[考研类试卷]英语专业(英美文学)模拟试卷7.doc

合集下载

英语专业英美文学模拟试题

英语专业英美文学模拟试题•相关推荐英语专业英美文学模拟试题1. Define the following literary terms (40/150,10×4):1. Ahab as in Moby Dick2. Heathcliff as in Wuthering Heights3. Tess Durbeyfield4. Imagism5. Lady Macbeth6. Realism7. Romanticism8. Neoclassicism9. Allegory10. ConflictII. Literary Analysis (30/150, 2×15)1. Summarize Ernest Hemingway's literary achievements.2. Briefly introduce Ezra Pound’s view on the Imagist poetry.III. Questions about Literary Works. (80/150, 8×10)1. Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?Thou are more lovely and more temperate.Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines,And often is his gold complexion dimmed;And every fair from fair sometimes declines,By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimmed;But thy eternal summer shall not fade,Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow' stNor shall Death brag thou wand’ rest in h is shade,When in eternal lines to time thou grow' stSo long as men can breathe or eyes can seeSo long live this, and this gives life to thee.a. Identify the author and the work from which the passage is selected.b. What kind of sonnet is employed in the selection? What are the features of this kind of sonnet?c. Comment on the theme of the poem.2. To be, or not to be---that is the question;Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,And by opposing end them? To die, to sleep—No more; and by a sleep to say we endThe heart-ache and the thousand natural shocksThat flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummationDevoutly to be wished.a. From which work is this passage selected? And who is the author of this work?b. What literary form does this work belong to? What metrical form is used in this work?c. What is the hero of this work? What spiritual mood does this passage reveal abut the hero?3. A Voyage to Lilliput] As to the first, you are to understand, that for above seventy moons past, there have been two struggling parties in this empire, under the names of Tramecksan, and Slamecksan, from the high and low heels on their shoes, by which they distinguish themselves.It is allaged indeed, that the high heels are most agreeableto our ancient constitution: but however this be, his Majesty hath determined to make use of only low heels in the administration of the Government, and all offices in the gift of the Crown; as you cannot but observe; and particularly his Majesty’s imperial heels are lower at least by a druur than any of his court (drurr is a measure about the fourteenth part of an inch.) The animosities between these two parties run so high, that they will neither eat nor drink, nor talk with each other. […] It is allowed on all hands, that the primitive way of breaking eggs before we eat them, was upon the larger end: but his present Majesty’s grand-father, while he was a boy, going to eat an egg, and breaking it according to the ancient practice, happened to cut one of his finger, whereupon the emperor his father, published an edict, commanding all his subjects, upon great penalties, to break the smaller end of their eggs.a. Identify the author and the work from which the passage is selected.b. What is the theme of this work?c. What are the four parts of the work? How are four organic parts are structured in the work?4. By this time Mrs. Morel was trembling violently. Struggling of this kind often took place between her and her son, when she seemed to fight for his very life against his own will to die. He took her in his arms. She was ill and pitiful."Never mind, Little/' he murmured. " So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness."She pressed him to her."But I want you to be happy," she said pathetically.Eh, my dear---say rather you want me to live,"Mrs. Morel felt as if her heart would break for him. At this rate she knew he would not live. He had that poignant carelessness about himself, his own suffering, his own life., which is a form of slow- suicide. It almost broke her heart. With all the passion of her strong nature she hated Miriam for having in this subtle way undermine his joy. It did not matter to her that Miriam could not help it. Miriam did it, and she hated her.a. From what work is-this passage Selected ? Who is the author of this work?b. What is the name of the hero of this work? What is the relationship between the hero, Mrs. Morel and Miriam?c. What literary method is used in this work? Comment the relationship between the hero and Mrs. Morel by using Freud's-theory..5. But the point which drew all eyes, and, as it were, transfigured the wearer, —so that both men and women, who had been familiarly acquainted with Hester Prynne, were now impressed as if they beheld her for the first time, —was that scarlet letter, so fantastically embroidered and illuminated upon her bosom. It had the effect of a spell, taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity, and inclosing her in a sphere by herself.a. Identify the author and the work from which the passage is selected.b. Comment on the symbolic meaning of the letter the heroine wears.c. What is the theme of the work?6. I felt good and all washed clean of sin for the first time I had ever felt so in my life, and I know I could pray now. But I didn't do it straight oft, but laid the paper down and set therethinking----thinking how good it was all this happened so, and how near. I come to being lost and going to hell. And went on thinking. And got to thinking over our trip down the river; and I see Jim before me, all the time, in the day, and in the night-time, sometimes moonlight, sometimes storms, and we a floating along, talking, and singing, and laughing. But somehow I couldn't seem to strike no places to harden。

[考研类试卷]英语专业（英美文学）模拟试卷10.doc

[考研类试卷]英语专业（英美⽂学）模拟试卷10.doc[考研类试卷]英语专业（英美⽂学）模拟试卷10⼀、填空题1 Charles Dickens's last novel was______.2 Ah, love, let us be true To one another! For the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; The lines above are selectedfrom______by______.3 There are no typically positive characters in______written by Thackeray.4 The novel The Return of the Native was written by______, whose novels were known as "novels of characters and environment".5 Tennyson's poem,______, was based on the Celtic legends—King Arthur and Round Table Knights.6 ______described the life of the laboring people and criticizing the privileged classes, but the power of exposure became much weaker in her work. The significance of her work lies rather in the portrayal of the pettiness and stagnancy of English provincial life.7 There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass, Or night-dews on still waters between walls Of shadowy granite, in a gleaming pass; Music that gentler on the spirit lies, Than tiered eyelids upon tired eyes; The quotation is selecte4 from______by______.8 Jane Eyre and the greater Wuthering Heights by______brought to the novel introspection and an intense concentration on the inner life of emotion which before them had been the province of poetry alone.9 The greatest and the longest work of Robert Browning is______, which consisted of 20,000 lines.10 Sonnets from Portuguese is the representative work of______.11 ______is generally regarded as Steinbeck's masterpiece.12 T. S. Eliot's "the progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality" can be found in his______.13 In the novel The Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway portrayed an old fisherman named ______, who shows triumphant even in defeat.14 Hemingway's stature as a writer was confirmed with the publication of hisnovel______in 1929. the novel portrayed a farewell both to war and to love.15 ______has been regarded as American's greatest novelist in the 20th century.16 Robert Frost's poetry focused on the landscape and people in______.17 In the short novel ______, Steinbeck portrayed the tragic friendship between two migrant workers.18 ______has been considered as America's greatest playwright.19 Steinbeck's post-war novel______reflected his bitter feelings against those greedy, rapacious elements of society which made the war possible.20 ______has an average man of decidedly masculine tastes, sensitive and intelligent wit action and few words.⼆、名词解释21 Psychological novel22 Narration23 Ambiguity24 Allusion25 Plot26 The Beat Generation27 Feminism28 Harlem Renaissance29 New Criticism30 American dream三、单项选择题31 The major part of the story in Wuthering Heights is told by .______.（A）Mr. Lockwood（B）Nelly（C）Isabella（D）Catherine32 Among George Eliot's 7 novels,______is essentially an autobiographic account of her life.（A）Felix Holt, the Radical（B）Daniel Deronda（C）Middlemarch（D）The Mill on the Floss33 The author of______makes clear in the novel that it is wrong to discriminate on the basis of social status and it is cruel and destructive to break genuine, natural human passions.（A）Jane Eyre（B）Wuthering Heights（C）Pride and Prejudice（D）less of the D'Urbervilles34 "I will drink/Life to the lees." In the quoted line Ulysses is saying that he______till the end of his life.（A）will keep traveling and exploring（B）will go on drinking and being happy（C）would like to toast to his glorious life（D）would like to drink the cup of wine35 Which of the following words is NOT appropriate to describe the Duke in My Last Duchess?（A）Intelligence.（B）Kindness.（C）Jealousy.（D）Brutality.36 "A waft of wind came sweeping down the laurel-walk, and trembled through the boughs of the chestnut: it wandered away—away—to an indefinite distance—it died. The nightingale's song was then the only voice of the hour: in listening to it, I again wept." The above passage must be taken from______.（A）Charles Dickens's Great Expectations（B）William Thackeray's Vanity Fair（C）Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre（D）Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native37 The four lines "Though much is taken, much abides; and though/We are not now that strength which in old days/Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are — /One equal temper of heroic hearts, /Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will/To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield must be taken from______.（A）Tennyson's Ulysses（B）Browning's Meeting at Night（C）Wordsworth's I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud（D）Keats's Ode to a Nightingale38 While telling of the punishment of Oliver for asking for more and denouncing the inhuman, hypocritical workhouse system of England for abusing and dehumanizing the poor children, the narrator uses a seemingly______tone.（A）innocent（B）ironic（C）indignant（D）bitter39 In Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles, the heroine's tragic ending is due to______.（A）her weak character（B）her ambition（C）Angel Clare's selfishness（D）a hostile society40 The character Rochester in Jane Eyre can be well termed as a______.（A）conventional hero（B）Byronic hero（C）chivalrous aristocrat（D）Homeric hero41 A contemporary of Alfred Tennyson,______is acknowledged by many as the most original and experimental poet of the time.（A）Thomas Carlyle（B）Thomas B.Macaulay（C）T. S. Eliot（D）Robert Browning42 "As for society, he was carried every other day into the hall where the boys dined, and there socially flogged as a public warning and example. What figure of speech is used in the above sentence?（A）Irony.（B）Metaphor.（C）Simile.（D）Overstatement.43 In Hard Times, Dickens attacks______that rules over the English educational system and destroys young hearts and minds.（A）bourgeois commercialism（B）the utilitarian principle（C）political corruptness（D）religious hypocrisy44 Which of the following best describes the nature of Hardy's later novels?（A）Sentimentalism.（B）Surrealism.（C）Comic sense.（D）Tragic sense.45 Charles Dickens's best-depicted characters are those innocent, virtuous, persecuted, helpless ______ characters such as Oliver Twist, Little Nell, David Copperfield and Little Dorrit.（A）child（B）woman（C）lady（D）girl46 When they were young, the Bronte sisters were sent to a school for clergymen's daughters. The eldest two died there due to the poor and unhealthy conditions. This experience inspired the later portrayal of Lowood School in the novel______.（A）Jane Eyre（B）Wuthering Heights（C）The Professor（D）Emma47 Reading______'s Crossing the Bar, we can feel his fearlessness towards death, his faith in God and an afterlife.（A）John Keats（B）Alfred Tennyson（C）Robert Browning（D）Thomas Hardy48 The publication of______, Robert Browning's masterpiece, in 1869, finally established the poet's position as one of the greatest English poets.（A）In Memoriam（B）The Ring and the Book（C）Maud（D）Ulysses49 The novel Middlemarch, a Study of Provincial Life provides a panoramic view of life in a small English town,______, and its surrounding countryside in the mid-nineteenth century.（A）Middlemarch（B）Lowick Manor（C）Oxford（D）Wessex50 In Thomas Hardy's novels, the outside nature, the natural environment or______of herself, is shown as some mysterious supernatural force, very powerful but half-blind, impulsive and uncaring to the individual's will, hope, passion or suffering.（A）nature（B）fate（C）fortune（D）destiny51 The greatest English critical realist novelist was_____,who criticized the bourgeois civilization and showed the misery of the common people.（A）Charles Dickens（B）Emily Bronte（C）Thomas Hardy（D）Charlotte Bronte52 Emily Bronte wrote only one novel which is entitled______.（A）Wuthering Heights（B）Jane Eyre（C）Emma（D）The Professor53 George Eliot was the pseudonym of______.（A）Mary Ann Evans（B）Charles Dickens（C）Emily Bronte（D）Samuel Clemens54 In the long poem The Ring and the Book, the "book" is compared to______.（A）love（B）comprehensive knowledge（C）the hard truth（D）the method of study55 "Self-conceited", "cruel" and "tyrannical" are most likely the words to describe the character in______.（A）Robert Browning's My Last Duchess（B）Sheridan's The School for Scandal（C）Christopher Marlowe's Dr. Faustus（D）Shakespeare's Love's Labor's Lost56 As a literary figure, John Rivers appears in______.（A）Fielding's Tom Jones（B）Dickens's Oliver Twist（C）Bronte's Jane Eyre（D）Austen's Pride and Prejudice57 The statement that those extraordinary people, seeking something beyond the provincial life, have finally to subject themselves to the limitations of the reality either due to their own weakness or the conventional force of the social environment may well sum up one of the major themes of______.（A）Fielding's Tom Jones（B）Defoe's Robinson Crusoe（C）Austen's Pride and Prejudice（D）Eliot's Middlemarch58 The success of Jane Eyre is not only because of its sharp criticism of the existing society, but also due to its introduction to the English novel the first______heroine.（A）worker（B）peasant（C）governess（D）teacher59 Which of the following descriptions of Thomas Hardy is NOT true?（A）Most of his novels are set in Wessex.（B）Tess of the D'Urbervilles is one of the most representative of him as both a naturalistic and a critical realist writer.（C）Among Hardy's major works, Under the Greenwood Tree is the most cheerful and idyllic.（D）From The Mayor of Casterbridge on, the tragic sense becomes the keynote of his novels.60 ... and then how they met I hardly saw, but Catherine made a spring, and he caught her, and they were locked in an embrace.(Wuthering Heights) In the above quoted passage, Emily Bronte tells the story in______point of view.（A）the third person（B）the first person（C）the second person（D）the omnipresent61 In Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, he used a technique called______, in which the whole story was told through the thoughts of one character.（A）stream of consciousness（B）imagism（C）symbolism（D）naturalism62 Which of the following statements about Emily Grierson, the protagonist in Faulkner's story A Rose for Emily is NOT true?（A）She has a distorted personality.（B）She is physically deformed and paralyzed.（C）She is the victim of the past glory.（D）She is the symbol of the old values of the South.63 Robert Frost combined traditional verse forms—the sonnet, rhyming couplets, blank verse—with a clear American local speech rhythm, the speech of______farmers with its idiosyncratic diction and syntax.（A）Western（B）New England（C）New Hampshire（D）southern64 ______is a play that concerns the problem of modern man's identity.（A）The Emperor Jones（B）Desire Under the Elms（C）Long Day's Journey Into Night（D）The Hairy Ape65 In The Emperor Jones and The Hairy Ape, O'Neil adopted the expressionist techniques to portray the______of human beings in a hostile universe.（A）uncertainty（B）helpless situation（C）profound religious faith（D）courage and perseverance66 Which of the following novels can be regarded as typically belonging to the school of literary modernism?（A）The Sound and the Fury.（B）Uncle Tom's Cabin.（C）Daisy Miller.（D）The Gilded Age.67 Faulkner's novel______describes the decay and downfall of an old southern aristocratic family, symbolizing the old social order, told from four different points of view.（A）The Sound and the Fury（B）Startoris（C）The Unvanquished（D）The Town68 A Rose for Emily is Faulkner's first short story published in 1930. The story focuses on Emily Grierson, aneccentric______who refuses to accept the passage of time. （A）spinster（B）young lady（C）philosopher（D）prophet69 O'Neil's inventiveness seemingly knew no limits. He was constantly experimenting with new styles and forms for his plays, especially during the twenties when______was in full swing.（A）Symbolism（B）Realism（C）Expressionism（D）Romanticism70 ______marks the climax of Eugene O'Neil's literary career and the coming of age of American drama.（A）The Iceman Cometh（B）The Hairy Ape（C）The Emperor Jones（D）Long Day's Journey Into Night71 In the following comments, which is NOT true?（A）Robert Frost is generally considered a regional poet whose subject matters mainly focus on the landscape and people in New England.（B）The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter is actually an adaptation from a classical Chinese poem by LiPo.（C）Bacon's essays are famous for their brevity, compactness and powerfulness.（D）The Pilgrim's Progress is the most successful religious story of conventions in English language.72 In "petals on a wet, black bough", the figure of speech used here is______.（A）metaphor（B）hyperbole（C）pun（D）simile73 ______stems from the ambiguity of the speaker's choice between safety and the unknown.（A）Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening（B）Mending the Wall（C）Home Burial（D）The Road Not Taken74 Robert Frost is a regional poet in the sense that his poems are mainly concerned about the______.（A）life in New York（B）country life in New England（C）sea adventures（D）life on the Mississippi River .75 The Great Gatsby, written by Fitzgerald in 1925, is a story about______who was destroyed by the influence of the wealthy, pleasure-seeking people around him.（A）a vagabond（B）an idealist（C）an eccentric（D）an opportunist76 Emily Grierson, the protagonist in Faulkner's story A Rose for Emily, can be regarded as a symbol standing for all the following qualities EXCEPT______.（A）old values（B）rigid ides of social status（C）bigotry and eccentricity（D）harmony and integrity77 In The Emperor Jones and The Hairy Ape, O'Neil adopted the______to portray the helpless situation of human beings ina hostile universe.（A）expressionist techniques（B）surrealistic approach（C）romantic approach（D）dramatic monologue78 Robert Frost is generally considered as a regional poet in the sense that his subject matters mainly focus on the landscape and people in______.（A）New York（B）the West（C）New England（D）Mid West79 ______wrote about the society in the South by inventing families which represented different social forces: the old decaying upper class; the rising, ambitious, unscrupulous class of the "Poor Whites"; and the Negroes who labored for both of them.（A）Faulkner（B）Fitzgerald（C）Hemingway（D）Steinbeck80 "Nick Adams" is a character who frequently appears in______stories.（A）William Faulkner's（B）Theodore Dreiser's（C）Ernest Hemingway's（D）Mark Twain's81 The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promise to keep, And miles to go before I sleep." The above four lines are taken from______.（A）Dickinson's Because I could not stop for Death—（B）Frost's After Apple-Picking（C）Frost's Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening（D）Dickinson's I heard a Fly buzz—when I died—82 In his masterpiece,______, Pound traces the rise and fall of eastern and western empires, the moral and social chaos ofthe modern world, especially the corruption of America after the heroic time of Jefferson.（A）Make it New（B）Polite Essays（C）The Cantos（D）Confucius83 In After Apple-Picking, Robert Frost wrote: "For I have had too much/Of apple-picking: I am overtired/Of the great harvest I myself desired." From these lines we can conclude that the speaker is______.（A）happy about the harvest（B）wearing out the freshness of apple-picking（C）still desired of apple-picking when seeing the harvest（D）indifferent to what once desired84 Most recognizable literary movement that gave rise to the twentieth-century American literature, or we may say, the second American Renaissance, isthe______movement.（A）expatriate（B）transcendental（C）leftist（D）expressionistic85 Of the following American poets, whose works was first recognized in England and then in America?（A）Robert Frost.（B）Walt Whitman.（C）Emily Dickinson.（D）Wallace Stevens.86 In writing the poem The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter, Pound took its material from the ancient ______poetry.（A）Japanese（B）Chinese（C）French（D）Italian。

考研英语(一)模拟试卷7(题后含答案及解析)

考研英语（一）模拟试卷7(题后含答案及解析) 题型有：1. Use of English 2. Reading Comprehension 3. WritingSection I Use of EnglishDirections: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D. (10 points)Until the late 1940s when television began finding its way into American homes, companies relied mainly on print and radio to promote their products and services. The advent of television【C1】______a revolution in product and service. Between 1949 and 1951, advertising on television grew 960 percent. Today the Internet is once again【C2】______promotion. By going online, companies can communicate instantly and directly with prospective customers. 【C3】______on the World Wide Web includes advertising, sponsorships, and sales promotions【C4】______sweepstakes, contests, coupons, and rebates. In 1996 World Wide Web advertising revenues【C5】______$ 300 million. Effective online marketers don’t 【C6】______transfer hard-copy ads to cyberspace. 【C7】______sites blend promotional and non-promotional information indirectly delivering the advertising messages. To【C8】______visits to their sites and to create and【C9】______customer loyalty, companies change information frequently and provide many opportunities for 【C10】______. A prototype for excellent【C11】______promotion is the Ragu Web site. Here visitors can find thirty-six pasta recipes, take Italian lessons, and view an Italian film festival, 【C12】______they will find no traditional ads. 【C13】______subtle is the mix of product and promotion that visitors hardly know an advertising message has been【C14】______. Sega of America, maker of computer games and hardware, uses its Web site for a【C15】______of different promotions, such as【C16】______new game characters to the public and supplying Web surfers the opportunity to【C17】______games. Sega’s home page averages 250,000 visits a day. To heighten interest in the site, Sega bought an advertising banner on Netscape【C18】______increasing site visits by 15 percent. Online【C19】______in Quaker oats’Gatorade promotion received a free T-shirt in exchange for answering a few questions. Quaker Oats reports that the online promotion created product【C20】______and helped the company know its customers better.1．【C1】A．brought downB．brought aboutC．brought outD．brought up正确答案：B解析：语义衔接题。

