全国2009年4月高等教育自学考试英美文学选读试题

1、全国 2009 年 4 月高等教育自学考试英美文学选读试题课程代码： 00604请将答案填在答题纸相应的位置上(全部题目用英文作答 )I. Multiple Choice(40 points in all,1 for each)Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement andwrite the corresponding letter on the answer sheet.1.In Renaissance,the Eur

2、opean humanistthinkersand scholars made attemptstodo the followingEXCEPT_.A. getting rid of those old feudalist ideasB. getting control of the parliament and governmentC. introducing new ideas that expressed the interests of the rising bourgeoisieD. recovering the purity of the early church, from th

3、e corruption of the Roman Catholic Church2. The Petrarchan sonnet was first introduced into England by _.A. SurreyB. WyattC. SidneyD. Shakespeare3.As the best ofShakespeare'sfinalromances,_is a typicalexampleofhispessimisticviewtowardshuman life and society in his late years.A.The TempestB.The W

4、inter' s TaleC.CymbelineD. The Rape of Lucrece4.John Milton'sgreatest poeticalwork _isthe onlygenerallyacknowledged epicinEnglishliterarure sinceBeowulf.A.AreopagiticaB.Paradise LostC.LycidasD.Samson Agonistes5.The British bourgeois or middle class believed in the following notionsEXCEPT _.A

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

6、dest ProposalB. A Tale of a TubC. Gulliver ' s TravelsD. The Battle of the Books8. As a representativeof the Enlightenment,_was one of the firstto introducerationalismto England.A. John BunyanB. Daniel DefoeC. Alexander PopeD. Jonathan Swift9. For his contribution to the establishment of the for

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

8、Romantic movement.C. Its principal elements are violence, horror and the supernatural.D. Works likeThe Mysteries of Udolpho and Frankensteinare typical Gothic romance.11.“ Byronic hero” is a figure of the following traitsEXCEPT _.A.being proudB. being of humble originC.being rebelliousD. being myste

9、rious12.Robert Browning created _ by adopting the novelistic presentation of characters.A. the verse novelB. the blank verseC. the heroic coupletD. the dramatic poetry13. Charles Dickens' novel _ is famous for its vivid descriptions of the workhouse and life of the underworld in the nineteenth-

10、century London.A.The Pickwick PaperB.Oliver TwistC.David CopperfieldD.Nicholas Nickleby14.Charlotte Bronte's works are all about the struggle of an individual consciousness towards _,about some lonely and neglectedyoung womenwith a fierce longing forlove,understanding and a full,happy life.A. se

11、lf - relianceB. self - realizationC. self - esteemD. self - consciousness15.The symbolic meaning of“ Book” in Robert Browning's long poemThe Ring and the Book is _.A. the common senseB. the hard truthC. the comprehensive knowledgeD. the dead truth16.Thomas Hardy'spessimisticviewof lifepredom

12、inated most of hislaterworks and earnshim a reputationas a _ writer.A. realisticB. naturalisticC. romanticD. stylistic17.After the FirstWorld War, thereappeared the following literarytrends ofmodernismEXCEPT _.A. expressionismB. surrealismC. stream of consciousnessD. black humour18. The masterpieces

13、 of critical realism in the early 20th century are the three trilogies of _.A. Galsworthy's Forsyte novelsB. Hardy' s Wessex novelsC. Greene's Catholic novelsD. Woolf's stream-of-consciousness novels19. In the mid - 1950s and early 1960s,there appeared“ _” who demonstrated a particul

14、ardisillusionover the depressing situation in Britain and launched a bitter protest. against the outmoded socialand political values in their society.A. The Beat GenerationB. The Lost GenerationC. The Angry Young MenD. Black Mountain Poets20.The following are English stream-of-consciousness novelsEX

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

16、tyC. The Family ReunionD. The Waste Land23.The American writer _ was awarded the Nobel Prize for the anti-racistIn-truder in the Dust in 1950.A. Ernest HemingwayB. Gertrude SteinC. William FaulknerD.T.S. Eliot24.Hemingway's second big success is _ , which wrote the epitaph to a decade and to the

17、 wholegeneration inthe1920s, in orderto tellus a storyabout thetragicloveaffairofa wounded Americansoldier with a British nurse.A. For Whom the Bell TollsB. A Farewell to ArmsC. The Sun Also RisesD. The Old Man and the Sea25.With thepublicationof_ ,Dreiser was launchinghimselfupon a longcareerthat w

