张伯香—英美文学选读仿真试卷

第四部分：英美文学选读仿真考试题

一、仿真试卷(1)

I. Multiple Choice (40 points, 1 for each)

Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Mark your choice by blackening the corresponding letter [A],

[B], [C] or [D] on the answer sheet.

1. Which of the following statements about the Elizabethan age is NOT true?

[A] It is the age of translation.

[B] It is the age of bourgeois revolution.

[C] It is the age of exploration.

[D] It is the age of the protestant reformation.

2. In lines ―With gold jewels cover every part, /And hide with ornaments their want of art,‖ Pope rejects ______.

[A] the ―Follow Nature‖ fallacy[B] artificiality

[C] aesthetic order [C] good taste

3. William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following EXCEPT ______.

[A] the using of everyday language spoken by the common people

[B] the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings

[C] the humble and rustic life as subject matter

[D] elegant wordings and inflated figures of speech

4. What as a cultural heritage exerted great influence over American moral values and American Romanticism as well?

[A] nationalism [B] rationalism

[C] individualism [D] Puritanism

5. The poem ―This is my letter to the World‖ expresses Emily Dickinson‘s strong feeling of her relationship with the outside world, that is,________.

[A]her indifference to the outside world

[B]her strong desire to escape from the world

[C]her anxiety about her communication with the outside world

[D]her eagerness to win favor from the readers

6. In The Tragic History of Doctor Faustus, the doctor sold his soul to the Devil for the right to use the Devil's power at will for _______.

[A] as long as he lived [B] twenty-four years

[C] two score and four years [D] the last quarter of his life span

7. Hamlet‘s melancholy derives from his ________.

[A] inability to avenge his father's death timely

[B] fear of being killed in the action of revenge

[C] fear of the consequences if he should fail in the revenge

[D] painful thoughts of being deserted and betrayed by his close relatives and friends

8. In the first book of Milton‘s Paradise Lost, the image of Satan is that of a(n) ______.

[A] proud and deceitful revolutionary

[B] evil and wretched demon

[C] defeated but not conquered hero

[D] somber and irreconcilable enemy

9. ―Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, / Their homely joys, and destiny obscure;/ Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile / The short and simple annals of the poor.‖

The above lines are probably taken from_________.

[A]Alexander Pope‘s Essay on Criticism

[B]Edmund Spenser‘s Faerie Queene

[C]John Donne‘s ―The Sun Rising‖

[D]Thomas Gray‘s ―Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard‖

10. As a literary figure, Sophia appears in Henry Fielding‘s _________.

[A] Tom Jones[B] Amelia

[C] Joseph Andrews [D] Jonathan Wild the Great

11. The unquenchable spirit of Robinson Crusoe struggling to maintain a substantial existence on

a lonely island reflects ________.

[A] man‘s desi re to return to nature

[B] the author‘s criticism of the colonization

[C] the ideal of the rising bourgeoisie

[D] the aristocrats‘ disillusionment of the harsh social reality

12. Here are four lines from a long poem: ―Others for language all their care express, /And value books, as women men, for dress.‖ The poem must be ________.

[A] Thomas Gray‘s ―Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard‖

[B] John Milton‘s Paradise Lost

[C] Alexander Pope‘s Essay on Criticism

[D] Shakespeare‘s Midsummer Night’s Dream

13. Gothic novels are mostly stories of ______, which take place in some haunted or dilapidated Middle Age castles.

[A] love and marriage [B] sea adventures

[C] mystery and horror [D] saints and martyrs

14. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is a poem written in the form of _______.

[A] ballad [B] sonnet

[C] heroic couplet [D] Spenserian stanza

15. Which of the following words is not appropriate to describe Mrs. Bennet, a character in Pride and Prejudice.

[A] beautiful [B] intelligent

[C] snobbish [D] vulgar

16. ―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.‖ What figure of speech is used in the underl ined part?

[A] paradox [B] simile

[C] irony [D] antithesis

17. In Chapter III of Oliver Twist, Oliver is punished for that ―impious and profane offence of asking for more.‖ What did Oliver ask for more?

[A] More time to play. [B] More food to eat.

[C] More books to read. [D] More money to spend.

18. The title of Alfred Tennyson‘s poem ―Ulysses‖ reminds the reader of the following except _______.

[A] the Trojan War [B] Homer‘s Odyssey

[C] adventures over the sea [D] religious quest

19. In Hardy‘s Tess of 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 society

20. ―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 wine

21. In the statement ―—oh, God! would you like to live with your soul in the grave?‖ the term ―soul‖ apparently refers to ______.

[A] Heathcliff himself [B] Catherine

[C] one‘s spiritual life[D] one‘s ghost

22. A typical feature of the English ______ literature is that w riters became social and moral critics, exposing all kinds of social evils.

[A] Renaissance [B] Romantic

[C] Victorian [D] Medieval

23. The statement ―A demanding mother turns away from her husband and gives all her aff ection to her sons‖ sums up the main plot of D. H. Lawrence‘s _________.

[A] Sons and Lovers[B] The rainbow

[C] Women in Love[D] Lady Chatterley’s Lover

24. Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Modernism?

[A] To elevate the individual and inner being over the social being.

