歷年自考?xì)v年英美文學(xué)選讀試卷及答案

1、英美文學(xué)歷年真題全國 2009 年 4 月英美文學(xué)選讀試題請將答案填在答題紙相應(yīng)的位置上(全部題目用英文作答 )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 and write the corresponding letter on the answer sheet.1. In Renaissance, the European h

2、umanist thinkers and scholars made attempts to do the following EXCEPT _. A. getting rid of those old feudalist ideasB. getting control of the parliament and governmentC. introducing new ideas that expressed the interests of the rising bourgeoisieD. recovering the purity of the early church, from th

3、e corruption of the Roman Catholic Church2. The Petrarchan sonnet was first introduced into England by _.A. SurreyB. WyattC. SidneyD. Shakespeare3. As the best of Shakespeare's final romances,_ is a typical example of his pessimistic view towards human life and society in his late years.A. The T

4、empestB. The Winter's TaleC. CymbelineD. The Rape of Lucrece4. John Milton's greatest poetical work _ is the only generally acknowledged epic in English literarure sinceBeowulf .A. AreopagiticaB. Paradise Lost5. The British bourgeois or middle class believed in the following notionsEXCEPT _.

5、A. self - esteemB. self - relianceC. self - restraintD. hard work6.“ Graveyard School” writers are the following sentimentalistsEXCEPT _.A. James ThomsonB. William CollinsC. William CowperD. Thomas Jackson7.The best model of satire in the whole English literary history is Jonathan Swift's _.A. A

6、 Modest ProposalB. A Tale of a TubC. Gulliver 's TravelsD. The Battle of the Books8.As a representative of the Enlightenment,_ was one of the first to introduce rationalism to England.A. John BunyanB. Daniel DefoeC. Alexander PopeD. Jonathan Swift9. For his contribution to the establishment of t

7、he form of the modern novel,_ has been regarded by some as“ Father of the English Novel”.A. Daniel DefoeB. Henry FieldingC. Jonathan SwiftD. Samuel Richardson10.Which of the following descriptions of Gothic Novels isNOT correct?A. It predominated in the early eighteenth century.B. It was one phase o

8、f the Romantic movement.C. Its principal elements are violence, horror and the supernatural.D. Works like The Mysteries of Udolpho and Frankensteinare typical Gothic romance.11.“ Byronic herois a figure” of the following traits EXCEPT _.A. being proudB. being of humble originC. being rebelliousD. be

9、ing mysterious12.Robert Browning created _ by adopting the novelistic presentation of characters.A. the verse novelB. the blank verseC. the heroic coupletD. the dramatic poetry13. Charles Dickens' novel _ is famous for its vivid descriptions of the workhouse and life of the underworld in the nin

10、eteenth- century London.A. The Pickwick PaperB. Oliver TwistC. David CopperfieldD. Nicholas Nickleby14. Charlotte Bronte's works are all about the struggle of an individual consciousness towards _ about somelonely and neglected young women with a fierce longing for love, understanding and a full

11、, happy life.A. self - relianceB. self - realizationC. self - esteemD. self - consciousness15. The symbolic meaning of“ Book ” in Robert Browning's longThepoemRing and the Book is _.A. the common senseB. the hard truthC. the comprehensive knowledgeD. the dead truth16. Thomas Hardy's pessimis

12、tic view of life predominated most of his later works and earns him a reputation as a_ writer.A. realisticB. naturalisticC. romanticD. stylistic17. After the First World War, there appeared the following literary trends of modernism EXCEPT _.A. expressionismB. surrealismC. stream of consciousnessD.

13、black humour18. The masterpieces of critical realism in the early 20th century are the three trilogies of _.A. Galsworthy's Forsyte novelsB. Hardy' s Wessex novelsC. Greene's Catholic novelsD. Woolf's stream-of-consciousness novels19. In the mid - 1950s and early 1960s, there appeare

14、dho“ demonstrated”w a particular disillusion over thedepressing situation in Britain and launched a bitter protest. against the outmoded social and political values intheir society.A. The Beat GenerationB. The Lost GenerationC. The Angry Young MenD. Black Mountain Poets20.The following are English s

15、tream-of-consciousness novelsEXCEPT _.A. PilgrimageB. UlyssesC.Mrs.DallowayD. A Passage to Inida21. The leader of the Irish National Theater Movement in the early 20th century was _.A. W.B.YeatsB. Lady GregoryC. J.M.SyngeD. John Galworthy22. T.S.Eliot's most popular verse play is _.A. Murder in

16、the Cathedral B. The Cocktail Party C. The Family Reunion D. The Waste Land23. The American writer _ was awarded the Nobel Prize for the anti-racistIntruder in the Dust in 1950.A. Ernest HemingwayB. Gertrude SteinC. William FaulknerD.T.S. Eliot24. Hemingway's second big success is _ , which wrot

17、e the epitaph to a decade and to the whole generation in the 1920s, in order to tell us a story about the tragic love affair of a wounded American soldier with a British nurse.A. For Whom the Bell TollsB. A Farewell to ArmsC. The Sun Also RisesD. The Old Man and the Sea25. With the publication of _

