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2009年7月高等教育自学考试全国统一命题考试英美文学选读试题课程代码：00604请将答案填在答题纸相应的位置上（全部题目用英文作答）PART ONE (40 POINTS)I．Multiple Choice(40 points in all, 1 for each)Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.1. The first mass movement of the English working class and the early sign of the awakening of the poor, oppressed people is_____.A. The Enclosure MovementB. The Protestant ReformationC. The Enlightenment MovementD. The Chartist Movement2. Daniel Defoe’s works are all the following EXCEPT_____.A. Moll FlandersB. A Tale of a TubC. A Journal of the Plague YearD. Colonel Jack3. “Metaphysical Poetry” refers to the works of the 17th - century writers who wroteunder the influence of _____.A. John DonneB. Alexander PopeC. Christopher MarloweD. John Milton4. The most important play among Shakespeare’s comedies is _____.A. A Midsummer Night’s DreamB. The Merchant of VeniceC. As You Like ItD. Twelfth Night5. The most perfect example of the verse drama after Greek style in English is Milton’s _____.A. Paradise LostB. Paradise RegainedC. Samson AgonistesD. Areopagitica6. Which of the following descriptions of Enlightenment Movement is NOT true?A. It was a progressive intellectual movement that flourished in France.B. It was a furtherance of the Renaissance of the 15th and 16th centuries.C. The purpose was to enlighten the whole world with moderu philosophical and artisticideas.D. The Enlighteners advocate individual education.7. Neoclassicists had some fixed laws and rules for prose EXCEPT_____.A. being preciseB. being directC. being flexibleD. being satiric8. A good style of prose“proper works in proper places”was defined by_____.A. John MiltonB. Henry FieldingC. Jonathan SwiftD.T.S. Eliot9. The major theme of Jane Austen’s novels is_____.A. love and moneyB. money and social statusC. social status and marriageD. love and marriage10. Wordsworth’s_____ is perhaps the most anthologized poem in English literature.A. “To a Skylark”B. “I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud”C. “An Evening Walk”D. “My Heart Leaps Up”11. William Blake’s work ______ marks his entry into maturity.A. Songs of ExperienceB. Marriage of Heaven and HellC. Songs of InnocenceD. The Book of Los12. Best of all the Romantic well- known lyric pieces is Shelley’s_____.A. “The Cloud”B. “To a Skylark”C. “Ode to a Nightingale”D. “Ode to the West Wind”13. In the Victorian Period _____ became the most widely read and the most vital and challenging expression of progressive thought.A. poetryB. novelC. proseD. drama14. In Charles Dickens’early novels, he attacks one or more specific social evils, _____is a good example of describing the dehumanizing workhouse system and the dark, criminal underworld life.A. David CopperfieldB. Oliver TwistC. Great ExpectationsD. Dombey and Son15. Thomas Hardy’s most cheerful and idyllic work is_____.A. The Return of the NativeB. Far from the Maddin CrowdC. Under the Greenwood TreeD. The Woodlanders16. The rise of _____ and new science greatly incited modernist writers to make new explorations on human natures and human relationships.A. the existentialistic ideaB. the irrational philosophyC. scientific socialismD. social Darwinism17. In Modern English literature, the literary interest of _____lay in the tracing of thepsychological development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehu-manizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature.A. George Bernard ShawB.T.S. EliotC. Oscar WildeD.D.H. Lawrence18. George Bernard Shaw’s _____ is a better play of the later period, with the author’s almost nihilistic bitterness on the subjects of the cruelty and madness of WWI and the aimlessness and disillusion of the young.A. Too True to Be GoodB. Mrs. Warren’s ProfessionC. Widowers’HousesD. Fanny’s First Play19. Renaissance first started in Italy, with the flowering of the following fields EXCEPT_____.A. architectureB. paintingC. sculptureD. literature20. English Romanticism,as a historical phase of literature,is generally said to have begun with the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge’s_____.A. Poetical SketchesB. A Defence of PoetryC. Lyrical BalladsD. The Prelude21. Charlotte Bront e ’s work _____ is famous for the depiction of the life of the middle - class working women, particularly governesses.A. Jane EyreB. Wuthering HeightsC. The ProffessorD. Shirley22. The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot is a poem concerned with the _____ breakup of a modern civilization in which human life has lost its meaning, significance and purpose.A. spiritualB. religiousC. politicalD. physical23. Perhaps Emily Dickinson’s greatest interpretation of the moment of _____ is to be found in “I heard a Fly buzz--when I died—”, a poem universally regarded as one of her masterpieces. A. fantasy B. birthC. crisisD. death24. The fiction of the American _____ period ranges from the comic fables of Washing-ton Irving to the social realism of Rebecca Harding Davis.A. RomanticB. RevolutionaryC. ColonialD. Modernistic25. The modern _____ technique was frequently and skillfully exploited by Faulkner to emphasizethe reactions and inner musings of the narrator.A. stream - of - consciousnessB. flashbackC. mosaicD. narrative and argumentative26. By means of “_____,”Whitman believed, he has turned the poem into an openfield, an area of vital possibility where the reader can allow his own imagination to play.A. balanced structureB. free verseC. fixed verseD. regular rhythm27. In 1954, _____ was awarded the Nobel Prize for “his powerful style -forming mas tery of the art”of creating modern fiction.A. Ernest HemingwayB. Sherwood AndersonC. Stephen CraneD. Henry James28. The period ranging from 1865 to 1914 has been referred to as the Age of _____ in the literary history of the United States, which is actually a movement or tendency that dominated the spirit of American literature.A. RationalismB. RomanticismC. RealismD. Modernism29. When he was eighty - seven he read his poetry at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy in 1961. This poet was_____.A. Ezra PoundB. Robert FrostC. E. E. CummingsD. Wallace Stevens30. The renowned American critic H. L. Mencken regarded _____ as “the true father of our national literature.”A. Bret HarteB. Walt WhitmanC. Washington IrvingD. Mark Twain31. We can easily find in Theodore Dreiser’s fiction a world of jungle, where “kill or to be killed”was the law. Dreiser’s _____ found expression in almost every book he wrote.A. naturalismB. romanticismC. cubismD. classicalism32. A preoccupation with the Calvinistic view of _____ and the mystery of evil marked the works of Hawthorne, Melville and a host of lesser writers.A. love and mercyB. bitterness and hatredC. original sinD. eternal life33. “H e possessed none of the usual aids to a writer’ s career: no money, no friend in power, noformal education worthy of mention, no family tradition in letters. ”This is a description most suitable to the American writer_____.A. Henry JamesB. Theodore DreiserC. W.D. Howells D. Nathaniel Hawthorne34. People generally considered _____ to be Henry James’ masterpiece, which incar nates t he clash between the Old World and the New in the life journey of an American girl in a European cultural environment.A. The EuropeansB. Daisy MillerC. The Portrait of A LadyD. The Private Life35. The Jazz Age of the 1920s characterized by frivolity and carelessness is brought vividly to life in_______.A. The Great GatsbyB. The Sun Also RisesC. The Grapes of WrathD. Tales of the Jazz Age36. Guided by the principle of adhering to the truthful treatment of life, the American _______ introduced industrial workers and farmers, ambitious businessmen and vagrants, prostitutes and unheroic soldiers as major characters in fiction.A. romanticistsB. modernistsC. psychologistsD. realists37. The American literary spokesman of the Jazz Age is often acclaimed to be_______.A. Henry JamesB. Robert FrostC. William FaulknerD.F. Scott Fitzgerald38. By writing Moby - Dick, _______ reached the most flourishing stage of his literary creativity.A. Herman MelvilleB. Edgar Ellen PoeC. William FaulknerD. Theodore Dreiser39. 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. Light in AugustB. The Sound and the Fur yC. Absalom, Absalom!D. The Hamlet40. Hawthorne was not a Puritan himself, but his view of man and human history origina ted, to a great extent, in_______.A. CalvinismB. PuritanismC. RealismD. NaturalismPART TWO (60 POINTS)Ⅱ. Reading Comprehension (16 points in all, 4 for each)Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.41. Behold her, single in the field,Yon solitary Highland lass!Reaping and singing by herself;Stop here, or gently pass!Alone she cuts and binds the grain,And sings a melancholy strain;O listen! For the Vale profoundIs overflowing with the sound.Questions:A. Identify the poet.B. What’ s the rhyme scheme for the stanza?C. What’s the theme of the poem?42. The following quotation is from Mrs. Warren’s Profession:VIVIE: [ intensely interested by this time] No; but why did you choose that business?Saving money and good management will succeed in any business.MRS. W ARREN: Yes, saving money. But where can a woman get the money to save in any other business? Could you save out of four shillings a week and keep yourself dressedas well? Not you. Of course, if you’ re a pl ain woman and cant earn anything more ;or if you have a turn for music, or the stage, or newspaper - writing ; that’s different...Questions :A. Identify the playwright of the above quotation.B. What business do you think Mrs. Warren is involved in?C. What's the theme of the play?43. My little horse must think it queerTo stop without a farmhouse nearBetween the woods and frozen lakeThe darkest evening of the year.Questions:A. Identify the poet and the title of the poem from which this stanza is taken.B. What figure of speech is used in this stanza?C. Briefly interpret the meaning of this stanza.44. “Where are we going, Dad?”Nick asked.“Over to the Indian camp. There is an Indian lady very sick. ”“Oh,”said Nick.Across the bay they found the other boat beached. Uncle George was smoking a cigar in the dark. The young Indian pulled the boat way up on the beach. Uncle George gave both the Indians cigars.Questions :A. Identify the author and the title of the work from which the passage is taken.B. What does Dad imply when he says “There is an Indian lady very sick”?C. Why is Dad going to the Indian camp?Ⅲ. Questions and Answers (24 points in all, 6 for each)Give a brief answer to each of the following 9uestions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.45. What’ s the literary style of Shelley as a Romantic poet?46. What are the main features of Bernard Shaw’s plays with regard to the theme, charac-terizationand plot?47. Henry Jame s’ literary criticism is an indispensable part of his contribution to literature. What’shis outlook in literary criticiam?48. Local colorism is a unique variation of American literary realism. Who is the most famouslocal colorist? What are local colorists most concerned?IV. Topic Discussion(20 points in all, 10 for each)Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.49. Define modernism in English literature. Name two major modernistic British writers and listone major work by each.50. Briefly discuss the term “The Lost Generation”and name the leading figures of this literarymovement (Give at least three).。

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美国文学选择题及答案1. William Faulkner is the author of ______.a. Far From the Madding Crowdb. Sound and Furyc. For Whom the Bell Tollsd. Scarlet Letter2. Robert Frost is a famous_______.a. novelistb. playwrightc. poetd. literary critic3. The Old Man and the Sea is one of the great works by ________.a. Jack Londonb. Charles Dickensc. Samuel Coleridged. Earnest Hemingway4. _______refers to some contrast or discrepancy between appearance and reality.a. Allegoryb. Conflictc. Ironyd. Flashback5. The great transcendental work by Henry David Thoreau is______.a. Natureb. Waldenc. Experienced. Essays6. Mark Twain shaped the world’s view of America and made a combination of_____and serious literature.a. American folk humorb. funny jokesc. English folklored. American values7. Who was the first American to achieve an international literary reputation after theRevolutionary War?a. Fennimore Cooper.b. Nathaniel Hawthorn.c. Walt Whitman.d. Washington Irving.8. I Have a Dream is addressed by _____.a. Abraham Lincolnb. John F. Kennedyc. Martin Luther Kingd. Ralph Waldo Emerson9. Which of the following is NOT a poem by Emily Dickinson?a. This is my letter to the worldb. I heard a Fly buzz—when I diedc. This is just to sayd. Because I could not stop for death10. Eugene O’Neil is an American ______.a. novelistb. playwrightc. poetd. essayist11. The period from 1865—1914 has been referred to as the _______in the literary history of the United States.a. Age of Realismb. Age of Classicalismc. Age of Romanticismd. Age of Renaissance12. With “Collected Poems”, ______won the second Pulitzer Prize.a. Ezra Pondb. e. e. cummingsc. Robert Frostd. William Cullen Bryant13. Grass is a poem written by _______.a. Walt Whitmanb. Carl Sandburgc. Langston Hughesd. Allen Ginsberg14. Moby Dick is the most important work by ______.a. Jack Londonb. Herman Melvillec. Sinclair Lewisd. Ralph Ellison15. O. Henry earned his fame mainly for his ______.a. novelsb. poemsc. short storiesd. dramas16. ______ is NOT a novel of Francis Scott Fitzgerald.a. Tender Is the Nightb. Anna Christiec. The Beautiful and Dammedd. The Great Gatsby17. The American literature in modern period is divided into two parts by the event of ______.a. the expatriate movementb. the Great Depressionc. the First World Ward. the Second World War18. Which of the following novels does NOT belong to Dreiser’s Trilogy of Desire?a. The Titanb. The Financierc. The “Genius”d. The Stoic19. The 1954 Nobel Prize for literature was awarded to ______for his “mastery of the art of modern narration”.a. William Faulknerb. John Steinbeckc. Saul Bellowd. Earnest Hemingway20. Sister Carrie is a masterpiece of _______work.a. romanticb. classicc. neo-classicd. naturalistic21. The Octopus is written by ________.a. Frank Norrisb. Sherwood Andersonc. Willa Catherd. Stephen Crane22. James Baldwin’s most famous short story is _______.a. A Rose for Emilyb. The Story of an Hourc. Sonny’s Bluesd. A Clean, Well-lighted Place23. ________wrote several novels with the name of “Rabbit”.a. Arthur Millerb. Thomas Pynchonc. John Updiked. Wallace Stevens24. The Road Not Taken is a poem written by ______.a. Robert Frostb. Longfellowc. Ezra Pondd. Carl Sandburg25. “God help them that help themselves” is found in ______’s work.a. Franklinb. Freneauc. Jeffersond. Paine26. T. S. Eliot’s most famous long poem is ______.a. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrockb. A Boy’s Willc. The Waste Landd. The Golden Bough27. Daisy Miller is a great work by _____.a. Henry Jamesb. Mark Twainc. Dreiserd. Stowe28. Hester is a character in ______.a. Gone with the Windb. The Fall of the House of Usherc. Babbittd. Scarlet Letter29. Jack London’s ______is his patently autobiographical novel.a. The Call of the Wildb. The Sea Wolfc. Martin Edend. The Iron Heel30. The black man Jim is a character in Mark Twain’s _______.a. The Adventures of Tom Sawyerb. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnc. Life on the Mississippid. The Prince and the Pauper31. O Captain! My Captain! was written in memory of _______.a. Walt Whitmanb. Benjamin Franklinc. Abraham Lincolnd. Martin Luther King32. The Grapes of Wrath is the masterpiece of ______.a. John Steinbeckb. John Cheeverc. John Updiked. John Dos Passos33. ______is NOT a play written by Tennessee Williams.a. Cat on a Hot Tin Roofb. The Glass Menageriec. Light in Augustd. A Streetcar Named Desire34. Seize the Day is regarded the best novel written by ______.a. Flannery O’Connerb. Saul Bellowc. Ralph Ellisond. Sherwood Anderson35. ______is NOT among the postwar poets in modern American literature.a. Robert Lowellb. Gary Synderc. Allen Ginsbergd.e. e. cummings36. The image of the famous “henpecked husband” is created by_____.a. Washington Irvingb. Fennimore Cooperc. Edith Whartond. William Dean Howells37. The literary spokesman of the Jazz is often thought to be______.a. O’Neilb. Poundc. Robert Frostd. Scott Fitzgerald38. _____was the most important person of the transcendental club.a. Hawthornb. Whitmanc. Emersond. Thoreau39. The main theme of Emily Dickinson is the following EXCEPT_______.a. religionb. love and marriagec. life and deathd. war and peace40. American diction in the 1960s and 1970s proves different from its predecessors. It is referred to as ______.a. Imagismb. black humorc. new fictiond. the Beat Generation41．Stephen Crane is famous for ________and other stories.a. An American Tragedyb. The Ambassadorsc. Main Streetd. The Red Badge of Courage42．______has won the Pulitzer Prize four times and one Nobel Prize.a. Earnest Hemingwayb. John Steinbeckc. Eugene O’Neild. William Faulkner43．Beloved is the masterpiece of _______.a. Tony Morrisonb. Ralph Ellisonc. John Dos Passosd. Willa Cather44．Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Modernism?a. To elevate the individual and inner being over the social being.b. To put the stress on traditional values.c. To portray the distorted and alienated relationships between man and his environment.d. To advocate a conscious break with the past.45．Whitman’s poems are characterized by all the following features EXCEPT_____.a. a strict poetic formb. a simple and conversational languagec. a free and natural rhythmic patternd. an easy flow of feelings46．Who initiated the name of the Lost Generation?a. Hemingwayb. Fitzgeraldc. Gertrude Steind. William Faulkner47．The high tide of Romanticism in American literature occurred around ______. a. 1820 b. 1850c. 1880d. 192048．The publication of _______ established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of the New England Transcendentalism.a. Natureb. Self-Reliancec. The Over-Sould. The American Scholar49．Chinese poetry and philosophy have exerted great influence over ____.a. Ezra Poundb. Ralph Waldo Emersonc. Robert Frostd. Emily Dickinson50．_______is the representative work of the Beat Generation.a. The Great Gatsbyb. On the Roadc. Look Back in Angerd. The Sun Also Rises51．Emily Grierson is a literary figure created by______.a. Willa Catherb. Doris Lessingc. William Faulknerd. Nathaniel Hawthorn52．Thomas Pynchon can also be categorized as a Black Humor writer, as well as a _______writer.a. classicalb. transcendentalc. postmodernistd. realistic53．Who is considered the father of American poetry?a. Philip Freneaub. William Cullen Bryantc. Henry Wadsworth Longfellowd. Henry David Thoreau54．In America, “a little woman started a great war”. Who is she?a. Anne Bradstreetb. Harriet Beecher Stowec. Edith Whartond. Catharine Anne Porter55．______is NOT written by Edgar Allan Poe.a. The Ravenb. Annabel Leec. The Fall of the House of Usherd. Song to Celia56．Arthur Miller is an American _____.a. novelistb. poetc. playwrightd. essayist57．Iceberg Theory is a writing principle proposed and closely followed by _____. a. Jack London b. Sinclair Lewisc. William Faulknerd. Ernest Hemingway58．________is featured by black humor.a. Caricatureb. Catch-22c. The Catcher in the Rye c. Death of a Salesman59．Who is the only woman writer that has won both Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize?a. Pearl Buckb. Virginia Woolfc. Tony Morrisond. Katharine Mansfield1 . b 2. c 3. d 4. c 5. b 6. a 7. d 8. c 9. c 10. b 11. a 12. c 13. b 14. b 15. c 16. b 17. d 18. c 19. d 20. d 21. a 22. c 23. c 24. a 25. a 26. c 27. a 28. d 29. c 30. b 31. c 32. a 33. c 34. b 35. d 36. a 37. d 38. c 39. d 40. c 41. d 42. c 43. a 44. b 45. a 46. c 47. a 48. a 49. a 50. b 51. c 52. c 53. a 54. b 55. d 56. c 57. d 58. b 59. a 60.。