[考研类试卷]英语专业（英美文学）模拟试卷5.doc

[考研类试卷]英语专业（英美文学）模拟试卷5.doc[考研类试卷]英语专业（英美文学）模拟试卷5一、填空题1 Walter Scott made a great contribution to English literature in______.2 Jane Austin's novels centered on _____and______.3 Shelley's famous______was borrowed from the Greek play.4 As a leading Romanticist, Byron's chief contribution is his creation of "______", a proud, mysterious rebel figure of noble origin.5 Modern essays originated from Montaigne's______, which were translated into English by Florio and had on extensive influence on English literature.6 The line "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" was held by______.7 The awful shadow of some unseen power, Floats though unseen amongst us, —visiting, This various world with as inconstant wing, As summer winds that creep from flower to flower. This excerpt is selected from______by______.8 John Keats wrote o number of famous odes. In one of them he declared his idea of beauty—beauty is truth and truth is beauty. The title of this famous ode is______.9 The Bonnets are speedily pronounced to be the luckiest family in the world, though only a few weeks before when Lydia had first run away, they had been generally proved to be marked out for misfortune. This quotation is selected from______by______.10 ______'s grave bears the epitaph: "Here lies one whose name writ in water."11 ______, Breaking out of the narrow limits of local colorfiction, described the breadth of American experience as no one had ever done before, or since.12 ______is the novel into which Jack London put most of himself.13 Crane's novel______relates the story of a good woman's downfall and destruction in a slum environment.14 Henry James's first novel is______, which failed to make him famous. In 1881, Henry James published his novel______, which is generally considered as his masterpiece.15 The protagonists of Trilogy of Desire,______, is modeled after the Chicago speculator Charles T. Yerkes.16 There was only one female prose writer in the 19th century. This was______.17 Emily Dickinson's poems have no______, hence are always quoted by their first lines.18 ______became Mark Twain's masterpiece, as Hemingway noted "all modern American literature comes".19 Henry James's The Ambassadors, The Golden Bowl and______are representing the summit of his art and he continues his "international theme" in his third writing career.二、名词解释20 Lake Poets21 Gothic novel22 Canto23 Ottava Rima24 High comedy25 Naturalism26 Regionalism27 Darwinism28 Local Colorists29 The Age of Realism三、单项选择题30 The declaration that "I know that This World is a World of IMAGINATION & Vision," and that "That Nature of my work is visionary or imaginative" belongs to which of the following poets?（A）George Gordon Byron（B）William Wordsworth（C）William Blake（D）Samuel Taylor Coleridge31 The tone of literature in Songs of Experience by William Blake is______.（A）utter（B）lively（C）plain（D）doleful32 The Romantic Period is an age of poetry. Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats are the major poets. They started a rebellion against the neoclassical literature, which was later regarded as______.（A）the poetic romance（B）the poetic movement（C）the poetic revolution（D）the poetic reformation33 "And where are they? And where art thou, My country? On thy voiceless shore The heroic lay is tuneless now—The heroic bosom beats no more!" These lines are taken from______.（A）Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights（B）F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby（C）George Gordon Byron's Don Juan（D）Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre34 Who wrote the poem Men of England!（A）Shelley.（B）Thomas Gray.（C）Walt Whitman.（D）T. S. Eliot.35 "Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep; There, swan-like, let me sing and die; A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine— Dash down yon cup of Samian wine!" These lines are takenfrom______.（A）Song for the Luddites by George Gordon Byron（B）The Solitary Reaper by William Wordsworth（C）Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray （D）The Isles of Greece by George Gordon Byron36 Which of the following comments on the poem Ode to the West Wind is NOT true? （A）The author of the poem is George Gordon Byron.（B）The poem is written in the form of terza rima.（C）The author gathers a wealth of symbolism in this poem.（D）In the poem, the author expresses his eagerness to enjoy the boundless freedom from the reality.37 In terms of Pride and Prejudice, which of the following statements is NOT true?（A）Pride and Prejudice is the most popular of Jane Austen's novels.（B）Pride and Prejudice is originally drafted as "First Impressions".（C）Pride and Prejudice is a tragic novel.（D）Pride and Prejudice is about marriage and love.38 Of the following writers, which is NOT the representative of the Romantic Period?（A）William Blake.（B）John Keats.（C）William Wordsworth.（D）John Bunyan.39 ______by William Blake marks his entry into maturity.（A）Songs of Innocence（B）Marriage of Heaven and Hell（C）Songs of Experience（D）Milton40 William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following EXCEPT______（A）the use of everyday language spoken by the common people（B）the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings（C）the use of humble and rustic life as subject matter（D）the use of elegant wording and inflated figures of speech41 Which of the following is taken from John Keats's Ode ona Grecian Urn?（A）I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!（B）They are both gone up to the church to pray.（C）Earth has not anything to show more fair.（D）Beauty is truth, truth beauty.42 Ode on a Grecian Urn shows the contrast between the______of art and the______of human passion.（A）glory ... ugliness（B）permanence ... transience（C）transience ... sordidness（D）glory... permanence43 Shelley's greatest achievement is his four-act poetic drama,______.（A）Antony and Cleopatra（B）Measure for Measure（C）Too True to Be Good（D）Prometheus Unbound44 ______expresses the contrast between the happy world of natural loveliness and human world of agony.（A）Ode on Melancholy（B）Ode to a Grecian Urn（C）Ode to a Nightingale（D）T o Autumn45 ______is the most delightful of Jane Austen's works.（A）Sense and Sensibility（B）Pride and Prejudice（C）Emma（D）Mansfield Park46 The Romantic Movement expressed a more or less______attitude toward the existing social and political conditions.（A）positive（B）negative（C）neutral（D）indifferent47 It is______who established the cult of the individual and championed the freedom of human spirit.（A）Jean Jacques Rousseau（B）Edmund Burke（C）Thomas Paine（D）Johann Wolfgang von Goethe48 In Marriage of Heaven and Hell, the word "marriage", to Blake, means the______. （A）reconciliation of the contraries （B）subordination of the one to the other（C）co-existence of the conflicting parts（D）fighting of the conflicting parts49 In his poem, "The Chimney Sweeper"(from Songs of Experience), Blake depicted the miseries of the child sweepers in order to reveal the_____ of Christianity.（A）false ideals（B）true faith（C）magic power（D）great ideals50 "Adonais" is an elegy for______whose early death from tuberculosis Shelley believed had been hastened by hostile reviews.（A）John Keats（B）Alfred Tennyson（C）William Blake（D）George Gordon Byron51 "You and the girls may go, or you may send them by themselves, which perhaps will be still better, for as you are as handsome as any of them, Mr. Bingley might like you the best of the party." The above passage is taken from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. The figure of speech used here is______.（A）paradox（B）irony（C）simile（D）hyperbole52 In Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem Kubla Khan, "A sunny pleasure dome with caves of ice"______.（A）symbolizes the reconciliation of the conscious and the unconscious（B）is the gift given to a beautiful girl called Abyssinian（C）vividly describes a building of poor quality（D）refers to the place where Kubla Khan's father once lived53 Jane Austen presents most of the problems of the novel, Pride and Prejudice, from the______ viewpoint.（A）masculine（B）neutral（C）objective（D）feminine54 Shelley's______and The Cenci, Byron's______, and Coleridge's Remorse are generally regarded as the best verse plays in the Romantic Period.（A）Prometheus Unbound/ Mansfred（B）Waverley/ Cain（C）Cain/ Manfred（D）Prometheus Unbound/ Cain55 Generally speaking,______was a writer of the 18th century, though she lived mainly in the 19th century.（A）Mary Shelley（B）Ann Radcliffe（C）Jane Austen（D）George Eliot56 In the poem, She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways, Wordsworth writes: "A violet by a mossy stone / Half hidden from the eye!" The figure of speech used here is______.（A）simile（B）hyperbole（C）metaphor（D）personification57 According to the subjects, Wordsworth's short poems can be classified into two groups: poems about______and poems about______.（A）human life/ universe（B）nature/ human life（C）nature/ society（D）society/ universe58 "And because I am happy and dance and sing, / They think they have done me no injury, / And are gone to praise God and his priest and king, / Who make up a heaven of our misery." The above four lines are taken from______.（A）Songs of Experience（B）Songs of Innocence（C）Poetical Sketches（D）Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard59 Coleridge's actual achievement as a poet can be divided into two remarkably diverse groups: the demonic and the conversational. Which of the following poems belongs to the conversational group?（A）Kubla Khan.（B）Frost at Midnight.（C）Christabel.（D）The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.60 Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well-known for his______.（A）international theme（B）waste-land imagery（C）local color（D）symbolism61 ______is called by Hemingway the one from which "all modern American literature comes."（A）Adventures of Huckleberry Finn（B）The Adventures of Tom Sawyer（C）The Gilded Age（D）Life on the Mississippi62 Who exerts the single most important influence on literary naturalism, of which Theodore Dreiser and Jack London are among the best representative writers?（A）Freud.（B）Darwin.（C）W.D.Howells.（D）Emerson.63 Sister Carrie is a masterpiece of______writing.（A）naturalistic（B）romantic（C）classic（D）neo-classic64 Winterbourne is used as a______in Henry James's Daisy Miller.（A）protagonist（B）narrator of the events（C）a minor character（D）persona65 The novelistic technique of projecting the narrative through feelings and thoughts of the characters, reached a perfected form in the works of______.（A）William Dean Howells（B）Henry James（C）Washington Irving（D）Emily Dickinson66 In Henry James's Daisy Miller, the author tries to portray the young woman as an embodiment of______.（A）the force of convention（B）the free spirit of the New World（C）the decline of aristocracy（D）the corruption of the newly rich67 Which of the following writers is NOT the dominant figure of the Realistic Period in American literature?（A）Herman Melville.（B）William Dean Howells.（C）Henry James.（D）Mark Twain.68 Choose the novel that is NOT written by Henry James.（A）The Ambassadors:（B）The Wings of the Dove.（C）The Bostonians.（D）The Mysterious Stranger.69 Dickinson's poems include poems of______.（A）nature（B）love（C）death（D）all the above70 Emily Dickinson wrote many poems on various aspects of life. Which of the following is NOT a usual subject of her poetic expression?（A）Religion.（B）Life and death.（C）Love and marriage.（D）War and peace.71 ______ explores the scrupulous individualism in a world of fantastic speculation and unstable values, and gives its names to the get-rich-quick years of the post-Civil War era. （A）Innocents Abroad（B）The Gilded Age（C）Roughing It（D）The Middle Years72 The main theme of______The Art of Fiction reveals his literary credo that representation of life should be the main object of the novel.（A）Henry James'（B）Mark Twain's（C）Theodore Dreiser's（D）William Dean Howells'73 Which statement is NOT true in describing American naturalists?（A）They were deeply influenced by Darwinism（B）They were identified with French novelist and theorist Emile Zola（C）They chose their subjects from the lower ranks of society.（D）They used more serious and more sympathetic tone in writing than realists74 In Henry James's Daisy Miller, the "Americanness" in Daisy is revealed byher______.（A）vulgarity in language and taste（B）expensive jewels and clothes（C）lack of grace and patience（D）relatively unreserved manners75 ______, in his "McTeague", describes the relations of a crude dentist, who is compared to a draft-horse, a dog, a bear, with a superficially refined German-American girl.（A）Theodore Dreiser（B）Frank Norris（C）Henry James（D）Mark Twain76 _____ is an account of American tourists in Europe which pokes fun at the pretentious, decadent and undemocratic Old World in a satirical tone.（A）The Adventures of Tom Sawyer（B）Innocents Abroad（C）A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court（D）Roughing it77 The raft on which Huck and Jim float along the river in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn may symbolize all the following EXCEPT______.（A）spiritual freedom（B）escape from different sorts of social oppression（C）mobility and instability（D）a small society where people of different color can live like brothers78 Which of the following statements about Emily Dickinson is true?（A）Since she scarcely goes out of her house, she pays little attention to the outside world.（B）She prefers to explore the inner life of herself rather than the social one.（C）She is strongly influenced by Calvinism and has a firm belief in after-life.（D）She is not interested in love because she herself never gets married.79 Here are a few lines from a poem: "With Blue—uncertain stumbling Buzz— / Between the light— and me— / And then the Windows failed—and then /1 could not see to see— . The poem must be______.（A）Emily Dickinson's / heard a Fly buzz— when I died—（B）Edgar Allen Poe's Annabel Lee（C）Walt Whitman's Song of Myself（D）Robert Frost's After Apple-Picking80 Theodore Dreiser gives his novel the title of An American Tragedy mostly because______.（A）he tries to give an ironical meaning to the story（B）he attempts to reproduce an authentic trial fictionally （C）he is surprised that such tragedy should happen in America（D）it is the typical thing that can happen to an American in the pursuit of riches81 Theodore Dreiser's forgiving treatment of the career of his heroine in______also draws heavily upon the naturalistic understanding of sexuality.（A）McTeague（B）An American Tragedy（C）Sister Carrie（D）The Genius82 One of the characteristics that have made Mark Twain one of the major literary figures in the 19thcentury American literature is the use of______.（A）vernacular（B）interior monologue（C）point of view（D）photographic description83 Winterbourne is used as a narrator of the events in Henry James's______..（A）The American（B）Daisy Miller（C）The Turn of the Screw（D）The Wings of the Dove84 ______is described by Mark Twain as a boy with "a sound heart and a deformed conscience."（A）Tom Sawyer（B）Huckleberry Finn（C）Jim（D）T ony85 The Way of the Beaten: A Harp in the Wind this is the title of one chapter in Dreiser's novel______.（A）An American Tragedy（B）Sister Carrie（C）Dreiser Looks at Russia（D）Jannie Gerhardt86 The author of The Portrait of a Lady is best at ______.（A）probing into the secret part of human life（B）an incarnation of the clash between the Old World and the New in the life journey of an American girl in a European cultural environment（C）a truthful description of the motives, the impulses, the principles that shape the lives of actual men and women （D）disclosing the social injustices and evils of a civilizedsociety after the Civil War87 During the period after the Civil War, the American society entered in what Mark Twain referred to as______.（A）the Golden Age（B）the Puritan Age（C）the Gilded Age。

[考研类试卷]英语专业(英美文学)模拟试卷6.doc

[考研类试卷]英语专业（英美文学）模拟试卷6一、填空题1 ______is often given the credit for the discovery of the modern novel; but whether or not he deserves that honor remains an open question.2 "If the censure of Yahoo could any way affect me, I should have great reason to complain that some of them are so bold as to think my book of travels a mere fiction out of mine own brain." This question is selected from______.3 Henry Fielding has been regarded as "______", for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.4 British novel came of age in______.5 The Vicar of Wakefield is the only novel of______, which describes misfortunes falling on the central character and the family.6 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by______is taken a model of sentimentalist poetry, esp. the Graveyard school.7 Friday is a character in the novel______.8 Among the representatives of the Enlightenment,______was the first to introduce rationalism to England.9 Essay on Criticism is a didactic poem written in the form of______.10 Auld Lang Syne written by______deals with the friendship and has long become a universal parting-song of all the English-speaking countries.11 War in Crane's novel______is a plain slaughterhouse. There is nothing like valor or heroism on the battlefield, and if there is anything, it is the fear of death, cowardice, the natural instinct of man to run form danger.12 The literary career of Henry James is generally divided into______periods, in the first period(1865-1882), James took great interest in______theme.13 The name of the heroine in the Portrait of a Lady was______.14 ______was the first literary giant born west of the Mississippi.15 Dreiser visited the Soviet Union in 1927 and published______the following year.16 Mrs. Stowe's masterpiece is______.17 ______influences American literature a lot and led American romanticism turn into American realism.18 Mark Twain made a more extensive combination of______and______than previous writers had ever done.二、名词解释19 The Graveyard School20 Satire21 Classicism22 The Heroic Couplet23 Meter24 The Age of Realism25 American Naturalism26 Darwinism27 Regionalism28 First-person narrative三、单项选择题29 ______is the most successful religious allegory in the English language.（A）Genesis A（B）Exodus（C）The Pilgrim's Progress（D）The Holy War30 The object of______novels was to present a faithful picture of life, "the just copies of human manners", with sound teaching woven into their texture, so as to teach them to know themselves, their proper spheres and appropriate manners.（A）John Bunyan's（B）Alexander Pope's（C）Jonathan Swift's（D）Henry Fielding's31 Of all the 18th century novelists,______was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a "comic epic in prose".（A）Henry Fielding（B）Daniel Defoe（C）John Bunyan（D）Jonathan Swift32 ______was very much concerned with the theme of the vanity of human wishes and tried to awaken men to this folly and hoped to cure them of it through his writing.（A）Samuel Johnson（B）Jonathan Swift（C）Richard Brinsley Sheridan（D）Thomas Gray33 The Rivals and______are generally regarded as important links between the masterpieces of Shakespeare and those of Bernard Shaw.（A）The School for Scandal（B）The Duenna（C）Widowers Houses（D）The Doctor's Dilemma34 ______is a sharp satire on the moral degeneracy of the aristocratic-bourgeois society in the 18th century England.（A）The Rivals（B）Gulliver's Travels（C）Tom Jones（D）The School for Scandal35 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,______best and most representative work has been ranked among the best of the 18th century English Poetry.（A）Alexander Pope's（B）Thomas Gray's（C）Samuel Johnson's（D）William Blake's36 As the representative of the Enlightenment, Pope was one of the first to introduce______to England.（A）rationalism（B）criticism（C）romanticism（D）realism37 The Enlightenment Movement did not advocate_____.（A）rationality, reason, order and rules（B）return to the ancient classical works（C）inner feelings of individuals（D）universal education38 An Essay on Criticism is a didactic poem written in______.（A）heroic couplets（B）English sonnet（C）bland verse（D）Italian sonnet39 Which of the following comments on Thomas Gray's poetry is NOT true? （A）Distorted in word order.（B）Highly artificial in diction.（C）Calculated in rhythm.（D）Light-hearted in tone.40 In The Life of Jonathan Wild the Great the word "great" is used______.（A）allegorically（B）satirically（C）objectively（D）euphemistically41 By writing in apparently admiring terms of the life of a notorious criminal in The Life of Jonathan Wild the Great Henry Fielding suggests that there is little difference between______.（A）noted rogues and great politicians（B）the nobles and the commons（C）great rogues and lesser rogues.（D）discovered criminals and secret sinners42 What makes Jonathan Swift's satire all the more bitter, biting and poignant is that his satire is often masked by______on the part of the author.（A）an apparent eagerness, gravity, sincerity and detachment in tone（B）a softness and persuasiveness in manner and firmness and thoroughness in action （C）a strong indignation in tone and open defiance and challenge（D）a friendliness and frankness in tone and the seeming indifference and nonchalance43 Henry Fielding adopted "the third-person narration", which enables the author to present as the ______ not only the characters' external behavior but also the internal workings of their minds.（A）all-knowing God（B）intimate participant（C）invisible man（D）ignorant narrator44 The novel, which prospered in the hands of Swift, Defoe and Fielding, gives a realistic presentation of life of the common English people. This is quite contrary to the traditional ______of aristocrats.（A）elegy（B）epic（C）romance（D）morality play45 The chief force that motivated John Bunyan to write The Pilgrim's Progress was his______.（A）political commitment（B）religious fervency（C）artistic pursuit.（D）long suffering in the person46 As a result of the conscientious study he made of the Bible, Bunyan's language was______.（A）satiric, concise and well-balanced（B）concrete, living and colloquial（C）general, Latinate and polysyllabic（D）comic, neat and decent47 The enlighteners believed that if the masses were well educated, there would be greater chance for a______human society.（A）reasonable（B）progressive（C）democratic（D）enlightened48 Alexander Pope's An Essay on Criticism is a(n)______poem.（A）ironic（B）didactic（C）sarcastic（D）exaggerated49 The tone of Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels is______.（A）sad（B）sarcastic（C）praising（D）detached50 The______was a progressive intellectual movement throughout western Europe in the 18th century.（A）Renaissance（B）Enlightenment（C）Religious Reformation（D）Chartist Movement51 During the reign of reason the enlightenment meant education of people to free them from all the unreasonable fetters which include______.（A）theology（B）conventional ideology（C）feudal government（D）all the above52 Which of the following is NOT Samuel Johnson's work?（A）London.（B）Tom Jones.（C）Lives of the Poets.（D）A Dictionary of the English Language.53 "Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?" The above passage is taken from______.（A）Francis Bacon's Of Studies（B）William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice（C）Samuel Johnson's To the Right Honorable the Earl of Chesterfield（D）Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal54 The 18th century witnesses a new literary form — the modern English novel, which, contrary to the medieval romance, gives a______presentation of life of the common English people.（A）romantic（B）idealistic（C）prophetic（D）realistic55 In Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, Thomas Gray compared the common folk with the great ones, wondering what the commons could have achieved if they had had the______.（A）chance（B）love（C）money（D）material sources56 When he writes, in An Essay on Criticism, "A vile conceit in pompous words expressed, / Is like a clown in regal purple dresses," Alexander Pope means that______. （A）pompous words are always destructive to good taste（B）the purple color is for the royal only and it is ridiculous to dress a clown in purple （C）conceits are always misleading（D）true wit is best set in a plain style57 "The shepherd in Virgin grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of rocks."(Samuel Johnson's To the Right Honorable the Earl of Chesterfield)The speaker here is______.（A）cheerful（B）ironic（C）mysterious（D）nonchalant58 "He has a servant called Friday." "He" in the quoted sentence is a character in______. （A）Henry Fielding's Tom Jones（B）John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress（C）Richard Bringsley Sheridan's The School for Scandal（D）Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe59 Which of the following is NOT written by Theodore Dreiser?（A）The Genius.（B）The Titan.（C）Light in August.（D）Jennie Gerhardt.60 One of the most familiar themes in American naturalism is the theme of human"______".（A）bestiality（B）goodness（C）compassion（D）greed61 Which of the following writings is NOT a poem of Emily Dickinson's?（A）This is my letter to the World.（B）I heard a Fly buzz—When I died.（C）The Road Not Taken.（D）I like to see it lap the Miles.62 Mark Twain created, in______, a masterpiece of American realism that is also one of the great books of world literature.（A）Huckleberry Finn（B）Tom Sawyer（C）The Man That Corrupted Hadleybury（D）The Gilded Age63 What is the analogy that Emily Dickinson uses in her poem Because I Could not Stop for Death?（A）Horse and carriage.（B）Stage and performance.（C）Cloud and shade.（D）Ship and harbor.64 Here is a passage from a novel: "The man gave him a last push and closed the door. As he did so, Hurstwood slipped and fell in the snow. It hurt him, and some vague sense of shame returned. He began to cry and swear foolishly. The novel must be______. （A）Dreiser's Sister Carrie（B）Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath（C）London's Martin Eden（D）Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer65 However, innocence, the keynote of Daisy Miller's character, turns out to be an admiring but dangerous quality and her______of social taboos in the Old World finally brings her to a disaster in the clash between two different cultures.（A）admiration（B）defiance（C）sympathy（D）disgusting8. American66 In Henry James Daisy Miller, the author tries to portray the protagonist as an embodiment of______.（A）the force of convention（B）the decline of aristocracy（C）the free spirit of the New World（D）the corruption of the new rich67 The three dominant figures of the American Realistic Period are William Dean Howells, Mark Twain, and______.（A）Emily Dickinson（B）Henry James（C）Theodore Dreiser（D）Ezra Pound68 As a naturalist writer, Theodore Dreiser was greatly influenced by______.（A）Nathaniel Hawthorne（B）Charles Darwin（C）Henry James（D）Ralph Waldo Emerson69 Henry James's idea of realism differs from that of the other realist writers because his emphasis is on man's______.（A）language（B）inner world（C）surroundings（D）real actions70 Emily Dickinson got inspiration from______in her writing of poetry.（A）hymns（B）sonnets（C）free verse（D）heroic couplets71 Henry James is mostly concerned with______in his fiction.（A）the inner life of human beings（B）violent events in history（C）small-town life in backward regions（D）sufferings of the aged72 "Even then he stood there, hidden wholly in that kindness which is night, while the uprising fumes filled the room. When the odor reached his nostrils, he quit his attitude and fumbled for the bed. 'What's the use?' he said, weakly, as he stretched himself to rest." The passage is taken from______.（A）Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence（B）Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte（C）Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser（D）Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte73 ______, a novella about a young American girl who gets "killed" by the winter in Rome, brought its author international fame for the first time.（A）The American（B）Daisy Miller（C）The Portrait of a Lady（D）The Europeans74 By the end of Sister Carrie, Dreiser writes: "It was forever to be the pursuit of that radiance of delight which tints the distant hilltops of the world." Dreiser impliesthat______.（A）there is a bright future lying ahead（B）one should always have forward looking（C）one can never fulfill one's desire（D）happiness is found in the end75 After Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Twain gives a literary independence to Tom's buddy Huck in a book entitled______.（A）Life on the Mississippi（B）The Gilded Age（C）The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn（D）A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court76 However,______, the keynote of Daisy Miller's character, turns out to be an admiring but a dangerous quality and her defiance of social taboos in the Old World finally brings her to a disaster in the clash between two different cultures.（A）experience（B）sophistication（C）worldliness（D）innocence77 "I was letting on to give up sin, but always inside of me I was holding on to the biggest one of all. The sentence, which is taken from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, is written in a(n)______tone.（A）ironic（B）regretful（C）sincere（D）delightful78 In I heard a fly buzz — When I died and Because I could not stop for Death, Emily Dickinson's attitude toward death is that of______.（A）eager embrace（B）helpless anxiety（C）peaceful acceptance（D）terrified despair79 ______is considered to be Theodore Dreiser's greatest work.（A）An American Tragedy（B）Sister Carrie（C）The Financier（D）The Titan80 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is best known for Mark Twain's wonderful characterization of "______" a typical American boy.（A）Jim（B）Tom Sawyer（C）Huck（D）Miss Watson81 Where Mark Twain satirized European manners at times,______was an admirer.（A）O. Henry（B）Henry James（C）Walt Whitman（D）Jack London82 With Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the literary scene,______became the major trend in American literature in the seventies and eighties of the 19th century.（A）sentimentalism（B）romanticism（C）realism（D）naturalism83 In the following writers,______is regarded as "the true father of our national literature."（A）H. L. Menken（B）Mark Twain（C）Frank Noris（D）Theodore Dreiser84 The sentence "only the fittest can survive in a competitive, amoral society" may be regarded as an appropriate summary of______.（A）Jack London's Martin Eden（B）Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls（C）Dreiser's Sister Carrie（D）Melville's Moby Dick85 ______was the first American writer to conceive his career in international terms. （A）Washington Irving（B）T. S. Eliot（C）Ezra Pound（D）Henry James86 Compared with the writings of Mark Twain's, Henry James's fiction is noted for their______.（A）frontier vernacular（B）rich colloquialism（C）refined elegant language（D）vulgarly descriptive words87 In Sister Carrie, Hurstwood, extremely hopeless and totally devastated, ends his life by turning on the gas, while at the same time Carrie is rocking comfortably in her luxurious hotel room before she boards a ship for______.（A）New York（B）London（C）Paris（D）Geneva88 Which of the following best describes the young woman in Henry James's Daisy Miller?（A）She is an embodiment of the force of convention.（B）She means the decline of aristocracy.（C）She represents the free spirit of the New World.（D）She is reflection of the corruption of the newly rich.四、问答题89 "Most mighty Emperor of Lilliput, delight and terror of he universe, whose dominions extend five thousand blustrugs(about twelve miles in circumference)to the extremities of the globe; Monarch of all Monarchs; taller than the sons of men; whose feet press down to the center, and whose head strikes against the sun; at whose nod the princes of the earth shake their knees; pleasant as spring, comfortable as summer, fruitful as autumn, dreadful as winter."A. Identify the work and the author.B. What is the tone of the author?C. What does the author parody here?90 "I consulted several things in my situation which I found would be proper for me: first, health and fresh water I just now mentioned; secondly, shelter from the heat of thesun; thirdly, security from ravenous creatures, whether men or beasts; fourthly, a view to the sea, that if God sent any ship in sight, I might not lose any advantage for my deliverance, of which I was not willing to banish all my expectation yet.A. Identify the author and the title of the novel from which this passage is taken.B. Who is the narrator?C. Explain the meaning of the last thing mentioned in the passage.91 "When each of the combatants had borne off sufficient spoils of hair from the head of her antagonist, the next rage was against the garments. In this attack they exerted so much violence, that in a very few minutes they were both naked to the middle.A. Identify the author and the title of the work from which this passage is taken.B. What is the passage describing?C. What are the names of the two combatants?92 "Some to conceit alone their taste confines,And glittering thoughts struck out at every line;Pleased with a work where nothing's just or fit,One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.Poets, like painters, thus unskilled to traceThe naked nature and the living grace,With gold and jewels cover every part,And hide with ornaments their want of art.True wit is Nature to advantage dressed,What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed;"A. Identify the author and the work.B. What idea does the poem express?C. What is the significance of the poem?93 "I had sent so many memorials and petitions for my liberty, that his Majesty at length mentioned the matter first in the cabinet, and then in a full council; where it was opposed by none, except Skyresh Bolgolam, who was pleased, without any provocation, to be my mortal enemy.A. Identify the author and the work.B. Who is this "Skyresh Bolgolam"?C. Why does the author make Skyresh Bolgoalm a mortal enemy of the narrator?94 "This is my letter to the WorldThat never wrote to me—The simple News that Nature told—With tender Majesty"A. Identify the poet.B. What does the word "World" refer to?C. What idea does the quoted passage express?95 "It is when the feet weary and hope seems vain that the heartaches and the longings arise. Know, then, that for you is neither surfeit nor content. In your rocking-chair, by your window dreaming, shall you long, alone. In your rocking-chair, by your window, shall you dream such happiness as you may never feel."A. Identify the author and the title of the work from which the passage is taken.B. What does the rocking-chair symbolize?C. How do you classify this novel?96 "I like to see it lap the Miles—And lick the Valleys up—And stop to feed itself at Tanks—And then—prodigious step"A. Please give the name of the poet.B. What does "it" in this poem refer to?C. What idea does this poem express?97 Isabel always felt an impulse to pull out the pins; not that she imagined they inflicted any damage on the tough old parchment, but because it seemed to her her aunt might make better use of her sharpness. She was very critical herself— it was incidental to her sex, and her antionalit but she was very sentimental as well, and there was something in Mrs. Touchett's dryness that set her own moral fountains flowing."Now what's your point of view?" she asked of her aunt. "When you criticize everything here you should have a point of view. Yours doesn't seem to be American you thought everything over there so disagreeable. When I have time; it's thoroughly American!" "My dear young lady", said Mrs. Touchett, "there are as many points of view in the world as there are people of sense to take them. You may say that doesn't make them very numerous. American? Never in the world; that's shockingly narrow, my point of views, thank God, is personal!"A. What is the name of the novel from which this passage is taken?B. Who is the author of this novel?C. Make a brief comment on the heroine Isable Arther.D. What is Jamesian theme?五、论述题98 Give a brief comment on Alexander Pope's literary outlook.99 What's the theme of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The School for Scandal?100 Robinson Crusoe is universally regarded as Daniel Defoe's masterpiece. Give some reasons for its success.101 As a rule, an allegory is a story in verse or prose with a double meaning: a surface meaning, and an implied meaning. List two works as examples of allegory. What is an allegory usually concerned with by its implied meaning?102 Give a brief comment on Enlightenment Movement.103 What makes Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn more than a child's adventure story? Briefly discuss the question from THREE of the following aspects: the setting, the language, the character(s), the theme and the style.104 "Even then he stood there, hidden wholly in that kindness which is night, while the uprising fumes filled the room. When the odor reached his nostrils, he quit his attitude and fumbled for the bed. 'What's the use?' he said, weakly, as he stretched himself to rest." The above is quoted from Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie. Briefly tell the situation that leads to the suicide and interpret Hurstwood's final words — "what's the use?"105 Why are naturalists inevitably pessimistic in their view? Please discuss the above question in relation to the basic principles of literary naturalism.106 In American literature what is the significance of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain?107 What are the similarities and differences between the three literary giants, Howells, Mark Twain, Henry James, in terms of their literary orientation?。

