英美文学基础考研真题(A卷答案)
英美文学选读试题及答案1
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 feed their flocks,/By shallow rivers to whose falls/Melodious bird s 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 subjec t 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 a nd 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 applepi cking: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 with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference.〞Questions:A.Idenfity the poem and the poet.B.What does the phrase “ages and ages 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 Song 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 for change. 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 elega nce 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 fragmentary 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 and Jim 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。
英美文学欣赏考题整理及答案
Part One：English Poetry1.William Shakespeare Sonnet 18•Why does the poet compare `thee` to a summer’s day? And who could `thee` be?Because summer’s day and thee both represent beauty . thee could be beauty, love.•What picture have you got of English summer, and could you explain why?Warm, beautiful, sunshine. Because summer is the best season of a year ,the most beautiful season. It is like our May.•How does the poet answer the question he puts forth in the first line?Thee is more beautiful than summer.•What makes the poet think that “thou” can be more fair than summer and immortal?Because humanism is more eternal than summer and immortal.•What figures of speech are used in this poem?Simile, metaphor, personification, oxymoron and so on .•What is the theme of the poem?Love conquers all, Beauty lives on.2. Thomas Nashe Spring•Read the poem carefully, pay attention to those image- bearing words, and see how many images the poet created in the poem and what sense impressions you can get from those images.There is “Blooms each thing, maids dance in a ring, the pretty birds do sing, the palm and may make country houses gay, Lambs frisk' and play, the shepherds pipe all day, And we hear aye birds tune this merry lay, The fields breathe sweet, the daisies kiss our feet, Young lovers meet, old wives a-sunning sit, In every street these tunes bur ears do greet!”The “Young lovers meet, old wives a-sunning sit，”impressions me most because of the harmony of the people’s relationship.•Can you point out and explain the sound and their musical effect in the poem?In the Poem, each section has four lines, each line has ten syllables ( five tone step ) . In order to give the reader a spring breeze , streams , flowers , winding , Song Xin texture of sound and light flavor, Naixi greater uses English word S , z , f , V , R , L , and θconsonants means. In Naixi's poem, the use of phonological is also very harmonious, very smooth , very mellow. Section I of the poetry has Three pairs [ ing ] , section II of the poem has three pairs [ ei ] and the third quarter has three pairs [ i : ].3.John Donne A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning•What is a “valediction” any way? Is the speaker in the poem about to die?Why does the speaker forbid mourning?No, it is about the lover s’separation. As the poem metaphors, the poet believed he and his wife’s love is sacred, he didn’t hope they cry when separation comes, let their love be stained by the ordinary and mundane.In the first verse, the poet used virtuous men’s death metaphor for lovers’separation, in the third verse he used “moving of the earth” and “trepidation of the spheres” metaphor for lovers’ separation and the result of separation, in the last three verse he used stiff twin compasses’two legs metaphor for poet himself and his wife. All these metaphors show poet opinion that he will separate from his wife in peace, their love is a scared love, when they away from each other, they will not be hurt by the pain of the separation. He and his wife will not really separate. They care about each other and listen to the other one’s heart, their trust and loyalty makes their love perfect like the circle made by a twin compasses.4.William Blake The Tiger•What is the symbolic meaning of the tiger?The symbol of the Tiger is unclear what it exactly symbolizes, but scholars have hypothesized that the Tiger could be inspiration, the divine, artistic creation, history, the sublime, or vision itself. The list is almost infinite. The point is, the Ti ger is important, and Blake’s poem barely limits the possibilities.Here are two major symbolisms:The tiger is the embodiment of God's power in creation.The tiger shows the force of French Revolution.•What paradox can you find in the poem?"Did he who made the Lamb make thee?" It challenges the one-track religious views of the 18’s century. The view only concluded that god create the lame, he is so kind a father. But it didn’t know god also create the tough tiger. He can also be very serious. The god is someone who can’t be truly understood by human beings.5.Robert Burns A Red, Red Rose•How dose the narrator in the love song express his love?In stanza 1, the narrator presents two similes, the first comparing his love to a rose and the second comparing his love to a melody.In stanza 2, the narrator addresses the young lady as bonnie. In the last line of the stanza, he presents hyperbole, a figure of speech that exaggerates.In stanza 3, the man promises eternal love for her.In stanza 4, the poet vows to love her however far he may go.•Why is this poem so touching to the readers?Because this poem professes the poet’s true love for his beloved girl, and uses the mentioned above to touch the readers.6.William Wordsw orth I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud•What does the poet see?He sees some daffodils.•What is the poet’s mood before he sees the daffodils?Vacant and pensive.•What is the poet’s mood after he sees the daffodils?He is very pleasant.•How does the magical change occur?Those daffodils show a fantastic picture to the poet, and the poet has been deeply affected by the scene, and his mood changes.•What is the theme of the poem? Or what does the poet want to tell you?It shows the beauty of nature, and the nature’s beauty uplifts the human spirit, and the harmony between human and nature.7.Robert Browning My Last Duchess• 1. In this poem, who and on what occasion is speaking to whom?The Duke is the speaker of the poem, and tells us he is entertaining an emissary who has come to negotiate the Duke’s marriage (he has recently been widowed) to the daughter of another powerful family.•What sort of person is the Duke’s last Duchess?She is kind, easy-going, innocent and lively.•And what became of her in the end?She became very upset and worrying. The duchess died under suspicious circumstances on April 21, 1561, just two years after he married her. She may have been poisoned.• 2. What sort of person is the Duke?He is outrageously arrogant, narrow-minded, selfish, hypocritical, cold-blooded, crucial, greedy and treacherous.8.Walt Whitman O Captain! My Captain!•Q:Walt Whitman’s poem “O Captain! My Captain!” is written in the form of an allegory. What is the overall connotative meaning in the poem?A: Ship’s implied meaning is America; My capta in’ implied meaning is Abraham Lincoln who leaded America to triumph in American Civil War then;our fearful trip’s implied meaning is American Civil War after which Lincoln was assassinated. In this poem author spoken highly of Lincoln’ contribution and expressed his sorrow for Lincoln’ death.9.Emily Dickinson (1)Success is counted sweetest (67)•According to the poem, who can understand success most? Do you agree or not with the poet’s view that “Success is counted sweetest by those who ne’er succeed”?The person who best understands the meaning of success is the person who fails•What sort of feelings does the poet show toward the victor and the defeated?The poet shows her awareness of the complicated truths of human desire.Success can be comprehended by someone who need it; the defeated, dying man understand victory more clearly than the victorious army does.(2)Because I could not stop for Death (712)•How many people are there in the carriage? And where are they going right now?There are three in the carriage, the Poet, Death, and Immortality.•Where did they pass? What can these places remind us of?They passed the school, the fields of Gazing grain, the Setting Sun. It reminds usof childhood, maturity and old age, the children are evident symbols of the beginning of things, the grain rip of the adulthood, and the sun setting of the rest of the days.•What is the poet’s attitude toward death and life implied in the poem?The poet’s attitude is that death is nothing to be forced since it is natural part of the endless cycle of nature, it’s only the beginning ;to die is to go on another journey, although death takes one away from the earthy world ;there is still something to look forward to when one dies, death means eternity.10.Robert Frost Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening•Why did the speaker stop?Literally he was fascinated by the beautiful night scene and stoped his horse to watch the woods fill up with the snow,it was also a little break for the long travel. But in fact,it's symbolism,the 'woods' stands for the nature,the 'village' stands for the human world, 'horse' for the animal world. The poem representsa moment of relaxation from the burdensome journey of life, an almostaesthetic enjoyment and appreciation of natural beauty which is wholesome and restorative against the chaotic existence of modern man.•Why did he later decide to go?As the last sentence said 'But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep.'His 'horse' shake the bell to ask if they should go,which is actually a symbol of vitality, urges him to go. He lives in the real life, and he has his own obligation "promise to keep',he hasn't achieve it, so he must go on his trip,leave the beautiful scene.Though the scene is so amazing,he has to have the real life.Though the real life is so hard,he must back to it,and reach his goal. One leaves no regrets after he dies, as long as one has reached his goal.