4月英美文学选读自考试题(2)

全国自考英美文学选读（综合）模拟试卷2(总分：20.00，做题时间：90分钟)一、阅读理解(总题数：3，分数：6.00)1.To bow and sue for graceWith suppliant knee, and deify his power...—that were low indeed,That were an ignominy, and shame beneathThis downfall;...Questions:A. Who is the author?B. What is the title of the poem?C. What is the main idea?（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：(正确答案：A. John Milton. B. Paradise Lost. C. To beg God for mercy and worship his power were more shameful and disgraceful than this downfall.)解析：2.I celebrate myself, and sing myself,And what I assume you shall assume,For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.Questions:A. Identify the author and the work.B. What are the two principal beliefs that the poet set in this poem?（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：(正确答案：A. From Walt Whitman' s "Song of Myself". B. The two beliefs are the belief in the theory of universality and the belief in the singularity and equality of all beings in value.)解析：3."...Only Miss Emily' s house was left, rifting its stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton wagons and the gasoline pumps—an eyesore among eyesores. "Questions:A. Identify the author and the title of the story from which the quoted lines are taken.B. What is the meaning of "an eyesore among eyesores" ?C. What does this quoted passage indicate?（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：(正确答案：A. Faulkner, A Rose for Emily. B. The most unpleasant thing to look at. C. The house is a perfect mirror image of the owner who is stubborn and coquettish and deliberately detaches herself from the communal life in this small town.)解析：二、简答题(总题数：4，分数：8.00)4.As a novelist Jane Austen writes within a very ______ sphere. The subject matter, the character range, the social setting, and plots are all restricted to the ______ of the late 18th-century England, concerning three or four landed gentry families with their daily routine life.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：(正确答案：Shelley eulogized the powerful west wind and expressed his eagerness to enjoy the boundless freedom from the reality.)解析：5.Analyze the character of Jane Eyre taken from Jane Eyre.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：(正确答案：A. Jane Eyre, an orphan child with a fiery spirit and a longing to love and be loved, a poor, plain, little governess who dares to love her master. B. In Chapter XXIII, Jane finds herself hopelessly in love with Mr. Rochester but she is aware that her love is out of thequestion. When forced to confront Mr. Rochester, she desperately and openly declares her equality with him and her love for him.)解析：6.What are the features of Whitman' s poetry?（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________正确答案：(正确答案：A. His poetic style is marked by the use of poetic "I". B. He adopted" free verse" , poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme. C. The images in his poems are unconventional. D. He uses oral English. E. His vocabulary is amazing. F. Parallelism and phonetic recurrence are used at the beginning of the lines.)解析：7.Some of Hemingway' s heroes are regarded as the Hemingway code heroes. Whatever the differences in experience and age, they all have something in common which Hemingway values. What are the characteristics of the Hemingway code hero?（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________正确答案：(正确答案：A. They have seen the cold world and for one cause or another, they boldly and courageously face the reality; whatever the result is, they are ready to live with grace under pressure. B. Almost all his heroes are" soldiers" either in a narrow or broad sense. They are out there to fight against nature or the world, or even themselves. But no matter where the battleground is and how tragic the ending is, they will never be defeated. C. Hemingway himself is one of those Code heroes; some critics say his protagonists are autobiographical, for they share something that is Hemingway' s.)解析：三、论述题(总题数：3，分数：6.00)8.Robinson Crusoe is universally considered as Daniel Defoe' s masterpiece. Robinson, apparently, is cast as a typical 18th-century pioneer colonist. Give a brief comment on Robinson Crusoe. （分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________正确答案：(正确答案：A. In Robinson Crusoe, Defoe traces the growth of Robinson from a naive and artless youth into a shrewd and hardened man, tempered by numerous trials in his eventful life. The realistic account of the successful struggle of Robinson single-handedly against the hostile nature forms the best part of the novel. B. Robinson is here a real hero; a typical eighteenth-century English middle-class man, with a great capacity for work, inexhaustible energy, courage, patience and persistence in overcoming obstacles, in struggling against the hosr tile natural environment. He is the very prototype of the empire builder, the pioneer colonist. C. In describing Robinson' s life on the island, Defoe glorifies human labor and the puritan fortitude, which save Robinson from despair and are a source of pride and happiness. He toils for the sake of subsistence, and the fruits of his labor are his own.)解析：9.Make a brief comment on Elizabeth ' s character in Pride and Prejudice.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________正确答案：(正确答案：A. Elizabeth is clever, alert, observant. She is more observant and less charitable than Jane in recognizing the characters of Bingley' s sisters. She recognizes Mr. Collins' character in his letter and after meeting him turns down firmly and with dignity his patronizing proposal. She is able to match wits with Darcy several times and with Colonel Fitzwilliam, earning their respect and admiration. B. Fearless and frank, not rattled by the attack of Lady Catherine de Bourgh, she wins a notable victory, sending her Ladyship away completelyrouted. She is independent but not infallible in her judgment—taken in by the charm of the worthless Wickham. She cannot be blamed for misjudging Darcy. C. She shows flexibility, discernment, and honesty of mind when she reads Darcy' s defense in his letter and admits the justice of much of what he says, thus beginning to lose her prejudice against him. She recognizes and values true worth when she encounters it in Jane, the Gardiners, and, near the end of the novel, in Darcy. She sees more clearly than her father the danger of sending Lydia to Brighton.D. She is able to control her emotions at times of stress—when she first encounters Darcy at Pemberley; when she realizes that she loves Darcy and has good reason to fear that she has lost him,she waits without repining for time to bring a solution. She is witty, fun-loving, recognizes humor in herself and in others, but ridiculing only folly, nonsense, and inconsistencies. She recognizes the follies of her own family and their shortcomings as well as their virtues.E. She is considerate of others but quite capable of asserting herself when occasion demands. She has a playful and unaffected manner, sunny disposition, natural animation, sense of fun, and sweet reasonableness. She is ready to laugh at herself and everything save "what is wise and good". She shows a sense of humor by telling what Darcy has said about her at the Meryton ball.)解析：10.Take Mark Twain' s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as an example to illustrate the statement that Mark Twain was a unique writer in American literature.（分数：2.00）__________________________________________________________________________________________ 正确答案：(正确答案：A. Mark Twain shaped the world' s view of America and made an extensive combination of American folk humor and serious literature. B. The novel has become a great contribution to the legacy of American literature. C. The novel is written in a language that is totally different from the rhetorical language used by Mark Twain' s contemporary writers such as Emerson, Poe and Melville. It is simple, direct, lucid and faithful to the colloquial speech. This style of colloquialism is best described as " vernacular". D. He successfully used local color and historical settings to illustrate and shed light on the contemporary society. That' s why he is known as a local colorist. E. Mark Twain' s humor is remarkable, too. Most of his works tend to be funny, containing some practical jokes, comic details, witty remarks, etc. Some of them are typically tall tales. And a great deal of his humor is characterized by puns, straight-faced exaggeration, repetition, and anti-climax. He uses his humor to criticize the social injustice and satirize the decayed romanticism.)解析：。

