英美文学考试试题(二)
英美文学考试题
英美文学考试题英国文学习题与练习Week 2 Early and Medieval English LiteratureReference Questions:1. Who were the earliest settlers of Britton/England? What do you know about them (home, language, belief, life style)?2. What are the 3 conquests? What effects they had upon the nation?3. Ideologically what is the most significant change in people’s spiritual life?4. How was the nation developed politically or what changes were there in the form of the social structure?5. In terms of literature, what influence had the French upon England?6. How many languages were spoken during the French reign? How do you understand modern English as a language?7. What was the essence of Christian doctrine preached at the time? Was there any ignoble reason behind it?8. Why was the Middle Ages known as the Dark Ages?9. What was the form of literature at the time? What features does it have? 10. What are the 3 periods/stages of Chaucer’s literary career?11. In what way do we call Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales the first work of English literature?Text study: Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales (6-7)1. What is image of the nun?2. Is she favorably and admirably or satirically portrayed? How?3. What figures of speech are used? Week 3 Renaissance (1)Reference questions:1. What is Renaissance? How and why did it come about?2. What is the development of drama? What were the original forms and content and practice of drama?3. Why did drama flourish in Elizabethan age? Who are the major playwrights of the time?4. Who is Marlowe? What contributions did he make to English drama?5. Who is Shakespeare? What famous and great plays (history, comedy, tragedy)? What features?6. What did Ben Jonson write about? What representative work?7. Prepare the excerpt from Hamlet (31-32). What is it mainly about? What humanist idea can you find in the soliloquy?8. What was the most important translation of the time?Week 4 Renaissance (2)Reference questions on Shakespeare and Hamlet: 1. Why is Shakespeare an eternal subject of study? Where lies his greatness? 2. What are the themes of Hamlet?3. What is the significance of Hamlet as a character?4. What is blank verse?5. What is soliloquy?Text study Hamlet’s soliloquy “To be or not to be” (31-32)1. What is the main idea of Hamlet’s soliloquy? Summarize in one or two sentences the main idea of the soliloquy?2. How does the soliloquy reflect the spirit of the time or the idea of humanism?3. How do you analyze Hamlet’s argument in terms of structure?Week 5 Renaissance (3)Questions for Renaissance poetry and prose:1. Who was thought to be the greatest English poet since Chaucer? What is his representative work? What are the features of this poem?2. What new forms (rhyme—blank verse, stanza--sonnet) of poetry were introduced into England? By whom?3. Who were the famous sonneteers of the time?4. How do you tell an Italian (Petrarchan) sonnet from an English (a Shakespearean) one?5. How many sonnets did Shakespeare write? What are the major subjects?6. Who were the two major prose writers? What is Utopia? Where do you think More possibly got the idea or was it all his own invention? How do you interpret the title of the book?7. What contribution did Bacon make to the English system of thinking and learning?8. What’s the purpose of his Essays?9. Based on your reading of his work, give your personal impression of/comment onhis Essays?10. The English Renaissance period is known for its translations. What are the most important translations of this age?Text studyQuestions on Sonnet 18 by Shakespeare (58): 1. What is the English sonnet form? Study the metrical and rhyme scheme as well as the structure?2. What’s the main idea? Is it really about love? What is peculiar of this love poem?3. What figures of speech are used?Questions on “Of Studies” by F. Bacon (52-53):1. How do you define the style?2. Study the essay by comparing the English version with the translation of Mr Wang. How do you like the Chinese version?3. Paraphrase and comment on sentences 1-6, 10-12.Week 6 Revolution and RestorationReference questions:1. What was the most important social event during the mid-17th century?2. What were the two most popular forms of lyric?3. Why is Milton the greatest poet of the period? What is the significance of Paradise Lost?Text study: Paradise Lost by John Milton (67-68)1. What is the historical background of the work?2. As a transitional writer, how does Milton combine his humanistic ideas with his Puritan ideas?3. What is the image and the significance of Satanin the two extracts? 4. What philosophy can we get from the text?Week 7 18th century Enlightenment(1)Questions:1. What was the most important intellectual event of the time?2. The 18th century is called an age of the bourgeoisie. Why? And what effect it had on literature of the century?3. Why did English novel appear in this century?4. What are the major forms of literature?5. What have neo-classicism and realism got to do with the Enlightenment Movement?6. Why did literature of Sentimentality and Gothicism come into being in the latter part of thecentury?Text study: J. Swift’s “A Modest Proposal”(81-89) 1. How do you describe the narrator’s tone?2. What or who are the targets of Swift’s mockery?3. Is the proposal modest? Prove your point.Week 8 18th century Enlightenment(2)Text study:An Essay on Man by A. Pope (89-90) 1. What is heroic couplet? 2. What is the poetic pattern?3. What are the themes of the two extracts?4. Paraphrase the texts or tell in brief your interpretation.“Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” by Thomas Gray (91-92) 1. What do you know of the Graveyard poetry? 2. What is the poetic pattern?3. What is the predominant mood?4. What is the theme ?5. Summarize each stanza in your own words.Week 9 19th-century Romanticism (1)Questions:1. How is the period defined in time?2. What was the historical background, politically,economically and ideologically? 3. What was the predominant genre of literature? Who were the important writers of the time?4. In what way was romanticist literature different from that of neoclassicism in the 18th century, such as in form, guiding principle, subject matter, purpose, style, etc.?Text study: “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” by Wordsworth (103) 1. What is the theme?2. What is the predominant image?3. How does it reflect the poet’s idea of romantic poetry?4. What is the poetic pattern?5. Paraphrase each stanza in one sentence.Week 10 19th-century Romanticism (2)Text study:“The World Is Too Much with Us” by Wordsworth (116-7) 1. What is the theme, the meaning, of the first line? 2. What romantic ideas does it advocate? 3. What type of sonnet form it is?4. What romantic spirit does it represent?5. Paraphrase the poem in your own words.“Ode on a Grecian Urn” by John Keats (109-110)1. What is the theme of the poem?2. What is the rhyme scheme?3. What romantic feature does the poem reflect?4. Summarize each stanza in one or two sentences. Week 11 Victorian Literature (1)Questions:1. What is the historical background politically, economically and ideologically?2. What is the predominant form of literature during this period?3. Who are the representative writers? And what was the literary tendency?4. What changes came about towards the end of the century?Week 12-13 Victorian Literature (2)(3)英国文学习题与练习Week 2 Early and Medieval English Literature Reference Questions:1. Who were the earliest settlers of Britton/England? What do you know about them (home, language, belief, life style)?2. What are the 3 conquests? What effects they hadupon the nation?3. Ideologically what is the most significant change in people’s spiritual life?4. How was the nation developed politically or what changes were there in the form of the social structure?5. In terms of literature, what influence had the French upon England?6. How many languages were spoken during the French reign? How do you understand modern English as a language?7. What was the essence of Christian doctrine preached at the time? Was there any ignoble reason behind it?8. Why was the Middle Ages known as the Dark Ages?9. What was the form of literature at the time? What features does it have? 10. What are the 3 periods/stages of Chaucer’s literary career?11. In what way do we call Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales the first work of English literature?Text study: Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales (6-7)1. What is image of the nun?2. Is she favorably and admirably or satiricallyportrayed? How? 3. What figures of speech are used? Week 3 Renaissance (1)Reference questions:1. What is Renaissance? How and why did it come about?2. What is the development of drama? What were the original forms and content and practice of drama?3. Why did drama flourish in Elizabethan age? Who are the major playwrights of the time?4. Who is Marlowe? What contributions did he make to English drama?5. Who is Shakespeare? What famous and great plays (history, comedy, tragedy)? What features?6. What did Ben Jonson write about? What representative work?7. Prepare the excerpt from Hamlet (31-32). What is it mainly about? What humanist idea can you find in the soliloquy?8. What was the most important translation of the time?Week 4 Renaissance (2)Reference questions on Shakespeare and Hamlet:1. Why is Shakespeare an eternal subject of study? Where lies his greatness?2. What are the themes of Hamlet?3. What is the significance of Hamlet as a character?4. What is blank verse?5. What is soliloquy?Text study Hamlet’s soliloquy “To be or not to be” (31-32)1. What is the main idea of Hamlet’s soliloquy? Summarize in one or two sentences the main idea of the soliloquy?2. How does the soliloquy reflect the spirit of the time or the idea of humanism?3. How do you analyze Hamlet’s argument in terms of structure?Week 5 Renaissance (3)Questions for Renaissance poetry and prose:1. Who was thought to be the greatest English poet since Chaucer? What is his representative work? What are the features of this poem?2. What new forms (rhyme—blank verse, stanza--sonnet) of poetry were introduced into England? By whom?3. Who were the famous sonneteers of the time?4. How do you tell an Italian (Petrarchan) sonnet from an English (a Shakespearean) one?5. How many sonnets did Shakespeare write? What are the major subjects?6. Who were the two major prose writers? What is Utopia? Where do you think More possibly got the idea or was it all his own invention? How do you interpret the title of the book?7. What contribution did Bacon make to the English system of thinking and learning?8. What’s the purpose of his Essays?9. Based on your reading of his work, give your personal impression of/comment onhis Essays?10. The English Renaissance period is known for its translations. What are the most important translations of this age?Text studyQuestions on Sonnet 18 by Shakespeare (58): 1. What is the English sonnet form? Study the metrical and rhyme scheme as well as the structure?2. What’s the main idea? Is it really about love?What is peculiar of this love poem? 3. What figures of speech are used?Questions on “Of Studies” by F. Bacon (52-53):1. How do you define the style?2. Study the essay by comparing the English version with the translation of Mr Wang. How do you like the Chinese version?3. Paraphrase and comment on sentences1-6, 10-12.Week 6 Revolution and RestorationReference questions:1. What was the most important social event during the mid-17th century?2. What were the two most popular forms of lyric?3. Why is Milton the greatest poet of the period? What is the significance of Paradise Lost?Text study: Paradise Lost by John Milton (67-68)1. What is the historical background of the work?2. As a transitional writer, how does Milton combine his humanistic ideas with his Puritan ideas?3. What is the image and the significance of Satanin the two extracts? 4. What philosophy can we get from the text?Week 7 18th century Enlightenment(1)Questions:1. What was the most important intellectual event of the time?2. The 18th century is called an age of the bourgeoisie. Why? And what effect it had on literature of the century?3. Why did English novel appear in this century?4. What are the major forms of literature?5. What have neo-classicism and realism got to do with the Enlightenment Movement?6. Why did literature of Sentimentality and Gothicism come into being in the latter part of the century?Text study: J. Swift’s “A Modest Proposal”(81-89) 1. How do you describe the narrator’s tone?2. What or who are the targets of Swift’s mockery?3. Is the proposal modest? Prove your point.Week 8 18th century Enlightenment(2)Text study:An Essay on Man by A. Pope (89-90) 1. What is heroic couplet? 2. What is the poetic pattern?3. What are the themes of the two extracts?4. Paraphrase the texts or tell in brief your interpretation.“Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” by Thomas Gray (91-92) 1. What do you know of the Graveyard poetry? 2. What is the poetic pattern?3. What is the predominant mood?4. What is the theme ?5. Summarize each stanza in your own words. Week 9 19th-century Romanticism (1)Questions:1. How is the period defined in time?2. What was the historical background, politically, economically and ideologically?3. What was the predominant genre of literature? Who were the important writers of the time?4. In what way was romanticist literature different from that of neoclassicism in the 18th century, such as in form, guiding principle, subject matter, purpose, style, etc.?Text study: “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” by Wordsworth (103) 1. What is the theme?2. What is the predominant image?3. How does it reflect the poet’s idea of romantic poetry?4. What is the poetic pattern?5. Paraphrase each stanza in one sentence.Week 10 19th-century Romanticism (2)Text study:“The World Is Too Much with Us” by Wordsworth (116-7) 1. What is the theme, the meaning, of the first line? 2. What romantic ideas does it advocate? 3. What type of sonnet form it is?4. What romantic spirit does it represent?5. Paraphrase the poem in your own words.“Ode on a Grecian Urn” by John Keats (109-110) 1. What is the theme of the poem? 2. What is the rhyme scheme?3. What romantic feature does the poem reflect?4. Summarize each stanza in one or two sentences.Week 11 Victorian Literature (1)Questions:1. What is the historical background politically, economically and ideologically?2. What is the predominant form of literature during this period?3. Who are the representative writers? And what was the literary tendency?4. What changes came about towards the end of the century?Week 12-13 Victorian Literature (2)(3)。
