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I.Multiple Choice(40points in all,1for each)Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement.Mark your choice by blackening the corresponding letter A,B,C orD on the answer sheet.1.Shakespeare has established his giant position in world literature with his______plays,154sonnets and2long poems.BA.27B.38C.47D.522.john Milton’s literary achievement can be divided into three groups:the early poetic works,the middle prose pamphlets and the last______.CA.romancesB.dramasC.great poemsD.ballads3.The novels of______are the first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower—class people.CA.John MiltonB.Daniel DefoeC.Henry FieldingD.Jonathan Swift4.The work ranked by many critics as William Wordswoth’s greatest work was______.BA.Lyrical BalladsB.The PreludeC.Poems in Two VolumesD.The Excursion5.The author of The History of Tom Jones,a Foundling is ______.CA.Daniel DefoeB.Johathan SwiftC.Henry FieldingD.William Blake6.The works of______are famous for the depiction of the life of the middle—class women,particularly governess.*BA.Charlotte BrontewrenceC.Thomas HardyD.Jane Austen7.All of the following writings are created by William Wordsworth EXCEPT______.DA.“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.”B.“Composed upon Westminster Bridge,Septemer3,1802.”C.“The Solitary Reaper.”D.“The Chimney Sweeper.”8.The most important representative work by Jonathan Swift is______.DA.A Tale of a TubB.The Battle of the BooksC.A Modest ProposalD.Gulliver's Travels9“If winter comes,can Spring be far behind?”comes from Shelly’s______.DA.“To a Skylark”B.“Adonais”C.“Ode to Liberty”D.“Ode to the West Wind”10.In Jane Austen's first novel______,she tells a story about two sisters and their love affairs.BA.Pride and PrejudiceB.Sense and SensibilityC.EmmaD.Persuasion11.Charles Dickens is one of the greatest______writers of the Victorian Age.DA.romanticB.modernistC.socialistD.critical realist12.Charlotte Bronte's most autobiographical work,______ is largely based on her experience in Brussels.AA.Jane EyreB.ShirleyC.VilletteD.The Professor13.William Wordsworth's theory of poetry is calling for simple themes drawn from humble life expressed in the language of ordinary people.The preface to the second edition of______acts as a manifesto for the new school and sets forth his own critical creed.AA.Lyrical BalladsB.The PreludeC.Poems in Two VolumsD.The Excursion14.George Bernard Shaw's play______established his position as the leading playwright of his time.*CA.Widowers’HousesB.Too True to Be GoodC.Mrs.Warren's ProfessionD.Candida15.Eliot's most important single poem______,has been hailed as a landmark and a model of the20th-century English poetry.BA.The Hollow MenB.The Waste LandC.Prurrock and Other ObservationsD.Poems1909-2516. D. /doc/info-926f89635dbfc77da26925 c52cc58bd630869377.htmlwrence’s autobiographical novel, ______shows the conflict between the earthy,coarse, energetic but often drunken father and the refined,strong —willed and up—climbing mother.AA.Sons and LoversB.The White PeacockC.The TrespasserD.The Rainbow17.“To be,or not to be—that is the question;/Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer./The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,/Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,/And by opposing end them?”These words are from ______.DA.King LearB.RomeoC.AntonioD.Hamlet18.John Milton’s last important work,______is the most powerful dramatic poem on the Greek model.AA.Paradise LostB.Paradise RegainedC.Samson AgonistesD.Lydidas19.The author of Moll Flanders and Captain Singleton is ______.BA.John MiltonB.Daniel DefoeC.Henry FieldingD.Jonathan Swift20.Drapier is the pseudonym of______.AA.Jonathan SwiftB.Daniel DefoeC.Henry FieldingD.William Blake21.One of Dickens'later works,______in which he presents a criticism of the governmental branches which run an indefinite procedure of management ofaffairs and keep the innocent in prison for life.BA.Bleak HouseB.Little DorritC.Hard TimesD.A Tale of Two Cities22.In the second part of Gulliver's Travels,Gulliver told his experience in______.AA.BrobdingnagB.LilliputC.Flying IslandD.Houyhnhnm23.Faulkner used the narrative techniques to construct his stories,which include______and mythological and biblical allusions.AA.symbolismB.free indirect speechC.contrastD.dialogue24.Ernest Hemingway,had been trying to demonstrate in his works an unvarying code,known as“______,”which is actually an attitude towards life.BA.facing the realityB.grace under pressureC.honesty with benevolenceD.security coming first25.The Blithedale Romance is a novel written by Hawthorne to reveal his own experience on the Brook Farm and his own methods as a______novelist.CA.naturalistB.imagistC.psychologicalD.feminist26.Theodore Dreiser's focus shifted from the pathos of the helpless protagonists at the bottom of the society to the power of the Americanfinancial tycoons in the late19th century in his work ______.DA.The GeniusB.An American TragedyC.Dreiser Looks at RussiaD.“Trilogy of Desire”27.Emily Dickinson frequently uses personae to render the tone more familiar to the reader,and______to vivify some abstract ideas.DA.imagesB.metaphorC.symbolsD.personification28.In his later works,Melville becomes more reconciled with the______,in which he admits,one must live by rules.BA.womenB.world of manC.familyD.politicians29.Walt Whitman's______has always been considered a monumental work which commands great attention in America.BA.The Pilgrim’s ProgressB.Leaves of GrassC.A Passage to IndiaD.Rip Van Winkle30.Mark Twain’s full literary career began to blossom in1869with a travel book______,an account of American tourists in Europe.AA.Innocents AbroadB.The Portrait of A LadyC.The Grapes of WrathD.The Great Gatsby31.With the development of the modern novel and the common acceptance of the______approach,Henry James's importance,as well as his wide influence as a novelist and critic,has been all the more conspicuous.AA.deconstructionB.romanticC.FreudianD.analytic32.Emily Dickinson addresses the issues that concern the whole human beings in her poems,which include religion, death,______,love,and nature.AA.immortalityB.wealthC.powerD.politics33.In Sister Carrie Theodore Dreiser expressed his______ pursuit by expounding the purposelessness of life and attacking the conventional moral standards.BA.romanticB.realisticC.naturalisticD.modernistic34.Profound ideas in Robert Frost's poems are delivered under the disguise of______.AA.the plain language and the simple formB.the vivid descriptionsC.metaphorsD.the complicated narration35.In______Hemingway presents his philosophy about life and death throughthe depiction of the bullfight as a kind of microcosmic tragedy.BA.The Green Hills of AfricaB.Death in the AfternoonC.The Snows of KilimanjaroD.To Have and Have Not36Of Faulkner’s literary works,four novels are masterpieces by any standards:The Sound and the Fury, Light in August,Absalom,Absalom!and______.AA.Go Down,MosesB.The FableC.The Snows of KilimanjaroD.To Have and Have Not37.As Whitman saw it,______could play a vital part in the process ofcreating a new nation.CA.musicB.fictionC.poetryD.painting38.In many of Hawthorne's stories and novels,the Puritan concept of life is condemned,especially in his The house of the Seven Gables and______.BA.Go Down,MosesB.The Scarlet LetterC.As I Lay DyingD.Song of Myself39.Henry James is generally regarded as the forerunner of the______and the founder of psychological realism.BA.“stream-of-consciousness”novelsB.metaphysical poemsC.short storiesD.literary criticism40.Generally considered to be Henry James’s masterpiece,______incarnates the clash between the Old World and the New in the life journey of an American girl in a Europe an cultural environment.BA.The AmbassadorsB.Daisy MillerC.The 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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).。
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202X年7月高等教育自学考试全国统一命题考试英美文学选读卷子课程代码0604PART one(40 Points)I．Multiple Choice (40 points in all, 1 for each)Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement.Mark your choice by blackening the corresponding letter A，B，C Or D On theAnswer Sheet.1．_______, a typical example of old English poetry，is regarded as the national epic of the Anglo—Saxons．A．The Canterbury TalesB．ExodusC．BeowulfD．The Legend of Good Women2．It was ______ who first introduced the Petrarchan sonnet into England.A．CaxtonB．WyattC．SurreyD．Marlowe3．It is generally believed that the most important play among Shakespeare’s comedies is ______ A．A Midsummer Night’s DreamB．As You Like ItC．The Merchant of VeniceD．Twelfth Night4．All the following poets except ______ belong to the metaphysical school.A．DonneB．HerbertC．MarvellD．Milton5．Of all the eighteenth —century novelists, ______ was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a “comic epic in prose〞and the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.A．Daniel DefoeB．Samuel RichardsonC．Henry FieldingD．Oliver Goldsmith6．Although writing from different points of view and with different techniques, writers in the Victorican Period shared one thing in common, that is, they were all concerned about ______ .A．the love story between the rich and the poorB．the techniques in writingC．the fate of the common peopleD．the future of their own country7．In the theatrical world of the neoclassical period ______ was the leading figure among the host of playwrights.A．William BlakeB．Richard SheridanC．Ben JonsonD．Bernard Shaw8．The eighteenth —century England is also known as the Age of Enlightenment or the Age of ______.A．IntellectB．ReasonC．RationalityD．Science9．______ by Swift is generally regarded as the best model of satire, not only of the 18th century but also in the whole English literary history.A．A Tale of a TubB．The Battle of the BooksC．〞A Modest Proposal 〞D．Gulliver’s Travels10．The novels of______ are the first literary work devoted to the study of problems of the lower —class people.A．BunyanB．DefoeC．FieldingD．Swift11．Thomas Gray established his fame as the leader of the ______ of the day.A．romantic poetryB．sentimental poetryC．neoclassical poetryD．realistic novel12．Which of the following is taken from John Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn〞______ A．〞If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind〞B．〞For Godsake hold your tongue, and let me love.〞C．〞Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard/Are sweeter〞D．〞The Child is father of the Man.〞13．Robert Browning’s style is ______.A．identical with that of the other VictoriansB．similar to that of TennysonC．perfectly artisticD．rough and disproportionate in appearance14．Thomas Hardy wrote novels of ______.A．character and environmentB．pure romanceC．stream of consciousnessD．psychoanalysis15．The three trilogies of ______ novels are masterpieces of critical realism in the early 20th century.A．Galsworthy’s ForsyteB．Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Sunset Song’s Women in Love’s A Passage to India16．______ is considered to be the best—known English dramatist since Shakespeare.A．Oscar WildeB．Christopher MarloweC．John DrydenD．Bernard Shaw17．______ was awarded Nobel Prize for literature in 1923.A．Bernard ShawB．John Galsworthy18．Of the following poets, which is not regarded as “Lake Poets〞A．Samuel Taylor ColeridgeB．Robert SoutheyC．William WordsworthD．George Gordon Byron19．The four great odes of John Keats include the following EXCEPT ______.A．〞Ode on Melancholy〞B．〞Ode on a Grecian Urn〞C．〞Ode to a Nightingale〞D．〞Ode to the West wind〞’s masterpieces.A．Women in LoveB．Sons and LoversC．Lady Chatterley’s LoverD．The Plumed Serpent21．In Oscar Wilde’s masterpiece ______, he expressed a satirical and bitter attitude towards the upper —class people by revealing their corruption, snobbery and hypocrisy.A．SalomeB．The Importance of Being EarnestC．The Happy PrinceD．A Woman of No Importance22．〞The V anity Fair 〞is a well—known part in The Pilgrim’s Progress, which of the following writers later adopted it as the title of a novel？A．DickensB．ThackerayC．FieldingD．Hardy23．To the transcendentalists such as ______ and Thoreau, man is divine in nature; but to Hawthorne and Melville, everybody is potentially a sinner.A．Washington IrvingB．EmersonC．Henry JamesD．Emily Dickinson24．Washington Irving’s ______ was written in England, filled with English scenes and quotations from English authors and faithful to British orthography.A．Bracebridge HallB．Tales of a TravelerC．The Sketch BookD．The Alhambra25．The American Romantic writers celebrated America’s landscape with its virgin forests, meadows, groves, endless prairies, streams, and vast oceans.______ came to function almost as a dramatic character that symbolized moral law.A．The Atlantic OceanB．The Rocky MountainsC．The Pacific OceanD．The wilderness26．Which one of the following statements is NOT true of Washington IrvingA．He was regarded as Father of the American Short Story.B．He was one of the first American writers to earn an international reputation.C．He enjoyed the honor of being “the American Goldsmith〞for his literary craftsmanship.D．He was one of the advocates of the New England Transcendentalism.27．Which one of the following statements is NOT true of Ralph Waldo Emerson and his works A．Emerson’s essays often have a formal style, for most of them were derived from his journals or lectures.B．In his essays, Emerson put forward his philosophy of Transcendentalism, focusing on the importance of the individual and the nature.C．Emerson based his philosophy on an intuitive belief in an ultimate unity, which he called the 〞over—soul〞.D．Emerson is affirmative about man’s intuitive knowledge, with which a man can trust himself to decide what is right and to act accordingly.28．〞The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other, who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood〞. This is the voice of the book _____ written by Emerson, which pushed American Romanticism into a new phase, the phase of New England _________.A．Nature…SymbolismB．The American Scholar…NaturalismC．Nature…TranscendentalismD．the American Scholar…Realism29．Which one of the following statements about Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter is trueA．Hawthorne intended to tell a love story in this novel.B．Hawthorne intended to tell a story of sin in this novel.C．Hawthorne intended to reveal the human psyche after they sinned, so as to show people the tension between society and individuals.D．Hawthorne focused his attention on consequences of the sin on the people in general, so as to call the readers back to the conventional Puritan way of living.30．Walt Whitman is a poet with a strong sense of mission, having decoted all his life to the creation of the “single〞poem, ________.A．ChicagoB．My Lost YouthC．Leaves of GrassD．A Pact31．Redburn is a semi —autobiographical novel written by ________, concerning the sufferings of a genteel youth among brutal sailors.A．Walt WhitmanB．Nathaniel HawthorneC．Herman MelvilleD．Ralph Waldo Emerson32．The period ranging from ________ to ________ has been referred to as the Age of Realism in the literary history of the United States.A．