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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。

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[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.。

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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.。

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《英美文学选读》模拟试题（一）一、单项选择题cadaa1.The excerpt from Chapter 10 of Sons and Lovers ends with the conflict between Paul and his mother. The conflict is possibly caused by Paul and his mother’s different views towards _____.A. Paul’s fatherB. artC. lifeD. Paul’s brother2.The _____ can be regarded as one of the themes of Joyce’s story “Araby”.A. loss of innocenceB. childish loveC. awareness of harsh lifeD. false sentimentality3.After reading “Araby”, one more feel the story has a _____ tone.A. joyousB. harshC. solemnD. painful4.In “Araby”, Joyce’s diction evokes a sort of _____ quality that characterizes the boy on this otherwise altogether ordinary shopping trip.A. religiousB. moralC. sentimentalD. vulgar5.The major concern of _____ fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature.A. D. H. Lawre nce’sB. J. Galsworthy’sC. W. Thackeray’sD. T. Hardy’s6.The mission of _____ drama was to reveal the moral, political and economic truth from a radical reformist point of view.A. T. S. Eliot’sB. J. Galsworthy’sC. B. Shaw’sD. W. B. Yeats’7.Irving was best known for his famous short stories such as _____.A. Rip Van WinkleB. Young Goodman BrownC. Life of GoldsmithD. Life of Washington8.Melville’s _____ is an encyclopedia of everything, history, p hilosophy, religion, etc.A. The Old Man and the SeaB. Moby–DickC. White JacketD. Billy Budd9.Mark Twain created, in _____, a masterpiece of American realism that is also one of the great books of world literature.A. Huckleberry FinnB. Tom SowyerC. The Gilded AgeD. The Mysterious Stranger10.American literature produced only one female poet during the nineteenth century. This was _____.A. Anne BradsteetB. Jane AustenC. Emily DickinsonD. T. S. Eliot11.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’sC. Theodore Dreiser’sD. William Howells’12.In the 1920s, O’Neill established an international reputation with the plays ______.A. The Emperor JonesB. Anna ChristleC. The Hairy ApeD. all of the above13.In 1954, _____ was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature for his “mastery of the ar t of modern narration.”A. T. S. EliotB. Ernest HemingwayC. John SteinbeckD. William Faulkner14.“The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.” This is the shortest poem written by _____.A. T. S. EliotB. Robert FrostC. Ezra PoundD. Emily Dickinson15.In Robert Frost’s famous poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”, there are four lines like these: “The woods are lovely, dark and deep, /But I have promises to keep, /And miles to go befor e I sleep, /And miles to go before I sleep”. The second sleep refers to _____.A. dieB. calm downC. fall into sleepD. stop walking16.Of the following American poets, whose work was first recognized in England and then in America?A. Robert FrostB. Walt WhitmanC. Emily DickinsonD. Wallace Stevens17.“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 _____.A. is happy about the harvestB. is tired of the work of apple-pickingC. is not tired when seeing the harvestD. becomes indifferent of the job18.Chinese poetry and philosophy had great influence on _____.A. Robert FrostB. Ralph Waldo EmersonC. Ezra PoundD. Emily Dickinson19.The Hemingway code heroes are best remembered for their _____.A. indestructible spiritB. pessimistic view of lifeC. war experiencesD. masculinity20.Lots of people rushed to Gatsby’s party at the weekend and they clustered around Gatsby’s wealth like ____.A. gluttonsB. fliesC. insectsD. moths二、综合题1.Read the quoted part carefully and answer the questions in English.It may be that the gulfs will wash us down;It may be we shall touch the Happy Tales,And see the great Achilles, whom we knew,Tho’ much is taken, much abides, and tho’We are not now that strength which in old daysMoved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are;One equal temper of heroic hearts,Made weak by time and fate, but strong in willTo strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.A. The passage is taken from th e poem “___________”.B. The author of the poem is ____________.C. The poem is written in the form of _________.D. The speaker is __________.2.Read the quoted part carefully and answer the questions in English.Whether fagged by the three days’ runnin g chase, and the resistance to his swimming in the knotted hamper he bore; or whether it was some latent deceitfulness and malice in him: whichever was true, the white Whale’s way now began to abate, as it seemed, from the boat so rapidly nearing him once more; though indeed the whale’s last start had not been so long a one as before. And still as Ahab glidede over the waves the unpitying sharks accompanied him; and so pertinaciously stuck to the boat; and so continually bit at the plying oars, that the blades became jagged and crunched, and left small splinters in the sea, at almost every dip.A From which novel is the paragraph taken?B What is the name of the author?C Who is Ahab?D What is the theme of the novel?3.Read the quoted part carefully and answer the questions in English.Standing on the bare ground, ----- my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space, ------- all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.A. Which work is this fragment taken from?B. How do you understand the philosophical ideas in this words?4.Read the quoted part carefully and answer the questions in English.