英美文学——考试题库及答案
William WordsworthC.Percy ShellyD.George Byron回答错误!正确答案： AWhich descriptions are correct concerning Robert Burns?收藏A.Burns is the national poet of Scotland.B.His poems are featured for their fresh and exquisite songlike quality, full of vitality and originality.C.His poems are difficult to understand.D.Simplicity, humor, directness and optimism are characteristic of his songs.回答错误!正确答案： A B DIn his poems, Walt Whitman is innovative in the terms of the form of his poetry, which is called “（）”收藏A.blank verseIn vivid and graceful prose, he had portrayed the hollowness of the American worship of riches and the unending American dream of love, splendor, and fulfilled desires.C.His prose is smooth, sensitive, and completely original in its diction and metaphorsD.Gatsby’s failure magnifies the end of the American dream. However, the affirmation of hope and expectation is self-asserted.回答错误!正确答案： A B C DWhich of the following works are generally regarded as Shakespear eˊs great tragedies?收藏A.OthelloB.King LeareC.Romeo and JulietD.HamletE.Macbeth回答错误!正确答案： A B D EChoose the works written by Mark Twain.。
英美文化考试试题
英美文化试题1. The executive power is in the hands of ________.A. ParliamentB. the House of CommonsC. the Cabinet headed by the Prime MinisterD. the Queen2. In Britain, government cannot spend any money without the permission of _______.A. the QueenB. the Primer MinisterC. the House of LordD. the House of Commons3. The general election in Britain is held every _______ years.A. 3B. 4C. 5D. 64. The famous “Scotland Yard” refers to _______.A. CIAB. CIDC. New Scotland YardD. Greater Londo n5. Which of the following is not one of the functions that Parliament plays?A. To serve as the final court of appeal in civil cases and criminal cases.B. To make laws.C. To control and criticize the executive government.D. To control the raising and the spending of money.6. The British government is established on the basis of ______.A. federal systemB. central systemC. constitutional system D constitutional monarchy7. _______ is in power in Britain now?A. Labour partyB. Conservative PartyC. the coalition of Labour Party and Liberal Democratic PartyD. the coalition of Conservative Party and Liberal Democratic Party8. The President of the United States exercises the ______ power.A. legislativeB. executiveC. judicialD. veto9. How many continental states were there at the time of independence of the United States?A. 35. C. 48.B. 13. D. 50.10. Representatives in the United Sates are elected ______.A. annuallyB. every two yearsC. every three yearsD. every four years11. The congress of America consists of the Representatives and _____.A. parliamentB. the House of CommonsC. The House of LordsD. Senate12. The Constitution of the United States says that only ______ can declare war upon other nations.A. the presidentB. CongressC. Department of DefenceD. the National security council13. The General Election in the United States is held every ______. Year.A. threeB. fourC. fiveD. six14. The newly elected president takes up on ______.A. January 10thB. January 20th of the next yearC. march 10thD. April 20th of the next year15. There are two major parties in USA, one of which is Democratic Party, and the other is______.A. Green partyB. Republican PartyC. the Federal partyD. Conservative party英美文学复习试题1. When appreciating a piece of literature, readers are more likely to read the ______ the meanings that attach to words in order to have a deeper understanding.A. denotativeB. connotativeC. objectiveD. precise2. When reading a piece of literature, a reader should pay attention to the way the author uses language, which includes the following EXCEPT ________.A. choice of wordsB. the sentence structureC. the sound qualitiesD. the appearance of the character3. Which of the following terms does NOT belong to the forms of poetry?A. ballad,B. sonnetC. fictionD. ode4. Which of the following is NOT one of the four great tragedies written William Shakespeare ?A. HamletB. King LearC. MacbethD. Romeo and Juliet5. The most important effect of the fictionallity(虚构) of literature is to create a ______ between the readers andthe material presented, physically and psychologically, for the sake of free rein of emotional control.A. distanceB. fearC. sympathyD. surprise6. There are many kinds of literary genres (文体) in English literature. Which of the following is NOT one ofthem ?A. fictionB. dramaC. stanzaD. essay7. What is the key note of English Renaissance?A. optimismB. humanismC. pessimismD. romanticism8. The famous saying,“Knowledge is power” , is quoted by ______.A. Francis BaconB. William ShakespeareC. Karl MarkD. Jane Austen9. ______was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in the 18th century.A. The RenaissanceB. The EnlightenmentC. The Religious ReformationD. The Chartist Movement10. “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” The sentence is the beginning of Shakespeare’s _____.A. comedyB. tragedyC. sonnetD. poem11. Francis Bacon is best known for his _____ which greatly influenced the development of this literary form.A. essaysB. poemsC. worksD. plays12. Which of the following sequences correctly tells the English history of literature?A. the Roman Period, the Celtic Period, the Anglo-Saxon PeriodB. the Anglo-Saxon Period, the Celtic Period, the Roman PeriodC. the Celtic Period, the Roman Period, the Anglo-Saxon Perio dD. the Celtic Period, the Anglo-Saxon Period, the Roman Period13. “To be, or not to be _____ that is the question; whether’tis nobler in the mind to suffer. The slings and a rrows 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. Hamlet14. Bacon’s achievements mainly lie in the following fields except ______.A. philosophyB. scienceC. essay writingD. poem writing15. “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” Who is the author of this line?A. John KeatsB. John DonneC. Percy Bysshe ShelleyD. William Shakespeare16. In 1798, the publication of the 2nd edition of_____, the Preface to which by Wordsworth serves as themanifest of Romanticism.A. Lyrical BalladsB. Jane EyreC. Pride and PrejudiceD. David Copperfield17. The following are some kinds of drama EXCEPT_______.A. melodramaB. romantic dramaC. tragedyD. comedy18. In Aristotle’s definition, “tragedy” refers to the imitation of an action that is serious and complete and of acertain magnitude achieving a catharsis (陶冶，净洗，宣泄) (purification) through incidents arousing pity and ______.A. tearsB. sympathyC. fearD. astonishment19. Senecan tragedy is also called _______.A. Romance TragedyB. Tragedy of BloodC. TragicomedyD. Social Tragedy20. Which one of the following is NOT one of the great playwrights in ancient Greece?A. AristophanesB. EuripidesC. SophoclesD. Aeschylus21. The idea of “Oedipus Complex”comes from a Greek mythology, from which ______ wrote his famoustragedy “Oedipus”.A. AristophanesB. EuripidesC. AeschylusD. Sophocles22. Which one of the following is NOT one of the four great comedies of William Shakespeare?A. As You Like ItB. Romeo and JulietC. The Merchant of VeniceD. The Twelfth Night23. Hamlet is the Prince of ________.A. EnglandB. ScotlandC. HollandD. Demark24. Which one is NOT a role in Hamlet?A. Gertrude B Ophelia C. Claudius D. Cordelia25. Chronologically the Victorian Period refers to _____.A. 1798---1832B. 1836---1901C. the Romantic PeriodD. the Neoclassical Period26. Washington Irving was one of the first American writers to earn an international reputation and regarded as_____.A. Father of the American dramaB. Father of the American poetryC. Father of the American literatureD. Father of the American short stories27. The author of the work “For Whom the Bell Tolls” is _____.A. Ernest HemingwayB. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeC.Samuel JohnsonD. Francis Bacon28. Which of the following writings is by Hemingway described the novel the one book from which “all modernAmerican literature comes?”A. Tom SawyerB. Huckleberry FinnC. The Gilded AgeD. Life on the Mississippi29. In the English history, who is the most outstanding stream-of-consciousness novelist?A. Leopold BloomB. E.M. ForsterC. James JoyceD. D.H. Lawrence30. In his poems, Walt Whitman is innovative in the terms of the form of his poetry, which is called “______.”A. free verseB. blank verseC. alliterationD. end rhyming31. It is ______ who put forward the method of psychoanalysis which emphasizes the importance ofunconsciousness or the irrational in the human psyche.A. Karl JungB. John LockeC. Sigmund FreudD. Karl Marx32. Which the following authors is NOT one of the masters of Stream of Consciousness?A. Virginia WoolfB. James JoyceC. William FaulknerD. D. H. Laurence33. “In a Station of th e Metro” is a classic _____ poem written by Ezra Pound.A. SymbolicB. ImagistC. RealisticD. Romantic34. “Cantos“is the masterpiece of ______ which is an amalgam混合物of various languages and cultures,revealing the chaotic and meaningless world.A. T.S. EliotB. Ernest HemingwayC. Ezra PoundD. John Steinbeck35. The most important feature of American literature is _______.A. long historyB. religious tendencyC. multi-culturalD. political inclination36. Which of the following writers does not belong to the Age of Realism ?A.Mark TwainB. Stephen CraneC. Henry JamesD. William Dean Howells37. The Civil War (1861-1965) brought to an end, and came into existence.A. the Colonial Period; the Romantic PeriodB. the Romantic Period; the Colonial PeriodC. the Age of Realism; the Romantic PeriodD. the Romantic Period; the Age of Realism38. William Faulkner made the history of the _____ the subject of the bulk of his work, and created a symbolicpicture of the remote past.A. Deep SouthB. MidwestC. New EnglandD. Europe39. In 1954, was a warded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his “mastery of the art of modern narration”.A. T. S. EliotB. Ernest HemingwayC. John SteinbeckD. William Faulkner40. ______is the period stretching roughly from the settlement of North America in the early 17th century through the end of the 18th century .A. The Romantic PeriodB. The Period of EnlightenmentC. The Colonial PeriodD. The American Puritanism1. The First Continental Congress was held in _____ in September, 1774.A. PhiladelphiaB. BostonC. New York2. The American War of Independence started in _____ and ended in _____.A. 1776, 1784B. 1775, 1783C. 1706, 17143. During the Civil War Lincoln issued the _____, which declared the abolition of slavery.A. Homestead BillB. Emancipation ProclamationC. Both A and B4. 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, 19195. The _____ was the treaty signed at Versailles, near Paris in France in 1919.A. Paris TreatyB. Versaills TreatyC. Teheran Treaty6. The _____ broke out in June 1950 and ended in the summer of 1953.A. Vietnam WarB. Cold WarC. Korean War7. The Second World War broke out in September, _____ and ended in August _____.A. 1939, 1945B. 1937, 1943C. 1938, 19458. The President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed a policy called _____ to save the economic situation.A. Good NeighbourB. the Open Door PolicyC. the New Deal9. In Feb. _____ came President Nixon’s historic visit to China.A. 1979B. 1972C. 197310. The Declaration of Independence was drafted by a committee including _____ as head.A. George WashingtonB. Thomas JeffersonC. both A and B11. _____ was the only American president who was re-elected three times in succession.A. Theodore RooseveltB. George WashingtonC. FranklinD. Roosevelt D. Thomas Jefferson12. Among the five Great Lakes, only _____ is wholly within the United States.A. ErieB. SuperiorC. Michigan13. _____ part is the most densely populated region in America.A. The southernB. The northeaster nC. The western14. _____ has been called the “cradle of American Liberty”.A. PhiladelphiaB. PlymouthC. Boston15. The highest mountain in the U.S. is Mount _____.A. AppalachianB. MekinleyC. Rocky16. Hawaii is in the _____ Ocean.A. AtlanticB. IndianC. Pacific17. _____ is the largest state in area in the U.S.A.A. FloridaB. LouisianaC. Alaska18. The _____ were the original inhabitants in America.A. blacksB. IndiansC. Puerto Ricans19. In _____ people can find the historical spot, the Independence National Historical Park.A. PhiladelphiaB. St. LouisC. San Francisco20. England occupies the _____ portion of the U.K.A. northernB. easternC. southern21. London is situated on the River of _____.A. ParretB. ThamesC. Spey22. Edinburgh is the capital of _____.A. EnglandB. ScotlandC. Wales23. The three Germanic tribes that invaded Britain include the following except _____.A. the AnglesB. the SaxonsC. the PictsD. the Jutes24. The capital city of Northern Ireland is _____.A. CardiffB. BelfastC. Leith25 Celtic tribes began to settle in Britain from about _____ B.C.A. 410B. 750C. 30026. Scotland occupies the _____ portion of Great Britain.A. southernB. northernC. western27. _____ includes London，the centre of government for the whole nation.A. ScotlandB. Northern IrelandC. WalesD. England。
英美文学欣赏考题整理及答案
