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英语专业英美文学模拟试题•相关推荐英语专业英美文学模拟试题1. Define the following literary terms (40/150,10×4):1. Ahab as in Moby Dick2. Heathcliff as in Wuthering Heights3. Tess Durbeyfield4. Imagism5. Lady Macbeth6. Realism7. Romanticism8. Neoclassicism9. Allegory10. ConflictII. Literary Analysis (30/150, 2×15)1. Summarize Ernest Hemingway's literary achievements.2. Briefly introduce Ezra Pound’s view on the Imagist poetry.III. Questions about Literary Works. (80/150, 8×10)1. Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?Thou are more lovely and more temperate.Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines,And often is his gold complexion dimmed;And every fair from fair sometimes declines,By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimmed;But thy eternal summer shall not fade,Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow' stNor shall Death brag thou wand’ rest in h is shade,When in eternal lines to time thou grow' stSo long as men can breathe or eyes can seeSo long live this, and this gives life to thee.a. Identify the author and the work from which the passage is selected.b. What kind of sonnet is employed in the selection? What are the features of this kind of sonnet?c. Comment on the theme of the poem.2. To be, or not to be---that is the question;Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,And by opposing end them? To die, to sleep—No more; and by a sleep to say we endThe heart-ache and the thousand natural shocksThat flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummationDevoutly to be wished.a. From which work is this passage selected? And who is the author of this work?b. What literary form does this work belong to? What metrical form is used in this work?c. What is the hero of this work? What spiritual mood does this passage reveal abut the hero?3. A Voyage to Lilliput] As to the first, you are to understand, that for above seventy moons past, there have been two struggling parties in this empire, under the names of Tramecksan, and Slamecksan, from the high and low heels on their shoes, by which they distinguish themselves.It is allaged indeed, that the high heels are most agreeableto our ancient constitution: but however this be, his Majesty hath determined to make use of only low heels in the administration of the Government, and all offices in the gift of the Crown; as you cannot but observe; and particularly his Majesty’s imperial heels are lower at least by a druur than any of his court (drurr is a measure about the fourteenth part of an inch.) The animosities between these two parties run so high, that they will neither eat nor drink, nor talk with each other. […] It is allowed on all hands, that the primitive way of breaking eggs before we eat them, was upon the larger end: but his present Majesty’s grand-father, while he was a boy, going to eat an egg, and breaking it according to the ancient practice, happened to cut one of his finger, whereupon the emperor his father, published an edict, commanding all his subjects, upon great penalties, to break the smaller end of their eggs.a. Identify the author and the work from which the passage is selected.b. What is the theme of this work?c. What are the four parts of the work? How are four organic parts are structured in the work?4. By this time Mrs. Morel was trembling violently. Struggling of this kind often took place between her and her son, when she seemed to fight for his very life against his own will to die. He took her in his arms. She was ill and pitiful."Never mind, Little/' he murmured. " So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness."She pressed him to her."But I want you to be happy," she said pathetically.Eh, my dear---say rather you want me to live,"Mrs. Morel felt as if her heart would break for him. At this rate she knew he would not live. He had that poignant carelessness about himself, his own suffering, his own life., which is a form of slow- suicide. It almost broke her heart. With all the passion of her strong nature she hated Miriam for having in this subtle way undermine his joy. It did not matter to her that Miriam could not help it. Miriam did it, and she hated her.a. From what work is-this passage Selected ? Who is the author of this work?b. What is the name of the hero of this work? What is the relationship between the hero, Mrs. Morel and Miriam?c. What literary method is used in this work? Comment the relationship between the hero and Mrs. Morel by using Freud's-theory..5. But the point which drew all eyes, and, as it were, transfigured the wearer, —so that both men and women, who had been familiarly acquainted with Hester Prynne, were now impressed as if they beheld her for the first time, —was that scarlet letter, so fantastically embroidered and illuminated upon her bosom. It had the effect of a spell, taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity, and inclosing her in a sphere by herself.a. Identify the author and the work from which the passage is selected.b. Comment on the symbolic meaning of the letter the heroine wears.c. What is the theme of the work?6. I felt good and all washed clean of sin for the first time I had ever felt so in my life, and I know I could pray now. But I didn't do it straight oft, but laid the paper down and set therethinking----thinking how good it was all this happened so, and how near. I come to being lost and going to hell. And went on thinking. And got to thinking over our trip down the river; and I see Jim before me, all the time, in the day, and in the night-time, sometimes moonlight, sometimes storms, and we a floating along, talking, and singing, and laughing. But somehow I couldn't seem to strike no places to harden。

[考研类试卷]英语专业（英美文学）模拟试卷10.doc

[考研类试卷]英语专业（英美⽂学）模拟试卷10.doc[考研类试卷]英语专业（英美⽂学）模拟试卷10⼀、填空题1 Charles Dickens's last novel was______.2 Ah, love, let us be true To one another! For the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; The lines above are selectedfrom______by______.3 There are no typically positive characters in______written by Thackeray.4 The novel The Return of the Native was written by______, whose novels were known as "novels of characters and environment".5 Tennyson's poem,______, was based on the Celtic legends—King Arthur and Round Table Knights.6 ______described the life of the laboring people and criticizing the privileged classes, but the power of exposure became much weaker in her work. The significance of her work lies rather in the portrayal of the pettiness and stagnancy of English provincial life.7 There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass, Or night-dews on still waters between walls Of shadowy granite, in a gleaming pass; Music that gentler on the spirit lies, Than tiered eyelids upon tired eyes; The quotation is selecte4 from______by______.8 Jane Eyre and the greater Wuthering Heights by______brought to the novel introspection and an intense concentration on the inner life of emotion which before them had been the province of poetry alone.9 The greatest and the longest work of Robert Browning is______, which consisted of 20,000 lines.10 Sonnets from Portuguese is the representative work of______.11 ______is generally regarded as Steinbeck's masterpiece.12 T. S. Eliot's "the progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality" can be found in his______.13 In the novel The Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway portrayed an old fisherman named ______, who shows triumphant even in defeat.14 Hemingway's stature as a writer was confirmed with the publication of hisnovel______in 1929. the novel portrayed a farewell both to war and to love.15 ______has been regarded as American's greatest novelist in the 20th century.16 Robert Frost's poetry focused on the landscape and people in______.17 In the short novel ______, Steinbeck portrayed the tragic friendship between two migrant workers.18 ______has been considered as America's greatest playwright.19 Steinbeck's post-war novel______reflected his bitter feelings against those greedy, rapacious elements of society which made the war possible.20 ______has an average man of decidedly masculine tastes, sensitive and intelligent wit action and few words.⼆、名词解释21 Psychological novel22 Narration23 Ambiguity24 Allusion25 Plot26 The Beat Generation27 Feminism28 Harlem Renaissance29 New Criticism30 American dream三、单项选择题31 The major part of the story in Wuthering Heights is told by .______.（A）Mr. Lockwood（B）Nelly（C）Isabella（D）Catherine32 Among George Eliot's 7 novels,______is essentially an autobiographic account of her life.（A）Felix Holt, the Radical（B）Daniel Deronda（C）Middlemarch（D）The Mill on the Floss33 The author of______makes clear in the novel that it is wrong to discriminate on the basis of social status and it is cruel and destructive to break genuine, natural human passions.（A）Jane Eyre（B）Wuthering Heights（C）Pride and Prejudice（D）less of the D'Urbervilles34 "I will drink/Life to the lees." In the quoted line Ulysses is saying that he______till the end of his life.（A）will keep traveling and exploring（B）will go on drinking and being happy（C）would like to toast to his glorious life（D）would like to drink the cup of wine35 Which of the following words is NOT appropriate to describe the Duke in My Last Duchess?（A）Intelligence.（B）Kindness.（C）Jealousy.（D）Brutality.36 "A waft of wind came sweeping down the laurel-walk, and trembled through the boughs of the chestnut: it wandered away—away—to an indefinite distance—it died. The nightingale's song was then the only voice of the hour: in listening to it, I again wept." The above passage must be taken from______.（A）Charles Dickens's Great Expectations（B）William Thackeray's Vanity Fair（C）Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre（D）Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native37 The four lines "Though much is taken, much abides; and though/We are not now that strength which in old days/Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are — /One equal temper of heroic hearts, /Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will/To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield must be taken from______.（A）Tennyson's Ulysses（B）Browning's Meeting at Night（C）Wordsworth's I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud（D）Keats's Ode to a Nightingale38 While telling of the punishment of Oliver for asking for more and denouncing the inhuman, hypocritical workhouse system of England for abusing and dehumanizing the poor children, the narrator uses a seemingly______tone.（A）innocent（B）ironic（C）indignant（D）bitter39 In Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles, the heroine's tragic ending is due to______.（A）her weak character（B）her ambition（C）Angel Clare's selfishness（D）a hostile society40 The character Rochester in Jane Eyre can be well termed as a______.（A）conventional hero（B）Byronic hero（C）chivalrous aristocrat（D）Homeric hero41 A contemporary of Alfred Tennyson,______is acknowledged by many as the most original and experimental poet of the time.（A）Thomas Carlyle（B）Thomas B.Macaulay（C）T. S. Eliot（D）Robert Browning42 "As for society, he was carried every other day into the hall where the boys dined, and there socially flogged as a public warning and example. What figure of speech is used in the above sentence?（A）Irony.（B）Metaphor.（C）Simile.（D）Overstatement.43 In Hard Times, Dickens attacks______that rules over the English educational system and destroys young hearts and minds.（A）bourgeois commercialism（B）the utilitarian principle（C）political corruptness（D）religious hypocrisy44 Which of the following best describes the nature of Hardy's later novels?（A）Sentimentalism.（B）Surrealism.（C）Comic sense.（D）Tragic sense.45 Charles Dickens's best-depicted characters are those innocent, virtuous, persecuted, helpless ______ characters such as Oliver Twist, Little Nell, David Copperfield and Little Dorrit.（A）child（B）woman（C）lady（D）girl46 When they were young, the Bronte sisters were sent to a school for clergymen's daughters. The eldest two died there due to the poor and unhealthy conditions. This experience inspired the later portrayal of Lowood School in the novel______.（A）Jane Eyre（B）Wuthering Heights（C）The Professor（D）Emma47 Reading______'s Crossing the Bar, we can feel his fearlessness towards death, his faith in God and an afterlife.（A）John Keats（B）Alfred Tennyson（C）Robert Browning（D）Thomas Hardy48 The publication of______, Robert Browning's masterpiece, in 1869, finally established the poet's position as one of the greatest English poets.（A）In Memoriam（B）The Ring and the Book（C）Maud（D）Ulysses49 The novel Middlemarch, a Study of Provincial Life provides a panoramic view of life in a small English town,______, and its surrounding countryside in the mid-nineteenth century.（A）Middlemarch（B）Lowick Manor（C）Oxford（D）Wessex50 In Thomas Hardy's novels, the outside nature, the natural environment or______of herself, is shown as some mysterious supernatural force, very powerful but half-blind, impulsive and uncaring to the individual's will, hope, passion or suffering.（A）nature（B）fate（C）fortune（D）destiny51 The greatest English critical realist novelist was_____,who criticized the bourgeois civilization and showed the misery of the common people.（A）Charles Dickens（B）Emily Bronte（C）Thomas Hardy（D）Charlotte Bronte52 Emily Bronte wrote only one novel which is entitled______.（A）Wuthering Heights（B）Jane Eyre（C）Emma（D）The Professor53 George Eliot was the pseudonym of______.（A）Mary Ann Evans（B）Charles Dickens（C）Emily Bronte（D）Samuel Clemens54 In the long poem The Ring and the Book, the "book" is compared to______.（A）love（B）comprehensive knowledge（C）the hard truth（D）the method of study55 "Self-conceited", "cruel" and "tyrannical" are most likely the words to describe the character in______.（A）Robert Browning's My Last Duchess（B）Sheridan's The School for Scandal（C）Christopher Marlowe's Dr. Faustus（D）Shakespeare's Love's Labor's Lost56 As a literary figure, John Rivers appears in______.（A）Fielding's Tom Jones（B）Dickens's Oliver Twist（C）Bronte's Jane Eyre（D）Austen's Pride and Prejudice57 The statement that those extraordinary people, seeking something beyond the provincial life, have finally to subject themselves to the limitations of the reality either due to their own weakness or the conventional force of the social environment may well sum up one of the major themes of______.（A）Fielding's Tom Jones（B）Defoe's Robinson Crusoe（C）Austen's Pride and Prejudice（D）Eliot's Middlemarch58 The success of Jane Eyre is not only because of its sharp criticism of the existing society, but also due to its introduction to the English novel the first______heroine.（A）worker（B）peasant（C）governess（D）teacher59 Which of the following descriptions of Thomas Hardy is NOT true?（A）Most of his novels are set in Wessex.（B）Tess of the D'Urbervilles is one of the most representative of him as both a naturalistic and a critical realist writer.（C）Among Hardy's major works, Under the Greenwood Tree is the most cheerful and idyllic.（D）From The Mayor of Casterbridge on, the tragic sense becomes the keynote of his novels.60 ... and then how they met I hardly saw, but Catherine made a spring, and he caught her, and they were locked in an embrace.(Wuthering Heights) In the above quoted passage, Emily Bronte tells the story in______point of view.（A）the third person（B）the first person（C）the second person（D）the omnipresent61 In Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, he used a technique called______, in which the whole story was told through the thoughts of one character.（A）stream of consciousness（B）imagism（C）symbolism（D）naturalism62 Which of the following statements about Emily Grierson, the protagonist in Faulkner's story A Rose for Emily is NOT true?（A）She has a distorted personality.（B）She is physically deformed and paralyzed.（C）She is the victim of the past glory.（D）She is the symbol of the old values of the South.63 Robert Frost combined traditional verse forms—the sonnet, rhyming couplets, blank verse—with a clear American local speech rhythm, the speech of______farmers with its idiosyncratic diction and syntax.（A）Western（B）New England（C）New Hampshire（D）southern64 ______is a play that concerns the problem of modern man's identity.（A）The Emperor Jones（B）Desire Under the Elms（C）Long Day's Journey Into Night（D）The Hairy Ape65 In The Emperor Jones and The Hairy Ape, O'Neil adopted the expressionist techniques to portray the______of human beings in a hostile universe.（A）uncertainty（B）helpless situation（C）profound religious faith（D）courage and perseverance66 Which of the following novels can be regarded as typically belonging to the school of literary modernism?（A）The Sound and the Fury.（B）Uncle Tom's Cabin.（C）Daisy Miller.（D）The Gilded Age.67 Faulkner's novel______describes the decay and downfall of an old southern aristocratic family, symbolizing the old social order, told from four different points of view.（A）The Sound and the Fury（B）Startoris（C）The Unvanquished（D）The Town68 A Rose for Emily is Faulkner's first short story published in 1930. The story focuses on Emily Grierson, aneccentric______who refuses to accept the passage of time. （A）spinster（B）young lady（C）philosopher（D）prophet69 O'Neil's inventiveness seemingly knew no limits. He was constantly experimenting with new styles and forms for his plays, especially during the twenties when______was in full swing.（A）Symbolism（B）Realism（C）Expressionism（D）Romanticism70 ______marks the climax of Eugene O'Neil's literary career and the coming of age of American drama.（A）The Iceman Cometh（B）The Hairy Ape（C）The Emperor Jones（D）Long Day's Journey Into Night71 In the following comments, which is NOT true?（A）Robert Frost is generally considered a regional poet whose subject matters mainly focus on the landscape and people in New England.（B）The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter is actually an adaptation from a classical Chinese poem by LiPo.（C）Bacon's essays are famous for their brevity, compactness and powerfulness.（D）The Pilgrim's Progress is the most successful religious story of conventions in English language.72 In "petals on a wet, black bough", the figure of speech used here is______.（A）metaphor（B）hyperbole（C）pun（D）simile73 ______stems from the ambiguity of the speaker's choice between safety and the unknown.（A）Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening（B）Mending the Wall（C）Home Burial（D）The Road Not Taken74 Robert Frost is a regional poet in the sense that his poems are mainly concerned about the______.（A）life in New York（B）country life in New England（C）sea adventures（D）life on the Mississippi River .75 The Great Gatsby, written by Fitzgerald in 1925, is a story about______who was destroyed by the influence of the wealthy, pleasure-seeking people around him.（A）a vagabond（B）an idealist（C）an eccentric（D）an opportunist76 Emily Grierson, the protagonist in Faulkner's story A Rose for Emily, can be regarded as a symbol standing for all the following qualities EXCEPT______.（A）old values（B）rigid ides of social status（C）bigotry and eccentricity（D）harmony and integrity77 In The Emperor Jones and The Hairy Ape, O'Neil adopted the______to portray the helpless situation of human beings ina hostile universe.（A）expressionist techniques（B）surrealistic approach（C）romantic approach（D）dramatic monologue78 Robert Frost is generally considered as a regional poet in the sense that his subject matters mainly focus on the landscape and people in______.（A）New York（B）the West（C）New England（D）Mid West79 ______wrote about the society in the South by inventing families which represented different social forces: the old decaying upper class; the rising, ambitious, unscrupulous class of the "Poor Whites"; and the Negroes who labored for both of them.（A）Faulkner（B）Fitzgerald（C）Hemingway（D）Steinbeck80 "Nick Adams" is a character who frequently appears in______stories.（A）William Faulkner's（B）Theodore Dreiser's（C）Ernest Hemingway's（D）Mark Twain's81 The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promise to keep, And miles to go before I sleep." The above four lines are taken from______.（A）Dickinson's Because I could not stop for Death—（B）Frost's After Apple-Picking（C）Frost's Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening（D）Dickinson's I heard a Fly buzz—when I died—82 In his masterpiece,______, Pound traces the rise and fall of eastern and western empires, the moral and social chaos ofthe modern world, especially the corruption of America after the heroic time of Jefferson.（A）Make it New（B）Polite Essays（C）The Cantos（D）Confucius83 In After Apple-Picking, Robert Frost wrote: "For I have had too much/Of apple-picking: I am overtired/Of the great harvest I myself desired." From these lines we can conclude that the speaker is______.（A）happy about the harvest（B）wearing out the freshness of apple-picking（C）still desired of apple-picking when seeing the harvest（D）indifferent to what once desired84 Most recognizable literary movement that gave rise to the twentieth-century American literature, or we may say, the second American Renaissance, isthe______movement.（A）expatriate（B）transcendental（C）leftist（D）expressionistic85 Of the following American poets, whose works was first recognized in England and then in America?（A）Robert Frost.（B）Walt Whitman.（C）Emily Dickinson.（D）Wallace Stevens.86 In writing the poem The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter, Pound took its material from the ancient ______poetry.（A）Japanese（B）Chinese（C）French（D）Italian。

2010年首都师范大学英语专业(英美文学)真题试卷.doc

2010年首都师范大学英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷(总分：72.00，做题时间：90分钟)一、单项选择题(总题数：20，分数：40.00)1.Among the following plays, ______is NOT a comedy written by William Shakespeare.（分数：2.00）A.A Midsummer Night"s DreamB.The Merchant of VeniceC.As You Like ItD.Macbeth2."All is not lost, the unconquerable will,/And study of revenge, immoral hate,/And courage never to submit or yield,/And what is else not to be overcome?" are taken from the poem written by______.（分数：2.00）A.William ShakespeareB.John DonneC.John MiltonD.John Keats3.The novel______launched Daniel Defoe on a new career as a novelist.（分数：2.00）A.The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson CrusoeB.Captain SingletonC.Moll FlandersD.The Life and Adventures of Mr. Duncan Campbell4.Among the following works by William Blake, ______deals with evil, violence and emotion.（分数：2.00）A.Song of InnocenceB.Song of ExperienceC.The Marriage of Heaven and HellD.The Gates of Paradise5.That______is NOT true about William Wordsworth.（分数：2.00）A.Wordsworth is one of the Lake PoetsB.he was made poet laureate by British Government in 1843C.The Prelude can be read as a declaration of RomanticismD.he believed that poetry "takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility"6.______tells of the adversity of the orphan Pip that makes him discard his snobbishness.（分数：2.00）A.Hard TimesB.A Tale of Two CitiesC.David CopperfieldD.Great Expectations7.Among the following works, ______was written by Emily Bronte.（分数：2.00）A.Agnes GreyB.The ProfessorC.Wuthering HeightsD.Jane Eyre8.Virginia Woolf is known as a novelist and critic.______is NOT a novel of hers.（分数：2.00）A.Mrs. DallowayB.To the LighthouseC.The Common ReaderD.The Waves9.______depicts a picture of society in India under the British Raj, of the clash between East and West, and of the prejudice and misunderstanding.（分数：2.00）A.Where Angels Feat to TreadB.A Room with a ViewC.A Passage to IndiaD.Howard"s End10.______is well known for depicting the absurdity of human conditions in the post-industrial society after World War II in his plays.（分数：2.00）A.Samuel BeckettB.George Bernard ShawC.Oscar WildeD.William Golding11.Yoknapatawpha County is often used as the background in the novels written by______.（分数：2.00）A.William FaulknerB.Isaac Bashevis SingerC.Mark TwainD.Katherine Anne Porter12.______is NOT written by Toni Morrison.（分数：2.00）A.The Bluest EyeB.BelovedC.The Color PurpleD.Paradise13.The narrator of The Great Gatsby is ______.（分数：2.00）A.GatsbyB.NickC.DaisyD.Tom14.All the following works are written by Ernest Hemingway EXCEPT______.（分数：2.00）A.A Farewell to ArmsB.The Sum Also RisesC.The Sound and FuryD.For Whom the Bell Tolls15.T. S. Eliot"s______is a precise depiction of the state of culture and society after World WarI and an illustration of the spiritual poverty of the West of the time.（分数：2.00）A.The Waste LandB.Four QuartetsC.The Sacred WoodD.Homage to John Dryden16.All the following novels are written by Henry James EXCEPT______.（分数：2.00）A.The AmericanB.The Portrait of a LadyC.The AmbassadorsD.Innocents Abroad17.______is written by Catherine Anne Porter.（分数：2.00）A.Flowering JudasB.A Rose for EmilyC.Everyday UseD.Song of Solomon18.______is regarded as "America"s Declaration of Intellectual Independence".（分数：2.00）A.NatureB.The Conduct of LifeC.Society and SolitudeD.The American Scholar19."When it comes, the landscape listens,/ Shadows hold their breath;/ When it goes, "tis like the distance/ On the look of death. " are taken from Emily Dickinson"s poem______.（分数：2.00）A.There"s Certain Slant of LightB.Again His Voice Is at the DoorC.Success Is Counted SweetestD.I felt a Funeral, in My Brain20."Where I lived, and What I Lived for" is taken from Thoreau"s______.（分数：2.00）A.A Week on the Concord and Merrimack RiversB.Walden; or, Life in the WoodsC.The Maine WoodsD.Life Without Principle二、名词解释(总题数：5，分数：10.00)21.free verse（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 22.tall tale（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 23.Lost Generation（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 24.Theatre of the Absurd（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 25.Romanticism（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________三、问答题(总题数：5，分数：20.00)I wandered lonely as a cloudThat floats on high o"er vales and hills,When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils,Beside the lake, beneath the trees,Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.（分数：4.00）(1).Name the author of this poem.(1 point)（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (2).What is the rhyme scheme of the stanza?(1 point)（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ His smile was so easy, so friendly, that Laura recovered. What nice eyes he had, small, but such a dark blue! And now she looked at the others, they were smiling too. " Cheer up, we won"t bite," their smile seemed to say. How very nice workmen were! And what a beautiful morning! She mustn"t mention the morning; she must be business-like. The marquee.（分数：4.00）(1).Name the title of the short story.(1 point)（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (2).Comment on the writing techniques.(1 point)（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ For the next eight or ten months, Oliver was the victim of a systematic course of treachery and deception. He was brought up by hand. The hungry and destitute situation of the infant orphan was duly reported by the workhouse authorities to the parish authorities. The parish authorities inquired with dignity of the workhouse authorities, whether there was no female then domiciled in " the house" who was in a situation to impart to Oliver Twist, the consolation and nourishment of which he stood in need. The workhouse authorities replied with humility, that there was not.Upon this, the parish authorities magnanimously and humanely resolved, that Oliver should be "farmed" or, in other words, that he should be dispatched to a branch-workhouse some three miles off, where twenty or thirty other juvenile offenders against the poor-laws, rolled about the floor all day, without the inconvenience of too much food or too much clothing, under the parental superintendence of an elderly female, who received the culprits at and for the consideration of sevenpence-halfpenny per small head per week. Sevenpence-halfpenny"s worth per week is a good round diet for a child; a great deal may be got for sevenpence-halfpenny, quite enough to overload its stomach, and make it uncomfortable. The elderly female was a woman of wisdom and experience; she knew what was food for children; and she had a very accurate perception of what was good for herself. So, she appropriated the greater part of the weekly stipend to her own use, and consigned the rising parochial generation to even a shorter allowance than was originally provided for them. Thereby finding in the lowest depth a deeper still; and proving herself a very great experimental philosopher.（分数：4.00）(1).What is the title of the novel?(1 point)（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (2).What is the effect of the irony used in the excerpt?(1 point)（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ We were all at the hospital every afternoon, and there were different ways of walking across the town through the dusk to the hospital. Two of the ways were alongside canals, but they were long. Always, though, you crossed a bridge across a canal to enter the hospital. There was a choice of three bridges. On one of them a woman sold roasted chestnuts. It was warm, standing in front of her charcoal fire, and the chestnuts were warm afterward in your pocket. The hospital was very old and very beautiful, and you entered through a gate and walked across a courtyard and out a gate on the other side. There were usually funerals starting from the courtyard. Beyond the old hospital were the new brick pavilions, and there we met every afternoon and were all very polite and interested in what was the matter, and sat in the machines that were to make so much difference.（分数：4.00）(1).Identify the author of the short story.(1 point)（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (2).What is the theme of the short story?(1 point)（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ There was music from my neighbor"s house through the summer night. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft, or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motor-boats slit the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of foam. On weekends his Rolls-Royce became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city between nine in the morning and long past midnight, while his station wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug to meet all trains. And on Mondays eight servants, including an extra gardener, toiled all day with mops and scrubbing-brushes and hammers and garden - shears, repairing the ravages of the night before.（分数：4.00）(1).From which novel is this excerpt taken?(1 point)（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (2).What is the theme of the novel?(1 point)（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________四、评论题(总题数：1，分数：2.00)ment on the following excerpt and write a 100-word essay on it.(10 points)From Ralph Waldo Emerson"s The American ScholarBooks are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst. What is the right use? What is the one end, which all means go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out ofmy own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system. The one thing in the world of value is the active soul—the soul, free, sovereign, active. This every man is entitled to; this every man contains within him, although, in almost all men, obstructed, and as yet unborn. The soul active sees absolute truth; and utters truth, or creates. In this action, it is genius; not the privilege of here and there a favorite, but the sound estate of every man. In its essence, it is progressive. The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. This is good, say they,—let us hold by this. They pin me down. They look backward and not forward. But genius looks forward. The eyes of man are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead. Man hopes, genius creates. To create,—to create, —is the proof of a divine presence. Whatever talents may be if the man create not, the pure efflux of the Deity is not his;—cinders and smoke there may be, but not yet flame. There are creative manners, there are creative actions, and creative words; manners, actions, words, that is, indicative of no custom or authority, but springing spontaneous from the mind"s own sense of good and fair.On the other part, instead of being its own seer, let it receive from another mind its truth, though it were in torrents of light, without periods of solitude, inquest, and self-recovery, and a fatal disservice is done. Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. The literature of every nation bear me witness. The English dramatic poets have Shakspearized now for two hundredyears.Undoubtedly there is a right way of reading, so it be sternly subordinated. Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar"s idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men"s transcripts of their readings. But when the intervals of darkness come, as come they must,—when the sun is hid, and the stars withdraw their shining,—we repair to the lamps which were kindled by their way, to guide our steps to the East again, where the dawn is. We hear, that we may speak. The Arabian proverb says, "A fig tree, looking on a fig tree, becometh fruitful. "（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________。

