2000年4月英美文学选读试卷及答案 二○○○年上半年全国高等教育自学考试 英美文学选读试卷 本试题分两部分，第一部分为选择题，第二部分为非选择题。选择题40分，非选择题60分，满分100分。考试时间150分钟。全部题 目用英文作答，并将答案写在答案写在答题纸相应位置上，否则不计分。 PART ONE Ⅰ.Multiple Choice（40 points, 1 point for each） Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Mark your choice by blackening the corresponding letter A,B,C or D on the answer sheet. 1.The ntence "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare's ________ . A.comedies B.tragedies C.sonnets D.histories 2."So much the wor for me, that I an strong. Do I want to live? What kind of living will it be when you-oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?" In the above passage quoted from Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, the word "soul" apparently refers to _______ . A.Heathcliff B.Catherine C.ghost D.one's spiritual lift 3."And where are they? And where art thou," My country? On thy voiceless shore The heroic lay is tuneless now- The heroic bosom beats no more!"（George Gordon Byron, Don Juan） In the above stanza, "art thou" literally means _______ . A."are you" B."art though" C."are though" D."art you" 4.The major concern of _______ fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature. A.Charles Dickens's B.D.H.Lawrence's C.Thomas Hardy's D.John Galsworthy's 5.Daniel Defoe describes _______ as a typical English Middle-class man of the eighteenth century, the very prototype of the empire builder or the pioneer colonist. A.Tom Jones B.Gulliver C.Moll Flanders D.Robinson Crusoe 6."To be so distinguished is an honor, which, being very little accustomed to favors from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge." The above quoted ntence is prented by Samuel Johnson with a（n） _______ tone. A.delightful B.jealous C.ironic D.humorous 7."She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy cead to be; But she is in her grave, and, oh, The difference to me!" The word "me" in the last line of the above stanza quoted from Wordsworth's poem "She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways" may possibly refer to _______ . A.the poet B.the reader C.her lover D.everybody 8._______ is a typical feature of Swift's writings. A.Bitter satire B.Elegant style C.Casual narration D.Complicated ntence structure 9.The statement "It reveals the dehumanizing workhou system and the dark, criminal underworld life" may well sum up the main theme if Dickens's _______ . A.David Copperfield B.Bleak Hou C.Great Expectations D.Oliver Twist 10."Do you think, becau I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless?…And if God had gifted me with some beauty, and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you." The above quoted passage is most probably taken from _______ . A.Pride and Prejudice B.Jane Eyre C.Wuthering Heights D.Great Expectations 11.It is generally regarded that Keats's most important and mature poems are in the form of _______ . A.ode B.elegy C.epic D.sonnet 12.G.B.Shaw's play Mrs.Warren's Profession is a realistic exposure of the _______ in the English society. A.slum landlordism B.inequality between men and women C.political corruption D.economic exploitation of women 13.In William Blake's poetry, the father（and any other in whom he saw the image of the father such as God, priest, and king）was usually a figure of _______ . A.benevolence B.admiration C.love D.tyranny 14."'I believe you are made of stone,'he said, clenching his fingers so hard that he broke the fragile cup. …'You em to forget,' she said,'that cup is not!'" From the above quoted passage, we can find the woman's tone is very _______ . A.sarcastic heart and soulB.amusing C.ntimental D.facetious 15.The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan is often said to be concerned with the arch for _______ . A.material wealth B.spiritual salvation C.universal truth D.lf-fulfillment 16.Alexander Pope strongly advocated _______, emphasizing that literary works should be judged by rules of order, reason, logic, restrained emotion, good taste and decorum. A.ntimentalism B.romanticism C.idealism D.neoclassicism 17.After reading the first chapter of Pride and Prejudice, we may come to know that Mrs. Bennet is a woman of _______ . A.simple character and quick wit B.simple character and poor understanding C.intricate character and quick wit D.intricate character and poor understanding 18.Of all the eighteenth-century novelists, _______ was the first to t out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a "comic epic in pro," and the first to give the modern novel its structure and style. A.Daniel Defoe B.Samuel Richardson C.Henry Fielding D.Oliver Goldsmith 19."Not on thy sole but on thy soul, harsh Jew,/Thou mak'st thy knife