Part One：English Poetry1.William Shakespeare Sonnet 18•Why does the poet compare `thee` to a summer’s day? And who could `thee` be?Because summer’s day and thee both represent beauty . thee could be beauty, love.•What picture have you got of English summer, and could you explain why?Warm, beautiful, sunshine. Because summer is the best season of a year ,the most beautiful season. It is like our May.•How does the poet answer the question he puts forth in the first line?Thee is more beautiful than summer.•What makes the poet think that “thou” can be more fair than summer and immortal?Because humanism is more eternal than summer and immortal.•What figures of speech are used in this poem?Simile, metaphor, personification, oxymoron and so on .•What is the theme of the poem?Love conquers all, Beauty lives on.2. Thomas Nashe Spring•Read the poem carefully, pay attention to those image- bearing words, and see how many images the poet created in the poem and what sense impressions you can get from those images.There is “Blooms each thing, maids dance in a ring, the pretty birds do sing, the palm and may make country houses gay, Lambs frisk' and play, the shepherds pipe all day, And we hear aye birds tune this merry lay, The fields breathe sweet, the daisies kiss our feet, Young lovers meet, old wives a-sunning sit, In every street these tunes bur ears do greet!”The “Young lovers meet, old wives a-sunning sit，”impressions me most because of the harmony of the people’s relationship.•Can you point out and explain the sound and their musical effect in the poem?In the Poem, each section has four lines, each line has ten syllables ( five tone step ) . In order to give the reader a spring breeze , streams , flowers , winding , Song Xin texture of sound and light flavor, Naixi greater uses English word S , z , f , V , R , L , and θconsonants means. In Naixi's poem, the use of phonological is also very harmonious, very smooth , very mellow. Section I of the poetry has Three pairs [ ing ] , section II of the poem has three pairs [ ei ] and the third quarter has three pairs [ i : ].3.John Donne A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning•What is a “valediction” any way? Is the speaker in the poem about to die?Why does the speaker forbid mourning?No, it is about the lover s’separation. As the poem metaphors, the poet believed he and his wife’s love is sacred, he didn’t hope they cry when separation comes, let their love be stained by the ordinary and mundane.In the first verse, the poet used virtuous men’s death metaphor for lovers’separation, in the third verse he used “moving of the earth” and “trepidation of the spheres” metaphor for lovers’ separation and the result of separation, in the last three verse he used stiff twin compasses’two legs metaphor for poet himself and his wife. All these metaphors show poet opinion that he will separate from his wife in peace, their love is a scared love, when they away from each other, they will not be hurt by the pain of the separation. He and his wife will not really separate. They care about each other and listen to the other one’s heart, their trust and loyalty makes their love perfect like the circle made by a twin compasses.4.William Blake The Tiger•What is the symbolic meaning of the tiger?The symbol of the Tiger is unclear what it exactly symbolizes, but scholars have hypothesized that the Tiger could be inspiration, the divine, artistic creation, history, the sublime, or vision itself. The list is almost infinite. The point is, the Ti ger is important, and Blake’s poem barely limits the possibilities.Here are two major symbolisms:The tiger is the embodiment of God's power in creation.The tiger shows the force of French Revolution.•What paradox can you find in the poem?"Did he who made the Lamb make thee?" It challenges the one-track religious views of the 18’s century. The view only concluded that god create the lame, he is so kind a father. But it didn’t know god also create the tough tiger. He can also be very serious. The god is someone who can’t be truly understood by human beings.5.Robert Burns A Red, Red Rose•How dose the narrator in the love song express his love?In stanza 1, the narrator presents two similes, the first comparing his love to a rose and the second comparing his love to a melody.In stanza 2, the narrator addresses the young lady as bonnie. In the last line of the stanza, he presents hyperbole, a figure of speech that exaggerates.In stanza 3, the man promises eternal love for her.In stanza 4, the poet vows to love her however far he may go.•Why is this poem so touching to the readers?Because this poem professes the poet’s true love for his beloved girl, and uses the mentioned above to touch the readers.6.William Wordsw orth I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud•What does the poet see?He sees some daffodils.•What is the poet’s mood before he sees the daffodils?Vacant and pensive.•What is the poet’s mood after he sees the daffodils?He is very pleasant.•How does the magical change occur?Those daffodils show a fantastic picture to the poet, and the poet has been deeply affected by the scene, and his mood changes.•What is the theme of the poem? Or what does the poet want to tell you?It shows the beauty of nature, and the nature’s beauty uplifts the human spirit, and the harmony between human and nature.7.Robert Browning My Last Duchess• 1. In this poem, who and on what occasion is speaking to whom?The Duke is the speaker of the poem, and tells us he is entertaining an emissary who has come to negotiate the Duke’s marriage (he has recently been widowed) to the daughter of another powerful family.•What sort of person is the Duke’s last Duchess?She is kind, easy-going, innocent and lively.•And what became of her in the end?She became very upset and worrying. The duchess died under suspicious circumstances on April 21, 1561, just two years after he married her. She may have been poisoned.• 2. What sort of person is the Duke?He is outrageously arrogant, narrow-minded, selfish, hypocritical, cold-blooded, crucial, greedy and treacherous.8.Walt Whitman O Captain! My Captain!•Q:Walt Whitman’s poem “O Captain! My Captain!” is written in the form of an allegory. What is the overall connotative meaning in the poem?A: Ship’s implied meaning is America; My capta in’ implied meaning is Abraham Lincoln who leaded America to triumph in American Civil War then;our fearful trip’s implied meaning is American Civil War after which Lincoln was assassinated. In this poem author spoken highly of Lincoln’ contribution and expressed his sorrow for Lincoln’ death.9.Emily Dickinson (1)Success is counted sweetest (67)•According to the poem, who can understand success most? Do you agree or not with the poet’s view that “Success is counted sweetest by those who ne’er succeed”?The person who best understands the meaning of success is the person who fails•What sort of feelings does the poet show toward the victor and the defeated?The poet shows her awareness of the complicated truths of human desire.Success can be comprehended by someone who need it; the defeated, dying man understand victory more clearly than the victorious army does.(2)Because I could not stop for Death (712)•How many people are there in the carriage? And where are they going right now?There are three in the carriage, the Poet, Death, and Immortality.•Where did they pass? What can these places remind us of?They passed the school, the fields of Gazing grain, the Setting Sun. It reminds usof childhood, maturity and old age, the children are evident symbols of the beginning of things, the grain rip of the adulthood, and the sun setting of the rest of the days.•What is the poet’s attitude toward death and life implied in the poem?The poet’s attitude is that death is nothing to be forced since it is natural part of the endless cycle of nature, it’s only the beginning ;to die is to go on another journey, although death takes one away from the earthy world ;there is still something to look forward to when one dies, death means eternity.10.Robert Frost Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening•Why did the speaker stop?Literally he was fascinated by the beautiful night scene and stoped his horse to watch the woods fill up with the snow,it was also a little break for the long travel. But in fact,it's symbolism,the 'woods' stands for the nature,the 'village' stands for the human world, 'horse' for the animal world. The poem representsa moment of relaxation from the burdensome journey of life, an almostaesthetic enjoyment and appreciation of natural beauty which is wholesome and restorative against the chaotic existence of modern man.•Why did he later decide to go?As the last sentence said 'But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep.'His 'horse' shake the bell to ask if they should go,which is actually a symbol of vitality, urges him to go. He lives in the real life, and he has his own obligation "promise to keep',he hasn't achieve it, so he must go on his trip,leave the beautiful scene.Though the scene is so amazing,he has to have the real life.Though the real life is so hard,he must back to it,and reach his goal. One leaves no regrets after he dies, as long as one has reached his goal.•What is your understanding of “promises to keep”?“The promise” could be an obligation or a goal. One cannot die before fulfilling one’s dream. The poet uses “sleep” to represent death, just as we usually do. People have their own dream or goal,it's also the duty for us to finish, we live for ourselves and we make life wonderful by keeping on reaching our goal,no regrets leaves as long as we have reached our goals. 11. Ezra Pound In a Station of the MetroPart Two: English Fiction12. Jonathan Swift Gulliver’s Travels●In this chapter, Swift describes the smallness of the Lilliputians. What doesthis “smallness” imply in the author’s satire of the aristocratic bourgeois society of the time?Key: The Lilliput scene depicted in the first volume of the novel is a microcosm of the British Empire. The perennial endless struggle between UK Tories and Whigs and external war are essentially just politicians intrigue in the section has nothing to do with the national economy and the people's livelihood. The “smallness” imply that …●What is the cause of the civil strife and war between Lilliput and theneighbouring empire of Blefuscu? What is the target of the author’s satire?(1)Key: The parties are divided as high-heeled party and low-heeled party accordingto the height of the heel. The relationship between parties is irreconcilable;Neighboring countries not only want to conquer and enslave the other, but also argue about trifles such as which head we should knock when we will eat eggs . (2) Key: The author uses irony and innuendo tactics to reflect the British social contradictions among first half of the 18th century, to criticize the British parliamentary politics and reactionary religious forces, to expose the corruption and evil of the ruling clique, and to criticize the hazards of a war of aggression and colonialism.13Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice1.Do you agree with the statement “it is truth universally acknowledged that a singleman in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife”? What is the relationship between money and marriage?Key: (1) I agree with this statement. In my view, a bachelor who has lots of money is supposed to have a wife to company him. The amount of money demonstrates the ability of a person. The beauties and the wits should come together.(2) First, the relationship between marriage and money is very close; we can say that the money is the basis of marriage. This is just from the material conditions of life. However, the amount of money can’t measure the quality of marriage. A determinant of marriage is the couple's feelings, and if the lack of the feelings, life is not a happy marriage even though has more money.2.What do you think of Mrs. Bennet? How can you characterize her?Key: (1) Mrs. Bennet - a foolish, noisy woman whose only goal in life is to see her daughters married. Because of her low breeding and often unbecoming behavior, Mrs. Bennet often repels the very suitors whom she tries to attract for her daughters.(2) Mrs. Bennet is a miraculously tiresome character, who is noisy and foolish. And Mrs. Bennet is totally obedient and submissive in her marriage. Mrs. Bennet is a self-centered woman with the attitude that what is good enough for her is good enough for her children.14. Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights1.What is the main plot of the whole novel? What causes the tragic ending of thelove between Heathcliff and Catherine? Would it have been possible, under the circumstances, for the victimized lovers to find a way out?Key: Novel’s theme is vengeance. Katherine's character flaws is the root causes of the tragedy, Heathcliff to lost love human distortion conducted a series of revenge activities, the capitalist society for the generation of tragedy provides fertile soil. If Heathcliff get marry with Katherine, they’ll be happiness.2.Is Heathcliff’s revenge upon the Earnshaw and Linton families justifiable? Whatis the author’s attitude toward Heathcliff, judging from the final futility of the revenge?Key: For the vengeance of the people is right .but it’s wrong in law. It’s love, but Heathcliff’s love is crazy.15. Kate Chopin The Story of an Hour•What kind of character is Louise Mallard?Key: Mrs. Mallard is a sympathetic character with strength and insight.•What are the themes of this short story?Key: It’s mainly about the awakening of feminine awareness and the fruitless struggle of women for freedom in a man-centered world. It is about marriage bondages and celibacy freedom.•What do “heart trouble” and “the open window” symbolize?Key: (1) heart trouble symbolizes(2) the open window symbolizes16. Earnest Hemingway Hills like White Elephants• 1. What is a “white elephant ” according to the dictionary definition? What does a “white elephant” symbolize in the story?(1) Key:a: a property requiring much care and expense and yielding littleprofitb : an object no longer of value to its owner but of value to othersc : something of little or no value(2)Key: The woman is pregnant, and the White Elephant is a hint of the body ofthe women. The fact that the two. This matter becomes a heavy burden for the two people.• 2. List the evidence that tells what kind of operation Jig is confronting.How risky is it physically and emotionally?(1) evidence:1.'It's really an awfully simple operation, Jig,' the man said. 'It's not really anoperation at all.'2. 'I know you wouldn't mind it, Jig. It's really not anything. It's just to let theair in.'3. 'They just let the air in and then it's all perfectly natural.'4. 'I know we will. Yon don't have to be afraid. I've known lots of people that have done it.'5. 'But I know it's perfectly simple.'(2) Key:1. Do affect her health, result that the body is badly weakened and be reducedimmunity in the aspect of physical.2. Do be Frustrated, empty and depressed mood which leads to that she cannot be quiet in the aspect of emotion.• 3. Has Jig made up her mind to do the operation?Key: The question about whether to do an abortion, the article comes a stop suddenly at the end. So we can’t make sure whether Jig has made up her mind to do the operation.• 4. If the operation is something already decided on, then what upsets Jig?What is the real conflict between the couple?Key: (1) She worries that she could not get happiness as before with the man. She upsets that he would leave her for ever.