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英美文学选读试题及答案1
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 feed their flocks,/By shallow rivers to whose falls/Melodious bird s 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 subjec t 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 a nd 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 applepi cking: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 with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference.〞Questions:A.Idenfity the poem and the poet.B.What does the phrase “ages and ages hence〞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 Song of J.Alfred Pruforck.〞B.The ends of cigarettes,meaning trivial things here.C.Here,Prufrock's inability to do anything against the society he is in is made strikingly clear by using a sharp comparison .Prufrock imagines himself as a kind of insect pinned on the wall and struggling in vain to get free.This image vividly shows Prufrock's current predicament.43.A.Washington Irving:“Rip Van Winkle〞.B.The social environment is changed.C.When Rip is back home after a period of 20 years,he finds thta everything has changed.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 for change. It is through him that Irving drives home the theme that a desire for change,improvement,and progress could subvert stable society.44.A.Robert Frost:“The Road Not Taken〞.B.Many many years later.C.The speaker is telling his experience of making the choice of the roads.But he is conscious of the fact that his choice will have made all the difference in his life.He seems to be giving a suggestion to the reader.“Make good choice of your life.〞Ⅲ.Questions and Answers (24 points in all,6 for each)45.A.Buyan's pilgrim's Progress and Spenser's The Faerie Queene.B.It is usually concerned with moral ,religious,political,symbolic or mythical ideas.46.A.The French philosopher,Jean Jacques Rousseau and the German writer Johna Wolfgan von Goethe.B.It is Rousseau who established the cult of the individual and championed the freedom of the human spirit;his famous announcement was “I felt before I thought.〞Goethe and his compatriots extolled the romantic spirit.47.A.To Ahab,the whale is either an evil creature itself or the agent of an evil force that controls the universe,or perhaps both.B.To Ishmale,the whale is an astonishing force,an immense power,which defies rational explanation due to a sense of mystery it carries. It is beautiful,but malignant at the same time. It also represents the tremendous organic vitality of the universe,for it has a life force that surges onward irresistibly, impervious to the desires or wills of men.C.As to the reader, the whale can be viewed as a symbol of the physical limits that life imposes upon man. It may also be regarded as a symbol of nature, or an instrument of God's vengeance upon evil man. In general,the multiplicity and ambivalence of the symbolic meaning of the whale is such that it becomes a source of intense speculation, an object or profound curiosity for the reader.48.A.The Oversoul is believed to be an all-pervading power for goodness,omnipresent and omnipotent from which all things come and of which all are a part. It exists in nature and 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 elega nce in style,unified structure,serious tone and moral instructions.b.Romanticists tended to see the individual as the very center of all experience,including art,and thus,literary work should be “spontaneous overflow of strong feelings,〞and no matter how fragmentary those experiences were (Wordsworth's “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,〞or “The Solitary Reaper,) or Coleridge's “Keble Khan〞),the value of the work lied in the accuracy of presenting those unique feelings and particular attitudes.c.In a word, Neoclassicism emphasized rationality and form but Romanticism attached great importance to the individual's mind (emotion, imagination, temporary experience…)50.A.Mark Twain's novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a Sequa to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.The Story takes place along the Mississippi River before the Civil War in the United States, around 1850.Along the river, floats a small raft, with two people on it; One is an ignorant,uneducated black slave named Jim and the other is little uneducated outcast white boy about the age of thirteen, called Huckleberry Finn or Huck Finn.The novel relates the story of the escape of Jim from slavery and ,more important, how Huck Finn, floating along with Jim and helping him as best he could, changes his mind ,his prejudice, about Black people, and comes to accept Jim as a man and as a close friends as well.During their journey, they experience a series of adventures:coming across two frauds, the “Duke〞and the “King〞,witnessing the lynching and murder of a harmless drunkard, being lost in a fog and finally Tom's coming to rescue. B. The theme of the novel may be best summed in a word “freedom〞: Huck wants to escape from the bond of civilization and Jim wants to escape from the yoke of slavery. Mark Twain uses the raft's journey down the Mississippi River to express his thematic contrasts between innocence and experience, nature and culture, wilderness and civilizati。
（完整版）《英美文学》练习题库及答案
（完整版）《英美文学》练习题库及答案I Of the four alternative answer, choose the one that would best complete the statement:1. Benjamin Franklin was born in the family of a small ___________ .A. LandlordB. merchantC. lawyerD. clergyman2. Ralph Waldo Emerson 'asdilneg reputation began with the publication of ___________ .A. EssaysB. NatureC. OversoulD. Self-Relience3. Ellen Poe was both a poet and a ____________________ .A. dramatistB. essayist C actor D. fiction writer.4. Nathaniel Hawthorne ' s view of man and human history originates in __________________ .A. PuritanismB. SocialismC. TranscendentalismD. naturalism5. Walt Whitman was born and brought up in a family of a _____________ .A. PeasantB. carpenterC. captainD. printer6. Mark Twain ' s first successful literary work is _____________________________ .A. The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras CountyB. Life on the MississippiC. The Adventure of Tom SawyerD. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn7. Closely related to Emily Dickinson ' s religious poetry are her poems concerning ________________A. ChildhoodB.youth and happinessC. lonelinessD. death and immortality8. Among the works of Dreiser, the bet known to the Chinese readers is _______________ .A. An American TragedyB. Sister CarrieC. Th FinancierD. The Titan9. Robert Frost ' s works mainly focus on the landscape and people in ___________________ .A. the WestB. American SouthC. New EnglandD. Mississippi10. Most of the plays Eugene O l w 'roNt e ilare ______________________ .A. comediesB. . romancesC. historical plays D tragedies11. Scott Fitzgerald is often acclaimed literary spokesman of the ____________________ .A. modern timeB. young AmericansC. Jazz AgeD. Guilded Age12. ____________________________ is Hemingway ' smasterpiece, which is about the old fishermanSantiago and his losing battle with a giant marlin.A. Farewell to ArmsB. For whom the Bell TollsC. The Sun Also RisesD. The Old Man and The Sea13. As a great fiction writer, William Faulker devotes most of his works to the description of the life and the people in the _______________________________ .A. American WestB. New England in AmericaC. American SouthD. American North14. When he was young, Benjamin Franklin became an apprentice in a ________________ .A. printing houseB. storeC. Tailor ' s shopD. factory15. Ralph Emerson was born in a family of a ___________________ .A. merchantB. businessmanC. clergymanD. writer16. Ellen Poe began his literary career by writing _________________ ;A. short storiesB. playsC. essaysD. poems17. According to Nathaniel Hawthorne, there is ________ in every hearer, which may remain latent, perhaps,英美文学》练习测试题库及答案本科through the whole life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.A. evilB. virtueC. kindn essD. tragedy18. Whitman is radically innovative in term of form of his poetry. What he prefers for his new subjects and new feeli ngs is ____________ .A. bla nk verseB. free verseC. heroic coupletD. sonnet19. Mark Twain shaped the world ' s view of America and made a comb in ati on of serious literature and _______A. America n folk humorB. En glish folkloreC. America n traditi onal valuesD. funny jokes20. Altogether, Emily Dick inson wrote ____ poems, of which only sever n had appeared duri ng her lifetime.A. 1145B. 1775C. 897D. 78521. Theodore Dreiser is gen erally ack no wledged as one of America' s literaryA. realistsB. n aturalistsC. roma ntistsD. modernists 22. In Frost ' s poems, images and metaphors in his poems are drawn from ___________________A. the simple country lifeB. the urba n lifeC. the life on the seaD. the adve ntures and trips23. Scott Fitzgerald never spared an intimate touch in his fiction to deal with the bankruptcy of the24. Eugene O ' Neill is regarded as the founder of American _____________________ .A. poetryB. dramaC. ficti onD. literature25. _________________ is Hemingway ' s masterpiece, which tellsa story about the tragic love of a woundecAmerican soldier with a British nurse.C. For Whom the Bell Tolls 26. William Faulk ner was born ina family of a ______________________ .A. mercha ntB. colonelC. man agerD. doctor27. In his essays, ______ p ut forward his philosophy of the over soul, the importa nt of the In dividual and Nature.A. Natha niel HawthorneB. Washi ngton IrvingC. Mark Twai nD. Ralph Waldo Emers on28. The chief spokesma n of New En gla nd Transcenden talism is _______A. Natha niel HawthorneB. Ralph Waldo Emers onC. Henry David ThoreauD. Wash ington Irvi ng29. _____ l iterary world turns out to be a most disturbed, tormented and problematical one, which has much to do with his black” vision of life and human beings.A. Herma n Melville'sB. Washi ngton Irvi ng'sC. Nathaniel Hawthorne'sD. Walt Whitman s30. Most of the poems in ____ sing of the en-masse and the self as well.A. Leaves of GrassB. Drum TapsC. North of Bost onD. The Can tos31. In ____ , Whitma n airs his sorrow at Preside nt Lin colnsdeath.A. Cavalry Crossing a FordB. A Pact ”C. When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom 'dD. There was a Child Went Forth ”A. America n DreamB. ruli ng classes B. America n Capitalists D.America n bourgeoisieA. A Farewell to ArmsB. The Sun Also RisesD. In Our Time32.In ___ , Whitman's own early experience may well be identified with the childhood of a young growingAmerica.A. “A Pact”B. “Song of Myself ”C. “There was a Child Went Forth”D. “Cavalry Crossing a Ford”33.In _____ , Hawthorne sets out to prove that everyone possesses some evil secret.A. “The Custom-House”B. “Young Goodman Brown”C. “Rappaccini's Daughter”D. “The Birthmark"34. _____ is called by Hemingway the one from which“all modern American literature c omes”.A. The adventures of Huckleberry FinnB. The Adventures of Tom aSwyerC. The Gilded AgeD. Life on the Mississippi35. Theodore Dreiser's forgiving treatment of the career of his heroine in ____ also draws heavily upon thenaturalistic understanding of sexuality.A McTeague B. An American Tragedy C. Sister Carri e D. The Genius36. _____ is a great giant of American, whom H.L.Mencken considers “the true father of our nationalliterature.”A. Henry JamesB. Washington IrvingC. Mark TwainD. Theodore Dreiser37. _____ is usually regarded as a classic book written for boys about their particular horrors and joys.A. The Adventures of Tom SawyerB. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnC. Innocents AbroadD. Life on the Mississippi38. _____ is described by Mark Twain as a boy with“a sound heart and a deformed conscienc”e.A. Tom SawyerB. Huckleberry FinnC. JimD.Tony39. _______ is considered to be Theodore Dreise'sr greatest work.A. An American TragedyB. Sister CarrieC. The FinancierD. The Titan40. The leading playwright of the modern period in American literature, if not the most successful in all hisexperiments, is ______A. Arthur MillerB. Tennessee WilliamC. George Bernard ShawD. Eugene O'Neil41. The well- known soliloquy by Hamlet “ T o be , or not to be ' shows hisA. hatred for his uncleB. love for lifeC. resolution of revengeD. inner- strife42. _______ is a play that concerns the problem of modern ma'sn identity.A. The Hairy ApeB. Long Day's Journey Into NightC. The Iceman ComethD. The Emperor Jones43.In a tragic sense, ______ is a representation of life as a struggle against unconquerable forces in whichonly a partial victory is possible.A. For Whom the Bell TollsB. In Our TimeC. The Old Man and the SeaD. A Farewell to Arms44. Faulkner once said that _________ is a story of “ lost innocence,'which proves itself to be andintensification of the theme of imprisonment in the past.A. The Sound and the FuryB. Light in AugustC. Go Down, MosesD. Absalom, Absalom! 45.In A Rose for Emily, Faulkner makes best use of the __________________________ devices in narration.A. RomanticB. RealisticC. GothicD. Modernist46. _____ is Hemingway's first true novel in which he depictsa vivid portrait of “The lost Generation.”A. The Sun Also RisesB. A Farewell to ArmsC. In Our TimeD. For Whom the Bell Tolls47. The only dramatist ever to win a Nobel Prize was _________ .A. Bernard ShawB. Eugene O'NeilC. Richard Brinsley SheridanD. William Shakespeare48. __________________________ By means of “free verse,” believes that he has turned the poem into anopen field, an area of vitalpossibility where the reader can allow his own imagination to play.A. Emily DickinsonB. Walt WhitmanC. Robert FrostD. Ezra Pound49. An eccentric woman who refuses to accept the passageoftime, or the inevitable change and loss thataccompanies it may probably refer to ______ .A. Irene in The Man of PropertyB. Emily in A Rose for EmilyC. Catherine in Wuthering HeightsD. the widow Douglas in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn50. One source of evil that Nathaniel Hawthorne is concerned most is overreaching intellect. Which of the following stories is one of this kind?A. Rappaccini's DaughterB. Young Goodman BrownC. The Minister's Black VeilD. The Birthmark51. “In your rocking-chair, by your window, shall you dream such happiness as you may never feel. ”This is the last sentence of __________ .A. Sister CarrieB. An American TragedyC. The GeniusD. Jane Eyre 52.In Walt Whitman's “There was a Child Went Forth”, the child refers to _________________________________________ .A. the poet himself as a childB. any American childC. the young AmericaD. one of the poet's neighbor53. The ______ techniques are used in some of Eugene O'Neil 's plays to highlight the theatrical effect of therupture between the two sides of an individual human being, the private and the public.A. naturalisticB. expressionisticC. stream-of-consciousnessD. metaphysical54. Which of the following is true as far as Emily Dickinson 's poetry is concerned? A. She seldom uses dashes.B. All her poems are about death or immorality.C. Her poems are very personal and meditativeD. Her poems usually have well-chosen titles. 55.In his poems, Whitman tends to use ___________________ .A. oral EnglishB. the King 's EnglishC. American EnglishD. old English56. As far as Nathaniel Hawthorne's art is concerned, which of the following statement is true? A. His The Scarlet Letter tells a love story.B. His art is deeply influenced by Puritanism because he was a puritan himself.C. Young Goodman Brownis a story about superstition.D. Ambiguity is one of the salient characteristics of his art.57. “I like to see it lap the Miles—And lick the Valleys up —And stop to feed itself at Tanks—And the n ---- ” (Emily Dick inson, “like to see it lap the Miles—)Here “it” refers to _____ .A. loveB. deathC. a flyD. the train58. Which of the following statements concerning Theodore Dreise'rs style is correct?A. Dreiser'sCowperwood trilogy includes The Financier, The Titan and The GeniusB. His novels have little detail descriptions of characters and events.C. His novels are written in refined language.D. His style is not polished but very serious.59. ____ has long been well known as a poet who can hardly be classified with the old or the new.A. Ezra PoundB. Robert Lee FrostC. T. S. EliotD. Emily Dickinson60. F. Scott Fitzgerald skillfully employs the device of having events observe by ___________ to his greatadvantage.。
2023年自考专业(英语)《英美文学选读》考试历年真题摘选附带答案
2023年自考专业(英语)《英美文学选读》考试历年真题摘选附带答案第1卷一.全考点综合测验(共20题)1.【单选题】The childhood of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn in the Mississippi is a record of a vanished way of life in the( )Mississippi valleyA.pre - War of IndependenceB.post - War of IndependenceC.pre - Civil WarD.post - Civil War2.【单选题】( )is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th —century “stream— of —consciousness ” novels and the founder of psychological realism.A.Theodore DreiserB.William FaulknerC.Henry JamesD.Mark Twain3.【单选题】William Faulkner set most of his works in the American( ),with his emphasis on the( )subjects and consciousness.A.North...NorthernB.East...EasternC.West...WesternD.South...Southern4.【单选题】Among the following writers( )is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th - century “stream - of - consciousness ” novels and the founder of psychological realism.A. T. S. EliotB.James JoyceC.William FaulknerD.Henry James5.【单选题】In 1950,one of the leading American writers( )was awarded the Nobel Prize for the anti-racist Intruder in the Dust.A.Robert FrostB.Theodore DreiserC.William FaulknerD.Fitzgerald6.【单选题】The attitude towards life that( )had been trying to demonstrate in his works is known as “grace under pressure ”.A.William FaulknerB.Theodore DreiserC.Ernest HemingwayD.F·Scott Fitzgerald7.【单选题】The Portrait of A Lady is generally considered to be( )masterpiece,which describes the life journey of an American( )in a European cultural environment.A.Henry Adams’…widowB.William James ’…girlC.Henry James’…girlD.Theodore Dreiser ’s…widow8.【单选题】“My last Duchess ” is a poem that best exemplifies Robert Browning ’s( ).A.sensitive ear for the sounds of the English languageB.excellent choice of wordsC.mastering of the metrical devicese of the dramatic monologue9.【单选题】Most literary critics think that Fitzgerald is both an insider and an outsider of( )with a double vision.A.the Jazz AgeB.the Age of Reason and RevolutionC.the Babybooming AgeD.the Post- Modern Age10.【单选题】Robert Frost is generally considered a regional poet whose subject matters mainly focus on the landscape and people in( ).A.the westB.the southC.AlaskaD.New England11.【单选题】Ezra Pound,a leading spokesman of the “( ) ”,was one of the most important poets in his time.A.Imagist MovementB.Cubist MovementC.Reformist MovementD.Transcendentalist Movement12.【单选题】What he had done is _______A.valueB.of valuableC.of no valueD.of no valuable13.【单选题】That is the house _______ you can enjoy the scenery.A. in thatB.thatC.whichD.from which14.【单选题】In the original test，all the animals in a test group are given a substance _______ half of them dieA.unlessB.untilC.lestD.provided15.【单选题】“The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one- eighth of it being above water. ” This “iceberg ” analogy is put forward by( ).A.Mark TwainB.Ezra PoundC.William FaulknerD.Ernest Hemingway16.【单选题】The Financier,The Titan and The Stoic by Theodore Dreiser are called his “Trilogy of( ). ”A.HatredB.DeathC.DesireD.Fate17.【单选题】“The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one -eighth of it being abov e water. ” This “iceberg ” analogy about prose style was put forward by( ).A.William FaulknerB.Henry JamesC.Ernest HemingwayD.F· Scott Fitzgerald18.【单选题】William Faulkner once said that( )is a story of “lost innocence, ” which proves itself to be an intensification of the theme of imprisonment in the past.A.The Great GatsbyB.The Sound and the FuryC.Absalom,Absalom!D.Go Down,Moses19.【单选题】The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and,especially,its sequence( )proved themselves to be the milestone in the American literature.A.The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnB.Life on the MississippiC.The Gilded AgeD.Roughing It20.【单选题】The teacher told us the fact _______.A.which the earth moves around the sunB.that the earth moved around the sunC.that the sun moves around the earthD.that the earth moves around the sun第2卷一.全考点综合测验(共20题)1.【单选题】The( )Age of the 1920s characterized by frivolity and carelessness is brought vividly to life in The Great Gatsby.A.LostB.JazzC.ReasonD.Gilded2.【单选题】Some persons gain goal and direction from their tensions;others________ under pressure.A.fall outB.fall apartC.fall back onD.fall in with3.【单选题】Greatly and permanently affected by the( )experiences,Hemingway formed his own writing style,together with his theme and hero.A.miningB.farmingC.warD.sailing4.【单选题】Opposition leaders will be watching carefully to see how the Prime Minister ________ the crisis.A.handlesB.conductsC.observesD.directs5.【单选题】In Go Down,Moses,( )illuminates the problem of black and white in Southern society as a closeknit destiny of blood brotherhood.A.William FaulknerB.Jack LondonC.Herman MelvilleD.Nathaniel Hawthorne6.【单选题】In most of his writings,( )deliberately broke up the chronology of his narrative by juxtaposing the past with the present,in the way the montage does in a movie.A.Walt WhitmanB.William FaulknerC.Ernest HemingwayD. Fitzgerald7.【单选题】The effect of Darwinist idea of “survival of the fittest ” was shattering in() ’s fictional world of jungle,where “kill or to be killed ” was the law.A.Mark TwainB.Henry JamesC.Theodore DreiserD.Walt Whitman8.【单选题】In 1950,( )was awarded the Nobel Prize for the anti-racist Intruder in the Dust.A.William FaulknerB.Robert FrostC.Ezra PoundD.Ernest Hemingway9.【单选题】Eugene O’Neill ’s first full — length play,( ),won him the first Pulitzer theme is the choice between life and death,the interaction of subjective and objective factors.A.Bound East for CardiffB.The Hairy ApeC.Desire Under the ElmsD.Beyond the Horizon10.【单选题】Now many major employers are beginning to demand _______ the completion of schoolA.more thanB.rather thanC.other thanD.better than11.【单选题】It was his masterpiece The Great Gatsby that made( )one of the greatest American novelists.A. FitzgeraldB.William FaulknerC.Ernest HemmingwayD.Gertrude Steinbeck12.【单选题】Man is a “victim of forces over which he has no control. ” This is a notion held strongly by( ).A.Robert FrostB.Theodore DreiserC.Henry JamesD.Hamlin Garland13.【单选题】Mark Twain’s particular concern about the local character of a region came about as “local colorism, ” a unique va riation of American literary( ).A.romanticismB.nationalismC.modernismD.realism14.【单选题】Nobody but you _______ what he said.A. agrees withB.agrees outC.agree withD.agree to15.【单选题】In 1920,( )published his first novel This Side of Paradise which was,to some extent,his own story.A.F·Scott FitzgeraldB.Ernest HemingwayC.William FaulknerD.Emily Dickinson16.【单选题】considered( ) “the true father of our national literature ”.A.Bret HarteB.Mark TwainC.Washington IrvingD.Walt Whitman17.【单选题】At the age of eighty -seven,( )read his poetry at the inauguration of President John in 1961.A.Robert FrostB.Walt WhitmanC.Ezra Pound18.【单选题】Unlike his contemporaries in the early 20th century,( )did not break up with the poetic tradition nor made any experiment on form.A.Walt WhitmanB.Robert FrostC.Ezra Pound19.【单选题】Which of the following statements is NOT true of Emily Dickinson and her poetry?A.She remained unmarried all her lifeB.She wrote,1,775 poems,and most of them were published during her life time.C.Her poems have no titles,hence are always quoted by their first lines.D.Her limited private world has never confined the limitless power of her creativity and imagination.20.【单选题】Mark Twain employed an unpretentious style of( )in his novels which is best described as “vernacular ”.A.standard EnglishB.Afro-American EnglishC.colloquialismD.urbanism第1卷参考答案一.全考点综合测验1.正确答案：C本题解析：马克吐温是以为地方主义作家，他的作品主题是密西西比河流域和美国的西部。
