1999年（上）全国高等教育自学考试英美文学选读试卷

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A. Each of the following below is followed by four alternative
answer. Choose the one that would bet complete the statement and
put the letter in the blank.(每小题1分，共30分)

1. Generally, the Renaissance refers to the period between ______ and _______ centuries.

A. 14th...mid-17th B. 14th...mid-18th
C. 16th...mid-18th D. 16th...mid-17th

2. _______ frequently applied conceits in his poems.

A. Spenser B. Donne C. Blake D. Thomas Gray

3. _______ is known as "the poet's poet".

A. Shakespeare B. Marlowe C. Spenser D. Donne

4. The 18th century England is known as the ______ in the history.

A. Renaissance B. Classicism C. Enlightenment D. Romanticism

5. ________ and William Shakespeare are the best representatives of the English humanism.

A. Edmund Spenser, Christoper Marlowe
B. Thomas More, Christoper Marlowe
C. John Donne, Edmund Spenser
D. John Milton, Thomas More

6. The middle of the 18th century was predominated by a newly rising literary form, that is the modern English ______, which gives a realistic presentation of life of the common English
people.

A. prose B. short story C. novel D. tragicomedy

7. _______ is the central concern to Blake's concern in the Song of Innocence and Song of Experience.

A. childhood B. woman C. poetry D. happiness

8. Among the following plays which is not written by Marlowe? _____

A. Dr. Faustus B. The Jew of Malta
C. Edward II D. School for scandal

9. Shakespeare's greatest tragedies are _______.

A. Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth
B. Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Romeo and Juliet
C. Hamlet, Coriolanus, King Lear and Macbeth
D. Hamlet, Julius caesar, Othello and Macbeth

10. Among the pioneers of the 18th century novelists were Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, Henry fielding and _______.

A. Laurance Sterne B. John Dryden
C. Charles Dickens D. Alexander Pope

11. Which of the following Gothic novels was not written in the 18th century? ______

A. The Castle of Otranto
B. The Italian
C. The Monk
D. The Fall of the House of Usher

12. In the theatrical world of the neoclassical period, _______ was the leading figure among the host of playwrights.

A. William Blake B. Richard Sheridan
C. Ben Johnson D. Bernard Shaw

13. Dickens' works are characterized by a mingling of _______ and pathos.

A. humor B. satire C. passion D. metaphor

14. The success of Jane Eyre is not only because of its sharp criticism of the existing society, but also due to its introduction to the English novel the first ______ heroine.

A. explorer B. peasant C. worker D. governess

15. In ______ Tennyson dealt with the theme of women's rights and position.

A. Poem B. The Princess C. In Memorian D. Idylls of the King

16. "The Custom-House" is an introductory note to ______.

A. Moby-Dick B. The Scarlet Letter
C. The Marble Faun D. The Blithedale Romance

17. The publication of _______ established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of the New England Transcendentalism.

A. Nature B. Self-Reliance C. The Over-Soul D. The American
Scholar

18. "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed" is most probably a poem ______。

A. that celebrates the burgeoning life of cities
B. that sings highly freedom and democracy
C. that condemns violence and bloodshed
D. that mourns for the death of Lincoln

19. _______ is not a dominant figure of the Realistic Period.

A. William Dean Howells B. Mark Twain
C. Henry James D. James F. Cooper

20. The book from which "all modern American literature comes" refers to _______.

A. Moby-Dick B. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
C. The Sun Also Rises D. The Great Gatsby

21. Strong affinity to the Chinese and Oriental literature can be found in the works of _______.

A. Mark Twain B. Ezra Pound C. Emily Dikinson D. Arthur Miller

22. "In a Station of the Metro" is regarded by critics as a classic specimen of _______.

A. the absurd poetry B. the transcendental poetry
C. the romantic poetry D. the imagist poetry

23. The founder of the American drama is _______.

A. Arthur Miller B. Eugene O'Neill
C. Tennesee Williams D. Clifford Odets

24. F. Scott Fitzgerald is not the author of _______.

A. This Side of Paradise B. Tender is the Night
C. The Great Gatsby D. In Our Time

25. _______ is not a fictional character in the Scarlet Letter .

A. Hester B. Arthur Dimmersdale
C. Roger Chillingworth D. Ishmael

26. The period ranging from 1865 to 1914 has been referred to as _____.

A. the Age of Colonicalism B. the Age of Romanticism
C. the Age of Realism D. the Age of Modernism

27. Statement _______ is NOT true in describing American naturalists.

A. They were deeply influenced by Darwinism.
B. They were identified with French novelist and theorist Emile Zola.
C. They chose their subjects from the lower ranks of society.
D. They used more serious and more sympathetic tone in writing than realists.

28. ______ is considered by H.L.Mencken as "the true father of our national literature."

A. Hemingway B. Poe C. Irving D. Twain

29. they all shared the same thematic concern except ______.

A. Robert Penn Warren B. Flannery O'Conner
C. William Faulkner D. Norman Mailer

30. _________ draws on the Jewish experience and tradition and examines subtly the ismantling of the self by an intolerable modern history.

A. Allen Ginsberg B. John Updike
C. Saul Bellow D. J.D. Salinger

B. Give the author and genre of each of the following literary works.(每小题2分，共20分)

1. The Shepheardes Calender
2. Farewell to love
3. Much Ado About Nothing
4. Childe Harold's Pilgrmage
5. Dombey and the Son
6. The Iceman Cometh
7. The Road Not Taken
8. The Cantos
9. The Grapes of Wrath
10. Babbit

C. Define the literary terms listed below. (每小题5分，共10分)

1. Utilitarianism

2. Free Verse

D. For each of the quotations listed below please give the name
of the author and the title of the literary work from which it is
taken and then briefly interpret it.(每小题5分，共15分)

1. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou are more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the daring buds of May,
And summer's least hath all too short a date:
Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;

2. I heard a Flay buzz--when I died-
The Stillness in the Room
Was like the Stillness in the Air-
Between the Heaves of Storm-

3. There is music from my neighbor's house through the summer
nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like
moths among the whisperings and the champagne and stars. At high
tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower
of his raft, or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while
his two motor-boats slit the waters of the Sound, drawing
aquaplanes over cataracts of foam. On week-ends his Rolls-Royce
became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city between
nine in the morning and long past midnight, while his station
wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug to meet all trains. And
on Mondays eight servants, including an extra gardener, toiled
all day with mops and scrubbing-brushes and hammers and
garden-shears, repairing the ravages of the night before...

