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全国自考英美文学选读(综合)模拟试卷2
全国自考英美文学选读(综合)模拟试卷2(总分:20.00,做题时间:90分钟)一、阅读理解(总题数:3,分数:6.00)1.To bow and sue for graceWith suppliant knee, and deify his power...—that were low indeed,That were an ignominy, and shame beneathThis downfall;...Questions:A. Who is the author?B. What is the title of the poem?C. What is the main idea?(分数:2.00)__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案:(正确答案:A. John Milton. B. Paradise Lost. C. To beg God for mercy and worship his power were more shameful and disgraceful than this downfall.)解析:2.I celebrate myself, and sing myself,And what I assume you shall assume,For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.Questions:A. Identify the author and the work.B. What are the two principal beliefs that the poet set in this poem?(分数:2.00)__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案:(正确答案:A. From Walt Whitman' s "Song of Myself". B. The two beliefs are the belief in the theory of universality and the belief in the singularity and equality of all beings in value.)解析:3."...Only Miss Emily' s house was left, rifting its stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton wagons and the gasoline pumps—an eyesore among eyesores. "Questions:A. Identify the author and the title of the story from which the quoted lines are taken.B. What is the meaning of "an eyesore among eyesores" ?C. What does this quoted passage indicate?(分数:2.00)__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案:(正确答案:A. Faulkner, A Rose for Emily. B. The most unpleasant thing to look at. C. The house is a perfect mirror image of the owner who is stubborn and coquettish and deliberately detaches herself from the communal life in this small town.)解析:二、简答题(总题数:4,分数:8.00)4.As a novelist Jane Austen writes within a very ______ sphere. The subject matter, the character range, the social setting, and plots are all restricted to the ______ of the late 18th-century England, concerning three or four landed gentry families with their daily routine life.(分数:2.00)__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案:(正确答案:Shelley eulogized the powerful west wind and expressed his eagerness to enjoy the boundless freedom from the reality.)解析:5.Analyze the character of Jane Eyre taken from Jane Eyre.(分数:2.00)__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案:(正确答案:A. Jane Eyre, an orphan child with a fiery spirit and a longing to love and be loved, a poor, plain, little governess who dares to love her master. B. In Chapter XXIII, Jane finds herself hopelessly in love with Mr. Rochester but she is aware that her love is out of thequestion. When forced to confront Mr. Rochester, she desperately and openly declares her equality with him and her love for him.)解析:6.What are the features of Whitman' s poetry?(分数:2.00)__________________________________________________________________________________________正确答案:(正确答案:A. His poetic style is marked by the use of poetic "I". B. He adopted" free verse" , poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme. C. The images in his poems are unconventional. D. He uses oral English. E. His vocabulary is amazing. F. Parallelism and phonetic recurrence are used at the beginning of the lines.)解析:7.Some of Hemingway' s heroes are regarded as the Hemingway code heroes. Whatever the differences in experience and age, they all have something in common which Hemingway values. What are the characteristics of the Hemingway code hero?(分数:2.00)__________________________________________________________________________________________正确答案:(正确答案:A. They have seen the cold world and for one cause or another, they boldly and courageously face the reality; whatever the result is, they are ready to live with grace under pressure. B. Almost all his heroes are" soldiers" either in a narrow or broad sense. They are out there to fight against nature or the world, or even themselves. But no matter where the battleground is and how tragic the ending is, they will never be defeated. C. Hemingway himself is one of those Code heroes; some critics say his protagonists are autobiographical, for they share something that is Hemingway' s.)解析:三、论述题(总题数:3,分数:6.00)8.Robinson Crusoe is universally considered as Daniel Defoe' s masterpiece. Robinson, apparently, is cast as a typical 18th-century pioneer colonist. Give a brief comment on Robinson Crusoe. (分数:2.00)__________________________________________________________________________________________正确答案:(正确答案:A. In Robinson Crusoe, Defoe traces the growth of Robinson from a naive and artless youth into a shrewd and hardened man, tempered by numerous trials in his eventful life. The realistic account of the successful struggle of Robinson single-handedly against the hostile nature forms the best part of the novel. B. Robinson is here a real hero; a typical eighteenth-century English middle-class man, with a great capacity for work, inexhaustible energy, courage, patience and persistence in overcoming obstacles, in struggling against the hosr tile natural environment. He is the very prototype of the empire builder, the pioneer colonist. C. In describing Robinson' s life on the island, Defoe glorifies human labor and the puritan fortitude, which save Robinson from despair and are a source of pride and happiness. He toils for the sake of subsistence, and the fruits of his labor are his own.)解析:9.Make a brief comment on Elizabeth ' s character in Pride and Prejudice.(分数:2.00)__________________________________________________________________________________________正确答案:(正确答案:A. Elizabeth is clever, alert, observant. She is more observant and less charitable than Jane in recognizing the characters of Bingley' s sisters. She recognizes Mr. Collins' character in his letter and after meeting him turns down firmly and with dignity his patronizing proposal. She is able to match wits with Darcy several times and with Colonel Fitzwilliam, earning their respect and admiration. B. Fearless and frank, not rattled by the attack of Lady Catherine de Bourgh, she wins a notable victory, sending her Ladyship away completelyrouted. She is independent but not infallible in her judgment—taken in by the charm of the worthless Wickham. She cannot be blamed for misjudging Darcy. C. She shows flexibility, discernment, and honesty of mind when she reads Darcy' s defense in his letter and admits the justice of much of what he says, thus beginning to lose her prejudice against him. She recognizes and values true worth when she encounters it in Jane, the Gardiners, and, near the end of the novel, in Darcy. She sees more clearly than her father the danger of sending Lydia to Brighton.D. She is able to control her emotions at times of stress—when she first encounters Darcy at Pemberley; when she realizes that she loves Darcy and has good reason to fear that she has lost him,she waits without repining for time to bring a solution. She is witty, fun-loving, recognizes humor in herself and in others, but ridiculing only folly, nonsense, and inconsistencies. She recognizes the follies of her own family and their shortcomings as well as their virtues.E. She is considerate of others but quite capable of asserting herself when occasion demands. She has a playful and unaffected manner, sunny disposition, natural animation, sense of fun, and sweet reasonableness. She is ready to laugh at herself and everything save "what is wise and good". She shows a sense of humor by telling what Darcy has said about her at the Meryton ball.)解析:10.Take Mark Twain' s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as an example to illustrate the statement that Mark Twain was a unique writer in American literature.(分数:2.00)__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案:(正确答案:A. Mark Twain shaped the world' s view of America and made an extensive combination of American folk humor and serious literature. B. The novel has become a great contribution to the legacy of American literature. C. The novel is written in a language that is totally different from the rhetorical language used by Mark Twain' s contemporary writers such as Emerson, Poe and Melville. It is simple, direct, lucid and faithful to the colloquial speech. This style of colloquialism is best described as " vernacular". D. He successfully used local color and historical settings to illustrate and shed light on the contemporary society. That' s why he is known as a local colorist. E. Mark Twain' s humor is remarkable, too. Most of his works tend to be funny, containing some practical jokes, comic details, witty remarks, etc. Some of them are typically tall tales. And a great deal of his humor is characterized by puns, straight-faced exaggeration, repetition, and anti-climax. He uses his humor to criticize the social injustice and satirize the decayed romanticism.)解析:。
《英美文学选读》模拟试题(1)
《英美文学选读》模拟试题(一)一、单项选择题cadaa1.The excerpt from Chapter 10 of Sons and Lovers ends with the conflict between Paul and his mother. The conflict is possibly caused by Paul and his mother’s different views towards _____.A. Paul’s fatherB. artC. lifeD. Paul’s brother2.The _____ can be regarded as one of the themes of Joyce’s story “Araby”.A. loss of innocenceB. childish loveC. awareness of harsh lifeD. false sentimentality3.After reading “Araby”, one more feel the story has a _____ tone.A. joyousB. harshC. solemnD. painful4.In “Araby”, Joyce’s diction evokes a sort of _____ quality that characterizes the boy on this otherwise altogether ordinary shopping trip.A. religiousB. moralC. sentimentalD. vulgar5.The major concern of _____ fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature.A. D. H. Lawre nce’sB. J. Galsworthy’sC. W. Thackeray’sD. T. Hardy’s6.The mission of _____ drama was to reveal the moral, political and economic truth from a radical reformist point of view.A. T. S. Eliot’sB. J. Galsworthy’sC. B. Shaw’sD. W. B. Yeats’7.Irving was best known for his famous short stories such as _____.A. Rip Van WinkleB. Young Goodman BrownC. Life of GoldsmithD. Life of Washington8.Melville’s _____ is an encyclopedia of everything, history, p hilosophy, religion, etc.A. The Old Man and the SeaB. Moby–DickC. White JacketD. Billy Budd9.Mark Twain created, in _____, a masterpiece of American realism that is also one of the great books of world literature.A. Huckleberry FinnB. Tom SowyerC. The Gilded AgeD. The Mysterious Stranger10.American literature produced only one female poet during the nineteenth century. This was _____.A. Anne BradsteetB. Jane AustenC. Emily DickinsonD. T. S. Eliot11.The main theme of _____The Art of Fiction reveals his literary credo that representation of life should be the main object of the novel.A. Henry James’B. Mark Twain’sC. Theodore Dreiser’sD. William Howells’12.In the 1920s, O’Neill established an international reputation with the plays ______.A. The Emperor JonesB. Anna ChristleC. The Hairy ApeD. all of the above13.In 1954, _____ was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature for his “mastery of the ar t of modern narration.”A. T. S. EliotB. Ernest HemingwayC. John SteinbeckD. William Faulkner14.“The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.” This is the shortest poem written by _____.A. T. S. EliotB. Robert FrostC. Ezra PoundD. Emily Dickinson15.In Robert Frost’s famous poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”, there are four lines like these: “The woods are lovely, dark and deep, /But I have promises to keep, /And miles to go befor e I sleep, /And miles to go before I sleep”. The second sleep refers to _____.A. dieB. calm downC. fall into sleepD. stop walking16.Of the following American poets, whose work was first recognized in England and then in America?A. Robert FrostB. Walt WhitmanC. Emily DickinsonD. Wallace Stevens17.“For I have had too much / Of apple-picking: I am overtired / Of the great harvest I myself desired”. From these lines we can conclude that the speaker _____.A. is happy about the harvestB. is tired of the work of apple-pickingC. is not tired when seeing the harvestD. becomes indifferent of the job18.Chinese poetry and philosophy had great influence on _____.A. Robert FrostB. Ralph Waldo EmersonC. Ezra PoundD. Emily Dickinson19.The Hemingway code heroes are best remembered for their _____.A. indestructible spiritB. pessimistic view of lifeC. war experiencesD. masculinity20.Lots of people rushed to Gatsby’s party at the weekend and they clustered around Gatsby’s wealth like ____.A. gluttonsB. fliesC. insectsD. moths二、综合题1.Read the quoted part carefully and answer the questions in English.It may be that the gulfs will wash us down;It may be we shall touch the Happy Tales,And see the great Achilles, whom we knew,Tho’ much is taken, much abides, and tho’We are not now that strength which in old daysMoved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are;One equal temper of heroic hearts,Made weak by time and fate, but strong in willTo strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.A. The passage is taken from th e poem “___________”.B. The author of the poem is ____________.C. The poem is written in the form of _________.D. The speaker is __________.2.Read the quoted part carefully and answer the questions in English.Whether fagged by the three days’ runnin g chase, and the resistance to his swimming in the knotted hamper he bore; or whether it was some latent deceitfulness and malice in him: whichever was true, the white Whale’s way now began to abate, as it seemed, from the boat so rapidly nearing him once more; though indeed the whale’s last start had not been so long a one as before. And still as Ahab glidede over the waves the unpitying sharks accompanied him; and so pertinaciously stuck to the boat; and so continually bit at the plying oars, that the blades became jagged and crunched, and left small splinters in the sea, at almost every dip.A From which novel is the paragraph taken?B What is the name of the author?C Who is Ahab?D What is the theme of the novel?3.Read the quoted part carefully and answer the questions in English.Standing on the bare ground, ----- my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space, ------- all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.A. Which work is this fragment taken from?B. How do you understand the philosophical ideas in this words?4.Read the quoted part carefully and answer the questions in English.“if he be not apt to beat over matters, let him study the lawyer’s cases, so every defect of the mind may have a special receipt.”A. what does “beat over matters” mean?B. what does “receipt” refer to?C. from which essay does the above sentences come?5.Give brief answers to the question in English.What is Lyrical Ballads?Why is Lyrical Ballads regarded as a landmark in English poetry?6.Give brief answers to the question in English.Do you think the two collections of poems written by William Blake are the same? If not, what is the difference?7.Give brief answers to the question in English.What are some of the general artistic features of Walt Whitman’s poetry?8.Give brief answers to the question in English.Can we say that when Brown (Hawthorne’s Young Goodman Brown) enters the dark forest he is really enter his own evil mind? If yes (or no), please explain.9.This monologue, a psychological exploration of life and death, reveals the character of Hamlet as a man of contemplation rathe r than action. With the intolerable burden of the duty to revenge his father’s death and the challenge of evil forces, Hamlet seems to withdraw into a mental world which is thrown into a conflict or a choice between life and death. The philosophical speculation mixed up with a deep pessimistic outlook resists against action at first, but later awakens the hero out of his melancholy to a sense of the “enterprise of great pith and moment”, indicating that he is to do something for what he concerns himself wit h.10.Write no less than 150 words on the following topic in English.Make a comparison between Henry James’ realism and Mark Twain’s realism.答案部分一、单项选择题1. C2. A3. D4. A5. A6. C7. A8. B9. A10. C11. A12. D13. B14. C15. A16. A17. B18. C19.A20. D二、综合题1.【正确答案】 A. UlyssessB. Afred TennysonC. Dramatic MonologueD. Ulysses2.【正确答案】 A. Moby – DickB. Herman MelvilleC. The Captain of the whaling shipD. The rebellious struggle of Captain Ahab against the over-whelming, mysterious vastness of the universe and its awesome sometimes merciless forces.3.【正确答案】 A. NatureB. Emerson regards nature as the purest, and the most sanctifying moral influence on man, and advocated a direct intuition of a spiritual and immanent God in nature. The soul has completely transcended the limits of individuality and become part of the Over soul. Emerson sees spirit pervading everywhere, not only in the soul of man, but behind nature, throughout nature.4.【正确答案】 A. make through exam of things.B. cure, prescriptionC. of studies Francis Bacon5.【正确答案】 A. It is a collaboration of Wordsworth and Coleridge, the major representatives of the Romantic Movement.B. In the book, they explored new theories and innovated new techniques in poetry writing. They saw poetry as a healing energy; they believed that poetry could purify both individual souls and the society. The preface to the second edition of the Lyrical Ballads acts as a manifesto for the new school. Wordsworth’s poems in the Lyrical Ballads differs in marked ways from his early poetry, notably the uncompromising simplicity of much of the language, the strong sympathy not merely with the poor in general but with particular, dramatized examples of them, and the fusion of natural description with expressions of inward states of mind.6.【正确答案】 A. NoB. The two collections of poems written by William Blake, “Sons of Innocence” and “Sons of Experience”, hold the similar subject-matter, but the tone, emphasis and conclusion differ.7.【正确答案】Walt Whitman was an important poet in American literary history. His originality lies first of all in his use of the poetic form free verse, by means of which he becomes conversational and casual. He usually uses the first person pronoun “I” to stress individualism, and oral language to acquire symp athy from the common reader. His topics are sometimes sexual but his themes are far more than sexual.8.【正确答案】Hawthorne’s stories are generally read as allegories symbolic of human experience, so is “Young Goodman Brown”. Allegorically Brown’s night journey to the forest could be taken as a journey of the mind into the dark region of evil. It is especially true if we allow for some very important details about the light and the shadow, the dreamlike atmosphere, the words and phrases he uses to describe what Brown has experienced in the forest, none of which seems to be substantially solid or physically present.9.【正确答案】This monologue, a psychological exploration of life and death, reveals the character of Hamlet as a man of contemplation rather than action. With the intolerable burden of the duty to revenge his father’s death and the challenge of evil forc es, Hamlet seems to withdraw into a mental world which is thrown into a conflict or a choice between life and death. The philosophical speculation mixed up with a deep pessimistic outlook resists against action at first, but later awakens the hero out of his melancholy to a sense of the “enterprise of treat pith and moment”, indicating that he is to do something for what he concerns himself with.10.【正确答案】Although James and Twain both worked for realism, there were obvious differences between them. In thematic terms, James wrote mostly of the upper reaches of American society, whereas Mark Twain dealt largely with the lower strata of society. Technically, James pursued psychological realism, but Mark Twain’s contribution to the development of realism and to American literature as a whole was partly through his theories of Local Colorist in American fiction, and partly through his colloquial style.Henry James believed that reality lies in the impressions made by life on the spectator, and not in any facts of which the spectator is unaware, such realism is therefore merely the obligation that the artist assumes to represent life as he sees it, which may not be the same life as it “really” is. James shifted the ground of realistic art from the outer to the inner world.Mark Twain preferred to represent social life through portraits of local places which he knew best. He drew heavily from his own rich fund of knowledge of people and places. He confined himself to the life with which he was familiar. By quoting from his own experience, Mark Twain managed to transform into art the freedom and humor, in short, the finest elements of western culture.。
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C. The Bostonians
D. The Mysterious Stranger
9.While Mark Twain satirized European manners at times, _______ was an admirer.
