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英美文学选读-阶段测评3成绩:87.5分一、Multiple Choice 共40 题题号: 1 本题分数:2.5 分wrence’s novels( )are generally regarded as his masterpieces.A、The Rainbow,Women in LoveB、The Rainbow,Sons and LoversC、Sons and Lovers,Lady Chatterley’s LoverD、Women in Love,Lady Chatterley’s Lover(P370.para2)劳伦斯的成名作是《儿子和情人》,而其代表作是《虹》和《恋爱中的女人》标准答案:A考生答案:A本题得分:2.5 分题号: 2 本题分数:2.5 分T.S.Eliot’s poem( )is heavily indebted to James Joyce in terms of the stream - of -consciousness technique,also a prelude to The Waste Land.A、“Prufrock”B、“Gerontion”C、The Hollow MenD、Lyrical Ballads(P358.para3)“Gerontion”是一部用戏剧式独白写成的诗歌,是《荒原》的前奏曲,也采用了意识流派的文风。

标准答案:B考生答案:B本题得分:2.5 分题号: 3 本题分数:2.5 分wrence’s autobiographical novel is( ).A、The RainbowB、Women in LoveC、Sons and LoversD、Lady Chatterley’s Lover(P369.para1)劳伦斯的作品大多都是从心理上去探求让人的本能的,同时也反映人性中最内在的东西。

其作品《儿子和情人》真实地反映了自己在童年时期的家庭状况,被视为其半自传体小说。

英美文学选读试题详解

英美文学选读试题详解

英美文学选读-阶段测评3成绩:87.5分一、Multiple Choice 共40 题题号: 1 本题分数:2.5 分wrence’s novels( )are generally regarded as his masterpieces.A、The Rainbow,Women in LoveB、The Rainbow,Sons and LoversC、Sons and Lovers,Lady Chatterley’s LoverD、Women in Love,Lady Chatterley’s Lover(P370.para2)劳伦斯的成名作是《儿子和情人》,而其代表作是《虹》和《恋爱中的女人》标准答案:A考生答案:A本题得分:2.5 分题号: 2 本题分数:2.5 分T.S.Eliot’s poem( )is heavily indebted to James Joyce in terms of the stream - of -consciousness technique,also a prelude to The Waste Land.A、“Prufrock”B、“Gerontion”C、The Hollow MenD、Lyrical Ballads(P358.para3)“Gerontion”是一部用戏剧式独白写成的诗歌,是《荒原》的前奏曲,也采用了意识流派的文风。

标准答案:B考生答案:B本题得分:2.5 分题号: 3 本题分数:2.5 分wrence’s autobiographical novel is( ).A、The RainbowB、Women in LoveC、Sons and LoversD、Lady Chatterley’s Lover(P369.para1)劳伦斯的作品大多都是从心理上去探求让人的本能的,同时也反映人性中最内在的东西。

其作品《儿子和情人》真实地反映了自己在童年时期的家庭状况,被视为其半自传体小说。

英美文学选读试题自学考试答案解析(完整版)

英美文学选读试题自学考试答案解析(完整版)

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I.Multiple Choice(40points in all,1for each)Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement.Mark your choice by blackening the corresponding letter A,B,C orD on the answer sheet.1.Shakespeare has established his giant position in world literature with his______plays,154sonnets and2long poems.BA.27B.38C.47D.522.john Milton’s literary achievement can be divided into three groups:the early poetic works,the middle prose pamphlets and the last______.CA.romancesB.dramasC.great poemsD.ballads3.The novels of______are the first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower—class people.CA.John MiltonB.Daniel DefoeC.Henry FieldingD.Jonathan Swift4.The work ranked by many critics as William Wordswoth’s greatest work was______.BA.Lyrical BalladsB.The PreludeC.Poems in Two VolumesD.The Excursion5.The author of The History of Tom Jones,a Foundling is ______.CA.Daniel DefoeB.Johathan SwiftC.Henry FieldingD.William Blake6.The works of______are famous for the depiction of the life of the middle—class women,particularly governess.*BA.Charlotte BrontewrenceC.Thomas HardyD.Jane Austen7.All of the following writings are created by William Wordsworth EXCEPT______.DA.“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.”B.“Composed upon Westminster Bridge,Septemer3,1802.”C.“The Solitary Reaper.”D.“The Chimney Sweeper.”8.The most important representative work by Jonathan Swift is______.DA.A Tale of a TubB.The Battle of the BooksC.A Modest ProposalD.Gulliver's Travels9“If winter comes,can Spring be far behind?”comes from Shelly’s______.DA.“To a Skylark”B.“Adonais”C.“Ode to Liberty”D.“Ode to the West Wind”10.In Jane Austen's first novel______,she tells a story about two sisters and their love affairs.BA.Pride and PrejudiceB.Sense and SensibilityC.EmmaD.Persuasion11.Charles Dickens is one of the greatest______writers of the Victorian Age.DA.romanticB.modernistC.socialistD.critical realist12.Charlotte Bronte's most autobiographical work,______ is largely based on her experience in Brussels.AA.Jane EyreB.ShirleyC.VilletteD.The Professor13.William Wordsworth's theory of poetry is calling for simple themes drawn from humble life expressed in the language of ordinary people.The preface to the second edition of______acts as a manifesto for the new school and sets forth his own critical creed.AA.Lyrical BalladsB.The PreludeC.Poems in Two VolumsD.The Excursion14.George Bernard Shaw's play______established his position as the leading playwright of his time.*CA.Widowers’HousesB.Too True to Be GoodC.Mrs.Warren's ProfessionD.Candida15.Eliot's most important single poem______,has been hailed as a landmark and a model of the20th-century English poetry.BA.The Hollow MenB.The Waste LandC.Prurrock and Other ObservationsD.Poems1909-2516. D. /doc/info-926f89635dbfc77da26925 c52cc58bd630869377.htmlwrence’s autobiographical novel, ______shows the conflict between the earthy,coarse, energetic but often drunken father and the refined,strong —willed and up—climbing mother.AA.Sons and LoversB.The White PeacockC.The TrespasserD.The Rainbow17.“To be,or not to be—that is the question;/Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer./The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,/Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,/And by opposing end them?”These words are from ______.DA.King LearB.RomeoC.AntonioD.Hamlet18.John Milton’s last important work,______is the most powerful dramatic poem on the Greek model.AA.Paradise LostB.Paradise RegainedC.Samson AgonistesD.Lydidas19.The author of Moll Flanders and Captain Singleton is ______.BA.John MiltonB.Daniel DefoeC.Henry FieldingD.Jonathan Swift20.Drapier is the pseudonym of______.AA.Jonathan SwiftB.Daniel DefoeC.Henry FieldingD.William Blake21.One of Dickens'later works,______in which he presents a criticism of the governmental branches which run an indefinite procedure of management ofaffairs and keep the innocent in prison for life.BA.Bleak HouseB.Little DorritC.Hard TimesD.A Tale of Two Cities22.In the second part of Gulliver's Travels,Gulliver told his experience in______.AA.BrobdingnagB.LilliputC.Flying IslandD.Houyhnhnm23.Faulkner used the narrative techniques to construct his stories,which include______and mythological and biblical allusions.AA.symbolismB.free indirect speechC.contrastD.dialogue24.Ernest Hemingway,had been trying to demonstrate in his works an unvarying code,known as“______,”which is actually an attitude towards life.BA.facing the realityB.grace under pressureC.honesty with benevolenceD.security coming first25.The Blithedale Romance is a novel written by Hawthorne to reveal his own experience on the Brook Farm and his own methods as a______novelist.CA.naturalistB.imagistC.psychologicalD.feminist26.Theodore Dreiser's focus shifted from the pathos of the helpless protagonists at the bottom of the society to the power of the Americanfinancial tycoons in the late19th century in his work ______.DA.The GeniusB.An American TragedyC.Dreiser Looks at RussiaD.“Trilogy of Desire”27.Emily Dickinson frequently uses personae to render the tone more familiar to the reader,and______to vivify some abstract ideas.DA.imagesB.metaphorC.symbolsD.personification28.In his later works,Melville becomes more reconciled with the______,in which he admits,one must live by rules.BA.womenB.world of manC.familyD.politicians29.Walt Whitman's______has always been considered a monumental work which commands great attention in America.BA.The Pilgrim’s ProgressB.Leaves of GrassC.A Passage to IndiaD.Rip Van Winkle30.Mark Twain’s full literary career began to blossom in1869with a travel book______,an account of American tourists in Europe.AA.Innocents AbroadB.The Portrait of A LadyC.The Grapes of WrathD.The Great Gatsby31.With the development of the modern novel and the common acceptance of the______approach,Henry James's importance,as well as his wide influence as a novelist and critic,has been all the more conspicuous.AA.deconstructionB.romanticC.FreudianD.analytic32.Emily Dickinson addresses the issues that concern the whole human beings in her poems,which include religion, death,______,love,and nature.AA.immortalityB.wealthC.powerD.politics33.In Sister Carrie Theodore Dreiser expressed his______ pursuit by expounding the purposelessness of life and attacking the conventional moral standards.BA.romanticB.realisticC.naturalisticD.modernistic34.Profound ideas in Robert Frost's poems are delivered under the disguise of______.AA.the plain language and the simple formB.the vivid descriptionsC.metaphorsD.the complicated narration35.In______Hemingway presents his philosophy about life and death throughthe depiction of the bullfight as a kind of microcosmic tragedy.BA.The Green Hills of AfricaB.Death in the AfternoonC.The Snows of KilimanjaroD.To Have and Have Not36Of Faulkner’s literary works,four novels are masterpieces by any standards:The Sound and the Fury, Light in August,Absalom,Absalom!and______.AA.Go Down,MosesB.The FableC.The Snows of KilimanjaroD.To Have and Have Not37.As Whitman saw it,______could play a vital part in the process ofcreating a new nation.CA.musicB.fictionC.poetryD.painting38.In many of Hawthorne's stories and novels,the Puritan concept of life is condemned,especially in his The house of the Seven Gables and______.BA.Go Down,MosesB.The Scarlet LetterC.As I Lay DyingD.Song of Myself39.Henry James is generally regarded as the forerunner of the______and the founder of psychological realism.BA.“stream-of-consciousness”novelsB.metaphysical poemsC.short storiesD.literary criticism40.Generally considered to be Henry James’s masterpiece,______incarnates the clash between the Old World and the New in the life journey of an American girl in a Europe an cultural environment.BA.The AmbassadorsB.Daisy MillerC.The AmericanD.The Portrait of A Lady非选择题部分注意事项:用黑色字迹的签字笔或钢笔将答案写在答题纸上,不能答在试题卷上。

