全国自考2008年7月英美文学选读试题

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课程代码：0604请将答案填在答题纸相应的位置上(全部题目用英文作答)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 orcompletes the statement and write the corresponding letter on the answer sheet.1. In Renaissance, the European humanist thinkers and scholars made attempts to dothe 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 RomanCatholic Church2. The Petrarchan sonnet was first introduced into England by ______.A. SurreyB. WyattC. SidneyD. Shakespeare3. As the best of Shakespeare's final romances,______ is a typical example of hispessimistic view towards human life and society in his late years.A. The TempestB. The Winter's TaleC. CymbelineD. The Rape of Lucrece4. John Milton's greatest poetical work ______ is the only generally acknowledgedepic in English literarure since Beowulf.A.AreopagiticaB. Paradise LostC. LycidasD. Samson Agonistes5. The British bourgeois or middle class believed in the following notions EXCEPT______.A. self - esteemB. self - relianceC. self - restraintD. hard work6. “Graveyard School〞writers are the following sentimentalists EXCEPT______.A. James ThomsonB. William CollinsC. William CowperD. Thomas Jackson7. 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 Books8. As a representative of the Enlightenment,______ was one of the first to introducerationalism to England.A. John BunyanB. Daniel DefoeC. Alexander PopeD. Jonathan Swift9. 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 Richardson10. Which of the following descriptions of Gothic Novels is NOT correctA. 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.11. “Byronic hero〞is a figure of the following traits EXCEPT ______.A.being proudB. being of humble originC.being rebelliousD. being mysterious12. Robert Browning created ______ by adopting the novelistic presentation ofcharacters.A. the verse novelB. the blank verseC. the heroic coupletD. the dramatic poetry13. Charles Dickens' novel ______ is famous for its vivid descriptions of theworkhouse and life of the underworld in the nineteenth- century London.A. The Pickwick PaperB. Oliver TwistC. David CopperfieldD. Nicholas Nickleby14. Charlotte Bronte's works are all about the struggle of an individualconsciousness towards ______, about some lonely and neglected young women witha fierce longing for love, understanding and a full, happy life.A. self - relianceB. self - realizationC. self - esteemD. self - consciousness15. The symbolic meaning of “Book〞 in Robert Browning's long poem The Ring and theBook is ______.A. the common senseB. the hard truthC. the comprehensive knowledgeD. the dead truth16. Thomas Hardy's pessimistic view of life predominated most of his later worksand earns him a reputation as a ______ writer.A. realisticB. naturalisticC. romanticD. stylistic17. After the First World War, there appeared the following literary trends ofmodernism EXCEPT ______.A. expressionismB. surrealismC. stream of consciousnessD. black humour18. The masterpieces of critical realism in the early 20th century are the threetrilogies of ______.A. Galsworthy's Forsyte novelsB. Hardy' s Wessex novelsC. Greene's Catholic novelsD. Woolf's stream-of-consciousness novels19. In the mid - 1950s and early 1960s, there appeared “______〞 who demonstrateda particular disillusion over the depressing situation in Britain and launcheda bitter protest. against the outmoded social and political values in theirsociety.A. The Beat GenerationB. The Lost GenerationC. The Angry Young MenD. Black Mountain Poets20.The following are English stream-of-consciousness novels EXCEPT ______.A.PilgrimageB. UlyssesC.Mrs.DallowayD. A Passage to Inida21. The leader of the Irish National Theater Movement in the early 20th centurywas ______.A. W.B.Yeats B. Lady GregoryC. J.M.SyngeD. John Galworthy22. T.S.Eliot's most popular verse play is ______.A. Murder in the CathedralB. The Cocktail PartyC. The Family ReunionD. The Waste Land23. The American writer ______ was awarded the Nobel Prize for the anti-racist In-truder in the Dust in 1950.A. Ernest HemingwayB. Gertrude SteinC. William FaulknerD.T.S. Eliot24. Hemingway's second big success is ______ , which wrote the epitaph to a decadeand to the whole generation in the 1920s, in order to tell us a story about the tragic love affair of a wounded American soldier with a British nurse.A. For Whom the Bell TollsB. A Farewell to ArmsC. The Sun Also RisesD. The Old Man and the Sea25. With the publication of ______ , Dreiser was launching himself upon a long careerthat would ultimately make him one of the most significant American writers of the school later known as literary naturalism.A. Sister CarrieB. The TitanC. The GeniusD. The Stoic26. Henry James is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th -century “stream-of-consciousness〞novels and the founder of ______.A. neoclassicismB. psychological realismC. psychoanalytical criticismD. surrealism27. In 1849, Herman Melville published ______ ,a semi-autobiographical novel, con-cerning the sufferings of a genteel youth among brutal sailors.A. OmooB. MardiC. RedburnD. Typee28. As a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,______ marks the climax of Mark Twain'sliterary activity.A. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnB. Life on the MississippiC. The Gilded AgeD. Roughing It29. Realism was a reaction against ______ or a move away from the bias towards romanceand self- creating fictions, and paved the way to Modernism.A. RomanticismB. RationalismC. Post-modernismD. Cynicism30. When World War II broke out,______ began working for the Italian government,engaged in some radio broadcasts of anti- Semitism and pro- Fascism.A. Ezra PoundB.T.S. EliotC. Henry JamesD. Robert Frost31. In 1915 ______ became a naturalized British citizen, largely in protest againstAmerica's failure to join England in the First World War.C. W.D.Howells D. Ezra Pound32. What Whitman prefers for his new subject and new poetic feelings is “______ ,〞 that is, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.A. blank verseB. free rhythmC. balanced structureD. free verse33. The American woman poet ______ wanted to live simply as a complete independentbeing, and so she did, as a spinster.A. Emily ShawB. Anna DickinsonC. Emily DickinsonD. Anne Bret34. The Birthmark drives home symbolically ______ point that evil is a man's birthmark,something he was born with.A. Whitman'sB. Melville'sC. Hawthorne'sD. Emerson's35. The Financier ,The Titan and The Stoic written by ______ are called his “Trilogyof Desire〞.A. Henry JamesB. Theodore DreiserC. Mark TwainD. Herman Melville36. Disregarding grammar and punctuation,______ always used “i〞 instead of “I〞in his poems to show his protest against self-importance.A. Wallace StevensB. Ezra Pound37. Though Robert Frost is generally considered a regional poet whose subject mattersmainly focus on the landscape and people in ______ , he wrote many poems that investigate the basic themes of man's life in his long poetic career.A. the westB. the southC. New EnglandD. Alaska38. Most critics have agreed that Fitzgerald is both an insider and an outsider of______ with a double vision.A. the Gilded AgeB. the Rational AgeC. the Jazz AgeD. the Magic Age39. In the American Romantic writings,______ came to function almost as a dramaticcharacter that symbolized moral law.A. fireB. waterC. treesD. wilderness40. The desire for an escape from society and a return to ______ became a permanentconvention of the American literature.A. the family lifeB. natureC. the ancient timeD. fantasy of loveII. 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. Wherefore feed and clothe and saveFrom the cradle to the graveThose ungrateful drones who wouldDrain your sweat- nay, drink your bloodQuestions:A. Identify the poet and the title of the poem from which the stanza is taken.B. What figure of speech is used in Line 2C. Whom does “drones〞 refer to42. The following quotation is from one of the poems by T. S. Eliot:No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;Am an attendant lord, one that will doTo swell a progress, start a scene or twoAdvise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool,Deferential, glad to be of use,Politic, cautious, and meticulous,Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse;Questions:A. Identify the title of the poem from which the quoted part is taken.B. Who's the speaker of the quoted linesC. What does the first line show about the speaker43．There was a child went forth every day,And the first object he look'd upon, that object he became,And that object became part of him for the day or a certain part of the day, Or for many years or stretching cycles of years.Questions:A. Identify the poet.B.From which poem and which collection of the poet are these lines takenC.What does the poet describe in the poem44. I heard a Fly buzz- when I died-The Stillness in the RoomWas like the Stillness in the Air-Between the Heaves of Storm-The Eyes around- had wrung them dry-And Breaths were gathering firmFor that last Onset- when the KingBe witnessed - in the Room-Questions:A. Identify the poet.B. What does “the King〞 refer toC. What moment is the poem trying to describeIII. 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. List at least two leading neoclassicists in England. What did Neoclassicistscelebrate in literary creation46. Jane Eyre is one of the most popular and important novels of the Victorian Age.Why is Jane Eyre such a successful novel47. Who are the three dominant figures of the American Age of Realism and what arethe differences in their understanding of the “truth〞48. What's Dreiser' s naturalistic belief Please discuss the question with Carrie,a character in Sister Carrie as an example.IV. Topic Discussion(20 points in all, 10 for each)Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in thecorresponding space on the answer sheet.49. Briefly discuss William Shakespeare's artistic achievements in characterization,plot construction and language.50. Briefly discuss Mark Twain's art of fiction in terms of the setting,the language,and the characters, etc.,based on his novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.全国高等教育自学考试英美文学选读真题答案及评分参考〔课程代码0604〕I. Multiple Choice (40 points in all, 1 for each)1. B2. B3. A4. B5.A6.D7.A8.C9.B 10.A 11.B 12.A13.B 14.B 15.B 16.B 17.D 18.A 19.C 20.D 21.A 22.A 23.C24.B 25.A 26.C 27.C 28.A 29.A 30.A 31.A 32.D 33.C 34.C35.B 36.D 37.C 38.C 39.D 40.BII. Reading Comprehension (16 points in all, 4 for each)41. A. From Percy Shelley’s “Men of England〞(1)B. Metonymy (1)C. Here “drones〞refers to the parasitic class in human society. (2)42. A. “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock〞(1)B. J. Alfred Prufrock (1)C. Prufrock is conscious of the fact that he is like Hamlet in some respects. But he is sensibleenough that he cannot be compared with Hamlete. (2)43. A. Walt Whitman (1)B. “There Was a Child Went Forth〞from “Leaves of Grass〞(1)C. The poem describes the growth of a child who learned about the world around him andimproved himself accordingly. In the poem, Whitman’s own early ex perience may well be identified with the childhood of a young, growing American. (2)44. A. Emily Dickinson (1)B. The God of Death. (1)C. The poem is trying to describe the moment of death. (2)III. Questions and Answers (24 points in all, 6 for each)45. A. Alexander Pope, John Dryden, Samuel Johnson (任选2位作家). (2)B. They believed that the artistic ideals should be order, logic, restrained emotion andaccuracy and that literature should be judged in terms of its service to humanity. (2) They seek proportion, unity, harmony and grace in literacy expression, in an effort to delight,instruct and correct human beings. Thus a polite, elegant, witty and intellectual artdeveloped. (2)46. A. It is noted for its sharp criticism of the existing society. (2)B. It is an intense moral fable. (2)C. The success of the novel is also due to its introduction to the English novel the firstgoverness heroine. (2)47. A. William Dean Howells, Mark Twain, Henry James. (3)B. Mark Twain and Howells seemed to have paid more attention to the “life〞of theAmericans. Howells focused his discussion on the rising middle class and the way theylived; Mark Twain preferred to have his own region and people at the forefront of his stories;Henry James had apparently laid a greater emphasis on the “inner world〞of man. (3)48. A. Dreiser believes that while men are controlled and conditioned by heredity, instinct andchance, a few extraordinary and unsophisticated human beings refuse to accept their fatewordlessly and instead strive, unsuccessfully, to find meaning and purpose for theirexistence. (3)B. Carrie, as one of such, senses that she is merely a cipher in an uncaring world yet seeks tograsp the mysteries of life and thereby satisfies her desires for social status and materialcomfort, but in spite of her success, she is lonely and dissatisfied. (3)以上各题言语错误酌情扣分。

