2011年4月高自考英美文学选读试题 及答案

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

Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Write the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the answer sheet.

1. One of Shelley? s greatest political lyrics is ________, which was later to become a rallying song

of the British Communist Party.

A. “Ode to Liberty”

B. “Ode to Naples”

C. “Sonnet: England in 1819”

D. “Men of England”

2. In Charles Dickens? work ________, the Utilitarian principle rules over the English education

system and destroys young hearts and minds.

A. Little Dorrit

B. Hard Times

C. Great Expectations

D. Bleak House

3. The tragic sense turns into despair in Thomas Hardy?s ________, where cornered by the traditional social morality, the hero and the heroine have to kill their own will and passion and return to

their former destructive way of life.

A. The Return of the Native

B. The Mayor of Casterbridge

C. Tess of the D? Urbervilles

D. Jude the Obscure

4. The typical representatives of G. B. Shaw? s early plays are ________.

A. Man and Superman; The Apple Cart

B. Widowers? House; Mrs. Warren? s Profession

C. Candida; Mrs. Warren? s Profession

D. The Apple Cart; Widowers? House

5. As a critic of music and drama, ________ held that art should serve social purposes by reflecting

human life, revealing social contradictions and educating the common people.

A. T. S. Eliot

B. Oscar Wilde

C. George Bernard Shaw

D.W. B. Yeats

6. Symbolism and complex narrative are employed more richly in D. H. Lawrence?s ________,

which are generally regarded as his masterpieces.

A. Women in Love; Sons and Lovers

B. The Rainbow; Women in Love

C. Sons and Lovers; Lady Chatterley?s Lover

D. Lady Chatterley? s Lover; The Rainbow

7. T. S. Eliot won the Nobel Prize of Literature in ________.

A. 1945

B. 1948

C. 1952

D. 1956

8. Thomas Hardy?s pessimistic view of life predominates most of his later works and earns him a

reputation as a ________ writer.

A. realistic

B. naturalistic

C. romantic

D. stylistic

9. “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 leave you. ” The quoted lines are most probably taken from ________.

A. Great Expectations

B. Wuthering Heights

C. Jane Eyre

D. Pride and Prejudice

10. The most distinguishing feature of Charles Dickens? works is ________.

A. the vernacular and large vocabulary

B. his humor and wit

C. character-portrayal

D. pictures of pathos

11. G. B. Shaw? s play ________ established his position as the leading playwright of his time.

A. Widowers? Houses

B. Too True to Be Good

C. Mrs. Warren? s Profession

D. Candida

12. Jane Austen? s first novel ________ tells a story about two sisters and their love affairs.

A. Sense and Sensibility

B. Pride and Prejudice

C. Northanger Abbey

D. Mansfield Park

13. “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” the quoted line comes from ________.

A. Shelley?s “Ode to the West Wind”

B. Walt Whitman? s Leaves of Grass

C. John Milton?s Paradise Lost

D. John Keats?“ Ode on a Grecian Urn”

14. All of the following poems by William Wordsworth are masterpieces on nature EXCEPT

________.

A. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”

B. “An Evening Walk”

C. “Tinter Abbey”

D. “The Solitary Reaper”

15. William Blake?s ________ marks his entry into maturity.

A. Poetical Sketches

B. Songs of Innocence

C. Marriage of Heaven and Hell

D. Songs of Experience

16. Henry Fielding? s ________ brings him the name of “Prose Homer”.

A. The History of Jonathan Wild the Great

B. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

C. The History of Amelia

D. The History of Joseph Andrews

17. Among the three major poetical works by John Milton, ________ is the most perfect example of

verse drama after the Greek style in English.

A. Samson Agonistes

B. Paradise Lost

C. Paradise Regained

D. Areopagitica

18. T.S. Eliot? s ________ not only presents a panorama of phys ical disorder and spiritual desolation in the modern Western world, but also reflects the prevalent mood of disillusionment and

despair of a whole post- war generation.

A. The Hollow Men

B. The Waste Land

C. Murder in the Cathedral

D. Ash Wednesday

19. In ________, Shakespeare has not only made a profound analysis of the social crisis in which

the evils can be seen everywhere, but also criticized the bourgeois egoism.

A. Hamlet

B. Othello

C. King Lear

D. Macbeth

20. John Milton?s greatest poetical work ________ is the only generally acknowledged epic in

English literature since Beowulf.

A. Areopagitica

B. Paradise Lost

C. Lycidas

D. Samson Agonistes

21. The work ________ by William Blake is a lovely volume of poems, presenting a happy world,

though not without its evils and sufferings.