keen." In the above quotation taken form The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare employs a（n）_______ . A.oxymoron B.pun C.simile D.synecdoche 20.In Hardy's Wesx novels, there is an apparent _______ touch in his description of the simple and beautiful though primitive rural life. A.humorous B.romantic C.nostalgic D.sarcastic 21."O prince, O chief of many throned powers," That led th' embattled raphim to war Under thy conduct, and in dreadful deeds Fearless, endangered Heaven's perpetual King." In the third line of the above passage quoted from Milton's Paradi Lost, the phra "thy conduct" refers to _______ conduct. A.Satan's B.God's C.Adam's D.Eve's 22.We can perhaps describe the west wind in Shelley's poem "Ode to the West Wind" with all the following terms except _______ . A.tamed B.swift C.proud D.wild 23.In 1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson made a speech entitled _______ at Harvard, which was hailed by Oliver Wendell Holmes as "Our intellectual Declaration of Independence." A."Nature" B."Self-Reliance" C."Divinity School Address" D."The American Scholar" 24.In Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown," a satanic figure leads the credulous protagonist to a witches' Sabbath in the woods. There he recognizes many pillars of Salem's Puritan society as well as his wife, Faith. The story illustrates Hawthorne's allegorical theme of human evil or what Melville called the "power of _______ ." A.blackness B.whiteness C.terror D.hypocrisy 25.For Melville, as well as for the reader and _______ , the narrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, an ultimate mystery of the univer. A.Ahab B.Ishmael C.Stubb D.Starbuck 26.Most of the poems in Whitman's Leaves of Grass sing of the "en-mass" and the _______ as well. A.nature B.lf-reliance C.lf D.life 27.Emily Dickinson's poem（441）"This is my letter to the World" express the poet's _______ about her specialcommunication with the outside world. A.indifference B.joy C.anxiety D.indignation 28.Which of the following statements about writers in 1920s is true? A.Mark Twain published his last and most important novel. B.F. Scott Fitzgerald received the Nobel Prize. C.Freudian psychology influenced many modern writers. D.Most writers were politically radical. 29.Naturalism is evolved from realism when the author's tone in writing becomes less rious and less sympathetic but more ironic and more _______ . A.rational B.humorous C.optimistic D.pessimistic 30.Mark Twain's first novel _______ , written in collaboration with Charles D. Warner and published in 1873,though not an artistic success, gives its name to the America of the post-Civil War period which it attempts to satirize. A.The Gilded Age B.The Age of Innocence C.The Roughing Time D.The Jazz Age 31.Dreir's Trilogy of Desire includes three novels. They are The Financier, The Titan and _______ . A.The Genius B.The Tycoon C.The Stoic D.The Giant 32.Daisy Miller's tragedy of indiscretion is intensified and enlarged by its narration from the point of view of _______ . A.the author Henry James B.the Italian youth Giovanelli C.the American youth Winterbourne D.her mother Mrs. Miller 33.The impact of Darwin's evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the nineteenth-century French literature on the American men of letters gave ri to yet another school of realism: American ________ . A.local colorism B.vernacularism C.modernism D.naturalism 34.It is on his _______ that Washington Irving's fame mainly rested. A.childhood recollections B.sketches about his European tours C.early poetry D.tales about America 35."If honest labor be unremunerative and difficult to endure; if it be the long, long road which never reaches beauty, but wearies the feet and the heart; if the drag to follow beauty be such that one abandons the admired way, taking rather the despid path leading to her dreams quickly, who shall cast the first stone?" Where is the underlined phra taken from? A.The Bible. B.Milton. C.Shakespeare. D.Hawthorne. 