2001年4月自考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 presented , for the first time in English literature, a comprehensive realistic picture of the medieval English society and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life is most likely______.
A. William Langland ' 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 course 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 Spenser'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 sees literature as an expression of an individual's feeling and experiences
B. the former is heavily religious but the latter secular
C. the former is an intellectual movement the purpose of which is to arouse the middle class for political rights while the latter is concerned with the personal cultivation.
D. the former advocates the "return to nature" whereas the latter turns to the ancient Greek and Roman writers for its models
Answer: A
5. When he writes, in An Essay on Criticism, "A vile conceit in pompous words expressed, / Is like a clown in regal purple dressed", 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 these 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 present 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 season
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 seat. '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. sensitive ear for the sounds of the English language
B. excellent choice of words
C. mastering of the metrical devices
D. use of the dramatic monologue
Answer: D
15. Here is a passage from Middlemarch, a novel by George Eliot: "Her blooming full-pulsed youth stood there in a moral imprisonment which made itself one with the chill, colourless, narrowed landscape, with the shrunken furniture, the never-read books, and the ghostly stag in pale fanatic world that seemed 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 self-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 assertions: "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 used 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, severe 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. https://www.doczj.com/doc/448840467.html,wrence '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. Ulysses
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 Dreiser and Jack London are among the best representative writers?
A. Freud
B. Darwin.
C. W.
D. Howells.
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 Rose For Emily, there is a detailed description of Emily's old house. The purpose 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 conservative 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 based on sea voyages and sea adventures. Which of the following is not the case?
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 course of life
Answer: D
32. The Transcendentalists believe that, first, nature is ennobling, and second, 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 House 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. observers
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
purpose 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. Dreiser'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.
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 Preserver; 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 preserve?
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 preserves new life （or seeds that represent 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 misery 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, secretly 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 sea-crow, the fragrance of salt marsh and shore mud.
These 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 sentences, interpret the implied meaning of the two lines.
Answers:
A. Walt Whitman.
B. The young growing America.
C. The poet uses 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 excused 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 because 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 BRIEFL Y 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 disguise or Byron speaks through a Greek singer）.
B. The excerpt presents a strong resentment for the Turk's conquest of Greece and calls on the Greek people to rise 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?
Please 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 use?' he said, weakly, as he stretched himself to rest."
They above is quoted from Thoedore Dreiser's Sister Carrie. Briefly tell the situation that leads to the suicide and interpret Hurstwood's final words -"What's the use?"
Answers:
A. Sister Carrie has made a great success. As her fame arises, she deserts her former lover Hurstwood. In a cold winter, Hurstwood makes a last attempt to seek help from Carrie, but has failed, so I desperation, he decides to kill himself by turning on the gas.
B. By making that comment, Hurstwood seems to have realized that it is useless 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 because 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 witnessed 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 those of the feudal aristocratic class -courageous, full of energy, hard working, practical, resourceful, self-reliant, etc; thus
d. Literature should give/provide a realistic presentation of the life of the common people; it should meet the demand/interest of the middle class peopl
e.
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/self-reliant man: （example from the text）;
d. Crusoe as a patient/persistent man: （example from the text）;
e. And others.
50. Mark Twain presented the 19th century America in his own unique way. Discuss Twain's art of fiction: the setting, the language, and the characters, etc., based on his novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
Answers:
A. Mark Twain uses 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 uses 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.
英语专业-英美文学试卷及答案-期末
英美文学试卷A 共9页第 I. Mark the following statements as true (T) or false (F). (10 x 1’=10’) 1. ( ) Chaucer is the first English short-story teller and the founder of English poetry as well as the founder of English realism. His masterpiece The Canterbury tales contains 26 stories. 2. ( ) English Renaissance is an age of essay and drama. 3. ( ) The rise of the modern novel is closely related to the rise of the middle class and an urban life. 4. ( ) The French Revolution and the American War of Independence were two big influences that brought about the English Romantic Movement. 5. ( ) Charlotte’s novels are all about lonely and neglected young women with a fierce longing for life and love. Her novels are more or less based on her own experience and feelings and the life as she sees around. 6. ( ) The leading figures of the naturalism at the turn of 19th century are Thomas Hardy, John Galsworthy and Bernard Shaw. 7. ( ) Emily Dickinson is remembered as the “All American Writer”. 8. ( )The Civil War divides the American literature into romantic literature and realist literature. 9. ( ) Mark Twain is the first American writer to discover an American language and American consciousness.
