2015年4月全国自考英美文学选读模拟试卷(一)

全国202X年4月高等教育自学考试英美文学选读真题课程代码：00604Ⅰ.Multiple Choice (40 points in all, 1 for each)Select from the four choices A],B],C],Dof 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 MovementA.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 18A.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 towhose 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 “___ in prose,〞the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.A.tragic epic B ic epicC.romanceD.lyric epic9.The Houyhnhnms depicted by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels are ___.A.horses that are endowed with reasonB.pigmies that are endowed with admirable qualitiesC.giants that are superior in wisdomD.hairy,wild, low and despicable creatures, who resemble human beings not only in appearance but also in some other ways.10.Here are four lines from a literary work:“Others for language all their care express,/And value books,as women men, for dress.〞The work is ___.A.Thomas Gray's “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard〞B.John Milton's Paradise LostC.Alexander Pope's Essay on CriticismD.Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream11.The phrase “to urge people to abide by Christian doctrines and to seek salvation throughconstant 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 __.15.“Ode o na Grecian Urn〞shows the contrast between the ___ of art and the ___ of humanpassion.A.glory …uglinessB.permanence…transienceC.transience…sordidnessD.glory…permanence16.In the statement“—oh,God! would you like to live with your soul in the grave〞the term“soul〞apparently refers to ___.A.Heathcliff 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 ofhis 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 ModernismA.To elevate the individual and inner being over the social being.B.To put the stress on traditional values.C.To portray the distorted and alienated relationships between man and his environment.D.To advocate a conscious break with the past.23.The Romantic writers would focus on all the following issues EXCEPT the ___ in the Americanliterary 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 EnglandTranscendentalism.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 waythat 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 hisuse 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 byall 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 charactersin ___.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 hercommunication with the outside world.A.indifferenceB.angerC.anxietyD.sorrow30.With Howells,James,and Mark Twain active on the literary scene, __ became the major trendin 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 Huckin 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 adangerous 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 isNOT a usual subject of her poetic expressionA.Religion and immortality.B.Life and death.C.Love and marriage.D.War and peace.35.In “After Apple-Picking,〞Robert Frost wrote:“For I have had too much/Of applepicking:I amovertired/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 toportray 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 experienceinside 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 trueA.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 diXelieved her,but he knew thathe 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〞meanC.What idea does the quoted passage express42.“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〞meanC.What idea does the quoted passage express43.“God knows,…I'm not myself—I'm somebody else—…and I'm changed,and I can't tell what'smy 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 haschangedC.What idea does the quoted sentence express44.“I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference.〞Questions:A.Idenfity the poem and the poet.B.What does the phrase “ages and ages hence〞meanC.What idea does the quoted passage expressⅢ.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 animplied meaning.List two works as examples of allegory.What is an allegory usually concerned with by its implied meaning46.Inspiration for the romantic approach initially came from two great shapers of thought.Who arethe twoAnd what ideas they expressed inspire the romantic writers47.The white whale,Moby Dick,is the most important symbol in Melville's novel.What symbolicmeaning can you draw from it48.Nature is a philosophic work, in which Emerson gives an explicit discussion on his idea of theQversoul.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 NeoclassicismProvide brief evidence from the literaryworks you know best.50.Summerize the story of Mark twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in about 100words,and comment on the theme of the novel.全国202X年4月高等教育自学考试英美文学选读真题答案课程代码：00604Ⅰ.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 or reaction so that it is impossible to know how thatperson 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 knowwhat is on his wife's mind because the makeup of his and her mentality is different. Hiswife Irene, whose mind is romantically inclined, is disgusted with her huXand'spossessiveness. Being unable to read his wife's mind is as good as saying that he reallycan't regard her as his property- this is the very reason why he is enraged beyondmeasure.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 strikinglyclear by using a sharp comparison .Prufrock imagines himself as a kind of insect pinnedon the wall and struggling in vain to get free.This image 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 20 years,he finds thta everything has changed.Allthose old values are gone,and he can hardly feel at home in a changed society.One of thefunctions that Rip serves in the story is to provide a measuring stick for change. It isthrough him that Irving drives home the theme that a desire for change,improvement,andprogress 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 isconscious of the fact that his choice will have made all the difference in his life.Heseems to be giving a suggestion to the reader.“Make good choice of your life.〞Ⅲ.Questions and Answers (24 points in all,6 for each)45.A.Buyan's pilgrim's Progress and Spenser's The Faerie Queene.B.It is usually concerned with moral ,religious,political,symbolic or mythical ideas.46.A.The French philosopher,Jean Jacques Rousseau and the German writer Johna Wolfgan vonGoethe.B.It is Rousseau who established the cult of the individual and championed the freedom of thehuman spirit;his famous announcement was “I felt before I thought.〞Goethe and hiscompatriots extolled the romantic spirit.47.A.To Ahab,the whale is either an evil creature itself or the agent of an evil force that controlsthe universe,or perhaps both.B.To Ishmale,the whale is an astonishing force,an immense power,which defies rationalexplanation due to a sense of mystery it carries. It is beautiful,but malignant at the same time.It also represents the tremendous organic vitality of the universe,for it has a life force that surges onward irresistibly, impervious to the desires or wills of men.C.As to the reader, the whale can be viewed as a symbol of the physical limits that lifeimposes upon man. It may also be regarded as a symbol of nature, or an instrument of God's vengeance upon evil man. In general,the multiplicity and ambivalence of the symbolic meaning of the whale is such that it becomes a source of intense speculation, an object or profound curiosity for the reader.48.A.The Oversoul is believed to be an all-pervading power for goodness,omnipresent andomnipotent from which all things come and of which all are a part. It exists in nature andman 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 areligion regarded as an emotional communication between an individual soul and theuniversal 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 mindcould 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 andaccuracy,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 as the very center of all experience,includingart,and thus,literary work should be “spontaneous overflow of strong feelings,〞and no matter how fragmentary those experiences were (Wordsworth's “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,〞or “The Solitary Reaper,) or Coleridge's “Keble Khan〞),the value of the work lied in the accuracy of presenting those unique feelings and particular attitudes.c.In a word, Neoclassicism emphasized rationality and form but Romanticism attached greatimportance to the individual's mind (emotion, imagination, temporary experience…)50.A.Mark Twain's novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a Sequa to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.The Story takes place along the Mississippi River before the Civil War in the United States, around 1850.Along the river, floats a small raft, with two people on it; One is an ignorant,uneducated black slave named Jim and the other is little uneducated outcast white boy about the age of thirteen, called Huckleberry Finn or Huck Finn.The novel relates the story of the escape of Jim from slavery and ,more important, how Huck Finn, floating along with Jim and helping him as best he could, changes his mind ,his prejudice, about Black people, and comes to accept Jim as a man and as a close friends as well.During their journey, they experience a series of adventures:coming across two frauds, the “Duke〞and the “King〞,witnessing the lynching and murder of a harmless drunkard, being lost in a fog and finally Tom's coming to rescue.B. The theme of the novel may be best summed in a word “freedom〞: Huck wants to escape fromthe 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.全国202X年4月自学考试英美文学选读真题答案课程代码：00604Ⅰ.