全国2014年4月自考英美文学选读试题及答案解析
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全国202X年4月高等教育自学考试英美文学选读真题课程代码：00604Ⅰ.Multiple Choice (40 points in all, 1 for each)Select from the four choices A],B],C],Dof each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement and write the letter on the answer sheet.1.Romance,which uses narrative verse or prose to tell stories of ___ adventures or other heroic deeds, is a popular literary form in the medieval period.A.ChristianB.knightlyC.GreekD.primitive2.Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his production of ___.A.Piers PlowmanB.Sir Gawain and the Green KnightC.Confessio AmantisD.The Canterbury Tales3.Which of the following historical events does not directly help to stimulate the rising of the Renaisssance MovementA.The rediscovery of ancient Greek and Roman culture.B.The new discoveries in geography and astrology.C.The Glorious revolution.D.The religious reformation and the economic expansion.4.Which of the following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare's Sonnet 18A.The speaker eulogizes the power of Nature.B.The speaker satirizes human vanity.C.The speaker praises the power of artistic creation.D.The speaker meditates on man's salvation.5.“And we will sit upon the rocks,/Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks,/By shallow rivers towhose falls/Melodious birds sing madrigals.〞The above lines are probably taken from __.A.Spenser's The Faerie QueeneB.John Donne's “The Sun Rising〞C.Shakespeare's “Sonnet 18〞D.Marlowe's “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love〞6.“Bassanio:Antonio,I am married to a wifeWhich is as dear to me as life itself;But life itself, My wife, and all the world.Are not with me esteem'd above thy life;I would lose all, ay, sacrifice them all,Here to the devil, to deliver you.Portia:Your wife would give you little thanks for that,If she were by to hear you make the offer.〞The above is a quotation taken from Shakespeare's comedy The Merchant of Venice.The quoted part can be regarded as a good example to illustrate ____.A.dramatic ironyB.personificationC.allegoryD.symbolism7.The ture subject of John Donne's poem,“The Sun Rising,〞is to ___.A.attack the sun as an unruly servantB.give compliments to the mistress and her power of beautyC.criticize the sun's intrusion into the lover's private lifeD. lecture the sun on where true royalty and riches lie8.Of all the 18th century novelists Henry Fielding was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a “___ in prose,〞the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.A.tragic epic B ic epicC.romanceD.lyric epic9.The Houyhnhnms depicted by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels are ___.A.horses that are endowed with reasonB.pigmies that are endowed with admirable qualitiesC.giants that are superior in wisdomD.hairy,wild, low and despicable creatures, who resemble human beings not only in appearance but also in some other ways.10.Here are four lines from a literary work:“Others for language all their care express,/And value books,as women men, for dress.〞The work is ___.A.Thomas Gray's “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard〞B.John Milton's Paradise LostC.Alexander Pope's Essay on CriticismD.Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream11.The phrase “to urge people to abide by Christian doctrines and to seek salvation throughconstant struggles with their own weaknesses and all kinds of social evils〞may well sum up the implied meaning of ___.A.Gulliver's TravelsB.The Rape of the LockC.Robinson CrusoeD.The pilgrim's Progress12.William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following EXCEPT ___.A.the use of everyday language spoken by the common peopleB.the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelingsC.the use of humble and rustic life as subject matterD.the use of elegant wording and inflated figures of speech13.Which of the following is taken from John Keats’“Ode on a Grecian Urn〞A.“I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!〞B.“They are both gone up to the church to pary.〞C.“Earth has not anything to show more fair.〞D.“Beauty is truth, truth beauty〞.14.“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind!〞is an epigrammatic line by __.15.“Ode o na Grecian Urn〞shows the contrast between the ___ of art and the ___ of humanpassion.A.glory …uglinessB.permanence…transienceC.transience…sordidnessD.glory…permanence16.In the statement“—oh,God! would you like to live with your soul in the grave〞the term“soul〞apparently refers to ___.A.Heathcliff himselfB.CatherineC.one's spiritual lifeD.one's ghost17.The typical feature of Robet Browning's poetry is the ___.A.bitter satirerger-than-life caricaturetinized dictionD.dramatic monologue18.The Victorian Age was largely an age of ____,eminently represented by Dickens and Thackeray.A.poetryB.dramaC.proseD.epic prose19.___is the first important governess novel in the English literary history.A.Jane EyreB.EmmaC.Wuthering HeightsD.Middlemarch20.The major concern of ______ fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological development ofhis characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature.wrence'sB.J.Galsworthy'sC.W.Thackeray’sD.T.Hardy’s21.___is considered to be the best-known English dramatist since Shakespeare, and his representative works are plays inspired by social criticism.A.Richard SheridanB.Oliver GoldsmithC.Oscar WildeD.Bernard Shaw22.Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of ModernismA.To elevate the individual and inner being over the social being.B.To put the stress on traditional values.C.To portray the distorted and alienated relationships between man and his environment.D.To advocate a conscious break with the past.23.The Romantic writers would focus on all the following issues EXCEPT the ___ in the Americanliterary histrory.A.individual feelingsB.idea of survival of the fittestC.strong imaginationD.return to nature24.Henry David Thoreau's work,__,has always been regarded as a masterpiece of New EnglandTranscendentalism.A.WaldenB.The pioneersC.NatureD.Song of Myself25.The famous 20-years sleep in “Rip Van Winkle〞helps to construct the story in such a waythat we are greatly affected by Irving's ___.A.concern with the passage of timeB.expression of transient beautyC.satire on laziness and corruptibility of human beingsD.idea about supernatural manipulation of man's life26.Walt whitman was a pioneering figure of American poetry. His innovation first of all lies in hisuse of __,poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.A.blank verseB.heroic coupletC.free verseD.iambic pentameter27.The literary characters of the American type in early 19th century are generally characterized byall the following features EXCEPT that they ___.A.speak local dialectsB.are polite and elegant gentlemenC.are simple and crude farmersD.are noble savages( red and white) untainted by society28.Hester Pryme, Dimmsdale,Chillingworth and Pearl are most likely the names of the charactersin ___.A.The Scarlet LetterB.The House of the Seven GablestC.The Portrait of a LadyD.The pioneers29.“This is my letter to the World〞is a poetic expression of Emily Dickinson's __ about hercommunication with the outside world.A.indifferenceB.angerC.anxietyD.sorrow30.With Howells,James,and Mark Twain active on the literary scene, __ became the major trendin American literature in the seventies and eighties of the 19th century.A.sentimentalismB.romanticismC.realismD.naturalism31.After The adventures of Tom Sawyer, Twain gives a literary independence to Tom's buddy Huckin a book entitled ___.A.Life on the MississippiB.The Gilded AgeC.The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnD.A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court32.However,___,the keynote of Daisy Miller's character,turns out to be an admiring but adangerous quality and her defiance of social taboos in the Old World finally brings her to a disaster in the clash between two different cultures.A.experienceB.sophisticationC.worldlinessD.innocence33.Generally speaking,all those writers with a naturalistic approach to human reality tend to be ___.A.transcendentalistsB.idealistsC.pessimistsD.impressionists34.Emily Dickinson wrote many short poems on various aspects of life.Which of the following isNOT a usual subject of her poetic expressionA.Religion and immortality.B.Life and death.C.Love and marriage.D.War and peace.35.In “After Apple-Picking,〞Robert Frost wrote:“For I have had too much/Of applepicking:I amovertired/Of the great harvest I myself desired.〞From these lines we can conclude that the speaker is ___.A.happy about the harvestB.still very much interested in apple-pickingC.expecting a greater harvestD.indifferent to what he once desired36.Chinese poetry and philosophy have exerted great influence over ____.A.Ezra PoundB.Ralph Waldo EmersonC.Robert FrostD.Emily Dickinson37.The Hemingway Code heroes are best remembered for their __.A.indestructible spirtieB.pessimistic view of lifeC.war experiencesD.masculinity38.IN The Emperor Jones and T he Hairy Ape,O'Neill adopted the expressionist techniques toportray the ___ of human beings in a hostile universe.A.helpless situationB.uncertaintyC.profound religious faithD.courage and perseverance39.In Hemingway's “Indian Cmap〞,Nick's night trip to the Indian village and his experienceinside the hut can be taken as ____.A.an essential lesson about Indian tribesB.a confrontation with evil and sinC.an initiation to the harshness of lifeD.a learning process in human relationship40.which of the following statements about Emily Grierson, the protagonist in Faulkner's story“A Rose for Emily,〞is NOT trueA.She has a distorted personality.B.She is physically deformed and paralyzed.C.She is the symbol of the old values of the South.D.She is the victim of the past glory.PART TWOⅡ.Reading Comprehension (16 points, 4 for each)Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English.Write your answer in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.41.“Her eyes met his and he looked away.He neither believed nor diXelieved her,but he knew thathe had made a mistake in asking;he never had known,never would know,what she was thinking.The sight of her inscrutable face,the thought of all the hundreds of evenings he had seen her sitting there like that,soft and passive,but so unreadable, unknown, enraged him beyond measure.〞Questions:A.Identify the writer and the work.B.What does the phrase “inscrutable face〞meanC.What idea does the quoted passage express42.“And when I am formulated,sprawling on a pin,When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall.Then how should beginTo spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways.〞Questions:A.Identify the poem and the poet.B.What does the phrase “butt-ends〞meanC.What idea does the quoted passage express43.“God knows,…I'm not myself—I'm somebody else—…and I'm changed,and I can't tell what'smy name,or who I am.〞Questions:A.Identify the work and the author.B.The speaker says he is changed.Do you think he is changed, or the social environment haschangedC.What idea does the quoted sentence express44.“I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference.〞Questions:A.Idenfity the poem and the poet.B.What does the phrase “ages and ages hence〞meanC.What idea does the quoted passage expressⅢ.Questions and Answers(24 points in all, 6 for each)Give brief answers to each of the following questions in English.Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.45.As a rule,an allegory is story in verse or prose with a double meaning: a surface meaning,and animplied meaning.List two works as examples of allegory.What is an allegory usually concerned with by its implied meaning46.Inspiration for the romantic approach initially came from two great shapers of thought.Who arethe twoAnd what ideas they expressed inspire the romantic writers47.The white whale,Moby Dick,is the most important symbol in Melville's novel.What symbolicmeaning can you draw from it48.Nature is a philosophic work, in which Emerson gives an explicit discussion on his idea of theQversoul.What is your understanding of Emersonian “Oversoul〞Ⅳ.Topic Discussion(20 points in all, 10 for each)Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.49.How is Romanticism different from NeoclassicismProvide brief evidence from the literaryworks you know best.50.Summerize the story of Mark twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in about 100words,and comment on the theme of the novel.