misery and suffering of the poor. Especially in Jane Eyre by her, she sharply criticises theexisting society, e.g. religious hypocrisy of charity institutions.(2) In the novel ,three kinds of attitudes towards marriage are presented for manifestation: marriage merely for material wealth and social position; marriage just for beauty, attraction and passion regardless of economic condition or personal merits; and the ideal marriage for true love with a consideration of the partner’s personal merit as well as his economic and social status. What jane Aasten tries to say is that it is wrong to marry just for money or for beauty, but it is also wrong to marny without consideration of economic conditions.。

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2.In the year of _____， at the battle of _________， the Normans headed by ______ ， Duke of _________, defeated the ___________ .3.________________，the “father of English poetry” and one of the greatest ______________ poets of England。

The representative work of him is ____________________。

4. Renaissance means __________ and _________ .5. The key note of renaissance ： _________________。

6. The term Renaissance originally indicated a revival of ___________ （ _______ and _________ ) and_____________。

英美文学选读试题自学考试答案解析（完整版）

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D. /doc/info-926f89635dbfc77da26925 c52cc58bd630869377.htmlwrence’s autobiographical novel, ______shows the conflict between the earthy,coarse, energetic but often drunken father and the refined,strong —willed and up—climbing mother.AA.Sons and LoversB.The White PeacockC.The TrespasserD.The Rainbow17.“To be,or not to be—that is the question;/Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer./The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,/Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,/And by opposing end them?”These words are from ______.DA.King LearB.RomeoC.AntonioD.Hamlet18.John Milton’s last important work,______is the most powerful dramatic poem on the Greek model.AA.Paradise LostB.Paradise RegainedC.Samson AgonistesD.Lydidas19.The author of Moll Flanders and Captain Singleton is ______.BA.John MiltonB.Daniel DefoeC.Henry FieldingD.Jonathan Swift20.Drapier is the pseudonym of______.AA.Jonathan SwiftB.Daniel DefoeC.Henry FieldingD.William Blake21.One of Dickens'later works,______in which he 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The 18th century witnessed a new literary form -the modern English novel, which, contrary to themedieval romance, gives a ______ presentation of life of thecommon English people.A. romanticB. idealisticC. propheticD. realisticAnswer: D8. As a literary figure, John Rivers appears in _______.A. Fielding’s Tom JonesB. Dickens’s Oliver TwistC. Bronte’s Jane EyreD. Austen’s Pride and PrejudiceAnswer: C9. Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe created the image of an enterprising Englishman, typical of the Englishbourgeoisie in the ______ century.A. 17thB. 18thC. 19thD. 20thAnswer: B10. In "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," Thomas Gray compares the common folk with the great ones,wondering what the commons could have achieved if they had had the ______.A. chanceB. loveC. moneyD. material sourcesAnswer: A11. The poetic view of ______ can be best understood from hisremark about poetry, that is, "all goodpoetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings."A. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeB. John KeatsC. William WordsworthD. Percy Bysshe ShellyAnswer: C12. Pip, Estella, Havisham, Magwitch, and Joe Gargery are most likely names of characters in _______.A. Oliver TwistB. David CopperfieldC. Bleak HouseD. Great ExpectationsAnswer: B13. In English poetry the _______ is regarded as the most common foot.A. iambB. anapestC. trocheeD. dactylAnswer: A14. In Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth Bennet finds out some weak points about herself in the process ofjudging others. Which of the following is NOT a weak point of hers?A. Blindness.B. Partiality.C. Snobbishness.D. Prejudice.Answer: C15. 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 fought against the aristocratic classC. descendents of the ancient king, King LudD. poor country people who suffered under the rule of the landlord classAnswer: A16. "Five miles meandering with a mazy motionThrough wood and dale the sacred river ran,Then reached the caverns measureless to man,And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean."The above lines are taken from ______.A. Wordsworth’s "The Solitary Reaper"B. Blake’s "The Chimney Sweeper"C. Coleridge’s "Kubla Khan"D. Keats’s "Ode on an Grecian Urn"Answer: C17. In his poem, "Ode to the West Wind," Shelley intends to present his wind as a central _______ aroundwhich the poem weaves various cycles of death and rebirth.A. conceptB. symbolC. simileD. metonymyAnswer: B18. In the conversation with his wife in Chapter One of Pride and Prejudice, Mr. Bennet uses a(n) ______tone with sarcastic humor.A. solemnB. harshC. arrogantD. teasingAnswer: D19. Charles Dickens takes the French Revolution as the background of his novel ______.A. Great ExpectationsB. A Tale of Two CitiesC. Bleak HouseD. Oliver TwistAnswer: B20. A typical feature of the English ______ literature is that writers became social and moral critics,exposing all kinds of social evils.A. RenaissanceB. RomanticC. VictorianD. MedievalAnswer: C21. The statement that those extraordinary people, seeking something beyond the provincial life, havefinally to subject themselves to the limitations of the reality either due to their own weakness or thesocial environment may well sum up one of the major themes of ______.A. Fielding’s Tom JonesB. Defoe’s Robinson CrusoeC. Austen’s Pride and PrejudiceD. Eliot’s MiddlemarchAnswer: D22. A typical Forsyte, according to John Galsworthy, is a man with a strong sense of ______, who neverpays any attention to human feelings.A. justiceB. propertyC. moralityD. humorAnswer: B23. Which of the following statements about The Scarlet Letter is NOT true?A. It explores man’s never-ending search for the satisfaction of materialistic desires.B. It relates the conflicts between the society and the individual.C. It is about the effect of sin on the people involved and the society as a whole.D. It presents a psychological analysis of the inward tensions of the characters.Answer: B24. "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind" is a famous quote from _______’swritings.A. Walt WhitmanB. Henry David ThoreauC. Herman MelvilleD. Ralph Waldo EmersonAnswer:25. Which of Hemingway’s novels describes the drifting life of American exiles in Europe?A. The Sun Also Rises.B. A Farewell to Arms.C. For Whom the Bell Tolls.D. The Old Man and the Sea.Answer: B26. The theme of _______ may be well stated as "It sings of nationalism and of the nature of the self inrelation to the cosmos and the meaning and purpose of birth and death."A. Edgar Allan Poe’s "To Helen"B. Robert Frost’s "The Road Not Taken"C. Walt Whitman’s "Song of Myself"D. Emily Dickenson’s "Because I could not stop for Death"Answer: C27. The American Puritanism as a cultural heritage benefited the Americans in _______.A. strengthening their moral valuesB. weakening their religious faithC. knowing truth intuitivelyD. developing their science and technologyAnswer: A28. Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his ______.A. international themeB. waste-land imageryC. local colorD. symbolismAnswer: C29. "Strange names were over the doors -strange faces at the windows -every thing was strange. His mindnow began to misgive him, that both he and the world around him were bewitched. Surely this was hisnative village, which he had left but the day before." The above passage is taken from ______.A. Irving’s "Rip Van Winkle"B. Hawthorne’s "Young Goodman Brown"C. James’ "Daisy Miller"D. Hemingway’s "Indian Camp"Answer: A30. According to Hawthorne, the scarlet letter "A" which originally stood for "_______" finally obtainedthe meaning of "able" or "angel" through Hester’s efforts.A. adulteryB. arroganceC. accomplishmentD. agonyAnswer: A31. As a naturalist writer, Theodore Dreiser was greatly influenced by _______.A. Nathaniel HawthorneB. Charles DarwinC. Henry JamesD. Ralph Waldo EmersonAnswer: B32. In Sister Carrie, Hurstwood, extremely hopeless and totally devastated, ends his life by turning onthe gas, while at the same time Carrie is rocking comfortably in her luxurious hotel room before sheboards a ship for _______.A. New YorkB. LondonC. ParisD, GenevaAnswer: B33. In Henry James’ "Daisy Miller," the author tries to portray the protagonist as an embodiment of______.A. the force of conventionB. the decline of aristocracyC. the free spirit of the New WorldD. the corruption of the new richAnswer: C34. American writers of the first postwar era who were devoid of faith and alienated from thecivilization were commonly called "______."A. sons of libertyB. fatherless childrenC. a beat generationD. a lost generationAnswer: D35. The raft with which Huck and Jim make their voyage down the Mississippi River may symbolize all thefollowing EXCEPT ______.A. a return to natureB. an escape from evils, injustices, and corruption of the civilized societyC. the heavenly kingdom of ChristianityD. a small world where people of different colors can live friendly and happilyAnswer: C36. Of the following American poets in the twentieth century, the one who has the best knowledge ofChinese culture is _______.A. Robert FrostB. Allen GinsbergC. Ezra PoundD. E. E. CummingsAnswer: C37. Emily Grierson, the protagonist in Faulkner’s story "A Rose for Emily," can be regarded as a symbolstanding for all the following qualities EXCEPT _______.A. no prejudice against the northernersB. rigid ideas of social statusC. bigotry and eccentricityD. grace and integrityAnswer: D38. Robert Frost is a regional poet in the sense that his poems are mainly concerned about the _______.A. life in New YorkB. country life in New EnglandC. sea adventuresD. life on the MississippiAnswer: B39. In Hemingway’s story "Indian Camp" Nick, the protagonist, witnesses _______.A. a tragic killing of the Indians by the white manB. real friendship between the white men and the IndiansC. men’s senseless killing of each otherD. terrible scenes of birth and deathAnswer: D40. Great Gatsby, written by Fitzgerald in 1925, is a story about ______ who was destroyed by theinfluence of the wealthy, pleasure-seeking people around him.A. a vagabondB. an idealistC. an eccentricD. an opportunistAnswer: BPART TWOII. Reading Comprehension41. "Busy old fool, unruly sun,Why dost thou thus,Through windows and through curtains call on us?"Questions:A. Identify the poem and the poet.B. What does the word "fool" refer to?C. What idea does the quotation express?