36.Most recognizable literary movement that gave ri to the twentieth-century American literature, or we may say, the cond American Renaissance, is the _______ movement. A.transcendental B.leftist C.expatriate D.expressionistic 37.Robert Frost combined traditional ver forms - the sonnet, rhyming couplets, blank ver - with a clear American local speech rhythm, the speech of _______ farmers with its idiosyncratic diction and syntax. A.Southern B.Western C.New Hampshire D.New England 38.As an autobiographical play, O'Neill's _______ （1956）has gained its status as a world classic and simultaneously marks the climax of his literary career and the coming of age of American drama. A.The Iceman Cometh B.Long Day's Journey Into Night C.The Hairy Ape D.Desire Under the Elms 39.Apart from the dislocation of time and the modern stream-of-consciousness, the other narrative techniques Faulkner ud to construct his stories include _______ , symbolism and mythological and biblical allusions. A.impressionism B.expressionism C.multiple points of view D.first person point of view 40.Stylistically, Henry James' fiction is characterized by _______ . A.short, clear ntences B.abundance of local images C.ordinary American speech D.highly refined language PART TWO Ⅱ.Reading Comprehension（16 points, 4 points 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.Read the quotation carefully and then answer the questions: The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. A.Scan the first line of the stanza. B.Find the irregular foot in the cond line. C.Briefly explain the significance of this irregularity. 42.The following is a passage taken from a dramatic work: Had I as many souls as there be stars I'd give them all for Mephistophilis! By him I'll be great emperor of the world, And make a bridge thorough the moving air To pass the ocean with a band of men; I'll join the hills that bind the Afric shore And make that country continent to Spain, And both contributory to my crown; The emperor shall not live but by my leave, Nor any potentate of Germany. Now that I have obtained what I desire I'll live in speculation of this art Till Mephistophilis return again. A.Name the playwright and the title of the work from which the passage is taken. B.Name the speaker of the passage quoted above. C.U the above passage as a guide and write down in one or two ntences the theme of the play. 43.Read the following passage and then answer the questions: …I glanced back once. A wafer of a moon was shining over Gatsby's hou, making the night fine as before, and surviving the laughter and the sound of his still glowing garden. A sudden emptiness emed to flow now from the windows and the great doors, endowing with complete isolation the figure of the host, who stood on the porch, his hand up in a formal gesture of farewell. A.Identify the author and the title of the novel from which this passage is taken. blownB.The passage describes the end of an event. What is it? C.What implied meaning can you get from reading this passage? 44.Read the following part of a poem and then answer the questions: My tongue, every atom of my blood, form'd from this soil, this air, 老师用英语怎么读Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their parents the same, I, now thirty-ven years old in perfect health begin, Hoping to cea not till death. A.Identify the poet and the title of the poem. B.What do "soil" and "air" reprent in the first line? C.What does the poet try to say in the above four lines? Ⅲ.Questions and Answers （24 points, 6 points 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.The following quotation is the ending of a poem by Robert Browning: Nay, we'll go Together down, sir, Notice Neptune, though, Taming a a hor, though a rarity, Which Claus of Innsbruck cast in bronze for me. What is the title of the poem? Who is the speaker? What is the importance of the allusion "Neptune…/Taming a a hor" in the whole poem? 46.Novum Organum（"New Instrument"）, along with other works, won the author the honour "Father of modern science." Who is the author? What is the main concern of the work? Why the work is so important for the development of modern science? 47.Ezra Pound is one of the pioneers in modern poetry. What is the poetic school of which he is a chief member? What is Pound's reprentative work of many years of poetic creation? What is the title of his frequently quoted one-image poem?Pound has translated some literary works from two great ancient civilizations. One is Greece. What is the other? How do you understand his famous comment "The image itlf is the speech"? 48.William Faulkner, a Nobel Priza winner, has an important position in American literature. Name two of his Major novels. Do you know anything about"Yoknapatawpha County?" What is unique of Faulkner's fiction, historically and geographically? Ⅳ.Topic Discussion（20 points, 10 points 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.A possible theme of James Joyce's short story "Araby" is disillusionment. Briefly discuss the symbolism Joyce employs in prenting this theme. 50.What makes Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn more than a child's adventure story? Briefly discuss the question from THREE of the following aspects: the tting, the language, the character（s）, the theme and the style. 