E. Give brief answers to the following questions.(每小题5分，共
10分)

1. What is Bernard Shaw's viewpoint on literature?

2. What does the night journey young Goodman Brown makes
symbolize?

F. Short Essay Questions(共15分)

1. What is the striking feature of Paul, the main character in
Sons and lovers?(7分)

2. Give a brief analysis of Emily Grierson In "A Rose for
Emily".(8分)

二○○○年上半年全国高等教育自学考试
英美文学选读试卷


本试题分两部分，第一部分为选择题，第二部分为非选择题。选择题40分，非选择题60分，满分100分。考试时间150分钟。全部题
目用英文作答，并将答案写在答案写在答题纸相应位置上，否则不计分。
PART ONE
Ⅰ.Multiple Choice（40 points, 1 point for each）
Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Mark your choice by blackening the corresponding letter A,B,C or D on the answer sheet.

1.The sentence "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare's ________ .
A.comedies
B.tragedies
C.sonnets
D.histories
2."So much the worse for me, that I an strong. Do I want to live? What kind of living will it be when you-oh, God!
Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?"
In the above passage quoted from Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, the word "soul" apparently refers to _______ .
A.Heathcliff
B.Catherine
C.ghost
D.one's spiritual lift
3."And where are they? And where art thou,"
My country? On thy voiceless shore
The heroic lay is tuneless now-
The heroic bosom beats no more!"（George Gordon Byron, Don Juan）
In the above stanza, "art thou" literally means _______ .
A."are you"
B."art though"
C."are though"
D."art you"
4.The major concern of _______ fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature.
A.Charles Dickens's
B.D.H.Lawrence's
C.Thomas Hardy's
D.John Galsworthy's
5.Daniel Defoe describes _______ as a typical English Middle-class man of the eighteenth century, the very prototype of the empire builder or the pioneer colonist.
A.Tom Jones
B.Gulliver
C.Moll Flanders
D.Robinson Crusoe
6."To be so distinguished is an honor, which, being very little accustomed to favors from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge."
The above quoted sentence is presented by Samuel Johnson with a（n） _______ tone.
A.delightful
B.jealous
C.ironic
D.humorous
7."She lived unknown, and few could know
When Lucy ceased to be;
But she is in her grave, and, oh,
The difference to me!"
The word "me" in the last line of the above stanza quoted from Wordsworth's poem "She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways" may possibly refer to _______ .
A.the poet
B.the reader
C.her lover
D.everybody
8._______ is a typical feature of Swift's writings.
A.Bitter satire
B.Elegant style
C.Casual narration
D.Complicated sentence structure
9.The statement "It reveals the dehumanizing workhouse system and the dark, criminal underworld life" may well sum up the main theme if Dickens's _______ .
A.David Copperfield
B.Bleak House
C.Great Expectations
D.Oliver Twist
10."Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless?…And if God had gifted me with some beauty, and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you."
The above quoted passage is most probably taken from _______ .
A.Pride and Prejudice
B.Jane Eyre
C.Wuthering Heights
D.Great Expectations
11.It is generally regarded that Keats's most important and mature poems are in the form of _______ .
A.ode
B.elegy
C.epic
D.sonnet
12.G.B.Shaw's play Mrs.Warren's Profession is a realistic exposure of the _______ in the English society.
A.slum landlordism
B.inequality between men and women
C.political corruption
D.economic exploitation of women
13.In William Blake's poetry, the father（and any other in whom he saw the image of the father such as God, priest, and king）was usually a figure of _______ .
A.benevolence
B.admiration
C.love
D.tyranny
14."'I believe you are made of stone,'he said, clenching his fingers so hard that he broke the fragile cup. …'You seem to forget,' she said,'that cup is not!'"
From the above quoted passage, we can find the woman's tone is very _______ .
A.sarcastic
B.amusing
C.sentimental
D.facetious
15.The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan is often said to be concerned with the search for _______ .
A.material wealth
B.spiritual salvation
C.universal truth
D.self-fulfillment
16.Alexander Pope strongly advocated _______, emphasizing that literary works should be judged by rules of order, reason, logic, restrained emotion, good taste and decorum.
A.sentimentalism
B.romanticism
C.idealism
D.neoclassicism
17.After reading the first chapter of Pride and Prejudice, we may come to know that Mrs. Bennet is a woman of _______ .
A.simple character and quick wit
B.simple character and poor understanding
C.intricate character and quick wit
D.intricate character and poor understanding
18.Of all the eighteenth-century novelists, _______ was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a "comic epic in prose," and the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.
A.Daniel Defoe
B.Samuel Richardson
C.Henry Fielding
D.Oliver Goldsmith
19."Not on thy sole but on thy soul, harsh Jew,/Thou mak'st thy knife keen."
In the above quotation taken form The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare employs a（n）_______ .
A.oxymoron
B.pun
C.simile
D.synecdoche
20.In Hardy's Wessex novels, there is an apparent _______ touch in his description of the simple and beautiful though primitive rural life.
A.humorous
B.romantic
C.nostalgic
D.sarcastic
21."O prince, O chief of many throned powers,"
That led th' embattled seraphim to war
Under thy conduct, and in dreadful deeds
Fearless, endangered Heaven's perpetual King."
In the third line of the above passage quoted from Milton's Paradise Lost, the phrase "thy conduct" refers to _______
conduct.
A.Satan's
B.God's
C.Adam's
D.Eve's
22.We can perhaps describe the west wind in Shelley's poem "Ode to the West Wind" with all the following terms except
_______ .
A.tamed
B.swift
C.proud
D.wild
23.In 1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson made a speech entitled _______ at Harvard, which was hailed by Oliver Wendell Holmes as "Our intellectual Declaration of Independence."
A."Nature"
B."Self-Reliance"
C."Divinity School Address"
D."The American Scholar"
24.In Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown," a satanic figure leads the credulous protagonist to a witches' Sabbath in the woods. There he recognizes many pillars of Salem's Puritan society as well as his wife, Faith. The story illustrates Hawthorne's allegorical theme of human evil or what Melville called the "power of _______ ."
A.blackness
B.whiteness
C.terror
D.hypocrisy
25.For Melville, as well as for the reader and _______ , the narrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, an ultimate mystery of the universe.
A.Ahab
B.Ishmael
C.Stubb
D.Starbuck
26.Most of the poems in Whitman's Leaves of Grass sing of the "en-mass" and the _______ as well.
A.nature
B.self-reliance
C.self
D.life
27.Emily Dickinson's poem（441）"This is my letter to the World" expresses the poet's _______ about her
communication with the outside world.
A.indifference
B.joy
C.anxiety
D.indignation
28.Which of the following statements about writers in 1920s is true?
A.Mark Twain published his last and most important novel.
B.F. Scott Fitzgerald received the Nobel Prize.
C.Freudian psychology influenced many modern writers.
D.Most writers were politically radical.
29.Naturalism is evolved from realism when the author's tone in writing becomes less serious and less sympathetic
but more ironic and more _______ .
A.rational
B.humorous
C.optimistic
D.pessimistic
30.Mark Twain's first novel _______ , written in collaboration with Charles D. Warner and published in 1873,though not an artistic success, gives its name to the America of the post-Civil War period which it attempts to
satirize.
A.The Gilded Age
B.The Age of Innocence
C.The Roughing Time
D.The Jazz Age
31.Dreiser's Trilogy of Desire includes three novels. They are The Financier, The Titan and _______ .
A.The Genius
B.The Tycoon
C.The Stoic
D.The Giant