2011年7月自考真题英美文学选读 课程代码：00604 全部题目用英文作答，并将答案写在答题纸相应位置上，否则不计分。 Ⅰ. Multiple Choice (40 points in all, 1 for each) Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Write your answer on the answer sheet. 1.With classical culture and the（）humanistic ideas coming into England, the English Renaissance began flourishing. A. French B. German C. Italian D. Greek 2.“Come live with me and be my love, / And we will all the pleasures prove / That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, / Woods, or steepy mountain yields.” The above lines are taken from Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”, which derives from the（）tradition. A. pastoral B. heroic C. romantic D. realistic 3.“Metaphysical conceit”is a strategy characteristic of John Donne’s poetry. It is（）. A. a confession that avoids questions of moral accountability B. the linking of images from very different ranges of experience C. self-definition through images based on the four primal elements D. the chaining of images representing solid and gaseous elements 4.“So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, / So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 includes three stanzas according to the content with these last two lines as a（）, which completes the sense of the above lines. 第 1 页
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. Symbol 2. The English Renaissance 3. Naturalism 4. Romanticism 5. Transcendentalist Club II. 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 or question. (20 points in all, 1 point for each) 1. Geoffrey Chaucer, the “___________” and one of the greatest narrative poets of England, was born in London in or about the year 1340. A)Father of English literature B)founder of British literature C)Father of English poetry D) compiler of Canterbury Tales 2. Which of the following is not John Milton's works? A) Paradise Lost B) Paradise Regained C) Samson Agonistes D) Ulysses 3. “My Last Duchess” is a poem that best exemplifies Robert Browning?s ________. A) sensitive ear for the sounds of the English language B) excellent choice of words C) mastering of the metrical devices D) use of the dramatic monologue 4. Shakespeare?s four great tragedies are: Hamlet, Othello, ______ and ______. A) King Lear…Romeo and Juliet B) King Lear…Macbeth C) King John…Julius Caesar D) King John…The Merchant of Venice 5. 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) W.M. Thackeray D) Charlotte Bronte 6. Richard Brinsley Sheridan?s famous comedy, ________ written in 1777, is considered his masterpiece.
Part One：English Poetry 1.William Shakespeare Sonnet 18 ?Why does the poet compare `thee` to a summer?s day? And who could `thee` be? Because summer?s day and thee both represent beauty . thee could be beauty, love. ?What picture have you got of English summer, and could you explain why? Warm, beautiful, sunshine. Because summer is the best season of a year ,the most beautiful season. It is like our May. ?How does the poet answer the question he puts forth in the first line? Thee is more beautiful than summer. ?What makes the poet think that “thou” can be more fair than summer and immortal? Because humanism is more eternal than summer and immortal. ?What figures of speech are used in this poem? Simile, metaphor, personification, oxymoron and so on . ?What is the theme of the poem? Love conquers all, Beauty lives on. 2. Thomas Nashe Spring ?Read the poem carefully, pay attention to those image- bearing words, and see how many images the poet created in the poem and what sense impressions you can get from those images. There is “Blooms each thing, maids dance in a ring, the pretty birds do sing, the palm and may make country houses gay, Lambs frisk' and play, the shepherds pipe all day, And we hear aye birds tune this merry lay, The fields breathe sweet, the daisies kiss our feet, Young lovers meet, old wives a-sunning sit, In every street these tunes bur ears do greet!” The “Young lovers meet, old wives a-sunning sit，”impressions me most because of the harmony of the people?s relationship. ?Can you point out and explain the sound and their musical effect in the poem? In the Poem, each section has four lines, each line has ten syllables ( five tone step ) . In order to give the reader a spring breeze , streams , flowers , winding , Song Xin texture of sound and light flavor, Naixi greater uses English word S , z , f , V , R , L , and θconsonants means. In Naixi's poem, the use of phonological is also very harmonious, very smooth , very mellow. Section I of the poetry has Three pairs [ ing ] , section II of the poem has three pairs [ ei ] and the third quarter has three pairs [ i : ]. 3.John Donne A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning ?What is a “valediction” any way? Is the speaker in the poem about to die? Why does the speaker forbid mourning? No, it is about the lover s?separation. As the poem metaphors, the poet believed he and his wife?s love is sacred, he didn?t hope they cry when separation comes, let their love be stained by the ordinary and mundane.
