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（完整版）《英美文学》练习题库及答案I Of the four alternative answer, choose the one that would best complete the statement:1. Benjamin Franklin was born in the family of a small ___________ .A. LandlordB. merchantC. lawyerD. clergyman2. Ralph Waldo Emerson 'asdilneg reputation began with the publication of ___________ .A. EssaysB. NatureC. OversoulD. Self-Relience3. Ellen Poe was both a poet and a ____________________ .A. dramatistB. essayist C actor D. fiction writer.4. Nathaniel Hawthorne ' s view of man and human history originates in __________________ .A. PuritanismB. SocialismC. TranscendentalismD. naturalism5. Walt Whitman was born and brought up in a family of a _____________ .A. PeasantB. carpenterC. captainD. printer6. Mark Twain ' s first successful literary work is _____________________________ .A. The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras CountyB. Life on the MississippiC. The Adventure of Tom SawyerD. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn7. Closely related to Emily Dickinson ' s religious poetry are her poems concerning ________________A. ChildhoodB.youth and happinessC. lonelinessD. death and immortality8. Among the works of Dreiser, the bet known to the Chinese readers is _______________ .A. An American TragedyB. Sister CarrieC. Th FinancierD. The Titan9. Robert Frost ' s works mainly focus on the landscape and people in ___________________ .A. the WestB. American SouthC. New EnglandD. Mississippi10. Most of the plays Eugene O l w 'roNt e ilare ______________________ .A. comediesB. . romancesC. historical plays D tragedies11. Scott Fitzgerald is often acclaimed literary spokesman of the ____________________ .A. modern timeB. young AmericansC. Jazz AgeD. Guilded Age12. ____________________________ is Hemingway ' smasterpiece, which is about the old fishermanSantiago and his losing battle with a giant marlin.A. Farewell to ArmsB. For whom the Bell TollsC. The Sun Also RisesD. The Old Man and The Sea13. As a great fiction writer, William Faulker devotes most of his works to the description of the life and the people in the _______________________________ .A. American WestB. New England in AmericaC. American SouthD. American North14. When he was young, Benjamin Franklin became an apprentice in a ________________ .A. printing houseB. storeC. Tailor ' s shopD. factory15. Ralph Emerson was born in a family of a ___________________ .A. merchantB. businessmanC. clergymanD. writer16. Ellen Poe began his literary career by writing _________________ ;A. short storiesB. playsC. essaysD. poems17. According to Nathaniel Hawthorne, there is ________ in every hearer, which may remain latent, perhaps,英美文学》练习测试题库及答案本科through the whole life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.A. evilB. virtueC. kindn essD. tragedy18. Whitman is radically innovative in term of form of his poetry. What he prefers for his new subjects and new feeli ngs is ____________ .A. bla nk verseB. free verseC. heroic coupletD. sonnet19. Mark Twain shaped the world ' s view of America and made a comb in ati on of serious literature and _______A. America n folk humorB. En glish folkloreC. America n traditi onal valuesD. funny jokes20. Altogether, Emily Dick inson wrote ____ poems, of which only sever n had appeared duri ng her lifetime.A. 1145B. 1775C. 897D. 78521. Theodore Dreiser is gen erally ack no wledged as one of America' s literaryA. realistsB. n aturalistsC. roma ntistsD. modernists 22. In Frost ' s poems, images and metaphors in his poems are drawn from ___________________A. the simple country lifeB. the urba n lifeC. the life on the seaD. the adve ntures and trips23. Scott Fitzgerald never spared an intimate touch in his fiction to deal with the bankruptcy of the24. Eugene O ' Neill is regarded as the founder of American _____________________ .A. poetryB. dramaC. ficti onD. literature25. _________________ is Hemingway ' s masterpiece, which tellsa story about the tragic love of a woundecAmerican soldier with a British nurse.C. For Whom the Bell Tolls 26. William Faulk ner was born ina family of a ______________________ .A. mercha ntB. colonelC. man agerD. doctor27. In his essays, ______ p ut forward his philosophy of the over soul, the importa nt of the In dividual and Nature.A. Natha niel HawthorneB. Washi ngton IrvingC. Mark Twai nD. Ralph Waldo Emers on28. The chief spokesma n of New En gla nd Transcenden talism is _______A. Natha niel HawthorneB. Ralph Waldo Emers onC. Henry David ThoreauD. Wash ington Irvi ng29. _____ l iterary world turns out to be a most disturbed, tormented and problematical one, which has much to do with his black” vision of life and human beings.A. Herma n Melville'sB. Washi ngton Irvi ng'sC. Nathaniel Hawthorne'sD. Walt Whitman s30. Most of the poems in ____ sing of the en-masse and the self as well.A. Leaves of GrassB. Drum TapsC. North of Bost onD. The Can tos31. In ____ , Whitma n airs his sorrow at Preside nt Lin colnsdeath.A. Cavalry Crossing a FordB. A Pact ”C. When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom 'dD. There was a Child Went Forth ”A. America n DreamB. ruli ng classes B. America n Capitalists D.America n bourgeoisieA. A Farewell to ArmsB. The Sun Also RisesD. In Our Time32.In ___ , Whitman's own early experience may well be identified with the childhood of a young growingAmerica.A. “A Pact”B. “Song of Myself ”C. “There was a Child Went Forth”D. “Cavalry Crossing a Ford”33.In _____ , Hawthorne sets out to prove that everyone possesses some evil secret.A. “The Custom-House”B. “Young Goodman Brown”C. “Rappaccini's Daughter”D. “The Birthmark"34. _____ is called by Hemingway the one from which“all modern American literature c omes”.A. The adventures of Huckleberry FinnB. The Adventures of Tom aSwyerC. The Gilded AgeD. Life on the Mississippi35. Theodore Dreiser's forgiving treatment of the career of his heroine in ____ also draws heavily upon thenaturalistic understanding of sexuality.A McTeague B. An American Tragedy C. Sister Carri e D. The Genius36. _____ is a great giant of American, whom H.L.Mencken considers “the true father of our nationalliterature.”A. Henry JamesB. Washington IrvingC. Mark TwainD. Theodore Dreiser37. _____ is usually regarded as a classic book written for boys about their particular horrors and joys.A. The Adventures of Tom SawyerB. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnC. Innocents AbroadD. Life on the Mississippi38. _____ is described by Mark Twain as a boy with“a sound heart and a deformed conscienc”e.A. Tom SawyerB. Huckleberry FinnC. JimD.Tony39. _______ is considered to be Theodore Dreise'sr greatest work.A. An American TragedyB. Sister CarrieC. The FinancierD. The Titan40. The leading playwright of the modern period in American literature, if not the most successful in all hisexperiments, is ______A. Arthur MillerB. Tennessee WilliamC. George Bernard ShawD. Eugene O'Neil41. The well- known soliloquy by Hamlet “ T o be , or not to be ' shows hisA. hatred for his uncleB. love for lifeC. resolution of revengeD. inner- strife42. _______ is a play that concerns the problem of modern ma'sn identity.A. The Hairy ApeB. Long Day's Journey Into NightC. The Iceman ComethD. The Emperor Jones43.In a tragic sense, ______ is a representation of life as a struggle against unconquerable forces in whichonly a partial victory is possible.A. For Whom the Bell TollsB. In Our TimeC. The Old Man and the SeaD. A Farewell to Arms44. Faulkner once said that _________ is a story of “ lost innocence,'which proves itself to be andintensification of the theme of imprisonment in the past.A. The Sound and the FuryB. Light in AugustC. Go Down, MosesD. Absalom, Absalom! 45.In A Rose for Emily, Faulkner makes best use of the __________________________ devices in narration.A. RomanticB. RealisticC. GothicD. Modernist46. _____ is Hemingway's first true novel in which he depictsa vivid portrait of “The lost Generation.”A. The Sun Also RisesB. A Farewell to ArmsC. In Our TimeD. For Whom the Bell Tolls47. The only dramatist ever to win a Nobel Prize was _________ .A. Bernard ShawB. Eugene O'NeilC. Richard Brinsley SheridanD. William Shakespeare48. __________________________ By means of “free verse,” believes that he has turned the poem into anopen field, an area of vitalpossibility where the reader can allow his own imagination to play.A. Emily DickinsonB. Walt WhitmanC. Robert FrostD. Ezra Pound49. An eccentric woman who refuses to accept the passageoftime, or the inevitable change and loss thataccompanies it may probably refer to ______ .A. Irene in The Man of PropertyB. Emily in A Rose for EmilyC. Catherine in Wuthering HeightsD. the widow Douglas in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn50. One source of evil that Nathaniel Hawthorne is concerned most is overreaching intellect. Which of the following stories is one of this kind?A. Rappaccini's DaughterB. Young Goodman BrownC. The Minister's Black VeilD. The Birthmark51. “In your rocking-chair, by your window, shall you dream such happiness as you may never feel. ”This is the last sentence of __________ .A. Sister CarrieB. An American TragedyC. The GeniusD. Jane Eyre 52.In Walt Whitman's “There was a Child Went Forth”, the child refers to _________________________________________ .A. the poet himself as a childB. any American childC. the young AmericaD. one of the poet's neighbor53. The ______ techniques are used in some of Eugene O'Neil 's plays to highlight the theatrical effect of therupture between the two sides of an individual human being, the private and the public.A. naturalisticB. expressionisticC. stream-of-consciousnessD. metaphysical54. Which of the following is true as far as Emily Dickinson 's poetry is concerned? A. She seldom uses dashes.B. All her poems are about death or immorality.C. Her poems are very personal and meditativeD. Her poems usually have well-chosen titles. 55.In his poems, Whitman tends to use ___________________ .A. oral EnglishB. the King 's EnglishC. American EnglishD. old English56. As far as Nathaniel Hawthorne's art is concerned, which of the following statement is true? A. His The Scarlet Letter tells a love story.B. His art is deeply influenced by Puritanism because he was a puritan himself.C. Young Goodman Brownis a story about superstition.D. Ambiguity is one of the salient characteristics of his art.57. “I like to see it lap the Miles—And lick the Valleys up —And stop to feed itself at Tanks—And the n ---- ” (Emily Dick inson, “like to see it lap the Miles—)Here “it” refers to _____ .A. loveB. deathC. a flyD. the train58. Which of the following statements concerning Theodore Dreise'rs style is correct?A. Dreiser'sCowperwood trilogy includes The Financier, The Titan and The GeniusB. His novels have little detail descriptions of characters and events.C. His novels are written in refined language.D. His style is not polished but very serious.59. ____ has long been well known as a poet who can hardly be classified with the old or the new.A. Ezra PoundB. Robert Lee FrostC. T. S. EliotD. Emily Dickinson60. F. Scott Fitzgerald skillfully employs the device of having events observe by ___________ to his greatadvantage.。
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country and destruc on of the English peasantry towards the end of the century. Tess is actually a vic m of her society. Hardy created the heroine Tess in Tess of the D’ Urbervilles just to cri cize the society in his me. Hardy’s works are known as “novels of the character and environment.” Tess is a tragic person simply because she is not accepted by the society in which agriculture is menaced by the forces of invading capitalism. So in a way, we say, Tess’ fate is decided by her society.
1. What is the function of the opening sentenc e of “Pride and Prejudice”?“It is truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.”