“if he be not apt to beat over matters, let him study the lawyer’s cases, so every defect of the mind may have a special receipt.”A. what does “beat over matters” mean?B. what does “receipt” refer to?C. from which essay does the above sentences come?5.Give brief answers to the question in English.What is Lyrical Ballads?Why is Lyrical Ballads regarded as a landmark in English poetry?6.Give brief answers to the question in English.Do you think the two collections of poems written by William Blake are the same? If not, what is the difference?7.Give brief answers to the question in English.What are some of the general artistic features of Walt Whitman’s poetry?8.Give brief answers to the question in English.Can we say that when Brown （Hawthorne’s Young Goodman Brown） enters the dark forest he is really enter his own evil mind? If yes （or no）, please explain.9.This monologue, a psychological exploration of life and death, reveals the character of Hamlet as a man of contemplation rathe r than action. With the intolerable burden of the duty to revenge his father’s death and the challenge of evil forces, Hamlet seems to withdraw into a mental world which is thrown into a conflict or a choice between life and death. The philosophical speculation mixed up with a deep pessimistic outlook resists against action at first, but later awakens the hero out of his melancholy to a sense of the “enterprise of great pith and moment”, indicating that he is to do something for what he concerns himself wit h.10.Write no less than 150 words on the following topic in English.Make a comparison between Henry James’ realism and Mark Twain’s realism.答案部分一、单项选择题1. C2. A3. D4. A5. A6. C7. A8. B9. A10. C11. A12. D13. B14. C15. A16. A17. B18. C19.A20. D二、综合题1.【正确答案】 A. UlyssessB. Afred TennysonC. Dramatic MonologueD. Ulysses2.【正确答案】 A. Moby – DickB. Herman MelvilleC. The Captain of the whaling shipD. The rebellious struggle of Captain Ahab against the over-whelming, mysterious vastness of the universe and its awesome sometimes merciless forces.3.【正确答案】 A. NatureB. Emerson regards nature as the purest, and the most sanctifying moral influence on man, and advocated a direct intuition of a spiritual and immanent God in nature. The soul has completely transcended the limits of individuality and become part of the Over soul. Emerson sees spirit pervading everywhere, not only in the soul of man, but behind nature, throughout nature.4.【正确答案】 A. make through exam of things.B. cure, prescriptionC. of studies Francis Bacon5.【正确答案】 A. It is a collaboration of Wordsworth and Coleridge, the major representatives of the Romantic Movement.B. In the book, they explored new theories and innovated new techniques in poetry writing. They saw poetry as a healing energy; they believed that poetry could purify both individual souls and the society. The preface to the second edition of the Lyrical Ballads acts as a manifesto for the new school. Wordsworth’s poems in the Lyrical Ballads differs in marked ways from his early poetry, notably the uncompromising simplicity of much of the language, the strong sympathy not merely with the poor in general but with particular, dramatized examples of them, and the fusion of natural description with expressions of inward states of mind.6.【正确答案】 A. NoB. The two collections of poems written by William Blake, “Sons of Innocence” and “Sons of Experience”, hold the similar subject-matter, but the tone, emphasis and conclusion differ.7.【正确答案】Walt Whitman was an important poet in American literary history. His originality lies first of all in his use of the poetic form free verse, by means of which he becomes conversational and casual. He usually uses the first person pronoun “I” to stress individualism, and oral language to acquire symp athy from the common reader. His topics are sometimes sexual but his themes are far more than sexual.8.【正确答案】Hawthorne’s stories are generally read as allegories symbolic of human experience, so is “Young Goodman Brown”. Allegorically Brown’s night journey to the forest could be taken as a journey of the mind into the dark region of evil. It is especially true if we allow for some very important details about the light and the shadow, the dreamlike atmosphere, the words and phrases he uses to describe what Brown has experienced in the forest, none of which seems to be substantially solid or physically present.9.【正确答案】This monologue, a psychological exploration of life and death, reveals the character of Hamlet as a man of contemplation rather than action. With the intolerable burden of the duty to revenge his father’s death and the challenge of evil forc es, Hamlet seems to withdraw into a mental world which is thrown into a conflict or a choice between life and death. The philosophical speculation mixed up with a deep pessimistic outlook resists against action at first, but later awakens the hero out of his melancholy to a sense of the “enterprise of treat pith and moment”, indicating that he is to do something for what he concerns himself with.10.【正确答案】Although James and Twain both worked for realism, there were obvious differences between them. In thematic terms, James wrote mostly of the upper reaches of American society, whereas Mark Twain dealt largely with the lower strata of society. Technically, James pursued psychological realism, but Mark Twain’s contribution to the development of realism and to American literature as a whole was partly through his theories of Local Colorist in American fiction, and partly through his colloquial style.Henry James believed that reality lies in the impressions made by life on the spectator, and not in any facts of which the spectator is unaware, such realism is therefore merely the obligation that the artist assumes to represent life as he sees it, which may not be the same life as it “really” is. James shifted the ground of realistic art from the outer to the inner world.Mark Twain preferred to represent social life through portraits of local places which he knew best. He drew heavily from his own rich fund of knowledge of people and places. He confined himself to the life with which he was familiar. By quoting from his own experience, Mark Twain managed to transform into art the freedom and humor, in short, the finest elements of western culture.。

