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[考研类试卷]英语专业（英美⽂学）模拟试卷10.doc[考研类试卷]英语专业（英美⽂学）模拟试卷10⼀、填空题1 Charles Dickens's last novel was______.2 Ah, love, let us be true To one another! For the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; The lines above are selectedfrom______by______.3 There are no typically positive characters in______written by Thackeray.4 The novel The Return of the Native was written by______, whose novels were known as "novels of characters and environment".5 Tennyson's poem,______, was based on the Celtic legends—King Arthur and Round Table Knights.6 ______described the life of the laboring people and criticizing the privileged classes, but the power of exposure became much weaker in her work. The significance of her work lies rather in the portrayal of the pettiness and stagnancy of English provincial life.7 There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass, Or night-dews on still waters between walls Of shadowy granite, in a gleaming pass; Music that gentler on the spirit lies, Than tiered eyelids upon tired eyes; The quotation is selecte4 from______by______.8 Jane Eyre and the greater Wuthering Heights by______brought to the novel introspection and an intense concentration on the inner life of emotion which before them had been the province of poetry alone.9 The greatest and the longest work of Robert Browning is______, which consisted of 20,000 lines.10 Sonnets from Portuguese is the representative work of______.11 ______is generally regarded as Steinbeck's masterpiece.12 T. S. Eliot's "the progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality" can be found in his______.13 In the novel The Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway portrayed an old fisherman named ______, who shows triumphant even in defeat.14 Hemingway's stature as a writer was confirmed with the publication of hisnovel______in 1929. the novel portrayed a farewell both to war and to love.15 ______has been regarded as American's greatest novelist in the 20th century.16 Robert Frost's poetry focused on the landscape and people in______.17 In the short novel ______, Steinbeck portrayed the tragic friendship between two migrant workers.18 ______has been considered as America's greatest playwright.19 Steinbeck's post-war novel______reflected his bitter feelings against those greedy, rapacious elements of society which made the war possible.20 ______has an average man of decidedly masculine tastes, sensitive and intelligent wit action and few words.⼆、名词解释21 Psychological novel22 Narration23 Ambiguity24 Allusion25 Plot26 The Beat Generation27 Feminism28 Harlem Renaissance29 New Criticism30 American dream三、单项选择题31 The major part of the story in Wuthering Heights is told by .______.（A）Mr. Lockwood（B）Nelly（C）Isabella（D）Catherine32 Among George Eliot's 7 novels,______is essentially an autobiographic account of her life.（A）Felix Holt, the Radical（B）Daniel Deronda（C）Middlemarch（D）The Mill on the Floss33 The author of______makes clear in the novel that it is wrong to discriminate on the basis of social status and it is cruel and destructive to break genuine, natural human passions.（A）Jane Eyre（B）Wuthering Heights（C）Pride and Prejudice（D）less of the D'Urbervilles34 "I will drink/Life to the lees." In the quoted line Ulysses is saying that he______till the end of his life.（A）will keep traveling and exploring（B）will go on drinking and being happy（C）would like to toast to his glorious life（D）would like to drink the cup of wine35 Which of the following words is NOT appropriate to describe the Duke in My Last Duchess?（A）Intelligence.（B）Kindness.（C）Jealousy.（D）Brutality.36 "A waft of wind came sweeping down the laurel-walk, and trembled through the boughs of the chestnut: it wandered away—away—to an indefinite distance—it died. The nightingale's song was then the only voice of the hour: in listening to it, I again wept." The above passage must be taken from______.（A）Charles Dickens's Great Expectations（B）William Thackeray's Vanity Fair（C）Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre（D）Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native37 The four lines "Though much is taken, much abides; and though/We are not now that strength which in old days/Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are — /One equal temper of heroic hearts, /Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will/To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield must be taken from______.（A）Tennyson's Ulysses（B）Browning's Meeting at Night（C）Wordsworth's I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud（D）Keats's Ode to a Nightingale38 While telling of the punishment of Oliver for asking for more and denouncing the inhuman, hypocritical workhouse system of England for abusing and dehumanizing the poor children, the narrator uses a seemingly______tone.（A）innocent（B）ironic（C）indignant（D）bitter39 In Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles, the heroine's tragic ending is due to______.（A）her weak character（B）her ambition（C）Angel Clare's selfishness（D）a hostile society40 The character Rochester in Jane Eyre can be well termed as a______.（A）conventional hero（B）Byronic hero（C）chivalrous aristocrat（D）Homeric hero41 A contemporary of Alfred Tennyson,______is acknowledged by many as the most original and experimental poet of the time.（A）Thomas Carlyle（B）Thomas B.Macaulay（C）T. S. Eliot（D）Robert Browning42 "As for society, he was carried every other day into the hall where the boys dined, and there socially flogged as a public warning and example. What figure of speech is used in the above sentence?（A）Irony.（B）Metaphor.（C）Simile.（D）Overstatement.43 In Hard Times, Dickens attacks______that rules over the English educational system and destroys young hearts and minds.（A）bourgeois commercialism（B）the utilitarian principle（C）political corruptness（D）religious hypocrisy44 Which of the following best describes the nature of Hardy's later novels?（A）Sentimentalism.（B）Surrealism.（C）Comic sense.（D）Tragic sense.45 Charles Dickens's best-depicted characters are those innocent, virtuous, persecuted, helpless ______ characters such as Oliver Twist, Little Nell, David Copperfield and Little Dorrit.（A）child（B）woman（C）lady（D）girl46 When they were young, the Bronte sisters were sent to a school for clergymen's daughters. The eldest two died there due to the poor and unhealthy conditions. This experience inspired the later portrayal of Lowood School in the novel______.（A）Jane Eyre（B）Wuthering Heights（C）The Professor（D）Emma47 Reading______'s Crossing the Bar, we can feel his fearlessness towards death, his faith in God and an afterlife.（A）John Keats（B）Alfred Tennyson（C）Robert Browning（D）Thomas Hardy48 The publication of______, Robert Browning's masterpiece, in 1869, finally established the poet's position as one of the greatest English poets.（A）In Memoriam（B）The Ring and the Book（C）Maud（D）Ulysses49 The novel Middlemarch, a Study of Provincial Life provides a panoramic view of life in a small English town,______, and its surrounding countryside in the mid-nineteenth century.（A）Middlemarch（B）Lowick Manor（C）Oxford（D）Wessex50 In Thomas Hardy's novels, the outside nature, the natural environment or______of herself, is shown as some mysterious supernatural force, very powerful but half-blind, impulsive and uncaring to the individual's will, hope, passion or suffering.（A）nature（B）fate（C）fortune（D）destiny51 The greatest English critical realist novelist was_____,who criticized the bourgeois civilization and showed the misery of the common people.（A）Charles Dickens（B）Emily Bronte（C）Thomas Hardy（D）Charlotte Bronte52 Emily Bronte wrote only one novel which is entitled______.（A）Wuthering Heights（B）Jane Eyre（C）Emma（D）The Professor53 George Eliot was the pseudonym of______.（A）Mary Ann Evans（B）Charles Dickens（C）Emily Bronte（D）Samuel Clemens54 In the long poem The Ring and the Book, the "book" is compared to______.（A）love（B）comprehensive knowledge（C）the hard truth（D）the method of study55 "Self-conceited", "cruel" and "tyrannical" are most likely the words to describe the character in______.（A）Robert Browning's My Last Duchess（B）Sheridan's The School for Scandal（C）Christopher Marlowe's Dr. Faustus（D）Shakespeare's Love's Labor's Lost56 As a literary figure, John Rivers appears in______.（A）Fielding's Tom Jones（B）Dickens's Oliver Twist（C）Bronte's Jane Eyre（D）Austen's Pride and Prejudice57 The statement that those extraordinary people, seeking something beyond the provincial life, have finally to subject themselves to the limitations of the reality either due to their own weakness or the conventional force of the social environment may well sum up one of the major themes of______.（A）Fielding's Tom Jones（B）Defoe's Robinson Crusoe（C）Austen's Pride and Prejudice（D）Eliot's Middlemarch58 The success of Jane Eyre is not only because of its sharp criticism of the existing society, but also due to its introduction to the English novel the first______heroine.（A）worker（B）peasant（C）governess（D）teacher59 Which of the following descriptions of Thomas Hardy is NOT true?（A）Most of his novels are set in Wessex.（B）Tess of the D'Urbervilles is one of the most representative of him as both a naturalistic and a critical realist writer.（C）Among Hardy's major works, Under the Greenwood Tree is the most cheerful and idyllic.（D）From The Mayor of Casterbridge on, the tragic sense becomes the keynote of his novels.60 ... and then how they met I hardly saw, but Catherine made a spring, and he caught her, and they were locked in an embrace.(Wuthering Heights) In the above quoted passage, Emily Bronte tells the story in______point of view.（A）the third person（B）the first person（C）the second person（D）the omnipresent61 In 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 consciousness（B）imagism（C）symbolism（D）naturalism62 Which of the following statements about Emily Grierson, the protagonist in Faulkner's story A Rose for Emily is NOT true?（A）She has a distorted personality.（B）She is physically deformed and paralyzed.（C）She is the victim of the past glory.（D）She is the symbol of the old values of the South.63 Robert Frost combined traditional verse forms—the sonnet, rhyming couplets, blank verse—with a clear American local speech rhythm, the speech of______farmers with its idiosyncratic diction and syntax.（A）Western（B）New England（C）New Hampshire（D）southern64 ______is a play that concerns the problem of modern man's identity.（A）The Emperor Jones（B）Desire Under the Elms（C）Long Day's Journey Into Night（D）The Hairy Ape65 In The Emperor Jones and The Hairy Ape, O'Neil adopted the expressionist techniques to portray the______of human beings in a hostile universe.（A）uncertainty（B）helpless situation（C）profound religious faith（D）courage and perseverance66 Which of the following novels can be regarded as typically belonging to the school of literary modernism?（A）The Sound and the Fury.（B）Uncle Tom's Cabin.（C）Daisy Miller.（D）The Gilded Age.67 Faulkner's novel______describes the decay and downfall of an old southern aristocratic family, symbolizing the old social order, told from four different points of view.（A）The Sound and the Fury（B）Startoris（C）The Unvanquished（D）The Town68 A Rose for Emily is Faulkner's first short story published in 1930. The story focuses on Emily Grierson, aneccentric______who refuses to accept the passage of time. （A）spinster（B）young lady（C）philosopher（D）prophet69 O'Neil's inventiveness seemingly knew no limits. He was constantly experimenting with new styles and forms for his plays, especially during the twenties when______was in full swing.（A）Symbolism（B）Realism（C）Expressionism（D）Romanticism70 ______marks the climax of Eugene O'Neil's literary career and the coming of age of American drama.（A）The Iceman Cometh（B）The Hairy Ape（C）The Emperor Jones（D）Long Day's Journey Into Night71 In the following comments, which is NOT true?（A）Robert Frost is generally considered a regional poet whose subject matters mainly focus on the landscape and people in New England.（B）The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter is actually an adaptation from a classical Chinese poem by LiPo.（C）Bacon's essays are famous for their brevity, compactness and powerfulness.（D）The Pilgrim's Progress is the most successful religious story of conventions in English language.72 In "petals on a wet, black bough", the figure of speech used here is______.（A）metaphor（B）hyperbole（C）pun（D）simile73 ______stems from the ambiguity of the speaker's choice between safety and the unknown.（A）Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening（B）Mending the Wall（C）Home Burial（D）The Road Not Taken74 Robert Frost is a regional poet in the sense that his poems are mainly concerned about the______.（A）life in New York（B）country life in New England（C）sea adventures（D）life on the Mississippi River .75 The Great Gatsby, written by Fitzgerald in 1925, is a story about______who was destroyed by the influence of the wealthy, pleasure-seeking people around him.（A）a vagabond（B）an idealist（C）an eccentric（D）an opportunist76 Emily Grierson, the protagonist in Faulkner's story A Rose for Emily, can be regarded as a symbol standing for all the following qualities EXCEPT______.（A）old values（B）rigid ides of social status（C）bigotry and eccentricity（D）harmony and integrity77 In The Emperor Jones and The Hairy Ape, O'Neil adopted the______to portray the helpless situation of human beings ina hostile universe.（A）expressionist techniques（B）surrealistic approach（C）romantic approach（D）dramatic monologue78 Robert Frost is generally considered as a regional poet in the sense that his subject matters mainly focus on the landscape and people in______.（A）New York（B）the West（C）New England（D）Mid West79 ______wrote about the society in the South by inventing families which represented different social forces: the old decaying upper class; the rising, ambitious, unscrupulous class of the "Poor Whites"; and the Negroes who labored for both of them.（A）Faulkner（B）Fitzgerald（C）Hemingway（D）Steinbeck80 "Nick Adams" is a character who frequently appears in______stories.（A）William Faulkner's（B）Theodore Dreiser's（C）Ernest Hemingway's（D）Mark Twain's81 The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promise to keep, And miles to go before I sleep." The above four lines are taken from______.（A）Dickinson's Because I could not stop for Death—（B）Frost's After Apple-Picking（C）Frost's Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening（D）Dickinson's I heard a Fly buzz—when I died—82 In his masterpiece,______, Pound traces the rise and fall of eastern and western empires, the moral and social chaos ofthe modern world, especially the corruption of America after the heroic time of Jefferson.（A）Make it New（B）Polite Essays（C）The Cantos（D）Confucius83 In After Apple-Picking, Robert Frost wrote: "For I have had too much/Of apple-picking: I am overtired/Of the great harvest I myself desired." From these lines we can conclude that the speaker is______.（A）happy about the harvest（B）wearing out the freshness of apple-picking（C）still desired of apple-picking when seeing the harvest（D）indifferent to what once desired84 Most recognizable literary movement that gave rise to the twentieth-century American literature, or we may say, the second American Renaissance, isthe______movement.（A）expatriate（B）transcendental（C）leftist（D）expressionistic85 Of the following American poets, whose works was first recognized in England and then in America?（A）Robert Frost.（B）Walt Whitman.（C）Emily Dickinson.（D）Wallace Stevens.86 In writing the poem The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter, Pound took its material from the ancient ______poetry.（A）Japanese（B）Chinese（C）French（D）Italian。