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《英美文学》期末考试试卷附答案B卷一、单项选择题(70 points in all,2 for each)1. Shakespeare has established his giant position in world literature with his ______ plays, 154 sonnets and 2 long poems.A. 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 ______.A. romancesB. dramasC. great poemsD. ballads3. The novels of ______ are the first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower —class people.A. John MiltonB. Daniel DefoeC. Henry FieldingD. Jonathan Swift4. The work ranked by many critics as William Wordswoth’s greatest work was ______.A. Lyrical BalladsB. The PreludeC. Poems in Two VolumesD. The Excursion5. The author of The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling is ______.A. 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.*A. Charlotte BronteB. D.H. LawrenceC. Thomas HardyD. Jane Austen7. All of the following writings are created by William Wordsworth EXCEPT ______.A. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud. ”B. “Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Septemer 3, 1802. ”C. “The Solitary Reaper. ”D. “The Chimney Sweeper. ”8. The most important representative work by Jonathan Swift is ______.A. 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 ______.A. “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.A. Pride and PrejudiceB. Sense and SensibilityC. EmmaD. Persuasion11. Charles Dickens is one of the greatest ______ writers of the Victorian Age.A. romanticB. modernistC. socialistD. critical realist12. Charlotte Bronte' s most autobiographical work, ______ is largely based on her experience in Brussels.A. 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.A. 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.*A. 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 the 20th-century English poetry.A. The Hollow MenB. The Waste LandC. Prurrock and Other ObservationsD. Poems 1909-2516. D. wrence’s autobiographical novel, ______ shows the conflict between the earthy, coarse, energetic but often drunken father and the refined, strong —willed and up —climbing mother.A. 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 ______.A. King LearB. RomeoC. AntonioD. Hamlet18. John Milton’s last important work, ______ is the most powerful dramatic poem on the Greek model.A. Paradise LostB. Paradise RegainedC. Samson AgonistesD. Lydidas19. The author of Moll Flanders and Captain Singleton is ______.A. John MiltonB. Daniel DefoeC. Henry FieldingD. Jonathan Swift20. Drapier is the pseudonym of ______.A. 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 of affairs and keep the innocent in prison for life.A. Bleak HouseB. Little DorritC. Hard TimesD. A Tale of Two Cities22. In the second part of Gulliver's Travels, Gulliver told his experience in ______.A. BrobdingnagB. LilliputC. Flying IslandD. Houyhnhnm23. Faulkner used the narrative techniques to construct his stories, which include ______ and mythological and biblical allusions.A. 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.A. 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.A. 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 American financial tycoons in the late 19th century in his work ______.A. 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.A. imagesB. metaphorC. symbolsD. personification28. In his later works, Melville becomes more reconciled with the ______, in which he admits, one must live by rules.A. womenB. world of manC. familyD. politicians29. Walt Whitman' s ______ has always been considered a monumental work which commands great attention in America.A. The Pilgrim’s ProgressB. Leaves of GrassC. A Passage to IndiaD. Rip Van Winkle30. Mark Twain’s full literary career began to blossom in 1869 with a travel book ______, an account of American tourists in Europe.A. 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.A. 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.A. ImmortalityB. wealthC. powerD. politics33. In Sister Carrie Theodore Dreiser expressed his ______ pursuit by expounding the purposelessness of life and attacking the conventional moral standards.A. romanticB. realisticC. naturalisticD. modernistic34. Profound ideas in Robert Frost's poems are delivered under the disguise of ______.A. the plain language and the simple formB. the vivid descriptionsC. metaphorsD. the complicated narration35. In ______ Hemingway presents his philosophy about life and death through the depiction of the bullfight as a kind of microcosmic tragedy.A. The Green Hills of AfricaB. Death in the AfternoonC. The Snows of KilimanjaroD. To Have and Have Not二、名词解释（共3小题，每小题10分，共30分）1.迷茫的一代（Lost Generation）2. 启蒙运动（Enlightenment Movement）3. 英国浪漫主义（England Romanticism）英美文学参考答案：1-5. BCCBC 6-10. BDDDB 11-15. DAACB 16-20. ADABA21-25. BAABC 26-30. DDBBA 31-35. AABAB二、名词解释2.迷茫的一代（Lost Generation）The Lost Generation refers to the disillusioned intellectuals and artists of the years following the First World War, who rebelled against former ideals and values but could replace them only by despair or cynical hedonism.2. 启蒙运动（Enlightenment Movement）The Enlightenment Movement was a progressive movement, which flourished in France and swept the whole Western Europe at the time. It was a furtherance of the Renaissance from the 14th to the 17th century. Its purpose was to enlighten the whole world with the light of modern philosophical and artistic ideas. The eighteenth century marked the beginning of an intellectual movement in Europe known as the Enlightenment Movement.3. 英国浪漫主义（England Romanticism）A movement that flourished in literature,philosophy,music,and art in western culture during most of the19th century,beginning as revolt against classicism.Romanticism gave primary concern to passion emotion,and natural beauty.The English Romantic Period is an age of poetry.。
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《美国文学》期末考试试卷（B卷）1.Poor Richard’s Almanac ( )2.The House of the Seven Gables ( )3.“Raven”( )4.My Antonia ( )5.Babbitt ( )6.A Streetcar Named Desire ( )7.Maggie: A Girl of the Streets ( )8.A Farewell to Arms ( )9.The Call of the Wild ( )10.Long Day's Journey into Night ( )mon Sense ( )12. “Rip Van Winkle”( )13. Walden( )14. The Song of Hiawatha( )15. Uncle Tom’s Cabin( )16.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn( )17.Sister Carrie( )18.The Waste Land( )19. A Farewell to Arms( )20.The Great Gatsby( )1.defined poetry as the rhythmical creation of beauty.2.While working for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, Samuel LanghorneClemens adopted the pseudonym , the way of a boatman taking soundings, and meaning two fathoms.3.Ezra Pound initiated a campaign for , which emphasized the directtreatment of an object or situation. He also advocated the language of common speech, but always the exact word.4.Fitzgerald summarized the experiences and attitudes of the 1920s decade in hismasterpiece novel _________.5.is the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature for hisvigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters.6.The first of American literature was not written by an American, but by___________________, a British captain, who thus became the first American writer.7._________________ has been considered the “Father of modern American Poetry.\8._______________________was a great democratic poet. He is also the great poet touse the form of free verse.9._____________________is the first American lyric poet.10._______________________is also called novel of the road, it strings the incidentson the line of the hero’s travel.Ⅲ. Choose only one answer form the four choices as the most appropriate answer. (30%)1. In American literature, the eighteenth century was the age of the Enlightenment, _______________ was the dominant spirit.A. HumanismB. RationalismC. RevolutionD. Evolution2. Who was considered as the “Poet of American Revolution”?A. Michael WigglesworthB. Edward TaylorC. Anne BradstreetD. Philip Freneau3. The finest example of Hawthorne’s symbolism is the recreation of Puritan Boston in_______.A. The Scarlet LetterB. Young Goodman BrownC. The Marble FaunD. The Ambitious Guest4. ____________ was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club.A. ThoreauB. EmersonC. HawthorneD. Whitman5. Choose the work NOT written by Mark Twain.A. The Adventures of Tom SawyerB. Innocents AbroadC. Life on the MississippiD. The Rise of Silas Lapham6. Which is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”?A. The American ScholarB. English TraitsC. The Conduct of LifeD. Representative Men7. Melville’s ____________________ is an encyclopedia of everything, history,philosophy, religion, etc, in addition to a detailed account of the operations of the whaling industry.A. The Old Man and the SeaB. Moby DickC. White JacketD. Billy Budd8. American literature produced only one female poet during the nineteenth century. Thiswas ___________.A. Anne BradstreetB. Jane AustenC. Emily DickinsonD. Harriet Beecher9. The main theme of _______________ The Art of Fiction reveals his literary credo thatrepresentation of life should be the main object of the novel.A. Henry James’B. William Dean Howells’C. Mark Twain’sD. O. Henry’s10. ___________ showed great interest in Chinese literature and translated the poetry of Li Po into English, and was influenced by Confucian ideas.A. Ezra PoundB. Robert FrostC. T. S. EliotD. E. E. Cummings11. With William Dean Howells, Henry James, and Mark Twain active on the scene,_______ became the major trend in the seventies and eighties of the nineteenth century.A. sentimentalismB. romanticismC. realismD. naturalism12. Ezra Pound's long poem____________ contained more than one hundred poemsloosely connected.A. The Waste LandB. The CantosC. Don JuanD. Queen Mab13. In Paris, Ernest Hemingway, along with _____________, accomplished a revolutionin literary style and language.A. Gertrude SteinB. Ezra PoundC. James JoyceD. all of the above14. __________ tells the Joad family' s life from the time they were evicted from theirfarm in Oklahoma until their first winter in California.A. Of Mice and MenB. The Grapes of WrathC. The Great GatsbyD. For Whom the Bell Tolls15. The two areas on which the modem American writers concentrated their criticismwere the failures of American society and ___________ .A. the failure of communication among AmericansB. the economic depressionC. the extreme prosperity of AmericaD. the paradise of New LandIV. Choose TEN of the following and decide whether the statements are true or false. (10%)1. All his literary life, Hawthorne seemed to be haunted by his sense of sin and evil in life.2. Most of the poems in Leaves of Grass are about love and religion.3.The First World War led the American intellectuals to a bitter disillusionment.4. Hemingway’s works have sometimes been read as an essentially negative commentary on a modern world filled with sterility, failure, and death.5.Mark Twain’s region was the Deep South, with its bitter history of slavery, civil war and destruction.6. Ernest Hemingway developed a spare, tight, reportorial prose based on simple sentence structure and using a restricted vocabulary, precise imagery, and an impersonal, dramatic tone.7.John Steinbeck' s theme was usually that simple human virtues such as kindness and fair treatment were far superior to official hard-heartedness, or the dehumanizing cruelty of exploiters for their own commercial advantage.8. Short-lived, the Imagist movement failed to exert a tremendous influence on modern poetry.9. Robert Frost won four Nobel Prizes in his life.10.In his novels, F. Scott Fitzgerald had revealed the stridency of an age of glittering innocence, he had portrayed the hollowness of the American worship of riches and the unending American dream of love, splendor and fulfilled desires.11.Of Plymouth Plantation was written by William Bradford.12.Realists thought highly of individual status and role in the world. The romanticists preferred the innate or intuitive perception by the heart of man. They thought that man was essentially of goodwill, only the civilized society made him degenerate. They pointed out, the means to uproot evils and to save mankind was habits, and to return to “natural primitive state”.13.Deists believed in a Creator God, but rejected providence(Godly direction) and revelation (divine will or Godly "truth")in favor of reason.14..President Lincoln praised Anne Bradstreet as “the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war.”15.Edgar Allan Poe wrote two poems both entitled “ To Helen”.16.The thinking of Locke, Hobbes, and Rousseau also greatly influenced the activethinking of Americans who became increasingly concerned with the possibility of building a government. Locke and Rousseau represented the impulse for a Jeffersonian democracy, and Hobbes represented the point of view, often expressed by Hamilton, of a strong central government.17.Hemingway, Pound, Cummings, Dos Passos, and Fitzgerald, belong to the school of “Beat Generation”.18.F. Scott Fitzgerald is called the leader and poet laureate of the Jazz Age who wrote the novels of the Jazz Age.19.Yoknapatawpha saga is a name for John Steinbeck’s novels.20.“Thanatopsis” is a word Bryant borrowed from Greek meaning “meditation on death”. V. Choose THREE of the following fragments and answer the questions. (20%)Passage OneLo! in you brilliant window-nicheHow statue-like I see thee stand,The agate lamp within thy hand!Ah, Psyche, from the regions whichAre Holy-Land!Questions:1.This is the last stanza of a poem “To Helen”. Its writer is _________.(1%)2. With whom is Helen associated in this stanza? (1%)3. How to appreciate the beauty of this poem? (3%)Passage 2I 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 differenceQuestions:1. Who is the writer of this poem? (1%)2. What is the title of this poem? (1%)3. What kind of feeling does this stanza show? (3%)4. How do you appreciate this poem? (3%)Passage 3I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it byexperience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion. For most men, it appears to me, are in a strange uncertainty about it, whether it is of the devil or of God. Questions:1. This passage is taken from a famous work entitled _________ . (1%)2. The author of the work is____________ . (1%)3.List by yourself at least five reasons that the author gives for going to live in thewoods. (5%)Passage 4But, on one side of the portal（入口），and rooted almost at the threshold, was a wild rose-bush, covered, in this month of June, with its delicate gems, which might be imagined to offer their fragrance and fragile beauty to the prisoner as he went in, and to the condemned criminal as he came forth to his doom, in token that the deep heart of Nature could pity and be kind to him.Questions:1.This part is from the novel , written by . (2%)2.What does “the wild rose bush” symbolize according to your opinion? (5%)Passage 5Often I think of the beautiful townThat is seated by the sea;Often in thought go up and downThe pleasant streets of that dear old town,And my youth comes back to me.And a verse of a Lapland songIs haunting my memory still:"A boy's will is the wind's will,And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts." Questions:1.The stanza is taken from the poem______?(1%)2.The author of the poem is_____ . (1%)3.The seventh line in each Stanza of this poem contains a key word, usually averb, which sums up the feeling established in the stanza. What is the verb andwhat kind feeling that it conveys?