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聊城大学《英美文学史》期末复习题及参考答案

《英美文学史》练习题I.Multiple Choices: Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement and put the letter in the brackets. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the ANSWER SHEET.1.The white whale, Moby Dick, symbolizes _______ for Melville, for it is complex, unfathomable, malignant, and beautiful as well.A.SocietyB. natureC. ocean animalsD. human being2.After the American Civil War, the literary interest in the so-called "reality" of life started a new period in the American literary writings know an the Age of ________ .A. Realism B . Reason and Revolution C . RomanticismD. Enlightenment3.The ______ A ge of the 1920s characterized by frivolity and carelessness is brought vividly to life in The Great Gatsby.A. Lost B . Jazz C . ReasonD . Gilded4.Eugene O'Neill is regarded as the founder of American _______ .A. poetryB. dramaC. fictionD. literature5.As a literary figure, Shylock appears in _______ .A. Jane EyreB. The Merchant of VeniceC. Withering HeightD. Middlemarch6.The ______ A ge of the 1920s characterized by frivolity and carelessness is brought vividly to life in The Great Gatsby.A. LostB. JazzC. Reason D . Gilded7.Contrary to the traditional romance of aristocrats, the modern English novel gives a realistic presentation of life of _______ .A. the common English peopleB. the upper classC. nobility and the landed gentryD.the enterprising landlords8.In William Faulkner's writings, the modem _____ technique was frequently and skillfully used to emphasize the reactions and inner musings of the narrator.A. archetypalB. deconstructionistC. stream-of-consciousnessD. structuralist9.Edgar Allan Poe put forward the following literary ideas EXCEPT _______ .A.Poems should be as long as Homer's epics.B.Melancholy is thus the most legitimate of all the poetic tones.C.He stressed the principle of concenlration and thematic totality.D.Poems should be short enough so that it can be read at one sitting.10.Mark Twain wrote the following novels EXCEPT ______ .A. Jumping FrogB. Life on the MississippiC. The Wings of DoveD. The Adventures of Tom SawyerII. Match the writers and works under the two columns, and put the letter of the work in the bracket before the author's name. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the III. Explain the following terms. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the ANSWER SHEET.1. Alliteration2. Hemingway Code Hero3. American Drcam4. Black HumorIV. Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the ANSWER SHEET.1.ANSWER SHEET.( )1. James Joyce()2. Harriet Bccchcr Stowe( )3. Emily Dickinson()4. William FaulknerFoundling()5. Charles DickensHuckleberry Finn()6. Henry Fielding( )7. Ernest Hemingway()8. John Keats()9. Alfred, Lord Tennyson ()10. Mark Twaina. The Sound and the Furyb. The Old Mem and the Seac. Ode to a Nightingaled. The History of Tome Jones, ae. The Adventures off. Break, Break, Breakg. Uncle Tom 's Cabinh. Dublinersi. A Tale of Two Citiesj. Because I could not stop for Death()11. Percy Bysshe Shelley ()12.T. S. Eliot ()13. O. Henry ()14. Kale Chopin ()15. Robert Frost ()16. Jonathan Swift ()17. Virginia Woolf ()18. John Milton ()19. Charlotte Bronte ()20. D. H. Lawrencea. The Road Not Takenb. Gulliver s Travelsc. Paradise Lostd. Jane Eyree. Sons and Loversf Mrs Dallowayg. The Waste Landh. The Cop and the Anthemi. The A wakeningj. Ode to the West WindQuotation: "'My boy!' said the old gentleman, leaning over the desk. Oliver startled at the sound. He might be excused for doing so, for the words were kindly said, and strange sounds frighten one. He trembled violently and burst into tears.” (Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist) Questions: Explain why the boy (Oliver Twist) started first, then trembled violently and burst into tears when th e words were “kindly" said.2.T 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:(1)Identify the poem and the poet.(2)What does the phrase "ages and ages hence,, mean?(3)What idea does the quoted passage express?V.Answer the following question: How should we learn literature, Or what shall we do whenwe learn? Write your answers in the corresponding space on the ANSWER SHEET.《英美文学史》练习题答题纸I.Multiple Choices: Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement and put the letter in the brackets.Write your answers in the corresponding space on the ANSWER SHEET.1 -5: _________________ 6-10: __________________________II.Match the writers and works under the two columns, and put the letter of the work in the bracket before the author's name. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the ANSWER SHEET. (2* x 10= 20')I.( ) 2, ( ) 3.( )4.( ) 5.( ) 6.( ) 7,( ) 8. ( ) 9. ( ) 10.()II.( ) 12.( ) 13,( ) 14,( ) 15.( ) 16.( ) 17.( ) 18.( ) 19.( ) 20.()III.Define the literary terms listed below. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the ANSWER SHEET.1. Alliteration2.Hemingway Code Hero3.American Dream4.Black HumorIV.Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the ANSWER SHEET.V.Answer the following question: How should we learn literature, Or what shall we do when we learn? Write your answers in the corresponding space on the ANSWER SHEET.《英美文学史》练习题答案I.Multiple Choices: Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement and put the letter in the brackets.参考答案:1-5 ： BABB B 6-10: B AC ACII.Match the writers and works under the two columns, and put the letter of the work in the bracket before the author's name.参考答案：L(h) 2.(g)3.(j) 4.(a) 5・(i) 6.(d) 7.(b) 8.(c) 9.(f) 10.(e)11.(j) 12. (g) 13. (h) 14. (i) 15.(a) 16. (b) 17.(f) 18.(c) 19. (d) 20. ( e )III.Define the literary terms listed below.参考答案Alliteration: alliteration means a repetition of the initial sounds of several words in a line or group. Alliteration is a traditional poetic device in English literature. Robert Frost's "'Acquainted with the Night,, is a case in point: T have stood still and stopped the sound of feet".1.Hemingway Code Hero: Hemingway Code Hero, also called code hero, is one who, wounded but strong more sensitive, enjoys the pleasures of life (sex, alcohol, sport) in face of ruin and death, and maintains, through some notion of a code, an ideal of himself. Barnes in the Sun also Rises, Henry in a Farewell to Arms and Santiago in the Old Man and the Sea are typical of Hemingway Code Hero.2.American Dream: American dream means the belief that everyone can succeed as long ashe/she works hard enough. It usually implies a successful and satisfying life. It usually framed in.............................密...............封......................................... 线terms of American capitalism, its associated purported meritocracy, and the freedoms guaranteed bythe U.S. Bill of Rights.3.Black Humor: the use of morbid and the absurd for darkly comic purposes in modem fiction and drama. The term refers as much to the tone of anger and bitterness as it does to the grotesque andmorbid situations, which often deal with suffering, anxiety, and death. Black humor is a substantial element in the Anti-novel and the Theatre of Absurd. Joseph Heller's Catch-22 is an almostarchetypal example.IV.Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answersin the corresponding space on the answer sheet.参考答案:1. The boy startled at the words because kind words were not expected; it is (was, must be) thefirst time in all his life that the boy (Oliver Twist) had ever been "kindly" greeted; strange soundsmay predict another suffering/ misfortune/ torture/...) (At least one example from the text isexpected to back up the above statement)2.(1)Robert Frost: "The Road Not Taken”.(2)Many many years later.(3)The speaker is telling his experience of making the choice of the roads. But he is conscious ofthe fact that his choice will have made all the difference in his life. He seems to be giving asuggestion to the reader. u make good choice of your life."V.Answer the following question: How should we learn literature, Or what aspects shall we learn about literature? Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.参考答案Learn about the the social and political context for each period;(1)Learn about the major literary schools and their distinguishing characteristics;(2)Representative authors of each period and their major works;(3)When wc study a specific literary text, pay attention to: Contcnt-thc idea the writer wants to express through the work; meaning; fonn-diction, figures of speech, as well as larger elements, such as plot, theme, lone, characterization, narrative technique etc;(4)Be an active reader; read , think and write sth. on an author or work you are interested in..............................密...............封 ......................................... 线(5)Some knowledge of history, philosophy, psychology, aesthetics and other disciplines can help learn literature better.。

英美文学知到章节答案智慧树2023年山东第一医科大学

英美文学知到章节测试答案智慧树2023年最新山东第一医科大学第一章测试1.The spirit of Renaissance is ultimately expressed by the intellectualmovement called （）.参考答案:humanism2.The word “Renaissance” means （）.参考答案:revival3.（） is not among the four great tragedies created by William Shakespeare.参考答案:The Merchant of Venice4.The Hamlet is the best work of William Shakespeare. （）参考答案:错5.Hamlet is a typical conservative prince. （）参考答案:错1.（）Satan is the most well-developed character in Paradise Lost参考答案:Satan2.Paradise Lost is a long epic in （） books.参考答案:123.Paradise Lost is an orthodox poem. （）参考答案:错4.Paradise Lost is widely regarded as the greatest epic poem in English.（）参考答案:对5.（） gains entrance into the Garden of Eden, where he finds Adam and Eveand becomes jealous of them.参考答案:Satan1.Shelley recognized （）as “the most perfect of my products.”参考答案:Prometheus Unbound2.The writing of Prometheus Unbound was inspired by （）’s PrometheusBound.参考答案:Aeschylus3.Percy Bysshe Shelley was in Italy when he heard the news of the PeterlooMassacre. He immediately responded by writing The Mask of Anarchy. （）参考答案:对4.Shelley, Byron and Keats are regarded as the three great poets of therevolutionary romanticism in England. （）参考答案:对5.Prometheus Unbound is a five-act lyrical drama, a closet drama. （）参考答案:错1.Victorian Period is the Age of prosperity and progress. It is the richest andmost powerful age of Britain. During this period British society had become the 1st urban and industrial one in the world. （）参考答案:对2.Who coined the expression “survival of the fittest”?（）。

