英美文学作品选读考试4
北语 20春《英美文学选读》作业_1234
20春《英美文学选读》作业_1一、单选题( 每题5分, 共10道小题, 总分值50分)1.Because of her sensitivity to universal pattens of human behavior, ______ has brought the English novel, as an art of form, to its maturity.A. Charlotte BronteB. Jane AustenC. Emily BronteD. Henry Fielding答：B q：80·500·92612.What＇s the name of Hester and Dimmesdale ＇s daughter?A. AmyB. PearlC. NinaD. Berry答：B3." Charles Drouet ", " George Hustwood ", " Julia Hustwood " are most likely the names of the characters in ________.A. Shaw’s Mrs Warren’s ProfessionB. Dreiser’s Sister CarrierC. Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s LostD. Christopher Marlowe’s Dr.Faustus答：B4.Where did Shakespeare work in LondonA. farmB. theaterC. factoryD. office答：B5."＇I believe you are made of stone,＇he said, clenching his fingers so hard that he broke the fragile cup. …＇You seem to forget,＇she said,＇that cup is not!＇" .From the above quoted passage, we can find the woman＇s tone is very( ) .A. sarcasticB. amusingC. sentimentalD. facetious答：A6.The poem Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening is selected from____A. A Witness TreeB. Steeple BushC. New HampshireD. A Further Range答：C7.All of the following poems by William Wordsworth are masterpieces on nature EXCEPT ______.A. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”B. “An Evening Walk”C. “Tintern Abbey”D. “The Solitary Reaper”答：D8.George Bernard Shaw’s ______ is a grotesquely realistic exposure of slum landlordism.A. Widower’ s HouseB. Mrs. Warren’ s ProfessionC. The Apple CartD. Getting Married答：B9.Virginia Woolf was born in a____A. poor familyB. small familyC. rich familyD. talented family答：D10.In American literature, escaping from the society and returning to nature is a common subject. The following titles are all related, in one way or another, to the subject except _______.A. Mark Twain＇s The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnB. Dreiser＇s Sister CarrieC. Copper＇s Leather-Stocking TalesD. Thoreau＇s Walden答：B二、判断题( 每题5分, 共10道小题, 总分值50分)1.To the Lighthouse is divided into three sections and each different from the others in the treatment of time and structure.答：正确2.Critical realism is the period between 1875 and 1920 to apply the methods of realistic diction to the criticism of society and the examination of social issues.3."Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere; /Destroyer and Preserver; hear, O hear!" the line are taken from Shelley＇s "Ode to the West Wind".4.The name of the first and most successful section in To the Lighthouse is “Window”.5.The 18th century witnessed a new literary form -the modern English novel, which, contrary to the medieval romance, gives a realistic presentation of life of the common English people.6."To be, or not to be"is one of the question put forward by Hamlet at the beginning of the soliloquy.7.George Hustwood , a friend of Drouet’s, rescues Carrie from starvation and makes her his mistress.8.It was said that Shakespeare was forced to leave his hometown to seek refuge in London.9.The themes of Robert Frost’s poems include landscape and people of New England, loneliness and poverty of isolated farmers, beauty, terror, and tragedy in nature.10.Jane Austen’s style is possessed of a neat humor and a satirical touch.20春《英美文学选读》作业_2一、单选题( 每题5分, 共10道小题, 总分值50分)1.The name of the hero in Jane Eyre was___A. HeathcliffB. RochesterC. JamesD. David2.How many groups are there in Hardy＇s novels?A. twoB. threeC. fourD. five3.Which of the following is NOT a tragicomedy?A. Timon of AthensB. CymblineC. The winter＇s taleD. The tempest4.In the first part of the novel Pride and prejudice, Mr. Darcy has a （n）______ of the Bennet family.A. high opinionB. great admirationC. low opinionD. erroneous view5.Which is Dofoe’s masterpiece?A. Robinson CrusoeB. Queen MabC. The Revolt of IsiamD. The Taming of the Shrew6.The title of the novel “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ”written by James Joyce suggests a character study with strong _________ elements .A. autobiographicalB. sentimentalC. joyfulD. bitter7.The poem Ode to a Nightingale was written by___A. William WordsworthB. John KeatsC. ShelleyD. Coleridge8.Mr. Micawber in David Copperfield is perhaps the best ______ characters created by Charles Dickens.A. comicB. tragicC. roundD. sophisticated9.H. L. Mencken, a famous American critic, considered ______ “the true father of our national literature. ”A. Hamlin GarlandB. Joseph KirklandC. Mark TwainD. Henry James10.All of the following works are known as Hardy’s “novels of character and environment”EXCEPT ______.A. The Return of the NativeB. Tess of the D’ UrbervillesC. Jude the ObscureD. Far from the Madding Crowd二、判断题( 每题5分, 共10道小题, 总分值50分)1.Augustus Carmichael of To the Lighthouse is an elderly musician and friends of the Ramsays.2.“The horizon’s edge, the flying sea-crow, the fragrance of salt marsh and shore mud.”the author of this poem is Robert Frost.3.Each individual unit it collection of stressed and unstressed syllables is called a foot.4.The heroine of The Scarlet Letter is Hester Prynne5.In Pride and Prejudice,Mr. and Mrs. Bennet have five daughters.6.There were many literary artists involved in the groups known as the Lost Generation. The three best known areSherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos.7.Wordsworth’s attitude towards the French Revolution changed at his later years.8.There is a wild rosebush in chapter one of The Scarlet Letter beside the prison door, but it is withered.9.In Pride and Prejudice,Mr. Bingley and the eldest girl Jane Bennet fall in love.10.Ezra Pound gave Robert Frost a very good opinion about his poems and helped him to find British publishers.20春《英美文学选读》作业_3一、单选题( 每题5分, 共10道小题, 总分值50分)1.It was his masterpiece The Great Gatsby that made ______ one of the greatest American novelists.A. F. Scott FitzgeraldB. William FaulknerC. Ernest HemmingwayD. Gertrude Steinbeck2."Two roads diverged in a yellow wood /And sorry I could not travel both ..." In the above two lines of Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken, the poet, by implication, was referring to _______.A. a travel experienceB. a marriage decisionC. a middle-age crisisD. one’s c ourse of life3."Two roads diverged in a yellow wood /And sorry I could not travel both ..." /In the above two lines of Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken, the poet, by implication, was referring to _______.A. a travel experienceB. a marriage decisionC. a middle-age crisisD. one’s course of life4.’Damn the fool! There he is’, cried Heathcliff, sinking back into his seat. ’Hush, my darling! Hush, hush, Catherine! I’ll stay. If he shot me so, I’d expire with a blessing in my lips.’" The novel from which the passage is taken must be _________.A. Jane Austen’s Pride and PrejudiceB. Charles Dickens’s The Old Curiosity ShopC. Samuel Richardson’s PamelaD. Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights5.Which of the following is taken from John Keats＇Ode to a Nightingale?A. "Beauty is truth, truth beauty."B. "Earth has not anything to show more fair."C. "They are both gone up to the church to pray."D. "was it a vision, or a waking dream?"6.Southey,Wordsworth,______and Shelley are the major Romantic poets.A. HardyB. ColeridgeC. ScottD. Frost7.Poetry is defined by ______ as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, which originates in emotion recollected in tranquility”.A. William WordsworthB. William BlakeC. Percy Bysshe ShelleyD. Robert Southey8.In 1837, ______ published Twice - Told Tales, a collection of short stories which attracted critical attention.A. EmersonB. MelvilleC. WhitmanD. Hawthorne9.Of all the eighteenth-century novelists, _______ was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a "comic epic in prose," and the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.A. Daniel DefoeB. Samuel RichardsonC. Henry FieldingD. Oliver Goldsmith10.Charles Dicken＇s early years were___A. happyB. difficultC. richD. sunny二、判断题( 每题5分, 共10道小题, 总分值50分)1.Robinson Crusoe retells the story in the first person singular2.The Scarlet Letter is set in the 17th-century Boston.3.William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated the use of elegant wording and inflated figures of speech.4.Crusoe travelled on the other side of the island for three month.5.Kitty is the fourth daughter of the Bennet family.6.The second section of To the Lighthouse is entitled “Time Passes”.7.Robert Frost left Harvard because he dislike the academic convention.8.According to Hawthorne, the scarlet letter "A" originally stood for "adultery" .9.The meaning of "To die, to sleep" is comparing "death" to "long sleep".10.Of all Dickens’s novels, Nicholas Nickleby is regarded as his masterpiece.20春《英美文学选读》作业_4一、单选题( 每题5分, 共10道小题, 总分值50分)1.Within her little lyrics Dickinson addresses those issues that concern ______, which include religion, death, immorality, love and nature.A. the whole human beingsB. the frontiersC. the African AmericansD. her relatives2.In “Sonnet 18 ”，Shakespeare has a profound meditation on the destructive power of _________ and the eternal __________ brought forth by poetry to the one he loves .A. death/ lifeB. death/ loveC. time / beautyD. hate / love3.Which of the following is NOT written by Wordsworth.A. Lines Written in Early SpringB. To the CuckooC. I Wandered Lonely as a CloudD. Moll Flanders4.Henry Fielding has been regarded by some as “_______”,for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.A. Father of the English NovelB. Father of the English PoetryC. Father of the English DramaD. Father of the English Short Story5."If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?" is an epigrammatic line byA. J. KeatsB. W. BlakeC. W. WordsworthD. P.Shelley6.As a naturalist writer, Theodore Dreiser was greatly influenced by _______.A. Nathaniel HawthorneB. Charles DarwinC. Henry JamesD. Ralph Waldo Emerson7.The Renaissance marks a transition from ______ to the modern world.A. the old EnglishB. the medievalC. the feudalistD. the capitalist8.Shakespeare’s four greatest tragedies are ________.A. Twelfth Night, Othello, King Lear, HamletB. Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, The Merchant of VeniceC. Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, MacbethD. Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, Othello, Hamlet9.Shelley’s political lyrics ______ is not only a war cry calling upon all working people to rise up against their political oppressors, but an address to them pointing out the intolerable injustice of economic exploitation.A. “Ode to Liberty”B. “Ode to Naples”C. “Ode to the West Wind”D. “Men of England”10.The Victorian Age was largely an age of___ , eminently represented by Dickens and Thackeray.A. poetryB. dramaC. proseD. verse二、判断题( 每题5分, 共10道小题, 总分值50分)1.In Pride and Prejudice,Mary is the third daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet.2.In Pride and Prejudice,Mr. Bennet regards Elizabeth as the most intelligent and spirited daughter.3.David Copperfield use the first person singular.4.To put the stress on traditional values is NOT a typical feature of Modernism5.Fitzgerald’s first novel brought his instant fame and money.6.Stylistically,poems of Robert Frost is characterized by simple language, a graceful style, and traditional forms of poetry.7.Robert Frost used symbols from everyday life to express profound ideas.8.In David Copperfield,Mr. Micawber is a rich squire who lives a comfortable life.9.Crusoe got spiritual support from his daily reading of the Bible.10.While studying at Lawrence High School, Frost wrote poems and finished his studies at the top of his class.。
高等教育自学考试英美文学选读试题及答案
课程代码：0604请将答案填在答题纸相应的位置上(全部题目用英文作答)I. Multiple Choice(40 points in all, 1 for each)Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question orcompletes the statement and write the corresponding letter on the answer sheet.1. In Renaissance, the European humanist thinkers and scholars made attempts to dothe following EXCEPT ______.A. getting rid of those old feudalist ideasB. getting control of the parliament and governmentC. introducing new ideas that expressed the interests of the rising bourgeoisieD. recovering the purity of the early church, from the corruption of the RomanCatholic Church2. The Petrarchan sonnet was first introduced into England by ______.A. SurreyB. WyattC. SidneyD. Shakespeare3. As the best of Shakespeare's final romances,______ is a typical example of hispessimistic view towards human life and society in his late years.A. The TempestB. The Winter's TaleC. CymbelineD. The Rape of Lucrece4. John Milton's greatest poetical work ______ is the only generally acknowledgedepic in English literarure since Beowulf.A.AreopagiticaB. Paradise LostC. LycidasD. Samson Agonistes5. The British bourgeois or middle class believed in the following notions EXCEPT______.A. self - esteemB. self - relianceC. self - restraintD. hard work6. “Graveyard School〞writers are the following sentimentalists EXCEPT______.A. James ThomsonB. William CollinsC. William CowperD. Thomas Jackson7. The best model of satire in the whole English literary history is Jonathan Swift's______.A. A Modest ProposalB. A Tale of a TubC. Gulliver's TravelsD. The Battle of the Books8. As a representative of the Enlightenment,______ was one of the first to introducerationalism to England.A. John BunyanB. Daniel DefoeC. Alexander PopeD. Jonathan Swift9. For his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel,______has been regarded by some as “Father of the English Novel〞.A. Daniel DefoeB. Henry FieldingC. Jonathan SwiftD. Samuel Richardson10. Which of the following descriptions of Gothic Novels is NOT correctA. It predominated in the early eighteenth century.B. It was one phase of the Romantic movement.C. Its principal elements are violence, horror and the supernatural.D. Works like The Mysteries of Udolpho and Frankenstein are typical Gothic romance.11. “Byronic hero〞is a figure of the following traits EXCEPT ______.A.being proudB. being of humble originC.being rebelliousD. being mysterious12. Robert Browning created ______ by adopting the novelistic presentation ofcharacters.A. the verse novelB. the blank verseC. the heroic coupletD. the dramatic poetry13. Charles Dickens' novel ______ is famous for its vivid descriptions of theworkhouse and life of the underworld in the nineteenth- century London.A. The Pickwick PaperB. Oliver TwistC. David CopperfieldD. Nicholas Nickleby14. Charlotte Bronte's works are all about the struggle of an individualconsciousness towards ______, about some lonely and neglected young women witha fierce longing for love, understanding and a full, happy life.A. self - relianceB. self - realizationC. self - esteemD. self - consciousness15. The symbolic meaning of “Book〞 in Robert Browning's long poem The Ring and theBook is ______.A. the common senseB. the hard truthC. the comprehensive knowledgeD. the dead truth16. Thomas Hardy's pessimistic view of life predominated most of his later worksand earns him a reputation as a ______ writer.A. realisticB. naturalisticC. romanticD. stylistic17. After the First World War, there appeared the following literary trends ofmodernism EXCEPT ______.A. expressionismB. surrealismC. stream of consciousnessD. black humour18. The masterpieces of critical realism in the early 20th century are the threetrilogies of ______.A. Galsworthy's Forsyte novelsB. Hardy' s Wessex novelsC. Greene's Catholic novelsD. Woolf's stream-of-consciousness novels19. In the mid - 1950s and early 1960s, there appeared “______〞 who demonstrateda particular disillusion over the depressing situation in Britain and launcheda bitter protest. against the outmoded social and political values in theirsociety.A. The Beat GenerationB. The Lost GenerationC. The Angry Young MenD. Black Mountain Poets20.The following are English stream-of-consciousness novels EXCEPT ______.A.PilgrimageB. UlyssesC.Mrs.DallowayD. A Passage to Inida21. The leader of the Irish National Theater Movement in the early 20th centurywas ______.A. W.B.Yeats B. Lady GregoryC. J.M.SyngeD. John Galworthy22. T.S.Eliot's most popular verse play is ______.A. Murder in the CathedralB. The Cocktail PartyC. The Family ReunionD. The Waste Land23. The American writer ______ was awarded the Nobel Prize for the anti-racist In-truder in the Dust in 1950.A. Ernest HemingwayB. Gertrude SteinC. William FaulknerD.T.S. Eliot24. Hemingway's second big success is ______ , which wrote the epitaph to a decadeand to the whole generation in the 1920s, in order to tell us a story about the tragic love affair of a wounded American soldier with a British nurse.A. For Whom the Bell TollsB. A Farewell to ArmsC. The Sun Also RisesD. The Old Man and the Sea25. With the publication of ______ , Dreiser was launching himself upon a long careerthat would ultimately make him one of the most significant American writers of the school later known as literary naturalism.A. Sister CarrieB. The TitanC. The GeniusD. The Stoic26. Henry James is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th -century “stream-of-consciousness〞novels and the founder of ______.A. neoclassicismB. psychological realismC. psychoanalytical criticismD. surrealism27. In 1849, Herman Melville published ______ ,a semi-autobiographical novel, con-cerning the sufferings of a genteel youth among brutal sailors.A. OmooB. MardiC. RedburnD. Typee28. As a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,______ marks the climax of Mark Twain'sliterary activity.A. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnB. Life on the MississippiC. The Gilded AgeD. Roughing It29. Realism was a reaction against ______ or a move away from the bias towards romanceand self- creating fictions, and paved the way to Modernism.A. RomanticismB. RationalismC. Post-modernismD. Cynicism30. When World War II broke out,______ began working for the Italian government,engaged in some radio broadcasts of anti- Semitism and pro- Fascism.A. Ezra PoundB.T.S. EliotC. Henry JamesD. Robert Frost31. In 1915 ______ became a naturalized British citizen, largely in protest againstAmerica's failure to join England in the First World War.C. W.D.Howells D. Ezra Pound32. What Whitman prefers for his new subject and new poetic feelings is “______ ,〞 that is, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.A. blank verseB. free rhythmC. balanced structureD. free verse33. The American woman poet ______ wanted to live simply as a complete independentbeing, and so she did, as a spinster.A. Emily ShawB. Anna DickinsonC. Emily DickinsonD. Anne Bret34. The Birthmark drives home symbolically ______ point that evil is a man's birthmark,something he was born with.A. Whitman'sB. Melville'sC. Hawthorne'sD. Emerson's35. The Financier ,The Titan and The Stoic written by ______ are called his “Trilogyof Desire〞.A. Henry JamesB. Theodore DreiserC. Mark TwainD. Herman Melville36. Disregarding grammar and punctuation,______ always used “i〞 instead of “I〞in his poems to show his protest against self-importance.A. Wallace StevensB. Ezra Pound37. Though Robert Frost is generally considered a regional poet whose subject mattersmainly focus on the landscape and people in ______ , he wrote many poems that investigate the basic themes of man's life in his long poetic career.A. the westB. the southC. New EnglandD. Alaska38. Most critics have agreed that Fitzgerald is both an insider and an outsider of______ with a double vision.A. the Gilded AgeB. the Rational AgeC. the Jazz AgeD. the Magic Age39. In the American Romantic writings,______ came to function almost as a dramaticcharacter that symbolized moral law.A. fireB. waterC. treesD. wilderness40. The desire for an escape from society and a return to ______ became a permanentconvention of the American literature.A. the family lifeB. natureC. the ancient timeD. fantasy of loveII. Reading Comprehension (16 points in all, 4 for each)Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.41. Wherefore feed and clothe and saveFrom the cradle to the graveThose ungrateful drones who wouldDrain your sweat- nay, drink your bloodQuestions:A. Identify the poet and the title of the poem from which the stanza is taken.B. What figure of speech is used in Line 2C. Whom does “drones〞 refer to42. The following quotation is from one of the poems by T. S. Eliot:No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;Am an attendant lord, one that will doTo swell a progress, start a scene or twoAdvise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool,Deferential, glad to be of use,Politic, cautious, and meticulous,Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse;Questions:A. Identify the title of the poem from which the quoted part is taken.B. Who's the speaker of the quoted linesC. What does the first line show about the speaker43．There was a child went forth every day,And the first object he look'd upon, that object he became,And that object became part of him for the day or a certain part of the day, Or for many years or stretching cycles of years.Questions:A. Identify the poet.B.From which poem and which collection of the poet are these lines takenC.What does the poet describe in the poem44. I heard a Fly buzz- when I died-The Stillness in the RoomWas like the Stillness in the Air-Between the Heaves of Storm-The Eyes around- had wrung them dry-And Breaths were gathering firmFor that last Onset- when the KingBe witnessed - in the Room-Questions:A. Identify the poet.B. What does “the King〞 refer toC. What moment is the poem trying to describeIII. Questions and Answers (24 points in all, 6 for each)Give brief answers to each of the following questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.45. List at least two leading neoclassicists in England. What did Neoclassicistscelebrate in literary creation46. Jane Eyre is one of the most popular and important novels of the Victorian Age.Why is Jane Eyre such a successful novel47. Who are the three dominant figures of the American Age of Realism and what arethe differences in their understanding of the “truth〞48. What's Dreiser' s naturalistic belief Please discuss the question with Carrie,a character in Sister Carrie as an example.IV. Topic Discussion(20 points in all, 10 for each)Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in thecorresponding space on the answer sheet.49. Briefly discuss William Shakespeare's artistic achievements in characterization,plot construction and language.50. Briefly discuss Mark Twain's art of fiction in terms of the setting,the language,and the characters, etc.,based on his novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.全国高等教育自学考试英美文学选读真题答案及评分参考〔课程代码0604〕I. Multiple Choice (40 points in all, 1 for each)1. B2. B3. A4. B5.A6.D7.A8.C9.B 10.A 11.B 12.A13.B 14.B 15.B 16.B 17.D 18.A 19.C 20.D 21.A 22.A 23.C24.B 25.A 26.C 27.C 28.A 29.A 30.A 31.A 32.D 33.C 34.C35.B 36.D 37.C 38.C 39.D 40.BII. Reading Comprehension (16 points in all, 4 for each)41. A. From Percy Shelley’s “Men of England〞(1)B. Metonymy (1)C. Here “drones〞refers to the parasitic class in human society. (2)42. A. “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock〞(1)B. J. Alfred Prufrock (1)C. Prufrock is conscious of the fact that he is like Hamlet in some respects. But he is sensibleenough that he cannot be compared with Hamlete. (2)43. A. Walt Whitman (1)B. “There Was a Child Went Forth〞from “Leaves of Grass〞(1)C. The poem describes the growth of a child who learned about the world around him andimproved himself accordingly. In the poem, Whitman’s own early ex perience may well be identified with the childhood of a young, growing American. (2)44. A. Emily Dickinson (1)B. The God of Death. (1)C. The poem is trying to describe the moment of death. (2)III. Questions and Answers (24 points in all, 6 for each)45. A. Alexander Pope, John Dryden, Samuel Johnson (任选2位作家). (2)B. They believed that the artistic ideals should be order, logic, restrained emotion andaccuracy and that literature should be judged in terms of its service to humanity. (2) They seek proportion, unity, harmony and grace in literacy expression, in an effort to delight,instruct and correct human beings. Thus a polite, elegant, witty and intellectual artdeveloped. (2)46. A. It is noted for its sharp criticism of the existing society. (2)B. It is an intense moral fable. (2)C. The success of the novel is also due to its introduction to the English novel the firstgoverness heroine. (2)47. A. William Dean Howells, Mark Twain, Henry James. (3)B. Mark Twain and Howells seemed to have paid more attention to the “life〞of theAmericans. Howells focused his discussion on the rising middle class and the way theylived; Mark Twain preferred to have his own region and people at the forefront of his stories;Henry James had apparently laid a greater emphasis on the “inner world〞of man. (3)48. A. Dreiser believes that while men are controlled and conditioned by heredity, instinct andchance, a few extraordinary and unsophisticated human beings refuse to accept their fatewordlessly and instead strive, unsuccessfully, to find meaning and purpose for theirexistence. (3)B. Carrie, as one of such, senses that she is merely a cipher in an uncaring world yet seeks tograsp the mysteries of life and thereby satisfies her desires for social status and materialcomfort, but in spite of her success, she is lonely and dissatisfied. (3)以上各题言语错误酌情扣分。
英美文学名著选读选择
1.Charles Dickens is a great writer in the ___ A__.⏹ A. Victorian Age B. Renaissance⏹ C. Romantic period D. 20th century2.The early inhabitants in the island we now call England were _B __.⏹ A. Celts B. Britons⏹ C. Britain D. English3. In 55 B. C., Roman troops led by _A__ invaded Britain.⏹ A. Julius Caesar B. Claudius⏹ C. King Alfred the Great D. William4.The Roman occupation in Britain lasted for about __C___ years.⏹ A. 200 B. 300⏹ C. 400 D. 5005.Old English came into being by the _D___ century.⏹ A. 4th B. 5th⏹ C. 6th D. 7th6. In __B__ Britain became a Roman province.⏹ A. 55 B. C. B. 43 A. D.⏹ C. 410 A. D. D. 787 A. D.7.The Anglo-Saxon period ended in _D___.⏹ A. 1017 B. 1042⏹ C. 1016 D. 10668. _A__ is an early English poem about the life of the gleeman.⏹ A. “Deor’s Lament” B. “The Wife’s Complaint”⏹ C. “The Husband’s Message” D. “The Seafarer”9. __C__ is an early English poem about love.⏹ A. “Deor’s Lament” B. “Widsith”⏹ C. “The Husband’s Message” D. “The Seafarer”10. __B__ is an early English poem about the adventures of the sea.⏹ A. “Deor’s Lament” B. “The Wanderer”⏹ C. “The Husband’s Message” D. “Beowulf”11. __D__ is the representative work of the early English literature.⏹ A. “Deor’s Lament” B. “The Wanderer”⏹ C. “The Husband’s Message” D. “Beowulf”12. Grendel is a monster described in __C____.⏹ A. “Deor’s Lament” B. “Widsith”⏹ C. Beowulf D. “The Seafarer”13.The Roman occupation lasted for about 400 years in Britain, and in __D___, all the Roman troops went back to their continent and never returned.⏹ A. 55 B. C. B. 78 A. D.⏹ C. 400 A. D. D. 410 A. D.14.__C__ is the first important religious poet in English literature.⏹ A. John Donne B. George Herbert⏹ C. CaedmonD. Milton15.When we speak of the old English prose, the first name that comes into our minds is_D_, who is the first scholar in English literature and has been regarded as father of English learning.⏹ A. Shakespeare B. Beowulf⏹ C. Julius Caesar D. Venerable Bebe16.The great majority of the romances fall into groups as matters of __D___.⏹ A. Britain B. France⏹ C. Rome D. A,B and C17._A__ was written in alliterative and rimed English verse.⏹ A. Layamon’s Brut B. Malory’s The Death of King Arthur⏹ C. King Alfred’s Chronicle D. Geoffrey of Monmouth’s History of Kings ofBritain18.___D__ marked the establishment of feudalism in England.⏹ A. Roman Conquest B. English Conquest⏹ C. Danish Conquest D. Norman Conquest19. Shakespeare’s plays written between __D___ are sometimes called “romances”and all end in reconciliation and reunion.⏹ A. 1590 and 1594 B. 1595 and 1600⏹ C. 1601 and 1607 D. 1608 and 161220. Miranda is a heroine in Shakespeare’s __D____.⏹ A. Pericles B. Cymbeline C. The Winter’s Tale D. The Tempest21.In __D___ appeared Shakespeare’s Sonnet. Never before Imprinted.（《莎士比亚十四行诗》“迄今从未刊印过”）which contains 154 sonnets.⏹ A. 1606 B. 1607⏹ C. 1608 D. 160922. Shakespeare is one of the founders of _B___.⏹ A. romanticism B. realism⏹ C. naturalism D. classicism23. Among many poetic forms, Shakespeare was especially at home (good at) with the _A_⏹ A. dramatic blank verse B. song⏹ C. sonnet D. couplet24.In the plays, Shakespeare used about __B____ words.⏹ A. 15000 B. 16000 C. 17000 D. 1800025.__C___ has been called the summit of the English Renaissance.⏹ A. Christopher Marlow B. Francis Bacon⏹ C. W. Shakespeare D. Ben Johnson26.In 1066, __A__, with his Norman army, succeeded in invading and defeating England.⏹ A. William the Conqueror B. Julius Caesar⏹ C. Alfred the Great D. Claudius27. In the 14th century, the most important poet is __D__ .⏹ A. Langland B. Wycliffe C. Gower D. Chaucer28.The prevailing form of Medieval English literature is __C_.⏹ A. novel B. drama C. romance D. essay29.The story of _A__ is the culmination of the Arthurian romances.⏹ A. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight B. Beowulf⏹ C. Piers the Plowman D. The Canterbury Tales30. William Langland’s _B___ is written in the form of a dream vision.⏹ A. Kubla Khan B. Piers the Plowman⏹ C. The Dream of John Bull D. Morte d’Arthur31. After the Norman Conquest, three languages existed in England at that time. The Normans spoke __A___.⏹ A. French B. English C. Latin D. Swedish32. ___C___ was the greatest of English religious reformers and the first translator of the Bible.⏹ A. Langland B. Gower C. Wycliffe D. Chaucer33. Piers the Plowman describes a series of wonderful dreams the author dreamed, through which, we can see a picture of the life in the __B__ England.⏹ A. primitive B. feudal C. bourgeois D. modern34.The theme of __A__ to king and lord was repeatedly emphasized in romances.⏹ A. loyalty B. revolt C. obedience D. mockery35.The most famous cycle of English ballads centers on the stories about a legendary outlaw called __B___.⏹ A. Morte D’Arthur B. Robin Hood⏹ C. The Canterbury Tales D. Piers the Plowman36. __A___, the “father of English poetry”and one of the greatest narrative poets of England, was born in London about 1340.⏹ A. Geoffrey Chaucer B. Sir Gawain⏹ C. Francis Bacon D. John Dryden37. Chaucer died on the 25th October 1400, and was buried in __D__.⏹ A. Flanders B. France⏹ C. Italy D. Westminster Abbey38. Chaucer’s earliest work is his ___A__, a translation of the French Roman de la Rose, which was a love allegory enjoying widespread popularity in the 13th and 14th centuries not only in France but throughout Europe.