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I.Multiple Choice(40points in all,1for 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 orD on the answer sheet.1.Shakespeare has established his giant position in world literature with his______plays,154sonnets and2long poems.BA.27B.38C.47D.522.john Milton’s literary achievement can be divided into three groups:the early poetic works,the middle prose pamphlets and the last______.CA.romancesB.dramasC.great poemsD.ballads3.The novels of______are the first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower—class people.CA.John MiltonB.Daniel DefoeC.Henry FieldingD.Jonathan Swift4.The work ranked by many critics as William Wordswoth’s greatest work was______.BA.Lyrical BalladsB.The PreludeC.Poems in Two VolumesD.The Excursion5.The author of The History of Tom Jones,a Foundling is ______.CA.Daniel DefoeB.Johathan SwiftC.Henry FieldingD.William Blake6.The works of______are famous for the depiction of the life of the middle—class women,particularly governess.*BA.Charlotte BrontewrenceC.Thomas HardyD.Jane Austen7.All of the following writings are created by William Wordsworth EXCEPT______.DA.“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.”B.“Composed upon Westminster Bridge,Septemer3,1802.”C.“The Solitary Reaper.”D.“The Chimney Sweeper.”8.The most important representative work by Jonathan Swift is______.DA.A Tale of a TubB.The Battle of the BooksC.A Modest ProposalD.Gulliver's Travels9“If winter comes,can Spring be far behind?”comes from Shelly’s______.DA.“To a Skylark”B.“Adonais”C.“Ode to Liberty”D.“Ode to the West Wind”10.In Jane Austen's first novel______,she tells a story about two sisters and their love affairs.BA.Pride and PrejudiceB.Sense and SensibilityC.EmmaD.Persuasion11.Charles Dickens is one of the greatest______writers of the Victorian Age.DA.romanticB.modernistC.socialistD.critical realist12.Charlotte Bronte's most autobiographical work,______ is largely based on her experience in Brussels.AA.Jane EyreB.ShirleyC.VilletteD.The Professor13.William Wordsworth's theory of poetry is calling for simple themes drawn from humble life expressed in the language of ordinary people.The preface to the second edition of______acts as a manifesto for the new school and sets forth his own critical creed.AA.Lyrical BalladsB.The PreludeC.Poems in Two VolumsD.The Excursion14.George Bernard Shaw's play______established his position as the leading playwright of his time.*CA.Widowers’HousesB.Too True to Be GoodC.Mrs.Warren's ProfessionD.Candida15.Eliot's most important single poem______,has been hailed as a landmark and a model of the20th-century English poetry.BA.The Hollow MenB.The Waste LandC.Prurrock and Other ObservationsD.Poems1909-2516. D. /doc/info-926f89635dbfc77da26925 c52cc58bd630869377.htmlwrence’s autobiographical novel, ______shows the conflict between the earthy,coarse, energetic but often drunken father and the refined,strong —willed and up—climbing mother.AA.Sons and LoversB.The White PeacockC.The TrespasserD.The Rainbow17.“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 them?”These words are from ______.DA.King LearB.RomeoC.AntonioD.Hamlet18.John Milton’s last important work,______is the most powerful dramatic poem on the Greek model.AA.Paradise LostB.Paradise RegainedC.Samson AgonistesD.Lydidas19.The author of Moll Flanders and Captain Singleton is ______.BA.John MiltonB.Daniel DefoeC.Henry FieldingD.Jonathan Swift20.Drapier is the pseudonym of______.AA.Jonathan SwiftB.Daniel DefoeC.Henry FieldingD.William Blake21.One of Dickens'later works,______in which he presents a criticism of the governmental branches which run an indefinite procedure of management ofaffairs and keep the innocent in prison for life.BA.Bleak HouseB.Little DorritC.Hard TimesD.A Tale of Two Cities22.In the second part of Gulliver's Travels,Gulliver told his experience in______.AA.BrobdingnagB.LilliputC.Flying IslandD.Houyhnhnm23.Faulkner used the narrative techniques to construct his stories,which include______and mythological and biblical allusions.AA.symbolismB.free indirect speechC.contrastD.dialogue24.Ernest Hemingway,had been trying to demonstrate in his works an unvarying code,known as“______,”which is actually an attitude towards life.BA.facing the realityB.grace under pressureC.honesty with benevolenceD.security coming first25.The Blithedale Romance is a novel written by Hawthorne to reveal his own experience on the Brook Farm and his own methods as a______novelist.CA.naturalistB.imagistC.psychologicalD.feminist26.Theodore Dreiser's focus shifted from the pathos of the helpless protagonists at the bottom of the society to the power of the Americanfinancial tycoons in the late19th century in his work ______.DA.The GeniusB.An American TragedyC.Dreiser Looks at RussiaD.“Trilogy of Desire”27.Emily Dickinson frequently uses personae to render the tone more familiar to the reader,and______to vivify some abstract ideas.DA.imagesB.metaphorC.symbolsD.personification28.In his later works,Melville becomes more reconciled with the______,in which he admits,one must live by rules.BA.womenB.world of manC.familyD.politicians29.Walt Whitman's______has always been considered a monumental work which commands great attention in America.BA.The Pilgrim’s ProgressB.Leaves of GrassC.A Passage to IndiaD.Rip Van Winkle30.Mark Twain’s full literary career began to blossom in1869with a travel book______,an account of American tourists in Europe.AA.Innocents AbroadB.The Portrait of A LadyC.The Grapes of WrathD.The Great Gatsby31.With the development of the modern novel and the common acceptance of the______approach,Henry James's importance,as well as his wide influence as a novelist and critic,has been all the more conspicuous.AA.deconstructionB.romanticC.FreudianD.analytic32.Emily Dickinson addresses the issues that concern the whole human beings in her poems,which include religion, death,______,love,and nature.AA.immortalityB.wealthC.powerD.politics33.In Sister Carrie Theodore Dreiser expressed his______ pursuit by expounding the purposelessness of life and attacking the conventional moral standards.BA.romanticB.realisticC.naturalisticD.modernistic34.Profound ideas in Robert Frost's poems are delivered under the disguise of______.AA.the plain language and the simple formB.the vivid descriptionsC.metaphorsD.the complicated narration35.In______Hemingway presents his philosophy about life and death throughthe depiction of the bullfight as a kind of microcosmic tragedy.BA.The Green Hills of AfricaB.Death in the AfternoonC.The Snows of KilimanjaroD.To Have and Have Not36Of Faulkner’s literary works,four novels are masterpieces by any standards:The Sound and the Fury, Light in August,Absalom,Absalom!and______.AA.Go Down,MosesB.The FableC.The Snows of KilimanjaroD.To Have and Have Not37.As Whitman saw it,______could play a vital part in the process ofcreating a new nation.CA.musicB.fictionC.poetryD.painting38.In many of Hawthorne's stories and novels,the Puritan concept of life is condemned,especially in his The house of the Seven Gables and______.BA.Go Down,MosesB.The Scarlet LetterC.As I Lay DyingD.Song of Myself39.Henry James is generally regarded as the forerunner of the______and the founder of psychological realism.BA.“stream-of-consciousness”novelsB.metaphysical poemsC.short storiesD.literary criticism40.Generally considered to be Henry James’s masterpiece,______incarnates the clash between the Old World and the New in the life journey of an American girl in a Europe an cultural environment.BA.The AmbassadorsB.Daisy MillerC.The AmericanD.The Portrait of A Lady非选择题部分注意事项：用黑色字迹的签字笔或钢笔将答案写在答题纸上，不能答在试题卷上。