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 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 huXand'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.Allthose old values are gone,and he can hardly feel at home in a changed society.One of the functions that Rip serves in the story is to provide a measuring stick for change. It is through him that Irving drives home the theme that a desire for change,improvement,and progress could subvert stable society.44.A.Robert Frost:“The Road Not Taken〞.B.Many many years later.C.The speaker is telling his experience of making the choice of the roads.But he is conscious of the fact that his choice will have made all the difference in his life.He seems to be giving a suggestion to the reader.“Make good choice of your life.〞Ⅲ.Questions and Answers (24 points in all,6 for each)45.A.Buyan's pilgrim's Progress and Spenser's The Faerie Queene.B.It is usually concerned with moral ,religious,political,symbolic or mythical ideas.46.A.The French philosopher,Jean Jacques Rousseau and the German writer Johna Wolfgan von Goethe.B.It is Rousseau who established the cult of the individual and championed the freedom of the human spirit;his famous announcement was “I felt before I thought.〞Goethe and his compatriots extolled the romantic spirit.47.A.To Ahab,the whale is either an evil creature itself or the agent of an evil force that controls the universe,or perhaps both.B.To Ishmale,the whale is an astonishing force,an immense power,which defies rational explanation due to a sense of mystery it carries. It is beautiful,but malignant at the same time. It also represents the tremendous organic vitality of the universe,for it has a life force that surges onward irresistibly, impervious to the desires or wills of men.C.As to the reader, the whale can be viewed as a symbol of the physical limits that life imposes upon man. It may also be regarded as a symbol of nature, or an instrument of God's vengeance upon evil man. In general,the multiplicity and ambivalence of the symbolic meaning of the whale is such that it becomes a source of intense speculation, an object or profound curiosity for the reader.48.A.The Oversoul is believed to be an all-pervading power for goodness,omnipresent and omnipotent from which all things come and of which all are a part. It exists in nature and manalike and constitutes the chief element of the universe.B.According to Emerson,it is a supreme reality of mind, a spiritual unity of all beings, and a religion regarded as an emotional communication between an individual soul and the universal Over-soul of which it is a part.C.He holds that intuition is a more certain way of knowing than reason and that the mind could intuitively perceive the existence of the Oversoul and of certain absolutes.Ⅳ.Topic Discussion (20 points in all, 10 for each)49.a.Neoclassicists upheld that artistic ideals should be order,logic,restrained emoticon and accuracy,and that literature,should be judged in terms of its service to humanity,and thus,literary expressions should be of proportion,unity,harmony and grace.Pope's An Essay on Criticism advocates grace,wit (usually though satire/humour),and simplicity in language(and the poem itself is a demonstration of those ideals,too);Fielding's Tom Jones helped establish the form of novel;Gray's “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' displays 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,literary work should be “spontaneous overflow of strong feelings,〞and no matter how fragmentary those experiences were (Wordsworth's “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,〞or “The Solitary Reaper,) or Coleridge's “Keble Khan〞),the value of the work lied in the accuracy of presenting those unique feelings and particular attitudes.c.In a word, Neoclassicism emphasized rationality and form but Romanticism attached great importance to the individual's mind (emotion, imagination, temporary experience…) 50.A.Mark Twain's novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a Sequa to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.The Story takes place along the Mississippi River before the Civil War in the United States, around 1850.Along the river, floats a small raft, with two people on it; One is an ignorant,uneducated black slave named Jim and the other is little uneducated outcast white boy about the age of thirteen, called Huckleberry Finn or Huck Finn.The novel relates the story of the escape of Jim from slavery and ,more important, how Huck Finn, floating along with Jim and helping him as best he could, changes his mind ,his prejudice, about Black people, and comes to accept Jim as a man and as a close friends as well.During their journey, they experience a series of adventures:coming across two frauds, the “Duke〞and the “King〞,witnessing the lynching and murder of a harmless drunkard, being lost in a fog and finally Tom's coming to rescue.B. The theme of the novel may be best summed in a word “freedom〞: Huck wants to escape from the bond of civilization and Jim wants to escape from the yoke of slavery. Mark Twain uses the raft's journey down the Mississippi River to express his thematic contrasts between innocence and experience, nature and culture, wilderness and civilization.。

《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.。

2015年4月高等教育自学考试《英美文学选读》试题课程代码：00604I. Multiple Choice(40 points in all, 1 for each)Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Mark your choice by blackening the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the answer sheet.1. Romio and Juliet, though a tragedy, is permeated with B spirit.A. pessimisticB. optimisticC. despairingD. passive2. Among John Milton' s major poetical works, A is the greatest, indeed the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf,A. Paradise LostB. Paradise regainedC. Samson AgonistesD. Aeopagitica3. Daniel Defoe's D , an adventure story very much in the spirit of the time, is universally considered his masterpiece.A. Captain SingletonB. Moll FlandersC. Colonel JackD. Robinson Crusoe4. Charlotte Bronte' s works are all about the struggle of an individual consciousness to- wards B , about some lonely and neglected young women with a fierce longing for love, understanding and a full, happy life.A. self- relianceB. self- realizationC. self - esteemD. self - consciousness5. Of all the eighteenth -century novelists, B was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a "comic epic in prose," the first to give the modem novel its structure and style.A. Daniel DefoeB. Henry FieldingC. Jonathan SwiftD. Laurence Sterne6. William Blake's C marks his entry into maturity.A. Songs of ExperienceB. Songs of InnocenceC. Marriage of Heaven and HellD. Poetical Sketches7. Poetry is defined by A as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, which originates in emotion recollected in tranquility."A. William WordsworthB. William BlakeC. Percy Bysshe ShelleyD.T.S. Eliot8. Shelly' s greatest achievement is his four- act poetic drama AA. Prometheus UnboundB. A Defence of PoetryC. The Revolt of IslamD. Adonais9. In B 's novel, the subject matter, the character range, the social settings, and plots are all restricted to the provincial life of the late 18th century England, concerning three or four landed gentry families with their daily routine life.A. Charlotte BronteB. Jane AustenC.D.H. Lawrence D. Thomas Hardy10. In C , one of Dickens' later works, Dickens presents a criticism of the Utilitarian principle that rules over the English education system and destroys young hearts and minds.A. Bleak HouseB. Little DorritC. Hard TimesD. A Tale of Two Cities11. 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 Englsih novel the first D heroine.A. workerB. peasantC. explorerD. governess12. The last two novels by Thomas Hardy are CA. The Return of the Native, The Mayor of CasterbridgeB. The Mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of the D' UrbervillesC. Tess of the D' Urbervilles, Jude the ObscureD. The Woodlanders, the Mayor of Casterbridge13. Dickens' best- depicted characters are the following EXCEPT DA. innocent, virtuous, persecuted and helpless child charactersB. horrible and grotesque charactersC. broadly humorous or comical charactersD. simple, innocent and faithful women characters14. In his famous essay, Tradition and Individual Talent, A puts great emphasis on the importance of tradition both in creative writing and in criticism.A.T.S. EliotB.D.H. LawrenceC. Bernard ShawD. Charles Dickens15. D. H. Lawrence' s novel B is a story about the three generations of the Brangwen family on the Marsh farm.A. Sons and LoversB. The RainbowC. KangarooD. Lady Chatterley's Lover16. It is generally believed that the most important play among Shakespeare's comedies isBA. A Midsummer Night's DreamB. The Merchant of VenisC. Much Ado About NothingD. Twelfth Night17. John Milton's A shows how mankind, in the person of Christ, withstands the tempter and is established once more in the divine favor.A. Paradise RegainedB. Paradise LostC. Samson AgonistesD. Areopagitica18. The declaration that "I know that This World is a World of Imagination and Vision" and that "The nature of my work is visionary or imaginative" belongs to AA. William BlakeB. William WordsworthC. T. S. EliotD. Percy Bysshe Shelley19. All of the following poems is written by Shelly EXCEPT CA. "Ode to Liberty"B. "Ode to Naples"C. "Ode to a Nightingale" D "To a Skylark"20. Of the following writers, C is often compared with Shakespeare for his adeptness with the vemacular and large vocabulary with which he brings out many a wonderful verbal picture of man and scene.A. Thomas HardyB. George Bernard ShawC. Charles DickensD.D.H. Lawrence21. T. S. Eliot' s major achievement in play writing has been the creation of a D in the 20th century to express the ideas and action of modem society with new accents of the contemporary speech.A. heroic dramaB. melodramaC. monodramaD. verse drama22. In D , by portraying a disillusioned man who attempts to save his integrity by running away again and again from his wife and children, D. H. Lawrence tries to show that every man is a sacred and holy individual whose integrity should never be violated or dominated.A. Sons and LoversB. The RainbowC. Women in LoveD. Aaron' s Rod23. William Faulkner' s work is difficult and is a text endlessly searched for AA. meaningsB. answersC. themesD. logics24. As a genre, naturalism emphasized D and environment as important deterministic forces shaping individualized characters who were presented in special and detailed circumstances~A. educationB. societyC. manD. heredity25. Robert Frost' s A Masque of Reason and B are comic - serious dramatic narratives, in both of which biblical characters in modem settings discuss ethics and man relations to God.A. A Further RangeB. A Masque of MercyC. A Boy' s WillD. North of Boston26. Henry James believed that the materialistic bent of America life and its lack of C and sophistication could not provide him with enough materials for great literary works.A. moneyB. wisdomC. cultureD. democracy27. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and especially, its sequence A proved them- selves to be the milestone in American literature.A. Adventures of Huckleberry FinnB. The Gilded AgeC. Innocents AbroadD. Life on the Mississippi28. Hawthorne' s intellectuals are usually C dreadful because they are devoid of warmth and feeling.A. victimsB. heroesC. villainsD. saviors29. Melville' s Billy Budd deals with the sea and sailors and the theme of a conflict between innocence and B .A. purityB. corruptionC. religionD. power30. C is a great literary giant of America, whom H. L. Mencken considered "the true father of our national literature."A. Ernest HemingwayB. William FaulknerC. Mark TwainD. Ezra Pound31. In Go Down, Moses, Faulkner skillfully employs A as a symbol of the timeless freedom of the wilderness.A. an old crafty bearB. a loyal dogC. a dove of peaceD. a smart fox32. Henry James' s B tells a story about a young and innocent American confronting the complexity of the European life.A. Daisy MillerB. The AmericanC. The Portrait of A LadyD. The Ambassadors33. The Scarlet Letter always regarded as the best of Hawthorne' s works, tells a simple but moving story in which four people living in a A community are involved in and affected by the sin of adultery in different ways.A. PuritanB. ancient GreekC. IslamicD. Buddhist34. Theodore Dreiser' s style has been a controversial aspect of his work from the beginning. For lack of D , his writings appear more inclusive and less selective.A. rhetoricB. logicC. modificationD. concision35. Robert Frost wrote in both D and the free verse, and sometimes he wrote in a form that borrows freely from the merits of both.A. blank verseB. sonnetC. rhyming coupletsD. the metrical forms36. Fitzgerald follows the Jamesian tradition in using the A method in his chapters, each one of which consists of one or more dramatic scenes.A. scenicB. descriptiveC. narrativeD. dialogical37. Hemingway' s For Whom the Bell Tolls concerns a volunteer American guerrilla Robert Jordan fighting in the DA. Second World WarB. Civil WarC. First World WarD. Spanish Civil War38. The C , Moby Dick, symbolizes nature for Melville, for it is complex, unfathomable, malignant and beautiful as well.A. white sea wolfB. black whaleC. white whaleD. black sea wolf39. The Romantic period started with the publication of Washington Irving's The Sketch Book and ended withDA. Cooper' s Leathering Stocking TalesB. Mark Twain' s Adventures of Huckleberry FinnC. Hawthorne' s The Scarlet LetterD. Whitman's Leaves of Grass40. Theodore Dreiser' s A , a classic story of a "misunderstood artist," was once condemned for "obscenity and blasphemy."A. The GeniusB. Sister CarrieC. The TitanD. The StoicII. 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. Let us go then, you and I,When the evening is spread out against the skyLike a patient etherized upon a table;Let us go, through certain half- deserted streets,The muttering retreatsOf restless nights in one- night cheap hotelsAnd sawdust restaurants with oyster shells:Streets that follow like a tedious argumentOf insidious intentTo lead you to an overwhelming question ...Oh, do not ask, "What is it ?"Let us go and make our visit.Questions:A. Identify the poet and the title of the poem from which the stanza is taken.B. What are the characteristics of the protagonist in the poem?C. What figure of speech is used in the second and third lines?答：A.T.S. Eliot. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock".B. Pmfrock, the protagonist of the poem, is neurotic, self - important, illogical and incapable of action. He is a kind of tragic figure caught in a sense of defeated idealism and tortured by unsatisfied desires.C. simile42. "Why, my dear, you must know, Mrs. Long says that Netherfield is taken by a young man of large fortune from the north of England; that he came down on Monday in a chaise and four to see the place, and was so much delighted with it that he agreed with Mr. Morris immediately; that he is to take possession before ichaelmas, and some of his servants are to be in the house by the end of next week.""What is his name?""Bingley.""Is he married or single?""Oh! single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!""How so? how can it affect them."My dear Mr. Bennet," replied his wife, "how can you be so tiresome! You must know that I am thinking of his marrying one of them."Questions:A. Identify the author and the title of the novel from which this passage is taken.B. Who are the two speakers?C. What does the dialogue tell us about the speakers?答：A. From Jane Austen' s Pride and Prejudice.B. Mr. ,and Mrs. Bennet.C. It tells us that Mrs. Bennet is eager to marry one of her daughters to the mentioned young man, but her husband does not care much.43. He pretended to consider it. "I'd much rather go to Chillon with you."With me. she asked without a shadow of emotion.She didn' t rise blushing, as a young person at Geneva would have done; and yet conscious that he had gone very far, he thought it possible she had drawn back. "And with your mother," he answered very respectfully.But it seemed that both his audacity and his respect were lost on Miss Daisy Miller. "I guess mother wouldn' t go for you ," she smiled. "And she ain' t bent on going, anyway. She don' t like to ride round in the afternoon." After which she familiarly proceeded: "But did you really mean what you said just now that you' d like to go up there?"Questions:A. Identify the author and the title of the novel from which the above excerpt is taken.B. From their conversation, do you know where Miss Daisy Miller and the man want to go?C. Briefly comment on Miss Daisy Miller' s character.答：A. From Henry James' s Daisy Miller.B. They want to go to an old castle, the Castle of Chillon.C. Innocence, the keynote of Miss 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.44. When Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house, which no one save an old man - servant —— a combined gardener and cook had seen in at least ten years.Questions:A. Identify the author and the title of the work from which the above excerpt is taken.B. How do you explain "a fallen monument"?C. For what different reasons did the men and women go to Miss Emily' s funeral?答：A. From William Faulkner' s "A Rose for Emily."B. Emily is regarded as the symbol of tradition and the old way of life. Thus her death is like the falling of a monument.C. The men went to her funeral through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, and the women out of curiosity to see the inside of her house.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 an. swers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.45. What are the major themes of Wordsworth' s poetry?答：A. Wordsworth wrote poems about nature. He is regarded as a "worshipper of nature".B. He wrote about common life. The joys and sorrows of the common people are his themes.C. He also wrote about the past. Wordsworth is a poet in memory of the past.46. In what way is Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift a significant work?答：A. Gulliver' s Travels, Jonathan' s best fictional work, is one of the most effective and devastating criticisms and satires of all aspects in the then English and European life - socially, politically, religiously, philosophically, scientifically, and morally. Its social significance is great and its exploration into human nature profound.B. Gulliver's Travels is also an artistic masterpiece. Here we find its author at his best as a master of prose. Clear, simple, concrete diction, uncomplicated sentence structure, economy and conciseness of language mark this writing.C. In structure, the four parts make an organic whole, with each contrived upon an independent structure, and yet complementing the others and contributing to the central concern of study of human nature and life.47. Emily Dickinson' s poetry is unique and unconventional in its own way. What is her poetic style?答：A. Her poems have no titles. In her poetry there is a particular stress pattern, in which dashes are used as a musical device to create cadence and capital letters as a means of emphasis.B. The form of her poetry is more or less like that of the hymns. Her sentence structure is irregular or inverted. However, her poetic idiom is noted for its laconic brevity, directness and plainness.C. Her poems are usually short, and many of them are centered on a single image or symbol and focused on one subject matter. She frequently uses personae and personification. Her poetry is remarkable for its variety, subtlety and richness, and shows the limitless power of creativity and imagination.48. Nathaniel Hawthorne' s view of man and human history originates, to a great extent, in Puritanism. What are the effects of Puritanism on Hawthorne?