全国202X年4月高等教育自学考试英美文学选读真题答案课程代码：00604Ⅰ.Multiple Choice(40 points in all,1 for each)1.B2.D3.C4.C5.D6.A7.B8.B9.A 10.C11.D 12.D 13.D 14.D 15.B16.B 17.D 18.C 19.A 20.A21.D 22.B 23.B 24.A 25.A26.C 27.B 28.A 29.C 30.C31.C 32.D 33.C 34.D 35.D36.A 37.A 38.A 39.C 40.BⅡ.Reading Comprehension (16 points, 4 for each)41.A.John Galasworthy:The Man of Property.B.A face does not show any emotion or reaction so that it is impossible to know how thatperson is feeling or what he is thinking about.C.it presents the inner mind of Soames in face of his wife's coldness.He can never knowwhat is on his wife's mind because the makeup of his and her mentality is different. Hiswife Irene, whose mind is romantically inclined, is disgusted with her huXand'spossessiveness. Being unable to read his wife's mind is as good as saying that he reallycan't regard her as his property- this is the very reason why he is enraged beyondmeasure.42.A.T.S.Eliot:“The Love Song of J.Alfred Pruforck.〞B.The ends of cigarettes,meaning trivial things here.C.Here,Prufrock's inability to do anything against the society he is in is made strikinglyclear by using a sharp comparison .Prufrock imagines himself as a kind of insect pinnedon the wall and struggling in vain to get free.This image vividly shows Prufrock's currentpredicament.43.A.Washington Irving:“Rip Van Winkle〞.B.The social environment is changed.C.When Rip is back home after a period of 20 years,he finds thta everything has changed.Allthose old values are gone,and he can hardly feel at home in a changed society.One of thefunctions that Rip serves in the story is to provide a measuring stick for change. It isthrough him that Irving drives home the theme that a desire for change,improvement,andprogress could subvert stable society.44.A.Robert Frost:“The Road Not Taken〞.B.Many many years later.C.The speaker is telling his experience of making the choice of the roads.But he isconscious of the fact that his choice will have made all the difference in his life.Heseems to be giving a suggestion to the reader.“Make good choice of your life.〞Ⅲ.Questions and Answers (24 points in all,6 for each)45.A.Buyan's pilgrim's Progress and Spenser's The Faerie Queene.B.It is usually concerned with moral ,religious,political,symbolic or mythical ideas.46.A.The French philosopher,Jean Jacques Rousseau and the German writer Johna Wolfgan vonGoethe.B.It is Rousseau who established the cult of the individual and championed the freedom of thehuman spirit;his famous announcement was “I felt before I thought.〞Goethe and hiscompatriots extolled the romantic spirit.47.A.To Ahab,the whale is either an evil creature itself or the agent of an evil force that controlsthe universe,or perhaps both.B.To Ishmale,the whale is an astonishing force,an immense power,which defies rationalexplanation due to a sense of mystery it carries. It is beautiful,but malignant at the same time.It also represents the tremendous organic vitality of the universe,for it has a life force that surges onward irresistibly, impervious to the desires or wills of men.C.As to the reader, the whale can be viewed as a symbol of the physical limits that lifeimposes upon man. It may also be regarded as a symbol of nature, or an instrument of God's vengeance upon evil man. In general,the multiplicity and ambivalence of the symbolic meaning of the whale is such that it becomes a source of intense speculation, an object or profound curiosity for the reader.48.A.The Oversoul is believed to be an all-pervading power for goodness,omnipresent andomnipotent from which all things come and of which all are a part. It exists in nature andman alike and constitutes the chief element of the universe.B.According to Emerson,it is a supreme reality of mind, a spiritual unity of all beings, and areligion regarded as an emotional communication between an individual soul and theuniversal Over-soul of which it is a part.C.He holds that intuition is a more certain way of knowing than reason and that the mindcould intuitively perceive the existence of the Oversoul and of certain absolutes.Ⅳ.Topic Discussion (20 points in all, 10 for each)49.a.Neoclassicists upheld that artistic ideals should be order,logic,restrained emoticon andaccuracy,and that literature,should be judged in terms of its service to humanity,and thus,literary expressions should be of proportion,unity,harmony and grace.Pope's An Essay on Criticism advocates grace,wit (usually though satire/humour),and simplicity in language(and the poem itself is a demonstration of those ideals,too);Fielding's Tom Jones helped establish the form of novel;Gray's “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' displays elegance in style,unified structure,serious tone and moral instructions.b.Romanticists tended to see the individual as the very center of all experience,includingart,and thus,literary work should be “spontaneous overflow of strong feelings,〞and no matter how fragmentary those experiences were (Wordsworth's “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,〞or “The Solitary Reaper,) or Coleridge's “Keble Khan〞),the value of the work lied in the accuracy of presenting those unique feelings and particular attitudes.c.In a word, Neoclassicism emphasized rationality and form but Romanticism attached greatimportance to the individual's mind (emotion, imagination, temporary experience…)50.A.Mark Twain's novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a Sequa to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.The Story takes place along the Mississippi River before the Civil War in the United States, around 1850.Along the river, floats a small raft, with two people on it; One is an ignorant,uneducated black slave named Jim and the other is little uneducated outcast white boy about the age of thirteen, called Huckleberry Finn or Huck Finn.The novel relates the story of the escape of Jim from slavery and ,more important, how Huck Finn, floating along with Jim and helping him as best he could, changes his mind ,his prejudice, about Black people, and comes to accept Jim as a man and as a close friends as well.During their journey, they experience a series of adventures:coming across two frauds, the “Duke〞and the “King〞,witnessing the lynching and murder of a harmless drunkard, being lost in a fog and finally Tom's coming to rescue.B. The theme of the novel may be best summed in a word “freedom〞: Huck wants to escape fromthe bond of civilization and Jim wants to escape from the yoke of slavery. Mark Twain uses the raft's journey down the Mississippi River to express his thematic contrasts between innocence and experience, nature and culture, wilderness and civilization.全国202X年4月自学考试英美文学选读真题答案课程代码：00604Ⅰ.Multiple Choice(40 points in all,1 for each)1.B2.D3.C4.C5.D6.A7.B8.B9.A 10.C11.D 12.D 13.D 14.D 15.B16.B 17.D 18.C 19.A 20.A21.D 22.B 23.B 24.A 25.A26.C 27.B 28.A 29.C 30.C31.C 32.D 33.C 34.D 35.D36.A 37.A 38.A 39.C 40.BⅡ.Reading Comprehension (16 points, 4 for each)41.A.John Galasworthy:The Man of Property.B.A face does not show any emotion or reaction so that it is impossible to know how that person is feeling or what he is thinking about.C.it presents the inner mind of Soames in face of his wife's coldness.He can never know what is on his wife's mind because the makeup of his and her mentality is different. His wife Irene, whose mind is romantically inclined, is disgusted with her huXand's possessiveness. Being unable to read his wife's mind is as good as saying that he really can't regard her as his property- this is the very reason why he is enraged beyond measure.42.A.T.S.Eliot:“The Love Song of J.Alfred Pruforck.〞B.The ends of cigarettes,meaning trivial things here.C.Here,Prufrock's inability to do anything against the society he is in is made strikingly clear by using a sharp comparison .Prufrock imagines himself as a kind of insect pinned on the wall and struggling in vain to get free.This image vividly shows Prufrock's current predicament.43.A.Washington Irving:“Rip Van Winkle〞.B.The social environment is changed.C.When Rip is back home after a period of 20 years,he finds thta everything has changed.Allthose old values are gone,and he can hardly feel at home in a changed society.One of the functions that Rip serves in the story is to provide a measuring stick for change. It is through him that Irving drives home the theme that a desire for change,improvement,and progress could subvert stable society.44.A.Robert Frost:“The Road Not Taken〞.B.Many many years later.C.The speaker is telling his experience of making the choice of the roads.But he is conscious of the fact that his choice will have made all the difference in his life.He seems to be giving a suggestion to the reader.“Make good choice of your life.〞Ⅲ.Questions and Answers (24 points in all,6 for each)45.A.Buyan's pilgrim's Progress and Spenser's The Faerie Queene.B.It is usually concerned with moral ,religious,political,symbolic or mythical ideas.46.A.The French philosopher,Jean Jacques Rousseau and the German writer Johna Wolfgan von Goethe.B.It is Rousseau who established the cult of the individual and championed the freedom of the human spirit;his famous announcement was “I felt before I thought.〞Goethe and his compatriots extolled the romantic spirit.47.A.To Ahab,the whale is either an evil creature itself or the agent of an evil force that controls the universe,or perhaps both.B.To Ishmale,the whale is an astonishing force,an immense power,which defies rational explanation due to a sense of mystery it carries. It is beautiful,but malignant at the same time. It also represents the tremendous organic vitality of the universe,for it has a life force that surges onward irresistibly, impervious to the desires or wills of men.C.As to the reader, the whale can be viewed as a symbol of the physical limits that life imposes upon man. It may also be regarded as a symbol of nature, or an instrument of God's vengeance upon evil man. In general,the multiplicity and ambivalence of the symbolic meaning of the whale is such that it becomes a source of intense speculation, an object or profound curiosity for the reader.48.A.The Oversoul is believed to be an all-pervading power for goodness,omnipresent and omnipotent from which all things come and of which all are a part. It exists in nature and manalike and constitutes the chief element of the universe.B.According to Emerson,it is a supreme reality of mind, a spiritual unity of all beings, and a religion regarded as an emotional communication between an individual soul and the universal Over-soul of which it is a part.C.He holds that intuition is a more certain way of knowing than reason and that the mind could intuitively perceive the existence of the Oversoul and of certain absolutes.Ⅳ.Topic Discussion (20 points in all, 10 for each)49.a.Neoclassicists upheld that artistic ideals should be order,logic,restrained emoticon and accuracy,and that literature,should be judged in terms of its service to humanity,and thus,literary expressions should be of proportion,unity,harmony and grace.Pope's An Essay on Criticism advocates grace,wit (usually though satire/humour),and simplicity in language(and the poem itself is a demonstration of those ideals,too);Fielding's Tom Jones helped establish the form of novel;Gray's “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' displays elegance in style,unified structure,serious tone and moral instructions.b.Romanticists tended to see the individual as the very center of all experience,including art,and thus,literary work should be “spontaneous overflow of strong feelings,〞and no matter how fragmentary those experiences were (Wordsworth's “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,〞or “The Solitary Reaper,) or Coleridge's “Keble Khan〞),the value of the work lied in the accuracy of presenting those unique feelings and particular attitudes.c.In a word, Neoclassicism emphasized rationality and form but Romanticism attached great importance to the individual's mind (emotion, imagination, temporary experience…) 50.A.Mark Twain's novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a Sequa to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.The Story takes place along the Mississippi River before the Civil War in the United States, around 1850.Along the river, floats a small raft, with two people on it; One is an ignorant,uneducated black slave named Jim and the other is little uneducated outcast white boy about the age of thirteen, called Huckleberry Finn or Huck Finn.The novel relates the story of the escape of Jim from slavery and ,more important, how Huck Finn, floating along with Jim and helping him as best he could, changes his mind ,his prejudice, about Black people, and comes to accept Jim as a man and as a close friends as well.During their journey, they experience a series of adventures:coming across two frauds, the “Duke〞and the “King〞,witnessing the lynching and murder of a harmless drunkard, being lost in a fog and finally Tom's coming to rescue.B. The theme of the novel may be best summed in a word “freedom〞: Huck wants to escape from the bond of civilization and Jim wants to escape from the yoke of slavery. Mark Twain uses the raft's journey down the Mississippi River to express his thematic contrasts between innocence and experience, nature and culture, wilderness and civilization.。
