[自學(xué)考試答案解析]英美文學(xué)選讀試題

1、WORD資料.可編輯絕密考試結(jié)束前全國2014年4月高等教育自學(xué)考試英美文學(xué)選讀試題課程代碼：00604請考生按規(guī)定用筆將所有試題的答案涂、寫在答題紙上。全部題目用英文作答。選擇題部分注意事項：1 .答題前，考生務(wù)必將自己的考試課程名稱、姓名、準(zhǔn)考證號用黑色字跡的簽字筆或鋼筆填寫在答題紙規(guī)定的位置上。2 .每小題選出答案后，用2B鉛筆把答題紙上對應(yīng)題目的答案標(biāo)號涂黑。如需改動，用橡皮擦干凈后，再選涂其他答案標(biāo)號。不能答在試題卷上。I. Multiple Choice(40 points in all, 1 for each)Select from the four choices of eac

2、h 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. Shakespeare has established his giant position in world literature with his plays, 154 sonnets and 2 long poems. BA. 27 B. 38C.47 D. 5

3、22. john Milton ' s literary achievement can be divided into three groups: the early poetic works, the middle prose pamphlets and the last.CA. romances B. dramasC. great poems D. ballads3. The novels of are the first literary works devoted to the study of problemsof the lower - class people. CA.

4、 John Milton B. Daniel DefoeC. Henry Fielding D. Jonathan Swift4. The work ranked by manycritics as William Wordswoth' s greatest work was. BA. A Tale of a Tub B. The Battle of the BooksC. A Modest Proposal D. Gulliver's TravelsC. "Ode to Liberty " D.“Ode to the West Wind10. In Jan

5、e Austen' s first novel, she tells a story about two sisters and their love affairs. BA. Pride and Prejudice B. Sense and SensibilityC. Emma D. Persuasion11. Charles Dickens is one of the greatest writers of the Victorian Age.DA. romantic B. modernistC. socialist D. critical realist12. Charlotte

6、 Bronte' s most autobiographical work, is largely based on her experience in Brussels. AA. Jane Eyre B. ShirleyC. Villette D. The Professor13. WilliamWordsworth' s theory of poetry is calling for simplethemes drawn fromhumble lifeexpressed in the language of ordinary people. The preface to t

7、he secondedition of acts as a manifesto for the new school and sets forth his owncritical creed. AA. Lyrical Ballads B. The PreludeC. Poems in Two Volums D. The Excursion14. George Bernard Shaw' s play established his position as the leadingplaywright of his time. *CA. Widowers ' Houses B. T

8、oo True to Be GoodC. Mrs. Warren' s Profession D. Candida15. Eliot' s most important single poem, has been hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th-century English poetry.BA. The Hollow Men B. The Waste LandC. Prurrock and Other Observations D. Poems 1909-2516. D. H.Lawrence' s autob

9、iographical novel, shows the conflict between the earthy, coarse, energetic but often drunken father and the refined, strong willed and up - climbing mother. AA. Sons and Lovers B. The White PeacockC. The Trespasser D. The Rainbow17. “To be, or not to be that is the question; /Whether 'tis noble

10、r in the mind to suffer./The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,/ Or to take arms againsta sea of troubles,/And by opposing end them? ” These words are from . DA. King Lear B. RomeoC. Antonio D. Hamlet18. John Milton ' s last important work,is the most powerful dramatic poem on the Greek mo

11、del. AA. Paradise Lost B. Paradise RegainedC. Samson Agonistes D. Lydidas19. The author of Moll Flanders and Captain Singleton is.BA. John Milton B. Daniel DefoeC. Henry Fielding D. Jonathan Swift20. Drapier is the pseudonym of. AA. Jonathan Swift B. Daniel DefoeC. Henry Fielding D. William Blake21.

12、 One of Dickens' later works,in which he presents a criticism of the governmental branches which run an indefinite procedure of management of affairs and keep the innocent in prison for life.BA. Bleak House B. Little Dorrit22. In the second part of Gulliver's Travels, Gulliver told his exper

13、ience in .AA. Brobdingnag B. LilliputC. Flying Island D. Houyhnhnm 23. Faulkner used the narrative techniques to construct his stories, which includeand mythological and biblical allusions.A24. Ernest Hemingway, had been trying to demonstrate in his works an unvarying code,known as "," whi

14、ch is actually an attitude towards life.BA. facing the reality B. grace under pressure25. The Blithedale Romance is a novel written by Hawthorne to reveal his ownexperience on the Brook Farm and his own methods as a novelist.CA. naturalist B. imagistC. psychological D. feminist26. Theodore Dreiser&#

15、39; s focus shifted from the pathos of the helpless protagonists at the bottom of the society to the power of the American financial tycoons in the late 19th century in his work.DA. The Genius B. An American Tragedythe reader, and to vivify some abstract ideas.DA. images B. metaphorC. symbols D. per

