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《英美文学选读》模拟试卷一
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1.试卷保密，考生不得将试卷带出考场或撕页，否则成绩作废。请监考老师负责监督。
2.请各位考生注意考试纪律，考试作弊全部成绩以零分计算。
3.本试卷满分100分，答题时间为90分钟。
4.本试卷分为试题卷和答题卷，所有答案必须答在答题卷上，答在试题卷上不给分。
I.Multiple Choice. (1 point for each, altogether 30 points)
Directions:There are 30 sentences in this section. Beneath each sentence there are four choices respectively marked by letters A, B, C and D. Choose the word that you think best complete the sentence. Write your answers on the answer sheet.
1. Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his production of_______.
[A] Piers Plowman [B] Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
[C] Confessio Amantis [D] The Canterbury Tales
2. 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] still very much interested in apple-picking
[C] expecting a greater harvest
[D] indifferent to what he once desired
3.With Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the literary scene,_______became the major trend in American literature in the seventies and eighties of the 19th century.
[A] Sentimentalism [B] romanticism [C] realism [D] naturalism
4. Of the following American poets in the twentieth century, the one who has the best knowledge of Chinese culture is _______.
[A] Robert Frost [B] Allen Ginsberg [C] Ezra Pound [D] Cummings
5. _______is the first important governess novel in the English literary history.
[A] Jane Eyre [B] Emma
[C] Wuthering Heights [D] Middlemarch
6. The Hemingway Code heroes are best remembered for their_______.
[A] indestructible spirit [B] pessimistic view of life
[C] war experiences [D] masculinity
7. Which of the following is taken from John Keats’Ode to a Nightingale? _______
[A] "Beauty is truth, truth beauty."
[B] "Earth has not anything to show more fair."
[C] "They are both gone up to the church to pray."
[D] "was it a vision, or a waking dream?"
8. 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 and immortality [B] Life and death
[C] Love and marriage [D] War and peace
9. Henry David Thoreau＇s work_______, has always been regarded as a masterpiece of New England Transcendentalism.
[A] Walden [B] The Pioneers
[C] Nature [D] Song of Myself
10. The Victorian Age was largely an age of_______, eminently represented by Dickens and Thackeray.
[A] poetry [B] drama
[C] prose [D] epic prose
11. Romance, which uses narrative verse or prose to tell stories of _______ adventures or other heroic deeds, is a popular literary form in the medieval period.
[A] Christian [B] knightly
[C] Greek [D] primitive
12. Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his production of _______.
[A] Piers Plowman [B] Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
[C] Confessio Amantis [D] The Canterbury Tales
13. Which of the following historical events does not directly help to stimulate the rising of the Renaisssance Movement? _______
[A] The rediscovery of ancient Greek and Roman culture
[B] The new discoveries in geography and astrology
[C] The Glorious revolution
[D] The religious reformation and the economic expansion
14. Which of the following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare's Sonnet 18?
[A] The speaker eulogizes the power of Nature
[B] The speaker satirizes human vanity
[C] The speaker praises the power of artistic creation
[D] The speaker meditates on man's salvation
15. “And we will sit upon the rocks,/Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks,/By shallow rivers to whose falls/Melodious birds sing madrigals.” The above lines are probably taken from _______.
[A] Spenser's The Faerie Queene
[B] John Donne's “The Sun Rising”
[C] Shakespeare's “Sonnet 18”
[D] Marlowe's “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”
16. “Bassanio: Antonio, I am married to a wife which is as dear to me as life itself; But life itself, My wife, and all the world. Are not with me esteem'd above thy life; I would lose all, ay, sacrifice them all, Here to the devil, to deliver you. Portia: Your wife would give you little thanks for that, If she were by to hear you make the offer.” The above is a quotation taken from Shakespeare's comedy The Merchant of Venice. The quoted part can be regarded as a good example to illustrate _______.
[A] dramatic irony [B] personification
[C] allegory [D] symbolism
17. The true subject of John Donne's poem, “The Sun Rising,” is to _______.
[A] attack the sun as an unruly servant
[B] give compliments to the mistress and her power of beauty
[C] criticize the sun's intrusion into the lover's private life
[D] lecture the sun on where true royalty and riches lie
18. Of all the 18thcentury 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 epic
19. 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 ways.
20. 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 Essay on Criticism
[D] Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream
21. The phrase “to urge people to abide by Christian doctrines and to seek salvation through con stant 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 Progress
22. William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following EXCEPT _______.
[A] the use of everyday language spoken by the common people
[B] the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings
[C] the use of humble and rustic life as subject matter
[D] the use of elegant wording and inflated figures of speech
23. Which of the following is taken from John Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn”? _______
[A] “I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!”
[B] “They are both gone up to the church to pray”
[C] “Earth has not anything to show more fair”
[D] “Beauty is truth, truth beauty”
24.“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind!” is an epigrammatic line by _______.
[A] J.Keats [B] W.Blake
[C] W.Wordsworth [D] P.B.Shelley
25. “Ode o na Grecian Urn”shows the contrast between th e _______ of art and the _______ of human passion.
[A] glory …ugliness[B] permanence…transience
[C] transience…sordidness[D] glory…permanence
26. In the statement“—oh, God! would you like to live with your soul in the grave?” the term “soul” apparently refers to _______.
[A] Heathcliff himself [B] Catherine
[C] one's spiritual life [D] one's ghost
27. The typical feature of Robert Browning's poetry is the _______.
[A] bitter satire [B] larger-than-life caricature
[C] Latinized diction [D] dramatic monologue
28. The Victorian Age was largely an age of _______, eminently represented by Dickens and Thackeray.
[A] poetry [B] drama
[C] prose [D] epic prose
29. _______is the first important governess novel in the English literary history.
