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福建师范大学智慧树知到“英语”《英美文学选读》网课测试题答案（图片大小可自由调整）第1卷一.综合考核(共15题)1.The defense lawyer was questioning the old man who was one of the ______ of the murder committed last month.A.witnessesB.audiencesC.viewersD.observers2.Some day software will translate both written and spoken language so well that the need for any common second language could _____.A.descendB.declineC.deteriorateD.depress3.The portion of the total income of China’s railways which comes from carrying cargo is ____80 percent.A.consequentlyB.roughlyparativelyD.incidentally4.Modern sonar makes it possible to ____ an underwater submarine.municateB.sinkC.searchD.locate5.American companies are evolving from mass-production manufacturing to ________ enterprises.A.moveableB.changingC.flexibleD.varying6.I never trust him because I always thought him as such a _____ character.A.graciousB.suspiciousC.uniqueD.particular7.When workers are organized in trade unions, employers find it hard to lay them ________.A.offB.asideC.outD.down8.The party will ____their leader very determinedly.A.adhere toB.coincide withC.cling toD.depend on9.The London Marathon is a difficult race. _______, thousands of runners participate every year.A.ThereforeB.AccordinglyC.NeverthelessD.Furthermore10.Radio reception wasn’t very good because of a disturbance in the atmosphere; the announcer’s voice sounded very ____.A.disputedB.discardedC.dismissedD.distorted11.The more a nation’s companies _______factories abroad, the smaller that country’s recorded exports will be.A.lieB.locateC.spotD.stand12.The students showed ____ when solving the difficult maths problems.A.validityB.purityC.ingenuityD.reliability13.Being ignorant of the law is not accepted as an ______ for breaking the law.A.optionB.intentionC.approvalD.excuse14.He promised to put ____ a word for me.A.outB.downC.forwardD.in15.The bank refused to ______ him any money, so he had to postpone buying a house.A.loanB.borrowC.leaseD.credit第2卷一.综合考核(共15题)1.If you explained the situation to your solicitor, he ________ able to advise you much better than I can.A.would beB.will have beenC.wasD.were2.These overseas students show great ______ for learning a new language.A.faithB.authorityC.enthusiasmD.convention3.The chairman was blamed for letting his secretary ________ too much work last week.A.take awayB.take outC.take toD.take on4.His remarks were ________ annoy everybody at the meeting.A.so as toB.such as toC.such toD.as much as to5.For three-quarters of its span on Earth, life evolved almost ______ as microorganisms.A.preciselyB.instantlyC.initiallyD.exclusively6.His contribution to the program was ____ because 99 percent of the work was completed by his colleagues.A.invisibleB.negligibleC.appreciableD.considerable7.Thousands of people turned out into the streets to _________ against the local authorities’ decision to build a highway across the field.A.contradictB.reformC.counterD.protest8.Children who stay away from school do ________ for different reasons.A.themB./C.itD.theirs9.It may be necessary to stop ______ in the learning process and go back to the difficult points in the lessons.A.at caseB.at lengthC.at intervalsD.at a distance10.Foreign disinvestment and the ________ of South Africa from world capital markets after 1985 further weakened its economy.A.displacementB.eliminationC.exclusionD.exception11.These causes produced the great change in the country that modernized the _______ of higher education from the mid-1860’s to the mid-1880’sA.branchB.categoryC.domainD.scope12.A square is a flat area having four sides, any adjacent two sides of which ____ a right angle.A.makeB.advocateC.adjoinD.shape13._________, Mr. Wells is scarcely in sympathy with the working class.A.Although he is a socialistB.Even if he is a socialistC.Being a socialistD.Since he is a socialist14.I saw them bending with great ____ over the machines.A.concentrationB.endeavorC.toleranceD.absorption15.For a little while the girl ____ for her dead cat, but she got over it after a few days.A.achedB.depressedC.grievedD.upset第1卷参考答案一.综合考核1.参考答案：A2.参考答案：B3.参考答案：B4.参考答案：D5.参考答案：C6.参考答案：B7.参考答案：A8.参考答案：C9.参考答案：C10.参考答案：D11.参考答案：B12.参考答案：C13.参考答案：D14.参考答案：D15.参考答案：A第2卷参考答案一.综合考核1.参考答案：A2.参考答案：C3.参考答案：D4.参考答案：B5.参考答案：D6.参考答案：B7.参考答案：D8.参考答案：D9.参考答案：C10.参考答案：C11.参考答案：C12.参考答案：A13.参考答案：A14.参考答案：B15.参考答案：C。

《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.。

英美文学选读练习（一）I. Multiple ChoiceSelect from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Write the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the answer sheet.1. Shelley’ s political lyrics ______ is not only a war cry calling upon all working people to rise up against their political oppressors, but an address to them pointing out the intolerable injustice of economic exploitation.A. “Ode to Liberty”B. “Ode to Naples”C. “Ode to the West Wind”D. “Men of England”2. Jane Austen’ s practical idealism is that love should be justified by ______ and disciplined by self-control.A. reasonB. senseC. rationalityD. sensibility3. Shakespeare’ s ______, an elaborate and fantastic story, is known as the best of his final romances.A. The Winter’s TaleB. The TempestC. The Taming of the ShrewD. Love’ s Labour’ s Lost4. “To be, or not to be - that is the question;/Whether’ tis nobler in the mind to suffer / The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,/Or to take arms against a sea of troubles ,/And by opposing end then?” These lines are taken from ______.A. King LearB. Romeo and JulietC. OthelloD. Hamlet5. John Milton’ s most powerful dramatic poem on the Greek model is ______.A. Paradise LostB. Paradise RegainedC. Samson AgonistesD. Lycidas6. Because of her sensitivity to universal pattens of human behavior, ______ hasbrought the English novel, as an art of form, to its maturity.A. Charlotte BronteB. Jane AustenC. Emily BronteD. Henry Fielding7. Poetry is defined by ______ as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, which originates in emotion recollected in tranquility”.A. William WordsworthB. William BlakeC. Percy Bysshe ShelleyD. Robert Southey8. Jonathan Swift’ s ______ is generally regarded as the best model of satire, not only of the period but also in the whole English literary history.A. Gulliver’s TravelsB. The Battle of the BooksC. “A Modest Proposal”D. A Tale of a Tub9. Of all the eighteenth - century novelists ______ was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a “comic epic in prose”, the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.A. Henry FieldingB. Daniel DefoeC. Jonathan SwiftD. Laurence Sterne10. The belief of the eighteenth - century neoclassicists in England led them to seek the following EXCEPT ______.A. proportionB. unityC. harmonyD. spirit11. The Renaissance marks a transition from ______ to the modern world.A. the old EnglishB. the medievalC. the feudalistD. the capitalist12. The great political and social events in the English society of neoclassical period were the following EXCEPT ______.A. the Restoration of King Charles II in 1660B. the Great Plague of 1665C. the Great London Fire in 1666D. the Wars of Roses in 168913.In Renaissance, the European humanist thinkers and scholars made attempts to do the following EXCEPT ______.A.getting rid of those old feudalist ideasB.getting control of the parliament and governmentC.introducing new ideas that expressed the interests of the rising bourgeoisieD.recovering the purity of the early church, from the corruption of the Roman Catholic Church14.The Petrarchan sonnet (彼特拉克体十四行诗) was first introduced into England by ______.A.SurreyB.WyattC.SidneyD.Shakespeare15.As the best of Shakespeare's final romances,______ is a typical example of his pessimistic view towards human life and society in his late years.A.The TempestB.The Winter's TaleC.CymbelineD.The Rape of Lucrece16.John Milton's greatest poetical work ______ is the only generally acknowledged epic in English literarure since Beowulf.A.AreopagiticaB.Paradise LostC.LycidasD.Samson Agonistes17.“Graveyard School”writers are the following sentimentalists EXCEPT ______.A.James ThomsonB.William CollinsC.William CowperD.Thomas Jackson18.The best model of satire in the whole English literary history is Jonathan Swift's ______.A.A Modest ProposalB.A Tale of a TubC.Gulliver's TravelsD.The Battle of the Books19.As a representative of the Enlightenment, ______ was one of the first to introduce rationalism to England.A.John BunyanB.Daniel DefoeC.Alexander PopeD.Jonathan Swift20.For his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel,______ has been regarded by some as “Father of the English Novel”.A.Daniel DefoeB.Henry FieldingC.Jonathan SwiftD.Samuel Richardson21. Which of the following descriptions of Gothic Novels is NOT correct?A.It predominated in the early eighteenth century.B.It was one phase of the Romantic movement.C.Its principal elements are violence, horror and the supernatural.D.Works like The Mysteries of Udolpho and Frankenstein are typical Gothic romance.Gothic Novel, a type of romantic fiction that predominated in the early eighteenth century, was one phase of the Romantic movement. Its principal elements are violence, horror and the supernatural. P166, para.222. William Blake’s central concern in the Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience is_______, which gives the two books a strong social and historical reference.A. youthhoodB. childhoodC. happinessD. sorrow23. “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good for-tune, must be in want of a wife.” The quoted part is taken from ______.A. Jane EyreB. Wuthering HeightsC. Pride and PrejudiceD. Sense and Sensibility24. Shelley’s greatest achievement is his four-act poetic drama ______, which is an exultant work in praise of humankind’s potential.A. AdonaisB. Queen MabC. Prometheus UnboundD. A Defence of Poetry25. The assertion that poetry originates from “emotion recollected in tranquility”belongs to ______.A. William WordsworthB. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeC. Robert SoutheyD. William Blake26. All of the following poems by William Wordsworth are masterpieces on nature EXCEPT ______.A.“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”B. “An Evening Walk”C.“Tintern Abbey”D. “The Solitary Reaper”27. Shakespeare’s four greatest tragedies are ________.A. Romeo and Juliet, Othello, King Lear, HamletB. Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, The Merchant of VeniceC. Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, MacbethD. Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice , Othello, Hamlet28. As one of the greatest masters of English prose, ________ defined a good style as “proper words in proper places”.A. Henry FieldingB. Jonathan SwiftC. Samuel JohnsonD. Alexander Pope29. All of the following novels by Daniel Defoe are the first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower-class people EXCEPT ______.A. Robinson CrusoeB. Captain SingletonC. Moll FlandersD. Colonel Jack30. English Romanticism, as a historical phase of literature, is generally said to have ended in 1832 with ______.A. the passage of the first Reform Bill in the ParliamentB. the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge’s Lyrical BalladsC. the publication of T．