全国自考2018年7月英美文学选读试题 课程代码：00604 请将答案填在答题纸相应的位置上(全部题目用英文作答) PART ONE(40 POINTS) I. Multiple Choice (40 points in all，1 for each) Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet. 1. Of all the eighteenth—century British novelists ______ was the first to set out，both in theory and practice，to write specially a “comic epic in prose”，the first to give the modern novel its structure and style. A. Thomas Gray B. Richard Brinsley Sheridan C. Jonathan Swift D. Henry Fielding 2. The poem “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” established ______ as the leader of the sentimental poetry of the day，especially “the Graveyard School”. A. Thomas Gray B. Samuel Johnson C. John Bunyan D. John Milton 3. “Do you think, because I am poor，obscure，plain，and little，I am soulless and heartless?... And if God had gifted me with some beauty，and much wealth，I should have made it as hard for you to leave me. as it is now for me to leave you. ”The quoted part is taken from ______. A. Great Expectations B. Wuthering Heights C. Jane Eyre D. Pride and Prejudice 4. The most famous dramatists in the Renaissance England are all the following EXCEPT ______. A. Francis Bacon B. Christopher Marlowe 1
Comment on Walden In 1845, Thoreau decided to conduct an experiment of self-sufficiency by building his own house on the shores of Walden Pond and living off the food he grew on his farm. He sought to reduce his physical needs to a minimum, in order to free himself for study, thought, and observation of nature, himself. Walden can be many things and can be read on more than one level. But it is, first and foremost, a book about man, what he is, and what he should be and must be. Considered one of the all-time great books, Walden is a record of Thoreau's two year experiment of living at Walden Pond. The writer's chief emphasis is on the simplifications and enjoyment of life now. It is regarded as 1. a nature book.2. a do-it-yourself guide to simple life. 3. a satirical criticism of modern life and living. 4. a belletristic achievement 5. a spiritual book. The Scarlet Letter Symbolic meaning of the letter “A” :1.The scarlet letter “A” is the central symbol of the novel. At the beginning it symbolized the sin of Hester—“adultery”, 2.then gradually when Hester became accepted by the community, it stands for Hester’s intelligence and diligence—“able”. 3.At the end of the novel the symbol has evolved to represent the high virtues of Hester Prynne—“angel”. Comments on The Scarlet Letter:1.The theme of the story should be the moral, emotional and psychological effects of the sin on people. 2.Scarlet Letter is a cultural allegory, in which the author indirectly tells the future of Puritanism.3.Scarlet Letter is a sample in which American Romanticism adapted itself to American Puritanism.(Because of the strong influence of Puritanism in American society, Hawthorne only expressed his ideas on the sin indirectly by employing symbolism.) Symbolism in the novel Moby Dick A. the voyage itself is a metaphor for “search and discovery, the search for the ultimate truth of experience.” B. the Pequod is the ship of the American soul and consciousness. C. Moby Dick is a symbol of evil to some, of goodness to others, and of both to still others. D. The whiteness of Moby Dick is a paradoxical color, signifying death and corruption as well as purity, innocence and youth; it represents the final mystery of the universe. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Setting: unpopulated wildness an a dense forest along Mississippi River Characters:1.Ignorant uneducated black slave Jim2.Uneducated outcast white boy Huck Finn。Theme: Huck’s inner waving struggle between what he was taught and what he thought out of good-heart and humanity.Its Features：1.Profound portrait of Huckleberry Finn 2.Magic power with language, the use of vernacular. 3. Humor In a Station of the Metro1 by Ezra Pound The apparition of these faces in the crowd: Petals on a wet, black bough. Note: 1。a Paris subway station Analysis of this poem The poem’s form is similar to Japanese haiku, with considering its title as a verse-line. The word “apparition” has double meaning:1. “appearance”, something which can be clearly observed;2. something which seems real but perhaps is not real; something ghostly which cannot be clearly observed. Petals may refer to the faces in the crowd, while bough may refer to the railway in the Metro.
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绝密★考试结束前 全国 4月高等教育自学考试 英美文学选读试题 课程代码：00604 请考生按规定用笔将所有试题的答案涂、写在答题纸上。全部题目用英文作答。 选择题部分 注意事项： 1．答题前，考生务必将自己的考试课程名称、姓名、准考证号用黑色字迹的签字笔或钢笔填写在答题纸规定的位置上。 2．每小题选出答案后，用2 B铅笔把答题纸上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其它答案标号。不能答在试题卷上。 I. Multiple Choice(40 points in all, 1 for each) Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Mark your choice by blackening the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the answer sheet.