参考答案：A It is taken from Jone Donne’s "The Sun Rising" (P66)B. "fool" refers to the sun.C. Donne’s great prose works are his sermons, the quotation expresses a strong sense of rebelliousspirit, the author tried to break away from the conventional fashion of the Elizabethan love poetry.(P63+66)42. "Most mighty Emperor of Lilliput, delight and terror of the universe, whose dominions extend fivethousand blustrugs (about twelve miles in circumference) to the extremities of the globe; Monarch of allMonarchs; taller than the sons of men; whose feet press down to the center, and whose head strikesagainst the sun; at whose nod the princes of the earth shake their knees; pleasant as spring, comfortableas summer, fruitful as autumn, dreadful as winter."Questions:A. Identify the work and the author.B. What is the tone of the author?C. What does the author parody here?Answers:A. The passage comes from "Gulliver’s Travels" written by Jonanthan Swift. (P115)B. The author used the Ironic tone of the passage.C. Romance (prose)/ Adventurous prose is the parody here.43. "She thanked men -good! but thankedSomehow -I know not how -as if she rankedMy gift of a nine-hundred-years-old nameWith anybody’s gift."Questions:A. Identify the poem and the poet.B. What kind of tone does the speaker use here?C. What idea does the quoted passage express?Answers:A. The poem is "My Last Duchess", by Robert Browning. (P286)B. The speaker is Duke, he is a villain. The speaker uses the tone of arrogant (傲慢的) here.C. The quoted passage reveals the duke is a self-conceited, cruel and tyrannical man. (P287)44. "This is my letter to the WorldThat never wrote to Me -The simple News that Nature told -With tender Majesty"Questions:A. Identify the poetB. What does the word "World" refer to?C. What idea does the quoted passage express?Answers:A. The poet is Emily Dickinson. (P520)B. "World" refers to the outside world.C. The poem expresses D ickinson’s anxiety about her communication with the outside world. (P520)III. Questions and Answers45. "For herein Fortune shows herself more kindThan in her custom; it is still her useTo let the wretched man outlive his wealth,To view with hollow eye and wrinkled browAn age of poverty; from which ling’ring penanceOf such misery doth she cut me off."The above lines are taken from a speech made by Antonio, a major character in Shakespeare’s play TheMerchant of Venice. Why does Antonio say that Fortune is more kind to him than in her custom?参考答案:This sentence means she, Lady Fortune, is more kind to him because she is taking away both his wealthand life. The speaker is Antonio, it’s said that his ship have all been lost, and he is penniless, andwill have to pay the pound of flesh. (Because Shylock has made a strange bond that requires Antonio topay him a pound of flesh if he can’t repay him, the money that he borrowed for his friend in due time.) (P38)自学考试《英国文学选读》备考练习题篇21. What are Shakespear e ’ s achievements?a. Shakespeare represented the trend of history in giving voice to de desires and aspirations of the people.b. Shakespeare’s humanism: more important than his historical sense of his time, Shakespeare in his plays reflects the spirit of his age.c. Shakespeare’s characterization: Shakespeare was most successful in his characterization. In his plays he described a great number of characters.d. Shakespeare’s originality: Shakespeare drew most of his materials from sources that were known to his audience. But his plays are original because he instilled into the old materials a new spirit that gives new life to his plays.e. Shakespeare as a great poet: Shakespeare was not only a great dramatist, but also a great poet. Apart from his sonnets and long poems, his dramas are poetry.f. Shakespeare as master of the English language.2. What are the basic characteristics of ballads?a. The beginning is often abrupt.b. There are strong dramatic elements.c. The story is often told through dialogue and action.d. The theme is often tragic, though there are a number of comic ballads.e. The ballad meter is used.3. How do you interpret Humanism?With the spreading of the Greek and Roman culture there appeared a number of humanist scholars who took great interestin the welfare of human beings. According to them it was against human nature to sacrifice the happiness of this life for an after life. They argued that man should be given full freedom to enrich their intellectual and emotional life. In religion they demanded the reformation of the church, in art and literature, instead of singing praise to God, they sang in praise of man and of the pursuit of happiness in this life. Humanism shattered the shackles of spiritual bondage of man’s mind by the R oman Catholic Church and opened his eyes to “a brave new world” in front of him.4. How do you sum up the characteristics of Neo-Classicism?a. People emphasized reason rather than emotion, form rather than content.b. As reason was stressed, most of the writings of the age were didactic and satirical.c. As elegance, correctness, appropriateness and restraint were preferred, the poet found closed couplet the only possible verse form for serious work.d. It is almost exclusively a “town” poetry, catering to the interests of the “society” on great cities. The humbler aspects of life are neglected and it shows no love of nature, landscape, or country things and people.e. It is entirely wanting in all those elements that are related with the “romantic”.5. What is the significance of The Canterbury Tales ?a. It gives a comprehensive picture of Chaucer’s time.b. The dramatic structure of the poem has been highly commended by critics. In the Canterbury Tales, stories are related to the personalities of the tellers.c. Chaucer’s humor: humor is a characteristic feature of theEnglish literature. His gentle satire and mild irony.d. Chaucer’s contribution to the English language. Chaucer greatly increased the prestige of the English language.6. Please summarize the characteristic features of the Romantic Movement .a. Subjectivism: romantic poets describe poetry as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” which expresses the poet’s mind.b. Spontaneity: Wordsworth defines poetry as “the spontaneous overf low of feelings”. The role of instinct, intuition, and the feelings of “the heart” is stressed.c. Singularity: romantic poets have a strong love for the remote, the unusual, the strange, the supernatural, the mysterious, the splendid, the picturesque, and the illogical.d. Worship of nature: the romantic poets are worshippers of nature, especially the sublime aspect of a natural scene.e. Simplicity: romantic poets take to using everyday language spoken by the rustic people as opposed to the poetic diction used by neo-classic writers. There is a dominating note of melancholy in the poems of the romantic poets.f. It was an age of poetry by which the poets outpoured their feelings and emotions.7. What is William Wordsworth ’ s definition of the word “ poet ” ?He defines poetry as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings”.8. What are the main factors that explain the rise of novels asa dominant literary genre during the Victorian age?First, the growth of urban population resulted in the appearance of a new reading public.Second, with the development of the method of printing and paper making, the price of books dropped, and besides regular books, there were serial publications. In addition, many libraries were set up by philanthropists so that books were now available to readers who could not afford to buy books.Third, writing had become a profession, which made it possible for the writers to make a living by writing.Fourth, with the ascendancy of the industrial capitalists, the majority of whom lived an idle life on interests, there was a large idle class who needed recreation and entertainment. Novels met with their desires.Fifth, the conditions of the time and the dire poverty on the one hand and the enormous wealth on the other hand needed a secular form to explore human relations rather than sermons given in the church.Finally, the feminist movement had much to do with the growth of the novel.9. Please summarize Dickens ’ artistic techniques.a. Dickens has a tendency to depict the grotesque (very odd or unusual, fantastically ugly or absurd) characters or events.b. Dickens loves to instill life into inanimate things and to compare animate beings to inanimate things.c. Dickens is noted for his descriptions of pathetic scenes that aim to arou se people’s sympathy.10. Please define Robert Browning ’ s dramatic monologue.A poem in which there is one imaginary speaker addressing an imaginary audience.In his dramatic monologues, he penetrates to depth the psychology of his characters and through their own speeches, he analyzes and dissects his characters and reveals the innermostsecret of their lives.。