高等教育自学考试英语阅读(一)真题2014年4月_真题(含答案与解析)-交互
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I. CAREFUL READINGRead the following passages carefully. Decide on the best answer and blacken the corresponding letter on the ANSWER SH EET. (40 points, 2 points each)Passage 1Questions 1 to 5 are based on the following passage.The passengers on the bus watched sympathetically as the you ng woman with the white cane made her way cautiously up th e steps. She paid the driver and then, using her hands to feel the location of the seats, settled into one. She pla ced her briefcase on her lap and rested her cane against h er leg.It had been a year since Susan, thirty-four, became blind. As the result of a medical accident she was sightless, suddenly thrown into a world of darkness, a nger, frustration and self-pity. All she could cling to was her husband Mark.Mark was an Air Force officer and he loved Susan with all his heart. When she first lost her sight, he watched her sink into despair and he became determined to use every m eans to help his wife.Finally, Susan felt ready to return to her job, but how wo uld she get there? She used to take the bus, but she was now too frightened to get around the city by herself. Mar k volunteered to ride the bus with Susan each morning andevening until she got the hang of (摸清情况) it. And that was exactly what happened.For two weeks, Mark, military uniform and all, accompanied S usan to and from work each day. He taught her how to rely on her other senses, specifically her hearing, to determine where she was and how to adapt to her new environment. H e helped her befriend the bus drivers who could watch out for her, and save her a seat.Each morning they made the journey together, and Mark would take a taxi back to his office. Although the routine of going back and forth was costly, Mark knew it was only a matter of time before Susan would be able to ride the bus on her own.Finally, Susan decided that she was ready to try the trip on her own. Monday morning arrived. Before she left, she em braced her husband tightly. Her eyes filled with tears of g ratitude for his loyalty, his patience, and his love. She s aid good-bye and, for the first time, they went their separate ways. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday... Each day on her own went perfectly, and a wild gaiety (快乐) took hold of Susan. She was doing it! She was going t o work all by herself!.SSS_SINGLE_SEL1.When Susan got on the bus, the passengers ______.A admired herB stared curiously at herC ignored herD felt sorry for her该题您未回答:х该问题分值: 2答案:DSSS_SINGLE_SEL2.Which of the following is true of Mark?A He kept confidence in Susan.B He felt confused with Susan.C He depended more on Susan.D He was tired of Susan.该题您未回答:х该问题分值: 2答案:ASSS_SINGLE_SEL3.At the beginning of her sightless life, Susan was seized by anger, self-pity and ______.A irritationB hesitationC hopelessnessD indifference该题您未回答:х该问题分值: 2答案:CSSS_SINGLE_SEL4.Which of the following is true?A Mark realized it would take a long time for Susan to recover her sight.B Mark knew that Susan would get to work by herself sooner or later.C Mark hated to leave poor Susan alone even for one minute.D Mark loved the routine of accompanying Susan to work.该题您未回答:х该问题分值: 2答案:ASSS_SINGLE_SEL5.The passage can be used as an example of ______.A honestyB sympathyC diligenceD determination该题您未回答:х该问题分值: 2答案:CPassage 2Questions 6 to 10 are based on the following passage.Most people claim that we should judge others on the basisof how they act, not how they look. However, the reality is quite opposite. Appearance is especially important in th e early stages of a relationship.The influence of physical attractiveness begins early in life . Infants as young as six months prefer images of attractiv e faces to less appealing ones. From age five on, overweigh t boys are viewed by peers as less attractive; tall, thin ones are judged as uncommunicative and nervous; and muscular and athletic youngsters are seen as outgoing, active, and popular. The same principle continues into adult life. Handso me men and beautiful women are seen as more sensitive, kind , interesting, strong, calm, modest, sociable, outgoing, and exciting than their less attractive counterparts. Adults are more likely to interact with strangers who they view as att ractive. Senior citizens also rate good-looking people as more desirable than those who are less at tractive.Although we might assume that attractive people are radically different from those who are less attractive, the truth is that we view the familiar as beautiful. Langlois and Roggm an presented students with two types of photos: some were i mages of people from North European, Asian, and Latino backg rounds, while others **puter-generated images **bined the characteristics of several indivi duals. Surprisingly, the students consistently preferred **posi te photos of both men and women. When the features of eigh t or more individuals **bined into one image, the students rated the picture as more attractive than the features of a single person or of a **bination of people. Thus, we seem to be drawn to people who represent the most attractive q ualities of ourselves and those people aren't different from the rest of us.Even if your appearance isn't beautiful by social standards, consider these encouraging facts: first, ordinary-looking people with pleasing personalities are likely to be judged as being attractive; second, physical factors become l ess important as a relationship progress. As Hamachek puts it, “Attractive features may open doors, but apparently, it takes more than physical beauty to keep them open.”SSS_SINGLE_SEL6.“The same principle”(Para. 2) refers to the principle tha t ______.A children are more attractive than adultsB attractive people are perceived as desirableC the early stages of a relationship are importantD the influence of appearance begins early in life该题您未回答:х该问题分值: 2答案:BSSS_SINGLE_SEL7.The third paragraph emphasizes in part the importance of ___ ___.A familiarityB differenceC individualityD consistency该题您未回答:х该问题分值: 2答案:CSSS_SINGLE_SEL8.According to the passage, the **posite features people have, ______.A the more unique they areB the less ordinary they areC the more attractive they areD the less beautiful they are该题您未回答:х该问题分值: 2答案:ASSS_SINGLE_SEL9.In his statement, Hamachek is giving emphasis to ______.A social standardsB composite featuresC good characterD physical attraction该题您未回答:х该问题分值: 2答案:BSSS_SINGLE_SEL10.The best title for the passage is ______.A Beauty and AgeB Appearance and RelationshipC Standards of Social BehaviorD Features of Physical Attractiveness该题您未回答:х该问题分值: 2答案:BPassage 3Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage.The public schools of the United States—elementary, secondary, and higher—have a history, and it is the social history of the United States: the decades before the Civil War, in which the el ementary or “common schools”were reformed; the decades sur rounding the turn of the twentieth century, in which the se condary schools “welcomed”the “children of the plain peop le”;and the post-World War II decades, which found the public colleges and u niversities flooded non-traditional students—those traditionally excluded from higher education by sex, ra ce, and class.In each of these periods, the quantitative expansion of the student population was matched by a qualitative transformati on of the enlarged institutions. **mon schools of the mid-1800s were charged with reforming the moral character of the children of failed artisans (工匠) and farmers; the expanded high schools at the turn of the century with preparing their poor, working-class, and immigrant teenagers for future lives in city and factory; the “open-access”publicinstitutions in the postwar period with moving their students off the unemployment lines and into lower-level white-collar positions.**mon schools, the high schools, the colleges and universities—all in their own times—were expanded and transformed so that they might better main tain social order and increase material productivity. But no matter how enlarged or reformed, they could not do the jo bs expected of them: they could not solve the economic, soc ial, and human problems brought about by uncontrolled urbaniz ation and industrialization within the context of the private property system. The schooling reforms succeeded only in sh ifting the discussion and action from the social and product ive system to the people who were now held responsible for not fitting into it.SSS_SINGLE_SEL11.American education in the post-World War II decades focused mostly on ______.A early childhood educationB elementary school educationC secondary school educationD college education该题您未回答:х该问题分值: 2答案:DSSS_SINGLE_SEL12.The turn-of-the-century American education dealt partly with the problem of ______.A failed farmersB unsuccessful artisansC immigrant teenagersD lower-level white-collar workers该题您未回答:х该问题分值: 2答案:DSSS_SINGLE_SEL13.It is implied in the passage that women began to be educat ed in large numbers ______.A after the Civil WarB at the turn of the 20th centuryC before World War IID after World War II该题您未回答:х该问题分值: 2答案:DSSS_SINGLE_SEL14.One of the purposes for public school reformation is ______.A to increase material productivityB to impose the quality of educationC to urbanize rural areas in the United StatesD D. to promote industrialization in the United States该题您未回答:х该问题分值: 2答案:BSSS_SINGLE_SEL15.The author believes that public schools ______.A changed American political systemB could not solve American problemsC led to social problems in the United StatesD could not improve qualitatively in the United States该题您未回答:х该问题分值: 2答案:CPassage 4Questions 16 to 20 are based on the following passage.Historical periods are dominated by distinct sets of ideas w hich form the general spirit of a period in history. Greek philosophy, Christianity, Renaissance thought, the Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment are examples of sets of ideas that dominated their historical periods. The changes fr om one period to the next are usually rather gradual.; othe r changes—more abrupt—are often referred to as revolutions. The most far-reaching of all these intellectual changes was the Darwinian revolution. The worldview formed by any thinking person in the Western world after 1859, when On the Origin of Speci es was published, was by necessity quite different from a w orldview formed before 1859. It is almost impossible for a modern person to project back to the early half of the nin eteenth century and reconstruct the thinking of this pre-Darwinian period, for the impact of Darwinism on our views has been so great.The intellectual revolution brought about by Darwin went far beyond the realm of biology, causing the overthrow of some of the most basic beliefs of his age. For example, Darwin rejected the belief in the individual creation of each spe cies, establishing in its place the concept that all of lif e descended from a common ancestor. By extension, he introdu ced the idea that humans were not the special products of creation but evolved according to principles that operate eve rywhere else in the living world. Darwin upset current notio ns of a perfectly designed natural and gentle world and sub stituted in their place the concept of a struggle for survi val. Victorian notions of progress and perfectibility were se riously weakened by Darwin's demonstration that evolution brin gs about change and adaptation, but it does not necessarily lead to progress, and it never leads to perfection.Darwin would be remembered as an outstanding scientist even if he had never written a word about evolution. Indeed, som e people believe that Darwin’s most original contribution to biology was not the theory of evolution but his series of books on experimental botany published near the end of his life. This achievement is little known among non-biologists, and the same is true for his equally outstanding work on the