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[考研类试卷]英语专业（英美文学）模拟试卷6一、填空题1 ______is often given the credit for the discovery of the modern novel; but whether or not he deserves that honor remains an open question.2 "If the censure of Yahoo could any way affect me, I should have great reason to complain that some of them are so bold as to think my book of travels a mere fiction out of mine own brain." This question is selected from______.3 Henry Fielding has been regarded as "______", for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.4 British novel came of age in______.5 The Vicar of Wakefield is the only novel of______, which describes misfortunes falling on the central character and the family.6 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by______is taken a model of sentimentalist poetry, esp. the Graveyard school.7 Friday is a character in the novel______.8 Among the representatives of the Enlightenment,______was the first to introduce rationalism to England.9 Essay on Criticism is a didactic poem written in the form of______.10 Auld Lang Syne written by______deals with the friendship and has long become a universal parting-song of all the English-speaking countries.11 War in Crane's novel______is a plain slaughterhouse. There is nothing like valor or heroism on the battlefield, and if there is anything, it is the fear of death, cowardice, the natural instinct of man to run form danger.12 The literary career of Henry James is generally divided into______periods, in the first period(1865-1882), James took great interest in______theme.13 The name of the heroine in the Portrait of a Lady was______.14 ______was the first literary giant born west of the Mississippi.15 Dreiser visited the Soviet Union in 1927 and published______the following year.16 Mrs. Stowe's masterpiece is______.17 ______influences American literature a lot and led American romanticism turn into American realism.18 Mark Twain made a more extensive combination of______and______than previous writers had ever done.二、名词解释19 The Graveyard School20 Satire21 Classicism22 The Heroic Couplet23 Meter24 The Age of Realism25 American Naturalism26 Darwinism27 Regionalism28 First-person narrative三、单项选择题29 ______is the most successful religious allegory in the English language.（A）Genesis A（B）Exodus（C）The Pilgrim's Progress（D）The Holy War30 The object of______novels was to present a faithful picture of life, "the just copies of human manners", with sound teaching woven into their texture, so as to teach them to know themselves, their proper spheres and appropriate manners.（A）John Bunyan's（B）Alexander Pope's（C）Jonathan Swift's（D）Henry Fielding's31 Of all the 18th century novelists,______was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a "comic epic in prose".（A）Henry Fielding（B）Daniel Defoe（C）John Bunyan（D）Jonathan Swift32 ______was very much concerned with the theme of the vanity of human wishes and tried to awaken men to this folly and hoped to cure them of it through his writing.（A）Samuel Johnson（B）Jonathan Swift（C）Richard Brinsley Sheridan（D）Thomas Gray33 The Rivals and______are generally regarded as important links between the masterpieces of Shakespeare and those of Bernard Shaw.（A）The School for Scandal（B）The Duenna（C）Widowers Houses（D）The Doctor's Dilemma34 ______is a sharp satire on the moral degeneracy of the aristocratic-bourgeois society in the 18th century England.（A）The Rivals（B）Gulliver's Travels（C）Tom Jones（D）The School for Scandal35 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,______best and most representative work has been ranked among the best of the 18th century English Poetry.（A）Alexander Pope's（B）Thomas Gray's（C）Samuel Johnson's（D）William Blake's36 As the representative of the Enlightenment, Pope was one of the first to introduce______to England.（A）rationalism（B）criticism（C）romanticism（D）realism37 The Enlightenment Movement did not advocate_____.（A）rationality, reason, order and rules（B）return to the ancient classical works（C）inner feelings of individuals（D）universal education38 An Essay on Criticism is a didactic poem written in______.（A）heroic couplets（B）English sonnet（C）bland verse（D）Italian sonnet39 Which of the following comments on Thomas Gray's poetry is NOT true? （A）Distorted in word order.（B）Highly artificial in diction.（C）Calculated in rhythm.（D）Light-hearted in tone.40 In The Life of Jonathan Wild the Great the word "great" is used______.（A）allegorically（B）satirically（C）objectively（D）euphemistically41 By writing in apparently admiring terms of the life of a notorious criminal in The Life of Jonathan Wild the Great Henry Fielding suggests that there is little difference between______.（A）noted rogues and great politicians（B）the nobles and the commons（C）great rogues and lesser rogues.（D）discovered criminals and secret sinners42 What makes Jonathan Swift's satire all the more bitter, biting and poignant is that his satire is often masked by______on the part of the author.（A）an apparent eagerness, gravity, sincerity and detachment in tone（B）a softness and persuasiveness in manner and firmness and thoroughness in action （C）a strong indignation in tone and open defiance and challenge（D）a friendliness and frankness in tone and the seeming indifference and nonchalance43 Henry Fielding adopted "the third-person narration", which enables the author to present as the ______ not only the characters' external behavior but also the internal workings of their minds.（A）all-knowing God（B）intimate participant（C）invisible man（D）ignorant narrator44 The novel, which prospered in the hands of Swift, Defoe and Fielding, gives a realistic presentation of life of the common English people. This is quite contrary to the traditional ______of aristocrats.（A）elegy（B）epic（C）romance（D）morality play45 The chief force that motivated John Bunyan to write The Pilgrim's Progress was his______.（A）political commitment（B）religious fervency（C）artistic pursuit.（D）long suffering in the person46 As a result of the conscientious study he made of the Bible, Bunyan's language was______.（A）satiric, concise and well-balanced（B）concrete, living and colloquial（C）general, Latinate and polysyllabic（D）comic, neat and decent47 The enlighteners believed that if the masses were well educated, there would be greater chance for a______human society.（A）reasonable（B）progressive（C）democratic（D）enlightened48 Alexander Pope's An Essay on Criticism is a(n)______poem.（A）ironic（B）didactic（C）sarcastic（D）exaggerated49 The tone of Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels is______.（A）sad（B）sarcastic（C）praising（D）detached50 The______was a progressive intellectual movement throughout western Europe in the 18th century.（A）Renaissance（B）Enlightenment（C）Religious Reformation（D）Chartist Movement51 During the reign of reason the enlightenment meant education of people to free them from all the unreasonable fetters which include______.（A）theology（B）conventional ideology（C）feudal government（D）all the above52 Which of the following is NOT Samuel Johnson's work?（A）London.（B）Tom Jones.（C）Lives of the Poets.（D）A Dictionary of the English Language.53 "Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?" The above passage is taken from______.（A）Francis Bacon's Of Studies（B）William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice（C）Samuel Johnson's To the Right Honorable the Earl of Chesterfield（D）Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal54 The 18th century witnesses a new literary form — the modern English novel, which, contrary to the medieval romance, gives a______presentation of life of the common English people.（A）romantic（B）idealistic（C）prophetic（D）realistic55 In Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, Thomas Gray compared the common folk with the great ones, wondering what the commons could have achieved if they had had the______.（A）chance（B）love（C）money（D）material sources56 When he writes, in An Essay on Criticism, "A vile conceit in pompous words expressed, / Is like a clown in regal purple dresses," Alexander Pope means that______. （A）pompous words are always destructive to good taste（B）the purple color is for the royal only and it is ridiculous to dress a clown in purple （C）conceits are always misleading（D）true wit is best set in a plain style57 "The shepherd in Virgin grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of rocks."(Samuel Johnson's To the Right Honorable the Earl of Chesterfield)The speaker here is______.（A）cheerful（B）ironic（C）mysterious（D）nonchalant58 "He has a servant called Friday." "He" in the quoted sentence is a character in______. （A）Henry Fielding's Tom Jones（B）John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress（C）Richard Bringsley Sheridan's The School for Scandal（D）Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe59 Which of the following is NOT written by Theodore Dreiser?（A）The Genius.（B）The Titan.（C）Light in August.（D）Jennie Gerhardt.60 One of the most familiar themes in American naturalism is the theme of human"______".（A）bestiality（B）goodness（C）compassion（D）greed61 Which of the following writings is NOT a poem of Emily Dickinson's?（A）This is my letter to the World.（B）I heard a Fly buzz—When I died.（C）The Road Not Taken.（D）I like to see it lap the Miles.62 Mark Twain created, in______, a masterpiece of American realism that is also one of the great books of world literature.（A）Huckleberry Finn（B）Tom Sawyer（C）The Man That Corrupted Hadleybury（D）The Gilded Age63 What is the analogy that Emily Dickinson uses in her poem Because I Could not Stop for Death?（A）Horse and carriage.（B）Stage and performance.（C）Cloud and shade.（D）Ship and harbor.64 Here is a passage from a novel: "The man gave him a last push and closed the door. As he did so, Hurstwood slipped and fell in the snow. It hurt him, and some vague sense of shame returned. He began to cry and swear foolishly. The novel must be______. （A）Dreiser's Sister Carrie（B）Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath（C）London's Martin Eden（D）Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer65 However, innocence, the keynote of Daisy Miller's character, turns out to be an admiring but dangerous quality and her______of social taboos in the Old World finally brings her to a disaster in the clash between two different cultures.（A）admiration（B）defiance（C）sympathy（D）disgusting8. American66 In Henry James Daisy Miller, the author tries to portray the protagonist as an embodiment of______.（A）the force of convention（B）the decline of aristocracy（C）the free spirit of the New World（D）the corruption of the new rich67 The three dominant figures of the American Realistic Period are William Dean Howells, Mark Twain, and______.（A）Emily Dickinson（B）Henry James（C）Theodore Dreiser（D）Ezra Pound68 As a naturalist writer, Theodore Dreiser was greatly influenced by______.（A）Nathaniel Hawthorne（B）Charles Darwin（C）Henry James（D）Ralph Waldo Emerson69 Henry James's idea of realism differs from that of the other realist writers because his emphasis is on man's______.（A）language（B）inner world（C）surroundings（D）real actions70 Emily Dickinson got inspiration from______in her writing of poetry.（A）hymns（B）sonnets（C）free verse（D）heroic couplets71 Henry James is mostly concerned with______in his fiction.（A）the inner life of human beings（B）violent events in history（C）small-town life in backward regions（D）sufferings of the aged72 "Even then he stood there, hidden wholly in that kindness which is night, while the uprising fumes filled the room. When the odor reached his nostrils, he quit his attitude and fumbled for the bed. 'What's the use?' he said, weakly, as he stretched himself to rest." The passage is taken from______.（A）Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence（B）Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte（C）Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser（D）Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte73 ______, a novella about a young American girl who gets "killed" by the winter in Rome, brought its author international fame for the first time.（A）The American（B）Daisy Miller（C）The Portrait of a Lady（D）The Europeans74 By the end of Sister Carrie, Dreiser writes: "It was forever to be the pursuit of that radiance of delight which tints the distant hilltops of the world." Dreiser impliesthat______.（A）there is a bright future lying ahead（B）one should always have forward looking（C）one can never fulfill one's desire（D）happiness is found in the end75 After Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Twain gives a literary independence to Tom's buddy Huck in a book entitled______.（A）Life on the Mississippi（B）The Gilded Age（C）The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn（D）A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court76 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.（A）experience（B）sophistication（C）worldliness（D）innocence77 "I was letting on to give up sin, but always inside of me I was holding on to the biggest one of all. The sentence, which is taken from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, is written in a(n)______tone.（A）ironic（B）regretful（C）sincere（D）delightful78 In I heard a fly buzz — When I died and Because I could not stop for Death, Emily Dickinson's attitude toward death is that of______.（A）eager embrace（B）helpless anxiety（C）peaceful acceptance（D）terrified despair79 ______is considered to be Theodore Dreiser's greatest work.（A）An American Tragedy（B）Sister Carrie（C）The Financier（D）The Titan80 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is best known for Mark Twain's wonderful characterization of "______" a typical American boy.（A）Jim（B）Tom Sawyer（C）Huck（D）Miss Watson81 Where Mark Twain satirized European manners at times,______was an admirer.（A）O. Henry（B）Henry James（C）Walt Whitman（D）Jack London82 With Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the literary scene,______became the major trend in American literature in the seventies and eighties of the 19th century.（A）sentimentalism（B）romanticism（C）realism（D）naturalism83 In the following writers,______is regarded as "the true father of our national literature."（A）H. L. Menken（B）Mark Twain（C）Frank Noris（D）Theodore Dreiser84 The sentence "only the fittest can survive in a competitive, amoral society" may be regarded as an appropriate summary of______.（A）Jack London's Martin Eden（B）Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls（C）Dreiser's Sister Carrie（D）Melville's Moby Dick85 ______was the first American writer to conceive his career in international terms. （A）Washington Irving（B）T. S. Eliot（C）Ezra Pound（D）Henry James86 Compared with the writings of Mark Twain's, Henry James's fiction is noted for their______.（A）frontier vernacular（B）rich colloquialism（C）refined elegant language（D）vulgarly descriptive words87 In Sister Carrie, Hurstwood, extremely hopeless and totally devastated, ends his life by turning on the gas, while at the same time Carrie is rocking comfortably in her luxurious hotel room before she boards a ship for______.（A）New York（B）London（C）Paris（D）Geneva88 Which of the following best describes the young woman in Henry James's Daisy Miller?（A）She is an embodiment of the force of convention.（B）She means the decline of aristocracy.（C）She represents the free spirit of the New World.（D）She is reflection of the corruption of the newly rich.四、问答题89 "Most mighty Emperor of Lilliput, delight and terror of he universe, whose dominions extend five thousand blustrugs(about twelve miles in circumference)to the extremities of the globe; Monarch of all Monarchs; taller than the sons of men; whose feet press down to the center, and whose head strikes against the sun; at whose nod the princes of the earth shake their knees; pleasant as spring, comfortable as summer, fruitful as autumn, dreadful as winter."A. Identify the work and the author.B. What is the tone of the author?C. What does the author parody here?90 "I consulted several things in my situation which I found would be proper for me: first, health and fresh water I just now mentioned; secondly, shelter from the heat of thesun; thirdly, security from ravenous creatures, whether men or beasts; fourthly, a view to the sea, that if God sent any ship in sight, I might not lose any advantage for my deliverance, of which I was not willing to banish all my expectation yet.A. Identify the author and the title of the novel from which this passage is taken.B. Who is the narrator?C. Explain the meaning of the last thing mentioned in the passage.91 "When each of the combatants had borne off sufficient spoils of hair from the head of her antagonist, the next rage was against the garments. In this attack they exerted so much violence, that in a very few minutes they were both naked to the middle.A. Identify the author and the title of the work from which this passage is taken.B. What is the passage describing?C. What are the names of the two combatants?92 "Some to conceit alone their taste confines,And glittering thoughts struck out at every line;Pleased with a work where nothing's just or fit,One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.Poets, like painters, thus unskilled to traceThe naked nature and the living grace,With gold and jewels cover every part,And hide with ornaments their want of art.True wit is Nature to advantage dressed,What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed;"A. Identify the author and the work.B. What idea does the poem express?C. What is the significance of the poem?93 "I had sent so many memorials and petitions for my liberty, that his Majesty at length mentioned the matter first in the cabinet, and then in a full council; where it was opposed by none, except Skyresh Bolgolam, who was pleased, without any provocation, to be my mortal enemy.A. Identify the author and the work.B. Who is this "Skyresh Bolgolam"?C. Why does the author make Skyresh Bolgoalm a mortal enemy of the narrator?94 "This is my letter to the WorldThat never wrote to me—The simple News that Nature told—With tender Majesty"A. Identify the poet.B. What does the word "World" refer to?C. What idea does the quoted passage express?95 "It is when the feet weary and hope seems vain that the heartaches and the longings arise. Know, then, that for you is neither surfeit nor content. In your rocking-chair, by your window dreaming, shall you long, alone. In your rocking-chair, by your window, shall you dream such happiness as you may never feel."A. Identify the author and the title of the work from which the passage is taken.B. What does the rocking-chair symbolize?C. How do you classify this novel?96 "I like to see it lap the Miles—And lick the Valleys up—And stop to feed itself at Tanks—And then—prodigious step"A. Please give the name of the poet.B. What does "it" in this poem refer to?C. What idea does this poem express?97 Isabel always felt an impulse to pull out the pins; not that she imagined they inflicted any damage on the tough old parchment, but because it seemed to her her aunt might make better use of her sharpness. She was very critical herself— it was incidental to her sex, and her antionalit but she was very sentimental as well, and there was something in Mrs. Touchett's dryness that set her own moral fountains flowing."Now what's your point of view?" she asked of her aunt. "When you criticize everything here you should have a point of view. Yours doesn't seem to be American you thought everything over there so disagreeable. When I have time; it's thoroughly American!" "My dear young lady", said Mrs. Touchett, "there are as many points of view in the world as there are people of sense to take them. You may say that doesn't make them very numerous. American? Never in the world; that's shockingly narrow, my point of views, thank God, is personal!"A. What is the name of the novel from which this passage is taken?B. Who is the author of this novel?C. Make a brief comment on the heroine Isable Arther.D. What is Jamesian theme?五、论述题98 Give a brief comment on Alexander Pope's literary outlook.99 What's the theme of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The School for Scandal?100 Robinson Crusoe is universally regarded as Daniel Defoe's masterpiece. Give some reasons for its success.101 As a rule, an allegory is a 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?102 Give a brief comment on Enlightenment Movement.103 What makes Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn more than a child's adventure story? Briefly discuss the question from THREE of the following aspects: the setting, the language, the character(s), the theme and the style.104 "Even then he stood there, hidden wholly in that kindness which is night, while the uprising fumes filled the room. When the odor reached his nostrils, he quit his attitude and fumbled for the bed. 'What's the use?' he said, weakly, as he stretched himself to rest." The above is quoted from Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie. Briefly tell the situation that leads to the suicide and interpret Hurstwood's final words — "what's the use?"105 Why are naturalists inevitably pessimistic in their view? Please discuss the above question in relation to the basic principles of literary naturalism.106 In American literature what is the significance of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain?107 What are the similarities and differences between the three literary giants, Howells, Mark Twain, Henry James, in terms of their literary orientation?。