答：A. Hawthorne had Puritan ancestors and he believed that "the wrong doing of one generation lives into the successive ones," and often wondered if he might have inherited some of their guilt. This sensibility led to his understanding of evil being at the very core of human life, which is the typical of the Calvinistic belief that human beings are depraved and corrupted, hence, they should obey God to atone for their sins.B. Hawthorne is attracted in every way to the Puritan world, even though he condemns its less human manifestations. On the one hand, it provides him with a subject, and on the other, with the Puritan world or society as a historical background, he discusses some of the most important issues that concern the moral life of man and human history.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. Briefly discuss George Bemard Shaw' s dramatic achievement in terms of the major subjects and features of his plays.答：A. George Bernard Shaw was considered the leading playwright of the 20th century. His early plays were mainly concerned with social problems and directed towards the criticism of the contemporary social, economic, moral and religious evils. Shaw wrote quite a few history plays, in which he kept an eye on the contemporary society. Shaw also produced several plays, exploring his idea of "life Force" Besides, Shaw wrote plays on miscellaneous subjects.B. Structurally and thematically, Shaw followed the great traditions of realism. One feature of Shaw' s characterization is that he makes the trick of showing up one character vividly at the expense of another.C. Shaw' s plays have plots, but they do not work by plots. The plot is usually the disregarded backbone to one long, unbroken conversation. It is the vitality of the talk that takes primacy over mere story. Action is reduced to a minimum, while the dialogue and the interplay of the mindsof the characters maintain the interest of the audience. The forward motion consists not in the unrolling of plot but in the operation of the spirit of discourse.50. Briefly discuss F. Scott Fitzgerald' s theme of bankruptcy of the American dream, focusing on his masterpiece The Great Gatsby.答：A. Fitzgerald never spared an intimate touch in his fiction to deal with the bankruptcy of the American Dream, which is highlighted by the disillusionment of the protagonists' personal dreams due to the clashes between their romantic vision of life and the sordid reality.B. In The Great Gatsby, the loss of an ideal and the disillusionment are exploited fully in the personal tragedy of a young man whose "incorruptible dream" is "smashed into pieces by the relentless reality."C. Gatsby is a mystical figure whose intensity of dream partakes of a state of mind that embodies America itself; Gatsby is the last of the romantic heroes, whose energy and sense of commitment takes him in search of his personal grail; Gatsby' s failure magnifies to a great extent the end of the American Dream.。

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I. Multiple Choice. (1 point for each, altogether 30 points)Directions: There are 30 sentences in this section. Beneath each sentence there are four choices respectively marked by letters A, B, C and D. Choose the word that you think best complete the sentence. Write your answers on the answer sheet.1. Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his production of_______.[A] Piers Plowman [B] Sir Gawain and the Green Knight[C] Confessio Amantis [D] The Canterbury Tales2. In "After Apple- Picking," Robert Frost wrote: "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 is_______.[A] happy about the harvest[B] still very much interested in apple-picking[C] expecting a greater harvest[D] indifferent to what he once desired3.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] Sentimentalism [B] romanticism [C] realism [D] naturalism4. Of the following American poets in the twentieth century, the one who has the best knowledge of Chinese culture is _______.[A] Robert Frost [B] Allen Ginsberg [C] Ezra Pound [D] Cummings5. _______is the first important governess novel in the English literary history.[A] Jane Eyre [B] Emma[C] Wuthering Heights [D] Middlemarch6. The Hemingway Code heroes are best remembered for their_______.[A] indestructible spirit [B] pessimistic view of life[C] war experiences [D] masculinity7. Which of the following is taken from John Keats’Ode to a Nightingale? _______[A] "Beauty is truth, truth beauty."[B] "Earth has not anything to show more fair."[C] "They are both gone up to the church to pray."[D] "was it a vision, or a waking dream?"8. 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 peace9. Henry David Thoreau’s work_______, has always been regarded as a masterpiece of New England Transcendentalism.[A] Walden [B] The Pioneers[C] Nature [D] Song of Myself10. George Bernard Shaw’s play _______ established his position as the leading play-wright of his time.[A] Widowers’ Houses [B] Too True to Be Good[C] Mrs. Warren’s Profession[D] Candida11. 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] Christian [B] knightly[C] Greek [D] primitive12. For Melville, as well as for the reader and _______ , the narrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, an ultimate mystery of the universe. .[A] Ahab [B] Ishmael[C] Stubb [D] Starbuck13. Which of the following historical events does not directly help to stimulate the rising of the Renaissance 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 expansion14. 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 salvation15. ―And we will sit upon the rocks,/Seein g 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 Queene[B] John Donne's ―The Sun Rising‖[C] Shakespeare's ―Sonnet 18‖[D] Marlow e's ―The Passionate Shepherd to His Love‖16. ―Bassanio: Antonio, I am married to a wife which 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 irony [B] personification[C] allegory [D] symbolism17. The true subject of John Donne's poem, ―The Sun Rising,‖ is to _______.[A] attack the sun as an unruly servant[B] give compliments to the mistress and her power of beauty[C] criticize the sun's intrusion into the lover's private life[D] lecture the sun on where true royalty and riches lie18. Of all the 18thcentury novelists Henry Fielding was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to wri te specifically a ―_______ in prose,‖ the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.[A] tragic epic [B] comic epic[C] romance [D] lyric epic19. The Houyhnhnms depicted by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels are _______.[A] horses that are endowed with reason[B] pigmies that are endowed with admirable qualities[C] giants that are superior in wisdom[D] hairy, wild, low and despicable creatures, who resemble human beings not only in appearance but also in some other ways.20. 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 Lost[C] Alexander Pope's Essay on Criticism[D] Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream21. The phrase ―to urge people to abide 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 Travels [B] The Rape of the Lock[C] Robinson Crusoe [D] The pilgrim's Progress22. William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following EXCEPT _______.[A] the use of everyday language spoken by the common people[B] the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings[C] the use of humble and rustic life as subject matter[D] the use of elegant wording and inflated figures of speech23. 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 pray‖[C] ―Earth has not anything to show more fair‖[D] ―Beauty is truth, truth beauty‖24.―If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind!‖ is an epigr ammatic line by _______.[A] J.Keats [B] W.Blake[C] W.Wordsworth [D] P.B.Shelley25. ―Ode o na Grecian Urn‖shows the contrast between the _______ of art and the _______ of human passion.[A] glory …ugliness[B] permanence…transience[C] transience…sordid ness [D] glory…permanence26. In the statement―—oh, God! would you like to live with your soul in the grave?‖ the term ―soul‖ apparently refers to _______.[A] Heathcliff himself [B] Catherine[C] one's spiritual life [D] one's ghost27. The typical feature of Robert Browning's poetry is the _______.[A] bitter satire [B] larger-than-life caricature[C] Latinized diction [D] dramatic monologue28. The Victorian Age was largely an age of _______, eminently represented by Dickens and Thackeray.[A] poetry [B] drama[C] prose [D] epic prose29. _______is the first important governess novel in the English literary history.[A] Jane Eyre [B] Emma[C] Wuthering Heights [D] Middlemarch30. 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] wrence's [B] J.Galsworthy's[C] W.Thackeray’s[D] T.Hardy’sII. Match the writer with his/her works and Write your answers on the answer sheet. (2point for each, altogether 20points)31. Henry Fielding A. The Passionate Shepherd to His Love32. James Joyce B. Composed upon Westminster Bridge33. Daniel Defoe C. The Moll on the Floss34. Alfred Tennyson D. Break, Break, Break.35. John Keats E. A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man36. George Eliot F. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling37. William Bulter Yeats G. A Journal of the Plague Year38. William Wordsworth H. Ode on a Grecian Urn39. Walt Whitman I. The Lake Isle of Innisfree40. Christopher Marlowe J. There Was a Child Went ForthIII. Decide whether the following statements are true or false and write your answers in the brackets. (2 point for each, altogether10 points)()41．The preface to the Lyrical Ballads is best read as a statement of Keats’s principles of poetry.()42．Besides novel writing, Hawthorne is also a very good writer of short stories.()43．Robert Frost’s poems are New England in their setting, and are characterized by the familiar speaking voice.()44．George Hurstwood is a friend of Drouet’s who steals a great deal of money from his employer and actually kidnaps Carrie to Canada.()45．