英美文学选读期末样题二

2006——2007学年第一学期《英美文学选读》期末试题B
考试课程：英美文学选读 考核类型：B 卷

考试方式：闭卷 出卷教师: 公共课部

考试专业：公共英语 考试班级：英语平行班

I.Multiple choice (30 points, 1 point for each) select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement.

1.___C__，a typical example of old English poetry ,is regarded today as the national epic of the Anglo-Saxons.

A.The Canterbury Tales（坎特伯雷故事集） B.The Ballad of Robin Hood（罗宾之歌）

C.The Song of Beowulf（贝奥武夫之歌） D.Sir Gawain and the Green Kinght（高文爵士与绿骑士）

2.__C___is the most common foot in English poetry.

A.The anapest（抑抑扬格） B.The trochee（扬抑格）

C.The iamb（抑扬格） D.The dactyl（扬抑抑格）

3.The Renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events, which one of the following is NOT such an event __B___

A.The rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek culture.

B.England’s domestic rest

C.New discovery in geography and astrology

D.The religious reformation and the economic expansion

4.__A___is the most successful religious allegory in the English language.

A.The Pilgrims Progress（天路历程）

B.Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners（罪犯受恩记）

C.The Life and Death of Mr.Badman（拜德门先生生死录）

D.The Holy War

5.Generally, the Renaissance refers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries, its essence is __D___.

A.science B.philosophy

C.arts D.humanism

6.“So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,/So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”(Shakespeare, Sonnets18)What does“this”refer to __D__

A.Lover. B.Time.

C.Summer. D.Poetry.

7.“O prince, O chief of my throned powers, /That led th’ embattled seraphim to war/Under thy conduct, and in dreadful deeds/Fearless, endangered Heaven’s perpetual king”In the third line of the above passage quoted from Milton’s Paradise Lost, the phrase“thy conduct”refers to __B___conduct.

A.God’s B.Satan’s

C.Adam’s D.Eve’s

8. It is generally regarded that Keats’s most important and mature poems are in the form of __B____.

A.elegy（挽歌） B.ode（颂歌）

C.epic（史诗） D.sonnet

9.“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day ”The sentence is the beginning of Shakespeare’s___C____.

edy B.tragedy

C.sonnet D.poem

10. Daniel Defoe’s novels mainly focus on __A___.

A.the struggle of the unfortunate for mere existence

B.the struggle of the shipwrecked persons for security

C.the struggle of the pirates for wealth

D.the desire of the criminals for property

11. Francis Bacon is best known for his___A__which greatly influenced the development of this literary form.

A.essays B.poems C.works D.plays

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. Most of Thomas Hardy’s novels are set in Wessex__B__.

A.a crude region in England B.a fictional primitive region

C.a remote rural area D.Hardy’s hometown

13. In terms of Pride and Prejudice, which is not true __C__

A.Pride and Prejudice is the most popular of Jane Austen’s novels.

B.Pride and Prejudice is originally drafted as “First Impressions”.

C.Pride and Prejudice is a tragic novel.

D.In this novel, the author explores the relationship between great love and realistic benefits.

14. Chronologically the Victorian Period refers to __B___

A.1798-1832 B.1836-1901

C.1798-1901 D.the Neoclassical Period

15. In the following figures, who is Dickens’s first child hero __C__

A.Fagin. B.Mr.Brownlow.

C.Olive Twist. D.Bill Sikes

16. “And where are they And where art thou,”

My country On thy voiceless shore

The heroic lay is tuneless now-

The heroic bosom beats no more! (George Gordon Byron, Don Juan)

In the above stanza,“art thou”literally means___D__.

A.“art you ” B.“are though” C.“art though” D.“are you ”

17. Of the following writers, which is not the representative of the Romantic period __B___

A.William Blake. B.John Bunyan.

C.Jane Auten. D.John Keats.

18. In Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, what is the utmost concern of Blake __D___

A.Love B.Childhood C.Death D.Human Experience

19. Paradise Lost（失乐园）is actually a story taken from__B__.

A.the Renaissance B.the Old Testament（旧约）

C.Greek Mythology D.the New Testament（新约）

20. Jane Austen’s first novel is ___B__.

A.Pride and Prejudice B.Sense and Sensibility

C.Emma D.Plan of a Noel

21. Of the following poets, which is not regarded as “Lake Poets’” __D___

A.Saumel Taylor Coleridge. B.Robert Southey.

C.William Wordsworth. D.William Shakespeare.

22.Daniel Defoe describes__A__as a typical English middle-class man of the eighteenth century, the very prototype of the empire builder or the pioneer colonist.

A.Robinson Crusoe B.Moll Flanders

C.Gulliver D.Tom Jones

23. The lines“Death, be not proud, though some have calld thee/Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;”are found in ___C___.

A.William Wordsworth’s writings B.John Keats’ writings

C.John Donne’s writings D.Percy Bysshe Shelley’s writings

24.The Pilgrim’s progress by John Bunyan is often said to be concerned with the search for___B__.

A.self-fulfillment B.spiritual salvation

C.material wealth D.universal truth

25.With so many poems such as “The Sparrow’s Nest,”“To a Skylark,”“To the Cuckoo”and “To a Butterfly”,William Wordsworth is regarded as a “___C___”.

A.poet of genius. B.royal poet.

C.worshipper of nature. D.conservative poet.

26.In the first part of Gulliver’s Travels, Gulliver told this experience in __A__.

A.Lilliput（小人国） B.Brobdingnag（大人国）

C.Houyhnhnm（慧骃

国） D.England

27.Which of the following can not describe“Byronic hero” __D___

A.Proud. B.Mysterious. C.Noble origin. D.Progressive.