1. Shakespeare has established his giant position in world literature with his ______ plays, 154 sonnets and 2 long poems.B A. 27 B. 38 C.47 D. 52 2. john Milton’s literary achievement can be divided into three groups: the early poetic works, the middle prose pamphlets and the last ______.C A. romances B. dramas C. great poems D. ballads 3. The novels of ______ are the first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower— class people.C A. John Milton B. Daniel Defoe C. Henry Fielding D. Jonathan Swift
英美文学选读-阶段测评4 成绩：30分 一、Multiple Choice 共40 题 题号: 1 本题分数:2.5 分 ( )is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th—century “stream—of—consciousness” novels and the founder of psychological realism. A、Theodore Dreiser B、William Faulkner C、Henry James D、Mark Twain (P498.para.2)亨利.詹姆斯是美国现实主义文学大师，他的作品往往涉及美国之外的主题，其作品的风格是“心理活动”。被誉为20世纪美国意识流文学的先驱。 标准答案：C 考生答案：D 本题得分：0 分 题号: 2 本题分数:2.5 分 Closely related to Dickinson’s religious poetry are her poems concerning( ),ranging over the physical as well as the psychological and emotional aspects of death. A、love and nature B、death and universe C、death and immortality D、family and happiness （P518para2）迪金森的诗歌涉及宗教和爱情两方面，而其涉及宗教的诗歌往往是以死亡和永恒为主题的，所以答案是C。 标准答案：C 考生答案：A
1.Alliteration：Alliteration is the repetition of a speech sound in a sequence of nearby words. The term is usually applied only to consonants, and only when the recurrent sound begins a word or a stressed syllable within a word. In old English alliteration is the principle organizing device of the verse line. 2.Romance：Romance is a long composition, sometimes in verse, sometimes in prose, describing the life and adventure of a noble hero. Romance was characteristic of the early feudal age, as it reflected the spirit of chivalry. The content of romance was usually about love, chivalry, and religion. 3.Soliloquy is a dramatic speech delivered by one character speaking aloud while under the impression of being alone. The soliloquist thus reveals his inner thoughts and feelings to the audience. It is also known as interior monologue. 4.sonnet: A sonnet is a short song in the original meaning of the word. Later it became a poem of 14 lines, usually in iambic pentameter with various rhyming schemes. 5.Conceit--- a kind of metaphor that makes a comparison between two startling different things. A conceit may strike the readers weird at first glance, but proves appropriate in the end. 6.The name applied to an intellectual movement which developed in Western Europe during the seventeenth century and reached its height in the eighteenth. The common element was a trust in human reason as adequate to solve the crucial problems and to establish the essential norms in life, together with the belief that the application of reason was rapidly dissipating the remaining feudal traditions. It influenced lots of famous English writers especially those neoclassic writers, such as Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson etc.. 7.Renaissance refers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries. It makes a transition from the medieval to the modern world. It started in Italy with the flowering of painting, sculpture and literature, and then spread to the rest of Europe. The term Renaissance means rebirth or revival. The Renaissance period was marked by a reawakening of interest in learning, in the individual and in the world of nature. The revival of learning led scholars back to the culture of Greece and Rome. The rebirth of interest in the individual gave rise to a new appreciation of beauty, to a desire for self-expression in varied activities and to the creation of art. The renewal of curiosity about the nature word ultimately drew men to discover new lands and new scientific truths.
