A. Each of the statements below is following by four
alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement
and put the letter in the brackets. (20×1 points)
( )1. In Spenser's "The Faerie Queene", _____ is the play role in each of
the 12 major adventures.
A. Arthur
B. Redcrosse
C. Una
D. Archimago
( )2. In Milton's works, "______" is the greatest, indeed the only
generally acknowledged epic in English literature since "Beowulf".
A. Paradise Lost
B. Paradise Regained
C. Samson Agonistes
D. Lycidas
( )3.______was regarded as "Father of the English Novel", for his
contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.
A. Daniel Defoe
B. Jonathan Swift
C. Jane Austen
D. Henry Fielding
( )4. ______ compiled the "The Dictionary of the English Language" which
became the foundation of all the subsequent English dictionaries.
A. Ben Johnson
B. Samuel Johnson
C. Alexander Pope
D. John Dryden
( )5. The "Byronic hero" first appears in Byron's works, "______".
A. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
B. Don Juan
C. Oriented Tales
D. Manfred
( )6. ______ made criticism on Elizabethan drama, which renewed interest in
Shakespeare and led to the discovery of his contemporaries.
A. Coleridge
B. Byron
C. Wordsworth
D. Keats
( )7. _______ is the most distinguishing feature of Charles Dickens' works.
A. Language
B. Character - Portrayal
C. Humor
D. Plot
( )8 In 1847, the Bronte Sisters published the following famous novels
except "_____".
A. Jane Eyre
B. Shirley
C. Wuthering Heights
D. The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall
( )9. In ______ 's hands, "dramatic monologue" reaches its maturity and
perfection.
A. Alfred Tennyson
B. Robert Browning
C. William Shakespeare
D. George Eliot
( )10.As a woman of exceptional intelligence and life experience, George
Eliot shows a particular concern for_______.
A. the feminism
B. the education for women
C. the destiny of women
D. the low status of women
( )11. Symbolism appeared in the late 19th century in _________.
A. France
B. Germany
C. England
D. Italy
( )12. The three trilogies of _______ 's Forsyte novels are masterpieces of
critical realism in the early 20th century.
A. John Galswortry
B. Arnold Bennett
C. Jame Joyce
D. H. G. Wells
( )13. In the following statements, ________ is Bernard Shaw's political
point of view.
A. He regarded the establishment of socialism by the emancipation of land
and industrial capital from individual and class ownership as the final
goal.
B. He was for the means of violent revolution of armed struggle in
achieving the goal of socialism.
C. He had a trust of the uneducated working class in fighting against
capitalists.
D. He held that both those superior intellects and those industrial workers
could have the ability to shoulder the task of fighting against the
capitalism.
( )14. The New England transcendentalism was from the very beginning a
local phenomenon restricted only to those people living in new England, who
carried out the movement as a reaction against the cold, rigid rationalism
of _____ in Boston.
A. Puritanism
B. Calvinism
C. Classicism
D. Unitarianism
( )15. In the following statements, ______ is not true as to Washington
Irving's famous story "Rip Van Winkle".
A. The story is a tale remembered mostly for Rip's 20 - year sleep, set
against the background of the inevitably changing America.
B. In the story Irving skillfully presents to us paralleled juxtapositions
of two totally different worlds before and after Rip's 20 years' sleep.
C. Irving describes Rip's response and reaction in dramatic way, so that we
see clearly both the narrator and Irving agree on the preferability of the
present to the past, and the preferability of the real world to a dream -
like one.
D. The social conservatism and literary preference for the past is
revealed, to some extent, in the story.
( )16. ______ is not among the artistic features of Whitman's writing.
A. The use of the poetic "I"
B. Free verse
C. Musicality or rhythm
D. Allegory
( )17. Henry James's fame generally rests upon his novels and stories
with________.
A. the love and marriage theme
B. the theme of humor and satire on life
C. the theme of revealing the miserable life of the poor and criticizing
the capitalism
D. the international theme
( )18. In the following statements, ______ is not true as to the
backgrounds for the American literature between the two world wars.
A. The United states had become the most powerful industrialized nation in
the world.
