全国自考英美文学选读(综合)模拟试卷2.doc
全国自考英美文学选读(综合)模拟试卷2
全国自考英美文学选读（综合）模拟试卷2(总分：20.00，做题时间：90分钟)一、阅读理解(总题数：3，分数：6.00)1.To bow and sue for graceWith suppliant knee, and deify his power...—that were low indeed,That were an ignominy, and shame beneathThis downfall;...Questions:A. Who is the author?B. What is the title of the poem?C. What is the main idea?（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：(正确答案：A. John Milton. B. Paradise Lost. C. To beg God for mercy and worship his power were more shameful and disgraceful than this downfall.)解析：2.I celebrate myself, and sing myself,And what I assume you shall assume,For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.Questions:A. Identify the author and the work.B. What are the two principal beliefs that the poet set in this poem?（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：(正确答案：A. From Walt Whitman' s "Song of Myself". B. The two beliefs are the belief in the theory of universality and the belief in the singularity and equality of all beings in value.)解析：3."...Only Miss Emily' s house was left, rifting its stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton wagons and the gasoline pumps—an eyesore among eyesores. "Questions:A. Identify the author and the title of the story from which the quoted lines are taken.B. What is the meaning of "an eyesore among eyesores" ?C. What does this quoted passage indicate?（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：(正确答案：A. Faulkner, A Rose for Emily. B. The most unpleasant thing to look at. C. The house is a perfect mirror image of the owner who is stubborn and coquettish and deliberately detaches herself from the communal life in this small town.)解析：二、简答题(总题数：4，分数：8.00)4.As a novelist Jane Austen writes within a very ______ sphere. The subject matter, the character range, the social setting, and plots are all restricted to the ______ of the late 18th-century England, concerning three or four landed gentry families with their daily routine life.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：(正确答案：Shelley eulogized the powerful west wind and expressed his eagerness to enjoy the boundless freedom from the reality.)解析：5.Analyze the character of Jane Eyre taken from Jane Eyre.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：(正确答案：A. Jane Eyre, an orphan child with a fiery spirit and a longing to love and be loved, a poor, plain, little governess who dares to love her master. B. In Chapter XXIII, Jane finds herself hopelessly in love with Mr. Rochester but she is aware that her love is out of thequestion. When forced to confront Mr. Rochester, she desperately and openly declares her equality with him and her love for him.)解析：6.What are the features of Whitman' s poetry?（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________正确答案：(正确答案：A. His poetic style is marked by the use of poetic "I". B. He adopted" free verse" , poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme. C. The images in his poems are unconventional. D. He uses oral English. E. His vocabulary is amazing. F. Parallelism and phonetic recurrence are used at the beginning of the lines.)解析：7.Some of Hemingway' s heroes are regarded as the Hemingway code heroes. Whatever the differences in experience and age, they all have something in common which Hemingway values. What are the characteristics of the Hemingway code hero?（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________正确答案：(正确答案：A. They have seen the cold world and for one cause or another, they boldly and courageously face the reality; whatever the result is, they are ready to live with grace under pressure. B. Almost all his heroes are" soldiers" either in a narrow or broad sense. They are out there to fight against nature or the world, or even themselves. But no matter where the battleground is and how tragic the ending is, they will never be defeated. C. Hemingway himself is one of those Code heroes; some critics say his protagonists are autobiographical, for they share something that is Hemingway' s.)解析：三、论述题(总题数：3，分数：6.00)8.Robinson Crusoe is universally considered as Daniel Defoe' s masterpiece. Robinson, apparently, is cast as a typical 18th-century pioneer colonist. Give a brief comment on Robinson Crusoe. （分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________正确答案：(正确答案：A. In Robinson Crusoe, Defoe traces the growth of Robinson from a naive and artless youth into a shrewd and hardened man, tempered by numerous trials in his eventful life. The realistic account of the successful struggle of Robinson single-handedly against the hostile nature forms the best part of the novel. B. Robinson is here a real hero; a typical eighteenth-century English middle-class man, with a great capacity for work, inexhaustible energy, courage, patience and persistence in overcoming obstacles, in struggling against the hosr tile natural environment. He is the very prototype of the empire builder, the pioneer colonist. C. In describing Robinson' s life on the island, Defoe glorifies human labor and the puritan fortitude, which save Robinson from despair and are a source of pride and happiness. He toils for the sake of subsistence, and the fruits of his labor are his own.)解析：9.Make a brief comment on Elizabeth ' s character in Pride and Prejudice.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________正确答案：(正确答案：A. Elizabeth is clever, alert, observant. She is more observant and less charitable than Jane in recognizing the characters of Bingley' s sisters. She recognizes Mr. Collins' character in his letter and after meeting him turns down firmly and with dignity his patronizing proposal. She is able to match wits with Darcy several times and with Colonel Fitzwilliam, earning their respect and admiration. B. Fearless and frank, not rattled by the attack of Lady Catherine de Bourgh, she wins a notable victory, sending her Ladyship away completelyrouted. She is independent but not infallible in her judgment—taken in by the charm of the worthless Wickham. She cannot be blamed for misjudging Darcy. C. She shows flexibility, discernment, and honesty of mind when she reads Darcy' s defense in his letter and admits the justice of much of what he says, thus beginning to lose her prejudice against him. She recognizes and values true worth when she encounters it in Jane, the Gardiners, and, near the end of the novel, in Darcy. She sees more clearly than her father the danger of sending Lydia to Brighton.D. She is able to control her emotions at times of stress—when she first encounters Darcy at Pemberley; when she realizes that she loves Darcy and has good reason to fear that she has lost him,she waits without repining for time to bring a solution. She is witty, fun-loving, recognizes humor in herself and in others, but ridiculing only folly, nonsense, and inconsistencies. She recognizes the follies of her own family and their shortcomings as well as their virtues.E. She is considerate of others but quite capable of asserting herself when occasion demands. She has a playful and unaffected manner, sunny disposition, natural animation, sense of fun, and sweet reasonableness. She is ready to laugh at herself and everything save "what is wise and good". She shows a sense of humor by telling what Darcy has said about her at the Meryton ball.)解析：10.Take Mark Twain' s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as an example to illustrate the statement that Mark Twain was a unique writer in American literature.