2007年国际关系学院英语专业(英美文学)真题试卷.doc

2011年国际关系学院英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷(总分：60.00，做题时间：90分钟)一、匹配题(总题数：1，分数：40.00)Please match the following authors with their works.(10 points)1. The Waves2. All"s Well that Ends Well3. Where Angels Fear to Tread4. Song of Myself5. Ulysses6. The Hairy Ape7. Women in Love8. The Pit9. Death in the Afternoon10. Babbitt11. Adam Bede12. Burmese Days13. The Innocents Abroad14. The Open Boat15. The Sketch Book16. Oliver Twist17. Lord Jim18. The American19. Light in August20. Typee（分数：40.00）(1).William Faulkner（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (2).James Joyce（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (3).Sinclair Lewis（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (4).George Eliot（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (5).Stephen Crane（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (6).Charles Dickens（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (7).Mark Twain（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (8).E. M. Forster（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (9).Eugene O"Neill（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (10).William Shakespeare（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (11).Frank Norris（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (12).Joseph Conrad（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (13).Henry James（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (14).Herman Melville（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (15).Ernest Hemingway（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (16).Walt Whitman（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (17).George Orwell（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (18).D.H. Lawrence（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (19).Virginia Woolf（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (20).Washington Irving（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________二、填空题(总题数：8，分数：16.00)1.A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is an autobiographical sketch of(1)"s childhood and early(2)（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________2.The Romantic period in American literature stretches from(3)to(4)（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________3.James Fenimore Cooper created a(5)about the(6)period of the American nation.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________4.Edgar Allan Poe believes(7)is the most legitimate of all the poetic tones and the(8)__of a beautiful woman is the most poetical topic in the world.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________5.The Lake Poets criticized the industrialized(9)society by advocating the(10)to the patriarchal society of the past while Byron and Shelley attacked the forces of oppression both (11)and(12)and called on the oppressed people to rise against earthly tyrants.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________6.The height of Thomas Hardy"s achievement as a novelist was reached in his last two novels both published in the 1890"s. The central figures in the two novels are(13)and(14)（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________7.Hemingway"s(15)hero is a man of(16)rather than a man of thought. He can be destroyed but not(17)and he always shows(18)under pressure.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________8.The central theme of Paradise Lost is taken from the(19)and deals with the Christian story of "the(20)of man".（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________三、评论题(总题数：2，分数：4.00)9.Please read the following poem and make comments in about 300 words.(50 points)The Wild Swans at Coole *The trees are in their autumn beauty,The woodland paths are dry,Under the October twilight the waterMirrors a still sky;Upon the brimming water among the stonesAre nine-and-fifty swans.The nineteenth autumn has come upon meSince I first made my count;I saw, before I had well finished,All suddenly mountAnd scatter wheeling in great broken ringsUpon their clamorous wings.I have looked upon those brilliant creatures,And now my heart is sore.All"s changed since I, hearing at twilight,The first time on this shore,The bell-beat of their wings above my head,Trod with a lighter tread.Unwearied still, lover by lover,They paddle in the coldCompanionable streams or climb the air;Their hearts have not grown old;Passion or conquest, wander where they will,Attend upon them still.But now they drift on the still water,Mysterious, beautiful;Among what rushes will they build,By what lake"s edge of poolDelight men"s eyes when I awake some dayTo find they have flown away?* Coole was the estate of Lady Augusta Gregory, the poet"s friend and patron, who encouraged the young poet and made her house a second home to him.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 10.Please read the following story and make comments in about 500 words.(70 points)A Rose for EmilyIWhen Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house, which no one save an old man-servant—a combined gardener and cook—had seen in at least ten years.It was a big, squarish frame house that had once been white, decorated with cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome style of the seventies, set on what had once been our most select street. But garages and cotton gins had encroached and obliterated even the august names of that neighborhood; only Miss Emily"s house was left, lifting its stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton wagons and the gasoline pumps—an eyesore amongeyesores. And now Miss Emily had gone to join the representatives of those august names where they lay in the cedar-bemused cemetery among the ranked and anonymous graves of Union and Confederate soldiers who fell at the battle of Jefferson.Alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town, dating from that day in 1894 when Colonel Sartoris, the mayor—he who fathered the edict that no Negro woman should appear on the streets without an apron—remitted her taxes, the dispensation dating from the death of her father on into perpetuity. Not that Miss Emily would have accepted charity. Colonel Sartoris invented an involved tale to the effect that Miss Emily"s father had loaned money to the town, which the town, as a matter of business, preferred this way of repaying. Only a man of Colonel Sartoris" generation and thought could have invented it, and only a woman could have believed it.When the next generation, with its more modern ideas, became mayors and aldermen, this arrangement created some little dissatisfaction. On the first of the year they mailed her a tax notice. February came, and there was no reply. They wrote her a formal letter, asking her to call at the sheriffs office at her convenience. A week later the mayor wrote her himself, offering to call or to send his car for her, and received in reply a note on paper of an archaic shape, in a thin, flowing calligraphy in faded ink, to the effect that she no longer went out at all. The tax notice was also enclosed, without comment.They called a special meeting of the Board of Aldermen. A deputation waited upon her, knocked at the door through which no visitor had passed since she ceased giving china-painting lessons eight or ten years earlier. They were admitted by the old Negro into a dim hall from which a stairway mounted into still more shadow. It smelled of dust and disuse—a close, dank smell. The Negro led them into the parlor. It was furnished in heavy, leather-covered furniture. When the Negro opened the blinds of one window, they could see that the leather was cracked; and when they sat down, a faint dust rose sluggishly about their thighs, spinning with slow motes in the single sun-ray. On a tarnished gilt easel before the fireplace stood a crayon portrait of Miss Emily"s father.They rose when she entered—a small, fat woman in black, with a thin gold chain descending to her waist and vanishing into her belt, leaning on an ebony cane with a tarnished gold head. Her skeleton was small and spare; perhaps that was why what would have been merely plumpness in another was obesity in her. She looked bloated, like a body long submerged in motionless water, and of that pallid hue. Her eyes, lost in the fatty ridges of her face, looked like two small pieces of coal pressed into a lump of dough as they moved from one face to another while the visitors stated their errand.She did not ask them to sit. She just stood in the door and listened quietly until the spokesman came to a stumbling halt. Then they could hear the invisible watch ticking at the end of the gold chain.Her voice was dry and cold. "I have no taxes in Jefferson. Colonel Sartoris explained it to me. Perhaps one of you can gain access to the city records and satisfy yourselves. ""But we have. We are the city authorities, Miss Emily. Didn"t you get a notice from the sheriff, signed by him?""I received a paper, yes," Miss Emily said. "Perhaps he considers himself the sheriff... I have no taxes in Jefferson. ""But there is nothing on the books to show that, you see. We must go by the—""See Colonel Sartoris. I have no taxes in Jefferson. ""But, Miss Emily—"" See Colonel Sartoris. "(Colonel Sartoris had been dead almost ten years.)" I have no taxes in Jefferson. Tobe!" The Negro appeared. "Show these gentlemen out. "IISo she vanquished them, horse and foot, just as she had vanquished their fathers thirty years before about the smell. That was two years after her father"s death and a short time after her sweetheart—the one we believed would marry her —had deserted her. After her father"s death she went out very little; after her sweetheart went away, people hardly saw her at all. A few of the ladies had the temerity to call, but were not received, and the only sign of life about the place was the Negro man—a young man then—going in and out with a market basket." Just as if a man—any man—could keep a kitchen properly," the ladies said; so they were not surprised when the smell developed. It was another link between the gross, teeming world and the high and mighty Griersons.A neighbor, a woman, complained tothe mayor, Judge Stevens, eighty years old."But what will you have me do about it, madam?" he said."Why, send her word to stop it," the woman said. "Isn"t there a law?"" I"m sure that won"t be necessary," Judge Stevens said. " It"s probably just a snake or a rat that nigger of hers killed in the yard. I"ll speak to him about it. "The next day he received two more complaints, one from a man who came in diffident deprecation. "We really must do something about it, Judge. I"d be the last one in the world to bother Miss Emily, but we"ve got to do something. " That night the Board of Aldermen met—three graybeards and one younger man, a member of the rising generation."It"s simple enough," he said. "Send her word to have her place cleaned up. Give her a certain time to do it in, and if she don"t...""Dammit, sir, " Judge Stevens said, "will you accuse a lady to her face of smelling bad?"So the next night, after midnight, four men crossed Miss Emily"s lawn and slunk about the house like burglars, sniffing along the base of the brickwork and at the cellar openings while one of them performed a regular sowing motion with his hand out of a sack slung from his shoulder. They broke open the cellar door and sprinkled lime there, and in all the outbuildings. As they recrossed the lawn, a window that had been bark was lighted and Miss Emily sat in it, the light behind her, and her upright torso motionless as that of an idol. They crept quietly across the lawn and into the shadow of the locusts that lined the street. After a week or two the smell went away.That was when people had begun to feel really sorry for her. People in our town, remembering how old lady Wyatt, her great-aunt, had gone completely crazy at last, believed that the Griersons held themselves a little too high for what they really were. None of the young men were quite good enough for Miss Emily and such. We had long thought of them as a tableau; Miss Emily a slender figure in white in the background, her father a spraddled silhouette in the foreground, his back to her and clutching a horsewhip, the two of them framed by the back-flung front door. So when she got to be thirty and was still single, we were not pleased exactly, but vindicated; even with insanity in the family she wouldn"t have turned down all of her chances if they had really materialized.When her father died, it got about that the house was all that was left to her; and in a way, people were glad. At last they could pity Miss Emily. Being left alone, and a pauper, she had become humanized. Now she too would know the old thrill and the old despair of a penny more or less.The day after his death all the ladies prepared to call at the house and offer condolence and aid, as is our custom. Miss Emily met them at the door, dressed as usual and with no trace of grief on her face. She told them that her father was not dead. She did that for three days, with the ministers calling on her, and the doctors, trying to persuade her to let them dispose of the body. Just as they were about to resort to law and force, she broke down, and they buried her father quickly.We did not say she was crazy them. We believed she had to do that. We remembered all the young men her father had driven away, and we knew that with nothing left, she would have to cling to that which had robbed her, as people will.IIIShe was sick for a long time. When we saw her again, her hair was cut short, making her look like a girl, with a vague resemblance to those angels in colored church windows—sort of tragic and serene.The town had just let the contracts for paving the sidewalks, and in the summer after her father"s death they began the work. The construction company came with niggers and mules and machinery, and a foreman named Homer Barron, a Yankee—a big, dark, ready man, with a big voice and eyes lighter than his face. The little boys would follow in groups to hear him cuss the niggers, and the niggers singing in time to the rise and fall of picks. Pretty soon he knew everybody in town. Whenever you heard a lot of laughing anywhere about the square, Homer Barron would be in the center of the group. Presently we began to see him and Miss Emily on Sunday afternoons driving in the yellow-wheeled buggy and the matched team of bays from the livery stable.At first we were glad that Miss Emily would have an interest, because the ladies all said, " Of course a Grierson would not think seriously of a Northerner, a day laborer. " But there were still others, older people, who said that even grief could not cause a real lady to forget noblesse oblige— without calling it noblesse oblige. They just said, "Poor Emily. Her kinsfolk shouldcome to her. " She had some kin in Alabama; but years ago her father had fallen out with them over the estate of old lady Wyatt, the crazy woman, and there was no communication between the two families. They had not even been represented at the funeral.And as soon as the old people said, "Poor Emily," the whispering began. "Do you suppose it"s really so?" they said to one another. "Of course it is. What else could..." This behind their hands; rustling of craned silk and satin behind jalousies closed upon the sun of Sunday afternoon as the thin, swift clop-clop-clop of the matched team passed; "Poor Emily. "She carried her head high enough—-even when we believed that she was fallen. It was as if she demanded more than ever the recognition of her dignity as the last Grierson; as if it had wanted that touch of earthiness to reaffirm her imperviousness. Like when she bought the rat poison, the arsenic. That was over a year after they had begun to say " Poor Emily," and while the two female cousins were visiting her." I want some poison," she said to the druggist. She was over thirty then, still a slight woman, though thinner than usual, with cold, haughty black eyes in a face the flesh of which was strained across the temples and about the eyesockets as you imagine a lighthouse-keeper"s face ought to look " I want some poison," she said."Yes, Miss Emily. What kind? For rats and such? I"d recom—""I want the best you have.I don"t care what kind. "The druggist named several. "They"ll kill anything up to an elephant. But what you want is—""Arsenic," Miss Emily said. "Is that a good one?"" Is... arsenic ? Yes, ma"am. But what you want—""I want arsenic.The druggist looked down at her. She looked back at him, erect, her face like a strained flag. "Why, of course," the druggist said. "If that"s what you want. But the law requires you to tell what you are going to use it for.Miss Emily just stared at him, her head tilted back in order to look him eye for eye, until he looked away and went and got the arsenic and wrapped it up. The Negro delivery boy brought her the package; the druggist didn"t come back. When she opened the package at home there was written on the box, under the skull and bones; "For rats.IVSo the next day we all said, " She will kill herself" ; and we said it would be the best thing. When she had first begun to be seen with Homer Barron, we had said, " She will marry him. " Then we said, " She will persuade him yet, " because Homer himself had remarked—he liked men, and it was known that he drank with the younger men in the Elks" Club —that he was not a marrying ter we said, "Poor Emily" behind the jalousies as they passed on Sunday afternoon in the glittering buggy, Miss Emily with her head high and Homer Barron with his hat cocked and a cigar in his teeth, reins and whip in a yellow glove.Then some of the ladies began to say that it was a disgrace to the town and a bad example to the young people. The men did not want to interfere, but at last the ladies forced the Baptist minister—Miss Emily"s people were Episcopal—to call upon her. He would never divulge what happened during that interview, but he refused to go back again. The next Sunday they again drove about the streets, and the following day the minister"s wife wrote to Miss Emily"s relations in Alabama.So she had blood-kin under her roof again and we sat back to watch developments. At first nothing happened. Then we were sure that they were to be married. We learned that Miss Emily had been to the jeweler"s and ordered a man"s toilet set in silver, with the letters H. B. on each piece. Two days later we learned that she had bought a complete outfit of men"s clothing, including a nightshirt, and we said, "They are married. " We were really glad. We were glad because the two female cousins were even more Grierson than Miss Emily had ever been.So we were not surprised when Homer Barron —the streets had been finished some time since— was gone. We were a little disappointed that where was not a public blowing-off, but we believed that he had gone on to prepare for Miss Emily"s coming, or to give her a chance to get rid of the cousins.(By that time it was a cabal, and we were all Miss Emily"s allies to help circumvent the cousins.)Sure enough, after another week they departed. And, as we had expected all along, within three days Homer Barron was back in town.A neighbor saw the Negro man admit him at the kitchen door at dusk one evening.And that was the last we saw of Homer Barron. And of Miss Emily for some time. The Negro man went in and out with the market basket, but the front door remained closed. Now and then we would see her at a windowfor a moment, as the men did that night when they sprinkled the lime, but for almost six months she did not appear on the streets. Then we knew that this was to be expected too; as if that quality of her father which had thwarted her woman"s life so many times had been too virulent and too furious to die.When we next saw Miss Emily, she had grown fat and her hair was turning gray. During the next few years it grew grayer and grayer until it attained an even pepper-and-salt iron-gray, when it ceased turning. Up to the day of her death at seventy-four it was still that vigorous iron-gray, like the hair of an active man.From that time on her front door remained closed, save for a period of six or seven years, when she was about forty, during which she gave lessons in china-painting. She fitted up a studio in one of the downstairs rooms, where the daughters and granddaughters of Colonel Sartoris" contemporaries were sent to her with the same regularity and in the same spirit that they were sent to church on Sundays with a twenty-five-cent piece for the collection plate. Meanwhile her taxes had been remitted.Then the newer generation became the backbone and the spirit of the town, and the painting pupils grew up and fell away and did not send their children to her with boxes of color and tedious brushes and pictures cut from the ladies" magazines. The front door closed upon the last one and remained closed for good. When the town got free postal delivery, Miss Emily alone refused to let them fasten the metal numbers above her door and attach a mailbox to it. She would not listen to them.Daily, monthly, yearly we watched the Negro grow grayer and more stooped, going in and out with the market basket. Each December we sent her a tax notice, which would be returned by the post office a week later, unclaimed. Now and then we would see her in one of the downstairs windows—she had evidently shut up the top floor of the house—like the carven torso of an idol in a niche, looking or not looking at us, we could never tell which. Thus she passed from generation to generation—dear, inescapable, impervious, tranquil, and perverse.And so she died. Fell ill in the house filled with dust and shadows, with only a doddering Negro man to wait on her. We did not even know she was sick; we had long since given up trying to get any information from the Negro. He talked to no one, probably not even to her, for his voice had grown harsh and rusty, as if from disuse.She died in one of the downstairs rooms, in a heavy walnut bed with a curtain, her gray head propped on a pillow yellow and moldy with age and lack of sunlight.VThe Negro met the first of the ladies at the front door and let them in, with their hushed, sibilant voices and their quick, curious glances, and then he disappeared. He walked right through the house and out the back and was not seen again.The two female cousins came at once. They held the funeral on the second day, with the town coming to look at Miss Emily beneath a mass of bought flowers, with the crayon face of her father musing profoundly above the bier and the ladies sibilant and macabre; and the very old men—some in their brushed Confederate uniforms—on the porch and the lawn, talking of Miss Emily as if she had been a contemporary of theirs, believing they had danced with her and courted her perhaps, confusing time with its mathematical progression, as the old do, to whom all the past is not a diminishing road, but, instead, a huge meadow which no winter ever quite touches, divided from them now by the narrow bottleneck of the most recent decade of years.Already we knew that there was one room in that region above stairs which no one had seen in forty years, and which would have to be forced. They waited until Miss Emily was decently in the ground before they opened it.The violence of breaking down the door seemed to fill this room with pervading dust. A thin, acrid pall as of the tomb seemed to lie everywhere upon this room decked and furnished as for a bridal: upon the valance curtains of faded rose color, upon the rose-shaded lights, upon the dressing table, upon the delicate array of crystal and the man"s toilet things backed with tarnished silver, silver so tarnished that the monogram was obscured. Among them lay a collar and tie, as if they had just been removed, which, lifted, left upon the surface a pale crescent in the dust. Upon a chair hung the suit, carefully folded; beneath it the two mute shoes and the discarded socks.The man himself lay in the bed.For a long while we just stood there, looking down at the profound and fleshless grin. The body had apparently once lain in the attitude of an embrace, but now the long sleepthat outlasts love, that conquers even the grimace of love, had cuckolded him. What was left of him, rotted beneath what was left of the nightshirt, had become inextricable from the bed in which he lay; and upon him and upon the pillow beside him lay that even coating of the patient and biding dust.Then we noticed that in the second pillow was the indentation of a head. One of us lifted something from it, and leaning forward, that faint and invisible dust dry and acrid in the nostrils, we saw a long strand of iron-gray hair.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________。

