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《英美文学选读》期末考试练习一、搭配题二、判断题1.( F ) Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Antony and Cleopatra are Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies.2.(T ) The Elizabethan Drama is the real mainstream of the English Renaissance.3.( T) Paradise Lost is a long epic divided into 12 books.4.( F) Captain Singleton, Moll Flanders, Colonel Jack, and A Journal of the Plague Year are the first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower-class people.5.( T) Jonathan Swift defined a good style as “proper words in proper places.”6.( T ) Henry Fielding has been regarded by some as “Father of the English Novel.”7.( F) William Blake, William Wordsworth, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge are regarded as the “Lake Poets.”8.( T ) The British Romantic period is an age of prose.9.( T ) The major theme of Jane Austen’s novels is love and marriage.10.( T ) The Victoria period has been generally regarded as one of the most glorious in the English history.11.( F ) Far from the Madding Crowd is Thomas Hardy’s first novel.12.( T ) Modernism rose out of skepticism and disillusion of capitalism.13.( T ) The major themes of the modernist literature are the distorted, alienated and ill relationships between man and nature, man and society, man and man, and man and himself. 14.( T) The early poems of Pound and Eliot and Yeats’s matured poetry marked rise of “modern poetry.”15.( T ) Shaw’s plays have one passion, and one only, that is, indignation.16.( F) Romeo and Juliet is one of Shakespeare’s four greatest tragedies.17.( T ) The first period of the English Renaissance was one of imitation and assimilation.18.( T ) Paradise Lost is John Milton’s masterpiece.19.( F ) Captain Singleton, Moll Flanders, Colonel Jack, and A Journal of the Plague Year are the first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower-class people.20.( T ) In Jonathan Swift’s opinion, human nature is seriously and permanently flawed.21.( T) Henry Fielding was the first to write specifically a “comic in prose.”22.( F ) William Blake, William Wordsworth, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge are regarded as the “Lake Poets.”23.( F ) The British Romantic period is an age of poetic drama.24.( T ) Shelley’s greatest achievement is his four-act poetic drama, Prometheus Unbound.25.( T ) Oscar Wilde and Walter Pater are advocators of the theory of “art for art’s sake.”26.( F ) From Under the Greenwood Tree, the tragic sense becomes the keynote of Thomas Hardy’s novels.27.( T ) The French symbolism heralded modernism.28.( T ) The modernist writers pay more attention to the psychic time than the chronological one.29.( T) Kingsley Amis was the first to start the attack on middle-class privileges and power in his novel Lucky Jim.30.( T ) The Waste Land is a poem concerned with the spiritual breakup of a modern civilization in which human life has lost its meaning, significance and purpose.31.( F) Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy is Romeo and Juliet.32.( T) In the early stage of the English Renaissance, poetry and poetic drama were the most outstanding literary forms.33.( T ) Samson Agonistes is the most perfect example of the verse drama after the Greek style in English.34.( F ) Captain Singleton, Moll Flanders, Colonel Jack, and A Journal of the Plague Year are the first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower-class people.35.( T ) Jonathan Swift is a master satirist.36.( T ) Henry Fielding was the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.37.( F ) William Blake, William Wordsworth, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge are regarded as the “Lake Poets.”38.( F ) Novel was the most popular literary form in the British Romantic period.39.( T ) “A Song: Men of England” was written in 1819, the year of the Peterloo Massacre.40.( T) Charles Dickens and the Bronte Sisters are representatives of critical realism.41.( F ) Thomas Hardy belongs to one of the English romantic poets.42.( T ) Modernism takes the irrational philosophy and the theory of psycho-analysis as its theoretical base.43.( T ) The modernist writers are mainly concerned with the inner being of an individual.44.( T ) James Joyce is the most outstanding stream-of-consciousness novelist.45.( T ) D. H. Lawrence was one of the first novelists to introduce themes of psychology into his works.三、名词解释1.Antagonist: A person or force opposing the protagonist in a narrative; a rival of thehero or heroine.2.Allegory: A tale in verse or prose in which characters, actions, or settings representabstract ideas or moral qualities. An allegory is a story with two meanings, a literalmeaning and a symbolic meaning.3.Alliteration: The repetition of the initial consonant sounds in poetry.4.Canto: A section or division of a long poem.5.Characterization: the means by which a writer reveals that personality.edy: In general, a literary work that ends happily with a healthy, amicablearmistice between the protagonist and society.7.Critical Realism: The critical realism of the 19th century flourished in the forties andin the beginning of fifties. The realists first and foremost set themselves the task ofcriticizing capitalist society from a democratic viewpoint and delineated the cryingcontradictions of bourgeois reality. But