16秋《英美文学选读》作业1
北语18秋《英美文学选读》作业1
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------(单选题) 1: When Robert Frost was 87, he read his poetry at the inauguration of President___A: BushB: KennedyC: ClintonD: Fort正确答案:(单选题) 2: Emily Dickinson wrote many short poems on various aspects of life. Which of the following is NOT a usual subject of her poetic expression?A: Religion and immortalityB: Life and deathC: Love and marriageD: War and peace正确答案:(单选题) 3: In the first part of the novel Pride and prejudice, Mr. Darcy has a （n） ______ of the Bennet family .A: high opinionB: great admirationC: low opinionD: erroneous view正确答案:(单选题) 4: Robert Frost won___ Plitzer prices.A: twoB: threeC: fourD: five正确答案:(单选题) 5: The story of the Scarlet Letter is set in___A: New YorkB: EnglandC: BostonD: Salt lake City正确答案:(单选题) 6: Which of the following is a comedy?A: King learB: MacbethC: HamletD: The Merry Wives of Windsor正确答案:(单选题) 7: Walt Whitman was a pioneering figure of American poetry. His innovation first of all lies in his use of , poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.A: bland verse------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------B: heroic coupletC: free verseD: iambic pentameter正确答案:(单选题) 8: In Fitzgerald＇s The Great Gatsby, there are detailed descriptions of big parties. The purpose of such descriptions is so show _______.A: emptiness of lifeB: the corruption of the upper classC: contrast of the rich and the poorD: the happy days of the Jazz Age正确答案:(单选题) 9: In all his novels Theodore Dreiser sets himself to project the ______ American values. For example, in Sister Carrie, there is not one character whose status is not determined economically.A: PuritanB: materialisticC: psychologicalD: religious正确答案:(单选题) 10: Whitman＇s poems are characterized by all the following features EXCEPT ______ .A: the strict poetic formB: the free and natural rhythmC: the easy flow of feelingsD: the simple and conversational language正确答案:(单选题) 11: which of the following is NOT written by Dreiser?A: Jennie GerhardtB: Go down, MosesC: An American TragedyD: Sister Carrie正确答案:(单选题) 12: Mr. Micawber in David Copperfield and Sam Well in Pickwick Papers are perhaps the best ______ characters created by Charles Dickens.A: comicB: tragicC: roundD: sophisticated正确答案:(单选题) 13: In English poetry the _______ is regarded as the most common foot. A: iambB: anapestC: trochee------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------D: dactyl正确答案:(单选题) 14: Jane Austen passed away when she was___A: 38B: 48C: 42D: 52正确答案:(单选题) 15: Which of the following is taken from John Keats＇Ode to a Nightingale?A: "Beauty is truth, truth beauty."B: "Earth has not anything to show more fair."C: "They are both gone up to the church to pray."D: "was it a vision, or a waking dream?"正确答案:(单选题) 16: The pen name Mark Twain means___A: waterB: safe waterC: riverD: clear water正确答案:(单选题) 17: Which of the following is a tragedy?A: Antony and CleopatraB: Twelfth NightC: Julius CaesarD: Much ado about Nothing正确答案:(单选题) 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 quick witB: simple character and poor understandingC: intricate character and quick witD: intricate character and poor understanding正确答案:(单选题) 19: You may have meet the term "Yahoo" on internet, but you may also have met it in English literature .It is found in _____A: John Bunyan＇s Pilgrim＇s ProgressB: Samuel Johnson＇s The Vanity of Human WishesC: Jonathan Swift＇s Gulliver＇s TravelsD: Henry Fielding＇s tom Jones正确答案:(单选题) 20: What kind of girl is Dora?A: pretty and clever------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------B: pretty and empty-headedC: plain-looking and understadingD: lovely and clever正确答案:(单选题) 1: When Robert Frost was 87, he read his poetry at the inauguration of President___A: BushB: KennedyC: ClintonD: Fort正确答案:(单选题) 2: Emily Dickinson wrote many short poems on various aspects of life. Which of the following is NOT a usual subject of her poetic expression?A: Religion and immortalityB: Life and deathC: Love and marriageD: War and peace正确答案:(单选题) 3: In the first part of the novel Pride and prejudice, Mr. Darcy has a （n） ______ of the Bennet family .A: high opinionB: great admirationC: low opinionD: erroneous view正确答案:(单选题) 4: Robert Frost won___ Plitzer prices.A: twoB: threeC: fourD: five正确答案:(单选题) 5: The story of the Scarlet Letter is set in___A: New YorkB: EnglandC: BostonD: Salt lake City正确答案:(单选题) 6: Which of the following is a comedy?A: King learB: MacbethC: HamletD: The Merry Wives of Windsor正确答案:------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------(单选题) 7: Walt Whitman was a pioneering figure of American poetry. His innovation first of all lies in his use of , poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.A: bland verseB: heroic coupletC: free verseD: iambic pentameter正确答案:(单选题) 8: In Fitzgerald＇s The Great Gatsby, there are detailed descriptions of big parties. The purpose of such descriptions is so show _______.A: emptiness of lifeB: the corruption of the upper classC: contrast of the rich and the poorD: the happy days of the Jazz Age正确答案:(单选题) 9: In all his novels Theodore Dreiser sets himself to project the ______ American values. For example, in Sister Carrie, there is not one character whose status is not determined economically.A: PuritanB: materialisticC: psychologicalD: religious正确答案:(单选题) 10: Whitman＇s poems are characterized by all the following features EXCEPT ______ .A: the strict poetic formB: the free and natural rhythmC: the easy flow of feelingsD: the simple and conversational language正确答案:(单选题) 11: which of the following is NOT written by Dreiser?A: Jennie GerhardtB: Go down, MosesC: An American TragedyD: Sister Carrie正确答案:(单选题) 12: Mr. Micawber in David Copperfield and Sam Well in Pickwick Papers are perhaps the best ______ characters created by Charles Dickens.A: comicB: tragicC: roundD: sophisticated正确答案:------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------(单选题) 13: In English poetry the _______ is regarded as the most common foot. A: iambB: anapestC: trocheeD: dactyl正确答案:(单选题) 14: Jane Austen passed away when she was___A: 38B: 48C: 42D: 52正确答案:(单选题) 15: Which of the following is taken from John Keats＇Ode to a Nightingale?A: "Beauty is truth, truth beauty."B: "Earth has not anything to show more fair."C: "They are both gone up to the church to pray."D: "was it a vision, or a waking dream?"正确答案:(单选题) 16: The pen name Mark Twain means___A: waterB: safe waterC: riverD: clear water正确答案:(单选题) 17: Which of the following is a tragedy?A: Antony and CleopatraB: Twelfth NightC: Julius CaesarD: Much ado about Nothing正确答案:(单选题) 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 quick witB: simple character and poor understandingC: intricate character and quick witD: intricate character and poor understanding正确答案:(单选题) 19: You may have meet the term "Yahoo" on internet, but you may also have met it in English literature .It is found in _____A: John Bunyan＇s Pilgrim＇s ProgressB: Samuel Johnson＇s The Vanity of Human WishesC: Jonathan Swift＇s Gulliver＇s Travels------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------D: Henry Fielding＇s tom Jones正确答案:(单选题) 20: What kind of girl is Dora?A: pretty and cleverB: pretty and empty-headedC: plain-looking and understadingD: lovely and clever正确答案:。
16秋福建师范大学《英美文学选读》在线作业一
一、单选题（共 50 道试题，共 100 分。
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英美文学选读试题及答案1
英美文学选读试题Ⅰ.Multiple Choice (40 points in all, 1 for each)Select from the four choices [A],[B],[C],[D] of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement and write the letter on the answer sheet.1.Romance,which uses narrative verse or prose to tell stories of ___ adventures or other heroic deeds, is a popular literary form in the medieval period.A.Christian2.Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his production of ___.A.Piers PlowmanB.Sir Gawain and the Green KnightC.Confessio AmantisD.The Canterbury Tales3.Which of the following historical events does not directly help to stimulate the rising of the Renaisssance Movement?A.The rediscovery of ancient Greek and Roman culture.B.The new discoveries in geography and astrology.C.The Glorious revolution.D.The religious reformation and the economic expansion.4.Which of the following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare's Sonnet 18?A.The speaker eulogizes the power of Nature.B.The speaker satirizes human vanity.C.The speaker praises the power of artistic creation.D.The speaker meditates on man's salvation.5.“And we will sit upon the rocks,/Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks,/By shallow rivers to whose falls/Melodious bird s sing madrigals.〞The above lines are probably taken from __.A.Spenser's The Faerie QueeneB.John Donne's “The Sun Rising〞C.Shakespeare's “Sonnet 18”D.Marlowe's “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love〞6.