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英美文学选读-阶段测评4成绩：30分一、Multiple Choice 共40 题题号: 1 本题分数:2.5 分( )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 Twain(P498.para.2)亨利.詹姆斯是美国现实主义文学大师，他的作品往往涉及美国之外的主题，其作品的风格是“心理活动”。

被誉为20世纪美国意识流文学的先驱。

标准答案：C考生答案：D本题得分：0 分题号: 2 本题分数:2.5 分Closely related to Dickinson’s religious poetry are her poems concerning( ),ranging over the physical as well as the psychological and emotional aspects of death.A、love and natureB、death and universeC、death and immortalityD、family and happiness（P518para2）迪金森的诗歌涉及宗教和爱情两方面，而其涉及宗教的诗歌往往是以死亡和永恒为主题的，所以答案是C。

标准答案：C考生答案：A本题得分：0 分题号: 3 本题分数:2.5 分H.L.Mencken considered( )“the true father of our national literature”.A、Bret HarteB、Mark TwainC、Washington IrvingD、Walt Whitman(P477.para1)马克.吐温是美国文学巨匠，他以两部“历险记”创造可美国文学史上的一个奇迹，那就是开创了美国文学的一个新时代，所以将他誉为“真正的美国文学之父”。

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美国⽂学史及选读试卷（A卷）包含评分标准及答案美国⽂学史及选读考试试题（卷）A卷院系：专业：考试科⽬：美国⽂学史及选读考试形式：闭卷考试时间：100 分钟姓名：学号：Directions: In this part of the test, there are 9 items and 10 blanks. Fill in the best answer on the Answer Sheet according to the knowledge you have learned.1.The first American literature was neither ____ nor really ____.2.Of the immigrants who came to America in the first threequarters of the seventeenth century, the overwhelmingmajority was _____.3.The English immigrants who settled on America’s northernseacoast were called _____, so named after those whowished to “purify” the Church of England.4.Washington Irving, the Father of American literature,developed the _____ as a genre in American literature.5.Franklin’s best writing is found in his masterpiece _____.6.The most outstanding poet in America of the 18th centurywas _____.7.In the early 19th century, “Rip Van Winkle”hadestablished _____’s reputation at home and abroad, anddesignated the beginning of American Romanticism.8._____ has sometimes been considered the father of themodern short story.9.In 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne brought out his masterpiece_____, the story of a triangular love affair in colonialAmerica.Directions: In this part of the test, there are twenty items. Choose the best answer and write the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.1. The Colonial Period of American literature stretched roughlyfrom the settlement of America in the early 17th centurythrough the end of ________ century.A. the 18thB. the 19thC. the 20thD. 21th2. New-England’s Plantation was published in 1630 by ________A. Francis HigginsonB. William BradfordC. John SmithD. Michael Wigglesworth3. Of all the books written by Michael Wigglesworth the beat known is ________A. The Flesh and the SpiritB. The True TravelsC. The Day of DoomD. Christopher Columbus4. Benjamin Franklin was the epitome of the ______.A. American EnlightenmentB. Sugar ActC. Chartist movementD. Romanticist5. In the first section of Autobiography the writer addressed to________A. his sonB. his friendsC. his wifeD. himself6. During 1807-1808, Washington Irving wrote for his brother’s newspapercalled ________A. New York TimesB. Washington PostC. SalmagundiD. Daily News7. History of New York was published in 1807 under the name of ________A. Washington IrvingB. Diedrich KnickerbokerC. James Fenimore CooperD. John Whittier8. Rip Van Winkle was written by ________A. James Fenimore CooperB. Benjamin FranklinC. Washington IrvingD. Walt Whitman9. The Spy was written by James Fenimore Cooper in 1821. It is a novel about ________A. American Civil WarB. American RevolutionC. American West ExpansionD. The First World War10. Natty Bumppo is the hero in Cooper’s ________A. The PrecautionB. The SpyC. The Gleanings in EuropeD. Leatherstocking Tales11. ________ was regarded as a poet of the American RevolutionA. Philip FreneauB. Walt WhitmanC. Robert FrostD. Cal Sandburg12. The Raven was written in 1844 by ________A. Philip FreneauB. Edgar Allan PoeC. Henry Wadsworth LongfellowD. Emily Dickinson13. The Minister’s Black Veil was written by ________A. Edgar Allan PoeB. Nathaniel HawthorneC. Henry David ThoreauD. Ralph Waldo Emerson14. Anne Bradstreet was a Puritan poet. Her poems made such a stir in England that she became known as the ______ who appeared in America.A. Ninth MuseB. Tenth MuseC. Best MuseD. First Muse15. The ship ______ carried about one hundred Pilgrims and took 66 days to beat its way across the Atlantic. In December of 1620, it put the Pilgrims ashore at Plymouth, Massachusetts.A. SunflowerB. ArmadaC. MayflowerD. Titanic16. A new _____ had appeared in England in the last years of the 18th century. It spread to continental Europe and then came to America early in the 19th century.A. RealismB. Critical realismC. RomanticismD. Naturalism17. Washington Irving got his idea for his most famous story, RipVan Winkle, from a ________A. Greek legendB. German legendC. French legendD. English legend18. Rip Van Winkle is found in Irving’s longer work, ________A. The Sketch BookB. History of New YorkC. Tales of a TravelerD. The Precaution19. ________ was often regarded as America’s first man of letters,devoting much of his career to literature.A. Benjamin FranklinB. Philip FreneauC. Washington IrvingD. James FenimoreCooper20. All the following novels are in Cooper’s Leatherstocking Talesexcept ________A. The PioneersB. The PrairieC. The DeerslayerD. The SpyDirections: In this part of the test, there are twenty titles. Judge the authors of these works and fill them on the Answer Sheet.1.Gleanings in Europe2.Oliver Goldsmith3.The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America4.“The Day of Doom”5. A History of New York6.The Last of the Mohicans7.The House of the Night8. A Forest Hymn9.“The Raven”10.“The Cask of Amontillado”11.Mosses from an Old Manse12.“Israfel”13.“The Flesh and the Spirit”14.Life of George Washington15.The Pathfinder16.“the Wild Honey Suckle”17.The Flood of Years18.“The Poetic Principle”19.The Blithedale Romance20.“The Indian Burying Ground”Directions: In this part of the test, there are f0ur terms. Please give the definition for these terms. Scores will be given for the related contents. Four individual contents will be enough for four points.1. Poor Richard’s Almanac2. Leatherstocking Tales3. Puritanism4. Benjamin FranklinDirections: In this part of the test, there are two excerpts. Each of the excerpts is followed by three questions. Read theexcerpts and answer the questions on the Answer Sheet.Part AFrom morning suns and evening dewsAt first thy little being came:If nothing once, you nothing lose,For when you die you are the same;The space between, is but an hour,The frail duration of a flower.1. Who is the poet of the poem and what is the title of the poem?(2 points)2. Tell the metrical structure and rhyme scheme of the poem. (1 point)3. What does the “little being”refer to? What meaning is suggested by the phrase “but an hour”? (2 points)Part BThe opinions of this junto were completely controlled by Nicholas Vedder, a patriarch of the village, and landlord of the inn, at the door of which he took his seat from morning till night, just moving sufficiently to avoid the sun and keep in the shade of a large tree; so that the neighbors could tell the hour by his movements as accurately as by a sundial. It is true he was rarely heard to speak, but smoked his pipe incessantly. His adherents, however (for every great man has his adherents), perfectly understood him, and knew how to gather his opinions. When anything that was read or related displeased him, he was observed to smoke his pipe vehemently, and to send forth short, frequent and angry puffs; but when pleased, he would inhale the smoke slowly and tranquilly, and emit it in light and placid clouds; and sometimes, taking the pipe from his mouth, and letting thefragrant vapor curl about his nose, would gravely nod his head in token of perfect approbation.From even this stronghold the unlucky Rip was at length routed by his termagant wife, who would suddenly break in upon the tranquility of the assemblage and call the members all to naught; nor was that august personage, Nicholas Vedder himself, sacred from the daring tongue of this terrible virago, who charged him outright with encouraging her husband in habits of idleness.1. Who was the writer of this story? What is the title of this story?(2 points)2. Who was Nicholas Vedder? (1 point)3. How did he express his opinions on public matters? (2 points)Directions: In this part of the test, you are given five topics. Choose TWO of them and give a comment on the Answer Sheet. Scores will be given according to the content, grammar and the completeness of the related knowledge.1.What are the features of literature in Colonial America?ment on Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography.ment on Nathaniel Hawthorne’s writing techniques.4.What philosophical meaning is implied in Philip Freneau’s“The Wild Honey Suckle”?5.What are the artistic achievements of Edgar Allan Poe?美国⽂学史及选读考试试题（卷）评分标准及标准答案A卷院系：专业：考试科⽬：美国⽂学史及选读考试形式：闭卷考试时间：100 分钟。