[A] Jane Eyre [B] Emma
[C] Wuthering Heights [D] Middlemarch
30. 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] https://www.doczj.com/doc/7b2728602.html,wrence's [B] J.Galsworthy's
[C] W.Thackeray’s[D] T.Hardy’s
II. Match the writer with his/her works and Write your answers on the answer sheet. (2point for each, altogether 20points)
31. Henry Fielding A. The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
32. James Joyce B. Composed upon Westminster Bridge
33. Daniel Defoe C. The Moll on the Floss
34. Alfred Tennyson D. Break, Break, Break.
35. John Keats E. A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man
36. George Eliot F. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
37. William Bulter Yeats G. A Journal of the Plague Year
38. William Wordsworth H. Ode on a Grecian Urn
39. Walt Whitman I. The Lake Isle of Innisfree
40. Christopher Marlowe J. There Was a Child Went Forth
III. Decide whether the following statements are true or false and write your answers in the brackets. (2 point for each, altogether10 points)
()41．The preface to the Lyrical Ballads is best read as a statement of Keats’s principles of poetry.
()42．Besides novel writing, Hawthorne is also a very good writer of short stories.
()43．Robert Frost’s poems are New England in their setting, and are characterized by the familiar speaking voice.
()44．George Hurstwood is a friend of Drouet’s who steals a great deal of money from his employer and actually kidnaps Carrie to Canada.
()45．Renaissance had its beginning in Italy in the middle of the fifteenth century.
IV. Define the literary terms listed below and write your answers on the answer sheet. (5 point for each, altogether 10 points)
46. Romanticism
47. Stream of Consciousness
V. Give brief answers to the following questions. Write your answers on the answer sheet. (5 point for each, altogether 15 points)
48. How do you understand the character of Robinson Crusoe?
49. In the novel To the Lighthouse, is Lily lonely while completing her picture? Please justify your ideas.
50. What is the implication of the description of roses beside the prison door in the first chapter of The Scarlet Letter?
Ⅵ.Write no less than 150 words on the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet. (15 point for each, altogether 15 points)
51.William Shakespeare is one of the most remarkable playwrights the world has ever known.
( 1) Name his four greatest tragedies.
(2) What are the characteristics of the four tragedies in common?
(3) Briefly summarize each hero' s weakness of nature.
《英美文学选读》模拟试卷一答案
II. Match the writer with his/her works and write your answers in the brackets. (2point
III. Decide whether the following statements are true or false and write your answers in
IV.
Define the literary terms listed below and write your answers in the brackets. (10%) 46. The English Romanticism is generally said to have begun in 1978 with the publication of Wordsworth and Colerdge's Lyrical Ballads and to have ended in 1832 with Sir Walter Scott's death and the passage of the first Reform Bill in the Parliament. Romanticists tended to see the individual as the very center of all experience, including art, and thus, literary work should be “spontaneous overflow of strong feelings,”and no matter how fragmentary those experiences were (Wordsworth's “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,” or “The Solitary Reaper,) or Coleridge's “Keble Khan”),the value of the work lied in the accuracy of presenting those unique feelings and particular attitudes.
复习范围或考核目标：课件Course 03 William Wordsworth
47. In Joyce's opinion, the artist, who wants to reach the highest stage and to gain the insights necessary for the creation of dramatic art, should rise to the position of a godlike objectivity; he should have the complete conscious control over the creative process and depersonalize his own emotion in the artistic creation. He should appear as an omniscient author and present unspoken materials directly from the psyche of the characters, of making the characters tell their own inner thoughts in monologues. This literary approach to the presentation of psychological aspects of characters is usually termed as "stream of consciousness".
复习范围或考核目标：课件Course06Virginia Woolf
V. Give brief answers to the following questions. Write your answers on the answer sheet. (15%)
48. Tips: Robinson is a real hero, and we can sense many of his best qualities: his marvelous capacity for work, his boundless energy and persistence in overcoming difficulties. He is very practical and exact, always religious and at the same time mindful of his own profit.
复习范围或考核目标：课件Course 02 Daniel Defoe
49. Tips: While she is painting her pictures, Lily recalls people and things in the past. She collects her impressions of the Rayleys, her memory of the relationship between herself and William Bankes, and most important of all, she collects her impression of Mrs. Ramsay. According to her memory, human beings are lonely in general. Even husband and wife could not understand each other. Lovers always remain separated spiritually.
复习范围或考核目标：课件Course06Virginia Woolf
50. Tips: The wild rose bush is covered with its delicate gems. In other words, the roses are in full blossom. They are very beautiful and fragrant. They are in the deep heart of Nature. According to our author, it may serve to “symbolize some sweet moral blosso m, that may be found along the track, or relieve the darkening close of a tale of human frailty and sorrow”.
复习范围或考核目标：课件course07 Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ⅵ.Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet. (15%)
51.
(1)Shakespeare's four greatest tragedies are: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth.
(2) Each portrays some noble hero, who faces the injustice of human life and is caught in
a difficult situation and whose fate is closely connected with the fate of the whole nation.
(3) Each hero has his weakness of nature: Hamlet, the melancholic scholar; Othello' s
inner weakness is made use of by the outside evil force; the old king Lear who is unwilling to totally give up his power; and Macbeth' s lust for power stirs up his ambition and leads him to incessant crimes.
复习范围或考核目标：课件course01William Shakespeare
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《英美文学选读》模拟试卷二
注意：
1.试卷保密，考生不得将试卷带出考场或撕页，否则成绩作废。请监考老师负责监督。
2.请各位考生注意考试纪律，考试作弊全部成绩以零分计算。
3.本试卷满分100分，答题时间为90分钟。
4.本试卷分为试题卷和答题卷，所有答案必须答在答题卷上，答在试题卷上不给分。III.Multiple Choice. (1 point for each, altogether 30 points)
Directions:There are 20 sentences in this section. Beneath each sentence there are four choices respectively marked by letters A, B, C and D. Choose the word that you think best complete the sentence. Write your answers on the answer sheet.
