新英达自考英语本科试题2010年4月英美文学试题
全国2010年4月高等教育综合英语自考试题
全国2010年4月高等教育自学考试综合英语（一）试题I.用适当语法形式或词汇填空。
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（本大题共20小题，每小题1分，共20分）1. I didn‘t see Jack at the meeting yesterday afternoon. He ______ it.A. mustn‘t attendB. can‘t attendC. mustn‘t have attendedD. can‘t have attended2. It is essential that this application form ______ as soon as possible.A. being returnedB. be returnedC. to be returnedD. will be returned3. You ______ quit your job until you find another one.A. had better notB. had better not toC. had not betterD. had not better to4. There are more than sixty proposals ______ at the conference.A. discussingB. been discussedC. to discussD. to be discussed5. ______ for their help，we couldn‘t have finished the task ahead of time.A. If it were notB. Hadn‘t it beenC. Had it not beenD. If it was not6. The room needs _____， but it will have to wait until Tuesday.A. cleaningB. cleanedC. to cleanD. being cleaned7. Thank you， Mr. President. I‘m very happy to ______ a chance to visit your college.A. being givenB. be givenC. giveD. have given8. Two days ago he came back from the village ______ his father had lived.A. thereB. thatC. whereD. which9. Scarcely ______ the house ______ it began to rain heavily.A. did he leave， thanB. he left， thanC. had he left， whenD. he had left， when10. I didn‘t go to our class get-together last weekend，but I do wish I ______ there.A. wasB. will beC. wereD. had been11. His visit to London last spring is ______ as a great success.A. looked intoB. looked toC. looked overD. looked upon12. You will complete your project more easily if you take ______ of all the facilities here.A. privilegeB. advantageC. chanceD. care13. Seventy guests had been invited to the party， but only fifty ______.A. turned aroundB. showed upC. turned outD. showed off14. All we can do is to hope this chemical plant will take ______ to reduce air pollution.A. measuresC. positionsD. methods15. She was just too busy yesterday， ______ she would surely have gone there with you.A. howeverB. forC. thereforeD. otherwise16. He found it hard to concentrate on his writing ______ so many people around.A. whenB. duringC. becauseD. with17. When she was five，the girl‘s father decided to ______ a pianist of her.A. developB. buildC. make18. ______ automobile pollution， the air quality in this city has become worse.A. As a result ofB. In spite ofC. But forD. As for19. Her friends did not expect her to ______ all their suggestions.A. turn downB. turn overC. take offD. take away20. The motor isn‘t ______ enough to push the car up the hill.A. toughB. powerfulC. strongD. bigII.阅读理解。
英美文学选读试题自学考试答案解析（完整版）
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I.Multiple Choice(40points in all,1for each)Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement.Mark your choice by blackening the corresponding letter A,B,C orD on the answer sheet.1.Shakespeare has established his giant position in world literature with his______plays,154sonnets and2long poems.BA.27B.38C.47D.522.john Milton’s literary achievement can be divided into three groups:the early poetic works,the middle prose pamphlets and the last______.CA.romancesB.dramasC.great poemsD.ballads3.The novels of______are the first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower—class people.CA.John MiltonB.Daniel DefoeC.Henry FieldingD.Jonathan Swift4.The work ranked by many critics as William Wordswoth’s greatest work was______.BA.Lyrical BalladsB.The PreludeC.Poems in Two VolumesD.The Excursion5.The author of The History of Tom Jones,a Foundling is ______.CA.Daniel DefoeB.Johathan SwiftC.Henry FieldingD.William Blake6.The works of______are famous for the depiction of the life of the middle—class women,particularly governess.*BA.Charlotte BrontewrenceC.Thomas HardyD.Jane Austen7.All of the following writings are created by William Wordsworth EXCEPT______.DA.“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.”B.“Composed upon Westminster Bridge,Septemer3,1802.”C.“The Solitary Reaper.”D.“The Chimney Sweeper.”8.The most important representative work by Jonathan Swift is______.DA.A Tale of a TubB.The Battle of the BooksC.A Modest ProposalD.Gulliver's Travels9“If winter comes,can Spring be far behind?”comes from Shelly’s______.DA.“To a Skylark”B.“Adonais”C.“Ode to Liberty”D.“Ode to the West Wind”10.In Jane Austen's first novel______,she tells a story about two sisters and their love affairs.BA.Pride and PrejudiceB.Sense and SensibilityC.EmmaD.Persuasion11.Charles Dickens is one of the greatest______writers of the Victorian Age.DA.romanticB.modernistC.socialistD.critical realist12.Charlotte Bronte's most autobiographical work,______ is largely based on her experience in Brussels.AA.Jane EyreB.ShirleyC.VilletteD.The Professor13.William Wordsworth's theory of poetry is calling for simple themes drawn from humble life expressed in the language of ordinary people.The preface to the second edition of______acts as a manifesto for the new school and sets forth his own critical creed.AA.Lyrical BalladsB.The PreludeC.Poems in Two VolumsD.The Excursion14.George Bernard Shaw's play______established his position as the leading playwright of his time.*CA.Widowers’HousesB.Too True to Be GoodC.Mrs.Warren's ProfessionD.Candida15.Eliot's most important single poem______,has been hailed as a landmark and a model of the20th-century English poetry.BA.The Hollow MenB.The Waste LandC.Prurrock and Other ObservationsD.Poems1909-2516. D. /doc/info-926f89635dbfc77da26925 c52cc58bd630869377.htmlwrence’s autobiographical novel, ______shows the conflict between the earthy,coarse, energetic but often drunken father and the refined,strong —willed and up—climbing mother.AA.Sons and LoversB.The White PeacockC.The TrespasserD.The Rainbow17.“To be,or not to be—that is the question;/Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer./The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,/Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,/And by opposing end them?”These words are from ______.DA.King LearB.RomeoC.AntonioD.Hamlet18.John Milton’s last important work,______is the most powerful dramatic poem on the Greek model.AA.Paradise LostB.Paradise RegainedC.Samson AgonistesD.Lydidas19.The author of Moll Flanders and Captain Singleton is ______.BA.John MiltonB.Daniel DefoeC.Henry FieldingD.Jonathan Swift20.Drapier is the pseudonym of______.AA.Jonathan SwiftB.Daniel DefoeC.Henry FieldingD.William Blake21.One of Dickens'later works,______in which he presents a criticism of the governmental branches which run an indefinite procedure of management ofaffairs and keep the innocent in prison for life.BA.Bleak HouseB.Little DorritC.Hard TimesD.A Tale of Two Cities22.In the second part of Gulliver's Travels,Gulliver told his experience in______.AA.BrobdingnagB.LilliputC.Flying IslandD.Houyhnhnm23.Faulkner used the narrative techniques to construct his stories,which include______and mythological and biblical allusions.AA.symbolismB.free indirect speechC.contrastD.dialogue24.Ernest Hemingway,had been trying to demonstrate in his works an unvarying code,known as“______,”which is actually an attitude towards life.BA.facing the realityB.grace under pressureC.honesty with benevolenceD.security coming first25.The Blithedale Romance is a novel written by Hawthorne to reveal his own experience on the Brook Farm and his own methods as a______novelist.CA.naturalistB.imagistC.psychologicalD.feminist26.Theodore Dreiser's focus shifted from the pathos of the helpless protagonists at the bottom of the society to the power of the Americanfinancial tycoons in the late19th century in his work ______.DA.The GeniusB.An American TragedyC.Dreiser Looks at RussiaD.“Trilogy of Desire”27.Emily Dickinson frequently uses personae to render the tone more familiar to the reader,and______to vivify some abstract ideas.DA.imagesB.metaphorC.symbolsD.personification28.In his later works,Melville becomes more reconciled with the______,in which he admits,one must live by rules.BA.womenB.world of manC.familyD.politicians29.Walt Whitman's______has always been considered a monumental work which commands great attention in America.BA.The Pilgrim’s ProgressB.Leaves of GrassC.A Passage to IndiaD.Rip Van Winkle30.Mark Twain’s full literary career began to blossom in1869with a travel book______,an account of American tourists in Europe.AA.Innocents AbroadB.The Portrait of A LadyC.The Grapes of WrathD.The Great Gatsby31.With the development of the modern novel and the common acceptance of the______approach,Henry James's importance,as well as his wide influence as a novelist and critic,has been all the more conspicuous.AA.deconstructionB.romanticC.FreudianD.analytic32.Emily Dickinson addresses the issues that concern the whole human beings in her poems,which include religion, death,______,love,and nature.AA.immortalityB.wealthC.powerD.politics33.In Sister Carrie Theodore Dreiser expressed his______ pursuit by expounding the purposelessness of life and attacking the conventional moral standards.BA.romanticB.realisticC.naturalisticD.modernistic34.Profound ideas in Robert Frost's poems are delivered under the disguise of______.AA.the plain language and the simple formB.the vivid descriptionsC.metaphorsD.the complicated narration35.In______Hemingway presents his philosophy about life and death throughthe depiction of the bullfight as a kind of microcosmic tragedy.BA.The Green Hills of AfricaB.Death in the AfternoonC.The Snows of KilimanjaroD.To Have and Have Not36Of Faulkner’s literary works,four novels are masterpieces by any standards:The Sound and the Fury, Light in August,Absalom,Absalom!and______.AA.Go Down,MosesB.The FableC.The Snows of KilimanjaroD.To Have and Have Not37.As Whitman saw it,______could play a vital part in the process ofcreating a new nation.CA.musicB.fictionC.poetryD.painting38.In many of Hawthorne's stories and novels,the Puritan concept of life is condemned,especially in his The house of the Seven Gables and______.BA.Go Down,MosesB.The Scarlet LetterC.As I Lay DyingD.Song of Myself39.Henry James is generally regarded as the forerunner of the______and the founder of psychological realism.BA.“stream-of-consciousness”novelsB.metaphysical poemsC.short storiesD.literary criticism40.Generally considered to be Henry James’s masterpiece,______incarnates the clash between the Old World and the New in the life journey of an American girl in a Europe an cultural environment.BA.The AmbassadorsB.Daisy MillerC.The AmericanD.The Portrait of A Lady非选择题部分注意事项：用黑色字迹的签字笔或钢笔将答案写在答题纸上，不能答在试题卷上。
2010自考本科考试英语真题及答案
2010自考本科考试英语真题及答案1、Bob is young, _______ he knows a lot. [单选题] *A. becauseB. soC. but(正确答案)D. unless2、When you are tired, listen to music and try to _______ yourself. [单选题] *A. supportB. showC. playD. relax(正确答案)3、My father?is _______ flowers. [单选题] *A. busy watering(正确答案)B. busy waterC. busy with wateringD. busy with water4、I don’t think he will take the case seriously,_____? [单选题] *A.don’t IB.won’t heC.does heD.will he(正确答案)5、——Have you（）your friend Bill recently? ———No, he doesnt often write to me. [单选题] *A. heard aboutB. heard ofC. heard from (正确答案)D. received from6、_____ is not known yet. [单选题] *A. Although he is serious about itB. No matter how we will do the taskC. Whether we will go outing or not(正确答案)D. Unless they come to see us7、It’s raining heavily outside. Don’t leave _______ it stops. [单选题] *A. whileB. sinceC. until(正确答案)D. when8、He went to America last Friday. Alice came to the airport to _______ him _______. [单选题] *A. take; offB. see; off(正确答案)C. send; upD. put; away9、_____how to do with the trouble of the computer, Tom had to ask his brother for help. [单选题] *A.Not to knowB.Not knowing(正确答案)C.Not knownD.Not know10、Patrick bought her two handbags as gifts,but _____ of them was her style. [单选题] *A. eitherB. noneC. neither(正确答案)D. all11、I will _______ from Hunan University next year. [单选题] *A. learnB. studyC. graduate(正确答案)D. come12、Tomorrow is Ann’s birthday. Her mother is going to make a _______ meal for her. [单选题] *A. commonB. quickC. special(正确答案)D. simple13、26．There’s some fruit in the kitchen. We ________ buy any. [单选题] *A．need toB．needn’t toC．don’t needD．don’t need to(正确答案)14、Location is the first thing customers consider when_____to buy a house. [单选题] *A.planning(正确答案)B.plannedC.having plannedD.to plan15、54．—________?—Yes, please. I'd like some beef. [单选题] *A．What do you wantB．May I try it onC．Can I help you(正确答案)D．What else do you want16、The house is well decorated _____ the disarrangement of a few photos. [单选题] *A. exceptB. besidesC. except for(正确答案)D. in addition to17、The reason I didn't attend the lecture was simply _____ I got a bad cold that day. [单选题] *A. becauseB. asC. that(正确答案)D. for18、Taking the subway is quite fast and cheap. It can _______ both time and money. [单选题] *A. savesB. save(正确答案)C. earnD. use19、He is going to _______ a party this evening. [单选题] *A. hold(正确答案)B. makeC. needD. hear20、The trouble turned out to have nothing to do with them. [单选题] *A. 由…引发的B. 与…有牵连C. 给…带来麻烦D. 与…不相干(正确答案)21、—What were you doing when the rainstorm came?—I ______ in the library with Jane. （）[单选题] *A. readB. am readingC. will readD. was reading(正确答案)22、If people _____ overanxious about remembering something, they will forget it. [单选题] *A. will beB. would beC. wereD. are(正确答案)23、Amy and her best friend often ______ books together.（）[单选题] *A. read(正确答案)B. readsC. is readingD. to read24、I want something to eat. Please give me a _______. [单选题] *A. bookB. watchC. shirtD. cake(正确答案)25、Could you tell me _____ to fly from Chicago to New York? [单选题] *A.it costs how muchB. how much does it costC. how much costs itD.how much it costs(正确答案)26、I shall never forget the days（）we worked on the farm. [单选题] *A. when(正确答案)B. whatC. whichD. on that27、Don’t _______ to close the door when you leave the classroom. [单选题] *A. missB. loseC. forget(正确答案)D. remember28、Can you _______ this form? [单选题] *A. fillB. fill in(正确答案)C. fill toD. fill with29、--Don’t _______ too late, or you will feel tired in class.--I won’t, Mum. [单选题] *A. call upB. wake upC. stay up(正确答案)D. get up30、He’s so careless that he always _______ his school things at home. [单选题] *A. forgetsB. leaves(正确答案)C. putsD. buys。
2010年4月高等教育自学考试全国统一命题考试英美文学选读试卷+答案(修订)
2010年4月高等教育自学考试全国统一命题考试英美文学选读试卷+答案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 or completes the statement. Write the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the answer sheet.1. T. S. Eliot’ s ______ bearing a strong thematic resemblance to The Waste Land, is generally regarded as the darkest of Eliot’ s poems.A. “Gerontion”B. “Prufrock”C. Murder in the CathedralD. The Hollow Men2. Shell ey’ s political lyrics ______ is not only a war cry calling upon all working people to rise up against their political oppressors, but an address to them pointing out the intolerable injustice of economic exploitation.A. “Ode to Liberty”B. “Ode to Naples”C. “Ode to the West Wind”D. “Men of England”3. Charlotte’ s works are famous for the depiction of the life of ______ working women, particularly governesses.A. the middle - classB. the lower - classC. the upper - middle - classD. the upper - class4. All of the following works are known as Hardy’ s “novels of character and environment” EXCEPT ______.A. The Return of the NativeB. Tess of the D’ UrbervillesC. Jude the ObscureD. Far from the Madding Crowd5. Jane Austen’ s practical ideali sm is that love should be justified by ______ and disciplined by self-control.A. reasonB. senseC. rationalityD. sensibility6. Shakespeare’ s ______, an elaborate and fantastic story, is known as the best of his final romances.A. The Winter’s TaleB. The TempestC. The Taming of the ShrewD. Love’ s Labour’ s Lost7. “Where intelligence was fallible, limited, the Imagination was our hope of contact with eternal forces, with the whole spiritual world.” was said by ______.A. William WordsworthB. William BlakeC. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD. John Keats8. “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 e nd then?” These lines are taken from ______.A. King LearB. Romeo and JulietC. OthelloD. Hamlet9. John Milton’ s most powerful dramatic poem on the Greek model is ______.A. Paradise LostB. Paradise RegainedC. Samson AgonistesD. Lycidas10. Because of her sensitivity to universal pattens of human behavior, ______ has brought the English novel, as an art of form, to its maturity.A. Charlotte BronteB. Jane AustenC. Emily BronteD. Henry Fielding11. Daniel Defoe’s ______ is universally cons idered as his masterpiece.A. Colonel JackB. Robinson CrusoeC. Captain SingletonD. A Journal of the Plague Year12. Poetry is defined by ______ as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, which originates in emotion recollected in tranquility”.A. William WordsworthB. William BlakeC. Percy Bysshe ShelleyD. Robert Southey13. Jonathan Swift’ s ______ is generally regarded as the best model of satire, not only of the period but also in the whole English literary history.A. Gulliver’s Trav elsB. The Battle of the BooksC. “A Modest Proposal”D. A Tale of a Tub14. All of the following statements about the Victorian period is true EXCEPT ______.A. England was the “workshop of the world”.B. The early years was a time of rapid economic development as well as serious social problems.C. Towards the mid -century, England had reached its highest point of development as a world power.D. Capitalism came into its monopoly stage, the gap between the rich and the poor was further deepened.15. George Bernard Shaw’ s ______ is a grotesquely realistic exposure of slum landlordism.A. Widower’ s HouseB. Mrs. Warren’ s ProfessionC. The Apple CartD. Getting Married16. Dickens’ s first child hero is ______.A. Little NellB. David CopperfieldC. Oliver TwistD. Little Dorrit17. Of all the eighteenth - century novelists ______ was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a “comic epic in prose”, the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.A. Henry FieldingB. Daniel DefoeC. Jonathan SwiftD. Laurence Sterne18. D. H. Lawrence’ s ______ is a remarkable novel in which the individual consciousness is subtly revealed and strands of themes are intricately wound up.A. Sons and LoversB. The RainbowC. Women in LoveD. Lady Chatterley’ s Love19. Dickens attacks the Utilitarian principle that rules over the English education system and destroys young hearts and minds in ______.A. Hand TimesB. Great ExpectationsC. Our Mutual FriendD. Bleak House20. The belief of the eighteenth - century neoclassicists in England led them to seek the following EXCEPT ______.A. proportionB. unityC. harmonyD. spirit21. The Renaissance marks a transition from ______ to the modern world.A. the old EnglishB. the medievalC. the feudalistD. the capitalist22. The great political and social events in the English society of neoclassical period were the following EXCEPT ______.A. the Restoration of King Charles II in 1660B. the Great Plague of 1665C. the Great London Fire in 1666D. the Wars of Roses in 168923. With the scarlet letter A as the biggest symbol of all, ______ proves himself to be one of the best symbolists.A. HawthorneB. DreiserC. JamesD. Faulkner24. The author of Leaves of Grass , a giant of American letters, is ______.A. FaulknerB. DreiserC. JamesD. Whitman25. In Tender is the Night, ______ traces the decline of a young American psychiatrist whose marriage toa beautiful and wealthy patient drains his personal energies and corrodes his professional career.A. DreiserB. FaulknerC. FitzgeraldD. Jack London26. Melville is best - known as the author of his mighty book, ________, which is one of the world’ s greatest masterpieces.A. Song of MyselfB. Moby - DickC. The Marble FaunD. Mosses from an Old Manse27. The theme of Henry James’ essay “______” clearly indicates that the aim of the novel is to present life, so it is not surprising to find in his writings human experiences explored in every possible form.A. The AmericanB. The EuropeansC. The Art of FictionD. The Golden Bowl28. During WWI, ______ served as an honorable junior officer in the American Red Cross Ambulance Corps and in 1918 was severely wounded in both legs.A. AndersonB. FaulknerC. HemingwayD. Dreiser29. In order to protest against America’ s failure to join England in WWI, ______ became a naturalized British citizen in 1915.A. William FaulknerB. Henry JamesC. Earnest HemingwayD. Ezra Pound30. Robert Frost described ______as “a book of people,” which shows a brilliant insight into New England character and the background that formed it.A. North of BostonB. A Boy’s WillC. A Witness TreeD. A Further Range31. We can easily find in Dreiser’ s fiction a world of jungle, and ______ found expression in almost every book he wrote.A. naturalismB. romanticismC. transcendentalismD. cubism32. As an active participant of his age, Fitzgerald is often acclaimed literary spokesman of the ______.A. Jazz AgeB. Age of ReasonC. Lost GenerationD. Beat Generation33. From the first novel Sister Carrie on, Dreiser set himself to project the American values for what he had found them to be: ______ to the core.A. altruisticB. politicalC. religiousD. materialistic34. The 20th -century stream- of- consciousness technique was frequently and skillfully used by ______ to emphasize the reactions and inner musings of the narrator.A. HemingwayB. FrostC. FaulknerD. Whitman35. With the help of his friends Phil Stone and Sherwood Anderson, ______ published a volume of poetry The Marble Faun and his first novel Soldiers’ Pay.A. FaulknerB. HemingwayC. Ezra PoundD. Fitzgerald36. The Sun Also Rises casts light on a whole generation after WWI and the effects of the war by way ofa vivid portrait of “______.”A. the Beat GenerationB. the Lost GenerationC. the Babybooming AgeD. the Jazz Age37. Within her little lyrics Dickinson addresses those issues that concern ______, which include religion, death, immorality, love and nature.A. the whole human beingsB. the frontiersC. the African AmericansD. her relatives38. H. L. Mencken, a famous American critic, considered ______ “the true father of our national literature. ”A. Hamlin GarlandB. Joseph KirklandC. Mark TwainD. Henry James39. In his poetry, Whitman shows concern for ______ and the burgeoning life of cities.A. the colonistsB. the capitalistsC. the whole hard -working peopleD. the intellectuals40. In 1837, ______ published Twice - Told Tales, a collection of short stories which attracted critical attention.A. EmersonB. MelvilleC. WhitmanD. HawthorneII. 