they did not find a way to eradicate socialevils.8.Elegy: A poem of mourning, usually over the death of an individual. An elegy is atype of lyric poem, usually formal in language and structure, and solemn or evenmelancholy in tone.9.Epic: A long narrative poem telling about the deeds of a great hero and reflectingthe values of the society from which it originated. Many epics were drawn from anoral tradition and were transmitted by song and recitation before they were writtendown.10.Flashback: A scene in a short story, novel, play, or narrative poem that interruptsthe action to show an event that happened earlier.11.Imagery: Words or phrases that create pictures, or images, in the reader’s mind.Images can appeal to other senses as well: touch, taste, smell, and hearing.12.Lyric: A poem, usually a short one, which expresses a speaker’s personal thoughts orfeelings. The elegy, ode, and sonnet are all forms of the lyric.13.Metaphor: A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things whichare basically dissimilar. Unlike simile, a metaphor does not use a connective wordsuch as like, as, or resembles in making the comparison.14.Protagonist: The central character of a drama, novel, short story, or narrative poem.The protagonist is the character on whom the action centers and with whom thereader sympathizes most. Usually the protagonist strives against an opposing force,or antagonist, to accomplish something.15.Setting: The time and place in which the events in a short story, novel, play ornarrative poem occur. Setting can give us information, vital to plot and theme. Often,setting and character will reveal each other.16.Simile: It refers to a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two thingsthrough the use of a specific word of comparison, such as “like, as, or resemble”.The comparison must be between two essentially unlike things.17.Soliloquy: In drama, an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage.The character reveals his or her innermost thoughts and feelings directly to theaudience, as if thinking aloud.18.Sonnet: A fourteen-line lyric poem, usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter. Asonnet generally expresses a single theme or idea.19.Tragedy: In general, a literary work in which the protagonist meets an unhappy ordisastrous end. Unlike comedy, tragedy depicts the actions of a central characterwho is usually dignified or heroic.四、简答题1.What do the William Shakespeare’s tragedies have in common?Each portrays some noble hero ,who faces the injustices of human life and is caught in a difficult situation and whose fate is closely connected with the fate of the whole nation .Each hero has his weakness is made used of the nature: Hamlet the melancholic scholar-prince,faces the dilemma between action and mind ; Othello`s inner weakness is made use of by the outside evil force; the king lear who is unwilling to totally give up his power makes himself suffer from treachery and infidelity; and Macbeth`s lust for power stirs up his ambitions and leads him to incessant crimesShakespeare dramatizes the whole world around the hero.2.“Never did sun more beautifully steepIn his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill;Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!The river glideth at his own sweet will:Dear God! the very houses seem asleep;And all that mighty heart is lying still!”(from Wordsworth’s sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge)Questions:A.What does this sonnet describe?A vivid picture of a beautiful morning in LondonB. What does the word “mighty heart” refer to？LondonB.The sonnet follows strictly the Italian form. What is the feature of the Italian form sonnet?There is a clear division between the octave and the sestet; the rhyme scheme is abbaabba, cdcdcd.3.“Wherefore feed and clothe and saveFrom the cradle to the graveThose ungrateful drones who wouldDrain your sweat- nay, drink your blood?”Questions:A. Identify the poet and the title of the poem from which the stanza is taken.Percy Bysshe Shelley ; A song :Men of England.B. What figure of speech is used in Line 2?MetonymyC. Whom does “drones” refer to?Parasitic class in human society .4.Hardy is often regarded as a transitional writer. In him we see the influence from both the pastand the modern. Some critics believe that he is intellectually advanced and emotionally traditional. How do you understand this idea?5.What is the theme of Wuthering Heights?From the social point of view, it is a story about a poor man abused,betrayed and distorted by his social betters because he is a poor nobody . As a love story, this is one of the most moving : the passion between Heathcliff and Catherine proves the most in tense , the most beautiful and at the same time the most horrible passion ever to be found possible in human beings.6.“Shall 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. Identify the poet and the poem from which the quoted lines are takenWilliam Shakespeare; Sonnet 18.B. Name the figure of speech employed in the poem.The first line: rhetorical question ,C. What is the theme of the poem?He has a profound meditation on the destructive power of time and the eternal beauty brought forth by poetry to the one he loves .7.