自考英语本科英美文学简答题汇总
597自考英美文学问答题部分连续十年汇总
问答题45. It is said that B. Shaw‟s play, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, has a strong realistic theme, which fully reflects the dramatist‟s Fabianist idea. Try to summarize this theme briefly.It reveals that the guilt of prostitution is caused by the social system not by the immoral women, and all human sufferings are caused by the economic exploitation which is pursued by those …respectable‟ men through dirtiest means.46. Emily Bronte used a very complicated narrative technique in writing her novel Wuthering Heights.Try to tell Bronte‟s way of narration briefly.47. “In your rocking-chair, by your window dreaming, shall you long, alone. In your rocking-chair, by your window, shall you dream such happiness as you may never feel.” The two sentences are taken from Theodore Dreiser‟s novel, Sister Carrie. What idea can you draw from the “rocking-chair”?It stands for fate and uncertain destiny. The end of the novel Carrie sits in the rocking chair implies her future is still uncertain and hard to foresee.48. The literary school of naturalism was quite popular in the late 19th century. What are the major characteristics of naturalism?1. Strongly influenced by Darwinism2. human are incapable in shaping their fate3. writers reported truthfully and objectively.1. F. Bacon, it‟s a treatise on methodology2.About the use of inductive method in scientific study3.Bacon advocates the inductive reasoning in place of deductive,4.And he challenges the medieval scholasticists1.The writer explored new theories and techniques in poetry writing2.In the preface, WW defines poetry and poets3.WW‟s poems in this book are different from his previous ones from the aspect of simplicity of language, sympathy forthe poor, and expression of inward states1.The use of poetic …I‟2.Free verse, without fixed beat3.The use of oral English4.Amazing voca1.MT‟s is full of local color, HJ‟s has an international theme2.MT uses simple and colloquial language, HJ‟s language is refined with psychological analysis3.MT employs humor and HJ concerns the …inner world‟ of manHamlet, Othello, King Lear and MacbethThey are all noble hero who face the injustice of human lifeTheir fate is connected with their nationHardy’s novels have a nostalgic touchHe was greatly influenced by Darwin’s ‘survival of the fittest’ theory which led to the naturalism in his later works1.Imagist2.In a Station of the Metro3.Direct treatment of poetic subjects, elimination of ornamental words, rhythmical composition in the sequence ofmusical phrase.45．William Shakespeare is one of the most remarkable playwrights the world has ever known.(1)Name his four greatest tragedies.(2)What are the characteristics of the four tragedies in common?(3)Briefly summarize each hero‟s weakness of nature.46．“Though his fair daughter‟s self, as I avowedAt starting, is my object. Nay, we‟ll goTogether down, sir. Notice Neptune, though,Taming a sea horse, though a rarity,Which Claus of Innsbruck cast in bronze for me! ”The lines above are taken from Robert Browning‟s “My Last Duchess.” Taking the whole poem into consideration, what kind of person do you think the duke is?47．What is generally the view Washington lrving expressed in his “Rip Van Winkle” about the radical changes that happened to the American society in his time?48．What is the most famous theme in Henry James‟s fiction? And what is his favourite approach in characterization, which makes him different from Mark Twain and W.D. Howells as realists? Give two titles of his works in which this theme and this approach are employed.45．Edmund Spenser is one of the poets of English Renaissance. What are the qualities of his poetry?46．The Man of Property is the first novel of the Forsyte trilogies by Galsworthy. What is the theme and the tone of The Man of Property?47．Hawthorne‟s “Young Goodman Brown” is often read as a conventional allegory. What does the work symbolically concern?1． Everyone has some evil secret2. Brown is everyman, and his journey can be read symbolically as the man‟s life journey – from innocence toknowledge, from good to evil3. Faith, can be symbolically read and understood as the incarnation化身of the Christian belief48．William Faulkner is one of the greatest American novelists. What do you know about his narrative techniques?45．“…My boy!‟ said the old gentleman, leaning over the desk. Oliver stated at the sound. He might be excused for doing so, for the words were kindly said, and strange sounds frighten one. He trembled violently, and burst into tears.”（from Charles Dickens‟Oliver Twist）Explain why Oliver Twist started first, then trembled violently and burst into tears when the words were “kindly” said.46．It is said that B. Shaw‟s play, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, has a strong realistic theme, which fully reflects the dramatist‟s Fabianist idea. Try to summarize this theme briefly.47．“In your rocking-chair, by your window dreaming, shall you long, alone. In your rocking-chair, by your window, shall you dream such happiness as you may never feel.”（from Theodore Dreiser‟s Sister Carrie）What idea can you draw from the “rocking-chair”?48．Why are naturalists inevitably pessimistic in their view?45. As a leading Romanticist，Byron‟s chief contribution is his creation of the “Byronic Hero”．Briefly explain the literary term “Byronic Hero‟‟.46. TheWaste Land is T．S．Eliot‟s most important single poem．Try to state the theme and the significance of the poem briefly.47．What is the most famous theme in Henry James‟s fiction?And what is his favourite approach in characterization，which makes him different from Mark Twain and W·D.Howells as a realist? Give two titles of his first period works in which this theme and this approach are employed.48. As a leading spokesman of the “Imagist Movement”，what principles does Ezra Pound endorse?III. Questions and Answers (24 points in all, 6 for each)Give brief answers to each of the following questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.45. List at least two leading neoclassicists in England. What did Neoclassicists celebrate inliterary creation?46. Jane Eyre is one of the most popular and important novels of the Victorian Age. Why is Jane Eyresuch a successful novel?47. Who are the three dominant figures of the American Age of Realism and what are the differencesin their understanding of the “truth”?48. What's Dreiser' s naturalistic belief? Please discuss the question with Carrie, a character inSister Carrie as an example.Ⅲ. Questions and Answers (24 points in all, 6 for each)Give a brief answer to each of the following 9uestions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.45. What‟ s the literary style of Shelley as a Romantic poet?46. What are the main features of Bernard Shaw‟s plays with regard to the theme, charac-terization and plot?47. H enry James‟ literary criticism is an indispensable part of his contribution to literature. What‟s his outlook in literarycriticiam?48. Local colorism is a unique variation of American literary realism. Who is the most famous local colorist? What are local colorists most concerned?III. Questions and Answers (24 points in all, 6 for each)Give a brief answer to each of the following questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.45. Working through the tradition of a Christian humanism, Milton wrote Paradise Lost, intending to expose the ways ofSatan and to “justify the ways of God to men. ” What is Milton‟ s fundamental concern in Paradise Lost?46. Briefly introduce Blake‟ s Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience.47. What are the factors that gave rise to American naturalism?48. Briefly state Mark Twain‟ s magic power with language in his novels.45. What are the features of George Bernard Shaw‟s characterization in his plays?46. Thomas Hardy is often regarded as a transitional writer. Some critics believe that he is emotionally traditional andintellectually advanced. How do you understand this idea?47. What is the most famous theme in Henry James‟s fiction? And what is his favourate ap proach in characterization, whichmakes him different from Mark Twain and W. D. Howlles as realists? Give two titles of his works of his first period in which this theme and this approach are employed.48. “Young Goodman Brown”is one of Hawthorne‟s most profound tales.What is the allegorical meaning of Brown, the protagonist? What does Hawthorne set out to prove in this tale? How does Melville comment on Hawthorne‟s manner of concerning with guilt and evil?45. What‟s the theme of Emily Bronte‟ s Wuthering Heights?46. It is said that B. Shaw‟ s play Mrs. Warren’ s Profession, has a strong realistic theme, which fully reflects the dramatist‟sFabianist idea. What‟s the theme of the work?47. What‟s the theme of Nathaniel Hawthorne‟ s Young Goodman Brown?48. Daisy Miller brought Henry James international fame for the first time. What‟s the character of Daisy Miller, the protagonist?45. What‟s the theme of the poem Paradise Lost? What‟s the author‟s intention to create it and the implica tion that the poem expresses?46. The Waste Land is T. S. Eliot‟s most important single poem. What‟s the theme of the poem?47. In American literature, Emily Dickinson‟s poetry is unique and unconventional in its own way. What are the features of Dickinson‟s poems?48. What‟s the theme of F. Scott Fitzgerald‟s The Great Gatsby?。
英美文学选读试题自学考试答案解析（完整版）
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I.Multiple Choice(40points in all,1for each)Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement.Mark your choice by blackening the corresponding letter A,B,C orD on the answer sheet.1.Shakespeare has established his giant position in world literature with his______plays,154sonnets and2long poems.BA.27B.38C.47D.522.john Milton’s literary achievement can be divided into three groups:the early poetic works,the middle prose pamphlets and the last______.CA.romancesB.dramasC.great poemsD.ballads3.The novels of______are the first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower—class people.CA.John MiltonB.Daniel DefoeC.Henry FieldingD.Jonathan Swift4.The work ranked by many critics as William Wordswoth’s greatest work was______.BA.Lyrical BalladsB.The PreludeC.Poems in Two VolumesD.The Excursion5.The author of The History of Tom Jones,a Foundling is ______.CA.Daniel DefoeB.Johathan SwiftC.Henry FieldingD.William Blake6.The works of______are famous for the depiction of the life of the middle—class women,particularly governess.*BA.Charlotte BrontewrenceC.Thomas HardyD.Jane Austen7.All of the following writings are created by William Wordsworth EXCEPT______.DA.“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.”B.“Composed upon Westminster Bridge,Septemer3,1802.”C.“The Solitary Reaper.”D.“The Chimney Sweeper.”8.The most important representative work by Jonathan Swift is______.DA.A Tale of a TubB.The Battle of the BooksC.A Modest ProposalD.Gulliver's Travels9“If winter comes,can Spring be far behind?”comes from Shelly’s______.DA.“To a Skylark”B.“Adonais”C.“Ode to Liberty”D.“Ode to the West Wind”10.In Jane Austen's first novel______,she tells a story about two sisters and their love affairs.BA.Pride and PrejudiceB.Sense and SensibilityC.EmmaD.Persuasion11.Charles Dickens is one of the greatest______writers of the Victorian Age.DA.romanticB.modernistC.socialistD.critical realist12.Charlotte Bronte's most autobiographical work,______ is largely based on her experience in Brussels.AA.Jane EyreB.ShirleyC.VilletteD.The Professor13.William Wordsworth's theory of poetry is calling for simple themes drawn from humble life expressed in the language of ordinary people.The preface to the second edition of______acts as a manifesto for the new school and sets forth his own critical creed.AA.Lyrical BalladsB.The PreludeC.Poems in Two VolumsD.The Excursion14.George Bernard Shaw's play______established his position as the leading playwright of his time.*CA.Widowers’HousesB.Too True to Be GoodC.Mrs.Warren's ProfessionD.Candida15.Eliot's most important single poem______,has been hailed as a landmark and a model of the20th-century English poetry.BA.The Hollow MenB.The Waste LandC.Prurrock and Other ObservationsD.Poems1909-2516. D. /doc/info-926f89635dbfc77da26925 c52cc58bd630869377.htmlwrence’s autobiographical novel, ______shows the conflict between the earthy,coarse, energetic but often drunken father and the refined,strong —willed and up—climbing mother.AA.Sons and LoversB.The White PeacockC.The TrespasserD.The Rainbow17.