2000年（上）英美文学选读试卷答案 二○○○年上半年高等教育自学考试全国统一命题考试 英美文学选读试题参考答案 Ⅰ.Multiple Choice（40 points, 1 point for each） 1.C 2.B 3.A 4.B 5.D 6.C 7.C 8.A 9.D 10.B 11.A 12.D 13.D 14.A 15.B 16.D 17.B 18.C food safety 19.B 20.C 21.A 22.A 23.D 24.A 25.B 26.C 27.C 28.C 29.D 30.A 31.C 32.C 考试机构 33.D 34.D 35.A 36.C 37.D 38.B 39.C 40.D Ⅱ.Reading Comprehension（16 points, 4 points for each） 41. [参考答案] A.Iambic pentameter with the rhyming scheme of abab. B.The third foot contains two accented syllables. C.Two accented syllables slow down the pace in keeping with the literary meaning of the phra "wind slowly." 42.[参考答案] A.Dr.Faustus, a play by Christopher Marlowe. B.Dr.Faustus. C.Man's aspiration, bounding achievements, and the inevitable failure. 43.[参考答案] A.Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby. B.It is a description of the end of a big party. C.The passage hints at the meaninglessness, spiritual emptiness and vanity of such a lift of pleasure-eking. There is a tragic n that the "party" will be over. 44.[参考答案] A.Walt Whitman, "Song of Mylf"（早期几版诗人曾用过"Poem of Walt Whitman, an American" 和 "Walt Whitman", 也应算 对）. B.America, his country, his native land. C.I was born and nurtured by this land and shall from now on devote my whole life to the country. Ⅲ.Questions and Answers（24 points, 6 points for each） 45.[参考答案] A."My Last Duchess" B.The Duke, or the husband of the Duchess. C.Placed at the end of the poem, the allusion rves as the conclusion that tells the reader-listener that the speaker is a tyrant. 46.[参考答案] A.Francis Bacon. B.The work is an argument for the inductive reasoning in place of the Aristotelian deductive reasoning. C.The Aristotelian reasoning only states the fact, not capable of discovery while the inductive reasoning, although starting with a hypothesis and developing with experiments, may lead to the discovery of true knowledge. 47.[参考答案] A.Imagism. B.The Cantos. C."In a Station of the Metro" D.Chian. E.Pound means that image should not be ornaments only, but should be the focus of poetic expression. By emphasizing the exterior object, Pound hopes to avoid moralizing and achieve clarity and exactness. 48.[参考答案] A.下列作品中任何两本：Soldiers'Pay, Sartoris, The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Light in August, Absalom, Absalom!, The Hamlet, The Town, The Mansion, and Intruder in the Dust. B.Yoknapatawpha County is an imagined place bad on Faulkner's own hometown, a place that he took for the tting of 15 of his 19 novels and many short stories. This small region in the American South becomes in Faulkner's fiction an allegory or a parable of the Old South. C.His literary reprentation of the Old South; and his theme of the deterioration, loss and moral decay of the Old South when it was falling apart. Ⅳ.Topic Discussion（20 points, 10 points for each） 49. [参考答案] A."Short days of winter," "silent" the street of "blind end," "dark muddy lanes" with "feeble lanterns," "dark dripping gardens," and many others foretell the inevitable failure of the boy's attempt to reach his desire. B.Mangan's sister, for whom the boy had tender feelings, symbolizes hope/aspiration, but she was symbolically confined（"have a retreat in her convent"）. C.The journey to the bazaar is a quest for the fulfillment of the aspiration, but the journey was "intolerably" delayed, and when the boy got to the bazaar, half of it was already dark. What's more,the young lady at the door of a stall was "not encouraging," and spoke to the boy "out of n of duty." When the upper part of the hall was completely dark, the boy's disillusionment was announced. And thus, "Gazing up into the darkness I saw mylf as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger." 50.[参考答案] A.Setting: In the novel Mark Twain recreates a small-town world of America and prents the local color. B.Language: He us simple, direct language faithful to the colloquial speech, the vernacular language of the local people. C.Character（s）: The author recreates two rebels and fugitives running away from civilization, especially Huckleberry Finn, an innocent boy who refus to accept the conventional village morality. D.Theme: The novel is a criticism of social injustice, hypocrisy, conrvativeness and narrow-mindedness of the American small town society. E.Style: The novel employs a humorous style of narration and is also highly symbolic with the central symbol. |
