2008年四川大学英语专业(英美文学)真题试卷及答案【精选】

2008年四川大学英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷及答案

一、单项选择题

1 Which of the following is NOT directly related to the literature of Victorian Age in England?

（A）The growth of urban population resulted in the appearance of a new reading public.

（B）Many libraries were set up so that books were now available to readers who could not afford to buy them.

（C）The plot of novels is unfolded against a social background which is broader than what it had been in previous novels.

（D）Most of the novels were not first published in serial form, that is, by installment, before they were fully published in a single book.

2 Romance was a type of literature that was very popular in the______.

（A）Renaissance period

（B）seventeenth century

（C）Middle Ages

（D）eighteenth century

3 Jonathan Swift wrote all the following works EXCEPT______.

（A）The Battle of Books

（B）The Pilgrim's Progress

（C）Gulliver's Travels

（D）A Tale of the Tub

4 The following statements about neo-classicism are all true EXCEPT______.

（A）Elegance, correctness, appropriateness and restraint were preferred

（B）It results in the rise of novels as a dominant literary genre

（C）It is unsympathetic towards the "rude" masters of old literature—towards Chaucer, Spenser, and even Shakespeare

（D）It is almost exclusively a "town" poetry, catering to the interests of the society in great cities.

5 Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Romanticism in England?

（A）Spontaneity in expressing feelings.

（B）Emphasis on reason.

（C）Worship of nature.

（D）Simplicity in language.

6 Which ONE of the following is the author of The Leather-Stocking Tales?

（A）Henry David Thoreau

（B）Washington Irving

（C）Edgar Allan Poe

（D）James Fennimore Cooper

7 Which ONE of the following is the author of the poem Song of Myself?

（A）Walt Whitman

（B）Stephen Crane

（C）Edgar Allan Poe

（D）Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

8 Which one of the following statements is applicable to the understanding of Transcendentalism?

（A）It is strongly influenced by social Darwinism.

（B）Belief in individualism, independence of mind, and self-reliance.

（C）Man has no free-will.

（D）It holds that determinism governs everything.

9 Mark the novelist whose major works are characterized by the elements of the "grotesque"?

（A）Philip Freneau

（B）Edgar Allan Poe

（C）Washington Irving

（D）Emily Dickson

10 All the following concepts can be found in American naturalistic fiction EXCEPT______.

（A）determinism

（B）survival of the fittest

（C）effects of hereditary and environmental forces

（D）search for identity

二、名词解释

11 Oscar Wilde

12 A Modest Proposal