英美文学选读真题和答案 (1)

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.。

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Closely related to Emily Dickinson ' s religious poetry are her poems concerning ________________A. ChildhoodB.youth and happinessC. lonelinessD. death and immortality8. Among the works of Dreiser, the bet known to the Chinese readers is _______________ .A. An American TragedyB. Sister CarrieC. Th FinancierD. The Titan9. Robert Frost ' s works mainly focus on the landscape and people in ___________________ .A. the WestB. American SouthC. New EnglandD. Mississippi10. Most of the plays Eugene O l w 'roNt e ilare ______________________ .A. comediesB. . romancesC. historical plays D tragedies11. Scott Fitzgerald is often acclaimed literary spokesman of the ____________________ .A. modern timeB. young AmericansC. Jazz AgeD. Guilded Age12. ____________________________ is Hemingway ' smasterpiece, which is about the old fishermanSantiago and his losing battle with a giant marlin.A. Farewell to ArmsB. For whom the Bell TollsC. The Sun Also RisesD. The Old Man and The Sea13. As a great fiction writer, William Faulker devotes most of his works to the description of the life and the people in the _______________________________ .A. American WestB. New England in AmericaC. American SouthD. American North14. When he was young, Benjamin Franklin became an apprentice in a ________________ .A. printing houseB. storeC. Tailor ' s shopD. factory15. Ralph Emerson was born in a family of a ___________________ .A. merchantB. businessmanC. clergymanD. writer16. Ellen Poe began his literary career by writing _________________ ;A. short storiesB. playsC. essaysD. poems17. According to Nathaniel Hawthorne, there is ________ in every hearer, which may remain latent, perhaps,英美文学》练习测试题库及答案本科through the whole life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.A. evilB. virtueC. kindn essD. tragedy18. Whitman is radically innovative in term of form of his poetry. What he prefers for his new subjects and new feeli ngs is ____________ .A. bla nk verseB. free verseC. heroic coupletD. sonnet19. Mark Twain shaped the world ' s view of America and made a comb in ati on of serious literature and _______A. America n folk humorB. En glish folkloreC. America n traditi onal valuesD. funny jokes20. Altogether, Emily Dick inson wrote ____ poems, of which only sever n had appeared duri ng her lifetime.A. 1145B. 1775C. 897D. 78521. Theodore Dreiser is gen erally ack no wledged as one of America' s literaryA. realistsB. n aturalistsC. roma ntistsD. modernists 22. In Frost ' s poems, images and metaphors in his poems are drawn from ___________________A. the simple country lifeB. the urba n lifeC. the life on the seaD. the adve ntures and trips23. Scott Fitzgerald never spared an intimate touch in his fiction to deal with the bankruptcy of the24. Eugene O ' Neill is regarded as the founder of American _____________________ .A. poetryB. dramaC. ficti onD. literature25. _________________ is Hemingway ' s masterpiece, which tellsa story about the tragic love of a woundecAmerican soldier with a British nurse.C. For Whom the Bell Tolls 26. William Faulk ner was born ina family of a ______________________ .A. mercha ntB. colonelC. man agerD. doctor27. In his essays, ______ p ut forward his philosophy of the over soul, the importa nt of the In dividual and Nature.A. Natha niel HawthorneB. Washi ngton IrvingC. Mark Twai nD. Ralph Waldo Emers on28. The chief spokesma n of New En gla nd Transcenden talism is _______A. Natha niel HawthorneB. Ralph Waldo Emers onC. Henry David ThoreauD. Wash ington Irvi ng29. _____ l iterary world turns out to be a most disturbed, tormented and problematical one, which has much to do with his black” vision of life and human beings.A. Herma n Melville'sB. Washi ngton Irvi ng'sC. Nathaniel Hawthorne'sD. Walt Whitman s30. Most of the poems in ____ sing of the en-masse and the self as well.A. Leaves of GrassB. Drum TapsC. North of Bost onD. The Can tos31. In ____ , Whitma n airs his sorrow at Preside nt Lin colnsdeath.A. Cavalry Crossing a FordB. A Pact ”C. When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom 'dD. There was a Child Went Forth ”A. America n DreamB. ruli ng classes B. America n Capitalists D.America n bourgeoisieA. A Farewell to ArmsB. The Sun Also RisesD. In Our Time32.In ___ , Whitman's own early experience may well be identified with the childhood of a young growingAmerica.A. “A Pact”B. “Song of Myself ”C. “There was a Child Went Forth”D. “Cavalry Crossing a Ford”33.In _____ , Hawthorne sets out to prove that everyone possesses some evil secret.A. “The Custom-House”B. “Young Goodman Brown”C. “Rappaccini's Daughter”D. “The Birthmark"34. _____ is called by Hemingway the one from which“all modern American literature c omes”.A. The adventures of Huckleberry FinnB. The Adventures of Tom aSwyerC. The Gilded AgeD. Life on the Mississippi35. Theodore Dreiser's forgiving treatment of the career of his heroine in ____ also draws heavily upon thenaturalistic understanding of sexuality.A McTeague B. An American Tragedy C. Sister Carri e D. The Genius36. _____ is a great giant of American, whom H.L.Mencken considers “the true father of our nationalliterature.”A. Henry JamesB. Washington IrvingC. Mark TwainD. Theodore Dreiser37. _____ is usually regarded as a classic book written for boys about their particular horrors and joys.A. The Adventures of Tom SawyerB. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnC. Innocents AbroadD. Life on the Mississippi38. _____ is described by Mark Twain as a boy with“a sound heart and a deformed conscienc”e.A. Tom SawyerB. Huckleberry FinnC. JimD.Tony39. _______ is considered to be Theodore Dreise'sr greatest work.A. An American TragedyB. Sister CarrieC. The FinancierD. The Titan40. The leading playwright of the modern period in American literature, if not the most successful in all hisexperiments, is ______A. Arthur MillerB. Tennessee WilliamC. George Bernard ShawD. Eugene O'Neil41. The well- known soliloquy by Hamlet “ T o be , or not to be ' shows hisA. hatred for his uncleB. love for lifeC. resolution of revengeD. inner- strife42. _______ is a play that concerns the problem of modern ma'sn identity.A. The Hairy ApeB. Long Day's Journey Into NightC. The Iceman ComethD. The Emperor Jones43.In a tragic sense, ______ is a representation of life as a struggle against unconquerable forces in whichonly a partial victory is possible.A. For Whom the Bell TollsB. In Our TimeC. The Old Man and the SeaD. A Farewell to Arms44. Faulkner once said that _________ is a story of “ lost innocence,'which proves itself to be andintensification of the theme of imprisonment in the past.A. The Sound and the FuryB. Light in AugustC. Go Down, MosesD. Absalom, Absalom! 45.In A Rose for Emily, Faulkner makes best use of the __________________________ devices in narration.A. RomanticB. RealisticC. GothicD. Modernist46. _____ is Hemingway's first true novel in which he depictsa vivid portrait of “The lost Generation.”A. The Sun Also RisesB. A Farewell to ArmsC. In Our TimeD. For Whom the Bell Tolls47. The only dramatist ever to win a Nobel Prize was _________ .A. Bernard ShawB. Eugene O'NeilC. Richard Brinsley SheridanD. William Shakespeare48. __________________________ By means of “free verse,” believes that he has turned the poem into anopen field, an area of vitalpossibility where the reader can allow his own imagination to play.A. Emily DickinsonB. Walt WhitmanC. Robert FrostD. Ezra Pound49. An eccentric woman who refuses to accept the passageoftime, or the inevitable change and loss thataccompanies it may probably refer to ______ .A. Irene in The Man of PropertyB. Emily in A Rose for EmilyC. Catherine in Wuthering HeightsD. the widow Douglas in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn50. One source of evil that Nathaniel Hawthorne is concerned most is overreaching intellect. Which of the following stories is one of this kind?A. Rappaccini's DaughterB. Young Goodman BrownC. The Minister's Black VeilD. The Birthmark51. “In your rocking-chair, by your window, shall you dream such happiness as you may never feel. ”This is the last sentence of __________ .A. Sister CarrieB. An American TragedyC. The GeniusD. Jane Eyre 52.In Walt Whitman's “There was a Child Went Forth”, the child refers to _________________________________________ .A. the poet himself as a childB. any American childC. the young AmericaD. one of the poet's neighbor53. The ______ techniques are used in some of Eugene O'Neil 's plays to highlight the theatrical effect of therupture between the two sides of an individual human being, the private and the public.A. naturalisticB. expressionisticC. stream-of-consciousnessD. metaphysical54. Which of the following is true as far as Emily Dickinson 's poetry is concerned? A. She seldom uses dashes.B. All her poems are about death or immorality.C. Her poems are very personal and meditativeD. Her poems usually have well-chosen titles. 55.In his poems, Whitman tends to use ___________________ .A. oral EnglishB. the King 's EnglishC. American EnglishD. old English56. As far as Nathaniel Hawthorne's art is concerned, which of the following statement is true? A. His The Scarlet Letter tells a love story.B. His art is deeply influenced by Puritanism because he was a puritan himself.C. Young Goodman Brownis a story about superstition.D. Ambiguity is one of the salient characteristics of his art.57. “I like to see it lap the Miles—And lick the Valleys up —And stop to feed itself at Tanks—And the n ---- ” (Emily Dick inson, “like to see it lap the Miles—)Here “it” refers to _____ .A. loveB. deathC. a flyD. the train58. Which of the following statements concerning Theodore Dreise'rs style is correct?A. Dreiser'sCowperwood trilogy includes The Financier, The Titan and The GeniusB. His novels have little detail descriptions of characters and events.C. His novels are written in refined language.D. His style is not polished but very serious.59. ____ has long been well known as a poet who can hardly be classified with the old or the new.A. Ezra PoundB. Robert Lee FrostC. T. S. EliotD. Emily Dickinson60. F. Scott Fitzgerald skillfully employs the device of having events observe by ___________ to his greatadvantage.。