课程代码：0604请将答案填在答题纸相应的位置上(全部题目用英文作答)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 statementand write the corresponding letter on the answer sheet.1. In Renaissance, the European humanist thinkers and scholars made attempts to do the followingEXCEPT ______.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 the 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 pessimisticview towards human life and society in his late years.A. The TempestB. The Winter's TaleC. CymbelineD. The Rape of Lucrece4. John Milton's greatest poetical work ______ is the only generally acknowledged epic in Englishliterarure since Beowulf.A.AreopagiticaB. Paradise LostC. LycidasD. Samson Agonistes5. The British bourgeois or middle class believed in the following notions EXCEPT ______.A. self - esteemB. self - relianceC. self - restraintD. hard work6. “Graveyard School”writers are the following sentimentalists EXCEPT ______.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 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 rationalismto England.A. John BunyanB. Daniel DefoeC. Alexander PopeD. Jonathan Swift9. For his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel,______ has beenregarded 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 is NOT correct?A. It predominated in the early eighteenth century.B. It was one phase of the Romantic movement.C. Its principal elements are violence, horror and the supernatural.D. Works like The Mysteries of Udolpho and Frankenstein are typical Gothic romance.11. “Byronic hero”is a figure of the following traits EXCEPT ______.A.being proudB. being of humble originC.being rebelliousD. being 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 lifeof the underworld in the nineteenth- 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 some lonely and neglected young women with a fierce longing for love,understanding and a full, happy life.A. self - relianceB. self - realizationC. self - esteemD. self - consciousness15. The symbolic meaning of “Book” in Robert Browning's long poem The Ring and the Book is ______.A. the common senseB. the hard truthC. the comprehensive knowledgeD. the dead truth16. Thomas Hardy's pessimistic view of life predominated most of his later works and earns hima 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. 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 appeared “______” who demonstrated a particulardisillusion over the depressing situation in Britain and launched a bitter protest. against the outmoded social and political values in their society.A. The Beat GenerationB. The Lost GenerationC. The Angry Young MenD. Black Mountain Poets20.The following are English stream-of-consciousness novels EXCEPT ______.A.PilgrimageB. UlyssesC.Mrs.DallowayD. A Passage to Inida21. The leader of the Irish National Theater Movement in the early 20th centurywas ______.A. W.B.Yeats B. Lady GregoryC. J.M.SyngeD. John Galworthy22. T.S.Eliot's most popular verse play is ______.A. Murder in the CathedralB. The Cocktail PartyC. The Family ReunionD. The Waste Land23. The American writer ______ was awarded the Nobel Prize for the anti-racist In-truder in the Dust in 1950.A. Ernest HemingwayB. Gertrude SteinC. William FaulknerD.T.S. Eliot24. Hemingway's second big success is ______ , which wrote the epitaph to a decade and to thewhole generation in the 1920s, in order to tell us a story about the tragic love affair ofa 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 ______ , Dreiser was launching himself upon a long career that wouldultimately make him one of the most significant American writers of the school later knownas literary naturalism.A. Sister CarrieB. The TitanC. The GeniusD. The Stoic26. Henry James is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th -century “stream-of-consciousness”novels and the founder of ______.A. neoclassicismB. psychological realismC. psychoanalytical criticismD. surrealism27. In 1849, Herman Melville published ______ ,a semi-autobiographical novel, con- cerning thesufferings of a genteel youth among brutal sailors.A. OmooB. MardiC. RedburnD. Typee28. As a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,______ marks the climax of Mark Twain's literaryactivity.A. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnB. Life on the MississippiC. The Gilded AgeD. Roughing It29. Realism was a reaction against ______ or a move away from the bias towards romance and 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 someradio broadcasts of anti- Semitism and pro- Fascism.A. Ezra PoundB.T.S. EliotC. Henry JamesD. Robert Frost31. In 1915 ______ became a naturalized British citizen, largely in protest against America'sfailure to join England in the First World War.A. Henry JamesB.T.S.EliotC. W.D.Howells D. Ezra Pound32. What Whitman prefers for his new subject and new poetic feelings is “______ ,”that is, poetry without a fixed beat or 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, andso she did, as a spinster.A. Emily ShawB. Anna DickinsonC. Emily DickinsonD. Anne Bret34. The Birthmark drives home symbolically ______ point that evil is a man's birthmark, somethinghe 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 Melville36. Disregarding grammar and punctuation,______ always used “i” instead of “I” in his poemsto show his protest against 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 focuson the landscape and people in ______ , he wrote many poems that investigate the basic themesof 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 ______ witha double vision.A. the Gilded AgeB. the Rational AgeC. the Jazz AgeD. the Magic Age39. In the American Romantic writings,______ came to function almost as a dramatic character thatsymbolized moral law.A. fireB. waterC. treesD. wilderness40. The desire for an escape from society and a return to ______ became a permanentconvention of the American literature.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 thecorresponding space on the answer sheet.41. Wherefore feed and clothe and saveFrom the cradle to the graveThose ungrateful drones who wouldDrain 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?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 will 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 of the quoted lines?C. What does the first line show about the speaker?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 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?44. I heard a Fly buzz- when I died-The Stillness in the RoomWas like the Stillness in the Air-Between the Heaves of Storm-The Eyes around- had wrung them dry-And Breaths were gathering firmFor that 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?III. 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 thecorresponding space on the answer sheet.45. List at least two leading neoclassicists in England. What did Neoclassicists celebrate inliterary creation?46. Jane Eyre is one of the most popular and important novels of the Victorian Age. Why is JaneEyre such a successful novel?47. Who are the three dominant figures of the American Age of Realism and what are the differencesin their understanding of the “truth”?48. What's Dreiser' s naturalistic belief? Please discuss the question with Carrie, a characterin Sister Carrie as an example.IV. 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 onthe answer sheet.49. Briefly discuss William Shakespeare's artistic achievements in characterization, plotconstruction and language.50. Briefly discuss Mark Twain's art of fiction in terms of the setting,the language, and thecharacters, etc.,based on his novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.2009年4月全国高等教育自学考试英美文学选读试题答案及评分参考（课程代码0604）I. Multiple Choice (40 points in all, 1 for each)1. B2. B3. A4. B5.A6.D7.A8.C9.B 10.A 11.B 12.A 13.B 14.B15.B 16.B 17.D 18.A 19.C 20.D 21.A 22.A 23.C 24.B 25.A 26.C 27.C28.A 29.A 30.A 31.A 32.D 33.C 34.C 35.B 36.D 37.C 38.C 39.D 40.BII. Reading Comprehension (16 points in all, 4 for each)41. A. From Percy Shelley’s “Men of England” (1)B. Metonymy (1)C. Here “drones” refers to the parasitic class in human society. (2)42. A. “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (1)B. J. Alfred Prufrock (1)C. Prufrock is conscious of the fact that he is like Hamlet in some respects. But he is sensible enough that hecannot be compared with Hamlete. (2)43. A. Walt Whitman (1)B. “There Was a Child Went Forth” from “Leaves of Grass” (1)C. The poem describes the growth of a child who learned about the world around him and improved himselfaccordingly. In the poem, Whitman’s own early experience may well be identified with the childhood of ayoung, growing American. (2)44. A. Emily Dickinson (1)B. The God of Death. (1)C. The poem is trying to describe the moment of death. (2)III. Questions and Answers (24 points in all, 6 for each)45. A. Alexander Pope, John Dryden, Samuel Johnson (任选2位作家). (2)B. They believed that the artistic ideals should be order, logic, restrained emotion and accuracy and thatliterature should be judged in terms of its service to humanity. (2) They seek proportion, unity, harmony andgrace in literacy expression, in an effort to delight, instruct and correct human beings. Thus a polite, elegant,witty and intellectual art developed. (2)46. A. It is noted for its sharp criticism of the existing society. (2)B. It is an intense moral fable. (2)C. The success of the novel is also due to its introduction to the English novel the first governess heroine. (2)47. A. William Dean Howells, Mark Twain, Henry James. (3)B. Mark Twain an d Howells seemed to have paid more attention to the “life” of the Americans. Howellsfocused his discussion on the rising middle class and the way they lived; Mark Twain preferred to have his own region and people at the forefront of his stories; Henry James had apparently laid a greater emphasis onthe “inner world” of man. (3)48. A. Dreiser believes that while men are controlled and conditioned by heredity, instinct and chance, a fewextraordinary and unsophisticated human beings refuse to accept their fate wordlessly and instead strive, unsuccessfully, to find meaning and purpose for their existence. (3)B. Carrie, as one of such, senses that she is merely a cipher in an uncaring world yet seeks to grasp themysteries of life and thereby satisfies her desires for social status and material comfort, but in spite of hersuccess, she is lonely and dissatisfied. (3)以上各题语言错误酌情扣分。