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[考研类试卷]英语专业（英美文学）模拟试卷8一、填空题1 Jonathan Swift's famous prose work______is a satirical dialogue between the Ancients and the Moderns in the character of the Bee and the Spider.2 ______is William Blake's most important prose work, which is the manifesto of his spiritual independence.3 Modern English novel arose in the______century.4 ______was a progressive intellectual movement going on throughout Europe in the 18th century.5 Dr. Primrose is the central character of the novel______.6 The cross that Crusoe erects on the island serves______.7 The English novel as a genre began to prosper in the______century.8 John Bunyan's style was modeled after that of the English______, with concrete and living language and carefully observed and vividly presented details.9 The Rape of the Lock by Pope is written in the form of a mock______, which describes the triviality of high society in a grand style.10 In England, Neoclassicism was initiated by Dryden, culminated in Pope, and continued by______.11 The______of the 1930s greatly weakened the American nation's self-confidence.12 In 1920, Sinclair Lewis published his memorable denunciation of American small-town Provincialism in______.13 The______County is a legendary kingdom created by Faulkner.14 Pound was the leader of a new movement in poetry which he called the "______" movement.15 After his death, Stevens previously uncollected works appeared in the title of______.16 In 1954, Hemingway was awarded a______for his "mastery of the art of modern narration".17 Fitzgerald's first novel______, with its portrayal of casual dissipations of "flaming youth", was an immediate commercial success.18 ______is the first American to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature, but still he is called the worst important writer in American literature.19 ______had been called "the first step that American fiction has taken since Henry James" by T. S. Eliot.20 ______combined traditional verse forms with a clear American local speech rhythm, forming his own characteristic.二、名词解释21 Elegy22 Allegory23 Parable24 Didactic25 Neoclassicism26 The Lost Generation27 Anti-novel28 Hemingway Hero29 Impressionism30 Jazz age三、单项选择题31 Which of the following is NOT found in comedy of manners with Sheridan's The School for Scandal as the best representative work?（A）Wit.（B）Mistaken identity.（C）Sentimentalism.（D）Dialogue.32 In the lines "With gold and jewels cover every part, /And hide with ornaments their want of art"(An Essay on Criticism), Pope rejects______.（A）the "Follow Nature" fallacy（B）artificiality（C）good taste（D）aesthetic order33 Daniel Defoe describes ______as a typical English middle-class man of the eighteenth century, the very prototype of the empire builder or the pioneer colonist. （A）Tom Jones（B）Gulliver（C）Moll Flanders（D）Robinson Crusoe34 "To be so distinguished is an honor, which, being very little accustomed to favors from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge." The above quoted sentence is presented by Samuel Johnson with a(n)______tone.（A）delightful（B）jealous（C）ironic（D）humorous35 ______is a typical feature of Swift's writings.（A）Bitter satire（B）Elegant style（C）Casual narration（D）Complicated sentence structure36 The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan is often said to be concerned with the search for______.（A）material wealth（B）spiritual salvation（C）universal truth（D）self-fulfillment37 Of all the 18th century novelists Henry Fielding was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a "______in prose", the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.（A）tragic epic（B）comic epic（C）romance（D）lyric epic38 The Houyhnhnms depicted by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's. Travels are______.（A）horses that are endowed with reason（B）pigmies that are endowed with admirable qualities（C）giants that are superior in wisdom（D）hairy, wild, low and despicable creatures, who resemble human beings not only in appearance but also in some other ways39 Here are four lines from a literary work: "Others for language all their care express, and value books, as women men, for dress." The work is______.（A）Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard（B）John Milton's Paradise Lost（C）Alexander Pope's An Essay on Criticism（D）Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream40 The phrase "To urge people to abide by Christian doctrines and to seek salvation through constant struggles with their own weaknesses and all kinds of social evils" may well sum up the implied meaning of______ .（A）Gulliver's Travels（B）The Rape of the Lock（C）Robinson Crusoe（D）The Pilgrim's Progress41 Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels is the greatest______work in English literature.（A）realistic（B）satiric（C）romantic（D）sentimental42 The 18th century England is known as the______in the history.（A）Romanticism（B）Enlightenment（C）Classicism（D）Renaissance43 "Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds;" The above stanza is taken from______.（A）Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard（B）The Passionate Shepherd to His Love（C）Hamlet（D）Paradise Lost44 The following comments on John Bunyan are wrong EXCEPT______.（A）He was a stout Puritan.（B）Bunyan's works belong to Gothic novels.（C）Bunyan's style is different from that of the English Bible.（D）A Modest Proposal is his representative work.45 "Hold! See whether it is or not before you go to the door — I have a particular message for you if it should be my brother." The two sentences are found in______. （A）The Scheming Lieutenant（B）Wuthering Heights（C）The School for Scandal（D）The Rivals46 Statement"______" is NOT true in describing Gothic novel.（A）Gothic novel is a type of romantic fiction（B）Gothic novel predominated in the early 18th century（C）Its principal elements are violence, horror and supernatural（D）The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe is typical Gothic romance47 ______is the most successful religious allegory in the English language.（A）The Rivals（B）The Pilgrim's Progress（C）The Life and Death of Mr. Badman（D）Paradise Lost48 Among the representatives of the Enlightenment, who was the first to introduce rationalism to England?（A）John Bunyan.（B）Daniel Defoe.（C）Jonathan Swift.（D）Alexander Pope.49 Fielding has been termed by some as "______", for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.（A）Best Writer of the English Novel（B）Father of the English Novel（C）conventional writer of the English Prose（D）the most talented writer of the English Novel50 Which of the following statements on The Neoclassical Period is NOT true?（A）The Neoclassical Period is prior to the Romantic Period.（B）Henry Fielding is one of the representatives of the Neoclassical Period.（C）The modern English novel came into being in the Neoclassical Period.（D）The Neoclassical Period is also known as the Age of Enlightenment.51 Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Samuel Johnson's language style? （A）His sentences are long and well-structured.（B）His sentences are interwoven with parallel phrases.（C）He tends to use informal and colloquial words.（D）His sentences are complicated, but his thoughts are clearly expressed.52 Samuel Johnson was the______great neoclassicist enlightener in the later 18th century.（A）last（B）only（C）first（D）merely53 In Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, Thomas Gray reveals his sympathy for______, but mocks the great ones who despise them and bring havoc on them. （A）the middle class（B）the landlords（C）the poor and the unknown（D）the working class54 Which of the following comments on the Enlightenment Movement is NOT true? （A）It advocated individual education.（B）The purpose of the movement was to enlighten the whole world.（C）The Enlightenment Movement flourished in France.（D）The Enlightenment Movement was a furtherance of the Renaissance.55 In the first part of Gulliver's Travels, Gulliver told his experience in______.（A）Lilliput（B）Brobdingnag（C）Houyhnhnm（D）England56 In the theatrical world of the neoclassical period,______was the leading figure among the host of playwrights.（A）Richard Bringsley Sheridan（B）George Bernard Shaw（C）Ben Johnson（D）William Blake57 Alexander Pope strongly advocated______, emphasizing that literary works should be judged by classical rules of order, reason, logic, restrained emotion, good taste and decorum.（A）neoclassicism（B）sentimentalism（C）idealism（D）romanticism58 The following comments on Daniel Defoe are true EXCEPT "______".（A）In his novels, his sympathy for the downtrodden, unfortunate poor is shown（B）He was a member of the upper class（C）Robinson Crusoe is universally considered his masterpiece（D）Robinson Crusoe is his first novel59 The Dunciad is generally considered to be Pope's best______work.（A）praising（B）allegorical（C）satiric（D）fabulous60 "The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike the inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave." In the above quoted stanza, Thomas Gray tries to say that great family, power, beauty and wealth______.（A）will never prevent people no matter who they are from reaching their final destination—grave（B）are the very best things to lead people to their glories（C）will inevitably make people realize their glorious dreams（D）will never make people lead to the same destination—paths of glory61 ______, disregarding grammar and punctuation, always used "i" instead of "I" to refer to himself as a protest against self-importance.（A）Wallace Stevens（B）E. E. Cummings（C）Robert Frost（D）William Carlos Williams62 Which of the following statements about writers in 1920s is TRUE?（A）F. Scott Fitzgerald received the Nobel Prize.（B）Most writers were politically radical.（C）Freudian psychology influenced many modern writers.（D）Mark Twain published his last and most important novel.63 ______sought inspiration from the east in his poetry writing.（A）Walt Whitman（B）Emily Dickinson（C）T.S.Eliot（D）Ezra Pound64 Hemingway won his Nobel Prize for the book entitled______.（A）The Sun Also Rises（B）A Farewell to Arms（C）The Old Man and the Sea（D）For Whom the Bell Tolls65 Sherwood Anderson explores the motivations and frustrations of his fictional characters in terms of Freud's theory of psychology, particularly in one book entitled______.（A）Winesburg, Ohio（B）Babbit（C）The Grapes of Wrath（D）The Catcher in the Rye66 Sinclair Lewis Babbit presents a documentary picture of the narrow andlimited______.（A）up-class mind（B）middle-class mind（C）proletarian（D）ordinary people67 William Faulkner's works mainly concern the American______.（A）New England（B）Mid West（C）South（D）West68 A typical modern work will NO longer have ONE of the following statements as its trademark, that is, a______ .（A）record of sequence and coherence（B）book that begins arbitrarily, advances without explanation, and end without solution（C）juxtaposition of the past and present, of the history and memory（D）book of fragments drawn from diverse areas of experience69 Statement"______" is NOT true in describing Ezra Pound.（A）He is a leading spokesman of the "Imagist Movement"（B）His famous one-image poem In a Station of the Metro would serve as a typical example of the Imagist ideas（C）A Pact is his masterpiece（D）He was politically controversial70 The leading playwright of the modern period in American literature, if not the most successful in all his experiments, is______.（A）Arthur Miller（B）Tennessee William（C）George Bernard Shaw（D）Eugene O'Neil71 ______is not among those greatest figures in modern American literature.（A）Ezra Pound（B）Robert Frost（C）Walt Whitman（D）William Carlos Williams72 From Eugene O'Neil's works, we can see he is______.（A）a man of apathy（B）a man of inactivity（C）a man of pessimism（D）a man of optimism73 F. Scott Fitzgerald is NOT the author of______.（A）The Great Gatsby（B）In Our Time（C）Tender is the Night（D）This Side of Paradise74 The Hemingway Code heroes are best remembered for their______.（A）indestructible spirit（B）pessimistic view of life（C）war experiences（D）masculinity75 As he is a leading spokesman of the "Imagist Movement",______famous one-image poem In a Station of the Metro would serve as a typical example of the imagist ideas. （A）T. S. Eliot's（B）Robert Frost's（C）Ezra Pound's（D）Wallace Stevens's76 Which of the following statements about Faulkner is NOT true?（A）Indian Camp is Faulkner's masterpiece.（B）Almost all his heroes turn out to be tragic.（C）Most of Faulkner's works are set in the American South, with his emphasis on the Southern subjects and consciousness.（D）Faulkner has always been regarded as a man with great might of invention and experimentation.77 Robert Frost is a regional poet in the sense that his poems depict mostly______.（A）the frontier life（B）the sea adventures（C）Puritan community（D）the landscape and people in New England78 In A Rose for Emily, Faulkner makes best use of the______devices in narration.（A）Romantic（B）Realistic（C）Gothic（D）Modernist79 Which of the following works by Faulkner involves Shakespearean allusion in its title?（A）The Sound and the Fury（B）Light in August（C）Absalom, Absalom!（D）Go Down, Moses80 Apart from the dislocation of time and the modern stream-of-consciousness, the other narrative techniques Faulkner used to construct his stories include______, symbolism and mythological and biblical allusions.（A）multiple points of views（B）first person point of view（C）expressionism（D）impressionism81 In a class, which discusses the Imagist Movement in the United States, we will definitely NOT include______.（A）William Carlos Williams（B）Ezra Pound（C）Ernest Hemingway（D）Wallace Stevens82 "A week later the mayor wrote her himself, offering to call or to send his car for her, and received in reply a note on paper of an archaic shape, in a thin, flowing calligraphy in faded ink, to the effect that she no longer went out at all. The tax notice was also enclosed, without comment." The above two sentences must be taken from______.（A）Irving's story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow（B）James's story Daisy Miller（C）Faulkner's story A Rose for Emily（D）Hemingway's story Indian Camp83 Lots of people rushed to Gatsby's party at the weekend and they clustered around Gatsby's wealth like______.（A）gluttons（B）flies（C）insects（D）moths84 Chinese poetry and philosophy have exerted great influence over______.（A）Ralph Waldo Emerson（B）Emily Dickinson（C）Robert Frost（D）Ezra Pound85 Of the following American writers,______has not won the Nobel Prize.（A）William Faulkner（B）Ernest Hemingway（C）F. Scott Fitzgerald（D）John Steinbeck86 Fitzgerald's fictional world is the best embodiment of the spirit of______.（A）the Jazz Age（B）the Romantic Period（C）the Renaissance Period（D）the Neoclassical Period87 Which of the following comments on the novel The Great Gatsby is NOT true?（A）The Great Gatsby is a novel that is set against the ending of the war.（B）Gatsby is wealthy but unintelligent and brutal.（C）Gatsby is a mystical figure whose intensity of dream partakes of a state of mind that embodies America itself.（D）Gatsby is the last of the romantic heroes.88 "Grace under pressure" is a major feature of______'s novel.（A）Theodore Dreiser（B）Ernest Hemingway（C）William Faulkner（D）Henry James89 Yank's sense of belonging nowhere, hence homeless and rootless. The Hairy Ape is thus a play that concerns the problem of modern man's______.（A）love（B）development（C）harmonious relations（D）identity90 The statement that a poor young man from the West trying to make his fortune in the East but disillusioned in the quest of an idealized dream may well sum up the themeof______.（A）The Hairy Ape（B）For Whom the Bell Tolls（C）Go Down, Moses（D）The Great Gatsby四、问答题91 "But now Fortune, fearing she had acted out of character, and had inclined too long to the same side, hastily turned about: for now Goody Brown — whom Zekiel Brown caressed in his arms; nor he alone, but half the parish besides; so famous was she in the fields of Venus, for indeed less in those of Mars. The trophies of both these her husband always bore about on his head and face; for if ever human head did by its horns display the amorous glories, of a wife, Zekiel's did. Nor his well-scratched face less denote her talents(or rather talons)of a different kind."A. Identify the author and the work.B. What are the tone and style of this quoted passage?C. Why does the author use Venus, Mars and other allusions to describe Goody Brown?92 "Others for language all their care express,And value books, as women men, for dress.Their praise is still—the style is excellent:The sense they humbly take upon content."A. Identify the author and the title of the work from which this passage is taken.B. What does the phrase "take upon content" mean?C. What is the author's main concern in this passage?93 "Now, as I said, the way to the Celestial City lies just through this town where his lusty fair is kept; and he that will go to the city, and yet not go through this town, must needs 'go out of the world'. The Prince of princes himself, when here, went through this town to his own country, and that upon a fair day, too."A. Identify the author and the work.B. What does the "Prince of princes" refer to?C. What idea does the passage express?94 "False eloquence, like the prismatic glass,Its gaudy colors spreads on every place;The face of Nature we no more survey,All glares alike, without distinction gay.A. Identify the author and the work.B. What does the phrase "False eloquence" mean?C. What idea does the stanza express?95 "Such impression did this make upon me, that after the storm was over, I laid aside all my works, my building and fortifying, and applied myself to make bags and boxes to separate the powder, and to keep it a little and a little in a parcel, in hope, that whatever might come, it might not all take fire at once and to keep it so apart that it should not be possible to make one part fire another: I finished this in about a fortnight, and I think my powder, which in all was about 240 lb. weight, was divided in not less than a hundred parcels; as to the barrel that had been wet, I did not apprehend any danger from that, so I placed it in my new cave, which in my fancy I called my kitchen, and the rest I hid up and down holes among the rocks, so that not wet might come to it, marking very carefully where I laid it.A. Identify the author and the work.B. What does the passage mean?C. Why does the author use such great details in his description?96 "And why wouldn't yuh get me? Ain't we both members of de same club de Hairy Apes?"A. Identify the author of the passage.B. Whom is the speaker in the passage speaking to?C. Comment briefly on the passage.97 "I make a pact with you, Walt Whitman—I have detested you long enough,I come to you as a grown childWho has had a pig-headed father;I am old enough now to make friends."A. Identify the poem and the poet.B. What does the word "pact" mean?C. Comment briefly on this stanza.98 The woods are lovely, dark and deep,But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep,And miles to go before I sleep.A. Identify the author of the passage and the title of the work from which this passage is taken.B. What does the second "sleep" refer to?C. Comment briefly on the passage.99 "Where are we going, Dad?" Nick asked."Over to the Indian camp. There is an Indian lady very sick.""Oh," said Nick.Across the bay they found the other boat beached. Uncle George was smoking a cigar in the dark.The young Indian pulled the boat way up on the beach. Uncle George gave both the Indian cigars."A. Identify the author and the title of the work from which this passage is taken.B. What does Dad imply when he says "There is an Indian lady very sick"?C. Why is Dad going to the Indian camp?100 "And so she died. Fell ill in the house filled with dust and shadows, with only a doddering Negro man to wait on her, we did not even know she was sick; we had long since given up trying to get any information from the Negro. He talked to on one, probably not even to her, for his voice had grown harsh and rusty, as if from disuse."A. Identify the author and the name of the work from which this passage is taken.B. Who dies in the passage?C. What kind of relationship exists between her and her neighbors?五、论述题101 What is An Essay on Criticism chiefly about?102 Give a brief analysis of Robinson Crusoe, the protagonist in Robinson Crusoe.103 What's the significance of Samuel Johnson's letter To the Right Honorable the Earl of Chesterfield?104 What characterizes Samuel Johnson's language style?105 What's the theme of Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard?106 How do you understand the themes in Eugene O'Neil's plays?107 Ernest Hemingway, a winner of Nobel Prize for literature, is one of the greatest American writers. Discuss Hemingway's art of fiction: his style, the particular type of hero in his novels, and his life attitudes, etc..108 Briefly analyze Gatsby's tragedy in Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.109 Please interpret Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken.110 Comment on the symbolic use of rose in Faulkner's A Rose for Emily in relation to its theme and character.。

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英语专业英美文学模拟试题 1 the author of each of the following works (1X 10= 10%):1.Paradise Lost2.Sons and Lovers3.Death of a Salesman4.The Scarlet Letter5.The Old Man and the Sea6.The Parliament of Fowls7.Samson Agonistes8.The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg9.Northanger Abbey10.Strange InterludeII.Choose any ONE of the following poets and make a comment (20 %)John Keats， T.S.Eliot， Walt Whitman， Emily DickinsonIII.(25 X 2 = 50%)Discussion1.Discuss the following statement and support your argument with specific eXamples from the story "A Woman on a Roof."Doris Lessings "A Woman on a Roof allows us to understand how some men view woman: as mere objects for display and possession.Lessing shows how each of the male characters reacts and deals with rejection from a woman sunbathing on a nearby rooftop.We discover how the three mens preoccupation with seX keeps them unaware of how their advances may be unwanted and ignorant of their actions possible consequences.2.What does the following statement suggest to you? Give your opinions.Virtues are， in the popular estimate， rather the eXception than the rule.There is the man and his virtues.Men do what is called a good action， as some piece of courage or charity，much as they would pay a fine in eXpiation of daily non-appearance on parade.Their works are done as an apology or eXtenuation of their living in the world，—as invalids and the insane pay a high board.Their virtues are penances.I do not wish to eXpiate， but to live.My life is for itself and not for a spectacle.I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain，so it be genuine and equal， than that it should be glittering and unsteady.I wish it to be sound and sweet， and not to need diet and bleeding.I ask primary evidence that you are a man，and refuse this appeal from the man to his actions.I know that for myself it makes no difference whether I do or forbear those actions which are reckoned eXcellent.I cannot consent to pay for a privilege where I have intrinsic right.Few and mean as my gifts may be， I actually am， and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony.V.Make a critical appraisal of your favorite English or American novel of the 20th century.(20 %)英语专业英美文学模拟试题 2SalmonEvery year， millions of salmon swim from the ocean into the mouths of rivers and then steadily up the rivers.Passing through waters， around rocks and waterfalls， the fish finally reach their original streams or lakes.They dig out nests in the riverbed and lay their eggs.Then， eXhausted by their journey，the parent salmon die.They have finished the task that nature has given them.Months， or years later， the young fish start their trip to the ocean.They live in the salt water from 2-7years，until they，too are ready to swim back to reproduce.Their life cycle helps man provide himself with a basic food-fish.When the adult salmon gather at the river mouths for the annual trip up the rivers， they are in the best possible condition， and nearly every harbor has its salmon fishing fleet ready to catch thousands for markets.Now， you have two minutes to check through your work.PART Ⅲ LISTENING COMPREHENSIONIn sections A， B and C， you will hear everything once only.Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow.Mark the correct answer to each question on your answer sheet.SECTION A STATEMENTIn this section， you will hear seven statements.At the end of each statement you will be given 10 seconds to answer the question.1.You must relaX.Dont work too hard.And do watch your drinking and smoking.2.We hadnt quite eXpected the committee to agree to rebuild the hospital， so we were taken aback when we got to know that it had finally agreed.3.The coach leaves the station every 20 minutes.Its 9:15now， and you have to wait for five minutes for the neXt one.4.Perhaps Jane shouldnt have got married in the first place.No one knows what she might have been doing now， but not washing up.Thats for sure!5.I happen to be working on a similar project at the moment.I am only too pleased to help you.6.The man arrived for the ceremony with patched jackets and faded jeans that the average person would save for mowing the lawn in his garden at the weekend.7.Mark! Here you are! This is the last place in the worldI would have eXpected to find you.SECTION B CONVERSATIONIn this section you will hear 10 short conversations between two speakers.At the end of each conversation， you will be given 10 seconds to answer the question.8.W: I couldnt stand this morning.My right leg went stiff.M: Im afraid its probably a side-effect from the drugs I put you on.9.W: How did your writing go this morning? Is the book coming along alright?M: Im not sure.I think the rest of it will be difficult to write.10.W: Is there anything you can do to make the cold go away more quickly?M: No， there isnt.And a cold isnt really serious enough for a visit to a doctor.11.W: Look! What have I got here!M: Oh.So you did go to that bookstore!12.M: EXcuse me.Has there been an emergency?W: Oh， no sir.Theres just a storm， so the plane will leavea little later this afternoon.13.W: I wish I hadnt hurt Lindas feeling like that yesterday.You know I never meant to.M: The great thing about Linda is that she doesnt hold any grudges.By tomorrow shell have forgotten all about it.14.M: My grades are not bad， but not good enough.I knowI didnt study at all this semester.Now I have to work very hard neXt semester to keep my scholarship.W: Ill see you in the library， then.15.W: Ill wear this blue jacket for the evening.I like the color on me， dont you think?M:I think it looks terrific on you-really!16.W: Do you know that Sam turned down that job offer bya travel agency?M: Yeah.The hours were convenient， but had he accepted it，he wouldnt have been able to make ends meet.17.W: At the rate it is being used， the printer is not going to make it through the rest of the year.M: The year? It is supposed to be good for four!SECTION C NEWS BROADCASTQuestions 18 and 19 are based on the following news.At the end of the news item you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions.Now listen to the news.The U.N resolution calls for greater international intelligence and law enforcement cooperation.And it requires states to change their banking laws in order to police the global network of terrorisms financiers.It makes providing funds for terror activities a criminal offence and would freeze bank accounts of those who sponsor terrorism.Questions 20 and 21 are based on the following news.At the end of the news item you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions.Now listen to the news.A police spokesman said the devices were made safe by eXplosive eXperts in the Ardorn district， where a woman was shot in the leg and 13 police officers were injured during a second successive night of violence.Northern Irelands policechief had earlier called on community leaders to work together to end the violence.The violence has erupted sporadically throughout a summer of Sectarian tension in northern Belfast.。

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• But if our descendants know the answers to these questions and others that perplex us today, there would still be one field of which they do not know, namely the future. While exact our science, we cannot know it as we know the past. Philosophy may be described as argument about things of which we are ignorant. And where science gives us a hope of knowledge it is often reasonable to suspend judgment. That is one reason that Marx and Engels quite rightly wrote to many philosophical problems that interested in their contemporaries.
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[考研类试卷]英语专业（英美文学）模拟试卷7一、填空题1 Henry Fielding's first novel______is first intended as a burlesque of Samuel Richardson's novel Pamela.2 In Gulliver's Travels, Yahoos are creatures living on______.3 The 18th century England is known as the Age of Enlightenment or the Age of______.4 The only important English dramatist in the 18th century is______.5 "From the 1st of October to 24th, All these days entirely spent in many several voyages to get all I could out of the ship, which I brought on shore ever tide of flood upon rafts." This is the journal kept by the character______.6 ______ is regarded as the Father of English novel.7 The Yahoos are attacked by the writer named______in his fantasy work bearing the title8 "Is not a Patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached the ground, encumbers him with help?......till I am solitary, and can't impart it. Till I am unknown, and do not want it." The above quotation was written by______in______.9 The well-known verse of "Tyger, Tyger, Burning Bright/ In the forest of Night/ What immortal hand or eyes…" is written by ______.10 In the 18th century,______ found its expression chiefly in poetry, especially that of William Blake and Robert Burns.11 The period ranging from______ to______has been referred to as the Age of Realism in the literary history of the United States, which is actually a movement or tendency that dominated the spirit of American literature, especially American______, from the 1850s onwards.12 The arbiter of 19th century literary realism in America was______.13 Realism had originated in the country______as realism, a literary doctrine that called for "reality and truth" in the depiction of ordinary life.14 In his cluster of poems called Leaves of Grass,______gave America its first genuine epic poem.15 Realism was a reaction against______or a move away form the bias towards romance and self-creating Fictions, and paved the way to______.16 As Whitman saw it,______ could play a vital part in the process of creating a new nation.17 Norris's novel______has been called " the first full-bodied naturalistic American novel" and "a consciously naturalistic manifesto".二、名词解释18 Enlightenment Movement19 Epistolary novel20 Sentimentalism21 Gothic romance22 plot23 Caroline Meeber24 Trilogy of Desire25 Mark Twain26 Daisy Miller27 Henry James三、单项选择题28 Alexander Pope worked painstakingly on his poems and finally brought to its last perfection ______Dryden had successfully used in his plays.（A）the heroic couplet（B）the free verse（C）the bland verse（D）the Spenserian stanza29 _____ has been regarded by some as "Father of the English novel" for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.（A）John Bunyan（B）Henry Fielding（C）Daniel Defoe（D）Jonathan Swift30 ______was the only important dramatist of the 18th century.（A）Alexander Pope（B）Richard Brinsley Sheridan（C）Samuel Johnson（D）George Bernard Shaw31 ______brings Henry Fielding the name of the "prose Homer".（A）The Pilgrim's Progress（B）Tom Jones（C）Robinson Crusoe（D）Colonel Jack32 ______is mainly a story about two brothers, the hypocritical Joseph Surface and the good-natured, imprudent and spendthrift Charles Surface.（A）The Rivals（B）The School for Scandal（C）The Duenna（D）Pizarro33 The poem Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard is regarded as the most representative work of______.（A）the Metaphysical School（B）The Graveyard School（C）the Gothic School（D）the Romantic school34 Alone with the fast economic development in the 18th century in England, the British______ also grew very rapidly.（A）bourgeois（B）proletarians（C）aristocratic class（D）royal family35 In his novel Robinson Crusoe, Defoe eulogizes the hero of the______.（A）aristocratic class（B）enterprising landlords（C）rising bourgeoisie（D）hard-working people36 ______is not written by Alexander pope.（A）An Essay on Criticism（B）The Essays（C）An Essay on Man（D）The Dunciad37 ______by Pope is a comprehensive study of the theories of literary criticism, exerting great influence upon his contemporary writers in advocating the classical rules and popularizing the neoclassicist tradition in England.（A）An Essay on Man（B）The Dunciad（C）The Essays（D）An Essay on Criticism38 Samuel Johnson wrote his letter To the Right Honorable the Earl of Chesterfield in order to______.（A）make reconciliation with the Earl（B）address the newly compiled dictionary to the Earl（C）persuade the Earl to give up his hypocrisy（D）show his indignation and resolution not to be reconciled39 In the 18th century English literature, the representative writer of neoclassicism is______.（A）Alexander Pope（B）Jonathan Swift（C）Daniel Defoe（D）John Milton40 ______, written by Alexander Pope satirized the idle and artificial life of the aristocracy.（A）The Rape of the Lock（B）The Rape of Lucree（C）The School for Scandal（D）Every Man in His Humor41 Which of the following plays is regarded as the best English comedy since Shakespeare?（A）The School for Scandal.（B）She Stoops to Conquer.（C）The Rivals.（D）The Conscious Lover.42 In The Pilgrim's Progress, John Bunyan describes "The Vanity Fair" in a______tone. （A）delightful（B）satirical（C）sentimental（D）solemn43 Defoe's Robinson Crusoe created the image of an enterprising Englishman, typical of the English bourgeoisie in the______century.（A）17th（B）18th（C）19th（D）20th44 Literature of Neoclassicism is different from that of Romanticism in that______.（A）the former celebrates reason, rationality, order and instruction while the latter sees literature as an expression of an individual's feelings and experiences.（B）the former is heavily religious but the latter secular.（C）the former is an intellectual movement the purpose of which is to arouse the middle class for political rights while the latter is concerned with the personal cultivation.（D）the former advocates the "return to nature" whereas the latter turns to the ancient Greek and Roman writers for its models45 You may have met the term "Yahoo" on internet, but you may also have met it in English literature. It is found in______.（A）John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress（B）Samuel Johnson's The Vanity of Human Wishes（C）Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels（D）Henry Fielding's Tome Jones46 "Surface", "Sneerwell", "Backbite", and "Candor" are most likely the names of the characters in______.（A）Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession（B）Sheridan's The School for Scandal（C）Shakespeare's Love's Labor's Lost（D）Christopher Marlowe's Dr. Faustus47 John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress is a(n)______.（A）allegory（B）romance（C）comedy of manners（D）realistic novel48 The middle of the 18th century was predominated by a newly rising literary form, that is the modern English______, which gives a realistic presentation of life of the common English people.（A）prose（B）tragicomedy（C）short story（D）novel49 Which of the following comments on Richard Brinsley Sheridan is NOT true?（A）The School for Scandal is his masterpiece.（B）In his plays, morality is the constant theme.（C）He was the only important English dramatist of the 18th century.（D）His plays The Rivals and The School for Scandal are generally regarded as true classics in English tragedy.50 The sentence, "This fair is no new-erected business, but a thing of ancient standing; I will show you the original of it", are taken from______.（A）The Pilgrim's Progress（B）Gulliver's Travels（C）Paradise Lost（D）Robinson Crusoe51 Which of the following is NOT Richard Brinsley Sheridan's work?（A）Tom Jones.（B）The School for Scandal.（C）The Rivals.（D）The Critic.52 In field of literature, the Enlightenment brought about a(n)______ the old classical works. This tendency is known as neoclassicism.（A）rebellion against .（B）indifference to（C）revived interest in（D）rational scrutiny of53 As a literary figure, Belinda appears in Alexander Pope's______.（A）The Rape of the Lock（B）An Essay on Criticism（C）The Dunciad（D）Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot54 Which of the following is NOT a typical aspect of Defoe's language?（A）Elegant.（B）Colloquial.（C）Vernacular.（D）Smooth.55 "The novel is structured around the discovery of the hero's origin." This novel most probably refers to______.（A）The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling（B）The Vicar of the Wakefield（C）David Copperfield（D）Wuthering Heights56 The School for Scandal, one of the great classics in English drama, is a______on the moral degeneracy of the aristocratic-bourgeois society in the 18th-century England. （A）high praise（B）sharp satire（C）bitter lament（D）great irony57 The Rape of the Lock by Pope is written in the form of a mock______, which describes the triviality of high society in a grand style.（A）epic（B）sonnet（C）elegy（D）ode58 ______is considered to be Theodore Dreiser's greatest work.（A）An American Tragedy（B）Sister Carrie（C）The Financier（D）The Titan59 In 1900, London published his first collection of short stories, named______.（A）The Sea Wolf（B）The Son of the Wolf（C）The Law of Life（D）White Fang60 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.（A）experience（B）sophistication（C）worldliness（D）innocence61 Generally speaking, all those writers with a naturalistic approach to human reality tent to be______.（A）transcendentalists（B）idealists（C）pessimists（D）impressionists62 One of Mark Twain's contributions to the American Literature is that hemade______an accepted standard literary medium.（A）tall tale（B）colloquial speech（C）humor（D）local colorism63 The main theme of______The Art of Fiction reveals his literary credo that representation of life should be the main object of the novel.（A）Henry James'（B）William Dean Howells'（C）Mark Twain's（D）Jack London's64 ______is not a novel by Henry James dealing with the international theme. （A）What Maisie Knows（B）The Wings of the Dove（C）The Ambassadors（D）The Golden Bowl65 The following authors are famous American realist novelists except______. （A）Henry James（B）Jack London（C）Mark Twain（D）Stephen Crane66 Mark Twain wrote most of his literary works with a______language.（A）grand（B）pompous（C）Simple（D）vernacular67 Stylistically, Henry James's fiction is characterized by______.（A）highly refined language（B）ordinary American speech（C）short, clear sentences（D）abundance of local images68 Which of the following writings is by Hemingway described the novel the one book from which "all modern American literature comes"?（A）Tom Sawyer（B）Huckleberry Finn（C）The Gilded Age（D）Life on the Mississippi69 ______ explores the scrupulous individualism in a world of fantastic speculation and unstable values, and gives its name to the get-rich-quick years of the post Civil War era. （A）Innocents Abroad（B）The Gilded Age（C）Roughing It（D）The Middle Years70 ______described by Mark Twain as a boy with "a sound heart and a deformed conscience.（A）Tom Sawyer（B）Huckleberry Finn（C）Jim（D）Tony71 While embracing the socialism of Marx, London also believed in the triumph of the strongest individuals. This contradiction is most vividly projected in the patently autobiographical novel______.（A）The Call of the Wild（B）The Sea Wolf（C）Martin Eden（D）The Iron Heel72 The setting of______is American, where some Europeans, who are actually expatriated Americans, learn with difficulty to adapt themselves to the American life. （A）Middlemarch（B）The Europeans（C）Daisy Miller（D）The Portrait of a Lady73 However, innocence, the keynote of Daisy Miller's character, turns out to be an admiring but dangerous quality and her ______of social taboos in the Old World finally brings her to a disaster in the clash between two different cultures.（A）admiration（B）defiance（C）sympathy（D）disgusting74 Theodore Dreiser is generally regarded as one of America's______.（A）naturalists（B）realists（C）modernists（D）romanticists75 ______exerts the single most important influence on literary naturalism, of which Theodore Dreiser and Jack London are among the best representative writers.（A）Freud.（B）Emerson（C）Darwin（D）W.D.Howells.76 The impact of Darwin's evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the 19th century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to yet another school of realism: American______.（A）modernism（B）naturalism（C）vernacularism（D）local colorism77 Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his______.（A）international theme（B）waste-land imagery（C）local color（D）symbolism78 "I" was letting on to give up sin, but always inside of me I was holding on to the biggest one of all. The sentence, which is taken from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, is written in a(n)______tone.（A）ironic（B）regretful（C）sincere（D）delightful79 Dreiser's Trilogy of Desire includes three novels. They are The Financier, The Titan and______.（A）The Stoic（B）The Giant（C）The Tycoon（D）The Genius80 The novelistic technique of projecting the narrative through feelings and thoughts of the characters, reached a perfected form in the works of______.（A）William Dean Howells（B）Henry James（C）Washington Irving（D）Emily Dickinson81 Emily Dickinson's poetry is most aptly characterized as .______.（A）exposing the evils of the society（B）paving the way for the following generation of free verse poets（C）exhibiting a sensitiveness to the symbolic implications of experience, such as love, death, immortality and nature, etc.（D）sharing the same poetic conventions as Walt Whitman82 In Henry James's Daisy Miller, the author tries to portray the young woman as an embodiment of______.（A）force of convention（B）are polite and elegant gentlemen（C）are simple and crude farmers（D）are noble savages untainted by society83 ______is NOT characteristic of Dreiser's writing.（A）Naturalism（B）Tragic Ending（C）Romantic quality（D）Redundancy84 The book from which "all modern American literature comes" refers to______.（A）The Great Gatsby（B）The Sun Also Rises（C）The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn（D）Moby-Dick85 ______is usually regarded as a classic book written for boys about their particular horrors and joys.（A）The Adventures of Tom Sawyer（B）Adventures of Huckleberry Finn（C）Innocents Abroad（D）Life on the Mississippi86 Which of the following writers is NOT the dominant figure of the Realistic Period in American literature?（A）Herman Melville.（B）William Dean Howells.（C）Henry James.（D）Mark Twain.87 With Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the literary scene, ______became the major trend in American literature in the 70s and 80s of 19th century.（A）sentimentalism（B）romanticism（C）realism（D）naturalism四、问答题88 "And, moreover, at this fair there is at all times to be seen jugglings, cheats, games, plays, fools, apes, knaves, and rogues, and that of every kind, here are to be seen, too, and that for nothing, thefts, murders, adulteries, false swears, and that of a blood-red color."A. Identify the author and the title of the novel from which this passage is taken.B. Identify the name of the fair.C. Summarize the meaning of the passage.89 "Two days after this adventure, the Emperor, having ordered that part of his army which quarters in and about his metropolis to be in a readiness, took a fancy of diverting himself in a very singular manner. He desired I would stand like a colossus, with my legs as far asunder as I conveniently could. He then commanded his general(who was an old experienced leader, and a great patron of mine)to draw up the troops in close order, and march them under me;...A. Identify the author and the title of the novel from which this passage is taken.B. Who is the narrator?C. What does the passage tell us?90 "Why, I believe I should be obliged to borrow a little of your morality, that's all.—But brother, do you know now that you surprise me exceedingly, by naming me with Lady Teazle—for faith, I always thought you were her favorite."A. Identify the author and the title of the work from which this passage is taken.B. Who is the speaker?C. Whom does "brother" refer to?91 "Seven years, my lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it, at last, to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favor. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before."A. Identify the author and the work.B. What is the author's tone in composing this work?C. What idea does the passage express?92 "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea,The plowman homeward plods his weary way,And leaves the world to darkness and to me."A. Scan the first line of the stanza.B. Find the irregular foot in the second line.C. Briefly explain the significance of this irregularity.93 Because I could not stop for Death —He kindly stopped fro me —The Carriage held but just Ourselves —And Immortality.A. Who is the writer of these lines?B. In which category this poem belongs to?C. Give a brief introduction to the author.94 A cold muzzle thrust against his cheek, and at its touch his soul leaped back to the present. His hand shot into the fire and dragged out a burning faggot. Overcome for the nonce 17 by his hereditary fear of man, the brute retreated, raising a prolonged call to his brothers; and greedily they answered, till a ring of crouching, jaw-slobbered 18 gray was stretched round about. The old man listened to the drawing in of this circle. He waved his brand wildly, and sniffs turned to snarls; but the panting brutes refused to scatter. Now one wormed his chest forward, dragging his haunches after, now a second, now a third; but never a one drew back. Why should he cling to life? He asked, and dropped theblazing stick into the snow. It sizzled and went out. The circle grunted uneasily, but held its own. Again he saw the last stand of the old bull moose, and Koskoosh dropped his head wearily upon his knees. What did it matter after all? Was it not the law of life?A. Identify the author and the name of the work from which this passage is taken.B. Give a brief introduction to the author.95 Edna walked on down to the beach rather mechanically, not noticing anything special except that the sun was hot. She was not dwelling upon any particular train of thought. She had done all the thinking which was necessary after Robert went away, when she lay awake upon the sofa till morning.She had said over and over to herself: "To-day it is Arobin; to-morrow it will be some one else. It makes no difference to me, it doesn't matter about Leonce Pontelier—but Raoul and Etienne!" She understood now clearly what she had meant long ago when she said to Adele Ratigolle that she would give up the unessential, but she would never sacrifice herself for her children.A. Identify the author and the name of the work from which this passage is taken.B. Give a brief introduction to the author.96 Sue found Behrman smelling strongly of juniper berries in his dimly lighted den below. In one corner was a blank canvas on an easel that had been waiting there for twenty-five years to receive the first line of the masterpiece. She told him of Johnsy's fancy, and how she feared she would, indeed, light and fragile as a leaf herself, float away, when her slight hold upon the world grew weaker.A. This passage is excerpted from the short story The Last Leaf, which is writtenby______.B. Give a brief introduction to the author.五、论述题97 Give a brief comment on "Neoclassicism".98 What's the theme of John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress?99 How much do you know about Thomas Gray's poetry?100 Why is Tom Jones a successful novel?101 Give a brief comment on Samuel Johnson's literary outlook.102 What are the features of Mark Twain and Henry James in the writing style?103 What is Theodore Dreiser's point of view in writing? 104 What led to the rise of American Realism?。