“Bassanio:Antonio,I am married to a wifeWhich is as dear to me as life itself;But life itself, My wife, and all the world.Are not with me esteem'd above thy life;I would lose all, ay, sacrifice them all,Here to the devil, to deliver you.Portia:Your wife would give you little thanks for that,If she were by to hear you make the offer.〞The above is a quotation taken from Shakespeare's comedy The Merchant of Venice.The quoted part can be regarded as a good example to illustrate ____.A.dramatic irony7.The ture subjec t of John Donne's poem,“The Sun Rising,〞is to ___.A.attack the sun as an unruly servantB.give compliments to the mistress and her power of beautyC.criticize the sun's intrusion into the lover's private lifeD. lecture the sun on where true royalty and riches lie8.Of all the 18thcentury novelists Henry Fielding was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specificall y a “___ in prose,〞the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.A.tragic epic B ic epicC.romanceD.lyric epic9.The Houyhnhnms depicted by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels are ___.A.horses that are endowed with reasonB.pigmies that are endowed with admirable qualitiesC.giants that are superior in wisdomD.hairy,wild, low and despicable creatures, who resemble human beings not only in appearance but also in some other ways.10.Here are four lines from a literary work:“Others for language all their care express,/And value books,as women men, for dress.〞The work is ___.A.Thomas Gray's “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard〞B.John Milton's Paradise LostC.Alexander Pope's Essay on CriticismD.Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream11.The phrase “to urge people to abide by Christian doctrines a nd to seek salvation through constant struggles with their own weaknesses and all kinds of social evils〞may well sum up the implied meaning of ___.A.Gulliver's TravelsB.The Rape of the LockC.Robinson CrusoeD.The pilgrim's Progress12.William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following EXCEPT ___.A.the use of everyday language spoken by the common peopleB.the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelingsC.the use of humble and rustic life as subject matterD.the use of elegant wording and inflated figures of speech13.Which of the following is taken from John Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn〞?A.“I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!〞B.“They are both gone up to the church to pary.〞C.“Earth has not anything to show more fair.〞D.“Beauty is truth, truth beauty〞.14.“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind!〞is an epigrammatic line by __.A.J.KeatsB.W.BlakeC.W.Wordsworth15.“Ode o na Grecian Urn〞shows the contrast between the ___ of art and the ___ of human passion.A.glory …uglinessB.permanence…transienceC.transience…sordidnessD.glory…permanence16.In the statement“—oh,God! would you like to live with your soul in the grave?〞the term“soul〞apparently refers to ___.A.Heathcliff himselfC.one's spiritual lifeD.one's ghost17.The typical feature of Robet Browning's poetry is the ___.A.bitter satirerger-than-life caricaturetinized dictionD.dramatic monologue18.The Victorian Age was largely an age of ____,eminently represented by Dickens and Thackeray.A.poetryB.drama D.epic prose19.___is the first important governess(家庭女教师) novel in the English literary history.A.Jane EyreHeights20.The major concern of ______ fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature.wrence'sB.J.Galsworthy'sC.W.Thackeray’sD.T.Hardy’s21.___is considered to be the best-known English dramatist since Shakespeare, and his representative works are plays inspired by social criticism.A.Richard SheridanB.Oliver GoldsmithC.Oscar WildeD.Bernard Shaw22.Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Modernism?A.To elevate the individual and inner being over the social being.B.To put the stress on traditional values.C.To portray the distorted and alienated relationships between man and his environment.D.To advocate a conscious break with the past.23.The Romantic writers would focus on all the following issues EXCEPT the ___ in the American literary histrory.A.individual feelingsB.idea of survival of the fittestC.strong imaginationD.return to nature24.Henry David Thoreau's work,__,has always been regarded as a masterpiece of New England Transcendentalism.B.The pioneersC.NatureD.Song of Myself25.The famous 20-years sleep in “Rip Van Winkle〞helps to construct the story in such a way that we are greatly affected by Irving's ___.A.concern with the passage of timeB.expression of transient beautyC.satire on laziness and corruptibility of human beingsD.idea about supernatural manipulation of man's life26.Walt whitman was a pioneering figure of American poetry. His innovation first of all lies in his use of __,poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.A.blank verseB.heroic coupletC.free verseD.iambic pentameter27.The literary characters of the American type in early 19th century are generally characterized by all the following features EXCEPT that they ___.A.speak local dialectsB.are polite and elegant gentlemenC.are simple and crude farmersD.are noble savages( red and white) untainted by society28.Hester Pryme, Dimmsdale,Chillingworth and Pearl are most likely the names of the characters in ___.A.The Scarlet LetterB.The House of the Seven GablestC.The Portrait of a LadyD.The pioneers29.“This is my letter to the World〞is a poetic expression of Emily Dickinson's __ about her communication with the outside world.A.indifferenceB.anger30.With Howells,James,and Mark Twain active on the literary scene, __ became the major trend in American literature in the seventies and eighties of the 19thcentury.31.After The adventures of Tom Sawyer, Twain gives a literary independence to Tom's buddy Huck in a book entitled ___.A.Life on the MississippiB.The Gilded AgeC.The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnD.A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court32.However,___,the keynote of Daisy Miller's character,turns out to be an admiring but a dangerous quality and her defiance of social taboos in the Old World finally brings her to a disaster in the clash between two different cultures.C.worldliness33.Generally speaking,all those writers with a naturalistic approach to human reality tend to be ___.A.transcendentalists34.Emily Dickinson wrote many short poems on various aspects of life.Which of the following is NOT a usual subject of her poetic expression?A.Religion and immortality.B.Life and death.C.Love and marriage.D.War and peace.35.In “After Apple-Picking,〞Robert Frost wrote:“For I have had too much/Of applepi cking:I am overtired/Of the great harvestI myself desired.〞From these lines we can conclude that the speaker is ___.A.happy about the harvestB.still very much interested in apple-pickingC.expecting a greater harvestD.indifferent to what he once desired36.Chinese poetry and philosophy have exerted great influence over ____.A.Ezra PoundB.Ralph Waldo EmersonC.Robert FrostD.Emily Dickinson37.The Hemingway Code heroes are best remembered for their __.A.indestructible spirtieB.pessimistic view of life38.IN The Emperor Jones and The Hairy Ape,O'Neill adopted the expressionist techniques to portray the ___ of human beings in a hostile universe.A.helpless situationC.profound religious faithD.courage and perseverance39.In Hemingway's “Indian Cmap〞,Nick's night trip to the Indian village and his experience inside the hut can be taken as ____.A.an essential lesson about Indian tribesB.a confrontation with evil and sinC.an initiation to the harshness of lifeD.a learning process in human relationship40.which of the following statements about Emily Grierson, the protagonist in Faulkner's story “A Rose for Emily,〞is NOT true?A.She has a distorted personality.B.She is physically deformed and paralyzed.C.She is the symbol of the old values of the South.D.She is the victim of the past glory.PART TWOⅡ.Reading Comprehension (16 points, 4 for each)Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English.Write your answer in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.41.“Her eyes met his and he looked away.He neither believed nor disbelieved her,but he knew that he had made a mistake in asking;he never had known,never would know,what she was thinking.The sight of her inscrutable face,the thought of all the hundreds of evenings he had seen her sitting there like that,soft and passive,but so unreadable, unknown, enraged him beyond measure.〞Questions:A.Identify the writer and the work.B.What does the phrase “inscrutable face〞mean?C.What idea does the quoted passage express?42.