⏹ A. The Romaunt of the Rose B. “A Red, Red Rose”⏹ C. The Legend of Good Women D. The Book of the Duchess40. In his life-time Chaucer served in a great variety of occupations which had impact on the wide range of his writings. Which one is not his career? _A___.⏹ A. engineer B. courtier C. office holder D. soldier⏹ E. ambassador F. legislator (议员)41.Chaucer composes a long narrative poem named __B___ based on Boccaccio’s poem “Filostrato”.⏹ A. The Legend of Good Women B. Troilus and Criseyde⏹ C. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight D. Beowulf42. English Renaissance started from the year of _A____.⏹ A. 1516 B.1578 C. 1625 D. 166043. Spenserian Stanza is created by Edmund Spenser for his _B__.⏹ A. drama B. poem C. prose D. essay44.It was __B___, the first English printer, who gave the readers Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales.⏹ A. William Cowper B. William Caxton⏹ C. William Golding D. William Blake45. _C___is also called the King James Bible.⏹ A. Latin Bible B. Tyndale’s Bible⏹ C. Authorized Bible D. Wycliffe’s Bible46. The sea-dogs as Francis Drake and John Hawkins encouraged by _B___ established the first English colonies.⏹ A. Queen Mary B. Queen Elizabeth C. King Henry VIII D. James I47. The English bourgeoisie came to froe in the arena of history after the war with _A__.⏹ A. Spain B. America C. Belgium D. Holland48. _D___ is the key-note of the Renaissance.⏹ A. Optimism B. Socialism C. Conservatism D. Humanism49.English Renaissance started in the year of __A_.⏹ A. 1516 B. 1578 C. 1625 D. 166050.The period of __B___ is called the Elizabethan Period or the Age of Shakespeare.⏹ A. 1510—1516 B. 1516—1578⏹ C. 1578—1625 D. 1625—166051.___A__has 6 knights representing 6 virtues: Holiness, Temperance, Chastity, Friendship, Justice and Courtesy.⏹ A. The Faerie Queene B. Epithalamion⏹ C. The Shepherd’s Calendar D. Discovery of Guiana52.The answer to the dominant thoughts in The Faerie Queene is _D__.⏹ A. nationalism B. humanism C. Puritanism D. A, B, C53.___C__ is the first philosopher of industrial science .⏹ A. Philip Sidney B. Walter Raleigh⏹ C. Francis Bacon D. Edmund Spenser54.___D___ is F. Bacon’s well-known book.⏹ A. Advancement of Learning B. New Instrument⏹ C. Maxims of the Law D. Essays55._C___ is the most famous essay in Bacon’s Essays.⏹ A. Of Death B. Of Friendship C. Of Study D. Of Travel56.Sidney’s _A__ was written to answer an attack on poetry and drama as “the school of abuse.”⏹ A. Apology for Poetry B. Astrophel and Stella⏹ C. History of the World D. Miscellany of Songs and Sonnets57. _C__ is the Poet’s Poet of the Renaissance.⏹ A. Walter Raleigh B. John Lyly C. Edmond Spenser D. Francis Bacon。
北语19春《英美文学选读》作业4
(单选题)1: 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 speech标准答题:(单选题)2: What kind of girl is Dora?A: pretty and cleverB: pretty and empty-headedC: plain-looking and understadingD: lovely and clever标准答题:(单选题)3: Which of the following is a comedy?A: King learB: MacbethC: HamletD: The Merry Wives of Windsor标准答题:(单选题)4: which of the following is NOT written by Dreiser?A: Jennie GerhardtB: Go down, MosesC: An American TragedyD: Sister Carrie标准答题:(单选题)5: 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: bland verseB: heroic coupletC: free verseD: iambic pentameter标准答题:(单选题)6: Which of the following statements about writers in 1920s is true?A: Mark Twain published his last and most important novel.B: F. Scott Fitzgerald received the Nobel Prize.C: Freudian psychology influenced many modern writers.D: Most writers were politically radical.标准答题:(单选题)7: Mr. Micawber in David Copperfield and Sam Well in Pickwick Papers are perhaps the best ______ characters created by Charles Dickens.A: comicB: tragicC: roundD: sophisticated标准答题:(单选题)8: In Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth Bennet finds out some weak points about herself in the process of judging others. Which of the following is NOT a weak point of hers?A: BlindnessB: PartialityC: SnobbishnessD: Prejudice.标准答题:(单选题)9: Virginia Woolf was born in a____A: poor familyB: small familyC: rich familyD: talented family标准答题:(单选题)10: After reading the first chapter of Pride and Prejudice, we may come to know that Mrs. Bennet is a woman of _______ .A: simple character and quick witB: simple character and poor understandingC: intricate character and quick witD: intricate character and poor understanding标准答题:(单选题)11: All the following poets belong to lake poets EXCEPTA: WordsworthB: ColeridgeC: Robert SoutheyD: Shelley标准答题:(单选题)12: Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his ____.A: international themeB: waste-land imageryC: local colorD: symbolism标准答题:(单选题)13: The Hemingway Code heroes are best remembered for theirA: indestructible spiritB: pessimistic view of lifeC: war experiencesD: masculinity标准答题:(单选题)14: Charles Dicken＇s early years were___A: happyB: difficultC: richD: sunny标准答题:(单选题)15: Which of the following is a tragedy?A: Antony and CleopatraB: Twelfth NightC: Julius CaesarD: Much ado about Nothing标准答题:(单选题)16: The sentence "Shall I compare thee to a summer＇s day?" is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare＇s ________ .A: comediesB: tragediesC: sonnetsD: histories标准答题:(单选题)17: Auld Lang Syne was written byA: William WordsworthB: John KeatsC: Walt WhitemanD: Robert Burns标准答题:(单选题)18: You may have meet the term "Yahoo" on internet, but you may also have met it in English literature .It is found in _____A: John Bunyan＇s Pilgrim＇s ProgressB: Samuel Johnson＇s The Vanity of Human WishesC: Jonathan Swift＇s Gulliver＇s TravelsD: Henry Fielding＇s tom Jones标准答题:(单选题)19: Defoe＇s Robinson Crusoe created the image of an enterprising Englishman, typical of the English bourgeoisie in the ______ century.A: 17thB: 18thC: 19thD: 20th标准答题:(单选题)20: In the first part of the novel Pride and prejudice, Mr. Darcy has a （n）______ of the Bennet family .A: high opinionB: great admirationC: low opinionD: erroneous view标准答题:(单选题)1: 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 speech标准答题:(单选题)2: What kind of girl is Dora?A: pretty and cleverB: pretty and empty-headedC: plain-looking and understadingD: lovely and clever标准答题:(单选题)3: Which of the following is a comedy?A: King learB: MacbethC: HamletD: The Merry Wives of Windsor标准答题:(单选题)4: which of the following is NOT written by Dreiser?A: Jennie GerhardtB: Go down, MosesC: An American TragedyD: Sister Carrie标准答题:(单选题)5: 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: bland verseB: heroic coupletC: free verseD: iambic pentameter标准答题:(单选题)6: Which of the following statements about writers in 1920s is true?A: Mark Twain published his last and most important novel.B: F. Scott Fitzgerald received the Nobel Prize.C: Freudian psychology influenced many modern writers.D: Most writers were politically radical.标准答题:(单选题)7: Mr. Micawber in David Copperfield and Sam Well in Pickwick Papers are perhaps the best ______ characters created by Charles Dickens.A: comicB: tragicC: roundD: sophisticated标准答题:(单选题)8: In Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth Bennet finds out some weak points about herself in the process of judging others. Which of the following is NOT a weak point of hers?A: BlindnessB: PartialityC: SnobbishnessD: Prejudice.标准答题:(单选题)9: Virginia Woolf was born in a____A: poor familyB: small familyC: rich familyD: talented family标准答题:(单选题)10: After reading the first chapter of Pride and Prejudice, we may come to know that Mrs. Bennet is a woman of _______ .A: simple character and quick witB: simple character and poor understandingC: intricate character and quick witD: intricate character and poor understanding标准答题:(单选题)11: All the following poets belong to lake poets EXCEPTA: WordsworthB: ColeridgeC: Robert SoutheyD: Shelley标准答题:(单选题)12: Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his ____.A: international themeB: waste-land imageryC: local colorD: symbolism标准答题:(单选题)13: The Hemingway Code heroes are best remembered for theirA: indestructible spiritB: pessimistic view of lifeC: war experiencesD: masculinity标准答题:(单选题)14: Charles Dicken＇s early years were___A: happyB: difficultC: richD: sunny标准答题:(单选题)15: Which of the following is a tragedy?A: Antony and CleopatraB: Twelfth NightC: Julius CaesarD: Much ado about Nothing标准答题:(单选题)16: The sentence "Shall I compare thee to a summer＇s day?" is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare＇s ________ .A: comediesB: tragediesC: sonnetsD: histories标准答题:(单选题)17: Auld Lang Syne was written byA: William WordsworthB: John KeatsC: Walt WhitemanD: Robert Burns标准答题:(单选题)18: You may have meet the term "Yahoo" on internet, but you may also have met it in English literature .It is found in _____A: John Bunyan＇s Pilgrim＇s ProgressB: Samuel Johnson＇s The Vanity of Human WishesC: Jonathan Swift＇s Gulliver＇s TravelsD: Henry Fielding＇s tom Jones标准答题:(单选题)19: Defoe＇s Robinson Crusoe created the image of an enterprising Englishman, typical of the English bourgeoisie in the ______ century.A: 17thB: 18thC: 19thD: 20th标准答题:(单选题)20: In the first part of the novel Pride and prejudice, Mr. Darcy has a （n）______ of the Bennet family .A: high opinionB: great admirationC: low opinionD: erroneous view标准答题:。
2022年自考专业(英语)英美文学选读考试真题及答案4
2022年自考专业(英语)英美文学选读考试真题及答案一、单项选择题 Multiple Choice(40 points in all, 1 for each)Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answer the question or completes the statement. Write the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.1、The Renaissance marks a transition from the_______ to the modern world.A.medievalB.romanticC.Anglo-SaxonD.Victorian2、Which of the following plays is NOT among William Shakespeare's four great tragedies?A.Hamlet.B.Twelfth Night.C.Othello.D.King Lear3、After the restoration of _______. Milton was imprisoned for a short time and then retired to private life.A.Charles IB.Charles IC.James ID.James 14、 It was not until the reign of_______that the Renaissance rally began o show its effect in England.A.Henry VIIB.Henry VIIC.Charles ID.Charles II5、In Paradise Lost, the real hero created by Milton is_______.A.GodB.AdamC.EveD.Satan6、The island of Lilliput can be found in_______.A.Robinson CrusoeB.Gulliver's TravelsC.The Adventures of Tom SawyerD.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn7、 The Enlightenment was a progressive intellectual movementthroughout Western Europe in the_______ century.A.17thB.18thC.19thD.20th8、Henry Fielding is the author of the great 18th century English novel_______.A.Tom JonesB.PamelaC.Moll FendersD.The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy9、The publication of The Lyrical Ballads, written by _______ marked the break with the conventional poetical tradition of the 18th century.A.William Wordsworth and Robert BurnsB.William Blake and ColeridgeC.Wordsworth and Percy Bysshe ShellyD.Wordsworth and Coleridge10、 Generally, William Shakespeare's dramatic career can be divided into periods.A.3B.4C.5D.611、"his a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." The quoted part is taken from_______.A.Pride and PrejudiceB.Wuthering HeightsC.Jane EyreD.Sense and Sensibility12、William Wordsworth is regarded as a 查看答案。
2022年10月自考《00604英美文学选读》真题无评分参考
绝密★启用前2022年10月高等教育自学考试全国统一命题考试英美文学选读(课程代码00604)注意事项：1. 本试卷分为两部分，第一部分为选择题，第二部分为非选择题。
2. 应考者必须按试题顺序在答题卡(纸)指定位置上作答，答在试卷上无效。
3. 涂写部分、画图部分必须使用2B铅笔，书写部分必须使用黑色字迹签字笔。
第一部分选择题一、单项选择题：本大题共40小题，每小题1分，共40分。
在每小题列出的备选项中只有一项是最符合题目要求的，请将其选出。
Multiple Choice (40 points in all,1 for each)Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question orcompletes the statement.1.Bernard Shaw's career as a b egan in 1892, when his first play Widowers'Houses was put on in a theaterA. criticB. poetC. novelistD. dramatist2.T.S.Eliot's poem The Waste Land is l ines long and is divided into five sections.A.133B.233C.333D.433wrence's first novel isA. The RainbowB. Women in LoveC. The White PeacockD. The Trespasser4.Bernard Shaw used inversion in character portrayal in order to achieveA. tragic effectsB. comic effectsC. mixed feelingsD. pessimistic feelings英美文学选读试题第1页(共7页)5.T.S.Eliot's play Murder in the Cathedral was writtenA. for the Canterbury Festival of June 1935B. to present the mood of disillusionment of a post-war generationC. to deal with the theme of death in lifeD. to reflect his allegiance to the Church of England6.In the novel Sons and Lovers,Mrs. Morel is a daughter of a f amily.A. poorB. lower-classC. middle-classD. upper-class7.The following word is the best to describe the figure Jew Fagin in Oliver Twist.A. grotesqueB. helplessicalD.humorous8.The Bronte sisters were sent to a school for clergymen's daughters. The experience thereinspired the portrayal of Lowood School in the novelA. VilletteB. Jane EyreC. The ProfessorD. Wuthering Heights9.In his later period, w rote many prophetic books, one of which is The Book of Urizen.A.Percy ShelleyB.W illiam'WordsworthC. William BlakeD.Daniel Defoe10.Among Thomas Hardy's major works, Under the Greenwood Tree is the mostA. miserable and unfairB. cheerful and idyllicC. severe and balancedD. unbalanced and tragic11.In the novel Tess ofthe D'Urbervilles, is the young master of the D'Urbervilles.A. AlecB. AngelC. HenchardD. Farfrae12.Bill Sikes, a character in the novel Oliver Twist,is a(n)A. chimney-sweeperB. burglarC. apprenticeD. beadle13.Jane Austen's satirizes the Gothic romances of the late18th century.C. PersuasionD. Northanger Abbey14.In 1813 Percy Shelley published his first long serious work Oueen Mab:A Poem.A. ReligiousB. SpiritualC. PoliticalD. Philosophical英美文学选读试题第2页(共7页)。
英美文学选读试题详解4
英美文学选读-阶段测评4成绩：30分一、Multiple Choice 共 40 题题号: 1 本题分数:2.5 分( )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 Twain(P498.para.2)亨利.詹姆斯是美国现实主义文学大师，他的作品往往涉及美国之外的主题，其作品的风格是“心理活动”。
被誉为20世纪美国意识流文学的先驱。
标准答案：C考生答案：D本题得分：0 分题号: 2 本题分数:2.5 分Closely related to Dickinson’s religious poetry are her poems concerning( ),ranging over the physical as well as the psychological and emotional aspects of death.A、love and natureB、death and universeC、death and immortalityD、family and happiness（P518para2）迪金森的诗歌涉及宗教和爱情两方面，而其涉及宗教的诗歌往往是以死亡和永恒为主题的，所以答案是C。
标准答案：C考生答案：A本题得分：0 分题号: 3 本题分数:2.5 分H.L.Mencken considered( )“the true father of our national literature”.A、Bret HarteB、Mark TwainC、Washington IrvingD、Walt Whitman(P477.para1)马克.吐温是美国文学巨匠，他以两部“历险记”创造可美国文学史上的一个奇迹，那就是开创了美国文学的一个新时代，所以将他誉为“真正的美国文学之父”。
2023年10月自考00604英美文学选读试题及答案含评分标准
绝密★启用前2023年10月高等教育自学考试全国统一命题考试英美文学选读试题答案及评分参考（课程代码00604）一、单项选择题：本大题共40小题，每小题1分，共40分。
1. B2. A3. D4. C5. C6. B7. A8. D9. C 10. A11. D 12. B 13. D 14. C 15. C16. D 17. A 18. C 19. B 20. D21. D 22. B 23. A 24. C 25. A26. D 27. C 28. C 29. C 30. D31. B 32. B 33. A 34. C 35. B36. D 37. C 38. A 39. A 40. D二、阅读理解题：本大题共4小题，每小题4分，共16分。
41. A. Henry Fielding; The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (or Tom Jones). (2分)B. Daughter of the well-off squire Western. (1分)C. Human nature. (1分)42. A. Charles Dickens; Oliver Twist (2分)B. A chimney-sweeper. (1分)C. Character-portrayal. (1分)43. A. Theodore Dreiser; Sister Carrie.(2分)B. Hurstwood. (1分)C. He turned on the gas in a cheap lodging-house and ended his life. (1分)英美文学选读试题答案及评分参考第1页（共3页）44. A. Robert Lee Frost. (1分)B. The speaker tells us how the course of his life was determined when he came upon tworoads that diverged in a wood. (2分)C. The speaker took the road less traveled by. (1分)三、简答题：本大题共4小题，每小题6分，共24分。
全国自考英美文学选读(综合)模拟试卷4(题后含答案及解析)
