2013年4月全国自考《英美文学选读00604》密押卷卷(四)及答案
16. Which of the following statements about Victorian literature is NOT true? A. Novels became the most widely read and the most vital and challenging
答案:A 解析:(P3)在诺曼征服之后,英国文学进入了中世纪时期,这个时期持续了大约4个世纪。
2. Paradise Lost is actually a story taken from_________. A. the Renaissance B. Greek Mythology C. the Old Testament D. the New Testament
A. prostitution B. life force C. social evil D. slum landlordism
答案:D 解析:(P322)萧伯纳的戏剧《鳏夫的房产》揭露了贫民窟里不公平的租房制度。
8. In his famous essay, “Tradition and Individual Talent”, _______ put great
答案:A 解析:(P498)在亨利·詹姆斯的现实主义小说中,他首要关注的是人物内心的生活。
12. In________, Dreiser expressed his naturalistic pursuit by expounding the
purposelessness of life and attacking the conventional moral standards.
into his works. He believed that the healthy way of the individual’s psychological development lay in the primacy of the life impulse.
A. T.S.Eliot B. George Eliot C. James Joyce D. wrence
A. both celestial rapture and human limitation B. both image creation and profound meaning C. both music and words D. both inspiration and skills of writing
答案:D 解析:(P450)惠特曼创造了“自由体诗”,没有固定的节奏和韵律。
10. Generally speaking, all those writers with a naturalistic approach to human
reality tend to be_________.
A. idealists B. pessimists C. transcendentalists D. impressionists
答案:D 解析:(P82)新古典主义者们设定了创作的规矩与条框:散文必须精确、直接、通顺、灵活。而 具有讽刺性是对诗歌的要求。
4. _________defined a good style as “proper words in proper places”. A. Jonathan Swift B. Charles Dickens C. Edmund Spenser D. George Bernard Shaw
14. The Renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical
events, such as the rediscovery of ancient________ and ____________culture, the new discoveries in geography and astrology, the religious reformation and the economic
答案:C 解析:(P209)
6. Chronologically the Victorian period roughly coincides with the reign of___ from 1836 to 1901.
A. Queen Victoria B. Queen Elizabeth Ⅰ C. King Henry Ⅷ D. King Edward Ⅵ
答案:C 解析:(P73)
3. Neoclassicists had some fixed laws and rules for prose EXCEPT__________. A. being precise B. being direct C. being flexible D. being satiric
答案:B 解析:(P476)
11. In his realistic fiction, Henry James’s primary concern is to present
the________.
A. inner life of human beings B. American Civil War and its effects C. life on the Mississippi River D. Calvinistic view of original sin
expansion.
A. Chinese/Indian B. Hebrew/Egyptian C. Roman/Greek D. Britain/American
答案:C 解析:(P7)文艺复兴是由一系列历史事件激发推动的,其中包括对古罗马和希腊文化的重新发现 ,地理和天文领域的新发现,宗教改革及经济发展。
15. In Shelley’s “To a Skylark”, the bird, suspended between reality and poetic
image, pours forth an exultant song which suggests to the poet________.
A. An American Tragedy B. Sister Carrie C. The Financier D. The Stoic
答案:B 解析:(P526)在《嘉莉妹妹》一书中,德莱塞通过阐述无目的的生活和抨击世俗的道德标准来表 现他的自然主义的创作追求。
13. Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his
exposing and criticizing the social reality. 答案:C 解析:(P234)
17. Charles Dickens’s works are characterized by a mingling of________. He seems
to believe that life is itself a mixture of joy and grief.
C. Influenced by a particularly strict set of moral standards, Victorian
writers like Oscar Wilde, advocated the old moderate, respectable lifestyle.
D. Victorian prose writers joined forces with the critical realist novelists in
全国自考英美文学选读 卷(四)
一、Multiple Choice (40 points in all,1 for each) Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet.
9. The poetic style Whitman devised is now called__________, that is, poetry
without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.
A. heroic couplet B. dramatic monologue C. blank verse D. free verse
答案:A 解析:(P107)
5. Percy Bysshe Shelley is one of the leading _________poets, an intense and
original lyrical poet in the English language.
A. realistic B. symbolic C. romantic D. imagist
答案:D 解析:(P374)劳伦斯是首先将心理透析引入作品的小说家之一,他认为人类心理的健康发展主要 在于生命原始的冲动。
A. love and hate B. friendship and loneliness C. humor and pathos D. satire and criticism
答案:C 解析:(P241)狄更斯的作品有一个特点,是将幽默与哀伤的泪水交汇起来,正如人生就是欢乐与 痛苦的结合。
18. ___________was one of the first novelists to introduce themes of psychology
expression of progressive thought.
00604自考英美文学选读-串讲课件讲义
4*4’英国2218’B1分)C2A1分)2>1—2分)3>2—3分)4>1—2分)5>3—4分)1>时间+来源(0.5分—1分)3>2—3分)4> 1分)5>0.5—1分)6>0.5—1分)3>1—2分)4>2—3分)5>1—2分)6>0.5—1分)介绍论述题中关于作1>0.5—1分)2>1—2分)1>0.5—1分)2>1—2分)literary trend1798-1832Lyrical Ballads in 1798Walter Scott's death in 1832.is a literary trend.It prevailed in(place)during the period of xxxx-xxxx,beginning with xxxx in (time),ending with in(time).was greatly influenced by the.Generally speaking, the expressed the ideology and sentiment of those classes......The great writers in this period are............时期th to mid-17th )时期 1.<<>>2.3.1.2. 1.2.3.pun 3.英国文学 1.2.3.1.英国小说之父the father of English Novels2.讽刺satire1.2.3. 1.2.details细腻英国文学Period Period1836-1901 1.2.3.T ·S4.1.2.critical realist 3.4.3.4.5. 1.2.1.2.1.2.3.4.5.6.现实Period 美国文学1.2.3.4.5.老人与海6.现代Period1.2.3.4.浪漫Period1.Old English Literature-(450——1066封建建立)a. Religious-——b. Secular--heroic age---<Beowulf>盎格鲁撒克逊人的史诗---a protector of people, fight against the nature.————•••例题例题【正确答案:B】Background:a by a①The of&②The new in&the&本质与主张③The in&to get rid of to new ideas that the the&to the of the early from theEngland①---②都铎)Traits of humanistic poetry: dramatistsWriters:1.早期---andPetrarchan)2.中期the Ageblank verse)3.后期抽象founder of modern science)Life381542I.5 history plays and 4 comedies. (apprenticeship 学徒时期)•5•III>;and.•4部.•,II. 5 history plays ,6 comedies and 2 tragedies (style became highly individualized)•5II>,I,II,V>•6()••to•and•and loyal•其他•II. 5 history plays ,6 comedies and 2 tragedies (style became highly individualized) 2III. The Third stage---peak of his creation, included his greatest tragedies and his so-called dark comedies: ---Greatest four tragedies:<Hamlet><King Lear><Othello><Macbeth>III. The Third stage---peak of his creation, included his greatest tragedies and his so-called dark comedies:---Theme: The impossibility of certainty; the complexity of action;the mystery of death;the nation as a diseased body.blood-and-thunderand butIV. Principal Romantic tragicomedies: <The Tempest>①.②forth byto the one he人物塑造独白情节结构语言风格Paradise Lost<Lycidas挽歌<Areopagitica><Paradise LostThe is the“Fall of Man”.流放<Paradise Regained诱惑<Samson Agonistes>①②③④⑤例题例题【正确答案:B】background:Time:Background:Traits:Thoughts:节俭迷信EnlightmentLiterature ideas:教导.<A Modest ProposalLiterature ideas:Schools of literature:Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Tobias George Smollett, and Oliver Goldsmith.2.Gothic novels ⋯⋯⋯Schools of literature:Daniel DefoeThe True born Englishman wonThe Review<Robinson Crusoe>②③坚韧④the lower-class people.选读<Robinson Crusoe> Theme:①②③创作风格:①②③方言。
(完整)0604英美文学选读年4_月份历年真题
2010年4月高等教育自学考试全国统一命题考试I. Multiple Choice(40 points in all, 1 for each)1. T。
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Eliot’ s ______ bea ring a strong thematic resemblance to The Waste Land, is generally regarded as the darkest of Eliot' s poems.A. “Gerontion”B. “Prufrock"C. Murder in the Cathedral D。
The Hollow Men2. Shelley’ s political lyrics ______ is not only a war cry calling upon all working people to rise up against their political oppressors, but an address to them pointing out the intolerable injustice of economic exploitation。
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“Ode to Liberty” B。
“Ode to Naples"C。
“Ode to the West Wind” D. “Men of England”3。
Charlotte’ s works are famous for the depiction of the life of ______ working women, particularly governesses.A。
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the upper — middle — class D. the upper — class4. All of the following works are known as Hardy' s “novels of character and environment” EXCEPT ______。
2012年4月英美国文学选读自学考试试题
2012年4月全国高等教育自学考试英美文学选读试卷(课程代码 00604)答题说明:本试卷分试卷和答题纸两部分,考生用蓝、黑圆珠笔或钢笔在答题纸上作答,将答案写在试卷上无效。
PART ONE (40 POINTS)Ⅰ.Multiple Choice(40 points in all,1 for each)Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Mark your choice by blackening the corresponding letter A , B , C or D on the answer sheet.1.Antonio, Bassanio and Portia are the characters in_______.A. The Merchant of VenisB. Much Ado About NothingC. Twelfth NightD.A Midsummer Night’s Dream2. John Milton wrote ______to expose the ways Satan and to “justify the ways of God to men.”A. Paradise RegainedB. Paradise LostC. Samson AgonistesD. Areopagitica3. The work ______written by Daniel Defoe Brought him into jail and made him go through public pillory.A. The Shortest Way with the DissentersB. The True—born EnglishmanC. Robinson CrusoeD. A Journal of the Plague Year4. In the first part of Gulliver’s Travels, Gulliver told his experience in _____.A. BrobdingnagB. LilliputC. Flying IslandD. Houyhnhnm5. For his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel,_______has been regarded by some as “Father of the English Novel”.A. Daniel DefoeB. Jonathan SwiftC. Henry FieldingD. Charles Dickens6. William Blake’s _____ was composed during the climax of the French Revolution and it plays the double role both as a satire and a revolutionary prophecy.A. Songs of ExperienceB. Songs of InnocenceC. Marriage of Heaven and HellD. Poetical Sketches7.________ maintained that the scenes and events of everyday life and the speech of ordinary people were the raw material of which poetry could and should be made.A. William BlakeB. William WordsworthC. T. S. EliotD. William Shakespeare8. Prometheus, the hero in Shelly’s poetic drama Prometheus Unbound, is a figure in _____.A. The BibleB. Greek MythologyC. A German LegendD. Arabian Nights9. Jane Austen’s first novel is _____.A. Pride and PrejudiceB. Sense and SensibilityC. EmmaD. persuasion10. All the following statements are true of Dickens’ later work EXCEPT______.A. There are fewer jokes and the comedy becomes harsher.B. There is always a happy ending.C. The novels are of great compactness and concentration.D. Most of the works present a criticism of the more complicated and yet most fundamental social institutions and moral of Victorian England.11. Charlotte Bronte’s most autobiographical work, _______ is largely based on her experience in Brussels.A. Jane EyreB. ShirleyC. VilletteD. The Professor12. All of the following novels by Thomas Hardy reveal the conflict between the traditional and the modern EXCEPT ______.A. The Mayor of CasterbridgeB. Tess of the D’ UrbervillesC. Jude of ObscurD. Under the Greenwood Tree13. Much of Shavian drama is constructed around the ______ of a conventional theatrical situation.A. traditionB. inversionC. BorderingD. distortion14. As an important prose writer, in his famous essay, Traditional and Individual Talent, Eliot put great emphasis on the importance of _______ both in creative writing and in criticism.A. change B .creativityC. ethicD. Tradition15. D. H. Lawrence’s novel ______ is a remarkable novel in which the individual consciousness is subtly revealed and strands of themes are intricately wound up.A. Sons and LoversB. The RainbowC. Women in LoveD. Lady Chatterley’s Lover16. All of the following plays are among Shakespeare’s four greated tragedies EXCEPT ______.A. HamletB. MacbethC. Romio and JulietD. Othello17. The work _____ shows how mankind, in the person of Christ, withstands the tempers and is established once more in the divine favor.A. Paradise RegainedB. Paradise LostC. Samson AgonistesD. Areopagitica18. As one of the greatest masters of English prose, ______ defined a good style as “proper words in proper places.”A .Henry Fielding B. Jonathan SwiftC. Daniel DefoeD. William Blake19. Dickens’ best depicted characters are those innocent, virtuous, persecuted and helpless _____.A. child charactersB. femalesC. LabororsD. Farmers20. The author of the work The Return of the Native is _______.A. Thomas HardyB. D. H. LawrenceC. Charles DickensD. George Bernard Shaw21. “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, Eliot’s most striking early achievement, presents the meditation of an aging young man over the business of ______.A. proposing marriageB. pursuing the truthC. losing idealismD. making a choice22. D. H. Lawrence’s two novels, _______ and Women in Love, are generally regarded as his masterpieces.A. Sons and LoversB. The RainbowC. KangarooD. Lady Chatterley’s Lover23. Hemingway’s To Have and Have Not is one of many to show his characteristics pattern of ______ struggling against nature and the environment.A. a military armyB. a vulnerable groupC. a human societyD. a lonely individual24. According to Hawthorne, there is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole life; but _______ may rouse it to activity.A. musicB. CircumstancesC. memoryD. love25. ______ is best—known as the author of his mighty book, Moby—Dick, which is one of the world’s greatest masterpieces.A. Herman MelvilleB. Mark TwainC. Ernest HemingwayD. Virginia Woolf26. Walt Whitman is a poet with a strong sense of mission, having devoted all his life to the creation of the “single” poem, _____.A. Innocent AbroadB. The Lost ParadiseC. Leaves of GrassD. The Waste Land27. While 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 “______” of man.A. outer worldB. inner worldC. physical worldD. domestic world28. Greatly and permanently affected by the ______, Hemingway formed his own writing style, together with his theme and hero.A. war experiencesB. love experiencesC. marriageD. education29. Emily Dickinson’s poetry is unique and ______ in its own way. For example, her poems have no titles.A. traditionalB. unconventionalC. ordinaryD. unbelievable30. Theodore Dreiser entitled his greatest work with ______ intending to tell us that it is the social pressure that makes Clyde’s downfall inevitable.A. Death in the WoodsB. Tender Is the NightC. The Sound and the FuryD. An American Tragedy31. Robert Lee Frost’s ______ won him the first Pulitzer Prizes, which includes”Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.”A. North BostonB. “The Gift Outright”C. New HampshireD. A Boy’s Will32. Fitzgerald is a great _____ in American literature and his style is closely related to his themes.A. poetB. criticC. essayistD. stylist33. It is Henry James’ novels and his ______ that make him a fascinating case in the American literary history and a conspicuous figure in world literature.A. literary essaysB. travel accountsC. poemsD. plays34. The major concern of Faulkner’s ______ is primarily about the South as a state of mind.A. The Sun Also RisesB. Light in AugustC. The FableD. The Mansion35. Compelled by an unceasing interest in the “interior of the heart” of man’s being, Hawthorne discusses _______ in almost every book he wrote.A. love and hatredB. sin and evilC. frustration and self—denialD. balance and self—discipline36. The purpose of Melville’s fictional tales, exotic or philosophical, is to penetrate as deeply as possible into the metaphysical, theological, moral, psychological, and social truths of _____.A. human existenceB. politicsC. religionD. arts37. According to Whitman, poetry could enable Americans to celebrate their release from the Old World and the ______ rule.A. academicB. officialC. colonialD. legislative38. Being a boy’s book specially written for the adults, ______ is Mark Twain’s most representative work, describing a journey down the Mississippi undertaken by Huck and Jim.A. Innocents AbroadB. The Gilded AgeC. Life on the MississippiD. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn39. One of Henry James’ literary techniques innovated to cater for the psychological emphasis is his ______.A. narrative “point of view”B. rhetorical devicesC. way of using metaphorsD. way of using symbols40. More than five hundred poems Emily Dickenson wrote are about nature, in which her general ______ about the relationship between man and nature is well---expressed.A. skepticismB. beliefC .appreciation D. passionPART TWO (60 POINTS)Ⅱ.Reading Comprehension(16 points in all, 4 for each)Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.41. Into this fence or fortress, with infinite labour, I carry’d all my riches, all my provisions, ammunition, and stores, of which you have the account above; and I made me a large tent, which, to preserve me from the rains that in one part of the year are very violent there, I made double, viz. one smaller tent within, and one larger tent above it, and covered the uppermost with a large tarpaulin which I had saved among the sails.Questions:A.Identify the author and the title of the novel from which this passage istaken.B.Who is the narrator?C.What are the narrator’s characteristics and whom does he represent?42. MRS.WARREN. (after looking at her helplessly, begins to whimper) VivieVIVIE. (springing up sharply) Now pray dont begin to cry. Any thing but that. I really cannot stand whimpering. I will go out of the room if you do.MRS.WARREN. (piteously) Oh, my darling, how can you be so hard on me?Have I no rights over you as your mother?VIVIE. Are you my mother?MRS.WARREN. (appaled) Am I you mother! Oh Vivie!VIVIE. Then where are our relatives? my father? our family friends? You claim the rights of a mother: the right to call me fool and child; to speak to me as no woman in authority over me at collage dare speak to me; to dictate my way of life; and to force on me the acquaintance of a brute whom anyone can see to be the most vicious sort of London man about town. Before I give myself thetrouble to resist such claims, I may as well find out whether they have any real existence.Questions:A.Identify the author and the title of the play from which the part is taken.B.Summarize the theme of the play in one or two sentences.C.What kind of person is the protagonist Vivie?43. 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 poet and the title of the poem from which the stanza is taken.B.What does the word”you” refer to?C.What does the poet express in the stanza?44. We slowly drove---He knew no haste,And I had put awayMy labor and my leisure too,For His Civility---We passed the School, where Children stroveAt Recess ---in the Ring---We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain---We passed the Setting Sun---Questions:A.Identify the poet and the title of the poem from which the above stanzasare taken.B.What figure of speech is used in Line 1 and Line 4?C.What do “the School”, “the Fields of Gazing Grain” and “the Setting Sun”represent?Ⅲ.Questions and Answers (24 points in all, 6 for each)Give a brief answer to each of the following questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answers sheet.45. What is the theme of Jane Austen’ Pride and Prejudice?46. What does the poem “The Chimney Sweeper (from Songs of Experience)”reveal?47. What is “Hemingway Code Heroes”?48. Give a brief analysis of Emily Grierson, the protagonist of A Rose for Emily by Faulkner.