2008年4月全国英美文学选读试题及答案

1、英语巴士 - 专注于英语考试和英语学习的网络媒体与服务平台()全国2008年4月历年自学考试英美文学选读试题课程代码：00604I. Multiple Choice（40 points in all, 1for each）Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answer the question or completes the statement. Write the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet. 1The Renaissance is actually

2、a movement stimulated by a series of historical events EXCEPT_.Athe rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek cultureBthe vast expansion of British colonies in North AmericaCthe new discoveries in geography and astrologyDthe religious reformation and the economic expansion2Henry Fielding has been regar

3、ded by some as “_”,for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel. AFather of the English Novel BFather of the English PoetryCFather of the English DramaDFather of the English Short Story3TSEliots most important single poem _has been hailed as a landmark and a model of the

4、 20th-century English poetry. AThe Hollow Man BThe Waste LandCMurder in the CathedralDAsh Wednesday4George Bernard Shaws play _ established his position as the leading play-wright of his time. AWidowers HousesBToo True to Be GoodCMrs. Warrens ProfessionDCandida5William Blakes central concern in the

5、Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience is_, which gives the two books a strong social and historical reference. AyouthhoodBchildhoodChappinessDsorrow6All of the following works are known as Hardys “novels of character and environment” EXCETP_.AThe Return of the NativeBTess of the DUrbervillesCJu

6、de the ObscureDFar from the Madding Crowd7Among the works by Charles Dickens _ presents his criticism of the Utilitarian principle that rules over the English education system and destroys young hearts and minds.ABleak HouseBPickwick PaperCGreat Expectations DHard Times8The most distinguishing featu

7、re of Charles Dickens works is his _. Asimple vocabulary Bbitter and sharp criticismCcharacter-portrayalDpictures of happiness9Among the following writers _ created the verse novel by adopting the novelistic presentation of characters.ARobert Browning BMatthew Arnold CAlfred Tennyson DEdward Fitzger

8、ald 10“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good for-tune, must be in want of a wife.” The quoted part is taken from _.AJane EyreBWuthering HeightsCPride and PrejudiceDSense and Sensibility11Because of her sensitivity to universal patterns of human behavior, _

9、 has brought the English novel ,as an art of form, to its maturity.ACharlotte BrontëBJane Austen CEmily BrontëDAnn Radcliffe12Shelleys greatest achievement is his four-act poetic drama _, which is an exultant work in praise of humankinds potential.AAdonaisBQueen MabCPrometheus Unbound DA D

10、efence of Poetry13The assertion that poetry originates from “emotion recollected in tranquility” belongs to _.AWilliam WordsworthBSamuel Taylor ColeridgeCRobert Southey DWilliam Blake14All of the following poems by William Wordsworth are masterpieces on nature EXCEPT _.A“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

11、”B“An Evening Walk”C“Tintern Abbey”D“The Solitary Reaper”15All of the following are stream of- consciousness novels EXCEPT_.APilgrimageBUlyssesCMrs. DallowayDTess of the D Urbervilles16Shakespeares four greatest tragedies are _.ARomeo and Juliet, Othello, King Lear, HamletBHamlet, Othello, Macbeth,

12、The Merchant of VeniceCHamlet, Othello, King Lear, MacbethDRomeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, Othello, Hamlet17As one of the greatest masters of English prose, _ defined a good style as “proper words in proper places”.AHenry FieldingBJonathan SwiftCSamuel JohnsonDAlexander Pope18All of the fo

13、llowing novels by Daniel Defoe are the first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower-class people EXCEPT _.ARobinson Crusoe BCaptain SingletonCMoll Flanders DColonel Jack19Among the three major works by John Milton _ is indeed the only generally acknowledged epic in English lite

14、rature since Beowulf.AParadise Regained BSamson Agonistes CLycidas DParadise Lost20English Romanticism, as a historical phase of literature, is generally said to have ended in 1832 with _.Athe passage of the first Reform Bill in the ParliamentBthe publication of Wordsworth and Coleridges Lyrical Bal

15、ladsCthe publication of TSEliots The waste LandDthe passage of the Bill of Rights in the Parliament21Contrary to the traditional romance of aristocrats, the modern English novel gives a realistic presentation of life of _.Athe common English peopleBthe upper classCthe rising bourgeoisie Dthe enterpr

16、ising landlords22The 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.AJohn GalsworthysBThomas HardysCDHLawrencesDCharles Dickens23The Nobel

17、Prize Committee highly praised _ for “his powerful style-forming mastery of the art” of creating modern fiction.AEzra PoundBErnest Hemingway CRobert FrostDTheodore Dreiser24In 1950,_ was awarded the Nobel Prize for the anti-racist Intruder in the Dust.AWilliam FaulknerBRobert FrostCEzra PoundDErnest