[B] To put the stress on traditional values.

[C] To portray the distorted and alienated relationships between man and his environment.

[D] To advocate a conscious break with the past.

25. G. B. Shaw‘s play, Mrs. War ren’s Profession is a grotesquely realistic exposure of the _____.

[A] slum landlordism

[B] political corruption in England

[C] economic oppression of women

[D] religious corruption in England

26. Eliot‘s The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock is presented as a(n) _______, suggesting an ironic contrast between a pretended ―love song‖ and a confession of his incapability of facing up to love and to life in a sterile upper-class world.

[A] interior monologue [B] authentic dialogue

[C] lyric song [D] religious confession

27. Among the great writers of the modern period, _______ might be the greatest in radical experimentation of technical innovations in novel writing.

[A] Joseph Conrad [B] D. H. Lawrence

[C] E. M. Forster [D] James Joyce

28. With their joint efforts, W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, and J. M. Synge started a(n)_______ dramatic revival in the early 20th century.

[A] English [B] Scottish

[C] Irish [D] Welsh

29. According to Nathaniel Hawthorne, romance should be _______.

[A] both imaginative and creative [B] full of adventures

[C] a true record of human life [D] a mixture of facts and fancy

30. Which of the following works expressed the desire for an escape from society and a return to

nature?

[A] Dreiser‘s Sister Carrie.

[B] James‘s The Portrait of a Lady.

[C] Fitzgerald‘s The Great Gatsby.

[D] Mark Twain‘s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn .

31. ―Then all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.‖ In the quoted sentenc e, the author might imply that _____.

[A] nothing changes in the 5000 years of human history

[B] man‘s desire to conquer nature can only end in his own destruction

[C] nature is evil as it was 5000 years ago

[D] nature has the ultimate creative power

32. Transcendentalists recognized ____ as the ―highest power of the soul‖.

[A] intuition [B] logic

[C] imitation [D] rationality

33. ―This is my letter to the World‖ is a poem expressing Emily Dickinson's ____about her communication with the outside world.

[A] indifference [B] anger

[C] anxiety [D] sorrow

34. The statement that a boy‘s journey on the Mississippi River is one to freedom and moral growth may well sum up the major theme of _______.

[A] Stowe‘s Uncle Tom’s Cabin

[B] James‘s The Portrait of A Lady

[C] Dreiser‘s Sister Carrie

[D] Mark Twain‘s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

35. In fiction writing, Henry James‘s primary concern is to present the _____.

[A] inner life of human beings

[B] American Civil War and its effects

[C] life on the Mississippi River

[D] Calvinistic view of original sin

36.The white whale, Moby Dick, represents only evil for the character Ahab. What does it symbolize for Herman Melville?

[A] a mystery [B] a divine punishment

[C] a hideous force [D] nature

37. In The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne does not intend to tell a love story nor a story of sin, but focuses his attention on the moral, emotional and psychological effects of _______on the people in general and those characters in particular.

[A] sin [B] adultery

[C] Puritanism [D] fate

38. In The Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyan describes the Vanity Fair in a ______ tone.

[A] delightful [B] solemn

[C] sentimental [D] satirical

39.Francis Bacon says: ―If a man‘s wit be wandering, let him study the _____; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.

[A] mathematics [B] philosophy

[C] poetry [D] logic

40. In the ―Custom-House‖ a s an introductory note to The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne demonstrates

fully his artistic pursuit and his theory about ________.

[A] novel [B] history

[C] symbolism [D] romance

II. Reading Comprehension (16 points, 4 for each)

Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answer in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.

41. “A poet could not but be gay,

In such a jocund company;

I gazed-- and gazed--but little thought

What wealth the show to me had brought.‖

Questions:

A. Identify the poem and the poet.

B. What does the word ―jocund‖ mean?

C. What idea does the last line in the quotation express?

42. ―What kind of living will it be when you —oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?‖ (Chapter XV, Wuthering Heights)

Questions:

A.What does ―soul‖ refer to?

B.The dash after the word ―you‖ stands for something omitted. What does it stand?

C.What kind of life Heathcliff would live, according to your understanding, when his ―soul‖

is in the grave?

43. ―We passed the School, where Children strove

At Recess— in the Ring—

We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain—

We passed the Setting Sun—‖

Questions:

A. Identify the poem and the poet.

B. What do ―the School,‖ ―the Fields‖ and ―the Setting Sun‖ stand for?

C. What idea does the quoted passage express?

44. ― For I have had too much

Of apple-picking: I am overtired

Of the great harvest I myself desired.‖

Questions:

A.Identify the poem and the poet.

B.Who is the speaker?

C.What idea do the quoted lines express?

III. Questions and Answers (24 points in all, 6 for each)

Give brief answers to each of the following questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.

45. As a rule, an allegory is 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 the implied meaning of an allegory usually concerned with?

46. In Hamlet‘s soliloquy, when he says, ―To sleep, perchance to dream: —ay, there‘s the rub.‖

What is he primarily thinking about? Why does he think there is the rub?

47.―I loaf and invite my soul,/I lean and loaf at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.‖

What does the underlined part mean?