(2) The real conflict between the couple is that whether the man likes thewomenfrom the deep heart and their attitudes towards life.• 5. What kind of girl is Jig? How is their relation like? Does the American love Jig?Key: (1) She is restless and confused and longing for the deeper love from the man.(2) There could be many situations: first, a married man compels his loverto have a abortion; second, as a bachelor, he worries the baby would make his life be complex and so on.(3) Because of the various situations, we could not make an accurateconclusion that the man loves Jig. However, on some degree the man loves the woman by analyzing the conversation between them.• 6. What is Hemingway’s style?Key: Hemingway’s style is laconic. The characteristic is reflected in thatWhen writing, he is very clear what kind of content could pit one against ten. It is both an immediate situation and also containing other deeper meanings, which can be informed in the way of exploring something by the readers.17.William Faulkner A Rose for Emily• 1. What is the meaning of the title?Key: A rose is a funeral flower. It’s author’s tribute to Emily, and also to south, Emily is the symbol. And it has an ironic meaning to this story.• 2. What kind of woman is Miss Emily?Key: She is embodiment of south, the old and traditional, also obstinate, resists to change anything ,a determined，dignified, valiant and literate woman.• 3. How did the townspeople think of her?Key: The townspeople had mixed feelings—she was “dear inescapable, impervious, tranquil”, and perverse. Also she was always expected to bring honor to the town and set a good example for the young.• 4. What is the symbolic meaning of Emily’s house?Key: Emily’s house, like Emily herself, is a monument, the only remaining emblem of a dying world of southern aristocracy, also represents alienation and death.• 5. What is special about the narration of this story?Key: The writing style of the novel is using flashbacks and narration interspersed with flashbacks. The author let us know the independent but closely related events skillfully under the premise of being not exposed the true intentions, which makes us draw attention to the development of the plot without boring.Part Three: English Drama18. William Shakespeare Hamlet, Prince of Denmark• 1. Why does sleep appear to be so fearful for Hamlet even though it can put an end to the numerous headaches in our life?Key: As described in the text, Hamlet thinks that sleep is different from death. Death means the end of life, you may go to the unknown world and you can’t comeback. If he dies, Hamlet can’t realize his will. Sleep can’t end the heartache and the thousand natural shocks. He can’t revenge and get relief through this way. He is frightened bythe possible suffering in the long “dream”. He can’t predict what will happen in the sleep, may be good or evil.• 2. Why would most people prefer to bear all the sufferings in life rather than choose death as a means to end them?Key: 1. As it goes that ‘Adversity makes growth’, by solving the problems we can acknowledge plenty of skills and overcome the sufferings in life. If we choose death as a means to end them, it is too passive for us to face the obstacles in life, which will lead to the failure in life.2. Because people hold the same idea "to grunt and sweat under a weary life, butthat the dread of something after death-the undiscovered country, form whose bourn no traveler returns-puzzle the will, and make us rather bear those ills we have than fly to others that we don’t know.”People also are frightened by the myths in another world after death.Romeo and Juliet•What does it mean when Juliet says “That which we call a rose / By my other name would smell as sweet”?Key:In Shakespeare's time, name on behalf of their family, and his family represents the social status. And personal just only on behalf of their inner identity.And Juliet says strongly reflects her humanist outlook on life and the concept of the ideal.19. Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest1.How do you understand the title of the play? What is your impression ofGwendolen? What are the most striking traits in Lady Bracknell’s character? (1) Key: Here is a pun. It’s important to be a serious man. And the author wants to satirize the triviality with which it treats institutions as serious as marriage, and the resulting satire of Victorian ways.(2) Key: She advocates sincere, do be intelligent and friendly, and is able to forgive the mistakes of others. She do be a earnest person.(3) Key: Lady Bracknell embodies the stereotype of the Victorian English aristocrat woman. She belongs to aristocratic society and is a typical Victorian snob, who is arrogant, formal and concerned with money. She is interested only in a materialistic world.20. Eugene O’Neill The Hairy Ape1.Yank assumes more than once the posture of Rodin’s “The Thinker” in the play.What does it have to do with the play’s motif and tone? What are the major images and symbols employed in the play to dramatize the theme?(1) Key: 1. The themes of this article are modern man loses his sense of belonging under technological progress and humanity is in a predicament by creating a world he does not belong to.2. The Thinker is often painful, which demonstrates the profoundly tragic matter of modern people like Yank: he is thinking and looks forward to a better life, but he doesn’t find the answer. In O'Neill’s opinion, there exists no answer. Therefore, he is destined to be a loser.3. In summary, the description of his behavior makes the theme more significant.2.Why do you think the play is subtitled “A Comedy of Ancient and Modern Life inEight Scenes”？Key: 1. The hairy ape is a comedy of ancient and modern life which shows O'Neill's social concern for the oppressed industrial working class. It presents an extremely negative view of the state, of mechanized America, where the worker best adjusted to the system is a “hairy ape,” and where the “Capitalist class”is even more terribly dehumanized , for it has lost all connection with life , is simply “a procession of gaudy marionettes.”2. The play was created in 20th century when western people suffered unprecedented intellectual crisis. Human beings lost their absolute value, which made people fall into confusion and desperation. Besides, man’s des ire to emotions was ignored in the rapid development of technology. People put existence of individuality first at that time.3. N umerous obstacles and frustrations occur in the way of Yank’s seeking for his position, which reflects survival crisis of most modern people. The more people think about, the clearer people realize about freedom.（注：文档可能无法思考全面，请浏览后下载，供参考。
英美文学导论考试题及答案
英美文学导论考试题及答案一、选择题（每题2分，共20分）1. 以下哪部作品是威廉·莎士比亚的悲剧？A.《罗密欧与朱丽叶》B.《威尼斯商人》C.《皆大欢喜》D.《第十二夜》2. 19世纪英国浪漫主义诗人拜伦的全名是什么？A. 乔治·戈登·拜伦B. 威廉·华兹华斯C. 珀西·比希·雪莱D. 约翰·济慈3. 以下哪位作家是现代主义文学的代表人物？A. 查尔斯·狄更斯B. 简·奥斯汀C. 弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫D. 托马斯·哈代4. 美国文学中被称为“黑暗浪漫主义”的时期是？A. 浪漫主义时期B. 现实主义时期C. 现代主义时期D. 后现代主义时期5. 以下哪部作品是马克·吐温的代表作？A.《了不起的盖茨比》B.《汤姆·索亚历险记》C.《白鲸》D.《老人与海》二、填空题（每空2分，共20分）6. 英国文学史上的文艺复兴时期，以_______的戏剧创作最为著名。
7. 19世纪美国文学的“现实主义”运动，以_______的《红字》为代表作。
8. 现代主义文学中，_______的《荒原》被认为是现代主义诗歌的里程碑。
9. 20世纪美国文学中，_______的《了不起的盖茨比》描绘了20年代的“爵士时代”。
10. 英国浪漫主义诗人_______的《夜莺颂》是其代表作之一。
三、简答题（每题10分，共30分）11. 简述英国文学中的“哥特式小说”的特点。
12. 描述美国文学中的“自然主义”运动，并举例说明。
13. 简述现代主义文学与后现代主义文学的主要区别。
四、论述题（每题15分，共30分）14. 论述威廉·华兹华斯的“自然主义”观点及其在《抒情歌谣集》中的体现。
15. 分析弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫的《到灯塔去》中的女性主义视角。
答案一、选择题1. A2. A3. C4. B5. B二、填空题6. 威廉·莎士比亚7. 纳撒尼尔·霍桑8. T.S.艾略特9. F.斯科特·菲茨杰拉德10. 威廉·华兹华斯三、简答题11. 哥特式小说的特点包括恐怖、神秘、超自然元素，以及对古老建筑或废墟的描写。
2023年自考专业(英语)《英美文学选读》考试历年真题摘选附带答案
2023年自考专业(英语)《英美文学选读》考试历年真题摘选附带答案第1卷一.全考点综合测验(共20题)1.【单选题】What he had done is _______A.valueB.of valuableC.of no valueD.of no valuable2.【单选题】Robert Frost is generally considered a regional poet whose subject matters mainly focus on the landscape and people in( ).A.the westB.the southC.AlaskaD.New England3.【单选题】“The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one -eighth of it being abov e water. ” This “iceberg ” analogy about prose style was put forward by( ).A.William FaulknerB.Henry JamesC.Ernest HemingwayD.F· Scott Fitzgerald4.【单选题】Hemingway’s “Indian Camp ” is one of the fourteen short stories collected under the title of( ).This title is very ironic because there is no peace at all in the stories.A.Three Stories and Ten PoemsB.Across the River and into the TreesC.The Green Hills of AfricaD.In Our Time5.【单选题】The( )Age of the 1920s characterized by frivolity and carelessness is brought vividly to life in The Great Gatsby.A.LostB.JazzC.ReasonD.Gilded6.【单选题】After the American Civil War,the literary interest in the so- called “reality ” of life started a new period in the American literary writings know an the Age of( ).A.RealismB.Reason and RevolutionC.RomanticismD.Modernism7.【单选题】The attitude towards life that( )had been trying to demonstrate in his works is known as “grace under pressure ”.A.William FaulknerB.Theodore DreiserC.Ernest HemingwayD.F·Scott Fitzgerald8.【单选题】Eugene O’Neill ’s first full — length play,( ),won him the first Pulitzer theme is the choice between life and death,the interaction of subjective and objective factors.A.Bound East for CardiffB.The Hairy ApeC.Desire Under the ElmsD.Beyond the Horizon9.【单选题】The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and,especially,its sequence( )proved themselves to be the milestone in the American literature.A.The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnB.Life on the MississippiC.The Gilded AgeD.Roughing It10.【单选题】Ezra Pound,a leading spokesman of the “( ) ”,was one of the mostimportant poets in his time.A.Imagist MovementB.Cubist MovementC.Reformist MovementD.Transcendentalist Movement11.【单选题】William Faulkner set most of his works in the American( ),with his emphasis on the( )subjects and consciousness.A.North...NorthernB.East...EasternC.West...WesternD.South...Southern12.【单选题】Now many major employers are beginning to demand _______ the completion of schoolA.more thanB.rather thanC.other thanD.better than13.【单选题】Which of the following statements is NOT true of Emily Dickinson and her poetry?A.She remained unmarried all her lifeB.She wrote,1,775 poems,and most of them were published during her life time.C.Her poems have no titles,hence are always quoted by their first lines.D.Her limited private world has never confined the limitless power of her creativity and imagination.14.【单选题】considered( ) “the true father of our national literature ”.A.Bret HarteB.Mark TwainC.Washington IrvingD.Walt Whitman15.【单选题】Most literary critics think that Fitzgerald is both an insider and an outsider of( )with a double vision.A.the Jazz AgeB.the Age of Reason and RevolutionC.the Babybooming AgeD.the Post- Modern Age16.【单选题】At the age of eighty -seven,( )read his poetry at the inauguration of President John in 1961.A.Robert FrostB.Walt WhitmanC.Ezra Pound17.【单选题】The Financier,The Titan and The Stoic by Theodore Dreiser are called his “Trilogy of( ). ”A.HatredB.DeathC.DesireD.Fate18.【单选题】In Go Down,Moses,( )illuminates the problem of black and white in Southern society as a closeknit destiny of blood brotherhood.A.William FaulknerB.Jack LondonC.Herman MelvilleD.Nathaniel Hawthorne19.【单选题】“The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one- eighth of it being above water. ” This “iceberg ” analogy is put forward by( ).A.Mark TwainB.Ezra PoundC.William FaulknerD.Ernest Hemingway20.【单选题】The Nobel Prize Committee highly praised( )for “his powerful style -forming mastery of the art ” of creating modern fiction.A.Ezra PoundB.Ernest HemingwayC.Robert FrostD.Theodore Dreiser第2卷一.全考点综合测验(共20题)1.【单选题】That is the house _______ you can enjoy the scenery.A. in thatB.thatC.whichD.from which2.【单选题】( )is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th —century “stream— of —consciousness ” novels and the founder of psychological realism.A.Theodore DreiserB.William FaulknerC.Henry JamesD.Mark Twain3.【单选题】In 1950,( )was awarded the Nobel Prize for the anti-racist Intruder in the Dust.A.William FaulknerB.Robert FrostC.Ezra PoundD.Ernest Hemingway4.【单选题】In 1920,( )published his first novel This Side of Paradise which was,to some extent,his own story.A.F·Scott FitzgeraldB.Ernest HemingwayC.William FaulknerD.Emily Dickinson5.【单选题】This type of desk and chair can be adjusted ________ the height of students at different agesA.withB.forC.toD.in6.【单选题】Mark Twain’s particular concern about the local character of a region came about as “local colorism, ” a unique va riation of American literary( ).A.romanticismB.nationalismC.modernismD.realism7.【单选题】The Portrait of A Lady is generally considered to be( )masterpiece,which describes the life journey of an American( )in a European cultural environment.A.Henry Adams’…widowB.William James ’…girlC.Henry James’…girlD.Theodore Dreiser ’s…widow8.【单选题】Opposition leaders will be watching carefully to see how the Prime Minister ________ the crisis.A.handlesB.conductsC.observesD.directs9.【单选题】She disagrees ______ him ______ everything.A.with, onB./, onC.with, atD.on, with10.【单选题】Henry James’ fame generally rests upon his novels and stories with the( )theme.A.internationalB.localC.colonialD.post-modern11.【单选题】In most of his writings,( )deliberately broke up the chronology of his narrative by juxtaposing the past with the present,in the way the montage does in a movie.A.Walt WhitmanB.William FaulknerC.Ernest HemingwayD. Fitzgerald12.【单选题】The teacher told us the fact _______.A.which the earth moves around the sunB.that the earth moved around the sunC.that the sun moves around the earthD.that the earth moves around the sun13.【单选题】It was his masterpiece The Great Gatsby that made( )one of the greatest American novelists.A. FitzgeraldB.William FaulknerC.Ernest HemmingwayD.Gertrude Steinbeck14.【单选题】In 1950,one of the leading American writers( )was awarded the Nobel Prize for the anti-racist Intruder in the Dust.A.Robert FrostB.Theodore DreiserC.William FaulknerD.Fitzgerald15.【单选题】“My last Duchess ” is a poem that best exemplifies Robert Browning ’s( ).A.sensitive ear for the sounds of the English languageB.excellent choice of wordsC.mastering of the metrical devicese of the dramatic monologue16.【单选题】William Faulkner once said that( )is a story of “lost innocence, ” which proves itself to be an intensification of the theme of imprisonment in the past.A.The Great GatsbyB.The Sound and the FuryC.Absalom,Absalom!D.Go Down,Moses17.【单选题】Mark Twain employed an unpretentious style of( )in his novels which is best described as “vernacular ”.A.standard EnglishB.Afro-American EnglishC.colloquialismD.urbanism18.【单选题】In the original test，all the animals in a test group are given a substance _______ half of them dieA.unlessB.untilC.lestD.provided19.【单选题】Like all naturalists,( )was restrained from finding a solution to the social problems that appeared in his novels and accordingly almost all his works have tragic endings.A.Theodore DreiserB.Henry JamesC.Washington IrvingD.Walt Whitman20.【单选题】Man is a “victim of forces over which he has no control. ” This is a notion held strongly by( ).A.Robert FrostB.Theodore DreiserC.Henry JamesD.Hamlin Garland第1卷参考答案一.全考点综合测验1.正确答案：C本题解析：of+n=adj ，可以作表语。