“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. Identify the poet and the poem from which the quoted lines are takenWilliam Blake , The TygerB. Whom does the “he’’ refer to?The god who create the Tyger.C. What does the “Lamb” symbolize?Symbol of peace and purity8.“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and he artless? —Youthink wrong!… 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…—it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God’s feet, equal—as we are!”Questions:A.Identify the author and the novel from which the quoted part is taken.Charlotte Bronte ; Jane Eyer.B. To whom is the speaker speaking?Mr RochesterShe want to tell the Mr Rochester that don`t judge her by the outlooking, she desperately and opening declares her equality with him and her love for him.C. What does the quoted part imply about the speaker?9.The following quotation is from one of the poems by T. S. Eliot:“No! I am not Princ e Hamlet, nor was meant to be;Am an attendant lord, one that will doTo swell a progress, start a scene or twoAdvise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool,Deferential, glad to be of use,Politic, cautious, and meticulous,Full of high sen tence, but a bit obtuse;”Questions:A. Identify the title of the poem from which the quoted part is taken.The love song of J Afred prufrock ,T. S. Eliot.B. Who's the speaker of the quoted lines?Mr Alfred prufrock.C. What does the first line show about the speaker?The speaker has something in common with the hamlet, he is neurotic,self-important,illogical and incapable of action.五、论述题1.2.Daniel Defoe’s novel Robinson Crusoe was a great success partly because theprotagonist 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 centuryEngland.Robinson is here a real hero :a typical eighteenth century english middle-class man; he is the very prototype of empire builder,the pioneercolonist. In describing Robinson`s life on the island , Defoe glorifies humanlabor and the puritan fortitude,which save Robinson from despair and are asource of pride and happiness.3.4.Elizabeth Bennet, the heroine in Pride and Prejudice, is often regarded as the mostsuccessful character created by Jane Austen. Make a brief comment on Elizabeth’scharacter.5.6.Discuss Charles Dickens’s art of fiction: the setting, the character-portrayal,the language, etc., based on his novel Oliver Twist.Charles Dickens is a master story teller:①②In language, he is often compared with Shakespeare for his adeptness with the vernacular and large vocabulary.③④His humor and wit seem inexhaustible.⑤⑥Character-portrayal is the most distinguishing feature of his works .⑦⑧Among a vast range of various characters marked out by some peculiarity in physical traits,speech or manner, are both types and individuals.⑨His best -depicted characters are thoseinnocent ,virtuous,persecuted ,helpless child characters such as Oliver twist , Fagin.7.Jane Eyre is one of the most popular and important novels of the Victorian Age. Why isJane Eyre such a successful novel?①Its sharp criticism of existing society ,e.g.the religious hypocrisy of charity institutions.②③Its introduction to the English novel the first governess heroine.。

全国自考(英美文学选读)模拟试卷5(题后含答案及解析)

全国自考（英美文学选读）模拟试卷5(题后含答案及解析)题型有：1. 单项选择题 2. 阅读理解 3. 简答题 4. 论述题单项选择题1．Edmund Spenser,Christopher Marlowe and Francis Bacon are the few literary giants in period. ( )A．EnlightenmentB．Neo classicalC．RomanticD．Renaissance正确答案：D解析：埃德蒙.斯宾塞、克里斯托夫.马洛和弗兰西斯.培根，部是文艺复兴时期的文学巨匠。

2．The most famous dramatists in the Renaissance England are Marlowe, William Shakespeare and . ( )A．John MiltonB．John MarloweC．Ben JonsonD．Edmund Spenser正确答案：C解析：文艺复兴时期英国最著名的戏剧家有克里斯托夫.马洛、威廉.莎士比亚与本.琼生。

3．Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies are______. ( )A．Hamlet, Othello, King hear and MacbethB．Hamlet,Othello,King Lear and Romeo and JulietC．Hamlet,Coriolanus,King Lear and MacbethD．Hamlet, Julius caesar ,Othello and Macbeth正确答案：A解析：第三阶段包括了莎翁最伟大的悲剧和他自称的黑色喜剧(或悲喜剧)。

悲剧有《哈姆莱特》、《奥赛罗》、《李尔王》、《麦克白》、《安东尼与克利奥佩特拉》、《特洛伊勒斯与克利西达》及《科里奥拉那斯》。

其中具有代表性的悲剧是《哈姆莱特》、《奥赛罗》、《李尔王》、《麦克白》。

《英美文学选读》模拟试题(一-五)整合

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I. Multiple Choice. (1 point for each, altogether 30 points)Directions: There are 30 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. Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his production of_______.[A] Piers Plowman [B] Sir Gawain and the Green Knight[C] Confessio Amantis [D] The Canterbury Tales2. 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] still very much interested in apple-picking[C] expecting a greater harvest[D] indifferent to what he once desired3.With Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the literary scene, _______became the major trend in American literature in the seventies and eighties of the 19th century.[A] Sentimentalism [B] romanticism [C] realism [D] naturalism4. Of the following American poets in the twentieth century, the one who has the best knowledge of Chinese culture is _______.[A] Robert Frost [B] Allen Ginsberg [C] Ezra Pound [D] Cummings5. _______is the first important governess novel in the English literary history.[A] Jane Eyre [B] Emma[C] Wuthering Heights [D] Middlemarch6. The Hemingway Code heroes are best remembered for their_______.[A] indestructible spirit [B] pessimistic view of life[C] war experiences [D] masculinity7. Which of the following is taken from John Keats’Ode to a Nightingale? _______[A] "Beauty is truth, truth beauty."