32.Daisy Miller's tragedy of indiscretion is intensified and enlarged by its narration from the point of view of
_______ .
A.the author Henry James
B.the Italian youth Giovanelli
C.the American youth Winterbourne
D.her mother Mrs. Miller
33.The impact of Darwin's evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the nineteenth-century
French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to yet another school of realism: American ________ .
A.local colorism
B.vernacularism
C.modernism
D.naturalism
34.It is on his _______ that Washington Irving's fame mainly rested.
A.childhood recollections
B.sketches about his European tours
C.early poetry
D.tales about America
35."If honest labor be unremunerative and difficult to endure; if it be the long, long road which never reaches
beauty, but wearies the feet and the heart; if the drag to follow beauty be such that one abandons the admired way, taking rather the despised path leading to her dreams quickly, who shall cast the first stone?"
Where is the underlined phrase taken from?
A.The Bible.
B.Milton.
C.Shakespeare.
D.Hawthorne.
36.Most recognizable literary movement that gave rise to the twentieth-century American literature, or we may say, the second American Renaissance, is the _______ movement.
A.transcendental
B.leftist
C.expatriate
D.expressionistic
37.Robert Frost combined traditional verse forms - the sonnet, rhyming couplets, blank verse - with a clear American local speech rhythm, the speech of _______ farmers with its idiosyncratic diction and syntax.
A.Southern
B.Western
C.New Hampshire
D.New England
38.As an autobiographical play, O'Neill's _______ （1956）has gained its status as a world classic and
simultaneously marks the climax of his literary career and the coming of age of American drama.
A.The Iceman Cometh
B.Long Day's Journey Into Night
C.The Hairy Ape
D.Desire Under the Elms
39.Apart from the dislocation of time and the modern stream-of-consciousness, the other narrative techniques Faulkner used to construct his stories include _______ , symbolism and mythological and biblical allusions.
A.impressionism
B.expressionism
C.multiple points of view
D.first person point of view
40.Stylistically, Henry James' fiction is characterized by _______ .
A.short, clear sentences
B.abundance of local images
C.ordinary American speech
D.highly refined language

PART TWO
Ⅱ.Reading Comprehension（16 points, 4 points for each）
Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.
41.Read the quotation carefully and then answer the questions:
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea,
The plowman homeward plods his weary way,
And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
A.Scan the first line of the stanza.
B.Find the irregular foot in the second line.
C.Briefly explain the significance of this irregularity.

42.The following is a passage taken from a dramatic work:
Had I as many souls as there be stars
I'd give them all for Mephistophilis!
By him I'll be great emperor of the world,
And make a bridge thorough the moving air
To pass the ocean with a band of men;
I'll join the hills that bind the Afric shore
And make that country continent to Spain,
And both contributory to my crown;
The emperor shall not live but by my leave,
Nor any potentate of Germany.
Now that I have obtained what I desire
I'll live in speculation of this art
Till Mephistophilis return again.

A.Name the playwright and the title of the work from which the passage is taken.
B.Name the speaker of the passage quoted above.
C.Use the above passage as a guide and write down in one or two sentences the theme of the play.

43.Read the following passage and then answer the questions:
…I glanced back once. A wafer of a moon was shining over Gatsby's house, making the night fine as before, and surviving the laughter and the sound of his still glowing garden. A sudden emptiness seemed to flow now from the windows and the great doors, endowing with complete isolation the figure of the host, who stood on the porch, his hand up in a formal gesture of farewell.

A.Identify the author and the title of the novel from which this passage is taken.
B.The passage describes the end of an event. What is it?
C.What implied meaning can you get from reading this passage?

44.Read the following part of a poem and then answer the questions:

My tongue, every atom of my blood, form'd from this soil, this air,
Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their parents the same,
I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin,
Hoping to cease not till death.

A.Identify the poet and the title of the poem.
B.What do "soil" and "air" represent in the first line?
C.What does the poet try to say in the above four lines?

Ⅲ.Questions and Answers （24 points, 6 points for each）
Give brief answers to each of the following questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.
45.The following quotation is the ending of a poem by Robert Browning:

Nay, we'll go
Together down, sir, Notice Neptune, though,
Taming a sea horse, though a rarity,
Which Claus of Innsbruck cast in bronze for me.

What is the title of the poem? Who is the speaker? What is the importance of the allusion "Neptune…/Taming a sea horse" in the whole poem?

46.Novum Organum（"New Instrument"）, along with other works, won the author the honour "Father of modern science." Who is the author? What is the main concern of the work? Why the work is so important for the development of modern science?

47.Ezra Pound is one of the pioneers in modern poetry. What is the poetic school of which he is a chief member?
What is Pound's representative work of many years of poetic creation? What is the title of his frequently quoted one-image poem?Pound has translated some literary works from two great ancient civilizations.
One is Greece. What is the other? How do you understand his famous comment "The image itself is the speech"?

48.William Faulkner, a Nobel Priza winner, has an important position in American literature. Name two of his Major novels. Do you know anything about"Yoknapatawpha County?" What is unique of Faulkner's fiction, historically and geographically?

Ⅳ.Topic Discussion（20 points, 10 points for each）
Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.

49.A possible theme of James Joyce's short story "Araby" is disillusionment. Briefly discuss the symbolism Joyce employs in presenting this theme.

50.What makes Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn more than a child's adventure story? Briefly discuss the question from THREE of the following aspects: the setting, the language, the character（s）, the theme and the style.