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EliotB.James JoyceC.William FaulknerD.Henry James5.【单选题】In 1950,one of the leading American writers( )was awarded the Nobel Prize for the anti-racist Intruder in the Dust.A.Robert FrostB.Theodore DreiserC.William FaulknerD.Fitzgerald6.【单选题】The attitude towards life that( )had been trying to demonstrate in his works is known as “grace under pressure ”.A.William FaulknerB.Theodore DreiserC.Ernest HemingwayD.F·Scott Fitzgerald7.【单选题】The Portrait of A Lady is generally considered to be( )masterpiece,which describes the life journey of an American( )in a European cultural environment.A.Henry Adams’…widowB.William James ’…girlC.Henry James’…girlD.Theodore Dreiser ’s…widow8.【单选题】“My last Duchess ” is a poem that best exemplifies Robert Browning ’s( ).A.sensitive ear for the sounds of the English languageB.excellent choice of wordsC.mastering of the metrical devicese of the dramatic monologue9.【单选题】Most literary critics think that Fitzgerald is both an insider and an outsider of( )with a double vision.A.the Jazz AgeB.the Age of Reason and RevolutionC.the Babybooming AgeD.the Post- Modern Age10.【单选题】Robert Frost is generally considered a regional poet whose subject matters mainly focus on the landscape and people in( ).A.the westB.the southC.AlaskaD.New England11.【单选题】Ezra Pound,a leading spokesman of the “( ) ”,was one of the most important poets in his time.A.Imagist MovementB.Cubist MovementC.Reformist MovementD.Transcendentalist Movement12.【单选题】What he had done is _______A.valueB.of valuableC.of no valueD.of no valuable13.【单选题】That is the house _______ you can enjoy the scenery.A. in thatB.thatC.whichD.from which14.【单选题】In the original test，all the animals in a test group are given a substance _______ half of them dieA.unlessB.untilC.lestD.provided15.【单选题】“The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one- eighth of it being above water. ” This “iceberg ” analogy is put forward by( ).A.Mark TwainB.Ezra PoundC.William FaulknerD.Ernest Hemingway16.【单选题】The Financier,The Titan and The Stoic by Theodore Dreiser are called his “Trilogy of( ). ”A.HatredB.DeathC.DesireD.Fate17.【单选题】“The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one -eighth of it being abov e water. ” This “iceberg ” analogy about prose style was put forward by( ).A.William FaulknerB.Henry JamesC.Ernest HemingwayD.F· Scott Fitzgerald18.【单选题】William Faulkner once said that( )is a story of “lost innocence, ” which proves itself to be an intensification of the theme of imprisonment in the past.A.The Great GatsbyB.The Sound and the FuryC.Absalom,Absalom!D.Go Down,Moses19.【单选题】The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and,especially,its sequence( )proved themselves to be the milestone in the American literature.A.The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnB.Life on the MississippiC.The Gilded AgeD.Roughing It20.【单选题】The teacher told us the fact _______.A.which the earth moves around the sunB.that the earth moved around the sunC.that the sun moves around the earthD.that the earth moves around the sun第2卷一.全考点综合测验(共20题)1.【单选题】The( )Age of the 1920s characterized by frivolity and carelessness is brought vividly to life in The Great Gatsby.A.LostB.JazzC.ReasonD.Gilded2.【单选题】Some persons gain goal and direction from their tensions;others________ under pressure.A.fall outB.fall apartC.fall back onD.fall in with3.【单选题】Greatly and permanently affected by the( )experiences,Hemingway formed his own writing style,together with his theme and hero.A.miningB.farmingC.warD.sailing4.【单选题】Opposition leaders will be watching carefully to see how the Prime Minister ________ the crisis.A.handlesB.conductsC.observesD.directs5.【单选题】In Go Down,Moses,( )illuminates the problem of black and white in Southern society as a closeknit destiny of blood brotherhood.A.William FaulknerB.Jack LondonC.Herman MelvilleD.Nathaniel Hawthorne6.【单选题】In most of his writings,( )deliberately broke up the chronology of his narrative by juxtaposing the past with the present,in the way the montage does in a movie.A.Walt WhitmanB.William FaulknerC.Ernest HemingwayD. Fitzgerald7.【单选题】The effect of Darwinist idea of “survival of the fittest ” was shattering in() ’s fictional world of jungle,where “kill or to be killed ” was the law.A.Mark TwainB.Henry JamesC.Theodore DreiserD.Walt Whitman8.【单选题】In 1950,( )was awarded the Nobel Prize for the anti-racist Intruder in the Dust.A.William FaulknerB.Robert FrostC.Ezra PoundD.Ernest Hemingway9.【单选题】Eugene O’Neill ’s first full — length play,( ),won him the first Pulitzer theme is the choice between life and death,the interaction of subjective and objective factors.A.Bound East for CardiffB.The Hairy ApeC.Desire Under the ElmsD.Beyond the Horizon10.【单选题】Now many major employers are beginning to demand _______ the completion of schoolA.more thanB.rather thanC.other thanD.better than11.【单选题】It was his masterpiece The Great Gatsby that made( )one of the greatest American novelists.A. FitzgeraldB.William FaulknerC.Ernest HemmingwayD.Gertrude Steinbeck12.【单选题】Man is a “victim of forces over which he has no control. ” This is a notion held strongly by( ).A.Robert FrostB.Theodore DreiserC.Henry JamesD.Hamlin Garland13.【单选题】Mark Twain’s particular concern about the local character of a region came about as “local colorism, ” a unique va riation of American literary( ).A.romanticismB.nationalismC.modernismD.realism14.【单选题】Nobody but you _______ what he said.A. agrees withB.agrees outC.agree withD.agree to15.【单选题】In 1920,( )published his first novel This Side of Paradise which was,to some extent,his own story.A.F·Scott FitzgeraldB.Ernest HemingwayC.William FaulknerD.Emily Dickinson16.【单选题】considered( ) “the true father of our national literature ”.A.Bret HarteB.Mark TwainC.Washington IrvingD.Walt Whitman17.【单选题】At the age of eighty -seven,( )read his poetry at the inauguration of President John in 1961.A.Robert FrostB.Walt WhitmanC.Ezra Pound18.【单选题】Unlike his contemporaries in the early 20th century,( )did not break up with the poetic tradition nor made any experiment on form.A.Walt WhitmanB.Robert FrostC.Ezra Pound19.【单选题】Which of the following statements is NOT true of Emily Dickinson and her poetry?A.She remained unmarried all her lifeB.She wrote,1,775 poems,and most of them were published during her life time.C.Her poems have no titles,hence are always quoted by their first lines.D.Her limited private world has never confined the limitless power of her creativity and imagination.20.【单选题】Mark Twain employed an unpretentious style of( )in his novels which is best described as “vernacular ”.A.standard EnglishB.Afro-American EnglishC.colloquialismD.urbanism第1卷参考答案一.全考点综合测验1.正确答案：C本题解析：马克吐温是以为地方主义作家，他的作品主题是密西西比河流域和美国的西部。