全国202X年4月高等教育自学考试英美文学选读真题课程代码：00604Ⅰ.Multiple Choice (40 points in all, 1 for each)Select from the four choices A],B],C],Dof 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.ChristianB.knightlyC.GreekD.primitive2.Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his production of ___.A.Piers PlowmanB.Sir Gawain and the Green KnightC.Confessio AmantisD.The Canterbury Tales3.Which of the following historical events does not directly help to stimulate the rising of the Renaisssance MovementA.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 18A.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 will sit upon the rocks,/Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks,/By shallow rivers towhose falls/Melodious birds sing madrigals.〞The above lines are probably taken from __.A.Spenser's The Faerie QueeneB.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 wifeWhich 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 ironyB.personificationC.allegoryD.symbolism7.The ture subject of John Donne's poem,“The Sun Rising,〞is to ___.A.attack the sun as an unruly servantB.give compliments to the mistress and her power of beautyC.criticize the sun's intrusion into the lover's private lifeD. lecture the sun on where true royalty and riches lie8.Of all the 18th century novelists Henry Fielding was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a “___ in prose,〞the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.A.tragic epic B ic epicC.romanceD.lyric epic9.The Houyhnhnms depicted by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels are ___.A.horses that are endowed with reasonB.pigmies that are endowed with admirable qualitiesC.giants that are superior in wisdomD.hairy,wild, low and despicable creatures, who resemble human beings not only in appearance but also in some other ways.10.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 LostC.Alexander Pope's Essay on CriticismD.Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream11.The phrase “to urge people to abide by Christian doctrines and to seek salvation throughconstant struggles with their own weaknesses and all kinds of social evils〞may well sum up the implied meaning of ___.A.Gulliver's TravelsB.The Rape of the LockC.Robinson CrusoeD.The pilgrim's Progress12.William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following EXCEPT ___.A.the use of everyday language spoken by the common peopleB.the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelingsC.the use of humble and rustic life as subject matterD.the use of elegant wording and inflated figures of speech13.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 pary.〞C.“Earth has not anything to show more fair.〞D.“Beauty is truth, truth beauty〞.14.“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind!〞is an epigrammatic line by __.15.“Ode o na Grecian Urn〞shows the contrast between the ___ of art and the ___ of humanpassion.A.glory …uglinessB.permanence…transienceC.transience…sordidnessD.glory…permanence16.In the statement“—oh,God! would you like to live with your soul in the grave〞the term“soul〞apparently refers to ___.A.Heathcliff himselfB.CatherineC.one's spiritual lifeD.one's ghost17.The typical feature of Robet Browning's poetry is the ___.A.bitter satirerger-than-life caricaturetinized dictionD.dramatic monologue18.The Victorian Age was largely an age of ____,eminently represented by Dickens and Thackeray.A.poetryB.dramaC.proseD.epic prose19.___is the first important governess novel in the English literary history.A.Jane EyreB.EmmaC.Wuthering HeightsD.Middlemarch20.The major concern of ______ fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological development ofhis characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature.wrence'sB.J.Galsworthy'sC.W.Thackeray’sD.T.Hardy’s21.___is considered to be the best-known English dramatist since Shakespeare, and his representative works are plays inspired by social criticism.A.Richard SheridanB.Oliver GoldsmithC.Oscar WildeD.Bernard Shaw22.Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of ModernismA.To elevate the individual and inner being over the social being.B.To put the stress on traditional values.C.To portray the distorted and alienated relationships between man and his environment.D.To advocate a conscious break with the past.23.The Romantic writers would focus on all the following issues EXCEPT the ___ in the Americanliterary histrory.A.individual feelingsB.idea of survival of the fittestC.strong imaginationD.return to nature24.Henry David Thoreau's work,__,has always been regarded as a masterpiece of New EnglandTranscendentalism.A.WaldenB.The pioneersC.NatureD.Song of Myself25.The famous 20-years sleep in “Rip Van Winkle〞helps to construct the story in such a waythat we are greatly affected by Irving's ___.A.concern with the passage of timeB.expression of transient beautyC.satire on laziness and corruptibility of human beingsD.idea about supernatural manipulation of man's life26.Walt whitman was a pioneering figure of American poetry. His innovation first of all lies in hisuse of __,poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.A.blank verseB.heroic coupletC.free verseD.iambic pentameter27.The literary characters of the American type in early 19th century are generally characterized byall the following features EXCEPT that they ___.A.speak local dialectsB.are polite and elegant gentlemenC.are simple and crude farmersD.are noble savages( red and white) untainted by society28.Hester Pryme, Dimmsdale,Chillingworth and Pearl are most likely the names of the charactersin ___.A.The Scarlet LetterB.The House of the Seven GablestC.The Portrait of a LadyD.The pioneers29.“This is my letter to the World〞is a poetic expression of Emily Dickinson's __ about hercommunication with the outside world.A.indifferenceB.angerC.anxietyD.sorrow30.With Howells,James,and Mark Twain active on the literary scene, __ became the major trendin American literature in the seventies and eighties of the 19th century.A.sentimentalismB.romanticismC.realismD.naturalism31.After The adventures of Tom Sawyer, Twain gives a literary independence to Tom's buddy Huckin a book entitled ___.A.Life on the MississippiB.The Gilded AgeC.The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnD.A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court32.However,___,the keynote of Daisy Miller's character,turns out to be an admiring but adangerous quality and her defiance of social taboos in the Old World finally brings her to a disaster in the clash between two different cultures.A.experienceB.sophisticationC.worldlinessD.innocence33.Generally speaking,all those writers with a naturalistic approach to human reality tend to be ___.A.transcendentalistsB.idealistsC.pessimistsD.impressionists34.Emily Dickinson wrote many short poems on various aspects of life.Which of the following isNOT a usual subject of her poetic expressionA.Religion and immortality.B.Life and death.C.Love and marriage.D.War and peace.35.In “After Apple-Picking,〞Robert Frost wrote:“For I have had too much/Of applepicking:I amovertired/Of the great harvest I myself desired.〞From these lines we can conclude that the speaker is ___.A.happy about the harvestB.still very much interested in apple-pickingC.expecting a greater harvestD.indifferent to what he once desired36.Chinese poetry and philosophy have exerted great influence over ____.A.Ezra PoundB.Ralph Waldo EmersonC.Robert FrostD.Emily Dickinson37.The Hemingway Code heroes are best remembered for their __.A.indestructible spirtieB.pessimistic view of lifeC.war experiencesD.masculinity38.IN The Emperor Jones and T he Hairy Ape,O'Neill adopted the expressionist techniques toportray the ___ of human beings in a hostile universe.A.helpless situationB.uncertaintyC.profound religious faithD.courage and perseverance39.In Hemingway's “Indian Cmap〞,Nick's night trip to the Indian village and his experienceinside the hut can be taken as ____.A.an essential lesson about Indian tribesB.a confrontation with evil and sinC.an initiation to the harshness of lifeD.a learning process in human relationship40.which of the following statements about Emily Grierson, the protagonist in Faulkner's story“A Rose for Emily,〞is NOT trueA.She has a distorted personality.B.She is physically deformed and paralyzed.C.She is the symbol of the old values of the South.D.She is the victim of the past glory.PART TWOⅡ.Reading Comprehension (16 points, 4 for each)Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English.Write your answer in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.41.“Her eyes met his and he looked away.He neither believed nor diXelieved her,but he knew thathe had made a mistake in asking;he never had known,never would know,what she was thinking.The sight of her inscrutable face,the thought of all the hundreds of evenings he had seen her sitting there like that,soft and passive,but so unreadable, unknown, enraged him beyond measure.〞Questions:A.Identify the writer and the work.B.What does the phrase “inscrutable face〞meanC.What idea does the quoted passage express42.“And when I am formulated,sprawling on a pin,When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall.Then how should beginTo spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways.〞Questions:A.Identify the poem and the poet.B.What does the phrase “butt-ends〞meanC.What idea does the quoted passage express43.“God knows,…I'm not myself—I'm somebody else—…and I'm changed,and I can't tell what'smy name,or who I am.〞Questions:A.Identify the work and the author.B.The speaker says he is changed.Do you think he is changed, or the social environment haschangedC.What idea does the quoted sentence express44.“I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference.〞Questions:A.Idenfity the poem and the poet.B.What does the phrase “ages and ages hence〞meanC.What idea does the quoted passage expressⅢ.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.As a rule,an allegory is story in verse or prose with a double meaning: a surface meaning,and animplied meaning.List two works as examples of allegory.What is an allegory usually concerned with by its implied meaning46.Inspiration for the romantic approach initially came from two great shapers of thought.Who arethe twoAnd what ideas they expressed inspire the romantic writers47.The white whale,Moby Dick,is the most important symbol in Melville's novel.What symbolicmeaning can you draw from it48.Nature is a philosophic work, in which Emerson gives an explicit discussion on his idea of theQversoul.What is your understanding of Emersonian “Oversoul〞Ⅳ.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.How is Romanticism different from NeoclassicismProvide brief evidence from the literaryworks you know best.50.Summerize the story of Mark twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in about 100words,and comment on the theme of the novel.全国202X年4月高等教育自学考试英美文学选读真题答案课程代码：00604Ⅰ.Multiple Choice(40 points in all,1 for each)1.B2.D3.C4.C5.D6.A7.B8.B9.A 10.C11.D 12.D 13.D 14.D 15.B16.B 17.D 18.C 19.A 20.A21.D 22.B 23.B 24.A 25.A26.C 27.B 28.A 29.C 30.C31.C 32.D 33.C 34.D 35.D36.A 37.A 38.A 39.C 40.BⅡ.Reading Comprehension (16 points, 4 for each)41.A.John Galasworthy:The Man of Property.B.A face does not show any emotion or reaction so that it is impossible to know how thatperson is feeling or what he is thinking about.C.it presents the inner mind of Soames in face of his wife's coldness.He can never knowwhat is on his wife's mind because the makeup of his and her mentality is different. Hiswife Irene, whose mind is romantically inclined, is disgusted with her huXand'spossessiveness. Being unable to read his wife's mind is as good as saying that he reallycan't regard her as his property- this is the very reason why he is enraged beyondmeasure.42.A.T.S.Eliot:“The Love Song of J.Alfred Pruforck.