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Romanticism began in the mid-18th century and reached its height in the 19th century.It was an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe.The ideologies and events of the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution laid the background for Romanticism. The Enlightenment also had influence on Romanticism .It was a revolt against the aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment and a reaction against the scientific rationalization of nature.The movement validated strong emotion as an authentic source of aesthetic experience, placing new emphasis on such emotions as apprehension, horror and terror, and awe.The Romantic literature of the nineteenth century concentrating on emotion, nature, and the expression of "nothing".famous romanticism writers are such as william Wordsworth:lyrical ballods、william whitman ：leaves of grass Realism beginning with mid nineteenth-century French literature and extending to late-19th- and early-20th-century .It was a reaction againest romanticism and paved the way to modernism.the realism is product of europe capitalist system‟s establishment and development.the philosophy and science of europe in 19th century has promated its production authors trend to depictions of contemporary life and society as it was, or is. In the spirit of general "realism" ,realist authors opted for depictions of everyday and banal activities and experiences, instead of a romanticized or similarly stylizedpresentation.The realism always like a mirror reflecting the real life.the main representatives of realism include Jane Austen《Pride and Prejudice》、Charles Dickens《Great Expectations》、Mark Twain 《the Adventures of Tom Sawyer》.Naturalism was a literary movement taking place from the 1880s to 1940s that suggested that social conditions, heredity, and environment had inescapable force in shaping human character.Naturalism is the outgrowth of literary realism,Naturalistic writers were influenced by Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.The fittest，the survival is the famous sentence in his The origin of species.Naturalistic works exposed the dark harshness of life, including poverty, racism, violence, prejudice, disease, corruption,prostitution, and filth. As a result, naturalistic writers were frequently criticized for focusing too much on human vice and misery.Pessimism,detachment from the story,determinism and a surprising twist at the end of the story are the characteristics of literary naturalism.There tends to be in naturalist novels and stories a strong sense that nature is indifferent and hostile to human struggle.The term naturalism may have been used in this sense for the first time by Émile Zola.the main representatives of realism include Theodore Dreiser 《Sister Carrie》、Jack London《Martin Eden》Modernism has its origins in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, mainly in Europe and North America. In particular thedevelopment of modern industrial societies and the rapid growth of cities, followed then by the horror of World War I, were among the factors that shaped Modernism. Modernism also rejects the lingering certainty of Enlightenment thinking, and many modernists rejected religious belief.All the same innovations, like the stream-of-consciousness novel, had precursors in the 19th century.Modernism is characterized by a self-conscious break with traditional styles of poetry and verse. Modernists experimented with literary form and expression, adhering to Ezra Pound's maxim to "Make it new".The modernist literary movement was driven by a conscious desire to overturn traditional modes of representation and express