《英美文学选读》英美文学选读模拟题二及答案.docx

英美文学选读模拟题二A.Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement and put the letter in the brackets. (20x1 points)()1. _________ is regarded as the pioneer of English drama.A.William ShakespeareB.Christopher Marlowe.C.Edmund SpenserD.John Donne()2. n She I compare thee to a summers day?” This is the beginning line of Shakespeare'sA.songsB.playsediesD.son nets()3. Thomas Gray f s masterpiece, __________ once and for all established his fame ass the leader of the sentimental poetry of the day, especially "The Graveyard Schocd”.A.Ode on the SpringB.Ode on a Distant Prospect Of Eton CollegeC.Hymn to AdversityD.Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard()4. Which play is regarded ass the best English comedy since Shakespeare?A.She Stoops to ConquerB.The RivalsC.The School for ScandalD.The Conscious Lovers()5. The publication of f,_________ H marked the beginning of Romantic Age.A.Don JuanB.The Rime of the Ancient MarinerC.The Lyrical BalladsD.Queen Mab()6. As a new kind of ideology, _______ was widely accepted and practised in the later Victorian period.A.earnestnessB.utilitarianismC.respectabilityD.modesty()7. In his novels, Charles Dickens depicted a lot of child characters except _____________ .A.Oliver TwistB.Little NellC.Little DorritD.Charles Surface()8. ________ is acknowledged by many as the most original poet of the Victorian period.A.Robert BrowningB.Alfred TennysonC.George EliotD.John Keats()9. ________ is the last important novelist and poet of the 19th century.A.Thomas HardyB.George EliotC.Alfred TennysonD.Robert Browning()10. _______ does not belong to the post - modernism after the Second World War.A.Existentialist literatureB.Black HumorC.Heater of the AbsurdD.Stream of consciousness()11. In the works of E. M. Forster and D. H. Lawrence, the subject matter is ____________ ・A.the social turmoilB.the hypocrisy of the capitalismC.love and marriageD.human relati on ships()12. James Joyce's works are popular with the readers for in his writings Joyce uses the following kinds of expressing methods.A.sentimental romanceB.historical stylisticsC.in versionD.counterpoint()13. _______ f s f,Leaves of Grass11 established him as the most popular American poet of the 19th century.A.Edger Allen PoeB.James Russel LowellC.John Greenleaf WhitterD.Walt Whitman()14. In his essays, Ralph Waldo Emerson put forward his philosophy except of __________ .A.religionB.the over - soulC.the importance of the in dividualD.nature()15. In the following statements, __________ is not true about the local colorism in American literary realism.A.Their writings are concerned with the life of a small, well - defined region or province.B.The characteristic selling is the isolated small town.C.Their materials were extensive or wide ・ ranging, and the topics were connective.D.Local colorists were consciously nostalgic historians of a vanishing way of life, recorders of a present that faded before their eyes.()16. H______ 蔦a novella about a young American girl who gets "killecT by the winter in Rome, brought James inter national fame for the first time.A.The AmericanB.Daisy MillerC.The EuropeansD.The Portrait of a Lady()17. In his f,_______ Dreiser f s focus shifted from the pathos of the helpless protagonists at the bottom of the society to the power of the American financial tycoons in the late 19th century.A.Sister CarrieB.An American TragedyC.The GeniusD.Trilogy of Desire()18・______ is not among those greatest figures in "The Lost Generation11 or modern American literature.A.Ezra PoundB.Robert FrostC.Walt WhitmanD.William Carlos Williams()19. Robert Frost recited 11_______ ” at President Kennedy f s inauguration.A.The road Not TakenB.Mending the WallC.The Gift OutrightD.Birches()20. Mark Twain^ best works were produced when he was in the prime of his life. All these masterworks drew upon ________ .A.the scenes and emotions of his boyhood and youthB.the hypocrisy of the capitalismC.the bleak view of human natureD.the miserable life of the lower - class poorplete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase according to the textbook. ( 20x1 points)1 • In f,The Canterbury Tales1', Chaucer employed the _________ with true ease and charm for the first time in the history of English literature.2.Christopher Marlowe is the most gifted of the H_________ ”.3.The term H_________ H is commonly used to name the work of the 17th - century writers who wrote under the influence of John Donne.4.Spenser is generally regarded as the greatest non dramatic poet of the Elizabetha n age. His fame is chiefly based on his masterpiece ”___________ u.5.Swift is a master ______ , his satire is usually masked by an outward gravity and an apparent earnestness which renders his satire all the more powerful.6.From the middle part to the end of the 18th century, in English literature__________ flourished. They were mostly stories of mystery and horror which take place in some haunted or dilapidated middle age castles.7.As a leading romanticist, Byron's chief contribution is his creation of the ,f _________ ”，a proud, mysterious rebel figure of noble origin.8.________ is regarded as a ^worshipper of nature11.9.All of Charles Dickens f s later works, with the exception of f,______________ f,(1859), present a criticism of the more complicated and yet most fundamental social institutions and morals of the Victorian England.10.Bernard Shaw began his career as a dramatist in 1892, when his first play ”_________ f,(1892) was put on by the independent theater society.11.__________ was regarded as father of the American short stories.12.The way in which _______ wrote "The Scarlet Letter11 suggests that American Romanticism adapted itself to American puritan moralism.13.The most important feature of Mark 7wain f s Ianguage is the use of vernacular, or ___________ .14.H _________ 11 is Browning^ best - known dramatic monlogue.15.Ezra PouncTs major work of poetry is the long poem called ___________ .16.Hemingway's H____________ H (1936) tells a brilliant short story about a martially wounded American writer who attempts to redeem his imagination from the corrosions of wealth and domestic strife.17.__________ stands as a great dividing line between the nineteenth century and the contemporary American literature.18.Pound was the leader of a now movement in poetry which he called the ”________ 11 movement.19.M After Apple - Picking H is a well - known poem written by ____________ .20.George Eliot's greatest achievement is ,f __________ ,f.C.Decide whether the following statements are true or false and write your answers in the brackets・(10x1 points)()1 ・fl Dr. Faustus11 is a play based on the English Lege nd of a magician aspiring for knowledge and fin ally meeting his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the Devil.()2. Swift is a master satirist. His satire is usually masked by an outward gravity and an apparent earnestness which ren ders his satire all the more powerful. His H A Modest Proposal11 is gen erally taken as a perfect model.()3. Shelley's greatest achievement is his four ・ act poetic drama, "Prometheus Unbound M. (1820)()4・ Though Naturalism seems to have played an important part in Hardy f s works, there is also bitter and sharp criticism and even open challenge as the irrational, hypocritical and unfair Victorian institutions, conventions and morals which strangle the individual will and destroy natural human emotions and relationships.()5. Hardy is the founder of the '"stream of consciousness11 school of novel writing.()6. American romanticism was in a way derivative; American romantic writing was some of them modeled on English and European works.()7. With the publication of "Daisy Miller11, Henry James1 reputation was firmly established on both sides of the Atlantic and Daisy Miller has ever since become the American girl in Europe, a celebrated cultural type who embodies the spirit of the old world.()8. Altogether, Dickinson wrote 1775 poems of which most had appeared during her lifetime.()9. Hemingway develops the style of colloquialism initiated by Thomas Hardy.()10. Transcendentalism exalted reason over feeling, individual expression over the restraints of law and custom. the author of the following literary works. (5x1 points)1.The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling2.A Journal of the Plague Year3.Ode on a Grecian Urn4.The Lake Isle of Innisfree5.There Was a Child Went ForthE.Define the literary terms listed below. (2x4 points)1.Dramatic Monologue2.SymbolismF.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.If l wandered lonely as a cloudThat floats on high o'er vales and hills,When all at once I saw a crowd,A host, of golden daffodils;Beside the lake, beneath the trees,Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.112."The apparition of these faces in the crowd;Petals on a wet, black bough”.G.Give brief answers to the following questions. (3x5 points)1.What's the theme of "Jane Eyre"?2.What*s the theme of John Galsworthy's "The Man of Property*1?3.How did Walt Whitman make use of the poetic "I” in his works?H.Short essay questions. (2x7 points)I.Read the excerpt from chapter I of "Pride And Prejudice11 in our textbook, and answer the following questions.(1)What is this passage describing?(2)What f s the style of this passage?(3)Analyze the characters of the main roles of this passage: Mr. And Mrs. Bennet.附：答案全国高等教育白学考试模拟试卷(二)英美文学选读参考答案A.1.B2.D3.D4.C5.C6.B7.D8.A9.A10.D11.D12.C13.D14.A15.C16.B17.D18.C19.C20.AB.1 • heroic couplet2.University Wits3.metaphysical poetry4.The Faerie Queene5.satirist6.Gothic novels7.Byronic hero8.Wordsworth9.A Tale of Two Cities10.Widowers1 House11.Washington Irving12.Hawthorne13.Colloquialism14.My Last Duchess15.The Cantos16.The Snows of Kilimanjaro17.The First World War18.Imagist19.Robert Frost20.Middlemarchc.1.F2.T3.T4.T5.F6.T7.F8.F9.F10.FD.1 • Henry Fielding2.Daniel Defoe3.John Keats4.William Bulter Yeats5.Walt WhitmanE.1 • A kind of narrative poem in which one character speaks to one or more listeners whose replies are not giver in the poem. The occasion is usually a crucial one in the speaker's life, and the dramatic monologue reveals the speaker's of a dramatic monologue is n My Last Duchess” by Robert Brow ning. In the poems in eluding n My Last Duchess11, Brow ning chooses a dramatic moment or a crisis, in which his characters are made to talk about their lives, and about their minds and hearts. In "listening” to those one - sided talks, readers can form their own opinions and judgements about the those one - sided personality and about what has really happened.2. Symbolism is the writing technique of using symbols. A symbol is something that conveys two kinds of meaning; it is simply itself, and it stands for something other than itself. In other words, a symbol is both literal and figurative. People, places, things and even events can be used symbolically.A symbol is a way of telling a story and a way of conveying meaning. The best symbols are those that are believable in the lives of the characters and also convincing as they convey a meaning beyond the literal level of the story. Hawthorne and Melville were the two masters of symbolism. For example, the scarlet letter ,f a lf on Hesters breast can give you symbolic meanings. If the symbol is obscure or ambiguous, then the very obscurity and the ambiguity may also be apt of the meaning of the story.F.1.The name of the author is William Wordsworth, and the title of the literary work is H l Wandered Lonely As a Cloud11.译文如下：我独自游荡，像一朵孤云高高地飞越峡谷和山巅，突然，我望见密密的一群，那是一大片金黄色水仙；它们在那湖边的树荫里，在阵阵微风中舞姿飘逸。

[考研类试卷]2010年四川大学英语专业(英美文学)真题试卷.doc

[考研类试卷]2010年四川大学英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷一、名词解释1 Lord Alfred Tennyson2 The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus3 The Age of Realism in American Literature4 Ernest Hemingway二、单项选择题5 The poem" Virtue "was written by______.（A）George Herbert（B）Ben Jonson（C）John Donne（D）Robert Herrick6 Which of the following is NOT directly related to the stream of consciousness school of novel?（A）James Joyce（B）Virginia Woolf（C）Finnegans Wake（D）The Plough and the Stars7 Mrs. Crawley is a major character in______.（A）Bleak House（B）Major Barbara（C）Wuthering Heights（D）Vanity Fair8 "Round many western islands have I been Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. "The above lines are quoted from John Keats' poem " On First Looking into Chapman's Homer".The Phrase "western islands" also refers to ______.（A）works by ancient Roman writers（B）works by Homer（C）ancient classic works（D）poetic beauty in classic works9 The Black Prince is a novel by ______.（A）Mrs. Gaskell（B）William Golding（C）Thomas Kyd（D）Iris Murdoch10 Which ONE of the following is the author of The Law of Life?（A）Mark Twain（B）Frank Norris（C）Edgar Allan Poe（D）Jack London11 Which ONE of the following writers is the author of the novel The Sound and the Fury?（A）Harriet Beecher Stowe（B）Stephen Crane（C）William Faulkner（D）Henry James12 Which ONE of the following concepts is related to the understanding of literary realism?（A）spontaneous outflow of feelings（B）faith in individualism, independence of mind and self-reliance（C）representation of characters, human nature and social actualities in a non-idealized way（D）survival of the fittest13 Which one of the following is the novel dealing with the slavery issue?（A）The Fall of the House of Usher（B）Moby Dick（C）Martin Eden（D）Uncle Tom's Cabin14 Which ONE of the following is generally believed to be the main idea of American Transcendentalism ?（A）glorification of the environmental forces（B）advocating the notion of the futility of human efforts（C）stressing hard-work, piety and sobriety（D）emphasis on spirit or the Oversoul, an all-pervading power for goodness三、问答题15 Please briefly comment on George Bernard Shaw's play Major Barbara.16 Please briefly comment on Stephen Crane's naturalistic novel The Red Badge of Courage.。

[考研类试卷]英语专业（英美文学）模拟试卷8.doc

[考研类试卷]英语专业（英美⽂学）模拟试卷8.doc[考研类试卷]英语专业（英美⽂学）模拟试卷8⼀、填空题1 Jonathan Swift's famous prose work______is a satirical dialogue between the Ancients and the Moderns in the character of the Bee and the Spider.2 ______is William Blake's most important prose work, which is the manifesto of his spiritual independence.3 Modern English novel arose in the______century.4 ______was a progressive intellectual movement going on throughout Europe in the 18th century.5 Dr. Primrose is the central character of the novel______.6 The cross that Crusoe erects on the island serves______.7 The English novel as a genre began to prosper in the______century.8 John Bunyan's style was modeled after that of the English______, with concrete and living language and carefully observed and vividly presented details.9 The Rape of the Lock by Pope is written in the form of a mock______, which describes the triviality of high society in a grand style.10 In England, Neoclassicism was initiated by Dryden, culminated in Pope, and continued by______.11 The______of the 1930s greatly weakened the American nation's self-confidence.12 In 1920, Sinclair Lewis published his memorable denunciation of American small-town Provincialism in______.13 The______County is a legendary kingdom created by Faulkner.14 Pound was the leader of a new movement in poetry which he called the "______" movement.15 After his death, Stevens previously uncollected works appeared in the title of______.16 In 1954, Hemingway was awarded a______for his "mastery of the art of modern narration".17 Fitzgerald's first novel______, with its portrayal of casual dissipations of "flaming youth", was an immediate commercial success.18 ______is the first American to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature, but still he is called the worst important writer in American literature.19 ______had been called "the first step that American fiction has taken since Henry James" by T. S. Eliot.20 ______combined traditional verse forms with a clear American local speech rhythm, forming his own characteristic.⼆、名词解释21 Elegy22 Allegory23 Parable24 Didactic25 Neoclassicism26 The Lost Generation27 Anti-novel29 Impressionism30 Jazz age三、单项选择题31 Which of the following is NOT found in comedy of manners with Sheridan's The School for Scandal as the best representative work?（A）Wit.（B）Mistaken identity.（C）Sentimentalism.（D）Dialogue.32 In the lines "With gold and jewels cover every part, /And hide with ornaments their want of art"(An Essay on Criticism), Pope rejects______.（A）the "Follow Nature" fallacy（B）artificiality（C）good taste（D）aesthetic order33 Daniel Defoe describes ______as a typical English middle-class man of the eighteenth century, the very prototype of the empire builder or the pioneer colonist. （A）Tom Jones（B）Gulliver（C）Moll Flanders（D）Robinson Crusoe34 "To be so distinguished is an honor, which, being very little accustomed to favors from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge." The above quoted sentence is presented by Samuel Johnson witha(n)______tone.（A）delightful（B）jealous（C）ironic（D）humorous35 ______is a typical feature of Swift's writings.（A）Bitter satire（B）Elegant style（C）Casual narration（D）Complicated sentence structure36 The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan is often said to be concerned with the search for______.（A）material wealth（B）spiritual salvation（C）universal truth37 Of all the 18th century novelists Henry Fielding was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a "______in prose", the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.（A）tragic epic（B）comic epic（C）romance（D）lyric epic38 The Houyhnhnms depicted by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's. Travels are______.（A）horses that are endowed with reason（B）pigmies that are endowed with admirable qualities（C）giants that are superior in wisdom（D）hairy, wild, low and despicable creatures, who resemble human beings not only in appearance but also in some other ways39 Here are four lines from a literary work: "Others for language all their care express, and value books, as women men, for dress." The work is______.（A）Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard（B）John Milton's Paradise Lost（C）Alexander Pope's An Essay on Criticism（D）Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream40 The phrase "To urge people to abide by Christian doctrines and to seek salvation through constant struggles with their own weaknesses and all kinds of social evils" may well sum up the implied meaning of______ .（A）Gulliver's Travels（B）The Rape of the Lock（C）Robinson Crusoe（D）The Pilgrim's Progress41 Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels is the greatest______work in English literature.（A）realistic（B）satiric（C）romantic（D）sentimental42 The 18th century England is known as the______in the history.（A）Romanticism（B）Enlightenment（C）Classicism（D）Renaissance43 "Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds;" The above stanza is taken from______.（B）The Passionate Shepherd to His Love（C）Hamlet（D）Paradise Lost44 The following comments on John Bunyan are wrong EXCEPT______.（A）He was a stout Puritan.（B）Bunyan's works belong to Gothic novels.（C）Bunyan's style is different from that of the English Bible.（D）A Modest Proposal is his representative work.45 "Hold! See whether it is or not before you go to the door — I have a particular message for you if it should be my brother." The two sentences are found in______. （A）The Scheming Lieutenant（B）Wuthering Heights（C）The School for Scandal（D）The Rivals46 Statement"______" is NOT true in describing Gothic novel.（A）Gothic novel is a type of romantic fiction（B）Gothic novel predominated in the early 18th century（C）Its principal elements are violence, horror and supernatural（D）The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe is typical Gothic romance47 ______is the most successful religious allegory in the English language.（A）The Rivals（B）The Pilgrim's Progress（C）The Life and Death of Mr. Badman（D）Paradise Lost48 Among the representatives of the Enlightenment, who was the first to introduce rationalism to England?（A）John Bunyan.（B）Daniel Defoe.（C）Jonathan Swift.（D）Alexander Pope.49 Fielding has been termed by some as "______", for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.（A）Best Writer of the English Novel（B）Father of the English Novel（C）conventional writer of the English Prose（D）the most talented writer of the English Novel50 Which of the following statements on The Neoclassical Period is NOT true?（A）The Neoclassical Period is prior to the Romantic Period.（C）The modern English novel came into being in the Neoclassical Period.（D）The Neoclassical Period is also known as the Age of Enlightenment.51 Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Samuel Johnson's language style? （A）His sentences are long and well-structured.（B）His sentences are interwoven with parallel phrases.（C）He tends to use informal and colloquial words.（D）His sentences are complicated, but his thoughts are clearly expressed.52 Samuel Johnson was the______great neoclassicist enlightener in the later 18th century.（A）last（B）only（C）first（D）merely53 In Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, Thomas Gray reveals his sympathy for______, but mocks the great ones who despise them and bring havoc on them. （A）the middle class（B）the landlords（C）the poor and the unknown（D）the working class54 Which of the following comments on the Enlightenment Movement is NOT true? （A）It advocated individual education.（B）The purpose of the movement was to enlighten the whole world.（C）The Enlightenment Movement flourished in France.（D）The Enlightenment Movement was a furtherance of the Renaissance.55 In the first part of Gulliver's Travels, Gulliver told his experience in______.（A）Lilliput（B）Brobdingnag（C）Houyhnhnm（D）England56 In the theatrical world of the neoclassical period,______was the leading figure among the host of playwrights.（A）Richard Bringsley Sheridan（B）George Bernard Shaw（C）Ben Johnson（D）William Blake57 Alexander Pope strongly advocated______, emphasizing that literary works should be judged by classical rules of order, reason, logic, restrained emotion, good taste and decorum.（A）neoclassicism（B）sentimentalism58 The following comments on Daniel Defoe are true EXCEPT "______".（A）In his novels, his sympathy for the downtrodden, unfortunate poor is shown（B）He was a member of the upper class（C）Robinson Crusoe is universally considered his masterpiece（D）Robinson Crusoe is his first novel59 The Dunciad is generally considered to be Pope's best______work.（A）praising（B）allegorical（C）satiric（D）fabulous60 "The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike the inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave." In the above quoted stanza, Thomas Gray tries to say that great family, power, beauty and wealth______.（A）will never prevent people no matter who they are from reaching their final destination—grave（B）are the very best things to lead people to their glories（C）will inevitably make people realize their glorious dreams（D）will never make people lead to the same destination—paths of glory61 ______, disregarding grammar and punctuation, always used "i" instead of "I" to refer to himself as a protest against self-importance.（A）Wallace Stevens（B）E. E. Cummings（C）Robert Frost（D）William Carlos Williams62 Which of the following statements about writers in 1920s is TRUE?（A）F. Scott Fitzgerald received the Nobel Prize.（B）Most writers were politically radical.（C）Freudian psychology influenced many modern writers.（D）Mark Twain published his last and most important novel.63 ______sought inspiration from the east in his poetry writing.（A）Walt Whitman（B）Emily Dickinson（C）T.S.Eliot（D）Ezra Pound64 Hemingway won his Nobel Prize for the book entitled______.（A）The Sun Also Rises（D）For Whom the Bell Tolls65 Sherwood Anderson explores the motivations and frustrations of his fictional characters in terms of Freud's theory of psychology, particularly in one book entitled______.（A）Winesburg, Ohio（B）Babbit（C）The Grapes of Wrath（D）The Catcher in the Rye66 Sinclair Lewis Babbit presents a documentary picture of the narrow andlimited______.（A）up-class mind（B）middle-class mind（C）proletarian（D）ordinary people67 William Faulkner's works mainly concern the American______.（A）New England（B）Mid West（C）South（D）West68 A typical modern work will NO longer have ONE of the following statements as its trademark, that is, a______ .（A）record of sequence and coherence（B）book that begins arbitrarily, advances without explanation, and end without solution（C）juxtaposition of the past and present, of the history and memory（D）book of fragments drawn from diverse areas of experience69 Statement"______" is NOT true in describing Ezra Pound.（A）He is a leading spokesman of the "Imagist Movement"（B）His famous one-image poem In a Station of the Metro would serve as a typical example of the Imagist ideas （C）A Pact is his masterpiece（D）He was politically controversial70 The leading playwright of the modern period in American literature, if not the most successful in all his experiments, is______.（A）Arthur Miller（B）Tennessee William（C）George Bernard Shaw（D）Eugene O'Neil71 ______is not among those greatest figures in modern American literature.（B）Robert Frost（C）Walt Whitman（D）William Carlos Williams72 From Eugene O'Neil's works, we can see he is______.（A）a man of apathy（B）a man of inactivity（C）a man of pessimism（D）a man of optimism73 F. Scott Fitzgerald is NOT the author of______.（A）The Great Gatsby（B）In Our Time（C）Tender is the Night（D）This Side of Paradise74 The Hemingway Code heroes are best remembered for their______.（A）indestructible spirit（B）pessimistic view of life（C）war experiences（D）masculinity75 As he is a leading spokesman of the "Imagist Movement",______famous one-image poem In a Station of the Metro would serve as a typical example of the imagist ideas. （A）T. S. Eliot's（B）Robert Frost's（C）Ezra Pound's（D）Wallace Stevens's76 Which of the following statements about Faulkner is NOT true?（A）Indian Camp is Faulkner's masterpiece.（B）Almost all his heroes turn out to be tragic.（C）Most of Faulkner's works are set in the American South, with his emphasis on the Southern subjects and consciousness.（D）Faulkner has always been regarded as a man with great might of invention and experimentation.77 Robert Frost is a regional poet in the sense that his poems depict mostly______.（A）the frontier life（B）the sea adventures（C）Puritan community（D）the landscape and people in New England78 In A Rose for Emily, Faulkner makes best use of the______devices in narration.（B）Realistic（C）Gothic（D）Modernist79 Which of the following works by Faulkner involves Shakespearean allusion in its title?（A）The Sound and the Fury（B）Light in August（C）Absalom, Absalom!（D）Go Down, Moses80 Apart from the dislocation of time and the modern stream-of-consciousness, the other narrative techniques Faulkner used to construct his stories include______, symbolism and mythological and biblical allusions.（A）multiple points of views（B）first person point of view（C）expressionism（D）impressionism81 In a class, which discusses the Imagist Movement in the United States, we will definitely NOT include______.（A）William Carlos Williams（B）Ezra Pound（C）Ernest Hemingway（D）Wallace Stevens82 "A week later the mayor wrote her himself, offering to call or to send his car for her, and received in reply a note on paper of an archaic shape, in a thin, flowing calligraphy in faded ink, to the effect that she no longer went out at all. The tax notice was also enclosed, without comment." The above two sentences must be taken from______.（A）Irving's story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow（B）James's story Daisy Miller（C）Faulkner's story A Rose for Emily（D）Hemingway's story Indian Camp83 Lots of people rushed to Gatsby's party at the weekend and they clustered around Gatsby's wealth like______.（A）gluttons（B）flies（C）insects（D）moths84 Chinese poetry and philosophy have exerted great influence over______.（A）Ralph Waldo Emerson（B）Emily Dickinson（C）Robert Frost（A）William Faulkner（B）Ernest Hemingway（C）F. Scott Fitzgerald（D）John Steinbeck86 Fitzgerald's fictional world is the best embodiment of the spirit of______.（A）the Jazz Age（B）the Romantic Period（C）the Renaissance Period（D）the Neoclassical Period87 Which of the following comments on the novel The Great Gatsby is NOT true?（A）The Great Gatsby is a novel that is set against the ending of the war.（B）Gatsby is wealthy but unintelligent and brutal.（C）Gatsby is a mystical figure whose intensity of dream partakes of a state of mind that embodies America itself.（D）Gatsby is the last of the romantic heroes.88 "Grace under pressure" is a major feature of______'s novel.（A）Theodore Dreiser（B）Ernest Hemingway（C）William Faulkner（D）Henry James89 Yank's sense of belonging nowhere, hence homeless and rootless. The Hairy Ape is thus a play that concerns the problem of modern man's______.（A）love。