[考研类试卷]英语专业(英美文学)模拟试卷8.doc

[考研类试卷]英语专业（英美文学）模拟试卷8一、填空题1 Jonathan Swift's famous prose work______is a satirical dialogue between the Ancients and the Moderns in the character of the Bee and the Spider.2 ______is William Blake's most important prose work, which is the manifesto of his spiritual independence.3 Modern English novel arose in the______century.4 ______was a progressive intellectual movement going on throughout Europe in the 18th century.5 Dr. Primrose is the central character of the novel______.6 The cross that Crusoe erects on the island serves______.7 The English novel as a genre began to prosper in the______century.8 John Bunyan's style was modeled after that of the English______, with concrete and living language and carefully observed and vividly presented details.9 The Rape of the Lock by Pope is written in the form of a mock______, which describes the triviality of high society in a grand style.10 In England, Neoclassicism was initiated by Dryden, culminated in Pope, and continued by______.11 The______of the 1930s greatly weakened the American nation's self-confidence.12 In 1920, Sinclair Lewis published his memorable denunciation of American small-town Provincialism in______.13 The______County is a legendary kingdom created by Faulkner.14 Pound was the leader of a new movement in poetry which he called the "______" movement.15 After his death, Stevens previously uncollected works appeared in the title of______.16 In 1954, Hemingway was awarded a______for his "mastery of the art of modern narration".17 Fitzgerald's first novel______, with its portrayal of casual dissipations of "flaming youth", was an immediate commercial success.18 ______is the first American to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature, but still he is called the worst important writer in American literature.19 ______had been called "the first step that American fiction has taken since Henry James" by T. S. Eliot.20 ______combined traditional verse forms with a clear American local speech rhythm, forming his own characteristic.二、名词解释21 Elegy22 Allegory23 Parable24 Didactic25 Neoclassicism26 The Lost Generation27 Anti-novel28 Hemingway Hero29 Impressionism30 Jazz age三、单项选择题31 Which of the following is NOT found in comedy of manners with Sheridan's The School for Scandal as the best representative work?（A）Wit.（B）Mistaken identity.（C）Sentimentalism.（D）Dialogue.32 In the lines "With gold and jewels cover every part, /And hide with ornaments their want of art"(An Essay on Criticism), Pope rejects______.（A）the "Follow Nature" fallacy（B）artificiality（C）good taste（D）aesthetic order33 Daniel Defoe describes ______as a typical English middle-class man of the eighteenth century, the very prototype of the empire builder or the pioneer colonist. （A）Tom Jones（B）Gulliver（C）Moll Flanders（D）Robinson Crusoe34 "To be so distinguished is an honor, which, being very little accustomed to favors from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge." The above quoted sentence is presented by Samuel Johnson with a(n)______tone.（A）delightful（B）jealous（C）ironic（D）humorous35 ______is a typical feature of Swift's writings.（A）Bitter satire（B）Elegant style（C）Casual narration（D）Complicated sentence structure36 The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan is often said to be concerned with the search for______.（A）material wealth（B）spiritual salvation（C）universal truth（D）self-fulfillment37 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）comic epic（C）romance（D）lyric epic38 The Houyhnhnms depicted by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's. Travels are______.（A）horses that are endowed with reason（B）pigmies that are endowed with admirable qualities（C）giants that are superior in wisdom（D）hairy, wild, low and despicable creatures, who resemble human beings not only in appearance but also in some other ways39 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 Lost（C）Alexander Pope's An Essay on Criticism（D）Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream40 The phrase "To urge people to abide by Christian doctrines and to seek salvation through constant struggles with their own weaknesses and all kinds of social evils" may well sum up the implied meaning of______ .（A）Gulliver's Travels（B）The Rape of the Lock（C）Robinson Crusoe（D）The Pilgrim's Progress41 Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels is the greatest______work in English literature.（A）realistic（B）satiric（C）romantic（D）sentimental42 The 18th century England is known as the______in the history.（A）Romanticism（B）Enlightenment（C）Classicism（D）Renaissance43 "Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds;" The above stanza is taken from______.（A）Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard（B）The Passionate Shepherd to His Love（C）Hamlet（D）Paradise Lost44 The following comments on John Bunyan are wrong EXCEPT______.（A）He was a stout Puritan.（B）Bunyan's works belong to Gothic novels.（C）Bunyan's style is different from that of the English Bible.（D）A Modest Proposal is his representative work.45 "Hold! See whether it is or not before you go to the door — I have a particular message for you if it should be my brother." The two sentences are found in______. （A）The Scheming Lieutenant（B）Wuthering Heights（C）The School for Scandal（D）The Rivals46 Statement"______" is NOT true in describing Gothic novel.（A）Gothic novel is a type of romantic fiction（B）Gothic novel predominated in the early 18th century（C）Its principal elements are violence, horror and supernatural（D）The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe is typical Gothic romance47 ______is the most successful religious allegory in the English language.（A）The Rivals（B）The Pilgrim's Progress（C）The Life and Death of Mr. Badman（D）Paradise Lost48 Among the representatives of the Enlightenment, who was the first to introduce rationalism to England?（A）John Bunyan.（B）Daniel Defoe.（C）Jonathan Swift.（D）Alexander Pope.49 Fielding has been termed by some as "______", for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.（A）Best Writer of the English Novel（B）Father of the English Novel（C）conventional writer of the English Prose（D）the most talented writer of the English Novel50 Which of the following statements on The Neoclassical Period is NOT true?（A）The Neoclassical Period is prior to the Romantic Period.（B）Henry Fielding is one of the representatives of the Neoclassical Period.（C）The modern English novel came into being in the Neoclassical Period.（D）The Neoclassical Period is also known as the Age of Enlightenment.51 Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Samuel Johnson's language style? （A）His sentences are long and well-structured.（B）His sentences are interwoven with parallel phrases.（C）He tends to use informal and colloquial words.（D）His sentences are complicated, but his thoughts are clearly expressed.52 Samuel Johnson was the______great neoclassicist enlightener in the later 18th century.（A）last（B）only（C）first（D）merely53 In Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, Thomas Gray reveals his sympathy for______, but mocks the great ones who despise them and bring havoc on them. （A）the middle class（B）the landlords（C）the poor and the unknown（D）the working class54 Which of the following comments on the Enlightenment Movement is NOT true? （A）It advocated individual education.（B）The purpose of the movement was to enlighten the whole world.（C）The Enlightenment Movement flourished in France.（D）The Enlightenment Movement was a furtherance of the Renaissance.55 In the first part of Gulliver's Travels, Gulliver told his experience in______.（A）Lilliput（B）Brobdingnag（C）Houyhnhnm（D）England56 In the theatrical world of the neoclassical period,______was the leading figure among the host of playwrights.（A）Richard Bringsley Sheridan（B）George Bernard Shaw（C）Ben Johnson（D）William Blake57 Alexander Pope strongly advocated______, emphasizing that literary works should be judged by classical rules of order, reason, logic, restrained emotion, good taste and decorum.（A）neoclassicism（B）sentimentalism（C）idealism（D）romanticism58 The following comments on Daniel Defoe are true EXCEPT "______".（A）In his novels, his sympathy for the downtrodden, unfortunate poor is shown（B）He was a member of the upper class（C）Robinson Crusoe is universally considered his masterpiece（D）Robinson Crusoe is his first novel59 The Dunciad is generally considered to be Pope's best______work.（A）praising（B）allegorical（C）satiric（D）fabulous60 "The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike the inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave." In the above quoted stanza, Thomas Gray tries to say that great family, power, beauty and wealth______.（A）will never prevent people no matter who they are from reaching their final destination—grave（B）are the very best things to lead people to their glories（C）will inevitably make people realize their glorious dreams（D）will never make people lead to the same destination—paths of glory61 ______, disregarding grammar and punctuation, always used "i" instead of "I" to refer to himself as a protest against self-importance.（A）Wallace Stevens（B）E. E. Cummings（C）Robert Frost（D）William Carlos Williams62 Which of the following statements about writers in 1920s is TRUE?（A）F. Scott Fitzgerald received the Nobel Prize.（B）Most writers were politically radical.（C）Freudian psychology influenced many modern writers.（D）Mark Twain published his last and most important novel.63 ______sought inspiration from the east in his poetry writing.（A）Walt Whitman（B）Emily Dickinson（C）T.S.Eliot（D）Ezra Pound64 Hemingway won his Nobel Prize for the book entitled______.（A）The Sun Also Rises（B）A Farewell to Arms（C）The Old Man and the Sea（D）For Whom the Bell Tolls65 Sherwood Anderson explores the motivations and frustrations of his fictional characters in terms of Freud's theory of psychology, particularly in one book entitled______.（A）Winesburg, Ohio（B）Babbit（C）The Grapes of Wrath（D）The Catcher in the Rye66 Sinclair Lewis Babbit presents a documentary picture of the narrow andlimited______.（A）up-class mind（B）middle-class mind（C）proletarian（D）ordinary people67 William Faulkner's works mainly concern the American______.（A）New England（B）Mid West（C）South（D）West68 A typical modern work will NO longer have ONE of the following statements as its trademark, that is, a______ .（A）record of sequence and coherence（B）book that begins arbitrarily, advances without explanation, and end without solution（C）juxtaposition of the past and present, of the history and memory（D）book of fragments drawn from diverse areas of experience69 Statement"______" is NOT true in describing Ezra Pound.（A）He is a leading spokesman of the "Imagist Movement"（B）His famous one-image poem In a Station of the Metro would serve as a typical example of the Imagist ideas（C）A Pact is his masterpiece（D）He was politically controversial70 The leading playwright of the modern period in American literature, if not the most successful in all his experiments, is______.（A）Arthur Miller（B）Tennessee William（C）George Bernard Shaw（D）Eugene O'Neil71 ______is not among those greatest figures in modern American literature.（A）Ezra Pound（B）Robert Frost（C）Walt Whitman（D）William Carlos Williams72 From Eugene O'Neil's works, we can see he is______.（A）a man of apathy（B）a man of inactivity（C）a man of pessimism（D）a man of optimism73 F. Scott Fitzgerald is NOT the author of______.（A）The Great Gatsby（B）In Our Time（C）Tender is the Night（D）This Side of Paradise74 The Hemingway Code heroes are best remembered for their______.（A）indestructible spirit（B）pessimistic view of life（C）war experiences（D）masculinity75 As he is a leading spokesman of the "Imagist Movement",______famous one-image poem In a Station of the Metro would serve as a typical example of the imagist ideas. （A）T. S. Eliot's（B）Robert Frost's（C）Ezra Pound's（D）Wallace Stevens's76 Which of the following statements about Faulkner is NOT true?（A）Indian Camp is Faulkner's masterpiece.（B）Almost all his heroes turn out to be tragic.（C）Most of Faulkner's works are set in the American South, with his emphasis on the Southern subjects and consciousness.（D）Faulkner has always been regarded as a man with great might of invention and experimentation.77 Robert Frost is a regional poet in the sense that his poems depict mostly______.（A）the frontier life（B）the sea adventures（C）Puritan community（D）the landscape and people in New England78 In A Rose for Emily, Faulkner makes best use of the______devices in narration.（A）Romantic（B）Realistic（C）Gothic（D）Modernist79 Which of the following works by Faulkner involves Shakespearean allusion in its title?（A）The Sound and the Fury（B）Light in August（C）Absalom, Absalom!（D）Go Down, Moses80 Apart from the dislocation of time and the modern stream-of-consciousness, the other narrative techniques Faulkner used to construct his stories include______, symbolism and mythological and biblical allusions.（A）multiple points of views（B）first person point of view（C）expressionism（D）impressionism81 In a class, which discusses the Imagist Movement in the United States, we will definitely NOT include______.（A）William Carlos Williams（B）Ezra Pound（C）Ernest Hemingway（D）Wallace Stevens82 "A week later the mayor wrote her himself, offering to call or to send his car for her, and received in reply a note on paper of an archaic shape, in a thin, flowing calligraphy in faded ink, to the effect that she no longer went out at all. The tax notice was also enclosed, without comment." The above two sentences must be taken from______.（A）Irving's story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow（B）James's story Daisy Miller（C）Faulkner's story A Rose for Emily（D）Hemingway's story Indian Camp83 Lots of people rushed to Gatsby's party at the weekend and they clustered around Gatsby's wealth like______.（A）gluttons（B）flies（C）insects（D）moths84 Chinese poetry and philosophy have exerted great influence over______.（A）Ralph Waldo Emerson（B）Emily Dickinson（C）Robert Frost（D）Ezra Pound85 Of the following American writers,______has not won the Nobel Prize.（A）William Faulkner（B）Ernest Hemingway（C）F. Scott Fitzgerald（D）John Steinbeck86 Fitzgerald's fictional world is the best embodiment of the spirit of______.（A）the Jazz Age（B）the Romantic Period（C）the Renaissance Period（D）the Neoclassical Period87 Which of the following comments on the novel The Great Gatsby is NOT true?（A）The Great Gatsby is a novel that is set against the ending of the war.（B）Gatsby is wealthy but unintelligent and brutal.（C）Gatsby is a mystical figure whose intensity of dream partakes of a state of mind that embodies America itself.（D）Gatsby is the last of the romantic heroes.88 "Grace under pressure" is a major feature of______'s novel.（A）Theodore Dreiser（B）Ernest Hemingway（C）William Faulkner（D）Henry James89 Yank's sense of belonging nowhere, hence homeless and rootless. The Hairy Ape is thus a play that concerns the problem of modern man's______.（A）love（B）development（C）harmonious relations（D）identity90 The statement that a poor young man from the West trying to make his fortune in the East but disillusioned in the quest of an idealized dream may well sum up the themeof______.（A）The Hairy Ape（B）For Whom the Bell Tolls（C）Go Down, Moses（D）The Great Gatsby四、问答题91 "But now Fortune, fearing she had acted out of character, and had inclined too long to the same side, hastily turned about: for now Goody Brown — whom Zekiel Brown caressed in his arms; nor he alone, but half the parish besides; so famous was she in the fields of Venus, for indeed less in those of Mars. The trophies of both these her husband always bore about on his head and face; for if ever human head did by its horns display the amorous glories, of a wife, Zekiel's did. Nor his well-scratched face less denote her talents(or rather talons)of a different kind."A. Identify the author and the work.B. What are the tone and style of this quoted passage?C. Why does the author use Venus, Mars and other allusions to describe Goody Brown?92 "Others for language all their care express,And value books, as women men, for dress.Their praise is still—the style is excellent:The sense they humbly take upon content."A. Identify the author and the title of the work from which this passage is taken.B. What does the phrase "take upon content" mean?C. What is the author's main concern in this passage?93 "Now, as I said, the way to the Celestial City lies just through this town where his lusty fair is kept; and he that will go to the city, and yet not go through this town, must needs 'go out of the world'. The Prince of princes himself, when here, went through this town to his own country, and that upon a fair day, too."A. Identify the author and the work.B. What does the "Prince of princes" refer to?C. What idea does the passage express?94 "False eloquence, like the prismatic glass,Its gaudy colors spreads on every place;The face of Nature we no more survey,All glares alike, without distinction gay.A. Identify the author and the work.B. What does the phrase "False eloquence" mean?C. What idea does the stanza express?95 "Such impression did this make upon me, that after the storm was over, I laid aside all my works, my building and fortifying, and applied myself to make bags and boxes to separate the powder, and to keep it a little and a little in a parcel, in hope, that whatever might come, it might not all take fire at once and to keep it so apart that it should not be possible to make one part fire another: I finished this in about a fortnight, and I think my powder, which in all was about 240 lb. weight, was divided in not less than a hundred parcels; as to the barrel that had been wet, I did not apprehend any danger from that, so I placed it in my new cave, which in my fancy I called my kitchen, and the rest I hid up and down holes among the rocks, so that not wet might come to it, marking very carefully where I laid it.A. Identify the author and the work.B. What does the passage mean?C. Why does the author use such great details in his description?96 "And why wouldn't yuh get me? Ain't we both members of de same club de Hairy Apes?"A. Identify the author of the passage.B. Whom is the speaker in the passage speaking to?C. Comment briefly on the passage.97 "I make a pact with you, Walt Whitman—I have detested you long enough,I come to you as a grown childWho has had a pig-headed father;I am old enough now to make friends."A. Identify the poem and the poet.B. What does the word "pact" mean?C. Comment briefly on this stanza.98 The woods are lovely, dark and deep,But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep,And miles to go before I sleep.A. Identify the author of the passage and the title of the work from which this passage is taken.B. What does the second "sleep" refer to?C. Comment briefly on the passage.99 "Where are we going, Dad?" Nick asked."Over to the Indian camp. There is an Indian lady very sick.""Oh," said Nick.Across the bay they found the other boat beached. Uncle George was smoking a cigar in the dark.The young Indian pulled the boat way up on the beach. Uncle George gave both the Indian cigars."A. Identify the author and the title of the work from which this passage is taken.B. What does Dad imply when he says "There is an Indian lady very sick"?C. Why is Dad going to the Indian camp?100 "And so she died. Fell ill in the house filled with dust and shadows, with only a doddering Negro man to wait on her, we did not even know she was sick; we had long since given up trying to get any information from the Negro. He talked to on one, probably not even to her, for his voice had grown harsh and rusty, as if from disuse."A. Identify the author and the name of the work from which this passage is taken.B. Who dies in the passage?C. What kind of relationship exists between her and her neighbors?五、论述题101 What is An Essay on Criticism chiefly about?102 Give a brief analysis of Robinson Crusoe, the protagonist in Robinson Crusoe.103 What's the significance of Samuel Johnson's letter To the Right Honorable the Earl of Chesterfield?104 What characterizes Samuel Johnson's language style?105 What's the theme of Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard?106 How do you understand the themes in Eugene O'Neil's plays?107 Ernest Hemingway, a winner of Nobel Prize for literature, is one of the greatest American writers. Discuss Hemingway's art of fiction: his style, the particular type of hero in his novels, and his life attitudes, etc..108 Briefly analyze Gatsby's tragedy in Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.109 Please interpret Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken.110 Comment on the symbolic use of rose in Faulkner's A Rose for Emily in relation to its theme and character.。