16、sonification28. In his later works, Melville becomes more reconciled with the, in which he admits, one must live by rules.BA. women B. world of manC. family D. politicians29. Walt Whitman' s has always been considered a monumental work whichcommands great attention in America. BA. The Pilgrim &#

17、39; s Progress B. Leaves of GrassC. A Passage to India D. Rip Van Winkle30. Mark Twain ' s full literary career began to blossom in 1869 with a travel book , an account of American tourists in Europe.AA. Innocents Abroad B. The Portrait of A LadyC. The Grapes of Wrath D. The Great Gatsby31. With

18、 the development of the modern novel and the commonacceptance of the approach, Henry James' s importance, as well as his wide influence as a novelist and critic, has been all the more conspicuous.AA. deconstruction B. romanticC. Freudian D. analytic32. Emily Dickinson addresses the issues that c

19、oncern the whole human beings in her poems, which include religion, death, love, and nature.AA. immortality B. wealthC. power D. politics33. In Sister Carrie Theodore Dreiser expressed his pursuit by expoundingthe purposelessness of life and attacking the conventional moral standards.BA. romantic B.

20、 realisticC. naturalistic D. modernistic34. Profound ideas in Robert Frost's poems are delivered under the disguise of . AA. the plain language and the simple form B. the vivid descriptionsC. metaphors D. the complicated narration35. In Hemingway presents his philosophy about life and death thro

21、ugh thedepiction of the bullfight as a kind of microcosmic tragedy.BA. The Green Hills of Africa B. Death in the AfternoonC. The Snows of Kilimanjaro D. To Have and Have Not36 Of Faulkner ' s literary works, four novels are masterpieces by any standards: The Sound and the Fury, Light in August,

22、Absalom, Absalom ! and.AA. Go Down, Moses B. The FableC. The Snows of Kilimanjaro D. To Have and Have Not37. As Whitman saw it,could play a vital part in the process of creating a new nation. CA. music B. fictionC. poetry D. painting38. In many of Hawthorne' s stories and novels, the Puritan con

23、cept of life is condemned, especially in his The house of the Seven Gables and.BA. Go Down, Moses B. The Scarlet LetterC. As I Lay Dying D. Song of Myselfand the founder39. Henry James is generally regarded as the forerunner of the of psychological realism. BA. ”stream -of- consciousness " nove

24、ls B. m etaphysical poemsC. short stories D. literary criticism40. Generally considered to be Henry James ' s masterpiece,incarnates the clash between the Old World and the New in the life journey of an American girl in a Europe an cultural environment. BA. The Ambassadors B. Daisy MillerC. The

25、American D. The Portrait of A Lady非選擇題部分注意事項：用黑色字跡的簽字筆或鋼筆將答案寫在答題紙上，不能答在試題卷上。口11. Reading Comprehension (16 points in all, 4 for each)Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.41. Wherefore, Bees of England,

26、forgeMany a weapon, chain, and scourge,That these stingless drones may spoilThe forced produce of your toil?Questions.A. Identify the poet and the poem from which the stanza is taken.Song to the Men of England - Percy ShelleyB. What do you know about the poem' s writing background?This poem was

27、written at a time of turbulent unrest. On August 16, 1819, when about 60000 people were holding a rally in St.Peter' s field near Manchester, demandinguniversal suffrage, parliamentary reform and the repeal of the Corn Law, a troop of cavalry opened fire on them, killed more than a dozen and wou

28、nded several hundreds. The killing was ironically referred to as“ Peterloo Massacre ” . Shelley, beingexiled in Italy, wrote several political lyrics in protest against the government ' s barbarous action and calling the working people to rise up and overthrow the rule of the idle class.(The lin

29、es above are taken from“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock " by T. SEliot.)Questions.A. What does the poem present?As for England, the aftershocks of World War I directly contributed to the |dissolution of the British Empire. Eliot saw society as paralyzed and wounded, and he imagined that cul

30、ture was crumbling and dissolving. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufro ck“ demonstrates this sense of indecisive paralysis as thetitular speaker wonders whether he should eat a piece of fruit, make a radical change, or if he has the fortitude to keep living.B. What form is the poem composed in?“

31、Prufrock " is a variation on the dramatic monologue, a type of poem popular with Eliot ' s predecessors. Dramatic monologues are similar to soliloquies in plays. The rhyme scheme of this poem is irregular but not random.C. What does the poem suggest?It is an examination of the tortured psyc

32、he of the prototypical modernIman overeducated, eloquent, neurotic, and emotionally stilted. Prufrock, the poem s speaker, seems to be addressing a potential lover, with whom he would like to “force the moment to its crisis " by somehow consummatin g their relationship.43. My long two-pointed l