全国自考2008年7月英美文学选读试题

2008年7月英美文学选读试题1. Of all the eighteenth—century British novelists ______ was the first to set out，both in theory and practice，to write specially a “comic epic in prose”，the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.A. Thomas GrayB. Richard Brinsley SheridanC. Jonathan SwiftD. Henry Fielding2. The poem “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” established ______ as the leader of the sentimental poetry of the day，especially “the Graveyard School”.A. Thomas GrayB. Samuel JohnsonC. John BunyanD. John Milton3. “Do you think, because I am poor，obscure，plain，and little，I am soulless and heartless?... And if God had gifted me with some beauty，and much wealth，I should have made it as hard for you to leave me. as it is now for me to leave you. ”The quoted part is taken from ______.A. Great ExpectationsB. Wuthering HeightsC. Jane EyreD. Pride and Prejudice4. The most famous dramatists in the Renaissance England are all the following EXCEPT ______.A. Francis BaconB. Christopher MarloweC. William ShakespeareD. BenJonson5. George Bernard Shaw’s play Mrs. Warren’s Profession is about______.A. slum landlordismB. the economic oppression of womenC. the political corruption in EnglandD. the religious corruption in England6. All of the following statements can correctly describe the Enlightenment Movement EXCEPT ______.A. The movement flourished in France.B. The movement was a furtherance of the Renaissance.C. The purpose of the movement was to enlighten the whole world.D. The purpose of the movement was to enhance the religious education.7. Among the three major poetical works by John Milton ______ is the most perfect example of the verse drama after the Greek style in English.A. Samson AgonistesB. Paradise LostC. Paradise RegainedD. Areopagitica8. The major British Romantic poets Blake，Wordsworth，Coleridge，Byron，Shelley and Keats started a rebellion against the neoclassical literature，which was later regarded as _____.A. the poetic romanceB. the poetic movementC. the poetic revolutionD. the poetic reformation9. Jane Austen’s main literary concern is about ______.A. human beings in their personal relationshipsB. the love story between the rich and the poorC. maturity achieved through the loss of illusionsD. the daily country life of the upper-middle-class English10. Among the following British Romantic poets ______ is regarded as a “worshipper of nature”.A. William BlakeB. William WordsworthC. George Gordon ByronD. John Keats11. Jonathan Swift’s greatest satiric work is ______.A. A Tale of a TubB. The Battle of BooksC. Gulliver’s TravelsD. “A Modest Proposal’’12. Among the following writers ______ is considered to be the best—known English dramatist since Shakespeare.A. Oscar WildeB. John GalsworthyC. W. B. YeatsD. George Bernard Shaw13. As a representative of the Enlightenment，______ was one of the first to introduce rationalism to England.A. Francis BaconB. Alexander PopeC. Thomas GrayD. T. S. Eliot14. All of the following poets are regarded as “Lake Poets” EXCEPT ______.A. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeB. Robert SoutheyC. William WordsworthD. William Blake15. “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 them?” The quoted lines are taken from ______.A. King LearB. Romeo and JulietC. OthelloD. Hamlet16. Daniel Defoe describes ______ as a typical English middle — class man of the eighteenth century，the very prototype of the empire builder，the pioneer colonist．A. Robinson CrusoeB. Moll FlandersC. GulliverD. Tom Jones17. The declaration that “I know that This World is a World of IMAGINATION & Vision，” and that “The Nature of my work is visionary or imaginative’’ belongs to ______.A. William BlakeB. William WordsworthC. Samuel Taylor Coleridge D．George Gordon Byron18. Although writing from different points of view and with different techniques，writers in the Victorian Period shared one thing in common，that is，they were all concerned about ______．A. the fate of the upper classB. the reformation of the governmentC. the fate of the common peopleD. the future of their family clans19. “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?’’ The quoted line comes from ______.A. Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind’’B. Walt Whitman’s Leaves of GrassC. John Milton’s Paradise Lost D．John Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn”20. Among the following figures ______ is Dickens’ first child hero.A．Little Nell B．David CopperfieldC．Oliver Twist D．Little Dorrit21. In the play The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde，the upper — class people are described all of the following EXCEPT ______.A. corruptB. snobbishC. hypocriticalD. ambitious22. In Thomas Hardy’s Wessex novels, there is an apparent ______ touch in his description of the simple and beautiful though primitive rural life.A. nostalgicB. humorousC. romanticD.ironic23. “Life is but a losing battle, it is a struggle man can dominate in such a way that loss becomes dignity；man can be physically destroyed but never defeated spiri tually.” This notion is typically held by ______．A. Mark Twain B. Ezra Pound C. William Faulkner D. Ernest Hemingway24. The literary spokesman of the Jazz Age is ______.A. Henry JamesB. Robert FrostC. F. Scott FitzgeraldD. William Faulkner25．North of Boston is described by the author，Robert Frost，as “a book of people，’’ which shows a brilliant insight into ______ character and the background that formed it．A. the cowboyB. New EnglandC. Ivy ColleagueD. ivory tower26．People generally regarded ______ as the forerunner of the 20th — century “stream- of-consciousness”novels and the founder of psychological realism.A. Theodore DreiserB. William FaulknerC. Henry James D．Mark Twain27. According to ______, “There is evil in every human heart，which may remain latent，perhaps，through the whole life；but circumstances may rouse it to activity．”A. Nathaniel HawthorneB. Edgar Ellen PoeC. William Faulkner D．Theodore Dreiser28. Hemingway once described _____ the one book fro m which “all modern American literature comes.”A. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnB. The Adventures of Tom SawyerC. The Gilded AgeD. Innocents Abroad29. What Walt Whitman prefers for his new subject and new poetic feelings is “______，”that is，poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme．A. fixed verseB. free verseC. fixed endingD. free ending30. By writing _______ Melville reached the most flourishing stage of his literary creativity.A. TypeeB. OmooC. MardiD. Moby-Dick31. Shortly before his death in 1945，______ joined the Communist Party.A. Theodore DreiserB. Mark TwainC. Henry JamesD. Ezra Pound32. Naturalism is evolved from ______ when the author’s tone in writing becomes less serious and less sympathetic but more ironic and more pessimistic.A. RomanticismB. ModernismC. RealismD. Scientism33. One of the most familiar themes in American naturalism is the theme of human ______.A. peacefulnessB. joyfulnessC. bestialityD. civilization34. Hawthorne’s view of man an d human history originated，to a great extent，from ______.A. TranscendentalismB. PuritanismC. HumanismD. Expressionism35. In general, the American woman poet _____ wanted to live simply as a complete independent being，and so she did，as a spinster.A. Anne BretB. Emily DickinsonC. Anna DickinsonD. Emily Shaw36. Theodore Dreiser’s ______ found expression in almost every book he wrote in which “kill or to be killed” was the law.A. romanticismB. naturalismC. cubismD. classicalism37. William Faulkner creates his own mythical kingdom that mirrors not only the decline of the ______society but also the spiritual wasteland of the whole American society.A. southernB. northernC. westernD. eastern38. Almost every book written by Hawthorne discusses _____，which reflects his unceasing interest in the “interior of the heart” of man’s being.A. sin and evilB. 1ove and hatredC. frustration and self - denialD. balance and self - discipline39. A preoccupation with the ______ view of original sin and the mystery of evil marked the works of Hawthorne，Melville and a host of lesser writers.A. optimisticB. CalvinisticC. PlatonicD. Socratic40. The American ______ as a cultural heritage exerted great influences over American moral values in the American Romantic period.A. Puritanism B．AtheismC. DeismD. CynicismPART TWO(60 POINTS)II. Reading Comprehension(16 points in all，4 for each)Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English．Write your answers in the corresponding space on the Answer Sheet．41. “The fiver glideth at his own sweet will：Dear God! the very houses seem asleep；And all that mighty heart is lying still!”(from William Wordsworth’s “Composed upon Westminster Bridge”)Questions：A. What figure of speech is used in the quoted lines?B. What does “that mighty heart’’ refer to?C. What does the poem decribe?42. “When the stars threw down their spears,And water’d heaven with their tears,Did he smile his work to see?Did he who made the Lamb make thee?”Questions：A. Identify the poet and the poem from which the quoted lines are takenB. Whom does the “he’’ refer to?C. What does the “Lamb” symbolize?43. “My tongue，every atom of my blood，form’d from this soil，this air,Born here of parents born here from parents the same，and theirparents the same，I，now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin，Hoping to cease not till death”Questions：A. Identify the poet and the poem from which the quoted lines are taken.B. What do “soil” and “air” represent in the first line?C. What does the poet try to say in the above four lines?44. “I cannot rub the strangeness from my sightI got from looking through a pane of glassI skimmed this morning from the drinking troughAnd held against the w orld of hoary grass.”Questions：A. Identify the poet and the poem from which the quoted lines are taken.B. What does the word “strangeness’’ refer to?C. What do the quoted lines imply?III．Questions and Answers(24 points in all，6 for each)Give a brief answer to each of the following questions in English．Write your answers in the corresponding space on the Answer Sheet．45. As a leading Romanticist，Byron’s chief contribution is his creation of the “Byronic Hero”．Briefly explain the literary term “Byronic Hero’’.46. TheWaste Land is T．S．Eliot’s most important single poem．Try to state the theme and the significance of the poem briefly.47．What is the most famous theme in Henry James’s fiction?And what is his favourite approach in characterization，which makes him different from Mark Twain and W·D.Howells as a realist? Give two titles of his first period works in which this theme and this approach are employed.48. As a leading spokesman of the “Imagist Movement”，what principles does Ezra Pound endorse?IV. Topic Discussion(20 points in all，10 for each)Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the Answer Sheet.49. Discuss Charles Dickens’ art of fiction：the setting，the character — portrayal，the language，etc．，based on his novel Oliver Twist．50. Greatly and permanently affected by the war experiences, Hemingway formed his own writing style，together with his theme and hero. Please discuss Hemingway’s writing style in relation to his novels you have read.。