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：(正确答案：A. Mark Twain shaped the world' s view of America and made an extensive combination of American folk humor and serious literature. B. The novel has become a great contribution to the legacy of American literature. C. The novel is written in a language that is totally different from the rhetorical language used by Mark Twain' s contemporary writers such as Emerson, Poe and Melville. It is simple, direct, lucid and faithful to the colloquial speech. This style of colloquialism is best described as " vernacular". D. He successfully used local color and historical settings to illustrate and shed light on the contemporary society. That' s why he is known as a local colorist. E. Mark Twain' s humor is remarkable, too. Most of his works tend to be funny, containing some practical jokes, comic details, witty remarks, etc. Some of them are typically tall tales. And a great deal of his humor is characterized by puns, straight-faced exaggeration, repetition, and anti-climax. He uses his humor to criticize the social injustice and satirize the decayed romanticism.)解析：。
全国高等教育自学考试模拟试卷(一)英美文学选读
全国高等教育自学考试模拟试卷（一）英美文学选读（考试时间150分钟）（英语专业）A. Each of the statements below is following by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement and put the letter in the brackets. (20×1 points)( )1. In Spenser's "The Faerie Queene", _____ is the play role in each of the 12 major adventures.A. ArthurB. RedcrosseC. UnaD. Archimago( )2. In Milton's works, "______" is the greatest, indeed the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since "Beowulf".A. Paradise LostB. Paradise RegainedC. Samson AgonistesD. Lycidas( )3.______was regarded as "Father of the English Novel", for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.A. Daniel DefoeB. Jonathan SwiftC. Jane AustenD. Henry Fielding( )4. ______ 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 Dryden( )5. The "Byronic hero" first appears in Byron's works, "______".A. Childe Harold's PilgrimageB. Don JuanC. Oriented TalesD. Manfred( )6. ______ made criticism on Elizabethan drama, which renewed interest in Shakespeare and led to the discovery of his contemporaries.A. ColeridgeB. ByronC. WordsworthD. Keats( )7. _______ is the most distinguishing feature of Charles Dickens' works.A. LanguageB. Character - PortrayalD. Plot( )8 In 1847, the Bronte Sisters published the following famous novels except "_____".A. Jane EyreB. ShirleyC. Wuthering HeightsD. The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall( )9. In ______ 's hands, "dramatic monologue" reaches its maturity and perfection.A. Alfred TennysonB. Robert BrowningC. William ShakespeareD. George Eliot( )10.As a woman of exceptional intelligence and life experience, George Eliot shows a particular concern for_______.A. the feminismB. the education for womenC. the destiny of womenD. the low status of women( )11. Symbolism appeared in the late 19th century in _________.A. FranceC. EnglandD. Italy( )12. The three trilogies of _______ 's Forsyte novels are masterpieces of critical realism in the early 20th century.A. John GalswortryB. Arnold BennettC. Jame JoyceD. H. G. Wells( )13. In the following statements, ________ is Bernard Shaw's political point of view.A. He regarded the establishment of socialism by the emancipation of land and industrial capital from individual and class ownership as the final goal.B. He was for the means of violent revolution of armed struggle in achieving the goal of socialism.C. He had a trust of the uneducated working class in fighting against capitalists.D. He held that both those superior intellects and those industrial workers could have the ability to shoulder the task of fighting against the capitalism.( )14. The New England transcendentalism was from the very beginning alocal phenomenon restricted only to those people living in new England, who carried out the movement as a reaction against the cold, rigid rationalism of _____ in Boston.A. PuritanismB. CalvinismC. ClassicismD. Unitarianism( )15. In the following statements, ______ is not true as to Washington Irving's famous story "Rip Van Winkle".A. The story is a tale remembered mostly for Rip's 20 - year sleep, set against the background of the inevitably changing America.B. In the story Irving skillfully presents to us paralleled juxtapositions of two totally different worlds before and after Rip's 20 years' sleep.C. Irving describes Rip's response and reaction in dramatic way, so that we see clearly both the narrator and Irving agree on the preferability of the present to the past, and the preferability of the real world to a dream - like one.D. The social conservatism and literary preference for the past is revealed, to some extent, in the story.( )16. ______ is not among the artistic features of Whitman's writing.A. The use of the poetic "I"B. Free verseC. Musicality or rhythmD. Allegory( )17. Henry James's fame generally rests upon his novels and stories with________.A. the love and marriage themeB. the theme of humor and satire on lifeC. the theme of revealing the miserable life of the poor and criticizing the capitalismD. the international theme( )18. In the following statements, ______ is not true as to the backgrounds for the American literature between the two world wars. A. The United states had become the most powerful industrialized nation in the world.B. The technological revolution had brought about great changes in the life of the American people.C. The Crash marked the beginning of "The Great Economic Depression" in the 1920s.D. Despite its booming industry and material prosperity, there was a sense of unease and restlessness underneath.( )19. Ezra Pound's "The Cantos" is______.A. lyricsB. epic poemC. odeD. pastoral( )20. _______ is acknowledged by many as the most original poet of the Victorian period.A. Robert BrowningB. Alfred TennysonC. George EliotD. John KeatsB. Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase according to the textbook. (20×1 points)1. _______ is the essence of the Renaissance.2. In "The Faerie Queene", the Redcrosse knight in Book I stands for St. George, and Sir Guyon in Book II Represents Temperance. Such kind of writing style is called _________.3. "Hamlet", "Othello", "King Lear" and "_____" are generally regarded as Shakespeare's four great tragedies.4. As a representative of the enlightenment, Pope was one of the first to introduce ______ to England.5. ______ 's novels are the first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower - class people.6. The literary form of neo - classicism is of the strict symmetry. The prevailing genre of neoclassical literature is ______ which consists of tworiming lines of iambic pentameter, and the second line completes the thoughts expressed by the couplet.7. _____ is central to Blake's concern in the "Songs of Innocence" and "Songs of Experience".8. The poet Robert Southey as well as Coleridge and Wordsworth lived nearby and the three men became known as the "_______".9. Jane Austen's masterpiece is "____________".10. _________ is Robert Browning's masterpiece.11. The realistic novels of the 1920s and 1930s were more or less touched by a pessimistic mood, preoccupied with the theme of ________, and shaped in different forms.12 In the mid - 1950s and early 1960s, there appeared a group or young novelists and playwrights with lower - middle - class background, who were known as "___________".13. Melville is best known as the author of one book named ________, which is, critics have agreed, one of the world's greatest masterpieces. 