28.The poetic form which Browning attached to maturity and perfection is __A__.

A.dramatic monologue（独白） e of symbol

e of ironic language e of lyrics

29.The term “metaphysical poetry（玄言诗）”is commonly used to name the work of the 17th-century writers who wrote under the influence of _B___.

A.John Milton B.John Donne C.John Keats D.John Bunyan

30. Which of the following writings is not created by William Wordsworth __D___

A.I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.

B.She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways（她住在杳无人迹的地方）

C.The Solitary Reaper.（孤独的收割者）

D.The Chimney Sweeper.

II. Find the relevant match from colunm B for each item in Colomn A (10 points in all. 1 point for each)

1.Geoffrey Chaucer A. A Red, Red Rose

2.Francis Bacon B. Ode to a Nightingale(夜莺颂)

3.Jonathan Swift C. Of Truth

4.William Blake D.Northanger Abbey（诺桑觉寺）

5.Robert Burns E.The Canterbury Tales

6.John Keats F.A Modest Proposal

7.Jane Austen G.The Tiger

8.Charles Dickens H. Ulysses（尤利西斯）

9.Tennyson I.David Copperfield（大卫科波菲尔）

10.Robert Browning J.My Last Duchess（我已故的公爵夫人）

【答案】1E,2C,3F,4G,5A,6B,7D,8I,9H,1oJ

III. Fill in the following blanks (10 points in all, 1 point for each)

1. In the year_1066___,at the battle of Hastings, the Normans headed by william, Duke of Normandy, defeated the Anglo-saxons.

2. Since historical times, England, where the early inhabitants were celts, has been conquered three times. It was conquered by the Romans, the __Anglo-saxons____,and the Normans.

3.__Romeo and Juliet__is regared as shakespeare’s successful romantic tragedy.

4. No sooner were the people in control of the government than they divided into hostile parties: the liberal whigs and the conservative____Tories____.

5. The Glorious Revolution in ____1688___meant three things the supremacy of parliament, the beginning of modern English, and the final triumph of the principle of political liberty.

6. Romanticism as a literary movement come into being in England early in the latter half of the ___18th____century.

7. With the publication of william Wordsworth’s___Lyrical Ballads____(抒情歌谣)in collaboration with S.T Coleridge, Romanticism began to bloom and found a firm place in the history of English literatare.

8. Woman as __novelists__ appeared in the Romantic age. It was during this period that women took, for the first time ,an important place in English literature.

9. The most important poet of the victoria Age was__Tennyson__, Next to him, were Robert Browning and his wife.

10. The __Chart

ist __movement（宪章运动） appeared in the thirties of the 19th cenfury.

IV. Questions and Answers (20 points in all ,10points for each) Give brief answers to each of following questions in English.

(1) A selection from a poem

Wherefore feed and clothe and save

Form the cradle to the grave

Those ungrateful drones who would

Drain your sweat_nay, drink your blood

Whrefore, Bees of England, forge

Many a weepon, chain, and scourge

That these stingless drones may spoil

The forced produce of your tail

Questions (10’)

1. These lines are taken from a poem entitled___(1’)written by ___(1’).

2. The rhyme scheme in the selection of the poem is ____.(1’)

3. What idea does the quotation express？ (7’)

【答案】
1. A Song: Men of England(1’) Shelley(1’) 2. aabb ccdd (1’)
3. This poem is a war cry calling upon all working people to rise up against their political oppressors, it points out the intolerable injustice of economic exploitation. The poet calls the exploiters “ungrateful drones”, Who drain the sweat and drink the blood of the labouring people, He illustrates with concrete examples the relationship of economic exploitation between the ruling class and the working people.(7’)

(2) A Selection from a work
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some books also may be read by deputy and extracts made of them by others, but that would be only in the less important arguments and the meaner sort of books; else distilled bookd are like common distilled waters.

Question(10’)

1. This passage is taken from a well-known work entiled___,(2’) written by ____.(1’)

2. What’s the main idea of the whole work. (7’)
【答案】
1. Of Studies(1’) Bacon(1’)
2. It analyzes the use and abuse of studies ,the different ways adopted by different people to pursue studies. And how studies exert influence over human character.

V. Topic Discussion (30 points in all,15 points for each). Write no less than 100 words on each of the following topics in English , in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.

1. Based on Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, discuss the theme of her works, the image of woman protagonists and what and how her novels truthfully present.(15’)

【答案】
A. Charlotte’s works are all about the struggle of an individual consciousness towards self-realization, about some lonely and neglected young women with a fiece longing for love, understanding and a full, happy life.
B. All ber heroines’ highest joy arises from some sacrifice of self or some human weakness overcome.
C. The image of woman protagonists in her works are mostly the life of the middle-calss working women, particularly governesses. D. Her works present a vivi

d realistic picture of the English society by exposing the cruelty, hypocrisy and other evils of the upper calsses, and by showing the misery and suffering of the poor. Especially in Jane Eyre by her, she sharply criticises the existing society, e.g. religious hypocrisy of charity institutions.

2. In Pride and Prejudice, Jane Aasten explored three kinds of motivations of marriage that the middle-class people had in the second half of the 18th century. Try to make a brief discussion about them with specific examples from the novel. Make comments on Austen’s attitude towards these motivations.(15’)
【答案】
In the novel ,three kinds of attitudes towards marriage are presented for manifestation: marriage merely for material wealth and social position; marriage just for beauty, attraction and passion regardless of economic condition or personal merits; and the ideal marriage for true love with a consideration of the partner’s personal merit as well as his economic and social status. What jane Aasten tries to say is that it is wrong to marry just for money or for beauty, but it is also wrong to marny without consideration of economic conditions.