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Exercise for English Literature (2)Choose the best answer for each blank.1. ________, the “ father of English poetry ” and one of the greatest narrative poets of England, was born inLondon about 1340.A. Geoffrey ChaucerB. Sir GawainC. Francis BaconD. John Dryden2. Chaucer died on the 25th October 1400, and was buried in ________.A. FlandersB. FranceC. ItalyD. Westminster Abbey3.The progress in industry at home stimulated the commercial expansion abroad. ________ encouragedexploration and travel, which were compatible with the interest of the English merchants.A. Henry VB. Henry VIIC. Henry VIIID. Queen Elizabeth4. Except being a victory of England over ________, the rout of the fleet “ Armadawasalso”the(Invincible)triumph of the rising young bourgeoisie over the declining old feudalism.A. SpainB. FranceC. AmericaD. Norway5. At the beginning of the 16th century the outstanding humanist ________ wrote his Utopia in which he gave aprofound and truthful picture of the people and’puts sufferingforward his ideal of a future happy society.A. Thomas MoreB. Thomas MarloweC. Francis BaconD. William Shakespear6. Absolute monarchy in England reached its summit during the reign of Queen ________.A. MaryB. ElizabethC. WilliamD. Victoria7. English Renaissance Period was an age of ________.A. prose and novelB. poetry and dramaC. essays and journalsD. ballads and songs8. From the following, choose the one which is not Francis Bacon ’ s work: ________.A. The Advancement of LearningB. The New InstrumentC. EssaysD. The New AtlanticsE. Venus and Adonis9. “ Shall I compare thee to a summer ’ s day?” This is the beginning line of one of ShakespeareA. songsB. playsC. comediesD. sonnets10. The heroines of Shakespeare ’greats comedies, ________ are the daughters of the Renaissance, whoseimages and stories will remain a legacy to readers and audiences of all time.A. PortiaB. RoselandC. ViolaD. Beatrice11. Choose the four great tragedies of Shakespeare from the following ________.A. HamletB. OthelloC. MacbethD. King LearE. Timon of Athens12. Which play is not a comedy? ________A. A Midsummer Night ’ s DreamB. The Merchant of VeniceC. Twelfth NightD. Romeo and JulietE. As You Like It13. “ Denmark is a prison ” . In which play doeserothesummariseh his observation of his world into such a bittersentence? ________A. Charles IB. OthelloC. Henry VIIID. Hamlet14. The works of ________ and the Authorised Version of the English Bible are the two great treasuries of theEnglish language.A. Geoffrey ChaucerB. Edmund SpenserC. William ShakespeareD. Ben Johnson15. In which play does the hero show his profound reverence for man through the sentence: “ Whawok is a man! How nobel in reason! How finite in faculty! ” ________A. Romeo and JulietB. HamletC. OthelloD. The Merchant of Venice16. In 1649, ________ was beheaded. England became a commonwealth.A. James IB. James IIC. Charles ID. Charles II17.The revolution of 1688 meant three of the following things: ________.A. the supremacy of ParliamentB. the beginning of modern EnglandC. the triumph of the principal libertyD. the triumph of the principle of political libertyE. the Restoration of monarchy18.Who of the following were the important metaphysical poets? ________A. John DonneB. George HerbertC. John MiltonD. Richard Lovelace19. Which work was NOT written by John Milton? ________A. Paradise LostB. Paradise RegainedC. Samson AgonistesD. Volpone20. Paradise Lost is ________.A. John Milton’ s masterpieceB. a great epic in 12 booksC. written in blank verseD. about the heroic revolt of Satan against God’ s authority21. John Milton is ________.A. a great revolutionary poet of the 17th centuryB.an outstanding political pamphleteerC.a great stylistD.a great master of blank verse22.From the Old Testament, John Milton took his stories of Paradise Lost, i.e. ________.A. the creationB.the rebellion in Heaven of Satan and his fellow-angelsC.their defeat and expulsion from HeavenD.the creation of the death and of adam and EveE.the fallen angels in hell plotting against GodF.Satan ’ s temptation of EveG.the departure of Adam and Eve from Eden23.The finest thing in Paradise Lost is the description of hell, and ________ is often regarded as the real heroof the poem.A. GodB. SatanC. AdamD. Eve24. Who is the greatest of the Metaphysical school of poetry? ________A. John DonneB. George HerbertC. Andrew MarvellD. Henry Vaugham25.________ was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in the 18th century.A. The RenaissanceB. The EnlightenmentC. The Religious ReformationD. The Chartist Movement26.The main literary stream of the 18th century was ________. What the writers described in their works weremainly social realities.A. naturalismB. romanticismC. classicismD. realismE. sentimentalism27.The eighteenth century was the golden age of the English ________. The novel of this period spoke the truthabout life with an uncompromising courage.A. dramaB. poetryC. essayD. novel28. In 1704, Jonathan Swift published two works together, ________ and ________, which made him well-known as a satirist.A. A Tale of a TubB. Bickerstaff AlmanacC. Gulliver’ s TravelsD. A Modest Proposal29.“ Proper words in proper places, makes the true definition of a style.” This sentence is said by _of the greatest masters of English prose.A. Alexander PopeB. Henry FieldingC. Daniel DefoeD. Jonathan Swift30.As a journalist, ________ had learned how to make his reporting vivid and credible by a skillful use ofcircumstantial detail. This power to make his characters alive and his stories credible is an inimitable gift.A. Joseph AddisonB. Daniel DefoeC. Samuel RicharsonD. TobiasSmollett31.Which of the following are NOT written by William Blake? ________A. Poetical SketchesB. Songs of InnocenceC. Songs of ExperienceD. Auld Lang SyneE. The Marriage of Heaven and HellF. ProphecisG. Visions of the Daughters of Albion and America, a Prophecy32.In the 18th century English literature, the representative poets of pre-romanticism were ________.A. William WordsworthB. William BlakeC. Robert BurnsD. Jonathan Swift33.The Romantic Age begab with the publication of The Lyrical Ballads which was written by ________.A. William WordsworthB. Samuel JohnsonC. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD. Wordsworth and Coleridge34.The Romantic Age came to an end with the death of the last well-known romantic writer ________.A. Jane AustenB. Walter ScottC. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD. William Wordsworth35. The glory of the Romantic Age lies in the poetry of ________.A. William WordsworthB. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeC. George Gordon ByronD. Percy Bysshe ShelleyE. John Keats36.The English Romantic Age produced two major novelists. They are ________.A. George Gordon Byron and Percy Bysshe ShelleyB. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor ColeridgeC. Walter Scott and Jane AustenD. Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt37.Which poets belong to the Active Romantic group? ________A. George Gordon ByronB. William WordsworthC. Percy Bysshe ShelleyD. John KeatsE. John Milton38. Which poets belong to the Lakers? ________A. William WordsworthB. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeC. John KeatsD. Robert SoutheyE. Walter Scott39. Which of the folloeing were written by Wordsworth ONLY? ________A. To the CuckooB. The Lyrical BalladsC. Lucy PoemsD. The Solitary ReaperE. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud40.The publication of ________ marked the break with the conventional poetical tradition of the 18th century,i.e., with classicism, and the beginning of the Romantic revival in England.A. The Lyrical BalladsB. The PreludeC. Childe Harold ’ sPilgrimage D. Don Juan41.As contrasted with the classicists who made reason, order and the old, classical traditions the criteria in theirpoetical creations, ________ based his own poetical principle on the premise that “ allgood poetry is thespontaneous overflow of powerf ul feeling.”A. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeB. George Gordon ByronC. Percy Bysshe ShelleyD. William Wordsworth42.________ was the first critic of the Romantic School.A. William WordworthB. Samuel JohnsonC. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD. Wordworth and Coleridge43. Which of the following statements is (are) NOT true about George Gordon Byron? ________A. Byron ’ s early years had been far from happy for he was born with a clubfoot, in the frequent family scenes hismother called him“ you lame brat.”B. Byron died in Italy annd was deeply mourned by the Italian people and by all progressive people throughoutthe world.C. The reactionary criticism of the 19th century tried to belittle Byron’ s genius and his role in the deEnglish literature, but Byron remains one of the most popular English poets both at home and abroad.D. Since the May 4 Movement in 1919, more and more of Byron’ s poems have been translated into Chinese andwell received by the poets and young readers. Byron has now become one of the best-known English poets inour country.44.In 1805, Wordsworth completed a long autobiographical poem entitled ________.A. Biographia literariaB. The PreludeC. Lucy PoemsD. The Lyrical Ballads45. ________ is regarded as the most wonderful lyricist England has ever produced mainly for his poems onnature, on love, and on politics.A. William WordsworthB. John KeatsC. George Gordon ByronD. Percy Bysshe Shelley46. Which of the following statements is (are) NOT true about Percy Bysshe Shelley? ________A. Prometheus Unbound is Percy By sshe Shelley ’ s masterpiece, a long epic poem.B. At Eton Percy Bysshe Shelley was known as “ Mad Shelley” , for his obstinate opposition to the brutal faggingsystem, according to which the younger school-boys were obliged to obey the older boys and bear a great dealof cruel treatment.C. George Gordon Byron alled Percy Bysshe Shelley “ the best and least selfish man I ever knew.D. Percy Bysshe Shelley loved the people and hated their oppressors and exploiters.47. ________ ’pursuit of beauty in all things bespoke an aspiration after a better life than the sordid realityunder capitalism. His leading principle is: “ Beauty is truth, truth beauty. ”A. Percy Bysshe ShelleyB. George Gordon ByronC. William WordsworthD. John Keats48. Choose the four immortal odes written by John Keats. ________A. Ode to the West WindB. Ode to a NightingaleC. To AutumnD. Ode on MelancholyE. Ode on a Grecian Urn49. Choose the works written by