(4%)Passage 6Thou hast an house on high erect,Framed by that mighty Architect,With glory richly furnished,Stands permanent though this be fled.It’s purchased and paid for tooBy Him who hath enough to do.Questions:1.This stanza is taken from the poem _______by_______.(2%)2.What is one’s real house according to the poet? (5%)VI. Choose TWO of the following and Comment on them. (20%)1.Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. （10%）2.Emily Dickinson's “Because I Could not stop for Death”.（10%）3.Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Self-Reliance.（10%）《美国文学》期末考试试卷B卷答案暨评分标准Ⅰ. Choose TEN of the following works and write the names of the authors. (1*10=10%)1.Benjamin Franklin2.Nathaniel Hawthorne3.Edgar Allan Poe4.Willa Cather5.Sinclair Lewis6.Tennessee Williams7.Stephen Crane8.Ernest Hemingway9.Jack London10.Eugene O’Neill11.Thomas Paine12.Washington Irving13.Henry David Thoreau14.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow15.Harriet Beecher Stowe16.Mark Twin17.Theodore Dreiser18.T.S. Eliot19.Ernest Hemingway20.F. Scott FitzgeraldⅡ. Choose FIVE of the following and fill in the blanks. (2*5=10%)1.Edgar Allan Poe2.Mark Twain3.Imagism4.The Great Gatsby5.Sinclair Lewis6.John Smith7.Ezra Pound8.Walt Whitman9.William Cullen Bryant10.Picaresque novelⅢ. Choose only one answer form the four choices as the most appropriate answer. (2*15=30%)IV. Choose TEN of the following and decide whether the statements are true or false. (1*10=10%)V. Choose THREE of the following fragments and answer the questions. (20%)Passage 11.Edgar Allan Poe (1)2.Psyche (1)3.The beauty of form. （diction，rhyme and rhythm，rhetorical devices.）The beauty of content. (3)Passage 21.Robert Frost(1)2."Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"(1)3.This poem is written in classic five-line stanzas, with the rhyme scheme a-b-a-a-b and conversational rhythm. The poem seems to be about the poet, walking in the woods in autumn, choosing which road he should follow on his walk. In reality, it concerns the important decisions which one must make in life, when one must give up one desirable thing in order to possess another. Then, whatever the outcome, one must accept the consequences of one' s choice for it is not possible to go back and have another chance to choose differently.4.In the poem, the poet hesitates for a long time, wondering which road to take, because they are both pretty. In the end, he follows the one which seems to have fewer travelers on it. Symbolically, he chose to follow an unusual, solitary life; perhaps he was speaking of his choice to become a poet rather than some commoner profession. But he always remembers the road which he might have taken, and which would have given him a different kind of life.Passage 3Walden (1)Henry David Thoreau (1)Find the answer from the passage. (5)Passage 41.The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne.(2)2.life and liberty.(2)Passage 51.My Lost Youth.(1)2.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1)3.“haunting" sums up the feeling that was begun earlier with "Often in thought "and "comes back to me" .(3)Passage 61.Upon the Burning of Our House, Anne Bradstreet.(2)2.One's real house is in heaven, built by the great architect, God. (2)VI. Choose TWO of the three passages and comment on them. (20%)1. Analyze Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. （10%）2. Analyze Emily Dickinson's “Because I Could not stop for Death”.（10%）3. Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Self-Reliance.（10%）The score is given to the theme, (7) content (6) and writing style(7) of the work chosen.。
英美文学史试题
台州学院外国语学院学年第学期级英语本科专业《英国文学史及选读II》期末试卷（12）(闭卷) 姓名班级学号考试时间:120 分钟题号I II III IV V VI VII 总分分值10 10 10 15 20 10 25 100得分I. Multiple choice. Choose the best out of the four. (10%=1*10)1. The subject matters of Romanticism include the following But ____.A. orderB. mysticismC. exotic picturesD. interest in the past2. ____is one of the “Lakers”, or Lake school poets.A. John KeatsB. Percy Bysshe ShelleyC. Leigh HuntD. William Wordsworthautobiographical novel is ____.3. Dickens’ A. Hard TimesB. Bleak HouseC. Oliver TwistD. David CopperfieldThe Scian and the Teian muse ”are recalled in____.4. “A. My Last DuchessB. OzymandiasC. The Isles of GreeceD. She Walks in Beauty5. The followig novels are all written by Thomas Hardy except .A. The Forsyte SagaB. Jude the ObscureC. The Return of the NativeD. Far from the Madding Crowd6. Lawrence revealed Oedipus complex in his novel __________.A. Sons and LoversB. For Whom the Bell TollsC. The Sun Also RisesD. The Old Man and the Sea7. ____historical novel paved the path for the development of the realistic novel of the 19thcentury.A. Jane Austen’sB. Walter Scott’sC. Henry Fielding’sD. Charles Lamb’sVanity Fair was borrowed from ____ by John Bunyan .8. The title of Thackeray’s novelA. The Roundabout PaperB. The Newcomerss Progress D. The Four GeorgesC. The Pilgrim’9. Anne , the youngest of the Brontes , was the writer of ____.A. Wuthering HeightsB. Jane EyreC. The ProfessorD. Agnes Grey10. In the Idylls of the King, ____ painted the character of the first English national hero, King Arthur, and gave a new meaning to the legends.A. Robert BrowningB. Thomas HardyC. Charles DickensD. Alfred TennysonII. True or False? Put a T before the statement if you think it is true and put an F if you think it is false.(10%=1*10)____1. Jane Austen is one of the naturalist novelists . She drew vivid and realistic pictures of everyday life of the country society in her novels .____2.The Satanic school is composed of Byron , Shelley and Keats .____3.Childe Harold Pilgrimage made Byron famous overnight .___4. In Tennyson’s Ulysses, Ulysses is the Greek name for the Roman hero Odysseus inHomer’s Odyssey.____ 5. The Romantic Age is emphatically an age of novel .____ 6. In his poems Byron aimed at simplicity and purity of the language, fighting against the conventional forms of the 18th century poetry.treacherous and unfaithful.____ 7. Tess’s character can be described as____ 8.Charles Lamb is remembered by the later generations as a great poet.____ 9. Jane Austen is chronologically a contemporary of Wordsworth and Coleridge.____10.Ozymandias is Shelley’s sonnet on the transient nature of man and the futility of the dream of immortality.III. Blank Filling. (10%=1*10)1. Romanticism in England began in 1798, with the publication of ____.2. Don Juan, the greatest work by , was written in the prime of his creative power, in the year of 1818-1823.3. Ode to a Nightingale was written by _______.4. Ivanhoe is the masterpiece of the historical novelist_______.5. The greatest English realist of the Victorian Age was ____.6. The second half of the 19th century in England produced a number of outstanding poets suchas____ , Robert Browning, Charles Algernon Swinburne and so on.7. ____ is the last and one of the greatest of Victorian novelists .____is often taken to be largely biographical .8. D.H. Lawrence’s novel9. Thomas Hardy is a representative of the English , an extreme form of realism.10.was written by Alfred Tennyson on the question of the immortality of the soul, in memory of Arthur Hallam, the poet’s beloved friend.IV. Define or explain the following .(15%=5*3)1. Onomatopoeia2. Symbol3. Stream of consciousnessV. Identify (20%=10*2)Passage IIt is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.Questions1.Who is the author of the selection?2.Which novel is this passage taken from?3.List the other five novels written by the author.4.Translate the passage into Chinese.Passage IIThat’s my last Duchess painted on the wall,Looking as if she were alive. I callThat piece a wonder, now: Fra Pandolf’s handsWorked busily a day, and there she stands.Will’t please you sit and look at her? I said“Fra Pandolf” by design, for never readStrangers like you that pictured countenance,The depth and passion of its earnest glance,……Questions:1.The passage is taken from____.2.The poet is____ .3.This poem is regular in form . The poetic form used is called____.A. Blank VerseB. Free VerseC. Heroic CoupletD. Quatrain4.The poem is a dramatic monologue , who is the speaker in it ? Can you describe hispersonality?VI. Match the characters, works, writers in Boxes A , B and C respectively. Mark theletters in Box B and the numbers in Box C in front of the characters in Box A.The example is given. (10%=1*10)Box AH , 9 C1. Alec , C2. Mrs. Morel , C3. Rowena, C4. Basil Hallward , C5. Hetty Sorrel , C6. Blanche Ingram , C7. Don Juan l , C8.Amelia Sedley , C9. Fagin, C10. Darcy , C11. NellyBox BA. V anity FairB. Jane EyreC. Pride and PrejudiceD. Wuthering HeightsE. Sons and LoversF. Oliver TwistG. Adam Bede H. Tess of the D’Urbervilles I. The Picture of Dorian GrayJ . Ivanhoe K. Don JuanBox C1. George Eliot2. W. M. Thackeray3. Walter Scott4. Charles Dickens5. D. H. Laurence6. Jane Austen7. Charlotte Bronte 8. Emily Bronte 9. Thomas Hardy10. Oscar Wilde 11. George Gordon, Lord ByronVII. Answer the following questions(25%=10+15)1. What is “the Wessex Novels”? Refer to one of the Wessex Novels in explaining naturalism.2. What do you know about the English Romanticism? Comment on the literary current with the following poem.She Dwelt among the Untrodden WaysShe Dwelt among the Untrodden WaysBeside the spring of Dove.A Maid whom there were none to praiseAnd very few to love;A violet by a mossy stoneHalf hidden from the eye!Fair as a star, when only oneIs shining in the sky.She lived unknown, and few could knowWhen Lucy ceased to be;But she is in her grave, and, oh,The difference to me!。
英美文学期末复习题
英美文学期末复习题英美文学是开放英语专科的选修课。
新版教学计划中没有此课，目前仍有一部分较早时间入学的学生选修此课。
英美文学课程6学分，分两学期完成，两学期期末分别进行考试。
分别为英美文学（1）、英美文学（2）。
使用教材为外研社出版的《英美文学选读》，辅助参考资料为中华工商联合出版社出版的《英美文学选读自考过关教练》，同学们学习时要注意理清英美文学发展的脉络，把握各时期的总体情况、流派特点、代表性的作家作品等，对重要作品要会进行评析。
06年元月份的期末考试两门课程题型、分值设计等相同，如下表：份的期末考试两门课程题型、分值设计等相同，如下表：题型 题量 分值 I. I. 单项选择单项选择单项选择15 30 II. II. 填空填空填空15 30 III. III. 选段分析选段分析（给出选文，要求指出作者、作品名称，并简要分析。
作者、作品名称，并简要分析。
3 18 IV. IV. 问答问答问答2 22 总计总计 35 100下面的复习题包括英美文学（1）和英美文学（2）两门课的内容。
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I. Choose the one that would best complete the statement below. (30 points, 2 points each) 1. ______ is regarded today as the national epic of the Anglo-Saxons. A. Beowulf B. The Canterbury TalesC. Don JuanD. Paradise Lost 2. John Dryden called ______ the father of English poetry. A. Geoffrey Chaucer B. Edmund Spencer C. John Milton D. John Donne 3. The Merchant of V enice is a ________. A. tragedy B. comedy C. history play D. tragicomedy 4. Hamlet faces the dilemma between ______. A. action and mind B. dream and reality C. money and power D. hate and love 5. John Milton ’s masterpiece is his ______. A. Paradise Lost B. Paradise RegainedC. Samson Agonistes D. Areopagitica 6. Robert Frost is a regional poet in the sense that his poems depict mostly ______. A. the frontier life B. The sea adventures C. the Puritan community D. New England landscape 7. The novel ________ is not written by Henry James. A. The Ambassadors B. The Wings of the DoveC. The Bostonians D. The Mysterious Stranger8. In the 1920s decade, O ’Neill established an international reputation with such plays as ______. A. The Emperor JonesB. Anna ChristieC. The Hairy ApeD. all of the above 9. Fitzgerald ’s fictional world is the best embodiment of the spirit of the Jazz Age, in which he shows a particular interest in ______ society. A. the middle-class B. the upper-class C. the lower-middle-class D. the working-class 10. Apart from the dislocation of time and the modern stream-of-consciousness, the other narrative techniques techniques Faulkner Faulkner Faulkner used used used to to to construct construct construct his his his stories stories stories include include include ______, ______, ______, symbolism symbolism symbolism and and and mythological mythological and biblical allusions. A. impressionism B. expressionism C. multiple points of view D. first person point of view 11. The following are Shakespeare ’s greatest tragedies except __________. A. HamletB. OthelloC. Twelfth NightD. King Lear12. __________ is a novella about a young American girl who gets “killed killed”” by the winter in Rome, and it brought Henry James international fame for the first time. A. The AmericanB. The Europeans C. Daisy Miller D. The Portrait of A lady13. John Donne is the leading figure of ________. A. Lake Poets B. Graveyard School C. Satanic Poets D. Metaphysical School 14. In Jane Austen ’s novels, life and human nature are exposed __________________. A. at moments of crisis B. during the battles C. in the most trivial incidents of everyday D. through the traveling 15. The following writers were awarded Nobel Prize for literature except ________. A. William Faulkner B. F. Scott Fitzgerald C. John Steinbeck D. Ernest Hemingway II. Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase. (30 points, 2 points each)16. Edmund Spenser ’s masterpiece is _________, a great poem of its age. 17. Marlowe ’s greatest achievement lies in that he perfected _________ and made it the principle medium of English drama. 18. As a lexicographer, Samuel Johnson distinguished himself as the author of the first English dictionary by an Englishman: _________, a gigantic task which Johnson undertook single-handedly and finished in over seven years. 19. Pope ’s An Essay on Criticism is a didactic poem written in _________. is a didactic poem written in _________. 20. _________ has been regarded by some as “Father of the English Novel ” for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel. 21. Mark Twain preferred to have his own region and people at the forefront of his stories. This particular concern about the local character of a region came about as _____________, a unique variation of American literary realism. 22. Pound was the leader of a new movement in Poetry which he called “__________________”” movement. 23. Dreiser broke away form the genteel tradition of literature and dramatized the life in a very _________ way 24. One of the most familiar themes in American naturalism is the theme of human _________, especially as an explanation of sexual desire. 25. Two major figures of black fiction in America are ________ and Ralph Ellison. 26. 26. Apart Apart Apart from from from Darwinism, Darwinism, Darwinism, the the the two two two thinkers thinkers thinkers whose whose whose ideas ideas ideas had had had the the the greatest greatest greatest impact impact impact on on on the the Modernism period were the German ________ and the Austrian Sigmund Freud. 27. With the Norman Conquest starts the ________ Period in English Literature. 28. Emily Bronte ’s masterpiece is ___________ 29. Ulysses gives an account of man ’s life during one day in ________30. In the mid-1950s and early 1960s, there appeared a group of young novelists and playwrights with lower-middle-class or working class background, they demonstrated a particular disillusion disillusion over over over the the the depressing depressing depressing situation situation situation in in in Britain Britain Britain and and and launched launched launched a a a bitter bitter bitter protest protest protest against against against the the outmoded social and political values in their society. They were known as “______________________________””. III. For each of the quotations listed below please give the name of the author and the title of the literary work from which it is taken and then briefly interpret it. (18 points, 6 points each)31． “Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow ’st; Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st: So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”32. 