最新7月全国自考英美文学选读试题及答案解析

最新7月全国自考英美文学选读试题及答案解析

全国2018年7月自考英美文学选读试题课程代码:00604请将答案填在答题纸相应的位置上(全部题目用英文作答)PART 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. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.1. The first mass movement of the English working class and the early sign of the awakening of the poor, oppressed people is_____.A. The Enclosure MovementB. The Protestant ReformationC. The Enlightenment MovementD. The Chartist Movement2. Daniel Defoe’s works are all the following EXCEPT_____.A. Moll FlandersB. A Tale of a TubC. A Journal of the Plague YearD. Colonel Jack3. “Metaphysical Poetry” refers to the works of the 17th - century writers who wrote under the influenceof _____.A. John DonneB. Alexander PopeC. Christopher MarloweD. John Milton4. The most important play among Shakespeare’s comedies is _____.A. A Midsummer Night’s DreamB. The Merchant of VeniceC. As You Like ItD. Twelfth Night5. The most perfect example of the verse drama after Greek style in English is Milton’s _____.A. Paradise LostB. Paradise RegainedC. Samson AgonistesD. Areopagitica6. Which of the following descriptions of Enlightenment Movement is NOT true?A. It was a progressive intellectual movement that flourished in France.B. It was a furtherance of the Renaissance of the 15th and 16th centuries.C. The purpose was to enlighten the whole world with moderu philosophical and artistic ideas.D. The Enlighteners advocate individual education.7. Neoclassicists had some fixed laws and rules for prose EXCEPT_____.A. being preciseB. being directC. being flexibleD. being satiric8. A good style of prose“proper works in proper places”was defined by_____.A. John MiltonB. Henry FieldingC. Jonathan SwiftD.T.S. Eliot9. The major theme of Jane Austen’s novels is_____.A. love and moneyB. money and social statusC. social status and marriageD. love and marriage10. Wordsworth’s_____ is perhaps the most anthologized poem in English literature.A. “To a Skylark”B. “I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud”C. “An Evening Walk”D. “My Heart Leaps Up”11. William Blake’s work ______ marks his entry into maturity.A. Songs of ExperienceB. Marriage of Heaven and HellC. Songs of InnocenceD. The Book of Los12. Best of all the Romantic well- known lyric pieces is Shelley’s_____.A. “The Cloud”B. “To a Skylark”C. “Ode to a Nightingale”D. “Ode to the West Wind”13. In the Victorian Period _____ became the most widely read and the most vital and challenging expression of progressive thought.A. poetryB. novelC. proseD. drama14. In Charles Dickens’early novels, he attacks one or more specific social evils, _____is a good example of describing the dehumanizing workhouse system and the dark, criminal underworld life.A. David CopperfieldB. Oliver TwistC. Great ExpectationsD. Dombey and Son15. Thomas Hardy’s most cheerful and idyllic work is_____.A. The Return of the NativeB. Far from the Maddin CrowdC. Under the Greenwood TreeD. The Woodlanders16. The rise of _____and new science greatly incited modernist writers to make new explorations on human natures and human relationships.A. the existentialistic ideaB. the irrational philosophyC. scientific socialismD. social Darwinism17. In Modern English literature, the literary interest of _____ lay in the tracing of the psychological development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehu-manizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature.A. George Bernard ShawB.T.S. EliotC. Oscar WildeD.D.H. Lawrence18. George Bernard Shaw’s _____ is a better play of the later period, with the author’s almost nihilistic bitterness on the subjects of the cruelty and madness of WWI and the aimlessness and disillusion of the young.A. Too True to Be GoodB. Mrs. Warren’s ProfessionC. Widowers’HousesD. Fanny’s First Play19. Renaissance first started in Italy, with the flowering of the following fields EXCEPT_____.A. architectureB. paintingC. sculptureD. literature20. English Romanticism,as a historical phase of literature,is generally said to have begun with the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge’s_____.A. Poetical SketchesB. A Defence of PoetryC. Lyrical BalladsD. The Prelude21. Charlotte Bront e ’s work _____ is famous for the depiction of the life of the middle - class working women, particularly governesses.A. Jane EyreB. Wuthering HeightsC. The ProffessorD. Shirley22. The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot is a poem concerned with the _____ breakup of a modern civilization in which human life has lost its meaning, significance and purpose.A. spiritualB. religiousC. politicalD. physical23. Perhaps Emily Dickinson’s greatest interpretation of the moment of _____ is to be found in “I heard a Fly buzz--when I died—”, a poem universally regarded as one of her masterpieces.A. fantasyB. birthC. crisisD. death24. The fiction of the American _____ period ranges from the comic fables of Washing-ton Irving to the social realism of Rebecca Harding Davis.A. RomanticB. RevolutionaryC. ColonialD. Modernistic25. The modern _____ technique was frequently and skillfully exploited by Faulkner to emphasize the reactions and inner musings of the narrator.A. stream - of - consciousnessB. flashbackC. mosaicD. narrative and argumentative26. By means of “_____,”Whitman believed, he has turned the poem into an openfield, an area of vital possibility where the reader can allow his own imagination to play.A. balanced structureB. free verseC. fixed verseD. regular rhythm27. In 1954, _____ was awarded the Nobel Prize for “his powerful style -forming mas tery of the art”of creating modern fiction.A. Ernest HemingwayB. Sherwood AndersonC. Stephen CraneD. Henry James28. The period ranging from 1865 to 1914 has been referred to as the Age of _____ in the literary history of the United States, which is actually a movement or tendency that dominated the spirit of American literature.A. RationalismB. RomanticismC. RealismD. Modernism29. When he was eighty - seven he read his poetry at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy in 1961. This poet was_____.A. Ezra PoundB. Robert FrostC. E. E. CummingsD. Wallace Stevens30. The renowned American critic H. L. Mencken regarded _____ as “the true father of our national literature.”A. Bret HarteB. Walt WhitmanC. Washington IrvingD. Mark Twain31. We can easily find in Theodore Dreiser’s fiction a world of jungle, where “kill or to be killed”was the law. Dreiser’s _____ found expression in almost every book he wrote.A. naturalismB. romanticismC. cubismD. classicalism32. A preoccupation with the Calvinistic view of _____ and the mystery of evil marked the works of Hawthorne, Melville and a host of lesser writers.A. love and mercyB. bitterness and hatredC. original sinD. eternal life33. “H e possessed none of the usual aids to a writer’ s career: no money, no friend in power, no formal education worthy of mention, no family tradition in letters. ”This is a description most suitable to the American writer_____.A. Henry JamesB. Theodore DreiserC. W.D. Howells D. Nathaniel Hawthorne34. People generally considered _____ to be Henry James’ masterpiece, which incar nates the clash between the Old World and the New in the life journey of an American girl in a European cultural environment.A. The EuropeansB. Daisy MillerC. The Portrait of A LadyD. The Private Life35. The Jazz Age of the 1920s characterized by frivolity and carelessness is brought vividly to life in_______.A. The Great GatsbyB. The Sun Also RisesC. The Grapes of WrathD. Tales of the Jazz Age36. Guided by the principle of adhering to the truthful treatment of life, the American _______ introduced industrial workers and farmers, ambitious businessmen and vagrants, prostitutes and unheroic soldiers as major characters in fiction.A. romanticistsB. modernistsC. psychologistsD. realists37. The American literary spokesman of the Jazz Age is often acclaimed to be_______.A. Henry JamesB. Robert FrostC. William FaulknerD.F. Scott Fitzgerald38. By writing Moby - Dick, _______ reached the most flourishing stage of his literary creativity.A. Herman MelvilleB. Edgar Ellen PoeC. William FaulknerD. Theodore Dreiser39. 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. Light in AugustB. The Sound and the Fur yC. Absalom, Absalom!D. The Hamlet40. Hawthorne was not a Puritan himself, but his view of man and human history origina ted, to a great extent, in_______.A. CalvinismB. PuritanismC. RealismD. NaturalismPART 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. Behold her, single in the field,Yon solitary Highland lass!Reaping and singing by herself;Stop here, or gently pass!Alone she cuts and binds the grain,And sings a melancholy strain;O listen! For the Vale profoundIs overflowing with the sound.Questions:A. Identify the poet.B. What’ s the rhyme scheme for the stanza?C. What’s the theme of the poem?42. The following quotation is from Mrs. Warren’s Profession:VIVIE: [ intensely interested by this time] No; but why did you choose that business?Saving money and good management will succeed in any business.MRS. WARREN: Yes, saving money. But where can a woman get the money to save in any other business?Could you save out of four shillings a week and keep yourself dressed as well? Not you. Of course, ifyou’ re a plain woman and cant earn anything more ; or if you have a turn for music, or the stage, ornewspaper - writing ; that’s different...Questions :A. Identify the playwright of the above quotation.B. What business do you think Mrs. Warren is involved in?C. What's the theme of the play?43. My little horse must think it queerTo stop without a farmhouse nearBetween the woods and frozen lakeThe darkest evening of the year.Questions:A. Identify the poet and the title of the poem from which this stanza is taken.B. What figure of speech is used in this stanza?C. Briefly interpret the meaning of this stanza.44. “Where are we going, Dad?”Nick asked.“Over to the Indian camp. There is an Indian lady very sick. ”“Oh,”said Nick.Across the bay they found the other boat beached. Uncle George was smoking a cigar in the dark. The young Indian pulled the boat way up on the beach. Uncle George gave both the Indians cigars.Questions :A. Identify the author and the title of the work from which the passage is taken.B. What does Dad imply when he says “There is an Indian lady very sick”?C. Why is Dad going to the Indian camp?Ⅲ. Questions and Answers (24 points in all, 6 for each)Give a brief answer to each of the following 9uestions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.45. What’ s the literary style of Shelley as a Romantic poet?46. What are the main features of Bernard Shaw’s plays with regard to the theme, charac-terization and plot?47. Henry James’ literary criticism is an indispensable part of his contribution to literature. What’s his outlook inliterary criticiam?48. Local colorism is a unique variation of American literary realism. Who is the most famous local colorist?What are local colorists most concerned?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. Define modernism in English literature. Name two major modernistic British writers and list one major workby each.50. Briefly discuss the term “The Lost Generation”and name the leading figures of this literary movement (Giveat least three).。