武汉大学2003年攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试试题考试科目: 基础英语与英汉互译科目代码：436Part One：I. Cloze (1×15=15%)Fill in each numbered blank with ONE word given below, paying attention to the following:A) 20 words are given, but only 15 (no more, no less) should be used and each can be used onceonly;B) Forms should be corrected.1. appear2. incidentally3. pass4. sure5. necessary6. social7. fresh8. come9. physical 10. occur 11. incidentally 12. scene 13. replenish 14. invite 15. ramble 16. second 17. go 18. interrupt 19. feed 20. seeI belong to that classification of people known as wives. I am a Wife. And, not altogether 1 , I am a mother.Not too long ago a male friend of mine appeared on the scene 2 from a recent divorce. He had one child, who is, of course, with his ex-wife. He is looking for another wife. As I thought about him while I was ironing one evening, it suddenly 3 to me that I, too, would like to have a wife. Why do I want a wife?I want a wife who will take care of my 4 needs. I want a wife who will keep my house clean. A wife who will pick up after my children, a wife who will pick up after me. I wanta wife who will keep my clothes clean, ironed, mended, replaced when need be, and who will5 to it that my personal things are kept in their proper place so that I can find what I need the minute I need it. I want a wife who cooks the meals, a wife who is a good cook. I want a wife who will plan the menus, do the necessary grocery shopping, prepare the meals, serve them pleasantly, and then do the cleaning up while I do my studying. I want a wife who will care for me when I am sick and sympathize with my pain and loss of time from school. I wanta wife to go along when our family takes a vacation so that someone can continue to care for me and my children when I need a rest and change of 6 .I want a wife who will not bother me with 7 complaints about a wife’s duties. But I want a wife who will listen to me when I feel the need to explain a rather difficult point I have8 across in my course of studies. And I want a wife who will type my papers for me when I have written them.I want a wife who will take care of the details of my 9 life. When my wife and I are10 out by my friends, I want a wife who will take care of the babysitting arrangements. When I meet people at school that I like and want to entertain, I want a wife who will have the house clean, will prepare a special meal, serve it to me and my friends, and not 11 when I talk about things that interest me and my friends. I want a wife who will have arranged that the children are 12 and ready for bed before my guests arrive so that the children do not bother us. I want a wife who takes care of the needs of my guests so that they feel comfortable, who makes sure that they have an ashtray, that they are 13 the hors d’oeuvres, that they are offered a 14 helping of the food, that their wine glasses are 15 when necessary,that their coffee is served to them as they like it. And I want a wife who knows that sometimes I need a night out by myself.When I am through with school and have a job, I want my wife to quit working and remain at home so that my wife can more fully and completely take care of a wife’s duties.My God, who wouldn’t want a wife?II. Paraphrase (2× 10=20%)Paraphrase the following sentences, paying attention to the connotation each of them suggests.1. More than enough is too much.2. A door must be either shut or open.3. Tomorrow is another day.4. Live and let live.5. Nothing succeeds like success.6. The shortest way round is the longest way home.7. Call a spade a spade.8. The remedy may be worse than the disease.9. Every dog has his day,10. All’s well that ends well.III. Proofreading & Error Correction (1×10= 10%)The following passage contains 8 errors, and two are free from error. In each case only one word is involved. You should proofread the passage and correct it in the following way:For a wrong word, underline the wrong word and write the correct one in theblank provided at the end of the line.For a missing word, mark the position of the missing word with a “^” sign and writethe word you believe to be missing in the blank provided at theend of the line.For an unnecessary word, cross the unnecessary word with a slash “/” and put the word inthe blank provided at the end of the line.If the line is correct, place a tick “√” in the blank provided at the end of the line.Each boxing match is a story --- a unique and highlycondensed drama without words, even nothing sensational (1)______happens. Boxers are there to establish an absoluteexperience, a public accounting of the outermost limits (2)______of their beings; they will know, as few of us can knowof ourselves, physical and psychic power they possess. (3)______In the boxing ring, even in our greatly humanized times;death is always a possibility---which is that some of us (4)______prefer to watch films, or tapes of fights are already past, (5)______already defined as history---or, in some instances, art. .Most of the time, naturally, death in the ring is extremely (6)______unlikely; it is a statistically rare possibility like yourpossible death tomorrow morning in an automobile accidentor in next month’s headlining airline disaster or in a freak (7) ______accident involving a fall on the stairs or in the bathtub, a skullfracture, subarachnoid hemorrhage. Spectators at “death”fights often claim afterward that what happened simply (8)______seemed to happen--unpredictably, in a sense accidentally.Only in a retrospect does death appear to have been inevitable. (9)_______If a boxing match is a story it is an always wayward story,one in which anything can happen. And with a matter of (10) ______seconds. Split seconds! In no other sport can so much takeplace in so brief a period of time, and so irrevocably.IV. Reading Comprehension and Writing (30%)Read the following passage, and then answer the corresponding questions.1. I am black. My mother is black. My father is white. This wouldn’t necessarily be important, but we live in a country where conflict runs deep between blacks and whites. We’re in a country where white male slaveholders casually disavowed the black children they had sired. We live in a country where the worst of human traits—laziness, violence, and irrationality — are seen as defining characteristics of those of African descent. This makes my being a mixed-race person whose ethnic identity is black somewhat complicated. There is a dissonance between who I say I am -- a proud black man trying to do something positive with his life and who society says I am. Yet I feel strong, and I embrace my black heritage. I’ve often reflected on how I learned to keep my positive self-image. The answer is, my white father.2. With my olive-colored skin; hazel eyes, and curly hair, I’ve been taken for Hispanic or Middle Eastern. In fact, in addition to being black, I am Jewish. And my father taught me to be proud of that heritage as well. When bullies at school demanded, Are you black or white?" there was no confusion. When I ran home and asked my father, he said, “Tell them you are African- American.” That was in the early 1970s and it was a term I wouldn’t hear until the Afrocentric movement of the 1990s made it fashionable again.3. It wasn’t that my father wanted me to deny my Jewish roots, it’s just that he knew we live in a society where my African heritage would define me socially. He didn’t want me to seem ashamed of my black roots. My father knew that love and hopes for an ideal world in the distant future would be no panacea for the bigotry and small-mindedness I would encounter in my lifetime. He didn’t want me, my brother, or my sister to be unprepared for racism.4. And so, my father, a writer and avid reader, lined my shelves with books about black American culture, African culture, and Jewish culture. He encouraged me to think, to come up with my own ideas. A simple question posed to him was sure to be followed by his search for a book on the subject, with articles and additional materials to follow. In this way he gave me not only his opinion, but also the keys to how he arrived at that opinion. Knowing that I had those keys, too, he thought that I could evaluate his opinion and come up with my own. He encouraged me to determine what being black meant to me.5. In the predominantly white suburb near Princeton, N.J., where I grew up, my father knew that Ineeded to know black men. So when I started playing drums at age 14, my father took me to jazz clubs. He encouraged me to talk to the musicians and get their autographs. This introduction led to my decision to become a professional musician, and also filled my home with a black male presence. Jazz was more than a genre of music; it instructed me in the cool posture of black men — Max Roach’s shades, Miles Davis’s scowl and his always stylish threads. It also instructed me in a kind of heroism. These men were geniuses who created America’s only enduring art form despite its best efforts to stifle and ignore them.6. My father also hired James, a black 16-year-old, who became my favorite baby sitter. My father gave me book knowledge and taught me to have an open mind; James showed me how to deal with people