14. The particular concern about the local character of a region came about as "______", a unique variation of American literary realism.15. By the turn of the century, with the publication of "The Man That Corrupted Hadleybury" (1900) and "The Mysterious Stranger" (1916), the change in Mark Twain from an optimist to an almost despairing pessimist could be fell and his cynicism and disillusionment with whatTwain referred to regularly as the "________" became obvious.16. As a sequel to "Tom Sawyer", "_________" marks the climax of Twain's literary creativity.17. One of James's literary techniques innovated to cater for the psychological emphasis is his narrative "________".18. The postwar poet Robert Lowell is the leading figure of _________ poetry.19. In Fitzgerald's great fiction, there's always full of the main theme of the bankruptcy of the "______", especially in "The Great Gatsby" (1925).20. Most of Faulkner's works are set in the American South about people from a small region in Northern Messissippi, __________ County.C. Decide whether the following statements are true or false and write your answers in the brackets. (10×1 points)（）1. In his poetry, Donne frequently applies conceits, i. e. extended metaphors involving dramatic contrasts.（）2. "The Pilgrim's Progress" is the most successful religious allegory in the English language.（）3. The 19th century produced the first English novelists, who fall into two groups the sentimentalist novelists and the realist novelists. ( )4. The most important contribution Byron has made is that he has not only started the modern poetry, the poetry of the growing inner self, but also changed the course of English poetry by using ordinary speech ofthe language and by advocating a return to nature.( )5. Generally speaking, Jane Austen was a writer of the 18th - century, though she lived mainly in the nineteenth century.( )6. In the Victorian period, the novel became the most widely read and the most vital and challenging expression of progressive thought. ( )7. "The Waste Land", Eliot's most important single poem, has been hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th - century English poetry, comparable to Wordsworth's "Lyrical Ballads".( )8. While Mark Twain and Henry James seemed to have paid more attention to the "life" of the Americans, Howells had apparently laid a greater emphasis on the "inner world" of man.( )9. Dickinson's poetry is unique and unconventional in its own way. Her poems have no titles hence are always quoted by their first lines. In her poetry there is a particular stress pattern, in which dashes are used as a musical device to create cadence and capital letters as a means of emphasis.( )10. Most of Faulkner's works are set in the American North, with his emphasis on the Northern subjects and consciousness.D. Name the author of the following literary works. (5×1 points)1. The Passionate Shepherd to His Love2. Composed upon Westminster Bridge3. The Moll on the Floss4. Break, Break, Break.5. A Portrait of the Artist As a Young ManE. Define the literary terms listed below. (2×4 points)1. The Heroic Couplet2. Stream of ConsciousnessF. 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. (2×4 points)1. "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the les,The plowman homeward plods his weary way,And leaves the world to darkness and to me."2. "Round the cape of a sudden came the sea,And the sun looked over the mountain's rim:And straight was a path of gold for him,And the need of a world of men for me."G. Give brief answers to the following questions. (3×5 points)1. Make a comment on the image of Robinson Crusoe.2. What are the features of Charles Dickens's novels?3. What's Nathaniel Hawthorne's "black" vision of life and human beings?H. Short essay questions. (2×7 points)1. How is the fatalism revealed in Hardy's works?2. Analyse the artistic features of Earnest Hemingway's novels.。
《英美文学选读》模拟试题(2)
《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/Jews4.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.6.Una in The Faerie Queene stands for ______.A. chastityB. holinessC. truthD. error7._____ first make blank verse the principle instrument of English drama.A. ShakespeareB. WyattC. SidneyD. Marlowe8.“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. elegy … narrativeD. personific ation … 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 GreatB. The Jew or MaltaC. CymbelineD. 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 DreamC. As You like ItD. The dactyl14._____ is the most common foot in English poetry.A. The iambB. The anapestC. The trocheeD. The dactyl15.“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. The Fairie QueeneB. Remeo and JulietC. Dr. FaustusD. Paradise Lost16.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 Dryden19.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 comple ted a long autobiographical poem entitled “_____”.A. Biographic literaryB. The PreludeC. Lucy PoemsD. The Lyrical Ballads21.Which is Shelley’s masterpiece?A. Queen MabB. Prometheus UnboundC. Prometheus BoundD. The Revolt of Islam22.Which is Shelley’s work of literary criticism?A. An Essay on criticismB. A Defence of PoetryC. 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 realism24.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 Dickinson25._____ was a critical realist and also a severe exposer of contemporary society. His novels, such as “Vanity Fair” , are mainly a sat irical portrayal of the upper strata of society.A. George EliotB. Elizabeth GaskellC. William Makepeace ThackerayD. John Bunyan26.Dickens takes the French Revolution as the background of the novel “______”.A. A Tale of Two CitiesB. Great ExpectationsC. Hard TimesD. David Copperfield27.The renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events, which one of the following is not such an event?A. The rediscovery of ancient roman and Greek culture.B. England’s domestic rest.C. new discovery in geography and astrology.D. the religious reformation and the economic expansion.28.“So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,/ so long lives this , and this gives life to thee.” What does “this” means?A. loverB. timeC. summerD. poetry29.The giant Moby Dick may symbolize all except .A mystery of the universeB sin of the whaleC power of the great natureD evil of the world30.In Shelley’s to a skylark”, the bird, suspended b etween reality and poetic image, pours forth an exultant song which suggests to the poet .A. both celestial rapture and human limitationB. both image creation and profound meaningC. both music and wordsD. both inspiration and skill of writing31.“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless?...”The above quoted passage is most probably taken from .A Great ExpectationsB Wuthering HeightsC Jane EyreD Pride and Prejudice32.