英美文学选读试题

英美文学选读试题课程代码：006041.B2.D3.C4.C5.D6.A7.B8.B9.A 10.C11.D 12.D 13.D 14.D 15.B16.B 17.D 18.C 19.A 20.A21.D 22.B 23.B 24.A 25.A26.C 27.B 28.A 29.C 30.C31.C 32.D 33.C 34.D 35.D36.A 37.A 38.A 39.C 40.BⅠ.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.ChristianB.knightlyC.GreekD.primitive2.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 birds 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 ironyB.personificationC.allegoryD.symbolism7.The ture subject 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 18th century novelists Henry Fielding was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a “___inprose,”the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.A.tragic epicic 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 abid e by Christian doctrines and to seek salvation through constant struggles with their own weaknesses and all kinds of social evils” may well sum up the implied meaning of ___.A.Gulliver's 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.WordsworthD.P.B.Shell ey15.“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 inthe grave?” the term“soul” apparently refers to ___.A.Heathcliff himselfB.CatherineC.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.dramaC.proseD.epic prose19.___is the first important governess novel in the English literary history.A.Jane EyreB.EmmaC.Wuthering HeightsD.Middlemarch20.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 relationshipsbetween 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.A.WaldenB.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.angerC.anxietyD.sorrow30.With Howells,James,and Mark Twain active on the literary scene, __ became the major trend in American literature in the seventies and eighties of the 19th century.A.sentimentalismB.romanticismC.realismD.naturalism31.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.A.experienceB.sophisticationC.worldlinessD.innocence33.Generally speaking,all those writers with a naturalistic approach to human reality tend to be ___.A.transcendentalistsB.idealistsC.pessimistsD.impressionists34.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 ha ve had too much/Of applepicking:I am overtired/Of the great harvest I 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 lifeC.war experiencesD.masculinity38.IN The Emperor Jones and T he Hairy Ape,O'Neill adopted the expressionist techniques to portray the ___ of human beings in a hostile universe.A.helpless situationB.uncertaintyC.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 differ ence.”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.英美文学选读试题答案课程代码：00604Ⅰ.Multiple Choice(40 points in all,1 foreach)1.B2.D3.C4.C5.D6.A7.B8.B9.A 10.C11.D 12.D 13.D 14.D 15.B16.B 17.D 18.C 19.A 20.A21.D 22.B 23.B 24.A 25.A26.C 27.B 28.A 29.C 30.C31.C 32.D 33.C 34.D 35.D36.A 37.A 38.A 39.C 40.BⅡ.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 homethe theme that a desire forchange,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 withmoral ,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 onwardirresistibly, 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 anall-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 TomJones helped establish the form of novel;Gray's “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' displays elegance 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,l iterary 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 advent ures: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 esca pe 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 civilization.英美文学选读试题答案Ⅰ.Multiple Choice(40 points in all,1 for each)1.B2.D3.C4.C5.D6.A7.B8.B9.A 10.C11.D 12.D 13.D 14.D 15.B16.B 17.D 18.C 19.A 20.A21.D 22.B 23.B 24.A 25.A26.C 27.B 28.A 29.C 30.C31.C 32.D 33.C 34.D 35.D36.A 37.A 38.A 39.C 40.BⅡ.Reading Comprehension (16 points, 4 for each)41.A.John Galasworthy:The Man of Property.B.A face does not show any emotion orreaction so that it is impossible to know howthat person is feeling or what he is thinkingabout.C.it presents the inner mind of Soames in faceof his wife's coldness.He can never know whatis on his wife's mind because the makeup ofhis and her mentality is different. His wifeIrene, whose mind is romantically inclined, isdisgusted with her husband's possessiveness.Being unable to read his wife's mind is as goodas saying that he really can't regard her as hisproperty- this is the very reason why he isenraged 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 anythingagainst the society he is in is made strikinglyclear by using a sharp comparison .Prufrockimagines himself as a kind of insect pinned onthe wall and struggling in vain to get free.Thisimage vividly shows Prufrock's currentpredicament.43.A.Washington Irving:“Rip Van Winkle”.B.The social environment is changed.C.When Rip is back home after a period of 20years,he finds thta everything has changed.Allthose old values are gone,and he can hardlyfeel at home in a changed society.One of thefunctions that Rip serves in the story is toprovide a measuring stick for change. It isthrough him that Irving drives home thetheme that a desire forchange,improvement,and progress couldsubvert stable society.44.A.Robert Frost:“The Road Not Taken”.B.Many many years later.C.The speaker is telling his experience ofmaking the choice of the roads.But he isconscious of the fact that his choice will havemade all the difference in his life.He seems tobe giving a suggestion to the reader.“Makegood choice of your life.”Ⅲ.Questions and Answers (24 points in all,6 for each)45.A.Buyan's pilgrim's Progress and Spenser'sThe Faerie Queene.B.It is usually concerned withmoral ,religious,political,symbolic or mythical ideas.46.A.The French philosopher,Jean JacquesRousseau and the German writer Johna Wolfgan von Goethe.B.It is Rousseau who established the cult of theindividual 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 creatureitself 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 orwills 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 anall-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 realityof 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 wayof knowing than reason and that the mindcould intuitively perceive the existence of theOversoul and of certain absolutes.Ⅳ.Topic Discussion (20 points in all, 10 for each)49.a.Neoclassicists upheld that artistic idealsshould 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 elegance in style,unified structure,serious tone and moral instructions.b.Romanticists tended to see the individual asthe 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 emphasizedrationality 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 Jimfrom 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 advent ures: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 esca pe 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 civilization.。