2010年武汉大学英语专业(英美文学)真题试卷.doc

2010年武汉大学英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷(总分：24.00，做题时间：90分钟)一、填空题(总题数：4，分数：8.00)1.Two men fight a duel in the border region of England and Scotland and the loser causes more shame than pain to his aged father with his loss because his loss is considered not a loss of his own but a loss of the nation. Answer; " 1" by 2（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________2.With its hero traveling into different places with different companions the story discusses the features of each stage of human life. Answer; " 1" by 2（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________3.Lord Murchison tells of his love experience with a young woman who is mysterious in her actions. Answer; " 1" by 2（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________4.Arsat, after successfully running away with the woman of his ruler, is troubled deep at heart by the thought that he had left his brother in the midst of enemies to die. Answer; " 1" by 2（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________二、单项选择题(总题数：5，分数：10.00)5.In one sense ______ wrote all his life about one theme, which is neatly summed up in the famous phrase "grace under pressure" , and created one hero who acts that theme out.（分数：2.00）A.F. S. FitzgeraldB.Ernest HemingwayC.William FaulknerD.Sinclair Lewis6.The poetic style Walt Whitman devised is now called______, that is, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.（分数：2.00）A.free verseB.blank verseC.lyricD.epic7.America"s greatest playwright for the first half of the 20th century is ______.（分数：2.00）A.Arthur MillerB.Tennessee WilliamsC.Eugene O"NeillD.Edward Albee8.In the light of American ______, man is living in a cold, indifferent, and essentially Godless world, and is no longer free in any sense of the word.（分数：2.00）A.PuritanismB.RomanticismC.RealismD.Naturalism9.The term______mainly refers to those young American expatriate writers caught in the war and cut off from the old values and yet unable to come to terms with the new era after World War I when civilization had gone mad.（分数：2.00）A.The Beat GenerationB.The Lost GenerationC.postwar realistsD.local colorists三、分析题(总题数：3，分数：6.00)10.Based on The Waste Land, discuss the features of T. S. Eliot"s poetry and his contribution to Modernist literature.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 11.Give a summary of Mrs. Warren"s Profession and then briefly discuss Bernard Shaw"s social criticism through this play.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________12.Essay Question on American Literature.(20 points)" An innocent man in a different world" isa recurrent theme, and perhaps one of the most important themes, in American literature. Write a short essay on it by taking for example at least two American literary works, of whatsoever genres.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________。

[考研类试卷]英语专业（英美文学）模拟试卷5.doc

[考研类试卷]英语专业（英美⽂学）模拟试卷5.doc[考研类试卷]英语专业（英美⽂学）模拟试卷5⼀、填空题1 Walter Scott made a great contribution to English literature in______.2 Jane Austin's novels centered on _____and______.3 Shelley's famous______was borrowed from the Greek play.4 As a leading Romanticist, Byron's chief contribution is his creation of "______", a proud, mysterious rebel figure of noble origin.5 Modern essays originated from Montaigne's______, which were translated into English by Florio and had on extensive influence on English literature.6 The line "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" was held by______.7 The awful shadow of some unseen power, Floats though unseen amongst us, —visiting, This various world with as inconstant wing, As summer winds that creep from flower to flower. This excerpt is selected from______by______.8 John Keats wrote o number of famous odes. In one of them he declared his idea of beauty—beauty is truth and truth is beauty. The title of this famous ode is______.9 The Bonnets are speedily pronounced to be the luckiest family in the world, though only a few weeks before when Lydia had first run away, they had been generally proved to be marked out for misfortune. This quotation is selectedfrom______by______.10 ______'s grave bears the epitaph: "Here lies one whose name writ in water."11 ______, Breaking out of the narrow limits of local color fiction, described the breadth of American experience as no one had ever done before, or since.12 ______is the novel into which Jack London put most of himself.13 Crane's novel______relates the story of a good woman's downfall and destruction in a slum environment.14 Henry James's first novel is______, which failed to make him famous. In 1881, Henry James published his novel______, which is generally considered as his masterpiece.15 The protagonists of Trilogy of Desire,______, is modeled after the Chicago speculator Charles T. Yerkes.16 There was only one female prose writer in the 19th century. This was______.17 Emily Dickinson's poems have no______, hence are always quoted by their first lines.18 ______became Mark Twain's masterpiece, as Hemingway noted "all modern American literature comes".19 Henry James's The Ambassadors, The Golden Bowl and______are representing the summit of his art and he continues his "international theme" in his third writing career.⼆、名词解释20 Lake Poets21 Gothic novel22 Canto23 Ottava Rima24 High comedy25 Naturalism26 Regionalism27 Darwinism28 Local Colorists29 The Age of Realism三、单项选择题30 The declaration that "I know that This World is a World of IMAGINATION & Vision," and that "That Nature of my work is visionary or imaginative" belongs to which of the following poets?（A）George Gordon Byron（B）William Wordsworth（C）William Blake（D）Samuel Taylor Coleridge31 The tone of literature in Songs of Experience by William Blake is______.（A）utter（B）lively（C）plain（D）doleful32 The Romantic Period is an age of poetry. Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats are the major poets. They started a rebellion against the neoclassical literature, which was later regarded as______.（A）the poetic romance（B）the poetic movement（C）the poetic revolution（D）the poetic reformation33 "And where are they? And where art thou, My country? On thy voiceless shore The heroic lay is tuneless now— The heroic bosom beats no more!" These lines are taken from______.（A）Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights（B）F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby（C）George Gordon Byron's Don Juan（D）Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre34 Who wrote the poem Men of England!（A）Shelley.（B）Thomas Gray.（C）Walt Whitman.（D）T. S. Eliot.35 "Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep; There, swan-like, let me sing and die; A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine— Dash down yon cup of Samian wine!" These lines are takenfrom______.（A）Song for the Luddites by George Gordon Byron（B）The Solitary Reaper by William Wordsworth（C）Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray（D）The Isles of Greece by George Gordon Byron36 Which of the following comments on the poem Ode to the West Wind is NOT true? （A）The author of the poem is George Gordon Byron.（B）The poem is written in the form of terza rima.（C）The author gathers a wealth of symbolism in this poem.（D）In the poem, the author expresses his eagerness to enjoy the boundless freedom from the reality.37 In terms of Pride and Prejudice, which of the following statements is NOT true?（A）Pride and Prejudice is the most popular of Jane Austen's novels.（B）Pride and Prejudice is originally drafted as "First Impressions".（C）Pride and Prejudice is a tragic novel.（D）Pride and Prejudice is about marriage and love.38 Of the following writers, which is NOT the representative of the Romantic Period?（A）William Blake.（B）John Keats.（C）William Wordsworth.（D）John Bunyan.39 ______by William Blake marks his entry into maturity.（A）Songs of Innocence（B）Marriage of Heaven and Hell（C）Songs of Experience（D）Milton40 William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following EXCEPT______（A）the use of everyday language spoken by the common people（B）the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings（C）the use of humble and rustic life as subject matter（D）the use of elegant wording and inflated figures of speech41 Which of the following is taken from John Keats's Ode on a Grecian Urn?（A）I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!（B）They are both gone up to the church to pray.（C）Earth has not anything to show more fair.（D）Beauty is truth, truth beauty.42 Ode on a Grecian Urn shows the contrast between the______of art and the______of human passion.（A）glory ... ugliness（B）permanence ... transience（C）transience ... sordidness（D）glory... permanence43 Shelley's greatest achievement is his four-act poetic drama,______.（A）Antony and Cleopatra（B）Measure for Measure（C）Too True to Be Good（D）Prometheus Unbound44 ______expresses the contrast between the happy world of natural loveliness and human world of agony.（A）Ode on Melancholy（B）Ode to a Grecian Urn（C）Ode to a Nightingale（D）To Autumn45 ______is the most delightful of Jane Austen's works.（A）Sense and Sensibility（B）Pride and Prejudice（C）Emma（D）Mansfield Park46 The Romantic Movement expressed a more or less______attitude toward the existing social and political conditions.（A）positive（B）negative（C）neutral（D）indifferent47 It is______who established the cult of the individual and championed the freedom of human spirit.（A）Jean Jacques Rousseau（B）Edmund Burke（C）Thomas Paine（D）Johann Wolfgang von Goethe48 In Marriage of Heaven and Hell, the word "marriage", to Blake, means the______. （A）reconciliation of the contraries （B）subordination of the one to the other（C）co-existence of the conflicting parts（D）fighting of the conflicting parts49 In his poem, "The Chimney Sweeper"(from Songs of Experience), Blake depicted the miseries of the child sweepers in order to reveal the_____ of Christianity.（A）false ideals（B）true faith（C）magic power（D）great ideals50 "Adonais" is an elegy for______whose early death from tuberculosis Shelley believed had been hastened by hostile reviews.（A）John Keats（B）Alfred Tennyson（C）William Blake（D）George Gordon Byron51 "You and the girls may go, or you may send them by themselves, which perhaps will be still better, for as you are as handsome as any of them, Mr. Bingley might like you the best of the party." The above passage is taken from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. The figure of speech used here is______.（A）paradox（B）irony（C）simile（D）hyperbole52 In Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem Kubla Khan, "A sunny pleasure dome with caves of ice"______.（A）symbolizes the reconciliation of the conscious and the unconscious（B）is the gift given to a beautiful girl called Abyssinian（C）vividly describes a building of poor quality（D）refers to the place where Kubla Khan's father once lived53 Jane Austen presents most of the problems of the novel, Pride and Prejudice, from the______ viewpoint.（A）masculine（B）neutral（C）objective（D）feminine54 Shelley's______and The Cenci, Byron's______, and Coleridge's Remorse are generally regarded as the best verse plays in the Romantic Period.（A）Prometheus Unbound/ Mansfred（B）Waverley/ Cain（C）Cain/ Manfred（D）Prometheus Unbound/ Cain55 Generally speaking,______was a writer of the 18th century, though she lived mainly in the 19th century.（A）Mary Shelley（B）Ann Radcliffe（C）Jane Austen（D）George Eliot56 In the poem, She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways, Wordsworth writes: "A violet by a mossy stone / Half hidden from theeye!" The figure of speech used here is______.（A）simile（B）hyperbole（C）metaphor（D）personification57 According to the subjects, Wordsworth's short poems can be classified into two groups: poems about______and poems about______.（A）human life/ universe（B）nature/ human life（C）nature/ society（D）society/ universe58 "And because I am happy and dance and sing, / They think they have done me no injury, / And are gone to praise God and his priest and king, / Who make up a heaven of our misery." The above four lines are taken from______.（A）Songs of Experience（B）Songs of Innocence（C）Poetical Sketches（D）Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard59 Coleridge's actual achievement as a poet can be divided into two remarkably diverse groups: the demonic and the conversational. Which of the following poems belongs to the conversational group?（A）Kubla Khan.（B）Frost at Midnight.（C）Christabel.（D）The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.60 Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well-known for his______.（A）international theme（B）waste-land imagery（C）local color（D）symbolism61 ______is called by Hemingway the one from which "all modern American literature comes."（A）Adventures of Huckleberry Finn（B）The Adventures of Tom Sawyer（C）The Gilded Age（D）Life on the Mississippi62 Who exerts the single most important influence on literary naturalism, of which Theodore Dreiser and Jack London are among the best representative writers?（A）Freud.（B）Darwin.（C）W.D.Howells.（D）Emerson.63 Sister Carrie is a masterpiece of______writing.（A）naturalistic（B）romantic（C）classic（D）neo-classic64 Winterbourne is used as a______in Henry James's Daisy Miller.（A）protagonist（B）narrator of the events（C）a minor character（D）persona65 The novelistic technique of projecting the narrative through feelings and thoughts of the characters, reached a perfected form in the works of______.（A）William Dean Howells（B）Henry James（C）Washington Irving（D）Emily Dickinson66 In Henry James's Daisy Miller, the author tries to portray the young woman as an embodiment of______.（A）the force of convention（B）the free spirit of the New World（C）the decline of aristocracy（D）the corruption of the newly rich67 Which of the following writers is NOT the dominant figure of the Realistic Period in American literature?（A）Herman Melville.（B）William Dean Howells.（C）Henry James.（D）Mark Twain.68 Choose the novel that is NOT written by Henry James.（A）The Ambassadors:（B）The Wings of the Dove.（C）The Bostonians.（D）The Mysterious Stranger.69 Dickinson's poems include poems of______.（A）nature（B）love（C）death（D）all the above70 Emily Dickinson wrote many poems on various aspects of life. Which of the following is NOT a usual subject of her poetic expression?（A）Religion.（B）Life and death.（C）Love and marriage.（D）War and peace.71 ______ explores the scrupulous individualism in a world of fantastic speculation and unstable values, and gives its names to the get-rich-quick years of the post-Civil War era. （A）Innocents Abroad（B）The Gilded Age（C）Roughing It（D）The Middle Years72 The main theme of______The Art of Fiction reveals his literary credo that representation of life should be the main object of the novel.（A）Henry James'（B）Mark Twain's（C）Theodore Dreiser's（D）William Dean Howells'73 Which statement is NOT true in describing American naturalists?（A）They were deeply influenced by Darwinism（B）They were identified with French novelist and theorist Emile Zola（C）They chose their subjects from the lower ranks of society.（D）They used more serious and more sympathetic tone in writing than realists74 In Henry James's Daisy Miller, the "Americanness" in Daisy is revealed byher______.（A）vulgarity in language and taste（B）expensive jewels and clothes（C）lack of grace and patience（D）relatively unreserved manners75 ______, in his "McTeague", describes the relations of a crude dentist, who is compared to a draft-horse, a dog, a bear, with a superficially refined German-American girl.（A）Theodore Dreiser（B）Frank Norris（C）Henry James（D）Mark Twain76 _____ is an account of American tourists in Europe which pokes fun at the pretentious, decadent and undemocratic OldWorld in a satirical tone.（A）The Adventures of Tom Sawyer（B）Innocents Abroad（C）A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court（D）Roughing it77 The raft on which Huck and Jim float along the river in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn may symbolize all the following EXCEPT______.（A）spiritual freedom（B）escape from different sorts of social oppression（C）mobility and instability（D）a small society where people of different color can live like brothers78 Which of the following statements about Emily Dickinson is true?（A）Since she scarcely goes out of her house, she pays little attention to the outside world.（B）She prefers to explore the inner life of herself rather than the social one.（C）She is strongly influenced by Calvinism and has a firm belief in after-life.（D）She is not interested in love because she herself never gets married.79 Here are a few lines from a poem: "With Blue—uncertain stumbling Buzz— / Between the light— and me— / And then the Windows failed—and then /1 could not see to see— . The poem must be______.（A）Emily Dickinson's / heard a Fly buzz— when I died—（B）Edgar Allen Poe's Annabel Lee（C）Walt Whitman's Song of Myself（D）Robert Frost's After Apple-Picking80 Theodore Dreiser gives his novel the title of An American Tragedy mostly because______.（A）he tries to give an ironical meaning to the story（B）he attempts to reproduce an authentic trial fictionally（C）he is surprised that such tragedy should happen in America（D）it is the typical thing that can happen to an American in the pursuit of riches81 Theodore Dreiser's forgiving treatment of the career of his heroine in______also draws heavily upon the naturalistic understanding of sexuality.（A）McTeague（B）An American Tragedy（C）Sister Carrie（D）The Genius82 One of the characteristics that have made Mark Twain one of the major literary figures in the 19thcentury American literature is the use of______.（A）vernacular（B）interior monologue（C）point of view（D）photographic description83 Winterbourne is used as a narrator of the events in Henry James's______..（A）The American（B）Daisy Miller（C）The Turn of the Screw（D）The Wings of the Dove84 ______is described by Mark Twain as a boy with "a sound heart and a deformed conscience."（A）Tom Sawyer（B）Huckleberry Finn（C）Jim（D）Tony85 The Way of the Beaten: A Harp in the Wind this is the title of one chapter in Dreiser's novel______.（A）An American Tragedy（B）Sister Carrie（C）Dreiser Looks at Russia（D）Jannie Gerhardt86 The author of The Portrait of a Lady is best at ______.（A）probing into the secret part of human life（B）an incarnation of the clash between the Old World and the New in the life journey of an American girl in a European cultural environment（C）a truthful description of the motives, the impulses, the principles that shape the lives of actual men and women （D）disclosing the social injustices and evils of a civilized society after the Civil War87 During the period after the Civil War, the American society entered in what Mark Twain referred to as______.（A）the Golden Age（B）the Puritan Age（C）the Gilded Age。

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[考研类试卷]2010年首都师范大学英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷一、单项选择题1 Among the following plays, ______is NOT a comedy written by William Shakespeare. （A）A Midsummer Night's Dream（B）The Merchant of Venice（C）As You Like It（D）Macbeth2 "All is not lost, the unconquerable will,/And study of revenge, immoral hate,/And courage never to submit or yield,/And what is else not to be overcome?" are taken from the poem written by______.（A）William Shakespeare（B）John Donne（C）John Milton（D）John Keats3 The novel______launched Daniel Defoe on a new career as a novelist.（A）The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe（B）Captain Singleton（C）Moll Flanders（D）The Life and Adventures of Mr. Duncan Campbell4 Among the following works by William Blake, ______deals with evil, violence and emotion.（A）Song of Innocence（B）Song of Experience（C）The Marriage of Heaven and Hell（D）The Gates of Paradise5 That______is NOT true about William Wordsworth.（A）Wordsworth is one of the Lake Poets（B）he was made poet laureate by British Government in 1843（C）The Prelude can be read as a declaration of Romanticism（D）he believed that poetry "takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility"6 ______tells of the adversity of the orphan Pip that makes him discard his snobbishness. （A）Hard Times（B）A Tale of Two Cities（C）David Copperfield（D）Great Expectations7 Among the following works, ______was written by Emily Bronte.（A）Agnes Grey（B）The Professor（C）Wuthering Heights（D）Jane Eyre8 Virginia Woolf is known as a novelist and critic.______is NOT a novel of hers.（A）Mrs. Dalloway（B）To the Lighthouse（C）The Common Reader（D）The Waves9 ______depicts a picture of society in India under the British Raj, of the clash between East and West, and of the prejudice and misunderstanding.（A）Where Angels Feat to Tread（B）A Room with a View（C）A Passage to India（D）Howard's End10 ______is well known for depicting the absurdity of human conditions in the post-industrial society after World War II in his plays.（A）Samuel Beckett（B）George Bernard Shaw（C）Oscar Wilde（D）William Golding11 Yoknapatawpha County is often used as the background in the novels written by______.（A）William Faulkner（B）Isaac Bashevis Singer（C）Mark Twain（D）Katherine Anne Porter12 ______is NOT written by Toni Morrison.（A）The Bluest Eye（B）Beloved（C）The Color Purple（D）Paradise13 The narrator of The Great Gatsby is ______.（A）Gatsby（B）Nick（C）Daisy（D）Tom14 All the following works are written by Ernest Hemingway EXCEPT______. （A）A Farewell to Arms（B）The Sum Also Rises（C）The Sound and Fury（D）For Whom the Bell Tolls15 T. S. Eliot's______is a precise depiction of the state of culture and society after World War I and an illustration of the spiritual poverty of the West of the time.（A）The Waste Land（B）Four Quartets（C）The Sacred Wood（D）Homage to John Dryden16 All the following novels are written by Henry James EXCEPT______.（A）The American（B）The Portrait of a Lady（C）The Ambassadors（D）Innocents Abroad17 ______is written by Catherine Anne Porter.（A）Flowering Judas（B）A Rose for Emily（C）Everyday Use（D）Song of Solomon18 ______is regarded as "America's Declaration of Intellectual Independence".（A）Nature（B）The Conduct of Life（C）Society and Solitude（D）The American Scholar19 "When it comes, the landscape listens,/ Shadows hold their breath;/ When it goes, 'tis like the distance/ On the look of death. " are taken from Emily Dickinson's poem______. （A）There's Certain Slant of Light（B）Again His Voice Is at the Door（C）Success Is Counted Sweetest（D）I felt a Funeral, in My Brain20 "Where I lived, and What I Lived for" is taken from Thoreau's______.（A）A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers（B）Walden; or, Life in the Woods（C）The Maine Woods（D）Life Without Principle二、名词解释21 free verse22 tall tale23 Lost Generation24 Theatre of the Absurd25 Romanticism三、问答题25 I wandered lonely as a cloudThat floats on high o'er vales and hills,When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils,Beside the lake, beneath the trees,Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.26 Name the author of this poem.(1 point)27 What is the rhyme scheme of the stanza?(1 point)27 His smile was so easy, so friendly, that Laura recovered. What nice eyes he had, small, but such a dark blue! And now she looked at the others, they were smiling too. " Cheer up, we won't bite," their smile seemed to say. How very nice workmen were! And what a beautiful morning! She mustn't mention the morning; she must be business-like. The marquee.28 Name the title of the short story.(1 point)29 Comment on the writing techniques.(1 point)29 For the next eight or ten months, Oliver was the victim of a systematic course of treachery and deception. He was brought up by hand. The hungry and destitute situation of the infant orphan was duly reported by the workhouse authorities to the parish authorities. The parish authorities inquired with dignity of the workhouse authorities, whether there was no female then domiciled in " the house" who was in a situation to impart to Oliver Twist, the consolation and nourishment of which he stood in need. The workhouse authorities replied with humility, that there was not. Upon this, the parish authorities magnanimously and humanely resolved, that Oliver should be "farmed" or, in other words, that he should be dispatched to a branch-workhouse some three miles off, where twenty or thirty other juvenile offenders against the poor-laws, rolled about the floor all day, without the inconvenience of too much food or too much clothing, under the parental superintendence of an elderly female, who received the culprits at and for the consideration of sevenpence-halfpenny per small head per week. Sevenpence-halfpenny's worth per week is a good round diet for a child; a great deal may be got for sevenpence-halfpenny, quite enough to overload its stomach, and make it uncomfortable. The elderlyfemale was a woman of wisdom and experience; she knew what was food for children; and she had a very accurate perception of what was good for herself. So, she appropriated the greater part of the weekly stipend to her own use, and consigned the rising parochial generation to even a shorter allowance than was originally provided for them. Thereby finding in the lowest depth a deeper still; and proving herself a very great experimental philosopher.30 What is the title of the novel?(1 point)31 What is the effect of the irony used in the excerpt?(1 point)31 We were all at the hospital every afternoon, and there were different ways of walking across the town through the dusk to the hospital. Two of the ways were alongside canals, but they were long. Always, though, you crossed a bridge across a canal to enter the hospital. There was a choice of three bridges. On one of them a woman sold roasted chestnuts. It was warm, standing in front of her charcoal fire, and the chestnuts were warm afterward in your pocket. The hospital was very old and very beautiful, and you entered through a gate and walked across a courtyard and out a gate on the other side. There were usually funerals starting from the courtyard. Beyond the old hospital were the new brick pavilions, and there we met every afternoon and were all very polite and interested in what was the matter, and sat in the machines that were to make so much difference.32 Identify the author of the short story.(1 point)33 What is the theme of the short story?(1 point)33 There was music from my neighbor's house through the summer night. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft, or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motor-boats slit the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of foam. On weekends his Rolls-Royce became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city between nine in the morning and long past midnight, while his station wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug to meet all trains. And on Mondays eight servants, including an extra gardener, toiled all day with mops and scrubbing-brushes and hammers and garden - shears, repairing the ravages of the night before.34 From which novel is this excerpt taken?(1 point)35 What is the theme of the novel?(1 point)四、评论题36 Comment on the following excerpt and write a 100-word essay on it.(10 points) From Ralph Waldo Emerson's The American ScholarBooks are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst. What is the right use? What is the one end, which all means go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system. The one thing in the world of value is the active soul—the soul, free, sovereign, active. This every man is entitled to; this every man contains within him, although, in almost all men, obstructed, and as yet unborn. The soul active sees absolute truth; and utters truth, or creates. In this action, it is genius; not the privilege of here and there a favorite, but the sound estate of every man. In its essence, it is progressive. The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. This is good, say they,—let us hold by this. They pin me down. They look backward and not forward. But genius looks forward. The eyes of man are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead. Man hopes, genius creates. To create,—to create, —is the proof of a divine presence. Whatever talents may be if the man create not, the pure efflux of the Deity is not his;—cinders and smoke there may be, but not yet flame. There are creative manners, there are creative actions, and creative words; manners, actions, words, that is, indicative of no custom or authority, but springing spontaneous from the mind's own sense of good and fair.On the other part, instead of being its own seer, let it receive from another mind its truth, though it were in torrents of light, without periods of solitude, inquest, and self-recovery, and a fatal disservice is done. Genius is always sufficiently the enemy of genius by over influence. The literature of every nation bear me witness. The English dramatic poets have Shakspearized now for two hundred years.Undoubtedly there is a right way of reading, so it be sternly subordinated. Man Thinking must not be subdued by his instruments. Books are for the scholar's idle times. When he can read God directly, the hour is too precious to be wasted in other men's transcripts of their readings. But when the intervals of darkness come, as come they must,—when the sun is hid, and the stars withdraw their shining,—we repair to the lamps which were kindled by their way, to guide our steps to the East again, where the dawn is. We hear, that we may speak. The Arabian proverb says, "A fig tree, looking on a fig tree, becometh fruitful. "。