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I. Multiple Choice. (1 point for each, altogether 30 points)Directions: There are 30 sentences in this section. Beneath each sentence there are four choices respectively marked by letters A, B, C and D. Choose the word that you think best complete the sentence. Write your answers on the answer sheet.1. Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his production of_______.[A] Piers Plowman [B] Sir Gawain and the Green Knight[C] Confessio Amantis [D] The Canterbury Tales2. 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] still very much interested in apple-picking[C] expecting a greater harvest[D] indifferent to what he once desired3.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] naturalism4. Of the following American poets in the twentieth century, the one who has the best knowledge of Chinese culture is _______.[A] Robert Frost [B] Allen Ginsberg [C] Ezra Pound [D] Cummings5. _______is the first important governess novel in the English literary history.[A] Jane Eyre [B] Emma[C] Wuthering Heights [D] Middlemarch6. The Hemingway Code heroes are best remembered for their_______.[A] indestructible spirit [B] pessimistic view of life[C] war experiences [D] masculinity7. Which of the following is taken from John Keats’Ode to a Nightingale? _______[A] "Beauty is truth, truth beauty."[B] "Earth has not anything to show more fair."[C] "They are both gone up to the church to pray."[D] "was it a vision, or a waking dream?"8. Emily Dickinson wrote many short poems on various aspects of life. Which of the following is NOT a usual subject of her poetic expression? _______[A] Religion and immortality [B] Life and death[C] Love and marriage [D] War and peace9. Henry David Thoreau’s work_______, has always been regarded as a masterpiece of New England Transcendentalism.[A] Walden [B] The Pioneers[C] Nature [D] Song of Myself10. George Bernard Shaw’s play _______ established his position as the leading play-wright of his time.[A] Widowers’ Houses [B] Too True to Be Good[C] Mrs. Warren’s Profession[D] Candida11. 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] Christian [B] knightly[C] Greek [D] primitive12. 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] Starbuck13. Which of the following historical events does not directly help to stimulate the rising of the Renaissance Movement? _______[A] The rediscovery of ancient Greek and Roman culture[B] The new discoveries in geography and astrology[C] The Glorious revolution[D] The religious reformation and the economic expansion14. Which of the following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare's Sonnet 18?[A] The speaker eulogizes the power of Nature[B] The speaker satirizes human vanity[C] The speaker praises the power of artistic creation[D] The speaker meditates on man's salvation15. ―And we will sit upon the rocks,/Seein g the shepherds feed their flocks,/By shallow rivers to whose falls/Melodious birds sing madrigals.‖ The above lines are probably taken from _______.[A] Spenser's The Faerie Queene[B] John Donne's ―The Sun Rising‖[C] Shakespeare's ―Sonnet 18‖[D] Marlow e's ―The Passionate Shepherd to His Love‖16. ―Bassanio: Antonio, I am married to a wife which is as dear to me as life itself; But life itself, My wife, and all the world. Are not with me esteem'd above thy life;I would lose all, ay, sacrifice them all, Here to the devil, to deliver you. Portia: Your wife would give you little thanks for that, If she were by to hear you make the offer.‖ The above is a quotation taken from Shakespeare's comedy The Merchant of Venice. The quoted part can be regarded as a good example to illustrate _______.[A] dramatic irony [B] personification[C] allegory [D] symbolism17. The true subject of John Donne's poem, ―The Sun Rising,‖ is to _______.[A] attack the sun as an unruly servant[B] give compliments to the mistress and her power of beauty[C] criticize the sun's intrusion into the lover's private life[D] lecture the sun on where true royalty and riches lie18. Of all the 18thcentury novelists Henry Fielding was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to wri te 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 epic19. 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 ways.20. 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 Essay on Criticism[D] Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream21. 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 Progress22. 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 speech23. 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 pray‖[C] ―Earth has not anything to show more fair‖[D] ―Beauty is truth, truth beauty‖24.―If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind!‖ is an epigr ammatic line by _______.[A] J.Keats [B] W.Blake[C] W.Wordsworth [D] P.B.Shelley25. ―Ode o na Grecian Urn‖shows the contrast between the _______ of art and the _______ of human passion.[A] glory …ugliness[B] permanence…transience[C] transience…sordid ness [D] glory…permanence26. In the statement―—oh, God! would you like to live with your soul in the grave?‖ the term ―soul‖ apparently refers to _______.[A] Heathcliff himself [B] Catherine[C] one's spiritual life [D] one's ghost27. The typical feature of Robert Browning's poetry is the _______.[A] bitter satire [B] larger-than-life caricature[C] Latinized diction [D] dramatic monologue28. The Victorian Age was largely an age of _______, eminently represented by Dickens and Thackeray.[A] poetry [B] drama[C] prose [D] epic prose29. _______is the first important governess novel in the English literary history.[A] Jane Eyre [B] Emma[C] Wuthering Heights [D] Middlemarch30. The major concern of ______ fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature.[A] wrence's [B] J.Galsworthy's[C] W.Thackeray’s[D] T.Hardy’sII. Match the writer with his/her works and Write your answers on the answer sheet. (2point for each, altogether 20points)31. Henry Fielding A. The Passionate Shepherd to His Love32. James Joyce B. Composed upon Westminster Bridge33. Daniel Defoe C. The Moll on the Floss34. Alfred Tennyson D. Break, Break, Break.35. John Keats E. A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man36. George Eliot F. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling37. William Bulter Yeats G. A Journal of the Plague Year38. William Wordsworth H. Ode on a Grecian Urn39. Walt Whitman I. The Lake Isle of Innisfree40. Christopher Marlowe J. There Was a Child Went ForthIII. Decide whether the following statements are true or false and write your answers in the brackets. (2 point for each, altogether10 points)()41．The preface to the Lyrical Ballads is best read as a statement of Keats’s principles of poetry.()42．Besides novel writing, Hawthorne is also a very good writer of short stories.()43．Robert Frost’s poems are New England in their setting, and are characterized by the familiar speaking voice.()44．George Hurstwood is a friend of Drouet’s who steals a great deal of money from his employer and actually kidnaps Carrie to Canada.()45．Renaissance had its beginning in Italy in the middle of the fifteenth century. IV. Define the literary terms listed below and write your answers on the answer sheet. (5 point for each, altogether 10 points)46. Romanticism47. Stream of ConsciousnessV. Give brief answers to the following questions. Write your answers on the answer sheet. (5 point for each, altogether 15 points)48. How do you understand the character of Robinson Crusoe?49. In the novel To the Lighthouse, is Lily lonely while completing her picture? Please justify your ideas.50. What is the implication of the description of roses beside the prison door in the first chapter of The Scarlet Letter?Ⅵ. Write no less than 150 words on the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet. (15 point for each, altogether 15 points) 51.William Shakespeare is one of the most remarkable playwrights the world has ever known.( 1) Name his four greatest tragedies.(2) What are the characteristics of the four tragedies in common?(3) Briefly summarize each hero' s weakness of nature.《英美文学选读》模拟试卷一答案II. Multiple Choice. (1 point for each, altogether 30 points)题号 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15答案 D D C C A A D D A D B B C C D题号16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30答案 A B B A C D D D D B B D C A AII. Match the writer with his/her works and write your answers in the brackets. (2point for each, altogether 20points)题号31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40答案 F E G D H C I B J AIII. Decide whether the following statements are true or false and write your answers in the brackets. (2 point for each, altogether10 points)题号41 42 43 44 45答案 F T T T FIV.Define the literary terms listed below and write your answers in the brackets. (10%) 46.复习范围或考核目标：课件Course 03 William Wordsworth47.复习范围或考核目标：课件Course06 Virginia WoolfV. Give brief answers to the following questions. Write your answers on the answer sheet. (15%)48.复习范围或考核目标：课件Course 02 Daniel Defoe49.复习范围或考核目标：课件Course06 Virginia Woolf50.复习范围或考核目标：课件course07 Nathaniel HawthorneⅥ. Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet. (15%)51.复习范围或考核目标：课件course01 William ShakespeareNetwork Education College, BLCU《英美文学选读》模拟试卷二注意：1.试卷保密，考生不得将试卷带出考场或撕页，否则成绩作废。