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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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《英美文学选读》模拟试题（一）一、单项选择题cadaa1.The excerpt from Chapter 10 of Sons and Lovers ends with the conflict between Paul and his mother. The conflict is possibly caused by Paul and his mother’s different views towards _____.A. Paul’s fatherB. artC. lifeD. Paul’s brother2.The _____ can be regarded as one of the themes of Joyce’s story “Araby”.A. loss of innocenceB. childish loveC. awareness of harsh lifeD. false sentimentality3.After reading “Araby”, one more feel the story has a _____ tone.A. joyousB. harshC. solemnD. painful4.In “Araby”, Joyce’s diction evokes a sort of _____ quality that characterizes the boy on this otherwise altogether ordinary shopping trip.A. religiousB. moralC. sentimentalD. vulgar5.The major concern of _____ fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature.A. D. H. Lawre nce’sB. J. Galsworthy’sC. W. Thackeray’sD. T. Hardy’s6.The mission of _____ drama was to reveal the moral, political and economic truth from a radical reformist point of view.A. T. S. Eliot’sB. J. Galsworthy’sC. B. Shaw’sD. W. B. Yeats’7.Irving was best known for his famous short stories such as _____.A. Rip Van WinkleB. Young Goodman BrownC. Life of GoldsmithD. Life of Washington8.Melville’s _____ is an encyclopedia of everything, history, p hilosophy, religion, etc.A. The Old Man and the SeaB. Moby–DickC. White JacketD. Billy Budd9.Mark Twain created, in _____, a masterpiece of American realism that is also one of the great books of world literature.A. Huckleberry FinnB. Tom SowyerC. The Gilded AgeD. The Mysterious Stranger10.American literature produced only one female poet during the nineteenth century. This was _____.A. Anne BradsteetB. Jane AustenC. Emily DickinsonD. T. S. Eliot11.The main theme of _____The Art of Fiction reveals his literary credo that representation of life should be the main object of the novel.A. Henry James’B. Mark Twain’sC. Theodore Dreiser’sD. William Howells’12.In the 1920s, O’Neill established an international reputation with the plays ______.A. The Emperor JonesB. Anna ChristleC. The Hairy ApeD. all of the above13.In 1954, _____ was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature for his “mastery of the ar t of modern narration.”A. T. S. EliotB. Ernest HemingwayC. John SteinbeckD. William Faulkner14.“The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.” This is the shortest poem written by _____.A. T. S. EliotB. Robert FrostC. Ezra PoundD. Emily Dickinson15.In Robert Frost’s famous poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”, there are four lines like these: “The woods are lovely, dark and deep, /But I have promises to keep, /And miles to go befor e I sleep, /And miles to go before I sleep”. The second sleep refers to _____.A. dieB. calm downC. fall into sleepD. stop walking16.Of the following American poets, whose work was first recognized in England and then in America?A. Robert FrostB. Walt WhitmanC. Emily DickinsonD. Wallace Stevens17.“For I have had too much / Of apple-picking: I am overtired / Of the great harvest I myself desired”. From these lines we can conclude that the speaker _____.A. is happy about the harvestB. is tired of the work of apple-pickingC. is not tired when seeing the harvestD. becomes indifferent of the job18.Chinese poetry and philosophy had great influence on _____.A. Robert FrostB. Ralph Waldo EmersonC. Ezra PoundD. Emily Dickinson19.The Hemingway code heroes are best remembered for their _____.A. indestructible spiritB. pessimistic view of lifeC. war experiencesD. masculinity20.Lots of people rushed to Gatsby’s party at the weekend and they clustered around Gatsby’s wealth like ____.A. gluttonsB. fliesC. insectsD. moths二、综合题1.Read the quoted part carefully and answer the questions in English.It may be that the gulfs will wash us down;It may be we shall touch the Happy Tales,And see the great Achilles, whom we knew,Tho’ much is taken, much abides, and tho’We are not now that strength which in old daysMoved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are;One equal temper of heroic hearts,Made weak by time and fate, but strong in willTo strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.A. The passage is taken from th e poem “___________”.B. The author of the poem is ____________.C. The poem is written in the form of _________.D. The speaker is __________.2.Read the quoted part carefully and answer the questions in English.Whether fagged by the three days’ runnin g chase, and the resistance to his swimming in the knotted hamper he bore; or whether it was some latent deceitfulness and malice in him: whichever was true, the white Whale’s way now began to abate, as it seemed, from the boat so rapidly nearing him once more; though indeed the whale’s last start had not been so long a one as before. And still as Ahab glidede over the waves the unpitying sharks accompanied him; and so pertinaciously stuck to the boat; and so continually bit at the plying oars, that the blades became jagged and crunched, and left small splinters in the sea, at almost every dip.A From which novel is the paragraph taken?B What is the name of the author?C Who is Ahab?D What is the theme of the novel?3.Read the quoted part carefully and answer the questions in English.Standing on the bare ground, ----- my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space, ------- all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.A. Which work is this fragment taken from?B. How do you understand the philosophical ideas in this words?4.Read the quoted part carefully and answer the questions in English.“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.”A. what does “beat over matters” mean?B. what does “receipt” refer to?C. from which essay does the above sentences come?5.Give brief answers to the question in English.What is Lyrical Ballads?Why is Lyrical Ballads regarded as a landmark in English poetry?6.Give brief answers to the question in English.Do you think the two collections of poems written by William Blake are the same? If not, what is the difference?7.Give brief answers to the question in English.What are some of the general artistic features of Walt Whitman’s poetry?8.Give brief answers to the question in English.Can we say that when Brown （Hawthorne’s Young Goodman Brown） enters the dark forest he is really enter his own evil mind? If yes （or no）, please explain.9.This monologue, a psychological exploration of life and death, reveals the character of Hamlet as a man of contemplation rathe r than action. With the intolerable burden of the duty to revenge his father’s death and the challenge of evil forces, Hamlet seems to withdraw into a mental world which is thrown into a conflict or a choice between life and death. The philosophical speculation mixed up with a deep pessimistic outlook resists against action at first, but later awakens the hero out of his melancholy to a sense of the “enterprise of great pith and moment”, indicating that he is to do something for what he concerns himself wit h.10.Write no less than 150 words on the following topic in English.Make a comparison between Henry James’ realism and Mark Twain’s realism.答案部分一、单项选择题1. C2. A3. D4. A5. A6. C7. A8. B9. A10. C11. A12. D13. B14. C15. A16. A17. B18. C19.A20. D二、综合题1.【正确答案】 A. UlyssessB. Afred TennysonC. Dramatic MonologueD. Ulysses2.【正确答案】 A. Moby – DickB. Herman MelvilleC. The Captain of the whaling shipD. The rebellious struggle of Captain Ahab against the over-whelming, mysterious vastness of the universe and its awesome sometimes merciless forces.3.【正确答案】 A. NatureB. Emerson regards nature as the purest, and the most sanctifying moral influence on man, and advocated a direct intuition of a spiritual and immanent God in nature. The soul has completely transcended the limits of individuality and become part of the Over soul. Emerson sees spirit pervading everywhere, not only in the soul of man, but behind nature, throughout nature.4.【正确答案】 A. make through exam of things.B. cure, prescriptionC. of studies Francis Bacon5.【正确答案】 A. It is a collaboration of Wordsworth and Coleridge, the major representatives of the Romantic Movement.B. In the book, they explored new theories and innovated new techniques in poetry writing. They saw poetry as a healing energy; they believed that poetry could purify both individual souls and the society. The preface to the second edition of the Lyrical Ballads acts as a manifesto for the new school. Wordsworth’s poems in the Lyrical Ballads differs in marked ways from his early poetry, notably the uncompromising simplicity of much of the language, the strong sympathy not merely with the poor in general but with particular, dramatized examples of them, and the fusion of natural description with expressions of inward states of mind.6.【正确答案】 A. NoB. The two collections of poems written by William Blake, “Sons of Innocence” and “Sons of Experience”, hold the similar subject-matter, but the tone, emphasis and conclusion differ.7.【正确答案】Walt Whitman was an important poet in American literary history. His originality lies first of all in his use of the poetic form free verse, by means of which he becomes conversational and casual. He usually uses the first person pronoun “I” to stress individualism, and oral language to acquire symp athy from the common reader. His topics are sometimes sexual but his themes are far more than sexual.8.【正确答案】Hawthorne’s stories are generally read as allegories symbolic of human experience, so is “Young Goodman Brown”. Allegorically Brown’s night journey to the forest could be taken as a journey of the mind into the dark region of evil. It is especially true if we allow for some very important details about the light and the shadow, the dreamlike atmosphere, the words and phrases he uses to describe what Brown has experienced in the forest, none of which seems to be substantially solid or physically present.9.【正确答案】This monologue, a psychological exploration of life and death, reveals the character of Hamlet as a man of contemplation rather than action. With the intolerable burden of the duty to revenge his father’s death and the challenge of evil forc es, Hamlet seems to withdraw into a mental world which is thrown into a conflict or a choice between life and death. The philosophical speculation mixed up with a deep pessimistic outlook resists against action at first, but later awakens the hero out of his melancholy to a sense of the “enterprise of treat pith and moment”, indicating that he is to do something for what he concerns himself with.10.【正确答案】Although James and Twain both worked for realism, there were obvious differences between them. In thematic terms, James wrote mostly of the upper reaches of American society, whereas Mark Twain dealt largely with the lower strata of society. Technically, James pursued psychological realism, but Mark Twain’s contribution to the development of realism and to American literature as a whole was partly through his theories of Local Colorist in American fiction, and partly through his colloquial style.Henry James believed that reality lies in the impressions made by life on the spectator, and not in any facts of which the spectator is unaware, such realism is therefore merely the obligation that the artist assumes to represent life as he sees it, which may not be the same life as it “really” is. James shifted the ground of realistic art from the outer to the inner world.Mark Twain preferred to represent social life through portraits of local places which he knew best. He drew heavily from his own rich fund of knowledge of people and places. He confined himself to the life with which he was familiar. By quoting from his own experience, Mark Twain managed to transform into art the freedom and humor, in short, the finest elements of western culture.。