[B] "Earth has not anything to show more fair."[C] "They are both gone up to the church to pray."[D] "was it a vision, or a waking dream?"8. Emily Dickinson wrote many short poems on various aspects of life. Which of the following is NOT a usual subject of her poetic expression? _______[A] Religion and immortality [B] Life and death[C] Love and marriage [D] War and peace9. Henry David Thoreau’s work_______, has always been regarded as a masterpiece of New England Transcendentalism.[A] Walden [B] The Pioneers[C] Nature [D] Song of Myself10. George Bernard Shaw’s play _______ established his position as the leading play-wright of his time.[A] Widowers’ Houses [B] Too True to Be Good[C] Mrs. Warren’s Profession[D] Candida11. Romance, which uses narrative verse or prose to tell stories of _______ adventures or other heroic deeds, is a popular literary form in the medieval period.[A] Christian [B] knightly[C] Greek [D] primitive12. For Melville, as well as for the reader and _______ , the narrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, an ultimate mystery of the universe. .[A] Ahab [B] Ishmael[C] Stubb [D] Starbuck13. 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 Glorious revolution[D] The religious reformation and the economic expansion14. Which of the following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare's Sonnet 18?[A] The speaker eulogizes the power of Nature[B] The speaker satirizes human vanity[C] The speaker praises the power of artistic creation[D] The speaker meditates on man's salvation15. ―And we will sit upon the rocks,/Seein g the shepherds feed their flocks,/By shallow rivers to whose falls/Melodious birds sing madrigals.‖ The above lines are probably taken from _______.[A] Spenser's The Faerie Queene[B] John Donne's ―The Sun Rising‖[C] Shakespeare's ―Sonnet 18‖[D] Marlow e's ―The Passionate Shepherd to His Love‖16. ―Bassanio: Antonio, I am married to a wife which is as dear to me as life itself; But life itself, My wife, and all the world. Are not with me esteem'd above thy life;I would lose all, ay, sacrifice them all, Here to the devil, to deliver you. Portia: Your wife would give you little thanks for that, If she were by to hear you make the offer.‖ The above is a quotation taken from Shakespeare's comedy The Merchant of Venice. The quoted part can be regarded as a good example to illustrate _______.[A] dramatic irony [B] personification[C] allegory [D] symbolism17. 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 lie18. Of all the 18thcentury novelists Henry Fielding was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to wri te specifically a ―_______ in prose,‖ the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.[A] tragic epic [B] comic epic[C] romance [D] lyric epic19. The Houyhnhnms depicted by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels are _______.[A] horses that are endowed with reason[B] pigmies that are endowed with admirable qualities[C] giants that are superior in wisdom[D] hairy, wild, low and despicable creatures, who resemble human beings not only in appearance but also in some other ways.20. Here are four lines from a literary work: ―Others for language all their care express, /And value books, as women men, for dress.‖ The work is _______.[A] Thomas Gray's ―Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard‖[B] John Milton's Paradise Lost[C] Alexander Pope's Essay on Criticism[D] Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream21. The phrase ―to urge people to abide by Christian doctrines and to seek salvation through constant struggles with their own weaknesses and all kinds of social evils‖ may well sum up the implied meaning of _______.[A] Gulliver's Travels [B] The Rape of the Lock[C] Robinson Crusoe [D] The pilgrim's Progress22. William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following EXCEPT _______.[A] the use of everyday language spoken by the common people[B] the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings[C] the use of humble and rustic life as subject matter[D] the use of elegant wording and inflated figures of speech23. Which of the following is taken from John Keats’ ―Ode on a Grecian Urn‖? _______[A] ―I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!‖[B] ―They are both gone up to the church to pray‖[C] ―Earth has not anything to show more fair‖[D] ―Beauty is truth, truth beauty‖24.―If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind!‖ is an epigr ammatic line by _______.[A] J.Keats [B] W.Blake[C] W.Wordsworth [D] P.B.Shelley25. ―Ode o na Grecian Urn‖shows the contrast between the _______ of art and the _______ of human passion.[A] glory …ugliness[B] permanence…transience[C] transience…sordid ness [D] glory…permanence26. 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 ghost27. The typical feature of Robert Browning's poetry is the _______.[A] bitter satire [B] larger-than-life caricature[C] Latinized diction [D] dramatic monologue28. The Victorian Age was largely an age of _______, eminently represented by Dickens and Thackeray.[A] poetry [B] drama[C] prose [D] epic prose29. _______is the first important governess novel in the English literary history.[A] Jane Eyre [B] Emma[C] Wuthering Heights [D] Middlemarch30. 