2007年浙江大学英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷(总分：30.00，做题时间：90分钟)一、名词解释(总题数：10，分数：20.00)1.The Red Badge of Courage（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 2.The Rivals（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 3.The Wings of the Dove（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 4.The Dynasts（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 5.O"Pioneers!（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 6.Tamburlaine（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 7.Dry September（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 8.A Psalm of Life（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 9.The Faerie Queene（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 10.Dangling Man（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________二、评论题(总题数：3，分数：6.00)11.Speak what you think now in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradicts everything you said today.—"All, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood." —Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 12.Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take of my labors, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it. I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligation where no benefit has been received, or to be unwilling that the public should consider me as owing that to a patron which Providence has enabled me to do for myself.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 13.Oh Carrie, Carrie! Oh, blind strivings of the human heart! Onward, onward, it saith, and where beauty leads, there it follows. Whether it be the tinkle of a lone sheep bell o"er some quiet landscape, or the glimmer of beauty in sylvan places, or the show of soul in some passing eye, the heart knows and makes answer, following. It is when the feet weary and hope seems vain that the heartaches and the longings arise. Know, then, that for you is neither surfeit nor content. In your rocking-chair, by your widow dreaming, shall you long, along. In your rocking-chair, by your window, shall you dream such happiness as you may never feel.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________三、分析题(总题数：2，分数：4.00)14.Analyze the theme of the following poem. (Use at least three of the following elements develop and reinforce your analysis: diction, tone, image, figures of speech, symbols, irony, syntax, rhythm, rhyme) (15 points)Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3,1802William WordsworthEarth has not anything more to show more fair;Dull would he be of soul who could pass byA sight so touching in its majesty;This City now doth, like a garment, wearThe beauty of the morning; silent, bare,Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lieOpen unto the fields, and to the sky;All bright and glittering in the smokeless air.Never did the sun more beautifully steepIn his first splendor, valley, rock, or hill;Ne"er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!The river glideth at his own sweet will;Dear God! The very houses seem asleep;And all that mighty heart is lying still!（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 15.Choose one of the following authors and make a comment on any one of his/her literary works.(20 points)George Bernard Shaw Ralph Waldo Emerson Ezra Pound Doris Lessing（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________。

专注于收集各类历年试卷和答案全国 2007 年 4 月高等教育自学考试英美文学选读试题课程代码： 00604请将答案填在答题纸相应位置上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. Write your answer in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.1．The work that presented, for the first time in English literature, a comprehensive realistic picture of the medieval English society and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life is most likely ______________.A ． William Langland ’s Piers PlowmanB ．Geoffrey Chaucer ’sThe Canterbury Tales C． John Gower ’s Confession Amantis D ．Sir Gawain and the Green Knight2．The tragedy of Dr. Faustus, the protagonist in Christopher Marlowe’s The Tragic History of Dr. Faustus , is the very fact that______________.A ． man is confined to timeB． he tried to join Africa to SpainC． he became a man without soul after he sold itD．he conjured up Helen, the lady who was partially responsible for the breaking-up of the Trojan War3．The sentence “Shall I compare thee to a summer ’s day?”is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare’s ______________.A ． comediesB ． tragediesC． sonnets D ．histories4．Paradise Lost is actually a story taken from ______________.A ． the RenaissanceB ． the Old TestamentC． Greek Mythology D ． the New Testament5．Spenser’s masterpiece _____________ is a great poem of its time.A ． The Faerie QueeneB ． The Shepheardes CalenderC． The Canterbury Tales D ． Metamorphoses16．______________ is the essence of the Renaissance.A ． PoetryB ．DramaC． Humanism D ．Reason7．The most famous dramatists in the Renaissance England are Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare and ______________.A ． John MiltonB ．John MarloweC． Ben Jonson D ．Edmund Spenser8．“ To be, or not to be—that is the question ” is a line taken from______________.A ． HamletB ．OthelloC． King Lear D ．The merchant of venice9．Francis Bacon ’s essays are famous for their brevity, compactness and ______________.A ． complicityB ． complexityC． powerfulness D ． mildness10． Literature of Neoclassicism is different from that of Romanticism in that ______________.A ．the former celebrates reason, rationality, order and instruction while the latter sees literature asan expression of an individual ’s feeling and experiencesB． the former is heavily religious but the latter secularC． the former is an intellectual movement, the purpose of which is to arouse the middle class for political rights while the latter is concerned with the personal cultivationD． the former advocates the “return to nature ”whereas the latter turns to the ancient Greek and Roman writers for its models.11． Daniel Defoe describes ______________ as a typical English Middle- class man of the eighteenth century, the very prototype of the empire builder or the pioneer colonist.A ． Tom JonesB ．GulliverC． Moll Flanders D ．Robinson Crusoe12． ______________ is a typical feature of Swift ’s writings.A ． Bitter satireB ．Elegant styleC． Casual narration D ．Complicated sentence structure13． The Pilgrim ’s Progress by John Bunyan is often said to be concerned with the search for ______________.2A ． material wealthB ． spiritual salvationC． universal truth D ． self- fulfillment14．Alexander Pope strongly advocated ______________ , emphasizing that literary works should be judged by rules of order, reason, logic, restrained emotion, good taste and decorum.A ． SentimentalismB ．RomanticismC． Idealism D ．Neoclassicism15．“Metaphysical poetry ”refers to the works of the 17th- century writers who wrote under the influence of ______________.A ． John DonneB ．Alexander PopeC． Christopher Marlowe D ．John Milton16． It is generally regarded that Keats’s most important and mature poems are in the form of ______________.A ． odeB ． elegyC． epic D ． sonnet17．______________ is the most outstanding stream of consciousness novelist, with ___________ as his encyclopedia –like masterpiece .A ． James Joyce, UlyssesB ．E.M. Foster, A Passage to IndiaC． D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers D ．Virginia Woolf,Mrs Dalloway18． Which of the following poems is a landmark in English poetry?A ． Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor ColeridgeB．“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud ”by William WordsworthC．“Remorse ”by Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD． Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman19． The literary form which is fully developed and the most flourishing during the Romantic Period is ______________.A ． proseB ． dramaC． novel D ．poetry20． Which of the following poems by T.S. Eliot is hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th century English poetry?A ． Poems 1909-1925B ． The Hollow Man3C． Prufrock and Other Observations D ．The Waste Land21．“My last Duchess ”is a poem that best exemplifies Robert Browning ’s ______________.A ． sensitive ear for the sounds of the English languageB． excellent choice of wordsC． mastering of the metrical devicesD． use of the dramatic monologue22． Dickens ’works are characterized by a mingling of ______________ and pathos.A ． humorB ． satireC． passion D ． metaphor23．Walt Whitman, whose ______________ established him as the most popular American poet of the 19th century.A ． Leaves of GrassB ．Go Down, MosesC． The Marble Faun D ．As I Lay Dying24． ______________ has always been regarded as a writer who“perfected the best classic style that American Literature ever produced ”.A ． Edgar Ellen PoeB ．Walt WhitmanC． Henry David Thoreau D ．Washington Irving25． 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 War26． 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.th27． The theme of Washington Irving ’sRip Van Winkle is ______________.4A ． the conflict of human psycheB ． the fight against racial discriminationC． the familial conflict D ． the nostalgia for the unrecoverable past 28． The unofficial manifesto for the Transcendental Club was ______________, Emerson’s first little book, which established him ever since as the most eloquent spokesman of New England Transcendentalism.A ． The American ScholarB ． Self— relianceC． Nature D ．The Over—Soul29． Nathaniel Hawthorne held an unceasing interest in the “interior of the heart”of man ’s being.So in almost every book he wrote, Hawthorne discusses______________.A ． love and hatredB ． sin and evilC． frustration and self — denial D ．balance and self— discipline30 ． In Young Goodman Brown by Hawthorne, the name of Goodman Brown ’s wife is______________, which also contains many symbolic meanings.A ． RuthB ．HesterC． Faith D ． Mary31．Which of the following statements might be true of the theme of Song of Myself by Whitman?A ． This poem describes the growth of a child who learned about the world around him andimproved himself accordingly.B． This poem shows the author ’s cynical sentiments against the American Civil War.C． This poem reflects the author ’s belief in Unitarianism or Deism.D． This poem reflects the author ’s belief in the singularity and equality of all beings in value. 32． In Moby— Dick , the white whale symbolizes ______________ for Melville, for it is complex, unfathomable, malignant, and beautiful as well.A ． natureB ． human societyC． whaling industry D ． truth33． 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． Transcendentalism D ．Neo—Classicalism34． Hemingway once described Mark Twain’s novel ______________ the one book from which5“all modern American literature comes ”.A ． The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnB ． The Adventures of Tom SawyerC． The Gilded Age D ．The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg35． __________ 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 James D ． Mark Twain36． Which of the following statements is NOT true of Emily Dickinson and her poetry?A ． She remained unmarried all her lifeB． She wrote, 1,775 poems, and most of them were published during her life time.C． Her poems have no titles, hence are always quoted by their first lines.D． Her limited private world has never confined the limitless power of her creativity and imagination.37． As a genre, naturalism emphasized ______________ as important deterministic forces shaping individualized characters who were presented in special and detailed circum-stances.A ． theological doctrinesB． heredity and environmentC． education and hard workD． various opportunities and economic success38． Ezra Pound, a leading spokesman of the “”, was one of the most important poets in his time.A ． Imagist MovementB ．Cubist MovementC． Reformist Movement D ．Transcendentalist Movement39．Eugene O’Neill ’s first full — length play, ______________, won him the first Pulitzer Prize. Its theme is the choice between life and death, the interaction of subjective and objective factors.A ． Bound East for CardiffB ． The Hairy ApeC． Desire Under the Elms D ．Beyond the Horizon40． 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 PoemsB ．Across the River and into the Trees6C． The Green Hills of Africa D ． In Our TimeⅡ.Reading Comprehension (16 points, 4 for each)Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answer in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.41．“For oft, when on my couch I lieIn vacant or in pensive mood,they flash upon that inward eye ”Questions:A ．Identify the anthor and the title.B ．What does the phrase “inward eye”mean?C．Write out the main idea of the passage in plain English.42．“The duties of her married life, contemplated as so great beforehand, seemed to be shrinking with the furniture and the white vapour— walled landscape. The clear heights where sheexpected to walk in full communion had become difficult to see even in her imagination; the delicious repose of the soul on a complete superior had been shaken into uneasy effort and alarmed with dim presentiment. When would the days begin of that active wifely devotion which was to strengthen her husband ’s life and exalt her own? ”Questions:A ． Identify the author and the title of the story from which the passage is taken.B ． Explain the meaning of “the white vapour — walled landscape”C． How do you undersdand “the delicious repose of the soul on a complete superior ”? 43．“It was you that broke the new wood,Now is a time for carving.We have one sap and one root—Let there be commerce between us. ”Questions:A ． Whom does the “us”refer to?B ． What does the phrase “broke the new wood ”mean here?C． What is the intention of the poet in writing the poem“A Pact”from which these lines are taken?744．“There was music from my neighbor ’s house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft, or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motor — boats slit the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of foam. On week— ends his Rolls — Roycebecame an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city between nine in the morning and long past midnight, while his station wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug to meet all trains. And on Mondays eight servants, including an extra gardener, toiled all day with mops and scrubbing — brushes and hammers and garden— shears, repairing the ravages of the night before.”Questions:A ． Identify the author and the title of the novel from which this passage is taken.B ． What can you imply by reading this passage?C． What do the “moths ”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． William Shakespeare is one of the most remarkable playwrights the world has ever known.(1)Name his four greatest tragedies.(2)What are the characteristics of the four tragedies in common?(3)Briefly summarize each hero ’s weakness of nature.46．“Though his fair daughter ’s self, as I avowedAt starting, is my object. Nay, we ’ll goTogether down, sir. Notice Neptune, though,Taming a sea horse, though a rarity,Which Claus of Innsbruck cast in bronze for me!”The lines above are taken from Robert Browning ’s “My Last Duchess.”Taking the whole poem into consideration, what kind of person do you think the duke is?47． What is generally the view Washington lrving expressed in his“Rip Van Winkle”about the radical changes that happened to the American society in his time?848． 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 realists?Give two titles of his works in which this theme and this approach are employed.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． Analyze the character of Jane Eyre based on the selection taken from Chapter X XⅢ of Jane Eyre.50． Symbolism is an important literary practice in literature and it has been widely used by many American writers. Discuss the way symboliom is used in Faulkner ’s story “A Rose forEmily. ”92007 年 4 月自考英美文学选读试题答案（课程代码0604）I . Multiple Choice (40 points in all, 1 for each)l.B 2.A 3.C 4.B 5.A6.C7. C8. A9.C10.A11. D 12. A13. B14.D15. A16. A17. A18. A19. D20. D21. D 22. A23. A24. D25. B26. D27. D28. C29. B30. C31. D 32. A33. B34. A35. C36.B37. B38. A39. D40. DII.Reading Comprehension (16 points in all, 4 for each)41. A. Wordsworth; I wondered lonely as a cloudB. human soulC. The poet expressed his love for the daffodils.42. A. George Eliot; MiddlemarchB. The landscape covered with white snow.C. It refers to Dorothea' s dream of fulfilling something great by marrying somebody superior, somebody who can guide her.43. A. Whitman and Pound (the Imagists)B. Made experiments with the conventions of the traditional poetryC. In this poem, Pound started to find some agreement between "Whitmanesque" free verse, which he had attacked for its carelessness in composition, and the " verse libre" of the Imagists who showed more concern for formal values.44. A. F. Scott Fitzgerald; The Great Gatsby?B. This passage describes Gatsby' s extravagance.C. Moths are used metaphorically to refer to those people who are drawn to the party simply for10its glamour, for the wealth of Gatsby.III. Questions and Answers (24 points in all, 6 for each)45. A. Shakespeare's four greatest tragedies are: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear,and Macbeth.B. Each portrays somke noble hero, who faces the injustice of human life and is caught in a difficult situation and whose fate is closely connected with the fate of the whole nation.C. Each hero has his weakness of nature: Hamlet, the melancholic scholar; Othello' s inner weak-ness is made use of by the outside evil force; the old king Lear who is unwilling to totally give up his power; and Macbeth' s lust for power stirs up his ambition and leads him to incessant crimes.46.A. His apparent intelligence, excellent taste for art superiority and aristocratic manners are paradoxical.B. hispride ， jealousy and brutality.47.A. living laments the radical changes in his time, thinking that the changes have takenaway some of the most endeared values in American life.B. Irving' s pervasive theme of nostalgia for the unrecoverable past is unforgettable.48.A. His most fanous theme is international theme.B. Psychological approachC. The Portrait of A Lady; Daisy MillerⅣ. Topic Discussion ( 20 points in all, 10 for each )49.A. Jane Eyre, an orphan child with a fiery spirit and a longing to love and be loved, a poor, plain,little governess who dares to love her master.B. In Chapter X X Ⅲ , Jane finds herself hopelessly in love with Mr. Rochester but she is aware that her love is out of the question. When forced to confront Mr. Rochester, she desperately and openly declares her equality with him and her love for him.1150.A. Rose, as a symbol of love, may refer to the love between Emily and the Northerner, yet used rather ironically, in the way it is associated with decay and death in the story.B. Rose could also stand for the pity, sympathy, or the lament" we "shows for Emily.C. The pity and lament goes not only to Emily but all those who are imprisoned in the past and fail to adapt to the change.D. Discuss in relation to the story.12。