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英美文学选择题-附答案版(总8页)--本页仅作为文档封面，使用时请直接删除即可----内页可以根据需求调整合适字体及大小--1. Which of the following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare's Sonnet 18A. The speaker eulogizes the power of Nature.B .The speaker satirizes human vanity.C. .The speaker praises the power of artistic creation.D. The speaker meditates on man's salvation.2. ___________used narrative verse or prose to sing knightly adventures or other heroic deeds.A. SonnetB. RomanceC. NovelD. Dramahero of romance was usually the _______, who set out a journey to accomplish some missions---to protect the church, to attack infidelity, to rescue a maiden，to meet a challenge, or to obey a knightly command.A. soldierB. poetC. knight（骑士）D. singer4. ____ marked the beginning of Romanticism in English poetry.A. Wuthering HeightsB. A Red, Red RoseC. Lyrical Ballads （抒情歌谣集）D. Ode to the West Wind5. “So long as man can breathe or eyes can see,So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.’’This quotation is a _____.A. quatrainB. balladC. trimeterD. couplet（相连并押韵的两行诗，对句）6. “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind” is an epigrammatic line from ____.A. She Walks in BeautyB. Ode to the West Wind（西风颂）C. The Solitary ReaperD. On the Seas and Far Awayis the national epic of the Anglo-Saxon and English people.A. HamletB. BeowulfC. UtopiaD. Lyrical Ballads8. Which of the following is not included in the most famous four tragedies of William ShakespeareA. HamletB. OthelloC. The Merchant of VeniceD. King Lear9. ___________ is the forerunner of English realistic novel, also the writer of the famous novel“Robinson Crusoe”.A. Henry FieldingB. Samuel RichardsonC. Daniel Defoe（笛福）D. Jonathan Swift10. Which of the following was not written by Ralph Waldo EmersonA. The American Scholar（论美国学者）B. NatureC. Self-RelianceD. Walden（瓦尔登湖）11. He was called “ father of American Literature” and his stories “ Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”（睡谷的传说） are widely read even is heA. Washington Irving（欧文）B. Sherwood AndersonC. Mark TwainD. Ernest Hemingway12. Generally speaking, which literary school was Mark Twain grouped intoD. post-modernism13. The major trend in American literature in the first half of the 19th century is____A. romanticismB. realismC. sentimentalismD. naturalism14. Who is usually acknowledged as the originator of detective fictionA. Washington IrvingB. William Dean HowellsC. Mark TwainD. Edgar Allan Poe（埃德加·爱伦·坡）15. Which of the following is NOT true about Robert BurnsA. He wrote in Scottish dialect.B. He was a peasant poet.C. His language is plain.D. A Red Red Rose, Auld Lang Syne and The Song of Innencenc are his poems.16. In his poems, Walt Whitman is innovative（创新的） in the terms of the form of his poetry, which is called “____________________.”A. free verse(自由诗体)B. blank verseC. alliterationD. end rhymingfive“I”s in Romanticism is: Imagination, Intuition, Idealism, ___________.A. integrality and InspirationB. Inspiration and IndividualityC. Individuality and integralityD. integrality and IndustryDied for Beauty was written by _____________A. Walt WhitmanB. Emily Dickinson（艾米丽狄金森）C. Robert FrostD. Stephen Crane19. Which literary school was Charles Dickens generally grouped intoA. The English Critical Realism of the Nineteenth CenturyB. The English Realistic School of the Eighteenth CenturyC. The English Romanticism of the Nineteenth CenturyD. The English Modernism of the Twentieth Century20. Which of the following was not written by Thomas HardyA. Tess of D’UrbervilleB. Far from the Madding CrowdC. Jude the ObscureD. The Forsyte Saga21. American literature is based on a myth, that is, the Biblical myth of_________________.A. GenesisB. the Garden of EdenC. the Deliverance from SlaveryD. Song of Songs22. Among four of the following writers , who was the author of Invisible ManWaldo Ellison B. Richard Wright(1908-1960ngston HughesD. Frederick Douglass23. _________ is the national epic of the Anglo-Saxon and English people.A. HamletB. UtopiaC. BeowulfD. Lyrical Ballads24. Utopia was written by _______________.A. Thomas MoreB. John MiltonC. John KeatsD. Ben Johnson25. “So long as man can breathe or eyes can see,So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.’’This quotation is taken from “ ___________”.A. She Walks in BeautyB. Ode to the West WindC. The Solitary ReaperD. Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare26. “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind” is an epigrammatic line from ____.A. She Walks in BeautyB. Ode to the West WindC. The Solitary ReaperD. On the Seas and Far Away27. The hero of romance was usually the _______, who set out a journey to accomplish some missions---to protect the church, to attack infidelity, to rescue a maiden，to meet a challenge, or to obey a knightly command.A. soldierB. poetC. knightD. singer28. Which of the following is a comedy by William ShakespeareA. HamletB. OthelloC. The Merchant of VeniceD. King Lear29. ___________ is the forerunner of English realistic novel, also the writer of the famous novel“Robinson Crusoe”.A. Henry FieldingB. Samuel RichardsonC. Daniel DefoeD. Jonathan Swift30. Which of the following was written by Henry David ThoreauA. The American ScholarB. NatureC. Self-RelianceD. Walden31. He was called “ father of American Literature” and his stories “ Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” are widely read even is heA. Sherwood AndersonB. Washington IrvingC. Mark TwainD. Ernest Hemingway32. Generally speaking, which literary school was Mark Twain grouped intoD. post-modernism33. The major trend in American literature in the last decade of the 19th century was ________.A. romanticismB. modernismC. sentimentalismD. naturalism34. Who is usually acknowledged as the originator of detective fictionA. Washington IrvingB. William Dean HowellsC. Mark TwainD. Edgar Allan Poe35. Which of the following is NOT true about Robert BurnsA. He wrote in Scottish dialect.B. He was a peasant poet.C. A Red Red Rose, Auld Lang Syne and The Solitary Reaper are his poems.D. His language is plain.36. Who wrote the famous short story The Triumph of the EggA. Sherwood AndersonB. Washington IrvingC. Mark TwainD. Ernest Hemingwaywrote Catch-22 (1961) —— the first book to treat the absurdist theme with absurdist techniqueA. Sherwood AndersonB. Ernest HemingwayC. Joseph HellerD. Thomas PynchDied for Beauty was written by _____________A. Henry David ThoreauB. Emily DichinsonC. Robert FrostD. Stephen Crane39. Which literary school was Charles Dickens generally grouped intoA. The English Critical Realism of the Nineteenth CenturyB. The English Realistic School of the Eighteenth CenturyC. The English Romanticism of the Nineteenth CenturyD. The English Modernism of the Twentieth Century40. Poor Richard’s Almanac was a calendar, which includes a large amount of information about weather, astronomy, puzzles, mathematics, practical household, etc. It was written by ____________.A. Washington IrvingB. Jonathan EdwardsC. Thomas JeffersonD. Benjamin Franklin41. “Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines.” The underlined phrase refers to _______.A. black holeB. the sunC. the moonD. the star42. ___________ was categorized into the group of dark romanticism. He believed that there was evil in every human heart, which might remain latent, perhaps, through the whole life; but circumstance might rouse it to activity.A. Ralph Waldo EmersonB. Hermen MelvilleC. Nathaniel HawthorneD. Edgar Allan Poe43. Renaissance originated in ____ in the 14th century and later spread throughout Europe until the 17th century.A. ItalyB. GermanC. BritainD. Greece44. As a philosophical and literary movement, the main issues involved in the debate of Transcendentalism are generally concerning ____________________.A. nature, man and the universeB. the relationship between man and womanC. the development of Romanticism in American literatureD. the cold, rigid rationalism of Unitarianism45. Who was called “ father of American Literature” His stories “ Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” are widely read even today.A. Washington IrvingB. Sherwood AndersonC. Mark TwainD. Ernest Hemingway46. In the title Vanity Fair, “Fair” means _____.A. town B market C. place D. equalityis the national epic of the Anglo-Saxon and English people.A. HamletB. BeowulfC. UtopiaD. Lyrical Ballads48. _________ believes that the chief aim of literary creation is beauty, and “the death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.”A. Walt WhitmanB. Edgar Allen PoeC. Anne BradstreetD. Ralph Waldo Emerson49. Idealized figures most often appear in ____.A. Romantic poetryB. Renaissance dramaC. Enlightenment literatureD. Victorian novels50. ____ employs the language of common man in literary writing.A. Thomas HardyB. Emily Bronte.C. William WordsworthD. John Milton51. Hester Prynne, Dimmesdale .Chillingworth and Pearl are most likely characters in_______.A. The House of the Seven GablesB. The Scarlet LetterC. T he Portrait of a LadyD. The Pioneers52. The Victorian Age witnessed the perfection of _____ in the hands of Thackeray and Dickens.A. poetryB. dramaC. novelD. epic53. All the following issues EXCEPT ____ were emphasized by the British Romantic writers.A. individual feelingsB. idea of survival of the fittestC. strong imaginationD. return to nature54. “Where thoughts serenely sweet express / How pure, how dear their dwelling-place”. The underlined part means ____.A. beautyB. wisdomC. brainD. heart55. All of the following poets are regarded as “Lake Poets” EXCEPT ______.A. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeB. Robert SoutheyC. William WordsworthD. William Blake56. Which of the following is NOT the virtue that Franklin enumerated in his The AutobiographyA. TemperanceB. Humanity (Humility)C. FrugalityD. Immoderation57. Renaissance was the humanistic revival of classical art, architecture, literature, and learning that originated in Italy in the 14th century and later spread throughout Europe until the 17th century. The underlined word means .A GreekB GermanC oldD Greek and Roman58. Didactic and satirical literature was dominant in the ____ .A. RenaissanceB. Age of EnlightenmentC. Victorian Age D age of Romanticism59. “So lon g as men can breathe, or eyes can see, / So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”(Shakespeare, Sonnets 18) What does “this” refer toA. LoveB. PoetryC. SummerD. Time60. Which of the following was not written by Thomas HardyA. Tess of D’UrbervilleB. Far from the Madding CrowdC. Jude the ObscureD. The Forsyte Saga练习题：1. Shakespeare's complete works include __________________.A. 37 plays, 4 tragedies and 154 sonnets.B .154 plays, 2 narrative poems and 37 sonnets.C. 37 plays, 2 narrative poems and 154 sonnets.D. 73 plays, 4 tragedies, and 154 sonnets.6. “All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” is a declarative statement taken from _______.A. The Solitary ReaperB. Lyrical BalladsC. She Walks in BeautyD. On the Seas and Far Away10. Which of the following was written by Henry David ThoreauA. The American ScholarB. NatureC. Self-RelianceD. Walden17. By the 7th century the small kingdoms on the British Island were combined called England, or the land of ____________.A. BritonsB. AnglesC. SaxonsD. Jutes19. He was founder and great master of the historical novel in British literature, and whose death marks the ending of Romantic Period in Britain. Who was heA. George Gordon ByronB. Thomas MoreC. John KeatsD. Walter Scott20. Which of the following was not written by Thomas HardyA. Tess of D’UrbervilleB. Far from the Madding CrowdC. Jude the ObscureD. The Forsyte Saga2. In 1798, together with ________, William Wordsworth published Lyrical Ballads, which marked the break with 18th century classicism and the beginning of romanticism in English poetry.A. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeB. Robert BurnsC. John KeatsD. William Blake7. David Copperfield (1850) is, to a certain extent, an autobiographical novel by _________.A. Henry FieldingB. Charles DickensC. Daniel DefoeD. Jonathan Swift8. Which of the following plays is a comedy composed by William ShakespeareA. HamletB. OthelloC. The Merchant of VeniceD. King Lear12. Generally speaking, which literary school was John Keats grouped intoA. romanticismB. realismC. naturalismD. post-modernism20. Poor Richard’s Almanac was a calendar, which includes a large amount of information about weather, astronomy, puzzles, mathematics, practical household, etc. It was written by ____________.A. Washington IrvingB. Jonathan EdwardsC. Thomas JeffersonD. Benjamin Franklin1. The early inhabitants on the island we now called England were _________, a tribe of Celts. From the Britons the island got its name of Britain, the land of Britons.A. BritonsB. AnglesC. SaxonsD. Jutes2. Paradise Lost (1667) was written by _______________.A. Thomas MoreB. John MiltonC. John KeatsD. Ben Johnson3. ______________, founder of modern science, his New Instrument (1602) tells some of the secrets of the inductive method of reasoning, and Of Studies is one of his most famous essays.A. Thomas MoreB. John MiltonC. Francis BaconD. Ben Johnson10. _________ believes that the chief aim of literary creation is beauty, and “the death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.”A. Walt WhitmanB. Ralph Waldo EmersonC. Anne BradstreetD. Edgar Allen Poe11. Idealized figures most often appear in ____.A. Romantic poetryB. Renaissance dramaC. Enlightenment literatureD. Victorian novels12. It is publicly believed that ____ employs the language of common man in his literary writing.A. Thomas HardyB. Ben JohnsonC. William WordsworthD. John Milton14. Vanity Fair is Thackeray’s masterpiece. The book takes its title from that fair described in ___________.A. John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s ProgressB. Thomas More’s UtopiaC. John Milton’s Paradise LostD. William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice16. Which of the following is NOT included in the virtues that Franklin enumerated in his The AutobiographyA. TemperanceB. HumilityC. FrugalityD. Immoderation19. “So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, / So l ong lives this, and this gives life to thee.”(Shakespeare, Sonnets 18) What does “this” refer to _______A. LoveB. PoetryC. SummerD. Time20. A Red, Red Rose was written in “_________”, ., in each stanza the odd-numbered lines are iambic tetrameters.A. dramaB. English sonnetC. ballad metreD. monologue。