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, Bees of England, forgeMany a weapon, chain, and scourge,That these stingless drones may spoilThe forced produce of your toil?Questions:A. Identify the poet and the poem from which the lines are taken.B. What do you know about the poem’ s writing background?C. What do you think the poet intends to say in the poem?42. Let us go then, you and I,When the evening is spread out against the skyLike a patient etherized upon a table;Let us go, through certain half- deserted streets,The muttering retreatsOf restless nights in one -night cheap hotelsAnd sawdust restaurants with oyster- shells:(The lines above are taken from “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T. S E liot. )Questions:A. What does the poem present?B. What form is the poem composed in?C. What does the poem suggest?43. This is my letter to the WorldThat never wrote to Me -The simple News that Nature told -With tender MajestyQuestions:A. Identify the poet.B. What idea does the poem express?C. Why does the poet use dashes and capital letters in the poem?44. There was music from my neighbor’ s house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft, or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motorboats slit the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of foam. On week - ends his Rolls - Royce became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city between nine in the morning and long past midnight, while his station wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug to meet all trains. And on Mondays eight servants, including an extra gardener, toiled all day with mops and scrubbing- brushes and hammers and garden - shears, repairing the ravages of the night before. (The passage above is taken from The Great Gatsby )Questions:A. What time does the story reflect?B. What does the novel evoke?C. What does Gatsby’ s failure magnify?III. Questions and Answers (24 points in all, 6 for each)Give a brief answer to each of the following questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.45. Working through the tradition of a Christian humanism, Milton wrote Paradise Lost, intending to expose the ways of Satan and to “justify the ways of God to men. ” What is Milton’ s fundamental concern in Paradise Lost?46. Briefly introduce Blake’ s Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience.47. What are the factors that gave rise to American naturalism?48. Briefly state Mark Twain’ s magic power with language in his novels.IV. Topic Discussion(20 points in all, 10 for each)Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.49. Why is Hardy regarded as a naturalistic writer in English literature? Discuss in relation to his novels you know.50. Please discuss Henry James’ contribution to American literature in regard to his representative works, themes, writing techniques and language.英美文学选读试题答案及评分参考（课程代码0604）I．Multiple Choice(40 points in all, 1 for each)Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Write the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the answer sheet.01-05:DDADA 06-10:BBDCB 11-15:BACDA 16-20:CACAD21-25:BDADC 26-30:BCCBA 31-35:AADCA 36-40:BACCDII. 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.A. Shelley & A Song : Men of England.B. This poem was written in 1819, the year of the *Peterloo Massacre(彼得卢屠杀).* 1819年8月16日发生在英国曼彻斯特圣彼得广场上的一场流血惨案。
英美文学选读真题和答案 (6)
202X年4月高等教育自学考试全国统一命题考试英美文学选读真题请将答案填在答题纸相应位置上Ⅰ. Multiple Choice (40 points in all, 1 for each)Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Write your answer in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.1．The work that presented, for the first time in English literature, a comprehensive realistic picture of the medieval English society and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life is most likely ______________. A．William Langland’ s Piers Plowman B．Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury TalesC．John Gower’s Confession Amantis D．Sir Gawain and the Green Knight2．The tragedy of Dr. Faustus, the protagonist in Christopher Marlowe’s The Tragic History ofDr. Faustus , is the very fact that______________.A．man is confined to timeB．he tried to join Africa to SpainC．he became a man without soul after he sold itD．he conjured up Helen, the lady who was partially responsible for the breaking-up of the Trojan War3．The sentence “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day〞is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare’s ______________. A．comedies B．tragediesC．sonnets D．histories4．Paradise Lost is actually a story taken from ______________.A．the Renaissance B．the Old TestamentC．Greek Mythology D．the New Testament5．Spenser’s masterpiece _____________ is a great poem of its time.A．The Faerie Queene B．The Shepheardes CalenderC．The Canterbury Tales D．Metamorphoses6．______________ is the essence of the Renaissance.A．Poetry B．DramaC．Humanism D．Reason7．The most famous dramatists in the Renaissance England are Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare and ______________.A．John Milton B．John MarloweC．Ben Jonson D．Edmund Spenser8．“To be, or not to be—that is the question〞is a line taken from______________.A．Hamlet B．OthelloC．King Lear D．The merchant of venice9．Francis Bacon’s essays are famous for their brevity, compactness and ______________.A．complicity B．complexityC．powerfulness D．mildness10．Literature of Neoclassicism is different from that of Romanticism in that ______________.A．the former celebrates reason, rationality, order and instruction while the latter sees literature as an expression of an复习文档individual’s feeling and experiencesB．the former is heavily religious but the latter secularC．the former is an intellectual movement, the purpose of which is to arouse the middle class for political rights while the latter is concerned with the personal cultivationD．the former advocates the “return to nature〞whereas the latter turns to the ancient Greek and Roman writers for its models.11．Daniel Defoe describes ______________ as a typical English Middle- class man of the eighteenth century, the very prototype of the empire builder or the pioneer colonist.A．Tom Jones B．GulliverC．Moll Flanders D．Robinson Crusoe12．______________ is a typical feature of Swift’s writings.A．Bitter satire B．Elegant styleC．Casual narration D．Complicated sentence structure13．The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan is often said to be concerned with the search for ______________. A．material wealth B．spiritual salvationC．universal truth D．self- fulfillment14．Alexander Pope strongly advocated ______________ , emphasizing that literary works should be judged by rules of order, reason, logic, restrained emotion, good taste and decorum.A．Sentimentalism B．RomanticismC．Idealism D．Neoclassicism15．“Metaphysical poetry〞refers to the works of the 17th- century writers who wrote under the influence of ______________.A．John Donne B．Alexander PopeC．Christopher Marlowe D．John Milton16．It is generally regarded that Keats’ s most important and mature poems are in the form of ______________.A．ode B．elegyC．epic D．sonnet17．______________ is the most outstanding stream of consciousness novelist, with ___________ as his encyclopedia – like masterpiece .A．James Joyce, Ulysses B．E.M. Foster, A Passage to IndiaC．D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers D．Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway18．Which of the following poems is a landmark in English poetryA．Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor ColeridgeB．“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud〞by William WordsworthC．“Remorse 〞by Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD．Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman19．The literary form which is fully developed and the most flourishing during the Romantic Period is ______________. A．prose B．dramaC．novel D．poetry20．Which of the following poems by T.S. Eliot is hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th century English poetry A．Poems 1909-1925 B．The Hollow ManC．Prufrock and Other Observations D．The Waste Land复习文档21．“My last Duchess〞is a poem that best exemplifies Robert Browning’s ______________.A．sensitive ear for the sounds of the English languageB．excellent choice of wordsC．mastering of the metrical devicesD．use of the dramatic monologue22．Dickens’ works are characterized by a mingling of ______________ and pathos.A．humor B．satireC．passion D．metaphor23．Walt Whitman, whose ______________ established him as the most popular American poet of the 19th century. A．Leaves of Grass B．Go Down, MosesC．The Marble Faun D．As I Lay Dying24．______________ has always been regarded as a writer who “perfected the best classic style that American Literature ever produced〞.A．Edgar Ellen Poe B．Walt WhitmanC．Henry David Thoreau D．Washington Irving25．The Romantic Period, one of the most important periods in the history of American literature, stretches from the end of ______________ to the outbreak of ____________.A．the 17th century…the American War of IndependenceB．the 18th century…the American Civil WarC．the 17th century…the American Civil WarD．the 18th century…the U.S. – Mexican War26．Which of the following statements is NOT true of American TranscendentalismA．It can be clearly defined as a part of American Romantic literary movement.B．It can be defined philosophically as “the recognition in man of the capacity of knowing truth intuitively〞.C．Ralph Waldo Emerson was the chief advocate of this spiritual movement.D．It sprang from South America in the late 19th century.27．The theme of Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle is ______________.A．the conflict of human psyche B．the fight against racial discriminationC．the familial conflict D．the nostalgia for the unrecoverable past28．The unofficial manifesto for the Transcendental Club was ______________, Emerson’s first little book, which established him ever since as the most eloquent spokesman of New England Transcendentalism.A．The American Scholar B．Self—relianceC．Nature D．The Over—Soul29．Nathaniel Hawthorne held an unceasing interest in the “interior of the heart 〞of man’s being. So in almost every book he wrote, Hawthorne discusses______________.A．love and hatred B．sin and evilC．frustration and self—denial D．balance and self—discipline30．In Young Goodman Brown by Hawthorne, the name of Goodman Brown’s wife is ______________, which also contains many symbolic meanings.A．Ruth B．HesterC．Faith D．Mary31．Which of the following statements might be true of the theme of Song of Myself by Whitman复习文档A．This poem describes the growth of a child who learned about the world around him and improved himself accordingly. B．This poem shows the author’s cynical sentiments against the American Civil War.C．This poem reflects the author’s belief in Unitarianism or Deism.D．This poem reflects the author’s belief in the singularity and equality of all beings in value.32．In Moby—Dick, the white whale symbolizes ______________ for Melville, for it is complex, unfathomable, malignant, and beautiful as well.A．nature B．human societyC．whaling industry D．truth33．Realism was a reaction against Romanticism or a move away from the bias towards romance and self—creating fictions, and paved the way to ______________.A．Cynicism B．ModernismC．Transcendentalism D．Neo—Classicalism34．Hemingway once described Mark Twain’s novel ______________ the one book from which “all modern American literature comes〞.A．The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn B．The Adventures of Tom SawyerC．The Gilded Age D．The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg35．__________ is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th—century “stream—of—consciousness〞novels and the founder of psychological realism.A．Theodore Dreiser B．William FaulknerC．Henry James D．Mark Twain36．Which of the following statements is NOT true of Emily Dickinson and her poetryA．She remained unmarried all her lifeB．She wrote, 1,775 poems, and most of them were published during her life time.C．Her poems have no titles, hence are always quoted by their first lines.D．Her limited private world has never confined the limitless power of her creativity and imagination.37．As a genre, naturalism emphasized ______________ as important deterministic forces shaping individualized characters who were presented in special and detailed circum-stances.A．theological doctrinesB．heredity and environmentC．education and hard workD．various opportunities and economic success38．Ezra Pound, a leading spokesman of the “______________〞, was one of the most important poets in his time. A．Imagist Movement B．Cubist MovementC．Reformist Movement D．Transcendentalist Movement39．Eugene O’Neill’s first full—length play, ______________, won him the first Pulitzer Prize. Its theme is the choice between life and death, the interaction of subjective and objective factors.A．Bound East for Cardiff B．The Hairy ApeC．Desire Under the Elms D．Beyond the Horizon40．Hemingway’s “Indian Camp 〞is one of the fourteen short stories collected under the title of ______________. This title is very ironic because there is no peace at all in the stories.A．Three Stories and Ten Poems B．Across the River and into the TreesC．The Green Hills of Africa D．In Our Time复习文档Ⅱ.Reading Comprehension (16 points, 4 for each)Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answer in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.41．“For oft, when on my couch I lieIn vacant or in pensive mood,they flash upon that inward eye〞Questions:A．Identify the anthor and the title.B．What does the phrase “inward eye〞meanC．Write out the main idea of the passage in plain English.42．“The duties of her married life, contemplated as so great beforehand, seemed to be shrinking with the furniture and the white vapour—walled landscape. The clear heights where she expected to walk in full communion had become difficult to see even in her imagination; the delicious repose of the soul on a complete superior had been shaken into uneasy effort and alarmed with dim presentiment. When would the days begin of that active wifely devotion which was to strengthen her huXand’s life and exalt her own〞Questions:A．Identify the author and the title of the story from which the passage is taken.B．Explain the meaning of “the white vapour—walled landscape〞C．How do you undersdand “the delicious repose of the soul on a complete superior〞43．“It was you that broke the new wood,Now is a time for carving.We have one sap and one root—Let there be commerce between us.〞Questions:A．Whom does the “us〞refer toB．What does the phrase “broke the new wood 〞mean hereC．What is the intention of the poet in writing the poem “A Pact〞from which these lines are taken44．“There was music from my neighbor’s house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft, or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motor—boats slit the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of foam. On week—ends his Rolls—Royce became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city between nine in the morning and long past midnight, while his station wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug to meet all trains. And on Mondays eight servants, including an extra gardener, toiled all day with mops and scrubbing—brushes and hammers and garden—shears, repairing the ravages of the night before.〞Questions:A．Identify the author and the title of the novel from which this passage is taken.B．What can you imply by reading this passageC．What do the “moths 〞symbolizeⅢ.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.复习文档45．William Shakespeare is one of the most remarkable playwrights the world has ever known.(1)Name his four greatest tragedies.(2)What are the characteristics of the four tragedies in common(3)Briefly summarize each hero’s weakness of nature.46．“Though his fair daughter’s self, as I avowedAt starting, is my object. Nay, we’ll goTogether down, sir. Notice Neptune, though,Taming a sea horse, though a rarity,Which Claus of InnXruck cast in bronze for me! 〞The lines above are taken from Robert Browning’s “My Last Duchess.〞Taking the whole poem into consideration, what kind of person do you think the duke is47．What is generally the view Washington lrving expressed in his “Rip Van Winkle〞about the radical changes that happened to the American society in his time48．What is the most famous theme in Henry James’s fiction And what is his favourite approach in characterization, which makes him different from Mark Twain and W.D. Howells as realists Give two titles of his works in which this theme and this approach are employed.Ⅳ. Topic Discussion (20 points in all, 10 for each)Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.49．Analyze the character of Jane Eyre based on the selection taken from Chapter X X Ⅲof Jane Eyre. 50．Symbolism is an important literary practice in literature and it has been widely used by many American writers. Discuss the way symboliom is used in Faulkner’s story “A Rose for Emily.〞复习文档。
自考英语本科英美文学选读英美文学选读考题分析
在自考的全部专业中，英语本科的淘汰率一直高居“榜首”，同时《英美文学选读》又是整个本科专业的瓶颈课程。
我们随机抽取了两刀（40本）试卷进行统计，发现该门课程的通过率大致在12%左右，可能是自考全部课程最低的。
绝大部分成绩徘徊在40分到58分之间，大约占了44.7%。
我们批改到的最高分大约是82分，成绩相当出色！一、试卷构成《英美文学选读》全国卷由四部分组成：第一部分是40分的选择题，每题1分，覆盖面十分广泛。
从以往几次试卷来看，该部分主要考核英美文学史，也包括少量选读中的内容，多属于常识性知识，例如今年14题要求辨别If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?的作者；2001年11题要求辨别It was a miracle of rare device, A sunny pleasure done with caves of ice.的作者和出处；还有每年必定会有一题考核作品中出现的人物，例如2001年第8题是Sheridan’s The School for Scandal中的人物，今年28题是The Scarlet Letter的人物。
由于内容大多属于大纲中的“识记”性知识，不需要多少理解，因此正确率相应比较高。
但有时题目的切入点十分灵活比如2001年第6题，需要考生有较好的基本功。
第二部分是四道共16分的阅读理解。
考题内容均取自选读部分，一般是两篇诗歌，两篇小说，要求指出：A）作者和作品出处（1分）B）作品中具体某个词或词组的确切意义（1分）C）表述该选段的思想内容（2分）。
考生需要认真研读作品，和作品后面的注释，平时做一些读书笔记。
第三部分是四道共24分的简答题，内容的跨越比较大，既有阅读理解部分的延伸，也有某一时期的文学思潮，还有对某一断代史的简论，答对率非常低。
第四部分是两题共20分的问答题。
一般是某个重要作家或作品的特色以及对他们的评价。
二、试卷评析文学术语（俗称的名词解释）是基本的文学常识，是对文学中共性问题的抽象概括，因此对于这些术语不可等闲视之。
2010年4月全国自考现代英语语法真题与答案