S ．Eliot’s The waste LandD. the passage of the Bill of Rights in the Parliament31. Contrary to the traditional romance of aristocrats, the modern English novel givesa realistic presentation of life of ______.A. the common English peopleB. the upper classC. the rising bourgeoisieD. the enterprising landlords32. The sentence “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare’s ______________.A. comediesB. tragediesC. sonnetsD. histories33. Paradise Lost is actually a story taken from ______________.A. the RenaissanceB. the Old TestamentC. Greek MythologyD. the New Testament34. ______________ is the essence of the Renaissance.A. PoetryB. DramaC. HumanismD. Reason35. “To be, or not to be —that is the question”is a line taken from______________.A. HamletB. OthelloC. King LearD. The Merchant of Venice36. Literature of Neoclassicism is different from that of Romanticism in that ______________.A. the former celebrates reason, rationality, order and instruction while the latter sees literature as an expression of an individual’s feeling and experiencesB. the former is heavily religious but the latter secularC. the former is an intellectual movement, the purpose of which is to arouse the middle class for political rights while the latter is concerned with the personal cultivationD. the former advocates the “return to nature”whereas the latter turns to the ancient Greek and Roman writers for its models.37. Daniel Defoe describes ______________ as a typical English Middle- class man of the eighteenth century, the very prototype of the empire builder or the pioneer colonist.A. Tom JonesB. GulliverC. Moll FlandersD. Robinson Crusoe38. ______________ is a typical feature of Swift’s writings.A. Bitter satireB. Elegant styleC. Casual narrationD. Complicated sentence structure39. Which of the following poems is a landmark in English poetry?A. Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor ColeridgeB. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”by William WordsworthC. “Remorse ”by Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD. Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman40. The literary form which is fully developed and the most flourishing during the Romantic Period is ______________.A. proseB. dramaC. novelD. poetry41. The real mainstream of the English Renaissance is_____________.A. the Elizabethan dramaB. the Elizabethan proseC. ancient poemD. romantic novel42. Shakespeare has established his giant position in world literature with his_____________plays, 154 sonnets and 2 long poems.A. 47B. 27C. 52D. 3843. _____________shows how mankind, in the person of Christ, withstand the tempter and is established once more in the divine favor.A. Paradise LostB. Paradise RegainedC. Samson AgonistesD. Beowulf44. In the theatrical world of the neoclassical period, _____________was the leading figure among the host of playwrights.A. William BlakeB. Richard Brinsley SheridanC.Ben JohnsonD. George Bernard Shaw45. The eighteenth century England is also known as the Age of Enlightenment or the Age of_____________.A. IntellectB. ReasonC. RationalityD. Science46. As a whole, Jonathan Swift’s _____________is one of the most effective and devastating criticisms and satires of all aspects in the then English and European life---socially, politically, religiously, philosophically, scientifically, and morally.A. Moll FlandersB. Gulliver’s TravelsC. Pilgrim’s ProgressD. The School for Scandal47. _____________is a story on the subject of human nature by Henry Fielding.A. The History of AmeliaB. The History of Jonathan Wild the GreatC. The History of Tom Jones, a FoundlingD. The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and of his friend Mr. Abraham Adams48. The poems such as “The Chimney Sweeper”are found in both Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience by_____________.A. William WordsworthB. William BlakeC. John KeatsD. Lord Gordon Byron49. _____________is regarded as a “worshipper of nature”.A. John KeatsB. William BlakeC. William WordsworthD. Jane Austen50. The sentence “three or four families in a country village are the very thing to work on” can best reflect the writer’s personal knowledge and range of writing. This writer is ____________.A. Walter ScottB. Thomas HardyC. Jane EyreD. Jane Austen。

（完整版）《英美文学》练习题库及答案I Of the four alternative answer, choose the one that would best complete the statement:1. Benjamin Franklin was born in the family of a small ___________ .A. LandlordB. merchantC. lawyerD. clergyman2. Ralph Waldo Emerson 'asdilneg reputation began with the publication of ___________ .A. EssaysB. NatureC. OversoulD. Self-Relience3. Ellen Poe was both a poet and a ____________________ .A. dramatistB. essayist C actor D. fiction writer.4. Nathaniel Hawthorne ' s view of man and human history originates in __________________ .A. PuritanismB. SocialismC. TranscendentalismD. naturalism5. Walt Whitman was born and brought up in a family of a _____________ .A. PeasantB. carpenterC. captainD. printer6. Mark Twain ' s first successful literary work is _____________________________ .A. The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras CountyB. Life on the MississippiC. The Adventure of Tom SawyerD. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn7. Closely related to Emily Dickinson ' s religious poetry are her poems concerning ________________A. ChildhoodB.youth and happinessC. lonelinessD. death and immortality8. Among the works of Dreiser, the bet known to the Chinese readers is _______________ .A. An American TragedyB. Sister CarrieC. Th FinancierD. The Titan9. Robert Frost ' s works mainly focus on the landscape and people in ___________________ .A. the WestB. American SouthC. New EnglandD. Mississippi10. Most of the plays Eugene O l w 'roNt e ilare ______________________ .A. comediesB. . romancesC. historical plays D tragedies11. Scott Fitzgerald is often acclaimed literary spokesman of the ____________________ .A. modern timeB. young AmericansC. Jazz AgeD. Guilded Age12. ____________________________ is Hemingway ' smasterpiece, which is about the old fishermanSantiago and his losing battle with a giant marlin.A. Farewell to ArmsB. For whom the Bell TollsC. The Sun Also RisesD. The Old Man and The Sea13. As a great fiction writer, William Faulker devotes most of his works to the description of the life and the people in the _______________________________ .A. American WestB. New England in AmericaC. American SouthD. American North14. When he was young, Benjamin Franklin became an apprentice in a ________________ .A. printing houseB. storeC. Tailor ' s shopD. factory15. Ralph Emerson was born in a family of a ___________________ .A. merchantB. businessmanC. clergymanD. writer16. Ellen Poe began his literary career by writing _________________ ;A. short storiesB. playsC. essaysD. poems17. According to Nathaniel Hawthorne, there is ________ in every hearer, which may remain latent, perhaps,英美文学》练习测试题库及答案本科through the whole life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.A. evilB. virtueC. kindn essD. tragedy18. Whitman is radically innovative in term of form of his poetry. What he prefers for his new subjects and new feeli ngs is ____________ .A. bla nk verseB. free verseC. heroic coupletD. sonnet19. Mark Twain shaped the world ' s view of America and made a comb in ati on of serious literature and _______A. America n folk humorB. En glish folkloreC. America n traditi onal valuesD. funny jokes20. Altogether, Emily Dick inson wrote ____ poems, of which only sever n had appeared duri ng her lifetime.A. 1145B. 1775C. 897D. 78521. Theodore Dreiser is gen erally ack no wledged as one of America' s literaryA. realistsB. n aturalistsC. roma ntistsD. modernists 22. In Frost ' s poems, images and metaphors in his poems are drawn from ___________________A. the simple country lifeB. the urba n lifeC. the life on the seaD. the adve ntures and trips23. Scott Fitzgerald never spared an intimate touch in his fiction to deal with the bankruptcy of the24. Eugene O ' Neill is regarded as the founder of American _____________________ .A. poetryB. dramaC. ficti onD. literature25. _________________ is Hemingway ' s masterpiece, which tellsa story about the tragic love of a woundecAmerican soldier with a British nurse.C. For Whom the Bell Tolls 26. William Faulk ner was born ina family of a ______________________ .A. mercha ntB. colonelC. man agerD. doctor27. In his essays, ______ p ut forward his philosophy of the over soul, the importa nt of the In dividual and Nature.A. Natha niel HawthorneB. Washi ngton IrvingC. Mark Twai nD. Ralph Waldo Emers on28. The chief spokesma n of New En gla nd Transcenden talism is _______A. Natha niel HawthorneB. Ralph Waldo Emers onC. Henry David ThoreauD. Wash ington Irvi ng29. _____ l iterary world turns out to be a most disturbed, tormented and problematical one, which has much to do with his black” vision of life and human beings.A. Herma n Melville'sB. Washi ngton Irvi ng'sC. Nathaniel Hawthorne'sD. Walt Whitman s30. Most of the poems in ____ sing of the en-masse and the self as well.A. Leaves of GrassB. Drum TapsC. North of Bost onD. The Can tos31. In ____ , Whitma n airs his sorrow at Preside nt Lin colnsdeath.A. Cavalry Crossing a FordB. A Pact ”C. When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom 'dD. There was a Child Went Forth ”A. America n DreamB. ruli ng classes B. America n Capitalists D.America n bourgeoisieA. A Farewell to ArmsB. The Sun Also RisesD. In Our Time32.In ___ , Whitman's own early experience may well be identified with the childhood of a young growingAmerica.A. “A Pact”B. “Song of Myself ”C. “There was a Child Went Forth”D. “Cavalry Crossing a Ford”33.In _____ , Hawthorne sets out to prove that everyone possesses some evil secret.A. “The Custom-House”B. “Young Goodman Brown”C. “Rappaccini's Daughter”D. “The Birthmark"34. _____ is called by Hemingway the one from which“all modern American literature c omes”.A. The adventures of Huckleberry FinnB. The Adventures of Tom aSwyerC. The Gilded AgeD. Life on the Mississippi35. Theodore Dreiser's forgiving treatment of the career of his heroine in ____ also draws heavily upon thenaturalistic understanding of sexuality.A McTeague B. An American Tragedy C. Sister Carri e D. The Genius36. _____ is a great giant of American, whom H.L.Mencken considers “the true father of our nationalliterature.”A. Henry JamesB. Washington IrvingC. Mark TwainD. Theodore Dreiser37. _____ is usually regarded as a classic book written for boys about their particular horrors and joys.A. The Adventures of Tom SawyerB. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnC. Innocents AbroadD. Life on the Mississippi38. _____ is described by Mark Twain as a boy with“a sound heart and a deformed conscienc”e.A. Tom SawyerB. Huckleberry FinnC. JimD.Tony39. _______ is considered to be Theodore Dreise'sr greatest work.A. An American TragedyB. Sister CarrieC. The FinancierD. The Titan40. The leading playwright of the modern period in American literature, if not the most successful in all hisexperiments, is ______A. Arthur MillerB. Tennessee WilliamC. George Bernard ShawD. Eugene O'Neil41. The well- known soliloquy by Hamlet “ T o be , or not to be ' shows hisA. hatred for his uncleB. love for lifeC. resolution of revengeD. inner- strife42. _______ is a play that concerns the problem of modern ma'sn identity.A. The Hairy ApeB. Long Day's Journey Into NightC. The Iceman ComethD. The Emperor Jones43.In a tragic sense, ______ is a representation of life as a struggle against unconquerable forces in whichonly a partial victory is possible.A. For Whom the Bell TollsB. In Our TimeC. The Old Man and the SeaD. A Farewell to Arms44. Faulkner once said that _________ is a story of “ lost innocence,'which proves itself to be andintensification of the theme of imprisonment in the past.A. The Sound and the FuryB. Light in AugustC. Go Down, MosesD. Absalom, Absalom! 45.In A Rose for Emily, Faulkner makes best use of the __________________________ devices in narration.A. RomanticB. RealisticC. GothicD. Modernist46. _____ is Hemingway's first true novel in which he depictsa vivid portrait of “The lost Generation.”A. The Sun Also RisesB. A Farewell to ArmsC. In Our TimeD. For Whom the Bell Tolls47. The only dramatist ever to win a Nobel Prize was _________ .A. Bernard ShawB. Eugene O'NeilC. Richard Brinsley SheridanD. William Shakespeare48. __________________________ By means of “free verse,” believes that he has turned the poem into anopen field, an area of vitalpossibility where the reader can allow his own imagination to play.A. Emily DickinsonB. Walt WhitmanC. Robert FrostD. Ezra Pound49. An eccentric woman who refuses to accept the passageoftime, or the inevitable change and loss thataccompanies it may probably refer to ______ .A. Irene in The Man of PropertyB. Emily in A Rose for EmilyC. Catherine in Wuthering HeightsD. the widow Douglas in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn50. One source of evil that Nathaniel Hawthorne is concerned most is overreaching intellect. Which of the following stories is one of this kind?A. Rappaccini's DaughterB. Young Goodman BrownC. The Minister's Black VeilD. The Birthmark51. “In your rocking-chair, by your window, shall you dream such happiness as you may never feel. ”This is the last sentence of __________ .A. Sister CarrieB. An American TragedyC. The GeniusD. Jane Eyre 52.In Walt Whitman's “There was a Child Went Forth”, the child refers to _________________________________________ .A. the poet himself as a childB. any American childC. the young AmericaD. one of the poet's neighbor53. The ______ techniques are used in some of Eugene O'Neil 's plays to highlight the theatrical effect of therupture between the two sides of an individual human being, the private and the public.A. naturalisticB. expressionisticC. stream-of-consciousnessD. metaphysical54. Which of the following is true as far as Emily Dickinson 's poetry is concerned? A. She seldom uses dashes.B. All her poems are about death or immorality.C. Her poems are very personal and meditativeD. Her poems usually have well-chosen titles. 55.In his poems, Whitman tends to use ___________________ .A. oral EnglishB. the King 's EnglishC. American EnglishD. old English56. As far as Nathaniel Hawthorne's art is concerned, which of the following statement is true? A. His The Scarlet Letter tells a love story.B. His art is deeply influenced by Puritanism because he was a puritan himself.C. Young Goodman Brownis a story about superstition.D. Ambiguity is one of the salient characteristics of his art.57. “I like to see it lap the Miles—And lick the Valleys up —And stop to feed itself at Tanks—And the n ---- ” (Emily Dick inson, “like to see it lap the Miles—)Here “it” refers to _____ .A. loveB. deathC. a flyD. the train58. Which of the following statements concerning Theodore Dreise'rs style is correct?A. Dreiser'sCowperwood trilogy includes The Financier, The Titan and The GeniusB. His novels have little detail descriptions of characters and events.C. His novels are written in refined language.D. His style is not polished but very serious.59. ____ has long been well known as a poet who can hardly be classified with the old or the new.A. Ezra PoundB. Robert Lee FrostC. T. S. EliotD. Emily Dickinson60. F. Scott Fitzgerald skillfully employs the device of having events observe by ___________ to his greatadvantage.。

单选题1.The name of the hero in Jane Eyre was_______.A.RochesterB.HeathcliffC.JamesD.David答案:A2.Virginia Woolf was born in_______.A.1882B.1767C.1678D.1890答案:A3.which of Woolf’novels was adapted into movie named The Hours? _______A.Mrs.DallowayB.The WavesC.The Common ReaderD.To the Light house答案:A4.“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 withmeesteem'dabove 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 fromShakespeare's comedy The Merchant of Venice.The quoted part can be regarded as a good example to illustrate_______.A.dramatic ironyB.personificationC.allegoryD.symbolism答案:A5.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.答案:A6.It is generally regarded that Keats's most important and mature poems are in the form of_______.A.odeB.elegyC.epicD.sonnet答案:A7.'I believe you are made of stone,'he said,clenching his fingers so hard that he broke the fragile cup.…'You seem to forget,'she said,'that cup is not!'From the above quoted passage,we can find the woman's tone is very_______.A.sarcasticB.amusingC.sentimentalD.facetious答案:A8.In Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby,there are detailed descriptions of big parties.The purpose of such descriptions is so show_______A.emptiness of lifeB.the corruption of the upper classC.contrast of the rich and the poorD.the happy days of the Jazz Age答案:A9._______is the first important governess novel in the English literary historyA.Jane EyreB.EmmaC.Wuthering HeightsD.Middlemarch答案:A10.The major concern of______fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature.wrence'sB.J.Galsworthy'sC.W.Thackeray’sD.T.Hardy’s答案:A11.What kind of girl is Dora?_______A.pretty and cleverB.pretty and empty-headedC.plain-looking and understandingD.lovely and clever答案:B12.After reading the first chapter of Pride and Prejudice,we may come to know that Mrs.Bennet is a woman of_______.A.simple character and quick witB.simple character and poor understandingC.intricate character and quick witD.intricate character and poor understanding答案:B13.How many groups are there in Hardy’s novels?_______A.twoB.threeC.fourD.five答案:B14.Which of the following is NOT written by Hardy?vA.The Return of the nativeB.A Tale of Two CitiesC.Tess of d＇UrbervillesD.Jude the Obscure答案:B15.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.primitive答案:B16.Of all the18th century novelists Henry Fielding was the first to set out,both in theory and practice,to write specifically a“_______inprose,”the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.A.tragic epicic epicC.romanceD.lyric epic答案:B17.The true 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 lie答案:B18.In Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby,there are detailed descriptions of big parties.The purpose of such descriptions is so show_______..A.the corruption of the upper classB.emptiness of lifeC.contrast of the rich and the poorD.the happy days of the Jazz Age答案:B19.The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan is often said to be concerned with the search for_______.A.material wealthB.spiritual salvationC.universal truthD.self-fulfillment答案:B20."Not on thy sole but on thy soul,harsh Jew,/Thou mak'st thy knife keen."In the above quotation taken form The Merchant of Venice,Shakespeare employs a（n）_______.A.oxymoronB.punC.simileD.synecdoche答案:B21.What’s the name of Hester and Dimmesdale’s daughter?A.AmyB.PearlC.NinaD.Berry答案:B22.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 ghost答案:B23.Mrs.Warren’s Profession is one of George Bernard Shaw’s plays. What is Mrs.Warren’s profession then?_______A.Real estateB.ProstitutionC.House-keepingD.Farming答案:B24.“For a week after the commission of the impious and profane offence of asking for more,Oliver remained a close prisoner in the dark and solitary room...”(Dickens,Oliver Twist)What did Oliver ask for?_______A.More time to playB.More food to eatC.More book to readD.More money to spend答案:B25.“Come to me－come to me entirely now,”said he;and added, in his deepest tone,speaking in my ear as his cheek was laid on mine,“Make my happiness－I will make yours.”The above passage presents a scene in_______.A.Emily Bronte’s Withering HeightsB.Charlotte Bronte’s Jane EyreC.John Galsworthy′s The Forsyte SagaD.Thomas Hardy′s Tess of the D′Urbervilles答案:B26.Who is NOT the major character in To the Lighthouse?_______A.Mrs.RamsayB.Mr.RamsayC.DavidD.Lily Briscoe答案:C27.In Hardy＇s Wessex novels,there is an apparent_______touch in his description of the simple and beautiful though primitive rural life.A.humorousB.romanticC.nostalgicD.sarcastic答案:C28.Which novel gave Woolf the reputation as an important psychological writer?_______A.To the LighthouseB.The wavesC.Mrs.DallowayD.The Common Reader答案:C29.The sentence"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare's________.ediesB.tragediesC.sonnetsD.histories答案:C30.Which of the following historical events does not directly help to stimulate the rising of the Renaisssance Movement?_______A.The rediscovery of ancient Greek and Roman cultureB.The new discoveries in geography and astrologyC.The Glorious revolutionD.The religious reformation and the economic expansion答案:C31.Which of the following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare's Sonnet18?_______A.The speaker eulogizes the power of NatureB.The speaker satirizes human vanityC.The speaker praises the power of artistic creationD.The speaker meditates on man's salvation答案:C32.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 Dream答案:C33.The sentence"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare's________edieB.stragediesC.sonnetsD.histories答案:C34.Of all the eighteenth-century novelists,_______was the first to set out,both in theory and practice,to write specifically a"comic epic in prose,"and the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.A.Daniel DefoeB.Samuel RichardsonC.Henry FieldingD.Oliver Goldsmith答案:C35.The statement“A demanding mother turns away from her husband and gives all her affection to her sons”sums up the main plot of wrence′s_____.dy Chatterley’s LoverB.Women in loveC.Sons and LoversD.The Plumed Serpent答案:C36.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 Tales答案:D37.