1. Who is NOT the major character in To the Lighthouse? _______
[A] Mrs. Ramsay [B] Mr.Ramsay [C] David [D] James
2. What kind of girl is Dora? _______
[A] pretty and clever [B] pretty and empty-headed
[C] plain-looking and understanding [D] lovely and clever
3. In Hardy＇s Wessex 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
4. The name of the hero in Jane Eyre was_______
[A] Tom [B] Heathcliff [C] James [D] David
5. Which novel gave Woolf the reputation as an important psychological writer? _______
[A] To the Lighthouse [B] The waves
[C] Mrs.Dalloway [D] The Common Reader
6. Virginia Woolf was born in_______
[A] 1882 [B] 1767 [C] 1678 [D] 1890
7. which of Woolf’novels was adapted into movie named The Hours?
[A] Mrs.Dalloway [B] The Waves
[C] The Common Reader [D] To the Light house
8. How many groups are there in Hardy’s novels? _______
[A] two [B] three [C] four [D] five
9. 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
10. Which of the following is NOT written by Hardy?
[A] The Return of the native [B] A Tale of Two Cities
[C] Tess of d＇Urbervilles [D] Jude the Obscure
11．“For a week after the commission of the impious and profane offence of asking for more, Oliver remained a close prisoner in the dark and solitary room ...”(Dickens, Oliver Twist) What did Oliver ask for? _______
[A] More time to play [B] More food to eat
[C] More book to read [D] More money to spend
12．Mrs. Warren’s Profession is one of George Bernard Shaw’s plays. What is Mrs. Warren’s profession then ? _______
[A] Real estate [B] Prostitution
[C] House-keeping [D] Farming
13．How many groups are there in Hardy’s novels? _______
[A] two [B] three [C] four [D] five
14．The statement “A demanding mother turns away from her husband and gives all her affection to her sons” sums up the main plot of D. H. Lawrence′s _______.
[A] Lady Chatterley’s Lover[B] Women in love
[C] Sons and Lovers [D] The Plumed Serpent
15．“Come to me－come to me entirely now,” said he ; and added, in his deepest tone, speaking in my ear as his cheek was laid on mine, “Make my happiness－I will mak e yours.” The above passage presents a scene in_______ .
[A] Emily Bronte’s Withering Heights
[B] Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre
[C] John Galsworthy′s The Forsyte Saga
[D] Thomas Hardy′s Tess of the D′Urbervilles
16．Which of the following is NOT written by William Butler Yeats? _______
[A] “Sailing to Byzantium”[B] “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”
[C] “Leda and the Swan”[D] The Waste Land”
17. “Drive my dead thought over the universe Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth.”
(Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Ode to the West Wind”) What rhetorical device does the poet use in the quoted lines? _______
[A] Synecdoche [B] Metaphor
[C] Simile [D] Onomatopoeia
18．Crusoe is the hero in The life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Grusoe, of York, Mariner (also known as Robinson Crusoe)by . _______
[A] Jonathan Swift [B] Daniel Defoe
[C] George Eliot [D] https://www.doczj.com/doc/7b2728602.html,wrence
19．“Beauty is truth, truth beauty” is an epigrammatic line by . _______
[A] John Keats [B] William Blake
[C] William Wordsworth [D] Percy Bysshe Shelley 20．Christoper Marlow’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” is a (n) . _______
[A] pastoral lyric [B] elegy
[C] eulogy [D] epic
21．Which of the following is NOT regarded as one of the characteristics of Renaissance humanism? _______
[A] Cultivation of the art of this world and this life
[B] Tolerance of human foibles
[C] Search for the genuine flavor of ancient culture
[D] Glorification of religious faith
22．“In dream vision Arthur witnessed the loveliness of Gloriana, and upon awaking resolves to seek her.” The two literary figures Arthur and Gloriana are form_______.
[A] Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene
[B] William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet
[C] Chr istopher Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His love”
[D] John Donne’s “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”
23．Which of the following best describes the nature of Thomas Hardy’s later works? _______
[A] Sentimentalism [B] Tragic sense
[C] Surrealism [D] Comic sense
24．“...This grew: I gave commands; Then all smiles stopped altogether....” (Robert Browning, “My Last Duchess”) The above lines imply that. _______
[A] the Duchess was killed by her husband
[B] the Duchess stopped smiling at her husband’s order
[C] the Duchess died of laughing too much
[D] the Duchess did not want to smile as much as her husband requested
25．In which of the following works can you find the proper names “Lilliput,” “Brobdingnag,” “Houyhnhnm,” and “Yahoo”? _______
[A] Jam es Joyce’s Ulsses[B] Charles Dickens’s Bleak House
[C] Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels[D] D. H. Lawrence’s Women in love 26．As a literary figure, Belinda appears in Alexander Pope’s. _______
[A] “The Dunciad”[B] “An Essay on Man”
[C] “An Essay on Criticism”[D] “The Rape of the lock”
27．“The novel is structured around the discovery of the hero’s origin.” This novel is most probably. _______
[A] Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield
[B] James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
[C] Tho mas Hardy’s Far from the Madding Growd
[D] Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones
28．“To wage by force or guile eternal war, Irreconcilable to our grand Foe.”（John Milton, Paradise lost)
By what means were Satan and his followers to wage this war against God? _______
[A] Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield
[B] James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
[C] Thomas Hardy’s Far from the Madding Growd
[D] Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones
29．“When the evening is spread out against the sky. Like a patient etherized upon a table.” (T. s. Eliot, “The Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock”) What does the image in the quoted lines suggest? _______
[A] Violence [B] Horror
[C] Inactivity [D] Indifference
30. Which of the following is NOT typical of metaphysical poetry best represented by John Donne’s works? _______
[A] Common speech [B] Conceit
[C] Argument [D] Refined language
II. Match the writer with his/her works and Write your answers on the answer sheet. (2 point for each, altogether 20 points)
31. John Milton A. The Leaves of Grass
32. Samuel Johnson B. Mrs. Warren’s Profession
33. Walt Whitman C. Art of Fiction
34. Jane Austen D. The Merchant of Venice
35. William Shakespeare E. A Dictionary of the English Language
36. George Bernard Shaw F. The Return of the Native
37. Henry James G. Samson Agonistes
38. Washington Irving H. Pride and Prejudice
39. Thomas Hardy I. Rip Van Winkle
40. Eugene O’Neill J. The Emperor Jones
III. Decide whether the following statements are true or false and write your answers in the brackets. (2 point for each, altogether 10 points)
()41. "Dr. Faustus" is a play based on the English Legend of a magician aspiring for knowledge and finally meeting his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the Devil.