1865 (1945)B．1865 (1914)C．1783 (1945)D．1783 (1914)33．________thought that the writer should use language to probe the deepest reaches of the psychological and moral nature of human beings rather than simply hold a mirror to the surface of social life in particular times and places. He is a realist of the inner life.A．Mark TwainB．William Dean HowellsC．Henry JamesD．Theodore Dreiser34．〞I felt good and all washed clean of sin for the first time I had ever felt so in my life, and I knowed I could pray now. But I didn’t do it straight off, but laid the paper down and set there thinking —thinking how good it was all this happened so, and how near I come to being lost and going to hell. 〞The above passage is taken from ________.A．The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnB．The Adventures of Tom SawyerC．Uncle Tom’s CabinD．Life on the Mississippi35．The following statements are all true of Daisy Miller EXCEPT________.A．Frederick Winterbourne, the narrator of the story, es an American expatriate.B．With the publication of Daisy Miller, William James reputation was firmly established on both sides of the Atlantic.C．With the publication of Daisy Miller, Daisy Miller has ever since become the American Girl in Europe, a celebrated cultural type who embodies the spirit of the New World.D．Daisy Miller’s defiance of social taboos in the Old World finally brings her to a disaster in the clash between the two different cultures.36．Which one of the following statements is true of Dickinson’s “I like to see it lap the Miles〞A．This poem describes a mare dancing at midnight.B．This poem describes a horse galloping through valleys.C．This poem describes a train running through the mountainous area.D．This poem describes a traveler’s joyous journey through the scenic mountainous area.37．________ is considered to be a spokesman for the alienated youth in the post —war era and his The Catcher in the Rye is regarded as a students’ classicA．Allen GinXergD．Henry James38．Towards the end of After Apple —Picking，Frost writes “ Were he not gone, /The woodchuck could say whether it’s like his /Long sleep, as I describe its coming on, /Or just some human sleep.〞The “human sleep 〞here refers to ________.A．a trip to the countrysideB．deathC．rest after a day’s work in the orchardD．exaltation of mind39．In the third chapter of The Great GatXy by Fitzgerald, there is a wonderful description of GatXy’s party which evokes both ___________ of that strange and fascinating era that we call________.A．the pride and the prejudice…Victorian AgeB．the romance and the sadness…Jazz AgeC．the love and the hatred…Age of ReasonD．the Vanity and the disillusionment…Age of Reason40．Faulkner once said that ___________ is a story of 〞lost innocence〞, which proves itself to be an intensification of the theme of imprisonment in the past.A．The Sound and the FuryB．Go Down, MosesC．Light in AugustD．Absalom, Absalom!PART TWO (60 POINTS)II．Reading Comprehension (16 points in all, 4 for each)Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.41．〞To be, or not to be —that is the question;Whether’ tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,And by opposing end them〞Questions:A．Identify the author and the title of the passage from which this part is taken.B．Explain the meaning of “To be, or not to be〞.C．How do you understand the last two lines42．〞The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,And all that beauty, all that wealth e’er gave,Awaits alike the inevitable hour.The paths of glory lead but to the grave.〞Questions:A．Identify the author and the title of the passage from which this part is taken.B．What does the phrase 〞inevitable hour〞meanC．Write out the main idea of the passage in plain English.43．〞I glanced back once. A wafer of a moon was shinning over GatXy’s house, making the night fine as before, and surviving the laughter and the sound of his still glowing garden. A sudden emptiness seemed to flow now from the windows and the great doors, endowing with complete isolation the figure of the host, who stood on the porch, his hand up in a formal gesture of farewell. 〞Questions:A．Identify the author and the title of the passage from which this part is taken.B．The passage describes the end of an event, What is itC．What implied meaning can you get from reading this passage44．We passed the School, where Children strove AT Recess—in the Ring—We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain—We passed the Setting Sun—Questions:A．Who is the author of this stanza taken from the poem “Because I could not stop for Death—〞？B．What do the underlined parts symbolizeC．Where were “we〞heading towardIII．Questions and Answers (24 points in all,6 for each)Give brief answers to each of the following questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.45．Edmund Spenser is one of the poets of English Renaissance. What are the qualities of his poetry46．The Man of Property is the first novel of the Forsyte trilogies by Galsworthy. What is the theme and the tone of The Man of Property47．Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown〞is often read as a conventional allegory. What does the work symbolically concern48．William Faulkner is one of the greatest American novelists. What do you know about his narrative techniques IV．Topic Discussion (20 points in all, 10 for each)Write no less than 150 word on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.49．Discuss Charles Dickens’ art of fiction: the setting, the character —portrayal, the language, etc., based on his novel Oliver Twist.50．Discuss the symbolism employed in Moby Dick.。
7月浙江自考外国文学史试题及答案解析
浙江省2018年7月自学考试外国文学史试题课程代码：10043一、单项选择题(本大题共20小题，每小题1分，共20分)在每小题列出的四个备选项中只有一个是符合题目要求的，请将其代码填写在题后的括号内。
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1.被柏拉图称为“第十位文艺女神”的诗人是（）A.维吉尔B.萨福C.贺拉斯D.奥维德2.被誉为“戏剧艺术的荷马”的悲剧诗人是（）A.埃斯库勒斯B.欧里庇得斯C.索福克勒斯D.阿里斯托芬3.但丁创作《神曲》的目的是（）A.表现宗教思想B.为意大利指出一条从黑暗走向光明的途径C.歌颂美好的爱情D.宣传人文主义思想4.托马斯·莫尔的《乌托邦》是一部（）A.幻想小说B.写实小说C.田园小说D.流浪汉小说5.法国古典主义第一部典范性的作品是（）A.《费德尔》B.《安德洛马刻》C.《伪君子》D.《熙德》6.《少年维特之烦恼》的女主人公是（）A.尤丽B.苏珊娜C.绿蒂D.玛格丽特7.被恩格斯称为“天才的预言家”的英国浪漫主义诗人是（）A.拜伦B.济慈C.雪莱D.华兹华斯8.俄国文学史上第一个“多余人”的典型是（）A.毕巧林B.奥涅金C.罗亭D.奥勃洛摩夫9.《包法利夫人》中的爱玛是一个（）A.在资产阶级社会的腐蚀和诱骗下堕落毁灭的妇女形象B.追求个性解放、爱情自由的贵族妇女形象C.个人奋斗者D.女冒险家10.丹麦著名的童话作家是（）A.显克维支B.斯特林堡C.安徒生D.伊凡·伐佐夫11.西方评论家认为雷马克“使作品成为有世界意义”的描写战争的小说是（）A.《凯旋门》B.《西线无战事》C.《最后一战》D.《黑色方尖碑》12.海明威成功地采用意识流的手法创作的著名短篇小说是（）A.《乞力马扎罗的雪》B.《印第安帐篷》C.《大两心河》D.《胜者一无所有》13.现代主义文学的美学理想是（）A.美即是生活B.用历史和美学的方法分析文学现象C.在人物的思想冲突和论争中展示人物性格特征D.“以丑为美”和“反向诗学”14.萨特的短篇小说《墙》是一部重要的（）A.自传体小说B.采用第一人称叙述的哲学小说C.日记体小说D.自由体小说15.印度最早的文学理论著作是（）A.《诗学》B.《诗境》C.《伯德马沃德》D.《舞论》16.阿拉伯文学史上第一部成文的散文巨著是（）A.《一千零一夜》B.《卡里莱和笛木乃》C.《安塔拉传奇》D.《古兰经》17.夏目漱石的创作中被誉为“日本近代心理小说典范”的作品是（）A.《虞美人草》B.《其后》C.《明暗》D.《心》18.以普列姆昌德为首的印度进步作家成立“全印度进步作家协会”的时间是（）A.1919年B.1936年C.1942年D.1947年19.由战前的无产阶级左翼作家发起，于1945年12月在日本成立的民主的文学统一战线组织是（）A.日本无产阶级作家同盟B.新日本文学会C.近代文学派D.战后派20.被称为“东方的《罗密欧与朱丽叶》”的波斯文学作品是（）A.《沙恭达罗》B.《蔷薇园》C.《蕾丽与马季侬》D.《果园》二、多项选择题(本大题共5小题，每小题2分，共10分)在每小题列出的五个备选项中至少有两个是符合题目要求的，请将其代码填写在题后的括号内。
(全新整理)7月自考浙江省美国文学选读试题及答案解析.docx
浙江省 2018 年 7 月高等教育自学考试美国文学选读试题课程代码： 10055Part Ⅰ : Choose the relevant match from Column B for each item in Column A. (10 pointsin all, 1 point for each)Group 1Column A Column B() 1. F. S Fitzgerald a. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer() 2. Henry David Thoreau b. An American Tragedy() 3. Theodore Dreiser c. The Portrait of a Lady() 4. Henry James d. Walden() 5. Mark Twain e. This Side of ParadiseGroup 2Column A Column B() 1. Huck a. A Rose for Emily() 2. Carrie Meeber b. The Hairy Ape() 3. Yank c. The Great Gatsby() 4. Nick Carraway d. Sister Carrie() 5. Emily Grierson e. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnPart Ⅱ : Each of the following statements below is followed by four alternatives. Choose theone that would best complete the statement. (50 points in all, 2 points for each)1. Romanticism appeared as a literary trend against _____. 【】A. rationalityB. imaginationC. intuitionD. individualism2. The famous 20 years 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 beauty1C. satire on laziness and corruptibility of human beingsD. idea about supernatural manipulation of man’ s life3. _____ has become so important that most people consider it an unofficial manifesto for the “ Transcendental Club ” .【】A. NatureB. The American ScholarC. WaldenD. Civil Disobedience4. _____is unanimously agreed to be the summit of the Romantic period in the history of American literature.【】A. PuritanismB. New England TranscendentalismC. DeismD. Unitarianism5. _____ is a symbol of microcosm of the world we are living in.【】A. The PequodB. Moby DickC. The Scarlet LetterD. Nature6. _____ held a“ black ” vision of life and human beings. 【】A. Ralph Waldo EmersonB. Nathaniel HawthorneC. Edgar Allan PoeD. James Fenimore Cooper7. Moby Dick,the big white whale, is possible read as symbolic of all the following EXCEPT_____. 【】A. malignancyB. beautyC. adulteryD. God8. According to Emerson, man ’ s capacity is _____.【】A. ambiguousB. limitedC. infiniteD. subsidiary to God9. _____ is regarded as an encyclopedia of everything: philosophy, religion, history, etc.【】A. NatureB. WaldenC. Moby DickD. The Scarlet Letter10. Whitman ’s poems are characterized by all the following features EXCEPT______. 【】A. a strict poetic formB. a simple and conversational language2C. a free and natural rhythmic patternD. an easy flow of feelings11. Another fact that made _____ unique is his magic power with language, his use of vernacular.His words are colloquial, concrete and direct in effect, and his sentence structures are simple, even ungrammatical, which is typical of the spoken language. 【】A. TwainB. AndersonC. JamesD. Dreiser12. While Mark Twain and William Dean Howells satirized European manners at times, _____wasan admirer of ancient European civilization. 【】A. Theodore DreiserB. Jack LondonC. Henry JamesD. William James13. About Naturalism, which of the following statements is NOT correct? 【】A. Naturalists chose their subjects from the lower ranks of society.B. They portrayed misery and poverty of the “ underdogs who”,were demonstrably victims ofsociety and nature.C. One of the most familiar themes in American Naturalism is the theme o f human“ bestiality,”especially an explanation of sexual desire.D. American Naturalism is a reaction against Realism.14. Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Henry James’s writing style?【】A. Exquisite and elaborate languageB. Minute detailed descriptionC. Lengthy psychological analysisD. American colloquialism15. _____ is now recognized not only as a great poetess on her own right but as a poetess of considerable influence upon American poetry of the present century. 【】A. Emily DickinsonB. Emily BrontёC. Anne BradstreetD. George Eliot16. Which of the following statements is NOT a typical feature of Emily Dickinson ’s poetry?【】A. Dickinson’ s poetry is unique and conventional in its own way.B. Her poems have no titles, hence are always quoted by their first lines.3C. In her poetry there is a particular stress pattern.D. Her poems tend to be very impersonal and meditative.17. It is not surprising to find in _____ fiction a world of jungle, where“ kill or to be killed” was the law.【】A. James’sB. Twain ’sC. Dreiser’sD. Anderson’s18. The Catcher in the Rye written by _____ is regarded as a students’ classic.【】A. J.D. SalingerB. John UpdikeC. Ralph EllisonD. Richard Wright19. _____ fictional world is the best embodiment of the spirit of Jazz Age, in which he shows a particular interest in the upper-class society, especially the upper-class young people. 【】A. Eliot’ s B. Hemingway’ sC. Fitzgerald’sD. Faulkner’s20. Chinese poetry and philosophy have exerted great influence over _____. 【】A. Ezra PoundB. Ralph Waldo EmersonC. Robert FrostD. Emily Dickinson21. In Hemingway ’s Indian Camp, 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 sin and evilC. an initiation to the harshness of lifeD. a learning process in human relationship22. The Hemingway Code heroes are best remembered for their _____. 【】A. indestructible spiritB. pessimistic view of lifeC. war experiencesD. masculinity23. Most of O ’Neill ’s plays are concerned about the following EXCEPT_____. 【】A. success and failure in man’ s literary careerB. life and death, illusion and disillusion, dream and realityC. alienation and communication, self and society, desire and frustration4D. the basic issues of human existence and predicament24. Traditional fiction featured an authoritative narrator in telling a story, while modern fiction tended to employ the first person narration or limit the reader to“ _____”.【】A. one character’ s point of viewB. the central consciousnessC. more characters points of viewD. both A and B25. Which one of the following statements is NOT true of William Faulkner?【】A. He is a master of stream-of-consciousness narrative.B. His writing is often complex and difficult to understand.C. He often depicts slum life in New York and Chicago.D. He represents a new group of Southern writers.Part Ⅲ : Interpretation (20 points in all, 5 points for each)Read the following selections and then answer the questions.Passage 1With this excellent resolve for the future, Goodman Brown felt himself justified in making more haste on his present evil purpose. He had taken a dreary road, darkened by all the gloomiest trees of the forest, which barely stood aside to let the narrow path creep through, and closed immediately behind. It was all as lonely as could be; and there is this peculiarity in such a solitude, that the traveler knows not who may be concealed by the innumerable trunks and the thick boughs overhead; so that with lonely footsteps, he may yet be passing through an unseen multitude. Questions:1. Identify the author and the title of the story from which this excerpt is taken.2. What ’ s Brown ’ s purpose to go to the woods?Passage 2The woods are lovely, dark and deep,But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep,And miles to go before I sleep.5Questions:1.Who is the poet of this poem? Which poem is this stanza taken from?2.What does sleep suggest?Passage 3The Eyes around-had wrung them dry-And Breaths were gathering firmFor that last Onset-when the KingBe witnessed-in the Room-Questions:1.Who is the poet?2.What does “ the King ” refer to?Passage 4... Gatsby, standing alone on the marble steps and looking from one group to another with approving eyes. His tanned skin was drawn attractively tight on his face and his short hair looked as though it were trimmed every day. I could see nothing sinister about him. I wondered if the fact that he was not drinking helped to set him off from his guests, for it seemed to me that he grew more correct as the fraternal hilarity.Questions:1.Which novel is this passage taken from? Who is the author?2.Who is “ I ” ? And what is his role in the novel?PartⅣ : Give brief answers to the following questions. (20 points in all, 10 points for each)1.Give a brief account of Walt Whitman ’s poetic style.2.Please state the major principles of Imagism.6。
(全新整理)7月自考浙江省语言与文化试题及答案解析