“And we will sit upon the rocks,/Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks,/By shallow rivers to whose falls/Melodious birds sing madrigals.”The above lines are probably taken from_______.A.Spenser's The Faerie QueeneB.John Donne's“The Sun Rising”C.Shakespeare's“Sonnet18”D.Marlowe's“The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”答案:D38.In William Blake's poetry,the father（and any other in whom he saw the image of the father such as God,priest,and king）was usually a figure of_______.A.benevolenceB.admirationC.loveD.tyranny答案:D39.G.B.Shaw's play Mrs.Warren's Profession is a realistic exposure of the_______in the English society.A.slum landlordismB.inequality between men and womenC.political corruptionD.economic exploitation of women答案:D40.Alexander Pope strongly advocated_______,emphasizing that literary works should be judged by rules of order,reason,logic, restrained emotion,good taste and decorum.A.sentimentalismB.romanticismC.idealismD.neoclassicism答案:D41.American writers of the first postwar era who were devoid of faith and alienated from the civilization were commonly called "______."A.sons of libertyB.fatherless childrenC.a beat generationD.a lost generation答案:D42.Robert Frost combined traditional verse forms-the sonnet, rhyming couplets,blank verse-with a clear American local speech rhythm,the speech of_______farmers with its idiosyncratic diction and syntaxA.SouthernB.WesternC.New HampshireD.New England答案:D43.The typical feature of Robert Browning's poetry is the_______A.bitter satirerger-than-life caricaturetinized dictionD.dramatic monologue答案:D44.The Victorian Age was largely an age of_______,eminently represented by Dickens and ThackerayA.poetryB.dramaC.proseD.D.novels答案:D判断题1.The preface to the Lyrical Ballads is best read as a statement of Keats’s principles of poetry.T.对F.错答案:F2.Hardy is the founder of the"stream of consciousness"school of novel writing.T.对F.错答案:F3.The19th century produced the first English novelists,who fall into two groups the sentimentalist novelists and the realist novelists.T.对F.错答案:F4.Renaissance had its beginning in Italy in the middle of the fifteenth century.T.对F.错答案:F5.Besides novel writing,Hawthorne is also a very good writer of short stories.T.对F.错答案:T6.Swift is a master satirist.His satire is usually masked by an outward gravity and an apparent earnestness which renders his satire all the more powerful.His"A Modest Proposal"is generally taken as a perfect model.T.对F.错答案:T7."Dr.Faustus"is a play based on the English Legend of a magician aspiring for knowledge and finally meeting his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the Devil.T.对F.错答案:T8.Shelley's greatest achievement is his four-act poetic drama, "Prometheus Unbound".(1820)T.对F.错答案:T9.In his poetry,Donne frequently applies conceits,i. e. extended metaphors involving dramatic contrastsT.对F.错答案:T10.George Hurstwood is a friend of Drouet’s who steals a great deal of money from his employer and actually kidnaps Carrie to Canada.T.对F.错答案:T11.Robert Frost’s poems are New England in their setting,and are characterized by the familiar speaking voiceT.对F.错答案:T12.In his poetry,Donne frequently applies conceits,i.e. extended metaphors involving dramatic contrasts.T.对F.错答案:T13.Though Naturalism seems to have played an important part in Hardy's works,there is also bitter and sharp criticism and even open challenge as the irrational,hypocritical and unfair Victorian institutions,conventions and morals which strangle the individual will and destroy natural human emotions and relationshipsT.对F.错答案:T14.The Pilgrim's Progress is the most successful religious allegory in the English language.T.对F.错答案:T15.The most important contribution Byron has made is that he has not only started the modern poetry,the poetry of the growing inner self,but also changed the course ofT.对F.错答案:T16.Generally speaking,Jane Austen was a writer of the18th-century,though she lived mainly in the nineteenth century.T.对F.错答案:T17.Though Naturalism seems to have played an important part in Hardy's works,there is also bitter and sharp criticism and even open challenge as the irrational,hypocritical and unfair Victorian institutions,conventions and morals which strangle the individual will and destroy natural human emotions and relationships.T.对F.错答案:T18.Robert Frost’s poems are New England in their setting,and are characterized by the familiar speaking voice.T.对F.错答案:T简答题1.The last four lines of the poem I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud are the exact repetition of the very first four lines.How do you understand this?答案:First of all,by using repetition,the poet wants to express his strong love for his homeland.Secondly,repetition can also help to leave a deep impression on readers'mind,which will be easy for readers to remember.Thirdly,repetition also shows the songlike quality of this poem.2.What do you know about"lost generation."?答案:Tips:American poet Gertrude Stein actually coined the expression "lost generation."Speaking to Ernest Hemingway,she said,"you are all a lost generation."The term stuck and the mystique surrounding these individuals continues to fascinate us.Full of youthful idealism,these individuals sought the meaning of life,drank excessively,had love affairs and created some of the finest American literature to date.There were many literary artists involved in the groups known as the Lost Generation.The three best known are F.Scott Fitzgerald,Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos.Others usually included among the list are:Sherwood Anderson,Kay Boyle,Hart Crane,Ford Maddox Ford and Zelda Fitzgerald.3.Why does Hamlet hesitate before taking decisive action?答案:This is decided by Hamlet’s character.He is an indecisive person.Also,as a representative of Humanist,he behaves according to his ration.He has to justify himself before t aking any actions.Therefore,he has to make sure about the whole thing and the uncle’s evil nature before he could take revenge on him.4.Please list the Major Characters of David Copperfield.答案:David Copperfield:The hero of the novel.The novel depict s David’s life experiences from an innocent boy to a famou s writer.Mr.Murdstone:David’s stepfather who is a me rciless and cruel man.Mr.Micawber:David’s friend who is heavily in debt but he is trying to working through i t.Dora:David’s employer’s daughter who is in fact a pretty and empty-headed child when she and David got marri ed.Agnes:David’s friend from childhood who really unders tands David.They got married after Dora’s death.5.How does the poet depict the host of daffodils in I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud?答案:First,the poet tells us where he finds the host of daffodils(i.e. "Beside the lake,beneath the trees");then he goes on to depict the colour (i.e.golden),the quantity("Ten thousand saw I at a glance"),the movement("Fluttering and dancing in the breeze","Tossing their heads in sprightly dance")of the daffodils.6.The literary school of naturalism was quite popular in the late 19th century.What are the major characteristics of naturalism?答案:Naturalism is one school of realism where the author's tone in writing becomes less serious and less sympathetic but more ironic and more pesimistic.The American naturalism accepted the more negative implication of Darwin's evolutionary theory and used it to account for the behavior of theose characters in literary works who conceived as more or less complex combinations of inherited attributes,their habits conditioned by social and economic forces.They chose their subjects from the lower ranks of society,and portrayed misery and poverty of the'underdogs'who were deomostrably victims of society and nature.One of the most familiarcially as an explanation of sexual desire,Articically naturalistic writings are usually unpolished in language,lacking in academic skills and unwieldy in structure.Philosophically,the naturalists believe that the realand true is always partially hidden form the eyes of the individual,or beyond his control.7.Why is the story of David Copperfield told from David’s point of view?答案:The novel is told in the first person,through the mouth of its hero, David.By using the first person narrator,the author gains a number of advantages.First,the incidents can be presented in a very convincing fashion.Readers tend to believe the things told by David.Also it helps the author to select details.Only the events and details that David could have seen and experienced can logically be introduced into the story. Another advantage of first-person narration is that the narrator’s limited view may create the effect of suspense.8.Why is Jane Eyre one of the most popular and important novels of the Victorian Age?答案:The novel Jane Eyre is noted for its sharp criticism of the existing society.For example,the religious hypocrisy of charity school where girls are trained,through constant starvation and humiliation,to be humble slaves.Also the social discrimination Jane experiences as a governess at Thornfield,and the false social convention as concerning love and marriage.In the later half of the20th century,literary critics also noted another poor figure in this novel,Mr.Rochester’s mad wife, who has been neglected both by characters in the novel and common readers. The images of women in this novel is worth further study.9.Please explain the originate of the Renaissance.答案:Tips:According to Hawthorne,"There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent,perhaps,through the whole life;but circumstances may rouse it to activity."A piece of literary work should "show how we are all wronged and wrongers,and avenge one another."So in almost every book he wrote,Hawthorne discusses sin and evil.In"Young Goodman Brown",he sets out to prove that everyone possesses some evil secret."The Minister's Black Veil"goes further to suggest that everyone tries to hold the evil secret from one another in the way the minister tries to convince his people with his black veil."The Birthmark"drives home symbolically Hawthorne's point that evil is man's birthmark, something he is born with.10.Please explain the originate of the Renaissance.答案:Tips:Renaissance marks a transition from the medieval to th e modern world.Generally,it refers to the period between the14th and mid17th centuries.It first started from Ital y with the flowering of painting,sculpture and literature, and then spread all over Europe.The renaissance means“r ebirth”or“revival”,it is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events,such as the rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek culture,the new discoveries in geography and astrology,the religious reformation and the economic expansion.In this period,the European humanist thi nkers and scholars made attempts to get rid of those old f eudalist ideas in medieval Europe,to introduce new ideas th at expressed the interests of the rising bourgeoisie,and to recover the purity of the early church from the corruption of the Roman Catholic Church。