Jane Austen. ________A. Pride and PrejudiceB. Sense and SensibilityC. Northanger Abbey C. EmmaE. Mansfield ParkF. Persuasion50.In the 19th century English literature, a new literary trend called ________ appeared. And it flourished in theforties and in the early fifties.A. romanticismB. naturalismC. realismD. critical realism51.English critical realism found its expression chiefly in the form of ________. The critical realists, most ofwho were novelists, described with vividness and artistic skill the chief traits of the English society andcriticised the capitalist system from a democratic viewpoint.A. novelB. dramaC. poetryD. essay52. The greatest English critical realist novelist was ________, who criticised the bourgeois civilisation andshowed the misery of the common people.A. William Makepeace ThackerayB. Charles DickensC. Charlotte BronteD. Emily Bronte53. Which of the following writers belong to critical realists? ________A. Charles DickensB. Charlotte BronteC. Emily BronteD. Thomas Hardy54. ________ wrote a number of little sketches of “ cockney characters ” . Hewhichsignedwasthemhis “ Boz”nickname for his young brother. His first book, Sketches by Boz appeared in 1836.A. Elizabeth GaskellB. William M. ThackerayC. Charles DickensD. Jane Austen55. ________ has been called “ the supreme epic of English life. ”A. A Tale of Two CitiesB. David CopperfieldC. Pickwick PapersD. Oliver Twist56. The theme underlying ________ is the idea “ Where there is oppression, there is revolution ”A. A Tale of Two CitiesB. David CopperfieldC. Pickwick PapersD. Oliver Twist57.In the Victorian Age, poetry was not a major art intended to change the world. The main poets of theage were ________.A. Alfred TennysonB. Robert BrowningC. Mrs. BrowningD. Robert BurnsE. William Blake58.The ________ Movement appeared in the thirties of the 19th century. It showed the English workers wereable to appear as an independent political force and were already realising the fact that the industrialbourgeoisie was their principal enemy.A. EnlightenmentB. RenaissanceC. ChartistD. Romanticist59.Which novel is a great satire upon the society and those people who dream to enter the higher societyregardless of the social reality? ________A. A Tale of Two CitiesB. David CopperfieldC. Great ExpectationD.Dombey and Son60.Charles Dickens takes the French Revolution as the background of the novel ________.A. A Tale of Two CitiesB. Great ExpectationC. Hard TimesD. DavidCopperfield61.________ is often regarded as the semi-autobiography of the author Dickens in which the early life of thehero is largely based on the author’ s early life.A. Tom JonesB. David CopperfieldC. Oliver TwistD. Great Expectation62.The Bronte sisters are ________. They were all talented writers and all of them died young.A. Charlotte BronteB. Emily BronteC. Anne BronteD. Jane AustenE. Catherine63. Charlotte Bronte produced four novels: ________.A. ProfessorB. Jane EyreC. ShirleyD. VilletteE. Agnes Grey64.Emily Bronte wrote only one novel entitled ________.A. Wuthering HeightsB. Jane EyreC. EmmaD. Agnes Grey65.Choose the names appear in the novel Jane Eyre. ________A. Jane EyreB. Mr. RochesterC. Mary BartonD. Silas Marner66.Which characters appear in the novel Wuthering Heights? ________A. HeathcliffB. CatherineC. HindleyD. CathyE. Hareton67.In the novel Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte ________.A. pours a great deal of her own experienceB. criticises the bourgeois system of educationC. shows that true love is the foundation of marriageD. shows that women should have equal rights with men68.Women novelists began to appear in England during the second half of the ________ century.A. 17thB. 18thC. 19thD. 20th69.Anne Bronte also wrote two novels ________ and ________.A. ShirleyB. VilletteC. The Tenant of the Wildfell HallD. Agnes Grey70. Which of the following statements are true about Jane Eyre? ________A.One of the central themes of the book is the criticism of the bourgeois system of education.B.Another problem raised in the novel is the position of women in society.C. This book is Charlottel Bronte’ s best literary production.D. In this book, the author attacked the greed, petty tyranny and lack of culture among the bourgeoisie andsympathised with the sufferings of the poor people. Her realism was coloured by petty-bourgeois philanthropy.71.Most of Robert Browning ’importants works, including ________, are written in the form of dramaticmonologue.A. Dramatic LyricsB. Dramatic RomancesC. Men and WomenD. dramaticsPersonae72.Thomas Hardy is one of the representatives of English ________ at the turn of the 19th century.A. critical realismB. pre-romanticismC. neo-classicismD. new romanticism73.Which statement is true? ________A. Thomas Hardy is a famous novelist.B. Thomas Hardy is also a poet.C. Thomas Hardy is a critical realist.D. Fatalism is strongly reflected in Thomas Hardy’ novels.74.Accordi ng to Thomas Hardy’ s own classification, his novels divided themselves into three groups. They are________.A.Novels of character and environmentB.Romances and FantasiesC.Novels of IngenuityD.Working class literature75.Novels of character and environment are also called Wessex novels, taking the southwest counties of Englandfor their setting. They include: ________.A. Under the Greenwood TreeB. The Return of the NativeC. The Mayor of CasterbridgeD. Tess of the D ’ UrbervillesE. Jude the Obscure76. The following state ments are about Thomas Hardy ’ s novels, which are true? ________A.His Wessex novels are of great significance.B.The Southwest counties of England are the setting of his Wessex novels.C.There is pessimism in his novels.D.Mankind is subjected to hostile and mysterious fate.E.There are elements of naturalism in his works.77.Oscar Wilde is one of the important dramatists in the 19th century. In his comedies, he criticises the upperclass of the English bourgeois society. His best comedies are ________.A. Lady Windermere s’FanB. A Woman of No ImportanceC. An Ideal HusbandD. The Importance of Being EarnestE. The Picture of Dorian Gray78. Oscar Wilde was the representative among the writers of ________.A. aestheticismB. decadenceC. critical realismD. pre-romanticism79. Alfred Tennys on’ s poetic output was vast and varied. His main poems are ________.A. The PrincessB. MaudC. In MemoriamD. Idylls of the KingE. Crossing the Bar80. Which of the following short poems was/were written by Alfred Tennyson? ________A. Break, Break, BreakB. Crossing the BarC. The EagleD. Sweet and LowE. Tears, Idle Tears81. Which lament was written by Alfred Tennyson for the death of his friend Hallam? ________A. In MemoriamB. LycidasC. AdodaisD. Elegy written in a Country Churchyard82. My Last Duchess is ________.A. a dramatic monologueB. a short lyricC. a novelD. an essay83. ________ are generally regarded as Joseph Conrad ’ s finest novels.A. Lord JimB. NostromoC. YouthD. The Old Wives ’ Tale84. Who is regarded as a forerunner of the “ stream of consciousness ” literature in the 20th century?A. John GalsworthyB. Henry JamesC. Thomas Stearns EliotD. James Joyce85. George Bernard Shaw ’ s essay ________, a commentary on Henrik Ibsen ’ s dramatic works, served alsoauthor ’ s own program of dramaticeationcr.A. Widower ’ s HousesB. Mrs. Warren ’ s ProfessionC. Major BarbaraD. The Quintessence of Ibsenism86.In English literature, ________ and ________ are the two best-known novelists of the “ streamofconsciousness ” school.A. David Herbert LawrenceB. Robert TressellC. James JoyceD. Virginia Woolf87. ________ ’ s admirers have praised him as “ second only to Shakespeare in his mastery of English language.A. D.H. LawrenceB. T.S. EliotC. James JoyceD. W.B. Yeats88. ________ is the climax of Virginia Woolf experiments’s in novel form.A. The WindowB. Time PassesC. To the LighthouseD. The Waves89. Which of the following novels belong(s) to the“ stream of consciousness” school of novel writing?A. UlyssesB. Finnegans WakeC. To the LighthouseD. The Waves90.________ was written by James Joyce.A. The Portrait of an Artist as a Young ManB. Portrait of a LadyC. The Picture of Dorian GrayD. To the Lighthouse91. D.H. Lawrence ’representative work ________ was positively taken as a typical example and livelymanifestation of the Oedipus Complex in fiction, as the result of Lawrence ’longs -range study of thepsychologic theories of Sigmund Freud.A. Sons and LoversB. The RainbowC. Lady Chatterley’ s LoverD. Women in Love92.Which of the characters are in the novel Sons and Lovers?A. Mrs. MorelB. PaulC. MiriamD. Clara93.Which of the following writers were from Ireland?A. George Bernard ShawB. Jonathan SwiftC. James Joyce Oscar WildeE. W.B. Yeats94. Which of the following play(s) was/were NOT written by George Bernard Shaw?A. Mrs. Warren ’ s ProfessionB. Widower ’ s HousesC. Major BarbaraD.Pygmalion E. The Man of Property95.Which of the following plays deals with the story that a linguist trains a flower girl to speak the so-calledhigh-civilised English?A. Major BarbaraB. PygmalionC. Mrs. Warren ’ s ProfessionD. Man and Superman96. In 1923, ________ was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.A. William Butler YeatsB. Samuel ButlerC. Thomas Stearns EliotD. David Herbert Lawrence97. William Butler Yeats was _______.A. an Irish poetB. a dramatistC. a criticD. a senator in the Irish Free State in 192198. Thomas Stearns Eliot defined his belief as ________.A. classicist in literatureB. royalist in politicsC. Anglo-Catholic in religionD. all of the above99.Which of the following statement is NOT true?A. Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in America.B. Thomas Stearns Eliot became a British subject in 1927.C. Thomas Stearns Eliot was educated in Harvard University and Oxford University.D. Thomas Stearns Eliot was a poet, a critic and a playwright.E. Thomas Stearns Eliot was also a great novelist.100.In which poem are the sterility and chaos of the contemporary world after 1st World War expressed?A. Ode to the West WindB. The Solitary ReaperC. LamiaD. The Waste LandKeys:1-5: A, D, D, A, A6-10: B, B, D, D, ABCD11-15:ABCD, D, D, C, B16-20: C, ABC, AB, D, ABCD21-25: ABCD, ABCDEFG, B, A, B26-30: D, D, AD, D, B31-35: D, BC, D, B, ABCDE36-40: C, ACD, ABD, ACDE, A41-45: D, C, B, B, D46-50: A, D, BCDE, ABCDEF, D51-55: A, B, ABCD, C, C56-60: A, ABC, C, C, A61-65: B, ABC, ABCD, A, AB66-70: ABCDE, ABCD, C, CD, ABCD71-75: ABCD, A, ABCD, ABC, ABCDE76-80: ABCDE, ABCD, AB, ABCED, ABCDE81-85: A. A. AB, B, D86-90: CD, C, D, ABCD, A91-95: A, ABCE, ABCDE, E, B96-100: A, ABCD, D, E, D。

