英美选读第三题
英美选读第三题
1．In the medieval tradition tragedy invariably represents the hero’s falling into misery or adversity from prosperity or happiness and thereby inculcates a moral or didactic lesson. There is no moral of this sort in Marlowe’s plays. He p erceived that tragic action must issue from, and be reflected in, the individual. Though death comes to all Marlowe’s tragic heroes, the kernel of his play lies rather in the struggle of a brave human soul against forces that in the end prove too great for it. This conception of serious drama – Renaissance virtue battling on to success and then falling unconquered before fate –is one of Marlowe’s most outstanding contributions to the development of a truly august type of English tragedy.
3 .In several famous and eloquent soliloquies, Shakespeare reveals the deep conflict within
the thoughtful and idealistic Hamlet as he is torn between the demands of his emotions and the hesitant scepticism of his mind. The 'To be or not to be' soliloquy is the best known and often felt to be central to Hamlet's personality. It provides an excellent example of Hamlet not doing anything. Trapped in a nightmare world of hypocrisy, treachery and general corruption, and apparently bearing the intolerable burden of the duty to revenge his father’s death, Hamlet is obliged to inhabit a shadow world, to live suspended between fact and fiction, language and action. He considers that it would be far better for us all to commit suicide, but that we don't because we are scared of what might happen to us in the afterlife. Furthermore, we very often put things off because of our understanding that we might be being sinful. We look too closely at our plans only to find reasons for not carrying them out. The speech conveys a sense of utter world-weariness as well as the author’s incisive comments on the social reality of his time. 5. What is the theme of Sheridan’s The School for Scandal?
Morality is the constant theme in Sheridan’s plays. He is much concerned with the current moral issues and lashes harshly at the social vices of the day. In The School for Scandal, for example, he attacks the moral degeneracy of the aristocratic-bourgeois society in the 18th-century England. The idle rich spend their time scheming deception and intrigues and mongering scandals. By contrasting the life and deeds of the Surface brothers, Sheridan lays bare the depraved morality of Joseph Surface behind the mask of honorable life and high-sounding moral principles. He turns out a liar, a moral corruptor, and a hypocrite.
7.what are the artistic features of Romantic literature?
(1)t is a partial reaction against neo-classicism.
(2)It is a golden period of poetry; there are two schools: the Lake School of Poetry and the
Satanic School of Poetry
(3)In verse form, it preferred to lyrics, odes, sonnets, ballads, blank verses, amd Spenserian
stanzas.
(4)In poetic diction, it stresses on the fresh, simple, commonly used and colloquial language.
(5)In thematic matter, it tends to write on nature; the simple, common, rural life; the facts and
ideas of revolution; and medieval romances and myths.
(6)In poetic effect, it shows a preference for the wild, the irregular or the grotesque in nature
and art, the unrestricted imagination and strangeness in beauty
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9. According to the Greek mythology, Prometheus, the champion of humanity, who has stolen the fire from Heaven, is punished by Zeus to be chained on Mount Caucasus and suffers the vulture’s feeding on his liver. Finally Prometheus reconciles with the tyrant Zeus. Radical and revolutionary as Shelley, he gave a totally different interpretation, transforming the compromise into a struggle, which leads to the liberation of the oppressed. With the strong support of Earth, his mother; Asia, his bride and the help from Demogorgon and Hercules, Zeus is driven from the throne, Prometheus is unbound. The play is an exultant work in praise of humankind’s potential, and Shelley himself recognized it as ―the most perfect of my products.‖
11.How do you explain Thomas Hardy’s being “intellectually advanced and emotionally traditional?
In his novels, there is an apparent nostalgic touch in his description of the simple and beautiful though primitive rural life, which was gradually declining and disappearing in England at the time. And with those traditional characters, he’s always sympathetic and mourns over their failure and misfortune. On the other hand, he was greatly influenced by Darwin’s theory of ―survival of the fittest,‖ and other modern philos ophical thoughts, which led to the pessimistic determinism or naturalism in fiction. The naturalistic tendency is apparent in all his later works.
13.What is the theme of G. B. Shaw’s play Mrs. Warren’s Profession?
Theme
There are two possible interpretations of the play. The first polarizes around Mrs. Warren with the revelation that guilt for prostitution lies more upon the social system than immoral woman. In the play, Shaw shows clearly that all human sufferings are consequences of the cruel economic exploitation, which is pursued shamelessly by the so-called respectable members of the society through the lowest and the dirtiest means. So in this sense, the play is not only moral, but also has a strong realistic theme, which fully reflects the dramatist’s Fabianist idea.