全国自考英美文学选读（综合）模拟试卷4(题后含答案及解析)全部题型 2. 阅读理解 3. 简答题 4. 论述题阅读理解1．For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Questions:A. Identify the author and the title.B. What does the phrase “inward eye” mean?C. Write out the main idea of the passage in plain English.正确答案：A. Wordsworth, I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud.B. Human soul.C. The poet expresses his love for the daffodils. 涉及知识点：阅读理解2．“ I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence;Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference. “Questions:A. Identify the author and the title of the poem from which the quoted lines are taken.B. What additional meaning do the two roads have?C. What dilemma is the speaker facing?正确答案：A. Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken.B. Life is here compared to a journey. The two roads stand for the choice one has to make at a critical moment in his life.C. Since where the road leads to is uncertain, one has to wait to see the result of the choice until one’ s life is coming to an end. Then it will be too late. The speaker acknowledges the limits of life, yet he indulges himself in the notion that we could be really different from what we have become, because life is unpredictable. 涉及知识点：阅读理解简答题3．Briefly discuss the features of Fielding’ s writings.正确答案：Fielding’ s language is easy, unlaboured and familiar, but extremely vivid and vigorous. His sentences are always distinguished by logic and rhythm, and his structure carefully planned towards an inevitable ending. His works are also noted for lively, dramatic dialogues and other theatrical devices such as suspense, coincidence and unexpectedness. 涉及知识点：简答题4．“Let it not be supposed by the enemies of ‘the system’, that, during the period of his solitary incarceration , Oliver was denied the benefit of exercise, the pleasure of society, or the advantages of religious consolation. “What do you thinkCharles Dickens intends to say in the above ironic statement taken from Oliver Twist?正确答案：A. The sentence is a typical example of irony. What Dickens intends to say is just the opposite of the sentence’ s literal meaning.B. For the “benefit” of exercise, Oliver was whipped every morning in a stone yard; for the “pleasure”of society, he was carried every other day into the dining hall and flogged as a public warning and example to the boys; and as for the “advantages”of religious consolation, he was kicked into the same apartment every evening at prayer time and listened to the boys’ prayer to be guarded against his sins and vices.C. The ironic statement is, in fact, a bitter denunciation and fierce attack at the brutal, inhuman treatment of the poor orphan by the workhouse authority. 涉及知识点：简答题5．Please analyze The Waste Land by Eliot.正确答案：A. With bold technical innovations in versification and style, the poem not only presents a panorama of physical disorder and spiritual desolation in the modern Western world, but also reflects the prevalent mood of disillusionment and despair of a whole post-war generation.B. The Waste Land is a poem concerned with the spiritual breakup of a modern civilization in which human life has lost its meaning, significance and purpose. The poem has developed a whole set of historical, cultural and religious themes; but it is often regarded as being primarily a reflection of the 20th-century people’s disillusionment and frustration in a sterile and futile society. 涉及知识点：简答题6．Mark Twain and Henry James are two representatives of the realistic writers in American literature. How is Mark Twain’ s realism different from James’ s realism?正确答案：A. Mark Twain’s realism is tainted with local color, preferring to have his own region and people at the forefront of his stories.B. James’ s realism is concerned with the “inner world” of man.C. James’ s realism is also concerned with the international theme.D. Mark Twain’ s language is simple and colloquial.E. Mark Twain employs humor in his writing.F. James ‘s language is elaborate and refined with lengthy psychological analyses. 涉及知识点：简答题论述题7．What are the differences between the Neoclassical period and the Romantic period?正确答案：A. Neo-classicists upheld that artistic ideals should be order, logic, restrained emotion 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 through satire/humour) , and simplicity in language (and the poem itself is ademonstration of those ideals, too) ; Fielding’ s Tom Jones helped establish the form of novel; Gray’ s “ Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” displays elegance in style, unified structure, serious tone and moral instruction.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 “Kubla Khan” ) , the value of the work lied in the accuracy of presenting those unique feelings and particular attitudes.C. In a word, Neo-classicism emphasized rationality and form but Romanticism attached great importance to die individual’ s mind ( emotion, imagination, temporary experience...). 涉及知识点：论述题8．Please mark a brief comment on Hawthorne’ s Young Goodman Brown.正确答案：A. Goodman Brown, a Puritan who lives in the village of Salem, leaves his wife Faith, who pleads him not to go, to attend a witches’ Sabbath in the woods. There, he astonishingly finds lots of prominent people of the village and the church. When he is about to be confirmed into the group, he finds his wife Faith is also there beside him. He immediately cries out “look up to Heaven and resist the wicked one” , only to find he is alone in the forest. He returns to his home, but since then lives a dismal and gloomy life because he is never able to believe in goodness or piety again.B. Young Goodman Brown is one of Hawthorne’ s most profound tales. In the manner of its concern with guilt and evil, it exemplifies what Melville called the “ power of blackness” in Hawthorne’ s work. Its hero, a naive young man who accepts both society in general and his fellow men as individuals worth his regard, is confronted with the vision of human evil in one terrible night, and becomes thereafter distrustful and doubtful. Allegorically, our protagonist becomes an Everyman named Brown, a “young” man, who will be aged in one night by an adventure that makes everyone in this world a fallen idol. However, the story is manipulated in such a way that we as readers feel that Hawthorne poses the question of Good and Evil in man but withholds his answer, and he does not permit himself to determine whether the events of the night of trial are real or the mere figment of a dream. 涉及知识点：论述题9．Symbolism is an important literary practice in literature and it has been widely used by many American writers. Discuss the way symbolism is used in Faulkner’ s story A Rose for Emily.正确答案：A. Rose, as a symbol of love, may refer to the love between Emily and the Northerner, yet used rather ironically, in the way it is associated with decay and death in the story.B. Rose could also stand for the pity, sympathy, or the lament “we”shows for Emily.C. The pity and lament goes not only to Emily but all those who are imprisoned in the past and fail to adapt to the change.D. Discuss in relation to the story. 涉及知识点：论述题。
2024年自考-自考专业(英语)-英美文学选读考试历年真题常考点试题4带答案
2024年自考-自考专业(英语)-英美文学选读考试历年真题常考点试题带答案（图片大小可任意调节）第1卷一.单选题(共20题)1.It was his masterpiece The Great Gatsby that made( )one of the greatest American novelists.A. FitzgeraldB.William FaulknerC.Ernest HemmingwayD.Gertrude Steinbeck2.In 1920,( )published his first novel This Side of Paradise which was,to some extent,his own story.A.F·Scott FitzgeraldB.Ernest HemingwayC.William FaulknerD.Emily Dickinson3.“The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one- eighth of it being above wa ter. ” This “iceberg ” analogy is put forward by( ).A.Mark TwainB.Ezra PoundC.William FaulknerD.Ernest Hemingway4.Now many major employers are beginning to demand _______ the completion of schoolA.more thanB.rather thanC.other thanD.better than5.William Faulkner set most of his works in the American( ),with his emphasis onthe( )subjects and consciousness.A.North...NorthernB.East...EasternC.West...WesternD.South...Southern6.Which of the following statements is NOT true of Emily Dickinson and her poetry?A.She remained unmarried all her lifeB.She wrote,1,775 poems,and most of them were published during her life time.C.Her poems have no titles,hence are always quoted by their first lines.D.Her limited private world has never confined the limitless power of her creativity and imagination.7.The Nobel Prize Committee highly praised( )for “his powerful style - forming mastery of the art ” of creating modern fiction.A.Ezra PoundB.Ernest HemingwayC.Robert FrostD.Theodore Dreiser8.In the original test，all the animals in a test group are given a substance _______ half of them dieA.unlessB.untilC.lestD.provided9.After the American Civil War,the literary interest in the so- called “reality ” of life started a new period in the American literary writings know an the Age of( ).A.RealismB.Reason and RevolutionC.RomanticismD.Modernism10.The effect of Darwinist idea of “survival of the fittest ” was shattering in() ’s fictional world of jungle,where “kill or to be killed ” was the law.A.Mark TwainB.Henry JamesC.Theodore DreiserD.Walt Whitman11.Nobody but you _______ what he said.A. agrees withB.agrees outC.agree withD.agree to12.In 1950,( )was awarded the Nobel Prize for the anti-racist Intruder in the Dust.A.William FaulknerB.Robert FrostC.Ezra PoundD.Ernest Hemingway13.Greatly and permanently affected by the( )experiences,Hemingway formed his own writing style,together with his theme and hero.A.miningB.farmingC.warD.sailing14.Among the following writers( )is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th - century “stream - of - consciousness ” novels and the founder of psychological realism.A. T. S. EliotB.James JoyceC.William FaulknerD.Henry James15.Eugene O’Neill ’s first full — length play,( ),won him the first Pulitzer theme is the choice between life and death,the interaction of subjective and objective factors.A.Bound East for CardiffB.The Hairy ApeC.Desire Under the ElmsD.Beyond the Horizon16.Man is a “victim of forces over which he has no control. ” This is a notion held strongly by( ).A.Robert FrostB.Theodore DreiserC.Henry JamesD.Hamlin Garland17.In Go Down,Moses,( )illuminates the problem of black and white in Southern society asa closeknit destiny of blood brotherhood.A.William FaulknerB.Jack LondonC.Herman MelvilleD.Nathaniel Hawthorne18.Mark Twain employed an unpretentious style of( )in his novels which is best described as “vernacular ”.A.standard EnglishB.Afro-American EnglishC.colloquialismD.urbanism19.The attitude towards life that( )had been trying to demonstrate in his works is known as “grace under pressure ”.A.William FaulknerB.Theodore DreiserC.Ernest HemingwayD.F·Scott Fitzgerald20.The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and,especially,its sequence( )proved themselves to be the milestone in the American literature.A.The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnB.Life on the MississippiC.The Gilded AgeD.Roughing It第2卷一.单选题(共20题)1.Most literary critics think that Fitzgerald is both an insider and an outsider of( )witha double vision.A.the Jazz AgeB.the Age of Reason and RevolutionC.the Babybooming AgeD.the Post- Modern Age2.At the age of eighty -seven,( )read his poetry at the inauguration of President John in 1961.A.Robert FrostB.Walt WhitmanC.Ezra Pound3.What he had done is _______A.valueB.of valuableC.of no valueD.of no valuable4.That is the house _______ you can enjoy the scenery.A. in thatB.thatC.whichD.from which5.“My last Duchess ” is a poem that best exemplifies Robert Browning ’s( ).A.sensitive ear for the sounds of the English languageB.excellent choice of wordsC.mastering of the metrical devicese of the dramatic monologue6.William Faulkner once said that( )is a story of “lost innocence, ” which proves itself to be an intensification of the theme of imprisonment in the past.A.The Great GatsbyB.The Sound and the FuryC.Absalom,Absalom!D.Go Down,Moses7.She disagrees ______ him ______ everything.A.with, onB./, onC.with, atD.on, with8.( )is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th —century “stream— of —consciousness ” novels and the founder of psychological realism.A.Theodore DreiserB.William FaulknerC.Henry JamesD.Mark Twain9.The childhood of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn in the Mississippi is a record of a vanished way of life in the( )Mississippi valleyA.pre - War of IndependenceB.post - War of IndependenceC.pre - Civil WarD.post - Civil War10.Hemingway’s “Indian Camp ” is one of the fourteen short stories collected under the title of( ).This title is very ironic because there is no peace at all in the stories.A.Three Stories and Ten PoemsB.Across the River and into the TreesC.The Green Hills of AfricaD.In Our Time11.Robert Frost is generally considered a regional poet whose subject matters mainly focus on the landscape and people in( ).A.the westB.the southC.AlaskaD.New England12.“The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one -eighth of it being abov e water. ” This “iceberg ” analogy about prose style was put forward by( ).A.William FaulknerB.Henry JamesC.Ernest HemingwayD.F· Scott Fitzgerald13.In Death in the Afternoon( )presents his philosophy about life and death through the depiction of the bullfight as a kind of microcosmic tragedy.A.William FaulknerB.Jack LondonC.Ernest HemingwayD.Mark Twain14.considered( ) “the true father of our national literature ”.A.Bret HarteB.Mark TwainC.Washington IrvingD.Walt Whitman15.Some persons gain goal and direction from their tensions;others ________ under pressure.A.fall outB.fall apartC.fall back onD.fall in with16.The Portrait of A Lady is generally considered to be( )masterpiece,which describes the life journey of an American( )in a European cultural environment.A.Henry Adams’…widowB.William James ’…girlC.Henry James’…girlD.Theodore Dreiser ’s…widow17.In 1950,one of the leading American writers( )was awarded the Nobel Prize for the anti-racist Intruder in the Dust.A.Robert FrostB.Theodore DreiserC.William FaulknerD.Fitzgerald18.Henry James’ fame generally rests upon his novels and stories with the( )theme.A.internationalB.localC.colonialD.post-modern19.Ezra Pound,a leading spokesman of the “( ) ”,was one of the most important poe ts in his time.A.Imagist MovementB.Cubist MovementC.Reformist MovementD.Transcendentalist Movement20.The( )Age of the 1920s characterized by frivolity and carelessness is brought vividly to life in The Great Gatsby.A.LostB.JazzC.ReasonD.Gilded第1卷参考答案一.单选题1.参考答案： A本题解析：《了不起的盖茨比》是菲茨杰拉德的代表作，也使其成为了美国文坛上得一颗明星。
英美文学选读复习资料 4. 维多利亚时期
一．学习目的和要求通过本章的学习，对19世纪维多利亚时代英国的政治，经济，历史，文化背景，对维多利亚时代的诗歌，散文，小说在创作思想上的进步和创作技巧上的改革，以及对该时代主要作家的生平，观点，创作旨意，艺术品特点及其代表作的主题，结构，语言，人物刻画等都有一个全面的了解。
并通过作品选读加深体会感受，增强对作品的理解和鉴赏能力。
二．考核要求（一）维多利亚时期概述1．识记:（1）维多利亚时期的界定（2）社会政治，经济，文化背景。
2．领会:（1）维多利亚时期的文学特点（2）批判现实主义小说对后世文学的影响。
3．应用：宪章运动，功利主义，批判现实主义，戏剧独自等名词的解释（二）该时期的重要作家1．一般识记：重要作家的生平与创作生涯2．识记: 重要作品及主要内容3．领会：重要作家的创作思想，艺术特色及其代表作品的主题思想，人物塑造，语言风格，社会意义等。
4．应用:（1）狄更斯和萨克雷作品的批判现实主义思想及各自的创作手法，艺术特色。
（2）小说《简·爱》，《呼啸山庄》的主题思想与人物塑造。
（3）"我逝去的公爵夫?quot;中的戏剧独白。
（4）乔泊·艾略特和哈代小说中环境，氛围描述与人物内世界的展示。