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学历类《自考》自考专业(英语)《英美文学选读》考试试题及答案解析姓名:_____________ 年级:____________ 学号:______________1、Opposition leaders will be watching carefully to see how the Prime Minister ________ the crisis.A、handlesB、conductsC、observesD、directs正确答案：A答案解析：A应付，对付，控制B引导，进行，实施C观察，监测，遵守D指导，监督2、Now many major employers are beginning to demand _______ the completion of schoolA、morethanB、ratherthanC、otherthanD、betterthan正确答案：A答案解析：morethan：多于，不只。

句意：现在很多雇主开始不仅仅要求学业的完成。

3、In the original test，all the animals in a test group are given a substance _______ half of them dieA、unlessB、untilC、lestD、provided正确答案：B答案解析：本题考查词义辨析。

until：直到。

符合句意，表示givenasubstance持续到halfofthemdie。

4、Nobody but you _______ what he said.A、agreeswithB、agreesoutC、agreewithD、agreeto正确答案：A答案解析：主语为nobody时，谓语动词用单数，如果主语被but,aswellas,with等短语修饰，谓语仍与主语的数保持一致。

该题易误选C、D，选D的原因在于词组记忆不清，用介词to时之后应加具体项目。

英国文学 2010-11试题A卷

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全国2011年10月自学考试英语阅读(二)真题

全国2011年10月高等教育自学考试英语阅读（二）试题课程代码：00596全部题目用英文作答（翻译题除外），请将答案填在答题纸相应位置上I. Reading Comprehension (50 points, 2 points for each)Directions: In this part of the test, there are five passages. Following each passage, there are five questions with four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the best answer and then write the corresponding letter on your Answer Sheet.Passage OneToward twelve o’ clock, when we were crossing a high land, we heard the cry of a young animal, which we all recognized to be a baby ape. We crawled through the bush as silently as possible, still hearing the baby-like cry. Then a frightened little ape came into our sight. I could not tell my surprise when I saw that the baby ape’ s face was pure white - very white indeed - pallid. The little one was about a foot in height. One of the men threw cloth over its head and we secured it with a rope.I called him Tommy, to which name he soon began to answer. He had a great affection for me, and used constantly to follow me about. When I sat down, he was not content till he had climbed upon me and hid his head in my breast. He was extremely fond of being petted and fondled and would sit for hours while any one stroked his head or back.He soon began to be a great thief. When the people left their huts he would steal in and make off with their plantains or fish. He watched very carefully till all had left the house, and it was difficult to catch him in the act.From me he stole constantly. He soon found out that my hut was better furnished with ripe bananas and other fruit than any other; and also he discovered that the best time to steal from me was when I was asleep in the morning. At that time he used to crawl in on his tiptoes, move slyly toward my bed, look at my closed eyes, and, if he saw no movement, with an air of great relief go up and pluck several plantains. If I stirred in the least he was off like a flash, and would presently reenter for another inspection. If my eyes were open when he came in on such a predatory trip, he at once came up to me with an honest face, and climbed on and caressed me. But I could easily detect an occasional wishful glance toward the bunch of plantains.浙00596# 英语阅读（二）试卷第1页共15页He kept the run of mealtimes, and was present at as many meals as possible; that is, he would go from my breakfast to half a dozen others, and beg something at each. He was very fond of boiled meat - particularly boiled fish - and was constantly picking bones. He wanted always to taste my coffee, and would beg of me, in the most serious manner, for some.Tommy had a great deal of intelligence; and if I had had leisure I think I might have trained him to some kind of good behavior, though I despaired of his thieving disposition. He lived so long, and was growing so accustomed to civilized life, that I began to have great hopes of being able to carry him to America. But, one morning he refused his food, seemed downcast, and was very anxious to be petted and held in the arms. I got all kinds of forest berries for him, but he refused all. He did not seem to suffer, but ate nothing; and the next day, without a struggle, died. I was very sorry, for he had grown to be quite a pet companion for me.Questions1-5 are based on Passage One.1. How did the author find the little ape?A. He saw it in remote distance.B. It jumped right in front of him.C. He heard its frightened cry.D. He was told that it was there.2. Which of the following is true of Tommy?A. He liked to climb upon the author and scream in his breast.B. He liked to be petted and fondled by the author.C. He liked to chase the author about when he was very excited.D. He liked to play balls with the author in front of the house.3. When would Tommy steal food from the author?A. He would do it when the author lay still with his eyes closed.B. He would do it only when the food looked inviting.C. He would do it when he was not allowed to get the food.D. He would do it only when he was hungry.4. What kind of food did Tommy like?A. Milk and juice.B. Ripe bananas.C. Bread and butter.D. Boiled fish.5. Tommy __________ when he was dying.A. was restless and excited浙00596# 英语阅读（二）试卷第2页共15页B. had a good appetite for wild berriesC. was anxious to be cared forD. ate few berries and plantainsPassage TwoFor some time past it has been widely accepted that babies - and other creatures - learn to do things because certain acts lead to “rewards”; and there is no reason to doubt that this is true. But it used also to be widely believed that effective reward, at least in the early stages, had to be directly related to such basic physiological “drives” as thirst or hunger. In other words, a baby would learn if he got food or drink or some sort of physical comfort, not otherwise.It is now clear that this is not so. Babies will learn to behave in ways that produce results in the world with no reward except the successful outcome.Pap began his studies by using milk in the normal way to “reward” the babies and so teach them to carry out some simple movements, such as turning the head to one side or the other. Then he noticed that a baby who had enough to drink would refuse the milk but would still go on making the learned response with clear signs of pleasure. So he began to study the children’s responses in situations where no milk was provided. He quickly found that children as young as four mont hs would learn to turn their heads to right or left if the movement “switched on” a display of lights - and indeed that they were capable of learning quite complex turns to bring about this result, for instance, two left or two right, or even to make as many as three turns to one side.Pap’s light display was placed directly in front of the babies and he made the interesting observation that sometimes they would not turn back to watch the lights closely although they would “smile and bubble” when the displ ay came on. Pap concluded that it was not primarily the sight of the lights which pleased them, it was the success they were achieving in solving the problem, in mastering the skill, and that there exists a fundamental human urge to make sense of the world and bring it under intentional control.Questions 6-10 are based on Passage Two.6. According to the author, babies learn to do things which __________.A. are directly related to pleasureB. will meet their physical needs浙00596# 英语阅读（二）试卷第3页共15页C. will bring them a feeling of successD. are good for their psychological development7. Pap noticed in his studies that a baby __________.A. would continue the simple movements even without milkB. would begin to make learned responses even without milkC. would carry out learned movements when it had enough to drinkD. would turn its head to right or left when it had enough to drink8. In Pap’ s experiment babies make learned movements of the head in order to __________.A. be praisedB. please the researcherC. be rewarded with milkD. have the lights turned on9. The babies would “smile and bubble” at the lights because __________.A. the sight of the lights was amusingB. they succeeded in “switching on” the lightsC. they didn’ t need to turn back to watch the lightsD. the lights went on and off quickly10. According to Pap, the pleasure babies get in achieving something is a reflection of __________.A. a basic human desire to understand and control the worldB. the satisfaction of certain physiological needsC. their strong desire to solve complex problemsD. a fundamental human urge to display their learned skillsPassage ThreeWhen trying to understand why some people have trouble living within their means, we tend to blame factors such as high interest rates and irresponsible spending. Now researchers have found another possible factor to add to the list: a gene linked to credit-card debt.Earlier work has shown that genetics plays a role in how we handle money. But a recent study was the first to show that a particular gene affects financial behavior outside the lab. Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, and the London School of Economics looked at genetic data and questionnaires already collected from more than 2,000 young adults aged 18 to 26 as part of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. In particular, they浙00596# 英语阅读（二）试卷第4页共15页looked at whether these young adults said they had any credit-card debt and what version of the MAOA gene they had.Monoamine oxidase A (MAOA) (甲型单胺氧化酶) is an enzyme that breaks down the signaling chemicals called neuro-transmitters in the brain. Previous studies have linked the low-efficiency versions of the MAOA gene - the variants that cause less MAOA to be produced by brain cells - to impulsiveness.In the new study, people with one “low” MAOA gene and one “high” MAOA gene reported having credit-card debt 7.8 percent more often than did people with two “high” versions, the researchers found, even when they controlled for factors such as education and socioeconomic status. For people with two “low” versions of the gene, that number jumped to 15.9 percent.The researchers were surprised by the magnitude of the difference. “The effect is almost as big as financial litera cy,” meaning people’ s ability to digest complicated financial information, says Jan-Emmanuel de Neve, an author of the study.But, de Neve cautions, an individual’ s version of the MAOA gene does not predict whether he or she is carrying debt. The gene affects credit-card debt the way other genes have been found to play a role in breast cancer: a particular version of the gene increases risk, but many other genetic and environmental factors are important, too.Questions 11-15 are based on Passage Three.11. The recent study has found that __________.A. credit-card debt is mainly attributed to high interest ratesB. reckless spending is a major cause of a person’ s debtC. young adults tend to spend more money than they earnD. whether we overspend or not is probably determined by a particular gene12. What have earlier studies proved?A. The way we deal with money is related to our genetic features.B. A particular gene affects financial behavior outside the lab.C. Adolescents’genetic grouping affects their health.D. Too much MAOA may cause someone to behave impulsively.13. What does MAOA refer to?A. A neuro-transmitter.B. A gene.浙00596# 英语阅读（二）试卷第5页共15页C. An enzyme.D. A brain cell.14. What can we learn from Paragraph 4?A. People with two different MAOA genes run a greater risk of carrying debt than those with two low MAOA genes.B. How much MAOA can be produced by brain cells depends on what versions of MAOA genes a person has.C. People with two high MAOA genes are less likely to make ends meet than those with two different MAOA genes.D. How much MAOA can be produced by brain cells is related to how many MAOA genes a person has.15. According to the last paragraph, what does de Neve want to clarify about their research findings?A. Different genes play different roles: one type of gene can’ t take the place of other genes.B. The same gene that affects credit-card debt may also increase the risk of breast cancer.C. The low version of MAOA gene is bound to leave people heavily in debt.D. The low version of MAOA gene alone may not necessarily result in overspending.Passage FourPublic health experts have long been skeptical about the beneficial effect of pets on the health of their owners. After all, dogs bite and pass on parasites, and pigeons and parrots cause lung disease. However, in 1991, researchers at the University of Cambridge in Britain discovered that a short time after acquiring a cat or a dog, some people suffer less from health problems such as headache, backache and flu. It was also announced recently that Australians who keep pets tend to have less cholesterol in their blood than non-pet owners with comparable lifestyles, making them less likely to develop heart disease.For the time being, the findings are little more than puzzling correlations. Why should owning a pet make you less likely to suffer from backache? Why should it reduce your cholesterol level? Many researchers suspect that answers will be found in the subtle links between mental and physical well-being. If the newly discovered correlations between human health and pet ownership can be confirmed, they are likely to trigger fresh research on the psychological and physiological effects of keeping pets.浙00596# 英语阅读（二）试卷第6页共15页The hint that pets could help some people to live longer came from a discovery made over a decade ago. Erica Friedmann, working at the University of Maryland in the United States, investigated whether a person’s social life and degree of social isolation might influence their ability to survive a heart attack. Friedmann interviewed 92 recovering male patients and quizzed them in detail about their lifestyle, a few questions touching upon pets. A year later fourteen of the 92 men had died. Friedmann went back to her data to look for differences between those who had and those who had not survived. She found that socially isolated people were more likely to fall victim, and that those who had pets were more likely to recover.Or the explanation is that pets can provide owners with a special kind of emotional support which is lacking or at least uncommon in relationships between people. An animal’ s muteness is a benefit, not a burden. The problem with language is that although we use it to communicate the deepest thoughts and emotions, we also use it to deceive, misinform, criticize and insult others. The fact that pets listen and seem to understand, but do not question or evaluate, may be one of their most endearing assets as companions. It resembles the relationships some psychotherapists try to build.Questions 16-20 are based on Passage Four.16. For a long time doctors have been doubtful if __________ .A. animals make good petsB. pets help spread diseasesC. pets have good effects on their owners’healthD. happy pets rarely suffer from heart disease17. Researchers in Britain have now found that pet owners __________ .A. rarely experience headache, backache and fluB. suffer only from minor health problemsC. have little cholesterol in their bloodD. are usually free from heart disease18. One well-established belief among researchers is that __________ .A. one’ s mental state has nothing to do with his physical well-beingB. people who keep pets have no chance of getting heart diseaseC. pets bring about health hazards to their owners浙00596# 英语阅读（二）试卷第7页共15页D. one’ s mental state has much to do with his physical health19. Friedmann’ s investigation suggests that __________ .A. pets help the owners survive their diseasesB. isolated people outnumber pet owners in developing a heart diseaseC. owning a pet actually cures the owner’ s diseasesD. pets make little difference for patients’recovery20. What makes pets good companions?A. They are able to express the deepest feelings.B. They just listen quietly without any comments.C. They do not show signs of stress themselves.D. They can resemble human emotions.Passage FiveConcern about individual privacy on the Internet has been rising. E-commerce continues to grow, but many online shoppers are concerned about how their personal information is being or might be used. According to a Harris poll, many people do not shop online because of this concern, and of those who do shop online, 41% say they are very concerned about how a company uses their personal information. Now a clear majority of Americans - 57% - favor some sort of laws regulating how personal information is collected and used. Just as people are angry at intrusions into their physical space, they now want to protect the privacy of their virtual space.For most companies, the Web can be a vast source of information about customers. Each buying that a user conducts on a Web site, from a single click to an actual online purchase, can be stored and analyzed. A company can learn about visitors to its Web site through “cookies”, which are small data files that the site creates on the first visit and stores in the user’s computer. A cookie contains a unique tracking number, which enables sites to “remember” users on all subsequent visits. When you visit a site, it places electronic bits of data in your computer that tell the site a lot about you: what your e-mail address is, which portions of a Web site you looked at, what purchases you made, and so on. Many people do not even know that these “cookies” are being placed into their computers. Privacy advocates point out that if Web profiles ever became available for sale on the open market, such information could be used against people. For example, someone might not be hired for a future job if it became known that he or she had sought certain浙00596# 英语阅读（二）试卷第8页共15页health advice on the Web. Or let’ s say a customer has purchased a lot of ice cream and wine on the Web. An insurance company could use that information against the person, assuming he or she would be a candidate for high cholesterol or alcoholism, and refuse to provide insurance. Questions 21-25 are based on Passage Five.21. Many people refuse to do on-line shopping because they are afraid that __________.A. the quality of the product they buy cannot be guaranteedB. their personal information might be illegally usedC. the goods they buy cannot be delivered in timeD. the goods they buy will be lost during delivery22. What’s the meaning of “virtual” at the end of paragraph one?A. Of particles with extremely short lifetimes.B. Nearly as described but not completely.C. Not physically existing but produced by a computer.D. Of points where rays meet if produced backward.23. A company can collect the personal information of shoppers visiting its Web site__________ .A. through small data files established in the user’ s computerB. the first time an online shopper uses a unique tracking numberC. when the shopper conducts a transaction onlineD. from Web profiles bought on the market24. What is the major function of “cookies”?A. To store visitors’information on the web site.B. To record a tracking number of each visitor.C. To inform users on all their visits.D. To tell the site a lot about the visitors.25. The fact that an online shopper buys a lot of ice cream __________ .A. may indicate his economic statusB. may make it harder for him to get insuranceC. may suggest his brand preferenceD. may reveal the web sites he often visits浙00596# 英语阅读（二）试卷第9页共15页II. Vocabulary (10 points, 1 point for each)Directions: Scan the following passage and find the words which have roughly the same meanings as those given below. The number in the brackets after each word definition refers to the number of paragraph in which the target word is. Write the word you choose on the Answer Sheet.By far, the most vulnerable older persons are women, who are more likely than men to lack basic literacy and numerical skills, less likely to have paid work, and less likely to be eligible for pensions - where they are available. When women are eligible for pension, because of their lower pay and interrupted