Ⅳ. Topic Discussion (20 points in all, 10 for each)Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in Englishin the corresponding space on the answer sheet.49. Discuss briefly Thomas Hardy’s literary achievement in terms of the setting,the literary tendency and literary features.50. Comment briefly on Robert Frost’s nature poetry.2012年4月全国高等教育自学考试英美文学选读试题答案及评分参考(课程代码 00604)Ⅰ.Multiple Choice(40 points in all,1 for each)1. A2. B3. A4.B5. C6. C7. B8. B9. B 10. B 11. C12. D 13. B 14. D 15. C 16. C 17. A 18. B 19. A 20. A 21. A22. B 23. D 24. B 25. A 26. C 27. B 28. A 29. B 30. D 31. C32. D 33. A 34. B 35. B 36. A 37. C 38. D 39. A 40. AⅡ.Reading Comprehension(16 points in all, 4 for each)41. A. From Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Cruse. (1 分)B. Robinson Cruse. (1 分)C. Robinson is a typical 18th century English middle—class man, with a great capacity for work, inexhaustible energy, courage, patience and persistence in overcoming obstacles, in struggling against the hostile natural environment. He is very prototype of the empire builder, the pioneer colonist. (2 分)42. A. George Bernard Shaw, Mrs. Warren’s profession. (1 分)B. The play is about the economic oppression of women. (1 分)C. Vivie is a kind of new woman, intelligent and well educated, with a strong sense of injustice and a passion for “honest” work. (2 分)43. A. From Walt Whitman’s“Song of Myself”. ((1 分)B. The democratic “en---masse” of America. ((1 分)C. The genuine participation of a poet in a common cultural was to behave as a supreme individualist; however, the poet’s essential purpose was to indentify his ego with the world, and with the democratic “en---masse” of America.(2 分)44. A. From Emily Dickenson’s “Because I could not stop for Death---”.( 1 分)B. Personification. (1 分)C. They represent three stages of life:”the School”----youth; “the Fields of Gazing Grain”—mature period;” the Setting Sun”—end of life. (2 分) Ⅲ.Questions and Answers (24 p points in all, 6 for each)45. Pride and Prejudice, originally drafted as “First Impressions” in 1796, is the most delightful of Jane Austen’s works. (3 分) The title tells of a major concern of the novel: .pride and prejudice. (3 分)46. The two “Chimney Sweeper” poems are good examples to reveal the relation between economic circumstance, i.e. the exploitation of child labor, (2 分) and an ideological circumstance, i.e. the role played by religion in making people compliant to exploitation. (2 分) The poem from the Songs of Experience reveals the true nature of religion which helps bring misery to the poor children. (2 分)47. Hemingway’s world is limited. He deals with limited range of characters in quite similar circumstances and measures them against an unvarying code, known as “grace under pressure”, which is actually an attitude towards life that Hemingway had been trying to demonstrate is his works. (3 分) Those who survive in theprogress of seeking to master the code with the honesty, the discipline, and the restraint are Hemingway Code Heroes. (3 分)48. Set in the town of Jefferson in Yoknapatawpa, the story focuses on Emily Grierson, an eccentric spinster who refuses to accept the passage of time, or the inevitable charge and loss that accompanied it. (3 分) As a descendent of the Southern aristocracy, Emily is typical of those in Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpa stories who are the symbols of Old South but the prisoners of the past. (3 分) Ⅳ. Topic Discussion (20 points in all, 10 for each)49. A. Hardy’s novels are all Victorian in date. Most of them are set in Wessex, the fictional primitive and crude rural region which is really the home place he both loves and hates, such as The Return of the Native, Tess of the D’ Urbervilles Jude the Obscure. These works, known as “novels of character and environment,”are the most representative of him as both a naturalistic and a critical realist writer.(3 分)B. Living at the turn of the century, Hardy is often regarded as a transitional writer. In him we see the influence from both the past and the modern. The pessimistic view of life predominates most of Hardy’s later works and earns him a reputation as a naturalistic writer. Though Naturalism seems to have played an important part in Hardy’s works, there is also bitter and sharp criticism and even open challenge of the irrational, hypocritical and unfair Victorian institutions, conventions and morals. (4 分)C. He tells very good stories and he is a great painter of nature. His heroes and heroines, those unfortunate young men and women in their desperate struggle for personal fulfillment and happiness, are all vividly and realistically depicted. And all the works of Hardy are noted for the rustic dialect and a poetic flavor which fits well into their perfectly designed architectural structures. They are the product of a conscientious artist. (3 分)50. A. Unlike his contemporaries in the 20th century, Robert Frost did not break up with the poetic tradition nor made any experiment on form. Instead, he learned from the tradition, especially the familiar conventions of nature poetry and of classical pastoral poetry, and made the colloquial New England speech into a poetic expression. (3 分)B. Many of his poems are fragrant with natural quality. Images and metaphors in his poems are drawn from the simple country life and the pastoral landscape that can be easily understood. But it would be a mistake to imagine that Frost is easy to understand because it is easy to read. (3 分)C. Profound ideas are delivered under the disguise of the plain language and the simple form, for what frost did is to take symbols from the limited human world and the pastoral landscape to refer to the great world beyond the rustic scene. (2 分)D. These thematic concerns include the terror and tragedy in nature, as well as its beauty, and the loneliness and poverty of the isolated human being. But first and foremost Frost is concerned with his love of life and his belief in a serenity that only came from working usefully, while he practiced himself throughout his life. (2 分)。
自考英美文学选读00604考前串讲(1-10)
英美文学考前串讲(1)前言:大家好!为了帮助广大的考生在有效的时间内达到较好的复习效果,我们总结了近几年来京城一些名师的串讲资料,以及上课老师所讲的重点内容.对于没有上过课的学生,相信它会给您一个指导性的作用,帮助您达到事半功倍的效果!而对于上过课的考生来说,再看以下的串讲内容效果当然会更好!以下的串讲内容包括三方面内容:第一部分:介绍考试题型及评分标准第二部分:考试习题集 (以串讲内容及课本重点知识为依据).第三部分: 考试注意事项(由于时间有限,难免有不足,还请大家原谅!)Wish you all Success! Good Luck!Part I Introduction about Examination:1) 考试题型第一部分:选择题:I. Multiple Choice: (40 points, 1 point for each). Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies are the following works except ____.A. HamletB. King LearC. Romeo and JulietD. OthelloAnswer: C. (可参考课本P33)II. Reading Comprehension (16 points, 4 points for each)也就是根据选读中的一句话或一段话,回答三个问题,这些完成来自于书上,在以下的串讲中我们会给大家做具体的总结,以帮助大家顺利的通过考试!例如:2001年考过的一个题目:“Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere;/Destroy and Preserver’ hear, O hear!”Questions:A. Identify the poem and the poet.B. What is the "Wild Spirit"?C. What does the "Wild Spirit" destroy and preserve?Answer:A: Shelly’s "Ode to the West wind"雪莱的《西风颂》B. The West wind: "breath of Autumn’s being’’C. It destroys things /thoughts / idea that are dead, it preserves new life. (or seeds that represent new life or new birth.)(可参考课本P211)评分标准:A,B,各1分,C,2分. 语言错误酌情扣分第二部分是非选择题 (共44分)III. Questions and Answers (24 points in all, 6 points for each)例如:"My boy!" said the old gentleman, learning over the desk. Oliver started at the sound. He might be excused for doing so, for the words were kindly said, and strange sounds frighten one. He trembled violently, and burst into tears." (Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist)Explain why the boy (Oliver Twist) started first, then trembled violently and burst into tears when the words were” kindly" said.参考答案:The boy started at the words because kind words were not expected; it is (was, must be) the first time in all his life that the boy (Oliver Twist) had been “kindly” greeted; strange sounds may predict another suffering/misfortune/torture/…) (At least one example from the text to back up the above statement.)评分标准:概述占4分, 例子占2分.语言错误酌情扣分.IV. Topic discussion (20 points in all, 10 points for each)Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topicsin English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.例如:Mark Twin presented the 19th century American in his own unique way. Discuss Twain’s art of fiction: the setting, the language, and the characters, etc., based on his novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.参考答案:Twain uses the Mississippi alley as his fictional kingdom, writing about the landscape and people, the customs and the dialects of one particular region, and therefore known as a local colorist. creates life-like characters, especially the unconventional Huckleberry Finn, who runs away from civilization and stands opposite to conventional village morality.uses a simple, direct vernacular language, totally different from any precious literary language. It is the kind of colloquial language belonging to the lower class, the living local American English.has created a special humor to satirize social injustice and the decayed convention.英美文学考前串讲(2)Part One: English LiteratureChapter I An Introduction to Old and Medieval English Literature & The Renaissance PeriodI. Choose the right answer:1. Dr. Faustus is a play based on the _____legend of a magician aspiring for ____ and finally meeting his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the Devil.immoralitymoneyknowledgepolitical powerAnswer: C (可参考课本P21)2. _____, is a typical example of Old English poetry, is regarded today as the national epicof the Anglo-Saxons.Wife’s ComplaintDream of the RoodSeafarerAnswer: B (可参考课本P1)’s Chaucer alone who, for the first time in English literature, presented to us a comprehen sive realistic picture of the English Society in his masterpiece__________.Canterbury TalesLegend of Good Womenand CriseydeD. The Romaunt of the Rose.Answer: A (可参考课本P4)4. The Essence of Renaissance, the most significant intellectual movement, was_____.A. Geographical explorationB. Religious reformationC. Publishing and translationD. Humanism.Answer: D (可参考课本P8)5. “Prince Arthur’s greatest mission is his search for Gloriana, with whom he has fallen in love through a love vision.”The two figures come from_____.Lost. FaustusFaerie QueeneAnswer: C (可参考课本P13)6. In “Sonnet 18”, Shakespeare_________________.on the destructive power of time and eternal beauty by poetry.human’s vanity.the eternity of love.the power of the beauty.Answer: A (P37)7. ____ gave new vigor to the blank verse with his “mighty lines” and make ’blank verse’the principle vehicle of expression in drama.Answer: C (P21)8. Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies are the following works except____.Learand JulietAnswer: C (P33)9. The Renaissance refers to between 14th----mid-17th century, which was under the reign of Queen___and absolute monarchy in England reached its summit, and in which the ’real mainstream (真正的文学主流)’ was ____.poetrydramanoveldramaAnswer: B (P11)10. In The Legend of Good Women, Chaucer used for the first time in English the rhymed couplet of iambic pentameter, which is to be called later____.Spenserian stanzaheroic coupletblank versefree verseAnswer: B (P5)11. The Redcrosse Knight in “The Faerie Queene” stands for_____, and Una stands for_____.chastitytruthdeliverygentleman/ lady.Answer: B (P16)12. Which of the following is NOT regarded as one of the characteristics of Renaissance?of ancient Roman and Greek culture.to remove the old feudalist ideas in Medieval Europe.of man’s pursuit of happiness in his life, and tolerance of man’s foibles.of man’s efforts in soul delivery and personal salvation.Answer: D (P7)13. “The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune” is an example of ______.Answer: A (P55)14. _____ introduced the Petrarchan sonnet into England.SaxonsAnglo-SaxonsRomansNormansAnswer: B (P11)15. It is ___ alone who, for the first time in English literature presented to us a comprehe nsive realistic picture of the English society of his time and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life.SpenserChaucerShakespeareDonneAnswer: B (P4)16. The following belong to the characteristics of ’metaphysical poetry’ represented by ’John Donne’ except___.imagery and simple dictionformstyleAnswer: D (P63)17. Paradise Lost is actually a story taken from____.MythologylegendOld TestamentNew TestamentAnswer: C (P73)18. In “Paradise Lost”, Satan says “We may with more successful hope resolve/ To wage by force or guile eternal war, / Irreconcilable to our grand Foe” What does the “Eternal war”mean?remove God from his throneburn the Heaven Downcorrupt God’s creation of man and woman-----Adam and Evebeguile into a snake to threaten man’s lifeAnswer: C (P71, 节选部分在P75)19. _____, the first of the great tragedies, is generally regarded as Shakespeare’s most po pular play on the stage, for it has the qualities of a “blood-and-thunder” thriller and a ’philosophical exploration’ of life and death.Merchant of VeniceLearWinter’s TaleAnswer: B (P33)20. It was ___and ___ the two conquests that provided the source for the rise and growth ofEnglish literature.SaxonsAnglo-SaxonsNormansRomansAnswer: B (P1)21. Paradise Lost is ___’s masterpiece, which is an epic in 12 books, written in blank verse, about the heroic revolt of Satan against God’s authority.DonneMarloweMiltonSpenserAnswer: C (P71)22. The following description fit into Milton ’except’_____.great revolutionary poet of the 17th centuryoutstanding political pamphleteergreat stylist and master of blank versekind of elegant and refine style.Answer: D (P70---73)23. _____is not written by John Milton.AgonistesLostregainedAnswer: D (P71)24. Marlow’s greatest achievement is that he perfected the ’blank verse’, and he is regarded as ’the pioneer of English drama’, which of the following is not written by him?Jew of MaltaPassionate to His LoveSun RisingAnswer: D (P20)25. ____Essays is the first example of that genre in English literature, which has been recgnized as an important landmark in the development of English prose.Milton’sBacon’s’sGray’sAnswer: B (P58)26._____Was known as “the poets’ poet”.27. Shakespeare28. Spenser29. Donne30. Milton31.Answer: B (P15)32.27. “And we will make thee beds of roses / And a thousand fragrant posies/ A cap of flowers, and a kirtle/ Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle.” The above lines are probably taken from______.33.’s The Faerie Queene34. Donne’s The Sun Rising35.’s Sonnet 1836.’s The Passionate Shepherd to His Love.37.Answer: D (P28)38.28. Which of the following statement best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18?39. speaker eulogizes the power of Nature.40. speaker satirizes human vanity.41. speaker praises the power of artistic creation.42. speaker meditates on man’s salvation.43.Answer: C (P37)44.II. Read the quoted part and answer the questions:45.1.“For herein Fortune shows herself more kind46.Than is her custom. It is still her use47.To let the wretched man outlive his wealth,48.To view with hollow eye and wrinkled brow49.An age of poverty; from which ling’ring penance50.Of such misery doth she cut me off”51. the title of the works and author.52.“from which…cut me off”.53. happened to him, which caused the words?54.参考答案:55.The lines are from “The Merchant of Venice”,56.William Shakespeare. (P48)57.2) This sentence means she, ’Lady Fortune(命运女神)’, is more kind to him because she is taking away both his wealth and life.58.3) The speaker is Antonio, it’s said that his ship have all been lost, and he is penniless, and will have to pay the pound of flesh. (Because Shylock has made a strange bond that requires Antonio to pay him a pound of flesh if he can’t repay him the money that he borrowed for his friend in due time.) (P38)59.2.“Read not to contract and confuse, not to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider”60.1)Identify the work and author.61.2)What idea does the passage express?62.参考答案:63.1) The sentence comes from “Of Studies” written by ’Francis Bacon’. (P61)64.2) The Sentence talks about the proper way to read: When you read, don’t be puzzled by the content of the book; don’t take it for granted; don’t quote too much from the book; before accepting its idea, you’d better think about its shortcomings and consider it from all sides.65.3.“ Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;66.Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,67.When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:68.So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,69.So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.70.1) Where does the poem comes from Who wrote it?71.What does “eternal lines” mean?72.Interpret it briefly.73.参考答案:74.1) The poem is “ Shall I Compare thee to a Summer’s Day”, by Shakespeare. (P38)75.2) Eternal lines means the lines of the poem and other sonnets. (P38)76.3) It means: you will not lose your beauty, and death will not threaten you with darkness, either. As long as man can live in the world, they will see your beauty in my lines of my poem, which has given you eternal life. (Or A nice summer’s day is usually transient, but the beauty in poetry can last for ever. (P37)77.4.“… All is no lost: the unconquerable will,78.And study of revenge, immortal hate,79.And courage never to submit or yield:80.And what is else not to be overcome……81.Irreconcilable to our grand Foe”82.1) Please identify the poem and the poet.83.2) Interpret“all is not lost”.84.3) What does the whole passage mean?85.参考答案:86.1) It is taken from John Milton’s “Paradise Lost”.(P74)87.2) “all is not lost” is the word from Satan----Satan and other angels rebel against God, but they are driven from Heaven into hell. In the fire of the hell, Satan is determined to fight back, just like what he says: not all is lost, the unconquerable will, the deep hatred, and the courage to fight till death still remain. (P71)88.3) This passage shows Satan’s will not to submit (服从), and the desire to long for freedom; to beg God for mercy and worship his power is more shameful and disgraceful than the downfall.(P71) 89.5.“If he be not apt to beat over matters, let him study the lawyer’s cases. So every defect of the mind may have a special receipt.”90.Questions:91.3)What does “beat over matters” mean?92.4)What does “receipt’ refer to?93.5)From which essay does the above sentences come, what is the essay mainly about?94.参考答案:95.1)It means: make through examinations of things. (P63)96.2)“Receipt” refers to cure, prescription. (P63)97.3)The sentences are from “Of Studies” (Francis Bacon). It is the most popular of bacon’s essays. It analyzes what studies chiefly serve for, the different ways adopted by different people to pursue studies, and how studies exert influence over human character. (P60—61)98.6.“What, is great Mephistophilis to passionate99.For being deprived of the joys of heaven100.Learn thou of Faustus manly fortitude101.And scorn those joys thou never shalt possess.102.……103.Say he will spare him Four and twenty years104.Letting him live in all voluptuousness105.Having thee ever to attend on me…106.Questions:107.1)Identify the passage and author;108.2)“Say he surrenders up to him his soul”, who will surrender his soul What for?109.3)Who are thee What will he do?110.参考答案:111.1) The passage comes from “” written by Christopher Marlowe. (P25—26)112.2) will surrender his soul to devil. Because he was a great scholar who has a strong desire to ’get knowledge’ in vain, finally he ’made a bond’ to sell his soul to Devil in return for 24 years of life in which he may get anything he desires. (P22)113.3) The “thee”, refers to “Mephistophilis”, the Devil’s servant.114.He helped to do anything he wants. (P22)115.7.“Busy old fool, unruly sun,116.Why does thou thus,117.Through windows and through curtains call on us”118.Questions:119.6)Identify the work and author.120.7)What idea does the passage express参考答案:1)The passage comes from “The Sun Rising”, written by ’John Donne’. (P66)2) The speaker questions the sun’s authority and speaks condescendingly, placing the sun in the status of a subordinate. In the lover’s kingdom, the sun has no right to dictate the time of day or the passing of seasons. His presence in their bedchamber is an intrusion on their privacy. III. Questions and answers:do you know about Renaissance Give a summery about English literature in the period?