2022年10月自考《00604英美文学选读》真题无评分参考
绝密★启用前2022年10月高等教育自学考试全国统一命题考试英美文学选读(课程代码00604)注意事项：1. 本试卷分为两部分，第一部分为选择题，第二部分为非选择题。
2. 应考者必须按试题顺序在答题卡(纸)指定位置上作答，答在试卷上无效。
3. 涂写部分、画图部分必须使用2B铅笔，书写部分必须使用黑色字迹签字笔。
第一部分选择题一、单项选择题：本大题共40小题，每小题1分，共40分。
在每小题列出的备选项中只有一项是最符合题目要求的，请将其选出。
Multiple Choice (40 points in all,1 for each)Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question orcompletes the statement.1.Bernard Shaw's career as a b egan in 1892, when his first play Widowers'Houses was put on in a theaterA. criticB. poetC. novelistD. dramatist2.T.S.Eliot's poem The Waste Land is l ines long and is divided into five sections.A.133B.233C.333D.433wrence's first novel isA. The RainbowB. Women in LoveC. The White PeacockD. The Trespasser4.Bernard Shaw used inversion in character portrayal in order to achieveA. tragic effectsB. comic effectsC. mixed feelingsD. pessimistic feelings英美文学选读试题第1页(共7页)5.T.S.Eliot's play Murder in the Cathedral was writtenA. for the Canterbury Festival of June 1935B. to present the mood of disillusionment of a post-war generationC. to deal with the theme of death in lifeD. to reflect his allegiance to the Church of England6.In the novel Sons and Lovers,Mrs. Morel is a daughter of a f amily.A. poorB. lower-classC. middle-classD. upper-class7.The following word is the best to describe the figure Jew Fagin in Oliver Twist.A. grotesqueB. helplessicalD.humorous8.The Bronte sisters were sent to a school for clergymen's daughters. The experience thereinspired the portrayal of Lowood School in the novelA. VilletteB. Jane EyreC. The ProfessorD. Wuthering Heights9.In his later period, w rote many prophetic books, one of which is The Book of Urizen.A.Percy ShelleyB.W illiam'WordsworthC. William BlakeD.Daniel Defoe10.Among Thomas Hardy's major works, Under the Greenwood Tree is the mostA. miserable and unfairB. cheerful and idyllicC. severe and balancedD. unbalanced and tragic11.In the novel Tess ofthe D'Urbervilles, is the young master of the D'Urbervilles.A. AlecB. AngelC. HenchardD. Farfrae12.Bill Sikes, a character in the novel Oliver Twist,is a(n)A. chimney-sweeperB. burglarC. apprenticeD. beadle13.Jane Austen's satirizes the Gothic romances of the late18th century.C. PersuasionD. Northanger Abbey14.In 1813 Percy Shelley published his first long serious work Oueen Mab:A Poem.A. ReligiousB. SpiritualC. PoliticalD. Philosophical英美文学选读试题第2页(共7页)。
英美文学史考试试题
英美文学史考试试题一、选择题（每题 3 分，共 30 分）1、以下哪部作品是英国浪漫主义诗人威廉·华兹华斯的代表作？（）A 《唐璜》B 《抒情歌谣集》C 《恰尔德·哈洛尔德游记》D 《西风颂》2、美国作家海明威的作品常常体现出“冰山理论”，以下哪部作品最能体现这一理论？（）A 《永别了，武器》B 《老人与海》C 《太阳照样升起》D 《丧钟为谁而鸣》3、英国作家简·奥斯汀的小说以细腻的人物刻画和对婚姻爱情的探讨著称，她的哪部作品被多次改编成电影？（）A 《爱玛》B 《曼斯菲尔德庄园》C 《傲慢与偏见》D 《理智与情感》4、以下哪一位是美国浪漫主义时期的重要作家？（）A 马克·吐温B 爱伦·坡C 惠特曼D 以上都是5、英国诗人 TS艾略特的《荒原》属于哪种文学流派？（）A 象征主义B 表现主义C 意识流D 荒诞派6、以下哪部作品是英国批判现实主义作家狄更斯的代表作？（）A 《大卫·科波菲尔》B 《呼啸山庄》C 《简·爱》D 《名利场》7、美国作家福克纳的作品多以南方为背景，他的哪部作品讲述了一个家族的兴衰？（）A 《喧哗与骚动》B 《我弥留之际》C 《押沙龙，押沙龙！》D 以上都是8、英国诗人约翰·弥尔顿的哪部作品取材于《圣经》？（）A 《失乐园》B 《复乐园》C 《力士参孙》D 以上都是9、以下哪一位是美国现代主义作家？（）A 菲茨杰拉德B 德莱塞C 斯坦贝克D 以上都是10、英国女作家勃朗特姐妹的作品包括（）A 《简·爱》和《呼啸山庄》B 《爱玛》和《傲慢与偏见》C 《理智与情感》和《曼斯菲尔德庄园》D 《名利场》和《大卫·科波菲尔》二、简答题（每题 10 分，共 30 分）1、请简要分析莎士比亚悲剧作品的艺术特色。
2、简述美国文学中“黑色幽默”的特点。
3、比较英国浪漫主义文学和美国浪漫主义文学的异同。
英美文学考试题目及答案
英美文学考试题目及答案一、选择题（每题2分，共10分）1. 英国文学史上被称为“英国诗歌之父”的诗人是：A. 乔叟B. 莎士比亚C. 弥尔顿D. 拜伦答案：A2. 下列哪部作品不是简·奥斯汀的小说？A. 《傲慢与偏见》B. 《理智与情感》C. 《简·爱》D. 《曼斯菲尔德庄园》答案：C3. 美国文学中，被誉为“美国文学之父”的作家是：A. 爱伦·坡B. 马克·吐温C. 华盛顿·欧文D. 亨利·詹姆斯答案：C4. 以下哪位作家是现代主义文学的代表人物？A. 狄更斯B. 哈代C. 弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫D. 简·奥斯汀答案：C5. 美国文学中的“迷惘的一代”是指：A. 第一次世界大战后的作家群体B. 第二次世界大战后的作家群体C. 独立战争后的作家群体D. 内战后的作家群体答案：A二、填空题（每题2分，共10分）1. 威廉·莎士比亚的四大悲剧包括《哈姆雷特》、《奥赛罗》、《李尔王》和________。
答案：《麦克白》2. 《了不起的盖茨比》是美国作家________创作的一部以20世纪20年代的纽约为背景的小说。
答案：F·司各特·菲茨杰拉德3. 英国浪漫主义诗人威廉·华兹华斯与________共同发起了浪漫主义诗歌运动。
答案：塞缪尔·泰勒·柯勒律治4. 美国诗人沃尔特·惠特曼的代表作是________，它被认为是美国文学史上的里程碑。
答案：《草叶集》5. 英国现代主义诗人T.S.艾略特的代表作《荒原》是一首________诗。
答案：长三、简答题（每题10分，共20分）1. 简述乔治·奥威尔的《1984》中“老大哥”的象征意义。
答案：在《1984》中，“老大哥”象征着极权主义政权的无所不在和无所不知，代表了对个人自由和思想的全面控制。
他的形象无处不在，监视着社会的每一个角落，象征着对个人隐私的侵犯和对思想自由的压制。
英国文学试题及答案
英国文学试题及答案在英国文学领域有许多经典作品和重要的作家，这些作品和作家对于英国文学的发展产生了深远影响。
本篇文章将为您介绍一些英国文学的试题及答案，希望能够对您的学习有所帮助。
试题一：请简要介绍威廉·莎士比亚的作品和他在英国文学中的地位。
答案：威廉·莎士比亚（William Shakespeare）被认为是英国文学史上最伟大的戏剧作家之一。
他的作品包括戏剧、诗歌和史诗。
莎士比亚共创作了37个戏剧作品，包括悲剧、喜剧、历史剧和十四行诗。
他的作品以丰富的人物形象、深入的情感描写和复杂的剧情而闻名。
莎士比亚的作品深刻地揭示了人性的善恶、爱恨和欲望等诸多主题，对于英国文学及全球文学的发展都产生了巨大影响。
试题二：简要介绍查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》及其在英国文学中的地位。
答案：《雾都孤儿》是查尔斯·狄更斯（Charles Dickens）的一部重要小说作品。
这部小说于1859年首次出版，以伦敦的贫民窟为背景，通过讲述主人公奥利弗·特威斯特的成长历程，揭示了当时社会的不公和贫困问题。
《雾都孤儿》描写了贫富悬殊、社会阶级问题以及人性的善恶等主题，对于英国社会的改革起到了重要的推动作用。
该小说深受读者的喜爱，被誉为狄更斯最伟大的作品之一，也是英国文学中的经典之作。
试题三：请简要介绍简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》及其在英国文学中的地位。
答案：《傲慢与偏见》是简·奥斯汀（Jane Austen）的代表作之一，被视为英国文学史上最伟大的小说之一。
这部小说于1813年首次出版，以描写19世纪英国社会的阶级观念和婚姻观念为主题。
《傲慢与偏见》通过讲述女主人公伊丽莎白·本内特与达西先生之间的爱情故事，探讨了社会的偏见、男女间的相互误解以及人性的盲目等问题。
奥斯汀以幽默和讽刺的手法展现了社会的虚伪和愚昧，对当时英国社会的改革产生了积极的影响。
通过以上试题及答案，我们可以了解到威廉·莎士比亚、查尔斯·狄更斯和简·奥斯汀等作家对于英国文学的重要地位以及他们作品所揭示的社会问题和人性的思考。
英美文学期末考试
名词解释1、英国浪漫主义（ England Romanticism）A movement that flourished in literature, philosophy, music, and art inthcentury, beginning as revolt against western culture during most of the 19classicism. Romanticism gave primary concern to passion emotion, and natural beauty. The English Romantic Period is an age of poetry.2. 英雄双行体（ Heroic Couplet）Heroic couplet is a rhyming couplet of iambic pentameter, often containing a complete though. There is a fairly heavy at the end of the first line and a still heavier one at the end of the second. Commonly there is a parallel or anantithesis within a line, or between the two lines. It is called heroic because in England, especially in the eighteenth century, it was much used for heroic (epic) poems.3. 超验主义（ Transcendentalism）In New England, an intellectual movement known transcendentalismdeveloped as an American version of Romanticism. The movement began among an influential set authors based in Concord, Massachusetts, andwas led Ralph Waldo Emerson. Like Romanticism,transcendentalismrejected both 18th-century rationalism and established religion, which for the transcendentalistsmeant the Puritan tradition inparticular. Instead, the transcendentalists celebrated the power of thehuman imagination to commune with the universe and transcend thelimitations of the material world. The transcendentalists found their chief source of aspiration in nature.4.迷茫的一代（ Lost Generation）The Lost Generation refers to the disillusioned intellectuals and artists of the years following the First World War, who rebelled against former ideals and values but could replace them only by despair or cynical hedonism.5.启蒙运动（ Enlightenment Movement）The Enlightenment Movement was a progressive movement, which flourished in France and swept the whole Western Europe at the time. It was ath thfurtherance of the Renaissance from the 14 to the 17century. Its purpose was to enlighten the whole world with the light of modern philosophical and artistic ideas. The eighteenth century marked the beginning of an intellectual movement in Europe known as the Enlightenment Movement.7.无韵体 blank verseThis term , which was first brought into England by Surrey , is used toname the unrhymed iambic pentameter line in poetry.8.三一律 The Three UnitiesThe Three Unities , formulated by Renaissance dramatists, are the unities of time, place and action. A play should have no scenesirrelevant to the action, should not cover more than twenty-four hours, and should not cover more than one locale.6.自由体 free verseIt is the rhymed or unrhymed poetry composed without attention toconventional rules of meter.9.现代主义ModernismModernism was a complex and diverse international, movement in all creative arts, originating about the end of the 19th century. It provided the greatestrenaissance of the 20th century. It was made up of many facts, such as symbolism surrealism, cubism, expressionism, futurism, etc.10.英国文艺复兴RenaissanceThe term refers to a great bourgeois cultural movement in Europe which began th thin the 14 century and continued to the mid-17 century. It first started from Italy and then spread all over Europe. The Renaissance, therefore, in essence, is a historical period in which the European humanist thinkers and scholars tried to get rid of those old feudalistic ideas in Medieval Europe.英国文学1.Beowulf : a national epic2.The Renaissance(原因 )：(1)rediscoveries of ancient Greek and Roman culture.(2)discoveries in geography and astrology.(3)Religious reformation and economic expansion.3.William Shakespeare四大悲剧：《Hamlet》《Othello》《Macbeth》《KingLear 》喜剧：《The Merchant of Venice》: It is a comedy dramatic ironic to Christian. 17世纪：4.John Milton( 约翰弥尔顿 )《 Paradise Lost》 blank verse(无韵体诗 )5.John Bunyan(约翰班扬 )《The Pilgrim’s Progress》（天路历程）：让人遵守宗教条例并且通过不断与自己薄弱意识和恶势力作斗争来自我拯救。
英美文学考试试题
英美文学考试试题一、选择题1、以下哪部作品是威廉·莎士比亚的悲剧代表作？（）A 《仲夏夜之梦》B 《威尼斯商人》C 《罗密欧与朱丽叶》D 《第十二夜》2、简·奥斯汀的小说《傲慢与偏见》中，女主人公伊丽莎白最终与谁结为夫妻？（）A 达西先生B 威克姆先生C 宾利先生D 柯林斯先生3、以下哪位诗人是英国浪漫主义诗歌的代表人物？（）A 华兹华斯B 雪莱C 拜伦D 以上都是4、美国作家海明威的小说《老人与海》中，老渔夫最终捕到的鱼是什么？（）A 金枪鱼B 马林鱼C 鳕鱼D 鲸鱼5、英国作家狄更斯的小说《双城记》，其“双城”指的是哪两座城市？（）A 伦敦和巴黎B 纽约和波士顿C 柏林和慕尼黑D 莫斯科和圣彼得堡二、填空题1、《哈姆雷特》中的经典台词“生存还是毁灭，这是一个值得考虑的问题”反映了主人公_____的内心挣扎。
2、简·奥斯汀的小说以_____为主要题材，展现了当时英国社会的风貌。
3、华兹华斯的诗作《抒情歌谣集》与_____共同开创了英国浪漫主义诗歌的新时代。
4、海明威的“冰山理论”强调小说中只应展现“＿____”，而将“＿____”隐藏在水下。
5、马克·吐温的代表作《汤姆·索亚历险记》和《＿____》，以幽默风趣的语言描绘了美国少年的生活。
三、简答题1、请简要分析《简·爱》中女主人公简·爱的性格特点。
简·爱是一个非常独立自主、自尊自强的女性形象。
她出身贫寒，但却不屈服于命运的安排，始终坚持追求平等和自由。
她具有强烈的自我意识，不依赖他人，勇敢地表达自己的想法和情感。
在爱情面前，她坚守自己的原则，不因为财富和地位而放弃自己的尊严。
同时，她也富有同情心和善良的品质，对待他人真诚友善。
2、简述美国文学中“垮掉的一代”的主要特点。
“垮掉的一代”是 20 世纪 50 年代在美国出现的一个文学流派。
他们对传统的价值观和社会规范表示不满和反抗，追求个性解放和自由。
英国文学史习题全集下册含答案英美文学考试整理的资料
Part Five Romanticism in EnglandI . Choose the right answer.1.Roma nticism fights aga inst the ideas of ________ .A. realismB. Ren aissa neeC. En lighte nmentD. feudalism2.The main literary stream is ______ .A. poetryB. no velsC. proseD. periodicals3._____ h as a ano ther n ame calledThe Daffodils ”.A. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”B. Tintern Abbey”C. Revoluti on”D. I' Wan dered Lon ely as a Cloud4.Coleridge's ________ is a conversation” poem.A. Frost at Mid ni ghtB. The Rime of the An cie nt Mari ner”C. ChristabelD. Biographia Literaria5.Byro n ' _____ is regarded as the great poem of the Roma ntic Age.A. Childe Harold 'PilgrimageB. Hours of Idle nessC. LaraD. Don Jua n6.Prometheus Unbounds _____ masterpiece.A. Wordsworth'sB. Byron 'C. Shelley'sD. Keats'7._____ l ived the Ion gest life.A. WordsworthB. Byro nC. ShelleyD. Keats8.Keats'first poem is _______ .A. O SolitudeB. On First Look ing in to Chapma n'HomerC. PoemsD. En dym ion9.Keats' best ode is ______ .A. On a Grecia n UrrTB. To Autu mn”C. To Psyche'D. To a Nighti ngale”10.The best works of William Hazlitt is ______ .A. The Spirit of the AgeB. Table TalkC. The Characters of ShakespearePlaysD. On the En glish Poets11.The publication of __________ marks the beginning of the Romantic Movement inEn gla nd.A. Ti ntern Abbey”B. Lyrical BalladsC. Frost at NightD. The Daffodils ”12.The Preludehas also been called _______ .A. The Last BrazilB. The First Impressi onC. Growth of a PoetsMi ndD. The Spirit of the Age13.Wordsworth's I' Wandered Lonely as a Cloud has also been called ______________ .A. The Solitary ReaperB. The Daffodils ”C. “The Rime of the Ancient Mari nerD. ” “O Solitude ”14._____ i s considered Wordswort'masterpiece.A. The PreludeB. En dym ionC. Don Jua nD. Biographia Literaria15.The prose writers in the English Romantic Age developed a kind of _____________ .A. models of classicismB. familiar essayC. rules of n eo-roma nticismD. ways of modernism The best essayist in the En glish Roma ntic Age is ________ . A. Keats B. Walter Scott C. Charles Lamb D. William Hazlitt The themes ofPride and Prejudice are ________ . A. pride and prejudice B. the writer 'own pers on alities C. love and marriageD. Both A and C______ is con sidered the father of historical no velist in the En glish Roma ntic Age. A. Jane Austen B. Charles Lamb C. William Hazlitt D. Waler Scott Lamb'writi ngs are full of ____________________________________ for he is especially fond of old writers.A. roma nticismB. conv ersati onsC. i nspirati onsD. archaisms Lamb is a roma nticist of ____________________________________ . A. the city B. the coun tryside C. n ature D. imagi natio n______ is based on Boccaccics Decamer on A. En dym ion B. Isabella D. Hyperio nD. LamiaCritics agree that ________ i s a great romantic poet, standing with Shakespeare, Milt on and Wordsworth in the history En glish literature. A. Keats B. Wordsworth C. Coleridge D. WilliamThe reader can get a broad pano rama of the social life of the En glish Roma ntic Age from ________________ . A. Dun Jua nB. The PreludeC. Kubla Kha nD. IsabellaSome critics think that some of Byron 'poems show his ___________ . A. in dividual heroism and pessimismB. love of n ature and optimismC. love of old writersD. hatred for the imperialismOne of Coleridge'sbest conven ti on al” poems is _______ .A. Kubla KhanB. Frost at NightC. ChristabelD. Biographia Literaria Coleridge'sbest literary criticism is _______________.A. Kubla KhanB. Frost at NightC. ChristabelD. Biographia Literaria ______ is Shelley'smasterpiece. A. Zastrozzi B. The Necessity of Atheism C. Queen MabD. Prometheus Un bou nd ______ is a joint book by Charles Lamb and his sister.A. Joh n WoodvilB. Essays of EliaC. Mr HD. Tales from ShakespeareBecause of __________ , Shelley was expelled from the Oxford Un iversity.A. The Masque of An archyB. A Defence of PoetryC. The Necessity of AtheismD. The Triumph of Life ________ i s Shelleysfirst book writte n in _______ .A. Zastrozz; Eto nB. The Necessity of AtheisrpItalyC. Quee n Mab GreeceD. Prometheus Unbound ItalyThe Roma ntic Age bega n in ____ and came to an end in _________ . A. 1789 (1821)B. 1778 (1823)C. 1798 (1832)D. 1768 (1819)Byron, Shelley and Keats bel ong to Roma ntic poets of _____ gen erati on.16. 