A. Introduction to the Victorian Period1. 识记(1) Definition: the Victorian PeriodChronologically the Victorian period roughly coincides with the reign of Queen Victoria who ruled over England from 1836 to 1901. The period has been generally regarded as one of the most glorious in the English history.(2) Political, Economical & Cultural BackgroundThe early years of the Victorian England was a time of rapid economic development as well as serious social problems. After the Reform Bill of 1832 passed the political power from the decaying aristocrats into the hands of the middle-class industrial capitalists, the Industrial Revolution soon geared up. Towards the mid-century, England had reached its highest point of development as a world power. And yet beneath the great prosperity & richness, there existed widespread poverty & wretchedness among the working class. The worsening living & working conditions, the mass unemployment & the new Poor Law of 1834 with its workhouse system finally gave rise to the Chartist Movement (1836-1848).During the next twenty years, England settled down to a time of prosperity & relative stability. The middle-class life of the time was characterized by prosperity, respectability & material progress.But the last three decades of the century witnessed the decline of the British Empire & the decay of the Victorian values.Ideologically, the Victorians experienced fundamental changes. The rapid development of science& technology, new inventions & discoveries in geology, astronomy, biology & anthropology drastically shook people's religious convictions. Darwin's The Origin of Species (1859) & The Descent of Man (1871) shook the theoretical basis of the traditional faith. On the other hand, Utilitarianism was widely accepted & practiced. Almost everything was put to the test by the criterion of utility, that is, the extent to which it could promote the material happiness.2. 领会(1) Features of the Victorian LiteratureVictorian literature, as a product of its age, naturally took on its quality of magnitude & diversity. It was many-sided & complex, & reflected both romantically & realistically the great changes that were going on in people's life & thought. Great writers & great works abounded.(2) Features of Victorian novelsIn this period, the novel became the most widely read & the most vital & challenging expression of progressive thought. While sticking to the principle of faithful representation of the18th-century realist novel, novelists in this period carried their duty forward to the criticism of the society & the defense of the mass. Although writing from different points of view & with different techniques, they shared one thing in common, that is, they were all concerned about the fate of the common people. They were angry at the inhuman social institutions, the decaying social morality as represented by the money-worship & Utilitarianism & the widespread misery, poverty & injustice. Their truthful depiction of people's life & bitter & strong criticism of the society had done much in awakening the public consciousness to the social problems & in the actual improvement of the society.Victorian literature, in general, truthfully represents the reality & spirit of the age. The high-spirited vitality, the down-to-earth earnestness, the good-natured humor & unbounded imagination are all unprecedented. In almost every genre it paved the way for the coming century, where its spirits, values & experiments are to witness their bumper harvest.3. 应用 Definitions of several terms1) The Chartist Movement (1836-1848)The English workers got themselves organized in big cities & brought forth the People's charter, in which they demanded basic rights & better living & working conditions. They, for three times, made appeals to the government, with hundreds of thousands of people's signatures. The movement swept over most of the cities in the country. Although the movement declined to an end in 1848, it did bring some improvement to the welfare of the working class. This was the first mass movement of the English working class & the early sign of the awakening of the poor, oppressed people.2) UtilitarianismAlmost everything was put to the test by the criterion of utility, that is, the extent to which it could promote the material happiness. This theory held a special appeal to the middle-class industrialists, whose greed drove them to exploiting workers to the utmost & brought greater suffering & poverty to the working mass.3) Critical RealismThe Victorian Age is an age of realism rather than of romanticism-a realism which strives to tell the whole truth showing moral & physical diseases as they are. To be true to life becomes the first requirement for literary writing. As the mirror of truth, literature has come very close to daily life, reflecting its practical problems & interests & is used as a powerful instrumentof human progress.4) Dramatic MonologueBy dramatic monologue, it is meant that a poet chooses a dramatic moment or a crisis, in which his characters are made to talk about their lives, & about their minds & hearts. In " listening" to those one-sided talks, readers can form their own opinions & judgments about the speaker's personality & about what has really happened. Robert Browning brought this poetic form to its maturity & perfection & his "My Last Duchess" is one of the best-known dramatic monologues.>> 点击下载资料/index.php?action-viewnews-itemid-83743-php-1B. Victorian WritersI. Charles Dickens1．一般识记 His Life & Literary CareerCharles Dickens (1812-1870) was born at Portsmouth. His father, a poor clerk in the Navy Pay office, was put into the Marsalsea Prison for debt when young Charles was only 12 years old. The son had to give up schooling to work in an underground cellar at a shoe-blacking factory - a position he considered most humiliating. We find the bitter experiences of that suffering child reflected in many of Dickens's novels. In 1827, Charles entered a lawyer's office, & two years later he became a Parliamentary reporter for newspapers. From 1833 Dickens began to write occasional sketches of London life, which were later collected & published under the title Sketches by Boz (1836). Soon The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (1836-1837) appeared in monthly installments. And since then, his life became one of endless hard work. In his later years, he gave himself to public readings of his works, which brought plaudits & comfort but also exhausted him. In 1870, this man of great heart & vitality died of overwork, leaving his last novel unfinished.2. 识记His Major WorksUpon his death, Dickens left to the world a rich legacy of 15 novels & a number of short stories. They offer a most complete & realistic picture of English society of his age & remain the highest achievement in the 19th-century English novel. In nearly all his novels, behind the gloomy pictures of oppression & poverty, behind the loud humor & buffoonery, is his gentleness, his genial mirth, & his simple faith in mankind.The following is a list of his novels & other collections in three periods:(1) Period of youthful optimistSketches by Boz (1836); The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (1836-1837); Oliver Twist (1837-1838); Nicholas Nickleby (1838-1839); The Old Curiosity Shop (1840-1841); Barnaby Rudge(1841)(2) Period of excitement & irritationAmerican Notes (1842); Martin Chuzzlewit (1843-1845); A Christmas Carol (1843); Dombey & Son (1846-1848); David Copperfield (1849-1850)(3) Period of steadily intensifying pessimismBleak House (1852-1853); Hard Times (1854); Little Dorrit (1855-1857); A Tale of Two Cities (1859); Great Expectations (1860-1861); Our Mutual Friend (1864-1865); Edwin Drood (unfinished)(1870)3. 领会 Distinct Features of His Novels(1) Character Sketches & ExaggerationIn his novels are found about 19 hundred figures, some of whom are really such " typical characters under typical circumstances," that they become proverbial or representative of a whole group of similar persons.As a master of characterization, Dickens was skillful in drawing vivid caricatural sketches by exaggerating some peculiarities, & in giving them exactly the actions & words that fit them: that is, right words & right actions for the right person.(2) Broad Humor & Penetrating SatireDickens is well known as a humorist as well as a satirist. He sometimes employs humor to enliven a scene or lighten a character by making it (him or her) eccentric, whimsical, or laughable. Sometimes he uses satire to ridicule human follies or vices, with the purpose of laughing them out of existence or bring about reform.(3) Complicated & Fascinating PlotDickens seems to love complicated novel constructions with minor plots beside the major one, or two parallel major plots within one novel. He is also skillful at creating suspense & mystery to make the story fascinating.(4) The Power of ExposureAs the greatest representative of English critical realism, Dickens made his novel the instrument of morality & justice. Each of his novels reveals a specific social problem.4. 领会 His Literary Creation & Literary AchievementsCharles Dickens is one of the greatest critical realistic writers of the Victorian Age. It is his serious intention to expose & criticize in his works all the poverty, injustice, hypocrisy & corruptness he saw all around him. In his works, Dickens sets a full map & a large-scale criticism of the 19th-century England, particularly London. A combination of optimism about people & realism about society is obvious in these works. His representative works in the early period include Oliver Twist, David Copperfield & so on.His later works show a highly conscious modern artist. The settings are more complicated; the stories are better structured. Most novels of this period present a sharper criticism of social evils & morals of the Victorian England, for example, Bleak House, Hard Times, Great Expectations & so on. The early optimism could no more be found.Charles Dickens is a master story-teller. His language could, in a way, be compared with Shakespeare's. His humor & wit seem inexhaustible. Character-portrayal is the most outstanding feature of his works. His characterizations of child (Oliver Twist, etc.), some grotesque people (Fagin, etc.) & some comical people (Mr. Micawber, etc.) are superb. Dickens also employs exaggeration in his works. Dickens's works are also characterized by a mixture of humor & pathos.5. 应用 Selected ReadingAn Excerpt from Chapter III of Oliver TwistThe novel is famous for its vivid descriptions of the workhouse & life of the underworld in the 19th-century London. The author's intimate knowledge of people of the lowest order & of the city itself apparently comes from his journalistic years. Here the novel also presents Oliver Twist as Dickens's first child hero & Fagin the first grotesque figure.This section, Chapter III of the novel, is a detailed account of how he is punished for that "impious & profane offence of asking for more" & how he is to be sold. At three pound ten, to Mr. Gamfield, the notorious chimneysweeper. Though we can afford a smile now & then, we feel more the pitiable state of the orphan boy & the cruelty & hypocrisy of the workhouse board.II. The Bronte Sisters1. 一般识记 Their lives & literary CareerCharlotte Bronte (1816-1855), Emily Bronte (1818-1848), & their gifted sister Anne Bronte (1820-1849), came from a large family of Irish origin. Their father was a clergyman at Haworth, Yorkshire. When they were young, the Bronte sisters were sent to a school for clergymen's daughters. The oldest two died there due to the poor & unhealthy conditions. This experience inspired the later portrayal of Lowood School in the novel Jane Eyre (1847). After the death of the elder sisters, Charlotte & Emily were brought home to be educated by their father. For some time, they worked in a boarding school & were subsequently governesses in rich families.Charlotte & her two younger sisters had a great fondness for literature. In 1845 appeared a volume of poetry entitled Poems by Carrer, Ellis & Acton Bell (the pseudonyms of Charlotte, Emily & Anne), but received little attention. Then the three sisters turned to novel writing. Charlotte's first novel The Professor was rejected by the publisher. But her second one, Jane Eyre, won immediate success when it appeared in 1847. In the same year, Emily's single & unique work Wuthering Heights & Anne's Agnes Grey were also published. Soon they were followed by Anne's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848).After the death of Emily & Anne, Charlotte continued writing. Her next important novel Shirley, a work about the industrial troubles between the mill-owners & machine-breakers in Yorkshire in 1811-1812 came out in 1849. Another novel Villette appeared in 1853. This is her most autobiographical work, largely based on her experience in Brussels. In 1854, charlotte married her father's curate. She died a few months later in pregnancy. The Professor, her first written work, was published posthumously in 1857.2. 识记 Charlotte's Literary CreationCharlotte Bronte's works are all about the struggle of an individual towards self-realization, about some lonely & neglected young women with a fierce longing for love, & understanding & a full, happy life. All her heroines' highest joy comes from some sacrifice of self or some human weakness overcome. Besides, she is a writer of realism combined with romanticism. On the one hand, she presents a vivid realistic picture of the English society by exposing the cruelty, hypocrisy & other evils of the upper classes & by showing the misery & suffering of the poor. Her works are famous for the depiction of the life of the middle-class workingwomen, particularly governesses. On the other hand, her writings are marked throughout by intensity of vision & of passion. By writing from an individual point of view, by creating characters who are possessed of strong feelings, fiery passions & some extraordinary personalities, by using some elements of horror, mystery & prophesy, she is able to recreate life in a very romantic way. The vividness of her subjective narration, the intensely achieved characterization, especially those heroines who are totally contrary to the public expectations & the most truthful presentation of the economical, moral, social life of the time -all this earns her works a never dying popularity.3. 