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] wrence's [B] J.Galsworthy's[C] W.Thackeray’s[D] T.Hardy’sII. Match the writer with his/her works and Write your answers on the answer sheet. (2point for each, altogether 20points)31. Henry Fielding A. The Passionate Shepherd to His Love32. James Joyce B. Composed upon Westminster Bridge33. Daniel Defoe C. The Moll on the Floss34. Alfred Tennyson D. Break, Break, Break.35. John Keats E. A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man36. George Eliot F. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling37. William Bulter Yeats G. A Journal of the Plague Year38. William Wordsworth H. Ode on a Grecian Urn39. Walt Whitman I. The Lake Isle of Innisfree40. Christopher Marlowe J. There Was a Child Went ForthIII. Decide whether the following statements are true or false and write your answers in the brackets. (2 point for each, altogether10 points)()41．The preface to the Lyrical Ballads is best read as a statement of Keats’s principles of poetry.()42．Besides novel writing, Hawthorne is also a very good writer of short stories.()43．Robert Frost’s poems are New England in their setting, and are characterized by the familiar speaking voice.()44．George Hurstwood is a friend of Drouet’s who steals a great deal of money from his employer and actually kidnaps Carrie to Canada.()45．Renaissance had its beginning in Italy in the middle of the fifteenth century. IV. Define the literary terms listed below and write your answers on the answer sheet. (5 point for each, altogether 10 points)46. Romanticism47. Stream of ConsciousnessV. Give brief answers to the following questions. Write your answers on the answer sheet. (5 point for each, altogether 15 points)48. How do you understand the character of Robinson Crusoe?49. In the novel To the Lighthouse, is Lily lonely while completing her picture? Please justify your ideas.50. What is the implication of the description of roses beside the prison door in the first chapter of The Scarlet Letter?Ⅵ. Write no less than 150 words on the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet. (15 point for each, altogether 15 points) 51.William Shakespeare is one of the most remarkable playwrights the world has ever known.( 1) Name his four greatest tragedies.(2) What are the characteristics of the four tragedies in common?(3) Briefly summarize each hero' s weakness of nature.《英美文学选读》模拟试卷一答案II. Multiple Choice. (1 point for each, altogether 30 points)题号 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15答案 D D C C A A D D A D B B C C D题号16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30答案 A B B A C D D D D B B D C A AII. Match the writer with his/her works and write your answers in the brackets. (2point for each, altogether 20points)题号31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40答案 F E G D H C I B J AIII. Decide whether the following statements are true or false and write your answers in the brackets. (2 point for each, altogether10 points)题号41 42 43 44 45答案 F T T T FIV.Define the literary terms listed below and write your answers in the brackets. (10%) 46.复习范围或考核目标：课件Course 03 William Wordsworth47.复习范围或考核目标：课件Course06 Virginia WoolfV. Give brief answers to the following questions. Write your answers on the answer sheet. (15%)48.复习范围或考核目标：课件Course 02 Daniel Defoe49.复习范围或考核目标：课件Course06 Virginia Woolf50.复习范围或考核目标：课件course07 Nathaniel HawthorneⅥ. Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet. (15%)51.复习范围或考核目标：课件course01 William ShakespeareNetwork Education College, BLCU《英美文学选读》模拟试卷二注意：1.试卷保密，考生不得将试卷带出考场或撕页，否则成绩作废。

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】The childhood of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn in the Mississippi is a record of a vanished way of life in the( )Mississippi valleyA.pre - War of IndependenceB.post - War of IndependenceC.pre - Civil WarD.post - Civil War2.【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】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...Southern4.【单选题】Among the following writers( )is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th - century “stream - of - consciousness ” novels and the founder of psychological realism.A. T. S. EliotB.James JoyceC.William FaulknerD.Henry James5.【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.Fitzgerald6.【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 Fitzgerald7.【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】“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 monologue9.【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 Age10.【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 England11.【单选题】Ezra Pound,a leading spokesman of the “( ) ”,was one of the most important poets in his time.A.Imagist MovementB.Cubist MovementC.Reformist MovementD.Transcendentalist Movement12.【单选题】What he had done is _______A.valueB.of valuableC.of no valueD.of no valuable13.【单选题】That is the house _______ you can enjoy the scenery.A. in thatB.thatC.whichD.from which14.【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.provided15.【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 Hemingway16.【单选题】The Financier,The Titan and The Stoic by Theodore Dreiser are called his “Trilogy of( ). ”A.HatredB.DeathC.DesireD.Fate17.【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 Fitzgerald18.【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,Moses19.【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 It20.