2010年4月全国自考现代英语语法真题一、单项选择题(本大题共20小题，每小题1分，共20分)Choose the best answer from the choices given and put the letter A, B, C or D in the brackets. 1:参考答案：A试题内容：That definition leaves___for disagreement.A:much roomB:a small roomC:many roomsD:a big room2:参考答案：B试题内容：My train is going to arrive at Shanghai at about eight o’clock tonight.The plane Id like to take from there___by then.A:would leaveB:will have leftC:has leftD:had left3:参考答案：B试题内容：The young man who has applied for the post___in the general managersoffice.A:is interviewingB:is being interviewedC:to be interviewedD:had beenInterviewed4:参考答案：D试题内容：It is essential that all the exam papers ______ back before the end ofthe term.A:must be sentB:are sentC:will be sentD:be sent5:参考答案：C试题内容：___for my illness, I would have got the job in the Disneyland.A:Not beingB:Without beingC:Had it not beenD:Not having been6:参考答案：B试题内容：The car ahead of me suddenly stopped by the roadside. I think it___outof gas.A:may runB:may have runC:must runD:should have run7:参考答案：B试题内容：The teacher won’t mind___the term paper.A:us to delay handing inB:our delaying handing inC:our delaying to hand inD:us delay to hand in 8:参考答案：C试题内容：All the tasks___ahead of time, they decided to have a dinner party to celebrate.A:have been finishedB:had been finishedC:having been finishedD:wereFinished9:参考答案：A试题内容：What he has done is___what I have done.A:superior toB:more superior toC:superior thanD:more superior than10:参考答案：B试题内容：Mary earns___as Jane does, but she spends less money on cosmetics thanJane.A:twice so muchB:twice as muchC:as much twiceD:so much twice11:参考答案：C试题内容：We’ll discuss a___issue before we move on to the problem of our major concern.A:lessB:moreC:lesserD:most12:参考答案：A试题内容：He was very disappointed___the salary the company offered him.A:withB:toC:forD:on13:参考答案：A试题内容：The course usually attracts 30 students each term,___about two thirds are girls.A:among whomB:for whomC:among themD:for them14:参考答案：A试题内容：I have never seen a TV program___the man cannot find a parking space atthe very first try.A:whereB:whichC:whenD:there15:参考答案：A试题内容：Everyone believes that the day will come___people all over the worldlive a rich and happy life.A:whenB:whereC:whichD:why16:参考答案：D试题内容：The novelist and poet___best writer of the year.A:have been awardedB:have awardedC:has awardedD:has beenAwarded17:参考答案：D试题内容：Ten minutes___an hour when Im depressed.A:seemsB:seemC:seemedD:is seeming18:参考答案：B试题内容：___Paul brings the money for our lunch, well go right to the cafeteria.A:As far asB:As soon asC:As good asD:As much as19:参考答案：D试题内容：The captain, together with the crew,___determined not to abandon theship until all the passengers were aboard the lifeboats.A:isB:areC:wereD:was20:参考答案：C试题内容：I saw___girls at the cinema.A:the bothB:many aC:both theD:a many二、填空题(本大题共28小题，共36分)Section A: Fill in the blanks with the appropriate words given in the group. (共8小题，每小题2分，共16分)1:参考答案：hasn’t been，is,试题内容：isn’t, hasn’t been, haven’t been, is, are, wasThe present government, which_____in power long,_____trying to controlinflation. It isn’t having much success.2:参考答案：the，the,试题内容：a, a, the, the, some, suchGetting_____unions and_____bosses to agree isn’t easy.3:参考答案：is now believed，taught,试题内容：is now believing, is now believed, has now believed, taught, teaching,being taughtIt_____that foreign languages are most easily_____to young children.4:参考答案：am，should be试题内容：am, were, has been, will be, shall be, should beI_____anxious that nobody_____hurt.5:参考答案：Once,released,试题内容：if, once, until, releases, releasing, released_____ _____from prison, he is likely to engage himself in the same businessand commit the same crime.6:参考答案：I’ve ever seen，which试题内容：which, what, when, seen, I’ve ever seen, which I’ve ever seenIt’s the only building _____ _____is made entirely of glass.7:参考答案：were believed，were试题内容：believed, was believed, were believed, are, was, wereWhat_____to be aliens from outer space_____actually several sheep goingastray.8:参考答案：Either,whichever试题内容：both, either, neither, whatever, whichever, howeverYou can keep one of the photos,_____of them—_____you like.9:参考答案：shall we试题内容：Let’s talk to the manager,_____(we)?10:参考答案：a speech试题内容：How long_____(speech) you made this afternoon!11:参考答案：men试题内容：There has been an increasing number of_____(man) teachers in primary schools in the last few years.12:参考答案：the town试题内容：All_____(town) were celebrating the victory that night.13:参考答案：aunt’s试题内容：We’re having dinner at my_____(aunt) tonight.14:参考答案：stopped试题内容：If only they_____(stop) this constant complaining.15:参考答案：is sitting试题内容：The vase_____(sit) dangerously over the edge of the balcony.16:参考答案：were going to call试题内容：We_____(call) on you yesterday, but we had visitors ourselves.17:参考答案：should(would／might)not miss试题内容：She took a taxi to the station so that she_____(not miss) the train.18:参考答案：might(could)have cured试题内容：This_____(cure) your cough if you had taken it.19:参考答案：hearing试题内容：Several people reported_____(hear) her cry for help.20:参考答案：repaired试题内容：When are you going to have the car_____(repair)?21:参考答案：The moredangerous试题内容：_____(dangerous) it is, the more I like it.22:参考答案：more of a fool试题内容：He is_____(of a fool) than his predecessor.23:参考答案：out of sympathy试题内容：A lot of people volunteered to donate their blood_____(of sympathy).24:参考答案：count on试题内容：With luck, you might cover your costs, but don’t_____(count) it.25:参考答案：about whom试题内容：The woman_____(whom) we talked has just given birth to quintupletssuccessfully.26:参考答案：are试题内容：What he did and when he did it_____(be) the only things I want to know.27:参考答案：bigger one试题内容：My car is too small. Let’s rent a_____(big).28:参考答案：imagine so试题内容：—Will they change it?—Yes. I_____(imagine).三、改错题(本大题共12小题，每小题1分，共12分)Correct one error in each of the following sentences.1:参考答案：The new reservoir is two-thirds the size of the old one in area．【评分标准】全句改对给1分，部分改对不给分。
新英达自考英语本科试题2010年4月英语语法试题
新英达自考英语本科试题2010年4月英语语法试题全国2010年4月高等教育自学考试英语语法试题课程代码：00831一、单项选择题(本大题共20小题，每小题1分，共20分)Choose the best answer from the choices given and put the letter A, B, C or D in the brackets.1. That definition leaves ______ for disagreement. ( )A. much roomB. a small roomC. many roomsD. a big room2. My train is going to arrive at Shanghai at about eight o’clock tonight. The plane I’d like to take from there ______ by then. ( )A. would leaveB. will have leftC. has leftD. had left3. The young man who has applied for the post ______ in the general manager’s office.( )A. is interviewingB. is being interviewedC. to be interviewedD. had been interviewed4. It is essential that all the exam papers ______ back before the end of the term. ( )A. must be sentB. are sentC. will be sentD. be sent5. ______ for my illness, I would have got the job in the Disneyland. ( )A. Not beingB. Without beingC. Had it not beenD. Not having been6. The car ahead of me suddenly stopped by the roadside. I think it ______ out of gas.( )A. may runB. may have runC. must runD. should have run7. The teacher won’t mind ______ the term paper. ( )A. us to delay handing inB. our delaying handing inC. our delaying to hand inD. us delay to hand in8. All the tasks ______ ahead of time, they decided to have a dinner party to celebrate.( )A. have been finishedB. had been finishedC. having been finishedD. were finished.9. What he has done is ______ what I have done. ( )A. superior toB. more superior toC. superior thanD. more superior than10. Mary earns ______ as Jane does, but she spends less money on cosmetics than Jane.( )A. twice so muchB. twice as muchC. as much twiceD. so much twice11. We’ 11 discuss a ______ issue before we move on to the problem of our major concern.( )A. lessB. moreC. lesserD. most12. He was very disappointed ______ the salary the company offered him. ( )A. withB. toC. forD. on13. The course usually attracts 30 students each term, ______ about two-thirds are girls.( )A. among whomB. for whomC. among themD. for them14. I have never seen a TV program ______ the man cannot find a parking space at the very first try.( )A. whereB. whichC. whenD. there15. Everyone believes that the day will come ______ people all over the world live a rich and happy life. ( )A. whenB. whereC. whichD. why16. The novelist and poet ______ best writer of the year. ( )A. have been awardedB. have awardedC. has awardedD. has been awarded17. Ten minutes ______ an hour when I’m depressed. ( )A. seemsB. seemC. seemedD. is seeming18. ______ Paul brings the money for our lunch, we’ll go right to the ca feteria. ( )A. As far asB. As soon asC. As good asD. As much as19. The captain, together with the crew, ______ determined not to abandon the ship until all the passengers were aboard the lifeboats. ( )A. isB. areC. wereD. was20. I saw ______ girls at the cinema. ( )A. the bothB. many aC. both theD. a many二、填空题(本大题共28小题，共36分)Section A: Fill in the blanks with the appropriate words given in the group.（共8小题，每小题2分，共16分）21. isn’t, hasn’t been, haven’t been, is, are, wasThe present government, which ______ in power long, ______ trying to control inflatio n. It is n’t having much success.22. a, a, the, the, some, suchGetting ______ unions and ______ bosses to agree isn’t easy.23. is now believing, is now believed, has now believed, taught, teaching, being taughtIt ______ that foreign languages are most easily ______ to young children.24. am, were, has been, will be, shall be, should beI ______ anxious that nobody ______ hurt.25. if once, until, releases, releasing, released______ ______ from prison, he is likely to engage himself in the same business and commit the same crime.26. which, what, when, seen, I’ve ever seen, which I’ve ever seenIt’s the only building ______ ______ is made entirely of glass.27. believed, was believed, were believed, are, was, wereWhat ______ to be aliens from outer space ______ actually several sheep going astray.28. both, either, neither, whatever, whichever, howeverYou can keep one of the photos, ______ of them— ______ youlike.Section B: Fill in the blanks with the words given in brackets. Make changes or add something where necessary.(共20小题,每小题1分，共20 分)29. Let’s talk to the manager, ______ (we)?30. How long ______ (speech) you made this afternoon!31. There has been an increasing number of ______ (man) teachers in primary schools in the last few years.32. All ______ (town) were celebrating the victory that night.33. We’re having dinner at my ______ (aunt) tonight.34. If only they ______ (stop) this constant complaining.35. The vase ______ (sit) dangerously over the edge of the balcony.36. We ______ (call) on you yesterday, but we had visitors ourselves.37. She took a taxi to the station so that she ______ (not miss) the train.38. This ______ (cure) your cough if you had taken it.39. Several people reported ______ (hear) her cry for help.40. When are you going to have the car ______ (repair)?41. ______ (dangerous) it is, the more I like it.42. He is ______ (of a fool) than his predecessor.43. A lot of people volunteered to donate their blood ______ (of sympathy).44. With luck, you might cover your cos ts, but don’t ______ (count) it.45. The woman ______ (whom) we talked has just given birth to quintuplets successfully.46. What he did and when he did it ______ (be) the only thingsI want to know.47. My car is too small. Let’s rent a ______ (big).48. －Will they change it?－Yes. I ______ (imagine).三、改错题(本大题共12小题，每小题1分，共12分)Correct one error in each of the following sentences.49. The new reservoir is the two-thirds size of the old one in area.50. The friend of mine will visit me tomorrow.51. I have been seeing the movie three times, and now I want to see it again.52. I propose that a woman member of the committee appoint for the chair.53. The truth of course is that you must have to pay a professional to do it for you.54. Yesterday John went to see a house in a view to buying it.55. Because the leader couldn’t attend the meeting, so it was canceled.56. The old lady must feel the cold a great deal because she doesn’t go out in the winter.57. When used with care, transitional words can enhance writing, however, too many of them will soon weary your reader.58. Young though he was, did he manage to make a living on his own.59. In order that the child to recover fully, an operation must be done.60. The cup was broken by someone, but I don’t know who.四、改写句子(本大题共12小题，每小题2分，共24分)Rewrite the following sentences as required.61. Using an intensifier:I have not known him tell a lie.62. Using a question tag:Bob rarely got drunk.63. Using a proper modal auxiliary:Perhaps he was working for Simons.64. Using a non-finite form:I am sure it’ll do you good if you admit that you made the mistake.65. Using a relative clause:He said that the men were thieves. This turned out to be true.66. Using an adjunct:My wife was using the vacuum cleaner. I was trying to listen to a broadcast play.67. Using an adjunct:His mother waited up. He came home.68. Using a pseudo-deft sentence:The students are going to write theses.69. Using passive voice:We must put an end to this state of things as soon as possible.70. Using extraposition:Meeting you in London that day was pleasant.71. Using inversion:Come and teach in our school. You won’t find such fine pupils anywhere else.72. Using an appropriate cohesive device:Check out the weather at your destination. If you do not check out the weather at your destination, things can be very embarrassing.五、简答题(本大题共2小题，每小题4分，共8分)Answer the following questions.73. Why do most modern English grammarians adopt a two-tense system?74. Why does co-reference between pronouns often cause our hesitation in the course of speaking and writing?。
2010年4月自考英语（二）真题及答案.doc1
2010年4月全国自考英语（二）真题及答案月全国自考英语（二）真题及答案一、Vocabulary and Structure （10 points,1 point for each item ）从下列各句四个选项中选出一个最佳答案，并在答题卡上将相应的字母涂黑。
各句四个选项中选出一个最佳答案，并在答题卡上将相应的字母涂黑。
1. Experts have found that____ normal sleep can be divided into five steps. A. moderate B. initial C. distinct D. advanced 2. The student ___described the beautiful mountains and rivers in his home town. A. artificially B. vividly C. critically D. viciously 3. Even after decades of_____: the two brothers recognized each other immediately. 3. Even after decades of_____: the two brothers recognized each other immediately. A. separation B. cooperation C. correspondence D. communication 4 . The spokesman occasionally______ his speech with gestures. A. acknowledges B accompanies C attributes D anticipates 5. We have greatly___ the procedure according to the chairman’s chairman’s suggestion. suggestion. A. stimulated B. perceived C. obscured D. simplified 6. There is something wrong with m0 mobile phone. I must have it____ A .repair B . to repair C . repairing D .repaired 7 .What her grandfather said left a ___ impression on her mind. She still remrembers it. A. final B vague C . deep D. main 8 .By the end of next year the bridge____ A .is to complete B .has been comp leted C. will be completing D .will have been completed 9.In order to follow fashions, the gir1 has to____ great discomforts. A catch up with B put up with C keep up with D fall in with 10．We should_____this in mind:Dont judge a person by his appearance. A. bear B. put C. place D. print 答案：1、C 2、B 3、A 4、B 5、D 6、C 7、C 8、D 9、B 10、AII.Clone Test (10 points, 1 point for each item) 下列短文中有十个空格，每个空格有四个选项。
2010年4月全国自考现代英语语法真题与答案
2010年4月全国自考现代英语语法真题一、单项选择题(本大题共20小题，每小题1分，共20分)Choose the best answer from the choices given and put the letter A, B, C or D in the brackets.1:参考答案：A 试题内容：That definition leaves___for disagreement.A:much roomB:a small roomC:many roomsD:a big room2:参考答案：B 试题内容：My train is going to arrive at Shanghai at about eight o’clock tonight. The plane Id like to take from there___by then.A:would leaveB:will have leftC:has leftD:had left3:参考答案：B试题内容：The young man who has applied for the post___in the general managers office.A:is interviewingB:is being interviewedC:to be interviewedD:had been Interviewed4:参考答案：D试题内容：It is essential that all the exam papers ______ back before the end of the term.A:must be sentB:are sentC:will be sentD:be sent5:参考答案：C试题内容：___for my illness, I would have got the job in the Disneyland.A:Not beingB:Without beingC:Had it not beenD:Not having been6:参考答案：B试题内容：The car ahead of me suddenly stopped by the roadside. I think it___out of gas.A:may runB:may have runC:must runD:should have run7:参考答案：B 试题内容：The teacher won’t mind___the term paper.A:us to delay handing inB:our delaying handing inC:our delaying to hand inD:us delay to hand in 8:参考答案：C试题内容：All the tasks___ahead of time, they decided to have a dinner party to celebrate.A:have been finished B:had been finished C:having been finished D:were Finished9:参考答案：A试题内容：What he has done is___what I have done.A:superior to B:more superior toC:superior thanD:more superior than10:参考答案：B试题内容：Mary earns___as Jane does, but she spends less money on cosmetics than Jane.A:twice so muchB:twice as muchC:as much twiceD:so much twice11:参考答案：C 试题内容：We’ll discuss a___issue before we move on to the problem of our major concern.A:lessB:moreC:lesserD:most12:参考答案：A 试题内容：He was very disappointed___the salary the company offered him. A:withB:toC:forD:on13:参考答案：A 试题内容：The course usually attracts 30 students each term,___about two thirds are girls.A:among whomB:for whomC:among themD:for them14:参考答案：A 试题内容：I have never seen a TV program___the man cannot find a parking space at the very first try.A:whereB:whichC:whenD:there15:参考答案：A 试题内容：Everyone believes that the day will come___people all over the world live a rich and happy life.A:whenB:whereC:whichD:why16:参考答案：D试题内容：The novelist and poet___best writer of the year.A:have been awarded B:have awarded C:has awarded D:has been Awarded17:参考答案：D 试题内容：Ten minutes___an hour when Im depressed.A:seemsB:seemC:seemedD:is seeming18:参考答案：B 试题内容：___Paul brings the money for our lunch, well go right to the cafeteria. A:As far asB:As soon asC:As good asD:As much as19:参考答案：D试题内容：The captain, together with the crew,___determined not to abandon the ship until all the passengers were aboard the lifeboats.A:is B:are C:were D:was20:参考答案：C 试题内容：I saw___girls at the cinema.A:the both B:many a C:both the D:a many二、填空题(本大题共28小题，共36分)Section A: Fill in the blanks with the appropriate words given in the group. (共8小题，每小题2分，共16分)1:参考答案：hasn’t been，is,试题内容：isn’t, hasn’t been, haven’t been, is, are, wasThe present government, which_____in power long,_____trying to controlinflation. It isn’t having much success.2:参考答案：the，the,试题内容：a, a, the, the, some, suchGetting_____unions and_____bosses to agree isn’t easy.3:参考答案：is now believed，taught,试题内容：is now believing, is now believed, has now believed, taught, teaching,being taughtIt_____that foreign languages are most easily_____to young children.4:参考答案：am，should be试题内容：am, were, has been, will be, shall be, should beI_____anxious that nobody_____hurt.5:参考答案：Once,released,试题内容：if, once, until, releases, releasing, released_____ _____from prison, he is likely to engage himself in the same businessand commit the same crime.6:参考答案：I’ve ever seen，which试题内容：which, what, when, seen, I’ve ever seen, which I’ve ever seenIt’s the only building _____ _____is made entirely of glass.7:参考答案：were believed，were试题内容：believed, was believed, were believed, are, was, wereWhat_____to be aliens from outer space_____actually several sheep goingastray.8:参考答案：Either,whichever试题内容：both, either, neither, whatever, whichever, howeverYou can keep one of the photos,_____of them—_____you like.9:参考答案：shall we试题内容：Let’s talk to the manager,_____(we)?10:参考答案：a speech试题内容：How long_____(speech) you made this afternoon!11:参考答案：men试题内容：There has been an increasing number of_____(man) teachers in primary schools in the last few years.12:参考答案：the town试题内容：All_____(town) were celebrating the victory that night.13:参考答案：aunt’s试题内容：We’re having dinner at my_____(aunt) tonight.14:参考答案：stopped试题内容：If only they_____(stop) this constant complaining.15:参考答案：is sitting试题内容：The vase_____(sit) dangerously over the edge of the balcony.16:参考答案：were going to call试题内容：We_____(call) on you yesterday, but we had visitors ourselves.17:参考答案：should(would／might)not miss试题内容：She took a taxi to the station so that she_____(not miss) the train.18:参考答案：might(could)have cured试题内容：This_____(cure) your cough if you had taken it.19:参考答案：hearing试题内容：Several people reported_____(hear) her cry for help.20:参考答案：repaired试题内容：When are you going to have the car_____(repair)?21:参考答案：The moredangerous试题内容：_____(dangerous) it is, the more I like it.22:参考答案：more of a fool试题内容：He is_____(of a fool) than his predecessor.23:参考答案：out of sympathy试题内容：A lot of people volunteered to donate their blood_____(of sympathy).24:参考答案：count on试题内容：With luck, you might cover your costs, but don’t_____(count) it.25:参考答案：about whom试题内容：The woman_____(whom) we talked has just given birth to quintupletssuccessfully.26:参考答案：are试题内容：What he did and when he did it_____(be) the only things I want to know. 27:参考答案：bigger one试题内容：My car is too small. Let’s rent a_____(big).28:参考答案：imagine so试题内容：—Will they change it?—Yes. I_____(imagine).三、改错题(本大题共12小题，每小题1分，共12分)Correct one error in each of the following sentences.1:参考答案：The new reservoir is two-thirds the size of the old one in area．【评分标准】全句改对给1分，部分改对不给分。