英美文学作业答案
《英美文学》作业答案Unit 11. What year was Shakespeare Born?A 1562 B1564 C 1616 D 16172. What was the name of Shakespeare's theatrical company?A The King’s manB The Queen’s manC The Chess manD The Lords man3. All of the following plays are tragedies by Shakespeare exceptA OthelloB HamletC The TempestD Macbeth4. English Renaissance Period was an age ofa. prose and novelb. poetry and dramac. essays and journalsd. ballad and songs5. Shakespeare’s four tragedies are___________, ______________, ____________ and_____________.6. Please read the famous monologue and answer the following questions.To be, or not to be ─ that is the question:Whether 'tis nobler in mind to sufferThe slings and arrows of outrageous fortuneOr to take arms against a sea of troubles.And by opposing end them.To die─ to sleepNo more; and by a sleep to say we endThe heartache, and the thousand natural shocksThat flesh is heir to.'tis a consummationDevoutly to be wishdTo die ─ to sleep,To sleep ─ perchance to dream;ay, there's the rub!For in that sleep of death what may comeWhen we have shuffled off this mortal coilMust give us pause.There's the respectThat makes calamity of so long life.For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,The oppressor's wrong, the proudman's contumely,The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,The insolence of office, and the spurnsThat patient merit of the unworthy takes,When he himself might his quietus makeWith a bare bodkin?Who would these fardels bear,To grunt and sweat under a weary life,But that the dread of something after deathThe undiscovered country, from whose bournNo traveler returns ─ puzzles the will,And makes us rather bear those ills we haveThan fly to others that we know not of?Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,And thus the native hue of resolutionIs sicklied o’ er with the pale cast of thought,And enterprises of great pith and momentWith this regard their currents turn awryAnd lose the name of action.1.Which famous play is the speech taken from? Who is the author of the play?2.Who gives the speech in the play?3.What does the speech indicate?4.What is the story of the play?7. Explain the term “Renaissance”.Answer1. B2. D3. C4.B5. Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth6 1). Hamlet; William Shakespeare2) the main character of the play- Hamlet3) “to be or not to be” indicates to live or end one’s life. The whole drift of the speech shows his belief in a future life. This speech shows Hamlet’s melancholy and his delay and describes he faced the dilemma of action and mind.4). (见书本P6)7.The term Renaissance refers to a great bourgeois cultural movement in Europe which began in the 14th century and continued to the mid-17th century. It first started from Italy and then spread al l over Europe. Originally, the term means “rebirth” or “revival”. And the movement seems to be a rebirth or revival of ancient Greek and Roman culture, caused by a series of historical events, such as the new discoveries in geography and astrology, the religious reformation and the economic expansion.Unit 21.Please summarize the story of Robinson Crusoe.2.What does the image of Robinson Crusoe represent?3.What are the features of Daniel Defoe’s fictions?4.___is considered the father of the English novel.A. DefoeB. FieldingC. RichardsonD. GoldsmithAnswer1. The story was based on the experience of a Scottish Sailor named Alexander Selkirk who had been marooned ona desert island off the coast of Chile and lived there in solitude for four or five years. After his return to Europe, his adventures became known. Defoe wrote this novel in the first person singular.This novel begins with Crusoe’s career as a sailor and a merchant, and then as a plantation owner and a slave trader. On a voyage to Africa to buy slaves he meets with the most unfortunate shipwreck. Then he finds himself cast by the sea waves upon the shore of an uninhabited island. He has to state there alone and manage the livelihood for himself. First of all, he gets back some food and clothes, a few guns and some ammunition from the wretched ship. He builds a shelter to protect himself. Then he grows barley and rice, domesticated goats and fight against cannibal savages coming from the neighboring islands, later he saves a savage from death and named him Friday, who becomes his faithful servant. In the hope of returning to Europe, he builds a boat. Finally an English ship comes and takes him back. Thus Robinson Crusoe ends his twenty-eight years’life in the deserted island. 2. In this novel, Defoe created the image of a true empire-builder, a colonizer and a foreign trader, who has the courage and will to face hardships, and who has determination to preserve himself and improve his livelihood by struggling against nature. There is also a glorification of labor, which enables the hero gradually to produce a favorable condition for himself. His resourcefulness in building a home, dairy, grape arbor, country house, and goat stable from practically nothing is clearly remarkable, which is applauded by Swiss philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau. This image is a criticism of the lazy and parasitic feudal nobles and a praise of the bourgeois.3. Though most of his works are written in the picaresque tradition, Defoe is an anti-romantic, anti-feudal realistic writer. His stories are all real concerns of his time: people in their struggle to overcome the natural or social environment. All his works have a very strong verisimilitude. To convince the reader of the truth of his stories, Defoe adopted the autobiographical form and made full use of his long trained journalistic skill by describing things in great detail and by using specific time and space. The following excerpt shows how Robinson makes a raft with concrete descriptionDefoe’s style is characterized by a plain, smooth, easy, direct, and almost colloquial but never coarse language. His words are much closer to the vernacular of rambling sentences without strong pauses to give his style an urgent, immediate, breathless quality, but the units of meaning are small and clear with frequent repetition so that the writing gives an impression of simple lucidity. In his novels, as in his own life, actions or people in action are stressed; there is not much plot or portrayal of characters, except the exact journalistic account of the daily, trivial happenings. In all, Defoe is not an artist, but he is definitely an excellent storyteller. He is the first important novelist in English literary history with his realistic views on novel writing that has influenced many generations.4. AUnit 3 & 41. Romantic age is the age of the following statements exceptA humanitarian idealismB radical individualismC age of reasonD age of imagination2. Lake poets are the following poets exceptA KeatsB WordsworthC ColeridgeD Southey3. Although lived in a remote rural country in Scotland, he is the real forefather of English Romanticism, he isA. BurnsB. KeatsC. ByronD. Shelly4. William Wordsworth wrote a preface expounding his theories of what made good poetry. These theories contain the following principles except:A. All good poems should be “the spontaneous overflow feeling.”B. The poems should be the reflection of feelings, thoughts, and experiences of the other people.C. Poetry should be in high degree of imagination.D. Poetry should “takes all its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.”5._____defines the poet as "man speaking to men," and poetry as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, which originates in emotion recollected in tranquility."A. William BlakeB. William WordsworthC. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD. John Keats6._____is regarded as a "worship of nature".A. John KeatsB. William BlakeC. William WordsworthD. Jane Austen7.Wordsworth’s short poems can be classified in to two groups: poems about nature and poems about________.A. loveB. human lifeC. freedomD. social activities8. Answer the questions concerned with William Wordsworth’s I wondered lonely as a cloud.1)In what sense are “cloud” and “ I” comparable?2)Why does the poet repeat “ dance” for several times?3)What does the shift of tense suggest?Answer1-5 B A A B B 6-7 C B8.1) we are joyful. We both move and express ourselves freely.2) It suggests the harmony between man and nature.3) the tense shifts from past to present and then to future. It suggests the poetic process fromnature to imagination and then to poetic production.Unit 5 & 61. In Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth Bennet finds out some weak points about herself in the process of judging others. Which of the following is NOT a weak point of hers?A. Blindness.B. Partiality.C. Snobbishness.D. Prejudice.2. In the conversation with his wife in Chapter One of Pride and Prejudice, Mr. Bennet uses a(n) ______ tone with sarcastic humor.A. solemnB. harshC. arrogantD. teasing3. Choose the one from the four immortal odes which is not written by Keats . __________A. Ode to the West WindB. Ode to a NightingaleC. Ode to AutumnD. Ode on a Grecian UrnAnswer CDAUnit 7 &81. As a literary figure, John Rivers appears in _______.A. Fielding’s Tom JonesB. Dickens’s Oliver TwistC. Bronte’s Jane EyreD. Austen’s Pride and Prejudice2. This novel is autobiographical to some extent, because it is known to embody many of the early experiences ofDickens, although it is not an exact autobiography, it isA. Oliver TwistB. Great ExpectationsC. David CopperfieldD. Bleak House3. The most distinguishing feature of Charles Dickens’s works lies in his ______.A. social criticismB. optimismC. character-portrayalD. social setting4. The author of the work “Dombey and Son” is _________.A. Charles DickensB. Henry JamesC. Robert Lee FrostD. Ezra Pound5. Pip, Estella, Havisham, Magwitch, and Joe Gargery are most likely names of characters in_______.A. Oliver TwistB. David CopperfieldC. Bleak HouseD. Great Expectations6. Charles Dickens takes the French Revolution as the background of his novel ______.A. Great ExpectationsB. A Tale of Two CitiesC. Bleak HouseD. Oliver TwistDecide whether the following statements are true or false and write your answers (F or T) in the brackets.1. The greatest English critical realist is Charles Dickens .( )2. Both Charlotte Bronte and her sister Emily Bronte were well knownnovelists.( )3. Jane Austen is one of the male novelists who drew vivid and realistic pictures of everyday life of the country society in her novels .( )4. Jane Austen’s masterpiece is Pride and Prejudice .( )Analyze the characters:David CopperfieldAnswerC C C A B B TTFTDavid Copperfield David Copperfield narrates his story as an adult yet relays the impressions he had from a youthful point of view. Readers can see how David’s perception of the w orld deepens as he comes of age. David, for instance, is ignorant of Steerforth’s treachery at the beginning, but later readers can feel that David does not think Steerforth deserves David’s adulation. Though David always keeps the virtue of honesty, kindliness, and so on, which are considered as good virtues of human beings, he also has moments of cruelty, like the scene in which he intentionally distresses Mr. Dick by explaining Miss Betsey’s dire situation to him. David, especially as a young man in love, can be foolish and romantic. As he grows up, however, he develops a more mature point of view and searches for a lover who will challenge him and help him grow. David fully matures as an adult when he expressesthe sentiment that he values Agnes’s calm tranquility over all else in his life. In a word, in David’s first-person narration, Dickens conveys the wisdom of the older man’s implicitly through the eyes of a child.Unit 9Unit 111. I n Hawthorne’s novels and short stories, intellectuals usually a ppear as________.A. saviorsB. villainsC. commentatorsD. observers2. All of the following are works by Nathaniel Hawthorne except_______.A. The House of the Seven GablesB. White JacketC. The Marble FaunD. The Blithedale RomanceThe Transcendentalists believe that, first, nature is ennobling, and second, the individual is____, therefore, self-reliant.A. insignificantB. vicious by natureC. divineD. forward-lookingAnswer B B CUnit 14______is considered by H.L. Mencken as "the true father of our national literature."A. HemingwayB. PoeC. IrvingD. TwainMark Twain wrote most of his literary works with a _______language.A. grandB. pompousC. simpleD. vernacularAnswer D DUnit 15As a naturalist writer, Theodore Dreiser was greatly influenced by _______.A. Nathaniel HawthorneB. Charles DarwinC. Henry JamesD. Ralph Waldo EmersonThe following belong to “The Lost Generation” except _______.A. Ezra PoundB. Robert FrostC. Theodore DreiserD. William Carlos WilliamsAnswer BC。
大学《英美文学》期末考试题库及答案
1.William Faulkner is the author of ______.A.Far from the Madding CrowdB.The Sound and the FuryC.For Whom the Bell TollsD.The Scarlet Letter2.Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard is a poem written by ______.A.Oliver GoldsmithB.James ThomsonC.Thomas GreyD.Alexander Pope3.Which of the following is NOT written by William Shakespeare?A.OthelloB.The Tragical History of Dr. FaustusC.Romeo and JulietD.The Twelfth Night4.Beowulf narrates a story taking place in______.A.The MediterraneanB.Northern EuropeC.EnglandD.Scandinavia5.William Wordsworth is an English ______.A.PoetB.NovelistC.PlaywrightD.critic6.The great transcendental work by Henry David Thoreau is ______.A.NatureB.WaldenC.ExperienceD.Essays7.The Brontë sisters published the following famous novels EXCEPT ______.A.EmmaB.Jane EyreC.Wuthering HeightD.Agnes Grey8.In which novel can “Yahoo” be found?A.John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s ProgressB.Edmund Spencer’s The Faerie Queen.C.Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels.D.Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones.9.Mark Twain shaped the world’s view of American and made a combination of ______and serious literature.A.American folk humorB.Funny jokesC.English folkloreD.American values10.Who was the first American to achieve an international literary reputation after the Revolutionary War?A.Fennimore Copper.B.Nathaniel HawthorneC.Walt WhitmanD.Washington Irving11.Paradise Lost is a masterpiece by______.A.Christopher MarlowB.John MiltonC.William ShakespeareD.Ben Johnson12.In the works of aesthetism, the theory of “art for art’s sake” is advocated by ______.A.Oscar WildeB.Mrs. GaskellC.Alexander PopeD.Charles Lamb13.Whose works are characterized by stream-of-consciousness?A.George EliotB.Jane AustenC.Emily BrontëD.James Joyce14.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 Renaissance15.“If Winter comes, can spring be far behind?” is an epigrammatic line by______.A.J. KeatsB. B. W. BlakeC.P. B. ShellyD.W. Wordsworth16.Leaves of Grass is written by ______.A.Walt WhitmanB.Carl Sandburgngston HughesD.Allen Ginsberg17.The period of Old English literature refers to ______.A.449-1066B.14th century-mid 17th centuryC.14th century-mid 18th centuryD.16th century-mid 18th century18.Sister Carrie is a masterpiece of ______ work.A.RomanticB.ClassicC.Neo-classicD.Naturalistic19.Who is the father of English poetryA.William ShakespeareB.Edmund SpencerC.John MiltonD.Geoffrey Chaucer20.The Red Badge of Courage is written by ______.A.Frank NorisB.Sherwood AndersonC.Willa CatherD.Stephen Crane21.Which of the following poem is NOT written by George Gordon Byron?A.She Walks in BeautyB.The Solitary ReaperC.When We Two partedD.Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage.22.Hester is a character in ______.A.Gone with the WindB.The fall of the House of UsherC.BabbittD.The Scarlet Letter23.Animal Farm is the masterpiece of ______.A.George OrwellB.Virginia WoolfC.Thomas HardyD. E. M. Forster24.The Catcher in the Rye is written by ______.A.J. D. SalingerB.Jack LondonC.Flannery O’ConnorD.Saul Bellow25.Hemingway once described ______ the one book from which “all modern American literature comes”.A.Moby-DickB.The Sun Also RisesC.The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnD.The Great Gatsby26.The literary spokesman of Jazz is often though to be ______.A.O’NeilB.PoundC.Robert FrostD.Scott Fitzgerald27.Which of the following poem is written by William Butler Yeats?A.Sailing to ByzantiumB.To an Athlete Dying YoungC.Musee des Beaux Arts.D.Church Going28.Among the following poets, which is not a lake poet?A.William WordsworthB.Samuel Taylor ColeridgeC.Robert SoutheyD.William Collins29.Which of the following is NOT true for Benjamin Franklin?A.He was a famous writer.B.He was a member to draft the Declaration of Independence.C.He was a great scientist.D.He was once elected American President.30.Utopia is ______ work.A.Thomas More’sB.Francis Bacon’sC.John Dryden’sD.George Herbert’s31.The American ______ as a cultural heritage exerted great influences over American Moral Values in the American Romantic Period.A.PuritanismB.AtheismC.DeismD.Cynicism32.The title of Alfred Tennyson’s poem Ulysses reminds the reader of the following EXCEPT ______.A.The Trojan WarB.Homer’s OdysseyC.Adventures over the seaD.Religious quest33.Lyrical Ballads is the joint work between Wordsworth and his friend ______.A.ColeridgeB.ByronC.KeatsD.Shelly34.The title of Thackeray’s Vanity Fair is taken from ______.A.The Holy BibleB.The Faerie QueenC.The Pilgrim’s ProgressD.Paradise Lost35.The theme of A Tale of Two Cities is ______.A.RevolutionB.WarC.LoveD.Brotherhood36.In America, there is “a little lady who started a great war”. Who is she?A.Anne BradstreetB.Harriet Beecher StoweC.Edith WhartonD.Katherine Anne Porter37.Waiting for Godot is a ______.A.PoemB.PlayC.Short storyD.Novel38.Mr. Darcy is a character in ______.A.Tess of D’UrbervillesB.Pride and PrejudiceC.Happy PrinceD.The Mill of the Floss39.Which of the following is NOT Virginia Woolf’s novel?A.To the LighthouseB.Mrs. DallowayC.The WavesD.Modern Painters.40.______ is the first American professional writer and the first writer of detective story in the world.A.Ezra PoundB.Washington IrvingC.Nathaniel HawthorneD.Edgar Allan Poe41.The Renaissance was a European cultural movement, which originated in______.A.FranceB.BritainC.ItalyD.Spain42.Among the following novels, ______ is Thomas Hardy’s best-known novel.A.The Return of the NativeB.Far From the Madding CrowdC.The Mayor of CasterbridgeD.Tess of the D’Urbervilles43.______ called himself “the trumpeter of a new age”. He was England’s first essayist.A.Richard SteeleB.Joseph AddisonC.Francis BaconD.Alexander Pope44.On the Road is the masterpiece of ______..A.Arthur MillerB.J.D. SalingerC.Allen GinsbergD.Jack Kerouacnguage spoken by the Anglo-Saxons is called the ______, which is the foundation of English language and literature.A.Modern EnglishB.Old EnglishC.Ancient EnglishD.Medieval English46.Robinson Crusoe is written by ______.A.Henry FieldingB.Samuel Richardsonwrence SterneD.Daniel Defoe47.______ is D.H. Lawrence’s semi-autobiographical novel.A.Sons and LoversB.Women in LoveC.The plumed Serpentdy Chatterley’s Lover48.The Waste Land, written by ______, is the greatest modernist poem.A.T.S. EliotB.William Butler YeatsC.Alfred TennysonD.Mathew Arnold49.The Sherlock Holmes stories were written by ___ ___.A.George EliotB.Charles DickensC.Arthur Conan DoyleD.Rudyard Kipling50.“The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one eighth of it being above water.” This sentence best illustrates the writing technique of ______.A.Ernest HemingwayB.Dos PassosC. F. Scott FitzgeraldD.William Faulkner。