(No more than 150 words)参考答案:Renaissance refers to the period between 14th----mid-17th century. It first started in Italy. Renaissance means rebirth or revival----the discovery of ancient Roman and Greek culture.essence, The Renaissance is a historical period in which the European humanist thinkers and scholars tried to get rid of the old feudalist ideas in medieval Europe, to introduce new ideas that expressed the interests of the rising bourgeoisie/middle class, and to recover the purity of the early church from the corruption of Roman Catholic church.is the essence of Renaissance -----Man is the measure of all things. The humanism exalted/praised human nature and emphasized the dignity of human beings and the present life. They thought man had the right to enjoy the beauty of life and had the ability to perfect himself and made wonders, which got ready for the appearance of the great Elizabethan writers in Britain. Poetry and drama were the most outstanding literary forms., Marlowe and Francis Bacon etc. were the remarkable representatives of the English Renaissance. (可参考课本P7---12)2. Please give a brief analysis of Hamlet’s “To be or not to be” soliloquy (独白).参考答案:“To be or not to be” is ’a philosophical exploration of life and death’. The soliloquy condemned the hypocrisy and treachery and general corruption of the world, and revealed the character of Hamlet---so ’speculative, questioning, contemplative and melancholy./gloomy’. It was not because he was not able to take action to revenge, but because of his ’hesitative/hesitant character’, when the chance for action came, it seemed defeat.It can be interpreted as: Hamlet bears the heavy burden of the duty to revenge his father’s death, he is forced to live in the suspense of facts and fiction, language and action. He considers that it would be better to ’commit suicide’, but being scared of what might happen to him in the afterlife. So he put off the thing because of the sin. He considers the plan carefully only to find reason for not carrying it out. The soliloquy conveys ’the sense ofworld-weariness (厌世)’ . (P33-34)3. What common features do the characters share in Marlow’s works (No more than 150 words)参考答案:The creation of The Renaissance hero is one of Marlow’s contributions.1)Such a hero is always individualistic and full of ambition, facing bravely the challenge from god and men. They had human dignity and capacity, trying to get heaven/highest ideas on the earth by their own efforts.2)For example: Tamburlaine is a character written by Marlowe. By depicting a great hero with high ambition and sheer brutal forc4e in conquering, Marlowe voiced the supreme desire of man for infinite/ limitless power and authority. In , Marlowe celebrated the human passion for knowledge, power and happiness.3) Tamburlaine and are typical in owning such Renaissance spirit, Tamburlaine, being a cruel conquer, found happiness in conquering other kingdom. Only death could defeat him. While , a more introspective and philosophical figure, had high spirit for knowledge but he had sin for having despair in God and trust in Devil. (P20—22)4. What are the main themes of Shakespeare’s plays?参考答案:Shakespeare’s plays are divided into 3 types: comedies, tragedies and historical plays.1) His historical plays are with the theme-----national unity under a might and just sovereign/ruler is necessary.2)In his romantic comedies, he takes an optimistic attitude toward love friendship and youth.3)In his tragedies, Shakespeare always portrays some noble heroes, who faces the injustice of life and is caught in a difficult situation and whose fate is closely connected with the fate of his nation. Each hero has his weakness of nature. We also see the conflict between the individual and the evil force in the society. And his major characters are always individuals representing certain types.5. Please comment on the character of Satan in “Paradise Lost.”参考答案:Satan is a rebellious (叛逆的) figure against God in literature, defeated, he and his rebel angels were cast into hell. However, Satan refused to accept his failure, swearing that “all was not lost” and that he would revenge for his downfall. The freedom of the will is the keystone of Satan’s character, which was the important spirit of the rising middle class. While he tempted Adam and Eve, which proved his evilness.6. What are the characteristics of the Humanism?参考答案:1)’Humanism’ is the essence of Renaissance.2)Humanists see that human beings were glorious creatures capable of individual development in the direction of perfection, and that the world they inhabited was theirs not to despise (轻视) but to ’question, explore, and enjoy’.3)They also believe that man did not only have the right to enjoy the beauty of this life, but had the ability to perfect himself and to perform wonders (创造奇迹). (P8)英美文学考前串讲(3)Chapter 2 The Neoclassical PeriodI. Choose the right answer:1. ____brings Henry Fielding the name of the "Prose Homer".Pilgrim’s ProgressJonesCrusoeJackAnswer: B (P122)2. Alexander Pope worked painstakingly on his poemsand finally brought to its last perfection ______Drydenhad successfully used in his plays.heroic coupletfree verseblank verseSpenserian stanzaAnswer: A (P92)3. Of all the 18th century novelists ___was the first to set out,both in theory and practice, to write specially a "comic epic in prose." FieldingDefoeSwiftBunyanAnswer: A (P120)4. ____is the most successful religious allegory in the English language.AHoly WarPilgrims progressAnswer: C (P85)5. In which of the following works can you find the proper names "Lilliput", "Brobdingnag", "Houyhnhnm" and "Yahoo"?Pilgrim’s ProgressFaririe Queene’s travelsSchool of ScandelAnswer: C (P108)6. "As shades more sweetly recommend the light,So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit;For works may have more wit than does’em goodAs bodies perish through excess of blood."In the above lines, Pope tries to sat that_______.wit will make better poetryis more important than wit in poetrymuch wit will destroy good poetrywill make wit dullAnswer: C (P93-94)7. The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope is written in the formof a mock______, which describes the triviality of high societyin a grand style.Answer: A (P92)8. Which of the following is NOT a typical feature ofSamuel Johnson’s language stylesentences are long and well structured.sentences are interwoven with parallel words.tends to use informal and colloquial words.sentences are complicated, but his thoughts are clearly expressed. Answer: C (P132)9. "The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,And all that beauty, all that wealth e’er gave,Awaits alike the inevitable hour.In the above quoted passage, Thomas Gray intends to saythat great family, power, beauty and wealth___________.never make people lead to the same destination----paths of glory.inevitably make people realize their glorious dreamsthe very best things to lead people to their gloriesnever prevent people from reaching their final destination---grave. Answer: D (P154)10. ____has been regarded by some as "Father of the English novel"for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel. BunyanFieldingDefoeSwiftAnswer: B (P121)11. ____was very much concerned with the theme of the vanityof human wishes and tried to awaken men to this follyand hoped to cure them of it through his writing.JohnsonSwiftBrinsley SheridanGrayAnswer: A (P132)12. ____was the only important dramatist of the 18th century,in his plays, morality is the constant theme.PopeBrinsley SheridanJohnsonBernard ShawAnswer: B (P136)13. As the representative of the Enlightenment, Pope was oneof the first to introduce___to England.Answer: A (P91)14. The Rivals and ____are generally regarded as important links between the masterpiece of Shakespeare and those of Bernard Shaw. School for ScandalDuenna’s HousesDoctor’s DilemmaAnswer: A (P137)15. ____is a sharp satire on the moral degeneracy(道德沦丧) of the aristocratic-bourgeois society in the 18th century England.Rivals’s TravelsJonesSchool for ScandalAnswer: D (P138)16. The poem "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" by Thomas Gray is regarded as the most representative work of _____.Metaphysical SchoolGraveyard SchoolGothic SchoolRomantic SchoolAnswer: B (P152)17. _______, written in heroic couplet by Pope, is considered manifesto of English Neoclassicism.Essay of Dramatic PoetryEssay on CriticismAdvancing of learningEssay on FreedomAnswer: B (P93)18. ______is a typical feature of Swift’s writings.stylenarrationsatiresentence structureAnswer: C (P107)19. In the following writings by Henry Fielding,which brings him the name of the "Prose Homer"?Coffee---House Politician.Tragedy of Tragedies.History of Tom Jones, A Foundling.History of Amelia.Answer: C (P120)20. "Hold! See whether it is or not before you go to thedoor----I have a particular message for you if it should be my brother."The two sentences are found in ________.School for ScandalRivalsCriticScheming LieutenantAnswer: A (P139)21. In terms of Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, which is wrong?author employs metaphor in this poem.author excessively expresses his personal melancholy.he reveals his sympathy for the poor and the unknown.mocks the great ones who despise the poor and bring havoc on them.Answer: B (P152-153)22. The Houyhnhnms depicted by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver’s Travels are________. that are endowed with reason.that are endowed with admirable qualitiesthat are superior in wisdom., wild, low and despicable creatures,who resemble human beings not only in appearancebut also in some other ways.Answer: A (P108)II. Read the quoted part and answer the questions:1. "Words are like leaves;and where they most abound,Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.False eloquence, like the prismatic glass,Its gaudy colors spreads on every place;The face of Nature we no more survey,All glares alike, without distinction gay."Questions:1) Identify the author and the passage;2) Name the devices used in the passage with examples;3) Explain "Words….found".4) What is the mainly implied idea of the passage?参考答案:1) The passage is from Pope’s "An Essay on Criticism". (P94)2) In the passage the author used "Simile" the device,. "Words are like leaves" and "false eloquence,like the prismatic glass’ etc.3) The sentence means: Where/When too many words are used,they seldom express much sense.4) The passage implies authors shouldn’t stress too muchthe artificial use of Conceit or the external beauty of language,they should pay special attention to True Wit, which is bestset in the plain style. (just as too many leaves will cover the fruits,too gaudy/ showy glass will hide the face the Nature,too false and eloquent language will hide the Wit in the articles.)2. "Let not Ambition mock their useful toil,Their homely joys, and destiny obscure;Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smileThe short and simple annals of the poor.The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,And all that beauty, all that wealth e’er gave,Awaits alike the inevitable hour.The paths of glory lead but to the grave."Questions:1) Identify the author and the works;2) What does "the inevitable hour"?3) Explain the first stanza;4) What does the whole passage imply.参考答案:1) This is Thomas Gray’s "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard".托马斯·格雷的《写在教堂墓地的挽歌》(P154)2) "The inevitable hour" means time of death. (P156)3) The first stanza means: The men with ambition and high positionshouldn’t laugh at the ordinary people for their simple life and hard work.4) In the passage, the poet reflects on the death----no matter how poor or wealthy,or how important and humble, every is equal before death, the author givesmuch sympathy to the poor and unknown (P153)III. Questions and answers:analyze the Neoclassical period and the characters of the literature.参考答案:1)The Neoclassical period is about 1660-1798, also known as"the Age of Enlightenment" or "the age of Reason".2)Its background was:was an age full of conflicts and difference of values;was an age of fast development for English to becomethe first powerful capitalist country in the world;was an age of economic development, in which bourgeois/middle class grew rapidly.3)In essence, the Neoclassical Period was a progressive intellectual movement.4)The Enlighteners believed in self-restraint, self-reliance and hard work;They celebrated reason/rationality, equality and science.。
全国2011年04月自学考试英美文学选读试题
全国2011年4月高等教育自学考试英美文学选读试题课程代码:00604全部题目用英文作答,并将答案写在答题纸相应位置上I. Multiple Choice(40 points in all, 1 for each)Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Write the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the answer sheet.1. One of Shelley’ s greatest political lyrics is ________, which was later to become a rallying song of the British Communist Party.A. “Ode to Liberty”B. “Ode to Naples”C. “Sonnet: England in 1819”D. “Men of England”2. In Charles Dickens’ work ________, the Utilitarian principle rules over the English education system and destroys young hearts and minds.A. Little DorritB. Hard TimesC. Great ExpectationsD. Bleak House3. The tragic sense turns into despair in Thomas Hardy’s ________, where cornered by the traditional social morality, the hero and the heroine have to kill their own will and passion and return to their former destructive way of life.A. The Return of the NativeB. The Mayor of CasterbridgeC. Tess of the D’ UrbervillesD. Jude the Obscure4. The typical representatives of G. B. Shaw’ s early plays are ________.A. Man and Superman; The Apple CartB. Widowers’ House; Mrs. Warren’ s ProfessionC. Candida; Mrs. Warren’ s ProfessionD. The Apple Cart; Widowers’ House5. As a critic of music and drama, ________ held that art should serve social purposes by reflecting human life, revealing social contradictions and educating the common people.A. T. S. EliotB. Oscar WildeC. George Bernard ShawD.W. B. Yeats浙00604#英美文学选读试卷第1页(共8页)6. Symbolism and complex narrative are employed more richly in D. H. Lawrence’s ________, which are generally regarded as his masterpieces.A. Women in Love; Sons and LoversB. The Rainbow; Women in LoveC. Sons and Lovers; Lady Chatterley’s LoverD. Lady Chatterley’ s Lover; The Rainbow7. T. S. Eliot won the Nobel Prize of Literature in ________.A. 1945B. 1948C. 1952D. 19568. Thomas Hardy’s pessimistic view of life predominates most of his later works and earns him a reputation as a ________ writer.A. realisticB. naturalisticC. romanticD. stylistic9. “Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? ... And if God had gifted me with some beauty, and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. ” The quoted lines are most probably taken from ________.A. Great ExpectationsB. Wuthering HeightsC. Jane EyreD. Pride and Prejudice10. The most distinguishing feature of Charles Dickens’ works is ________.A. the vernacular and large vocabularyB. his humor and witC. character-portrayalD. pictures of pathos11. G. B. Shaw’ s play ________ established his position as the leading playwright of his time.A. Widowers’ HousesB. Too True to Be GoodC. Mrs. Warren’ s ProfessionD. Candida12. Jane Austen’ s first novel ________ tells a story about two sisters and their love affairs.A. Sense and SensibilityB. Pride and PrejudiceC. Northanger AbbeyD. Mansfield Park13. “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” the quoted line comes from ________.A. Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind”B. Walt Whitman’ s Leaves of Grass浙00604#英美文学选读试卷第2页(共8页)C. John Milton’s Paradise LostD. John Keats’“ Ode on a Grecian Urn”14. All of the following poems by William Wordsworth are masterpieces on nature EXCEPT________.A. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”B. “An Evening Walk”C. “Tinter Abbey”D. “The Solitary Reaper”15. William Blake’s ________ marks his entry into maturity.A. Poetical SketchesB. Songs of InnocenceC. Marriage of Heaven and HellD. Songs of Experience16. Henry Fielding’ s ________ brings him the name of “Prose Homer”.A. The History of Jonathan Wild the GreatB. The History of Tom Jones, a FoundlingC. The History of AmeliaD. The History of Joseph Andrews17. Among the three major poetical works by John Milton, ________ is the most perfect example of verse drama after the Greek style in English.A. Samson AgonistesB. Paradise LostC. Paradise RegainedD. Areopagitica18. T.S. Eliot’ s ________ not only presents a panorama of physical disorder and spiritual desolation in the modern Western world, but also reflects the prevalent mood of disillusionment and despair of a whole post- war generation.A. The Hollow MenB. The Waste LandC. Murder in the CathedralD. Ash Wednesday19. In ________, Shakespeare has not only made a profound analysis of the social crisis in which the evils can be seen everywhere, but also criticized the bourgeois egoism.A. HamletB. OthelloC. King LearD. Macbeth20. John Milton’s greatest poetical work ________ is the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf.A. AreopagiticaB. Paradise LostC. LycidasD. Samson Agonistes浙00604#英美文学选读试卷第3页(共8页)21. The work ________ by William Blake is a lovely volume of poems, presenting a happy world, though not without its evils and sufferings.A. Songs of InnocenceB. Songs of ExperienceC. Poetical SketchesD. Lyrical Ballads22. The plays known as “the Lawrence trilogy” are all the following EXCEPT ________.A. A Collier’ s Friday NightB. Lady Chatterley’ s LoverC. The Daughter - in - LawD. The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyed23. Greatly and permanently affected by the ________ experiences, Hemingway formed his own writing style, together with his theme and hero.A. miningB. farmingC. warD. sailing24. “The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one -eighth of it being above water. ” This “iceberg” analogy about p rose style was put forward by ________.A. William FaulknerB. Henry JamesC. Ernest HemingwayD. F·Scott Fitzgerald25. In Go Down, Moses, ________ illuminates the problem of black and white in Southern society as a close- knit destiny of blood brotherhood.A. William FaulknerB. Jack LondonC. Herman MelvilleD. Nathaniel Hawthorne26. In Death in the Afternoon ________ presents his philosophy about life and death through the depiction of the bullfight as a kind of microcosmic tragedy.A. William FaulknerB. Jack LondonC. Ernest HemingwayD. Mark Twain27. 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, Moses28. Walt Whitman believed, by means of “________,” he has turned poetry into an open field, an area of vital possibility where the reader can allow his own imagination to play.A. free verseB. strict verse浙00604#英美文学选读试卷第4页(共8页)C. regular rhymingD. standardized rhyming29. Herman Melville’s second famous work, ________, was not published until 1924, 33 years after his death.A. PierreB. RedburnC. Moby-DickD. Billy Budd30. 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 Dickinson31. 