学历类《自考》自考专业(英语)《英美文学选读》考试试题及答案解析
学历类《自考》自考专业(英语)《英美文学选读》考试试题及答案解析姓名:_____________ 年级:____________ 学号:______________1、Opposition leaders will be watching carefully to see how the Prime Minister ________ the crisis.A、handlesB、conductsC、observesD、directs正确答案：A答案解析：A应付，对付，控制B引导，进行，实施C观察，监测，遵守D指导，监督2、Now many major employers are beginning to demand _______ the completion of schoolA、morethanB、ratherthanC、otherthanD、betterthan正确答案：A答案解析：morethan：多于，不只。
句意：现在很多雇主开始不仅仅要求学业的完成。
3、In the original test，all the animals in a test group are given a substance _______ half of them dieA、unlessB、untilC、lestD、provided正确答案：B答案解析：本题考查词义辨析。
until：直到。
符合句意，表示givenasubstance持续到halfofthemdie。
4、Nobody but you _______ what he said.A、agreeswithB、agreesoutC、agreewithD、agreeto正确答案：A答案解析：主语为nobody时，谓语动词用单数，如果主语被but,aswellas,with等短语修饰，谓语仍与主语的数保持一致。
该题易误选C、D，选D的原因在于词组记忆不清，用介词to时之后应加具体项目。
新英达自考英语本科试题2010年4月欧洲文化入门试题
2010年10月高等教育自学考试北京市命题考试欧洲文化入门试卷本试卷分为两部分，共3页，满分l00分；考试时间150分钟。
1．第一部分为选择题，应考者必须在“答题卡”上的“选择题答题区”内按要求填涂，答在试卷上无效。
2．第二部分为非选择题，应考者必须在“答题卡”上的“非选择题答题区”内按照试题题号顺序直接答题。
答在试卷上无效。
第一部分选择题(共40分)PART ONE1．Read the following unfinished statements or questions carefully．For each unfinished statement or question, four suggested answers marked [A],[B], [C]and[D] are given．Choose the one which best completes the statement or answers the question by blackening the corresponding letter on the ANSWER SHEET.(40 points，2 points each)1．The Romans conquered Greece in ．A．146 B．C．B．500 B．C．C．700 B．C．D．1200 B．C．2．The playwright who contributed greatly to Greek tragic art wasA．Sophocles B．Aristophanes C．Herodotus D．Homer3．The greatest of Latin poets wasA．Horace B．Virgil C．Homer D．Cicero4．Daniel was taken prisoner to after the fall of Jerusalem.A．Egypt B．Persia C．Babylon D．Assyria5．David was ．A．a Hebrew king B．the boy who killed GoliathC．the man who made Jerusalem the capital D．all of the above6．In the formative period of feudalism, the bishops were themselvesA．scholars B．hermits C．feudal lords D．knights7．As a result of the Crusades，luxuries of the East poured into the West．They were spices．perfume．hand．woven carpets and ．A．tea B．Chinaware C．silk D．silverware8．Martin Luther held that was the supreme authority．A．the Church B．the Bible C．the Pope D．Jesus9．Ophelia is a character in Shakespeare’s ．A．Hamlet B．Othello C．Macbeth D．Merchant of Venice10．The Reformation shattered Medieval Church’s stifling co ntrol over man．thus paving theway forA．economic development B．free thinking C．capitalism D．progress11．Galile0，because he refused to compromise．was tried by ．A．the College of Cardinals B．the Italian courtC．the Spanish court D．the Inquisition12．To Newton，space and time are absolute，to Einstein，motion and space are ．A．relative B．unlimited C．infinite D．1imited13．“A Modest Proposal” was written by ．A．Defoe B．Swift C．Diderot D．Fielding14．Shelley called poets “the unacknowledged legislators of the world” in his ．A．Prometheus unbound B．Defence of PoetryC．1yrics D．Ode to the West Wind15．Schumann stood as the typical example of the influence of upon music．A．revolutionary ideals B．philosophy C．1iterature D．religion16．According to Darwin，becomes a mechanism for evolutionary change．A．natural selection B．process C．adaptation D．variation17．Zola believed almost blindlyA．Social Darwinism B．Utopian SocialismC．pragmatism D．scientific determinism18．The writer who devoted himself to the novel of social condition in England in the 19 th cen-tury was ．A．Thomas．Hardy B．William Makepeace ThackerayC．George Eliot D．Charles Dickens19．The contribution made by Pierre and Maris Curie is ．A．the discovery of atomic nucleus B．the discovery of radiumC．the discovery of X—rays D．the discovery of relativity20．To the New Novelists，plot，action，narrative，ideas and analysis of characters are A．no longer important B．still very importantC．of equal importance D．none of the above第二部分非选择题(共60分)PART TWOII．In the foliowing part there are two columns．The left hand column consists of a list of names．The right hand column consists of a list of titles，names of organizations，works or remarks．Match each name in the left hand column with corresponding ti- tie，organization，work，or remark in the right hand column and put the number aor b or e in the bracket on the ANSWER SHEET．(10 points，1 point each) 21．St．Jerome (a)“The die is cast．”22．Schiller (b)Lettres Anglaise23．Keats (C)Mother24．Francois Rabelais (d)Gargantua and Pantagruel25．Walt Whitman (e)Fathers and Sons26．Thomas Hobbes (f)Ode to a Nightingale27．Corky (g)Leaves of Grass28．Turgenev (h)the Vulgate29．Julius Caesar (i)founder of modem German literature30．V oltaire (j)author of LeviathanIII．Give a one-sentence answer to each of the following questions．Write your answer in the corresponding space on the ANSWER SHEET．(20 points，2 points each) 31．Which are the most famous temples in ancient Greece?32．What did Horace mean when he said．“Captive Greece took her rude conqueror captive．”? 33．Why were Christians persecuted under the Roman Empire?34．HOW shall we define the Catholic Church?35．What made Italy lose its supremacy in world trade in the late l5th century?36．What was Hobbes’s view of the nature of man?37．What kind of a novel is Les Miserables7 ．38．What did Kant try to reconcile i n “Critique of Pure Reason”?39．Why did literature become出e voice of出e people in Russia in the l 9 th century? 40．What are the major interests of new novelists?IV．Explain each of the following terms in English．Write your answer in the corre sponding space on the ANSWER SHEET in around 40 words．(20 points，5 points each)41．Plato’s and Democritus’ views of the world42．Noah’s Ark43．John Wyclif44．Mark TwainV. Write between l00—120 words on the following topic in the corresponding space onthe ANSWER SHEET(10 points)45．What is the role of Turgenev in Russian literature?。
20104月词汇学试题与答案
2010年4月高自考英语词汇学试题课程代码：0832Ⅰ．Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that best completes the statement and put the letter in the bracket.（30%）1. When we talk about a word in visual terms, a word can be defined as a ____ group of letters printed or written horizontally across a piece of paper. （）A. smallB. meaningfulC. vocalD. large2. ____ belongs to the sub-standard language, a category that seems to stand between the standard general words including informal ones available to everyone and in-group words. （）A. TerminologyB. JargonC. SlangD. Argot3. “I'm sure that they will come today.”There are____content words in the above sentence. （）A. 2B. 3C. 4D. 54. Which of the following is one of the three channels through which modern English vocabulary develops? （）A. Acronym.B. Blending.C. Elevation.D. Borrowing.5. Social, economic and political changes bring about such new words as the followings EXCEPT____. ( )A. kungfu dinnerC. fast foodD. Watergate6. In modern times, ____is the most important way of vocabulary expansion. （）A. semantic changeB. borrowingC, expansion D. creation7. The plural morpheme “-s” is realized by /iz/ after the following sounds EXCEPT____. ( )A. /s/B. /g/c. /z/ D. /ろ/8. The word “idealistic” comprises ____morphemes. （）A. 1B. 2C. 3D. 49. The following words have inflectional affixes EXCEPT ____.( )A. happierB. workerC. harderD. taller10. “Washing machine” is a word formed by____.（）A. prefixationB. compoundingC. conversionD. blending11. “TV” is a(n) ____.（）A. initialismB. acronymC. derivativeD. compound12. The prefix “mis-” in the word “mistrust” is a ____prefix. （）A. negativeB. reversativeC. pejorativeD. locative13. Which of the following is NOT one of the meanings of “word meaning”? （）A. Reference.B. Concept.C. Sense.D. Pronunciation.14. Such synonymous pair as “die-pass away” has the same ____but different stylisticvalues.（）A. referenceB. conceptC. motivationD. style15. The word “airmail” is ____motivated. （）A. onomatopoeicallyB. etymologicallyC. semanticallyD. morphologically16. Words are arbitrary symbols with independent identities so far as their spelling and pronunciation is concerned. But ____, all words are related in one way or another.( ) A. linguistically B. semanticallyC. grammaticallyD. pragmatically17, ____, the basic meaning of a word is the core of word-meaning called the central meaning. （）A. OnomatopoeicallyB. DiachronicallyC. SynchronicallyD. Etymologically18. One important criterion to tell the fundamental difference between homonyms and polysemants is to see their____. （）A. ideologyB. etymologyC. mythologyD. methodology19. Vocabulary is the most ____element of a language as it is undergoing constant changes both in form and content. （）A. unbalancedB. unstableC. unhingedD. undoubted20. In Shakespeare's well-known Hamlet, rival means “____”and jump means “just”. （）A. janitorB. partnerC. collectorD. observer21. In the sentence “Just after two years he is quite a grown boy now.” The word grown can be classified into ____sense of transfer. （）A. physicalB. objectiveC. sensationalD. subjective22. In some cases, the meaning of a word may be influenced by the structure in which it occurs. This is called ____context. （）A. non-linguisticB. lexicalC. grammaticalD. cultural23. The sentence “He is a hard businessman.” is ambiguous due to____. （）A. grammatical structureB. lexical contextC. homonymyD. polysemy24. The extra-linguistic context may extend to embrace the entire____. （）A. physical situationB. grammatical structureC. mental activityD. cultural background25. Which of the following is NOT one respect of the rhetorical features of idioms? （）A. Phonetic manipulation.B. Lexical manipulation.C. Syntactical manipulation.D. Figures of speech.26. In nothing flat as an idiom is ____in nature. （）A. verbalB. nominalC. adjectivalD. adverbial27. The idiom “failure is the mother of success” is a ____ as far as figures of speech are concerned. （）A. simileB. metaphorC. metonymyD. personification28. Which of the following is NOT one of the three good general dictionaries mentioned in the textbook? ( )A. Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.B. Webster's Third New International Dictionary.C. A Chinese-English Dictionary.D. Collins COBUILD English Language Dictionary.29. Webster's Third New International Dictionary is the best-known ______dictionary. ( )A. unabridgedB. deskC. pocketD. encyclopedic30. British dictionaries generally use____ to mark the pronunciation.A. British Phonetic AlphabetB. American Phonetic AlphabetC. International Phonetic AlphabetD. Webster's Phonetic AlphabetⅡ．Match the words in Column A with the words in Column B according to 1) types of prefixes;2) the functions of affixes; 3) types of antonyms; and 4) types of meanings. (10%)A B（） 31. appreciative meanings A. maltreat（） 32. parent/child B. Jap/nigger（） 33. pejorative prefixes C. tremble (not quiver) with fear （） 34. man/woman D. famous/determined（） 35. hyperactive/superfreeze E. extraordinary/telecommunication （） 36. collocative meaning F. prefixes of degree（） 37. decompose/unwrap G. inflectional affixes（） 38. pejorative meaning H. reversative prefixes（） 39. radios/desks I. contradictory terms（） 40. locative prefixes J. relative termsⅢ．Complete the following statements with proper words or expressions according to the course book.（10%）41. Grammarians insist that a word be a ____form that can function in a sentence.42. In modern English, word endings were mostly lost with just a few exceptions because English has evolved from a synthetic language to the present ____language.43. The morphemes can be grouped into free morphemes and ____morphemes.44. New words which are created by adding affixes to stems are called____.45. Though having little lexical meaning, ____words have strong grammatical meaning.46. The vocabulary of a language is in constant change; old items drop out, new items come in, and as the new replace the old, so the internal ____of the whole set alter.47. The attitudes of classes have also made inroads into lexical meaning in the case of elevation or____.48. The sentence “I like Mary better than Jean.” will lead to____.49. The fixity of idioms depends on the____.50. Encyclopedic dictionaries can be further divided into ____and encyclopedic dictionaries.Ⅳ．Define the following terms.（10%）51. borrowed words52. conversion53. motivation54. narrowing55. replacement of idiomsⅤ．Answer the following questions. Your answers should be clear and short. Write youranswers in the space given below.（20%）56. What are derivational affixes?57. What is grammatical meaning of a word? Give an example to illustrate your point.58. What type of transfer is experienced for the word in bold type?The fairy tale “The Sleeping Beauty” is very interesting.59. Decide whether the following statement is true or false, based on your understanding of the stylistic features of idioms. Stylistically speaking, most idioms are neither formal nor informal.Ⅵ．Analyze and comment on the following. Write your answers in the space given below.（20%）60. Analyze and comment, with a diagram, on the italicized words increase, extend and expand in the following three sentences based on the concept of discrimination of synonyms.[a] The company has decided to increase its sales by ten per cent next year.[b] The owner of the restaurant is going to extend the kitchen by ten feet this year.[c] The metal will expand if heated.61. State the roles of context in determination of word meaning. Illustrate your points with examples.英语词汇学试题答案Ⅰ．Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that best completes the statement and put the letter in the bracket.（30%）1. B2. C3. B4. D5. A6. D7. B8. C9. B 10. B11. A 12. C 13. D 14. B 15. D 16. B 17. C 18. B 19. B 20 . B21. B 22. D 23. B 24. C 25. A 26. C 27. D 28. B 29. A 30. CⅡ．Match the words in Column A with the words in Column B according to 1) types of prefixes;2) the functions of affixes; 3) types of antonyms; and 4) types of meanings. (10%) 31. D 32. J 33. A 34. I 35. F 36. C 37. H 38. B 39. G 40. EⅢ．Complete the following statements with proper words or expressions according to the course book.（10%）41. free 42. analytic 43. bound 44. derivatives 45. functional46. relations 47. degradation 48. ambiguity 49. idiomaticity 50. encyclopedia Ⅳ．Define the following terms.（10%）51. Borrowed words are words taken over from foreign languages.52. Conversion is the formation of new words by converting words of one class to another class.53. Motivation refers to the connection between the linguistic symbol and its meaning.54. Narrowing is a process by which a word of wider meaning acquires a specialized sense.55. Replacement of idioms is a constituent replaced by a word of the same part of speech, resulting in synonymous or antonymous idioms.Ⅴ．Answer the following questions. Your answers should be clear and short. Write your answers in the space given below.（20%）56. What are derivational affixes?Derivational affixes are affixes added to other morphemes to create new words.57. What is grammatical meaning of a word? Give an example to illustrate your point. Grammatical meaning refers to that part of the meaning of the word which indicates grammatical concept or relationships, such as part of speech of words, singular and plural meanings of nouns, tense meaning of verbs and their inflectional forms. For example, forget (base verb), forgets (3rd person singular form), forgot (past form), forgotten (present perfect form) and forgetting (progressive form).58. What type of transfer is experienced for the word in bold type?The fairy tale “The Sleeping Beauty” is very interesting.Abstract to concrete59. Decide whether the following statement is true or false, based on your understanding of the stylistic features of idioms. Stylistically speaking, most idioms are neither formal nor informal.False. Idioms are generally felt to be informal and some are colloquialisms and slang, therefore inappropriate for formal style. Occasionally, we find idioms which are extremely formal and used only in frozen style.Ⅵ．Analyze and comment on the following. Write your answers in the space given below.（20%）60. Analyze and comment, with a diagram, on the italicized words increase, extend and expand in the following three sentences based on the concept of discrimination of synonyms.[a] The company has decided to increase its sales by ten per cent next year.[b] The owner of the restaurant is going to extend the kitchen by ten feet this year.[c] The metal will expand if heated.Synonyms may differ in the range and intensity of meaning. Some words have a wider range of meaning than others. Increase, extend and expand share a general sense but have different implications. Each of the three terms expresses a different kind of enlargement. This can be illustrated by the following graphs.61. State the roles of context in determination of word meaning. Illustrate your points with examples.Context plays a vital role in the following three aspects.1) Elimination of ambiguity. When a word with multiple meanings used in inadequate context, it creates ambiguity, e.g. “He is a hard businessman.” The word hard in this context can mean both “hard-working” and “difficult”. The context fails to narrow down the meaning so that it is difficult for the reader to decide what exactly the speaker means.2) Indication of referents. English has a large number of words such as now/then, here/there, I/you, this/that, which are often used to refer directly to people, time, place, etc. Without clear context, the reference can be very confusing. For example, the word now always means the time of speaking, naturally referring to a past time when the speech took place in the past or a present moment if the person is speaking.3) Provision of clues for inferring word meaning. Context may prove extremely valuable in guessing the meanings of new words. Context clues vary a great deal but can be summed up as follows: .definition, explanation, example, synonym, antonym, hyponym, relevant details, and word structure。
2010年4月全国自考英语(五)真题
..2010年全国自考英语（二）模拟试卷(五)一、Vocabulary and Structure（10 points,1 point for each item）从下列各句四个选项中选出一个最佳答案，并在答题卡上将相应的字母涂黑。
1. The reason for making a decision is that a problem exists, or something isstanding ______ the way of accomplishing them.A.inB. onC.byD. at答案：A2.People and animals are different ______ their reactions to drugs and in th ewaytheir bodies work.A.in...whichB. in...thatC.by...whichD. from...that答案：B3.New and more ______ methods have to be found for collecting earthquake data andanalyzing it.A. up-to-dateB.updateC. up toD.outdated答案：A4. A Filipino maid was executed in Singapore after being convicted ______ murder,despite protests from various quarters that her guilt had not been adequatelyestablished.A.ofB.withC. aboutD.on答案：A5.______ from the point of view of society is necessary labor is from his ownpoint of view voluntary playA.That..B. WhatC. WhichD. Who答案：B6.It was there, police believe, that Weinstein was able to ______ the recorder she kept in her bag.A. actB. actingC.activateD. active答案：C7. The voters were ______ largely by a desire for change.A.motionedB. motoredC. motivatedD.motived答案：C8. He was to ______ director.A. acceleratedB.liftedC.raisedD.promoted答案：D9. If thalidomide were invented today, it would never be ______ for human use because new tests on pregnant animals would reveal the dangers.A. relaxedB.releasedC. relievedD.relived答案：B10.The main bread winner in her family, she ______ work for a very low wage at a tea factory.ed toB. was used toes toD. has used to答案：A..二、Cloze Test（10 points,1 point for each item）下列短文中有十个空白，每个空白有四个选项。
2024年自考-自考专业(英语)-英美文学选读考试历年真题常考点试题4带答案