“To be,or not to be—that is the question;/Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer./The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,/Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,/And by opposing end them?”These words are from ______.DA.King LearB.RomeoC.AntonioD.Hamlet18.John Milton’s last important work,______is the most powerful dramatic poem on the Greek model.AA.Paradise LostB.Paradise RegainedC.Samson AgonistesD.Lydidas19.The author of Moll Flanders and Captain Singleton is ______.BA.John MiltonB.Daniel DefoeC.Henry FieldingD.Jonathan Swift20.Drapier is the pseudonym of______.AA.Jonathan SwiftB.Daniel DefoeC.Henry FieldingD.William Blake21.One of Dickens'later works,______in which he presents a criticism of the governmental branches which run an indefinite procedure of management ofaffairs and keep the innocent in prison for life.BA.Bleak HouseB.Little DorritC.Hard TimesD.A Tale of Two Cities22.In the second part of Gulliver's Travels,Gulliver told his experience in______.AA.BrobdingnagB.LilliputC.Flying IslandD.Houyhnhnm23.Faulkner used the narrative techniques to construct his stories,which include______and mythological and biblical allusions.AA.symbolismB.free indirect speechC.contrastD.dialogue24.Ernest Hemingway,had been trying to demonstrate in his works an unvarying code,known as“______,”which is actually an attitude towards life.BA.facing the realityB.grace under pressureC.honesty with benevolenceD.security coming first25.The Blithedale Romance is a novel written by Hawthorne to reveal his own experience on the Brook Farm and his own methods as a______novelist.CA.naturalistB.imagistC.psychologicalD.feminist26.Theodore Dreiser's focus shifted from the pathos of the helpless protagonists at the bottom of the society to the power of the Americanfinancial tycoons in the late19th century in his work ______.DA.The GeniusB.An American TragedyC.Dreiser Looks at RussiaD.“Trilogy of Desire”27.Emily Dickinson frequently uses personae to render the tone more familiar to the reader,and______to vivify some abstract ideas.DA.imagesB.metaphorC.symbolsD.personification28.In his later works,Melville becomes more reconciled with the______,in which he admits,one must live by rules.BA.womenB.world of manC.familyD.politicians29.Walt Whitman's______has always been considered a monumental work which commands great attention in America.BA.The Pilgrim’s ProgressB.Leaves of GrassC.A Passage to IndiaD.Rip Van Winkle30.Mark Twain’s full literary career began to blossom in1869with a travel book______,an account of American tourists in Europe.AA.Innocents AbroadB.The Portrait of A LadyC.The Grapes of WrathD.The Great Gatsby31.With the development of the modern novel and the common acceptance of the______approach,Henry James's importance,as well as his wide influence as a novelist and critic,has been all the more conspicuous.AA.deconstructionB.romanticC.FreudianD.analytic32.Emily Dickinson addresses the issues that concern the whole human beings in her poems,which include religion, death,______,love,and nature.AA.immortalityB.wealthC.powerD.politics33.In Sister Carrie Theodore Dreiser expressed his______ pursuit by expounding the purposelessness of life and attacking the conventional moral standards.BA.romanticB.realisticC.naturalisticD.modernistic34.Profound ideas in Robert Frost's poems are delivered under the disguise of______.AA.the plain language and the simple formB.the vivid descriptionsC.metaphorsD.the complicated narration35.In______Hemingway presents his philosophy about life and death throughthe depiction of the bullfight as a kind of microcosmic tragedy.BA.The Green Hills of AfricaB.Death in the AfternoonC.The Snows of KilimanjaroD.To Have and Have Not36Of Faulkner’s literary works,four novels are masterpieces by any standards:The Sound and the Fury, Light in August,Absalom,Absalom!and______.AA.Go Down,MosesB.The FableC.The Snows of KilimanjaroD.To Have and Have Not37.As Whitman saw it,______could play a vital part in the process ofcreating a new nation.CA.musicB.fictionC.poetryD.painting38.In many of Hawthorne's stories and novels,the Puritan concept of life is condemned,especially in his The house of the Seven Gables and______.BA.Go Down,MosesB.The Scarlet LetterC.As I Lay DyingD.Song of Myself39.Henry James is generally regarded as the forerunner of the______and the founder of psychological realism.BA.“stream-of-consciousness”novelsB.metaphysical poemsC.short storiesD.literary criticism40.Generally considered to be Henry James’s masterpiece,______incarnates the clash between the Old World and the New in the life journey of an American girl in a Europe an cultural environment.BA.The AmbassadorsB.Daisy MillerC.The 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英美文学考试名词解释和简答（自己整理的）
英美文学考试名词解释和简答（自己整理的）1.The glorious revolution (光荣革命): the overthrow(推翻、瓦解) of king JamesⅡof England takes place in 1688 by a union of parliamentarians with an invading army led by William of Orange who, as a result ascended（上升、登高）the English throne（君主、王权）as William Ⅲ of England. It was also known as White Revolution because it caused no bloodshed(流血、杀戮). It marked the real beginning of the constitutional monarchy in England.2. How did the “Glorious Revolution” break out? What was the significance of it?In 1685 Charles II died and was succeeded by his brother James II. James, who was brought up in exile(流犯）in Europe, was a Catholic; He hoped to rule without giving up his personal religious views. But England was no more tolerant of a Catholic king in 1688 than 40 years. So the English politicians rejected James II, and appealed to a Protestant king, William of Orange, to invade and take the English throne. William landed in England in 1688. The takeover was relatively smooth, with no bloodshed, no any execution of the king. This was known as the Glorious Revolution. William and his wife Mary were both Protestants and became co-monarchs. They accepted the Bill of Rights. It’s the beginning of the age of constitutional monarchy.2.Great charter (大宪章): Known as the Great Charter, it was the first famous political document to limit the king’s powers in English history. It was signed in 1215 by King John at a conference at Runnymede（兰尼米德）, an island in the Thames River four miles downstream （下游的、顺流而下的）from Windsor（温莎）. It containsaltogether 63 clauses（条款）, among which the most important ones are: no tax should be made without the approval of the Grand Council（天庭会议）; no freeman should be arrested, imprisoned, or deprived（缺乏教育的）of his property except by the law of the land;没有大议会批准不准征税；不得随意逮捕，拘禁自由民，不依照土地法不得剥夺其财产；The king must promise to observe the rights of his vassals（诸侯、封臣）and the vassals in turn must observe the rights of their men, and the king also should permit merchants to move about freely and should observe the privileges of the various towns. 2. Comments: The great charter was the first step of constitutional experiment. It tried to establish a legal relation between the king and his barons by defining their respective rights and obligations. The great charter made it possible for the new-born bourgeoisie to enter into politics because it granted some power to the great council which was the embryonic form of the English parliament. The great charter protected the rights of the merchant class. This facilitated（促进）the development of commerce and handcraft. (It was arguably the most significant early influence on the extensive historical process that led to rule of constitutional law today in the English speaking world.)3.Monarch: In law, the monarch has many supreme powers, but in practice, the real power of monarch has been solely（单独的，唯一的）onthe advice of her ministers. She reigns but does not rule（统而不治）. The real power lies in the parliament, or to be exact, in the House of Commons. 2. The monarch actually has no real power. The monarch’s power is limited by law and parliament. The monarch symbolizes the tradition and unity of the British state, have a weekly chat with the Prime Minister, and to giveRoyal Assent to Bills passed by Parliament.(对议会通过的法案给予御准)4.The presidential elections: The general election, held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November in each election year, is technically divided into two stages. During the first stage, states elect their presidential electors. The number of presidential electors for each state is equal to the total number of its representatives in congress plus two senators. The total number of presidential electors for the nation is 538, with 3 from Washington D.C. I n the second stage (十二月的第三个星期一) the electors meet to elect the president. (electoral college)5.Ivy League（常春藤高校联盟）: It was founded in 1954, an athletic conference comprising eight private institutions（体系）of higher education in the Northern United States. The term is most commonly used to refer to those eight schools considered as a group and also has connotations(含义) of academic excellence, selectivity in admissions, and social elitism（精英主义）.常春藤名校联盟：Brown University (布朗大学), Columbia University, Cornell University（康奈尔大学）,Dartmouth College（达特茅斯大学）, Harvard University, Princeton University（普林斯顿大学）, University of Pennsylvania （宾夕法尼亚大学）, Yale University6.Pilgrim Father (开国元勋): In September, 1620, a group of 101 puritans and some employees left Plymouth, England, and sailed for America in the ship named Mayflower. They founded the colony of Plymouth (普利茅斯) in New England. So these early puritans in New England were called the pilgrim father.7.New deal: 1. The New Deal included the following contents;(1) establishment and strengthening of government regulation and control of banking, credit and currency systems,overcoming the financial crisis and restriction of certain extreme practices of financial capital;(2) federal government management of relief and establishment of social security system such as the formation of the Civilian Conservation Crops and the setting-up of the Tennessee Valley Authority(田纳西州流域管理局);(3) Stimulation of the recovery of industry and agriculture;(4) formulation and implementation of federal labor laws to raise the role of labor in the relations of production; 2. Comments on the new deal: Roosevelt’s new deal was an American type of social reforms which was based on the new concept that the government was responsible for the healthy development of national economy and social security, and that the growth of production could be maintained only if the great body of the consumers could continue to purchase its output. No economy could develop if it was beset by overproduction and large stockpiles（库存）. To achieve balanced development, the new deal increased government interference n the nation’s economic life, strengthening the trend towards big government. (The New Deal----In order to deal with the Depression, President Franklin Roosevelt put forward the New Deal program. It passed a lot of New Deal laws and set up many efficient social security systems. The New Deal helped to save American democracy and the development of American economy)8.Domesday Book (英国土地制度): It is a book compiled by a gr oup of clerks under the sponsorship of King William. The book w as in fact a property record. It was the result of a general survey of land resources. It was one of the important measures adopted by William I to establish the full feudal system in England9.Norman Conquest----The Norman Conquest of 1066 isperhaps the best-known event in English history. William landed his arm y in Oct, 1066 and defeated King Harold. Then he was crowned king of England on Christmas Day the same year. He established a strong Norman government and the feudal system in Engl and. 结果：（William confiscated almost all the land and gave i t to his Norman followers. He replaced the weak Saxon rule wi th a strong Norman government. So the feudal system was completely established in England. Relations with the Continent were opened, and civilization and commerce were extended. Norman-French culture, language, manners, and architecture were been introduced. The church was brought into closer connection with Rome, and the church courts were separated from the civil cour ts.）原因：（It was said that king Edward had promised the En glish throne to William but the Witan chose Harold as king. So William led his army to invade England. In October 1066, duri ng the important battle of Hastings, William defeated Harold and killed him. On Christmas Day, William was crowned king ofEngland, thus beginning the Norman Conquest of England.）10.Public school：(1) It is a kind of independent privately-owned secondary boarding schools in Britain. (2) These schools are financially supported by tuition fees and private funds.（3）Public schools have their own characteristics and strict rules. (4) These schools focus their attention on developing pupils’ minds as well as bodies.11.Roman invasion: The Roman first invaded Britain in 55BC.Itwas not until AD43 that they eventually conquered the Celts liv ing in what is today England and Wales. The Roman occupatio n of Britain lasted for 400 years, but it was never a total occu pation. British recorded history begins with the Roman invasion.。
自考英美文学选读简答题整理（一）