奥鹏东师 《英美文学》练习题参考答案.doc
《英美文学》练习题一参考答案练习题第1套参考答案I1-5 BACBD6-10 DBCAB11-15 ADCAAIIWhitman , Irving , Howells , James , FitzgeraldKerouac , Ellison , Amy Tan , Maxine Hong Kingston , O' NeillIII1.Lyrical Ballads; Romanticism2.blank verse; Paradise Lost3.horses; Yahoos4.Ireland; stream of consciousness5.Realism; ModernismIV1. intellectual movement developed as an American version of and peak of Romanticism ;/ led by Emerson ;/ rejected 18th century rationalism and established religion , celebrated the power of human imagination to commune with universe and transcend limitation of material world ;/ emphasized Oversoul , importance of individual and nature .2. a unique part of American Literature ; / can be defined as published creative writings by American Jewish writers dealing with Jew's experience in America from a Jewish perspective self–consciously .V1. The word Araby comes from Arabian which reminds the reader of the oriental land----a wonderful and dreamingworld.2) In his story, Araby is the name of a bazaar which symbolizes the dream, the ideal and the embodiment of beautyfor the boy.2.1) It tells the theme of the novel— marriage.2) It implies the plot— the process of finding a marriage partner.3) It implies the characters— young men and women.4) It tells the reader the convention of the society.5) It implies the style of the novel— irony.3. 1).Oral tradition in the form of songs , ballads , etc ;2). Abolitionist Movement brought a new impetus to Black Literature ;3). Black novel developed at the turn of the 20th century ;4). Harlem Renaissance in 1920s ;5). maturity in 1940s ;6). particular growth in 1960s with Civil Rights Movement .练习题第2套参考答案I1-5 b d c b c 6-10 c b a d c 11-15 c d b d aIIBradstreet , Hawthorne, Crane , Mark Twain , Steinbeck ,Ginsberg , Hughes , Frank Chin, Hellman , WilliamsIIIT , F , T , F , T , F , T , F , F , F , F , T , F , T , TIV1. influenced by Darwin's theory and 19th century French naturalism ; / evolved from realism;/ naturalists write in a more ironic and pessimistic tone and believe that human subject to heredity and environment ;/ familiar theme is human '' bestiality '' ; / Naturalists choose subject from lower ranks of society ;/ works are unsophisticated in language .2. referring to the decade of 1920s ;/ with Fitzgerald as the spokesman ;/ characterized by frivolity and carelessness .V1．1) Their writings afford a new code of social morality for the risings bourgeoisie.2) They give a true picture of social life of England in the 18th century.3) In the hands of Addison and Steele, the English essay had completely established itself as a literary genre.2．The characters are grouped into two groups: 1) represented by coachman, lady, gentleman, lawyer, surgeon, middle or upper class who are rich and well educated. But they are snobbish, selfish and coward; 2) represented by Joseph Andrews who is from lower class but sympathetic, selfless, warmhearted and kind.3．1. Fitzgerald—The Great Gatsby2. ①Wilson's neighbour who saw the killing of Wilson's wife ;②make clear ;③the person running the gas station at valley of ashes ;④Nick , the narrator ;⑤the sister of Wilson's wife .3.emptiness and failure of American dream .《英美文学》练习题二参考答案练习题第3套参考答案I1-5 d b c a a 6-10 a b d d d 11-15 a d b b dII. 6 , 5, 10, 1 , 3 , 8 , 2 , 7 , 4 , 9IIIF , T , T , F , F , T , T , F , T , F , T , T , F , F , TIV1. Metaphysical poetry is a kind of realistic, often ironic and witty, verse combing intellectual ingenuity and psychological insight written partly in reaction to the conventions of Elizabethan love poetry by such seventeenth-century poets as John Donne, George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, Thomas Traherne, and Andrew Marvell. One of its hallmarks is the metaphysical conceit, a particularly arresting and ingenious type of metaphor.2 A protagonist whose distinctive qualities are directly opposite to, or incompatible with, those associated with the traditional hero. Such an opposition by no means implies that the character is evil or villainous but often tends to reflect the author’s belief that modern life no longer tolerates or produces individuals capable of genuine heroism, in its classic sense.V1.1) Jane Austen is one of the realistic novelists. She drew vivid and realistic pictures of everyday life of the countrysociety in her novels.2) Austen’s work has a very narrow literary field. She confines herself to small country parishes, whose simple countrypeople became the characters of her novels, but within her own field, she is unrivaled.3) her novels show a wealth of humor, wit and delicate satire. Her pots are straight-forward; there is little action. Hercharacters are like real living creatures, with faults and virtues mixed as they are in real life. Her prose flows easily and naturally. Her dialogue is admirably true to life.2. The major contribution made by the 19th century critical realists is their perfection of the novel. Like the realists of the 18th century, the 19th century critical realist made use of the form of novel of full and detailed representations of social and political events, and of the fate of individuals and of whole social classes. However, the realistic novels of the 19th century went a step further than those of the 18th century in that they not only pictured the conflicts between individuals who stood for definite social strata, but also showed the broad social conflicts over and above the fate of mere individuals. Their artistic representation of vital social movements such as Chartism, and their vivid description of the dramatic conflicts of the time make the 19th century realistic novel “the epic of the bourgeois society”.3．1. Emily Dickinson——Because I Could Not Stop for Death2. ①school is an image of childhood ;②field is an image of adulthood ;③setting sun is an image of old age .3. (point only )cycle of life and death with 3 stages and a final stage of eternity .练习题第4套参考答案I 1—5 a a c d b 6—10 d d a c d 11—15 b a d b bII 10 , 1 , 5 , 6 , 3 , 8 , 2 , 4 , 7 , 9III1-5 F F T F F 6-10 T T T T TIV1.Irony is an implied discrepancy between what is said and what is meant.Three kinds of irony:1. verbal irony is when an author says one thing and means something else.2. dramatic irony is when an audience perceives something that a character in the literature does not know.3. irony of situation is a discrepency between the expected result and actual results.2. Aestheticism. The basic theory of the Aesthetic movement is “art for art’s sake”. Aestheticism places art above life,and holds that life should imitate art, not art imitate life. According to the aesthetes, all artistic creation is absolutely subjective as opposed to objective. Art should be free from any influence of egoism. Only when art is for art’s sake, can it be immortal. This was one of the reactions against the materialism and commercialism of the Victorian industrial era, as well as a reaction against the Victorian convention of art for morality’s sake, or art for money’s sake. The representatives are Oscar Wilde and Walter Pater.V1. 1). effect of Civil War ;2). development of industry and trade widen the gap between the rich and the poor ;3) closing of frontier .2As a novelist, he promoted the theory of realism in literary creation. He believed that a truthful artist’s duty was to produce human nature faithfully and accurately as he saw it. In novel writing, he had the principles of characterization and typification which modern English writers are still using. Though he is not the first English novelist, he has generally been considered as “the father of English novel”3Modernist English poetry has the following chief traits. 1. Modernist poets insisted on “direct treatment of things”and on the avoidance of all words “that do not contribute to the presentation” 2. Modernist poetry has freer metrical movement. 3. Modernism introduced into poetry a much higher degree of intellectual complexity because of the enthusiasm for metaphysical poetry. 4. The modernist poets frequently made use of symbolism 5. it brought poetic language and rhythm closer to that of conversation by the use of colloquial expressions and even slang. 6, it employed irony and puns which had been banished from serious poetry for over two hundred years 7. it was often international and urban in theme.练习题第5套参考答案I 1-5 c d b d a 6-10 c c b b dIIPoe , Dreiser , Dos Passos , Eliot , Heller ,Frost , Bellow , Jade Snow Wang , Miller , O'NeillIII1-5 F T F F T 6-10 T T T F TⅣ1. A term referring to theology advocated by a party within the Church of England ;/ in broader sense referring to attitudes and values held by Puritans ;/ as a cultural heritage exerted influence on American values and literature ;/ 3 concepts : original sin , predestination , salvation of selected few .2. 1920s saw a new upsurge of Black American Literature ;/ Langston Hughes known as Black America's poet Laureateis considered the most important person ;/ other black writers like Gwendolyn Brooks also contribute to it .V1.Similarities:1)the poems are the continuation of Romanticism and influenced by poems of Romanists.2)the poets show the practice in metrical patterns and literary styles.Dissimilarities:1) Browning is active and optimistic while Tennyson is pessimistic.2)Browning seeks for new styles while Tennyson follows conventions.2. It deals with dramas greatly which is also called Revival of Drama with the outstanding figures like Yeats, Synge and Beckett, etc. It aimed at the revival of the Irish language and independence from England3. 1. )carefully work–out structure and form to cater for the thematic concern ;2.) exploration of complexity of human psychology ;3.) symbolism ;4.) ambiguity .。
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莎士比亚，简奥斯丁，伍尔夫第一课Question 1♦Heroic Couplet（英雄双韵体）♦It refers to lines of iambic pentameter which rhyme in pairs: aa, bb, cc, and so on.♦The adjective “heroic” was applied in the later seventeenth century because of the frequent use of such couplets in heroic poems and dramas♦This verse form was introduced into English poetry by Geoffrey Chaucer.♦From the age of John Dryden through that of Samuel Johnson, the heroic couplet was the predominant English measure for all the poetic kinds; some poets, including Alexander Pope, used it almost to the exclusion of other metersQuestion 2♦The Knight has the qualities that knights are expected to have, namely, courage, honor, courtesy, loyalty, devotion to the weak and helpless, to the service of women.♦He has taken part in many famous battles and won one victory after another.♦He sits at table in the chair of honor above all nations.♦He fights for his faith.♦Although he is so distinguished and wise, he looks like a maid, modest, meek, not gaily dressed, never saying a vulgar word.Question 3♦Chaucer uses the rhyming couplet, which he introduced from France, in writing his major poems. He is the first great writer to use the dialect of London in writing.♦Chaucer is credited by some scholars as being被一些学者认为是the first author to demonstrate the artistic legitimacy of the vernacular English language英语方言作为文学语言在艺术上的合法性, rather than French or Latin♦Chaucer‟s language is close to modern English. Modern English is descended from Chaucer‟s English.Chaucer raised the language to a higher literary level by writing it with polish and ease.♦Chaucer‟s language is vivid and exact. His poetry is full of vigor and swiftness. His style is flexible. His prose is easy and informal. He uses mild satire when he deals with people‟s foibles and weaknesses第二课bacon♦ 1 According to Bacon, the general counsels, and the plots and marshaling of affairs, come best from those that are learned.♦That is to say, right decisions and judgments over important matters require comprehensive knowledge which is acquired by studies.♦Without a wide range of knowledge, a person cannot digest information, analyze information and take timely measures accordingly.♦2Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for abilities. But the general counsels, and the plots and marshaling of affairs, come best from those that are learned.♦Studies perfect nature, and is perfected by experience♦There is no stond or impediment in the wit but may be wrought out by fit studies.Studies can train (shape) a person‟s character and make up a person‟s deficiencies. Every defect of the mind may have a special receipt.3This essay analyzes what studies chiefly serve for, the different ways adopted by different people to pursue studies, and how studies exert influence over human character.4The essay is peculiar for its clearness, brevity, and force of expression. The sentences are short, pointed, incisive, and of balanced structures.Conciseness of expression and simplicity of diction are two chief distinguishing features of the prose style of Bacon who was among the earliest of English essayists.MiltonQuestion 1♦To lose the battle does not lose all. They still have the unconquerable will, eagerness for revenge, immortal hate, and courage never to submit or yield.♦With all this, they can overcome all other thingsQuestion 2♦He is defeated in the battle against God, but he does not lose heart.♦He will not bow down to God.♦Instead, he is advising the serpent and followers to rise up again and fight another battle.Question 3♦To bow and sue for grace with suppliant knee and deify his power. To give in to God, to fall down on one‟s knees to beg for mercy submissively, worship God‟s power, become scared for God‟s authority and power, lose confidence.Question 4♦real hero, dare to revolt against the despot, persevering but not discouraged after the failure (Republicans including Milton)ShakespearQuestion 1♦In this soliloquy he compares death to sleep. If the many kinds of sufferings that naturally come to a human being disappear in the “sleep”, then death is what is wished for.♦But there may be dreams in the sleep. That is to say, the worldly sufferings may still occur in the dreams.That is the point at which doubt arises.Question 2♦People would rather bear all the suffering of the world instead o f choosing death to get rid of them because they do not know what the next life would be like. No traveler returns from boundary of the undiscovered country. The unknown sufferings may be more unbearable and more terrible.♦It would be better to bear those ills they have than to fly to others that they know not of.Question 3♦Serious thinking makes people lose their determination.♦Faced with the evil force, Hamlet can neither act in cahoots with it nor overturn and destroy it. He is isolated and helpless. Even if opportunities come, he cannot take them because of his indecisiveness.Here the shortcomings of the newly-arising bourgeoisie are shown. They think too much but do not act or act slowly第三课ben jonson♦1) A kiss in the cup♦2) The lovers express their love between eyes. The cup with a kiss has become a divine drink. The poet would not give his wine in exchange for Jove‟s nectar sup. In the eyes of the poet, the drink brewed with love is the most delicious in the world. Nothing can be compared with the wine♦3) The wreath is a symbol of love. The purpose of sending his lover a rosy wreath is not only to express his love, but to hope that the rose will never fade with the lover‟s love. The l over breathes to the rosy wreath and sends back to the poet. Then a miracle appears: It grows, and smells, but not naturally. It seems that the rosy wreath has produced a magic powerDonneQuestion 1♦The woman doesn‟t reject the flea entrée to her body, y et she denies the advancements of the speaker.The speaker shows the similarities between their lovemaking and the mingling of their blood within the flea. “It sucked me first, and now sucks thee, And in this flea our two bloods mingled be.”♦This argument shows the woman that the same physical exchange, which takes place between her and a flea, is the same type of union that he has in mind. Their act could not be considered a sin because a fleabite isn‟t considered one. This act could not be considered a l oss of innocence because it is so common that if it were to be true, nearly everyone would have lost his or her innocence. Therefore this lady should not be troubled about giving herself to him委身于他before they marry, because their only act is the mixing of their blood.Question 2♦Lines 14 and 15 of stanza 2, “Though parents grudge, and you, we are met, and cloistered in these living walls of jet,” describes how her parents do not accept that what he says is marriage. Her parents are against such a marriage.Question 3♦Three lives refer to you, me and the flea (implying our baby). The speaker argues that if she kills the flee she would be committing murder. She would kill the symbolic marriage realm and the baby.♦In addition to those murders, she would be killing herself.♦When the flea is killed, the speaker purposefully turns to another argument.♦The killing has done no harm to them.♦Likewise, their secret union will do no harm to them.♦They should not worry about their union. Their fears are unnecessary.第四课DefoeQuestion 1♦To think about securing himself against savages or wild beasts.♦To choose a proper place: He consulted four things before pitching his tent: health and fresh water, shelter from the heat of the sun, security from ravenous, a view to the sea.♦To set up a tent and dig a cave♦To avoid the blast of the power by lightning: He made bags and boxes to separate the power.♦To kill goats for food.Question 2To make his sounds reasonable and convincingQuestion 3♦From the creation of the image of Robinson Crusoe by the author, we can see that Defoe took positive attitude towards colonialism.♦His bourgeois outlook manifests itself in the fact that he does not condemn Negro-slavery in his book. Robinson Crusoe stands for a typical 18th-century English middle-class man, with a great capacity for work, inexhaustible energy, courage, patience and persistence in overcoming obstacles, in struggling against the hostile natural environment. He is the very prototype of the empire builder, the pioneer co lonistFielding♦ 1. It serves as the title of chapter 8, which shows how the story is narrated. The narration of the story will follow the classical form of epic.♦ 2. Fielding depicts the combat and villagers in the Homerican style. (See the above)♦ 3. He does not strictly follow the classical form of epic. He uses a mock epic style.♦He tried to retain the grand epical form of the classical works but at the same time keeps faithful to his realistic presentation of common life as it is.♦Throughout, the ordinary and usually ridiculous life of the common people, from the middle-class to the underworld, is his major concern.♦Fielding treats Tom as a complicated, round character. Tom‟s nature is impulsive, but genuine. He showsgreat honor in the way he respects Molly, but he does give into her lust.♦This behavior would be shocking for Fielding's audience, and yet he continues to treat Tom with due deference, noting both his faults and virtues.♦When Tom sends a servant for a side saddle for the disheveled 零乱的Molly, it reveals his respect for people of all classes and positions♦Further, in protecting Molly from her attackers, Tom reveals another element of his character: an intense passion.♦The distinction between appearance (a libertine here) and inward character (a boy defined by respect and virtue) is most important in understanding the book's hero.♦Consider how Molly wears the dress of a lady to hide her pregnancy - it suggests that what we see is not what we get.♦Ironically, she is attacked not for her immoral pregnancy, but for attempting to dress as a lady.♦Fielding…s cynicism is time and again tempered调节，缓和only by his humor and delight in broadly comic and dramatic scenes.♦The fight outside the church is described in detail, with the individuals named to create realism in the scene, almost as a piece of drama.♦ 4. The narrator‟s direct address to the reader breaks the suspension of disbelief in the narrative. He refers to the construction of his text as a story with “sundry similes, descriptions and oth er kind of poetical embellishments润色,” reminding the reader that the novel is an artificial construct. By calling attention to the novel's form, Fielding is able to both explicitly extrapolate its ideas and have fun with its conventions第七课♦Mr. Bennet is an English gentleman with his ove rbearing wife. The Bennets‟ five daughters: the beautiful Jane, the clever Elizabeth, the bookish Mary, the immature Kitty and the wild Lydia.Unfortunately for the Bennets, if Mr. Bennet dies, their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met.The family‟s future, happiness and security is dependent on the daughters‟ making good marriages. The main plot is about the five daughters, especially the main character Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy as they deal with matters of upbringing, marriage, moral rightness and education in her aristocratic societyWhat do you think about the characters of Mr. Bennet and Mrs Bennet?