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202X年7月高等教育自学考试全国统一命题考试英美文学选读卷子课程代码0604PART 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 theAnswer Sheet.1．_______, a typical example of old English poetry，is regarded as the national epic of the Anglo—Saxons．A．The Canterbury TalesB．ExodusC．BeowulfD．The Legend of Good Women2．It was ______ who first introduced the Petrarchan sonnet into England.A．CaxtonB．WyattC．SurreyD．Marlowe3．It is generally believed that the most important play among Shakespeare’s comedies is ______ A．A Midsummer Night’s DreamB．As You Like ItC．The Merchant of VeniceD．Twelfth Night4．All the following poets except ______ belong to the metaphysical school.A．DonneB．HerbertC．MarvellD．Milton5．Of all the eighteenth —century novelists, ______ was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a “comic epic in prose〞and the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.A．Daniel DefoeB．Samuel RichardsonC．Henry FieldingD．Oliver Goldsmith6．Although writing from different points of view and with different techniques, writers in the Victorican Period shared one thing in common, that is, they were all concerned about ______ .A．the love story between the rich and the poorB．the techniques in writingC．the fate of the common peopleD．the future of their own country7．In the theatrical world of the neoclassical period ______ was the leading figure among the host of playwrights.A．William BlakeB．Richard SheridanC．Ben JonsonD．Bernard Shaw8．The eighteenth —century England is also known as the Age of Enlightenment or the Age of ______.A．IntellectB．ReasonC．RationalityD．Science9．______ by Swift is generally regarded as the best model of satire, not only of the 18th century but also in the whole English literary history.A．A Tale of a TubB．The Battle of the BooksC．〞A Modest Proposal 〞D．Gulliver’s Travels10．The novels of______ are the first literary work devoted to the study of problems of the lower —class people.A．BunyanB．DefoeC．FieldingD．Swift11．Thomas Gray established his fame as the leader of the ______ of the day.A．romantic poetryB．sentimental poetryC．neoclassical poetryD．realistic novel12．Which of the following is taken from John Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn〞______ A．〞If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind〞B．〞For Godsake hold your tongue, and let me love.〞C．〞Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard/Are sweeter〞D．〞The Child is father of the Man.〞13．Robert Browning’s style is ______.A．identical with that of the other VictoriansB．similar to that of TennysonC．perfectly artisticD．rough and disproportionate in appearance14．Thomas Hardy wrote novels of ______.A．character and environmentB．pure romanceC．stream of consciousnessD．psychoanalysis15．The three trilogies of ______ novels are masterpieces of critical realism in the early 20th century.A．Galsworthy’s ForsyteB．Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Sunset Song’s Women in Love’s A Passage to India16．______ is considered to be the best—known English dramatist since Shakespeare.A．Oscar WildeB．Christopher MarloweC．John DrydenD．Bernard Shaw17．______ was awarded Nobel Prize for literature in 1923.A．Bernard ShawB．John Galsworthy18．Of the following poets, which is not regarded as “Lake Poets〞A．Samuel Taylor ColeridgeB．Robert SoutheyC．William WordsworthD．George Gordon Byron19．The four great odes of John Keats include the following EXCEPT ______.A．〞Ode on Melancholy〞B．〞Ode on a Grecian Urn〞C．〞Ode to a Nightingale〞D．〞Ode to the West wind〞’s masterpieces.A．Women in LoveB．Sons and LoversC．Lady Chatterley’s LoverD．The Plumed Serpent21．In Oscar Wilde’s masterpiece ______, he expressed a satirical and bitter attitude towards the upper —class people by revealing their corruption, snobbery and hypocrisy.A．SalomeB．The Importance of Being EarnestC．The Happy PrinceD．A Woman of No Importance22．〞The V anity Fair 〞is a well—known part in The Pilgrim’s Progress, which of the following writers later adopted it as the title of a novel？A．DickensB．ThackerayC．FieldingD．Hardy23．To the transcendentalists such as ______ and Thoreau, man is divine in nature; but to Hawthorne and Melville, everybody is potentially a sinner.A．Washington IrvingB．EmersonC．Henry JamesD．Emily Dickinson24．Washington Irving’s ______ was written in England, filled with English scenes and quotations from English authors and faithful to British orthography.A．Bracebridge HallB．Tales of a TravelerC．The Sketch BookD．The Alhambra25．The American Romantic writers celebrated America’s landscape with its virgin forests, meadows, groves, endless prairies, streams, and vast oceans.______ came to function almost as a dramatic character that symbolized moral law.A．The Atlantic OceanB．The Rocky MountainsC．The Pacific OceanD．The wilderness26．Which one of the following statements is NOT true of Washington IrvingA．He was regarded as Father of the American Short Story.B．He was one of the first American writers to earn an international reputation.C．He enjoyed the honor of being “the American Goldsmith〞for his literary craftsmanship.D．He was one of the advocates of the New England Transcendentalism.27．Which one of the following statements is NOT true of Ralph Waldo Emerson and his works A．Emerson’s essays often have a formal style, for most of them were derived from his journals or lectures.B．In his essays, Emerson put forward his philosophy of Transcendentalism, focusing on the importance of the individual and the nature.C．Emerson based his philosophy on an intuitive belief in an ultimate unity, which he called the 〞over—soul〞.D．Emerson is affirmative about man’s intuitive knowledge, with which a man can trust himself to decide what is right and to act accordingly.28．〞The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other, who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood〞. This is the voice of the book _____ written by Emerson, which pushed American Romanticism into a new phase, the phase of New England _________.A．Nature…SymbolismB．The American Scholar…NaturalismC．Nature…TranscendentalismD．the American Scholar…Realism29．Which one of the following statements about Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter is trueA．Hawthorne intended to tell a love story in this novel.B．Hawthorne intended to tell a story of sin in this novel.C．Hawthorne intended to reveal the human psyche after they sinned, so as to show people the tension between society and individuals.D．Hawthorne focused his attention on consequences of the sin on the people in general, so as to call the readers back to the conventional Puritan way of living.30．Walt Whitman is a poet with a strong sense of mission, having decoted all his life to the creation of the “single〞poem, ________.A．ChicagoB．My Lost YouthC．Leaves of GrassD．A Pact31．Redburn is a semi —autobiographical novel written by ________, concerning the sufferings of a genteel youth among brutal sailors.A．Walt WhitmanB．Nathaniel HawthorneC．Herman MelvilleD．Ralph Waldo Emerson32．The period ranging from ________ to ________ has been referred to as the Age of Realism in the literary history of the United States.A．1865 (1945)B．1865 (1914)C．1783 (1945)D．1783 (1914)33．________thought that the writer should use language to probe the deepest reaches of the psychological and moral nature of human beings rather than simply hold a mirror to the surface of social life in particular times and places. He is a realist of the inner life.A．Mark TwainB．William Dean HowellsC．Henry JamesD．Theodore Dreiser34．〞I felt good and all washed clean of sin for the first time I had ever felt so in my life, and I knowed I could pray now. But I didn’t do it straight off, but laid the paper down and set there thinking —thinking how good it was all this happened so, and how near I come to being lost and going to hell. 〞The above passage is taken from ________.A．The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnB．The Adventures of Tom SawyerC．Uncle Tom’s CabinD．Life on the Mississippi35．The following statements are all true of Daisy Miller EXCEPT________.A．Frederick Winterbourne, the narrator of the story, es an American expatriate.B．With the publication of Daisy Miller, William James reputation was firmly established on both sides of the Atlantic.C．With the publication of Daisy Miller, Daisy Miller has ever since become the American Girl in Europe, a celebrated cultural type who embodies the spirit of the New World.D．Daisy Miller’s defiance of social taboos in the Old World finally brings her to a disaster in the clash between the two different cultures.36．Which one of the following statements is true of Dickinson’s “I like to see it lap the Miles〞A．This poem describes a mare dancing at midnight.B．This poem describes a horse galloping through valleys.C．This poem describes a train running through the mountainous area.D．This poem describes a traveler’s joyous journey through the scenic mountainous area.37．________ is considered to be a spokesman for the alienated youth in the post —war era and his The Catcher in the Rye is regarded as a students’ classicA．Allen GinXergD．Henry James38．Towards the end of After Apple —Picking，Frost writes “ Were he not gone, /The woodchuck could say whether it’s like his /Long sleep, as I describe its coming on, /Or just some human sleep.〞The “human sleep 〞here refers to ________.A．a trip to the countrysideB．deathC．rest after a day’s work in the orchardD．exaltation of mind39．In the third chapter of The Great GatXy by Fitzgerald, there is a wonderful description of GatXy’s party which evokes both ___________ of that strange and fascinating era that we call________.A．the pride and the prejudice…Victorian AgeB．the romance and the sadness…Jazz AgeC．the love and the hatred…Age of ReasonD．the Vanity and the disillusionment…Age of Reason40．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 Sound and the FuryB．Go Down, MosesC．Light in AugustD．Absalom, Absalom!PART 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．〞To be, or not to be —that is the question;Whether’ tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,And by opposing end them〞Questions:A．Identify the author and the title of the passage from which this part is taken.B．Explain the meaning of “To be, or not to be〞.C．How do you understand the last two lines42．〞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:A．Identify the author and the title of the passage from which this part is taken.B．What does the phrase 〞inevitable hour〞meanC．Write out the main idea of the passage in plain English.43．〞I glanced back once. A wafer of a moon was shinning over GatXy’s house, making the night fine as before, and surviving the laughter and the sound of his still glowing garden. A sudden emptiness seemed to flow now from the windows and the great doors, endowing with complete isolation the figure of the host, who stood on the porch, his hand up in a formal gesture of farewell. 〞Questions:A．Identify the author and the title of the passage from which this part is taken.B．The passage describes the end of an event, What is itC．What implied meaning can you get from reading this passage44．We passed the School, where Children strove AT Recess—in the Ring—We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain—We passed the Setting Sun—Questions:A．Who is the author of this stanza taken from the poem “Because I could not stop for Death—〞？B．What do the underlined parts symbolizeC．Where were “we〞heading towardIII．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．Edmund Spenser is one of the poets of English Renaissance. What are the qualities of his poetry46．The Man of Property is the first novel of the Forsyte trilogies by Galsworthy. What is the theme and the tone of The Man of Property47．Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown〞is often read as a conventional allegory. What does the work symbolically concern48．William Faulkner is one of the greatest American novelists. What do you know about his narrative techniques IV．Topic Discussion (20 points in all, 10 for each)Write no less than 150 word on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.49．Discuss Charles Dickens’ art of fiction: the setting, the character —portrayal, the language, etc., based on his novel Oliver Twist.50．Discuss the symbolism employed in Moby Dick.。