2024年自考-自考专业(英语)-英美文学选读考试历年真题常考点试题带答案（图片大小可任意调节）第1卷一.单选题(共20题)1.It was his masterpiece The Great Gatsby that made( )one of the greatest American novelists.A. FitzgeraldB.William FaulknerC.Ernest HemmingwayD.Gertrude Steinbeck2.In 1920,( )published his first novel This Side of Paradise which was,to some extent,his own story.A.F·Scott FitzgeraldB.Ernest HemingwayC.William FaulknerD.Emily Dickinson3.“The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one- eighth of it being above wa ter. ” This “iceberg ” analogy is put forward by( ).A.Mark TwainB.Ezra PoundC.William FaulknerD.Ernest Hemingway4.Now many major employers are beginning to demand _______ the completion of schoolA.more thanB.rather thanC.other thanD.better than5.William Faulkner set most of his works in the American( ),with his emphasis onthe( )subjects and consciousness.A.North...NorthernB.East...EasternC.West...WesternD.South...Southern6.Which of the following statements is NOT true of Emily Dickinson and her poetry?A.She remained unmarried all her lifeB.She wrote,1,775 poems,and most of them were published during her life time.C.Her poems have no titles,hence are always quoted by their first lines.D.Her limited private world has never confined the limitless power of her creativity and imagination.7.The Nobel Prize Committee highly praised( )for “his powerful style - forming mastery of the art ” of creating modern fiction.A.Ezra PoundB.Ernest HemingwayC.Robert FrostD.Theodore Dreiser8.In the original test，all the animals in a test group are given a substance _______ half of them dieA.unlessB.untilC.lestD.provided9.After the American Civil War,the literary interest in the so- called “reality ” of life started a new period in the American literary writings know an the Age of( ).A.RealismB.Reason and RevolutionC.RomanticismD.Modernism10.The effect of Darwinist idea of “survival of the fittest ” was shattering in() ’s fictional world of jungle,where “kill or to be killed ” was the law.A.Mark TwainB.Henry JamesC.Theodore DreiserD.Walt Whitman11.Nobody but you _______ what he said.A. agrees withB.agrees outC.agree withD.agree to12.In 1950,( )was awarded the Nobel Prize for the anti-racist Intruder in the Dust.A.William FaulknerB.Robert FrostC.Ezra PoundD.Ernest Hemingway13.Greatly and permanently affected by the( )experiences,Hemingway formed his own writing style,together with his theme and hero.A.miningB.farmingC.warD.sailing14.Among the following writers( )is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th - century “stream - of - consciousness ” novels and the founder of psychological realism.A. T. S. EliotB.James JoyceC.William FaulknerD.Henry James15.Eugene O’Neill ’s first full — length play,( ),won him the first Pulitzer theme is the choice between life and death,the interaction of subjective and objective factors.A.Bound East for CardiffB.The Hairy ApeC.Desire Under the ElmsD.Beyond the Horizon16.Man is a “victim of forces over which he has no control. ” This is a notion held strongly by( ).A.Robert FrostB.Theodore DreiserC.Henry JamesD.Hamlin Garland17.In Go Down,Moses,( )illuminates the problem of black and white in Southern society asa closeknit destiny of blood brotherhood.A.William FaulknerB.Jack LondonC.Herman MelvilleD.Nathaniel Hawthorne18.Mark Twain employed an unpretentious style of( )in his novels which is best described as “vernacular ”.A.standard EnglishB.Afro-American EnglishC.colloquialismD.urbanism19.The attitude towards life that( )had been trying to demonstrate in his works is known as “grace under pressure ”.A.William FaulknerB.Theodore DreiserC.Ernest HemingwayD.F·Scott Fitzgerald20.The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and,especially,its sequence( )proved themselves to be the milestone in the American literature.A.The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnB.Life on the MississippiC.The Gilded AgeD.Roughing It第2卷一.单选题(共20题)1.Most literary critics think that Fitzgerald is both an insider and an outsider of( )witha double vision.A.the Jazz AgeB.the Age of Reason and RevolutionC.the Babybooming AgeD.the Post- Modern Age2.At the age of eighty -seven,( )read his poetry at the inauguration of President John in 1961.A.Robert FrostB.Walt WhitmanC.Ezra Pound3.What he had done is _______A.valueB.of valuableC.of no valueD.of no valuable4.That is the house _______ you can enjoy the scenery.A. in thatB.thatC.whichD.from which5.“My last Duchess ” is a poem that best exemplifies Robert Browning ’s( ).A.sensitive ear for the sounds of the English languageB.excellent choice of wordsC.mastering of the metrical devicese of the dramatic monologue6.William Faulkner once said that( )is a story of “lost innocence, ” which proves itself to be an intensification of the theme of imprisonment in the past.A.The Great GatsbyB.The Sound and the FuryC.Absalom,Absalom!D.Go Down,Moses7.She disagrees ______ him ______ everything.A.with, onB./, onC.with, atD.on, with8.( )is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th —century “stream— of —consciousness ” novels and the founder of psychological realism.A.Theodore DreiserB.William FaulknerC.Henry JamesD.Mark Twain9.The childhood of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn in the Mississippi is a record of a vanished way of life in the( )Mississippi valleyA.pre - War of IndependenceB.post - War of IndependenceC.pre - Civil WarD.post - Civil War10.Hemingway’s “Indian Camp ” is one of the fourteen short stories collected under the title of( ).This title is very ironic because there is no peace at all in the stories.A.Three Stories and Ten PoemsB.Across the River and into the TreesC.The Green Hills of AfricaD.In Our Time11.Robert Frost is generally considered a regional poet whose subject matters mainly focus on the landscape and people in( ).A.the westB.the southC.AlaskaD.New England12.“The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one -eighth of it being abov e water. ” This “iceberg ” analogy about prose style was put forward by( ).A.William FaulknerB.Henry JamesC.Ernest HemingwayD.F· Scott Fitzgerald13.In Death in the Afternoon( )presents his philosophy about life and death through the depiction of the bullfight as a kind of microcosmic tragedy.A.William FaulknerB.Jack LondonC.Ernest HemingwayD.Mark Twain14.considered( ) “the true father of our national literature ”.A.Bret HarteB.Mark TwainC.Washington IrvingD.Walt Whitman15.Some persons gain goal and direction from their tensions;others ________ under pressure.A.fall outB.fall apartC.fall back onD.fall in with16.The Portrait of A Lady is generally considered to be( )masterpiece,which describes the life journey of an American( )in a European cultural environment.A.Henry Adams’…widowB.William James ’…girlC.Henry James’…girlD.Theodore Dreiser ’s…widow17.In 1950,one of the leading American writers( )was awarded the Nobel Prize for the anti-racist Intruder in the Dust.A.Robert FrostB.Theodore DreiserC.William FaulknerD.Fitzgerald18.Henry James’ fame generally rests upon his novels and stories with the( )theme.A.internationalB.localC.colonialD.post-modern19.Ezra Pound,a leading spokesman of the “( ) ”,was one of the most important poe ts in his time.A.Imagist MovementB.Cubist MovementC.Reformist MovementD.Transcendentalist Movement20.The( )Age of the 1920s characterized by frivolity and carelessness is brought vividly to life in The Great Gatsby.A.LostB.JazzC.ReasonD.Gilded第1卷参考答案一.单选题1.参考答案： A本题解析：《了不起的盖茨比》是菲茨杰拉德的代表作，也使其成为了美国文坛上得一颗明星。
2010英概试题及答案
全国2010年4月自学考试英语国家概况试题课程代码：00522请将答案填在答题纸相应位置上I. Read the following unfinished statements or questions carefully. For each unfinished statement or question，four suggested answers marked A，B，C and D are given. Choose the one that you think best completes the statement or answers the question. Write the letter of the answer you have chosen in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.(50 points，1 point for each)1.____C_______of 1066 is perhaps the best-known event in English history, in which William，the Conqueror confiscated almost all the land and gave it to his followers.A. The Roman ConquestB. The Anglo-Saxon ConquestC. The Norman ConquestD. The Celt Conquest2.As a result of the Black Death，__C_________.A. all land was left untendedB. no labor was required any longerC. 1and owners tended to change from arable to sheep-farmingD. surviving peasants were not able to bargain about their wages3.Which of the following statements about Elizabeth I(1 55 8-1 603)is true? BA. Elizabeth was 35 when she came to the throne.B. Elizabeth remained single.C. Elizabeth was not able to work with Parliament.D. Her reign was a time of diminishing English nationalism.4. _____D______ was n ot in the“Allies” in the First World War.A. BritainB. FranceC. RussiaD. Turkey5.The English Civil War is also called ____B_______ .A. the Revolutionary WarB. the Puritan RevolutionC. the ReformationD. the Renaissance6.The United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy. The head of State isa king or a queen .In practice，____B_______.A. Parliament rules the countryB. the Sovereign reigns but does not ruleC. the Sovereign rules but does not reignD. the Prime Minister rules and reigns7.In January,1973，Britain finally became a full member of the____C_______，which was established by the Treaty of Rome in 1957.A. Organization of Economic Cooperation and DevelopmentB. Organization of European DevelopmentC. European Economic CommunityD. European Union8.The____D_______refers to the mechanization of industry and the consequent changes in social economic organization in Britain in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.A. UrbanizationB. Economic BoomC. Glorious RevolutionD. Industrial Revolution9.The major Christian festivals in Britain are_____B______ .A. Christmas, Easter and Mother’s DayB. Christmas, Easter and Whit SundayC. Christmas，Guy Fawkes Day and St. Patrick’s DayD. Christmas，Whit Sunday and St. George’s Day10.The Commonwealth of Nations is a free association of independent countries that were once colonies of Britain. At present there are ____C_______ countries within the Commonwealth (1991).A. 30B. 40C. 50D. 6011.Among the three tribes of the Celts coming to Britain, the most industrious and vigorous of the Celtic tribes was the ____C_______ . A. Gaels B. BrythonsC. BelgaeD. Vikings12.Political change in England came mainly through_____A______.A. gradual reformB. revolutionC. people’s uprisingsD. working class movement13.The two parties that have held power in Britain since 1945 are _____B______ .A. the Democratic Party and the Republican PartyB. the Conservative Party and the Labor PartyC. the Labor Party and the Social Democratic PartyD. the Labor Party and the Democratic Party14._____C______’s reign was a time of confident English nationalism and of great achievements in literature and other arts. in exploration and in battle.A. MaryB. Henry VIIIC. E1izabeth ID. Charles II15.After the Restoration，Parliament passed a series of severe laws called ______C______against the Puritans，now known as Nonconformists.A. Agreement of the PeopleB. the Petition of the RightC. the Clarendon CodeD. the Act of Supremacy16.Which statement about the“Wars of Roses”is NOT true? BA. The king’s power now became supreme.B. Ordinary people were seriously affected.C. The wars were waged intermittently for 30 years.D. From these wars feudalism received its death blow.1 7.The finest exponents of Elizabethan drama in the English Renaissance were ___D________ .A. Ben Johnson，Christopher Marlowe and Charles DickensB. Edmund Spenser, Charles Dickens and William ShakespeareC. William Shakespeare, Ben Johnson and Charles DickensD. William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe and Ben Johnson18.The Chartist movement was the first nationwide _____A______ movement.A. working classB. lower middle classC. upper middle classD. upper class19.______A________led the U.K. to final victory in the Second World War.A. Winston ChurchillB. Neville ChamberlainC. Tony BlairD. William Gladstone20.Which statement about the religion in Britain is true? CA. Every person in Britain may change his religion，but with difficulty.B. Every person may not manifest his faith in teaching，worship and observance.C. Every person has the right to religious freedom without interference from the community or the State.D. Churches and religious societies of any kind cannot own property and propagate their beliefs in speeches and writing.21.In the late 15th century, Christopher Columbus，a(n)_____C______navigator, led his men to sail across the vast ocean and reached some small islands in the now West Indies.A. FrenchB. SpanishC. ItalianD. English22.American troops defeated the British at_____A______ in Northern New York. This was a great turning point of the American War of Independence，leading directly to an alliance between the U.S. and France.A. SaratogaB. TrentonC. LexingtonD. Yorktown23.In 1787，delegates from the states held a meeting in Philadelphia to make the Articles of Confederation adequate. The meeting came to be called the _____C______ .A. First Continental CongressB. Second Continental CongressC. Constitutional ConventionD. Independent Convention24.Which of the following is NOT among President Theodore Roosevelt’s contributions? DA. The implementation of the Sherman Anti-trust Act.B. The initiation of large-scale irrigation projects.C. The adoption of the Hepburn Act of 1906.D. The passage of the Federal Reserve Act.25._____C______Was the beginning of a long economic depression in the U.S. in 1929.A. Business bankruptcyB. Serious unemploymentC. The stock market crashD. Foreclosures26.During the Second World War, American wartime objectives were the total destruction of_____A______ powers and the establishment of a world order.A. AxisB. AsianC. AlliedD. European27.In 1932，in the depth of the depression，the American people chose _____B______ as their next president who promised to get the U.S. out of the depression.A. Theodore RooseveltB. Franklin D. RooseveltC. Woodrow WilsonD. Herbert C. Hoovercation was made a function of the state under the _____A______Amendment to the US Constitution.A. TenthB. EleventhC. TwelfthD. Thirteenth29.McCarthyism was a full-scale _____D______hysteria in the United States in the 1950s.A. pro-NaziB. anti-FascistC. pro-CommunistD. anti-Communist30.On June 5，1947，____B_______suggested that the US should offer economic aid to Western Europe so as to protect the region from Soviet expansion.A. George KennanB. George MarshallC. Dwight EisenhowerD. James F. Byrnes31.A decision to set up a world organization，the United Nations，was made at_____A______.A. Yalta ConferenceB. Potsdam ConferenceC. Teheran ConferenceD. Paris Conference32.The safeguards against abuse of powers in the United States come in the form of_____A______.A. separation of powersB. executive ordersC. presidential electionsD. judicial reviews33.______D_____Was meant to guarantee the blacks and others the right to vote.A. Emancipation Proclamation in 1863B. The Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution in 1865C. The Civil Rights Act of 1964D. The Voting Rights Act of 196534.Woman obtained voting right from the____C_______ Amendment to the Constitution.A. 17thB. 18thC. 19thD. 20th35.Of the four kinds of high schools，______B_____ones only aim to prepare students for college.A. comprehensiveB. academicC. vocationalD. technical36.There have been____C______ periods in the development of American political parties inthe United States.A. twoB. threeC. fourD. five37.The 1920s in the United States has been described by many historians as a period of____B_______.A. material failureB. spiritual frustrationC. political setbacksD. welfare reform38.____A_______is the largest single source of goods imported by the U.S.，accounting for nearly30％of the total.A. CanadaB. MexicoC. JapanD. European Union39.Mark Twain’s masterwork was ____D_______ .A. The Scarlet LetterB. Leaves of GrassC. The Sketch BookD. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn40.In the early part of the 19th century，____D_______was the center of American writing.A. BostonB. PhiladelphiaC. ChicagoD. New York City41.Tourist trade is important in economy in ______B_____with rich green mountains and valleys.A. British ColumbiaB. Atlantic provincesC. the Canadian-ShieldD. St. Lawrence-Great Lakes provinces42.Which of the following about Canada in World War I is NOT true? AA. It founded its navy to enter World War I.B. It took a seat as a member of the League of Nations.C. It won the right to sign the Peace Treaty of 1919 in its own name.D. It has found its place among the nations of the world since World War I.43.Generally speaking，Canada can be divided into_____D______ geographical regions.A. threeB. fourC. fiveD. six44.Which of the following statements about Australia is true? BA. It is the world’s fifth largest country and is surrounded by sea.B. It is the smallest and the only continent that contains only one country.C. It is a continent that contains only Australia and New Zealand.D. It is the world’s smallest continent and the world’s fourth largest country.45.The first Australian colony, established by Britain in 1788 and called the premier state，is ____D_______ .A. VictoriaB. TasmaniaC. QueenslandD. New South Wales46.The Australian political division borders are drawn_____A______.A. along straight lines of latitude and longitudeB. along rivers and forestsC. along mountain rangesD. along natural features47.The only native mammals in New Zealand are____B_______.A. rabbitsB. batsC. opossumsD. goats48.A chain of mountains runs almost the whole length of South Island in New Zealand. The highest peak is_____B______.A. Mt RuapehuB. Mt CookC. Mt NgaurohoeD. Mt Tongariro49.One of the four unusual demographic features of Ireland is_____B______.A. an early marriage ageB. an excess of males in the populationC. a low proportion of bachelors and spinsters of all agesD. a high birthrate compounded by a century of emigration50.Migration in Ireland declined sharply_____D______.A. during WWIB. in recent yearsC. in the early decades of the 20th centuryD. after the establishment of the Irish Free StateII.Give a one-sentence answer to each of the following questions.Write your answer in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.(30 points，3 points for each)51.What is the Magna Carta also known as?ANSWER:It is also known as the baron's charter(the Great Charter).52.Who has the power to declare war and make peace in the U.K.? ANSWER:The Queen has the power to declare war and make peace.53.What are the three political divisions on the island of Great Britain? ANSWER:Thay are England,Scotland and Wales.54.When was the Declaration of Independence adopted?独立宣言是在何时通过的?ANSWER:It was adopted on July 4,177655.What foreign policy did the American government pursue in the early 1930s?美国政府的外交政策ANSWER:It pursues an isolationist foreign policy in the early 1930s.追求一个孤立的外交政策56.What are Conglomerates集团 in the USA?ANSWER:Conglomerates are big companies that own several smaller businesses whose products and services are usually very different.企业集团是大公司通常拥有不同产品和服务的一些小企业57.Where is the name“Canada”believed to have come from?ANSWER:It is believed to have come from the native people,the Indians.58.Why does Great Britain have the greatest influence upon Australia? ANSWER:Great Britain has had the greatest influence because Australia was settled as a British colony.59.What is Maoritanga?毛利文化ANSWER:Maoritanga is Maoriculture,the Maori way of life and view of the world.60.What was the consequence of the the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921?英爱条约ANSWER:Violent opposition to the treaty by ultranationalists 极端民族主义者led to a civil war.III.Explain each of the following terms in English. Write your answer in the corresponding space on the answer sheet in around 40 words.(20 points，5 points for each)61.the House of Commons下议院The House of Commons is a part of Parliament,and its members are elected by universal adult suffrage.It consists of 651 Members of Parliament(MPs).It has the ultimate authority in making law.下议院是议会的一部分,它的成员是由成人普选产生。
全国2010年4月高等教育综合英语自考试题