•What is your understanding of “promises to keep”?“The promise” could be an obligation or a goal. One cannot die before fulfilling one’s dream. The poet uses “sleep” to represent death, just as we usually do. People have their own dream or goal,it's also the duty for us to finish, we live for ourselves and we make life wonderful by keeping on reaching our goal,no regrets leaves as long as we have reached our goals. 11. Ezra Pound In a Station of the MetroPart Two: English Fiction12. Jonathan Swift Gulliver’s Travels●In this chapter, Swift describes the smallness of the Lilliputians. What doesthis “smallness” imply in the author’s satire of the aristocratic bourgeois society of the time?Key: The Lilliput scene depicted in the first volume of the novel is a microcosm of the British Empire. The perennial endless struggle between UK Tories and Whigs and external war are essentially just politicians intrigue in the section has nothing to do with the national economy and the people's livelihood. The “smallness” imply that …●What is the cause of the civil strife and war between Lilliput and theneighbouring empire of Blefuscu? What is the target of the author’s satire?(1)Key: The parties are divided as high-heeled party and low-heeled party accordingto the height of the heel. The relationship between parties is irreconcilable;Neighboring countries not only want to conquer and enslave the other, but also argue about trifles such as which head we should knock when we will eat eggs . (2) Key: The author uses irony and innuendo tactics to reflect the British social contradictions among first half of the 18th century, to criticize the British parliamentary politics and reactionary religious forces, to expose the corruption and evil of the ruling clique, and to criticize the hazards of a war of aggression and colonialism.13Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice1.Do you agree with the statement “it is truth universally acknowledged that a singleman in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife”? What is the relationship between money and marriage?Key: (1) I agree with this statement. In my view, a bachelor who has lots of money is supposed to have a wife to company him. The amount of money demonstrates the ability of a person. The beauties and the wits should come together.(2) First, the relationship between marriage and money is very close; we can say that the money is the basis of marriage. This is just from the material conditions of life. However, the amount of money can’t measure the quality of marriage. A determinant of marriage is the couple's feelings, and if the lack of the feelings, life is not a happy marriage even though has more money.2.What do you think of Mrs. Bennet? How can you characterize her?Key: (1) Mrs. Bennet - a foolish, noisy woman whose only goal in life is to see her daughters married. Because of her low breeding and often unbecoming behavior, Mrs. Bennet often repels the very suitors whom she tries to attract for her daughters.(2) Mrs. Bennet is a miraculously tiresome character, who is noisy and foolish. And Mrs. Bennet is totally obedient and submissive in her marriage. Mrs. Bennet is a self-centered woman with the attitude that what is good enough for her is good enough for her children.14. Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights1.What is the main plot of the whole novel? What causes the tragic ending of thelove between Heathcliff and Catherine? Would it have been possible, under the circumstances, for the victimized lovers to find a way out?Key: Novel’s theme is vengeance. Katherine's character flaws is the root causes of the tragedy, Heathcliff to lost love human distortion conducted a series of revenge activities, the capitalist society for the generation of tragedy provides fertile soil. If Heathcliff get marry with Katherine, they’ll be happiness.2.Is Heathcliff’s revenge upon the Earnshaw and Linton families justifiable? Whatis the author’s attitude toward Heathcliff, judging from the final futility of the revenge?Key: For the vengeance of the people is right .but it’s wrong in law. It’s love, but Heathcliff’s love is crazy.15. Kate Chopin The Story of an Hour•What kind of character is Louise Mallard?Key: Mrs. Mallard is a sympathetic character with strength and insight.•What are the themes of this short story?Key: It’s mainly about the awakening of feminine awareness and the fruitless struggle of women for freedom in a man-centered world. It is about marriage bondages and celibacy freedom.•What do “heart trouble” and “the open window” symbolize?Key: (1) heart trouble symbolizes(2) the open window symbolizes16. Earnest Hemingway Hills like White Elephants• 1. What is a “white elephant ” according to the dictionary definition? What does a “white elephant” symbolize in the story?(1) Key:a: a property requiring much care and expense and yielding littleprofitb : an object no longer of value to its owner but of value to othersc : something of little or no value(2)Key: The woman is pregnant, and the White Elephant is a hint of the body ofthe women. The fact that the two. This matter becomes a heavy burden for the two people.• 2. List the evidence that tells what kind of operation Jig is confronting.How risky is it physically and emotionally?(1) evidence:1.'It's really an awfully simple operation, Jig,' the man said. 'It's not really anoperation at all.'2. 'I know you wouldn't mind it, Jig. It's really not anything. It's just to let theair in.'3. 'They just let the air in and then it's all perfectly natural.'4. 'I know we will. Yon don't have to be afraid. I've known lots of people that have done it.'5. 'But I know it's perfectly simple.'(2) Key:1. Do affect her health, result that the body is badly weakened and be reducedimmunity in the aspect of physical.2. Do be Frustrated, empty and depressed mood which leads to that she cannot be quiet in the aspect of emotion.• 3. Has Jig made up her mind to do the operation?Key: The question about whether to do an abortion, the article comes a stop suddenly at the end. So we can’t make sure whether Jig has made up her mind to do the operation.• 4. If the operation is something already decided on, then what upsets Jig?What is the real conflict between the couple?Key: (1) She worries that she could not get happiness as before with the man. She upsets that he would leave her for ever.(2) The real conflict between the couple is that whether the man likes thewomenfrom the deep heart and their attitudes towards life.• 5. What kind of girl is Jig? How is their relation like? Does the American love Jig?Key: (1) She is restless and confused and longing for the deeper love from the man.(2) There could be many situations: first, a married man compels his loverto have a abortion; second, as a bachelor, he worries the baby would make his life be complex and so on.(3) Because of the various situations, we could not make an accurateconclusion that the man loves Jig. However, on some degree the man loves the woman by analyzing the conversation between them.• 6. What is Hemingway’s style?Key: Hemingway’s style is laconic. The characteristic is reflected in thatWhen writing, he is very clear what kind of content could pit one against ten. It is both an immediate situation and also containing other deeper meanings, which can be informed in the way of exploring something by the readers.17.William Faulkner A Rose for Emily• 1. What is the meaning of the title?Key: A rose is a funeral flower. It’s author’s tribute to Emily, and also to south, Emily is the symbol. And it has an ironic meaning to this story.• 2. What kind of woman is Miss Emily?Key: She is embodiment of south, the old and traditional, also obstinate, resists to change anything ,a determined，dignified, valiant and literate woman.• 3. How did the townspeople think of her?Key: The townspeople had mixed feelings—she was “dear inescapable, impervious, tranquil”, and perverse. Also she was always expected to bring honor to the town and set a good example for the young.• 4. What is the symbolic meaning of Emily’s house?Key: Emily’s house, like Emily herself, is a monument, the only remaining emblem of a dying world of southern aristocracy, also represents alienation and death.• 5. What is special about the narration of this story?Key: The writing style of the novel is using flashbacks and narration interspersed with flashbacks. The author let us know the independent but closely related events skillfully under the premise of being not exposed the true intentions, which makes us draw attention to the development of the plot without boring.Part Three: English Drama18. William Shakespeare Hamlet, Prince of Denmark• 1. Why does sleep appear to be so fearful for Hamlet even though it can put an end to the numerous headaches in our life?Key: As described in the text, Hamlet thinks that sleep is different from death. Death means the end of life, you may go to the unknown world and you can’t comeback. If he dies, Hamlet can’t realize his will. Sleep can’t end the heartache and the thousand natural shocks. He can’t revenge and get relief through this way. He is frightened bythe possible suffering in the long “dream”. He can’t predict what will happen in the sleep, may be good or evil.