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《英美文学选读》模拟试题（二）一、单项选择题1.D. Father and son in the medieval period, it is Chaucer alone who, for the first time in English literature, presented to us a comprehensive _____ picture of the English society of his time and created a whole gallery of valid _________ from all walks of life in his masterpiece “the Canterbury Tales”.A. visionary/womenB. romantic/menC. realistic/charactersD. natural/figures2.Humanism sprang from the endeavor to restore a medieval reverence for the antique authors and is frequently taken as the beginning of the Renaissance on its conscious, intellectual side, for the Greek and Roman civilization was based on the conception that man is the _____ of all things.A. measureB. kingC. loverD. rule3.Many people today tend to regard the play “The Merchant of Venice” as a satire of the hypocrisy of ___________ and their false standards of friendship and love, their cunning ways of pursuing worldliness and their unreasoning prejudice against _____.A. Christians/JewsB. Jews/ChristiansC. oppressors/oppressedD. people/Jews4.Which of the following plays does not belong to Shakespeare’s great tragedies?A. Romeo and JulietB. King LearC. HamletD. Macbeth5.Which statement about the Elizabethan age is not true?A. It is the age of translation.B. It is the age of bourgeois revolutionC. It is the age of explorationD. It is the age of the protestant reformation.6.Una in The Faerie Queene stands for ______.A. chastityB. holinessC. truthD. error7._____ first make blank verse the principle instrument of English drama.A. ShakespeareB. WyattC. SidneyD. Marlowe8.“The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune” is an example of _____.A. allegoryB.simileC. metaphorD. irony9.In “Not only sole, but on thy soul, harsh Jew, /Thou mak’st thy knife keen”, Gratiano (a character in The Merchant of Venice) uses a rhetorical device called _____.A. hyperboleB. homonymC. paradoxD. pun10.In The Faerie Queene Spenser impresses us with his skillful blending of religious and historical _____ with chivalric _____.A. symbolism … lyricismB. allegory … romanceC. elegy … narrativeD. personific ation … ironyton’s paradise Lost took its material from ______.A. the BibleB. Greek mythC. Roman mythD. French romance12.Christopher Marlowe wrote all the following plays except _____.A. Tamburlaine the GreatB. The Jew or MaltaC. CymbelineD. The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus13.Which of the following plays by Shakespeare is NOT a comedy?A. The Merchant of VeniceB. A Midsummer Night’s DreamC. As You like ItD. The dactyl14._____ is the most common foot in English poetry.A. The iambB. The anapestC. The trocheeD. The dactyl15.“In a dream vision, Arthur witnessed the loveliness of Gloriana, and upon awakening resolves to seek her.” The two literary figures “Arthur” and “Gloriana” are from ______.A. The Fairie QueeneB. Remeo and JulietC. Dr. FaustusD. Paradise Lost16.In “Sonnet 18”, William Shakespeare _____.A. meditates on man’s mortality.B. eulogizes the power of artistic creationC. satirizes human vanityD. presents a dream vision17.The 18th century witnessed that in England there appeared two political parties, _____, which were satirized by Swift in his “Gulliver’s Travels.”A. the Whigs and ToriesB. the Senate and the House of RepresentativeC. the upper House and lower HouseD. the House of Lords and the House of Commons18._____ compiled the “The Dictionary of the English language” which became the foundation of all the subsequent English dictionaries.A. Ben JohnsonB. Samuel JohnsonC. Alexander PopeD. John Dryden19.The publication of “______” marked the beginning of Romantic Age.A. Don JuanB. the Rime of the Ancient MarinerC. The Lyrical BalladsD. Queen Mab20.In 1805, Wordsworth comple ted a long autobiographical poem entitled “_____”.A. Biographic literaryB. The PreludeC. Lucy PoemsD. The Lyrical Ballads21.Which is Shelley’s masterpiece?A. Queen MabB. Prometheus UnboundC. Prometheus BoundD. The Revolt of Islam22.Which is Shelley’s work of literary criticism?A. An Essay on criticismB. A Defence of PoetryC. On the Necessity of AtheismD. Of studies23.In the 19th century English literature, a new literary trend ______ appeared and it flourished in the forties and in the early fifties.A. RomanismB. naturalismC. realismD. critical realism24.The greatest English critical realist novelist was _____, who criticized the bourgeois civilization and showed the misery of the common people.A. William Makepeace ThackerayB. Charles DickensC. charlotte BronteD. Emily Dickinson25._____ was a critical realist and also a severe exposer of contemporary society. His novels, such as “Vanity Fair” , are mainly a sat irical portrayal of the upper strata of society.A. George EliotB. Elizabeth GaskellC. William Makepeace ThackerayD. John Bunyan26.Dickens takes the French Revolution as the background of the novel “______”.A. A Tale of Two CitiesB. Great ExpectationsC. Hard TimesD. David Copperfield27.The renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events, which one of the following is not such an event?A. The rediscovery of ancient roman and Greek culture.B. England’s domestic rest.C. new discovery in geography and astrology.D. the religious reformation and the economic expansion.28.“So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,/ so long lives this , and this gives life to thee.” What does “this” means?A. loverB. timeC. summerD. poetry29.The giant Moby Dick may symbolize all except .A mystery of the universeB sin of the whaleC power of the great natureD evil of the world30.In Shelley’s to a skylark”, the bird, suspended b etween reality and poetic image, pours forth an exultant song which suggests to the poet .A. both celestial rapture and human limitationB. both image creation and profound meaningC. both music and wordsD. both inspiration and skill of writing31.“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless?...”The above quoted passage is most probably taken from .A Great ExpectationsB Wuthering HeightsC Jane EyreD Pride and Prejudice32.“And n ow he stared at her so earnestly that I thought the very intensity of is gaze would bring tears into his eyes; but they burned with anguish, they did not melt” are found in .A. Wuthering HeightsB. Jane EyreC. Gulliver’s TravelsD. Paradise Lost33.Theodore Dreiser is generally regarded as one of America’s .A. naturalistB. realistsC. modernistsD. romanticists34.The first two lines of Dennison’s poem “Break, Break, Break” on thy cold grey stones, o sea!” the repeated word“ break” suggests .A. joyB. fearC. fondnessD. hatred35.“O prince, O chief of my throned powers,/ that led th’embattled seraphim to war/Under thy conduct, and in dreadful deeds/ Fearless, endangered heaven’s perpetual king’” In the third line of the above passage quoted from Melton’s Paradise Lost, the phrase “thy conduct” refers to conduct.A. god’sB. Satan’sC. Adam’sD. Eve’s36.Who exerts the single most important influence on literary naturalism?A. EmersonB. jack LondonC. Theodore DreiserD. Darwin37.In terms of Elegy written in a country churchyard, which is wrong?A. the author employs metaphor in this poemB. the author excessively expresses his personal melancholyC. here he reveals his sympathy for the poor and the unknown.D. he mocks the great ones who despise the poor and bring havoc on them.38.Most of Thomas Hardy’s novels are set in Wessex-- .A. a crude region in EnglandB. a fictional primitive regionC. a remote rural areaD. Hardy’s hometo wn39.“place me on sunium’s marbled steep,/ where nothing, save the waves and I, /may hear our mutual murmurs sweep;/ there, swan- like, let me sing and die;/ a land of slaves shall neer be mine --- dash down you cup of samian wine!” these lines are taken from .A. The Isles of Greece by ByronB. Elegy Written In a Country Churchyard by Thomas GrayC. The Solitary Reaper by William WordsworthD. Song for the Luddites by George Gordon Byron二、综合题1.Reading Comprehension:It was you that broke the new wood,Now is a time for carving.We have one sap and one root---Let there be commerce between us.Questions:A. What is the title from which these lines are taken?B. Who does “you” refers to?C. What is the meaning of “broke are new wood”?2.Read the quoted part carefully and answer the questions in English.By this time Mrs. Morel was trembling violently. Struggles of this kind often took place between her and her son, when she seemed to fight for his very against his own will to die. He took her in his arms. She was ill and pitiful.“Never mind, Little,” he murmured. “So long as you don’t feel life’ paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn’t matter, happiness or unhappiness.”She pressed him to her.“But I want you to be happy,” she said pathetically.“Eh, my dear ----- say rather you want me to live.”A. This passage is taken from the novel “_____”.B. The author of the novel is _____.C. “He” in the passage refers to _____, and he is the _____ of Mrs. Morel.D. The relationship of the two characters as implied in the passage is something of the type of _____.3.Reading Comprehension:“This is my letter to the WorldThat never wrote to Me---The simple News that Nature told---With tender Majesty”.A. Who is the author of the stanza?B. Which period does the poem belongs to?C. What idea does the poem express?4.Reading Comprehension:“Men of England, wherefore ploughFor the lords who lay ye low?Wherefore weave with toil and careThe rich robes your tyrants wear?”Questions:A. Identify the poem and the poet.B. In one or two sentences interprets the implied meaning of the stanza.C. Which period does the poem belongs to?5.Questions and Answers:What do you think of the relationship between William Faulkner and American south literature？6.Questions and Answers:Being a period of the great flowering of American literature, the romantic period is called “the American renaissance”. Briefly discuss what the features of American literature in this period are.7.Questions and Answers:What are the characteristics of the romantic literature? Please discuss the above question in relation to one or two examples.8.Questions and Answers:George Bernard Shaw is the leading playwright of his time, what’s his viewpoint on literature?9.Topic Discussion, write no less than 150 words in English.Moby-dick is one of the few books in American literature that has produced an exciting effect upon readers, try to discuss the symbolism in the book.10.Topic Discussion, write no less than 150 words in English.Discuss “ enlightenment movement”.答案部分一、单项选择题1.【正确答案】 C2.【正确答案】 A3.【正确答案】 A【正确答案】 A 5.【正确答案】 B 6.【正确答案】 C 7.【正确答案】 D 8.【正确答案】 C 9.【正确答案】 D 10.【正确答案】 B 11.【正确答案】 A 12.【正确答案】 C 13.【正确答案】 D 14.【正确答案】 A 15.【正确答案】 A 16.【正确答案】 B 17.【正确答案】 A 18.【正确答案】 B 19.【正确答案】 C 20.【正确答案】 B 21.【正确答案】 B 22.【正确答案】 B 23.【正确答案】 D 24.【正确答案】 B 25.【正确答案】 C【正确答案】 A27.【正确答案】 B28.【正确答案】 D29.【正确答案】 B30.【正确答案】 A31.【正确答案】 C32.【正确答案】 A33.【正确答案】 A34.【正确答案】 A35.【正确答案】 B36.【正确答案】 D37.【正确答案】 B38.【正确答案】 B39.【正确答案】 A二、综合题1.【正确答案】 A. A PactB. Walt whit manC. made experiments with the conventions of the traditional poetry.2.【正确答案】 A. Sons and LoversB. D. H. LawrenceC. Paul / SonD. Oedipus Complex3.【正确答案】 A. Emily DickinsonB. the realistic periodC. the poem expresses Dickinson’s anxiety about her communication with the outside world.4.【正确答案】 A. A song: men of England, Percy Bysshe ShelleyB. the poem is not only a cry calling upon the working people of England to rise up against their political oppressors, but also an address to point out to them the intolerable injustice of economic exploitation,C. The romantic period.5.【正确答案】 A. Most of his works are set in the American south.B. He emphasizes the southern subjects and consciousness in his works.C. His works has managed successfully to show a panorama of the experience and consciousness of the whole southern society.6.【正确答案】 A. The whole nation had a strong sense of optimism and the mood of “feeling good”, Giving birth to the spectacular out burst of romantic feeling.B. The English counterpart exerted a stimulating impact on the writers of the young nation.C. Taking foreign influence into consideration, the great works of American writers still carried typically American Romanist color.D. The young nation had brought forth its own philosophy, transcendentalism, stressing man’s capacity of knowing truth intuitively, and of attaining knowledge transcending the reach of the sense.7.【正确答案】 A. In poetry writing, the romanticist employed new theories and innovated new techniques, for example, the Preface to the second edition of the “Lyrical Ballads” acts as a manifesto for the new school.B. The romanticist not only extols the faculty of imagination, but also elevates the concepts of spontaneity and inspiration.C. They regarded nature as the major source of poetic imagery and the dominant subject.D. Romantics also tend to be nationalistic.8.【正确答案】 A. His playwrights have a variety of subjects. His early plays were mainly concerned with social problems and directed towards the criticism of the contemporary social, economic, moral and religious evils.B. Shaw followed the great traditions of realism. As a realistic dramatist, he took the modern social issues as his subjects with the aim of directing social reforms.C. One feature of his characterization is that he makes the trick of showing up one character vividly at the expense of another; another one is that his characters are the representatives of ideas and points of view.D. Much of Shavian drama is constructed around the inversion of a conventional theatrical situation.9.【正确答案】 A. The Pequod is the microcosm of human society and the voyage becomes a search for truth.B. The white whale, Moby Dick, symbolizes nature for Melville, for it is complex,unfathomable, malignant, and beautiful as well.C. For the character Ahab, however, the whale represents only evil.D. Moby Dick is like a wall, hiding some unknown, mysterious things behind.E. Ahab wills the whole crew on the Pequod to join him in the pursuit of the big whale so as to pierce the wall, to root out the evil, but only to be destroyed by evil.F. In this case, by his own consuming desire, his madness. Moby Dick is still a mystery, an ultimate mystery of the universe, inscrutable and ambivalent, and the voyage of the mind will forever remain a search, not a discovery, of the truth.10.【正确答案】 It was a progressive intellectual movement, which flourished in France and swept through the whole Western Europe, the movement was a furtherance of the renaissance from the 14th century to the mid-17th century. The purpose of the movement was to enlighten the whole world with the light of modern philosophical and artistic ideas, it celebrated reason of rationality, equality and science, and it advocated universal education. Literature at the time became a very popular means of public education.。