英美文学选读试题详解 (2)

英美文学选读试题详解 (2)

英美文学选读-阶段测评4成绩:30分一、Multiple Choice 共40 题题号: 1 本题分数:2.5 分( )is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th—century “stream—of—consciousness” novels and the founder of psychological realism.A、Theodore DreiserB、William FaulknerC、Henry JamesD、Mark Twain(P498.para.2)亨利.詹姆斯是美国现实主义文学大师,他的作品往往涉及美国之外的主题,其作品的风格是“心理活动”。

被誉为20世纪美国意识流文学的先驱。

标准答案:C考生答案:D本题得分:0 分题号: 2 本题分数:2.5 分Closely related to Dickinson’s religious poetry are her poems concerning( ),ranging over the physical as well as the psychological and emotional aspects of death.A、love and natureB、death and universeC、death and immortalityD、family and happiness(P518para2)迪金森的诗歌涉及宗教和爱情两方面,而其涉及宗教的诗歌往往是以死亡和永恒为主题的,所以答案是C。

标准答案:C考生答案:A本题得分:0 分题号: 3 本题分数:2.5 分H.L.Mencken considered( )“the true father of our national literature”.A、Bret HarteB、Mark TwainC、Washington IrvingD、Walt Whitman(P477.para1)马克.吐温是美国文学巨匠,他以两部“历险记”创造可美国文学史上的一个奇迹,那就是开创了美国文学的一个新时代,所以将他誉为“真正的美国文学之父”。

英美文学选读考题分析

英美文学选读考题分析

英美文学选读考题分析一、试卷构成《英美文学选读》全国卷由四部分组成:第一部分是40分的选择题,每题1分,覆盖面十分广泛。

从以往几次试卷来看,该部分主要考核英美文学史,也包括少量选读中的内容,多属于常识性知识,例如今年14题要求辨别If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?的作者;2001年11题要求辨别It was a miracle of rare device, A sunny pleasure done with caves of ice.的作者和出处;还有每年必定会有一题考核作品中出现的人物,例如2001年第8题是Sheridan’s The School for Scandal 中的人物,今年28题是The Scarlet Letter的人物。

由于内容大多属于大纲中的“识记”性知识,不需要多少理解,因此正确率相应比较高。

但有时题目的切入点十分灵活比如2001年第6题,需要考生有较好的基本功。

第二部分是四道共16分的阅读理解。

考题内容均取自选读部分,一般是两篇诗歌,两篇小说,要求指出:A)作者和作品出处(1分)B)作品中具体某个词或词组的确切意义(1分)C)表述该选段的思想内容(2分)。

考生需要认真研读作品,和作品后面的注释,平时做一些读书笔记。

第三部分是四道共24分的简答题,内容的跨越比较大,既有阅读理解部分的延伸,也有某一时期的文学思潮,还有对某一断代史的简论,答对率非常低。

第四部分是两题共20分的问答题。

一般是某个重要作家或作品的特色以及对他们的评价。

二、试卷评析文学术语(俗称的名词解释)是基本的文学常识,是对文学中共性问题的抽象概括,因此对于这些术语不可等闲视之。

尽管全国卷没有单列的文学术语考核(省卷的题型可能不同),但是可能糅合在选择题中和第三部分的简答中。

比较重要的名词解释有:所有以-ism结尾的名词,各个时期的文学运动,heroic couplet, Gothic novel, Byronic hero, Lost Generation, dramatic monologue, stream of consciousness, metaphysical poets等等,考生可以自己总结。

英美文学选读试题详解3

英美文学选读试题详解3

英美文学选读-阶段测评3成绩:分一、Multiple Choice 共40 题题号: 1 本题分数: 分novels( )are generally regarded as his masterpieces.A、The Rainbow,Women in LoveB、The Rainbow,Sons and LoversC、Sons and Lovers,Lady Chatterley’s LoverD、Women in Love,Lady Chatterley’s Lover()劳伦斯的成名作是《儿子和情人》,而其代表作是《虹》和《恋爱中的女人》标准答案:A考生答案:A本题得分:分题号: 2 本题分数: 分poem( )is heavily indebted to James Joyce in terms of the stream - of -consciousness technique,also a prelude to The Waste Land.A、“Prufrock”B、“Gerontion”C、The Hollow MenD、Lyrical Ballads()“Gerontion”是一部用戏剧式独白写成的诗歌,是《荒原》的前奏曲,也采用了意识流派的文风。

标准答案:B考生答案:B本题得分:分题号: 3 本题分数: 分autobiographical novel is( ).A、The RainbowB、Women in LoveC、Sons and LoversD、Lady Chatterley’s Lover()劳伦斯的作品大多都是从心理上去探求让人的本能的,同时也反映人性中最内在的东西。

其作品《儿子和情人》真实地反映了自己在童年时期的家庭状况,被视为其半自传体小说。

标准答案:C考生答案:C本题得分:分题号: 4 本题分数: 分The typical representatives of s early plays are( ).A、Man and Superman,The Apple CartB、Widowers’ House,Mrs. Warren’ s ProfessionC、Candida,M rs. Warren’ s ProfessionD、The Apple Cart,Widowers’ House(P321-322)。

英美文学选读真题和答案 (7)

英美文学选读真题和答案 (7)