A. O. Henry
A. “After Apple-Picking”
B. “The Road Not Taken”
C. “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”
D. “Fire and Ice”
21.American writers after World WarⅠself-consciously acknowledged that they were (a) "_______", devoid of faith and alienated from the Western civilization.
A. This is my letter to the World
B. I heard a fly buzz-when I died
C. The Road Not Taken
D. I like to see it lap the miles
16.________ is a school of modern painting, whose emphasis is on the formal structure of a work of art and especially on the multiple-perspective viewpoints.
D. A Farewell to Arms
2023年自考专业(英语)《英美文学选读》考试历年真题摘选附带答案
2023年自考专业(英语)《英美文学选读》考试历年真题摘选附带答案第1卷一.全考点综合测验(共20题)1.【单选题】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 War2.【单选题】( )is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th —century “stream— of —consciousness ” novels and the founder of psychological realism.A.Theodore DreiserB.William FaulknerC.Henry JamesD.Mark Twain3.【单选题】William Faulkner set most of his works in the American( ),with his emphasis on the( )subjects and consciousness.A.North...NorthernB.East...EasternC.West...WesternD.South...Southern4.【单选题】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 James5.【单选题】In 1950,one of the leading American writers( )was awarded the Nobel Prize for the anti-racist Intruder in the Dust.A.Robert FrostB.Theodore DreiserC.William FaulknerD.Fitzgerald6.【单选题】The attitude towards life that( )had been trying to demonstrate in his works is known as “grace under pressure ”.A.William FaulknerB.Theodore DreiserC.Ernest HemingwayD.F·Scott Fitzgerald7.【单选题】The Portrait of A Lady is generally considered to be( )masterpiece,which describes the life journey of an American( )in a European cultural environment.A.Henry Adams’…widowB.William James ’…girlC.Henry James’…girlD.Theodore Dreiser ’s…widow8.【单选题】“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 monologue9.【单选题】Most literary critics think that Fitzgerald is both an insider and an outsider of( )with a double vision.A.the Jazz AgeB.the Age of Reason and RevolutionC.the Babybooming AgeD.the Post- Modern Age10.【单选题】Robert Frost is generally considered a regional poet whose subject matters mainly focus on the landscape and people in( ).A.the westB.the southC.AlaskaD.New England11.【单选题】Ezra Pound,a leading spokesman of the “( ) ”,was one of the most important poets in his time.A.Imagist MovementB.Cubist MovementC.Reformist MovementD.Transcendentalist Movement12.【单选题】What he had done is _______A.valueB.of valuableC.of no valueD.of no valuable13.【单选题】That is the house _______ you can enjoy the scenery.A. in thatB.thatC.whichD.from which14.【单选题】In the original test,all the animals in a test group are given a substance _______ half of them dieA.unlessB.untilC.lestD.provided15.【单选题】“The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one- eighth of it being above water. ” This “iceberg ” analogy is put forward by( ).A.Mark TwainB.Ezra PoundC.William FaulknerD.Ernest Hemingway16.【单选题】The Financier,The Titan and The Stoic by Theodore Dreiser are called his “Trilogy of( ). ”A.HatredB.DeathC.DesireD.Fate17.【单选题】“The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one -eighth of it being abov e water. ” This “iceberg ” analogy about prose style was put forward by( ).A.William FaulknerB.Henry JamesC.Ernest HemingwayD.F· Scott Fitzgerald18.【单选题】William Faulkner once said that( )is a story of “lost innocence, ” which proves itself to be an intensification of the theme of imprisonment in the past.A.The Great GatsbyB.The Sound and the FuryC.Absalom,Absalom!D.Go Down,Moses19.【单选题】The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and,especially,its sequence( )proved themselves to be the milestone in the American literature.A.The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnB.Life on the MississippiC.The Gilded AgeD.Roughing It20.【单选题】The teacher told us the fact _______.A.which the earth moves around the sunB.that the earth moved around the sunC.that the sun moves around the earthD.that the earth moves around the sun第2卷一.全考点综合测验(共20题)1.【单选题】The( )Age of the 1920s characterized by frivolity and carelessness is brought vividly to life in The Great Gatsby.A.LostB.JazzC.ReasonD.Gilded2.【单选题】Some persons gain goal and direction from their tensions;others________ under pressure.A.fall outB.fall apartC.fall back onD.fall in with3.【单选题】Greatly and permanently affected by the( )experiences,Hemingway formed his own writing style,together with his theme and hero.A.miningB.farmingC.warD.sailing4.【单选题】Opposition leaders will be watching carefully to see how the Prime Minister ________ the crisis.A.handlesB.conductsC.observesD.directs5.【单选题】In Go Down,Moses,( )illuminates the problem of black and white in Southern society as a closeknit destiny of blood brotherhood.A.William FaulknerB.Jack LondonC.Herman MelvilleD.Nathaniel Hawthorne6.【单选题】In most of his writings,( )deliberately broke up the chronology of his narrative by juxtaposing the past with the present,in the way the montage does in a movie.A.Walt WhitmanB.William FaulknerC.Ernest HemingwayD. Fitzgerald7.【单选题】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 Whitman8.【单选题】In 1950,( )was awarded the Nobel Prize for the anti-racist Intruder in the Dust.A.William FaulknerB.Robert FrostC.Ezra PoundD.Ernest Hemingway9.【单选题】Eugene O’Neill ’s first full — length play,( ),won him the first Pulitzer theme is the choice between life and death,the interaction of subjective and objective factors.A.Bound East for CardiffB.The Hairy ApeC.Desire Under the ElmsD.Beyond the Horizon10.【单选题】Now many major employers are beginning to demand _______ the completion of schoolA.more thanB.rather thanC.other thanD.better than11.【单选题】It was his masterpiece The Great Gatsby that made( )one of the greatest American novelists.A. FitzgeraldB.William FaulknerC.Ernest HemmingwayD.Gertrude Steinbeck12.【单选题】Man is a “victim of forces over which he has no control. ” This is a notion held strongly by( ).A.Robert FrostB.Theodore DreiserC.Henry JamesD.Hamlin Garland13.【单选题】Mark Twain’s particular concern about the local character of a region came about as “local colorism, ” a unique va riation of American literary( ).A.romanticismB.nationalismC.modernismD.realism14.【单选题】Nobody but you _______ what he said.A. agrees withB.agrees outC.agree withD.agree to15.【单选题】In 1920,( )published his first novel This Side of Paradise which was,to some extent,his own story.A.F·Scott FitzgeraldB.Ernest HemingwayC.William FaulknerD.Emily Dickinson16.【单选题】considered( ) “the true father of our national literature ”.A.Bret HarteB.Mark TwainC.Washington IrvingD.Walt Whitman17.【单选题】At the age of eighty -seven,( )read his poetry at the inauguration of President John in 1961.A.Robert FrostB.Walt WhitmanC.Ezra Pound18.【单选题】Unlike his contemporaries in the early 20th century,( )did not break up with the poetic tradition nor made any experiment on form.A.Walt WhitmanB.Robert FrostC.Ezra Pound19.【单选题】Which of the following statements is NOT true of Emily Dickinson and her poetry?A.She remained unmarried all her lifeB.She wrote,1,775 poems,and most of them were published during her life time.C.Her poems have no titles,hence are always quoted by their first lines.D.Her limited private world has never confined the limitless power of her creativity and imagination.20.【单选题】Mark Twain employed an unpretentious style of( )in his novels which is best described as “vernacular ”.A.standard EnglishB.Afro-American EnglishC.colloquialismD.urbanism第1卷参考答案一.全考点综合测验1.正确答案:C本题解析:马克吐温是以为地方主义作家,他的作品主题是密西西比河流域和美国的西部。
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202X年7月高等教育自学考试全国统一命题考试英美文学选读卷子课程代码0604PART one(40 Points)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.Mark your choice by blackening the corresponding letter A,B,C Or D On theAnswer Sheet.1._______, a typical example of old English poetry,is regarded as the national epic of the Anglo—Saxons.A.The Canterbury TalesB.ExodusC.BeowulfD.The Legend of Good Women2.It was ______ who first introduced the Petrarchan sonnet into England.A.CaxtonB.WyattC.SurreyD.Marlowe3.It is generally believed that the most important play among Shakespeare’s comedies is ______ A.A Midsummer Night’s DreamB.As You Like ItC.The Merchant of VeniceD.Twelfth Night4.All the following poets except ______ belong to the metaphysical school.A.DonneB.HerbertC.MarvellD.Milton5.Of all the eighteenth —century novelists, ______ was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a “comic epic in prose〞and the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.A.Daniel DefoeB.Samuel RichardsonC.Henry FieldingD.Oliver Goldsmith6.Although writing from different points of view and with different techniques, writers in the Victorican Period shared one thing in common, that is, they were all concerned about ______ .A.the love story between the rich and the poorB.the techniques in writingC.the fate of the common peopleD.the future of their own country7.In the theatrical world of the neoclassical period ______ was the leading figure among the host of playwrights.A.William BlakeB.Richard SheridanC.Ben JonsonD.Bernard Shaw8.The eighteenth —century England is also known as the Age of Enlightenment or the Age of ______.A.IntellectB.ReasonC.RationalityD.Science9.______ by Swift is generally regarded as the best model of satire, not only of the 18th century but also in the whole English literary history.A.A Tale of a TubB.The Battle of the BooksC.〞A Modest Proposal 〞D.Gulliver’s Travels10.The novels of______ are the first literary work devoted to the study of problems of the lower —class people.A.BunyanB.DefoeC.FieldingD.Swift11.Thomas Gray established his fame as the leader of the ______ of the day.A.romantic poetryB.sentimental poetryC.neoclassical poetryD.realistic novel12.Which of the following is taken from John Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn〞______ A.〞If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind〞B.〞For Godsake hold your tongue, and let me love.〞C.〞Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard/Are sweeter〞D.〞The Child is father of the Man.〞13.Robert Browning’s style is ______.A.identical with that of the other VictoriansB.similar to that of TennysonC.perfectly artisticD.rough and disproportionate in appearance14.Thomas Hardy wrote novels of ______.A.character and environmentB.pure romanceC.stream of consciousnessD.psychoanalysis15.The three trilogies of ______ novels are masterpieces of critical realism in the early 20th century.A.Galsworthy’s ForsyteB.Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Sunset Song’s Women in Love’s A Passage to India16.______ is considered to be the best—known English dramatist since Shakespeare.A.Oscar WildeB.Christopher MarloweC.John DrydenD.Bernard Shaw17.______ was awarded Nobel Prize for literature in 1923.A.Bernard ShawB.John Galsworthy18.Of the following poets, which is not regarded as “Lake Poets〞A.Samuel Taylor ColeridgeB.Robert SoutheyC.William WordsworthD.George Gordon Byron19.The four great odes of John Keats include the following EXCEPT ______.A.〞Ode on Melancholy〞B.〞Ode on a Grecian Urn〞C.〞Ode to a Nightingale〞D.〞Ode to the West wind〞’s masterpieces.A.Women in LoveB.Sons and LoversC.Lady Chatterley’s LoverD.The Plumed Serpent21.In Oscar Wilde’s masterpiece ______, he expressed a satirical and bitter attitude towards the upper —class people by revealing their corruption, snobbery and hypocrisy.A.SalomeB.The Importance of Being EarnestC.The Happy PrinceD.A Woman of No Importance22.〞The V anity Fair 〞is a well—known part in The Pilgrim’s Progress, which of the following writers later adopted it as the title of a novel?A.DickensB.ThackerayC.FieldingD.Hardy23.To the transcendentalists such as ______ and Thoreau, man is divine in nature; but to Hawthorne and Melville, everybody is potentially a sinner.A.Washington IrvingB.EmersonC.Henry JamesD.Emily Dickinson24.Washington Irving’s ______ was written in England, filled with English scenes and quotations from English authors and faithful to British orthography.A.Bracebridge HallB.Tales of a TravelerC.The Sketch BookD.The Alhambra25.The American Romantic writers celebrated America’s landscape with its virgin forests, meadows, groves, endless prairies, streams, and vast oceans.______ came to function almost as a dramatic character that symbolized moral law.A.The Atlantic OceanB.The Rocky MountainsC.The Pacific OceanD.The wilderness26.Which one of the following statements is NOT true of Washington IrvingA.He was regarded as Father of the American Short Story.B.He was one of the first American writers to earn an international reputation.C.He enjoyed the honor of being “the American Goldsmith〞for his literary craftsmanship.D.He was one of the advocates of the New England Transcendentalism.27.Which one of the following statements is NOT true of Ralph Waldo Emerson and his works A.Emerson’s essays often have a formal style, for most of them were derived from his journals or lectures.B.In his essays, Emerson put forward his philosophy of Transcendentalism, focusing on the importance of the individual and the nature.C.Emerson based his philosophy on an intuitive belief in an ultimate unity, which he called the 〞over—soul〞.D.Emerson is affirmative about man’s intuitive knowledge, with which a man can trust himself to decide what is right and to act accordingly.28.〞The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other, who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood〞. This is the voice of the book _____ written by Emerson, which pushed American Romanticism into a new phase, the phase of New England _________.A.Nature…SymbolismB.The American Scholar…NaturalismC.Nature…TranscendentalismD.the American Scholar…Realism29.Which one of the following statements about Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter is trueA.Hawthorne intended to tell a love story in this novel.B.Hawthorne intended to tell a story of sin in this novel.C.Hawthorne intended to reveal the human psyche after they sinned, so as to show people the tension between society and individuals.D.Hawthorne focused his attention on consequences of the sin on the people in general, so as to call the readers back to the conventional Puritan way of living.30.Walt Whitman is a poet with a strong sense of mission, having decoted all his life to the creation of the “single〞poem, ________.A.ChicagoB.My Lost YouthC.Leaves of GrassD.A Pact31.Redburn is a semi —autobiographical novel written by ________, concerning the sufferings of a genteel youth among brutal sailors.A.Walt WhitmanB.Nathaniel HawthorneC.Herman MelvilleD.Ralph Waldo Emerson32.The period ranging from ________ to ________ has been referred to as the Age of Realism in the literary history of the United States.A.1865 (1945)B.1865 (1914)C.1783 (1945)D.1783 (1914)33.________thought that the writer should use language to probe the deepest reaches of the psychological and moral nature of human beings rather than simply hold a mirror to the surface of social life in particular times and places. He is a realist of the inner life.A.Mark TwainB.William Dean HowellsC.Henry JamesD.Theodore Dreiser34.〞I felt good and all washed clean of sin for the first time I had ever felt so in my life, and I knowed I could pray now. But I didn’t do it straight off, but laid the paper down and set there thinking —thinking how good it was all this happened so, and how near I come to being lost and going to hell. 〞The above passage is taken from ________.A.The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnB.The Adventures of Tom SawyerC.Uncle Tom’s CabinD.Life on the Mississippi35.The following statements are all true of Daisy Miller EXCEPT________.A.Frederick Winterbourne, the narrator of the story, es an American expatriate.B.With the publication of Daisy Miller, William James reputation was firmly established on both sides of the Atlantic.C.With the publication of Daisy Miller, Daisy Miller has ever since become the American Girl in Europe, a celebrated cultural type who embodies the spirit of the New World.D.Daisy Miller’s defiance of social taboos in the Old World finally brings her to a disaster in the clash between the two different cultures.36.Which one of the following statements is true of Dickinson’s “I like to see it lap the Miles〞A.This poem describes a mare dancing at midnight.B.This poem describes a horse galloping through valleys.C.This poem describes a train running through the mountainous area.D.This poem describes a traveler’s joyous journey through the scenic mountainous area.37.________ 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’ classicA.Allen GinXergD.Henry James38.Towards the end of After Apple —Picking,Frost writes “ Were he not gone, /The woodchuck could say whether it’s like his /Long sleep, as I describe its coming on, /Or just some human sleep.〞The “human sleep 〞here refers to ________.A.a trip to the countrysideB.deathC.rest after a day’s work in the orchardD.exaltation of mind39.In the third chapter of The Great GatXy by Fitzgerald, there is a wonderful description of GatXy’s party which evokes both ___________ of that strange and fascinating era that we call________.A.the pride and the prejudice…Victorian AgeB.the romance and the sadness…Jazz AgeC.the love and the hatred…Age of ReasonD.the Vanity and the disillusionment…Age of Reason40.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 Sound and the FuryB.Go Down, MosesC.Light in AugustD.Absalom, Absalom!PART TWO (60 POINTS)II.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.〞To be, or not to be —that is the question;Whether’ tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,And by opposing end them〞Questions:A.Identify the author and the title of the passage from which this part is taken.B.Explain the meaning of “To be, or not to be〞.C.How do you understand the last two lines42.〞The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,And all that beauty, all that wealth e’er gave,Awaits alike the inevitable hour.The paths of glory lead but to the grave.〞Questions:A.Identify the author and the title of the passage from which this part is taken.B.What does the phrase 〞inevitable hour〞meanC.Write out the main idea of the passage in plain English.43.〞I glanced back once. A wafer of a moon was shinning over GatXy’s house, making the night fine as before, and surviving the laughter and the sound of his still glowing garden. A sudden emptiness seemed to flow now from the windows and the great doors, endowing with complete isolation the figure of the host, who stood on the porch, his hand up in a formal gesture of farewell. 〞Questions:A.Identify the author and the title of the passage from which this part is taken.B.The passage describes the end of an event, What is itC.What implied meaning can you get from reading this passage44.We passed the School, where Children strove AT Recess—in the Ring—We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain—We 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 symbolizeC.Where were “we〞heading towardIII.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 poetry46.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 Property47.Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown〞is often read as a conventional allegory. What does the work symbolically concern48.William Faulkner is one of the greatest American novelists. What do you know about his narrative techniques IV.Topic Discussion (20 points in all, 10 for each)Write no less than 150 word on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.49.Discuss Charles Dickens’ art of fiction: the setting, the character —portrayal, the language, etc., based on his novel Oliver Twist.50.Discuss the symbolism employed in Moby Dick.。