adaptation of flowers and on animal psychology , as well as his imaginative work on earthworms. Darwin als o attacked important problems with extraordinary originality, thereby becoming the founder of several now well-recognized separate disciplines. Darwin was the first person to work out a sound theory of classification, which is stil l used by most experts today.SSS_SINGLE_SEL16.The author considers the change caused by Darwin’s On the Origin of Species ______.A gradualB abruptC religiousD philosophical该题您未回答:х该问题分值: 2答案:ASSS_SINGLE_SELThe influence of Darwinism has been so strong that it is d ifficult to ______.A know how people looked at the world before 1859B imagine people’s worldview after 1859C disregard the implications of his theoryD know what Victorian society was like该题您未回答:х该问题分值: 2答案:CSSS_SINGLE_SEL18.Darwin believed that all species in the world ______.A were created individuallyB sprang from the same originC became increasingly betterD shared the same pace of progress该题您未回答:х该问题分值: 2答案:CSSS_SINGLE_SEL19.It can be concluded from the passage that Darwin was ______ .A a modest scholarB a born thinkerC an original scientistD a practical theorist该题您未回答:х该问题分值: 2答案:CSSS_SINGLE_SEL20.The author intends to say in the last paragraph that ______ .A Darwin did outstanding work apart from his theory of evolutionB non-biologists know very little about Darwin's theory of evolutionC scholars failed to recognize Darwin’s contributions for along timeD Darwin's most outstanding contribution is his theory of classification该题您未回答:х该问题分值: 2答案:DII. SPEED READINGSkim or scan the following passages, and then decide on t he best answer and blacken the corresponding letter on the ANSWER SHEET. (10 points, 1 point each)Passage 5Questions 21 to 25 are based on the following passage.Potatoes are a tuber-producing crop originally grown in the Americas. Over 200 va rieties of wild potatoes grow from what is now Colorado to what are now Chile and Argentina. The native peoples of t he Andean region of South America were the first to domesti cate potatoes and to cultivate them as a food crop. The ea rliest potato, found in an archaeological site in central Pe ru, has been dated back to about 8000 B.C.. Scientists beli eve that American Indians began domesticating potatoes at the end of the Ice Age. Four thousand years later, native peo ples livingin the Andean highlands had begun to rely on potatoes as a major part of their diet. By about 2000 B.C.. Indians in the coastal region of what is now Peru were also cultivat ing this crop extensively.During the reign of the Inca, who established their empire in what is now Peru in about A.D. 1000, American Indian fa rmers were growing not only white potatoes but red, yellow, black, blue, green, and brown ones as well. They were del iberately developing potatoes of varying sizes and shapes tha t would do well under a number of growing conditions. Becau se potatoes were easily grown, flourish in a number of clim ates, and high in vitamin C, they were an efficient way of meeting dietary needs.In 1531, when Spanish conqueror Francisco Pizarro landed in what is now Peru, the native Andean peoples had developed a bout 3,000 types of potatoes and had also invented a method to freeze-dry them for storage. The Inca, who called potatoes papas, ate boiled potatoes as a vegetable and also made a kind of unleavened potato bread made from flour that had been grou nd from freeze-dried potatoes. They also added this potato flour to soups and stews and made porridge from it.Pedro de Cieza, who traveled with Francisco Pizarro's expedit ion, compared potatoes to chestnuts. Because the tubers grew underground and were small, the Spaniards believed potatoes were truffles (块菌) and began calling them tartuffo. When English explorer S ir Francis Drake crossed the Strait of Magellan, he ate pot atoes on the coast of what is now Chile that same year. Y et, historians are uncertain exactly whether the Spaniards or the English brought potatoes to Europe.SSS_SINGLE_SEL21.The earliest potato was found in ______.A PeruB ChileC ArgentinaD Colorado该题您未回答:х该问题分值: 1答案:ASSS_SINGLE_SEL22.Potatoes became the major source of food for American Indian s about ______.A 8000 B.C.B 4000 B.C.C 2000 B.C.D A.D.1000该题您未回答:х该问题分值: 1答案:ASSS_SINGLE_SEL23.American Indians developed potatoes of different sizes and sh apes to ______.A meet different dietary needsB get potatoes of different colorsC suit various growing conditionsD store them in convenient places该题您未回答:х该问题分值: 1答案:ASSS_SINGLE_SEL24.American Indians freeze-dried potatoes so that they could be ______.A stewedB groundC storedD boiled该题您未回答:х该问题分值: 1答案:CSSS_SINGLE_SEL25.Which of the following is true?A Historians believe that the English brought potatoes to Europe.B Sir Francis Drake ate potatoes in what is now Peru.C Francisco **pared potatoes to chestnuts.D The Spaniards thought that potatoes were truffles.该题您未回答:х该问题分值: 1答案:DPassage 6Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.The blogging craze of a couple of years ago, when it was estimated that ten new blogs were started somewhere in the world every minute, now seems to have died down a bit. Y et thousands of blogs—probably the better ones—remain. Blogs are now no longer seen as the exclusive posse ssion of geeks, and are now seen as important and influenti al sources of news and opinions. So many people read blogs now that it has even been suggested that some blogs may have been powerful enough to influence the result of the re cent U.S. election.Blogs are very easy to set up. All you need is a computer , an internet connection and the desire to write something.A blog differs from a traditional internet site in two ways. First, a blog is one page consisting mostly of texts, though a few pictures are sometimes provided. Second, andmore importantly, a blog is a space for people to respond to what you write. The best blogs are similar to online di scussions, where people write in response to what the blogge r has written. Blogs are regularly updated—busy blogs are updated every day, or even every few hours.Not all blogs are about politics, however. There are blogs about music, films, sports, books—any subject you can imagine has its enthusiasts typing away and giving their opinions to fellow enthusiasts or anyone else who cares to read their opinions.But how influential, or important, is the blogosphere really? One problem with blogs is that many people who read and write them seem only to communicate with each other. When p eople talk about the influence of the blogosphere, they do not take into account the millions of people around the wor ld who are not bloggers, never read blogs, and don't even have access to a computer, let alone a good internet connec tion.Sometimes, it seems that the blogosphere exists only to infl uence itself, or that its influence is limited to what is actually quite a **munity. Blogs seem to promise a virtual democracy—in which anyone can say anything they like, and have their opinions heard—but who is actually listening to these opinions? Little hard evidence shows that blogs have influenced people in the wa y that traditional mass media such as television and newspap ers are able to do.SSS_SINGLE_SEL26.Now the blogging craze ______.A is emergingB has become less intenseC keeps risingD remains the same as before该题您未回答:х该问题分值: 1答案:BSSS_SINGLE_SEL27.Blogs differ from traditional internet sites in that ______.A texts are mostly shortB they present picturesC they are daily updatedD readers can **ments该题您未回答:х该问题分值: 1答案:DSSS_SINGLE_SEL28.One problem with blogs is that bloggers fail to consider __ ____.A non-bloggersB virtual democracyC U.S. politiciansD internet connection该题您未回答:х该问题分值: 1答案:DSSS_SINGLE_SEL29.In the author's opinion, the influence of the blogosphere is ______.A importantB powerfulC positiveD limited该题您未回答:х该问题分值: 1答案:DSSS_SINGLE_SEL30.According to the author, it is not difficult to ______.A set up blogsB make blogs involve everyoneC show the importance of blogosphereD make blogs surpass traditional mass media该题您未回答:х该问题分值: 1答案:DIII. DISCOURSE CLOZEThe following is taken from the textbook. Read the passage and fill in the numbered spaces (there are more suggeste d answers than necessary). Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. (10 points, 1 point each)The makers of the Constitution knew that changes would be n ecessary and that if there was no way of making them, the Constitution would no longer be useful. They, therefore, ma de it possible for Americans to change the Constitution by adopting amendments to it, (31) . All amendments written int o the Constitution have been made in accordance with rules (32) . An amendment may be proposed by two-thirds of both houses of Congress or by a convention called by Congress (33) . It must then be approved by three-fourths of all the states. Then and only then (34) .Since 1789 (35) . Ten of them were adopted almos t immediately (36) . They are the amendments (37) because t hey protect the rights of individuals．Some amendments have e xtended the right to vote by forbidding discrimination in re spect to the fight to vote on account of race，color or sex，and (38) ．One great amendment abolished slavery in the Unit ed States．The Fourteenth Amendment，(39) ，has done much in recent years to bring greater justice to black people and others．Other amendments have changed the me thod of electing senators(40) ，and increased the taxing power of Congress．By amendment we have sought to **e defects in the Constitution and thus to keep it alive．(From The Constitution of the United States)[A] accepted after the Civil War[B] laid down in the original document[C]in order to make it more democratic[D] that we call the Bill of Rights[E] by interpretation on the part of the Supreme Court[F] twenty-six amendments to the Constitution have been adopted[G] that Congress had no power under the Constitution to pa ss such a law[H]at the request of two-thirds of the state legislatures[I]but they did not make it easy to do so[J] does the change become part of the Constitution [K] after the Constitution went into effect[L]by lowering the voting age to eighteenSSS_SIMPLE_SIN31.A B C D E F GH I J K L该题您未回答:х该问题分值: 1答案:ISSS_SIMPLE_SIN32.A B C D E F GH I J K L该题您未回答:х该问题分值: 1答案:BSSS_SIMPLE_SIN33.A B C D E F GH I J K L该题您未回答:х该问题分值: 1答案:HSSS_SIMPLE_SIN34.A B C D E F GH I J K L该题您未回答:х该问题分值: 1答案:JSSS_SIMPLE_SIN35.A B C D E F GH I J K L该题您未回答:х该问题分值: 1答案:FSSS_SIMPLE_SIN36.A B C D E F GH I J K L该题您未回答:х该问题分值: 1答案:KSSS_SIMPLE_SIN37.A B C D E F GH I J K L该题您未回答:х该问题分值: 1答案:DSSS_SIMPLE_SIN38.A B C D E F GH I J K L该题您未回答:х该问题分值: 1答案:LSSS_SIMPLE_SIN39.A B C D E F GH I J K L该题您未回答:х该问题分值: 1答案:ASSS_SIMPLE_SIN40.A B C D E F GH I J K L该题您未回答:х该问题分值: 1答案:CIV．WORD FORMATIONComplete each of the following sentences with the proper f orm of the word in brackets Write your answers on the ANSW ER SHEET. (10 points，1 point each)41.(bright)That new carpet will certainly _____ up your living room．SSS_FILL该题您未回答:х该问题分值: 1答案:brightly42.(anxiety) The foreign minister admitted he was still _____ a bout the situation in that country．SSS_FILL该题您未回答:х该问题分值: 1答案:anxiety43.(ill) Scientists have not yet found a cure for this _____ _．SSS_FILL该题您未回答:х该问题分值: 1答案:illness44.(sign) The recent decline of the stock market does not nece ssarily ____ the start of a recession．SSS_FILL该题您未回答:х该问题分值: 1答案:signs45.(simple) Some students lost marks _____ because they hadn’t read the question carefully．SSS_FILL该题您未回答:х该问题分值: 1答案:simply46.(enjoy) Lunch break at the hotdog stand in the park is the most _____ and interesting time of the day for me．SSS_FILL该题您未回答:х该问题分值: 1答案:enjoyable47.(able)This health center serves all patients，regardless of their ______ to pay．SSS_FILL该题您未回答:х该问题分值: 1答案:ability48.(understand) She expressed her opinions in such clear terms that no one would ____ her．SSS_FILL该题您未回答:х该问题分值: 1答案:understanding49.(1ead) Ever since the 1990s，Microsoft has been a world ____ in software design．SSS_FILL该题您未回答:х该问题分值: 1答案:led50.(judge) It’s too soon to make a ______ about the impact of the new policy．SSS_FILL该题您未回答:х该问题分值: 1答案:judgementV．GAP FILLINGThe following is taken from the textbook．Fill in the numb ered gaps with the correct form of the words or phrases in the box(there are more words than necessary)．Write your answers on the ANSWER SHEET. (10 points，1 point each)asdevotefiercen caseinterestin thatloverejectionsetthatwhowithThe semi-barbaric king had a daughter whom he loved deeply. She was as passionate, fanciful, and strong as her father and was (51) to him. As is the case in many fairy tales, this daughter, the apple of her father’s eye, was in love wit h a young man (52) was below her in station. He was a commoner. He was also brave, handsome, and daring, and he l oved the royal daughter (53) all his being. The princess had enough barbarism in her (54) their love affair was dr amatic…too dramatic. It was a secret for months, but then the king found out about it.The king didn’t hesitate for a minute. He sent the young man to prison and (55) a date for his trial in the ar ena. When the date arrived, everyone in the kingdom wanted to attend. They all knew of the king’s(56) in the case , and there was excitement in the air.The king's men searched for the (57) tiger in the realm . They also searched for the fairest maiden in the land so that he could have a fitting bride (58) he were found innocent. Of course, everyone knew that he **mitted the “crime”of (59) the princess, but the king did not allow the facts of the case to alter his decision. The trial w ould go on (60) planned. The youth would be gone no ma tter what happened; he would either be dead or married. The king could enjoy the proceedings for the sport of it. (From The Lady or the Tiger)SSS_FILL51.该题您未回答:х该问题分值: 1答案:devoteSSS_FILL52.。