• 2. Why would most people prefer to bear all the sufferings in life rather than choose death as a means to end them?Key: 1. As it goes that ‘Adversity makes growth’, by solving the problems we can acknowledge plenty of skills and overcome the sufferings in life. If we choose death as a means to end them, it is too passive for us to face the obstacles in life, which will lead to the failure in life.2. Because people hold the same idea "to grunt and sweat under a weary life, butthat the dread of something after death-the undiscovered country, form whose bourn no traveler returns-puzzle the will, and make us rather bear those ills we have than fly to others that we don’t know.”People also are frightened by the myths in another world after death.Romeo and Juliet•What does it mean when Juliet says “That which we call a rose / By my other name would smell as sweet”?Key:In Shakespeare's time, name on behalf of their family, and his family represents the social status. And personal just only on behalf of their inner identity.And Juliet says strongly reflects her humanist outlook on life and the concept of the ideal.19. Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest1.How do you understand the title of the play? What is your impression ofGwendolen? What are the most striking traits in Lady Bracknell’s character? (1) Key: Here is a pun. It’s important to be a serious man. And the author wants to satirize the triviality with which it treats institutions as serious as marriage, and the resulting satire of Victorian ways.(2) Key: She advocates sincere, do be intelligent and friendly, and is able to forgive the mistakes of others. She do be a earnest person.(3) Key: Lady Bracknell embodies the stereotype of the Victorian English aristocrat woman. She belongs to aristocratic society and is a typical Victorian snob, who is arrogant, formal and concerned with money. She is interested only in a materialistic world.20. Eugene O’Neill The Hairy Ape1.Yank assumes more than once the posture of Rodin’s “The Thinker” in the play.What does it have to do with the play’s motif and tone? What are the major images and symbols employed in the play to dramatize the theme?(1) Key: 1. The themes of this article are modern man loses his sense of belonging under technological progress and humanity is in a predicament by creating a world he does not belong to.2. The Thinker is often painful, which demonstrates the profoundly tragic matter of modern people like Yank: he is thinking and looks forward to a better life, but he doesn’t find the answer. In O'Neill’s opinion, there exists no answer. Therefore, he is destined to be a loser.3. In summary, the description of his behavior makes the theme more significant.2.Why do you think the play is subtitled “A Comedy of Ancient and Modern Life inEight Scenes”？Key: 1. The hairy ape is a comedy of ancient and modern life which shows O'Neill's social concern for the oppressed industrial working class. It presents an extremely negative view of the state, of mechanized America, where the worker best adjusted to the system is a “hairy ape,” and where the “Capitalist class”is even more terribly dehumanized , for it has lost all connection with life , is simply “a procession of gaudy marionettes.”2. The play was created in 20th century when western people suffered unprecedented intellectual crisis. Human beings lost their absolute value, which made people fall into confusion and desperation. Besides, man’s des ire to emotions was ignored in the rapid development of technology. People put existence of individuality first at that time.3. N umerous obstacles and frustrations occur in the way of Yank’s seeking for his position, which reflects survival crisis of most modern people. The more people think about, the clearer people realize about freedom.（注：文档可能无法思考全面，请浏览后下载，供参考。
英美文学考研真题试卷
英美文学考研真题试卷一、选择题（每题2分，共20分）1. 以下哪部作品是威廉·莎士比亚的悲剧？A.《罗密欧与朱丽叶》B.《仲夏夜之梦》C.《威尼斯商人》D.《第十二夜》2. 以下哪位作家被称为“美国文学之父”？A. 爱德加·爱伦·坡B. 华盛顿·欧文C. 纳撒尼尔·霍桑D. 马克·吐温3. 以下哪部作品是查尔斯·狄更斯的代表作？A.《大卫·科波菲尔》B.《简·爱》C.《傲慢与偏见》D.《呼啸山庄》4. 以下哪位诗人被誉为“英国浪漫主义诗人”？A. 威廉·华兹华斯B. 约翰·弥尔顿C. 托马斯·哈代D. 罗伯特·弗罗斯特5. 以下哪部作品是乔治·奥威尔的反乌托邦小说？A.《1984》B.《动物农场》C.《美丽新世界》D.《我们》6. 以下哪位作家是现代主义文学的代表人物？A. 弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫B. 简·奥斯汀C. 奥斯卡·王尔德D. 乔治·艾略特7. 以下哪部作品是海明威的代表作？A.《老人与海》B.《了不起的盖茨比》C.《太阳照常升起》D.《永别了，武器》8. 以下哪部作品是弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫的代表作？A.《到灯塔去》B.《简·爱》C.《呼啸山庄》D.《傲慢与偏见》9. 以下哪位作家是后现代主义文学的代表人物？A. 托马斯·品钦B. 詹姆斯·乔伊斯C. 弗朗茨·卡夫卡D. 阿尔贝·加缪10. 以下哪部作品是简·奥斯汀的代表作？A.《理智与情感》B.《傲慢与偏见》C.《曼斯菲尔德庄园》D.《爱玛》二、简答题（每题10分，共30分）11. 简述《了不起的盖茨比》中盖茨比的美国梦及其破灭的原因。
12. 分析《简·爱》中简·爱的性格特点及其对女性独立意识的影响。
2014年武汉科技大学考研试题857英美文学基础(A卷)和标准答案
二O 一四年招收硕士研究生入学考试试题A 卷 考试科目及代码： 英美文学基础（857） 适用专业： 英语语言文学；外国语言学及应用语言学 答题内容写在答题纸上，写在试卷或草稿纸上一律无效。
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英美文学基础（代码：857
英语语言文学；外国语言学及应用语言学
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武汉科技大学2022年《英美文学基础》考研真题与答案解析
武汉科技大学2022年《英美文学基础》考研真题与答案解析I. Find out the matches from column B for items in column A (注意：B栏中有两个多余的、干扰选项). Write the corresponding matches (e.g., 1—R, 5—B, etc.) on your answer sheet. (共20小题，每小题1分，共20分)A B1Nathaniel Hawthorne A Songs of Experience2William Shakespeare B Catch-223Herman Melville C Pygmalion4Jonathan Swift D Desire Under the Elms5Henry James E The Merchant of Venice6William Blake F Death of a Salesman7Mark Twain G Sons and Lovers8John Keats H‘The Fall of the House of Usher’9Eugene O’Neill I The Scarlet Letter10Oscar Wilde J‘A Modest Proposal’11Tennessee Williams K Humbolt’s Gift12 D. H. Lawrence L Four Quartets13Arthur Miller M The Portrait of a Lady14Virginia Woolf N‘Ode to a Nightingale’15Saul Bellow O Leaves of Grass16George Gordon Byron P Moby Dick17Joseph Heller Q A Streetcar Named Desire18T. S. Eliot R The Importance of Being Earnest 19Toni Morrison S The Adventures of Tom Sawyer20George Bernard Shaw T BelovedU Mrs. DallowayV Don JuanII. Explain the following literary terms or characters with adequate details. Write your answers on your answer sheet. (共6小题，每小题5分，共30分)1. Epiphany2. Iceberg principle3. Transcendentalism4. Sarty (in ‘Barn Burning’)5. Algernon (in The Importance of Being Earnest)6. ImagismIII. Read the following two poems carefully and write your answers to the corresponding questions on your answer sheet. (共8小题，每小题5分，共40分)Poem 1: The Sick Rose (by William Blake)O Rose thou art sick.The invisible worm,That flies in the nightIn the howling storm:Has found out thy bedOf crimson joy:And his dark secret loveDoes thy life destroy.Questions 1 to 4 are based on the above poem :1.In what sense do you think the rose is “sick”?2.What do “the night” and “the storm” symbolize?3.Why does the worm’s love destroy the rose?4. In what sense is the rose responsible for its sickness?Poem 2: Fire and Ice (by Robert Frost)Some say the world will end in fire,Some say in ice.From what I’ve tasted of desireI hold with those who favor fire.But if it had to perish twice,I think I know enough of hateTo say that for destruction iceIs also greatAnd would suffice.Questions 5 to 8 are based on the above poem:4.What are the symbolic meanings of fire in this poem?5.Why does the speaker say that ice is also great for destruction? Explain what ice stands for here.6.What is your opinion about fire and ice? Which one is more destructive? Why?8. What does the poem suggest so that destruction could be avoided?IV. Answer the following questions with adequate details from the works related. Write your answers on your answer sheet. (共3小题，每小题20分，共60分)1. What do you think Doris Lessing wants to say about the relationship between men and women in modern society in “A Woman on aRoof”? Does she ever show any sympathy to the three men in the story? How (if yes) or why not (if no)?2.In what sense is Stephen Crane's “The Open Boat” a typical naturalist story? What naturalist themes can be found in the story? How are the themes illustrated in the story?3.In Gulliver's Travels，what is the author’s attitude towards his master? How does he feel to be a human being? Why do you think Yahoos are kept by the Houyhnhnms?答案解析I. Find out the matches from column B for items in column A (注意：B栏中有两个多余的、干扰选项). Write the corresponding matches (e.g., 1—R, 5—B, etc.) on your answer sheet. (共20小题，每小题1分，共20分)评分细则：每空1分，共20分。
2023年自考专业(英语)《英美文学选读》考试历年真题摘选附带答案
2023年自考专业(英语)《英美文学选读》考试历年真题摘选附带答案第1卷一.全考点综合测验(共20题)1.【单选题】What he had done is _______A.valueB.of valuableC.of no valueD.of no valuable2.【单选题】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 England3.【单选题】“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 Fitzgerald4.【单选题】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 Time5.【单选题】The( )Age of the 1920s characterized by frivolity and carelessness is brought vividly to life in The Great Gatsby.A.LostB.JazzC.ReasonD.Gilded6.【单选题】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.Modernism7.【单选题】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 Fitzgerald8.【单选题】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 Horizon9.【单选题】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 It10.【单选题】Ezra Pound,a leading spokesman of the “( ) ”,was one of the mostimportant poets in his time.A.Imagist MovementB.Cubist MovementC.Reformist MovementD.Transcendentalist Movement11.【单选题】William Faulkner set most of his works in the American( ),with his emphasis on the( )subjects and consciousness.A.North...NorthernB.East...EasternC.West...WesternD.South...Southern12.【单选题】Now many major employers are beginning to demand _______ the completion of schoolA.more thanB.rather thanC.other thanD.better than13.【单选题】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.14.【单选题】considered( ) “the true father of our national literature ”.A.Bret HarteB.Mark TwainC.Washington IrvingD.Walt Whitman15.【单选题】Most literary critics think that Fitzgerald is both an insider and an outsider of( )with a double vision.A.the Jazz AgeB.the Age of Reason and RevolutionC.the Babybooming AgeD.the Post- Modern Age16.【单选题】At the age of eighty -seven,( )read his poetry at the inauguration of President John in 1961.A.Robert FrostB.Walt WhitmanC.Ezra Pound17.【单选题】The Financier,The Titan and The Stoic by Theodore Dreiser are called his “Trilogy of( ). ”A.HatredB.DeathC.DesireD.Fate18.【单选题】In Go Down,Moses,( )illuminates the problem of black and white in Southern society as a closeknit destiny of blood brotherhood.A.William FaulknerB.Jack LondonC.Herman MelvilleD.Nathaniel Hawthorne19.