48. Why does Sister Carrie, as some critics think, best embody Dreiser‘s naturalistic belief? What is Hurstwood doing when Carrie is rocking comfortably in her luxuriant hotel room before she boards a ship for London at the end of the novel?

IV. Topic Discussion (20 points in all, 10 for each)

Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.

49. Comment on the special features of Daniel Defoe‘s language. You can discuss the topic from diction, syntax, images, figures of speech, formal or informal of the language and so on.

50. Williams Dean Howells, Mark Twain and Henry James are considered as the dominant figures of the Realistic Period in the history of American literature. Make a brief comparative study of similarities and dissimilarities in their writings.

二、仿真试卷（2）

I. Multiple Choice (40 points, 1 for each)

Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Mark your choice by blackening the corresponding letter [A],

[B], [C] or [D] on the answer sheet.

1.The work presented, for the first time in English literature, a comprehensive realistic picture

of the medieval English society and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life. The work referred to here is most likely ______.

[A] William Langland‘s Piers Plowman

[B] Geoffrey Chaucer‘s The Canterbury Tales

[C] John Gower‘s Confessio Amantis

[D] Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

2.The tragedy of Dr. Faustus, the protagonist in Christopher Marlowe‘s The Tragic History of Dr.

Faustus, is the very fact that ______.

[A]man is confined to time

[B]he did not sell his soul to God; he sold it to the Devil, instead

[C]he became a man without soul after he sold it

[D]he conjured up Helen, the lady who was the very cause of the Trojan War

3.Here are two lines from a long poem: ―Upon a great adventure he was bond, / The greatest

Gloriana to him gave.‖ The poem must be ______.

[A]Beowulf

[B]John Milton‘s Samson Agonistes

[C]Thomas G ray‘s Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

[D]Edmund Spenser‘s The Faerie Queene

4.Literature of Neoclassicism is different from that of Romanticism in that ______.

[A]the former celebrates reason, rationality, order and instruction while the latter sees

literatu re 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 models.

5.When he writes, in An Essay on Criticism, ―A vile conceit in pompous words expressed, / Is

like a clown in regal purple dressed,‖ 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 style

6.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]Johnathan Swift‘s Gulliver’s Travels

[D]Henry Fielding‘s Tom Jones

7.―The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the

rocks.‖ (Samuel Johnson, ―To the Right Honourable the Earl of Chesterfield‖) The speaker here is ______.

[A] cheerful [B] ironic [C] mysterious [D] nonchalant

8.―Surface,‖ ―Sneerwell,‖ ―Backbite,‖ and ―Candour‖ 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 Labour’s Lost[D] Christophe r Marlowe‘s Dr. Faustus

9.The first line of William Blake‘s well-known poem ―The Tyger‖ reads, ―Tyger! Tyger!

burning bright.‖ The repeated word ―tyger‖ (tiger) with an exclamation mark suggests______.

[A] joy [B] fear [C] pain [D] perplexity

10.What does Wordsworth‘s poem ―The Solitary Reaper‖ tell us about Romanticists and/or their

poetry?

[A]To romanticists, poetry is an expression of an individual‘s feelings and experiences no

matter how fragmentary and momentary these feelings and experiences are.

[B]Romanticists take delight only in sound effect; the theme of a work is not their concern..

[C]Romanticists are not patient people; they would leave before the revelation of the theme.

[D]Poetry should present the apparent and tangible.

11.The lines ―It was a miracle of rare device, / A sunny pleasure dome with caves of ice‖ are

found in_______.

[E]Samuel Taylor Coleridge‘s ―Kubla Khan‖

[F]William Wordsworth‘s ―Lines Written in Early Spring‖

[G]John Keats‘s ―Ode to Autumn‖

[H]Percy Bysshe Shelley‘s ―Ode to the West Wind‖

12.Prometheus Unbound is Shelley‘s greatest achievement. Prometheus, according to the Greek

mythology, was chained by Zeus on Mount Caucasus and suffered the vulture‘s feeding on his liver for _______.

[A]planning a revolt to dethrone God

[B]misinterpreting God‘s decree to reco ncile man and nature

[C]prophesying the arrival of spring in a winter season

[D]stealing the fire from heaven and giving it to man

13.― ?Damn the fool! There he is,‖ cried Heathcliff, sinking back into his seat. ―Hush, my darling!

Hush, hush, Catherine! I‘ll stay. If he shot me so, I‘d expire with a blessing on my lips.‘ ‖ The novel from which the passage is taken must be _______.

[A]Janes Austen‘s Pride and Prejudice

[B]Charles Dickens‘s The Old Curiosity Shop

[C]Samuel Richardson‘s Pamela

[D]Emily Bronte‘s Wuthering Heights

14.―My Last Duchess‖ is a poem that best exemplifies Robert Browning‘s _______.

[A]sensitive ear for the sounds of the English language

[B]excellent choice of words

[C]mastering of the metrical devices

[D]use of the dramatic monologue

15.Here is a passage from Middlemarch, a novel by George Eliot:

―Her blooming full-pulsed youth stood there in a moral imprisonment which made itself one with the chill, colorless, narrowed landscape, with the shrunken furniture, the never-read books, and the ghostly stag in a pale fantastic world that seemed to be vanishing from the daylight.‖

Who is the lady mentioned in the quoted passage?