202X年7月高等教育自学考试全国统一命题考试英美文学选读卷子课程代码0604PART one(40 Points)I．Multiple Choice (40 points in all, 1 for each)Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement.Mark your choice by blackening the corresponding letter A，B，C Or D On theAnswer Sheet.1．_______, a typical example of old English poetry，is regarded as the national epic of the Anglo—Saxons．A．The Canterbury TalesB．ExodusC．BeowulfD．The Legend of Good Women2．It was ______ who first introduced the Petrarchan sonnet into England.A．CaxtonB．WyattC．SurreyD．Marlowe3．It is generally believed that the most important play among Shakespeare’s comedies is ______ A．A Midsummer Night’s DreamB．As You Like ItC．The Merchant of VeniceD．Twelfth Night4．All the following poets except ______ belong to the metaphysical school.A．DonneB．HerbertC．MarvellD．Milton5．Of all the eighteenth —century novelists, ______ was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a “comic epic in prose〞and the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.A．Daniel DefoeB．Samuel RichardsonC．Henry FieldingD．Oliver Goldsmith6．Although writing from different points of view and with different techniques, writers in the Victorican Period shared one thing in common, that is, they were all concerned about ______ .A．the love story between the rich and the poorB．the techniques in writingC．the fate of the common peopleD．the future of their own country7．In the theatrical world of the neoclassical period ______ was the leading figure among the host of playwrights.A．William BlakeB．Richard SheridanC．Ben JonsonD．Bernard Shaw8．The eighteenth —century England is also known as the Age of Enlightenment or the Age of ______.A．IntellectB．ReasonC．RationalityD．Science9．______ by Swift is generally regarded as the best model of satire, not only of the 18th century but also in the whole English literary history.A．A Tale of a TubB．The Battle of the BooksC．〞A Modest Proposal 〞D．Gulliver’s Travels10．The novels of______ are the first literary work devoted to the study of problems of the lower —class people.A．BunyanB．DefoeC．FieldingD．Swift11．Thomas Gray established his fame as the leader of the ______ of the day.A．romantic poetryB．sentimental poetryC．neoclassical poetryD．realistic novel12．Which of the following is taken from John Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn〞______ A．〞If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind〞B．〞For Godsake hold your tongue, and let me love.〞C．〞Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard/Are sweeter〞D．〞The Child is father of the Man.〞13．Robert Browning’s style is ______.A．identical with that of the other VictoriansB．similar to that of TennysonC．perfectly artisticD．rough and disproportionate in appearance14．Thomas Hardy wrote novels of ______.A．character and environmentB．pure romanceC．stream of consciousnessD．psychoanalysis15．The three trilogies of ______ novels are masterpieces of critical realism in the early 20th century.A．Galsworthy’s ForsyteB．Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Sunset Song’s Women in Love’s A Passage to India16．______ is considered to be the best—known English dramatist since Shakespeare.A．Oscar WildeB．Christopher MarloweC．John DrydenD．Bernard Shaw17．______ was awarded Nobel Prize for literature in 1923.A．Bernard ShawB．John Galsworthy18．Of the following poets, which is not regarded as “Lake Poets〞A．Samuel Taylor ColeridgeB．Robert SoutheyC．William WordsworthD．George Gordon Byron19．The four great odes of John Keats include the following EXCEPT ______.A．〞Ode on Melancholy〞B．〞Ode on a Grecian Urn〞C．〞Ode to a Nightingale〞D．〞Ode to the West wind〞’s masterpieces.A．Women in LoveB．Sons and LoversC．Lady Chatterley’s LoverD．The Plumed Serpent21．In Oscar Wilde’s masterpiece ______, he expressed a satirical and bitter attitude towards the upper —class people by revealing their corruption, snobbery and hypocrisy.A．SalomeB．The Importance of Being EarnestC．The Happy PrinceD．A Woman of No Importance22．〞The V anity Fair 〞is a well—known part in The Pilgrim’s Progress, which of the following writers later adopted it as the title of a novel？A．DickensB．ThackerayC．FieldingD．Hardy23．To the transcendentalists such as ______ and Thoreau, man is divine in nature; but to Hawthorne and Melville, everybody is potentially a sinner.A．Washington IrvingB．EmersonC．Henry JamesD．Emily Dickinson24．Washington Irving’s ______ was written in England, filled with English scenes and quotations from English authors and faithful to British orthography.A．Bracebridge HallB．Tales of a TravelerC．The Sketch BookD．The Alhambra25．The American Romantic writers celebrated America’s landscape with its virgin forests, meadows, groves, endless prairies, streams, and vast oceans.______ came to function almost as a dramatic character that symbolized moral law.A．The Atlantic OceanB．The Rocky MountainsC．The Pacific OceanD．The wilderness26．Which one of the following statements is NOT true of Washington IrvingA．He was regarded as Father of the American Short Story.B．He was one of the first American writers to earn an international reputation.C．He enjoyed the honor of being “the American Goldsmith〞for his literary craftsmanship.D．He was one of the advocates of the New England Transcendentalism.27．Which one of the following statements is NOT true of Ralph Waldo Emerson and his works A．Emerson’s essays often have a formal style, for most of them were derived from his journals or lectures.B．In his essays, Emerson put forward his philosophy of Transcendentalism, focusing on the importance of the individual and the nature.C．Emerson based his philosophy on an intuitive belief in an ultimate unity, which he called the 〞over—soul〞.D．Emerson is affirmative about man’s intuitive knowledge, with which a man can trust himself to decide what is right and to act accordingly.28．〞The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other, who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood〞. This is the voice of the book _____ written by Emerson, which pushed American Romanticism into a new phase, the phase of New England _________.A．Nature…SymbolismB．The American Scholar…NaturalismC．Nature…TranscendentalismD．the American Scholar…Realism29．Which one of the following statements about Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter is trueA．Hawthorne intended to tell a love story in this novel.B．Hawthorne intended to tell a story of sin in this novel.C．Hawthorne intended to reveal the human psyche after they sinned, so as to show people the tension between society and individuals.D．Hawthorne focused his attention on consequences of the sin on the people in general, so as to call the readers back to the conventional Puritan way of living.30．Walt Whitman is a poet with a strong sense of mission, having decoted all his life to the creation of the “single〞poem, ________.A．ChicagoB．My Lost YouthC．Leaves of GrassD．A Pact31．Redburn is a semi —autobiographical novel written by ________, concerning the sufferings of a genteel youth among brutal sailors.A．Walt WhitmanB．Nathaniel HawthorneC．Herman MelvilleD．Ralph Waldo Emerson32．The period ranging from ________ to ________ has been referred to as the Age of Realism in the literary history of the United States.A．1865 (1945)B．1865 (1914)C．1783 (1945)D．1783 (1914)33．________thought that the writer should use language to probe the deepest reaches of the psychological and moral nature of human beings rather than simply hold a mirror to the surface of social life in particular times and places. He is a realist of the inner life.A．Mark TwainB．William Dean HowellsC．Henry JamesD．Theodore Dreiser34．〞I felt good and all washed clean of sin for the first time I had ever felt so in my life, and I knowed I could pray now. But I didn’t do it straight off, but laid the paper down and set there thinking —thinking how good it was all this happened so, and how near I come to being lost and going to hell. 〞The above passage is taken from ________.A．The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnB．The Adventures of Tom SawyerC．Uncle Tom’s CabinD．Life on the Mississippi35．The following statements are all true of Daisy Miller EXCEPT________.A．Frederick Winterbourne, the narrator of the story, es an American expatriate.B．With the publication of Daisy Miller, William James reputation was firmly established on both sides of the Atlantic.C．With the publication of Daisy Miller, Daisy Miller has ever since become the American Girl in Europe, a celebrated cultural type who embodies the spirit of the New World.D．Daisy Miller’s defiance of social taboos in the Old World finally brings her to a disaster in the clash between the two different cultures.36．Which one of the following statements is true of Dickinson’s “I like to see it lap the Miles〞A．This poem describes a mare dancing at midnight.B．This poem describes a horse galloping through valleys.C．This poem describes a train running through the mountainous area.D．This poem describes a traveler’s joyous journey through the scenic mountainous area.37．________ is considered to be a spokesman for the alienated youth in the post —war era and his The Catcher in the Rye is regarded as a students’ classicA．Allen GinXergD．Henry James38．Towards the end of After Apple —Picking，Frost writes “ Were he not gone, /The woodchuck could say whether it’s like his /Long sleep, as I describe its coming on, /Or just some human sleep.〞The “human sleep 〞here refers to ________.A．a trip to the countrysideB．deathC．rest after a day’s work in the orchardD．exaltation of mind39．In the third chapter of The Great GatXy by Fitzgerald, there is a wonderful description of GatXy’s party which evokes both ___________ of that strange and fascinating era that we call________.A．the pride and the prejudice…Victorian AgeB．the romance and the sadness…Jazz AgeC．the love and the hatred…Age of ReasonD．the Vanity and the disillusionment…Age of Reason40．Faulkner once said that ___________ is a story of 〞lost innocence〞, which proves itself to be an intensification of the theme of imprisonment in the past.A．The Sound and the FuryB．Go Down, MosesC．Light in AugustD．Absalom, Absalom!PART TWO (60 POINTS)II．Reading Comprehension (16 points in all, 4 for each)Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.41．〞To be, or not to be —that is the question;Whether’ tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,And by opposing end them〞Questions:A．Identify the author and the title of the passage from which this part is taken.B．Explain the meaning of “To be, or not to be〞.C．How do you understand the last two lines42．〞The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,And all that beauty, all that wealth e’er gave,Awaits alike the inevitable hour.The paths of glory lead but to the grave.〞Questions:A．Identify the author and the title of the passage from which this part is taken.B．What does the phrase 〞inevitable hour〞meanC．Write out the main idea of the passage in plain English.43．〞I glanced back once. A wafer of a moon was shinning over GatXy’s house, making the night fine as before, and surviving the laughter and the sound of his still glowing garden. A sudden emptiness seemed to flow now from the windows and the great doors, endowing with complete isolation the figure of the host, who stood on the porch, his hand up in a formal gesture of farewell. 〞Questions:A．Identify the author and the title of the passage from which this part is taken.B．The passage describes the end of an event, What is itC．What implied meaning can you get from reading this passage44．We passed the School, where Children strove AT Recess—in the Ring—We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain—We passed the Setting Sun—Questions:A．Who is the author of this stanza taken from the poem “Because I could not stop for Death—〞？B．What do the underlined parts symbolizeC．Where were “we〞heading towardIII．Questions and Answers (24 points in all,6 for each)Give brief answers to each of the following questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.45．Edmund Spenser is one of the poets of English Renaissance. What are the qualities of his poetry46．The Man of Property is the first novel of the Forsyte trilogies by Galsworthy. What is the theme and the tone of The Man of Property47．Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown〞is often read as a conventional allegory. What does the work symbolically concern48．William Faulkner is one of the greatest American novelists. What do you know about his narrative techniques IV．Topic Discussion (20 points in all, 10 for each)Write no less than 150 word on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.49．Discuss Charles Dickens’ art of fiction: the setting, the character —portrayal, the language, etc., based on his novel Oliver Twist.50．Discuss the symbolism employed in Moby Dick.。