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.。

英美文学选读试题详解2

英美文学选读试题详解2

英美文学选读-阶段测评2成绩:85分一、Multiple Choice 共40 题题号: 1 本题分数:2.5 分The assertion that poetry originates from “emotion recollected in tranquility” belongs to ( ).A、William WordsworthB、Samuel Taylor ColeridgeC、Robert SoutheyD、William Blake(P179.para.2)华兹华斯的文学观点是:诗歌的创作没有既定的规则,诗歌素材的来源应该是感观的直接经验。

题干中的陈述,是他再《抒情民谣》第二版的序言中表述的。

标准答案:A考生答案:A本题得分:2.5 分题号: 2 本题分数:2.5 分Because of her sensitivity to universal patterns of human behavior,( ) has brought the English novel,as an art of form,to its maturity.A、Charlotte Bront?B、Jane AustenC、Emily Bront?D、Ann Radcliffe(P226.para.2)简.奥斯丁生活在英国浪漫主义文学繁荣时期,但她的小说确实现实主义风格的。

她多以男女爱情作为小说的主题,并通过对真正爱情的诠释来反应人性,是英国最伟大的小说家之一。

标准答案:B考生答案:B本题得分:2.5 分题号: 3 本题分数:2.5 分English Romanticism,as a historical phase of literature,is generally said to have ended in 1832 with ( ).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.Elio t’s The waste LandD、the passage of the Bill of Rights in the Parliament(P157.para.1)英国的浪漫主义文学时代开始于1798年,标志性的事件是《抒情民谣》的出版,结束于1832年,标志性的事件是斯格特之死和“改革法案”的通过。

英美文学选读真题和答案 (6)

英美文学选读真题和答案 (6)

202X年4月高等教育自学考试全国统一命题考试英美文学选读真题请将答案填在答题纸相应位置上Ⅰ. Multiple Choice (40 points in all, 1 for each)Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Write your answer in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.1.The work that presented, for the first time in English literature, a comprehensive realistic picture of the medieval English society and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life is most likely ______________. A.William Langland’ s Piers Plowman B.Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury TalesC.John Gower’s Confession Amantis D.Sir Gawain and the Green Knight2.The tragedy of Dr. Faustus, the protagonist in Christopher Marlowe’s The Tragic History ofDr. Faustus , is the very fact that______________.A.man is confined to timeB.he tried to join Africa to SpainC.he became a man without soul after he sold itD.he conjured up Helen, the lady who was partially responsible for the breaking-up of the Trojan War3.The sentence “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day〞is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare’s ______________. A.comedies B.tragediesC.sonnets D.histories4.Paradise Lost is actually a story taken from ______________.A.the Renaissance B.the Old TestamentC.Greek Mythology D.the New Testament5.Spenser’s masterpiece _____________ is a great poem of its time.A.The Faerie Queene B.The Shepheardes CalenderC.The Canterbury Tales D.Metamorphoses6.______________ is the essence of the Renaissance.A.Poetry B.DramaC.Humanism D.Reason7.The most famous dramatists in the Renaissance England are Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare and ______________.A.John Milton B.John MarloweC.Ben Jonson D.Edmund Spenser8.“To be, or not to be—that is the question〞is a line taken from______________.A.Hamlet B.OthelloC.King Lear D.The merchant of venice9.Francis Bacon’s essays are famous for their brevity, compactness and ______________.A.complicity B.complexityC.powerfulness D.mildness10.Literature of Neoclassicism is different from that of Romanticism in that ______________.A.the former celebrates reason, rationality, order and instruction while the latter sees literature as an expression of an复习文档individual’s feeling and experiencesB.the former is heavily religious but the latter secularC.the former is an intellectual movement, the purpose of which is to arouse the middle class for political rights while the latter is concerned with the personal cultivationD.the former advocates the “return to nature〞whereas the latter turns to the ancient Greek and Roman writers for its models.11.Daniel Defoe describes ______________ as a typical English Middle- class man of the eighteenth century, the very prototype of the empire builder or the pioneer colonist.A.Tom Jones B.GulliverC.Moll Flanders D.Robinson Crusoe12.______________ is a typical feature of Swift’s writings.A.Bitter satire B.Elegant styleC.Casual narration D.Complicated sentence structure13.The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan is often said to be concerned with the search for ______________. A.material wealth B.spiritual salvationC.universal truth D.self- fulfillment14.Alexander Pope strongly advocated ______________ , emphasizing that literary works should be judged by rules of order, reason, logic, restrained emotion, good taste and decorum.A.Sentimentalism B.RomanticismC.Idealism D.Neoclassicism15.“Metaphysical poetry〞refers to the works of the 17th- century writers who wrote under the influence of ______________.A.John Donne B.Alexander PopeC.Christopher Marlowe D.John Milton16.It is generally regarded that Keats’ s most important and mature poems are in the form of ______________.A.ode B.elegyC.epic D.sonnet17.______________ is the most outstanding stream of consciousness novelist, with ___________ as his encyclopedia – like masterpiece .A.James Joyce, Ulysses B.E.M. Foster, A Passage to IndiaC.D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers D.Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway18.Which of the following poems is a landmark in English poetryA.Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor ColeridgeB.“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud〞by William WordsworthC.“Remorse 〞by Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD.Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman19.The literary form which is fully developed and the most flourishing during the Romantic Period is ______________. A.prose B.dramaC.novel D.poetry20.Which of the following poems by T.S. Eliot is hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th century English poetry A.Poems 1909-1925 B.The Hollow ManC.Prufrock and Other Observations D.The Waste Land复习文档21.“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 devicesD.use of the dramatic monologue22.Dickens’ works are characterized by a mingling of ______________ and pathos.A.humor B.satireC.passion D.metaphor23.Walt Whitman, whose ______________ established him as the most popular American poet of the 19th century. A.Leaves of Grass B.Go Down, MosesC.The Marble Faun D.As I Lay Dying24.______________ has always been regarded as a writer who “perfected the best classic style that American Literature ever produced〞.A.Edgar Ellen Poe B.Walt WhitmanC.Henry David Thoreau D.Washington Irving25.The Romantic Period, one of the most important periods in the history of American literature, stretches from the end of ______________ to the outbreak of ____________.A.the 17th century…the American War of IndependenceB.the 18th century…the American Civil WarC.the 17th century…the American Civil WarD.the 18th century…the U.S. – Mexican War26.Which of the following statements is NOT true of American TranscendentalismA.It can be clearly defined as a part of American Romantic literary movement.B.It can be defined philosophically as “the recognition in man of the capacity of knowing truth intuitively〞.C.Ralph Waldo Emerson was the chief advocate of this spiritual movement.D.It sprang from South America in the late 19th century.27.The theme of Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle is ______________.A.the conflict of human psyche B.the fight against racial discriminationC.the familial conflict D.the nostalgia for the unrecoverable past28.The unofficial manifesto for the Transcendental Club was ______________, Emerson’s first little book, which established him ever since as the most eloquent spokesman of New England Transcendentalism.A.The American Scholar B.Self—relianceC.Nature D.The Over—Soul29.Nathaniel Hawthorne held an unceasing interest in the “interior of the heart 〞of man’s being. So in almost every book he wrote, Hawthorne discusses______________.A.love and hatred B.sin and evilC.frustration and self—denial D.balance and self—discipline30.In Young Goodman Brown by Hawthorne, the name of Goodman Brown’s wife is ______________, which also contains many symbolic meanings.A.Ruth B.HesterC.Faith D.Mary31.Which of the following statements might be true of the theme of Song of Myself by Whitman复习文档A.This poem describes the growth of a child who learned about the world around him and improved himself accordingly. B.This poem shows the author’s cynical sentiments against the American Civil War.C.This poem reflects the author’s belief in Unitarianism or Deism.D.This poem reflects the author’s belief in the singularity and equality of all beings in value.32.In Moby—Dick, the white whale symbolizes ______________ for Melville, for it is complex, unfathomable, malignant, and beautiful as well.A.nature B.human societyC.whaling industry D.truth33.Realism was a reaction against Romanticism or a move away from the bias towards romance and self—creating fictions, and paved the way to ______________.A.Cynicism B.ModernismC.Transcendentalism D.Neo—Classicalism34.Hemingway once described Mark Twain’s novel ______________ the one book from which “all modern American literature comes〞.A.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn B.The Adventures of Tom SawyerC.The Gilded Age D.The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg35.__________ is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th—century “stream—of—consciousness〞novels and the founder of psychological realism.A.Theodore Dreiser B.William FaulknerC.Henry James D.Mark Twain36.Which of the following statements is NOT true of Emily Dickinson and her poetryA.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.37.As a genre, naturalism emphasized ______________ as important deterministic forces shaping individualized characters who were presented in special and detailed circum-stances.A.theological doctrinesB.heredity and environmentC.education and hard workD.various opportunities and economic success38.Ezra Pound, a leading spokesman of the “______________〞, was one of the most important poets in his time. A.Imagist Movement B.Cubist MovementC.Reformist Movement D.Transcendentalist Movement39.Eugene O’Neill’s first full—length play, ______________, won him the first Pulitzer Prize. Its theme is the choice between life and death, the interaction of subjective and objective factors.A.Bound East for Cardiff B.The Hairy ApeC.Desire Under the Elms D.Beyond the Horizon40.Hemingway’s “Indian Camp 〞is one of the fourteen short stories collected under the title of ______________. This title is very ironic because there is no peace at all in the stories.A.Three Stories and Ten Poems B.Across the River and into the TreesC.The Green Hills of Africa D.In Our Time复习文档Ⅱ.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.“For oft, when on my couch I lieIn vacant or in pensive mood,they flash upon that inward eye〞Questions:A.Identify the anthor and the title.B.What does the phrase “inward eye〞meanC.Write out the main idea of the passage in plain English.42.“The duties of her married life, contemplated as so great beforehand, seemed to be shrinking with the furniture and the white vapour—walled landscape. The clear heights where she expected to walk in full communion had become difficult to see even in her imagination; the delicious repose of the soul on a complete superior had been shaken into uneasy effort and alarmed with dim presentiment. When would the days begin of that active wifely devotion which was to strengthen her huXand’s life and exalt her own〞Questions:A.Identify the author and the title of the story from which the passage is taken.B.Explain the meaning of “the white vapour—walled landscape〞C.How do you undersdand “the delicious repose of the soul on a complete superior〞43.“It was you that broke the new wood,Now is a time for carving.We have one sap and one root—Let there be commerce between us.〞Questions:A.Whom does the “us〞refer toB.What does the phrase “broke the new wood 〞mean hereC.What is the intention of the poet in writing the poem “A Pact〞from which these lines are taken44.“There was music from my neighbor’s house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft, or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motor—boats slit the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of foam. On week—ends his Rolls—Royce became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city between nine in the morning and long past midnight, while his station wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug to meet all trains. And on Mondays eight servants, including an extra gardener, toiled all day with mops and scrubbing—brushes and hammers and garden—shears, repairing the ravages of the night before.〞Questions:A.Identify the author and the title of the novel from which this passage is taken.B.What can you imply by reading this passageC.What do the “moths 〞symbolizeⅢ.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.复习文档45.William Shakespeare is one of the most remarkable playwrights the world has ever known.(1)Name his four greatest tragedies.(2)What are the characteristics of the four tragedies in common(3)Briefly summarize each hero’s weakness of nature.46.“Though his fair daughter’s self, as I avowedAt starting, is my object. Nay, we’ll goTogether down, sir. Notice Neptune, though,Taming a sea horse, though a rarity,Which Claus of InnXruck cast in bronze for me! 〞The lines above are taken from Robert Browning’s “My Last Duchess.〞Taking the whole poem into consideration, what kind of person do you think the duke is47.What is generally the view Washington lrving expressed in his “Rip Van Winkle〞about the radical changes that happened to the American society in his time48.What is the most famous theme in Henry James’s fiction And what is his favourite approach in characterization, which makes him different from Mark Twain and W.D. Howells as realists Give two titles of his works in which this theme and this approach are employed.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.Analyze the character of Jane Eyre based on the selection taken from Chapter X X Ⅲof Jane Eyre. 50.Symbolism is an important literary practice in literature and it has been widely used by many American writers. Discuss the way symboliom is used in Faulkner’s story “A Rose for Emily.〞复习文档。