自考英语本科英美文学选读英美文学选读考题分析
在自考的全部专业中，英语本科的淘汰率一直高居“榜首”，同时《英美文学选读》又是整个本科专业的瓶颈课程。
我们随机抽取了两刀（40本）试卷进行统计，发现该门课程的通过率大致在12%左右，可能是自考全部课程最低的。
绝大部分成绩徘徊在40分到58分之间，大约占了44.7%。
我们批改到的最高分大约是82分，成绩相当出色！一、试卷构成《英美文学选读》全国卷由四部分组成：第一部分是40分的选择题，每题1分，覆盖面十分广泛。
从以往几次试卷来看，该部分主要考核英美文学史，也包括少量选读中的内容，多属于常识性知识，例如今年14题要求辨别If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?的作者；2001年11题要求辨别It was a miracle of rare device, A sunny pleasure done with caves of ice.的作者和出处；还有每年必定会有一题考核作品中出现的人物，例如2001年第8题是Sheridan’s The School for Scandal中的人物，今年28题是The Scarlet Letter的人物。
由于内容大多属于大纲中的“识记”性知识，不需要多少理解，因此正确率相应比较高。
但有时题目的切入点十分灵活比如2001年第6题，需要考生有较好的基本功。
第二部分是四道共16分的阅读理解。
考题内容均取自选读部分，一般是两篇诗歌，两篇小说，要求指出：A）作者和作品出处（1分）B）作品中具体某个词或词组的确切意义（1分）C）表述该选段的思想内容（2分）。
考生需要认真研读作品，和作品后面的注释，平时做一些读书笔记。
第三部分是四道共24分的简答题，内容的跨越比较大，既有阅读理解部分的延伸，也有某一时期的文学思潮，还有对某一断代史的简论，答对率非常低。
第四部分是两题共20分的问答题。
一般是某个重要作家或作品的特色以及对他们的评价。
二、试卷评析文学术语（俗称的名词解释）是基本的文学常识，是对文学中共性问题的抽象概括，因此对于这些术语不可等闲视之。
[自学考试答案解析]英美文学选读试题
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绝密★考试结束前全国2014年4月高等教育自学考试英美文学选读试题课程代码：00604请考生按规定用笔将所有试题的答案涂、写在答题纸上。
全部题目用英文作答。
选择题部分注意事项：1．答题前，考生务必将自己的考试课程名称、姓名、准考证号用黑色字迹的签字笔或钢笔填写在答题纸规定的位置上。
2．每小题选出答案后，用2 B铅笔把答题纸上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。
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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. Mark your choice by blackening the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the answer sheet.1. Shakespeare has established his giant position in world literature with his ______ plays, 154 sonnets and 2 long 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 w ork 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 BronteB. D.H. LawrenceC. 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, Septemer 3, 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 anda model of the 20th-century English poetry.BA. The Hollow MenB. The Waste LandC. Prurrock and Other ObservationsD. Poems 1909-2516. D. wrence’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 of affairs 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 American financial tycoons in the late 19th 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 in 1869 with 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 through the 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 Not36 Of 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 of creatinga 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. m etaphysical poemsC. short storiesD. literary criticism40. Generally considered to be Henry James’s masterpiece, ______ incarnates the clash between the Old World and the New in the life journey of an American girl in a Europe an cultural environment.BA. The AmbassadorsB. Daisy MillerC. The AmericanD. The Portrait of A Lady非选择题部分注意事项：用黑色字迹的签字笔或钢笔将答案写在答题纸上，不能答在试题卷上。
全国2014年4月高等教育自学考试外国文学作品选试题分析
全国2014年4月高等教育自学考试外国文学作品选试题分析绝密★考试结束前全国2014年4月高等教育自学考试外国文学作品选试题课程代码：00534请考生按规定用笔将所有试题的答案涂、写在答题纸上。
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1.《伊利亚特》和《奥德赛》是古希腊流传至今最早的文学作品，它的作者是A.维吉尔B.柏拉图C.荷马D.亚里士多德2.“永生的阿芙洛狄忒，宝座上的女神，宙斯的善用心计的女儿，求求你，女神啊，别再用痛苦和忧愁折磨我的心!”这句诗出自诗人A.阿那克瑞翁B.品达C.萨福D.奥维德3.在古希腊三大悲剧家中，被称赞为“戏剧艺术的荷马”的是A.索福克勒斯B.阿里斯托芬C.欧里庇得斯D.埃斯库罗斯4.《十日谈》的作者是文艺复兴时期意大利杰出的人文主义作家A.乔叟B.彼特拉克C.塔索D.薄伽丘5.《堂吉诃德》以主人公的游侠冒险经历展开情节，反映了广阔的社会图景，堂吉诃德前后游侠出行活动共有A.四次B.三次C.两次D.一次6.在莫里哀喜剧中，与《悭吝人》齐名的作品是A.《伪君子》B.《没病找病》C.《太太学堂》D.《司卡班的诡计》7.被誉为英国浪漫主义文学史上里程碑的作品是A.《丁登寺》B.《古舟子咏》C.《克伦威尔》D.《抒情歌谣集》8.济慈《秋颂》中“呵，春日的歌哪里去了?”的下句是A.篱下的蟋蟀在歌唱，在园中红胸的知更鸟就群起呼哨B.这时呵，河柳下的一群小飞虫就同奏哀音，它们忽而飞高，忽而下落，随着微风的起灭C.但不要想这些吧，你也有你的音乐D.而群羊在山圈里高声咩叫；丛飞的燕子在天空呢喃不歇9.标志着法国浪漫主义对古典主义最终胜利的作品是雨果的戏剧A.《欧那尼》B.《九三年》C.《悲惨世界》D.《巴黎圣母院》10.俄国文学中第一部描写小人物的作品是普希金的短篇小说A.《青铜骑士》B.《驿站长》C.《上尉的女儿》D.《黑桃皇后》11.《草叶集》是美国诗人惠特曼的重要代表作，题名中的“草叶”象征A.平凡而旺盛的生命力量B.繁盛的大自然C.强烈的自我意识D.崇高的爱国精神12.19世纪法国批判现实主义文学的奠基人是A.巴尔扎克B.梅里美C.福楼拜D.司汤达13.在《高老头》中，受到巴黎腐化风气污染、最终抛弃良心变成野心家的青年人是A.包赛昂B.拉斯蒂涅C.毕安训D.伏脱冷14.狄更斯以法国大革命为背景，表现人道主义思想的历史小说是A.《艰难时事》B.《双城记》C.《小杜丽》D.《荒凉山庄》15.莫泊桑被誉为“短篇小说巨匠”，他的成名作是以普法战争为背景的短篇小说A.《羊脂球》B.《两个朋友》C.《一家人》D.《米龙老爹》16.易卜生早期历史剧具有浪漫主义色彩，多取材于古代挪威的英雄传说和历史，代表作品有A.《社会支柱》B.《海上夫人》C.《觊觎王位的人》D.《青年同盟》17.在《罪与罚》中，导致拉斯柯尔尼科夫犯下谋杀罪行的根本原因是他所信奉的A.超人哲学B.暴力革命思想C.阶级斗争思想D.社会进化论18.高尔基的自传体三部曲包括《童年》、《在人间》和A.《我的大学》B.《忏悔》C.《马卡尔?楚德拉》D.《母亲》19.在《安娜?卡列尼娜》中，被称为“托尔斯泰式主人公”的人物是A.安德烈C.列文D.安娜?卡列尼娜20.乔伊斯模仿古希腊史诗《奥德赛》的结构创作的长篇意识流小说是A.《青年艺术家的画像》B.《都柏林人》C.《芬尼根守夜人》D.《尤利西斯》21.卡夫卡的长篇小说《美国》、《审判》和《城堡》被称为A.生命三部曲B.孤独三部曲C.欲望三部曲D.帝国三部曲22.在茨威格的《世界上最美的坟墓》一文中，令作者感到震撼的是托尔斯泰墓地的A.奢华B.破败C.简朴D.典雅23.反映了人们对战争的痛恨，表现出浓重迷惘情绪，被认为是“迷惘的一代”的代表作是海明威的小说A.《丧钟为谁而鸣》B.《在我们的时代》C.《第五纵队》D.《永别了，武器》24.、台词“他人即地狱”’出自A.马尔克斯B.萨特C.加缪25.《秃头歌女》通过两对夫妇之间的无聊对话，揭示了人与人之间的荒诞关系，这部戏剧的作者是A.尤内斯库B.卡尔维诺C.贝克特D.品特26.《世界上最漂亮的溺死者》反映了拉丁美洲孤独封闭的现实，这部小说在艺术上属于A.浪漫主义B.自然主义C.魔幻现实主义D.表现主义27.既是犹太教的经典，也是古代希伯来人的文化典籍汇编的是A.《古兰经》B.《新约》C.《旧约》D.《亡灵书》28.《沙恭达罗》描写国王豆扇陀与净修女沙恭达罗的爱情故事，这部作品的作者是A.迦梨陀娑B.萨迪C.桑戈尔D.纪伯伦29.“噫，连在静默地忆想上帝之时，你们也要合一。
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。
4月外国文学史试题答案解析
绝密★考试结束前全国2014 年 4 月高等教育自学考试外国文学史试题课程代码：00540 请考生按规定用笔将所有试题的答案涂、写在答题纸上。
选择题部分、单项选择题（本大题共26 小题，每小题 1 分，共26 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，请将其选出并将“答题纸”的相应代码涂黑。
多涂或未涂均无分。
错涂、1 ．古希腊文艺论著《诗学》的作者是A. 柏拉图B. 苏格拉底C．亚里士多德 D. 希罗多德2 ．贺拉斯关于文学的论文是A. 《理想国》C．《诗艺》B.《会饮篇》D.《歌集》3 ．被誉为古希腊“悲剧之父”的诗人是A. 埃斯库罗斯C．欧里庇得斯B.索福克勒斯D.阿里斯托芬4.16 世纪西班牙最著名的流浪汉小说是A. 《羊泉村》B. 《小癞子》C．《巨人传》D.《堂吉诃德》5 ．下列作家中，不属．于．．“大学才子派”的是A. 约翰·李利B.马洛C．罗伯特·格林 D.托马斯·莫尔6 ．法国古典主义戏剧的创作规则是B. “人物再现法” D. “心灵辩证法”A. “冰山原则”C ．“三一律” 7 ．莫里哀在《伪君子》中塑造的伪善者形象是A. 答丢夫C.史嘉本B.阿巴贡 D. 奥尔贡 8 ．法国启蒙文学中成就最高的作家是A. 伏尔泰C ．拉封丹B.卢梭 D.狄德罗 9 ．《阴谋与爱情》的作者席勒是A. 德国作家C ．美国作家B.法国作家 D.英国作家 10 ．欧洲历史小说的创始人是A. 骚塞C ．司各特11 ．法国作家梅里美的代表作是A. 《高龙巴》C ．《萨朗波》12 ．长篇小说《奥勃洛摩夫》的作者是A. 冈察洛夫C ．涅克拉索夫B.柯勒律治 D.华兹华斯 B.《卡门》 D.《情感教育》 B.奥斯特洛夫斯基 D.车尔尼雪夫斯基13 ．斯丹达尔的第一部小说是A. 《红与黑》C ．《阿尔芒斯》14 ．《双城记》中的“双城”指的是A. 伦敦和巴黎C ．伦敦和罗马 B.《巴马修道院》 D. 《意大利遗事》 B.伦敦和柏林 D.伦敦和雅典C ．罗摩和悉多的故事 22 ．印度古代文学史上被称为“宫廷九宝”之一的作家是A. 沙恭达罗B.优哩婆湿 C ．迦梨陀娑 D. 豆扇陀23 ．《万叶集》中的名篇《贫穷问答歌》的作者是A. 山上忆良B.近松门左卫门 C ．松尾芭蕉 D. 井原西鹤15 ．被称为“短篇小说之王”的法国作家是 A. 左拉C ．都德B.莫泊桑D.福楼拜 16 ．苏联文学“战壕真实派”的代表作家是A. 法捷耶夫C ．邦达列夫B.肖洛霍夫 D.阿·托尔斯泰17 ．美国作家德莱塞的代表作是A. 《嘉莉妹妹》C ．《珍妮姑娘》18 ．高尔基早期创作的浪漫主义短篇小说是A. 《切尔卡什》C ．《海燕之歌》 B.《永别了，武器》 D.《美国的悲剧》B. 《小市民》 D.《伊则吉尔老婆子》19 ．后期象征主义名作《海滨墓园》的作者是A. 叶芝B.布勒东 C ．庞德 D. 瓦莱里20 ．美国意识流小说家福克纳的代表作是A. 《尤利西斯》B.《追忆逝水年华》 C ．《喧哗与骚动》 D. 《押沙龙，押沙龙！ 》 21 ．印度古代史诗《罗摩衍那》书名的意思是A. “历史传说”B. “伟大的婆罗多族的传说故事” D.罗摩漫游的故事24 ．《一千零一夜》的重要艺术特点是A. 第一人称“我”的叙述角度C．框架式结构全书的方法B.学习英国的讽刺艺术D.人物对话富有论辩性25 ．希伯来文学中最早出现的独立成篇的小说是A. 《申命记》B. 《约伯记》C．《路得记》 D. 《以斯帖记》26 ．中古波斯著名作家萨迪的代表作《蔷薇园》是A. 诗集B.散文集C．歌集 D. 故事集二、多项选择题（本大题共6 小题，每小题2 分，共12 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，请将其选出并将“答题纸”的相应代码涂黑。
英美文学选读自考题-14_真题-无答案
英美文学选读自考题-14(总分100,考试时间90分钟)Ⅰ.Multiple ChoiceSelect from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Mark your choice by blacking the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the answer sheet.1. Generally the Renaissance refers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries. It first started in Italy, with the flowering of painting, sculpture and literature. From ______ the movement went to embrace the rest of Europe.A. Germany B. Greek C. Britain D. Italy2. In 1593 and 1594, Shakespeare published two narrative poems ______ and The Rape of Lucrece.A. The Faerie Queen B. Venus and Adonis C. Measure for Measure D. Sonnet 183. ______ shows how mankind, in the person of Christ, withstands the tempter and is established once more in the divine favor.A. Paradise Lost B. Paradise Regained C. Samson Agonistes D. Beowulf4. 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.5. ______ was written by Defoe and it brought him into jail and made him go through public exposure in the pillory.A. The Shortest Way with the Dissenters B. The True-born Englishman C. Colonel Jack D. A Journal of the Plague Year6. You may have met the term "Yahoo" on Internet, but you may also have met it in English literature. It is found in ______.A. John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress B. Samuel Johnson's The Vanity of Human Wishes C. Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels D. Henry Fielding's Tom Jones7. In ______ of Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift satirizes the western civilization including false illusions about science, philosophy, history and even immortality.A. the first voyage to Lilliput B. the second voyage to Brobdingnag C. the third voyage to the Flying Island D. the fourth voyage to Houyhnhnm land8. For his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel, ______ has been regarded as "Father of the English Novel".A. Henry Fielding B. Daniel Defoe C. John Bunyan D. James Joyce9. The Romantic Age began in 1798 when Wordsworth and Coleridge published their joint work ______.A. Leaves of Grass B. The Cantos C. Nature D. Lyrical Ballads10. The Romantic Movement expressed a more or less ______ attitude toward the existing social and political conditions that came with industrialization.A. positive B. negative C. neutral D. indifferent11. In the Romantic Age, ______ is a great critic on Shakespeare, Elizabethan drama, and English poetry.A. Byron B. Jane Austen C. William Hazlitt D. William Blake12. In his poem "Tyger, Tyger", William Blake expresses his perception of the "fearful symmetry" of the big cat. The phrase "fearful symmetry" suggests ______.A. the tiger's two eyes which are dazzlingly bright and symmetrically set B. the poet's fear of the predator C. the analogy of the hammer and the anvil D. the harmony of the two opposite aspects of God's creation13. Wordsworth thought that ______ is the only subject of literary interest.A. nation B. past experience C. common life D. nature14. P.B. Shelley's greatest political lyrics is ______.A. Men of England B. An Essay on Criticism C. The Prelude D. A De fence of Poetry15. Prometheus Unbound is Shelley's greatest achievement. Prometheus, according to the Greek mythology, was chained by Zeus on Mount Caucasus and suffered the vulture's feeding on his liver for ______.A. planning a revolt to dethrone God B. misinterpreting God's decree to reconcile man and nature C. prophesying the arrival of spring in a winter season D. stealing the fire from heaven and giving it to man16. The major themes of Jane Austen's novels are the stories of ______.A. love and money B. money and social status C. social status and marriageD. love and marriage17. In the Victorian period, ______, that Wessex man, not only continued to expose and criticize all sorts of social iniquities, but finally came to question and attack the Victorian conventions and morals.A. Charles Dickens B. William Makepeace Thackeray C. Thomas Hardy D. Charlotte Bronte18. In the following writings, which is not the work by Charles Dickens?