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202X年7月高等教育自学考试全国统一命题考试英美文学选读卷子课程代码0604PART one(40 Points)I．Multiple Choice (40 points in all, 1 for each)Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement.Mark your choice by blackening the corresponding letter A，B，C Or D On theAnswer Sheet.1．_______, a typical example of old English poetry，is regarded as the national epic of the Anglo—Saxons．A．The Canterbury TalesB．ExodusC．BeowulfD．The Legend of Good Women2．It was ______ who first introduced the Petrarchan sonnet into England.A．CaxtonB．WyattC．SurreyD．Marlowe3．It is generally believed that the most important play among Shakespeare’s comedies is ______ A．A Midsummer Night’s DreamB．As You Like ItC．The Merchant of VeniceD．Twelfth Night4．All the following poets except ______ belong to the metaphysical school.A．DonneB．HerbertC．MarvellD．Milton5．Of all the eighteenth —century novelists, ______ was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a “comic epic in prose〞and the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.A．Daniel DefoeB．Samuel RichardsonC．Henry FieldingD．Oliver Goldsmith6．Although writing from different points of view and with different techniques, writers in the Victorican Period shared one thing in common, that is, they were all concerned about ______ .A．the love story between the rich and the poorB．the techniques in writingC．the fate of the common peopleD．the future of their own country7．In the theatrical world of the neoclassical period ______ was the leading figure among the host of playwrights.A．William BlakeB．Richard SheridanC．Ben JonsonD．Bernard Shaw8．The eighteenth —century England is also known as the Age of Enlightenment or the Age of ______.A．IntellectB．ReasonC．RationalityD．Science9．______ by Swift is generally regarded as the best model of satire, not only of the 18th century but also in the whole English literary history.A．A Tale of a TubB．The Battle of the BooksC．〞A Modest Proposal 〞D．Gulliver’s Travels10．The novels of______ are the first literary work devoted to the study of problems of the lower —class people.A．BunyanB．DefoeC．FieldingD．Swift11．Thomas Gray established his fame as the leader of the ______ of the day.A．romantic poetryB．sentimental poetryC．neoclassical poetryD．realistic novel12．Which of the following is taken from John Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn〞______ A．〞If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind〞B．〞For Godsake hold your tongue, and let me love.〞C．〞Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard/Are sweeter〞D．〞The Child is father of the Man.〞13．Robert Browning’s style is ______.A．identical with that of the other VictoriansB．similar to that of TennysonC．perfectly artisticD．rough and disproportionate in appearance14．Thomas Hardy wrote novels of ______.A．character and environmentB．pure romanceC．stream of consciousnessD．psychoanalysis15．The three trilogies of ______ novels are masterpieces of critical realism in the early 20th century.A．Galsworthy’s ForsyteB．Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Sunset Song’s Women in Love’s A Passage to India16．______ is considered to be the best—known English dramatist since Shakespeare.A．Oscar WildeB．Christopher MarloweC．John DrydenD．Bernard Shaw17．______ was awarded Nobel Prize for literature in 1923.A．Bernard ShawB．John Galsworthy18．Of the following poets, which is not regarded as “Lake Poets〞A．Samuel Taylor ColeridgeB．Robert SoutheyC．William WordsworthD．George Gordon Byron19．The four great odes of John Keats include the following EXCEPT ______.A．〞Ode on Melancholy〞B．〞Ode on a Grecian Urn〞C．〞Ode to a Nightingale〞D．〞Ode to the West wind〞’s masterpieces.A．Women in LoveB．Sons and LoversC．Lady Chatterley’s LoverD．The Plumed Serpent21．In Oscar Wilde’s masterpiece ______, he expressed a satirical and bitter attitude towards the upper —class people by revealing their corruption, snobbery and hypocrisy.A．SalomeB．The Importance of Being EarnestC．The Happy PrinceD．A Woman of No Importance22．〞The V anity Fair 〞is a well—known part in The Pilgrim’s Progress, which of the following writers later adopted it as the title of a novel？A．DickensB．ThackerayC．FieldingD．Hardy23．To the transcendentalists such as ______ and Thoreau, man is divine in nature; but to Hawthorne and Melville, everybody is potentially a sinner.A．Washington IrvingB．EmersonC．Henry JamesD．Emily Dickinson24．Washington Irving’s ______ was written in England, filled with English scenes and quotations from English authors and faithful to British orthography.A．Bracebridge HallB．Tales of a TravelerC．The Sketch BookD．The Alhambra25．The American Romantic writers celebrated America’s landscape with its virgin forests, meadows, groves, endless prairies, streams, and vast oceans.______ came to function almost as a dramatic character that symbolized moral law.A．The Atlantic OceanB．The Rocky MountainsC．The Pacific OceanD．The wilderness26．Which one of the following statements is NOT true of Washington IrvingA．He was regarded as Father of the American Short Story.B．He was one of the first American writers to earn an international reputation.C．He enjoyed the honor of being “the American Goldsmith〞for his literary craftsmanship.D．He was one of the advocates of the New England Transcendentalism.27．Which one of the following statements is NOT true of Ralph Waldo Emerson and his works A．Emerson’s essays often have a formal style, for most of them were derived from his journals or lectures.B．In his essays, Emerson put forward his philosophy of Transcendentalism, focusing on the importance of the individual and the nature.C．Emerson based his philosophy on an intuitive belief in an ultimate unity, which he called the 〞over—soul〞.D．Emerson is affirmative about man’s intuitive knowledge, with which a man can trust himself to decide what is right and to act accordingly.28．〞The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other, who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood〞. This is the voice of the book _____ written by Emerson, which pushed American Romanticism into a new phase, the phase of New England _________.A．Nature…SymbolismB．The American Scholar…NaturalismC．Nature…TranscendentalismD．the American Scholar…Realism29．Which one of the following statements about Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter is trueA．Hawthorne intended to tell a love story in this novel.B．Hawthorne intended to tell a story of sin in this novel.C．Hawthorne intended to reveal the human psyche after they sinned, so as to show people the tension between society and individuals.D．Hawthorne focused his attention on consequences of the sin on the people in general, so as to call the readers back to the conventional Puritan way of living.30．Walt Whitman is a poet with a strong sense of mission, having decoted all his life to the creation of the “single〞poem, ________.A．ChicagoB．My Lost YouthC．Leaves of GrassD．A Pact31．Redburn is a semi —autobiographical novel written by ________, concerning the sufferings of a genteel youth among brutal sailors.A．Walt WhitmanB．Nathaniel HawthorneC．Herman MelvilleD．Ralph Waldo Emerson32．The period ranging from ________ to ________ has been referred to as the Age of Realism in the literary history of the United States.A．1865 (1945)B．1865 (1914)C．1783 (1945)D．1783 (1914)33．________thought that the writer should use language to probe the deepest reaches of the psychological and moral nature of human beings rather than simply hold a mirror to the surface of social life in particular times and places. He is a realist of the inner life.A．Mark TwainB．William Dean HowellsC．Henry JamesD．Theodore Dreiser34．〞I felt good and all washed clean of sin for the first time I had ever felt so in my life, and I knowed I could pray now. But I didn’t do it straight off, but laid the paper down and set there thinking —thinking how good it was all this happened so, and how near I come to being lost and going to hell. 〞The above passage is taken from ________.A．The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnB．The Adventures of Tom SawyerC．Uncle Tom’s CabinD．Life on the Mississippi35．The following statements are all true of Daisy Miller EXCEPT________.A．Frederick Winterbourne, the narrator of the story, es an American expatriate.B．With the publication of Daisy Miller, William James reputation was firmly established on both sides of the Atlantic.C．With the publication of Daisy Miller, Daisy Miller has ever since become the American Girl in Europe, a celebrated cultural type who embodies the spirit of the New World.D．Daisy Miller’s defiance of social taboos in the Old World finally brings her to a disaster in the clash between the two different cultures.36．Which one of the following statements is true of Dickinson’s “I like to see it lap the Miles〞A．This poem describes a mare dancing at midnight.B．This poem describes a horse galloping through valleys.C．This poem describes a train running through the mountainous area.D．This poem describes a traveler’s joyous journey through the scenic mountainous area.37．________ is considered to be a spokesman for the alienated youth in the post —war era and his The Catcher in the Rye is regarded as a students’ classicA．Allen GinXergD．Henry James38．Towards the end of After Apple —Picking，Frost writes “ Were he not gone, /The woodchuck could say whether it’s like his /Long sleep, as I describe its coming on, /Or just some human sleep.〞The “human sleep 〞here refers to ________.A．a trip to the countrysideB．deathC．rest after a day’s work in the orchardD．exaltation of mind39．In the third chapter of The Great GatXy by Fitzgerald, there is a wonderful description of GatXy’s party which evokes both ___________ of that strange and fascinating era that we call________.A．the pride and the prejudice…Victorian AgeB．the romance and the sadness…Jazz AgeC．the love and the hatred…Age of ReasonD．the Vanity and the disillusionment…Age of Reason40．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 Sound and the FuryB．Go Down, MosesC．Light in AugustD．Absalom, Absalom!PART TWO (60 POINTS)II．Reading Comprehension (16 points in all, 4 for each)Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.41．〞To be, or not to be —that is the question;Whether’ tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,And by opposing end them〞Questions:A．Identify the author and the title of the passage from which this part is taken.B．Explain the meaning of “To be, or not to be〞.C．How do you understand the last two lines42．〞The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,And all that beauty, all that wealth e’er gave,Awaits alike the inevitable hour.The paths of glory lead but to the grave.〞Questions:A．Identify the author and the title of the passage from which this part is taken.B．What does the phrase 〞inevitable hour〞meanC．Write out the main idea of the passage in plain English.43．〞I glanced back once. A wafer of a moon was shinning over GatXy’s house, making the night fine as before, and surviving the laughter and the sound of his still glowing garden. A sudden emptiness seemed to flow now from the windows and the great doors, endowing with complete isolation the figure of the host, who stood on the porch, his hand up in a formal gesture of farewell. 〞Questions:A．Identify the author and the title of the passage from which this part is taken.B．The passage describes the end of an event, What is itC．What implied meaning can you get from reading this passage44．We passed the School, where Children strove AT Recess—in the Ring—We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain—We passed the Setting Sun—Questions:A．Who is the author of this stanza taken from the poem “Because I could not stop for Death—〞？B．What do the underlined parts symbolizeC．Where were “we〞heading towardIII．Questions and Answers (24 points in all,6 for each)Give brief answers to each of the following questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.45．Edmund Spenser is one of the poets of English Renaissance. 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《英美文学选读》论述题汇总---按2009年调整后新大纲IV. Topic Discussion(20 points in all, 10 for each)Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.2009年4月英美文学选读试题49. Briefly discuss William Shakespeare's artistic achievements in characterization,plot construction and language.（人物、情节构造、语言特色）50. Briefly discuss Mark Twain's art of fiction in terms of the setting,the language,and the characters, etc.,based on his novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.（《哈克贝利·芬历险记》的小说框架、语言特色、人物塑造）2009年7月英美文学选读试题49. Define modernism in English literature. Name two major modernistic British writers and listone major work by each.现代主义名词解释列出现代主义时期的两位英国作家和他的主要作品50. Briefly discuss the term “The Lost Generation”and name the leading figures of this literarymovement (Give at least three).简述专业名词“迷失的一代”，最少列出三个特征。

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全国2009年4月高等教育自学考试英美文学选读试题答案1-5: BBABA 6-10:DACBA 11-15:BABBB16-20:BDACD 21-25:AACBA 26-30:BCAAA 31-35:ADCCB 36-40:DCCDBII．Reading Comprehension (16 points in all, 4 for each)41．A from percy shelley’s “men of England”B.metonymyC．Here “drones” refers to the parasitic class in human socity.42．A．The love song of J.Alfred Prufrock B. J.Alfred PrufrockC．Prufrock is conscious of the fact that he is like hamlet in some respect. But he is sensible enough that he cant be compared with hamlet.43．A．Walt WhitmanB. “there was a child went forth” from “ leaves of grass”C. The poem describes the growth of a child who learned about the world around him and improved himself accordingly. In the poem, Whitman’s own early experience may well be identified with the childhood of a young, growing American. 44．A．Emily DickinsonB. The god of deathC．The poem is trying to describe the moment of death.III．45．List at least two leading neoclassicists in England．What did Neoclassicists celebrate in literary creation?A. Alexander pope, John Dryden, Samuel JohndonB. they believed that the artistic ideals should be order, logic, restrained emotion and accuracy and that literature should be judged in terms of its service to humanity. They seek proportion, unity, harmony and grace in literacy expression, in an effort to delight, instruct and correct human beings. Thus a polite, elegant, witty and intellectual art developed.46．Jane Eyre is one of the most popular and important novels of the Victorian Age．Why is Jane Eyre such a successful novel?A. it is noted for its sharp criticism of the existing socity.B. it is an intense moral fable.C. the success of the novel is also due to its introduction to the English novel the first governess heroine.47．Who are the three dominant figures of the American Age of Realism and what are the differences in their understanding of the “truth”?A. William Dean Howells, Mark Twain, Henry James.B. Mark Twain and Howells seemed to have paid more attention to the “life” of the Ameicans. Howells focused his discussion on the rising middle class and the way they lived: Mark Twain preferred to have his own region and people at the forefront of his stories; Henry James had apparently laid a greater emphasis on the “ inner world” of man.48．What's Dreiser' s naturalistic belief? Please discuss the question with Carrie, a character in Sister Carrie as an example.A. Dreiser believes that while men are controlled and conditioned by heredity, instinct and chance, a few extraordinary and unsophisticated human beings refuse to accepttheir fate wordlessly and instead strive, unsuccessfully, to find meaning and purpose for their existence.B. Carrie, as one of such, senses that she is merely a cipher in an uncaring world yet seeks to grasp the mysteries of life and thereby satisfies her desires for social status and material comfort, but in spite of her success, she is lonely and dissatisfied. IV．Topic Discussion(20 points in all, 10 for each)Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.49．Briefly discuss William Shakespeare's artistic achievements in characterization, plot construction and language.A. shakespeare’s major characters are neither merely individual ones nor type ones; they represent certain types; they are individuals representing certain types. By employing a psychoanalytical approach, Shakespeare succeeds in exploring the characters’inner world. Shakespeare also portrays his characters in pairs. Contrasts are frequently used to bring vividness to his characters.B. Shakespeare seldom invents his own plot; instead, he borrows them from old plays or storybook, fron ancient Greek or Roman sources. In order to make the play more lively and compact, he would shorten the time and intensify the story. There are usually several clues running through the play, thus providing the story with the suspense and apprehension.C. Shakespeare can write skillfully in different poetic forms, such as the sonnet, the blank verse and the rhymed couplet. He has an amazing wealth of vocabulary and idiom. His coinage of new words and distortion of the meaning of the old words also creates striking effects on the readers.50．Briefly discuss Mark Twain's art of fiction in terms of the setting,the language, and the characters, etc.,based on his novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.A. Mark Twain uses the Mississippi Vally as his fictional kingdom, Writing about the landscape and people, the customs and the dialects of one particular region, and is therefore known as a local colorist.B. he creates life-like characters, especially the conventional Huckleberry Finn, who runs away from civilization and stands opposite to conventional morality.C. He uses a simple, direct vernacular language, totally different from any previous literary language. It is the kind of colloquial language belonging to the lower class, the living local American English.D. he has created a special humor to satirize social injustices and the decayed convention.全国2009年7月高等教育自学考试英美文学选读试题答案全国2010年4月高等教育自学考试英美文学选读试题答案Multiple Choice(40 points in all, 1 for each)01-05:DDADA 06-10:BBDCB 11-15:BACDA16-20:CACAD 21-25:BDADC 26-30:BCCBA 31-35:AADCA 36-40:BACCDReading Comprehension (16 points in all, 4 for each)41. A. Shelley & A Song : Men of England. B. This poem was written in 1819, the year of the *Peterloo Massacre(彼得卢屠杀). * 1819年8月16日发生在英国曼彻斯特圣彼得广场上的一场流血惨案。