2000年（上）英美文学选读试卷答案



二○○○年上半年高等教育自学考试全国统一命题考试
英美文学选读试题参考答案


Ⅰ.Multiple Choice（40 points, 1 point for each）
1.C
2.B
3.A
4.B
5.D
6.C
7.C
8.A
9.D
10.B
11.A
12.D
13.D
14.A
15.B
16.D
17.B
18.C
19.B
20.C
21.A
22.A
23.D
24.A
25.B
26.C
27.C
28.C
29.D
30.A
31.C
32.C
33.D
34.D
35.A
36.C
37.D
38.B
39.C
40.D

Ⅱ.Reading Comprehension（16 points, 4 points for each）
41. [参考答案]
A.Iambic pentameter with the rhyming scheme of abab.
B.The third foot contains two accented syllables.
C.Two accented syllables slow down the pace in keeping with the literary meaning of the phrase "wind slowly."

42.[参考答案]
A.Dr.Faustus, a play by Christopher Marlowe.
B.Dr.Faustus.
C.Man's aspiration, bounding achievements, and the inevitable failure.

43.[参考答案]
A.Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby.
B.It is a description of the end of a big party.
C.The passage hints at the meaninglessness, spiritual emptiness and vanity of such a lift of pleasure-seeking.
There is a tragic sense that the "party" will be over.

44.[参考答案]
A.Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself"（早期几版诗人曾用过"Poem of Walt Whitman, an American" 和 "Walt Whitman", 也应算
对）.
B.America, his country, his native land.
C.I was born and nurtured by this land and shall from now on devote my whole life to the country.

Ⅲ.Questions and Answers（24 points, 6 points for each）
45.[参考答案]
A."My Last Duchess"
B.The Duke, or the husband of the Duchess.
C.Placed at the end of the poem, the allusion serves as the conclusion that tells the reader-listener that the speaker is a tyrant.

46.[参考答案]
A.Francis Bacon.
B.The work is an argument for the inductive reasoning in place of the Aristotelian deductive reasoning.
C.The Aristotelian reasoning only states the fact, not capable of discovery while the inductive reasoning, although starting with a hypothesis and developing with experiments, may lead to the discovery of true knowledge.

47.[参考答案]
A.Imagism.
B.The Cantos.
C."In a Station of the Metro"
D.Chian.
E.Pound means that image should not be ornaments only, but should be the focus of poetic expression. By emphasizing the exterior object, Pound hopes to avoid moralizing and achieve clarity and exactness.

48.[参考答案]
A.下列作品中任何两本：Soldiers'Pay, Sartoris, The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Light in August, Absalom, Absalom!, The Hamlet, The Town, The Mansion, and Intruder in the Dust.
B.Yoknapatawpha County is an imagined place based on Faulkner's own hometown, a place that he took for the setting of 15 of his 19 novels and many short stories. This small region in the American South becomes in Faulkner's fiction an allegory or a parable of the Old South.
C.His literary representation of the Old South; and his theme of the deterioration, loss and moral decay of the Old South when it was falling apart.

Ⅳ.Topic Discussion（20 points, 10 points for each）
49. [参考答案]
A."Short days of winter," "silent" the street of "blind end," "dark muddy lanes" with "feeble lanterns," "dark dripping gardens," and many others foretell the inevitable failure of the boy's attempt to reach his desire.
B.Mangan's sister, for whom the boy had tender feelings, symbolizes hope/aspiration, but she was symbolically confined（"have a retreat in her convent"）.
C.The journey to the bazaar is a quest for the fulfillment of the aspiration, but the journey was "intolerably" delayed, and when the boy got to the bazaar, half of it was already dark. What's more,the young lady at the door of a stall was "not encouraging," and spoke to the boy "out of sense of duty." When the upper part of the hall was completely dark, the boy's disillusionment was announced. And thus, "Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger."

50.[参考答案]
A.Setting: In the novel Mark Twain recreates a small-town world of America and presents the local color.
B.Language: He uses simple, direct language faithful to the colloquial speech, the vernacular language of the local people.
C.Character（s）: The author recreates two rebels and fugitives running away from civilization, especially Huckleberry Finn, an innocent boy who refuses to accept the conventional village morality.
D.Theme: The novel is a criticism of social injustice, hypocrisy, conservativeness and narrow-mindedness of the American small town society.
E.Style: The novel employs a humorous style of narration and is also highly symbolic with the central symbol.

2001年（上）英美文学选读试卷及答案
第一部分 选择题
I. Multiple Choice
1. The work that presented , for the first time in English literature, a comprehensive realistic picture of the medieval English society and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life is most likely______.
A. William Langland ’ Piers Plowman
B. Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales
C. John Gower’Confessio Amantis
D. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Answer: B

2. The tragedy of Dr.Faustus, the protagonist in Christopher Marlowe’s The Tragic History of Dr.Faustus, is the very face that_____.
E. man is confined to time
F. he tried to join Africa to Spain
G. he became a man without soul after he sold it
H. he conjured up Helen, the lady who was the very course of the Trojan War
Answer: A

3. Here are two lines from a ling poem: "Upon a great adventure he was bond, That greatest Gloriana to him gave." The poem must be_____.
I. Beowulf
J. John Milton’s Samson Agonistes
K. Thomas Gray’s Elegy Written in a County Churchyard
L. Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene
Answer: D

4. Literature of Neoclassicism is different from that of Romanticism in that ______.
A .the former celebrates reason, rationality , order and instruction while the latter sees literature as an expression of an individual’s feeling and experiences
B. the former is heavily religious but the latter secular
C. the former is an intellectual movement the purpose of which is to arouse the middle class for political rights while the latter is concerned with the personal cultivation.
D. the former advocates the "return to nature" whereas the latter turns to the ancient Greek and Roman writers for its models
Answer: A

5. When he writes, in An Essay on Criticism, "A vile conceit in pompous words expressed, / Is like a clown in regal purple dressed", Alexander Pope means that __________.
A. pompous words are always destructive to good taste
B. the purple colour is for the royal only and it is ridiculous to dress a clown in purple
C. conceits are always misleading
D. true wit is best in a plain style
Answer: D

6. You may have meet the term "Yahoo" on internet, but you may also have met it in English literature .It is found in _____
A. John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress
B. Samuel Johnson’s The Vanity of Human Wishes
C. Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels
D. Henry Fielding’s tom Jones
Answer: C

7. "The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks."(Samuel Johnson, "To the Right Honorable the Earl of Chesterfield")The speaker here is ______.
A. cheerful
B. ironic
C. mysterious
D. nonchalant
Answer: B