【单选题】“The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one- eighth of it being above water. ” This “iceberg ” analogy is put forward by( ).A.Mark TwainB.Ezra PoundC.William FaulknerD.Ernest Hemingway20.【单选题】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 Dreiser第2卷一.全考点综合测验(共20题)1.【单选题】That is the house _______ you can enjoy the scenery.A. in thatB.thatC.whichD.from which2.【单选题】( )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 Twain3.【单选题】In 1950,( )was awarded the Nobel Prize for the anti-racist Intruder in the Dust.A.William FaulknerB.Robert FrostC.Ezra PoundD.Ernest Hemingway4.【单选题】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 Dickinson5.【单选题】This type of desk and chair can be adjusted ________ the height of students at different agesA.withB.forC.toD.in6.【单选题】Mark Twain’s particular concern about the local character of a region came about as “local colorism, ” a unique va riation of American literary( ).A.romanticismB.nationalismC.modernismD.realism7.【单选题】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…widow8.【单选题】Opposition leaders will be watching carefully to see how the Prime Minister ________ the crisis.A.handlesB.conductsC.observesD.directs9.【单选题】She disagrees ______ him ______ everything.A.with, onB./, onC.with, atD.on, with10.【单选题】Henry James’ fame generally rests upon his novels and stories with the( )theme.A.internationalB.localC.colonialD.post-modern11.【单选题】In most of his writings,( )deliberately broke up the chronology of his narrative by juxtaposing the past with the present,in the way the montage does in a movie.A.Walt WhitmanB.William FaulknerC.Ernest HemingwayD. Fitzgerald12.【单选题】The teacher told us the fact _______.A.which the earth moves around the sunB.that the earth moved around the sunC.that the sun moves around the earthD.that the earth moves around the sun13.【单选题】It was his masterpiece The Great Gatsby that made( )one of the greatest American novelists.A. FitzgeraldB.William FaulknerC.Ernest HemmingwayD.Gertrude Steinbeck14.【单选题】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.Fitzgerald15.【单选题】“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 monologue16.【单选题】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,Moses17.【单选题】Mark Twain employed an unpretentious style of( )in his novels which is best described as “vernacular ”.A.standard EnglishB.Afro-American EnglishC.colloquialismD.urbanism18.【单选题】In the original test，all the animals in a test group are given a substance _______ half of them dieA.unlessB.untilC.lestD.provided19.【单选题】Like all naturalists,( )was restrained from finding a solution to the social problems that appeared in his novels and accordingly almost all his works have tragic endings.A.Theodore DreiserB.Henry JamesC.Washington IrvingD.Walt Whitman20.【单选题】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 Garland第1卷参考答案一.全考点综合测验1.正确答案：C本题解析：of+n=adj ，可以作表语。
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。
英语文学考研试题及答案
英语文学考研试题及答案一、选择题（每题2分，共20分）1. 莎士比亚的《哈姆雷特》中，主人公哈姆雷特的叔叔是谁？A. 克劳狄斯B. 奥菲利亚C. 波洛涅斯D. 拉尔特斯答案：A2. 简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》中，伊丽莎白·班内特最终与谁结婚？A. 达西先生B. 宾利先生C. 威克姆先生D. 柯林斯先生答案：A3. 在弗吉尼亚·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. 塔斯利先生D. 卡迈克尔先生答案：A4. 乔治·奥威尔的《1984》中，主人公温斯顿·史密斯在哪个部门工作？A. 真理部B. 和平部C. 富足部D. 仁爱部答案：A5. 在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》中，白鲸的名字是什么？A. 莫比·迪克B. 艾哈布船长C. 斯塔布D. 弗拉斯克答案：A6. 狄更斯的《双城记》中，故事发生在哪个国家？A. 英国B. 法国C. 德国D. 意大利答案：B7. 在《了不起的盖茨比》中，盖茨比的真正名字是什么？A. 詹姆斯·盖茨B. 汤姆·布坎南C. 乔治·威尔逊D. 迈耶·沃尔夫舍姆答案：A8. 艾米莉·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》中，希斯克利夫是如何得到呼啸山庄的？A. 通过继承B. 通过购买C. 通过婚姻D. 通过欺诈答案：C9. 在《简·爱》中，简·爱在桑菲尔德庄园担任什么职位？A. 女管家B. 家庭教师C. 仆人D. 园丁答案：B10. 托马斯·哈代的《德伯家的苔丝》中，苔丝·德伯因何被判刑？A. 谋杀B. 盗窃C. 通奸D. 私奔答案：A二、简答题（每题10分，共40分）1. 描述《麦克白》中麦克白夫人的性格特点，并分析她对麦克白的影响。
答案：麦克白夫人是一个野心勃勃、冷酷无情的人物。
她对权力的渴望促使她鼓励丈夫麦克白谋杀国王邓肯，以夺取王位。
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英美文学考试题目及答案一、选择题（每题2分，共10分）1. 英国文学史上被称为“英国诗歌之父”的诗人是：A. 乔叟B. 莎士比亚C. 弥尔顿D. 拜伦答案：A2. 下列哪部作品不是简·奥斯汀的小说？A. 《傲慢与偏见》B. 《理智与情感》C. 《简·爱》D. 《曼斯菲尔德庄园》答案：C3. 美国文学中，被誉为“美国文学之父”的作家是：A. 爱伦·坡B. 马克·吐温C. 华盛顿·欧文D. 亨利·詹姆斯答案：C4. 以下哪位作家是现代主义文学的代表人物？A. 狄更斯B. 哈代C. 弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫D. 简·奥斯汀答案：C5. 美国文学中的“迷惘的一代”是指：A. 第一次世界大战后的作家群体B. 第二次世界大战后的作家群体C. 独立战争后的作家群体D. 内战后的作家群体答案：A二、填空题（每题2分，共10分）1. 威廉·莎士比亚的四大悲剧包括《哈姆雷特》、《奥赛罗》、《李尔王》和________。
答案：《麦克白》2. 《了不起的盖茨比》是美国作家________创作的一部以20世纪20年代的纽约为背景的小说。
答案：F·司各特·菲茨杰拉德3. 英国浪漫主义诗人威廉·华兹华斯与________共同发起了浪漫主义诗歌运动。
答案：塞缪尔·泰勒·柯勒律治4. 美国诗人沃尔特·惠特曼的代表作是________，它被认为是美国文学史上的里程碑。
答案：《草叶集》5. 英国现代主义诗人T.S.艾略特的代表作《荒原》是一首________诗。
答案：长三、简答题（每题10分，共20分）1. 简述乔治·奥威尔的《1984》中“老大哥”的象征意义。
答案：在《1984》中，“老大哥”象征着极权主义政权的无所不在和无所不知，代表了对个人自由和思想的全面控制。
他的形象无处不在，监视着社会的每一个角落，象征着对个人隐私的侵犯和对思想自由的压制。
【北京外国语大学-英美文学-考研真题及答案】英美文学2010
【北京外国语大学-英美文学-考研真题及答案】英美文学方向专业试卷（考试时间3 小时，满分150分，全部写在答题纸上，答在试题页上无效）Section 1 Matching (30points)Match each of the following ten passages with its. author. There are more authors than passages here, and one author may be matched with more than onepassage.Write the passage number (1-10) and the corresponding author letter (A 句for each answer. For example, thefollowing is Passage2:Only one same reason is shared by all of us: we wish to create worlds as real as, but other than the world that is. Or was. This is why we cannot plan. We know a world is an organism, not a machine. We also know that a genuinely created world must be independent of its creator; a planned world (a world that fully reveals its planning) is a dead world. It is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to l ive.And its author is [M] F owles. Then your answer should be: 2M.Passages1.Whoso would be a man must be a non-conformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind. Aboslve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.2.It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a nigger - but I done it, and I wam't ever sorry for it afterwards, neither. I didn't do him no more mean tricks, and I wouldn't done that one ifl'd a knowed it would make him feel that way.3.While arranging my hair, I looked at my face in the glass and felt it was no longer plain: there was hope in its aspect and life in its colour; and my eyes seemed as if they had beheld the fount of fruition and borrowed beams from the lustrous ripple. I had often been unwilling to look at my master, because I feared he could not be pleased at my look: but I was sure I might lift my face to his now, and not cool his affection by its expression.4.Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.5.Some say the world will end in fire,Some say in ice.From what I've tasted of desire,I hold with those who favour fire.But if it had to perish twice,I think I know enough of hateTo say that for destructionice Is also greatAnd would suffice.6.I wander thro' each charter'd street,Near where the charter'd Thames does flow,And mark in every face I meetMarks of weakness, marks of woe.7.Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is:What if my leaves are falling like its own!The tumult of thy mighty harmoniesWill take from both a deep, autumnal tone,Sweet though in sadness. Be thou, Spirit fierce,My spirit! Be thou me, impetuous one!8.Another thing in Joe that I could not understand when it fi订st began to develop itself, but which I soon arrived at sorrowful comprehension of, was this: As I became stronger and better, Joe became a little less easy with me.9.All Nature is but art, unknown to thee;All chance, direction, which thou canst not see;All discord, harmony not understood;All partial evil, universal good;And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite,One truth is clear: whatever IS, is RIGHT.10.The grass-plot before the jail, in Prison Lane, on a certain summer morning, not less than two centuries ago, was occupied by a pretty large number of the inhabitants of Boston, all with their eyes intently fastened on the iron-clamped oaken door. Amongst any other population, or at a later period in the history of New England, the grim rigidity that petrified the bearded physiognomies of these good people would have ugured some awful business in hand.AuthorsA.Henry Divid ThoreauB.William WordsworthC.Charles DickensD.Alexander PopeE.Francis BaconF.Charlotte BronteG.Percy Bysshe ShelleyH.Robert FrostI.Mark TwainJ.William ShakespeareK.Nathaniel Haw出orneL.Ralph W. EmersonM.Willam BlakeSection 2 Short Story (120points)1.Summarize the p lot o f t hefollowing .sto疗in y our own words. (30points)2.De fine the ma j or theme o f the following short sto叮'.(40points)3.Make a brief comment on the characterization of the man and his wife. (30points)4.C omment on the ending part o f the story.