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British and American culturesPart 11.The full name of the United Kingdom is The United Kingdom of Great Britain and NotthernIreland .2.The Romans first landed in Britain in the year of 55BC3.The Scots are well-known for being ________,_________,___________and _______.4.People began to settle in Britain about 5000 years ago. two famous Scottish writers: Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott; two Irish writers:James Toys and ___________.6.It would be difficult to find anyone in modern Britain who could say with certainty that hisancestors had not come to the British Isles from somewhere else. This sentence means thatA.everyone in Britain had come from the British Isles.B.Almost everyone had come to the British Isles from somewhere else.C.Almost everyone had his or her family origin from the British Isles.D.Almost everyone had his or her family origin from somewhere else.7.The Highlanders in Scotland are known for beingA.proudB.toughC.independentD.generousWhich of the above is not true?8.Which of the following is not a characteristic of the Englishman?A.The Englishman is outspoken.B.He is class-consciousC.He is suspicious of changeD.He is racist.9.Who introduced Christianity into Britain?A.The CeltsB.The RomansC.The Viking DanesD.The French10.Angles, Saxon and Jutes were the three Germanic tribes that came to be the basis of modernEnglish race.11._________ were a series of wars in which armies from all over Europe tried to seizePalestine from the Muslims.12.Vasco da Gama and Columbus were the two famous sailors who started the age of discovery.13.The Origin of Species was written by Charles Darwin.14.In the early 1930s, the Great Stump brought poverty and humiliation to millions of people inAmerica and Europe.15.After World War I, an international body called Economic Crisis was formed, and after WorldWar II, another international organization UN was founded.16.The Industrial Revolution owed a great deal toA.the invention of printingB.George Stephenson‟s famous locomotive, the …Rocket‟C.The invention of the steam engineD.The springing-up of towns17.The official language of English after 1066 was Norman French.18.The combination of the three languages, Latin, French and Anglo-Saxon, is known as MiddleEnglish.19.Geoffrey Chaucer used Middle English while William Shakespeare used Early ModernEnglish.20.Which of the following is not true? 1066 was important in English history becauseA.England was conquered in the Norman invasion.B.The Norman French became the official language of England.C.This was the beginning of Middle EnglishD.Anglo-Saxon language was beginning to die.21.The 1960s was characterized by three of the following exceptA.the fashion of speaking AmericanismsB.the Permissive SocietyC.the BeatlesD.swinging London22.The greatest single influence of the shaping of the English language in modern times isA.the …pop‟ revolution in the 1960s.B.the enormous increase in travel.C.American EnglishD.The French language23.Why has the English language changed so fast in this century?24.What would you do if you wish to become proficient in English?25.All English official documents bear the initials OHMS which stands for On Her, or His,Majesty's Service26.Constitutional Monarch is British Government System27. A General Election takes place at least every 5 years.28.Parliament in Britain, strictly speaking, consists of three elements: the Sovereign, the Houseof Lords and the House of Commons.Part 21.Parliament has three main functions: debate, making laws and supervising the governmentand financing.2.Lord chancellor serves as the role of the Speaker in the House of Lords.3.Queen Elizabeth II is “Defender of the Faith”, becausea)She is the spiritual leader of the church of Englandb)She is the head of the Church of Englandc)She is the personification of the Stated)She is the symbol of the English values.4.Which of the following is not correct?a)The Queen holds meetings of the Privy Council.b)The Queen receives reports of Cabinet meetings in her weekly sessions with the PrimeMinister.c)The Queen must take sides when a dispute arises in the Cabinet.d)The Queen is informed and consulted on every aspect of national life.5.Which of the following is not true?a)The Queen is a symbol of the parliamentary democracy.b)She is a symbol of British culture.c)She is a symbol of English tradition.d)She is a symbol of English way of life.6.The real power of the House of Lords lies ina)Helping to pass Money Bills.b)Delaying billsc)Discussing billsd)Being Supreme Count7.The executive power is in the hands ofa)Parliamentb)The House of Commonsc)The Cabinet headed by the Prime Ministerd)The Queen8.The real power of the British government lies ina)The House of Commonsb)The Cabinet headed by the Prime Ministerc)The Prime Ministerd)The Queen9.By the end of the 18th century, the most important energy resource in Britain was coal. Nextwas petroleum.10.Napoleon once called the British a nation of shopkeepers because the UK had many smallbusinesses.11.During the Industrial Revolution, factories came into being becausea)It was more economical to manufacture goodsb)It could provide more housing for workers.c)Power could be concentratedd)More workers could work together under one large roof.12.Three of the following factors influenced the location of industry in Britain. Which is theexception?a)The convenience of obtaining raw materialsb)The convenience of having powerc)The convenience of transportationd)The convenience of developing a single important industry13.The pattern of British industry has changed radically since the Second World War. Thischange can be seen in three of the following excepta)Steel, textiles and other manufacturing industries have declinedb)Service industries have grownc)Some major industries have been nationalizedd)Small businesses have flourished14.Three of the following are the main activities of the city of London. Which is the exception?a)Government administrationb)Buying and selling commoditiesc)Providing services and finance for commercial investmentd)Stock exchanges15.Invisible earnings fall into three of the following groups excepta)money made from dairy farmingb)interest, profits and dividends arising out of British investment abroadc)receipts and payments for services supplied abroadd)foreign currency brought into the country by visiting tourists.16.The study of English literature usually begins with Beowulf. The time of the story is placedaround 10th century.17.The trio of English poetry giants refer to Chaucer, Shakespeare and Milton. four of Shakespeare‟s tragedies Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth and King Lear; Name fourof Shakespeare‟s comedies Twelfth Night, The Merchant of Venice, As You Like It and A Midsummer Night's Dream.19.The Bible consists of two parts, New Testament and Old Testament.20.According to Darwin‟s theory of evolution, man has evolved extremely slowly from ape.21.The terms such as …never hit a man when he‟s down‟ and …playing the game‟, or …playing fair‟reflect a sense of sportsmanship.22.In Britain, every child must by law receive a full-time education from the age of 5 to 16.23.Hawthorne‟s representative novel is The Scarlet Letter.24.Moby Dick was written by Herman Melville.25.The Author of Sister Carrie is Theodore Dreiser26.Three of the following are the Nobel Prize winners. Which is the exception?a)Sinclair Lewisb)William Faulknerc)John Steinbeckd) F. Scott Fitzgerald27.California gave Mark Twain his literary start becausea)he was born in Californiab)the subjects and scenes of his books were set in Californiac)his first successful humorous novel was set in Californiad)his main characters, Huck and Tom, came from California28.Which of the following books was not written by Ernest Hemingway?a)The Sun Also Risesb)The Sound and the Furyc) A Farewell to Armsd)For Whom the Bell Tolls29.“All men are created equal” is from the document The Civil Right Act.30.All American children are offered 12 years of free public education.31.There is no age limit on learning in America.32.Rugby is the college sport that often stirs up the most national interest.33.Thanksgiving Day falls on the 4th Thursday of November, on which Americans give thanksfor the blessing.34.Christmas is on Dec.25th, which is celebrated for the birth of Jesus.35.The traditional Christmas colors are red and green.36.The Statue of Liberty is the gift from France to show its friendship to Americans.51. In Britain, the school year is divided into three terms with holidays at Christmas, Easter and inthe summer.52. Three famous Public schools in England are Eton, Harrow and Westminster.53. Two oldest universities in Britain are Oxford and Cambridge.54. In Britain, children from the age of 5 to 15 can by lawA.receive completely free educationB.receive partly free educationC.receive no free education if their families are richD.receive no free education at all55. Public schools in England are usually attended by those whose parentsA.are richB.are politically conservativeC.are both rich and conservativeD.are liberal56. Which of the following is a feature of British education as a whole?cation is chaoticcation is very expensivecation is highly centralizedcation is rather independent and enjoys a great deal of freedom57. Three of the following reflect the characteristic of freedom in British education. Which is theexception?A.No centralized control from the British governmentB.The different types of schoolsC.The diverse system of university degreesD.The completely free education at universities58. The most famous of all British newspapers is Times.59. America was first discovered by Columbus in 1492.60. The Republic of the United States consists of 50 states with 13 states at the time ofindependence, 35 continental states which have been added since the independence, Hawaii and Alaska which were granted statehood in 1959.61. The largest state in terms of area is California and the largest state in terms of population isCalifornia.62. The Mississippi is the most important river in the U.S.63. Which of the following is not in New York City?A.Wall StreetB.The Empire State BuildingC.The Black quarter of HarlemD.Niagara Falls64. Washing. D.C. is namedA.after the U.S. President George WashingtonB.after Christopher ColumbusC.after both George Washington and Christopher ColumbusD.after none of them65. The first successful English colony in North America was founded at James Town in 1607.66. The American War of Independence began in 1775 and ended in 1783.67. The National Day of the United States is on July 4th.68. Three of the following were the motives of the English puritans who went to New England asimmigrants. Which was the exception?A.They believed that the Church of England was not Catholic enoughB.They believed that the church of England was too catholic in religious practicesC.They were persecuted in EnglandD.They wanted to establish a colony based on their own religious ideals69. The U.S. government form is based on the three main principles: Federalism，the Separation of Powers and Respect for the Constitution and Rule of Low.70. The federal government at Washington, D.C. is concerned, as its main functions, with ForeignAffairs and Matters of General Concern to All the States including Commerce between the states.71. In the U.S., two political parties, the Democratic Party and the Republic Party, dominate thepolitical scene. The U.S. government has three main branches: the Executive Branch, the Legislation Branch and the Judicial Branch.72. In American history 4 Presidents died in office and 4 were assassinated. In 1963,President Kennedy was assassinated.73. Franklin D. Roosevelt was the only American President whose fourth-term serve was cut shortby his death.74. In the Congress, there are 435 Representatives, who are elected each even-numbered year,serving for 2 years, and there are 100 Senates, who are elected in rotation for 6 years. 75. The Supreme Court is composed of nine Justices.。