18、, Dreiser was launching himself upon a long career that would ultimately make himone of the most significant American writers of the school later known as literary naturalism.A. Sister CarrieB. The TitanC. The GeniusD. The Stoic26. Henry James is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th- cen

19、tury“ stream-of- consciousness” novels and thefounder of _.A. neoclassicismB. psychological realismC. psychoanalytical criticismD. surrealism27. In 1849, Herman Melville published _ ,a semi-autobiographical novel, concerning the sufferings of a genteel youth among brutal sailors.A. OmooB. MardiC. Re

20、dburnD. Typee28. As a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,_ marks the climax of Mark Twain's literary activity.A. The Adventures of Huckleberry Fin n B. Life on the Mississippi C. The Gilded Age D. Roughing It29. Realism was a reaction against _ or a move away from the bias towards romance an

21、d self- creating fictions,and paved the way to Modernism.A. RomanticismB. RationalismC. Post-modernismD. Cynicism30. When World War II broke out,_ began working for the Italian government, engaged in some radio broadcastsof anti- Semitism and pro- Fascism.A. Ezra PoundB.T.S. EliotC. Henry JamesD. Ro

22、bert Frost31. In 1915 _ became a naturalized British citizen, largely in protest against America's failure to join England in the First World War.A. Henry JamesB.T.S.EliotC. W.D.HowellsD. Ezra Pound32. What Whitman prefers for his new subject and new poetic feelings isat is, poetry“without a, fi

23、xed” thbeator regular rhyme scheme.A. blank verseB. free rhythmC. balanced structureD. free verse33. The American woman poet _ wanted to live simply as a complete independent being, and so she did, as aspinster.A. Emily ShawB. Anna DickinsonC. Emily DickinsonD. Anne Bret34. The Birthmarkdrives home

24、symbolically _ point that evil is a man's birthmark, something he was born with.A. Whitman'sB. Melville'sC. Hawthorne'sD. Emerson's35. The Financier,The Titan and The Stoic written by _ are called his“ Trilogy of Desire”.A. Henry JamesB. Theodore DreiserC. Mark TwainD. Herman Mel

25、ville36. Disregarding grammar and punctuation,_ always used“ i ” instead of“ I ” in his poems to showagainst self-importance.A. Wallace StevensB. Ezra PoundC. Robert FrostD. E.E.Cummings37. Though Robert Frost is generally considered a regional poet whose subject matters mainly focus on the landscap

26、e and people in _ , he wrote many poems that investigate the basic themes of man's life in his long poetic career.A. the westB. the southC. New EnglandD. Alaska38. Most critics have agreed that Fitzgerald is both an insider and an outsider of _ with a double vision.A. the Gilded Age B. the Ratio

27、nal Age C. the Jazz Age D. the Magic Age39. In the American Romantic writings,_ came to function almost as a dramatic character that symbolized moral law.A. fireB. waterC. treesD. wilderness40. The desire for an escape from society and a return to _ became a permanentconvention of the American liter

28、ature.A. the family lifeB. natureC. the ancient timeD. fantasy of loveII. Reading Comprehension (16 points in all, 4 for each)Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.41. Wherefore feed and clothe and save

29、From the cradle to the grave Those ungrateful drones who would Drain your sweat- nay, drink your blood?Questions:A. Identify the poet and the title of the poem from which the stanza is taken.B. What figure of speech is used in Line 2?C. Whom does “ drones ” refer to?Answer:A: The Men of England by P

30、ercy Bysshe Shelley B. Metaphor ( 不確定答案 )C. Drones: the male of the honey-bees that do not work, referring here to the parasitic class in human society.42. The following quotation is from one of the poems by T. S. Eliot:No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;Am an attendant lord, one that w

31、ill doTo swell a progress, start a scene or twoAdvise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool,Deferential, glad to be of use,Politic, cautious, and meticulous,Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse;Questions:A. Identify the title of the poem from which the quoted part is taken.B. Who's the speaker o

32、f the quoted lines?C. What does the first line show about the speaker?Answer:A. The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock.B. Prufrock.C. (待補(bǔ)充 )43 There was a child went forth every day,And the first object he look'd upon, that object he became,And that object became part of him for the day or a certain

33、 part of the day, Or for many years or stretching cycles of years.Questions:A. Identify the poet.B. From which poem and which collection of the poet are these lines taken?C. What does the poet describe in the poem?Answer:A. Walt WhitmanB. There Was a Child Went Forth; Leaves of Grass.C. This poem de

34、scribes the growth of a child who learned about the world around him and improved himself accordingly.44. I heard a Fly buzz- when I died-The Stillness in the Room Was like the Stillness in the Air-Between the Heaves of Storm-The Eyes around- had wrung them dry-And Breaths were gathering firmFor tha

35、t last Onset- when the KingBe witnessed - in the Room-Questions:A. Identify the poet.B. What does“ the King” refer to?C. What moment is the poem trying to describe?Answer:A. Emily DickinsonB. the King refers to the God of death.C. the poem trying to describe the moment of death.the author even imagi