英语专业英美文学试卷及期末

英美文学试卷A共7页第1页I. 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 asthe founder of English realism. His masterpieceThe 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 feelingsand the life as she sees around.6. () The leading figures of the naturalism at the turn of 19 th century are Thomas Hardy, JohnGalsworthy 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 ofthe 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 inthe activities of _____________________.17.Shakespeare’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’sAn 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 sinceBeowulf.A. Paradise RegainedB. Samson AgonistesC. LycidasD.Paradise Lost24. Francis Bacon’sessays are famous for their brevity, compactness and __________.A. complicityB. complexityC. powerfulnessD. mildness25. As one of the greatest masters of English prose, _______ defined a good style “asproper words in proper places”.A. Henry FieldingB. Jonathan SwiftC. Samuel JohnsonD. Alexander Pope26.The Pilgrim ’sProgress 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 Grassby Walt Whitman29. The most distinguishing feature of CharlesDickens ’works is his _________.A. simple vocabularyB. bitter and sharp criticismC. character-portrayal D. 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 devicesD. use of the dramatic monologue31.________ is the most outstanding stream of consciousness novelist, with ______ashis encyclopedia-like masterpiece.A James Joyce,UlyssesB. E.M. Foster, A Passage to IndiaC. D. H. Lawrence, 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 Citiesis 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 truthintuitively ”.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’sRip Van Winkleis _________.A. the conflict of human psycheB. the fight against racial discriminationC. thefamilial conflict D. 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 theme D. 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?参照答案：I. Mark the following statements as true (T) or false (F).( 此题共 10 空，每空 1 分，共10分 )1-5: FFTTT6-10: FFTTFII. Fill in the blanks. (此题共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 RainbowIII. Multiple choice.（此题共20小题，每题1分，共20分)题23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42号答D C B B C A C D A A B A A B D D B D D A案IV . Explain the following literary items.（此题4小题,每题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 Shakespeareare 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.（此题3小题,每题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 na?ve 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 superiority in 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.。

英语专业英美文学模拟试题

英语专业英美文学模拟试题2024英语专业英美文学模拟试题在日常学习、工作或生活中，大家都知道美文吧？美文是指不带实用目的专供直觉欣赏的作品，带有实用目的去写作，那么问题来了，怎样才能完成一篇优秀的美文呢？以下是本店铺帮大家整理的2024英语专业英美文学模拟试题，希望对大家有所帮助。

英语专业英美文学模拟试题 1 the author of each of the following works (1X 10= 10%):1.Paradise Lost2.Sons and Lovers3.Death of a Salesman4.The Scarlet Letter5.The Old Man and the Sea6.The Parliament of Fowls7.Samson Agonistes8.The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg9.Northanger Abbey10.Strange InterludeII.Choose any ONE of the following poets and make a comment (20 %)John Keats， T.S.Eliot， Walt Whitman， Emily DickinsonIII.(25 X 2 = 50%)Discussion1.Discuss the following statement and support your argument with specific eXamples from the story "A Woman on a Roof."Doris Lessings "A Woman on a Roof allows us to understand how some men view woman: as mere objects for display and possession.Lessing shows how each of the male characters reacts and deals with rejection from a woman sunbathing on a nearby rooftop.We discover how the three mens preoccupation with seX keeps them unaware of how their advances may be unwanted and ignorant of their actions possible consequences.2.What does the following statement suggest to you? Give your opinions.Virtues are， in the popular estimate， rather the eXception than the rule.There is the man and his virtues.Men do what is called a good action， as some piece of courage or charity，much as they would pay a fine in eXpiation of daily non-appearance on parade.Their works are done as an apology or eXtenuation of their living in the world，—as invalids and the insane pay a high board.Their virtues are penances.I do not wish to eXpiate， but to live.My life is for itself and not for a spectacle.I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain，so it be genuine and equal， than that it should be glittering and unsteady.I wish it to be sound and sweet， and not to need diet and bleeding.I ask primary evidence that you are a man，and refuse this appeal from the man to his actions.I know that for myself it makes no difference whether I do or forbear those actions which are reckoned eXcellent.I cannot consent to pay for a privilege where I have intrinsic right.Few and mean as my gifts may be， I actually am， and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony.V.Make a critical appraisal of your favorite English or American novel of the 20th century.(20 %)英语专业英美文学模拟试题 2SalmonEvery year， millions of salmon swim from the ocean into the mouths of rivers and then steadily up the rivers.Passing through waters， around rocks and waterfalls， the fish finally reach their original streams or lakes.They dig out nests in the riverbed and lay their eggs.Then， eXhausted by their journey，the parent salmon die.They have finished the task that nature has given them.Months， or years later， the young fish start their trip to the ocean.They live in the salt water from 2-7years，until they，too are ready to swim back to reproduce.Their life cycle helps man provide himself with a basic food-fish.When the adult salmon gather at the river mouths for the annual trip up the rivers， they are in the best possible condition， and nearly every harbor has its salmon fishing fleet ready to catch thousands for markets.Now， you have two minutes to check through your work.PART Ⅲ LISTENING COMPREHENSIONIn sections A， B and C， you will hear everything once only.Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow.Mark the correct answer to each question on your answer sheet.SECTION A STATEMENTIn this section， you will hear seven statements.At the end of each statement you will be given 10 seconds to answer the question.1.You must relaX.Dont work too hard.And do watch your drinking and smoking.2.We hadnt quite eXpected the committee to agree to rebuild the hospital， so we were taken aback when we got to know that it had finally agreed.3.The coach leaves the station every 20 minutes.Its 9:15now， and you have to wait for five minutes for the neXt one.4.Perhaps Jane shouldnt have got married in the first place.No one knows what she might have been doing now， but not washing up.Thats for sure!5.I happen to be working on a similar project at the moment.I am only too pleased to help you.6.The man arrived for the ceremony with patched jackets and faded jeans that the average person would save for mowing the lawn in his garden at the weekend.7.Mark! Here you are! This is the last place in the worldI would have eXpected to find you.SECTION B CONVERSATIONIn this section you will hear 10 short conversations between two speakers.At the end of each conversation， you will be given 10 seconds to answer the question.8.W: I couldnt stand this morning.My right leg went stiff.M: Im afraid its probably a side-effect from the drugs I put you on.9.W: How did your writing go this morning? Is the book coming along alright?M: Im not sure.I think the rest of it will be difficult to write.10.W: Is there anything you can do to make the cold go away more quickly?M: No， there isnt.And a cold isnt really serious enough for a visit to a doctor.11.W: Look! What have I got here!M: Oh.So you did go to that bookstore!12.M: EXcuse me.Has there been an emergency?W: Oh， no sir.Theres just a storm， so the plane will leavea little later this afternoon.13.W: I wish I hadnt hurt Lindas feeling like that yesterday.You know I never meant to.M: The great thing about Linda is that she doesnt hold any grudges.By tomorrow shell have forgotten all about it.14.M: My grades are not bad， but not good enough.I knowI didnt study at all this semester.Now I have to work very hard neXt semester to keep my scholarship.W: Ill see you in the library， then.15.W: Ill wear this blue jacket for the evening.I like the color on me， dont you think?M:I think it looks terrific on you-really!16.W: Do you know that Sam turned down that job offer bya travel agency?M: Yeah.The hours were convenient， but had he accepted it，he wouldnt have been able to make ends meet.17.W: At the rate it is being used， the printer is not going to make it through the rest of the year.M: The year? It is supposed to be good for four!SECTION C NEWS BROADCASTQuestions 18 and 19 are based on the following news.At the end of the news item you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions.Now listen to the news.The U.N resolution calls for greater international intelligence and law enforcement cooperation.And it requires states to change their banking laws in order to police the global network of terrorisms financiers.It makes providing funds for terror activities a criminal offence and would freeze bank accounts of those who sponsor terrorism.Questions 20 and 21 are based on the following news.At the end of the news item you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions.Now listen to the news.A police spokesman said the devices were made safe by eXplosive eXperts in the Ardorn district， where a woman was shot in the leg and 13 police officers were injured during a second successive night of violence.Northern Irelands policechief had earlier called on community leaders to work together to end the violence.The violence has erupted sporadically throughout a summer of Sectarian tension in northern Belfast.。

(完整版)英语考研英美概况模拟题及答案精选全文

精选全文完整版（可编辑修改）英语考研英美概况模拟题American Survey Test地理1. The _____ part of America consists of high plateaus and mountains formed by the Great Cordillera Range.A. easternB. westernC. northeastern2. In eastern _____ lies Death Valley, 85 metres below sea level.A. CaliforniaB. UtahC. Arizona3. In the west of the _____ lie the Colorado Plateaus and the Columbia Plateaus.A. Rocky MountainB. Coast RangeC. Cascades Mountains4. The _____ lies between the Colorado Plateaus and Columbia PlateausA. Great BasinB. Colorado ValleyC. Great Plains5. The famous Yellowstone National Park is situated in northwestern part of _____.A. CaliforniaB. ArizonaC. Wyoming6. The world-known Colorado Valley lies in northern _____, which is cut by the Colorado River.A. ArizonaB. UtahC. Montana7. Among the five Great Lakes, only _____ is wholly within the United States.A. ErieB. SuperiorC. Michigan8. Only the climate in the southern part of _____ is tropical.A. FloridaB. GeorgiaC. Virginia9. Washington, the capital of the US, is on the _____ river.A. PotomacB. DelawareC. St. Laurence10. The width of the Niagara Fall is about _____ metres and the drop average _____ metres.A. 1650, 50B. 1240, 49C. 1540, 4911. _____ part is the most densely populated region in America.A. The southernB. The northeasternC. The western12. The Great Salt Lake lies in northern _____.A. IdahoB. ArizonaC. NevadaD. Utah13. _____ has been called the “cradle of American Liberty”.A. PhiladelphiaB. PlymouthC. Boston14. About _____ of the world’s annual agricultural products come from the United States.A. halfB. one thirdC. two thirds15. The highest mountain in the U.S. is Mount _____.A. AppalachianB. MekinleyC. Rocky16. Mount Mekinley lies in the _____ Range.A. Sierra NevadaB. CascadesC. Alaska17. The two largest Chinatowns are located in the following cities except _____.A. New YorkB. San FranciscoC. Miami18. The world’s largest freshwater lake i s Lake _____.A. SuperiorB. OntarioC. Victoria19. The world-famous Niagara Falls lie between lakes of _____.A. Erie and MichiganB. Erie and OntarioC. Superior and Haron20. _____ of the America’s territory is covered with forests.A. 1/4B. 1/5C. 1/321. Texas, having belonged to _____, was annexed by the U.S. in 1845.A. FranceB. RussiaC. Mexico22. Hawaii is in the _____ Ocean.A. AtlanticB. IndianC. Pacific23. The American black population consists of _____ of the total population.A. 1/10B. 1/5C. 1/924. _____ is the largest state in area in the U.S.A.A. FloridaB. LouisianaC. Alaska25. The United States today is the _____ largest country in size in the world.A. thirdB. fifthC. fourth26. About half of the total population is concentrated in the following areas except _____.A. Atlantic CoastB. Pacific CoastC. NorthwestD. around the Great LakesE. Gulf of Mexico27. There are _____ river systems in the U.S.A.A. 8B. 3C. 628. Detroit is famous for the production of _____.A. automobileB. timberC. bamboo29. The City St. Louis in America is called the gateway towards the _____.A. EastB. WestC. NortheastD. Southwest30. The city _____ is given the nickname “Space City of U.S.A.”.A. BostonB. HoustonC. San Francisco31. The _____ were the original inhabitants in America.A. blacksB. IndiansC. Puerto Ricans32. The steel and iron industries are mainly distributed around the city of _____, providing _____ percent of the total output each year.A. Pittsburgh, 60B. Chicago, 50C. New York, 6033. The largest industrial city in America is _____.A. ChicagoB. BostonC. Houston34. Only the climate in the southwestern part of Florida belongs to _____.A. subtropicalB. continentalC. tropical35. ¬_____ is famous for many stores and shops.A. Wall StreetB. BroadwayC. Fifth Avenue36. In _____ people can find the historical spot, the Independence National Historical Park.A. PhiladelphiaB. St. LouisC. San Francisco37. Boston is situated in Boston Bay, _____.A. MaineB. MassachusettsC. Connecticut38. The Columbia River and the Colorado River belong to the system of _____.A. the GulfB. the AtlanticC. the PacificI. Fill in the blanks1. The United States is situated in the _____ part of _____ America.2. The U.S. is bounded by _____ on the north and by _____ and the Gulf of Mexico on the south.3. To the west of America lies the _____ Ocean.4. To the east of America lies the _____ Ocean.5. The seat of the American Federal Government is the District of _____.6. The _____ part is made up of the highlands formed by the Appalachian Range.7. The famous _____ National Park is located in the northwestern part of Wyoming.8. The western part of th e central plain is also called the “_____ _____”.9. The Mississippi River flows from the _____ lakes to the Gulf of _____.10. The lowest point in the whole of North America is _____ _____.11. The world-known _____ _____ lies in northern Arizona, which is cut by the Colorado River.12. The largest island salt lake in North America is the _____ _____ Lake.13. The United States includes _____ states and a _____ district, the District of Columbia.14. The Declaration of Independence was first read on July 4th, _____.15. The two main tributaries of the _____ River are the Missouri River and the Ohio River.16. The five Great Lakes lie between the boundary of _____ and the United States.17. Through the middle of the country, north and south, runs a line which is known as the _____ _____ _____ _____.18. The South region in America has in general, a warm climate. People often call it the “_____ _____”.19. The largest state, _____, is famous for its glacier, waterfall and ripples.20. There rises the tendency of shifting the centre of industries from the _____ to the _____.21. The famous _____ _____ is known as the financial centre, the symbol of the American monopoly capitalism.22. _____ is the centre of theatres in America.23. The nickname of Pittsburgh is the _____ and _____ City.24. _____ is the second largest in population in the U.S.25. The two youngest states are _____ in the northeastern part of America and _____ in the central Pacific.26. Most of the inhabitants in the U.S. are of _____ origin.27. Negro slaves were first brought to America at the beginning of the _____ century.28. The Death Valley is _____ metres below sea level.29. The population of the United States is about _____ million.30. The Statue of Liberty Island in _____ _____ harbour.31. _____ _____ is the base of the Pacific Fleet of the U.S.A.32. _____ _____ is the smallest state in size and the most densely populated state ofthe U.S.A.33. From a geographical point of view, the fifty states are grouped into _____ regions.34. The nickname of Houston City is _____ _____.35. _____ became the fiftieth state of the United States in 1959.36. _____ _____ is the longest and the most important river in the system of Gulf.37. The Library of Congress is in the city of _____.38. New England is located in the _____ corner of the country.39. The area of the Pacific coast is known for its growth of fruits, vegetables and wheat, especially in _____.40. The Middle Atlantic Region is marked by its industry. It is often called the _____ Northeast.II. Explain the Following Terms1. “The backbone of the continent”2. melting potIII. Answer the Following Questions1. Give a brief presentation of the U.S. economy.2. Why is Detroit famous?英语考研英美概况模拟题美国地理部分答案：Part II. BAAAC ACAAB BDAAB CCABA CCACC CBABB BAACC ABCII.1. central, north Canada, Mexico Pacific Atlantic Columbia eastern Yellowstone Great Plains Great, Mexico Death Valley Colorado Valley Great Salt 50, federal 1776 Mississippi Canada 50 centimetre Rainfall Line Sunny South Alaska Southwest Wall Street Broadway Iron, Steel Chicago Alaska, Hawaii European 17th 85 240/256 New York Pearl Harbour Rhode Island 8 Space City Hawaii Mississippi River Washington northeastern California IndustrialPart II 历史I. Multiple Choice1. The history of the U.S. is generally agreed to have begun in _____.A. 1620B. 1607C. 17762. The following states are among the first thirteen colonies except _____.A. MarylandB. South CarolinaC. DelawareD. Colorado3. _____ was the first man who sailed around the earth.A. John CabotB. MagellanC. BalboaD. Cartier4. The colonial life can be described as the following except _____.A. simpleB. easyC. roughD. hard5. The Stamp Act was passed in _____ and was repealed in _____.A. 1765, 1766B. 1764, 1765C. 1763, 17646. The First Continental Congress was held in _____ in September, 1774.A. PhiladelphiaB. BostonC. New York7. The American War of Independence started in _____ and ended in _____.A. 1776, 1784B. 1775, 1783C. 1706, 17148. Washington won the great victory on December 26, 1776 in _____.A. GettysburgB. PittsburghC. Trenton9. The battle of _____ marked the turning point of the War of Independence.A. New YorkB. SaratogaC. Bunker Hill10. On October 19th, 1781, the British General Cornwallis and his 7,000 men surrendered at _____.A. YorktownB. BostonC. Charleston11. The Constitutional Convention was held in 1787 to revise _____.A. The Articles of the ConfederationB. Bill of RightsC. Civil Rights12. The first ten amendments, known as _____, were added to the Constitution in 1791.A. the Bill of RightsB. the ArticlesC. Civil Rights13. After the Federal Government was established, the city _____ was chosen as the capital for the time being.A. WashingtonB. New YorkC. Philadelphia14. The pamphlet “Common Sense” was written by _____.A. Thomas EdisonB. Thomas PaineC. Thomas Jefferson15. The Second President John Adams adopted a high-handed policy which was called _____.A. the “Intolerable Acts”B. Un-American ActivitiesC. the Sedition Act16. The greatest contribution made by President Thomas Jefferson was his _____.A. abolishing the Sedition ActB. reducing taxesC. purchasing Louisiana from France17. The Second Anti-English War broke out in _____ and ended in _____. The U.S. won the war.A. 1812, 1814B. 1813, 1815C. 1814, 181618. As the result of the U.S.-Mexican War, nearly _____ of the entire territory of Mexico was lost.A. 1/4B. 1/2C. 1/319. In 1844 the U.S. forced the Chinese Government to sign the first unequal treaty of _____.A. WangxiaB. NanjingC. Tianjin20. The Articles of Confederation was accepted by all the _____ states in _____.A. 50, 1781B. 13, 1781C. 13, 178721. _____ was chosen as the capital for the time being in Washington’s administration.A. New YorkB. ChicagoC. Boston22. It was _____ who advanced four plans which met bitter criticisms from many people.A. Alexander HamiltonB. Thomas JeffersonC. George Washington23. _____ was the first American President who was inaugurated in the city of Washington.A. John AdamsB. Thomas JeffersonC. James Madison24. The War with England between 1812 and 1814 happened during the administration of President _____.A. James MadisonB. James MonroeC. John Adams25. The _____ stopped the Holy Alliance’s program, and prevented the European countries from extending their influence.A. Monroe DoctrineB. Sedition ActC. Holy Alliance26. _____ was the first president who developed the power of veto into one of the means of making laws.A. John AdamsB. Andrew JacksonC. Andrew Johnson27. _____ made slavery possible in the new territories such as in Kentucky and Nebraska.A. Douglas BillB. Monroe DoctrineC. Sedition Act28. During the Civil War Lincoln issued the _____, which declared the abolition of slavery.A. Homestead BillB. Emancipation ProclamationC. Both A and B29. The Battle of _____ was the turning point of the American Civil War.A. Bull RunB. GettysburgC. Richmond30. The first imperialist war took place between the U.S. and _____ in 1898.A. BritainB. FranceC. Spain31. The first American President from the Republic Party is _____.A. Abraham LincolnB. Andrew JohnsonC. Thomas JeffersonD. George Washington32. In 1918 President _____ issued the “Fourteen Points”.A. Woodrow WilsonB. William H. TaftC. Theodore RooseveltD. Warren G. Harding33. Haymarket Massacre took place in _____ in May 1886.A. New YorkB. ChicagoC. Washington34. In 1894, the American industrial production held the _____ place in the world.A. firstB. secondC. third35. McCarthy was notorious for his harsh _____ persecution of the progressive people.A. religiousB. spiritualC. political36. The Ku Klux Klan was the most notorious terrorist society which persecuted the _____.A. blacksB. IndiansC. progressive people37. On August 14, 1914, the U.S. and Britain issued a joint communiquécalled_____.A. the Teheran DeclarationB. the Atlantic CharterC. the Washington Proclamation38. In Sino-American relations Theodore Roosevelt exercised the so-called “_____”, invading China by means of both force and culture.A. Open Door PolicyB. Big StickC. Douglas Bill39. The First World War broke out on July 28th, _____ and ended on November 11th, _____, lasting for about four years.A. 1913, 1917B. 1914, 1918C. 1915, 191940. The two military alliances during WWI were the _____ and the _____.A. Axis, AlliesB. Holy Alliance, AxisC. Central Powers, Allies41. The assassination of a(n) _____ prince, Arch Duke Fedinand, served as the direct fuse for the outbreak of WWI.A. AustraliaB. BelgiumC. Austria42. Altogether _____ countries became involved in or were dragged into WWI.A. 33B. 38C. 3943. The frequent emergence of the economic crisis in the U.S.A. led to the following disastrous effects except _____.A. inflationB. the rise of pricesC. the decrease of populationD. the decrease of the purchasing capacity44. In April 1945 a conference was held at _____ to organize the United Nations.A. San FranciscoB. New YorkC. Philadelphia45. _____ countries attended the conference of the foundling of the UN.A. 48B. 47C. 4546. At the _____ Conference, the heads of the Soviet Union, the U.S. and Britain discussed the problem of opening the second battlefield in Europe.A. YaltaB. TeheranC. Casablanca47. In July 1945, Britain, the U.S. and the Soviet Union met at Potsdam to formulate an occupation policy and set up a program for the future of Germany. The meeting was the famous _____ Conference.A. CairoB. TeheranC. PotsdamD. Quebec48. The two fighting sides in WWII were _____.A. the Allies and the Axis (powers)B. the Axis and Holy AllianceC. the Central Powers and the Allies49. The _____ was the treaty signed at Versailles, near Paris in France in 1919.A. Paris TreatyB. Versaills TreatyC. Teheran Treaty50. The meeting was held at Yalta in the Crimea of the Soviet Union in Feb, 1945. At the meeting many matters were discussed, including the final defeat of Germany, the demilitarization of Germany, the founding of the U.N. etc., this was the famous _____ Conference.A. YaltaB. TeheranC. Potsdam51. The Communist Party of the US was founded in _____.A. 1920B. 1918C. 191952. The U.S. Communist Party was re-established in 1945 with _____ as its general secretary.A. LevestoneB. William FosterC. Earl Browder53. The Great Depression of _____ to shook the US and the whole capitalist world to its foundations.A. 1929, 1933B. 1933, 1937C. 1924, 192954. The programme of 1947 that America would offer its money supplies and machinery to any European nation that wished to participate in was called _____.A. Eisenhower DoctrineB. Marshall PlanC. Truman Doctrine55. The _____ broke out in June 1950 and ended in the summer of 1953.A. Vietnam WarB. Cold WarC. Korean War56. In April 1949 twelve nations established the NATO to coordinate the military actions of member nations against the _____.A. GermanyB. JapanC. Soviet Union57. The Second World War broke out in September, _____ and ended in August _____.A. 1939, 1945B. 1937, 1943C. 1938, 194558. After WWII there emerged a new balance of power between _____ and _____.A. the Allies, the Axis PowersB. the USSR, the USAC. the old capitalist countries, the new ones59. There occurred _____ economic crises from the end of WWII to the middle of the 1970’s.A. sixB. fiveC. seven60. The President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed a policy called _____ to save the economic situation.A. Good NeighbourB. the Open Door PolicyC. the New Deal61. The Battle of _____ took place in 1942 and it was the turning point of the Pacific area.A. Midway IslandB. BritainC. Normandy62. In Feb. _____ came President Nixon’s historic visit to China.A. 1979B. 1972C. 197363. In 1953, _____ ended in the failure of the U.S.A. the Korean WarB. the Vietnam WarC. the US-Spanish War64. On December 7th, 1941, the base of the American Pacific Fleet, Pearl Harbour, was suddenly attacked by the _____ air force and navy.A. SpanishB. FrenchC. Japanese65. The original Union consists of _____ at the time of its independence.A. 13B. 50C. 4866. The first thirteen states of the US mainly located _____ seaboard.A. the easternB. the westernC. the northern67. _____ appointed many of the colonial governors.A. The English KingB. the local governmentC. the local people68. The Declaration of Independence was drafted by a committee including _____ as head.A. George WashingtonB. Thomas JeffersonC. both A and B69. _____ was the British king when colonial Americans declared their independence.A. King George IB. King George IIIC. King George II70. In 1945 a conference was held in _____ to found the United Nations.A. San FranciscoB. ChicagoC. New York71. President Nixon visited China in _____.A. 1973B. 1974C. 197272. _____ was the only American president who was re-elected three times in succession.A. Theodore RooseveltB. George WashingtonC. FranklinD. Roosevelt D. Thomas Jefferson73. The city’s name “Philadelphia” means _____.A. brotherly loveB. fishing pitC. philosophy1. It was _____ who first discovered the America in 1492.2. The New World was named after _____ Vespucci.3. _____ was the first man who sailed around the earth.4. The Indians living in America are all _____ skinned and dark-haired.5. The War of _____ broke out in 1775 and ended in 1783.6. The First World War broke out on July 28th in _____.7. In 1620 some English Puritans sailed to Plymouth on a ship called _____.8. On July 4th, 1776, the document called the Declaration of _____ was accepted by the American Congress.9. The first English colony was _____.10. Lexington Fire was the _____ of the War of Independence.11. In 1803 the United States purchased Louisiana from _____.12. The U.S.- _____ War broke out in 1898.13. The Great Depression of 1929 - _____ shook the United States and the whole capitalist world to its foundation.14. The _____ _____ policy went into effect by the spring of 1947 when Truman Doctrine came forth.15. The Confederate Union of America consisted of _____ southern states.16. During the Civil War Lincoln took two important measures, one was the _____ _____, the other was the _____ _____.17. By the end of _____ century, the U.S. had become the most powerful country in the world.18. The U.S. bought the area of Alaska from _____ in 1867.19. The Constitution Convention lasted _____ weeks from May to September, _____.20. The Constitution drawn up at the end of Independence War is called the _____ of the Confederation.21. The Constitution of _____ established the dictatorship of the America bourgeoisiebig capitalists and big slave owners.22. The bourgeois democratic personages headed by Thomas Jefferson, were opposed to the Constitution. They were called _____.23. The people, headed by John Hamilton, who supported the Constitution of 1787, were called _____.24. During Washington’s administration Thomas Jefferson was appointed _____ of _____.25. The war with England between 1812-1814 was called the Second _____ of _____.26. President John Q. Adams was the son of the _____ president, John Adams.27. The forming of the _____ Alliance was to suppress the South American revolution.28. Andrew Jackson was the first president who developed the power of _____ into one of the means of making laws.29. The first great tide from 1840 to 1860 in America was the _____ movement.30. The famous novel “_____ _____ _____” by Mrs Stowe aroused a great and universal hatred for slavery.31. A man named _____ _____ began a rising which aimed at solving the slavery trouble by force.32. In _____ the first group of English colonists came to America.33. From 1863 to 1867 _____ Reconstruction dominated the reconstruction of the south.34. With the passage of the military Reconstruction Act in March 1867 the power of Reconstruction of the south passed from president to the _____.35. The most notorious society which mainly persecuted the blacks was _____ _____ _____.36. The _____ _____ Conference in 1919 was in fact a meeting to divide the spoils and redivide the old colonies.37. The _____ Conference was the constitution of the Paris Peace Conference.38. The _____ post-war economic crisis occurred from 1973 to 1975 was the most serious crisis.39. The Communist Party of China sent _____ _____ _____ to attend the Conference of the founding of U.N. and signed the charter.40. The _____ Declaration was published at the Cairo Conference.41. The main force of the Japanese United Fleet was destroyed by America in the _____ _____ Battle.42. The _____ World War was a destructive war and an anti-fascist war.43. The _____ Programme was successfully carried out in 1969 and two American astronauts landed on the moon.44. After WWII the _____ _____ emerged on the scene and containment of Communism became the basis of the American foreign policy.45. The source of WWII in Europe came from _____.46. The direct cause that the U.S. entered WWII was the Japanese sudden raid of the US’s naval base at _____ _____.47. In 1939 Germany first launched the lightening attack on _____ and England and_____ then declared war on Germany.48. The dropping of the two atom bombs by America forced _____ to surrender unconditionally.49. The second post-war crisis occurred during 1953 and 1954 was caused by the _____ War.50. It was president _____ who moved toward improving relations with China.51. America participated in the Second World War in the year _____.52. In _____ China and U.S.A. normalized their relationship.53. The outstanding leader of the Civil Rights Movement was _____ _____ _____.54. _____ _____ uprising in 1859 helped the outbreak of the Civil War.55. “I know not what course others may take, but for me, give me liberty or give me death.” This was said by _____ _____.II. Define the Following Terms1. The Boston “Tea Party”2. The Westward Movement3. The Civil Rights Movement4. The Atlantic Charter5. The “Open Door Policy”6. The Cairo Declaration7. The Marshall PlanIII. Answer the Following Questions1. Please say something about the American War of Independence, including its cause, process and significance.2. What success did Washington’s administration achieved?3. Abraham Lincoln is usually regarded as the fulfilment of the “American Dream”. Why?4. What was Roos evelt’s role in the Second World War?英语考研英美概况模拟题美国历史部分答案：Part III. BDBBA ABCBA AABBC CABAB AABAA BABBC AABAC ABABC CBCAA BCABA CBABC CABAC ABACA AABBA CCAII.1. Columbus Amerigo Magellan red Independence 1914 Mayflower Independence Virginia prelude France Spanish 1933 Cold War 11 Homestead Bill, Emancipation Proclamation 19th Russia 13, 1787 Articles 1787 anti-federalist Federalists Secretary, State War, Independence second Holy veto Westward Uncle Tom’s Cabin John Brown 1607 Presidental Congress Ku Klux Klan Paris Peace Washington sixth deputy Dong Biwu Cairo Midway Island Second Apollo Communist Party Germany Pearl Harbour Poland Japan KoreanNixon 1941 1979 Martin Luther King John Brown Patrick Henry。