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语言学摸底测试题2010英语专业考研报考前语言学摸底测试题ⅠMultiple Choice (1×40 points)1.The choice of an allophones in a given phonetic context is ______.A. randomB. predictableC. variableD. independent2. Discovering procedures are practiced by ______.A. traditional grammarB. descriptive grammarC. TG grammarD. functi onal grammar3. According to Holiday, the three general functions of language are ______.A. ideational, interpersonal and referentialB. metalinguistic, interpersonal and textualC. ideational, interpersonal and textualD. ideational, informative and textual4.In the present day, the stability of ______ seems to be decreasing.A. tabooB. regional dialectC. idiolectD. social-class dialect5.The Indirect Speech Act was developed by ______.A. LevinsonB. John SearleC. John LyonsD. John Austin6.“Semantics is the scientific study of meaning” is a _______.A. polysemyB. tautologyC. synonymyD. antonymy7.Conceptual meaning is _____.A. affectiveB. associativeC. connotativeD. denotative8.The ______ construction is defined as a construction whose distribution is notfunctionally equivalent to any of its constitution.A. endocentricB. exocentricC. subordinateD. coordinate9.In English, theme and rheme are often expressed by _____ and ______.A. subject, objectB. subject, predicateC. predicate, objectD. object,predicate10.____ is a grammatical category used for the analysis ofword classes displaying such contrast as masculine/feminine/neuter, animate/inanimate, etc.A. CategoryB. NumberC. GenderD. Case11.A ______ is any morpheme of combination of morphemes to which an inflectional affix can be added.A. rootB. stemC. allomorphD. lexeme12.“Radar” is a/an ______.A. blendingB. coinageC. acronymD. clipping13.The function of the sentence “Water boils at 100 degree centigrade” is ______.A. interrogativeB. directiveC. informativeD. performative14.The argument that LAD works successfully only when it is stimulated at theright time, a specific and limited time period for language acquisition—is refe rred to as ______.A. the Whofian HypothesisB. the UG HypothesisC. the Critical Period HypothesisD. the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis15.B.F. Skinner is the chief exponent of ____.A. the interactional viewsB. the contextualist viewsC. the innatist viewsD. the behaviorist views16.The study of how language is learned is called _____.A. language acquisitionB. applied linguisticsC. pysholinguisticsD. pragmatics17.Among the following theories, which has nothing to do with child language acquisition?A. The contextualist views.B. The behaviorist views.C. The innatist views.D. The interationist views.18.Among the following English word, ______ is borrowed from American Indian language.A. squashB. algebraC. sopranoD. B2B19.The culture that is abstract, ambiguous and hidden refers to _____.A. folk cultureB. the products of natureC. what is born and growsD. spiritual culture20.In American English “a blue book”, the related association with “blue” are _____.A. high positionB. being aristocraticC. well-known namesD. sentimental content21.Among the following terms for the types of language, which is considered amore neutral terms?A. Speech varietyB. Standard languageC. non-standard languageD.Dialects22.What description is TRUE with standard dialect?A. It is a superimposed form above over the range of regional dialect.B. It is related to some particular group of language users in China.C. It is a socially prestigious dialect of a language, hence a sociolect.D. It is most correct in linguistic forms among all the language varieties to li nguists.23.The famous line “My love is a red, red rose” stirs up the imagination of a beautiful young lady. This is the ____ meaning.A. iconicB. denotativeC. connotativeD. cultural24.The following is the language used by two speakers A andB.A:I did it yesterday. B: I done it yesterday.He hasn’t got it. He ain’t got it.It was she that said it It was her what said it.From this we can infer that ______.A.And B have come from different regionsB. A and B display different linguistic skills and linguistic competenceC. A and B’s relative social status can roughly be estimatedD. A and B have learned different languages at school25.It is true that words may shift in meaning, i.e. semantic change. The semantic change of the word tail belong to _____.A. narrowing of meaningB. meaning shiftC. loss of meaningD. widening of meaning26.As late as the fifteen and sixteenth centuries, one could merely add not at the end of an affirmative sentence to negate it, as in I Love thee not. However,in modern English, people will say “I do not love you.” This shows change in _____.A. vocabularyB. agreement ruleC. negation ruleD. syntactic relations27.The following all show the syntactic relations EXCEPT_____A. positional relationB. relation of substitutabilityC. relation of cooccurrenceD. relation of words28.A: Mike is always lying.B: I hate that S-O-B!This conversation violates the maxim of _____.A. quantityB. relationC. qualityD. manner29.“You should spend more time on English” is a _____.A. representativeB. expressiveC. directiveD. declaration30.“For a large of class of cases… the mean ing of a word is its use in the language.” Is uttered by____.A. FirthB. OgdenC. WittgensteinD. Malinowski31.Which of the followings can be the same form shared by two homonyms?A. DeliciousB. TreeC. MineD. Beautiful32.Which of the following sentences cannot be generated by the prediction “JOHN(LEAVE)”?A. John is leaving for ShanghaiB. John has left.C. John, leave!D. John leaves.33.“Jack plays golf well” is inconsistent with _____.A. Golf is Jack’s favoriteB. Jack is so bad at playing golfC. Jack plays golf as well as basketballD. Jack gives up golf34.“Tommy’s hen laid an egg yesterday.” presupposes “_______”.A. Tommy had a henB. Tommy had a big henC. An egg was laid by Tommy’s henD. The egg is not a stone35.In the view of the naming theory, which of the meanings of the words can not be explained?A. RainB. CowC. GodD. Cattle36.____ is the essential and necessary element of a phrase.A. HeadB. complementC. SpecifierD. Modifier37.The underlined part in “You know that I hate war” is called a ______.A. matrixB. complement clauseC. complement phraseD. complement38.In forming a yes-no question, the position from which the auxiliary is movedand left empty is represented as a _____.A. headB. traceC. INFLD. specifier39.Which of thee following statement is NOT true?A.Derivation affixes are added to an existing from to created a new word.B. Phonetically, the stress of a compound always falls on the first element, while the second element receives secondary stress.C. Sometimes bound morphemes can stand by themselves.D. The meaning of a compound is often idiomatic40.The greatest source of modification of the air stream is found in the ______.A. oral cavityB. lungC. pharyngeal cavityD. nasal cavityⅡTrue or False Questions (3×15 points )Determine whether each of the following statement is true or false:1.Regardless of their ethnic and cultural background, children of all colors and societies follow roughly the same route/order of language, though they may differ in the rate of learning.2.An achievement t est assesses how much a learner has mastered the contents of a particular course.3.Generative grammar is system of rules that in some explicit and well-defined way assigns structural descriptions to sentences.4.In Hyme s’ view, the learner acquires knowledge of sentences not only asgrammatical but also as lexical.5.Linguistic competence is one variety of cultural-competence.6.Greek does not belong to Indo-European Language Family.7.The term Stream of Consciousness was originally coined by the philosopher William James in his Principle of Psychology to describe the free assoc iation of ideas and impressions in the mind.8.The Cooperative Principle, an important pragmaticprinciple proposed by P.Grice, aims to explain how speakers carry on communication cooperativel y in utterances.9. A sentence is a grammatical unit and a n utterance is a pragmatic notion.10.After comparing “They stopped at the end of the corridor” with “At the end of the corridor, they stopped”, you may find some difference in meanin g, and he difference can be interpreted in terms of collocative meaning.11.All bound morphemes are affixes.12.The words “water” and “teacher” have a commo n phoneme and a common morpheme as well.13.In the sound writing system, the reference of the grapheme is the phoneme.14.Aspiration is not a distinctive feature in English phonology.15.The reason for French to use cheval and for English to use horse to referto the same animal is inexplicable.ⅢShort Essay Questions (10×3 points)Answer the following three questions:1.How, in your opinion, does pragmatics differ from semantics?2.Study the passage taken from Shakespeare’s HAMLET and identify every difference inexpression between Elizabethan and Modern English that is evident.King: Where is Pelonius?Hamlet: In heaven, send thither to see.If your messenger find him not there,Seek him i’ the other place yourself.But indeed, if you find him not withinthis month, you shall nose him as yougo up the stairs into the lobby.Act IV. Scene iii3.Point out three ways in which modern linguistics differs from traditional grammar.ⅣDoes the constancy under negation test work as a means of finding the presuppositions of the following sentences? What are the presuppositions：(a) John regrets that he broke your computer.(b) The pregnant engineer went on a holiday.(c) His brother is bald. (15 points)ⅤDefine SYLLABUS, and describe the whole process of syllabus design wi th major links. (20pints)。

2010年天津外国语大学英语专业(英美文学)真题试卷.doc

2010年天津外国语大学英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷(总分：48.00，做题时间：90分钟)一、填空题(总题数：20，分数：40.00)1.The only organic whole poem to come out of the Anglo-Saxons period is 1, an example of the mingling of nature myths and heroic legends.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________2." A little learning is a dangerous thing/Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian sping," a famous quotation is from An Essay on Criticism written by 1, the high priest and magistrate of the Age of Reason.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________3.The 16th century in the history of English literature is viewed as a great period of Elizabethan drama, which witnessed the birth of two great playwrights; William Shakespeare and 1.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________4.John Bunyan, a village tinker, with his strength and sincerity inscribed his name in the English literary history by his famous work 1written in the old-fashioned, medieval form of allegory and dream.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________5.The famous English critic Mathew Arnold called the 18th century in Britain "an age of prose". In this period, no novelists were as popular and well known as 1.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________6.Joseph Addison and Sir Richard Steele are always remembered together because they started a journalistic tradition that is still alive in Britain and the United State. Their collaboration on a series of essays for the Taller and the 1strongly influenced 18th century English taste and opinion.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________7.Like Ibsen, 1was much concerned about the social problems of his time. His career as a dramatist began in 1892, when his first play 2was put on and turned out a success.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________8.Modernist writers such as James Joyce and Virginia Wolf approached the internal world of characters in their novels by the technique of "stream of consciousness" which means 1.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________9.According to historians of English literature, the First World War saw the start of a poetic revolution which was initiated by the imagist movement and the symbolist movement. The imagist movement was led by 1.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________10.The revolution of the British drama came in the decade following the ending of the World War II. The tremors in the post-war British theatre were caused by Samuel Beckett"s play 1.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________11.Edgar Allan Poe"s stories fall into two categories; 1and "tales of ratiocination".（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________12." The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister, is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me, and I to them. The waving of the boughs in the storm, is new to me and old. It takes me by surprise,and yet is not unknown. Its effect is like that of a higher thought or a better emotion coming over me, when I deemed I was thinking justly or doing right.Yet it is certain that the power to produce this delight, does not reside in 1, but in 2, or in a harmony of both. It is necessary to use these pleasures with great temperance. "（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________13.In Emily Dickinson"s poem Because I Could not Stop for Death, she uses personification to compare death to 1.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________14.In William Dean Howell"s 1, the burning of the house symbolizes the protagonist"s economic fall but he achieves his moral and ethical rise.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________15.Allen Ginsberg"s 1(1956), William S. Burroughs"s Naked Lunch(1959)and Jack Kerouac"s On the Road(1957)are considered to be the literary representatives of the 2of the 1950s.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________16.The Southern Renaissance was the reinvigoration of American Southern literature that began in the 1920s and 1930s with the appearance of, among others, novelist 1, playwright 2, short-story writer Katherine Anne Porter.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________17.The concept of "double consciousness" which has beeh widely employed in the literary criticism of ethnic American literatures originated from the enduring classic The Souls of Black Folk(1903) by 1.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________18.In 1by Arthur Miller, the main character 2"s determination to live up to his "American Dream" and only to seek material happiness takes his life.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________19. 1by J.D.Salinger reflects the moral crisis and disillusionment of the post-war American society.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________20."The suits on Wall Street walked off with most of our savings. " The figure of speech used in the sentence is 1.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________二、问答题(总题数：4，分数：8.00)21.Charles Lamb is sometimes called the Shakespeare of the English essay. Do you agree or disagree on the statement? Give details to support your argument.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 22.British romanticism is a very important literary trend in the history of the English literature. Scholars singled out six major poets in this period of time: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelly, Keats and Blake and constructed the basic notions of a unified Romanticism. What are the basic notions of Romanticism? Illustrate these notions of Romanticism with one or two examples.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 23.How do Ichabod Crane and Brom Bones in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow embody two different value systems?（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 24.Give the importance of mobility in the ideological underpinnings of America, it is hardly surprising to find that American literature has from its beginnings been"a literature of movement, of motion, its great icons the track through forest and superhighway. " Please name one novel from the canonical American literature to elaborate on the theme of mobility.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________。

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《英美文学选读》模拟试题（二）一、单项选择题1.D. Father and son in the medieval period, it is Chaucer alone who, for the first time in English literature, presented to us a comprehensive _____ picture of the English society of his time and created a whole gallery of valid _________ from all walks of life in his masterpiece “the Canterbury Tales”.A. visionary/womenB. romantic/menC. realistic/charactersD. natural/figures2.Humanism sprang from the endeavor to restore a medieval reverence for the antique authors and is frequently taken as the beginning of the Renaissance on its conscious, intellectual side, for the Greek and Roman civilization was based on the conception that man is the _____ of all things.A. measureB. kingC. loverD. rule3.Many people today tend to regard the play “The Merchant of Venice” as a satire of the hypocrisy of ___________ and their false standards of friendship and love, their cunning ways of pursuing worldliness and their unreasoning prejudice against _____.A. Christians/JewsB. Jews/ChristiansC. oppressors/oppressedD. people/Jews傳統的理論認為該劇的主題是褒揚安東尼奧Antonio與巴塞尼奧Bassanio之間的友誼，贊美鮑西婭Portia的完美:美貌，智慧與堅貞，並揭露了Jews--Shylock的貪婪與殘忍但是經曆了几個世紀對對Jews不會平的待遇,今天許多人將該劇的主題看作chritains的hypocrisy ,為追求世俗利益而不擇手段以及對Jews不公正的偏見補充閱讀1) Bassanio——Portia2) Antonio——ShylockThe traditional theme of the play is to praise the friendship betweem Antonio and Bassanio, to idealize Portia as a heroine of greate beaulity, wit and loyalty, and to expose the insatiable greed and brutality of the Jew. Tody, many people tend to regard the play as a satire of the christia ns’ hypocrisy and their false standards of frindship and love, their cunning way of pursuing worldliness(俗心, 俗气) and their unreasoning prejudice against Jews.4.Which of the following plays does not belong to Shakespeare’s great tragedies?A. Romeo and JulietB. King LearC. HamletD. Macbeth5.Which statement about the Elizabethan age is not true?A. It is the age of translation.B. It is the age of bourgeois revolutionC. It is the age of explorationD. It is the age of the protestant reformation. 新教改革Elizabthan age 是renaissance period6.Una in The Faerie Queene stands for ______.A. chastity 純潔B. holiness 神圣C. truthD. error補充閱讀1.《仙后》一部寓言(allegory), 人物象征意义与主题.The Faerie is an allegory.The Red-crosse Knight stands for St.George, the patron saint of England, and he also represent Holiness.A lovely Ladie, virgin Una, symbolizes the thruth or the true faith of religion.A milke white lambe reprents the God.Dragon and infernall feend refer the Satan 惡魔The theme is not “Arms and the man,” but something more romantic—“fiece warres and faithful loves”.7._____ first make blank verse the principle instrument of English drama.A. ShakespeareB. WyattC. SidneyD. MarloweThe passionate Sheherd to his loveDr Fauctus馬洛的藝朮成就在於他完善了無韻體詩，並使之成為英國戲劇中最主要的文體形式8.“The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune” is an example of _____.A. allegoryB.simileC. metaphorD. irony9.In “Not only sole, but on thy soul, harsh Jew, /Thou mak’st thy knife keen”, Gratiano (a character in The Merchant of Venice) uses a rhetorical device called _____.A. hyperboleB. homonymC. paradoxD. pun10.In The Faerie Queene Spenser impresses us with his skillful blending of religious and historical _____ with chivalric _____.A. symbolism … lyricismB. allegory … romanceC. eleg y … narrativeD. personification … ironyton’s paradise Lost took its material from ______.A. the BibleB. Greek mythC. Roman mythD. French romance12.Christopher Marlowe wrote all the following plays except _____.A. Tamburlaine the Great 帖木兒B. The Jew or Malta 馬耳他島的JewC. Cymbeline ---辛白林，ShakespeareD. The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus13.Which of the following plays by Shakespeare is NOT a comedy?A. The Merchant of VeniceB. A Midsummer Night’s Dream仲夏之夜C. As You like It皆大欢喜D. The dactyl 是古代希腊的著名的悲剧(恰恰是'史诗的诗歌')，英文名字是"The Odyssey". Homer写的,800-600 BC左右14._____ is the most common foot in English poetry.A. The iamb 抑楊格短長格B. The anapestC. The trocheeD. The dactyl15.“In a dream vi sion, Arthur witnessed the loveliness of Gloriana, and upon awakening resolves to seek her.” The two literary figures “Arthur” and “Gloriana” are from ______.A. The Fairie QueeneB. Remeo and JulietC. Dr. FaustusD. Paradise Lost仙后格勞麗安娜，所有12個英雄就是按照她的旨意，從她的宮殿出發，踏上各自的曆險征程的，而一號主角Arthur 亞瑟王子的任務就是尋找仙后，他本人已在夢中與仙后墜入情網16.In “Sonnet 18”, William Shakespeare _____.A. meditates on man’s mortality.B. eulogizes the power of artistic creationC. satirizes human vanityD. presents a dream vision17.The 18th century witnessed that in England there appeared two political parties, _____, which were satirized by Swift in his “Gulliver’s Travels.”A. the Whigs and ToriesB. the Senate and the House of RepresentativeC. the upper House and lower HouseD. the House of Lords and the House of Commons18._____ compiled the “The Dictionary of the English language” which became the foundation of all the subsequent English dictionaries.A. Ben JohnsonB. Samuel JohnsonC. Alexander PopeD. John DrydenSamuel Johnson:Neoclassical period---to the Right Honorable the Earl of Chesterfield19.The publication of “______” marked the beginning of Romantic Age.A. Don JuanB. the Rime of the Ancient MarinerC. The Lyrical BalladsD. Queen Mab20.In 1805, Wordsworth completed a long autobiographical poem entitled “_____”.A. Biographic literaryB. The Prelude 序曲C. Lucy PoemsD. The Lyrical Ballads序曲的創作始於1790年，1805年，經曆了大幅度的修改於1850年在作者去世后發表,許多評論家將序曲看作wordsworth最偉大的作品21.Which is Shelley’s masterpiece?A. Queen MabB. Prometheus UnboundC. Prometheus BoundD. The Revolt of Islam22.Whi ch is Shelley’s work of literary criticism?A. An Essay on criticismB. A Defence of Poetry 詩辨C. On the Necessity of AtheismD. Of studies23.In the 19th century English literature, a new literary trend ______ appeared and it flourished in the forties and in the early fifties.A. RomanismB. naturalismC. realismD. critical realism---victorian period Dickens Eliot等24.The greatest English critical realist novelist was _____, who criticized the bourgeois civilization and showed the misery of the common people.A. William Makepeace ThackerayB. Charles DickensC. charlotte BronteD. Emily DickinsonDickens 是偉大的批判理實主義作家，他以揭露評擊社會的不公，虛偽，腐敗為已任他的大部分作品，包含那些一時靈感驅動的創作，都扎根在他深入了解的城市小資產階級生活中。

[考研类试卷]2010年北京第二外国语学院英语专业(英美文学)真题试卷.doc

[考研类试卷]2010年北京第二外国语学院英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷一、单项选择题1 Sonnet in English poetry contains______.（A）four lines（B）a couplet（C）fourteen lines（D）a terza rima2 Francis Bacon, one of the most important British essayists, was active in the______.（A）Middle Age（B）Anglo-Saxon Period（C）English Renaissance（D）Victoria Age3 ______, whose name comes from Greek words meaning "no place" , is written by Thomas More to name his ideal society.（A）Utopia（B）Shangrila（C）News from Nowhere（D）Wonderland4 Of the following writers who is NOT a poet in English Renaissance? ______.（A）William Shakespeare（B）Robert Burns（C）Edmund Spenser（D）John Milton5 ______founded a new school of poetry by the name of metaphysical school. （A）John Smith（B）John Bunyan（C）John Milton（D）John Donne6 Modern English novel arose in the______century.（A）16th（B）17th（C）18th（D）19th7 Don Juan is______'s poetic drama with the material taken from Biblical stories. （A）Byron（B）Shelley（C）Wordsworth（D）Coleridge8 In 1878,______moved to London. His lifestyle and humorous wit made him soon spokesman for Aestheticism, the late 19th century movement in England that advocated art for art's sake.（A）Walter Scott（B）Oscar Wilde（C）Robert Browning（D）Alfred Tennyson9 ______belongs to "stream of consciousness" school.（A）Virginia Woolf（B）Thomas Wolfe（C）Somerset Maugham（D）Thomas Hardy10 American Colonial literature is longer than any other literary period, which started when the first settlers kept diaries and sermons and developed till______.（A）the mid of 18th C.（B）early 17th C.（C）the end of 17th C.（D）the end of 18th C.11 "Oh Captain! My Captain!" is Whitman's mourning poem to______.（A）Martin Luther King（B）utilitarian（C）New England transcendentalism（D）Abraham Lincoln12 Of the following writers______is not influenced by naturalistic writing. （A）Theodore Dreiser（B）Stephen Crane（C）Isaac Singer（D）Frank Norris13 F. S. Fitzgerald is NOT the writer of______.（A）The Great Gatsby（B）The Last Tycoon（C）As I Lay Dying（D）Tender Is the Night14 ______addressed Ernest Hemingway and his peers as "the lost generation". （A）Gertrude Stein（B）William Dean Howells（C）Sherwood Anderson（D）Henry James15 The author of Long Day's Journey into Night also wrote______.（A）Death of a Salesman（B）The Hairy Ape（C）A Streetcar Named Desire（D）Looking Back in Anger二、名词解释16 American Transcendentalism(3 points)17 The Southern Renaissance(3 points)18 The Beat Generation(3 points)三、分析题18 When Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house, which no one save an old manservant—a combined gardener and cook—had seen in at least ten years.It was a big, squarish frame house and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome style of the seventies, set on what had once been our most select street. But garages and cotton gins had encroached and obliterated even the august names of that neighborhood; only Miss Emily's house was left, lifting its stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton wagons and the gasoline pumps— an eyesore among eyesores. And now Miss Emily had gone to join the representatives of those august names where they lay in the cedar-bemused cemetery among the ranked and anonymous graves of Union and confederate soldiers who fell at the battle of Jefferson(the Town of Jefferson).Alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of heredity obligation upon the town, dating from that day in 1894 when Colonel Sartoris invented an involved tale to the effect that Miss Emily's father had loaned money to the town, which the town, as a matter of business, preferred this way of repaying. Only a man of Colonel Sartoris' generation and thought could have invented it, and only a woman could have believed it. This section above is an excerpt from William Faulkner's short story A Rose for Emily.Please answer the following questions according to the excerpt:19 What is the town people's response toward Emily's death and what's the reason for that? Use your own words to give an illustration.(3 points)20 These paragraphs typically show Faulkner's major concern in literary writing. Please explain Faulkner's literary concern in general with one representative work except this short story.(4 points)21 In the 3rd paragraph, Miss Emily is referred to as "a tradition". What does this tradition mean? When the paragraph ends with the sentence " Only a man of Colonel Sartoris' generation and thought could have invented it, and only a woman could have believed it" , what information does the writer want to give to his readers?(4 points)。