the new sensibilities of their time. famous romanticism writers are such as George Joyce：Araby and Ulysses、George Eliot《The Waste Land》When we talk about Pride and Prejudice, the famous sentence that “It is a truth universally, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife” is always the first thing came up to my mind. It can be the scripture of the whole fiction. the foundation of the marriage at that time is not emotion but possession.This book was written by Jane Austen，who was unmarried all her life.In this book she has vividly described five different kinds of loves and marriages by skillfully using irony and her witty and humorous lang uage. And the auther also asked us a question ,when we getmarried ,which should we consider :property,wealth and status or love? the author appreciate Darcy and Elizabeth‟s marriage.because it respected love.In the beginning, Elizabeth and Darcy were distant from each other because of Darcy‟s pride and Elizabeth …s prejudice. The series of events which they both experienced gave them the opportunity to understand one another and the time to reconcile their feelings for each other. Thus, their mutual understanding is the foundation of their relationship and will lead them to a peaceful and lasting marriage.The another example of a marriage is the marriage between Charlotte Lucas and Mr. Collins, their marriage totally depended on the position, money, and the background, not the love .Their marriage seemed to be necessary but not happy.Lucas has to tolerate her husband‟s strange and foolish behavior, and her only comfort was her big new house and rich material life. It was a common practice during Austen‟s time for women to marry a husband to save herself from spinsterhood or to gain financial security. However, Jane Austen viewed this as a type of prostitution and disapproved of it.Of course ,it‟s not just a love story ,the auther also used a funny way to criticized a social attitude---money and status are everything.She thinks it‟s wrong to get married just for property, wealth and status while neither would it be without caring about those elements.marriage should be regarded carefully cause it is not a game you could just enjoy withoutprudent consideration. She also wanted to deliver the information that marriage should be based on real love between the lovers.英国1、Shakespeare莎士比亚《sonnet》（十四行诗）2、Daniel Defoe笛福《Robinson Crusoe》（鲁滨孙漂流记）3、Jonathan Swift斯威福特《Gulliver‟s Travels》（格列佛游记）4、Jane Austen简•奥斯汀《Pride and Prejudice》（傲慢与偏见）5、Charles Dickens狄庚斯《Great Expectations》（远大前程）6、Thomas Hardy哈代《The Return of the Native》（还乡）《Tess of the D‟Urbervilles》（德伯家的苔丝）《Jude the Obscure》（无名的裘德）7、Bernard Shaw萧伯纳《Leather Marely Weng》（皮革马利翁）8、James Joyce乔伊斯《Ulysses》（尤利西斯）《Araby》（阿拉比）9、D•H•Laurence劳伦斯《The Rocking Horse Winner》（木马赢家）《Sons and Lovers》（儿子与情人）美国：1、William Faulkner福克纳《My Deathbed》（我弥留之际）2、Hemingway海鸣威《The Sun Also Rises》（太阳照常升起）3、George Eliot艾略特《The Waste Land》（荒原）4、F•Scott Fitzgerald 《The Great Gatsby》（了不起的盖茨比）5、Washington Irving欧文《The Legend of Sleepy Hollow》（睡谷传说）6、Mark Twain马克吐温《Tom Sawyer》（汤姆索亚历险记）《Adventures of Huckleberry Finn》（哈克贝利•费恩历险记》7、Theodore Dreiser西奥多•德莱赛《Sister Carrie》（嘉莉妹妹）8、Nathaniel Hawthorne霍桑《The Scarlet Letter》（红字）9、Langston Hughes兰斯顿•休士（哈莱姆桂冠诗人）10、Harriet Beecher Stowe斯托夫人《Uncle Tom‟s Cabin》（汤姆叔叔的小屋）11、Ralph Ellison拉尔夫•艾里森《Invisible Man》（看不见的人）12、Alice Walker艾丽斯•沃克《The Color Purple》（紫色）13、Richard Wright赖特《Uncle Tom‟s Children》(汤姆叔叔的孩子们）《Native Son》（土生子）14、汤亭亭《The Woman Warrior》（女勇士）15、Amy Tan谭恩美《The Joy Luck Club》（喜福会）16、Tony Morrison托尼莫里森《Song of Solomon》（所罗门之歌）17、Benjamin Franklin富兰克林《Poor Richard‟s Afrr》（格言历书）18、Robert Frost罗伯特•弗罗斯特《Stopping by Words on a Snowy Evening》（雪夜林畔小驻）。