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英美文学选读试卷-英美文学选读试卷A. Each of the following below is followed by four alternative answer. Choose the one that would bet complete the statement and put the letter in the blank.(每小题1分，共30分)1. Generally, the Renaissance refers to the period between ______ and _______ centuries.A. 14th...mid-17thB. 14th...mid-18thC. 16th...mid-18thD. 16th...mid-17th2. _______ frequently applied conceits in his poems.A. SpenserB. DonneC. BlakeD. Thomas Gray3. _______ is known as "the poet's poet".A. ShakespeareB. MarloweC. SpenserD. Donne4. The 18th century England is known as the ______ in the history.A. RenaissanceB. ClassicismC. EnlightenmentD. Romanticism5. ________ and William Shakespeare are the best representatives of the English humanism.A. Edmund Spenser, Christoper MarloweB. Thomas More, Christoper MarloweC. John Donne, Edmund SpenserD. John Milton, Thomas More6. The middle of the 18th century was predominated by a newly rising literary form, that is the modern English ______, which gives a realistic presentation of life of the common English people.A. proseB. short storyC. novelD. tragicomedy7. _______ is the central concern to Blake's concern in the Song of Innocence and Song of Experience.A. childhoodB. womanC. poetryD. happiness8. Among the following plays which is not written by Marlowe? _____A. Dr. FaustusB. The Jew of MaltaC. Edward IID. School for scandal9. Shakespeare's greatest tragedies are _______.A. Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and MacbethB. Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Romeo and JulietC. Hamlet, Coriolanus, King Lear and MacbethD. Hamlet, Julius caesar, Othello and Macbeth10. Among the pioneers of the 18th century novelists wereDaniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, Henry fielding and _______.A. Laurance SterneB. John DrydenC. Charles DickensD. Alexander Pope11. Which of the following Gothic novels was not written in the 18th century? ______A. The Castle of OtrantoB. The ItalianC. The MonkD. The Fall of the House of Usher12. In the theatrical world of the neoclassical period, _______ was the leadingfigure among the host of playwrights.A. William BlakeB. Richard SheridanC. Ben JohnsonD. Bernard Shaw13. Dickens' works are characterized by a mingling of _______ and pathos.A. humorB. satireC. passionD. metaphor14. The success of Jane Eyre is not only because of its sharp criticism of the existing society, but also due to its introduction to the English novel the first ______ heroine.A. explorerB. peasantC. workerD. governess15. In ______ Tennyson dealt with the theme of women's rights and position.A. PoemB. The PrincessC. In MemorianD. Idylls of the King16. "The Custom-House" is an introductory note to ______.A. Moby-DickB. The Scarlet LetterC. The Marble FaunD. The Blithedale Romance17. The publication of _______ established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of the New England Transcendentalism.A. NatureB. Self-RelianceC. The Over-SoulD. The American Scholar18. "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed" is most probably a poem ______.A. that celebrates the burgeoning life of citiesB. that sings highly freedom and democracyC. that condemns violence and bloodshedD. that mourns for the death of Lincoln19. _______ is not a dominant figure of the Realistic Period.A. William Dean HowellsB. Mark TwainC. Henry JamesD. James F. Cooper20. The book from which "all modern American literature comes" refers to _______.A. Moby-DickB. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnC. The Sun Also RisesD. The Great Gatsby21. Strong affinity to the Chinese and Oriental literature can be found in the works of _______.A. Mark TwainB. Ezra PoundC. Emily DikinsonD. Arthur Miller22. "In a Station of the Metro" is regarded by critics as a classic specimen of _______.A. the absurd poetryB. the transcendental poetryC. the romantic poetryD. the imagist poetry23. The founder of the American drama is _______.A. Arthur MillerB. Eugene O'NeillC. Tennesee WilliamsD. Clifford Odets24. F. Scott Fitzgerald is not the author of _______.A. This Side of ParadiseB. Tender is the NightC. The Great GatsbyD. In Our Time25. _______ is not a fictional character in the Scarlet Letter.A. HesterB. Arthur DimmersdaleC. Roger ChillingworthD. Ishmael26. The period ranging from 1865 to 1914 has been referred to as _____.A. the Age of ColonicalismB. the Age of RomanticismC. the Age of RealismD. the Age of Modernism27. Statement _______ is NOT true in describing American naturalists.A. They were deeply influenced by Darwinism.B. They were identified with French novelist and theorist Emile Zola.C. They chose their subjects from the lower ranks of society.D. They used more serious and more sympathetic tone in writing than realists.28. ______ is considered by H.L.Mencken as "the true father of our national literature."A. HemingwayB. PoeC. IrvingD. Twain29. they all shared the same thematic concern except ______.A. Robert Penn WarrenB. Flannery O'ConnerC. William FaulknerD. Norman Mailer30. _________ draws on the Jewish experience and tradition and examines subtly the dismantling of the self by an intolerablemodern history.A. Allen GinsbergB. John UpdikeC. Saul BellowD. J.D. SalingerB. Give the author and genre of each of the following literary works.(每小题2分，共20分)1. The Shepheardes Calender2. Farewell to love3. Much Ado About Nothing4. Childe Harold's Pilgrmage5. Dombey and the Son6. The Iceman Cometh7. The Road Not Taken8. The Cantos9. The Grapes of Wrath10. BabbitC. Define the literary terms listed below. （每小题5分，共10分）1. Utilitarianism2. Free VerseD. For each of the quotations listed below please give the name of the author and the title of the literary work from which it is taken and then briefly interpret it.(每小题5分，共15分）1. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?Thou are more lovely and more temperate:Rough winds do shake the daring buds of May,And summer's least hath all too short a date:Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shinesAnd often is his gold complexion dimmed;2. I heard a Flay buzz--when I died-The Stillness in the RoomWas like the Stillness in the Air-Between the Heaves of Storm-3. There is music from my neighbor's house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and stars. At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft, or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motor-boats slit the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of foam. On week-ends his Rolls-Royce became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city between nine in the morning and long past midnight, while his station wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug to meet all trains. And on Mondays eight servants, including an extra gardener, toiled all day with mops and scrubbing-brushes and hammers and garden-shears, repairing the ravages of the night before...E. Give brief answers to the following questions.（每小题5分，共10分）1. What is Bernard Shaw's viewpoint on literature?2. What does the night journey young Goodman Brown makes symbolize?F. Short Essay Questions(共15分）1. What is the striking feature of Paul, the main character in Sons and lovers?(7分）2. Give a brief analysis of Emily Grierson In "A Rose for Emily".(8分)。