浙江省2018年7月高等教育自学考试语言与文化试题课程代码：10058I. Each of the following incomplete statements is followed by four alternatives. Read each statement and the four alternatives carefully and decide which one of the four alternatives best completes the statement .(20%)1. In their ______ senses the two terms “culture”and “文化”are identical in meaning.( )A. technicalB. economicalC. literalD. ordinary2. ______ relations are observed more frequently in English than in Chinese. ( )A. ParatacticB. LogicalC. ConnectiveD. Hypotactic3. “I just cannot swallow that claim”illustrates the metaphor that ______.( )A. ideas are peopleB. ideas are foodC. ideas are productsD. ideas are commodities4. A ______ is a military building consisting of an area enclosed by a strong wall, in which soldiers live and which is designed to be defended from attack.( )A. lynchB. castleC. fortD. terrapin5. In English individualistic culture, one should not bother Englishmen without a good reason and making appointment beforehand seems to be important. This is best reflected by an English proverb______.( )A. an Englishman’s house is his castleB. as welcome as a stormC. do not wear out your welcomeD. outstay one’s welcome6. ______ refers to a drink, usually an alcoholic one, made by mixing two or more drinks together.( )A. WhiskyB. CocktailC. Red wineD. White wine17. “To know something like the palm of one’s hand”means ______.( )A. to understand the nature of something and be competent in the performance of themB. to understand everything without any questionsC. understand only something easyD. to be thoroughly familiar with the nature and details of something8. When one visits an English speaking friend, one had better not to stay at his home long. This is especially illustrated by a proverb “______”.( )A. a rousing welcomeB. do not wear out your welcomeC. an English’s house is his castleD. as snow in harvest9. 雏菊in English is ______.( )A. daisyB. roseC. sunflowerD. lily10. Good-bye is derived from the expression ______.( )A. “Good luck for you”B. “God bless you”C. “God be with you”D. “Looking forward to seeing you again”11. ______ can be said as a reply to thanks.( )A. “It’s my duty”B. “It’s my job”C. “I have to do it because you are our guest”D. “You’re welcome”12. When you want to compliment the new coat Mary wears you can say ______.( )A. “That’s a very nice coat. It must be very expensive”B. “You look much more beautiful in this coat”C. “How much did you pay fro this coat?”D. “You look lovely in this coat, who bought it for you?”13. When offering another person to be first in going through a door or getting into a car, the normal expression is ______.( )A. “After you”B. “You go first, please”C. “Would you like to go first?”D. “Can you go first, please?”14. When your English hostess asks you “would you like some more of this dish, you answered2______ if you like”.( )A. “Thank you”B. “Yes, thank you”C. “Yes, please”D. “OK”15. “He devoured the book”is a metaphorical expression about ideas which means ______.( )A. he likes the book so muchB. he diagrams the bookC. he reads the book quickly and eagerlyD. he corrects the book16. “A white Christmas”refers to ______.( )A. snow at Christmas timeB. purity at Christmas timeC. innocence at Christmas timeD. nothing done at Christmas time17. “A white hope”refers to ______. ( )A. a talent person who is thought not likely to bring successB. a talent person who is thought likely to failC. a talent person who is thought likely to bring bad fateD. a talent person who is thought likely to bring success18. “‘Tickets, please!’said the guard, putting his head at the window. In a moment everybody was holding out a ticket”demonstrates ______ relation between the two sentences. ( ) A. causal B. a temporalC. an additiveD. an adversative19. In most English letters of request, ______.( )A. the request precedes the supporting informationB. the request follows the supporting informationC. the initial request has to be made paving the way for the final requestD. the request is placed at the end of a letter20. “Frozen”is one of five features of oral English, taking “______”as an example.( )A. visitors should go up the stairs at onceB. visitors should make their way at once to the upper floor by way of staircaseC. up you go, chapsD. time you all went upstairs, nowII. Each of the following incomplete statements is followed by four alternatives. Read each3statement and the four alternatives carefully and decide which alternative can complete the statement. (10%)1. “Propaganda”refers to information, ideas, opinions or images, often only giving one part of an argument, which are broadcast, published or in some other way spread with the intention of influencing people’s opinions. In English culture indicates mainly ______.( )A. disapprovingB. approvingC. neutral attitudeD. ambiguous attitude2. The word in American English for “wagon”is ______.( )A. truckB. lorryC. cargoD. waggon3. The British English equivalent for “公立学校”is ______.( )A. public schoolB. council schoolC. private schoolD. grade school4. The American English equivalent for “公立学校”is ______.( )A. public schoolB. council schoolC. private schoolD. grade school5. ______ can be viewed as occurring whenever as individual communicates without the use of sounds.( )A. Non-verbal communicationB. Facial expressionsC. GesturesD. Posture6. When signifying “come here”, English speakers would ______. ( )A. extend their open hands, palms down, towards the person with all fingers crooked in abeckoning motionB. extend their closed hands, palms up, with only their forefingers moving back and forthC. extend their open hands, palms up, towards the person with all fingers crooked in a beckoningmotionD. extend their open hands, palms down, with only their forefingers moving back and forth7. “I’m full”is signified in English culture by ______.( )A. one or both open hands lightly patting one’s own stomachB. a raised open hand, palm forward4C. an open hand, palm down, raised to one’s throatD. moving quickly his open hand, palm down, across his throat8. “Hitchhiking”is symbolized by ______ in English culture.( )A. a raised open hand, palm forwardsB. moving several times the hand whose forefinger touches one’s own cheekC. moving several times the hand whose thumb touches one’s own cheekD. moving several times a closed hand with an outstretched thumb pointing to the direction in which one tends to travel9. “Chewing one’s finger nails”signifies ______. ( )A. emotional stressB. argumentC. impatienceD. frustration10. “Wagging one’s forefinger”is used to ______.( )A. show one’s angry or frustrationB. warn others not to do somethingC. show one’s defiance and contemptD. express one’s impatienceIII. Each of the following statements has an underlined space. Fill in each underlined space with a proper expression (12%).1. ______ is the study of facial expressions, touch, time, gestures, smile, eye behavior and so on.2. Some English gestures mirror the English alphabet, such as the OK gesture and the ______ gesture.3. The British English equivalent for “quartet”is ______.4. The American English equivalent for “cheque”is ______.5. The English speaking population view frequent use of ______ as bad.6. The “______”English refers to those basic English items that appear in most or all varieties of English.7. “Industrial action”is a euphemism for ______.8. “Slums”or “ghettos”where the poor and the colored races live may be referred to as ______.9. ______ is an equivalent for “ugly”.10. ______ refers to a day specially looked forward to when something remarkable and usually pleasurable will happen.511. ______ is a lie which does not harm and is merely more convenient or polite than telling the truth.12. ______ refers to a cruel, greedy, money grabbing person who will go to no ends to gain wealth.IV. Answer the following questions briefly. (12%)1. A girl may smile to a male stranger. What different interpretation for this phenomenon can you find in both English and Chinese culture?2. What is personal space? What are its qualities?3. What are the five categories of touch?4. Why do some Chinese learners of English often speak bookish English?5. In what way does oral English differ from written English?6. What should Chinese learners of English have to learn if they want to be able to produce cohesive texts?7. Is “you praised you too much”appropriate if said as a reply to praise like “your English is very good”? If it is not, what would you say in the same situation?8. What is racism? And what are racist languages? Can you cite two examples?9. Is it appropriate to call a woman in fifties grandma? Why or why not?10. How do you say “拙作”in English?11. How do you say “请赐教”in English?12. What are “yellow pages”?V. Translation (16%)A: Translate the following into Chinese (8%)1. To put ones foot in ones mouth2. Man proposes, God disposes3. Life is but a walking shadow4. Even reckoning makes long friendsB: Translate the following into English (8%)5. 您有何贵干?6. 久仰，久仰大名。
7月浙江自考美国文学选读试题及答案解析
浙江省2018年7月自学考试美国文学选读试题课程代码：10055Part I: Choose the relevant match from column B for each item in column A.(10%)Section AColumn A Column B( )1.Ezra Pound a. The Marble Faun( )2.William Faulkner b. The Ambassadors( )3.Mark Twain c. The American Tragedy( )4.Henry James d. Hugh Selwyn Mauberley( )5.Theodore Dreiser e. The Adventures of Tom SawyerSection BColumn A Column B( )1.Yank a. Indian Camp( )2.Tom Sawyer b. Daisy Miller( )3.Nick Adams c. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn( )4.Frederic Winterbourne d. The Hairy Ape( )5.Charles Drouet e. Sister CarriePart Ⅱ: Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase according to the textbook. (10%)1. To Hawthorne and Melville every person is a sinner and great __________is therefore indispensable for the improvement of human nature.2. The period ranging from 1865 to 1914 has been referred to as the Age of __________.3. The impact of Darwin’s evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the 19th century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to yet another school of realism: American __________.4. More than five hundred poems Dickinson wrote are about nature, in which her general __________ about the relationship between man and nature is well-expressed.5. In the history of American literature, Ezra Pound was regarded as a leading spokesman of the1famous “__________ Movement”.6. Eugene O’Neill is considered the leading __________ of the modern period in American literature.7. Robert Frost is generally considered a regional poet. In his poetry, he made the colloquial __________ speech into a poetic expression .8. Hemingway’s first novel The Sun Also Rises casts light on a whole generation after the __________ and the effects of the war by way of a vivid portrait of “The Lost Generation.”9. John Steinbeck is a novelist of the 1930s. His The Grapes of Wrath is a record of the life of the dispossessed and the wretched farmers during __________.10. Besides his volumes of poems, Pound also worked out quite a few translations, from which his affinity to the __________ and his strenuous effort in the study of Oriental literature can be seen .Part Ⅲ: Each of the following statements below is followed by four alternative answers.Choose the one that would best complete the statement. (50%)1. Which of the following cannot be said of American literature from the early 1800s to thebeginning of the Civil War?( )A. American type of characters speaking local dialects appeared in the fictionB. There was a stress on law and reason in literary writings of the timeC. There was faith in the value of individualism and self-relianceD. There was a desire for an escape from civilized society and a return to the ennobling nature2. The main philosophical concern in the debate of Transcendentalism are generally about __________.( )A. nature, man and the universeB. the relationship between man and womanC. the development of Romanticism in AmericaD. the cold, rigid rationalism of Unitarianism3. Which of the following book was regarded as the first work that had won financial success on both sides of the Atlantic in the first half of the 19th century?( )A. The Sketch BookB. Charles the SecondC. The Scarlet LetterD. Moby Dick24. According to Emerson, which of the following is said of nature?( )A. It is emblematic of the spiritual world, alive with God’s overwhelming presence.B. It exercises a healthy and restorative influence on human mindC. Without nature man can improve himself and become spiritually whole.D. both A and B5. As a man of literary craftsmanship, Hawthorne is good at __________.( )A. exploring the complexity of human psychology, especially the power of blackness deep inpeople’s heartB. exploring the goodness hidden deeply in people’s heartC. exploring the complexity of human psychology, especially the puritans’confusion before thereal worldD. both A and C6. As to the great novel Moby-Dick which of the following statements is right?( )A. It is a symbolic voyage of the mind in quest of the truth and knowledge of the universe.B. It’s a spiritual exploration into man’s deep reality and psychologyC. It is only a simple whaling tale or sea adventureD. both A and B7. The greatest realist Mark Twain has coined the term“The Gilded Age”, which later usually refers to __________ in American history.( )A. the Romantic PeriodB. the Realistic PeriodC. the Modern AgeD. the Postmodern Age8. About the American Naturalism, which of the following statements is right?( )A. They preferred to have their own region and people at the forefront of the stories.B. Their characteristic setting is an isolated town.C. Their characters were conceived more or less complex combinations of inherited attributes, their habits conditioned by social and economic forces.D. none of the above9. Mark Twain had gradually changed from __________ to __________ by the turn of the century, which could be felt in his books The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and The Mysterious3Stranger.( )A. an almost despairing pessimist ...an optimistB. an optimist ... an almost despairing pessimistC. a local colorist ... a naturalistD. a naturalist ... a local colorist10. Which of the following is not written by Henry James?( )A. The Portrait of A Lady and The EuropeansB. The Wings of the Dove and The AmbassadorsC. The Golden Bowl and The Gilded AgeD. What Maisie Knows and The Bostonians11. Which of the following statements is not right about the heroine in the novel DaisyMiller?( )A. She has become a celebrated cultural type who embodies the spirit of the New World.B. She comes from the new world but remains traditional and conservative.C. Her innocence turns out to be an admiring but a dangerous quality in the new word.D. The author’s sympathy for her, a tender flower crushed by the harsh winter in Rome was easily felt.12. The subjects of Emily Dickinson’s poems are mainly about __________. ( )A. religionB. death and immortalityC. love and natureD. all of the above13. In her quiet and solitary life, Emily Dickinson makes enchanting poetry out of __________.( )A. a happy and active lifeB. adventurous experiencesC. a single household and an inactive lifeD. a hard and suffering life14. About the novel Sister Carrie , which of the following statements is right?