32. His His His father father father picked picked picked the the the baby baby baby up up up and and and slapped slapped slapped it it it to to to make make make it it it breathe breathe breathe and and and handed handed handed it it it to to to the the the old old woman. “See, it’s a boy, Nick,” he said. “How do you like being an internee?” Nick said, “All right.” He was looking away so as not to see what his father was doing. 33. “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth;”IV IV. . Give brief answers to the following questions. (22 points, 11 points each)34. Why do we say Hawthorne is a master of symbolism? Give at least two examples of symbols from The Scarlet Letter . . 35. Why is Thomas Hardy often regarded as a transitional writer? 期末复习题答案I ．1 A 2 A 3 B 4 A 5 A 6.D 7.D 8. D 9. B 10. C 11 C 12 C 13 D 14 C 15 C II ．16. The Faerie Queene 17. the blank verse 18. A Dictionary of the English Language 19. 19. heroic heroic heroic couplets couplets 20. 20. Henry Henry Henry Fielding Fielding 21. 21. local local local colorism colorism 22. 22. Imagist Imagist 23. 23. realistic realistic 24. 24. bestiality bestiality 25. 25. Richard Richard Richard Wright Wright 26. 26. Karl Karl Karl Marx Marx 27. 27. Medieval Medieval 28. 28. Wuthering Wuthering Heights 29. Dublin 30. The Angry Young Man III ．31. William Shakespeare: Sonnet 18. A nice summer ’s day is usually transient, but the beauty in poetry can last forever. 32. This is from “Indian Camp,” one of the fourteen short stories collected under the title of InOur Time by Ernest Hemingway. Nick watches his father deliver an Indian woman of a baby by Caesarian section. This incident brings brings the the the boy boy boy into into into contact contact contact with with with something something something that that that is is is perplexing perplexing perplexing and and and unpleasant, unpleasant, unpleasant, and and and is is is actually actually Nick Nick’’s initiation into the pain and violence of birth and death. 33．Robert Lee Frost, “The Road not Taken ”. The speaker tells us how the course of his life was determined when he came upon two roads that diverged in a wood. IV ．34. 34. Hawthorne Hawthorne Hawthorne is is is a a a master master master of of of symbolism, symbolism, symbolism, which which which he he he took took took from from from the the the Puritan Puritan Puritan tradition tradition tradition and and bequeathed to American literature in a revivified form. The symbol can be found everywhere in his writing, and his masterpiece provides the most conclusive proof. By using Pearl as a thematic symbol, Hawthorne emphasizes the consequence the sin of adultery has brought to the community and people living in that community. With the scarlet scarlet Letter Letter Letter A A A as as as the the the biggest biggest biggest symbol symbol symbol of of of all, all, all, Hawthorne Hawthorne Hawthorne proves proves proves himself himself himself to to to be be be one one one of of of the the the best best symbolists. symbolists. As As As a a a key key key to to to the the the whole whole whole novel, novel, novel, the the the letter letter letter A A A takes takes takes on on on different different different layers layers layers of of of symbolic symbolic meanings as the plot develops, but people come up with different interpretations and they do not know which one is definite. The scarlet letter A is ambiguous. And the ambiguity is one of the salient characteristics of Hawthorne ’s art. 35. Hardy is regarded as a transitional writer not only because he lived at the turn of the century, but more importantly because there is the influence on him from both. He accepted the ideas of Darwin, and was influenced by Spencer, both of which were great thinkers of his time. But in his Wessex novels, there is an apparent nostalgic touch of the primitive rural life, which was gradually disappearing as England marched into an industrial country. So, on the one hand, there is bitter criticism of his towards the social reality in the Victorian age, on the other hand, the belief that man ’s fate is predeterminedly tragic colours mysteriously his characters characters who who who are are are always always always impotent impotent impotent before before before the the the half-blind half-blind half-blind and and and supernatural supernatural supernatural force. force. force. The The The conflicts conflicts between old and new, between the rural value and the utilitarian commercialism, between social moral and human passion are prints of longings for some better past while living in modern times. 。
英美文学试题及答案
英美文学试题及答案# 英美文学试题及答案一、选择题（每题2分，共20分）1. 威廉·莎士比亚的《哈姆雷特》中，哈姆雷特的叔叔是谁？A. 克劳狄斯B. 波洛尼乌斯C. 劳提斯D. 格特鲁德答案：A2. 简·奥斯汀的小说《傲慢与偏见》中，伊丽莎白·班纳特最终与谁结婚？A. 达西先生B. 宾利先生C. 柯林斯先生D. 维克汉姆答案：A3. 爱伦·坡的短篇小说《黑猫》中，主人公最终因为什么而陷入疯狂？A. 酗酒B. 谋杀C. 赌博D. 爱情答案：B4. 弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫的《到灯塔去》中，拉姆齐夫人的丈夫是谁？A. 拉姆齐先生B. 班克斯先生C. 塔斯先生D. 卡迈克尔先生答案：A5. 马克·吐温的《汤姆·索亚历险记》中，汤姆·索亚的好友是谁？A. 哈克贝利·芬B. 乔·哈珀C. 贝基·撒切尔D. 印第安·乔答案：A6. 乔治·奥威尔的《1984》中，主要的反乌托邦政府机构是什么？A. 思想警察B. 真理部C. 爱情部D. 和平部答案：B7. 赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》中，亚哈船长的主要目标是什么？A. 寻找新大陆B. 捕获白鲸C. 探索未知海域D. 寻找宝藏答案：B8. 亨利·詹姆斯的《鸽之翼》中，主角伊莎贝尔·阿彻最终与谁结婚？A. 吉尔伯特·奥斯蒙德B. 拉尔夫·杜恩C. 爱德华·罗斯科D. 亨利·杜恩答案：A9. 罗伯特·弗罗斯特的诗歌《未选择的路》中，诗人选择了哪条路？A. 一条人迹罕至的路B. 一条宽阔平坦的路C. 一条充满荆棘的路D. 一条充满鲜花的路答案：A10. 埃德加·爱伦·坡的《乌鸦》中，乌鸦反复说的词是什么？A. 永不B. 死亡C. 寂静D. 疯狂答案：A二、简答题（每题10分，共30分）1. 简述《了不起的盖茨比》中盖茨比的悲剧性。
大学《英美文学》期末考试题库及答案
1.William Faulkner is the author of ______.A.Far from the Madding CrowdB.The Sound and the FuryC.For Whom the Bell TollsD.The Scarlet Letter2.Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard is a poem written by ______.A.Oliver GoldsmithB.James ThomsonC.Thomas GreyD.Alexander Pope3.Which of the following is NOT written by William Shakespeare?A.OthelloB.The Tragical History of Dr. FaustusC.Romeo and JulietD.The Twelfth Night4.Beowulf narrates a story taking place in______.A.The MediterraneanB.Northern EuropeC.EnglandD.Scandinavia5.William Wordsworth is an English ______.A.PoetB.NovelistC.PlaywrightD.critic6.The great transcendental work by Henry David Thoreau is ______.A.NatureB.WaldenC.ExperienceD.Essays7.The Brontë sisters published the following famous novels EXCEPT ______.A.EmmaB.Jane EyreC.Wuthering HeightD.Agnes Grey8.In which novel can “Yahoo” be found?A.John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s ProgressB.Edmund Spencer’s The Faerie Queen.C.Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels.D.Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones.9.Mark Twain shaped the world’s view of American and made a combination of ______and serious literature.A.American folk humorB.Funny jokesC.English folkloreD.American values10.Who was the first American to achieve an international literary reputation after the Revolutionary War?A.Fennimore Copper.B.Nathaniel HawthorneC.Walt WhitmanD.Washington Irving11.Paradise Lost is a masterpiece by______.A.Christopher MarlowB.John MiltonC.William ShakespeareD.Ben Johnson12.In the works of aesthetism, the theory of “art for art’s sake” is advocated by ______.A.Oscar WildeB.Mrs. GaskellC.Alexander PopeD.Charles Lamb13.Whose works are characterized by stream-of-consciousness?A.George EliotB.Jane AustenC.Emily BrontëD.James Joyce14.The period from 1865-1914 has been referred to as the ______ in the literary history of the United States.A.Age of RealismB.Age of ClassicalismC.Age of RomanticismD.Age of Renaissance15.“If Winter comes, can spring be far behind?” is an epigrammatic line by______.A.J. KeatsB. B. W. BlakeC.P. B. ShellyD.W. Wordsworth16.Leaves of Grass is written by ______.A.Walt WhitmanB.Carl Sandburgngston HughesD.Allen Ginsberg17.The period of Old English literature refers to ______.A.449-1066B.14th century-mid 17th centuryC.14th century-mid 18th centuryD.16th century-mid 18th century18.Sister Carrie is a masterpiece of ______ work.A.RomanticB.ClassicC.Neo-classicD.Naturalistic19.Who is the father of English poetryA.William ShakespeareB.Edmund SpencerC.John MiltonD.Geoffrey Chaucer20.The Red Badge of Courage is written by ______.A.Frank NorisB.Sherwood AndersonC.Willa CatherD.Stephen Crane21.Which of the following poem is NOT written by George Gordon Byron?A.She Walks in BeautyB.The Solitary ReaperC.When We Two partedD.Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage.22.Hester is a character in ______.A.Gone with the WindB.The fall of the House of UsherC.BabbittD.The Scarlet Letter23.Animal Farm is the masterpiece of ______.A.George OrwellB.Virginia WoolfC.Thomas HardyD. E. M. Forster24.The Catcher in the Rye is written by ______.A.J. D. SalingerB.Jack LondonC.Flannery O’ConnorD.Saul Bellow25.Hemingway once described ______ the one book from which “all modern American literature comes”.A.Moby-DickB.The Sun Also RisesC.The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnD.The Great Gatsby26.The literary spokesman of Jazz is often though to be ______.A.O’NeilB.PoundC.Robert FrostD.Scott Fitzgerald27.Which of the following poem is written by William Butler Yeats?A.Sailing to ByzantiumB.To an Athlete Dying YoungC.Musee des Beaux Arts.D.Church Going28.Among the following poets, which is not a lake poet?A.William WordsworthB.Samuel Taylor ColeridgeC.Robert SoutheyD.William Collins29.Which of the following is NOT true for Benjamin Franklin?A.He was a famous writer.B.He was a member to draft the Declaration of Independence.C.He was a great scientist.D.He was once elected American President.30.Utopia is ______ work.A.Thomas More’sB.Francis Bacon’sC.John Dryden’sD.George Herbert’s31.The American ______ as a cultural heritage exerted great influences over American Moral Values in the American Romantic Period.A.PuritanismB.AtheismC.DeismD.Cynicism32.The title of Alfred Tennyson’s poem Ulysses reminds the reader of the following EXCEPT ______.A.The Trojan WarB.Homer’s OdysseyC.Adventures over the seaD.Religious quest33.Lyrical Ballads is the joint work between Wordsworth and his friend ______.A.ColeridgeB.ByronC.KeatsD.Shelly34.The title of Thackeray’s Vanity Fair is taken from ______.A.The Holy BibleB.The Faerie QueenC.The Pilgrim’s ProgressD.Paradise Lost35.The theme of A Tale of Two Cities is ______.A.RevolutionB.WarC.LoveD.Brotherhood36.In America, there is “a little lady who started a great war”. Who is she?A.Anne BradstreetB.Harriet Beecher StoweC.Edith WhartonD.Katherine Anne Porter37.Waiting for Godot is a ______.A.PoemB.PlayC.Short storyD.Novel38.Mr. Darcy is a character in ______.A.Tess of D’UrbervillesB.Pride and PrejudiceC.Happy PrinceD.The Mill of the Floss39.Which of the following is NOT Virginia Woolf’s novel?A.To the LighthouseB.Mrs. DallowayC.The WavesD.Modern Painters.40.______ is the first American professional writer and the first writer of detective story in the world.A.Ezra PoundB.Washington IrvingC.Nathaniel HawthorneD.Edgar Allan Poe41.The Renaissance was a European cultural movement, which originated in______.A.FranceB.BritainC.ItalyD.Spain42.Among the following novels, ______ is Thomas Hardy’s best-known novel.A.The Return of the NativeB.Far From the Madding CrowdC.The Mayor of CasterbridgeD.Tess of the D’Urbervilles43.______ called himself “the trumpeter of a new age”. He was England’s first essayist.A.Richard SteeleB.Joseph AddisonC.Francis BaconD.Alexander Pope44.On the Road is the masterpiece of ______..A.Arthur MillerB.J.D. SalingerC.Allen GinsbergD.Jack Kerouacnguage spoken by the Anglo-Saxons is called the ______, which is the foundation of English language and literature.A.Modern EnglishB.Old EnglishC.Ancient EnglishD.Medieval English46.Robinson Crusoe is written by ______.A.Henry FieldingB.Samuel Richardsonwrence SterneD.Daniel Defoe47.______ is D.H. Lawrence’s semi-autobiographical novel.A.Sons and LoversB.Women in LoveC.The plumed Serpentdy Chatterley’s Lover48.The Waste Land, written by ______, is the greatest modernist poem.A.T.S. EliotB.William Butler YeatsC.Alfred TennysonD.Mathew Arnold49.The Sherlock Holmes stories were written by ___ ___.A.George EliotB.Charles DickensC.Arthur Conan DoyleD.Rudyard Kipling50.“The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one eighth of it being above water.” This sentence best illustrates the writing technique of ______.A.Ernest HemingwayB.Dos PassosC. F. Scott FitzgeraldD.William Faulkner。
《英美文学导论》试题答案
试卷代号:湖北广播电视大学学年度第学期期末考试《英美文学导论》试题答案I. Multiple Choices (30 points, 2 points for each)Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement.1-5 C C B A C 6-10 C B A C B 11-15 A B B D AII. Decide whether the following statements are true or false and write T or F as your answers in the blanks (10 points, 1 point for each).1. T2. F3. F4. T5. T6. F7. F8. T9. T 10. FIII. Choose the author of each of the following literary works from the given choices (10 points, 1 point for each).1. A2. H3. D4. F5. L6. J7. B8. K9. C 10.GIV. Please define the literary terms listed below (10 points for each, 5 points for each).1. RomanticismRomanticism is a movement that flourished in literature, philosophy, music, and art in western culture during most of the 19th century, beginning as a revolt against classicism. There have been many varieties of Romanticism in many different times and places. The leading figures of Romantic movements are Wordsworth, Shelley, etc.2. Stream of ConsciousnessIt’s a narrative device with which the author makes an attempt to depict the exact process of mental workings of the character (mainly narrator), with all its illogical darts and dashes and sudden turns and free associations. Both Faulkner and Joyce employed this literary device in some of their works.V. Please give brief answers to each of the following questions in English (40 points, 20 points for each).1.Give a brief analysis of the relation Between Heathcliff and Catherine in EmilyBronte’s masterpiece Wuthering Heights.The love between Heathcliff and Catherine is the most beautiful, most tense and at the same time the most horrible passion. They fall in love for their mutual love of the moor, the sublime beauty and wilderness on it. And their love takes the feature of the moor. However when Catherine betrays her heart as well as their love and marries Linton, Heathcliff runs away. When they meet again, Catherine is trapped by her fidelity to her husband and her love towards Heathcliff, which finally brings her death. After her death, Heathcliff turns into a demonic figure and takes revenge crazily, but his love towards Catherine remains unchanged.Finally, he sees her ghost and starves himself to death in the ghost house. The souls of the two at last unite.This love between Heathcliff and Catherine experiences the tow worlds of this life and after life, and it is totally spiritual. It takes Romantic feature and can only exist and survive in that particular circumstance.2.Give a brief analysis of Huck, a character in Mark Twain’s Adventures ofHuckleberry Finn, and discuss the social importance of the characterization of this character.Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is the best known for Mark Twain’s wonderful characterization of “Huck”. Huck is a typical American Boy with “a sound heart and a deformed conscience”. He appears to be vulgar in language and in manner, but he is honest and decent in essence. His remarkable raft’s journey down the Mississippi river, which Twain used both realistically and symbolically to shape his book into an organic whole, can also be regarded as his process of education and his way to grow up. On the whole, he is the son of nature and a symbol for freedom and earthly pragmatism.Through the eyes of Huck, the innocent and reluctant rebel, we see the pre-Civil War American society fully exposed. Twain thematically contrasts the life on the river and the life on the banks. These contrasts between innocence and experience, nature and culture, wilderness and civilization best show the romantic quality in Twain’s writing.。