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

全国2008年7月高等教育自考综合英语(二)试题

全国2008年7月高等教育自考综合英语(二)试题课程代码：00795I.语法、词汇。

从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出一个正确答案，并填在答题纸相应的位置上。

(本大题共15小题。

每小题1分，共15分)Complete each of the following sentences with the most likely answer.(15 points)1. You should have been more patient ________ that customer.A. ofB. withC. forD. at2. You may ______ this book; I dont want it anymore.A. getB. remainC. maintainD. keep3. His plans are very ______. He wants to master Chinese, English and French before he enters university.A. arbitraryB. aggressiveC. ambitiousD. abundant4. Mary used to get up late,________?A. does not sheB. didnt sheC. did sheD. use she5. This music album is____ as it was the only one ever signed by the pop star.A. unusualB. uniqueC. rareD. special6. They have discussed the problem for several times but could come to no______.A. endB. conclusionC. resultD. judgment7. In ancient times, wealthy people liked hunting wild animals ______ sightseeing.A. than to goB. rather than to goC. other than goingD. more than going8. Dont risk ______ the job which so many people want.A. losingB. to loseC. lostD. your life to lose9. Fruit is rich _______ vitamins.A. withB. inC. atD. of10. The boy never lets his friends ______ when they need his help.A. inB. downC. offD. out11. The noise was so ____ that only those with sensitive hearing were aware of it.A. dimB. softC. faintD. gentle12. When the poor girl heard the bad news, she ______ completely.A. broke awayB. broke upC. broke downD. broke out13. The purpose of teaching is to____ the minds of the students rather than dull them.A. refreshB. renewC. stimulateD. encourage14. ______ in the country, we had few social engagements.A. LivingB. Having been livedC. Being livedD. Having lived15. You havent lost your ticket, have you?I hope ______ .A. soB. noC. notD. didntⅡ．完形填空。

全国2008年7月高等教育自学考试中外文学作品导读试题课程代码00415

全国2008年7月高等教育自学考试中外文学作品导读试题课程代码：00415一、单项选择题（本大题共40小题，每小题1分，共40分）在每小题列出的四个备选项中只有一个是符合题目要求的，请将其代码填写在题后的括号内。

错选、多选或未选均无分。

1．《诗经·关雎》中“参差荇菜，左右流之”的“流”意思是（）A．流水B．流淌C．河流D．求取2．《战国策·苏秦始将连横说秦》中“文章不成者不可以诛罚”的“文章”指的是（）A．文采B．法令C．文辞D．文饰3．《史记·鸿门宴》中的“沛公军霸上”的“军”是（）A．名词B．动词C．介词D．形容词4．吴均《与朱元思书》“经纶事务者，窥谷忘返”句中的“经纶事务”指的是（）A．经营纺织业B．经营商业C．从政做官D．苦读经书5．被鲁迅称为改造文章的祖师的人是（）A．曹操B．曹丕C．曹植D．王粲6．下列选项中，被称作“桐城三祖”的是（）A．宋濂、刘基、高启B．陈维崧、朱彝尊、纳兰性德C．王鹏运、朱孝臧、郑文焯D．方苞、刘大櫆、姚鼐7．清代诗人王士祯在诗歌创作上，主张（）A．神韵说B．性灵说C．格调说D．肌理说8．杜甫《秋兴八首》之“玉露凋伤枫树林”一诗表现羁旅之悲、思乡之情的点睛之笔是（）A．首联B．颔联C．颈联D．尾联9．张若虚《春江花月夜》中在自然与人生的比衬中抒发对人生感喟的诗句是（）A．春江潮水连海平，海上明月共潮生。

滟滟随波千万里，何处春江无月明。

B．人生代代无穷已，江月年年只相似。

不知江月照何人，但见长江送流水。

C．白云一片去悠悠，青枫浦上不胜愁。

谁家今夜扁舟子，何处相思明月楼。

D．斜月沉沉藏海雾，碣石潇湘无限路。

不知乘月几人归，落月摇情满江树。

10．杂剧《倩女幽魂》的作者是（）A．关汉卿B．王实甫C．白朴D．郑光祖11．把元曲称之为“一代之文学，而后世莫能继焉者也”的学者是（）A．王国维B．梁启超C．鲁迅D．胡适l2．宋代话本文学是适应着何种文化需要而产生的?（）A．农民文化B．异族文化C．市民文化D．贵族文化13．把宋诗的一些弊端如过分的才学化、散文化、书卷气等推向极端的诗人是（）A．苏轼B．王安石C．黄庭坚D．陈师道14．被誉为“唐宋八大家”之首的散文家是（）A．柳宗元B．韩愈C．苏轼D．曾巩15．王勃在《滕王阁序》中以推陈出新之法创造的写景佳句是（）A．襟三江而带五湖，控荆蛮而引瓯越。