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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。

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《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。

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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。

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[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?。

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期末考试试卷样卷试卷名称：英国文学一、填空题（20分）I. Fill in the following blanks. (20%)1.Three tribes from Northern Europe: the Angles,Saxons and _____ invaded Britain around the 5th century.2.The national epic of the English people is “_____”, along poem of over 3,000 lines.3.The intellectual movement known as the _____ firstsprang in Italy in the 14th century and gradually spread all over Europe.4.The highest glory of the English Renaissance wasunquestionably its ____.5.The Authorized Version of _____ is a monument ofEnglish language and English literature.6.William Shakespeare was born in the year of ____ inStraford-on-Avon.7.The sonnet is a poem in _____ lines with one or theother rhyme scheme.8.The _____Revolution in 1688 was so called becauseit was bloodless and there was no revival of the revolutionary demands.9._____ is regarded as “Father of the English novel”for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.10.Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey were regardedas “_____” since they lived in the Lake District.二、选择题（20分）II. Choose the best answer for each statement. (20%)1.The most significant intellectual movement ofthe Renaissance was ______.A. the ReformationB. humanismC. the Italian revivalD. geographicalexplorations2.The sentence “Shall I co mpare thee to asummer’s day?” is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare’s _____.A. comediesB. tragediesC. historiesD.sonnet3.Which of the following plays by Shakespeare isNOT a comedy?A. As You Like ItB. A MidsummerNight’s DreamC. Romeo and JulietD.The TwelfthNight4.The _____ was a progressive intellectualmovement throughout Western Europe in the 18th century.A. RomanticismB. ClassicismC. EnlightenmentD. Sentimentalism5.“Lyrical Ballads”, published in _____, markedthe beginning of the Romantic Age in England.A. 1798B. 1832C. 1782D.18156.Which of following is NOT a romantic poet?A. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeB. George ElliotC. George G. ByronD. Percy B.Shelley7.“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? ” isan epigrammatic line by _.A. Robert BurnsB. John KeatsC. William BlakeD. Percy B.Shelley8.In the 19th century English literature, a newliterary trend _____ appeard. And it flourished in the forties and in the early fifties.A. romanticismB. naturalismC.realism D. critical realsim9.The title of the novel “Vanity Fair” was takenform John Bunyan’s masterpiece “_____”.A. Child Harold’s PilgrimageB. ThePilgrim’s ProgressC. Gulliver’s TravelsD. The CanterburyTales10.T he following works are all of Charles DickensEXCEPT _____.A. David CopperfieldB. GreatExpectationC. Vanity FairD. Oliver Twist三、搭配题（10分）III. Find the relevant match from column B for each item in column A. (10%)Section A Match the author with the literary worksA B1.( ) Christopher Marlowe a. Essays2.( ) Geoffrey Chaucer b. Tamburlaine3.( ) Edmund Spenser c. Utopia4.( ) Thomas More d. TheCanterbury Tales5.( ) Francis Bacon e. The FaerieQueenSection B Match the characters with the literary worksA B6.( ) Sophia f. Pride andPrejudice7.( ) Ophelia g. Tom Jones8.( ) Elizabeth h. ParadiseLost9.( ) Satin i. Hamlet10.() Isabel j. The Portrait of aLady四、简答题（20分）IV. Answer the following questions. (20%)1.Give a summary about the English literature inthe Renaissance period.2.What are the main characteristics of EnglishRomanticism?五、分析题（30分）V. Read the following lines/ passage carefully and answer the questions. (30%)Passage 1Of StudiesFrancis BaconSTUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment, and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best, from those that are learned. To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humor of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience: for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need proyning, by study; and studies themselves, do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation. Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others; but that would be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books, else distilled books are like common distilled waters, flashy things.Questions:1.What are the main ideas of the passage?2.Make brief comments on the language of this essay?3.Translate the underlined sentences into Chinese.Passage 2A Red Red RoseRobert BurnsO my luve is like a red, red rose,That's newly sprung in June；O my luve is like the melodieThat's sweetly played in tune.As fair thou art, my bonie lass,So deep in luve am I；And I will luve thee still, my dear,Till a' the seas gang dry.Till a' the seas gang dry, my dear,And the rocks melt wi' the sun；And I will luve thee still , my dear,While the sands o' life shall run.And fare thee weel, my only luve,And fare thee weel a while；And I will come again, my luve,Tho'it wre ten thousand mile！Questions:4.What is the theme of the poem?5.What are the features of Burns’ poetry?6.Paraphrase each line of the poem in simple English.。