2010年北京外国语大学英语专业(英美文学)真题试卷.doc

2010年北京外国语大学英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷(总分：28.00，做题时间：90分钟)一、匹配题(总题数：1，分数：20.00)AuthorsA. Henry David Thoreau B. William Wordsworth C. Charles DickensD. Alexander Pope E. Francis Bacon F. Charlotte BronteG. Percy Bysshe Shelley H. Robert Frost I. Mark TwainJ. William Shakespeare K. Nathaniel Hawthorne L. Ralph W. EmersonM. William Blake（分数：20.00）(1).Whoso would be a man must be a non-conformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (2).It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a nigger —but I done it, and I warn"t ever sorry for it afterwards, neither. I didn"t do him no more mean tricks, and I wouldn"t done that one if I"d a knowed it would make him feel that way.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (3).While arranging my hair, I looked at my face in the glass and felt it was no longer plain; there was hope in its aspect and life in its colour; and my eyes seemed as if they had beheld the fount of fruition and borrowed beams from the lustrous ripple. I had often been unwilling to look at my master, because I feared he could not be pleased at my look: but I was sure I might lift my face to his now, and not cool his affection by its expression.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (4).Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (5).Some say the world will end in fire,Some say in ice.From what I"ve tasted of desire,I hold with those who favor fire.But if it had to perish twice,I think I know enough of hateTo say that for destruction iceIs also greatAnd would suffice.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (6).I wander thro" each charter"d street,Near where the charter"d Thames does flow,And mark in every face I meetMarks of weakness, marks of woe.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (7).Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is;What if my leaves are falling like its own!The tumult of thy mighty harmoniesWill take from both a deep, autumnal tone,Sweet though in sadness. Be thou, Spirit fierce,My spirit! Be thou me, impetuous one!（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (8).Another thing in Joe that I could not understand when it first began to develop itself, but which I soon arrived at sorrowful comprehension of, was this: As I became stronger and better, Joe became a little less easy with me.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (9).All Nature is but art, unknown to thee;All chance, direction, which thou canst not see;All discord, harmony not understood;All partial evil, universal good;And, spite of pride, in erring reason"s spite,One truth is clear; whatever is, is right.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (10).The grass-plot before the jail, in Prison Lane, on a certain summer morning, not tell than two centuries ago, was occupied by a pretty large number of the inhabitants of Boston, all with their eyes intently fastened on the iron-clamped oaken door. Amongst any other population, orat a later period in the history of New England, the grim rigidity that petrified the bearded physiognomies of these good people would have augured some awful business in hand.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 二、分析题(总题数：1，分数：8.00)The Enormous RadioJim and Irene Westcott were the kind of people who seem to strike that satisfactory average of income, endeavor, and respectability that is reached by the statistical reports in college alumni bulletins. They were the parents of two young children, they had been married nine years, they lived on the twelfth floor of an apartmenthouse near Sutton Place, they went to the theater on an average of 10.3 times a year, and they hoped someday to live Westchester. Irene Westcott was a pleasant, rather plain girl with soft brown hair, and a wide, fine forehead upon which nothing at all had been written, and in the cold weather she wore a coat of fitch skins dyed to resemble mink. You could not say that Jim Westcott looked younger than he was, but you could at least say of him that he seemed to feel younger. He wore his graying hair cut very short, he dressed in the kind of clothes his class had worn at Andover, and his manner was earnest, vehement, and intentionally naive. The Westcotts differed from their friends, their classmates, and their neighbors, only in an interest they shared in serious music. They went to a great many concerts —although they seldom mentioned this to anyone— and they spent a good deal of time listening to music on the radio.Their radio was an old instrument, sensitive, unpredictable, and beyond repair. He promised to buy flrene a new radio, and on Monday when he came home from work he told her that he had got one. He refused to describe it, and said it would be a surprise for her when it came.The radio was delivered at the kitchen door the following afternoon, and with the assistance of her maid and the handyman Irene uncrated it and brought it into the living room. She was struck at once with the physical ugliness of the large gumwood cabinet. Irene was proud of her living room, she had chosen its furnishings and colors as carefully as she chose her clothes, and now it seemed to her that her new radio stood among her intimate possessions like an aggressive intruder. She was confounded by the number of dials and switches on the instrument panel, and she studied them thoroughly before she put the plug into a wall socket and turned the radio on. The deals flooded with a malevolent green light, and in the distance she heard the music of a piano quintet. The quintet was in the distance for only an instant; it bore down upon her with a speed greater than light and filled the apartment with the noise of music amplified so mightily that it knocked a china ornament from a table to the floor. She rushed to the instrument and reduced the volume. The violent forces that were snared in the ugly gumwood cabinet made her uneasy. Her children came home from school then, and she took them to the park. It was not until later in the afternoon that she was able to return to the radio.The maid had given the children their suppers and was supervising their baths when Irene turned on the radio, reduced the volume, and sat down to listen to a Mozart quintet that she knew and enjoyed. The music came through clearly. The new instrument had a much purer tone, she thought, than the old one. She decided that tone was most important and that she could conceal the cabinet behind the sofa. But as soon as she had made her peace with the radio, the interference began. A crackling sound like the noise of a burning powder fuse began to accompany the singing of the strings. Beyond the music, there was a rustling that reminded Irene unpleasantly of the sea, and as the quintet progressed, these noises were joined by many others. She tried all the dials and switches but nothing dimmed the interference, and she sat down, disappointed and bewildered, and tried to trace the flight of the melody. The elevator shaft in her building ran beside the living-room wall, and it was the noise of the elevator that gave her a clue to the character of the static. The rattling of the elevator cables and the opening and closing of the elevator doors, were reproduced in her loudspeaker, and, realizing that the radio was sensitive to electrical currents of all sorts, she began to discern through the Mozart the ringing of telephone bells, the dialing of phones, and the lamentation of a vacuum cleaner. By listening more carefully, she was able to distinguish doorbells, elevator bells,electric razors, and Waring mixers, whose sounds had been picked up from the apartments that surrounded hers and transmitted through her loudspeaker. The powerful and ugly instrument, with its mistaken sensibility to discord, was more than she could hope to master, so she turned the thing off and went into the nursery to see her children.When Jim came home that night, he was tired, and he took a bath and changed his clothes. Then he joined Irene in the living room. He had just turned on the radio when the maid announced dinner, so he left it on, and Irene went to the table.Jim was too tired to make even pretense of sociability, and there was nothing about the dinner to hold Irene"s interest, so her attention wandered from the food to the deposits of silver polish on the candlesticks and from there to the music in the other room. She listened for a few minutes to a Chopin prelude and then was surprised to hear a man"s voice break in. " For Christ"s sake, Kathy," he said, "do you always have to play the piano when I get home?" The music stopped abruptly. "It"s the only chance I have," the woman said. " So am I," the man said. He added something obscene about an upright piano, and slammed a door. The passionate and melancholy music began again."Did you hear that?" Irene asked."What?" Jim was eating his dessert."The radio. A man said something while the music was still going on-something dirty. ""It"s probably a play. ""I don"t think it is a play," Irene said.They left the table and took their coffee into the living room. Irene asked Jim to try another station. He turned the knob. "Have you seen my garters?" A man asked. "Button me up," a woman said. "Have you seen my garters?" the man said again. "Just button me up and I"ll find your garters," the woman said. Jim shifted to another station. " I wish you wouldn"t leave apple cores in the ashtrays," a man said. " I hate the smell. ""This is strange," Jim said."Isn"t it?" Irene said.Jim turned the knob again. "On the coast of Coromandel where the early pumpkins blow," a woman with a pronounced English accent said, " in the middle of the woods lived the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo. Two old chairs, and half a candle, one old jug without a handle...""My God!" Irene cried. "That"s the Sweeneys" nurse. ""These were all his worldly goods, " the British voice continued."Turn that thing off," Irene said. "Maybe they can hear us. " Jim switched the radio off. "That was Miss Armstrong, the Sweeneys" nurse," Irene said. " She must be reading to the little girl. They live in 17-B. I"ve talked with Miss Armstrong in the park. I know her voice very well. We must be getting other people"s apartments. ""That"s impossible," Jim said."Well, that was the Sweeneys" nurse," Irene said hotly. "I know her voice. I know it very well. I"m wondering if they can hear us. "Jim turned the switch. First from a distance and then nearer, nearer, as if borne on the wind, came the pure accents of the Sweeneys" nurse again: " Lady Jingly! Lady Jingly!" she said, " sitting where the pumpkins blow, will you come and be my wife, said the Yonggy-Bonggy-Bo..."Jim went over to the radio and said " Hello" loudly into the speaker."I am tired of living singly, " the nurse went on, "on this coast so wild and shingly, I"m a-weary of my life; if you"ll come and be my wife, quite serene would be my life...""I guess she can"t hear us," Irene said. "Try something else. "Jim turned to another station, and the living room was filled with the uproar of a cocktail party that had overshot its mark. Someone was playing the piano and singing the " Whiffenpoof Song," and the voices that surrounded the piano were vehement and happy. " Eat some more sandwiches," a woman shrieked. There were screams of laughter and a dish of some sort crashed to the floor."Those must be the Fullers, in 11-E," Irene said. "I knew they were giving a party this afternoon. I saw her in the liquor store. Isn"t this too divine? Try something else. See if you can get those people in 18-C. "The Westcotts overheard that evening a monologue on salmon fishing in Canada, a bridge game, running comments on home movies of what had apparently been a fortnight at Sea Island, and a bitter family quarrel about an overdraft at the bank. They turned off their radio at midnight and went to bed, weak with laughter.The following morning, Irene cooked breakfast for the family—the maid didn"t come up from her room in the basement until—she braided her daughter"s hair, and waited at the door until her children and her husband had been carried away in the elevator. Then she went into living room and tried the radio. "I don"t want to go to school," a child screamed. "I hate school.I won"t go to school. I hate school. " "You will go to school," an enraged woman said. "We paid eight hundred dollars to get you into that school and you"ll go if it kills you. " The next number on the dial produced the worn record of the " Missouri Waltz. " Irene shifted the control and invaded the privacy of several breakfast tables. She overheard demonstrations of indigestion, carnal love, abysmal vanity, faith, and despair. Irene"s life was nearly as simple and sheltered as it appeared to be, and the forthright and sometimes brutal language that came from the loudspeaker that morning astonished and troubled her. She continued to listen until her maid came in. Then she turned off the radio quickly, since this insight, she realized, was a furtive one.Irene had a luncheon date with a friend that day, and she left her apartment a little after twelve.Irene had two Martinis at lunch, and she looked searchingly at her friend and wondered what her secrets were. They had intended to go shopping after lunch, but Irene excused herself and went home. She told the maid that she was not to be disturbed; then she went into the living room, closed the doors, and switched on the radio. She heard, in the course of the afternoon, the halting conversation of a woman entertaining her aunt, the hysterical conclusion of a luncheon party, and hostess briefing her maid about some cocktail guests. " Don"t give the best Scotch to anyone who hasn"t white hair, "the hostess said. "See if you can get rid of the liver paste before you pass those hot things, and could you lend me five dollars? I want to tip the elevator man. "As the afternoon waned, the conversations increased in intensity. From where Irene sat, she could see the open sky above the East River. There were hundreds of clouds in the sky, as though the south wind had broken the winter into pieces and were blowing it north, and on her radio she could hear the arrival of cocktail guests and the return of children and businessmen from their schools and offices. "I found a good-sized diamond on the bathroom floor this morning," a woman said. "It must have fallen out of the bracelet Mrs. Dunston was wearing last night. " "We"ll sell it,"a man said. "Take it down to the jeweler on Madison Avenue and sell it. Mrs. Dunston won"t know the difference, and we could use a couple of hundred bucks..." "Oranges and lemons, say the bells of St. Clement"s" the Sweeneys" nurse sang. "Half-pence and farthings, say the bells of St. Martin"s. When will you pay me? Say the bells at old Bailey..." "It"s not a hat," a woman cried, and at her back roared a cocktail party. "It"s not a hat, it"s a love affair. That"s what Walter Florell said. He said it"s not a hat, it"s a love affair," and then, in a lower voice, the same woman added, "Talk to somebody, for Christ"s sake, honey, talk to somebody. If she catches you standing here not talking to anybody, she"ll take us off her invitation list, and I love these parties. "Jim came home at about six the next night. Emma, the maid, let him in, and he had taken off his hat and was taking off his coat when Irene ran into the hall. Her face was shining with tears and her hair was disordered. "Go up to 16-C, Jim!" she screamed. "Don"t take off your coat. Go up to 16-C. Mr. Osborn"s beating his wife. They"ve been quarreling since four o"clock, and now he is hitting her. Go up there and stop him. "From the radio in the living room, Jim heard screams, obscenities, and thuds. "You know you don"t have to listen to this sort of thing," he said. He strode into the living room and turned the switch. "It"s indecent," he said. "It"s like looking into windows. Yow know you don"t have to listen to this sort of thing. You can turn it off." Oh, it"s so terrible, it"s so dreadful, " Irene was sobbing. I"ve been listening all day, and it"s so depressing."Well, if it"s so depressing, why do you listen to it? I brought this dammed radio to give you some pleasure," he said. "I paid a great deal of money for it. I thought it might make you happy. I wanted to make you happy. ""Don"t, don"t, don"t, don"t quarrel with me," she moaned, and laid her head on his shoulder. "All the others have been quarreling all day. Everybody"s been quarreling. They"re all worried about money. Mrs. Hutchinson"s mother is dying of cancer in Florida and don"t have enough money to send her to the Mayo Clinic. At least, Mr. Hutchinson says they don"t have enough money. And some woman in this building is having an affair with the handyman—with that hideous handyman. It"s too disgusting. And Mrs. Melville has heart trouble, and Mr. Hendricks is going to lose his job in April and Mrs. Hendricks is horrid aboutthewhole thing and that girl that plays the "Missouri Waltz" is a whore, a common whore, and the elevator man has tuberculosis and Mr. Osborn has been beating his wife. " She wailed, she trembled with grief and checked the stream of tears down her face with the heel of her palm."Well why do you have to listen?" Jim asked again. "Why do you have to listen to this stuff if it makes you miserable?""Oh, don"t, don"t, don"t" she cried. "Life is too terrible, too sordid and awful. But we"ve never been like that, have we, darling? Have we? I mean, we"ve always been good and decent and loving to one another, haven"t we? And we have two children, two beautiful children. Our lives aren"t sordid, are they, darling? Are they?" She flung her arms around his neck and drew his face down to hers. "We"re happy, aren"t we, darling? We are happy, aren"t we?"" Of course we"re happy," he said tiredly. He began to surrender his resentment. " Of course we are happy. I"ll have that dammed radio fixed or taken away tomorrow. " He stroked her soft hair. "My poor girl, " he said."You love me, don"t you? "She asked. "And we"re not hypercritical or worried about money or dishonesty, are we?""No, darling," he said.A man came in the morning and fixed the radio. Irene turned it on cautiously and was happy to hear a California-wine commercial and a recording of Beethoven"s Ninth Symphony, including Schiller"s "Ode to Joy. " She kept the radio on all day and nothing untoward came toward the speaker.A Spanish suite was being played when Jim came home. "Is everything all right?" he asked. His face was pale, she thought. They had some cocktails and went to dinner to the "Anvil Chorus" from 77 Trovatore. This was followed by Debusy"s "La Mer. ""I paid the bill for the radio today," Jim said. "It cost four hundred dollars. I hope you"ll get some enjoyment out of it. "" Oh, I"m sure I will," Irene said."Four hundred dollars is a good deal more than I can afford," he went on. "I wanted to get something that you"d enjoy. It"s the last extravagance we"ll indulge in this year. I see that you haven"t paid your clothing bills yet. I saw them on your dressing table. " He looked directly at her. "Why did you tell me you"d paid them? Why did you lie to me?"I just didn"t want you to worry, Jim," she said. She drank some water. "I"ll be able to pay my bills out of this month"s allowance. There were the slipcovers last month, and that party. "" You"ve got to learn to handle the money I give you a little more intelligently, Irene," he said. "You"ve got to understand that we don"t have as much money this year as we had last. I had a very sobering talk with Mitchell today. No one is buying anything. We"re spending all of our time promoting new issues, and you know how long that takes. I"m. not getting any younger you know. I"m thirty-seven. My hair will be gray next year. I haven"t done as well as I hoped to do. And I don"t suppose things will get any better. ""Yes, dear," she said."We"ve got to start cutting down," Jim said. "We"ve got to think of the children. To be perfectly frank with you, I worry about money a great deal. I"m not at all sure of the future. No one is. If anything should happen to me, there"s the insurance, but that won"t go very far today. I"ve worked awfully hard to give you and the children a comfortable life," he said bitterly. "I don"t like to see all of my energies, all of my youth, wasted in fur coast and radios and slipcovers and—""Please Jim," she said. "Please. They"ll hear us. ""Who"ll hear us? Emma can"t hear us. ""The Radio. ""Oh, I"m sick! "He shouted. " I"m sick to death of your apprehensiveness. The radio can"t hear us. Nobody can hear us. And what if they can hear us? Who cares?"Irene got up from the table and went into the living room. Jim went to the door and shouted at her from there. "Why are you so Christly all of a sudden? What"s turned you overnight into a convent girl? You stole your mother"s jewelry before they probated her will. You never gave your sister a cent of that money that was intended for her—not even when she needed it. You made Grace Howland"s life miserable, and where was all your piety and your virtue when you went to that abortionist? I"ll never forget how cool you were. You packed your bag and went off to have that child murdered as if you were going to Nassau. If you"d had any reasons, if you"d had any good reasons—"Irene stood for a minute before the hideous cabinet, disgraced and sickened, but she held her hand on the switch before she extinguished the music and the voices, hoping the instrument might speak to her kindly, that she might hear the Sweeney"s nurse. Jim continued to shout at her from thedoor. The voice on the radio was suave and noncommittal. " An early morning railroad disaster in Tokyo," the loudspeaker said, "killed twenty-nine people. A fire in a Catholic hospital near Buffalo for the care of blind children was extinguished early this morning by nuns. The temperature is forty-seven. The humidity is eighty-nine. "（分数：8.00）(1).Summarize the plot of the following story in your own words.(30 points)（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (2).Define the major theme of the following short story.(40 points)（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (3).Make a brief comment on the characterization of the man and his wife.(30 points)（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (4).Comment on the ending part of the story.(20 points)（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________。

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[考研类试卷]英语专业（英美文学）模拟试卷2一、填空题1 The Elizabethan______, in its totality, is the real mainstream of the English Renaissance.2 ______is the essence of the Renaissance.3 Among the works by John Milton,______is indeed the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf.4 John Donne's famous analogy of parting lovers to a drawing compass provides a prime example of______.5 ______, the first of the great tragedies, is generally regarded as Shakespeare's most popular play on the stage.6 A stanza of nine lines, with the first eight lines in iambic pentameter and the last line in iambic hexameter, rhyming ababbcbcc is called______.7 ______refer to a group of scholars during the Elizabethan Age who graduated from either Oxford or Cambridge. They came to London with the ambition to become professional writers. Some of them later became famous poets and playwrights.8 ______is acclaimed as "the poets' poet" in English literature.9 ______is the most popular of Bacon's essays.10 The Pilgrim's Progress is John Bunyan's masterpiece. It is the most successful religious______.11 _____ was the first American to achieve an international literary reputation in the American literary history.12 The Romantic Period of American literature started with the publication of Washington living's ______and ended with Whitman's Leaves of Grass.13 ______was the "Great Commoner of Mankind", son of a nominal Quaker of Thetford, England.14 As a poet,______heralded American literary independence, his close observation of nature distinguished his treatment of indigenous wild life and other native American subjects.15 ______by Cooper was a rousing tale about espionage against the British during the Revolutionary War.16 In their order of events, the novels in the Leatherstocking Tales are______,______, ______,______and______.二、名词解释17 the poets' poet18 Metaphysical poetry19 sonnet20 blank verse21 University Wits22 New England poets23 Theme24 Symbol25 American Puritanism26 Symbolism三、单项选择题27 The first and second parts of Henry IV are undoubtedly the most widely read among Shakespeare's history plays. Shakespeare presents the______spirit in it.（A）patriotic（B）pessimistic（C）optimistic（D）ironic28 The Merchant of Venice takes a step forward in its realistic presentation of human nature and human conflict. All the following characters are all from the play EXCEPT______.（A）Nick Adams（B）Portia（C）Bassanio（D）Antonio29 Crafty men contempt studies, simple men admire them, and wise men______them. （A）make（B）use（C）respect（D）hate30 The lines "Death, be not proud, though some have called thee/Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so…" are found in______.（A）William Wordsworth's writings（B）John Keat's writings（C）John Donne's writings（D）Percy Bysshe Shelley's writings31 The following comments on Shakespeare's great works are true EXCEPT ______（A）The successful romantic comedy is Romeo and Juliet, which eulogizes the faithfulness of love and the spirit of pursuing happiness.（B）Hamlet, the first of the great tragedies, is generally regarded as Shakespeare's most popular play on the stage.（C）The Merchant of Venice takes a step forward in its realistic presentation of human nature and human conflict.（D）The three history plays on the reign of Henry VI are the beginning of Shakespeare's epic treatment of English history.32 "To fashion a gentleman or noble person in virtuous and gentle discipline" best describes ______principal intention.（A）Edmund Spenser's（B）Daniel Defoe's（C）William Shakespeare's（D）John Milton's33 Which of the following statements about Shakespeare's greatest tragedies is NOT true? （A）Macbeth's lust for power stirs up his ambition and leads him to incessant crimes.（B）The Old King Lear who is willing to totally give up his power makes himself suffer from treachery and infidelity.（C）Hamlet, the melancholic scholar-prince, faces the dilemma between action and mind.（D）Othello's inner weakness is made use of by the outside evil force.34 In Spenser's masterpiece The Faerie Queene, he speaks of______virtues of the private gentleman.（A）10（B）12（C）15（D）1135 Which of the following statements does NOT describe Spenser's poetry?（A）A perfect melody.（B）Realism.（C）A splendid imagination.（D）A rare sense of beauty.36 "To be or not to be—that is the question; whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer. The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them?" Who is the speaker?（A）King Lear.（B）Hamlet.（C）Macbeth.（D）Othello.37 Which writing is a typical example of Shakespeare's pessimistic view towards human life and society in his late years?（A）The Tempest.（B）King Lear.（C）Hamlet.（D）Othello.38 ______lays the foundation for modern science with his insistence on scientific way of thinking and fresh observation rather than authority as a basis for obtaining knowledge. （A）Francis Bacon（B）Thomas Hardy（C）Charles Dickens（D）William Blake39 Which of the following comments Christopher Marlowe is NOT true?（A）Marlowe is so strong in dramatic construction that he is superior to Shakespeare.（B）Marlowe's greatest achievement lies in that he perfected the blank verse and made it the principal medium of English drama.（C）Marlowe composed 6 plays within his short lifetime.（D）Marlowe's second achievement is his creation of the Renaissance hero for English drama.40 ______'s dominant moral is human rather than religions, it celebrates the human passion for knowledge, power and happiness; it also reveals man's frustration in realizing the high aspirations in a hostile moral order.（A）Tamburlaine（B）the Jew of Malta（C）Dr. Faustus（D）Paradise Lost41 The most gifted wit among University Wits is______.（A）Robert Greene（B）Thomas Kyde（C）Christopher Marlowe（D）Edmund Spenser42 Paradise Lost is actually a story taken from______. ,（A）The Renaissance（B）The Old Testament（C）Greek Mythology（D）The New Testament43 In the second period, Shakespeare's style and approach became highly individualized. He wrote six comedies, which one doesn't belong to them?（A）Titus Andronicus.（B）A Midsummer Night's Dream.（C）The Merchant of Venice.（D）Twelfth Night.44 Shakespeare's greatest tragedies are______.（A）Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear（B）Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice（C）Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth（D）Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, Othello, Hamlet45 ______'s history plays are mainly written under the principle that national unity undera mighty and just sovereign is a necessity.（A）Edmund Spenser（B）Christopher Marlowe（C）William Shakespeare（D）John Donne46 Shakespeare claims through the mouth of Hamlet that the "end" of dramatic creation is to give ______of the social realities of the time.（A）allegorical description（B）instructive representation（C）faithful reflection（D）imaginative narration47 Dr. Faustus is a play based on the______legend of a magician aspiring for knowledge and finally meeting his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the Devil.（A）American（B）German（C）French（D）British48 Christopher Marlowe's second achievement is his creation of______ for the English drama.（A）the Romantic hero（B）the Byronic hero（C）the Renaissance hero（D）the Realistic hero49 Humanists of the Renaissance turned to the spirit of______culture for inspiration. （A）Greek and Roman（B）Anglo-Saxon（C）Celtic（D）Medieval50 Donne's famous analogy of parting lovers to a drawing compass provides a prime example of______.（A）conceit（B）dramatic monologue（C）exaggeration（D）paradox51 ______is the leading figure of the metaphysical school.（A）John Milton（B）John Donne（C）John Bunyan（D）John Keats52 ______Essays is the first example of that genre in English literature.（A）John Milton's（B）Thomas Gray's（C）John Bunyan's（D）Francis Bacon's53 In the line "Every fair from fair sometimes declines"(Shakespeare, Sonnet 18), what does the first and second "fair" mean?（A）The beautiful person or thing/ beauty.（B）Sound reason/ justice.（C）Loveliness/ beautiful women.（D）Light complexion/ beauty.54 The most important and popular comedy written by Shakespeare is______.（A）As You Like it（B）Twelfth Night（C）Romeo and Juliet（D）The Merchant of Venice55 In his "To be or not to be" soliloquy, Hamlet gives the reasons why he wants to commit suicide. Apart from his personal revenge, that he______is another reason. （A）cannot bear the social injustice and grievances（B）is mentally tormented by his father's ghost（C）is unable to restore his earlier idealized image of his mother（D）thinks the next world is far better than the harsh reality56 In King Lear, Shakespeare has not only made a profound analysis of the social crisis in which the evils can be seen everywhere, but also criticized______.（A）the bourgeois egoism（B）tyranny（C）anarchy and rebellion（D）supernatural forces57 living's Rip Van Winkle got ideas from______legends.（A）British（B）Italian（C）German（D）French58 ______is not the member of Transcendental Club.（A）Fuller（B）Emerson（C）Whitman（D）Thoreau59 The unofficial manifesto for the Transcendental Club was______.（A）Walden（B）Nature（C）Self-Reliance（D）The American Scholar60 In the early 19th century, nothing has left a deeper imprint on the characters of the American people as a whole than did______.（A）Rationalism（B）Sentimentalism（C）Puritanism（D）Romanticism61 In the poem Song of Myself, Whitman sets forth the principle beliefs of______. （A）the theory of universality（B）singularity and equality of all beings in value（C）both A and B（D）none above62 Which of the following had influence on Melville's writing?（A）Shakespearean tragic vision.（B）Hawthorne's black vision.（C）Emersonian Transcendentalism.（D）All the above.63 The white whale Moby-Dick is a symbol of______.（A）nature（B）God（C）culture（D）knowledge64 In his essays,______put forward his philosophy of the over-soul, the importance of the Individual and Nature.（A）Nathaniel Hawthorne（B）Washington Irving（C）Mark Twain（D）Ralph Waldo Emerson65 In______, Whitman airs his sorrow at President Lincoln's death.（A）There was a Child Went Forth（B）A Pact（C）When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom 'd（D）Cavalry Crossing a Ford66 ______, the tragic hero of Moby-Dick, burning with a baleful fire, becomes evil himself in his thirst to destroy evil.（A）Ahab（B）Moby Dick（C）Queequeg（D）Pip67 In______, Hawthorne sets out to prove that everyone possesses some evil secret. （A）The Custom-House（B）Young Goodman Brown（C）Rappaccini's Daughter（D）The Birthmark68 For Melville, as well as for the reader and______, the narrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, an ultimate mystery of the universe.（A）Ahab（B）Ishmael（C）Stubb（D）Starbuck69 The period before the American Civil War is commonly referred to as______.（A）the Romantic Period（B）the Realistic Period（C）the Naturalist Period（D）the Modern Period70 In American literature, escaping from the society and returning to nature is a common subject. The following titles are all related, in one way or another, to the subject EXCEPT______.（A）Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn（B）Dreiser's Sister Carrie（C）Cooper's Leather-Stocking Tales（D）Thoreau's Walden71 Led by Hawthorne, Emerson and______, there arose a kind of teachings of transcendentalism in the early nineteenth century.（A）Melville（B）Thoreau（C）Mark Twain（D）Dreiser72 When Emerson states in the introduction to his Nature: "our age is retrospective." Which of the following is closest to its understanding?（A）We are conservative.（B）We see this world through our ancestors' eyes.（C）We usually look back upon the good old days.（D）We write a lot of books about the past.73 Which of the following cannot be used to describe Whitman's poetry?（A）Elegant and gentle.（B）Simple and open.（C）Unconventional.（D）Colloquial.74 Which of the following is NOT a famous concept of Transcendentalism?（A）Nature is ennobling.（B）The individual is divine and self-reliant.（C）Man is capable of knowing truth by intuition.（D）Man is corrupted in nature.75 Walt Whitman was a founding figure of American poetry. His innovation first of all lies in his use of______, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.（A）blank verse（B）heroic couplet（C）free verse（D）iambic pentameter76 The statement that a man's journey to the dark forest and his encounter with the devil are symbolic of man's life journey from innocence to knowledge, from good to evil may well sum up one of the major themes of______.（A）living's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow（B）Edgar Allen Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher（C）Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown（D）O. Henry's The Cop and the Anthem77 The Romantic writers would focus on all the following issues EXCEPT the______in the American literary history.（A）individual feelings（B）idea of survival of the fittest（C）strong imagination（D）return to nature78 The literary characters of the American type in early 19th century are generally characterized by all the following features EXCEPT that they______.（A）speak local dialects（B）are polite and elegant gentlemen（C）are simple and crude farmers（D）are noble savages(red and white)untainted by society79 "The horizon's edge, the flying sea-crow, the fragrant of salt marsh and shore mud. These became part of that child who went forth every day, and who now goes, and will always go forth every day." The two lines are taken from______.（A）There was a Child Went Forth by Walt Whitman（B）In a Station of the Metro by Ezra Pound（C）Cavalry Crossing a Ford by Walt Whitman（D）Ulysses by Joyce80 Statement "______" is not true in describing Washington Irving.（A）Washington Irving is regarded as Father of the American long stories（B）Irving's relationship with the Old World in terms of his literary imagination can hardly be ignored considering his success both abroad and at home（C）He has always been regarded as a writer who "perfected the best classic style that American literature ever produced"（D）Irving's taste was essentially conservative81 Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle is famous for______.（A）Rip's escape into a mysterious world（B）the story's German legendary source material（C）Rip's seeking for happiness（D）Rip's 20-year sleep82 Thoreau was often alone in the woods or by the pond, lost in spiritual communication with______.（A）nature（B）transcendentalist ideas（C）human beings（D）celestial beings83 By Brown in Young Goodman Brown, Hawthorne means he is a(n)______.（A）protagonist（B）everyman（C）colossus（D）spokesman84 Which of the following accounts is not true for Ralph Waldo Emerson?（A）He is the chief spokesman of New England Transcendentalism.（B）Emerson is generally known as a dramatist.（C）His works were usually derived from his journals or lectures he had already given.（D）In Nature, he employed "a transparent eyeball" to illustrate his philosophical discussion.85 Washington Irving was one of the first American writers to earn an international reputation and regarded as______.（A）Father of the American drama（B）Father of the American poetry（C）Father of the American literature（D）Father of the American short stories86 ______is the most ambivalent writer in the American literary history.（A）Nathaniel Hawthorne（B）Walt Whitman（C）Ralph Waldo Emerson（D）Mark Twain四、问答题87 "Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man."A. Identify the author and the work.B. What kind of language can be found in this quotation?C. What idea does this quotation express?88 "Come live with me and be my love,And we will all the pleasures proveThat valleys, groves, hills and fields,Woods, or steepy mountain yields."A. Identify the poem and the poet.B. What kind of literary tradition can be found in this stanza?C. What idea does this stanza express?89 "One short sleep past, we wake eternallyAnd death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.A. Identify the poet and the poem.B. What does the phrase "One short sleep" mean?C. What idea does these two lines express?90 "The quality of mercy is not strain'd,It droppeth as the gentle rain from heavenUpon the place beneath: it is twice blest.It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes:Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomesThe throned monarch better than his crown;His sceptre shows the force of temporal power,The attribute to awe and majesty,Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;But mercy is above this sceptred sway,It is enthroned in the hearts of kings,It is an attribute to God himself;And earthly power doth then show likest God'sWhen mercy seasons justice."A. Identify the author poet and the work.B. Who is the speaker? What figure of speech does the speaker use?C. What is the main idea of this quotation?91 "…If they be two, they are two soAs stiff twin compasses are two;Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no showTo move, but doth, it th's other do.And though it in the center sit,Yet when the other far doth roam,It leans and hearkens after it,And grows erect, as that comes home.Such wilt thou be to me, who mustLike th's other foot, obliquely run;Thy firmness makes my circle 10 just,And makes me end where I begun."A. Identify the poet and the poem.B. What is typical of the poetry by the poet?C. What idea does these three stanzas express?92 "When the minister spoke from the pulpit, with power and fervid eloquence, and, with his hand on the open Bible, of the sacred truths of our religion, and of saint-like lives and triumphant deaths, and of future bliss or misery unutterable, then did Goodman Brown turn pale, lest the roof should thunder down upon the gray blasphemer and his hearers."A. Identify the title of the short story from which this part is taken.B. What had happened in the story before this church scene?C. Why was Goodman Brown afraid the roof might thunder down?93 Rip Van Winkle, however, was one of those happy mortals, of foolish, well-oiled dispositions, who take the world easy, eat white bread or brown, which ever can be gotwith least thought or trouble, and would rather starve on a penny than work for a pound. If left to himself, he would have whistled life away in perfect contentment; but his wife kept continually dinning in his ears about his idleness, his carelessness, and the ruin he was bringing on his family.A. Who is the writer of this short story from which the passage is taken?B. What is the title of this short story?C. Give a definition of "short story".94 I celebrate myself, and sing myself,And what I assume you shall assume,For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.I loafe and invite my soul,I learn and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.A. This is the first two stanzas in the first section of a long poem entitled"______".B. The name of the poet is______.C. Who is the poet celebrating? Whom do lines 2-3 also include in the celebration?D. What is the verse structure?E. Take the fifth line as a hint, can you write out the name of the poet's completed collection of poems?95 "A line in long array where they wind betwixt green islands,They take a serpentine course, their arms flash in the sun-hark to the musical clank, Behold the silvery river, in it the splashing horses loitering stop to drink,Behold the brown-faced men, each group, each person, a picture, the negligent rest on the saddles,Some emerge on the opposite bank, others are just entering the ford-while,Scarlet and blue and snowy white,The guidon flags flutter gaily in the wind."A. Who is the author of this poem?B. What is the essence of this poem?C. What is the unique character in this poem?96 "The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. His intercourse with heaven and earth, becomes part of his daily food. In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows."A. Identify the author and the title of the work from which this passage is taken.B. How do you interpret "daily food?C. What does the passage imply?五、论述题97 List three distinctive features of English Renaissance movement in literature and then illustrate each with proofs from either the concerned chapter in your textbook or your own reading.98 Briefly discuss why Hamlet is so impressive in Shakespeare's Hamlet.99 Give a brief analysis of Shylock, a character in Shakespeare's play, The Merchant of Venice.100 Comment briefly on Marlowe's literary contribution to English literature.101 What are the main themes in Shakespeare's plays?102 Comment briefly on the theme in Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown.103 Moby Dick by Herman Melville is one of the few books in American literature that has produced an exciting effect upon readers. Try to discuss the symbolism in the book. 104 What is the significance of Washington Irving in American Literature?105 Comment briefly on the general artistic features of Walt Whitman's poetry.106 Based on Hawthorne's works The Scarlet Letter, discuss the characters of his writings.。