♦Mr. Bennet is a cynical person while Mrs Bennet is a philistine and shallow woman. She is a beautiful but empty-headed, snobbish and vulgar woman whose only goal in life is to marry her five daughters to rich, handsome young men. She is often teased by her husbandHow do you understand the first sentence?♦“In want of” and “fortune” are key words in the first sentence. “In want of” refers to “need” instead of “desire”. In another word, it implies objectivity rather than subjectivity. The truth of “a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife” is tested through the Bennet family.♦Another key wor d is “fortune”, suggestive of the primary importance of cash nexus（现金交易关系）in love and marriage. The opening sentence serves as an excellent start for the development of the plot.It is probably one of the most famous first sentences found in fiction.What does the first chapter describe?♦The first chapter describes the parents of the Bennet girls.♦Mr. and Mrs. Bennet are busy considering the prospects of their daughters‟ marriage, shortly after hearing of the arrival of a rich, unmarried young man as their neighbor.♦Mild satire may be found here in the author‟s seeming ly matter-of-fact description of a very ordinary, practical family conversation, though unmistakable sympathy is given to both Mrs. and Mr. Bennet What is the style of the chapter?♦The style is lucid and graceful with touches of humor and mild satire. The conversations are interesting and amusing, and immediately bring the characters to life. The author only inserts her observations occasionallyWhat is the theme of the novel?♦This book tells us a great deal about different attitudes toward marriage in Au sten‟s time.♦Austin satires and criticizes the marriage arranged by the parents of both sides or the marriiages built upon money or wealth.♦Elizabeth‟s attitude, which is not built upon wealth and money, but on spiritual understanding of each other, is praised by the writer.第八课dickens♦Noah Claypole‟s relationship with Oliver illustrates Victorian England‟s obsession with class distinctions.♦The son of destitute parents, Noah is accustomed to the disdain of those who are better off than he.♦Thus, he is relieved to have Oliver nearby, since, as an orphan, Oliver is even worse off than he is.♦Dickens shows that class snobbery is a universal quality, characteristic of the lowest as well as the highest strata of society.♦Moreover, snobbish behavior seems a component of class insecurity.♦The poor mercilessly taunt those who are poorer than they, out of anxious desire to distinguish themselves from those who are even worse off in life♦In protesting the parish‟s treatment of Oliver, Dickens criticizes th e Victorian characterization of the poor as naturally immoral, criminal, and filthy.♦His principal character, Oliver, after all, is virtuous, good, and innocent.♦Although we might expect a criticism of the popular conception of the lower classes to descr ibe many lower-class characters who are essentially good, honest, and hardworking, Dickens does not paint such a simplistic picture.♦The character of Noah, for example, exhibits the same stereotypes that Dickens satirizes in the first several chapters.♦Noah, the son of a drunkard, seems to have inherited all of the unpleasant traits that his father presumably has. Big, greedy, cowardly, ugly, and dirty, Noah is the quintessential Victorian stereotype of the good-for-nothing poor man.♦Oliver‟s attack on No ah is an important moment in the development of his character.♦Most of the time, he is portrayed as sweet, -docile, innocent, and naïve—sometimes to the point of seeming somewhat dim.♦Indeed, it might seem that Dickens, in his fervent desire to exact his Victorian audience‟s sympathy for the poor orphan, exaggerates by making Oliver angelic.♦Oliver‟s fit of rage, however, makes him seem more passionate and human, like an ordinary child.♦Oliver, raised in the workhouse, has never seen a functioning family except for the Sowerberrys, who are childless.♦His sense of familial love and duty is strong enough to compel him to violently come to his mother‟s defense.♦Dickens implies that loyalty to kin, and the desire for the love of a family, is an impulse with which children are born, not one that needs to be learned and nurtured第九课Dover Beach♦What is the tone of the poem?♦What is the theme of the poem?♦Do you think the view of human life presented here is applicable to today‟s world? Why or why not?♦Feelings of isolated loneliness, and fear of the future are the major tone of the poem♦The central theme is that the poet mourns the loss of faith in God, who provided security and meaningfor people in the past, and compares the passing of faith to the ebb of the tide.♦In Arnold‟s world, the pillar of faith supporting society was perceived as crumbling under the weight of scientific development.♦Consequently, the existence of God and the whole Christian scheme of things were cast in doubt.♦Arnold, who was deeply religious, lamented the dying of the light of faith.♦It is rather difficult to say it is true or not for today‟s world. With a positive viewpoint, we can perceive today‟s world as a prosperous and peaceful one. With a negative and critical eye, the wor ld today is full of misery, torture and disbelief, and is as a messy chaos as described in the poemMeeting at nightHow does the poem show the frame of mind 心情of the hero and the heroine? Meeting at night ♦The hero was sailing a boat on the gray sea. The little waves were startled and leaped in fiery ringlets under the moonlight. This image reflects the happy mood of the hero.♦When the boat landed the cove, it slowed down and got stranded on the sand. This suggests the swiftness of the boat and the eagerness of the hero.♦The repetition of the sounds “s” and “sh” produced the sound effect.♦The last four lines form an image of their meeting. It can be seen that the person inside had been waiting with the same eagerness.♦“Scratch” and “spurt” are onomatopoeias, which produced the sound effect of peace and quietude late at night.♦Their joy reached the climax in the last line. They were hugging each other tightly.How do you understand the poem? 早上的分别♦This poem describes the parting of the two after the meeting late at night.♦In the above poem the hero thinks that the joy of love is everlasting, but now he admits that this joy is transient. Love and comfort are not everything for a man. He has a lot of things to do. He should commit himself to his own cause.♦The sunlight travels in a straight line. Compared with the sunlight, the road of his cause is uneven and full of curves.丁尼生What is expressed in the poem?♦This short lyric was written in memory of the poet‟s very dear friend Arthur Hallam whose death was felt very keenly by Tennyson throughout his life. In the poem Tennyson contrasts his own feelings of sadness over the loss of a dear friend first with th e innocent joys of a fisherman‟s boy and of a sailor lad and then with the unfeeling waves of the sea that break upon the shore and with the insensate ships that enter into a harbor. The whole effect is one of genuine personal grief revealed through simple imagery and very musical language.What does stanza 2 describe? How does the poet feel?♦Stanza 2 describes the fisherman‟s boy shouting with sister at play and the sailor lad singing. The gaiety of the people in the setting is in contrast with the poet‟s gloomy feeling. The boy, the girl, and the lad are enjoying themselves despite the inner pains of the poet. The enjoyable setting intensifies the poet‟s mood. He feels more lonely and is plunged into deeper sorrow over the loss of his friend.What is the effect of the repetition of “Break, break, break”?♦“Break, break, break” appears in the first lines in the first and last stanzas. “Break” is a one-syllable word. It is read with much feeling and poignancy. The word easily fills the normal tempo of a metrical foot. “Break, break, break” is repeated for more that has not been mentioned above to be conveyed more clearly. We can see the following lines touch the memory of the experience in which the poet was with his friend.第10课萧伯纳Question 1♦He is afraid to betray his origin.♦He is the son of a Clerkenwell watchmakerQuestion 2♦In this play and in British society at large, language is closely tied with class.♦From a person's accent, one can determine where the person comes from and usually what the person's socioeconomic background is.♦She speaks English so well that they are curious about her and eager to know her identity.♦They stop talking to look at her, admiring her dress, her jewels, and her strangely attractive self.♦Some of the younger ones at the back stand on their chairs to see.♦According to the hostess, there has been nothing like her in London since people stood on their chairs to look at Mrs. Langtry (English actress).Question 3♦Class Distinction. The social hierarchy is an unavoidable reality in Britain,.♦Shaw includes members of all social classes from the lowest (Liza) to the servant class (Mrs. Pearce) to the middle class (Doolittle after his inheritance) to the genteel poor (the Eynsford Hills) to the upper class (Pickering and the Higginses).♦The general sense is that class structures are rigid and should not be tampered with改动, so the example of Liza's class mobility is most shocking.♦The issue of language is tied up in class quite closely; the fact that Higgins is able to identify where people were born by their accents is telling有力的说明.♦British class and identity are very much tied up in their land and their birthplace, so it becomes hard to be socially mobile if your accent marks you as coming from a certain location♦Here Higgins, and through him Shaw, shows that this great difference between human beings can be destroyed. And when this disappears, the class distinction it represents also largely disappears. The flower girl does not have to stay on the curbstone with her basket all her life. To re-make human speech is a method of re-making modern society.第11课WoolfWhat is the function of Big Ben?♦Big Ben is a bell in a clock at the Palace of Westminster. It chimes the hours.♦In the novel, Big Ben suggests the fear of death.♦Thoughts of death lurk constantly beneath the surface of everyday life in Mrs. Dalloway, especially for Clarissa, Septimus, and Peter, and this awareness makes even mundane 平凡的events and interactions meaningful, sometimes even threatening.What is the function of Big Ben?♦Big Ben is a bell in a clock at the Palace of Westminster. It chimes the hours.♦In the novel, Big Ben suggests the fear of death.♦Thoughts of death lurk constantly beneath the surface of everyday life in Mrs. Dalloway, especially for Clarissa, Septimus, and Peter, and this awareness makes even mundane 平凡的events and interactions meaningful, sometimes even threatening.♦Middle-aged Clarissa has experienced the deaths of her father, mother, and sister and has lived through the calamity of war, and she has grown to believe that living even one day is dangerous.♦Death is very naturally in her thoughts, and the line from Cymbeline, along with Septimus‟s suicidal embrace of death, ultimately helps her to be at peace with her own mortality.♦Peter Walsh, so insecure in his identity, grows frantic at the idea of death and follows an anonymous young woman through London to forget about it.♦Septimus faces death most directly. Though he fears it, he finally chooses it over what seems to him a direr alternative—living another day.How is the novel related to the disillusionment of the British Empire?♦English citizens lost much of their faith in the empire after the war. No longer could England claim to be invulnerable and all-powerful. Citizens were less inclined to willingly adhere to the rigid constraints imposed by England‟s class system,which benefited only a small margin of society but which all classes had fought to preserve.♦In 1923, when Mrs. Dalloway takes place, the old establishment and its oppressive values are nearing their end. English citizens, including Clarissa, Peter, and Septimus, feel the failure of the empire as strongly as they feel their own personal failures. The old empire faces an imminent demise, and the loss of the traditional and familiar social order leaves the English at loose ends.What can we see about Englis h Society from Clarissa‟s preparation for the party?♦Woolf strived to illustrate the vain artificiality of Clarissa‟s life and her involvement in it.♦The detail given and thought provoked in one day of a woman…s preparation for a party, a simple social event, exposes the flimsy没有价值的lifestyle of England's upper classes at the time of the novel. How is the stream of consciousness technique used in Mrs. Dallay?♦In literary criticism, stream of consciousness is a narrative mode that seeks to portray an i ndividual‟s point of view by giving the written equivalent of the character's thought processes, either in a loose interior monologue, or in connection to his or her actions♦Stream of Consciousness is an innovative narration technique in the twentieth century to reflect the inner world of the characters and expose the social reality.Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs.Dalloway,which is the sign of maturity of Stream of Consciousness, is the best works of her.Through the use of stream of consciousness, which mainly includes montage, inner monologue and free association, the novel expresses the inner world of the protagonist directly.The story of the novel is of Clarissa Dalloway‟s preparations for a party of which she is to be hostess. She goes around London in the morning, getting ready to host a party that evening. The nice day reminds her of her youth at Bourton and makes her wonder about her choice of husband; she married the reliable Richard Dalloway instead of the enigmatic and demanding Peter Walsh, who will pay her a visit in the evening.♦Clarissa‟s party in the evening is a slow success. It is attended by most of the characters she has met in the book, including people from her past.♦At the party she hears about the suicide of a World War I veteran Septimus, who suffers from “shell shock”, and gradually comes to admire the act of this stranger, which she considers an effort to preserve the purity of his happiness♦With the interior perspective of the novel, the story travels forwards and back in time and in a nd out of the characters‟ minds to construct an image of Clarissa‟s life and of the inter-war social structure。
大学外语英美文学答案(1)
1.Herman Melville’s ______ is an encyclopedia of everything, history, philosophy, religion, etc, in addition to a detailed account of the operations of the whaling industry.A. Billy BuddB. The Old Man and the SeaC. White JacketD. Moby DickIn addition to his novels, _______ wrote about 120 short stories and sketches. Among them are Young Goodman Brown and The Minister’s Black Veil.A. Henry David ThoreauB. Nathaniel HawthorneC. Ralph Waldo EmersonD. Herman Melville______ is an appalling fictional version of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s belief that “the wrong doing of one generation lives into the successive ones” and that evil will come out of evil though it may take generations to happen.A. The Marble FaunB. The Blithedale RomanceC. Young Goodman BrownD. The House of Seven GablesWhich is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”?A. The Conduct of LifeB. Representative MenC. English TraitsD. The American ScholarWhich is generally as the Bible of New England Transcendentalism?A. NatureB. WaldenC. On BeautyD. Self-RelianceThere is a good reason to state that New England Transcendentalism was actuallyon the Puritan soil.A. UnitarianismB. MysticismC. RomanticismD. Puritanism“The universe is composed of Nature and the soul… Spirit is present everywhere”. This is the voice of the book Nature written by Ralph Waldo Emerson, which pushed American romanticism into a new Phase, the phase of New England ______.A. RomanticismB. TranscendentalismC. SymbolismD. NaturalismWashington Irving’s works are numerous, but his most successful work is The Sketch Book, of which the most famous and anthologized are ____ and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.A. A History of New YorkB. The PioneersC. Rip Van WinkleD. Leatherstocking TalesWashington Irving’s first book appeared in 1809, titled ______.A. The History of New YorkB. The Marble FaunC. The American ScholarD. The Cop and the AnthemIn the early 19th century American moral values were essentially Puritan. Nothing has left a deeper imprint on the character of the people as a whole than did _____.A. RationalismB. RomanticismC. SentimentalismD. PuritanismWhich is the character who appears in the novel Moby Dick?A. Hester PrynneB. PearlC. Mr. HooperD. AhabHerman Melville called his friend Nathaniel Hawthorne ______ in American literature.A. The transcendentalistB. The largest brain with the largest heartC. The American scholarD. Father of American poetryNathaniel Hawthorne is a master of psychological insight and central subject of his major works is the human soul. Choose his short story from the following ones.A. OmooB. Uncle Tom’s CabinC. Young Goodman BrownD. The PearlThe finest example of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s symbolism is the recreation of Puritan in ______.A. The Marble FaunB. The Ambitious GuestC. The Scarlet LetterD. Young Goodman BrownFrom Henry David Thoreau’s jail experience came his famous essay, ______ which states Thoreau’s belief that no man should violate his conscience at the command of a government.A. Common SenseB. Civil DisobedienceC. WaldenD. NatureWhich essay is not written by Ralph Waldo Emerson?A. Self-RelianceB. The American ScholarC. The Divinity School AddressD. Of StudiesWhich book is not written by Ralph Waldo Emerson?A. Nature D. The RhodoraB. English TraitsC. NatureD. The RhodoraC. The RhodoraD. Representative Men B. English TraitsC. NatureD. The RhodoraForm the following, choose the characteristics of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s poetry.A. Being highly individualB. Harsh rhythmsC. Lack of form and polishD. All of the aboveRalph Waldo Emerson’s first book _____ is the fundamental document of his philosophy, and expresses his constant, deeply felt love for he natural scenes.A. Leatherstocking TalesB. WaldenC. NatureD. Daisy MillerChoose William Cullen Bryant’s poem from the following ones.A. V oices of the NightB. LigeiaC. Song of MyselfD. ThanatopsisIn 1817, the stately poem called Thanatopsis introduced he best poet _____ to appear in America up to that time.A. Edward TaylorB. William Cullen BryantC. Edgar Allan PoeD. Philip FreneauChoose Washington Irving’s works from the following items.A. WaldenB. A History of New YorkC. Self-RelianceD. Sister CarrieIn the 19th century America, Romanticism had certain general characteristics. Choose such characteristics from the following items.A. Moral enthusiasmB. Faith in the value of individualism and intuitive perceptionC. Presumption about the corrosive effect of human societyD. All of the aboveHerman Melville’s _____ is not only an adventure story, but als o a significant philosophical work on spiritual exploration.A. The EggB. The Over-SoulC. NatureD. Moby DickA new _____ had appeared in England in the last years of the 18th century. It spread to continental Europe and then came to America early in the 19th century.A. RealismB. RomanticismC. NaturalismD. . Critical realismTranscendentalism appealed to those who disdained the hash God of the Puritan ancestors, and it appealed to those who scorned the pale deity of New England _____.A. NaturalismB. TranscendentalismC. HumanismD. UnitarianismLed by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson and _____, there arose a kind of teaching of transcendentalism in the early 19th century.A. Mark TwainB. Theodore DreiserC. Henry David ThoreauD. Herman MelvilleTranscendentalists recognized ______ as the “highest power of the soul”.A. intuitionB. thinkingC. logicD. date of the senses_____ was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club.A. HawthorneB. ThoreauC. WhitmanD. EmersonThe appearance of The Scarlet letter marked the maturity of Nathaniel Hawthorne as a novelist. Soon he composed the other three important novels including _____, The Blithedale Romance and The Marble Faun.A. WaldenB. The House of the Seven GablesC. The PrairieD. The Fall of the House of UsherTranscendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in _____ and Thoreau.A. JeffersonB. OversoulC. FreneauD. EmersonAs a philosophical and literary movement, _____ flourished in New England form the 1830s to the Civil War.A. modernismB. sentimentalismC. rationalismD. transcendentalism。
英美文学考试题目及答案
英美文学考试题目及答案一、选择题（每题2分，共10分）1. 英国文学史上被称为“英国诗歌之父”的诗人是：A. 乔叟B. 莎士比亚C. 弥尔顿D. 拜伦答案：A2. 下列哪部作品不是简·奥斯汀的小说？A. 《傲慢与偏见》B. 《理智与情感》C. 《简·爱》D. 《曼斯菲尔德庄园》答案：C3. 美国文学中，被誉为“美国文学之父”的作家是：A. 爱伦·坡B. 马克·吐温C. 华盛顿·欧文D. 亨利·詹姆斯答案：C4. 以下哪位作家是现代主义文学的代表人物？A. 狄更斯B. 哈代C. 弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫D. 简·奥斯汀答案：C5. 美国文学中的“迷惘的一代”是指：A. 第一次世界大战后的作家群体B. 第二次世界大战后的作家群体C. 独立战争后的作家群体D. 内战后的作家群体答案：A二、填空题（每题2分，共10分）1. 威廉·莎士比亚的四大悲剧包括《哈姆雷特》、《奥赛罗》、《李尔王》和________。
答案：《麦克白》2. 《了不起的盖茨比》是美国作家________创作的一部以20世纪20年代的纽约为背景的小说。
答案：F·司各特·菲茨杰拉德3. 英国浪漫主义诗人威廉·华兹华斯与________共同发起了浪漫主义诗歌运动。