自考英美文学选读简答题整理（一）Part Three: Excerpts & ThemesChapter One: The Renaissance PeriodEdmund SpenserThe Faerie Queene1) A gentle Knight was pricking on the plain, clad in mighty arms and silver shieldNote: Basic unit consisting of any various combination of stressed and unstressed or long or short syllables. Example:weak-strong-weak-strong-weak-strong-weak-strong-weak-strong. The poem is written in the stanza invented by the poet himself. The first eight lines are in iambic pentameter. The theme of this poem is to fashion a gentleman in virtuous and gentle discipline.2) Bur on his breast a bloody Cross he bore, the dear remembrance of his dying lord. … And dead as living ever Him abored.Note: Him refers to Jesus Christ. Cross refers to the true religion.3) A lovely lady rode him fairy beside, upon a lowly ass more white then snow. Yet she much whiter, but the same hide under a veil that …over all a black stole she throw.Note: White here implies holiness and the true sense of religion.Christopher MarloweThe passionate Shepherd to His Love1) “valleys, groves, hills, and field, the shepherds feed their rocks, melodious birds sing madrigals”Note: The words are the signs revealing an ideal country life and true sense of a pastoral.2) “a gown made of the finest wool; buckles of the purest gold; coral clasps and amber studs”Note:These words are used in the poem to express the shepherd’s pure affection for his love.Doctor Faustus1) Now that the gloomy shadow of the night, longing to view Orion’s drizzling look, leaps from the Antarctic world to the pitchy breath.Note: The words “gloomy” and “pitchy” are meant to reveal the great suffering of the hero’s mind.2) Within this circle is Jehovah’s name, forward and backward anagram matized the breviated names of holy saints…Then fear not, but be resolute and try the uttermost magic can perform.Note: In this monolog, Faustus has made up his mind to stand against conventional morality and try to obtain true knowledge through his own efforts.3) I charge thee wait upon me while I live to do whatever Faustus shall command, make the moon drop from her sphere or the ocean to overwhelm the world. /Had I as many souls as there be stars, I’d give them all for Mephistophilis! …The Emperor sh all not live but by my leave.Note: Faustus turns to the power of Devil so that he can obtain the power to change the world.William ShakespeareSonnet 181)Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?Note: “Thee” refers to the beauty and permanence of p oetry.2) Every fair from fair sometimes declines. But the eternal summer shall not fade.Note: Nice summer days are usually transient, but the beauty in poetry can last forever.3)So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, so long lives this, and this gives life to thee.Note: Shakespeare has a faith in the permanence of poetry.The Merchant of Venice1) I am sorry for you; You’ve come to answer a stony adversary, an inhuman wretch, uncapable of pity, void and empty from any dram of mercy.(Duke)Note: The Duck’s statement reflects that Shylock is a greedy and cruel merchant.2) You’ll ask me why I rather choose to have a weight of (carrion) flesh than to receive three thousand ducats(货币单位), what if my house be troubled with a rat, and I be pleased to give ten ducats to have it banned.(Shylock)(P40)Note: The figure of speech in this statement is analogy.3) Not on the sole, but on the soul.(P43)Note: The figure of speech in this sentence is pun.4) The quality of mercy is not strained. It drops as the gentle rain fromheaven…It blesses him that gives and him that takes. It is mightiest of the mightiest. (Portia: P46)Note: Portia persuades Shylock to show his mercy to Antonio. The figure of speech in this statement is simile.5) A Daniel come to judgment. (Shylock P47)Note: The word Daniel frequents in the excerpt. It means a wise man full of wisdom.6) But little, I am armed and well prepared. … fare you well (farewell). Don’t grieve that I am fallen to this for you. (Antonio: P48) / Antonio, I am married to a wife which is as dear to me as life itself. But life itself, my wife, and all the world are not with me esteemed above your life. (P49 Bassanio)Note: Antonio is trying to comfort Bassanio. The statement above reflects the true friendship between them.7) Your wife would give you little thanks for that.(P49 Portia)Note: The figure of speech here is irony.8) Two things provided more: He presently become a Christian; The other, of all he dies possessed upon his son and his daughter. (P53 Antonio)Note: The statement above is the end of judgment: Shylock has to change his religion.Hamlet1) To be, or not to be, that is the question.Note: to live in this world or to die, to suffer or to take actions. It is always a question that puzzles Hamlet.(P55)2) Whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the slings of arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them? To die, to sleep---no more. (P56)Note: The figure of speech here is metaphor.3) To sleep, perhaps to dream, there’s the rub. (p56)Note: Rub refers to the doubt or difficulty.4) For in that sleep of death, when we have shuffled off this mortal coil, what dream may become must give us pause.(P56)Note: Even if we get rid of the uncertainty of death and take actions, there is still hesitation.5) Who would bear the whips and scorns of time? (P56)Note: The whips and scorns of time imply the suffering in our age, representing the consequence of Hamlet’s revenge.6) Thus conscience does make cowards of us all, and native hue of resolution is sicklied with the pale cast of thought. (P56)Note: It is the consequences rather than the action itself that make the revenge impossibleFrancis BaconOf study1) Study serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability.Note: Bacon emphasizes the purpose of study.2) Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to consider and weigh.Note: Bacon emphasized different ways adopted by people.3) Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man… History make men wise; poetry witty; the mathematics, subtle, natual philosophy, deep moral; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.Note: Bacon emphasized how studies exert influence on human nature.John DonneThe Sun Rising1) Busy old fool, unruly sun, why does you thus call on us throughwindows and through curtains? (P66)Note: This is Donne’s easy conceit, which is related to images concerning mythology or natural objects.2) The beams are so respectful and strong. Can you imagine I could eclipse and cloud them with a wink? (P67) She is all states, and I am all princes. All honor is mimic, all wealth alchemy. You, the sun is half happy as we are. (P67)Note: This is difficult conceit, which is linked with law, power, authority and philosophy.3) Shine here to us, and you are everywhere. The center is this bed, and these walls are your sphere.Note: This is the theme of the poem. The poet praises the charm of his love, which is greater than the sun.Death, Be Not Proud1) Death, don’t be proud, althou gh some people have called you mightyand terrible, but you are not so./ One short sleep past, we wake eternally and death shall be nothing. Death, you shall die.((P68)Note: The theme of this poem is to show the poet’s contempt toward death.John MiltonParadise Lost1) That durst dislike his reign, and me preferring, his utmost power with adverse power opposed in dubious battle on the plains of Heaven, and shook his throne. What though the field lost? All is not lost: the unconquerable will.Note:Tho se who dare to show their dislike to the God’s rule and support me, and those who fight against the God’s rule with their opposing forces in Heaven, do you think you lost all things in this struggle? No! nothing is lost if you still have the unconquerable will. The statement above shows the key note of the poem: freedom from God’s will.Chapter Two Neoclassical PeriodJohn BunyanThe Vanity Fair1) The main characters in this novel are Christians, Pliable, Faithful, and Hopeful. (P85)2) At this fair there is at all times to be seen juggling, cheats, plays, fools and rogues, and that of every kind. Here are to be seen, too and that for nothing, theft, murders, adulteries, false swears, and that of a blood-red color.Note:The novel is a religious allegory. So cheats, plays, fools, theft, and murders are all symbols of social evils.(P86)3) Now these pilgrims must go through the fair.(P88)/One chanced mockingly, “What will you buy?” But they looking gravely upon him, said, “We buy the truth.”(P88)Note:The pilgrims have to walk through the fair so that they can reach the Celestial City. The sentence implies the theme of this novel, that is, People must obey Christian rules and seek salvation through self-struggleagainst all social evils.Alexander PopeAn essay on Criticism1) Some confine their taste to conceit alone…One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.Note: One problem in the poetic works is that some of them lack true taste and stress too much artificial use of conceit.2) Others care nothing but language and expression.(P94)Note:Another problem in the poetic works is that some of them stress the external beauty of language.3) True wit is Nature dressed to advantage. What was often thought, but never so well expressed/Words are leaves; and where they abound, much fruit of sense is rarely found./True expression, like the unchanging sun, clears and improves whatever it shines upon./Expression is the dress of thought, the more decent as more suitable.Note: Pope points out that writers should pay attention to the true wit that is best set in a plain style. The excerpt is a didactic poem and simile is frequently used in the poem.Daniel DefoeRobinson Crusoe1) In this half circle I pitched two rows of strong stakes, driving them into the ground till they stood very firm like piles, the biggest end being out of the ground about five foot and a half, and sharpened on the top.Note:This is a Hercules’ task, which shows Crusoe’s capacity for work, energy, patience and persistence in overcoming difficulties.Jonathan Swift1) Lilliput, Brodingnag, Houyhnhnm, and Yahoo are characters in Swift’s novel Gulliver’s Travel.2) When a great office is vacant either by death or disgrace, five or six ofthose candidates petition the Emperor to entertain his Majesty and the court with a dance on the rope, and whoever jumps the highest without falling succeeds in the office.(P110)/There is likewise another diversion, …The emperor holds a stick in his hands, both ends parallel to the horizon, while the candidates, advancing one by one, sometimes leap over the stick, sometimes creep under it backwards and forwards several times(P111)/ He desired I would stand like a colossus, with my legs as far asunder as I could. He then commanded his general to draw up the troops and march them under me.(P114)/ I was demanded to swear to the performance of them; first in the manner of my own country, and afterwards in the method by their laws, which was to hold my right foot in my left hand, to place the middle finger of my right hand on the crown of my head, and my thumb on the tip of my rightear.(P115)Note:The author cites the above mentioned instances to allude the ridiculous practices or tricks of English government and satires all aspects in the English life---so cially, politically and morally. The author’s skillful use of satire is so profound that it never escapes the attention of a careful reader.Henry Fielding1) Allworthy, Blifil, Sophia are all characters in Tom Jones, the Fondling.2) Recount, O Muse, the names of those who fell on this fatalday. …(P125)Note:The paragraph above lists names of people who fell in the fight against Molly. Henry Fielding, adopting the “third-person narration”, brings his talent of comic epic prose into a full play and earns his reputation of “Prose Homer.”Samuel JohnsonTo the Right Honorable the Earl of Chesterfield1) To be so distinguished is an honor which, being very little accustomed to favors from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge.Note:The sentences, written in refined and polite language, are long but well-structured.2) The Shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of rock.Note:Love and Him in the above sentence refers to the fame-fishing Chesterfield. “A native of rock” refers to the fact that the fame-fishing lord had offered neither aid nor encouragement to the author.3) Is it not a patron, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?Note:The above statement implies the fact that on the eve of publication of the dictionary, the fame-fishing lord wrote two papers to recommend the dictionary and expect the author dedicate the work to him.4) Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favor of learning, I shall not be disappointed, for I have been long wakened from that dream of hop in which I boasted myself with so much exultation.Note:The author shows his decision not to be reconciled with the lord, expressing his independence. Although the wording is refined and polite,there is a bitter undertone of defiance and anger.Richard Brinsley SheridanSchool of Scandal1) Josephs Surface, Sneerwell, Candor, Backbite, Teazle and Peter are characters in the School of Scandal,2) Sir Peter is grown so ill-tempered to me of late!(Teazle)P140)/I am glad my scandalous friends keep that up.(P140 Joseph Surface)/When a husband entertains a groundless suspicion of his wife and withdraws his confidence from her, the original compact is broken and she owes it to the honor of her sex to outwit him.(P140-P141)Note:If Sir Peter shows doubt to you, the mutual trust between husband and wife will no longer exist. So it is justified for you to be unchaste and punish him in this manner. The conversation above reveals Joseph’s immortality and hypocrisy behind the mask of his honorable living.Thomas GrayElegy in a Country Churchyard1) Beneath those rugged elms, that yew trees shade, where heaves the turf in many a molding heap. Each I his narrow cell forever laid the rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.(P154)Note:The structure is: The turf heaves in many molding heap. It means that short and thick grass piles up on graves. Molding heap and narrow cell means graves or tombs.2) Let not ambition mock their useful toil, their homely joys, and destiny obscure.(P154)Note:Ambition refers to people with ambition. The poet mock the great ones who despise the common people.3) All that beauty, all that wealth ever gave awaits alike the inevitable hour.