2001年4月英美文学选读试卷及答案 第一部分 选择题 I. Multiple Choice 1. The work that prented , 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 ’ Piers Plowman B. Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales C. John Gower’Confessio Amantis D. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Answer: B 2. The tragedy of Dr.Faustus, the protagonist in Christopher Marlowe’s The Tragic History of Dr.Faustus, is the very face that_____. E. man is confined to time F. he tried to join Africa to Spain G. he became a man without soul after he sold it H. he conjured up Helen, the lady who was the very cour of the Trojan War Answer: A 3. Here are two lines from a ling poem: "Upon a great adventure he was bond, That greatest Gloriana to him gave." The poem must be_____. I. Beowulf J. John Milton’s Samson Agonistes K. Thomas Gray’s Elegy Written in a County Churchyard L. Edmund Spenr’s The Faerie Queene Answer: D 4. Literature of Neoclassicism is different from that of Romanticism in that ______. A .the former celebrates reason, rationality , order and instruction while the latter es literature as an expression of an individual’s feeling and experiences B. the former is heavily religious but the latter cular C. the former is an intellectual movement the purpo of which is to arou the middle class for political rights while the latter is concerned with the personal cultivation. D. the former advocates the "return to nature" whereas the latter turns to the ancient Greek and Roman writers for its models 大手大脚Answer: A 5. When he writes, in An Essay on Criticism, "A vile conceit in pompous words expresd, / Is like a clown in regal purple dresd", Alexander Pope means that __________. A. pompous words are always destructive to good taste B. the purple colour is for the royal only and it is ridiculous to dress a clown in purple C. conceits are always misleading D. true wit is best in a plain style Answer: D 6. You may have meet the term "Yahoo" on internet, but you may also have met it in English literature .It is found in _____ A. John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress B. Samuel Johnson’s The Vanity of Human Wishes C. Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels D. Henry Fielding’s tom Jones Answer: C 7. "The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks."(Samuel Johnson, "To the Right Honorable the Earl of Chesterfield")The speaker here is ______. A. cheerful B. ironic C. mysterious D. nonchalant Answer: B 8. "Surface", "Sneerwell", "Backbite", and "Candour" are most likely the names of the characters in ________. A. Shaw’s Mrs Warren’s Profession B. Sheridan’s The School for Scandal C. Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost D. Christopher Marlowe’s Dr.Faustus Answer: B 9. The first line of William Blake’s well-known poem "The Tyger" reads, "Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright".The repeated word "tiger" (tiger) with an exclamation mark suggests_______. A. joy B. fear C. pain D. fondness Answer: B 10. What does Wordsworth’s poem "The Solitary Reaper" tell us about Romanticist? A. To romanticists, poetry is an expression of an individual’s feelings and experiences no matter how fragmentary and momentary the feelings and experiences are. B. Romanticist take delight only in sound effect, the theme of a work is not their concern. C. Romanticist are not patient people; they would leave before the revelation of the theme. D. Poetry should prent the apparent and tangible. Answer: A 11. The lines, "It was a miracle of rare device,/ A sunny pleasure dome with caves of ice," are found in __________. A. Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s "Kubla Khan" B. William Wordsworth’s "Lines Written in Early Spring" C. John Keats’s "Ode to Autumn" D. Percy Bysshe Shelly’s "ode to the West Wind" Answer: A 12. Prometheus Unbound is Shelley’s greatest achievement. Prometheus, according to the Greek mythology, was chained by Zeus on Mount Caucasus and suffered the vulture’s feeding on his liver for_________. A. planning a revolt to dethrone God B. misinterpreting God’s decree to reconcile man and nature C. prophesying the arrival of spring in a winter ason D. stealing the fire from heaven and giving it to man Answer: D 13. " ’Damn the fool! There he is’, cried Heathcliff, sinking back into his at. ’Hush, my darling! Hush, hush, Catherine! I’ll stay. If he shot me so, I’d expire with a blessing in my lips.’" The novel from which the passage is taken must be _________. A. Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice B. Charles Dickens’s The Old Curiosity Shop C. Samuel Richardson’s Pamela D. Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights Answer: D 14. "My Last Duchess" is a poem that best exemplifier Robert Browning’s ________. A. nsitive ear for the sounds of the English language B. excellent choice of words C. mastering of the metrical devices D. u of the dramatic monologue Answer: D 15. Here is a passage from Middlemarch, a novel by George Eliot: "Her blooming full-puld youth stood there in a moral imprisonment which made itlf one with the chill, colourless, narrowed landscape, with the shrunken furniture, the never-read books, and the ghostly stag in pale fanatic world that emed to be vanishing from the daylight," Who is the lady mentioned in the quoted passage? A. Dorothea B. Emma C. Molly D. Irene Answer: A 16. Tess of the D’Urbervilles, one of Thomas Hardy’s best known novels, portrays man as ________. A. being hereditarily either good or bad B. being lf-sufficient C. having no control over his own fate D. still retaining his own faith in a world of confusion Answer: C 17. Which of the following brings LITTLE impact on the development of 20th century literature? A. Friedrich Nietzche’s asrtions: "God is dead" B. Arther Schopenharuer’s and Henry Bergson’s philosophical ideas of irrationality. C. Oscar Wilde’s idea of "Art for Art’s Sake". D. Freudian-Jungian psycho-analysis Answer: C 18. The term tone in literature means__________. A. sound effect such as rhyme and metrical device B. the pitch of a word ud to determine its meaning in the given context C. the manner of expression to indicate the speaker’s attitude towards the subject D. a shade of colour to reflect the change of the light Answer: C 19. Which of the following best describes the speaker of T.S.Eliot’s " The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock"? A. He is an man of a action. B. He is a man of apathy. C. He is a man of passion. D. He is a man of inactivity Answer: D 20. In which of the following poems by William Butler Yeats did you find the allusion to Helen and the TrojanWar? A. "Sailing to Byzantium" B. " Leda and the Swan" C. "The Lake Isle if Innisfree". D. " Sown by the Sally Garden" Answer: B 21. "He was afraid of her -the small, vere woman with greying hair suddenly bursting out in such frenzy. The postman came running back, afraid something had happened. /they saw his tripped cap over the short curtains. Mrs Morel rushes to the door." The above passage id taken from _________. A. Charlotte Bronte’s The Professor B. Charles Dickens’s Domebey and Son C. D.H.Lawrence ’s Sons and Lovers D. John Galsworthy’s The Forsyte Saga Answer: C 22. James Joyce is the author of all the following novels except ______. A. Dubliners B. Jude the Obscure C. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man D. Ulyss Answer: B 23. Which of the following works concerns most concentrated the Calvinistic view of original sin? A. The Wasteland. B. The Scarlet Letter. C. Leaves of Grass. D. As I Lay Dying Answer: B 24. We can perhaps summarize that Walt Whitman’s poems are characterized by all the following features except that they are _______/ A. conversational and crude B. lyrical and well-structured C. wimple and rather crude D. free-flowing Answer: B 25. Who exerts the single most important influence on literary naturalism, of which Theodore Dreir and Jack London are among the best reprentative writers? A. Freud B. Darwin. C. W. D. Howells. 央告D. Emerson Answer: B 26. Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his ____. A. international theme B. waste-land imagery C. local color D. symbolism Answer: C 27. At the beginning of Faulkner’s A Ro For Emily, there is a detailed description of Emily’s old hou. The purpo of such description is to imply that the person living in it ______. A. is a wealth lady B. has good taste C. is a prisoner of the past D. is a conrvative aristocrat Answer: C 28. The period before the American Civil War is commonly referred to as _______. A. the Romantic Period B. the Realistic Period C. the Naturalist Period D. the Modern Period Answer: A 29. Most of Herman Melville’s novels are bad on a voyages and a adventures. Which of the following is not the ca? A. Typee. B. Moby-Dick. C. Omoo. D. The Confidence-Man Answer: D 30. In Henry James’ Daisy Miller, the author tries to portray the young woman as an embodiment of _______. A. the force of convention B. the free spirit of the New World C. the decline of aristocracy D. the corruption of the newly rich Answer: B 31. "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood And sorry I could not travel both ..." In the above two lines of Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken, the poet, by implication, was referring to _______. A. a travel experience B. a marriage decision C. a middle-age crisis D. one’s cour of life Answer: D 32. The Transcendentalists believe that, first, nature is ennobling, and cond, the individual is _______. A. insignificant B. vicious by nature C. divine D. forward-looking Answer: C 33. Which of the following is not a work of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s? A. The Hou of the Seven Gables. B. The