work histories, they are likely to receive lower pensions. Older women who have lost their partners greatly outnumber their male counterparts. In some countries, widows are often denied access to or control over resources. Also, women’s inheritance rights are poorly established in many societies. For these and other reasons, women, especially in developing countries, are much more likely to sink into poverty in their older years. Security schemes to alleviate poverty must take into account that most of the older poor are women, of whom many have limited experience in the labor force.The demand for new skills and knowledge places older workers at a disadvantage, as their training and skills developed earlier in life become obsolete. But age discrimination compounds many of the difficulties older workers face in the labor market. Biased attitudes hamper the efforts of older workers to find new employment and discourage employers from providing them with training. However, there is evidence that prejudices against the abilities of older workers are unfounded, and that the average difference in work performance between age groups is significantly less than the differences between workers within each age group.Training and education are particularly important in helping older workers to adapt to changing demand and opportunities. Lifelong learning, which is increasingly recommended by social policy experts, is an important cultural and economic asset. Implicit in the concept of lifelong learning is the rejection of a society structured on the basis of age, in which education and training are one-time undertakings experienced only early in life.26. open to emotional or physical danger or harm (Para. 1)浙00596# 英语阅读（二）试卷第10页共15页27. the ability to read and write (Para. 1)28. qualified, suitable (Para. 1)29. make something more bearable or less severe (Para. 1)30. out-of-date, not used any more (Para. 2)31. makes a problem or difficult situation worse; worsens (Para. 2)32. prevent the free movement, action, or progress of (Para. 2)33. biased and unreasonable opinions or feelings (Para. 2)34. suggested but not communicated directly (Para. 3)35. tasks or projects (Para. 3)III. Summarization (20 points, 2 points for each)Directions: In this part of the test, there are ten paragraphs. Each of the paragraphs is followed by an incomplete phrase or sentence which, summarizes the main idea of the paragraph. Spell out the missing letters of the word on your Answer Sheet.Paragraph OneCaring for people is one area where the states of Eastern Europe are far in advance of other parts of the world. Most medical and social services are provided free, and in some countries workers do not even have to make contributions to the health and insurance funds, since these contributions are made by the employer.36.In Eastern Europe, people can usually enjoy very good medical and social s_____________ . Paragraph TwoSome pessimistic experts feel that the automobile is bound to fall into disuse. They see a day in the not-too-distant future when all autos will be abandoned and allowed to rust. Other authorities, however, think the auto is here to stay. They hold that the car will remain a leading means of urban travel in the foreseeable future.37. Possible p___________ of automobiles.Paragraph ThreeIn the past, making structures quake-resistant meant firm yet flexible materials, such as steel and wood that bend without breaking. Later, people tried to lift a building off its foundation, and insert rubber and steel between the building and its foundation to reduce the impact of ground 浙00596# 英语阅读（二）试卷第11页共15页vibrations. The most recent designs give buildings brains as well as concrete and steel supports. These are called smart buildings.38. Different ways to i__________ quake-resistance of a building.Paragraph FourCommon interests appear to be a significant factor in selecting friends. Very close and trusted friends share faith in each other. They feel secure that they will not be ridiculed, and their faith will be respected. Betraying a trust is a very quick and painful way to terminate a friendship. 39. Common faith helps k_________ friendship.Paragraph FiveThere are a large number of dieting programs to be found online, each promising you significant weight loss. Experts warn people against going for any and every diet program. If your diet is too strict you might harm your health. Your motive should be to lose weight in a healthy way.40. Strict dieting is an u__________ way of losing weight.Paragraph SixLove and knowledge led me upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Children in famine, helpless old people and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to destroy the evil, but I can’ t and I too suffer.41. S___________ is one of the essential qualities of the speaker.Paragraph SevenIt is important to remember that all children who live through a divorce do not react in the same way. Self-blame virtually disappears after the age of 6, fear of abandonment diminishes after the age of 8, and the confusion and fear of the young child is replaced in the older child by shame, anger, and self-reflection.42. There is some r_____________ between age and children’ s characteristic reaction to divorce. Paragraph EightKnowing our genetic makeup can help us gauge whether or not we may be stricken by a particular illness, such as cancer. Even before birth, we are able to do genetic screenings to 浙00596# 英语阅读（二）试卷第12页共15页determine what a child’s genetic disorders will be. In addition to predicting genetic predispositions toward diseases, gene therapies may provide new treatments or cures for serious diseases.43. Great progress in g___________ engineering.Paragraph NineThe US Federal Reserve raised American interest rates last night for a thirteenth time in a row and signaled that, while it remains set to push them still higher, its 18-month campaign of increases will start to wind down next year.44. This year’ s repeatedly rising interest rates will probably f____________ next year. Paragraph TenProbably the most primitive reason for teenage rebelliousness is physical in nature. At about the beginning of adolescence, children are undergoing profound hormonal changes as their bodies go through puberty. Their bodies are telling them that they are no longer children, and yet their parents are still treating them as children.45. Reasons why teenagers r_____________ their parents.IV. Translation. (20 points, 4 points for each)Directions: In the following passage, there are five groups of underlined sentences. Read the passage carefully and translate these sentences into Chinese. Write the Chinese version on your Answer Sheet.Our society is consumer oriented - dangerously so. To keep the wheels of industry turning, we manufacture consumer goods in endless quantities, and, in process, are rapidly exhausting our natural resources. But this is only half the problem. What do we do with manufactured products when they are worn out? They must be disposed of. Unsightly junkyards full of rusting automobiles already surround every city in the nation. Americans throw away 80 billion bottles and cans each year, enough to build more than ten stacks to the moon.It wasn’ t always like this. 46. Only 100 years ago man lived in harmony with nature. There weren’ t so many people then and their wants were fewer. Whatever waste were produced could be absorbed by nature and were soon covered over. Today this harmonious relationship is threatened by man’ s lack of foresight and planning, and by his carelessness and greed. For man is 浙00596# 英语阅读（二）试卷第13页共15页slowly poisoning his environment.Pollution is a “dirty” word. To pollute means to contaminate - to spoil something by introducing impurities which make it unfit or unclean to use. Pollution comes rn many forms. We see it, smell it, taste it, drink it, and stumble through it. 47. We literally live in and breathe pollution, and, not surprisingly, it is beginning to threaten our health, our happiness and our very civilization .Once we thought of pollution as meaning simply smog - the choking, stinging, dirty air that hovers over cities. But air pollution, while it is still the most dangerous, is only one type of contamination among several which attack the most basic life function.Through the uncontrolled use of insecticides, man has polluted the land, killing the wildlife. By dumping sewage and chemicals into rivers and lakes, we have contaminated our drinking water. 48. We are polluting the ocean, too, killing the fish and thereby depriving ourselves of an invaluable food supply.Part of the problem is our exploding population. More and more people produce more wastes. But this problem is intensified by our “throw-away” technology. Each year Americans dispose of 7 million autos, 20 million tons of waste paper, 25 million pounds of toothpaste tubes and 48 million cans. We throw away gum wrappers, newspapers, and paper plates. It is easier and cheaper to buy a new one and discard the old, even though 95 percent of its parts may still be functioning. Baby’ s diapers, which used to be made of reusable cloth, are now paper throwaways. 49. Soon we will wear clothing made of paper: “Wear it once and throw it away,” will be the slogan of the fashion conscious.Where is this all to end? Are we turning the world into a gigantic dump, or is there hope that we can solve the pollution problem? Fortunately, solutions are in sight. A few of them are positively ingenious.Take the problem of discarded automobiles, for instance. Each year over 40,000 of them are abandoned in New York City alone. Eventually the discards end up in a junkyard. But cars are too bulky to ship as scrap to a steel mill. They must first be flattened. 50. This is done in a giant compressor which can reduce a Cadillac to the size of a television set in a matter of minutes. Any leftover scrap metal is mixed with concrete and made into exceptionally strong bricks that are浙00596# 英语阅读（二）试卷第14页共15页。

