英美文学历年真题

1、全国 2005年 7月高等教育自学考试英美文学选读试题I . Multiple Choice （40 points in all, 1 for each）1. With classical culture and the （） humanistic ideas coming into England, the English Renaissance beganflourishing.A. FrenchB. GermanC. ItalianD. Greek2. “ Cmoe live with me and be my love, / And we will all the pleasures

2、prove / That valleys, groves, hills, and fields,/ Woods, or steepy mountain yields.”The above lines are taken from Marlowe '“s ThePassionate Shepherd to His Love ”w, hich derives from the（） tradition.A. pastoralB. heroicC. romanticD. realistic3. “Metaphysical conceit”is a strategy characteristic

3、 of John Donne （）'. s poetry. It isA. a confession that avoids questions of moral accountabilityB. the linking of images from very different ranges of experienceC. self-definition through images based on the four primal elementsD. the chaining of images representing solid and gaseous elements4.

4、“So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, / So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. ” Shakespeare 'sSonnet 18 includes three stanzas according to the content with these last two lines as a（） , whichcompletes the sense of the above lines.A. preludeB. coupletC. epigraphD. exposition5.

5、 “ Therefore at this fair are lalsuch merchandise sold, as houses, lands, trades, places, honors, preferments, titles, countries, kingdoms, lusts, pleasures, and delights of all sorts, as whores, bawds, wives, husbands, children, masters, servants ” The above sentences are taken from ）.A. John Bunya

6、nP'ilgsrim 's ProgressB. Jonathan Swift Gu'llivser s T'ravelsC. Henry FieldingTo'm JsonesD. Daniel DefoeR'obsinson Crusoe6. Jonathan Swift is a master satirist in English literature. His A Tale of a Tub is an attack on（）.A. the governmentB. greedC. the churchD. the abuse of p

7、ower7. Chaucer was the first English writer to adopt heroic couplet in his writhing of poems. In the early 18 th century,the chief proponent of the heroic couplet was （）.A. Alexander PopeB. William WordsworthC. Lord ByronD. Thomas Gray8. As a lexicographer, he distinguished himself as the author of

8、the first English dictionary A Dictionary of theEnglish Language. What is his name（）.A. Jonathan SwiftB. Samuel JohnsonC. Ben JonsonD. John Milton9. Which of the following statements about Neo-Classicism and Enlightenment Movement is true （）.A. The Enlightenment was a progressive intellectual moveme

9、nt throughout Western Europe in the 17 th century.B. Neo-Classicism found its artistic models in the classical literature of the ancient Greek and Roman writers like Homer, Virgil, Horace, Ovid, etc. and in the contemporary French writers such as Voltaire and Diderot.C. Neo-Classicism put the stress

10、 on the classical artistic ideals of order, logic, proportion, spontaneous emotion, and passion.D. Satire was much used in writing in the neo-classic works. English literature of this age produced a distinguished satirist Daniel Defoe.10. A poet asserted that poetry originate d form “emotion recolle

11、cted in tranquillity” . He maintained that the sceand events of everyday life and the speech of ordinary people were the raw material of which poetry could andshould be made. Who is that poet （).A. William BlakeB. Alfred Lord TennysonC. William WordsworthD. John Keats11.The composition of“ Kubla Kha

12、n” by S.T. Coleridge was （based on ）A. a storyB. a dreamC. a dialogueD. an experience12.Romanticism was a literary trend prevailing in English during the period from 1798 to 1832. The Romantic writers （） .A. paid great attention to the spiritual and emotional life of manB. were discontent with the d

13、evelopment of industrialism and capitalism, and presented the social evils minutely in their worksC. took pains to portray a world of harmony and balanceD. tended to glorify Rome and advocated rational Italian and French art as superior to the native traditions13. “ Tiger! Tiger! Burning bright/ In

14、the forests of the night, / What immortal hand or eye / Could frame thy fearful symmetry ” （ “ The Tiger ” by William Blake） The abov（e lines ） .A. describe the tiger B. express the poet C. express the poet D. express the poet's fierce eyes and forceful hands at night's curiosity for the ski

15、llful creation of the tiger's surprise at the sight of the tige-rproportioned body' s well's terror at the sight of the tiger in the forest at night14.Which of the following statements about Victorian literature is NOT true （ ）A. Novels became the most widely read and the most vital and