A. Songs of Innocence

B. Songs of Experience

C. Poetical Sketches

D. Lyrical Ballads

22. The plays known as “the Lawrence trilogy” are all the following EXCEPT ________.

A. A Collier? s Friday Night

B. Lady Chatterley? s Lover

C. The Daughter - in - Law

D. The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyed

23. Greatly and permanently affected by the ________ experiences, Hemingway formed his own

writing style, together with his theme and hero.

C. war

D. sailing

24. “The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one -eighth of it being above water. ” This

“iceberg” analogy about prose style was put forward by ________.

A. William Faulkner

B. Henry James

C. Ernest Hemingway

D. F·Scott Fitzgerald

25. In Go Down, Moses, ________ illuminates the problem of black and white in Southern society

as a close- knit destiny of blood brotherhood.

A. William Faulkner

B. Jack London

C. Herman Melville

D. Nathaniel Hawthorne

26. In Death in the Afternoon ________ presents his philosophy about life and death through the

depiction of the bullfight as a kind of microcosmic tragedy.

A. William Faulkner

B. Jack London

C. Ernest Hemingway

D. Mark Twain

27. William Faulkner once said that ________ is a story of “lost innocence,” which prov es itself to

be an intensification of the theme of imprisonment in the past.

A. The Great Gatsby

B. The Sound and the Fury

C. Absalom, Absalom!

D. Go Down, Moses

28. Walt Whitman believed, by means of “________,” he has turned poetry into an open field, an

area of vital possibility where the reader can allow his own imagination to play.

A. free verse

B. strict verse

C. regular rhyming

D. standardized rhyming

29. Herman Melville?s second famous work, ________, was not published until 1924, 33 years after

his death.

A. Pierre

B. Redburn

C. Moby-Dick

D. Billy Budd

30. In 1920, ________ published his first novel This Side of Paradise which was, to some extent,

his own story.

A. F·Scott Fitzgerald

B. Ernest Hemingway

C. William Faulkner

D. Emily Dickinson

31. Unlike his contemporaries in the early 20th century, ________ did not break up with the poetic

tradition nor made any experiment on form.

A. Walt Whitman

B. Robert Frost

32. While Mark Twain seemed to have paid more attention to the “life” of the Americans, ________

had apparently laid a grea ter emphasis on the “inner world” of man.

A. William Howells

B. Henry James

C. Bret Harte

D. Hamlin Garland

33. At the age of eighty -seven, ________ read his poetry at the inauguration of President John F.

Kennedy in 1961.

A. Robert Frost

B. Walt Whitman

C. Ezra Pound

D.T. S. Eliot

34. Of all Herman Melville?s sea adven ture stories, ________ proves to be the best.

A. Typee

B. Redburn

C. Moby – Dick

D. Omoo

35. Man is a “victim of forces over which he has no control. ” This is a notion held strongly by

________.

A. Robert Frost

B. Theodore Dreiser

C. Henry James

D. Hamlin Garland

36. With the publication of ________, Theodore Dreiser was launching himself upon a long career that would ultimately make him one of the most significant American writers of the school later known as

literary naturalism.

A. Sister Carrie

B. The Titan

C. An American Tragedy

D. The Stoic

37. Nathaniel Hawthorne was affected by ________?s transcendentalist theory and struck up a

very intimate relationship with him.

A. H. W. Longfellow

B. Walt Whitman

C. R. W. Emerson

D. Washington Irving

38. Among the following writers ________ is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th

-century “stream - of - consciousness” novels and the founder of psyc hological realism.

A. T. S. Eliot

B. James Joyce

C. William Faulkner

D. Henry James

39. Walt Whitman wrote down a great many poems to air his sorrow for the death of President

______, and one of the famous is “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom? d. ”

A. Washington

B. Lincoln

C. Franklin

D. Kennedy

40. The Marble Faun by Nathaniel Hawthorne, a romance set in______, is concerned about the

dark aberrations of the human spirit.

A. France

B. Spain

C. England

D. Italy

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

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

41.“Shah I compare thee to a summer?s day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate:

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer?s lease hath all too short a date:”

Questions:

A. Who?s the poet of the quoted stanza, and what?s the title of the poem?

B. What figure of speech is employed in the poem?

C. What is the theme of the poem?

42. “When the stars threw down their spears,

And water? d heaven with their tears,

Did he smile his work to see?

Did he who made the Lamb make thee ?”