“And when I am formulated,sprawling on a pin,When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall.Then how should beginTo spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways.〞Questions:A.Identify the poem and the poet.B.What does the phrase “butt-ends〞mean?C.What idea does the quoted passage express?43.“God knows,…I'm not myself—I'm somebody else—…and I'm changed,and I can't tell what's my name,or who I am.〞Questions:A.Identify the work and the author.B.The speaker says he is changed.Do you think he is changed, or the social environment has changed?C.What idea does the quoted sentence express?44.“I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference.〞Questions:A.Idenfity the poem and the poet.B.What does the phrase “ages and ages hence〞mean?C.What idea does the quoted passage express?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.As a rule,an allegory is story in verse or prose with a double meaning: a surface meaning,and an implied meaning.List two works as examples of allegory.What is an allegory usually concerned with by its implied meaning?46.Inspiration for the romantic approach initially came from two great shapers of thought.Who are the two?And what ideas they expressed inspire the romantic writers?47.The white whale,Moby Dick,is the most important symbol in Melville's novel.What symbolic meaning can you draw from it?48.Nature is a philosophic work, in which Emerson gives an explicit discussion on his idea of the Qversoul.What is your understanding of Emersonian “Oversoul〞?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.How is Romanticism different from Neoclassicism?Provide brief evidence from the literary works you know best.50.Summerize the story of Mark twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in about 100 words,and comment on the theme of the novel.Ⅱ.Reading Comprehension (16 points, 4 for each)41.A.John Galasworthy:The Man of Property.B.A face does not show any emotion or reaction so that it is impossible to know how that person is feeling or what he is thinking about.C.it presents the inner mind of Soames in face of his wife's coldness.He can never know what is on his wife's mind because the makeup of his and her mentality is different. His wife Irene, whose mind is romantically inclined, is disgusted with her husband's possessiveness. Being unable to read his wife's mind is as good as saying that he really can't regard her as his property- this is the very reason why he is enraged beyond measure.42.A.T.S.Eliot:“The Love Song of J.Alfred Pruforck.〞B.The ends of cigarettes,meaning trivial things here.C.Here,Prufrock's inability to do anything against the society he is in is made strikingly clear by using a sharp comparison .Prufrock imagines himself as a kind of insect pinned on the wall and struggling in vain to get free.This image vividly shows Prufrock's current predicament.43.A.Washington Irving:“Rip Van Winkle〞.B.The social environment is changed.C.When Rip is back home after a period of 20 years,he finds thta everything has changed.All those old values are gone,and he can hardly feel at home in a changed society.One of the functions that Rip serves in the story is to provide a measuring stick for change. It is through him that Irving drives home the theme that a desire for change,improvement,and progress could subvert stable society.44.A.Robert Frost:“The Road Not Taken〞.B.Many many years later.C.The speaker is telling his experience of making the choice of the roads.But he is conscious of the fact that his choice will have made all the difference in his life.He seems to be giving a suggestion to the reader.“Make good choice of your life.〞Ⅲ.Questions and Answers (24 points in all,6 for each)45.A.Buyan's pilgrim's Progress and Spenser's The Faerie Queene.B.It is usually concerned with moral ,religious,political,symbolic or mythical ideas.46.A.The French philosopher,Jean Jacques Rousseau and the German writer Johna Wolfgan von Goethe.B.It is Rousseau who established the cult of the individual and championed the freedom of the human spirit;his famous announcement was “I felt before I thought.〞Goethe and his compatriots extolled the romantic spirit.47.A.To Ahab,the whale is either an evil creature itself or the agent of an evil force that controls the universe,or perhaps both.B.To Ishmale,the whale is an astonishing force,an immense power,which defies rational explanation due to a sense of mystery it carries. It is beautiful,but malignant at the same time. It also represents the tremendous organic vitality of the universe,for it has a life force that surges onward irresistibly, impervious to the desires or wills of men.C.As to the reader, the whale can be viewed as a symbol of the physical limits that life imposes upon man. It may also be regarded as a symbol of nature, or an instrument of God's vengeance upon evil man. In general,the multiplicity and ambivalence of the symbolic meaning of the whale is such that it becomes a source of intense speculation, an object or profound curiosity for the reader.48.A.The Oversoul is believed to be an all-pervading power for goodness,omnipresent and omnipotent from which all things come and of which all are a part. It exists in nature and man alike and constitutes the chief element of the universe.B.According to Emerson,it is a supreme reality of mind, a spiritual unity of all beings, and a religion regarded as an emotional communication between an individual soul and the universal Over-soul of which it is a part.C.He holds that intuition is a more certain way of knowing than reason and that the mind could intuitively perceive the existence of the Oversoul and of certain absolutes.Ⅳ.Topic Discussion (20 points in all, 10 for each)49.a.Neoclassicists upheld that artistic ideals should be order,logic,restrained emoticon and accuracy,and that literature,should be judged in terms of its service to humanity,and thus,literary expressions should be of proportion,unity,harmony and grace.Pope's An Essay on Criticism advocates grace,wit (usually though satire/humour),and simplicity in language(and the poem itself is a demonstration of those ideals,too);Fielding's Tom Jones helped establish the form of novel;Gray's “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' displays elega nce in style,unified structure,serious tone and moral instructions.b.Romanticists tended to see the individual as the very center of all experience,including art,and thus,literary work should be “spontaneous overflow of strong feelings,〞and no matter how fragmentary those experiences were (Wordsworth's “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,〞or “The Solitary Reaper,) or Coleridge's “Keble Khan〞),the value of the work lied in the accuracy of presenting those unique feelings and particular attitudes.c.In a word, Neoclassicism emphasized rationality and form but Romanticism attached great importance to the individual's mind (emotion, imagination, temporary experience…)50.A.Mark Twain's novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a Sequa to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.The Story takes place along the Mississippi River before the Civil War in the United States, around 1850.Along the river, floats a small raft, with two people on it; One is an ignorant,uneducated black slave named Jim and the other is little uneducated outcast white boy about the age of thirteen, called Huckleberry Finn or Huck Finn.The novel relates the story of the escape of Jim from slavery and ,more important, how Huck Finn, floating along with Jim and helping him as best he could, changes his mind ,his prejudice, about Black people, and comes to accept Jim as a man and as a close friends as well.During their journey, they experience a series of adventures:coming across two frauds, the “Duke〞and the “King〞,witnessing the lynching and murder of a harmless drunkard, being lost in a fog and finally Tom's coming to rescue. B. The theme of the novel may be best summed in a word “freedom〞: Huck wants to escape from the bond of civilization and Jim wants to escape from the yoke of slavery. Mark Twain uses the raft's journey down the Mississippi River to express his thematic contrasts between innocence and experience, nature and culture, wilderness and civilizati。