Renaissance had its beginning in Italy in the middle of the fifteenth century. IV. Define the literary terms listed below and write your answers on the answer sheet. (5 point for each, altogether 10 points)46. Romanticism47. Stream of ConsciousnessV. Give brief answers to the following questions. Write your answers on the answer sheet. (5 point for each, altogether 15 points)48. How do you understand the character of Robinson Crusoe?49. In the novel To the Lighthouse, is Lily lonely while completing her picture? Please justify your ideas.50. What is the implication of the description of roses beside the prison door in the first chapter of The Scarlet Letter?Ⅵ. Write no less than 150 words on the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet. (15 point for each, altogether 15 points) 51.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.《英美文学选读》模拟试卷一答案II. Multiple Choice. (1 point for each, altogether 30 points)题号 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15答案 D D C C A A D D A D B B C C D题号16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30答案 A B B A C D D D D B B D C A AII. Match the writer with his/her works and write your answers in the brackets. (2point for each, altogether 20points)题号31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40答案 F E G D H C I B J AIII. Decide whether the following statements are true or false and write your answers in the brackets. (2 point for each, altogether10 points)题号41 42 43 44 45答案 F T T T FIV.Define the literary terms listed below and write your answers in the brackets. (10%) 46.复习范围或考核目标：课件Course 03 William Wordsworth47.复习范围或考核目标：课件Course06 Virginia WoolfV. Give brief answers to the following questions. Write your answers on the answer sheet. (15%)48.复习范围或考核目标：课件Course 02 Daniel Defoe49.复习范围或考核目标：课件Course06 Virginia Woolf50.复习范围或考核目标：课件course07 Nathaniel HawthorneⅥ. Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet. (15%)51.复习范围或考核目标：课件course01 William ShakespeareNetwork Education College, BLCU《英美文学选读》模拟试卷二注意：1.试卷保密，考生不得将试卷带出考场或撕页，否则成绩作废。

2015年4月全国高等教育自学考试试题英语（一）试卷本试卷共8页，满分100分；考试时间150分钟。

第一部分：阅读判断（第1～10题，每题1分，共10分）下面的短文后列出了10个句子，请根据短文的内容对每个句子作出判断：如果该句提供的是正确信息，选择A；如果该句提供的是错误信息，选择B；如果该句的信息文中没有提及，选择C。

The Greatest GiftOne day, I was telling my mother about a new girl in school. Suddenly she asked, "Who are your two best friends, Helen?""Jill and Jaime.""Well, what about Karen and Cindy?""I don't know who their best friends are.""No," she said. "I mean, why aren't they your best friends?" She seemed upset and hurt. "But they're my sisters.""Yes, but they can still be your best friends. Friends may come and go, but your sisters will always be there for you."At the time, the idea of my sisters being my closest friends seemed strange to me. We used to fight over toys, food, attention and what to watch on television. But my mother never let the three of us forget it: sisters are lifelong friends. Her wish was to give us something that she had never had. When she gave birth to three daughters, the fulfillment（实现）of her dream had only just begun. She had given us each a gift—our sisters—and she wanted to make sure we did not take that gift for granted. She would frequently tell us how lucky we were, constantly take us to places together so we grew closer, and would even punish us equally, giving us yet another bonding（亲密关系）experience.It was somewhere in between Mom's lectures, the family vacations and the shared memories that we realized that Mom was right. Today I share things with my sisters that I share with no one else. My sister Cindy and I ran the New York City Marathon together, side by side, holding hands when crossing the finishing line. When Karen got married, I was her maid of honor. The three of us trust each other with our greatest secrets.It was twenty-three years ago that my mother first asked me who my two best friends were. Today she doesn't have t. She already knows.1.【题干】One day, one of Hele's sisters asked her to be her best friend.【选项】A．TrueB．FalseC．Not Given【答案】B【解析】由文章开头妈妈和Helen的对话可知，妈妈告诉Helen，她的两个姐姐应成为她最好的朋友，而并不是Helen的一个姐姐让Helen成为她最好的朋友。

英美文学选读自考题-1(总分100, 做题时间90分钟)Ⅰ.Multiple ChoiceSelect from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement.1.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 ChurchSSS_SIMPLE_SINA B C D分值: 1答案:B主要考查的知识点为对文艺复兴的描述。

文艺复兴从本质上是欧洲人文主义者竭力摒弃中世纪欧洲的封建主义，推行代表新兴城市资产阶级利益的新思想，并恢复早期**的纯洁性，远离腐败的罗马天主教廷的一场运动。

2.______ was the first to start the attack on middle-class privileges and power in his novel Lucky Jim.A. JohnBraine B. Kingsley AmisC. AlanSillitoe D. John WainSSS_SIMPLE_SINA B C D分值: 1答案:B3.For his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel, ______ has been regarded as "Father of the English Novel. "A. DanielDefoe B. Jonathan SwiftC. Henry FieldingD. Oliver GoldsmithSSS_SIMPLE_SINA B C D分值: 1答案:C主要考查的知识点为英国小说之父。

2015年4月全国自考外国文学作品选考前密卷00534(含答案)一、单项选择题(本大题共30小题,每小题1分,共30分)在每小题列出的四个备选项目中只有一个是符号题目要求的,请将其代码填写的括号内.错选、多选或未选均无分。

第1题不属于一个时代而属于所有的世纪”的作家是()A. 德莱塞B. 席勒C. 莎士比亚DD. 培根【正确答案】 C【你的答案】本题分数1分第2题在拜伦的《恰尔德.哈洛尔德游记》第一章第五十四节中，有“是否因此激动了那西班牙的女郎，她把放松弦线的琴挂在柳树上，而和短剑结了好，不再像女性”的诗句，紧接这几句诗的是()A. 大胆地走上千军万马的前线B. .勇敢地走向战场，把战歌来高唱C. 如今她在弹丸的硝烟里飞翔D. 谁能像她似的为殉难的首领复仇【正确答案】 B【你的答案】本题分数1分第3题 .左拉短篇小说《陪衬人》的主要人物是()A. .杜朗多B. 娜娜C. .拉斯蒂涅DD. 理查兹【正确答案】 A【你的答案】本题分数1分第4题意大利人文主义文学的先驱是()A. 薄伽丘B. 彼特拉克C. 斯宾塞D. 莎士比亚【正确答案】 A【你的答案】本题分数1分第5题 .批判现实主义文学首先出现在（）A. .英国B. 法国C. 德国D. .美国【正确答案】 B【你的答案】本题分数1分第6题普希金在抒情诗《致大海》中充满感情地追忆的一位作家是（）A. 雨果B. .华兹华斯C. 拜伦D. 歌德我自考网整理【正确答案】 C【你的答案】本题分数1分第7题 .中古阿拉伯的民间故事集是（）A. 《一千零一夜》B. .《十日谈》C. 《先知》D. 《飞鸟集》【正确答案】 A【你的答案】本题分数1分第8题西方文学史上最古的经典作品是古希腊的史诗（）A. 《荷马史诗》B. 《罗兰之歌》C. 《罗摩衍那》D. 《吠陀》【正确答案】 A【你的答案】本题分数1分第9题《达尔杜弗》这部喜剧把讽刺的矛头直接指向（）A. .资产阶级B. .宗教人士C. 奴隶主D. .小市民【正确答案】 B【你的答案】本题分数1分第10题 .桑丘是()中的人物形象。

2014年4月全国自考英语阅读（二）模拟试卷(一)一、Reading Comprehension. (50 points, 2 points for each)Directions: In this part of the test, there are five passages. Following each passage, there are five questions with four choices marked A, B, C anIn this section there are five passages. Following each passage there are five questions with four choices. Choose the best answer and mark your answer on the ANSWER SHEET. Passage One1. Computers should be in the schools. They have the potential to accomplish great things. With the right software, they could help make science tangible or teach neglected topics like art and music. They could help students form a concrete idea of society by displaying on? screen a version of the city in which they live—a picture that tracks real life moment by moment.2. In practice, however, computers make our worst educational nightmares come true. While we bemoan the decline of literacy, computers discount words in favor of pictures and pictures in favor of video. While we fret about the decreasing cogency of public debate, computers dismiss linear argument and promote fast, shallow romps across the information landscape. While we worry about basic skills, we allow into the classroom software that will do a student’s arithmetic or correct his spel ling.3. Take multimedia. The idea of multimedia is to combine text, sound and pictures in a single package that you browse on screen. You don’t just read Shakespeare; you watch actors performing, listen to songs, view Elizabethan buildings. What’s wrong with that? By offering children candy?coated books, multimedia is guaranteed to sour them on unsweetened reading. It makes the printed page look even more boring than it used to look. Sure, books will be available in the classroom, too—but they’ll have all the appeal of a dusty piano to a teen who has a Walkman handy.4. So what if the little nippers don’t read? If they’re watching Olivier instead, what do they lose? The text, the written word along with all of its attendant pleasures. Besides, a book is more portable than a computer, has a higher?resolution display, can be written on and dog?eared and is comparatively dirt cheap.5. Hypermedia, multimedia’s comrade in the struggle for a brave new classroom, is just as troubling. It’s a way of presenting d ocuments on screen without imposing a linear start?to?finish order. Disembodied paragraphs are linked by theme; after reading one about the First World War, for example, you might be able to choose another about the technology of battleships, or the life of Woodrow Wilson, or hem?lines in the 20s. This is another cute idea that is good in minor ways and terrible in major ones. Teaching children to understand the orderly unfolding of a plot or a logical argument is a crucial part of education. Authors don’t merely agglomerate paragraphs; they work hard to make the narrative read a certain way, prove a particular point. To turn a book or a document into hypertext is to invite readers to ignore exactly what counts—the story.6. The real problem, again, is the accentuation of already bad habits. Dynamiting documents into disjointed paragraphs is one more expression of the sorry fact that sustained argument is not our style. If you’re a newspaper or magazine editor and your readership is dwindling, what’s the sol ution? Shorter pieces. If you’re a politician and you want to get elected, what do you need? Tasty sound bites. Logical presentation be damned.7. Another software species, “allow me” programs, is not much better. These programs correct spelling and, by applying canned grammatical and stylistic rules, fix prose. In terms of promoting basic skills, though, they have all the virtues of a pocket calculator.8. In Kentucky, as the Wall Street Journal reported, students in grades K?3 are mixed together regardless of age in a relaxed environment. It works great, the Journal says. Yes, scores on computation tests have dropped 10 per cent at one school, but not to worry: “Drilling addition and subtraction in an age ofcalculators is a waste of time,” the principal reassures us. Meanwhile, a Japanese educator informs University of Wisconsin mathematician Richard Akey that in his country, “calculators are not used in elementary or junior high school because the primary emphasis is on helping students develop their mental abilities.” No wonder Japanese kids blow the pants off American kids in math. Do we really think “drilling addition and subtraction in an age of calculators is a waste of time”? If we do, then “drilling reading in an age of multimedia is a waste of tim e” can’t be far behind.