英语专业英美文学试卷与答案期末
英美文学试卷 A共1 页第1 页I. Mark the following statements as true (T) or false (F). (10 x 1’=10’)1. ( ) Chaucer is the first English short-story teller and the founder of English poetry as well asthe founder of English realism. His masterpieceThe Canterbury talescontains 26 stories.2. ( ) English Renaissance is an age of essay and drama.3. ( ) The rise of the modern novel is closely related to the rise of the middle class and an urbanlife.4. ( ) The French Revolution and the American War of Independence were two big influencesthat brought about the English Romantic Movement.5. ( ) Charlotte’s novels are all about lonely and neglected young women with a fierce longingfor life and love. Her novels are more or less based on her own experience and feelingsand the life as she sees around.6. ( ) The leading figures of the naturalism at the turn of 19 th century are Thomas Hardy, JohnGalsworthy and Bernard Shaw.7. ( ) Emily Dickinson is remembered as the“All American Writer ”.8. ( )The Civil War divides the American literature into romantic literature and realist literature.9. ( ) Mark Twain is the first American writer to discover an American language and Americanconsciousness.10. ( ) In the decade of the 1910s, American literature achieved a new diversity and reached itsgreatest heights.II. Fill in the blanks. (20 x 1’=20’)11. The most enduring shaping influence in American thought and American literature was___________.12. The War of Independence lasted eight years till__________.13. Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay__________has been regarded as "America's Declaration ofIntellectual Independence". It called on American writers to write about America in a waypeculiarly American.14. The American ___________ writers paid a great interest in the realities of life and describedthe integrity of human character reacting under various circumstances and pictured the pioneers ofthe Far West, the new immigrants and the struggles of the working class. The leading figures were____________, ____________, ____________, ____________, etc.15. No period in American history is more eventful than that between the two world wars. Theliterary features of the time can be seen in the writings of those ________ writers as Ezra Pound,and the writers of the Lost Generation as ___________.16. Two features of English Renaissance are the curiosity for ___________ and the interest in theactivities of _____________________.17. Shakespear’e s earliest great success in tragedy is ____________, a play of youth and love, withthe famous balcony scene.18. There are three types of poets in 17th century English literature. They are Puritan poets,___________ poets and ______________ poets.19. Pope’s An Essay on Criticism is a didactic poem written in ___________________.20. ___________ has been regarded by some a“s Father of the English Novel”f or his contributionto the establishment of the form of the modern novel.21. “B eauty is truth, truth beauty”i s an epigrammatic line by _______________.22. Lawrence’s most controversial novel is ___________, the best probably _________.III. Multiple choice. (20 x 1’=20’)23. Among the three major works by John Milton ________ is indeed the only generallyacknowledged epic in English literature sinceBeowulf .A. Paradise RegainedB. Samson AgonistesC. LycidasD. Paradise Lost24. Francis Bacon’s essays are famous for their brevity, compactness and __________.A. complicityB. complexityC. powerfulnessD. mildness25. As one of the greatest masters of English prose, _______ defined a good style“a psroper words in proper places”.A. Henry FieldingB. Jonathan SwiftC. Samuel JohnsonD. Alexander Pope26. The Pilgrim ’s Progress by John Bunyan is often said to be concerned with the search for _________.A. material wealthB. spiritual salvationC. universal truthD. self-fulfillment27. “I t is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.”T he quoted part is taken from _________.A. Jane EyreB. Wuthering HeightsC. Pride and PrejudiceD. Sense and Sensibility28. Which of the following poems is a landmark in English poetry?A. Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor ColeridgeB. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”b y William WordsworthC. “R emorse”b y Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD. Leaves of Grassby Walt Whitman29. The most distinguishing feature of CharlesDickens ’w orks is his _________.A. simple vocabularyB. bitter and sharp criticismC. character-portrayalD. pictures of happiness30. “M y Last Duchess”i s 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 monologue31. ________ is the most outstanding stream of consciousness novelist, with ______as his encyclopedia-like masterpiece.A James Joyce,UlyssesB. E.M. Foster, A Passage to IndiaC. D. H. Lawrence, Sons and loversD. Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway32. Which of the following comments on Charles Dickens is wrong?A. Dickens is one of the greatest critical realist writers of the Modern PeriodB. His serious intention is to expose and criticize all the poverty, injustice, hypocrisy andcorruptness he sees all around him.C. The later works show the development of Dickens towards a highly conscious artist of themodern type.D. A Tale of Two Citiesis one of his late works.33. _____was known as “the poets ’poet ”.A. William ShakespeareB. Edmund SpenserC. John DonneD. John Milton34. Which of the following poet belongs to the active Romantic poet?A. KeatsB. SoutheyC. WordsworthD. Coleridge35. ______ is regarded today as the national epic of the Anglo-Saxons.A. BeowulfB. The Canterbury TalesC. Don JuanD. Paradise Lost36. ___________ is the first modern American novel.A. Tom SawyerB. Huckleberry FinnC. The Sketch BookD. The Leatherstocking Tales37. Which of the following statements is NOT true of American Transcendentalism?A. It can be clearly defined as a part of American Romantic literary movement.B. It can be defined philosophically as “t he recognition in man of the capacity of knowing truthintuitively ”.C. Ralph Waldo Emerson was the chief advocate of this spiritual movement.D. It sprang from South America in the late l9th century.38. The theme of Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkleis _________.A. the conflict of human psycheB. the fight against racial discriminationC. the familial conflictD. the nostalgia for the unrecoverable past39. The Nobel Prize Committee highly praised ________ for “h is powerful style-forming masteryof the art”o f creating modern diction.A. Ezra PoundB. Ernest HemingwayC. Robert FrostD. Theodore Dreiser40. Who exerts the single most important influence on literary naturalism?A. EmersonB. Jack LondonC. Theodore DreiserD. Darwin41. ________ is NOT true in describing American naturalists.A. they were deeply influenced by DarwinismB. they were identified with French novelist and theorist Emile ZolaC. they chose their subjects for the lower ranks or societyD. they used more serious and more sympathetic tone in writing than realists42. Henry James’s fame generally rests upon his novels and stories with ________.A. international themeB. national themeC. European themeD. regional themeIV. Explain the following literary items.(4x 5’=20’)43. Spenserian Stanza44. Lake Poets45. Humanism46. BalladV. Questions. (3x 10’=30’)47. “R obinson Crusoe”is usually considered as Daniel Defoe’s masterpiece. Discuss why it became so successful when it was published?48. What is "Byronic hero"?49. Mark Twain and Henry James are two representativesof the realistic writers in American literature. How is Twain’s realism different form James’s realism?参考答案：I. Mark the following statements as true (T) or false (F).( 本题共10 空，每空1 分，共10 分)1-5: FFTTT 6-10: FFTTFII. Fill in the blanks. ( 本题共20 小题，每题 1 分，共20 分)11. (American) Puritanism12. 178313. The American Scholar14. realistic; Mark Twain; Henry James; Jack London; Theodore Dreiser.15. Imagist; Hemingway.16. the classical literature; humanity.17. Romeo and Juliet18. Cavalier; Metaphysical19. heroic couplet20. Henry Fielding21. John Keats22. Lady Chatterley s l’over; The RainbowIII. Multiple choice. （本题共20 小题，每题 1 分，共20 分)题23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 号答D C B B C A C D A A B A A B D D B D D A 案IV. Explain the following literary items. （本题4 小题, 每小题5 分, 共20 分）43. Spenserian Stanza:it refers to a verse form created by Edmund Spenser for his poems. Each stanza has nine lines. Each of the first eight lines is in iambic pentameter, and the ninth line is aniambic hexameter line. The rhythm scheme is ababbcbcc44. Lake Poets: it refers to those English romantic poets at the beginning of th e19th century,William Wordsworth, for example, who lived in the heart of the Lake District in the north-westernpart of England and enjoyed the experience of living close to nature, and these poets were the oldergeneration of Romantic poets who had been deeply influenced by the French Revolution of 1789and its effects. In their writings, they described the beautiful scenes and the country people of thearea.45. Humanism refers to the literary culture in the Renaissance.Humanists emphasize thecapacities of the human mind and the achievements of human culture. Humanism became thecentral theme of English Renaissance.Thomas More and William Shakespeareare the bestrepresentatives of the English humanists.46. Ballad: a story told in songs, usually in 4-line stanzas, with the second and fourth rhymed.V. Questions（. 本题 3 小题, 每小题10 分, 共30 分）47.A: Robinson Crusoe is supposedly based o n the real adventure of an Alexander Selkirk whoonce stayed alone on the uninhabited island for five year4s. Actually, the story is an imagination.B: In Robinson Crusoe, Defoe traces the growth of Robinson from a n a v?e and artless youth intoa shrewd and hardened man, tempered by numerous trials in his eventful life.C. In the novel, Robinson is a real hero and he is an embodiment of the rising middle-classvirtues in the mid-eighteenth century England. Robinson is a true empire-builder, a colonizer and aforeign trader, who has the courage and will to face hardships and who has determination topreserve himself and improve his livelihood by struggling against nature.D. Robinson Crusoe is an adventure story very much in the spirit of the time. Because of theabove reasons, w hen it was published, people all liked that story, and it became a n immediatesuccess.48. Byronic hero is a proud, mysterious rebel figure of noble origin. With immense superiority inhis passions and powers, this Byronic hero would carry on his shoulders the burden of righting allthe wrongs in a corrupt society, and would rise single-handedly against any kind of tyrannical ruleswither in government, in religion, or in moral principles with unconquerable wills andinexhaustible energies. The conflict is usually one of rebellious individuals against outworn socialsystems and conventions. Such a hero appeared in many of his works, for example, "Don Juan".The figure is somewhat modeled on the life and personality of Byron himself, and makes Byronfamous both at home and abroad.49.A. Mark Twain’s realism is tainted with local color, preferring to have his won region and people at the forefront of his stories.B. James’s realism is concerned with the“inner world”of man and the international theme.C. Twain’s language is simple and colloquial and he employs humor in his writing.D. James’s language is elaborate and refined with lengthy psychological analyses.。
英美文学期末考试
名词解释1、英国浪漫主义（ England Romanticism）A movement that flourished in literature, philosophy, music, and art inthcentury, beginning as revolt against western culture during most of the 19classicism. Romanticism gave primary concern to passion emotion, and natural beauty. The English Romantic Period is an age of poetry.2. 英雄双行体（ Heroic Couplet）Heroic couplet is a rhyming couplet of iambic pentameter, often containing a complete though. There is a fairly heavy at the end of the first line and a still heavier one at the end of the second. Commonly there is a parallel or anantithesis within a line, or between the two lines. It is called heroic because in England, especially in the eighteenth century, it was much used for heroic (epic) poems.3. 超验主义（ Transcendentalism）In New England, an intellectual movement known transcendentalismdeveloped as an American version of Romanticism. The movement began among an influential set authors based in Concord, Massachusetts, andwas led Ralph Waldo Emerson. Like Romanticism,transcendentalismrejected both 18th-century rationalism and established religion, which for the transcendentalistsmeant the Puritan tradition inparticular. Instead, the transcendentalists celebrated the power of thehuman imagination to commune with the universe and transcend thelimitations of the material world. The transcendentalists found their chief source of aspiration in nature.4.迷茫的一代（ Lost Generation）The Lost Generation refers to the disillusioned intellectuals and artists of the years following the First World War, who rebelled against former ideals and values but could replace them only by despair or cynical hedonism.5.启蒙运动（ Enlightenment Movement）The Enlightenment Movement was a progressive movement, which flourished in France and swept the whole Western Europe at the time. It was ath thfurtherance of the Renaissance from the 14 to the 17century. Its purpose was to enlighten the whole world with the light of modern philosophical and artistic ideas. The eighteenth century marked the beginning of an intellectual movement in Europe known as the Enlightenment Movement.7.无韵体 blank verseThis term , which was first brought into England by Surrey , is used toname the unrhymed iambic pentameter line in poetry.8.三一律 The Three UnitiesThe Three Unities , formulated by Renaissance dramatists, are the unities of time, place and action. A play should have no scenesirrelevant to the action, should not cover more than twenty-four hours, and should not cover more than one locale.6.自由体 free verseIt is the rhymed or unrhymed poetry composed without attention toconventional rules of meter.9.现代主义ModernismModernism was a complex and diverse international, movement in all creative arts, originating about the end of the 19th century. It provided the greatestrenaissance of the 20th century. It was made up of many facts, such as symbolism surrealism, cubism, expressionism, futurism, etc.10.英国文艺复兴RenaissanceThe term refers to a great bourgeois cultural movement in Europe which began th thin the 14 century and continued to the mid-17 century. It first started from Italy and then spread all over Europe. The Renaissance, therefore, in essence, is a historical period in which the European humanist thinkers and scholars tried to get rid of those old feudalistic ideas in Medieval Europe.英国文学1.Beowulf : a national epic2.The Renaissance(原因 )：(1)rediscoveries of ancient Greek and Roman culture.(2)discoveries in geography and astrology.(3)Religious reformation and economic expansion.3.William Shakespeare四大悲剧：《Hamlet》《Othello》《Macbeth》《KingLear 》喜剧：《The Merchant of Venice》: It is a comedy dramatic ironic to Christian. 17世纪：4.John Milton( 约翰弥尔顿 )《 Paradise Lost》 blank verse(无韵体诗 )5.John Bunyan(约翰班扬 )《The Pilgrim’s Progress》（天路历程）：让人遵守宗教条例并且通过不断与自己薄弱意识和恶势力作斗争来自我拯救。