The second way of interpretation polarizes around Vivie, the heroine of the play. Vivie starts out in ignorance of the evil and corrupt world and progresses through a series of temptations, which put her in a better understanding of the capitalist world. All these temptations pose great attractiveness to Vivie; she even temporarily succumbs to some of them. But all the temptations are contaminated with worldliness. Each in its way is a dodge from reality and violates her sense of justice. Only by rejecting them, can Vivie achieve her ultimate salvation in the fervent pursuit of freedom and independence as a new woman. On this level, the play is a spiritual triumph for the heroine who experiences a journey from illusion to reality.
15.. What are some of the general artistic features of Walt Whitman’s poetry?
Walt Whitman was an important poet in American literary history. His originality lies first of all in his use of the poetic form free verse, by means of which he becomes conversational and casual. He usually uses the first person pronoun "I" to stress individualism, and oral language to acquire sympathy from the common reader. His topics are sometimes sexual but his themes are far more than sexual.
17.How important is Walden; or Life in the Woods written by Henry David Thoreau? The book can be considered a spiritual autobiography dramatized in a symbolic fashion; an effort on the part of Thoreau to actualize Emersonian Transcendentalism, especially the idea of self-reliance; a demonstration of Thoreau's different approach to nature.
19.In what way is Twain's realism different from James’s realism?
Twain's realism is tainted with local color, while James's realism is concerned with psychology. Twain's language is simple and colloquial filled with fun and humor; whereas
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James's is elaborate and refined with lengthy psychological analyses. Thus, one is said to be lowbrow, the other is said to be highbrow. However different, both have moral problems and humanities as the very focus of their literary creation.
21.Why is Sister Carrie considered a naturalistic novel?
Theodore Dreiser belonged to the school of literary naturalism, which as a genre emphasized heredity and environment as important deterministic forces shaping individualized characters who were presented in special and detailed circumstances. Dreiser's naturalism found expression in almost every novel that he wrote. In Sister Carrie Dreiser expressed his naturalistic pursuit by expounding the purposelessness of life and attacking the conventional moral standards. Carrie obtains her success because she behaves according to the desires and aspirations in her heart. Yet Hurstwood loses his wealth, social position, pride and eventually his life also because of uncontrolled desires.
23.The poetic world of Robert Frost is that of the rural world, the simple country life, the pastoral landscape. But why is Robert Frost still difficult to understand?
Most of Frost's poems are simple in the way that they are dramatic monologues or dialogues, and they are short and direct on the informational level, and they have simple diction. However, profound ideas are delivered under the disguise of the plain language and the simple form, for what Frost did is to take symbols from the limited human world and the pastoral landscape to refer to the great world beyond the rustic scene. These thematic concerns include the terror and tragedy in nature, as well as its beauty and the loneliness and poverty of the isolated human being. Those simple poems underlie the true love and his deep concerns for the whole world. Therefore Robert Frost is not easy to understand. 25．Theme
There are two possible interpretations of the play. The first polarizes around Mrs. Warren with the revelation that guilt for prostitution lies more upon the social system than immoral woman. In the play, Shaw shows clearly that all human sufferings are consequences of the cruel economic exploitation, which is pursued shamelessly by the so-called respectable members of the society through the lowest and the dirtiest means. So in this sense, the play is not only moral, but also has a strong realistic theme, which fully reflects the dramatist’s Fabianist idea.
The second way of interpretation polarizes around Vivie, the heroine of the play. Vivie starts out in ignorance of the evil and corrupt world and progresses through a series of temptations, which put her in a better understanding of the capitalist world. All these temptations pose great attractiveness to Vivie; she even temporarily succumbs to some of them. But all the temptations are contaminated with worldliness. Each in its way is a dodge from reality and violates her sense of justice. Only by rejecting them, can Vivie achieve her ultimate salvation in the fervent pursuit of freedom and independence as a new woman. On this level, the play is a spiritual triumph for the heroine who experiences a journey from illusion to reality.
27．The ―rocking-chair‖ is a symbol standing for fate. It is like a cradle that makes one feel peaceful. It is also like a tide that ever goes on with life, the destiny of which is uncertain. At the end of the novel, Carrie sits in the rocking-chair, which implies that her future is still
uncertain and hard to foresee.