on a practical level. My father was gentle, but James taught me that as a black man, you have to be ungentle sometimes. You have to speak up for yourself. James never let me walk away from a confrontation without speaking my mind.7. During the summers, my parents sent me to my mother’s family in Virginia. My cousins— especially Jeffrey, who is seven years older than I — helped me become a mature black man. Jeffrey taught me to treat women with respect, through his example as well as through his words. These are lessons my father had taught me also, but he hoped that my summer visits down south would reinforce those values being transmitted by black men of my generation.8. In college, I counseled children from mixed backgrounds. I could see the emptiness in some of the kids either who didn’t have a black parent around — usually the father—or whose parents weren’t in agreement about how much emphasis, should be put on black culture. Often these children would grow up in a predominantly white environment with a negative view of their black fathers or of black culture in general. I realized how fortunate I was to have both parents and to have a father who encouraged me to develop as a black person while never making me feel that I was any less his son because of my blackness.9. In many ways what my father taught me about manhood was not related to color. He taught me that, ultimately, I determined through my behavior what a black man is. My father taught me to be a gentle man, to use my mind and not my fists. He taught me the value of education and encouraged me to ask questions. My father exposed me to black men who lived up to these universal ideals of manhood, and thereby emphasized that blacks shared in that tradition. All these things have made me the man, the black man, I am today.10. My father and I are now the closest we have ever been. Of course, there are race-related topics,things I feel, that he will never be able to understand. I know that there are probably people who meet my father and see just another white man. But I know that there are things he has learned from me and my brother that have given him an insight into black masculinity that most white men will never experience. In this way, we have taught each other. Our relationship epitomizes a reality that is so rarely seen -- a black man and a white man who are not adversaries, who are more than father and son. They are men who love each other very deeply.A) Find the best answer for each question from the choices given. (1×6=6%)1. The opening three sentences identify the writer as being of _____.A. the same ethnicity as both his parentsB. mixed ethnicityC. the same ethnicity of his father, but not his motherD. the same ethnicity of his mother, but not his father2. For the writer, the way this country has treated blacks means that______.A. he personally suffered discriminationB. his father has mixed feelings about himC. he has had to struggle with his own bad habits so as to avoid ethnic stereotypesD. to maintain his pride he had to struggle against social beliefs about his ethnicity3. The main idea of paragraph 2 is that ______.A. the writer’s appearance allowed him to adopt any one of several ethnic identitiesB. the writer’s father always directed the son to an African-American identityC. the writer was first confused by the question of ethnic identityD. the writer is proud of his Jewish heritage4. The father’s main reason for wanting his children to identify themselves as blacks is thathe____.A. wanted them to have strength to confront racismB. had mixed feelings about his own backgroundC. had hopes for an ideal world in the futureD. thought some identities were better than others5. Paragraphs 5 through 8 are organized according to_____.A. time order of the writer’s growing up.B. comparison of the writer’s experience to that of people who grew up with blackfathers.C. a listing of the ways the writer learned about black culture.D. order of importance of the experience recounted.6. Of the following details, which is most important for this selection?A. The father read many books.B. The father took the son to jazz clubs when the boy started playing drums.C. The son became a jazz musician.D. Miles Davis had stylish threads.B) After each of the following passages in paragraphs 1-5 from the selection is a series of possible inferences, predictions, conclusions, or generalizations that you can draw from the sentence.Put a checkmark in front of those that can be appropriately supported by the quoted passage.(2×4=8%)1. “When I ran home and asked my father, he said, ‘Tell them you are African-American.’ Thatwas in the early 1970s and it was a term I wouldn’t hear until the Afrocentric movement the 1990s made it fashionable again.” (paragraph 2)__A. The father didn’t want his son to be aware of other parts of his heritage.__B. The father wanted his son to develop a strong identity to counter other people’s prejudices.__C. The father’s thinking was ahead of his time.__D. The father helped his son overcome uncertainties.__E. The writer would support students being taught an Afrocentric school curriculum.2. “These men were geniuses who created America’s only enduring art form despite its best effortsto stifle and ignore them.” (paragraph 5)__A. Jazz grew from the efforts of artistic geniuses.__ B. Anyone who now enters jazz as a profession will be ignored and stifled.__ C. Musicians entered jazz because other forms of expression were not open to them.__ D. America does not always appreciate its artists.__ E. Some jazz musicians showed courage and pursuing their careers.__ F. The cool style of jazz musicians was a reaction to the ???????????3. “Of course, there are race-related topics, things I feel, that he will never be able tounderstand. I know that there are probably people who meet my father and see just another white man. But I know that there are things he has learned from me and my brother that have given him an insight into black masculinity that most white men will neverexperience.” (paragraph 10)__A. The writer is disappointed in his father’s limitations of understanding of the writer’s experience.__B. The writer respects his father's understanding of the black male experience.__C. Few white men have a good understanding of what it means to be a black man.__D. The brother feels the same way as the writer about their father.__E. If you haven’t experienced the difficulties caused by racial attitudes, it is hard to understand race-related topics fully.__ F. People make judgments about others’ probable racial attitudes.4. Match each of the following opinions reported in this article to the person who holds or expresses that opinion, by placing the number of the appropriate person in Column B in front ofthe statement in Column A. You may use individuals from Column B more than once in your answers, and you need not use all of them.A B1) Black children need not be acknowledged, a. the writer2) Having the keys to arriving at an opinion b. the writer’s fatherwas as important as the opinion, c. the writer’s mother3) You sometimes have to be ungentle d. white male slaveholders4) In this country people of African descent e. Jamesare defined as having the worst of human traits f. Jeffrey5) Hopes for an ideal world are not adequatefor dealing with the world6) Black and white men are often seeing eachother as adversaries.C) Paraphrase and comment on the words in ITALICS in the following phrases chosen from thetext. (1×4=4%)1. “... white male slaveholders casually disavowed the black children they had sired.”(paragraph 1)2. “...would be no panacea for the bigotry and small-mindedness I would encounter...”(paragraph 3)3. “... it instruct me in the cool posture of black men --- Max Roach’s shades, MileDavis’s scowl and his always stylish threads.” (paragraph 5)D) Critical Thinking and Writing1. The writer makes at least two strong and controversial points in this selection —that it is more important to identify with his black heritage than his Jewish heritage, and that there is hostility and little mutual understanding between white and black males. Do you agree or disagree with either of these points (or any other related ones you might identify in the selection)? How would you evaluate the writer’s stand and how would you argue for or against it? Write ONE paragraph to explain your position. (4%)2. The writer identifies how his own character and identity were formed through contact with many individuals. Write a short essay describing how individuals in your life influenced you to become the person you have become. (8%)PART TWO TRANSLATION (75 points)I. Select the word or phrase that is the closest in meaning to the English expression (10 points, 2 points each)(1) have dust in the eyes(A)伤心落泪(B)愁容满面(C)昏昏欲睡(D)已患沙眼(2)sport new dogs(A)露齿而笑(B)领狗散步(C)作弄新人(D)卖弄伎俩(3)temper justice with mercy(A)体谅弱者(B)伸张正义(C)正邪相争(D)恩威兼施(4)cross the cudgels(A)激战正酣(B)停止争斗(C)险过简桥(D)不屈不挠(5)learn the hard way(A)勤学苦练(B)知难而进(C)艰难历程(D)吃苦学得II. Select the best version (10 points, 2 points each)(1) A glance at the lady helped to remind me of this paradoxical law: she also looked toodistinguished to be a “personality.”(A)看了一眼这位女士，让我想起了这样一个荒谬的规律：她看上去也过于出类拔萃，不会是个名流。