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《英美文学选读》（课程代码：00604）I.The following passage is an extract from Letter to Lord Chesterfield by Samuel Johnson, the leading figure of British neoclassicists. In 1747, when Samuel Johnson, began his Dictionary of the English language, Lord Chesterfield had at first indicated that he could be his patron, but when Johnson came to him for concrete help, Lord Chesterfield neglected him to the point of ignoring him; Johnson was insulted and furious. In 1775 when the Dictionary was published and acclaimed, Chesterfield openly recommended, hoping to get some credit for it as Johnson’s patron. Samuel Johnson wrote as reply his famous Letter to Lord Chesterfield in which he vented his feeling of hurt pride. Read it carefully, paying special attention to the rhetorical devices used, and answer the question. (20 points)①Is not patron, my lord, one who looked with unconcernupon man struggling for a life in the water, and when he hadreached to the safety of ground, encumbered him with help?②The notice you have taken of my Labour, had it beenearly, had been kind, but it had been delayed till I amindifferent, and can’t enjoy it; till I am solitary, and can’timpart it; till I am known, and do not want it. ③I hope thatit is no very asperity not to confess obligation where nobenefit have been received, or to be unwilling that thePublic should consider me as owing that to a patron, whichProvidence had enabled me to do for myself.Question:⑴what syntactic devices the author used in sentence ? And whatare their stylistic functions? (10 points)⑵point out the figure of speech used in sentences①and ③. (10 points)II. The following critical paper is about George Bernard Shaw’s famous drama “Pygmalion”. Read it carefully and answer the questions set on it. (20 points) 1 What we discover in Pygmalion is that phonetics and correct pronunciation are systems of markers superficial in themselves but endowed with tremendous social significance. Eliza's education in the ways that the English upper classes act and speak provides an opportunity for the playwright to explore the very foundations of social equality and inequality. Higgins himself observes that pronunciation is the deepest gulf that separates class from class and soul from soul. Playwright and character differ, however, in that instead of criticizing the existence of this gulf, Higgins accepts it as natural and uses his skills to help those who can afford his services (or are taken in as experiments, like Liza) to bridge it.2“At Mrs. Higgins's ““At Home reception,” Liza is fundamentally the same person she was in Act I, although she differs in what we learnto appreciate as superficialities of social disguise (according to Mugglestone): details of speech and cleanliness. Act III of Pygmalion highlights the importance of Liza's double transformation, by showing her suspended between the play's beginning and its conclusion. In modern society, however, as Shaw illustrates, it is precisely these superficial details which tend to be endowed with most significance. Certainly the Eynsford Hills view such details as significant, as Liza's entrance produces for them what Shaw's stage directions call “an impression of ... remarkable distinction and beauty.”3 Ironically, however, Liza's true transformation is yet to occur. She experiences a much more fundamental change in her consciousness when she realizes that Higgins has more or less abandoned her at the conclusion of his experiment.At first, Liza experiences a sense of anxiety over not belonging anywhere: she can hardly returnto flower peddling, yet she lacks the financial means to makeher new, outward identity a social reality. “What am I fit for?”She demands of Higgins. “What have you left me fit for? Wheream I to go? What am I to do? What's to become of me?” Berst wrote that while Pickering is generous, Eliza is shoved intothe wings by Higgins. The dream has been fulfilled, midnighthas tolled for Cinderella, and morning reality is at hand. Lizamust break away from Higgins when he shows himself incapableof recognizing her needs. This response of Higgins is well withinhis character as it has been portrayed in the play. Indeed, fromhis first exposure to Liza, Higgins denied Liza any social oreven individual worth. Calling Liza a squashed cabbage leaf, Higgins states that a woman who utters such depressing anddisgusting sounds has no right to be anywhere no right to live. Question 1: Explain what is Liza’s Double Transformation?(10 points)Question 2: What makes Liza feel she is in an embarrassing situation when she is transformed into a lady in speechand appearance? (10 points)III.The following critical essay is about Thomas Hardy’s most well-known tragic novel “Tess of d’Urbervilles”. Peruse it and then answer the questions set on it (30 points)The social background of Tess of d’Urbervilles was in a time of difficult social upheaval, when England was making its slow, painful transition from an old-fashioned, agricultural nation to amodern, industrial one. Businessmen and entrepreneurs, or “new money,” joined the ranks of the social elite, as some families of the ancient aristocracy, or “old money,” faded into obscurit y. Tess’s family in Tess of the d’Urbervilles illustrates this change, as Tess’s parents, the Durbeyfields, lose themselves in the fantasy of belonging to an ancient and aristocratic family, the d’Urbervilles.Hardy’s novel strongly suggests that such a f amily history is not only meaningless but also utterly undesirable. Hardy’s views on the subject were appalling to conservative and status-conscious British readers and Tess of the d’Urberville s was met in England with widespread controversy. Beyond her social symbolism, Tess represents fallen humanity in a religious sense, as the frequent biblical allusions in the novel remind us. Just as Tess’s clan was once glorious and powerful but is now sadly diminished, so too did the early glory of the first humans, Adam and Eve, fade with their expulsion from Eden, making humans sad shadows of what they once were. Tess thus represents what is known in Christian theology as original sin, the degraded state in which all humans live, even when—like Tess herself after killing Prince or succumbing to Alec—they are not wholly or directly responsible for the sins for which they are punished. This torment represents the most universal side of Tess: she is the myth of the human who suffers for crimes that are not her own and lives a life more degraded than she deserves.Angel represents a rebellious striving toward a personal vision of goodness A freethinking son born into the family of a provincial parson and determined to set himself up as a farmer instead of going to Cambridge like his conformist brothers,. He is a secularist who yearns to work for the “honor and glory of man,” as he tells his father in Chapter XVIII, rather than for the honor and glory of God in a more distant world. A typical young nineteenth-century progressive, Angel sees human society as a thing to be remolded and improved, and he fervently believes in the nobility of man. He rejects the values handed to him, and sets off in search of his own. His love for Tess, a mere milkmaid and his social inferior, is one expression of his disdain for tradition. This independent spirit contributes to his aura of charisma and general attractiveness that makes him the love object of all the milkmaids with whom he works at Talbothays. As his name—in French, close to “Bright Angel”—suggests, Angel is not quite of this world, but floats above it in a transcendent sphere of his own. The narrator says that Angel shines rather than burns and that he is closer to the intellectually aloof poet Shelley than to the fleshly and passionate poet Byron.His love for Tess may be abstract, as we guess when he calls her “Daughter of Nature” or “Demeter.” Tess may be more an archetype or ideal to him than a flesh and blood woman with a complicated life. Angel’s ideals of human purity are too elevated to be applied to actual people: Mrs. Durbeyfield’s easygoing moral beliefs are much more easily accommodated to real lives such as Tess’s. Angel awakens to the actual complexities of real-world morality after hisfailure in Brazil, and only then he realizes he has been unfair to Tess. His moral system is readjusted as he is brought down to Earth. Ironically, it is not the angel who guides the human in this novel, but the human who instructs the angel, although at the cost of her own life.Question 1: Why Tess is said to be a paragon of “fallen humanity”?(15 points)Question 2: Why Tess converted the idealist Angle into a realist Angle in terms of her own tragedy? (15 points)IV.The following paragraphs are taken from chapter VIII ofbook IV in Gulliver’s Travels. This section pictures an ideal rational existence, the Houyhnhnms kingdom whose life is governed by sense and moderation of which philosopherssince Plato have long dreamed. Read them and answer thefollowing questions. (30 points)1Courtship, love, presents, jointures, settlements haveno place in their thoughts, or terms whereby to expressthem in their language. The young couple meet,and are joined, merely because it is the determinationof their parents and friends; it is what they see doneevery day, and they look upon it as one of the necessaryactions of a reasonable being.2 But the violation of marriage, or any other unchastity,was never heard of; and the married pair pass their liveswith the same friendship and mutual benevolence, thatthey bear to all others of the same species who come intheir way, without jealousy, fondness, quarrelling, ordiscontent. When the matron Houyhnhnms have produced one of each sex, they no longer accompany with their consorts, except they lose one of their issue by some casualty, which very seldom happens; but in such a case they meet again; or when the like accident befalls a person whose wife is past bearing, some other couple bestow on him one of their own colts, and then go together again until the mother is pregnant. This caution is necessary, to prevent the country from being overburdened with numbers. But the race of inferior Houyhnhnms, bred up to be servants, is not so strictly limited upon this article: these are allowed to produce three of each sex, to be domestics in the noble families3 Every fourth year, at the vernal equinox, there is arepresentative council of the whole nation, which meets in a plain about twenty miles from our house, and continues about five or six days. Here they inquire into the state and condition of the several districts; whether they abound or be deficient in hay or oats, or cows, or Yahoos; and wherever there is any want (which is but seldom) it is immediately supplied by unanimous consent and contribution. Here likewise the regulation of children is settled: as for instance, ifa Houyhnhnm has two males, he changes one of them withanother that has two females; and when a child has been lost by any casualty, where the mother is past breeding, it is determined what family in the district shall breed another to supply the loss.Question1.The satire in this work is seen entirely in a discrepancybetween Swift and the Gulliver, the typical rational scientist in the age of enlightenment? Comment on it. (15points)Question2. In what ways does the author satirize the rationalism ofHouyhnhnms society, for example, the rational idea onmarriage, and the family-planning? (15 points)《英美文学选读》试卷参考答案I. 【20分】Answer:The author used repetition and parallelism to make this satirical prose daintier and more repugnant in tone. This piece of prose is typical of neoclassical prose which set great store by elegance of the language which was achieved by way of rhetorical richness. 【10分】The author used sarcasm in these two sentences to openly deny Lord Chesterfield’s patronage and attack his insolent and blatant behavior. The sarcasm made in a circumlocutious way renders this satirical prose more taunting and bitter. 【10分】II【20分】Question 1: What is Liza’s Double Transformation?Act III of Pygmalion highlights the importance of Liza's double transformation, by showing her suspended between the play's beginning and its conclusion. “At Mrs. Higgins's ““At Home reception,” Liza is fundamentally the same person she was in Act I, although she differs in what we learn to appreciate as superficialities of social disguise (according to Mugglestone): details of speech and cleanliness. In modern society, however, as Shaw illustrates, it is precisely these superficial details which tend to be endowed with most significance. Certainly the Eynsford Hills view such details as significant, as Liza's entrance produces for them what Shaw's stage directions call “animpression of ... remarkable distinction and beauty.” Ironically, however, Liza's true transformation is yet to occur. She experiences a much more fundamental change in her consciousness when she realizes that Higgins has more or less abandoned her at the conclusion of his experiment. 【10分】Question 2:What is Liza’s Predicament?Liza experiences a sense of anxiety over not belonging anywhere: she can hardly return to flower peddling, yet she lacks the financial means to make her new, outward identity a social reality. “What am I fit for?” She demands of Higgins. “What have you left me fit for? Where am I to go? What am I to do? What's to become of me?” While Pickering is generous, Eliza is shoved into the wings by Higgins. The dream has been fulfilled, midnight has tolled for Cinderella, and morning reality is at hand. Liza must break away from Higgins when he shows himself incapable of recognizing her needs. This response of Higgins is well within his character as it has been portrayed in the play. Indeed, from his first exposure to Liza, Higgins denied Liza any social or even individual worth. Calling Liza a squashed cabbage leaf, Higgins states that a woman who utters such depressing and disgusting sounds has no right to be anywhere no right to live. 【10分】III.【30分】Question 1: Why Tess is said to be a paragon of fallen humanity?Tess represents fallen humanity in a religious sense, as the frequent biblical allusions in the novel remind us. Just as Tess’s clan was once glorious and powerful but is now sadly diminished, so too did the early glory of the first humans, Adam and Eve, fade with their expulsion from Eden, making humans sad shadows of what they once were. Tess thus represents what is known in Christian theology as original sin, the degraded state in which all humans live, even when—like Tess herself after killing Prince or succumbing to Alec—they are not wholly or directly responsible for the sins for which they are punished. This torment represents the most universal side of Tess: she is the myth of the human who suffers for crimes that are not her own and lives a life more degraded than she deserves. 【15分】Question 2: Discuss why Tess changes the idealist Angle into a realist Angle in a tragic way?Angel is closer to the intellectually aloof poet Shelley than to the fleshly and passionate poet Byron. His love for Tess may be abstract, as we guess when he calls her “Daughter of Nature” or “Demeter.” Tess may be more an archetype or ideal to him than a flesh and blood woman with a complicated life. Angel’sideals of human purity are too elevated to be applied to actual people: Mrs. Durbeyfield’s eas ygoing moral beliefs are much more easily accommodated to real lives such as Tess’s. Angel awakens to the actual complexities of real-world morality after his failure in Brazil, and only then he realizes he has been unfair to Tess. His moral system is readjusted as he is brought down to Earth. Ironically, it is not the angel who guides the human in this novel, but the human who instructs the angel, although at the cost of her own life. 【15分】IV【30分】Question1. This work is called a satire which is seen entirely in a discrepancy between Swift and the Gulliver, the typical rational scientist in the age of enlightenment? Comment on it. 【15分】There are echoes of Plato’s Republic in the Houyhnhnms’rejection of light entertainment and vain displays of luxury, their appeal to reason rather than any holy writings as the criterion for proper action, and their communal approach to family planning.The Gulliver’s Travels is a book of subtle satire. The satire comes mainly from the discrepancy between Gulliver who is fitted out as the archetypal man of the enlightenment movement, susceptible to rationalism of 18th century. Swift on the other hand is very critical of his time, especially its rational thinking. Whereas Gulliver takes Houyhnhnm society as ideal utopia one, the author finds its rationality totally intolerable.Question2.In what ways does the author satirize the rational Houyhnhnms society, for example, the rational ideal on marriage, and the family-planning? 【15分】Paragons of virtue and rationality, the horses are also dull, simple, and lifeless. Their language is impoverished, their mating loveless, and their understanding of the complex play of social forces naïve. What is missing in the horses is exactly that which makes human life rich: the complicated interplay of selfishness, altruism, love, hate, and all other emotions. In other words, the Houyhnhnms’ society is perfect for Houyhnhnms, but it is hopeless for humans. Houyhnhnm society is, in stark contrast to the societies of the first three voyages, devoid of all that is human.But we may be less ready than Gulliver to take the Houyhnhnms as ideals of human existence. They have no names in the narrative nor any need for names, since they are virtually interchangeable, with little individual identity. Their lives seem harmonious and happy, although quite lacking in vigor, challenge, and excitement. Indeed, this apparent ease may be why Swift chooses to makethem horses rather than human types like every other group in the novel. He may be hinting, to those more insightful than Gulliver, that the Houyhnhnms should not be considered human ideals at all. In any case, they symbolize a standard of rational existence to be either espoused or rejected by both Gulliver and us.。

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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。

英美文学选读试题详解2

英美⽂学选读试题详解2英美⽂学选读-阶段测评2成绩：85分⼀、Multiple Choice 共 40 题题号：1本题分数:2.5分D 、William Blake (P179.para.2)华兹华斯的⽂学观点是：诗歌的创作没有既定的规则，诗歌素材的来源应该是感观的直接经验。

题⼲中的陈述，是他再《抒情民谣》第⼆版的序⾔中表述的。

标准答案：A考⽣答案：A本题得分：2.5分题号:2本题分数:2.5分Because of her sensitivity to universal patterns of human behavior,( ) has brought the English novel,as anart of form,to its maturity.A 、Charlotte Bront?(P226.para.2)简.奥斯丁⽣活在英国浪漫主义⽂学繁荣时期，但她的⼩说确实现实主义风格的爱情作为⼩说的主题，并通过对真正爱情的诠释来反应⼈性，是英国最伟⼤的⼩说家之⼀。

标准答案：BThe assertion that poetry originates from emotion recollected in tranquility belongs to ().她多以男⼥ A 、William Wordsworth B 、Samuel Taylor ColeridgeC 、Robert SoutheyB 、Jane AustenC 、Emily Bront?D 、Ann Radcliffe考⽣答案：B本题得分：2.5分题号：3本题分数25分English Romanticism,as a historical phase of literature,is generally said to have ended in 1832 with ().A、the passage of the first Reform Bill in the Parliaments The waste LandD、the passage of the Bill of Rights in the Parliament(P157.para.1)英国的浪漫主义⽂学时代开始于1798年，标志性的事件是《抒情民谣》的出版，结束于1832 年，标志性的事件是斯格特之死和改⾰法案”的通过。

《英美文学选读》自考真题试题及答案解析

《英美文学选读》自考真题试题及答案解析卷面总分：100分答题时间：80分钟试卷题量：50题一、单选题（共50题，共100分）1.( )is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th —century“stream—of —consciousness ”novels and the founder ofpsychological realism.• A.Theodore Dreiser• B.William Faulkner• C.Henry James• D.Mark Twain正确答案：C本题解析：亨利 . 詹姆斯是美国现实主义文学大师，他的作品往往涉及美国之外的主题，其作品的风格是“心理活动”。

被誉为20 世纪美国意识流文学的先驱。

2.Closely relate d to Dickinson ’s religious poetry are her poemsconcerning( ),ranging over the physical as well as the psychological and emotional aspects of death.• A.love and nature• B.death and universe• C.death and immortality• D.family and happiness正确答案：C本题解析：迪金森的诗歌涉及宗教和爱情两方面，而其涉及宗教的诗歌往往是以死亡和永恒为主题的，3.considered( ) “the true father of our national literature ”.• A.Bret Harte• B.Mark Twain• C.Washington Irving• D.Walt Whitman正确答案：B本题解析：马克 . 吐温是美国文学巨匠，他以两部“历险记”创造可美国文学史上的一个奇迹，那就是开创了美国文学的一个新时代，所以将他誉为“真正的美国文学之父”。

英美文学考试试题(二)

英美文学选读试卷（二）本试题分两部分，第一部分为选择题，第二部分为非选择题。

选择题40分，非选择题60分，满分100分。

考试时间120分钟。

请将答案写在答案写在答题纸相应位置上，否则不计分。

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 landlords13. 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 depicti on 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。