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202X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真题请将答案填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 your answer in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.1．The work that presented, for the first time in English literature, a comprehensive realistic picture of the medieval English society and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life is most likely ______________. A．William Langland’ s Piers Plowman B．Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury TalesC．John Gower’s Confession Amantis D．Sir Gawain and the Green Knight2．The tragedy of Dr. Faustus, the protagonist in Christopher Marlowe’s The Tragic History ofDr. Faustus , is the very fact that______________.A．man is confined to timeB．he tried to join Africa to SpainC．he became a man without soul after he sold itD．he conjured up Helen, the lady who was partially responsible for the breaking-up of the Trojan War3．The sentence “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day〞is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare’s ______________. A．comedies B．tragediesC．sonnets D．histories4．Paradise Lost is actually a story taken from ______________.A．the Renaissance B．the Old TestamentC．Greek Mythology D．the New Testament5．Spenser’s masterpiece _____________ is a great poem of its time.A．The Faerie Queene B．The Shepheardes CalenderC．The Canterbury Tales D．Metamorphoses6．______________ is the essence of the Renaissance.A．Poetry B．DramaC．Humanism D．Reason7．The most famous dramatists in the Renaissance England are Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare and ______________.A．John Milton B．John MarloweC．Ben Jonson D．Edmund Spenser8．“To be, or not to be—that is the question〞is a line taken from______________.A．Hamlet B．OthelloC．King Lear D．The merchant of venice9．Francis Bacon’s essays are famous for their brevity, compactness and ______________.A．complicity B．complexityC．powerfulness D．mildness10．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复习文档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.11．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 Jones B．GulliverC．Moll Flanders D．Robinson Crusoe12．______________ is a typical feature of Swift’s writings.A．Bitter satire B．Elegant styleC．Casual narration D．Complicated sentence structure13．The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan is often said to be concerned with the search for ______________. A．material wealth B．spiritual salvationC．universal truth D．self- fulfillment14．Alexander Pope strongly advocated ______________ , emphasizing that literary works should be judged by rules of order, reason, logic, restrained emotion, good taste and decorum.A．Sentimentalism B．RomanticismC．Idealism D．Neoclassicism15．“Metaphysical poetry〞refers to the works of the 17th- century writers who wrote under the influence of ______________.A．John Donne B．Alexander PopeC．Christopher Marlowe D．John Milton16．It is generally regarded that Keats’ s most important and mature poems are in the form of ______________.A．ode B．elegyC．epic D．sonnet17．______________ is the most outstanding stream of consciousness novelist, with ___________ as his encyclopedia – like masterpiece .A．James Joyce, Ulysses B．E.M. Foster, A Passage to IndiaC．D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers D．Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway18．Which of the following poems is a landmark in English poetryA．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 Whitman19．The literary form which is fully developed and the most flourishing during the Romantic Period is ______________. A．prose B．dramaC．novel D．poetry20．Which of the following poems by T.S. Eliot is hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th century English poetry A．Poems 1909-1925 B．The Hollow ManC．Prufrock and Other Observations D．The Waste Land复习文档21．“My last Duchess〞is a poem that best exemplifies Robert Browning’s ______________.A．sensitive ear for the sounds of the English languageB．excellent choice of wordsC．mastering of the metrical devicesD．use of the dramatic monologue22．Dickens’ works are characterized by a mingling of ______________ and pathos.A．humor B．satireC．passion D．metaphor23．Walt Whitman, whose ______________ established him as the most popular American poet of the 19th century. A．Leaves of Grass B．Go Down, MosesC．The Marble Faun D．As I Lay Dying24．______________ has always been regarded as a writer who “perfected the best classic style that American Literature ever produced〞.A．Edgar Ellen Poe B．Walt WhitmanC．Henry David Thoreau D．Washington Irving25．The Romantic Period, one of the most important periods in the history of American literature, stretches from the end of ______________ to the outbreak of ____________.A．the 17th century…the American War of IndependenceB．the 18th century…the American Civil WarC．the 17th century…the American Civil WarD．the 18th century…the U.S. – Mexican War26．Which of the following statements is NOT true of American TranscendentalismA．It can be clearly defined as a part of American Romantic literary movement.B．It can be defined philosophically as “the recognition in man of the capacity of knowing truth intuitively〞.C．Ralph Waldo Emerson was the chief advocate of this spiritual movement.D．It sprang from South America in the late 19th century.27．The theme of Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle is ______________.A．the conflict of human psyche B．the fight against racial discriminationC．the familial conflict D．the nostalgia for the unrecoverable past28．The unofficial manifesto for the Transcendental Club was ______________, Emerson’s first little book, which established him ever since as the most eloquent spokesman of New England Transcendentalism.A．The American Scholar B．Self—relianceC．Nature D．The Over—Soul29．Nathaniel Hawthorne held an unceasing interest in the “interior of the heart 〞of man’s being. So in almost every book he wrote, Hawthorne discusses______________.A．love and hatred B．sin and evilC．frustration and self—denial D．balance and self—discipline30．In Young Goodman Brown by Hawthorne, the name of Goodman Brown’s wife is ______________, which also contains many symbolic meanings.A．Ruth B．HesterC．Faith D．Mary31．Which of the following statements might be true of the theme of Song of Myself by Whitman复习文档A．This poem describes the growth of a child who learned about the world around him and improved himself accordingly. B．This poem shows the author’s cynical sentiments against the American Civil War.C．This poem reflects the author’s belief in Unitarianism or Deism.D．This poem reflects the author’s belief in the singularity and equality of all beings in value.32．In Moby—Dick, the white whale symbolizes ______________ for Melville, for it is complex, unfathomable, malignant, and beautiful as well.A．nature B．human societyC．whaling industry D．truth33．Realism was a reaction against Romanticism or a move away from the bias towards romance and self—creating fictions, and paved the way to ______________.A．Cynicism B．ModernismC．Transcendentalism D．Neo—Classicalism34．Hemingway once described Mark Twain’s novel ______________ the one book from which “all modern American literature comes〞.A．The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn B．The Adventures of Tom SawyerC．The Gilded Age D．The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg35．__________ is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th—century “stream—of—consciousness〞novels and the founder of psychological realism.A．Theodore Dreiser B．William FaulknerC．Henry James D．Mark Twain36．Which of the following statements is NOT true of Emily Dickinson and her poetryA．She remained unmarried all her lifeB．She wrote, 1,775 poems, and most of them were published during her life time.C．Her poems have no titles, hence are always quoted by their first lines.D．Her limited private world has never confined the limitless power of her creativity and imagination.37．As a genre, naturalism emphasized ______________ as important deterministic forces shaping individualized characters who were presented in special and detailed circum-stances.A．theological doctrinesB．heredity and environmentC．education and hard workD．various opportunities and economic success38．Ezra Pound, a leading spokesman of the “______________〞, was one of the most important poets in his time. A．Imagist Movement B．Cubist MovementC．Reformist Movement D．Transcendentalist Movement39．Eugene O’Neill’s first full—length play, ______________, won him the first Pulitzer Prize. Its theme is the choice between life and death, the interaction of subjective and objective factors.A．Bound East for Cardiff B．The Hairy ApeC．Desire Under the Elms D．Beyond the Horizon40．Hemingway’s “Indian Camp 〞is one of the fourteen short stories collected under the title of ______________. This title is very ironic because there is no peace at all in the stories.A．Three Stories and Ten Poems B．Across the River and into the TreesC．The Green Hills of Africa D．In Our Time复习文档Ⅱ.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．“For oft, when on my couch I lieIn vacant or in pensive mood,they flash upon that inward eye〞Questions:A．Identify the anthor and the title.B．What does the phrase “inward eye〞meanC．Write out the main idea of the passage in plain English.42．“The duties of her married life, contemplated as so great beforehand, seemed to be shrinking with the furniture and the white vapour—walled landscape. The clear heights where she expected to walk in full communion had become difficult to see even in her imagination; the delicious repose of the soul on a complete superior had been shaken into uneasy effort and alarmed with dim presentiment. When would the days begin of that active wifely devotion which was to strengthen her huXand’s life and exalt her own〞Questions:A．Identify the author and the title of the story from which the passage is taken.B．Explain the meaning of “the white vapour—walled landscape〞C．How do you undersdand “the delicious repose of the soul on a complete superior〞43．“It was you that broke the new wood,Now is a time for carving.We have one sap and one root—Let there be commerce between us.〞Questions:A．Whom does the “us〞refer toB．What does the phrase “broke the new wood 〞mean hereC．What is the intention of the poet in writing the poem “A Pact〞from which these lines are taken44．“There was music from my neighbor’s house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft, or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motor—boats slit the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of foam. On week—ends his Rolls—Royce became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city between nine in the morning and long past midnight, while his station wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug to meet all trains. And on Mondays eight servants, including an extra gardener, toiled all day with mops and scrubbing—brushes and hammers and garden—shears, repairing the ravages of the night before.〞Questions:A．Identify the author and the title of the novel from which this passage is taken.B．What can you imply by reading this passageC．What do the “moths 〞symbolizeⅢ.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.复习文档45．William Shakespeare is one of the most remarkable playwrights the world has ever known.(1)Name his four greatest tragedies.(2)What are the characteristics of the four tragedies in common(3)Briefly summarize each hero’s weakness of nature.46．“Though his fair daughter’s self, as I avowedAt starting, is my object. Nay, we’ll goTogether down, sir. Notice Neptune, though,Taming a sea horse, though a rarity,Which Claus of InnXruck cast in bronze for me! 〞The lines above are taken from Robert Browning’s “My Last Duchess.〞Taking the whole poem into consideration, what kind of person do you think the duke is47．What is generally the view Washington lrving expressed in his “Rip Van Winkle〞about the radical changes that happened to the American society in his time48．What is the most famous theme in Henry James’s fiction And what is his favourite approach in characterization, which makes him different from Mark Twain and W.D. Howells as realists Give two titles of his works in which this theme and this approach are employed.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．Analyze the character of Jane Eyre based on the selection taken from Chapter X X Ⅲof Jane Eyre. 50．Symbolism is an important literary practice in literature and it has been widely used by many American writers. Discuss the way symboliom is used in Faulkner’s story “A Rose for Emily.〞复习文档。