“And n ow he stared at her so earnestly that I thought the very intensity of is gaze would bring tears into his eyes; but they burned with anguish, they did not melt” are found in .A. Wuthering HeightsB. Jane EyreC. Gulliver’s TravelsD. Paradise Lost33.Theodore Dreiser is generally regarded as one of America’s .A. naturalistB. realistsC. modernistsD. romanticists34.The first two lines of Dennison’s poem “Break, Break, Break” on thy cold grey stones, o sea!” the repeated word“ break” suggests .A. joyB. fearC. fondnessD. hatred35.“O prince, O chief of my throned powers,/ that led th’embattled seraphim to war/Under thy conduct, and in dreadful deeds/ Fearless, endangered heaven’s perpetual king’” In the third line of the above passage quoted from Melton’s Paradise Lost, the phrase “thy conduct” refers to conduct.A. god’sB. Satan’sC. Adam’sD. Eve’s36.Who exerts the single most important influence on literary naturalism?A. EmersonB. jack LondonC. Theodore DreiserD. Darwin37.In terms of Elegy written in a country churchyard, which is wrong?A. the author employs metaphor in this poemB. the author excessively expresses his personal melancholyC. here he reveals his sympathy for the poor and the unknown.D. he mocks the great ones who despise the poor and bring havoc on them.38.Most of Thomas Hardy’s novels are set in Wessex-- .A. a crude region in EnglandB. a fictional primitive regionC. a remote rural areaD. Hardy’s hometo wn39.“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 neer be mine --- dash down you cup of samian wine!” these lines are taken from .A. The Isles of Greece by ByronB. Elegy Written In a Country Churchyard by Thomas GrayC. The Solitary Reaper by William WordsworthD. Song for the Luddites by George Gordon Byron二、综合题1.Reading Comprehension:It was you that broke the new wood,Now is a time for carving.We have one sap and one root---Let there be commerce between us.Questions:A. What is the title from which these lines are taken?B. Who does “you” refers to?C. What is the meaning of “broke are new wood”?2.Read the quoted part carefully and answer the questions in English.By this time Mrs. Morel was trembling violently. Struggles of this kind often took place between her and her son, when she seemed to fight for his very 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’ 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.”A. This passage is taken from the novel “_____”.B. The author of the novel is _____.C. “He” in the passage refers to _____, and he is the _____ of Mrs. Morel.D. The relationship of the two characters as implied in the passage is something of the type of _____.3.Reading Comprehension:“This is my letter to the WorldThat never wrote to Me---The simple News that Nature told---With tender Majesty”.A. Who is the author of the stanza?B. Which period does the poem belongs to?C. What idea does the poem express?4.Reading Comprehension:“Men of England, wherefore ploughFor the lords who lay ye low?Wherefore weave with toil and careThe rich robes your tyrants wear?”Questions:A. Identify the poem and the poet.B. In one or two sentences interprets the implied meaning of the stanza.C. Which period does the poem belongs to?5.Questions and Answers:What do you think of the relationship between William Faulkner and American south literature？6.Questions and Answers:Being a period of the great flowering of American literature, the romantic period is called “the American renaissance”. Briefly discuss what the features of American literature in this period are.7.Questions and Answers:What are the characteristics of the romantic literature? Please discuss the above question in relation to one or two examples.8.Questions and Answers:George Bernard Shaw is the leading playwright of his time, what’s his viewpoint on literature?9.Topic Discussion, write no less than 150 words in English.Moby-dick 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.10.Topic Discussion, write no less than 150 words in English.Discuss “ enlightenment movement”.答案部分一、单项选择题1.【正确答案】 C2.【正确答案】 A3.【正确答案】 A【正确答案】 A 5.【正确答案】 B 6.【正确答案】 C 7.【正确答案】 D 8.【正确答案】 C 9.【正确答案】 D 10.【正确答案】 B 11.【正确答案】 A 12.【正确答案】 C 13.【正确答案】 D 14.【正确答案】 A 15.【正确答案】 A 16.【正确答案】 B 17.【正确答案】 A 18.【正确答案】 B 19.【正确答案】 C 20.【正确答案】 B 21.【正确答案】 B 22.【正确答案】 B 23.【正确答案】 D 24.【正确答案】 B 25.【正确答案】 C【正确答案】 A27.【正确答案】 B28.【正确答案】 D29.【正确答案】 B30.【正确答案】 A31.【正确答案】 C32.【正确答案】 A33.【正确答案】 A34.【正确答案】 A35.【正确答案】 B36.【正确答案】 D37.【正确答案】 B38.【正确答案】 B39.【正确答案】 A二、综合题1.【正确答案】 A. A PactB. Walt whit manC. made experiments with the conventions of the traditional poetry.2.【正确答案】 A. Sons and LoversB. D. H. LawrenceC. Paul / SonD. Oedipus Complex3.【正确答案】 A. Emily DickinsonB. the realistic periodC. the poem expresses Dickinson’s anxiety about her communication with the outside world.4.【正确答案】 A. A song: men of England, Percy Bysshe ShelleyB. the poem is not only a cry calling upon the working people of England to rise up against their political oppressors, but also an address to point out to them the intolerable injustice of economic exploitation,C. The romantic period.5.【正确答案】 A. Most of his works are set in the American south.B. He emphasizes the southern subjects and consciousness in his works.C. His works has managed successfully to show a panorama of the experience and consciousness of the whole southern society.6.【正确答案】 A. The whole nation had a strong sense of optimism and the mood of “feeling good”, Giving birth to the spectacular out burst of romantic feeling.B. The English counterpart exerted a stimulating impact on the writers of the young nation.C. Taking foreign influence into consideration, the great works of American writers still carried typically American Romanist color.D. The young nation had brought forth its own philosophy, transcendentalism, stressing man’s capacity of knowing truth intuitively, and of attaining knowledge transcending the reach of the sense.7.【正确答案】 A. In poetry writing, the romanticist employed new theories and innovated new techniques, for example, the Preface to the second edition of the “Lyrical Ballads” acts as a manifesto for the new school.B. The romanticist not only extols the faculty of imagination, but also elevates the concepts of spontaneity and inspiration.C. They regarded nature as the major source of poetic imagery and the dominant subject.D. Romantics also tend to be nationalistic.8.【正确答案】 A. His playwrights have a variety of subjects. His early plays were mainly concerned with social problems and directed towards the criticism of the contemporary social, economic, moral and religious evils.B. Shaw followed the great traditions of realism. As a realistic dramatist, he took the modern social issues as his subjects with the aim of directing social reforms.C. One feature of his characterization is that he makes the trick of showing up one character vividly at the expense of another; another one is that his characters are the representatives of ideas and points of view.D. Much of Shavian drama is constructed around the inversion of a conventional theatrical situation.9.【正确答案】 A. The Pequod is the microcosm of human society and the voyage becomes a search for truth.B. The white whale, Moby Dick, symbolizes nature for Melville, for it is complex,unfathomable, malignant, and beautiful as well.C. For the character Ahab, however, the whale represents only evil.D. Moby Dick is like a wall, hiding some unknown, mysterious things behind.E. Ahab wills the whole crew on the Pequod to join him in the pursuit of the big whale so as to pierce the wall, to root out the evil, but only to be destroyed by evil.F. In this case, by his own consuming desire, his madness. Moby Dick is still a mystery, an ultimate mystery of the universe, inscrutable and ambivalent, and the voyage of the mind will forever remain a search, not a discovery, of the truth.10.【正确答案】 It was a progressive intellectual movement, which flourished in France and swept through the whole Western Europe, the movement was a furtherance of the renaissance from the 14th century to the mid-17th century. The purpose of the movement was to enlighten the whole world with the light of modern philosophical and artistic ideas, it celebrated reason of rationality, equality and science, and it advocated universal education. Literature at the time became a very popular means of public education.。
