英美文学试题一答案
I . Multiple Choice (40 points in all, 1 for each)
l.B 2. A 3.C 4.B 5. A 6. C 7. C 8. A 9. C 10. A 11. D 12. A 13.
B 14. D 15. A 16. A 17. A 18. A 19. D 20. D 21. D 22. A 23. A 24.
D 25. B 26. D 27. D 28. C 29. B 30. C 31. D 32. A 33. B 34. A 35.
C 36. B 37. B 38. A 39.
D 40. D
II. Reading Comprehension (16 points in all, 4 for each)
41. A. Wordsworth; I wondered lonely as a cloud
B. human soul
C. The poet expressed his love for the daffodils.
42. A. George Eliot; Middlemarch
B. The landscape covered with white snow.
C. It refers to Dorothea' s dream of fulfilling something great by marrying somebody superior, somebody who can guide her.
43. A. Whitman and Pound (the Imagists)
B. Made experiments with the conventions of the traditional poetry
C. In this poem, Pound started to find some agreement between "Whitmanesque" free verse, which he had attacked for its carelessness in composition, and the " verse libre" of the Imagists who showed more concern for formal values.
44. A. F. Scott Fitzgerald; The Great Gatsby?
B. This passage describes Gatsby' s extravagance.
C. Moths are used metaphorically to refer to those people who are drawn to the party simply for its glamour, for the wealth of Gatsby.
III. Questions and Answers (24 points in all, 6 for each)
45. A. Shakespeare's four greatest tragedies are: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear,and Macbeth.
B. Each portrays somke noble hero, who faces the injustice of human life and is caught in a difficult situation and whose fate is closely connected with the fate of the whole nation.
C. Each hero has his weakness of nature: Hamlet, the melancholic scholar; Othello' s inner weak-ness is made use of by the outside evil force; the old king Lear who is unwilling to totally give up his power; and Macbeth' s lust for power stirs up his ambition and leads him to incessant crimes.
46. A. His apparent intelligence, excellent taste for art superiority and aristocratic manners are paradoxical.
B. hispride，jealousy and brutality.
47. A. living laments the radical changes in his time, thinking that the changes have taken away some of the most endeared values in American life.
B. Irving' s pervasive theme of nostalgia for the unrecoverable past is unforgettable.
48. A. His most fanous theme is international theme.
B. Psychological approach
C. The Portrait of A Lady; Daisy Miller
Ⅳ. Topic Discussion ( 20 points in all, 10 for each )
49. A. Jane Eyre, an orphan child with a fiery spirit and a longing to love and be loved, a poor, plain,
little governess who dares to love her master.
B. In Chapter X X Ⅲ, Jane finds herself hopelessly in love with Mr. Rochester but she is aware that her love is out of the question. When forced to confront Mr. Rochester, she desperately and openly declares her equality with him and her love for him.
50. A. Rose, as a symbol of love, may refer to the love between Emily and the Northerner, yet used rather ironically, in the way it is associated with decay and death in the story.
B. Rose could also stand for the pity, sympathy, or the lament" we "shows for Emily.
C. The pity and lament goes not only to Emily but all those who are imprisoned in the past and fail to adapt to the change.
D. Discuss in relation to the story.