17.18. 19. 20. 21. 22.23.24.25.26.27.28.29.30.31. 32.A. the firstB. the sec ondC. the thirdD. the forth33. The Exam in eris a famous _________ in the En glish Roma ntic Age.A. no velB. poemC. periodicalD. n ewspaperKey to the multiple choices:1-5 CADAD 6-10 CACDA 11-15 BCBAB16-20 CDDDA 21-25 BAAAB 26-30 BDDCA31-33 CBCn . Fill in the blanks.1.In a sense, in English Romantic Age, “” equaled “”.2.William Wordsworth was in flue need by the ______ Revoluti on.3.Many subjects of Lyrical Ballads deal with eleme nts of _______ .4.Wordsworth's The Prelude is an ______ poem.5.Writi ng The Preludeis a process of _______ .6.Byro n ' Childe Harold 'Pilgrimage is an _________ poem.7.Shelley "sworks reflect his in terests both in _______ and in ______________ .8.The theme of Keats Hyperi on is the ______ b etwee n the old and the n ew.9.Charles Lamb's Tales from Shakespeares for __________ .10._______ a joint work of Wordsworth and his friend Coleridge.11.The publicati on of Lyrical Ballads in 1798 marks the beg inning of the _________ inEn gla nd.12.The poems in Lyrical Ballads are characterized by a ___________ with the poor, simplepeasa nts, a passi on ate love of n ature and the ______ and ______ of the Ian guage.13.The description of the book, _________ has been called a long journey home.14._____ w as the only old romantic who never wavered in his devotion to the causeof the French Revoluti on.15.All his life, Hazlitt remained loyal to the principles of ______ , _______ and _________ .16.Romanticism is applied to a European movement in the ________ to _______ c entury.17.The publication of Lyrical Ballads marked the break with __________ .18.The Romantic Age is an age of romantic ___________ and _________ .19.The Romantic Age began in 1798 when William Wordsworth and Samuel TaylorColeridge published their joint work __________ .20.The Romantic Age came to an end in 1832 when the last Romantic writer died.21.Women as _______ a ppeared in the romantic age. It was during this period thatwome n took, for the first time, an importa nt place in En glish literature.22.The greatest historical novelist _________ was produced in the Romantic Age.23.The English Romantic period produced two major novelists: _________ and ________.24._____ i s regarded as the best essayist during the Romantic Age.25.Among Wordsworth's Ion ger poems, the best-k nown one is _________ .26._______ marked the transition from romanticism to the period of realism whichfollowed it.27.In 1817, __________ f inished his literary criticism, Biographia Literaria .th thAt the turn of the 18 and 19 century __________ appeared in England as a new trend in literature.In con trast to the rati on alism of the en lighte ners and classicists in the 18cen tury, the ______________ paid great atte ntio n to the spiritual and emoti on al life of man.Wordsworth 'poetry is disti nguished by the ________ of his Ian guage.Quee n Mab, Pecy Bysshe Shelley "simporta nt poem, is writte n in the form of a ________ was the first poet in Europe who sang for the work ing people. His politicallyrics are among the best of their kind in the whole sphere of Europea n roma ntic poetry.After his sec ond book En dym ion appeared in 1818, __________ gave up medici ne forpoetry.____ ' grave bears the epitaph:Hear lies one whose n ame is writ in wate ” The Eve of St. Agneis a n arrative poem writte n in _________ .The theme of ______ i s the con flict betwee n the old and the n ew, and the story is derived from Greek mythology .In this work, the poet expresses the eter nal law of n ature — the pass ing of an old order of thi ngs and the coming of a n ew. Moder n essay origi nated from Mon taig ne's ______ , which were tran slated into En glish by Florio and had an exte nsive in flue nee upon En glish literature. The first poem in the collection The Lyrical Ballads is __________ ' masterpiece. The Rime of the Ancient Mari ner.On the death of Robert Southey in 1843, _______ was made poet laureate. In 1805, Wordsworth completed _________ , containing all together 14 books.In 1807 George Gordon Byron published his lyric poems in a small volume called Hours of Idle ness. The volume was sharply attacked in the in flue ntial Edin burgh Review Byron responded with his first important poem, a biting satire called .In 1824, the Revolutionary Romantic poet _____________ went to Greece to help that country in its struggle for liberty aga inst Turks. Not long, he died of fever there. George Gordon Byron is chiefly known for his two long poems: One is Childe Harold "Pilgrimage, the other is ________________________________ .The poem Childe Harold ' Pilgrimage contains __________ cantos. It is written in Spe nseria n sta nza.George Gordon Byro n wrote _____ in Italy. It contains sixtee n can tos. George Gordon Byron's masterpiece is _________ .____ is George Gordon Byronsphilosophical poetic drama.____ is Byro n 'poetic drama with the material take n from Biblical story. George Gordon Byron's first volume of poems is ________ .________ was expelled after only six mon ths at Oxford, because he had writte n the pamphlet The Necessity of AtheismAfter the death of Percy Bysshe Shelley ' first wife, he was compelled to leave En gla nd in 1818, and spe nt all the rest of his life in _____________________ .________ is Percy Bysshe Shelley "sfirst long poem of importa nee. It was writte n in theform of a fairy tale dream.28. 29.30. 31.32. 33. 34. 35. 36.37. 38. 39.40. 41.42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47.48. 49. 50. 51. 52.Key to the blanks: 1. literature; poetry 2. French 3. nature4. autobiographical5. self-exploration6. autobiographical7. politics; social justice8. conflict9. children53. _____ , a lyrical drama, is Percy Bysshe Shelley's masterpiece.The story wastake n from Greek mythology.54. The Masque of Anarchy is one of Shelley's political lyrics. It deals with theinfam ous _____ which happe ned on August 16, 1819.55. Shelley wrote an elegy ____________ l amenting the early death of his fellow-poet 56. Ode to a Night in gale was writte n by ____ .57. Ivanhoe is the masterpiece of the historical novelist ______ .th58. The prose-writers in the 19 cen tury made the in formal essay a pliable (flexible)vehicle for expressing the writer' own personality, thus ringing into English literature . 59. _____ had a bitter hatred of the meaningless drudgery (toil) which wastedtwo-thirds of his lifetime.60. To Charles Lamb, ______ was a side-occupation. His daily drudgery left little timefor his literary work.61. Specime nsfrom En glish Dramatic Poets Con temporary with Shakespearewaswritte n by ____ .62. William Hazlitt is one of the represe ntatives of _____ criticism, in which in dividualtaste took the place of uni versal reas on as the foun dati on of literary criticism. 63. After the defeat of Napoleon, ________ was the only old Romantic who neverwavered in his devoti on to the cause of the French Revoluti on.64. _____ was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for denouncing the PrinceRege nt, future George IV as a rake and a liar.65. The importanee of Leigh Hunt lies chiefly in his development of the lightmiscella neous ___ .66. In order to relieve the pains of facial neuralgia, ___________ became a regular andcon firmed opium-eater ”67. Thomas De Quincey is famous for the ornate descriptions of his fantasies anddreams. The major flow of his style is _______ .68. _____ has bee n uni versally regarded as the foun der andgreat master of historicalno vel.12.Sympathy; simplicity; purity13. The Prelude, or Growth of a Poets Mi nd14. Hazlitt15. liberty; equality; fraternity 16. late 18th ; mid-19th 17. classicism18. enthusiasm; poetry 19.Lyrical Ballads20. Walter Scott 21. novelist22.Walter Scott23.Water Scott, Jane Austen41.English Bards and Scotch Reviewers42.Byron43.Don Juan44.four 46.Don Juan47.Manfred48.Cain49.Hour of Idleness50.Shelley51.Italy52.Queen Mab53.Prometheus Unbound54.Peterloo Massacre55.John Keats56.John Keats57.Scott58.the familiar essay59.Charles Lamb60.literature61.Charles Lamb62.Romantic63.William Hazlitt64.Leigh Hu ntIH . Say true or false.th th1.English Romantic literature started from mid-18 to the early 19 century.2.Jane Auste n is one of the greatest roma ntic woma n no velists.3.After compos ing the Lucy poems, Wordsworth bega n hisThe Prelude.4.P.B. Shelley gained his nickname, Mad Shelley” becauseof his independent andrebellious attitude.5.The rhythm scheme of The Ode to the West Wind is aba, bcb, cdc, ded, ee.6.Charles Lamb is a roma nticist of the village life.7.Lyrical Ballads beg ins with Coleridge's long poem, Tintern Abbey”.8.Many of the subjects of the poems in Lyrical Ballads deal with elements of n ature.9.Coleridge wrote the majority of poems in Lyrical Ballads.10.Wordsworth's I Won dered Lon ely as a Cloud ” has ano ther n ame,Growth of a PoetsMind.11.The Prelude is a long and autobiographical poem considered as Coleridge's masterpiece.12.Hazlitt 'life and career had bee n greatly in flue need by the rise and fall of the FrenchRevoluti on.13.Hazlitt became a master of novels in English Romantic literature.Key to True/False statements:£1—£1—1. F (from late 18 to the mid-19 cen tury)2.T3.T4.T5.T6. F (city)7. F ( The Rime of the AncientMari ner ”)8.T9. F (Wordsworth)10.F ( The Daffodils ) ”11.F (Wordsworth)12.T13.F (familiar essay)14.T15.F ( Passive Romantic poets) 16.T17.T18.F (the first generation/ The Lake Poets)19.T20.F (Greek)21.T22.T23.T24.T25.F (Byron)26.F (Keats)27.T28.F (Lamb)29.T30.F (Coleridge's “TheRime of theAncient Mariner ) ”14.Some romantic writers stood on the side of the feudal forces and even combinedthemselves with those forces.15.Wordsworth and Coleridge are revolutionary Romantic poets.16.Byron and Shelley and Keats are known as the romantic poets of the second gen erati on.17.The roma nticists paid great atte nti on to the spiritual and emoti on al life of man.18.The poets of the second generation described the beautiful scenes and the countrypeople of that area in their writ in gs.19.Jane Austen is a writer who regards novel writing as a sophisticated art.20.The story of Shelley's Prometheus Unboundwas taken from Roman mythology.21.Shelley is one of the leading Romantic poets, an intense and original lyrical poet in theEn glish Ian guage.22.Byron ' Don Juan begins with descriptions of the herdschildhood.23.Byron ' literary career was closely linked with the struggle and progressive moveme ntsof his age.24.Byron opposed oppressi on and slavery, and has a passi on ate love for liberty.25.But some critics think Keats lacks the care for artistic finish; many of his lines are harsh,rugged and not rhythmical;26.Byron ' leading principle is “ Beauty is truth, truth beauty ” .mb's essays are inten sely pers on al.28.Keats' essays are marked by relaxed style, conversational tone and wide range of subjectmatter.29.Wordsworth drew inspirations from the mountains and lakes.30.Wordsworth's Tintern Abbey” tells a strange story in the form of ballad.IV. Terms:1.Romanticismke PoetsV. Questions:ment on Lyrical Ballads.ment on Charles Lamb.ment on those Lake Poets.4.What are the features of Romanticism.ment on The Preludement on Endymion.ment on all the writers of the Romantic Age.8.Tell the main idea of some representative works of the Romantic writers.Part Six English Critical RealismI . Choose the right answer.1. _____ i s the greatest representative of English critical realism.A.Jane Auste nB.ThackerayC.Dicke nsD.Charlotte2. _____ i s Thackeray ' s one of the best known works.A.Sense and Sen sibilityB.The Book of Sn obsC.The Pickwick PapersD.The Song of Lower Class3.Pride and Prejudice' s first title is _________ .A.First Impressi onB. A Book Without a HeroC.The NewcomesD.Persuasi on4.Vanity Fair has a sub-title. It is _______ .A.First Impressi onB. A Book Without a HeroC.The NewcomesD.Persuasi onth5.In the 19 century English literature, a new literary trend _________ a ppeared. And itflourished in the forties and in the early fifties.A.roma nticismB. n aturalismC. realismD. critical realism6.En glish critical realism found its expressi on chiefly in the form of ______ .A.novelB. dramaC. poetryD. sonnet7.________' Vanity Fair is a satirical portrayal of the upper strata阶层）of society.A.George EliotB. Elizabeth GaskellC. W. M. ThackerayD. Joh n Buyan8.The ______ Movement appeared in the thirties of the 19 century.A. En lighte nmentB. Ren aissa neeC. ChartistD. Roma nticist9.The Chartist writers introduced a new theme into literature, the struggle of the for itsrights.A. soldiersB. peasa ntsC. bourgeoisieD. proletariat10.The greatest of Chartist poets was _________ .A. Earn est JonesB. Joh n Milt onC. Thomas HardyD. Joh n Keats11.The story of _________ deals with the adventures of a retired old merchant.A. A Tale of Two CitiesB. David CopperfieldC. Pickwick PapersD. Oliver Twist12.The novel _______ exposes the terrible conditions of English private schools.A. Nicholas NicklebyB. Oliver TwistC. Hard TimesD. Great Expectati ons13.The story of _______ deals with the sufferings and hardships of an old man namedTrent, and his gran ddaughter, Nell.A. Pickwick PapersB. The Old Curiosity ShopC. Great Expectati onsD. Hard Times14.Which novel makes a fierce attack on the bourgeois system of education?A. Oliver TwistB. Hard TimesC. Great Expectati onsD. A Tale of Two Cities15.Which novel is a great satire upon the society and those people who dream to en ter thehigher society regardless of the social reality?A. A Tale of Two CitiesB. David CopperfieldC. Great Expectati onsD. Dombey and Son16.In the no vel ________ , Dicke ns describes the Chartist Moveme nt and shows hissympathy for the workers.A. Great Expectati ons C. Hard TimesB.A Tale of Two Cities D. Oliver Twist17.In the novel ____ , Defarge and Madame Defarge represent the revolutionaries.A. Dombey and SonB. A Tale of Two CitiesC.Little DorritD. Bleak House18.In the novel _______ , Dr. Manette is a typical bourgeois intellectual.A. David CopperfieldB. Wutheri ng HeightsC. Bleak HouseD. A Tale of Two Cities19._______ i s ofte n regarded as the semi-autobiography of the author Dicke ns in whichthe early life of the hero is largely based on the author ' s early life.A. The Curiosity ShopB. David CopperfieldC. Oliver TwistD. Great Expectati ons20.In 1864, Dicke ns published his last complete novel ___________ .A. The Old Curiosity