英美文学史模拟卷

《英美文学史》模拟卷考试形式：闭卷考试时间：90分钟I. Fill in the Following Blanks：Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase according to the textbook。

(10×1.5´= 15´）1。

The _______ style of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has impacted American literature so much that the books before and after it are quite different.2。

Writers who are ___________ tend to develop and promote mannerism, dress，speech，customs of a particular region。

They try to be informative about the peculiarities of a given region and emphasize verisimilitude of details about dialect, local geographical feature and the like。

3. In his novel ________________, Theodore Dreiser portrays a girl who is totally at the mercy of forces she cannot control. Alone and helpless, she moves along like a mechanism driven by desire and catches blindly at any opportunities for a better existence, opportunities as offered first by Druet and then by Hurst wood。

[考研类试卷]英语专业（英美文学）模拟试卷8.doc

[考研类试卷]英语专业（英美⽂学）模拟试卷8.doc[考研类试卷]英语专业（英美⽂学）模拟试卷8⼀、填空题1 Jonathan Swift's famous prose work______is a satirical dialogue between the Ancients and the Moderns in the character of the Bee and the Spider.2 ______is William Blake's most important prose work, which is the manifesto of his spiritual independence.3 Modern English novel arose in the______century.4 ______was a progressive intellectual movement going on throughout Europe in the 18th century.5 Dr. Primrose is the central character of the novel______.6 The cross that Crusoe erects on the island serves______.7 The English novel as a genre began to prosper in the______century.8 John Bunyan's style was modeled after that of the English______, with concrete and living language and carefully observed and vividly presented details.9 The Rape of the Lock by Pope is written in the form of a mock______, which describes the triviality of high society in a grand style.10 In England, Neoclassicism was initiated by Dryden, culminated in Pope, and continued by______.11 The______of the 1930s greatly weakened the American nation's self-confidence.12 In 1920, Sinclair Lewis published his memorable denunciation of American small-town Provincialism in______.13 The______County is a legendary kingdom created by Faulkner.14 Pound was the leader of a new movement in poetry which he called the "______" movement.15 After his death, Stevens previously uncollected works appeared in the title of______.16 In 1954, Hemingway was awarded a______for his "mastery of the art of modern narration".17 Fitzgerald's first novel______, with its portrayal of casual dissipations of "flaming youth", was an immediate commercial success.18 ______is the first American to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature, but still he is called the worst important writer in American literature.19 ______had been called "the first step that American fiction has taken since Henry James" by T. S. Eliot.20 ______combined traditional verse forms with a clear American local speech rhythm, forming his own characteristic.⼆、名词解释21 Elegy22 Allegory23 Parable24 Didactic25 Neoclassicism26 The Lost Generation27 Anti-novel29 Impressionism30 Jazz age三、单项选择题31 Which of the following is NOT found in comedy of manners with Sheridan's The School for Scandal as the best representative work?（A）Wit.（B）Mistaken identity.（C）Sentimentalism.（D）Dialogue.32 In the lines "With gold and jewels cover every part, /And hide with ornaments their want of art"(An Essay on Criticism), Pope rejects______.（A）the "Follow Nature" fallacy（B）artificiality（C）good taste（D）aesthetic order33 Daniel Defoe describes ______as a typical English middle-class man of the eighteenth century, the very prototype of the empire builder or the pioneer colonist. （A）Tom Jones（B）Gulliver（C）Moll Flanders（D）Robinson Crusoe34 "To be so distinguished is an honor, which, being very little accustomed to favors from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge." The above quoted sentence is presented by Samuel Johnson witha(n)______tone.（A）delightful（B）jealous（C）ironic（D）humorous35 ______is a typical feature of Swift's writings.（A）Bitter satire（B）Elegant style（C）Casual narration（D）Complicated sentence structure36 The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan is often said to be concerned with the search for______.（A）material wealth（B）spiritual salvation（C）universal truth37 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）comic epic（C）romance（D）lyric epic38 The Houyhnhnms depicted by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's. Travels are______.（A）horses that are endowed with reason（B）pigmies that are endowed with admirable qualities（C）giants that are superior in wisdom（D）hairy, wild, low and despicable creatures, who resemble human beings not only in appearance but also in some other ways39 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 Lost（C）Alexander Pope's An Essay on Criticism（D）Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream40 The phrase "To urge people to abide by Christian doctrines and to seek salvation through constant struggles with their own weaknesses and all kinds of social evils" may well sum up the implied meaning of______ .（A）Gulliver's Travels（B）The Rape of the Lock（C）Robinson Crusoe（D）The Pilgrim's Progress41 Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels is the greatest______work in English literature.（A）realistic（B）satiric（C）romantic（D）sentimental42 The 18th century England is known as the______in the history.（A）Romanticism（B）Enlightenment（C）Classicism（D）Renaissance43 "Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds;" The above stanza is taken from______.（B）The Passionate Shepherd to His Love（C）Hamlet（D）Paradise Lost44 The following comments on John Bunyan are wrong EXCEPT______.（A）He was a stout Puritan.（B）Bunyan's works belong to Gothic novels.（C）Bunyan's style is different from that of the English Bible.（D）A Modest Proposal is his representative work.45 "Hold! See whether it is or not before you go to the door — I have a particular message for you if it should be my brother." The two sentences are found in______. （A）The Scheming Lieutenant（B）Wuthering Heights（C）The School for Scandal（D）The Rivals46 Statement"______" is NOT true in describing Gothic novel.（A）Gothic novel is a type of romantic fiction（B）Gothic novel predominated in the early 18th century（C）Its principal elements are violence, horror and supernatural（D）The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe is typical Gothic romance47 ______is the most successful religious allegory in the English language.（A）The Rivals（B）The Pilgrim's Progress（C）The Life and Death of Mr. Badman（D）Paradise Lost48 Among the representatives of the Enlightenment, who was the first to introduce rationalism to England?（A）John Bunyan.（B）Daniel Defoe.（C）Jonathan Swift.（D）Alexander Pope.49 Fielding has been termed by some as "______", for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.（A）Best Writer of the English Novel（B）Father of the English Novel（C）conventional writer of the English Prose（D）the most talented writer of the English Novel50 Which of the following statements on The Neoclassical Period is NOT true?（A）The Neoclassical Period is prior to the Romantic Period.（C）The modern English novel came into being in the Neoclassical Period.（D）The Neoclassical Period is also known as the Age of Enlightenment.51 Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Samuel Johnson's language style? （A）His sentences are long and well-structured.（B）His sentences are interwoven with parallel phrases.（C）He tends to use informal and colloquial words.（D）His sentences are complicated, but his thoughts are clearly expressed.52 Samuel Johnson was the______great neoclassicist enlightener in the later 18th century.（A）last（B）only（C）first（D）merely53 In Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, Thomas Gray reveals his sympathy for______, but mocks the great ones who despise them and bring havoc on them. （A）the middle class（B）the landlords（C）the poor and the unknown（D）the working class54 Which of the following comments on the Enlightenment Movement is NOT true? （A）It advocated individual education.（B）The purpose of the movement was to enlighten the whole world.（C）The Enlightenment Movement flourished in France.（D）The Enlightenment Movement was a furtherance of the Renaissance.55 In the first part of Gulliver's Travels, Gulliver told his experience in______.（A）Lilliput（B）Brobdingnag（C）Houyhnhnm（D）England56 In the theatrical world of the neoclassical period,______was the leading figure among the host of playwrights.（A）Richard Bringsley Sheridan（B）George Bernard Shaw（C）Ben Johnson（D）William Blake57 Alexander Pope strongly advocated______, emphasizing that literary works should be judged by classical rules of order, reason, logic, restrained emotion, good taste and decorum.（A）neoclassicism（B）sentimentalism58 The following comments on Daniel Defoe are true EXCEPT "______".（A）In his novels, his sympathy for the downtrodden, unfortunate poor is shown（B）He was a member of the upper class（C）Robinson Crusoe is universally considered his masterpiece（D）Robinson Crusoe is his first novel59 The Dunciad is generally considered to be Pope's best______work.（A）praising（B）allegorical（C）satiric（D）fabulous60 "The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike the inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave." In the above quoted stanza, Thomas Gray tries to say that great family, power, beauty and wealth______.（A）will never prevent people no matter who they are from reaching their final destination—grave（B）are the very best things to lead people to their glories（C）will inevitably make people realize their glorious dreams（D）will never make people lead to the same destination—paths of glory61 ______, disregarding grammar and punctuation, always used "i" instead of "I" to refer to himself as a protest against self-importance.（A）Wallace Stevens（B）E. E. Cummings（C）Robert Frost（D）William Carlos Williams62 Which of the following statements about writers in 1920s is TRUE?（A）F. Scott Fitzgerald received the Nobel Prize.（B）Most writers were politically radical.（C）Freudian psychology influenced many modern writers.（D）Mark Twain published his last and most important novel.63 ______sought inspiration from the east in his poetry writing.（A）Walt Whitman（B）Emily Dickinson（C）T.S.Eliot（D）Ezra Pound64 Hemingway won his Nobel Prize for the book entitled______.（A）The Sun Also Rises（D）For Whom the Bell Tolls65 Sherwood Anderson explores the motivations and frustrations of his fictional characters in terms of Freud's theory of psychology, particularly in one book entitled______.（A）Winesburg, Ohio（B）Babbit（C）The Grapes of Wrath（D）The Catcher in the Rye66 Sinclair Lewis Babbit presents a documentary picture of the narrow andlimited______.（A）up-class mind（B）middle-class mind（C）proletarian（D）ordinary people67 William Faulkner's works mainly concern the American______.（A）New England（B）Mid West（C）South（D）West68 A typical modern work will NO longer have ONE of the following statements as its trademark, that is, a______ .（A）record of sequence and coherence（B）book that begins arbitrarily, advances without explanation, and end without solution（C）juxtaposition of the past and present, of the history and memory（D）book of fragments drawn from diverse areas of experience69 Statement"______" is NOT true in describing Ezra Pound.（A）He is a leading spokesman of the "Imagist Movement"（B）His famous one-image poem In a Station of the Metro would serve as a typical example of the Imagist ideas （C）A Pact is his masterpiece（D）He was politically controversial70 The leading playwright of the modern period in American literature, if not the most successful in all his experiments, is______.（A）Arthur Miller（B）Tennessee William（C）George Bernard Shaw（D）Eugene O'Neil71 ______is not among those greatest figures in modern American literature.（B）Robert Frost（C）Walt Whitman（D）William Carlos Williams72 From Eugene O'Neil's works, we can see he is______.（A）a man of apathy（B）a man of inactivity（C）a man of pessimism（D）a man of optimism73 F. Scott Fitzgerald is NOT the author of______.（A）The Great Gatsby（B）In Our Time（C）Tender is the Night（D）This Side of Paradise74 The Hemingway Code heroes are best remembered for their______.（A）indestructible spirit（B）pessimistic view of life（C）war experiences（D）masculinity75 As he is a leading spokesman of the "Imagist Movement",______famous one-image poem In a Station of the Metro would serve as a typical example of the imagist ideas. （A）T. S. Eliot's（B）Robert Frost's（C）Ezra Pound's（D）Wallace Stevens's76 Which of the following statements about Faulkner is NOT true?（A）Indian Camp is Faulkner's masterpiece.（B）Almost all his heroes turn out to be tragic.（C）Most of Faulkner's works are set in the American South, with his emphasis on the Southern subjects and consciousness.（D）Faulkner has always been regarded as a man with great might of invention and experimentation.77 Robert Frost is a regional poet in the sense that his poems depict mostly______.（A）the frontier life（B）the sea adventures（C）Puritan community（D）the landscape and people in New England78 In A Rose for Emily, Faulkner makes best use of the______devices in narration.（B）Realistic（C）Gothic（D）Modernist79 Which of the following works by Faulkner involves Shakespearean allusion in its title?（A）The Sound and the Fury（B）Light in August（C）Absalom, Absalom!（D）Go Down, Moses80 Apart from the dislocation of time and the modern stream-of-consciousness, the other narrative techniques Faulkner used to construct his stories include______, symbolism and mythological and biblical allusions.（A）multiple points of views（B）first person point of view（C）expressionism（D）impressionism81 In a class, which discusses the Imagist Movement in the United States, we will definitely NOT include______.（A）William Carlos Williams（B）Ezra Pound（C）Ernest Hemingway（D）Wallace Stevens82 "A week later the mayor wrote her himself, offering to call or to send his car for her, and received in reply a note on paper of an archaic shape, in a thin, flowing calligraphy in faded ink, to the effect that she no longer went out at all. The tax notice was also enclosed, without comment." The above two sentences must be taken from______.（A）Irving's story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow（B）James's story Daisy Miller（C）Faulkner's story A Rose for Emily（D）Hemingway's story Indian Camp83 Lots of people rushed to Gatsby's party at the weekend and they clustered around Gatsby's wealth like______.（A）gluttons（B）flies（C）insects（D）moths84 Chinese poetry and philosophy have exerted great influence over______.（A）Ralph Waldo Emerson（B）Emily Dickinson（C）Robert Frost（A）William Faulkner（B）Ernest Hemingway（C）F. Scott Fitzgerald（D）John Steinbeck86 Fitzgerald's fictional world is the best embodiment of the spirit of______.（A）the Jazz Age（B）the Romantic Period（C）the Renaissance Period（D）the Neoclassical Period87 Which of the following comments on the novel The Great Gatsby is NOT true?（A）The Great Gatsby is a novel that is set against the ending of the war.（B）Gatsby is wealthy but unintelligent and brutal.（C）Gatsby is a mystical figure whose intensity of dream partakes of a state of mind that embodies America itself.（D）Gatsby is the last of the romantic heroes.88 "Grace under pressure" is a major feature of______'s novel.（A）Theodore Dreiser（B）Ernest Hemingway（C）William Faulkner（D）Henry James89 Yank's sense of belonging nowhere, hence homeless and rootless. The Hairy Ape is thus a play that concerns the problem of modern man's______.（A）love。

考研英语二模拟试题及答案解析(7)

C.boost
D.delay
第19题
A.good
B.surprising
C.bad
test
第20题
A.while
B.though
C.no matter what
D.no matter how
下一题
(21~25/共20题)SectionⅡReading Comprehension
Directions :
borious
fortable
C.insecure
D.meaningful
第16题
A.explain
B.estimate
C.establish
D.exhibit
第17题
A.expands
B.emerges
C.matters
D.recurs
第18题
A.enrich
B.influence
Do people get happier or more foul-tempered as they age? Stereotypes of irritable neighbors__1__, scientists have been trying to answer this question for decades, and the results have been__2__Now a study of several thousand Americans born between 1885 and 1980 reveals that well-being__3__increases with age—but overall happiness__4__when a person was born.
The researchers found, after controlling for variables__12__health, wealth, gender, ethnicity and education, that well-being increases over everyone´s lifetime.__13__people who have lived through extreme hardship, such as the Great Depression,__14__much less happy than those who have had more__15__lives. This finding helps to__16__why past studies have found conflicting results—experience__17__, and tough times can__18__an entire generation´s happiness for the rest of their lives. The__19__news is,__20__we´ve lived through, we can all look forward to feeling more content as we age.