2007国际关系学院国际关系专业考研真题2007年国际关系学院研究生入学考试（国际关系史）一、名词解释1、拉巴罗条约2、不承认主义3、波茨坦公告4、日本北方领土5、柏林墙6、古巴导弹危机7、海湾战争8、戈尔巴乔夫外交政策新思维二、简答题1、雅尔塔会议召开的背景、取得的成果及其影响2、冷战时期美国以灵活反应战略取代大规模报复战略的背景、主要内容及影响三、论述题1、战后不结盟运动的兴起原因、发展特点及冷战后所面临的挑战2、战后初期苏联与东欧国家经济、政治、军事关系的建立与发展2007年国际关系学院研究生入学考试国际关系专业（国际关系专业综合）一、名词解释1、世界格局2、基督教3、软均势论4、八国集团5、非传统安全二、论述题1、简析日美同盟关系变化的原因2、论述欧盟东扩的考虑三、短论浅析美国“9.11”事件对世界格局的影响2007年国际关系学院研究生入学考试国际关系专业（国际政治专业综合）一、名词解释1、建构主义2、“和谐世界”理念3、国际关系4、美国的“大中东计划”5、国际战略6、中美战略经济对话机制二、论述题1、中国的和平发展道路的内涵和意义2、论述全球化的内涵、意义及其面临的问题3、简析新自由主义基本理论、意义及其局限性考研真题答题黄金攻略名师点评：认为只要专业课重点背会了，就能拿高分，是广大考生普遍存在的误区。

而学会答题方法才是专业课取得高分的关键。

(一)名词解释答题方法【考研名师答题方法点拨】名词解释最简单，最容易得分。

在复习的时候要把参考书中的核心概念和重点概念夯实。

近5-10年的真题是复习名词解释的必备资料，通过研磨真题你可以知道哪些名词是出题老师经常考察的，并且每年很多高校的名词解释还有一定的重复。

专业课辅导名师解析：名词解释答题方法上要按照核心意思+特征/内涵/构成/案例，来作答。

①回答出名词本身的核心含义，力求尊重课本。

这是最主要的。

②简答该名词的特征、内涵、或者其构成、或者举一个案例加以解释。

2009—2010学年第2学期《英美文学2---美国文学》期末试卷1B卷考试时间: 120分钟考试对象: 07英语专业1.答题前用钢笔或圆珠笔在答题卡上写清姓名和准考证号，用2B铅笔认真填涂姓名区位码、准考证号和A、B卷标识（填涂准考证号时，右对齐，左边首位涂“0”补位）。

不涂A、B卷标识者，试卷按0分处理。

2.答题卡不填涂时必须扣置桌面，明显外推按违纪处理。

3.考试结束后，回收全部答题卡、主观答题纸和试题卷。

班级:_____________姓名:_____________American LiteratureI Choose the most appropriate answer for the following questions. 50’1. Who was considered as the "Poet of American Revolution"?_________A. Michael WigglesworthB. Edward TaylorC. Anne BradstreetD. Philip Freneau2. During the Reason and Revolution Period, Americans were influenced by the European movement called the____________ .A. Chartist MovementB. Romanticist MovementC. Enlightenment MovementD. Modernist Movement3. As a philosophical and literary movement, ____________ flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War.A. modernismB. rationalismC. sentimentalismD. transcendentalism4. Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in___________and Henry David Thoreau.A. Thomas JeffersonB. Ralph Waldo EmersonC. Philip FreneauD. Oversoul5. _________ was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club.A. Henry David ThoreauB. Ralph Waldo EmersonC. Nathaniel HawthorneD. Walt Whitman6. Transcendentalists recognized__________ as the "highest power of the soul. "A. intuitionB. logicC. data of the sensesD. thinking7. Led by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson and _______________ , there arose a kind of teachings of transcendentalism in the early nineteenth century.A. Herman MelvilleB. Henry David ThoreauC. Mark TwainD. Theodore Dreiser8. A new___________ had appeared in England in the last years of the eighteenth century. It spread to continental Europe and then came to America early in the nineteenth century.A. realismB. critical realismC. romanticismD. naturalism9. Which book is not written by Ralph Waldo Emerson? _________A. Representative MenB. English TraitsC. NatureD. The Rhodora10. Which essay is not written by Ralph Waldo Emerson? _________A. Of StudiesB. Self-RelianceC. The American ScholarD. The Divinity School Address11. From Henry David Thoreau' s jail experience, came his famous essay, ___________ , which states Thoreau's belief that no man should violate his conscience at the command of a government.A. WaldenB. NatureC. Civil DisobedienceD. Common Sense12. The finest exa mple of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s symbolism is the recreation of Puritan Boston in__________ .A. The Scarlet LetterB. Young Goodman BrownC. The Marble FaunD. The Ambitious Guest13. The House of Seven Gables is a famous mystery-haunted novel written by_________A. Nathaniel HawthorneB. Nathaniel HathorneC. Nathanal HawthorneD. Nathanial Hathorne14. Which is generally regarded as the Bible of New England Transcendentalism?A. NatureB. WaldenC. On BeautyD. Self-Reliance 15. Which is regarded as the "Declaration of Intellectual Independence"?A. The American ScholarB. English TraitsC. The Conduct of LifeD. Representative Men16. _________ is an appalling fictional version of Nathaniel Hawthorne' s belief that "the wrong doing of one generation lives into the successive ones" and that evil will come out of evil though it may take many generations to happen.A. The Marble FaunB. The House of Seven GablesC. The Blithedale RomanceD. Young Goodman Brown17. Mark Twain created, in____________ , a masterpiece of American realism that is also one of the great books of world literature.A. Huckleberry FinnB. Tom SawyerC. The Man That Corrupted HadleyburgD. The Gilded Age18. American literature produced only one female poet during the nineteenth century. This was _____.A. Anne BradstreetB. Jane AustenC. Emily DickinsonD. Harriet Beecher19. The publication of the novel____________ stirred a great nation to its depths and hurried ona great war.A. My Bondage and My FreedomB. Stanzas on FreedomC. Voices of FreedomD. Uncle Tom' s Cabin20. Where Mark Twain and William Dean Howells satirized European manners at times,__________ was an admirer.A. O. HenryB. Henry JamesC. Walt WhitmanD. Jack London21. While embracing the socialism of Marx, London also believed in the triumph of the strongest individuals. This contradiction is most vividly projected in the patently autobiographical novel___________ .A. The Call of the WildB. The Sea WolfC. Martin EdenD. The Iron Heel22. In 1900, London published his first collection of short stories, named___________A. The Son of the WolfB. The Sea WolfC. The Law of LifeD. White Fang23. "The Lure of the Spirit; The Flesh in Pursuit" is the title of one chapter in Dreiser'snovel___________ .A. An American TragedyB. Sister CarrieC. Dreiser Looks at RussiaD. Jannie Gerhardt24. The main theme of___________ The Art of Fiction reveals his literary credo that representation of life should be the main object of the novel.A. Henry James'B. William Dean Howells'C. Mark Twain'sD. O. Henry's25. With William Dean Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the scene, _______ became the major trend in the seventies and eighties of the nineteenth century.A. sentimentalismB. romanticismC. realismD. naturalism26. The best-selling American books in the first decades of the twentieth centurywere__________ .A. traveling booksB. commercial booksC. historical romancesD. news reports27. Early in the 20th century, _________ published works that would change the nature of American poetry.A. Ezra PoundB. T. S. EliotC. Robert FrostD. Both A and B28. The American social upheavals and the literary concerns of the Great Depression years ended with the prosperity and turmoil brought by the _____________ . A. First World WarB. Second World WarC. Civil WarD. War of Independence29. In the Thirties, poets like Archibald Macleish and______________ wrote compassionately about common people, workers and farmers.A. Emily DickinsonB. Ezra PoundC. Robert FrostD. Langston Hughes30. "The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.” This is the shortest poem written by____________ .A. Thomas Stearns EliotB. Robert FrostC. Ezra PoundD. E. E. Cummings31. __________ showed great interest in Chinese literature and translated the poetry of Li Po (Li Bai) into English, and was influenced by Confucian ideas.A. Ezra PoundB. Robert FrostC. T. S. EliotD. E. E. Cummings32. Ezra Pound' s long poem____________ contained more than one hundred poems loosely connected.A. The Waste LandB. The CantosC. Don JuanD. Queen Mab33. When Robert Frost was eighty-seven, he read his poetry at the inauguration ofPresident__________ .A. Thomas JeffersonB. Theodore RooseveltC. Abraham LincolnD. John F. Kennedy34. Carl Sandburg had also taken interest in folk songs which he tried to collect and sing during his travels. These folk songs appeared eventually in print in his well-known___________ .A. Good Morning, AmericaB. The People, YesC. In Reckless EcstasyD. The American Songbag35. Thomas Sutpen is a character in William Faulkner's novel _______________ .A. Absalom, Absalom!B. Light in AugustC. Go Down, MosesD. The Sound and the Fury36. Wallace Stevens' s poetry is primarily motivated by the belief that true ideas correspond with an innate order in nature. Many of his good poems derive their emotional power from reasoned revelation. This philosophical intention is supported by the titles Wallace Stevens gave to his volumes such as_____________ .A. HarmoniumB. Ideas of OrderC. Parts of a WorldD. all of the above37. __________ tells the Joad family' s life from the time they were evicted from their farm in Oklahoma until their first winter in California.A. Of Mice and MenB. The Grapes of WrathC. The Great GatsbyD. For Whom the Bell Tolls38. In William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, he used a technique called_____________ , in which the whole story was told through the thoughts of one character.A. stream of consciousnessB. imagismC. symbolismD. naturalism39. William Faulkner's novel___________ describes the decay and downfall of an old southern aristocratic family, symbolizing the old social order, to了d from four different points of view.A. The Sound and the FuryB. StartorisC. The UnvanquishedD. The Town40. William Faulkner's novel___________ is about a poor white family' s journey through fire and flood to bury the mother in her hometown, Yoknapatawpha.A. Intruder in the DustB. As I Lay DyingC. Absalom, Absalom!D. Light in August41. The establisher of Jamestown was the famous explorer and colonist ____________ .A. John WinthropB. John SmithC. William BradfordD. John Goodwin42. The early history of___________ Colony was the history of Bradford' s leadership.A. PlymouthB. JamestownC. New EnglandD. Mayflower43. __________ usually was regarded as the first American writer.A. William BradfordB. Anne BradstreetC. Emily DickinsonD. Captain John Smith44. Anne Bradstreet was a Puritan poet. Her poems made such a stir in England that she became known as the " ________ " who appeared in America.A. Ninth MuseB. Tenth MuseC. Best MuseD. First Muse45. The ship "__________ " carried about one hundred Pilgrims and took 66 days to beat its way across the Atlantic. In December of 1620, it put the Pilgrims ashore at Plymouth, Massachusetts.A. SunflowerB. ArmadaC. MayflowerD. Pequod46. In American literature, the eighteenth century was the age of the Enlightenment._________ was the dominant spirit.A. HumanismB. RationalismC. RevolutionD. Evolution47. The English colonies in North America rose in arms against their parent country and the Continental Congress adopted____________ in 1776.A. the Declaration of IndependenceB. the Sugar ActC. the Stamp ActD. the Mayflower Compact48. From 1732 to 1758, Benjamin Franklin wrote and published his famous __________ , an annul collection of proverbs.A. The AutobiographyB. Poor Richard's AlmanacC. Common SenseD. The General Magazine49. The first pamphlet published in America to urge immediate independence from Britainis__________ .A. The Rights of ManB. Common SenseC. The American CrisisD. Declaration of Independence50. "These are the times that try men' s souls", these words were once read to George Washington' s troops and did much to shore up the spirits of the revolutionary soldiers. Who is the author of these words? _________A. Benjamin FranklinB. Thomas JeffersonC. Thomas PaineD. George WashingtonII. Identify the fragments. ----writing your answers on the answer sheet20’Passage One•These are the times that try men’s souls: The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now,deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easilyconquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly— This dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods.Questions:1.Which book is this passage taken from? 1’2.Who is the author of this book? 1’3.Whom is the author praising? Whom is the author criticizing? 2’4.What do you think of the language? 1’Passage Two•Hester Prynne' s term of confinement was now at an end. Her prison-door was thrown open, and she came forth into the sunshine which, falling on all alike, seemed, to her sick and morbid heart, as if meant for no other purpose than to reveal the scarlet letter on her breast.Perhaps there was a more real torture in her first unattended footsteps from the threshold of the prison, than even in the procession and spectacle that have been described, where she was made the common infamy, at which all mankind was summoned to point its finger.Then, she was supported by an unnatural tension of the nerves, and by all the combative energy of her character, which enabled her to convert the scene into a kind of lurid triumph. Questions:1.Which novel is this selection taken from? 1’2.What is the name of the novelist? 1’3.What are the symbolic meanings of the scarlet letter on Hester's breast? 3’Passage Three•It was not very long after speaking the Goney that another homeward-bound whaleman, the Town-Ho, was encountered. She was manned almost wholly by Polynesians. In the short gam that ensued she gave us strong news of Moby Dick. To some the generalinterest in the White Whale was now wildly heightened by a circumstance of theTown-Ho's story, which seemed obscurely to involve with the whale a certain wondrous, inverted visitation of one of those so called judgments of God which at times are said to overtake some men. This latter circumstance, with its own particular accompaniments,forming what may be called the secret part of the tragedy about to be narrated, neverreached the ears of Captain Ahab or his mates. For that secret part of the story wasunknown to the captain of the Town-Ho himself. It was the private property of threeconfederate white seamen of that ship, one of whom, it seems, communicated it toTashtego with Romish injunctions ofsecrecy, but the following night Tashtego rambled in his sleep, and revealed so much of it in that way, that when he was wakened he could not well withhold the rest. Nevertheless, so potent an influence did this thing have onthose seamen in the Pequod who came to the full knowledge of it, and by such a strange delicacy, to call it so, were they governed in this matter, that they kept the secret amongthemselves so that it never transpired abaft the Pequod' s main-mast . Interweaving in its proper place this darker thread with the story as publicly narrated on the ship, the whole of this strange affair I now proceed to put on lasting record.Questions:1.From which novel is this paragraph taken? 1’2.What is the name of the novelist? 1’3.Who is Ahab? 1’4.What is Pequod? 1’5.What is the theme of the novel? 1’Passage Four In a Station of the MetroThe apparition of these faces in the crowd;Petals on a wet, black bough.Questions:1.Who is the author of this short poem? 1’2.What two images are juxtaposed, or placed next to each other in this poem? 1’3.How do you appreciate this poem? 3’III. Essay Questions ----writing your answers on the answer sheet 30’1. What is the significance of American Puritanism in American literature? 15’Uncle Tom's Cabin by Mrs. Stowe. 15’2. Analyze。