应用 Selected ReadingsExcerpt One: from Chapter XXIII of Jane Eyre by charlotte BronteThe work is one of the most popular & important novels of the Victorian age. It is noted for its sharp criticism of the existing society, e.g. the religious hypocrisy of charity institutions, the social discrimination & the false social convention as concerning love & marriage. At the same time, it is an intense moral fable. Jane, like Mr. Rochester, has to undergo a series of physical & moral tests to grow up & achieve her final happiness. The success of the novel is also due to its introduction to the English novel the first governess heroine. Jane Eyre is a completely new woman image. She represents those middle-class workingwomen who are struggling for recognition of their rights & equality as a human being. The vivid description of her intense feelings & her thought & inner conflicts brings her to the heart of the audience.Jane Eyre's character:Jane Eyre, an orphan child with a fiery spirit & a longing to love & be loved, a poor, plain, little governess who dares to love her master, a man superior to her in many ways, & even is brave enough to declare to the man her love for him, cuts a completely new woman image. In this novel Charlotte characterizes Jane Eyre as a naive, kind-hearted, noble-minded woman who pursues a genuine kind of love. Jane Eyre represents those middle-class workingwomen who are struggling for recognition of their basic rights & equality as a human being. The vivid description of her intense feelings & her thought & inner conflicts brings her to the heart of the audience. The selected part is taken from Chapter XXIII, not long after Jane is back from her aunt's funeral. Jane finds herself hopelessly in love with Mr. Rochester but she is aware that her love is out of the question. So, when forced to confront Mr. Rochester, she desperately & openly declared her equality with him & her love for him. The passion described here is intense & genuine. Excerpt Two: from Chapter XV of Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte1) Emily's subject matterAs far as Emily's literary creation is concerned, she is, first of all, a poet Her 193 poems, mostly devoted to the matter of nature with its mysterious workings & its unaccountable influence upon people's life, are works of strange sublimity & beauty. They are ample proof for the poetic genius of this young, reclusive woman. But, to the common readers, she is better known today as the author of that most fascinating novel, Wuthering Heights.2) The theme of the novelThe novel is a riddle which means different things to different people. From the social point of view, it is a story about a poor man abused, betrayed & distorted by his social betters because he is a poor nobody. As a love story, this is one of the most moving: the passion between Heathcliff & Catherine proves the most intense, the most beautiful & at the same time the most horrible passion ever to be found possible in human beings.3) The structure of the novelThe novel has a unique structure: the story is told through independent narrators unidentical with the author, whose personality is therefore completely absent from the book. The story is told mainly by Nelly, Catherine's old nurse, to Mr. Lockwood, a temporary tenant at Grange. The latter too gives an account of what he sees at Wuthering Heights. And part of the story is told through Isabella's letters to Nelly. While the central interest is maintained, the sequence of its development is constantly disordered by flashbacks. This makes the story all the more enticing & genuine.The excerpt taken here is from ChapterXV, the death scene of Catherine, narrated by Nelly to Mr. Lockwood. When Edgar is away at church, Heathcliff seizes the chance to see the dying Catherine. The intense love between the two is fully shown in this agonizing scene.III. Alfred Tennyson1.一般识记 His Life & Literary CareerAlfred Tennyson (1809-1892) is certainly the most representative Victorian poet. His poetry voices the doubt & the faith, the grief & the joy of the English people in an age of fast social changes. He was born at Somersby, Linconshire, the fourth son of a rather learned clergyman. In 1827, he & his elder brother published Poems by Two Brothers. In this juvenile work the influence of Byron & an attraction to oriental themes were shown. He was educated at the Trinity College, Cambridge & published his first signed work Poems, Chiefly Lyrical (1830) there. In 1832, one year after he left Cambridge, he published Poems, which contained a variety of poems, beautiful in melody & rich in imagery. In 1842, his next issue of Poems came out, collected in the book are the dramatic monologue "Ulysses", the epic narrative " Morte d'Arthur," the exquisite idylls "Dora" & " The Gardener's Daughter," etc. In 1847, The Princess was published. Written in blank verse, it deals with the theme of women's rights & position. In 1850, Tennyson was appointed the Poet Laureate & he published his greatest work In Memoriam. The rest years of Tennyson's life was comfortable & peaceful, but he never stopped writing. In 1855, Tennyson published a monodrama Maud, a collection of short lyrics. Among the other works of his later period, "Rizpah," "Enoch Arden," " Merlin & the Gleam" & " Crossing the Bar" are worthy of note.2.识记 His major poetic works & their theme1) In MemoriamPresumably it is an elegy on the death of Hallam, yet less than half of its l00 pieces are directly connected with him. The poet here does not merely dwell on the personal bereavement. As a poetic diary, the poem is also an elaborate & powerful expression of the poet's philosophical & religious thoughts - his doubts about the meaning of life, the existence of the soul & the afterlife, & his faith in the power of love & the soul's instinct & immortality. Such doubts & beliefs were shared by most people in an age when the old Christian belief was challenged by new scientific discoveries, though to most readers today, the real attraction of the poem lies more in its profound feeling & artistic beauty than in the philosophical & religious reflections. The familiar trance-like experience, mellifluous rhythm & pictorial descriptions make it one of the best elegies in English literature.2) Idylls of the Kin g (1842-1885)It is his most ambitious work which took him over 30 years to complete. It is made up of 12 books of narrative poems, based on the Celtic legends of King Arthur & his Knights of the Round Table. But it is not a mere reproduction of the old legend, though. It is a modern interpretation of the classic myth. For one thing, the moral standards & sentiments reflected in the poem belong to the Victorians rather than to the medieval royal people. For another, the story of the rise & fall of King Arthur is, in fact, meant to represent a cyclic history of western civilization, which , in Tennyson's mind , is going on a spiritual decline & will end in destruction.3.领会Artistic Features of His PoetryTennyson is a real artist. He has the natural power of linking visual pictures with musical expressions, & these two with the feelings. He has perfect control of the sound of English, & a sensitive ear, an excellent choice & taste of words. His poetry is rich in poetic images & melodious language, & noted for its lyrical beauty & metrical charm. His works are not only the products of the creative imagination of a poetic genius but also products of a long & rich English heritage. His wonderful works manifest all the qualities of England's great poets. The dreaminess of Spenser, the majesty of Milton, the natural simplicity of Wordsworth, the fantasy of Blake & Coleridge, the melody of Keats & Shelley, & the narrative vigor of Scott & Byron, --- all these striking qualities are evident on successive pages of Tennyson's poetry.4. 应用 Selected Readings(1) Break, Break, Break (1)This short lyric is written in memory of Tennyson's best friend, Arthur Hallam, whose death has a lifelong influence on the poet. Here, the poet's own feelings of sadness are contrasted with the carefree, innocent joys of the children & the unfeeling movement of the ship & the sea waves. The beauty of the lyric is to be found in the musical language & in the association of sound & images with feelings & emotions. The poem contains 4 quatrains, with combined iambic & anapaestic feet. Most lines have three feet & some four. The rhyme scheme is a b c b.(2) Crossing the Bar (1)This poem was written in the later years of Tennyson's life. Although not the last poem written by Tennyson in his long creative career, this poem appears, at his request, as the final poem in all collections of his works. The scene is sketched with a few strokes: sunset & the evening star, the twilight and the evening bell, & then the dark. The ship is ready to go out of the harbor. It will cross the bar & reach the vast open sea for the long voyage that it is to make. The allegory of the poem is clear. Tennyson is in the evening of life, & the "clear call" of death will come soon. But when he has crossed the border between life & death to go on that voyage beyond the bound of Time & Place, he hopes then to see his "Pilot," God, face to face. From the moving imagery & the pleasant sound of the poem, we can feel his fearlessness towards death, his faith in God & an afterlife.(3) Ulysses(1)In Greek mythology, Ulysses is the king of the Ithaca Island. He is the hero in many literary classics. In Homer's Odessey (the Greek name for Ulysses), Ulysses eventually arrives home after the ten-year Trojan war & another ten-year's adventures at sea. However, according to Dante, Ulysses never returns to his home place Ithaca, but urges his men to go on exploring westward. Tennyson combines these two versions. In this poem, Ulysses is now three years back in his homeland, reunited with his wife Penelope & his son Telemachus, & resumes his rule over the land. But he will not endure the peaceful commonplace everyday life. Old as he is, he persuades his old followers to go with him & to sail again to pursue a new world & new knowledge. Written in the form of dramatic monologue, the poem not only expresses, through the mouth of the heroic Ulysses, Tennyson's own determination & courage to brave the struggle of life but also reflects the restlessness & aspiration of the age.IV. Robert Browning1.一般识记His life &Literary CareerRobert Browning (1812-1889) was born in a well-off family & received his education mainly from his private tutor, & from his father, who gave him the freedom to follow his own interest. In 1833, he published his first poetic work Pauline, which brought great embarrassment upon him. But in his second attempt Sordello (1840), he went too far in self-correction that the poem became so obscure as to be hardly readable. He even tried play writing but failed. All these frustrating experiences forced the poet to develop a literary form that suited him best & actually give full swing to this genius, i.e. the dramatic monologue.In 1846, Browning married Elizabeth Barrett, a famous poetess whose famous book of love poetry was Sonnets from the Portuguese. In 1869 Browing's masterpiece, The Ring & the Book, came out. In 1889, Browning died & was buried in the Poet's Corner, Westminster Abbey, beside Tennyson.2.识记His major worksDramatic Lyrics (1842), Dramatic Romances & Lyrics (1845), Bells & Pomegranates (1846), Men & Women (1855), Dramatic Personae (1864), The Ring & the Book (1868-1869) & Dramatic Idylls (1880)3.领会Characteristic of The Ring & the Book: Dramatic M onologueIn this poem, Browning chooses a dramatic moment or a crisis, in which his characters are made to talk about their lives, & about their minds & hearts. In "listening" to those one-sided talks, readers can form their own opinions & judgments about the speaker's personality & about what has really happened.4.领会Robert Browning's artistic characteristics(1) The name of Browning is often associated with the term "dramatic monologue." Although it is not his invention, it is in his hands that this poetic form reaches its maturity& perfection.(2) Browning's poetry is not easy to read. His rhythms are often too fast, too rough & unmusical(3) The syntax is usually clipped & highly compressed. The similes & illustrations appear too profusely. The allusions & implications are sometimes odd & far-fetched. All this makes up his obscurity.On the whole, Browning's style is very different from that of any other Victorian poets. He is like a weather-beaten pioneer, bravely & vigorously trying to beat a track through the jungle. His poetic style belongs to the 20th-century rather than to the Victorian age.5. 应用 Selected Readings:1) My Last Duchess (1)"My Last Duchess" is Browning's best-known dramatic monologue. The poem takes its sources from the life of Alfonso II, duke of Ferrara of the 16th-century Italy, whose young wife died suspiciously after three years of marriage. Not long after her death, the duke managed to arrange a marriage with the niece of another noble man. This dramatic monologue is the duke's speech addressed to the agent who comes to negotiate the marriage. In his talk about his "last duchess," the duke reveals himself as a self-conceited, cruel & tyrannical man. The poem is written in heroic couplets, but with no regular metrical system. In reading, it sounds like blank verse.2) Meeting at Night (1)Meeting at Night, together with Parting at Morning, appeared originally under the single title Night & Morning. Browning made them separate poems in a late edition of his work. The speaker。
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【题型：简答】【分数：4分】得分：4分[1]What are the characteristics of Byron's works?答：Although many of Byron’s works are debated by the critics, he is still one of the influential figures in English literature. In most of his works, we can see Byron's violent attack on" Cant politics, religion a novelty of the oriental scenery, the romantic character of Byronically hero and the easy, fluent and natu verse. Byron's diction, though unequal and frequently faulty, has on a whole a freedom, copiousness and v descriptions are simple and fresh, and often bring vivid objects before the reader. The glowing imaginati 答案：they are violentattack on politics, religion and morals. They describe the nove oriental scenery and shows the easy, fluent and natural beauty of his verse. 【题型：简答】【分数：4分】得分：4分[2]Briefly state Mark Twain’ s magic power with language in his novels.答：A.Setting: In the novel Mark Twain recreates a small-town world of America and presents the local color. Bsimple, direct language faithful to the colloquial speech, the vernacular language of the local people C.C recreates two rebels and fugitives running away from civilization, especially Huckleberry Finn, an innocen accept the conventional village morality D.Theme: The novel is a criticism of social injustice, hypocrisy, and narrow-mindedness of the American small town society E.Style: The novel employs a humorous答案：His words are colloquial, concrete and direct in effect, and his sentence str simple, even ungrammatical spoken language; His characters speak with a strong is true of his local colorism;Different characters from different literary or c backgrounds talk differently.【题型：简答】【分数：4分】得分：0分[3]What are the main features of Robert Browning’s poetry?答：Robert Browning’s poems are known for their irony, characterization, dark humor, social commentary, histo challenging vocabulary and syntax.答案：He uses dramatic monologue, fast, rough and unmusical rhythm. His works inclu compressed syntax, similes and illustrations,non-poetic jarring diction.【题型：简答】【分数：4分】得分：1分[4]What are the "Wessex novels" of Thomas Hardy?答：Thomas Hardy is one of the most excellent realistic novelist and poet in the 19~(th) century. His novels description of his hometown Wessex—a city in England, and therefore are called by the name "Wessex Nove named as Novels of Character and Environment by Hardy himself. These novels describe the unexpected and fields of society, economy, politics, ethics, and customs in England after the invasion of Capitalism, a fate of the broken farmers, and discover the potential crisis of the society in England which is under t 答案：They are the fictional and crude rural region in Wessex andHardy's homeplac 【题型：简答】【分数：4分】得分：2分[5]Comment on the characteristics of Romantic writers in English history.