Questions:

A. Who?s the poet of the quoted stanza, and what?s the tit le of the poem?

B. Whom does the “he” refer to?

C. What does the “Lamb” symbolize?

43. “My tongue, every atom of my blood, form? d from this soil, this air,

Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their parents the same,

I, now thirty- seven years old in perfect health begin,

Hoping to cease not till death”

Questions:

A. Who?s the poet of the quoted stanza, and what?s the title of the poem?

B. What do “soil” and “air” represent in the first line?

C. What does the poet try to say in the above quoted lines?

44. “ …Is dying hard, Daddy??

…No, I think it?s pretty easy, Nick. It all depends. ?”

Questions:

A. Who?s the author of the quoted part, and what?s the title of the work?

B. What was Nick preoccupied with when he asked the question?

C. Why did the father add “It all depends” after he answered his son?s question?

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

Give a brief answer to each of the following questions in English. Write your answers in the

corresponding space on the answer sheet.

45. What?s the theme of Emily Bronte? s Wuthering Heights?

46. It is said that B. Shaw? s play Mrs. Warren? s Profession, has a strong realistic theme, which

fully reflects the dramatist?s Fabianist idea. What?s the theme of the work?

47. What?s the theme of Nathaniel Hawthorne? s Young Goodman Brown?

48. Daisy Miller brought Henry James international fame for the first time. What?s the character of

Daisy Miller, the protagonist?

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 comment on the character of Jane Eyre, the heroine of the novel by Charlotte Bronte.

50. Why are naturalists inevitably pessimistic in their view?

答案及评分参考

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

1-5: DBDBC 6-10: BBBCC 11-15: DAADC 16-20: BABCB

21-25: ABCCA 26-30: CBADA 31-35: BBACB 36-40: ACDBD

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

41. A. Sonnet 18, Shakespeare;

B. Personification

C. A nice summer?s day is usually transient, but the beauty in poetry can last for ever.

A、B点各1分，C点2分。语言错误酌情扣分。

42. A. The Tyger, William Blake

B. The God

C. Lamb symbolizes peace and purity.

A、B点各1分，C点2分。语言错误酌情扣分。

43. A. Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself”;

B. His native land, America or his country

C. I was born and nurtured by this land and shall from now on devote my whole life to the country

A、B点各1分，C点2分。语言错误酌情扣分。

44. A. Ernest Hemingway, India Camp

B. Life and death

C. When the father says that dying is pretty easy, he might be thinking 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.

A、B点各1分，C点2分。语言错误酌情扣分。

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

45. A. The novel is a riddle which means different things to different people.

B. From a social point of view, it is a story about a poor man abused;

C. As a love story, beautiful and horrible passion in human beings.

A、B、C三点各2分，语言错误酌情扣分。

46. A. As one of the influential members of the Fabian Society, Shaw regarded the establishment of socialism by the emancipation of land and industrial capital from individual and class ownership as the

final goal.

B. As a realistic dramatist, he took the modern social issues as his subjects. Most of his plays

are concerned with political, economic, moral, or religious problems.

C. Mrs. Warren?s Profession is a play about the econo mic oppression of women.

A、B点各1分，C点2分。语言错误酌情扣分。

47. A. Young Goodman Brown is essentially an allegory. It is concerned with a young Puritan who

attends a witches? Sabbath in the woods. (1分)

B. Goodman Brown?s journey is a symbolic journey of discovering sin and evil in human hea rts.

The discovery is horrible in that it makes Brown a distrust and doubtful man forever. (2分)

C. In dealing with the theme of guilt and sin, Hawthorne exemplifies the “power of blackness”. (1

分)

D. The story faithfully reflects Hawthorne?s Puritan belief: “There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity”. (2

分)

语言错误酌情扣分。

48. A. the American Girl in Europe, embodying the spirit of the New World.

B. Innocence 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.

A、B两点各三分，语言错误酌情扣分。

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

49. A. Jane Eyre is an orphan child with a fiery spirit and a longing for love and be loved. (3分)

B. She is a poor, plain, little governess who dares to love her master and cuts a completely new

woman image. (3分)

C. Jane Eyer represent those middle-class working women who are struggling for recognition of

their basic rights and equality as a human being. (4分)

语言错误酌情扣分。

50. A. Naturalism was greatly influenced by Darwin?s evolutionary theory and French literature. (2

分)

B. Naturalists accepted the more negative implications of Darwin?s theory and us ed it to count for the behavior of those characters in literary works who were conceived as more or less complex combinations of inherited attributes, their habits conditioned by social and economic forces. (5分)

C. Naturalism is evolved from realism whe n the author?s tone in writing becomes less serious

and less sympathetic but more ironic and more pessimistic. (3分)

语言错误酌情扣分。