( )A. The story is about a young sailor, who struggles to reach the upper society but soon gets disillusioned.B. It is about a Southern aristocratic woman, who refuses to come to terms with the present.4C. It tells a story of a country girl, who strives to gain her material rise in big cities but soon gets tired of her success.D. It is about a young vain girl, who indulges herself in grand parties and luxurious trips but soon becomes penniless.15. The Civil War had transformed America from __________ to __________.( )A. an agrarian community ... a society of freedom and equalityB. an agrarian community ... an industrialized and commercialized societyC. an industrialized and commercialized society ... a highly developed societyD. a poor and backward society ...an industrialized and commercialized society16. At the end of the 19th century, the realists rejected the portrayal of idealized characters and events and, instead, sought to __________.( )A. describe the wide range of American experienceB. present the subtleties of human personalityC. show animal nature of human beingsD. both A and B17. About the first few decades of the 20th century, which of the following is right?( )A. There was a rise in moral standard and it was best described as a spiritual land of promiseB. Individual power and hope became part of the American experience as a result of the First World War.C. There was a decline in social standard and it was described as a spiritual wasteland.D. all of the above.18. Eugene O’Neill is remembered for his tragic view of life and most of his plays are about__________. ( )A. the root, the truth of human desires and human frustrationsB. the moral nature of the modern mankindC. the relationship between man and nature as well as man and womanD. the inner contradiction of men before the real world19. In general terms, much serious American literature written from 1912 onwards attempted to convey __________. ( )A. a vision of social breakdown and moral decay5B. a vision of social continuity and harmonyC. the continuity and discontinuity between the past and the modern timeD. all of the above20. Which of the following is not said about Pound’s The Cantos?( )A. It traces the rise and fall of eastern and western empires.B. It reflects the moral and social chaos of the modern world.C. It concerns particularly the corruption of America after the heroic time of Jefferson.D. all of the above21. In his poetic creation, Robert Frost looked upon nature as__________.( )A. the opposite of human societyB. a storehouse of analogies and symbolsC. a contrast to human civilizationD. an ennobling force to purify human soul22. Which of the following is not said about the thematic concerns of Robert Frost ?( )A. The terror and tragedy in nature as well as its beautyB. The relationship between man and societyC. His love of life and his belief in a serenity coming from workingD. The loneliness and poverty of the isolated human being23. In the play The Hairy Ape, the major character Yank __________.( )A. has a sense of belonging nowhere, hence homelessness and rootlessnessB. is typical of the mood of isolation and alienation in the early twentieth century in the United States onlyC. reflects the problem of modern man’s identityD. both A and C24. Which of the following is properly said of Fitzgerald’s writing style?( )A. The scenic method is explored, each of which consists of one or more dramatic scenes.B. His intervening passages of narration leaves the tedious process of transition to the author’s imaginationC. The device of having events observed by a “central consciousness”is dropped off.D. His diction and metaphors are not completely original and details sometimes inaccurate.625. Faulkner’s first novel A Rose for Emily is set in the town of __________ in Yoknapatawpha.( )A. JeffersonB. CambridgeC. OxfordD. New AlbanyPart Ⅳ: Interpretation(16%)Read the following selections and then answer the questions.Passage 1Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel bothAnd be one traveller , long I stoodAnd looked down one as far as I couldTo where it bent in the undergrowth;Then took the other, as just as fair,and having perhaps the better claim,Because it was grassy and wanted wear;Though as for that the passing thereHad worn them really about the same,And both that morning equally layIn leaves no step had trodden black.Oh, I kept the first for another day!Yet knowing how way leads on to way,I doubted if I should ever come back.I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I —I took the one less traveled by,7And that has made all the difference.1. What does the poet mean symbolically by “road”?2. Why did the speaker choose the road less travelled by?Passage 2There 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.…I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby’s house I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited. People were not invited-they went there. They got into automobiles which bore them out to Long Island, and somehow they ended up at Gatsby’s door. Once there they were introduced by somebody who knew Gatsby, and after that they conducted themselves according to the rules of behavior associated with an amusement park. Sometimes they came and went without having met Gatsby at all, came for the party with a simplicity of heart that was its own ticket of admission.I had been actually invited. A chauffeur in a uniform of robin’s-egg blue crossed my lawn early that Saturday morning with a surprisingly formal note from his employer: the honor would be entirely Gatsby’s, it said, if I would attend his “little party”that night. He had seen me several times, and had intended to call on me long before, but a peculiar combination of circumstances had prevented it-signed Jay Gatsby, in a majestic hand.Dressed up in white flannels, I went over to his lawn a little after seven, and wandered around rather ill at ease among swirls and eddies of people I didn’t know-though here and there was a face I had noticed on the commuting train. I was immediately struck by the number of young Englishmen dotted about; all well dressed, all looking a little hungry, and all talking in low,8earnest voices to solid and prosperous Americans. I was sure that they were selling something: bonds or insurance or automobiles. They were at least agonizingly aware of the easy money in the vicinity and convinced that it was theirs for a few words in the right key.As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host, but the two or three people of whom I asked his whereabouts stared at me in such an amazed way, and denied so vehemently any knowledge of his movements, that I slunk off in the direction of the cocktail table-the only place in the garden where a single man could linger without looking purposeless and alone.3. Which novel is this passage taken from? Who is the writer?4.How do you interpret the atmosphere of contradiction which is evoked in this chapter?Part V: Give brief answers to the following questions. (14%)1. Please give a brief analysis of Irving’s “Rip Van Winkle”.2. What is American naturalism? Please make a brief analysis.9。
7月自考英美文学选读试题及答案解析
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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。
2020年7月浙江自考外国文学史试题及答案解析
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1.最有名的普罗旺斯骑士抒情诗是（）A.牧歌B.夜歌C.破晓歌D.怨歌2.《罗兰之歌》这部史诗的基本主题是（）A.爱情B.护教C.行侠D.爱国3.薄伽丘的《十日谈》是一部（）A.民间故事集B.长篇传奇C.框形结构的短篇小说集D.抒情诗集4.被恩格斯称之为“辩证法的杰作”的作品是（）A.《修女》B.《拉摩的侄儿》C.《宿命论者雅克》D.《天真汉》5.名句“冬天已经来临，春天还会远吗？”出自《西风颂》，它的作者是（）A.拜伦B.雪莱C.济慈D.华兹华斯6.具有空想社会主义倾向的小说《安吉堡的磨工》的作者是（）A.乔治·桑B.小仲马C.雨果D.缪塞7.萨克雷在《名利场》中塑造了一个女冒险家的形象，她是（）1A.蓓基·夏泼B.玛丽·巴顿C.简·爱D.凯瑟琳8.《呼啸山庄》的作者是（）A.简·奥斯汀B.夏绿蒂·勃朗特C.爱米莉·勃朗特D.盖斯凯尔夫人9.马雅可夫斯基创作的并受到列宁高度评价的讽刺诗是（）A.《向左进行曲》B.《开会迷》C.《一亿五千万》D.《放开喉咙歌唱》10.现代主义的主要标志是（）A.社会主义现实主义B.反传统和非理性C.有所创新的现实主义D.浪漫主义与现实主义相结合11.构成西方现代派文学的双峰对峙的是（）A.《变形记》和《毛猿》B.《变形记》和《追忆流水年华》C.《荒原》和《喧哗与骚动》D.《荒原》和《尤利西斯》12.西方评论界把“黑色幽默”称之为（）A.当代文明的毁灭B.痛苦的文学C.绞刑架下的幽默D.弹出一个时代的失望之音13.《旧约》是古代希伯来文学的总集，全书共有（）A.5卷B.15卷C.18卷D.39卷14.世界文学史上最早的完整史诗是（）A.《伊利亚特》B.《罗摩衍那》C.《吉尔伽美什》D.《摩诃婆罗多》15.朝鲜汉文学的奠基者是（）A.崔致远B.李奎报C.李齐贤D.金富轼216.夏目漱石的创作中被誉为“日本近代心理小说典范”的作品是（）A.《虞美人草》B.《其后》C.《心》D.《明暗》17.泰戈尔是东方第一位诺贝尔文学奖得主，获奖时间是（）A.1905年B.1908年C.1913年D.1930年18.1921年标志日本无产阶级文学诞生的刊物创刊，这个刊物是（）A.《工人文学》B.《播种人》C.《文艺战线》D.《无产者》19.最能体现川端康成新感觉派倾向的作品是（）A.《盛情装饰》B.《伊豆的歌女》C.《雪国》D.《古都》20.马哈福兹由社会主义现实主义创作转向新现实主义小说创作的标志是（）A.《新开罗》B.《我们街区的孩子》C.《尼罗河絮语》D.《平民史诗》二、多项选择题(本大题共5小题，每小题2分，共10分)在每小题列出的五个备选项中至少有两个是符合题目要求的，请将其代码填写在题后的括号内。
7月美国文学选读自学考试浙江省试题及答案解析试卷及答案解析
浙江省2018年7月高等教育自学考试美国文学选读试题课程代码：10055Part Ⅰ: Choose the relevant match from Column B for each item in Column A.(5%) Group 1Column A Column B（）1. F. S. Fitzgerald a. The Hairy Ape（）2.William Faulkner b. Daisy Miller（）3. Henry James c. Sister Carrie（）4. Eugene O’Neill d. The Great Gatsby（）5. Theodore Dreiser e. A Rose for EmilyGroup 2Column A Column B（）1. Emily Grierson a. Sister Carrie（）2.G.W. Hurstwood b. Indian Camp（）3.Ishmael c. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer（）4.Tom Sawyer d. A Rose for Emily（）5. Nick e. Moby DickPart Ⅱ: Each of the following statements below is followed by four alternatives. Choose the one that would best complete the statement. (60%)（）1. Which of following can be said of the common features which are shared by the the English and American Romanticists ?A. An increasing emphasis on the free expression of emotions.B. An increasing attention to the psychic states of their characters.C. An increasing emphasis on the desire to return to nature.D. both A and B.（）2. The Romantic Period in American literature stretches from the end of the 18th century1to the outbreak of _________.A. the Revolutionary WarB. the Civil WarC. the War for IndependenceD. World War I（）3. Washington Irving’s_________ became the first work by an American writer to win financial success on both sides of the Atlantic in the first half of the 19th century.A. Charles the SecondB. Sketch BookC. The Scarlet LetterD. Moby Dick（）4. The most important representatives of American transcendentalism, which once flourished in New England as a philosophical and literary movement, are _________.A. Edgar Poe and James CooperB. Emerson and WhitmanC. Hawthorne and MelvilleD. Emerson and Thoreau（）5. Hawthorne’s unique gift was for the creation of _________ which touch the deepest roots of man’s moral nature.A. romantic storiesB. symbolic storiesC. gothic storiesD. humorous stories（）6. Ralph W. Emerson’s first little book _________ established him as the most eloquent spokesman of Transcendentalism.A. EssaysB. NatureC. The American ScholarD. The Over-Soul（）7. Which of the following is not written by Herman Melville ?A. Typee and OmooB. Mardi and White JacketC. The Bostonians and American TragedyD. Moby-Dick and Pierre（）8. In the novel Moby Dick, the rebellious struggle of Captain Ahab was thought to be against .A. the white whaleB. the gliding great demon of the seas of lifeC. the overwhelming, mysterious vastness of the universe and the awesome forces2D. the savage harpooners and the motley crew（）9. In the post-Civil War society the American realists portrayed the harsh realities and pressures by _________.A. a comprehensive picture of modern life in its various occupations, class stratifications and mannersB. a narrative exploration of man’s subconsciousnessC. a disillusion of heroism resulting from the dark memories of the Civil WarD. a revival of heroism resulting from the glorious memories of the Revolutionary War（）10. In his masterpiece The Portrait of A Lady Henry James _________ .A. incarnates the clash between the Old World and the New in the life journey of an American girl in a European cultural environmentB. tells a story about a young and innocent American confronting the complexity of the European life as well as the American societyC. describes a young American girl who gets “killed”by the winter in RomeD. tells about some Europeans who learn with difficulty to adapt themselves to the American life （）11. Which of the following can be said about the titular heroine in the novel Daisy Miller?A. She has become a celebrated cultural type who embodies the spirit of the new world.B. The author’s sympathy for her, a tender flower crushed by the harsh winter in Rome was easily felt.C. Her innocence turns out to be an admiring but a dangerous quality in the new world.D. all of the above（）12. As Emily Dickinson’s poems about love are concerned, which of the following is not right ?A. Many of them give original depictions of the longing for shared moments, the pain of separation, and the futility of finding happiness.B. Some of her love poems treat the suffering and frustration love can cause.3C. Her love poems show people’s feelings of rapture and happiness coming from their love experience.D. Some of them emphasize the power of physical attraction and expressing a mixture of fear and fascination for the mysterious magnetism between sexes.（）13. In her quiet and partially isolated life, Emily Dickinson makes enchanting poetry out of_________.A. a single household and an inactive lifeB. a few adventurous experiencesC. a happy and active lifeD. a hard and suffering life（）14. Altogether, Emily Dickinson wrote 1775 poems, of which only _________ had appeared during her lifetime.A. sevenB. elevenC. twentyD. fifteen（）15. As a realist, Mark Twain concerned particularly about the local character of a region, which came about as “_________”.A. NaturalismB. TranscendentalismC. Local ColorismD. both A and C（）16. By the turn of the century, the publication of The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg and The Mysterious Stranger marks the change in Mark Twain from _________to _________.A. an almost despairing pessimist...an optimistB. an optimist ... an almost despairing pessimistC. a local colorist ... a naturalistD. a naturalist ... a local colorist（）17. In the writings of the naturalists, the characters are usually presented as_________.A. people who were simply all good or all badB. usually idealized heroes or heroines of unspotted virtue and dazzling accomplishments4C. in most cases examples of human experienceD. more often than not dominated by their environment and heredity（）18. Which of the following is right about the first few decades of the 20th century?A. There was a decline in social standard and it was described as a spiritual wasteland.B. Individual power and hope became part of the American experience as a result of the First World War.C. There was a rise in moral standard and it was best described as a spiritual land of promise.D. all of the above.