答：It is a rebellion against the neoclassical literature, extols the faculty of imagination and nature答案：It is a rebellion against the neoclassical literature, extols the faculty of i nature.【题型：简答】【分数：4分】得分：4分[6] The white whale, Moby Dick is endowed with symbolic meaning. What do you think it symbolizes?答：To Ahab, the whale is an evil creature or the agent of an evil force that controls the universe.To Ishmael astonishing force, an immense power, which defies rational explanation due to a sense of mystery it carrie but malignant at the same time. To the reader, it may be regarded as a symbol of nature or an instrument o upon evil man答案：To Ahab, the whale is an evil creature or the agent of an evil force that contr universe.To Ishmael, the whale is an astonishing force, an immense power, which defies r explanation due to a sense of mystery it carries. It is beautiful, but malignan time.To the reader, it may be regarded as a symbol of nature or an instrument of God upon evil man.【题型：论述】【分数：10分】得分：10分[7]Discuss the artistic features of Shelley's poems.答：lyrical|poet|classical|mythological|allusions|figures of speech|metaphor|personification|description 答案：lyrical|poet|classical|mythological|allusions|figures ofspeech|metaphor|personification|description【题型：论述】【分数：10分】得分：10分[8]What does Wordsworth mean when he said "All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings tranquility"?答：This sentence is considered as the principle of Wordsworth’s poetry creation which was set forth in the Lyrical Ballads”. As contrasted with the classicists who made reason, order and the old classical tradi in their poetical creations，Wordsworth based his own poetic talent on the premise that“all good poetry overflow of powerful feeling．” He appealed directly on individual sensations，i. e. pleasure，exciteme as the foundation in the creation and appreciation of poetry. A poet’s emotion extends from human affai 答案：principle|Wordsworth|poetic|creation|preface|Lyrical Ballads|individual|sensa 【题型：阅读】【分数：4分】得分：0分[9] When the minister spoke from the pulpit, with power and fervid eloquence, and, with his hands on the opesacred truths of our religion, and of saint-like lives and triumphant deaths, and of future bliss of mis then did Goodman Brown turn pale, dreading, lest the roof should thunder down upon the gray blasphemer a Questions:A. Identify the title of the short story from which this part is taken.B. What had happened in the story before this church scene?C. Why was Goodman Brown afraid the roof might thunder down?答：A.Hawthorne’s Yong Goodman BrownB.Brown had attended a witches’party where he saw many prominent peopvillage ,the minister included C.Brown was shocked by the minister,secretly a member of the evil club, w sacred truths of the reigion openly and unashamedly . He thought God would punish such hypocrites down o 答案：young Goodman Brown, attend a witches' party,shocked by the minister【题型：阅读】【分数：4分】得分：0分[10]“I like to see it lap the Miles—And lick the Valleys up—And stop to feed itself at Tanks—And then-prodigiosu step”A. Please give the name of the author.B. What idea does this poem express?答：A.DickinsonB.This poem was shocked the world One of three big project -- North America big railway, thecivilization development.答案：Emily Dichinson, suspicion of the relationship between man and nature【题型：阅读】【分数：4分】得分：3分[11]"To be or not to be-- that is the question."Questions:A. Identify the author.B. From which work is the above sentence taken?答：A.William ShakespeareB.Hamlett答案：Shakespeare, Hamlet【题型：阅读】【分数：4分】得分：2分[12]Had I as many souls as there be stars.I’d give them all for Mephistophilis!By him I’ll be great emperor of the world,And make a bridge through the moving airTo pass the ocean with a band of men;I’ll join the hills that bing the Africa shoreAnd make that country continent to Spain,And both contributory to my crown;The Emperor shall not live by my leave,Nor any potentate of Germany.Now that I have obtained what I desireI’ll live in speculation of this art.Till Mephistophilis return again.”A. Identify the author and the title of the work from which the passage is taken.B. Based on the passage, write down in one or two sentences the theme of the play.答：A.Dr.Faustus, a play by Christopher Marlowe.B.Man's aspiration, bounding achievements, and the inevitab 答案：Dr. Faustus, Christopher Marlowe, Man's aspiration, bounding achievement【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分[13]______ by Melville is a novella about a ship whose black slave cargo mutiny holds their captain a terrorA A. “Bartleby, the Scrivener”B B. Benito CerenoC C. The Confidence-ManD D. Billy Bud答：B答案： B【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分[14]The great political and social events in the English society of neoclassical period were the followingA the Restoration of King Charles II in 1660B the Great Plague of 1665C the Great London Fire in 1666D the Wars of Roses in 1689答：D答案： D【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：0分[15]All of the following are stream –of- consciousness novels EXCEPT________.A The Sound and the FuryB UlyssesC Mrs. DallowayD Jude the Obscure答：A答案： D【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分[16]Greatly and permanently affected by the ________ experiences, Hemingway formed his own writinwith his theme and hero.A. mining &nbsA miningB farmingC warD sea答：C答案： C【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：0分[17]Which of the following masterpieces doesn’t belong to the tragedies of Shakespeare?A A. Romeo and JulietB B. The Merry Wives of WindsorC C. Julius CaesarD D. King Lear答：D答案： B【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分[18]Here is a sentence from an essay, “Read not to contradict and confuse, nor to believe and take for gran talk and discourse, but to weight and consider”. The essay must be ______.A Of Studies by Francis BaconB The Advancement of Learning by Francis BaconC Novum Organum by Francis BaconD Essays by Francis Bacon答：A答案： A【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分[19]7. Neoclassicists had some fixed laws and rules for prose EXCEPT_____.A precisonB directnessC flexibilityD satire答：D答案： D【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分[20]Rousseau published two books that electrified Europe—Du contrat Social and ____ in which he explored ne nature, society and education.A A. EmileB B. Declaration of Rights of ManC C. Life of NapoleonD D. The Advancement of Learning答：A答案： A【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分[21]With the help of his friends Phil Stone and Sherwood Anderson, ______ published a volume of poFaun and his first novel Soldiers’ Pay.A FaulknerB HemingwayC Ezra PoundD Fitzgerald答：A答案： A【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分[22]Statement ____ is NOT true in describing Gothic novel.A Gothic novel is a type of romantic fictionB Gothic novel predominated in the early 18th centuryC Its principal elements are violence, horror and supernaturalD The Mystery of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe is typical Gothic romance答：B答案： B【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分[23]“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” the quoted line comes from ________.A Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind”B Walt Whitman’ s Leaves of GrassC John Milton’s Paradise LostD John Keats’“ Ode on a Grecian Urn”答：A答案： A【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分[24]The Transcendentalists believe that, first, nature is ennobling, and second, the individual is____A insignificantB evilC divineD silly答：C答案： C【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分[25]The author of Leaves of Grass , a giant of American letters, is ______.A FaulknerB DreiserC . JamesD Whitman答：D答案： D【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分[26]In Go Down, Moses, ________ illuminates the problem of black and white in Southern society as a closeblood brotherhood.A. William Faulkner &nbsA William FaulknerB Jack LondonC Herman MelvilleD Nathaniel Hawthorne答：A答案： A【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分[27]In 1892, Yeats wrote his first play, ____, which is an Irish myth about a noblewoman who sells her soul order to save starving peasants.A A. The Land of Heart’s DesireB B. The Shadowy WatersC C. The Countess CathleenD D. Purgatory答：C答案： C【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分[28]A proud, mysterious rebel figure of noble origin is called _____ hero in Romantic Period of EngliA RomanticB RealisticC RenaissanceD Byronic答：D答案： D【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分[29]_____ explores the scrupulous individualism in a world of fantastic speculation and unstable values,to the get-rich-quick years of the post-Civil War era.A Innocents AbroadB The Gilded AgeC Roughing ItD The Middle Years答：B答案： B【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分[30]The Advancement of Learning is a great tract on _____.A A. historyB B. literatureC C. policyD D. education答：D答案： D【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分[31]The 20th -century stream- of- consciousness technique was frequently and skillfully used by _ the reactions and inner musings of the narrator.A HemingwayB FrostC FaulknerD Whitman答：C答案： C【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分[32]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 Waltman答：B答案： B【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分[33]The following statement ______ is WRONG in describing Transcendentalism.A It absorbed some ideological concerns of American Puritanism and European Romanticism.B It advocates the importance of Individual and Nature.C Trancendentalists believed that there should be an emotional communication between an indiD It emphasizes that man is the measure of all things.答：D答案： D【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分[34]Jonathan Swift’ s ______ is generally regarded as the best model of satire, not only of the period whole English literary history.A Gulliver’s TravelsB The Battle of the BooksC “A Modest Proposal”D A Tale of a Tub答：C答案： C【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：0分[35]In 1847, the Bronte sisters published the following famous novels EXCEPT “______”.A Jane EyreB ShirleyC Wuthering HeightsD The Tenant of Windfall Hall答：D答案： B【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分[36]The major concern of ______ fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological development of his charenergetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature.A John Galsworthy’sB Thomas Hardy’sC D．H．Lawrence’sD Charles Dickens’答：C答案： C【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分[37]In _____, James Joyce intends to present a microcosm of the whole human life by providing an instance of contains all the events of its kind, and how history is recapitulated in the happenings of one day.A A. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManB B. DublinersC C. UlyssesD D. Finnegans Wake答：C答案： C【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分[38]With the scarlet letter A as the biggest symbol of all, ______ proves himself to be one of symbolists.A HawthorneB DreiserC JamesD Faulkner答：A答案： A【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分[39]. “‘Damn the fool! There he is’, cried Heathcliff, sinking back into his seat, ‘Hush, my darling! H Catherine! I’ll stay. If he shot me so, I’d expire with a blessing in my lips.’” The novel from whic taken is _______.<A Jane Austen’s Pride and PrejudiceB Charles Dickens’s The Old Curiosity ShopC Samuel Richardson’s PamelaD Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights答：D答案： D【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分[40]The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one -eighth of it being above water. ” This “iabout prose style was put forward by ________.A William FaulknerB F·Scott FitzgeraldC Henry JamesD Ernest Hemingway答：D答案： D【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分[41]Joyce’s masterpiece, ______ gives an account of man’s life during one day in Dublin.A DublinersB Finnegans WakeC UlyssesD A Portrait of the Artist答：C答案： C【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分[42]In Charles Dickens’ work ________, the Utilitarian principle rules over the English education systehearts and minds.A Hard timesB Oliver TwistC David CopperfieldD Bleak House答：A答案： A【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分[43]Poetry is defined by ______ as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, which originates irecollected in tranquility”.A WordsworthB ShellyC KeatsD Wialliam Blake答：A答案： A【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分[44]“O prince, O chief of many throned powers, That led th’ embattled seraphim to war Under thydreadful deeds Fearless, endangered Heaven’s perpetual King.” In the third line of the aboveMilton’s Paradise LosA Satan’sB God’sC Adam’sD Eve’s答：A答案： A【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分[45]Jane Austen’ s first novel ________ tells a story about two sisters and their love affairs.A Mansfield ParkB Sense and SensibilityC Pride and PrejudiceD Sons and Lovers答：B答案： B【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分[46]Shakespeare’ s ______, an elaborate and fantastic story, is known as the best of his final romancesA The Winter’s TaleB The TempestC The Taming of the ShrewD Love’ s Labour’ s Lost答：B答案： B【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分[47]6. Which of the following descriptions of Enlightenment Movement is NOT true?A It was a progressive intellectual movement that flourished in France.B B. It was a furtherance of the Renaissance of the 15th and 16th centuries.C C. The purpose was to enlighten the whole world with moderu philosophical and artistic idD D. The Enlighteners advocate individual education.答：D答案： D【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分[48]In Milton’s works, “____” is the greatest, indeed the only generally acknowledged epic in English “Beowulf”.A A. Paradise LostB B. Paradise RegainedC C. Samson AgonistesD D. Lycidas答：A答案： A【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分[49]From the first novel Sister Carrie on, Dreiser set himself to project the American values for w them to be: ______ to the core.A altruisticB politicalC religiousD materialistc答：D答案： D【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分[50]The three trilogies of ______’s Forsyte novels are masterpieces of critical realism in the early 2A John GalsworthyB Arnold BennetC James JoyceD H. G. Wells答：A答案： A【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分[51]Of all Herman Melville’s sea adventure stories, ________ proves to be the best.A TypeeB ReburnC Moby – DickD Omoo答：C答案： C【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分[52]The Rivals and _____ are generally regarded as important links between the masterpieces of Shakespeare Bernard Shaw.A The School for ScandalB The Duenna。
北京语言大学 18秋《英美文学选读》作业4满分答案
A.simple character and quick wit
B.simple character and poor understanding
D.masculinity
正确答案:A
Charles Dicken＇s early years were___
A.happy
B.difficult
C.rich
D.sunny
正确答案:B
Which of the following is a tragedy?
A.Antony and Cleopatra
B.Twelfth Night
C.Julius Caesar
D.Much ado about Nothing
A.Blindness
B.Partiality
C.Snobbishness
D.Prejudice.
正确答案:C
Virginia Woolf was born in a____
A.poor family
B.small family
C.rich family
D.talented family
正确答案:D
正确答案:D
which of the following is NOT written by Dreiser?
