自学考试英美文学

1.Therefore feed and clothe and save...drain your sweat-nay,drink your blood ?

A.Who wrote the poem? What's its name?
B.Explain “drones”?
C.Interpret the passage.

A:Shelly;Men of England
B:The male of the honey-bees that don't work refers to the parasitic class in human society.
C:The poet called all working people to rise up against their political oppressor,but pointed out to them the intolerable injustice of economic exploitation.It expressed the love for freedom and the hatred to tyranny of the author.
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2.I wandered lonely as a cloud...fluttering and dancing in the breeze

A.who is the author? What's the title?
B.What does “A host ,of”mean?
C.Give a short explaination of the quotation.
D.What's the poem mainly about?

A.William Wordsworth;I wandered lonely as a cloud.
B.A large number of.
C.While the poet was taking a walk in the woods,he felt lonely and floating in the sky.
D.This poem is about the beauty of the nature.Ther is the vivid picture of the daffodils here,mixed with the poet's philosophical and somewhat mystical thought.
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3.This is my letter to the world... with tender Majesty

A.Who is the author ?
B.What does “the World” mean?
C.What does the author think about the nature?
D.What idea does the poem expresses?
E.Why does the poet use dashes and capital letters in the poem?

A.Emily Dickinson.
B.The human world.
C.In dickinson's eye,nature is more friendly than the human world.She could communicate with nature easily.Nature usually reveals the truth of life,i.e.the simple news.
D.It expresses the poet's anxiety about her communication with the outside world.
E.Dashes are used as a mucical device to create cadence and capital letters as a means of emphasis.
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4.I shall be telling this with a sigh...and that has made all the difference.

A.Who is the author? The title of the poem.
B.What does“diverded”mean?
C.What does the author try to tell us?
D.What additional meaning do the two roads have?
E.What dilemma is the speaker facing?

A.Robert Lee Frost.The Road Not Taken.
B.Separated and went on in different directions.
C.He is conscious of the fact that his choice will have made all the difference in his life.He seems to give us a suggestion:“Make good choice of your life.”
D.Life here is compared to a journey .The two roads stand for the choice one has to make at a critical moment in his life.
E.Since where the road leads to is uncertain,one has to wait to see the result of the choice until one's life is coming to an end.Then it will be too late ,The speaker acknowledges the limits of life,yet he includes himself in the notion that we could be really different from what we have become,because life is unpredicatable.
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5.It is When he feet weary and hope seems vain that the heartaches....

A.Identify the author and the work.
B.What does the rocking-chair symbolized?

A.Theodore Dreiser;Sister Carrie.

B.It symbolizes that Carrie's fate is unstableand she is unable to control her own life.
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6.There was a child went forth every day...or for many years or stretching cycles of years.

A.Who's the poet ?
B.From which poem and which collection of the poet is the quotation taken?
C.Wha does the poet describein the poem?

A.Walt Whitman.
B.“There Was a Child Went Forth”from leaves of grass.
C.In the poem,the poet describesthe growth of a child who learned about the world around him and improved himself accordingly.ain the poem,Whitman's own early experience may well be identified with the childhood of a young,growing American.
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7.For herein Fortune shows herself more kind...Of such misery doth she cut me off.

A.Who is the author of the play?
B.What does “she” refers to?
C.What does the statement mean?

A.William Shakespeare.
B.Fortune.
C.Anyonio thinks Fortune is more kind toward him because Fortuneis taking away both his wealthand life.
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8.The eye around -had -wrung them dry-...be witnessed-in the room.

A.From which poem is the stanza taken?
B.What does “the King”refer to?
C.What does the first line mean?

A.“I heard a Fly buzz-when I died-”by Emily Dickinson.
B.The God of Death.
C.The relatives and friends had cried and cried so that there were no tears any more.
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9.I consulted several things in my situation which ...not willing to banish all my expectation yet.

A.Identify the author and the work.
B.What idea does the quoted passage express?