（）19. After the First World War, a group of expatriate writers in American modern literature were later called “_________”.A. The Beat GenerationB. The Lost GenerationC. The Jazz GenerationD. The Modern Generation（）20. Which of the following can be said about the much serious American literature written from 1912 onwards? _________.A. All of them attempted to convey a vision of social continuity and harmonyB. Generally, they attempted to convey a vision of social breakdown and moral decayC. Many of them attempted to convey the continuity and discontinuity between the past and the modern timeD. all of the above（）21. Which of the following can not be said about the main principles of the Imagist Movement?A. Direct treatment of poetic subjectsB. Elimination of merely ornamental or superfluous wordsC. The treatment of the medium of poetry in agreement with RomanticismD. Rhythmical composition in the sequence of the musical phrase rather than in the sequence of a metronome（）22. As a poet in the 20th century, Robert Frost _________.5A. rejected the conventional poetic principles and chose the revolutionary wayB. rejected the romantic way choosing instead the revolutionary principlesC. rejected the revolutionary principles choosing instead the romantic wayD. rejected the revolutionary poetic principles of his contemporaries choosing instead the old-fashioned way to be new（）23. Pound’s translations cast light on his affinity to the Chinese and his strenuous effort in the study of _________.A. ancient Asian literatureB. ancient Roman literatureC. Oriental literatureD. ancient Indian literature（）24. Which of the following is not written by Eugene O’Neill?A. Long Day’s Journey into Night and The Great GatsbyB. The Emperor Jones and The Hairy ApeC. Desire Under the Elms and The Great God DownD. Beyond the Horizon and Anna Christie（）25. Which of the following can be said about the major character Yank in the play The Hairy Ape?A. Yank has a sense of belonging nowhere, hence homelessness and rootlessnessB. Yank reflects the problem of modern man’s identityC. Yank is typical of the mood of isolation and alienation in the early twentieth century in the United States onlyD. both A and B（）26. In his writings, Fitzgerald could present a panorama of the Jazz Age with a deep sight because _________.A. he stood aloof and kept a cold eye on the performance of his contemporaries.B. he joined the big party in the 1920s, partaking of the wealth , frivolity, temptations of the time.C. he was not only an insider but also an outsider of the Jazz Age therefore had a double vision.D. he stayed sober enough to see the corruptive nature of the society and the vanity fair.6（）27. For Hemingway’s heroes, man’s greatest achievement is _________.A. to show grace under pressureB. to keep bravery before dangerC. to share encouragement under pressureD. to be optimistic under pressure（）28. Which of the following is said of Hemingway’s heroes?A. He is always struggling against nature and the environment together with others.B. In a world of chaos, he is doomed to a loosing battle and failure in the end.C. He can be physically destroyed but never defeated spiritually.D. He is the last hero but determined to fight to the end.（）29. In his novels, Faulkner creates his own kingdom that mirrors _________.A. the frivolity and carelessness of the young generation and the sense of loss and despair of the whole society.B. the spiritual wasteland of the Southern society and the decline of the whole American societyC. the sense of loss and despair among the post-war generation and the decline of the whole American societyD. the decline of the Southern society and the spiritual wasteland of the whole American society （）30. Which of the following can be said about Faulkner’s A Rose for Emily ?A. The “stream of consciousness”technique is employed in it .B. The chronology of narration is displaced.C. Its language is too symbolic and the dialogues are fragmented.D. There are too many characters whose relations are too complicated.PartⅢ: Interpretation(21%)Read the following selections and then answer the questions.Passage 1Rip Van Winkle, however, was one of those happy mortals, of foolish, well-oiled dispositions, who take the world easy, eat white bread or brown, which ever can be got with least thought or7trouble, and would rather starve on a penny than work for a pound. If left to himself, he would have whistled life away in perfect contentment; but his wife kept continually dinning in his ears about his idleness, his carelessness, and the ruin he was bringing on his family. Morning, noon, and night, her tongue was incessantly going, and every thing he said or did was sure to produce a torrent of household eloquence. Rip had but one way of replying to all lectures of the kind, and that, by frequent use, had grown into a habit. He shrugged his shoulders, shook his head, cast up his eyes, but said nothing. This, however, always provoked a fresh volley from his wife; so that he was fain to draw off his forces, and take to the outside of the house—the only side which, in truth, belongs to a henpecked husband.1. From which story is this passage taken from? Who is the writer?2. According to the passage, what kind of man is Rip?Passage 2The harpoon was darted; the stricken whale flew forward; with igniting velocity y the line ran through the grooves;—ran foul. Ahab stooped to clear it; he did clear it; but the flying turn caught him round the neck, and voicelessly as Turkish mutes bowstring their victim, he was shot out of the boat, ere the crew knew he was gone. Next instant, the heavy eye-splice in the rope’s final end flew out of the stark-empty tub, knocked down an oarsman, and smiting the sea, disappeared in its depths.For an instant, the tranced boat’s crew stood still; then turned. “The ship? Great God, where is the ship?”Soon they through dim, bewildering mediums saw her sidelong fading phantom, as in the gaseous Fata Morgana, only the uppermost masts out of water; while fixed by infatuation, or fidelity, or fate, to their once lofty perches, the pagan harpooners still maintained their sinking look-outs on the sea. And now, concentric circles seized the lone boat itself, and all its crew, and each floating oar, and every lancepole, and spinning, animate and inanimate, all round and round in one vortex, carried the smallest chip of the Pequod out of sight.3. Which novel is this passage taken from? Who is the author?4. How do you interpret the symbolic meaning of the ship Pequod and the white whale in the8passage?Passage 3Hurstwood put his hand, red from cold, down in his pockets. Tears came into his eyes. “That’s right,”he said; “I’m no good now. I was all right. I had money. I’m going to quit this,”and, with death in his heart, he started down toward the Bowery. People had turned on the gas before and died; why shouldn’t he? He remembered a lodging house where there were little, close rooms, with gas-jets in them, almost pre-arranged, he thought, for what he wanted to do, which rented for fifteen cents. Then he remembered that he had no fifteen cents.Hurstwood moved on, wondering. The sight of the large, bright coin pleased him a little. He remembered that he was hungry and that he could get a bed for ten cents. With this, the idea of death passed, for the time being, out of his mind. It was only when he could get nothing but insults that death seemed worthwhile.5. According to the passage, what situation did Hurstwood fall in at present?Passage 4Whose woods these are I think I knowHis house is in the village though;He will not see me stopping hereTo watch his woods fill up with snow.My little horse must think it queerTo stop without a farmhouse nearBetween the woods and frozen lakeThe darkest evening of the year.He gives his harness bells a shakeTo ask if there is some mistake.The only other sound’s the sweep9Of easy wind and downy flake.The woods are lovely, dark and deep,But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep,And miles to go before I sleep.6. Who’s the writer of the poem? What kind of feeling is shown of the poet in this stanza?7. Please interpret the last stanza of this poem.Part Ⅳ: Give brief answers to the following questions. (14%)1. Give a brief analysis of the major characteristics of American Realism.2. Please state the major features of the modernistic works in American literature.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。
最新7月浙江自考语言与文化试题及答案解析
最新7月浙江自考语言与文化试题及答案解析浙江省2018年7月自学考试语言与文化试题课程代码：10058I. Each of the following incomplete statements is followed by four alternatives. Read each statement and the four alternatives carefully and decide which one of the four alternatives best completes the statement.(20%)1. In English, “sdylh”is not a possible word and “green made he”is not an acceptable sentence. It proves that language is ________. ( )A. arbitraryB. systematicC. symbolicD. vocal2. The Chinese equivalent for “Housewarming”is ________. ( )A. 温室效应B. 温暖的房屋C. 乔迁喜宴D. 房屋供暖3. The word in British English for “tire”is ________. ( )A. wheelB. boreC. tyreD. tier4. The English name “Camellia”is related to ________. ( )A. ChristianityB. plantC. weaponD. knowledge5. ________ can represent the geographical aspects of culture. ( )A. KoalaB. CowboyC. QueenD. Hot dog6. If a student wants to express his gratitude for professor’s help, he can say ________. ( )A. “I am so sorry that I am wasting your time.”B. “I hope I didn’t disturb you.”C. “Don’t you mind I disturb you?”D. “Thank you so much. I really appreciate your help.”7. When an Englishman says “I was only pulling your leg”, he means ________. ( )A. I was only trying to prevent you from making progress.B. I was only warning you.C. I was only joking.D. I was only asking you for help.8. The first week day after Christmas, a legal holiday in England, Wales, Northern Ireland, New Zealand, Australia and South Africa, is called ________. ( )A. Boxing DayB. EasterC. Thanksgiving DayD. St. Valentine’s Day9. “To ride one’s high horse”means ________. ( )A. to be naughtyB. to be energeticC. to be arrogantD. to be optimistic10. “________”illustrates the metaphor that ideas are commodities. ( )A. What he said left a bad taste in my mouth.B. Those ideas died off in the Middle Ages.C. Mathematics has many branches.D. There is always a market for good ideas.11. ________ is a detective or shrewd person who has the uncanny ability to solve any mystery through careful observation, scientific analysis, and logical reasoning. ( )A. RomeoB. ShylockC. Sherlock HolmesD. Napoleon12. It is generally accepted that at the sentential level ________ relations are observed far more frequently in English than in Chinese. ( )A. logicalB. hypotacticC. paratacticD. hypocritical13. “They are uncontrollably attracted to each other”is a metaphorical expression about love is ________. ( )A. a physical forceB. madnessC. magicD. patient14. American and British English are two ________ of the English language. ( )A. formsB. varietiesC. languagesD. speeches15. “He showed no pleasure at hearing the news. Instead he looked even gloomier.”demonstrates ________ relation between the two sentences. ( )A. an adversativeB. a causalC. a temporalD. an additive16. “A white hope”refers to ________. ( )A. a talent person who is thought not likely to bring successB. a talent person who is thought likely to failC. a talent person who is thought likely to bring bad fateD. a talent person who is thought likely to bring success17. “Crossing one’s forefinger and middle finger”signifies ________ in English speaking countries. ( )A. secrecyB. sadnessC. respectD. good luck18. “Red handed”corresponds to ________. ( )A. 现行犯的B. 革命党的C. 精力充沛的D. 红色政权的19. ________ style is used for conversations between close friends, colleagues or classmates about topics that are not serious. ( )A. FormalB. ConsultativeC. CasualD. Intimate20. When doctors touch their patients in a physical examination, we call it ________ touch.( ) A. functional-professional B. friendship-warmthC. socio-politeD. love-intimacyII. Each of the following incomplete statements is followed by four alternatives. Read each statement and the four alternatives carefully and decide which alternative can complete the statement. There might be more than one correct answer. (10%)1. In its narrow sense culture is ________. ( )A. the attributes of manB. life way of a populationC. called “academic culture”D. called “anthropological culture”2. Words positive in meaning in English but pejorative or neutral in Chinese are ________.( ) A. aggressive B. self-made manC. individualismD. equalitarianism3. Names include ________, full names, with or without a title. ( )A. titlesB. surnamesC. nicknames or pet namesD. given names4. ________ refers to a person who is too cheap to take hisgirlfriend out so he takes her to his home all the time. ( )A. CouchwarmerB. Ladies’ manC. HippieD. Chauvinist pig5. English pronouns are marked for several cases: ________. ( )A. subjectiveB. objectiveC. genitive determinativeD. genitive independent6. ________ are acceptable forms of address in English. ( )A. Mrs. WhiteB. Mr. JackC. Miss SmithD. Accountant Black7. In English culture “grey”is often associated with ________. ( )A. an old ageB. gloomyC. vigorD. something unpleasant8. “To carry the ball”is an allusion, ________. ( )A. referring to have the main responsibility for getting a task or job doneB. referring to have a very enjoyable timeC. derived from American footballD. derived from rugby9. In English culture the general rule is to introduce ________. ( )A. a man to a womanB. a superior to an inferiorC. the host to the guestD. an individual to a group10. Blue Monday conveys the meaning that ________. ( )A. one is in his sad moodB. one should remember the important dayC. one is in his gloomy moodD. one always has had fortune on that dayIII. Each of the following statements has an underlined space. Fill in each underlined space with a proper expression. (24%)1. The leader of the British government is called ________.2. The American English equivalent for “lift”is ________.3. The English equivalent for “做无米之炊”is ________.4. The Chinese equivalent for “cooker”is ________.5. Morphemes can be classified into two categories: inflectional and ________ morphemes.6. It has been claimed that English texts develop ________, while Chinese ones develop in a spiral way.7. “注意言行举止”corresponds to “________”in English.8. All languages have kinship terms and distinguish at least three characteristics in relatives: ________, blood relationship and sex.9. ________ refers to a play in which comic elements are combined with more tragic or absurdly evil ones, with the latter on the whole predominating.10. ________ refers to prejudice or discrimination based on sex, especially, discrimination against women.11. The English equivalent for “杂种狗”is ________.12. Edward Hall suggests that there are three different time systems that might be found in cultures. They are ________, formaland informal time systems.IV. Translation.(16%)A. Translate the following into Chinese. (8%)1. Superior2. Pride goes before a fall.3. high school4. a marriage of convenienceB. Translate the following into English. (8%)1. 拜年2. 北京大学位于中国北京市海淀区颐和园路5号。
2024年自考-自考专业(英语)-英美文学选读考试历年真题常考点试题4带答案