[A] Dorothea. [B] Emma. [C] Molly. [D] Irene.

16.Tess of the D’Urbervilles, one of Thomas Hardy‘s best known novels, portrays man as

_______.

[A]being either hereditarily good or bad

[B]being self-sufficient

[C]having no control over his own fate

[D]still retaining his own faith in a world of confusion

17.Which of the following brings LITTLE impact on the development of 20th century literature?

[A]Friedrich Nietzche‘s assertion: ―God is dead.‖

[B]Arthur Schopenhauer‘s and Henry Bergerson‘s philosophical ideas of irrationality.

[C]T. S. Eliot‘s incantation ―Shanti, shanti, shanti,‖ the very last line of The Waste Land.

[D]Freudian-Jungian psycho-analysis.

18.The term tone in literature means _______.

[A]sound effect such as rhyme and metrical device

[B]the pitch of a word used to determine its meaning in the given context

[C]the manner of expression to indicate the speaker‘s attitude toward the subject

[D]a shade of color to reflect the change of light

19.Which of the following best describes the structure of T. S. Eliot‘s ―The Love Song of J.

Alfred Prufrock‖?

[A]―a pair of ragged claws / Scuttling across the floors of silent sea‖

[B]―pinned and wriggling on the wall‘

[C]―the yellow smoke . . . / Rubbing its back upon the windowpanes‖

[D]―Streets that follow like a tedious argument / Of insidious intent‖

20.In which of the following poems by William Butler Yeats did you find the allusion to Helen

and the Trojan War?

[A] ―Sailing to Byzantium‖[B] ―Leda and the Swan‖

[C] ―The Lake Isle of Innisfree‖[D] ―Down by the Sally Garden‖

21.―He was afraid of her—the small, severe woman with greying hair suddenly bursting out

in such frenzy. The postman came running back, afraid something had happened. They saw his tipped ca p over the short curtains. Mrs. Morel rushed to the door.‘‖

The above passage is taken from _______.

[A]Charlotte Bronte‘s The Professor

[B]Charles Dickens‘s Dombey and Son

[C]D. H. Lawrence‘s Sons and Lovers

[D]John Galsworthy‘s The Forsyte Saga

22.James Joyce is the author of all the following novels EXCEPT _______.

[A] Dubliners [B] Jude the Obscure

[C] A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man [D] Ulysses

23.Which of the following works concerns most concentratedly about the Calvinistic view of

original sin?

[A] The Wasteland.[B] The Scarlet Letter. [C] Leaves of Grass.[D] As I Lay Dying.

24.We can perhaps summarize that Walt Whitman‘s poems are characterized by all the following

features EXCEPT that they are _______.

[A] conversational and casual [B] lyrical and well-structured

[C] simple and rather crude [D] free-flowing

25.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

26.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] symbolism

27.At the beginning of Faulkner‘s A Rose for Emily,there‘s detailed description of Emily‘s old

house. The purpose of such description is to imply that the person living in it _______.

[A] is a wealth lady [B] has good taste

[C] is a prisoner of the past [D] is a conservative aristocrat

28.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 Period

29.Most of Herman Melville‘s novels are based on sea voyages and sea adventu res. Which of the

following is NOT the case?

[A] Typee[B] Moby-Dick[C] Omoo[D] The Confidence-Man

30.In Henry James‘ 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 rich

31.Two roads diverged in a yellow wood

And sorry I could not travel both …

In the two lines of Robert Frost‘s The Road Not Taken, the poet, by implication, was referring to _______ .

[A] a travel experience [B] a marriage decision

[C] a middle-age crisis [D] the course of life

32.The Transcendentalists believe that, first, nature is ennobling; and second, the individual is

_______.

[A] insignificant [B] vicious by nature [C] divine [D] forward-looking

33.Which of the following is not a work of Nathaniel Hawthorne‘s?

[A] The House of the Seven Gables [B] The Blithedale Romance

[C] The Marble Faun[D] White Jacket

34.In Hemingway‘s s hort story Indian Camp, through a story of a woman giving birth, the

protagonist, Nick Adams, receives an education of _______.

[A] birth and violent death [B] charity and benevolence

[C] racial inequality [D] devotion and kinship

35.In Hawthorne‘s novels and short stories, intellectuals usually appear as _______.

[A]commentators [B] observers [C] villains [D] saviors

36.Besides sketches, tales and essays, Washington Irving also published a book on _______,

which is also considered as an important part of his creative writing.

[A]poetic theory [B] French art [C] history of New York [D] life of George Washington

37. In Fitzgerald‘s The Great Gatsby, there is detailed description of big parties. The purpose of

such description is to show _______.

[A] emptiness of life [B] the corruption of the upper class

[C] contrast of the rich and the poor [D] the happy days of the Jazz Age

38. 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 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [B] Dreiser‘s Sister Carrie

[C] Cooper‘s Leather-Stocking Tales [D] Thoreau‘s Walden

39. 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

40. Emily Dickinson wrote many short poems on various aspect 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.

II. Reading Comprehension (16 points, 4 for each)

Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answer in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.

41.―And the native hue of resolution/Is sicklied o‘er with the pale cast of thought.‖ (Shakespeare:

Hamlet)

Questions:

A.What does the ―native hue of resolution‖ mean?