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浙江省2018年10月高等教育自学考试英国文学选读试题课程代码：10054Ⅰ.Choose the relevant match from Column B for each item in Column A.(10%)Section AA B(1)Daniel Defoe ( ) A. The Pilgrim’s Progress(2)Charles Dickens ( ) B. The Silver Box(3)John Bunyan ( ) C. Robinson Crusoe(4)Richard Sheridan ( ) D. A Tale of Two Cities(5)John Galsworthy ( ) E. The School for ScandalSection BA B(1) Jane Eyre( ) A. Irene(2) The Man of Property( ) B. Mr. Rochester(3) The Merchant of Venice( ) C. Satan(4) Paradise Lost( ) D. Sophia Western(5) The History of Tom Jones ( ) E. PortiaⅡ.Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase according to the textbook.(5%)1. In the era of the Renaissance, the humanists made attempts to get rid of those old ______ ideas in medieval Europe.2. The ______ century was an age of prose. A group of excellent writers, such as Swift, Fielding were produced.3. English ______ is generally said to have begun in 1798 with the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads.4. In the Victorian period, the______ as a literary genre became the most widely read and the most vital and challenging expression of progressive thought.5. The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot is a poem concerned with the spiritual breakup of a modern1______ in which human life has lost its meaning, significance and purpose.Ⅲ.Each of the following statements is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement.(48%)1. During the Renaissance period many European humanist thinkers and scholars did not make efforts to do the following except( )A. to make reformation of those old feudalist ideas in medieval Europe.B. to introduce new ideas that expressed the interests of the feudalist.C. to exalt human nature which is capable of individual perfection.D. to prevent the purity of the early church from the corruption of the Roman Catholic Church.2. About Shakespeare’s romantic comedies, which of the following is not true? ( )A. He takes an optimistic attitude toward love and truth.B. The romantic elements are brought into full play.C. He praises the patriotic spirit when engaging intellectual excitement and emotion.D. His youthful Renaissance spirit of jollity is fully reflected.3. As a Renaissance humanist, Shakespeare ( )A. is against religious persecution and racial discrimination, against social inequality and the corrupting influence of gold and money.B. holds that literature should be a combination of beauty, kindness and truth, and should reflect nature and reality.C. gives faithful reflection of the social realities of his time through his works.D. all of the above.4. Which of the following statements about Paradise Lost is true? ( )A. Adam and Eve were driven out of Paradise for their conspiracy with Satan.B. The writer intended to expose the ways of Satan and to justify the ways of God to men.C. Satan, as a rebel to God, was finally defeated and surrendered.D. Satan was finally reconciled with God.5. The 18th-century England is known as ( )A. the Age of PuritanismB. the Age of ReasonC. the Era of CapitalismD. the Age of Glory6. Why did the enlighteners regard education the major means to improve the society and the2people? ( )A. Because most of the human beings were perfect themselves, so only a few needed further education.B. If the common people were well educated, there would be great chance for a democratic and equal human society.C. Because universal education was limited , dualistic, imperfect, and unnecessary.D. Because human beings were not capable of rationality and perfection through education.7. The neoclassicists did not believe that ( )A. the literature should be used to delight and instruct human beings.B. the artistic ideals should be order, logic, restrained emotion and accuracy.C. the literary works should be created independently and originally.D. both A and C8. The enlighteners placed much emphasis on reason, because they thought ( )A. reason or rationality should be the only, the final cause of any human thought and activities.B. reason and emotion both could lead to truth and justice.C. superstition was above reason and rationality.D. equality and science was contrary to reason and rationality.9. The middle of the 18th century saw a newly rising literary form—( )A. the modern English novelB. the modern English poetryC. the modern English dramaD. both A and B10. In Robinson Crusoe, the writer glorifies ( )A. pride and happinessB. independence and strong willC. hard work and successD. human labor and the Puritan fortitude11. Which of the following is not Daniel Defoe’s works? ( )A. Gulliver’s TravelsB. Captain SingletonC. Moll FlandersD. Robinson Crusoe12. As a master satirist, Swift’s satire is usually masked by ( )A. outward gravity and apparent earnestnessB. apparent eagerness and sincerityC. pessimism and bitternessD. seemingly gentleness and sweetness13. In the Houyhnhnm land, Gulliver found that ______ were hairy, wild, low and despicable3brutes while ______ are endowed with reason and all good and admirable qualities. ( )A. the horses ... the YahoosB. the horses ... human beingsC. the Yahoos ... the horsesD. the Yahoos ... human beings14. Which of following is true about the poetic aesthetics of William Wordsworth? ( )A. Poetry could call for people’s sympathy to the poetic revolutionB. Poetry could make literature as an expression of individualismC. Poetry could set forth a new critical creed on poetryD. Poetry could purify both individual souls and the society15. Blake’s Songs of Innocence is a lovely volume of poems, presenting a world of ( )A. happiness and innocenceB. hope and experienceC. happiness and miseryD. misery and poverty16. Which of the following statements is true about Wordsworth’s contribution to literature? ( )A. He started the modern novel , the writing of growing inner self.B. He initiated the use of ordinary speech of the English language to poetry.C. He advocated an escape from nature.D. He refused to decorate the truth of experience.17. As to the novel Pride and Prejudice, which of the following statements is not true?( )A. It mainly tells of the love story between Darcy and Elizabeth.B. Darcy and Elizabeth symbolize pride and prejudice respectively.C. Elizabeth and Darcy symbolize pride and prejudice respectively.D. Its original title is drafted as “First Impressions”.18. Which of the following groups belongs to the critical realists of the Victorian Period?( )A. Jane Austen and Emily BronteB. Charles Dickens and Walter ScottC. Thomas Hardy and George EliotD. D. H. Lawrence and James Joyce19. The religious hypocrisy of charity institutions are sharply criticized in the novel ( )A. Oliver TwistB. Wuthering HeightsC. A Tale of Two CitiesD. Jane Eyre20. As to Thomas Hardy’s later works, which of the following statements is true? ( )A. They are regarded as novels of humanity and nature.4B. They are well-known as novels of character and environment.C. They are local-colored novels of nature and character.D. They are classified as novels of environment and nature.21. The 20th-century Modernism is thought to take ______ as its theoretical base. ( )A. the theories of skepticism and disillusion of capitalismB. the pessimistic philosophy and the doctrines of Christian moralityC. the theories of post modernism and existentialismD. the irrational philosophy and the theory of psycho analysis22. Which of the following statements is not true about the Theater of Absurd? ( )A. Waiting for Godot is regarded as the most influential play of absurd.B. It concerns more about human beings in an alien and decaying world.C. The most original absurd playwright is G B Shaw.D. It writes about human beings living a meaningless life.23. Which of the following is not written by G. B. Shaw? ( )A. The RainbowB. Mrs. Warren’s ProfessionC. PygmalionD. Widowers’ House24. As to the poem The Waste Land, which of the following statements is true? ( )A. It reflects the disillusionment and despair of a whole pre war generation.B. It presents a panorama of disorder and spiritual desolation in the modern Western world.C. It reflects a prevalent mood of hopefulness and optimism.D. It shows the lost hope of spiritual rebirth in the modern world.Ⅳ.Interpretation(20%)Read the following selections and then answer the questions.(1)To be, or not to be- that is the question;Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe slings and arrows of outrageous fortune，Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,And by opposing end them？To die, to sleep—No more; and by a sleep to say we end5... ...When he himself might his quietus makeWith a bare bodkin? Who would these fardels bear,To grunt and sweat under a weary life,But that the dread of something after death—The undiscover’d country, from whose bournNo traveler returns- puzzles the will,And makes us rather bear those ills we haveThan fly to others that we know not of?Thus conscience does make cowards of us all；And thus the native hue of resolutionIs sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought,And enterprises of great pith and moment，With this regard，their currents turn awryAnd lose the name of action.1. Who is the author of the play? From which play is this passage taken from?2. What can be seen about the hero’s character from the monologue?(2)The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,The lowing herd wind slowly o’er the lea,The plowman homeward plods his weary way,And leaves the world to darkness and to me.... ...Oft did the harvest to their sickle yield,Their furrow oft the stubborn glebe has broke；How jocund did they drive their team afield!How bowed the woods beneath their sturdy stroke!6Let not Ambition mock their useful toil,Their homely joys, and destiny obscure;Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smileThe short and simple annals of the poor.The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,And all that beauty, all that wealth e’er gave,Awaits alike the inevitable hour.The paths of glory lead but to the grave.3. Who is the author? What school of poets does he belong to?4. Make a brief comment on the artistic features of this poem.（3）Mr. Gamfield gave an arch look at the faces round the table, and, observing a smile on all of them, gradually broke into a smile himself. The bargain was made. Mr. Bumble was at once instructed that Oliver Twist and his indentures were to be conveyed before the magistrate, for signature and approval, that very afternoon.In pursuance of this determination, little Oliver, to his excessive astonishment, was released from bondage, and ordered to put himself into a clean shirt. He had hardly achieved this very unusual gymnastic performance when Mr. Bumble brought him, with his own hands, a basin of gruel and the holiday allowance of two ounces and a quarter of bread. At this tremendous sight, Oliver began to cry very piteously, thinking, not unnaturally, that the board must have determined to kill him for some useful purpose, or they never would have begun to fatten him up in that way. “Don’t make your eyes red, Oliver, but eat your food and be thankful,” said Mr. Bumble, in a tone of impressive pomposity. “You’re a going to be made a’prentice of, Oliver.”‘A’prentice, sir!’ said the child, trembling.“Yes, Oliver,” said Mr. Bumble. “The kind and blessed gentlemen which is so many parents to you, Oliver, when you have none of your own, are going to a’prentice y ou, and to set you up in life, and make a man of you, although the expense to the parish is three pound ten! — three pound ten, Oliver! —seventy shillings —one hundred and forty sixpences! —and all for a naughty orphan which nobody can’t love.”7As Mr. Bumble paused to take breath, after delivering this address in an awful voice, the tears rolled down the poor child’s face, and he sobbed bitterly.“Come,”said Mr. Bumble, somewhat less pompously, for it was gratifying to his feelings to observe the effect his eloquence had produced，“Come, Oliver! Wipe your eyes with the cuffs of your jacket, and don’t cry into your gruel; that’s a very foolish acti on, Oliver.” It certainly was, for there was quite enough water in it already.5. What can be shown according to the boy’s experience in the workhouse?Ⅴ.Give brief answers to the following questions.(17%)1. State the major characteristics of the critical realism in the Victorian Period.2. State briefly the features of Lawrence’s psychological realism.8。