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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”。

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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.。

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[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.。

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I Multiple Choices (40%, 2 points each)1.Today is acclaimed not only as "the father of English poetry,, but also as "the father of English fiction". We are indebted to him for the most vivid contemporary description of fourteenth century England.A. LanglandB. ChaucerC. GowerD. Wyclif2.Chaucer 9s masterpiece is.A. Sir Gawain and the Green KnightB. The Story of BeowulfC. Piers the PlowmanD. The Canterbury Tales3.The real mainstream of the English Renaissance is.A. the Elizabethan dramaB. the Elizabethan proseC. ancient poemD. romantic novel4.Which play is not a comedy written by Shakespeare?A. A Midsummer Night's DreamB. The Merchant of VeniceC. Romeo and JulietD. As You Like It5."To be, or not to be—that is the question: whether't is 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 said these words?A. King LearB. RomeoC. AntonioD. Hamletpiled the "The Dictionary of the English Language" which became the foundation of all the subsequent English dictionaries.A. Ben JohnsonB. Samuel JohnsonC. Alexander PopeD. John Dryden7.Which of the following writings is not written by John MiltonA. Paradise LostB. Paradise RegainedC. Samson AgonistesD. Ulysses8.In the following figures, who is Dickens9s first child hero?A. FaginB. Mr. BrownlowC. Oliver TwistD. Bill Sikes9.Which of the following writings is not written by Thomas HardyA. The Mayor of CasterbridgeB. Tess of the D "UrbervillesC. Jude the ObscureD. The Mill on the Floss10.Sons and Lovers is 's autobiographical novel.A. T.S. EliotB. Wystan Hugh AudenC. David Herbert LawrenceD. George Orwell11Robinsoe Crusoe is written by .A. Daniel DefoeB.Charles DickensonC. Jonathan SwiftD. Ralph Fox12.Mrs. Dalloway is written by .A. James JoyceB. Virginia WoolfC. Robert TressellD. Ralph Fox13.Which of the following stirred the world and helped form the American Republic?A. The American CrisisB. The FederalistC. Declaration of IndependenceD. The Age of Reason14.Which work is written by Freneau?A. The Rights of ManB. The Wild Honey SuckleC. Poor Richard's AlmanacD. The Day of Doom15.The Transcendentalist group includes two of the most significant writers America has produced so far, Emerson and .A. Henry David ThoreauB. Washington IrvingC. Nathaniel HawthorneD. Walt Whitman16.The Publication of established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of New England Transcendentalism.A. NatureB. Self-RelianceC. The American ScholarD. The Over Soul17.Henry James experimented with many different themes in his literary career, the most influential one being .A. nothingnessB. disillusionmentC. international themeD. relationship between men and women18.Who, one of the most important poets in his time, is a leading spokesman of the "Imagist Movement"?A. J.D. SalingerB. Ezra PoundC. Richard WrightD. Ralph Waldo Emerson19.The leading playwright of the modern period in American literature, if not he most successful in all his experiments, is .A. Arthur MillerB. Tennessee WilliamC. Robert FrostD. Eugene O'Neil20.Which of the following is not Earnest Hemingway's masterpiece?A. The Great GatsbyB. The Sun Also RisesC. The Old Man and the SeaD. A Farewell to ArmsII Blank Filling (20%, 2 points each)1.can be justly termed England's national epic.2.is a group of lines in a poem, seen as a unit, which often function like paragraphs in prose and state or develop one main idea.3.Thomas More, wrote his famous prose work "”，which may be thought of as the first literary masterpiece of the English Renaissance.4.The Bronte sisters are Charlotte Bronte, and Anne Bronte.5.Charlotte Bronte9s masterpiece is .6.William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey are calledin English literature because they lived for a time in the lake district in the north-western part of England and they often described the beautiful scenes and the country people of that area.7.was considered as the "Poet of American Revolution".8.was regarded as "Father of the American short stories".9.With the publication of The Sun Also Rises, became the spokesman for what Gertrude Stein had called "the lost generation".10.“In a Station of the Metro, The apparition of these faces in the crowd. Petals on a wet, black bough." is written by .Ill Read the following poems and answer the questions in English (40%, 20 pointseach)Passage 1Sonnet 18Shall 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:Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;And every fair from fair sometime declines,By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;But thy eternal summer shall not fadeNor lose possession of that fair thou owest;Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,When in eternal lines to time thou growest:So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,So long lives this and this gives life to thee.Questions:1.Who is the author of this poem?2.How do you appreciate this poem?Passage 2The Road Not TakenTwo Roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both, And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth;Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear;Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.Questions:1.Who is the author of this poem?2.How do you appreciate this poem?。