全国2010年4月自学考试综合英语二试题课程代码：00795请将答案填在答题纸相应位置上I. GRAMMARAND VOCABULARYComplete each of the following 15 sentences with the most likely answer. Write the letter corresponding to your choice on the answer sheet. (1 point each, 15 points in all)1. I was shocked by the number of people who seemed to have nothing better to do with their time than ______ to know fish better.A. getB. getsC. gettingD. got2. Not all birds can fly , ______ do all birds build nests.A. notB. noC. neverD. nor3. When you fall in love for the first time, it’s surprising ______ inconveniences you can put up with.A. thatB. whatC. whichD. those4. I know my limitations, so I won’t do anything ______ my ability.A. beyondB. underC. aboveD. below5. The hosts apologized for ______ that some of their guests might be vegetarians.A. having not consideredB. not having consideredC. having not been consideringD. not considering6. Mrs. Smith locked both the front and the back doors before she went to bed ______ that someone might steal into the house at night.A. soB. for fearC. unlessD. on condition7. We have to wait for the bus, ______?A. have weB. haven’t weC. do weD. don’t we8. ______ the popularity of robots in Japan, the country’s robot-production growth is slowing down.A. AsB. AlthoughC. WithD. Despite第 1 页9. The proposal deserves support as it gives ______ to the needs of children.A. curiosityB. awarenessC. priorityD. emphasis10. Those familiar with evening dress will always ______ black with elegance.A. linkB. associateC. connectD. relate11. I f you’re sitting around a lonely campfire at night, the howl of a wolf can sound pretty ______.A. fearfulB. threateningC. dreadfulD. frightening12. The suspect cooperated fully with the police when ______ about his role in the incident.A. requiredB. questionedC. demandedD. negotiated13. Homing pigeon is useful as a ______ carrier because when taken from home, it will return at the first opportunity.A. meaningB. informationC. messageD. content14. One of the responsibilities of the Coast Guard is to make sure that all ships ______ follow traffic rules in busy harbors.A. convenientlyB. obedientlyC. sufficientlyD. reluctantly15. She was so ______ the noise that she sent the children to bed.A. broken down byB. filled in withC. taken over byD. fed up withII. CLOZEFill in each of the 15 blanks in the passage with the most likely answer. Write the letter corresponding to your choice on the answer sheet. (1 point each, 15 points in all)A quarter of the world’s population now speaks English. If you want to 16 your products, or yourself, you have no choice 17 to do it in English. Politicians and business people must speak English if they want to make their mark 18 the world’s stage. Writers of minority languages can 19 hope to sell their books unless they write in English.As English is spoken all over the world, it means that no individual country can really exercise a 20 influence over it. In the past, it was the mother tongue 21 who controlled the future of the language. Now, indeed for the last few decades, the mother tongue users are in a significant 22 .This means that the character of the language could well 23 with new words, new rhythms, and new pronunciations. It isn’t going to be British and American English anymore- that’s 24 . All over the world education authorities are struggling to find the resources to meet the 25 for English.第 2 页However, it is open to question whether they are putting all their eggs in one 26 . The future of English language is intimately 27 the electronic revolution. Satellite television and the Internet have helped accelerate the 28 of English, but will that always be the case?The Internet, 29 , is now seen as the saviour of minority languages. Indeed, with the continuing improvements in electronic translation, will we even need a(n) 30 language? It is open to question.16. A. sell B. make C. produce D. trade17. A. and B. but C. rather D. or18. A. on B. with C. for D. at19. A. ever B. still C. no longer D. no more20. A. negative B. typical C. subtle D. dominant21. A. speakers B. followers C. believers D. interpreters22. A. group B. number C. amount D. minority23. A. alter B. differ C. shift D. vary24. A. old B. new C. history D. future25. A. want B. pursuit C. demand D. desire26. A. box B. basket C. bag D. container27. A. restricted to B. drawn to C. tied up with D. caught up with28. A. range B. scope C. spread D. coverage29. A. as a result B. as a rule C. in addition D. in fact30. A. global B. unique C. worldly D. internationalⅢ. PARAPHRASINGChoose the closest paraphrased version after each of the following sentences or the italicized part. Write the letter corresponding to your choice on the answer sheet. (1 point each, 10 points in all)31. By definition, heroes and heroines are men and women distinguished by uncommon courage, achievements, and self-sacrifice made most often for the benefit of others - they are people against whom we measure others.A. ... we disagree with them when judging others.B. ... we think more highly of them than others do.C. ... we believe other people are different from them.D. ... we use them as the standard when evaluating others.32. Many people have a rather acute sense of the shortness of each lifetime.A. Many people realize that they are short of time.B. Many people feel keenly that their life is short.C. Many people are sensible only for a short period of time.D. Many people would like very much to prolong their life.第 3 页33. As a scientist, she learned with sadness that little in Nature is truly beyond the tampering reach of man.A. … it is difficult for man to compete with Nature.B. … it is impossible for man to benefit from Nature.C. … Nature can hardly escape from man’s interference.D. …Nature is really more powerful than human beings.34. These bits of information and the list of D grades were all the records had to offer.A. These bits of information explained his poor grades.B. His poor grades were related to these bits of information.C. What could be found in the records were those things required to be there.D. The records gave nothing more than these bits of information and poor grades.35. People were only shapes in dense, gray fog of dust and ash.A. The dusty air made people barely visible.B. The air was too polluted for people to breathe.C. People hardly stayed in shape in such dirty air.D. People were almost buried in thick dust and ash.36. It would not be difficult to compile a list of such surprises that would fill the next fifty pages, but I will content myself with suggesting the first few that occur to me.A. ... I feel satisfied with the first few examples in my mind.B. ... I am surprised with the number of suggestions I can give.C. ... the first few examples are the best ones that satisfy my curiosity.D. ... the first few surprises coming to me would be enough as examples.37. If I love you, I can see you as a separate person, with your own values and thoughts and feelings, and I do not insist that you surrender your identity and conform to an image of what I expect you to be for me.A. ... I don’t want you to lose hope and then blame me for it.B. ... I won’t force you to be independent and you can rely on me.C. ... I don’t expect you to follow my step and become similar to me.D ... I won’t push you to lose your self and become what I like you to be.38. If disappointed, though, she [my mother] wasted no energy on self-pity. She would make me make something of myself whether I wanted to or not.A. Dissatisfied as she was, she remained as determined as before.B. Faced with discouragements, she never lost her energetic spirits.C. Nothing could let her down even though no one sympathized with her.D. There was enough self-confidence in her to deal with disappointments.39. My maternal grandfather, it is true, was cut off in the flower of his youth at the age of sixty-seven.第 4 页A. My maternal grandfather retired from gardening at sixty-seven.B. My maternal grandfather died young, when he was sixty-seven.C. My maternal grandfather lost energy when he was sixty-seven.D. My maternal grandfather was considered no longer young at sixty-seven.40. Far-reaching as many of them [Edison’s inventions] have been in their effect upon modern civilization, the total effect of Edison’s career surpasses the sum of all of them.A. One can never evaluate Edison’s great inventions high enough.B. One needs to understand Edison’s inventions to appreciate his career.C. Edison’s inventions are his most outstanding contributions to human life.D. Edison’s influence upon human society is much greater than his inventions.IV. READING COMPREHENSIONRead the two passages and choose the most likely answer to each of the questions. Write the letter corresponding to your choice on the answer sheet (2 points each, 20 points in all)Passage 1Friendship and friends continue to remain central to our lives. The relationship that we share with our friends is grounded in a mutual concern as our friends help us in shaping up our personalities as well. Even in this age of online social networking, the need of expanding the network of friends, whether online or offline remains a primary concern for people. We may have a very vague understanding of what makes a friend but we all want to have a good many friends around us.Research has shown that the quality and nature of your friends are one of the key influencing factors in achieving happiness and satisfaction. Friends often affect the health and energy of a person as well. More and more people are increasingly turning towards their friends for support and mutual sharing rather than communicating to their relatives; this sociological phenomenon has escalated the desire to make more friends. Though friendship is a relationship developed between two individuals marked by a voluntary, emotional and mutual concern, there are certain steps, which, if followed, can win you friends or at least help you get close to those whom you want to make friends with.The first step to make friends with someone is to make them like you. If they don’t like you in the first place, it is unlikely that they’ll be eager to become your friends. To let someone know that you are genuinely interested in them, simple gestures like a little smile and calling him by his first name can lay the basic foundation. To make the other person feel important you need to be a good listener and encourage the other person to talk. Give your honest and sincere opinion but do not overtly criticize or make fun of him or her.The second step of making someone your friend is to develop a mutual consideration between each other. Y ou need to share his or her perspective and for that it is necessary for you to develop a tendency to see things from the other person’s point of view. To become best of friends you must show a genuine concern and consideration for your f riend’s desires and opinions.The third and final step towards friendship is to show your unconditional support and encouragement towards your第 5 页friend. Moreover, you also need to be very clear about your expectations from your friend. If what you expect from the person you want to befriend matches with what that person can and want to contribute in friendship, the developing friendship between you and your friend is assured to grow, making both of you gratified with mutual emotional bonding.Friendship has o verwhelming significance on both social and individual levels. Friendship doesn’t only provide us with emotional as well as practical support but it also helps us improve our personal identities. So it is quite natural to feel the urge to reach out and mak e new friends, expanding your friend’s circle. F riendship remains familiar yet quite ambiguous (模糊的) for our deeper understanding, but then again, friends remain the most important ingredients in the recipe of life!41. The relationship between friends is based on ______.A. the social networking around friendsB. friends’ caring and helping each otherC. the style friends choose to communicateD. an unclear understanding of what makes a friend42. Which of the following statements has been proved correct?A. The better quality your friends have, the happier you will be.B. Communication with friends is healthier than that with relatives.C. The more friends you have, the more satisfied you are with yourself.D. Those you like in the first place are more likely to become your friends.43. The word “escalated”in the second paragraph probably means ______.A. intensifiedB. challengedC. shiftedD. resisted44. It can be inferred from the first suggested step that ______ is NOT likely to win you friends.A. making others talkB. being very talkativeC. telling people you like themD. addressing others in an informal way45. What structure does the author use to organize this passage?A. Effect- cause.B. Comparison- contrast.C. General- specific- general.D. Definition - explanation - example.Passage 2Every single student that applies for a class or course online has certain expectations and they are often extremely high. Unfortunately for most individuals, they will be disappointed. It is a fact that the majority of individuals believe that they will actually enjoy every aspect of their course. The truth is that there is very little in a degree to inspire until an individual actually completes the course and is awarded the degree or certificate that could change his or her life. This is no different with an online education and, in fact, the disappointment may be more obvious because they may face extra difficulties in an online course.Online education expectations are often incredibly high, as previously stated, in terms of what an individual can get第 6 页from it as well as the manageability of the content itself. However, although an individual will ultimately be proven right about what he or she can get from it, this will not be the case for manageability. Most online education courses are anything but manageable for those who decide to take them. The level of work would be the same as any other degree or qualification course, but an individual is expected to manage it on his or her own instead of having a tutor or lecturer ther e to remind him or her about assignments and deadlines. Time management is extremely important, but the nature of these individuals’ life often makes it impossible to manage without feeling the stresses and strains of the burden.It is important to be realistic with your expectations concerning an online education course, but many are completely unrealistic. If you read any of the accounts from students that have already taken and may have even passed an online education course, many will speak in glowing terms; but you should also read between the lines.They claim that their expectations will ultimately be fulfilled in terms of the long-term benefits. However, in the short term they may say they found it difficult to cope with the workload, the lack of time that they actually had to complete it, an unsupportive employer and so on. This last point may not be an issue if you are doing it to advance yourself within your current workplace, but there will otherwise be some sort of resentment bubbling under the surface and that can indeed make your life a misery for a little while. If you expect it and prepare for it then it should not bother you too much, and if the resentment does not come then so much the better!In terms of your own expectations, the best attitude to have is not to go in with any at all. If you do not expect anything then you may be pleasantly surprised. It can be difficult to fit an online education in with personal commitments, such as a family to look after or a job to go to every day whilst trying to study. It does take a lot of effort, but if you do not expect it to be easy or expect that you will just be able to do it without the balance of your life being upset as a result, then you will probably find that you do get a sense of satisfaction from it! Similarly, if you expect the worst then you will probably be pleasantly surprised! Managing your expectations can be difficult, but do not let them get the better of you !46. The manageability is more difficult in online courses than in any other course because ______.A. online courses require higher level of workB. online courses bring much more assignmentsC. online course takers have no way to contact their lecturersD. online course takers have to rely on themselves for management47. According to the passage, one may not have the problem of an unsupportive employer if ______.A. he is fully prepared to deal with any resentment from his bossB. his online education will be beneficial to his current workplaceC. his expectations will be fulfilled in the form of long-term benefitsD. he can discuss the issue width his boss openly and bravely on the table48. According to the writer of this passage, one’s satisfaction in online education might come from ______.A. high expectationsB. diligent effortsC. a realistic attitudeD. a proper balance第 7 页49. In the last sentence of this passage, the phrase “get the better of you”probably means “______”.A. make a fool of youB. take advantage of youC. get too fancy for you to imagineD. become too high for you to control50. This passage is written mainly for the purpose of ______.A. inspiring its readers to fulfill their expectations through hard workB. persuading its readers to be more practical with their personal commitmentsC. informing its readers about the disadvantages of the courses they take onlineD. preparing its readers for the hardships they may encounter in online educationV. WORD DERIV ATIONComplete each of the following sentences with a (compound) word derived from the one(s) given in brackets. Write your word on the answer sheet. (1 point each, 10 points in all)51. The railway station has always been a fascinating place, representing departure as well as ______. (arrive)52. A climate that is extreme in temperature, whether it be too hot or too cold, is not ______. (desire)53. Tropical rainforest is a forest of tall trees in a region of year-round ______ and plentiful rainfall. (warm)54. We often hear of people breaking down from ______, but in nine cases out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety. (work, over)55. The ______ red strawberries make a nice decoration on top of the cake. (juice)56. More and more businessmen have realized that it is important to ______ their products in international trade. (standard)57. The earthquake-stricken area received ______ help from its neighboring provinces. (time)58. What is considered moral in one society may be ______ in another, depending on different social values. (moral)59. Y oung people will need to learn to ______ the responsibility of their own decisions. (shoulder)60. Special guidance and help need to be provided to the ______ members of the staff. (qualified)VI. SENTENCE TRANSLATIONT urn the following sentences into English and write your sentences on the answer sheet. (3 points each, 15 points in all)61.公司越来越多地借助高科技来保护计算机的安全。
全国2010年4月高等教育自学考试英语阅读试题