英美文学参考答案

英美文学参考答案英美文学参考答案英美文学是世界文学的重要组成部分，它涵盖了从中世纪到现代的作品，包括诗歌、小说、剧本等形式。

这些作品不仅反映了英美社会的历史和文化，也深刻地影响了世界各地的文学发展。

本文将从不同的角度探讨英美文学的特点和影响。

一、文学流派和代表作品英美文学涵盖了众多的流派和作品。

在诗歌方面，英国文学有莎士比亚的十四行诗，美国文学有埃米莉·迪金森的自由诗。

在小说方面，英国文学有狄更斯的《双城记》，美国文学有马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》。

在剧本方面，英国文学有莎士比亚的《哈姆雷特》，美国文学有阿瑟·米勒的《推销员之死》。

这些作品代表了不同的文学风格和主题。

莎士比亚的作品以其丰富的人物形象和深刻的情感描写而闻名，他的剧本通常涉及权力、爱情和道德等主题。

狄更斯的小说揭示了工业革命时期英国社会的不平等和社会问题，他的作品通常以细腻的描写和强烈的情感打动读者。

马克·吐温的小说则以幽默和讽刺的手法揭示美国社会的种种荒诞和偏见，他的作品常常具有深刻的社会批判意义。

二、文学风格和技巧英美文学以其独特的风格和技巧而备受瞩目。

在诗歌方面，英国文学以其优美的韵律和丰富的隐喻而著名。

莎士比亚的十四行诗以其押韵和节奏感吸引了无数读者，他的诗歌常常通过比喻和象征来表达复杂的情感和思想。

美国文学的自由诗则以其自由的形式和直接的表达方式而引人注目，迪金森的诗歌常常以简洁而深刻的语言描绘了内心的世界。

在小说方面，英美文学也有各自的特点。

英国文学以其细腻的描写和复杂的情节而著称，狄更斯的小说常常通过多线索的叙述和丰富的人物形象展现了社会的多样性和复杂性。

美国文学则更注重故事本身的力量和人物的心理描写，马克·吐温的小说以其生动的对话和幽默的叙述方式成为经典。

三、文学对社会的影响英美文学对社会的影响是深远的。

首先，它为人们提供了思考和反思的空间。

通过阅读文学作品，人们可以更好地理解自己和他人的内心世界，思考人类的存在和意义。

东北师范大学“英语”《英美文学》23秋期末试题库含答案

东北师范大学“英语”《英美文学》23秋期末试题库含答案第1卷一.综合考核(共20题)1.The most striking similarities between Milton and Samson Agonistes are their blindness and unhappy marriage.()A.正确B.错误2.As a literary figure, Belinda appears in Alexander Pope's ____.A.“The Dunciad”B.“An Essay on Man”C.“An Essay on Criticism”D.“The Rape of the lock”3.G.B.Shaw's play Mrs.Warren's Profession is a realistic exposure of the ____ in the English society.A.slum landlordismB.inequality between men and womenC.political corruptionD.economic exploitation of women4.Black Humor is defined as modern humor caused by anger.()A.错误B.正确5.“My last Duchess” is a poem that best mplifies Robert Browning's ____.A.sensitive ear for the sounds of the English languageB.excellent choice of wordsC.mastering of the metrical devicese of the dramatic monologue6.“This grew: I gave commands; Then all smiles stopped altogether.” (Robert Browning, “My Last Duchess”) The above lines imply that ____.A.the Duchess was killed by her husbandB.the Duchess stopped smiling at her husbands orderC.the Duchess died of laughing too muchD.the Duchess did not want to smile as much as her husband requested7.____ has always been regarded as a writer who “perfected the best classic style. that American Litera ture ever produced”.A.Washington IrvingB.Walt WhitmanC.Henry David ThoreauD.Edgar Ellen Poe8.The impact of Darwin's evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the nineteenth-century. French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to yet another school of realism: American ____.A.vernacularismB.naturalismC.modernismD.local colorism9.Most of ____ works are set in the American South, with emphasis on the southern subjects and consciousness.A.Hemingway'sB.Fitzgerald'sC.Faulkner's10.The main technique applied to the novel Ulysses by Joyce is symbolism.()A.正确B.错误11.Irvings Rip Van Winkle is famous for ____.A.Rips seeking for happinessB.Rips escape into the mountainC.Rips 20 year sleep12.Marlowe mainly wrote tragedies.()A.错误B.正确13.Backbite，Sneerwell，and Lady Teazle are characters in the play the School for Scandal by ____.A.Christopher MarloweB.Ben JonsonC.Richard Brinsley SheridanD.George Bernard Shaw14.____ believes that mans fate is predeterminedly tragic, driven by a combined force of “nature”, both inside and outside.A.Thomas HardyB.George EliotC.Charles DickensD.Bernard Shaw15.“For a week after the commission of the impious and profane offence of asking for more, Oliver remained a close prisoner in the dark and solitary room...”Dickens, Oliver Twist What did Oliver ask for?____A.More time to playB.More food to eatC.More book to readD.More money to spend16.Black humor refers to the use of the morbid and the absurd for darkly ____ purposes.A.tragicB.entertainingic17.In Hardy's Tess of D'urbervilles, the heroines tragic ending is due to ____.A.her weak characterB.her ambitionC.Angel Clares selfishnessD.a hostile society18.____ first collection of short stories is Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque.A.PoesB.IrvingsC.Coopers19.John Bunyan's pilgrim's progress is often regarded as a typical example of ____.A.romanceB.fableC.epic in proseD.allegory20.Mr.Bennet's favorite daughter is Jane.()A.正确B.错误第1卷参考答案一.综合考核1.参考答案：A2.参考答案：D3.参考答案：D4.参考答案：B5.参考答案：D6.参考答案：A7.参考答案：A8.参考答案：B9.参考答案：C10.参考答案：B11.参考答案：C12.参考答案：B13.参考答案：C14.参考答案：A15.参考答案：B16.参考答案：C17.参考答案：D18.参考答案：A19.参考答案：D20.参考答案：B。

英美文学试题及答案

英美文学试题及答案### 英美文学试题及答案#### 一、选择题1. 以下哪部作品是威廉·莎士比亚的代表作？A. 《悲惨世界》B. 《哈姆雷特》C. 《安娜·卡列尼娜》D. 《了不起的盖茨比》答案：B2. 爱伦·坡的哪部短篇小说被誉为哥特式恐怖小说的经典之作？A. 《黑猫》B. 《红死病的假面舞会》C. 《乌鸦》D. 《告密的心》答案：B3. 以下哪位作家是现代主义文学的代表人物？A. 简·奥斯汀B. 乔治·奥威尔C. 弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫D. 马克·吐温答案：C#### 二、填空题4. 英国浪漫主义诗人威廉·华兹华斯在其作品《_______》中表达了对自然的热爱和对简单生活的向往。

答案：《抒情歌谣集》5. 弗朗西斯·斯科特·菲茨杰拉德的《了不起的盖茨比》中，盖茨比的悲剧性结局反映了20世纪20年代美国社会的一种_______。

答案：幻灭#### 三、简答题6. 简述《简·爱》中简·爱的独立精神。

《简·爱》是夏洛蒂·勃朗特的代表作，简·爱在作品中展现了强烈的独立精神。

她不屈从于社会地位和财富的压迫，坚持自己的道德信念和个人尊严。

在与罗切斯特先生的关系中，她拒绝成为他的情妇，坚持要得到平等和尊重。

简·爱的独立精神体现了19世纪女性自我意识的觉醒和对传统性别角色的挑战。

7. 描述《老人与海》中老渔夫桑地亚哥的形象。

《老人与海》是欧内斯特·海明威的杰作，老渔夫桑地亚哥是作品中的中心人物。

他是一个经验丰富、坚韧不拔的渔夫，面对连续84天没有捕到鱼的困境，他没有放弃，而是继续出海。

在与一条巨大的马林鱼的搏斗中，桑地亚哥展现了顽强的生命力和不屈的斗志。

尽管最终他只带回了鱼的骨架，但他的勇敢和坚持赢得了人们的尊敬，体现了人类与自然斗争的永恒主题。

北京语言大学 18秋《英美文学选读》作业4满分答案

After reading the first chapter of Pride and Prejudice, we may come to know that Mrs. Bennet is a woman of _______ .
A.simple character and quick wit
B.simple character and poor understanding
D.masculinity
正确答案:A
Charles Dicken＇s early years were___
A.happy
B.difficult
C.rich
D.sunny
正确答案:B
Which of the following is a tragedy?
A.Antony and Cleopatra
B.Twelfth Night
C.Julius Caesar
D.Much ado about Nothing
A.Blindness
B.Partiality
C.Snobbishness
D.Prejudice.
正确答案:C
Virginia Woolf was born in a____
A.poor family
B.small family
C.rich family
D.talented family
正确答案:D
正确答案:D
which of the following is NOT written by Dreiser?
A.Jennie Gerhardt
B.Go down, Moses
C.An American Tragedy
D.Sister Carrie