【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 sun第2卷一.全考点综合测验(共20题)1.【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.Gilded2.【单选题】Some persons gain goal and direction from their tensions;others________ under pressure.A.fall outB.fall apartC.fall back onD.fall in with3.【单选题】Greatly and permanently affected by the( )experiences,Hemingway formed his own writing style,together with his theme and hero.A.miningB.farmingC.warD.sailing4.【单选题】Opposition leaders will be watching carefully to see how the Prime Minister ________ the crisis.A.handlesB.conductsC.observesD.directs5.【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 Hawthorne6.【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. Fitzgerald7.【单选题】The effect of Darwinist idea of “survival of the fittest ” was shattering in() ’s fictional world of jungle,where “kill or to be killed ” was the law.A.Mark TwainB.Henry JamesC.Theodore DreiserD.Walt Whitman8.【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 Hemingway9.【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 Horizon10.【单选题】Now many major employers are beginning to demand _______ the completion of schoolA.more thanB.rather thanC.other thanD.better than11.【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 Steinbeck12.【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 Garland13.【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.realism14.【单选题】Nobody but you _______ what he said.A. agrees withB.agrees outC.agree withD.agree to15.【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 Dickinson16.【单选题】considered( ) “the true father of our national literature ”.A.Bret HarteB.Mark TwainC.Washington IrvingD.Walt Whitman17.【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 Pound18.【单选题】Unlike his contemporaries in the early 20th century,( )did not break up with the poetic tradition nor made any experiment on form.A.Walt WhitmanB.Robert FrostC.Ezra Pound19.【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.20.【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.urbanism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：马克吐温是以为地方主义作家，他的作品主题是密西西比河流域和美国的西部。

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B、Little Nell
C、Little Dorrit
D、Charles Surface
( ) 8、_______ is acknowledged by many as the most original poet of the Victorian period.
A、Robert Browning
A、Edger Allen Poe
B、James Russel Lowell
C、John Greenleaf Whitter
D、Walt Whitman
( ) 14、In his essays, Ralph Waldo Emerson put forward his philosophy except of ______.
4、Spenser is generally regarded as the greatest nondramatic poet of the Elizabethan age. His fame is chiefly based on his masterpiece "_________".
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.
A、earnestness
B、utilitarianism
C、respectability
D、modesty
( ) 7、In his novels, Charles Dickens depicted a lot of child characters except _________.

《英美文学选读》模拟试题(5)

《英美文学选读》模拟试题(五)一、单项选择题1.The work that 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 is most likely______.A. William Langland ’ Piers PlowmanB. Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury TalesC. John Gower’Confessio AmantisD. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight2."So much the worse for me, that I an strong. Do I want to live? What kind of living 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 Brontes Wuthering Heights, the word "soul" apparently refers to _______ .A.HeathcliffB.CatherineC.ghostD.ones spiritual lift3.Here are two lines from a ling poem: "Upon a great adventure he was bond, That greatest Gloriana to him gave." The poem must be_____.A. BeowulfB. John Milton’s Samson AgonistesC. Thomas Gray’s Elegy Written in a County ChurchyardD. Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Q ueene4.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 DickensswrencesC.Thomas HardysD.John Galsworthys5.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 tasteB. the purple colour is for the royal only and it is ridiculous to dress a clown in purpleC. conceits are always misleadingD. true wit is best in a plain style6."To be so distinguished is an honor, which, being very little accustomed to favors from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge." The above quoted sentence is presented by Samuel Johnson with a（n） _______ tone.A.delightfulB.jealousC.ironicD.humorous7."The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks."(Samuel Johnson, "To the Right Honorable the Earl of Chesterfield")The speaker here is ______.A. cheerfulB. ironicC. mysteriousD. nonchalant8._______ is a typical feature of Swifts writings.A.Bitter satireB.Elegant styleC.Casual narrationplicated sentence structure9.The first line of William Blake’s well-known poem "The Tyger" reads, "Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright".The repeated word "tiger" (tiger) with an exclamation mark suggests_______.A. joyB. fearC. painD. fondness10."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 above quoted passage is most probably taken from _______ .A.Pride and PrejudiceB.Jane EyreC.Wuthering HeightsD.Great Expectations11.The lines, "It was a miracle of rare device,/ A sunny pleasure dome with caves of ice," are found in __________.A. Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s "Kubla Khan"B. William Wordsworth’s "Lines Written in Early Spring"C. John Keats’s "Ode to Autumn"D. Percy Bysshe Shelly’s "ode to the West Wind"12.G.B.Shaws play Mrs.Warrens Profession is a realistic exposure of the _______ in the English society.A.slum landlordismB.inequality between men and womenC.political corruptionD.economic exploitation of women13." 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 in my lips." The novel from which the passage is taken must be _________.A. Jane Austen’s Pride and PrejudiceB. Charles Dicke ns’s The Old Curiosity ShopC. Samuel Richardson’s PamelaD. Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights14."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 womans tone is very _______ .A.sarcasticB.amusingC.sentimentalD.facetious15.Here is a passage from Middlemarch, a novel by George Eliot: "Her bloomingfull-pulsed youth stood there in a moral imprisonment which made itself one with the chill, colourless, narrowed landscape, with the shrunken furniture, the never-read books, and the ghostly stag in pale fanatic world that seemed to be vanishing from the daylight," Who is the lady mentioned in the quoted passage?A. DorotheaB. EmmaC. MollyD. Irene16.Alexander Pope strongly advocated _______, emphasizing that literary works should be judged by rules of order, reason, logic, restrained emotion, good taste and decorum.A.sentimentalismB.romanticismC.idealismD.neoclassicism17.Which of the following brings LITTLE impact on the development of 20th century literature?A. Friedrich Nietzche’s assertions: "God is dead"B. Arther Schopenharuer’s and Henry Bergson’s philosophical ideas of irrationality.C. Oscar Wilde’s idea of "Art for Art’s Sake".D. Freudian-Jungian psycho-analysis18.Of all the eighteenth-century novelists, _______ was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a "comic epic in prose," and the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.A.Daniel DefoeB.Samuel RichardsonC.Henry FieldingD.Oliver Goldsmith19.Which of the following best describes the speaker of T.S.Eliot’s " The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock"?A. He is an man of a action.B. He is a man of apathy.C. He is a man of passion.D. He is a man of inactivity20.In Hardys Wessex novels, there is an apparent _______ touch in his description of the simple and beautiful though primitive rural life.A.humorousB.romanticC.nostalgicD.sarcastic21. "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 tripped cap over the short curtains. Mrs Morel rushes to the door." The above passage id taken from _________.A. Charlotte Bronte’s The ProfessorB. Charles Dickens’s Domebey and SonC. wrence ’s Sons and LoversD. John Galsworthy’s The Forsyte Saga22.We can perhaps describe the west wind in Shelleys poem "Ode to the West Wind" with all the following terms except_______ .A.tamedB.swiftC.proudD.wild23.Which of the following works concerns most concentrated the Calvinistic view of original sin?A. The Wasteland.B. The Scarlet Letter.C. Leaves of Grass.D. As I Lay Dying24.In Hawthornes "Young Goodman Brown," a satanic figure leads the credulous protagonist to a witches Sabbath in the woods. There he recognizes many pillars of Salems Puritan society as well as his wife, Faith. The story illustrates Hawthornes allegorical theme of human evil or what Melville called the "power of _______ ."A.blacknessB.whitenessC.terrorD.hypocrisy25.Who exerts the single most important influence on literary naturalism, of which Theodore Dreiser and Jack London are among the best representative writers?A. FreudB. Darwin.C. W.D. Howells.D. Emerson26.Most of the poems in Whitmans Leaves of Grass sing of the "en-mass" and the _______ as well.A.natureB.self-relianceC.selfD.life27.At the beginning of Faulkner’s A Rose For Emily, there is a 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 ladyB. has good tasteC. is a prisoner of the pastD. is a conservative aristocrat28.Which of the following statements about writers in 1920s is true?A.Mark Twain published his last and most important novel.B.F. Scott Fitzgerald received the Nobel Prize.C.Freudian psychology influenced many modern writers.D.Most writers were politically radical.29.Most of Herman Melville’s novels are based on sea voyages and sea adventures. Which of the following is not the case?A. Typee.B. Moby-Dick.C. Omoo.D. The Confidence-Man30.Mark Twains first novel _______ , written in collaboration with Charles D. Warner and published in 1873,though not an artistic success, gives its name to the America of the post-Civil War period which it attempts tosatirize.A.The Gilded AgeB.The Age of InnocenceC.The Roughing TimeD.The Jazz Age31."Two roads diverged in a yellow woodAnd sorry I could not travel both ..."In the above two lines of Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken, the poet, by implication, was referring to _______.A. a travel experienceB. a marriage decisionC. a middle-age crisisD. one’s course of life32.Daisy Millers tragedy of indiscretion is intensified and enlarged by its narration from the point of view of_______ .A.the author Henry JamesB.the Italian youth GiovanelliC.the American youth WinterbourneD.her mother Mrs. Miller33.