A.Jennie Gerhardt
B.Go down, Moses
C.An American Tragedy
D.Sister Carrie
原题目：英语专业英美文学选读课程期末考试复习题
原题目：英语专业英美文学选读课程期末考试复习题一、选择题（每题5分，共40分）1. 下列哪位作家是19世纪初英国浪漫主义文学的代表人物？A. 简·奥斯汀B. 弗朗西斯·贝金斯·布伯尔C. 爱米莉·勃朗特D. 简·艾尔洛克2. 被誉为“美国民族史诗”的作品是下面哪部？A. 《老人与海》B. 《汤姆·索亚历险记》C. 《伊娃》D. 《飘》3. 以下哪位作家是英国维多利亚时期的代表作家？A. 威廉·莎士比亚B. 查尔斯·狄更斯C. 托马斯·哈代D. 奥斯卡·王尔德4. 被称为“现代英国戏剧之父”的剧作家是下方哪位？A. 卡尔·马克思B. 乔治·肖伯纳C. 亨利·詹姆斯D. 奥斯卡·王尔德5. 以下哪位作家是美国现代主义文学的代表人物？A. 艾米丽·狄金森B. 罗伯特·弗罗斯特C. 弗朗茨·卡夫卡D. 弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫6. 下列哪本小说以揭示人性之恶而著称？A. 《飘》B. 《1984》C. 《傲慢与偏见》D. 《哈姆雷特》7. 哪位作家被称为“20世纪最重要的英国小说家之一”？A. 威廉·莎士比亚B. 乔治·奥威尔C. 哈珀·李D. 东尼·莫里森8. 以下哪本小说描写了苏格兰高地的历史与风俗？A. 《呼啸山庄》B. 《麦田里的守望者》C. 《钟楼怪人》D. 《华尔街》二、简答题（每题10分，共20分）1. 请简要解释英国维多利亚时期文学的主要特点。
2. 简要介绍美国现代主义文学的主要代表作家及作品。
三、论述题（20分）请从英国儿童文学和美国南方文学的角度分析比较《奥神领地》和《哈利·波特与魔法石》的文学特点和传达的主题。
四、创作题（20分）请根据自己的创作能力和理解，以《失乐园》为题材，写一篇关于对科技革命带来的道德困境和对人类价值的思考的短文。
英美文学选读考试题
英美文学选读考试题一．9 authors, 20 works. (20)William Shakespearean: The tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.Venus and Adonis, Rape of Lucrece.Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders. Captain SingletonRobert Burns: My heart’s in the Highlands, A Red Red Rose. Auld Lang Syne.William Wordsworth:“The Solitary Reaper”. “We are S even”, “Lucy”, “Michael”, “Simon Lee””Lucy”I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, The Solitary Reaper.John Keats: On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer, On a Grecian Urn, To Psyche, TO a Nightingale. “Ode to Autumn”, “Ode on Melancholy”, “Ode on a Grecian Urn”and “Ode to a Nightingale”. All were written in 1819 with the praise of beauty as their general theme.Jane Austen: Novels: Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, EmmaCharles Dickens: long novel: Pickwick Papers Novels: Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, Barnaby Rudge, Great Expectations, OurMutual FriendsCharlotte Bronte: The Professor, Jane Eyre.Thomas Hardy: The Return of the Native, The Mayer of Casterbridge, Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Jude the Obscure 二，对错（10）1. Act three is the best known and most important of Hamlet’s soliloqui es among all the soliloquies in the play. In this soliloquy, Hamlet reveals his innermost thoughts and emotions, his hesitation in particular, before taking decisive action.2. Robinson Crusoe retells, in the first person singular, a sailor’s adventure on an inhabitated island.3. Defoe traces the development of Robison Crusoe from a innocent and artless youth into a clever and hardened man, tempered by numerous trials in his eventful life.4. Burn s’s poetry was written in the Scottish dialect on a variety of subjects. A large number of his poems deal with themes of love, friendship, Scottish life and nature.5. A second edition 1800 contained more poems and a preface by Wordsworth. The preface to Lyrical Ballads best read as a statement of his principle of poems.6. According to Wordsworth, he believed that “All goodpoetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.” Thus he located many of his poems in “common life” and his poetry is distinguished by the simplicity and purity of his language.7. There he lives a life of poverty and misery, and makes friends with the lively and penniless Mr. Micawder.8. Jane Eyre maintains that women should have equal rights with men, thus this novel has drawn the feminists’ attention in t he twentieth century.三，选择（10）According to Wordsworth, he believed that “All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.”He located many of his poems in “common life” and his poetry is distinguished by the simplicity and purity of his language.四，读选文，回答问题（两诗歌，三小说）作者名字（5个40分）1.Sonnet18: Shakespearian.What is the theme of this sonnet? -- Runs in iambic pentameter, rhymed ABAB CDCD EFEF GG.2.The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark: Shakespearian.What dos e the “to or not to be” soliloquy tell us about Hamlet’s state of mind?―The soliloquy opens with a question,and there two other extended questions in the passage, all of which suggests that Hamlet is undecided, and either unable or unwilling to make up his mind, contemplating suicide, and disenchanted with the suffering of human life. He is cynical, but comforts himself with reflection, even though he is clearly suffering greatly and aware of his own sins and weakness.Why Hamlet hesitates before taking decisive action? -- Hamlet is often indecisive and hesitant, but at other times prone to rash and impulsive acts. Even at the end of this whole narrative of Hamlet's, he still doesn't decide on anything. He's just speaking his thoughts; he's not committing to anything. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud: William Wordsworth.3. I wandered lonely as a cloud: William Wordsworth.What does “daffodil” stand for? ---Daffodil stand for nature in this poem, but the poet does not depict it simply as part of nature. As for Wordsworth, he dose not just want to depict the natural landscape, moreover, he pays much attention to the interaction between mature and human nature. He perceives nature as a stone of truths about human nature.Analyze the form of this poem by taking the first two lines as example. ---This poem consists of four stanzas and in eachstanza there are six lines. In each line there are four feet with a weak- strong sound pattern. The rime scheme in each stanza is a b a b c c.I wandered lonely as a cloud aThat floats on high o’er vales and hills, bWhen all at once I saw a crowd, aA host of golden daffodils; bBeside the lake, beneath the trees cFluttering and dancing in the breeze. C4.To Autumn: John Keats.What are the images used in this poem? Are they carefully arranged? --- Visual image, olfactory image, gustatory image, tactile image, auditory image. Through a series of images, make readers announcement of its scene, feeling rich concrete images.In the poem of To Autumn, he used visual image, auditory image, tactile image, gustatory image, kinaesthetic image and abstractimage to make the abstract impression of autumn specific, appreciable and more colorful. The pursuit to beauty is the way that Keats loves life, nature and also is the way he observes and enjoys life and nature. The pursuit to beau ty is his critique to the darkness of life and society. It also tells how he wanted beautifula nd ideal life in his short life.5.Pride and Prejudice: Jane Austen.Do you agree with the opening statement of the novel? What has the sentence to do with tone of the whole novel? --- Opening statement of the novel set the tone for whole novel. Writer is very serious in stating a universal truth, but what follows, however, is a very common topic of everyday life―marriage. Thus a humorous and ironic effect is achieved. Two key words appear in the statement: marriage and money, which in effect ate subject matter of the whole novel, the focus here is on the link between money and marriage.Based on your reading of the first two chapters of the novels, can you summarize the characteristics of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet? ―Mr. Bennet: he behaved sarcastically humorous, witty and capricious, and insightful in the process of showing his disrespect and dislike of Mrs. Bennet. Her mind was less difficult to develop. She was woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper. When she was discounted, she fancied herself nervous, the business of her life was to get her daughters married; its solace was visiting and news.What is your understanding of the relationship betweenmoney and marriage? --- A happy and strong marriage takes time to build and must be based on mutual feeling, understanding, and respect. Marriage can not built on the basis of money. If there is no real love between the couple, their marriage will become a tragedy eventually. Even though money can give people the comfortable house and the luxurious life, it can not buy a beautiful marriage6.David Copperfield: Charles Dickens.Dose David enjoys his life described in this chapter? How do you know? ---- David works very hard in the factory, but he could simply pay for his living. The real difficulty is that he feels very lonely, because from Monday morning until Saturday night, he has no advice, no encouragements, and no assistance of any kind. Luckily, his stay with the Micawber family in his leisure time turns out to be quite pleasant. They form a very precious friendship.Why dose the novel use the first point of view? --- It helps the author to select details. Only the events and details that David could have seen and experienced can logically be introduced into the story. The narrator’s limited view may create the effect o f suspense. 7.Jane Eyre: Charlotte BronteGive common: 性格特点：Jane Eyre is Straightforward andfeminism. Showed her concerns for the position of women particularly in English society.五，回答问题（20）William Shakespearean154 sonnets. Long poems: Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece. 38 plays.Daniel Defoe1. What are the characteristics of Crusoe from the selected reading?--- Self-reliance; patient; cheerful; clarity, courage and persistence in overcoming difficulties he start a new life in the desolate island, which demands a lot of courage and daring.Robert Burns―ScotlandA Red, Red Rose: wrote in 1794, published in 1796.1. An outstanding feature of this poem is the skillful use simile at the beginning of the poem. Draw on specific lines to explain its effect.---Simile means a comparison between two unlike items that includes like or as. For example, the first line of this poem: “Oh, my love is like a red, red rose"; al so, in this poem, "My love is like the melody". By comparing the speaker' s love to a red, red rose and a melody, readers canclearly sense the speaker's appreciation and deep love to his lover.2. This short poem is actually composed of a series of overstatements. What is the function of them? Give examples to illustrate your point. --- Overstatement is intentional exaggeration, which is, saying more that is actually meant. In this poem, when the speaker says that he will love his lady until all the seas go dry, he is using overstatement. By using this, the poet can attract readers’ attention and the sentence will leave a deep impression on the reader’s mind.William Wordsworth“The break with the conventional poetical tradition of the 18th century”. A second edition in 1800 contained more poems and a preface by Wordsworth. The preface to lyrical Ballads is best read as a statement or his principles of poetry.John KeatsJane AustenThe Plot Pride and Prejudice---Major characters: Elizabeth Bennet(the second eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet); Jane Bennet(first); Lydia Bennet(fifth); Mr. Bingley: a rich, single. Mr. Darcy (Mr. Bingley’sfriend who is a rich and proud young man)Theme: money and marriage.Writing style: Clarity, economy, skillful use of dialogue and tight plotting are the main features of Jane Austen’s style.Subject: Houses, money, estates run.Charles Dickens:David Copperfield:theme: the hero of the novel. The novel depicts David’s life experiences from an innocent boy to a famous wr iter. Style: Of Dickens’s fictional art, the most distinguishing feature is his successful characterization, especially male characters. Dickens was also a great story-teller. His plots were always very large, varied and complicated. However, the plots of his novels changed dramatically as he got older. In his later years, plots primarily became the vehicles for his characterization of thematic concerns, as readers may find in this novel.Charlotte Bronte-Jane Eyre four girls except Ann weres send to Charity School，三个姐妹中最大的,Unhappy life in charity school, with Emily go to Charlotte study. 性格特点：Straightforward直白的人feminism女权主义Romantic浪漫主义Thoughtful1.Give t hree instances in which Jane Eyre draws fromCharlotte Bronte’s background 1). Jane’s life in Lo wood is depicted based on the author’s own experiences in charity school where she spent some unhappy years of her childhood. 2) In Thornfield, Jane falls in love with Mr. Rochester, a rich squire who turns out to have had a mad wife. This is by and large Charlotte’s experience in Brussels where she falls in a married professor. 3) In Thronfield, Jane works as governess, and Charlotte herself worked as teachers and governess during 1837 to 1840.2.Discuss the symbolic use of names in this novel.1)“Eyre”, the surname of Jane, has the same pronunciation as “air”, which may symbolize Jane’s pursuit of freedom. 2) “Blanche”, the given name of Miss. Ingram, has its Fre nch origin, which actually means “white” in English. And it may symbolize the shallowness of Miss. Ingram.3.How does Mr. Rochester treat Jane in this chapter? What Jane’s character attract him ?To start with, Mr. Rochester shows some cruelty in his courtship of Jane so as to make Jane jealous. On hearing this, Jane could not help telling him her true feelings that she longs for equality and does not want to depart with him.?When Mr. Rochester confesses his real intention, Jane feels hurt and refuses his courtship at first.?Then she realizes his intention and accepts his love.?Her self-respect, her desire for independence, her courage, her moral strength, her passion and her personal loyalty and devotion, all these work together to make Mr.Rochester greatly attracted by her.Thomas Hardy:Hardy was a poet before he was a novelist. It was because his early verses could not be accepted that he turned to novel writing.Plot of the novel: Tess of the d’Unbervilles, Hardy’s most famous novel, has a subtitle, which is, A Pure Woman Faithfully Portrayed. It tells a tragic life story of a beautiful,naive country girl, Tess Durbeyfield.General features and comments: The whole story is filled with a feeling of dismal foreboding and doom. Father circumstances and tragic coincidences abound in the book. 12春《英美文学选读》作业1一、单选题1. How many periods are divided into in the creation years of Shakespeare? Three2. Defoe＇s Robinson Crusoe created the image of anenterprising Englishman, typical of the English bourgeoisie in the 18th century.3. In English poetry the _ iamb _is regarded as the most common foot.4. The excerpt The Other Side of the Island was chosen from Chapter_Ⅸ__ in Robinson Crusoe.5. "Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little,I am soulless and heartless?。
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英美文学作品选读考试4————————————————————————————————作者：————————————————————————————————日期：英美文学作品选读试题 4I. Multiple Choice (40 points in all, 2 for each)Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement and write the letter in the blanks.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. ChristianB. knightlyC. GreekD. primitive2. 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 Renaissance 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, /Byshallow rivers to whose falls /Melodious birds sing madrig als.” 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 ironyB. personificationC. allegoryD. symbolism7. The true subject of John Donne's poem, “The Sun Rising,” is to ___.A. attack the sun as an unruly servantB. give compliments to the mistress and her power of beautyC. criticize the sun's intrusion into the lover's private lifeD. lecture the sun on where true royalty and riches lie8. Of all the 18th century novelists Henry Fielding was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a “___ in prose,”the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.A. tragic epicB. comic epicC. romanceD. lyric epic9. The Houyhnhnms depicted by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels are ___.A. horses that are endowed with reasonB. pigmies that are endowed with admirable qualitiesC. giants that are superior in wisdomD. hairy, wild, low and despicable creatures, who resemble human beings not only in appearance but also in some other ways.10. Here are four lines from a literary work: “Others for language all their care express,/And value books, as women men, for dress.” The work is ___.A. Thomas Gray's “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”B. John Milton's Paradise LostC. Alexander Pope's Essay on CriticismD. Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream11. The phrase “to urge people to abide by Christian doctrines and to seek salvationthrough 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 epigra mmatic line by __.A. J. KeatsB. W. BlakeC. W. WordsworthD. P. B. Shelley15. “Ode o na Grecian Urn”shows the contrast between the ___ of art and the ___ ofhuman 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 himselfB. CatherineC. 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 Dickensand Thackeray.A.poetryB.dramaC.proseD.epic prose19. ___is the first important governess novel in the English literary history.A. Jane EyreB. EmmaC. Wuthering HeightsD. Middlemarch20. The major concern of ______ fiction lies in the tracing of the psychologicaldevelopment of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature.A. D. H. Lawrence'sB. J. Galsworthy'sC. W. Thackeray’sD. T. Hardy’sII. Reading Comprehension (20 points, 5 for each)Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English.1. “Her eyes met his and he looked away. He neither believed nor disbelieved her, buthe 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 unrea dable, 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?2. “ 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?3. “God knows, I'm not myself—I'm somebody else—…and I’m changed, and I can'ttell 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 socialenvironment has changed?C. What idea does the quoted sentence express?4. “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 a ll the difference.”Questions:A. Identify 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 (20 points in all, 5 for each)Give brief answers to each of the following questions in English.1. As a rule, an allegory is story in verse or prose with a double meaning: a surfacemeaning, and an implied meaning. List two works as examples of allegory. What is an allegory usually concerned with by its implied meaning?2. Inspiration for the romantic approach initially came from two great shapers ofthought. Who are the two? And what ideas they expressed inspire the romantic writers?3. The white whale, Moby Dick, is the most important symbol in Melville's novel.What symbolic meaning can you draw from it?4. Nature is a philosophic work, in which Emerson gives an explicit discussion on hisidea of the oversoul. What is your understanding of Emersonian “Oversoul”?IV. Topic Discussion (20 points in all, 10 for each)Write no less than 50 words on each of the following topics in English.1. How is Romanticism different from Neoclassicism? Provide brief evidence fromthe literary works you know best.2. Summarize the story of Mark twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in about 50 words, and comment on the theme of the novel.参考答案：I. Multiple Choice (40 points in all, 2 for each)Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement and write the letter in the blanks.1. B2. D3. C4. C5. D6. A7. B8. B9. A 10. C11. D 12. D 13. D 14. D 15. B16. B 17. D 18. C 19. A 20. AII. Reading Comprehension (20 points, 5 for each)Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English.1. 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.2. A. T. S. Eliot: “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufro ck.”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.3. 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 that everything has changed. All those old values are gone, and he can hardly feel at home in a changedsociety. 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.4. 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 (20 points in all, 5 for each)Give brief answers to each of the following questions in English.1. It is usually concerned with moral, religious, political, symbolic or mythical ideas. Buyan's Pilgrim's Progress and Spenser's The Faerie Queene are examples.2. 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. The French philosopher, Jean Jacques Rousseau and the German writer Johna Wolfgan von Goethe.3. To Ahab, the whale is either an evil creature itself or the agent of an evil force that controls the universe, or perhaps both.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.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.4. 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. Itexists 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)Write no less than 50 words on each of the following topics in English.1. How is Romanticism different from Neoclassicism? Provide brief evidence fromthe literary works you know best.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);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,)2. Summarize the story of Mark twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in about50 words, and comment on the theme of the novel.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 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 twofrauds, 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.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 civilization.。