ShopB. The Pickwick PaperC. Our Mutual Frie ndD. Little Dorrit21.Which of the following is Thackeray ' s masterpiece?A. The Virgi niansB. The Books of Sn obsC. The NewcomesD. Van ity Fair22.The sub-title of Vanity Fair is _______ .A. The First Impressio nB. A Novel Without a HeroC. The Spirit of the AgeD. The Daffodils23.The title of the novel Vanity Fair was taken from Bunyan ' s masterpiece _______________ .A. The Pilgrim s ProgressB. Child Harold s PilgrimageC. Gulliver s TravelsD. The Can terbury Tales24.Emily Bronte wrote only one novel entitled _________ .A. Jane EyreB. Agnes GreyC. Wutheri ng HeightsD. Emma25.Charlotte Villette is based on her sad days in _________ .A. Germa nyB. LondonC. ParisD. Brussels26.Dicke ns ' third literary period shows inten sify ing __________ .A. optimismB. exciteme ntC. irritatio nD. pessimism27._______ s Dicke ns ' best of social satires.A. American NotesB. Marti n ChuzzlewitC. Dombey and SonD. David Copperfield28.Tennyson Tn Memoriam is a collect ion of _______ s hort poems.A. 130B.131C.132D. 13329.The chief source of Tennyson Idylls'olsthe Ki ng is take n from _________ .A. The History of the Ki ng of Britai nB. The History of PendennisC. The History of Henny EsmondD. Morte d ' Arthur The Chartists refer to those ________in the early Victoria n AgeA. Roma ntic writersB. worki ng class writersC. realistic poetsD. bourgeois writersThe Victoria n Literature bega n in _____ and en ded in _______ .A. 1837 ...1900 B. 1835 ...1901 C. 1832 ...1902 D. 1830 (1903)The con flicts betwee n the capitalists and the proletaria n in in dustrial En gla nd causedthe _____________________ .A. En lighte nment Moveme ntB. I ndustrial Revoluti onC. Chartist Moveme ntD. Roma ntic Moveme nt______ is the greatest among the critical realists of the Victoria n Age.A. Earn est JonesB. Emily Bront eC. Charlotte BrontdD. Charles Dicke ns Charles Dicke ns was impressive for his_________ .A. wide spread of critical realismB. his spirit of democracy and huma nismC. his unforgettable figures with satire and simple and clear IanguageD. including A, B and C“ The pride of wealth ” o-pride pursie the theme of _______________ .A. Dombey and SonB. Nicholas NicklebyC. The Old Curiosity ShopD. Marti n ChuzzlewitThe two cities in A Tale of Two Citiesrefer to _______ .A. London and New YorkB. London and ParisC. Paris and New YorkD. Brussels and Washi ngton____ is the major literary form in the Victoria n Period.A. essayB. poetryC. no velD. drama____ is the mai n hero in the no vel ofWutheri ng HeightsA. RochesterB. HeathcliffC. Ma netteD. Marti nBoth Charlotte and Emily wrote about the ______ around them.A. familiar thingsB. com mon people30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41.C. n eighborsD. evilsThe most importa nt poet in the Victoria n Age was_______ .A. Earn est JonesB. Elizabeth GaskellC. Mr. Brow ningD. Alfred Te nnyson_______ made Dicke ns famous over ni ght.42. 43. Which of the followi ng Dicke nscolori ng?A. Christmas Day in the Morning C. The Chimes （《教堂钟声》） 44. A. A Christmas CarolB. The ChimesA. Sketches by BozB. The Pickwick PapersC. Oliver TwistD. The Old Curiosity Shop_______ is Dicke ns 'first no vel of social history reflect ing the sharp social con tradictions.A. Sketches by BozB. America n NotesC. Martin ChuzzlewitD. Barnaby Rudge （《巴纳比 拉奇》） ' works is not based on Christmas withreligiousB. A Christmas CarolD. The Cricket on the Heart （《灶上蟋蟀》） is anautobiographical no vel and loved by Dicke ns himself most.A. Great Expectati onsB. David CopperfieldC. Bleak HouseD. The Pickwick Papers45. Dicke ns ' writi ng is an en cyclopedic kno wledge of ________ .A. ParisB. New YorkC. Lo ndo nD. Portsmoth 46. The head of the gang of thieves is ________ .A. FaginB. Gradgri ndC. PecksmiffD. Ma nette47. _____ has bee n called “ the supreme epic of En glish life ”.A. Nicholas NicklebyB. A Tale of Two CitiesC. Hard TimesD. The Pickwick Papers48. _____ marked a great adva nee in Dicke ns' art -wintingpwith closely knitand logical plot of his maturer works.A. David CopperfieldB. Dombey and SonC. Little DorritD. The Chimes 49. In the _____ period, Charles Dicke ns believed that all the evils of the capitalistworld would be remedies of only men who behaved to each other with kin dli ness,justice, and sympathetic un dersta nding.A. firstB. sec ondC. thirdD. fourth50. _____ is the most class-c on scious book among the Christmas books.D. The Battle of Life C. The Cricket on the Hearth Key to the multiple choices:1-5 CBABD 16-20 CBDBC 31-35 CCDDA 6-10 ACCDA21-25 DAACD36-40 BCBAD11-15 CABBC26-30 DBBDB41-45 BDABCKey to the blanks:1. optimism Our MutuoVeF 46-50 ADBABn . Fill in the blanks.1. Dicke ns ' writ in gs from 1836 to 1841 show the characteristic of youthful ___________2. Dicke ns ' writ in gs from 1842 to 1850 show the character of ____________ .3. Dicke ns ' writ in gs from 1852 tk870 show the feature of __________ .4. Nicholas Nickleby touches upon a burning question of the time — the education of in privateschools.5. _____ is a great novel of social satire and famous for its criticism of both theBritish and America n bourgeoisie.6. The theme of Dombey and Sonis the pride of wealth, or “ _____ ” .7. David Copperfield was writte n in the ______ p ers on in a comb in ati on of ___ , senseof _____ and artistic _________ .8. The main butt （目标）of satire in Bleak House is aimed at the abuses of theEn glish ________ .9. In Hard TimesDickens describes the ________ m ovement with great artistic power.10. Dicke ns used _________ as his pen n ame in his first book.7. first; verisimilitude; familiarity; maturity8. courts9. Chartist10. Boz川.Say true or false.1. Dicke ns The Pickwick Papersgives a rather comprehe nsive picture of early 19 century En gla nd.2. Mr. Pickwick and Sam Weller were two major characters inThe Pickwick Paperswhich aroused the3. In Oliver Twist, Dicke ns makes his readers aware of the in huma nity of country life un der capitalism4. The plot of Sketchesby Boz is rather formless, but the no vel fasc in ates the reader from beg innin episodes.5. The title Bleak Houseis not only the name of a house but is also an apt 贴切的）description of the s （6. Hard Times is a fierce attack on the bourgeois system of education and ethic 论理学，道德学 ）and 义）.7. Dombey and Sonis a novel with imprisonment, both matter-o-fact or symbolic, as its central theme.8. A Tale of Two Citiestakes the In dustrial Revoluti on as the subject.9. The theme underlyingA Tale of Two Citiesis the idea “Where there is oppression, there is rev10. Pip is the major character in Dicke ns。
原题目：英语专业英美文学选读课程期末考试复习题
原题目：英语专业英美文学选读课程期末考试复习题一、选择题（每题5分，共40分）1. 下列哪位作家是19世纪初英国浪漫主义文学的代表人物？A. 简·奥斯汀B. 弗朗西斯·贝金斯·布伯尔C. 爱米莉·勃朗特D. 简·艾尔洛克2. 被誉为“美国民族史诗”的作品是下面哪部？A. 《老人与海》B. 《汤姆·索亚历险记》C. 《伊娃》D. 《飘》3. 以下哪位作家是英国维多利亚时期的代表作家？A. 威廉·莎士比亚B. 查尔斯·狄更斯C. 托马斯·哈代D. 奥斯卡·王尔德4. 被称为“现代英国戏剧之父”的剧作家是下方哪位？A. 卡尔·马克思B. 乔治·肖伯纳C. 亨利·詹姆斯D. 奥斯卡·王尔德5. 以下哪位作家是美国现代主义文学的代表人物？A. 艾米丽·狄金森B. 罗伯特·弗罗斯特C. 弗朗茨·卡夫卡D. 弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫6. 下列哪本小说以揭示人性之恶而著称？A. 《飘》B. 《1984》C. 《傲慢与偏见》D. 《哈姆雷特》7. 哪位作家被称为“20世纪最重要的英国小说家之一”？A. 威廉·莎士比亚B. 乔治·奥威尔C. 哈珀·李D. 东尼·莫里森8. 以下哪本小说描写了苏格兰高地的历史与风俗？A. 《呼啸山庄》B. 《麦田里的守望者》C. 《钟楼怪人》D. 《华尔街》二、简答题（每题10分，共20分）1. 请简要解释英国维多利亚时期文学的主要特点。
2. 简要介绍美国现代主义文学的主要代表作家及作品。
三、论述题（20分）请从英国儿童文学和美国南方文学的角度分析比较《奥神领地》和《哈利·波特与魔法石》的文学特点和传达的主题。
四、创作题（20分）请根据自己的创作能力和理解，以《失乐园》为题材，写一篇关于对科技革命带来的道德困境和对人类价值的思考的短文。
英美文学选读考试题
英美文学选读考试题一．9 authors, 20 works. (20)William Shakespearean: The tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.Venus and Adonis, Rape of Lucrece.Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders. Captain SingletonRobert Burns: My heart’s in the Highlands, A Red Red Rose. Auld Lang Syne.William Wordsworth:“The Solitary Reaper”. “We are S even”, “Lucy”, “Michael”, “Simon Lee””Lucy”I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, The Solitary Reaper.John Keats: On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer, On a Grecian Urn, To Psyche, TO a Nightingale. “Ode to Autumn”, “Ode on Melancholy”, “Ode on a Grecian Urn”and “Ode to a Nightingale”. All were written in 1819 with the praise of beauty as their general theme.Jane Austen: Novels: Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, EmmaCharles Dickens: long novel: Pickwick Papers Novels: Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, Barnaby Rudge, Great Expectations, OurMutual FriendsCharlotte Bronte: The Professor, Jane Eyre.Thomas Hardy: The Return of the Native, The Mayer of Casterbridge, Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Jude the Obscure 二，对错（10）1. Act three is the best known and most important of Hamlet’s soliloqui es among all the soliloquies in the play. In this soliloquy, Hamlet reveals his innermost thoughts and emotions, his hesitation in particular, before taking decisive action.2. Robinson Crusoe retells, in the first person singular, a sailor’s adventure on an inhabitated island.3. Defoe traces the development of Robison Crusoe from a innocent and artless youth into a clever and hardened man, tempered by numerous trials in his eventful life.4. Burn s’s poetry was written in the Scottish dialect on a variety of subjects. A large number of his poems deal with themes of love, friendship, Scottish life and nature.5. A second edition 1800 contained more poems and a preface by Wordsworth. The preface to Lyrical Ballads best read as a statement of his principle of poems.6. According to Wordsworth, he believed that “All goodpoetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.” Thus he located many of his poems in “common life” and his poetry is distinguished by the simplicity and purity of his language.7. There he lives a life of poverty and misery, and makes friends with the lively and penniless Mr. Micawder.8. Jane Eyre maintains that women should have equal rights with men, thus this novel has drawn the feminists’ attention in t he twentieth century.三，选择（10）According to Wordsworth, he believed that “All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.”He located many of his poems in “common life” and his poetry is distinguished by the simplicity and purity of his language.四，读选文，回答问题（两诗歌，三小说）作者名字（5个40分）1.Sonnet18: Shakespearian.What is the theme of this sonnet? -- Runs in iambic pentameter, rhymed ABAB CDCD EFEF GG.2.The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark: Shakespearian.What dos e the “to or not to be” soliloquy tell us about Hamlet’s state of mind?―The soliloquy opens with a question,and there two other extended questions in the passage, all of which suggests that Hamlet is undecided, and either unable or unwilling to make up his mind, contemplating suicide, and disenchanted with the suffering of human life. He is cynical, but comforts himself with reflection, even though he is clearly suffering greatly and aware of his own sins and weakness.Why Hamlet hesitates before taking decisive action? -- Hamlet is often indecisive and hesitant, but at other times prone to rash and impulsive acts. Even at the end of this whole narrative of Hamlet's, he still doesn't decide on anything. He's just speaking his thoughts; he's not committing to anything. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud: William Wordsworth.3. I wandered lonely as a cloud: William Wordsworth.What does “daffodil” stand for? ---Daffodil stand for nature in this poem, but the poet does not depict it simply as part of nature. As for Wordsworth, he dose not just want to depict the natural landscape, moreover, he pays much attention to the interaction between mature and human nature. He perceives nature as a stone of truths about human nature.Analyze the form of this poem by taking the first two lines as example. ---This poem consists of four stanzas and in eachstanza there are six lines. In each line there are four feet with a weak- strong sound pattern. The rime scheme in each stanza is a b a b c c.I wandered lonely as a cloud aThat floats on high o’er vales and hills, bWhen all at once I saw a crowd, aA host of golden daffodils; bBeside the lake, beneath the trees cFluttering and dancing in the breeze. C4.To Autumn: John Keats.What are the images used in this poem? Are they carefully arranged? --- Visual image, olfactory image, gustatory image, tactile image, auditory image. Through a series of images, make readers announcement of its scene, feeling rich concrete images.In the poem of To Autumn, he used visual image, auditory image, tactile image, gustatory image, kinaesthetic image and abstractimage to make the abstract impression of autumn specific, appreciable and more colorful. The pursuit to beauty is the way that Keats loves life, nature and also is the way he observes and enjoys life and nature. The pursuit to beau ty is his critique to the darkness of life and society. It also tells how he wanted beautifula nd ideal life in his short life.5.Pride and Prejudice: Jane Austen.Do you agree with the opening statement of the novel? What has the sentence to do with tone of the whole novel? --- Opening statement of the novel set the tone for whole novel. Writer is very serious in stating a universal truth, but what follows, however, is a very common topic of everyday life―marriage. Thus a humorous and ironic effect is achieved. Two key words appear in the statement: marriage and money, which in effect ate subject matter of the whole novel, the focus here is on the link between money and marriage.Based on your reading of the first two chapters of the novels, can you summarize the characteristics of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet? ―Mr. Bennet: he behaved sarcastically humorous, witty and capricious, and insightful in the process of showing his disrespect and dislike of Mrs. Bennet. Her mind was less difficult to develop. She was woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper. When she was discounted, she fancied herself nervous, the business of her life was to get her daughters married; its solace was visiting and news.What is your understanding of the relationship betweenmoney and marriage? --- A happy and strong marriage takes time to build and must be based on mutual feeling, understanding, and respect. Marriage can not built on the basis of money. If there is no real love between the couple, their marriage will become a tragedy eventually. Even though money can give people the comfortable house and the luxurious life, it can not buy a beautiful marriage6.David Copperfield: Charles Dickens.Dose David enjoys his life described in this chapter? How do you know? ---- David works very hard in the factory, but he could simply pay for his living. The real difficulty is that he feels very lonely, because from Monday morning until Saturday night, he has no advice, no encouragements, and no assistance of any kind. Luckily, his stay with the Micawber family in his leisure time turns out to be quite pleasant. They form a very precious friendship.Why dose the novel use the first point of view? --- It helps the author to select details. Only the events and details that David could have seen and experienced can logically be introduced into the story. The narrator’s limited view may create the effect o f suspense. 