2024年自考-自考专业(英语)-英美文学选读考试历年真题常考点试题带答案（图片大小可任意调节）第1卷一.单选题(共20题)1.It was his masterpiece The Great Gatsby that made( )one of the greatest American novelists.A. FitzgeraldB.William FaulknerC.Ernest HemmingwayD.Gertrude Steinbeck2.In 1920,( )published his first novel This Side of Paradise which was,to some extent,his own story.A.F·Scott FitzgeraldB.Ernest HemingwayC.William FaulknerD.Emily Dickinson3.“The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one- eighth of it being above wa ter. ” This “iceberg ” analogy is put forward by( ).A.Mark TwainB.Ezra PoundC.William FaulknerD.Ernest Hemingway4.Now many major employers are beginning to demand _______ the completion of schoolA.more thanB.rather thanC.other thanD.better than5.William Faulkner set most of his works in the American( ),with his emphasis onthe( )subjects and consciousness.A.North...NorthernB.East...EasternC.West...WesternD.South...Southern6.Which of the following statements is NOT true of Emily Dickinson and her poetry?A.She remained unmarried all her lifeB.She wrote,1,775 poems,and most of them were published during her life time.C.Her poems have no titles,hence are always quoted by their first lines.D.Her limited private world has never confined the limitless power of her creativity and imagination.7.The Nobel Prize Committee highly praised( )for “his powerful style - forming mastery of the art ” of creating modern fiction.A.Ezra PoundB.Ernest HemingwayC.Robert FrostD.Theodore Dreiser8.In the original test，all the animals in a test group are given a substance _______ half of them dieA.unlessB.untilC.lestD.provided9.After the American Civil War,the literary interest in the so- called “reality ” of life started a new period in the American literary writings know an the Age of( ).A.RealismB.Reason and RevolutionC.RomanticismD.Modernism10.The effect of Darwinist idea of “survival of the fittest ” was shattering in() ’s fictional world of jungle,where “kill or to be killed ” was the law.A.Mark TwainB.Henry JamesC.Theodore DreiserD.Walt Whitman11.Nobody but you _______ what he said.A. agrees withB.agrees outC.agree withD.agree to12.In 1950,( )was awarded the Nobel Prize for the anti-racist Intruder in the Dust.A.William FaulknerB.Robert FrostC.Ezra PoundD.Ernest Hemingway13.Greatly and permanently affected by the( )experiences,Hemingway formed his own writing style,together with his theme and hero.A.miningB.farmingC.warD.sailing14.Among the following writers( )is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th - century “stream - of - consciousness ” novels and the founder of psychological realism.A. T. S. EliotB.James JoyceC.William FaulknerD.Henry James15.Eugene O’Neill ’s first full — length play,( ),won him the first Pulitzer theme is the choice between life and death,the interaction of subjective and objective factors.A.Bound East for CardiffB.The Hairy ApeC.Desire Under the ElmsD.Beyond the Horizon16.Man is a “victim of forces over which he has no control. ” This is a notion held strongly by( ).A.Robert FrostB.Theodore DreiserC.Henry JamesD.Hamlin Garland17.In Go Down,Moses,( )illuminates the problem of black and white in Southern society asa closeknit destiny of blood brotherhood.A.William FaulknerB.Jack LondonC.Herman MelvilleD.Nathaniel Hawthorne18.Mark Twain employed an unpretentious style of( )in his novels which is best described as “vernacular ”.A.standard EnglishB.Afro-American EnglishC.colloquialismD.urbanism19.The attitude towards life that( )had been trying to demonstrate in his works is known as “grace under pressure ”.A.William FaulknerB.Theodore DreiserC.Ernest HemingwayD.F·Scott Fitzgerald20.The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and,especially,its sequence( )proved themselves to be the milestone in the American literature.A.The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnB.Life on the MississippiC.The Gilded AgeD.Roughing It第2卷一.单选题(共20题)1.Most literary critics think that Fitzgerald is both an insider and an outsider of( )witha double vision.A.the Jazz AgeB.the Age of Reason and RevolutionC.the Babybooming AgeD.the Post- Modern Age2.At the age of eighty -seven,( )read his poetry at the inauguration of President John in 1961.A.Robert FrostB.Walt WhitmanC.Ezra Pound3.What he had done is _______A.valueB.of valuableC.of no valueD.of no valuable4.That is the house _______ you can enjoy the scenery.A. in thatB.thatC.whichD.from which5.“My last Duchess ” is a poem that best exemplifies Robert Browning ’s( ).A.sensitive ear for the sounds of the English languageB.excellent choice of wordsC.mastering of the metrical devicese of the dramatic monologue6.William Faulkner once said that( )is a story of “lost innocence, ” which proves itself to be an intensification of the theme of imprisonment in the past.A.The Great GatsbyB.The Sound and the FuryC.Absalom,Absalom!D.Go Down,Moses7.She disagrees ______ him ______ everything.A.with, onB./, onC.with, atD.on, with8.( )is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th —century “stream— of —consciousness ” novels and the founder of psychological realism.A.Theodore DreiserB.William FaulknerC.Henry JamesD.Mark Twain9.The childhood of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn in the Mississippi is a record of a vanished way of life in the( )Mississippi valleyA.pre - War of IndependenceB.post - War of IndependenceC.pre - Civil WarD.post - Civil War10.Hemingway’s “Indian Camp ” is one of the fourteen short stories collected under the title of( ).This title is very ironic because there is no peace at all in the stories.A.Three Stories and Ten PoemsB.Across the River and into the TreesC.The Green Hills of AfricaD.In Our Time11.Robert Frost is generally considered a regional poet whose subject matters mainly focus on the landscape and people in( ).A.the westB.the southC.AlaskaD.New England12.“The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one -eighth of it being abov e water. ” This “iceberg ” analogy about prose style was put forward by( ).A.William FaulknerB.Henry JamesC.Ernest HemingwayD.F· Scott Fitzgerald13.In Death in the Afternoon( )presents his philosophy about life and death through the depiction of the bullfight as a kind of microcosmic tragedy.A.William FaulknerB.Jack LondonC.Ernest HemingwayD.Mark Twain14.considered( ) “the true father of our national literature ”.A.Bret HarteB.Mark TwainC.Washington IrvingD.Walt Whitman15.Some persons gain goal and direction from their tensions;others ________ under pressure.A.fall outB.fall apartC.fall back onD.fall in with16.The Portrait of A Lady is generally considered to be( )masterpiece,which describes the life journey of an American( )in a European cultural environment.A.Henry Adams’…widowB.William James ’…girlC.Henry James’…girlD.Theodore Dreiser ’s…widow17.In 1950,one of the leading American writers( )was awarded the Nobel Prize for the anti-racist Intruder in the Dust.A.Robert FrostB.Theodore DreiserC.William FaulknerD.Fitzgerald18.Henry James’ fame generally rests upon his novels and stories with the( )theme.A.internationalB.localC.colonialD.post-modern19.Ezra Pound,a leading spokesman of the “( ) ”,was one of the most important poe ts in his time.A.Imagist MovementB.Cubist MovementC.Reformist MovementD.Transcendentalist Movement20.The( )Age of the 1920s characterized by frivolity and carelessness is brought vividly to life in The Great Gatsby.A.LostB.JazzC.ReasonD.Gilded第1卷参考答案一.单选题1.参考答案： A本题解析：《了不起的盖茨比》是菲茨杰拉德的代表作，也使其成为了美国文坛上得一颗明星。
最新7月浙江自考中外文学史论试题及答案解析
浙江省2018年7月自考中外文学史论试题课程代码：01146一、单项选择题(本大题共15小题，每小题2分，共30分)在每小题列出的四个备选项中只有一个是符合题目要求的，请将其代码填写在题后的括号内。
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1.我国历史上的第一部诗歌总集是( )A.《楚辞》B.《诗经》C.《论语》D.《左传》2.《将进酒》的作者是( )A.杜甫B.白居易C.李白D.张若虚3.“红娘”的形象出自( )A.《西厢记》B.《破窑记》C.《琵琶记》D.《丽春堂》4.《倪焕之》的作者是( )A.老舍B.巴金C.茅盾D.叶绍钧5.赵树理的著名小说是( )A.《荷花淀》B.《小二黑结婚》C.《暴风骤雨》D.《太阳照在桑干河上》6.《林海雪原》的作者是( )A.杜鹏程B.吴强C.曲波D.梁斌7.我国新时期文学的起始时间为( )A.1949年10月B.1978年10月C.1979年10月D.1976年10月8.《一片槐树叶》的作者是( )A.纪弦B.余光中C.舒巷城D.侣伦9.教会文学的题材主要来源于( )A.历史B.民间传说C.圣经D.现实生活10.人文主义思想的核心是( )A.基督教精神B.理性主义C.肯定人的价值和尊严D.平等、博爱思想11.18世纪法国哲理小说的开创性作品是( )A.《波斯人信札》B.《老实人》C.《天真汉》D.《拉摩的侄儿》12.长篇小说《傲慢与偏见》的作者是( )A.司各特B.济慈C.哈代D.奥斯汀13.《呼啸山庄》的作者是( )A.简·奥斯汀B.爱米莉·勃朗特C.夏绿蒂·勃朗特D.盖斯凯尔夫人14.存在主义文学的基本主题是( )A.麻木、沉闷和无为的瘫痪状态B.表现人们对理想和幻想的本能追求C.表现人的主观性、内在性和情感性D.荒诞与绝望、自由与选择15.阿拉伯文学史上最著名的民间故事集是( )A.《一千零一夜》B.《卡里莱和笛木乃》C.《安塔拉传奇》D.《古兰经》二、多项选择题(本大题共5小题，每小题2分，共10分)在每小题列出的五个备选项中至少有两个是符合题目要求的，请将其代码填写在题后的括号内。
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。
2020年7月全国自考英美文学选读试题及答案解析
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 on the Answer Sheet.1. Of all the eighteenth—century British novelists ______ was the first to set out，both in theory and practice，to write specially a “comic epic in prose”，the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.A. Thomas GrayB. Richard Brinsley SheridanC. Jonathan SwiftD. Henry Fielding2. The poem “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” established ______ as the leader of the sentimental poetry of the day，especially “the Graveyard School”.A. Thomas GrayB. Samuel JohnsonC. John BunyanD. John Milton3. “Do you think, because I am poor，obscure，plain，and little，I am soulless and heartless?... And if God had gifted me with some beauty，and much wealth，I should have made it as hard for you to leave me. as it is now for me to leave you. ”The quoted part is taken from ______.A. Great ExpectationsB. Wuthering HeightsC. Jane EyreD. Pride and Prejudice4. The most famous dramatists in the Renaissance England are all the following EXCEPT ______.A. Francis BaconB. Christopher MarloweC. William ShakespeareD. BenJonson5. George Bernard Shaw’s play Mrs. Warren’s Profession is about______.1A. slum landlordismB. the economic oppression of womenC. the political corruption in EnglandD. the religious corruption in England6. All of the following statements can correctly describe the Enlightenment Movement EXCEPT ______.A. The movement flourished in France.B. The movement was a furtherance of the Renaissance.C. The purpose of the movement was to enlighten the whole world.D. The purpose of the movement was to enhance the religious education.7. Among the three major poetical works by John Milton ______ is the most perfect example of the verse drama after the Greek style in English.A. Samson AgonistesB. Paradise LostC. Paradise RegainedD. Areopagitica8. The major British Romantic poets Blake，Wordsworth，Coleridge，Byron，Shelley and Keats started a rebellion against the neoclassical literature，which was later regarded as _____.A. the poetic romanceB. the poetic movementC. the poetic revolutionD. the poetic reformation9. Jane Austen’s main literary concern is about ______.A. human beings in their personal relationshipsB. the love story between the rich and the poorC. maturity achieved through the loss of illusionsD. the daily country life of the upper-middle-class English10. Among the following British Romantic poets ______ is regarded as a “worshipper of nature”.A. William BlakeB. William WordsworthC. George Gordon ByronD. John Keats211. Jonathan Swift’s greatest satiric work is ______.A. A Tale of a TubB. The Battle of BooksC. Gulliver’s TravelsD. “A Modest Proposal’’12. Among the following writers ______ is considered to be the best—known English dramatist since Shakespeare.A. Oscar WildeB. John GalsworthyC. W. B. YeatsD. George Bernard Shaw13. As a representative of the Enlightenment，______ was one of the first to introduce rationalism to England.A. Francis BaconB. Alexander PopeC. Thomas GrayD. T. S. Eliot14. All of the following poets are regarded as “Lake Poets” EXCEPT ______.A. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeB. Robert SoutheyC. William WordsworthD. William Blake15. “To be, or not to be — that is the question；／wheth er’ 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?” The quoted lines are taken from ______.A. King LearB. Romeo and JulietC. OthelloD. Hamlet16. Daniel Defoe describes ______ as a typical English middle — class man of the eighteenth century，the very prototype of the empire builder，the pioneer colonist．A. Robinson CrusoeB. Moll FlandersC. GulliverD. Tom Jones17. The declaration that “I know that This World is a World of IMAGINATION & Vision，” and that “The Nature of my work is visionary or imaginative’’ belongs to ______.A. William BlakeB. William Wordsworth3C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge D．George Gordon Byron18. Although writing from different points of view and with different techniques，writers in the Victorian Period shared one thing in common，that is，they were all concerned about ______．A. the fate of the upper classB. the reformation of the governmentC. the fate of the common peopleD. the future of their family clans19. “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?’’ The quoted line comes from ______.A. Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind’’B. Walt Whitman’s Leaves of GrassC. John Milton’s Paradise Lost D．John Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn”20. Among the following figures ______ is Dickens’ first child hero.A．Little Nell B．David CopperfieldC．Oliver Twist D．Little Dorrit21. In the play The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde，the upper — class people are described all of the following EXCEPT ______.A. corruptB. snobbishC. hypocriticalD. ambitious22. In Thomas Hardy’s Wessex novels, there is an apparent ______ touch in his description of the simple and beautiful though primitive rural life.A. nostalgicB. humorousC. romanticD.ironic23. “Life is but a losing battle, it is a struggle man can dominate in such a way that loss becomes dignity；man can be physically destroyed but never defeated spiritually.” This notion is typically held by ______．A. Mark TwainB. Ezra Pound4C. William FaulknerD. Ernest Hemingway24. The literary spokesman of the Jazz Age is ______.A. Henry JamesB. Robert FrostC. F. Scott FitzgeraldD. William Faulkner25．North of Boston is described by the author，Robert Frost，as “a book of people，’’ which shows a brilliant insight into ______ character and the background that formed it．A. the cowboyB. New EnglandC. Ivy ColleagueD. ivory tower26．People 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 James D．Mark Twain27. According to ______, “There is evil in every human heart，which may remain latent，perhaps，through the whole life；but circumstances may rouse it to activity．”A. Nathaniel HawthorneB. Edgar Ellen PoeC. William Faulkner D．Theodore Dreiser28. Hemingway once described _____ the one book from which “all modern American literature comes.”A. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnB. The Adventures of Tom SawyerC. The Gilded AgeD. Innocents Abroad29. What Walt Whitman prefers for his new subject and new poetic feelings is “______，”that is，poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme．A. fixed verseB. free verseC. fixed endingD. free ending30. By writing _______ Melville reached the most flourishing stage of his literary creativity.A. TypeeB. Omoo5C. MardiD. Moby-Dick31. Shortly before his death in 1945，______ joined the Communist Party.A. Theodore DreiserB. Mark TwainC. Henry JamesD. Ezra Pound32. Naturalism is evolved from ______ when the author’s tone in writing becomes less serious and less sympathetic but more ironic and more pessimistic.A. RomanticismB. ModernismC. RealismD. Scientism33. One of the most familiar themes in American naturalism is the theme of human ______.A. peacefulnessB. joyfulnessC. bestialityD. civilization34. Hawthorne’s view of man and human history originated，to a great extent，from ______.A. TranscendentalismB. PuritanismC. HumanismD. Expressionism35. In general, the American woman poet _____ wanted to live simply as a complete independent being，and so she did，as a spinster.A. Anne BretB. Emily DickinsonC. Anna DickinsonD. Emily Shaw36. Theodore Dreiser’s ______ found expression in almost every book he wrote in which “kill or to be killed” was the law.A. romanticismB. naturalismC. cubismD. classicalism37. William Faulkner creates his own mythical kingdom that mirrors not only the decline of the ______ society but also the spiritual wasteland of the whole American society.A. southernB. northernC. westernD. eastern638. Almost every book written by Hawthorne discusses _____，which reflects his unceasing interest in the “interior of the heart” of man’s being.A. sin and evilB. 