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英美⽂学选读练习（⼀）英美⽂学选读练习（⼀）I. Multiple ChoiceSelect 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. 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”2. Jane Austen’ s practical idealism is that love should be justified by ______ and disciplined by self-control.A. reasonB. senseC. rationalityD. sensibility3. Shakespeare’ s ______, an elaborate and fantastic story, is known as the best of his final romances.A. The Winter’s TaleB. The TempestC. The Taming of the ShrewD. Love’ s Labour’ s Lost4. “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. Hamlet5. John Milton’ s most powerful dramatic poem on the Greek model is ______.A. Paradise LostB. Paradise RegainedC. Samson AgonistesD. Lycidas6. Because of her sensitivity to universal pattens of human behavior, ______ hasbrought the English novel, as an art of form, to its maturity.A. Charlotte BronteB. Jane AustenC. Emily BronteD. Henry Fielding7. Poetry is defined by ______ as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, which originates in emotion recollected in tranquility”.A. William WordsworthB. William BlakeC. Percy Bysshe ShelleyD. Robert Southey8. Jonathan Swift’ s ______ is generally regarded as the best model of satire, not only of the period but also in the whole English literary history.A. Gulliver’s TravelsB. The Battle of the BooksC. “A Modest Proposal”D. A Tale of a Tub9. 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”, the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.A. Henry FieldingB. Daniel DefoeC. Jonathan SwiftD. Laurence Sterne10. The belief of the eighteenth - century neoclassicists in England led them to seek the following EXCEPT ______.A. proportionB. unityC. harmonyD. spirit11. The Renaissance marks a transition from ______ to the modern world.A. the old EnglishB. the medievalC. the feudalistD. the capitalist12. The great political and social events in the English society 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 168913.In Renaissance, the European humanist thinkers and scholars 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 Church14.The Petrarchan sonnet (彼特拉克体⼗四⾏诗) was first introduced into England by ______.A.SurreyB.WyattC.SidneyD.Shakespeare15.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 Lucrece16.John Milton's greatest poetical work ______ is the only generally acknowledged epic in English literarure since Beowulf.A.AreopagiticaB.Paradise LostC.LycidasD.Samson Agonistes17.“Graveyard School”writers are the following sentimentalists EXCEPT ______.A.James ThomsonB.William CollinsC.William CowperD.Thomas Jackson18.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 Books19.As a representative of the Enlightenment, ______ was one of the first to introduce rationalism to England.A.John BunyanB.Daniel DefoeC.Alexander PopeD.Jonathan Swift20.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 Richardson21. 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.Gothic Novel, a type of romantic fiction that predominated in the early eighteenth century, was one phase of the Romantic movement. Its principal elements are violence, horror and the supernatural. P166, para.222. William Blake’s central concern in the Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience is_______, which gives the two books a strong social and historical reference.A. youthhoodB. childhoodC. happinessD. sorrow23. “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good for-tune, must be in want of a wife.” The quoted part is taken from ______.A. Jane EyreB. Wuthering HeightsC. Pride and PrejudiceD. Sense and Sensibility24. Shelley’s greatest achievement is his four-act poetic drama ______, which is an exultant work in praise of humankind’s potential.A. AdonaisB. Queen MabC. Prometheus UnboundD. A Defence of Poetry25. The assertion that poetry originates from “emotion recollected in tranquility”belongs to ______.A. William WordsworthB. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeC. Robert SoutheyD. William Blake26. 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.“Tintern Abbey”D. “The Solitary Reaper”27. Shakespeare’s four greatest tragedies are ________.A. Romeo and Juliet, Othello, King Lear, HamletB. Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, The Merchant of VeniceC. Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, MacbethD. Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice , Othello, Hamlet28. As one of the greatest masters of English prose, ________ defined a good style as “proper words in proper places”.A. Henry FieldingB. Jonathan SwiftC. Samuel JohnsonD. Alexander Pope29. All of the following novels by Daniel Defoe are the first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower-class people EXCEPT ______.A. Robinson CrusoeB. Captain SingletonC. Moll FlandersD. Colonel Jack30. English Romanticism, as a historical phase of literature, is generally said to have ended in 1832 with ______.A. the passage of the first Reform Bill in the ParliamentB. the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge’s Lyrical BalladsC. the publication of T．S ．Eliot’s The waste LandD. the passage of the Bill of Rights in the Parliament31. Contrary to the traditional romance of aristocrats, the modern English novel givesa realistic presentation of life of ______.A. the common English peopleB. the upper classC. the rising bourgeoisieD. the enterprising landlords32. The sentence “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare’s ______________.A. comediesB. tragediesC. sonnetsD. histories33. Paradise Lost is actually a story taken from ______________.A. the RenaissanceB. the Old TestamentC. Greek MythologyD. the New Testament34. ______________ is the essence of the Renaissance.A. PoetryB. DramaC. HumanismD. Reason35. “To be, or not to be —that is the question”is a line taken from______________.A. HamletB. OthelloC. King LearD. The Merchant of Venice36. Literature of Neoclassicism is different from that of Romanticism in that ______________.A. the former celebrates reason, rationality, order and instruction while the latter sees literature as an expression of an individual’s feeling and experiencesB. the former is heavily religious but the latter secularC. the former is an intellectual movement, the purpose of which is to arouse the middle class for political rights while the latter is concerned with the personal cultivationD. the former advocates the “return to nature”whereas the latter turns to the ancient Greek and Roman writers for its models.37. Daniel Defoe describes ______________ as a typical English Middle- class man of the eighteenth century, the very prototype of the empire builder or the pioneer colonist.A. Tom JonesB. GulliverC. Moll FlandersD. Robinson Crusoe38. ______________ is a typical feature of Swift’s writings.A. Bitter satireB. Elegant styleC. Casual narrationD. Complicated sentence structure39. Which of the following poems is a landmark in English poetry?A. Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor ColeridgeB. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”by William WordsworthC. “Remorse ”by Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD. Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman40. The literary form which is fully developed and the most flourishing during the Romantic Period is ______________.A. proseB. dramaC. novelD. poetry41. The real mainstream of the English Renaissance is_____________.A. the Elizabethan dramaB. the Elizabethan proseC. ancient poemD. romantic novel42. Shakespeare has established his giant position in world literature with his_____________plays, 154 sonnets and 2 long poems.A. 47B. 27C. 52D. 3843. _____________shows how mankind, in the person of Christ, withstand the tempter and is established once more in the divine favor.A. Paradise LostB. Paradise RegainedC. Samson AgonistesD. Beowulf44. In the theatrical world of the neoclassical period, _____________was the leading figure among the host of playwrights.A. William BlakeB. Richard Brinsley SheridanC.Ben JohnsonD. George Bernard Shaw45. The eighteenth century England is also known as the Age of Enlightenment or the Age of_____________.A. IntellectB. ReasonC. RationalityD. Science46. As a whole, Jonathan Swift’s _____________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.A. Moll FlandersB. Gulliver’s TravelsC. Pilgrim’s ProgressD. The School for Scandal47. _____________is a story on the subject of human nature by Henry Fielding.A. The History of AmeliaB. The History of Jonathan Wild the GreatC. The History of Tom Jones, a FoundlingD. The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and of his friend Mr. Abraham Adams48. The poems such as “The Chimney Sweeper”are found in both Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experienceby_____________.A. William WordsworthB. William BlakeC. John KeatsD. Lord Gordon Byron49. _____________is regarded as a “worshipper of nature”.A. John KeatsB. William BlakeC. William WordsworthD. Jane Austen50. The sentence “three or four families in a country village are the very thing to work on” can best reflect the writer’s personal knowledge and range of writing. This writer is ____________.A. Walter ScottB. Thomas HardyC. Jane EyreD. Jane Austen。
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Cflexible
Dvarying
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4、He is too young to be able to ______ between right and wrong.