答案：塞缪尔·泰勒·柯勒律治4. 美国诗人沃尔特·惠特曼的代表作是________，它被认为是美国文学史上的里程碑。
答案：《草叶集》5. 英国现代主义诗人T.S.艾略特的代表作《荒原》是一首________诗。
答案：长三、简答题（每题10分，共20分）1. 简述乔治·奥威尔的《1984》中“老大哥”的象征意义。
答案：在《1984》中，“老大哥”象征着极权主义政权的无所不在和无所不知，代表了对个人自由和思想的全面控制。
他的形象无处不在，监视着社会的每一个角落，象征着对个人隐私的侵犯和对思想自由的压制。
2023年10月自考00604英美文学选读试题及答案含评分标准
绝密★启用前2023年10月高等教育自学考试全国统一命题考试英美文学选读试题答案及评分参考（课程代码00604）一、单项选择题：本大题共40小题，每小题1分，共40分。
1. B2. A3. D4. C5. C6. B7. A8. D9. C 10. A11. D 12. B 13. D 14. C 15. C16. D 17. A 18. C 19. B 20. D21. D 22. B 23. A 24. C 25. A26. D 27. C 28. C 29. C 30. D31. B 32. B 33. A 34. C 35. B36. D 37. C 38. A 39. A 40. D二、阅读理解题：本大题共4小题，每小题4分，共16分。
41. A. Henry Fielding; The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (or Tom Jones). (2分)B. Daughter of the well-off squire Western. (1分)C. Human nature. (1分)42. A. Charles Dickens; Oliver Twist (2分)B. A chimney-sweeper. (1分)C. Character-portrayal. (1分)43. A. Theodore Dreiser; Sister Carrie.(2分)B. Hurstwood. (1分)C. He turned on the gas in a cheap lodging-house and ended his life. (1分)英美文学选读试题答案及评分参考第1页（共3页）44. A. Robert Lee Frost. (1分)B. The speaker tells us how the course of his life was determined when he came upon tworoads that diverged in a wood. (2分)C. The speaker took the road less traveled by. (1分)三、简答题：本大题共4小题，每小题6分，共24分。
英美文学自考试题及答案
英美文学自考试题及答案一、选择题（每题2分，共20分）1. 《哈姆雷特》是哪位英国剧作家的作品？A. 威廉·莎士比亚B. 奥斯卡·王尔德C. 查尔斯·狄更斯D. 托马斯·哈代答案：A2. 美国作家海明威的代表作是哪部小说？A. 《了不起的盖茨比》B. 《老人与海》C. 《白鲸》D. 《红字》答案：B3. 下列哪部作品不是简·奥斯汀的小说？A. 《理智与情感》B. 《傲慢与偏见》C. 《曼斯菲尔德庄园》D. 《简·爱》答案：D4. 谁是“美国现代主义文学之父”？A. 爱德加·爱伦·坡B. 华尔特·惠特曼C. 艾米莉·狄金森D. 马克·吐温答案：A5. 《动物农场》是哪位英国作家的政治讽刺小说？A. 乔治·奥威尔B. 弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫C. 约翰·弥尔顿D. 丹尼尔·笛福答案：A6. 《白鲸》的作者是谁？A. 赫尔曼·梅尔维尔B. 纳撒尼尔·霍桑C. 埃德加·爱伦·坡D. 华盛顿·欧文答案：A7. 《简·爱》的作者是谁？A. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特B. 艾米莉·勃朗特C. 安妮·勃朗特D. 伊丽莎白·巴雷特·勃朗宁答案：A8. 下列哪部作品是威廉·福克纳的代表作？A. 《喧哗与骚动》B. 《熊》C. 《老人与海》D. 《永别了，武器》答案：B9. 《乌托邦》是哪位英国作家的政治哲学著作？A. 托马斯·莫尔B. 约翰·洛克C. 托马斯·霍布斯D. 约翰·弥尔顿答案：A10. 美国文学中的“迷失的一代”是指哪些作家？A. 爱德加·爱伦·坡B. 弗·斯科特·菲茨杰拉德C. 马克·吐温D. 纳撒尼尔·霍桑答案：B二、填空题（每题2分，共20分）11. 《麦克白》是莎士比亚的四大悲剧之一，其他三部分别是________、《奥赛罗》和《李尔王》。
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II. Read the quoted part and answer the questions:1.“For herein Fortune shows herself more kindThan is her custom. It is still her useTo let the wretched man outlive his wealth,To view with hollow eye and wrinkled browAn age of poverty; from which lin g’ring penanceOf such misery doth she cut me off”1.Identify the title of the works and author.2.Explain “from which…cut me off”.3.What happened to him, which caused the words?参考答案:The lines are from “The Merchant of Venice”,William Shakespeare. (P48)2) This sentence means she, ’Lady Fortune(命运女神)’, is more kind to him because she is taking away both his wealth and life.3) The speaker is Antonio, it’s said that his ship have all been lost, and he is penniless, and will have to pay the pound of flesh. (Because Shylock has made a strange bond that requires Antonio to pay him a pound of flesh if he can’t repay him the money that he borrowed for his friend in due time.) (P38)Of Study:The Sentence talks about the proper way to read: When you read, d on’t be puzzled by the content of the book; don’t take it for granted; don’t quote too muchfrom the book; before accepting its idea, you’d better think about its shortcomings and consider it from all sides.3.“ Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.1) Where does the poem comes from? Who wrote it?What does “eternal lines” mean?Interpret it briefly.参考答案：1) The poem is “ Shall I Compare thee to a Summer’s Day”, by Shakespeare. (P38)2) Eternal lines means the lines of the poem and other sonnets. (P38)3) It means: you will not lose your beauty, and death will not threaten you with darkness, either. As long as man can live in the world, they will see your beauty in my lines of my poem, which has given you eternal life. (Or A nice summer’s day is usually transient, but the beauty in poetry can last for ever. (P37)4.“… All is no lost: the unconquerable will,And study of revenge, immortal hate,And courage never to submit or yield:And what is else not to be overcome?……Irreconcilable to our grand Foe”1) Please identify the poem and the poet.2) Interpret“all is not lost”.3) What does the whole passage mean?参考答案：1) It is taken from John Milton’s “Paradise Lost”.(P74)2) “all is not lost” is the word from Satan----Satan and other angels rebel against God, but they are driven from Heaven into hell. In the fire of the hell, Satan is determined to fight back, just like what he says: not all is lost, the unconquerable will, the deep hatred, and the courage to fight till death still remain. (P71)3) This passage shows Satan’s will not to submit (服从), and the desire to long for freedom; to beg God for mercy and worship his power is more shameful and disgraceful than the downfall.(P71)6.“What, is great Mephistophilis to passionateFor being deprived of the joys of heaven?Learn thou of Faustus manly fortitudeAnd scorn those joys thou never shalt possess.……Say he will spare him Four and twenty yearsLetting him live in all voluptuousnessHaving thee ever to attend on me…Questions:1)Identify the passage and author;2)“Say he surrenders up to him his soul”, who will su rrender his soul? What for?3)Who are thee? What will he do?参考答案：1) The passage comes from “Dr.Faustus” written by Christopher Marlowe. (P25—26)2) Dr.Faustus will surrender his soul to devil. Because he was a great scholar who has a strong desire to ’get knowledge’ in vain, finally he ’made a bond’ to sell his soul to Devil in return for 24 years of life in which he may get anything he desires. (P22)3) The “thee”, refers to “Mephistophilis”, the Devil’s servant.He helped Dr.Faustus to do anything he wants. (P22)4.Humanism is the essence of Renaissance -----Man is the measure of all things. The humanism exalted/praised human nature and emphasized the dignity of human beings and the present life. They thought man had the right to enjoy the beauty of life and had the ability to perfect himself and made wonders, which got ready for the appearance of the great Elizabethan writers in Britain. Poetry and drama were the most outstanding literary forms.2.Please cite examples from "Gulliver’s Travels" to ex plain briefly how did Swift criticized and allude to the government and the society.参考答案:1)In the first part of the "Gulliver’s Travels", Swift described the tricks and practices in the competition held before royal members to allude to the fact that the success of the officials was not for their wisdom and excellence but for their skills in the games;2)In the part 4 of the book, Swift made horses with reason and good qualities.The citizens who are "hairy, wild, low and despicable brutes, who resemble human beings not only in appearance but also in almost every way" to criticize/satirize all respects of the English and European life, and urge people to consider the nature of the human and life. (P108-109)1. "A little black thing among the snowCrying "’weep! ’weep! In notes of woe"where are thy father & mother? Say? ""They are both gone up to the church to prey."(1)Identify the poem and poet.(2)Explain "notes of woe".(3)What does the sentence mean "they ate both gone up to the church to prey." Answer:(1)It is from "The Chimney Sweeper (from songs of experience) by Blake.(P172) (2)"notes of woe" means the songs/notes of sadness. (3)It implies: religion is the instrument of their repression/ oppression, its nature is to help bring misery to the poor children.(P169)2. "The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece!Where burning Sappho loved and sung,Where grew the arts of war and peace,Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung!Eternal summer gilds them all,But all, except their sun, is set."(1)Identify the poem and its author; (2)What does it mean "But all, except their sun, is set."(3)What does the passage imply?Answer:(1)The poet is Byron. The poem is taken from "The Isles of Greece (from Don Juan)"(P199) (2)The sentence means: The sun is still on the rise, but the rest things all set.(3)The passage implied: The author lamented over the fallenGreece: In the past, Greece nurtured/ cultivated great poets and heroes,who enjoyed freedom and civilization, but now Greece had been enslaved,the past honorable history couldn’t be found again. (P199)5. "Place me on Sunium’s marbles steep,Where nothing, save the waves and I,May her our mutual murmurs sweep;There, swan like, let me sing and die:A land of slaves shall ne’er be mine---Dash down you cup of Samian wine!"(1)Identify the poem and its author. (P203)(2)Explain "swan like, let me sing and die" (P199) Interpret the passage and spot its implication.Answer:(1)The poet is Byron. The poem is taken from "The Isles of Greece (from Don Juan)" (P203)(2)Swan is famous for its faith to its lover, one of them die, the other will refuse to eat and drink, it will cry till death.Here the author used a simile to show his strong desire to fight with the invaders till death, and appeal to the suppressed Greek people to struggle for their freedom and liberation.7. "Then naked & white, all their bags left behind,They rise upon clouds, and sport in the wind,And the angle told Tom, if he’d be a good bye,He’d have God for his father, and never want joy."(1)Identify the poem and its poet;(2)What does the poem implies?Answer:(1) The poem is take from "The Chimney Sweeper (from Songs of Innocence)", which was written by William Blake.(p171) (2) This is a lovely poem presenting a happy and innocent world, though the wretched child are exploited and orphaned,they had nice dream for life and the world, which implies religion make people obedient to exploitation, and from religion, they can get consolation and an "illusory happiness".(p168)8. "As thus with thee in prayer in my sore need.Oh! Lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud!I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!A heavy weight of hours has chained and bowedOne too like thee: tameless, and swift and proud."(1)Explain "I fall upon the thorns of life, I bleed" (P208)(2)Can you comprehend the deep emotion contained in the poem? What’s that?(3)The poet was called the "the heart of all hearts", he trumpeted the radical prophecy of hope and rebirth. Please write out his classic words.Answer:(1)The sentence c all Shelley’s desire that he couldn’t best being fettered to/limited by the humdrum/too ordinary reality of everyday! (P208)(2)In the poem, the west wind has become the poet himself, he wants to be free, proud and controllable like the wild west wind,to destruct and construct with the strong power like the west wind. (P207~208) (3)"If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?" (P208)10. "Where fore feed and Clothe and saveFrom the cradle to the graveDrain your sweat---nay, drink your blood?"(1)Who wrote the poem? What’s its name?(2) Explain "drones",(3) Interpret the passage.Answer:(1)The poem is "A song: Men of England" by Shelley. (P209) (2)Drones the male of the honey-bees that don’t work ,referring to the parasitic class in human society.(drones and bees are the devices of metaphor) (P210)(3)The poet called all working people to rise up against their political oppressors, but point out the intolerable injustice of economic exploitation. It expressed the love for freedom and the hatred to tyranny of the author. (P207)11. "Wild spirit, which art moving everywhere;Destroyer and Preserver; hear, O hear!"(1)What does the "wild spirit "refer to?(2)Why called it "Destroyer and Preserver" at the same time?(3)Identify the poet and the poem.nswer:(1)"wild spirit" refers to west wind/autumn wind. (P212) (2)Because west wind buried the dead year and year and prepared for a new spring, the poet call it "Destroyer and preserver". (3)It is "Ode to the west wind" of Shelley. (terza rima)5. What is the difference between Romanticism and Neoclassicism?(Neoclassicism=Augustans=enlightener)Answer:(1)The Romantic Movement expressed negative attitude toward the existing social and political condition, the Romantics saw the corruption and injustice of the inhumanity of capitalism; (2)The Neo saw man as a social; while Rom saw him as an individual in the solitary state; (3)Neo stressed the common features of men; but the Rom stressed the special qualities of each individual’s mind; (4)Neo celebrated rationality, equality and science of the outside world; while Rom changed to the inner world of the human spirit, whose theory saw the individual as the center of all experience; (5)Literature was heavily didactic and moralizing. There were fixed laws for each type of literature; Rom expressed his feeling, valued accuracy in portraying, they thought literature should be free from all rules.(6)The most important form in Neo was prose; while Rom was an age of poetry. (P160-161)7. Jane Austen was the only important female author in the 18-19th century, how do you know about her?Answer:Generally speaking, Austen was writer of the 18th century. (1)Her novels always dealt with the romantic entanglement of the heroines; (2)She believed in it that reason over passion, sense of responsibility, good manners,and clear judgment over romance; she honored the Augustan virtues of moderation, dignity disciplined emotion and common sense; (3)She contempt snobbery, stupidity, worldliness etc;(4)Her main concern was the relationship between men and women in love;(5)Her writing range was limited, all restricted to the provincial life of the 18th century England; (6)She presented the quiet, day-to-day country life of the middle -upper -class English. (7)Her characteristic theme was: maturity is got by the loss of illusions. (P223--226)“You teach me now how cruel you’ve ---cruel and false. Why did you despise me? Why did you betray your own heart, Cathy? I have not one word of comfort---you deserve this…”Who is the speaker?What does it refe r to “you despise me, you break your own heart”?What was the meaning of the story from the social point of view?What is the main device of the story in description?Answer:The speaker was Heathcliff.(P270—271)It refers to Cathy married her husband(Linton) and deserted him and her own love.From the social point of view, it is a story about a poor man –Heathcliff abused, betrayed and distorted by his social betters/by the people with higher social position, because he is a poor nobody. (P266)Flashback. (P267)“In pursuance of this determination, little Oliver, to his excessive astonishment, was released from bondage, and ordered to put himself into a clean shirt. He had hardly achieved this very unusual gymnastic performance when Mr. Bumble brought him, with his own hands, a basin of gruel and the holiday allowance of two ounces and a quarter of bread. A very tremendous sight, Oliver begins to cry very piteously. Thinking, not unnaturally, that the board must have decided to kill him for some useful purp ose, or they never would have begun to fatten him up in this way.”Identify the title and the writer. Why Oliver was released from the bondage?Why had he been punished? Interpret “A very tremendous sight”.Answer:1、This is an excerpt from “Oliver Twist” by Charles Dickens. (P249)Because he would be sold to a notorious chimney-sweeper (at 3 pound ten) and became his apprentice. (P243)2、Oliver was punished for that “impious and profane offence of asking for more gruel.” (P242)]From the passage we can see the food is so little and poor in fact, but in the little Oliver’s eyes, it became “A very tremendous sight”. Because in the usual days Oliver and other children were maltreated and abused cruelly, they couldn’t eat well and were punished severely by the cruelty and hypocrisy of the dehumanizing workhouse board. (P243)2. D. H. Lawrence is regarded as revolutionary, how do you know his works?Answer:1) Lawrence’s interest lay in the psychological development of his character;2) He criticized the dehumanizing effect of the capitalism industrialization on human which turned man into inhuman machines and unhealthy animal;3) He believes the life impulse -the sexual impulse was man’s most important instinct, any conscious repression would cause distortion of the man’s personality;4) He explored the relationship of man and woman in psychology;5) He believed the alienation and the perversion were caused by the desire for power and money. (P317)"Time grew worse and worse with Rip Van Winkle as years of matrimony rolled on: a tart temper mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener by constant use. For a long while he used to perpetual club of the sages, philosophers, and other idle personages of the village.Questions:1) Please identify the author and the title of the work.2) What’s the meanin Chapter3 The Modern PeriodI. Choose the right answer:1. Ezra Pound is a leading spokesman of the_________.A. Imagist MovementB. Chartist MovementC. Modernist MovementD. Romantic MovementAnswer: A (P553)2. Strong affinity of the Chinese and Oriental literature can be found in the works of_________.A. Mark TwainB. Ezra PoundC. Emily DickinsonD. Arthur Miller Answer: B (P556)3. In Robert Frost’s famous poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", there are four lines like these: “The woods are lovely, dark and deep, / But I have promises to keep, / And miles to go before I sleep,/ And miles to go before I sleep”. The second sleep refers to______.A. dieB. calm downC. fall into sleepD. stop walkingAnswer: A (P567)4. Of the following American poets, whose work was first recognized inEngland and then in America?A. Robert FrostB. Walt WhitmanC. Emily DickinsonD. Wallace Stevens Answer: A (P561)5. "For I have had too much/ Of apple-picking: I am overtired/ Of the great harvest I myself desired" From these lines we can conclude that the speaker __________.A. is happy about the harvestB. is tired of the work of apple-pickingC. is not tired when seeing the harvestD. becomes indifferent of the jobAnswer: B (P565)6. In these lines "The apparition of these faces in the crowd; / Petals on a wet, black bough", Ezra Pound uses the figure of speech of ________.A. metaphorB. simileC. hyperboleD. contrastAnswer: A (P557)7. O’Neill’s inventiveness seemingly knew no limits. He was constantly experimenting with new styles and forms for his plays, especially during the twenties when ______was in full swing.A. SymbolismB. ExpressionismC. RomanticismD. RealismAnswer: B (P571)8. "He got me, aw right. I’m trou. Even him didn’t tink I belonged." In these sentences taken from ’The Hairy Ape’, the words “he” and “him” both refer to__________.A. YankB. GodC. The ape in the zooD. A person unnamedAnswer: B (P575)9. ______is a school of modern painting, whose emphasis is on the formal structure of a work of art and especially on the multiple-perspective viewpoints.A. ExpressionismB. ImpressionismC. CubismD. ImagismAnswer: C (P546)10. In a class which discuss the Imagist Movement in the United States, we will definitely NOT include________.A. William Carlos WilliamsB. Ezra PoundC. Gary SnyderD. Wallance StevensAnswer: C (P547-548)11. In which of the following poems by Ezra Pound did you find the allusion to Wi-shang? ____________A. In a Station of the MetroB. The River-Merchant’s Wife: A LetterC.A Pact D. Hugh Selwyn MauberleyAnswer: B (P559)12. In 1915, Ezra Pound began writing his great work_______, which spanned from 1917 to 1959.A. CantosB. Collected Early Poems of Ezra PoundC. PersonaeD. Hygh Selwyn MauberleyAnswer: A (P554)13. Robert Frost was the Pulitzer winner on ______ occasions.A. twoB. ThreeC. fourD. fiveAnswer: C (P560)13. The founder of the American drama is _______.A. Arthur MillerB. Clifford OdetsC. Tennesee WilliamsD. Eugene O’NeillAnswer: D (P568)14. The first full-length play written by Eugene O’Neill is ______.A. The StrawB. Beyond the HorizonC. Bound East for CardiffD. The Hairy ApeAnswer: B (P568)14. Euge ne O’Neill’s ’The Hairy Ape’ explores the problem of________.A. human disillusionmentB. the corruption of human desireC. human responsibilityD. the loss of human identityanswer: D (P572)15. Fitzgerald’s fictional world is the best embodiment of the spirit of_______.A. the Jazz ageB. the Romantic PeriodC. the Renaissance PeriodD. the Neoclassical PeriodAnswer: A (P577)16. Fitzgerald wrote the following except_________.A. The Great GatsbyB. In Our TimeC. Tender is the NightD. This Side of ParadiseAnswer: B (P578)17. "There was music from my neighbor’s house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the chamoagne and the stars...", the two sentences are taken from________.A. ’The Great Gatsby’ by FitzgeraldB. ’Sister Carrie’ by Theodore DreiserC. ’Moby-Dick’ by Herman MelvilleD. ’Daisy Miller’ by Henry JamesAnswer: A (P583)18. Which of the following comments on the novel ’The Great Gatsby’ is not true?A. The Great Gatsby is a novel that is a set against the ending of the war.B. Gatsby is a mystical figure whose intensity of dream partakes of a state of mind that embodies American itself.C. Gatsby is the last of the romantic heroes.D. Gatsby is wealthy but unintelligent and brutal.Answer: D (P581-582)19. _____is Hemingway’s masterpiece.A. Farewell to ArmsB. For Whom the bell TollsC. The Sun Also RisesD. The Old Man and the SeaAnswer: D (P601)20. Which of the following best describes the protagonist of WilliamFaulkner’s "A Rose for Emily"?A. She is a conservative aristocrat.B. She is a wealth lady.C. She is a prisoner of the past.D. She has good taste.Answer: C (P617)21. Who, disregarding grammar and punctuation, always used "I" instead of "I" to refer to himself as a protest against self-importance?A. CummingsB. Wallance StevensC. FitzgeraldD. Ernest Hemingway Answer: A (P548)22. Who is the author of the writing "The Grapes of Wrath"?A. John SteinbeckB. Eugene O’NeillC. FitzgeraldD. Theodor e Dreiser Answer: A (P548-549)II. Read the quoted part and answer the questions:1. "The apparition of these faces in the crowded; / Petals on a wet, black bough."1) From which poem does the stanza come? Who is the author?2) What does the “petals”mean?3) Briefly interpret the two lines.Answers: 1) The lines are taken from "In a Station of the Metro" by Ezra Pound. (P557) 2) Here "petals" stands for "human faces". (P557)3) The two lines compare human faces to petals on a wet, black bough. This way of making poetry comes from Chinese poetics. (P557)2. "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel bothAnd be one traveler, long I stoodAnd looked down one as far as I couldTo where it bent in the undergrowth"Questions:1) Please identify the poem and the poet; 2) Please briefly interpret this poem.Answers:1) It is taken from Robert Lee Frost’s "The Road Not Taken" (P566)2) In this meditative poem, the speaker tells us how the course of his life determined when he came upon two rods that diverged in a wood. Forced to choose, he “took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.”He seems to be giving a suggestion to the reader: "Make good choice of your life." (P555-556)3. "The caterwauling horns had reached a crescendo and I turned away and cut across the lawn toward home. I glanced back once. A wafer of a moon was shining over Gatsby’s house, making 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 lost, who stood on the porch, his stand up in a formal gesture of farewell." Questions:1) Name the author and the title of the novel from which this passageis taken.2) What is the setting of the novel?3) What implied meaning can you get from reading this passage? Answers:1) The passage comes from "The Great Gatsby" written by Fitzgerald. (P597)2) The Great Gatsby is a novel that is set against the ending of the war. (P581)3) The passage hints at the meaninglessnes, spiritual emptiness and vanity of such a lift of pleasure-seeking. There is a tragic sense that the "party" will be over. Gatsby’s failure magnifies to a great extent the end of the American Dream. (However, the affirmation of hope and expectation is self-asserted in Fitzgerald’s artistic manipulation of the central symbol in the novel, the green light).