福师《英美文学选读》在线作业二-0004试卷总分:100 得分:0一、单选题(共50 道试题,共100 分)1.The director tried to get the actors to _________ to the next scene by hand signals.A.move onB.move offC.move outD.move along正确答案:B2.The chairman of the board _____ on me the unpleasant job of dismissing good workers the firm can no longer afford to employ.pelledB.posedC.pressedD.tempted正确答案:C3.With the popularity of the Internet, both commercial computers and personal ones are more ____ to the computer viruses than ever before.A.liableB.vulnerableC.subjectiveD.subordinate正确答案:B4.Within two days, the army fired more than two hundred rockets and missiles at military _____in the coastal city.A.goalsB.destinationsC.targetsD.aims正确答案:C5.The purpose of the official inquiry is to ____ the true facts leading to the loss of the ship at sea.e fore ate intoe over正确答案:B6.Radio reception wasn’t very good because of a disturbance in the atmosphere; the announcer’s voice sounded very ____.A.disputedB.discardedC.dismissedD.distorted正确答案:D7.The old Roman walls may still be seen, but not in their ____.A.integritypactnessC.installmentD.flexibility正确答案:A8.He promised to put ____ a word for me.A.outB.downC.forwardD.in正确答案:D9.The party will ____their leader very determinedly.A.adhere toB.coincide withC.cling toD.depend on正确答案:C10.The nurse was dismissed because she was found to be ____.A.roundaboutB.correspondingC.vigilantD.negligent正确答案:D11.A man who always ____ his salary can never become very wealthy.A.anticipateB.articulateC.manifestD.monitor正确答案:A12.Foreign disinvestment and the ________ of South Africa from world capital markets after 1985 further weakened its economy.A.displacementB.eliminationC.exclusionD.exception正确答案:C13.For a little while the girl ____ for her dead cat, but she got over it after a few days.A.achedB.depressedC.grievedD.upset正确答案:C14.The portion of the total income of China’s railways which comes from carrying cargo is____80 percent.A.consequentlyB.roughlyparativelyD.incidentally正确答案:B15.A square is a flat area having four sides, any adjacent two sides of which ____ a right angle.A.makeB.advocateC.adjoinD.shape正确答案:A16.We realized that he was under great _________, so we took no notice of his bad temper.A.excitementB.stressC.crisisD.nervousness正确答案:B17.Dr.Smith was always ______the poor and the sick, often providing them with free medical care.A.tended byB.absorbed inC.reminded ofD.concerned about正确答案:D18.Miss Jane always buys ____ priced clothes.A.highlyB.highestC.highD.higher正确答案:A19.The archaeologist ____that the vase was 3500 years old.A.utilizedB.estimatedC.sustainedD.upheld正确答案:B20.American companies are evolving from mass-production manufacturing to ________ enterprises.A.moveableB.changingC.flexibleD.varying正确答案:C21.An auction is usually advertised beforehand with full particulars of articles to be sold and where and when they can be viewed by ____ buyers.A.perspectiveB.prospectiveC.prosperousD.profitable正确答案:B22.For three-quarters of its span on Earth, life evolved almost______ as microorganisms.A.preciselyB.instantlyC.initiallyD.exclusively正确答案:D23.In no case will they ____ with folded arms.A.pass byB.look onC.go byD.hold on正确答案:B24.The meeting was put off because we __________ a meeting without John.A.objected havingB.were objected to havingC.objected to haveD.objected to having正确答案:D25.She hit the chair and ____ the coffee.A.spoiledB.pouredC.spilledD.splashed正确答案:C26.The manager gave one of the salesgirls an accusing look for her ______ attitude toward customersA.impartialdC.hostileD.opposing正确答案:C27.Children who stay away from school do ________ for different reasons.A.themB./C.itD.theirs正确答案:D28.I know he failed his last test, but really he’s _________ stupid.A.something butB.anything butC.nothing butD.not but正确答案:B29.Their marriage came to an end because they were simply not ____ with each other.parablepatiblepetitiveplacent正确答案:B30.The old paper mill has been ______to make way for a new shopping centre.A.held downB.kept downC.cut downD.turn down正确答案:D31.The editor told me that if I could ____ my story to 5,000 words, they would take it.A.cut offB.cut downC.cut acrossD.cut in正确答案:B32.Martin lay____on the bed all night,turning over and over in his mind the great decision he might have to make.A.wakeC.wakenD.woke正确答案:B33.Because Bob had stopped reading his technical journals he was ____ of new development in his field.A.tediousB.subtleC.ignorantD.intellectual正确答案:C34.His contribution to the program was ____ because 99 percent of the work was completed by his colleagues.A.invisibleB.negligibleC.appreciableD.considerable正确答案:B35.His talent is quite ____.A.mereB.uniqueC.singleD.only正确答案:B36.______recent developments we do not think your scheme is practical.A.In view ofB.In favor ofC.In case ofD.In memory of正确答案:A37.The mayor is a woman with great _______ and therefore deserves our political and financial support.A.intentionB.instinctD.intensity正确答案:C38.Because fuel supplies are finite and many people are wasteful, we will have to install _________ solar heating device in our home.A.some type ofB.some types of aC.some type of aD.some types of正确答案:A39.It was no _____ that his car was seen near the bank at the time of the robbery .A.coincidenceB.conventionC.certaintyplication正确答案:A40.The meaning of this poem is very ____; I really do not understand it.A.conspicuousB.intelligibleC.obscureD.dim正确答案:C41.Mr.Smith asked his secretary to ______a new paragraph in the annual report she was typing.A.invadeB.installC.insertD.inject正确答案:C42.His ideas are invariably condemned as ________ by his colleagues.A.imaginativeB.ingeniousC.impracticalD.theoretical正确答案:C43.Most laboratory and field studies of human behavior ______taking a situational photograph ata given time and in a given place.A.attachposeC.involveD.enclose正确答案:C44.Some people believe that since oil is scarce, the ____of the motor industry is uncertain.A.estimateB.terminalC.fateD.benefit正确答案:C45.The wealth of a country should be measured ________ the health and happiness of its people as well as the material goods it can produce.A.in line withB.in terms ofC.in regard withD.by means of正确答案:B46.As he failed to win the first prize in the badminton match, he had to ____ the second.A.settle inB.settle forC.settle upD.settle with正确答案:B47.Nobody yet knows how long and how seriously the shakiness in the financial system will ________ down the economy.A.putB.settleC.dragD.knock正确答案:C48.She worked hard at her task before she felt sure that the results would ________ her long effort.A.justifyB.testifyC.rectifyD.verify正确答案:A49.I have been ____ to the newspaper for ten years.A.ascribingB.subscribingC.orderingD.purchasing正确答案:B50.You don’t have to install this radio in your new car . It’s an _______ extra.A.excessiveB.optionalC.additionalD.arbitrary正确答案:B。

《英美文学选读》（课程代码：00604）I.The following passage is an extract from Letter to Lord Chesterfield by Samuel Johnson, the leading figure of British neoclassicists. In 1747, when Samuel Johnson, began his Dictionary of the English language, Lord Chesterfield had at first indicated that he could be his patron, but when Johnson came to him for concrete help, Lord Chesterfield neglected him to the point of ignoring him; Johnson was insulted and furious. In 1775 when the Dictionary was published and acclaimed, Chesterfield openly recommended, hoping to get some credit for it as Johnson’s patron. Samuel Johnson wrote as reply his famous Letter to Lord Chesterfield in which he vented his feeling of hurt pride. Read it carefully, paying special attention to the rhetorical devices used, and answer the question. (20 points)①Is not patron, my lord, one who looked with unconcernupon man struggling for a life in the water, and when he hadreached to the safety of ground, encumbered him with help?②The notice you have taken of my Labour, had it beenearly, had been kind, but it had been delayed till I amindifferent, and can’t enjoy it; till I am solitary, and can’timpart it; till I am known, and do not want it. ③I hope thatit is no very asperity not to confess obligation where nobenefit have been received, or to be unwilling that thePublic should consider me as owing that to a patron, whichProvidence had enabled me to do for myself.Question:⑴what syntactic devices the author used in sentence ? And whatare their stylistic functions? (10 points)⑵point out the figure of speech used in sentences①and ③. (10 points)II. The following critical paper is about George Bernard Shaw’s famous drama “Pygmalion”. Read it carefully and answer the questions set on it. (20 points) 1 What we discover in Pygmalion is that phonetics and correct pronunciation are systems of markers superficial in themselves but endowed with tremendous social significance. Eliza's education in the ways that the English upper classes act and speak provides an opportunity for the playwright to explore the very foundations of social equality and inequality. Higgins himself observes that pronunciation is the deepest gulf that separates class from class and soul from soul. Playwright and character differ, however, in that instead of criticizing the existence of this gulf, Higgins accepts it as natural and uses his skills to help those who can afford his services (or are taken in as experiments, like Liza) to bridge it.2“At Mrs. Higgins's ““At Home reception,” Liza is fundamentally the same person she was in Act I, although she differs in what we learnto appreciate as superficialities of social disguise (according to Mugglestone): details of speech and cleanliness. Act III of Pygmalion highlights the importance of Liza's double transformation, by showing her suspended between the play's beginning and its conclusion. In modern society, however, as Shaw illustrates, it is precisely these superficial details which tend to be endowed with most significance. Certainly the Eynsford Hills view such details as significant, as Liza's entrance produces for them what Shaw's stage directions call “an impression of ... remarkable distinction and beauty.”3 Ironically, however, Liza's true transformation is yet to occur. She experiences a much more fundamental change in her consciousness when she realizes that Higgins has more or less abandoned her at the conclusion of his experiment.At first, Liza experiences a sense of anxiety over not belonging anywhere: she can hardly returnto flower peddling, yet she lacks the financial means to makeher new, outward identity a social reality. “What am I fit for?”She demands of Higgins. “What have you left me fit for? Wheream I to go? What am I to do? What's to become of me?” Berst wrote that while Pickering is generous, Eliza is shoved intothe wings by Higgins. The dream has been fulfilled, midnighthas tolled for Cinderella, and morning reality is at hand. Lizamust break away from Higgins when he shows himself incapableof recognizing her needs. This response of Higgins is well withinhis character as it has been portrayed in the play. Indeed, fromhis first exposure to Liza, Higgins denied Liza any social oreven individual worth. Calling Liza a squashed cabbage leaf, Higgins states that a woman who utters such depressing anddisgusting sounds has no right to be anywhere no right to live. Question 1: Explain what is Liza’s Double Transformation?