〞B.The ends of cigarettes,meaning trivial things here.C.Here,Prufrock's inability to do anything against the society he is in is made strikinglyclear by using a sharp comparison .Prufrock imagines himself as a kind of insect pinnedon the wall and struggling in vain to get free.This image vividly shows Prufrock's currentpredicament.43.A.Washington Irving:“Rip Van Winkle〞.B.The social environment is changed.C.When Rip is back home after a period of 20 years,he finds thta everything has changed.Allthose old values are gone,and he can hardly feel at home in a changed society.One of thefunctions that Rip serves in the story is to provide a measuring stick for change. It isthrough him that Irving drives home the theme that a desire for change,improvement,andprogress could subvert stable society.44.A.Robert Frost:“The Road Not Taken〞.B.Many many years later.C.The speaker is telling his experience of making the choice of the roads.But he isconscious of the fact that his choice will have made all the difference in his life.Heseems to be giving a suggestion to the reader.“Make good choice of your life.〞Ⅲ.Questions and Answers (24 points in all,6 for each)45.A.Buyan's pilgrim's Progress and Spenser's The Faerie Queene.B.It is usually concerned with moral ,religious,political,symbolic or mythical ideas.46.A.The French philosopher,Jean Jacques Rousseau and the German writer Johna Wolfgan vonGoethe.B.It is Rousseau who established the cult of the individual and championed the freedom of thehuman spirit;his famous announcement was “I felt before I thought.〞Goethe and hiscompatriots extolled the romantic spirit.47.A.To Ahab,the whale is either an evil creature itself or the agent of an evil force that controlsthe universe,or perhaps both.B.To Ishmale,the whale is an astonishing force,an immense power,which defies rationalexplanation due to a sense of mystery it carries. It is beautiful,but malignant at the same time.It also represents the tremendous organic vitality of the universe,for it has a life force that surges onward irresistibly, impervious to the desires or wills of men.C.As to the reader, the whale can be viewed as a symbol of the physical limits that lifeimposes upon man. It may also be regarded as a symbol of nature, or an instrument of God's vengeance upon evil man. In general,the multiplicity and ambivalence of the symbolic meaning of the whale is such that it becomes a source of intense speculation, an object or profound curiosity for the reader.48.A.The Oversoul is believed to be an all-pervading power for goodness,omnipresent andomnipotent from which all things come and of which all are a part. It exists in nature andman alike and constitutes the chief element of the universe.B.According to Emerson,it is a supreme reality of mind, a spiritual unity of all beings, and areligion regarded as an emotional communication between an individual soul and theuniversal Over-soul of which it is a part.C.He holds that intuition is a more certain way of knowing than reason and that the mindcould intuitively perceive the existence of the Oversoul and of certain absolutes.Ⅳ.Topic Discussion (20 points in all, 10 for each)49.a.Neoclassicists upheld that artistic ideals should be order,logic,restrained emoticon andaccuracy,and that literature,should be judged in terms of its service to humanity,and thus,literary expressions should be of proportion,unity,harmony and grace.Pope's An Essay on Criticism advocates grace,wit (usually though satire/humour),and simplicity in language(and the poem itself is a demonstration of those ideals,too);Fielding's Tom Jones helped establish the form of novel;Gray's “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' displays elegance in style,unified structure,serious tone and moral instructions.b.Romanticists tended to see the individual as the very center of all experience,includingart,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.c.In a word, Neoclassicism emphasized rationality and form but Romanticism attached greatimportance to the individual's mind (emotion, imagination, temporary experience…)50.A.Mark Twain's novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a Sequa to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.The Story takes place along the Mississippi River before the Civil War in the United States, around 1850.Along the river, floats a small raft, with two people on it; One is an ignorant,uneducated black slave named Jim and the other is little uneducated outcast white boy about the age of thirteen, called Huckleberry Finn or Huck Finn.The novel relates the story of the escape of Jim from slavery and ,more important, how Huck Finn, floating along with Jim and helping him as best he could, changes his mind ,his prejudice, about Black people, and comes to accept Jim as a man and as a close friends as well.During their journey, they experience a series of adventures:coming across two frauds, the “Duke〞and the “King〞,witnessing the lynching and murder of a harmless drunkard, being lost in a fog and finally Tom's coming to rescue.B. The theme of the novel may be best summed in a word “freedom〞: Huck wants to escape fromthe bond of civilization and Jim wants to escape from the yoke of slavery. Mark Twain uses the raft's journey down the Mississippi River to express his thematic contrasts between innocence and experience, nature and culture, wilderness and civilization.全国202X年4月自学考试英美文学选读真题答案课程代码：00604Ⅰ.Multiple Choice(40 points in all,1 for each)1.B2.D3.C4.C5.D6.A7.B8.B9.A 10.C11.D 12.D 13.D 14.D 15.B16.B 17.D 18.C 19.A 20.A21.D 22.B 23.B 24.A 25.A26.C 27.B 28.A 29.C 30.C31.C 32.D 33.C 34.D 35.D36.A 37.A 38.A 39.C 40.BⅡ.Reading Comprehension (16 points, 4 for each)41.A.John Galasworthy:The Man of Property.B.A face does not show any emotion or reaction so that it is impossible to know how that person is feeling or what he is thinking about.C.it presents the inner mind of Soames in face of his wife's coldness.He can never know what is on his wife's mind because the makeup of his and her mentality is different. His wife Irene, whose mind is romantically inclined, is disgusted with her huXand's possessiveness. Being unable to read his wife's mind is as good as saying that he really can't regard her as his property- this is the very reason why he is enraged beyond measure.42.A.T.S.Eliot:“The Love Song of J.Alfred Pruforck.〞B.The ends of cigarettes,meaning trivial things here.C.Here,Prufrock's inability to do anything against the society he is in is made strikingly clear by using a sharp comparison .Prufrock imagines himself as a kind of insect pinned on the wall and struggling in vain to get free.This image vividly shows Prufrock's current predicament.43.A.Washington Irving:“Rip Van Winkle〞.B.The social environment is changed.C.When Rip is back home after a period of 20 years,he finds thta everything has changed.Allthose old values are gone,and he can hardly feel at home in a changed society.One of the functions that Rip serves in the story is to provide a measuring stick for change. It is through him that Irving drives home the theme that a desire for change,improvement,and progress could subvert stable society.44.A.Robert Frost:“The Road Not Taken〞.B.Many many years later.C.The speaker is telling his experience of making the choice of the roads.But he is conscious of the fact that his choice will have made all the difference in his life.He seems to be giving a suggestion to the reader.“Make good choice of your life.〞Ⅲ.Questions and Answers (24 points in all,6 for each)45.A.Buyan's pilgrim's Progress and Spenser's The Faerie Queene.B.It is usually concerned with moral ,religious,political,symbolic or mythical ideas.46.A.The French philosopher,Jean Jacques Rousseau and the German writer Johna Wolfgan von Goethe.B.It is Rousseau who established the cult of the individual and championed the freedom of the human spirit;his famous announcement was “I felt before I thought.〞Goethe and his compatriots extolled the romantic spirit.47.A.To Ahab,the whale is either an evil creature itself or the agent of an evil force that controls the universe,or perhaps both.B.To Ishmale,the whale is an astonishing force,an immense power,which defies rational explanation due to a sense of mystery it carries. It is beautiful,but malignant at the same time. It also represents the tremendous organic vitality of the universe,for it has a life force that surges onward irresistibly, impervious to the desires or wills of men.C.As to the reader, the whale can be viewed as a symbol of the physical limits that life imposes upon man. It may also be regarded as a symbol of nature, or an instrument of God's vengeance upon evil man. In general,the multiplicity and ambivalence of the symbolic meaning of the whale is such that it becomes a source of intense speculation, an object or profound curiosity for the reader.48.A.The Oversoul is believed to be an all-pervading power for goodness,omnipresent and omnipotent from which all things come and of which all are a part. It exists in nature and manalike and constitutes the chief element of the universe.B.According to Emerson,it is a supreme reality of mind, a spiritual unity of all beings, and a religion regarded as an emotional communication between an individual soul and the universal Over-soul of which it is a part.C.He holds that intuition is a more certain way of knowing than reason and that the mind could intuitively perceive the existence of the Oversoul and of certain absolutes.Ⅳ.Topic Discussion (20 points in all, 10 for each)49.a.Neoclassicists upheld that artistic ideals should be order,logic,restrained emoticon and accuracy,and that literature,should be judged in terms of its service to humanity,and thus,literary expressions should be of proportion,unity,harmony and grace.Pope's An Essay on Criticism advocates grace,wit (usually though satire/humour),and simplicity in language(and the poem itself is a demonstration of those ideals,too);Fielding's Tom Jones helped establish the form of novel;Gray's “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' displays elegance in style,unified structure,serious tone and moral instructions.b.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.c.In a word, Neoclassicism emphasized rationality and form but Romanticism attached great importance to the individual's mind (emotion, imagination, temporary experience…) 50.A.Mark Twain's novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a Sequa to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.The Story takes place along the Mississippi River before the Civil War in the United States, around 1850.Along the river, floats a small raft, with two people on it; One is an ignorant,uneducated black slave named Jim and the other is little uneducated outcast white boy about the age of thirteen, called Huckleberry Finn or Huck Finn.The novel relates the story of the escape of Jim from slavery and ,more important, how Huck Finn, floating along with Jim and helping him as best he could, changes his mind ,his prejudice, about Black people, and comes to accept Jim as a man and as a close friends as well.During their journey, they experience a series of adventures:coming across two frauds, the “Duke〞and the “King〞,witnessing the lynching and murder of a harmless drunkard, being lost in a fog and finally Tom's coming to rescue.B. The theme of the novel may be best summed in a word “freedom〞: Huck wants to escape from the bond of civilization and Jim wants to escape from the yoke of slavery. Mark Twain uses the raft's journey down the Mississippi River to express his thematic contrasts between innocence and experience, nature and culture, wilderness and civilization.。