第1题 Which of the following is NOT an accusation of the use of computers in teaching children by the author?A. It is getting worse and worse illiteracy.B. It does not help cultivating students’ ability to develop linear argument.C. It prevents students from developing their basic skills.D. It teaches bad arithmetic and spelling.【正确答案】 D【你的答案】本题分数0分第2题 Which of the following is the idea of multimedia according to the passage?A. To exclude boring reading text and make learning process more enjoyable.B. To combine text, sound and pictures in one package.C. To combine Shakespeare, actors’ performing, songs and theatre together.D. To offer children candy?coated books.【正确答案】 B【你的答案】本题分数0分第3题 The author uses the comparison between a dusty piano and a walkman as____ .A. an analogy to show that teens will lose interest in reading once they are exposed to multimediaB. an example to illustrate the rapid advance in technology and social studiesC. a reason to explain the cause of the conflict between traditional and modern way of teachingD. an evidence to support his argument on multimedia learning for children【正确答案】 A【你的答案】本题分数0分第4题 The author disagrees with the use of modern hypermedia mainly for the reason that ____.A. its non?linear arrangement of knowledge will not teach children to understand a logical argumentB. it deprives children of the pleasure of reading booksC. it does not present documents on screen properlyD. it’s harmful to the training of children on concentration【正确答案】 A【你的答案】本题分数0分第5题What is the author’s opinion about the “allow me” programs?A. They will help children learn grammar and style.B. They can help children learn to calculate.C. They prevent children from learning basic skills in writing.D. They will do harm to children’s personality.【正确答案】 C【你的答案】本题分数2分Passage ThreeAmericans often say that there are only two things a person can be sure of in life: death and taxes. Americans do not have a cornet (垄断) on the “death” market, but many people feel that the United States leads the world with the worst taxes.Taxes consist of the money which people pay to support their government. There are generally three levels of government in the United States: federal, state, and city; therefore, there are three types of taxes. Salaried people who earn more than a few thousand dollars must pay a certain percentage of their salaries to the federal government. The percentage varies for individuals. It depends on their salaries. The federal government has a graduated income tax; that is, the percentage of the tax increases as a person’ s in come increases. With the high cost of taxes, people are not very happy on April 15, when the federal taxes are due.The second tax is for the state government. Some States have an income tax similar to that of the federal government. Of course, the percentage for the state tax is lower. Other states have a sales tax, which is a percentage charged to any item which you buy in that state. Some states use income tax in addition to sales tax to raise their revenues (税收). The state tax laws are diverse and confusing.The third tax is for the city. This tax comes in two forms: property tax and exist tax, which is demanded on vehicles in a city. The cities utilize these funds for education, police and fire departments, public works and municipal buildings.Since Americans pay such high taxes, they often feel that they are working one day each week just to pay their taxes. People always complain about taxes. Although Americans have conflicting views on many issues—religious, racial, cultural, and political—they tend to agree on one subject: taxes are too high.第1题 Which of following is the best title for the passage?A. Taxes in the United States.B. Federal Income Tax.C. State Tax Revenues.D. Taxes Are Too Hight.【正确答案】 A【你的答案】本题分数0分第2题 According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true?A. The United States is one of the countries which collect hightest taxes.B. The Americans are in agreement about taxes.C. There are three types of taxes in the United States.D. The Americans are aware that they should pay taxes and they are sure to die.【正确答案】 A【你的答案】本题分数0分第3题In paragraph 3, the word “graduated” could best be replaced by which of the following?A. Increasing.B. Progressive.C. Elevated.D. Programmed.【正确答案】 B【你的答案】本题分数0分第4题 What is the main purpose of the third paragraph?A. To prove that the United States leads the world with the worst taxes.B. To prove that taxes in the United States are too high.C. To compare the three types of taxes in the United States.D. To explain the percentage of federal taxes.【正确答案】 D【你的答案】本题分数0分第5题 Which of the following is true of the state taxes mentioned in the passage?A. In the United States there are sales taxes on the federal level, but not on the state level.B. Some Americans can be free from state income taxes.C. Income taxes in some states are not dissimilar to the federal income taxes.D. State taxes are paid by the residents of a certain state.【正确答案】 C【你的答案】本题分数2分Passage TwoSocial change is more likely to occur in societies where there is a mixture of different kinds of people than in societies where people are similar in many way. The simple reason for this is that there are more different ways of looking at things present in the first kind of society. There are more ideas, more disagreements in interest, and more groups and organizations with different beliefs. In addition, there is usually a greater worldly interest and greater tolerance on mixed societies. All these factors tend to promote social change by opening more areas of life to decision. In a society where people are quite similar in many ways, there are fewer occasions for people to see the need or the opportunity for change because everything seems to be the same. And although conditions may not be satisfactory, they are at least customary and undisputed.Within a society, social change is also likely to occur more frequently and more readily in the material aspects of the culture than in the non?material, for example, in technology rather than in values; in what has been learned later in life rather than what was learned early; in the less basic and less emotional aspects of society than in their opposites; in the simple elements rather than in the complex ones; in form rather than in substance; and in elements that are acceptable to the culture rather than in strange elements.Furthermore, social change is easier if it is gradual. For example, it comes more readily in human, elations on a continuous scale rather than one width, sharp dichotomies. This is one reason why change has not come more quickly to Black Americans as compared to other American minorities, because of the sharp difference in appearance between them and their while counterparts.第1题 Which of the following is the topic sentence of the first paragraph?A. The first sentence.B. The third sentence.C. The second sentence.D. The last sentence.【正确答案】 A【你的答案】本题分数0分第2题 Social change is more likely to take place in the society which consists of people different in many ways because____ .A. condition may be satisfactoryB. they look at the world in more different waysC. they lack the opportunity to express themselvesD. they are hard to please【正确答案】 B【你的答案】本题分数0分第3题 According to the passage, which of the following is not true?A. Different points of view tend to accelerate the social change.B. Social change is likely to occur in technology rather than in form.C. People similar in many ways have got so used to their conditions that they seldom see the needs for change.D. Social change is less likely to occur in strange elements.【正确答案】 B【你的答案】本题分数0分第4题 ____, social change is also likely to occur more frequently and more readily.A. If social change is quickB. If people are satisfied with their likely conditionsC. If people have different ideas and interestsD. If people prefer substances to forms【正确答案】 D【你的答案】本题分数0分第5题The word “counterparts” in paragraph 3 refers to____ .A. other minoritiesB. mixed societyC. AmericansD. dichotomies【正确答案】 C【你的答案】本题分数2分Passage FourEvery artist knows in his heart that he is saying something to the public. Not only does he want to say it well, but wants it to be something which has not been said before. He hopes the public will listen and understand—he wants to teach them and he wants them to learn from him.What visual artists, like painters, want to teach is easy to make out but difficult to explain, because painters translate their experiences into shapes and colors, not words. They seem to feel that a certainselection of shapes and colors, out of the countless billions possible, is exceptionally interesting for them and worth showing to us. Without their work we should never have noticed these particular shapes and colors, or have felt the delight which they brought to the artist.Most artists take their shapes and colors from the world of nature and from human bodies in motion and repose (静止). Their choices indicate that these aspects of the world are worth looking at and, that they contain beautiful sights. Contemporary (当代的) artists might say that they merely choose subjects that provide an interesting pattern, that there is nothing more in it. Yet even they do not choose entirely without reference to the character of their subjects.If one painter chooses to paint an injured leg and another a lake in moonlight, each of them is directing our attention to a certain aspect of the world. Each painter is telling us something, showing us something, emphasizing something—all of which means that, consciously or unconsciously he is trying to teach us.