[考研类试卷]英语专业(英美文学)模拟试卷13.doc

[考研类试卷]英语专业（英美文学）模拟试卷13一、问答题1 Now the way that the book winds up is this: Tom and me found the money that the robbers hid in the cave, and it made us rich. We got six thousand dollars apiece—all gold. It was an awful sight of money when it was piled up. Well, Judge Thatcher he took it and put it out at interest, and it fetched us a dollar a day apiece all the year round—more thana body could tell what to do with.2 Oh, Carrie, Carrie! Oh, blind strivings of the human heart! Onward onward, it saith26, and where beauty leads, there it follows. Whether it be the tinkle of a lone sheep bell o'er some quiet landscape, or the glimmer of beauty in sylvan places, or the show of soul in some passing eye, the heart knows and makes answer, following.3 Come live with me and be my love,And we will all the pleasures proveThat valleys, groves, hills, and fields,Woods, or steepy mountain yields.4 Mr. Pontellier, unable to read his newspaper with any degree of comfort, arose with an expression and an exclamation of disgust. He walked down the gallery and across the narrow "bridges" which connected the Lebrun cottages one with the other. He had been seated before the door of the main house. The parrot and the mockingbird were the property of Madame Lebrun, and they had the right to make all the noise they wished. Mr. Pontellier had the privilege of quitting their society when they ceased to be entertaining.5 To die, to sleep-To sleep-perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub,For in that sleep of death what dreams may comeWhen we have shuffled off this mortal coil,Must give us pause.6 Not of woods only and the shade of trees.He will not go behind his father's saying,And he likes having thought of it so wellHe says again, "Good fences make good neighbors."7 Out, out, brief candle!Life's but a walking shadow, a poor playerThat struts and frets4 his hour upon the stage,And then is heard no more: it is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing—8 It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.9 The migrant people, scuttling for work, scrabbling to live, looked always for pleasure, dug for pleasure, manufactured pleasure, and they were hungry for amusement. Sometimes amusement lay in speech, and they climbed up their lives with jokes. And it came about in the camps along the roads, on the ditch banks beside the steams, under the sycamores, that the story teller grew into being, so that the people gathered in the low firelight to hear the gifted ones.10 The sea of FaithWas once, too, at the full, and round earth's shoreLay like the folds of a bright girdle furl'd.But now I only hear its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,Retreating, to the breathOf the night-wind, down the vast edges drearAnd naked shingles of the world.10 Read the poem and answer the questions below.(15 points)Earth has not anything to show more fair:Dull would he be of soul who could pass byA sight so touching in its majesty:This City now doth, like a garment, wearThe beauty of the morning; silent, bare,Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lieOpen unto the fields, and to the sky;All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.Never did sun more beautifully steepIn his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill;Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!The river glideth at his own sweet will:Dear God! the very houses seem asleep;And all that mighty heart is lying still!11 Identify the poet and the title of the poem.(5 points)12 Give a brief illustration of the poet's poetic philosophy and the school represented by him.(10 points)12 Read the short story or an excerpt from a novel and answer the questions.(40 points)A Clean, Well-lighted Place(excerpt)Earnest HemingwayIt was very late and everyone had left the cafe except an old man who sat in the shadow the leaves of the tree made against the electric light. In the day time the street was dusty, but at night the dew settled the dust and the old man liked to sit late because he was deaf and now at night it was quiet and he felt the difference. The two waiters inside the cafe knew that the old man was a little drunk, and while he was a good client they knew that if he became too drunk he would leave without paying, so they kept watch on him."Last week he tried to commit suicide," one waiter said."Why?""He was in despair.""What about?""Nothing.""How do you know it was nothing?""He has plenty of money."They sat together at a table that was close against the wall near the door of the cafe and looked at the terrace where the tables were all empty except where the old man sat in the shadow of the leaves of the tree that moved slightly in the wind. A girl and a soldier went by in the street. The street light shone on the brass number on his collar. The girl wore no head covering and hurried beside him."The guard will pick him up," one waiter said."What does it matter if he gets what he's after?""He had better get off the street now. The guard will get him. They went by five minutes ago."The old man sitting in the shadow rapped on his saucer with his glass. The younger waiter went over to him."What do you want?"The old man looked at him. "Another brandy," he said."You'll be drunk," the waiter said. The old man looked at him. The waiter went away. "He'll stay all night," he said to his colleague. "I'm sleepy now. I never get into bed before three o'clock. He should have killed himself last week."The waiter took the brandy bottle and another saucer from the counter inside the cafe and marched out to the old man's table. He put down the saucer and poured the glass full of brandy."You should have killed yourself last week," he said to the deaf man. The old man motioned with his finger. "A little more," he said. The waiter poured on into the glass so that the brandy slopped over and ran down the stem into the top saucer of the pile. "Thank you," the old man said. The waiter took the bottle back inside the cafe. He sat down at the table with his colleague again."He's drunk now," he said."He's drunk every night.""What did he want to kill himself for?""How should I know.""How did he do it?""He hung himself with a rope.""Who cut him down?""His niece.""Why did they do it?""Fear for his soul.""How much money has he got?" "He's got plenty.""He must be eighty years old.""Anyway I should say he was eighty.""I wish he would go home. I never get to bed before three o'clock. What kind of hour is that to go to bed?""He stays up because he likes it.""He's lonely. I'm not lonely. I have a wife waiting in bed for me.""He had a wife once too.""A wife would be no good to him now.""You can't tell. He might be better with a wife.""His niece looks after him. You said she cut him down.""I know." "I wouldn't want to be that old. An old man is a nasty thing.""Not always. This old man is clean. He drinks without spilling. Even now, drunk. Look at him.""I don't want to look at him. I wish he would go home. He has no regard for those who must work."The old man looked from his glass across the square, then over at the waiters. "Another brandy," he said, pointing to his glass. The waiter who was in a hurry came over."Finished," he said, speaking with that omission of syntax stupid people employ when talking to drunken people or foreigners. "No more tonight. Close now." "Another," said the old man."No. Finished." The waiter wiped the edge of the table with a towel and shook his head. The old man stood up, slowly counted the saucers, took a leather coin purse from his pocket and paid for the drinks, leaving half a peseta tip. The waiter watched him go down the street, a very old man walking unsteadily but with dignity."Why didn't you let him stay and drink?" the unhurried waiter asked. They were putting up the shutters. "It is not half-past two.""I want to go home to bed.""What is an hour?""More to me than to him.""An hour is the same.""You talk like an old man yourself. He can buy a bottle and drink at home.""It's not the same.""No, it is not," agreed the waiter with a wife. He did not wish to be unjust. He was only in a hurry."And you? You have no fear of going home before your usual hour?""Are you trying to insult me?""No, hombre, only to make a joke.""No," the waiter who was in a hurry said, rising from pulling down the metal shutters. "I have confidence. I am all confidence.""You have youth, confidence, and a job," the older waiter said. "You have everything." "And what do you lack?""Everything but work.""You have everything I have.""No. I have never had confidence and I am not young.""Come on. Stop talking nonsense and lock up.""I am of those who like to stay late at the cafe," the older waiter said."With all those who do not want to go to bed. With all those who need a light for the night.""I want to go home and into bed.""We are of two different kinds," the older waiter said. He was now dressed to go home. "It is not only a question of youth and confidence although those things are very beautiful. Each night I am reluctant to close up because there may be some one who needs the cafe.""Hombre, there are bodegas open all night long.""You do not understand. This is a clean and pleasant cafe. It is well lighted. The light is very good and also, now, there are shadows of the leaves.""Good night," said the younger waiter."Good night," the other said. Turning off the electric light he continued the conversation with himself, It was the light of course but it is necessary that the place be clean and pleasant. You do not want music. Certainly you do not want music. Nor can you standbefore a bar with dignity although that is all that is provided for these hours. What did he fear? It was not a fear or dread, It was a nothing that he knew too well. It was all a nothing and a man was a nothing too. It was only that and light was all it needed and a certain cleanness and order. Some lived in it and never felt it but he knew it all was nada y pues nada y nada y pues nada. Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee. He smiled and stood before a bar with a shining steam pressure coffee machine."What's yours?" asked the barman."Nada.""Otro loco mas," said the barman and turned away."A little cup," said the waiter.The barman poured it for him."The light is very bright and pleasant but the bar is unpolished," the waiter said.The barman looked at him but did not answer. It was too late at night for conversation. "You want another copita?" the barman asked."No, thank you," said the waiter and went out. He disliked bars and bodegas. A clean, well-lighted cafe was a very different thing. Now, without thinking further, he would go home to his room. He would lie in the bed and finally, with daylight, he would go to sleep. After all, he said to himself, it's probably only insomnia. Many must have it.13 Summarize the plot of the story in your own words.(10 points)14 Comment on the short story in terms of theme and language style etc.(30 points)二、作文15 Write an essay in no less than 200 words on the following topics.(40 points, 20 for each) Leather-Stocking Tales by James Fenimore Cooper and his hero Natty Bumppo.16 Is the character Gatsby in The Great Gatsby great or not?。

《英美文学选读》模拟试题（4）

《英美文学选读》模拟试题（4）《英美文学选读》模拟试题(四)一、Multiple Choice1.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.The tragedy of Dr. Faustus, the protagonist in Christopher Marlowe’s The Tragic History of Dr. Faustus, is the very face that _______.A. man is confined to timeB. he tried to join Africa to SpainC. he became a man without soul after he sold itD. he conjured up Helen, the lady who was the very course of the Trojan War3.Which of the following historical events does not directly help to stimulate the rising of the Renaissance Movements? A. The rediscovery of ancient Greek and Roman culture.B. The new discoveries in geography and astrology.C. The Glorious revolution.D. The religious reformation and the economic expansion.4.Literature of Neoclassicism is different from that of Romanticism in that _______.A .the former celebrates reason, rationality, order and instruction while the latter sees literature as an expression of an individual’s feelings and experiencesB. the former is heavily religious but the latter secularC. the former is an intellectual movement the purpose of which is to arouse the middle class for political rights while the latter is concerned with the personal cultivation.D. the former advocates the "return to nature" whereas the latter turns to the ancient Greek and Roman writers for its models5.“And we will sit upon the rocks,/Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks,/By shallow rivers to whose falls/Melodious birds sing madrigals.” The above lines are probably taken from _______.A.Spensers The Faerie QueeneB.John Donnes “The Sun Rising”C.Shakespeares “Sonnet 18”D.Marlowes “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”6.You may have meet the term "Yahoo" on internet, but you may also have met it inEnglish literature .It is found in _______.A. John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s ProgressB. Samuel Johnson’s The Vanity of Human Wis hesC. Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s TravelsD. Henry Fielding’s tom Jones7.The ture subject of John Donnes 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 suns intrusion into the lovers private lifeD. lecture the sun on where true royalty and riches lie.8."Surface", "Sneerwell", "Backbite", and "Candour" are most likely the names of the characters in _______.A. Shaw’s Mrs Warren’s ProfessionB. Sheridan’s The School for ScandalC. Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s LostD. Christopher Marlowe’s Dr.Faustus9.The Houyhnhnms depicted by Jonathan Swift in Gullivers 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.What does Wordsworth’s poem "The Solitary Reaper" tell us ab out Romanticist?A. To romanticists, poetry is an expression of an individual’s feelings and experiences no matter how fragmentary and momentary these feelings and experiences are.B. Romanticist take delight only in sound effect, the theme of a work is not their concern.C. Romanticist are not patient people; they would leave before the revelation of the theme.D. Poetry should present the apparent and tangible.11.The phrase 搕o urge people to abide by Christian doctrines and to seek salvation through constant struggles with their own weaknesses and all kinds of social evils?may well sum up the implied meaning of _______.A. Gullivers TravelsB. The Rape of the LockC. Robinson CrusoeD. The pilgrims Progress12. Promet heus Unbound is Shelley’s greatest achievement. Prometheus, according to the Greek mythology, was chained byZeus on Mount Caucasus and suffered the vulture’s feeding on his liver for _______.A. planning a revolt to dethrone GodB. misinterpreting God’s d ecree to reconcile man a nd natureC. prophesying the arrival of spring in a winter seasonD. stealing the fire from heaven and giving it to man13.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."My Last Duchess" is a poem that best exemplifier Robert Browning’s _______.A. sensitive ear for the sounds of the English languageB. excellent choice of wordsC. mastering of the metrical devicesD. use of the dramatic monologue15.“Ode o na Grecian Urn”shows the contrast between the _______ of art and the _______ of human passion.A.glory …uglinessB.pe rmanence…transie nceC.transience…sordidnessD.glory…permanence16.Tess of the D’Urbervilles, one of Thomas Hardy’s best known novels, portrays man as _______.A. being hereditarily either good or badB. being self-sufficientC. having no control over his own fateD. still retaining his own faith in a world of confusion17.The typical feature of Robet Brownings poetry is the _______.A.bitter satire/doc/d414799372.html,rger-than-life caricature/doc/d414799372.html,tinized dictionD.dramatic monologue18.The term tone in literature means _______.A. sound effect such as rhyme and metrical deviceB. the pitch of a word used to determine its meaning in the given contextC. the manner of expression to indicate the speaker’s attitude towards the subjectD. a shade of colour to reflect the change of the light19._______ is the first important governess novel in the English literary history.A.Jane EyreB.EmmaC.Wuthering HeightsD.Middlemarch20.In which of the following poems by William Butler Yeats did you find the allusion to Helen and the TrojanWar?A. "Sailing to Byzantium"B. " Leda and the Swan"C. "The Lake Isle if Innisfree".D. " Sown by the Sally Garden"21._______ 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.James Joyce is the author of all the following novels except _______.A. DublinersB. Jude the ObscureC. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManD. Ulysses23.The Romantic writers would focus on all the following issues EXCEPT the _______ in the American literary histrory.A.individual feelingsB.idea of survival of the fittestC.strong imaginationD.return to nature24.We can perhaps sum marize that Walt Whitman’s poems are characterized by all the following features except that they are _______.A. conversational and crudeB. lyrical and well-structuredC. wimple and rather crudeD. free-flowing25.he famous 20-years sleep in “Rip Van Winkle”helps to construct the story in such a way that we are greatly affected by Irvings _______.A.concern with the passage of timeB.expression of transient beautyC.satire on laziness and corruptibility of human beingsD.idea about supernatural manipulation of mans life26.Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his _______.A. international themeB. waste-land imageryC. local colorD. symbolism27.The literary characters of the American type in early 19th century are generally characterized by all the following features EXCEPT that they _______.A.speak local dialectsB.are polite and elegant gentlemenC.are simple and crude farmersD.are noble savages( red and white) untainted by society28.The period before the American Civil War is commonly referred to as _______.A. the Romantic PeriodB. the Realistic PeriodC. the Naturalist PeriodD. the Modern Period29.“This is my letter to the World” is a poetic expression of Emily Dickinsons _______ about her communication with the outside world.A.indifferenceB.angerC.anxietyD.sorrow30.In Henry James’ Daisy Miller, the author tries to portray the young woman as an embodiment of _______.A. the force of conventionB. the free spirit of the New WorldC. the decline of aristocracyD. the corruption of the newly rich31.After The adventures of Tom Sawyer, Twain gives a literary independence to Toms buddy Huck in a book entitled _______.A.Life on the MississippiB.The Gilded AgeC.The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnD.A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court32.The Transcendentalists believe that, first, nature is ennobling, and second, the individual is _______.A. insignificantB. vicious by natureC. divineD. forward-looking33.Generally speaking,all those writers with a naturalistic approach to human reality tend to be _______.A.transcendentalistsB.idealistsC.pessimistsD.impressionists34.In Heminway’s short story Indian Camp, through a story of a woman givi ng birth, the protagonist, Nick Adams, receives an education of _______.A. birth and violent deathB. charity and benevolenceC. racial inequalityD. devotion and kinship35.In “After Apple-Picking,”Robert Frost wrote:“For I have had too much/Of app lepicking:I am overtired/Of the great harvest I myself desired.”From these lines we can conclude thatthe speaker is _______.A.happy about the harvestB.still very much interested in apple-pickingC.expecting a greater harvestD.indifferent to what he once desired36.Besides sketches, tales and essays, Washington Irving also published a book on _______, which is also considered an important part of his creative writing.A. poetic theoryB. French artC. history of New YorkD. life of George Washington37.The Hemingway Code heroes are best remembered for their _______.A.indestructible spirtieB.pessimistic view of lifeC.war experiencesD.masculinity38.In American literature, escaping from the society and returning to nature is a common subject. The following titles are all related, in one way or another, to thesubject except _______.A. Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnB. Dreiser’s Sister CarrieC. Copper’s Leather-Stocking TalesD. Thoreau’s Walden39.In Hemingways “Indian Cmap”, Nicks night trip to the Indian village and his experience inside the hut can be taken as _______.A.an essential lesson about Indian tribesB.a confrontation with evil and sinC.an initiation to the harshness of lifeD.a learning process in human relationship40.Emily Dickinson wrote many short poems on various aspects of life. Which of the following is not a usual subject of her poetic expression?A. Religion.B. Life and death.C. Love and marriage.D. War and peace.二、Reading Comprehension1.Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English.(1)."And the native hue of resolution/Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought." (Shakespeare, Humlet)Questions:A. What does the "native hue of resolution" mean?B. What does the "pale cast of thought" stand for?C. What idea do the two lines express?(2)."Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere; /Destroyer and Preserver; hear, O hear!"Questions:A. Identify the poem and the poet.B. What is the "Wild Spirit"?C. What does the "Wild Spirit" destroy and preserve?(3)."When the minister spoke from the pulpit, with power and fervid eloquence, and, with his hands on the open bible, of the sacred truths of our religion, and of saint-like lives and triumphant deaths, and of future bliss or misery unutterable, then did Goodman Brown turn pale, dreading, lest the roof shouldthunder down upon the gray blasphemer and his hearers.Questions:A. Identify the title of the short story from which this part is taken.B. What had happened in the story before this church scene?C. Why was Goodman Brown afraid the roof might thunder down?(4).(A lot of common objects have been enumerated before, and here are the last two lines of There Was a Child Went Forth :) The horizon’s edge, the flying sea-crow, the fragrance of salt marsh and shore mud. These became part of that child who went forth every day, and who now goes, and will always go forth every day.Questions:A. Who is the author of this poem?B. What does the "Child" stand for in the poem?C. In one or two sentences, interpret the implied meaning of the two lines.三、Questions and Answers 。