1ove and hatredC. frustration and self - denialD. balance and self - discipline39. A preoccupation with the ______ view of original sin and the mystery of evil marked the works of Hawthorne，Melville and a host of lesser writers.A. optimisticB. CalvinisticC. PlatonicD. Socratic40. The American ______ as a cultural heritage exerted great influences over American moral values in the American Romantic period.A. Puritanism B．AtheismC. DeismD. CynicismPART 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. “The fiver glideth at his own sweet w ill：Dear God! the very houses seem asleep；And all that mighty heart is lying still!”(from William Wordsworth’s “Composed upon Westminster Bridge”)Questions：A. What figure of speech is used in the quoted lines?B. What does “that mighty heart’’ r efer to?C. What does the poem decribe?42. “When the stars threw down their spears,And water’d heaven with their tears,7Did he smile his work to see?Did he who made the Lamb make thee?”Questions：A. Identify the poet and the poem from which the quoted lines are takenB. Whom does the “he’’ refer to?C. What does the “Lamb” symbolize?43. “My tongue，every atom of my blood，form’d from this soil，this air,Born here of parents born here from parents the same，and theirparents the same，I，now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin，Hoping to cease not till death”Questions：A. Identify the poet and the poem from which the quoted lines are taken.B. What do “soil” and “air” represent i n the first line?C. What does the poet try to say in the above four lines?44. “I cannot rub the strangeness from my sightI got from looking through a pane of glassI skimmed this morning from the drinking troughAnd held against the world of hoary grass.”Questions：A. Identify the poet and the poem from which the quoted lines are taken.B. What does the word “strangeness’’ refer to?C. What do the quoted lines imply?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．845. As a leading Romanticist，Byron’s chief contribution is his creation of the “Byronic Hero”．Briefly explai n the literary term “Byronic Hero’’.46. TheWaste Land is T．S．Eliot’s most important single poem．Try to state the theme and the significance of the poem briefly.47．What is the most famous theme in Henry James’s fiction?And what is his favourite approach in characterization，which makes him different from Mark Twain and W·D.Howells as a realist? Give two titles of his first period works in which this theme and this approach are employed.48. As a leading spokesman of the “Imagist Movement”，what principles does Ezra Pound endorse?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. Discuss Charles Dickens’ art of fiction：the setting，the character —portrayal，the language，etc．，based on his novel Oliver Twist．50. Greatly and permanently affected by the war experiences, Hemingway formed his own writing style，together with his theme and hero. Please discuss Hemingway’s writing style in relation to his novels you have read.9。
7月全国英美文学选读自考试题及答案解析
全国2018年7月高等教育自学考试英美文学选读试题课程代码：00604请将答案填在答题纸相应位置上Ⅰ. Match authors in Column A with their literary works in Column B. Please write your answer on the Answer Sheet. (20 points, 2 for each pair)1. John Milton A. The Leaves of Grass2. Samuel Johnson B. Mrs. Warren’s Profession3. Walt Whitman C. Art of Fiction4. Jane Austen D. Sister Carrie5. Theodore Dreiser E. A Dictionary of the English Language6. George Bernard Shaw F. The Return of the Native7. Henry James G. Samson Agonistes8. Washington Irving H. Pride and Prejudice9. Thomas Hardy I. Rip Van Winkle10. Eugene O’Neill J. The Emperor JonesⅡ. Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase according to the textbook. Please write your answer on the Answer Sheet.(10 points, 1 for each)1. Christopher Marlowe’s greatest achievement lies in that he perfected the ________ and made itthe principal medium of English drama.2. The Enlightenment Movement brought about a revival interest in the old classical works. Thistendency is known as ________.3. The poem Elegy Written in a Country Church once and for all established ________’s fame asthe leader of the sentimental poetry of the day, especially “the Graveyard School”.4. In 1798, ________ and Samuel Taylor Coleridge published a joint volume of poetry entitledLyrical Ballads, which becomes a landmark in English poetry.5. With violence, horror, and the supernatural as its major elements, ________ is a type ofromantic fiction that predominated in the late 18th century.6. American fiction in the 1960s and 1970s proves to be different from its predecessors and isalways referred to as “________ fiction. ”7. ________ is the most representative Victorian poet. His poetry voices the doubt and the faith,the grief and the joy of the English people in an age of fast social changes.8. ________ is regarded as the first American prose epic. Although it is presented in the form of anovel, at times it seems like a prose poem.9. As a most representative figure of the 1920s, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote much of his own1experience into the novel________.10. Almost all of James Joyce’s literary works have the same setting: ________.Ⅲ. Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement. Please write your answer on the Answer Sheet.(40 points, 2 for each)1. ________ employed the heroic couplet with true ease and charm for the first time in the historyof English Literature.A. Geoffrey ChaucerB. George Gordon ByronC. Edmund SpenderD. Robert Browning2. Which of the following is William Shakespeare’s history play?A. MacbethB. Henry IVC. Romeo and JulietD. King Lear3. For his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel, ________ has beenregarded as “Father of the English Novel”.A. Henry FieldingB. Daniel DefoeC. John BunyanD. James Joyce4. “The apparition of these faces in the crowd;Petals on a wet, black bough. ”These two lines are quoted from ________’s poem?A. Emily DickinsonB. Robert FrostC. Ezra PoundD. William B. Yeats5. Jane Austen wrote within a very narrow sphere. The subject matter, the social setting, and plotsare all restricted to the provincial life of the ________.A. late 19th -centuryB. 17th -centuryC. 20th -centuryD. late 18th -century6. Usually basing on her own experiences, Emily Dickinson addresses issues that concern thewhole human beings. Which of the following is NOT a usual subject of her poetic expression?A. Life and DeathB. ReligionC. Love and NatureD. War and Peace7. Walden is a ________.A. Transcendentalist workB. epic in proseC. lyric poemD. short story8. Henry James’realism is different from others, because he pays more attention to ________.A. the traditional styleB. the common peopleC. the inner world of human beingsD. the class struggle9. ________ is considered Mark Twain’s greatest achievement.A. The Gilded AgeB. Innocents Abroad2C. The Adventures of Tom SawyerD. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn10. At the beginning of Faulkner’s A Rose for Emily, there is a detailed description of Emily’s oldhouse. The purpose of such description is to imply that the person living in it ________.A. is a wealthy ladyB. is a conservative aristocratC. is a prisoner of the pastD. has good taste11. ________ is NOT a Nobel Prize winner.A. Eugene O’NeillB. F. Scott FitzgeraldC. Ernest HemingwayD. William Faulkner12. Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Mark Twain’s language?A. VernacularB. ElegantC. ColloquialD. Humorous13. The most distinguishing feature of Charles Dicken’s works lies in his ________.A. social criticismB. optimismC. character－portrayalD. social setting14. As the representative of the Enlightenment, Pope was one of the first to introduce ________ toEngland.A. rationalismB. romanticismC. criticismD. realism15. Shelley’s greatest achievement is his four-act poetic drama ________.A. AdonaisB. To a SkylarkC. A Song: Men of EnglandD. Prometheus Unbound16. The Victorian Age is most famous for its ________.A. playsB. novelsC. poemsD. essays17. Which of the following women does not belong to the famous Bronte Sisters?A. Mary BronteB. Charlotte BronteC. Emily BronteD. Anne Bronte18. “Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep;moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. Abeunt studia in mores. ”This sentence appears in ________.A. The Advancement of LearningB. A Dictionary of the English LanguageC. An Essay on CriticismD. Of Studies19. In his novel, Robinson Crusoe, Defoe eulogizes the hero of the ________?A. aristocratic classB. enterprising landlordsC. rising bourgeoisieD. hard-working people20. Which of the following works does not belong to John Milton?A. Paradise LostB. Paradise RegainedC. AdonaisD. Llycidas3Ⅳ. Give a brief explanation to each of the following items. Please write your answer on the Answer Sheet.(20 points, 5 for each)1. Dramatic Monologue2. The theme of Hawthron’s “The Scarlet Letter”3. American Naturalism4. Hemingway Code heroesⅤ. Write a short essay on the following question. Please write your answer on the Answer Sheet.(10 points)The most clearly defined literary movement in Romantic period is New England Transcendentalism. Please make a comment on this philosophical and literary school.4。
7月美国文学选读自学考试浙江试题及答案解析试卷及答案解析
浙江省2019年7月高等教育自学考试美国文学选读试题课程代码：10055Ⅰ.Choose the relevant match from column B for each item in column A.(10%)Section AColumn A Column B1. Henry James a. The Hairy Ape2. William Faulkner b. Daisy Miller3. F.S.Fitzgerald c. The House of the Seven Gables4. Eugene O'Neill d. The Great Gatsby5. Nathaniel Hawthorne e. Light in AugustSection BColumn A Column B1. Nick a. Sister Carrie2. G.Hurstwood b. A Rose for Emily3. Ishmael c. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer4. Huck d. Indian Camp5. Emily Grierson e. Moby DickⅡ.Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase according to the textbook.(10%)1.The Romantic Period in American literature stretches from the end of the 18th century to the outbreak of ______.2.Ralph W.Emerson’s first little book ______ established him as the most eloquent spokesman of Transcendentalism.3.Realism was a move away from the bias towards romance and self-creating fictions. It paved the way to ______ of the twentieth century.4.American ______,another school of realism, resulted mainly from the impact of Darwin’s evolutionary theory and the influence of the 19th century French literature.5.Altogether,Emily Dickinson wrote 1775 poems, of which only had appeared during her lifetime.6.During the first part of the ______ century, despite its booming industry and material prosperity, there was a sense of unease and restlessness underneath.7.The ______ Age of the 1920s was characterized by frivolity and carelessness and brought vividly to life in The Great Gatsby.8.Eugene O’Neill is unquestionably America’s greatest ______ of the modern period, and he was the only one ever to win a Nobel Prize for dramas.19.During his life, Pound published several volumes of translations, from which we can see his strenuous effort in the study of ______ literature.10.Greatly and permanently affected by the war experiences, Hemingway formed his own writingstyle, together with his theme and hero. His heroes mirrored a vivid portrait of “______.”Ⅲ.Each of the following statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement.(50%)1.Born of one common cultural heritage, the American Romanticists shared some common features…______,with the English Romanticists.A. an increasing emphasis on the free expression of emotionsB. an increasing attention to the psychic states of their charactersC. an increasing emphasis on the desire to return to natureD. both A and B2.As a philosophical and literary movement, transcendentalism flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War, whose most important representatives are ______.A. Emerson and ThoreauB. Emerson and WhitmanC. Hawthorne and MelvilleD. Edgar Poe and James Cooper3.Washington Irving’s ______ became the first work by an American writer to win financial success on both sides of the Atlantic in the first half of 19th century.A. Sketch BookB. Charles the SecondC. The Scarlet LetterD. Moby Dick4.Hawthorne’s unique gift was for the creation of ______ which touch the deepest roots of man’s moral nature.A. symbolic storiesB. romantic storiesC. gothic storiesD. humorous stories5.Which of the following is not written by Herman Melville?______A. Typee and OmooB. Mardi and White JacketC. Moby-Dick and PierreD. The Bostonians and Billy Budd6.The novel Moby Dick shows the rebellious struggle of Captain Ahab against ______.A. the overwhelming, mysterious vastness of the universe and the awesome forcesB. the gliding great demon of the seas of lifeC. the white whaleD. the savage harpooners and the motley crew7.The American realists approached the harsh realities and pressures in the post-Civil war society by ______.A. a comprehensive picture of modern life in its various occupations, class stratifications and2mannersB. a psychological exploration of man’s subconsciousnessC. a disillusion of heroism resulting from the dark memories of the Civil WarD. both A and B8.By the turn of the century, with the publication of The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg and The Mysterious Stranger, the change in Mark Twain from ______ to ______ could be felt.A. an optimist...an almost despairing pessimistB. an almost despairing pessimist...an optimistC. a local colorist...a naturalistD. a naturalist...a local colorist9.The Portrait of A Lady is generally considered to be Jame’s masterpiece, which ______.A. incarnates the clash between the Old World and the New in the life journey of an Americangirl in a European cultural environmentB. tells a story about a young and innocent American confronting the complexity of the EuropeanlifeC. is about a young American girl who gets “killed”by the winter in RomeD. tells about some Europeans who learn with difficulty to adapt themselves to the American life10.About the titular heroine in the novel Daisy Miller, which of the following is not right?______A. She has become a celebrated cultural type who embodies the spirit of the New World.B. She comes from the new world but remains traditional and conservative.C. Her innocence turns out to be an admiring but a dangerous quality in the new worldD. The author’s sympathy for her, a tender flower crushed by the harsh winter in Rome waseasily felt.11.Which of the following is not right about Emily Dickinson’s poems about love?