《英美文学选读》英美文学选读模拟题一及答案.doc

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

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[考研类试卷]英语专业（英美文学）模拟试卷1一、填空题1 ______, a typical example of Old English poetry, is regarded as the greatest national epic of the Anglo-Saxons.2 Geoffrey Chaucer is the greatest writer of Middle Ages. Hismasterpiece______presents, for the first time in English literature, a comprehensive realistic picture of the medieval English society and creates a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life.3 It was Chaucer who made______the foundation for modern English speech.4 ______by William Langland is a poem that gives a picture of the life in feudal England. It is a protest against the then social injustice.5 Beowulf tells of two major adventures in the life of the Geatish hero Beowulf: the first adventure takes place in his youth when he fights and kills a monster named______and his revengeful mother, a sea monster; the second adventure occurs after Beowulf has long been king of the Geats.6 ______is a dominant form of the Medieval English literature.7 Though The Canterbury Tales is often referred to as the first collection of short stories in English literature, these stories, unlike modern ones, are written in______rather than in prose.8 One of Chaucer's most important contributions to English literature is his development of the resources of the English language for______purposes.9 Knights of the Round Table are characters serving______in legends, which depict chivalry in early literature.10 ______conquered England on October 14, 1066. From then on began the medieval period.11 ______was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club.12 Freedom was won as much by the fiery rhetoric of Thomas Paine's and the eloquence of the ______as by the weapons of Washington or Lafayette.13 Freneau was______by training and taste yet romantic in essential spirit.14 ______values were prominent in American politics, art and Philosophy until the Civil War.15 Cooper's enduring fame rests on his frontier stories, especially the five novels that comprise the______.16 In 1817, the stately poem called "Thanatopsis" by______introduced the best poet to appear in America up to that time.17 The______,______ and______for which his poetry was popular during his lifetime were the very qualities that caused the reaction against it after Longfellow's death.二、名词解释18 Ballad19 Epic20 Romance21 Alliteration22 Humanism23 Calvinism24 Free verse25 Symbol26 American Romanticism27 Transcendentalism三、单项选择题28 Although______was essentially a medieval writer, he bore marks of humanism and anticipated a new era of literature to come.（A）William Langland（B）John Gower（C）Geoffrey Chaucer（D）Edmund Spenser29 The statement that a man gained the whole world but lost his own soul makes a good summary of the main plot of______.（A）Paradise Lost（B）The Merchant of Venice（C）Hamlet（D）The Tragic History of Doctor Faustus30 The essence of humanism is to______.（A）restore a medieval reverence for the church（B）avoid the circumstances of earthly life（C）explore the next world in which men could live after death（D）emphasize human qualities31 The work that presented, for the first time in English literature, a comprehensive realistic picture of the medieval English society and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life is most likely______.（A）William Langland's Piers Plowman（B）Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales（C）John Gower's Confessio Amantis（D）Sir Gawain and the Green Knight32 The tragedy of Dr. Faustus, the protagonist in Christopher Marlowe's The Tragic History of Dr. Faustus, is the very fact that______.（A）man is confined to time（B）he tried to join Africa to Spain（C）he became a man without soul after he sold it（D）he conjured up Helen, the lady who was the very cause of the Trojan War33 In reading Shakespeare, you must have come across the line "to be or not to be". That is the question by______.（A）Iago in Othello（B）Lear in King Lear（C）Shylock in The Merchant of Venice（D）Hamlet in Hamlet34 "Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted" is one of the epigrams found in______.（A）Bacon's Of Studies（B）Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress（C）Fielding's Tom Jones（D）Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language35 The sentence "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" is the beginning of one of Shakespeare's______.（A）comedies（B）tragedies（C）sonnets（D）histories36 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）Christian（B）knightly（C）Greek（D）primitive37 Which of the following historical events does NOT directly help to stimulate the rising of the Renaissance Movement?（A）The rediscovery of ancient Greek and Roman culture.（B）The new discoveries in geography and astrology.（C）The Glorious Revolution.（D）The religious reformation and the economic expansion.38 Which of the following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare's Sonnet 181（A）The speaker eulogizes the power of Nature.（B）The speaker satirizes human vanity.（C）The speaker praises the power of artistic creation.（D）The speaker meditates on man's salvation.39 Novum Organum is a successful treatise written in Latin on methodology. The argument is for the use of______.（A）the deductive reasoning（B）the inductive reasoning（C）general reasoning（D）particular reasoning40 Among the following plays which is NOT written by Christopher Marlowe?（A）Dr. Faustus.（B）The Jew of Malta.（C）Edward II.（D）The School for Scandal.41 Generally, the Renaissance refers to the period between______and______centuries. （A）16th/mid-19th（B）14th/mid-18th（C）14th/mid-17th（D）16th/mid-17th42 Which of the following is NOT composed by John Milton?（A）Gulliver's Travels.（B）Paradise Lost.（C）Paradise Regained.（D）Areopagitica.43 ______and William Shakespeare are the best representatives of the English humanism.（A）Thomas More, Christopher Marlowe（B）John Milton, Thomas More（C）Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe（D）John Donne, Edmund Spenser44 In his life,______shows himself a real revolutionary, a master poet and a great prose writer. He fought for freedom in all aspects as a Christian humanist, while his achievements in literature make him tower over all other English writers of his time and exert a great influence over later ones.（A）Edmund Spenser（B）John Milton（C）John Donne（D）William Shakespeare45 ______frequently applied conceits in his poems.（A）John Donne（B）John Milton（C）Edmund Spenser（D）Thomas Gray46 In the following writings,______has been recognized as an important landmark in the development of English prose.（A）Of Studies by Francis Bacon（B）The Advancement of Learning（C）Essays by Francis Bacon（D）Novum Organum47 ______used wisdom in saving Antonio from being cut a pound of flesh by Shylock in The Merchant of Venice.