A.Daniel Defoe;Robinson Crusoe.
B.Robinson is considering the measures that must be taken in his situation.
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10.A violet by a mossy stone...is shining in the sky.

A.Identify the author and the title.
B.Pick out the metaphor used in this stanza.
C.What quality does the author intend to show by using the metaphor.

A.Willian Wordsworth;She Among The Untrodden Ways.
B.A violet is used as a metaphor.
C.By comparing a country girl to a violet,the poet intends to show her quality of her beauty and her virtue which are often neglected by the common people just like a wild flower bloomingby an untrodden road.
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11.I celebrate myself and sing myself...For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

A.Identify the author and the work.
B.What are the two principle beliefs that the poet set forth in this poem?

A.Walt Whitman;Song of Myself.
B.The two beliefs are the theory of universality and the belief in the singularity and equalityof all being in value.
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12."Poor little Faith"thought he...I will cling to he skirts and follow her to heaven.

A.Identify the author and the title.
B.Who is Faith?
C.How do you interpret the speaker's feeling?

A.Nathaniel Hawthorne;Young Goodman Brown.
B.Goodman Brown's wife.
C.He felt guilty of his evil deed and is deetermined to return to his wife after it ,never leaving her again.
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13.The woods are lovely ,dark and deep...And miles to go before i sleep.

A.Who is the writer and what is the title?
B.Ehat kind of feeling does this stanza show?
C.How do you appreciate this poem?
D.What does "promise" refer to?
E.What does the repetition serve as?

A.Robert Lee Frost;Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.
B.It shows a kind of sad,sentimental but also strong and responsible feeling.
C.It's one of the most quietly moving of Frost's lyrics.On the surface,it seems to be simple,descriptive records of close observation,graphic and homely pictures.It uses the simplest trems and commonest words.But it's deeply meditative,adding far-reaching meaning to the homely music.It uses its superb craftsmanship to come a climax of responsibility:the promise to be kept,the obligation to be fulfilled.
D.It has several kinds of meaning.It might be promise to a person.It might be refer to the abstract obligations of human being.The poet is full aware of his social responsibility.
E.On one hand,the repetition is a technical solution for the rhyme scheme.On the other hand,the poet remembers his social obligations. The road ia also the road of the life.He has to fulfill his promise before he can sleep or die.
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14.No lose possession of that fair thou ow'st...So long lives this,and this gives life to thee.

A.Where does the poem came from? Who wrote it?
B.What does "lines" means?
C.Interpret the poem briefly.

A.The poem is Sonnet 18;Shakespeare.
B.It means the lines of the poem and other sonnets.
C.(when you are in my eternal poetry ,you are even with time.)A nice summer's day is usually transient,but the beauty in poetry canlast for ever.
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15.Wherefore,Bees of England,forge...The forced produce of your toil?

A.Who is the author and title of the poem?
B.What does "Bees of England " fefer to?
C.What figure of speech is used here?
D.The poem's writing background.
E.What's the poet intend to say in the poem?

A.Percy Bysshe Shelly;Men of England.
B.The laboring people in England.
C.Metaphor.
D.The poem was written in 1819,the year of the Peter Massacre.
E.To call on all working people to rise up against their polical oppressors;to point out the intolerable injustice of economic exploitation.
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16.Then where are our relatives?...I may as well find out whether they have real existence.

A.From which work is this quotation taken?
B.Which character is speaking?
C.What does this work expose?

A.Bernard Shaw' Mrs. Warren's Profession.
B.Vivie.
C.This play realistically exposes the economic oppression of women in England society.
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17.Wild spirit,which art moving everywhere;destroyer and preserver;hear,O hear!

A.Identify the poet and the poem.
B.What does the "Wild Spirit" refer to?
C.Why is called "destroyer and Preserver" at the same time?