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31．A: Rip, like America, is immature, self-centered, careless, anti-intellectual, imaginative, and jolly as the overgrown child. His wife is another symbol— of puritanical discipline and
the work-ethic of Franklin. The town itself is emblematic of America— forever and
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rapidly changing.
B: Washington Irving has Rip sleep through his own country’s history, through what we might call the birth pangs of America, and return to the ―busy, bustling, disputatious‖ self-consciously adult United States of America. His conflicts and dreams are those of the nation— the conflict of innocence and experience, work and leisure, the old and the new, and the head and the heart.
C: The escapist tradition— of those who choose not to climb the socio-economic ladder of success— conflicts with our self-made, get-ahead concept of hard work and success. D: At any level, the story is one of a man who has looked toward the onset of civilization in America and made a choice in his analysis of his own life. In many ways, Americans are obsessed with these same agonizing contradictions. In many ways, too, all Americans fantasize about and others actually climb a mountain, like Rip, to gain perspective.
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《英美文学选读》模拟试题（一） 一、单项选择题 1.The excerpt from Chapter 10 of Sons and Lovers ends with the conflict between Paul and his mother. The conflict is possibly caused by Paul and his mother’s different views towards _____. A. Paul’s father B. art C. life D. Paul’s brother 2.The _____ can be regarded as one of the themes of Joyce’s story “Araby”. A. loss of innocence 在所有有關童年故事中，孩子都是同叔叔同姨媽同住，父母則不在身邊—這便是一種象征，象征父母與孩子之間骨肉親情的隔絕和一種正常關系的缺 失. B. childish love C. awareness of harsh life D. false sentimentality 錯誤的多愁善感 3.After reading “Araby”, one more feel the story has a _____ tone. A. joyous B. harsh C. solemn D. painful 4.In “Araby”, Joyce’s diction evokes a sort of _____ quality that characterizes the boy on this otherwise altogether ordinary shopping trip. A. religious B. moral C. sentimental D. vulgar 5.The major concern of _____ fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature. A. D. H. Lawrence’s B. J. Galsworthy’s C. W. Thackeray’s D. T. Hardy’s 6.The mission of _____ drama was to reveal the moral, political and economic truth
全国自考2018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 Gray B. Richard Brinsley Sheridan C. Jonathan Swift D. Henry Fielding 2. 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 Gray B. Samuel Johnson C. John Bunyan D. John Milton 3. “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 Expectations B. Wuthering Heights C. Jane Eyre D. Pride and Prejudice 4. The most famous dramatists in the Renaissance England are all the following EXCEPT ______. A. Francis Bacon B. Christopher Marlowe 1
英美文学 I.Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement and put the letter in the brackets. 1、The Age of Realism in the literary history of the United States refers to the period from ____to____. A. 1861...1914 B. 1863 (1918) C. 1865...1914 D. 1865 (1918) 2、____is not the representative writer in the Age of Realism in the literary history of the United States. A. Henry James B. Emily Dickinson C. William Dean Howells D. Mark Twain 3、The impact of ____on the American thought and the influence of the 19th century French literature on the American of letters gave rise to American naturalism. A. Darwin’s evolutionary theory B. Marxist theory C. Transcendentalism D. Puritanism 4、____is not the work of Mark Twain. A. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn B. Adventures of Tom Sawyer C. Life on the Mississippi D. The Mill on the Floss 5、Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is against____. A. British colonists B. slavery C. chauvinism D. monocracy II. Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase according to the textbook . 1、The Age of Realism is also what Mark Twain referred to as “____”. 2、While Mark Twain and Howells seemed to have paid more attention to the “life ” of the Americans, Henry James had apparently laid greater emphasis on the ____ of man. 3、The works of Mark Twain are characterized with ____. 4、In 1859, Darmin published____, which exerted great influence on American Naturalism. 5、____is regarded as “the true father of our national literature”. 6、Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is famous for its characterization of ____. 7、____and the West became Twain’s major theme. 8、In Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain makes sharp contrasts between____. 9、Henry James won his literary reputation for his novels of ____. 10、James’s realism is characterized by his ____ approach to his subject matter.