(P154)Note:the inevitable hour refers to the moment of deathChapter Three. Romantic PeriodWilliam BlakeThe Chimney Sweeper I1) Dick, Joe, Ned, and Jack were all locked up in coffins of black. And by come an angel who had a bright key and he opened the coffin and set them all free./The angel told Tom, if he would be a good boy, he would have God for his father, and never want joy.(P171)Note:Angel refers to the religion. “Set them all free” refers to the fact that religion brings some comfort to the people in misery.Chimney Sweeper II1) They clothed me in the clothes of death and taught me to sing the note of woe/They think they have done me no injury, and are gone to praise God and his priest and king, who make up a heave of misery.Note “They” refers to the religion. “taught me to sing the note of woe” and “make up a heaven of misery” refers to the fact that religion brings misery to the working people.The Tyger(P173)1) Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright, in the forest of the night. What immortal hand or eye could frame the fearful symmetry?Note:Tyger and the fearful symmetry refers to the harmony of the two opposite aspects of God creation.2) What wings dare he aspire? What the hand, dare seize the fire?Note: “wings” and “the fire” are related to Greek myth. They refer to the wonderful aspect of God creation.3) What the anvil? What dread grasp dare its deadly terrors clasp?Note: “dread” and “terror” are used to impl y the terrible aspect of God creation.4) When the stars threw down their spears, and water heaven with their tears. Did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make you?Note:The word “heaven” coexists with “he”. They refer to the God. “Lamb”refers to the gentle and obedient aspect of God creation. “You” refer to the ambitious and disobedient aspect of the God creation. The theme of this poem is that the seemingly conflicting aspects coexist in the God creation.William Wordsworth(P181)I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud1) Beside the lake, beneath the trees, flittering and dancing in the breeze./Ten thousands saw I at a glance, tossing their heads in sprightly dance./ The waves beside them danced.Note: “dancing” is personification.2) I wandered lonely as a cloud…A poet could not but be gay./ They flash upon that inward eye which is the bliss of solitude.Note:It is happy to recall the beauty of nature while he is staying alone.Compound upon Westminster Bridge(P181)1) This City now does, like a garment, wear the beauty of the morning. And all that mighty heart is lying still.Note: “This City”and “The mighty heart” refer to LondonShe Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways(P182)1) A mad whom there were none to praise and very few to love. A violet by a mossy stone, half hidden from the eye!Note:A violet by a mossy stone refers to those common people living a humble life. All of them, like a stone hidden in the moss and grass, are unknown to the world.2) She is in her grave, and, oh, the difference to me.Note:The poet shows sympathy to the common people.英美文学选读问答题整理。
01-12年自考英美文学美国部分问答题
美国部分问答题1.What is “Hemingway Code Heroes”? (12-47)He mingway’s world is limited. He deals with limited range of characters in quite similar circumstances and measures them against an unvarying code, known as “grace under pressu re”, which is actually an attitude towards life that Hemingway had been trying t o demonstrate is his works.(3分) Those who survive in the progress of seeking to master the code with the honesty, the discipline, and the restraint are Hemingway Code Heroes.(3分) 2.Give a brief analysis of Emily Grierson, the protagonist of A Rose for Emily byFaulkner.(12-48)Set in the town of Jefferson in Yoknapatawpa, the story focuses on Emily Grierson, an eccentric spinster who refuses to accept the passage of time, or the inevitable charge and loss that accompanied it.(3分) As a descendent of the Southern aristocracy, Emily is typical of those in Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpa stories who are the symbols of Old South but the prisoners of the past.(3分)ment briefly on Robert Frost‟s nature poetry. (12--50)A. Unlike his contemporaries in the 20th century, Robert Frost did not break up with the poetictradition nor made any experiment on form. Instead, he learned from the tradition, especially the familiar conventions of nature poetry and of classical pastoral poetry, and made the colloquial New England speech into a poetic expression. (3分)B. Many of his poems are fragrant with natural quality. Images and metaphors in his poems aredrawn from the simple country life and the pastoral landscape that can be easily understood.But it would be a mistake to imagine that Frost is easy to understand because it is easy to read.(3分)C. Profound ideas are delivered under the disguise of the plain language and the simple form, forwhat frost did is to take symbols from the limited human world and the pastoral landscape to refer to the great world beyond the rustic scene.(2分)D. These thematic concerns include the terror and tragedy in nature, as well as its beauty, and theloneliness and poverty of the isolated human being. But first and foremost Frost is concerned with his love of life and his belief in a serenity that only came from working usefully, while he practiced himself throughout his life.(2分)4.What‟s the theme of Nathaniel Hawthorne‟ s Y oung Goodman Brown?(11-47)A. Young Goodman Brown is essentially an allegory. It is concerned with a young Puritan whoattends a witches’Sabbath in the woods. (1分)B. Goodman Brown’s journey is a symbolic journey of discovering sin and evil in human hearts.The discovery is horrible in that it makes Brown a distrust and doubtful man forever. (2分) C. In dealing with the theme of guilt and sin, Hawthorne exemplifies the “power of blackness”.(1分)D. The story faithfully reflects Hawthorne’s Puritan belief: “There is evil in every human heart,which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity”. (2分) 语言错误酌情扣分。
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1.What is the theme of Jane Austen?s Pride and Prejudice ?(12--.45)Pride and Prejudice, originally drafted as “First Imperssions”in 1796, is the most delightful of Jane Austen’s works.(3分). The title tells of a major concern of the novel: Pride and prejudice. (3分)2.What does the poem “The Chimney Sweeper (from Songs of Experience)”reveal?(12-46)The two “Chimney Sweeper”poems are good examples to reveal the relation between an economic circumstance, i.e. the exploitation of child labor.(2分) and an ideological circumstance, i.e. the role played by religion in making people compliant to exploitation.(2分) The poem from the Songs of Experience reveals the true nature of religion which helpsbring misery to the poor childern.(2分)3.Discuss briefly Thomas Hardy?s literary achievement in terms of setting, the literarytendency and literary features. (12-49)A. Hardy’s novels are all Victorian in date. Most of them are set in Wessex, the fictionalprimitive and crude rural region which is really the home place he both loves and hates, such as The Return of the Native, Tess of t he D’Urbervilles, Jude the Obscur e. These works, known as “novels of character and environment,”are the most representative of him as botha naturalistic and a critical realist writer. (3分)B. Living at the turn of the century, Hardy is often regarded as a transitional writer. In him wesee the influence from both the past and the modern. The pessimistic view of lifenaturalistic writer.predominates most of Hardy’s later works and earns him a reputation as aThough naturalism seems to have played an important part in Hardy’s works, there is also bitter and sharp criticism and even open challenge of the irrational, hypocritical and unfairVictorian institutions, conventions and morals.(4分)C. He tells very good stories and he is a great painter of nature. His heroes and heroines, thoseunfortunate young men and women in their desperate struggle for personal fulfillment and happiness, are all vividly and realistically depicted. And all the works of Hardy are noted forthe rustic dialect and a poetic flavor which fits well into their perfectly designed architectural structures. They are the product of a conscientious artist. (3分)4.What?s the theme of Emily Bronte? s Wuthering Heights? (11--45)A. The novel is a riddle which means different things to different people.B. From a social point of view, it is a story about a poor man abused;C. As a love story, beautiful and horrible passion in human beings.A、B、C三各点2分。
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。
7月自考英美文学选读试题及答案解析
全国2018年7月自考英美文学选读试题课程代码：00604全部题目用英文作答，并将答案写在答题纸相应位置上，否则不计分。
Ⅰ. Multiple Choice (40 points in all, 1 for each)Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Write your answer on the answer sheet.1.With classical culture and the（）humanistic ideas coming into England, the English Renaissance began flourishing.A. FrenchB. GermanC. ItalianD. Greek2.“Come live with me and be my love, / And we will all the pleasures prove / That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, / Woods, or steepy mountain yields.”The above lines are taken from Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”, which derives from the （）tradition.A. pastoralB. heroicC. romanticD. realistic3.“Metaphysical conceit”is a strategy characteristic of John Donne’s poetry. It is（）.A. a confession that avoids questions of moral accountabilityB. the linking of images from very different ranges of experienceC. self-definition through images based on the four primal elementsD. the chaining of images representing solid and gaseous elements4.“So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, / So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”Shakespe are’s Sonnet 18 includes three stanzas according to the content with these last two lines as a（）, which completes the sense of the above lines.1A. preludeB. coupletC. epigraphD. exposition5.“Therefore at this fair are all such merchandise sold, as houses, lands, trades, places, honors, preferments, titles, countries, kingdoms, lusts, pleasures, and delights of all sorts, as whores, bawds, wives, husbands, children, masters, servants…”The above sentences are taken from（）.A. John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s ProgressB. Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s TravelsC. Henry Fielding’s Tom JonesD. Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe6.Jonathan Swift is a master satirist in English literature. His A Tale of a Tub is an attack on（）.A. the governmentB. greedC. the churchD. the abuse of power7.Chaucer was the first English writer to adopt heroic couplet in his writhing of poems. In the early 18th century, the chief proponent of the heroic couplet was（）.A. Alexander PopeB. William WordsworthC. Lord ByronD. Thomas Gray8.As a lexicographer, he distinguished himself as the author of the first English dictionary—A Dictionary of the English Language. What is his name?（）.A. Jonathan SwiftB. Samuel JohnsonC. Ben JonsonD. John Milton9.Which of the following statements about Neo-Classicism and Enlightenment Movement is true?（）.A. The Enlightenment was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in the 17th century.B. Neo-Classicism found its artistic models in the classical literature of the ancient Greek and Roman writers like Homer, Virgil, Horace, Ovid, etc. and in the contemporary French writers such as V oltaire and Diderot.C. Neo-Classicism put the stress on the classical artistic ideals of order, logic, proportion, spontaneous emotion, and passion.D. Satire was much used in writing in the neo-classic works. English literature of this age produced a distinguished satirist Daniel Defoe.10.A poet asserted that poetry originated form “emotion recollected in tranquillity”. He maintained that thescenes and events of everyday life and the speech of ordinary people were the raw material of which poetry2could and should be made. Who is that poet?（）.A. William BlakeB. Alfred Lord TennysonC. William WordsworthD. John Keats11.The composition of “Kubla Khan”by S.T. Coleridge was based on （）.A. a storyB. a dreamC. a dialogueD. an experience12.Romanticism was a literary trend prevailing in English during the period from 1798 to 1832. The Romantic writers（）.A. paid great attention to the spiritual and emotional life of manB. were discontent with the development of industrialism and capitalism, and presented the social evils minutely in their worksC. took pains to portray a world of harmony and balanceD. tended to glorify Rome and advocated rational Italian and French art as superior to the native traditions13.“Tiger! Tiger! Burning bright/ In the forests of the night, / What immortal hand or eye / Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”(“The Tiger”by William Blake) The above lines（）.A. describe the tiger’s fierce eyes and forceful hands at nightB. express the poet’s curiosity for the skillful creation of the tigerC. express the poet’s surprise at the sight of the tiger’s well-proportioned bodyD. express the poet’s terror at the sight of the tiger in the forest at night14.Which of the following statements about Victorian literature is NOT true?（）A. Novels became the most widely read and the most vital and challenging expression of progressive thought.B. Victorian novelists were angry with the inhuman social institutions, the decaying social morality, the widespread misery, poverty and injustice.C. Influenced by a particularly strict set of moral standards, Victorian writers like Oscar Wilde, advocated the old moderate, respectable life-style.D. Victorian prose writers joined forces with the critical realist novelists in exposing and criticizing the social reality.15.