《英美文学选读》模拟试题(2)答案

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Jews/ChristiansC. oppressors/oppressedD. people/Jews傳統的理論認為該劇的主題是褒揚安東尼奧Antonio與巴塞尼奧Bassanio之間的友誼，贊美鮑西婭Portia的完美:美貌，智慧與堅貞，並揭露了Jews--Shylock的貪婪與殘忍但是經曆了几個世紀對對Jews不會平的待遇,今天許多人將該劇的主題看作chritains的hypocrisy ,為追求世俗利益而不擇手段以及對Jews不公正的偏見補充閱讀1) Bassanio——Portia2) Antonio——ShylockThe traditional theme of the play is to praise the friendship betweem Antonio and Bassanio, to idealize Portia as a heroine of greate beaulity, wit and loyalty, and to expose the insatiable greed and brutality of the Jew. Tody, many people tend to regard the play as a satire of the christia ns’ hypocrisy and their false standards of frindship and love, their cunning way of pursuing worldliness(俗心, 俗气) and their unreasoning prejudice against Jews.4.Which of the following plays does not belong to Shakespeare’s great tragedies?A. Romeo and JulietB. King LearC. HamletD. Macbeth5.Which statement about the Elizabethan age is not true?A. It is the age of translation.B. It is the age of bourgeois revolutionC. It is the age of explorationD. It is the age of the protestant reformation. 新教改革Elizabthan age 是renaissance period6.Una in The Faerie Queene stands for ______.A. chastity 純潔B. holiness 神圣C. truthD. error補充閱讀1.《仙后》一部寓言(allegory), 人物象征意义与主题.The Faerie is an allegory.The Red-crosse Knight stands for St.George, the patron saint of England, and he also represent Holiness.A lovely Ladie, virgin Una, symbolizes the thruth or the true faith of religion.A milke white lambe reprents the God.Dragon and infernall feend refer the Satan 惡魔The theme is not “Arms and the man,” but something more romantic—“fiece warres and faithful loves”.7._____ first make blank verse the principle instrument of English drama.A. ShakespeareB. WyattC. SidneyD. MarloweThe passionate Sheherd to his loveDr Fauctus馬洛的藝朮成就在於他完善了無韻體詩，並使之成為英國戲劇中最主要的文體形式8.“The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune” is an example of _____.A. allegoryB.simileC. metaphorD. irony9.In “Not only sole, but on thy soul, harsh Jew, /Thou mak’st thy knife keen”, Gratiano (a character in The Merchant of Venice) uses a rhetorical device called _____.A. hyperboleB. homonymC. paradoxD. pun10.In The Faerie Queene Spenser impresses us with his skillful blending of religious and historical _____ with chivalric _____.A. symbolism … lyricismB. allegory … romanceC. eleg y … narrativeD. personification … ironyton’s paradise Lost took its material from ______.A. the BibleB. Greek mythC. Roman mythD. French romance12.Christopher Marlowe wrote all the following plays except _____.A. Tamburlaine the Great 帖木兒B. The Jew or Malta 馬耳他島的JewC. Cymbeline ---辛白林，ShakespeareD. The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus13.Which of the following plays by Shakespeare is NOT a comedy?A. The Merchant of VeniceB. A Midsummer Night’s Dream仲夏之夜C. As You like It皆大欢喜D. The dactyl 是古代希腊的著名的悲剧(恰恰是'史诗的诗歌')，英文名字是"The Odyssey". Homer写的,800-600 BC左右14._____ is the most common foot in English poetry.A. The iamb 抑楊格短長格B. The anapestC. The trocheeD. The dactyl15.“In a dream vi sion, Arthur witnessed the loveliness of Gloriana, and upon awakening resolves to seek her.” The two literary figures “Arthur” and “Gloriana” are from ______.A. The Fairie QueeneB. Remeo and JulietC. Dr. FaustusD. Paradise Lost仙后格勞麗安娜，所有12個英雄就是按照她的旨意，從她的宮殿出發，踏上各自的曆險征程的，而一號主角Arthur 亞瑟王子的任務就是尋找仙后，他本人已在夢中與仙后墜入情網16.In “Sonnet 18”, William Shakespeare _____.A. meditates on man’s mortality.B. eulogizes the power of artistic creationC. satirizes human vanityD. presents a dream vision17.The 18th century witnessed that in England there appeared two political parties, _____, which were satirized by Swift in his “Gulliver’s Travels.”A. the Whigs and ToriesB. the Senate and the House of RepresentativeC. the upper House and lower HouseD. the House of Lords and the House of Commons18._____ compiled the “The Dictionary of the English language” which became the foundation of all the subsequent English dictionaries.A. Ben JohnsonB. Samuel JohnsonC. Alexander PopeD. John DrydenSamuel Johnson:Neoclassical period---to the Right Honorable the Earl of Chesterfield19.The publication of “______” marked the beginning of Romantic Age.A. Don JuanB. the Rime of the Ancient MarinerC. The Lyrical BalladsD. Queen Mab20.In 1805, Wordsworth completed a long autobiographical poem entitled “_____”.A. Biographic literaryB. The Prelude 序曲C. Lucy PoemsD. The Lyrical Ballads序曲的創作始於1790年，1805年，經曆了大幅度的修改於1850年在作者去世后發表,許多評論家將序曲看作wordsworth最偉大的作品21.Which is Shelley’s masterpiece?A. Queen MabB. Prometheus UnboundC. Prometheus BoundD. The Revolt of Islam22.Whi ch is Shelley’s work of literary criticism?A. An Essay on criticismB. A Defence of Poetry 詩辨C. On the Necessity of AtheismD. Of studies23.In the 19th century English literature, a new literary trend ______ appeared and it flourished in the forties and in the early fifties.A. RomanismB. naturalismC. realismD. critical realism---victorian period Dickens Eliot等24.The greatest English critical realist novelist was _____, who criticized the bourgeois civilization and showed the misery of the common people.A. William Makepeace ThackerayB. Charles DickensC. charlotte BronteD. Emily DickinsonDickens 是偉大的批判理實主義作家，他以揭露評擊社會的不公，虛偽，腐敗為已任他的大部分作品，包含那些一時靈感驅動的創作，都扎根在他深入了解的城市小資產階級生活中。

2009年四川大学英语专业(英美文学)真题试卷答案

一、单项选择题1 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】《父子之间》是奈保尔著名的家庭书信集，堪与《傅雷家书》媲美。

2 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 1904年建立的The Abbey Theatre可以说是爱尔兰戏剧复兴的摇篮，叶芝、格雷戈里夫人、辛格和奥凯西都是爱尔兰文艺复兴运动的中坚力量。

Sartor Resartus(《旧衣新裁》或《衣裳哲学》)是维多利亚时代著名的苏格兰评论家、讽刺作家和历史学家ThomasCarlyle(托马斯·卡莱尔)的作品，和爱尔兰戏剧复兴运动并没有直接关系。

3 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 Romance是中世纪非常流行的一种文体，描写的是骑士们的爱情和冒险故事。

4 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】作为玄学派的代表诗人，约翰·多恩以其奇妙大胆的想象和暗喻著称。

5 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】这两行诗的意思是：我突然看见一簇簇、一丛丛金黄的水仙。

“host”在诗中指的是大量、很多。

6 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】梭罗是美国先验主义作家之一，其代表作是Walden(《瓦尔登湖》)。

选项A《厄舍古屋的倒塌》是Edgar Allan Poe(爱伦·坡)的作品；选项B 《塞拉斯·拉帕姆的发迹》是William Dean Howells(豪威尔斯)的小说；选项D《睡谷传奇》的作者是Washington，Irving(华盛顿·欧文)。

7 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】《马丁·伊登》是杰克·伦敦非常著名的一部小说。

选项A《红色英勇勋章》是StephenCrane(斯蒂芬·克莱恩)的作品；选项B《章鱼》是Frank Norris(弗兰克·诺里斯)的代表作；选项C《镀金时代》是Mark Twain(马克·吐温)的第一部长篇小说。

8 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】“奴隶的梦”是朗费罗的一首名诗。

选项A“乌鸦”是爱伦·坡的名诗；选项B的作者是艾米丽·狄金森；选项C是Philip Freneau(菲利普·弗雷诺)的一首诗。

7全国自考英美文学选读试题及答案解析

全国2018年7月自学考试英美文学选读试题课程代码：00604全部题目用英文作答，并将答案写在答题纸相应位置上PART ONE (40 POINTS)Ⅰ. Multiple Choice(40 points in all, 1 for each)Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.1. T. S. Eliot’s ______ is a poem of dramatic monologue and a prelude to The Waste Land,helping to point up the continuity of Eliot’s thinking.A. “Prufrock”B. “Gerontion”C. The Hollow MenD. Four Quartets2. Defoe’s group of four novels are the first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower-class people. They are the following EXCEPT ______.A. Captain SingletonB. Moll FlandersC. RoxanaD. Robinson Crusoe3. Charles Dickens’ novel, ______, is famous for its vivid descriptions of the work-house and life of the underworld in the nineteenth-century London.A. The Pickwick PaperB. Oliver TwistC. David CopperfieldD. Nicholas Nickleby4. D. H. Lawrence’s autobiographical novel is ______.A. The RainbowB. Women in LoveC. Sons and LoversD. Lady Chatterley’s Lover5. Jonathan Swift’s greatest satiric work is ______.A. A Tale of a TubB. The Battle of the BooksC. Gulliver’s Travel sD. A Modest Proposal6. Dickens’best- depicted characters are the following. EXCEPT ______.1A. innocent, virtuous, persecuted and helpless child charactersB. horrible and grotesque charactersC. broadly humorous or comical charactersD. simple, innocent and faithful women characters7. George Bernard Shaw’s ______ explored his idea of “Life Force”, the power that would create superior beings to be equal to God and to solve all the social, moral, and metaphysical problems of human society.A. Man and SupermanB. The Apple CartC. PygmalionD. Too True to Be Good8. For his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel, ______ has been r egarded as “Father of the English Novel”.A. Daniel DefoeB. Jonathan SwiftC. Henry FieldingD. Oliver Goldsmith9. Charlotte Bronte’s autobiograghical work ______ largely based on her experience in Brussels.A. The ProfessorB. ShirleyC. VilletteD. Jane Eyre10. D. H. Lawrence’s artistic tendency is mainly ______ , which combines dramatic scenes withan authoritative commentary.A. romanticismB. realismC. naturalismD. modernism11. In ______ opinion, human nature is seriously and premanently flawed. To better human life,enlightenment is needed, but to redress it is very hard.A. Daniel Defo e’sB. Charles Dickens’C. Jonathan Swift’sD. Henry Fielding’s12. The major theme of Jane Austen’s novels is ______ toward which she holds on a practicalidealism.A. love and moneyB. marriage and moneyC. love and familyD. love and marriage13. Ha rdy’s ______ is a fierce attack on the hypocritical morality of the bourgeois society and thecapitalist invasion into the country and destruction of the English peasantry towards the end of2the century.A. Tess of the D’UrbervillesB. The Mayor of Caste BridgeC. The Return of the NativeD. Jude the Obscure14. Henry Fielding adopted “______” to relate a story in his novel in which the author becomesthe “all- knowing God”.A. the first- person narrationB. the epistolary formC. the picaresque formD. the third -person narration15. In ______ , Shelley created a Platonic symbol of the spirit of man, a force of beauty andregeneration.A. “To a Skylark”B. “The Cloud”C. “Ode to Liberty”D. Adonais16. The success of ______ is also due to its introduction to the English novel the first governessheroine.A. The ProfessorB. Jane EyreC. Wuthering HeightsD. Far from the Madding Crowd17. John Milton’s ______ is the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature sinceBeowulf.A. Paradise LostB. Paradise RegainedC. Samson AgonistesD. Areopagitica18. Wordsworth’s ______ is perhaps the most anthologized poem in English literature.A. “To a Skylark”B. “I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud”C. “An Evening Walk”D. “My Heart Leaps Up”19. As the best of Shakespeare’s final romances, ______ is a typical example of his pessimisticview towards human life and society in his late years.A. The TempestB. The Winter’s TaleC. CymbelineD. The Rape of Lucrece20. The major representatives of the poetic revolution in English Romantic period were SamuelTaylor Coleridge and ______.A. William BlakeB. William WordsworthC. John KeatsD. Percy Bysshe Shelley321. Samson Agonistes by ______ is the most perfect example of the verse drama after the Greekstyle in English.A. John MiltonB. William BlakeC. Henry FieldingD. William Wordsworth22. The declaration that “I know that This World is a World of IMAGINA TION & Vision,” andt hat “The Nature of my work is visionary or imaginative” belongs to ______.A. William BlakeB. William WordsworthC. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD. George Gordon Byron23. Two people could be “twain yet one” : their paths could be different, and yet they couldachieve a kind of transcendent contact, ______ believed.A. Walt WhitmanB. Ezra PoundC. Washington IrvingD. Nathaniel Hawthorne24. Most literary critics think that Fitzgerald is both an insider and an outsider of ______ with adouble vision.A. the Jazz AgeB. the Age of Reason and RevolutionC. the Babybooming AgeD. the Post- Modern Age25. The Nobel Prize Committee highly praised ______ for “his powerful styleforming mastery ofthe art” of creating mode rn fiction.A. T. S. EliotB. Ernest HemingwayC. William FaulknerD. Mark Twain26. 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 Fitzgerald27. In 1841, ______ went to the South Seas on a whaling ship, where he gained the first- handinformation about whaling that he used later in Moby -Dick.A. Herman MelvilleB. Nathaniel HawthorneC. Robert Lee FrostD.T.S. Eliot28. In most of his writings, ______ deliberately broke up the chronology of his narrative byjuxtaposing the past with the present, in the way the montage does in a movie.4A. Walt WhitmanB. William FaulknerC. Ernest HemingwayD.F. Scott Fitzgerald29. In 1950, one of the leading American writers ______ was awarded the Nobel Prize for theanti-racist Intruder in the Dust.A. Robert FrostB. Theodore DreiserC. William FaulknerD.F. Scott Fitzgerald30. Walt Whitman ’s ______ is a collection of poems incorporating his emotions and feelingsbefore and during the Civil War when he stood firmly on the side of the North.A. Leaves of GrassB. “Cavalry Crossing a Ford”C. “Song of Myself”D. Drum Taps31. It was his masterpiece The Great Gatsby that made ______ one of the greatest Americannovelists.A. F. Scott FitzgeraldB. William FaulknerC. Ernest HemmingwayD. Gertrude Steinbeck32. The childhood of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn in the Mississippi is a record of a vanished wayof life in the ______ Mississippi valley.A. pre - War of IndependenceB. post - War of IndependenceC. pre - Civil WarD. post - Civil War33. In Moby-Dick, for the character Ahab, the white whale represents only ______.A. evilB. natureC. societyD. purity34. Melville’s semi- autobiographical novel, ______, concerns the sufferings of a genteel youthamong brutal sailors.A. Moby-DickB. RedburnC. MardiD. Typee35. Closely related to Dickinson’s religious poetry are her poems concerning ______, rangingover the physical as well as the psychological and emotional aspects of death.A. love and natureB. death and universeC. death and immortalityD. family and happiness36. The effect of Darwinist idea of “survival of the fittest” was shattering in ______ ’s fictional5world of jungle, where “kill or to be killed” was the law.A. Mark TwainB. Henry JamesC. Theodore DreiserD. Walt Whitman37. Though Robert Frost’s subject matters mainly focus on the landscape and people in ______,he wrote many poems that investigate the basic themes of man’s life in his long poetic career.A. the SouthB. the WestC. EnglandD. New England38. Like all naturalists, ______ was restrained from finding a solution to the social problems thatappeared in his novels and accordingly almost all his works have tragic endings.A. Theodore DreiserB. Henry JamesC. Washington IrvingD. Walt Whitman39. “The Birthmark” drives home symbolically Hawthorne’s point that ______ is man’s birthmark,something he is born with.A. purityB. generosityC. evilD. love40. The Blithedale Romance is a novel ______ wrote to reveal his own experiences on the BrookFarm and his own methods as a psychological novelist.A. Herman MelvilleB. Nathaniel HawthorneC. Washington IrvingD. Walt WhitmanPART TWO (60 POINTS)Ⅱ. Reading Comprehension ( 16 points in all, 4 for each)Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.41. “To be, or not to be——that is the question;Whether ’ti s nobler in the mind to sufferThe slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,And by opposing end them?”Questions:6A. Who is the writer of this work? What’s the title of the work?B. What does the phrase “to take arms against a sea of troubles ” mean?C. How do you understand the quotation “To be, or not to be -that is the question”?42. “Beside a pumice isle in Baiae’s bay,And saw in sleep old palaces and towersQuivering within the wave’s intenser day,All overgrown with azure moss and flowersSo sweet, the sense faints picturing them! ThouFor whose path the Atlantic’s level powers”(From Shelley’s“ Ode to the West Wind”)Questions:A. In what form is the poem written?B. What does the quotation“ the sense faints picturing them” mean?C. What idea does Shelley express in this poem?43. “ We passed the School, where Children stroveAt Recess- in the Ring-We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain -We Passed the Setting Sun- ”( From Emily Dickinson’s poe m Because I could not stop for Death)Questions:A. What does the phrase “Fields of Gazing Grain” symbolize?B. What figure of speech is used in the poem?C. What are Dickinson’s unique writing features?44. (A lot of common objects have been enumerated in the previous lines, and here are the lasttwo lines of the poem. )“The horizon’s edge, the flying sea - crow, the fragrance of salt marsh and shore mud.These became part of that child who went forth every day, and who now goes, and will always go fort h every day. ”Questions:A. Who is the author of this poem? What is the title of the poem?7B. What does the child stand for in the poem?C. How do you understand “ These became part of the child” ?Ⅲ. Questions and Answers (24 points in all, 6 for each)Give a brief answer to each of the following questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.45. What are the features of George Bernard Shaw’s characterization in his plays?46. Thomas Hardy is often regarded as a transitional writer. Some critics believe that he isemotionally traditional and intellectually advanced. How do you understand this idea?47. What is the most famous theme in Henry James’s fiction? And what is his favourate approachin characterization, which makes him different from Mark Twain and W. D. Howlles as realists? Give two titles of his works of his first period in which this theme and this approach are employed.48. “Young Goodman Brown”is one of Hawthorne’s most profound tales.What is the allegorical meaning of Brown, the protagonist? What does Hawthorne set out to prove in this tale? How does Melville comment on Hawthorne’s manner of concerning with guilt and evil?IV. Topic Discussion(20 points in all, 10 for each)Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.49. Please elaborate Wordsworth’s theory of poetry, taking examples from the poems you havelearned to support your ideas.50. A Rose for Emily is one of Faulkner’s short stories. Discuss the character of Emily Griersonand how this character is depicted.8。