美文学这门科目庞大之极，堪称英本自考之最。自己一个人看那么厚的一本书，不用说能不能看下来，能记住多少实在不好说！ 我在复习的时候，总结了一些规律，与大家分享，望对你有用，帮你顺利通过！ 1.题型分析： 一般来讲，肯定是这种类型：a.单项选择题（40道，40分） b.引文简析（无非就是问问作者是谁，出自哪个作品，主题意象什么的，4道，16分）c.简答题（4道，24分）d.论述题（无非就是分析加读后感，20分） 经验：你应该可以看出来了，重点当然是单选了，分数大，又好得分，实在不行还可以蒙。建议尽可能把书看一遍，但不要看作者生平，那肯定不会考。有个印象就可以了，不用去背，如果你汉语文学功底好，可以省去不少时间。 2.比例分析 据本人统计，历年来英美文学的国考试卷中英国文学占52%，美国文学占48%。（2003年4月例外，其中英国部分58%）其中，可以看出 单选题：前22题肯定为英国部分，其余为美国部分。 大题部分：基本上是一人一半，各占50% 经验：书上共652页，英国411页，美国241页。英国作家共38位，美国15位。其中，美国部分中，诗歌作品也比较少，比较好确认。结论：死学美国，顺带英国。 3.内容分析 历年命题的趋势逐渐由课文内容向选读作品转移，选读的比重越来越大。 经验：课文内容作到大体了解，但要特别重视作家艺术特色。选读部分加大力度，多注意书上的注释及选文大意和某些细节，尽量作到能用英语复述。实在不行，也至少作到能用汉语复述。 4.真题解析及预测 自学考试的一大特点就是重复率高，所以历年试题是必惫的复习材料，不可缺少。有人说：“一套真题等于3套模拟题！”这话绝对没错。所以要花大力气在上面。记得我考那回就有一道10分大题和前一年的一模一样。 注：马克吐温的《哈克贝里费恩历险记》的分析在2000~2002年中，连续考了三次。 经验：注意历年真题，尤其是去年的。去年的10分大题大致如下： a.《傲慢与偏见》中的三种婚姻 b.《白鲸》选文作品复述几分析象征意义。 ================================================ 4月14日]投机取巧教你过英美文学[压题篇] 本文是投机取巧过英美文学的最后一篇，收录北京市2004年4月10日英美文学考试的试题(除选择题外)，是我在北京自考论坛处网友处所得，特此对提供帮助的朋友表示感谢。 二、1、Thomas Gray：Elegy in the Country Churchyard的第一段 2、Yeats的Down by the sallen garden，考的是他俩站在河边，那个女孩*在他肩头，他觉得自己年轻懵懂，而且泪流满面。 3、Emyly Bronte的Whuthering Heights里面Hethcliff在他lover临死之前的那段表现，还问了narrator 是谁 4、Emlily Dikinson的I Heard a Fly Buzz--When I died，问那个blue Buzz是什么意思
英美文学选读-阶段测评4 成绩：30分 一、Multiple Choice 共40 题 题号: 1 本题分数:2.5 分 ( )is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th—century “stream—of—consciousness” novels and the founder of psychological realism. A、Theodore Dreiser B、William Faulkner C、Henry James D、Mark Twain (P498.para.2)亨利.詹姆斯是美国现实主义文学大师，他的作品往往涉及美国之外的主题，其作品的风格是“心理活动”。被誉为20世纪美国意识流文学的先驱。 标准答案：C 考生答案：D 本题得分：0 分 题号: 2 本题分数:2.5 分 Closely related to Dickinson’s religious poetry are her poems concerning( ),ranging over the physical as well as the psychological and emotional aspects of death. A、love and nature B、death and universe C、death and immortality D、family and happiness （P518para2）迪金森的诗歌涉及宗教和爱情两方面，而其涉及宗教的诗歌往往是以死亡和永恒为主题的，所以答案是C。 标准答案：C 考生答案：A
2011年7月试题 1.All of Charles Dickens’ works, with the exception of _________, present a criticism of the more complicated and yet most fundamental social institutions and morals of the Victorian England. A. Bleak House B. Hard Times C. Great Expectations D. A Tale of Two Cities 2. From ____________ on, the tragic sense becomes the keynote of Thomas Hardy’s novels, the conflict between the traditional and the moden is brought to the center of the stage. A. The Return of the Native B. The Mayor of Casterbridge C. Tess of the D’Urbervilles D. Jude the Obscure 3. George Bernard Shaw’s play ____________ shows his almost nihilistic bitterness on the subjects of the cruelty and madness of World War I and the aimlessness and disillusion of the young. A. Getting Married B. Too True to Be Good C. Widowers’ Houses D. The Apple Cart 4. It was only after the publication of ____________ that D.H. Lawrence was recognized as a prominent novelist. A. The Trespasser B. The White Peacock C. Sons and Lovers D. The Rainbow 5. T. S. Eliot’s poem ____________ is heavily indebted to James