()42. Swift is a master satirist. His satire is usually masked by an outward gravity and an apparent earnestness which renders his satire all the more powerful. His "A Modest Proposal" is generally taken as a perfect model.
()43. Shelley's greatest achievement is his four - act poetic drama, "Prometheus Unbound". (1820)
()44. Though Naturalism seems to have played an important part in Hardy's works, there is also bitter and sharp criticism and even open challenge as the irrational, hypocritical and unfair Victorian institutions, conventions and morals which strangle the individual will and destroy natural human emotions and relationships.
()45. Hardy is the founder of the "stream of consciousness" school of novel writing.
IV. Define the literary terms listed below and write your answers on the answer sheet. (5 point for each, altogether 10 points)
46. Foreshadowing
47. critical realism
V. Give brief answers to the following questions. Write your answers on the answer sheet. (5 point for each, altogether 15 points)
48. Commen t on Jane Austen’s use of dialogue in Pride and Prejudice.
49. Analyze the poem of Stopping by woods on a Snowy Evening.
50. What is American Naturalism?
Ⅵ.Write no less than 150 words on the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet. (15 point for each, altogether 15points)
51. Charles Dickens is one of the greatest Victorian writers in his own unique way.
Discuss Dickens’s art of novels: the setting, the language, and the characters, etc.
based on his novel Oliver Twist.
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IV. Define the literary terms listed below and write your answers in the brackets. (10%) 46、“Foreshadowing” refers to “an indication or a suggestion of what is coming”; or “a
feeling or an int uition of what is going to occur; a presentiment”. It is a writing technique of arranging events and information in a narrative in such a way that later events are prepared for or shadowed forth beforehand.
复习范围或考核目标：Course08 Theodore Dreiser
47. It is a term applied to the realistic diction in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It refers to the tendency of writers and intellectuals in the period between 1875 and 1920 to apply the methods of realistic diction to the criticism of society and the examination of social issues.
复习范围或考核目标：course05 Charles Dickens
V. Give brief answers to the following questions. Write your answers in the brackets. (15%)
48. Tips: Jane Austen is very good at using dialogue to depict the characteristics of her characters. The characters are made to reveal themselves through their own words. For example, in the first chapter, it is Mrs. Bennet who is talking most of the time, which clearly indicates that this person is quite talkative and of mean understanding. Whereas the fact that the husband does not talk much helps to indicate that he is a gentleman of bookish nature. Thus the writer’s treatment of conservation is quite skilful.
复习范围或考核目标：课件Course 04 Jane Austen
49. The poem is written in iambic tetrameter with interlocking enclosed rhyme. That is to say, the first, the second and the fourth lines of each stanza share a same rhyme, whereas the last syllabus of the third line becomes the rhyme for the first line of the next stanza. To be more exact, the rhyme scheme of this poem is aaba, bbcb, ccdc, dddd. (Note: the last two lines are repetition.)
复习范围或考核目标：课件Course 09 Robert Lee Frost
50. Naturalism, a term applied to the method of literary composition. It develops out of realism but is more inclusive and less selective than realism. As is defined in The American College Dictionary, naturalism is “a theory, as practiced by Emila Zola, Stephen Crane, and others, which applied scientific concepts and methods to such problems as plot development and characterization.” Darwin’s evolutionary theory, Emila Zola, the French novelist and theorist, all had impact on American naturalism. The American naturalist movement arose in the 1890’s a nd continued well into the twentieth century. Writers like Theodore Dreiser, Frank Norris and Stephen Crane dealt with the lives of ordinary people. They sympathized with the lower ranks of society and portrayed misery and poverty of the downtrodden. Philosophically, they used scientific concepts as a basis and assumed that the forces at work in nature are the only forces at work in man too, and that man is subject to the law of nature. The common theme of their fiction is not pleasant hope or romantic idealism by the human instinct toward “bestiality”, especially sexual desire. Artistically they often used, deliberately, blunt and unliterary language and factual details in an attempt to recreate the very look and texture of American society, and their writi ngs lack in what is called “literary skills” and seem unweidy and loose in structure
复习范围或考核目标：Course08 Theodore Dreiser
Ⅵ.Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet. (15%)
51.A. In setting. He uses a mixture of the contemporary and recollected past as his fictional settings.
B. In language. With his first sentence, he engages the reader’s attention and holds it to the end. He is often compared with Shakespeare for his adeptness with the vernacular and large vocabulary.