18、 Hemingway25Herman Melville wrote his semi-autobiographical novel _ concerning the sufferings of a genteel youth among brutal sailors.ATypeeBRedburnCMoby-DickDMardi26The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and, especially, its sequence _ proved themselves to be the milestone in the American literature.AThe Adv

19、entures of Huckleberry FinnBLife on the MississippiCThe Gilded AgeDRoughing It27The Portrait of A Lady is generally considered to be _ masterpiece, which describes the life journey of an American _ in a European cultural environment.AHenry AdamswidowBWilliam JamesgirlCHenry JamesgirlDTheodore Dreise

20、rswidow28Hawthorne intended to _ in The Scarlet Letter.Atell a story of parental loveBtell a story of sin and bloody violenceCcall the readers back to the plantation way of livingDreveal the human psyche after they sinned29“The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being

21、above water.” This “iceberg” analogy is put forward by _.AMark TwainBEzra PoundCWilliam FaulknerDErnest Hemingway30In many of Hawthornes stories and novels, the Puritan concept of life is condemned, or the Puritan past is shown in an almost totally negative light, especially in his _ and The Scarlet

22、 Letter.ATwice-Told TalesBThe Blithedale RomanceCThe Marble FaunDThe House of the Seven Gables31The white whale, Moby Dick, symbolizes _ for Melville, for it is complex, unfathomable, malignant, and beautiful as well.AsocietyBnatureCocean animalsDboth A and C 32After the American Civil War, the lite

23、rary interest in the so-called “reality” of life started a new period in the American literary writings know an the Age of _.ARealism BReason and Revolution CRomanticism DModernism 33HLMencken considered _ “the true father of our national literature”.ABret HarteBMark TwainCWashington IrvingDWalt Whi

24、tman 34Altogether, Emily Dickinson wrote 1775 poems, of which only _ had appeared during her lifetime.AthreeBfiveCsevenDnine35The _ Age of the 1920s characterized by frivolity and carelessness is brought vividly to life in The Great Gatsby.ALostBJazzCReasonDGilded36Robert Frost is generally consider

25、ed a regional poet whose subject matters mainly focus on the landscape and people in _.Athe westBthe south CAlaskaDNew England37As _ saw it, poetry could play a vital part in the process of creating a new nation. It could enable Americans to celebrate their release from the Old World and the colonia

26、l rule.AWordsworth LongfellowBWilliam BryantCWalt WhitmanDRobert Frost38Walt Whitman is a poet with a strong sense of mission, having devoted all his life to the creation of the “single” poem, _.AThe Love Song of JAlfred PrufrockBThe Waste LandCMurder in the Cathedral DLeaves of Grass39Realism was a

27、 reaction against Romanticism and paved the way to _.AModernismBScientismCPost-ModernismDFeminism40Mark Twain employed an unpretentious style of _ in his novels which is best described as “vernacular”.Astandard EnglishBAfro-American English CcolloquialismDurbanismIIReading Comprehension （16 points i

28、n 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“Shall I compare thee to a summers day?Thou art more lovely and more temperate:Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,And summers lease hath

29、 all too short a date:”Questions:AIdentify the poet and the poem from which the quoted lines are taken.BName the figure of speech employed in the poem.CWhat is the theme of the poem?42“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! And if G

30、od 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 youit is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at Gods feet, equalas we are!”Questions:AIdentify the author a

31、nd the novel from which the quoted part is taken.BTo whom is the speaker speaking?CWhat does the quoted part imply about the speaker?43“The woods are lovely, dark and deep,But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep,And miles to go before I sleep.”Questions:AIdentify the poet and the

32、poem from which the quoted lines are taken.BWhat does the word “sleep” mean?CWhat idea do the four lines express?44“I celebrate myself, and sing myself,And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.I loafe and invite my soul,I learn and loafe at my ease ob

33、serving a spear of summer grass.”(from Walt Whitmans “Song of Myself”)Questions:AWhom does “myself” refer to?BHow do you understand the line “I loafe and invite my soul”?CWhat does “a spear of summer grass” indicate?IIIQuestions and Answers（24 points in all, 6 for each）Give a brief answer to each of

34、 the following questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the Answer Sheet.45“ My boy! said the old gentleman, leaning over the desk. Oliver stated 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.”（from Charles Dickens Oliver Twist）Explain why Oliver Twist started first, then trembled violently and burst into tears when the words were “kindly” said.46It is said that B. Shaws play, Mrs. Warrens Profession, has a strong realistic theme, which fully reflects t