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英美文学选读自考题-8(总分100,考试时间90分钟)Ⅰ.Multiple ChoiceSelect from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Mark your choice by blacking the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the answer sheet.1. But it was not until the reign of ______ that the Renaissance really began to show its effect in England.A. Richard Ⅲ B. Henry Ⅷ C. Henry Ⅶ D. Elizabeth Ⅰ2. The real mainstream of the English Renaissance is ______.A. the Elizabethan drama B. the Elizabethan prose C. ancient poem D. romantic novel3. Twelfth Night by Shakespeare is a ______.A. history play B. tragedy C. poem D. comedy4. Which of the following plays does not belong to Shakespeare's great tragedies?______A. Romeo and Juliet. B. King Lear. C. Hamlet. D. Macbeth.5. The Merchant of V enice takes a step forward in its realistic presentation of human nature and human conflict. All the following characters except ______ are from the play.A. Antonio B. Bassanio C. Jack Cade D. Portia6. ______ is probably Milton's most memorable prose work.A. Paradise Lost B. Paradise Regained C. Samson Agonistes D. Areopagitica7. ______ shows how mankind, in the person of Christ, withstands the tempter and is established once more in the divine favor.A. Paradise Lost B. Paradise Regained C. Samson Agonistes D. Beowulf8. In the following great figures, ______ is not the pioneers of the modern English novel.A. Daniel Defoe B. Laurence Sterne C. Samuel Richardson D. William Shakespeare9. In the theatrical world of the neoclassical period, ______ was the leading figure among the host of playwrights.A. William Blake B. Richard Sheridan C. Ben Johnson D. Bernard Shaw10. In Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe glorifies all the following qualities of the middle-class men except ______.A. the indignity of labour B. religious devotion C. loyalty to the king D. pioneering spirit11. Tom Jones, the full title being The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, is generally considered the masterpiece of ______.A. John Bunyan B. Daniel Defoe C. Jonathan Swift D. Henry Fielding12. For the Romantics, ______ is not only the major source of poetic imagery, but also provides the dominant subject matter.A. love B. man C. nature D. death13. The poems such as the "Chimney Sweeper" are found in both Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience by ______.A. William Wordsworth B. William Blake C. John Keats D. Lord Gordon Byron14. William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following except ______.A. the use of everyday language spoken by **mon people B. the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings C. the use of humble and rustic life as subject matter D. the use of elegant wording and inflated figures of speech15. Shelley's greatest achievement is his four-act poetic drama ______.A. Men of England B. Prometheus Unbound C. Ode to the West Wind D. The Revolt of Islam16. Through the character of Elizabeth' Jane Austen emphasizes the importance of ______ for women.A. marriage B. physical attractiveness C. independence and self-confidence D. submissive character17. Which of the **ments on Charles Dickens is wrong?______A. Dickens is one of the greatest critical realistic writers of the Modern period. B. His serious intention is to expose and criticize all the poverty, injustice, hypocrisy and corruptness he sees all around him. C. The later works show the development of Dickens towards a highly conscious artist of the modern type. D. A Tale of Two Cities is one of his later works.18. Charles Dickens' works are characterized by a mingling of ______. He seems to believe that life is itself a mixture of joy and grief.A. love and hate B. friendship and loneliness C. humor and pathos D. satire and criticism19. Thomas Hardy's novels are all Victorian in date. Most of them are set in ______, the fictional primitive and crude rural region which is really the home place he both loves and hates.A. Sussex B. Wessex C. Casterbridge D. Oxford20. Thomas Hardy wrote novels of ______.A. character and environmentB. pure romance C. stream of consciousness D. psychoanalysis21. In the mid-1950s and early 1960s, there appeared "______" who demonstrated a particular disillusion over the depressing situation in Britain and launched a bitter protest against the outmoded social and political values in their society.A. The Beat Generation B. The Lost Generation C. The Angry Young Men D. Black Mountain Poets22. In the play The Importance of Being Earnest by Wilde, the upper-class people are described as the following except ______.A. corrupt B. snobbish C. hypocritical D. ambitious23. Which of the following plays explored Bernard Shaw's idea of "Life Force"?______A. Man and Superman. B. The Apple Cart. C. Pygmalion. D. Too True to Be Good.24. "The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the windowpanes,/The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the windowpanes/Linked its tongue into the corners of the evening,/Lingered upon the pools that stand in drains." The stanza is taken from ______.A. T.S. Eliot's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock B. Emily Dickinson's Because I Could Not Stop for Death C. Alfred Tennyson's Break, Break, Break D. William Wordsworth's I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud25. In Sons and Lovers, D.H. Lawrence presented Paul as a(n) ______ man and artist.A. independent B. ambitious C. strong-willed D. sensitive26. Which of the following statements is not true of American Transcendentalism?______A. It can be clearly defined as a part of American Romantic literary movement. B. It can be defined philosophically as "the recognition in man of the capacity of knowing truth intuitively". C. Ralph Waldo Emerson was the chief advocate of this spiritual movement. D. It sprang from South America in the late 19th century.27. All of the following are works by Nathaniel Hawthorne except ______.A. The House of the Seven Gables B. White Jacket C. The Marble Faun D. The Blithedale Romance28. Which one of the following statements about Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter is true?______A. 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.29. Whitman's There Was a Child Went Forth is a poem about ______.A. a soldier going to the battlefield B. the birth of a new life C. a tragic boyhood experience D. the growth of a child30. Moby-Dick is regarded as the first American ______.A. prose epic B. comic epic C. dramatic fiction D. poetic fiction31. Who exerts the single most important influence on literary naturalism?______A. Emerson. B. Jack London. C. Theodore Dreiser. D. Darwin.32. The raft on which Huck and Jim float along the river in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn may symbolize all the following except ______.A. spiritual freedom B. escape from different sorts of social oppression C. mobility and instability D. a small society where people of different colors can live like brothers33. Linguistically, compared with the writings of Mark Twain, Henry James's fiction is noted for his ______.A. frontier vernacular B. rich colloquialism C. vulgarly descriptive wordsD. refined elegant language34. Most of Emily Dickinson's poems were published ______.A. when she was young B. after her failed love affair C. in her old age D. after her death35. The poem "I like to see it lap the Miles—" is an interesting poem written by Emily Dickinson. What does "it" in the poem stand for? ______A. The hound. B. The star. C. The horse. D. The train.36. By the end of Sister Carrie, Dreiser writes, "It was forever to be the pursuit of that radiance of delight which tints the distant hilltops of the world." Dreiser implies that ______.A. there is a bright future lying ahead B. there is no end to man's desire C. one should always be forward-looking D. happiness is found in the end37. The subject matter of Robert Frost's poems focus on ______.A. ordinary country people and scenes B. battle scenes of ancient Greek and Roman legends C. struggling masses and crowded urban quarters D. fantasies and mythical happenings38. In Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, there are detailed descriptions of big parties. The purpose of such descriptions is to show ______.A. emptiness of life B. the corruption of the upper class C. contrast of the rich and the poor D. the happy days of the Jazz Age39. Hemingway's "Indian Camp" is one of the fourteen short stories collected under the title of ______. This title is very ironic because there is no peace at all in the stories.A. Three Stories and Ten Poems B. Across the River and into the Trees C. The Green Hills of Africa D. In Our Time40. Emily Grierson, the protagonist in Faulkner's story A Rose for Emily, can be regarded as a symbol for all the following qualities except ______.A. old values B. rigid ideas of social status C. bigotry and eccentricity D. harmony and integrityⅡ.Reading ComprehensionRead the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.1. The following lines are from The Merchant of Venice: "For herein Fortune shows herself morekind/Than is her custom. It is still her use/To let the wretched man outlive his wealth,/To view with hollow eye and wrinkled brow/An age of poverty; from which ling'ring penance/Of such misery doth she cut me off."Questions:A. Who is the author of the play?B. What does "she" refer to?C. What does the statement mean?2. "I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!A heavy weight of hours has chained and bowedOne too like thee. tameless, and swift, and proud."Questions:A. Identify the author and the title of the poem from which this passage is taken.B. What does the word "thee" in the third line refer to?C. What does the author eulogize in this poem?3. "Whether fagged by the three days' running chase, and the resistance to his swimming in the knotted hamper he bore; or whether it was some latent deceitfulness and malice in him..."Questions:A. Where is it taken from?B. Who is the author?C. What does "he, his, him" refer to?4. "Don't mention it," he enjoined me eagerly. "Don't give it another thought, old sport." The familiar expression held no more familiarity than the hand which reassuringly brushed my shoulder. "And don't forget we're going up in the hydroplane tomorrow morning, at nine o'clock."Questions:A. Which novel is this passage taken from?B. Who is the author of this novel?C. Say something about the writing style?Ⅲ.Questions and AnswersGive a brief answer to each of the following questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.1. Why has Fielding been regarded as Father of the English Novel?2. Jane Eyre is one of the most popular and important novels of the Victorian Age. Why is Jane Eyre such a successful novel?3. "Young Goodman Brown" is regarded as one of Hawthorne's most profound tales. What is the theme of the story? Give examples from the story to show Hawthorne's masterful use of symbolism.4. Henry James's literary criticism is an indispensable part of his contribution to literature. What's his outlook in literary criticism?Ⅳ.Topic DiscussionWrite no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the correspondingspace on the answer sheet.1. What does Wordsworth mean when he said: "All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings recollected in tranquility"?2. Comment on Whitman's style' and language.。