16、challenging expression of progressive thought.B. Victorian novelists were angry with the inhuman social institutions, the decaying social morality, thewidespread misery, poverty and injustice.C. Influenced by a particularly strict set of moral standards, Victorian writers like Oscar Wilde, advocated

17、 the old moderate, respectable life-style.D. Victorian prose writers joined forces with the critical realist novelists in exposing and criticizing the social reality.15. “ It is a truth universallyacknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a （） . ”This quotat

18、ion in Austen Prid'e sand Prejudice sets the tone of the novel.B. titleA. houseC. wife D. fame16.Tennyson ' s poUelmysses not only expresses the poet' s own determination and courage to brave the struggle oflife, but also reflects the restlessness and aspiration of the age. The poem is w

19、ritten in the form of （） .A. epicB. elegyC. dramatic monologueD. ode17.In Hardy ' s Wessex novels, there is an appare（nt） touch in his description of the simple and beautifulthough primitive rural life.A. realisticB. nostalgicC. romanticD. sentimental18. “ If I ' ve done wrong, I' m dyin

20、g for it. It is enoulgehft! mYoeutoo; but I won' t upbraid you! I forgive you.Forgive me! ” These above lines are uttered by the heroin（e in） .A. Shapespeare R'omseo and JulietB. Emily Bront e 'Ws uthering HeightsC. Thomas Hardy T'ess of the D ' UrbervillesD. Bernard Shaw M'r

21、ss. Warren s P'rofession19. Modernism takes the irrational philosophy and （） as its theoretical base.A. the theory of psycho-analysisB. Darwin ' s evolutionary theoryC. the French symbolismD. Utilitarianism20. The beginning of “ TheLove Song of J.Alfred Prufrock ” movefrsom a series of fairl

22、y concrete physical settings a cityscape（ the famous“ patient etherized upon a table” ）and several interiors （womenlamplight, coffee spoons, fireplaces） to a series of vague ocean images. It aims to convey（） .A. Prufrock ' s emotional distance from the world as he comes to recognize his sec-oran

23、tde statusB. Prufrock ' s eagerness to meet his dating loverC. Prufrock ' s reluctance to meet his dating loverD. Prufrock ' s excitement abthoeutmodern world21. “ North Richmond Street, being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers set the boy free. An u

24、ninhabited house of two storeys stood at the blind end, detached from its neighbours in a square ground. The other houses of the street, conscious of decent lives within them, gazed at one another with brown imperturbable faces.”The above passage is the first paragraph of Araby by James Joyce. It se

25、ts a（n）（） tone of the story.A. optimisticB. activeC. gloomyD. serious22. “ I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, / And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made: / Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee, / And live alone in the bee- loud glade. ” （ “ The Leake I

26、sl of Innisfree” by Samuel Butler Yeats） The above lines present the state o（f a（n） ） life.A. quietB. lonelyC. ambitiousD. unstable23.In Young Goodman Brown by Hawthorne, the name of Goodman Brown ' swife is（）, which alsocontains many symbolic meanings.A. RuthB. HesterC. FaithD. Mary24. The Roma

27、ntic Period, one of the most important periods in the history of American literature, stretches from the end of to the outbreak of . （ ）A. the 17th century the American War of IndependenceB. the 18th century the American Civil WarC. the 17th century the American Civil Warshortest poem w”ritTtehnis i

28、s theD. the 18th century the U.SM/lexican War25. “The apparition of these faces in the crowd; / Petals on a wet, black bough.by（） .B. T.S. EliotA. E.E. CummingsD. Robert FrostC. Ezra Pound26.Emily Dickinsons poemThis is my letter to the World” ex）parebsosuetshheer rcommunication withthe outside worl

29、d.A. anxietyB. eagernessC. curiosity D. optimistic outlook27.Realism was a reaction against Romanticism or a move away from the bias towards romance and self-creating fictions, and paved the way to （） .B. ModernismA. CynicismC. TranscendentalismD. Neo-Classicalism28.In（）, William Faulkner illuminate

30、s the problem of black and white in the American Southern society asa close-knit destiny of blood brotherhood.A. Go Down, MosesB. Light in AugustC. The Marble FaunD. As I Lay Dying29. The theme of Washington Irving Rip V'ansWinkle is（） .A. the conflict of human psycheB. the fight against racial