B.What does the ―pale cast of thought‖ stand for?

C.What idea do the two lines express?

42.―Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere; / Destroyer and Preserver; hear, O hear!‖

Questions:

A.Identify the poem and the poet.

B.What is the ―Wild Spirit‖?

C.What does the ―Wild Spirit‖ destroy and prese rve?

43.―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, dreading, lest the roof should thunder down upon the gray blasphemer and his hearers.‖Questions:

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?

44.(A lot of common objects have been enumerated before, and here are the last two lines of

There Was a Child Went Forth:) ―The horizon‘s edge, the flying sea-crow, the fragrance of salt marsh and shore mud./ These became part of that child who went forth every day, and who now goes, and will always go forth ever day.‖

Questions:

A.Who is author of this poem?

B.What does the ―child‖ stand for in the poem?

C.In one or two sentences, interpret the implied meaning of the two lines.

III.Questions and Answers (24 points in all, 6 for each)

Give brief answers to each of the following questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.

45.― ?My boy!‘ said the old gentleman, leaning over the d esk. Oliver started at the sound. He

might be excused for doing so, for the words were kindly said, and strange sounds frighten one. He trembled violently, and burst into tears.‖ (Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist)

Explain why the boy [Oliver Twist] started first, and then trembled violently and burst into tears when the words were ―kindly‖ said. You should take the shift of the verb tense and the whole novel into consideration.

46.Here is the last stanza of the excerpt from Byron‘s ―The Isles of Greece‖:

―Place me on Sunium‘s marble steep,

Where nothing, save the waves and I,

May hear our mutual murmurs sweep;

There, swan-like, let me sing or die;

A land of slaves ne‘er be mine—

Dash down yon cup of Samian wine.‖

Determine the speaker first and then discuss BRIEFL Y the main idea of the stanza or of the whole excerpt. You may want to consider the possible implications of the last two lines.

47.Why are naturalists inevitably pessimistic in their view?

Please discuss the above question in relation to the basic principles of literary naturalism. 48.―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 Thoedore Dreiser‘s Sister Carrie. Briefly tell the situation that leads to the suicide and interpret Hurstwood‘s final words –―What‘s the use?‖

IV.Topic Discussion (20 points in all, 10 for each)

Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.

49.Daniel Defoe‘s novel Robinson Crusoe was a great success partly because the protagonist

was a real middle-class hero. Discuss Crusoe, the protagonist of the novel, as an embodiment of the rising middle-class virtues in the mid-eighteenth century England.

50. Mark Twain has presented the 19th century America in his own unique way. Discuss Twain‘s art of fiction, the setting, the language, and the characters, etc., based on his novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

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I. Multiple Choice (40 points, 1 for each)

Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Mark your choice by blackening the corresponding letter [A],

[B], [C] or [D] on the answer sheet.

1. ―In a dream vision, Arthur witnessed the loveliness of Gloriana, and upon awakening resolves to seek her.‖ The two literary figures ―Arthur‖ and ―Gloriana‖ are from _______.

[A] Fairie Queene[B] Romeo and Juliet

[C] Dr. Faustus[D] Paradise Lost

2. ―As shades more sweetly recommend the light,

So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit;

For works may have more wit than does ?em good

As bodi es perish through excess of blood.‖

In the above lines, Pope tries to say that _______.

[A] more wit will make better poetry

[B] plainness is more important than wit in poetry

[C] too much wit will destroy good poetry

[D] plainness will make wit dull

3. For William Blake, the father (and any other in whom he saw the image of the father such as God, priest, and king) was usually a figure of ______.

[A] benevolence [B] admiration

[C] love [D] oppression

4. In Irving‘s short story ―Rip Van Winkle‖, what is the pervasive theme?

[A]strong desire for national independence from the British rule

[B]strong desire of woman‘s emancipation from man‘s domination

[C]nostalgia for the unrecoverable past

[D]nostalgia for the pastoral life in New England before the Revolutionary War.

5. While Mark Twain and Howells seemed to have paid more attention to the ―life‖ of the Americans, Henry James had apparent laid a greater emphasis on ____________.

[A] the ―inner world‘ of man [B] the ―moral world‘ of man

[C] the ―imaginative world‖ of man [D] the ―unconscious world‖ of man

6. Which of the following historical events does not directly help to stimulate the rising of the Renaissance Movement?

[A] The rediscovery of ancient Greek and Roman culture.

[B] The new discoveries in geography and astrology.

[C] The Wars of Roses.

[D] The religious reformation and the economic expansion.

7. Which of the following is not a characteristic of Marlowe‘s heroes?

[A] He is an individual with endless aspiration for power, knowledge, and glory, facing

bravely the challenge from both gods and men.

[B] He seeks the way to heaven through salvation with his trust in God and despair in Devil.

[C] He embodies Marlowe's humanistic ideal of human dignity and capacity.

[D] He is against conventional morality and contrives to obtain heaven on earth through his

own efforts.

8. Which of the following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare‘s Sonnet 18?

[A] The speaker meditates on man‘s morality.

[B] The speaker satirizes human vanity.

[C] The speaker eulogizes the power of artistic creation.