英美文学选读自考题-1_真题(含答案与解析)-交互

英美文学选读自考题-1_真题(含答案与解析)-交互

英美文学选读自考题-1(总分100, 做题时间90分钟)Ⅰ.Multiple ChoiceSelect from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement.1.In Renaissance, the European humanist thinkers and scholars made attempts to do the following EXCEPT ______.A. getting rid of those old feudalist-ideasB. getting control of the parliament and governmentC. introducing new ideas that expressed the interests of the rising bourgeoisieD. recovering the purity of the early church, from the corruption of the Roman Catholic ChurchSSS_SIMPLE_SINA B C D分值: 1答案:B主要考查的知识点为对文艺复兴的描述。

文艺复兴从本质上是欧洲人文主义者竭力摒弃中世纪欧洲的封建主义,推行代表新兴城市资产阶级利益的新思想,并恢复早期**的纯洁性,远离腐败的罗马天主教廷的一场运动。

2.______ was the first to start the attack on middle-class privileges and power in his novel Lucky Jim.A. JohnBraine B. Kingsley AmisC. AlanSillitoe D. John WainSSS_SIMPLE_SINA B C D分值: 1答案:B3.For his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel, ______ has been regarded as "Father of the English Novel. "A. DanielDefoe B. Jonathan SwiftC. Henry FieldingD. Oliver GoldsmithSSS_SIMPLE_SINA B C D分值: 1答案:C主要考查的知识点为英国小说之父。