31、discriminationC. the familial conflictD. the nostalgia for the unrecoverable past30. Hemingway once described Mark Twain'（s novel ） the one book from which“ all modern Americanliterature comes. ”A. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnB. The Adventures of Tom SawyerC. The Gilded AgeD. The Man That

32、Corrupted Hadleyburg31. As a genre, naturalism emphasized （） as important deterministic forces shaping individualizedcharacters who were presented in special and detailed circumstances.A. theological doctrinesB. heredity and environmentC. education and hard workD. various opportunities and economic

33、success32. （）is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20 th century “ stre-oafm- consciousness ” novels and thefounder of psychological realism.A. Theodore DreiserB. William FaulknerC. Henry James D. Mark Twain33. （） is considered to be a spokesman for the alienated youth in the post-war era a

34、nd his The Catcher inthe Rye is regarded as a students' classic.A. Allen GinsbergB. E.E. CummingsC. J.D. SalingerD. Henry James34. Which one of the following statements in NOT true of Indian Camp by Hemingway （ ）A. A young Indian woman had been trying to have her baby for two days.B. Nick '

35、s father delivered this woman of a baby by Caesarian section, with a jac-knife and without anesthesia.C. Nick witnessed the violence of both birth and death in the Indian camp.D. This woman ' s husband was murdered while she was in labor.35. （） is often acclaimed literary spokesman of the Jazz A

36、ge.A. Carl SandburgB. Edwin Arlington RobinsonC. William Faulkner D. F.Scott Fitzgeralds being36. Nathaniel Hawthorne held an unceasing interest in the“ interior of the heart” of man 'book he wrote, Hawthorne discussed （ ）A. love and hatredB. sin and evilC. frustration and self-denialD. balance

37、and self-discipline37. Which of the following has gained its status as a world classic and simultaneously marks the climax of EugeneO' Neill ' s literary career and the coming of the age of American drama（）A. The Hairy ApeC. Desire Under the ElmsB. Long Day s'Journey Into NightD. Lazarus

38、 Laughed38.In the last chapter of Sister Carrie , there is a description about Hurstwood, one of the protagonists of the novel, “ Now he began leisurely to take off his clothes, but stopped first with his coat, and tucked it along the crack under the door. His vest he arranged in the same place. ” W

39、hy d(id he do th)is .BecauseA. he wanted to commit suicideB. he wanted to keep the room warmC. he didn' t want to be found by othersD. he wanted to enjoy the peace of mind39.In Moby -Dick, the white whale symbolizes ()for Melville, for it is complex, unfathomable, malignant,and beautiful as well

40、.A. natureB. human societyC. whaling industryD. truth40(.),disregarding grammar and punctu ation, always used“ i ” instead of “ I ” in his poetry to show his protagainst self-importance.A. Wallace Stevens B. Ezra PoundC. E.E. Cummings D. William Carlos Williamsn . Reading Comprehension (16 points, 4

41、 for each)41. “ Not on thy sole, but on thy soul, harsh Jew,Thou mak'st thy knife keen; but no metal can,No, not the hangman 's axe, bear half the keennessOf thy sharp envy. ”Questions:A. Identify the author and the title of the play from which this part is taken.B. What figure of speech is

42、used in this quoted passageC. What idea does the passage expressAnswer:A. William Shakespeare, The Merchant of VeniceB. Pun.C. This passage expresses the speaker's severe criticism of Shylock's greed, cruelty, and meanness.42. “Whene'er I passed her; but wphaossed withoutMuch the same sm

43、ile This grew; I gave commands;Then all smiles stopped together.”Questions:A. Identify the poem and the poet.B. What does the line“Then all smiles stopped together”implyC. What kind of person do the lines indicate the speaker is43. “ The woods are lovely, dark and deep,But I have promises to keep,An

44、d miles to go before I sleep,And miles to go before I sleep.”Questions:A. Identify the poem and the poet.B. What does the word “ sleep ”meanC. What idea do the four lines expressAnswer:A. Robert Lee Frost 's “ Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening. ”B. Death.C. Those four lines express the mixed

45、feelings of the speaker, who appears to be sad and sentimental, yet has a strong sense of responsibility. This stresses the central conflict of the poem between man's enjoyment of nature's beauty and his responsibility in society .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 lean and loafe at my ease observi