[D] The speaker tells one of his dream visions.

9. In Hamlet‘s soliloquy, when he says, ―To sleep, perchance to dream: —ay, there‘s the rub.‖

What is he primarily thinking about?

[A] The bad dreams that have recently been troubling him.

[B] The fact that if dying is like going to sleep, then perhaps after death we have bad dreams.

[C] The sinful behavior of Gertrude, whose guilty dreams he would like to know.

[D] His desire to sleep so that he will not have to take vengeful action.

10. The true subject of John Donne‘s poem, ―The Sun Rising,‖ is to______.

[A] attack the sun as an unruly servant

[B] give compliments to the mistress and her power of beauty

[C] criticize the sun‘s intrusion into the lover‘s private life

[D] lecture the sun on where true royalty and riches lie

11. In the first book of Milton‘s Paradise Lost, the image of Satan is that of a(n) ______.

[A] proud and deceitful revolutionary

[B] evil and wretched demon

[C] defeated but not conquered hero

[D] somber and irreconcilable enemy

12. In The Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyan describes The Vanity Fair in a ______ tone.

[A] delightful [B] solemn

[C] sentimental [D] satirical

13. Which of the following is N ot 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.

14. In ―Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,‖ Thomas Gray compares the common folk with the great ones, wondering what the commons could have achieved if they had had the ________.

[A] love [B] chance

[C] money [D] material wealth

15. Which of the following is a typical feature of Swift‘s writings?

[A] Great wit. [B] Bitter satire.

[C] Rich mythic allusions. [D] Complicated sentence structures.

16. Hard work, thrift, piety and sobriety, these were the _____ values that are embodied by Robinson Crusoe.

[A] Puritan [B] Neoclassical

[C] Romantic [D] feudal

17. Which of the following is NOT a quality of the west wind described by Shelley in his poem ―Ode to the West Wind‖?

[A] Wild. [B] Tamed. [C] Swift. [D] Proud.

18. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is a poem written in the form of _______.

[A] ballad [B] sonnet

[C] heroic couplet [D] Spenserian stanza

19. In a sense, we can say that Romanticism designates a literary and philosophical theory which tends to see the _____ as the very center of all life and all experience.

[A] society [B] individual

[C] family [D] country life

20. Which of the following statements about Jane Austen is not true?

[A] She holds the ideals of the landlord class in politics, religion and moral principles.

[B] She shows contemptuous feelings towards snobbery, stupidity, worldliness and vulgarity

through subtle satire and irony.

[C] She considers it her duty to express in her works the Romantic tendencies of emotion and

individuality.

[D] She upholds those traditional ideas of order, reason, proportion and gracefulness in novel

writing.

21. In Tess of the D’Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy resolutely makes a seduced girl his heroine, which clearly demonstr ates the author‘s _____ of the Victorian moral standards.

[A] blind fondness [B] total acceptance

[C] deep understanding [D] mounting defiance

22. ______ is the most representative Victorian poet whose poetry voices the doubt and the faith, the grief and the joy of the English people in an age of fast change.

[A] Robert Browning [B] Alfred Tennyson

[C] George G. Byron [D] Thomas Hardy

23. Sh e smiled, no doubt,/ Whene‘er I passed her…/… This grew; I gave commands; / Then all smiles stopped t ogether.‖

The above quoted lines imply that she _____.

[A] obeyed his order and stopped smiling at everybody, including the duke

[B] obeyed his order and stopped smiling at anybody except the duke

[C] refused to obey the order and never smiled again

[D] was murdered at the order of the duke

24. Pip, Estella, Havisham, Magwitch, and Joe Gargery are most likely the names of the characters in _________.

[A] Oliver Twist[B] David Copperfield

[C] Bleak House [D] Great Expectations

25. ―?I believe you are made of stone,‖ he said, clenching his fingers so hard that he broke the fragile cup. ?You seem to forget,‘ she said, ?that cup is not!‘‖

From the above quotation we might suppose the woman‘s tone is very _______.

[A] sarcastic [B] delightful

[C] sentimental [D] humorous

26. The statement that love and life can be best enjoyed when they are treated in the natural way may well sum up the theme of ______.

[A] Browning‘s ―Meeting at Night‖

[B] Yeats‘s ―Down by the Salley Gardens‖

[C] Tenny son‘s ―Break, Break, Break‖

[D] Keats‘s ―Ode to a Nightingale‖

27. ―Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind‖ is a famous quote from ______‘s writings.

[A] Walt Whitman [B] Henry David Thoreau

[C] Herman Melville [D] Ralph Waldo Emerson

28. The story ―Rip Van Winkle‖ reveals, to some extent, the______ attitude of its author towards the American Revolution and the young Republic.

[A] conservative [B] sympathetic

[C] indifferent D] objective

29. ―H e thinks that a romance should be able to present the truth with the writer's own creative imagination. And his narratives have thus become a neutral territory, somewhere between the real world and the fairyland, where the actual and the imaginary may meet, and each imbues itself with the nature of the other.‖

The writer who expressed his ideas about romance and neutral territory in the above quoted passage must be _____.

[A] Washington Irving [B] Ralph Waldo Emerson

[C] Nathaniel Hawthorne [D] Henry James

30. One of the characteristics that have made Mark Twain a major literary figure in the 19th century America is his use of _______.