C. In character-portrayal. His best-depicted characters are those innocent, virtuous, persecuted, helpless child characters such as Oliver Twist.
And he is also famous for the depiction of those horrible and grotesque characters Fagin and those broadly humorous or comical ones like Mr. Micawber. In conclusion, the figures that he depicted, marked out by some peculiarity in physical, speech or manner, are both types and individuals.
D. Dickens’ works are also characterized by a mingling of humor and pathos.
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《英美文学选读》模拟试卷三
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4.本试卷分为试题卷和答题卷，所有答案必须答在答题卷上，答在试题卷上不给分。V.Multiple Choice. (1 point for each, altogether 30 points)
Directions:There are 30 sentences in this section. Beneath each sentence there are four choices respectively marked by letters A, B, C and D. Choose the word that you think best complete the sentence. Write your answers on the answer sheet.
1. The sentence "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 worse 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.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] Southern [B] Western [C] New Hampshire [D] New England
4. American writers of the first postwar era who were devoid of faith and alienated from the civilization were commonly called "______."
[A] sons of liberty [B]fatherless children [C] a beat generation [D] a lost generation
5. 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
6. According to Mark Twain, in river towns up and down the Mississippi, it was every boy’ s dream to some day grow up to be ______.
[A] Methodist preacher
[B] a justice of the peace
[C] a riverboat pilot
[D] a pirate on the Indian ocean
7. 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 opportunist
8. "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
9. 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
10. What’ s the name of Hester and Dimmesdale’ s daughter?
[A] Amy[B] Pearl[C] Nina[D] Berry
11. The sentence "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
12. "So much the worse 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
13. "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"
14. 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] https://www.doczj.com/doc/7b2728602.html,wrence's
[C] Thomas Hardy's [D] John Galsworthy's
15. 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
16. "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 with a（n）_______ tone.
[A] delightful [B] jealous [C] ironic [D] humorous
17. "She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased 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
18. _______ is a typical feature of Swift's writings.
[A] Bitter satire [B] Elegant style
[C] Casual narration [D] Complicated sentence structure
19. The statement "It reveals the dehumanizing workhouse system and the dark, criminal underworld life" may well sum up the main theme if Dickens's _______ .
[A] David Copperfield [B] Bleak House
[C] Great Expectations [D] Oliver Twist
20. "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 above quoted passage is most probably taken from _______.
[A] Pride and Prejudice [B] Jane Eyre
[C] Wuthering Heights [D] Great Expectations
21. 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
22. 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
23. 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
24. " 'I believe you are made of stone, 'he said, clenching his fingers so hard that he broke the fragile cup. …'You seem to forget,' she said, 'that cup is not!' "
From the above quoted passage, we can find the woman's tone is very _______ .
[A] sarcastic [B] amusing [C] sentimental [D] facetious
25. 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 truth [D] self-fulfillment
26 .Alexander Pope strongly advocated _______, emphasizing that literary works should be judged by rules of order, reason, logic, restrained emotion, good taste and decorum.
[A] sentimentalism [B] romanticism [C] idealism [D] neoclassicism
27. In Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, there are detailed descriptions of big parties. The purpose of such descriptions is so show _______..
[A] the corruption of the upper class
[B] emptiness of life
[C] contrast of the rich and the poor
[D] the happy days of the Jazz Age
28．Of all the eighteenth-century novelists, _______ was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a "comic epic in prose," and the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.
[A] Daniel Defoe [B] Samuel Richardson
[C] Henry Fielding [D] Oliver Goldsmith
29．"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 30．In Hardy's Wessex 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
II. Match the writer with his/her works and write your answers on the answer sheet. (2 point for each, altogether 20 points)
31. William Shakespeare A. Sense and Sensibility
32. Daniel Defoe B. Oliver Twist
33. Nathaniel Hawthorne C. Robinson Crusoe
34. William Wordsworth D. Hamlet
35. Theodore Dreiser E. Sister Carrie
36. Jane Austen F. The Great Gatsby
37. Charles Dickens G. “Young Goodman Brown”
38. Robert Frost H. To the Lighthouse
39. F. Scott Fitzgerald I. "The Solitary Reaper"
40. Virginia Woolf J. “Mending Wall”
III. Decide whether the following statements are true or false and write your answers in the brackets. (2point for each, altogether 10 points)
()41. In his poetry, Donne frequently applies conceits, i. e. extended metaphors involving dramatic contrasts.
()42. "The Pilgrim's Progress" is the most successful religious allegory in the English language.
()43. The 19th century produced the first English novelists, who fall into two groups the sentimentalist novelists and the realist novelists.
()44. The most important contribution Byron has made is that he has not only started the modern poetry, the poetry of the growing inner self, but also changed the course of English poetry by using ordinary speech of the language and by advocating a return to nature.
()45. Generally speaking, Jane Austen was a writer of the 18th - century, though she lived mainly in the nineteenth century.
IV. Define the literary terms listed below and write your answers on the answer sheet. (5 point for each, altogether 10 points)
46. The Jazz Age
47. Symbolism
V. Give brief answers to the following questions. Write your answers on the answer sheet. (5 point for each, altogether 15 points)
48. Make a comment on the image of Robinson Crusoe.
49. What are the features of Charles Dickens's novels?
50. What's Nathaniel Hawthorne's "black" vision of life and human beings?
Ⅵ.Write no less than 150 words on the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet. (15 point for each, altogether 15 points)
51. “Sister Carrie” is the greatest li terary work by Theodore Dreiser. Discuss Carrie Meeber, the protagonist of the novel.
《英美文学选读》模拟试卷三答案
III. Decide whether the following statements are true or false and write your answers in
IV. Define the literary terms listed below. (10%)
46. “Jazz”: A style of music, native to America, charact erized by a strong but flexible rhythmic understructure with solo and ensemble improvisations on basic tunes and chord patterns and, more recently, a highly sophisticated harmonic idiom.
