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2000年4月高教自考英美文学选读试卷及答案 |
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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
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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.
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