[A] vernacular [B] interior monologue

[C] point of view [D] photographic description

31. Emily Dickinson's verse 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] sharing the same poetic conventions as Walt Whitman

[D] exhibiting a sensitiveness to the symbolic implications of experience, such as love,

death, immortality and etc..

32. In fiction writing, Henry James‘s primary concern is to present the _____.

[A] inner life of human beings [B] American Civil War and its effects

[C] life on the Mississippi River [D] Calvinistic view of original sin

33. 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 of what once desired

34. In The Emperor Jones and The Hairy Ape, O‘Neill adopted the expressionist techniques to portray the ______ of human beings in a hostile universe.

[A] helpless situation [B] uncertainty

[C] profound religious faith [D] courage and perseverance

35. At the beginning of A Rose for Emily, Faulkner uses a figurative language to describe the place where Emily lives. The house is a perfect mirror image of the owner who is supposed to be ______ and deliberately detaches herself from the communal life in this small town.

[A] friendly and generous [B] wealthy and conservative

[C] polite and dignified [D] stubborn and coquettish

36. Eugene O‘Neill‘s inventiveness seemingly knew no limits. He was constantly experimenting with new styles and forms for his plays, especially during the 1920‘s when ____________was in full swing.

[A] imagism [B] post-modernism

[C] expressionism [D] symbolism

37. Which essay of Emerson is regarded as an unofficial manifesto for the ―Transcendental Club‖?

[A] Self-reliance [B] Nature

[C] The American Scholar [D] the Over-soul

38. In Pride and Prejudice,Elizabeth Bennet finds out some weak points about her self in the process of judging others. Which of the following is NOT a weak point of hers found out by Elizabeth herself?

[A] Blindness. [B] Partiality.

[C] Snobbishness. [D] Over-confidence.

39. A typical Forsyte, according to John Galsworthy, is a man with a strong sense of ______ , who never pays any attention to human feelings.

[A] property [B] justice

[C] morality [D] humor

40. Emerson based his religion on an intuitive belief in an ultimate unity, which he called ―________‖.

[A] the Spirit [B] the Over-lord

[C] the Over-soul [D] the Self

II. Reading Comprehension (16 points, 4 for each)

Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answer in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.

41. ―For works may have more wit than does them good,

As bodies perish through excess of blood‖

Questions:

A. Identify the poem and the poet.

B. What does the word ―perish‖ mean?

C. What idea do the two lines express?

42. ―And because I am happy & dance & sing

They think they have done me no injury,

And are gone to praise God & his Priest & King,

Who make up a heaven of our misery.‖

Questions:

A. Identify the poem and the poet.

B. What is the tone of the poet?

C. What idea do the last two lines in the quotation express?

43. ―I loafe and invite my soul,

I lean and loaf at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.‖

Questions:

A. Identify the poem and the poet.

B. What does the word ―loaf‖ mean?

C. What idea does the underlined part express?

44. ―…But something fluttered lightly down through the air, and caught on the branch of a tree. The young man seized it, and beheld a pink ribbon.

?My Faith is gone!‘ cried he, after one stupefied moment. ?There is no good on earth;

and sin is but a name . Come, devil! For to thee is the world given!‘‖

Questions:

A.Where is the passage taken from? Who is the author?

B.Who is Faith? What does the name imply?

III. Questions and Answers (24 points in all, 6 for each)

Give brief answers to each of the following questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.

45.― Duke: ?I am sorry fo r thee; thou are come to answer

A stony adversary, an inhuman wretch,

Unable of pity, void and empty

From any dram of mercy.‘‖

The above quotation is taken from Act Four, Scene 1, The Merchant of Venice. What kind of attitude does the Duke show by speaking like this? Why? And why does the Duke call Shylock a stony adversary?

46．―I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!

A heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed

One too like thee: tameless, and swift, and proud.‖

The above quotation is taken from Shell ey‘s poem ―Ode to the West Wind‖. What does the underlined part mean?

47. Why does Sister Carrie, as some critics think, best embody Dreiser‘s naturalistic belief? What is Hurstwood doing when Carrie is rocking comfortably in her luxuriant hotel room before she boards a ship for London at the end of the novel?

48.In ―Indian Camp,‖ Hemingway makes a successful use of situational irony. Please illustrate this with some examples.

IV. Topic Discussion (20 points in all, 10 for each)

Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.

49. Make a brief analysis of Catherine Earnshaw, a character in Emily Bronte‘s Wuthering Heights.

50. Comment on the artistic features of Walt Whitman‘s poetry?

四、仿真试卷(4)

I. Multiple Choice (40 points, 1 for each)

Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Mark your choice by blackening the corresponding letter [A],

[B], [C] or [D] on the answer sheet.

1.The sentence ―Shall I compare thee to a summer‘s day?‖ is the beginning line of one of

Shakespeare‘s _____.

[A] comedies [B] tragedies

[C] sonnets [D] histories

2. ―So much the worse for me, that I am strong. Do I want to live? What kind of l iving will it be when you—oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?‖

In the above passage quoted from Emily Bronte‘s Wuthering Heights, the word ―soul‖ apparently refers to ______.