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。
专升本《英美文学》期末考试复习题及参考答案
《英美文学》专升本一1. In Anglo-Saxon period, Beowulf represented the poetry.A. paganB. religiousC. romanticD. sentimental2. In the 14th century, the most important writer is .A. LanglandB. WyclifC. GowerD. Chaucer3. At the beginning of the 16th century the outstanding humanist wrote his Utopia in which he gave a profound and truthful picture of the people’s suffering and put forward his ideal of a future happy society.A. Thomas MoreB. Thomas MarloweC. Francis BaconD. William Shakespeare4. Who of the following were the important metaphysical poets?A. George HerbertB. John MiltonC. John DonneD. Richard Lovelace5. Of the many contemporaries and successors of Shakespeare, the most important and well-known was , who became “the Poet Laureate” in 1616.A. John DrydenB. Ben JonsonC. Samuel JohnsonD. Robert Southey6. was a progressive intellectual movement throughout western Europe in the 18th century.A. The RenaissanceB. The EnlightenmentC. The Religious ReformationD. The Chartist Movement7. The main literary stream of the 18th century was . What the writers described in their works were mainly social realities.A. naturalismB. romanticismC. classicismD. realism8. was Pope’s poem which satirized the idle and artificial life of thearistocracy.A. The Rape of the LockB. The Rape of LucreceC. The School for ScandalD. Every Man in His Humor9. In the last twenty years of the 18th century, England produced two great romanticpoets. They are __________.。
美国文学期末试卷及答案
《美国文学》期末考试试卷（B卷）1.Poor Richard's Almanac ( )2.The House of the Seven Gables ()3.“Raven” ( )4.My Antonia ( )5.Babbitt ( )6. A Streetcar Named Desire ( )7.Maggie: A Girl of the Streets ( )8. A Farewell to Arms ( )9.The Call of the Wild ( )10.Long Day's Journey into Night ( )mon Sense ( )12.“Rip Van Winkle”()13.Walden()14.The Song of Hiawatha()15.Uncle Tom's Cabin( )16.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn()17.Sister Carrie()18.The Waste Land()19. A Farewell to Arms()20.The Great Gatsby()1. defined poetry as the rhythmical creation of beauty.2.While working for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, Samuel Langhorne Clemensadopted the pseudonym , the way of a boatman taking soundings, and meaning twofathoms.3.Ezra Pound initiated a campaign for , which emphasized the direct treatment of an objector situation. He also advocated the language of common speech, but always the exactword.4.Fitzgerald summarized the experiences and attitudes of the 1920s decade in hismasterpiece novel.5. is the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature for hisvigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters.6.The first of American literature was not written by an American, but by , a British captain,who thus became the first American writer.7.has been considered the “Father of modern American Poetry.\8.was a great democratic poet. He is also the great poet to use the form of free verse.9.is the first American lyric poet.10.is also called novel of the road, it strings the incidents on the line of the hero,s travel. IH. Choose only one answer form the four choices as the most appropriate answer. (30%)1.In American literature, the eighteenth century was the age of the Enlightenment, was the dominant spirit.A.HumanismB.RationalismC.RevolutionD.Evolution2.Who was considered as the “Poet of American Revolution”?A.Michael WigglesworthB.Edward TaylorC.Anne BradstreetD.Philip Freneau3.The finest example of Hawthorne,s symbolism is the recreation of Puritan Boston in .A.The Scarlet LetterB.Young Goodman BrownC.The Marble FaunD.The Ambitious Guest4.was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club.A.ThoreauB.EmersonC.HawthorneD.Whitman5.Choose the work NOT written by Mark Twain.A.The Adventures of Tom SawyerB.Innocents AbroadC.Life on the MississippiD.The Rise of Silas Lapham6.Which is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”?A.The American ScholarB.English TraitsC.The Conduct of LifeD.Representative Men7.Melville,s is an encyclopedia of everything, history, philosophy, religion, etc, in additionto a detailed account of the operations of the whaling industry.A.The Old Man and the SeaB.Moby DickC.White JacketD.Billy Budd8.American literature produced only one female poet during the nineteenth century. Thiswas.A.Anne BradstreetB.Jane AustenC.Emily DickinsonD.Harriet Beecher9.The main theme of The Art of Fiction reveals his literary credo thatrepresentation of life should be the main object of the novel.A.Henry James,B.William Dean Howells,C.Mark Twain'sD.O. Henry's10.showed great interest in Chinese literature and translated the poetry of Li Po into English, and was influenced by Confucian ideas.A.Ezra PoundB.Robert FrostC.T. S. EliotD. E. E. Cummings11.With William Dean Howells, Henry James, and Mark Twain active on the scene, becamethe major trend in the seventies and eighties of the nineteenth century.A.sentimentalismB.romanticismC.realismD.naturalism12.Ezra Pound's long poem contained more than one hundred poems loosely connected.A.The Waste LandB.The CantosC.Don JuanD.Queen Mab13.In Paris, Ernest Hemingway, along with, accomplished a revolution in literary style andlanguage.A.Gertrude SteinB.Ezra PoundC.James JoyceD.all of the above14.tells the Joad family' s life from the time they were evicted from their farm in Oklahomauntil their first winter in California.A.Of Mice and MenB.The Grapes of WrathC.The Great GatsbyD.For Whom the Bell Tolls15.The two areas on which the modem American writers concentrated their criticism werethe failures of American society and.A.the failure of communication among AmericansB.the economic depressionC.the extreme prosperity of AmericaD.the paradise of New LandIV. Choose TEN of the following and decide whether the statements are true or false. (10%)1.All his literary life, Hawthorne seemed to be haunted by his sense of sin and evil in life.2.Most of the poems in Leaves of Grass are about love and religion.3.The First World War led the American intellectuals to a bitter disillusionment.4.Hemingway,s works have sometimes been read as an essentially negative commentary on a modern world filled with sterility, failure, and death.5.Mark Twain,s region was the Deep South, with its bitter history of slavery, civil war and destruction.6.Ernest Hemingway developed a spare, tight, reportorial prose based on simple sentencestructure and using a restricted vocabulary, precise imagery, and an impersonal, dramatic tone.7.John Steinbeck' s theme was usually that simple human virtues such as kindness and fair treatment were far superior to official hard-heartedness, or the dehumanizing cruelty of exploiters for their own commercial advantage.8.Short-lived, the Imagist movement failed to exert a tremendous influence on modern poetry.9.Robert Frost won four Nobel Prizes in his life.10.In his novels, F. Scott Fitzgerald had revealed the stridency of an age of glittering innocence, he had portrayed the hollowness of the American worship of riches and the unending American dream of love, splendor and fulfilled desires.11.Of Plymouth Plantat iwas written by William Bradford.12.Realists thought highly of individual status and role in the world. The romanticists preferred the innate or intuitive perception by the heart of man. They thought that man was essentially of goodwill, only the civilized society made him degenerate. They pointed out, the means to uproot evils and to save mankind was habits, and to return to “natural primitive state”.13.Deists believed in a Creator God, but rejected providence(Godly direction) and revelation (divine will or Godly "truth")in favor of reason.14..President Lincoln praised Anne Bradstreet as “the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war.”15. Edgar Allan Poe wrote two poems both entitled“ To Helen”.16.The thinking of Locke, Hobbes, and Rousseau also greatly influenced the active thinking ofAmericans who became increasingly concerned with the possibility of building a government. Locke and Rousseau represented the impulse for a Jeffersonian democracy, and Hobbes represented the point of view, often expressed by Hamilton, of a strong central government.17.Hemingway, Pound, Cummings, Dos Passos, and Fitzgerald, belong to the school of “Beat Generation”.18.F. Scott Fitzgerald is called the leader and poet laureate of the Jazz Age who wrote the novels of the Jazz Age.19.Yoknapatawpha saga is a name for John Steinbeck,s novels.20.“Thanatopsis” is a word Bryant borrowed from Greek meaning “meditation on death”. Y Choose THREE of the following fragments and answer the questions. (20%)Passage OneLo! in you brilliant window-niche How statue-like I see theestand, The agate lamp within thy hand! Ah, Psyche, from theregions which Are Holy-Land!Questions:1.This is the last stanza of a poem “To Helen”. Its writer is.(1%)2.With whom is Helen associated in this stanza? (1%)3.How to appreciate the beauty of this poem? (3%)Passage 2I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and II took the one less traveledby, And that has made all the differenceQuestions:1.Who is the writer of this poem? (1%)2.What is the title of this poem? (1%)3.What kind of feeling does this stanza show? (3%)4.How do you appreciate this poem? (3%)Passage 3I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion. For most men, it appears to me, are in a strange uncertainty about it, whether it is of the devil or of God.Questions:1.This passage is taken from a famous work entitled. (1%)2.The author of the work is . (1%)3.List by yourself at least five reasons that the author gives for going to live in thewoods. (5%)Passage 4But, on one side of the portal (入口)，and rooted almost at the threshold, was a wild rose-bush, covered, in this month of June, with its delicate gems, which might be imagined to offer their fragrance and fragile beauty to the prisoner as he went in, and to the condemned criminal as he came forth to his doom, in token that the deep heart of Nature could pity and be kind to him.Questions:1.This part is from the novel, written by . (2%)2.What does “the wild rose bush” symbolize according to your opinion? (5%)Passage 5Often I think of the beautiful townThat is seated by the sea;Often in thought go up and down The pleasant streets of that dearold town, And my youth comes back to me. And a verse of aLapland song Is haunting my memory still: "A boy's will is thewind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts." Questions:1.The stanza is taken from the poem?(1%)2.The author of the poem is. (1%)3.The seventh line in each Stanza of this poem contains a key word, usually a verb, whichsums up the feeling established in the stanza. What is the verb and what kind feelingthat it conveys?(4%)Passage 6Thou hast an house on high erect, Framed by that mightyArchitect,With glory richly furnished, Stands permanent though this befled. It,s purchased and paid for too By Him who hath enoughto do.Questions:1. This stanza is taken from the poem by.(2%)2. What is one,s real house according to the poet? (5%)VI. Choose TWO of the following and Comment on them. (20%)1.Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. (10%)2.Emily Dickinson's “Because I Could not stop for Death” . (10%)3.Ralph Waldo Emerson,s Self-Reliance. (10%)《美国文学》期末考试试卷B卷答案暨评分标准I.Choose TEN of the following works and write the names of the authors. (1*10=10%)1.Benjamin Franklin2.Nathaniel Hawthorne3.Edgar Allan Poe4.Willa Cather5.Sinclair Lewis6.Tennessee Williams7.Stephen Crane8.Ernest Hemingway9.Jack London10.Eugene O,Neill11.Thomas Paine12.Washington Irving13.Henry David Thoreau14.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow15.Harriet Beecher Stowe16.Mark Twin17.Theodore Dreiser18.T.S. Eliot19.Ernest Hemingway20. F. Scott FitzgeraldII.Choose FIVE of the following and fill in the blanks. (2*5=10%)1.Edgar Allan Poe2.Mark Twain3.Imagism4.The Great Gatsby5.Sinclair Lewis6.John Smith7.Ezra Pound8.Walt Whitman9.William Cullen Bryant10.Picaresque novelm.Choose only one answer form the four choices as the most appropriate answer. (2*15=30%)IV. Choose TEN of the following and decide whether the statements are true or false. (1*10=10%)V. Choose THREE of the following frag gm e nts and answer thePassage 11.Edgar Allan Poe (1)2.Psyche (1)3.The beauty of form. (diction, rhyme and rhythm, rhetorical devices.)The beauty of content. (3)Passage 21.Robert Frost(1)2."Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”⑴3.This poem is written in classic five-line stanzas, with the rhyme scheme a-b-a-a-b andconversational rhythm. The poem seems to be about the poet, walking in the woods in autumn, choosing which road he should follow on his walk. In reality, it concerns the important decisions which one must make in life, when one must give up one desirable thing in order to possess another. Then, whatever the outcome, one must accept the consequences of one' s choice for it is not possible to go back and have another chance to choose differently.4.In the poem, the poet hesitates for a long time, wondering which road to take, because they are both pretty. In the end, he follows the one which seems to have fewer travelers on it. Symbolically, he chose to follow an unusual, solitary life; perhaps he was speaking of his choice to become a poet rather than some commoner profession. But he always remembers the road which he might have taken, and which would have given him a different kind of life. Passage 3Walden (1)Henry David Thoreau (1)Find the answer from the passage. (5)Passage 41.The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne. (2)2.life and liberty.(2)Passage 51.My Lost Youth.(1)2.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1)3.“haunting" sums up the feeling that was begun earlier with "Often in thought "and "comes back to me" .(3)Passage 61.Upon the Burning of Our House, Anne Bradstreet.(2)2.One's real house is in heaven, built by the great architect, God. (2)VI. Choose TWO of the three passages and comment on them. (20%)1.Analyze Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. (10%)2.Analyze Emily Dickinson's “Because I Could not stop for Death” . (10%)3.Ralph Waldo Emerson,s Self-Reliance. (10%)The score is given to the theme, (7) content (6) and writing style(7) of the work chosen.。
原题目：英语专业英美文学选读课程期末考试复习题
原题目：英语专业英美文学选读课程期末考试复习题一、选择题（每题5分，共40分）1. 下列哪位作家是19世纪初英国浪漫主义文学的代表人物？A. 简·奥斯汀B. 弗朗西斯·贝金斯·布伯尔C. 爱米莉·勃朗特D. 简·艾尔洛克2. 被誉为“美国民族史诗”的作品是下面哪部？A. 《老人与海》B. 《汤姆·索亚历险记》C. 《伊娃》D. 《飘》3. 以下哪位作家是英国维多利亚时期的代表作家？A. 威廉·莎士比亚B. 查尔斯·狄更斯C. 托马斯·哈代D. 奥斯卡·王尔德4. 被称为“现代英国戏剧之父”的剧作家是下方哪位？A. 卡尔·马克思B. 乔治·肖伯纳C. 亨利·詹姆斯D. 奥斯卡·王尔德5. 以下哪位作家是美国现代主义文学的代表人物？A. 艾米丽·狄金森B. 罗伯特·弗罗斯特C. 弗朗茨·卡夫卡D. 弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫6. 下列哪本小说以揭示人性之恶而著称？A. 《飘》B. 《1984》C. 《傲慢与偏见》D. 《哈姆雷特》7. 哪位作家被称为“20世纪最重要的英国小说家之一”？A. 威廉·莎士比亚B. 乔治·奥威尔C. 哈珀·李D. 东尼·莫里森8. 以下哪本小说描写了苏格兰高地的历史与风俗？A. 《呼啸山庄》B. 《麦田里的守望者》C. 《钟楼怪人》D. 《华尔街》二、简答题（每题10分，共20分）1. 请简要解释英国维多利亚时期文学的主要特点。
2. 简要介绍美国现代主义文学的主要代表作家及作品。
三、论述题（20分）请从英国儿童文学和美国南方文学的角度分析比较《奥神领地》和《哈利·波特与魔法石》的文学特点和传达的主题。
四、创作题（20分）请根据自己的创作能力和理解，以《失乐园》为题材，写一篇关于对科技革命带来的道德困境和对人类价值的思考的短文。