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(本大题共20小题，每小题1分，共20分)1. I planned（）the task before last Sunday, but failed because of a bad cold.A. to finishB. to have finishedC. finishingD. having finished2. Tom has been writing letters all morning, but he should finish them by now,（）?A. has heB. hasn’t heC. should heD. shouldn’t he3. We can make some changes in the plan（）you find anything improper.A. in caseB. unlessC. so thatD. even though4. The manner in which he talked reminded me（）his grandfather.A. inB. byC. ofD. towards5. He has made another wonderful discovery,（）of great importance to science.A. I think which itB. which I think isC. that I think isD. which I think it is6. It’s 10∶00 a.m. Mr. Johnson（）home now, for he told me that he would meet me in his office at this time.A. must beB. mustn’t beC. can beD. can’t be7. If only we（）as we were told! This would never have happened.A. didB. had doneC. would doD. would have done8. The key（）success is hardworking and persistence.A. onB. forC. toD. of9. For nearly three hours we waited for the decision, only（）to come again the next day.A. to tellB. to be toldC. being toldD. telling10. In our opinion, there is much（）in their proposal.A. to improveB. improvingC. to be improvedD. to have been improved11. Hardly had he rushed out of the gate（）the whole building collapsed right behind him.A. whenB. thanC. thenD. that12. His report is（）it gives a quite clear idea of every fact.A. written as well thatB. written too well thatC. written so well thatD. written well so as13. The book is much too difficult for me; most of it is quite（）my understanding.A. overB. behindC. againstD. beyond14. She will have some visitors tomorrow, so the has to have somebody（）her six-bedroom house today.A. cleanedB. cleaningC. cleanD. to be cleaned15. The wife blamed the husband for not having told her that they were（）short of money.A. turningB. runningC. goingD. proving16. It is hardly（）that I shall be able to present on the occasion.A. possiblyB. feasibleC. incredibleD. likely17. John won’t go hunting tomorrow, and（）.A. won’t his brother neitherB. won’t his brother eitherC. neither his brother willD. neither will his brother18. However hard I tried, I could not（）him that he was wrong.A. believeB. ensureC. convinceD. persuade19. After three days, he came（）. But staring at his wife and children, he could recognize none of them.A. outB. upC. acrossD. to20.（）to our disappointment, all our efforts were proved useless.A. ManyB. MuchC. MoreD. SuchII. 认真阅读下面两篇短文，每篇短文后有五个问题。