浙江省2018年4月自学考试美国文学选读试题课程代码：10055Part I: Choose the relevant match from Column B for each item in Column A. (10 points in all, 1 point for each)Group 1Column A Column B( ) 1. Nathaniel Hawthorne a. Nature( ) 2. Washington Irving b. Rip Van Winkle( ) 3. Ralph Waldo Emerson c. The House of Seven Gales( ) 4. Mark Twain d. The Great Gatsby( ) 5. Scott Fitzgerald e. The Gilded AgeGroup 2Column A Column B( ) 1. Charles Drouet a. The Great Gatsby( ) 2. Ishmael b. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn( ) 3. Jim c. Sister Carrie( ) 4. George Wilson d. A Rose for Emily( ) 5. Emily Grierson e. Moby DickPart Ⅱ: Each of the following statements below is followed by four alternatives. Choose the one that would best complete the statement. (50 points in all, 2 points for each)1. The period of ______ started with the publication of Washington Irving’s The Sketch Book and ended with Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass. ( )A. American RomanticismB. American RealismC. American TranscendentalismD. American Classicism2. The desire for an escape from society and a return to nature became a permanent convention of American literature. Such a desire is particularly evident in ______ Leather-Stocking Tales.( )A. Washington Irving’sB. Waldo Emerson’s1C. James Fennimore Cooper’sD. Walt Whitman’s3. New England Transcendentalism was started by a group of people who were members of an informal club, i.e. the Transcendental Club in New England in the ______.( )A. 1850sB. 1840sC. 1830sD. 1860s4. The American ______ as a cultural heritage exerted great influences over American moral values.( )A. PuritanismB. UnitarianismC. DeismD. Protestantism5. In his famous poem Song of Myself, Walt Whitman sets forth two principal beliefs: the belief in the singularity and equality of all beings in value, and the theory of ______, which is illustrated by lengthy catalogues of people and things. ( )A. nationalityB. universalityC. natureD. community6. Which of the following is NOT what Emerson put forward in his essays? ( )A. the Over-SoulB. the formal religion of the churches and the Deistic philosophyC. NatureD. the importance of individual7. Moby-Dick is a mixture of fantasy and ______ based upon the South Pacific whaling industry.( )A. romanticismB. naturalismC. realismD. surrealism8. Which of the following statements about Hawthorne is NOT right? ( )A. The ambiguity is one of the salient characteristics of his art.B. He is a master of realism.C. He is a great allegorist.D. He is a master of symbolism.9. Which of the following is NOT regarded as the characteristics of Whitman’s poetic style?( )2A. The use of “free verse”B. His strong tendency to use of formal languageC. The use of parallelism and phonetic recurrence at the beginning of the linesD. The use of the poetic “I”10. ______ and Emersonian Transcendentalism produced some positive effect on Melville’s writing.( )A. Washington Irving’s conservativeB. Hawthorne’s moral courageC. Thoreau’s RomanticismD. Shakespearian tragic vision11. The period ranging from 1865 to 1914 has been referred to as ______ in the literary history of the United States.( )A. the Age of RomanticismB. the Age of EnlightenmentC. New England TranscendentalismD. the Age of Realism12. The three dominant figures of the period of Realism in American literature are ______.( )A. Mark Twain, Henry James, and Jack LondonB. Mark Twain, Henry James, and Theodore DreiserC. William Dean Howells, Mark Twain, and Jack LondonD. William Dean Howells, Mark Twain, and Henry James13. ______ once described the novel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the one book from which “all modern American literature comes.”( )A. Ernest HemingwayB. Henry JamesC. Mark TwainD. Theodore Dreiser14. ______ was the first American writer to conceive his career in international themes.( )A. Washington IrvingB. Henry JamesC. Ralph Waldo EmersonD. Mark Twain15. Within her little lyrics Dickinson addresses those issues that concern the whole human beings EXCEPT______.( )A. religion and deathB. immortality3C. man and womanD. love and nature16. ______ proves to be his greatest work and by entitling this book with such a name, Dreiser intended to tell us that it is the social pressure that makes Clyde’s downfall inevitable.( ) A. The Titan B. Sister CarrieC. The FinancierD. An American Tragedy17. Ezra Pound is a leading spokesman of the famous ______ Movement in the history of American literature.( )A. SymbolistB. ImpressionistC. ExistentialistD. Imagist18. Allen Ginsburg’s Howl became the manifesto of ______.( )A. PostmodernismB. ImagismC. the Beat GenerationD. the Lost Generation19. ______ is a school of modern painting, whose emphasis is on the formal structure of a work of art and especially on the multiple-perspective viewpoints. ( )A. ExpressionismB. ImagismC. CubismD. Impressionism20. ______ is often acclaimed literary spokesman of the Jazz Age. ( )A. F. Scott FitzgeraldB. Ezra PoundC. Robert Lee FrostD. Ernest Hemingway21. ______, Hemingway’s first novel, casts light on a whole generation after the First World War and the effects of the war by way of a vivid portrait of “The Lost Generation.”( )A. The Old Man and the SeaB. The Sun Also RisesC. In Our TimeD. A Farewell to Arms22. Which of the following is depicted as the mythical county in William Faulkner’s novels?( )A. Cambridge.B. Oxford.C. Yoknapatawpha.D. Mississippi.23. Robert Frost rejected ______ choosing ______ instead.( )A. the conventional poetic principles... the revolutionary wayB. the romantic way... the revolutionary principles4C. the revolutionary principles... the romantic wayD. the revolutionary poetic principles of his contemporaries... the old-fashioned way to be new24. Which of the following is right about American fiction from 1945 onwards?( )A. Black fiction began to attract critical attention during the 1950s.B. There appeared a significant group of Jewish-American writers whose works were set against the Jewish experience and tradition.C. A group of new writers who survived the war wrote about their ideals within the artistic field.D. American fiction in the 1950s and 1960s proves to be a harvest which derived from its predecessors.25. Which of the following can NOT be included in the thematic concerns of Robert Frost’s Poems?( )A. The contradiction and misunderstanding between man and woman.B. The loneliness and poverty of the isolated human being.C. His love of life and his belief in a serenity coming from working.D. The terror and tragedy in nature as well as its beauty.Part Ⅲ: Interpretation (20 points in all, 5 points for each)Read the following selections and then answer the questions briefly.Passage 1Because I could not stop for Death——He kindly stopped for me——The Carriage held but just Ourselves——And Immortality.....Questions:1. Who is the Author of this poem?2. What do “He”and “Carriage”refer to?Passage 2There was, as usual, a crowd of folk about the door, but none that Rip recollected. The very character of the people seemed changed. There was a busy, bustling, disputatious tone about it, instead of the accustomed phlegm and drowsy tranquility. He looked in vain for the sage Nicholas5Vedder, with his broad face, double chin, and fair long pipe, uttering clouds of tobacco smoke instead of idle speeches; or Van Bummel, the schoolmaster, doling forth the contents of an ancient newspaper. In place of these, a lean bilious looking fellow, with his pockets full of handbills, was haranguing vehemently about rights of citizens-election-members of congress-liberty-Bunker’s hill-heroes of seventy-six-and other words, that were a perfect Babylonish jargon to the bewildered Van Winkle.Questions:1. Who is the author and where is this passage taken from?2. What do you know about the protagonist?Passage 3Once I said to myself it would be a thousand times better for Jim to be a slave at home where his family was, as long as he’d got to be a slave, and so I’d better write a letter to Tom Sawyer and tell him to tell Miss Waston where he was. But I soon give up that notion, for two things: she’d be mad and disgusted at his rascality and ungratefulness for leaving her, and so she’d sell him straight down the river again; and if she didn’t, everybody naturally despises an ungrateful nigger, and they’d make Jim feel it all the time, and so he’d feel ornery and disgraced. And then think of me! It would get all round, that Huck Finn helped a nigger to get his freedom; and if I was to ever see anybody from that town again, I’d be ready to get down and lick his boots for shame. Questions:1. Please identify the author and the novel.2. Please give a brief comment on this part.Passage 4...Then took the other, as just as fair,And having perhaps the better claim,Because it was grassy and wanted wear;Though as for that the passing thereHad worn them really about the same.....Questions:61. Who wrote this poem? What’s the title of it?2. What can we know from the verse?Part Ⅳ: Give brief answers to the following questions. (20 points in all,10 points for each)1. What is “Leaves of Grass”mainly concerned about?2. What is the most famous theme in Henry James’ fiction? And what is his favorite approach in characterization, which makes him different from Mark Twain as a realist?7。