36、ned her own death, the loss of her own body, and the journey of her soul to the unknownIII. Questions and Answers (24 points in all, 6 for each)Give brief answers to each of the following questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.45. List at least two le

37、ading neoclassicists in England. What did Neoclassicists celebrate in literary creation?A. The Neoclassicism period was an important age with the remarkable authors Pope, Defoe, etc.B. 1) The Neoclassical period is about 1660-1798, also known as "the Age of Enlightenment" or "the age

38、of Reason".2)In essence, the Neoclassical Period was a progressive intellectual movement.3)The Enlighteners believed in self-restraint, self-reliance and hard work; They celebrated reason/rationality, equality and science. They advocated universal education, which could make people rational and

39、 prefect, they believed.4)In literature, The Enlightenment Movement brought about a revival of interest in the ancient Greek and Roman classical works; the works at the time, heavily didactic and moralizing; having fixed laws and rules for every type of the literature; among which prose and the mode

40、rn English novel predominated the age.46. Jane Eyre is one of the most popular and important novels of the Victorian Age. Why is Jane Eyre such a successful novel?Answer:A. The story opens with the titular heroine, Jane Eyre, a plain little orphan.B. This novel sharply criticize the existing society

41、, e.g. the religious hypocrisy of charity institutions, the social discrimination Jane experiences and the false social convention as concerning love and marriage.C. The success of the novel is also due to its introduction to the English novel the first governess heroine Jane Eyre. D. It is an inten

42、se moral fable at the same time. Jane, like Mr. Rochester, has to undergo a series of physical and moraltests to grow up and achieve her final happiness.47. Who are the three dominant figures of the American Age of Realism and what are the differences in theirunderstanding of the“ truth”?Answer:A. t

43、he three dominant figures of the American Age of Realism are Mark Twain, Howells, Henry James.B. Mark Twain and Howells seemed to have paid more attention to the life of the Americans, Henry James hadapparently laid a greater emphasis on the“ inner world” of man.Howells focused his discussion on the

44、 rising middle class and the way they lived, while Twain preferred to have his own region and people at the forefront of his stories.48. What's Dreiser' s naturalistic belief? Please discuss the question with Carrie, a character in Sister Carrie as an example.Answer:1) Penniless and "fu

45、ll of the illusions of ignorance and youth", Sister Carrie leaves her rural home to seek work in Chicago, she grows from an innocent, pure country girl to be a girl mature in intellect and emotion, and she becomes a star of musical comedies. But in spite of her success in material, she is not h

46、appy but lonely and dissatisfied.2) Sister Carrie best embodies Dreiser s naturalistic beliefmenthatarewhilecontrolled and conditioned by heredity, instinct and chance , a few extraordinary and unsophisticated human beings refuse to accept their fate wordlessly and instead strive, unsuccessfully, to

47、 find meaning and purpose for their existenceIV . Topic Discussion(20 points in all, 10 for each)Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.49. Briefly discuss William Shakespeare's artistic achievements in characterizat

48、ion, plot construction and language. Answer: As one of the most remarkable playwrights and poets the worlds has ever known, Shakespeare has effected hisinfluence far beyond the time he lived the Renaissance period. In this greatest tragedy “ Hamlet ” , his sk handling of plot construction, powerful

49、condemnations of the royal corruption as well as his genius application ofsoliloquy are all displayed perfectly, which not only makes this play the most popular one on the stage, but also creates Shakespeare an everlasting fame in the literary world, going beyond the national boundaries for centurie

50、s.50. Briefly discuss Mark Twain's art of fiction in terms of the setting, the language, and the characters, etc., based on his novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn .Answer: 1).Adventures of Huckleberry find proved itself to be the milestone in American literature and thus firmlyestablished

51、Twain s position in Americanaturliter.2) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn marks the climax of Twain s literary creativity. The novel is written in a languagthat is totally different from the rhetorical language used by Emerson, Poe, and Melville. It is simple, direct, lucid, and faithful to the colloq

52、uial speech. Speaking in vernacular, a wild and uneducated Huck, running away from civilization for his freedom, is vividly brought to life. Indeed, with his great mastery and effective use of vernacular, Twain has made colloquial speech an accepted, respectable literary medium in the literary histo

53、ry of the country.3) Mark Twain s humor is remarkable, too. His humor is not only of witty remarks mocking at small things or of farcical elements making people laugh, but a kind of artistic style used to criticize the social injustice and satirize the decayed romanticism.4). The profound portrait o

54、f Huckleberry Finn is another great contribution of the book to the legacy of American literature.5). Twain, known as a local colorist, preferred to present social life through portraits of the local characters of his regions, including people living in that area, the landscape, and other peculiarit

55、ies like the customs, dialects, costumes and so on. The Mississippi valley and the West became his major theme. Unlike James and Howells, Mark Twain wrote about the lower-class people. He successfully used local color and historical settings to illustrate and shed light on thecontemporary society.或者參考第二個答案：As a true father of American national literature, Twain has impresses the whole world with hismilestone work “ Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ” , which not only gives a record of a vanished life moving millions of people worldwide, but also become a classic