绝密★考试结束前 全国2014年4月高等教育自学考试 英美文学选读试题 课程代码：00604 请考生按规定用笔将所有试题的答案涂、写在答题纸上。全部题目用英文作答。 选择题部分 注意事项： 1．答题前，考生务必将自己的考试课程名称、姓名、准考证号用黑色字迹的签字笔或钢笔填写在答题纸规定的位置上。 2．每小题选出答案后，用2 B铅笔把答题纸上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。不能答在试题卷上。 I. Multiple Choice(40 points in all, 1 for each) Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Mark your choice by blackening the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the answer sheet. 1. Shakespeare has established his giant position in world literature with his ______ plays, 154 sonnets and 2 long poems.B A. 27 B. 38 C.47 D. 52 2. john Milton’s literary achievement can be divided into three groups: the early poetic works, the middle prose pamphlets and the last ______.C A. romances B. dramas C. great poems D. ballads 3. The novels of ______ are the first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower— class people.C A. John Milton B. Daniel Defoe C. Henry Fielding D. Jonathan Swift
英美文学选读-阶段测评3 成绩：87.5分 一、Multiple Choice 共40 题 题号: 1 本题分数:2.5 分 https://www.doczj.com/doc/448840467.html,wrence’s novels( )are generally regarded as his masterpieces. A、The Rainbow，Women in Love B、The Rainbow，Sons and Lovers C、Sons and Lovers，Lady Chatterley’s Lover D、Women in Love，Lady Chatterley’s Lover （P370.para2）劳伦斯的成名作是《儿子和情人》，而其代表作是《虹》和《恋爱中的女人》 标准答案：A 考生答案：A 本题得分：2.5 分 题号: 2 本题分数:2.5 分 T.S.Eliot’s poem( )is heavily indebted to James Joyce in terms of the stream - of -consciousness technique,also a prelude to The Waste Land. A、―Prufrock‖ B、―Gerontion‖ C、The Hollow Men D、Lyrical Ballads （P358.para3）―Gerontion‖是一部用戏剧式独白写成的诗歌，是《荒原》的前奏曲，也采用了意识流派的文风。 标准答案：B 考生答案：B
本题得分：2.5 分 题号: 3 本题分数:2.5 分 https://www.doczj.com/doc/448840467.html,wrence’s autobiographical novel is( ). A、The Rainbow B、Women in Love C、Sons and Lovers D、Lady Chatterley’s Lover （P369.para1）劳伦斯的作品大多都是从心理上去探求让人的本能的，同时也反映人性中最内在的东西。其作品《儿子和情人》真实地反映了自己在童年时期的家庭状况，被视为其半自传体小说。 标准答案：C 考生答案：C 本题得分：2.5 分 题号: 4 本题分数:2.5 分 The typical representatives of G.B.Shaw’ s early plays are( ). A、Man and Superman，The Apple Cart B、Widowers’ House，Mrs. Warren’ s Profession C、Candida，Mrs. Warren’ s Profession D、The Apple Cart，Widowers’ House （P321-322）。萧伯纳的第一步剧作是Widowers’ House，写于1892年；第二部剧作是Mrs. Warren’ s Profession，写于1893年。 标准答案：B 考生答案：B 本题得分：2.5 分 题号: 5 本题分数:2.5 分 It was only after the publication of( )that https://www.doczj.com/doc/448840467.html,wrence was recognized as a prominent novelist.
《英美文学选读》期末考试练习 一、搭配题 二、判断题 1.( F ) Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Antony and Cleopatra are Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies. 2.(T ) The Elizabethan Drama is the real mainstream of the English Renaissance. 3.( T) Paradise Lost is a long epic divided into 12 books. 4.( F) Captain Singleton, Moll Flanders, Colonel Jack, and A Journal of the Plague Year are the first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower-class people. 5.( T) Jonathan Swift defined a good style as “proper words in proper places.” 6.( T ) Henry Fielding has been regarded by some as “Father of the English Novel.” 7.( F) William Blake, William Wordsworth, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge are regarded as the “Lake Poets.” 8.( T ) The British Romantic period is an age of prose. 9.( T ) The major theme of Jane Austen’s novels is love and marriage. 10.( T ) The Victoria period has been generally regarded as one of the most glorious in the English history. 11.( F ) Far from the Madding Crowd is Thomas Hardy’s first novel. 12.( T ) Modernism rose out of skepticism and disillusion of capitalism. 13.( T ) The major themes of the modernist literature are the distorted, alienated and ill relationships between man and nature, man and society, man and man, and man and himself. 14.( T) The early poems of Pound and Eliot and Yeats’s matured poetry marked rise of “modern poetry.” 15.( T ) Shaw’s plays have one passion, and one only, that is, indignation. 16.( F) Romeo and Juliet is one of Shakespeare’s four greatest tragedies. 17.( T ) The first period of the English Renaissance was one of imitation and assimilation. 18.( T ) Paradise Lost is John Milton’s masterpiece. 19.( F ) Captain Singleton, Moll Flanders, Colonel Jack, and A Journal of the Plague Year are the first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower-class people. 20.( T ) In Jonathan Swift’s opinion, human nature is seriously and permanently flawed. 21.( T) Henry Fielding was the first to write specifically a “comic in prose.”