Adiscard
Bdiscern
Cdisperse
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Bauthority
Centhusiasm
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16、He asked me to lend him some money, which I agreed to do, ________ that he paid me back the following week.
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1、His talent is quite ____.
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Bunique
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6、The archaeologist ____that the vase was 3500 years old.
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2016年4月全国自考《英美文学选读》真题及详解
2016年4月全国自考《英美文学选读》真题及详解2016年4月全国自考《英美文学选读》真题(总分100, 考试时间90分钟)1. 单项选择题1. The tragic sense turns into despair in Thomas Hardy' s______, where the protagonists 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 D' UrbervillesD Jude the Obscure答案:D解析：托马斯-哈代是英国著名的诗人、小说家，《无名的裘德》是他最优秀的作品之一。
小说以悲怆的笔调叙述了男主人公裘德和女主人公淑反抗世俗道德和僵化的宗教，但付出高昂而又惨痛的代价却也终难如愿的悲剧故事。
2. William Shakespeare wrote______history plays in the first period of his dramatic career.A 3B 4C 5D 6答案:C解析：威廉-莎士比亚是英国文学史上最杰出的剧作家和诗人，也是西方乃至全世界最卓越的文学家之一。
他的戏剧创作生涯可以分为四个阶段，在第一阶段他创作了五部历史剧和四部喜剧故事。
3. Paradise Lost is a masterpiece by______.A Christopher MarlowB John MiltonC William ShakespeareD Ben Johnson答案:B解析：约翰-弥尔顿是英国文学史上最伟大的诗人之一。
他最著名的作品是以圣经故事为题材的长篇诗作《失乐园》《复乐园》《力士参孙》。
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福师《英美文学选读》在线作业一答卷福师《英美文学选读》在线作业一-0002试卷总分:100 得分:100一、单选题 (共 50 道试题,共 100 分)1.Poor health and lack of money may both be ____ to educational progress.A.stainsB.scarcitiesC.restraintsD.barriers答案:D2.The purpose of the official inquiry is to ____ the true facts leading to the loss of the ship at sea./doc/598436832.html,e over/doc/598436832.html,e into/doc/598436832.html,e for/doc/598436832.html,e at答案:D3.The ____ of the sun almost blinded them.A.sparksB.glitterC.glareD.flare答案:C4.The London Marathon is a difficult race._______, thousands of runners participate every year.A.ThereforeB.NeverthelessC.FurthermoreD.Accordingly答案:B5.A system of strict discipline has a ____ effect on conduct.A.automaticB.deliberateC.beneficialD.customary答案:C6.John cannot afford to go to university, _______going abroad.A.not to speak ofB.nothing to speak ofC.nothing butD.anything but答案:A7.James has just arrived, but I didn’t know he _________ until yesterday.A.will comeB.was comingC.had been comingD.came答案:B8.My students found the book ________: it provided them with an abundance of information on the subject.A.enlighteningB.distractingC.confusingD.amusing答案:A9._______ to some parts of South America is still difficult ,because parts of the continent are still covered with thick forests .A.OrientationB.AccessC.ProcessionD.Voyage答案:B10.______recent developments we do not think your scheme is practical.A.In view ofB.In memory ofC.In favor ofD.In case of答案:A11.He knows the regulations, and if he refuses to ____ with them he must take the consequence.A.accordB.assistC.confirm/doc/598436832.html,ply答案:D12.The editor told me that if I could ____ my story to 5,000 words, they would take it.A.cut offB.cut downC.cut acrossD.cut in答案:B13.Children who stay away from school do ________ for different reasons.A.themB.theirsC.itD./答案:B14.Astronomers were happy to know that their ____ about stars in the universe were correct.A.philosophyB.descriptionsC.consumptionsD.assumptions答案:D15.The chairman of the board _____ on me the unpleasant job of dismissing good workers the firm can no longer afford to employ.A.temptedB.pressedC.posed/doc/598436832.html,pelled答案:B16.To speed up the ______of letters, the Post Office introduced automatic sorting.A.treatmentB.transmissionC.departureD.delivery答案:D17.I have looked all over the office for my jar of glue. It seemed to have ____.A.vibratedB.vapouredC.vanishedD.reduced答案:C18.If you don’t like to swim, you _____as well stay at home.A.wouldB.shouldC.mayD.can答案:C19.The portion of the total income of China’s railways which comes from carrying cargo is____80 percent.A.roughlyB.incidentallyC.consequently/doc/598436832.html,paratively 答案:A20.Some people believe that sin。
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英美文学选读作业策略）1. I have been __B__ to the newspaper for ten years.A. ascribingB. subscribingC. orderingD. purchasing2. I tried very hard to persuade him to join our group but I metwith a flat __C____ .A. disapprovalB. rejectionC. refusalD. decline3. He is planning another tour abroad ,yet his passport will __A____at the end of this month.A. expireB. exceedC. terminateD. cease4. For a little while the girl __C__ for her dead cat, but she gotover it after a few days.A. achedB. depressedC. grievedD. upset5. The more a nation‘s companies ___B____factories abroad, thesmaller that country‘s recorded exports will be.A. lieB. locateC. spotD. stand6. His ideas are invariably condemned as ___C_____ by his colleagues.A. imaginativeB. ingeniousC. impracticalD. theoretical7. If you explained the situation to your solicitor, he ____A____able to advise you much better than I can.A. would beB. will have beenC. wasD. were8. The archaeologist _B___that the vase was 3500 years old.A. utilizedB. estimatedC. sustainedD. upheld9. ____A_____, Mr. Wells is scarcely in sympathy with the working class.A. Although he is a socialistB. Even if he is a socialistC. Being a socialistD. Since he is a socialist10. The party will __C__their leader very determinedly.A. adhere toB. coincide withC. cling toD. depend on11. Martin lay__B__on the bed all night,turning over and over in hismind the great decision he might have to make.A. wakeB. awakeC. wakenD. woke12. An auction is usually advertised beforehand with fullparticulars of articles to be sold and where and when they can be viewed by _B___ buyers.A. perspectiveB. prospectiveC. prosperousD. profitable13. The wheels stuck in the _A___.A. mudB. clayC. soilD. earth14. He knows the regulations, and if he refuses to __D__ with themhe must take the consequence.A. accordB. assistC. confirmD. comply15. "This light is too__A____ for me to read by. Don’t we have abrighter bulb some where": said the elderly man.A. dimB. slightC. mildD. minute16.There are still many problem ahead of us, but by his time nextyear we can see light at the end of the ____D_____.A. battleB. dayC. roadD. tunnel17. The students, __D__ reading their books, did not observe meenter the classroom.A. deficient inB. adequate forC. short ofD. intent on18. ____B___ to some parts of South America is still difficult,because parts of the continent are still covered with thick forests .A. OrientationB. AccessC. ProcessionD. Voyage19. We realized that he was under great ___B______, so we took nonotice of his bad temper.A. excitementB. stressC. crisisD. nervousness20. The very __B__ of justice lies in the right of every man to afair trial.A. contentB. essenceC. thresholdD. texture21. Radio reception wasn’t very good because of a disturbance inthe atmosphere; the announcer’s voice sounded very __D__.A. disputedB. discardedC. dismissedD. distorted22. To his great joy he discovered that his ear was becoming __B__.A. sensationalB. sensitiveC. sentimentalD. sensible23. The meaning of this poem is very ___C_; I really do notunderstand it.A. conspicuousB. intelligibleC. obscureD. dim24. It is clear that lack of education will greatly _A___ the laid-off workers from getting a job again.A. hamperB. confuseC. perplexD. reverse25. I have looked all over the office for my jar of glue. It seemedto have __B__.A. vapouredB. vanishedC. vibratedD. reduced26. Yor can hire a bicycle in many places. Usually you‘ll have topay a _____A____.A. depositB. dealC. fareD. fond27. _B___ the success of the product depends on its good quality.A. ObjectivelyB. UltimatelyC. AbsolutelyD. Relatively满分：2 分28. My grandfather had always taken a ___B____interest in my work, and I had an equal admiration for the stories of his time.A. weightyB. keenC. vagueD. splendid满分：2 分29. What’s the chance of ____A____ a general election this year?A. there beingB. there to beC. there beD. there going to be满分：2 分30. The manager gave one of the salesgirls an accusing look for her ___C___ attitude toward customersA. impartialB. mildC. hostileD. opposing满分：2 分31. Because Bob had stopped reading his technical journals he was _C___ of new development in his field.A. tediousB. subtleC. ignorantD. intellectual满分：2 分32. The nurse was dismissed because she was found to be __D__.A. roundaboutB. correspondingC. vigilantD. negligent满分：2 分33. For the new country to survive, ___B_____ for its people to enjoy prosperity, new economic policies will be required.A. to name a fewB. let aloneC. not to speakD. let’s say满分：2 分34. It may be necessary to stop ___C___in the learning process and go back to the difficult points in the lessons.A. at caseB. at lengthC. at intervalsD. at a distance满分：2 分35. Such a (n)__C__ person has got to the top of the company！