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《英美文学选读》模拟试题(二)一、单项选择题1.D. Father and son in the medieval period, it is Chaucer alone who, for the first time in English literature, presented to us a comprehensive _____ picture of the English society of his time and created a whole gallery of valid _________ from all walks of life in his masterpiece “the Canterbury Tales”.A. visionary/womenB. romantic/menC. realistic/charactersD. natural/figures2.Humanism sprang from the endeavor to restore a medieval reverence for the antique authors and is frequently taken as the beginning of the Renaissance on its conscious, intellectual side, for the Greek and Roman civilization was based on the conception that man is the _____ of all things.A. measureB. kingC. loverD. rule3.Many people today tend to regard the play “The Merchant of Venice” as a satire of the hypocrisy of ___________ and their false standards of friendship and love, their cunning ways of pursuing worldliness and their unreasoning prejudice against _____.A. Christians/JewsB. Jews/ChristiansC. oppressors/oppressedD. people/Jews4.Which of the following plays does not belong to Shakespeare’s great tragedies?A. Romeo and JulietB. King LearC. HamletD. Macbeth5.Which statement about the Elizabethan age is not true?A. It is the age of translation.B. It is the age of bourgeois revolutionC. It is the age of explorationD. It is the age of the protestant reformation.6.Una in The Faerie Queene stands for ______.A. chastityB. holinessC. truthD. error7._____ first make blank verse the principle instrument of English drama.A. ShakespeareB. WyattC. SidneyD. Marlowe8.“The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune” is an example of _____.A. allegoryB.simileC. metaphorD. irony9.In “Not only sole, but on thy soul, harsh Jew, /Thou mak’st thy knife keen”, Gratiano (a character in The Merchant of Venice) uses a rhetorical device called _____.A. hyperboleB. homonymC. paradoxD. pun10.In The Faerie Queene Spenser impresses us with his skillful blending of religious and historical _____ with chivalric _____.A. symbolism … lyricismB. allegory … romanceC. elegy … narrativeD. personific ation … ironyton’s paradise Lost took its material from ______.A. the BibleB. Greek mythC. Roman mythD. French romance12.Christopher Marlowe wrote all the following plays except _____.A. Tamburlaine the GreatB. The Jew or MaltaC. CymbelineD. The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus13.Which of the following plays by Shakespeare is NOT a comedy?A. The Merchant of VeniceB. A Midsummer Night’s DreamC. As You like ItD. The dactyl14._____ is the most common foot in English poetry.A. The iambB. The anapestC. The trocheeD. The dactyl15.“In a dream vision, Arthur witnessed the loveliness of Gloriana, and upon awakening resolves to seek her.” The two literary figures “Arthur” and “Gloriana” are from ______.A. The Fairie QueeneB. Remeo and JulietC. Dr. FaustusD. Paradise Lost16.In “Sonnet 18”, William Shakespeare _____.A. meditates on man’s mortality.B. eulogizes the power of artistic creationC. satirizes human vanityD. presents a dream vision17.The 18th century witnessed that in England there appeared two political parties, _____, which were satirized by Swift in his “Gulliver’s Travels.”A. the Whigs and ToriesB. the Senate and the House of RepresentativeC. the upper House and lower HouseD. the House of Lords and the House of Commons18._____ compiled the “The Dictionary of the English language” which became the foundation of all the subsequent English dictionaries.A. Ben JohnsonB. Samuel JohnsonC. Alexander PopeD. John Dryden19.The publication of “______” marked the beginning of Romantic Age.A. Don JuanB. the Rime of the Ancient MarinerC. The Lyrical BalladsD. Queen Mab20.In 1805, Wordsworth comple ted a long autobiographical poem entitled “_____”.A. Biographic literaryB. The PreludeC. Lucy PoemsD. The Lyrical Ballads21.Which is Shelley’s masterpiece?A. Queen MabB. Prometheus UnboundC. Prometheus BoundD. The Revolt of Islam22.Which is Shelley’s work of literary criticism?A. An Essay on criticismB. A Defence of PoetryC. On the Necessity of AtheismD. Of studies23.In the 19th century English literature, a new literary trend ______ appeared and it flourished in the forties and in the early fifties.A. RomanismB. naturalismC. realismD. critical realism24.The greatest English critical realist novelist was _____, who criticized the bourgeois civilization and showed the misery of the common people.A. William Makepeace ThackerayB. Charles DickensC. charlotte BronteD. Emily Dickinson25._____ was a critical realist and also a severe exposer of contemporary society. His novels, such as “Vanity Fair” , are mainly a sat irical portrayal of the upper strata of society.A. George EliotB. Elizabeth GaskellC. William Makepeace ThackerayD. John Bunyan26.Dickens takes the French Revolution as the background of the novel “______”.A. A Tale of Two CitiesB. Great ExpectationsC. Hard TimesD. David Copperfield27.The renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events, which one of the following is not such an event?A. The rediscovery of ancient roman and Greek culture.B. England’s domestic rest.C. new discovery in geography and astrology.D. the religious reformation and the economic expansion.28.“So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,/ so long lives this , and this gives life to thee.” What does “this” means?A. loverB. timeC. summerD. poetry29.The giant Moby Dick may symbolize all except .A mystery of the universeB sin of the whaleC power of the great natureD evil of the world30.In Shelley’s to a skylark”, the bird, suspended b etween reality and poetic image, pours forth an exultant song which suggests to the poet .A. both celestial rapture and human limitationB. both image creation and profound meaningC. both music and wordsD. both inspiration and skill of writing31.“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless?...”The above quoted passage is most probably taken from .A Great ExpectationsB Wuthering HeightsC Jane EyreD Pride and Prejudice32.“And n ow he stared at her so earnestly that I thought the very intensity of is gaze would bring tears into his eyes; but they burned with anguish, they did not melt” are found in .A. Wuthering HeightsB. Jane EyreC. Gulliver’s TravelsD. Paradise Lost33.Theodore Dreiser is generally regarded as one of America’s .A. naturalistB. realistsC. modernistsD. romanticists34.The first two lines of Dennison’s poem “Break, Break, Break” on thy cold grey stones, o sea!” the repeated word“ break” suggests .A. joyB. fearC. fondnessD. hatred35.“O prince, O chief of my throned powers,/ that led th’embattled seraphim to war/Under thy conduct, and in dreadful deeds/ Fearless, endangered heaven’s perpetual king’” In the third line of the above passage quoted from Melton’s Paradise Lost, the phrase “thy conduct” refers to conduct.A. god’sB. Satan’sC. Adam’sD. Eve’s36.Who exerts the single most important influence on literary naturalism?A. EmersonB. jack LondonC. Theodore DreiserD. Darwin37.In terms of Elegy written in a country churchyard, which is wrong?A. the author employs metaphor in this poemB. the author excessively expresses his personal melancholyC. here he reveals his sympathy for the poor and the unknown.D. he mocks the great ones who despise the poor and bring havoc on them.38.Most of Thomas Hardy’s novels are set in Wessex-- .A. a crude region in EnglandB. a fictional primitive regionC. a remote rural areaD. Hardy’s hometo wn39.“place me on sunium’s marbled steep,/ where nothing, save the waves and I, /may hear our mutual murmurs sweep;/ there, swan- like, let me sing and die;/ a land of slaves shall neer be mine --- dash down you cup of samian wine!” these lines are taken from .A. The Isles of Greece by ByronB. Elegy Written In a Country Churchyard by Thomas GrayC. The Solitary Reaper by William WordsworthD. Song for the Luddites by George Gordon Byron二、综合题1.Reading Comprehension: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. What is the title from which these lines are taken?B. Who does “you” refers to?C. What is the meaning of “broke are new wood”?2.Read the quoted part carefully and answer the questions in English.By this time Mrs. Morel was trembling violently. Struggles of this kind often took place between her and her son, when she seemed to fight for his very against his own will to die. He took her in his arms. She was ill and pitiful.“Never mind, Little,” he murmured. “So long as you don’t feel life’ paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn’t matter, happiness or unhappiness.”She pressed him to her.“But I want you to be happy,” she said pathetically.“Eh, my dear ----- say rather you want me to live.”A. This passage is taken from the novel “_____”.B. The author of the novel is _____.C. “He” in the passage refers to _____, and he is the _____ of Mrs. Morel.D. The relationship of the two characters as implied in the passage is something of the type of _____.3.Reading Comprehension:“This is my letter to the WorldThat never wrote to Me---The simple News that Nature told---With tender Majesty”.A. Who is the author of the stanza?B. Which period does the poem belongs to?C. What idea does the poem express?4.Reading Comprehension:“Men of England, wherefore ploughFor the lords who lay ye low?Wherefore weave with toil and careThe rich robes your tyrants wear?”Questions:A. Identify the poem and the poet.B. In one or two sentences interprets the implied meaning of the stanza.C. Which period does the poem belongs to?5.Questions and Answers:What do you think of the relationship between William Faulkner and American south literature?6.Questions and Answers:Being a period of the great flowering of American literature, the romantic period is called “the American renaissance”. Briefly discuss what the features of American literature in this period are.7.Questions and Answers:What are the characteristics of the romantic literature? Please discuss the above question in relation to one or two examples.8.Questions and Answers:George Bernard Shaw is the leading playwright of his time, what’s his viewpoint on literature?9.Topic Discussion, write no less than 150 words in English.Moby-dick is one of the few books in American literature that has produced an exciting effect upon readers, try to discuss the symbolism in the book.10.Topic Discussion, write no less than 150 words in English.Discuss “ enlightenment movement”.答案部分一、单项选择题1.【正确答案】 C2.【正确答案】 A3.【正确答案】 A【正确答案】 A 5.【正确答案】 B 6.【正确答案】 C 7.【正确答案】 D 8.【正确答案】 C 9.【正确答案】 D 10.【正确答案】 B 11.【正确答案】 A 12.【正确答案】 C 13.【正确答案】 D 14.【正确答案】 A 15.【正确答案】 A 16.【正确答案】 B 17.【正确答案】 A 18.【正确答案】 B 19.【正确答案】 C 20.【正确答案】 B 21.【正确答案】 B 22.【正确答案】 B 23.【正确答案】 D 24.【正确答案】 B 25.【正确答案】 C【正确答案】 A27.【正确答案】 B28.【正确答案】 D29.【正确答案】 B30.【正确答案】 A31.【正确答案】 C32.【正确答案】 A33.【正确答案】 A34.【正确答案】 A35.【正确答案】 B36.【正确答案】 D37.【正确答案】 B38.【正确答案】 B39.【正确答案】 A二、综合题1.【正确答案】 A. A PactB. Walt whit manC. made experiments with the conventions of the traditional poetry.2.【正确答案】 A. Sons and LoversB. D. H. LawrenceC. Paul / SonD. Oedipus Complex3.【正确答案】 A. Emily DickinsonB. the realistic periodC. the poem expresses Dickinson’s anxiety about her communication with the outside world.4.【正确答案】 A. A song: men of England, Percy Bysshe ShelleyB. the poem is not only a cry calling upon the working people of England to rise up against their political oppressors, but also an address to point out to them the intolerable injustice of economic exploitation,C. The romantic period.5.【正确答案】 A. Most of his works are set in the American south.B. He emphasizes the southern subjects and consciousness in his works.C. His works has managed successfully to show a panorama of the experience and consciousness of the whole southern society.6.【正确答案】 A. The whole nation had a strong sense of optimism and the mood of “feeling good”, Giving birth to the spectacular out burst of romantic feeling.B. The English counterpart exerted a stimulating impact on the writers of the young nation.C. Taking foreign influence into consideration, the great works of American writers still carried typically American Romanist color.D. The young nation had brought forth its own philosophy, transcendentalism, stressing man’s capacity of knowing truth intuitively, and of attaining knowledge transcending the reach of the sense.7.【正确答案】 A. In poetry writing, the romanticist employed new theories and innovated new techniques, for example, the Preface to the second edition of the “Lyrical Ballads” acts as a manifesto for the new school.B. The romanticist not only extols the faculty of imagination, but also elevates the concepts of spontaneity and inspiration.C. They regarded nature as the major source of poetic imagery and the dominant subject.D. Romantics also tend to be nationalistic.8.【正确答案】 A. His playwrights have a variety of subjects. His early plays were mainly concerned with social problems and directed towards the criticism of the contemporary social, economic, moral and religious evils.B. Shaw followed the great traditions of realism. As a realistic dramatist, he took the modern social issues as his subjects with the aim of directing social reforms.C. One feature of his characterization is that he makes the trick of showing up one character vividly at the expense of another; another one is that his characters are the representatives of ideas and points of view.D. Much of Shavian drama is constructed around the inversion of a conventional theatrical situation.9.【正确答案】 A. The Pequod is the microcosm of human society and the voyage becomes a search for truth.B. The white whale, Moby Dick, symbolizes nature for Melville, for it is complex,unfathomable, malignant, and beautiful as well.C. For the character Ahab, however, the whale represents only evil.D. Moby Dick is like a wall, hiding some unknown, mysterious things behind.E. Ahab wills the whole crew on the Pequod to join him in the pursuit of the big whale so as to pierce the wall, to root out the evil, but only to be destroyed by evil.F. In this case, by his own consuming desire, his madness. Moby Dick is still a mystery, an ultimate mystery of the universe, inscrutable and ambivalent, and the voyage of the mind will forever remain a search, not a discovery, of the truth.10.【正确答案】 It was a progressive intellectual movement, which flourished in France and swept through the whole Western Europe, the movement was a furtherance of the renaissance from the 14th century to the mid-17th century. The purpose of the movement was to enlighten the whole world with the light of modern philosophical and artistic ideas, it celebrated reason of rationality, equality and science, and it advocated universal education. Literature at the time became a very popular means of public education.。
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C、Little Dorrit
D、Charles Surface
( ) 8、_______ is acknowledged by many as the most original poet of the Victorian period.
A、Robert Browning
A、Edger Allen Poe
B、James Russel Lowell
C、John Greenleaf Whitter
D、Walt Whitman
( ) 14、In his essays, Ralph Waldo Emerson put forward his philosophy except of ______.
4、Spenser is generally regarded as the greatest nondramatic poet of the Elizabethan age. His fame is chiefly based on his masterpiece "_________".
5、Swift is a master ______, his satire is usually masked by an outward gravity and an apparent earnestness which renders his satire all the more powerful.
A、earnestness
B、utilitarianism
C、respectability
D、modesty
( ) 7、In his novels, Charles Dickens depicted a lot of child characters except _________.