英语专业-英美文学试卷及答案-期末

英美文学试卷AI.Mark the following statements as true (T) or false (F).(10 x 1’=10’)1.( ) Chaucer is the first English short-story teller and the founder of English poetry as well as the founder of English realism.His masterpiece The Canterbury tales contains 26 stories.2.( ) English Renaissance is an age of essay and drama.3.( ) The rise of the modern novel is closely related to the rise of the middle class and an urbanlife.4.( ) The French Revolution and the American War of Independence were two big influencesthat brought about the English Romantic Movement.5.( ) Charlotte’s novels are all about lonely and neglected young women with a fierce longingfor life and love.Her novels are more or less based on her own experience and feelings and the life as she sees around.6.( ) The leading figures of the naturalism at the turn of 19th century are Thomas Hardy, John Galsworthy and Bernard Shaw.7.( ) Emily Dickinson is remembered as the “All American Writer”.8.( )The Civil War divides the American literature into romantic literature and realist literature.9.( ) Mark Twain is the first American writer to discover an American language and Americanconsciousness.10.( ) In the decade of the 1910s, American literature achieved a new diversity and reached itsgreatest heights.II.Fill in the blanks.(20 x 1’=20’)11.The most enduring shaping influence in American thought and American literature was ___________.12.The War of Independence lasted eight years till__________.13.Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay__________ has been regarded as "America's Declaration of Intellectual Independence". It called on American writers to write about America in a way peculiarly American.14.The American ___________ writers paid a great interest in the realities of life and described the integrity of human character reacting under various circumstances and pictured the pioneers of the Far West, the new immigrants and the struggles of the working class.The leading figures were ____________, ____________, ____________, ____________, etc.15.No period in American history is more eventful than that between the two world wars.The literary features of the time can be seen in the writings of those ________ writers as Ezra Pound, and the writers of the Lost Generation as ___________.16.Two features of English Renaissance are the curiosity for ___________ and the interest in the activities of _____________________.17.Shakespeare’s earliest great success in tragedy is ____________, a play of youth and love, with the famous balcony scene.18.There are three types of poets in 17th century English literature.They are Puritan poets, ___________ poets and ______________ poets.19.Pope’s An Essay on Criticism is a didactic poem written in ___________________.20.___________ has been regarded by some as “Father of the English Novel”for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.21.“Beauty is truth, truth beauty”is an epigrammatic line by _______________.wrence’s most controversial novel is ___________, the best probably _________.III.Multiple choice.(20 x 1’=20’)23.Among the three major works by John Milton ________ is indeed the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf.A.Paradise RegainedB.Samson AgonistesC.LycidasD.Paradise Lost24. Francis Bacon’s essays are famous for their brevity, compactness and __________.plicityplexityC.powerfulnessdness25.As one of the greatest masters of English prose, _______ defined a good style as “proper words in proper places”.A.Henry FieldingB.Jonathan SwiftC.Samuel JohnsonD.Alexander Pope26.The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan is often said to be concerned with the search for _________.A.material wealthB.spiritual salvationC.universal truthD.self-fulfillment27.“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.”The quoted part is taken from _________.A.Jane EyreB.Wuthering HeightsC.Pride and PrejudiceD.Sense and Sensibility28.Which of the following poems is a landmark in English poetry?A.Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor ColeridgeB.“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”by William WordsworthC.“Remorse”by Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD.Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman29.The most distinguishing feature of Charles Dickens’works is his _________.A.simple vocabularyB.bitter and sharp criticismC.character-portrayalD.pictures of happiness30.“My Last Duchess”is a poem that best exemplifies Robert Browning’s ________.A.sensitive ear for the sounds of the English languageB.excellent choice of wordsC.mastering of the metrical devicese of the dramatic monologue31.________ is the most outstanding stream of consciousness novelist, with ______as hisencyclopedia-like masterpiece.A James Joyce, UlyssesB.E.M.Foster, A Passage to Indiawrence, Sons and loversD.Virginia Woolf, Mrs.Dalloway32.Which of the following comments on Charles Dickens is wrong?A.Dickens is one of the greatest critical realist writers of the Modern PeriodB.His serious intention is to expose and criticize all the poverty, injustice, hypocrisy andcorruptness he sees all around him.C.The later works show the development of Dickens towards a highly conscious artist of themodern type.D.A Tale of Two Cities is one of his late works.33._____was known as “the poets’poet”.A.William ShakespeareB.Edmund SpenserC.John DonneD.John Milton34.Which of the following poet belongs to the active Romantic poet?A.KeatsB.SoutheyC.WordsworthD.Coleridge35.______ is regarded today as the national epic of the Anglo-Saxons.A.BeowulfB.The Canterbury TalesC.Don JuanD.Paradise Lost36.___________ is the first modern American novel.A.Tom SawyerB.Huckleberry FinnC.The Sketch BookD.The Leatherstocking Tales37.Which of the following statements is NOT true of American Transcendentalism?A.It can be clearly defined as a part of American Romantic literary movement.B.It can be defined philosophically as “the recognition in man of the capacity of knowing truth intuitively”.C.Ralph Waldo Emerson was the chief advocate of this spiritual movement.D.It sprang from South America in the late l9th century.38.The theme of Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle is _________.A.the conflict of human psycheB.the fight against racial discriminationC.the familial conflictD.the nostalgia for the unrecoverable past39.The Nobel Prize Committee highly praised ________ for “his powerful style-forming mastery of the art”of creating modern diction.A.Ezra PoundB.Ernest HemingwayC.Robert FrostD.Theodore Dreiser40.Who exerts the single most important influence on literary naturalism?A.EmersonB.Jack LondonC.Theodore DreiserD.Darwin41.________ is NOT true in describing American naturalists.A.they were deeply influenced by DarwinismB.they were identified with French novelist and theorist Emile ZolaC.they chose their subjects for the lower ranks or societyD.they used more serious and more sympathetic tone in writing than realists42.Henry James’s fame generally rests upon his novels and stories with ________.A.international themeB.national themeC.European themeD.regional themeIV.Explain the following literary items.(4x 5’=20’)43.Spenserian Stanzake Poets45.Humanism46.BalladV.Questions.(3x 10’=30’)47.“Robinson Crusoe”is usually considered as Daniel Defoe’s masterpiece.Discuss why it became so successful when it was published?48.What is "Byronic hero"?49.Mark Twain and Henry James are two representatives of the realistic writers in American literature.How is Twain’s realism different form James’s realism?参考答案:I.Mark the following statements as true (T) or false (F).(本题共10空，每空1分，共10分)1-5: FFTTT 6-10: FFTTFII.Fill in the blanks.(本题共20小题, 每题1分, 共20分)11.(American) Puritanism12.178313.The American Scholar14.realistic; Mark Twain; Henry James; Jack London; Theodore Dreiser.15.Imagist; Hemingway.16.the classical literature; humanity.17.Romeo and Juliet18.Cavalier; Metaphysical19.heroic couplet20.Henry Fielding21.John Keatsdy Chatterley’s lover; The RainbowIV. Ex pla in the foll owi ng lite rar y ite ms.（本题4小题,每小题5分,共20分）43.Spenserian Stanza: it refers to a verse form created by Edmund Spenser for his poems.Each stanza has nine lines.Each of the first eight lines is in iambic pentameter, and the ninth line is an iambic hexameter line.The rhythm scheme is ababbcbccke Poets: it refers to those English romantic poets at the beginning of th e19th century, William Wordsworth, for example, who lived in the heart of the Lake District in the north-western part of England and enjoyed the experience of living close to nature, and these poets were the older generation of Romantic poets who had been deeply influenced by the French Revolution of 1789 and its effects.In their writings, they described the beautiful scenes and the country people of the area.45.Humanism refers to the literary culture in the Renaissance.Humanists emphasize the capacities of the human mind and the achievements of human culture.Humanism became the central theme of English Renaissance.Thomas More and William Shakespeare are the best representatives of the English humanists.46.Ballad: a story told in songs, usually in 4-line stanzas, with the second and fourth rhymed. V.Questions.（本题3小题,每小题10分,共30分）47.A: Robinson Crusoe is supposedly based on the real adventure of an Alexander Selkirk who once stayed alone on the uninhabited island for five year4s.Actually, the story is an imagination.B: In Robinson Crusoe, Defoe traces the growth of Robinson from a naïve and artless youth into a shrewd and hardened man, tempered by numerous trials in his eventful life.C.In the novel, Robinson is a real hero and he is an embodiment of the rising middle-class virtues in the mid-eighteenth century England.Robinson is a true empire-builder, a colonizer and a foreign trader, who has the courage and will to face hardships and who has determination to preserve himself and improve his livelihood by struggling against nature.D.Robinson Crusoe is an adventure story very much in the spirit of the time.Because of the above reasons, when it was published, people all liked that story, and it became an immediate success.48.Byronic hero is a proud, mysterious rebel figure of noble origin.With immense superiorityin his passions and powers, this Byronic hero would carry on his shoulders the burden of righting all the wrongs in a corrupt society, and would rise single-handedly against any kind of tyrannical rules wither in government, in religion, or in moral principles with unconquerable wills and inexhaustible energies.The conflict is usually one of rebellious individuals against outworn social systems and conventions.Such a hero appeared in many of his works, for example, "Don Juan".The figure is somewhat modeled on the life and personality of Byron himself, and makes Byron famous both at home and abroad.49.A.Mark Twain’s realism is tainted with local color, preferring to have his won region and people at the forefront of his stories.B.James’s realism is concerned with the “inner world”of man and the international theme.C.Twain’s language is simple and colloquial and he employs humor in his writing.D.James’s language is elaborate and refined with lengthy psychological analyses.。