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 PoundD.T. S. Eliot32. While Mark Twain seemed to have paid more attention to the “life” of the Americans, ________ had apparent ly laid a greater emphasis on the “inner world” of man.A. William HowellsB. Henry JamesC. Bret HarteD. Hamlin Garland33. At the age of eighty -seven, ________ read his poetry at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy in 1961.A. Robert FrostB. Walt WhitmanC. Ezra PoundD.T. S. Eliot34. Of all Herman Melville’s sea adventure stories, ________ proves to be the best.A. TypeeB. RedburnC. Moby – DickD. Omoo35. Man is a “victim of forces over which he has no control. ” This is a notion he ld strongly by ________.A. Robert FrostB. Theodore DreiserC. Henry JamesD. Hamlin Garland36. With the publication of ________, Theodore Dreiser was launching himself upon a long career that would ultimately make him one of the most significant American writers of the school later浙00604#英美文学选读试卷第5页(共8页)known as literary naturalism.A. Sister CarrieB. The TitanC. An American TragedyD. The Stoic37. Nathaniel Hawthorne was affected by ________’s transcendentalist theory and struck up a very intimate relationship with him.A. H. W. LongfellowB. Walt WhitmanC. R. W. EmersonD. Washington Irving38. 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 James39. Walt Whitman wrote down a great many poems to air his sorrow for the death of President ______, and one of the famous is “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’ d. ”A. WashingtonB. LincolnC. FranklinD. Kennedy40. The Marble Faun by Nathaniel Hawthorne, a romance set in______, is concerned about the dark aberrations of the human spirit.A. FranceB. SpainC. EnglandD. ItalyII. Reading Comprehension ( 16 points in all, 4 for each)Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.41.“Shah I compare thee to a summer’s day?Thou art more lovely and more temperate:Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,And summer’s lease hath all too short a date:”Questions:A. Who’s the poet of the quoted stanza, and what’s the title of the poem?B. What figure of speech is employed in the poem?C. What is the theme of the poem?浙00604#英美文学选读试卷第6页(共8页)42. “When the sta rs threw down their spears,And water’ d heaven with their tears,Did he smile his work to see?Did he who made the Lamb make thee ?”Questions:A. Who’s the poet of the quoted stanza, and what’s the title of the poem?B. Whom does the “he” refer to?C. Wh at does the “Lamb” symbolize?43. “My tongue, every atom of my blood, form’ d from this soil, this air,Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their parents the same,I, now thirty- seven years old in perfect health begin,Hoping to ceas e not till death”Questions:A. Who’s the poet of the quoted stanza, and what’s the title of the poem?B. What do “soil” and “air” represent in the first line?C. What does the poet try to say in the above quoted lines?44. “‘Is dying hard, Daddy?’‘No, I think it’s pretty easy, Nick. It all depends. ’”Questions:A. Who’s the author of the quoted part, and what’s the title of the work?B. What was Nick preoccupied with when he asked the question?C. Why did the father add “It all depends” after he answered his son’s question?III. Questions and Answers (24 points in all, 6 for each)Give a brief answer to each of the following questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.45. What’s the theme of Emily Bronte’ s Wuthering Heights?46. It is said that B. Shaw’ s play Mrs. Warren’ s Profession, has a strong realistic theme, which fully reflects the dramatist’s F abianist idea. What’s the theme of the work?47. What’s the theme of Nathaniel Hawthorne’ s Young Goodman Brown?48. Daisy Miller brought Henry James international fame for the first time. What’s the character of Daisy Miller, the protagonist?浙00604#英美文学选读试卷第7页(共8页)IV. Topic Discussion(20 points in all, 10 for each)Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.49. Make a comment on the character of Jane Eyre, the heroine of the novel by Charlotte Bronte.50. Why are naturalists inevitably pessimistic in their view?浙00604#英美文学选读试卷第8页(共8页)。
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A. the rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek cultureB. the vast expansion of British colonies in North America C .the new discoveries in geography and astrology D .the religious reformation and the economic expansion10.Which of the following is NOT regarded as one of the characteristics of Renaissance humanism? A. Cultivation of the art of this world and this life. B. Tolerance of human foibles.C. Search for the genuine flavor of ancient culture.D. Glorification of religious faith.11. The Renaissance marks a transition from ______ to the modern world.A. the old EnglishB. the medievalC. the feudalistD. the capitalist 12.The English Renaissance period was an age of ______ .A. poetry and dramaB. drama and novelC. novel and poetryD. romance and poetry 13.The most significant idea of the Renaissance is______.A. humanismB. realismC. naturalismD. skepticism 14.______ is the essence of the Renaissance.A .PoetryB .DramaC .HumanismD .Reason 15. About the Renaissance humanists which of the following statements is true? A. They thought money and social status was the measure of all things.B. They thought people were largely subordinated to the ruling class without any freedom and independence.C. They couldn’t see the human values in th eir works.D. They emphasized the dignity of human beings and the importance of the present life. 16. One of the distinct features of the Elizabethan time is_____.A. the flourishing of the dramaB. the popularity of the realistic novelC. the domination of the classical poetryD. the close-down of all the theatres 17. _____ is known as the poets’ poet.A. SpenserB. MarloweC. MiltonD. Shakespeare18. Marlowe’s greatest achievement lies in that he perfected the _____and made it the principal medium of English drama.A. blank verseB. free verseC. heroic coupletD. sonnet 19. Which of the following descriptions of Gothic Novels is NOT correct? A. It predominated in the early eighteenth century.年级 班级 准考证号 姓名B. It was one phase of the Romantic movement.C. Its principal elements are violence, horror and the supernatural.D. Works like The Mysteries of Udolpho and Frankenstein are typical Gothic romance.20. “Byronic hero” is a figure of the following traits EXCEPT ______.A. being proudB. being of humble originC. being rebelliousD. being mysterious21. Robert Browning created ______ by adopting the novelistic presentation of characters.A. the verse novelB. the blank verseC. the heroic coupletD. the dramatic poetry22. Charles Dickens' novel ______ is famous for its vivid descriptions of the workhouse and life of the underworld in thenineteenth- century London.A. The Pickwick PaperB. Oliver TwistC. David CopperfieldD. Nicholas Nickleby23. Charlotte Bronte's works are all about the struggle of an individual consciousness towards ______ about some lonely and neglected young women with a fierce longing for love, understanding and a full, happy life.A. self - relianceB. self - realizationC. self - esteemD. self - consciousness24. The symbolic meaning of “Book” in Robert Browning's long poem The Ring and the Book is ______. A. the common sense B. the hard truth C. the comprehensive knowledge D. the dead truth25. Thomas Hardy's pessimistic view of life predominated most of his later works and earns him a reputation as a ______writer.A. realisticB. naturalisticC. romanticD. stylistic26. After the First World War, there appeared the following literary trends of modernism EXCEPT_____.A. expressionismB. surrealismC. stream of consciousnessD. black humour27. The masterpieces of critical realism in the early 20th century are the three trilogies of ______.A. Galsworthy's Forsyte novelsB. Hardy' s Wessex novelsC. Greene's Catholic novelsD. Woolf's stream-of-consciousness novels28. In the mid-1950s and early 1960s, there appeared “______” who demonstrated a particular disillu sion over the depressing situation in Britain and launched a bitter protest. against the outmoded social and political values in their society.A. The Beat GenerationB. The Lost GenerationC. The Angry Young MenD. Black Mountain Poets29.The following are English stream-of-consciousness novels EXCEPT ______.A.PilgrimageB. UlyssesC.Mrs.DallowayD. A Passage to Inida30. The leader of the Irish National Theater Movement in the early 20th century was ______.A. W.B.Yeats B. Lady GregoryC. J.M.SyngeD. John Galworthy31. T.S.Eliot's most popular verse play is ______.A. Murder in the CathedralB. The Cocktail PartyC. The Family ReunionD. The Waste Land32.The Petrarchan sonnet was first introduced into England by ______.A. SurreyB. WyattC. SidneyD. Shakespeare33. As the best of Shakespeare's final romances,______ is a typical example of his pessimistic view towards human life and society in his late years.A. The TempestB. The Winter's TaleC. CymbelineD. The Rape of Lucrece34. John Milton's greatest poetical work ______ is the only generally acknowledged epic in English literarure sinceBeowulf.A. AreopagiticaB. Paradise LostC. LycidasD. Samson Agonistes35. The British bourgeois or middle class believed in the following notions EXCEPT ______.A. self - esteemB. self - relianceC. self - restraintD. hard work36. Byron’s masterpieces is ________.A. Hours of idlenessB. The Prisoner of ChillonC. ManfredD. Don Juan37. The best model of satire in the whole English literary history is Jonathan Swift's ______.A. A Modest ProposalB. A Tale of a TubC. Gulliver's TravelsD. The Battle of the Books38. As a representative of the Enlightenment,______ was one of the first to introduce rationalism to England.A. John BunyanB. Daniel DefoeC. Alexander PopeD. Jonathan Swift39. For his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel,______ has been regarded by some as “Father of the English Novel”.A. Daniel DefoeB. Henry FieldingC. Jonathan SwiftD. Samuel Richardson40. In Renaissance, the European humanist thinkers made attempts to do the following EXCEPT ______.A. getting rid of those old feudalist ideasB. getting control of the parliament and governmentC. introducing new ideas that expressed the interests of the rising bourgeoisieD. recovering the purity of the early church, from the corruption of the Roman Catholic ChurchII. Reading Comprehension (16 points in all, 4 for each)Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answers in thecorresponding space on the answer sheet.41. 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.B. What figure of speech is used in Line 2?C. Whom does “drones” refer to?42. The following quotation is from one of the poems by T. S. Eliot:No! I am not Prince 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 sentence, but a bit obtuse;Questions:A. Identify the title of the poem from which the quoted part is taken.B. Who's the speaker of the quoted lines?C. What does the first line show about the speaker?43. When my motherdied I was very young,And my father sold me while yet my tongueCould scarcelycry " 'weep! 'weep! 'weep! 'weep!"So yourchimneys I sweep, in soot I sleep.Questions:A. Identify the poet.B. From which poem and which collection of the poet are these lines taken?C. What does the poet describe in the poem?44. In 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!Questions:A. Identify the poet.B. What does “mighty heart” refer to?C. What moment is the poem trying to describe?III. Questions and Answers (24 points in all, 6 for each)Give brief answers to each of the following questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.45. What is the difference between Romanticism and Neoclassicism?46. What are the fixed laws and rule on literature of the Neoclassical Period?47. What is Renaissance hero?48. What is the theme of Daniel Defoe’s work Robinson Crusoe?IV. Brief discussion (20 points in all, 10 for each)Give a brief discussion to each of the following questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet. 49. Briefly discuss “William Shakespeare's artistic achievements in characterization, plot construction and language”.50. List at least two leading neoclassicists in England. What did Neoclassicists celebrate in literarycreation?答案:I.选择题(每小题1分,计40分)1-5 CBDAB 6-10 CBBBD 11-15 BAACD 20. AAAAB21-25ABBBB 26-30 DACDA 31-35 ABABB 36-40 DACBBII.阅读题(每小题4分,计16分)41. A. A Song: Men of England, Shelley (1分)B. Metonymy (1分)C. the male of the honey-bees that do not work, referring here to the parasiticclass in human society. (2分)42. A. The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock(1分)B. The speaker is Prufrock. (1分)C. neurotic, self-important, illogical and incapable of action. (2分)43. A. William Blake(1分)B. The Chimney Sweeper(1分)C. This poem describes the miserable life the little sweeper. (2分)44. A. William Worthwords(1分)B. London(1分)C. The quiet morning in London(2分)III.问答题(每小题6,计24分)45. Romanticism is associated with vitality, powerful emotion and dreamlikeideas.(3分)Neoclassicism is associated with order, common sense and controlled reason.(3分)46. A. Prose should be precise, direct, smooth and flexible. (2分)B. Poetry should be lyrical, epical, didactic, satiric or dramatic, and each classshould be guided by its own principles. (2分)C. Drama should be written in the Heroic Couplets. (2分)47. A Renaissance hero refers to one created by Christopher Marlowe in his drama. (2分)Such a hero is always individualistic and full of ambition, facing bravely thechallenge from both gods and men. (2分)He embodies Marlowe's humanistic ides of human dignity and capacity. (2分)48. (1) h is marvelous capacity for work; (2分)(2) his boundless energy and persistence in overcoming obstacles;(2分)(3) his hard struggle against nature and making all bend to his will.(2分)49. A. The Neoclassicism period was an important age with the remarkable authorsPope, Defoe, etc. (2分)B. 1) The Neoclassical period is about 1660-1798, also known as "the Age of Enlightenment" or "theage of Reason". (2分)2)In essence, the Neoclassical Period was a progressive intellectual movement. (2分)3)The Enlighteners believed in self-restraint, self-reliance and hard work; They celebratedreason/rationality, equality and science. They advocated universal education, which could makepeople rational and prefect, they believed. (2分)4)In literature, The Enlightenment Movement brought about a revival of interest in the ancientGreek and Roman classical works; the works at the time, heavily didactic and moralizing; having fixed laws and rules for every type of the literature; among which prose and the modern English novel predominated the age. (2分)50. A. Characterization:a. Shakespeare's major characters are neither merely individual ones nor type ones;they areindividuals representing certain types. Each character has his or her own personalities. (2分)b. By applying a psycho-analytical approach, Shakespeare succeeds in exploring the characters'inner mind. c. Shakespeare also prtrays his characters in pairs. Contrasts are frequently used tobring vividness to his characters. (2分)B. Construction:a. Shakespeare's plays are well-known for their adroit plot construction. He borrows them fromsome old plays or storybooks, or from ancient Greek and Roman sources. (2分)b. He would shorten the time and intensify the story. There are usually several threads runningthrough the play.(2分)C. Language and style:Irony is a good means of dramatic presentation. Disguise is also an important device to createdramatic irony, usually with woman disguised as man. (2分)。
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英美文学考前串讲(4)Chapter 3 The Romantic PeriodI. Choose the right answer:1. The Romantic Movement expressed a more or less______ attitude toward the existing social and political conditions.A.positiveB.negativeC.neutralD.indifferentAnswer: B (P160)2. It is _____who established the cult of the individualand championed the freedom of the human spirit.A.Jean Jacques RousseauB.Johann Wolfgang von GoetheC.Edmund BurkeD.Thomas PaineAnswer: A (P157)3. The two major novelists of the English Romantic Periodare _____and Walter Scott.A.Washington IrvingB.Jane AustenC.Herman MelvilleD.Charles DickensAnswer: B (P165)4. _____defines the poet as "man speaking to men,"and poetry as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, which originates in emotion recollected in tranquility."A.William BlakeB.William WordsworthC.Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD.John KeatsAnswer: B (P161)5. For the Romantics, ____is not only the major source ofpoetic imagery, but also provides the dominant subject matter.A.loveB.manC.natureD.deathAnswer: C (P162)6. In the Romantic period, ____is the most prosperous literaryform.A.proseB.poetryC.fictionD.playAnswer: B (P161)7. The tone of literature in "Song of Experience" by William Blake is _______.A.dolefulB.livelyC.plainD.utterAnswer: A (doleful: 悲哀的P168-169)8. _____is regarded as a "worship of nature".A.John KeatsB.William BlakeC.William WordsworthD.Jane AustenAnswer: C (P176)9. Which of the following writings is not created by William Wordsworth?A.I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.posed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802.C.The Solitary Reaper.D.The Chimney Sweeper.Answer: D (P179---182)10. Wordsworth’s short poems can be classified into two groups: poems about nature and poems about________.A.loveB.human lifeC.freedomD.social activitiesAnswer: B (P176)11. "Don Juan" is Byron’s masterpiece, a great ______of theearly 19th century.edyB.tragedyic epicD.novelAnswer: C (P194)12. In his lyrics such as "Ode to Liberty", "Ode to Naples", Percy Bysshe Shelly expressed his love for_____ and his hatred toward tyranny.A.the middle classB.the poorC.freedomD.the proletariatAnswer: C (P207)13. "Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere; / Destroy andPreserver; hear, O hear!" The two lines are found in_____.A.Young Goodman Brown by HawthorneB.Ode to the West Wind by ShellyC.Leaves of Grass by Walt WhitmanD.Ulysses by JoyceAnswer: B (P212)14. In Shelly’s "To a Skylark", the bird, suspended between reality and poetic image, pours forth an exultant songwhich suggests to the poet________.A.both celestial rapture and human limitationB.both image creation and profound meaningC.both music and wordsD.both inspiration and skills of writingAnswer: A (P206)15. The author of "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is __________.A.WordsworthB.AustenC.ByronD.Keats16. Jane Austen’s first novel is __________.A.Pride and PrejudiceB.Sense and SensibilityC.EmmaD.Plan of a NovelAnswer: B (P222)17. In terms of Pride and Prejudice, which is not true?A.Pride and Prejudice is the most popular of Jane Austen’snovels.B.Pride and Prejudice is originally drafted as "FirstImpressions".C.Pride and Prejudice is a tragic novel.D.In this novel, the author explores the relationship betweengreat love and realistic benefits.Answer: C (P223-225)18. After reading the first chapter of Pride and Prejudice,we may come to know that Mrs.Bennet is a woman of_______.A.simple character and poor understandingB.simple character and quick witC.intricate character and quick witD.intricate character and poor understandingAnswer: A (P227)19. Romanticism is a period of British literature roughly datedfrom _________.A.1660-----1798B.1798----1832C.1483-----1546D.1836-----1901Answer: B (P157)20. Which of the following is the Gothic novel?A.Shelly’s Prometheus UnboundB.Keats’ LamiaC.Mary Shelly’s FrankensteinD.Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice21.The lines "It was a miracle of rare device,/ A sunny pleasure dome with caves of ice" are foundin__________.