2023年10月自考00604英美文学选读试题及答案含评分标准
绝密★启用前2023年10月高等教育自学考试全国统一命题考试英美文学选读试题答案及评分参考(课程代码00604)一、单项选择题:本大题共40小题,每小题1分,共40分。
1. B2. A3. D4. C5. C6. B7. A8. D9. C 10. A11. D 12. B 13. D 14. C 15. C16. D 17. A 18. C 19. B 20. D21. D 22. B 23. A 24. C 25. A26. D 27. C 28. C 29. C 30. D31. B 32. B 33. A 34. C 35. B36. D 37. C 38. A 39. A 40. D二、阅读理解题:本大题共4小题,每小题4分,共16分。
41. A. Henry Fielding; The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (or Tom Jones). (2分)B. Daughter of the well-off squire Western. (1分)C. Human nature. (1分)42. A. Charles Dickens; Oliver Twist (2分)B. A chimney-sweeper. (1分)C. Character-portrayal. (1分)43. A. Theodore Dreiser; Sister Carrie.(2分)B. Hurstwood. (1分)C. He turned on the gas in a cheap lodging-house and ended his life. (1分)英美文学选读试题答案及评分参考第1页(共3页)44. A. Robert Lee Frost. (1分)B. The speaker tells us how the course of his life was determined when he came upon tworoads that diverged in a wood. (2分)C. The speaker took the road less traveled by. (1分)三、简答题:本大题共4小题,每小题6分,共24分。
全国自考英美文学选读(综合)模拟试卷4(题后含答案及解析)
全国自考英美文学选读(综合)模拟试卷4(题后含答案及解析)全部题型 2. 阅读理解 3. 简答题 4. 论述题阅读理解1.For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Questions:A. Identify the author and the title.B. What does the phrase “inward eye” mean?C. Write out the main idea of the passage in plain English.正确答案:A. Wordsworth, I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud.B. Human soul.C. The poet expresses his love for the daffodils. 涉及知识点:阅读理解2.“ I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence;Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference. “Questions:A. Identify the author and the title of the poem from which the quoted lines are taken.B. What additional meaning do the two roads have?C. What dilemma is the speaker facing?正确答案:A. Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken.B. Life is here compared to a journey. The two roads stand for the choice one has to make at a critical moment in his life.C. Since where the road leads to is uncertain, one has to wait to see the result of the choice until one’ s life is coming to an end. Then it will be too late. The speaker acknowledges the limits of life, yet he indulges himself in the notion that we could be really different from what we have become, because life is unpredictable. 涉及知识点:阅读理解简答题3.Briefly discuss the features of Fielding’ s writings.正确答案:Fielding’ s language is easy, unlaboured and familiar, but extremely vivid and vigorous. His sentences are always distinguished by logic and rhythm, and his structure carefully planned towards an inevitable ending. His works are also noted for lively, dramatic dialogues and other theatrical devices such as suspense, coincidence and unexpectedness. 涉及知识点:简答题4.“Let it not be supposed by the enemies of ‘the system’, that, during the period of his solitary incarceration , Oliver was denied the benefit of exercise, the pleasure of society, or the advantages of religious consolation. “What do you thinkCharles Dickens intends to say in the above ironic statement taken from Oliver Twist?正确答案:A. The sentence is a typical example of irony. What Dickens intends to say is just the opposite of the sentence’ s literal meaning.B. For the “benefit” of exercise, Oliver was whipped every morning in a stone yard; for the “pleasure”of society, he was carried every other day into the dining hall and flogged as a public warning and example to the boys; and as for the “advantages”of religious consolation, he was kicked into the same apartment every evening at prayer time and listened to the boys’ prayer to be guarded against his sins and vices.C. The ironic statement is, in fact, a bitter denunciation and fierce attack at the brutal, inhuman treatment of the poor orphan by the workhouse authority. 涉及知识点:简答题5.Please analyze The Waste Land by Eliot.正确答案:A. With bold technical innovations in versification and style, the poem not only presents a panorama of physical disorder and spiritual desolation in the modern Western world, but also reflects the prevalent mood of disillusionment and despair of a whole post-war generation.B. The Waste Land is a poem concerned with the spiritual breakup of a modern civilization in which human life has lost its meaning, significance and purpose. The poem has developed a whole set of historical, cultural and religious themes; but it is often regarded as being primarily a reflection of the 20th-century people’s disillusionment and frustration in a sterile and futile society. 涉及知识点:简答题6.Mark Twain and Henry James are two representatives of the realistic writers in American literature. How is Mark Twain’ s realism different from James’ s realism?正确答案:A. Mark Twain’s realism is tainted with local color, preferring to have his own region and people at the forefront of his stories.B. James’ s realism is concerned with the “inner world” of man.C. James’ s realism is also concerned with the international theme.D. Mark Twain’ s language is simple and colloquial.E. Mark Twain employs humor in his writing.F. James ‘s language is elaborate and refined with lengthy psychological analyses. 涉及知识点:简答题论述题7.What are the differences between the Neoclassical period and the Romantic period?正确答案:A. Neo-classicists upheld that artistic ideals should be order, logic, restrained emotion and accuracy, and that literature should be judged in terms of its service to humanity, and thus, literary expressions should be of proportion, unity , harmony and grace. Pope’s An Essay on Criticism advocates grace, wit (usually through satire/humour) , and simplicity in language (and the poem itself is ademonstration of those ideals, too) ; Fielding’ s Tom Jones helped establish the form of novel; Gray’ s “ Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” displays elegance in style, unified structure, serious tone and moral instruction.B. Romanticists tended to see the individual as the very center of all experience, including art, and thus, literary work should be “spontaneous overflow of strong feelings” , and no matter how fragmentary those experiences were ( Wordsworth’ s “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” , or “The Solitary Reaper” , or Coleridge’ s “Kubla Khan” ) , the value of the work lied in the accuracy of presenting those unique feelings and particular attitudes.C. In a word, Neo-classicism emphasized rationality and form but Romanticism attached great importance to die individual’ s mind ( emotion, imagination, temporary experience...). 涉及知识点:论述题8.Please mark a brief comment on Hawthorne’ s Young Goodman Brown.正确答案:A. Goodman Brown, a Puritan who lives in the village of Salem, leaves his wife Faith, who pleads him not to go, to attend a witches’ Sabbath in the woods. There, he astonishingly finds lots of prominent people of the village and the church. When he is about to be confirmed into the group, he finds his wife Faith is also there beside him. He immediately cries out “look up to Heaven and resist the wicked one” , only to find he is alone in the forest. He returns to his home, but since then lives a dismal and gloomy life because he is never able to believe in goodness or piety again.B. Young Goodman Brown is one of Hawthorne’ s most profound tales. In the manner of its concern with guilt and evil, it exemplifies what Melville called the “ power of blackness” in Hawthorne’ s work. Its hero, a naive young man who accepts both society in general and his fellow men as individuals worth his regard, is confronted with the vision of human evil in one terrible night, and becomes thereafter distrustful and doubtful. Allegorically, our protagonist becomes an Everyman named Brown, a “young” man, who will be aged in one night by an adventure that makes everyone in this world a fallen idol. However, the story is manipulated in such a way that we as readers feel that Hawthorne poses the question of Good and Evil in man but withholds his answer, and he does not permit himself to determine whether the events of the night of trial are real or the mere figment of a dream. 涉及知识点:论述题9.Symbolism is an important literary practice in literature and it has been widely used by many American writers. Discuss the way symbolism is used in Faulkner’ s story A Rose for Emily.正确答案:A. Rose, as a symbol of love, may refer to the love between Emily and the Northerner, yet used rather ironically, in the way it is associated with decay and death in the story.B. Rose could also stand for the pity, sympathy, or the lament “we”shows for Emily.C. The pity and lament goes not only to Emily but all those who are imprisoned in the past and fail to adapt to the change.D. Discuss in relation to the story. 涉及知识点:论述题。
英美文学考试试题(二)
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PART ONEⅠ. Multiple Choice(40 points, 1 point for 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 or D on the answer sheet.1. Henry Fielding has been regarded by some as “___A___”,for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.A.Father of the English Novel B.Father of the English PoetryC.Father of the English Drama D.Father of the English Short Story2.T.S.Eliot’s most important single poem ___B___has been hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th-century English poetry.A.The Hollow Man B.The Waste Land C.Murder in the Cathedral D.Ash Wednesday3. William Blake’s central concern in the Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience is___B____, which gives the two books a strong social and historical reference.A.youthhood B.Childhood C.happiness D.sorrow4.Among the works by Charles Dickens ___D___ presents his criticism of the Utilitarian principle that rules over the English education system and destroys young hearts and minds.A.Bleak House B.Pickwick Paper C.Great Expectations D.Hard Times5. The most distinguishing feature of Charles Dickens’ works is his ___B___.A.simple vocabulary B.bitter and sharp criticism C.character-portrayal D.pictures of happiness6. Because of her sensitivity to universal patterns of human behavior, __B__ has brought the English novel ,as an art of form, to its maturity.A.Charlotte BrontëB.Jane Austen C.Emily BrontëD.Ann Radcliffe7. All of the following poems by William Wordsworth are masterpieces on nature EXCEPT ___D___.A.“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”B.“An Evening Walk”C.“Tintern Abbey”D.“The Solitary Reaper”8. Shakespeare’s four greatest tragedies are ___C___.A.Romeo and Juliet, Othello, King Lear, HamletB.Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, The Merchant of VeniceC.Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, MacbethD.Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, Othello, Hamlet9. As one of the greatest masters of English prose, __B__ defined a good style as “proper words in proper places”. A.Henry Fielding B.Jonathan Swift C.Samuel Johnson D.Alexander Pope10. Among the three major works by John Milton __D__ is indeed the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf.A.Paradise Regained B.Samson Agonistes C.Lycidas D.Paradise Lost11. English Romanticism, as a historical phase of literature, is generally said to have ended in 1832 with __A__.A.the passage of the first Reform Bill in the ParliamentB.the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge’s Lyrical BalladsC.the publication of T.S.Eliot’s The waste LandD.the passage of the Bill of Rights in the Parliament12. Contrary to the traditional romance of aristocrats, the modern English novel gives a realistic presentation of life of __A__.A.the common English people B.the upper class C.the rising bourgeoisie D.the enterprising landlords13. The major concern of ___C___ fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature.A.John Galsworthy’s B.Thomas Hardy’s C.D.H.Lawrence’s D.Charles Dickens’14. The Nobel Prize Committee highly praised __B__ for “his powerful style-forming mastery of the art”of creating modern fiction.A.Ezra Pound B.Ernest Hemingway C.Robert Frost D.Theodore Dreiser15. In 1950,__A__ was awarded the Nobel Prize for the anti-racist Intruder in the Dust.A.William Faulkner B.Robert Frost C.Ezra Pound D.Ernest Hemingway16. The Portrait of A Lady is generally considered to be ___C___ masterpiece, which describes the life journey of an American ________ in a European cultural environment.A.Henry Adams’…widow B.William James’…girlC.Henry James’…girl D.Theodore Dreiser’s…widow17. Hawthorne intended to __D__ in The Scarlet Letter.A.tell a story of parental loveB.tell a story of sin and bloody violenceC.call the readers back to the plantation way of livingD.reveal the human psyche after they sinned18. “The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water.” This “iceberg” analogy is put forward by ___D___.A.Mark Twain B.Ezra Pound C.William Faulkner D.Ernest Hemingway19. The white whale, Moby Dick, symbolizes ___B___ for Melville, for it is complex, unfathomable, malignant, and beautiful as well.A.society B.Nature C.ocean animals D.both A and C20. 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__.A.Realism B.Reason and Revolution C.Romanticism D.Modernism21. H.L.Mencken considered ___B___ “the true father of our national literature”.A.Bret Harte B.Mark Twain C.Washington Irving D.Walt Whitman22. Altogether, Emily Dickinson wrote 1775 poems, of which only __C__ had appeared during her lifetime.A.three B.Five C.seven D.nine23. The ___B___ Age of the 1920s characterized by frivolity and carelessness is brought vividly to life in The Great Gatsby. A.Lost B.Jazz C.Reason D.Gilded24. Robert Frost is generally considered a regional poet whose subject matters mainly focus on the landscape and people in ___D___.A.the west B.the south C.Alaska D.New England25. As __C__ saw it, poetry could play a vital part in the process of creating a new nation. It could enable Americans to celebrate their release from the Old World and the colonial rule.A.Wordsworth Longfellow B.William Bryant C.Walt Whitman D.Robert Frost26. Walt Whitman is a poet with a strong sense of mission, having devoted all his life to the creation of the “single” poem, ___D___.A.The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock B.The Waste LandC.Murder in the Cathedral D.Leaves of Grass27. Realism was a reaction against Romanticism and paved the way to __A__.A.Modernism B.Scientism C.Post-Modernism D.Feminism28. Mark Twain employed an unpretentious style of ___C___ in his novels which is best described as “vernacular”. A.standard English B.Afro-American English C.colloquialism D.urbanism29. The Petrarchan sonnet was first introduced into England by ___B___.A. SurreyB. WyattC. SidneyD. Shakespeare30.The British bourgeois or middle class believed in the following notions EXCEPT ___A___.A. self - esteemB. self – relianceC. self - restraintD. hard work31. “Graveyard School”writers are the following sentimentalists EXCEPT ___D___.A. James ThomsonB. William CollinsC. William CowperD. Thomas Jackson32. As a representative of the Enlightenment,___C___ was one of the first to introduce rationalism to England.A. John BunyanB. Daniel DefoeC. Alexander PopeD. Jonathan Swift33. Charles Dickens' novel ___B___ is famous for its vivid descriptions of the workhouse and life of the underworld in the nineteenth- century London.A. The Pickwick PaperB. Oliver TwistC. David CopperfieldD. Nicholas Nickleby34. Hemingway's second big success is __B__ , which wrote the epitaph to a decade and 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 Sea35. Henry James is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th -century “stream -of-consciousness”novels and the founder of __B__.A. neoclassicismB. psychological realismC. psychoanalytical criticismD. surrealism36. Realism was a reaction against ___A___ or a move away from the bias towards romance and self- creating fictions, and paved the way to Modernism.A. RomanticismB. RationalismC. Post-modernismD. Cynicism37. What Whitman prefers for his new subject and new poetic feelings is “___D___ ,”that is, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.A. blank verseB. free rhythmC. balanced structureD. free verse38. The Financier ,The Titan and The Stoic written by __B__ are called his “Trilogy of Desire”.A. Henry JamesB. Theodore DreiserC. Mark TwainD. Herman Melville39. Most critics have agreed that Fitzgerald is both an insider and an outsider of __C__ with a double vision.A. the Gilded AgeB. the Rational AgeC. the Jazz AgeD. the Magic Age40. Charlotte’ s works are famous for the depicti on of the life of ___A___ working women, particularly governesses.A. the middle - classB. the lower - classC. the upper - middle - classD. the upper - classPART TWOⅡ. Reading Comprehension(16 points, 8 points 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.“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?Thou art more lovely and more temperate:Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,And summer’s lease hath all too short a date:”我能不能把你比作夏天?但你比夏天更可爱更温和,狂风摇撼着心爱的五月的蓓蕾,和夏天的租期实在是太短。
《英美文学选读》模拟试题(3)答案
《英美文学选读》模拟试题(三)一、单项选择题1.“All is not lost: the unconquerable will, and the study of revenge, immortal hate, and courage never to submit or yield: and what is else not to be overcome?”A. Dr. FaustusB. Paradise LostC. Paradise RegainedD. TamburlaineJohn Milton: Paradise Lost Renaissance period2.Who, disregarding grammar and punctuation, always used “i” instead of “I” to refer to himself as a protest against self importance?A. CummingsB. Wallance StevensC. F. Scott. FitzgeraldD. Ernest Hemingway3.Which of the following best describes the speaker of T.S Eliot’s “the love song of J. Alfred Prufrock”?A. He is a man of an action.B. He is a man of apathy.C. He is a man of inactivity.D. All the above are not true.T.S Eliot:Modern period the love song of J.Alfred Prufrock4.William Wordsworth asserts that poetry originates from .A. formB. thoughtsC. artistic devicesD. emotion詩當然是感情5.“My Last Duchess” is a poem that best exemplifies Robber t Browning’s .A. sensitive ear for the sounds of the English languageB. excellent choice of wordsC. mastering of the metrical devicesD. use of the dramatic monologueRobert Browning:”My Last Duchess” The Victorian Period6.“Man shall find grace.” But he must lay hol d of it by an act of free will. The freedom of the will is the keystone of ____’s creed.A. John MiltonB. Jonathan SwiftC. Henry FieldingD. Samuel JohnsonJohn milton 在paradise lost 中,貫穿了基督教人文主義的傳統,意欲揭露撒旦的行為,並為上帝對人類的懲罰的辯護,在人類愛情與精神道德義務之間的矛盾中展示了彌爾頓對自由與決擇的關心人類應找到體面與尊嚴,可同時人類必須要保持意志自由,意志上的自由是Milton作品的主旨他的詩作是想讓讀者明白圣經中不變的真理,即掌握天機的上帝是公正的,他允許亞當同夏娃受到引誘,並讓他們自主選擇罪惡與不可避免的懲罰。