A.Shelly;Ode to the West Wind.
B.It refers to west wind.
C.Because west wind bur

ied the dead year and prepared for a new spring.
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18.I like to see it lap the miles-...And then -prodigious step.

A.Please give the name of the author.
B.What idea does this poem express?

A.Emily Dickinson.
B.It expresses the author's suspicion of the relationship between man and nature.
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19.The early lilacs became part of his child...all became part of him.

https://www.360docs.net/doc/874245130.html, the anthor and the title of the poem.
B.What's the poetic style called?
C.What does the passage describe?

A.Walt Whitman;There Was a Child Went Forth.
B.Free verse.
C.It describes the growth of a child who is wandering and admiring the scene around him.In the poem,the early experience of the poet may well be identified with the childhood of a young and growing American.
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20.A little black thing among the snow...They are both gone up to the church to pray.

A.Identify the poem and the poet.
B.Explain "notes of woe."
C.Interpret the sentence "They are both gone up to the church to play."

A.The Chimney Sweeper;William Blake.
B.It means the songs of sadness.
C.The sentence implies: religion is the instrument of their oppression;its nature is to help bring misery to the poor children.
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21.And when I'm formulated,sprawling on a pin...And how should I presume?

A.Identify the poet and the poem.
B.What does the phrase"butt-ends"mean?
C.What idea does the quoted passage express?

A.T.S.Eliot;The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock.
B.The end of cigarettes,meaning trivial things here.
C.Here,Prufrock's inability to do anything against the society made him strikingly clear by using a sharp comparison.Prufrock imagines himself as a kind of insect pinned on the wall and struggling in vain to get free.This image vividly shows Prufrock's current predicament.
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22.We passed the school,where Children strove...We passed the Setting Sun

A.Identify the author and the title.
B.What do the underline parts symbolize?
C.Where were we heading toward?

A.Emily Dickinson.Because I could not stop for Death-
B.They symbolize three stages of one's life:youth,mature period and end of life.
C.We were heading toward Eternity.
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23."Is dying hard,Daddy?" "No,I think it pretty easy,Nick.It all depends."

A.Identify the author and the work.
B.What was Nick preoccupied with when he asked the question?
C.Why did the father add "It depends"?

A.Ernest Hemingway;Indian Camp.
B.Nick was preoccupied with the pain and viloence of death.
C.When th e father says that dying is pretty easy,he might be thing about the self-murdered husband.But when he reflects on the wife's miracle survival of the violent pain in the whole process of birth,he adds the final sentence.Dying is both hard and easy,it all depends on individuals.
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24.Never did sun more beautiful steep...And all that mighy heart is lying still!

A.What does the word "glideth"in the fourth l

ine mean?
B.What kind of figure of speech is used by Wordsworth to describe the "river"?
C.What idea does the fouth line express?

A.To move smoothly and quietly,as if no effort was being made.
B.Personification.Here the river is personified so that it has its own will.
C.Wordsworth emphasizes that the river runs freely .
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25."Faith!Faith!"cried the husband."Look up to Heven,and resist the wicked one!"

A.Identify the author and the work.
B.What idea does the quoted sentence express?

A.Nathaniel Hawthorne;Young Goodman Brown.
B.Goodman Brown here is obviously addressing the image of his wife,urging her to resist the devil.At the same time he is exhorting himself to have faith,to look heavenward,to withstand the infernal eloquence of the Wicked One.
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26.With blue-uncertain stumbling Buzz-...I could not see to see.

A.Identify the poem and the poet.
B.What do "Windows"symbolically stand for?
C.What idea does the quoted passage express?

A.Emily Dickinson;I Heard a Fly Buzz-When I Die-.
B.It symbolically stand for the door to heaven.
C.It describes the moment of my dying and expresses my doubt of the existence of eternal heaven.
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27.My gentleness and good behavior had gained so far on the Emperor and his court...I took all possible methords to cultivate this favorable disposition.
A.Identify the poet and the poem.
B.What does this passage imply?