全国2010年4月高等教育自学考试英语阅读(一)试题I. CAREFUL READINGRead the following passages carefully. Decide on the best answer and write the corresponding letter on the ANSWER SHEET. (40 points, 2 points each)Passage 1Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage.A head track coach, Bill Bowerman, designed a pair of lighter shoes with better support and greater strength and sent the design to leading sporting-goods companies. They all turned him down.The rejections brought Bowerman face to face with his own philosophy of“competitive response.”He had taught his sportsmen to value competition not so much for its prizes as for its intellectual and spiritual satisfaction. This was true of his determination to make the shoes himself.He made his first pair of track shoes light and graceful. His runners won in his hand-made shoes. But who would like to manufacture such shoes?In 1962, Knight, one of Bowerman’s sportsmen, offered to travel to Japan and called on one of Japan’s best manufacturers of sports shoes. The manufacturer promised to produce shoes of his design and Knight’s company would be their only distributor in the U.S. A year later, a shipment of 200 Bowerman shoes arrived in Oregon.At first, Knight and Bowerman worked with a small team and went selling out of cars at track meets. But slowly, the running world got to know the secret of their product.Then in 1972, the Japanese company cut off all supplies to their company and established a separate distribution network in the U.S. In 30 days Knight succeeded in finding a new manufacturer. And today the company takes the largest share in the shoe business. You ask me the brand name of the shoes? It’s Nike, named after the Greek Goddess of Victory.Bowerman, Knight and the Nike team have a firm belief that a shared responsibility requires outstanding individual performance and a willingness to contribute that performance to the group.1. The new track shoes designed by Bowerman ______.A. helped develop his team’s athletic skillsB. helped improve his runners’ performanceC. opened up the Japanese sports shoes marketD. opened up the American sports shoes market2. Bowerman’s response to competition is related to sportsmen’s ______.A. team spiritB. spiritual needsC. material rewardsD. prize winning3. According to the passage, Bowerman shoes were first sold by ______.A. the shoe manufacturer in JapanB. Knight, Bowerman and their teamC. a leading sporting-goods company in JapanD. a leading sporting-goods company in America4. The difficulty Knight ran into in 1972 arose from ______.A. the rejection of the shoe designB. the quality problem of the shoesC. the competition from other companiesD. the Japanese company’s new decision5. The success of the Nike team lies in ______.A. the manufacturer’s philosophyB. the fashionable design of the shoesC. their cooperation with a foreign companyD. their individual performance and teamworkPassage 2Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage.Seventeenth-century houses in colonial North America were simple structures that were primarily functional, carrying over traditional designs that went back to the Middle Ages. During the first half of the eighteenth century, however, houses began to show a new elegance. As wealth increased, more and more colonists built fine houses.Since architecture was not yet a specialized profession in the colonies, the design of buildings was left to carpenters who undertook to interpret architectural manuals imported from England. There are an astonishing number of these handbooks for builders in colonial libraries, and the houses erected during the eighteenth century show their influence. Most domestic architecture of the first three-quarters of the eighteenth century displayed a wide range of taste and freedom of application of the rules laid down in these books.Increasing wealth throughout the colonies resulted in houses of improved design, whether the material was wood, stone or brick. New England still favored wood, though brick houses became common in Boston and other towns, where the danger of fire forced people to use more durable material. A few houses in New England were built of stone, but only in Pennsylvania and its neighboring areas was stone widely used in dwellings. An increased use of bricks is noticeable in Virginia and Maryland, but wood remained the most popular material even in houses built by wealthy landowners. In the Carolinas, even in the crowded town of Charleston, wooden houses were much more common than brick houses.Eighteenth-century houses showed great interior improvements over their predecessors. Windows were made larger and shutters removed. Large, clear panes replaced the gray glass of the seventeenth century. Doorways were larger and more decorative. Fireplaces became decorative features of rooms. Walls were sometimes elaborately decorated. White paint began to take the place of blue, yellow, green and gray colors, which had been popular for walls in the earlier years. After about 1730, advertisements for wallpaper styles in scenic patterns began to appear in colonial newspapers.6. The passage mainly discusses ______.A. the improved design of the 18th century colonial housesB. the role of carpenters in building the 18th century housesC. the varieties of decorations used in the 18th century housesD. a comparison of the 18th century houses and modern houses7. Those responsible for designing houses in the 18th century North America were ______.A. customersB. carpentersC. interior decoratorsD. professional architects8. Stones were commonly used to build houses in ______.A. VirginiaB. BostonC. CharlestonD. Pennsylvania9. The word“predecessors”(para. 4) refers to ______.A. colonists in the 17th centuryB. wooden houses in CharlestonC. houses before the 18th centuryD. interior improvements in houses10. It can be inferred from the 4th paragraph that before 1730 ______.A. patterned wallpaper was not widely usedB. pattemed wallpaper was not used in stone housesC. wallpaper samples could be found in librariesD. wallpaper was the same color as the wall paintsPassage 3Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage.The universities from which today’s univers ities are descendents were founded in the Middle Ages. They were established either by corporations of students wanting to learn, as in Italy, or by teachers wanting to teach, as in France. Corporations that had special legal or customary privileges for the purpose of carrying out the intentions of the incorporators were common in those days. The university corporations of the Middle Ages at the height of their power were not responsible to anybody, and could not be punished by any authorities. They claimed, and made good their claim, complete independence of all religious and nonreligious control. The American university was, however, at first a corporation formed by a religious group or by the state for the purposes of the group.The American university in the seventeenth century was much closer to the American university today than to the university in the Middle Ages. The Puritan communities needed ministers and professional men and so they established universities to provide them. Later, religious groups built universities in order to extend their own influence. For example, the University of Chicago was founded by devout (虔诚的) Baptists to combat the rising tide of Methodism in the Middle West and Shakers in the East. The president and the trustees of the University were required to have the proper religious relations in order to keep the University on the right path. Fortunately, the combination of John D, Rockefeller, William Rainey Harper, and the enlightened wing of the Baptist Church preserved the university from too narrow an interpretation of its purpose.11. French universities in the Middle Ages were founded by ______.A. the governmentB. groups of scholarsC. the Catholic ChurchD. students wanting to learn12. Puritans set up universities primarily for the purpose of ______.A. training school teachersB. influencing the governmentC. providing ministers and professionalsD. supplying professionals for corporations13. The University of Chicago was established by ______.A. ShakersB. PuritansC. MethodistsD. Baptists14. The writer mentions John D. Rockefeller and William Rainey Harper to show that ______.A. they were important founders of the universityB. they were extremely faithful in their religious beliefsC. they broadened the original goal of the universityD. they stuck to the founding principles of the university15. Early universities in the U.S. were founded mostly for ______.A. economic reasonsB. political reasonsC. religious purposesD. academic purposesPassage 4Questions 16 to 20 are based on the foliowing passage.If you are looking for an explanation of why we don’t get tou gh with criminals, you need only look at the numbers. Each year almost a third of the households in America are victims of violence or theft. This amounts to more than 41 million crimes, many more than we are able to punish. There are also too many crimina ls. We don’t have room for any more!The painful fact is that the more crime there is, the less we are able to punish it. We think that punishment prevents crime, but it just might be the other way around. When there is so much crime it is simply impossible to deal with it or punish it. This is the situation we find ourselves in today: the gradual increase in the criminal population has made it more difficult to get into prison. Some of the most exclusive prisons now require about five serious crimes before a criminal is accepted.These features show that it makes little sense to blame the police or judges for being soft on criminals. There is not much else they can do. The police can’t find most criminals and those they do find are difficult and costly to convict. Those convicted can’t all be sent to prison. The public demands that we do everything we can against crime. The practical reality is that there is very little the police, courts or prisons can do about the crime problem.We could, of course, get tough with the people we already have in prison and keep them locked up for longer periods of time. Yet when measured against the lower crime rates this would probably produce, longer prison sentences are not worth the cost to states and local governments. Besides, those states that have tried to gain voters’approval for building new prisons often discover that the public is unwilling to pay for prison constructions. And if it were willing to pay,long prison sentences may not be effective in reducing crime.More time spent in prison is also more expensive. The best estimates are that it costs an average of $13,000 to keep a person in prison for one year. If we had a place to keep the 124,000 released prisoners, it would have cost us $1.6 billion to prevent 15,000 crimes. This works out to more than $100,000 per crime prevented. But there is more. With the average cost of prison construction running around $50,000 per bed, it would cost more than $6 billion to build the necessary cells. The first-year operating cost would be $150,000 per crime prevented, worth it ifthe victim were you or me, but much too expensive to be feasible as a national policy.Faced with the reality of the numbers, I will not be so foolish as to suggest a solution to the crime problem. My contribution to the public debate begins and ends with this simple observation: getting tough with criminals is not the answer.16. By saying“it just might be the other way around”(para. 2), the writer means ______.A. severe punishment lowers crime ratesB. soft measures lead to the rise of crime ratesC. easy policies are more effective than strict onesD. the increase in crime makes punishment difficult17. It is wrong to blame the police or judges for not being hard on criminals partly because ______.A. trials are expensiveB. criminals are very dangerousC. the police force is weakD. the public fill to support the court18. The cost for constructing prisons is ______.A. $13,000 per bedB. $50,000 per bedC. $100,000 per bedD. $150,000 per bed19. The writer of the passage bases his argument mainly upon ______.A. statistical evidenceB. public opinionsC. criminal psychologyD. personal experience20. The tone of the passage isA. playfulB. seriousC. satiricalD. angryII. SPEED READINGSkim or scan the following passages, and then decide on the best answer and write the corresponding letter on the ANSWER SHEET. (10 points, 1 point each)Passage 5Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.Joyce Carol Oates published her first collection of short stories, By the North Gate, in 1963, two years after she had received her master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin and became an instructor of English at the University of Detroit. Her productivity since then has been tremendous, accumulating in less than two decades up to nearly thirty titles, including novels, collections of short stories and verse, plays, and literary criticism. In the meantime, she has continued to teach, moving in 1967 from the University of Detroit to the University of Windsor in Ontario, and in 1978, to Princeton University. Reviewers have admired her enormous energy, but they also find such a large body of writing very amazing.In a period characterized by the abandonment of so much of the realistic tradition by authors such as John Barth, Donald Barthelme, and Thomas Pynchon, Joyce Carol Oates has seemed at times determinedly old-fashioned in her insistence on depicting the world as it is. Hers is a world of violence, insanity, fractured love, and hopeless loneliness. Although some of it appears to come from her personal observations, her dreams and her fears, much more is clearly from the experiences of others. Her first novel, With Shuddering Fall (1964), dealt with stock ear racing, though she had neverseen a race. In Them (1964) she focused on Detroit from the Depression through the riots of 1967, drawing much of her material from the deep impression made on her by the problems of one of her students. Whatever the source is and however shocking the events or the motivations are, her fictional world nonetheless remains strikingly related to that real one reflected in the daily newspapers, the television news, talk shows and the popular magazines of our day.21. The passage is mainly an introduction to Oates’s ______.A. careerB. childhoodC. By the North GateD. contemporary writers22. The passage tells us that Joyce Carol Oates’s first publication was ______.A. unsuccessfulB. published in 1965C. a volume of short fictionsD. about an English instructor23. The most striking feature of Joyce Carol Oates’s work is her ______.A. realismB. radicalismC. imaginationD. conservatism24. The subject of Joyce Carol Oates’s first novel is ______.A. teachingB. lonelinessC. car racingD. hopelessness25. The author mentions Oates’s book Them because it is ______.A. an autobiographyB. her best piece of nonfictionC. a typical novel of the 1960sD. not based on her experiencesPassage 6Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.Cliff House has gone through five major constructions and reconstructions since its beginning in 1858. That year, Samuel Brannan, a prosperous man from Maine, bought for $1,500 the lumber from a ship that wrecked on the cliffs below. With this material he built the first Cliff House. The second Cliff House was built for Captain Junius G. Foster, but as it was a long difficult trip from the city, the house hosted mostly horseback riders, small game hunters or picnickers on day outings. With the opening of a toll road a year later, the Cliff House became successful with the Carriage trade for Sunday travel. On weekends, there was little room at the Cliff House for horses and carriages. Soon, omnibus railways and streetcar lines made it to near Lone Mountain where passengers transferred to stagecoach lines to the beach. The growth of Golden Gate Park attracted beach travelers in search of meals and a look at the Sea Lions sunning themselves on Seal Rock, just off the cliffs to visit the area.In 1877, the toll road, now Geary Boulevard, was purchased by the City of San Francisco for around $25,000. In 1883, after a few years of downturn, the Cliff House was bought by Adolph Sutro, a multimillionaire who made his fortune from mining. After a few years of quiet management by J. M. Wilkens, the Cliff House was severely damaged by an explosion of the ship, which destroyed the northern part of the house. Seven years later, on Christmas 1894 the repaired old building burned down.In 1896, Adolph Sutro built a new Cliff House, a seven-story Victorian style castle, called by some“the Gingerbread Palace.”In the same year, work began on the famous Sutro Baths, which included six of the largest indoor swimming poolsnorth of the restaurant that included a museum, a skating rink and other pleasure grounds. Great throngs of San Franciscans arrived on steam trains, bicycles, carts and horse wagons on Sunday excursions.The Cliff House and Sutro Baths survived the 1906 earthquake with little damage but burned to the ground on the evening of September 7, 1907. Rebuilding of the restaurant was completed within two years and, with additions and modern restorations, is the one seen today.The building was acquired by the National Park Service in 1977 and it became part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. The site overlooks the Seal Rock and the former site of the Sutro Baths. More than thirty ships have been pounded to pieces on the southern shore of the Golden Gate below Cliff House.26. The story of Cliff House goes back to ______.A. 1858B. 1877C. 1894D. 190627. The second Cliff House was built for ______.A. J. M. WilkensB. Adolph SutroC. Samuel BrannanD. Junius G.Foster28. The Victorian style castle mentioned in the passage (para. 3) was ______.A. the first Cliff HouseB. the second Cliff HouseC. the third Cliff HouseD. the fourth Cliff House29. The Cliff House we see today was completed in ______.A. 1906B. 1907C. 1909D. 197730. The third Cliff House was eventually destroyed by ______.A. a fireB. an earthquakeC. shipwrecksD. an explosionIII. DISCOURSE CLOZEThe following is taken from the textbook. Read the passage and fill in the numbered spaces (there are more suggested answers than necessary). Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. (l0 points, 1 point each)I am speaking not as a Briton, not as a European, not as a member of a western democracy, (31) ______. The world is full of conflicts: Jews and Arabs; Indians and Pakistanis, white men and Negroes in Africa; and, overshadowing all minor conflicts, the titanic struggle between communism and anticommunism.Almost everybody who is politically conscious has strong feelings about one or more of these issues; but I want you, if you can, to set aside such feelings for the moment and consider yourself only as a member of a biological species (32) ______. I shall try to say no single word which should appeal to one group rather than to another. All, equally, are in peril, and, if the peril is understood, there is hope that they may collectively avert it. We have to learn to think in a new way. (33) ______, for there no longer are such steps. The question we have to ask ourselves is: (34) ______?The general public, and even many men in positions of authority, have not realized what would be involved in a war with hydrogen bombs. The general public still thinks in terms of the obliteration (灭迹,消灭) of cities. It is understood thatthe new bombs are more powerful than the old and that, while one atomic bomb could obliterate Hiroshima, (35) ______. No doubt in a hydrogen-bomb war great cities would be obliterated. But this is one of the minor disasters thatwould have to be faced. If everybody in London, New York, and Moscow were exterminated, the world might, in the course of a few centuries, recover from the blow. But we now know, especially since the Bikini test, that hydrogen bombs can gradually spread destruction over a much wider area than had been supposed. It is stated on very good authority that a bomb can now be manufactured (36) ______. Such a bomb, if exploded near the ground or under water, sends radioactive particles into the upper air. They sink gradually and reach the surface of the earth in the form of a deadly dust or rain. It was this dust which infected the Japanese fishermen and their catch of fish although they were outside what American experts believed to be the danger zone. No one knows how widely such lethal (杀伤性的) radioactive particles might be diffused, but the best authorities are unanimous in (37) ______. It is feared that if many hydrogen bombs are used, there might be universal death.Here, then, is the problem which I present to you, stark and dreadful and inescapable: (38) ______? People will not face this alternative because it is so difficult to abolish war. (39) ______. But what perhaps impedes understanding of the situation more than anything else is that the term “mankind”feels vague and abstract. People scarcely realize in imagination that the danger is to themselves and their children and their grandchildren, and not only to a dimly apprehended humanity. And so they hope that perhaps war may be allowed to continue provided modern weapons are prohibited. I am afraid this hope is illusory. Whatever agreements not to use hydrogen bombs had been reached in time of peace, they would no longer be considered binding in time of war, and both sides would set to work to manufacture hydrogen bombs (40) ______, for if one side manufactured the bombs and the other did not, the side that manufactured them would inevitably be victorious.(From Shall We Choose Death?)A. saying that a war with hydrogen bombs is quite likely to put an end to the human raceB. which will be 25,000 times as powerful as that which destroyed HiroshimaC. What steps can be taken to prevent a military contest of which the issue must be disastrous to all sidesD. The abolition of war will demand distasteful limitations of national sovereigntyE. Shall we choose death because we cannot forget our quarrelsE Shall we put an end to the human race or shall mankind renounce warG as soon as war broke outH. but as a human being, a member of the species Man, whose continued existence is in doubtI. one hydrogen bomb could obliterate the largest cities such as London, New York, and MoscowJ. which has had a remarkable history and whose disappearance none of us can desireK. We have to learn to ask ourselves not what steps can be taken to give military victory to whatever group we preferIV. WORD FORMATIONSComplete each of the following sentences with the proper form of the word in the bracket. Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. (l0 points, 1 point each )41. (short) The new procedure could______hospital stays by two to three days.42. (adequate) Normally, three staff members are enough to handle new business, but obviously are ______now.43. (employ) An application form calls for details of residence, ______, social security, and family matters.44. (present) The ______ of the TV camera crew outside clearly shows that the press must have beeninformed in advance.45. (attract) In modern families, kitchen utensils are expected to be ______ as well as functional.46. (minor) In America each house of Congress has two party committees, one set up by the majority partyand the other by the ______ party.47. (just) The ______ treatment to the blacks in the 1960s led to a series of uprisings in the UnitedStates.48. (various) The newly enrolled servicemen are from a ______ of backgrounds as required by the general.49. (pain) It is rather ______ to travel in summer by train for it is very crowded and withoutair-conditioning.50. (able) Recent innovations with computer aided design ______ us to produce magazines which aremore creative, efficient and cost-effective.V. GAP FILLINGThe following is taken from the textbook. Fill in the numbered gaps with the correct form of the words or phrases in the box (there are more words than necessary). Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. (10 points, 1 point each)She was one of those pretty and charming girls who are sometimes, as if by a (51) ______ of destiny, born into a family of clerks. She had no dowry, no expectations, no means of being known, understood, loved, or (52) ______ by any rich and distinguished man; and she let herself be married to a little clerk at the Ministry of Public Instruction.She dressed plainly because she could not dress well, but her unhappiness seemed to be (53) ______ than one might expect. She seemed to feel that she had fallen from her proper station in life as a woman of wealth, beauty, grace, and charm. She valued these (54) ______ in life, yet she could not attain them. She cared nothing for caste or rank but only for a natural fineness, an instinct (55) ______ what is elegant, and a suppleness of wit. These would have made her the equal of the greatest ladies of the land. If only she could attain them…She suffered, feeling born for all the delicacies and all the luxuries. She (56) ______ the poverty of her dwelling, from the wretched look of the walls, from the worn-out chairs, from the ugliness of the curtains. All those things, of which another woman of her rank would never even have been conscious, tortured her and made her angry. The sight of the little Breton peasant who did her humble housework aroused in her despairing regrets and distracted dreams. She thought of silent antechambers hung with Oriental tapestry, lit by tall bronze candelabra, and of two great footmen in knee breaches sleeping in big armchairs, made (57) ______ by the heavy warmth of the hot-air stove. She thought of long salons fitted up with ancient silk, of delicate furniture carrying priceless curiosities, and of coquettish perfumed boudoirs made for talks at five o’clock with intimate friends, with men famous and sought after, whom all women envy and whose attention they all desire.When she (58) ______ to dinner before the round table covered with a tablecloth three days old, opposite her husband, who declared with an enchanted air,“Ah, the good pot-au-feu! I don’t know anything better than that,”she (59) ______ best dinners, of shining silverware, of tapestry which peopled the walls with ancient personages with strange birds flying in the midst of a fairy forest; and she thought of delicious dishes served on marvelous plates, and of the whispered gallantries which you listened to with a sphinx-like smile (60) ______ you were eating the pink flesh of a trout or the wings of a quail.(From The Necklace)VI. SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONSThe following questions are based on Passage Four in this test paper. Read the passage carefully again and answer the questions briefly by referring back to Passage Four. Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. (10 points, 5 points each)61. According to the author, why is it that getting tough with criminals cannot reduce crime rates?62. What reasons does the writer give to support his argument against keeping criminals longer in prison?VII. TRANSLATIONThe following excerpt is taken from the textbook. Read the paragraph carefully and translate into Chinese each of the numbered and underlined parts. Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. (10 points, 2 points each)(63) Enthusiasm about a job or project usually translates into positive energy. That is, if you are excited about a project, you will be anxious to get started and get results. (64) The mere fact of looking forward to your work will help make you more productive and effective. (65) You will plan more effectively and pay careful attention to detail. You will carry out your plan more carefully and aim for the best results possible. Another important point is that passionate people are usually those that are thrust into positions of leadership. A leader must inspire his troops. To inspire them, he needs to be enthusiastic. In leaders, this translates into charisma (个人魅力). (66) Being passionate about your work shows a willingness to do more and learn more. (67) This will definitely help you stand out from the crowd and get top management’s attention.(From Enthusiasm Leads to Success)。
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PART ONE (共50 分)I. Multiple Choice (50 points in all, 1 for each)Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Mark your choice by blackening the corresponding letter [A], [B], [C]or[D]on the ANSWER SHEET.1. Beowulf, a typical example of Old English poetry that evokes the Anglo-Saxon sense of the harshness of circumstance and the sadness of the human lot, is regarded today as __ ofthe Anglo-Saxons.A. a romanceB. the national epicC. a religious poemD. the first blank verse2. The early period of the English Renaissance was one of imitation and assimilation. Wyatt introduced __ into England.A. blank verseB. terza rimaC. the Petrarchan sonnetD. sestina3. The Renaissance marks a transition from the medieval to the modem world. The essence of Renaissance is .A. religious reformationB. humanismC. economic expansionD. geographic discoveries4. Which of the following plays is NOT one of William Shakespeare's great tragedies?A. King LearB. Henry IVC. OthelloD. Macbeth5. In Paradise Lost, Adam's disobedience to God reflects the keystone of John Milton's creed, that is, __A. the freedom of the willB. the importance of loveC. evil is at the core of human natureD. human life is full of temptations6. The 18th century England is known as the Age of Enlightenment. The enlighteners held that __ should be the only, the final cause of any human thought and activities.A. rationalityB. equalityC. scienceD. knowledge7. In field of literature, the Enlightenment Movement brought about a(n)_ the old classical works. This tendency is known as neoclassicism.A. revived interest inB. antagonism againstC. rebellion againstD. irrational imitation of8. In the neoclassical period of British literature, __ is the leading figure in the theatrical world.A. William CollinsB. Richard Brinsley SheridanC. Mrs. Ann RadcliffeD.M.G. Lewis9. Henry Fielding's first novel Joseph Andrews is intended as a burlesque of the dubious morality and sentimentality in__A. PamelaB. RoxanaC. Gulliver's TraveLsD. The Faerie Queene10. As one of the greatest masters of English prose,__ defined a good style as "proper words in proper places. "A. Alexander PopeB. Daniel DefoeC. Samuel JohnsonD. Jonathan Swift11. In the lines "This City now doth, like a garment, wear / The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, / Ships, towers,domes, theatres, and temples lie / Open unto the fields, and to the sky," there is obviously a peculiar use of abundant commas. This works to create a special effect: __A. to strengthen the effect of chaos through fragmentary listingB. to show merely the beauty of London's morning landscapeC. to imitate the movement ot" the speaker's eyes which go on tiptoe over the scene when exposed to the beauty andthe quietness of the morningD. to show the sense of isolation12. In "Ode to the West Wind," Percy Bysshe Shelly intends to present the wind as a central around whichthe poem weaves various cycles of death and rebirth.A. symbolB. metaphorC. hyperboleD. synecdoche13. __ is central to William Blake's concern in his Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, and this concern givesthe two books a strong social and historical reference.A. PoliticsB. ReligionC. ChildhoodD. Manhood14. William Wordsworth, on poetry writing, advocates all the following EXCEPT__A. usage of ordinary speech in poetryB. direct experience of senses as the source of poetryC. emphasis on refined form and elegant wordingsD. adoption of humble and rustic life as subject matter15. Which of the following does NOT belong to "Lake Poets"?A. Robert SoutheyB. William WordsworthC. John KeatsD. Samuel Taylor Coleridge16. Which of the following is NOT true about William Blake's Marriage of Heaven and Hell?A. This poem marks Blake's entry into maturity.B. In this poem, Blake explores the relationship of the contraries like good and evil, innocence and experience,body and soul.C. The "marriage" to Blake means the subordination of one of the contraries to the other.D. The poem was composed during the climax of the French Revolution and it plays the double role both as a satireand a revolutionary prophecy.17. "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. "This quotation is from __A. Pride and PrejudiceB. WaverleyC. Wuthering HeightsD. Jane Eyre18. All the following prose writers EXCEPT __ were of the Victorian Age.A. Charles LambB. Thomas CarlyleC. John RuskinD. Matthew Arnold19. Charlotte Br6nte's works are famous for the depiction of __A. virtuous, helpless child charactersB. horrible and grotesque charactersC. middle-class working womenD. beautiful and innocent rural women20. In Bleak House, Charles Dickens mainly attacks__A. the Utilitarian principle that rules over the English education system and destroys young hearts and mindsB. the overwhelming social environment which brings moral degeneration and destruction to peopleC. the legal system and practices that aim at devouring every penny of the clientsD. the religious corruption in English churches21. Among the following experimental poets, __ is the one who created verse novel by adopting the novelisticpresentation of characters and brought some psycho-analytical element to the Victorian poetry.A. Alfred TennysonB. Matthew ArnoldC. Dante Gabriel RossettiD. Robert Browning22. Modem English novel is a natural product of the Industrial Revolution and a symbol of the growing importanceof__ .A. the working classB. the middle classC. the English churchD. the aristocratic23. Which of the following statements about "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" is NOT true?A. The poem is intensely romantic with visual images of gritty objects.B. The poem is in the form of dramatic monologue.C. The setting of the poem resembles the "polite society" of Pope's "The Rape of the Lock. "D. It presents the meditation of an aging young man over the business of a proposing marriage.24. Writers like Dorothy Richardson, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf concentrated their efforts on digging into thehuman __A. dignity"B. passionC. moralityD. consciousness25. Leopold Bloom, who becomes the symbol of everyday man in the post-World-War-I Europe, is a character in's novel.A. George EliotB. Charles DickensC. Jane AustenD. James Joyce26. T. S. Eliot's poem, The Waste Land, is mainly concerned with the __ of modern civilization.A. political corruptionB. physical, breakupC. religious corruptionD. spiritual breakup27. In George Bernard Shaw's play, Mrs. Warren's Profession, Mrs. Warren once said: "If there is a thing I hate in awoman, it's want of character." The word "want" here means .A. desireB. lackC. possessionD. need28. Of the following plays by T. S. Eliot, __ is the best in the sense that it contains the best poetry and the most coherentdrama.A. Murder in the CathedralB. The Family ReunionC. The Cocktail PartyD. The Elder Statesman29. Among the following writers, __ is NOT known as one of "the Angry Young Men. "A. Kingsley AmisB. John wainC. John BraineD. John Galsworthy30. In the early 20th century, Irish playwrights like W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, and __ brought about, the Irish NationalTheatre Movement.A. J. M. SyngeB. John OsborneC. E. M. ForsterD. Oscar Wilde31. Which of the following statements about the literary productions of " the American Renaissance" is NOT tree?A. The famous literary figures like Irving and Cooper wrote in neo-classical style of England.B. New emphasis was placed on the imaginative qualities of literature.C. Much attention was given to the free expression of emotions.D. The ordinary men and their existence, instead of generals and great battles, were celebrated in the literaryworks of the time.32. According to __, human beings are basically depraved and corrupted, hence they should obey God to atone for their sins.A. American NaturalismB. CalvinismC. TranscendentalismD. Unitarianism33. According to __, "There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole life; butcircumstances may rouse it to activity. "A. Theodore DreiserB. Mark TwainC. Nathaniel HawthorneD. Herman Melville34. Which of the following statements about Walt Whitman is NOT true?A. Whitman prefers "free verse" and his poems are seldom rhythmical.B. In celebrating the self, Whitman gives emphasis to the physical dimension of the self and openly and joyouslycelebrates sexuality.C. Another characteristic in Whitman's language is his strong tendency to use vernacular.D. In "There Was a Child Went Forth," Whitman's own early experience may well be identified with the childhoodof a young, growing America.35. Which of the following works does NOT show a desire for an escape from society and a return to nature?A. Leather-Stocking TalesB. WaldenC. Adventures of Huckleberry FinnD. Sister Carrie36. "Oh, lonely death on lonely life! Oh, now I feel my topmost greatness lies in my topmost grief. Ho, ho ! From allyour furthest bounds, pour ye now in, ye bold billows of my whole foregone life, and top this one piled comber of my death!" This quotation is taken from .A. "Young Goodman Brown"B. Sister CarrieC. Daisy MillerD. Moby-Dick37. Of the following writers,__ develops the style of colloquialism initiated by Mark Twain.A. William FaulknerB.F. Scott FitzgeraldC. Saul BellowD. Ernest Hemingway38. Which of the following statements about Nathaniel Hawthorne and his works is true?A. Some of his writings are concerned with the moral and psychological consequences of secret guilt that manifestthemselves in human beings.B. The Scarlet Letter is strictly based on the tradition of a curse pronounced on the author's family when hisgreat-grandfather was a judge in the Salem witchcraft trials.C. His The House of the Seven Gables is a novel revealing his own experiences on the Brook Farm.D. Together with Emerson, Thoreau and other transcendentalists, Hawthorne celebrates the infinity of human heart.39. The famous American critic H. L. Mencken referred to as " the true father of our national literature. "A. Washington IrvingB. Ralph Waldo EmersonC. Mark TwainD. Walt Whitman40. Among Henry James's works, __ satirizes the women liberation movement.A. The Portrait of A LadyB. The AmericanC. Daisy MillerD. The Bostonians41. To Walt Whitman, especially in his younger years, the fast growth of industry and wealth in cities means .A. a lively future for a young, growing AmericaB. a moral degeneration of American "Newman"C. a destruction of natural environmentD. a betrayal of Puritan ideals such as frugality and abstinence42. Moby-Dick can be read as an initiation story about __, the outcast, finding himself in a real world of hard work anddanger and an unreal world of speculation and mystery.A. QueequegB. IshmaelC. StubbD. Starbuck43. "Whose woods these are I think I know. / His house is in the village though; / He will not see me stopping here / Towatch his woods fill up with snow. "These lines are written byA. Walt WhitmanB. Robert FrostC. Ezra PoundD. Emily Dickinson44. Among Ernest Hemingway's works, __ is the first book to present a Hemingway hero -- Nick Adams.A. In Our TimeB. The Sun Also RisesC. A Farewell to ArmsD. For Whom the Bell Tolls45. Most of William Faulkner's works are set in __, and he even created an imaginary place, Yoknapatawpha County.A. the American FrontierB. the American SouthC. the American NorthD. New England46. The Grapes of Wrath, as a novel of social protest, is a record of__A. the Great DepressionB. the Beat MovementC. the Jazz AgeD. the Gilded Age47. In "A Rose for Emily," William Faulkner makes the best use of the devices in narration.A. comicB. GothicC. ironicD. poetic48. In which of the following works is the first-person narration employed?A. "Indian Camp"B. Adventures of Huckleberry FinnC. Daisy MillerD. "A Rose for Emily"49. Among the following American writers, __ has won a Nobel Prize for literature.A. Gertrude SteinB. Sherwood AndersonC.F. Scott FitzgeraldD. William Faulkner50. The postwar poets, with __ in the lead, would typically write about an object or a situation which could express or classify- their own feeling, showing a growing sense of resistance to the existing culture and at the same time an assertion of the self. Hence their poems are confessional.A. Allen GinsbergB. Joseph HellerC. Thomas PynchonD. Robert LowellPART TWO ( 共50分)II. Questions and Answers (30 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.51. 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 mightExtort from me. To bow or sue for graceWith suppliant knee, and deify his powerQuestions :A. Identify the poet and the poem.B. What does the "study" mean?C. Who is the speaker in the poem? What idea does he express?52. She lived unknown, and few could knowWhen Lucy ceased to be;But she is in her grave, and, oh,The difference to me!Questions:A. Identify the poet and the poem.B. Explain in your own words the first two lines of the quotation.C. What idea do the lines express?53. Tarry a little; there is something else.This bond doth give thee here no jot of blood:The words expressly are 'a pound of flesh'.Take then thy bond, take thou thy pound of flesh;But, in the cutting it, if thou dost shedOne drop of Christian blood, thy lands and goodsAre, by the laws of Venice, confiscateUnto the state of Venice.Questions :A. Identify the author and the work.B. Who is the speaker?C. How does the speaker outwit the antagonist in the work?54. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel bothAnd be one traveler, long I stoodAnd looked down one as far as I couldTo where it bent in the undergrowth;Then took the other, as just as fair,And having perhaps the better claim,Because it was grassy and wanted wear;Though as for that the passing thereHad worn them really about the sameAnd both that morning equally layIn leaves no step had trodden black.Oh, I kept the first for another day!Yet knowing how way leads on to way,I doubted if I should ever come back.I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference.Questions:A. Identify the author and the poem.B. What does "wanted wear" in the second stanza mean?C. Analyze the theme of the poem.55. "Anyhow, he gives large parties," said Jordan, changing the subject with an urban distaste for the concrete. "And Ilike large parties. They're so intimate. At small parties there isn't any privacy. "Questions :A. Identify the author and the work.B. Whom does "he" refer to? Does Jordan care who he is?C. Under what background does the story take place and what is the spirit of its time?II. Topic Discussion (20 points in all, 10 for each)Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the ANSWER SHEET.56. D.H. Lawrence is one of the greatest 20s'century British novelists. Analyze his attitudes towards mechanicalcivilization and human sexuality and comment on his artistic feature as a realistic writer.57. Although foreign influences are strong, the great works among American Romantic writings are typically American.Discuss those typical American features of American Romanticism.。