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【题型:简答】【分数:4分】得分:4分[1] What are the characteristics of Byron's works?答:Although many of Byron’s works are debated by the critics, he is still one of the influential figures in the history of Englis his works, we can see Byron's violent attack on" Cant politics, religion and morals," his novelty of the oriental scenery, th of Byronically hero and the easy, fluent and natural beauty of his verse. Byron's diction, though unequal and frequently fa freedom, copiousness and vigor. His descriptions are simple and fresh, and often bring vivid objects before the reader.imagination of the poet r答案:they are violentattack on politics, religion and morals. They describe the novelty of orienta shows the easy, fluent and natural beauty of his verse.【题型:简答】【分数:4分】得分:4分[2] Briefly state Mark Twain’s magic power with language in his novels.答: A.Setting: In the novel Mark Twain recreates a small-town world of America and presents the local color. nguage: He language faithful to the colloquial speech, the vernacular language of the local people C.Character: The author recreates fugitives running away from civilization, especially Huckleberry Finn, an innocent boy who refuses to accept the conventioD.Theme: The novel is a criticism of social injustice, hypocrisy, conservativeness and narrow-mindedness of the AmericaE.Style: The novel employs a humorous答案:His words are colloquial, concrete and direct in effect, and his sentence structures are si ungrammatical spoken language; His characters speak with a strong accent, which is true colorism;Different characters from different literary or cultural backgrounds talk differently.【题型:简答】【分数:4分】得分:0分[3]What are the main features of Robert Browning’s poetry?答:Robert Browning’s poems are known for their irony, characterization, dark humor, social commentary, historical settings vocabulary and syntax.答案:He uses dramatic monologue, fast, rough and unmusical rhythm. His works include clip compressed syntax, similes and illustrations,non-poetic jarring diction.【题型:简答】【分数:4分】得分:1分[4] What are the "Wessex novels" of Thomas Hardy?答:Thomas Hardy is one of the most excellent realistic novelist and poet in the 19~(th) century. His novels are famous for hometown Wessex—a city in England, and therefore are called by the name "Wessex Novels",which are also named a and Environment by Hardy himself. These novels describe the unexpected and huge changes in fields of society, eco and customs in England after the invasion of Capitalism, and the miserable fate of the broken farmers, and discover th society in England which is under the mask o答案:They are the fictional and crude rural region in Wessex andHardy's homeplace.【题型:简答】【分数:4分】得分:2分[5] Comment on the characteristics of Romantic writers in English history.答:It is a rebellion against the neoclassical literature, extols the faculty of imagination and nature答案:It is a rebellion against the neoclassical literature, extols the faculty of imagination and na 【题型:简答】【分数:4分】得分:4分[6] The white whale, Moby Dick is endowed with symbolic meaning. What do you think it symbolizes?答:To Ahab, the whale is an evil creature or the agent of an evil force that controls the universe.To Ishmael, the whale is an immense power, which defies rational explanation due to a sense of mystery it carries. It is beautiful, but malignant at th reader, it may be regarded as a symbol of nature or an instrument of God's vengeance upon evil man答案:To Ahab, the whale is an evil creature or the agent of an evil force that controls the univer To Ishmael, the whale is an astonishing force, an immense power, which defies rational exa sense of mystery it carries. It is beautiful, but malignant at the same time.To the reader, it may be regarded as a symbol of nature or an instrument of God's vengea man.【题型:论述】【分数:10分】得分:10分[7] Discuss the artistic features of Shelley's poems.答:lyrical|poet|classical|mythological|allusions|figures of speech|metaphor|personification|description答案:lyrical|poet|classical|mythological|allusions|figures of speech|metaphor|personification|de 【题型:论述】【分数:10分】得分:10分[8] What does Wordsworth mean when he said "All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings recollec答:This sentence is considered as the principle of Wordsworth’s poetry creation which was set forth in the preface to “the contrasted with the classicists who made reason, order and the old classical traditions the criteria in their poetical crea based his own poetic talent on the premise that“all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling.”He individual sensations,i. e. pleasure,excitement and enjoyment,as the foundation in the creation and appreciation of po extends from human affairs to nature,but答案:principle|Wordsworth|poetic|creation|preface|Lyrical Ballads|individual|sensations【题型:阅读】【分数:4分】得分:0分[9] When the minister spoke from the pulpit, with power and fervid eloquence, and, with his hands on the open bible, of threligion, and of saint-like lives and triumphant deaths, and of future bliss of misery unutterable, then did Goodman Brow lest the roof should thunder down upon the gray blasphemer and his hearers.Questions:A. Identify the title of the short story from which this part is taken.B. What had happened in the story before this church scene?C. Why was Goodman Brown afraid the roof might thunder down?答: A.Hawthorne’s Yong Goodman Brown B.Brown had attended a witches’party where he saw many prominent people o minister included C.Brown was shocked by the minister,secretly a member of the evil club, who could talk about sacre openly and unashamedly . He thought God would punish such hypocrites down on them.答案:young Goodman Brown, attend a witches' party,shocked by the minister【题型:阅读】【分数:4分】得分:0分[10]“I like to see it lap the Miles—And lick the Valleys up—And stop to feed itself at Tanks—And then-prodigiosu step”A. Please give the name of the author.B. What idea does this poem express?答: A.Dickinson B.This poem was shocked the world One of three big project -- North America big railway, the material civ 答案:Emily Dichinson, suspicion of the relationship between man and nature【题型:阅读】【分数:4分】得分:3分[11]"To be or not to be-- that is the question."Questions:A. Identify the author.B. From which work is the above sentence taken?答: A.William Shakespeare B.Hamlett答案:Shakespeare, Hamlet【题型:阅读】【分数:4分】得分:2分[12]Had I as many souls as there be stars.I’d give them all for Mephistophilis!By him I’ll be great emperor of the world,And make a bridge through the moving airTo pass the ocean with a band of men;I’ll join the hills that bing the Africa shoreAnd make that country continent to Spain,And both contributory to my crown;The Emperor shall not live by my leave,Nor any potentate of Germany.Now that I have obtained what I desireI’ll live in speculation of this art.Till Mephistophilis return again.”A.Identify the author and the title of the work from which the passage is taken.B.Based on the passage, write down in one or two sentences the theme of the play.答: A.Dr.Faustus, a play by Christopher Marlowe. B.Man's aspiration, bounding achievements, and the inevitable failure. 答案:Dr. Faustus, Christopher Marlowe, Man's aspiration, bounding achievement【题型:单选】【分数:1分】得分:1分[13] ______ by Melville is a novella about a ship whose black slave cargo mutiny holds their captain a terrorized hostage.A A. “Bartleby, the Scrivener”B B. Benito CerenoC C. The Confidence-ManD D. Billy Bud答: B答案: B【题型:单选】【分数:1分】得分:1分[14] The great political and social events in the English society of neoclassical period were the following EXCEPT ______A the Restoration of King Charles II in 1660B the Great Plague of 1665C the Great London Fire in 1666D the Wars of Roses in 1689答: D答案: D【题型:单选】【分数:1分】得分:0分[15]All of the following are stream –of- consciousness novels EXCEPT________.A The Sound and the FuryB UlyssesC Mrs. DallowayD Jude the Obscure答: A答案: D【题型:单选】【分数:1分】得分:1分[16]Greatly and permanently affected by the ________ experiences, Hemingway formed his own writing style,theme and hero.A. mining &nbsA miningB farmingC warD sea答: C答案: C【题型:单选】【分数:1分】得分:0分[17] Which of the following masterpieces doesn’t belong to the tragedies of Shakespeare?A A. Romeo and JulietB B. The Merry Wives of WindsorC C. Julius CaesarD D. King Lear答: D答案: B【题型:单选】【分数:1分】得分:1分[18] Here is a sentence from an essay, “Read not to contradict and confuse, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to findbut to weight and consider”. The essay must be ______.A Of Studies by Francis BaconB The Advancement of Learning by Francis BaconC Novum Organum by Francis BaconD Essays by Francis Bacon答: A答案: A【题型:单选】【分数:1分】得分:1分[19] 7. Neoclassicists had some fixed laws and rules for prose EXCEPT_____.A precisonB directnessC flexibilityD satire答: D答案: D【题型:单选】【分数:1分】得分:1分[20] Rousseau published two books that electrified Europe—Du contrat Social and ____ in which he explored new ideas aboeducation.A A. EmileB B. Declaration of Rights of ManC C. Life of NapoleonD D. The Advancement of Learning答: A答案: A【题型:单选】【分数:1分】得分:1分[21] With the help of his friends Phil Stone and Sherwood Anderson, ______ published a volume of poetry The Manovel Soldiers’Pay.A FaulknerB HemingwayC Ezra PoundD Fitzgerald答: A答案: A【题型:单选】【分数:1分】得分:1分[22] Statement ____ is NOT true in describing Gothic novel.A Gothic novel is a type of romantic fictionB Gothic novel predominated in the early 18th centuryC Its principal elements are violence, horror and supernaturalD The Mystery of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe is typical Gothic romance答: B答案: B【题型:单选】【分数:1分】得分:1分[23]“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”the quoted line comes from ________.A Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind”B Walt Whitman’s Leaves of GrassC John Milton’s Paradise LostD John Keats’“Ode on a Grecian Urn”答: A答案: A【题型:单选】【分数:1分】得分:1分[24]The Transcendentalists believe that, first, nature is ennobling, and second, the individual is__________.A insignificantB evilC divineD silly答: C答案: C【题型:单选】【分数:1分】得分:1分[25] The author of Leaves of Grass , a giant of American letters, is ______.A FaulknerB DreiserC . JamesD Whitman答: D答案: D【题型:单选】【分数:1分】得分:1分[26]In Go Down, Moses, ________ illuminates the problem of black and white in Southern society as a close- knit destinbrotherhood.A. William Faulkner &nbsA William FaulknerB Jack LondonC Herman MelvilleD Nathaniel Hawthorne答: A答案: A【题型:单选】【分数:1分】得分:1分[27] In 1892, Yeats wrote his first play, ____, which is an Irish myth about a noblewoman who sells her soul to the devil inpeasants.A A. The Land of Heart’s DesireB B. The Shadowy WatersC C. The Countess CathleenD D. Purgatory答: C答案: C【题型:单选】【分数:1分】得分:1分[28] A proud, mysterious rebel figure of noble origin is called _____ hero in Romantic Period of English literature.A RomanticB RealisticC RenaissanceD Byronic答: D答案: D【题型:单选】【分数:1分】得分:1分[29] _____ explores the scrupulous individualism in a world of fantastic speculation and unstable values, and gives itsget-rich-quick years of the post-Civil War era.A Innocents AbroadB The Gilded AgeC Roughing ItD The Middle Years答: B答案: B【题型:单选】【分数:1分】得分:1分[30] The Advancement of Learning is a great tract on _____.A A. historyB B. literatureC C. policyD D. education答: D答案: D【题型:单选】【分数:1分】得分:1分[31] The 20th -century stream- of- consciousness technique was frequently and skillfully used by ______ to emphand inner musings of the narrator.A HemingwayB FrostC FaulknerD Whitman答: C答案: C【题型:单选】【分数:1分】得分:1分[32]Man is a “victim of forces over which he has no control. ”This is a notion held strongly by ________.A Robert FrostB Theodore DreiserC Henry JamesD Waltman答: B答案: B【题型:单选】【分数:1分】得分:1分[33] The following statement ______ is WRONG in describing Transcendentalism.A It absorbed some ideological concerns of American Puritanism and European Romanticism.B It advocates the importance of Individual and Nature.C Trancendentalists believed that there should be an emotional communication between an indiD It emphasizes that man is the measure of all things.答: D答案: D【题型:单选】【分数:1分】得分:1分[34] Jonathan Swift’s ______ is generally regarded as the best model of satire, not only of the period but also in the whistory.A Gulliver’s TravelsB The Battle of the BooksC “A Modest Proposal”D A Tale of a Tub答: C答案: C【题型:单选】【分数:1分】得分:0分[35] In 1847, the Bronte sisters published the following famous novels EXCEPT “______”.A Jane EyreB ShirleyC Wuthering HeightsD The Tenant of Windfall Hall答: D答案: B【题型:单选】【分数:1分】得分:1分[36]The major concern of ______ fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological development of his characters and in hithe dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature.A John Galsworthy’sB Thomas Hardy’sC D.H.Lawrence’sD Charles Dickens’答: C答案: C【题型:单选】【分数:1分】得分:1分[37] In _____, James Joyce intends to present a microcosm of the whole human life by providing an instance of how a singleevents of its kind, and how history is recapitulated in the happenings of one day.A A. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManB B. DublinersC C. UlyssesD D. Finnegans Wake答: C答案: C【题型:单选】【分数:1分】得分:1分[38] With the scarlet letter A as the biggest symbol of all, ______ proves himself to be one of the best symboliA HawthorneB DreiserC JamesD Faulkner答: A答案: A【题型:单选】【分数:1分】得分:1分[39]. “‘Damn the fool! There he is’, cried Heathcliff, sinking back into his seat, ‘Hush, my darling! Hush, hush, Catherine!so, I’d expire with a blessing in my lips.’”The novel from which the passage is taken is _______.<A Jane Austen’s Pride and PrejudiceB Charles Dickens’s The Old Curiosity ShopC Samuel Richardson’s PamelaD Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights答: D答案: D【题型:单选】【分数:1分】得分:1分[40]The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one -eighth of it being above water. ”This “iceberg”analogwas put forward by ________.A William FaulknerB F·Scott FitzgeraldC Henry JamesD Ernest Hemingway答: D答案: D【题型:单选】【分数:1分】得分:1分[41] Joyce’s masterpiece, ______ gives an account of man’s life during one day in Dublin.A DublinersB Finnegans WakeC UlyssesD A Portrait of the Artist答: C答案: C【题型:单选】【分数:1分】得分:1分[42] In Charles Dickens’work ________, the Utilitarian principle rules over the English education system and destroysminds.A Hard timesB Oliver TwistC David CopperfieldD Bleak House答: A答案: A【题型:单选】【分数:1分】得分:1分[43]Poetry is defined by ______ as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, which originates in emotion recoA WordsworthB ShellyC KeatsD Wialliam Blake答: A答案: A【题型:单选】【分数:1分】得分:1分[44]“O prince, O chief of many throned powers, That led th’embattled seraphim to war Under thy conduct, anFearless, endangered Heaven’s perpetual King.”In the third line of the above passage quoted from MiltonA Satan’sB God’sC Adam’sD Eve’s答: A答案: A【题型:单选】【分数:1分】得分:1分[45] Jane Austen’s first novel ________ tells a story about two sisters and their love affairs.A Mansfield ParkB Sense and SensibilityC Pride and PrejudiceD Sons and Lovers答: B答案: B【题型:单选】【分数:1分】得分:1分[46] Shakespeare’s ______, an elaborate and fantastic story, is known as the best of his final romances.A The Winter’s TaleB The TempestC The Taming of the ShrewD Love’s Labour’s Lost答: B答案: B【题型:单选】【分数:1分】得分:1分[47] 6. Which of the following descriptions of Enlightenment Movement is NOT true?A It was a progressive intellectual movement that flourished in France.B B. It was a furtherance of the Renaissance of the 15th and 16th centuries.C C. The purpose was to enlighten the whole world with moderu philosophical and artistic idD D. The Enlighteners advocate individual education.答: D答案: D【题型:单选】【分数:1分】得分:1分[48] In Milton’s works, “____”is the greatest, indeed the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since “BA A. Paradise LostB B. Paradise RegainedC C. Samson AgonistesD D. Lycidas答: A答案: A【题型:单选】【分数:1分】得分:1分[49] From the first novel Sister Carrie on, Dreiser set himself to project the American values for what he had fouto the core.A altruisticB politicalC religiousD materialistc答: D答案: D【题型:单选】【分数:1分】得分:1分[50] The three trilogies of ______’s Forsyte novels are masterpieces of critical realism in the early 20th century.A John GalsworthyB Arnold BennetC James JoyceD H. G. Wells答: A答案: A【题型:单选】【分数:1分】得分:1分[51]Of all Herman Melville’s sea adventure stories, ________ proves to be the best.A TypeeB ReburnC Moby –DickD Omoo答: C答案: C【题型:单选】【分数:1分】得分:1分[52] The Rivals and _____ are generally regarded as important links between the masterpieces of Shakespeare and thosA The School for ScandalB The DuennaC Widower’s HousesD The Doctor’s Dilemma 答: A答案: ATHANKS !!!致力为企业和个人提供合同协议,策划案计划书,学习课件等等打造全网一站式需求欢迎您的下载,资料仅供参考。
全国自考英美文学选读(综合)模拟试卷3.doc
全国自考英美文学选读(综合)模拟试卷3一、阅读理解1 Tyger! Tyger! burning brightIn the forests of the night,What immortal hand or eyeCould frame thy fearful symmetry?Questions:A. Who is the author?B. What does "symmetry" mean?C. What does "tyger" refer to?2 "We passed the School, where Children stroveAt Recess—in the Ring—We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain—We passed the Setting Sun—"Questions:A. Identify the poem and the poet.B. What do "the School" , "the Fields" and "the Setting Sun" stand for respectively?二、简答题3 What are the features of Defoe' s writings?4 Discuss the historical background of Victorian period.5 Analyze the features of G.B.Shaw's characters.6 What are the characteristics of Whitman' s free verse?7 How do you understand Hemingway' s " Iceberg principle" according to his works?三、论述题8 Jonathan Swift' s Gulliver ' s Travels, as a whole, is one of the most effective and devastating criticisms and satires of all aspects in the English and European life of his day. Please give a brief comment on Gulliver's Travels.9 Discuss Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles.10 Please make a comment on Theodore Dreiser' s writing style.。
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33.Daisy Miller’s tragedy of indiscretion is intensified and enlarged by its narration from the point of view of _______.A. the American youth WinterbourneB. the author of Henry JamesC. her mother Mrs. MillerD. the Italian youth Giovanelli34. In Henry James’ Daisy Miller, the author tries to portray the young woman as an embodiment of _______.A. the corruption of the newly richB. the free spirit of the New WorldC. the decline of aristocracyD. the force of convention35. Stylistically, Henry James’ fiction is characterized _______.A. highly refined languageB. ordinary American speechC. short, clear sentencesD. abundance of local images36. In the following writers, who is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th century “stream of consciousness” novels and the founder of psychological realism?A. Henry JamesB. Mark TwainC. Emily DickinsonD. Theodore Dreiser37. Henry James’s fame generally rests upon his novels and stories with the _______.A. international themeB. national themeC. European themeD. regional theme38. Mark Twain wrote most of his literary works with a _______ language.A. grandB. pompousC. simpleD. vernacular39. The book from which “all modern American literature comes” refers to _______.A. The Great GatsbyB. The Sun Also RisesC. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnD. Moby Dick40. Mark Twain shaped the world’s view of America and made a combination of _______ and serious literature.A. English folk loreB. funny jokesC. American folk humorD. American traditional values41._______ is considered by H.L. Mencken as “the true father of our national literature”?A. HemingwayB. PopeC. IrvingD. Mark Twain42. Statement “_______” is not true in describing American naturalists.A. they were deeply influenced by Darwinism.B. they were identified with French novelist and theorist Emile Zola.C. they chose their subjects from the lower ranks of society.D. they used more serious and more sympathetic tone in writing than realists.43. One of the most familiar themes in American naturalism is the theme of human _______.A. bestialityB. goodnessC. compassionD. greed44. Naturalism is evolved from realism when the author’s tone in writing becomes less serious and less sympathetic but more ironic and more _______.A. optimisticB. pessimisticC. humorousD. rational45. Who exerts the single most important influence on literary naturalism?A. EmersonB. Jack LondonC. Theodore DreiserD. Darwin46. The period ranging from 1865 to 1914 has been referred to as _______.A. the Age of RealismB. the Age of ModernismC. the Age of RomanticismD. the Age of Colonialism47. Which of the following comments on the writings by Herman Melville is not true?A. “Bartleby, the Scrivener” is a short story.B. “Benito Cereno” is a novella.C. “The Confidence-Man” has something to do with the sea and sailors.D. “Moby-Dick” is regarded as the first American prose epic.48. Which of the following writers is not the dominant figure of the realistic period in American?A. Herman MelvilleB. William Dean HowellsC. Henry JamesD. Mark Twain49. The giant Moby Dick may symbolize all except _______.A. mystery of the universeB. sin of the whaleC. power of the great natureD. evil of the world50. “Moby-Dick” is regarded as the first American _______.A. prose epicB. comic epicC. dramatic fictionD. poetic fiction51. “The horizon’s edge, the flying sea-crow, the fragrance of salt marsh and shore mud. These became part of that child who went forth every day, and who now goes, and will always go forth every day.” The two lines are taken from _______.A. “There Was a Child Went Forth” by Walt WhitmanB. “In a Station of the Metro” by Ezra PoundC. “Cavalry Crossing a Ford” by Walt WhitmanD. “Ulysses” by Joyce52. Which of the following features cannot characterize poems by Walt Whitman?A. lyrical and well-structedB. free-flowingC. simple and rather crudeD. conversational and casual53. Walt Whitman is radically innovative in the form of his poetry. What he prefers for his new subject is _______.A. free verseB. blank verseC. lyric poemD. heroic couplet54._______ is the author of “The Scarlet Letter”.A. John BunyanB. Daniel DefoeC. Nathaniel HawthorneD. George Eliot55. All of the following are works by Nathaniel Hawthorn except _______.A. The House of the Seven GablesB. White JacketC. The Marble FaunD. The Blithedale Romance56. In Hawthorne’s novels and short stories, intellectuals usually appear as _______.A. SaviorsB. villainsC. commentatorsD. observers57. “There is evil in every human hear, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.” Which is the author of it?A. Washington IrvingB. Ralph Waldo EmersonC. Nathaniel HawthorneD. Walt Whitman58._______ is the most ambivalent writer in the American literary history.A. Nathaniel HawthorneB. Walt WhitmanC. Ralph Waldo EmersonD. Mark Twain59. In the following works, which signs the beginning of the American literature?A. The Sketch BookB. Leaves Of GrassC. Leather Stocking TalesD. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn60. The period before the American civil war is generally referred to as _______.A. the naturalist periodB. the modern periodC. the romantic periodA. Oscar WildeB. John GalsworthyC. W. B. YeatsD. George Bernard Shaw68. Who is the first “Angry Young Man”?A. OsborneB. EliotC. ChristopherD. Bernard Shaw69. All of the following works are known as Hardy’s “novels of character and environment” EXCETP _______.A. The Return of the NativeB. Tess of the D’UrbervillesC. Jude the ObscureD. Far from the Madding Crowd70. The most distinguishing feature of Charles Dickens’ works is his _______.A. simple vocabularyB. bitter and sharp criticismC. character-portrayalD. pictures of happiness71. Poetry has been traditionally regarded as an art governed by rules; but to the romantics, poetry should be free from all _______.A. rhymesB. rhythmC. rulesD. emotion72. In terms of Pride and Prejudice, which is not true?A. Pride and Prejudice is the most popular of Jane Austen’s novels.B. Pride and Prejudice is originally drafted as “First Impressions”.C. Pride and Prejudice is a tragic novel.D. In this novel, the author explores the relationship between great love and realistic benefits.73. Jane Austen’s first novel is _______.A. Pride and PrejudiceB. Sense and SensibilityC. EmmaD. Plan of a Novel74. The author of the work “Men of England” is _______.A. T. S. EliotB. Thomas GrayC. ShelleyD. Walt Whitman75. Shelley’s greatest achievement is his four-act poetic drama, _______.A. Men of EnglandB. Prometheus UnboundC. Ode to the West WindD. The Revolt of Islam76. In Shelley’s “To a Skylark”, the bird, suspended between reality and poetic image, pours forth an exultant song which suggests to the poet _______.A. both celestial rapture and human limitationB. both image creation and profound meaningC. both music and wordsD. both inspiration and skill of writing77. “Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere;/ Destroyer and Preserver; hear, O hear!” the two lines are find in _______.A. Young Goodman Brown by HawthorneB. Ode to the West Wind by ShelleyC. Leaves of Grass by Walt WhitmanD. Ulysses by Joyce78. In his lyrics such as “Ode to Liberty”, “Ode to Naples”, Percy Bysshe Shelley expressed his love for _______ and his hatred toward tyranny.A. the middle classB. the poorC. freedomD. the proletariat79. Which of the following is not the best examples to show Wordsworth’s genuine love for the natural beauty?A. a Phantom of DelightB. To a SkylarkC. To the CuckooD. To a Butterfly80. Wordsworth’s short poems can be classified into two groups: poems about nature and poems about _______.A. loveB. human lifeC. freedomD. social activities81. Which of the following writings is not created by William Wordsworth?A. I wandered Lonely as a CloudB. Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September3, 1802C. The Solitary ReaperD. The Chimney Sweeper82._______ is regarded as a “worshipper of nature”.A. John KeatsB. William BlakeC. William WordsworthD. Jane Austen83. The tone of literature in “Songs of Experience” by William Blake is _______.A. dolefulB. livelyC. plainD. utter84. In his poem “Tyger, Tyger,”William Blake expresses his perception of the“fearful symmetry”of the big cat. The phrase“fearful symmetry”suggests ________.A. the tiger’s two eyes which are dazzlingly bright and symmetrically setB. the poet’s fear of the predatorC. the analogy of the hammer and the anvilD. the harmony of the two opposite aspects of God’s creation85. The declaration that “I know that This World is a World of IMAGINATION & Vision,” and that “The Nature of my work is visionary or imaginative” belongs to _______.A. William BlakeB. William WordsworthC. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD. George Gordon Byron86. In the following writings by William Blake, which marks his entry into maturity?A. Songs of innocenceB. Songs of ExperienceC. Marriage of Heaven and HellD. Milton87. The Romantic Movement expressed a more or less _______ attitude toward the existing social and political conditions.A. positiveB. negativeD. Henry Fielding101. In the following writings by Henry Fielding, which brings him the name of the “Prose Homer”?A. the Coffee-House PoliticianB. The Tragedy of TragediesC. the History of Tom Jones, a FoundlingD. The History of Amelia102. Which of the following novels is not written by Henry Fielding?A. Jonathan WildB. Moll FlandersC. Joseph AndrewsD. Tom Jones103. One of the major results of the reformation in England was the fact that the ________ in English was placed in every church and services were held in English instead of Latin so that people could understand.A. Canterbury talesB. BibleC. Old TestamentD. Malorys Morte Darthur104. Humanism sprang from the endeavor to restore a medieval reverence for the antique authors and is frequently taken as the beginning of the Renaissance on its conscious, intellectual side, for the Greek and Roman civilization was based on such a conception that man is the ________ of all things.A. measureB. kingC. loverD. defender105. William Caxton was the first person who introduced ________ into England.A. writingB. printingC. heroic coupletD. defender106._______ shows how mankind, in the person of Christ, withstands the tempter and is established once more in the divine favor.A. Paradise LostB. Paradise RegainedC. Samson AgonistesD. Beowulf107. “all is not lost: the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and courage never to submit or yield: and what is else not to be overcome?”This part comes from _______.A. Dr. FaustusB. Paradise LostC. Paradise RegainedD. Tambutlaine108. In his life, _______ shows himself a real revolutionary, a master poet and a great prose writer. He fought for freedom in all aspects as a Christian humanist, while his achievement in literature make him tower over all the other English writers of his time and exert a great influence over later ones.A. William ShakespeareB. Edmund SpenserC. John DonneD. John Milton109. Shakespeare has established his giant position in world literature with his _______ plays, 154 sonnets and 2 long poems.A. 47B. 27C. 52D. 38110. “To be, or not to be - that is the question; whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer, the slings and arrows of outragerous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them?” Who said these words?A. King LearB. RomeoC. AntonioD. Hamlet111. “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” this is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare’s _______.A. songsB. sonnetsC. playsD. comedies112. The real mainstream of the English renaissance is ________.A. the Elizabethan dramaB. the Elizabethan proseC. ancient poem5. 正确答案:A答案解析:参见教材579页。
英美文学选读期末练习题
《英美文学选读》期末考试练习一、搭配题二、判断题1.( F ) Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Antony and Cleopatra are Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies.2.(T ) The Elizabethan Drama is the real mainstream of the English Renaissance.3.( T) Paradise Lost is a long epic divided into 12 books.4.( F) Captain Singleton, Moll Flanders, Colonel Jack, and A Journal of the Plague Year are the first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower-class people.5.( T) Jonathan Swift defined a good style as “proper words in proper places.”6.( T ) Henry Fielding has been regarded by some as “Father of the English Novel.”7.( F) William Blake, William Wordsworth, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge are regarded as the “Lake Poets.”8.( T ) The British Romantic period is an age of prose.9.( T ) The major theme of Jane Austen’s novels is love and marriage.10.( T ) The Victoria period has been generally regarded as one of the most glorious in the English history.11.( F ) Far from the Madding Crowd is Thomas Hardy’s first novel.12.( T ) Modernism rose out of skepticism and disillusion of capitalism.13.( T ) The major themes of the modernist literature are the distorted, alienated and ill relationships between man and nature, man and society, man and man, and man and himself. 14.( T) The early poems of Pound and Eliot and Yeats’s matured poetry marked rise of “modern poetry.”15.( T ) Shaw’s plays have one passion, and one only, that is, indignation.16.( F) Romeo and Juliet is one of Shakespeare’s four greatest tragedies.17.( T ) The first period of the English Renaissance was one of imitation and assimilation.18.( T ) Paradise Lost is John Milton’s masterpiece.19.( F ) Captain Singleton, Moll Flanders, Colonel Jack, and A Journal of the Plague Year are the first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower-class people.20.( T ) In Jonathan Swift’s opinion, human nature is seriously and permanently flawed.21.( T) Henry Fielding was the first to write specifically a “comic in prose.”22.( F ) William Blake, William Wordsworth, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge are regarded as the “Lake Poets.”23.( F ) The British Romantic period is an age of poetic drama.24.( T ) Shelley’s greatest achievement is his four-act poetic drama, Prometheus Unbound.25.( T ) Oscar Wilde and Walter Pater are advocators of the theory of “art for art’s sake.”26.( F ) From Under the Greenwood Tree, the tragic sense becomes the keynote of Thomas Hardy’s novels.27.( T ) The French symbolism heralded modernism.28.( T ) The modernist writers pay more attention to the psychic time than the chronological one.29.( T) Kingsley Amis was the first to start the attack on middle-class privileges and power in his novel Lucky Jim.30.( T ) The Waste Land is a poem concerned with the spiritual breakup of a modern civilization in which human life has lost its meaning, significance and purpose.31.( F) Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy is Romeo and Juliet.32.( T) In the early stage of the English Renaissance, poetry and poetic drama were the most outstanding literary forms.33.( T ) Samson Agonistes is the most perfect example of the verse drama after the Greek style in English.34.( F ) Captain Singleton, Moll Flanders, Colonel Jack, and A Journal of the Plague Year are the first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower-class people.35.( T ) Jonathan Swift is a master satirist.36.( T ) Henry Fielding was the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.37.( F ) William Blake, William Wordsworth, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge are regarded as the “Lake Poets.”38.( F ) Novel was the most popular literary form in the British Romantic period.39.( T ) “A Song: Men of England” was written in 1819, the year of the Peterloo Massacre.40.( T) Charles Dickens and the Bronte Sisters are representatives of critical realism.41.( F ) Thomas Hardy belongs to one of the English romantic poets.42.( T ) Modernism takes the irrational philosophy and the theory of psycho-analysis as its theoretical base.43.( T ) The modernist writers are mainly concerned with the inner being of an individual.44.( T ) James Joyce is the most outstanding stream-of-consciousness novelist.45.( T ) D. H. Lawrence was one of the first novelists to introduce themes of psychology into his works.三、名词解释1.Antagonist: A person or force opposing the protagonist in a narrative; a rival of thehero or heroine.2.Allegory: A tale in verse or prose in which characters, actions, or settings representabstract ideas or moral qualities. An allegory is a story with two meanings, a literalmeaning and a symbolic meaning.3.Alliteration: The repetition of the initial consonant sounds in poetry.4.Canto: A section or division of a long poem.5.Characterization: the means by which a writer reveals that personality.edy: In general, a literary work that ends happily with a healthy, amicablearmistice between the protagonist and society.7.Critical Realism: The critical realism of the 19th century flourished in the forties andin the beginning of fifties. The realists first and foremost set themselves the task ofcriticizing capitalist society from a democratic viewpoint and delineated the cryingcontradictions of bourgeois reality. But they did not find a way to eradicate socialevils.8.Elegy: A poem of mourning, usually over the death of an individual. An elegy is atype of lyric poem, usually formal in language and structure, and solemn or evenmelancholy in tone.9.Epic: A long narrative poem telling about the deeds of a great hero and reflectingthe values of the society from which it originated. Many epics were drawn from anoral tradition and were transmitted by song and recitation before they were writtendown.10.Flashback: A scene in a short story, novel, play, or narrative poem that interruptsthe action to show an event that happened earlier.11.Imagery: Words or phrases that create pictures, or images, in the reader’s mind.Images can appeal to other senses as well: touch, taste, smell, and hearing.12.Lyric: A poem, usually a short one, which expresses a speaker’s personal thoug hts orfeelings. The elegy, ode, and sonnet are all forms of the lyric.13.Metaphor: A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things whichare basically dissimilar. Unlike simile, a metaphor does not use a connective wordsuch as like, as, or resembles in making the comparison.14.Protagonist: The central character of a drama, novel, short story, or narrative poem.The protagonist is the character on whom the action centers and with whom thereader sympathizes most. Usually the protagonist strives against an opposing force,or antagonist, to accomplish something.15.Setting: The time and place in which the events in a short story, novel, play ornarrative poem occur. Setting can give us information, vital to plot and theme. Often,setting and character will reveal each other.16.Simile: It refers to a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two thingsthrough the use of a specific word of comparison, such as “like, as, or resemble”.The comparison must be between two essentially unlike things.17.Soliloquy: In drama, an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage.The character reveals his or her innermost thoughts and feelings directly to theaudience, as if thinking aloud.18.Sonnet: A fourteen-line lyric poem, usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter. Asonnet generally expresses a single theme or idea.19.Tragedy: In general, a literary work in which the protagonist meets an unhappy ordisastrous end. Unlike comedy, tragedy depicts the actions of a central characterwho is usually dignified or heroic.四、简答题1.What do the William Shakespeare’s tragedies have in common?Each portrays some noble hero ,who faces the injustices of human life and is caught in a difficult situation and whose fate is closely connected with the fate of the whole nation .Each hero has his weakness is made used of the nature: Hamlet the melancholic scholar-prince,faces the dilemma between action and mind ; Othello`s inner weakness is made use of by the outside evil force; the king lear who is unwilling to totally give up his power makes himself suffer from treachery and infidelity; and Macbeth`s lust for power stirs up his ambitions and leads him to incessant crimesShakespeare dramatizes the whole world around the hero.2.“Never did sun more beautifully steepIn his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill;Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!The river glideth at his own sweet will:Dear God! the very houses seem asleep;And all that mighty heart is lying still!”(from Wordsworth’s sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge)Questions:A.What does this sonnet describe?A vivid picture of a beautiful morning in LondonB. What does the word “mighty heart” refer to?LondonB.The sonnet follows strictly the Italian form. What is the feature of the Italian form sonnet?There is a clear division between the octave and the sestet; the rhyme scheme is abbaabba, cdcdcd.3.“Wherefore feed and clothe and saveFrom the cradle to the graveThose ungrateful drones who wouldDrain your sweat- nay, drink your blood?”Questions:A. Identify the poet and the title of the poem from which the stanza is taken.Percy Bysshe Shelley ; A song :Men of England.B. What figure of speech is used in Line 2?MetonymyC. Whom does “drones” refer to?Parasitic class in human society .4.Hardy is often regarded as a transitional writer. In him we see the influence from both the pastand the modern. Some critics believe that he is intellectually advanced and emotionally traditional. How do you understand this idea?5.What is the theme of Wuthering Heights?From the social point of view, it is a story about a poor man abused,betrayed and distorted by his social betters because he is a poor nobody . As a love story, this is one of the most moving : the passion between Heathcliff and Catherine proves the most in tense , the most beautiful and at the same time the most horrible passion ever to be found possible in human beings.6.“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?Thou art more lovely and more temperate:Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,And summer’s lease hath all too short a date:”Questions:A. Identify the poet and the poem from which the quoted lines are takenWilliam Shakespeare; Sonnet 18.B. Name the figure of speech employed in the poem.The first line: rhetorical question ,C. What is the theme of the poem?He has a profound meditation on the destructive power of time and the eternal beauty brought forth by poetry to the one he loves .7.“When the stars threw down their spears,And water’d heaven with their tears,Did he smile his work to see?Did he who made the Lamb make thee?”Questions:A. Identify the poet and the poem from which the quoted lines are takenWilliam Blake , The TygerB. Whom does the “he’’ refer to?The god who create the Tyger.C. What does the “Lamb” symbolize?Symbol of peace and purity8.“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? —Youthink wrong!… And if God had gifted me with some beauty, and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you…—it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed throu gh the grave, and we stood at God’s feet, equal—as we are!”Questions:A.Identify the author and the novel from which the quoted part is taken.Charlotte Bronte ; Jane Eyer.B. To whom is the speaker speaking?Mr RochesterShe want to tell the Mr Rochester that don`t judge her by the outlooking, she desperately and opening declares her equality with him and her love for him.C. What does the quoted part imply about the speaker?9.The following quotation is from one of the poems by T. S. Eliot:“No! I am no t 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 h igh sentence, but a bit obtuse;”Questions:A. Identify the title of the poem from which the quoted part is taken.The love song of J Afred prufrock ,T. S. Eliot.B. Who's the speaker of the quoted lines?Mr Alfred prufrock.C. What does the first line show about the speaker?The speaker has something in common with the hamlet, he is neurotic,self-important,illogical and incapable of action.五、论述题1.Daniel Defoe’s novel Robinson Crusoe was a great success partly because theprotagonist was a real middle-class hero. Discuss Crusoe, the protagonist of the novel,as an embodiment of the rising middle-class virtues in the mid-eighteenth centuryEngland.Robinson is here a real hero :a typical eighteenth century english middle-class man; he is the very prototype of empire builder,the pioneercolonist. In describing Robinson`s life on the island , Defoe glorifies humanlabor and the puritan fortitude,which save Robinson from despair and are asource of pride and happiness.2.Elizabeth Bennet, the heroine in Pride and Prejudice, is often regarded as the mostsuccessful character created by Jane Austen. Make a brief comment on Elizabeth’scharacter.3.Discuss Charles Dickens’s art of fiction: the setting, the character-portrayal,the language, etc., based on his novel Oliver Twist.Charles Dickens is a master story teller:①In language, he is often compared with Shakespeare for his adeptness with the vernacular and large vocabulary.②His humor and wit seem inexhaustible.③Character-portrayal is the most distinguishing feature of his works .④Among a vast range of various characters marked out by some peculiarity in physical traits,speech or manner, are both types and individuals.⑤His best -depicted characters are thoseinnocent ,virtuous,persecuted ,helpless child characters such as Oliver twist , Fagin.4.Jane Eyre is one of the most popular and important novels of the Victorian Age. Why isJane Eyre such a successful novel?①Its sharp criticism of existing society ,e.g.the religious hypocrisy of charity institutions.②Its introduction to the English novel the first governess heroine.。