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Ⅰ. British literature. (75 points)A. Fill out the following blanks. (10 points, 1 for each)1. ___________ is often given the credit for the discovery of the modern novel; but whether or not he deserves that honor remains an open question.2. “If the censure of Yahoo could any way affect me, I should have great reason to complain that some of them are so bold as to think my book oftravels a mere fiction out of mine own brain.”　This question is selected from _____________.3. Henry Fielding has been regarded as “________”, for his contributionto the establishment of the form of the modern novel.4. British novel came of age in ________.5.The Vicar of Wakefield is the only novel of __________, which describes misfortunes falling on the central character and the family.6. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by ___________ is taken a model of sentimentalist poetry, esp. the Graveyard school.7. Friday is a character in the novel _______________.8. Among the representatives of the Enlightenment, ___________ was thefirst to introduce rationalism to England.9. Essay on Criticism is a didactic poem written in the form of____________.10. Auld Lang Syne written by __________ deals with the friendship andhas long become a universal parting-song of all the English-speakingcountries.B. Define the following terms. (15 points, 3 for each)1. The Graveyard School2. Satire3. Classicism4. The Heroic Couplet5. MeterC. Multiple Choice. (15 points, 0.5 for each)1. __________ is the most successful religious allegory in the English language.A. Genesis AB. ExodusC. The Pilgrim’s ProgressD. The Holy War2. The object of __________ novels was to present a faithful picture of life, “tcopies of human manners”, with sound teaching woven into their texture, so as toteach them to know themselves, their proper spheres and appropriate manners.A. John Bunyan?sB. Alexander Pope?sC. Jonathan Swift?sD. Henry Fielding?s3. Of all the 18th century novelists, __________ was the first to set out, both intheory and practic e, to write specifically a “comic epic in prose”.A. Henry FieldingB. Daniel DefoeC. John BunyanD. Jonathan Swift4. __________ was very much concerned with the theme of the vanity of humanwishes and tried to awaken men to this folly and hoped to cure them of it throughhis writing.A. Samuel JohnsonB. Jonathan SwiftC. Richard Brinsley SheridanD. Thomas Gray5. The Rivals and __________ are generally regarded as important links between themasterpieces of Shakespeare and those of Bernard Shaw.A. The School for ScandalB. The DuennaC. Widowers HousesD. The Doctor’s Dilemma6. ___________ is a sharp satire on the moral degeneracy of thearistocratic-bourgeois society in the 18th century England.A. The RivalsB. Gulliver’s TravelsC. Tom JonesD. The School for Scandal7. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, __________ best and most representativework has been ranked among the best of the 18th century English Poetry.A. Alexander Pope?sB. Thomas Gray?sC. Samuel Johnson?sD. William Blake?s8. As the representative of the Enlightenment, Pope was one of the first to introduce__________ to England.A. rationalismB. criticismC. romanticismD. realism9. The Enlightenment Movement did not advocate __________.A. rationality, reason, order and rulesB. return to the ancient classical worksC. inner feelings of individualsD. universal education10.An Essay on Criticism is a didactic poem written in __________.A. heroic coupletsB. English sonnetC. bland verseD. Italian sonnet11.Which of the following comments on Thomas Gray?s poetry is NOT true?A. Distorted in word order.B. Highly artificial in diction.C. Calculated in rhythm.D. Light-hearted in tone.12.In The Life of Jonathan Wild the Greatthe word “great”is used __________.A. allegoricallyB. satiricallyC. objectivelyD. euphemistically13.By writing in apparently admiring terms of the life of a notorious criminal inThe Life of Jonathan Wild the Great Henry Fielding suggests that there is little difference between __________.A. noted rogues and great politiciansB. the nobles and the commonsC. great rogues and lesser roguesD. discovered criminals and secret sinners14.What makes Jonathan Swift?s satire all the more bitter, biting and poignant isthat his satire is often masked by __________ on the part of the author.A. an apparent eagerness, gravity, sincerity and detachment in toneB. a softness and persuasiveness in manner and firmness and thoroughness inactionC. a strong indignation in tone and open defiance and challengeD. a friendliness and frankness in tone and the seeming indifference andnonchalance, which enables the author to-person narration”15.Henry Fielding adopted “the thirdpresent as the __________ not only the characters? external behavior but also the internal workings of their minds.A. “all-knowing God”B. intimate participantC. invisible manD. ignorant narrator16.The novel, which prospered in the hands of Swift, Defoe and Fielding, gives arealistic presentation of life of the common English people. This is quite contrary to the traditional __________ of aristocrats.A. elegyB. epicC. romanceD. morality play17.The chief force that motivated John Bunyan to write T he Pilgrim’s Progresswas his __________.A. political commitmentB. religious fervencyC. artistic pursuitD. long suffering in the personnguage 18.As a result of the conscientious study he made of the Bible, Bunyan?s lawas __________.A. satiric, concise and well-balancedB. concrete, living and colloquialC. general, Latinate and polysyllabicD. comic, neat and decent19.The enlighteners believed that if the masses were well educated, there would begreater chance for a __________ human society.A. reasonableB. progressiveC. democraticD. enlightened20.Alexander Pope?s An Essay on Criticism is a (n) __________ poem.A. ironicB. didacticC. sarcasticD. exaggeratedis ___________.21.The tone of Jonathan Swift?s novel Gulliver’s TravelsA. sadB. sarcasticC. praisingD. detached22.The __________ was a progressive intellectual movement throughout westernEurope in the 18th century.A. RenaissanceB. EnlightenmentC. Religious ReformationD. Chartist Movement23.During the reign of reason the enlightenment meant education of people to freethem from all the unreasonable fetters which include __________.A. theologyB. conventional ideologyC. feudal governmentD. all the above24.Which of the following is NOT Samuel Johnson?s work?A. London.B. Tom Jones.C. Lives of the Poets.D. A Dictionary of the English Language.25.“Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man strugglingfor life in the water, and when he has r e ached ground, encumbers him with help?”The above passage is taken from __________.A. Francis Bacon?s Of StudiesB. William Shakespeare?s The Merchant of VeniceC. Samuel Johnson?s To the Right Honorable the Earl of ChesterfieldD. Jonathan Swift?s A Modest Proposal26.The 18th century witnesses a new literary form — the modern English novel,which, contrary to the medieval romance, gives a __________ presentation of lifeof the common English people.A. romanticB. idealisticC. propheticD. realistic27.In Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, Thomas Gray compared thecommon folk with the great ones, wondering what the commons could haveachieved if they had had the __________.A. chanceB. loveC. moneyD. material sources28.When he writes, in An Essay on Criticism, “A vile conceit in pompous wordsexpressed, / Is like a clown in regal purple dresses,” Alexander Pope means that __________.A. pompous words are always destructive to good tasteB. the purple color is for the royal only and it is ridiculous to dress a clown inpurpleC. conceits are always misleadingD. true wit is best set in a plain style29.“The shepherd in Virgin grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him aTo the Right Honorable the Earl ofnative of rocks.” (Samuel Johnson?sChesterfield) The speaker here is __________.A. cheerfulB. ironicC. mysteriousD. nonchalant30.“He has a servant called Friday.”“He” in the quoted sentence is a character in__________.A. Henry Fielding?s Tom JonesB. John Bunyan?s The Pilgrim’s ProgressC. Richard Bringsley Sheridan?s The School for ScandalD. Daniel Defoe?s R obinson CrusoeD. Read the following quotations and answer the questions. (20 points,4 for each)1. “Most mighty Emperor of Lilliput, delight and terror of he universe, whosedominions extend five thousand blustrugs (about twelve miles in circumference) to the extremities of the globe; Monarch of all Monarchs; taller than the sons of men;whose feet press down to the center, and whose head strikes against the sun; at whose nod the princes of the earth shake their knees; pleasant as spring,comfortable as summer, fruitful as aut u mn, dreadful as winter.”　A. Identify the work and the author.B. What is the tone of the author?C. What does the author parody here?2. “I consulted several things in my situation which I found would be proper for me:first, health and fresh water I just now mentioned; secondly, shelter from the heat of the sun; thirdly, security from ravenous creatures, whether men or beasts;fourthly, a view to the sea, that if God sent any ship in sight, I might not lose any advantage for my deliverance, of which I was not willing to banish all myexpectation yet.A. Identify the author and the title of the novel from which this passage is taken.B. Who is the narrator?C. Explain the meaning of the last thing mentioned in the passage.3. “When each of t he combatants had borne off sufficient spoils of hair from the headof her antagonist, the next rage was against the garments. In this attack they exerted so much violence, that in a very few minutes they were both naked to the middle.A. Identify the author and the title of the work from which this passage is taken.B. What is the passage describing?C. What are the names of the two combatants?4. “Some to conceit alone their taste confines,And glittering thoughts struck out at every line;Pleas ed with a work where nothing?s just or fit,One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.Poets, like painters, thus unskilled to traceThe naked nature and the living grace,With gold and jewels cover every part,And hide with ornaments their want of art.True wit is Nature to advantage dressed,What oft was thought, but ne?er so well expressed;”A. Identify the author and the work.B. What idea does the poem express?C. What is the significance of the poem?ions for my liberty, that his Majesty at5. “I had sent so many memorials and petitlength mentioned the matter first in the cabinet, and then in a full council; where it was opposed by none, except Skyresh Bolgolam, who was pleased, without any provocation, to be my mortal enemy.A. Identify the author and the work.B. Who is this “Skyresh Bolgolam”?C. Why does the author make Skyresh Bolgoalm a mortal enemy of the narrator?E. Discuss the following questions briefly. (15 points, 3 for each)1. Give a brief comment on Alexander Pope?s lit erary outlook.2. What?s the theme of Richard Brinsley Sheridan?s The School for Scandal?3. Robinson Crusoeis universally regarded as Daniel Defoe?s masterpiece. Givesome reasons for its success.4. As a rule, an allegory is a story in verse or prose with a double meaning: a surfacemeaning, and an implied meaning. List two works as examples of allegory. What is an allegory usually concerned with by its implied meaning?5. Give a brief comment on Enlightenment Movement.Ⅱ. American Literature (75 points)A.Fill out the following blanks. (10 points, 1 for each)1. War in Crane’s novel __________ is a plain slaughterhouse. There isnothing like valor or heroism on the battlefield, and if there is anything,it is the fear of death, cowardice, the natural instinct of man to runform danger.2. The literary career of Henry James i s generally divided into __________ periods, in the first period (1865-1882), James took great interest in__________ theme.3. The name of the heroine in the Portrait of a Lady was __________.4. __________ was the first literary giant born West of the Mississippi.5. Dreiser visited the Soviet Union in 1927 and published __________ the following year.6. Mrs. Stowe’s masterpiece is __________.7. __________ influences American literature a lot and led Americanromanticism turn into American realism.8. Mark Twain made a more extensive combination of __________ and__________ than previous writers had ever done.B.Define the following terms. (15 points, 3 for each)1. The Age of Realism2. American Naturalism3. Darwinism4.Regionalism5. First-person narrativeC. Multiple Choice. (15 points, 0.5 for each)1. Which of the following is NOT written by Theodore Dreiser?A. The Genius.B. The Titan.C. Light in August.D. Jennie Gerhardt.2. One of the most familiar themes in American naturalism is the theme of human“_________”．A. bestialityB. goodnessC. compassionD. greed3. Which of the following writings is NOT a p oem of Emily Dickinson?s?A. This is my letter to the World.B. I heard a Fly buzz—When I died.C. The Road Not Taken.D. I like to see it lap the Miles.4. Mark Twain created, in __________, a masterpiece of American realism that is alsoone of the great books of world literature.A. Huckleberry FinnB. Tom SawyerC. The Man That Corrupted HadleyburyD. The Gilded Age5. What is the analogy that Emily Dickinson uses in her poem Because I Could notStop for Death?A. Horse and carriage.B. Stage andperformance.C. Cloud and shade.D. Ship and harbor.6. Here is a passage from a novel: “The man gave him a last push and closed the door.As he did so, Hurstwood slipped and fell in the snow. It hurt him, and some vaguesense of shame returned. He began to cry and swear foolishly. The novel must be__________.A. Dreiser?s S ister CarrieB. Steinbeck?s The Grapes of WrathC. London?s M artin EdenD. Twain?s T he Adventures of Tom Sawyer7. However, innocence, the keynote of Daisy Miller?s character, turn s out to be anadmiring but dangerous quality and her __________ of social taboos in the OldWorld finally brings her to a disaster in the clash between two different cultures.A. admirationB. defianceC. sympathyD. disgusting8.American8. In Henry James Daisy Miller, the author tries to portray the protagonist as anembodiment of __________.A. the force of conventionB. the decline of aristocracyC. the free spirit of the New WorldD. the corruption of the new rich9. The three dominant figures of the American Realistic Period are William DeanHowells, Mark Twain, and __________.A. Emily DickinsonB. Henry JamesC. Theodore DreiserD. Ezra Pound10. As a naturalist writer, Theodore Dreiser was greatly influenced by __________.A. Nathaniel HawthorneB. Charles DarwinC. Henry JamesD. Ralph Waldo Emerson11. Henry James?s idea of realism differs from that of the other realist writers becausehis emphasis is on man?s __________.A. languageB. inner worldC. surroundingsD. real actions12. Emily Dickinson got inspiration from __________ in her writing of poetry.A. hymnsB. sonnetsC. free verseD. heroic couplets13. Henry James is mostly concerned with __________ in his fiction.A. the inner life of human beingsB. violent events in historyC. small-town life in backward regionsD. sufferings of the aged14. “Even then he stood there, hidden wholly in that kindness which is night, whilethe uprising fumes filled the room. When the odor reached his nostrils, he quit hisattitude and fumbled for the bed. ,What?s the use?? he said, weakly, as he stretchedhimself to rest.” The passage is taken from __________.A. Sons and Lovers by D. H. LawrenceB. Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontёC. Sister Carrie by Theodore DreiserD. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontё15. __________, a novella about a young American girl who gets “killed” by thewinter in Rome, brought its author international fame for the first time.A. The AmericanB. Daisy MillerC. The Portrait of a LadyD. TheEuropeans16. By the end of Sister Carrie, Dreiser writes: “It was forever to be the pursuit of thatradiance of delight which tints the distant hilltops of the world.” Dreiser imp that __________.A. there is a bright future lying aheadB. one should always have forward lookingC. one can never fulfill one?s desireD. happiness is found in the end17. After Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Twain gives a literary independence to Tom?sbuddy Huck in a book entitled __________.A. Life on the MississippiB. The Gilded AgeC. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnD. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’sCourt18. However, ________, the keynote of Daisy Miller?s character, turns out to be anadmiring but a dangerous quality and her defiance of social taboos in the OldWorld finally brings her to a disaster in the clash between two different cultures.A. experienceB. sophisticationC. worldlinessD. innocencewas holding on to the19. “I was letting on to give up sin, but always inside of me Ibiggest one of all. The sentence, which is taken from The Adventures ofHuckleberry Finn, is written in a(n) __________ tone.A. ironicB. regretfulC. sincereD. delightful20. In I heard a fly buzz — When I died and Because I could notstop for Death, Emily Dickinson?s attitude toward death is that of __________.A. eager embraceB. helpless anxietyC. peaceful acceptanceD. terrifieddespair21. __________ is considered to be Theodore Dreiser?s greatest work.A. An American TragedyB. Sister CarrieC. The FinancierD. The Titan22. Adventures of Huckleberry Finnis best known for Mark Twain?s wonderfulcharacterization of “_________” a typical American boy.A. JimB. Tom SawyerC. HuckD. Miss Watson23. Where Mark Twain satirized European manners at times, __________ was anadmirer.A. O. HenryB. Henry JamesC. Walt WhitmanD. JackLondon24. With Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the literary scene,__________became the major trend in American literature in the seventies andeighties of the 19th century.A. sentimentalismB. romanticismC. realismD.naturalism25. In the following writers, __________ is regarded as “the truefather of our national literature.”A. H. L. MenkenB. Mark TwainC. Frank NorisD. Theodore Dreiser26. The sentence “only the fittest can survive in a competitive, amoral societybe regarded as an appropriate summary of __________.A. Jack London?s Martin EdenB. Hemingway?s F or Whom the Bell TollsC. Dreiser?s Sister CarrieD. Melville?s Moby Dick27. __________ was the first American writer to conceive hiscareer in international terms.A. Washington IrvingB. T. S. EliotC. Ezra PoundD.Henry James28. Compared with the writings of Mark Twain?s, Henry James?s fiction is noted fortheir __________.A. frontier vernacularB. rich colloquialismC. refined elegant languageD. vulgarly descriptive words29. In Sister Carrie, Hurstwood, extremely hopeless and totally devastated, ends hislife by turning on the gas, while at the same time Carrie is rocking comfortably inher luxurious hotel room before she boards a ship for __________.A. New YorkB. LondonC. ParisD. Geneva30. Which of the following best describes the young woman inHenry James?s Daisy Miller?A. She is an embodiment of the force of convention.B. She means the decline of aristocracy.C. She represents the free spirit of the New World.D. She is reflection of the corruption of the newly rich.D. Read the following quotations and answer the questions. (20 points,5 for each)1. “This is my letter to the WorldThat never wrote to me—The simple News that Nature told—With tender Majesty”A. Identify the poet.B. What does the word “World” refer to?C. What idea does the quoted passage express?2. “It is when the feet weary and hope seems vain that the heartaches and the longingsarise. Know, then, that for you is neither surfeit nor content. In your rocking-chair, by your window dreaming, shall you long, alone. In your rocking-chair, by yourwindow, shall you dream such happiness as you may never feel.”A. Identify the author and the title of the work from which the passage is taken.B. What does the rocking-chair symbolize?C. How do you classify this novel?3. “I like to see it lap the Miles—And lick the Valleys up—And stop to feed itself at Tanks—And then—prodigious step”A. Please give the name of the poet.B. What does “it” in this poem refer to?C. What idea does this poem express?4. Isabel always felt an impulse to pull out the pins; not that sheimagined they inflicted any damage on the tough old parchment, butbecause it seemed to her her aunt might make b etter use of her sharpness.She was very critical herself — it was incidental to her sex, andher antionalit but she was very sentimental as well, and there wassomething in Mrs. Touchett’s dryness that set her own m oral fountainsflowing.“Now what’s your point of view?” she asked of her aunt. “When youcriticize everything here you should have a point of view. Yoursdoesn’t seem to be American you thought everything over there sodisagreeable. When I have time; it’s thoroughly American!”　“My d ear young lady”, said Mrs. Touchett, “there are as many p ointsof view in the world as there are people of sense to take them. Youmay say that doesn’t make them very numerous. American? Never in theworld; that’s shockingly narrow, my point of views, thank God, ispersonal!”　A.What is the name of the novel from which this passage is taken?B.Who is the author of this novel?C.Make a brief comment on the heroine Isable Arther.D.What is Jamesian theme?E. Discuss the following questions briefly. (15 points, 3 for each)1. What makes Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn more thana child’s a dventure story? Briefly discuss the question from THREE ofthe following aspects: the setting, the language, the character(s), thetheme and the style.2. “Even then he stood there, hidden wholly in that kindness which is night, while the uprising fumes filled the room. When the odor reached his nostrils, he quit his attitudeand fumbled for the bed. ,What?s the use?? he said, weakly, as he stretched himself toSister Carrie. Briefly tell therest.” The above is quoted from Theodore Dreiser?s“what?s situation that leads to the suicide and interpret Hurstwood?s final words —the use?”3. Why are naturalists inevitably pessimistic in their view? Please discuss the above question in relation to the basic principles of literary naturalism.4. In American literature what is the significance of Adventures of Huckleberry Finnby Mark Twain?5. What are the similarities and differences between the three literary giants, Howells,Mark Twain, Henry James, in terms of their literary orientation?。