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"Answer: A (P190---191)22. Which of the following is taken from John Keats’ "Ode on aGrecial 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".Answer: D (P221)II. Read the quoted part and answer the questions:1. "A little black thing among the snowCrying "’weep! ’weep! In notes of woe"where are thy father & mother? Say? ""They are both gone up to the church to prey."(1)Identify the poem and poet.(2)Explain "notes of woe".(3)What does the sentence mean "they ate both gone up to the church to prey."Answer:(1)It is from "The Chimney Sweeper (from songs ofexperience) by Blake.(P172)(2)"notes of woe" means the songs/notes of sadness.(3)It implies: religion is the instrument of their repression/ oppression, its nature is to help bring misery to the poorchildren.(P169)2. "The isles of Greece, the 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 all,But all, except their sun, is set."(1)Identify the poem and its author;(2)What does it mean "But all, except their sun, is set."(3)What does the passage imply?Answer:(1)The poet is Byron. The poem is taken from "The Isles of Greece (from Don Juan)" (P199)(2)The sentence means: The sun is still on the rise, but the rest things all set.(3)The passage implied: The author lamented over the fallenGreece:In the past, Greece nurtured/ cultivated great poets and heroes,who enjoyed freedom and civilization, but now Greece had been enslaved,the past honorable history couldn’t be found again. (P199)3. "With plough and spade and hoe and loomTrace your grave and build your tombAnd weave your winding-sheet---till fairEngland be your Sepulcher"(1)Explain "sepulcher"(2)What was the deep implication of the poem?Answer:(1)Sepulcher means grave. (P210~211)(2)The poem ironically addressed to the workers who submit to capitalist exploitation. It warned them: If they gave up the struggle, they would be digging graves for themselves wish their own hands. (P211)4. "Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness,Thou foster-child of silence and slow time,Sylvan historian, who canst thus expressA flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme:"(1)Who is the poet? The name?(2)Explain the sentence.(3)What was the theme of the poem?Answer:(1)This is the "ode on a Grecian Um", which was written by the poet---John Keats. (P219)(2)The sentence means: though time has passed, the urn ,the works of the art still remains, and it tells apastoral/lyrical tale to us, and the description of the urn is much more beautiful than the words of any human. (P218)(3)The theme is: Human life is transient, but the art is immortal. (P218)5. "Place me on Sunium’s marbles steep,Where nothing, save the waves and I,May her our mutual murmurs sweep;There, swan like, let me sing and die:A land of slaves shall ne’er be mine---Dash down you cup of Samian wine!"(1)Identify the poem and its author. (P203)(2)Explain "swan like, let me sing and die" (P199)Interpret the passage and spot its implication.Answer:(1)The poet is Byron. The poem is taken from "The Isles ofGreece (from Don Juan)" (P203)(2)Swan is famous for its faith to its lover, one of them die, the other will refuse to eat and drink, it will cry till death. Here the author used a simile to show his strong desire tofight with the invaders till death, and appeal to thesuppressed Greek people to struggle for their freedom andliberation.6. "For oft, when on my couch I lieIn vacant or in pensive mood,They flash upon that inward eyeWhich is the bliss of solitude;And then my heart with pleasure fills,And dance with the daffodils."(1) What is the "bliss of the solitude"?(2) Interpret the passage.(3) Why did the poet write the poem, what did he want toexpress?Answer:(1)The Daffodils the poem saw. (P180)(2)It is a bliss/happiness to recollect the beauty of nature inhis mind when he is solitude/lonely.(3)The poem depicts/deals with the flowers that he came acrossalong waterside, by which he expresses the quiet, sympathy,loving feeling to nature just like his words "poetry is from"emotion recollected in tranquility".7. "Then naked & white, all their bags left behind,They rise upon clouds, and sport in the wind,And the angle told Tom, if he’d be a good bye,He’d have God for his father, and never want joy."(1)Identify the poem and its poet;(2)What does the poem implies?Answer:(1) The poem is take from "The Chimney Sweeper (from Songs of Innocence)", which was written by William Blake.(p171)(2) This is a lovely poem presenting a happy and innocentworld, though the wretched child are exploited and orphaned, they had nice dream for life and the world, which impliesreligion make people obedient to exploitation, and from religion, they can get consolation and an "illusory happiness".(p168)8. "As thus with thee in prayer in my sore need.Oh! Lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud!I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!A heavy weight of hours has chained and bowedOne too like thee: tameless, and swift and proud."(1)Explain "I fall upon the thorns of life, I bleed" (P208)(2)Can you comprehend the deep emotion contained in the poem?What’s that?(3)The poet was called the "the heart of all hearts",he trumpeted the radical prophecy of hope and rebirth.Please write out his classic words.Answer:(1)The sentence call Shelley’s desire that he couldn’t best being fettered to/limited by the humdrum/too ordinary realityof everyday! (P208)(2)In the poem, the west wind has become the poet himself,he wants to be free, proud and controllable like the wild westwind,to destruct and construct with the strong power like the west wind. (P207~208)(3)"If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?" (P208)9. "O Attic shape! Fair attitude! With brede…………As doth eternity: cold pastoral!"(1)How do you understand "cold pastoral"(2)What device is used in the poem?(3)Explain the implication of the poem.At the end of the poem, the poet gave a famous saying,and it is also the theme of the poem, what is that?Answer:(1)Cold pastoral means the lyrical scene on the Grecian urn lacks life and warmth. (P222)(2)Contrast. (P218)(3)The poet wanted to show the permanence of the art and the transience of human passion presenting his ambivalence/opposingfeelings about time and nature of beauty.The saying is "Beauty is truth, truth beauty" (P218~219)10. "Where fore feed and Clothe and saveFrom the cradle to the graveDrain your sweat---nay, drink your blood?"(1)Who wrote the poem? What’s its name?(2) Explain "drones",(3) Interpret the passage.Answer:(1)The poem is "A song: Men of England" by Shelley. (P209)(2)Drones the male of the honey-bees that don’t work , referring to the parasitic class in human society.(drones and bees are the devices of metaphor) (P210)(3)The poet called all working people to rise up against their political oppressors, but point out the intolerable injusticeof economic exploitation. It expressed the love for freedom and the hatred to tyranny of the author. (P207)11. "Wild spirit, which art moving everywhere;Destroyer and Preserver; hear, O hear!"(1)What does the "wild spirit "refer to?(2)Why called it "Destroyer and Preserver" at the same time?(3)Identify the poet and the poem.Answer:(1)"wild spirit" refers to west wind/autumn wind. (P212)(2)Because west wind buried the dead year and year and prepared for a new spring, the poet call it "Destroyer and preserver". (3)It is "Ode to the west wind" of Shelley. (terza rima)III. Questions and answers:1.Please list the subjects and the faculties of the Romanticism.Answer:(1) The subjects are: love, nature, nationalism, individualism,(2) The faculties they cherished are: imagination, spontaneity, inspiration. (P162)2.William Wordsworth was the first representative author of Rom,How do you know his idea and style?Answer:(1)His poems are most about Nature and Human Life;(2)Beyond the pleasure of the picturesque with the eye and the external aspects of nature, however, lies in deeper moralawareness, a sense of completeness in multiplicity.(it means poem not only deals with the beautiful world, but express moral)(3)Common life and the joy and sorrow of the common people and inner self are his subjects;(4)He is a poet in memory of the past and was called "prophetsof nature";(5)He deliberately writes in simple and ordinary speech ,refuses to decorate the truth of experience of pure andprofound feeling;(6)He thought poet is "a man speaking to men," poetry is "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, which originates in emotion recollected in tranquility."(7)He always writes an elusive beauty of simplicity or a rural figure. (P176-179)3.What thoughts and event influenced the period of Romanticism?Answer:(1) Rousseau (a French philosopher) explored new ideas about nature, society and education, which provided guiding priding principles for the French Revolution and Romanticism;(2) The French Revolution and "the Declaration of Rights ofMan"(written by Thomas Paine)aroused the great sympathy and enthusiasm in the English liberals and radicals,which became a great source for Romanticism.(3) England itself had experienced profound economic and social changes as industrialism,which were reflected in the works of literature. (P157-159)4.Byron’s greatest contribution is his creation of the "Byronic hero" What kind of the hero he is? Give comment on him.Answer:(1) "Don Juan" is Byron’s masterpiece, a great comic epic,in which Byron described a hero named Don Juan.He was a great lover and seducer of women.In the conventional sense,al positives like courage,generosity, and frankness…In a word, Don was proud Juan was immoral,but Juan had his own mor, mysterious, and a noble rebelfigure.He was a young man with unconquerable wills andinexhaustible energies,one of rebellious individuals against outworn/outdatedsocial systems and conventions.(2) Comment: The poet’s true intention is to present a panoramic view of different types of society,the main theme of the works the basic ironic theme of appearance andreality,during which the poet also presented various materialsand the clash of emotions. (P194-196)5. What is the difference between Romanticism andNeoclassicism?(Neoclassicism=Augustans=enlightener)Answer:(1)The Romantic Movement expressed negative attitude toward the existing social and political condition, the Romantics saw thecorruption and injustice of theinhumanity of capitalism;(2)The Neo saw man as a social; while Rom saw him as an individual in the solitary state;(3)Neo stressed the common features of men; but the Rom stressed the special qualities of each individual’s mind;(4)Neo celebrated rationality, equality and science of theoutside world; while Rom changed to the inner world of the human spirit, whose theory saw the individual as the center ofall experience;(5)Literature was heavily didactic and moralizing. There were fixed laws for each type of literature; Rom expressed his feeling, valued accuracy in portraying, they thought literature should be free from all rules.(6)The most important form in Neo was prose; while Rom was an age of poetry. (P160-161)6.Analyze the characters of John Keats’s poetry.Answer:(1)The poems are sensuous, colorful, and rich in imagery, (which expresses the acuteness of his senses)(2)Words are beautiful and musical.(3)The ancient Greek and English poetry provides the mostimportant imaginative resource.(4)The construction of poems are knit, and the description gobeyond the physical beauty of the world. (P218-219)7. Jane Austen was the only important female author in the18-19th century, how do you know about her?Answer:Generally speaking, Austen was writer of the 18th century.(1)Her novels always dealt with the romantic entanglement ofthe heroines;(2)She believed in it that reason over passion, sense ofresponsibility, good manners,and clear judgment over romance; she honored the Augustanvirtues of moderation,dignity disciplined emotion and common sense;(3)She contempt snobbery, stupidity, worldliness etc;(4)Her main concern was the relationship between men and womenin love;(5)Her writing range was limited, all restricted to theprovincial life of the 18th century England;(6)She presented the quiet, day-to-day country life of the middle -upper -class English.(7)Her characteristic theme was: maturity is got by the loss of illusions. (P223--226)。
自考英美(英国)文学选择题大总结
全国2009年4月高等教育自学考试英美文学选读试题课程代码:00604请将答案填在答题纸相应的位置上(全部题目用英文作答)I. Multiple Choice(40 points in all, 1 for each)Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement and write the corresponding letter on the answer sheet.1. In Renaissance, the European humanist thinkers and scholars made attempts to do the followingEXCEPT ______.A. getting rid of those old feudalist ideasB. getting control of the parliament and governmentC. introducing new ideas that expressed the interests of the rising bourgeoisieD. recovering the purity of the early church, from the corruption of the Roman Catholic Church2. The Petrarchan sonnet was first introduced into England by ______.A. SurreyB. WyattC. SidneyD. Shakespeare3. As the best of Shakespeare's final romances,______ is a typical example of his pessimistic viewtowards human life and society in his late years.A. The TempestB. The Winter's TaleC. CymbelineD. The Rape of Lucrece4. John Milton's greatest poetical work ______ is the only generally acknowledged epic in Englishliterarure since Beowulf.A. AreopagiticaB. Paradise LostC. LycidasD. Samson Agonistes5. The British bourgeois or middle class believed in the following notions EXCEPT ______.A. self - esteemB. self - relianceC. self - restraintD. hard work6. “Graveyard School”writers are the following sentimentalists EXCEPT ______.A. James ThomsonB. William CollinsC. William CowperD. Thomas Jackson7. The best model of satire in the whole English literary history is Jonathan Swift's ______.A. A Modest ProposalB. A Tale of a TubC. Gulliver's TravelsD. The Battle of the Books8. As a representative of the Enlightenment,______ was one of the first to introduce rationalism toEngland.A. John BunyanB. Daniel DefoeC. Alexander PopeD. Jonathan Swift9. For his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel,______ has beenregarded by some as “Father of the English Novel”.A. Daniel DefoeB. Henry FieldingC. Jonathan SwiftD. Samuel Richardson10. Which of the following descriptions of Gothic Novels is NOT correct?A. It predominated in the early eighteenth century.B. It was one phase of the Romantic movement.C. Its principal elements are violence, horror and the supernatural.D. Works like The Mysteries of Udolpho and Frankenstein are typical Gothic romance.11. “Byronic hero” is a figure of the following traits EXCEPT ______.A. being proudB. being of humble originC. being rebelliousD. being mysterious12. Robert Browning created ______ by adopting the novelistic presentation of characters.A. the verse novelB. the blank verseC. the heroic coupletD. the dramatic poetry13. Charles Dickens' novel ______ is famous for its vivid descriptions of the workhouse and lifeof the underworld in the nineteenth- century London.A. The Pickwick PaperB. Oliver TwistC. David CopperfieldD. Nicholas Nickleby14. Charlotte Bronte's works are all about the struggle of an individual consciousness towards______ about some lonely and neglected young women with a fierce longing for love, understanding and a full, happy life.A. self - relianceB. self - realizationC. self - esteemD. self - consciousness15. The symbolic meaning of “Book” in Robert Br owning's long poem The Ring and the Book is______.A. the common senseB. the hard truthC. the comprehensive knowledgeD. the dead truth16. Thomas Hardy's pessimistic view of life predominated most of his later works and earns him areputation as a ______ writer.A. realisticB. naturalisticC. romanticD. stylistic17. After the First World War, there appeared the following literary trends of modernismEXCEPT ______.A. expressionismB. surrealismC. stream of consciousnessD. black humour18. The masterpieces of critical realism in the early 20th century are the three trilogies of ______.A. Galsworthy's Forsyte novelsB. Hardy' s Wessex novelsC. Greene's Catholic novelsD. Woolf's stream-of-consciousness novels19. In the mid - 1950s and early 1960s, there appeared “______” who demonstrated a particulardisillusion over the depressing situation in Britain and launched a bitter protest. against the outmoded social and political values in their society.A. The Beat GenerationB. The Lost GenerationC. The Angry Young MenD. Black Mountain Poets20.The following are English stream-of-consciousness novels EXCEPT ______.A.PilgrimageB. UlyssesC.Mrs.DallowayD. A Passage to Inida21. The leader of the Irish National Theater Movement in the early 20th century was ______.A. W.B.Yeats B. Lady GregoryC. J.M.SyngeD. John Galworthy22. T.S.Eliot's most popular verse play is ______.A. Murder in the CathedralB. The Cocktail PartyC. The Family ReunionD. The Waste Land全国2009年7月自考英美文学选读试题课程代码:00604请将答案填在答题纸相应的位置上(全部题目用英文作答)PART ONE (40 POINTS)I.Multiple Choice(40 points in all, 1 for each)Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.1. The first mass movement of the English working class and the early sign of the awakening of the poor, oppressed people is_____.A. The Enclosure MovementB. The Protestant Reformation新教运动C. The Enlightenment MovementD. The Chartist Movement宪章运动2. Daniel Defoe’s works are all the following EXCEPT_____.A. Moll FlandersB. A Tale of a TubC. A Journal of the Plague YearD. Colonel Jack3. “Metaphysical Poetry” refers to the works of the 17th - century writers who wroteunder the influence of _____.A. John DonneB. Alexander PopeC. Christopher MarloweD. John Milton4. The most important play among Shakespeare’s comedies is _____.A. A Midsummer Night’s DreamB. The Merchant of VeniceC. As You Like ItD. Twelfth Night5. The most perfect example of the verse drama after Greek style in English is Milton’s _____.A. Paradise LostB. Paradise RegainedC. Samson AgonistesD. Areopagitica6. Which of the following descriptions of Enlightenment Movement is NOT true?A. It was a progressive intellectual movement that flourished in France.B. It was a furtherance of the Renaissance of the 15th and 16th centuries.C. The purpose was to enlighten the whole world with modern philosophical and artisticideas.D. The Enlighteners advocate individual education.7. Neoclassicists had some fixed laws and rules for prose EXCEPT_____.A. being preciseB. being directC. being flexibleD. being satiric8. A good style of prose“proper works in proper places”was defined by_____.A. John MiltonB. Henry FieldingC. Jonathan SwiftD.T.S. Eliot9. The major theme of Jane Austen’s novels is_____.A. love and moneyB. money and social statusC. social status and marriageD. love and marriage10. Wordsworth’s_____ is perhaps the most anthologized poem in English literature.A. “To a Skylark”B. “I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud”C. “An Evening Walk”D. “My Heart Leaps Up”11. William Blake’s work ______ marks his entry into maturity.A. Songs of ExperienceB. Marriage of Heaven and HellC. Songs of InnocenceD. The Book of Los12. Best of all the Romantic well- known lyric pieces is Shelley’s_____.A. “The Cloud”B. “To a Skylark”C. “Ode to a Nightingale”D. “Ode to the West Wind”13. In the Victorian Period _____ became the most widely read and the most vital and challenging expression of progressive thought.A. poetryB. novelC. proseD. drama14. 