The Problem of Cell 13 逃出十三号牢房by Jacques Futrelle 杰克·福翠尔Jacques Heath Futrelle (April 9, 1875 –April 15, 1912) was an American journalist and mystery writer.杰克·希斯·福翠尔是一名美国记者和推理小说家。

He is best known for writing short detective stories featuring Professor Augustus S. F. X. 他因短篇推理小说《凡杜森教授》而闻名。

Van Dusen, also known as "The Thinking Machine" for his application of logic to any and all situations. 凡杜森，也著名于“思考的机器”，适用于任何一种逻辑推理情形。

Futrelle died in thesinking of the RMS Titanic. 福翠尔在泰坦尼克号沉船事故中逝世。

Career（事业）Futrelle, who was born in Pike County, Georgia, worked for the Atlanta Journal, where he began their sports section; 福翠尔出生在格鲁吉亚小镇的派克县，在《亚特兰大报》工作，负责体育专栏版面。

the New York Herald; the Boston Post; and the Boston American, where, in 1905, his Thinking Machine character first appeared in a serialized version of "The Problem of Cell 13".1905年，发表在《纽约先驱》，《波士顿邮报》和《波士顿美国人》报刊上的他的连载小说译文“逃出十三号牢房”，第一次出现“思考机器”故事。

英美文学选读自考题模拟17(总分：100.00，做题时间：90分钟)一、Ⅰ.Multiple Choice(总题数：40，分数：40.00)1.The belief of the eighteenth-century neoclassicists in England led them to seek the following EXCEPT ______.（分数：1.00）A.proportionB.graceC.harmonyD.spirit √解析：[解析] 本题主要考查的知识点为新古典主义时期作家们的创作追求。

新古典主义者们对文学作品的观点使该时期的作家在创作时寻求表达与措辞上的协调、统一、和谐与典雅。

2."Graveyard School" writers are the following sentimentalists of ______.（分数：1.00）A.James Thomson and William Collins √B.William Collins and William BlakeC.Robert Burns and James ThomsonD.Thomas Jackson and James Thomson解析：[解析] 本题主要考查的知识点为古墓派诗人的成员。

感伤派诗人，或曰“古墓派诗人”有詹姆斯·汤姆森、威廉·考林斯和威廉·柯柏等。

3.The most perfect example of the verse drama after the Greek style in English is Samson Agonistes by ______.（分数：1.00）A.John Milton √B.William BlakeC.Henry FieldingD.William Wordsworth解析：[解析] 本题主要考查的知识点为《力士参孙》的作者。