2023年自考专业(英语)《英美文学选读》考试历年真题摘选附带答案
2023年自考专业(英语)《英美文学选读》考试历年真题摘选附带答案第1卷一.全考点综合测验(共20题)1.【单选题】What he had done is _______A.valueB.of valuableC.of no valueD.of no valuable2.【单选题】Robert Frost is generally considered a regional poet whose subject matters mainly focus on the landscape and people in( ).A.the westB.the southC.AlaskaD.New England3.【单选题】“The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one -eighth of it being abov e water. ” This “iceberg ” analogy about prose style was put forward by( ).A.William FaulknerB.Henry JamesC.Ernest HemingwayD.F· Scott Fitzgerald4.【单选题】Hemingway’s “Indian Camp ” is one of the fourteen short stories collected under the title of( ).This title is very ironic because there is no peace at all in the stories.A.Three Stories and Ten PoemsB.Across the River and into the TreesC.The Green Hills of AfricaD.In Our Time5.【单选题】The( )Age of the 1920s characterized by frivolity and carelessness is brought vividly to life in The Great Gatsby.A.LostB.JazzC.ReasonD.Gilded6.【单选题】After the American Civil War,the literary interest in the so- called “reality ” of life started a new period in the American literary writings know an the Age of( ).A.RealismB.Reason and RevolutionC.RomanticismD.Modernism7.【单选题】The attitude towards life that( )had been trying to demonstrate in his works is known as “grace under pressure ”.A.William FaulknerB.Theodore DreiserC.Ernest HemingwayD.F·Scott Fitzgerald8.【单选题】Eugene O’Neill ’s first full — length play,( ),won him the first Pulitzer theme is the choice between life and death,the interaction of subjective and objective factors.A.Bound East for CardiffB.The Hairy ApeC.Desire Under the ElmsD.Beyond the Horizon9.【单选题】The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and,especially,its sequence( )proved themselves to be the milestone in the American literature.A.The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnB.Life on the MississippiC.The Gilded AgeD.Roughing It10.【单选题】Ezra Pound,a leading spokesman of the “( ) ”,was one of the mostimportant poets in his time.A.Imagist MovementB.Cubist MovementC.Reformist MovementD.Transcendentalist Movement11.【单选题】William Faulkner set most of his works in the American( ),with his emphasis on the( )subjects and consciousness.A.North...NorthernB.East...EasternC.West...WesternD.South...Southern12.【单选题】Now many major employers are beginning to demand _______ the completion of schoolA.more thanB.rather thanC.other thanD.better than13.【单选题】Which of the following statements is NOT true of Emily Dickinson and her poetry?A.She remained unmarried all her lifeB.She wrote,1,775 poems,and most of them were published during her life time.C.Her poems have no titles,hence are always quoted by their first lines.D.Her limited private world has never confined the limitless power of her creativity and imagination.14.【单选题】considered( ) “the true father of our national literature ”.A.Bret HarteB.Mark TwainC.Washington IrvingD.Walt Whitman15.【单选题】Most literary critics think that Fitzgerald is both an insider and an outsider of( )with a double vision.A.the Jazz AgeB.the Age of Reason and RevolutionC.the Babybooming AgeD.the Post- Modern Age16.【单选题】At the age of eighty -seven,( )read his poetry at the inauguration of President John in 1961.A.Robert FrostB.Walt WhitmanC.Ezra Pound17.【单选题】The Financier,The Titan and The Stoic by Theodore Dreiser are called his “Trilogy of( ). ”A.HatredB.DeathC.DesireD.Fate18.【单选题】In Go Down,Moses,( )illuminates the problem of black and white in Southern society as a closeknit destiny of blood brotherhood.A.William FaulknerB.Jack LondonC.Herman MelvilleD.Nathaniel Hawthorne19.【单选题】“The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one- eighth of it being above water. ” This “iceberg ” analogy is put forward by( ).A.Mark TwainB.Ezra PoundC.William FaulknerD.Ernest Hemingway20.【单选题】The Nobel Prize Committee highly praised( )for “his powerful style -forming mastery of the art ” of creating modern fiction.A.Ezra PoundB.Ernest HemingwayC.Robert FrostD.Theodore Dreiser第2卷一.全考点综合测验(共20题)1.【单选题】That is the house _______ you can enjoy the scenery.A. in thatB.thatC.whichD.from which2.【单选题】( )is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th —century “stream— of —consciousness ” novels and the founder of psychological realism.A.Theodore DreiserB.William FaulknerC.Henry JamesD.Mark Twain3.【单选题】In 1950,( )was awarded the Nobel Prize for the anti-racist Intruder in the Dust.A.William FaulknerB.Robert FrostC.Ezra PoundD.Ernest Hemingway4.【单选题】In 1920,( )published his first novel This Side of Paradise which was,to some extent,his own story.A.F·Scott FitzgeraldB.Ernest HemingwayC.William FaulknerD.Emily Dickinson5.【单选题】This type of desk and chair can be adjusted ________ the height of students at different agesA.withB.forC.toD.in6.【单选题】Mark Twain’s particular concern about the local character of a region came about as “local colorism, ” a unique va riation of American literary( ).A.romanticismB.nationalismC.modernismD.realism7.【单选题】The Portrait of A Lady is generally considered to be( )masterpiece,which describes the life journey of an American( )in a European cultural environment.A.Henry Adams’…widowB.William James ’…girlC.Henry James’…girlD.Theodore Dreiser ’s…widow8.【单选题】Opposition leaders will be watching carefully to see how the Prime Minister ________ the crisis.A.handlesB.conductsC.observesD.directs9.【单选题】She disagrees ______ him ______ everything.A.with, onB./, onC.with, atD.on, with10.【单选题】Henry James’ fame generally rests upon his novels and stories with the( )theme.A.internationalB.localC.colonialD.post-modern11.【单选题】In most of his writings,( )deliberately broke up the chronology of his narrative by juxtaposing the past with the present,in the way the montage does in a movie.A.Walt WhitmanB.William FaulknerC.Ernest HemingwayD. Fitzgerald12.【单选题】The teacher told us the fact _______.A.which the earth moves around the sunB.that the earth moved around the sunC.that the sun moves around the earthD.that the earth moves around the sun13.【单选题】It was his masterpiece The Great Gatsby that made( )one of the greatest American novelists.A. FitzgeraldB.William FaulknerC.Ernest HemmingwayD.Gertrude Steinbeck14.【单选题】In 1950,one of the leading American writers( )was awarded the Nobel Prize for the anti-racist Intruder in the Dust.A.Robert FrostB.Theodore DreiserC.William FaulknerD.Fitzgerald15.【单选题】“My last Duchess ” is a poem that best exemplifies Robert Browning ’s( ).A.sensitive ear for the sounds of the English languageB.excellent choice of wordsC.mastering of the metrical devicese of the dramatic monologue16.【单选题】William Faulkner once said that( )is a story of “lost innocence, ” which proves itself to be an intensification of the theme of imprisonment in the past.A.The Great GatsbyB.The Sound and the FuryC.Absalom,Absalom!D.Go Down,Moses17.【单选题】Mark Twain employed an unpretentious style of( )in his novels which is best described as “vernacular ”.A.standard EnglishB.Afro-American EnglishC.colloquialismD.urbanism18.【单选题】In the original test，all the animals in a test group are given a substance _______ half of them dieA.unlessB.untilC.lestD.provided19.【单选题】Like all naturalists,( )was restrained from finding a solution to the social problems that appeared in his novels and accordingly almost all his works have tragic endings.A.Theodore DreiserB.Henry JamesC.Washington IrvingD.Walt Whitman20.【单选题】Man is a “victim of forces over which he has no control. ” This is a notion held strongly by( ).A.Robert FrostB.Theodore DreiserC.Henry JamesD.Hamlin Garland第1卷参考答案一.全考点综合测验1.正确答案：C本题解析：of+n=adj ，可以作表语。