第1题Without the artist’s work, the public might not____ .A. notice particular shapes or colorsB. see the shapes and colors that express their experiencesC. feel his delight in shapes and colorsD. all of the above【正确答案】 D【你的答案】本题分数0分第2题An artist’ s choice of shapes and colors indicates that he believes them to be____ .A. calmB. movingC. delightfulD. worth looking at【正确答案】 D【你的答案】本题分数0分第3题 Contemporary artists often think their choice of subject_____ .A. carries no message to the publicB. provides an interesting patternC. has no pattern or formD. teaches the public important truths【正确答案】 B【你的答案】本题分数0分第4题 The writer says that contemporary art contains____ .A. nothing meaningfulB. uninteresting aspects of the worldC. subjects chosen partly for their meaningD. completely meaningless subjects【正确答案】 C【你的答案】本题分数0分第5题 Compared with a painter of unpleasant subjects a painter who draws a lake in moonlight is____ .A. conveying more meaningB. pointing to something differentC. more skilledD. communication less【正确答案】 B【你的答案】本题分数2分Passage FourPresident Coolidge’s statement, “The business of America is business,” still points to an important truth today—that business institutions have more prestige in American society than any other kind of organization,including the government. Why do business institutions possess this great prestigeOne reason is that Americans view business as being more firmly based on the ideal of competition than other institutions in society. Since competition is seen as the major source of progress and prosperity by most Americans, competitive business institutions are respected. Competition is not only good in itself, it is the means by which other basic American values such as individual freedom, equality of opportunity, and hard work are protected.Competition protects the freedom of the individual by ensuring that there is no monopoly of power. In contrast to one, all?powerful government, many businesses compete against each other for profits. Theoretically, if one business tries to take unfair advantage of its customers, it will lose to competing business which treats its customers more fairly. Where many businesses comp ete for the customers’ dollar, they cannot afford to treat them like inferiors or slaves.A contrast is often made between business, which is competitive, and government, which is a monopoly. Because business is competitive, many Americans believe that it is more supportive of freedom than government, even though government leaders are elected by the people and business leaders are not. Many Americans believe, then, that competition is as important as, or even more important than, democracy in preserving freedom.Competition in business is also believed to strengthen the ideal of equality of opportunity. Competition is seen as an open and fair race where success goes to the swiftest person regardless of his or her social class background. Competitive success is commonly seen as the American alternative to social rank based on family background. Business is therefore viewed as an expression of the idea of equality rather thanthe aristocratic idea of inherited privilege.第1题The statement “The business of America is business” probably means “____”.A. The business institutions in America are concerned with commerceB. Business problems are of great importance to the American governmentC. America is a great power in world businessD. Business is of primary concern to Americans【正确答案】 D【你的答案】本题分数0分第2题 Americans believe that they can realize their personal values only____.A. by way of competitionB. through doing businessC. by protecting their individual freedomD. when given equality of opportunity【正确答案】 A【你的答案】本题分数0分第3题 Who can benefit from business competition?A. People with ideals of equality and freedom.B. Honest businessmen.C. Both business institutions and government.D. Both businessmen and their customers.【正确答案】 D【你的答案】本题分数0分第4题 In accordance with the third paragraph, if one business tries to take unfair advantage of its customers,____.A. the business will therefore get great profitsB. the business will therefore turn more competitiveC. the business will keep on treating its customers like inferiors or slavesD. the business will fall behind with its competing business【正确答案】 D【你的答案】本题分数0分第5题 Government is believed to differ strikingly from business in that government is characterized by____.A. its role in protecting basic American valuesB. its absolute control of powerC. its democratic way of exercising leadershipD. its function in preserving personal freedom【正确答案】 B二、Vocabulary. (10 points, 1 point for each)Directions: Scan the following passage and find the words which have roughly the same meanings as those given below. The number in the brackets after each wordScan the following passage and find the words which have roughly the same meanings as those given below. The number in the bracket after each word definition refers to the number of paragraph in which the target word is. Write the word you choose on the ANSWER SHEET. People might create a super society that includes all nations. For instance we could invent a continental society, including all states of a continent and finally a global society of all continental societies. Obviously the laws of the super society would include the right and capacity to squelch the start of any armed conflict between sub societies. Today, with the existence of atomic, chemical and bacteriological weapons, the sovereignty of nations and the freedom of a nation to act as it wishes, have to be limited. Sovereignty has to be regulated by the laws of a super society, just as the freedom of cities and individuals to act is regulated by laws of the society.The idea of a worldwide super society is not new. Many statesmen and philosophers have recommended it. Then why is it not in use? The reason is that the leaders of present nations like the power they have and do not want it diminished. Also there are ways of thinking, including the powerful concepts of nationality, sovereignty and patriotism that make it very difficult to create such a society. Many present rulers use these ways of thinking to block the creation of an effective world society.We can only expect a change when some leaders become convinced that the advantages of peace are greater than the disadvantages of a limitation of their power and of national sovereignty. This can only happen when a majority of the population wants the nations to be members of a hierarchy of super societies. The sole fact that many citizens everywhere start to understand how the present political society should be modified, and start to apply pressure to their government, will make a world wide society possible. Some political leaders already see the advantages of a super society and help to create zones of commercial cooperation as a first step to future bigger political groupings. 第1题 ______have something as a part (Para. 1)【正确答案】 include本题分数0分修改分数你的得分第2题 ______fight or struggle (Para. 1)【正确答案】 conflict【你的答案】本题分数0分修改分数你的得分第3题 ______right or power to do as one chooses (Para. 1)【正确答案】 freedom【你的答案】本题分数0分修改分数你的得分第4题 ______a person who is skilled in state affairs (Para. 2)【正确答案】 statesman【你的答案】本题分数0分修改分数你的得分第5题 ______made small or less (Para. 2)本题分数0分修改分数你的得分第6题 ______the status of belonging to a particular nation (Para. 2)【正确答案】 nationality【你的答案】本题分数0分修改分数你的得分第7题 ______firmly persuaded (Para. 3)【正确答案】 convinced【你的答案】本题分数0分修改分数你的得分第8题 ______political control or rule (Para. 3)【正确答案】 sovereignty【你的答案】本题分数0分修改分数你的得分第9题 ______the greater number or part (Para. 3)本题分数0分修改分数你的得分第10题 ______a well?defined region (Para. 3)【正确答案】 zone【你的答案】三、Summarization. (20 points, 2 points for each)Directions: In this section of the test, there are ten paragraphs. Each of the paragraph is followed by an incomplete phrase or sentence which summarizes tParagraph TwoRed is the colour of fire. heat, blood and life. People say red is an exciting and active colour. They associate red with a strong feeling like anger. Red is also used for signs of danger, such as stop signs and fire engines.第1题 Red is associated with a strong f____.【正确答案】 feeling【你的答案】修改分数本题分数2分你的得分In this section of the test, there are ten paragraphs. Each is followed by an incomplete phrase or sentence. Spell out the missing letters of the word on the ANSWER SHEET. Paragraph OneThe popularity of rivalries fueled the attraction of the game (baseball) and caused it to become the national past time. The sport transformed from being a game of amateurs into a sport played by professionals. With that transformation, the innocence of baseball had been lost.第1题 Baseball t____to a professional sport.【正确答案】 transformed【你的答案】本题分数2分修改分数你的得分Paragraph TenWhen he was once accustomed to it he never parted from it more, but dragged it after him wherever he went. If by any chance it was lost, the whole camp knew it by his howls; and sometimes I had to send people to look for it when he had mislaid it on some forest excursion, so that he would stop his noise. He slept on it always, coiled up into a little heap, and only relinquished it when I gave him permission to accompany me into the woods.第1题 To be f___of the pillow.【正确答案】 fond【你的答案】修改分数本题分数2分你的得分Paragraph EightExp. com claims to have “tens of thousands of experts who can help you,”while the more restrain ed Abuzz. com, owned by The New York Times, limits its pitch to “Ask Anything! Real People. Real Answers”. It’s said that expert sites or knowledge networks represent the latest stage in the Internet’s evolution, a “democratization of expertise”. However, if your question is about something other than “Who invented the light bulb?” the answers are likely to be a wild potpourri of personal opinions.第1题 Online experts are not very t___.