7月自考英美文学选读试题及答案解析

7月自考英美文学选读试题及答案解析

全国2018年7月自考英美文学选读试题课程代码:00604全部题目用英文作答,并将答案写在答题纸相应位置上,否则不计分。

Ⅰ. Multiple Choice (40 points in all, 1 for each)Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Write your answer on the answer sheet.1.With classical culture and the()humanistic ideas coming into England, the English Renaissance began flourishing.A. FrenchB. GermanC. ItalianD. Greek2.“Come live with me and be my love, / And we will all the pleasures prove / That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, / Woods, or steepy mountain yields.”The above lines are taken from Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”, which derives from the ()tradition.A. pastoralB. heroicC. romanticD. realistic3.“Metaphysical conceit”is a strategy characteristic of John Donne’s poetry. It is().A. a confession that avoids questions of moral accountabilityB. the linking of images from very different ranges of experienceC. self-definition through images based on the four primal elementsD. the chaining of images representing solid and gaseous elements4.“So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, / So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”Shakespe are’s Sonnet 18 includes three stanzas according to the content with these last two lines as a(), which completes the sense of the above lines.1A. preludeB. coupletC. epigraphD. exposition5.“Therefore at this fair are all such merchandise sold, as houses, lands, trades, places, honors, preferments, titles, countries, kingdoms, lusts, pleasures, and delights of all sorts, as whores, bawds, wives, husbands, children, masters, servants…”The above sentences are taken from().A. John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s ProgressB. Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s TravelsC. Henry Fielding’s Tom JonesD. Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe6.Jonathan Swift is a master satirist in English literature. His A Tale of a Tub is an attack on().A. the governmentB. greedC. the churchD. the abuse of power7.Chaucer was the first English writer to adopt heroic couplet in his writhing of poems. In the early 18th century, the chief proponent of the heroic couplet was().A. Alexander PopeB. William WordsworthC. Lord ByronD. Thomas Gray8.As a lexicographer, he distinguished himself as the author of the first English dictionary—A Dictionary of the English Language. What is his name?().A. Jonathan SwiftB. Samuel JohnsonC. Ben JonsonD. John Milton9.Which of the following statements about Neo-Classicism and Enlightenment Movement is true?().A. The Enlightenment was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in the 17th century.B. Neo-Classicism found its artistic models in the classical literature of the ancient Greek and Roman writers like Homer, Virgil, Horace, Ovid, etc. and in the contemporary French writers such as V oltaire and Diderot.C. Neo-Classicism put the stress on the classical artistic ideals of order, logic, proportion, spontaneous emotion, and passion.D. Satire was much used in writing in the neo-classic works. English literature of this age produced a distinguished satirist Daniel Defoe.10.A poet asserted that poetry originated form “emotion recollected in tranquillity”. He maintained that thescenes and events of everyday life and the speech of ordinary people were the raw material of which poetry2could and should be made. Who is that poet?().A. William BlakeB. Alfred Lord TennysonC. William WordsworthD. John Keats11.The composition of “Kubla Khan”by S.T. Coleridge was based on ().A. a storyB. a dreamC. a dialogueD. an experience12.Romanticism was a literary trend prevailing in English during the period from 1798 to 1832. The Romantic writers().A. paid great attention to the spiritual and emotional life of manB. were discontent with the development of industrialism and capitalism, and presented the social evils minutely in their worksC. took pains to portray a world of harmony and balanceD. tended to glorify Rome and advocated rational Italian and French art as superior to the native traditions13.“Tiger! Tiger! Burning bright/ In the forests of the night, / What immortal hand or eye / Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”(“The Tiger”by William Blake) The above lines().A. describe the tiger’s fierce eyes and forceful hands at nightB. express the poet’s curiosity for the skillful creation of the tigerC. express the poet’s surprise at the sight of the tiger’s well-proportioned bodyD. express the poet’s terror at the sight of the tiger in the forest at night14.Which of the following statements about Victorian literature is NOT true?()A. Novels became the most widely read and the most vital and challenging expression of progressive thought.B. Victorian novelists were angry with the inhuman social institutions, the decaying social morality, the widespread misery, poverty and injustice.C. Influenced by a particularly strict set of moral standards, Victorian writers like Oscar Wilde, advocated the old moderate, respectable life-style.D. Victorian prose writers joined forces with the critical realist novelists in exposing and criticizing the social reality.15.“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want3of a ().”This quotation in Austen’s Pride and Prejudice sets the tone of the novel.A. houseB. titleC. wifeD. fame16.Tennyson’s poem Ulysses not only expresses the poet’s own determination and courage to brave the struggle of life, but also reflects the restlessness and aspiration of the age. The poem is written in the form of ().A. epicB. elegyC. dramatic monologueD. ode17.In Hardy’s Wessex novels, there is an apparent()touch in his description of the simple and beautiful though primitive rural life.A. realisticB. nostalgicC. romanticD. sentimental18.“If I’ve done wrong, I’m dying for it. It is enough! You left me too; but I won’t upbraid you! I forgive you. Forgive me!”These above lines are uttered by the heroine in().A. Shapespeare’s Romeo and JulietB. Emily Bront e ’s Wuthering HeightsC. Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’UrbervillesD. Bernard Shaw’s Mrs. Warren’s Profession19.Modernism takes the irrational philosophy and()as its theoretical base.A. the theory of psycho-analysisB. Darwin’s evolutionary theoryC. the French symbolismD. Utilitarianism20.The beginning of “The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock”moves from a series of fairly concrete physical settings—a cityscape( the famous“patient etherized upon a table”)and several interiors (women’s arms in the lamplight, coffee spoons, fireplaces)—to a series of vague ocean images. It aims to convey().A. Prufrock’s emotional distance from the world as he comes to recognize his second-rate statusB. Prufrock’s eagerness to meet his dating loverC. Prufrock’s reluctance to meet his dating loverD. Prufrock’s excitement about the modern world21.“No rth Richmond Street, being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers’4School set the boy free. An uninhabited house of two storeys stood at the blind end, detached from its neighbours in a square ground. The other houses of the street, conscious of decent lives within them, gazed at one another with brown imperturbable faces.”The above passage is the first paragraph of Araby by James Joyce. It sets a(n)()tone of the story.A. optimisticB. activeC. gloomyD. serious22.“I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, / And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made: / Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee, / And live alone in the bee-loud glade.”(“The Lake Isle of Innisfree”by Samuel Butler Yeats) The above lines present the state of a(n)()life. A. quiet B. lonelyC. ambitiousD. unstable23.In Young Goodman Brown by Hawthorne, the name of Good man Brown’s wife is(), which also contains many symbolic meanings.A. RuthB. HesterC. FaithD. Mary24.The Romantic Period, one of the most important periods in the history of American literature, stretches from the end of __________ to the outbreak of ___________.()A. the 17th century…the American War of IndependenceB. the 18th century…the American Civil WarC. the 17th century…the American Civil WarD. the 18th century…the U.S.-Mexican War25.“The apparition of these faces in the crowd; / Petals on a wet, black bough.”This is the shortest poem written by().A. E.E. CummingsB. T.S. EliotC. Ezra PoundD. Robert Frost26.Emily Dickinson’s poem“This is my letter to the World”expresses her()about her communication with the outside world.A. anxietyB. eagernessC. curiosityD. optimistic outlook527.Realism was a reaction against Romanticism or a move away from the bias towards romance and self-creating fictions, and paved the way to().A. CynicismB. ModernismC. TranscendentalismD. Neo-Classicalism28.In(), William Faulkner illuminates the problem of black and white in the American Southern society as a close-knit destiny of blood brotherhood.A. Go Down, MosesB. Light in AugustC. The Marble FaunD. As I Lay Dying29.The theme of Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle is().A. the conflict of human psycheB. the fight against racial discriminationC. the familial conflictD. the nostalgia for the unrecoverable past30.Heming way once described Mark Twain’s novel()the one book from which “all modern American literature comes.”A. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnB. The Adventures of Tom SawyerC. The Gilded AgeD. The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg31.As a genre, naturalism emphasized()as important deterministic forces shaping individualized characters who were presented in special and detailed circumstances.A. theological doctrinesB. heredity and environmentC. education and hard workD. various opportunities and economic success32.()is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th century “stream-of-consciousness”novels and the founder of psychological realism.A. Theodore DreiserB. William FaulknerC. Henry JamesD. Mark Twain633.()is considered to be a spokesman for the alienated youth in the post-war era and his The Catcher in the Rye is regarded as a students’ classic.A. Allen GinsbergB. E.E. CummingsC. J.D. Salinger D. Henry James34.Which one of the following statements in NOT true of Indian Camp by Hemingway?()A. A young Indian woman had been trying to have her baby for two days.B. Nick’s father delivered this woman of a baby by Caesarian section, with a jack-knife and without anesthesia.C. Nick witnessed the violence of both birth and death in the Indian camp.D. This woman’s husband was murdered while she was in labor.35.()is often acclaimed literary spokesman of the Jazz Age.A. Carl SandburgB. Edwin Arlington RobinsonC. William FaulknerD. F.Scott Fitzgerald36.Nathaniel Hawthorne held an unceasing interest in the“interior of the heart”of man’s being. So in almost every book he wrote, Hawthorne discussed()A. love and hatredB. sin and evilC. frustration and self-denialD. balance and self-discipline37.Which of the following has gained its status as a world classic and simultaneously marks the climax of Eugene O’Neill’s literary career and the coming of the age of American drama?()A. The Hairy ApeB. Long Day’s Journey Into NightC. Desire Under the ElmsD. Lazarus Laughed38.In the last chapter of Sister Carrie, there is a description about Hurstwood, one of the protagonists of the novel,“Now he began leisurely to take off his clothes, but stopped first with his coat, and tucked it along the crack under the door. His vest he arranged in the same place.”Why did he do this? Because ().A. he wanted to commit suicideB. he wanted to keep the room warmC. he didn’t want to be found by others7D. he wanted to enjoy the peace of mind39.In Moby-Dick, the white whale symbolizes()for Melville, for it is complex, unfathomable, malignant, and beautiful as well.A. natureB. human societyC. whaling industryD. truth40.(),disregarding grammar and punctuation, always used“i”instead of “I”in his poetry to show his protest against self-importance.A. Wallace StevensB. Ezra PoundC. E.E. CummingsD. William Carlos WilliamsⅡ. Reading Comprehension (16 points, 4 for each)Reading the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answer in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.41.“Not on thy sole, but on thy soul, harsh Jew,Thou mak’st thy knife keen; but no metal can,No, not the hangman’s axe, bear half the keennessOf thy sharp envy.”Questions:A. Identify the author and the title of the play from which this part is taken.B. What figure of speech is used in this quoted passage?C. What idea does the passage express?42.“Whene’er I passed her; but who passed withoutMuch the same smile? This grew; I gave commands;Then all smiles stopped together.”Questions:A. Identify the poem and the poet.B. What does the line “Then all smiles stopped together”imply?C. What kind of person do the lines indicate the speaker is?43.“The woods are lovely, dark and deep,But I have promises to keep,8And miles to go before I sleep,And miles to go before I sleep.”Questions:A. Identify the poem and the poet.B. What does the word“sleep”mean?C. What idea do the four lines express?44.“I celebrate myself, and sing myself,And what I assume you shall assume,For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.I loafe and invite my soul,I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.”(From Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself”)Questions:A. Who does“myself”refer to ?B. How do you understand the line“I loafe and invite my soul?”C. What does“a spear of summer grass”symbolize?Ⅲ. Questions and Answers(24 points in all, 6 for each)Give brief answers to each of the following questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.45.Edmund Spenser is one of the poets of English Renaissance. What are the qualities of his poetry?46.The Man of Property is the first novel of the Forsyte trilogies by Galsworthy. What is the theme and the tone of the novel?47.Eugene O’ Neill, America’s greatest playwright, was constantly experimenting with new styles and forms for his plays, especially during the twenties when Expressionism was in full swing. What techniques did O’ Neill use in his expressionistic plays?48.Emerson’s book Nature established him ever since as the most eloquent spokesman of New England Transcendentalism. In this book Emerson discusses his idea of the Oversoul. How do you understand theEmersonian “Oversoul”?9Ⅳ. Topic Discussion(20 points in all, 10 for each)Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.49.Discuss Charles Dickens’s art of fiction: the setting, the character-portrayal, the language, etc, based on his novel Oliver Twist.50.A Rose for Emily is one of Faulkner’s short stories. Comment on the character of the protagonist, Emily Grierson, and analyze how this character is depicted.10。