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.。

20世纪百大英文小说1.乔伊斯（James Joyce）爱尔兰《尤里西斯》（Ulysses）19222.费兹杰罗（F. S. Fitzgerald）美国《大亨小传》（The Great Gatsby）19253.乔伊斯（James Joyce）爱尔兰《青年艺术家的画像》（A Portrait of the Artist as a YoungMan）19164.纳巴科夫（Vladimir Nabokov）俄裔美籍《洛莉塔》（Lolita）19555.赫胥黎（Aldous Huxley）英国《美丽新世界》（Brave New World）19326.福克纳（William Faulkner）美国《声嚣与愤怒》（The Sound and Fury）19297.海勒（Joseph Heller）美国《第22条军规》（Catch-22）19618.柯斯勒（Arthur Koestler）匈牙利《中午的黑暗》（Darkness at Noon）19419.劳伦斯（D. H. Lawrence）英国《儿子与情人》（Sons and Lover）191310.史坦贝克（John Steinbeck）美国《愤怒的葡萄》（The Grapes of Wrath）193911.劳瑞（Malcolm Lowry）英国《在火山下》（Under the Volcano）194712.巴特勒（Samuel Butler）英国《众生之路》（The Way of All Flesh）190313.欧威尔（George Orwell）英国《一九八四》（1984）194914.格雷夫斯（Robert Graves）英国《我，克劳狄》（I, Claudius）193415.吴尔芙（Virginia Woolf）英国《到灯塔去》（To the Lighthouse）192716.德莱赛（Theodore Dreiser）美国《人间悲剧》（An American Tragedy）192517.玛克勒丝（Carson McCullers）美国《同是天涯沦落人》（The Heart Is a Longly Heart）194018.冯内果（Kurt Vonnegut）美国《第五号屠宰场》（Slaughterhouse-Five）196919.埃利森（Ralph Ellison）美国《隐形人》（Invisible Man）195220.莱特（Richard Wright）美国《土生子》（NativeSon）194021.贝娄（Saul Bellow）美国《雨王韩德森》（Henderson the Rain King）195922.奥哈拉（John OHara）美国《在萨马拉的会合》（Appointment in Samarra）193423.多斯帕索斯（John Dos Passos）美国《美国》（U. S. A.）193624.安德生（Sherwood Anderson）美国《小城故事》（Winesburg, Ohio）191925.福斯特（E. M. Forster）英国《印度之旅》（APassage to India）192426.詹姆斯（Henry James）美国《鸽翼》（The Wingsof the Dove）190227.詹姆斯（Henry James）美国《奉使记》（TheAmbassadors）190328.费兹杰罗（F. S. Fitzgerald）美国《夜未央》（Tender Is the Night）193429.法雷尔（James T. Farrell）美国《「斯塔兹‧朗尼根」三部曲》（Studs Lonigan-trilogy）193530.福特（Ford Madox Ford）英国《好兵》（TheGood Soldier）191531.欧威尔（George Orwell）英国《动物农庄》（Animal Farm）194532.詹姆斯（Henry James）美国《金碗》（TheGolden Bowl）190433.德莱赛（Theodore Dreiser）美国《嘉莉妹妹》（Sister Carrie）190034.渥夫（Evelyn Waugh）英国《一掬尘土》（AHandful of Dust）193435.福克纳（William Faulkner）美国《出殡现形记》（As I Lay Dying）193036.华伦（Robert Penn Warren）美国《国王供奉的人们》（All the Kings Men）194637.威尔德（Thornton Wilder）美国《圣路易‧莱之桥》（The Bridge of SanLuis Rey）192738.福斯特（E. M. Forster）英国《此情可问天》（Howards End）191039.包德温（James Baldwin）美国《向苍天呼吁》（Go Tell It on the Mountain）195340.葛林（Graham Greene）英国《事情的真相》（The Heart of the Matter）194841.高汀（William Golding）英国《苍蝇王》（Lordof the Flies）195442.迪基（James Dickey）美国《解救》（Deliverance）197043.鲍威尔（Anthony Powell）英国《与时代合拍的舞蹈》（A Dance to the Music of Time）197544.赫胥黎（Aldous Huxley）英国《针锋相对》（Point Counter Point）192845.海明威（Ernest Hemingway）美国《妾似朝阳又照君》（The Sun Also Rise）192646.康拉德（Joseph Conrad）英国《特务》（TheSecret Agent）190747.康拉德（Joseph Conrad）英国《诺斯特罗莫》（Nostromo）190448.劳伦斯（D. H. Lawrence）英国《彩虹》（Rainbow）191549.劳伦斯（D. H. Lawrence）英国《恋爱中的女人》（Women in Love）192050.米勒（Henry Miller）美国《北回归线》（Tropic of Cancer）193451.