{20points)The Enormous RadioJim and Irene Wescott were the kind of people who seem to strike that satisfactory average of income, endeavor, and respectability that is reached by the statistical reports in college alumni bulletins. They were the parents of two young children, they had been married nine years, they lived on the twelfth floor of an apartment house near Sutton Place, they went to the theater on an average of 10.3 times a year, and they hoped someday to live in Westchester. Irene Wescott was a pleasant, rather plain g订l with soft brown hair, and a wide, fine forehead upon which nothing at all had been written, and in the cold weather she wore a coat of fitch skins dyed to resemble mink. You could not say that Jim Westcott looked younger than he was, but you could at least say of him that he seemed to feel younger. He wore his graying hair cut very short, he dressed in the kind of clothes his class had worn at Andover, and his manner was earnest, vehement, and intentionally na'ive. The Westcotts differed from their friends, their classmates, and their neighbors, only in an interest they shared in serious music. They went to a great many concerts - although they seldom mentioned t压s to anyone - and they spent a good deal of time listening to music on the radio.Their radio was an old instrument, sensitive, unpredictable, and beyond repair. He promised to buy Irene a new radio, and on Monday when he came home from work he told her that he had got one. He refused to describe it, and said it would be a surprise for her when it came.The radio was delivered at the kitchen door the follo劝ng afternoon, and with the assistance of her maid and the handyman Irene uncrated it and brought it into the living room. She wasstruck at once with the physical ugliness of the large gumwood cabinet. Irene was proud of her living room, she.had chosen its furnishings and colors as carefully as she chose her clothes, and now it seemed to her that her new radio stood among her intimate possessions like an aggressive intruder. She was confounded by the number of dials and switches on the instrument panel, and she studied them thoroughly before she put the plug into a wall socket and turned the radio on. The dials flooded with a malevolent green light, and in the distance she heard the music of a piano quartet. The quintet was in the distance for only an instant; it bore down upon her with a speed greater than light and filled the apartment with the noise of music amplified so mightily that it knocked a china ornament from a table to the floor. She rushed to the instrument and reduced the volume. The violent forces that were snared in the ugly gumwood cabinet made her uneasy. Her children came home from schoc,l then, and she took them to the Park. It was not until later in the afternoon that she was able to return to the radio.The maid had given the children their suppers and was supervising their baths when Irene turned on the radio, reduced the volume, and sat down to listen to a Mozart quintet that she knew and enjoyed. The music came through clearly. The new instrument had a much purer tone, she thought, than the old one. She decided that tone was most important and that she could conceal the cabinet behind the sofa. But as soon as she had made her peace with the radio, the interference began. A crackling sound like the noise of a burning powder fuse began to accompany the singing of the strings. Beyond the music, there was a rustling that reminded Irene unpleasantly of the sea, and as the quintet progressed, these noises were joined by the many others. She tried all the dials and switches but nothing dimmed the interference, and she sat down, disappointed and bewildered, and tried to trace the flight of the melody. The elevator shaft in her building ran beside the living-room wall, and it was the noise of the elevator that gave her a clue to the character of the static. The rattling of the elevator cables and the opening and closing of the elevator doors were reproduced in her loudspeaker, and, realizing that the radio was sensitive to electrical currents of all sorts, she began to discern through the Mozart the ringing of telephone bells, the dialing of phones, and the lamentation of a vacuum cleaner. By listening more carefully, she was able to distinguish doorbells, elevator bells, electric razors, and Waring mixers, whose sounds had been picked up from the apartments that surrounded hers and transmitted through her loudspeaker. The powerful and ugly instrument, with its mistaken sensibility to discord, was more than·she could hope to master, so she turned the thing off and went into the nursery to see her children.When Jim came home that night, he was tired, and he took a bath and changed his clothes. Then he joined Irene in the living room. He had just turned on the radio when the maid .announced dinner, so he left it on, and Irene went to the table.Jim was too tired to make even·pretense of sociability, and there was nothing about the dinner to hold Irene's interest, so her attention wandered from the food to the deposits of silver polish on the candlesticks and from there to the music in the other room. She listened for a few minutes to a Chopin prelude and then was surprised to hear a man's voice break in. ."For Christ's sake, Kathy," he said, "do you always have to play the piano when I get home?" The music stopped abruptly. "It's the only chance I have," the woman said. "I'm at the office all day." "So am I," the man said. He added something obscene about an upright piano, and slammed a door. The passionate and m elancholy music began again."Did you hear that?" Irene asked."What?" Jim was eating his dessert."The radio. A man said something while the music was still going on -- something dirty.""It's probably a play.""I don't think it is a play," Irene said.They left the table and took their coffee into the living room. Irene asked Jim to try another station. He turned the knob. "Have you seen my garters?" A man asked. "Button me up," a woman said. "Have you seen my garters?" the man said again. "Just button me up and I'll find your ga廿ers," the woman said. Jim shifted to another station. "I wish you wouldn't leave apple cores in the ashtrays," a man said. "I hate the smell.""This is strange," Jim said."Isn't it?" Irene said.Jim turned the knob again. "'On the coast of Coromandel where the early pumpkins blow,"' a woman with a pronounced English accent said, "'in the middle of the woods lived the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo. Two old chairs, and half a candle, one old jug without a handle "' "My God!" Irene cried. "That's the Sweeneys' nurse.""'These were all his worldly goods,"' the British voice continued."Turn that thing off," Irene said."Maybe they can hear us." Jim switched the radio off. "That was Miss Armstrong, the Sweeneys' nurse," Irene said. "She must be reading to the little girl. They live in 17-B. I've talked with Miss Armstrong in the Park. I know her voice very well. We must be getting other people's apartments.""That's impossible," Jim said."Well, that was the Sweeneys' nurse," Irene said hotly. "I know her voice. I know it very well. I'm wondering if they can hear us."Jim turned the switch. First from a distance and then nearer, nearer, as if borne on the wind, came the pure accents of the Sweeneys' nurse again: '"Lady Jingly! Lady Jingly!"' she said, '"sitting where the pumpkins blow, will you come and be my wife? said the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo '"Jim went over to the radio and said, "Hello" loudly into the speaker.'"/ am tired of living singly, "' the nurse went on, '"on this coast so wild and shingly, I'm a-weary of my life; ifyou 'll come and be my wife, quite serene would be my life '""I guess she can't hear us," Irene said. "Try something else."Jim turned to another station, and the living room was filled with the uproar of a cocktail party that had overshot its mark. Someone was playing the piano and singing the "Whiffenpoof Song," and the voices that surrounded the piano were vehement and happy. "Eat some more sandwiches," a woman shrieked. 1h e r e were screams of laughter and a dish of some sort crashed to the floor."Those must be the Fullers, in 11-E," Irene said. "I knew they were giving a party this afternoon. I saw her in the liquor store. Isn't this too divine? Try something else. See if you can get those people in 18-C."The Westcotts overheard that evening a monologue on salmon fishing in Canada, a bridge game, running comments on home movies of what had apparently been a fortnight at Sea Island, and a bitter family quarrel about an overdraft at the bank. They turned off their radio at midnight and went to bed, weak with laughter.The following morning, Irene cooked breakfast for the family - the maid didn't come up from her room in the basement until ten - braided her daughter's hair, and waited at the door until her children and her husband had been carried away in the elevator. Then she went into the living room and tried the radio. "I don't want to go to school," a child screamed. "I hate school. I won't go to school. I hate school." "You will go to school," an enraged woman said. "We paid eight hundred dollars to get you into that school and you'll go if it kills you." The next number on the dial produced the worn record of the "Missouri Waltz." Irene shifted the control and invaded the privacy of several breakfast tables. She overheard demonstrations of indigestion, carnal love, abysmal vanity, faith, and despair. Irene's life was nearly as simple and sheltered as it appeared to be, and the forthright and sometimes brutal language that came from the loudspeaker that morning astonished and troubled her. She continued to listen until her maid came in. Then she turned off the radio quickly, since this insight, she realized, was a furtive one.Irene had a luncheon date with a friend that day, and she left her apartment a little after twelve.Irene had two Martinis at lunch, and she looked searchingly at her friend and wondered what her secrets were. They had intended to go shopping after lunch, but Irene excused herself and went home. She told the maid that she was not to be disturbed; then she went into the living room, closed the doors, and switched on the radio. She heard, in the course of the afternoon, the halting conversation of a woman entertaining her aunt, the hysterical conclusion of a luncheon party, and hostess briefing her maid about some cocktail guests. "Don't give the best Scotch to anyone who hasn't white hair," the hostess said. "See if you can get rid of the liver paste before you pass those hot things, and could you lend me five dollars? I want to tip the elevator man."As the afternoon waned, the conversations increased in intensity. From where Irene sat, she could see the open sky above the East River. There were hundreds of clouds in the sky, as though the south wind had broken the winter into pieces and were blowing it north, and on her radio she could hear the arrival of cocktail guests and the return of children and businessmen from their schools and offices. "I found a good-sized diamond on the bathroom floor this morning," a woman said. "It must have fallen out of the bracelet Mrs. Dunston was wearing last night." "We'll sell it," a man said. 