8. "Surface", "Sneerwell", "Backbite", and "Candour" are most likely the names of the characters in ________.
A. Shaw’s Mrs Warren’s Profession
B. Sheridan’s The School for Scandal
C. Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost
D. Christopher Marlowe’s Dr.Faustus
Answer: B

9. The first line of William Blake’s well-known poem "The Tyger" reads, "Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright".The repeated word "tiger" (tiger) with an exclamation mark suggests_______.
A. joy
B. fear
C. pain
D. fondness
Answer: B

10. What does Wordsworth’s poem "The Solitary Reaper" tell us about Romanticist?
A. To romanticists, poetry is an expression of an individual’s feelings and experiences no matter how fragmentary and momentary these feelings and experiences are.
B. Romanticist take delight only in sound effect, the theme of a work is not their concern.
C. Romanticist are not patient people; they would leave before the revelation of the theme.
D. Poetry should present the apparent and tangible.
Answer: A

11. The lines, "It was a miracle of rare device,/ A sunny pleasure dome with caves of ice," are found in __________.
A. Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s "Kubla Khan"
B. William Wordsworth’s "Lines Written in Early Spring"
C. John Keats’s "Ode to Autumn"
D. Percy Bysshe Shelly’s "ode to the West Wind"
Answer: A

12. Prometheus Unbound is Shelley’s greatest achievement. Prometheus, according to the Greek mythology, was chained by Zeus on Mount Caucasus and suffered the vulture’s feeding on his liver for_________.
A. planning a revolt to dethrone God
B. misinterpreting God’s decree to reconcile man and nature
C. prophesying the arrival of spring in a winter season
D. stealing the fire from heaven and giving it to man
Answer: D

13. " ’Damn the fool! There he is’, cried Heathcliff, sinking back into his seat. ’Hush, my darling! Hush, hush, Catherine! I’ll stay. If he shot me so, I’d expire with a blessing in my lips.’" The novel from which the passage is taken must be _________.
A. Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
B. Charles Dickens’s The Old Curiosity Shop
C. Samuel Richardson’s Pamela
D. Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights
Answer: D

14. "My Last Duchess" is a poem that best exemplifier Robert Browning’s ________.
A. sensitive ear for the sounds of the English language
B. excellent choice of words
C. mastering of the metrical devices
D. use of the dramatic monologue
Answer: D

15. Here is a passage from Middlemarch, a novel by George Eliot: "Her blooming full-pulsed youth stood there in a moral imprisonment which made itself one with the chill, colourless, narrowed landscape, with the shrunken furniture, the never-read books, and the ghostly stag in pale fanatic world that seemed to be vanishing from the daylight," Who is the lady mentioned in the quoted passage?
A. Dorothea
B. Emma
C. Molly
D. Irene
Answer: A

16. Tess of the D’Urbervilles, one of Thomas Hardy’s best known novels, portrays man as ________.
A. being hereditarily either good or bad
B. being self-sufficient
C. having no control over his own fate
D. still retaining his own faith in a world of confusion
Answer: C

17. Which of the following brings LITTLE impact on the development of 20th century literature?
A. Friedrich Nietzche’s assertions: "God is dead"
B. Arther Schopenharuer’s and Henry Bergson’s philosophical ideas of irrationality.
C. Oscar Wilde’s idea of "Art for Art’s Sake".
D. Freudian-Jungian psycho-analysis
Answer: C

18. The term tone in literature means__________.
A. sound effect such as rhyme and metrical device
B. the pitch of a word used to determine its meaning in the given context
C. the manner of expression to indicate the speaker’s attitude towards the subject
D. a shade of colour to reflect the change of the light
Answer: C

19. Which of the following best describes the speaker of T.S.Eliot’s " The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock"?
A. He is an man of a action.
B. He is a man of apathy.
C. He is a man of passion.
D. He is a man of inactivity
Answer: D

20. In which of the following poems by William Butler Yeats did you find the allusion to Helen and the TrojanWar?
A. "Sailing to Byzantium"
B. " Leda and the Swan"
C. "The Lake Isle if Innisfree".
D. " Sown by the Sally Garden"
Answer: B

21. "He was afraid of her -the small, severe woman with greying hair suddenly bursting out in such frenzy. The postman came running back, afraid something had happened. /they saw his tripped cap over the short curtains. Mrs Morel rushes to the door." The above passage id taken from _________.
A. Charlotte Bronte’s The Professor
B. Charles Dickens’s Domebey and Son
C. D.H.Lawrence ’s Sons and Lovers
D. John Galsworthy’s The Forsyte Saga
Answer: C

22. James Joyce is the author of all the following novels except ______.
A. Dubliners
B. Jude the Obscure
C. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
D. Ulysses
Answer: B

23. Which of the following works concerns most concentrated the Calvinistic view of original sin?
A. The Wasteland.
B. The Scarlet Letter.
C. Leaves of Grass.
D. As I Lay Dying
Answer: B

24. We can perhaps summarize that Walt Whitman’s poems are characterized by all the following features except that they are _______/
A. conversational and crude
B. lyrical and well-structured
C. wimple and rather crude
D. free-flowing
Answer: B

25. Who exerts the single most important influence on literary naturalism, of which Theodore Dreiser and Jack London are among the best representative writers?
A. Freud
B. Darwin.
C. W. D. Howells.
D. Emerson
Answer: B

26. Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his ____.
A. international theme
B. waste-land imagery
C. local color
D. symbolism
Answer: C

27. At the beginning of Faulkner’s A Rose For Emily, there is a detailed description of Emily’s old house. The purpose of such description is to imply that the person living in it ______.
A. is a wealth lady
B. has good taste
C. is a prisoner of the past
D. is a conservative aristocrat
Answer: C

28. The period before the American Civil War is commonly referred to as _______.
A. the Romantic Period
B. the Realistic Period
C. the Naturalist Period
D. the Modern Period
Answer: A

29. Most of Herman Melville’s novels are based on sea voyages and sea adventures. Which of the following is not the case?
A. Typee.
B. Moby-Dick.
C. Omoo.
D. The Confidence-Man
Answer: D

30. In Henry James’ Daisy Miller, the author tries to portray the young woman as an embodiment of _______.
A. the force of convention
B. the free spirit of the New World
C. the decline of aristocracy
D. the corruption of the newly rich
Answer: B

31. "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood
And sorry I could not travel both ..."
In the above two lines of Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken, the poet, by implication, was referring to _______.
A. a travel experience
B. a marriage decision
C. a middle-age crisis
D. one’s course of life
Answer: D