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 underworldlife.A. David CopperfieldB. Oliver TwistC. Great ExpectationsD. Dombey and Son15. Thomas Hardy’s most cheerful and idyllic田园的work is_____.A. The Return of the NativeB. Far from the Madding CrowdC. Under the Greenwood Tree绿荫下D. The Woodlanders16. The rise of _____ and new science greatly incited modernist writers to make new explorations on human natures and human relationships.A. the existentialistic存在主义的ideaB. the irrational不合理的philosophyC. scientific socialismD. social Darwinism社会达尔文主义17. In Modern English literature, the literary interest of _____lay in the tracing of the psychological development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehu-manizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature.A. George Bernard ShawB.T.S. EliotC. Oscar WildeD.D.H. Lawrence18. George Bernard Shaw’s _____ is a better play of the later period, with the author’s almost nihilistic bitterness on the subjects of the cruelty and madness of WWI and the aimlessness and disillusion of the young.A. Too True to Be GoodB. Mrs. Warren’s ProfessionC. Widowers’HousesD. Fanny’s First Play19. Renaissance first started in Italy, with the flowering of the following fields EXCEPT_____.A. architecture建筑B. painting绘画C. sculpture 雕刻D. literature文学20. English Romanticism,as a historical phase of literature,is generally said to have begun with the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge’s_____.A. Poetical SketchesB. A Defence of PoetryC. Lyrical BalladsD. The Prelude21. Charlotte Bront e ’s work _____ is famous for the depiction of the life of the middle - class working women, particularly governesses.A. Jane EyreB. Wuthering HeightsC. The ProffessorD. Shirley22. The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot is a poem concerned with the _____ breakup of a modern civilization in which human life has lost its meaning, significance and purpose.A. spiritual 精神的B. religious宗教的C. politicalD. physical身体的2010年4月高等教育自学考试全国统一命题考试英美文学选读试卷请将答案填在答题纸相应的位置上(全部题目用英文作答) I.Multiple Choice(40 points in all, 1 for each)Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Write the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the answer sheet.1. T. S. Eliot’ s ______ bearing a strong thematic resemblance to The Waste Land, is generally regarded as the darkest of Eliot’ s poems.A. “Gerontion”B. “Prufrock”C. Murder in the Cathedra lD. The Hollow Men358,2. Shelley’ s political lyrics ______ is not only a war cry calling upon all working people to rise up against their political oppressors, but an address to them pointing out the intolerable injustice of economic exploitation.A. “Ode to Liberty”B. “Ode to Naples”C. “Ode to the West Wind”D. “Men of England” 2093. Charlotte’ s works are famous for the depiction of the life of ______ working women, particularly governesses.A. the middle - class239B. the lower - classC. the upper - middle - classD. the upper - class4. All of the following works are known as Hardy’ s “novels of character and environment” EXCEPT ______.A. The Return of the Native还乡B. Tess of the D’ Urbervilles 苔丝C. Jude the Obscure 无名的裘德D. Far from the Madding Crowd 300远离尘嚣5. Jane Austen’ s practical idealism is that love should be justified by ______ and disciplined by self-control.A. reasonB. senseC. rationalityD. sensibility6. Shakespeare’ s ______, an elaborate and fantastic story, is known as the best of his final romances.A. The Winter’s TaleB. The Tempest 35C. The Taming of the ShrewD. Love’ s Labour’ s Lost7. “Where intelligence was fallible, limited, the Imagination was our hope of contact with eternal forces, with the whole spiritual world.” was said by ______.A. William WordsworthB. William Blake 170C. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD. John Keats8. “To be, or not to be - that is the question;/Whether’ tis 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 then?” These lines are taken from ______.A. King LearB. Romeo and JulietC. OthelloD. Hamlet9. John Milton’ s most powerful dramatic poem on the Greek model is ______.A. Paradise LostB. Paradise RegainedC. Samson Agonistes70D. Lycidas10. Because of her sensitivity to universal pattens of human behavior, ______ has brought the English novel, as an art of form, to its maturity.A. Charlotte BronteB. Jane AustenC. Emily BronteD. Henry Fielding11. Daniel Defoe’s ______ is universally considered as his masterpiece.A. Colonel JackB. Robinson CrusoeC. Captain SingletonD. A Journal of the Plague Year12. Poetry is defined by ______ as “the spontaneous 自发的;自然的overflow of powerful feelings, which originates in emotion recollected in tranquility n. 宁静;平静A. William WordsworthB. William BlakeC. Percy Bysshe ShelleyD. Robert Southey13. Jonathan Swift’ s ______ is generally regarded as thebest model of satire, not only of the period but also in thewhole English literary history.A. Gulliver’s TravelsB. The Battle of the BooksC. “A Modest Proposal”D. A Tale of a Tub14. All of the following statements about the Victorian period is true EXCEPT ______.A. Eng land was the “workshop of the world”.B. The early years was a time of rapid economic development as well as serious social problems.C. Towards the mid -century, England had reached its highest point of development as a world power.D. Capitalism came into its monopoly stage, the gap between the rich and the poor was further deepened.15. George Bernard Shaw’ s ______ is a grotesquely realistic exposure of slum landlordism.A. Widower’ s HouseB. Mrs. Warren’ s ProfessionC. The Apple CartD. Getting Married16. Dickens’ s first child hero is ______.A. Little NellB. David CopperfieldC. Oliver TwistD. Little Dorrit17. 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”,散文喜剧史诗the first to givethe modern novel its structure and style.A. Henry FieldingB. Daniel DefoeC. Jonathan SwiftD. Laurence Sterne18. D. H. Lawrence’ s ______ is a remarkable novel in which the individual consciousness is subtly revealed and strands of themes are intricately wound up.A. Sons and LoversB. The RainbowC. Women in LoveD. Lady Chatterley’ s Love19. Dickens attacks the Utilitarian principle that rules over the English education system and destroys young hearts and minds in ______.A. Hand TimesB. Great ExpectationsC. Our Mutual FriendD. Bleak House20. The belief of the eighteenth - century neoclassicists in England led them to seek the following EXCEPT ______. A. proportion B. unityC. harmonyD. spirit21. The Renaissance marks a transition from ______ to the modern world.A. the old EnglishB. the medieval 中世纪C. the feudalistD. the capitalist22. The great political and social events in the Englishsociety of neoclassical period were the following EXCEPT ______.A. the Restoration of King Charles II in 1660B. the Great Plague of 1665C. the Great London Fire in 1666D. the Wars of Roses in 1689全国2010年7月自学考试英美文学选读试题课程代码:00604全部题目用英文作答,并将答案写在答题纸相应位置上PART ONE (40 POINTS)Ⅰ. Multiple Choice(40 points in all, 1 for each)Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.1. T. S. Eliot’s ______ is a poem of dramatic monologue独白and a prelude序章to The WasteLand, helping to point up the continuity of Eliot’s thinking.A. “Prufrock”B. “Gerontion”衰老C. The Hollow MenD. Four Quartets2. Defoe’s group of four novels are the first literary works devoted to the study of p roblems of the lower-class people. They are the following EXCEPT ______.A. Captain SingletonB. Moll FlandersC. RoxanaD. Robinson Crusoe3. Charles Dickens’ novel, ______, is famous for its vivid descriptions of the work-house and life of the underworld in the nineteenth-century London.A. The Pickwick PaperB. Oliver TwistC. David CopperfieldD. Nicholas Nickleby4. D. H. Lawrence’s autobiographical 自传的novel is ______.A. The RainbowB. Women in LoveC. Sons and LoversD. Lady Chatterley’s Lover5. Jonathan Swift’s greatest satiric work is ______.A. A Tale of a TubB. The Battle of the BooksC. Gulliver’s Travels格列佛游记D. A Modest Proposal6. D ickens’best- depicted characters are the following. EXCEPT ______.A. innocent, virtuous, persecuted and helpless child charactersB. horrible and grotesque charactersC. broadly humorous or comical charactersD. simple, innocent and faithful women characters7. George Bernard Shaw’s ______ explored his idea of “Life Force”, the power that would create superior beings to be equal to God and to solve all the social, moral, and metaphysical problems of human society.A. Man and SupermanB. The Apple CartC. PygmalionD. Too True to Be Good8. For his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel, ______ has been r egarded as “Father of the English Novel”.A. Daniel DefoeB. Jonathan SwiftC. Henry FieldingD. Oliver Goldsmith9. Charlotte Bronte’s autobiograghical work ______ largely based on her experience in Brussels.A. The ProfessorB. ShirleyC. Villette 维莱特D. Jane Eyre10. D. H. Lawrence’s artistic tendency is mainly ______ , which combines dramatic scenes withan authoritative权威的commentary.A. romanticismB. realismC. naturalismD. modernism11. In ______ opinion, human nature is seriously and premanently flawed.缺陷To better humanlife, enlightenment is needed, but to redress 纠正it is very hard.A. Daniel Defoe’sB. Charles Dickens’C. J onathan Swift’sD. Henry Fielding’s12. The major theme of Jane Austen’s novels is ______ to ward which she holds on a practicalidealism.A. love and moneyB. marriage and moneyC. love and familyD. love and marriage13. Hardy’s ______ is a fierce attack on the hypocritical 虚伪的;伪善的morality of the bourgeoissociety and the capitalist invasion into the country and destruction of the English peasantry towards the end of the century.A. Tess of the D’UrbervillesB. The Mayor of Caste BridgeC. The Return of the NativeD. Jude the Obscure14. Henry Fielding adopted “______” to relate a story in h is novel in which the author becomesthe “all- knowing God”.A. the first- person narrationB. the epistolary formC. the picaresque formD. the third -person narration15. In ______ , Shelley created a Platonic symbol of the spirit of man, a force of beauty andregeneration.A. “To a Skylark”B. “The Cloud”C. “Ode to Liberty”D. Adonais16. The success of ______ is also due to its introduction to the English novel the first governessheroine.家庭教师的女主人公A. The ProfessorB. Jane EyreC. Wuthering HeightsD. Far from the Madding Crowd17. John Milton’s ______ is the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature sinceBeowulf.A. Paradise LostB. Paradise RegainedC. Samson AgonistesD. Areopagitica18. Wordsworth’s ______ is perhaps the most anthologized poem in English literature.A. “To a Skylark”B. “I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud”C. “An Evening Walk”D. “My Heart Leaps Up”19. As the best of Shakespeare’s final romances, ______ is a typical example of his pessimisticview towards human life and society in his late years.A. The TempestB. The Winter’s TaleC. CymbelineD. The Rape of Lucrece20. The major representatives of the poetic revolution in English Romantic period were SamuelTaylor Coleridge and ______.A. William BlakeB. William WordsworthC. John KeatsD. Percy Bysshe Shelley21. Samson Agonistes by ______ is the most perfect example of the verse drama after the Greekstyle in English.A. John MiltonB. William BlakeC. Henry FieldingD. William Wordsworth22. The declarat ion that “I know that This World is a World of IMAGINATION & Vision,” andt hat “The Nature of my work is visionary or imaginative” belongs to ______.A. William BlakeB. William WordsworthC. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD. George Gordon Byr全国2011年4月高等教育自学考试英美文学选读试题课程代码:00604全部题目用英文作答,并将答案写在答题纸相应位置上I. Multiple Choice(40 points in all, 1 for each)Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Write the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the answer sheet.1. One of Shelley’ s greatest political lyrics is________, which was later to become a rallying song of the British Communist Party.A. “Ode to Liberty”B. “Ode to Naples”C. “Sonnet: England in 1819”D. “Men of England”2. In Charles D ickens’ work________, the Utilitarian principle rules over the English education system and destroys young hearts and minds.A.Little DorritB.Hard TimesC.Great ExpectationsD.Bleak House3. The tragic sense turns into despair in Thomas Hardy’s________, where cornered by the traditional social morality, the hero and the heroine have to kill their own will and passion and return to their former destructive way of life.A.The Return of the NativeB.The Mayor of CasterbridgeC.Tess of the D’ Ur bervillesD.Jude the Obscure无名的裘4. The typical representatives of G. B. Shaw’ s early plays are____B____.A.Man and Superman; The Apple CartC.Candida; Mrs. Warren’ s ProfessionD.The Apple Cart; Widowe rs’ House5. As a critic of music and drama,________held that art should serve social purposes by reflecting human life, revealing social contradictions and educating the common people.A. T. S. EliotB. Oscar WildeC. George Bernard ShawD.W. B. Yeats6. Symbolism and complex narrative are employed more richly in D. H. Lawrence’s________, which are generally regarded as his masterpieces.A.Women in Love; Sons and LoversB.The Rainbow; Women in LoveC.Sons and Lovers; Lady Chatterley’s Lover dy Chatterley’ s Lover; The Rainbow7. T. S. Eliot won the Nobel Prize of Literature in________.A. 1945B. 1948C. 1952D. 19568. Thomas Hardy’s pessimistic view of life predominates most of his later works and earns him a reputation as a________writer.A. realisticB. naturalisticC. romanticD. stylistic9. “Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? ... And if God had gifted me with some beauty, and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. ” The quoted lines are most probably taken from________.A.Great ExpectationsB.Wuthering HeightsC.Jane EyreD.Pride and Prejudice10. The most distinguishing feature of Charles Dickens’ works i s________.A. the vernacular and large vocabularyB. his humor and witC. character-portrayalD. pictures of pathos11. G. B. Shaw’ s play________established his position as the leading playwright of his time.A.Widowers’ HousesB.Too True to Be GoodC.Mrs. Warren’ s ProfessionD.Candida12. Jane Austen’ s first novel________tells a story about two sisters and their love affairs.A.Sense and SensibilityB.Pride and PrejudiceC.Northanger AbbeyD.Mansfield Park13. “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” the quoted line comes from________.A. Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind”B. Walt Whitman’ s Leaves of GrassC. John Milton’s Paradise LostD. John Keats’“ Ode on a Grecian Urn”14. All of the following poems by William Wordsworth are masterpieces on nature EXCEPT________.A. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”B. “An Evening Walk”C. “Tinter Abbey”D. “The Solitary Reaper”15. William Blake’s________marks his entry into maturity.A.Poetical SketchesB.Songs of InnocenceC.Marriage of Heaven and HellD.Songs of Experience16. Henry Fielding’ s________brings him the name of “Prose Homer”.A.The History of Jonathan Wild the GreatB.The History of Tom Jones, a FoundlingC.The History of AmeliaD.The History of Joseph Andrews17. Among the three major poetical works by John Milton,________is the most perfect example of verse drama after the Greek style in English.A.Samson AgonistesB.Paradise LostC.Paradise RegainedD.Areopagitica18. T.S. Eliot’ s________not only presents a panorama of physical disorder and spiritual desolation in the modern Western world, but also reflects the prevalent mood of disillusionment and despair of a whole post- war generation.A.The Hollow MenB.The Waste LandC.Murder in the CathedralD.Ash Wednesday19. In________, Shakespeare has not only made a profound analysis of the social crisis in which the evils can be seen everywhere, but also criticized the bourgeois egoism.A.HamletB.OthelloC.King LearD.Macbeth20. John Milton’s greatest poetical work________is the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf.A.AreopagiticaB.Paradise LostC.LycidasD.Samson Agonistes21. The work________by William Blake is a lovely volume of poems, presenting a happy world, though not without its evils and sufferings.A.Songs of InnocenceB.Songs of ExperienceC.Poetical SketchesD.Lyrical Ballads22. The plays known as “the Lawrence trilogy” are all the following EXCEPT________.A.A Collier’ s Friday Night矿工的周五夜晚dy Chatterley’ s LoverC.The Daughter - in - Law儿媳D.The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyed守寡的霍尔罗伊德夫人1. All of Charles Dickens’ works, with the exception of _________, presenta criticism of the more complicated复杂,难懂的and yet most fundamental social institutions制度and morals of the Victorian England.A. Bleak HouseB. Hard TimesC. Great Expectations远大前程D. A Tale of Two Cities双城记全国2012年7月高等教育自学考试英美文学选读试题课程代码:00604PART ONE ( 40 POINTS )I. Multiple Choice(40 points in all, 1 for each)Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Write your answers on the answer sheet.1. Henry Fielding adopted “______” to relate a story in a novel, in which the au thor becomes the “all- knowing God”.( )A. the dramatic monologueB. the epistolary formC. the first-person narrationD. the third-person narration2. Among the novelists of mid-eighteenth century, ______ gave his praise to the hard-working, sturdy middle class and showed his sympathy for the downtrodden, unfortunate poor in most of his works.( )A. Henry FieldingB. Jonathan SwiftC. Daniel DefoeD. Oliver Goldsmith3. William Wordsworth’s masterpiece is ______ in which his philosophy of lif e is presented.( )A. The PreludeB. Lyrical BalladsC. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”D. “Tintern Abbey”4. The most distinguishing feature of Charles Dickens’ works is ______.( )A. a mingling of humor and pathosB. pictures of pathosC. character-portrayalD. the vernacular and large vocabulary5. All of the following are Thomas Hardy’ s local- colored works, also known as “novels of character and environment”, EXCEPT ______.( )A. The Trumpet MajorB. The Return of the NativeC. Far from the Madding CrowdD. The Woodlanders6. T. S. Eliot’ s most important single poem ______ has been hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th-century English poetry.( )A. The Hollow MenB. Murder in the CathedralC. Lyrical BalladsD. The Waste Land7. In D. H. Lawrence’ s novel ______, the individual consciousness is subtly revealed and strands of themes are intricately wound up.( )A. Sons and LoversB. The RainbowC. Women in LoveD. The Daughter-in-Law8. The leading figure of the English romantic poetry and the focal poetic voice of the period is ______.( )A. William BlakeB. William WordsworthC. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD. Percy Bysshe Shelley9. The major concern of ______ fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological develop-ment of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature.( )。