'Take it down to the jeweler on Madison Avenue and sell it. Mrs. Dunston won'tknow the difference, and we could use a couple of hundred bucks " "'Oranges and lemons, say the bells of St. Clement's,'" the Sweeneys' nurse sang. "Halfpence and farthings, say the bells of St. Martin's. When will you pay me? say the bells at old Bailey ..."' "It's not a hat," a womancried, and at her back roared a cocktail party. "It's not a hat, it's a love affair. That's what Walter Florell said. He said it's not a hat, it's a love affair," and then, in a lower voice, the same woman added, "Talk to somebody, for Christ's sake, honey, talk to somebody. If she catches you standing here not talking to anybody, she'll take us off her invitation list, and I love these parties."Jim came home at about six the next night. Emma, the maid, let him in , and he had taken off his hat and was taking off his coat when Irene ran into the hall. Her face was shining with tears and her hair was disordered. "Go up to 16-C, Jim!" she screamed. "Don't take off your coat. Go up to 16-C. Mr Osborn's beating his wife. They've been quarreling since four o'clock, and now he is hitting her. Go up there and stop him."From the radio in the living room, Jim heard screams, obscenities, and thuds. "You know you don't have to listen to this sort of thing," he said. He strode into the living room and turned the switch. "It's indecent," he said. "It's like looking into windows. You know you don't have to listen to this sort of thing. You can turn it off.""Oh, it's so terrible, it's so dreaful," Irene was sobbing. I've been listening all day, and it's so depressing.""Well, if it's so depressing, why do you listen to it? I brought this dammed radio to give you some pleasure," he said. "I paid a great deal of money for it. I thought it might make you happy. I wanted to make you happy.""Don't , don't, don't,,don't quarrel with me," she moaned, and laid her head on his shoulder. "All the others have been quarreling all day. Everybody's been quarreling. They're all worried about money. Mrs. Hutchinson's mother is dying of cancer in Florida and they don't have enough money to send her to the Mayo Clinic. At least, Mr Hutchinson says they don't have enough money. And some woman in this building is having an affair with the handyman - with that hideous handyman. It's too disgusting. And Mrs. Melville has heart trouble, and Mr. Hendricks is going to lose his job in April and Mrs. Hendricks is horrid about the whole thing and that girl that plays the "Missouri Waltz" is a whore, a common whore, and the elevator man has tuberculosis and Mr. Osborn has been beating his wife." She wailed, she trembled with grief and checked the stream of tears down her face with the heel of her palm."Well why do you have to listen?" Jim asked again. "Why do you have to listen to this stuff if it makes you miserable?""Oh, don't, don't, don't," she cried; "Life is too terrible, too sordid and awful. But we'venever been like that, have we, darling"? Have we? I mean, we've always been good and decent and loving to one another, haven't we? And we have two children, two beautiful children. Our lives aren't sordid, are they, darling? Are they?" She flung her arms around his neck and drew his face down to hers. "We're happy, aren't we, darling? We are happy, aren't we?""Of course we're happy," he said tiredly. He began to surrender his resentment. "Of course we are happy. "I'll have that dammed radio fixed or taken away tomorrow." He stroked her soft hair. "My poor girl," he said."You love me, don't you? she asked. "And we're not hypercritical or worried about money or dishonesty, are we?"A man came in the morning and fixed the radio. Irene turned it on cautiously and was happy to hear a California-wine commercial and a recording of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, including Schiller's "Ode to Joy." She kept the radio on all day and nothing untoward came toward the speaker.A Spanish suite was being played when Jim came home. "Is everything all right?" he asked. His face was pale, she thought. They had some cocktails and went to dinner to the "Anvil Chorus" from II Trovatore. This was followed by Debussy's "La Mer.""I paid the bill for the radio today," Jim said. "It cost four hundred dollars. I hope you'll get some enjoyment out of it.""Oh, I'm sure I will," Irene said."Four hundred dollars is a good deal more than I can afford," he went on. "I wanted to get something that you'd enjoy. It's the last extravagance we'll indulge in this year. I see that you haven't paid your clothing bills yet. I saw them on.your dressing table." He looked directly at her. "Why did you tell me you paid them? Why did you lie to me?""I just didn't want you to worry, Jim," she said. She drank some water. "I'll be able to pay my bills out of this months allowance. There were the slipcovers last month, and that party.""You've got to learn to handle the money I give you a little more intelligently, Irene," he said. "You've got to understand that we don't have as much money this year as we had last. I had a very sobering talk with Mitchell today. No one is buying anything. We're spending all of our timepromoting new issues, and you know how long that takes. I'm not getting any younger you know. I'm thirty-seven. My hair will be gray next year. I haven't done as well as I hoped to do. And I don't suppose things will get any better.""Yes dear," she said."We've got to start cutting down," Jim said. "We've got to think of the children. To be perfectly frank with you, I worry about money a great deal. I'm not at all sure of the future. No one is. If anything should happen to me, there's the insurance, but that won't go very far today. I've worked awfully hard to give you and the children a comfortable life," he said bitterly. "I don't like to see all my energies, all my youth, wasted in fur coast and radios and slipcovers and -""Please Jim," she said. "Please. They'll hear us.""Who'll hear us? Emma can't hear us.""The Radio.""Oh, I'm sick! He shouted. "I'm sick to death of your apprehensiveness. The radio can't hear us. Nobody can hear us. And what if they can hear us? Who cares?"Irene got up from the table and went into the living room. Jim went to the door and shouted from there. "Why are you so Christly all of a sudden? What's turned you overnight into a convent girl? You stole your mother's jewelry before they probated her will. You never gave your sister a cent of that money that was intended for her - not even when she needed it. You made Grace Rowland's life miserable, and where was all your all your piety and your virtue when you went to that abortionist? I'll never forget how cool you were. You packed your bag and went off to have that child murdered as if you were going to Nassau. If you had any reasons, if you had any good reasons -Irene stood for a minute before the hideous cabinet , disgraced and sickened, but she held her hand on the switch before she extinguished the music and the voices, hoping the instrument might speak to her kindly, that she might hear the Sweeney's nurse. Jim continued to shout at her from the door. The voice on the radio was suave and noncommital. "An early-morning railroad disaster in Tokyo," the loudspeaker said, "killed twenty-nine people. A frre in a Catholic hospital near Buffalo for the care of blind children was extinguished early this morning by nuns. The temperature is forty-seven. The humidity is eighty-nine."。
英语专业英美文学试卷及答案期末
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 Englishpoetry as well as the founder of English realism. His masterpiece TheCanterbury 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 middleclass and an urban life.4. ( ) The French Revolution and the American War of Independence were two biginfluences that brought about the English Romantic Movement.5. ( ) Charlotte’s novels are all about lonely and neglected young women witha fierce longing for life and love. Her novels are more or less based on herown experience and feelings and the life as she sees around.6. ( ) The leading figures of the naturalism at the turn of 19th century are ThomasHardy, John Galsworthy and Bernard Shaw.7. ( ) Emily Dic kinson is remembered as the “All American Writer”.8. ( )The Civil War divides the American literature into romantic literature andrealist literature.9. ( ) Mark Twain is the first American writer to discover an American languageand American consciousness.10. ( ) In the decade of the 1910s, American literature achieved a new diversityand reached its greatest 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 c haracter reacting under various circumstances and pictured the pioneers of the Far West, the new immigrants and the struggles ofthe working class. The leading figures were ____________, ____________, ____________, ____________, etc.15. No period in American history is more eventful than that between the two worldwars. 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 theinterest in the activities of _____________________.17. Sha kespeare’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 w ritten 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 _______________.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 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 __________.A. complicityB. complexityC. powerfulnessD. mildness25. As one of the greatest masters of English prose, _______ defined a good styleas “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 thesearch for _________.A. material wealthB. spiritual salvationC. universal truthD. self-fulfillment27. “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of agood 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 t hat 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. . 