32. The Transcendentalists believe that, first, nature is ennobling, and second, the individual is _______.
A. insignificant
B. vicious by nature
C. divine
D. forward-looking
Answer: C

33. Which of the following is not a work of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s?
A. The House of the Seven Gables.
B. The Blithedale Romance.
C. The Marble Falun.
D. White Jacket.
Answer: D

34. In Heminway’s short story Indian Camp, through a story of a woman giving birth, the protagonist, Nick Adams, receives an education of _______.
A. birth and violent death
B. charity and benevolence
C. racial inequality
D. devotion and kinship
Answer: A

35. In Hawthorne’s novels and short stories, intellectuals usually appear as _______.
A. commentators
B. observers
C. villains
D. saviors
Answer: C

36. Besides sketches, tales and essays, Washington Irving also published a book on ______, which is also considered an important part of his creative writing.
A. poetic theory
B. French art
C. history of New York
D. life of George Washington
Answer: C

37. In Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, there are detailed descriptions of big parties. The purpose of such descriptions is so show _______.
A. emptiness of life
B. the corruption of the upper class
C. contrast of the rich and the poor
D. the happy days of the Jazz Age
Answer: A

38. In American literature, escaping from the society and returning to nature is a common subject. The following titles are all related, in one way or another, to the subject except _______.
A. Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
B. Dreiser’s Sister Carrie
C. Copper’s Leather-Stocking Tales
D. Thoreau’s Walden
Answer: B

39. Which of the following novels can be regarded as typically belonging to the school of literary modernism?
A. The Sound and the Fury
B. Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
C. Daisy Miller.
D. The Gilded Age.
Answer: A

40. Emily Dickinson wrote many short poems on various aspects of life. Which of the following is not a usual subject of her poetic expression?
A. Religion.
B. Life and death.
C. Love and marriage.
D. War and peace.
Answer: D

II. Reading Comprehension
41. "And the native hue of resolution/Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought." (Shakespeare, Humlet)
Questions:
A. What does the "native hue of resolution" mean?
B. What does the "pale cast of thought" stand for?
C. What idea do the two lines express?

Answers:
A. determination (determinedness, action, activity, ...)
B. consideration (indecision, inactivity, hesitation, ...)
C. Too much thinking (consideration,...) made (makes) activity (action) impossible.

42. "Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere; /Destroyer and Preserver; hear, O hear!"
Questions:
A. Identify the poem and the poet.
B. What is the "Wild Spirit"?
C. What does the "Wild Spirit" destroy and preserve?

Answers:
A. Shelley’s "Ode to the West Wind"
B. The West Wind; "breath of Autumn’s being"
C. It destroys things/thoughts/ideas that are dead (obsolete, ...); it preserves new life (or seeds that represent new life or new birth).

43. "When the minister spoke from the pulpit, with power and fervid eloquence, and, with his hands on the open bible, of the sacred truths of our religion, and of saint-like lives and triumphant deaths, and of future bliss or misery unutterable, then did Goodman Brown turn pale, dreading, lest the roof should thunder down upon the gray blasphemer and his hearers.
Questions:
A. Identify the title of the short story from which this part is taken.
B. What had happened in the story before this church scene?
C. Why was Goodman Brown afraid the roof might thunder down?

Answers:
A. Hawthorne’s Young Goodman Brown.
B. Brown had attended a witches’ party where he saw many prominent people of the village, the minister included.
C. Brown was shocked by the minister, secretly a member of the evil club, who could talk about sacred truths of the religion openly and unashamedly. He thought God would punish such hypocrites down on them.

44. (A lot of common objects have been enumerated before, and here are the last two lines of There Was a Child Went Forth
The horizon’s edge, the flying sea-crow, the fragrance of salt marsh and shore mud.
These became part of that child who went forth every day, and who now goes, and will always go forth every day.
Questions:
A. Who is the author of this poem?
B. What does the "Child" stand for in the poem?
C. In one or two sentences, interpret the implied meaning of the two lines.

Answers:
A. Walt Whitman.
B. The young growing America.
C. The poet uses his childhood experience of growing up and learning about the world around him to imply that young America will grow and develop like that.

第二部分 非选择题
III. Questions and Answers
45. "’My boy!’ said the old gentleman, leaning over the desk. Oliver started at the sound. He might be excused for doing so, for the words were kindly said, and strange sounds frighten one. He trembled violently, and burst into tears." (Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist)
Explain why the boy [Oliver Twist] started first, then trembled violently and burst into tears when the words were "kindly" said.

Answers:
The boy started at the words because kind words were not expected; it is (was, must be) the first time in all his life that the boy [Oliver Twist] had ever been "kindly" greeted; strange sounds may predict another suffering/misfortune/torture/...) (At least one example from the text is expected to back up the above statement)

46. Here is the last stanza of Byron’s "The Isles of Greece":
Place me on sunium’s mardle steep,
Where nothing, save the waves and I,
There, swan-like, let me sing and die:
May hear our marbled murmurs sweep;
A land of slaves shall ne’er be mine ---
Dash down you cup of Samian wine!
Determine the speaker first and then discuss BRIEFLY the main idea of the stanza or of the whole excerpt. You may want to consider the possible implications of the last two lines.

Answers:
A. The speaker is a Greek singer (or Byron in a Greek Singer’s disguise or Byron speaks through a Greek singer).
B. The excerpt presents a strong resentment for the Turk’s conquest of Greece and calls on the Greek people to rise and fight for freedom.
C. Thus, the last line may suggest resolution to take immediate action to free Greece from enslavement.

47. Why are naturalists inevitably pessimistic in their view?
Please discuss the above question in relation to the basic principles of literary naturalism.

Answers:
A. They accept the negative implication of Darwin’s theory of evolution, and believe that society is a "jungle" where survival struggles go on.
B. They believe that man’s instinct, the environment and other social and economic forces play an overwhelming role and man’s fate is "determined" by such forces beyond his control.

48. "Even then he stood there, hidden wholly in that kindness which is night, while the uprising fumes filled the room. When the odor reached his nostrils, he quit his attitude and fumbled for the bed.
’What’s the use?’ he said, weakly, as he stretched himself to rest."
They above is quoted from Thoedore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie. Briefly tell the situation that leads to the suicide and interpret Hurstwood’s final words -"What’s the use?"