______A. Oliver Twist. B. David Copper field. C. A Tale of Two Cities. D. The Ring and the Book.19. Charles Dickens is one of the greatest critical realist writers of ______.A. the RomanticPeriod B. the Renaissance Period C. the Neoclassical Period D. the Victorian Period20. ______ is a master story-teller. With his first sentence, he engages the reader's attention and holds it to the end.A. Charles Dickens B. Emily Bronte C. Thomas Hardy D. George Eliot21. Charlotte first novel The Professor was rejected by the publisher, but her second one, ______, won immediate success and today it remains one of the most popular novels.A. Wuthering Heights B. Pride and Prejudice C. Jane Eyre D. Agnes Grey22. Thomas Hardy's most cheerful and idyllic work is ______.A. The Return of the Native B. Far from the Madding Crowd C. Under the Greenwood Tree D. The Woodlanders23. Mrs. Warren's Profession, written by ______, is a play about the economic oppression of women.A. George Bernard Shaw B. John Galsworthy C. Richard Brinsley SheridanD. William Butler Yeats24. T.S. Eliot's most popular verse play is ______.A. Murder in the Cathedral B. The Cocktail Party C. The Family Reunion D. The Waste Land25. The frank discussion of ______ in his novel Lady Chatterley's Lover is the chief reason whyD.H. Lawrence had been accused of pornographic writing.A. hell B. death C. sex D. love26. Nathaniel Hawthorne held an unceasing interest in the "interior of the heart" of man's being. So in almost every book he wrote, Hawthorne discusses ______.A. love and hatred B. sin and evil C. frustration and self-denialD. balance and self-discipline27. ______ has always been considered a monumental work **mands great attention because of its uniquely poetic embodiment of American democratic ideals.A. Leaves of Grass B. Nature C. In a Station of the MetroD. After Apple Picking28. Beside symbolism, all the following qualities except ______ are used to make Melville's Moby-Dick a world classic.A. narrative power B. psychological analysis C. speculative agility D. optimistic view of life29. Realism was a reaction against Romanticism or a move away from the bias towards romance and self-creating fictions, and paved the way to ______.A. Cynicism B. Modernism C. Transcendentalism D. Neoclassicalism30. The impact of Darwin's evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of thenineteenth century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to yet another school of realism: American ______.A. modernism B. colloquialism C. naturalism D. humanism31. Hemingway once described Mark Twain's novel ______ the one book from which "all modern American **es".A. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn B. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer C. The Gilded Age D. Roughing It32. ______'s fame generally rests upon his novels and stories with the international theme.A. Mark Twain B. Theodore Dreiser C. Henry James D. Ernest Hemingway33. As a genre, naturalism emphasized ______ as important deterministic forces shaping individualized characters who were presented in special and detailed circumstances.A. theological doctrines B. heredity and environment C. education and hard work D. various opportunities and economic success34. Among the following writers, almost all of whose works have tragic endings?______A. Mark Twain. B. Henry James. C. Emily Dickinson. D. Theodore Dreiser.35. 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 cowboy B. New England C. Ivy League D. ivory tower36. A masterpiece in American literature, ______ evokes a haunting mood of a glamorous, wild time that seemingly will **e again.A. This Side of Paradise B. Tender Is the Night C. The American Dream D. The Great Gatsby37. In a tragic sense, ______ is a representation of life as a struggle against unconquerable forces in which only a partial victory is possible.A. The Sun Also Rises B. For Whom the Bell Tolls C. The Old Man and the Sea D. In Our Time38. Typical of the "iceberg" analogy is ______'s style.A. T.S. Eliot B. Ernest Hemingway C. John Steinbeck D. William Faulkner39. 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, Moses B. Light in August C. The Marble Faun D. As I Lay Dying40. In A Rose for Emily, Faulkner makes best use of the ______ devices in narration.A. Romantic B. Realistic C. Gothic D. Post-ModernistⅡ.Reading ComprehensionRead the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.1. "Mr. Western had an estate in this parish; and as his house stood at little greater distance from this church than from his own, he very often came to Divine Service here; and both he and the charming Sophia happened to be present at this time."Questions:A. Identify the author and the title of the book.B. What name does this book bring to the author?C. What is the social significance of the book?D. What are the scenes in this book?2. "'Yes, so, sir,' I rejoined: 'and yet not so; for you are a married man—or as good as a married man, and wed to one inferior to you—to one with whom you have no sympathy—whom I do not believe you truly love; for I have seen and heard you sneer at her. I would scorn such a union; therefore I am better than you— let me go!'"Questions:A. What does "I" represent? Who is "I" in the text?B. Identify the writer and the title of the novel from which this passage is taken.C. What idea does the passage expresses?3. "The harpoon was darted; the stricken whale flew forward; with igniting velocity 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."Questions:A. Identify the author and the title of the work.B. Who is Ahab?C. What happens to Ahab?4. "There was music from my neighbor's house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft, or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motor-boats slit the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of foam. On week-ends his Rolls-Royce became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city between nine in the morning and long past midnight, while his station wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug to meet all trains. And on Mondays eight servants, including an extra gardener, toiled all day with mops and scrubbing-brushes and hammers and garden-shears, repairing the ravages of the night before."Questions:A. Identify the author and the title of the novel from which this passage is taken.B. What can you imply by reading this passage?C. What do the "moths" symbolize?Ⅲ.Questions and AnswersGive a brief answer to each of the following questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.1. What are the modernistic characteristics of D.H. Lawrence's novels?2. How do you philosophically define Transcendentalism?3. How did "The Lost Generation" come into existence in the literary history of the United States? What does the term "The Lost Generation" mean? Who were the leading figures of this literary movement? (Gove at least two)4. Why is The Great Gatsby a successful novel?Ⅳ.Topic DiscussionWrite no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.1. Thomas Hardy, living at the turn of the century, is often regarded as a transitional writer. In him we see the influence from both the past and the modern. Tess of the D' Urbervilles is one of his greatest works. Try to discuss the fate of Tess in this work.2. Symbolism is an important literary practice in literature and it has been widely used by many American writers. Discuss the way of symbolism which is used in Faulkner's story A Rose for Emily.。
全国2014年4月自考中外文学作品导读试题和答案(纯文字版本)
正确答案：C（1分）
19.关于《西湖七月半》，下列说法错误的是
A.选自《陶庵梦忆》
B.作者陶渊明
C.以士大夫立场发现都市世俗生活之美
D.是富有情趣的小品文
正确答案：B（1分）
20.主张“独抒性灵，不拘格套”的文学派别是
A.榈城派
B.革新派
C.公安派
D.复古派
正确答案：C（1分）
21. 20世纪20年代以文学研究会为主的“人生写实派”的代表作家是
正确答案：D（1分）
15.下列选项中不属于“唐传奇”的一项是
A.《搜神记》
B.《枕中记》
C.《莺莺传》
D.《霍小玉传》
正确答案：A（1分）
16.关于元杂剧，下列说法错误的是
A.元杂剧以“折”为单位
B.元杂剧中得角色有末、旦、净、杂、丑等
C.元杂剧一贯注重语言雕饰，辞采华美
D.元杂剧的唱词按照一定的宫调和曲牌写成
D.巴金
正确答案：A（1分）
27.中古欧洲的《罗兰之歌》是哪个国家的英雄史诗？
A.德国
B.西班牙
C.古罗马
D.法国
正确答案：D（1分）
28.表现特洛伊战争的古希腊史诗是
A.《埃涅阿斯纪》
B.《奥德赛》
C.《美狄亚》
D.《伊利亚特》
正确答案：D（1分）
29.被授予诺贝尔文学奖的苏联作家帕斯捷尔纳克的代表作是
A.都达夫
B.时圣陶
C.台静农
D.彭家煌
正确答案：B（1分）
22.余光中以台北“故宫博物院”收藏的一件古代玉器为素材所作的诗歌是
A.翠玉白菜
B.玉“红烧肉”
C.白玉苦瓜
D.玉鳌鱼花插
2015年4月全国自考英美文学选读模拟试卷（一）
2015年4月全国自考英美文学选读模拟试卷（一）2014年4月全国自考英美文学选读模拟试卷(一)一、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.第1题 Romanticism is a period of British literature roughly dated from___________.A. 1660—1798B. 1798—1832C. 1483—1546D. 1836—1901【正确答案】 B【你的答案】本题分数1分第2题The two collections of poems written by William Blake,________and________， hold the simi lar subject?matter, but the tone, emphasis and conclusion differ.A. Songs of Innocence/Songs of ExperienceB. Poetical Sketches/Songs of InnocenceC. Poetical Sketches/Marriage of Heaven and HellD. The Book of Urizen/The Book of Los【正确答案】 A【你的答案】本题分数1分第3题Percy Bysshe Shelley is one of the leading _________poets, an intense and original lyri cal poet in the English language.A. realisticB. symbolicC. romanticD. imagist【正确答案】 C【你的答案】本题分数1分第4题Widowers’ House, a play written by George Bernard Shaw, is a grotesquely realistic exposure of_______.A. prostitutionB. life forceC. social evilD. slum landlordism【正确答案】 D【你的答案】本题分数1分第5题“T he Lawrence trilogy”refers to the following three plays EXCEPT_______.A. A Collier’s Friday NightB. The Daughter-in-LawC. Lady Chatterley’s LoverD. The Widowing of Mrs.Holroyed【正确答案】 C【你的答案】本题分数1分第6题In________, Hawthorne discusses sin and evil and sets out to prove that everyone posses ses some evil secret.A. The Scarlet LetterB. Young Goodman BrownC. Sister CarrieD. Daisy Miller【正确答案】 B【你的答案】本题分数1分第7题Closely related to Emily Dickinson’s religious poetry are her poems concerning________.A. childhoodB. youth and happinessC. lonelinessD. death and immortality【正确答案】 D【你的答案】本题分数1分第8题The major themes of Jane Austen’s novels are the stories of ___________.A. love and moneyB. money and social statusC. social status and marriageD. love and marriage【正确答案】 D【你的答案】本题分数1分第9题Which of the following statements about Victorian literature is NOT trueA.Novels became the most widely read and the most vital andchallenging expression of pr ogressive 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 an d criticizing the social reality.【正确答案】 C【你的答案】本题分数1分第10题 Sons and Lovers is a novel written by___________.A. /doc/3c3367356.html,wrenceB. James JoyceC. Thomas HardyD. T.S.Eliot【正确答案】 A【你的答案】本题分数1分第11题In the American Romantic writings, the ________ came to function almost as a dramatic character that symbolized moral law.A. fireB. waterC. treesD. wilderness【正确答案】 D【你的答案】本题分数1分第12题The Transcendentalists believe that, first, nature is ennobling, and second, the individu al is __________and, therefore, self?reliant.A. insignificantB. vicious by natureC. divineD. forward-looking【正确答案】 C【你的答案】本题分数1分第13题In___________, Whitman’s own early experience may well b e identified with the childhood of a young, growing America.A. “Song of Myself”B. “A Pact”C. “There Was a Child Went Forth”D. “Cavalry Crossing a Ford”【正确答案】 C【你的答案】本题分数1分第14题Daisy Miller is one of Henry James’s early works that dealt with________.A. local colorismB. patriotismC. the international themeD. psychological analysis【正确答案】 C【你的答案】本题分数1分第15题Which of the following is NOT regarded as one of the characteristics of RenaissanceA. Rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek culture.B. Attempt to remove the old feudalist ideas in medieval Europe.C. Introducing new ideas that expressed the interests of the rising bourgeoisie.D. Praise of man’s efforts in soul delivery and personal salvation.【正确答案】 D【你的答案】本题分数1分第16题Milton’s Paradise Lost took its material from_________.A. the BibleB. Greek mythC. Roman mythD. French romance【正确答案】 A【你的答案】本题分数1分第17题The Romantic Movement expressed a more or less ___________attitude toward the existing s ocial and political conditions that came with industrialization.A. positiveB. negativeC. neutralD. indifferent【正确答案】 B【你的答案】本题分数1分第18题In the Victorian period,_________ , that Wessex man, not only continued to expose andcriticize all sorts of social iniquities, but finally came to question and attack the Victorian conventions and morals.A. Charles DickensB. William Makepeace ThackerayC. Thomas HardyD. Charlotte Brontё【正确答案】 C【你的答案】本题分数1分第19题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. Socratic【正确答案】 B【你的答案】本题分数1分第20题The impact of Darwin’s evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence o f the nineteenth?century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to yet another school of realism: American___________.A. modernismB. colloquialismC. naturalismD. humanism【正确答案】 C【你的答案】本题分数1分第21题_________by Henry James tells a story about a young and innocent American confronting t he complexity of the European life.A. The AmericanB. Daisy MillerC. The EuropeansD. The Portrait of A Lady【正确答案】 A【你的答案】本题分数1分第22题“I like to see it lap the Miles—”is a poem written by_________.A. Ezra PoundB. Walt WhitmanC. Robert FrostD. Emily Dickinson【正确答案】 D【你的答案】本题分数1分第23题Theodore Dreiser belonged to the school of literary_______ which emphasized heredity andenvironment as important deterministic forces shaping individualized characters who were p resented in special and detailed circumstances.A. naturalismB. realismC. determinismD. humanism【正确答案】 A【你的答案】本题分数1分第24题North of Boston is described by the author, Robert Lee Frost, as “a book of people”, which shows a brilliant insight into___________ character and the background that form ed it.A. the cowboyB. New EnglandC. Ivy LeagueD. ivory tower【正确答案】 B【你的答案】本题分数1分第25题 __________is not written by John Milton.A. Samson AgonistesB. Paradise LostC. Paradise RegainedD. Tamburlaine【正确答案】 D【你的答案】本题分数1分第26题The 18th century England is known as the Age of__________ in the history.A. RomanticismB. ClassicismC. RenaissanceD. Enlightenment【正确答案】 D【你的答案】本题分数1分第27题In which of the following works can you find the proper names “Lilliput”,“Brobdingn ag”,“Houyhnhnm”and“Yahoos”A. The Pilgrim’s Progress.B. The Faerie Queene.C. Gulliver’s Travels.D. The School of Scandal.