Joyce in terms of the stream - of -consciousness technique, also a prelude to The Waste Land. A. “Prufrock” B. “Gerontion” C. The Hollow Men D. Lyrical Ballads 6. Charlotte Brontё’s ____________ is noted for its sharp criticism of the existing society, e. g. the religious hypocrisy of charity institutions. A. The Professor B. Wuthering Heights C. Villette D. Jane Eyre 7. Shelley’s greatest achievement is his four - act poetic drama ____________ , which is an ex- ultant work in praise of humankind’s potential. A. Adonais B. Queen Mab
[职业资格类试卷]教师公开招聘考试中学英语（英美文学）模拟试卷5 词汇与结构 1 The famous novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was written by______. （A）Edgar Ellen Poe （B）Henry James （C）Mark Twain （D）Theodore Dreiser 2 The famous actress Audrey Hepburn's musical comedy My Fair Lady was adapted from the play Pygmalion which was written by______. （A）Eugene O' Neil （B）Bernard Shaw （C）Ernest Hemingway （D）Jack London 3 The play Death of a Salesman was written by______. （A）Arthur Miller （B）William Faulkner （C）Edward E. Cummings
（D）Eugene O'Neil 4 Of the following works, which one is not written by Mark Twain? （A）The Gilded Age （B）Life on the Mississippi （C）The Adventures of Tom Sawyer （D）Uncle Tom's Cabin 5 Which works was regarded as the "National epic of the English people"? （A）The Canterbury Tales （B）Anglo-Saxon Chronicle （C）Beowulf （D）Le Morte D'Arthur(the Death of King Arthur) 6 Geoffrey Chaucer is known as______. （A）Father of English Prose （B）Father of British Poetry （C）the Poet's poet （D）University Wits 7 Who is not the representative of English humanists?
英美文学选读-阶段测评3 成绩：87.5分 一、Multiple Choice 共40 题 题号: 1 本题分数:2.5 分 https://www.doczj.com/doc/3c15772805.html,wrence’s novels( )are generally regarded as his masterpieces. A、The Rainbow，Women in Love B、The Rainbow，Sons and Lovers C、Sons and Lovers，Lady Chatterley’s Lover D、Women in Love，Lady Chatterley’s Lover （P370.para2）劳伦斯的成名作是《儿子和情人》，而其代表作是《虹》和《恋爱中的女人》 标准答案：A 考生答案：A 本题得分：2.5 分 题号: 2 本题分数:2.5 分 T.S.Eliot’s poem( )is heavily indebted to James Joyce in terms of the stream - of -consciousness technique,also a prelude to The Waste Land. A、―Prufrock‖ B、―Gerontion‖ C、The Hollow Men D、Lyrical Ballads （P358.para3）―Gerontion‖是一部用戏剧式独白写成的诗歌，是《荒原》的前奏曲，也采用了意识流派的文风。 标准答案：B 考生答案：B
本题得分：2.5 分 题号: 3 本题分数:2.5 分 https://www.doczj.com/doc/3c15772805.html,wrence’s autobiographical novel is( ). A、The Rainbow B、Women in Love C、Sons and Lovers D、Lady Chatterley’s Lover （P369.para1）劳伦斯的作品大多都是从心理上去探求让人的本能的，同时也反映人性中最内在的东西。其作品《儿子和情人》真实地反映了自己在童年时期的家庭状况，被视为其半自传体小说。 标准答案：C 考生答案：C 本题得分：2.5 分 题号: 4 本题分数:2.5 分 The typical representatives of G.B.Shaw’ s early plays are( ). A、Man and Superman，The Apple Cart B、Widowers’ House，Mrs. Warren’ s Profession C、Candida，Mrs. Warren’ s Profession D、The Apple Cart，Widowers’ House （P321-322）。萧伯纳的第一步剧作是Widowers’ House，写于1892年；第二部剧作是Mrs. Warren’ s Profession，写于1893年。 标准答案：B 考生答案：B 本题得分：2.5 分 题号: 5 本题分数:2.5 分 It was only after the publication of( )that https://www.doczj.com/doc/3c15772805.html,wrence was recognized as a prominent novelist.