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 and corruptness he sees all around him.C. The later works show the development of Dickens towards a highly conscious artistof the modern type.D. A Tale of Two Cities is one of his late works.33. _____w as 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 capacityof 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’ｓfame 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 Stanza/doc/4614326257.html,ke 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 inAmerican literat ure. 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) Puritanism 12.1783 13.The American Scholar 14.realistic; Mark Twain; Henry James; Jack London; Theodore Dreiser. 15.Imagist; Hemingway. 16.the classical literature; humanity. 17.Romeo and Juliet 18.Cavalier; Metaphysical 19.heroic couplet 20.Henry Fielding 21.John Keats /doc/4614326257.html,dy Chatterley ’ｓ lover ; The RainbowIII. Multiple choice.（本题共20小题，每题1分，共20分) 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 iambicpentameter, and the ninth line is an iambic hexameter line. The rhythm scheme is题号23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 答案 D C B B C A C D A A B A A B D D B D D Aababbcbcc44. Lake Poets: it refers to those English romantic poets at the beginning of the19th century, William Wordsworth, for example, who lived in the heart of the LakeDistrict in the north-western part of England and enjoyed the experience of livingclose to nature, and these poets were the older generation of Romantic poets whohad 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. Humanismbecame t he 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 andfourth 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 na?ve and artless youth into a shrewd and hardened man, tempered by numerous trials in his eventfullife.C. In the novel, Robinson is a real hero and he is an embodiment of the risingmiddle-class virtues in the mid-eighteenth century England. Robinson is a trueempire-builder, a colonizer and a foreign trader, who has the courage and will toface 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 i n the spirit of the time. Because of the above reasons, when it was published, people all liked that story, and itbecame an immediate success.48. Byronic hero is a proud, mysterious rebel figure of noble origin. With immensesuperiority in 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 o f his works, for example, "Don Juan". The figure is somewhat modeled on the life and personality of Byron himself, andmakes Byron famous both at home and abroad.49.A. Mark Twain’s realism is tainted with local color, preferring to have his wonregion 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.。
2020英美文学考研题库
2020英美文学考研题库2020年英美文学考研题库涵盖了英美文学的多个方面，包括但不限于文学流派、重要作家及其作品、文学理论等。
以下是一些可能的考研题目和简要答案，供考生复习参考。
# 英美文学流派1. 浪漫主义文学的特点是什么？- 浪漫主义文学强调个人情感、自然美和对传统规范的反叛。
它倾向于使用丰富的想象力和强烈的情感表达。
2. 现代主义文学与后现代主义文学的区别是什么？- 现代主义文学强调形式的创新和对传统叙事方式的突破，而后现代主义文学则更加关注语言的局限性、现实的相对性以及对权威的解构。
# 重要作家及其作品3. 简述威廉·莎士比亚的戏剧《哈姆雷特》的主题。
- 《哈姆雷特》探讨了复仇、疯狂、道德困境和生与死等主题。
4. 分析简·奥斯汀的小说《傲慢与偏见》中的社会阶层观念。
- 《傲慢与偏见》通过班纳特家的女儿们的婚姻选择，揭示了19世纪英国社会对财富、地位和个人品德的复杂看法。
# 文学理论5. 结构主义文学理论的基本观点是什么？- 结构主义认为文学作品的意义不是固定的，而是通过文本内部的元素相互关系来构建的。
6. 后殖民理论如何影响我们对文学作品的解读？- 后殖民理论强调了文化、权力和身份在文学作品中的交织，鼓励我们从被殖民者的角度重新审视文本。
# 文学分析技巧7. 如何运用新批评主义的方法分析一首诗？- 新批评主义强调对文本本身的严密分析，包括意象、节奏、音调等，而忽略作者的生平和历史背景。
8. 女性主义批评如何解读文学作品中的女性角色？- 女性主义批评关注文学作品中的女性角色是如何被构建的，以及这些角色如何反映和挑战性别角色和权力结构。
# 当代英美文学9. 分析当代英美文学中对多元文化主义的探讨。
- 当代英美文学作品经常探讨不同文化之间的互动，以及个体如何在多元文化社会中寻找身份和归属感。
10. 讨论21世纪英美文学中的环境主义主题。
- 21世纪的英美文学作品越来越多地关注环境问题，如气候变化、生态破坏等，以及这些问题对人类社会的影响。
2009年四川大学英语专业(英美文学)真题试卷答案
一、单项选择题1 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】《父子之间》是奈保尔著名的家庭书信集，堪与《傅雷家书》媲美。
2 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 1904年建立的The Abbey Theatre可以说是爱尔兰戏剧复兴的摇篮，叶芝、格雷戈里夫人、辛格和奥凯西都是爱尔兰文艺复兴运动的中坚力量。
Sartor Resartus(《旧衣新裁》或《衣裳哲学》)是维多利亚时代著名的苏格兰评论家、讽刺作家和历史学家ThomasCarlyle(托马斯·卡莱尔)的作品，和爱尔兰戏剧复兴运动并没有直接关系。
3 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 Romance是中世纪非常流行的一种文体，描写的是骑士们的爱情和冒险故事。
4 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】作为玄学派的代表诗人，约翰·多恩以其奇妙大胆的想象和暗喻著称。
5 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】这两行诗的意思是：我突然看见一簇簇、一丛丛金黄的水仙。
“host”在诗中指的是大量、很多。
6 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】梭罗是美国先验主义作家之一，其代表作是Walden(《瓦尔登湖》)。
选项A《厄舍古屋的倒塌》是Edgar Allan Poe(爱伦·坡)的作品；选项B 《塞拉斯·拉帕姆的发迹》是William Dean Howells(豪威尔斯)的小说；选项D《睡谷传奇》的作者是Washington，Irving(华盛顿·欧文)。
7 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】《马丁·伊登》是杰克·伦敦非常著名的一部小说。
选项A《红色英勇勋章》是StephenCrane(斯蒂芬·克莱恩)的作品；选项B《章鱼》是Frank Norris(弗兰克·诺里斯)的代表作；选项C《镀金时代》是Mark Twain(马克·吐温)的第一部长篇小说。
8 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】“奴隶的梦”是朗费罗的一首名诗。
选项A“乌鸦”是爱伦·坡的名诗；选项B的作者是艾米丽·狄金森；选项C是Philip Freneau(菲利普·弗雷诺)的一首诗。
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1. 以下哪部作品是威廉·莎士比亚的代表作？A. 《悲惨世界》B. 《哈姆雷特》C. 《安娜·卡列尼娜》D. 《了不起的盖茨比》答案：B2. 爱伦·坡的哪部短篇小说被誉为哥特式恐怖小说的经典之作？A. 《黑猫》B. 《红死病的假面舞会》C. 《乌鸦》D. 《告密的心》答案：B3. 以下哪位作家是现代主义文学的代表人物？A. 简·奥斯汀B. 乔治·奥威尔C. 弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫D. 马克·吐温答案：C#### 二、填空题4. 英国浪漫主义诗人威廉·华兹华斯在其作品《_______》中表达了对自然的热爱和对简单生活的向往。
答案：《抒情歌谣集》5. 弗朗西斯·斯科特·菲茨杰拉德的《了不起的盖茨比》中，盖茨比的悲剧性结局反映了20世纪20年代美国社会的一种_______。
答案：幻灭#### 三、简答题6. 简述《简·爱》中简·爱的独立精神。
《简·爱》是夏洛蒂·勃朗特的代表作，简·爱在作品中展现了强烈的独立精神。
她不屈从于社会地位和财富的压迫，坚持自己的道德信念和个人尊严。
在与罗切斯特先生的关系中，她拒绝成为他的情妇，坚持要得到平等和尊重。
简·爱的独立精神体现了19世纪女性自我意识的觉醒和对传统性别角色的挑战。
7. 描述《老人与海》中老渔夫桑地亚哥的形象。
《老人与海》是欧内斯特·海明威的杰作，老渔夫桑地亚哥是作品中的中心人物。
他是一个经验丰富、坚韧不拔的渔夫，面对连续84天没有捕到鱼的困境，他没有放弃，而是继续出海。
在与一条巨大的马林鱼的搏斗中，桑地亚哥展现了顽强的生命力和不屈的斗志。
尽管最终他只带回了鱼的骨架，但他的勇敢和坚持赢得了人们的尊敬，体现了人类与自然斗争的永恒主题。
南开大学英美文学考研真题及参考答案(2008～2011)【圣才出品】
南开大学英美文学考研真题及参考答案（2008～2011）南开大学2011年英美文学考研真题考试科目：专业英语答案与解析I. Define briefly the following terms. (每小题4分，共20分)1. assonance【答案】assonance: the repetition of identical or similar vowel sounds in the stressed syllables (and sometimes in the following unstressed syllables) of neighboring words, especially in poetry. Assonance is often employed to please the ear or emphasize certain sounds. It is distinct from rhyme in that the consonants differ although the vowels or diphthongs match: sweet dreams, hit or miss.As a substitute for rhyme at the ends of verse lines, assonance had a significant function in early Celtic, Spanish and French Versification.2. transcendentalism【答案】transcendentalism：Transcendentalism is a New England movement, which flourished from about 1835 to 1860. It had its roots in romanticism and inpost-Kantian idealism by which Coleridge was influenced. It had a considerable influence on American art and literature. Basically religious, it emphasized the role and importance of the individual conscience, and the value of intuition in matters of moral guidance and inspiration. The actual term was coined by opponents of the movement, but accepted by its members. The group of people were also social reformers. Some of the members, besides Emerson, were famous, including Bronson Alcott, Henry David Thoreau and Nathaniel Hawthorne.3. medieval romances in England【答案】medieval romances in England: romance is a fictional story in verse or prose that relates improbable adventures of idealized characters in some remote or enchanted setting; or, more generally, a tendency in fiction opposite to that of realism. Medieval romance is distinguished from epic by its concentration on courtly love rather than warlike heroism. Medieval romances in England usually refers to the chivalric romance of tales of King Arthur’s knights written in the late Middle Ages by Chretien deTroyes (in verse) and Thomas Malory (in prose).4. foot【答案】foot: (1)A foot is the combination of a strong stress and the associated weak stress or stresses which make up the recurrent metric unit of a line. The relativelystronger-stressed syllable is called, for sort, “stressed”; the relatively weaker-stress ed syllables are called “light or most commonly, “unstressed”.(2)The four standard feet distinguished in English are: ①Iambic (the noun is “iamb”): an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. ②Anapestic (the noun is “anapest”): two unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable. ③Trochaic (the noun is “trochee”): a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable. ④Dactylic (the noun is “dactyl”): a stressed syllable followed by two unstressed syllables. (3)A metric line is named according to the number of feet composing it: monometer: one foot; dimeter: two feet; trimeter: three feet; tetrameter: four feet; pentameter: five feet; hexameter: six feet; heptameter: seven feet; octameter: eight feet.5. humanism【答案】humanism: a 19th-century term for the values and ideals of the European Renaissance, which placed a new emphasis on the expansion of human capacities. Reviving the study of Greek and Roman history, philosophy and arts, the Renaissance humanists developed an image of “Man” mor e positive and hopeful than that of medieval ascetic Christianity: rather than being a miserable sinner awaiting redemption from a pit of fleshly corruption, “Man” was a source of infinite possibilities, ideally developing towards a balance of physical, spiritual, moral and intellectual faculties.II. Reading and Interpreting. (每小题3分，共30分)Selection 1Questions 1 to 6 are based on the following poem Emily Dickinson. Because I could not stop for DeathBecause I could not stop for Death—He kindly stopped for me—The Carriage held but just Ourselves—And Immortality.We slowly drove—He knew no haste,And I had put awayMy labor, and my leisure too,For his Civility—We passed the School, where Children stroveAt Recess—in the Ping—We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain—We passed the Setting Sun—Or rather. He passed Us—The Dews drew quivering and chill—For only Gossamer, my Gown—My tippet—only tulle—We paused before a House that seemedA Swelling of the Ground一The Roof was scarcely visible—The Comice—in a GroundSince then—'tis centuries—and yetFeels shorter than the DayI first surmised the horses'headsWere toward Eternity.1. Why did Death stop for me?2. Why couldn't I stop for Death?3. What did the Death's carriage hold?4. What three things did the speaker and Death pass?5. What is the “House” in the ground in stanza 5? Why do the centuries seem shorter than the Day?6. What is the theme of the poem?