2013年国际关系学院英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷(总分：56.00，做题时间：90分钟)一、匹配题(总题数：1，分数：40.00)1. Ode on Melancholy2. Love"s Labour"s Lost3. The Holy Grail and Other Poems4. The Beautiful and Damned5. Wessex Tales6. The Great God Brown7. Rob Roy8. The People of the Abyss9. Ash Wednesday10. The American ScholarII. The Book of Snobs12. Robinson Crusoe13. The Purloined Letter14. The House of the Seven Gables15. My Antonia16. The Lost Girl17. Amelia18. The Rise of Silas Lapham19. The Titan20. Poor Richard"s Almanack（分数：40.00）(1).Benjamin Franklin（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (2).Thomas Hardy（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (3).Ralph Waldo Emerson（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (4).John Keats（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (5).Nathaniel Hawthorne（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (6).D.H. Lawrence（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (7).Edgar Allan Poe（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (8).Alfred Tennyson（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (9).Eugene O"Neill（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (10).William Shakespeare（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (11).Jack London（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (12).Henry Fielding（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (13).William Dean Howells（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (14).Theodore Dreiser（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (15).T.S.Eliot（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (16).F. Scott Fitzgerald（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (17).Daniel Defoe（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (18).Sir Walter Scott（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ (19).William Makepeace Thackeray（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________(20).Willa Cather（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________二、填空题(总题数：6，分数：12.00)1.Symbolism is one of the most important characteristics of(1) 1"s work The Waste Land. The titles for the(2)2sections of the poem are themselves symbols. "The Burial of the (3) 3" obviously stands for the(4) 4of the western civilization.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________2.By far the largest portion of Emily Dickinson"s poetry concerns(5) 1and(6) 2.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________3.One of the great American(7) 1of the 1940s is Arthur(8) 2, who led the postwar new drama. He is best known as the author of "Death of a(9) 3". It is a sad version of the(10) 4dream.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________4.W. H. Auden"s last important long poem is "The Age of(11) 1" published in(12) 2. The age refers to the(13) 3time, especially the time during and shortly after the(14) 4World War.（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________5.Charles Dickens, inspired by(15) 1 "s book French Revolution wished to write a novel on the historical event and the result was(16)" 2".（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________6.Fitzgerald was one of the great(17) 1 in American literature. T. S. Eliot read(18)" 2" three times and concluded that it was "the(19) 3that American fiction has taken since(20) 4".（分数：2.00）填空项1:__________________三、评论题(总题数：2，分数：4.00)7.Please read the following poem and make comments in about 300 words.(50 points)The Man He Killed"Had he and I but met By some old ancient inn, We should have sat us down to wet Right many a nipperkin!"but ranged as infantry,And staring face to face,I shot at him as he at me,And killed him in his place."I shot him dead because—Because he was my foe,Just so: my foe of course he was;That"s clear enough; although"He thought he"d enlist, perhaps,Off-hand like—just as I—Was out of work—had sold his traps —No other reason why."Yes; quaint and curious war is!You shoot a fellow downYou"d treat if met where any bar is,Or help to half-a-crown. "1. half-pint of ale2. Possessions（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________8.Please read the following story and make comments in about 500 words.(70 points)Big Two-Hearted River PART I The train went on up the track out of sight, around one of the hills of burnt timber. Nick sat down on the bundle of canvas and bedding the baggage man had pitched out of the door of the baggage car. There was no town, nothing but the rails and the burned-over country. The thirteen saloons that had lined the one street of Seney had not left a trace. The foundations of the Mansion House hotel stuck up above the ground. The stone was chipped and split by the fire, it was all that was left of the town of Seney. Even the surface had been burned off the ground. Nick looked at the burned-over stretch of hillside, where he had expected to find the scattered houses of the town and then walked down the railroad track to the bridge over the river. The river was there. It swirled against the log spires of the bridge. Nick looked down into the clear, brown water, colored from the pebbly bottom, and watched the trout keeping themselves steady in the current with wavering fins. As he watched them they changed their positions again by quick angles, only to hold steady in the fast water again. Nick watched them a long time. He watched them holding themselves with their noses into the current, many trout in deep, fast moving water, slightly distorted as he watched far down through theglassy convex surface of the pool its surface pushing and swelling smooth against the resistance of the log-driven piles of the bridge. At the bottom of the pool were the big trout. Nick did not see them at first. Then he saw them at the bottom of the pool, big trout looking to hold themselves on the gravel bottom in a varying mist of gravel and sand, raised in spurts by the current. Nick looked down into the pool from the bridge. It was a hot day. A kingfisher flew up the stream. It was a long time since Nick had looked into a stream and seen trout. They were very satisfactory. As the shadow of the kingfisher moved up the stream, a big trout shot upstream in a long angle, only his shadow marking the angle, then lost his shadow as he came through the surface of the water, caught the sun, and then, as he went back into the stream under the surface, his shadow seemed to float down the stream with the current unresisting, to his post under the bridge where he tightened facing up into the current. Nick"s heart tightened as the trout moved. He felt all the old feeling. He turned and looked down the stream. It stretched away, pebbly-bottomed with shallows and big boulders and a deep pool as it curved away around the foot of a bluff.… From the time he had gotten down off the train and the baggage man had thrown his pack out of the open car door things had been different. Seney was burned, the country was burned over and changed, but it did not matter. It could not all be burned. He hiked along the road, sweating in the sun, climbing to cross the range of hills that separated the railway from the pine plains.… As he smoked his legs stretched out in front of him, he noticed a grasshopper walk along the ground and up onto his woolen sock. The grasshopper was black. As he had walked along the road, climbing, he had started grasshoppers from with dust. They were all black. They were not the big grasshoppers with yellow and black or red and black wings whirring out from their black wing sheathing as they fly up. These were just ordinary hoppers, but all a sooty black in color. Nick had wondered about them as he walked without really thinking about them. Now, as he watched the black hopper that was nibbling at the wool of his sock with its fourway lip he realized that they had all turned black from living in the burned-over land. He realized that the fire must have come the year before, but the grasshoppers were all black now. He wondered how long they would stay that way. Carefully he reached his hand down and took hold of the hopper by the wings. He turned him up, all his legs walking in the air, and looked at his jointed belly. Yes, it was black too, iridescent where the back and head were dusty. "Go on, hopper," Nick said, speaking out loud for the first time. "Fly away somewhere. He tossed the grasshopper up into the air and watched him sail away to a charcoal stump across the road.… The ground rose, wooded and sandy, to overlook the meadow, the stretch of river and the swamp. Nick dropped his pack and rod case and looked for a level piece of ground. He was very hungry and he wanted to make his camp before he cooked. Between two jack pines, the ground was quite level. He took the ax out of the pack and chopped out two projecting roots. That leveled a piece of ground large enough to sleep on. He smoothed out the sandy soil with his hand and pulled all the sweet fern bushes by their roots. His hands smelled good from the sweet fern. He smoothed the uprooted earth. He did not want anything making lumps under the blankets. When he had the ground smooth, he spread his blankets. One he folded double, next to the ground. The other two he spread on top. With the ax he slit off a bright slab of pine from one of the stumps and split it into pegs for the tent. He wanted them long and solid to hold in the ground. With the tern unpacked and spread on the ground, the pack, leaning against a jack pine, looked much smaller. Nick tied the rope that served the tent for a ridgepole to the trunk of one of the pine trees and pulled the tent up off the ground with the other end of the rope and tied it to the other pine. The tent hung on the rope like a canvas blanket on a clothesline. Nick poked a pole he had cut up under the back peak of the canvas and then made it a tent by pegging out the sides. He pegged the sides out taut and drove the pegs deep, hiring them down into the ground with the flat of the ax until the rope loops were buried and the canvas was drum tight. Across the open mouth of the tent Nick fixed cheesecloth to keep out mosquitoes. He trawled inside under the mosquito bar with various things from the pack to put at the head of the bed under the slant of the canvas. Inside the tent the light came through the brown canvas. It smelled pleasantly of canvas. Already there was something mysterious and homelike. Nick was happy as he crawled inside the tent. He had not been unhappy all day. This was different though. Now things were done. There had been this to do. Now it was done. It had been a hard trip. He was very tired. That was done. He had made his camp. He was settled. Nothing could touch him. It was a good place to camp. He was there, in the good place. He was in his home where he had made it. Now he was hungry. Nick was hungry. He did not believe he had ever been hungrier. He opened and emptied a can at pork and beans and a can of spaghetti into the flying pan. " I"ve got a right to eat this kind of stuff, if I"m willing to carry it, " Nick said. His voice sounded strange in the darkening woods. He did not speak again. Nick drove another big nail and hung up the bucket full of water. He dipped the coffee pot half full, put some more chips under the grill onto the fire and put the pot oil. He could not remember which way he made coffee. He could remember an argument about it with Hopkins, but not which side he had taken. He decided to brine it to a boil. He remembered now that was Hopkins"s way. He had once argued about everything with Hopkins. While he waited for the coffee toboil, he opened a small can of apricots. He liked to open cans. He emptied the can of apricots out into a tin cup. While he watched the coffee on the fire, he drank the juice syrup of the apricots, carefully at first to keep from spilling, then meditatively, sucking the apricots down. They were better than fresh apricots. The coffee boiled as he watched. The lid came up and coffee and grounds ran down the side of the pot. Nick took it off the grill. It was a triumph for Hopkins. He put sugar in the empty apricot cup and poured some of the coffee out to cool. It was too hot to pour and he used his hat to hold the handle of the coffee pot. He would not let it steep in the pot at all. Not the first cup. It should be straight. Hopkins deserved that. Hop was avers, serious coffee drinker. He was the most serious man Nick had ever known. Not heavy, serious. That was a long time ago Hopkins spoke without moving his lips. He had played polo. He made millions of dollars in Texas. He had borrowed carfare to go to Chicago when the wire came that his first big well had come in. He could have wired for money. That would have been too slow. They called Hop"s girl the Blonde Venus. Hop did not mind because she was not his real girl. Hopkins said very confidently that none of them would make fun of his real girl. He was right. Hopkins went away when the telegram came. That was on the Black River. It took eight days for the telegram to reach him. Hopkins gave away his 22-caliber Colt automatic pistol to Nick. He gave his camera to Bill. It was to remember him always by. They were all going fishing again next summer. The Hop Head was rich. He would get a yacht and they would all cruise along the north shore of Lake Superior. He was excited but serious. They said good-bye and all felt bad. It broke up the trip. They never saw Hopkins again. That was a long time ago on the Black River. Nick drank the coffee, the coffee according to Hopkins. The coffee was bitter. Nick laughed. It made a good ending to the story. His mind was starting to work. He knew he could choke it because he was tired enough. He spilled the coffee out of the pot and shook the grounds loose into the fire. He lit a cigarette and went inside the tent. He took off his shoes and trousers, sitting on the blankets, rolled the shoes up inside the trousers for a pillow and got in between the blankets. Out through the front of the tent he watched the glow of the fire when the night wind blew. It was a quiet night. The swamp was perfectly quiet. Nick stretched under the blanket comfortably. A mosquito hummed close to his ear. Nick sat up and lit a match. The mosquito was on the canvas, over his head Nick moved the match quickly up to it. The mosquito made a satisfactory hiss in the flame. The match went out. Nick lay down again under the blanket. He turned on his side and shut his eyes. He was sleepy. He felt sleep coming. He curled up under the blanket and went to sleep.PART II In the morning the sun was up and the tent was starting to get hot. Nick crawled out under the mosquito netting stretched across the mouth of the tent, to look at the morning. The grass was wet on his hands as he came out. The sun was just up over the hill. There was the meadow, the river and the swamp. There were birch trees in the green of the swamp on the other side of the river.The river was clear and smoothly fast in the early morning. Down about two hundred yards were three logs all the way across the stream. They made the water smooth and deep above them. As Nick watched, a mink crossed the river on the logs and went into the swamp. Nick was excited. He was excited by the early morning and the rivet; He was really too hurried to eat breakfast, but he knew he must. He built a little fire and put on the coffee pot. While the water was heating in the pot he took an empty bone and went down over the edge of the high ground to the meadow. The meadow was wet with dew and Nick wanted to catch grasshoppers for bait before the sun dried the grass. He found plenty of good grasshoppers. They were at the base of the grass, stems. Sometimes they clung to a grass stem. They were cold and wet with the dew, and could not jump until the sun warmed them. Nick picked them up, taking only the medium-sized brown ones, and put them into the bottle. He turned over a log and just under the shelter of the edge were several hundred hoppers. It was a grasshopper lodging house. Nick put about fifty of the medium browns into the bottle. While he was picking up the hoppers the others warmed in the sun and commenced to hop away. They flew when they hopped. At first they made one flight and stayed stiff when they landed, as though they were dead. Nick knew that by the time he was through with breakfast they would be as lively as ever. Without dew in the grass it would take him all day to catch a bottle full of good grasshoppers and he would have to crush many of them, slamming at them with his hat. He washed his hands at the stream. He was excited to be near it. Then he walked up to the tent. The hoppers were already jumping stiffly in the grass. In the bottle, warmed by the sun, they were jumping in a mass. Nick put in a pine stick as a cork. It plugged the mouth of the bottle enough, so the hoppers could not get out and left plenty of air passage.… Holding the rod in his right hand he let out line against the pull of the grasshopper in the current. He stripped off line from the reel with his left hand and let it run free. He could see the hopper in the little waves of the current. It went out of sight. There was a tug on the line. Nick pulled against the taut line. It was his first strike. Holding the now living rod across the current, he hauled in the line with his left hand. The rod bent in jerks, the trout pulling against the current. Nick knew it was a small one. He lifted the rod straight up in the air. It bowed with the pull. He saw the trout in the water jerking with his head and body against the shifting tangent of the line in the stream. Nick took the line in his left hand and pulled the trout, thumping tiredly against the current, tothe surface. His back was mottled the clear, water-over-gravel color, his side flashing in the sun. The rod under his right arm, Nick stooped, dipping his right hand into the current. He held the trout, never still, with his moist right hand, while he unhooked the barb from his mouth, then dropped him back into the stream. He hung unsteadily in the current, then settled to the bottom beside a stone. Nick reached down his hand to touch him, his arm to the elbow under water. The trout was steady in the moving stream resting on the gravel, beside a stone. As Nick"s fingers touched him, touched his smooth, cool, underwater feeling, he was gone, gone in a shadow across the bottom of the stream. He"s all right, Nick thought. He was only tired.… Now the water deepened up his thighs sharply and coldly. Ahead was the smooth dammed-back flood of water above the logs. The water was smooth and dark; on the left, the lower edge of the meadow; on the right the swamp. Nick leaned back against the current and took a hopper from the bottle. He threaded the hopper on the hook and spat on him for good luck. Then he pulled several yards of line from the reel and tossed the hopper out ahead onto the fast, dark water. It floated down towards the logs, then the weight of the line pulled the bait under the surface. Nick held the rod in his right hand, letting the line run out through his fingers. There was a long tug. Nick struck and the rod came alive and dangerous, bent double, the line tightening, coming out of water, tightening, all in a heavy, dangerous, steady pull. Nick felt the moment when the leader would break if the strain increased deep and the swamp looked solid with cedar trees, their trunks close together, their branches solid. It would not be possible to walk through a swamp like that. The branches grew so low. You would have to keep almost level with the ground to move at all. You could not crash through the branches. That must be why the animals that lived in swamps were built the way they were, Nick thought. He wished he had brought something to read. He felt like reading. He did not feel like going on into the swamp. He looked down the river. A big cedar slanted all the way across the stream. Beyond that the river went into the swamp. Nick did not want to go in there now. He felt a reaction against deep wading with the water deepening up under his armpits, to hook big trout in places impossible to land them. In the swamp the banks were bare, the big cedars came together overhead, the sun did not come through, except in patches; in the fast deep water, in the half-light, the fishing would be tragic. In the swamp fishing was a tragic adventure. Nick did not want it. He didn"t want to go up the stream any further today. He took out his knife, opened it and stuck it in the log. Then he pulled up the sack, reached into it and brought out one of the trout. Holding him near the tail, hard to hold, alive, in his hand, he whacked him against the log. The trout quivered, rigid. Nick laid him on the log in the shade and broke the neck of the other fish the same way. He laid them side-by-side on the log. They were fine trout. Nick cleaned them, slitting them from the vent to the tip of the jaw. All the insides and the gills and tongue came out in one piece. They were both males; long gray-white strips of milt, smooth and clean. All the insides clean and compact, and let the line go.… The leader had broken where the hook was tied to it. Nick took it in his hand. He thought of the trout somewhere on the bottom, holding himself steady over the gravel, far down below the light, under the logs, with the hook in his jaw. Nick knew the trout"s teeth would cut through the snell of the hook. The hook would imbed itself in his jaw. He"d bet the trout was angry. Anything that size would be angry. That was a trout. He had been solidly hooked. Solid as a rock. He felt like a rock, too, before he started off. By God, he was a big one. By God, he was the biggest one I ever heard of. Nick climbed out onto the meadow and stood, water running down his trousers and out of his shoes, his shoes squelchy. He went over and sat on the logs. He did not want to rush his sensations any. He sat on the logs, smoking, drying in the sun, the sun warm on his back, the river shallow ahead entering the woods, curving into the woods, shallows, light glittering, big water-smooth rocks, cedars along the bank and white birches, the logs warm in the sun, smooth to sit on, without bark, gray to the touch; slowly the feeling of disappointment left him. It went away slowly, the feeling of disappointment that came sharply after the thrill that made his shoulders itch. It was all right now. His rod lying out on the logs, Nick tied a new hook on the leader, pulling the gut tight until it crimped into itself in a hard knot.… Ahead the river narrowed and went into a swamp. The river became smooth and coming out all together. Nick took the offal ashore for the minks to find. He washed the trout in the stream. When he held them back up in the water, they looked like live fish. Their color was not gone yet. He washed his hands and dried them on the log. Then he laid the trout on the sack spread out on the log, rolled them up in it, tied the bundle and put it in the landing net. His knife was still standing, blade stuck in the log. He cleaned it on the wood and put it in his pocket. Nick stood up on the log, holding his rod, the landing net hanging heavy, then stepped into the water and splashed ashore. He climbed the bank and cut up into the woods, to ward the high ground. He was going back to camp. He looked back. The river just showed through the trees. There were plenty of days coming when he could fish the swamp.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________。