全国2018年4月自考外国文学作品选考试真题及答案第一部分选择题一.单项选择题本大题共30小题每小题1分，共30分，在每小题列出的备选项中，只有一项是最符合题目要求的，请将其选出。

1.在《伊利亚特》中代表着氏族英雄最高理想的人物是A.阿基琉斯B.赫克托耳C.帕里斯D.阿伽门农【答案】B【解析】《伊利亚特》主要人物形象：阿基琉斯：氏族社会向奴隶制时代转型时期的英雄形象。

勇猛又残忍、冷酷又仁慈、自私却又无私。

赫克托耳：氏族英雄的最高理想。

沉稳、内向、有人情味、具有强烈的集体责任感，不畏惧死亡，是厄运英雄。

【考点】荷马《伊利亚特》2.在《永生的阿弗洛狄忒》中提到的司劝导的女神是A.缪斯B.蓓脱C.雅典娜D.赫拉【答案】B【解析】书中节选：我狂热的心在把什么追逐。

我会问：“你希望蓓脱女神把谁说服，而领入你的情网？告诉我，是谁，委屈了萨福？···”【考点】萨福《永生的阿弗洛狄忒》3.在古希腊三大悲剧家中，被称为“舞台上的哲学家”的是A.欧里庇得斯B.索福克勒斯C.埃斯库罗斯D.阿里斯托芬【答案】A【解析】欧里庇得斯是雅典奴隶主民主制国家危机时期的悲剧作家，出身贵族，他深受智者学派影响，在悲剧里他提出了许多问题，诸如神性与人性、战争与和平、民主、妇女、家庭、奴隶等，因而被称为“舞台上的哲学家”。

他一生虽未参与过政治生活，但一直细心观察思考当时的现实，对许多问题都有自己的独到见解，在三大悲剧作家中，他是反映现实生活最具体、最真实的一位。

【考点】欧里庇得斯4.在《神曲》中贝亚特丽采带领但丁游历了A.地狱B.炼狱C.天堂D.人间【答案】C【解析】《神曲》中但丁由古罗马诗人维吉尔带领游历了地狱与炼狱；再由贝亚特丽采带领游历了天堂。

【考点】但丁《神曲》5.在十日谈的第四天故事一中，唐克烈派人杀害了A.贝尔纳博B.绮思梦达C.纪斯卡多D.加布亚【答案】C【解析】爱情悲剧故事。

亲王唐克烈的女儿绮斯梦达与侍从纪斯卡多相爱，由于地位悬殊，为父亲所不容。

2010年4月高等教育自学考试全国统一命题考试I． Multiple Choice(40 points in all， 1 for each)1. T。

S。

Eliot’ s ______ bea ring a strong thematic resemblance to The Waste Land， is generally regarded as the darkest of Eliot' s poems.A. “Gerontion”B. “Prufrock"C. Murder in the Cathedral D。