学历类《自考》自考专业(英语)《英美文学选读》考试试题及答案解析

学历类《自考》自考专业(英语)《英美文学选读》考试试题及答案解析

学历类《自考》自考专业(英语)《英美文学选读》考试试题及答案解析姓名:_____________ 年级:____________ 学号:______________1、Opposition leaders will be watching carefully to see how the Prime Minister ________ the crisis.A、handlesB、conductsC、observesD、directs正确答案:A答案解析:A应付,对付,控制B引导,进行,实施C观察,监测,遵守D指导,监督2、Now many major employers are beginning to demand _______ the completion of schoolA、morethanB、ratherthanC、otherthanD、betterthan正确答案:A答案解析:morethan:多于,不只。

句意:现在很多雇主开始不仅仅要求学业的完成。

3、In the original test,all the animals in a test group are given a substance _______ half of them dieA、unlessB、untilC、lestD、provided正确答案:B答案解析:本题考查词义辨析。

until:直到。

符合句意,表示givenasubstance持续到halfofthemdie。

4、Nobody but you _______ what he said.A、agreeswithB、agreesoutC、agreewithD、agreeto正确答案:A答案解析:主语为nobody时,谓语动词用单数,如果主语被but,aswellas,with等短语修饰,谓语仍与主语的数保持一致。

该题易误选C、D,选D的原因在于词组记忆不清,用介词to时之后应加具体项目。

2023年10月自考00604英美文学选读试题及答案含评分标准

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。

7全国自考英美文学选读试题及答案解析

7全国自考英美文学选读试题及答案解析

全国2018年7月自学考试英美文学选读试题课程代码:00604全部题目用英文作答,并将答案写在答题纸相应位置上PART 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. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.1. T. S. Eliot’s ______ is a poem of dramatic monologue and a prelude to The Waste Land,helping to point up the continuity of Eliot’s thinking.A. “Prufrock”B. “Gerontion”C. The Hollow MenD. Four Quartets2. Defoe’s group of four novels are the first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower-class people. They are the following EXCEPT ______.A. Captain SingletonB. Moll FlandersC. RoxanaD. Robinson Crusoe3. Charles Dickens’ novel, ______, is famous for its vivid descriptions of the work-house and life of the underworld in the nineteenth-century London.A. The Pickwick PaperB. Oliver TwistC. David CopperfieldD. Nicholas Nickleby4. D. H. Lawrence’s autobiographical novel is ______.A. The RainbowB. Women in LoveC. Sons and LoversD. Lady Chatterley’s Lover5. Jonathan Swift’s greatest satiric work is ______.A. A Tale of a TubB. The Battle of the BooksC. Gulliver’s Travel sD. A Modest Proposal6. Dickens’best- depicted characters are the following. EXCEPT ______.1A. innocent, virtuous, persecuted and helpless child charactersB. horrible and grotesque charactersC. broadly humorous or comical charactersD. simple, innocent and faithful women characters7. George Bernard Shaw’s ______ explored his idea of “Life Force”, the power that would create superior beings to be equal to God and to solve all the social, moral, and metaphysical problems of human society.A. Man and SupermanB. The Apple CartC. PygmalionD. Too True to Be Good8. For his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel, ______ has been r egarded as “Father of the English Novel”.A. Daniel DefoeB. Jonathan SwiftC. Henry FieldingD. Oliver Goldsmith9. Charlotte Bronte’s autobiograghical work ______ largely based on her experience in Brussels.A. The ProfessorB. ShirleyC. VilletteD. Jane Eyre10. D. H. Lawrence’s artistic tendency is mainly ______ , which combines dramatic scenes withan authoritative commentary.A. romanticismB. realismC. naturalismD. modernism11. In ______ opinion, human nature is seriously and premanently flawed. To better human life,enlightenment is needed, but to redress it is very hard.A. Daniel Defo e’sB. Charles Dickens’C. Jonathan Swift’sD. Henry Fielding’s12. The major theme of Jane Austen’s novels is ______ toward which she holds on a practicalidealism.A. love and moneyB. marriage and moneyC. love and familyD. love and marriage13. Ha rdy’s ______ is a fierce attack on the hypocritical morality of the bourgeois society and thecapitalist invasion into the country and destruction of the English peasantry towards the end of2the century.A. Tess of the D’UrbervillesB. The Mayor of Caste BridgeC. The Return of the NativeD. Jude the Obscure14. Henry Fielding adopted “______” to relate a story in his novel in which the author becomesthe “all- knowing God”.A. the first- person narrationB. the epistolary formC. the picaresque formD. the third -person narration15. In ______ , Shelley created a Platonic symbol of the spirit of man, a force of beauty andregeneration.A. “To a Skylark”B. “The Cloud”C. “Ode to Liberty”D. Adonais16. The success of ______ is also due to its introduction to the English novel the first governessheroine.A. The ProfessorB. Jane EyreC. Wuthering HeightsD. Far from the Madding Crowd17. John Milton’s ______ is the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature sinceBeowulf.A. Paradise LostB. Paradise RegainedC. Samson AgonistesD. Areopagitica18. Wordsworth’s ______ is perhaps the most anthologized poem in English literature.A. “To a Skylark”B. “I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud”C. “An Evening Walk”D. “My Heart Leaps Up”19. As the best of Shakespeare’s final romances, ______ is a typical example of his pessimisticview towards human life and society in his late years.A. The TempestB. The Winter’s TaleC. CymbelineD. The Rape of Lucrece20. The major representatives of the poetic revolution in English Romantic period were SamuelTaylor Coleridge and ______.A. William BlakeB. William WordsworthC. John KeatsD. Percy Bysshe Shelley321. Samson Agonistes by ______ is the most perfect example of the verse drama after the Greekstyle in English.A. John MiltonB. William BlakeC. Henry FieldingD. William Wordsworth22. The declaration that “I know that This World is a World of IMAGINA TION & Vision,” andt hat “The Nature of my work is visionary or imaginative” belongs to ______.A. William BlakeB. William WordsworthC. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD. George Gordon Byron23. Two people could be “twain yet one” : their paths could be different, and yet they couldachieve a kind of transcendent contact, ______ believed.A. Walt WhitmanB. Ezra PoundC. Washington IrvingD. Nathaniel Hawthorne24. Most literary critics think that Fitzgerald is both an insider and an outsider of ______ with adouble vision.A. the Jazz AgeB. the Age of Reason and RevolutionC. the Babybooming AgeD. the Post- Modern Age25. The Nobel Prize Committee highly praised ______ for “his powerful styleforming mastery ofthe art” of creating mode rn fiction.A. T. S. EliotB. Ernest HemingwayC. William FaulknerD. Mark Twain26. 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 Fitzgerald27. In 1841, ______ went to the South Seas on a whaling ship, where he gained the first- handinformation about whaling that he used later in Moby -Dick.A. Herman MelvilleB. Nathaniel HawthorneC. Robert Lee FrostD.T.S. Eliot28. In most of his writings, ______ deliberately broke up the chronology of his narrative byjuxtaposing the past with the present, in the way the montage does in a movie.4A. Walt WhitmanB. William FaulknerC. Ernest HemingwayD.F. Scott Fitzgerald29. In 1950, one of the leading American writers ______ was awarded the Nobel Prize for theanti-racist Intruder in the Dust.A. Robert FrostB. Theodore DreiserC. William FaulknerD.F. Scott Fitzgerald30. Walt Whitman ’s ______ is a collection of poems incorporating his emotions and feelingsbefore and during the Civil War when he stood firmly on the side of the North.A. Leaves of GrassB. “Cavalry Crossing a Ford”C. “Song of Myself”D. Drum Taps31. It was his masterpiece The Great Gatsby that made ______ one of the greatest Americannovelists.A. F. Scott FitzgeraldB. William FaulknerC. Ernest HemmingwayD. Gertrude Steinbeck32. The childhood of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn in the Mississippi is a record of a vanished wayof life in the ______ Mississippi valley.A. pre - War of IndependenceB. post - War of IndependenceC. pre - Civil WarD. post - Civil War33. In Moby-Dick, for the character Ahab, the white whale represents only ______.A. evilB. natureC. societyD. purity34. Melville’s semi- autobiographical novel, ______, concerns the sufferings of a genteel youthamong brutal sailors.A. Moby-DickB. RedburnC. MardiD. Typee35. Closely related to Dickinson’s religious poetry are her poems concerning ______, rangingover the physical as well as the psychological and emotional aspects of death.A. love and natureB. death and universeC. death and immortalityD. family and happiness36. The effect of Darwinist idea of “survival of the fittest” was shattering in ______ ’s fictional5world of jungle, where “kill or to be killed” was the law.A. Mark TwainB. Henry JamesC. Theodore DreiserD. Walt Whitman37. Though Robert Frost’s subject matters mainly focus on the landscape and people in ______,he wrote many poems that investigate the basic themes of man’s life in his long poetic career.A. the SouthB. the WestC. EnglandD. New England38. Like all naturalists, ______ was restrained from finding a solution to the social problems thatappeared in his novels and accordingly almost all his works have tragic endings.A. Theodore DreiserB. Henry JamesC. Washington IrvingD. Walt Whitman39. “The Birthmark” drives home symbolically Hawthorne’s point that ______ is man’s birthmark,something he is born with.A. purityB. generosityC. evilD. love40. The Blithedale Romance is a novel ______ wrote to reveal his own experiences on the BrookFarm and his own methods as a psychological novelist.A. Herman MelvilleB. Nathaniel HawthorneC. Washington IrvingD. Walt WhitmanPART 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 ’ti s 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:6A. Who is the writer of this work? What’s the title of the work?B. What does the phrase “to take arms against a sea of troubles ” mean?C. How do you understand the quotation “To be, or not to be -that is the question”?42. “Beside a pumice isle in Baiae’s bay,And saw in sleep old palaces and towersQuivering within the wave’s intenser day,All overgrown with azure moss and flowersSo sweet, the sense faints picturing them! ThouFor whose path the Atlantic’s level powers”(From Shelley’s“ Ode to the West Wind”)Questions:A. In what form is the poem written?B. What does the quotation“ the sense faints picturing them” mean?C. What idea does Shelley express in this poem?43. “ We passed the School, where Children stroveAt Recess- in the Ring-We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain -We Passed the Setting Sun- ”( From Emily Dickinson’s poe m Because I could not stop for Death)Questions:A. What does the phrase “Fields of Gazing Grain” symbolize?B. What figure of speech is used in the poem?C. What are Dickinson’s unique writing features?44. (A lot of common objects have been enumerated in the previous lines, and here are the lasttwo lines of the poem. )“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 fort h every day. ”Questions:A. Who is the author of this poem? What is the title of the poem?7B. What does the child stand for in the poem?C. How do you understand “ These became part of the child” ?Ⅲ. Questions and Answers (24 points in all, 6 for each)Give a brief answer to each of the following questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.45. What are the features of George Bernard Shaw’s characterization in his plays?46. Thomas Hardy is often regarded as a transitional writer. Some critics believe that he isemotionally traditional and intellectually advanced. How do you understand this idea?47. What is the most famous theme in Henry James’s fiction? And what is his favourate approachin characterization, which makes him different from Mark Twain and W. D. Howlles as realists? Give two titles of his works of his first period in which this theme and this approach are employed.48. “Young Goodman Brown”is one of Hawthorne’s most profound tales.What is the allegorical meaning of Brown, the protagonist? What does Hawthorne set out to prove in this tale? How does Melville comment on Hawthorne’s manner of concerning with guilt and evil?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. Please elaborate Wordsworth’s theory of poetry, taking examples from the poems you havelearned to support your ideas.50. A Rose for Emily is one of Faulkner’s short stories. Discuss the character of Emily Griersonand how this character is depicted.8。