33、adder's sticking through a treeToward heaven still,And there's a barrel that I didn't fillBeside it, and there may be two or threeApples I didn't pick upon some bough.Questions.A. Identify the poet and the title of the poem from which the above lines are taken.After Apple-Picking - R

34、obert FrostB. What experience does the poem describe?After a long day ' s work, the speaker is tired of apple picking. He has felt drowsy and dreamy since the morning when he looked through a sheet of ice lifted from the surface of a water trough. Now he feels tired, feels sleep coming on, but w

35、onders whether it is a normal, end-of-the-day sleep or something deeper.C. What are the feelings of the speaker?Howwe ultimately interpret the tone of the poemhas much to do with how we interpretthe harvest.Has it been a failure? Certainly there is a sense of incompleteness“ a barrel that I didn 

36、9; tfill. " The speaker' s inner resources give out before the outer reso urces are entirely collected. On the other hand, the poet speaks only of “two or three apples" remaining, and these only amay be left over. Do we detect satisfaction, then? The speaker has done all that was withi

37、n his power; what' s left is the result of m inor, inevitable human imperfection. Is this, then, a poem about the rare skill of knowing when to quit honorably? This interpretation seems reasonable.44. This is my letter to the WorldThat never wrote to MeThe simple News that Nature toldWith tender

38、 MajestyQuestions.A. Identify the poet.Emily DickinsonB. What idea does the poem express?The author ' s contemporaries could not understand her, so she rested her hope on later generations, and asked them to judge her tenderly.C. Why does the poet use dashes and capital letters in the poem?The d

39、ashes are the substitute of the punctuation and provide feeling of music and better rhythm.III. Questions and Answers (24 points in all, 6 for each)Give a brief answer to each of the following questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.45. What are the fe

40、atures of George Bernard Shaw s characterization in his plays? He makes the trick of showingup one character vividly at the expense of another.46. Briefly introduce Blake ' s Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience."Songs of Innocence and of Experience" is a rare and wonderful book,

41、 its seeming simplicity belying its visionary wisdom. Internationally recognised as a | masterpiece of English literature, it also occupies a key position in the historyof western art. "Innocence" and "Experience" are definitions of consciousness that rethink Milton's existen

42、tial-mythic states of"Paradise" and the "Fall." Blake'scategories are modes of perception that tend to coordinate with a chronology that would become standard in Romanticism: childhood is a state of protected innocence rather than original sin, but not immune to the fallen wo

43、rld and its institutions. This world sometimes impinges on childhood itself, and in any event becomes known through "experience," a state of being marked by the loss ofchildhood vitality, by fear and inhibition, by social and political corruption,andby the manifold oppression of Church, St

44、ate, and the ruling classes. The volume's"Contrary States" are sometimes signalled by patently repeated or contrasted titles: in Innocence, Infant Joy, in Experience, Infant Sorrow; inInnocence, The Lamb, in Experience, The Fly and The Tyger. The stark simplicity of poems such as The C

45、himney Sweeper and The Little Black Boy display Blake's acute sensibility to the realities of poverty and exploitation that accompanied the "dark satanic mills" of theIndustrial Revolution.47. Why does Sister Carrie best embody Dreiser' s naturalistic belief?Sister Carrie best embo

46、dies Dreiser's naturalistic belief that while men arecontrolled and conditioned by heredity, instinct and chance,a few extraodinary and unsophisticated human beings refuse to accept their fate wordlessly and instead strive,unsuccessfully,to find meaning and purpose for their existence.Carrie,as

47、one of such,senses that she is merely a cipher in an uncaring world yet seeks to grasp the mysteries of life and thereby satisfies her desires for social status and material comfort.48. Briefly state Mark Twain' s magic power with language in his novels.1) Use of Colloquial Language.The book is

48、written in a colloquial style, in the general standard speech of uneducated Americans.2) Vernacular Language3) Local Color |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. Wh

49、y is Jane Eyre a successful novel? Give a brief analysis of the theme and charaterization of the novel.The work is one of the most popular and important novels of the Victorian age. It is noted for its sharp criticism of the existing society.Morality :Jane refuses to become Mr. Rochester's param

50、our because of her "impassioned self-respect and moral conviction." She rejects St. John Rivers' religious fervour as much as the libertine aspects of Mr. Rochester's character. Instead, she works out a morality expressed in love, independence, and forgiveness. God and religion: Th

51、roughout the novel, Jane endeavours to attain an equilibrium between moral duty and earthly happiness. She despises the hypocrisy of Mr. Brocklehurst, and sees the deficiencies in St. John Rivers'|indulgent yet detached devotion to his Christian duty. As a child, Jane admires Helen Burns' life's philosophy of 'turning the other cheek', which in turn helps her in adult life to forgive Aunt Reed and the Reed cousins for their cruelty. Although she does not seem to subscribe to any of the standard forms of popula