国际关系学院英语语言文学专业英美文学真题2008年(总分：150.00，做题时间：90分钟)Ⅰ1.The Love Song of J. Alfred PrufrockS"io credesse che mia risposta fosseA persona che mai tornasse al mondo,Questa fiama staria senza piu scosse.Ma perciocche giarnmai di questo fondoNon torno vivo alcun, s"I"odo il veroSenza tema d"infamia ti rispondo.Let us go then, you and I,When the evening is spread out against the skyLike a patient etherized upon a table;Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,The muttering retreatsOf restless nights in one-night cheap hotelAnd sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells;Streets tat follow like a tedious argumentOf insidious intentTo lead you to an overwhelming question...Oh, do not ask, "What is it?"Let us go and make our visit.In the room the women come and goTalking of Michelangelo.The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes,The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes,Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening,Lingered upon the pools that stand in drains,Let fall upon its back the soot that falls from chimneys,Slipped by the terrace, made a sudden leap,And seeing that it was a soft October night,Curled once about the house, and fell asleep.And indeed there will be timeFor the yellow smoke that slides along the street,Rubbing its back upon the window-panes;There will be time, there will be timeTo prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet;There will be time to murder and create,And time for all the works and days of handsThat lift and drop a question on your plateTime for you and time for me,And time yet for a hundred indecisions,And for a hundred visions and revisions,Before the taking of a toast and tea.In the room the women come and goTalking of Michelangelo.And indeed there will be timeTo wonder, "Do I dare?" and, "Do I dare?"Time to turn back and descend the stair,With a bald spot in the middle of my hair—(They will say: "How his hair is growing thin!")My morning coat, my collar mounting firmly to the chin,My necktie rich and modest, but asserted by a simple pin—(They will say:" By how his arms and legs are thin!")Do I dare?Disturb the universe?In a minute there is timeFor decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.For I have known them all already, known them all—Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;I know the voices dying with coffee spoons;I know the voices dying with a dying fallBeneath the music from a farther room.So how should I presume?And I have known the eyes already, known them all—The eyes that fix you in a formulated phrase,And when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin,When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall,Then how should I beginTo spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways?And how should I presume?And I have known the arms already, known them all—Arms that are braceleted and white and bare(But in the lamplight, downed with light brown hair!)Is it perfume from a dressThat makes me so digress?Arms that lie along a table, or wrap about a shawl.And should I then presume?And how should I begin?……Shall I say, I have gone at dusk through narrow streetsAnd watched the smoke that rises from the pipesOf lonely men in shirt-sleeves, leaning out of windows?I should have been a pair of ragged clawsScuttling across the floors of silent seas...……And the afternoon, the evening, sleeps so peacefully!Smoothed by long fingers,Asleep... tired... or it malingers,Stretched on the floor, here beside you and me.Should I, after tea and cakes and ices,Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed,Though I have seen my head (grown slightly bald) brought in upon a platter,I am no prophet—and here"s no great matter;I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker,And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker,And in short, I was afraid.And would it have been worth it, after all,After the cups, the marmalade, the tea,Among the porcelain, among some talk of you and me,Would it have been worth while,To have bitten off the matter with a smile,To have squeezed the universe into a ballTo roll it towards some overwhelming question,To say: "I am Lazarus, come from the dead,Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all"—If one, settling a pillow by her head,Should say: "That is not what I meant at all.That is not it, at all."And would it have been worth it, after all,Would it have been worth while,After the sunsets and the dooryards and the sprinkled streets, After the novels, after the teacups, after the skirts that trail alongThe floor—And this, and so much more? —It is impossible to say just what I mean!But as if a magic lantern threw the nerves in patterns on a screen:Would it have been worth whileIf one, settling a pillow or throwing off a shawl,And turning toward the window, should say:"That is not it at all,That is not what I meant, at all."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 two.Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool,Deferential, glad to be of usePolitic, cautious, and meticulous;Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse;At times, indeed, almost ridiculous-Almost, at times, the Fool.I grow old... I grow old...I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.I do not thing that they will sing to me.I have seen them riding seaward on the wavesCombing the white hair of the waves blown backWhen the wind blows the water white and black.We have lingered in the chambers of the seaBy sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brownTill human voices wake us, and we drown.（分数：90.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________Ⅱ2.On the RoadHe was not interested in the snow. When he got off the freight, one early evening during the depression, Sargeant never even noticed the snow. But he must have felt it seeping down his neck, cold, wet, sopping in his shoes. But if you had asked him, he wouldn"t have known it was snowing. Sargeant didn"t see the snow, not even under the bright lights of the main street, falling white and flaky against the night. He was too hungry, too sleepy, too tired.The Reverend Mr. Dorset, however, saw the snow when he switched on his porch light, opened the front door of his parsonage, and found standing there before him a big black man with snow on his face, a human piece of night with snow on his face—obviously unemployed.Said the Reverend Mr. Dorset before Sargeant even realized he"d opened his mouth: "I"m sorry. No! Go right down this street four blocks and turn to your left, walk up seven and you"ll see the Relief Shelter. I"m sorry. No!" He shut the door.Sargeant wanted to tell the holy man that he had already been to the Relief Shelter, been to hundreds of relief shelters during the depression years, the beds were always gone and supper was over, the place was full, and they drew the color line anyhow. But the minister said "No" and shut the door. Evidently he didn"t want to hear about it. And he had a door to shut.The big black man turned away. And even yet he didn"t see the snow, walking right into it. Maybe he sensed it, cold, wet, sticking to his jaws, wet on his black hands, sopping in his shoes. He stopped and stood on the sidewalk hunched over—-hungry, sleepy, cold—looking up and down. Then he looked right where he was—in front of a church! Of course! A church! Sure, right next to a parsonage, certainly a church.It had two doors.Broad white steps in the night all snowy white, two high arched doors with slender stone pillars on either side. And way up, a round lacy window with a stone crucifix in the middle and Christ on the crucifix in stone. All this was pale in the street lights, solid and stony pale in the snow.Sargeant blinked. When he looked up, the snow fell into his eyes. For the first time that night he saw the snow. He shook his head. He shook the snow from his coat sleeves, felt hungry, felt lost, felt not lost, felt cold. He walked up the steps for the church. He knocked at the door. No answer. He tried the handle. Locked. He put his shoulder against the door and his long black body slanted like a ramrod. He pushed. With loud rhythmic grunts, like the grunts in a chain-gang song, he pushed against the door."I"m tired,...Huh! ...Hangry...Uh! ...I"m sleepy...Huh! I"m cold...I got to sleep somewhere," Sargeant said. "This here is church, ain"t it? Well, uh!"He pushed against the door.Suddenly, with an undue cracking and squeaking, the door began to give way to the tall black Negro who pushed ferociously against the door.By now two or three white people had stopped in the street, and Sargeant was vaguely aware of some of them yelling at him concerning the door. Three or four more came running, yelling at him. "Hey!" they said, "Hey!""Uh-huh," answered the big tall Negro, "I know it"s a white folks" church, but I got to sleep somewhere." He gave another lunge at the door. "Huh!"And the door broke open.But just when the door gave way two white cops arrived in a car, ran up the steps with their clubs, and grabbed Sargeant. But Sargeant for once had no intention of being pulled or pushed away from the door.Sargeant grabbed, but not for anything so weak as a broken door. He grabbed for one of the tall stone pillars beside the door, grabbed at it and caught it. And held it. The cops pulled. Sargeant pulled. Most of the people in the street got behind the cops and helped them pull."A big black unemployed Negro holding onto our church!" thought the people. "The idea!"The cops began to beat Sargeant over the head, and nobody protested. But he held on.And then the church fell down.Gradually, the big stone front of the church fell down, the walls and the rafters, the crucifix and the Christ. Then the whole thing fell down, covering the cops and the people with bricks and stones and debris. The whole church fell down in the snow.Sargeant got out from under the church and went walking on up the street with the stone pillar on his shoulder. He was under the impression that he had buried the parsonage and the Reverend Mr. Dorset who said "No!". So he laughed, and threw the pillar six blocks up the street and went on.Sargeant thought he was alone, but listening to the crunch, crunch, crunch on the snow of his own footsteps, he heard other footsteps, too, doubling his own. He looked around, and there was Christ walking along beside him, the same Christ that had been on the cross on the church—still stone with a rough stone surface, walking along beside him just like he was broken of the cross when the church fell down."Well, I"ll be dogged," said Sargeant. "This here"s the first time I ever seed you off the cross..." "Yes," said Christ, crunching his feet in the snow. "You had to pull the church down to get me off the cross.""You glad?" said Sargeant."I sure am," said Christ.They both laughed."I"m a hell of a fellow, ain"t I?" said Sargeant. "Done pulled the church down!""You did a good job," said Christ. "They have kept me nailed on a cross nearly two thousand years." "Whee-ee-e!" saie Sargent. "I know you are glad to get off.""I sure am" said Christ.They walked on in the snow. Sargenat looked at the man of stone."And you been up there two thousand years?""I sure have," Christ said."Well, if I had a little cash," said Sargeant, "I"d show you around a bit.""I been around," said Christ."Yeah, but that was a long time ago.""All the same," said Christ, "I"ve been around,"They walked on in the snow until they came to the railroad yards. Sargeant was tired, sweating and tired."Where you goin"?" Sargeant said, stopping by the tracks. He looked at Christ. Sargenat said, "I"m just a bum on the road. How about you? Where you goin"?""God knows," Christ said, "but I"m leavin" here."They saw the red and green lights of the railroad yard half veiled by the snow that fell out of the night. Away down the track they saw a fire in a hobo jungle."I can go there and sleep," Sargeant said."You can?""Sure," said Sargeant. "That place ain"t got no doors."Outside the town, along the tracks, there were barren trees and bushes below the embankment, snow-gray in the dark. And down among the trees and bushes there were makeshift houses made out of boxes and tin and old pieces of wood and canvas. You couldn"t see them in the dark, but you knew they were there if you"d ever been on the road, if you had ever lived with the homeless and hungry in a depression."I"m side-tracking," Sargeant said. "I"m tired.""I"m gonna make it on to Kansas Cit," said Christ."OK," Sargeant said, "So long!"He went down into the hobo jungle and found himself a place to sleep. He never did see Christ no more. About 6:00 a.m. a freight came by. Sargeant scrambled out of the jungle with a dozen or so more hobos and ran along the track, grabbing at the freight. It was dawn, early dawn, cold and gray."Wonder where Christ is by now?" Sargeant thought. "He must-a gone on way on down the road. He didn"t sleep in this jungle."Sargeant grabbed the train and started to pull himself up into a moving coal car, over the edge of a wheeling coal car. But strangely enough, the car was full of cops. The nearest cop rapped Sargeant soundly across the knuckles with his night stick. Wham! Rapped his big black hands for clinging to the top of the car. Wham! But Sargeant did not tuna loose. He clung on and tried to pull himself into the car. He hollered at the top of his voice, "Damn it, lemme in this car!" "Shut up," barked the cop. "You crazy coon!" He rapped Sargeant across the knuckles and punched him in the stomach. "You ain"t out in no jungle now, this ain"t no train. You in jail!" Wham! Across his bare black fingers clinging to the bars of his cell. Wham! Between the steel bars low down against his shins.Suddenly Sargeant realized that he really was in jail. He wasn"t on no train. The blood of the night before had dried on his face, his head hurt terribly, and a cop outside in the corridor was hitting him across the knuckles for holding onto the door, yelling and shaking the cell door. "They must-a took me to jail for breaking down the door last night," Sargeant thought, "that church door."Sargeant went over and sat on a wooden bench against the cold stone wall. He was emptier than ever. His clothes were wet, clammy cold wet, and shoes sloppy with snow water. It was just about dawn. There he was, locked up behind a cell door, nursing his bruised fingers.The bruised fingers were his, but not the door.Not the club but the fingers."You wait," mumbled Sargeant, black against the fail wall. "I"m gonna break down this door, too." "Shut up—or I"ll paste you one," said the cop.Then he must have been talking to himself because he said, "I wonder where Christ"s gone? I wonder if he"s gone to Kansas City?"（分数：60.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________。

