英国文学试题答案

英国文学选读样题答案

一、选择题（本大题共15小题，每小题1分，总计15分）

1---5 ABCCC

6---10 ABBAB

11---15 BBAAC

二、填空（本大题共10小题，每小题2分，总计20分）

1．Heroic 2 comedies 3. couplet 4. metaphysical poetry 5. Eve

6. My Luve’s Like a Red, Red, Rose

7.Houyhnynms

8. Coleridge

9. Odes 10. Emily Bronte

三、诗歌分析（本大题共4个小题，每小题分值见各小题，共20分）

1．William Wordsworth; I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

2．Iambic tetrameter; ababcc ababcc

3.

The waves beside them danced; but they

_ / _ / _ / - /

Out-did | the spark|ling waves | in glee:

_ / _ / _ _ _ /

A po|et could |not but |be gay,

_ / _/ _ / _ _

In such | a jo|cund com|pany:

_ / _ / _ / _ /

I gazed--|and gazed-|-but lit|tle thought

_ / _ / _ / _ /

What wealth |the show |to me |had brought:

4. 水波在边上欢舞，但水仙

比闪亮的水波舞得更乐；

有这样快活的朋友做伴，

诗人的心儿被欢愉充塞；

我看了又看，却没领悟

这景象给了我什么财富。（黄杲炘）

四、小说分析（本大题共5个小题，每小题分值见每小题，共20分）

1.Jane Eyre; Sharlotte Bronte

2.He had a mad wife who set the building on fire and climbed to the roof of the

building. He tried to save her. But the staircase broke and he fell down He was wounded and became blind.

3.When Jane knew that Mr. Rochester had a wife. She was surprised and fled

from Thornfield. Mr. Rochester was very sad at it.

4.She wandered about and met Mr. Rivers and became a village school teacher.

Mr. Rivers would go to work in India. He asked her to be his wife, which was refused. She heard Mr. Rochester calling her in the wind and came back.

5.Though poor and plain, Jane Eyre, who had a strong will of life, tried hard to

get her rights of equality. She lived the man very much who was about 20 years older than she and richer. She just wanted him to treat her equally. She was great because her love made disillusioned Rochester happy again. Mr.

Rochester was a man full of life’s misery, yet he loved Jane truly and respected her very much. That’s why he got her love.

五、文学术语解释（共5个术语，每个2分，共10分）

1．Ballad: The narrative folk song that tells a story, which originates and is communicated orally mainly among illiterates.

2.Couplet: A pair of rhymed lines that are equal in length and the same in rhythm and rhyme

3.Soliloquy: The act of talking to oneself, whether silently or aloud. In drama it refers

to the act of a character alone on the stage that utters his or her thoughts aloud.

4.Elegy: Poems that lament the loss of something or someone, or loss or death more generally.

5.Lyric: A poem, usually a short one, that expresses a speaker’s personal thoughts or

feelings. The elegy, ode, and sonnets are all forms of the lyric.

六、简答题（本大题共3小题，每小题5分，共15分）

ment briefly on the fate of Tess in Tess of the D’Urbervilles.

Tess is actually a victim of her society. Hardy created the heroine Tess just to criticize the society in his time. Tess is a tragic person simply because she is not accepted by the society in which agriculture is menaced by the forces of invading capitalism. So in a way, Tess’ fate is decided by her society.

2.What are the unique features of Shakespeare’s sonnets?

Two features: (1) the principle person addressed by the poet is not a woman b ut

a young man and a mysterious dark lady. (2) the structure of three quatrains

and a concluding couplet is typically Shakespearean.

3．What are the themes of Pride and Prejudice?

1)a conservative criticism of the Romantic movement and in particular its con ceit of

love at first sight.

2)Irony also permeates the novel.

3)ordinary provincial life with keen observation.

4)Marriage plays a huge role in the novel

5)Social classes are also taken into account and play a major role as a theme

6)Pride and prejudice both stand in the way of relationships,