Blithedale Romance. C. The Marble Falun. D. White Jacket. Answer: D 34. In Heminway’s short story Indian Camp, through a story of a woman giving birth, the protagonist, Nick Adams, receives an education of _______. A. birth and violent death B. charity and benevolence C. racial inequality D. devotion and kinship Answer: A 35. In Hawthorne’s novels and short stories, intellectuals usually appear as _______. A. commentators B. obrvers C. villains D. saviors Answer: C 36. Besides sketches, tales and essays, Washington Irving also published a book on ______, which is also considered an important part of his creative writing. A. poetic theory B. French art C. history of New York D. life of George Washington Answer: C 37. In Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, there are detailed descriptions of big parties. The purpo of such descriptions is so show _______. A. emptiness of life B. the corruption of the upper class C. contrast of the rich and the poor D. the happy days of the Jazz Age Answer: A 38. In American literature, escaping from the society and returning to nature is a common subject. The following titles are all related, in one way or another, to the subject except _______. A. Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn B. Dreir’s Sister Carrie C. Copper’s Leather-Stocking Tales D. Thoreau’s Walden Answer: B 39. 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. Answer: A 40. Emily Dickinson wrote many short poems on various aspects of life. Which of the following is not a usual subject of her poetic expression? A. Religion. B. Life and death. C. Love and marriage. 郑州新东方D. War and peace. Answer: D II. Reading Comprehension 41. "And the native hue of resolution/Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought." (Shakespeare, Humlet) Questions: A. What does the "native hue of resolution" mean? B. What does the "pale cast of thought" stand for? C. What idea do the two lines express? Answers: A. determination (determinedness, action, activity, ...) B. consideration (indecision, inactivity, hesitation, ...) C. Too much thinking (consideration,...) made (makes) activity (action) impossible. 42. "Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere; /Destroyer and Prerver; hear, O hear!" Questions: A. Identify the poem and the poet. B. What is the "Wild Spirit"? C. What does the "Wild Spirit" destroy and prerve? Answers: A. Shelley’s "Ode to the West Wind" B. The West Wind; "breath of Autumn’s being" C. It destroys things/thoughts/ideas that are dead (obsolete, ...); it prerves new life (or eds that reprent new life or new birth). 43. "When the minister spoke from the pulpit, with power and fervid eloquence, and, with his hands on the open bible, of the sacred truths of our religion, and of saint-like lives and triumphant deaths, and of future bliss or miry unutterable, then did Goodman Brown turn pale, dreading, lest the roof should thunder down upon the gray blasphemer and his hearers. Questions: A. Identify the title of the short story from which this part is taken. B. What had happened in the story before this church scene? C. Why was Goodman Brown afraid the roof might thunder down? Answers: A. Hawthorne’s Young Goodman Brown. B. Brown had attended a witches’ party where he saw many prominent people of the village, the minister included. C. Brown was shocked by the minister, cretly a member of the evil club, who could talk about sacred truths of the religion openly and unashamedly. He thought God would punish such hypocrites down on them. 44. (A lot of common objects have been enumerated before, and here are the last two lines of There Was a Child Went Forth :) The horizon’s edge, the flying a-crow, the fragrance of salt marsh and shore mud. The became part of that child who went forth every day, and who now goes, and will always go forth every day. Questions: A. Who is the author of this poem? B. What does the "Child" stand for in the poem? C. In one or two ntences, interpret the implied meaning of the two lines. Answers: A. Walt Whitman. B. The young growing America. C. The poet us his childhood experience of growing up and learning about the world around him to imply that young America will grow and develop like that. 