(10 points)Question 2: What makes Liza feel she is in an embarrassing situation when she is transformed into a lady in speechand appearance? (10 points)III.The following critical essay is about Thomas Hardy’s most well-known tragic novel “Tess of d’Urbervilles”. Peruse it and then answer the questions set on it (30 points)The social background of Tess of d’Urbervilles was in a time of difficult social upheaval, when England was making its slow, painful transition from an old-fashioned, agricultural nation to amodern, industrial one. Businessmen and entrepreneurs, or “new money,” joined the ranks of the social elite, as some families of the ancient aristocracy, or “old money,” faded into obscurit y. Tess’s family in Tess of the d’Urbervilles illustrates this change, as Tess’s parents, the Durbeyfields, lose themselves in the fantasy of belonging to an ancient and aristocratic family, the d’Urbervilles.Hardy’s novel strongly suggests that such a f amily history is not only meaningless but also utterly undesirable. Hardy’s views on the subject were appalling to conservative and status-conscious British readers and Tess of the d’Urberville s was met in England with widespread controversy. Beyond her social symbolism, Tess represents fallen humanity in a religious sense, as the frequent biblical allusions in the novel remind us. Just as Tess’s clan was once glorious and powerful but is now sadly diminished, so too did the early glory of the first humans, Adam and Eve, fade with their expulsion from Eden, making humans sad shadows of what they once were. Tess thus represents what is known in Christian theology as original sin, the degraded state in which all humans live, even when—like Tess herself after killing Prince or succumbing to Alec—they are not wholly or directly responsible for the sins for which they are punished. This torment represents the most universal side of Tess: she is the myth of the human who suffers for crimes that are not her own and lives a life more degraded than she deserves.Angel represents a rebellious striving toward a personal vision of goodness A freethinking son born into the family of a provincial parson and determined to set himself up as a farmer instead of going to Cambridge like his conformist brothers,. He is a secularist who yearns to work for the “honor and glory of man,” as he tells his father in Chapter XVIII, rather than for the honor and glory of God in a more distant world. A typical young nineteenth-century progressive, Angel sees human society as a thing to be remolded and improved, and he fervently believes in the nobility of man. He rejects the values handed to him, and sets off in search of his own. His love for Tess, a mere milkmaid and his social inferior, is one expression of his disdain for tradition. This independent spirit contributes to his aura of charisma and general attractiveness that makes him the love object of all the milkmaids with whom he works at Talbothays. As his name—in French, close to “Bright Angel”—suggests, Angel is not quite of this world, but floats above it in a transcendent sphere of his own. The narrator says that Angel shines rather than burns and that he is closer to the intellectually aloof poet Shelley than to the fleshly and passionate poet Byron.His love for Tess may be abstract, as we guess when he calls her “Daughter of Nature” or “Demeter.” Tess may be more an archetype or ideal to him than a flesh and blood woman with a complicated life. Angel’s ideals of human purity are too elevated to be applied to actual people: Mrs. Durbeyfield’s easygoing moral beliefs are much more easily accommodated to real lives such as Tess’s. Angel awakens to the actual complexities of real-world morality after hisfailure in Brazil, and only then he realizes he has been unfair to Tess. His moral system is readjusted as he is brought down to Earth. Ironically, it is not the angel who guides the human in this novel, but the human who instructs the angel, although at the cost of her own life.Question 1: Why Tess is said to be a paragon of “fallen humanity”?(15 points)Question 2: Why Tess converted the idealist Angle into a realist Angle in terms of her own tragedy? (15 points)IV.The following paragraphs are taken from chapter VIII ofbook IV in Gulliver’s Travels. This section pictures an ideal rational existence, the Houyhnhnms kingdom whose life is governed by sense and moderation of which philosopherssince Plato have long dreamed. Read them and answer thefollowing questions. (30 points)1Courtship, love, presents, jointures, settlements haveno place in their thoughts, or terms whereby to expressthem in their language. The young couple meet,and are joined, merely because it is the determinationof their parents and friends; it is what they see doneevery day, and they look upon it as one of the necessaryactions of a reasonable being.2 But the violation of marriage, or any other unchastity,was never heard of; and the married pair pass their liveswith the same friendship and mutual benevolence, thatthey bear to all others of the same species who come intheir way, without jealousy, fondness, quarrelling, ordiscontent. When the matron Houyhnhnms have produced one of each sex, they no longer accompany with their consorts, except they lose one of their issue by some casualty, which very seldom happens; but in such a case they meet again; or when the like accident befalls a person whose wife is past bearing, some other couple bestow on him one of their own colts, and then go together again until the mother is pregnant. This caution is necessary, to prevent the country from being overburdened with numbers. But the race of inferior Houyhnhnms, bred up to be servants, is not so strictly limited upon this article: these are allowed to produce three of each sex, to be domestics in the noble families3 Every fourth year, at the vernal equinox, there is arepresentative council of the whole nation, which meets in a plain about twenty miles from our house, and continues about five or six days. Here they inquire into the state and condition of the several districts; whether they abound or be deficient in hay or oats, or cows, or Yahoos; and wherever there is any want (which is but seldom) it is immediately supplied by unanimous consent and contribution. Here likewise the regulation of children is settled: as for instance, ifa Houyhnhnm has two males, he changes one of them withanother that has two females; and when a child has been lost by any casualty, where the mother is past breeding, it is determined what family in the district shall breed another to supply the loss.Question1.The satire in this work is seen entirely in a discrepancybetween Swift and the Gulliver, the typical rational scientist in the age of enlightenment? Comment on it. (15points)Question2. In what ways does the author satirize the rationalism ofHouyhnhnms society, for example, the rational idea onmarriage, and the family-planning? (15 points)《英美文学选读》试卷参考答案I. 【20分】Answer:The author used repetition and parallelism to make this satirical prose daintier and more repugnant in tone. This piece of prose is typical of neoclassical prose which set great store by elegance of the language which was achieved by way of rhetorical richness. 【10分】The author used sarcasm in these two sentences to openly deny Lord Chesterfield’s patronage and attack his insolent and blatant behavior. The sarcasm made in a circumlocutious way renders this satirical prose more taunting and bitter. 【10分】II【20分】Question 1: What is Liza’s Double Transformation?Act III of Pygmalion highlights the importance of Liza's double transformation, by showing her suspended between the play's beginning and its conclusion. “At Mrs. Higgins's ““At Home reception,” Liza is fundamentally the same person she was in Act I, although she differs in what we learn to appreciate as superficialities of social disguise (according to Mugglestone): details of speech and cleanliness. In modern society, however, as Shaw illustrates, it is precisely these superficial details which tend to be endowed with most significance. Certainly the Eynsford Hills view such details as significant, as Liza's entrance produces for them what Shaw's stage directions call “animpression of ... remarkable distinction and beauty.” Ironically, however, Liza's true transformation is yet to occur. She experiences a much more fundamental change in her consciousness when she realizes that Higgins has more or less abandoned her at the conclusion of his experiment. 【10分】Question 2:What is Liza’s Predicament?Liza experiences a sense of anxiety over not belonging anywhere: she can hardly return to flower peddling, yet she lacks the financial means to make her new, outward identity a social reality. “What am I fit for?” She demands of Higgins. “What have you left me fit for? Where am I to go? What am I to do? What's to become of me?” While Pickering is generous, Eliza is shoved into the wings by Higgins. The dream has been fulfilled, midnight has tolled for Cinderella, and morning reality is at hand. Liza must break away from Higgins when he shows himself incapable of recognizing her needs. This response of Higgins is well within his character as it has been portrayed in the play. Indeed, from his first exposure to Liza, Higgins denied Liza any social or even individual worth. Calling Liza a squashed cabbage leaf, Higgins states that a woman who utters such depressing and disgusting sounds has no right to be anywhere no right to live. 【10分】III.