[A] Heathcliff [B] Catherine

[C] ghost [D] one‘s spiritual life

3. ―And where are they? And where art thou,

My country? On thy voiceless shore

The heroic lay in tuneless now—

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

In the above quotation, ―art thou‖ literally means _______.

[A] ―are you‖[B] ―art though‖

[C] ―are though‖[D] ―art you‖

4. The major concern of ______ fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature.

[A] Charles Dickens‘s[B] D. H. Lawrence‘s

[C] Thomas Hardy‘s[D] John Galsworthy‘s

5. Daniel Defoe describes ______ as a typical English middle-class man of the 18th century, the very prototype of the empire builder or the pioneer colonist.

[A] Tom Jones [B] Gulliver

[C] Moll Flanders [D] Robinson Crusoe

6. ―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 ack nowledge.‖

The above quoted sentence is presented by Samuel Johnson with a(n) ______ tone.

[A] delightful [B] jealous

[C] ironic [D] humorous

7. ―She lived unknown, and few could know/When Lucy ceased to be;/But she is in her grave, and, oh,/The d ifference to me!‖ In the quoted passage, the word ―me‖ may possibly refer to ____.

[A] the poet [B] the reader

[C] her lover [D] everybody

8. ______ is a typical feature of Swift‘s writings.

[A] Bitter satire [B] Elegant style

[C] Casual narration [D] Complicated sentence structure

9. The statement ―it reveals the dehumanizing workhouse system and the dark, criminal underworld life‖ may well sum up the main theme of Dickens‘s ______.

[A] David Copperfield[B] Bleak House

[C] Great Expectations[D] Oliver Twist

10. ―Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? … And if God had gifted me with some beauty, and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leav e you.‖

The above quoted passage is most probably taken from ______.

[A] Pride and Prejudice[A] Jane Eyre

[C] Wuthering Heights[D] Great Expectations

11. it is generally regarded that Keats‘s most important and mature poems are in the form of ____.

[A] ode [B] elegy

[C] epic [D] sonnet

12. G. B. Shaw‘s play Mrs. Warren‘s Profession is a realistic exposure of the _____ in the English society.

[A] slum landlordism [B] inequality between men and women

[C] political corruption [D] economic exploitation of women

13. In William Blake‘s poetry, the father (and any other in who he saw the image of the father such as God, priest, and king) was usually a figure of _____.

[A] benevolence [B] admiration

[C] love [D] tyranny

14. ― ?I believe you are made of stone,‘ he said, clenching his fingers so hard that he broke the fragile cup. … ?You seem to forget,‘ she said, ?that cup is not!‘‖

From the above quoted passage, we can find the woman‘s tone is very _____.

[A] sarcastic [B] amusing

[C] sentimental [D] facetious

15. 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-fulfillment

16. Alexander Pope strongly advocated _____, emphasizing that literary works should be judged

by rules of order, reason, logic, restrained emotion, good taste and decorum.

[A] sentimentalism [B] romanticism

[C] idealism [D] neoclassicism

17. After reading the first chapter of Pride and Prejudice, we may come to know that Mrs. Bennet is a woman of _____.

[A] simple character and quick wit

[B] simple character and poor understanding

[C] intricate character and quick wit

[D] intricate character and poor understanding

18. Of all the 18th-century novelists, ____ was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a ―comic epic prose,‖ and the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.

[A] Daniel Defoe [B] Samuel Richardson

[C] Henry Fielding [D] Oliver Goldsmith

19. ―Not on thy sole but on thy soul, harsh Jew,/Thou mak‘st thy knife keen.‖

In the above quotation taken from The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare employs a(n) ____.

[A] oxymoron [B] pun

[C] simile [D] synecdoche

20. In Hardy‘s W essex novels, there is an apparent ______ touch in his description of the simple and beautiful though primitive rural life.

[A] humorous [B] romantic

[C] nostalgic [D] sarcastic

21. ―O prince, O chief of many throned powers,

That led th‘ embattled seraphim to war

Under thy conduct, and in dreadful deeds

Fearless, endangered Heaven‘s perpetual King.‖

In the third line of the above passage quoted from Milton‘s Paradise Lost,the phrase ―thy conduct‖ refers to ____ conduct.

[A] Stan‘s[B] God‘s

[C] Adam‘s[D] Eve‘s

22. We can perhaps describe the west wind in Shelley‘s poem ―Ode to the West Wind‖ with all the following terms EXCEPT ____.

[A] tamed [B] swift

[C] proud [D] wild

23. In 1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson made a speech entitled _____ at Harvard, which was hailed by Oliver Wendell Holmes as ―Our intellectual Declaration of Independence.‖

[A] ―Nature‖[B] ―Self-Reliance‖

[C] Divinity School Address‖[D] ―The American Scholar‖

24. In Hawthorne‘s ―Young Goodman Brown,‖ a satanic f igure leads the credulous protagonist to

a witches‘ Sabbath in the woods. There he recognizes many pillars of Salem‘s Puritan society as well as his wife, Faith. The story illustrates Hawthorne‘s allegorical theme of human evil or what Melville called the ―power of _____.‖

[A] blackness [B] whiteness

[C] terror [D] hypocrisy