《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。
英美文学选读模拟试卷二
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I.Multiple Choice. (20 points in all, 1 for each)Directions:There are 20 sentences in this section. Beneath each sentence there are four choices respectively marked by letters A, B, C and D. Choose the word that you think best complete the sentence. Write your answers on the answer sheet.1、is the question put forward by Hamlet at the beginning of the soliloquy。
（）[A] whether to commit suicide or not[B] whether to take arms against a sea of troubles[C] whether to lose the name of action[D] whether to sleep2、In Pride and Prejudice, Mr.and Mrs.Bennet had daughters. （）[A] five [B] two [C] three [D] four3、“I wandered lonely as a cloudTha t floats on high2 o’er vales and hills,When all at once I saw a crowd,A host3 of golden daffodils;Beside the lake, beneath the trees,Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.”The above quoted poem is written by _______.（）[A] Jane Eyre [B] Robert Frost[C] William Wordsworth [D] John Donne4、comes onto the stage at the end of this soliloquy in Hamlet. （）[A] Polonius [B] Laertes [C] Claudius [D] Ophelia5、"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" This is the beginning line of Shakespeare's _______. （）[A] songs [B] plays [C] comedies [D] sonnets6、When Mrs. Bennet(《Jane Austen,Pride and Prejudice》) heard Mr. Bingley come down to the place, Mrs. Bennet ask her husband ________. （）[A] to visit Mr. Bingley.[B] to write a letter to Mr. Bingley.[C] to make a telephone call to Mr. Bingley.[D] to bring their daughters to the ball.7、“ So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, / So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”(Shakespeare, Sonnets 18) “this”refer to . （）[A] Lover [B] Time [C] Summer [D] Poetry8、Of the following American poets ，′s work was first recognized in England and then in America ？（）[A] Robert Frost [B] Emily Dickinson[C] Walt Whitman [D] Wallace Stevens9、Fielding has been regarded 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] the most gifted writer of the English novel[D] conventional writer of English novel10、The unquenchable spirit of Robinson Crusoe struggling to maintain a substantial existence on a lonely island reflects . （）[A] man’s desire 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 reality11、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 Drea m12、Gothic novels are mostly stories of , which take place in some haunted or dilapidated Middle Age castles. （）[A] love and marriage [B] mystery and horror[C] saints and martyrs [D] sea adventures13、The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is a poem written in the form of . （）[A] ballad [B] sonnet[C] heroic couplet [D] Spenserian stanza14、Which of the following words NOT appropriate to describe Mrs. Bennet, a character in Pride and Prejudice. （）[A] Beautiful [B] Intelligent [C] Snobbish [D] Vulgar15、“You a nd the girls may go, or you may send th em 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 ofthe party.” What figure of speech is used in the underlined part? （）[A] Paradox [B] Simile [C]Irony [D] Antithesis16、In Chapter III of Oliver Twist, Oliver is punished for that “impious and profane offence of asking for more ”. （）[A] time to play [B] food to eat[C] books to read [D] money to spend17、In Robert Frost 's famous poem s “ Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening ”，there are four lines like these ：“ 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 ”。
《英美文学选读》模拟试题(3)
《英美文学选读》模拟试题（三）一、单项选择题1.“All is not lost: the unconquerable will, and the study of revenge, immortal hate, and courage never to submit or yield: and what is else not to be overcome?”A. Dr. FaustusB. Paradise LostC. Paradise RegainedD. Tamburlaine2.Who, disregarding grammar and punctuation, always used “i” instead of “I” to refer to himself as a protest against self importance?A. CummingsB. Wallance StevensC. F. Scott. FitzgeraldD. Ernest Hemingway3.Which of the following best descri bes the speaker of T.S Eliot’s “the love song of J. Alfred Prufrock”?A. He is a man of an action.B. He is a man of apathy.C. He is a man of inactivity.D. All the above are not true.4.William Wordsworth asserts that poetry originates from .A. formB. thoughtsC. artistic devicesD. emotion5.“My Last Duchess” is a poem that best exemplifies RobberBrowning’s.A. sensitive ear for the sounds of the English languageB. excellent choice of wordsC. mastering of the metrical devicesD. use of the dramatic monologue6.“Man shall find grace.” But he must lay hold of it by an act of free will. The freedom of the will is the keystone of ____’s creed.A. MiltonB. Jonathan SwiftC. Henry FieldingD. Samuel Johnson7.In Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” the mariner suffers the horror of death, because _____.A. he experiences a shipwreckB. he is tortured with starvationC. he undergoes much sufferingD. he kills an albatross8.Henry Jame’s fame generally rests upon his novels and stories with _____.A. international themeB. national themeC. European themeD. regional theme9.In Hardy’s “Wessex” novels, there is an apparent _____ touch in his description of the simple and beautiful though primitive rural life.A. nostalgicB. humorousC. romanticD. sarcastic10.Generally, the Renaissance refers to the period between _____ and_____ centuries.A. 14th-mid--17thB. 16th-mid--17thC. 14th-mid--18thD. 16th-mid--19th11.Of the following poems by T.S.Eliot, which is hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th century English poetry?A. Poems 1909----1925B. The Hollow MenC. Prufrock and Other ObservationsD. The Waste Land12.“It is not so expressed, But what of that? Twere good you do so much for charity.” “What of that” in the above sentence means _____.A. this is very importantB. this is not importantC. this is trueD. this is not true13.Which of the following poems is a landmark in English Poetry?A. “Lyrical Ballads and Samuel Taylor Coleridge” by Will iam Wordsworth.B. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” by William WordsworthC. “Remorse” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.D. “Leaves of Grass” by Walt Whitman.14.Which of the following writings is praised by Hemingway as a book from which “all modern American li terature comes”？