【正确答案】 trustworthy【你的答案】修改分数本题分数2分你的得分Paragraph SevenAt this juncture, as many as 57 per cent of children in America do not have full?time parental supervision, either living with a single parent who works full time or in a two?parent household with both parents working full time. The lack of parental supervision for young children is nearly as great. As many as 49 per cent of children under age six do not have the benefit of full?time parenting. While some children enjoy suitable substitute supervision provided by friends and relatives or in day?care, far too many【正确答案】 parental【你的答案】修改分数本题分数2分你的得分Paragraph FiveThe sport of baseball has migrated to other nations like Mexico, Dominican Republic, Cuba, Japan, and Korea. The popularity has dwindled in the United States due to other social distractions, but the game has been absorbed by other cultures, demonstrating the attractiveness of the sport and the importance of the fans.第1题 P___ of baseball outside the United States.【正确答案】 Popularity【你的答案】修改分数本题分数2分你的得分Paragraph TenYale University comprises three major academic components: Yale College(the undergraduate program), the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and ten professional schools. In addition, Yale encompasses a wide array of research organizations, libraries and museums, and administrative and support offices. Approximately 11,250 students attend Yale.第1题 Brief i___ about Yale University.【正确答案】 introduction【你的答案】本题分数2分修改分数你的得分Paragraph SevenPeople have wondered for a long time how their personalities and behaviors are formed. Social scientists are, of course, extremely interested in these types of questions. There are no clear answers yet, butare very different from each other. The controversy is often conveniently referred to as “nature vs nurture”.第1题 Two v___ are different from each other.【正确答案】 view?points【你的答案】修改分数本题分数2分你的得分Paragraph EightThere is no more difference, but there is just the same kind of difference, between the mental operations of man of science and those of an ordinary person, as there is between the operations and methods of baker or of a butcher weighing out his goods in common scales, and the operations of chemist in performing a difficult and complex analysis by means of his balance and finely graded weights. It is not that the scales in the one case, and the balance in the other, differ in the principles of their construction or manner of working—but that the latter is much finer apparatus and of course much more accurate in its measurement that the former.第1题 There is d___ between a scientist and an ordinary person.【正确答案】 difference【你的答案】本题分数2分修改分数你的得分Paragraph SixAll plants and animals that have been studied carefully (including humans) seem to have build?in clocks. They know the time naturally and correctly without any help from outside.第1题 To have a b___ clock.【正确答案】 biological【你的答案】四、Translation. (20 points, 4 points for each)Directions: In the following passage, there are five groups of underlined sentences. Read the passage carefully and then translate these sentences into Chine。

全国自考英美文学选读（综合）模拟试卷1(总分：20.00，做题时间：90分钟)一、阅读理解(总题数：3，分数：6.00)1.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. Questions: A. Who is the author of the play?B. Who is the speaker?C. What does he mean when he says "To be,or not to be—that is the question" ?（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：(正确答案：A. William Shakespeare. B. Hamlet. C. To live on in this world or to die; to suffer or to take action.)解析：2." ' Faith! Faith!' cried the husband. ' Look up to Heaven, and resist the Wicked One.Questions:A. Identify the work and the author.B. What idea does the quoted sentence express?（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：(正确答案：A. Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown. B. Goodman Brown here is obviously addressing the image of his wife, urging her to resist the devil. At the same time he is exhorting himself to have faith, to look heavenward, to withstand the infernal eloquence of the Wicked One.)解析：3."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 passage?C. What do the " moths" symbolize?（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：(正确答案：A. F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby. B. This passage describes Gatsby' s extravagance. C. Moths are used metaphorically to refer to those people who are drawn to the party simply for its glamour, for the wealth of Gatsby.)解析：二、简答题(总题数：4，分数：8.00)4.What is the Gothic novel?（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：(正确答案：Gothic novel, a type of romantic fiction that predominated in the late eighteenth century, was one phase of the Romantic movement. Its principal elements are violence, horror , and the supernatural, which strongly appeal to the reader's emotion. With its descriptions of the dark, irrational side of human nature, the Gothic form has exerted a great influence overthe writers of Romantic period. Works like The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley are typical Gothic romance.)解析：5.What's the theme of "Jane Eyre"?（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：(正确答案：A. The work is one of the most popular and important novels of the Victorian Age. It is noted for its sharp criticism of the existing society, e. g. the religious hypocrisy of charity institutions such as Lowood school where poor girls are trained, through constant starvation and humiliation, to be humble slaves, the social discrimination Jane experiences first as a dependent at her aunt' s house and later as a governess at Thornfield, and the false social convention of love and marriage. B. At the same time, it is an intense moral fable. Jane, like Mr. Rochester, has to undergo a series of physical and moral tests to grow up and achieve her final happiness.)解析：6.Analyze the characteristics of D. H. Lawrence' s novels.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：(正确答案：A. The writer expresses a strong reaction against the dehumanizing effect of mechanical civilization on the sensual tenderness of human nature, and it is this agonized concern that haunts his writing. B. Lawrence, introducing psychological elements into his works, holds that human sexuality is the dominating " Life Force" , and defiantly and frankly describes scenes of sex. C. As far as artistic tendency is concerned, the writer is mainly realistic, though not without the use of poetic imagination, symbolism and psychological description in his writing.)解析：7.______ was the first American writer to conceive his career in international terms.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：(正确答案：A. His most famous theme is international theme. B. Psychological approach.C. The Portrait of A Lady; Daisy Miller.)解析：三、论述题(总题数：3，分数：6.00)8.Please analyze Hamlet by Shakespeare.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：(正确答案：A. Shakespeare depicts the image of Hamlet as a Renaissance humanist to embody the dramatist' s own ideals, personal ideal, and social and political one. B. In Hamlet' s case, first and foremost it is his own personal ideal of filial piety and a strong sense of justice that demands revenge. But he has his social and political ideals too. On the one hand, he eulogizes the infinite capabilities of man: " What a piece of work is man; how noble in reason! How infinite in faculty!" On the other hand he sees and hopes to get rid of the social evils besetting human beings, as he speaks of a "sea of troubles". C. So Hamlet engages himself in personal revenge but at the same time intends to set right the "time" that is "out of joint". The burden of these duties makes Hamlet a man of contemplation rather than of action, which leads to the soliloquies revealing the inner working of his mind. Then, the struggle between good and evil dominatively controls the scene of Hamlet' s tragedy, a tragedy of a humanist who is always to see and construct a better world.)解析：9.Please discuss the significance of William Wordsworth' s poetry in the history of English literature.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________正确答案：(正确答案：A. First of all, Wordsworth' s theory, as stated in his "Preface" to the second edition of the "Lyrical Ballads" , serves as a manifesto of Romanticism. The poet takes the direct experience of the senses as the source of poetic truth as poetry comes from the "emotion recollected in tranquility". The significance of the "Preface" also presents itself in the poet' s advocation of the writing of the common people in ordinary language. B. Secondly, his practice is what his theory implies, for the joys and sorrows of the common people are themes in many of his poems such as the " Lucy poems". C. Thirdly, natural scenery with its beauty and mystery acts also as one of his favorite themes and the sympathy out of the poet' s nature towards the poor in rural places becomes part of his concern. D. Fourthly, as one of the leading Romantic poets, the inner workings of individual' s mind remains what Wordsworth likes to reveal in his depiction of natural scenery, and the spiritual growth of his own makes his masterpiece The Prelude. E. Finally, the seemingly simplicity of the poet both in diction and description is immersed in a profound and sympathetic longing for a better world. So the most important contribution he has made is that he has not only started the modern poetry, the poetry of his growing inner self, but also changed the course of English poetry by using ordinary speech of the language and by advocating a return to nature.)解析：10.Discuss the way symbolism is used in Melville ' s Moby-Dick.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________正确答案：(正确答案：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. The chase of the white whale symbolizes Ahab' s pursuit of truth and fighting against the evil power. B. To Ishmael, the whale is an astonishing force, an immense power, which defies rational explanation to the sense of mystery it carries. C. It also represents the tremendous organic vitality of the universe. D. To the readers, the whale can be viewed as a symbol of the physical limits that life imposes upon man. E. It may also be regarded as a symbol of nature. At the end of the chapter, the author says "... the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago. " Here the sea symbolizes nature that remains moving but unmoved.)解析：。