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 Falun.D. White Jacket.34.In Hawthorne’s novels and short stories, intellectuals usually appear as_______.A. commentatorsB. observersC. villainsD. saviors35.Most recognizable literary movement that gave rise to the twentieth-century American literature, or we may say, the second American Renaissance, is the _______ movement.A.transcendentalB.leftistC.expatriateD.expressionistic36.In Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, there are detailed descriptions of big parties. The purpose of such descriptions is so show _______.A. emptiness of lifeB. the corruption of the upper classC. contrast of the rich and the poorD. the happy days of the Jazz Age37.As an autobiographical play, ONeills _______ （1956）has gained its status asa world classic andsimultaneously marks the climax of his literary career and the coming of age of American drama.A.The Iceman ComethB.Long Days Journey Into NightC.The Hairy ApeD.Desire Under the Elms38.Which of the following novels can be regarded as typically belonging to the school of literary modernism?A. The Sound and the FuryB. Uncle Tom’s Cabin.C. Daisy Miller.D. The Gilded Age.39.Stylistically, Henry James fiction is characterized by _______ .A.short, clear sentencesB.abundance of local imagesC.ordinary American speechD.highly refined language二、阅读理解（二）。

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[9]Romance, a popular literary form in the medieval period reflects a ________ age.
Achivalric
Bheroic
Crealistic
Dmodern
答：
答案：A
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Questions:
A. Identify the author and the title from which the above passage is taken.
B. What is this passage describing?
答：
答案：Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Mrs Bennet, considering her daughters' marriage
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[6]“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 quo
To pass the ocean with a band of men;
I’ll join the hills that bing the Africa shore
And make that country continent to Spain,
And both contributory to my crown;
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[4]It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good forturen must be in want of a wife.
However little known the feelings or views of such a man many be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrouding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.
答：
答案：C
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[13]
Give the symbolic meanings of characters Gerald and Birkin in the novel Women in Love.
答：
答案：They are the symbols of spiritual deathand bourgeois ethics.
AJane Eyre
BHamelet
CWuthring ห้องสมุดไป่ตู้eights
DBleak House
答：
答案：A
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[7]What’s the theme of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights?
答：
答案：a story of revenge;From the social point of view, it is a story about a poor man abused; it is also a love story.
AOliver Twist
BBleak house
CDavid Copperfield
DGreat Expectations
答：
答案：A
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[16]Working through the tradition of a Christian humanism, Milton wrote Paradise Lost, intending to expose the ways of Satan and to“justify the ways of God to men.”What is Milton’s fundamental concern in Paradise Lost?
答：
答案：Dr. Faustus, Christopher Marlowe, Man's aspiration, bounding achievement
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[15]In Charles Dickens’early novels, he attacks one or more specific social evils, _____is a good example of describing the dehumanizing workhouse system and the dark, criminal underworld life.
答：
答案：At the center of the conflict between human love and spiritual duty lies Milton’s fundamental concern with freedom and choice; The freedom to submit to God’s prohibition on eating the apple; and the choice of disobedience made for love.
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[14]
Had I as many souls as there be stars.
I’d give them all for Mephistophilis!
By him I’ll be great emperor of the world,
And make a bridge through the moving air
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[5]Discuss the artistic features of Shelley's poems.
答：
答案：lyrical|poet|classical|mythological|allusions|figures of speech|metaphor|personification|description
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[8]
“I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume.
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.”
A. Identify the author and the work.
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[1]_____ is NOT a dramatist who holds the central position in American drama in the modernistic period.
AA. Sinclair Lewis
BB. Eugene O’Neill
Questions:
A. Who does I refer to in the passage?
B. Who am I going to write to?
C. What kind of image is "I"?
答：
答案：Huck, Miss Watson, a boy with good heart but deformed conscience
CC. Arthur Miller
DD. Tenessee Williams
答：
答案：A
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[2]Please elaborate Wordsworth’s theory of poetry, taking examples from the poems you have learned to support your ideas.
B. What are the two principal beliefs that the poet set forth in this poem?
答：
答案：Whitman, song of myself, the theory of universailty and the singularity
答：
答案：Lyrical Ballads|emotions|recollected|tranquility|I wandered lonely as a cloud|nature|individual|common speech
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[3]Briefly state Mark Twain’s magic power with language in his novels.
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[12]John Milton’s most powerful dramatic poem on the Greek model is ______.