“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want3of a （）.”This quotation in Austen’s Pride and Prejudice sets the tone of the novel.A. houseB. titleC. wifeD. fame16.Tennyson’s poem Ulysses not only expresses the poet’s own determination and courage to brave the struggle of life, but also reflects the restlessness and aspiration of the age. The poem is written in the form of （）.A. epicB. elegyC. dramatic monologueD. ode17.In Hardy’s Wessex novels, there is an apparent（）touch in his description of the simple and beautiful though primitive rural life.A. realisticB. nostalgicC. romanticD. sentimental18.“If I’ve done wrong, I’m dying for it. It is enough! You left me too; but I won’t upbraid you! I forgive you. Forgive me!”These above lines are uttered by the heroine in（）.A. Shapespeare’s Romeo and JulietB. Emily Bront e ’s Wuthering HeightsC. Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’UrbervillesD. Bernard Shaw’s Mrs. Warren’s Profession19.Modernism takes the irrational philosophy and（）as its theoretical base.A. the theory of psycho-analysisB. Darwin’s evolutionary theoryC. the French symbolismD. Utilitarianism20.The beginning of “The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock”moves from a series of fairly concrete physical settings—a cityscape( the famous“patient etherized upon a table”)and several interiors (women’s arms in the lamplight, coffee spoons, fireplaces)—to a series of vague ocean images. It aims to convey（）.A. Prufrock’s emotional distance from the world as he comes to recognize his second-rate statusB. Prufrock’s eagerness to meet his dating loverC. Prufrock’s reluctance to meet his dating loverD. Prufrock’s excitement about the modern world21.“No rth Richmond Street, being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers’4School set the boy free. An uninhabited house of two storeys stood at the blind end, detached from its neighbours in a square ground. The other houses of the street, conscious of decent lives within them, gazed at one another with brown imperturbable faces.”The above passage is the first paragraph of Araby by James Joyce. It sets a(n)（）tone of the story.A. optimisticB. activeC. gloomyD. serious22.“I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, / And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made: / Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee, / And live alone in the bee-loud glade.”(“The Lake Isle of Innisfree”by Samuel Butler Yeats) The above lines present the state of a(n)（）life. A. quiet B. lonelyC. ambitiousD. unstable23.In Young Goodman Brown by Hawthorne, the name of Good man Brown’s wife is（）, which also contains many symbolic meanings.A. RuthB. HesterC. FaithD. Mary24.The Romantic Period, one of the most important periods in the history of American literature, stretches from the end of __________ to the outbreak of ___________.（）A. the 17th century…the American War of IndependenceB. the 18th century…the American Civil WarC. the 17th century…the American Civil WarD. the 18th century…the U.S.-Mexican War25.“The apparition of these faces in the crowd; / Petals on a wet, black bough.”This is the shortest poem written by（）.A. E.E. CummingsB. T.S. EliotC. Ezra PoundD. Robert Frost26.Emily Dickinson’s poem“This is my letter to the World”expresses her（）about her communication with the outside world.A. anxietyB. eagernessC. curiosityD. optimistic outlook527.Realism was a reaction against Romanticism or a move away from the bias towards romance and self-creating fictions, and paved the way to（）.A. CynicismB. ModernismC. TranscendentalismD. Neo-Classicalism28.In（）, William Faulkner illuminates the problem of black and white in the American Southern society as a close-knit destiny of blood brotherhood.A. Go Down, MosesB. Light in AugustC. The Marble FaunD. As I Lay Dying29.The theme of Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle is（）.A. the conflict of human psycheB. the fight against racial discriminationC. the familial conflictD. the nostalgia for the unrecoverable past30.Heming way once described Mark Twain’s novel（）the one book from which “all modern American literature comes.”A. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnB. The Adventures of Tom SawyerC. The Gilded AgeD. The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg31.As a genre, naturalism emphasized（）as important deterministic forces shaping individualized characters who were presented in special and detailed circumstances.A. theological doctrinesB. heredity and environmentC. education and hard workD. various opportunities and economic success32.（）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 Twain633.（）is considered to be a spokesman for the alienated youth in the post-war era and his The Catcher in the Rye is regarded as a students’ classic.A. Allen GinsbergB. E.E. CummingsC. J.D. Salinger D. Henry James34.Which one of the following statements in NOT true of Indian Camp by Hemingway?（）A. A young Indian woman had been trying to have her baby for two days.B. Nick’s father delivered this woman of a baby by Caesarian section, with a jack-knife and without anesthesia.C. Nick witnessed the violence of both birth and death in the Indian camp.D. This woman’s husband was murdered while she was in labor.35.（）is often acclaimed literary spokesman of the Jazz Age.A. Carl SandburgB. Edwin Arlington RobinsonC. William FaulknerD. F.Scott Fitzgerald36.Nathaniel Hawthorne held an unceasing interest in the“interior of the heart”of man’s being. So in almost every book he wrote, Hawthorne discussed（）A. love and hatredB. sin and evilC. frustration and self-denialD. balance and self-discipline37.Which of the following has gained its status as a world classic and simultaneously marks the climax of Eugene O’Neill’s literary career and the coming of the age of American drama?（）A. The Hairy ApeB. Long Day’s Journey Into NightC. Desire Under the ElmsD. Lazarus Laughed38.In the last chapter of Sister Carrie, there is a description about Hurstwood, one of the protagonists of the novel,“Now he began leisurely to take off his clothes, but stopped first with his coat, and tucked it along the crack under the door. His vest he arranged in the same place.”Why did he do this? Because （）.A. he wanted to commit suicideB. he wanted to keep the room warmC. he didn’t want to be found by others7D. he wanted to enjoy the peace of mind39.In Moby-Dick, the white whale symbolizes（）for Melville, for it is complex, unfathomable, malignant, and beautiful as well.A. natureB. human societyC. whaling industryD. truth40.（）,disregarding grammar and punctuation, always used“i”instead of “I”in his poetry to show his protest against self-importance.A. Wallace StevensB. Ezra PoundC. E.E. CummingsD. William Carlos WilliamsⅡ. Reading Comprehension (16 points, 4 for each)Reading the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answer in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.41.“Not on thy sole, but on thy soul, harsh Jew,Thou mak’st thy knife keen; but no metal can,No, not the hangman’s axe, bear half the keennessOf thy sharp envy.”Questions:A. Identify the author and the title of the play from which this part is taken.B. What figure of speech is used in this quoted passage?C. What idea does the passage express?42.“Whene’er I passed her; but who passed withoutMuch the same smile? This grew; I gave commands;Then all smiles stopped together.”Questions:A. Identify the poem and the poet.B. What does the line “Then all smiles stopped together”imply?C. What kind of person do the lines indicate the speaker is?43.“The woods are lovely, dark and deep,But I have promises to keep,8And miles to go before I sleep,And miles to go before I sleep.”Questions:A. Identify the poem and the poet.B. What does the word“sleep”mean?C. What idea do the four lines express?44.“I celebrate myself, and sing myself,And what I assume you shall assume,For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.I loafe and invite my soul,I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.”(From Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself”)Questions:A. Who does“myself”refer to ?B. How do you understand the line“I loafe and invite my soul?”C. What does“a spear of summer grass”symbolize?Ⅲ. Questions and Answers(24 points in all, 6 for each)Give brief answers to each of the following questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.45.Edmund Spenser is one of the poets of English Renaissance. What are the qualities of his poetry?46.The Man of Property is the first novel of the Forsyte trilogies by Galsworthy. What is the theme and the tone of the novel?47.Eugene O’ Neill, America’s greatest playwright, was constantly experimenting with new styles and forms for his plays, especially during the twenties when Expressionism was in full swing. What techniques did O’ Neill use in his expressionistic plays?48.Emerson’s book Nature established him ever since as the most eloquent spokesman of New England Transcendentalism. In this book Emerson discusses his idea of the Oversoul. How do you understand theEmersonian “Oversoul”?9Ⅳ. Topic Discussion(20 points in all, 10 for each)Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.49.Discuss Charles Dickens’s art of fiction: the setting, the character-portrayal, the language, etc, based on his novel Oliver Twist.50.A Rose for Emily is one of Faulkner’s short stories. Comment on the character of the protagonist, Emily Grierson, and analyze how this character is depicted.10。
4月全国英美文学选读自考试题及答案解析
全国2019年４月高等教育自学考试英美文学选读试题课程代码：00604全部题目用英文作答，答案写在答题纸相应的位置上。
PART ONEⅠ.Multiple Choice (40 points in all, 1 for each)Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Write the answers on the answer sheet.1.“For a week after the commission of the impious and profane offence of asking for more,Oliver remained a close prisoner in the dark and solitary room...”(Dickens, Oliver Twist) What did Oliver ask for?[A]More time to play. [B]More food to eat.[C]More book to read. [D]More money to spend.2.Mrs. Warren’s Profession is one of George Bernard Shaw’s plays. What is Mrs. Warren’sprofession then ?[A]Real estate. [B]Prostitution.[C]House-keeping. [D]Farming.3.Dr. Faustus is a play based on the German legend of a magician aspiring forand finally meeting his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the Devil.[A]immortality [B]political[C]money [D]knowledge4. The statement “A demanding mother turns away from her husband and gives all her affection to her sons” sums up the main plot of D. H. Lawrence′s .[A]Lady Chatterley’s Lover[B]Women in love[C]Sons and Lovers [D]The Plumed Serpent5.“Come to me－come to me entirely now,” said he ; and added, in his deepest tone, speaking in my ear as his cheek was laid on mine, “Make my happiness－I will m ake yours.”The above passage presents a scene in .[A]Emily Bronte’s Withering Heights[B]Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre[C]John Galsworthy′s The Forsyte Saga[D]Thomas Hardy′s Tess of the D′Urbervilles6.Which of the following is NOT written by William Butler Yeats?[A] “Sailing to Byzantium.”[B] “The Lake Isle of Innisfree.”[C] “Leda and the Swan.”[D] “The Waste Land.”7. “Drive my dead thought over the universeLike withered leaves to quicken a new birth.”(Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Ode to the West Wind”)What rhetorical device does the poet use in the quoted lines?[A]Synecdoche. [B]Metaphor.[C]Simile. [D]Onomatopoeia.8.Crusoe is the hero in The life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Grusoe, of York, Mariner (also known as Robinson Crusoe)by .[A]Jonathan Swift [B]Daniel Defoe[C]George Eliot [D]wrence9. “Beauty is truth, truth beauty” is an epigrammatic line by .[A]John Keats [B]William Blake[C]William Wordsworth [D]Percy Bysshe Shelley10.Christoper Marlow’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” is a (n).[A]pastoral lyric [B]elegy [C]eulogy [D]epic11.Which of the following is NOT regarded as one of the characteristics of Renaissance humanism?[A]Cultivation of the art of this world and this life.[B]Tolerance of human foibles.[C]Search for the genuine flavor of ancient culture.[D]Glorification of religious faith.12. “In dream vision Arthur witnessed the loveliness of Gloriana, and upon awaking resolves toseek her.” The two literary figures Arthur and Gloriana are form .[A]Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene[B]William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet[C]Christopher Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His love”[D]John Donne’s “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”13.Which of the following best describes the nature of Thomas Hardy’s later works?[A]Sentimentalism. [B]Tragic sense.[C]Surrealism. [D]Comic sense.14. “...This grew: I gave commands;Then all smiles stopped altogether....”(Robert Browning, “My Last Duchess”) The above lines imply that .[A]the Duchess was killed by her husband[B]the Duchess stopped smiling at her husband’s order[C]the Duchess died of laughing too much[D]the Duchess did not want to smile as much as her husband requested15.In which of the following works can you find the proper names “Lilliput,” “Brobdingnag,” “Houyhnhnm,” and “Yahoo”?[A]James Joyce’s Ulsses.[B]Charles Dickens’s Bleak House.[C]Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels.[D]D. H. Lawrence’s Women in love.16.As a literary figure, Belinda appears in Alexander Pope’s.[A] “The Dunciad”[B] “An Essay on Man”[C] “An Essay on Criticism”[D] “The Rape of the lock”17. “The novel is structured around the discovery of the hero’s origin.” Thi s novel is mostprobably .[A]Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield[B]James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man[C]Thomas Hardy’s Far from the Madding Growd[D]Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones18. “To wage by force or guile eternal war,Irreconcilable to our grand Foe.”（John Milton, Paradise lost)By what means were Satan and his followers to wage this war against God?[A]By planting a tree of knowledge in the Garden of Eden.[B]By turning into poisonous snakes to threaten man’s life.[C]By removing God from His throne.[D]By corrupting man and woman created by God.19. “When the evening is spread out against the skyLike a patient etherized upon a table.”(T. s. Eliot, “The Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock”) What does the image in the quoted lines suggest?[A]Violence. [B]Horror. [C]Inactivity. [D]Indifference.20.Which of the following is NOT typical of metaphysical poetry best represented by John Donne’s works?[A]Common speech. [B]Conceit.[C]Argument. [D]Refined language.21.William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all of the following except .[A]normal contemporary speech patterns[B]humble and rustic life as subject matter[C]elegant wording and inflated figures of speech[D]intensely subjective feeling toward individual experience22.In Samuel Taylor Coleridge′s “Kubla Khan,” “A sunny pleasure dome with caves of ice”.[A]refers to the palace where Kubla Khan once lived[B]vividly describes a building of poor quality[C]is the gift given to a beautiful girl called Abyssinian[D]symbolizes the reconciliation of the conscious and the unconscious23.The hightide of Romanticism in American literature occurred around .[A]1820 [B]1850 [C]1880 [D]192024.The subject matter of Robert Frost’s Poems focuses on .[A] ordinary country people and scenes[B]battle scenes of ancient Greek and Roman legends[C]struggling masses and crowded urban quarters[D]fantasies and mythical happenings25.Which group of writers are among those who may be called early pioneers of American literature?[A]Mark Twain and Henry James.[B]Fenimore Cooper and Washington lrving.[C]Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner[D]Jack London and O’Henry.26.To Theodore Dreiser, life is “so sad, so strange, so mysterious and so inexplicable.” No wonder the characters in his books are often subject to the control of the natural forces, especially those of and heredity.[A]fate [B]morality[C]social conventions [D]environment27.Hawthorne generally concerns himself with such issues as in his fiction.[A]the evil in ma n’s heart [B]the material pursuit[C]the racial conflict [D]the social inequality28.provides the main source of influence on American naturalism.[A]The puritan heritage[B]Howells’ ideas of realism[C]Darwin’s theory of evolution[D]The pioneer spirit of the wild west29.In Mark Twain’s The Adventures of huckleberry Finn, Huck writes a letter to inform against Jim, the escaped slave, and then he tears the letter up. This fact reveals that .[A]Huck has a mixed feeling of love and hate[B]there is a conflict between society and conscience in Huck[C]Huck is always an indecisive person[D]Huck has very little education30.Which terms can best describe the modernists’ concern of the human situation in their fiction?[A]Fragmentation and alienation.[B]Courage and honor.[C]Tradition and faith.[D]Poverty and desperation.31.Whitman’s poems are characterized by all the following features except.[A]a strict poetic form[B]a simple and conversational language[C]a free and natural rhythmic pattern[D]an easy flow of feelings32.All his novels reveal that, as time went on, Mark Twain became increasingly .[A]prolific [B]artistic.[C]optimistic [D]pessimistic33.The poem “I like to see it lap the Miles－” is an interesting poem written by Emily Dickinson. What does “it” in the poem stand for?[A]The hound. [B]The star.[C]The horse. [D]The train.34.Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Henry James’s writing style?[A] exquisite and elaborate language[B]minute and detailed descriptions[C]lengthy psychological analyses[D]American colloquialism35.In the beginning paragraph of Chapter 3, The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald describes a big party by saying that “men and girls came and went like moths.” The author most likely i ndicatesthat .[A]there was a crowd of party-goers[B]such life does not have real meaning[C]these people were light-hearted[D]these were crazy and ignorant characters36.In Hemingway’s “Indian Camp,” Nick, the main character, witnesses[A]a tragic killing of the Indians by the white men[B]real friendship between the white men and the Indians[C]a senseless killing of each other[D]terrible scenes of birth and death37.Which one of the following statements is NOT true of William Faulkner?[A]He is master of stream-of-consciousness narrative.[B]His writing is often complex and difficult to understand.[C]He often depicts slum life in New York and Chicago.[D]He represents a new group of Southern writers.38.American “Transcendentalists most typically believe that .[A]man is divine in name [B]art is superior to life[C]man can transform nature [D]poetry is the highest form of art39.By the end of Sister Carrie,Dreiser writes, “It was forever to the pursuit of that radiance of delight which tints the distant hilltops of the world.” Dreiser implies that .[A]there is a bright future lying ahead[B]there is no end to man’s desire[C]one should always be forward-looking[D]happiness is found in the end40.We can perhaps describe Em ily Grierson in Faulkner’s short story “A Rose for Emily” in all thefollowing ways except that .[A]she is psychologically deformed[B]she is wicked and morally corrupted[C]she is a symbol of the Old South[D]she is a prisoner and victim of the pastPART TWOⅡ.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. “The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,And al l that beauty, all that wealth e’er gave.Awaits the inevitable hour.The paths of glory lead but to the grave.”Questions:A.Identify the author and the title of the poem from which this passage is taken.B.What does the phrase “inevitable hour” mean?C.Write out the main idea of the passage in plain English.42. “A violet by a mossy stoneHalf hidden from the eye!－Fair as a star, when only oneIs shining in the sky.”Questions:A.Identify the author and the title of the poem from which this stanza is taken.B.Pick out the metaphor used in this stanza.C.What quality does the author intend to show by using the metaphor?43. “We passed The School, where Children stroveAt Recess－in the Ring－We passed The Fields of Gazing GrainWe passed The Setting Sun－”Questions:A.Who is the author of this stanza taken from the poem “Because I could not stop for Death－?B.What do the underlined parts symbolize?C.Where were “we” heading toward?44. “It was you that broke the new wood.Now is a time for carving.We have one sap and one root－Let there be commerce between us.”Questions:A.Whom does the “us” refer to?B.What does the phrase “broke the new wood” mean here?C.What is the intention of the poet in writing the poem “A Pact” from which these lines aretaken?Ⅲ.Questions and Answers (24 points in all, 6 for each)Give brief answers to each of the following questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.45.In Chapter 15 of Wuthering Heights, Heath cliff said to Catherine: “Why did you betray your own, Cathy?... You loved me－then what right have you to leave me?... I have not broken your heart－you have broken it－and in breaking it, you have broken mine.”Taking the whole novel into consideration, do you think Heathcliff’s above accusation of Catherine’s betrayal can be justified? If you think so, what reasons does Catherine have to betray Heathcliff and their love?46.John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress is generally regarded as a religious allegory. What doesthe work symbolically concern? What is the predominant metaphor that is carried on through the whole work? And what is the aut hor’s purpose in writing such a book?47. The following passage is taken from The Merchant of Venice. Read it carefully and find thedramatic it contains. Use it as an example to illustrate what dramatic irony is. “Bassanio: Antonio, I am married to a wif eWhich is as dear to me as life itself;But life itself, my wife, and all world,Are not with me esteem’d above thy life;I would lose all, ay, sacrifice them allHere to this devil, to deliver you.Portia: Your wife would give you little thanks for that,If she were by to hear you make the offer.”48. What is the most famous theme in Henry James′s fiction? And what is his favourite approachin characterization, which makes him different from Mark and W. D. Howells as realists?Give two titles of his works in which this theme and this approach are employed.Ⅳ.Topic Discussion (20 points in all, 10 for each)Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.49.In Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen explored three kinds of motivations of marriage themiddle-class people had in the second half of the 18th century. Try to make a brief discussion about them with specific examples from the novel. Make comments on Austen’s attitude towards these motivations.50.Retell in a few sentences the story of the last chapter (Ch, 135) “The Chase－T hird Day” ofMelville’s novel Moby-Dick. Discuss the meaning of the ending of the story.。
学历类《自考》自考专业(英语)《英美文学选读》考试试题及答案解析
学历类《自考》自考专业(英语)《英美文学选读》考试试题及答案解析姓名:_____________ 年级:____________ 学号:______________1、Opposition leaders will be watching carefully to see how the Prime Minister ________ the crisis.A、handlesB、conductsC、observesD、directs正确答案：A答案解析：A应付，对付，控制B引导，进行，实施C观察，监测，遵守D指导，监督2、Now many major employers are beginning to demand _______ the completion of schoolA、morethanB、ratherthanC、otherthanD、betterthan正确答案：A答案解析：morethan：多于，不只。
句意：现在很多雇主开始不仅仅要求学业的完成。
3、In the original test，all the animals in a test group are given a substance _______ half of them dieA、unlessB、untilC、lestD、provided正确答案：B答案解析：本题考查词义辨析。
until：直到。
符合句意，表示givenasubstance持续到halfofthemdie。
4、Nobody but you _______ what he said.A、agreeswithB、agreesoutC、agreewithD、agreeto正确答案：A答案解析：主语为nobody时，谓语动词用单数，如果主语被but,aswellas,with等短语修饰，谓语仍与主语的数保持一致。
该题易误选C、D，选D的原因在于词组记忆不清，用介词to时之后应加具体项目。
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。
英美文学自考试题及答案
英美文学自考试题及答案一、选择题（每题2分，共20分）1. 《哈姆雷特》是哪位英国剧作家的作品？A. 威廉·莎士比亚B. 奥斯卡·王尔德C. 查尔斯·狄更斯D. 托马斯·哈代答案：A2. 美国作家海明威的代表作是哪部小说？A. 《了不起的盖茨比》B. 《老人与海》C. 《白鲸》D. 《红字》答案：B3. 下列哪部作品不是简·奥斯汀的小说？A. 《理智与情感》B. 《傲慢与偏见》C. 《曼斯菲尔德庄园》D. 《简·爱》答案：D4. 谁是“美国现代主义文学之父”？A. 爱德加·爱伦·坡B. 华尔特·惠特曼C. 艾米莉·狄金森D. 马克·吐温答案：A5. 《动物农场》是哪位英国作家的政治讽刺小说？A. 乔治·奥威尔B. 弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫C. 约翰·弥尔顿D. 丹尼尔·笛福答案：A6. 《白鲸》的作者是谁？A. 赫尔曼·梅尔维尔B. 纳撒尼尔·霍桑C. 埃德加·爱伦·坡D. 华盛顿·欧文答案：A7. 《简·爱》的作者是谁？A. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特B. 艾米莉·勃朗特C. 安妮·勃朗特D. 伊丽莎白·巴雷特·勃朗宁答案：A8. 下列哪部作品是威廉·福克纳的代表作？A. 《喧哗与骚动》B. 《熊》C. 《老人与海》D. 《永别了，武器》答案：B9. 《乌托邦》是哪位英国作家的政治哲学著作？A. 托马斯·莫尔B. 约翰·洛克C. 托马斯·霍布斯D. 约翰·弥尔顿答案：A10. 美国文学中的“迷失的一代”是指哪些作家？A. 爱德加·爱伦·坡B. 弗·斯科特·菲茨杰拉德C. 马克·吐温D. 纳撒尼尔·霍桑答案：B二、填空题（每题2分，共20分）11. 《麦克白》是莎士比亚的四大悲剧之一，其他三部分别是________、《奥赛罗》和《李尔王》。
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。
自考英美文学选读试题
自考英美文学选读试题一、简答题1. 请简要解释英美文学的定义和范围。
英美文学是指英国和美国地区所产生的文学作品集合。
它包括了英国和美国各个历史时期的文学作品，涵盖了不同文体和流派，如诗歌、戏剧、小说等。
英美文学也包括了涉及英美文化、历史和社会的文学批评和理论。
2. 请谈谈你对浪漫主义文学的理解。
浪漫主义文学是19世纪兴起的文学运动，强调个人情感和想象力的自由发挥。
它追求超越现实的理想世界，强调自然界的神秘与力量，强调个体的自由和情感表达。
浪漫主义文学的作品通常富有激情和幻想，描写自然景物和人物内心体验，表达对美、自由和爱情的向往和赞美。
3. 请简要说明英国文学中的文艺复兴时期对英国文学的影响。
英国文艺复兴时期是16世纪中期到17世纪中期，受到古典文化和意大利文艺复兴的启发。
这一时期的英国文学呈现了繁荣和创新的特点。
文艺复兴时期对英国文学的影响主要体现在以下几个方面：首先，文艺复兴时期重视人文主义思想，强调人的价值和尊严。
这一思想对英国文学的价值观和表现形式产生了积极影响，推动了诗歌、戏剧和散文的发展。
其次，文艺复兴时期涌现了一批杰出的作家和诗人，如莎士比亚、斯宾塞等，他们的作品影响深远，成为英国文学的经典之作。
最后，文艺复兴时期也开启了英国剧院的黄金时代，剧作在社会中得到了广泛的传播和欣赏，为英国戏剧的发展奠定了基础。
4. 请解释19世纪末20世纪初的现代主义文学特征。
现代主义文学是20世纪初期兴起的文学运动，与传统文学相比，它展现了与众不同的风格和观念。
现代主义文学的特征包括：第一，现代主义对传统文学的规范和传统结构进行了颠覆和挑战。
它采用了自由的书写方式，打破了传统故事线性发展的模式，采用不同的叙述角度和时间跳跃的手法。
第二，现代主义文学注重表现人类的内心活动和情感体验，强调主观意识和意识流的描写。
它关注人类的孤独、焦虑和存在的意义等主题。
第三，现代主义文学追求语言的创新和实验。
它尝试使用新的词汇和独特的句法结构，以突破传统语言表达的局限。
自考英美文学试题及答案
自考英美文学试题及答案一、选择题（每题2分，共20分）1. 莎士比亚的《哈姆雷特》中，主人公哈姆雷特的著名独白“生存还是毁灭”出自以下哪一幕？A. 第一幕第一场B. 第三幕第一场C. 第二幕第二场D. 第四幕第四场答案：B2. 在《了不起的盖茨比》中，盖茨比的豪宅位于哪个城市？A. 纽约B. 芝加哥C. 洛杉矶D. 旧金山答案：A3. 下列哪部作品不是简·奥斯汀所著？A. 《傲慢与偏见》B. 《理智与情感》C. 《曼斯菲尔德庄园》D. 《简·爱》答案：D4. 弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫的《到灯塔去》中，主人公拉姆齐夫人的丈夫是一位：A. 作家B. 画家C. 哲学家D. 科学家答案：B5. 在《老人与海》中，老渔夫圣地亚哥与哪种海洋生物搏斗？A. 鲨鱼B. 鲸鱼C. 马林鱼D. 海豚答案：C6. 以下哪位诗人不属于浪漫主义诗人？A. 威廉·华兹华斯B. 塞缪尔·泰勒·柯勒律治C. 约翰·济慈D. 罗伯特·布朗宁答案：D7. 《简·爱》的作者是谁？A. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特B. 艾米莉·勃朗特C. 乔治·艾略特D. 简·奥斯汀答案：A8. 在《呼啸山庄》中，希斯克利夫是如何获得财富的？A. 继承B. 赌博C. 经商D. 抢劫答案：A9. 《雾都孤儿》的主人公奥利弗·特威斯特最终成为了：A. 律师B. 医生C. 作家D. 教师答案：B10. 《了不起的盖茨比》中，盖茨比的悲剧结局是由于：A. 他的财富B. 他的爱情C. 他的野心D. 他的虚荣答案：B二、填空题（每题2分，共20分）1. 英国文学史上的“湖畔诗人”包括威廉·华兹华斯、________和塞缪尔·泰勒·柯勒律治。
答案：罗伯特·骚塞2. 《荒原》是现代主义诗人________的代表作之一。
英美文学选读简答题和话题讨论.doc
Chapter 2 The Neoclassic Period1. The Enlightenment was a progressive intellectual movementin 18th century Europe.List at least 3 leading enlighteners in England.What are the important thing those enlighterners celebrated in this movement?启蒙运动是18世纪欧洲的一个进步的知识分子运动。
在英国列出至少3个主要的启发者。