英美文学选读试题及答案

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。

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英美文学选读-阶段测评4成绩:30分一、Multiple Choice 共 40 题题号: 1 本题分数: 分( )is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th—century “stream—of—consciousness” novels and the founder of psychological realism.A、Theodore DreiserB、William FaulknerC、Henry JamesD、Mark Twain亨利.詹姆斯是美国现实主义文学大师,他的作品往往涉及美国之外的主题,其作品的风格是“心理活动”。

被誉为20世纪美国意识流文学的先驱。

标准答案:C考生答案:D本题得分:0 分题号: 2 本题分数: 分Closely relate d to Dickinson’s religious poetry are her poems concerning( ),ranging over the physical as well as the psychological and emotional aspects of death.A、love and natureB、death and universeC、death and immortalityD、family and happiness(P518para2)迪金森的诗歌涉及宗教和爱情两方面,而其涉及宗教的诗歌往往是以死亡和永恒为主题的,所以答案是C。

标准答案:C考生答案:A本题得分:0 分题号: 3 本题分数: 分considered( )“the true father of our national literature”.A、Bret HarteB、Mark TwainC、Washington IrvingD、Walt Whitman马克.吐温是美国文学巨匠,他以两部“历险记”创造可美国文学史上的一个奇迹,那就是开创了美国文学的一个新时代,所以将他誉为“真正的美国文学之父”。

标准答案:B考生答案:B本题得分:分题号: 4 本题分数: 分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、B、James JoyceC、William FaulknerD、Henry James()詹姆斯现实主义文风的特点是注重心理分析和心理描写,所以,他被誉为是20世纪意识流派的先驱,也是心理现实主义的奠基人。

标准答案:D考生答案:B本题得分:0 分题号: 5 本题分数: 分The childhood of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn in the Mississippi is a record of a vanished way of life in the( )Mississippi valley.A、pre - War of IndependenceB、post - War of IndependenceC、pre - Civil WarD、post - Civil War()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。

而汤姆索亚和亨克贝利的故事发生在美国内战前的密西西比河流域。

标准答案:C考生答案:A本题得分:0 分题号: 6 本题分数: 分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…widow詹姆斯的作品大多涉及international theme,一般是美欧文化的冲突,其中《贵妇画像》,就是其中之一,讲的是一个美国姑娘在欧洲的遭遇。

标准答案:C考生答案:B本题得分:0 分题号: 7 本题分数: 分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.(P518-519)艾米莉.迪金森属于美国现实主义流派的诗人,她虽然身居深闺,但一生创作了数千首诗歌,主要涉及两大主题-死亡和爱情。

在她抑郁而死后,她的作品才公之于世标准答案:B考生答案:C本题得分:0 分题号: 8 本题分数: 分Henry James’ fame generally rests upon his novels and stories with the( )theme.A、internationalB、localC、colonialD、post-modern美国现实主义小说家主要有三位,马克吐温,亨利詹姆斯和豪威尔斯。

其中,詹姆斯的作品是国际主题,通常情节是一个纯真的美国姑娘或是小伙在欧洲的不幸遭遇。

标准答案:A考生答案:C本题得分:0 分题号: 9 本题分数: 分After the American Civil War,the literary interest in the so-called “reality” of life started a new period in the American literary writings know an the Age of( ).A、RealismB、Reason and RevolutionC、RomanticismD、Modernism这是一个文学常识题,美国文学的发展是迎头赶上的,殖民时期的文学还没有登上世界文学的舞台,从独立战争前后,美国文学发展进入浪漫主义时期,接着是内战之后进入现实主义时期。

标准答案:A考生答案:D本题得分:0 分题号: 10 本题分数: 分Mark Twain employed an unpretentious style of( )in his novels which is best described as “vernacular”.A、standard EnglishB、Afro-American EnglishC、colloquialismD、urbanism马克.吐温的写作特点素有“地方色彩主义”的美称,也就是语言口语化,取材地方化。

标准答案:C考生答案:B本题得分:0 分题号: 11 本题分数: 分The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and,especially,its sequence( )proved themselves to be the milestone in the American literature.A、The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnB、Life on the MississippiC、The Gilded AgeD、Roughing It马克.吐温的小说《汤姆.索亚历险记》和《亨克.贝利.芬历险记》开创了美国文学的新纪元,正如海明威所言:“这两部小说标志着美国现代文学的到来”标准答案:A考生答案:B本题得分:0 分题号: 12 本题分数: 分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、realism()马克吐温作品的选材多是美国西部和密西西比河流域的事情,所以被誉为美国地方色彩主义作家,也是美国现实主义作家的代表人物。

标准答案:D考生答案:C本题得分:0 分题号: 13 本题分数: 分Hemingway’s “Indian Camp ” is one of the fourteen short stories collected under the title of( ).This title is very ironic because there is no peace at all in the stories.A、Three Stories and Ten PoemsB、Across the River and into the TreesC、The Green Hills of AfricaD、In Our Timereading)海明威的《印第安人营地》中的十四个小故事的题目是 In Our Time 是一个及其有讽刺意义的选择,它暗示的是:Give us peace in our time,O Lord.标准答案:D考生答案:D本题得分:分题号: 14 本题分数: 分At the age of eighty -seven,( )read his poetry at the inauguration of President John in 1961.A、Robert FrostB、Walt WhitmanC、Ezra PoundD、()佛罗斯特在美国声望极高,曾四次获得普利斯奖项,美国国会参议院专门为他的生日设立纪念庆典日,那么他的肯尼迪总统的就职典礼上朗诵自己的诗也就是顺理成章的了。

标准答案:A考生答案:B本题得分:0 分题号: 15 本题分数: 分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 PoundD、()很难说佛罗斯特是属于新派诗人还是旧派诗人,因为他从来就没有脱离过旧派诗人的文风,也没有尝试着做任何的革新,但是他是生活在新派年代的。

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