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目前，众多小机构经常会非常不负责任的给考生推荐北大、清华、北外等名校，希望广大考生在选择院校和专业的时候，一定要慎重、最好是咨询有丰富经验的考研咨询师.北京师范大学英美文学考研试题（721）基础英语一.完形填空（20分）一篇短文，挖出20个空，讲learning second language对人大脑的好处，没有选项，没有首字母提示，全凭上下文分析，应该能填出来，只是不确定是否为最佳答案，难度不是很大。

二.阅读一（18分）heading搭配，多给了两个备选项，讲的是一个小型电影节三.阅读二（18分）段落排序，原文少了六个段落，给了七个选项，选进去，讲的是一些科学结论及research可信性，大家要学会辨别四.阅读三（24分）两道主观大题，一道12分，文章讲thinking分三个level，第一题阐释三个level是什么，并自己举例，第二大题elaborate作者最后一句话五.翻译（30分）一段比较formal的文章，从中截取了五六个长句子，讲的是在学校实行的种族隔离对儿童的影响，号召取消这样的隔离六.作文（40分）encouraging young people that they canaccomplish great things if they try hard enough is misleading and potentially harmful谈谈你的看法（941）英语语言文学一.单选（10分）唯一的五道选择题，范围比较宽，比如说以下作品共有的特点（lyrical啊，还是ballad之类的），或是以下五位作者属于哪个时代，还出了一个Emerson的self-reliance的小选段，分析作者这样说的意义等等（以前没看过也没关系，和阅读题一样直接分析就行）总之这五道应该是把基础知识看了就差不多。

英美文学考研真题试卷一、选择题（每题2分，共20分）1. 以下哪部作品是威廉·莎士比亚的悲剧？A.《罗密欧与朱丽叶》B.《仲夏夜之梦》C.《威尼斯商人》D.《第十二夜》2. 以下哪位作家被称为“美国文学之父”？A. 爱德加·爱伦·坡B. 华盛顿·欧文C. 纳撒尼尔·霍桑D. 马克·吐温3. 以下哪部作品是查尔斯·狄更斯的代表作？A.《大卫·科波菲尔》B.《简·爱》C.《傲慢与偏见》D.《呼啸山庄》4. 以下哪位诗人被誉为“英国浪漫主义诗人”？A. 威廉·华兹华斯B. 约翰·弥尔顿C. 托马斯·哈代D. 罗伯特·弗罗斯特5. 以下哪部作品是乔治·奥威尔的反乌托邦小说？A.《1984》B.《动物农场》C.《美丽新世界》D.《我们》6. 以下哪位作家是现代主义文学的代表人物？A. 弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫B. 简·奥斯汀C. 奥斯卡·王尔德D. 乔治·艾略特7. 以下哪部作品是海明威的代表作？A.《老人与海》B.《了不起的盖茨比》C.《太阳照常升起》D.《永别了，武器》8. 以下哪部作品是弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫的代表作？A.《到灯塔去》B.《简·爱》C.《呼啸山庄》D.《傲慢与偏见》9. 以下哪位作家是后现代主义文学的代表人物？A. 托马斯·品钦B. 詹姆斯·乔伊斯C. 弗朗茨·卡夫卡D. 阿尔贝·加缪10. 以下哪部作品是简·奥斯汀的代表作？A.《理智与情感》B.《傲慢与偏见》C.《曼斯菲尔德庄园》D.《爱玛》二、简答题（每题10分，共30分）11. 简述《了不起的盖茨比》中盖茨比的美国梦及其破灭的原因。

12. 分析《简·爱》中简·爱的性格特点及其对女性独立意识的影响。

武汉科技大学2022年《英美文学基础》考研真题与答案解析I. Find out the matches from column B for items in column A (注意：B栏中有两个多余的、干扰选项). Write the corresponding matches (e.g., 1—R, 5—B, etc.) on your answer sheet. (共20小题，每小题1分，共20分)A B1Nathaniel Hawthorne A Songs of Experience2William Shakespeare B Catch-223Herman Melville C Pygmalion4Jonathan Swift D Desire Under the Elms5Henry James E The Merchant of Venice6William Blake F Death of a Salesman7Mark Twain G Sons and Lovers8John Keats H‘The Fall of the House of Usher’9Eugene O’Neill I The Scarlet Letter10Oscar Wilde J‘A Modest Proposal’11Tennessee Williams K Humbolt’s Gift12 D. H. Lawrence L Four Quartets13Arthur Miller M The Portrait of a Lady14Virginia Woolf N‘Ode to a Nightingale’15Saul Bellow O Leaves of Grass16George Gordon Byron P Moby Dick17Joseph Heller Q A Streetcar Named Desire18T. S. Eliot R The Importance of Being Earnest 19Toni Morrison S The Adventures of Tom Sawyer20George Bernard Shaw T BelovedU Mrs. DallowayV Don JuanII. Explain the following literary terms or characters with adequate details. Write your answers on your answer sheet. (共6小题，每小题5分，共30分)1. Epiphany2. Iceberg principle3. Transcendentalism4. Sarty (in ‘Barn Burning’)5. Algernon (in The Importance of Being Earnest)6. ImagismIII. Read the following two poems carefully and write your answers to the corresponding questions on your answer sheet. (共8小题，每小题5分，共40分)Poem 1: The Sick Rose (by William Blake)O Rose thou art sick.The invisible worm,That flies in the nightIn the howling storm:Has found out thy bedOf crimson joy:And his dark secret loveDoes thy life destroy.Questions 1 to 4 are based on the above poem :1.In what sense do you think the rose is “sick”?2.What do “the night” and “the storm” symbolize?3.Why does the worm’s love destroy the rose?4. In what sense is the rose responsible for its sickness?Poem 2: Fire and Ice (by Robert Frost)Some say the world will end in fire,Some say in ice.From what I’ve tasted of desireI hold with those who favor fire.But if it had to perish twice,I think I know enough of hateTo say that for destruction iceIs also greatAnd would suffice.Questions 5 to 8 are based on the above poem:4.What are the symbolic meanings of fire in this poem?5.Why does the speaker say that ice is also great for destruction? Explain what ice stands for here.6.What is your opinion about fire and ice? Which one is more destructive? Why?8. What does the poem suggest so that destruction could be avoided?IV. Answer the following questions with adequate details from the works related. Write your answers on your answer sheet. (共3小题，每小题20分，共60分)1. What do you think Doris Lessing wants to say about the relationship between men and women in modern society in “A Woman on aRoof”? Does she ever show any sympathy to the three men in the story? How (if yes) or why not (if no)?2.In what sense is Stephen Crane's “The Open Boat” a typical naturalist story? What naturalist themes can be found in the story? How are the themes illustrated in the story?3.In Gulliver's Travels，what is the author’s attitude towards his master? How does he feel to be a human being? Why do you think Yahoos are kept by the Houyhnhnms?答案解析I. Find out the matches from column B for items in column A (注意：B栏中有两个多余的、干扰选项). Write the corresponding matches (e.g., 1—R, 5—B, etc.) on your answer sheet. (共20小题，每小题1分，共20分)评分细则：每空1分，共20分。