在这场运动中，那些被照亮的人最重要的是什么？Daniel Defoe,Samual Richards on,Henry Fielding,Oliver Goldsmith.They are the prominent figures in developing the modern English movel,which gives a realistic presentation of life of the common English people.This is the most significant phenomenon in the history of the development of English literature in the 18th century.他们是发展现代英语语言的杰出人物，为普通英国人的生活提供了现实的展示。
这是18世纪英国文学发展史上最重要的一种现象.2. What is the belieft of the neoclassicists about literature?新古典主义者关于文学的信仰是什么？According to the neoclassicists,all forms of literature were to be modeled after the classic works of the ancient Greeek and Roman writers and those of the contemporary French ones.They believed that the artistic ideals should be order,logic,restrained emotion and accuracy,a nd that literature should be judged in terms of its service to huma nity根据新古典主义者的说法，所有的文学形式都是仿照古代希腊文和罗马作家的经典著作和同时代的法国作家的作品。
自考英美文学问答题(1)
问答题1.what.did.shakespeare.support.and .critic ize in his play?(1)he.eulogized.beauty ,truth.and.goodness ,praised friendship,faith,youth,true love.and.spoke.for.harmony,nationalism,cen tralizedernment,peace.and.sa crifice for the patriotic wars.he also damires the beautypurity and freedom of the pastoral natural world in his romances.he spared no dfforts in.rendering.the.beauty,innocence.and intelligent of women through brilliant charaters like Poria.(2)however,the conscientious playwright criticized various kinds of human vices and sins,like.greed,betrayal,pride,prejudice.a nd.deception, including acts of social inequality,sexual and racial discriminations in plays such as The merchant of venice and The.tempest.in.his.tragedies,he.condemned. the.hypocrisy,treachery and general corruption at the royal court,he does not hesitate to describe.the.cruelty.and.anti-natural character of the civil wars,against religious persecution and the corrupting influence of memory and gold,in King lear,he criticized the bourgeois egoism while he feared anarchy,hated rebellion and desprised democarcy.2.inspiration for the romantic approach initially came from two great shapers of thought.who are the two？and what ideas ofthey express inspire the romantic writers? Jean Jacque Rousseau and Thomas PaineThe new ideas about nature society and education that is liberty equality and fratenity they express inspire the romantic writers.3.nature is a philosophis work ,in which Emerson gives an explicit discussion on his idea of the oversoul,what is your understanding of Emersonian‘oversoul’?It means the religion on an intuitive belief in an ultimate unity.A the oversoul is believed to be an all-pervading power for goodness,omnipresent and omnipotent from which all things come and of which all are a part,it exists in nature and man alike and constitutes the chief element of the universeB 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 oversoul of which it is a partC 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 absolutes4.what makes Mark Twain’s The adventures of Huckleberry Finn more than a child’s adventure story?briefly discuss the question from three of the following aspects:the setting, the language,the character ,the theme and the style.A setting: in the novel Mark Twain recreates a small town world of American and presents the local color.B language:he uses simple,direct language faithful to the colloquial speech, the vernacular language of the local people.C character:the author recreats two rebels and fugitives running away from civilization,especially Huckleberry Finn,an innocent boy who refuses to accept the conventional village morality.D theme:the novel is a criticism of social injustice hypocrisy,conversativeness and narrow-mindedness of the American small town society.E style: the novel employs a humorous style of narration and is also highly symbolic with the central symbol.5.how is Romanticism different from Neoclassicism?provide brief evidence from the literary works you know best.In the field of literature,the enlightenment movement brought about a revival of interest in the old classic works,this tendency is known as neoclassicism,it requires that all forms ofliterature are to be modeled after the classic works of the ancient Greek and Roman writers and those of the contemporary French ones artistic ideals should be order,logic,restrained emotion and accuracy,and that literature should be judged in terms of its serviceto humanity.in this case,human beings are instructed and corrected primarily as social animals , Romanticism emphasizes the special qualities of each individual’s mind and constiutes a change of direction from attention to the outer world of social civilization to the inner world of human spirit ,it lends to see the individual as the very center of all life and all experience ,it also places the individual at the center of are .For example “An essay on criticism”(Neoclassicism)is orderly and logical with restrained emotion and accuracy while Romanticism is just the oppoisite.6.as a rule ,an allegory is story in verse or prose with a double meaning:a surface meaning and an implied meaning,list two works as examples of allegory what is an allegory usually concerned with by its implied meaning?A Buyan’s pilgrim’s progress and Spenser’s the faerie queeneB it is usually concerned with moral,religious,political,symbolic or mythical ideas.7.inspiration for the romantic apporach initially came from two great shapers of thought ,who are the two ?and what idea they expresses inspire the romantic writers?A the French philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau and the German writer Johna Wolfgan Von Goethe.B it is Rousseau who watablished the cult of the individual and championde the freedom of the human spirit,his famous announcement was ‘i felt before i thought ’Goethe and his compatriots extolled the romantic spirit.8.Emily Bronte used a very complicated narrative technique in writing her novel Wuthering Heights,try to tell Bronte’s way of narration briefly.There are complicated narrive levels in W H,the main narrative is told by Nely,Catherine’s old nurse to Mr Lockwood , a temporary tenant at grange.the latter gives an account of what he see at W H .in the main narrative by Nelly insects the sub –narrative told through Isabella’s letters a Nelly,while the central intrest is maintained,the sequence of its development is constantly disordered by flashbacks,this marks the story all the more enticing and genuine.9.the white whale,Moby Dick,is the most important symbol in Melville’s novel,what symbolic meaning can you draw from it?A to Ahab, the whale is either an evil creature itself or the agent of an evil force that controls the universe or perhaps both.B to Ishmale,the whale is an astonishing force,an immense power which defies rational explanation due to a sense of mystery it carries ,it is beautiful but malignant at the same time,it also represents the tremendous organic vitality of the universe,for it has a life force that surges onward irresistibly,impervious to the desires or wills of men.C as to the reader,the whale can be viewed as a symbol of nature,or an instrument of god’s vegeance 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.10.a possible theme of James Joyce’s short story ‘Araby’is disillusionment ,briefly discuss the symbolism Joyce employ’s in presenting this theme.A ‘short days of winter’“silent”“the street of blind end”“dark muddy lanes”with “feeble lanterns”“dark dripping gargens”and many others foretell the inevitable failure of the boy’s attempt to reach his desire.B Mangan’s sister,for whom the boy had tender feelings,symbolizes hope,but she was symbolically confinedC the journey to the bazzar is a quest for the fulfillment of the aspiration,but the journey was intolerably delayed and when the boy got to the bazaar half of it was already dark,what’s more the young lady at the door of a stall was ‘not encouraging’and spoke to the boy ‘out of sense of duty’when the upper part of the hall was completely dark ,the boy’s disillusionmentwas announced and thus ‘gazing up into the darkness i saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity and my eyes burned with anguish and anger’11.’my faith is gone’cried he (goodman brown),after one stupefled moment,”there is no good no earth and sin is but a name ,come devil ,for to thee is this world given ”Comment on this passage from Hawthorne’s ‘young goodman brown’This passage appears after goodman brown’s wxperience in the forest.brown attends a witch’s sabbath in the woods and is confronted with a vision of human evil there. After he returns to his home ,he lives a dismal and gloomy life because he is never able to believe in goodness or pirety again,the passage exemplifies the concern of guilty and evil in Hawthorne’s work.its hero experience from the transition from naive young man who accepts both society in genaral and his fellow men as individiuals worth his regard to a sistrustful and doubtful person ,however the story is manipulated in such a way that we as readers fell that Hawthorne poses the question of good and evil in man but withholds his answer,and he does not permit himself to determin whether the events of the night of trail are real or the mere figment of a dream.。
自考英语本科英美文学简答题汇总
⾃考英语本科英美⽂学简答题汇总C.What idea does the quoted passage express? Here,Prufrock?s inability to do anything against the society he is in is made him st rikingly clear by using a sharp comparison.Prufrock imagines himself as a kind of insect pinned on the wall and struggling in vai n to get free.This image vividly shows Prufrock?s current predicament.9.“I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood…A.Idenfity the poem and the poet.Robert Lee Frost?s The Road Not Taken.B.What does the phrase “ages and ages hence”mean? Many many years later.C.What idea does the quoted passage express? The speaker is telling his experience of making the choice of the roads.But he is co nscious of the fact that his choice will have made all the difference in his life.He seems to be giving a suggestion to the reade r “make good choice of your life”.D.What additional meaning do the two roads have? 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.E.What dilemma is the speaker facing? 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.18.“The woods are lovely,dark and deep,But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep…A.Identify the poem and the poet.Robert Lee Frost,Stopping by Woods on a Snowy EveningB.What does the word“sleep”mean? dieC.What idea do the four lines express? When facing the still and lovely forest,the speaker cannot stay,because of his obligation and responsibilities.27.“I cannot rub the strangeness from my sight I got from looking through a pane of glass…A.Identify the poet and the poem from which the quoted lines are taken.—Robert Lee Frost,After Apple-PickingB.what does the word “strangeness?? refer to?— the “essence of winter sleep”?C.What do the quoted lines imply?10.“A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye! －Fair as a star,when only one Is shining in the sky.”A.Identify the author and the title of the poem from which this stanza is taken.William Wordsworth,“She Dwelt Among the Untrodde n Ways”B.Pick out the metaphor used in this stanza.The flower (violet) is used as a metaphor.C.What quality does the author intend to show by using the metaphor?By comparing a country girl (Lucy) to a violet,the author int ends to show her quality of beauty and her virtues which are often neglected by the common people just like a wild flower blooming by an untrodden road.12.“Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendor,valley,rock,or hill; Ne?er saw I,never felt,a calm so deep! (Wil liam Wordsworth?s sonnet: “Composed upon Westminster Bridge”A.What does the word “glideth”in the fourth line mean? The word “glideth”means “flows”B.What kind of figure of speech is used by wordsworth to describe the “river”? Wordsworth uses personification to describe the “riveC.What idea does the fourth line express? The 4th line expresses the idea that the river is flowing happily as a living things,wh ich implies the beauty of the nature.D.What does this sonnet describe? It describes a vivid picture of a beautiful morning in London.E.What does the word “mighty heart”refer to? LondonF.The sonnet follows strictly the Italian form.What is the feature of the Italian form of sonnet? It follows strictly the Italian form,with a clear division between the octave and the sestet,the rhyme scheme is abbaabba,cdcdcd..13.“The river glideth at his own sweet will： Dear God! the very houses seem asleep； And all that mighty heart is lyingstill!”(from William Wordsworth?s “Composed upon Westminster Bridge”)A.What figure of speech is used in the quoted lines? Italian formB.What does “that mighty heart?? refer to? LondonC.What does the poem describe?— It describes a vivid picture of a beautiful morning in London.23．“For oft,when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood,they flash upon that inward eye”…A．Identify the author and the title.William Wordsworth,I wandered Lonely as a CloudB．What does the phrase “inward eye”mean? Human soulC．Write out the main idea of the passage in plain English.The poet expressed his love for the daffodils.11.