英语专业英美文学试卷及答案期末英美文学试卷 AI. Mark the following statements as true (T) or false (F). (10 x 1’=10’)1. ( ) Chaucer is the first English short-story teller and the founder of Englishpoetry as well as the founder of English realism. His masterpiece TheCanterbury tales contains 26 stories.2. ( ) English Renaissance is an age of essay and drama.3. ( ) The rise of the modern novel is closely related to the rise of the middleclass and an urban life.4. ( ) The French Revolution and the American War of Independence were two biginfluences that brought about the English Romantic Movement.5. ( ) Charlotte’s novels are all about lonely and neglected young women witha fierce longing for life and love. Her novels are more or less based on herown experience and feelings and the life as she sees around.6. ( ) The leading figures of the naturalism at the turn of 19th century are ThomasHardy, John Galsworthy and Bernard Shaw.7. ( ) Emily Dic kinson is remembered as the “All American Writer”.8. ( )The Civil War divides the American literature into romantic literature andrealist literature.9. ( ) Mark Twain is the first American writer to discover an American languageand American consciousness.10. ( ) In the decade of the 1910s, American literature achieved a new diversityand reached its greatest heights.II. Fill in the blanks. (20 x 1’=20’)11. The most enduring shaping influence in American thought and American literature was ___________.12. The War of Independence lasted eight years till__________.13. Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay__________ has been regarded as "America's Declaration of Intellectual Independence".?? It called on American writers to write about America in a way peculiarly American.14. The American ___________ writers paid a great interest in the realities of life and described the integrity of human c haracter reacting under various circumstances and pictured the pioneers of the Far West, the new immigrants and the struggles ofthe working class. The leading figures were ____________, ____________, ____________, ____________, etc.15. No period in American history is more eventful than that between the two worldwars. The literary features of the time can be seen in the writings of those ________ writers as Ezra Pound, and the writers of the Lost Generation as ___________.16. Two features of English Renaissance are the curiosity for ___________ and theinterest in the activities of _____________________.17. Sha kespeare’s earliest great success in tragedy is ____________, a play of youth and love, with the famous balcony scene.18. There are three types of poets in 17th century English literature. They are Puritan poets, ___________ poets and ______________ poets.19. Pope’s An Essay on Criticism is a didactic poem w ritten in ___________________.20. ___________ has been regarded by some as “Father of the English Novel” for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.21. “Beauty is truth, truth beauty” is an epigrammatic line by _______________.22. Lawrence’s most controversial novel is ___________, the best probably_________.III. Multiple choice. (20 x 1’=20’)23. Among the three major works by John Milton ________ is indeed the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf.A. Paradise RegainedB. Samson AgonistesC. LycidasD. Paradise Lost24. Francis Bacon’s essays are famous for their brevity, compactness and __________.A. complicityB. complexityC. powerfulnessD. mildness25. As one of the greatest masters of English prose, _______ defined a good styleas “proper words in proper places”.A. Henry FieldingB. Jonathan SwiftC. Samuel JohnsonD. Alexander Pope26. The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan is often said to be concerned with thesearch for _________.A. material wealthB. spiritual salvationC. universal truthD. self-fulfillment27. “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of agood fortune must be in want of a wife.” The quoted part is taken from _________.A. Jane EyreB. Wuthering HeightsC. Pride and PrejudiceD. Sense and Sensibility28. Which of the following poems is a landmark in English poetry?A. Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor ColeridgeB. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” by William WordsworthC. “Remorse” by Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman29. The most distinguishing feature of Charles Dickens’works is his _________.A. simple vocabularyB. bitter and sharp criticismC. character-portrayalD. pictures of happiness30. “My Last Duchess”is a poem t hat best exemplifies Robert Browning’s ________.A. sensitive ear for the sounds of the English languageB. excellent choice of wordsC. mastering of the metrical devicesD. use of the dramatic monologue31. ________ is the most outstanding stream of consciousness novelist, with ______as his encyclopedia-like masterpiece.A James Joyce, UlyssesB. . Foster, A Passage to IndiaC. D. H. Lawrence, Sons and loversD. Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway32. Which of the following comments on Charles Dickens is wrong?A. Dickens is one of the greatest critical realist writers of the Modern PeriodB. 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 artistof the modern type.D. A Tale of Two Cities is one of his late works.33. _____w as known as “the poets’ poet”．A. William ShakespeareB. Edmund SpenserC. John DonneD. John Milton34. Which of the following poet belongs to the active Romantic poet?A. KeatsB. SoutheyC. WordsworthD. Coleridge35. ______ is regarded today as the national epic of the Anglo-Saxons.A. BeowulfB. The Canterbury TalesC. Don JuanD. Paradise Lost36. ___________ is the first modern American novel.A. Tom SawyerB. Huckleberry FinnC. The Sketch BookD. The Leatherstocking Tales37. 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 capacityof knowing truth intuitively”.C. Ralph Waldo Emerson was the chief advocate of this spiritual movement.D. It sprang from South America in the late l9th century.38. 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 past39. The Nobel Prize Committee highly praised ________ for “his powerful style-forming mastery of the art” of creating modern diction.A. Ezra PoundB. Ernest HemingwayC. Robert FrostD. Theodore Dreiser40. Who exerts the single most important influence on literary naturalism?A. EmersonB. Jack LondonC. Theodore DreiserD. Darwin41. ________ is NOT true in describing American naturalists.A. they were deeply influenced by DarwinismB. they were identified with French novelist and theorist Emile ZolaC. they chose their subjects for the lower ranks or societyD. they used more serious and more sympathetic tone in writing than realists42. Henry James’ｓfame generally rests upon his novels and stories with ________.A. international themeB. national themeC. European themeD. regional themeIV. Explain the following literary items.(4x 5’=20’)43.Spenserian Stanza/doc/4614326257.html,ke Poets45.Humanism46.BalladV. Questions. (3x 10’=30’)47. “Robinson Crusoe”is usually considered as Daniel Defoe’s masterpiece. Discuss why it became so successful when it was published?48. What is "Byronic hero"?49. Mark Twain and Henry James are two representatives of the realistic writers inAmerican literat ure. How is Twain ’s realism different form James ’s realism? 参考答案：I. Mark the following statements as true (T) or false (F).(本题共10空，每空1分，共10分) 1-5: FFTTT 6-10: FFTTFII. Fill in the blanks.(本题共20小题，每题1分，共20分) 11.(American) Puritanism 12.1783 13.The American Scholar 14.realistic; Mark Twain; Henry James; Jack London; Theodore Dreiser. 15.Imagist; Hemingway. 16.the classical literature; humanity. 17.Romeo and Juliet 18.Cavalier; Metaphysical 19.heroic couplet 20.Henry Fielding 21.John Keats /doc/4614326257.html,dy Chatterley ’ｓ lover ; The RainbowIII. Multiple choice.（本题共20小题，每题1分，共20分) IV. Explain the following literary items. （本题4小题,每小题5分,共20分）43. Spenserian Stanza: it refers to a verse form created by Edmund Spenser for his poems. Each stanza has nine lines. Each of the first eight lines is in iambicpentameter, and the ninth line is an iambic hexameter line. The rhythm scheme is题号23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 答案 D C B B C A C D A A B A A B D D B D D Aababbcbcc44. Lake Poets: it refers to those English romantic poets at the beginning of the19th century, William Wordsworth, for example, who lived in the heart of the LakeDistrict in the north-western part of England and enjoyed the experience of livingclose to nature, and these poets were the older generation of Romantic poets whohad been deeply influenced by the French Revolution of 1789 and its effects. In their writings, they described the beautiful scenes and the country people of the area.45. Humanism refers to the literary culture in the Renaissance.Humanists emphasize the capacities of the human mind and the achievements of human culture. Humanismbecame t he central theme of English Renaissance. Thomas More and William Shakespeare are the best representatives of the English humanists.46. Ballad: a story told in songs, usually in 4-line stanzas, with the second andfourth rhymed.V. Questions.（本题3小题,每小题10分,共30分）47.A: Robinson Crusoe is supposedly based on the real adventure of an Alexander Selkirk who once stayed alone on the uninhabited island for five year4s. Actually, the story is an imagination.B: In Robinson Crusoe, Defoe traces the growth of Robinson from a na?ve and artless youth into a shrewd and hardened man, tempered by numerous trials in his eventfullife.C. In the novel, Robinson is a real hero and he is an embodiment of the risingmiddle-class virtues in the mid-eighteenth century England. Robinson is a trueempire-builder, a colonizer and a foreign trader, who has the courage and will toface hardships and who has determination to preserve himself and improve his livelihood by struggling against nature.D. Robinson Crusoe is an adventure story very much i n the spirit of the time. Because of the above reasons, when it was published, people all liked that story, and itbecame an immediate success.48. Byronic hero is a proud, mysterious rebel figure of noble origin. With immensesuperiority in his passions and powers, this Byronic hero would carry on his shoulders the burden of righting all the wrongs in a corrupt society, and would rise single-handedly against any kind of tyrannical rules wither in government, in religion, or in moral principles with unconquerable wills and inexhaustible energies. The conflict is usually one of rebellious individuals against outworn social systems and conventions. Such a hero appeared in many o f his works, for example, "Don Juan". The figure is somewhat modeled on the life and personality of Byron himself, andmakes Byron famous both at home and abroad.49.A. Mark Twain’s realism is tainted with local color, preferring to have his wonregion and people at the forefront of his stories.B. James’s realism is concerned with the “inner world”of man and the international theme.C. Twain’s language is simple and colloquial and he employs humor in his writing.D. James’s language is elaborate and refined with lengthy psychological analyses.。