“Jazz age”: in the words of Malcolm Cowley, it is “not so much a hist orical period as a legend of glitter, of recklessness, and of talents in such a profusion that it was sown broadcast like wild oats.” It was a legend of “America’s adolescence before pain set in.” Fitzgerald became “the angel of the twenties” and his writings those of a man inside that legendary period.
复习范围或考核目标：课件course10Scott Fitzgerald
47. Symbolism is the writing technique of using symbols. A symbol is something that conveys two kinds of meaning; it is simply itself, and it stands for something other than itself. In other words, a symbol is both literal and figurative. People, places, things and even events can be used symbolically. A symbol is a way of telling a story and a way of conveying meaning. The best symbols are those that are believable in the lives of the characters and also convincing as they convey a meaning beyond the literal level of the story. Hawthorne and Melville were the two masters of symbolism. For example, the scarlet letter "a" on Hester's breast can give you symbolic meanings. If the symbol is obscure or ambiguous, then the very obscurity and the ambiguity may also be apt of the meaning of the story.
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
《英美文学选》学习方法首先我想与大家谈论一下参考书，我看见网上有人询问是否有 什么好的参考书。我总共买了二本参考书，用处不大，浪费时间不少。只有把课本彻底看透， 你才能掌握主要脉络。仔细对照，你可以看出参考书上无非也是从书上copy过来，只能让你 看一遍参考书，又看一遍书本。我能理解大家想偷机取巧的想法，参考书必定是比课本薄得 多，看上去象精选集，但事实并非如此，实际考题说明一切。考题不会超大纲，答案自然都 在书上。只不过来年考题会从越来越偏僻角落去选择，所以课本也就越发重要。我现在都能 想象出题老师得意笑容，我出的题难什么，都在书上。 当我看完第一遍书时，其过程实在是艰涩痛苦，捏着厚厚书真觉得苦海无涯，望也望不 到出头之日。但奇妙的感觉在后面，当我第二，三，四遍看完，当然到后面是以翻看形式了， 书本捏在手上变得越来越薄了。我认为以课本为基础，在自己脑海中形成的超薄精选集才是 正直实用有效的参考书，在网上是下载不到，书店里也买不到。你所需要做的是把这课本看 懂，读透，翻烂。i dont want to say this is only choice, but it actually is, and an most direct and efficient way. don’t find too much resources, which cant easy your job, but increase your burden. 我看见许多人说背不出，或怎样背。大家都是这条路上过来的难兄难弟，多半白天要上 班，晚上要背书，有段时间我近似绝望，怀疑自己提早进入老年痴呆症，健忘症。我不断弄 混名字，作品，时期，英美不分。就现在考题看来，题型已不是单纯浅显记忆题，而是在此 基础上的综合理解题，在今年的部分选择题，简答题里都是这样。如果不掌握最基本的（纯 粹背的），pass是绝无希望。 我的方法是建立一个树枝结构。复习开始时面对的最大困惑是东西太多，无从下手，而 且更糟是前背后忘记，忘得比背得快，简直是没天理，花下去的时间精力似乎打了水漂。当 然要让每个作家都能象对shakespeare一样一听就有个大概印象，没有充足广泛阅读量是无 法做 英美文学是综合学科，要通过或考好，是需要日常对英美历史背景熟悉，对大量着作的 阅读，研究体会的。死记硬背真的只是应付考试的，原始而无意义手段，而且对来年的考题 是没办法应付的噢！ 以下还有一些小窍门，希望有帮助： 1.先复习美国文学，后英国文学； 2.美国文学可先从现实主义阶段开始，英国文学可先从维多利亚阶段开始； 3.去年考过题还会再考； 4.诗中解释较多的话，找那些能反映主题的解释多背背；明年多半是课本没有的解释了， 考你的对诗理解程度了， 5.对各阶段时期特征多花功夫复习； 6.明年的理解题，综合题，比较题必然多，例如： 1).二个阶段思想，风格比较，举例说明； 2).描述一个阶段思想，风格特点，举例说明； 3).比较二个同一，不同阶段诗人，剧作家，小说家，举其作品说明； 4).详细说明一个术语，一种写作方式，风格，主义如何运用，举代表人物，作品说明， （eg, this year question: what is allegory concerned with its implying meaning?) 刁钻复杂的题人人都可猜，我并非想例出一点希奇古怪的题扰乱你们的思路。这次四月 考试，我是充满信心拿高分，对每位作家或诗人我都仔细复习到了，但题目仍是出乎我意料 之外，我觉得不公平是题型已不是去年直白而水平的出题方式，是一种纵向综合题型。我想 提醒明年要参加考试的同学，决不要把每个作家或时期独立复习，如果可能的话，在对每位 作家或时期有一定熟悉的程度，作一点纵向的比较，不但能加深理解，对你们明年考试决对
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
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/7b2728602.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/7b2728602.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/7b2728602.html,wrence was recognized as a prominent novelist.