Answers:
A. Sister Carrie has made a great success. As her fame arises, she deserts her former lover Hurstwood. In a cold winter, Hurstwood makes a last attempt to seek help from Carrie, but has failed, so I desperation, he decides to kill himself by turning on the gas.
B. By making that comment, Hurstwood seems to have realized that it is useless to continue to fight against fate. His fate is not controlled by his own efforts but by some social forces too strong for him to resist, so he decides to give up.

IV. Topic Discussion
49. Daniel Defoe’s novel Robinson Crusoe was a great success partly because the protagonist was a real middle-class hero. Discuss Crusoe, the protagonist of the novel, as an embodiment of the rising middle class virtues in the mid-eighteenth century England.

Answers:
A. Social background: The Eighteenth Century England witnessed the growing importance of the bourgeois or middle class.
a. The Industrial Revolution
b. The expansion of international markets;
c. Values/virtues/moral standards/...different from those of the feudal aristocratic class -courageous, full of energy, hard working, practical, resourceful, self-reliant, etc; thus
d. Literature should give/provide a realistic presentation of the life of the common people; it should meet the demand/interest of the middle class people.
B. Robinson Crusoe embodies the virtue of the middle class people.
a. Crusoe as an adventurous/courageous man full of energy and courage: (example from the text):
b. Crusoe as a practical man: (example from the text);
c. Crusoe as a resourceful/self-reliant man: (example from the text);
d. Crusoe as a patient/persistent man: (example from the text);
e. And others.

50. Mark Twain presented the 19th century America in his own unique way. Discuss Twain’s art of fiction: the setting, the language, and the characters, etc., based on his novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

Answers:
A. Mark Twain uses the Mississippi alley as his fictional kingdom, writing about the landscape and people, the customs and the dialects of one particular region, and is therefore known as a local colorist.
B. He creates life-like characters, especially the unconventional Huckleberry Finn, who runs away from civilization and stands opposite to conventional village morality.
C. He uses a simple, direct vernacular language, totally different from any precious literary language. It is the kind of colloquial belonging to the lower class, the living local American English.
D. He has created a special humor to satirize and the decayed convention.

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Ⅰ.Multiple Choice (40 points in all, 1 for each)

Select from the four choices [A],[B],[C],[D] of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement and write the letter on the answer sheet.

1.Romance,which uses narrative verse or prose to tell stories of ___ adventures or other heroic deeds, is a popular literary form in the medieval period.

A.Christian B.knightly C.Greek D.primitive

2.Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his production of ___.

A.Piers Plowman B.Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

C.Confessio Amantis D.The Canterbury Tales

3.Which of the following historical events does not directly help to stimulate the rising of the Renaisssance Movement?

A.The rediscovery of ancient Greek and Roman culture.

B.The new discoveries in geography and astrology.

C.The Glorious revolution.

D.The religious reformation and the economic expansion.

4.Which of the following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare's Sonnet 18?

A.The speaker eulogizes the power of Nature.

B.The speaker satirizes human vanity.

C.The speaker praises the power of artistic creation.

D.The speaker meditates on man's salvation.

5.“And we will sit upon the rocks,/Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks,/By shallow rivers to whose falls/Melodious birds sing madrigals.”The above lines are probably taken from __.

A.Spenser's The Faerie Queene

B.John Donne's “The Sun Rising”

C.Shakespeare's “Sonnet 18”

D.Marlowe's “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”

6.“Bassanio:Antonio,I am married to a wife

Which is as dear to me as life itself;

But life itself, My wife, and all the world.

Are not with me esteem'd above thy life;

I would lose all, ay, sacrifice them all,

Here to the devil, to deliver you.

Portia:Your wife would give you little thanks for that,

If she were by to hear you make the offer.”

The above is a quotation taken from Shakespeare's comedy The Merchant of Venice.

The quoted part can be regarded as a good example to illustrate ____.

A.dramatic irony B.personification

C.allegory D.symbolism

7.The ture subject of John Donne's poem,“The Sun Rising,” is to ___.

A.attack the sun as an unruly servant

B.give compliments to the mistress and her power of beauty

C.criticize the sun's intrusion into the lover's private life

D. lecture the sun on where true royalty and riches lie

8.Of all the 18thcentury novelists Henry Fielding was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a “___ in prose,”the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.

A.tragic epic B.comic epic

C.romance D.lyric epic

9.The Houyhnhnms depicted by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels are ___.

A.horses that are endowed with reason

B.pigmies that are endowed with admirable qualities

C.giants that are superior in wisdom

D.hairy,wild, low and despicable creatures, who resemble human beings not only in appearance but also in some other ways.

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 Lost

C.Alexander Pope's Essay on Criticism

D.Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream

11.The phrase “to urge people to abide by Christian doctrines and to seek salvation through constant struggles with their own weaknesses and all kinds of social evils” may well sum up the implied meaning of ___.

A.Gulliver's Travels B.The Rape of the Lock

C.Robinson Crusoe D.The pilgrim's Progress

12.William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following EXCEPT ___.

A.the use of everyday language spoken by the common people

B.the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings

C.the use of humble and rustic life as subject matter

D.the use of elegant wording and inflated figures of speech

13.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 __.

A.J.Keats B.W.Blake C.W.Wordsworth D.P.B.Shelley

15.“Ode o na Grecian Urn”shows the contrast between the ___ of art and the ___ of human passion.

A.glory …ugliness B.permanence…transience

C.transience…sordidness D.glory…permanence

16.In the statement“—oh,God! would you like to live with your soul in the grave?” the term“soul” apparently refers to ___.

A.Heathcliff himself B.Catherine

C.one's spiritual life D.one's ghost

17.The typical feature of Robet Browning's poetry is the ___.

A.bitter satire B.larger-than-life caricature

C.Latinized diction D.dramatic monologue

18.The Victorian Age was largely an age of ____,eminently represented by Dickens and Thackeray.

A.poetry B.drama C.prose D.epic prose

19.___is the first important governess novel in the English literary history.

A.Jane Eyre B.Emma

C.Wuthering Heights D.Middlemarch

20.The major concern of ______ fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature.

A.D.H.Lawrence's B.J.Galsworthy's

C.W.Thackeray’s D.T.Hardy’s

21.___is considered to be the best-known English dramatist since Shakespeare, and his representative works are plays inspired by social criticism.

A.Richard Sheridan B.Oliver Goldsmith

C.Oscar Wilde D.Bernard Shaw

22.Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Modernism?

A.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 American literary histrory.

A.individual feelings B.idea of survival of the fittest

C.strong imagination D.return to nature

24.Henry David Thoreau's work,__,has always been regarded as a masterpiece of New England Transcendentalism.