A. Tom Sawyer.B. Huckleberry Finn.C. The Gilded Age.D. Life on the Mississippi.15.In which of the following works, Hemingway presents his philosophy about life and death through the depiction of the bull-fight as a kind of microcosmic tragedy?A. The Green Hills of Africa.B. The Snows of Kilimanjaro.C. To have and Have Not.D. Death in the Afternoon.16.The protagonist of the poem “Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is a kind of tragic figure caught in a sense of deafted idealism and tortured by satisfied desires. Of the following descriptions of him, which isn’t suitable for him?A. He is neurotic.B. He is self-important.C. He is illogical.D. He is a man of an action.17.“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? /Thou art more l ovely and more temperate: /Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, /And summer’s lease hath all too short a date”, the above beautiful sonnets was written by _____.A. John DonneB. John MiltonC. William ShakespeareD. Francis Bacon18.Here is a s entence from an essay, “Read not to contradict and confuse, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider”. The essay must be _____.A. Of Studies by Francis BaconB. The Advancement of Learning by Francis BaconC. Novum Organum by Francis BaconD. Essays by Francis Bacon19.Which of the following is considered to be a better-structured novel?A. Women in LoveB. Sons and LoversC. The RainbowD. Lady Chatterley’s lover20.With so many poems such as “The Sparrow’s Nest,” “To a Skylark,” “To the Cuckoo” and “To a Butterfly”, William Wordsworth is regarded as a “____”.A. poet of geniusB. royal poetC. worshipper of natureD. conservative poet21.In the first part of Gulliver’s Travels, Gulliver told his experience in _____.A. LilliputB. BrobdingnagC. HouyhnhnmD. England22.“To be, or not to be----that is the question; whethertis 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 said these words?A. King LearB. RomeoC. AntonioD. Hamlet23.“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.”A. ironicB. jealousC. delightfulD. humorous24.In the theatrical world of the neoclassical period, was the leading figure among the host of playwrights.A. William BlakeB. Richard Brinsley SheridanC. Ben JohnsonD. George Bernard Shaw25.Among the works by John Milton, which is indeed the only generally acknowledge epic in English literature since Beowulf?A. Paradise RegainedB. Samson AgonistsC. AreopagiticaD. Paradise Lost26.Which writing is a typical example of Shakespe are’s pessimistic view towards human life and society in his late years?A. The TempestB. King LearC. HamletD. Othello27.Who, one of the most important poets in his time, is a leading spokesman of the “imagist movement”?A. J. D. SalingerB. Ezra PoundC. Richard WrightD. Ralph Emerson28._____ 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 baconB. Thomas hardyC. Charles dickensD. William Blake29.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. idealismB. neoclassicismC. romanticismD. sentimentalism30.Dickens’s works are characterized by a mingling of and pathos.A. metaphorB. passionC. satireD. humor31.“self-conceited”, “cruel” and “tyrannical” are most likely the names of the characters in .A. Robert Browning’s My Last DuchessB. Christopher Marlowe’s Dr. FaustusC. Shakespeare’s love’s Labour’s lostD. Sheridan’s the School for Scandal32.Who is the author of the writing “Moby Dick”?A. S. T .ColeridgeB. John KeatsC. Henry FieldingD. Herman Melville33.The sentences “studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability”, and “some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested;...” are quoted fromA. Novum OrganumB. Of Studies By BaconC. The Advancement Of LearningD. Essays34.The advancement of learning is a great tract on .A. historyB. literatureC. policyD. education35.Most of the poems in Whitman’s leaves of grass sing of the “en-mass” and the as well.A. natureB. lifeC. selfD. self reliance36.Which of the following is not true according to James Joyce?A. Ulysses has become a prime example of modernism in literature.B. Joyce is regarded as the most prominent stream of consciousness novelistC. Joyce is a realistic writer in English literature history.D. His novel “a portrait of the artist as a young man” is a naturalistic account of the hero’s bitter experiences and his final artistic and spiritual liberation.37.The following titles are all related to the subject that escapes from the society and returns to nature except .A. Dreiser’s Sister CarrieB. Copper’s Leather Stocking TalesC. Thoreau’s WaldenD. D Mark Twain’s The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn38.“Wild spirit, which art moving everywhere; destroyer and preserver; hear, Ohear!”The two lines are found in .A. Young Goodman Brown By HawthorneB. Ode To The West Wind By ShelleyC. Leaves Of Grass By Walt WhitmanD. Ulysses By Joyce39.“Even t hen 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 LawrenceB. Jane Eyre By Charlotte BronteC. Sister Carrie By Thoedore DreiserD. Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte40.Most recognizable literary movement that gave rise to the 20th century American literature, or we may say, the second American renaissance, isthe movement.A. leftistB. transcendentalC. expressionisticD. expatriate二、综合题1.Read the quoted part carefully and answer the questions in English.“I wandered lonely as a cloudThat floats on high o’er vales and hillsWhen all at once I saw a crowdA host, of golden daffodils;Beside the lake, beneath the trees,Flutteri ng and dancing in the breeze.”Questions:A. Identify the poem and the poet.B. In several sentences, interpret the meaning of this stanza.C. From the characteristics of this stanza, we can deduce which period it belongs to.2.Read the quoted part carefully and answer the questions in English.“I shall be telling this with a signSomewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I ---I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference.”Question:A. Who is the author of the poem?B. Identify the title of the short poem from which this part is taken?C. In one or two sentences, interpret the implied meaning of the last two lines.3.Read the quoted part carefully and answer the questions in English.“That was the cause, but yet per accidents,For when we hear one rack the name of god,Abjure the scriptures and his Savoiour Christ,We fly in hope to get his glorious soul.”Question:A. Tell the title of the poem.B. What does “rock” mean?C. What is the play based on and give a brief introduction of it.4.Give brief answers to the question in English.In American literature what is the significance of “adventures of huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain?5.Give brief answer to the question in English.What are the similarities and differences between the three literary giants? Howells, Mark Twain, Henry James, in terms of their literary orientation?6.Give brief answer to the question in English.What are gothic novels?7.Give brief answer to the question in English.How are naturalism and criticism reflected in Hardy’s novels?8.Write no less than 150 words on the topic in English.Try to discuss the theme of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s works.9.Write no less than 150 words on the topic in English.Enlightenment movement.10.Read the quoted part carefully and answer the questions in English.“The isles of Greece, isles of Greece!Where burning Sappho loved and sung,Where grew the arts of war and peace,Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung!Eternal summer gilds them yet,But all, except their sun, is set.”Question:A. Which writing is the stanza taken from? Who is the author?B. What does the “Sappho”mean?C. Try to explain the setting of the stanza.