英美文学试卷 A共1 页第1 页I. Mark the following statements as true (T) or false (F). (10 x 1’=10’)1. ( ) Chaucer is the first English short-story teller and the founder of English poetry as well asthe founder of English realism. His masterpieceThe Canterbury talescontains 26 stories.2. ( ) English Renaissance is an age of essay and drama.3. ( ) The rise of the modern novel is closely related to the rise of the middle class and an urbanlife.4. ( ) The French Revolution and the American War of Independence were two big influencesthat brought about the English Romantic Movement.5. ( ) Charlotte’s novels are all about lonely and neglected young women with a fierce longingfor life and love. Her novels are more or less based on her own experience and feelingsand the life as she sees around.6. ( ) The leading figures of the naturalism at the turn of 19 th century are Thomas Hardy, JohnGalsworthy and Bernard Shaw.7. ( ) Emily Dickinson is remembered as the“All American Writer ”.8. ( )The Civil War divides the American literature into romantic literature and realist literature.9. ( ) Mark Twain is the first American writer to discover an American language and Americanconsciousness.10. ( ) In the decade of the 1910s, American literature achieved a new diversity and reached itsgreatest heights.II. Fill in the blanks. (20 x 1’=20’)11. The most enduring shaping influence in American thought and American literature was___________.12. The War of Independence lasted eight years till__________.13. Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay__________has been regarded as "America's Declaration ofIntellectual Independence". It called on American writers to write about America in a waypeculiarly American.14. The American ___________ writers paid a great interest in the realities of life and describedthe integrity of human character reacting under various circumstances and pictured the pioneers ofthe Far West, the new immigrants and the struggles of the working class. The leading figures were____________, ____________, ____________, ____________, etc.15. No period in American history is more eventful than that between the two world wars. Theliterary features of the time can be seen in the writings of those ________ writers as Ezra Pound,and the writers of the Lost Generation as ___________.16. Two features of English Renaissance are the curiosity for ___________ and the interest in theactivities of _____________________.17. Shakespear’e s earliest great success in tragedy is ____________, a play of youth and love, withthe famous balcony scene.18. There are three types of poets in 17th century English literature. They are Puritan poets,___________ poets and ______________ poets.19. Pope’s An Essay on Criticism is a didactic poem written in ___________________.20. ___________ has been regarded by some a“s Father of the English Novel”f or his contributionto the establishment of the form of the modern novel.21. “B eauty is truth, truth beauty”i s an epigrammatic line by _______________.22. Lawrence’s most controversial novel is ___________, the best probably _________.III. Multiple choice. (20 x 1’=20’)23. Among the three major works by John Milton ________ is indeed the only generallyacknowledged epic in English literature sinceBeowulf .A. Paradise RegainedB. Samson AgonistesC. LycidasD. Paradise Lost24. Francis Bacon’s essays are famous for their brevity, compactness and __________.A. complicityB. complexityC. powerfulnessD. mildness25. As one of the greatest masters of English prose, _______ defined a good style“a psroper words in proper places”.A. Henry FieldingB. Jonathan SwiftC. Samuel JohnsonD. Alexander Pope26. The Pilgrim ’s Progress by John Bunyan is often said to be concerned with the search for _________.A. material wealthB. spiritual salvationC. universal truthD. self-fulfillment27. “I t is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.”T he quoted part is taken from _________.A. Jane EyreB. Wuthering HeightsC. Pride and PrejudiceD. Sense and Sensibility28. Which of the following poems is a landmark in English poetry?A. Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor ColeridgeB. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”b y William WordsworthC. “R emorse”b y Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD. Leaves of Grassby Walt Whitman29. The most distinguishing feature of CharlesDickens ’w orks is his _________.A. simple vocabularyB. bitter and sharp criticismC. character-portrayalD. pictures of happiness30. “M y Last Duchess”i s a poem that best exemplifies Robert Browning’s ________.A. sensitive ear for the sounds of the English languageB. excellent choice of wordsC. mastering of the metrical devicesD. use of the dramatic monologue31. ________ is the most outstanding stream of consciousness novelist, with ______as his encyclopedia-like masterpiece.A James Joyce,UlyssesB. E.M. Foster, A Passage to IndiaC. D. H. Lawrence, Sons and loversD. Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway32. Which of the following comments on Charles Dickens is wrong?A. Dickens is one of the greatest critical realist writers of the Modern PeriodB. His serious intention is to expose and criticize all the poverty, injustice, hypocrisy andcorruptness he sees all around him.C. The later works show the development of Dickens towards a highly conscious artist of themodern type.D. A Tale of Two Citiesis one of his late works.33. _____was known as “the poets ’poet ”.A. William ShakespeareB. Edmund SpenserC. John DonneD. John Milton34. Which of the following poet belongs to the active Romantic poet?A. KeatsB. SoutheyC. WordsworthD. Coleridge35. ______ is regarded today as the national epic of the Anglo-Saxons.A. BeowulfB. The Canterbury TalesC. Don JuanD. Paradise Lost36. ___________ is the first modern American novel.A. Tom SawyerB. Huckleberry FinnC. The Sketch BookD. The Leatherstocking Tales37. 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 “t he recognition in man of the capacity of knowing truthintuitively ”.C. Ralph Waldo Emerson was the chief advocate of this spiritual movement.D. It sprang from South America in the late l9th century.38. The theme of Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkleis _________.A. the conflict of human psycheB. the fight against racial discriminationC. the familial conflictD. the nostalgia for the unrecoverable past39. The Nobel Prize Committee highly praised ________ for “h is powerful style-forming masteryof the art”o f creating modern diction.A. Ezra PoundB. Ernest HemingwayC. Robert FrostD. Theodore Dreiser40. Who exerts the single most important influence on literary naturalism?A. EmersonB. Jack LondonC. Theodore DreiserD. Darwin41. ________ is NOT true in describing American naturalists.A. they were deeply influenced by DarwinismB. they were identified with French novelist and theorist Emile ZolaC. they chose their subjects for the lower ranks or societyD. they used more serious and more sympathetic tone in writing than realists42. Henry James’s fame generally rests upon his novels and stories with ________.A. international themeB. national themeC. European themeD. regional themeIV. Explain the following literary items.(4x 5’=20’)43. Spenserian Stanza44. Lake Poets45. Humanism46. BalladV. Questions. (3x 10’=30’)47. “R obinson Crusoe”is usually considered as Daniel Defoe’s masterpiece. Discuss why it became so successful when it was published?48. What is "Byronic hero"?49. Mark Twain and Henry James are two representativesof the realistic writers in American literature. How is Twain’s realism different form James’s realism?参考答案：I. Mark the following statements as true (T) or false (F).( 本题共10 空，每空1 分，共10 分)1-5: FFTTT 6-10: FFTTFII. Fill in the blanks. ( 本题共20 小题，每题 1 分，共20 分)11. (American) Puritanism12. 178313. The American Scholar14. realistic; Mark Twain; Henry James; Jack London; Theodore Dreiser.15. Imagist; Hemingway.16. the classical literature; humanity.17. Romeo and Juliet18. Cavalier; Metaphysical19. heroic couplet20. Henry Fielding21. John Keats22. Lady Chatterley s l’over; The RainbowIII. Multiple choice. （本题共20 小题，每题 1 分，共20 分)题23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 号答D C B B C A C D A A B A A B D D B D D A 案IV. Explain the following literary items. （本题4 小题, 每小题5 分, 共20 分）43. Spenserian Stanza:it refers to a verse form created by Edmund Spenser for his poems. Each stanza has nine lines. Each of the first eight lines is in iambic pentameter, and the ninth line is aniambic hexameter line. The rhythm scheme is ababbcbcc44. Lake Poets: it refers to those English romantic poets at the beginning of th e19th century,William Wordsworth, for example, who lived in the heart of the Lake District in the north-westernpart of England and enjoyed the experience of living close to nature, and these poets were the oldergeneration of Romantic poets who had been deeply influenced by the French Revolution of 1789and its effects. In their writings, they described the beautiful scenes and the country people of thearea.45. Humanism refers to the literary culture in the Renaissance.Humanists emphasize thecapacities of the human mind and the achievements of human culture. Humanism became thecentral theme of English Renaissance.Thomas More and William Shakespeareare the bestrepresentatives of the English humanists.46. Ballad: a story told in songs, usually in 4-line stanzas, with the second and fourth rhymed.V. Questions（. 本题 3 小题, 每小题10 分, 共30 分）47.A: Robinson Crusoe is supposedly based o n the real adventure of an Alexander Selkirk whoonce stayed alone on the uninhabited island for five year4s. Actually, the story is an imagination.B: In Robinson Crusoe, Defoe traces the growth of Robinson from a n a v?e and artless youth intoa shrewd and hardened man, tempered by numerous trials in his eventful life.C. In the novel, Robinson is a real hero and he is an embodiment of the rising middle-classvirtues in the mid-eighteenth century England. Robinson is a true empire-builder, a colonizer and aforeign trader, who has the courage and will to face hardships and who has determination topreserve himself and improve his livelihood by struggling against nature.D. Robinson Crusoe is an adventure story very much in the spirit of the time. Because of theabove reasons, w hen it was published, people all liked that story, and it became a n immediatesuccess.48. Byronic hero is a proud, mysterious rebel figure of noble origin. With immense superiority inhis passions and powers, this Byronic hero would carry on his shoulders the burden of righting allthe wrongs in a corrupt society, and would rise single-handedly against any kind of tyrannical ruleswither in government, in religion, or in moral principles with unconquerable wills andinexhaustible energies. The conflict is usually one of rebellious individuals against outworn socialsystems and conventions. Such a hero appeared in many of his works, for example, "Don Juan".The figure is somewhat modeled on the life and personality of Byron himself, and makes Byronfamous both at home and abroad.49.A. Mark Twain’s realism is tainted with local color, preferring to have his won region and people at the forefront of his stories.B. James’s realism is concerned with the“inner world”of man and the international theme.C. Twain’s language is simple and colloquial and he employs humor in his writing.D. James’s language is elaborate and refined with lengthy psychological analyses.。