英美文学试卷广东商学院硕士研究生入学考试试卷考试年度：20010年考试科目代码及名称：807-英美文学适用专业：050201-英语语言文学[友情提醒：请在考点提供的专用答题纸上答题，答在本卷或草稿纸上无效！]I. Define the following five terms. (25 points in all, 5 points for each)1. Symbol2. The English Renaissance3. Naturalism4. Romanticism5. Transcendentalist ClubII. Multiple choice. In this part, there are 20 statements or questions;in each of them, there are four choices marked by A), B), C), and D).Choose the ONE answer that is the most suitable to the statement orquestion. (20 points in all, 1 point for each)1. Geoffrey Chaucer, the “___________” and one of the greatest narrative poets ofEngland, was born in London in or about the year 1340.A)Father of English literature B)founder of British literatureC)Father of English poetry D) compiler of Canterbury Tales2. Which of the following is not John Milton's works?A) Paradise Lost B) Paradise RegainedC) Samson Agonistes D) Ulysses3. “My Last Duchess” is a poem that best exemplifiesRobert 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 monologue4. Shakespeare?s four great tragedies are: Hamlet, Othello, ______ and ______.A) King Lear…Romeo and Juliet B) King Lear…MacbethC) King John…Julius Caesar D) King John…The Merchant of Venice5. The greatest English critical realist novelist was ______ , who criticized thebourgeois civilization and showed the misery of the common people.A) Charles Dickens B) Emily BronteC) W.M. Thackeray D) Charlotte Bronte6. Richard Brinsley Sheridan?s famous comedy, ________ written in 1777, isconsidered his masterpiece.A) The Rivals B) RevengeC) Songs of Innocence D) The School for Scandal7. _________ is the only novel written by Oscar Wilde.A) The Importance of Being EarnestB) The Picture of Dorian GrayC) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManD) The Picture of a Lady8. George Eliot was the pseudonym of _________.A) Mary Ann Evans B) Mark TwinC) Ellis Bell D) Samuel Langhorne Clemens9.The precisian may limit the Victorian period to the yearsbetween the Queen?s accession in 1837 and her death in 1901, but a new era really began with the passage of the Reform Bill in _______ and closed at the end of the Boer War in 1902.A) 1831 B) 1832 C) 1828 D) 182310. Which of the following is NOT the enlightener of the 18th century?A) Daniel DefoeB) Henry FieldingC) Jonathan SwiftD) Walter Scott11. The first permanent English settlement in North America was established atJamestown, _, in 1607.A) Vermont B) MassachusettsC)Virginia D) California12.The best of the Puritan poets was .A)William Bradford B) John WinthropC) Anne Bradstreet D)Edward Taylor13.The Declaration of Independence was signed on .A)July 4, 1776 B) July 4, 1775C) July 14, 1776 D) July 14, 178314.has been called the “Father of American Poetry”.A) Edgar Allan Poe B) Walt WhitmanC) Philip Freneau D) William Cullen Bryant15. Two speeches, and The Divinity School Address made Emerson famous.A) The American Spirit B) The American TragedyC) The American Scholar D) Nature16.T he greatest of America?s realists were .A) Henry James and Mark Twain B) Jack London and JohnSteinbeckC)O. Henry and Theodore Dreiser D) F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway17. in the 1860s was the first American writer of local color to achieve widepopularity.A) Herman Melville B) Washington IrvingC) James Fenimore Cooper D) Bret Harte18. was the leader of the “Imagist” school of poetry in America.A) Ezra Pound B) Robert FrostC) T. S. Eliot D) Wallace Stevens19. made American drama develop into a form of literature.A) Arthur Miller B) Tennessee WilliamsC) Walt Whitman D) Eugene O?Neill20. was considered the founder of psychological realism in America. Hisrealism is known as “stream-of-consciousness” literature.A) O. Henry B) James JoyceC) Stephen Crane D) Henry JamesIII. Match the writers with their works.(20points in all, 1 point for each)IV. Read the following selections and then answer the questions as you are required according to your comprehension.(40 points in all, 8 points for each)1.“The isles of Greece, theisles of Greece!Where burning Sappho loved and sung,Where grew the arts of war and peace,Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung!Eternal summer gilds them yet,But all, except their sun, is set.”Questions:A. Which writing is the stanza taken from?B. Who is the author?C. Please explain the setting of the stanza.2.“I wandered lonely as a cloudThat floats on high o?er vales and hills,When all at once I saw a crowd,A host, of golden daffodils;Beside the lake, beneath the trees,Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.”Questions:A.Identify the poem and the poet;B.Interpret the meaning of this stanza;C.From the characteristics of this stanza, deduce which period it belongs to.3.“Can you tell me what the writing on that stone over the door, means? Whatis Lowood Institution?”“This house where you are come to live.”“Why do you they call it Institution? Is it in any way different from otherschools?”“It is a partly a charity-school; you and I, and all the rest of us, arecharity-children. I suppose you are an orphan; are not either your father ory our mother dead?”“Both died before I can remember.”Questions:A. Is the selection from Charlotte Bronte?s work? What?s the name of the work?B. Give a brief comment within 50 words on the character mentioned above.C. Mr. Rochester is one of the characters in the novel. Analyze him within 50words.4. “Tom Sawyer stepped forward with conceited confidence and soared into theunquenchable and indestructible …Give me liberty or give me death? speech,with fine fury and frantic gesticulation, and broke down in the middle of it. Aghastly stage fright seized him, his legs quaked under him, and he was like tochoke……”Questions:A. Identify the novel and the writer.B. How do you judge Tom Sawyer for his speech of “ (iv)me liberty or give medeath?”?C. What?s the theme of the novel?5. ITell me not, in mournful numbers,Life is but an empty dream!For the soul is dead that slumbers,And things are not what they seem.IILife is real—life is earnest—And the grave is not its goal;Dust thou art, to dust returnest,Was not spoken of the soul.Questions：A. Who is the writer of the these lines?B. What is the title of the whole poem from which the two stanzas are taken?C. Summarize the poet?s advice for living.V. Topic Discussion(45 points in all, 15 points for each)1. What are the themes of Sons and Lovers?2. Make comments on The Great Gatsby.3. Choose one from the following writers to discuss. Your discussion should contain the writer?s basic background, the key representative works, and then select one of his works to analyze the theme and primary writing features, etc.: Edgar Allan Poe; Theodore Dreiser; Thomas Stearns Eliot; Jonathan Swift.。

英美文学史考试试题一、选择题（每题 3 分，共 30 分）1、以下哪部作品是英国浪漫主义诗人威廉·华兹华斯的代表作？（）A 《唐璜》B 《抒情歌谣集》C 《恰尔德·哈洛尔德游记》D 《西风颂》2、美国作家海明威的作品常常体现出“冰山理论”，以下哪部作品最能体现这一理论？（）A 《永别了，武器》B 《老人与海》C 《太阳照样升起》D 《丧钟为谁而鸣》3、英国作家简·奥斯汀的小说以细腻的人物刻画和对婚姻爱情的探讨著称，她的哪部作品被多次改编成电影？（）A 《爱玛》B 《曼斯菲尔德庄园》C 《傲慢与偏见》D 《理智与情感》4、以下哪一位是美国浪漫主义时期的重要作家？（）A 马克·吐温B 爱伦·坡C 惠特曼D 以上都是5、英国诗人 TS艾略特的《荒原》属于哪种文学流派？（）A 象征主义B 表现主义C 意识流D 荒诞派6、以下哪部作品是英国批判现实主义作家狄更斯的代表作？（）A 《大卫·科波菲尔》B 《呼啸山庄》C 《简·爱》D 《名利场》7、美国作家福克纳的作品多以南方为背景，他的哪部作品讲述了一个家族的兴衰？（）A 《喧哗与骚动》B 《我弥留之际》C 《押沙龙，押沙龙！》D 以上都是8、英国诗人约翰·弥尔顿的哪部作品取材于《圣经》？（）A 《失乐园》B 《复乐园》C 《力士参孙》D 以上都是9、以下哪一位是美国现代主义作家？（）A 菲茨杰拉德B 德莱塞C 斯坦贝克D 以上都是10、英国女作家勃朗特姐妹的作品包括（）A 《简·爱》和《呼啸山庄》B 《爱玛》和《傲慢与偏见》C 《理智与情感》和《曼斯菲尔德庄园》D 《名利场》和《大卫·科波菲尔》二、简答题（每题 10 分，共 30 分）1、请简要分析莎士比亚悲剧作品的艺术特色。