【答案】1. In the first line of the poem, Dickinson gives the reason: because I can not stop for death and also because death is kind and wants to offer me some ease.Death here is described as someone who is very kind and considerate.2. In the whole poem, we can know that Dickinson regards life as a journey and only after a particular journey, can we stop for death. Thus, for a life, stop is not the way to death but going on and travel is the way to death.3. Death’s carriage holds immortality, “I”and “death”.4. They pass three places: the School which symbolizes the childhood, the Fields of Gazing Grain which symbolize maturity and the Setting Sun which symbolizes the old age.5. “House” means the grave, of which what is visible on the ground is the tomb like a roof. So the “house” means death. However, death is not the final stop and it is just the pause of journey. After death, according to the Christianity, there is the eternity. Thus, compared to the journey before death, a century is shorter than even a day.6. Through the whole poem, we can see that Dickinson compared life as a journey and death is not so painful and terrible, it is just like a friend and somewhat take you to the eternity. From the poem, it seems that death has cheated her and finally deserted her in eternit y, but that is Emily Dickenson’s impression of death and of the essence of life, which leads us to a world of imagination and thinking.（此文需要抓住死亡和旅程这两个概念来回答，同时注意作者对死亡的态度。
英美文学考研题库和答案详解
英美文学考研题库和答案详解下列哪一部作品不是由英国作家莎士比亚所著？答案：D.《白鲸》是由美国作家赫尔曼·梅尔维尔所著。
答案：A.欧内斯特·海明威凭借其作品《老人与海》、《战地春梦》等获得了诺贝尔文学奖。
答案：B.《红与黑》是批判现实主义文学作品。
答案：英国文艺复兴时期的文学作品表现出对人文主义的强烈追求，个体的内心世界和人类命运，作品主题多样，涵盖爱情、友谊、家庭、社会矛盾等。
作品形式多样，包括戏剧、诗歌、散文等。
代表作家包括莎士比亚、培根等。
答案：美国现代主义文学强调个体内心的表达，人类的困境和困惑。
作品形式创新，常常采用象征、隐喻、意识流等手法。
主题包括孤独、迷茫、自我等。
代表作家包括庞德、艾略特、福克纳等。
请论述英国浪漫主义诗歌的主要代表人物及作品，并阐述其艺术特色。
答案：英国浪漫主义诗歌的主要代表人物有华兹华斯、柯勒律治和拜伦。
华兹华斯的《抒情歌谣集》表现了他对自然的热爱和对人类情感的理解；柯勒律治的《古舟子咏》讲述了一个海上漂流的故事，揭示了人类的罪恶和苦难；拜伦的《恰尔德·哈罗尔德游记》和《唐璜》则以豪放的激情和鲜明的个性，表现了诗人的反抗精神和积极进取的精神。
这些诗人的作品都展现了浪漫主义诗歌的艺术特色：以自然为题材，赞美自然，抒发个人情感，人类命运，反对封建制度等。
请阐述美国现实主义文学的主要特点和代表作家。
答案：美国现实主义文学的主要特点是对社会现实的客观描述和批判，社会问题和社会底层人民的命运。
代表作家包括马克·吐温、亨利·詹姆斯、欧内斯特·海明威等。
马克·吐温的《汤姆·索亚历险记》、《哈克贝里·芬历险记》等作品以幽默讽刺的手法揭示了社会的黑暗面；亨利·詹姆斯的《贵妇人的画像》、《螺丝在拧紧》等作品则深入探讨了人的内心世界和人际关系的复杂性；欧内斯特·海明威的《太阳照常升起》、《老人与海》等作品以简洁明快的语言和客观写实的手法表现了战争的残酷和人类的勇气与尊严。
2022年英美文学考研题库和答案详解
2022年英美文学考研题库和答案详解2022年英美文学考研题库【名校考研真题＋章节题库＋模拟试题】内容简介为了帮助考生顺利通过考研专业课科目《英美文学》的考试，我们根据名校《英美文学》最新考试大纲和指定参考教材，精心制作了英美文学考研题库。
本题库包括名校考研真题、章节题库和模拟试题三部分，具体如下：第一部分为名校考研真题。
本书收录了北京第二外国语大学、武汉大学等名校的4套考研真题，并由高分考生根据科目考试大纲、考研的参考教材和相关教师的授课讲义等对历年真题进行了详细解答，解题思路清晰、答案翔实，突出难度分析。
第二部分为章节题库。
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北京外国语大学英美文学(试题和答案)2002年考研试题研究生入学考试试题考研真题北京外国语大学。
2002年硕士研究生入学考试。
英美文学专业试题。
The following exam will be graded on both what you say and how you say it. All answers must be written on the answer sheets.。
I. Below are some terms that you might overhear literary critics say at a cocktail party in the English Department at BFS U. Explain SIX of them. （30 points）。
1、 ballad。
2、 Calvinism。
3、 dramatic irony。
4、 epic。
5、 metaphysical conceit。
6、 Oedipus complex。
7、 round character。
8、 transcendentalism。
II.1、 Summarize the plot of the following story in your own words。
（around 200 words）. （20 points）。
2、 Comment on the narrative technique of the story. （20 points）。
— 1/3 —— 1/3 —Continuity of Parks。
He had begun to read the novel a few days before. He had put it down because of some urgent business conferences, opened it again on his way back to the estate by train; he permitted himself a slowly growing interest in the plot, in the characterizations. That afternoon, after writing a letter giving his power of attorney and discussing a matter of joint ownership with the manager of his estate, he returned to the book in the tranquility of his study which looked out upon the park with its oaks. Sprawled in his favorite armchair, its back toward the door-even the possibility of an intrusion would have irritated him, had he thought of it-he let his left hand caress repeatedly the green velvet upholstery and set to reading the final chapters. He remembered effortlessly the names and his mental images of the characters; the novel spread its glamour over him almost at once. He tasted the almost perverse pleasure of disengaging himself line by line from the things around him, and at the same time feeling his head rest comfortably on the green velvet of the chair with its high back, sensing that the cigarettes rested within reach of his hand, that beyond the great windows the air of afternoon danced under the oak trees in the park. Word by word, licked to the point where the images settled sown and took on color and movement, he was witness to the final encounter in the mountain cabin. The woman arrived first, apprehensive; now the lover came in, his face cut by the backlash of a branch. Admirably, she stanched the blood with her kisses, but he rebuffed her caresses, he had not come to perform again the ceremonies of a secret passion, protected by a world of dry leaves and furtive paths through the forest. The dagger— 2/3 —warmed itself against his chest, and underneath liberty pounded, hidden close. A lustful, panting dialogue raced。
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二O 一四年招收硕士研究生入学考试试题A卷考试科目及代码：英美文学基础（代码：857）适用专业：英语语言文学；外国语言学及应用语言学答题内容写在答题纸上，写在试卷或草稿纸上一律无效。
考完后试题随答题纸交回。
考试时间3小时，总分值 150 分。
参考答案及评分标准Ⅰ Multiple Choice（24 points, 1 point for each）每题1分，共24分。
1. C2.A3.B4.D5.A6.B7. C8.D9. C 10.A 11.C 12. D 13.D 14.D 15.C 16.B17. C 18. D 19. A 20. A 21. B 22. D 23.B 24. AII Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase according to the context. Write your answers on your answer sheet.(1 point for each, 15 points in total)1. poetry2. English3. Lyrical Ballads4. dominant5. heredity6. stream-of-consciousness7. Iceberg8. Songs of Experience9. greatest10. Imperialism11. marriage12. Y ossarian13. transcendentalism14. The American Scholar15. death/doomIII Define the following literary terms (choose just three terms). Write your answers on your answer sheet. (7 point for each question, 21points in total)(注意：请任选三题作答，多回答的题不给分！如有多答的题，请在答题纸上用笔划掉，否则改卷时将按照答题的顺序评分。
)参考答案要点1.Iambic pentameter: A poetic line consisting of five verse feet, with each foot an iamb—that is, an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. Iambic pentameter is the most common verse line in English poetry. （7 points）2. Alliteration: The repetition of the initial consonant sounds in poetry. （7 points）3. Protagonist: The central character of a drama, novel, short story, or narrative poem. The protagonist is the character on whom the action centers and with whom the reader sympathizes most. Usually the protagonist strives against an opposing force, or antagonist , to accomplish something. （7 points）4. Naturalism: An extreme form of realism. Naturalistic writers usually depict the sordid side of life and show characters who are severely, if not hopelessly, limited by their environment or heredity. （7 points）IV Read the following two poems carefully and write your answers to the corresponding questions on your answer sheet. (30 points in total)参考答案要点Poem 1QUESTIONS:1. These lines are taken from Frost’s poem entitled______. （5 points）Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening2. In the poem, the rhyming scheme of the first stanza is _____ .（5 points）aaba3. Who is He in the first line of the poem? （5 points）The horsePoem 2QUESTIONS:4. These lines are taken a poem written by ______. （5 points）William Butler Yeats5. In the poem, what does “the Second Coming” mean? （5 points）"The Second Coming" means the coming of Jesus Christ.6. Translate the first 9 lines into Chinese.（5 points）确乎有某种启示近在眼前；确乎“再度降临”近在眼前。
“再度降临”！这几个字尚未出口，蓦地一个巨大形象出自“世界灵魂”，闯入我的眼界：在大漠的尘沙里，一个狮身人面的形体，目光似太阳茫然而冷酷，正挪动着迟钝的腿股；它周围处处旋舞着愤怒的沙漠野禽的阴影。
V Choose and answer ANY3 of the following questions with adequate details from the works related.Write your answers on your answer sheet.(20 point for each question, 60 points in total) (注意：请任选三题作答，多回答的题不给分！如有多答的题，请在答题纸上用笔划掉，否则改卷时将按照答题的顺序评分。
)(For wrong spelling of a key word, 0.5 point will be subtracted, otherwise neglected; if a writer’s name should be given, either the last name should be given out correctly or the full name should be correct.)1. Make brief comments on Gulliver’s Travels. (20 points)参考答案要点the name of the writer (5 points) , main plot (5 points) , and brief comment on the work (5 points) .It is a satire on politics, history, science, human nature and English society (5points)2. What are Walt Whitman’s contributions to American literature? (20 points) 参考答案要点The answer can include any or all of the following points:1. his contribution to poetry by writing free verse; (5 points)2. his contribution to writing on those subjects which might be notregarded as acceptable in American literature; (5 points)3. the national spirit (such as democracy, individualism, optimism,etc. )as reflected in his poems. (5 points)4. his period. (5 points)3. What do you know about Byronic hero? (20 points)参考答案要点A proud, mysterious rebel figure of noble origin. (5 points)Carrying on his shoulders the burden of righting all the wrongs in a corrupt society, (5 points), Rising single-handedly against any kind of tyrannical rules (5 points)either in government, in religion, or in moral principles with unconquerable wills and inexhaustible energies. (5 points)4. Introduce Desire Under the Elms. (20 points)参考答案要点the style of the work (novel, short story or a play, etc) (5 points) and the name of the writer (5 points) , main plot (5 points) , and brief comment on the work (5 points) .。