Part One：English Poetry 1.William Shakespeare Sonnet 18 ?Why does the poet compare `thee` to a summer’s day? And who could `thee` be? Because summer’s day and thee both represent beauty . thee could be beauty, love. ?What picture have you got of English summer, and could you explain why? Warm, beautiful, sunshine. Because summer is the best season of a year ,the most beautiful season. It is like our May. ?How does the poet answer the question he puts forth in the first line? Thee is more beautiful than summer. ?What makes the poet think that “thou” can be more fair than summer and immortal? Because humanism is more eternal than summer and immortal. ?What figures of speech are used in this poem? Simile, metaphor, personification, oxymoron and so on . ?What is the theme of the poem? Love conquers all, Beauty lives on. 2. Thomas Nashe Spring ?Read the poem carefully, pay attention to those image- bearing words, and see how many images the poet created in the poem and what sense impressions you can get from those images. There is “Blooms each thing, maids dance in a ring, the pretty birds do sing, the palm and may make country houses gay, Lambs frisk' and play, the shepherds pipe all day, And we hear aye birds tune this merry lay, The fields breathe sweet, the daisies kiss our feet, Young lovers meet, old wives a-sunning sit, In every street these tunes bur ears do greet!” The “Young lovers meet, old wives a-sunning sit，”impressions me most because of the harmony of the people’s relationship. ?Can you point out and explain the sound and their musical effect in the poem? In the Poem, each section has four lines, each line has ten syllables ( five tone step ) . In order to give the reader a spring breeze , streams , flowers , winding , Song Xin texture of sound and light flavor, Naixi greater uses English word S , z , f , V , R , L , and θconsonants means. In Naixi's poem, the use of phonological is also very harmonious, very smooth , very mellow. Section I of the poetry has Three pairs [ ing ] , section II of the poem has three pairs [ ei ] and the third quarter has three pairs [ i : ]. 3.John Donne A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning ?What is a “valediction” any way? Is the speaker in the poem about to die? Why does the speaker forbid mourning? No, it is about the lover s’separation. As the poem metaphors, the poet believed he and his wife’s love is sacred, he didn’t hope they cry when separation comes, let their love be stained by the ordinary and mundane.
[考研类试卷]英语专业（英美文学）模拟试卷6 一、填空题 1 ______is often given the credit for the discovery of the modern novel; but whether or not he deserves that honor remains an open question. 2 "If the censure of Yahoo could any way affect me, I should have great reason to complain that some of them are so bold as to think my book of travels a mere fiction out of mine own brain." This question is selected from______. 3 Henry Fielding has been regarded as "______", for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel. 4 British novel came of age in______. 5 The Vicar of Wakefield is the only novel of______, which describes misfortunes falling on the central character and the family. 6 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by______is taken a model of sentimentalist poetry, esp. the Graveyard school. 7 Friday is a character in the novel______. 8 Among the representatives of the Enlightenment,______was the first to introduce rationalism to England. 9 Essay on Criticism is a didactic poem written in the form of______. 10 Auld Lang Syne written by______deals with the friendship and has long become a universal parting-song of all the English-speaking countries. 11 War in Crane's novel______is a plain slaughterhouse. There is nothing like valor or heroism on the battlefield, and if there is anything, it is the fear of death, cowardice, the natural instinct of man to run form danger. 12 The literary career of Henry James is generally divided into______periods, in the first period(1865-1882), James took great interest in______theme.
绝密★考试结束前 全国2014年4月高等教育自学考试 英美文学选读试题 课程代码：00604 请考生按规定用笔将所有试题的答案涂、写在答题纸上。全部题目用英文作答。 选择题部分 注意事项： 1．答题前，考生务必将自己的考试课程名称、姓名、准考证号用黑色字迹的签字笔或钢笔填写在答题纸规定的位置上。 2．每小题选出答案后，用2 B铅笔把答题纸上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。不能答在试题卷上。 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 the answer sheet. 1. Shakespeare has established his giant position in world literature with his ______ plays, 154 sonnets and 2 long poems.B A. 27 B. 38 C.47 D. 52 2. john Milton’s literary achievement can be divided into three groups: the early poetic works, the middle prose pamphlets and the last ______.C A. romances B. dramas C. great poems D. ballads 3. The novels of ______ are the first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower— class people.C A. John Milton B. Daniel Defoe C. Henry Fielding D. Jonathan Swift
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绝密★考试结束前 全国 4月高等教育自学考试 英美文学选读试题 课程代码：00604 请考生按规定用笔将所有试题的答案涂、写在答题纸上。全部题目用英文作答。 选择题部分 注意事项： 1．答题前，考生务必将自己的考试课程名称、姓名、准考证号用黑色字迹的签字笔或钢笔填写在答题纸规定的位置上。 2．每小题选出答案后，用2 B铅笔把答题纸上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其它答案标号。不能答在试题卷上。 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 the answer sheet.