答案部分一、单项选择题1.【正确答案】 B2.【正确答案】 A3.【正确答案】 C4.【正确答案】 D5.【正确答案】 D6.【正确答案】 A7.【正确答案】 D8.【正确答案】 A9.【正确答案】 A10.【正确答案】 A11.【正确答案】 D12.【正确答案】 B13.【正确答案】 A14.【正确答案】 B15.【正确答案】 D16.【正确答案】 D17.【正确答案】 C18.【正确答案】 A 19.【正确答案】 A 20.【正确答案】 C 21.【正确答案】 A 22.【正确答案】 D 23.【正确答案】 A 24.【正确答案】 B 25.【正确答案】 D 26.【正确答案】 A 27.【正确答案】 A 28.【正确答案】 A 29.【正确答案】 B 30.【正确答案】 D 31.【正确答案】 A 32.【正确答案】 D 33.【正确答案】 B 34.【正确答案】 D 35.【正确答案】 C 36.【正确答案】 C 37.【正确答案】 A 38.【正确答案】 B 39.【正确答案】 C 40.【正确答案】 D二、综合题1.【正确答案】 A. “I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud” By William Wordsworth.B. Like a cloud flying over valleys and mountains, I was traveling. Suddenly to my surprise, I saw a grove of daffodils at the side of the lake, how beautiful they were, fluttering and dancing in the wind. This poem typically depicts the author respect for natureC. The Romantic Period2.【正确答案】 A. Robert lee FrostB. The Road Not TakenC. confronted dilemma, one should be decisive and “took the one less traveled”.3.【正确答案】 A. Dr. FaustusB. TormentC. It is based on the German legend of a magician aspiring for knowledge and finally meeting his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the devil.4.【正确答案】The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and, especially, its sequence Adventures of Huckleberry Finn proved themselves to be the milestone in American literature, and thus firmly established Twain’s position in the literary world.The childhood of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn in the Mississippi is a record of a vanished way of life in the pre-Civil War Mississippi valley and it has moved millions of people of different ages and conditions all over the world.Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn marks the climax of Twain’s literary creativity. Hemingway once described the novel the one book forms which “a modern American literature comes.”5.【正确答案】 A. Mark Twain and Howells seemed to have paid more attention to the “life” of the Americans; Henry James had apparently laid a greater emphasis on the “inner world” of man.B. Howells focused his discussion on the rising middle class and the way they lived, while Twain preferred to have his own region and people at the forefront of his stories. This particular concern about the local character of a region about as “local colorist,” a unique variation of American literary realism.6.【正确答案】 A type of romantic fiction that predominated in the late 18th century, was one phase of the Romantic Movement. Its principal elements are violence, horror, and the supernatural, which strongly appeal to the reader’s emotion, with its descriptions of the dark, irrational side of human nature. The gothic form has exerted a great influence over the writers of the romantic period.7.【正确答案】In his works, man is shown inevitably bound by his own inherent natureand hereditary traits which prompt him to go and search for some specific happiness or success and set him in conflict with the environment.The outside nature—the natural environment or nature herself- is shown as some mysterious supernatural force, it likes to play practical jokes upon human beings by producing a series of mistimed actions and unfortunate coincidences.This pessimistic view of life predominates most of Hardy’s later works and earns him a reputation as a naturalistic writer.8.【正确答案】 A. In “Young Goodman Brown”, he sets out to prove that everyone possesses some evil secret.B. According to Hawthorne, “There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole life; but circumstances may rouse it toa ctivity.”C. In dealing with the theme of guilt and sin, Hawthorne exemplifies the “power of blackness”.9.【正确答案】 A. It was a progressive intellectual movement which flourished in France and swept through the whole Western Europe at the time. It was a furtherance of the renaissance of the 15th and 16th centuries.B. To enlighten the whole world with the light of modern philosophical and artistic ideas.10.【正确答案】 A. George Gordon Byron, Don Juan.B. An ancient Greek poetess known for her passionate love poems.C. The stanza was finished at the romantic period when Greece was under the rule of Turk. By contrasting the freedom of ancient Greece and the present enslavement the poet appealed to people to struggle for liberty.。
英美文学选读试题详解2
英美⽂学选读试题详解2英美⽂学选读-阶段测评2成绩：85分⼀、Multiple Choice 共 40 题题号：1本题分数:2.5分D 、William Blake (P179.para.2)华兹华斯的⽂学观点是：诗歌的创作没有既定的规则，诗歌素材的来源应该是感观的直接经验。
题⼲中的陈述，是他再《抒情民谣》第⼆版的序⾔中表述的。
标准答案：A考⽣答案：A本题得分：2.5分题号:2本题分数:2.5分Because of her sensitivity to universal patterns of human behavior,( ) has brought the English novel,as anart of form,to its maturity.A 、Charlotte Bront?(P226.para.2)简.奥斯丁⽣活在英国浪漫主义⽂学繁荣时期，但她的⼩说确实现实主义风格的爱情作为⼩说的主题，并通过对真正爱情的诠释来反应⼈性，是英国最伟⼤的⼩说家之⼀。
标准答案：BThe assertion that poetry originates from emotion recollected in tranquility belongs to ().她多以男⼥ A 、William Wordsworth B 、Samuel Taylor ColeridgeC 、Robert SoutheyB 、Jane AustenC 、Emily Bront?D 、Ann Radcliffe考⽣答案：B本题得分：2.5分题号：3本题分数25分English Romanticism,as a historical phase of literature,is generally said to have ended in 1832 with ().A、the passage of the first Reform Bill in the Parliaments The waste LandD、the passage of the Bill of Rights in the Parliament(P157.para.1)英国的浪漫主义⽂学时代开始于1798年，标志性的事件是《抒情民谣》的出版，结束于1832 年，标志性的事件是斯格特之死和改⾰法案”的通过。
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全国自考英美文学选读（综合）模拟试卷2
一、阅读理解
1 To bow and sue for grace
With suppliant knee, and deify his power
...—that were low indeed,
That were an ignominy, and shame beneath
This downfall;...
Questions:
A. Who is the author?
B. What is the title of the poem?
C. What is the main idea?
2 I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
Questions:
A. Identify the author and the work.
B. What are the two principal beliefs that the poet set in this poem?
3 "...Only Miss Emily' s house was left, rifting its stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton wagons and the gasoline pumps—an eyesore among eyesores. " Questions:
A. Identify the author and the title of the story from which the quoted lines are taken.
B. What is the meaning of "an eyesore among eyesores" ?
C. What does this quoted passage indicate?
二、简答题
4 As a novelist Jane Austen writes within a very ______ sphere. The subject matter, the character range, the social setting, and plots are all restricted to the ______ of the late 18th-century England, concerning three or four landed gentry families with their daily routine life.
5 Analyze the character of Jane Eyre taken from Jane Eyre.
6 What are the features of Whitman' s poetry?
7 Some of Hemingway' s heroes are regarded as the Hemingway code heroes. Whatever the differences in experience and age, they all have something in common which Hemingway values. What are the characteristics of the Hemingway code hero?
三、论述题
8 Robinson Crusoe is universally considered as Daniel Defoe' s masterpiece. Robinson, apparently, is cast as a typical 18th-century pioneer colonist. Give a brief comment on Robinson Crusoe.
9 Make a brief comment on Elizabeth ' s character in Pride and Prejudice.
10 Take Mark Twain' s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as an example to illustrate the statement that Mark Twain was a unique writer in American literature.。