The Hollow Men2. Shelley’ s political lyrics ______ is not only a war cry calling upon all working people to rise up against their political oppressors， but an address to them pointing out the intolerable injustice of economic exploitation。

A。

“Ode to Liberty” B。

“Ode to Naples"C。

“Ode to the West Wind” D. “Men of England”3。

Charlotte’ s works are famous for the depiction of the life of ______ working women, particularly governesses.A。

the middle — class B。

the lower - classC。

the upper — middle — class D. the upper — class4. All of the following works are known as Hardy' s “novels of character and environment” EXCEPT ______。

自考《英美文学选读》（美）现代文学时期（4）-2四。

应用Selected Reading：An Excerpt from Scene VⅢ of The Hairy Ape1.The theme of the play or the tragic vision in it：The tragic sense of modern man belonging nowhere，being helpless and impotent remained as the common the me of O’Neill’s works.The Hairy Ape is a good illustration. The play concerns the problem of modern man’s identity. Yank’s sense of belonging nowhere，hence homelessness and rootlessness，is typical of the mood of isolation and alienation in the early twentieth century in the United States and the whole world as well.Yank was a stroker on a transatlantic liner. He was happy with life until the day when his brutality shocked and made faint Mildred Douglas. He was greatly insulted. Thus became gloomy，sullen and violent. He attempted to seek identity with the aristocratic class，the radical class. In the last scene of the play，rejected，Yank wandered to the zoo where he found affinity with the great ape there，only to be crushed to death. So，Yank’s j ourney in quest of self-identity finished with his death，yet with the realization that he did belong nowhere. The general feeling is one of despairingly tragic. Man is homeless and rootless，alienated from the indifferent society.2. The expressionistic techniques in the play：(1) In this expressinistic play，abstract and symbolic stage sets are used to set off against the emotional inner selves and subjective states of mind. Take O’Neill’s use of contrastive tones of remarks for example，Yank’s friendliness and excitement contrasts the ape’s anger，indifference and impatience and also contrasts his own bitterness，self-mocking and despair. So the emotional content，the subjective reactions of characters are emphasized，which symbolically represent the despairing reality.(2) externalization of human interior：O’Neill uses vision to reveal psychological reality. In this play，Yank was haunted by appearance of Mildred Douglas，which shows his pain and despair. Therefore，O’Neill does not record exter nal events as realists do. He sought to portray the way in which hidden psychological processes impinge upon outward action. He brought psychological realism，philosophical depth，and poetic symbolism into American literature.nguage：In this play O’Neill intentionally wrote the lines of Yank in dialect to show his social and economic status as an uneducated coal stoker. Many other examples could be found in this selection，for instance，“dat” for that，“yuh” for you，etc.IV. F. Scott Fitzgerald (l896-l940)一。

2016年4月全国自考《英美文学选读》真题及详解2016年4月全国自考《英美文学选读》真题(总分100, 考试时间90分钟)1. 单项选择题1. The tragic sense turns into despair in Thomas Hardy' s______, where the protagonists have to kill their own will and passion and return to their former destructive way of life.A The Return of the NativeB The Mayor of CasterbridgeC Tess of D' UrbervillesD Jude the Obscure答案:D解析：托马斯-哈代是英国著名的诗人、小说家，《无名的裘德》是他最优秀的作品之一。

小说以悲怆的笔调叙述了男主人公裘德和女主人公淑反抗世俗道德和僵化的宗教，但付出高昂而又惨痛的代价却也终难如愿的悲剧故事。

2. William Shakespeare wrote______history plays in the first period of his dramatic career.A 3B 4C 5D 6答案:C解析：威廉-莎士比亚是英国文学史上最杰出的剧作家和诗人，也是西方乃至全世界最卓越的文学家之一。

他的戏剧创作生涯可以分为四个阶段，在第一阶段他创作了五部历史剧和四部喜剧故事。

3. Paradise Lost is a masterpiece by______.A Christopher MarlowB John MiltonC William ShakespeareD Ben Johnson答案:B解析：约翰-弥尔顿是英国文学史上最伟大的诗人之一。

他最著名的作品是以圣经故事为题材的长篇诗作《失乐园》《复乐园》《力士参孙》。

2024年4月自考《外国文学作品选》真题（课程代码00534）第一部分选择题一、单项选择题：本大题共30小题，每小题1分，共30分。

在每小题列出的备选项中只有一项是最符合题目要求的，请将其选出。

1．古希腊流传至今最早的文学作品是（）。

A．“荷马史诗”B．《普罗米修斯》C．《失去的友人》D．《俄狄浦斯王》2．“求你再度降临，亲爱的女神，/求你解救我于万般痛苦之中”里的“女神”是（）。

A．雅典娜B．蓓脱C．阿芙洛狄忒D．缪斯3．在《十日谈》的《第四天故事一》中，思想先进、目光敏锐、性格刚烈的新时代优秀女性形象是（）。

A．安德罗马克B．奥非利娅C．纪斯卡多D．绮思梦达4．《巨人传》第一部中，当众在巴黎圣母院的钟楼上撒尿，玩弄大钟的人物是（）。

A．巴努日B．庞大固埃C．高康大D．法伊奥勒5．《堂吉诃德》通过对骑士小说典型情节的滑稽模仿，显示了骑士小说的（）。

A．荒唐之处B．高超之处C．结构之美D．人物之美6．《悭吝人》中的阿巴公的鲜明性格特征是（）。

A．贪婪、吝啬B．伪善、做作C．犹豫、迟疑D．矛盾、复杂A．启蒙主义作家B．浪漫主义作家C．现实主义作家D．表现主义作家8．“篱下的蟋蟀在歌唱，在园中/红胸的知更鸟就群起呼哨；/而群羊在山圈里高声咩叫；/丛飞的燕子在天空呢喃不歇。