7.Jane Eyre: Charlotte BronteGive common: 性格特点：Jane Eyre is Straightforward andfeminism. Showed her concerns for the position of women particularly in English society.五，回答问题（20）William Shakespearean154 sonnets. Long poems: Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece. 38 plays.Daniel Defoe1. What are the characteristics of Crusoe from the selected reading?--- Self-reliance; patient; cheerful; clarity, courage and persistence in overcoming difficulties he start a new life in the desolate island, which demands a lot of courage and daring.Robert Burns―ScotlandA Red, Red Rose: wrote in 1794, published in 1796.1. An outstanding feature of this poem is the skillful use simile at the beginning of the poem. Draw on specific lines to explain its effect.---Simile means a comparison between two unlike items that includes like or as. For example, the first line of this poem: “Oh, my love is like a red, red rose"; al so, in this poem, "My love is like the melody". By comparing the speaker' s love to a red, red rose and a melody, readers canclearly sense the speaker's appreciation and deep love to his lover.2. This short poem is actually composed of a series of overstatements. What is the function of them? Give examples to illustrate your point. --- Overstatement is intentional exaggeration, which is, saying more that is actually meant. In this poem, when the speaker says that he will love his lady until all the seas go dry, he is using overstatement. By using this, the poet can attract readers’ attention and the sentence will leave a deep impression on the reader’s mind.William Wordsworth“The break with the conventional poetical tradition of the 18th century”. A second edition in 1800 contained more poems and a preface by Wordsworth. The preface to lyrical Ballads is best read as a statement or his principles of poetry.John KeatsJane AustenThe Plot Pride and Prejudice---Major characters: Elizabeth Bennet(the second eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet); Jane Bennet(first); Lydia Bennet(fifth); Mr. Bingley: a rich, single. Mr. Darcy (Mr. Bingley’sfriend who is a rich and proud young man)Theme: money and marriage.Writing style: Clarity, economy, skillful use of dialogue and tight plotting are the main features of Jane Austen’s style.Subject: Houses, money, estates run.Charles Dickens:David Copperfield:theme: the hero of the novel. The novel depicts David’s life experiences from an innocent boy to a famous wr iter. Style: Of Dickens’s fictional art, the most distinguishing feature is his successful characterization, especially male characters. Dickens was also a great story-teller. His plots were always very large, varied and complicated. However, the plots of his novels changed dramatically as he got older. In his later years, plots primarily became the vehicles for his characterization of thematic concerns, as readers may find in this novel.Charlotte Bronte-Jane Eyre four girls except Ann weres send to Charity School，三个姐妹中最大的,Unhappy life in charity school, with Emily go to Charlotte study. 性格特点：Straightforward直白的人feminism女权主义Romantic浪漫主义Thoughtful1.Give t hree instances in which Jane Eyre draws fromCharlotte Bronte’s background 1). Jane’s life in Lo wood is depicted based on the author’s own experiences in charity school where she spent some unhappy years of her childhood. 2) In Thornfield, Jane falls in love with Mr. Rochester, a rich squire who turns out to have had a mad wife. This is by and large Charlotte’s experience in Brussels where she falls in a married professor. 3) In Thronfield, Jane works as governess, and Charlotte herself worked as teachers and governess during 1837 to 1840.2.Discuss the symbolic use of names in this novel.1)“Eyre”, the surname of Jane, has the same pronunciation as “air”, which may symbolize Jane’s pursuit of freedom. 2) “Blanche”, the given name of Miss. Ingram, has its Fre nch origin, which actually means “white” in English. And it may symbolize the shallowness of Miss. Ingram.3.How does Mr. Rochester treat Jane in this chapter? What Jane’s character attract him ?To start with, Mr. Rochester shows some cruelty in his courtship of Jane so as to make Jane jealous. On hearing this, Jane could not help telling him her true feelings that she longs for equality and does not want to depart with him.?When Mr. Rochester confesses his real intention, Jane feels hurt and refuses his courtship at first.?Then she realizes his intention and accepts his love.?Her self-respect, her desire for independence, her courage, her moral strength, her passion and her personal loyalty and devotion, all these work together to make Mr.Rochester greatly attracted by her.Thomas Hardy:Hardy was a poet before he was a novelist. It was because his early verses could not be accepted that he turned to novel writing.Plot of the novel: Tess of the d’Unbervilles, Hardy’s most famous novel, has a subtitle, which is, A Pure Woman Faithfully Portrayed. It tells a tragic life story of a beautiful,naive country girl, Tess Durbeyfield.General features and comments: The whole story is filled with a feeling of dismal foreboding and doom. Father circumstances and tragic coincidences abound in the book. 12春《英美文学选读》作业1一、单选题1. How many periods are divided into in the creation years of Shakespeare? Three2. Defoe＇s Robinson Crusoe created the image of anenterprising Englishman, typical of the English bourgeoisie in the 18th century.3. In English poetry the _ iamb _is regarded as the most common foot.4. The excerpt The Other Side of the Island was chosen from Chapter_Ⅸ__ in Robinson Crusoe.5. "Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little,I am soulless and heartless?。
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PART ONEⅠ. Multiple Choice（40 points, 1 point 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. Henry Fielding has been regarded by some as “___A___”,for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.A．Father of the English Novel B．Father of the English PoetryC．Father of the English Drama D．Father of the English Short Story2.T．S．Eliot’s most important single poem ___B___has been hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th-century English poetry.A．The Hollow Man B．The Waste Land C．Murder in the Cathedral D．Ash Wednesday3. William Blake’s central concern in the Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience is___B____, which gives the two books a strong social and historical reference.A．youthhood B．Childhood C．happiness D．sorrow4.Among the works by Charles Dickens ___D___ presents his criticism of the Utilitarian principle that rules over the English education system and destroys young hearts and minds.A．Bleak House B．Pickwick Paper C．Great Expectations D．Hard Times5. The most distinguishing feature of Charles Dickens’ works is his ___B___.A．simple vocabulary B．bitter and sharp criticism C．character-portrayal D．pictures of happiness6. Because of her sensitivity to universal patterns of human behavior, __B__ has brought the English novel ,as an art of form, to its maturity.A．Charlotte BrontëB．Jane Austen C．Emily BrontëD．Ann Radcliffe7. All of the following poems by William Wordsworth are masterpieces on nature EXCEPT ___D___.A．“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”B．“An Evening Walk”C．“Tintern Abbey”D．“The Solitary Reaper”8. Shakespeare’s four greatest tragedies are ___C___.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, __B__ defined a good style as “proper words in proper places”. A．Henry Fielding B．Jonathan Swift C．Samuel Johnson D．Alexander Pope10. Among the three major works by John Milton __D__ is indeed the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf.A．Paradise Regained B．Samson Agonistes C．Lycidas D．Paradise Lost11. English Romanticism, as a historical phase of literature, is generally said to have ended in 1832 with __A__.A．the passage of the first Reform Bill in the ParliamentB．the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge’s Lyrical BalladsC．the publication of T．S．Eliot’s The waste LandD．the passage of the Bill of Rights in the Parliament12. Contrary to the traditional romance of aristocrats, the modern English novel gives a realistic presentation of life of__A__.A．the common English people B．the upper class C．the rising bourgeoisie D．the enterprising landlords 13. The major concern of ___C___ 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．John Galsworthy’s B．Thomas Hardy’s C．D．H．Lawrence’s D．Charles Dickens’14. The Nobel Prize Committee highly praised __B__ for “his powerful style-forming mastery of the art”of creating modern fiction.A．Ezra Pound B．Ernest Hemingway C．Robert Frost D．Theodore Dreiser15. In 1950,__A__ was awarded the Nobel Prize for the anti-racist Intruder in the Dust.A．William Faulkner B．Robert Frost C．Ezra Pound D．Ernest Hemingway16. The Portrait of A Lady is generally considered to be ___C___ masterpiece, which describes the life journey of an American ________ in a European cultural environment.A．Henry Adams’…widow B．William James’…girlC．Henry James’…girl D．Theodore Dreiser’s…widow17. Hawthorne intended to __D__ in The Scarlet Letter.A．tell a story of parental loveB．tell a story of sin and bloody violenceC．call the readers back to the plantation way of livingD．reveal the human psyche after they sinned18. “The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water.” This “iceberg” analogy is put forward by ___D___.A．Mark Twain B．Ezra Pound C．William Faulkner D．Ernest Hemingway19. The white whale, Moby Dick, symbolizes ___B___ for Melville, for it is complex, unfathomable, malignant, and beautiful as well.A．society B．Nature C．ocean animals D．both A and C20. After the American Civil War, the literary interest in the so-called “reality” of life started a new period in the American literary writings know an the Age of __A__.A．Realism B．Reason and Revolution C．Romanticism D．Modernism21. H．L．Mencken considered ___B___ “the true father of our national literature”.A．Bret Harte B．Mark Twain C．Washington Irving D．Walt Whitman22. Altogether, Emily Dickinson wrote 1775 poems, of which only __C__ had appeared during her lifetime.A．three B．Five C．seven D．nine23. The ___B___ Age of the 1920s characterized by frivolity and carelessness is brought vividly to life in The Great Gatsby. A．Lost B．Jazz C．Reason D．Gilded24. Robert Frost is generally considered a regional poet whose subject matters mainly focus on the landscape and people in ___D___.A．the west B．the south C．Alaska D．New England25. As __C__ saw it, poetry could play a vital part in the process of creating a new nation. It could enable Americans to celebrate their release from the Old World and the colonial rule.A．Wordsworth Longfellow B．William Bryant C．Walt Whitman D．Robert Frost26. Walt Whitman is a poet with a strong sense of mission, having devoted all his life to the creation of the “single” poem, ___D___.A．The Love Song of J．Alfred Prufrock B．The Waste LandC．Murder in the Cathedral D．Leaves of Grass27. Realism was a reaction against Romanticism and paved the way to __A__.A．Modernism B．Scientism C．Post-Modernism D．Feminism28. Mark Twain employed an unpretentious style of ___C___ in his novels which is best described as “vernacular”. A．standard English B．Afro-American English C．colloquialism D．urbanism29. The Petrarchan sonnet was first introduced into England by ___B___.A. SurreyB. WyattC. SidneyD. Shakespeare30.The British bourgeois or middle class believed in the following notions EXCEPT ___A___.A. self - esteemB. self – relianceC. self - restraintD. hard work31. “Graveyard School”writers are the following sentimentalists EXCEPT ___D___.A. James ThomsonB. William CollinsC. William CowperD. Thomas Jackson32. As a representative of the Enlightenment,___C___ was one of the first to introduce rationalism to England.A. John BunyanB. Daniel DefoeC. Alexander PopeD. Jonathan Swift33. Charles Dickens' novel ___B___ is famous for its vivid descriptions of the workhouse and life of the underworld in the nineteenth- century London.A. The Pickwick PaperB. Oliver TwistC. David CopperfieldD. Nicholas Nickleby34. Hemingway's second big success is __B__ , which wrote the epitaph to a decade and to the whole generation in the 1920s, in order to tell us a story about the tragic love affair of a wounded American soldier with a British nurse.A. For Whom the Bell TollsB. A Farewell to ArmsC. The Sun Also RisesD. The Old Man and the Sea35. Henry James is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th -century “stream -of-consciousness”novels and the founder of __B__.A. neoclassicismB. psychological realismC. psychoanalytical criticismD. surrealism36. Realism was a reaction against ___A___ or a move away from the bias towards romance and self- creating fictions, and paved the way to Modernism.A. RomanticismB. RationalismC. Post-modernismD. Cynicism37. What Whitman prefers for his new subject and new poetic feelings is “___D___ ,”that is, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.A. blank verseB. free rhythmC. balanced structureD. free verse38. The Financier ,The Titan and The Stoic written by __B__ are called his “Trilogy of Desire”.A. Henry JamesB. Theodore DreiserC. Mark TwainD. Herman Melville39. Most critics have agreed that Fitzgerald is both an insider and an outsider of __C__ with a double vision.A. the Gilded AgeB. the Rational AgeC. the Jazz AgeD. the Magic Age40. Charlotte’ s works are famous for the depiction of the life of ___A___ working women, particularly governesses.A. the middle - classB. the lower - classC. the upper - middle - classD. the upper - classPART TWOⅡ. Reading Comprehension（16 points, 8 points for each）Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.41.“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:”我能不能把你比作夏天？但你比夏天更可爱更温和，狂风摇撼着心爱的五月的蓓蕾，和夏天的租期实在是太短。