【正确答案】 C【你的答案】本题分数1分第28题__________novel, a type of romantic fiction that predominated in the late eighteenth cen tury, was one phase of the Romantic movement. Its principal elements are violence, horr or, and the supernatural, which strongly appeal to the reader’s emotion.A. GothicB. SentimentalistC. PastoralD. Romantic【正确答案】 A【你的答案】本题分数1分第29题Among the famous novelists of the Victorian period were the critical realists like______ ___, William Makepeace Thackeray, Charlotte Brontё, Emily Brontё, Mrs.Gaskell and Anthon y Trollope, etc.A. Jonathan SwiftB. Charles DickensC. John KeatsD. Jane Austen【正确答案】 B【你的答案】本题分数1分第30题_________is famous for its vivid descriptions of the workhouse and life of the underwor ld in the 19th century London.A. Oliver TwistB. Great ExpectationsC. David CopperfieldD. Hard Times【正确答案】 A【你的答案】本题分数1分第31题__________among “the Angry Young Men”novelists in the mid-1950s and early 1960s was th e first to start the attack onmiddle-class privileges and power in his novel Lucky J im.A. John WainB. Kingsley AmisC. John BraineD. Alan Sillitoe【正确答案】 B【你的答案】本题分数1分第32题__________is a poem concerned with the spiritual breakup of a modern civilization in wh ich human life has lost its meaning, significance and purpose.A. UlyssesB. The Waste LandC. The Confidential ClerkD. Dubliners【正确答案】 B【你的答案】本题分数1分第33题Of the following works by /doc/3c3367356.html,wrence, __________ established his position as a promine nt novelist.A. The White PeacockB. The TrespasserC. Women in LoveD. Sons and Lovers【正确答案】 D【你的答案】本题分数1分第34题Faulkner once s aid 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 FuryC. Absalom, Absalom!D. Go Down, Moses【正确答案】 B【你的答案】。
自考英美文学选读试题
自考英美文学选读试题一、简答题1. 请简要解释英美文学的定义和范围。
英美文学是指英国和美国地区所产生的文学作品集合。
它包括了英国和美国各个历史时期的文学作品，涵盖了不同文体和流派，如诗歌、戏剧、小说等。
英美文学也包括了涉及英美文化、历史和社会的文学批评和理论。
2. 请谈谈你对浪漫主义文学的理解。
浪漫主义文学是19世纪兴起的文学运动，强调个人情感和想象力的自由发挥。
它追求超越现实的理想世界，强调自然界的神秘与力量，强调个体的自由和情感表达。
浪漫主义文学的作品通常富有激情和幻想，描写自然景物和人物内心体验，表达对美、自由和爱情的向往和赞美。
3. 请简要说明英国文学中的文艺复兴时期对英国文学的影响。
英国文艺复兴时期是16世纪中期到17世纪中期，受到古典文化和意大利文艺复兴的启发。
这一时期的英国文学呈现了繁荣和创新的特点。
文艺复兴时期对英国文学的影响主要体现在以下几个方面：首先，文艺复兴时期重视人文主义思想，强调人的价值和尊严。
这一思想对英国文学的价值观和表现形式产生了积极影响，推动了诗歌、戏剧和散文的发展。
其次，文艺复兴时期涌现了一批杰出的作家和诗人，如莎士比亚、斯宾塞等，他们的作品影响深远，成为英国文学的经典之作。
最后，文艺复兴时期也开启了英国剧院的黄金时代，剧作在社会中得到了广泛的传播和欣赏，为英国戏剧的发展奠定了基础。
4. 请解释19世纪末20世纪初的现代主义文学特征。
现代主义文学是20世纪初期兴起的文学运动，与传统文学相比，它展现了与众不同的风格和观念。
现代主义文学的特征包括：第一，现代主义对传统文学的规范和传统结构进行了颠覆和挑战。
它采用了自由的书写方式，打破了传统故事线性发展的模式，采用不同的叙述角度和时间跳跃的手法。
第二，现代主义文学注重表现人类的内心活动和情感体验，强调主观意识和意识流的描写。
它关注人类的孤独、焦虑和存在的意义等主题。
第三，现代主义文学追求语言的创新和实验。
它尝试使用新的词汇和独特的句法结构，以突破传统语言表达的局限。
自考《外国文学作品选》2014年4月真题答案(主观题)
自考《外国文学作品选》2014年4月真题答案（主观题）简答题：36.简述拉伯雷的小说《巨人传》的现实内涵。
(1)小说通过对“巨人”父子的描写，歌颂人的自身力量，肯定人的欲望追求的合理性。
(2)小说揭露了教会统治下的黑暗现实，表现出鲜明的反教会倾向。
(3)对封建法律制度和司法机构的无情嘲讽。
(4)揭示了城市市民阶层的无聊、愚昧和保守落后等特征。
37.简析川端康成《伊豆的舞女》的艺术特色。
(1)小说用大量的细节描写来丰富人物形象和传递人物的心理与情感。
作者的笔触沿着情境和人物心理活动攀爬，任何一处细微的动向都能引发情感的震颤。
(2)小说中意象的使用深化了人物形象。
通过意象描写，作者将淡淡的哀伤委婉地传达出来，人物形象与自然意象产生了共鸣与融合，具有无穷的韵味。
(3)清澈婉转的语言有效地诠释了作品。
故事与情感都处在一种欲言又止、引而不发的境界，点到即止又回味悠长的语言刚好契合小说的叙事风格。
38.简述“多余人”形象。
(1)“多余人”是指19世纪俄国文学中一类进步贵族知识分子的典型。
(2)他们大都受过良好的教育，受到进步思想的影响，不愿与贵族社会同流合污。
(3)他们无法摆脱贵族传统的影响，缺乏生活目的而又无实际工作能力，最终一事无成；他们既不能站在政府一边，也不能站在人民一边，因而成为多余人。
(4)这类形象暴露了沙皇专制农奴制扼杀人才和人性，指出了责族知识分子脱离人民的通病及其后果。
39.《头儿》是一部荒诞派戏剧，其“荒诞性”主要体现在哪些方面？作品通过荒诞的情节、荒诞的语言表现了现代社会荒诞的现实。
(1)表现了现代人失去“自我”的可悲情景，剧中的每个人都是没有头的人，只是盲目地追逐着一个没有头的“头儿”。
(2)作品揭示了现代社会中人与人之间关系的荒诞与隔膜。
(3)作品也揭示了“头儿”本身存在的荒诞性。
这个受到追捧，被人高呼“万岁”的大人物是个没有头的“头儿”。
论述题：40.结合海明威《老人与海》中象征意象的使用，谈谈这部作品的主题内涵。
高等教育自学考试英美文学选读试题及答案
课程代码：0604请将答案填在答题纸相应的位置上(全部题目用英文作答)I. Multiple Choice(40 points in all, 1 for each)Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question orcompletes the statement and write the corresponding letter on the answer sheet.1. In Renaissance, the European humanist thinkers and scholars made attempts to dothe following EXCEPT ______.A. getting rid of those old feudalist ideasB. getting control of the parliament and governmentC. introducing new ideas that expressed the interests of the rising bourgeoisieD. recovering the purity of the early church, from the corruption of the RomanCatholic Church2. The Petrarchan sonnet was first introduced into England by ______.A. SurreyB. WyattC. SidneyD. Shakespeare3. As the best of Shakespeare's final romances,______ is a typical example of hispessimistic view towards human life and society in his late years.A. The TempestB. The Winter's TaleC. CymbelineD. The Rape of Lucrece4. John Milton's greatest poetical work ______ is the only generally acknowledgedepic in English literarure since Beowulf.A.AreopagiticaB. Paradise LostC. LycidasD. Samson Agonistes5. The British bourgeois or middle class believed in the following notions EXCEPT______.A. self - esteemB. self - relianceC. self - restraintD. hard work6. “Graveyard School〞writers are the following sentimentalists EXCEPT______.A. James ThomsonB. William CollinsC. William CowperD. Thomas Jackson7. The best model of satire in the whole English literary history is Jonathan Swift's______.A. A Modest ProposalB. A Tale of a TubC. Gulliver's TravelsD. The Battle of the Books8. As a representative of the Enlightenment,______ was one of the first to introducerationalism to England.A. John BunyanB. Daniel DefoeC. Alexander PopeD. Jonathan Swift9. For his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel,______has been regarded by some as “Father of the English Novel〞.A. Daniel DefoeB. Henry FieldingC. Jonathan SwiftD. Samuel Richardson10. Which of the following descriptions of Gothic Novels is NOT correctA. It predominated in the early eighteenth century.B. It was one phase of the Romantic movement.C. Its principal elements are violence, horror and the supernatural.D. Works like The Mysteries of Udolpho and Frankenstein are typical Gothic romance.11. “Byronic hero〞is a figure of the following traits EXCEPT ______.A.being proudB. being of humble originC.being rebelliousD. being mysterious12. Robert Browning created ______ by adopting the novelistic presentation ofcharacters.A. the verse novelB. the blank verseC. the heroic coupletD. the dramatic poetry13. Charles Dickens' novel ______ is famous for its vivid descriptions of theworkhouse and life of the underworld in the nineteenth- century London.A. The Pickwick PaperB. Oliver TwistC. David CopperfieldD. Nicholas Nickleby14. Charlotte Bronte's works are all about the struggle of an individualconsciousness towards ______, about some lonely and neglected young women witha fierce longing for love, understanding and a full, happy life.A. self - relianceB. self - realizationC. self - esteemD. self - consciousness15. The symbolic meaning of “Book〞 in Robert Browning's long poem The Ring and theBook is ______.A. the common senseB. the hard truthC. the comprehensive knowledgeD. the dead truth16. Thomas Hardy's pessimistic view of life predominated most of his later worksand earns him a reputation as a ______ writer.A. realisticB. naturalisticC. romanticD. stylistic17. After the First World War, there appeared the following literary trends ofmodernism EXCEPT ______.A. expressionismB. surrealismC. stream of consciousnessD. black humour18. The masterpieces of critical realism in the early 20th century are the threetrilogies of ______.A. Galsworthy's Forsyte novelsB. Hardy' s Wessex novelsC. Greene's Catholic novelsD. Woolf's stream-of-consciousness novels19. In the mid - 1950s and early 1960s, there appeared “______〞 who demonstrateda particular disillusion over the depressing situation in Britain and launcheda bitter protest. against the outmoded social and political values in theirsociety.A. The Beat GenerationB. The Lost GenerationC. The Angry Young MenD. Black Mountain Poets20.The following are English stream-of-consciousness novels EXCEPT ______.A.PilgrimageB. UlyssesC.Mrs.DallowayD. A Passage to Inida21. The leader of the Irish National Theater Movement in the early 20th centurywas ______.A. W.B.Yeats B. Lady GregoryC. J.M.SyngeD. John Galworthy22. T.S.Eliot's most popular verse play is ______.A. Murder in the CathedralB. The Cocktail PartyC. The Family ReunionD. The Waste Land23. The American writer ______ was awarded the Nobel Prize for the anti-racist In-truder in the Dust in 1950.A. Ernest HemingwayB. Gertrude SteinC. William FaulknerD.T.S. Eliot24. Hemingway's second big success is ______ , which wrote the epitaph to a decadeand to the whole generation in the 1920s, in order to tell us a story about the tragic love affair of a wounded American soldier with a British nurse.A. For Whom the Bell TollsB. A Farewell to ArmsC. The Sun Also RisesD. The Old Man and the Sea25. With the publication of ______ , Dreiser was launching himself upon a long careerthat would ultimately make him one of the most significant American writers of the school later known as literary naturalism.A. Sister CarrieB. The TitanC. The GeniusD. The Stoic26. Henry James is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th -century “stream-of-consciousness〞novels and the founder of ______.A. neoclassicismB. psychological realismC. psychoanalytical criticismD. surrealism27. In 1849, Herman Melville published ______ ,a semi-autobiographical novel, con-cerning the sufferings of a genteel youth among brutal sailors.A. OmooB. MardiC. RedburnD. Typee28. As a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,______ marks the climax of Mark Twain'sliterary activity.A. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnB. Life on the MississippiC. The Gilded AgeD. Roughing It29. Realism was a reaction against ______ or a move away from the bias towards romanceand self- creating fictions, and paved the way to Modernism.A. RomanticismB. RationalismC. Post-modernismD. Cynicism30. When World War II broke out,______ began working for the Italian government,engaged in some radio broadcasts of anti- Semitism and pro- Fascism.A. Ezra PoundB.T.S. EliotC. Henry JamesD. Robert Frost31. In 1915 ______ became a naturalized British citizen, largely in protest againstAmerica's failure to join England in the First World War.C. W.D.Howells D. Ezra Pound32. What Whitman prefers for his new subject and new poetic feelings is “______ ,〞 that is, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.A. blank verseB. free rhythmC. balanced structureD. free verse33. The American woman poet ______ wanted to live simply as a complete independentbeing, and so she did, as a spinster.A. Emily ShawB. Anna DickinsonC. Emily DickinsonD. Anne Bret34. The Birthmark drives home symbolically ______ point that evil is a man's birthmark,something he was born with.A. Whitman'sB. Melville'sC. Hawthorne'sD. Emerson's35. The Financier ,The Titan and The Stoic written by ______ are called his “Trilogyof Desire〞.A. Henry JamesB. Theodore DreiserC. Mark TwainD. Herman Melville36. Disregarding grammar and punctuation,______ always used “i〞 instead of “I〞in his poems to show his protest against self-importance.A. Wallace StevensB. Ezra Pound37. Though Robert Frost is generally considered a regional poet whose subject mattersmainly focus on the landscape and people in ______ , he wrote many poems that investigate the basic themes of man's life in his long poetic career.A. the westB. the southC. New EnglandD. Alaska38. Most critics have agreed that Fitzgerald is both an insider and an outsider of______ with a double vision.A. the Gilded AgeB. the Rational AgeC. the Jazz AgeD. the Magic Age39. In the American Romantic writings,______ came to function almost as a dramaticcharacter that symbolized moral law.A. fireB. waterC. treesD. wilderness40. The desire for an escape from society and a return to ______ became a permanentconvention of the American literature.A. the family lifeB. natureC. the ancient timeD. fantasy of loveII. Reading Comprehension (16 points in all, 4 for each)Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.41. Wherefore feed and clothe and saveFrom the cradle to the graveThose ungrateful drones who wouldDrain your sweat- nay, drink your bloodQuestions:A. Identify the poet and the title of the poem from which the stanza is taken.B. What figure of speech is used in Line 2C. Whom does “drones〞 refer to42. The following quotation is from one of the poems by T. S. Eliot:No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;Am an attendant lord, one that will doTo swell a progress, start a scene or twoAdvise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool,Deferential, glad to be of use,Politic, cautious, and meticulous,Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse;Questions:A. Identify the title of the poem from which the quoted part is taken.B. Who's the speaker of the quoted linesC. What does the first line show about the speaker43．