英美文学选读试题及答案
英美文学选读试题Ⅰ.Multiple Choice (40 points in all, 1 for each)Select from the four choices [A],[B],[C],[D] of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement and write the letter on the answer sheet.1.Romance,which uses narrative verse or prose to tell stories of ___ adventures or other heroic deeds, is a popular literary form in the medieval period.A.Christian2.Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his production of ___.A.Piers PlowmanB.Sir Gawain and the Green KnightC.Confessio AmantisD.The Canterbury Tales3.Which of the following historical events does not directly help to stimulate the rising of the Renaisssance Movement?A.The rediscovery of ancient Greek and Roman culture.B.The new discoveries in geography and astrology.C.The Glorious revolution.D.The religious reformation and the economic expansion.4.Which of the following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare's Sonnet 18?A.The speaker eulogizes the power of Nature.B.The speaker satirizes human vanity.C.The speaker praises the power of artistic creation.D.The speaker meditates on man's salvation.5.“And we will sit upon the rocks,/Seeing the shepherds f eed their flocks,/By shallow rivers to whose falls/Melodious birds sing madrigals.〞The above lines are probably taken from __.A.Spenser's The Faerie QueeneB.John Donne's “The Sun Rising〞C.Shakespeare's “Sonnet 18”D.Marlowe's “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love〞6.“Bassanio:Antonio,I am married to a wifeWhich is as dear to me as life itself;But life itself, My wife, and all the world.Are not with me esteem'd above thy life;I would lose all, ay, sacrifice them all,Here to the devil, to deliver you.Portia:Your wife would give you little thanks for that,If she were by to hear you make the offer.〞The above is a quotation taken from Shakespeare's comedy The Merchant of Venice.The quoted part can be regarded as a good example to illustrate ____.A.dramatic irony7.The ture subject of John Donne's poem,“The Sun Rising,〞is to ___.A.attack the sun as an unruly servantB.give compliments to the mistress and her power of beautyC.criticize the sun's intrusion into the lover's private lifeD.lecture the sun on where true royalty and riches lie8.Of all the 18thcentury novelists Henry Fielding was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specificall y a “___ in prose,〞the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.A.tragic epic B ic epicC.romanceD.lyric epic9.The Houyhnhnms depicted by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels are ___.A.horses that are endowed with reasonB.pigmies that are endowed with admirable qualitiesC.giants that are superior in wisdomD.hairy,wild, low and despicable creatures, who resemble human beings not only in appearance but also in some other ways.10.Here are four lines from a literary work:“Others for language all their care express,/And value books,as women men, for dress.〞The work is ___.A.Thomas Gray's “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard〞B.John Milton's Paradise LostC.Alexander Pope's Essay on CriticismD.Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream11.The phrase “to urge people to abide by Christian doctrines and to seek salvation through constant struggles with their own weaknesses and all kinds of social evils〞may well sum up the implied meaning of ___.A.Gulliver's TravelsB.The Rape of the LockC.Robinson CrusoeD.The pilgrim's Progress12.William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following EXCEPT ___.A.the use of everyday language spoken by the common peopleB.the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelingsC.the use of humble and rustic life as subject matterD.the use of elegant wording and inflated figures of speech13.Which of the following is taken from John Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn〞?A.“I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!〞B.“They are both gone up to the church to pary.〞C.“Earth has not anything to show more fair.〞D.“Beauty is truth, truth beauty〞.14.“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind!〞is an epigrammatic line by __.A.J.KeatsB.W.BlakeC.W.Wordsworth15.“Ode o na Grecian Urn〞shows the contrast between the ___ of art and the ___ of human passion.A.glory …uglinessB.permanence…transienceC.transience…sordidnessD.glory…permanence16.In the statement“—oh,God! would you like to live with your soul in the grave?〞the term“soul〞apparently refers to ___.A.Heathcliff himselfC.one's spiritual lifeD.one's ghost17.The typical feature of Robet Browning's poetry is the ___.A.bitter satirerger-than-life caricaturetinized dictionD.dramatic monologue18.The Victorian Age was largely an age of ____,eminently represented by Dickens and Thackeray.A.poetryB.drama D.epic prose19.___is the first important governess(家庭女教师) novel in the English literary history.A.Jane EyreHeights20.The major concern of ______ fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature.wrence'sB.J.Galsworthy'sC.W.Thackeray’sD.T.Hardy’s21.___is considered to be the best-known English dramatist since Shakespeare, and his representative works are plays inspired by social criticism.A.Richard SheridanB.Oliver GoldsmithC.Oscar WildeD.Bernard Shaw22.Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Modernism?A.To elevate the individual and inner being over the social being.B.To put the stress on traditional values.C.To portray the distorted and alienated relationships between man and his environment.D.To advocate a conscious break with the past.23.The Romantic writers would focus on all the following issues EXCEPT the ___ in the American literary histrory.A.individual feelingsB.idea of survival of the fittestC.strong imaginationD.return to nature24.Henry David Thoreau's work,__,has always been regarded as a masterpiece of New England Transcendentalism.B.The pioneersC.NatureD.Song of Myself25.The famous 20-years sleep in “Rip Van Winkle〞helps to construct the story in such a way that we are greatly affected by Irving's ___.A.concern with the passage of timeB.expression of transient beautyC.satire on laziness and corruptibility of human beingsD.idea about supernatural manipulation of man's life26.Walt whitman was a pioneering figure of American poetry.His innovation first of all lies in his use of __,poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.A.blank verseB.heroic coupletC.free verseD.iambic pentameter27.The literary characters of the American type in early 19th century are generally characterized by all the following features EXCEPT that they ___.A.speak local dialectsB.are polite and elegant gentlemenC.are simple and crude farmersD.are noble savages( red and white) untainted by society28.Hester Pryme, Dimmsdale,Chillingworth and Pearl are most likely the names of the characters in ___.A.The Scarlet LetterB.The House of the Seven GablestC.The Portrait of a LadyD.The pioneers29.“This is my letter to the World〞is a poetic expression of Emily Dickinson's __ about her communication with the outside world.A.indifferenceB.anger30.With Howells,James,and Mark Twain active on the literary scene, __ became the major trend in American literature in the seventies and eighties of the 19thcentury.31.After The adventures of Tom Sawyer, Twain gives a literary independence to Tom's buddy Huck in a book entitled ___.A.Life on the MississippiB.The Gilded AgeC.The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnD.A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court32.However,___,the keynote of Daisy Miller's character,turns out to be an admiring but a dangerous quality and her defiance of social taboos in the Old World finally brings her to a disaster in the clash between two different cultures.C.worldliness33.Generally speaking,all those writers with a naturalistic approach to human reality tend to be ___.A.transcendentalists34.Emily Dickinson wrote many short poems on various aspects of life.Which of the following is NOT a usual subject of her poetic expression?A.Religion and immortality.B.Life and death.C.Love and marriage.D.War and peace.35.In “After Apple-Picking,〞Robert Frost wrote:“For I have had too much/Of applepicking:I am overtired/Of the great harvestI myself desired.〞From these lines we can conclude that the speaker is ___.A.happy about the harvestB.still very much interested in apple-pickingC.expecting a greater harvestD.indifferent to what he once desired36.Chinese poetry and philosophy have exerted great influence over ____.A.Ezra PoundB.Ralph Waldo EmersonC.Robert FrostD.Emily Dickinson37.The Hemingway Code heroes are best remembered for their __.A.indestructible spirtieB.pessimistic view of life38.IN The Emperor Jones and The Hairy Ape,O'Neill adopted the expressionist techniques to portray the ___ of human beings in a hostile universe.A.helpless situationC.profound religious faithD.courage and perseverance39.In Hemingway's “Indian Cmap〞,Nick's night trip to the Indian village and his experience inside the hut can be taken as ____.A.an essential lesson about Indian tribesB.a confrontation with evil and sinC.an initiation to the harshness of lifeD.a learning process in human relationship40.which of the following statements about Emily Grierson, the protagonist in Faulkner's story “A Rose for Emily,〞is NOT true?A.She has a distorted personality.B.She is physically deformed and paralyzed.C.She is the symbol of the old values of the South.D.She is the victim of the past glory.PART TWOⅡ.Reading Comprehension (16 points, 4 for each)Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English.Write your answer in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.41.“Her eyes met his and he looked away.He neither believed nor disbelieved her,but he knew that he had made a mistake in asking;he never had known,never would know,what she was thinking.The sight of her inscrutable face,the thought of all the hundreds of evenings he had seen her sitting there like that,soft and passive,but so unreadable, unknown, enraged him beyond measure.〞Questions:A.Identify the writer and the work.B.What does the phrase “inscrutable face〞mean?C.What idea does the quoted passage express?42.“And when I am formulated,sprawling on a pin,When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall.Then how should beginTo spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways.〞Questions:A.Identify the poem and the poet.B.What does the phrase “butt-ends〞mean?C.What idea does the quoted passage express?43.“God knows,…I'm not myself—I'm somebody else—…and I'm changed,and I can't tell what's my name,or who I am.〞Questions:A.Identify the work and the author.B.The speaker says he is changed.Do you think he is changed, or the social environment has changed?C.What idea does the quoted sentence express?44.“I shall be telling this wi th a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference.〞Questions:A.Idenfity the poem and the poet.B.What does the phrase “ages and ag es hence〞mean?C.What idea does the quoted passage express?Ⅲ.Questions and Answers(24 points in all, 6 for each)Give brief answers to each of the following questions in English.Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.45.As a rule,an allegory is story in verse or prose with a double meaning: a surface meaning,and an implied meaning.List two works as examples of allegory.What is an allegory usually concerned with by its implied meaning?46.Inspiration for the romantic approach initially came from two great shapers of thought.Who are the two?And what ideas they expressed inspire the romantic writers?47.The white whale,Moby Dick,is the most important symbol in Melville's novel.What symbolic meaning can you draw from it?48.Nature is a philosophic work, in which Emerson gives an explicit discussion on his idea of the Qversoul.What is your understanding of Emersonian “Oversoul〞?Ⅳ.Topic Discussion(20 points in all, 10 for each)Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.49.How is Romanticism different from Neoclassicism?Provide brief evidence from the literary works you know best.50.Summerize the story of Mark twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in about 100 words,and comment on the theme of the novel.Ⅱ.Reading Comprehension (16 points, 4 for each)41.A.John Galasworthy:The Man of Property.B.A face does not show any emotion or reaction so that it is impossible to know how that person is feeling or what he is thinking about.C.it presents the inner mind of Soames in face of his wife's coldness.He can never know what is on his wife's mind because the makeup of his and her mentality is different.His wife Irene, whose mind is romantically inclined, is disgusted with her husband's possessiveness.Being unable to read his wife's mind is as good as saying that he really can't regard her as his property- this is the very reason why he is enraged beyond measure.42.A.T.S.Eliot:“The Love So ng of J.Alfred Pruforck.〞B.The ends of cigarettes,meaning trivial things here.C.Here,Prufrock's inability to do anything against the society he is in is made strikingly clear by using a sharp comparison .Prufrock imagines himself as a kind of insect pinned on the wall and struggling in vain to get free.This image vividly shows Prufrock's current predicament.43.A.Washington Irving:“Rip Van Winkle〞.B.The social environment is changed.C.When Rip is back home after a period of 20 years,he finds thta everything has changed.All those old values are gone,and he can hardly feel at home in a changed society.One of the functions that Rip serves in the story is to provide a measuring stick forchange.It is through him that Irving drives home the theme that a desire for change,improvement,and progress could subvert stable society.44.A.Robert Frost:“The Road Not Taken〞.B.Many many years later.C.The speaker is telling his experience of making the choice of the roads.But he is conscious of the fact that his choice will have made all the difference in his life.He seems to be giving a suggestion to the reader.“Make good choice of your life.〞Ⅲ.Questions and Answers (24 points in all,6 for each)45.A.Buyan's pilgrim's Progress and Spenser's The Faerie Queene.B.It is usually concerned with moral ,religious,political,symbolic or mythical ideas.46.A.The French philosopher,Jean Jacques Rousseau and the German writer Johna Wolfgan von Goethe.B.It is Rousseau who established the cult of the individual and championed the freedom of the human spirit;his famous announcement was “I felt before I thought.〞Goethe and his compatriots extolled the romantic spirit.47.A.To Ahab,the whale is either an evil creature itself or the agent of an evil force that controls the universe,or perhaps both.B.To Ishmale,the whale is an astonishing force,an immense power,which defies rational explanation due to a sense of mystery it carries.It is beautiful,but malignant at the same time.It also represents the tremendous organic vitality of the universe,for it has a life force that surges onward irresistibly, impervious to the desires or wills of men.C.As to the reader, the whale can be viewed as a symbol of the physical limits that life imposes upon man.It may also be regarded as a symbol of nature, or an instrument of God's vengeance upon evil man.In general,the multiplicity and ambivalence of the symbolic meaning of the whale is such that it becomes a source of intense speculation, an object or profound curiosity for the reader.48.A.The Oversoul is believed to be an all-pervading power for goodness,omnipresent and omnipotent from which all things come and of which all are a part.It exists in nature and man alike and constitutes the chief element of the universe.B.According to Emerson,it is a supreme reality of mind, a spiritual unity of all beings, and a religion regarded as an emotional communication between an individual soul and the universal Over-soul of which it is a part.C.He holds that intuition is a more certain way of knowing than reason and that the mind could intuitively perceive the existence of the Oversoul and of certain absolutes.Ⅳ.Topic Discussion (20 points in all, 10 for each)49.a.Neoclassicists upheld that artistic ideals should be order,logic,restrained emoticon and accuracy,and that literature,should be judged in terms of its service to humanity,and thus,literary expressions should be of proportion,unity,harmony and grace.Pope's An Essay on Criticism advocates grace,wit (usually though satire/humour),and simplicity in language(and the poem itself is a demonstration of those ideals,too);Fielding's Tom Jones helped establish the form of novel;Gray's “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' displays elegance in style,unified structure,serious tone and moral instructions.b.Romanticists tended to see the individual as the very center of all experience,including art,and thus,literary work should be “spontaneous overflow of strong feelings,〞and no matter how fra gmentary those experiences were (Wordsworth's “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,〞or “The Solitary Reaper,) or Coleridge's “Keble Khan〞),the value of the work lied in the accuracy of presenting those unique feelings and particular attitudes.c.In a word, Neoclassicism emphasized rationality and form but Romanticism attached great importance to the individual's mind (emotion, imagination, temporary experience…)50.A.Mark Twain's novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a Sequa to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.The Story takes place along the Mississippi River before the Civil War in the United States, around 1850.Along the river, floats a small raft, with two people on it; One is an ignorant,uneducated black slave named Jim and the other is little uneducated outcast white boy about the age of thirteen, called Huckleberry Finn or Huck Finn.The novel relates the story of the escape of Jim from slavery and ,more important, how Huck Finn, floating along with Jim and helping him as best he could, changes his mind ,his prejudice, about Black people, and comes to accept Jim as a man and as a close friends as well.During their journey, they experience a series of adventures:coming across two frauds, the “Duke〞and the “King〞,witnessing the lynching and murder of a harmless drunkard, being lost in a fog and finally Tom's coming to rescue. B.The theme of the novel may be best summed in a word “freedom〞: Huck wants to escape from the bond of civilization andJim wants to escape from the yoke of slavery.Mark Twain uses the raft's journey down the Mississippi River to express his thematic contrasts between innocence and experience, nature and culture, wilderness and civilizati。