A.Jonathan Swift;Gulliver's Travels.
B.My good manner and deeds had made such a good impression on the emperor and his subjects that I began to hope that I could be set free soon.I tried my best to develop my good image.
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28.The next morning,the police .....who could take possession of him.

A.Identify the author and the novel.
B.Why was Oliver Twist again To Let?
C.What does the author want to show us in this novel?

A.Charles Dicken;Oliver Twist.
B.Oliver Twist is punished for that"impious and profance offence of asking for more"and to be sold,at three pound ten,to Mr.Gamfield,the notorious chimney-sweeper,but failed.
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29.Because I could not stop for Death-...And Immortality.

A.Who is author of the poem?
B.What does "He"refer to?
C.What does "Carriage"refer to?

A.Emily Dickinson.
B.Death.
C.Hearse or carriage for carrying a coffin at a funeral.
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30.Do you think I was brought up like you ?...or thought it right?

A.Where is it taken from?
B.Who is the author of the play?
C.What does the statement mean?

A.Mrs.Warren's Profession.
B.George Bernard Shaw.
C.Althought Mrs.Warren didn't think what she did was right and didn't like it,she couldn't change her way of life.She had no other choice in her time.it's a exposure of the economic oppression of women.
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31.There was mucic from my neighbor's housethough the summer night...repairing the ravages of the night before.

A.Identify the author and the title.
B.What can you imply b

y reading this passage?
C.What does the "moth" symbolize?
D.What time doees the story reflect?
E.What does the novel evoke?
F.What does Gatsby's failure magnify?

A.F.Scott Fitzgerald;The Great Gatsby.
B.This passage describes Gatsby's extravagance.
C.Moths are used metaphorically to refer to those people who are drawn to the party simply for its glamour,for the wealth of Gatsby.
D.The wtenties.
E.A haunting mooding of glamorous,wild time that seemingly will never come again.
F.The end of the American dreams.
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32.Whether fagged by the three days' running chase...or whether it was latent deceitfulness and malice in him....

A.Where is it taken from?
B.Who is the author ?
C.What does "he ,his ,him"refer to?

A.Moby-Dick.
B.Herman Melville.
C.The white whale.All through the novel,the whale is personified and refered to as "he."
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33.Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel both.

A.Who is the author?
B.What does the "diverged"mean?
C.What does the line imply?

A.Robert Lee Frost.
B.It means separated and went on in different directions.
C.One has to make choice,especially,in the course of one's life.
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34....Only Miss Emily's house was left ...-an eyesore among eyesores.

A.Identify the author and the title.
B.What is meaning of "an eyesore among eyesores"?
C.What does this quoted passage indicate?

A.Faulkner;A rose for Emily.
B.The most unpleasant thinh to look at.
C.The house is a perfect mirrorimage of the owner who is stubborn and coquettish and deliberately detaches herself from the communal life in this small town.
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35.Let us go then,you and I...and sawdust restaurant with oyster-shells

A.What does the poem represent?
B.What form is the poem composed in?
C.What does the poem suggest?

A.Presenting the meditation of an aging young man over the bussiness of proposing marriage.
B.In a form of dramatic monologue.
C.Suggesting an ironic contrast between a pretended "Love song"and a confession of the speaker's incapability of facing up to love and to life in a sterile upper-class world.
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36."When the stars threw down their spears...Did he who made the lamb make thee?"

A.Identify the poet and the title.
B.Whom does the "he "refer to?
C.What does the "Lamb"symbolize?

A.The Tyger;William Blake.
B.The God.
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37."My tongue ,every atom of my blood...Hoping to cease not till death"

A.Identify the poet and the title.
B.What do "soil" and "air"represent in the first line ?
C.What does the poet try to sayin the above quoted line?

A.Walt Whitman,“Song of Myself”.
B.His native land,American and his country.
C.I was born and nuttured by this land and shall from now on devote my whole life to the country.