1. Shakespeare has established his giant position in world literature with his ______ plays, 154 sonnets and 2 long poems.B A. 27 B. 38 C.47 D. 52 2. john Milton’s literary achievement can be divided into three groups: the early poetic works, the middle prose pamphlets and the last ______.C A. romances B. dramas C. great poems D. ballads 3. The novels of ______ are the first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower— class people.C A. John Milton B. Daniel Defoe C. Henry Fielding D. Jonathan Swift
英美文学选读资料00604 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 correct answer on the answer sheet. 1.“And we will sit upon the rocks, /Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks,/By shallow rivers to whose falls/Melodious birds sing madrigals.” The above lines are taken from ______. A. Milton’s Paradise Lost B. Marlowe’s “The Passionate shepherd to His Love” C. Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 18” D. John Donne’s “The Sun Rising” 2.The English Renaissance period was an age of ______ . A. poetry and drama B. drama and novel C. novel and poetry D. romance and poetry 3.Here are four lines taken from Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene: “But on his brest a bloudie Crosse he bore,/The deare remembrance of his dying Lord,/For whose sweete sake that glorious badge he wore,/And dead as living ever him adored.” Who is the “dying Lord” discussed in the above lines? A. Beowulf B. King Arthur C. Jesus Christ D. Jupiter 4.The major concern of _______ fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature. A.Charles Dickens"s https://www.doczj.com/doc/3c15772805.html,wrence"s C.Thomas Hardy"s D.John Galsworthy"s 5.Daniel Defoe describes _______ as a typical English Middle-class man of the eighteenth century, the very prototype of the empire builder or the pioneer colonist. A.Tom Jones B.Gulliver C.Moll Flanders D.Robinson Crusoe 6."To be so distinguished is an honor, which, being very little accustomed to favors from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge." The above quoted sentence is presented by Samuel Johnson with a（n）_______ tone. A.delightful B.jealous C.ironic D.humorou 4.In Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, 7. “Let not Ambition mock their useful toil,/Their homely joys, and destiny obscure;/Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile /The short and simple annals of the poor.” The above lines are taken from . A. Alexander Pope’s Essay on Criticism B. Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan” C. John Donne’s “The Sun Rising” D. Thomas Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” 8. By making the truth-seeking pilgrims suffer at the hands of the people of Vanity Fair, John Bunyan intends to show the prevalent political and religious ______of his time. A. persecution B. improvement C. prosperity D. disillusionment 9. The 18th century witnessed a new literary form－the modern English novel, which, contrary to the medieval romance, gives a ______ presentation of life of the common people. A. romantic B. realistic C. prophetic D. idealistic 10. As a whole, ______is one of the most effective and devastating criticisms and satires of all aspects in the then English and European life— socially, politically, religiously, philosophically, scientifically, and morally. A. Moll Flanders B. Gulliver’s Travels C. Pilgrim’s Progress D. The School for Scandal 11.It is generally regarded that Keats"s most important and mature poems are in the form of _______ . A.ode B.elegy C.epic D.sonnet 12.G.B.Shaw"s play Mrs.Warren"s Profession is a realistic exposure of the _______ in the English society. A.slum landlordism B.inequality between men and women C.political corruption D.economic exploitation of women 13.In William Blake"s poetry, the father（and any other in whom he saw the image of the father such as God, priest, and king）was usually a figure of _______ . A.benevolence B.admiration C.love D.tyranny 14.""I believe you are made of stone,"he said, clenching his fingers so hard that he broke the fragile cup. …"You seem to forget," she said,"that cup is not!"" From the above quoted passage, we can find the woman"s tone is very _______ . A.sarcastic B.amusing C.sentimental D.facetious 15.The Pilgrim"s Progress by John Bunyan is often said to be concerned with the search for _______ .