______A. Her love poems show people’s feelings of rapture and happiness coming from their loveexperience.B. Some of her love poems treats the suffering and frustration love can cause.C. Many of them give original depictions of the longing for shared moments, the pain ofseparation, and the futility of finding happiness.D. Some of them emphasizes the power of physical attraction and expresses a mixture of fearand fascination for the mysterious magnetism between sexes.12.In her life, Emily Dickinson makes enchanting poetry out of ______.A. a happy and active lifeB. adventurous experiencesC. a single household and an inactive lifeD. a hard and suffering life13.About Henry James’ literary criticism, which of the following is not right?______A. It is both concerned with form and devoted to human values.B. He indicates that the aim of the novel is to present life in every possible form.C. He advocates the freedom of the artist to write about anything that concerns him.D. He believes that the artist can’t feel the life, but he can understand human nature in their own3way.14.The characters presented by the naturalist writers were ______A. more often than not dominated by their environment and heredityB. usually idealized heroes or heroines of unspotted virtue and dazzling accomplishmentsC. in most cases examples of human experienceD. people who were simply all good or all bad15.About the first few decades of the 20th century, which of the following is right?______A. There was a rise in moral standard and it was best described as a spiritual land of promise.B. Individual power and hope became part of the American experience as a result of the FirstWorld War.C. There was a decline in social standard and it was described as a spiritual wasteland.D. all of the above.16.In his novels, Faulkner creates his own kingdom that mirrors not only ______ but also ______.A. the decline of the Southern society...the spiritual wasteland of the whole American societyB. the spiritual wasteland of the Southern society...the decline of the whole American societyC. the sense of loss and despair among the post-war generation...the decline of the wholeAmerican societyD. the frivolity and carelessness of the young generation...the sense of loss and despair of thewhole society.17.In general terms, much serious American literature written from 1912 onwards attempted toconvey ______.A. a vision of social breakdown and moral decayB. a vision of social continuity and harmonyC. the continuity and discontinuity between the past and the modern timeD. all of the above18.Which of the following is not said about the main principles of the Imagist Movement?______A. a direct treatment of poetic subjectsB. the elimination of merely ornamental or superfluous wordsC. the rhythmical composition in the sequence of the musical phrase rather than in the sequenceof a metronomeD. the treatment of the medium of poetry in agreement with Romanticism19.Robert Frost rejected ______ choosing ______ instead.A. the conventional poetic principles …the revolutionary wayB. he revolutionary poetic principles of his contemporaries —the old-fashioned way to be newC. the revolutionary principles …the romantic wayD. the romantic way—the revolutionary principles20.Which of the following is not written by Eugene O’Neill?______A. Beyond the Horizon and Anna ChristieB. The Emperor Jones and The Hairy Ape4C. Desire Under the Elms and The Great God DownD. Long Day’s Journey into Night and The Great Gatsby21.In the play The Hairy Ape, the major character Yank ______.A. has a sense of belonging nowhere, hence homelessness and rootlessnessB. is typical of the mood of isolation and alienation in the early twentieth century in the UnitedStates onlyC. reflects the problem of modern man’s identityD. both A and C22.In his writings, Fitzgerald could present a panorama of the Jazz Age with a deep sight because______.A. He is both an insider and an outsider of the Jazz Age with a double vision.B. He joined the big party in the 1920s,partaking of the wealth, frivolity, temptations of the time.C. He stood aloof and kept a cold eye on the performance of his contemporaries.D. He stayed sober enough to see the corruptive nature of the society and the vanity fair.23.To Hemingway, man’s greatest achievement is to show ______.A. bravery before dangerB. grace under pressureC. encouragement under pressureD. optimism under pressure24.Which of the following is said of Hemingway’s heroes?______A. He is a lonely individual struggling against nature and the environment.B. He can be physically destroyed but never defeated spiritually.C. In a world of chaos, he is doomed to a losing battle and failure in the end.D. both A and B25.A Rose for Emily is difficult to read because ______.A. the chronology of narration is displaced alternativelyB. there are too many characters whose relations are too complicatedC. its language is too symbolic and the dialogues are fragmentedD. none of the aboveⅣ.Interpretation(16%)Read the following selections and then answer the questions. Write your answers on the Answer SheetPassage 1To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give man, in the heavenly bodies, the perpetual presence of the sublime. Seen in the streets of cities, how great they are! If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance off the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these preachers of beauty, and light the universe with their5admonishing smile.The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are alsways inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence. Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort all her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection. Nature never became a toy or a wise spirit. The flowers, the animals, the mountains, reflected all the wisdom of his best hour, as much as they had delighted the simplicity of his childhood.1.Which essay is this passage taken from? Who is the author?2.According to the author, what relationship lies between man and nature?Passage 2In a Station of the MetroThe apparition of these faces in the crowd;Petals on a wet, black bough.3.Who’s the writer of this poem? Of what school of poetry has the poem been regarded as the specimen?4.What object is treated in the poem? How does the poet bring it out?Ⅴ.Give brief answers to the following questions.(14%)1.Give a brief analysis of the differences between the three realists: William D.Howells, Henry James and Mark Twain.2.Please give a brief comment on Hemingway’s heroes.6。
浙江2020年7月自考美学试题及答案解析
浙江2020年7月自考美学试题及答案解析浙江省2018年7月美学试题课程代码：10017一、单项选择题(在每小题的四个备选答案中，选出一个正确答案，并将正确答案的序号填在题干的括号内。
每小题1分，共20分)1.提出艺术的本质在于“有意味的形式”的美学家是（）。
A.伯格森B.康德C.克罗齐D.克莱夫·贝尔2.贺拉斯提出的“寓教于乐”的美育原则，实际上是强调美育与（）的统一。
A.体育B.智育C.道德教育D.情感教育3.在西方美学史上，最早提出“天才”论，强调艺术是天才的创造和表现的美学家是（）。
A.柏拉图B.亚里士多德C.康德D.休谟4.“移情说”的代表人物是（）。
A.费希纳B.立普斯C.丹纳D.维柯5.在西方美学史上，最早讨论美的专著是（）。
A.鲍姆加登的《美学》B.柏拉图的《大希庇阿斯篇》C.维柯的《新科学》D.亚里士多德的《诗学》6.在美的本质问题上，明确提出“美是理念的感性显现”的美学家是（）。
A.黑格尔B.康德C.歌德D.席勒7.“里仁为美”是（）提出的一个重要的美学观点。
A.孔子B.孟子C.席勒D.布洛8.在西方美学史上，明确使用“崇高”一词，并且把它与“优美”对立起来，使两者成为美学上两个基本范畴的美学家是（）。
A.毕达哥拉斯B.博克C.休谟D.朗加诺斯9.在喜剧产生的原因上，主张“心理能量消耗的节省说”的是（）。
A.达芬奇B.斯宾塞C.柏格森D.弗洛伊德10.在喜剧的产生原因的认识上，坚持“突然荣耀说”的是（）。
A.夏夫兹别里B.容格C.歌德D.霍布斯11.在艺术品的层次结构中，引导审美主体进入真正艺术殿堂第一步的是（）。
A.物质实在层B.形式符号层C.意象世界层D.意境超验层12.王国维把艺术意境分为“有我之境”和“无我之境”，在他看来“采菊东篱下，悠然见南山”属于（）。
A.无我之境B.有我之境C.造境D.意境13.从艺术接受的过程来看，跨越接受主体与作品之间的鸿沟，避免“曲高和寡”、“知音难求”，接受者只能通过（）来实现。
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浙江省2018年7月高等教育自学考试美国文学选读试题课程代码：10055Part Ⅰ: Choose the relevant match from Column B for each item in Column A. (10 points in all, 1 point for each)Group 1Column A Column B( ) 1. F. S Fitzgerald a. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer( ) 2. Henry David Thoreau b. An American Tragedy( ) 3. Theodore Dreiser c. The Portrait of a Lady( ) 4. Henry James d. Walden( ) 5. Mark Twain e. This Side of ParadiseGroup 2Column A Column B( ) 1. Huck a. A Rose for Emily( ) 2. Carrie Meeber b. The Hairy Ape( ) 3. Yank c. The Great Gatsby( ) 4. Nick Carraway d. Sister Carrie( ) 5. Emily Grierson e. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnPart Ⅱ: Each of the following statements below is followed by four alternatives. Choose the one that would best complete the statement. (50 points in all, 2 points for each)1. Romanticism appeared as a literary trend against _____.【】A. rationalityB. imaginationC. intuitionD. individualism2. The famous 20 years 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 beauty1C. satire on laziness and corruptibility of human beingsD. idea about supernatural manipulation of man’s life3. _____ has become so important that most people consider it an unofficial manifesto for the “Transcendental Club”.【】A. NatureB. The American ScholarC. WaldenD. Civil Disobedience4. _____ is unanimously agreed to be the summit of the Romantic period in the history of American literature. 【】A. PuritanismB. New England TranscendentalismC. DeismD. Unitarianism5. _____ is a symbol of microcosm of the world we are living in. 【】A. The PequodB. Moby DickC. The Scarlet LetterD. Nature6. _____ held a “black”vision of life and human beings.【】A. Ralph Waldo EmersonB. Nathaniel HawthorneC. Edgar Allan PoeD. James Fenimore Cooper7. Moby Dick, the big white whale, is possible read as symbolic of all the following EXCEPT_____.【】A. malignancyB. beautyC. adulteryD. God8. According to Emerson, man’s capacity is _____.【】A. ambiguousB. limitedC. infiniteD. subsidiary to God9. _____ is regarded as an encyclopedia of everything: philosophy, religion, history, etc.【】A. NatureB. WaldenC. Moby DickD. The Scarlet Letter10. Whitman’s poems are characterized by all the following features EXCEPT______.【】A. a strict poetic formB. a simple and conversational language2C. a free and natural rhythmic patternD. an easy flow of feelings11. Another fact that made _____ unique is his magic power with language, his use of vernacular. His words are colloquial, concrete and direct in effect, and his sentence structures are simple, even ungrammatical, which is typical of the spoken language.【】A. TwainB. AndersonC. JamesD. Dreiser12. While Mark Twain and William Dean Howells satirized European manners at times, _____was an admirer of ancient European civilization.【】A. Theodore DreiserB. Jack LondonC. Henry JamesD. William James13. About Naturalism, which of the following statements is NOT correct?【】A. Naturalists chose their subjects from the lower ranks of society.B. They portrayed misery and poverty of the “underdogs”, who were demonstrably victims of society and nature.C. One of the most familiar themes in American Naturalism is the theme o f human “bestiality,” especially an explanation of sexual desire.D. American Naturalism is a reaction against Realism.14. Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Henry James’s writing style? 【】A. Exquisite and elaborate languageB. Minute detailed descriptionC. Lengthy psychological analysisD. American colloquialism15. _____ is now recognized not only as a great poetess on her own right but as a poetess of considerable influence upon American poetry of the present century.【】A. Emily DickinsonB. Emily BrontёC. Anne BradstreetD. George Eliot16. Which of the following statements is NOT a typical feature of Emily Dickinson’s poetry?【】A. Dickinson’s poetry is unique and conventional in its own way.B. Her poems have no titles, hence are always quoted by their first lines.3C. In her poetry there is a particular stress pattern.D. Her poems tend to be very impersonal and meditative.17. It is not surprising to find in _____ fiction a world of jungle, where “kill or to be killed”was the law.【】A. James’sB. Twain’sC. Dreiser’sD. Anderson’s18. The Catcher in the Rye written by _____ is regarded as a students’classic.【】A. J.D. SalingerB. John UpdikeC. Ralph EllisonD. Richard Wright19. _____ fictional world is the best embodiment of the spirit of Jazz Age, in which he shows a particular interest in the upper-class society, especially the upper-class young people.【】A. Eliot’s B. Hemingway’sC. Fitzgerald’sD. Faulkner’s20. Chinese poetry and philosophy have exerted great influence over _____.【】A. Ezra PoundB. Ralph Waldo EmersonC. Robert FrostD. Emily Dickinson21. In Hemingway’s Indian Camp, 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 sin and evilC. an initiation to the harshness of lifeD. a learning process in human relationship22. The Hemingway Code heroes are best remembered for their _____.【】A. indestructible spiritB. pessimistic view of lifeC. war experiencesD. masculinity23. Most of O’Neill’s plays are concerned about the following EXCEPT_____.【】A. success and failure in man’s literary careerB. life and death, illusion and disillusion, dream and realityC. alienation and communication, self and society, desire and frustration4D. the basic issues of human existence and predicament24. Traditional fiction featured an authoritative narrator in telling a story, while modern fiction tended to employ the first person narration or limit the reader to “_____”. 【】A. one character’s point of viewB. the central consciousnessC. more characters points of viewD. both A and B25. Which one of the following statements is NOT true of William Faulkner?【】A. He is a master of stream-of-consciousness narrative.B. His writing is often complex and difficult to understand.C. He often depicts slum life in New York and Chicago.D. He represents a new group of Southern writers.PartⅢ: Interpretation (20 points in all, 5 points for each)Read the following selections and then answer the questions.Passage 1With this excellent resolve for the future, Goodman Brown felt himself justified in making more haste on his present evil purpose. He had taken a dreary road, darkened by all the gloomiest trees of the forest, which barely stood aside to let the narrow path creep through, and closed immediately behind. It was all as lonely as could be; and there is this peculiarity in such a solitude, that the traveler knows not who may be concealed by the innumerable trunks and the thick boughs overhead; so that with lonely footsteps, he may yet be passing through an unseen multitude. Questions:1. Identify the author and the title of the story from which this excerpt is taken.2. What’s Brown’s purpose to go to the woods?Passage 2The woods are lovely, dark and deep,But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep,And miles to go before I sleep.5Questions:1. Who is the poet of this poem? Which poem is this stanza taken from?2. What does sleep suggest?Passage 3The Eyes around-had wrung them dry-And Breaths were gathering firmFor that last Onset-when the KingBe witnessed-in the Room-Questions:1. Who is the poet?2. What does “the King” refer to?Passage 4... Gatsby, standing alone on the marble steps and looking from one group to another with approving eyes. His tanned skin was drawn attractively tight on his face and his short hair looked as though it were trimmed every day. I could see nothing sinister about him. I wondered if the fact that he was not drinking helped to set him off from his guests, for it seemed to me that he grew more correct as the fraternal hilarity.Questions:1. Which novel is this passage taken from? Who is the author?2. Who is “I” ? And what is his role in the novel?Part Ⅳ: Give brief answers to the following questions. (20 points in all, 10 points for each)1. Give a brief account of Walt Whitman’s poetic style.2. Please state the major principles of Imagism.6。