梅勒（Norman Mailer）美国《裸者和死者》（The Naked and Dead）194852.罗斯（Philp Roth）美国《波特诺伊的抱怨》（Portnoys Complaint）196953.纳巴科夫（Vladimir Nabokov）俄裔美籍《苍白的火》（Pale Fire）196254.福克纳（William Faulkner）美国《八月之光》（Light in August）193255.克洛厄（Jack Kerouac）美国《在路上》（Onthe Road）195756.汉密特（Dashiell Hammett）美国《马尔他之鹰》（The Maltese Falcon）193057.福特（Ford Madox Ford）英国《行进的目的》（Parades End）192858.华顿（Edith Wharton）美国《纯真年代》（TheAge of Innocence）192059.毕尔邦（Max Beerbohm）英国《朱莱卡‧多卜生》（Zuleika Dobson）191160.柏西（Walker Percy）美国《热爱电影的人》（The Moviegoer）196161.凯赛（Willa Cather）美国《总主教之死》（Death Comes to Archbishop）192762.钟斯（James Jones）美国《乱世忠魂》（FromHere to Eternity）195163.奇佛（John Cheever）美国《丰普肖特纪事》（The Wapshot Chronicles）195764.沙林杰（J. D. Salinger）美国《麦田捕手》（The Catcher in the Rye）195165.柏基斯（Anthony Burgess）英国《装有发条的橘子》（A Clockwork Orange）196266.毛姆（W. Somerset Maugham）英国《人性枷锁》（Of Human Bondage）191567.康拉德（Joseph Conrad）英国《黑暗之心》（Heart of Darkness）190268.刘易士（Sinclair Lewis）美国《大街》（MainStreet）192069.华顿（Edith Wharton）美国《欢乐之家》（TheHouse of Mirth）190570.达雷尔（Lawrence Durrell）英国《亚历山大四部曲》（The Alexandraia Quartet）196071.休斯（Richard Hughes）英国《牙买加的风》（A High Wind in Jamaica）192972.耐波耳（V. S. Naipaul）千里达《毕斯瓦思先生之屋》（A House for Mr. Biswas）196173.威斯特（Nathaniel West）美国《蝗虫的日子》（The Day of the Locust）193974.海明威（Ernest Hemingway）美国《战地春梦》（A Farewell to Arms）192975.渥夫（Evelyn Waugh）英国《独家新闻》（Scoop）193876.丝帕克（Muriel Spark）英国《琼‧布罗迪小姐的青春》（The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie）196177.乔伊斯（James Joyce）爱尔兰《为芬尼根守灵》（Finnegans Wake）193978.吉卜林（Rudyard Kipling）英国《金姆》（Kim）190179.福斯特（E. M. Forster）英国《窗外有蓝天》（A Room with a View）190880.渥夫（Evelyn Waugh）英国《梦断白庄》（Brideshead Revisited）194581.贝娄（Saul Bellow）美国《阿奇正传》（TheAdventures of Augie March）197182.史达格纳（Wallace Stegner）美国《安眠的天使》（Angle of Repose）197183.耐波耳（V. S. Naipaul）千里达《河曲》（ABend in the River）197984.鲍恩（Elizabeth Bowen）英国《心之死》（TheDeath of the Heart）193885.康拉德（Joseph Conrad）英国《吉姆爷》（LordJim）190086.达特罗（E. L. Doctorow）美国《爵士乐》（Ragtime）197587.贝内特（Arnold Bennett）英国《老妇人的故事》（The Old Wives Tale）190888.伦敦（Jack London）英国《野性的呼唤》（TheCall of the Wild）190389.格林（Henry Green）英国《爱》（Loving）194590.鲁西迪（Salman Rushdie）（印裔英籍）《午夜的孩子们》（Midnights Children）198191.考德威尔（Erskine Caldwell）美国《烟草路》（Tobacco Road）193292.甘耐第（William Kennedy）美国《紫苑草》（Ironweed）198393.佛勒斯（John Fowles）英国《占星家》（TheMagus）196694.里丝（Jean Rhys）英国《辽阔的藻海》（WideSargasso）196695.默多克（Iris Murdoch）英国《在网下》（Underthe Net）195496.斯蒂隆（William Styron）美国《苏菲亚的抉择》（Sophies Choice）197997.鲍尔斯（Paul Bowles）美国《遮蔽的天空》（The Sheltering Sky）194998.凯恩（James M. Cain）美国《邮差总按两次铃》（The Postman Always Rings Twice）193499.唐利维（J. P. Donleavy）美国《眼线》（TheGinger Man）1955100.塔金顿（Booth Tarkington）美国《伟大的安伯森斯》（The Magnificent Ambersons）1918。