“We passed The School,where Children strove At Recess－in the Ring…A.Who is the author and the poem Emily Dickinson “Because I could not stop for Death－”B.What do the underlined parts symbolize? It stands for three stage of life: “the school”--youth,“the Fields of Gazing Grain”—mature period,“the setting sun”—end of lifeC.Where were “we”heading toward? “We”are riding in a carriage,heading towards Eternity.D.What figure of speech is used in the poem? SymbolismE.What are Dickinson?s unique writing features in relation to the quoted lines? Dashes are used as a musical device to create cad ence and capital letters as a means of emphasis.14.“With Blue—uncertain stumbling Buzz— Between the light—and me—A.Identify the poem and the poet.I heard a Fly buzz-when I died by Emily Dickinson.B.What do “Windows”symbolically stand for? Eyes,for they are considered as the window of human soul.C.What idea does the quoted passage express? The last thing the dying person saw and heard was the flying and its buzz.When the e yes failed,the human soul was closed and the person died.(The speaker could not see any of the afterlife or God or angels she exp ected to see.)15.“Is dying hard,Daddy?? No,I think it?s pretty easy,Nick,It all depends.”A.Identify the work and the author.Earnest Hemingway,Indian CampB.What was Nick preoccupied with when he asked the question? Nick was preoccupied with the pain and the violence of death./life a nd deathC.Why did the father add “It all depends”after he answered his son?s question? By adding “It all depends”the father meant that death means differently to different people.To such weak persons like the husband of the Indian woman it?s a pretty easy,while strong-willed person will not easily commit suicide.21.“…only Miss Emily?s house was left,lifting its stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton…A.Identify the author and the work.William Faulkner?s A Rose for Emily.B.What is the meaning of “an eyesore among eyesores”? The meaning of “an eyesore among eyesores”is the most unpleasant thing to look at.C.What does this quoted passage indicate?The house is a perfect mirror image of the owner who is stubborn and coquettish and deli berately detaches herself from the communal life in this small town.25．“Do you think,because I am poor,obscure,plain,and little,I am soulless and heartless?A．Identify the author and the novel from which the quoted part is taken.Charlotte Bronte,Jane EyreB．To whom is the speaker speaking? Jane Eyre is speaking to Rochester.C．What does the quoted part imply about the speaker? Jane Eyre loves Rochester but she values her basic rights and equality as a human being.26.“When the stars threw down their spears,And water?d heaven with their tears,Did he smile his work to see?A.Identify the poet and the poem from which the quoted lines are taken—William Blake?s “The Tyger”B.Whom does the “he?? refer to?— the GodC.What does the “Lamb”symbolize?— The “Lamb”symbol of peace and purity.。
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。
2022年自考专业(英语)英美文学选读考试真题及答案10
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、Antonio, Bassanio and Portia are the characters in _________.A.The Merchant of VeniceB.Much Ado About NothingC.Twelfth NightD.A Midsummer Night' s Dream2、John Milton wrote_________to expose the ways of Satan and to "justify the ways of God to men. "A.Paradise RegainedB.Paradise LostC.Samson AgonistesD.Areopagitica3、 The work_________written by Daniel Defoe brought him into jail and made him go through public pillory.A.The Shortest Way with the DissentersB.The True - born EnglishmanC.Robinson CrusoeD.A Journal of the Plague Year4、In the first part of Gulliver' s Travels , Gulliver told his experience in_________.A.BrobdingnagB.LilliputC.Flying IslandD.Houyhnhnm5、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.Johnathan SwiftC.Henry FieldingD.Charles Dickens6、William Blake's _________ was composed during the climax of the French Revolution and it plays the double role both as a satire and a revolutionary prophecy.A.Songs of ExperienceB.Songs of InnocenceC.Marriage of Heaven and HellD.Poetical Sketches7、_________maintained that the scenes and events of everyday life and the speech of ordinary people were the raw material of which poetry could and should be made.A.William BlakeB.William WordsworthC.T. S. EliotD.William Shakespeare8、 Prometheus, the hero in Shelly's poetic drama Prometheus Unbound, is a figure in_________.A.The BibleB.Creek MythologyC.A German LegendD.Arabian Nights9、 Jane Austen's first novel is_________.A.Pride and PrejudiceB.Sense and SensibilityC.EmmaD.Persuasion10、 All of the following statements are true of Dickens' later works EXCEPT_________.A.There are fewer jokes and the comedy becomes harsher.B.There is always a happy ending.C.The novels are of great compactness and concentration.D.Most of the works present a criticism of the more complicated and yet most fundamental social institutions and morals of Victorian England.11、 Charlotte Bronte' s most autobiographical work_________, is largely based on her experience in Brussels.A.Jane EyreB.ShirleyC.VilletteD.The Professor12、All of the following novels by Thomas Hardy reveal the conflict between the traditional and the. modem EXCEPT_________.A.The Mayor of CasterbridgeB.Tess of the D' UrbervillesC.Jude the ObscureD.Under the Greenwood Tree13、Much of Shavian drama is constructed around the_________of a conventional theatrical situation.A.traditionB.inversionC.borderingD.distortion14、 As an important prose writer, in his famous essay , Tradition and Individual Talent, Eliot put great emphasis on the importance of_________,both in creative writing and in criticism.A.changeB.creativityC.ethicD.tradition15、D. H. Lawrence' s novel_________is a remarkable novel in which the individual consciousness is subtly revealed and strands of themes are intricately wound up.A.Sons and LoversB.The RainbowC.Women in Lovedy Chatterley' s Lover16、All o[ the foll plays are among Shakespeare' s four greated tragedies EXCEPT_________.A.HamletB.MacbethC.Romio and JulietD.Othello17、 The work_________shows how mankind, in the person of Christ, withstands the tempter and is established once more in the divine favor.A.Paradise RegainedB.Paradise LostC.Samson AgonistesD.Areopagitica18、As one of the greatest masters of English prose, _________defined a good style as " proper words in proper places. "A.Henry FieldingB.Jonathan SwiftC.Daniel DefoeD.William Blake19、Dickens' best depicted characters are those innoent , virtuous, persecuted and helpless_________.A.child charactersB.femalesbororsD.farmers20、The author of the work The Return of the Native is_________.A.Thomas HardyB.D. H. Lawrence .C.Charles DickensD.George Bernard Shaw21、查看答案。
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C.What idea does the quoted passage express? Here,Prufrock‟s inability to do anything against the society he is in is made him st rikingly clear by using a sharp comparison.Prufrock imagines himself as a kind of insect pinned on the wall and struggling in vai n to get free.This image vividly shows Prufrock‟s current predicament.9.“I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood…A.Idenfity the poem and the poet.Robert Lee Frost‟s The Road Not Taken.B.What does the phrase “ages and ages hence”mean? Many many years later.C.What idea does the quoted passage express? The speaker is telling his experience of making the choice of the roads.But he is co nscious of the fact that his choice will have made all the difference in his life.He seems to be giving a suggestion to the reade r “make good choice of your life”.D.What additional meaning do the two roads have? 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.E.What dilemma is the speaker facing? 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.18.“The woods are lovely,dark and deep,But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep…A.Identify the poem and the poet.Robert Lee Frost,Stopping by Woods on a Snowy EveningB.What does the word“sleep”mean? dieC.What idea do the four lines express? When facing the still and lovely forest,the speaker cannot stay,because of his obligation and responsibilities.27.“I cannot rub the strangeness from my sight I got from looking through a pane of glass…A.Identify the poet and the poem from which the quoted lines are taken.—Robert Lee Frost,After Apple-PickingB.what does the word “strangeness‟‟ refer to?— the “essence of winter sleep”?C.What do the quoted lines imply?10.“A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye! －Fair as a star,when only one Is shining in the sky.”A.Identify the author and the title of the poem from which this stanza is taken.William Wordsworth,“She Dwelt Among the Untrodde n Ways”B.Pick out the metaphor used in this stanza.The flower (violet) is used as a metaphor.C.What quality does the author intend to show by using the metaphor?By comparing a country girl (Lucy) to a violet,the author int ends to show her quality of beauty and her virtues which are often neglected by the common people just like a wild flower blooming by an untrodden road.12.“Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendor,valley,rock,or hill; Ne‟er saw I,never felt,a calm so deep! (Wil liam Wordsworth‟s sonnet: “Composed upon Westminster Bridge”A.What does the word “glideth”in the fourth line mean? The word “glideth”means “flows”B.What kind of figure of speech is used by wordsworth to describe the “river”? Wordsworth uses personification to describe the “riveC.What idea does the fourth line express? The 4th line expresses the idea that the river is flowing happily as a living things,wh ich implies the beauty of the nature.D.What does this sonnet describe? It describes a vivid picture of a beautiful morning in London.E.What does the word “mighty heart”refer to? LondonF.The sonnet follows strictly the Italian form.What is the feature of the Italian form of sonnet? It follows strictly the Italian form,with a clear division between the octave and the sestet,the rhyme scheme is abbaabba,cdcdcd..13.“The river glideth at his own sweet will： Dear God! the very houses seem asleep； And all that mighty heart is lying still!”(from William Wordsworth‟s “Composed upon Westminster Bridge”)A.What figure of speech is used in the quoted lines? Italian formB.What does “that mighty heart‟‟ refer to? LondonC.What does the poem describe?— It describes a vivid picture of a beautiful morning in London.23．“For oft,when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood,they flash upon that inward eye”…A．Identify the author and the title.William Wordsworth,I wandered Lonely as a CloudB．What does the phrase “inward eye”mean? Human soulC．Write out the main idea of the passage in plain English.The poet expressed his love for the daffodils.11.“We passed The School,where Children strove At Recess－in the Ring…A.Who is the author and the poem Emily Dickinson “Because I could not stop for Death－”B.What do the underlined parts symbolize? It stands for three stage of life: “the school”--youth,“the Fields of Gazing Grain”—mature period,“the setting sun”—end of lifeC.Where were “we”heading toward? “We”are riding in a carriage,heading towards Eternity.D.What figure of speech is used in the poem? SymbolismE.What are Dickinson‟s unique writing features in relation to the quoted lines? Dashes are used as a musical device to create cad ence and capital letters as a means of emphasis.14.“With Blue—uncertain stumbling Buzz— Between the light—and me—A.Identify the poem and the poet.I heard a Fly buzz-when I died by Emily Dickinson.B.What do “Windows”symbolically stand for? Eyes,for they are considered as the window of human soul.C.What idea does the quoted passage express? The last thing the dying person saw and heard was the flying and its buzz.When the e yes failed,the human soul was closed and the person died.(The speaker could not see any of the afterlife or God or angels she exp ected to see.)15.“Is dying hard,Daddy?‟ No,I think it‟s pretty easy,Nick,It all depends.”A.Identify the work and the author.Earnest Hemingway,Indian CampB.What was Nick preoccupied with when he asked the question? Nick was preoccupied with the pain and the violence of death./life a nd deathC.Why did the father add “It all depends”after he answered his son‟s question? By adding “It all depends”the father meant that death means differently to different people.To such weak persons like the husband of the Indian woman it‟s a pretty easy,while strong-willed person will not easily commit suicide.21.“…only Miss Emily‟s house was left,lifting its stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton…A.Identify the author and the work.William Faulkner‟s A Rose for Emily.B.What is the meaning of “an eyesore among eyesores”? The meaning of “an eyesore among eyesores”is the most unpleasant thing to look at.C.What does this quoted passage indicate?The house is a perfect mirror image of the owner who is stubborn and coquettish and deli berately detaches herself from the communal life in this small town.25．“Do you think,because I am poor,obscure,plain,and little,I am soulless and heartless?A．Identify the author and the novel from which the quoted part is taken.Charlotte Bronte,Jane EyreB．To whom is the speaker speaking? Jane Eyre is speaking to Rochester.C．What does the quoted part imply about the speaker? Jane Eyre loves Rochester but she values her basic rights and equality as a human being.26.“When the stars threw down their spears,And water‟d heaven with their tears,Did he smile his work to see?A.Identify the poet and the poem from which the quoted lines are taken—William Blake‟s “The Tyger”B.Whom does the “he‟‟ refer to?— the GodC.What does the “Lamb”symbolize?— The “Lamb”symbol of peace and purity.。