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Ⅰ. Multiple Choice (40 points in all, 1 for each)Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Write your answer on the answer sheet.1.With classical culture and the（）humanistic ideas coming into England, the English Renaissance began flourishing.A. FrenchB. GermanC. ItalianD. Greek2.“Come live with me and be my love, / And we will all the pleasures prove / That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, / Woods, or steepy mountain yields.”The above lines are taken from Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”, which derives from the （）tradition.A. pastoralB. heroicC. romanticD. realistic3.“Metaphysical conceit”is a strategy characteristic of John Donne’s poetry. It is（）.A. a confession that avoids questions of moral accountabilityB. the linking of images from very different ranges of experienceC. self-definition through images based on the four primal elementsD. the chaining of images representing solid and gaseous elements4.“So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, / So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”Shakespe are’s Sonnet 18 includes three stanzas according to the content with these last two lines as a（）, which completes the sense of the above lines.1A. preludeB. coupletC. epigraphD. exposition5.“Therefore at this fair are all such merchandise sold, as houses, lands, trades, places, honors, preferments, titles, countries, kingdoms, lusts, pleasures, and delights of all sorts, as whores, bawds, wives, husbands, children, masters, servants…”The above sentences are taken from（）.A. John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s ProgressB. Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s TravelsC. Henry Fielding’s Tom JonesD. Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe6.Jonathan Swift is a master satirist in English literature. His A Tale of a Tub is an attack on（）.A. the governmentB. greedC. the churchD. the abuse of power7.Chaucer was the first English writer to adopt heroic couplet in his writhing of poems. In the early 18th century, the chief proponent of the heroic couplet was（）.A. Alexander PopeB. William WordsworthC. Lord ByronD. Thomas Gray8.As a lexicographer, he distinguished himself as the author of the first English dictionary—A Dictionary of the English Language. What is his name?（）.A. Jonathan SwiftB. Samuel JohnsonC. Ben JonsonD. John Milton9.Which of the following statements about Neo-Classicism and Enlightenment Movement is true?（）.A. The Enlightenment was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in the 17th century.B. Neo-Classicism found its artistic models in the classical literature of the ancient Greek and Roman writers like Homer, Virgil, Horace, Ovid, etc. and in the contemporary French writers such as V oltaire and Diderot.C. Neo-Classicism put the stress on the classical artistic ideals of order, logic, proportion, spontaneous emotion, and passion.D. Satire was much used in writing in the neo-classic works. English literature of this age produced a distinguished satirist Daniel Defoe.10.A poet asserted that poetry originated form “emotion recollected in tranquillity”. He maintained that thescenes and events of everyday life and the speech of ordinary people were the raw material of which poetry2could and should be made. Who is that poet?（）.A. William BlakeB. Alfred Lord TennysonC. William WordsworthD. John Keats11.The composition of “Kubla Khan”by S.T. Coleridge was based on （）.A. a storyB. a dreamC. a dialogueD. an experience12.Romanticism was a literary trend prevailing in English during the period from 1798 to 1832. The Romantic writers（）.A. paid great attention to the spiritual and emotional life of manB. were discontent with the development of industrialism and capitalism, and presented the social evils minutely in their worksC. took pains to portray a world of harmony and balanceD. tended to glorify Rome and advocated rational Italian and French art as superior to the native traditions13.“Tiger! Tiger! Burning bright/ In the forests of the night, / What immortal hand or eye / Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”(“The Tiger”by William Blake) The above lines（）.A. describe the tiger’s fierce eyes and forceful hands at nightB. express the poet’s curiosity for the skillful creation of the tigerC. express the poet’s surprise at the sight of the tiger’s well-proportioned bodyD. express the poet’s terror at the sight of the tiger in the forest at night14.Which of the following statements about Victorian literature is NOT true?（）A. Novels became the most widely read and the most vital and challenging expression of progressive thought.B. Victorian novelists were angry with the inhuman social institutions, the decaying social morality, the widespread misery, poverty and injustice.C. Influenced by a particularly strict set of moral standards, Victorian writers like Oscar Wilde, advocated the old moderate, respectable life-style.D. Victorian prose writers joined forces with the critical realist novelists in exposing and criticizing the social reality.15.“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want3of a （）.”This quotation in Austen’s Pride and Prejudice sets the tone of the novel.A. houseB. titleC. wifeD. fame16.Tennyson’s poem Ulysses not only expresses the poet’s own determination and courage to brave the struggle of life, but also reflects the restlessness and aspiration of the age. The poem is written in the form of （）.A. epicB. elegyC. dramatic monologueD. ode17.In Hardy’s Wessex novels, there is an apparent（）touch in his description of the simple and beautiful though primitive rural life.A. realisticB. nostalgicC. romanticD. sentimental18.“If I’ve done wrong, I’m dying for it. It is enough! You left me too; but I won’t upbraid you! I forgive you. Forgive me!”These above lines are uttered by the heroine in（）.A. Shapespeare’s Romeo and JulietB. Emily Bront e ’s Wuthering HeightsC. Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’UrbervillesD. Bernard Shaw’s Mrs. Warren’s Profession19.Modernism takes the irrational philosophy and（）as its theoretical base.A. the theory of psycho-analysisB. Darwin’s evolutionary theoryC. the French symbolismD. Utilitarianism20.The beginning of “The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock”moves from a series of fairly concrete physical settings—a cityscape( the famous“patient etherized upon a table”)and several interiors (women’s arms in the lamplight, coffee spoons, fireplaces)—to a series of vague ocean images. It aims to convey（）.A. Prufrock’s emotional distance from the world as he comes to recognize his second-rate statusB. Prufrock’s eagerness to meet his dating loverC. Prufrock’s reluctance to meet his dating loverD. Prufrock’s excitement about the modern world21.“No rth Richmond Street, being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers’4School set the boy free. An uninhabited house of two storeys stood at the blind end, detached from its neighbours in a square ground. The other houses of the street, conscious of decent lives within them, gazed at one another with brown imperturbable faces.”The above passage is the first paragraph of Araby by James Joyce. It sets a(n)（）tone of the story.A. optimisticB. activeC. gloomyD. serious22.“I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, / And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made: / Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee, / And live alone in the bee-loud glade.”(“The Lake Isle of Innisfree”by Samuel Butler Yeats) The above lines present the state of a(n)（）life. A. quiet B. lonelyC. ambitiousD. unstable23.In Young Goodman Brown by Hawthorne, the name of Good man Brown’s wife is（）, which also contains many symbolic meanings.A. RuthB. HesterC. FaithD. Mary24.The Romantic Period, one of the most important periods in the history of American literature, stretches from the end of __________ to the outbreak of ___________.（）A. the 17th century…the American War of IndependenceB. the 18th century…the American Civil WarC. the 17th century…the American Civil WarD. the 18th century…the U.S.-Mexican War25.“The apparition of these faces in the crowd; / Petals on a wet, black bough.”This is the shortest poem written by（）.A. E.E. CummingsB. T.S. EliotC. Ezra PoundD. Robert Frost26.Emily Dickinson’s poem“This is my letter to the World”expresses her（）about her communication with the outside world.A. anxietyB. eagernessC. curiosityD. optimistic outlook527.Realism was a reaction against Romanticism or a move away from the bias towards romance and self-creating fictions, and paved the way to（）.A. CynicismB. ModernismC. TranscendentalismD. Neo-Classicalism28.In（）, William Faulkner illuminates the problem of black and white in the American Southern society as a close-knit destiny of blood brotherhood.A. Go Down, MosesB. Light in AugustC. The Marble FaunD. As I Lay Dying29.The theme of Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle is（）.A. the conflict of human psycheB. the fight against racial discriminationC. the familial conflictD. the nostalgia for the unrecoverable past30.Heming way once described Mark Twain’s novel（）the one book from which “all modern American literature comes.”A. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnB. The Adventures of Tom SawyerC. The Gilded AgeD. The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg31.As a genre, naturalism emphasized（）as important deterministic forces shaping individualized characters who were presented in special and detailed circumstances.A. theological doctrinesB. heredity and environmentC. education and hard workD. various opportunities and economic success32.（）is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th century “stream-of-consciousness”novels and the founder of psychological realism.A. Theodore DreiserB. William FaulknerC. Henry JamesD. Mark Twain633.（）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’ classic.A. Allen GinsbergB. E.E. CummingsC. J.D. Salinger D. Henry James34.Which one of the following statements in NOT true of Indian Camp by Hemingway?（）A. A young Indian woman had been trying to have her baby for two days.B. Nick’s father delivered this woman of a baby by Caesarian section, with a jack-knife and without anesthesia.C. Nick witnessed the violence of both birth and death in the Indian camp.D. This woman’s husband was murdered while she was in labor.35.（）is often acclaimed literary spokesman of the Jazz Age.A. Carl SandburgB. Edwin Arlington RobinsonC. William FaulknerD. F.Scott Fitzgerald36.Nathaniel Hawthorne held an unceasing interest in the“interior of the heart”of man’s being. So in almost every book he wrote, Hawthorne discussed（）A. love and hatredB. sin and evilC. frustration and self-denialD. balance and self-discipline37.Which of the following has gained its status as a world classic and simultaneously marks the climax of Eugene O’Neill’s literary career and the coming of the age of American drama?（）A. The Hairy ApeB. Long Day’s Journey Into NightC. Desire Under the ElmsD. Lazarus Laughed38.In the last chapter of Sister Carrie, there is a description about Hurstwood, one of the protagonists of the novel,“Now he began leisurely to take off his clothes, but stopped first with his coat, and tucked it along the crack under the door. His vest he arranged in the same place.”Why did he do this? Because （）.A. he wanted to commit suicideB. he wanted to keep the room warmC. he didn’t want to be found by others7D. he wanted to enjoy the peace of mind39.In Moby-Dick, the white whale symbolizes（）for Melville, for it is complex, unfathomable, malignant, and beautiful as well.A. natureB. human societyC. whaling industryD. truth40.（）,disregarding grammar and punctuation, always used“i”instead of “I”in his poetry to show his protest against self-importance.A. Wallace StevensB. Ezra PoundC. E.E. CummingsD. William Carlos WilliamsⅡ. Reading Comprehension (16 points, 4 for each)Reading the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answer in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.41.“Not on thy sole, but on thy soul, harsh Jew,Thou mak’st thy knife keen; but no metal can,No, not the hangman’s axe, bear half the keennessOf thy sharp envy.”Questions:A. Identify the author and the title of the play from which this part is taken.B. What figure of speech is used in this quoted passage?C. What idea does the passage express?42.“Whene’er I passed her; but who passed withoutMuch the same smile? This grew; I gave commands;Then all smiles stopped together.”Questions:A. Identify the poem and the poet.B. What does the line “Then all smiles stopped together”imply?C. What kind of person do the lines indicate the speaker is?43.“The woods are lovely, dark and deep,But I have promises to keep,8And miles to go before I sleep,And miles to go before I sleep.”Questions:A. Identify the poem and the poet.B. What does the word“sleep”mean?C. What idea do the four lines express?44.“I celebrate myself, and sing myself,And what I assume you shall assume,For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.I loafe and invite my soul,I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.”(From Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself”)Questions:A. Who does“myself”refer to ?B. How do you understand the line“I loafe and invite my soul?”C. What does“a spear of summer grass”symbolize?Ⅲ. Questions and Answers(24 points in all, 6 for each)Give brief answers to each of the following questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.45.Edmund Spenser is one of the poets of English Renaissance. What are the qualities of his poetry?46.The Man of Property is the first novel of the Forsyte trilogies by Galsworthy. What is the theme and the tone of the novel?47.Eugene O’ Neill, America’s greatest playwright, was constantly experimenting with new styles and forms for his plays, especially during the twenties when Expressionism was in full swing. What techniques did O’ Neill use in his expressionistic plays?48.Emerson’s book Nature established him ever since as the most eloquent spokesman of New England Transcendentalism. In this book Emerson discusses his idea of the Oversoul. How do you understand theEmersonian “Oversoul”?9Ⅳ. Topic Discussion(20 points in all, 10 for each)Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.49.Discuss Charles Dickens’s art of fiction: the setting, the character-portrayal, the language, etc, based on his novel Oliver Twist.50.A Rose for Emily is one of Faulkner’s short stories. Comment on the character of the protagonist, Emily Grierson, and analyze how this character is depicted.10。