英美文学选读试题及答案

英美文学选读试题Ⅰ.Multiple Choice (40 points in all, 1 for each)Select from the four choices [A],[B],[C],[D] of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement and write the letter on the answer sheet.1.Romance,which uses narrative verse or prose to tell stories of ___ adventures or other heroic deeds, is a popular literary form in the medieval period.A.Christian2.Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his production of ___.A.Piers PlowmanB.Sir Gawain and the Green KnightC.Confessio AmantisD.The Canterbury Tales3.Which of the following historical events does not directly help to stimulate the rising of the Renaisssance Movement?A.The rediscovery of ancient Greek and Roman culture.B.The new discoveries in geography and astrology.C.The Glorious revolution.D.The religious reformation and the economic expansion.4.Which of the following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare's Sonnet 18?A.The speaker eulogizes the power of Nature.B.The speaker satirizes human vanity.C.The speaker praises the power of artistic creation.D.The speaker meditates on man's salvation.5.“And we will sit upon the rocks,/Seeing the shepherds f eed their flocks,/By shallow rivers to whose falls/Melodious birds sing madrigals.〞The above lines are probably taken from __.A.Spenser's The Faerie QueeneB.John Donne's “The Sun Rising〞C.Shakespeare's “Sonnet 18”D.Marlowe's “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love〞6.“Bassanio:Antonio,I am married to a wifeWhich is as dear to me as life itself;But life itself, My wife, and all the world.Are not with me esteem'd above thy life;I would lose all, ay, sacrifice them all,Here to the devil, to deliver you.Portia:Your wife would give you little thanks for that,If she were by to hear you make the offer.〞The above is a quotation taken from Shakespeare's comedy The Merchant of Venice.The quoted part can be regarded as a good example to illustrate ____.A.dramatic irony7.The ture subject of John Donne's poem,“The Sun Rising,〞is to ___.A.attack the sun as an unruly servantB.give compliments to the mistress and her power of beautyC.criticize the sun's intrusion into the lover's private lifeD.lecture the sun on where true royalty and riches lie8.Of all the 18thcentury novelists Henry Fielding was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specificall y a “___ in prose,〞the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.A.tragic epic B ic epicC.romanceD.lyric epic9.The Houyhnhnms depicted by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels are ___.A.horses that are endowed with reasonB.pigmies that are endowed with admirable qualitiesC.giants that are superior in wisdomD.hairy,wild, low and despicable creatures, who resemble human beings not only in appearance but also in some other ways.10.Here are four lines from a literary work:“Others for language all their care express,/And value books,as women men, for dress.〞The work is ___.A.Thomas Gray's “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard〞B.John Milton's Paradise LostC.Alexander Pope's Essay on CriticismD.Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream11.The phrase “to urge people to abide by Christian doctrines and to seek salvation through constant struggles with their own weaknesses and all kinds of social evils〞may well sum up the implied meaning of ___.A.Gulliver's TravelsB.The Rape of the LockC.Robinson CrusoeD.The pilgrim's Progress12.William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following EXCEPT ___.A.the use of everyday language spoken by the common peopleB.the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelingsC.the use of humble and rustic life as subject matterD.the use of elegant wording and inflated figures of speech13.Which of the following is taken from John Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn〞?A.“I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!〞B.“They are both gone up to the church to pary.〞C.“Earth has not anything to show more fair.〞D.“Beauty is truth, truth beauty〞.14.“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind!〞is an epigrammatic line by __.A.J.KeatsB.W.BlakeC.W.Wordsworth15.“Ode o na Grecian Urn〞shows the contrast between the ___ of art and the ___ of human passion.A.glory …uglinessB.permanence…transienceC.transience…sordidnessD.glory…permanence16.In the statement“—oh,God! would you like to live with your soul in the grave?〞the term“soul〞apparently refers to ___.A.Heathcliff himselfC.one's spiritual lifeD.one's ghost17.The typical feature of Robet Browning's poetry is the ___.A.bitter satirerger-than-life caricaturetinized dictionD.dramatic monologue18.The Victorian Age was largely an age of ____,eminently represented by Dickens and Thackeray.A.poetryB.drama D.epic prose19.___is the first important governess(家庭女教师) novel in the English literary history.A.Jane EyreHeights20.The major concern of ______ fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature.wrence'sB.J.Galsworthy'sC.W.Thackeray’sD.T.Hardy’s21.___is considered to be the best-known English dramatist since Shakespeare, and his representative works are plays inspired by social criticism.A.Richard SheridanB.Oliver GoldsmithC.Oscar WildeD.Bernard Shaw22.Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Modernism?A.To elevate the individual and inner being over the social being.B.To put the stress on traditional values.C.To portray the distorted and alienated relationships between man and his environment.D.To advocate a conscious break with the past.23.The Romantic writers would focus on all the following issues EXCEPT the ___ in the American literary histrory.A.individual feelingsB.idea of survival of the fittestC.strong imaginationD.return to nature24.Henry David Thoreau's work,__,has always been regarded as a masterpiece of New England Transcendentalism.B.The pioneersC.NatureD.Song of Myself25.The famous 20-years sleep in “Rip Van Winkle〞helps to construct the story in such a way that we are greatly affected by Irving's ___.A.concern with the passage of timeB.expression of transient beautyC.satire on laziness and corruptibility of human beingsD.idea about supernatural manipulation of man's life26.Walt whitman was a pioneering figure of American poetry.His innovation first of all lies in his use of __,poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.A.blank verseB.heroic coupletC.free verseD.iambic pentameter27.The literary characters of the American type in early 19th century are generally characterized by all the following features EXCEPT that they ___.A.speak local dialectsB.are polite and elegant gentlemenC.are simple and crude farmersD.are noble savages( red and white) untainted by society28.Hester Pryme, Dimmsdale,Chillingworth and Pearl are most likely the names of the characters in ___.A.The Scarlet LetterB.The House of the Seven GablestC.The Portrait of a LadyD.The pioneers29.“This is my letter to the World〞is a poetic expression of Emily Dickinson's __ about her communication with the outside world.A.indifferenceB.anger30.With Howells,James,and Mark Twain active on the literary scene, __ became the major trend in American literature in the seventies and eighties of the 19thcentury.31.After The adventures of Tom Sawyer, Twain gives a literary independence to Tom's buddy Huck in a book entitled ___.A.Life on the MississippiB.The Gilded AgeC.The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnD.A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court32.However,___,the keynote of Daisy Miller's character,turns out to be an admiring but a dangerous quality and her defiance of social taboos in the Old World finally brings her to a disaster in the clash between two different cultures.C.worldliness33.Generally speaking,all those writers with a naturalistic approach to human reality tend to be ___.A.transcendentalists34.Emily Dickinson wrote many short poems on various aspects of life.Which of the following is NOT a usual subject of her poetic expression?A.Religion and immortality.B.Life and death.C.Love and marriage.D.War and peace.35.In “After Apple-Picking,〞Robert Frost wrote:“For I have had too much/Of applepicking:I am overtired/Of the great harvestI myself desired.〞From these lines we can conclude that the speaker is ___.A.happy about the harvestB.still very much interested in apple-pickingC.expecting a greater harvestD.indifferent to what he once desired36.Chinese poetry and philosophy have exerted great influence over ____.A.Ezra PoundB.Ralph Waldo EmersonC.Robert FrostD.Emily Dickinson37.The Hemingway Code heroes are best remembered for their __.A.indestructible spirtieB.pessimistic view of life38.IN The Emperor Jones and The Hairy Ape,O'Neill adopted the expressionist techniques to portray the ___ of human beings in a hostile universe.A.helpless situationC.profound religious faithD.courage and perseverance39.In Hemingway's “Indian Cmap〞,Nick's night trip to the Indian village and his experience inside the hut can be taken as ____.A.an essential lesson about Indian tribesB.a confrontation with evil and sinC.an initiation to the harshness of lifeD.a learning process in human relationship40.which of the following statements about Emily Grierson, the protagonist in Faulkner's story “A Rose for Emily,〞is NOT true?A.She has a distorted personality.B.She is physically deformed and paralyzed.C.She is the symbol of the old values of the South.D.She is the victim of the past glory.PART TWOⅡ.Reading Comprehension (16 points, 4 for each)Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English.Write your answer in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.41.“Her eyes met his and he looked away.He neither believed nor disbelieved her,but he knew that he had made a mistake in asking;he never had known,never would know,what she was thinking.The sight of her inscrutable face,the thought of all the hundreds of evenings he had seen her sitting there like that,soft and passive,but so unreadable, unknown, enraged him beyond measure.〞Questions:A.Identify the writer and the work.B.What does the phrase “inscrutable face〞mean?C.What idea does the quoted passage express?42.“And when I am formulated,sprawling on a pin,When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall.Then how should beginTo spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways.〞Questions:A.Identify the poem and the poet.B.What does the phrase “butt-ends〞mean?C.What idea does the quoted passage express?43.“God knows,…I'm not myself—I'm somebody else—…and I'm changed,and I can't tell what's my name,or who I am.〞Questions:A.Identify the work and the author.B.The speaker says he is changed.Do you think he is changed, or the social environment has changed?C.What idea does the quoted sentence express?44.“I shall be telling this wi th a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference.〞Questions:A.Idenfity the poem and the poet.B.What does the phrase “ages and ag es hence〞mean?C.What idea does the quoted passage express?Ⅲ.Questions and Answers(24 points in all, 6 for each)Give brief answers to each of the following questions in English.Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.45.As a rule,an allegory is story in verse or prose with a double meaning: a surface meaning,and an implied meaning.List two works as examples of allegory.What is an allegory usually concerned with by its implied meaning?46.Inspiration for the romantic approach initially came from two great shapers of thought.Who are the two?And what ideas they expressed inspire the romantic writers?47.The white whale,Moby Dick,is the most important symbol in Melville's novel.What symbolic meaning can you draw from it?48.Nature is a philosophic work, in which Emerson gives an explicit discussion on his idea of the Qversoul.What is your understanding of Emersonian “Oversoul〞?Ⅳ.Topic Discussion(20 points in all, 10 for each)Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.49.How is Romanticism different from Neoclassicism?Provide brief evidence from the literary works you know best.50.Summerize the story of Mark twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in about 100 words,and comment on the theme of the novel.Ⅱ.Reading Comprehension (16 points, 4 for each)41.A.John Galasworthy:The Man of Property.B.A face does not show any emotion or reaction so that it is impossible to know how that person is feeling or what he is thinking about.C.it presents the inner mind of Soames in face of his wife's coldness.He can never know what is on his wife's mind because the makeup of his and her mentality is different.His wife Irene, whose mind is romantically inclined, is disgusted with her husband's possessiveness.Being unable to read his wife's mind is as good as saying that he really can't regard her as his property- this is the very reason why he is enraged beyond measure.42.A.T.S.Eliot:“The Love So ng of J.Alfred Pruforck.〞B.The ends of cigarettes,meaning trivial things here.C.Here,Prufrock's inability to do anything against the society he is in is made strikingly clear by using a sharp comparison .Prufrock imagines himself as a kind of insect pinned on the wall and struggling in vain to get free.This image vividly shows Prufrock's current predicament.43.A.Washington Irving:“Rip Van Winkle〞.B.The social environment is changed.C.When Rip is back home after a period of 20 years,he finds thta everything has changed.All those old values are gone,and he can hardly feel at home in a changed society.One of the functions that Rip serves in the story is to provide a measuring stick forchange.It is through him that Irving drives home the theme that a desire for change,improvement,and progress could subvert stable society.44.A.Robert Frost:“The Road Not Taken〞.B.Many many years later.C.The speaker is telling his experience of making the choice of the roads.But he is conscious of the fact that his choice will have made all the difference in his life.He seems to be giving a suggestion to the reader.“Make good choice of your life.〞Ⅲ.Questions and Answers (24 points in all,6 for each)45.A.Buyan's pilgrim's Progress and Spenser's The Faerie Queene.B.It is usually concerned with moral ,religious,political,symbolic or mythical ideas.46.A.The French philosopher,Jean Jacques Rousseau and the German writer Johna Wolfgan von Goethe.B.It is Rousseau who established the cult of the individual and championed the freedom of the human spirit;his famous announcement was “I felt before I thought.〞Goethe and his compatriots extolled the romantic spirit.47.A.To Ahab,the whale is either an evil creature itself or the agent of an evil force that controls the universe,or perhaps both.B.To Ishmale,the whale is an astonishing force,an immense power,which defies rational explanation due to a sense of mystery it carries.It is beautiful,but malignant at the same time.It also represents the tremendous organic vitality of the universe,for it has a life force that surges onward irresistibly, impervious to the desires or wills of men.C.As to the reader, the whale can be viewed as a symbol of the physical limits that life imposes upon man.It may also be regarded as a symbol of nature, or an instrument of God's vengeance upon evil man.In general,the multiplicity and ambivalence of the symbolic meaning of the whale is such that it becomes a source of intense speculation, an object or profound curiosity for the reader.48.A.The Oversoul is believed to be an all-pervading power for goodness,omnipresent and omnipotent from which all things come and of which all are a part.It exists in nature and man alike and constitutes the chief element of the universe.B.According to Emerson,it is a supreme reality of mind, a spiritual unity of all beings, and a religion regarded as an emotional communication between an individual soul and the universal Over-soul of which it is a part.C.He holds that intuition is a more certain way of knowing than reason and that the mind could intuitively perceive the existence of the Oversoul and of certain absolutes.Ⅳ.Topic Discussion (20 points in all, 10 for each)49.a.Neoclassicists upheld that artistic ideals should be order,logic,restrained emoticon and accuracy,and that literature,should be judged in terms of its service to humanity,and thus,literary expressions should be of proportion,unity,harmony and grace.Pope's An Essay on Criticism advocates grace,wit (usually though satire/humour),and simplicity in language(and the poem itself is a demonstration of those ideals,too);Fielding's Tom Jones helped establish the form of novel;Gray's “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' displays elegance in style,unified structure,serious tone and moral instructions.b.Romanticists tended to see the individual as the very center of all experience,including art,and thus,literary work should be “spontaneous overflow of strong feelings,〞and no matter how fra gmentary those experiences were (Wordsworth's “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,〞or “The Solitary Reaper,) or Coleridge's “Keble Khan〞),the value of the work lied in the accuracy of presenting those unique feelings and particular attitudes.c.In a word, Neoclassicism emphasized rationality and form but Romanticism attached great importance to the individual's mind (emotion, imagination, temporary experience…)50.A.Mark Twain's novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a Sequa to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.The Story takes place along the Mississippi River before the Civil War in the United States, around 1850.Along the river, floats a small raft, with two people on it; One is an ignorant,uneducated black slave named Jim and the other is little uneducated outcast white boy about the age of thirteen, called Huckleberry Finn or Huck Finn.The novel relates the story of the escape of Jim from slavery and ,more important, how Huck Finn, floating along with Jim and helping him as best he could, changes his mind ,his prejudice, about Black people, and comes to accept Jim as a man and as a close friends as well.During their journey, they experience a series of adventures:coming across two frauds, the “Duke〞and the “King〞,witnessing the lynching and murder of a harmless drunkard, being lost in a fog and finally Tom's coming to rescue. B.The theme of the novel may be best summed in a word “freedom〞: Huck wants to escape from the bond of civilization andJim wants to escape from the yoke of slavery.Mark Twain uses the raft's journey down the Mississippi River to express his thematic contrasts between innocence and experience, nature and culture, wilderness and civilizati。