2、简述美国文学中“黑色幽默”的特点。

3、比较英国浪漫主义文学和美国浪漫主义文学的异同。

[考研类试卷]英语专业（英美⽂学）模拟试卷8.doc[考研类试卷]英语专业（英美⽂学）模拟试卷8⼀、填空题1 Jonathan Swift's famous prose work______is a satirical dialogue between the Ancients and the Moderns in the character of the Bee and the Spider.2 ______is William Blake's most important prose work, which is the manifesto of his spiritual independence.3 Modern English novel arose in the______century.4 ______was a progressive intellectual movement going on throughout Europe in the 18th century.5 Dr. Primrose is the central character of the novel______.6 The cross that Crusoe erects on the island serves______.7 The English novel as a genre began to prosper in the______century.8 John Bunyan's style was modeled after that of the English______, with concrete and living language and carefully observed and vividly presented details.9 The Rape of the Lock by Pope is written in the form of a mock______, which describes the triviality of high society in a grand style.10 In England, Neoclassicism was initiated by Dryden, culminated in Pope, and continued by______.11 The______of the 1930s greatly weakened the American nation's self-confidence.12 In 1920, Sinclair Lewis published his memorable denunciation of American small-town Provincialism in______.13 The______County is a legendary kingdom created by Faulkner.14 Pound was the leader of a new movement in poetry which he called the "______" movement.15 After his death, Stevens previously uncollected works appeared in the title of______.16 In 1954, Hemingway was awarded a______for his "mastery of the art of modern narration".17 Fitzgerald's first novel______, with its portrayal of casual dissipations of "flaming youth", was an immediate commercial success.18 ______is the first American to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature, but still he is called the worst important writer in American literature.19 ______had been called "the first step that American fiction has taken since Henry James" by T. S. Eliot.20 ______combined traditional verse forms with a clear American local speech rhythm, forming his own characteristic.⼆、名词解释21 Elegy22 Allegory23 Parable24 Didactic25 Neoclassicism26 The Lost Generation27 Anti-novel29 Impressionism30 Jazz age三、单项选择题31 Which of the following is NOT found in comedy of manners with Sheridan's The School for Scandal as the best representative work?（A）Wit.（B）Mistaken identity.（C）Sentimentalism.（D）Dialogue.32 In the lines "With gold and jewels cover every part, /And hide with ornaments their want of art"(An Essay on Criticism), Pope rejects______.（A）the "Follow Nature" fallacy（B）artificiality（C）good taste（D）aesthetic order33 Daniel Defoe describes ______as a typical English middle-class man of the eighteenth century, the very prototype of the empire builder or the pioneer colonist. （A）Tom Jones（B）Gulliver（C）Moll Flanders（D）Robinson Crusoe34 "To be so distinguished is an honor, which, being very little accustomed to favors from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge." The above quoted sentence is presented by Samuel Johnson witha(n)______tone.（A）delightful（B）jealous（C）ironic（D）humorous35 ______is a typical feature of Swift's writings.（A）Bitter satire（B）Elegant style（C）Casual narration（D）Complicated sentence structure36 The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan is often said to be concerned with the search for______.（A）material wealth（B）spiritual salvation（C）universal truth37 Of all the 18th century novelists Henry Fielding was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a "______in prose", the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.（A）tragic epic（B）comic epic（C）romance（D）lyric epic38 The Houyhnhnms depicted by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's. Travels are______.（A）horses that are endowed with reason（B）pigmies that are endowed with admirable qualities（C）giants that are superior in wisdom（D）hairy, wild, low and despicable creatures, who resemble human beings not only in appearance but also in some other ways39 Here are four lines from a literary work: "Others for language all their care express, and value books, as women men, for dress." The work is______.（A）Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard（B）John Milton's Paradise Lost（C）Alexander Pope's An Essay on Criticism（D）Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream40 The phrase "To urge people to abide by Christian doctrines and to seek salvation through constant struggles with their own weaknesses and all kinds of social evils" may well sum up the implied meaning of______ .（A）Gulliver's Travels（B）The Rape of the Lock（C）Robinson Crusoe（D）The Pilgrim's Progress41 Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels is the greatest______work in English literature.（A）realistic（B）satiric（C）romantic（D）sentimental42 The 18th century England is known as the______in the history.（A）Romanticism（B）Enlightenment（C）Classicism（D）Renaissance43 "Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds;" The above stanza is taken from______.（B）The Passionate Shepherd to His Love（C）Hamlet（D）Paradise Lost44 The following comments on John Bunyan are wrong EXCEPT______.（A）He was a stout Puritan.（B）Bunyan's works belong to Gothic novels.（C）Bunyan's style is different from that of the English Bible.（D）A Modest Proposal is his representative work.45 "Hold! See whether it is or not before you go to the door — I have a particular message for you if it should be my brother." The two sentences are found in______. （A）The Scheming Lieutenant（B）Wuthering Heights（C）The School for Scandal（D）The Rivals46 Statement"______" is NOT true in describing Gothic novel.（A）Gothic novel is a type of romantic fiction（B）Gothic novel predominated in the early 18th century（C）Its principal elements are violence, horror and supernatural（D）The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe is typical Gothic romance47 ______is the most successful religious allegory in the English language.（A）The Rivals（B）The Pilgrim's Progress（C）The Life and Death of Mr. Badman（D）Paradise Lost48 Among the representatives of the Enlightenment, who was the first to introduce rationalism to England?（A）John Bunyan.（B）Daniel Defoe.（C）Jonathan Swift.（D）Alexander Pope.49 Fielding has been termed by some as "______", for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.（A）Best Writer of the English Novel（B）Father of the English Novel（C）conventional writer of the English Prose（D）the most talented writer of the English Novel50 Which of the following statements on The Neoclassical Period is NOT true?（A）The Neoclassical Period is prior to the Romantic Period.（C）The modern English novel came into being in the Neoclassical Period.（D）The Neoclassical Period is also known as the Age of Enlightenment.51 Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Samuel Johnson's language style? （A）His sentences are long and well-structured.（B）His sentences are interwoven with parallel phrases.（C）He tends to use informal and colloquial words.（D）His sentences are complicated, but his thoughts are clearly expressed.52 Samuel Johnson was the______great neoclassicist enlightener in the later 18th century.（A）last（B）only（C）first（D）merely53 In Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, Thomas Gray reveals his sympathy for______, but mocks the great ones who despise them and bring havoc on them. （A）the middle class（B）the landlords（C）the poor and the unknown（D）the working class54 Which of the following comments on the Enlightenment Movement is NOT true? （A）It advocated individual education.（B）The purpose of the movement was to enlighten the whole world.（C）The Enlightenment Movement flourished in France.（D）The Enlightenment Movement was a furtherance of the Renaissance.55 In the first part of Gulliver's Travels, Gulliver told his experience in______.（A）Lilliput（B）Brobdingnag（C）Houyhnhnm（D）England56 In the theatrical world of the neoclassical period,______was the leading figure among the host of playwrights.（A）Richard Bringsley Sheridan（B）George Bernard Shaw（C）Ben Johnson（D）William Blake57 Alexander Pope strongly advocated______, emphasizing that literary works should be judged by classical rules of order, reason, logic, restrained emotion, good taste and decorum.（A）neoclassicism（B）sentimentalism58 The following comments on Daniel Defoe are true EXCEPT "______".（A）In his novels, his sympathy for the downtrodden, unfortunate poor is shown（B）He was a member of the upper class（C）Robinson Crusoe is universally considered his masterpiece（D）Robinson Crusoe is his first novel59 The Dunciad is generally considered to be Pope's best______work.（A）praising（B）allegorical（C）satiric（D）fabulous60 "The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike the inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave." In the above quoted stanza, Thomas Gray tries to say that great family, power, beauty and wealth______.（A）will never prevent people no matter who they are from reaching their final destination—grave（B）are the very best things to lead people to their glories（C）will inevitably make people realize their glorious dreams（D）will never make people lead to the same destination—paths of glory61 ______, disregarding grammar and punctuation, always used "i" instead of "I" to refer to himself as a protest against self-importance.（A）Wallace Stevens（B）E. E. Cummings（C）Robert Frost（D）William Carlos Williams62 Which of the following statements about writers in 1920s is TRUE?（A）F. Scott Fitzgerald received the Nobel Prize.（B）Most writers were politically radical.（C）Freudian psychology influenced many modern writers.（D）Mark Twain published his last and most important novel.63 ______sought inspiration from the east in his poetry writing.（A）Walt Whitman（B）Emily Dickinson（C）T.S.Eliot（D）Ezra Pound64 Hemingway won his Nobel Prize for the book entitled______.（A）The Sun Also Rises（D）For Whom the Bell Tolls65 Sherwood Anderson explores the motivations and frustrations of his fictional characters in terms of Freud's theory of psychology, particularly in one book entitled______.（A）Winesburg, Ohio（B）Babbit（C）The Grapes of Wrath（D）The Catcher in the Rye66 Sinclair Lewis Babbit presents a documentary picture of the narrow andlimited______.（A）up-class mind（B）middle-class mind（C）proletarian（D）ordinary people67 William Faulkner's works mainly concern the American______.（A）New England（B）Mid West（C）South（D）West68 A typical modern work will NO longer have ONE of the following statements as its trademark, that is, a______ .（A）record of sequence and coherence（B）book that begins arbitrarily, advances without explanation, and end without solution（C）juxtaposition of the past and present, of the history and memory（D）book of fragments drawn from diverse areas of experience69 Statement"______" is NOT true in describing Ezra Pound.（A）He is a leading spokesman of the "Imagist Movement"（B）His famous one-image poem In a Station of the Metro would serve as a typical example of the Imagist ideas （C）A Pact is his masterpiece（D）He was politically controversial70 The leading playwright of the modern period in American literature, if not the most successful in all his experiments, is______.（A）Arthur Miller（B）Tennessee William（C）George Bernard Shaw（D）Eugene O'Neil71 ______is not among those greatest figures in modern American literature.（B）Robert Frost（C）Walt Whitman（D）William Carlos Williams72 From Eugene O'Neil's works, we can see he is______.（A）a man of apathy（B）a man of inactivity（C）a man of pessimism（D）a man of optimism73 F. Scott Fitzgerald is NOT the author of______.（A）The Great Gatsby（B）In Our Time（C）Tender is the Night（D）This Side of Paradise74 The Hemingway Code heroes are best remembered for their______.（A）indestructible spirit（B）pessimistic view of life（C）war experiences（D）masculinity75 As he is a leading spokesman of the "Imagist Movement",______famous one-image poem In a Station of the Metro would serve as a typical example of the imagist ideas. （A）T. S. Eliot's（B）Robert Frost's（C）Ezra Pound's（D）Wallace Stevens's76 Which of the following statements about Faulkner is NOT true?（A）Indian Camp is Faulkner's masterpiece.（B）Almost all his heroes turn out to be tragic.（C）Most of Faulkner's works are set in the American South, with his emphasis on the Southern subjects and consciousness.（D）Faulkner has always been regarded as a man with great might of invention and experimentation.77 Robert Frost is a regional poet in the sense that his poems depict mostly______.（A）the frontier life（B）the sea adventures（C）Puritan community（D）the landscape and people in New England78 In A Rose for Emily, Faulkner makes best use of the______devices in narration.（B）Realistic（C）Gothic（D）Modernist79 Which of the following works by Faulkner involves Shakespearean allusion in its title?（A）The Sound and the Fury（B）Light in August（C）Absalom, Absalom!（D）Go Down, Moses80 Apart from the dislocation of time and the modern stream-of-consciousness, the other narrative techniques Faulkner used to construct his stories include______, symbolism and mythological and biblical allusions.（A）multiple points of views（B）first person point of view（C）expressionism（D）impressionism81 In a class, which discusses the Imagist Movement in the United States, we will definitely NOT include______.（A）William Carlos Williams（B）Ezra Pound（C）Ernest Hemingway（D）Wallace Stevens82 "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." The above two sentences must be taken from______.（A）Irving's story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow（B）James's story Daisy Miller（C）Faulkner's story A Rose for Emily（D）Hemingway's story Indian Camp83 Lots of people rushed to Gatsby's party at the weekend and they clustered around Gatsby's wealth like______.（A）gluttons（B）flies（C）insects（D）moths84 Chinese poetry and philosophy have exerted great influence over______.（A）Ralph Waldo Emerson（B）Emily Dickinson（C）Robert Frost（A）William Faulkner（B）Ernest Hemingway（C）F. Scott Fitzgerald（D）John Steinbeck86 Fitzgerald's fictional world is the best embodiment of the spirit of______.（A）the Jazz Age（B）the Romantic Period（C）the Renaissance Period（D）the Neoclassical Period87 Which of the following comments on the novel The Great Gatsby is NOT true?（A）The Great Gatsby is a novel that is set against the ending of the war.（B）Gatsby is wealthy but unintelligent and brutal.（C）Gatsby is a mystical figure whose intensity of dream partakes of a state of mind that embodies America itself.（D）Gatsby is the last of the romantic heroes.88 "Grace under pressure" is a major feature of______'s novel.（A）Theodore Dreiser（B）Ernest Hemingway（C）William Faulkner（D）Henry James89 Yank's sense of belonging nowhere, hence homeless and rootless. The Hairy Ape is thus a play that concerns the problem of modern man's______.（A）love。

英美文学考试题目及答案一、选择题（每题2分，共10分）1. 英国文学史上被称为“英国诗歌之父”的诗人是：A. 乔叟B. 莎士比亚C. 弥尔顿D. 拜伦答案：A2. 下列哪部作品不是简·奥斯汀的小说？A. 《傲慢与偏见》B. 《理智与情感》C. 《简·爱》D. 《曼斯菲尔德庄园》答案：C3. 美国文学中，被誉为“美国文学之父”的作家是：A. 爱伦·坡B. 马克·吐温C. 华盛顿·欧文D. 亨利·詹姆斯答案：C4. 以下哪位作家是现代主义文学的代表人物？A. 狄更斯B. 哈代C. 弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫D. 简·奥斯汀答案：C5. 美国文学中的“迷惘的一代”是指：A. 第一次世界大战后的作家群体B. 第二次世界大战后的作家群体C. 独立战争后的作家群体D. 内战后的作家群体答案：A二、填空题（每题2分，共10分）1. 威廉·莎士比亚的四大悲剧包括《哈姆雷特》、《奥赛罗》、《李尔王》和________。