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英美文学选读模拟题一A. Each of the statements below is following by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement and put the letter in the brackets. (20x1 points)()1. In Spenser's "The Faerie Queene", _______ is the play role in each of the 12 major adventures.A. ArthurB. RedcrosseC. UnaD. Archimago()2. In Milton's works, H" is the greatest, indeed the only generally acknowledged epic inEnglish literature since "Beowulf".A. Paradise LostB. Paradise RegainedC. Samson AgonistesD. Lycidas()3. _______ was regarded as "Father of the English Novel", for his contribution to theestablishment of the form of the modern novel.A. Daniel DefoeB. Jonathan SwiftC. Jane AustenD. Henry Fielding()4. _______ compiled the "The Die廿onary of the English Language" which became the foundationof all the subsequent English dictionaries.A. Ben JohnsonB. Samuel JohnsonC. Alexander PopeD. John Dryden()5. The "Byronic hero** first appears in Byron's works, n__________ ”.A. Childe Harold's PilgrimageB. Don JuanC. Oriented TalesD. Manfred()6. _______ made criticism on Elizabethan drama, which renewed interest in Shakespeare and ledto the discovery of his contemporaries.A. ColeridgeB. ByronC. WordsworthD. Keats()7. _______ is the most distinguishing feature of Charles Dickens* works.A. Language*s Forsyte novels are masterpieces of critical realism in theB. Character - PortrayalC. HumorD. Plot()8 In 1847, the Bronte Sisters published the following famous novels except ” ___________ ”.A. Jane EyreB. ShirleyC. Wuthering HeightsD. The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall()9. In _______ 's hands, "drama 廿c monologue" reaches its maturity and perfection.A. Alfred TennysonB. Robert BrowningC. William ShakespeareD. George Eliot()10.As a woman of exceptional intelligence and life experience, George Eliot shows a particular concern for ______________ .A. the feminismB. the education for womenC. the des 廿ny of womenD. the low status of women()11. Symbolism appeared in the late 19th century in ______________ .A. FranceB. GermanyC. EnglandD. Italy ()12. The three trilogies of early 20th century.A. John GalswortryB. Arnold BennettC. Jame JoyceD. H. G. Wells()13. In the following statements, ____________ is Bernard Shaw's political point of view.A. He regarded the establishment of socialism by the emancipation of land and industrial capital from individual and class ownership as the final goal.B. He was for the means of violent revolution of armed struggle in achieving the goal of socialism.C. He had a trust of the uneducated working class in fighting against capitalists.D. He held that both those superior intellects and those industrial workers could have the ability to shoulder the task of fighting against the capitalism.()14. The New England transcendentalism was from the very beginning a local phenomenon restricted only to those people living in new England, who carried out the movement as a reaction against the cold, rigid rationalism of______________________ in Boston.A. PuritanismB. CalvinismC. ClassicismD. Unitarianism()15. In the following statements, __________ is not true as to Washington lrving*s famous story ”Rip Van Winkle".A. The story is a tale remembered mostly for Rip's 20 - year sleep, set against the background of the inevitably changing America.B. In the story Irving skillfully presents to us paralleled juxtapositions of two totally different worlds before and after Rip's 20 years' sleep.C. Irving describes Rip's response and reaction in dramatic way, so that we see clearly both the narrator and Irving agree on the preferability of the present to the past, and the preferability of the real world to a dream - like one.D. The social conservatism and literary preference for the past is revealed, to some extent, in the story.()16. _______ is not among the artistic features of Whitman's writing.A. The use of the poetic "l MB. Free verseC. Musicality or rhythmD. Allegory()17. Henry James's fame generally rests upon his novels and stories with _____________ .A. the love and marriage themeB. the theme of humor and satire on lifeC. the theme of revealing the miserable life of the poor and criticizing the capitalismD. the international theme()18. In the following statements, __________ is not true as to the backgrounds for the American literature between the two world wars.A. The United states had become the most powerful industrialized nation in the world.B. The technological revolution had brought about great changes in the life of the American people.C. The Crash marked the beginning of "The Great Economic Depression" in the 1920s.D. Despite its booming industry and material prosperity, there was a sense of unease and restlessness underneath.()19. Ezra Pound's "The Cantos" is ________ .A. lyricsB. epic poemC. odeD. pastoral()20. _______ is acknowledged by many as the most original poet of the Victorian period.A. Robert BrowningB. Alfred TennysonC. George EliotD. John KeatsB. Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase according to the textbook. (20x1 points)1. _____ i s the essence of the Renaissance.2. In "The Faerie Queene", the Redcrosse knight in Book I stands for St. George, and Sir Guyon in Book II Represents Temperance. Such kind of writing style is called _____________ .3. "H amlet”，"Othello”，"King Lear" and " ______ " are generally regarded as Shakespeare's four great tragedies.4. As a represents廿ve of the enlightenment, Pope was one of the first to introduce _____________ to England.5. _____ *s novels are the first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower - class people.6. The literary form of neo - classicism is of the strict symmetry. The prevailing genre ofneoclassical literature is ________ w hich consists of two riming lines of iambic pentameter, and the second line completes the thoughts expressed by the couplet.7. _____ i s central to Blake's concern in the "Songs of Innocence" and "Songs of Experience".8. The poet Robert Southey as well as Coleridge and Wordsworth lived nearby and the three men became known as the ”_________ ”.9. Jane AusteiYs masterpiece is " _____________10. ________ is Robert Browning's masterpiece.11. The realistic novels of the 1920s and 1930s were more or less touched by a pessimistic mood, preoccupied with the theme of ___________ , and shaped in different forms.12 In the mid - 1950s and early 1960s, there appeared a group or young novelists and playwrights with lower - middle - class background, who were known as ”___________________ ”.13. Melville is best known as the author of one book named ______________ , which is, critics have agreed, one of the world's greatest masterpieces.14. The particular concern about the local character of a region came about as ”_________ ", a unique variation of American literary realism.15. By the turn of the century, with the publics廿on of "The Man That Corrupted Hadleybury** (1900) and "The Mysterious Stranger" (1916), the change in Mark Twain from an optimist to an almost despairing pessimist could be fell and his cynicism and disillusionment with what Twain referred to regularly as the " _______________________ " became obvious.16. As a sequel to "Tom Sawyer", " __________ ” marks the climax of Twain*s literary creativity.17. One of James's literary techniques innovated to cater for the psychological emphasis is his narrative ” ________ H.18. The postwar poet Robert Lowell is the leading figure of _____________ poetry.19. In Fitzgerald's great fiction, there's always full of the main theme of the bankruptcy of the" _____ ”, especially in "The Great Gatsby" (1925).20. Most of Faulkner's works are set in the American South about people from a small region in Northern Messissippi, ____________ County.C. Decide whether the following statements are true or false and write your answers in the brackets. (10x1 points)( )1. In his poetry, Donne frequently applies conceits, i. e. extended metaphors involvingdrama廿c contrasts.( )2. "The Pilgrim's Progress** is the most successful religious allegory in the English language.()3. The 19th century produced the first English novelists, who fall into two groups the sen廿mentalist novelists and the realist novelists.()4. The most important contribution Byron has made is that he has not only started the modern poetry, the poetry of the growing inner self, but also changed the course of English poetry by using ordinary speech of the language and by advocating a return to nature.()5. Generally speaking, Jane Austen was a writer of the 18th - century, though she lived mainly in the nineteenth century.()6. In the Victorian period, the novel became the most widely read and the most vital and challenging expression of progressive thought.()7. "The Waste Land", Eliofs most important single poem, has been hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th - century English poetry, comparable to Wordsworth's "Lyrical Ballads".()8. While Mark Twain and Henry James seemed to have paid more ail ention to the "life" of the Americans, Howells had apparently laid a greater emphasis on the "inner world" of man.()9. Dickinson's poetry is unique and unconventional in its own way. Her poems have no titles hence are always quoted by their first lines. In her poetry there is a particular stress pattern, in which dashes are used as a musical device to create cadence and capital letters as a means of emphasis.()10. Most of Faulkner's works are set in the American North, with his emphasis on the Northern subjects and consciousness.D. Name the author of the following literary works. (5x1 points)1. The Passionate Shepherd to His Love: Marloew2. Composed upon Westminster Bridge: Wordsworth3. The Moll on the Floss4. Break, Break, Break. :Tennyson5. A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man: JoyceE. Define the literary terms listed below. (2x4 points)1. The Heroic Couplet2. Stream of ConsciousnessF. For each of the quotations listed below please give the name of the author and the title of the literary work from which it is taken and then briefly interpret it. (2x4 points)1. "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the les,The plowman homeward plods his weary way,And leaves the world to darkness and to me."2. "Round the cape of a sudden came the sea,And the sun looked over the mountains rim:And straight was a path of gold for him,And the need of a world of men for me."G. Give brief answers to the following questions. (3x5 points)1. Make a comment on the image of Robinson Crusoe.2. What are the features of Charles Dickens's novels?3. What's Nathaniel Hawthorne's "black" vision of life and human beings?H. Short essay questions. (2x7 points)I. How is the fatalism revealed in Hardy's works?(Naturalist)2. Analyse the artistic features of Earnest Hemingway*s novels.附：答案全国高等教育自学考试模拟试卷(一)英美文学选读参考答案A.1. A2. A3. D4. B5. A6. A7. B8. B9. B10. C11. A12. A13. A14. D15. C16. D17. D18. C19. B20. AB.1. Humanism2. allegory3. Macbeth4. ra廿onalism5. Daniel Defoe6. heroic couplet7. Childhood8. Lake poets9. Pride and Prejudice10. The Ring and the Book11. man's loneliness12. the Angry Young Men13. Moby - Dick14. local colorism15. damned human race16. Adventures of Hucklebrry Finn17. point of view18. Confessional19. American Dream20. YoknapatawphaC.1. T2. T3. F4. T5. T6. T7. T8. F9. T10. FD.1. Christopher Marlowe2. William Wordsworth3. George Eliot4. Alfred Tennyson5. James JoyceE.1. The heroic couplet refers to iambic pentameter rhymed in two lines. During the Restoration and the 18th century Alexander Pope perfected the closed couplet, which means only a couplet xan express a compete idea, and developed it to the heroic couplet. A good example in " The Rape of the Lock" is: but when to mischiet mortals bend their will, how soon they find fit instruments of ill!2. In Joyce's opinion, the artist, who wants to reach the highest stage and to gain the insights necessary for the crea廿on of dramatic art, should rise to the position of a godlike objectivity; he should have the complete conscious control over the creative process and depersonalize his own emotion in the artistic creation. He should appear as an omniscient author and present unspoken materials directly from the psyche of the characters, of making the characters tell their own inner thoughts in monologues. This literary approach to the presentation of psychological aspects of characters is usually termed as "stream of consciousness**.1. The 廿tie of the literary work is "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard'*, and its author is Thomas Gray.译文如下：晚钟响起来一阵阵向白昼告别，牛群在草原上迂回，吼声起落，耕地人累了，回家走，脚步踉跄，把整个世界留给了黄昏与我。