《英美文学选读》模拟试题（一） 一、单项选择题 1.The excerpt from Chapter 10 of Sons and Lovers ends with the conflict between Paul and his mother. The conflict is possibly caused by Paul and his mother’s different views towards _____. A. Paul’s father B. art C. life D. Paul’s brother 2.The _____ can be regarded as one of the themes of Joyce’s story “Araby”. A. loss of innocence 在所有有關童年故事中，孩子都是同叔叔同姨媽同住，父母則不在身邊—這便是一種象征，象征父母與孩子之間骨肉親情的隔絕和一種正常關系的缺 失. B. childish love C. awareness of harsh life D. false sentimentality 錯誤的多愁善感 3.After reading “Araby”, one more feel the story has a _____ tone. A. joyous B. harsh C. solemn D. painful 4.In “Araby”, Joyce’s diction evokes a sort of _____ quality that characterizes the boy on this otherwise altogether ordinary shopping trip. A. religious B. moral C. sentimental D. vulgar 5.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. D. H. Lawrence’s B. J. Galsworthy’s C. W. Thackeray’s D. T. Hardy’s 6.The mission of _____ drama was to reveal the moral, political and economic truth
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
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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
西安外国语大学考试试题（A）编号: 2012-2013学年第 1 学期系（院、部）：英语教育学院专业：英语 课程：英美文学选读班级：09级本科/11级专升本命题时间：12.3 命题教师：肖婉丽 以上栏目由命题教师填写，下栏由考生填写 学号：姓名：系（院）：专业：班级： I. Multiple Choice (30 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 the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the answer sheet. 1. The most important contribution of ______ is that he not only started the modern poetry, but also changed the course of English poetry by using ordinary speech of the language and by advocating a return to nature. A. William Blake B. William Wordsworth C. G. G. Byron D. John Keats 2. “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”This humorous speech is from__________. A. Jane Austen’s Emma B. Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice C. Charles Dickins’The Great Expectation D. Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre 3. In the Victorian Period ______ became the most widely read and the most vital and challenging expression of progressive thought. A. poetry B. novel C. prose D. drama 4. Thomas Hardy’s ______ view of life predominates most of hi s works and earns him a reputation as a ________ writer. A. pessimistic, naturalistic B. pessimistic, humorous C. romantic, realist D. determinist, stylistic 5. “Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am s oulless 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 lines are most probably taken from ________. A. Great Expectations B. Wuthering Heights C. Jane Eyre D. Pride and Prejudice 6. Jane Austen’ s first novel ________ tells a story about two sisters and their love affairs. A. Sense and Sensibility B. Pride and Prejudice
2004年4月高等教育自学考试全国统一命题考试 英美文学选读试题 （课程代码0604） 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。 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 correct answer on the answer sheet. 1.“And we will sit upon the rocks, /Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks,/By shallow rivers to whose falls/Melodious birds sing madrigals.” The above lines are taken from ______. A. Milton’s Paradise Lost B. Marlowe’s “The Passionate shepherd to His Love” C. Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 18” D. John Donne’s “The Sun Rising” 2.The English Renaissance period was an age of ______ . A. poetry and drama B. drama and novel C. novel and poetry D. romance and poetry 3.Here are four lines taken from Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene: “But on his brest a bloudie Crosse he bore,/The deare remembrance of his dying Lord,/For whose sweete sake that glorious badge he wore,/And dead as living ever him adored.” Who is the “dying Lord” discussed in the above lines? A. Beowulf B. King Arthur C. Jesus Christ D. Jupiter 4.In Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, Antonio could not pay back the money he borrowed from Shylock, because ______. A. his money was all invested in the newly-emerging textile industry B. his enterprise went bankrupt C. Bassanio was able to pay his own debt D. his ships had all been lost 5. Which of the following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18? A. The speaker eulogizes the power of Nature. B. The speaker satirizes human vanity. C. The speaker praises the power of artistic creation. D. The speaker meditates on man’s salvation. 6. In English poetry, a four-line stanza is called ______. A. heroic couplet B. quatrain C. Spenserian stanza D. terza rima 7. “Let not Ambition mock their useful toil,/Their homely joys, and destiny obscure;/Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile /The short and simple annals of the poor.” The above lines are taken from . A. Alexander Pope’s Essay on Criticism B. Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan” 1word版本可编辑.欢迎下载支持.
《英美文学选读》复习指导资料 Part 1 English Literature An Introduction to Old and Medieval English Literature 一．重点：有关这部分的文学史内容 1．古代英国文学和中世纪英国文学的起始阶段 2．英国文学史上的第一部民族史诗----Beowulf 3．中世纪文学的主要文学形式-----Romance 4．Geoffrey Chaucer 的文学贡献 二．练习： 1. Choose the best answer for each blank. 1). The period of ______ English literature begins from about 450 to 1066, the year of ______. A. Old----Renaissance B. Middle---- the Norman Conquest of England C. Middle ---- Renaissance D. Old---- the Norman Conquest of England 2). The Medieval period in English literature extends from 1066 up to the ______ century. A. mid-13th B. mid-14th C. mid-15th D. mid-16th 3). Beowulf, a typical example of Old English poetry, is regarded today as the national ______ of the Anglo-Saxons. A. sonnet B. essay C. epic D. novel 4). In The Canterbury Tales, ______ presented to us a comprehensive realistic picture of the English society of his time and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life. A. Geoffrey Chaucer B. William Shakespeare C. Francis Bacon D. William Langland 5). For the Renaissance, ______ was regarded as the English Homer. His reputation has been securely established as one of the best English poets for his wisdom, humor and ______. A. Geoffrey Chaucer----wits B. William Shakespeare----wits C. Geoffrey Chaucer----humanity D. William Shakespeare----humanity 6). After the conquest of 1066, three languages co-existed in England. They are ______, ______ and ______. A. Old English, Greek, Latin B. Old English, French, Latin C. Old English, Greek, French D. English, Greek, French 7). Geoffrey Chaucer is the greatest writer of the Medieval period in English literature. In ―The Legend of Good Women‖, he used for the first time in English the rhymed couplet of iambic pentameter which is to be called later the ______. A. couplet B. blank verse C. heroic couplet D. epic 8). Thematically the poem ―Beowulf‖ presents a vivid picture of how the primitive people wage heroic struggle against the hostile forces of the ______ world under a wise and mighty ______.