答案：《麦克白》2. 《了不起的盖茨比》是美国作家________创作的一部以20世纪20年代的纽约为背景的小说。

答案：F·司各特·菲茨杰拉德3. 英国浪漫主义诗人威廉·华兹华斯与________共同发起了浪漫主义诗歌运动。

答案：塞缪尔·泰勒·柯勒律治4. 美国诗人沃尔特·惠特曼的代表作是________，它被认为是美国文学史上的里程碑。

答案：《草叶集》5. 英国现代主义诗人T.S.艾略特的代表作《荒原》是一首________诗。

答案：长三、简答题（每题10分，共20分）1. 简述乔治·奥威尔的《1984》中“老大哥”的象征意义。

答案：在《1984》中，“老大哥”象征着极权主义政权的无所不在和无所不知，代表了对个人自由和思想的全面控制。

他的形象无处不在，监视着社会的每一个角落，象征着对个人隐私的侵犯和对思想自由的压制。

【北京外国语大学-英美文学-考研真题及答案】英美文学方向专业试卷（考试时间3 小时，满分150分，全部写在答题纸上，答在试题页上无效）Section 1 Matching (30points)Match each of the following ten passages with its. author. There are more authors than passages here, and one author may be matched with more than onepassage.Write the passage number (1-10) and the corresponding author letter (A 句for each answer. For example, thefollowing is Passage2:Only one same reason is shared by all of us: we wish to create worlds as real as, but other than the world that is. Or was. This is why we cannot plan. We know a world is an organism, not a machine. We also know that a genuinely created world must be independent of its creator; a planned world (a world that fully reveals its planning) is a dead world. It is only when our characters and events begin to disobey us that they begin to l ive.And its author is [M] F owles. Then your answer should be: 2M.Passages1.Whoso would be a man must be a non-conformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind. Aboslve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.2.It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a nigger - but I done it, and I wam't ever sorry for it afterwards, neither. I didn't do him no more mean tricks, and I wouldn't done that one ifl'd a knowed it would make him feel that way.3.While arranging my hair, I looked at my face in the glass and felt it was no longer plain: there was hope in its aspect and life in its colour; and my eyes seemed as if they had beheld the fount of fruition and borrowed beams from the lustrous ripple. I had often been unwilling to look at my master, because I feared he could not be pleased at my look: but I was sure I might lift my face to his now, and not cool his affection by its expression.4.Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.5.Some say the world will end in fire,Some say in ice.From what I've tasted of desire,I hold with those who favour fire.But if it had to perish twice,I think I know enough of hateTo say that for destructionice Is also greatAnd would suffice.6.I wander thro' each charter'd street,Near where the charter'd Thames does flow,And mark in every face I meetMarks of weakness, marks of woe.7.Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is:What if my leaves are falling like its own!The tumult of thy mighty harmoniesWill take from both a deep, autumnal tone,Sweet though in sadness. Be thou, Spirit fierce,My spirit! Be thou me, impetuous one!8.Another thing in Joe that I could not understand when it fi订st began to develop itself, but which I soon arrived at sorrowful comprehension of, was this: As I became stronger and better, Joe became a little less easy with me.9.All Nature is but art, unknown to thee;All chance, direction, which thou canst not see;All discord, harmony not understood;All partial evil, universal good;And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite,One truth is clear: whatever IS, is RIGHT.10.The grass-plot before the jail, in Prison Lane, on a certain summer morning, not less than two centuries ago, was occupied by a pretty large number of the inhabitants of Boston, all with their eyes intently fastened on the iron-clamped oaken door. Amongst any other population, or at a later period in the history of New England, the grim rigidity that petrified the bearded physiognomies of these good people would have ugured some awful business in hand.AuthorsA.Henry Divid ThoreauB.William WordsworthC.Charles DickensD.Alexander PopeE.Francis BaconF.Charlotte BronteG.Percy Bysshe ShelleyH.Robert FrostI.Mark TwainJ.William ShakespeareK.Nathaniel Haw出orneL.Ralph W. EmersonM.Willam BlakeSection 2 Short Story (120points)1.Summarize the p lot o f t hefollowing .sto疗in y our own words. (30points)2.De fine the ma j or theme o f the following short sto叮'.(40points)3.Make a brief comment on the characterization of the man and his wife. (30points)4.C omment on the ending part o f the story.{20points)The Enormous RadioJim and Irene Wescott were the kind of people who seem to strike that satisfactory average of income, endeavor, and respectability that is reached by the statistical reports in college alumni bulletins. They were the parents of two young children, they had been married nine years, they lived on the twelfth floor of an apartment house near Sutton Place, they went to the theater on an average of 10.3 times a year, and they hoped someday to live in Westchester. Irene Wescott was a pleasant, rather plain g订l with soft brown hair, and a wide, fine forehead upon which nothing at all had been written, and in the cold weather she wore a coat of fitch skins dyed to resemble mink. You could not say that Jim Westcott looked younger than he was, but you could at least say of him that he seemed to feel younger. He wore his graying hair cut very short, he dressed in the kind of clothes his class had worn at Andover, and his manner was earnest, vehement, and intentionally na'ive. The Westcotts differed from their friends, their classmates, and their neighbors, only in an interest they shared in serious music. They went to a great many concerts - although they seldom mentioned t压s to anyone - and they spent a good deal of time listening to music on the radio.Their radio was an old instrument, sensitive, unpredictable, and beyond repair. He promised to buy Irene a new radio, and on Monday when he came home from work he told her that he had got one. He refused to describe it, and said it would be a surprise for her when it came.The radio was delivered at the kitchen door the follo劝ng afternoon, and with the assistance of her maid and the handyman Irene uncrated it and brought it into the living room. She wasstruck at once with the physical ugliness of the large gumwood cabinet. Irene was proud of her living room, she.had chosen its furnishings and colors as carefully as she chose her clothes, and now it seemed to her that her new radio stood among her intimate possessions like an aggressive intruder. She was confounded by the number of dials and switches on the instrument panel, and she studied them thoroughly before she put the plug into a wall socket and turned the radio on. The dials flooded with a malevolent green light, and in the distance she heard the music of a piano quartet. The quintet was in the distance for only an instant; it bore down upon her with a speed greater than light and filled the apartment with the noise of music amplified so mightily that it knocked a china ornament from a table to the floor. She rushed to the instrument and reduced the volume. The violent forces that were snared in the ugly gumwood cabinet made her uneasy. Her children came home from schoc,l then, and she took them to the Park. It was not until later in the afternoon that she was able to return to the radio.The maid had given the children their suppers and was supervising their baths when Irene turned on the radio, reduced the volume, and sat down to listen to a Mozart quintet that she knew and enjoyed. The music came through clearly. The new instrument had a much purer tone, she thought, than the old one. She decided that tone was most important and that she could conceal the cabinet behind the sofa. But as soon as she had made her peace with the radio, the interference began. A crackling sound like the noise of a burning powder fuse began to accompany the singing of the strings. Beyond the music, there was a rustling that reminded Irene unpleasantly of the sea, and as the quintet progressed, these noises were joined by the many others. She tried all the dials and switches but nothing dimmed the interference, and she sat down, disappointed and bewildered, and tried to trace the flight of the melody. The elevator shaft in her building ran beside the living-room wall, and it was the noise of the elevator that gave her a clue to the character of the static. The rattling of the elevator cables and the opening and closing of the elevator doors were reproduced in her loudspeaker, and, realizing that the radio was sensitive to electrical currents of all sorts, she began to discern through the Mozart the ringing of telephone bells, the dialing of phones, and the lamentation of a vacuum cleaner. By listening more carefully, she was able to distinguish doorbells, elevator bells, electric razors, and Waring mixers, whose sounds had been picked up from the apartments that surrounded hers and transmitted through her loudspeaker. The powerful and ugly instrument, with its mistaken sensibility to discord, was more than·she could hope to master, so she turned the thing off and went into the nursery to see her children.When Jim came home that night, he was tired, and he took a bath and changed his clothes. Then he joined Irene in the living room. He had just turned on the radio when the maid .announced dinner, so he left it on, and Irene went to the table.Jim was too tired to make even·pretense of sociability, and there was nothing about the dinner to hold Irene's interest, so her attention wandered from the food to the deposits of silver polish on the candlesticks and from there to the music in the other room. She listened for a few minutes to a Chopin prelude and then was surprised to hear a man's voice break in. ."For Christ's sake, Kathy," he said, "do you always have to play the piano when I get home?" The music stopped abruptly. "It's the only chance I have," the woman said. "I'm at the office all day." "So am I," the man said. He added something obscene about an upright piano, and slammed a door. The passionate and m elancholy music began again."Did you hear that?" Irene asked."What?" Jim was eating his dessert."The radio. A man said something while the music was still going on -- something dirty.""It's probably a play.""I don't think it is a play," Irene said.They left the table and took their coffee into the living room. Irene asked Jim to try another station. He turned the knob. "Have you seen my garters?" A man asked. "Button me up," a woman said. "Have you seen my garters?" the man said again. "Just button me up and I'll find your ga廿ers," the woman said. Jim shifted to another station. "I wish you wouldn't leave apple cores in the ashtrays," a man said. "I hate the smell.""This is strange," Jim said."Isn't it?" Irene said.Jim turned the knob again. "'On the coast of Coromandel where the early pumpkins blow,"' a woman with a pronounced English accent said, "'in the middle of the woods lived the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo. Two old chairs, and half a candle, one old jug without a handle "' "My God!" Irene cried. "That's the Sweeneys' nurse.""'These were all his worldly goods,"' the British voice continued."Turn that thing off," Irene said."Maybe they can hear us." Jim switched the radio off. "That was Miss Armstrong, the Sweeneys' nurse," Irene said. "She must be reading to the little girl. They live in 17-B. I've talked with Miss Armstrong in the Park. I know her voice very well. We must be getting other people's apartments.""That's impossible," Jim said."Well, that was the Sweeneys' nurse," Irene said hotly. "I know her voice. I know it very well. I'm wondering if they can hear us."Jim turned the switch. First from a distance and then nearer, nearer, as if borne on the wind, came the pure accents of the Sweeneys' nurse again: '"Lady Jingly! Lady Jingly!"' she said, '"sitting where the pumpkins blow, will you come and be my wife? said the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo '"Jim went over to the radio and said, "Hello" loudly into the speaker.'"