（A）Judge（B）Portia（C）Bassanio（D）Duke48 ______refers to the works of the 17th-century writers who wrote under the influence of John Donne.（A）Romanticism（B）Metaphysical poetry（C）Naturalism（D）Critical Realism49 Spenser's masterpiece______is a great poem of its time.（A）The Faerie Queene（B）The Shepherdes Calender（C）The Canterbury Tales（D）Metamorphoses50 Which of the following is NOT among the literary giants of English Renaissance? （A）Edmund Spenser.（B）John Donne.（C）Samuel Johnson.（D）Francis Bacon.51 Shakespeare's plays are written in a beautiful English language. He created______ to express his characters.（A）free verse（B）short verse（C）blank verse（D）regular verse52 ______is known as the poets' poet.（A）Edmund Spenser（B）John Milton（C）Christopher Marlowe（D）Robert Frost53 ______shows how mankind, in the person of Christ, withstands the tempter and is established once more in the divine favor.（A）Paradise Regained（B）Paradise Lost（C）Samson Agonistes（D）Beowulf54 Which of the following writings is the most perfect example of the verse drama after the Greek style in English?（A）Paradise Lost.（B）Paradise Regained.（C）Samson Agonistes.（D）Beowulf.55 Which of the following is NOT true about Renaissance?（A）Humanism is the essence of the Renaissance.（B）Attitudes and feelings which had been characteristic of the 14th and 15th centuries persisted well down into the era of Humanism and Reformation.（C）It was Chaucer who initiated the Reformation.（D）The Elizabethan drama, in its totality, is the real mainstream of the English Renaissance.56 Christopher Marlowe gave new vigor to ______ with his mighty lines.（A）the Petrarchan sonnet（B）sestina（C）blank verse（D）terza rima57 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 comes to a good end.（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.58 The convention of the desire for an escape from society and a return to nature in American Literature is particularly evident in______.（A）Cooper's Leather-Stocking Tales（B）Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter（C）Whitman's Leaves of Grass（D）Irving's Rip Van Winkle59 Hawthorne's works are marked by a preoccupation with the______ view of original sin and the mystery of evil.（A）Catholic（B）Orthodox（C）Calvinistic（D）Marxism60 In Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, "A" may stand for ______.（A）Angel（B）Adultery（C）Able（D）all the above61 In Leaves of Grass,______is all that concerned Whitman.（A）individualism（B）freedom（C）the spirit of democracy（D）all the above62 ______is not Melville's work.（A）Moby-Dick（B）The Private Life（C）White Jacket（D）Pierre63 Washington Irving's social conservation and literary preference for the past is revealed, to some extent, in his famous story,______.（A）The Legend of Sleepy Hollow（B）Rip Van Winkle（C）The Custom-House（D）The Birthmark64 The chief spokesman of New England Transcendentalism is______.（A）Nathaniel Hawthorne（B）Ralph Waldo Emerson（C）Henry David Thoreau（D）Washington Irving65 In______, Whitman's own early experience may well be identified with the childhood of a young growing America.（A）A Pact（B）Song of Myself（C）There was a Child Went Forth（D）Cavalry Crossing a Ford66 ______is regarded as the first American prose epic.（A）Nature（B）The Scarlet Letter（C）Walden（D）Moby-Dick67 Which may NOT be one of the causes for the rise of American Romantic Movement?（A）The westward territorial expansion.（B）The great increase in population.（C）The victory of the settlers in the Indian war.（D）The rapid economic transformation.68 In Irving's Rip Van Winkle the drastic political changes in the lapsed 20 years are suggested by all the following except______.（A）the flag of the United States（B）the portrait of George Washington（C）the graves of the dead Union soldiers（D）the mention of election and Congress69 In Moby-Dick after the whaling ship the Pequod sinks, Melville writes: ... then all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago. The author might imply that______.（A）nothing changes in the 5,000 years of human history（B）man's desire to conquer nature can only end in his own destruction（C）nature is evil as it was 5,000 years ago（D）nature has the ultimate creative power70 After the night in the forest in Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown, Brown dreaded that the church roof might "thunder down" while the priest was giving his eloquent sermon. The reason for such dread is perhaps that______.（A）the church was badly in need of repair（B）too large a crowd had gathered to listen（C）the minister had betrayed himself as a big liar（D）Brown had committed a sinful act71 The Transcendentalists believe that, first, nature is ennobling; and second, the individual is______.（A）insignificant（B）vicious by nature（C）divine（D）forward-looking72 Here is a short passage from a story: "He recognized on the sign, however, the ruby face of King George, under which he had smoked so many a peaceful pipe, and underneath was painted in large characters, GENERAL WASHINGTON. The story must be______.（A）Cooper's Leather-Stocking Tales（B）Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown（C）living's Rip Van Winkle（D）Hemingway's Indian Camp73 In Hawthorne's novels and short stories, intellectuals usually appear as______.（A）commentators（B）observers（C）villains（D）saviors74 Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of the American Romantic writings?（A）Expression of the artist's imaginations, emotions, impressions, or beliefs.（B）Emphasis on rules of order, reason, logic, restrained emotion, good taste and decorum.（C）Love for the remote, supernatural, mysterious, exotic and illogical quality of things. （D）To see nature as a source of mental cleanness and spiritual understanding.75 Which of the following writings is not finished by Ralph Waldo Emerson?（A）Nature.（B）Essays.（C）The Over-Soul.（D）Of Studies.76 Statement"______" is wrong in describing Nathaniel Hawthorne.（A）One source of evil that Hawthorne is concerned most is over-reaching intellect （B）Hawthorne is also a great allegorist（C）Hawthorne is also a master of symbolism（D）Hawthorne is a realistic writer77 Which of the following comments on the writings by Herman Melville is not true? （A）Bartleby, the Scrivener is a short story.（B）Benito Cereno is a novella.（C）The Confidence-Man has something to do with the sea and sailors.（D）Moby-Dick is regarded as the first American Prose epic.78 Leaves of Grass commands great attention because of its uniquely poetic embodiment of ______, which are written in the founding documents of both the Revolutionary War and the American Civil War.（A）the democratic ideals（B）the romantic ideals（C）the self-reliant spirits（D）the religious ideals79 It is on his______that Washington Irving's fame mainly rested.（A）tales about America（B）early poetry（C）childhood recollections（D）sketches about his European tours80 Hester Prynne, Dimmesdale, Chillingworth, and Pearl are most likely the names of the characters in______.