2011年7月英美文学选读试题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 and write the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the answer sheet.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 HouseB. Hard TimesC. Great ExpectationsD. A Tale of Two Cities2. 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 NativeB. The Mayor of CasterbridgeC. Tess of the D‘UrbervillesD. Jude the Obscure3. 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 MarriedB. Too True to Be GoodC. Widowers‘ HousesD. The Apple Cart4. It was only after the publication of ____________ that D.H. Lawrence was recognized as aprominent novelist.A. The TrespasserB. The White PeacockC. Sons and LoversD. The Rainbow5. 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 MenD. Lyrical Ballads6. Charlotte Brontё‘s ____________ is noted for its sharp criticism of the existing society, e. g. the religious hypocrisy of charity institutions.A. The ProfessorB. Wuthering HeightsC. VilletteD. Jane Eyre7. Shelley‘s greatest achievement is his four - act poetic drama ____________ , which is an ex- ultant work in praise of humankind‘s potential.A. AdonaisB. Queen MabC. Prometheus UnboundD. Kubla Khan8. Among the Romantic poets ____________ is regarded as a ―worshipper of nature‖.A. William BlakeB. William WordsworthC. George Gordon ByronD. John Keats9. The most perfect example of the verse drama after Greek style in English is John Milton‘s ____________.A. Paradise LostB. Paradise RegainedC. Samson AgonistesD. Areopagitica10. The major theme of Jane Austen‘s no vels is____________.A. love and moneyB. money and social statusC. social status and marriageD. love and marriage11. 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 MenB. The Waste LandC. Murder in the CathedralD. Ash Wednesday12. According to the subjects, William Wordsworth‘s short poems can be classified into two groups, poems about____________.A. nature and human lifeB. happiness and childhoodC. symbolism and imaginationD. nature and commonlife13. 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 Shaw14. Wil liam Blake‘s ____________ composed during the climax of the French Revolution playsthe double role both as a satire and a revolutionary prophecy.A. The Book of UrizenB. The Book of LosC. Poetical SketchesD. Marriage of Heaven and Hell15. Charles D ickens‘ works are characterized by a mingling of ____________ and pathos.A. metaphorB. passionC. satireD. humor16. Daniel Defoe describes ____________ as a typical English middle -class man of the eigh- teenth century, the very prototype of the empire builder, the pioneer colonist.A. Robinson CrusoeB. Moll FlandersC. GulliverD. Tom Jones17. In Thomas Hardy‘s Wessex novels, there is an apparent ____________touch in his de- scription of the simple and beautiful though primitive rural life.A. nostalgicB. tragicC. romanticD. ironic18. Of all the eighteenth - century novelists ____________ was the first to set out, both in the-ory 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 Fielding19. Shakespeare‘s authentic non-dramatic poetry consists of two long narrative poems: Venus and Adonis and____________.A. Julius CaesarB. The Winter‘s TaleC. The Rape of LucreceD. The Two gentlemen of Verona20. John Milton‘s ____________ is probably his most memorable prose work, which is a greatplea for freedom of the press.A. Paradise LostB. Paradise regainedC. AreopagiticaD. Lycidas21.D. H. Lawrence‘s novels ____________ are generally regarded as his masterpieces.A. The Rainbow; Women in LoveB. The Rainbow; Sons and LoversC. Sons and Lovers; Lady Chatterley‘s LoverD. Women in Love; Lady Chatterley‘s Lover22. The best representatives of the English humanists are Thomas More, Christopher Mar-lowe and____________.A. William ShakespeareB. John MiltonC. Henry FieldingD. Jonathan Swift23. Mark Twain‘s particular concern about the local character of a region came about as ―local colorism,‖ a unique variation of American literary____________.A. romanticismB. nationalismC. modernismD. realism24. As a poet with a strong sense of mission, Walt Whitman devoted all his life to the creation of the ―single‖ poem,____________.A. Drum TapsB. North of BostonC. A Boy‘s WillD. Leaves of Grass25. William Faulkner creates his own mythical kingdom that mirrors not only the decline of the ____________ society of America but also the spiritual wasteland of the whole American society.A. EasternB. WesternC. SouthernD. Northern26. In his final years, Herman Melville turned again to prose fiction and wrote what is probably his second famous work, ____________ , which was published after his death.A. Billy BuddB. RedburnC. Moby - DickD. Typee27. The Sun Also Rise casts light on a whole generation after ____________ and the effects of the war by way of a vivid portrait of ―the Lost Generation. ‖A. the Spanish Civil War B. the American- Mexican WarC. WWID. WWII28. Herman Melville went to the South Seas on a whaling ship in 1841, where he gained the first -hand information about whaling that he used laterin____________.A. TypeeB. RedburnC. Moby - DickD. Omoo29. According to ____________ , the life - death cycle, the spring and winter of the earth, the birth and death of the animals is reality.A. Theodore DreiserB. William FaulknerC. Henry JamesD. F·Scott Fitzgerald30. ―Though life is but a losing battle, it is a struggle man can dominate in sucha way that loss becomes dignity. ‖ Th is is an outlook towards life that____________ had been trying to illustrate in his works.A. F·Scott FitzgeraldB. Ernest HemingwayC. Theodore DreiserD. William Faulkner31. More than five hundred poems ____________ wrote are about nature, in which his (her) general skepticism about the relationship between man and nature is well -expressed.A. Robert FrostB. Emily DickinsonC. Ezra PoundD. Walt Whitman32. In 1954, the Nobel Prize for literature was granted to ____________ , one of the greatest of American writers.A. Ernest HemingwayB. Robert FrostC. Henry JamesD. Theodore Dreiser33. North of Boston is described by Robert Frost as ―a book of poople,‖ which shows a brilliant insight into ____________ character and the background that formed it.A. EasternB. WesternC. SouthernD. New England34. Walt Whitman is radically innovative in terms of the form of his poetry. What he prefers for his new poetic feelings is ― ____________ ‖.A. standardized rhymingB. regular rhymingC. free verseD. strict verse35. Henry James‘ fame generally rests upon his novels and stories withthe____________ theme.A. internationalB. localC. colonialD. post-modern36. The Financier, The Titan and The Stoic by Theodore Dreiser are called his ―Trilogy of _________. ‖A. HatredB. DeathC. DesireD. Fate37. In 1920, F·Scott Fitzgerald‘s first novel ____________ was published, which was, to some extent, his own story.A. This Side of ParadiseB. Tales of the Jazz AgeC. All the Sad Young MenD. Taps at Reveille38. In 1837, Nathaniel Hawthorne published Twice - Told Tales, a collection of ____________ which attracted critical attention.A. poemsB. short storiesC. essaysD. plays39. William Faulkner set most of his works in the American ____________ , with his emphasis on the ________subjects and consciousness.A. North... NorthernB. East... EasternC. West... WesternD. South... Southern40. The House of the Seven Gables was based on the tradition of a curse pronounced on ____________‘s family when his great - grandfather was a judge in the Salem witchcraft trials.A. Nathaniel HawthorneB. Washington IrvingC. Ezra PoundD. Walt WhitmanII. 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. ―Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow‘st;Nor shall Death brag thou wander‘st in his shade,When in eternal lines to time thou grow‘st:So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. ‖Questions:A. Who‘s the poet of the quoted stanza, and what‘s the title of the poem?B. What does the word ―this‖ in the last line refer to?C. What idea do the quoted lines express?42. ―Never did sun more beautifully steepIn his first splendor, valley, rock or hill;Ne‘er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep !The river glideth at his own sweet will:Dear God! The very houses seem asleep;And all that mighty heart is lying still!‖( From Wordsworth‘s sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge) Questions:A. What does this sonnet describe?B. What does the phrase ―mighty heart‖ refer to?C. The sonnet follows strictly the Italian form. What is the feature of the Italian form of sonnet?43. ― The woods are lovely, dark and deep,But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep,And miles to go before I sleep. ‖Questions:A. Who‘s the poet of the quoted stanza, and what‘s the title of the poem?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 ob serving 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 a brief answer to each of the following questions in English.Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answersheet.45. What‘s the theme of the poem Paradise Lost? What‘s the author‘s intention to create it and the implication that the poem expresses?46. The Waste Land is T. S. Eliot‘s most important single poem. What‘s the theme of the poem?47. In American literature, Emily Dickinson‘s poetry is unique and unconventional in its own way. W hat are the features of Dickinson‘s poems? 48. What‘s the theme of F. Scott Fitzgerald‘s The Great Gatsby?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. Summarize Ernest Hemingway’s artistic features.2011年4月英美文学选读试题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 the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the answer sheet.1. One of Shelley‘ s greatest political lyrics is ________, which was later to become a rallying song of the British Communist Party.A. ―Ode to Liberty‖B. ―Ode to Naples‖C. ―Sonnet: England in 1819‖D. ―Men of England‖2. In Charles Dickens‘ work ________, the Utilita rian principle rules over the English education system and destroys young hearts and minds.A. Little DorritB. Hard TimesC. Great ExpectationsD. Bleak House3. The tragic sense turns into despair in Thomas Hardy‘s ________, where cornered by the traditional social morality, the hero and the heroine have to kill their own will and passion and return to their former destructive way of life.A. The Return of the NativeB. The Mayor of CasterbridgeC. Tess of the D‘ UrbervillesD. Jude the Obscure4. The typical representatives of G. B. Shaw‘ s early plays are ________.A. Man and Superman; The Apple CartB. Widowers‘ House; Mrs. Warren‘ s ProfessionC. Candida; Mrs. Warren‘ s ProfessionD. The Apple Cart; Widowers‘ House5. As a critic of music and drama, ________ held that art should serve social purposes by reflecting human life, revealing social contradictions and educating the common people.A. T. S. EliotB. Oscar WildeC. George Bernard ShawD.W. B. Yeats6. Symbolism and complex narrative are employed more richly in D. H. Lawrence‘s ________, which are generally regarded as his masterpieces.A. Women in Love; Sons and LoversB. The Rainbow; Women in LoveC. Sons and Lovers; Lady Chatterley‘s LoverD. Lady Chatterley‘ s Lover; The Rainbow7. T. S. Eliot won the Nobel Prize of Literature in ________.A. 1945B. 1948C. 1952D. 19568. Thomas Hardy‘s pessimistic view of life predominates most of his later worksand earns him a reputation as a ________ writer.A. realisticB. naturalisticC. romanticD. stylistic9. ―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 yo u. ‖ The quoted lines are most probably taken from ________.A. Great ExpectationsB. Wuthering HeightsC. Jane EyreD. Pride and Prejudice10. The most distinguishing feature of Charles Dickens‘ works is ________.A. the vernacular and large vocabularyB. his humor and witC. character-portrayalD. pictures of pathos11. G. B. Shaw‘ s play ________ established his position as the leading playwright of his time.A. Widowers‘ HousesB. Too True to Be GoodC. Mrs. Warren‘ s ProfessionD. Candida12. Jan e Austen‘ s first novel ________ tells a story about two sisters and their love affairs.A. Sense and SensibilityB. Pride and PrejudiceC. Northanger AbbeyD. Mansfield Park13. ―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 LostD. John Keats‘― Ode on a Grecian Urn‖14. All of the following poems by William Wordsworth are masterpieces on nature EXCEPT ________.A. ―I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud‖B. ―An Evening Walk‖C. ―Tinter Abbey‖D. ―The Solitary Reaper‖15. William Blake‘s ________ marks his entry into maturity.A. Poetical SketchesB. Songs of InnocenceC. Marriage of Heaven and HellD. Songs of Experience16. Henr y Fielding‘ s ________ brings him the name of ―Prose Homer‖.A. The History of Jonathan Wild the GreatB. The History of T om Jones, a FoundlingC. The History of AmeliaD. The History of Joseph Andrews17. Among the three major poetical works by John Milton, ________ is the most perfect example of verse drama after the Greek style in English.A. Samson AgonistesB. Paradise LostC. Paradise RegainedD. Areopagitica18. T.S. Eliot‘ s ________ not only presents a panorama of physical disorder and spiritual desolation in the modern Western world, but also reflects the prevalent mood of disillusionment and despair of a whole post- war generation.A. The Hollow MenB. The Waste LandC. Murder in the CathedralD. Ash Wednesday19. In ________, Shakespeare has not only made a profound analysis of the social crisis in which the evils can be seen everywhere, but also criticized the bourgeois egoism.A. HamletB. OthelloC. King LearD. Macbeth20. John Milton‘s greatest poetical work ________ is the only general ly acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf.A. AreopagiticaB. Paradise LostC. LycidasD. Samson Agonistes21. The work ________ by William Blake is a lovely volume of poems, presenting a happy world, though not without its evils and sufferings.A. Songs of InnocenceB. Songs of ExperienceC. Poetical SketchesD. Lyrical Ballads22. The plays known as ―the Lawrence trilogy‖ are all the following EXCEPT ________.A. A Collier‘ s Friday NightB. Lady Chatterley‘ s LoverC. The Daughter - in - LawD. The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyed23. Greatly and permanently affected by the ________ experiences, Hemingway formed his own writing style, together with his theme and hero.A. miningB. farmingC. warD. sailing24. ―The dignity of movement of a n iceberg is due to only one -eighth of it being above water. ‖ This ―iceberg‖ analogy about prose style was put forward by ________.A. William FaulknerB. Henry JamesC. Ernest HemingwayD. F·Scott Fitzgerald25. In Go Down, Moses, ________ illuminates the problem of black and white in Southern society as a close- knit destiny of blood brotherhood.A. William FaulknerB. Jack LondonC. Herman MelvilleD. Nathaniel Hawthorne26. In Death in the Afternoon ________ presents his philosophy about life anddeath through the depiction of the bullfight as a kind of microcosmic tragedy.A. William FaulknerB. Jack LondonC. Ernest HemingwayD. Mark Twain27. William 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 Great GatsbyB. The Sound and the FuryC. Absalom, Absalom!D. Go Down, Moses28. Walt Whitman believed, by means of ―________,‖ he has turned poetry into an open field, an area of vital possibility where the reader can allow his own imagination to play.A. free verseB. strict verseC. regular rhymingD. standardized rhyming29. Herman Melville‘s second famous work, ________, was not published until 1924, 33 years after his death.A. PierreB. RedburnC. Moby-DickD. Billy Budd30. In 1920, ________ published his first novel This Side of Paradise which was, to some extent, his own story.A. F·Scott FitzgeraldB. Ernest HemingwayC. William FaulknerD. Emily Dickinson31. Unlike his contemporaries in the early 20th century, ________ did not break up with the poetic tradition nor made any experiment on form.A. Walt WhitmanB. Robert FrostC. Ezra PoundD.T. S. Eliot32. While Mark Twain seemed to have paid more attention to the ―life‖ of the Americans, ________ had apparently laid a greater emphasis on the ―inner world‖ of man.A. William HowellsB. Henry JamesC. Bret HarteD. Hamlin Garland33. At the age of eighty -seven, ________ read his poetry at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy in 1961.A. Robert FrostB. Walt WhitmanC. Ezra PoundD.T. S. Eliot34. Of all Herman Melville‘s sea adventure stories, ________ proves to be the best.A. TypeeB. RedburnC. Moby – DickD. Omoo35. Man is a ―victim of forces over which he has no control. ‖ This is a notion held strongly by ________.A. Robert FrostB. Theodore DreiserC. Henry JamesD. Hamlin Garland36. With the publication of ________, Theodore Dreiser was launching himself upon a long career that would ultimately make him one of the most significant American writers of the school later known as literary naturalism.A. Sister CarrieB. The TitanC. An American TragedyD. The Stoic37. Nathaniel Hawthorne was affected by ________‘s transcendentalist theory and struck up a very intimate relationship with him.A. H. W. LongfellowB. Walt WhitmanC. R. W. EmersonD. Washington Irving38. Among the following writers ________ is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th -century ―stream - of - consciousness‖ novels and the founder of psychological realism.A. T. S. EliotB. James JoyceC. William FaulknerD. Henry James39. Walt Whitman wrote down a great many poems to air his sorrow for the death of President ______, and one of the famous is ―When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom‘ d. ‖A. WashingtonB. LincolnC. FranklinD. Kennedy40. The Marble Faun by Nathaniel Hawthorne, a romance set in______, is concerned about the dark aberrations of the human spirit.A. FranceB. SpainC. EnglandD. ItalyII. 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.―Shah I compare thee to a summer‘s day?Thou art more lovely and more temperate:Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,And summer‘s lease hath all too short a date:‖Questions:A. Who‘s the poet of the quoted stanza, and what‘s the title of the poem?B. What figure of speech is employed in the poem?C. What is the theme of the poem?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. Who‘s the poet of the quoted stanza, and what‘s the title of the poem?B. 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. Who‘s the poet of the quoted stanza, and what‘s the title of the poem?B. What do ―soil‖ and ―air‖ represent in the first line?C. What does the poet try to say in the above quoted lines?44. ― ‗Is dying hard, Daddy?‘‗No, I think it‘s pretty easy, Nick. It all depends. ‘‖Questions:A. Who‘s the author of the quoted part, and what‘s the title of the work?B. What was Nick preoccupied with when he asked the question?C. Why did the father add ―It all depends‖ after he answered his son‘s question? 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. What‘s the theme of Emily Bronte‘ s Wuthering Heights?46. It is said that B. Shaw‘ s play Mrs. Warren‘ s Profession, has a strong realistic theme, which fully reflects the dramatist‘s Fabianist idea. What‘s the theme of the work?47. What‘s the theme of Nathaniel Hawthorne‘ s Young Goodman Brown?48. Daisy Miller brought Henry James international fame for the first time. What‘s the character of Daisy Miller, the protagonist?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. Make a comment on the character of Jane Eyre, the heroine of the novel by Charlotte Bronte.50. Why are naturalists inevitably pessimistic in their view?2010年7月英美文学选读试题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 in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.1. T. S. Eliot‘s ______ is a poem of dramatic monologue and a prelude to TheWaste Land, helping to point up the continuity of Eliot‘s thinking.A. ―Prufrock‖B. ―Gerontion‖C. The Hollow MenD. Four Quartets2. Defoe‘s group of four novels are t he first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower-class people. They are the following EXCEPT ______.A. Captain SingletonB. Moll FlandersC. RoxanaD. Robinson Crusoe3. Charles Dickens‘ novel, ______, is famous for its vivid descri ptions of the work-house and life of the underworld in the nineteenth-century London. A. The Pickwick Paper B. Oliver TwistC. David CopperfieldD. Nicholas Nickleby4. D. H. Lawrence‘s autobiographical novel is ______.A. The RainbowB. Women in LoveC. Sons and LoversD. Lady Chatterley‘s Lover5. Jonathan Swift‘s greatest satiric work is ______.A. A Tale of a TubB. The Battle of the BooksC. Gulliver‘s TravelsD. A Modest Proposal6. Dickens‘best- depicted characters are the following. EXCEPT ______.A. innocent, virtuous, persecuted and helpless child charactersB. horrible and grotesque charactersC. broadly humorous or comical charactersD. simple, innocent and faithful women characters7. George Bernard Shaw‘s ______ explored his idea of ―Life Force‖, the power that would create superior beings to be equal to God and to solve all the social, moral, and metaphysical problems of human society.A. Man and SupermanB. The Apple CartC. PygmalionD. Too True to Be Good8. For his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel, ______ has been regarded as ―Father of the English Novel‖.A. Daniel DefoeB. Jonathan SwiftC. Henry FieldingD. Oliver Goldsmith9. Charlotte Bronte‘s autobiograghical work ______ largely based on her experience in Brussels.A. The ProfessorB. ShirleyC. VilletteD. Jane Eyre10. D. H. Lawrence‘s artistic tendency is mainly ______ , which combinesdramatic scenes with an authoritative commentary.A. romanticismB. realismC. naturalismD. modernism11. In ______ opinion, human nature is seriously and premanently flawed. Tobetter human life, enlightenment is needed, but to redress it is very hard.A. Daniel Defoe‘sB. Charles Dickens‘C. Jonathan Swift‘sD. Henry Fielding‘s12. The major theme of Ja ne Austen‘s novels is ______ toward which she holdson a practical idealism.A. love and moneyB. marriage and moneyC. love and familyD. love and marriage13. Hardy‘s ______ is a fierce attack on the hypocritical morality of thebourgeois society and the capitalist invasion into the country and destruction of the English peasantry towards the end of the century.A. Tess of the D‘UrbervillesB. The Mayor of Caste BridgeC. The Return of the NativeD. Jude the Obscure14. Henry Fielding adopted ―______‖ to relate a story in his novel in which theauthor becomes the ―all- knowing God‖.A. the first- person narrationB. the epistolary formC. the picaresque formD. the third -person narration15. In ______ , Shelley created a Platonic symbol of the spirit of man, a force ofbeauty and regeneration.A. ―To a Skylark‖B. ―The Cloud‖C. ―Ode to Liberty‖D. Adonais16. The success of ______ is also due to its introduction to the English novelthe first governess heroine.A. The ProfessorB. Jane EyreC. Wuthering HeightsD. Far from the Madding Crowd17. John Milton‘s ______ is the only generally acknowledged epic in Englishliterature since Beowulf.A. Paradise LostB. Paradise RegainedC. Samson AgonistesD. Areopagitica18. Wordsworth‘s ______ is pe rhaps the most anthologized poem in English。