英语专业-英美文学试卷及答案-期末
英美文学试卷AI.Mark the following statements as true (T) or false (F).(10 x 1’=10’)1.( ) Chaucer is the first English short-story teller and the founder of English poetry as well as the founder of English realism.His masterpiece The Canterbury tales contains 26 stories.2.( ) English Renaissance is an age of essay and drama.3.( ) The rise of the modern novel is closely related to the rise of the middle class and an urbanlife.4.( ) The French Revolution and the American War of Independence were two big influencesthat brought about the English Romantic Movement.5.( ) Charlotte’s novels are all about lonely and neglected young women with a fierce longingfor life and love.Her novels are more or less based on her own experience and feelings and the life as she sees around.6.( ) The leading figures of the naturalism at the turn of 19th century are Thomas Hardy, John Galsworthy and Bernard Shaw.7.( ) Emily Dickinson is remembered as the “All American Writer”.8.( )The Civil War divides the American literature into romantic literature and realist literature.9.( ) Mark Twain is the first American writer to discover an American language and Americanconsciousness.10.( ) In the decade of the 1910s, American literature achieved a new diversity and reached itsgreatest heights.II.Fill in the blanks.(20 x 1’=20’)11.The most enduring shaping influence in American thought and American literature was ___________.12.The War of Independence lasted eight years till__________.13.Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay__________ has been regarded as "America's Declaration of Intellectual Independence". It called on American writers to write about America in a way peculiarly American.14.The American ___________ writers paid a great interest in the realities of life and described the integrity of human character reacting under various circumstances and pictured the pioneers of the Far West, the new immigrants and the struggles of the working class.The leading figures were ____________, ____________, ____________, ____________, etc.15.No period in American history is more eventful than that between the two world wars.The literary features of the time can be seen in the writings of those ________ writers as Ezra Pound, and the writers of the Lost Generation as ___________.16.Two features of English Renaissance are the curiosity for ___________ and the interest in the activities of _____________________.17.Shakespeare’s earliest great success in tragedy is ____________, a play of youth and love, with the famous balcony scene.18.There are three types of poets in 17th century English literature.They are Puritan poets, ___________ poets and ______________ poets.19.Pope’s An Essay on Criticism is a didactic poem written in ___________________.20.___________ has been regarded by some as “Father of the English Novel”for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.21.“Beauty is truth, truth beauty”is an epigrammatic line by _______________.wrence’s most controversial novel is ___________, the best probably _________.III.Multiple choice.(20 x 1’=20’)23.Among the three major works by John Milton ________ is indeed the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf.A.Paradise RegainedB.Samson AgonistesC.LycidasD.Paradise Lost24. Francis Bacon’s essays are famous for their brevity, compactness and __________.plicityplexityC.powerfulnessdness25.As one of the greatest masters of English prose, _______ defined a good style as “proper words in proper places”.A.Henry FieldingB.Jonathan SwiftC.Samuel JohnsonD.Alexander Pope26.The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan is often said to be concerned with the search for _________.A.material wealthB.spiritual salvationC.universal truthD.self-fulfillment27.“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.”The quoted part is taken from _________.A.Jane EyreB.Wuthering HeightsC.Pride and PrejudiceD.Sense and Sensibility28.Which of the following poems is a landmark in English poetry?A.Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor ColeridgeB.“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”by William WordsworthC.“Remorse”by Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD.Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman29.The most distinguishing feature of Charles Dickens’works is his _________.A.simple vocabularyB.bitter and sharp criticismC.character-portrayalD.pictures of happiness30.“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 monologue31.________ is the most outstanding stream of consciousness novelist, with ______as hisencyclopedia-like masterpiece.A James Joyce, UlyssesB.E.M.Foster, A Passage to Indiawrence, Sons and loversD.Virginia Woolf, Mrs.Dalloway32.Which of the following comments on Charles Dickens is wrong?A.Dickens is one of the greatest critical realist writers of the Modern PeriodB.His serious intention is to expose and criticize all the poverty, injustice, hypocrisy andcorruptness he sees all around him.C.The later works show the development of Dickens towards a highly conscious artist of themodern type.D.A Tale of Two Cities is one of his late works.33._____was known as “the poets’poet”.A.William ShakespeareB.Edmund SpenserC.John DonneD.John Milton34.Which of the following poet belongs to the active Romantic poet?A.KeatsB.SoutheyC.WordsworthD.Coleridge35.______ is regarded today as the national epic of the Anglo-Saxons.A.BeowulfB.The Canterbury TalesC.Don JuanD.Paradise Lost36.___________ is the first modern American novel.A.Tom SawyerB.Huckleberry FinnC.The Sketch BookD.The Leatherstocking Tales37.Which of the following statements is NOT true of American Transcendentalism?A.It can be clearly defined as a part of American Romantic literary movement.B.It can be defined philosophically as “the recognition in man of the capacity of knowing truth intuitively”.C.Ralph Waldo Emerson was the chief advocate of this spiritual movement.D.It sprang from South America in the late l9th century.38.The theme of Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle is _________.A.the conflict of human psycheB.the fight against racial discriminationC.the familial conflictD.the nostalgia for the unrecoverable past39.The Nobel Prize Committee highly praised ________ for “his powerful style-forming mastery of the art”of creating modern diction.A.Ezra PoundB.Ernest HemingwayC.Robert FrostD.Theodore Dreiser40.Who exerts the single most important influence on literary naturalism?A.EmersonB.Jack LondonC.Theodore DreiserD.Darwin41.________ is NOT true in describing American naturalists.A.they were deeply influenced by DarwinismB.they were identified with French novelist and theorist Emile ZolaC.they chose their subjects for the lower ranks or societyD.they used more serious and more sympathetic tone in writing than realists42.Henry James’s fame generally rests upon his novels and stories with ________.A.international themeB.national themeC.European themeD.regional themeIV.Explain the following literary items.(4x 5’=20’)43.Spenserian Stanzake Poets45.Humanism46.BalladV.Questions.(3x 10’=30’)47.“Robinson Crusoe”is usually considered as Daniel Defoe’s masterpiece.Discuss why it became so successful when it was published?48.What is "Byronic hero"?49.Mark Twain and Henry James are two representatives of the realistic writers in American literature.How is Twain’s realism different form James’s realism?参考答案:I.Mark the following statements as true (T) or false (F).(本题共10空，每空1分，共10分)1-5: FFTTT 6-10: FFTTFII.Fill in the blanks.(本题共20小题, 每题1分, 共20分)11.(American) Puritanism12.178313.The American Scholar14.realistic; Mark Twain; Henry James; Jack London; Theodore Dreiser.15.Imagist; Hemingway.16.the classical literature; humanity.17.Romeo and Juliet18.Cavalier; Metaphysical19.heroic couplet20.Henry Fielding21.John Keatsdy Chatterley’s lover; The RainbowIV. Ex pla in the foll owi ng lite rar y ite ms.（本题4小题,每小题5分,共20分）43.Spenserian Stanza: it refers to a verse form created by Edmund Spenser for his poems.Each stanza has nine lines.Each of the first eight lines is in iambic pentameter, and the ninth line is an iambic hexameter line.The rhythm scheme is ababbcbccke Poets: it refers to those English romantic poets at the beginning of th e19th century, William Wordsworth, for example, who lived in the heart of the Lake District in the north-western part of England and enjoyed the experience of living close to nature, and these poets were the older generation of Romantic poets who had been deeply influenced by the French Revolution of 1789 and its effects.In their writings, they described the beautiful scenes and the country people of the area.45.Humanism refers to the literary culture in the Renaissance.Humanists emphasize the capacities of the human mind and the achievements of human culture.Humanism became the central theme of English Renaissance.Thomas More and William Shakespeare are the best representatives of the English humanists.46.Ballad: a story told in songs, usually in 4-line stanzas, with the second and fourth rhymed. V.Questions.（本题3小题,每小题10分,共30分）47.A: Robinson Crusoe is supposedly based on the real adventure of an Alexander Selkirk who once stayed alone on the uninhabited island for five year4s.Actually, the story is an imagination.B: In Robinson Crusoe, Defoe traces the growth of Robinson from a naïve and artless youth into a shrewd and hardened man, tempered by numerous trials in his eventful life.C.In the novel, Robinson is a real hero and he is an embodiment of the rising middle-class virtues in the mid-eighteenth century England.Robinson is a true empire-builder, a colonizer and a foreign trader, who has the courage and will to face hardships and who has determination to preserve himself and improve his livelihood by struggling against nature.D.Robinson Crusoe is an adventure story very much in the spirit of the time.Because of the above reasons, when it was published, people all liked that story, and it became an immediate success.48.Byronic hero is a proud, mysterious rebel figure of noble origin.With immense superiorityin his passions and powers, this Byronic hero would carry on his shoulders the burden of righting all the wrongs in a corrupt society, and would rise single-handedly against any kind of tyrannical rules wither in government, in religion, or in moral principles with unconquerable wills and inexhaustible energies.The conflict is usually one of rebellious individuals against outworn social systems and conventions.Such a hero appeared in many of his works, for example, "Don Juan".The figure is somewhat modeled on the life and personality of Byron himself, and makes Byron famous both at home and abroad.49.A.Mark Twain’s realism is tainted with local color, preferring to have his won region and people at the forefront of his stories.B.James’s realism is concerned with the “inner world”of man and the international theme.C.Twain’s language is simple and colloquial and he employs humor in his writing.D.James’s language is elaborate and refined with lengthy psychological analyses.。
英美文学选读试题及答案
英美文学选读试题Ⅰ.Multiple Choice (40 points in all, 1 for each)Select from the four choices [A],[B],[C],[D] of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement and write the letter on the answer sheet.1.Romance,which uses narrative verse or prose to tell stories of ___ adventures or other heroic deeds, is a popular literary form in the medieval period.A.Christian2.Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his production of ___.A.Piers PlowmanB.Sir Gawain and the Green KnightC.Confessio AmantisD.The Canterbury Tales3.Which of the following historical events does not directly help to stimulate the rising of the Renaisssance Movement?A.The rediscovery of ancient Greek and Roman culture.B.The new discoveries in geography and astrology.C.The Glorious revolution.D.The religious reformation and the economic expansion.4.Which of the following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare's Sonnet 18?A.The speaker eulogizes the power of Nature.B.The speaker satirizes human vanity.C.The speaker praises the power of artistic creation.D.The speaker meditates on man's salvation.5.“And we will sit upon the rocks,/Seeing the shepherds f eed their flocks,/By shallow rivers to whose falls/Melodious birds sing madrigals.〞The above lines are probably taken from __.A.Spenser's The Faerie QueeneB.John Donne's “The Sun Rising〞C.Shakespeare's “Sonnet 18”D.Marlowe's “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love〞6.“Bassanio:Antonio,I am married to a wifeWhich is as dear to me as life itself;But life itself, My wife, and all the world.Are not with me esteem'd above thy life;I would lose all, ay, sacrifice them all,Here to the devil, to deliver you.Portia:Your wife would give you little thanks for that,If she were by to hear you make the offer.〞The above is a quotation taken from Shakespeare's comedy The Merchant of Venice.The quoted part can be regarded as a good example to illustrate ____.A.dramatic irony7.The ture subject of John Donne's poem,“The Sun Rising,〞is to ___.A.attack the sun as an unruly servantB.give compliments to the mistress and her power of beautyC.criticize the sun's intrusion into the lover's private lifeD.lecture the sun on where true royalty and riches lie8.Of all the 18thcentury novelists Henry Fielding was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specificall y a “___ in prose,〞the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.A.tragic epic B ic epicC.romanceD.lyric epic9.The Houyhnhnms depicted by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels are ___.A.horses that are endowed with reasonB.pigmies that are endowed with admirable qualitiesC.giants that are superior in wisdomD.hairy,wild, low and despicable creatures, who resemble human beings not only in appearance but also in some other ways.10.Here are four lines from a literary work:“Others for language all their care express,/And value books,as women men, for dress.〞The work is ___.A.Thomas Gray's “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard〞B.John Milton's Paradise LostC.Alexander Pope's Essay on CriticismD.Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream11.The phrase “to urge people to abide by Christian doctrines and to seek salvation through constant struggles with their own weaknesses and all kinds of social evils〞may well sum up the implied meaning of ___.A.Gulliver's TravelsB.The Rape of the LockC.Robinson CrusoeD.The pilgrim's Progress12.William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following EXCEPT ___.A.the use of everyday language spoken by the common peopleB.the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelingsC.the use of humble and rustic life as subject matterD.the use of elegant wording and inflated figures of speech13.Which of the following is taken from John Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn〞?A.“I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!〞B.“They are both gone up to the church to pary.〞C.“Earth has not anything to show more fair.〞D.“Beauty is truth, truth beauty〞.14.“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind!〞is an epigrammatic line by __.A.J.KeatsB.W.BlakeC.W.Wordsworth15.“Ode o na Grecian Urn〞shows the contrast between the ___ of art and the ___ of human passion.A.glory …uglinessB.permanence…transienceC.transience…sordidnessD.glory…permanence16.In the statement“—oh,God! would you like to live with your soul in the grave?