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

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PART TWO (60POINTS)Ⅱ.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. “One short sleep past, we wake eternally,And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die.”Questions:A. Identify the poem and the poet.B.What does the word “sleep” mean?C. What idea do the two lines express?42. “Never did sun more beautifully steepIn his first splendor, 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!”(William Wordsworth’s sonnet: “Composed upon Westminster Bridge”September 3, 1802)Questions:A. What does the word “glideth” in the fourth line mean?B. What kind of figure of speech is used by wordsworth to describe the“river”?C. What idea does the fourth line express?43. “With Blue—uncertain stumbling Buzz—Between the light—and me—And then the Windows failed—and thenI could not see to see—”Questions:A. Identify the poem and the poet.B. What do “Windows” symbolically stand for?C. What idea does the quoted passage express?44. “‘Is dying hard, Daddy?’‘No, I think it’s pretty easy, Nick, It all depends.”’Questions:A. Identify the work and the author.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’squestion?41.Read the quotation carefully and then answer the questions:The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,The lowing herd wind slowly o"er the lea,The plowman homeward plods his weary way,And leaves the world to darkness and to me.A.Scan the first line of the stanza.B.Find the irregular foot in the second line.C.Briefly explain the significance of this irregularity.42.The following is a passage taken from a dramatic work:Had I as many souls as there be starsI"d give them all for Mephistophilis!By him I"ll be great emperor of the world,And make a bridge thorough the moving airTo pass the ocean with a band of men;I"ll join the hills that bind the Afric shoreAnd make that country continent to Spain,And both contributory to my crown;The emperor shall not live but by my leave,Nor any potentate of Germany.Now that I have obtained what I desireI"ll live in speculation of this artTill Mephistophilis return again.A. Name the playwright and the title of the work from which the passageis taken.B. Name the speaker of the passage quoted above.C. Use the above passage as a guide and write down in one or twosentences the theme of the play.43.Read the following passage and then answer the questions:…I glanced back once. A wafer of a moon was shining over Gatsby"s house, making the night fine as before, and surviving the laughter and the sound of his still glowing garden. A sudden emptiness seemed to flow now from the windows and the great doors, endowing with complete isolation the figure of the host, who stood on the porch, his hand up in a formal gesture of farewell.A. Identify the author and the title of the novel from which this passage is taken.B. The passage describes the end of an event. What is it?C. What implied meaning can you get from reading this passage?44.Read the following part of a poem and then answer the questions: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 cease not till death.A. Identify the poet and 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 four lines?41.“Not on thy sole, but on thy soul, harsh Jew,Thou mak’st thy knife keen; but no metal can,No, not the hangman’s axe, bear half the keennessOf thy sharp envy.”Questions:A. Identify the author and the title of the play from which this part is taken.B. What figure of speech is used in this quoted passage?C. What idea does the passage express?42. “Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soullessand heartless? —You think wrong!… And if God had gifted me with some beauty, and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you…—it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God’s feet, equal—as we are!”Questions:A．Identify the author and the novel from which the quoted part is taken.B．To whom is the speaker speaking?C．What does the quoted part imply 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.Read the following passage and then answer the questions:…I glanced back once. A wafer of a moon was shining over Gatsby"s house, making the night fine as before, and surviving the laughter and the sound of his still glowing garden. A sudden emptiness seemed to flow now from the windows and the great doors, endowing with complete isolation the figure of the host, who stood on the porch, his hand up in a formal gesture of farewell.A. Identify the author and the title of the novel from which this passage is taken.B. The passage describes the end of an event. What is it?C. What implied meaning can you get from reading this passage?Ⅲ.Questions and Answers （24 points, 6 points for each）Give brief answers to each of the following questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sh eet.　45. "'My boy!' said the old gentleman, leaning 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.46.Novum Organum（"New Instrument"）, along with other works, won the author the honour "Father of modern science." Who is the author? What is the main concern of the work? Why the work is so important for the development of modern science?47. Why are naturalists inevitably pessimistic in their view? Please discuss the above question in relation to the basic principles of literary naturalism.48.The white whale, Moby Dick, is the most important symbol in Melville’s novel. What symbolic meaning can you draw from it?　45.The following quotation is the ending of a poem by Robert Browning: Nay, we"ll goTogether down, sir, Notice Neptune, though,Taming a sea horse, though a rarity,Which Claus of Innsbruck cast in bronze for me.What is the title of the poem? Who is the speaker? What is the importance of the allusion "Neptune…/Taming a sea horse" in the whole poem?46. Here is the last stanza of Byron's "The Isles of Greece":Place me on sunium's mardle steep,Where nothing, save the waves and I,There, swan-like, let me sing and die:May hear our marbled murmurs sweep;A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine ——Dash down you cup of Samian wine!Determine the speaker first and then discuss BRIEFLY the main idea of the stanza or of the whole excerpt. You may want to consider the possible implications of the last two lines.47.Ezra Pound is one of the pioneers in modern poetry. What is the poeticschool of which he is a chief member?What is Pound"s representative work of many years of poetic creation? What is the title of his frequently quoted one-image poem?Pound has translated some literary works from two great ancient civilizations.One is Greece. What is the other? How do you understand his famous comment "The image itself is the speech"?48.How do you understand Henry James’ international theme? Please exemplify it based on his novels.45. It is said that B. Shaw’s play, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, has a strong realistic theme, which fully reflects the dramatist’s Fabianist idea. Try to summarize this theme briefly.46. Emily Bronte used a very complicated narrative technique in writing her novel Wuthering Heights. Try to tell Bronte’s way of narration 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.” The two sentences are taken from Theodore Dreiser’s novel, Sister Carrie. What idea can you draw from the “rocking-chair”? 48. The literary school of naturalism was quite popular in the late 19th century. What are the major characteristics of naturalism?Ⅳ.Topic Discussion（20 points, 10 points 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.A possible theme of James Joyce"s short story "Araby" is disillusionment. Briefly discuss the symbolism Joyce employs in presenting this theme. 50.. Mark Twain presented the 19th century America 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.49. Discuss the possible theme in W.B. Yeats’s “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”and how that theme is presented in the poem.50. “My faith is gone!” cried he (Goodman Brown), after one stupefied moment. “There is no good on earth; and sin is but a name. Come, devil! For to thee is this world given.”Comment on this passage from Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown”. 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.What makes Mark Twain"s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn more than a child"s adventure story? Briefly discuss the question from THREE of the following aspects: the setting, the language, the character（s）, the theme and the style.PART 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. “The fiver glideth at his own sweet will：Dear God! the very houses seem asleep；And all that mighty heart is lying still!”(from William Wordsworth’s “Composed upon Westminster Bridge”)Questions：A. What figure of speech is used in the quoted lines?B. What does “that mighty heart’’ refer to?C. What does the poem decribe?42. “When the stars threw down their spears,And water’d heaven with their tears,Did he smile his work to see?Did he who made the Lamb make thee?”Questions：A. Identify the poet and the poem from which the quoted lines are takenB. Whom does the “he’’ refer to?C. What 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 theirparents the same， I，now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin，Hoping to cease not till death”Questions： A. Identify the poet and the poem from which the quoted lines are taken.B. What do “soil” and “air” represent in the first line?C. What does the poet try to say in the above four lines?44. “I cannot rub the strangeness from my sight I got from looking through apane 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 a brief answer to each of the following questions in English．Write your answers 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．What is the most famous theme in Henry James’s fiction?And what is his favourite approach in characterization，which makes him different from Mark Twain and W·D.Howells as a realist? Give two titles of his first period works in which this theme and this approach are employed.48. As a leading spokesman of the “Imagist Movement”，what principles does Ezra Pound endorse?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. Discuss Charles Dickens’ art of fiction：the setting，the character —portrayal，the language，etc．，based on his novel Oliver Twist．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.。