(P582)III Questions and answers:1. Analyze the background of the Modern Period.Answer:(1) TheU.S. participated in The First World War marked a crucial stage in the nation’s evolution/development to a world power.(2) The technology has brought about great changes in the life of the American people. (P544)2. The ideology analyses about the people and especially the authors. (The ideology analysis of "The Lost Generation)Answer:(1) People became less certain about what might arise in this changing world and more cynical about accepted standards of honesty and morality. The idea of "seize the day" or "enjoy the present" was pervasive. (2) There was a decline in moral standard and the first few decades of the twentieth century was described as a spiritual wasteland. The censor/standard of a great civilization being destroyed or destroying itself, social breakdown, and individual powerlessness and hopelessness became part of the American experience as a result of the First World War, with resulting feelings of fear, loss, disorientation and disillusionment.(3) Disillusioned and disgusted by the frivolous, greedy, and heedless way of life in America, they began to write and they wrote from their own experience in the war.(4) The sense of loss and despair prevails among the post-war generation who are physically and psychologically scarred; Faulkner creates his ownmythical kingdom that mirrors not only the decline of the Southern society but also the spiritual wasteland of the whole American society.(5) The world is even more disintegrating and fragmentary and people are even more estranged and despondent.(6) These writers shared almost the same belief that human beings are trapped in a meaningless world and that neither God nor man can make sense of the human condition.(7) In general terms, much serious literature written from 1912 onwards attempted to convey a vision of social breakdown and moral decay and the writer’s task was to develop techniques that could represent a break with the past. (P545-552)3. List some characteristic writers you know in the Modernism. Answer:(1) The spirit of frivolity and carelessness is brought vividly to life in "The Great Gatsby" (1925).(2) Faulkner’s footsteps in portraying the decadence and evil in the Southern society in a Gothic manner.(3) Salinger is considered to be a spokesman for the alienated youth in the post-war era and his The Catcher in theRye is regarded as a students’ classic.(4) O’Neill is remembered for his tragic view of life and most of his plays are about the root, the truth of human desires and human frustration. (P548---549)4. What are the styles of the modernists in writing?Answer:(1) The defining formal characteristics of the modernistic works discontinuity and fragmentation.(2) The biggest shift is from the external to the internal, from the public to the private, from the chronological to the psychic, from the objective description to the subjective projection.(3) Modern American writers in general emphasize the concrete sensory images or details as the direct conveyer of experience.(4) Their language is direct, compressive, vivid and sparing of words.(5) Modern fiction tended to employ the first person narration or limit the reader to the "central consciousness" or one character’s point of view. This limitation accorded with the modernistic vision that truth does not exist objectively but is the product of a personal interaction with reality. (P552---553)5. Some theories and ideologies influenced the Modernists, what are they? Answer:(1) Darwinism; (2) Karl Marx’s scientific socialism; (3) Freud’s "unconsciousness" and psychoanalysis; (4) William James’ "stream of consciousness"; (5) Carl June’s "collective unconscious", "archetypal symble". (P546)。
英美文学选读 习题1
答案：survival|fittest|fate|mysterious |supernatural|force|impotent|Fate
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[3]1.“When the stars threw down their spears,
And water’d heaven with their tears,
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee ?”
Questions:
A. Who’s the poet of the quoted stanza?
B. Whom does the“he”refer to?
C. What does the“Lamb”symbolize?
Bromanticism
Ctranscendentalism
Dcubism
答：
答案：A
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[2]Why is Hardy regarded as a naturalistic writer in English literature? Discuss in relation to his novels you know.
DD. A Farewell to Arms
答：
答案：C
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“‘Do you think I can stay to become nothing to you? So you think I am an automoton?—a machine without feelings? And can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless?—You think wrong!—I have as much as you and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty, and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, or even of mortal flesh:—it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God’s feet, equal—as we are!’”
英美文学欣赏考题整理及答案
Part One：English Poetry1.William Shakespeare Sonnet 18•Why does the poet compare `thee` to a summer’s day? And who could `thee` be?Because summer’s day and thee both represent beauty . thee could be beauty, love.•What picture have you got of English summer, and could you explain why?Warm, beautiful, sunshine. Because summer is the best season of a year ,the most beautiful season. It is like our May.•How does the poet answer the question he puts forth in the first line?Thee is more beautiful than summer.•What makes the poet think that “thou” can be more fair than summer and immortal?Because humanism is more eternal than summer and immortal.•What figures of speech are used in this poem?Simile, metaphor, personification, oxymoron and so on .•What is the theme of the poem?Love conquers all, Beauty lives on.2. Thomas Nashe Spring•Read the poem carefully, pay attention to those image- bearing words, and see how many images the poet created in the poem and whatsense impressions you can get from those images.There is “Blooms each thing, maids dance in a ring, the pretty birds do sing, the palm and may make country houses gay, Lambs frisk' and play, the shepherds pipe all day, And we hear aye birds tune this merry lay, The fields breathe sweet, the daisies kiss our feet, Young lovers meet, old wives a-sunning sit, In every street these tunes bur ears do greet!”The “Young lovers meet, old wives a-sunning sit，” impressions me most because of the harmony of the people’s relationship.•Can you point out and explain the sound and their musical effect in the poem?In the Poem, each section has four lines, each line has ten syllables ( five tone step ) . In order to give the reader a spring breeze , streams , flowers , winding , Song Xin texture of sound and light flavor, Naixi greater uses English word S , z , f , V , R , L , and θconsonants means.In Naixi's poem, the use of phonological is also very harmonious, very smooth , very mellow. Section I of the poetry has Three pairs [ ing ] , section II of the poem has three pairs [ ei ] and the third quarter has three pairs [ i : ].3.John Donne A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning•What is a “valediction” any way? Is the speaker in the poem about to die? Why does the speaker forbid mourning?No, it is about the lovers’ separation. As the poem metaphors, the poetbelieved he and his wife’s love is sacred, he didn’t hope they cry when separation comes, let their love be stained by the ordinary and mundane.In the first verse, the poet used virtuous men’s death metaphor for lovers’ separation, in the third verse he used “moving of the earth” and “trepidation of the spheres”metaphor for lovers’separation and the result of separation, in the last three verse he used stiff twin compasses’ two legs metaphor for poet himself and his wife. All these metaphors show poet opinion that he will separate from his wife in peace, their love is a scared love, when they away from each other, they will not be hurt by the pain of the separation. He and his wife will not really separate. They care about each other and listen to the other one’s heart, their trust and loyalty makes their love perfect like the circle made by a twin compasses.4.William Blake The Tiger•What is the symbolic meaning of the tiger?The symbol of the Tiger is unclear what it exactly symbolizes, but scholars have hypothesized that the Tiger could be inspiration, the divine, artistic creation, history, the sublime, or vision itself. The list is almost infinite. The point is, the Tiger is important, and Blake’s poem barely limits the possibilities. Here are two major symbolisms:The tiger is the embodiment of God's power in creation.The tiger shows the force of French Revolution.•What paradox can you find in the poem?"Did he who made the Lamb make thee?" It challenges the one-track religious views of the 18’s century. The view only concluded that god create the lame, he is so kind a father. But it didn’t know god also create the tough tiger. He can also be very serious. The god is someone who can’t be truly understood by human beings.5.Robert Burns A Red, Red Rose•How dose the narrator in the love song express his love?In stanza 1, the narrator presents two similes, the first comparing his love to a rose and the second comparing his love to a melody.In stanza 2, the narrator addresses the young lady as bonnie. In the last line of the stanza, he presents hyperbole, a figure of speech that exaggerates.In stanza 3, the man promises eternal love for her.In stanza 4, the poet vows to love her however far he may go.•Why is this poem so touching to the readers?Because this poem professes the poet’s true love for his beloved girl, and uses the mentioned above to touch the readers.6.William Wordsw orth I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud•What does the poet see?He sees some daffodils.•What is the poet’s mood before he sees the daffodils?Vacant and pensive.•What is the poet’s mood after he sees the daffodils?He is very pleasant.•How does the magical change occur?Those daffodils show a fantastic picture to the poet, and the poet has been deeply affected by the scene, and his mood changes.•What is the theme of the poem? Or what does the poet want to tell you?It shows the beauty of nature, and the nature’s beauty uplifts the human spirit, and the harmony between human and nature.7.Robert Browning My Last Duchess• 1. In this poem, who and on what occasion is speaking to whom?The Duke is the speaker of the poem, and tells us he is entertaining an emissary who has come to negotiate the Duke’s marriage (he has recently been widowed) to the daughter of another powerful family.•What sort of person is the Duke’s last Duchess?She is kind, easy-going, innocent and lively.•And what became of her in the end?She became very upset and worrying. The duchess died under suspicious circumstances on April 21, 1561, just two years after he married her. She may have been poisoned.• 2. What sort of person is the Duke?He is outrageously arrogant, narrow-minded, selfish, hypocritical, cold-blooded, crucial, greedy and treacherous.8.Walt Whitman O Captain! My Captain!•Q:Walt Whitman’s poem “O Captain! My Captain!” is written in the form of an allegory. What is the overall connotative meaning in the poem?A: Ship’s implied meaning is America; My captain’ implied meaning is Abraham Lincoln who leaded America to triumph in American Civil War then; our fearful trip’s implied meaning is American Civil War after which Lincoln was assassinated. In this poem author spoken highly of Lincoln’ contribution and expressed his sorrow for Lincoln’ death.9.Emily Dickinson (1)Success is counted sweetest (67)•According to the poem, who can understand success most? Do you agree or not with the poet’s view that “Success is counted sweetest by those who ne’er succeed”?The person who best understands the meaning of success is the person who fails•What sort of feelings does the poet show toward the victor and the defeated?The poet shows her awareness of the complicated truths of human desire. Success can be comprehended by someone who need it; the defeated, dying man understand victory more clearly than the victoriousarmy does.(2)Because I could not stop for Death (712)•How many people are there in the carriage? And where are they going right now?There are three in the carriage, the Poet, Death, and Immortality.•Where did they pass? What can these places remind us of?They passed the school, the fields of Gazing grain, the Setting Sun. It reminds us of childhood, maturity and old age, the children are evident symbols of the beginning of things, the grain rip of the adulthood, and the sun setting of the rest of the days.•What is the poet’s attitude toward death and life implied in the poem?The poet’s attitude is that death is nothing to be forced since it is natural part of the endless cycle of nature, it’s only the beginning ;to die is to go on another journey, although death takes one away from the earthy world ;there is still something to look forward to when one dies, death means eternity.10.Robert Frost Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening•Why did the speaker stop?Literally he was fascinated by the beautiful night scene and stoped his horse to watch the woods fill up with the snow,it was also a little break for the long travel. But in fact,it's symbolism,the 'woods' stands for the nature,the 'village' stands for the human world, 'horse' for the animalworld. The poem represents a moment of relaxation from the burdensome journey of life, an almost aesthetic enjoyment and appreciation of natural beauty which is wholesome and restorative against the chaotic existence of modern man.•Why did he later decide to go?As the last sentence said 'But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep.'His 'horse' shake the bell to ask if they should go,which is actually a symbol of vitality, urges him to go. He lives in the real life, and he has his own obligation "promise to keep',he hasn't achieve it, so he must go on his trip,leave the beautiful scene.Though the scene is so amazing,he has to have the real life. Though the real life is so hard,he must back to it,and reach his goal. One leaves no regrets after he dies, as long as one has reached his goal.•What is your understanding of “promises to keep”?“The promise” could be an obligation or a goal. One cannot die before fulfilling one’s dream. The poet uses “sleep” to represent death, just as we usually do. People have their own dream or goal,it's also the duty for us to finish, we live for ourselves and we make life wonderful by keeping on reaching our goal,no regrets leaves as long as we have reached our goals.11. Ezra Pound In a Station of the MetroPart Two: English Fiction12. Jonathan Swift Gulliver’s Travels●In this chapter, Swift describes the smallness of the Lilliputians. Whatdoes this “smallness”imply in the author’s satire of the aristocratic bourgeois society of the time?Key: The Lilliput scene depicted in the first volume of the novel is a microcosm of the British Empire. The perennial endless struggle between UK Tories and Whigs and external war are essentially just politicians intrigue in the section has nothing to do with the national economy and the people's livelihood. The “smallness” imply that …●What is the cause of the civil strife and war between Lilliput and theneighbouring empire of Blefuscu? What is the target of the author’s satire?(1)Key: The parties are divided as high-heeled party and low-heeled partyaccording to the height of the heel. The relationship between parties is irreconcilable; Neighboring countries not only want to conquer and enslave the other, but also argue about trifles such as which head we should knock when we will eat eggs .(2) Key: The author uses irony and innuendo tactics to reflect the British social contradictions among first half of the 18th century, to criticize the British parliamentary politics and reactionary religious forces, to expose the corruption and evil of the ruling clique, and to criticize the hazards of a war of aggressionand colonialism.13Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice1.Do you agree with the statement “it is truth universally acknowledged that asingle man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife”?What is the relationship between money and marriage?Key: (1) I agree with this statement. In my view, a bachelor who has lots of money is supposed to have a wife to company him. The amount of money demonstrates the ability of a person. The beauties and the wits should come together.(2) First, the relationship between marriage and money is very close; we can say that the money is the basis of marriage. This is just from the material conditions of life. However, the amount of money can’t measure the quality of marriage. A determinant of marriage is the couple's feelings, and if the lack of the feelings, life is not a happy marriage even though has more money.2.What do you think of Mrs. Bennet? How can you characterize her?Key: (1) Mrs. Bennet - a foolish, noisy woman whose only goal in life is to see her daughters married. Because of her low breeding and often unbecoming behavior, Mrs. Bennet often repels the very suitors whom she tries to attract for her daughters.(2) Mrs. Bennet is a miraculously tiresome character, who is noisy and foolish. And Mrs. Bennet is totally obedient and submissive in her marriage. Mrs. Bennet is a self-centered woman with the attitude that what is goodenough for her is good enough for her children.14. Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights1.What is the main plot of the whole novel? What causes the tragic ending ofthe love between Heathcliff and Catherine? Would it have been possible, under the circumstances, for the victimized lovers to find a way out? Key: Novel’s theme is vengeance. Katherine's character flaws is the root causes of the tragedy, Heathcliff to lost love human distortion conducted a series of revenge activities, the capitalist society for the generation of tragedy provides fertile soil. If Heathcliff get marry with Katherine, they’ll be happiness.2.Is Heathcliff’s revenge upon the Earnshaw and Linton families justifiable?What is the author’s attitude toward Heathcliff, judging from the final futility of the revenge?Key: For the vengeance of the people is right .but it’s wrong in law. It’s love, but Heathcliff’s love is crazy.15. Kate Chopin The Story of an Hour•What kind of character is Louise Mallard?Key: Mrs. Mallard is a sympathetic character with strength and insight.•What are the themes of this short story?Key: It’s mainly about the awakening of feminine awareness and the fruitless struggle of women for freedom in a man-centered world. It is about marriage bondages and celibacy freedom.•What do “heart trouble” and “the open window” symbolize?Key: (1) heart trouble symbolizes(2) the open window symbolizes16. Earnest Hemingway Hills like White Elephants• 1. What is a “white elephant ”according to the dictionary definition?What does a “white elephant” symbolize in the story?