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全国高等教育自学考试预测试题(三)英美文学选读试题(课程代码:00604)请将答案填在答题纸相应的位置上(全部题目用英文作答)I. Multiple Choice(40 points in all, 1 for each)Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement and write the corresponding letter on the answer sheet.1.The most significant idea of the Renaissance is____A.humanismB.realismC.naturalismD.skepticism2.The statement “Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability” opens one of well-known essays by____A.Francis BaconB.Samuel JohnsonC.Alexander PopeD.Jonathan Swift3.William Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies are: Hamlet,___,King Lear and ___.A.Romeo and Juliet/OthelloB.Othello/MacbethC.The TempestD.Othello/Henry Ⅳ4.___complied the The Dictionary of the English Language, the first English dictionary complied by an Englishman.A.Ben JonsonB.Samuel JohnsonC.Alexander PopeD.John Donne5.The Solitary Reaper written by____use rual figures to suggest the timeless mystery of sorrowful humanity and its radiant beauty.A.Samuel Taylor ColeridgeB.William WordsworthC.John KeatsD.George Gordon Byron6.Best of all the well-known lyric pieces written by P.B Shelly is the poet’s____, here his rhapsodic and declamatory tendencies find a subject perfectly suited to them.A.To a SkylarkB.The CloudC.Ode to the West WindD.Ode to a Nightingale7.The English Romantic Age began with with the publication of the Lyrical Ballads which was written by____A.William WordsworthB.Wordsworth and ColeridgeC.George Gorden ByronD.Percy Byshee Shelly8. “To be, or not to be----that is the question” is a line taken from____.A.HamletB.OthelloC.King LearD.The Merchant of Venice9.Thomas Hardy’s novels are all Victorian in date.Most of them are set in____, the fictional primitive and crude rural region which is really the home place he both loves and hates.A.SussexB.WessexC.CasterbridgeD.Oxford10.In the novel Tess of the D’ Urbervilles, nturalistic tendency is also strong, in a way, Tess seems to be led to her final destruction step by step by___.A.NatureB.GodC.ManD.Fate11.Modernism takes the____philosophy and the theory of psycho-analysis as its theoretical base.The major themes of the modernist literature are the distorted, alienated and ill relationships between man and nature, man and himself.A.irrationalB.classicalC.rationalD.optimistic12.The frank discussion of____in his novel Lady and Lady Chatterley’s Lover is the chief reason why D.H. Lawrence had been accused of pornographic writing.A.livingB.deathC.sexD.love13.Paul Morel is a character in the novel____.dy Chatterley’s LoverB.Sons and LoversC.Women in LoveD.The Rainbow14.____is the protagonist in A Portrait of the Artist as a Yong Man written by James Joyce, being also one of the major characters of the novelist’s Ulysses.A.Leopold BloomB.Maron Tweedy BloomC.Stephen DedalusD.Alfred Prufrock15.”If winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” is an epigrammatic line by____.A.John KeatsB.William BlakeC.William WordsworthD.P. B. Shelly16.In_____, Rober Forest compares life to a journey, and he is boubtful whether he will regret his choice or not when he is old, because the choice has made all the difference.A.Afer Apple-PickingB.The Road Not TakenC.Stopping by Woods on a Snowy EveningD.Fire and Ice17. Alexander Pope’s An Essay on Criticism is a didactic___________ .A. allegoryB. proseC. poemD. play18. Mark Twain’s 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 to satirize.A. The Age of InnocenceB. The Roughing TimeC. The Jazz AgeD. The Gilded Age19._______ frequently applied conceits in his poems.A. DonneB. BlakeC. SpenserD. Thomas Gray20. In the following writings,______ has been recognized as an important landmark in the development of English prose.A. Essays by Francis BaconB. The Advancement of LearningC. Novum Organum by Francis BaconD. Of Studies by Francis Bacon21. Lycidas is a work of Milton written for ________ .A. his parentsB. his sisterC. his fellow undergraduateD. his teacher22. In the literary history of the United States, the Age of Realism refers to___________ .A. the period ranging from 1865 to 1914B. the period stretching from the end of the 18th century to the outbreak of the Civil WarC. the period ranging from 1860 to 1914D. All the above are not true23. The work that presented, for the first time in English literature, a comprehensive realistic picture of the medieval English society and created a whole galley of vivid characters from all walks of life is most likely____________ .A. William Langland’s Piers PlowmanB. John Gower’s Confessio AmantisC. Sir Gawain and the Green KnightD. Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales24. Robert Browning’s style is___________ .A. identical with that of the other VictorianB. similar to that of TennysonC. perfectly artisticD. rough and disproportionate in appearance25.Thoreau was often alone in the woods or by the pond, lost in spiritual communication with_______.A. natureB. transcendentalist ideasC. human beingsD. celestial beings26.Stylistically, Henry James’ fiction is characterized by__________.A. highly refined languageB. ordinary American speechC. short, clear sentences D.abundance of local image s27. In the long poem"The Ring and the Book", the" Book" is compared to________( )A. loveB. comprehensive knowledgeC. the hard truthD. the method of study28. Which of the following comments on William Blake is not true? ( )A. Childhood is central to Blake's concern in the songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience.B. Blake's Marriage of Heaven and Hell marks his entry into maturity.C. The Book of Loss is his masterpiece.D. Symbolism in wide range is a distinctive feature of his poetry.29. In the following descriptions of Gothic novel, which is not true? ( )A. Gothic novel was one phase of the Romantic movement.B. Gothic novel predominated in the eighteenth century..C. Its principal elements are violence, horror, and the supernatural.D. Works like The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliff and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley are typical Gothic romance.30. Dreiser's Trilogy of Desire includes three novels. They are The Financier, The Titan and________ ( )A. The StoicB. The GiantC. The TycoonD. The Genius31. Which of the following has nothing to do with sea voyages and sea adventures ? ( )A. The Confidence-Man.B. Omoo.C. Moby-Dick.D. Typee.32. The believe that first, nature is ennobling; and second, the individual is divine describes______( )A. romanticistsB. stream-consciousness novelistsC. realistsD. transcendentalists33. All of the following are works by Nathaniel Hawthorne except________ ( )A. The House of the Seven GablesB. White JacketC. The Marble FaunD. The Blithedale Romance34. is the author of the writing “Ode to a Nightingale”.A. Herman MelvilleB. John KeatsC. Theodore DreiserD. Eugene O’Neill35. Which of the following writings is not completed by William Blake?A. Songs of Experience.B. Songs of Innocence.C. Marriage of Heaven and Hell.D. Emma.36. “Hold! See whether it is or not before you go to the door—I have a particular message for you if it should be my brother.”The two sentences are found in .A. The School for ScandalB. The RivalsC. The CriticD. The Scheming Literature37. Statements is not true in describing D. H. Lawrence.A. Sons and Lovers in his autobiographical novelB. The White Peacock is his first novelC. Sons and Lovers is his third novelD. The White Peacock established him as a prominent novelist38. Statement is not true in describing Gothic novel.A. Gothic novel is a type of romantic fiction.B. Gothic novel predominated in the early eighteenth century.C. Its principal elements are violence, horror and supernaturalD. The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliff is typical Gothic romance39. Which writing is the most perfect example of the verse drama after the Greek style in English?A. Samson AgonistesB. Paradise LostC. Paradise RegainedD. Beowulf40. About William Faulkner, in the following statements, which is not true?A. Most of Faulkner’s works are set in the American South, with his emphasis on the Southern subjects and consciousness.B.Almost all his heroes turn out to be tragic.C. Faulkner has always been regarded as man with great might of invention and experimentation.D. Indian Camp is Faulkner’s masterpiece.II. Reading Comprehension (16 points in all, 4 for each)Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.41.“For oft, when on my couch I lieIn vacant or in pensive mood,they fl ash upon that inward eye”Questions:A.Identify the anthor and the title.B.What does the phrase “inward eye”mean?C.Write out the main idea of the passage in plain English.42. The following quotation is from one of the poems by T. S. Eliot:No! I am not Prince 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 sentence, but a bit obtuse;Questions:A. Identify the title of the poem from which the quoted part is taken.B. Who's the speaker of the quoted lines?C. What does the first line show about the speaker?43.“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.”Questions:A. Identify the poem and the poet.B. What does the word“sleep”mean?C. What idea do the four lines express?44. “I cannot rub the strangeness f rom my sightI got from looking through a pane of glassI skimmed this morning from the drinking troughAnd held against the world of hoary grass.”Questions:A. Identify the poet and the poem from which the quoted lines are taken.B. What does the word “strangeness’’ refer to?C. What do the quoted lines imply?III. Questions and Answers (24 points in all, 6 for each)Give brief answers to each of the following questions in English. Write youranswers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.45. As a leading Romanticist,Byron’s chief contribution is his creation of the “Byronic Hero”.Briefly explain the literary term “Byronic Hero’’.46. TheWaste Land is T.S.Eliot’s most important single poem.Try to state the theme and the significance of the poem briefly.47.“In your rocking-chair, by your window dreaming, shall you long, alone. In your rocking-chair, by your window, shall you dream such happiness as you may never feel.”(from Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie)What idea can you draw from the “rocking-chair”?48.Why are naturalists inevitably pessimistic in their view?IV. Topic Discussion(20 points in all, 10 for each)Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.49.Daniel Defoe’s novel Robinson Crusoe was a great success partly because the protagonist was a real middle-class hero. Discuss Crusoe, the protagonist of the novel, as an embodiment of the rising middle-class virtues in the mid-eighteenth century England.50. Greatly and permanently affected by the war experiences, Hemingway formed his own writing style,together with his theme and hero. Please discuss Hemingway’s writing style in relation to his novels you have read全国高等教育自学考试预测试题(三)英美文学选读试题参考答案(课程代码:00604)请将答案填在答题纸相应的位置上(全部题目用英文作答)I. Multiple Choice(40 points in all, 1 for each)Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement and write the corresponding letter on the answer sheet.1.A2.A3.B4.B5.B6.C7.B8.A9.B 10.D 11.A 12.C 13.B 14.C 15.D 16.B 17.C 18.D 19.A 20.A 21.C 22.A 23.D 24.D 25.A 26.A 27. C 28. C 29. B 30. A 31. A 32. D 33. B 34.B 35.D 36.A 37.D 38.B 39.A 40.DII. Reading Comprehension (16 points in all, 4 for each)Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.41. A. Wordsworth; I wondered lonely as a cloudB. human soulC. The poet expressed his love for the daffodils.42.A.It’s taken from “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”.B.The speaker of the quoted lines is Prufrock.C.The first line shows the speaker’s incapability of facing up to love and to life in a sterile upper-class world.43.答案:A.Stopping by woods on a snowy Evening by FrostB.Literally,it means to go to bed。
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应用必背单元Chapter 1 The Renaissance Period (2)Chapter 2 The Neoclassical Period (6)Chapter3 The Romantic Period (9)Chapter 4 The Victorian Period (14)Chapter 5 The Modern Period (18)Chapter 1 The Renaissance Period1.文艺复兴的主要作家及其作品1)Edmund Spenser: The Faerie Queene2)Christopher Marlowe: Dr Faustus Tamburlaine3)William Shakespeare: Henry IV; The Merchant of Venice; Hamlet; Othello;King Lear; Macbeth; Romeo and Juliet.4)John Donne: The Songs and Sonnets; The Sun Rising; Death, Be Not Proud5)John Milton: Paradise Lost; Paradise Regained; Samson Agonisttes2.文艺复兴The Renaissance is a historical period in which the European humanist thinkers and scholars made attempts to get rid of those old feudalist ideas in medieval Europe, to introduce new ideas that expressed the interests of the rising bourgeoisie, and to recover the purity of the early church form the corruption of the Roman Catholic Church.3.人文主义Humanism is the essence of the Renaissance. It 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 such a conception that man is the measure of all things. Thus, by emphasizing the dignity of human beings and the importance of the present life, they voiced their beliefs that man did not only have the right to enjoy the beauty of this life, but had the ability to perfect himself and to perform wonders.4.玄学诗The term “metaphysical poetry” is commonly used to name the work of the 17th-century writers who wrote under the influence of John Donne. With a rebellious spirit the metaphysical poets tried to break away from the conventional fashion of the Elizabethan love poetry. The diction is simple as compared with that of the Elizabethan or the Neoclassic periods, and echoes the words and cadences of common speech. The imagery is drawn from the actual life. The form is frequently that of an argument with the poet’s beloved, with God, or with himself.5.莎士比亚的诗歌的主题、意向Shakespeare, as a humanist of the time, is against religious persecution and racial discrimination, against social inequality and the corrupting influence of gold and money. In his plays, he does not hesitate to describe the cruelty and anti-natural character of the civil wars, but he did not go all the way against the feudal rule. Shakespeare is against religious persecution and racial discrimination, against social inequality and the corrupting influence of gold and money.Shakespeare has accepted the Renaissance views on literature. He holds that literature should be a combination of beauty, kindness and truth, and should reflect nature and reality.A.Shakespeare’s views on literature:Shakespeare has accepted the Renaissance views on literature. He holds that literature should be a combination of beauty, kindness and truth, and should reflect nature and reality. Shakespeare also states that literary works which have truly reflected nature and reality can reach immortality.B.The characteristics of Shakespeare’s characters:Shakespeare’s major characters are neither merely individual ones nor type ones; they are individuals representing certain types. Each character has his or her own personalities; meanwhile, they may share features with others.C.The characteristics of Shakespeare’s plot:Shakespeare’s plays are well-known for their adroit plot construction. Shakespeare seldom invents his own plots; instead, he borrows them from some old plays or storybooks, or from ancient Greek and Roman sources.D.The characteristics of Shakespeare’s language:It is necessary to study the subtlest of his instruments—the language. Shakespeare can write skillfully in different poetic form, like the sonnet, the blank verse, and the rhymed couplet. He has an amazing wealth of vocabulary and idiom. His coinage of new words and distortion of the meaning of the old ones also create striking effects on the reader.3. 莎士比亚的四大悲剧:Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies are: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth. They have some characteristics in common. Each portrays some noble hero, who faces the injustice of human life and is caught in a difficult situation and whose fate is closely connected with the fate of the whole action. Each hero has his weakness of nature. With the concentration on the tragic hero, we see the sharp conflicts between the individual and the evil force in the society, which shows that Shakespeare is a great realist in the true sense. Hamlet the melancholic scholar; Othello’s inner weakness is made use of by the outside evil force; the old King Lear who is unwilling to totally give up his power; and Macbeth’s lust for power stirs up his ambition and leads him to incessant crimes.4. 邓恩诗歌的主题、意向<The Songs and Sonnets>. Love is the basic theme. Donne holds that the nature of love is the union of soul and body. The perfection of human lovers will not be made with souls alone. This thought is quite contrary to the medieval love idea which merely put stress on spiritual love. Donne’s interest lies in dramatizing and illustrating the state of being in love.5.戏剧《威尼斯商人》的主题和主要人物的性格分析In his romantic comedies, Shakespeare takes an optimistic attitude toward love and youth, and the romantic elements are brought into full play. The most important play among the comedies is The Merchant of Venice. The sophistication derives in part from the play between high, outgoing romance and dark forces of negativity and hate. The traditional theme of this play is to praise the friendship between Antonio and Bassanio, to idealize Portia as a heroine of great beauty, wit and loyalty, and to expose the insatiable greed and brutality of the Jew.Compared with the idealism of other plays, The Merchant of Venice takes a step forward in its realistic presentation of human nature and human conflict. Though there is a ridiculous touch on the part of the characters restrained by their limitations, Shakespeare’s youthful Renaissance spirit of jollity can be fully seen in contrast to the medieval emphasis on future life in the next world.6.哈姆雷特的性格分析Hamlet has none of the single-minded blood lust of the earlier revenger. It is not because he is incapable of action, but because the cast of his mind is so speculative, so questioning, and so contemplative that action, when it finally comes, seems almost like defeat, diminishing rather than adding to the stature of the here. Trapped in a night mare world of spying, testing and plotting, and apparently bearing the intolerable burden of the duty to revenge his father’s death, Hamlet is obliged to inhabit a shadow world, to live suspended between fact and fiction, language and action. His life is one of constant role-playing, examining the nature of action only to deny its possibility, for he is too sophisticated to degrade his nature to the conventional role of a stage revenger.The hero Hamlet in Shakespeare’s play Hamlet is noted for his hesitation to take his revenge, his melancholy nature of action only to deny possibilities to do anything. He came to know that his father was murdered by his uncle who became king. He hated him so deeply that he wanted to kill him. But he loved his widowed mother who later married his uncle, and he was afraid to hurt his mother. And also, when everything was ready for him to kill his uncle, he forgave him for his uncle was praying to God for his crime. Thus he lost the good chance. Hamlet represented humanism of his time.7.诗歌《失乐园》的结构、人物性格、语言特点的分析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.”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.Eve, seduced by Satan’s rhetoric and her own confused ambition-as well as the mere prompting of hunger- falls into sin through innocent credulity. Adam falls by consciously choosing human love rather than obeying God. In the fall of man Adam discovered his full humanity. But man’s fall is the sequel to another and more stupendous tragedy, the fall of the angels.The freedom of the will is the keystone of Milton’s creed. His poem attempts to convince us that the unquestionable truth of Biblical revelation means that an all-knowing God was just in allowing Adam and Eve to be tempted and, of their free will, to choose sin and its inevitable punishment. And, thereby, it opens the way for the voluntary sacrifice of Christ which showed the mercy of God in bringing good out of evil.Chapter 2 The Neoclassical Period1.