SISTER CARRIETheodore Dreiser学号：1303200006 姓名：赵弯弯班级：13级专升本Theodore Dreiser was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, to Sarah and John Paul Dreiser, a strict Catholic family. He lived a hard life. And he didn’t received the system of education. He was independent living in childhood. In childhood, he contacted with many layers of social character and the dark side. So it decided to create pessimism and naturalism in his works. He finished a maiden work, called Sister Carrie in 1990. Then he wrote many works, such as Jennie Gerhardt , An American Tragedy, The Financier, The Titan, The Genius and so on. I choose to read this book. Because I thought it accorded with real life. The book described a rural girl went to Chicago for living and finally she became a super star. The author of this novel used extinguished realism skill to expose the poverty, unemployment, starvation and dark of American society under the flourishing. The novel was the early representative in American naturalism. Meanwhile, it revealed the interpersonal callous stakes in American life. Everything for oneself. And it proved this point in modern life.The book told a girl, who is beautiful, timid, young and innocent, smart, vanity and full of fantasy for a big city. Carrie Meeber left her small town to find employment in the city of Chicago. She looked her sister and sought new life at the same time. Dazzling city made her take the train to the Chicago. However, she didn’t know that it covered many lies, fallacies, evils, hypocrisies in the dazzling city. She became Drouet and Hurstwood’s lover for living. Finally she become a famous star.The leading character in this novel was Carrie. What kind of person Carrie is? When I read the book, I thought Carrie was such an ordinary rural girl at the beginning of the story. Sitting on the seat of a bus, she couldn’t help feeling exciting at the sight of the metropolis’ spectacle. She was impressed deeply by large crowd on the avenue, the spacious square or tall buildings. But she was not afraid of the future. At the beginning of the book, a eighteen girl, who leaved her home and looked for hersister. She had a fantasy heart for big city. Carrie Meeber left her small town to find new life. Theodore Dreiser, the author of Sister Carrie, informed the reader that, “Self-interest with her was high, but not strong. It was nevertheless her guiding characteristic.” With her youth and innocence she hoped to seek employment so that she could get and bought all the nice things that she wanted. Carrie did not have any idea how hard this was going to be.In the book, “ when a girl leaves her home at home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse. Of an intermediate balance, under the circumstances, there is no possibility. ” When I saw this, I was thinking. Isn’t it that in real life? Now many young people went out work. “ Live in the silt but not imbrued.” But as time goes on, many people got to go with the flow because of social pressure and life stress. And some people did bad things.Then I read this book, Carrie had many pressure about sister and her brother-in-law. When she tried to find a job, she was scared. Carrie had no skills to offer an employer, no job experience, and her clothing was of poor quality. Chicago was a large city, but society at that time did not have many job opportunities for working women. The only jobs that Carrie could possibly get were in the factories that, paid low wages, had poor working conditions, and long hours. Gradually, she was fed up with the poor life. After she lost her job, She thought about going back to her hometown. Then she met the business salesman Drouet again, who she met for the first time on the train to Chicago. Drouet was aware of her beauty and innocence and he hoped to charm and seduced her. Because Carrie was young and inexperienced in the world of men, she was not wise enough to understand where all Drouet's attention was leading toward. Although she knew that the money should be given back, her desire and longing for the good things in life were so powerful that she ignored her beliefs in what was right and wrong. If she gave up this life, she would live a poor life again. That was Carrie, a girl had her own desire, a human being just like many others in the realistic world.There’s one sentence written in chapter VIII:” When this jangleof free-will instinct shall have been adjusted, when perfect understanding has given the former the power to replace the latter entirely, man will no longer vary.”“In Carrie ― as in how many of our wordings do they not? ― instinct and reason, desire and understanding, were at war for the mastery.” When I read this, I changed my opinion for Carrie. She was not a innocent and lovely girl at all. Because she could not stand the poor life. She yielded to real life. It was unthinkable for any decent woman to live with a man without marriage. Yet, Carrie ignored the rules. Then she found a job in the theater. During the time, there were many contradictions between Carrie and Drouet. When Drouet invites his friend, Hurstwood, who is manger of Fitzgerald and Moy’s. He had been pointed out as a very successful and well-known man about town. His managerial position was fairly important---a kind of stewardship which was imposing, but lacked financial control. He was attracted this girl and he began to pursue the girl. Even he ignored the rules. In order to be with the girl he beloved, Hurstwood s tolen the wine shop’s business money. He cheated Carrie into eloping with him. Drouet's promise to eventually marry Carrie allowed her to ignore her conscience which told her that her behavior was wrong. The longer Drouet and Carrie lived together, she finally realized that she is not deeply in love with him. Carrie had gone with Drouet because of financial need to avoid returning to her hometown. Carrie loved Hurstwood and agreed to leave with him believing that they would marry each other right away. However, Carrie was deceived again.In my opinion, Carrie lived with two men as their mistress. They gave her the material things she desired. Her judgment in selecting men was based on their appearance and not on their character. I ever thought she was vanity and self-abandonment. She loved a kind of entertainments. She wanted to got the upper reaches of society. Gradually, I hated her.The climax was Hurstwood’s life in New York. The money he stolen was finally confiscated. Their life was in straitened circumstances. It was ironic that she was backing in the same financial situation as before. Hurstwood was not able to find or keep a job. With no one left to support her, Carrie got a job. As her theater career roseand her social status improved, Hurstwood became completely dependent on Carrie. He was no longer the intelligent, assured, and cultured man that she thought he was. With the ability to support herself, Carrie leaves Hurstwood. He became a street person and ended up with killing himself.After Hurstwood went broke, Carrie discarded him. Maybe many people thought thar it was degrading. AT the same time, she became a star at the actor.She got money and career.After she became a star, she met Ames. Ames said: “ What good would it do ? A man doesn’t need this sort of thing to be happy.” When she became a star at the actor, got the upper reaches of society and realized her fantasy. However, the so-called "upper-class social life" did not give her anything at all? She felt that life was empty and couldn’t find the true meaning of life. Being in the loneliness and desolation, she dreamed of sitting in a rocking chair in a TV drama without happiness.When I finished the book, I was wrong. I should not criticize Carrie. How did I can？Actually, I didn’t know.From ancient to modern times, human followed sage. We thought they were perfect. But we were human. We looked forward to living a rich life. We want to enjoy life. So did Carrie. She lived a poor life at her sister’ s home. She re alized that it was hard and money was important. So she tried her best to get everything.However, why was Carrie not happy? She got everything. Money, career and so on. Actually, we pursued good life. It is right. But to my enlightenment, as we busy pursu ing material life and scrambling power and social position, we shouldn’t ignore our spiritual needs. We should find the true meaning of life. In my opinion, we had some sincere friends, harmonious family and our obligation. I ever saw the sentence:” One su preme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.”。