〞the term“soul〞apparently refers to ___.A.Heathcliff himselfC.one's spiritual lifeD.one's ghost17.The typical feature of Robet Browning's poetry is the ___.A.bitter satirerger-than-life caricaturetinized dictionD.dramatic monologue18.The Victorian Age was largely an age of ____,eminently represented by Dickens and Thackeray.A.poetryB.drama D.epic prose19.___is the first important governess(家庭女教师) novel in the English literary history.A.Jane EyreHeights20.The major concern of ______ fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature.wrence'sB.J.Galsworthy'sC.W.Thackeray’sD.T.Hardy’s21.___is considered to be the best-known English dramatist since Shakespeare, and his representative works are plays inspired by social criticism.A.Richard SheridanB.Oliver GoldsmithC.Oscar WildeD.Bernard Shaw22.Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Modernism?A.To elevate the individual and inner being over the social being.B.To put the stress on traditional values.C.To portray the distorted and alienated relationships between man and his environment.D.To advocate a conscious break with the past.23.The Romantic writers would focus on all the following issues EXCEPT the ___ in the American literary histrory.A.individual feelingsB.idea of survival of the fittestC.strong imaginationD.return to nature24.Henry David Thoreau's work,__,has always been regarded as a masterpiece of New England Transcendentalism.B.The pioneersC.NatureD.Song of Myself25.The famous 20-years sleep in “Rip Van Winkle〞helps to construct the story in such a way that we are greatly affected by Irving's ___.A.concern with the passage of timeB.expression of transient beautyC.satire on laziness and corruptibility of human beingsD.idea about supernatural manipulation of man's life26.Walt whitman was a pioneering figure of American poetry.His innovation first of all lies in his use of __,poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.A.blank verseB.heroic coupletC.free verseD.iambic pentameter27.The literary characters of the American type in early 19th century are generally characterized by all the following features EXCEPT that they ___.A.speak local dialectsB.are polite and elegant gentlemenC.are simple and crude farmersD.are noble savages( red and white) untainted by society28.Hester Pryme, Dimmsdale,Chillingworth and Pearl are most likely the names of the characters in ___.A.The Scarlet LetterB.The House of the Seven GablestC.The Portrait of a LadyD.The pioneers29.“This is my letter to the World〞is a poetic expression of Emily Dickinson's __ about her communication with the outside world.A.indifferenceB.anger30.With Howells,James,and Mark Twain active on the literary scene, __ became the major trend in American literature in the seventies and eighties of the 19thcentury.31.After The adventures of Tom Sawyer, Twain gives a literary independence to Tom's buddy Huck in a book entitled ___.A.Life on the MississippiB.The Gilded AgeC.The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnD.A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court32.However,___,the keynote of Daisy Miller's character,turns out to be an admiring but a dangerous quality and her defiance of social taboos in the Old World finally brings her to a disaster in the clash between two different cultures.C.worldliness33.Generally speaking,all those writers with a naturalistic approach to human reality tend to be ___.A.transcendentalists34.Emily Dickinson wrote many short poems on various aspects of life.Which of the following is NOT a usual subject of her poetic expression?A.Religion and immortality.B.Life and death.C.Love and marriage.D.War and peace.35.In “After Apple-Picking,〞Robert Frost wrote:“For I have had too much/Of applepicking:I am overtired/Of the great harvestI myself desired.〞From these lines we can conclude that the speaker is ___.A.happy about the harvestB.still very much interested in apple-pickingC.expecting a greater harvestD.indifferent to what he once desired36.Chinese poetry and philosophy have exerted great influence over ____.A.Ezra PoundB.Ralph Waldo EmersonC.Robert FrostD.Emily Dickinson37.The Hemingway Code heroes are best remembered for their __.A.indestructible spirtieB.pessimistic view of life38.IN The Emperor Jones and The Hairy Ape,O'Neill adopted the expressionist techniques to portray the ___ of human beings in a hostile universe.A.helpless situationC.profound religious faithD.courage and perseverance39.In Hemingway's “Indian Cmap〞,Nick's night trip to the Indian village and his experience inside the hut can be taken as ____.A.an essential lesson about Indian tribesB.a confrontation with evil and sinC.an initiation to the harshness of lifeD.a learning process in human relationship40.which of the following statements about Emily Grierson, the protagonist in Faulkner's story “A Rose for Emily,〞is NOT true?A.She has a distorted personality.B.She is physically deformed and paralyzed.C.She is the symbol of the old values of the South.D.She is the victim of the past glory.PART TWOⅡ.Reading Comprehension (16 points, 4 for each)Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English.Write your answer in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.41.“Her eyes met his and he looked away.He neither believed nor disbelieved her,but he knew that he had made a mistake in asking;he never had known,never would know,what she was thinking.The sight of her inscrutable face,the thought of all the hundreds of evenings he had seen her sitting there like that,soft and passive,but so unreadable, unknown, enraged him beyond measure.〞Questions:A.Identify the writer and the work.B.What does the phrase “inscrutable face〞mean?C.What idea does the quoted passage express?42.“And when I am formulated,sprawling on a pin,When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall.Then how should beginTo spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways.〞Questions:A.Identify the poem and the poet.B.What does the phrase “butt-ends〞mean?C.What idea does the quoted passage express?43.“God knows,…I'm not myself—I'm somebody else—…and I'm changed,and I can't tell what's my name,or who I am.〞Questions:A.Identify the work and the author.B.The speaker says he is changed.Do you think he is changed, or the social environment has changed?C.What idea does the quoted sentence express?44.“I shall be telling this wi th a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference.〞Questions:A.Idenfity the poem and the poet.B.What does the phrase “ages and ag es hence〞mean?C.What idea does the quoted passage express?Ⅲ.Questions and Answers(24 points in all, 6 for each)Give brief answers to each of the following questions in English.Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.45.As a rule,an allegory is story in verse or prose with a double meaning: a surface meaning,and an implied meaning.List two works as examples of allegory.What is an allegory usually concerned with by its implied meaning?46.Inspiration for the romantic approach initially came from two great shapers of thought.Who are the two?And what ideas they expressed inspire the romantic writers?47.The white whale,Moby Dick,is the most important symbol in Melville's novel.What symbolic meaning can you draw from it?48.Nature is a philosophic work, in which Emerson gives an explicit discussion on his idea of the Qversoul.What is your understanding of Emersonian “Oversoul〞?Ⅳ.Topic Discussion(20 points in all, 10 for each)Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.49.How is Romanticism different from Neoclassicism?Provide brief evidence from the literary works you know best.50.Summerize the story of Mark twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in about 100 words,and comment on the theme of the novel.Ⅱ.Reading Comprehension (16 points, 4 for each)41.A.John Galasworthy:The Man of Property.B.A face does not show any emotion or reaction so that it is impossible to know how that person is feeling or what he is thinking about.C.it presents the inner mind of Soames in face of his wife's coldness.He can never know what is on his wife's mind because the makeup of his and her mentality is different.His wife Irene, whose mind is romantically inclined, is disgusted with her husband's possessiveness.Being unable to read his wife's mind is as good as saying that he really can't regard her as his property- this is the very reason why he is enraged beyond measure.42.A.T.S.Eliot:“The Love So ng of J.Alfred Pruforck.〞B.The ends of cigarettes,meaning trivial things here.C.Here,Prufrock's inability to do anything against the society he is in is made strikingly clear by using a sharp comparison .Prufrock imagines himself as a kind of insect pinned on the wall and struggling in vain to get free.This image vividly shows Prufrock's current predicament.43.A.Washington Irving:“Rip Van Winkle〞.B.The social environment is changed.C.When Rip is back home after a period of 20 years,he finds thta everything has changed.All those old values are gone,and he can hardly feel at home in a changed society.One of the functions that Rip serves in the story is to provide a measuring stick forchange.It is through him that Irving drives home the theme that a desire for change,improvement,and progress could subvert stable society.44.A.Robert Frost:“The Road Not Taken〞.B.Many many years later.C.The speaker is telling his experience of making the choice of the roads.But he is conscious of the fact that his choice will have made all the difference in his life.He seems to be giving a suggestion to the reader.“Make good choice of your life.〞Ⅲ.Questions and Answers (24 points in all,6 for each)45.A.Buyan's pilgrim's Progress and Spenser's The Faerie Queene.B.It is usually concerned with moral ,religious,political,symbolic or mythical ideas.46.A.The French philosopher,Jean Jacques Rousseau and the German writer Johna Wolfgan von Goethe.B.It is Rousseau who established the cult of the individual and championed the freedom of the human spirit;his famous announcement was “I felt before I thought.〞Goethe and his compatriots extolled the romantic spirit.47.A.To Ahab,the whale is either an evil creature itself or the agent of an evil force that controls the universe,or perhaps both.B.To Ishmale,the whale is an astonishing force,an immense power,which defies rational explanation due to a sense of mystery it carries.It is beautiful,but malignant at the same time.It also represents the tremendous organic vitality of the universe,for it has a life force that surges onward irresistibly, impervious to the desires or wills of men.C.As to the reader, the whale can be viewed as a symbol of the physical limits that life imposes upon man.It may also be regarded as a symbol of nature, or an instrument of God's vengeance upon evil man.In general,the multiplicity and ambivalence of the symbolic meaning of the whale is such that it becomes a source of intense speculation, an object or profound curiosity for the reader.48.A.The Oversoul is believed to be an all-pervading power for goodness,omnipresent and omnipotent from which all things come and of which all are a part.It exists in nature and man alike and constitutes the chief element of the universe.B.According to Emerson,it is a supreme reality of mind, a spiritual unity of all beings, and a religion regarded as an emotional communication between an individual soul and the universal Over-soul of which it is a part.C.He holds that intuition is a more certain way of knowing than reason and that the mind could intuitively perceive the existence of the Oversoul and of certain absolutes.Ⅳ.Topic Discussion (20 points in all, 10 for each)49.a.Neoclassicists upheld that artistic ideals should be order,logic,restrained emoticon and accuracy,and that literature,should be judged in terms of its service to humanity,and thus,literary expressions should be of proportion,unity,harmony and grace.Pope's An Essay on Criticism advocates grace,wit (usually though satire/humour),and simplicity in language(and the poem itself is a demonstration of those ideals,too);Fielding's Tom Jones helped establish the form of novel;Gray's “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' displays elegance in style,unified structure,serious tone and moral instructions.b.Romanticists tended to see the individual as the very center of all experience,including art,and thus,literary work should be “spontaneous overflow of strong feelings,〞and no matter how fra gmentary those experiences were (Wordsworth's “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,〞or “The Solitary Reaper,) or Coleridge's “Keble Khan〞),the value of the work lied in the accuracy of presenting those unique feelings and particular attitudes.c.In a word, Neoclassicism emphasized rationality and form but Romanticism attached great importance to the individual's mind (emotion, imagination, temporary experience…)50.A.Mark Twain's novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a Sequa to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.The Story takes place along the Mississippi River before the Civil War in the United States, around 1850.Along the river, floats a small raft, with two people on it; One is an ignorant,uneducated black slave named Jim and the other is little uneducated outcast white boy about the age of thirteen, called Huckleberry Finn or Huck Finn.The novel relates the story of the escape of Jim from slavery and ,more important, how Huck Finn, floating along with Jim and helping him as best he could, changes his mind ,his prejudice, about Black people, and comes to accept Jim as a man and as a close friends as well.During their journey, they experience a series of adventures:coming across two frauds, the “Duke〞and the “King〞,witnessing the lynching and murder of a harmless drunkard, being lost in a fog and finally Tom's coming to rescue. B.The theme of the novel may be best summed in a word “freedom〞: Huck wants to escape from the bond of civilization andJim wants to escape from the yoke of slavery.Mark Twain uses the raft's journey down the Mississippi River to express his thematic contrasts between innocence and experience, nature and culture, wilderness and civilizati。
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英语专业-英美文学试卷及答案-期末
英美文学试卷A
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I. Mark the following statements as true (T) or false (F). (10 x 1’=10’)
1. ( ) Chaucer is the first English short-story teller and the founder of English poetry as
well as the founder of English realism. His masterpiece The Canterbury tales
contains 26 stories.
2. ( ) English Renaissance is an age of essay and drama.
3. ( ) The rise of the modern novel is closely related to the rise of the middle class and an
urban life.
4. ( ) The French Revolution and the American War of Independence were two big
influences that brought about the English Romantic Movement.
5. ( ) Charlotte’s novels are all about lonely and neglected young women with a fierce
longing for life and love. Her novels are more or less based on her own experience and feelings and the life as she sees around.
6. ( ) The leading figures of the naturalism at the turn of 19th century are Thomas Hardy,
John Galsworthy and Bernard Shaw.
7. ( ) Emily Dickinson is remembered as the “All American Writer”.
8. ( )The Civil War divides the American literature into romantic literature and realist
literature.
9. ( ) Mark Twain is the first American writer to discover an American language and
American consciousness.。