18、ouldultimatelymake him one ofthemost significantAmerican writersof the schoollaterknown as literarynaturalism.A.Sister CarrieB. The TitanC.The GeniusD. The Stoic26.HenryJames isgenerallyregardedas theforerunnerofthe20th-century“ stream-of-consciousness ” novels and the founder of _.A. neoclassicismB

19、. psychological realismC. psychoanalytical criticismD. surrealism27.In 1849,Herman Melvillepublished_ ,a semi-autobiographicalnovel,con-cerningthesufferingsof a genteel youth among brutal sailors.A. OmooB. MardiC. RedburnD. Typee28.As a sequel toThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer,_ marks the climax of Mar

20、k Twain's literary activity.A. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnB. Life on the MississippiC. The Gilded AgeD. Roughing It29.Realismwas a reactionagainst_ ora move away from thebiastowardsromance and self-creatingfictions, and paved the way to Modernism.A. RomanticismB. RationalismC. Post-modern

21、ismD. Cynicism30.When World War II broke out,_ began working for the Italian government, engaged in some radiobroadcasts of anti- Semitism and pro- Fascism.A. Ezra PoundC. Henry JamesD. Robert Frost31. In 1915 _ became a naturalized British citizen, largely in protest against America's failure t

22、o join England in the First World War.A. Henry JamesD. Ezra Pound32. What Whitman prefers for his new subject and new poetic feelings is“ _ , ”that is, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.A. blank verseB. free rhythmC. balanced structureD. free verse33. The American woman poet _ want

23、ed to livesimplyas a completeindependentbeing,and so she did,as a spinster.A. Emily ShawB. Anna DickinsonC. Emily DickinsonD. Anne Bret34. The Birthmark drives home symbolically _ point that evil is a man's birthmark, something he was born with.A. Whitman'sB. Melville'sC. Hawthorne's

24、D. Emerson's35.The Financier , The Titan andThe Stoic written by _ are called his“ Trilogy of Desire”.A. Henry JamesB. Theodore DreiserC. Mark TwainD. Herman Melville36.Disregarding grammar and punctuation,_ always used“i ” instead of“ I ” in his poems to showhis protest against self-importance.

25、A. Wallace StevensB. Ezra PoundC. Robert FrostD. E.E.Cummings37.Though Robert Frost is generally considered a regional poet whose subject matters mainly focus onthe landscape and people in _ , he wrote many poems that investigate the basic themes of man'slife in his long poetic career.A. the wes

26、tB. the southC. New EnglandD. Alaska38. Most critics have agreed that Fitzgerald is both an insider and an outsider of _ with a double vision.A. the Gilded AgeB. the Rational AgeC. the Jazz AgeD. the Magic Age39.Inthe AmericanRomanticwritings,_came tofunction almostas a dramaticcharacter thatsymboli

27、zed moral law.A. fireB. waterC. treesD. wilderness40. The desire for an escape from society and a return to _ became a permanent convention of the American literature.A. the family lifeB. natureC. the ancient timeD. fantasy of loveII. Reading Comprehension (16 points in all, 4 for each)Read the quot

28、ed parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.41. Wherefore feed and clothe and save From the cradle to the grave Those ungrateful drones who would Drain your sweat- nay, drink your blood?Questions:A. Identify the poet and t

29、he title of the poem from which the stanza is taken.B. What figure of speech is used in Line 2?C. Whom does “ drones ” refer to?42. The following quotation is from one of the poems by T. S. Eliot: No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;Am an attendant lord, one that will do To swell a progr

30、ess, start a scene or two Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool, Deferential, glad to be of use,Politic, cautious, and meticulous,Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse;Questions:A. Identify the title of the poem from which the quoted part is taken.B. Who's the speaker of the quoted lines?C

31、. What does the first line show about the speaker?43 There was a child went forth every day,And the first object he look'd upon, that object he became,And that object became part of him for the day or a certain part of the day,Or for many years or stretching cycles of years.Questions:A. Identify

32、 the poet.B.From which poem and which collection of the poet are these lines taken?C.What does the poet describe in the poem?44. I heard a Fly buzz- when I died-The Stillness in the Room Was like the Stillness in the Air-Between the Heaves of Storm-The Eyes around- had wrung them dry-And Breaths were gathering firmFor that last Onset- when the King Be witnessed - in the Room-Questions:A. Identify the poet.B. What does“ the King” refer to?C. What moment is the poem trying to describe?III. Questions and Answers (24 points in all, 6 f