A.Walden B.The pioneers

C.Nature D.Song of Myself

25.The famous 20-years sleep in “Rip Van Winkle”helps to construct the story in such a way that we are greatly affected by Irving's ___.

A.concern with the passage of time

B.expression of transient beauty

C.satire on laziness and corruptibility of human beings

D.idea about supernatural manipulation of man's life

26.Walt whitman was a pioneering figure of American poetry. His innovation first of all lies in his use of __,poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.

A.blank verse B.heroic couplet

C.free verse D.iambic pentameter

27.The literary characters of the American type in early 19th century are generally characterized by all the following features EXCEPT that they ___.

A.speak local dialects

B.are polite and elegant gentlemen

C.are simple and crude farmers

D.are noble savages( red and white) untainted by society

28.Hester Pryme, Dimmsdale,Chillingworth and Pearl are most likely the names of the characters in ___.

A.The Scarlet Letter B.The House of the Seven Gablest

C.The Portrait of a Lady D.The pioneers

29.“This is my letter to the World” is a poetic expression of Emily Dickinson's __ about her communication with the outside world.

A.indifference B.anger C.anxiety D.sorrow

30.With Howells,James,and Mark Twain active on the literary scene, __ became the major trend in American literature in the seventies and eighties of the 19thcentury.

A.sentimentalism B.romanticism

C.realism D.naturalism

31.After The adventures of Tom Sawyer, Twain gives a literary independence to Tom's buddy Huck in a book entitled ___.

A.Life on the Mississippi

B.The Gilded Age

C.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

D.A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

32.However,___,the keynote of Daisy Miller's character,turns out to be an admiring but a dangerous 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.experience B.sophistication

C.worldliness D.innocence

33.Generally speaking,all those writers with a naturalistic approach to human reality tend to be ___.

A.transcendentalists B.idealists

C.pessimists D.impressionists

34.Emily Dickinson wrote many short poems on various aspects of life.Which of the following is NOT a usual subject of her poetic expression?

A.Religion and immortality. B.Life and death.

C.Love and marriage. D.War and peace.

35.In “After Apple-Picking,”Robert Frost wrote:“For I have had too much/Of applepicking:I am overtired/Of the great harvest I myself desired.”From these lines we can conclude that the speaker is ___.

A.happy about the harvest

B.still very much interested in apple-picking

C.expecting a greater harvest

D.indifferent to what he once desired

36.Chinese poetry and philosophy have exerted great influence over ____.

A.Ezra Pound B.Ralph Waldo Emerson

C.Robert Frost D.Emily Dickinson

37.The Hemingway Code heroes are best remembered for their __.

A.indestructible spirtie B.pessimistic view of life

C.war experiences D.masculinity

38.IN The Emperor Jones and The Hairy Ape,O'Neill adopted the expressionist techniques to portray the ___ of human beings in a hostile universe.

A.helpless situation B.uncertainty

C.profound religious faith D.courage and perseverance

39.In Hemingway's “Indian Cmap”,Nick's night trip to the Indian village and his experience inside the hut can be taken as ____.

A.an essential lesson about Indian tribes

B.a confrontation with evil and sin

C.an initiation to the harshness of life

D.a learning process in human relationship

40.which of the following statements about Emily Grierson, the protagonist in Faulkner's story “A Rose for Emily,” is NOT true?

A.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 TWO

Ⅱ.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 disbelieved her,but he knew that he 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” mean?

C.What idea does the quoted passage express?

42.“And when I am formulated,sprawling on a pin,

When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall.

Then how should begin

To 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” mean?

C.What idea does the quoted passage express?

43.“God knows,…I'm not myself—I'm somebody else—…and I'm changed,and I can't tell what's my 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 has changed?

C.What idea does the quoted sentence express?

44.“I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere 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” mean?

C.What idea does the quoted passage express?

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.As a rule,an allegory is story in verse or prose with a double meaning: a surface meaning,and an implied meaning.List two works as examples of allegory.What is an allegory usually concerned with by its implied meaning?

46.Inspiration for the romantic approach initially came from two great shapers of thought.Who are the two?And what ideas they expressed inspire the romantic writers?

47.The white whale,Moby Dick,is the most important symbol in Melville's novel.What symbolic meaning can you draw from it?

48.Nature is a philosophic work, in which Emerson gives an explicit discussion on his idea of the Qversoul.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 Neoclassicism?Provide brief evidence from the literary works you know best.

50.Summerize the story of Mark twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in about 100 words,and comment on the theme of the novel.




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Ⅰ.Multiple Choice(40 points in all,1 for each)

1.B 2.D 3.C 4.C 5.D

6.A 7.B 8.B 9.A 10.C

11.D 12.D 13.D 14.D 15.B

16.B 17.D 18.C 19.A 20.A

21.D 22.B 23.B 24.A 25.A

26.C 27.B 28.A 29.C 30.C

31.C 32.D 33.C 34.D 35.D

36.A 37.A 38.A 39.C 40.B

Ⅱ.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 husband'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.All those 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 man 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 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.

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PART ONE
Ⅰ.Multiple Choice (40 points in all, 1 for each)
Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Write 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’s profession 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 for
and finally meeting his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the Devil.
[A]immortality [B]political
[C]money [D]knowledge
4. The statement “A demanding mother turns away from her husband and gives all her affection to her sons” sums up the main plot of D. H. Lawrence′s .
[A]Lady Chatterley’s Lover [B]Women in love
[C]Sons and Lovers [D]The Plumed Serpent
5.“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 make yours.”
The above passage presents a scene in .
[A]Emily Bronte’s Withering Heights
[B]Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre
[C]John Galsworthy′s The Forsyte Saga
[D]Thomas Hardy′s Tess of the D′Urbervilles
6.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 universe
Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth.”
(Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Ode to the West Wind”)
What rhetorical device does the poet use in the quoted lines?
[A]Synecdoche. [B]Metaphor.
[C]Simile. [D]Onomatopoeia.
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]D.H.Lawrence
9. “Beauty is truth, truth beauty” is an epigrammatic line by .
[A]John Keats [B]William Blake
[C]William Wordsworth [D]Percy Bysshe Shelley
10.Christoper Marlow’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” is a (n) .
[A]pastoral lyric [B]elegy [C]eulogy [D]epic
11.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 to seek her.” The two literary figures Arthur and Gloriana are form .
[A]Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene
[B]William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet
[C]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 requested
15.In which of the following works can you find the proper names “Lilliput,” “Brobdingnag,” “Houyhnhnm,” an