”这几句诗侧重的是（）。

A．触觉描写B．听觉描写C．视觉描写D．嗅觉描写9．《叶甫盖尼·奥涅金》的体裁是（）。

A．历史小说B．诗体小说C．抒情诗D．诗剧10．在《红与黑》中，向德·拉莫尔侯爵推荐于连的人物是（）。

A．德·雷纳尔B．皮拉尔神父C．德·雷纳尔夫人D．谢朗神父11．恩格斯称赞《人间喜剧》包含着（）。

A．“父爱基督”B．“了不起的辩证法”C．“含泪的笑”D．“宗教博爱”12．《奥利弗·退斯特》中，理事先生们让奥利弗学习的“有用的手艺”是（）。

A．纺织B．扯麻絮C．砌砖头D．清理烟囱13．果戈理塑造了地主群像的小说是（）。

全国2019年４月高等教育自学考试英美文学选读试题课程代码：00604全部题目用英文作答，答案写在答题纸相应的位置上。

PART ONEⅠ.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 the answers on the answer sheet.1.“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.2.Mrs. Warren’s Profession is one of George Bernard Shaw’s plays. What is Mrs. Warren’sprofession then ?[A]Real estate. [B]Prostitution.[C]House-keeping. [D]Farming.3.Dr. Faustus is a play based on the German legend of a magician aspiring forand finally meeting his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the Devil.[A]immortality [B]political[C]money [D]knowledge4. 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 Serpent5.“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 m ake 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′Urbervilles6.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.”7. “Drive my dead thought over the universeLike 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.8.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]wrence9. “Beauty is truth, truth beauty” is an epigrammatic line by .[A]John Keats [B]William Blake[C]William Wordsworth [D]Percy Bysshe Shelley10.Christoper Marlow’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” is a (n).[A]pastoral lyric [B]elegy [C]eulogy [D]epic11.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.12. “In dream vision Arthur witnessed the loveliness of Gloriana, and upon awaking resolves toseek 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]Christopher Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His love”[D]John Donne’s “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”13.Which of the following best describes the nature of Thomas Hardy’s later works?[A]Sentimentalism. [B]Tragic sense.[C]Surrealism. [D]Comic sense.14. “...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 requested15.In which of the following works can you find the proper names “Lilliput,” “Brobdingnag,” “Houyhnhnm,” and “Yahoo”?[A]James Joyce’s Ulsses.[B]Charles Dickens’s Bleak House.[C]Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels.[D]D. H. Lawrence’s Women in love.16.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”17. “The novel is structured around the discovery of the hero’s origin.” Thi s novel is mostprobably .[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 Jones18. “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]By planting a tree of knowledge in the Garden of Eden.[B]By turning into poisonous snakes to threaten man’s life.[C]By removing God from His throne.[D]By corrupting man and woman created by God.19. “When the evening is spread out against the skyLike 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.20.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.21.William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all of the following except .[A]normal contemporary speech patterns[B]humble and rustic life as subject matter[C]elegant wording and inflated figures of speech[D]intensely subjective feeling toward individual experience22.In Samuel Taylor Coleridge′s “Kubla Khan,” “A sunny pleasure dome with caves of ice”.[A]refers to the palace where Kubla Khan once lived[B]vividly describes a building of poor quality[C]is the gift given to a beautiful girl called Abyssinian[D]symbolizes the reconciliation of the conscious and the unconscious23.The hightide of Romanticism in American literature occurred around .[A]1820 [B]1850 [C]1880 [D]192024.The subject matter of Robert Frost’s Poems focuses on .[A] ordinary country people and scenes[B]battle scenes of ancient Greek and Roman legends[C]struggling masses and crowded urban quarters[D]fantasies and mythical happenings25.Which group of writers are among those who may be called early pioneers of American literature?[A]Mark Twain and Henry James.[B]Fenimore Cooper and Washington lrving.[C]Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner[D]Jack London and O’Henry.26.To Theodore Dreiser, life is “so sad, so strange, so mysterious and so inexplicable.” No wonder the characters in his books are often subject to the control of the natural forces, especially those of and heredity.[A]fate [B]morality[C]social conventions [D]environment27.Hawthorne generally concerns himself with such issues as in his fiction.[A]the evil in ma n’s heart [B]the material pursuit[C]the racial conflict [D]the social inequality28.provides the main source of influence on American naturalism.[A]The puritan heritage[B]Howells’ ideas of realism[C]Darwin’s theory of evolution[D]The pioneer spirit of the wild west29.In Mark Twain’s The Adventures of huckleberry Finn, Huck writes a letter to inform against Jim, the escaped slave, and then he tears the letter up. This fact reveals that .[A]Huck has a mixed feeling of love and hate[B]there is a conflict between society and conscience in Huck[C]Huck is always an indecisive person[D]Huck has very little education30.Which terms can best describe the modernists’ concern of the human situation in their fiction?[A]Fragmentation and alienation.[B]Courage and honor.[C]Tradition and faith.[D]Poverty and desperation.31.Whitman’s poems are characterized by all the following features except.[A]a strict poetic form[B]a simple and conversational language[C]a free and natural rhythmic pattern[D]an easy flow of feelings32.All his novels reveal that, as time went on, Mark Twain became increasingly .[A]prolific [B]artistic.[C]optimistic [D]pessimistic33.The poem “I like to see it lap the Miles－” is an interesting poem written by Emily Dickinson. What does “it” in the poem stand for?[A]The hound. [B]The star.[C]The horse. [D]The train.34.Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Henry James’s writing style?[A] exquisite and elaborate language[B]minute and detailed descriptions[C]lengthy psychological analyses[D]American colloquialism35.In the beginning paragraph of Chapter 3, The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald describes a big party by saying that “men and girls came and went like moths.” The author most likely i ndicatesthat .[A]there was a crowd of party-goers[B]such life does not have real meaning[C]these people were light-hearted[D]these were crazy and ignorant characters36.In Hemingway’s “Indian Camp,” Nick, the main character, witnesses[A]a tragic killing of the Indians by the white men[B]real friendship between the white men and the Indians[C]a senseless killing of each other[D]terrible scenes of birth and death37.Which one of the following statements is NOT true of William Faulkner?[A]He is master of stream-of-consciousness narrative.[B]His writing is often complex and difficult to understand.[C]He often depicts slum life in New York and Chicago.[D]He represents a new group of Southern writers.38.American “Transcendentalists most typically believe that .[A]man is divine in name [B]art is superior to life[C]man can transform nature [D]poetry is the highest form of art39.By the end of Sister Carrie,Dreiser writes, “It was forever to the pursuit of that radiance of delight which tints the distant hilltops of the world.” Dreiser implies that .[A]there is a bright future lying ahead[B]there is no end to man’s desire[C]one should always be forward-looking[D]happiness is found in the end40.We can perhaps describe Em ily Grierson in Faulkner’s short story “A Rose for Emily” in all thefollowing ways except that .[A]she is psychologically deformed[B]she is wicked and morally corrupted[C]she is a symbol of the Old South[D]she is a prisoner and victim of the pastPART TWOⅡ.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. “The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,And al l that beauty, all that wealth e’er gave.Awaits the inevitable hour.The paths of glory lead but to the grave.”Questions:A.Identify the author and the title of the poem from which this passage is taken.B.What does the phrase “inevitable hour” mean?C.Write out the main idea of the passage in plain English.42. “A violet by a mossy stoneHalf hidden from the eye!－Fair as a star, when only oneIs shining in the sky.”Questions:A.Identify the author and the title of the poem from which this stanza is taken.B.Pick out the metaphor used in this stanza.C.What quality does the author intend to show by using the metaphor?43. “We passed The School, where Children stroveAt Recess－in the Ring－We passed The Fields of Gazing GrainWe passed The Setting Sun－”Questions:A.Who is the author of this stanza taken from the poem “Because I could not stop for Death－?B.What do the underlined parts symbolize?C.Where were “we” heading toward?44. “It was you that broke the new wood.Now is a time for carving.We have one sap and one root－Let there be commerce between us.”Questions:A.Whom does the “us” refer to?B.What does the phrase “broke the new wood” mean here?C.What is the intention of the poet in writing the poem “A Pact” from which these lines aretaken?Ⅲ.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.In Chapter 15 of Wuthering Heights, Heath cliff said to Catherine: “Why did you betray your own, Cathy?... You loved me－then what right have you to leave me?... I have not broken your heart－you have broken it－and in breaking it, you have broken mine.”Taking the whole novel into consideration, do you think Heathcliff’s above accusation of Catherine’s betrayal can be justified? If you think so, what reasons does Catherine have to betray Heathcliff and their love?46.John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress is generally regarded as a religious allegory. What doesthe work symbolically concern? What is the predominant metaphor that is carried on through the whole work? And what is the aut hor’s purpose in writing such a book?47. The following passage is taken from The Merchant of Venice. Read it carefully and find thedramatic it contains. Use it as an example to illustrate what dramatic irony is. “Bassanio: Antonio, I am married to a wif eWhich is as dear to me as life itself;But life itself, my wife, and all world,Are not with me esteem’d above thy life;I would lose all, ay, sacrifice them allHere to this devil, to deliver you.Portia: Your wife would give you little thanks for that,If she were by to hear you make the offer.”48. What is the most famous theme in Henry James′s fiction? And what is his favourite approachin characterization, which makes him different from Mark and W. D. Howells as realists?Give two titles of his works in which this theme and this approach are employed.Ⅳ.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.In Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen explored three kinds of motivations of marriage themiddle-class people had in the second half of the 18th century. Try to make a brief discussion about them with specific examples from the novel. Make comments on Austen’s attitude towards these motivations.50.Retell in a few sentences the story of the last chapter (Ch, 135) “The Chase－T hird Day” ofMelville’s novel Moby-Dick. Discuss the meaning of the ending of the story.。