That’s more than I bargained for.A. responsibleB. illegalC. notoriousD. illegitimate满分：2 分36. Mr. Smith had an unusual ___D____ : he was first an office clerk , then a sailor , and ended up as a school teacher.A. professionB. occupationC. positionD. career满分：2 分37. John cannot afford to go to university, __B_____going abroad.A. nothing to speak ofB. not to speak ofC. anything butD. nothing but满分：2 分38. Thousands of people turned out into the streets to _____D____ against the local authorities’ decision to build a highway across the field.A. contradictB. reformC. counterD. protest满分：2 分39. Nobody yet knows how long and how seriously the shakiness in the financial system will ____C____ down the economy.A. putB. settleC. dragD. knock满分：2 分40. The _A___ from childhood to manhood is often a difficult time for a young man.A. transitionB. transformationC. transferD. transmission满分：2 分41. The editor told me that if I could __B__ my story to 5,000 words, they would take it.A. cut offB. cut downC. cut acrossD. cut in满分：2 分42. Hudson said he could not kill a living thing except for the _____D___ of hunger.A. sensationB. causeC. purposeD. motive满分：2 分43. She hit the chair and __C__ the coffee.A. spoiledB. pouredC. spilledD. splashed满分：2 分44. I can’t ___A_____ what has happened to the vegetables, for they were freshly picked this morning.A. figure outB. draw outC. look outD. work out满分：2 分45. The defense lawyer was questioning the old man who was one of the ___A___of the murder committed last month.A. witnessesB. audiencesC. viewersD. observers满分：2 分46. My students found the book ___A_____: it provided them with an abundance of information on the subject.A. enlighteningB. confusingC. distractingD. amusing满分：2 分47. The __D__ of the sun almost blinded them.A. glitterB. flareC. sparksD. glare满分：2 分48. We are quite sure that we can ___D___our present difficulties and finish the task according to schedule.A. get awayB. get acrossC. get offD. get over满分：2 分49. Fuel scarcities and price increases ____B____ automobile designers to scale down the largest models and to develop completely new lines of small cars and trucks .A. persuadedB. promptedC. imposedD. enlightened满分：2 分50. For three-quarters of its span on Earth, life evolved almost___D___ as microorganisms.A. preciselyB. instantlyC. initiallyD. exclusively满分：2 分。
北语17秋《英美文学选读》作业1答案1
3.WhichofthefollowingisNOTwrittenbyDefoe?
A.CaptainSingleton
B.Sailor
landers
D.RubinsonCrusoe
满分：5分
正确答案:B
4.InPrideandPrejudice,ElizabethBennetfindsoutsomeweakpointsaboutherselfintheprocessofjudgingothers.WhichofthefollowingisNOTaweakpointofhers?
A.dramaticirony
B.personification
C.allegory
D.symbolism
满分：5分
正确答案:A
6.HowmanyperiodsaredividedintointhecreationyearsofShakespeare?
A.three
B.four
C.two
D.five
满分：5分
正确答案:A
7.InShakespeare＇sMerchantofVenice,AntoniocouldnotpaybackthemoneyheborrowedfromShylock,because______.
A.hismoneywasallinvestedinthenewly-emergingtextileindustry
满分：5分
正确答案:B
2.CharlesDickenstakestheFrenchRevolutionasthebackgroundofhisnovel______.
A.GreatExpectations
B.ATaleofTwoCities
《英美文学选读》习题与答案
《英美文学选读》（课程代码：00604）I.The following passage is an extract from Letter to Lord Chesterfield by Samuel Johnson, the leading figure of British neoclassicists. In 1747, when Samuel Johnson, began his Dictionary of the English language, Lord Chesterfield had at first indicated that he could be his patron, but when Johnson came to him for concrete help, Lord Chesterfield neglected him to the point of ignoring him; Johnson was insulted and furious. In 1775 when the Dictionary was published and acclaimed, Chesterfield openly recommended, hoping to get some credit for it as Johnson’s patron. Samuel Johnson wrote as reply his famous Letter to Lord Chesterfield in which he vented his feeling of hurt pride. Read it carefully, paying special attention to the rhetorical devices used, and answer the question. (20 points)①Is not patron, my lord, one who looked with unconcernupon man struggling for a life in the water, and when he hadreached to the safety of ground, encumbered him with help?②The notice you have taken of my Labour, had it beenearly, had been kind, but it had been delayed till I amindifferent, and can’t enjoy it; till I am solitary, and can’timpart it; till I am known, and do not want it. ③I hope thatit is no very asperity not to confess obligation where nobenefit have been received, or to be unwilling that thePublic should consider me as owing that to a patron, whichProvidence had enabled me to do for myself.Question:⑴what syntactic devices the author used in sentence ? And whatare their stylistic functions? (10 points)⑵point out the figure of speech used in sentences①and ③. (10 points)II. The following critical paper is about George Bernard Shaw’s famous drama “Pygmalion”. Read it carefully and answer the questions set on it. (20 points) 1 What we discover in Pygmalion is that phonetics and correct pronunciation are systems of markers superficial in themselves but endowed with tremendous social significance. Eliza's education in the ways that the English upper classes act and speak provides an opportunity for the playwright to explore the very foundations of social equality and inequality. Higgins himself observes that pronunciation is the deepest gulf that separates class from class and soul from soul. Playwright and character differ, however, in that instead of criticizing the existence of this gulf, Higgins accepts it as natural and uses his skills to help those who can afford his services (or are taken in as experiments, like Liza) to bridge it.2“At Mrs. Higgins's ““At Home reception,” Liza is fundamentally the same person she was in Act I, although she differs in what we learnto appreciate as superficialities of social disguise (according to Mugglestone): details of speech and cleanliness. Act III of Pygmalion highlights the importance of Liza's double transformation, by showing her suspended between the play's beginning and its conclusion. In modern society, however, as Shaw illustrates, it is precisely these superficial details which tend to be endowed with most significance. Certainly the Eynsford Hills view such details as significant, as Liza's entrance produces for them what Shaw's stage directions call “an impression of ... remarkable distinction and beauty.”3 Ironically, however, Liza's true transformation is yet to occur. She experiences a much more fundamental change in her consciousness when she realizes that Higgins has more or less abandoned her at the conclusion of his experiment.At first, Liza experiences a sense of anxiety over not belonging anywhere: she can hardly returnto flower peddling, yet she lacks the financial means to makeher new, outward identity a social reality. “What am I fit for?”She demands of Higgins. “What have you left me fit for? Wheream I to go? What am I to do? What's to become of me?” Berst wrote that while Pickering is generous, Eliza is shoved intothe wings by Higgins. The dream has been fulfilled, midnighthas tolled for Cinderella, and morning reality is at hand. Lizamust break away from Higgins when he shows himself incapableof recognizing her needs. This response of Higgins is well withinhis character as it has been portrayed in the play. Indeed, fromhis first exposure to Liza, Higgins denied Liza any social oreven individual worth. Calling Liza a squashed cabbage leaf, Higgins states that a woman who utters such depressing anddisgusting sounds has no right to be anywhere no right to live. Question 1: Explain what is Liza’s Double Transformation?