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做试题,没答案?上自考365,网校名师为你详细解答!全国自考2008年7月英美文学选读试题课程代码：00604请将答案填在答题纸相应的位置上(全部题目用英文作答)PART 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. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet.1. Of all the eighteenth—century British novelists ______ was the first to set out，both in theory and practice，to write specially a “comic epic in prose”，the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.A. Thomas GrayB. Richard Brinsley SheridanC. Jonathan SwiftD. Henry Fielding2. The poem “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” established ______ as the leader of the sentimental poetry of the day，especially “the Graveyard School”.A. Thomas GrayB. Samuel JohnsonC. John BunyanD. John Milton3. “Do you think, because I am poor，obscure，plain，and little，I am soulless and heartless?... And if God had gifted me with some beauty，and much wealth，I should have made it as hard for you to leave me. as it is now for me to leave you. ”The quoted part is taken from ______.A. Great ExpectationsB. Wuthering HeightsC. Jane EyreD. Pride and Prejudice4. The most famous dramatists in the Renaissance England are all the following EXCEPT ______.A. Francis BaconB. Christopher Marlowe1C. William ShakespeareD. BenJonson5. George Bernard Shaw’s play Mrs. Warren’s Profession is about______.A. slum landlordismB. the economic oppression of womenC. the political corruption in EnglandD. the religious corruption in England6. All of the following statements can correctly describe the Enlightenment Movement EXCEPT ______.A. The movement flourished in France.B. The movement was a furtherance of the Renaissance.C. The purpose of the movement was to enlighten the whole world.D. The purpose of the movement was to enhance the religious education.7. Among the three major poetical works by John Milton ______ is the most perfect example of the verse drama after the Greek style in English.A. Samson AgonistesB. Paradise LostC. Paradise RegainedD. Areopagitica8. The major British Romantic poets Blake，Wordsworth，Coleridge，Byron，Shelley and Keats started a rebellion against the neoclassical literature，which was later regarded as _____.A. the poetic romanceB. the poetic movementC. the poetic revolutionD. the poetic reformation9. Jane Austen’s main literary concern is about ______.A. human beings in their personal relationshipsB. the love story between the rich and the poorC. maturity achieved through the loss of illusionsD. the daily country life of the upper-middle-class English10. Among the following British Romantic poets ______ is regarded as a “worshipper of nature”.2A. William BlakeB. William WordsworthC. George Gordon ByronD. John Keats11. Jonathan Swift’s greatest satiric work is ______.A. A Tale of a TubB. The Battle of BooksC. Gulliver’s TravelsD. “A Modest Proposal’’12. Among the following writers ______ is considered to be the best—known English dramatist since Shakespeare.A. Oscar WildeB. John GalsworthyC. W. B. YeatsD. George Bernard Shaw13. As a representative of the Enlightenment，______ was one of the first to introduce rationalism to England.A. Francis BaconB. Alexander PopeC. Thomas GrayD. T. S. Eliot14. All of the following poets are regarded as “Lake Poets” EXCEPT ______.A. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeB. Robert SoutheyC. William WordsworthD. William Blake15. “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 them?” The quot ed lines are taken from ______.A. King LearB. Romeo and JulietC. OthelloD. Hamlet16. Daniel Defoe describes ______ as a typical English middle — class man of the eighteenth century，the very prototype of the empire builder，the pioneer colonist．A. Robinson CrusoeB. Moll FlandersC. GulliverD. Tom Jones17. The declaration that “I know that This World is a World of IMAGINATION & Vision，”3and that “The Nature of my work is visionary or imaginative’’ belongs to ______.A. William BlakeB. William WordsworthC. Samuel Taylor Coleridge D．George Gordon Byron18. Although writing from different points of view and with different techniques，writers in the Victorian Period shared one thing in common，that is，they were all concerned about ______．A. the fate of the upper classB. the reformation of the governmentC. the fate of the common peopleD. the future of their family clans19. “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?’’ The quoted line comes from ______.A. Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind’’B. Walt Whitman’s Leaves of GrassC. John Milton’s Paradise Lost D．John Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn”20. Among the following figures ______ is Dickens’ first child hero.A．Little Nell B．David CopperfieldC．Oliver Twist D．Little Dorrit21. In the play The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde，the upper — class people are described all of the following EXCEPT ______.A. corruptB. snobbishC. hypocriticalD. ambitious22. In Thomas Hardy’s Wessex novels, there is an apparent ______ touch in his description of the simple and beautiful though primitive rural life.A. nostalgicB. humorousC. romanticD.ironic23. “Life is but a losing battle, it is a struggle man can dominate in such a way that loss becomes dignity；man can be physically destroyed but never defeated spiritually.” This notion4is typically held by ______．A. Mark TwainB. Ezra PoundC. William FaulknerD. Ernest Hemingway24. The literary spokesman of the Jazz Age is ______.A. Henry JamesB. Robert FrostC. F. Scott FitzgeraldD. William Faulkner25．North of Boston is described by the author，Robert Frost，as “a book of people，’’ which shows a brilliant insight into ______ character and the background that formed it．A. the cowboyB. New EnglandC. Ivy ColleagueD. ivory tower26．People generally regarded ______ as the forerunner of the 20th — century “stream- of-consciousness”novels and the founder of psychological realism.A. Theodore DreiserB. William FaulknerC. Henry James D．Mark Twain27. According to ______, “There is evil in every human heart，which may remain latent，perhaps，through the whole life；but circumstances may rouse it to activity．”A. Nathaniel HawthorneB. Edgar Ellen PoeC. William Faulkner D．Theodore Dreiser28. Hemingway once described _____ the one book from which “all modern American literature comes.”A. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnB. The Adventures of Tom SawyerC. The Gilded AgeD. Innocents Abroad29. What Walt Whitman prefers for his new subject and new poetic feelings is “______，”that is，poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme．A. fixed verseB. free verseC. fixed endingD. free ending530. By writing _______ Melville reached the most flourishing stage of his literary creativity.A. TypeeB. OmooC. MardiD. Moby-Dick31. Shortly before his death in 1945，______ joined the Communist Party.A. Theodore DreiserB. Mark TwainC. Henry JamesD. Ezra Pound32. Naturalism is evolved from ______ when the author’s tone in writing becomes less serious and less sympathetic but more ironic and more pessimistic.A. RomanticismB. ModernismC. RealismD. Scientism33. One of the most familiar themes in American naturalism is the theme of human ______.A. peacefulnessB. joyfulnessC. bestialityD. civilization34. Hawthorne’s view of man and human history originated，to a great extent，from ______.A. TranscendentalismB. PuritanismC. HumanismD. Expressionism35. In general, the American woman poet _____ wanted to live simply as a complete independent being，and so she did，as a spinster.A. Anne BretB. Emily DickinsonC. Anna DickinsonD. Emily Shaw36. Theodore Dreiser’s ______ found expression in almost every book he wrote in which “kill or to be killed” was the law.A. romanticismB. naturalismC. cubismD. classicalism37. William Faulkner creates his own mythical kingdom that mirrors not only the decline of the ______ society but also the spiritual wasteland of the whole American society.6A. southernB. northernC. westernD. eastern38. Almost every book written by Hawthorne discusses _____，which reflects his unceasing interest in the “interior of the heart” of man’s being.A. sin and evilB. 1ove and hatredC. frustration and self - denialD. balance and self - discipline39. A preoccupation with the ______ view of original sin and the mystery of evil marked the works of Hawthorne，Melville and a host of lesser writers.A. optimisticB. CalvinisticC. PlatonicD. Socratic40. The American ______ as a cultural heritage exerted great influences over American moral values in the American Romantic period.A. Puritanism B．AtheismC. DeismD. CynicismPART TWO(60 POINTS)II. Reading Comprehension(16 points in all，4 for each)Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English．Write your answers in the corresponding space on the Answer Sheet．41. “The fiver glideth at his own sweet will：Dear God! the very houses seem asleep；And all that mighty heart is lying still!”(from William Wordsworth’s “Composed upon Westminster Bridge”)Questions：A. What figure of speech is used in the quoted lines?B. What does “that mighty heart’’ refer to?C. What does the poem decribe?742. “When the stars threw down their spears,And water’d heaven with their tears,Did he smile his work to see?Did he who made the Lamb make thee?”Questions：A. Identify the poet and the poem from which the quoted lines are takenB. Whom does the “he’’ refer to?C. What does the “Lamb” symbolize?43. “My tongue，every atom of my blood，form’d from this soil，this air, Born here of parents born here from parents the same，and their parents the same，I，now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin，Hoping to cease not till death”Questions：A. Identify the poet and the poem from which the quoted lines are taken.B. What do “soil” and “air” represent in the first line?C. What does the poet try to say in the above four lines?44. “I cannot rub the strangeness from my sightI got from looking through a pane of glassI skimmed this morning from the drinking troughAnd held aga inst the world of hoary grass.”Questions：A. Identify the poet and the poem from which the quoted lines are taken.B. What does the word “strangeness’’ refer to?C. What do the quoted lines imply?III．Questions and Answers(24 points in all，6 for each)8Give a brief answer to each of the following questions in English．Write your answers in the corresponding space on the Answer Sheet．45. As a leading Romanticist，Byron’s chief contribution is his creation of the “Byronic Hero”．Briefly explain the literar y term “Byronic Hero’’.46. TheWaste Land is T．S．Eliot’s most important single poem．Try to state the theme and the significance of the poem briefly.47．What is the most famous theme in Henry James’s fiction?And what is his favourite approach in characterization，which makes him different from Mark Twain and W·D.Howells as a realist? Give two titles of his first period works in which this theme and this approach are employed.48. As a leading spokesman of the “Imagist Movement”，what principles does Ezra Pound endorse?IV. Topic Discussion(20 points in all，10 for each)Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the Answer Sheet.49. Discuss Charles Dickens’ art of fiction：the setting，the character —portrayal，the language，etc．，based on his novel Oliver Twist．50. Greatly and permanently affected by the war experiences, Hemingway formed his own writing style，together with his theme and hero. Please discuss Hemingway’s writing style in relation to his novels you have read.9。

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