（A）The Scarlet Letter（B）The House of the Seven Gables（C）The Portrait of a Lady（D）The Pioneers81 According to Whitman, the genuine participation of a poet in a common cultural effort was to behave as a supreme______.（A）democrat（B）individualist（C）romanticist（D）leader82 Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown?（A）Allegory.（B）Ambiguity.（C）Interior monologue.（D）Symbolism.83 "I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you." Who could have written these lines?（A）Edgar Allen Poe.（B）Walt Whitman.（C）Ralph Waldo Emerson.（D）Henry David Thoreau.84 What kind of narrative point of view is adopted in Moby-Dick??（A）The first person.（B）The second person.（C）The third person limited.（D）The third person omniscient.85 One typical feature of Irving's writing is______.（A）always preaching（B）his best classic style（C）short and difficult to understand（D）symbolic86 Transcendentalists recognized______as the "highest power of the soul". （A）intuition（B）logic（C）data of the senses（D）thinking87 The finest example of Hawthorne's symbolism is the recreation of Puritan Boston in______.（A）The Scarlet Letter（B）Young Goodman Brown（C）The Marble Faun（D）The Ambitious Guest四、问答题88 " … There also was a Nun, a Prioress;Simpler her way of smiling was and coy.Her greatest oath was only 'By ST Loy!"And she was known as Madam Eglantyne.…She wore a coral trinket on her arm,A set of beads, the gaudies tricked in green,Whence hung a golden brooch of brightest sheenOn which there first was graven a crowned A,And lower, Amor vincit omnia.A. Identify the author and the title of the work from which the passage is taken.B. What does the name "Madam Eglantyne" imply about the nun?C. What does the line "Amor vincit omnia" mean?89 "… Though changed in outward luster, that fixed mindAnd high disdain, from sense of injured merit,That with the Mightiest raised me to contendAnd to the fierce contention brought alongInnumerable force of spirits armed,That durst dislike his reign, and me preferring,His utmost power with adverse power opposedIn dubious battle on the plains of Heaven,And shook his throne....A. Identify the poet and the poem.B. Who does the Mightiest refer to in the passage?C. What idea does this passage express?90 But thy eternal summer shall not fade,Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st:Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade,So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,So long lives this, and this gives life the thee."A. Identify the poem and the poet.B. What does the word "this" refer to?C. What idea does this stanza express?91 "…And thus the native hue of resolutionIs sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,And enterprises of great pith and moment,With this regard, their currents turn awry,And lose the name of action."A. Identify the author and the title of the work from which the passage is taken.B. What does the native hue of resolution mean?C. What does the pale cast of thought stand for?92 "…If he be not apt to beat over matters, let him study the lawyer's cases. So every defect of the mind may have a special receipt."A. Identify the work from which this quotation is taken from and summarize the main idea of the work.B. What does the phrase "beat over matters" mean?C. What does the word "receipt" refer to?93 (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 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.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 line.94 "'Poor little Faith!' thought he, for his heart smote him. 'What a wretch am I, to leave her on such an errand! She talks of dreams, too. Methought, as she spoke, there wastrouble in her face, as if a dream had warned her what work is to be done tonight. But, no, no!' it would kill her to think it. Well; she's a blessed angel on earth; and after this one night, I'll cling to her skirts and follow her to Heaven.'"A. Identify the author and the title of the work from which this passage is taken?B. Who is Faith?C. How do you interpret the speaker's feeling?95 To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things. One might think the atmosphere was made transparent with this design, to give, in the heavenly bodies, the perpetual presence of the sublime. Seen in the streets of cities, how great they are! If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night comes out preaches of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.A. This paragraph is taken from a famous essay entitled______.B. Who is the author?C. What does the author say would happen if the stars appeared one night in a thousand years?D. Give a peculiar term to cover the author's belief.96 "God knows, I'm not myself— I'm somebody else— ... and I'm changed, and I can't tell what's my name, or who I am."A. Identify the work and the author.B. The speaker says he is changed. Do you think he is changed, or the social environment has changed?C. What idea does the quoted sentence express?97 Whether fagged by the three days' running chase, and the resistance to his swimming in the knotted hamper he bore; or whether it was some latent deceitfulness and malice in him: whichever was true, the white Whale's way now began to abate, as it seemed, from the boat so rapidly nearing him once more; though indeed the whale's last start had not been so long a one as before. And still as Ahab glided over the waves the unpitying sharks accompanied him; and so pertinaciously stuck to the boat; and so continually bit at the plying oars that the blades became jagged and crunched, and left small splinters in the sea, at almost every dip.A. From which novel is the paragraph taken?B. What is the name of the novelist?C. Who is Ahab?D. What is the name of the white Whale?E. What is the theme of the novel?五、论述题98 William Shakespeare is one of the most remarkable playwrights and poets the world has ever known. Try to discuss his art of creations.99 Comment briefly on Hamlet's hesitation in taking revenge.100 Comment briefly on Geoffrey Chaucer's literary contributions to English literature.101 According to the setting of the poem Paradise Lost, discuss the theme, the author's intention to create it and the implication that the poem expresses.102 Discuss briefly the main tragic heroes in Shakespeare's four greatest tragedies.103 Emerson is generally known as an essayist. What is the style of his prose?104 Whitman is a giant of American Letters. Discuss Whitman's art of poem: the language, the characters, etc..105 Being a period of the great flowering of American literature, the Romantic Period is called "the American Renaissance". Briefly discuss what the features of American literature in this period are.106 Moby Dick is regarded as the first American prose epic. Who is the author of the work? What figure of speech is adopted to show the theme? Discuss the question.107 Comment briefly on the symbolic significance of The Scarlet Letter.。