2023年10月自考00604英美文学选读试题及答案含评分标准

绝密★启用前2023年10月高等教育自学考试全国统一命题考试英美文学选读试题答案及评分参考（课程代码00604）一、单项选择题：本大题共40小题，每小题1分，共40分。

1. B2. A3. D4. C5. C6. B7. A8. D9. C 10. A11. D 12. B 13. D 14. C 15. C16. D 17. A 18. C 19. B 20. D21. D 22. B 23. A 24. C 25. A26. D 27. C 28. C 29. C 30. D31. B 32. B 33. A 34. C 35. B36. D 37. C 38. A 39. A 40. D二、阅读理解题：本大题共4小题，每小题4分，共16分。

41. A. Henry Fielding; The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (or Tom Jones). (2分)B. Daughter of the well-off squire Western. (1分)C. Human nature. (1分)42. A. Charles Dickens; Oliver Twist (2分)B. A chimney-sweeper. (1分)C. Character-portrayal. (1分)43. A. Theodore Dreiser; Sister Carrie.(2分)B. Hurstwood. (1分)C. He turned on the gas in a cheap lodging-house and ended his life. (1分)英美文学选读试题答案及评分参考第1页（共3页）44. A. Robert Lee Frost. (1分)B. The speaker tells us how the course of his life was determined when he came upon tworoads that diverged in a wood. (2分)C. The speaker took the road less traveled by. (1分)三、简答题：本大题共4小题，每小题6分，共24分。

2024年自考-自考专业(英语)-英美文学选读考试历年真题常考点试题4带答案

2024年自考-自考专业(英语)-英美文学选读考试历年真题常考点试题带答案（图片大小可任意调节）第1卷一.单选题(共20题)1.It was his masterpiece The Great Gatsby that made( )one of the greatest American novelists.A. FitzgeraldB.William FaulknerC.Ernest HemmingwayD.Gertrude Steinbeck2.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 Dickinson3.“The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one- eighth of it being above wa ter. ” This “iceberg ” analogy is put forward by( ).A.Mark TwainB.Ezra PoundC.William FaulknerD.Ernest Hemingway4.Now many major employers are beginning to demand _______ the completion of schoolA.more thanB.rather thanC.other thanD.better than5.William Faulkner set most of his works in the American( ),with his emphasis onthe( )subjects and consciousness.A.North...NorthernB.East...EasternC.West...WesternD.South...Southern6.Which of the following statements is NOT true of Emily Dickinson and her poetry?A.She remained unmarried all her lifeB.She wrote,1,775 poems,and most of them were published during her life time.C.Her poems have no titles,hence are always quoted by their first lines.D.Her limited private world has never confined the limitless power of her creativity and imagination.7.The Nobel Prize Committee highly praised( )for “his powerful style - forming mastery of the art ” of creating modern fiction.A.Ezra PoundB.Ernest HemingwayC.Robert FrostD.Theodore Dreiser8.In the original test，all the animals in a test group are given a substance _______ half of them dieA.unlessB.untilC.lestD.provided9.After the American Civil War,the literary interest in the so- called “reality ” of life started a new period in the American literary writings know an the Age of( ).A.RealismB.Reason and RevolutionC.RomanticismD.Modernism10.The effect of Darwinist idea of “survival of the fittest ” was shattering in() ’s fictional world of jungle,where “kill or to be killed ” was the law.A.Mark TwainB.Henry JamesC.Theodore DreiserD.Walt Whitman11.Nobody but you _______ what he said.A. agrees withB.agrees outC.agree withD.agree to12.In 1950,( )was awarded the Nobel Prize for the anti-racist Intruder in the Dust.A.William FaulknerB.Robert FrostC.Ezra PoundD.Ernest Hemingway13.Greatly and permanently affected by the( )experiences,Hemingway formed his own writing style,together with his theme and hero.A.miningB.farmingC.warD.sailing14.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 James15.Eugene O’Neill ’s first full — length play,( ),won him the first Pulitzer theme is the choice between life and death,the interaction of subjective and objective factors.A.Bound East for CardiffB.The Hairy ApeC.Desire Under the ElmsD.Beyond the Horizon16.Man is a “victim of forces over which he has no control. ” This is a notion held strongly by( ).A.Robert FrostB.Theodore DreiserC.Henry JamesD.Hamlin Garland17.In Go Down,Moses,( )illuminates the problem of black and white in Southern society asa closeknit destiny of blood brotherhood.A.William FaulknerB.Jack LondonC.Herman MelvilleD.Nathaniel Hawthorne18.Mark Twain employed an unpretentious style of( )in his novels which is best described as “vernacular ”.A.standard EnglishB.Afro-American EnglishC.colloquialismD.urbanism19.The attitude towards life that( )had been trying to demonstrate in his works is known as “grace under pressure ”.A.William FaulknerB.Theodore DreiserC.Ernest HemingwayD.F·Scott Fitzgerald20.The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and,especially,its sequence( )proved themselves to be the milestone in the American literature.A.The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnB.Life on the MississippiC.The Gilded AgeD.Roughing It第2卷一.单选题(共20题)1.Most literary critics think that Fitzgerald is both an insider and an outsider of( )witha double vision.A.the Jazz AgeB.the Age of Reason and RevolutionC.the Babybooming AgeD.the Post- Modern Age2.At the age of eighty -seven,( )read his poetry at the inauguration of President John in 1961.A.Robert FrostB.Walt WhitmanC.Ezra Pound3.What he had done is _______A.valueB.of valuableC.of no valueD.of no valuable4.That is the house _______ you can enjoy the scenery.A. in thatB.thatC.whichD.from which5.“My last Duchess ” is a poem that best exemplifies Robert Browning ’s( ).A.sensitive ear for the sounds of the English languageB.excellent choice of wordsC.mastering of the metrical devicese of the dramatic monologue6.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,Moses7.She disagrees ______ him ______ everything.A.with, onB./, onC.with, atD.on, with8.( )is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th —century “stream— of —consciousness ” novels and the founder of psychological realism.A.Theodore DreiserB.William FaulknerC.Henry JamesD.Mark Twain9.The childhood of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn in the Mississippi is a record of a vanished way of life in the( )Mississippi valleyA.pre - War of IndependenceB.post - War of IndependenceC.pre - Civil WarD.post - Civil War10.Hemingway’s “Indian Camp ” is one of the fourteen short stories collected under the title of( ).This title is very ironic because there is no peace at all in the stories.A.Three Stories and Ten PoemsB.Across the River and into the TreesC.The Green Hills of AfricaD.In Our Time11.Robert Frost is generally considered a regional poet whose subject matters mainly focus on the landscape and people in( ).A.the westB.the southC.AlaskaD.New England12.“The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one -eighth of it being abov e water. ” This “iceberg ” analogy about prose style was put forward by( ).A.William FaulknerB.Henry JamesC.Ernest HemingwayD.F· Scott Fitzgerald13.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 Twain14.considered( ) “the true father of our national literature ”.A.Bret HarteB.Mark TwainC.Washington IrvingD.Walt Whitman15.Some persons gain goal and direction from their tensions;others ________ under pressure.A.fall outB.fall apartC.fall back onD.fall in with16.The Portrait of A Lady is generally considered to be( )masterpiece,which describes the life journey of an American( )in a European cultural environment.A.Henry Adams’…widowB.William James ’…girlC.Henry James’…girlD.Theodore Dreiser ’s…widow17.In 1950,one of the leading American writers( )was awarded the Nobel Prize for the anti-racist Intruder in the Dust.A.Robert FrostB.Theodore DreiserC.William FaulknerD.Fitzgerald18.Henry James’ fame generally rests upon his novels and stories with the( )theme.A.internationalB.localC.colonialD.post-modern19.Ezra Pound,a leading spokesman of the “( ) ”,was one of the most important poe ts in his time.A.Imagist MovementB.Cubist MovementC.Reformist MovementD.Transcendentalist Movement20.The( )Age of the 1920s characterized by frivolity and carelessness is brought vividly to life in The Great Gatsby.A.LostB.JazzC.ReasonD.Gilded第1卷参考答案一.单选题1.参考答案： A本题解析：《了不起的盖茨比》是菲茨杰拉德的代表作，也使其成为了美国文坛上得一颗明星。

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