(1) Key: a: a property requiring much care and expense and yielding littleprofitb : an object no longer of value to its owner but of value to othersc : something of little or no value(2)Key: The woman is pregnant, and the White Elephant is a hint of thebody of the women. The fact that the two. This matter becomes a heavy burden for the two people.• 2. List the evidence that tells what kind of operation Jig is confronting.How risky is it physically and emotionally?(1) evidence:1. 'It's really an awfully simple operation, Jig,' the man said. 'It's not reallyan operation at all.'2. 'I know you wouldn't mind it, Jig. It's really not anything. It's just to letthe air in.'3. 'They just let the air in and then it's all perfectly natural.'4. 'I know we will. Yon don't have to be afraid. I've known lots of people that have done it.'5. 'But I know it's perfectly simple.'(2) Key:1. Do affect her health, result that the body is badly weakened and bereduced immunity in the aspect of physical.2. Do be Frustrated, empty and depressed mood which leads to thatshe can not be quiet in the aspect of emotion.• 3. Has Jig made up her mind to do the operation?Key: The question about whether to do an abortion, the article comes a stop suddenly at the end. So we can’t make sure whether Jig has made up her mind to do the operation.• 4. If the operation is something already decided on, then what upsets Jig? What is the real conflict between the couple?Key: (1) She worries that she could not get happiness as before with the man. She upsets that he would leave her for ever.(2) The real conflict between the couple is that whether the man likesthe women from the deep heart and their attitudes towards life.• 5. What kind of girl is Jig? How is their relation like? Does the American love Jig?Key: (1) She is restless and confused and longing for the deeper love from the man.(2) There could be many situations: first, a married man compels hislover to have a abortion; second, as a bachelor, he worries the baby would make his life be complex and so on.(3) Because of the various situations, we could not make an accurateconclusion that the man loves Jig. However, on some degree the man loves the woman by analyzing the conversation between them.• 6. What is Hemingway’s style?Key: Hemingway’s style is laconic. The characteristic is reflected in that When writing, he is very clear what kind of content could pit one against ten.It is both an immediate situation and also containing other deeper meanings, which can be informed in the way of exploring something by the readers.17.William Faulkner A Rose for Emily• 1. What is the meaning of the title?Key: A rose is a funeral flower. It’s author’s tribute to Emily, and also to south, Emily is the symbol. And it has an ironic meaning to this story.• 2. What kind of woman is Miss Emily?Key: She is embodiment of south, the old and traditional, also obstinate, resists to change anything ,a determined，dignified, valiant and literate woman.• 3. How did the townspeople think of her?Key: The townspeople had mixed feelings—she was “dear inescapable,impervious, tranquil”, and perverse. Also she was always expected to bring honor to the town and set a good example for the young.• 4. What is the symbolic meaning of Emily’s house?Key: Emily’s house, like Emily herself, is a monument, the only remaining emblem of a dying world of southern aristocracy, also represents alienation and death.• 5. What is special about the narration of this story?Key: The writing style of the novel is using flashbacks and narration interspersed with flashbacks. The author let us know the independent but closely related events skillfully under the premise of being not exposed the true intentions, which makes us draw attention to the development of the plot without boring.Part Three: English Drama18. William Shakespeare Hamlet, Prince of Denmark• 1. Why does sleep appear to be so fearful for Hamlet even though it can put an end to the numerous headaches in our life?Key: As described in the text, Hamlet thinks that sleep is different from death. Death means the end of life, you may go to the unknown world and you can’t comeback. If he dies, Hamlet can’t realize his will. Sleep can’t end the heartache and the thousand natural shocks. He can’t revenge and get relief through this way. He is frightened by the possible suffering in the long “dream”. He can’t predict what will happen in the sleep, may be good or evil.• 2. Why would most people prefer to bear all the sufferings in life rather than choose death as a means to end them?Key: 1. As it goes that ‘Adversity makes growth’, by solving the problems we can acknowledge plenty of skills and overcome the sufferings in life. If we choose death as a means to end them, it is too passive for us to face the obstacles in life, which will lead to the failure in life.2. Because people hold the same idea "to grunt and sweat under a wearylife, but that the dread of something after death-the undiscovered country, form whose bourn no traveler returns-puzzle the will, and make us rather bear those ills we have than fly to others that we don’t know.”People also are frightened by the myths in another world after death.Romeo and Juliet•What does it mean when Juliet says “That which we call a rose / By my other name would smell as sweet”?Key:In Shakespeare's time, name on behalf of their family, and his family represents the social status. And personal just only on behalf of their inner identity.And Juliet says strongly reflects her humanist outlook on life and the concept of the ideal.19. Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest1.How do you understand the title of the play? What is your impression ofGwendolen? What are the most striking traits in Lady Bracknell’s character?(1) Key: Here is a pun. It’s important to be a serious man. And the author wants to satirize the triviality with which it treats institutions as serious as marriage, and the resulting satire of Victorian ways.(2) Key: She advocates sincere, do be intelligent and friendly, and is able to forgive the mistakes of others. She do be a earnest person.(3) Key: Lady Bracknell embodies the stereotype of the Victorian English aristocrat woman. She belongs to aristocratic society and is a typical Victorian snob, who is arrogant, formal and concerned with money. She is interested only in a materialistic world.20. Eugene O’Neill The Hairy Ape1.Yank assumes more than once the posture of Rodin’s “The Thinker” in theplay. What does it have to do with the play’s motif and tone? What are the major images and symbols employed in the play to dramatize the theme?(1) Key: 1. The themes of this article are modern man loses his sense of belonging under technological progress and humanity is in a predicament by creating a world he does not belong to.2. The Thinker is often painful, which demonstrates the profoundly tragic matter of modern people like Yank: he is thinking and looks forward to a better life, but he doesn’t find the answer. In O'Neill’s opinion, there exists no answer. Therefore, he is destined to be a loser.3. In summary, the description of his behavior makes the theme more significant.2.Why do you think the play is subtitled “A Comedy of Ancient and ModernLife in Eight Scenes”？Key: 1. The hairy ape is a comedy of ancient and modern life which shows O'Neill's social concern for the oppressed industrial working class. It presents an extremely negative view of the state, of mechanized America, where the worker best adjusted to the system is a “hairy ape,” and where the “Capitalist class”is even more terribly dehumanized , for it has lost all connection with life , is simply “a procession of gaudy marionettes.”2. The play was created in 20th century when western people suffered unprecedented intellectual crisis. Human beings lost their absolute value, which made people fall into confusion and desperation. Besides, man’s desire to emotions was ignored in the rapid development of technology. People put existence of individuality first at that time.3. Numerous obstacles and frustrations occur in the way of Yank’s seeking for his position, which reflects survival crisis of most modern people. The more people think about, the clearer people realize about freedom.Welcome To Download !!!欢迎您的下载，资料仅供参考！。
外研社2023英美文学简史及名篇选读 参考答案
《英美文学简史及名篇选读》单元练习参考答案Exercises of Chapter II. Fill in the following blanks.1. Angles；Saxons; Jutes2. Beowulf3.French；Latin; Old EnglishII. Find the relevant match from Column B for each item in Column A.1.D2.C3.B4.E5. AIII. Choose the best answer for each statement.1.B2.D3.B4.BExercises of Chapter III. Fill in the following blanks.1. Utopia2.Francis Bacon3. Hamlet; Othello; King Lear; Macbeth4.classical; human activities; keynoteII. Find the relevant match from Column B for each item in Column A. Part I :1.D2.E3. B4. C5.APart II:6.L7.K8. I9.G 10.F. 11.H 12. JIII. Choose the best answer for each statement.1.B2.D3.B4.B5.C6.CExercises of Chapter IIII. Fill in the following blanks.1. Charles I ; Parliament2. beheaded ; commonwealth3. King Charles II；Restoration4.William Shakespeare ; Geoffrey ChaucerII. Find the relevant match from Column B for each item in Column A.Part I :1.C2.D3.B4. APart II :1.H2.E3.F4.GIII. Choose the best answer for each statement.1.D2.C3.D4.B5.CExercises of Chapter IVI. Fill in the following blanks.1.Sentimentalism2.Robert Burns3.Henry FieldingII. Choose the best answer for each statement.1.C2.A3.B4.DIII. Find the relevant match from Column B for each item in Column A. 1.B 2.C 3.A 4,E 5.DExercises of Chapter VI. Fill in the following blanks.1.the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge’s joint work Lyrical Ballads in1798;Walter Scott’s death2. Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey3.Walter ScottII. Find the relevant match from Column B for each item in Column A.1.B2.C3.E4.F5.G6.A7.DIII. Choose the best answer for each statement.1.D2.C3.C4.D5.BExercises of Chapter VII.Fill in the following blanks.1.1837；1901；remarkable；expansion；British Empire2.the contradiction between the rich and the poor; the conflicts between capitaland labour; the widespread unemployment; severe depression3.The Life of Charlotte Bronte4.Lewis Carroll；Oxford; Alice’s Adventure in Wonderland; Through theLooking-GrassII. Find the relevant match from Column B for each item in Column A.1.F2.A3.B4.C5.H6.E7.J8.K9.G 10.L 11.D 12.IIII. Choose the best answer for each statement.1.D2.C3.B4.D5.B6.CExercises of Chapter VIII. Fill in the following blanks.1. Literature in 19252. Stream of consciousness3. science fiction; father of science fiction4. Modernism5. James Joyce; Virginia Woolf; William FaulknerII. Find the relevant match from Column B for each item in Column A.1.B2.C3.G4.E5.F6.H7.D8.AIII. Choose the best answer for each statement.1.B2.A3.D4.D5.AExercises of Chapter VIIII. Fill in the following blanks.1. Booker Prize (The Man Booker Prize for Fiction); Full-length; English: UK2. N ineteen Eighty-Four3. Elias Canetti; Doris Lessing; William Golding; V.S. Naipaul4. Samuel Beckett; Harold PinterII. Find the relevant match from Column B for each item in Column A. 1.B 2.G 3.C 4.F 5.I 6.A 7.H 8.E 9.DIII. Choose the best answer for each statement.1.B2.D3.C4.D5.AExercises of Chapter IXI. Fill in the following blanks.1. James Fenimore Copper2. New England Transcendentalism3. believers ; divinity; intuition; reason4. Washington Irving; Allan Poe; Nathaniel Hawthorne5. Emerson; Nature; Thoreau’s WaldenII. Find the relevant match from Column B for each item in Column A. 1.E 2.B 3.H 4.F 5.C 6.G 7.A 8.DIII. Choose the best answer for each statement.1.B2.B3.D4.D5.C6.AExercises of Chapter XI. Fill in the following blanks.1. naturalism; realism2. International theme3. industrialization ; mechanization4. wit ; satire5. feministII. Find the relevant match from Column B for each item in Column A.1.C2.A3.B4.H5.F6.D7.E8.GIII. Choose the best answer for each statement.1.A2.B3.B4.D5.BExercises of Chapter XII. Fill in the following blanks.1. Lost Generation2. Eugene O’NeilII. Find the relevant match from Column B for each item in Column A.Part I : 1.B 2.E 3.D 4.A 5.CPart II：7.H 8.J 9.K 10.L 11.I 12.GIII. Choose the best answer for each statement.1.D2.B3.A4.B5.AExercises of Chapter XIII. Fill in the following blanks.1. Edward Albee2. William Faulkner；Ernest Hemingway；John Steinbeck；Saul Bellow；Issac Bashevis Singer；Joseph Brodsky; Toni Morrison；Bob Dylan3.Joseph Heller; Thomas PynchonII. Find the relevant match from Column B for each item in Column A.1.D2.J3.B4.G5.I6.H7.C8.A9.F 10.E III. Choose the best answer for each statement.1.A2.B3.C4.B5.A。
英语专业-英美文学试卷及答案-期末
英美文学试卷AI.Mark the following statements as true (T) or false (F).(10 x 1’=10’)1.( ) Chaucer is the first English short-story teller and the founder of English poetry as well as the founder of English realism.His masterpiece The Canterbury tales contains 26 stories.2.( ) English Renaissance is an age of essay and drama.3.( ) The rise of the modern novel is closely related to the rise of the middle class and an urbanlife.4.( ) The French Revolution and the American War of Independence were two big influencesthat brought about the English Romantic Movement.5.( ) Charlotte’s novels are all about lonely and neglected young women with a fierce longingfor life and love.Her novels are more or less based on her own experience and feelings and the life as she sees around.6.( ) The leading figures of the naturalism at the turn of 19th century are Thomas Hardy, John Galsworthy and Bernard Shaw.7.( ) Emily Dickinson is remembered as the “All American Writer”.8.( )The Civil War divides the American literature into romantic literature and realist literature.9.( ) Mark Twain is the first American writer to discover an American language and Americanconsciousness.10.( ) In the decade of the 1910s, American literature achieved a new diversity and reached itsgreatest heights.II.Fill in the blanks.(20 x 1’=20’)11.The most enduring shaping influence in American thought and American literature was ___________.12.The War of Independence lasted eight years till__________.13.Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay__________ has been regarded as "America's Declaration of Intellectual Independence". It called on American writers to write about America in a way peculiarly American.14.The American ___________ writers paid a great interest in the realities of life and described the integrity of human character reacting under various circumstances and pictured the pioneers of the Far West, the new immigrants and the struggles of the working class.The leading figures were ____________, ____________, ____________, ____________, etc.15.No period in American history is more eventful than that between the two world wars.The literary features of the time can be seen in the writings of those ________ writers as Ezra Pound, and the writers of the Lost Generation as ___________.16.Two features of English Renaissance are the curiosity for ___________ and the interest in the activities of _____________________.17.Shakespeare’s earliest great success in tragedy is ____________, a play of youth and love, with the famous balcony scene.18.There are three types of poets in 17th century English literature.They are Puritan poets, ___________ poets and ______________ poets.19.Pope’s An Essay on Criticism is a didactic poem written in ___________________.20.___________ has been regarded by some as “Father of the English Novel”for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.21.“Beauty is truth, truth beauty”is an epigrammatic line by _______________.wrence’s most controversial novel is ___________, the best probably _________.III.Multiple choice.(20 x 1’=20’)23.Among the three major works by John Milton ________ is indeed the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf.A.Paradise RegainedB.Samson AgonistesC.LycidasD.Paradise Lost24. Francis Bacon’s essays are famous for their brevity, compactness and __________.plicityplexityC.powerfulnessdness25.As one of the greatest masters of English prose, _______ defined a good style as “proper words in proper places”.A.Henry FieldingB.Jonathan SwiftC.Samuel JohnsonD.Alexander Pope26.The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan is often said to be concerned with the search for _________.A.material wealthB.spiritual salvationC.universal truthD.self-fulfillment27.“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.”The quoted part is taken from _________.A.Jane EyreB.Wuthering HeightsC.Pride and PrejudiceD.Sense and Sensibility28.Which of the following poems is a landmark in English poetry?A.Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor ColeridgeB.“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”by William WordsworthC.“Remorse”by Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD.Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman29.The most distinguishing feature of Charles Dickens’works is his _________.A.simple vocabularyB.bitter and sharp criticismC.character-portrayalD.pictures of happiness30.“My Last Duchess”is a poem that best exemplifies Robert Browning’s ________.A.sensitive ear for the sounds of the English languageB.excellent choice of wordsC.mastering of the metrical devicese of the dramatic monologue31.________ is the most outstanding stream of consciousness novelist, with ______as hisencyclopedia-like masterpiece.A James Joyce, UlyssesB.E.M.Foster, A Passage to Indiawrence, Sons and loversD.Virginia Woolf, Mrs.Dalloway32.Which of the following comments on Charles Dickens is wrong?A.Dickens is one of the greatest critical realist writers of the Modern PeriodB.His serious intention is to expose and criticize all the poverty, injustice, hypocrisy andcorruptness he sees all around him.C.The later works show the development of Dickens towards a highly conscious artist of themodern type.D.A Tale of Two Cities is one of his late works.33._____was known as “the poets’poet”.A.William ShakespeareB.Edmund SpenserC.John DonneD.John Milton34.Which of the following poet belongs to the active Romantic poet?A.KeatsB.SoutheyC.WordsworthD.Coleridge35.______ is regarded today as the national epic of the Anglo-Saxons.A.BeowulfB.The Canterbury TalesC.Don JuanD.Paradise Lost36.___________ is the first modern American novel.A.Tom SawyerB.Huckleberry FinnC.The Sketch BookD.The Leatherstocking Tales37.Which of the following statements is NOT true of American Transcendentalism?A.It can be clearly defined as a part of American Romantic literary movement.B.It can be defined philosophically as “the recognition in man of the capacity of knowing truth intuitively”.C.Ralph Waldo Emerson was the chief advocate of this spiritual movement.D.It sprang from South America in the late l9th century.38.The theme of Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle is _________.A.the conflict of human psycheB.the fight against racial discriminationC.the familial conflictD.the nostalgia for the unrecoverable past39.The Nobel Prize Committee highly praised ________ for “his powerful style-forming mastery of the art”of creating modern diction.A.Ezra PoundB.Ernest HemingwayC.Robert FrostD.Theodore Dreiser40.Who exerts the single most important influence on literary naturalism?A.EmersonB.Jack LondonC.Theodore DreiserD.Darwin41.________ is NOT true in describing American naturalists.A.they were deeply influenced by DarwinismB.they were identified with French novelist and theorist Emile ZolaC.they chose their subjects for the lower ranks or societyD.they used more serious and more sympathetic tone in writing than realists42.Henry James’s fame generally rests upon his novels and stories with ________.A.international themeB.national themeC.European themeD.regional themeIV.Explain the following literary items.(4x 5’=20’)43.Spenserian Stanzake Poets45.Humanism46.BalladV.Questions.(3x 10’=30’)47.“Robinson Crusoe”is usually considered as Daniel Defoe’s masterpiece.Discuss why it became so successful when it was published?48.What is "Byronic hero"?49.Mark Twain and Henry James are two representatives of the realistic writers in American literature.How is Twain’s realism different form James’s realism?参考答案:I.Mark the following statements as true (T) or false (F).(本题共10空，每空1分，共10分)1-5: FFTTT 6-10: FFTTFII.Fill in the blanks.(本题共20小题, 每题1分, 共20分)11.(American) Puritanism12.178313.The American Scholar14.realistic; Mark Twain; Henry James; Jack London; Theodore Dreiser.15.Imagist; Hemingway.16.the classical literature; humanity.17.Romeo and Juliet18.Cavalier; Metaphysical19.heroic couplet20.Henry Fielding21.John Keatsdy Chatterley’s lover; The RainbowIV. Ex pla in the foll owi ng lite rar y ite ms.（本题4小题,每小题5分,共20分）43.Spenserian Stanza: it refers to a verse form created by Edmund Spenser for his poems.Each stanza has nine lines.Each of the first eight lines is in iambic pentameter, and the ninth line is an iambic hexameter line.The rhythm scheme is ababbcbccke Poets: it refers to those English romantic poets at the beginning of th e19th century, William Wordsworth, for example, who lived in the heart of the Lake District in the north-western part of England and enjoyed the experience of living close to nature, and these poets were the older generation of Romantic poets who had been deeply influenced by the French Revolution of 1789 and its effects.In their writings, they described the beautiful scenes and the country people of the area.45.Humanism refers to the literary culture in the Renaissance.Humanists emphasize the capacities of the human mind and the achievements of human culture.Humanism became the central theme of English Renaissance.Thomas More and William Shakespeare are the best representatives of the English humanists.46.Ballad: a story told in songs, usually in 4-line stanzas, with the second and fourth rhymed. V.Questions.（本题3小题,每小题10分,共30分）47.A: Robinson Crusoe is supposedly based on the real adventure of an Alexander Selkirk who once stayed alone on the uninhabited island for five year4s.Actually, the story is an imagination.B: In Robinson Crusoe, Defoe traces the growth of Robinson from a naïve and artless youth into a shrewd and hardened man, tempered by numerous trials in his eventful life.C.In the novel, Robinson is a real hero and he is an embodiment of the rising middle-class virtues in the mid-eighteenth century England.Robinson is a true empire-builder, a colonizer and a foreign trader, who has the courage and will to face hardships and who has determination to preserve himself and improve his livelihood by struggling against nature.D.Robinson Crusoe is an adventure story very much in the spirit of the time.Because of the above reasons, when it was published, people all liked that story, and it became an immediate success.48.Byronic hero is a proud, mysterious rebel figure of noble origin.With immense superiorityin his passions and powers, this Byronic hero would carry on his shoulders the burden of righting all the wrongs in a corrupt society, and would rise single-handedly against any kind of tyrannical rules wither in government, in religion, or in moral principles with unconquerable wills and inexhaustible energies.The conflict is usually one of rebellious individuals against outworn social systems and conventions.Such a hero appeared in many of his works, for example, "Don Juan".The figure is somewhat modeled on the life and personality of Byron himself, and makes Byron famous both at home and abroad.49.A.Mark Twain’s realism is tainted with local color, preferring to have his won region and people at the forefront of his stories.B.James’s realism is concerned with the “inner world”of man and the international theme.C.Twain’s language is simple and colloquial and he employs humor in his writing.D.James’s language is elaborate and refined with lengthy psychological analyses.。