英美文学选读自考题-13(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. Generally, the Renaissance refers to the period between ______ and ______ centuries.A. 14th, mid-17th B. 16th, mid-47th C. 14th, mid-18th D. 16th, mid-19th2. William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe and ______ are the best representatives of the English humanists.A. Edmund Spenser B. Francis Bacon C. John Milton D. Thomas More3. In the second period, Shakespeare's style and approach became highly individualized. He wrote **edies. Which one doesn't belong to them?______A. Titus Andronicus. B. A Midsummer Night' s Dream. C. The Merchant of Venice. D. Twelfth Night.4. Portia is a character in ______.A. The Merchant of Venice B. A Midsummer Night's Dream C. Measure for Measure D. The Taming of the Shrew5. Lycidas is ______.A. Milton's most memorable prose work B. a great plea for freedom of the press C. one of Milton's three major poetical works D. a collection of elegies6. All the following works except ______ are Gothic novels.A. The Castle of Otranto B. The History of Amelia C. The Mysteries of UdolphoD. A Gothic Story7. Swift's A Modest Proposal is generally taken as a perfect model, suggesting that poor Irish parents sell their one-year-old babies to the rich English lords and ladies as ______.A. servant B. child C. slave D. food8. In the following works by Henry Fielding, which brings him the name of the "Prose Homer"?A. The Coffee House Politician. B. The Tragedy of Tragedies. C. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. D. The History of Amelia.9. The literary form which is fully-developed and the most flourishing during the Romantic Period is ______.A. prose B. drama C. novel D. poetry10. Through all his life, Blake had been both a poet and a (n) ______.A. engraver B. painter C. novelist D. scholar11. It's ______ that gives Wordsworth "strength and knowledge full of peace".A. nation B. past experience C. common life D. nature12. The assertion that poetry originates from "emotion recollected in tranquility" belongs to ______.A. William Wordsworth B. Samuel Taylor Coleridge C. Robert Southey D. William Blake13. The author of the work "Men of England" is ______.A. T.S. Eliot B. Thomas Gray C. P.B. Shelley D. Walt Whitman14. ______ mainly tells of the love story between a rich, proud young man Darcy and the beautiful and intelligent Elizabeth Bennet.A. Jane Eyre B. Wuthering Heights C. Pride and Prejudice D. Oliver Twist15. Chronologically the Victorian Period refers to ______.A. 1798—1832 B. 1836—1901 C. the Romantic Period D. the Neoclassical Period16. Robert Browning created ______ by adopting the novelistic presentation of characters.A. the verse novel B. the blank verse C. the heroic couplet D. the dramatic poetry17. "Come to me—come to me entirely now," said he, and added, in his deepest tone, speaking in my ear as his" cheek was laid on mine," Make my happiness—I will make yours."The above passage presents a scene in ______.A. Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights B. Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre C. John Galsworthy's The Forsyte Saga D. Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles18. 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. Oxford19. In the novel Tess of the D' Urbervilles, naturalistic tendency is strong, in a way, Tess seems to be led to her final destruction step by step by ______.A. Society B. God C. Man D. Fate20. The outstanding realistic novelists in the early 20th century England were ______, H.G. Wells and Arnold Bennett.A. George Bernard Shaw B. John Galsworthy C. James Joyce D. T.S. Eliot21. Widowers' House, a play written by George Bernard Shaw, is a grotesquely realistic exposure of ______.A. prostitution B. "Life Force" C. slum landlordism D. politics22. T.S. Eliot's most important single poem ______ has been hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th-century English poetry.A. The Hollow Man B. The Waste Land C. Murder in the Cathedral D. Ash Wednesday23. The protagonist of the poem "The Love Song of T. Alfred Prufrock" is a kind of tragic figure caught in a sense of defeated idealism and tortured by satisfied desires. Of the following descriptions of him, which isn't suitable for him?______A. He is neurotic. B. He is self-important. C. He is illogical. D. He is a man of action.24. Lawrence was recognized as a prominent novelist only after he published his third novel ______.A. The Rainbow B. Women in Love C. Sons and Lovers D. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man25. Which group of writers are among those who may be called early pioneers of American literature?