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全国2009年7月高等教育自学考试英美文学选读试题课程代码：00604请将答案填在答题纸相应的位置上（全部题目用英文作答）PART ONE (40 POINTS)I．Multiple Choice(40 points in all, 1 for each)Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.1. The first mass movement of the English working class and the early sign of the awakening of the poor, oppressed people is_____.A. The Enclosure MovementB. The Protestant ReformationC. The Enlightenment MovementD. The Chartist Movement P2332. Daniel Defoe’s works are all the following EXCEPT_____.A. Moll FlandersB. A Tale of a Tub P97 Jonathan SwiftC. A Journal of the Plague YearD. Colonel Jack×3. “Metaphysical Poetry” refers to the works of the 17th - century writers who wrote under the influence of _____.A. John Donne P63B. Alexander PopeC. Christopher MarloweD. John Milton4. The most important play among Shakespeare’s comedies is _____.A. A Midsummer Night’s DreamB. The Merchant of Venice P32C. As You Like ItD. Twelfth Night5. The most perfect example of the verse drama after Greek style in English is Milton’s _____.A. Paradise LostB. Paradise RegainedC. Samson Agonistes P71D. Areopagitica6. Which of the following descriptions of Enlightenment Movement is NOT true?A. It was a progressive intellectual movement that flourished in France.B. It was a furtherance of the Renaissance of the 15th and 16th centuries.C. The purpose was to enlighten the whole world with moderu philosophical and artistic ideas.D. The Enlighteners advocate individual education. P80浙00604# 英美文学选读试卷第 1 页（共8 页）7. Neoclassicists had some fixed laws and rules for prose EXCEPT_____.A. being preciseB. being directC. being flexibleD. being satiric P828. A good style of prose“ proper works in proper places” was defined by_____.A. John MiltonB. Henry FieldingC. Jonathan Swift P107D.T.S. Eliot9. The major them e of Jane Austen’s novels is_____.A. love and moneyB. money and social statusC. social status and marriageD. love and marriage P22410. Wordsworth’s_____ is perhaps the most anthologized poem in English literature.A. “To a Skylark”B. “I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud”P177C. “An Evening Walk”D. “My Heart Leaps Up”11. William Blake’s work ______ marks his entry into maturity.A. Songs of ExperienceB. Marriage of Heaven and Hell P169C. Songs of InnocenceD. The Book of Los12. Best of all the Romantic well- known lyric pieces is Shelley’s_____.A. “The Cloud”B. “To a Skylark”C. “Ode to a Nightingale”D. “Ode to the West Wind”P20713. In the Victorian Period _____ became the most widely read and the most vital and challenging expression of progressive thought.A. poetryB. novel P236C. proseD. drama14. In Charles Dickens’early novels, he attacks one or more specific social evils, _____is a good example of describing the dehumanizing workhouse system and the dark, criminal underworld life.A. David CopperfieldB. Oliver Twist P239C. Great ExpectationsD. Dombey and Son15. Thomas Hardy’s most cheerful and idyllic work is_____.A. The Return of the NativeB. Far from the Maddin CrowdC. Under the Greenwood Tree P300D. The Woodlanders浙00604# 英美文学选读试卷第 2 页（共8 页）16. The rise of _____ and new science greatly incited modernist writers to make new explorations on human natures and human relationships.A. the existentialistic ideaB. the irrational philosophy P312C. scientific socialismD. social Darwinism17. In Modern English literature, the literary interest of _____lay in the tracing of the psychological development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehu-manizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature.A. George Bernard ShawB.T.S. EliotC. Oscar WildeD.D.H. Lawrence P31718. George Bernard Shaw’s _____is a better play of the later period, with the author’s almost nihilistic bitterness on the subjects of the cruelty and madness of WWI and the aimlessness and disillusion of the young.A. Too True to Be Good P323B. Mrs. Warren’s ProfessionC. Widowers’HousesD. Fanny’s First Play19. Renaissance first started in Italy, with the flowering of the following fields EXCEPT_____.A. architecture P7B. paintingC. sculptureD. literature20. English Romanticism,as a historical phase of literature,is generally said to have begun with the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge’s_____.A. Poetical SketchesB. A Defence of PoetryC. Lyrical Ballads P157D. The Prelude21. Charlotte Bront e ’s work _____ is famous for the depiction of the life of the middle - class working women, particularly governesses.A. Jane Eyre P259B. Wuthering HeightsC. The ProffessorD. Shirley22. The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot is a poem concerned with the _____ breakup of a modern civilization in which human life has lost its meaning, significance and purpose.A. spiritual P360B. religiousC. politicalD. physical浙00604# 英美文学选读试卷第 3 页（共8 页）23. Perhaps Emily Dickinson’s greatest interpretation of the moment of _____ is to be found in “I heard a Fly buzz--when I died—”, a poem universally regarded as one of her masterpieces.A. fantasyB. birthC. crisisD. death P518×24. The fiction of the American _____ period ranges from the comic fables of Washing-ton Irving to the social realism of Rebecca Harding Davis.A. Romantic P420B. RevolutionaryC. ColonialD. Modernistic25. The modern _____ technique was frequently and skillfully exploited by Faulkner to emphasize the reactions and inner musings of the narrator.A. stream - of - consciousness P616B. flashbackC. mosaicD. narrative and argumentative26. By means of “_____,” Whitman believed, he has turned the poem into an openfield, an area of vital possibility where the reader can allow his own imagination to play.A. balanced structureB. free verse P450C. fixed verseD. regular rhythm27. In 1954, _____ was awarded the Nobel Prize for “his powerful style -forming mas tery of the art” of creating modern fiction.A. Ernest Hemingway P603B. Sherwood AndersonC. Stephen CraneD. Henry James28. The period ranging from 1865 to 1914 has been referred to as the Age of _____ in the literary history of the United States, which is actually a movement or tendency that dominated the spirit of American literature.A. RationalismB. RomanticismC. Realism P471D. Modernism29. When he was eighty - seven he read his poetry at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy in 1961. This poet was_____.A. Ezra PoundB. Robert Frost P560C. E. E. CummingsD. Wallace Stevens30. The renowned American critic H. L. Mencken regarded _____ as “the true father of our浙00604# 英美文学选读试卷第 4 页（共8 页）national literature.”A. Bret HarteB. Walt WhitmanC. Washington IrvingD. Mark Twain P47731. We can easily find in Theodore Dreiser’s fiction a world of jungle, where “kill or to be killed” was the law. Dreiser’s _____ found expression in almost every book he wrote.A. naturalism P526B. romanticismC. cubismD. classicalism32. A preoccupation with the Calvinistic view of _____ and the mystery of evil marked the works of Hawthorne, Melville and a host of lesser writers.A. love and mercyB. bitterness and hatredC. original sin P401D. eternal life33. “He possessed none of the usual aids to a writer’ s career: no money, no friend in power, no formal education worthy of mention, no family tradition in letters. ” This is a description most suitable to the American writer_____.A. Henry JamesB. Theodore Dreiser P524C. W.D. Howells D. Nathaniel Hawthorne34. People generally considered _____ to be Henry James’ masterpiece, which incar nates the clash between the Old World and the New in the life journey of an American girl in a European cultural environment.A. The EuropeansB. Daisy MillerC. The Portrait of A Lady P496D. The Private Life35. The Jazz Age of the 1920s characterized by frivolity and carelessness is brought vividly to life in_______.A. The Great Gatsby P548B. The Sun Also RisesC. The Grapes of WrathD. Tales of the Jazz Age36. Guided by the principle of adhering to the truthful treatment of life, the American _______ introduced industrial workers and farmers, ambitious businessmen and vagrants, prostitutes and unheroic soldiers as major characters in fiction.A. romanticistsB. modernistsC. psychologistsD. realists P473浙00604# 英美文学选读试卷第 5 页（共8 页）37. The American literary spokesman of the Jazz Age is often acclaimed to be_______.A. Henry JamesB. Robert FrostC. William FaulknerD.F. Scott Fitzgerald P57738. By writing Moby - Dick, _______ reached the most flourishing stage of his literary creativity.A. Herman Melville P459B. Edgar Ellen PoeC. William FaulknerD. Theodore Dreiser39. 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. Light in AugustB. The Sound and the Fur y P614C. Absalom, Absalom!D. The Hamlet40. Hawthorne was not a Puritan himself, but his view of man and human history origina ted, to a great extent, in_______.A. CalvinismB. Puritanism P432C. RealismD. NaturalismPART TWO (60 POINTS)Ⅱ. Reading Comprehension (16 points in all, 4 for each)Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.41. Behold her, single in the field,Yon solitary Highland lass!Reaping and singing by herself;Stop here, or gently pass!Alone she cuts and binds the grain,And sings a melancholy strain;O listen! For the Vale profoundIs overflowing with the sound.Questions:B. What’ s浙00604# 英美文学选读试卷第 6 页（共8 页）浙00604# 英美文学选读试卷第 7 页（共 8 页）42. The following quotation is from Mrs. Warren ’s Profession :VIVIE: [ intensely interested by this time] No; but why did you choose that business?Saving money and good management will succeed in any business.MRS. W ARREN: Yes, saving money. But where can a woman get the money to save in any otherbusiness? Could you save out of four shillings a week and keep yourself dressed as well? No t you. Of course, if you’ re a plain woman and cant earn anything more ; or if you have a turn for music, or the stage, or newspaper - writing ; that’s different... Questions :43. My little horse must think it queerTo stop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year. Questions:from which this stanza is taken. B. What figure of speech is used in this stanza? C. Briefly interpret the meaning of this stanza. 44. “Where are we going, Dad?” Nick asked.“Over to the Indian camp. There is an Indian lady very sick. ” “Oh,” said Nick.Across the bay they found the other boat beached. Uncle George was smoking a cigar in the dark. The young Indian pulled the boat way up on the beach. Uncle George gave both the Indians cigars. Questions :A. Identify the author and the title of the work from which the passage is taken. Ernest Hemingway ’s Indian CampB. What does Dad imply w hen he says “There is an Indian lady very sick”?C. Why is Dad going to the Indian camp?Ⅲ. Questions and Answers (24 points in all, 6 for each)Give a brief answer to each of the following 9uestions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.45. What’ s the literary style of Shelley as a Romantic poet?Shelly is one of the leading Romantic poet, and intense and original lyrical poet in the English language. H has a reputation as a difficult poet: erudite, imagistically complex, full of classical and mythologicall allusions. His style bounds in personification and metaphor and other fugures of speech which describe vividly what we see and feel, or exprss what passionately move us.46. What are the main features of Bernard Shaw’s plays with regard to the theme,charac-terization and plot?47. Henry James’literary criticism is an indispensable part of his contribution to literature. What’shis outlook in literary criticiam?48. Local colorism is a unique variation of American literary realism. Who is the most famouslocal colorist? What are local colorists most concerned?IV. Topic Discussion(20 points in all, 10 for each)Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.49. Define modernism in English literature. Name two major modernistic British writers and listone major work by each.50. Briefly discuss the term “The Lost Generation”and name the leading figures of this literarymovement (Give at least three).浙00604# 英美文学选读试卷第8 页（共8 页）。