[考研类试卷]英语专业(英美文学)模拟试卷4.doc

[考研类试卷]英语专业（英美文学）模拟试卷4一、填空题1 "If winter comes, can Spring be far behind?" was quoted from Shelley's______. And it expressed his______belief for the future.2 Women as______appeared in the romantic age. It was during this period that women took, for the first time, an important place in English literature.3 To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower Hold infinitely in the palm of your hand And eternity in an hour. The quotation is from the poetry of______.4 In 1798,______and Samuel Coleridge published a joint volume of poetry entitled Lyrical Ballads, which became a landmark in English poetry.5 "Beauty is truth, Truth Beauty," -that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. This quotation is selected from______by______.6 The era of the______movement in the early 19th century, English literature was one of the great poetry and great prose. The imperishable poetry of WilliamWordsworth,______, John Keats as well as Percy Bysshe Shelley and______, and the great historical fiction of______ are among the invaluable gems in English literature.7 Milton! Thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters: altar, sword, and pen, Fireside, the heroic wealth of hall and bower, Have forfeited their ancient English dower Of inward happiness. This excerpt is selected from______by______.8 Byron himself once commented on______by saying "I awoke one morning and found myself famous."9 The 18th century witnessed a new literary form—the modern English novel, which, contrary to the medieval romance, gives a______presentation of life of the common people.10 The literary form that is fully developed and the most flourishing during the Romantic Period is______.11 In 1859, Darwin published______, which exerted great influence on American Naturalism.12 ______is regarded as "the true father of our national literature."13 In 1902 London published his first novel______.14 ______,______and______ form Dreiser's Trilogy of Desire.15 _____is the pioneer who wrote in the naturalistic tradition.16 In the late nineteenth century, although Americans continued to read the works of Irving, Cooper, Hawthorne and Poe, the great age of American______had ended.17 Howells'______is a fine specimen of American realistic writing.18 Many of O. Henry's stories tell about the series of poor people in______.二、名词解释19 Imagery20 Irony21 lyric22 Don Juan23 Stanza24 The Age of Realism25 American Naturalism .26 Darwinism27 Local Colorists28 First-person narrative三、单项选择题29 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner written by S.T. Coleridge tells an adventurous story of a______.（A）poet（B）critic（C）sailor（D）lover30 It is said that the poem______written by S.T. Coleridge was composed in a dream after the poet took the opium. But when he was writing the lines down, a stranger interrupted him and only 54 lines survived.（A）The Rime of the Ancient Mariner（B）Frost at Midnight（C）Kubla Khan（D）The Prelude31 As a leading Romanticist, George Gordon Byron's chief contribution is his creation of the "______hero", a proud, mysterious revel figure, of noble origin.（A）Byronic（B）Romantic（C）Oriented（D）Tough32 The unifying principle in______written by G. G. Byron is the basic ironic theme of appearance and reality.（A）Childe Harold's Pilgrimage（B）Cain（C）Don Juan（D）Prometheus Unbound33 The publication in 1812 of the first two cantos of______, a poem narrating G.G. Byron's travels between 1809 and 1811 in Europe, brought the poet fame.（A）Childe Harold's Pilgrimage（B）Don Juan（C）Hours of Idleness（D）Cain34 Best of all the well-known lyric pieces written by RB.Shelley is the poet's______, for here his rhapsodic and declamatory tendencies find a subject perfectly suited to him. （A）To a Skylark（B）The Cloud（C）Ode to the West Wind（D）Ode on a Grecian Urn35 Ode on an Grecian Urn by John Keats shows the contrast between the permanenceof______ and the transience of human passion.（A）poetry（B）art（C）music（D）love36 Jane Austen's main literary concern is about human beings intheir______relationships. Because of this, her novels have a universal significance. （A）personal（B）natural（C）satisfied（D）private37 As a______writer, Jane Austen considers it her duty to express in her works a discriminated and serious criticism of life, and to expose the follies and illusions of mankind.（A）romantic（B）sentimentalist（C）realistic（D）naturalistic38 The novel Pride and Prejudice mainly deals with the five Bennet sisters and their search for suitable husbands, centering on the love story between______and______. （A）Jane/ Bingley（B）Lydia/ Wickham（C）Elizabeth/ Darcy（D）Mrs. Bennet/ Mr. Bennet39 The English Romantic Age produced two major novelists. They are______.（A）Lamb and Hazlitt（B）Byron and Shelley（C）Scott and Austen（D）Alfred Tennyson and Thomas Hardy40 In 1805 William Wordsworth completed a long autobiographical poementitled______.（A）Lucy Poems（B）Lyrical Ballads（C）The Prelude（D）I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud41 "Therefore, bees of England, forge Many a weapon, chain, and scourge, That these stingless drones may spoil The forced produce of your toil?(A Song: Men of England) In the above stanza, Shelley employs a(n)______.（A）simile（B）metaphor（C）oxymoron（D）synecdoche42 The Romantic Period in English literature began with the publication of _____.（A）William Blake's Song of Innocence（B）Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice（C）Wordsworth's and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads（D）Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe43 Which of the following is taken from John Keats's Ode on a Grecian Urn?（A）If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?（B）For Godsake hold your tongue, and let me love.（C）Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard / Are sweeter. .（D）The Child is father of the Man.44 The novel starts with "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." This novel is JaneAusten's______.（A）Emma（B）Persuasion（C）Sense and Sensibility（D）Pride and Prejudice45 "She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and, oh, The difference to me!" The word "me" in the last line of the above stanza quoted from Wordsworth's poem She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways may possibly refer to______.（A）the poet（B）the reader（C）her lover（D）everybody46 It is generally regarded that Keats's most important and mature poems are in the form of______.（A）ode（B）elegy（C）epic（D）sonnet47 In William Blake's poetry, the father(and any other in whom he saw the image of the father such as God, priest, and king)was usually a figure of______.（A）benevolence（B）admiration（C）love（D）tyranny48 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（C）intricate character and quick wit（D）intricate character and poor understanding49 We can perhaps describe the west wind in Shelley's poem Ode to the West Wind with all the following terms EXCEPT______.（A）tamed（B）swift（C）proud（D）wild50 William Wordsworth asserts that poetry originates from______.（A）form（B）thoughts（C）artistic devices（D）emotion51 ______is the central concern to Blake's concern in Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience.（A）Womanhood（B）Adulthood（C）Happiness（D）Childhood52 The author of the writing Prometheus Unbound is______.（A）Byron（B）Shelley（C）Alfred Tennyson（D）Alexander Pope53 In Shelley's To a Skylark, the bird, suspended between reality and poetic image, pours forth an exultant song which suggests to the poet______.（A）both celestial rapture and human limitation（B）both image creation and profound meaning（C）both music and words（D）both inspiration and skill of writing54 Which of the following comments on William Blake is NOT true?（A）Childhood is central to Blake's concern in Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience.（B）Blake's Marriage of Heaven and Hell marks his entry into maturity.（C）The Book of Los is his masterpiece.（D）Symbolism in wide range is a distinctive feature of his poetry.55 "Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red, Pestilence-stricken multitudes: O Thou, Who chariots to their dark wintry bed" The above three lines are taken from______. （A）Ode on a Grecian Urn（B）Ode to the West Wind（C）A Song: Men of England（D）Song for the Luddites56 Which of the following poems is a landmark in English Poetry?（A）Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman.（B）Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.（C）I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth.（D）Remorse by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.57 With so many poems such as The Sparrow's Nest, To a Skylark, To the Cuckoo and To a Butterfly, William Wordsworth is regarded as a "______".（A）poet of genius（B）royal poet（C）worshipper of nature（D）conservative poet58 "Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere; /Destroyer and Preserver; hear, O hear!" The two lines are found in______.（A）Young Goodman Brown by Hawthorne（B）Ode to the West Wind by Shelley（C）Ulysses by James Joyce（D）Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman59 Emily Dickinson's poem This is my letter to the World expresses thepoetess's______about her communication with the outside world.（A）indifference（B）joy（C）anxiety（D）indignation60 Mark Twain wrote most of his literary works with a______language.（A）grand（B）pompous（C）simple（D）vernacular61 The impact of______on the American thought and the influence of the 19th century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to American naturalism. （A）Darwin's evolutionary theory（B）Marxist theory（C）Transcendentalism（D）Puritanism62 The Age of Realism in the literary history of the United States refers to the period from______ to______.（A）1816; 1914（B）1863; 1918（C）1865; 1914（D）1865; 191863 Naturalism is evolved from realism when the author's tone in writing becomes less serious and less sympathetic but more ironic and more______.（A）rational（B）humorous（C）optimistic（D）pessimistic64 Theodore Dreiser is generally regarded as one of America's______.（A）naturalists（B）realists（C）modernists（D）romanticists65 It is not surprising to find in______fiction a world of jungle, where "kill or to be killed" was the law.（A）Emily Dickinson's（B）Henry James's（C）Mark Twain's（D）Theodore Dreiser's66 With the publication of______, Dreiser was launching himself upon a long career that would ultimately make him one of the most significant American writers of the school later known as literary naturalism.（A）Sister Carrie（B）The Financier（C）The Titan（D）An American Tragedy67 The appearance of______'s The Luck of Roaring Camp marked a significant development in the history of local colorist fiction.（A）Bret Harte（B）Mark Twain（C）Kate Chopin（D）Gertrude Atherion68 Mark Twain's first novel______, written in collaboration with Charles D.Warner and published in 1873, though not an artistic success, gives its name to the America of the post-Civil War period which it attempts to satire.（A）The Gilded Age（B）The Age of Innocence（C）The Roughing Time（D）The Jazz Age69 More than five hundred poems Dickinson wrote are about nature, in which her general______ about the relationship between man and nature is well expressed.（A）eulogy（B）happiness（C）skepticism（D）denial70 Which writer is not in the group of local colorists?（A）Mark Twain.（B）Stephen Crane.（C）Kate Chopin（D）Sarah Orne Jewett.71 Though secluded herself in her own house, Emily Dickinson was never really indifferent to the outside world, as could be seen in her poems such as "I" like to see it lap the Miles , which describes a(n)______, an embodiment of modern civilization. （A）snake（B）animal（C）train（D）the highway72 One of Mark Twain's significant contributions to American literature lies in the fact that he made ______an accepted, respectable literary medium in the literary history of the country.（A）fierce humor（B）tall tales（C）colloquial speech（D）social satire73 Dreiser's Trilogy of Desire includes three novels. They are The Financier, The Titan and______.（A）The Genius（B）The Tycoon（C）The Stoic（D）The Giant74 Emily Dickinson's poetry is most aptly characterized as______.（A）exposing the evils of the society（B）paving the way for the following generation of free verse poets（C）exhibiting a sensitiveness to the symbolic implications of experience, such as love, death, immortality and nature, etc.（D）sharing the same poetic conventions as Walt Whitman75 Emily Dickinson wrote 1775 poems , but only______of which had appeared during her life time.（A）7（B）8（C）9（D）1076 In I heard a Fly buzz—When I died—, Emily Dickinson describes the moment of death______.（A）passionately（B）pessimistically（C）desperately（D）peacefully77 Theodore Dreiser belonged to the school of literary______which emphasized heredity and environment as important deterministic forces shaping individualized characters who were presented in special and detailed circumstances.（A）realism（B）determinism（C）naturalism（D）humanism78 Daisy Miller's tragedy of indiscretion is intensified and enlarged by its narration from the point of view of______.（A）the author Henry James（B）the Italian youth Giovanelli（C）the American youth Winterbourne（D）her mother Mrs. Miller79 Henry James experimented with many different themes in his literary career, the most influential one being______.（A）nothingness（B）disillusionment（C）international theme（D）relationship between men and women80 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is against______.（A）British colonists（B）slavery（C）chauvinism（D）monocracy81 Major American naturalist writers at the turn of the 19th century to the 20th century include all listed below but______.（A）Frank Norris（B）Stephen Crane（C）Henry James（D）Theodore Dreiser82 ______is NOT the work of Mark Twain.（A）Adventures of Huckleberry Finn（B）The Adventures of Tom Sawyer（C）Life on the Mississippi（D）The Mill on the Floss83 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）local colorism（B）vernacularism（C）modernism（D）naturalism84 Generally speaking, all those writers with a naturalistic approach to human reality are______.（A）transcendentalists（B）idealists（C）pessimists（D）impressionists85 The above two lines are taken from______.（A）Dickinson's This is my letter to the World（B）Whitman's Song of Myself（C）Pound's A Pact（D）Frost's The Road Not Taken86 Stylistically, Henry James's fiction is characterized by______.（A）short, clear sentences（B）abundance of local images（C）ordinary American speech（D）highly refined language87 Dickinson was sometimes curious about the feeling of death and in one of her poems she wrote about the______of death, the title of the poem is "I heard a Fly buzz when I dies".（A）suffering（B）moment（C）happiness（D）meaning88 The period ranging from 1865 to 1914 has been referred to as______.（A）the Age of Realism（B）the Age of Modernism（C）the Age of Romanticism（D）the Age of Colonialism四、问答题89 "Cleave themselves into chasms, while far belowThe sea-blooms and the oozy woods which wearThe sapless foliage of the ocean, knowThy voice, and suddenly grow grey with fear,And tremble and despoil themselves: O hear!"A. Identify the poet and the work.B. What do the two stanzas describe?C. What idea does the poem express from which these stanzas are taken?90 "Men of England, wherefore ploughFor the lords who lay ye low?Wherefore weave with toil and careThe rich robes your tyrants wear?"A. Identify the poet and the work.B. Interpret briefly the implied meaning of this stanza.C. Which period does the poem belong to?91 "The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece!Where burning Sappho loved and sung,Where grew the arts of war and peace,Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung!Eternal summer gilds them yet,But all, except their sun, is set."A. Identify the poet and the work.B. Who is the "Sappho" in the stanza?C. What is the setting of the stanza?92 "Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere; / Destroyer and Preserver; hear, O hear!"A. Identify the poem and the poet.B. What is the "Wild Spirit"?C. What does the "Wild Spirit" destroy and preserve?93 "You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least."A. Identify the author and the novel.B. What is the tone of the speaker?C. Who do you think the "I" and "you" in the quoted sentence refer to? What kind of relationship are "I" and "you" in?94 "This is my letter to the World/That never wrote to Me—/The simple News that Nature told—/ With tender Majesty."A. Who is the author of the stanza?B. Which period does the poem belong to?C. What idea does the poem express?95 Isabel always felt an impulse to pull out the pins; not that she imagined they inflicted any damage on the tough old parchment, but because it seemed to her her aunt might make better use of her sharpness. She was very critical herself — it was incidental to hersex, and her antionalit but she was very sentimental as well, and there was something in Mrs. Touchett's dryness that set her own moral fountains flowing."Now what's your point of view?" she asked of her aunt. "When you criticize everything here you should have a point of view. Yours doesn't seem to be American you thought everything over there so disagreeable. When I have time; it's thoroughly American!" "My dear young lady", said Mrs. Touchett, "there are as many points of view in the world as there are people of sense to take them. You may say that doesn't make them very numerous. American? Never in the world; that's shockingly narrow, my point of views, thank God, is personal!"A. What is the name of the novel from which this passage is taken?B. Who is the author of this novel?C. Make a brief comment on the heroine Isable Arther.D. What is Jamesian theme?96 "So I was full of trouble, full as I could be; and didn't know what to do. At last I had an idea, and I says, I'll go and write the letter—and then see if I can pray. Why, it was astonishing, the way I felt as light as a feather, right straight off, and my troubles all gone. So I got a piece of paper and a pencil, all glad and excited, and set down and wrote:..."A. Who does "I" refer to?B. Explain why I was full of trouble first, then troubles all gone.C. Use a sentence to summarize the image of "I".97 "The Eyes around—had wrung them dry—And Breaths were gathering firmFor that last Onset—when the kingBe witnessed—in the Room—"A. What is the meaning of the first line?B. What does "the king" refer to?C. What idea does the poem from which this stanza is taken express?五、论述题98 What are the characteristics of the Romantic literature? Please discuss the question by providing one or two examples.99 Analyzing the poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley, discuss his art of poems.100 Here is the last stanza of Byron's The Isles of Greece:"Place me on Sunium's marble steep,Where nothing, save the waves and I,May hear our mutual murmurs sweep;There, swan-like, let me sing or die;A land of slaves ne'er be mine—Dash down yon cup of Samian wine."Determine the speaker first and then discuss briefly the main idea of the stanza of the whole excerpt. You may want to consider the possible implications of the last two lines.101 Generally speaking, Jane Austen was a writer of the 18th century, though she lived mainly in the 19th century. Based on her writings, discuss Jane Austen's greatest contribution to English literature.102 Discuss the subject matter in the odes by John Keats and his style of poetry.103 Henry James is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th century "stream-of-consciousness novels and the founder of psychological realism. Based on his work Daisy Miller, briefly discuss why he achieved this glory.104 What is local colorism in American literature?105 What is Daisy Miller's dilemma as an American Girl in Europe, the Old World?106 Is there any difference between naturalistic writers and realistic writers in their focus of interest when they approach the human reality? If there is, please give a brief comment with reference to at least two individual works.107 Emily Dickinson is now recognized not only as a great poetess on her own right but as a poetess of considerable influence upon American poetry of the present century. What are the qualities of her poems?。

英美文学模拟题含答案

一、Muliple choice1. "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"This is the beginning line of Shakespeare's.A.songs B.PlaysediesD.Sonnets2.Which of the followings is not Shakespeare’s work?A.The merchant of VeniceB. Romeo and JulietC. King LearD. Of Truth3.___is regarded as the pioneer of English drama.A.William ShakespeareB.Christopher MarloweC.Edmund SpenserD.John Donne4. ___are Shakespeare's two narrative poems.A.Venus and AdonisB.The Two Noble KinsmenC.The Rape of lucreceD.The Winter's Tale5.English Renaissance Period was an age of____.A.prose and novelB.poetry and dramaC.essays and journalsD.ballads and songs6."Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"This is the beginning line of Shakespeare's______.A.songsB.playsediesD.sonnets7.Which play is not a comedy?A.A Midsummer Night'sB.The Merchant of VeniceC.Twelfth NightD.Romeo and JulietE.As You Like It8.In1847,the Bronte Sisters published the following famous novels except______.A.Jane EyreB.ShirleyC.Wuthering HeightsD.The Tenant of Wildfell Hall9.In_____'s hands,"dramatic monologue"reaches its maturity and perfection.A.Alfred TennysonB.Robert BrowningC.Williams ShakespeareD.George Eliot10.___is a natural medium for Hamlet to release his anguish.A.conversationB.speechC.soliloquyD.action11．The Renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events EXCEPT_ ________.A．the rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek cultureB．the vast expansion of British colonies in North AmericaC．the new discoveries in geography and astrologyD．the religious reformation and the economic expansion12. William Shakespeare,Christopher Marlowe and____are the best representatives of the English humanists.A.Edmund SpenserB.Francis BaconC.John MiltonD.Thomas More13. ___is not a comedy.A.As You Like ItB.Romeo and JulietC.A Midsummer Night DreamD.The Twelfth Night14.Marlowe's____is a play based on the German legend of a magician aspiring for knowledge a nd finally meeting his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the Devil.A. Dr.FaustusB.TamburlaineC.The Jew of MaltaD.Edward II15.All the following poets except___belong to the metaphysical school.A. DonneB.HerbertC.Marvellton16.The publication of___established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of New England t ranscendentalism.A.NatureB.Self-relianceC.The American ScholarD.The Over-soul17.American Romanticism started with the publication of___and ended with Leaves of Grass.A.The Sketch BookB.NatureC.The AlhambraD.Leatherstocking Tales18.Being a period of the great flowering of American literature,the___period is also called"the American Renaissance".A.PuritanB.RomanticC.RealisticD.modern19.The American___as a cultural heritage exerted great influence over American moral values a nd literature.A.democracyB.idealC.PuritanismD.Romanticism20.___is considered by H.L.Mencken as"the true father of our national literature."A.Ernest HemingwayB.Edgar Allan PoeC.Washington IrvingD.Mark Twain21．“It is a truth universally acknowledged,that a single man in possession of a good for-tune,m ust be in want of a wife.”The quoted part is taken from______.A．Jane Eyre B ．Wuthering HeightsC．Pride and Prejudice D．Sense and Sensibility22．All of the following poems by William Wordsworth are masterpieces on nature EXCEPT___ _.A．“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”B．“An Evening Walk”C．“Tintern Abbey”D．“The Solitary Reaper”23．All of the following are stream–of- consciousness novels EXCEPT________. A．Pilgrimage B．Ulysses C．Mrs.Dalloway D．Tess of the D’Urbervilles24．Shakespeare’s four greatest tragedies are________.A．Romeo and Juliet,Othello,King Lear,HamletB．Hamlet,Othello,Macbeth,The Merchant of VeniceC．Hamlet,Othello,King Lear,MacbethD．Romeo and Juliet,The Merchant of Venice,Othello,Hamlet25．All of the following novels by Daniel Defoe are the first literary works devoted to the study o f problems of the lower-class people EXCEPT______.A．Robinson Crusoe B．Captain Singleton C．Moll Flanders D．Colonel Jack二、True or False1.English Renaissance is an age of essay and drama.2.Ode to the West Wind is Bysshe Shelley’s work.3.Jane Austin is the author of Pride and Prejudice.4.Oliver Twist is written by Charles Dickens.5.The leading figures of the naturalism at the turn of19th century are Thomas Hardy,John Galsworthy and Bernard Shaw.6.If Winters comes, can Spring be far behind? is from Ozymandias.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 the1910s,American literature achieved a new diversity and reached its greatest heights.三、1.Enlightenment2.Humanism3.Renaissance4.Allusion5.Byronic Hero1.选择DDBABDDDBCBDBADCABCDCDACA2.正误FTTTFFFTTF3.名词解释1.Enlightenment1>Enlightenment movement was a progressive philosophical and artistic movement which flouris hed in france and swept through western Europe in the18th century.2>the movement was a furtherance of the Renaissance from14th century to the mid-17th century.3>its purpose was to enlighten the whole world with the light of modern philosophical and artistic ideas.4>it celebrated reason or rationality,equality and science.It advocated universal education.5>famous among the great enlighteners in england were those great writers like Alexander pope.J onathan swift.etc.2.Humanism1>Humanism is the essence of the Renaissance.2>it emphasizes the dignity of human beings and the importance of the present life.Humanists voiced their beliefs that man was the center of the universe and man did not only have the right to enjoy the beauty of the present life,but had the ability to perfect himself and to perform wonders.3.Renaissance1>The word“Renaissance”means“rebirth”,it meant the reintroduction into westerm Europe of the full cultural heritage of Greece and Rome.2>the essence of the Renaissance is Humanism.Attitudes and feelings which had been characterist ic of the14th and15th centuries persisted well down into the era of Humanism and reformation.3>the real mainstream of the english Renaissance is the Elizabethan drama with william shakespe are being the leading dramatist.4.AllusionA reference to a person,a place,an event,or a literary work that a writer expects the reader to reco gnize and respond to.An allusion may be drawn from history,geography,literature,or religion.5.Byronic Hero1>Byronic hero refers to a proud,mysterious rebel figure of noble origin.2>with immense superiority in his passions and powers,this Byronic Hero would carry on his sho ulders the burden of righting all the wrongs in a corrupt society.And would rise single-handedly a gainst any kind of tyrannical rules either in government,in religion,or in moral principles with un conquerable wills and inexhaustible energies.3>Byrons chief contribution to English literature is his creation of the“Byronic Hero”。