(10 points)Question 2: What makes Liza feel she is in an embarrassing situation when she is transformed into a lady in speechand appearance? (10 points)III.The following critical essay is about Thomas Hardy’s most well-known tragic novel “Tess of d’Urbervilles”. Peruse it and then answer the questions set on it (30 points)The social background of Tess of d’Urbervilles was in a time of difficult social upheaval, when England was making its slow, painful transition from an old-fashioned, agricultural nation to amodern, industrial one. Businessmen and entrepreneurs, or “new money,” joined the ranks of the social elite, as some families of the ancient aristocracy, or “old money,” faded into obscurit y. Tess’s family in Tess of the d’Urbervilles illustrates this change, as Tess’s parents, the Durbeyfields, lose themselves in the fantasy of belonging to an ancient and aristocratic family, the d’Urbervilles.Hardy’s novel strongly suggests that such a f amily history is not only meaningless but also utterly undesirable. Hardy’s views on the subject were appalling to conservative and status-conscious British readers and Tess of the d’Urberville s was met in England with widespread controversy. Beyond her social symbolism, Tess represents fallen humanity in a religious sense, as the frequent biblical allusions in the novel remind us. Just as Tess’s clan was once glorious and powerful but is now sadly diminished, so too did the early glory of the first humans, Adam and Eve, fade with their expulsion from Eden, making humans sad shadows of what they once were. Tess thus represents what is known in Christian theology as original sin, the degraded state in which all humans live, even when—like Tess herself after killing Prince or succumbing to Alec—they are not wholly or directly responsible for the sins for which they are punished. This torment represents the most universal side of Tess: she is the myth of the human who suffers for crimes that are not her own and lives a life more degraded than she deserves.Angel represents a rebellious striving toward a personal vision of goodness A freethinking son born into the family of a provincial parson and determined to set himself up as a farmer instead of going to Cambridge like his conformist brothers,. He is a secularist who yearns to work for the “honor and glory of man,” as he tells his father in Chapter XVIII, rather than for the honor and glory of God in a more distant world. A typical young nineteenth-century progressive, Angel sees human society as a thing to be remolded and improved, and he fervently believes in the nobility of man. He rejects the values handed to him, and sets off in search of his own. His love for Tess, a mere milkmaid and his social inferior, is one expression of his disdain for tradition. This independent spirit contributes to his aura of charisma and general attractiveness that makes him the love object of all the milkmaids with whom he works at Talbothays. As his name—in French, close to “Bright Angel”—suggests, Angel is not quite of this world, but floats above it in a transcendent sphere of his own. The narrator says that Angel shines rather than burns and that he is closer to the intellectually aloof poet Shelley than to the fleshly and passionate poet Byron.His love for Tess may be abstract, as we guess when he calls her “Daughter of Nature” or “Demeter.” Tess may be more an archetype or ideal to him than a flesh and blood woman with a complicated life. Angel’s ideals of human purity are too elevated to be applied to actual people: Mrs. Durbeyfield’s easygoing moral beliefs are much more easily accommodated to real lives such as Tess’s. Angel awakens to the actual complexities of real-world morality after hisfailure in Brazil, and only then he realizes he has been unfair to Tess. His moral system is readjusted as he is brought down to Earth. Ironically, it is not the angel who guides the human in this novel, but the human who instructs the angel, although at the cost of her own life.Question 1: Why Tess is said to be a paragon of “fallen humanity”?(15 points)Question 2: Why Tess converted the idealist Angle into a realist Angle in terms of her own tragedy? (15 points)IV.The following paragraphs are taken from chapter VIII ofbook IV in Gulliver’s Travels. This section pictures an ideal rational existence, the Houyhnhnms kingdom whose life is governed by sense and moderation of which philosopherssince Plato have long dreamed. Read them and answer thefollowing questions. (30 points)1Courtship, love, presents, jointures, settlements haveno place in their thoughts, or terms whereby to expressthem in their language. The young couple meet,and are joined, merely because it is the determinationof their parents and friends; it is what they see doneevery day, and they look upon it as one of the necessaryactions of a reasonable being.2 But the violation of marriage, or any other unchastity,was never heard of; and the married pair pass their liveswith the same friendship and mutual benevolence, thatthey bear to all others of the same species who come intheir way, without jealousy, fondness, quarrelling, ordiscontent. When the matron Houyhnhnms have produced one of each sex, they no longer accompany with their consorts, except they lose one of their issue by some casualty, which very seldom happens; but in such a case they meet again; or when the like accident befalls a person whose wife is past bearing, some other couple bestow on him one of their own colts, and then go together again until the mother is pregnant. This caution is necessary, to prevent the country from being overburdened with numbers. But the race of inferior Houyhnhnms, bred up to be servants, is not so strictly limited upon this article: these are allowed to produce three of each sex, to be domestics in the noble families3 Every fourth year, at the vernal equinox, there is arepresentative council of the whole nation, which meets in a plain about twenty miles from our house, and continues about five or six days. Here they inquire into the state and condition of the several districts; whether they abound or be deficient in hay or oats, or cows, or Yahoos; and wherever there is any want (which is but seldom) it is immediately supplied by unanimous consent and contribution. Here likewise the regulation of children is settled: as for instance, ifa Houyhnhnm has two males, he changes one of them withanother that has two females; and when a child has been lost by any casualty, where the mother is past breeding, it is determined what family in the district shall breed another to supply the loss.Question1.The satire in this work is seen entirely in a discrepancybetween Swift and the Gulliver, the typical rational scientist in the age of enlightenment? Comment on it. (15points)Question2. In what ways does the author satirize the rationalism ofHouyhnhnms society, for example, the rational idea onmarriage, and the family-planning? (15 points)《英美文学选读》试卷参考答案I. 【20分】Answer:The author used repetition and parallelism to make this satirical prose daintier and more repugnant in tone. This piece of prose is typical of neoclassical prose which set great store by elegance of the language which was achieved by way of rhetorical richness. 【10分】The author used sarcasm in these two sentences to openly deny Lord Chesterfield’s patronage and attack his insolent and blatant behavior. The sarcasm made in a circumlocutious way renders this satirical prose more taunting and bitter. 【10分】II【20分】Question 1: What is Liza’s Double Transformation?Act III of Pygmalion highlights the importance of Liza's double transformation, by showing her suspended between the play's beginning and its conclusion. “At Mrs. Higgins's ““At Home reception,” Liza is fundamentally the same person she was in Act I, although she differs in what we learn to appreciate as superficialities of social disguise (according to Mugglestone): details of speech and cleanliness. In modern society, however, as Shaw illustrates, it is precisely these superficial details which tend to be endowed with most significance. Certainly the Eynsford Hills view such details as significant, as Liza's entrance produces for them what Shaw's stage directions call “animpression of ... remarkable distinction and beauty.” Ironically, however, Liza's true transformation is yet to occur. She experiences a much more fundamental change in her consciousness when she realizes that Higgins has more or less abandoned her at the conclusion of his experiment. 