英美文学选读考试题
英美文学选读考试题一.9 authors, 20 works. (20)William Shakespearean: The tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.Venus and Adonis, Rape of Lucrece.Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders. Captain SingletonRobert Burns: My heart’s in the Highlands, A Red Red Rose. Auld Lang Syne.William Wordsworth:“The Solitary Reaper”. “We are S even”, “Lucy”, “Michael”, “Simon Lee””Lucy”I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, The Solitary Reaper.John Keats: On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer, On a Grecian Urn, To Psyche, TO a Nightingale. “Ode to Autumn”, “Ode on Melancholy”, “Ode on a Grecian Urn”and “Ode to a Nightingale”. All were written in 1819 with the praise of beauty as their general theme.Jane Austen: Novels: Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, EmmaCharles Dickens: long novel: Pickwick Papers Novels: Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, Barnaby Rudge, Great Expectations, OurMutual FriendsCharlotte Bronte: The Professor, Jane Eyre.Thomas Hardy: The Return of the Native, The Mayer of Casterbridge, Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Jude the Obscure 二,对错(10)1. Act three is the best known and most important of Hamlet’s soliloqui es among all the soliloquies in the play. In this soliloquy, Hamlet reveals his innermost thoughts and emotions, his hesitation in particular, before taking decisive action.2. Robinson Crusoe retells, in the first person singular, a sailor’s adventure on an inhabitated island.3. Defoe traces the development of Robison Crusoe from a innocent and artless youth into a clever and hardened man, tempered by numerous trials in his eventful life.4. Burn s’s poetry was written in the Scottish dialect on a variety of subjects. A large number of his poems deal with themes of love, friendship, Scottish life and nature.5. A second edition 1800 contained more poems and a preface by Wordsworth. The preface to Lyrical Ballads best read as a statement of his principle of poems.6. According to Wordsworth, he believed that “All goodpoetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.” Thus he located many of his poems in “common life” and his poetry is distinguished by the simplicity and purity of his language.7. There he lives a life of poverty and misery, and makes friends with the lively and penniless Mr. Micawder.8. Jane Eyre maintains that women should have equal rights with men, thus this novel has drawn the feminists’ attention in t he twentieth century.三,选择(10)According to Wordsworth, he believed that “All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.”He located many of his poems in “common life” and his poetry is distinguished by the simplicity and purity of his language.四,读选文,回答问题(两诗歌,三小说)作者名字(5个40分)1.Sonnet18: Shakespearian.What is the theme of this sonnet? -- Runs in iambic pentameter, rhymed ABAB CDCD EFEF GG.2.The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark: Shakespearian.What dos e the “to or not to be” soliloquy tell us about Hamlet’s state of mind?―The soliloquy opens with a question,and there two other extended questions in the passage, all of which suggests that Hamlet is undecided, and either unable or unwilling to make up his mind, contemplating suicide, and disenchanted with the suffering of human life. He is cynical, but comforts himself with reflection, even though he is clearly suffering greatly and aware of his own sins and weakness.Why Hamlet hesitates before taking decisive action? -- Hamlet is often indecisive and hesitant, but at other times prone to rash and impulsive acts. Even at the end of this whole narrative of Hamlet's, he still doesn't decide on anything. He's just speaking his thoughts; he's not committing to anything. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud: William Wordsworth.3. I wandered lonely as a cloud: William Wordsworth.What does “daffodil” stand for? ---Daffodil stand for nature in this poem, but the poet does not depict it simply as part of nature. As for Wordsworth, he dose not just want to depict the natural landscape, moreover, he pays much attention to the interaction between mature and human nature. He perceives nature as a stone of truths about human nature.Analyze the form of this poem by taking the first two lines as example. ---This poem consists of four stanzas and in eachstanza there are six lines. In each line there are four feet with a weak- strong sound pattern. The rime scheme in each stanza is a b a b c c.I wandered lonely as a cloud aThat floats on high o’er vales and hills, bWhen all at once I saw a crowd, aA host of golden daffodils; bBeside the lake, beneath the trees cFluttering and dancing in the breeze. C4.To Autumn: John Keats.What are the images used in this poem? Are they carefully arranged? --- Visual image, olfactory image, gustatory image, tactile image, auditory image. Through a series of images, make readers announcement of its scene, feeling rich concrete images.In the poem of To Autumn, he used visual image, auditory image, tactile image, gustatory image, kinaesthetic image and abstractimage to make the abstract impression of autumn specific, appreciable and more colorful. The pursuit to beauty is the way that Keats loves life, nature and also is the way he observes and enjoys life and nature. The pursuit to beau ty is his critique to the darkness of life and society. It also tells how he wanted beautifula nd ideal life in his short life.5.Pride and Prejudice: Jane Austen.Do you agree with the opening statement of the novel? What has the sentence to do with tone of the whole novel? --- Opening statement of the novel set the tone for whole novel. Writer is very serious in stating a universal truth, but what follows, however, is a very common topic of everyday life―marriage. Thus a humorous and ironic effect is achieved. Two key words appear in the statement: marriage and money, which in effect ate subject matter of the whole novel, the focus here is on the link between money and marriage.Based on your reading of the first two chapters of the novels, can you summarize the characteristics of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet? ―Mr. Bennet: he behaved sarcastically humorous, witty and capricious, and insightful in the process of showing his disrespect and dislike of Mrs. Bennet. Her mind was less difficult to develop. She was woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper. When she was discounted, she fancied herself nervous, the business of her life was to get her daughters married; its solace was visiting and news.What is your understanding of the relationship betweenmoney and marriage? --- A happy and strong marriage takes time to build and must be based on mutual feeling, understanding, and respect. Marriage can not built on the basis of money. If there is no real love between the couple, their marriage will become a tragedy eventually. Even though money can give people the comfortable house and the luxurious life, it can not buy a beautiful marriage6.David Copperfield: Charles Dickens.Dose David enjoys his life described in this chapter? How do you know? ---- David works very hard in the factory, but he could simply pay for his living. The real difficulty is that he feels very lonely, because from Monday morning until Saturday night, he has no advice, no encouragements, and no assistance of any kind. Luckily, his stay with the Micawber family in his leisure time turns out to be quite pleasant. They form a very precious friendship.Why dose the novel use the first point of view? --- It helps the author to select details. Only the events and details that David could have seen and experienced can logically be introduced into the story. The narrator’s limited view may create the effect o f suspense. 7.Jane Eyre: Charlotte BronteGive common: 性格特点:Jane Eyre is Straightforward andfeminism. Showed her concerns for the position of women particularly in English society.五,回答问题(20)William Shakespearean154 sonnets. Long poems: Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece. 38 plays.Daniel Defoe1. What are the characteristics of Crusoe from the selected reading?--- Self-reliance; patient; cheerful; clarity, courage and persistence in overcoming difficulties he start a new life in the desolate island, which demands a lot of courage and daring.Robert Burns―ScotlandA Red, Red Rose: wrote in 1794, published in 1796.1. An outstanding feature of this poem is the skillful use simile at the beginning of the poem. Draw on specific lines to explain its effect.---Simile means a comparison between two unlike items that includes like or as. For example, the first line of this poem: “Oh, my love is like a red, red rose"; al so, in this poem, "My love is like the melody". By comparing the speaker' s love to a red, red rose and a melody, readers canclearly sense the speaker's appreciation and deep love to his lover.2. This short poem is actually composed of a series of overstatements. What is the function of them? Give examples to illustrate your point. --- Overstatement is intentional exaggeration, which is, saying more that is actually meant. In this poem, when the speaker says that he will love his lady until all the seas go dry, he is using overstatement. By using this, the poet can attract readers’ attention and the sentence will leave a deep impression on the reader’s mind.William Wordsworth“The break with the conventional poetical tradition of the 18th century”. A second edition in 1800 contained more poems and a preface by Wordsworth. The preface to lyrical Ballads is best read as a statement or his principles of poetry.John KeatsJane AustenThe Plot Pride and Prejudice---Major characters: Elizabeth Bennet(the second eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet); Jane Bennet(first); Lydia Bennet(fifth); Mr. Bingley: a rich, single. Mr. Darcy (Mr. Bingley’sfriend who is a rich and proud young man)Theme: money and marriage.Writing style: Clarity, economy, skillful use of dialogue and tight plotting are the main features of Jane Austen’s style.Subject: Houses, money, estates run.Charles Dickens:David Copperfield:theme: the hero of the novel. The novel depicts David’s life experiences from an innocent boy to a famous wr iter. Style: Of Dickens’s fictional art, the most distinguishing feature is his successful characterization, especially male characters. Dickens was also a great story-teller. His plots were always very large, varied and complicated. However, the plots of his novels changed dramatically as he got older. In his later years, plots primarily became the vehicles for his characterization of thematic concerns, as readers may find in this novel.Charlotte Bronte-Jane Eyre four girls except Ann weres send to Charity School,三个姐妹中最大的,Unhappy life in charity school, with Emily go to Charlotte study. 性格特点:Straightforward直白的人feminism女权主义Romantic浪漫主义Thoughtful1.Give t hree instances in which Jane Eyre draws fromCharlotte Bronte’s background 1). Jane’s life in Lo wood is depicted based on the author’s own experiences in charity school where she spent some unhappy years of her childhood. 2) In Thornfield, Jane falls in love with Mr. Rochester, a rich squire who turns out to have had a mad wife. This is by and large Charlotte’s experience in Brussels where she falls in a married professor. 3) In Thronfield, Jane works as governess, and Charlotte herself worked as teachers and governess during 1837 to 1840.2.Discuss the symbolic use of names in this novel.1)“Eyre”, the surname of Jane, has the same pronunciation as “air”, which may symbolize Jane’s pursuit of freedom. 2) “Blanche”, the given name of Miss. Ingram, has its Fre nch origin, which actually means “white” in English. And it may symbolize the shallowness of Miss. Ingram.3.How does Mr. Rochester treat Jane in this chapter? What Jane’s character attract him ?To start with, Mr. Rochester shows some cruelty in his courtship of Jane so as to make Jane jealous. On hearing this, Jane could not help telling him her true feelings that she longs for equality and does not want to depart with him.?When Mr. Rochester confesses his real intention, Jane feels hurt and refuses his courtship at first.?Then she realizes his intention and accepts his love.?Her self-respect, her desire for independence, her courage, her moral strength, her passion and her personal loyalty and devotion, all these work together to make Mr.Rochester greatly attracted by her.Thomas Hardy:Hardy was a poet before he was a novelist. It was because his early verses could not be accepted that he turned to novel writing.Plot of the novel: Tess of the d’Unbervilles, Hardy’s most famous novel, has a subtitle, which is, A Pure Woman Faithfully Portrayed. It tells a tragic life story of a beautiful,naive country girl, Tess Durbeyfield.General features and comments: The whole story is filled with a feeling of dismal foreboding and doom. Father circumstances and tragic coincidences abound in the book. 12春《英美文学选读》作业1一、单选题1. How many periods are divided into in the creation years of Shakespeare? Three2. Defoe's Robinson Crusoe created the image of anenterprising Englishman, typical of the English bourgeoisie in the 18th century.3. In English poetry the _ iamb _is regarded as the most common foot.4. The excerpt The Other Side of the Island was chosen from Chapter_Ⅸ__ in Robinson Crusoe.5. "Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little,I am soulless and heartless?。
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《英美文学选读》综合测验题库一、单项选择题1。
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。
2. In 1950, ________ was awarded the Nobel Prize for the anti—racist Intruder in the Dust.A。
Scott FitzgeraldB. Ernest Hemingway3. The Hemingway Code heroes are best remembered for their ________。
A。
indestructible spiritB。
pessimistic view of lifeC. war experiencesD. masculinity4. Hemingway’s second big success is ______.A. In Our TimeB。
For Whom the Bell TollsC。
The Sun Also RisesD。
A Farewell to Arms5。
Most critics have agreed that ______ is both an insider and an outsider of the Jazz Age with a double vision。
B。
FrostC. CummingsD. Hemingway6。
The subject matter of Robert Frosts poems focuses on ______。
B. battle scenes of ancient Greek and Roman legendsC。
struggling masses and crowded urban quartersD。
fantasies and mythical happenings7。
Which terms can best describe the modernists concern of the human situation in theirB。
Courage and honor.C。
Tradition and faith。
D。
Poverty and desperation。
8. Which one is not written by Henry James?A. The AmbassadorsB。
The Wings of the DoveC. The Bostonians9。
While Mark Twain satirized European manners at times, _______ was an admirer。
A。
O。
HenryC。
Walt WhitmanD. Jack London10。
More than five hundred poems that Dickinson wrote are about nature,in which her general _______ about the relationship between man and nature is well expressed。
A。
skepticismB。
eulogyC。
happinessD。
denial11。
The greatest work written by Theodore Dreiser is _______.A。
Sister CarrieB. An American TragedyC. The FinancierD。
The Titan12。
“Even then he stood there, h idden wholly in that kindness which is night,while the uprising fumes filled the room。
When the odor reached his nostrils, he quit his attitude and fumbled for the bed. ‘what’s the use?’ he said,weakly, as he stretched himself to rest。
"The passage is taken from _______.A。
Sons and Lovers by D.H LawrenceB。
Jane Eyre by Charlotte BronteC。
Sister Carrie by Theodore DreiserD。
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte13。
”This is my letter to the world” is a poem expressing Emily Dickinsons _______ about her communication with the outside world.A. happinessB. angerD. sorrow14。
Theodore Dreiser is generally regarded as one of America’ _______。
A. naturalistsB。
realistsC. modernistsD. romanticists15. Which of the following is not a work of Emily Dickenson's?A. This is my letter to the WorldB. I heard a fly buzz-when I diedC. The Road Not TakenD. I like to see it lap the miles16。
________ is a school of modern painting,whose emphasis is on the formal structure of a work of art and especially on the multiple—perspective viewpoints.A。
ExpressionismB. ImpressionismC. CubismD。
Imagism17. “He is the last of the romantic heroes,whose energy and sense of commitment take him in search of his personal Grail;his failure magnifies to a great extent the end of the American Dream。
"The character referred to in the passage is most likely the protagonist of ________。
A. Fitzgerald’s The Great GatsbyB。
Dreiser’s An American TragedyC. Hemingway's For Whom the Bell TollsD. Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn18. Almost all Faulkners heroes turned out to be tragic because ________。
A。
all enjoyed living in the declining American SouthB. none of them was conditioned by the civilization and social institutionsC. most of them were prisoners of the pastD。
none were successful in their attempt to explain the inexplicable19。
________ is a representative of the 1930s, when “novels of social protest" became dominant on the American literary scene.A. Ezra PoundB。
F。
Scott FitzgeraldC. Robert Lee FrostD。
John Steinbeck20. In _______,Robert Frost compares life to a journey, and he is doubtful whether he willregret his choice or not when he is old, because the choice has made all the difference。
A. “After Apple-Picking”B。
“The Road Not Taken"C. “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”D。
“Fire and Ice"21。
American writers after World War Ⅰself-consciously acknowledged that they were (a)"_______”,devoid of faith and alienated from the Western civilization。
A。
Lost GenerationB。
Beat GenerationC。
Sons of LibertyD. Angry Young Men22。
Which of the following statements about E. Grierson, the protagonist in Faulkner’s story "A Rose for Emily," is NOT true?A. She has a distorted personality.B. She is physically deformed and paralyzed。