【免费下载】英美文学模拟试卷

PART ONEI. Multiple Choice (40 points in all,1 for each) Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Mark your choice by blackening the corresponding letter A,B,C or D on the answer sheet.1.In Renaissance, the European humanist thinkers and scholars made attempts to do thefollowing EXCEPT_________.A.getting rid of those old feudalist ideasB.getting control of the parliament and governmentC.introducing new ideas that expressed the interests of rising bourgeoisieD.recovering the purity of the early church ,from the corruption of the Roman CatholicChurch2.The best model of satire in the whole English literary history is Jonathan Swift’s_________.A.A Modest ProposalB.A Tale of a TubC. Gulliver’s TravelsD. The Battle of the Books3.As a representative of the Enlightenment,___________ was one of the first to introduce rationalism to England.A. John BunyanB. Daniel DefoeC. Alexander Pope D .Jonathan Swift4.The Petrarchan sonnet was the first introduced into England by _______.A. SurreyB. wyattC. SidneyD. Shakespeare5.As the best of Shakespeare’s final romances ,____________ is a typical example of his pessimistic view towards human life and society in his late years.A. The TempestB. The Winter’s TaleC. CymbelineD. The Rape of Lucre ce6.John Milton’s greatest poetical work __________is the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf.A. AreopagiticaB. Paradise LostC. LycidasD. Samson Agonistes7.For his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel ,___________ has been regarded by some as “ Father of the English Novel”.A. Daniel DefoeB. Henry FieldingC. Jonathan SwiftD. Samuel Richardson8. Shakespeare’s four greatest tragedies are ______________.A. Romeo and Juliet, Othello, King Lear, HamletB. Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, The Merchant of VeniceC. Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, MacbethD. Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, Othello, Hamlet9.As one of the greatest masters of English prose ,_____________defined a good style as” Proper words in proper places”A. Henry FieldingB. Jonathan SwiftC. Samuel JohnsonD. Alexander Pope10.All of the following novels by Daniel Defoe are the first literary words devoted to the study of problems of the lower-class people Except ____.A. Robinson CrusoeB. Captain SingletonC. Moll FlandersD. Colonel Jack11.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. the rising bourgeoisieD. the enterprising landlords12.Among the great Middle English poets ,Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his production ofA. Piers PlowmanB. Sir Gawain and the Green knightC. BeowulfD. The Canterbury Tales13.The period of _________literature extends from about 450 to 1066,the year of the Norman Conquest of England.A. Old EnglishB. Middle EnglishC. Anglo-SaxonsD. Queen Victoria14.____________as a natural means of writing in revealing the prince’s inner conflict and psychological predicament in Shakespeare’s Hamlet.A. DialogueB. SoliloquyC. Dramatic monologueD. Satire15. Paradise Lost is actually a story taken from ____________.A . the Renaissance B. the Old Testament C. Greek Mythology D. the New Testament16.”Metaphysical poetry” refers to the works of the 17th-century writers who wrote under the influence of ___________.A. John DonneB. Alexander PopeC. Christopher MarloweD. John Milton17.The English Renaissance was perhaps England’s __________Age, especially in literature.A. GoldenB. FruitfulC. JazzD. Dark18.The Romeo and Juliet is permeated with ___________spirit.A. optimisticB. sentimentalC. pessimisticD.just19.In Samson Agonistes ,Milton again borrows his story from the __________,But this time he turns to a more vital and personal theme.A. historyB. religionC. legendD.Bible20.The real mainstream of the English Renaissance is ________________.A. the Elizabethan dramaB. the Elizabethan novelC .the Elizabethan prose D. the Elizabethan poem21.__________is the essence of the Renaissance.A. PoetryB. DramaC. HumanismD.Reason22.In __________of Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift satirizes the western civilization including false illusions about science, philosophy, history and even immortality.A. the first voyage to LilliputB. the second voyage to BrobdingnagC. the third voyage to the Flying IslandD. the fourth voyage to Houyhnhnm land23.The Enlightenment Movement brought about a revival of interest in the old classical works in the field of literature, This tendency is known as __________A. humanismB. realismC. symbolism D .neoclassicism24.In the following writing by Henry Fielding, which brings him the name of the “Prose Homer”?A. The Coffee-House PoliticianB. The Tragedy of TragediesC. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling D .The History of Amelia25.Daniel Defoe describes ____________as a typical English Middle-class man of the 18th-centurry,the very prototype of the empire builder or the pioneer colonist.A. Tom JonesB. GulliverC. Moll Flanders D .Robinson26.The 18th century England is known as the Age of _________or the Age of Reason.A. RomanticismB. ClassicismC. Renaissance D .Enlightenment27.You may have met the term “Yahoo” on internet, but you may also have met it in English literature. It is found in ___________.A. John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s ProgressB. Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s TravelsC. Samuel Johnson’s The Vanity of Human wishes D . Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones28.Of all the 18th century novelists Henry Fielding was the first to set out, both in theory and in practice, to write specifically a “_____________in prose,” the first to give the modern novel its structure and styleA. tragic epicB. comic epicC. romance D .lyric epic29. Gulliver’s Travels contains ____________parts, each dealing with one particular voyage during his extraordinary adventures on some remote island.A.twoB. threeC. four D .five30._____________is a master satirist. His satire is usually masked by an outward gravity and an apparent earnestness which renders his satire all the more powerful.A. Jonathan SwiftB. Daniel DefoeC. Henry Fielding D .Thomas Gray31.Christopher Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” is a(n)____________.A. pastoral lyricB. elegyC. eulogy D .epic32.In English Poetry ,a four-line stanza is called ___________.A. heroic coupletB. quatrainC. Spenserian stanzaD. terza rima33.Francis Bacon’s essays are famous for their brevity ,compactness and ___________.A. complicityB. complexityC. powerfulnessD. mildness34._________is a typical feature of Swift’s writings.A. Bitter satireB. Elegant styleC. Casual narrationD. Complicated sentence structure35. Alexander Pope is well known for the style of biting satire. His best satiric work is _________.A. An Essay on CriticismB. The DunciadC. An Essay on ManD. The Rape of the Lock36.The tragedy of Dr. Faustus ,the protagonist in Christopher Marlowe’s The History of Dr. Faustus ,is the very fact that _____________.A. man is confined to timeB. he tried to join Africa to SpainC. he became a man without soul after he sold itD. he conjured up Helen, the lady who was partially responsible for the breaking-up of the Trojan War37.”The Vanity Fair” is a well-known part in _______.A.Grace Abounding to the Chief of SinnersB.The Life and Death of Mr.BadmanC. The Pilgrim’s ProgressD. The Holy War38.In the theatrical world of the neoclassical period,___________was the leading figure among the host of playwrights.A. William BlakeB. Richard SheridanC. Ben JohnsonD. Bernard Shaw39._____________is still respected as a national hero in Ireland even today.A. William BlakeB. Robert BurnsC. Daniel DefoeD. Jonathan Swift40.Fielding’s works are noted by lively, dramatic dialogues and other theatrical devices such as suspense, coincidence and __________.A. unexpectednessB. internal monologueC. ironyD. contrastPART TWOⅡ.Reading Comprehension (16 points in all,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.”Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?Thou art more lovely and more temperate;Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;”Questions:A.Identify the poet and the poem from which the quoted lines are taken. the figure of speech employed in the poemC.What is the theme of the poem?42.”To bow and sue for graceWith suppliant knee, and deify his power…--- that were low indeedThat were an ignominy, and shame beneathThis downfall;…”\A. Who is the author?B.What is the title of the poem?C.What is the main idea of the quoted lines?43.”To be or not to be –that is the question”A. Identify the authorB.From which work is the above sentence taken?C.How do you understand “To be or not to be”?44.”The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,And all that beauty, all that wealth e’er grave.Awaits the inevitable hour.The paths of glory lead but to the graveA Identify the author and the title of the poem from which this passage is takenB.What does the phrase “inevitable hour” mean?C.Write out the main idea of the passage in plain English?Ⅲ.Questions and Answers(24 points in all,6 for each)Give brief answers to each of the following questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.45.List at least two leading neoclassicists in England, What did Neoclassicists celebrate in literary creation?46.What’s the characters of Fielding’s writing?47.As a rule, an allegory is story in verse or prose with a double meaning: a surfacing meaning, and an implied meaning. List 2 works as examples of allegory. What is an allegory usually concerned with by its implied meaning48.Novum Oraganum, along with other works, won the honor ”Father of modern science”What is name of the author?What is the main concern of the work?Why is the work so important for the development of modern science?ⅣTopic 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.Briefly discuss William Shakespeare’s artistic achievements in characterization, plot construction and language.50.Daniel Defoe’s novel Robinson Crusoe was a great success partly because the protagonist was a real middle-class hero. Discuss Crusoe, the protagonist of the novel ,as an embodiment of the rising middle-class virtues in the mid-18th century England.。

[考研类试卷]英语专业(英美文学)模拟试卷2.doc

[考研类试卷]英语专业（英美文学）模拟试卷2一、填空题1 The Elizabethan______, in its totality, is the real mainstream of the English Renaissance.2 ______is the essence of the Renaissance.3 Among the works by John Milton,______is indeed the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf.4 John Donne's famous analogy of parting lovers to a drawing compass provides a prime example of______.5 ______, the first of the great tragedies, is generally regarded as Shakespeare's most popular play on the stage.6 A stanza of nine lines, with the first eight lines in iambic pentameter and the last line in iambic hexameter, rhyming ababbcbcc is called______.7 ______refer to a group of scholars during the Elizabethan Age who graduated from either Oxford or Cambridge. They came to London with the ambition to become professional writers. Some of them later became famous poets and playwrights.8 ______is acclaimed as "the poets' poet" in English literature.9 ______is the most popular of Bacon's essays.10 The Pilgrim's Progress is John Bunyan's masterpiece. It is the most successful religious______.11 _____ was the first American to achieve an international literary reputation in the American literary history.12 The Romantic Period of American literature started with the publication of Washington living's ______and ended with Whitman's Leaves of Grass.13 ______was the "Great Commoner of Mankind", son of a nominal Quaker of Thetford, England.14 As a poet,______heralded American literary independence, his close observation of nature distinguished his treatment of indigenous wild life and other native American subjects.15 ______by Cooper was a rousing tale about espionage against the British during the Revolutionary War.16 In their order of events, the novels in the Leatherstocking Tales are______,______, ______,______and______.二、名词解释17 the poets' poet18 Metaphysical poetry19 sonnet20 blank verse21 University Wits22 New England poets23 Theme24 Symbol25 American Puritanism26 Symbolism三、单项选择题27 The first and second parts of Henry IV are undoubtedly the most widely read among Shakespeare's history plays. Shakespeare presents the______spirit in it.（A）patriotic（B）pessimistic（C）optimistic（D）ironic28 The Merchant of Venice takes a step forward in its realistic presentation of human nature and human conflict. All the following characters are all from the play EXCEPT______.（A）Nick Adams（B）Portia（C）Bassanio（D）Antonio29 Crafty men contempt studies, simple men admire them, and wise men______them. （A）make（B）use（C）respect（D）hate30 The lines "Death, be not proud, though some have called thee/Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so…" are found in______.（A）William Wordsworth's writings（B）John Keat's writings（C）John Donne's writings（D）Percy Bysshe Shelley's writings31 The following comments on Shakespeare's great works are true EXCEPT ______（A）The successful romantic comedy is Romeo and Juliet, which eulogizes the faithfulness of love and the spirit of pursuing happiness.（B）Hamlet, the first of the great tragedies, is generally regarded as Shakespeare's most popular play on the stage.（C）The Merchant of Venice takes a step forward in its realistic presentation of human nature and human conflict.（D）The three history plays on the reign of Henry VI are the beginning of Shakespeare's epic treatment of English history.32 "To fashion a gentleman or noble person in virtuous and gentle discipline" best describes ______principal intention.（A）Edmund Spenser's（B）Daniel Defoe's（C）William Shakespeare's（D）John Milton's33 Which of the following statements about Shakespeare's greatest tragedies is NOT true? （A）Macbeth's lust for power stirs up his ambition and leads him to incessant crimes.（B）The Old King Lear who is willing to totally give up his power makes himself suffer from treachery and infidelity.（C）Hamlet, the melancholic scholar-prince, faces the dilemma between action and mind.（D）Othello's inner weakness is made use of by the outside evil force.34 In Spenser's masterpiece The Faerie Queene, he speaks of______virtues of the private gentleman.（A）10（B）12（C）15（D）1135 Which of the following statements does NOT describe Spenser's poetry?（A）A perfect melody.（B）Realism.（C）A splendid imagination.（D）A rare sense of beauty.36 "To be or not to be—that is the question; whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer. The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them?" Who is the speaker?（A）King Lear.（B）Hamlet.（C）Macbeth.（D）Othello.37 Which writing is a typical example of Shakespeare's pessimistic view towards human life and society in his late years?（A）The Tempest.（B）King Lear.（C）Hamlet.（D）Othello.38 ______lays the foundation for modern science with his insistence on scientific way of thinking and fresh observation rather than authority as a basis for obtaining knowledge. （A）Francis Bacon（B）Thomas Hardy（C）Charles Dickens（D）William Blake39 Which of the following comments Christopher Marlowe is NOT true?（A）Marlowe is so strong in dramatic construction that he is superior to Shakespeare.（B）Marlowe's greatest achievement lies in that he perfected the blank verse and made it the principal medium of English drama.（C）Marlowe composed 6 plays within his short lifetime.（D）Marlowe's second achievement is his creation of the Renaissance hero for English drama.40 ______'s dominant moral is human rather than religions, it celebrates the human passion for knowledge, power and happiness; it also reveals man's frustration in realizing the high aspirations in a hostile moral order.（A）Tamburlaine（B）the Jew of Malta（C）Dr. Faustus（D）Paradise Lost41 The most gifted wit among University Wits is______.（A）Robert Greene（B）Thomas Kyde（C）Christopher Marlowe（D）Edmund Spenser42 Paradise Lost is actually a story taken from______. ,（A）The Renaissance（B）The Old Testament（C）Greek Mythology（D）The New Testament43 In the second period, Shakespeare's style and approach became highly individualized. He wrote six comedies, which one doesn't belong to them?（A）Titus Andronicus.（B）A Midsummer Night's Dream.（C）The Merchant of Venice.（D）Twelfth Night.44 Shakespeare's greatest tragedies are______.（A）Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear（B）Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice（C）Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth（D）Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, Othello, Hamlet45 ______'s history plays are mainly written under the principle that national unity undera mighty and just sovereign is a necessity.（A）Edmund Spenser（B）Christopher Marlowe（C）William Shakespeare（D）John Donne46 Shakespeare claims through the mouth of Hamlet that the "end" of dramatic creation is to give ______of the social realities of the time.（A）allegorical description（B）instructive representation（C）faithful reflection（D）imaginative narration47 Dr. Faustus is a play based on the______legend of a magician aspiring for knowledge and finally meeting his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the Devil.（A）American（B）German（C）French（D）British48 Christopher Marlowe's second achievement is his creation of______ for the English drama.（A）the Romantic hero（B）the Byronic hero（C）the Renaissance hero（D）the Realistic hero49 Humanists of the Renaissance turned to the spirit of______culture for inspiration. （A）Greek and Roman（B）Anglo-Saxon（C）Celtic（D）Medieval50 Donne's famous analogy of parting lovers to a drawing compass provides a prime example of______.（A）conceit（B）dramatic monologue（C）exaggeration（D）paradox51 ______is the leading figure of the metaphysical school.（A）John Milton（B）John Donne（C）John Bunyan（D）John Keats52 ______Essays is the first example of that genre in English literature.（A）John Milton's（B）Thomas Gray's（C）John Bunyan's（D）Francis Bacon's53 In the line "Every fair from fair sometimes declines"(Shakespeare, Sonnet 18), what does the first and second "fair" mean?（A）The beautiful person or thing/ beauty.（B）Sound reason/ justice.（C）Loveliness/ beautiful women.（D）Light complexion/ beauty.54 The most important and popular comedy written by Shakespeare is______.（A）As You Like it（B）Twelfth Night（C）Romeo and Juliet（D）The Merchant of Venice55 In his "To be or not to be" soliloquy, Hamlet gives the reasons why he wants to commit suicide. Apart from his personal revenge, that he______is another reason. （A）cannot bear the social injustice and grievances（B）is mentally tormented by his father's ghost（C）is unable to restore his earlier idealized image of his mother（D）thinks the next world is far better than the harsh reality56 In King Lear, Shakespeare has not only made a profound analysis of the social crisis in which the evils can be seen everywhere, but also criticized______.（A）the bourgeois egoism（B）tyranny（C）anarchy and rebellion（D）supernatural forces57 living's Rip Van Winkle got ideas from______legends.（A）British（B）Italian（C）German（D）French58 ______is not the member of Transcendental Club.（A）Fuller（B）Emerson（C）Whitman（D）Thoreau59 The unofficial manifesto for the Transcendental Club was______.（A）Walden（B）Nature（C）Self-Reliance（D）The American Scholar60 In the early 19th century, nothing has left a deeper imprint on the characters of the American people as a whole than did______.（A）Rationalism（B）Sentimentalism（C）Puritanism（D）Romanticism61 In the poem Song of Myself, Whitman sets forth the principle beliefs of______. （A）the theory of universality（B）singularity and equality of all beings in value（C）both A and B（D）none above62 Which of the following had influence on Melville's writing?（A）Shakespearean tragic vision.（B）Hawthorne's black vision.（C）Emersonian Transcendentalism.（D）All the above.63 The white whale Moby-Dick is a symbol of______.（A）nature（B）God（C）culture（D）knowledge64 In his essays,______put forward his philosophy of the over-soul, the importance of the Individual and Nature.（A）Nathaniel Hawthorne（B）Washington Irving（C）Mark Twain（D）Ralph Waldo Emerson65 In______, Whitman airs his sorrow at President Lincoln's death.（A）There was a Child Went Forth（B）A Pact（C）When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom 'd（D）Cavalry Crossing a Ford66 ______, the tragic hero of Moby-Dick, burning with a baleful fire, becomes evil himself in his thirst to destroy evil.（A）Ahab（B）Moby Dick（C）Queequeg（D）Pip67 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 Birthmark68 For Melville, as well as for the reader and______, the narrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, an ultimate mystery of the universe.（A）Ahab（B）Ishmael（C）Stubb（D）Starbuck69 The period before the American Civil War is commonly referred to as______.（A）the Romantic Period（B）the Realistic Period（C）the Naturalist Period（D）the Modern Period70 In American literature, escaping from the society and returning to nature is a common subject. The following titles are all related, in one way or another, to the subject EXCEPT______.（A）Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn（B）Dreiser's Sister Carrie（C）Cooper's Leather-Stocking Tales（D）Thoreau's Walden71 Led by Hawthorne, Emerson and______, there arose a kind of teachings of transcendentalism in the early nineteenth century.（A）Melville（B）Thoreau（C）Mark Twain（D）Dreiser72 When Emerson states in the introduction to his Nature: "our age is retrospective." Which of the following is closest to its understanding?（A）We are conservative.（B）We see this world through our ancestors' eyes.（C）We usually look back upon the good old days.（D）We write a lot of books about the past.73 Which of the following cannot be used to describe Whitman's poetry?（A）Elegant and gentle.（B）Simple and open.（C）Unconventional.（D）Colloquial.74 Which of the following is NOT a famous concept of Transcendentalism?（A）Nature is ennobling.（B）The individual is divine and self-reliant.（C）Man is capable of knowing truth by intuition.（D）Man is corrupted in nature.75 Walt Whitman was a founding figure of American poetry. His innovation first of all lies in his use of______, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.（A）blank verse（B）heroic couplet（C）free verse（D）iambic pentameter76 The statement that a man's journey to the dark forest and his encounter with the devil are symbolic of man's life journey from innocence to knowledge, from good to evil may well sum up one of the major themes of______.（A）living's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow（B）Edgar Allen Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher（C）Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown（D）O. Henry's The Cop and the Anthem77 The Romantic writers would focus on all the following issues EXCEPT the______in the American literary history.（A）individual feelings（B）idea of survival of the fittest（C）strong imagination（D）return to nature78 The literary characters of the American type in early 19th century are generally characterized by all the following features EXCEPT that they______.（A）speak local dialects（B）are polite and elegant gentlemen（C）are simple and crude farmers（D）are noble savages(red and white)untainted by society79 "The horizon's edge, the flying sea-crow, the fragrant of salt marsh and shore mud. These became part of that child who went forth every day, and who now goes, and will always go forth every day." The two lines are taken from______.（A）There was a Child Went Forth by Walt Whitman（B）In a Station of the Metro by Ezra Pound（C）Cavalry Crossing a Ford by Walt Whitman（D）Ulysses by Joyce80 Statement "______" is not true in describing Washington Irving.（A）Washington Irving is regarded as Father of the American long stories（B）Irving's relationship with the Old World in terms of his literary imagination can hardly be ignored considering his success both abroad and at home（C）He has always been regarded as a writer who "perfected the best classic style that American literature ever produced"（D）Irving's taste was essentially conservative81 Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle is famous for______.（A）Rip's escape into a mysterious world（B）the story's German legendary source material（C）Rip's seeking for happiness（D）Rip's 20-year sleep82 Thoreau was often alone in the woods or by the pond, lost in spiritual communication with______.（A）nature（B）transcendentalist ideas（C）human beings（D）celestial beings83 By Brown in Young Goodman Brown, Hawthorne means he is a(n)______.（A）protagonist（B）everyman（C）colossus（D）spokesman84 Which of the following accounts is not true for Ralph Waldo Emerson?（A）He is the chief spokesman of New England Transcendentalism.（B）Emerson is generally known as a dramatist.（C）His works were usually derived from his journals or lectures he had already given.（D）In Nature, he employed "a transparent eyeball" to illustrate his philosophical discussion.85 Washington Irving was one of the first American writers to earn an international reputation and regarded as______.（A）Father of the American drama（B）Father of the American poetry（C）Father of the American literature（D）Father of the American short stories86 ______is the most ambivalent writer in the American literary history.（A）Nathaniel Hawthorne（B）Walt Whitman（C）Ralph Waldo Emerson（D）Mark Twain四、问答题87 "Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man."A. Identify the author and the work.B. What kind of language can be found in this quotation?C. What idea does this quotation express?88 "Come live with me and be my love,And we will all the pleasures proveThat valleys, groves, hills and fields,Woods, or steepy mountain yields."A. Identify the poem and the poet.B. What kind of literary tradition can be found in this stanza?C. What idea does this stanza express?89 "One short sleep past, we wake eternallyAnd death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.A. Identify the poet and the poem.B. What does the phrase "One short sleep" mean?C. What idea does these two lines express?90 "The quality of mercy is not strain'd,It droppeth as the gentle rain from heavenUpon the place beneath: it is twice blest.It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes:Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomesThe throned monarch better than his crown;His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,The attribute to awe and majesty,Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;But mercy is above this sceptred sway,It is enthroned in the hearts of kings,It is an attribute to God himself;And earthly power doth then show likest God'sWhen mercy seasons justice."A. Identify the author poet and the work.B. Who is the speaker? What figure of speech does the speaker use?C. What is the main idea of this quotation?91 "…If they be two, they are two soAs stiff twin compasses are two;Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no showTo move, but doth, it th's other do.And though it in the center sit,Yet when the other far doth roam,It leans and hearkens after it,And grows erect, as that comes home.Such wilt thou be to me, who mustLike th's other foot, obliquely run;Thy firmness makes my circle 10 just,And makes me end where I begun."A. Identify the poet and the poem.B. What is typical of the poetry by the poet?C. What idea does these three stanzas express?92 "When the minister spoke from the pulpit, with power and fervid eloquence, and, with his hand on the open Bible, of the sacred truths of our religion, and of saint-like lives and triumphant deaths, and of future bliss or misery unutterable, then did Goodman Brown turn pale, lest the roof should thunder down upon the gray blasphemer and his hearers."A. Identify the title of the short story from which this part is taken.B. What had happened in the story before this church scene?C. Why was Goodman Brown afraid the roof might thunder down?93 Rip Van Winkle, however, was one of those happy mortals, of foolish, well-oiled dispositions, who take the world easy, eat white bread or brown, which ever can be gotwith least thought or trouble, and would rather starve on a penny than work for a pound. If left to himself, he would have whistled life away in perfect contentment; but his wife kept continually dinning in his ears about his idleness, his carelessness, and the ruin he was bringing on his family.A. Who is the writer of this short story from which the passage is taken?B. What is the title of this short story?C. Give a definition of "short story".94 I celebrate myself, and sing myself,And what I assume you shall assume,For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.I loafe and invite my soul,I learn and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.A. This is the first two stanzas in the first section of a long poem entitled"______".B. The name of the poet is______.C. Who is the poet celebrating? Whom do lines 2-3 also include in the celebration?D. What is the verse structure?E. Take the fifth line as a hint, can you write out the name of the poet's completed collection of poems?95 "A line in long array where they wind betwixt green islands,They take a serpentine course, their arms flash in the sun-hark to the musical clank, Behold the silvery river, in it the splashing horses loitering stop to drink,Behold the brown-faced men, each group, each person, a picture, the negligent rest on the saddles,Some emerge on the opposite bank, others are just entering the ford-while,Scarlet and blue and snowy white,The guidon flags flutter gaily in the wind."A. Who is the author of this poem?B. What is the essence of this poem?C. What is the unique character in this poem?96 "The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. His intercourse with heaven and earth, becomes part of his daily food. In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows."A. Identify the author and the title of the work from which this passage is taken.B. How do you interpret "daily food?C. What does the passage imply?五、论述题97 List three distinctive features of English Renaissance movement in literature and then illustrate each with proofs from either the concerned chapter in your textbook or your own reading.98 Briefly discuss why Hamlet is so impressive in Shakespeare's Hamlet.99 Give a brief analysis of Shylock, a character in Shakespeare's play, The Merchant of Venice.100 Comment briefly on Marlowe's literary contribution to English literature.101 What are the main themes in Shakespeare's plays?102 Comment briefly on the theme in Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown.103 Moby Dick by Herman Melville is one of the few books in American literature that has produced an exciting effect upon readers. Try to discuss the symbolism in the book. 104 What is the significance of Washington Irving in American Literature?105 Comment briefly on the general artistic features of Walt Whitman's poetry.106 Based on Hawthorne's works The Scarlet Letter, discuss the characters of his writings.。