【10分】Question 2:What is Liza’s Predicament?Liza experiences a sense of anxiety over not belonging anywhere: she can hardly return to flower peddling, yet she lacks the financial means to make her new, outward identity a social reality. “What am I fit for?” She demands of Higgins. “What have you left me fit for? Where am I to go? What am I to do? What's to become of me?” While Pickering is generous, Eliza is shoved into the wings by Higgins. The dream has been fulfilled, midnight has tolled for Cinderella, and morning reality is at hand. Liza must break away from Higgins when he shows himself incapable of recognizing her needs. This response of Higgins is well within his character as it has been portrayed in the play. Indeed, from his first exposure to Liza, Higgins denied Liza any social or even individual worth. Calling Liza a squashed cabbage leaf, Higgins states that a woman who utters such depressing and disgusting sounds has no right to be anywhere no right to live. 【10分】III.【30分】Question 1: Why Tess is said to be a paragon of fallen humanity?Tess represents fallen humanity in a religious sense, as the frequent biblical allusions in the novel remind us. Just as Tess’s clan was once glorious and powerful but is now sadly diminished, so too did the early glory of the first humans, Adam and Eve, fade with their expulsion from Eden, making humans sad shadows of what they once were. Tess thus represents what is known in Christian theology as original sin, the degraded state in which all humans live, even when—like Tess herself after killing Prince or succumbing to Alec—they are not wholly or directly responsible for the sins for which they are punished. This torment represents the most universal side of Tess: she is the myth of the human who suffers for crimes that are not her own and lives a life more degraded than she deserves. 【15分】Question 2: Discuss why Tess changes the idealist Angle into a realist Angle in a tragic way?Angel is closer to the intellectually aloof poet Shelley than to the fleshly and passionate poet Byron. His love for Tess may be abstract, as we guess when he calls her “Daughter of Nature” or “Demeter.” Tess may be more an archetype or ideal to him than a flesh and blood woman with a complicated life. Angel’sideals of human purity are too elevated to be applied to actual people: Mrs. Durbeyfield’s eas ygoing moral beliefs are much more easily accommodated to real lives such as Tess’s. Angel awakens to the actual complexities of real-world morality after his failure in Brazil, and only then he realizes he has been unfair to Tess. His moral system is readjusted as he is brought down to Earth. Ironically, it is not the angel who guides the human in this novel, but the human who instructs the angel, although at the cost of her own life. 【15分】IV【30分】Question1. This work is called a satire which is seen entirely in a discrepancy between Swift and the Gulliver, the typical rational scientist in the age of enlightenment? Comment on it. 【15分】There are echoes of Plato’s Republic in the Houyhnhnms’rejection of light entertainment and vain displays of luxury, their appeal to reason rather than any holy writings as the criterion for proper action, and their communal approach to family planning.The Gulliver’s Travels is a book of subtle satire. The satire comes mainly from the discrepancy between Gulliver who is fitted out as the archetypal man of the enlightenment movement, susceptible to rationalism of 18th century. Swift on the other hand is very critical of his time, especially its rational thinking. Whereas Gulliver takes Houyhnhnm society as ideal utopia one, the author finds its rationality totally intolerable.Question2.In what ways does the author satirize the rational Houyhnhnms society, for example, the rational ideal on marriage, and the family-planning? 【15分】Paragons of virtue and rationality, the horses are also dull, simple, and lifeless. Their language is impoverished, their mating loveless, and their understanding of the complex play of social forces naïve. What is missing in the horses is exactly that which makes human life rich: the complicated interplay of selfishness, altruism, love, hate, and all other emotions. In other words, the Houyhnhnms’ society is perfect for Houyhnhnms, but it is hopeless for humans. Houyhnhnm society is, in stark contrast to the societies of the first three voyages, devoid of all that is human.But we may be less ready than Gulliver to take the Houyhnhnms as ideals of human existence. They have no names in the narrative nor any need for names, since they are virtually interchangeable, with little individual identity. Their lives seem harmonious and happy, although quite lacking in vigor, challenge, and excitement. Indeed, this apparent ease may be why Swift chooses to makethem horses rather than human types like every other group in the novel. He may be hinting, to those more insightful than Gulliver, that the Houyhnhnms should not be considered human ideals at all. In any case, they symbolize a standard of rational existence to be either espoused or rejected by both Gulliver and us.。
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正确答案：D
4. How many lines are there in a sonnet?
A. 16
B. 18
C. 14
D. 12
正确答案：C
5. Which of the following is a comedy?
D. 20th
正确答案：B
13. All the following poets belong to lake poets EXCEPT
A. Wordsworth
B. Coleridge
C. Robert Southey
D. Shelley
正确答案：D
14. "Bassanio: Antonio, I am married to a wifeWhich is as dear to me as life itself;But life itself, my wife, and all the world,Are not with me esteem＇d above thy life;I would lose all, ay, sacrifice them all,Here to the devil, to deliver you.Portia: Your wife would give you little thanks for that,If she were by to hear you make the offer."The above is a quotation taken from Shakespeare＇s comedy The Merchant of Venice. The quoted part can be regarded as a good example to illustrate___
A. King lear
B. Macbeth
C. Hamlet
D. The Merry Wives of Windsor
正确答案：D
6. The poem Ode to a Nightingale was written by___
A. William Wordsworth
B. John Keats
C. Shelley
D. Coleridge
正确答案：B
7. Which of the following is a tragedy?
A. Antony and Cleopatra
B. Twelfth Night
C. Julius Caesar
D. Much ado about Nothing
正确答案：A
8. What does Wordsworth＇s poem "The Solitary Reaper" tell us about Romanticist?
A. To romanticists, poetry is an expression of an individual＇s feelings and experiences no matter how fragmentary and momentary these feelings and experiences are.
B. Romanticist take delight only in sound effect, the theme of a work is not their concern.
C. Ro
正确答案：A
9. Charles Dickens takes the French Revolution as the background of his novel ______.
A. Great Expectations
B. A Tale of Two Cities
C. Bleak House
D. Oliver Twist
正确答案：B
10. The excerpt The Other Side of the Island was chosen from Chapter___ in Rubinson Crusoe.
A.Ⅸ
B.Ⅺห้องสมุดไป่ตู้
C.Ⅹ
D.Ⅷ
正确答案：A
11. The poem I wandered Lonely as a Cloud was written by ___
A. Dorothy Wordsworth
B. William Wordsworth
C. Coleridge
D. John Keats
正确答案：B
A. the use of everyday language spoken by the common people
B. the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings
C. the use of humble and rustic life as subject matter
12. Defoe＇s Robinson Crusoe created the image of an enterprising Englishman, typical of the English bourgeoisie in the ______ century.
A. 17th
B. 18th
C. 19th
D. sonnet
正确答案：A
2. How many periods are divided into in the creation years of Shakespeare?
A. three
B. four
C. two
D. five
正确答案：A
3. William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following EXCEPT
16秋《英美文学选读》作业1
一、单选题（共20道试题，共100分。）
1. It is generally regarded that Keats＇s most important and mature poems are in the form of _______ .
A. ode
B. elegy
C. epic