/ am tired of living singly, "' the nurse went on, '"on this coast so wild and shingly, I'm a-weary of my life; ifyou 'll come and be my wife, quite serene would be my life '""I guess she can't hear us," Irene said. "Try something else."Jim turned to another station, and the living room was filled with the uproar of a cocktail party that had overshot its mark. Someone was playing the piano and singing the "Whiffenpoof Song," and the voices that surrounded the piano were vehement and happy. "Eat some more sandwiches," a woman shrieked. 1h e r e were screams of laughter and a dish of some sort crashed to the floor."Those must be the Fullers, in 11-E," Irene said. "I knew they were giving a party this afternoon. I saw her in the liquor store. Isn't this too divine? Try something else. See if you can get those people in 18-C."The Westcotts overheard that evening a monologue on salmon fishing in Canada, a bridge game, running comments on home movies of what had apparently been a fortnight at Sea Island, and a bitter family quarrel about an overdraft at the bank. They turned off their radio at midnight and went to bed, weak with laughter.The following morning, Irene cooked breakfast for the family - the maid didn't come up from her room in the basement until ten - braided her daughter's hair, and waited at the door until her children and her husband had been carried away in the elevator. Then she went into the living room and tried the radio. "I don't want to go to school," a child screamed. "I hate school. I won't go to school. I hate school." "You will go to school," an enraged woman said. "We paid eight hundred dollars to get you into that school and you'll go if it kills you." The next number on the dial produced the worn record of the "Missouri Waltz." Irene shifted the control and invaded the privacy of several breakfast tables. She overheard demonstrations of indigestion, carnal love, abysmal vanity, faith, and despair. Irene's life was nearly as simple and sheltered as it appeared to be, and the forthright and sometimes brutal language that came from the loudspeaker that morning astonished and troubled her. She continued to listen until her maid came in. Then she turned off the radio quickly, since this insight, she realized, was a furtive one.Irene had a luncheon date with a friend that day, and she left her apartment a little after twelve.Irene had two Martinis at lunch, and she looked searchingly at her friend and wondered what her secrets were. They had intended to go shopping after lunch, but Irene excused herself and went home. She told the maid that she was not to be disturbed; then she went into the living room, closed the doors, and switched on the radio. She heard, in the course of the afternoon, the halting conversation of a woman entertaining her aunt, the hysterical conclusion of a luncheon party, and hostess briefing her maid about some cocktail guests. "Don't give the best Scotch to anyone who hasn't white hair," the hostess said. "See if you can get rid of the liver paste before you pass those hot things, and could you lend me five dollars? I want to tip the elevator man."As the afternoon waned, the conversations increased in intensity. From where Irene sat, she could see the open sky above the East River. There were hundreds of clouds in the sky, as though the south wind had broken the winter into pieces and were blowing it north, and on her radio she could hear the arrival of cocktail guests and the return of children and businessmen from their schools and offices. "I found a good-sized diamond on the bathroom floor this morning," a woman said. "It must have fallen out of the bracelet Mrs. Dunston was wearing last night." "We'll sell it," a man said. 'Take it down to the jeweler on Madison Avenue and sell it. Mrs. Dunston won'tknow the difference, and we could use a couple of hundred bucks " "'Oranges and lemons, say the bells of St. Clement's,'" the Sweeneys' nurse sang. "Halfpence and farthings, say the bells of St. Martin's. When will you pay me? say the bells at old Bailey ..."' "It's not a hat," a womancried, and at her back roared a cocktail party. "It's not a hat, it's a love affair. That's what Walter Florell said. He said it's not a hat, it's a love affair," and then, in a lower voice, the same woman added, "Talk to somebody, for Christ's sake, honey, talk to somebody. If she catches you standing here not talking to anybody, she'll take us off her invitation list, and I love these parties."Jim came home at about six the next night. Emma, the maid, let him in , and he had taken off his hat and was taking off his coat when Irene ran into the hall. Her face was shining with tears and her hair was disordered. "Go up to 16-C, Jim!" she screamed. "Don't take off your coat. Go up to 16-C. Mr Osborn's beating his wife. They've been quarreling since four o'clock, and now he is hitting her. Go up there and stop him."From the radio in the living room, Jim heard screams, obscenities, and thuds. "You know you don't have to listen to this sort of thing," he said. He strode into the living room and turned the switch. "It's indecent," he said. "It's like looking into windows. You know you don't have to listen to this sort of thing. You can turn it off.""Oh, it's so terrible, it's so dreaful," Irene was sobbing. I've been listening all day, and it's so depressing.""Well, if it's so depressing, why do you listen to it? I brought this dammed radio to give you some pleasure," he said. "I paid a great deal of money for it. I thought it might make you happy. I wanted to make you happy.""Don't , don't, don't,,don't quarrel with me," she moaned, and laid her head on his shoulder. "All the others have been quarreling all day. Everybody's been quarreling. They're all worried about money. Mrs. Hutchinson's mother is dying of cancer in Florida and they don't have enough money to send her to the Mayo Clinic. At least, Mr Hutchinson says they don't have enough money. And some woman in this building is having an affair with the handyman - with that hideous handyman. It's too disgusting. And Mrs. Melville has heart trouble, and Mr. Hendricks is going to lose his job in April and Mrs. Hendricks is horrid about the whole thing and that girl that plays the "Missouri Waltz" is a whore, a common whore, and the elevator man has tuberculosis and Mr. Osborn has been beating his wife." She wailed, she trembled with grief and checked the stream of tears down her face with the heel of her palm."Well why do you have to listen?" Jim asked again. "Why do you have to listen to this stuff if it makes you miserable?""Oh, don't, don't, don't," she cried; "Life is too terrible, too sordid and awful. But we'venever been like that, have we, darling"? Have we? I mean, we've always been good and decent and loving to one another, haven't we? And we have two children, two beautiful children. Our lives aren't sordid, are they, darling? Are they?" She flung her arms around his neck and drew his face down to hers. "We're happy, aren't we, darling? We are happy, aren't we?""Of course we're happy," he said tiredly. He began to surrender his resentment. "Of course we are happy. "I'll have that dammed radio fixed or taken away tomorrow." He stroked her soft hair. "My poor girl," he said."You love me, don't you? she asked. "And we're not hypercritical or worried about money or dishonesty, are we?"A man came in the morning and fixed the radio. Irene turned it on cautiously and was happy to hear a California-wine commercial and a recording of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, including Schiller's "Ode to Joy." She kept the radio on all day and nothing untoward came toward the speaker.A Spanish suite was being played when Jim came home. "Is everything all right?" he asked. His face was pale, she thought. They had some cocktails and went to dinner to the "Anvil Chorus" from II Trovatore. This was followed by Debussy's "La Mer.""I paid the bill for the radio today," Jim said. "It cost four hundred dollars. I hope you'll get some enjoyment out of it.""Oh, I'm sure I will," Irene said."Four hundred dollars is a good deal more than I can afford," he went on. "I wanted to get something that you'd enjoy. It's the last extravagance we'll indulge in this year. I see that you haven't paid your clothing bills yet. I saw them on.your dressing table." He looked directly at her. "Why did you tell me you paid them? Why did you lie to me?""I just didn't want you to worry, Jim," she said. She drank some water. "I'll be able to pay my bills out of this months allowance. There were the slipcovers last month, and that party.""You've got to learn to handle the money I give you a little more intelligently, Irene," he said. "You've got to understand that we don't have as much money this year as we had last. I had a very sobering talk with Mitchell today. No one is buying anything. We're spending all of our timepromoting new issues, and you know how long that takes. I'm not getting any younger you know. I'm thirty-seven. My hair will be gray next year. I haven't done as well as I hoped to do. And I don't suppose things will get any better.""Yes dear," she said."We've got to start cutting down," Jim said. "We've got to think of the children. To be perfectly frank with you, I worry about money a great deal. I'm not at all sure of the future. No one is. If anything should happen to me, there's the insurance, but that won't go very far today. I've worked awfully hard to give you and the children a comfortable life," he said bitterly. "I don't like to see all my energies, all my youth, wasted in fur coast and radios and slipcovers and -""Please Jim," she said. "Please. They'll hear us.""Who'll hear us? Emma can't hear us.""The Radio.""Oh, I'm sick! He shouted. "I'm sick to death of your apprehensiveness. The radio can't hear us. Nobody can hear us. And what if they can hear us? Who cares?"Irene got up from the table and went into the living room. Jim went to the door and shouted from there. "Why are you so Christly all of a sudden? What's turned you overnight into a convent girl? You stole your mother's jewelry before they probated her will. You never gave your sister a cent of that money that was intended for her - not even when she needed it. You made Grace Rowland's life miserable, and where was all your all your piety and your virtue when you went to that abortionist? I'll never forget how cool you were. You packed your bag and went off to have that child murdered as if you were going to Nassau. If you had any reasons, if you had any good reasons -Irene stood for a minute before the hideous cabinet , disgraced and sickened, but she held her hand on the switch before she extinguished the music and the voices, hoping the instrument might speak to her kindly, that she might hear the Sweeney's nurse. Jim continued to shout at her from the door. The voice on the radio was suave and noncommital. "An early-morning railroad disaster in Tokyo," the loudspeaker said, "killed twenty-nine people. A frre in a Catholic hospital near Buffalo for the care of blind children was extinguished early this morning by nuns. The temperature is forty-seven. The humidity is eighty-nine."。