There was a child went forth every day,And the first object he look'd upon, that object he became,And that object became part of him for the day or a certain part of the day, Or for many years or stretching cycles of years.Questions:A. Identify the poet.B.From which poem and which collection of the poet are these lines takenC.What does the poet describe in the poem44. I heard a Fly buzz- when I died-The Stillness in the RoomWas like the Stillness in the Air-Between the Heaves of Storm-The Eyes around- had wrung them dry-And Breaths were gathering firmFor that last Onset- when the KingBe witnessed - in the Room-Questions:A. Identify the poet.B. What does “the King〞 refer toC. What moment is the poem trying to describeIII. Questions and Answers (24 points in all, 6 for each)Give brief answers to each of the following questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.45. List at least two leading neoclassicists in England. What did Neoclassicistscelebrate in literary creation46. Jane Eyre is one of the most popular and important novels of the Victorian Age.Why is Jane Eyre such a successful novel47. Who are the three dominant figures of the American Age of Realism and what arethe differences in their understanding of the “truth〞48. What's Dreiser' s naturalistic belief Please discuss the question with Carrie,a character in Sister Carrie as an example.IV. Topic Discussion(20 points in all, 10 for each)Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in thecorresponding space on the answer sheet.49. Briefly discuss William Shakespeare's artistic achievements in characterization,plot construction and language.50. Briefly discuss Mark Twain's art of fiction in terms of the setting,the language,and the characters, etc.,based on his novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.全国高等教育自学考试英美文学选读真题答案及评分参考〔课程代码0604〕I. Multiple Choice (40 points in all, 1 for each)1. B2. B3. A4. B5.A6.D7.A8.C9.B 10.A 11.B 12.A13.B 14.B 15.B 16.B 17.D 18.A 19.C 20.D 21.A 22.A 23.C24.B 25.A 26.C 27.C 28.A 29.A 30.A 31.A 32.D 33.C 34.C35.B 36.D 37.C 38.C 39.D 40.BII. Reading Comprehension (16 points in all, 4 for each)41. A. From Percy Shelley’s “Men of England〞(1)B. Metonymy (1)C. Here “drones〞refers to the parasitic class in human society. (2)42. A. “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock〞(1)B. J. Alfred Prufrock (1)C. Prufrock is conscious of the fact that he is like Hamlet in some respects. But he is sensibleenough that he cannot be compared with Hamlete. (2)43. A. Walt Whitman (1)B. “There Was a Child Went Forth〞from “Leaves of Grass〞(1)C. The poem describes the growth of a child who learned about the world around him andimproved himself accordingly. In the poem, Whitman’s own early ex perience may well be identified with the childhood of a young, growing American. (2)44. A. Emily Dickinson (1)B. The God of Death. (1)C. The poem is trying to describe the moment of death. (2)III. Questions and Answers (24 points in all, 6 for each)45. A. Alexander Pope, John Dryden, Samuel Johnson (任选2位作家). (2)B. They believed that the artistic ideals should be order, logic, restrained emotion andaccuracy and that literature should be judged in terms of its service to humanity. (2) They seek proportion, unity, harmony and grace in literacy expression, in an effort to delight,instruct and correct human beings. Thus a polite, elegant, witty and intellectual artdeveloped. (2)46. A. It is noted for its sharp criticism of the existing society. (2)B. It is an intense moral fable. (2)C. The success of the novel is also due to its introduction to the English novel the firstgoverness heroine. (2)47. A. William Dean Howells, Mark Twain, Henry James. (3)B. Mark Twain and Howells seemed to have paid more attention to the “life〞of theAmericans. Howells focused his discussion on the rising middle class and the way theylived; Mark Twain preferred to have his own region and people at the forefront of his stories;Henry James had apparently laid a greater emphasis on the “inner world〞of man. (3)48. A. Dreiser believes that while men are controlled and conditioned by heredity, instinct andchance, a few extraordinary and unsophisticated human beings refuse to accept their fatewordlessly and instead strive, unsuccessfully, to find meaning and purpose for theirexistence. (3)B. Carrie, as one of such, senses that she is merely a cipher in an uncaring world yet seeks tograsp the mysteries of life and thereby satisfies her desires for social status and materialcomfort, but in spite of her success, she is lonely and dissatisfied. (3)以上各题言语错误酌情扣分。
2014年4月外国文学作品选自考真题及答案解析
B.繁盛的大自然
C.强烈的自我意识
D.崇高的爱国精神
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19世纪法国批判现实主义文学的奠基人是______
A.巴尔扎克
B.梅里美
C.福楼拜
D.司汤达
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在《高老头》中，受到巴黎腐化风气污染、最终抛弃良心变成野心家的青年人是______
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在《安娜·卡列尼娜》中，被称为“托尔斯泰式主人公”的人物是______
A.安德烈
B.彼埃尔
C.列文
D.安娜·卡列尼娜
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乔伊斯模仿古希腊史诗《奥德赛》的结构创作的长篇意识流小说是______
A.《青年艺术家的画像》
B.《都柏林人》
A.迦梨陀娑
B.萨迪
C.桑戈尔
D.纪伯伦
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“噫，连在静默地忆想上帝之时，你们也要合一。不过在你们合一之中，要有间隙。让天风在你们中间舞荡。”这段关于在婚姻关系中要保持相对独立性的看法，出自______
A.包赛昂
B.拉斯蒂涅
C.毕安训
D.伏脱冷
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狄更斯以法国大革命为背景，表现人道主义思想的历史小说是______
A.《艰难时事》
B.《双城记》
C.《小杜丽》
D.《荒凉山庄》
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2016年4月全国自考(英美文学选读)真题试卷(题后含答案及解析)
2016年4月全国自考（英美文学选读）真题试卷(题后含答案及解析) 题型有：1. 单项选择题 2. 阅读理解 3. 简答题 4. 论述题单项选择题1．The tragic sense turns into despair in Thomas Hardy’s______, where the protagonists have to kill their own will and passion and return to their former destructive way of life.A．The Return of the NativeB．The Mayor of CasterbridgeC．Tess of D’ UrbervillesD．Jude the Obscure正确答案：D解析：托马斯-哈代是英国著名的诗人、小说家，《无名的裘德》是他最优秀的作品之一。
小说以悲怆的笔调叙述了男主人公裘德和女主人公淑反抗世俗道德和僵化的宗教，但付出高昂而又惨痛的代价却也终难如愿的悲剧故事。
2．William Shakespeare wrote______history plays in the first period of his dramatic career.A．3B．4C．5D．6正确答案：C解析：威廉-莎士比亚是英国文学史上最杰出的剧作家和诗人，也是西方乃至全世界最卓越的文学家之一。
他的戏剧创作生涯可以分为四个阶段，在第一阶段他创作了五部历史剧和四部喜剧故事。
3．Paradise Lost is a masterpiece by______.A．Christopher MarlowB．John MiltonC．William ShakespeareD．Ben Johnson正确答案：B解析：约翰-弥尔顿是英国文学史上最伟大的诗人之一。
他最著名的作品是以圣经故事为题材的长篇诗作《失乐园》《复乐园》《力士参孙》。
全国2014年4月高等教育自学考试89605
全国2014年4月高等教育自学考试英美文学选读试题课程代码：00604I. 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 the answer sheet。
1。
Shakespeare has established his giant position in world literature with his ______ plays, 154 sonnets and 2 long poems。
A. 27B. 38C. 47 D。
522. john Milton's literary achievement can be divided into three groups：the early poetic works，the middle prose pamphlets and the last ______.A. romances B。
dramas C. great poems D. ballads3. The novels of ______ are the first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower— class people。
A. John Milton B。
Daniel DefoeC。
Henry Fielding D。
Jonathan Swift4. The work ranked by many critics as William Wordswoth's greatest work was ______。
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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. Mark your choice by blackening the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the answer sheet.1. Shakespeare has established his giant position in world literature with his ______ plays, 154 sonnets and 2 long poems.A. 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 ______.A. romancesB. dramasC. great poemsD. ballads3. The novels of ______ are the first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower—class people.A. John MiltonB. Daniel DefoeC. Henry FieldingD. Jonathan Swift4. The work ranked by many critics as William Wordswoth’s greatest work was ______.A. Lyrical BalladsB. The PreludeC. Poems in Two VolumesD. The Excursion5. The author of The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling is ______.A. 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.A. Charlotte BronteB. D.H. LawrenceC. Thomas HardyD. Jane Austen7. All of the following writings are created by William Wordsworth EXCEPT ______.A. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud. ”B. “Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Septemer 3, 1802. ”C. “The Solitary Reaper. ”D. “The Chimney Sweeper. ”8. The most important representative work by Jonathan Swift is ______.A. 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 ______.A. “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.A. Pride and PrejudiceB. Sense and SensibilityC. EmmaD. Persuasion11. Charles Dickens is one of the greatest ______ writers of the Victorian Age.A. romanticB. modernistC. socialistD. critical realist12. Charlotte Bronte' s most autobiographical work, ______ is largely based on her experience in Brussels.A. 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.A. 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.A. 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 the 20th-century English poetry.A. The Hollow MenB. The Waste LandC. Prurrock and Other ObservationsD. Poems 1909-2516. D. wrence’s autobiographical novel, ______ shows the conflict between the earthy, coarse, energetic but often drunken father and the refined, strong —willed and up —climbing mother.A. 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 ______.A. King LearB. RomeoC. AntonioD. Hamlet18. John Milton’s last important work, ______ is the most powerful dramatic poem on the Greek model.A. Paradise LostB. Paradise RegainedC. Samson AgonistesD. Lydidas19. The author of Moll Flanders and Captain Singleton is ______.A. John MiltonB. Daniel DefoeC. Henry FieldingD. Jonathan Swift20. Drapier is the pseudonym of ______.A. 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 of affairs and keep the innocent in prison for life.A. Bleak HouseB. Little DorritC. Hard TimesD. A Tale of Two Cities22. In the second part of Gulliver's Travels, Gulliver told his experience in ______.A. BrobdingnagB. LilliputC. Flying IslandD. Houyhnhnm23. Faulkner used the narrative techniques to construct his stories, which include ______ and mythological and biblical allusions.A. 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.A. 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.A. 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 American financial tycoons in the late 19th century in his work ______.A. 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.A. imagesB. metaphorC. symbolsD. personification28. In his later works, Melville becomes more reconciled with the ______, in which he admits, one must live by rules.A. womenB. world of manC. familyD. politicians29. Walt Whitman' s ______ has always been considered a monumental work which commands great attention in America.A. The Pilgrim’s ProgressB. Leaves of GrassC. A Passage to IndiaD. Rip Van Winkle30. Mark Twain’s full literary career began to blossom in 1869 with a travel book ______, an account of American tourists in Europe.A. 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.A. 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.A. immortalityB. wealthC. powerD. politics33. In Sister Carrie Theodore Dreiser expressed his ______ pursuit by expounding the purposelessness of life and attacking the conventional moral standards.A. romanticB. realisticC. naturalisticD. modernistic34. Profound ideas in Robert Frost's poems are delivered under the disguise of ______.A. the plain language and the simple formB. the vivid descriptionsC. metaphorsD. the complicated narration35. In ______ Hemingway presents his philosophy about life and death through the depiction of the bullfight as a kind of microcosmic tragedy.A. The Green Hills of AfricaB. Death in the AfternoonC. The Snows of KilimanjaroD. To Have and Have Not36 Of Faulkner’s literary works, four novels are masterpieces by any standards: The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, Absalom, Absalom ! and ______.A. 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 of creating a new nation.A. 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 ______.A. 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.A. “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.A. The AmbassadorsB. Daisy MillerC. The AmericanD. The Portrait of A Lady非选择题部分注意事项：用黑色字迹的签字笔或钢笔将答案写在答题纸上，不能答在试题卷上。