全国自考英美文学选读(综合)模拟试卷4.doc

全国自考英美文学选读（综合）模拟试卷4

一、阅读理解

1 For oft, when on my couch I lie

In vacant or in pensive mood,

They flash upon that inward eye

Questions:

A. Identify the author and the title.

B. What does the phrase "inward eye" mean?

C. Write out the main idea of the passage in plain English.

2 " I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence;

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference. "

Questions:

A. Identify the author and the title of the poem from which the quoted lines are taken.

B. What additional meaning do the two roads have?

C. What dilemma is the speaker facing?

二、简答题

3 Briefly discuss the features of Fielding' s writings.

4 "Let it not be supposed by the enemies of ' the system' , that, during the period of his solitary incarceration , Oliver was denied the benefit of exercise, the pleasure of society, or the advantages of religious consolation. "

What do you think Charles Dickens intends to say in the above ironic statement taken from Oliver Twist?

5 Please analyze The Waste Land by Eliot.

6 Mark Twain and Henry James are two representatives of the realistic writers in American literature. How is Mark Twain' s realism different from James' s realism?

三、论述题

7 What are the differences between the Neoclassical period and the Romantic period?

8 Please mark a brief comment on Hawthorne' s Young Goodman Brown.

9 Symbolism is an important literary practice in literature and it has been widely used by many American writers. Discuss the way symbolism is used in Faulkner' s story A Rose for Emily.