第二部分 非选择题 III. Questions and Answers 45. "’My boy!’ said the old gentleman, leaning over the desk. Oliver started at the sound. He might be excud for doing so, for the words were kindly said, and strange sounds frighten one. He trembled violently, and burst into tears." (Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist) Explain why the boy [Oliver Twist] started first, then trembled violently and burst into tears when the words were "kindly" said. Answers: The boy started at the words becau kind words were not expected; it is (was, must be) the first time in all his life that the boy [Oliver Twist] had ever been "kindly" greeted; strange sounds may predict another suffering/misfortune/torture/...) (At least one example from the text is expected to back up the above statement) 46. Here is the last stanza of Byron’s "The Isles of Greece": Place me on sunium’s mardle steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I, There, swan-like, let me sing and die: May hear our marbled murmurs sweep; A land of slaves shall ne’er be mine --- Dash down you cup of Samian wine! Determine the speaker first and then discuss BRIEFLY the main idea of the stanza or of the whole excerpt. You may want to consider the possible implications of the last two lines. Answers: A. The speaker is a Greek singer (or Byron in a Greek Singer’s disgui or Byron speaks through a Greek singer). B. The excerpt prents a strong rentment for the Turk’s conquest of Greece and calls on the Greek people to ri and fight for freedom. C. Thus, the last line may suggest resolution to take immediate action to free Greece from enslavement. 47. Why are naturalists inevitably pessimistic in their view? Plea discuss the above question in relation to the basic principles of literary naturalism. Answers: A. They accept the negative implication of Darwin’s theory of evolution, and believe that society is a "jungle" where survival struggles go on. B. They believe that man’s instinct, the environment and other social and economic forces play an overwhelming role and man’s fate is "determined" by such forces beyond his control. 48. "Even then he stood there, hidden wholly in that kindness which is night, while the uprising fumes filled the room. When the odor reached his nostrils, he quit his attitude and fumbled for the bed. ’What’s the u?’ he said, weakly, as he stretched himlf to rest." They above is quoted from Thoedore Dreir’s Sister Carrie. Briefly tell the situation that leads to the suicide and interpret Hurstwood’s final words -"What’s the u?" Answers: A. Sister Carrie has made a great success. As her fame aris, she derts her former lover Hurstwood. In a cold winter, Hurstwood makes a last attempt to ek help from Carrie, but has failed, so I desperation, he decides to kill himlf by turning on the gas. B. By making that comment, Hurstwood ems to have realized that it is uless to continue to fight against fate. His fate is not controlled by his own efforts but by some social forces too strong for him to resist, so he decides to give up. IV. Topic Discussion 49. Daniel Defoe’s novel Robinson Crusoe was a great success partly becau the protagonist was a real middle-class hero. Discuss Crusoe, the protagonist of the novel, as an embodiment of the rising middle class virtues in the mid-eighteenth century England. Answers: A. Social background: The Eighteenth Century England witnesd the growing importance of the bourgeois or middle class. a. The Industrial Revolution b. The expansion of international markets; c. Values/virtues/moral standards/...different from tho of the feudal aristocratic class -courageous, full of energy, hard working, practical, resourceful, lf-reliant, etc; thus d. Literature should give/provide a realistic prentation of the life of the common people; it should meet the demand/interest of the middle class people. B. Robinson Crusoe embodies the virtue of the middle class people. a. Crusoe as an adventurous/courageous man full of energy and courage: (example from the text): b. Crusoe as a practical man: (example from the text); c. Crusoe as a resourceful/lf-reliant man: (example from the text); d. Crusoe as a patient/persistent man: (example from the text); e. And others. 50. Mark Twain prented the 19th century America in his own unique way. Discuss Twain’s art of fiction: the tting, the language, and the characters, etc., bad on his novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Answers: A. Mark Twain us the Mississippi alley as his fictional kingdom, writing about the landscape and people, the customs and the dialects of one particular region, and is therefore known as a local colorist. B. He creates life-like characters, especially the unconventional Huckleberry Finn, who runs away from civilization and stands opposite to conventional village morality. C. He us a simple, direct vernacular language, totally different from any precious literary language. It is the kind of colloquial belonging to the lower class, the living local American English. D. He has created a special humor to satirize and the decayed convention. |
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