新古典时期的作家及其作品1)John Bunyan :<The Pilgrim's Progress>2)Alexander Pope:<An Essay on Criticism> <The Dunciad> <TheRape of the Lock> <An Essay on Man>3)Daniel Defoe:<Robinson Crusoe>4)Jonathan Swift:<A Tale of a Tub> <The Battle of the Books> <TheDrapier's Letters> <Gulliver's Travels> <A Modest Proposal>5)Henry Fielding:<The History of Jonathan Wild the Great> <The History ofTom Jones a Foundling> <The History of Amelia>6)Samuel Johnson:<To the Right Honorable the Earl of Chester field>7)Richard Brinsley Sheridan:<The School for Scandal>8)Thomas Gray :<Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard>2.启蒙运动The Enlightenment Movement was a progressive intellectual movement which flourished in France and swept through the whole Western Europe at the time. The movement was a furtherance of the Renaissance of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Its purpose was to enlighten the whole world with the light of modern philosophical and artistic ideas. They believed that the artistic ideals should be order, logic, restrained emotion and accuracy and that literature should be judged in terms of its service to humanity. They seek proportion, unity, harmony and grace in literary expressions, in an effort to delight, instruct and correct human beings. Thus a polite, elegant, witty, and intellectual art developed.3.新古典主义In the field of literature, the Enlightenment Movement brought about a revival of interest in the old classical works. This tendency is known as neoclassicism. According to neoclassical period, all forms of literature were to be modeled after the classical works of the ancient Greek and Roman writers(Homer etc) and those of the contemporary French ones. They believed that the artistic ideals should be order, logic, restrained emotion and accuracy, and that literature should be judged in terms of its service to humanity.4.英雄双行诗Prose should be precise, direct, smooth and flexible; Poetry should be lyrical(抒情的), epical(叙事诗的, 英雄的, 有重大历史意义的),didactic, satiric or dramatic, and each class should be guided by its own principles; Drama should be written in the Heroic Couplets(iambic pentameter rhymed in two lines); the three unities of time,space and action should be strictly observed; regularity in construction should be adhered to, and type characters rather than individuals should be represented.5.英国现实主义小说The modern English novel, which, contrary to the traditional romance of aristocrats, gives a realistic presentation of life of the common English people. Thus —the most significant phenomenon in the history of the development of English literature in the eighteenth century —is a natural product of the Industrial Revolution and a symbol of the growing importance and strength of the English middle class.6.《天国历程》中“名利场”的寓意The Pilgrim's Progress is the most successful religious allegory in the English language. Its purpose is to urge people to abide(v.遵守,坚持) by Christian doctrines and seek salvation through constant struggles with their own weaknesses and all kinds of social evils. It is not only about something spiritual but also bears much relevance to the time. Its predominant metaphor(n寓意,隐喻)—life as a journey—is simple and familiar.7.蒲伯的文学(诗歌)批评观点及其诗歌特色An Essay on Criticism, the poem, as a comprehensive study of the theories of literary criticism, exert great influence upon Pope's contemporary writers in advocating the classical rules and popularizing the neoclassicist tradition in England. The whole poem is written in a plain style, hardly containing any imagery or eloquence and therefore makes easy reading. Pope satirized all sorts of false learning and pedantry in literature, philosophy, science and other branches of knowledge.8.鲁滨逊漂流记的特点The all-powerful influence of material circumstances or social environment upon the thoughts and actions of the hero or the heroine is highlighted. The struggle of the poor unfortunate for mere existence, mixed with their desire for great wealth, comes into conflict with the social environment which prevents them from obtaining the goal under normal circumstances and thus forces them into criminal actions or bold adventures.In most of his works, he gave his praise to the hard-working, sturdy middle class and showed his sympathy for the downtrodden, unfortunate poor.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 hostile natural environment. He is the very prototype(n雏形,范例,原型)of the empire builder, the pioneer colonist. In describing Robinson's life on the island, Defoe glorifies(v赞美,美化) human labor and the Puritan(n清教徒) fortitude(n刚/坚毅,不屈不挠), which save Robinson from despair and are a source of pride and happiness9.《格列佛游记》的社会讽刺As a whole, the book is one of the most effective and devastating criticisms and satires of all aspects in the then English and European life-socially, politically, religiously, philosophically, scientifically, and morally. Its social significance is great and its exploration into human nature profound.The exaggerated smallness in Part1 works just as effectively as the exaggerated largeness in Part 2. the similarities between human beings and the Lilliputians and the contrast between the Brobdingnagians and human beings both bear reference to the possibilities of human state. Part 3, though seemingly a bit random, furthers the criticism of the western civilization and deals with different malpractices and false illusions about science philosophy, history and even immortality. The last part, where comparison is made through both similarities and differences, leads the reader to fundamental question: What on earth is a human being、10.菲尔丁“散文体史诗Fielding was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a "comic epic in prose". He adopted" the third—person narration," in which the author becomes the "all—knowing God." He "thinks the thought " of all his characters, so he is able to present not only their external behaviours but also the internal workings of their minds. In planning his stories, he tries to retain the grand epical form of the classical works but at the same time keeps faithful to his realistic presentation of common life as it is.11.格雷诗歌的主题与意象It is more or less(或多或少) connected with the melancholy event of death of Richard West, Gray's intimate friend. In this poem, Gray reflects on death, the sorrows of life, and the mysteries of human life with a touch of his personal melancholy. The poet compares the common folk with the great ones, wondering what the commons could have achieved if they had had the chance. Here he reveals his sympathy for the poor and the unknown, but mocks the great ones who despise the poor and bring havoc(n/v破坏,混乱) on them.His poems, as a whole, are mostly devoted to a sentimental lamentation or meditation on life, past and present. His poems are characterized by an exquisite sense of form. His style is sophisticated and allusive. His poems are often marked with the trait (n特征,特点)of a highly artificial diction and a distorted word order.Chapter3 The Romantic Period1.浪漫主义时期的作家及其作品1)William Blake: Songs of Experience Songs of Innocence2)Marriage of Heaven and Hell3)William Wordsworth: The Prelude Composed upon Westminster Bridge4)Lyrical Ballads I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud5)The Solitary Reaper6)Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Kubla Khan The Rime of the Ancient Mariner7)George Gordon Byron: Don Juan Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage8)Song for the Ludites9)Percy Bysshe Shelley: To a Skylark Men of England10)Ode to the West Wind11)John Keats: Ode to a Nightingale Ode on a Grecian Urn12)Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice2.浪漫主义Romanticism actually constitutes a change of direction from attention to the outer world of social civilization to the inner world of the human spirit. In essence it designates a literary and philosophical theory which tends to see the individual as the very center of all life and all experience. It also places the individual at center of art, making literature most valuable as an expression of his or her unique feelings and particular attitudes, and valuing its accuracy in portraying the individual’s experiences.3.浪漫主义时期文学特点的分析A.In poetry writing, the romanticists employed new theories and innovated newtechniques, for example, the preface to the second edition of the Lyrical Ballads acts as a manifesto for the new school.B.The romanticists not only extol the faculty off imagination, but also elevate theconcepts of spontaneity and inspiration.C.They regarded nature as the major source of poetic imagery and the dominantsubject.D.Romantics also tend to be nationalistic.4.浪漫主义(所选作品)的主题、意象分析A. To Wordsworth, nature acts as a substitute for imaginative and intellectual engagement with the development of embodied human beings in their diverse circumstances. It’s nature that gives him “strength and knowledge full of peace.Wordsworth thinks that common life is the only subject of literary interest. The joys and sorrows of the common people are his themes. His sympathy always goes to the suffering poor.B. Byron puts into Don Juan his rich knowledge of the world and the wisdom gained from experience. It presents brilliant pictures of life in its various stages of love, joy, suffering, hatred and fear. The unifying principle in Don Juan is the basic ironic theme of appearance and reality, ie. what things seem to be and what they actually are. Byron’s satire on the English society in the later part of the poem can be compared with Pope’s; and his satire is much less personal than that of Pope’s, for Byron is here attacking not a personal enemy but the whole hypocritical society. And the diverse materials and the clash of emotions gathered in the poem are harmonized by Byron’s insight into the difference between life’s appearance and its actuality.5. a. The Romantic MovementIt expressed a more or less negative attitude towards the existing social & political conditions that came with industrialization & the growing importance of the bourgeoisie. The Romantics felt that the existing society denied people their essential human needs, so they demonstrated a strong reaction against the dominant modes of thinking of the 18th-century writers & philosophers. Where their predecessors saw man as a social animal, the Romantics saw him essentially as an individual in the solitary state & emphasized the special qualities of each individual's mind. Romanticism actually constitutes a change of direction from attention to the outer.b. The Gothic novelIt is 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 & 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 writer of the Romantic period. Works like The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) by Ann Radcliffe & Frankenstein (1818) by Mary Shelley are typical Gothic romance.(2) Characteristics of Romantic literature in English history.The Romantic period is an age of poetry Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley & Keats are the major Romantic poets. They started a rebellion against the neoclassical literature, which was later regarded as the poetic revolution. Wordsworth & Coleridge were the major representatives of this movement. They explored new theories & innovated new techniques in poetry writing. They saw poetry as a healing energy: they believed that poetry could purify both individual souls & the society. The Romantics not only extol the faculty of imagination, but also stress the concept of spontaneity & inspiration, regarding them as something crucial for true poetry. The natural world comes to the forefront of the poetic imagination. Nature is not only the major source of poetic imagery, but also provides the dominant subject matter.Wordsworth is the closest to nature.To escape from a world that had became excessively rational, as well as excessively materialistic & ugly, the Romantics would turn to other times & places, where the qualities they valued could be convincingly depicted. Romantics also tend to be nationalistic, defending the great poets & dramatists of their own national heritage against the advocates of classical rules who tended to glorify Rome & rational Italian & French neoclassical art as superior to the native traditions. To the Romantics, poetry should be free from all rules. They would turn to the humble people & their everyday life for subjects, Romantic writers are always seeking for the Absolute, the Ideal through the transcendence of the actual. They have also made bold experiments in poetic language, versification & design, & constructed a variety of forms on original principles of structure & style.6.小说《傲慢与偏见》的主题和主要人物的性格分析Austen's main literary concern is about human beings in their personal relationships. Because of this, her novels have a universal significance. She is particularly preoccupied with the relationship between men & women in love. Stories of love & marriage provide the major themes in all her novels.1) Structure, characterization & language styleThe structure of the novel is exquisitely deft, the characterization in the highest degree memorable, while the irony has a radiant shrewdness unmatched elsewhere. At the heart of the novelist's exploration of the marriage, property & intrigue lies the exhilarating suspense of the relationship between Elizabeth Bennet & Darcy, & Jane Austen's delicate probing of the values of the gentry. The moments of high comedy in the novel are always related to deeper issues. Elizabeth's rejection of the odious Mr. Collins suggests her independence & self-esteem, but when Collins is accepted by her friend Charlotte Lucas, we see the reality of marriage as a necessary step if a woman is to a void the wretchedness of aging spinsterhood. Conversely, in the elopement of Lydia & Wickham, we are shown the dangers of feckless relationships unsupported by money. The comic characters in Pride & Prejudice are: Mr. & Mrs. Bennet, Mr. Collins & that monstrous snob Lady Catherine de Burgh, who make us laugh even as they parody erroneous views of marriage & class.5. 应用Characteristics of Jane Austen's novels1) Austen's novels describe a narrow range of society & events: a quiet, prosperous, middle class circle in provincial surroundings, which she knew well from her own experience2) Her subject matter is also limited, for most of her novels deal with the subject of getting married, which was in fact the central problem for the young leisure-class lady of that age, who had no other choice in her life but to find a good husband.3) Austen's interest was in human nature; in her depiction of human nature, instead of being fascinated by great waves of elevated emotion, by passion or heroic experience, she focused on the trivial & petty details of everyday living, which became very interesting through her truthful & lively description.4) Austen's novels are brightened by their witty conversation & omnipresent humor. Her language shines with an exquisite touch of lively gracefulness, elegant & refined, but never showy.6. 简奥斯丁对英国文学的伟大贡献:A.J ane Austen is one of the most important Romantic novelists in English literature. She creates six influential novels.B.H er main literary concern is about human beings in their personal relationships. She makes trivial daily life as important as the concerns abouthuman belief career and salient social events. This is what makes herimportant in English literature.C.J ane Austen has brought the English novel, as an art of for, to its maturity because of her sensitivity to universal patterns of human behavior and heraccurate portrayal of human individuals.D.S he describes the world from a woman’s point of view, and depicts a group of authentic and common women.7.Wordsworth的写作风格1)The Lyrical Ballads differs in marked ways from his early poetry,notably the uncompromising simplicity of much of the language, thestrong sympathy not merely with the poor in general but with particular,dramatized examples of them, and the fusion of natural description withexpressions of inward states of mind.2)According to subjects, Wordsworth’s short poems can be classified intotwo groups: poems about nature and poems about human life.3)To Wordsworth, nature acts as a substitute for imaginative andintellectual engagement with the development of embodied humanbeings in their diverse circumstances. It’s nature that gives him “strengthand knowledge full of peace.4)Wordsworth thinks that common life is the only subject of literaryinterest. The joys and sorrows of the common people are his themes. Hissympathy always goes to the suffering poor.5)Wordsworth’s deliberate simplicity ad refusal to decorate the truth ofexperience produced a kind of pure and profound poetry which no otherpoet has ever equaled.8.Romantic poets 与Romantic Age 的不同处:The poetic ideals announced by Words worth and Coleridge provided a major inspiration for the brilliant young writers who made p the second generation of English Romantic poets. Wordsworth and Coleridge both became more conservative politically after the democratic idealism. The second generation of Romantic poets are revolutionary in thinking. They set themselves against the bourgeois society and the ruling class.9.Songs of innocence 与Songs of ExperienceA.Songs of Innocence is a lovely volume of poems, presenting a happy andinnocent world, though not without its evils.B.Songs of Experience paints a different world, a world of misery, disease, warand repression with melancholy tone.C.The two books hold the similar subject-matter, but the tone, emphasis andconclusion differ.Chapter 4 The Victorian Period1.维多利亚时期的主要作家与作品1)Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist; The Pickwick Paper; David Copper field.;Dombey and Son; A Tale of Two Cities; Bleak House; Hard Times;Great Expectation; Our Mutual Friend.2)Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights.Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre3)Alfred Tennyson: Ulysses; In Memoriam; Break, Break, Break;Dora; Crossing the Bar; Morte d’Arthur; The Gardener’s Daughter; The Princess4)Robert Browning: The Ring and the Book; My Last Duchess5)George Eliot: The Mill on the Floss: Middlemarch: Daniel Deronda;Romola6)Thomas Hardy: Under the Greenwood Tree; Far From the Madding Crowd: The Return of the Native; The Mayor of Casterbridge: Tess of the D’Urbervilles1.宪章运动The worsening living and working conditions, the mass unemployment finally gave rise to the Chartist Movement. The English workers got themselves organized in big cities and brought forth the People's charter, in which they demanded basic rights and better living and working conditions. They, for three times, made appeals to the government, with hundreds of thousands of people's signatures. The movement swept over most of the cities in the country. Although the movement declined to an end in 1848, it did bring some improvement to the welfare of the working class. This was the first mass movement of the English working class & the early sign of the awakening of the poor, oppressed people.2.功利主义Almost everything was put to the test by the criterion of utility, that is, the extent to which it could promote the material happiness. This theory held a special appeal to the middle-class industrialists, whose greed drove them to exploiting workers to the utmost and brought greater suffering and poverty to the working mass.。