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1.Herman Melville’s ______ is an encyclopedia of everything, history, philosophy, religion, etc, in addition to a detailed account of the operations of the whaling industry.A. Billy BuddB. The Old Man and the SeaC. White JacketD. Moby DickIn addition to his novels, _______ wrote about 120 short stories and sketches. Among them are Young Goodman Brown and The Minister’s Black Veil.A. Henry David ThoreauB. Nathaniel HawthorneC. Ralph Waldo EmersonD. Herman Melville______ is an appalling fictional version of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s belief that “the wrong doing of one generation lives into the successive ones” and that evil will come out of evil though it may take generations to happen.A. The Marble FaunB. The Blithedale RomanceC. Young Goodman BrownD. The House of Seven GablesWhich is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”?A. The Conduct of LifeB. Representative MenC. English TraitsD. The American ScholarWhich is generally as the Bible of New England Transcendentalism?A. NatureB. WaldenC. On BeautyD. Self-RelianceThere is a good reason to state that New England Transcendentalism was actuallyon the Puritan soil.A. UnitarianismB. MysticismC. RomanticismD. Puritanism“The universe is composed of Nature and the soul… Spirit is present everywhere”. This is the voice of the book Nature written by Ralph Waldo Emerson, which pushed American romanticism into a new Phase, the phase of New England ______.A. RomanticismB. TranscendentalismC. SymbolismD. NaturalismWashington Irving’s works are numerous, but his most successful work is The Sketch Book, of which the most famous and anthologized are ____ and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.A. A History of New YorkB. The PioneersC. Rip Van WinkleD. Leatherstocking TalesWashington Irving’s first book appeared in 1809, titled ______.A. The History of New YorkB. The Marble FaunC. The American ScholarD. The Cop and the AnthemIn the early 19th century American moral values were essentially Puritan. Nothing has left a deeper imprint on the character of the people as a whole than did _____.A. RationalismB. RomanticismC. SentimentalismD. PuritanismWhich is the character who appears in the novel Moby Dick?A. Hester PrynneB. PearlC. Mr. HooperD. AhabHerman Melville called his friend Nathaniel Hawthorne ______ in American literature.A. The transcendentalistB. The largest brain with the largest heartC. The American scholarD. Father of American poetryNathaniel Hawthorne is a master of psychological insight and central subject of his major works is the human soul. Choose his short story from the following ones.A. OmooB. Uncle Tom’s CabinC. Young Goodman BrownD. The PearlThe finest example of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s symbolism is the recreation of Puritan in ______.A. The Marble FaunB. The Ambitious GuestC. The Scarlet LetterD. Young Goodman BrownFrom Henry David Thoreau’s jail experience came his famous essay, ______ which states Thoreau’s belief that no man should violate his conscience at the command of a government.A. Common SenseB. Civil DisobedienceC. WaldenD. NatureWhich essay is not written by Ralph Waldo Emerson?A. Self-RelianceB. The American ScholarC. The Divinity School AddressD. Of StudiesWhich book is not written by Ralph Waldo Emerson?A. Nature D. The RhodoraB. English TraitsC. NatureD. The RhodoraC. The RhodoraD. Representative Men B. English TraitsC. NatureD. The RhodoraForm the following, choose the characteristics of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s poetry.A. Being highly individualB. Harsh rhythmsC. Lack of form and polishD. All of the aboveRalph Waldo Emerson’s first book _____ is the fundamental document of his philosophy, and expresses his constant, deeply felt love for he natural scenes.A. Leatherstocking TalesB. WaldenC. NatureD. Daisy MillerChoose William Cullen Bryant’s poem from the following ones.A. V oices of the NightB. LigeiaC. Song of MyselfD. ThanatopsisIn 1817, the stately poem called Thanatopsis introduced he best poet _____ to appear in America up to that time.A. Edward TaylorB. William Cullen BryantC. Edgar Allan PoeD. Philip FreneauChoose Washington Irving’s works from the following items.A. WaldenB. A History of New YorkC. Self-RelianceD. Sister CarrieIn the 19th century America, Romanticism had certain general characteristics. Choose such characteristics from the following items.A. Moral enthusiasmB. Faith in the value of individualism and intuitive perceptionC. Presumption about the corrosive effect of human societyD. All of the aboveHerman Melville’s _____ is not only an adventure story, but als o a significant philosophical work on spiritual exploration.A. The EggB. The Over-SoulC. NatureD. Moby DickA new _____ had appeared in England in the last years of the 18th century. It spread to continental Europe and then came to America early in the 19th century.A. RealismB. RomanticismC. NaturalismD. . Critical realismTranscendentalism appealed to those who disdained the hash God of the Puritan ancestors, and it appealed to those who scorned the pale deity of New England _____.A. NaturalismB. TranscendentalismC. HumanismD. UnitarianismLed by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson and _____, there arose a kind of teaching of transcendentalism in the early 19th century.A. Mark TwainB. Theodore DreiserC. Henry David ThoreauD. Herman MelvilleTranscendentalists recognized ______ as the “highest power of the soul”.A. intuitionB. thinkingC. logicD. date of the senses_____ was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club.A. HawthorneB. ThoreauC. WhitmanD. EmersonThe appearance of The Scarlet letter marked the maturity of Nathaniel Hawthorne as a novelist. Soon he composed the other three important novels including _____, The Blithedale Romance and The Marble Faun.A. WaldenB. The House of the Seven GablesC. The PrairieD. The Fall of the House of UsherTranscendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in _____ and Thoreau.A. JeffersonB. OversoulC. FreneauD. EmersonAs a philosophical and literary movement, _____ flourished in New England form the 1830s to the Civil War.A. modernismB. sentimentalismC. rationalismD. transcendentalism。