Network Education College, BLCU 《英美文学选读》模拟试卷一 注意： 1.试卷保密，考生不得将试卷带出考场或撕页，否则成绩作废。请监考老师负责监督。 2.请各位考生注意考试纪律，考试作弊全部成绩以零分计算。 3.本试卷满分100分，答题时间为90分钟。 4.本试卷分为试题卷和答题卷，所有答案必须答在答题卷上，答在试题卷上不给分。 I.Multiple Choice. (1 point for each, altogether 30 points) Directions:There are 30 sentences in this section. Beneath each sentence there are four choices respectively marked by letters A, B, C and D. Choose the word that you think best complete the sentence. Write your answers on the answer sheet. 1. Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his production of_______. [A] Piers Plowman [B] Sir Gawain and the Green Knight [C] Confessio Amantis [D] The Canterbury Tales 2. 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] still very much interested in apple-picking [C] expecting a greater harvest [D] indifferent to what he once desired 3.With Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the literary scene,_______became the major trend in American literature in the seventies and eighties of the 19th century. [A] Sentimentalism [B] romanticism [C] realism [D] naturalism 4. Of the following American poets in the twentieth century, the one who has the best knowledge of Chinese culture is _______. [A] Robert Frost [B] Allen Ginsberg [C] Ezra Pound [D] Cummings 5. _______is the first important governess novel in the English literary history. [A] Jane Eyre [B] Emma [C] Wuthering Heights [D] Middlemarch 6. The Hemingway Code heroes are best remembered for their_______. [A] indestructible spirit [B] pessimistic view of life [C] war experiences [D] masculinity 7. Which of the following is taken from John Keats’Ode to a Nightingale? _______
一.What is the theme of Beowulf? 这首诗主题介绍了如何原始人工资在聪明和强大的领导之下的自然世界的敌对势力的英勇斗争的生动写照。这首诗是自然界神话与英雄传说混合在一起的一个例子。 Thematically the poem presents a vivid picture of how the primitive people wage heroic struggles against the hostile forces of the natural world under a wise and mighty leader.The poem is an example of the mingling of nature myths and heroic legends. 二.莎士比亚（1）四个悲剧。（二）四大悲剧的共同之处？3请简要总结每个英雄人性的弱点。 1.莎士比亚的四个最大的悲剧是：哈姆雷特、奥赛罗、李尔王、麦克白。 2.每个描绘了一些高尚的英雄，谁面临着人类生活的不公，陷入了一个困难的局面和他们的命运与整个国家的命运息息相关。 3.每一位英雄有他的弱点的性质；老国王李尔不愿意完全放弃他的权力；麦克白的权欲挑起他的抱负和他会导致无休止的罪行 1.Shakespeare’s four greatest tragedies are: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth. 2.Each portrays some noble hero, who faces the injustice of human life and is caught in a difficult situation and whose fate is closely connected with the fate of the whole nation. 3. Each hero has his weakness of nature; the old king Lear who is unwilling to totally give up his power; and Macbeth’s lust for power stirs up his ambition and leads him to incessant crimes 三.试论莎士比亚的艺术的创作。 1.主要特点是既不是仅仅是个人的也不是类型；他们是代表某些类型的个人。每个字符都有他或她自己的个性；与此同时，他们可能与别人分享功能。 2.通过运用心理分析的方法，莎士比亚成功探索刻画心灵。 3.莎士比亚很少发明自己的情节；相反，他借用他们的一些旧的戏剧或故事书，或从古希腊和古罗马的来源。 4.在他的著作中，伪装也是重要的设备，打造
英美文学选读试题 Ⅰ.Multiple Choice (40 points in all, 1 for each) Select from the four choices [A],[B],[C],[D] of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement and write the letter on the answer sheet. 1.Romance,which uses narrative verse or prose to tell stories of ___ adventures or other heroic deeds, is a popular literary form in the medieval period. A.Christian B.knightly C.Greek D.primitive 2.Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his production of ___. A.Piers Plowman B.Sir Gawain and the Green Knight C.Confessio Amantis D.The Canterbury Tales 3.Which of the following historical events does not directly help to stimulate the rising of the Renaiss sance Movement? A.The rediscovery of ancient Greek and Roman culture. B.The new discoveries in geography and astrology. C.The Glorious revolution. D.The religious reformation and the economic expansion. 4.Which of the following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare's Sonnet 18? A.The speaker eulogizes the power of Nature. B.The speaker satirizes human vanity. C.The speaker praises the power of artistic creation. D.The speaker meditates on man's salvation. 5.“And we wil l sit upon the rocks,/Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks,/By shallow rivers to whose falls/Melodious birds sing madrigals.”The above lines are probably taken from __. A.Spenser's The Faerie Queene B.John Donne's “The Sun Rising” C.Shakespeare's “Sonnet 18” D.Marlowe's “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” 6.“Bassanio:Antonio,I am married to a wife Which is as dear to me as life itself; But life itself, My wife, and all the world. Are not with me esteem'd above thy life; I would lose all, ay, sacrifice them all, Here to the devil, to deliver you. Portia:Y our wife would give you little thanks for that, If she were by to hear you make the offer.” The above is a quotation taken from Shakespeare's comedy The Merchant of V enice. The quoted part can be regarded as a good example to illustrate ____. A.dramatic irony B.personification C.allegory D.symbolism 7.The ture subject of John Donne's poem,“The Sun Rising,” is to ___. A.attack the sun as an unruly servant B.give compliments to the mistress and her power of beauty C.criticize the sun's intrusion into the lover's private life D. lecture the sun on where true royalty and riches lie 8.Of all the 18thcentury 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 https://www.doczj.com/doc/7b2728602.html,ic epic