______A. Mark Twain and Henry James. B. Fenimore Cooper and Washington Irving. C. Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner. D. Jack London and O'Henry.26. "The Birthmark" drives home symbolically Hawthorne's point that ______ is man's birthmark, something he is born with.A. goodness B. gratefulness C. evil D. bitterness27. Walt Whitman is a poet with a strong sense of mission, having devoted all his life to the creation of the "single" poem ______.A. Chicago B. My Lost Youth C. Leaves of Grass D. A Pact28. Which of the following writers is not the dominant figure of the Realistic Period in America?______A. Herman Melville. B. William Dean Howells. C. Henry James. D. Mark Twain.29. "Then all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago." In the quoted sentence, the author might imply that ______.A. nothing changes in the 5000 years of human history B. man's desire to conquer nature can only end in his own destruction C. nature is evil as it was 5000 years ago D. nature has the ultimate creative power30. Howells, Mark Twain and Henry James differed in their understanding of the "______".A. society B. truth C. future D. reality31. All his novels reveal that, as time went on, Mark Twain became increasingly ______.A. prolific B. artistic C. optimistic D. pessimistic32. The Portrait of A Lady is generally considered to be ______ masterpiece, which describes the life journey of an American ______ in a European cultural environment.A. Henry Adams', widow B. William James's, girl C. Henry James's, girl D. Theodore Dreiser's, widow33. Altogether, Emily Dickinson wrote 1775 poems, of which only ______ had appeared during her lifetime.A. three B. five C. seven D. nine34. 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.35. In all his novels, Theodore Dreiser sets himself to project the American ______ values. For example, in Sister Carrie, there is not one character whose status is not determined economically.A. Puritan B. materialistic C. psychological D. religious36. American fiction in the 1960s and 1970s proves to be different from its predecessors in that the writers started to depart from the conventions of the novel writing and experimented with some new forms and is always referred to as "______".A. new fiction B. gothic fiction C. protest fiction D. rebellious fiction37. Which collection won Frost the first of four Pulitzer Prizes? ______A. West Running Brook. B. Collected Poems. C. New Hampshire. D. Mountain Interval.38. Fitzgerald wrote the following except ______.A. The Great Gatsby B. In Our Time C. Tender Is the Night D. This Side of Paradise39. The Hemingway Code heroes are best remembered for their ______.A. indestructible spirit B. pessimistic view of life C. war experiences D. masculinity40. 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. "To he, or not to he—that is the question."Questions:A. Identify the writing from which this sentence is taken.B. Who is the protagonist in this work?C. From this sentence, try to deduce the character of the protagonist.2. "A violet by a mossy stoneHalf hidden from the eye!—Fair as a star, when only oneIs shining in the sky."Questions:A. Identify the author and the title of the poem from which this stanza is taken.B. Pick out the metaphor used in this stanza.C. What quality does the author intend to show by using the metaphor?3. "We paused before a House that seemedA Swelling of the Ground—The Roof was scarcely visible—The Cornice—in the Ground—"Questions:A. Who's the author of the stanza?B. Which period does the poem belong to?C. What idea does the poem express?4. "... only Miss Emily's house was left, lifting its stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton wagons and the gasoline pumps—an eyesore among eyesores."Questions:A. Identify the author and the title of the story from which the quoted lines are taken.B. What is the meaning of "an eyesore among eyesores"?C. What does this quoted passage indicate?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. What's Swift's achievements?2. What are the main characteristics of the English critical realism?3. Theodore Dreiser is a celebrated American novelist in the realistic period. What does he discuss in his novels? Give examples to prove your viewpoint.4. Give a comment on Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken.Ⅳ.Topic DiscussionWrite no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.1. Robinson Crusoe is Defoe's first novel and also his masterpiece. Discuss the change and growth of Crusoe and the characteristics of him.2. Thomas Hardy is often regarded as a transitional writer. Some critics believe that he is emotionally traditional and intellectually advanced. How do you understand this idea?。