【30分】Question 1: Why Tess is said to be a paragon of fallen humanity?Tess represents fallen humanity in a religious sense, as the frequent biblical allusions in the novel remind us. Just as Tess’s clan was once glorious and powerful but is now sadly diminished, so too did the early glory of the first humans, Adam and Eve, fade with their expulsion from Eden, making humans sad shadows of what they once were. Tess thus represents what is known in Christian theology as original sin, the degraded state in which all humans live, even when—like Tess herself after killing Prince or succumbing to Alec—they are not wholly or directly responsible for the sins for which they are punished. This torment represents the most universal side of Tess: she is the myth of the human who suffers for crimes that are not her own and lives a life more degraded than she deserves. 【15分】Question 2: Discuss why Tess changes the idealist Angle into a realist Angle in a tragic way?Angel is closer to the intellectually aloof poet Shelley than to the fleshly and passionate poet Byron. His love for Tess may be abstract, as we guess when he calls her “Daughter of Nature” or “Demeter.” Tess may be more an archetype or ideal to him than a flesh and blood woman with a complicated life. Angel’sideals of human purity are too elevated to be applied to actual people: Mrs. Durbeyfield’s eas ygoing moral beliefs are much more easily accommodated to real lives such as Tess’s. Angel awakens to the actual complexities of real-world morality after his failure in Brazil, and only then he realizes he has been unfair to Tess. His moral system is readjusted as he is brought down to Earth. Ironically, it is not the angel who guides the human in this novel, but the human who instructs the angel, although at the cost of her own life. 【15分】IV【30分】Question1. This work is called a satire which is seen entirely in a discrepancy between Swift and the Gulliver, the typical rational scientist in the age of enlightenment? Comment on it. 【15分】There are echoes of Plato’s Republic in the Houyhnhnms’rejection of light entertainment and vain displays of luxury, their appeal to reason rather than any holy writings as the criterion for proper action, and their communal approach to family planning.The Gulliver’s Travels is a book of subtle satire. The satire comes mainly from the discrepancy between Gulliver who is fitted out as the archetypal man of the enlightenment movement, susceptible to rationalism of 18th century. Swift on the other hand is very critical of his time, especially its rational thinking. Whereas Gulliver takes Houyhnhnm society as ideal utopia one, the author finds its rationality totally intolerable.Question2.In what ways does the author satirize the rational Houyhnhnms society, for example, the rational ideal on marriage, and the family-planning? 【15分】Paragons of virtue and rationality, the horses are also dull, simple, and lifeless. Their language is impoverished, their mating loveless, and their understanding of the complex play of social forces naïve. What is missing in the horses is exactly that which makes human life rich: the complicated interplay of selfishness, altruism, love, hate, and all other emotions. In other words, the Houyhnhnms’ society is perfect for Houyhnhnms, but it is hopeless for humans. Houyhnhnm society is, in stark contrast to the societies of the first three voyages, devoid of all that is human.But we may be less ready than Gulliver to take the Houyhnhnms as ideals of human existence. They have no names in the narrative nor any need for names, since they are virtually interchangeable, with little individual identity. Their lives seem harmonious and happy, although quite lacking in vigor, challenge, and excitement. Indeed, this apparent ease may be why Swift chooses to makethem horses rather than human types like every other group in the novel. He may be hinting, to those more insightful than Gulliver, that the Houyhnhnms should not be considered human ideals at all. In any case, they symbolize a standard of rational existence to be either espoused or rejected by both Gulliver and us.。

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

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

福师《英美文学选读》在线作业二附参考答案试卷总分:100 得分:100一、单选题(共50 道试题,共100 分)1.The students, ____ reading their books, did not observe me enter the classroom.A.deficient inB.adequate forC.short ofD.intent on答案:D2.Foreign disinvestment and the ________ of South Africa from world capital markets after 1985 further weakened its economy.A.displacementB.eliminationC.exclusionD.exception答案:C3.James has just arrived, but I didn’t know he _________ until yesterday.A.will comeB.was comingC.had been comingD.came答案:B更多加微boge306194.Preliminary estimation puts the figure at around $110 billion, _____ the $160 billion the President is struggling to get through the Congress.A.in proportion toB.in reply toC.in relation toD.in contrast to答案:D5.The judge ruled that the evidence was inadmissible on the grounds that it was _____ to the issue at hand .A.irrationalB.unreasonableC.invalidD.irrelevant答案:D6._______ to some parts of South America is still difficult ,because parts of the continent are still covered with thick forests .A.OrientationC.ProcessionD.Voyage答案:B7.The very ____ of justice lies in the right of every man to a fair trial.A.contentB.essenceC.thresholdD.texture答案:B8.He knows the regulations, and if he refuses to ____ with them he must take the consequence.A.accordB.assistC.confirmply答案:D9.Their marriage came to an end because they were simply not ____ with each other.parablepatiblepetitiveplacent答案:B10.The director tried to get the actors to _________ to the next scene by hand signals.A.move onB.move offC.move outD.move along答案:B11.For the new country to survive, ________ for its people to enjoy prosperity, new economic policies will be required.A.to name a fewB.let aloneC.not to speakD.let’s say答案:B12.I tried very hard to persuade him to join our group but I met with a flat ______ .A.disapprovalB.rejectionD.decline答案:C13.The Chinese diplomatic envoys were sent who should strengthen our international position and strive for world peace and friendly____ among peoples.A.collaborationB.harmonyC.coordinationD.intercourse答案:D14.You don’t have to install this radio in your new car . It’s an _______ extra.A.excessiveB.optionalC.additionalD.arbitrary答案:B15.He is planning another tour abroad ,yet his passport will ______ at the end of this month.A.expireB.exceedC.terminateD.cease答案:A16.I know he failed his last test, but really he’s _________ stupid.A.something butB.anything butC.nothing butD.not but答案:B17.Thousands of people turned out into the streets to _________ against the local authorities’decision to build a highway across the field.A.contradictB.reformC.counterD.protest答案:D18.To his great joy he discovered that his ear was becoming ____.A.sensationalB.sensitiveC.sentimentalD.sensible答案:B19.Each individual is requested to state the ____ on which his judgments are based.A.requirementsB.measuresC.legislationsD.criteria答案:D20.The chairman was blamed for letting his secretary ________too much work last week.A.take awayB.take outC.take toD.take on答案:D21.The mayor is a woman with great _______ and therefore deserves our political and financial support.A.intentionB.instinctC.integrityD.intensity答案:C22.Although the arguments were ____, he was not convinced.A.rationalB.universalC.apparentD.exceptional答案:A23.________ you _______ further problems with your printer, contact your dealer for advice.A.If, hadB.Have, hadC.Should, haveD.In case, had答案:C24._________ conscious of my moral obligations as a citizen.A.I was and always will beB.I have to be and always will beC.I had been and always will beD.I have been and always will be答案:D25.I am not______ with my roommate but I have to share the room with her ,because I have nowhere else to live.A.concernedpatibleC.considerateplied答案:B26.The wealth of a country should be measured ________ the health and happiness of its people as well as the material goods it can produce.A.in line withB.in terms ofC.in regard withD.by means of答案:B27.Politically these nations tend to be ______,with very high birth rates but poor education and very low levels of literacy.A.unsteadyB.unstableC.rationalD.reluctant答案:B28.His contribution to the program was ____ because 99 percent of the work was completed by his colleagues.A.invisibleB.negligibleC.appreciableD.considerable答案:B29.The meeting was put off because we __________ a meeting without John.A.objected havingB.were objected to havingC.objected to haveD.objected to having答案:D30.She hit the chair and ____ the coffee.A.spoiledB.pouredC.spilledD.splashed答案:C31..________quantities of water are being used nowadays with the rapid development of industry and agriculture.A.ExtremeB.ExclusiveC.ExtensiveD.Excessive答案:D32.An auction is usually advertised beforehand with full particulars of articles to be sold and where and when they can be viewed by ____ buyers.A.perspectiveB.prospectiveC.prosperousD.profitable答案:B33."This light is too______ for me to read by. Don’t we have a brighter bulb some where": said the elderly man.A.dimB.slightdD.minute答案:A34.It was no _____ that his car was seen near the bank at the time of the robbery .A.coincidenceB.conventionC.certaintyplication答案:A35.Mr. Smith had an unusual _______ : he was first an office clerk , then a sailor , and ended up as a school teacher.A.professionB.occupationC.positionD.career答案:D36."You try to get some sleep. I‘ll _____the patient‘s breakfast, "said the nurse.A.get toB.see toC.lead toD.stick to答案:B37.I went there in 1984, and that was the only occasion when I ________ the journey in exactly two days.A.must takeB.must have madeC.was able to makeD.could make答案:C38.Poverty is not ______ in most cities although ,perhaps because of the crowded conditions in certain areas , it is more visible there.A.rareB.temporaryC.prevalentD.segmental答案:C39.At first, the _____ of color pictures over a long distance seemed impossible ,but , with the painstaking efforts and at great expense ,it became a reality.A.transactionB.transmissionC.transformationD.transition答案:B40.Because fuel supplies are finite and many people are wasteful, we will have to install _________ solar heating device in our home.A.some type ofB.some types of aC.some type of aD.some types of答案:A41.A system of strict discipline has a ____ effect on conduct.A.automaticB.deliberateC.beneficialD.customary答案:C42.Most laboratory and field studies of human behavior ______taking a situational photograph ata given time and in a given place.A.attachposeC.involveD.enclose答案:C43.The house has remained ____ since its owner left for a foreign country four years ago.A.ruinedB.hauntedC.uninhabitedD.locked答案:C44.When workers are organized in trade unions, employers find it hard to lay them ________.A.offB.asideC.outD.down答案:A45.Her hair was wet from the ____ tossed up by the huge waves.A.surftherC.foamD.spray答案:D46.He promised to put ____ a word for me.A.outB.downC.forwardD.in答案:D47.His remarks were ________ annoy everybody at the meeting.A.so as toB.such as toC.such toD.as much as to答案:B48.She worked hard at her task before she felt sure that the results would ________ her long effort.A.justifyB.testifyC.rectifyD.verify答案:A49.We have arranged to go to the cinema on Friday, but we can be _______and go another day.A.probableB.reliableC.flexibleD.feasible答案:C50.They had the greatest difficulties ____ during the journey to Antarctica.A.imaginaryB.imaginativeC.imaginableD.imaginal答案:C。