英美文学考试及答案
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答案：莎士比亚2. 《坎特伯雷故事集》的作者是________。
答案：乔叟3. 美国文学史上的第一部小说是________。
答案：《威克菲尔德的牧师》4. 《红字》的作者是________。
答案：霍桑5. 《草叶集》的作者是________。
答案：惠特曼6. 《好兵之死》的作者是________。
答案：海明威7. 《儿子与情人》的作者是________。
答案：劳伦斯8. 《愤怒的葡萄》的作者是________。
《英美文学选读》英美文学选读模拟题一及答案.doc
英美文学选读模拟题一A. Each of the statements below is following by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement and put the letter in the brackets. (20x1 points)()1. In Spenser's "The Faerie Queene", _______ is the play role in each of the 12 major adventures.A. ArthurB. RedcrosseC. UnaD. Archimago()2. In Milton's works, H" is the greatest, indeed the only generally acknowledged epic inEnglish literature since "Beowulf".A. Paradise LostB. Paradise RegainedC. Samson AgonistesD. Lycidas()3. _______ was regarded as "Father of the English Novel", for his contribution to theestablishment of the form of the modern novel.A. Daniel DefoeB. Jonathan SwiftC. Jane AustenD. Henry Fielding()4. _______ compiled the "The Die廿onary of the English Language" which became the foundationof all the subsequent English dictionaries.A. Ben JohnsonB. Samuel JohnsonC. Alexander PopeD. John Dryden()5. The "Byronic hero** first appears in Byron's works, n__________ ”.A. Childe Harold's PilgrimageB. Don JuanC. Oriented TalesD. Manfred()6. _______ made criticism on Elizabethan drama, which renewed interest in Shakespeare and ledto the discovery of his contemporaries.A. ColeridgeB. ByronC. WordsworthD. Keats()7. _______ is the most distinguishing feature of Charles Dickens* works.A. Language*s Forsyte novels are masterpieces of critical realism in theB. Character - PortrayalC. HumorD. Plot()8 In 1847, the Bronte Sisters published the following famous novels except ” ___________ ”.A. Jane EyreB. ShirleyC. Wuthering HeightsD. The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall()9. In _______ 's hands, "drama 廿c monologue" reaches its maturity and perfection.A. Alfred TennysonB. Robert BrowningC. William ShakespeareD. George Eliot()10.As a woman of exceptional intelligence and life experience, George Eliot shows a particular concern for ______________ .A. the feminismB. the education for womenC. the des 廿ny of womenD. the low status of women()11. Symbolism appeared in the late 19th century in ______________ .A. FranceB. GermanyC. EnglandD. Italy ()12. The three trilogies of early 20th century.A. John GalswortryB. Arnold BennettC. Jame JoyceD. H. G. Wells()13. In the following statements, ____________ is Bernard Shaw's political point of view.A. He regarded the establishment of socialism by the emancipation of land and industrial capital from individual and class ownership as the final goal.B. He was for the means of violent revolution of armed struggle in achieving the goal of socialism.C. He had a trust of the uneducated working class in fighting against capitalists.D. He held that both those superior intellects and those industrial workers could have the ability to shoulder the task of fighting against the capitalism.()14. The New England transcendentalism was from the very beginning a local phenomenon restricted only to those people living in new England, who carried out the movement as a reaction against the cold, rigid rationalism of______________________ in Boston.A. PuritanismB. CalvinismC. ClassicismD. Unitarianism()15. In the following statements, __________ is not true as to Washington lrving*s famous story ”Rip Van Winkle".A. The story is a tale remembered mostly for Rip's 20 - year sleep, set against the background of the inevitably changing America.B. In the story Irving skillfully presents to us paralleled juxtapositions of two totally different worlds before and after Rip's 20 years' sleep.C. Irving describes Rip's response and reaction in dramatic way, so that we see clearly both the narrator and Irving agree on the preferability of the present to the past, and the preferability of the real world to a dream - like one.D. The social conservatism and literary preference for the past is revealed, to some extent, in the story.()16. _______ is not among the artistic features of Whitman's writing.A. The use of the poetic "l MB. Free verseC. Musicality or rhythmD. Allegory()17. Henry James's fame generally rests upon his novels and stories with _____________ .A. the love and marriage themeB. the theme of humor and satire on lifeC. the theme of revealing the miserable life of the poor and criticizing the capitalismD. the international theme()18. In the following statements, __________ is not true as to the backgrounds for the American literature between the two world wars.A. The United states had become the most powerful industrialized nation in the world.B. The technological revolution had brought about great changes in the life of the American people.C. The Crash marked the beginning of "The Great Economic Depression" in the 1920s.D. Despite its booming industry and material prosperity, there was a sense of unease and restlessness underneath.()19. Ezra Pound's "The Cantos" is ________ .A. lyricsB. epic poemC. odeD. pastoral()20. _______ is acknowledged by many as the most original poet of the Victorian period.A. Robert BrowningB. Alfred TennysonC. George EliotD. John KeatsB. Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase according to the textbook. (20x1 points)1. _____ i s the essence of the Renaissance.2. In "The Faerie Queene", the Redcrosse knight in Book I stands for St. George, and Sir Guyon in Book II Represents Temperance. Such kind of writing style is called _____________ .3. "H amlet”，"Othello”，"King Lear" and " ______ " are generally regarded as Shakespeare's four great tragedies.4. As a represents廿ve of the enlightenment, Pope was one of the first to introduce _____________ to England.5. _____ *s novels are the first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower - class people.6. The literary form of neo - classicism is of the strict symmetry. The prevailing genre ofneoclassical literature is ________ w hich consists of two riming lines of iambic pentameter, and the second line completes the thoughts expressed by the couplet.7. _____ i s central to Blake's concern in the "Songs of Innocence" and "Songs of Experience".8. The poet Robert Southey as well as Coleridge and Wordsworth lived nearby and the three men became known as the ”_________ ”.9. Jane AusteiYs masterpiece is " _____________10. ________ is Robert Browning's masterpiece.11. The realistic novels of the 1920s and 1930s were more or less touched by a pessimistic mood, preoccupied with the theme of ___________ , and shaped in different forms.12 In the mid - 1950s and early 1960s, there appeared a group or young novelists and playwrights with lower - middle - class background, who were known as ”___________________ ”.13. Melville is best known as the author of one book named ______________ , which is, critics have agreed, one of the world's greatest masterpieces.14. The particular concern about the local character of a region came about as ”_________ ", a unique variation of American literary realism.15. By the turn of the century, with the publics廿on of "The Man That Corrupted Hadleybury** (1900) and "The Mysterious Stranger" (1916), the change in Mark Twain from an optimist to an almost despairing pessimist could be fell and his cynicism and disillusionment with what Twain referred to regularly as the " _______________________ " became obvious.16. As a sequel to "Tom Sawyer", " __________ ” marks the climax of Twain*s literary creativity.17. One of James's literary techniques innovated to cater for the psychological emphasis is his narrative ” ________ H.18. The postwar poet Robert Lowell is the leading figure of _____________ poetry.19. In Fitzgerald's great fiction, there's always full of the main theme of the bankruptcy of the" _____ ”, especially in "The Great Gatsby" (1925).20. Most of Faulkner's works are set in the American South about people from a small region in Northern Messissippi, ____________ County.C. Decide whether the following statements are true or false and write your answers in the brackets. (10x1 points)( )1. In his poetry, Donne frequently applies conceits, i. e. extended metaphors involvingdrama廿c contrasts.( )2. "The Pilgrim's Progress** is the most successful religious allegory in the English language.()3. The 19th century produced the first English novelists, who fall into two groups the sen廿mentalist novelists and the realist novelists.()4. The most important contribution Byron has made is that he has not only started the modern poetry, the poetry of the growing inner self, but also changed the course of English poetry by using ordinary speech of the language and by advocating a return to nature.()5. Generally speaking, Jane Austen was a writer of the 18th - century, though she lived mainly in the nineteenth century.()6. In the Victorian period, the novel became the most widely read and the most vital and challenging expression of progressive thought.()7. "The Waste Land", Eliofs most important single poem, has been hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th - century English poetry, comparable to Wordsworth's "Lyrical Ballads".()8. While Mark Twain and Henry James seemed to have paid more ail ention to the "life" of the Americans, Howells had apparently laid a greater emphasis on the "inner world" of man.()9. Dickinson's poetry is unique and unconventional in its own way. Her poems have no titles hence are always quoted by their first lines. In her poetry there is a particular stress pattern, in which dashes are used as a musical device to create cadence and capital letters as a means of emphasis.()10. Most of Faulkner's works are set in the American North, with his emphasis on the Northern subjects and consciousness.D. Name the author of the following literary works. (5x1 points)1. The Passionate Shepherd to His Love: Marloew2. Composed upon Westminster Bridge: Wordsworth3. The Moll on the Floss4. Break, Break, Break. :Tennyson5. A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man: JoyceE. Define the literary terms listed below. (2x4 points)1. The Heroic Couplet2. Stream of ConsciousnessF. For each of the quotations listed below please give the name of the author and the title of the literary work from which it is taken and then briefly interpret it. (2x4 points)1. "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the les,The plowman homeward plods his weary way,And leaves the world to darkness and to me."2. "Round the cape of a sudden came the sea,And the sun looked over the mountains rim:And straight was a path of gold for him,And the need of a world of men for me."G. Give brief answers to the following questions. (3x5 points)1. Make a comment on the image of Robinson Crusoe.2. What are the features of Charles Dickens's novels?3. What's Nathaniel Hawthorne's "black" vision of life and human beings?H. Short essay questions. (2x7 points)I. How is the fatalism revealed in Hardy's works?(Naturalist)2. Analyse the artistic features of Earnest Hemingway*s novels.附：答案全国高等教育自学考试模拟试卷(一)英美文学选读参考答案A.1. A2. A3. D4. B5. A6. A7. B8. B9. B10. C11. A12. A13. A14. D15. C16. D17. D18. C19. B20. AB.1. Humanism2. allegory3. Macbeth4. ra廿onalism5. Daniel Defoe6. heroic couplet7. Childhood8. Lake poets9. Pride and Prejudice10. The Ring and the Book11. man's loneliness12. the Angry Young Men13. Moby - Dick14. local colorism15. damned human race16. Adventures of Hucklebrry Finn17. point of view18. Confessional19. American Dream20. YoknapatawphaC.1. T2. T3. F4. T5. T6. T7. T8. F9. T10. FD.1. Christopher Marlowe2. William Wordsworth3. George Eliot4. Alfred Tennyson5. James JoyceE.1. The heroic couplet refers to iambic pentameter rhymed in two lines. During the Restoration and the 18th century Alexander Pope perfected the closed couplet, which means only a couplet xan express a compete idea, and developed it to the heroic couplet. A good example in " The Rape of the Lock" is: but when to mischiet mortals bend their will, how soon they find fit instruments of ill!2. In Joyce's opinion, the artist, who wants to reach the highest stage and to gain the insights necessary for the crea廿on of dramatic art, should rise to the position of a godlike objectivity; he should have the complete conscious control over the creative process and depersonalize his own emotion in the artistic creation. He should appear as an omniscient author and present unspoken materials directly from the psyche of the characters, of making the characters tell their own inner thoughts in monologues. This literary approach to the presentation of psychological aspects of characters is usually termed as "stream of consciousness**.1. The 廿tie of the literary work is "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard'*, and its author is Thomas Gray.译文如下：晚钟响起来一阵阵向白昼告别，牛群在草原上迂回，吼声起落，耕地人累了，回家走，脚步踉跄，把整个世界留给了黄昏与我。
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1.Herman Melville’s ______ is an encyclopedia of everything, history, philosophy, religion, etc, in addition to a detailed account of the operations of the whaling industry.A. Billy BuddB. The Old Man and the SeaC. White JacketD. Moby DickIn addition to his novels, _______ wrote about 120 short stories and sketches. Among them are Young Goodman Brown and The Minister’s Black Veil.A. Henry David ThoreauB. Nathaniel HawthorneC. Ralph Waldo EmersonD. Herman Melville______ is an appalling fictional version of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s belief that “the wrong doing of one generation lives into the successive ones” and that evil will come out of evil though it may take generations to happen.A. The Marble FaunB. The Blithedale RomanceC. Young Goodman BrownD. The House of Seven GablesWhich is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”?A. The Conduct of LifeB. Representative MenC. English TraitsD. The American ScholarWhich is generally as the Bible of New England Transcendentalism?A. NatureB. WaldenC. On BeautyD. Self-RelianceThere is a good reason to state that New England Transcendentalism was actuallyon the Puritan soil.A. UnitarianismB. MysticismC. RomanticismD. Puritanism“The universe is composed of Nature and the soul… Spirit is present everywhere”. This is the voice of the book Nature written by Ralph Waldo Emerson, which pushed American romanticism into a new Phase, the phase of New England ______.A. RomanticismB. TranscendentalismC. SymbolismD. NaturalismWashington Irving’s works are numerous, but his most successful work is The Sketch Book, of which the most famous and anthologized are ____ and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.A. A History of New YorkB. The PioneersC. Rip Van WinkleD. Leatherstocking TalesWashington Irving’s first book appeared in 1809, titled ______.A. The History of New YorkB. The Marble FaunC. The American ScholarD. The Cop and the AnthemIn the early 19th century American moral values were essentially Puritan. Nothing has left a deeper imprint on the character of the people as a whole than did _____.A. RationalismB. RomanticismC. SentimentalismD. PuritanismWhich is the character who appears in the novel Moby Dick?A. Hester PrynneB. PearlC. Mr. HooperD. AhabHerman Melville called his friend Nathaniel Hawthorne ______ in American literature.A. The transcendentalistB. The largest brain with the largest heartC. The American scholarD. Father of American poetryNathaniel Hawthorne is a master of psychological insight and central subject of his major works is the human soul. Choose his short story from the following ones.A. OmooB. Uncle Tom’s CabinC. Young Goodman BrownD. The PearlThe finest example of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s symbolism is the recreation of Puritan in ______.A. The Marble FaunB. The Ambitious GuestC. The Scarlet LetterD. Young Goodman BrownFrom Henry David Thoreau’s jail experience came his famous essay, ______ which states Thoreau’s belief that no man should violate his conscience at the command of a government.A. Common SenseB. Civil DisobedienceC. WaldenD. NatureWhich essay is not written by Ralph Waldo Emerson?A. Self-RelianceB. The American ScholarC. The Divinity School AddressD. Of StudiesWhich book is not written by Ralph Waldo Emerson?A. Nature D. The RhodoraB. English TraitsC. NatureD. The RhodoraC. The RhodoraD. Representative Men B. English TraitsC. NatureD. The RhodoraForm the following, choose the characteristics of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s poetry.A. Being highly individualB. Harsh rhythmsC. Lack of form and polishD. All of the aboveRalph Waldo Emerson’s first book _____ is the fundamental document of his philosophy, and expresses his constant, deeply felt love for he natural scenes.A. Leatherstocking TalesB. WaldenC. NatureD. Daisy MillerChoose William Cullen Bryant’s poem from the following ones.A. V oices of the NightB. LigeiaC. Song of MyselfD. ThanatopsisIn 1817, the stately poem called Thanatopsis introduced he best poet _____ to appear in America up to that time.A. Edward TaylorB. William Cullen BryantC. Edgar Allan PoeD. Philip FreneauChoose Washington Irving’s works from the following items.A. WaldenB. A History of New YorkC. Self-RelianceD. Sister CarrieIn the 19th century America, Romanticism had certain general characteristics. Choose such characteristics from the following items.A. Moral enthusiasmB. Faith in the value of individualism and intuitive perceptionC. Presumption about the corrosive effect of human societyD. All of the aboveHerman Melville’s _____ is not only an adventure story, but als o a significant philosophical work on spiritual exploration.A. The EggB. The Over-SoulC. NatureD. Moby DickA new _____ had appeared in England in the last years of the 18th century. It spread to continental Europe and then came to America early in the 19th century.A. RealismB. RomanticismC. NaturalismD. . Critical realismTranscendentalism appealed to those who disdained the hash God of the Puritan ancestors, and it appealed to those who scorned the pale deity of New England _____.A. NaturalismB. TranscendentalismC. HumanismD. UnitarianismLed by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson and _____, there arose a kind of teaching of transcendentalism in the early 19th century.A. Mark TwainB. Theodore DreiserC. Henry David ThoreauD. Herman MelvilleTranscendentalists recognized ______ as the “highest power of the soul”.A. intuitionB. thinkingC. logicD. date of the senses_____ was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club.A. HawthorneB. ThoreauC. WhitmanD. EmersonThe appearance of The Scarlet letter marked the maturity of Nathaniel Hawthorne as a novelist. Soon he composed the other three important novels including _____, The Blithedale Romance and The Marble Faun.A. WaldenB. The House of the Seven GablesC. The PrairieD. The Fall of the House of UsherTranscendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in _____ and Thoreau.A. JeffersonB. OversoulC. FreneauD. EmersonAs a philosophical and literary movement, _____ flourished in New England form the 1830s to the Civil War.A. modernismB. sentimentalismC. rationalismD. transcendentalism。