B. The technological revolution had brought about great changes in the life
of the American people.
C. The Crash marked the beginning of "The Great Economic Depression" in the
1920s.
D. Despite its booming industry and material prosperity, there was a sense
of unease and restlessness underneath.
( )19. Ezra Pound's "The Cantos" is______.
A. lyrics
B. epic poem
C. ode
D. pastoral
( )20. _______ is acknowledged by many as the most original poet of the
Victorian period.
A. Robert Browning
B. Alfred Tennyson
C. George Eliot
D. John Keats
B. Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase
according to the textbook. (20×1 points)
1. _______ is the essence of the Renaissance.
2. In "The Faerie Queene", the Redcrosse knight in Book I stands for St.
George, and Sir Guyon in Book II Represents Temperance. Such kind of
writing style is called _________.
3. "Hamlet", "Othello", "King Lear" and "_____" are generally regarded as
Shakespeare's four great tragedies.
4. As a representative of the enlightenment, Pope was one of the first to
introduce ______ to England.
5. ______ 's novels are the first literary works devoted to the study of
problems of the lower - class people.
6. The literary form of neo - classicism is of the strict symmetry. The
prevailing genre of neoclassical literature is ______ which consists of two
riming lines of iambic pentameter, and the second line completes the
thoughts expressed by the couplet.
7. _____ is central to Blake's concern in the "Songs of Innocence" and
"Songs of Experience".
8. The poet Robert Southey as well as Coleridge and Wordsworth lived nearby
and the three men became known as the "_______".
9. Jane Austen's masterpiece is "____________".
10. _________ is Robert Browning's masterpiece.
11. The realistic novels of the 1920s and 1930s were more or less touched
by a pessimistic mood, preoccupied with the theme of ________, and shaped
in different forms.
12 In the mid - 1950s and early 1960s, there appeared a group or young
novelists and playwrights with lower - middle - class background, who were
known as "___________".
13. Melville is best known as the author of one book named ________, which
is, critics have agreed, one of the world's greatest masterpieces.
14. The particular concern about the local character of a region came about
as "______", a unique variation of American literary realism.
15. By the turn of the century, with the publication of "The Man That
Corrupted Hadleybury" (1900) and "The Mysterious Stranger" (1916), the
change in Mark Twain from an optimist to an almost despairing pessimist
could be fell and his cynicism and disillusionment with what Twain referred
to regularly as the "________" became obvious.
16. As a sequel to "Tom Sawyer", "_________" marks the climax of Twain's
literary creativity.
17. One of James's literary techniques innovated to cater for the
psychological emphasis is his narrative "________".
18. The postwar poet Robert Lowell is the leading figure of _________
poetry.
19. In Fitzgerald's great fiction, there's always full of the main theme of
the bankruptcy of the "______", especially in "The Great Gatsby" (1925).
20. Most of Faulkner's works are set in the American South about people
from a small region in Northern Messissippi, __________ County.
C. Decide whether the following statements are true or false and write your
answers in the brackets. (10×1 points)
（）1. In his poetry, Donne frequently applies conceits, i. e. extended
metaphors involving dramatic contrasts.
（）2. "The Pilgrim's Progress" is the most successful religious allegory in
the English language.
（ ）3. The 19th century produced the first English novelists, who fall into
two groups the sentimentalist novelists and the realist novelists.
( )4. The most important contribution Byron has made is that he has not
only started the modern poetry, the poetry of the growing inner self, but
also changed the course of English poetry by using ordinary speech of the
language and by advocating a return to nature.
( )5. Generally speaking, Jane Austen was a writer of the 18th - century,
though she lived mainly in the nineteenth century.
( )6. In the Victorian period, the novel became the most widely read and
the most vital and challenging expression of progressive thought.
( )7. "The Waste Land", Eliot's most important single poem, has been hailed
as a landmark and a model of the 20th - century English poetry, comparable
to Wordsworth's "Lyrical Ballads".
( )8. While Mark Twain and Henry James seemed to have paid more attention
to the "life" of the Americans, Howells had apparently laid a greater
emphasis on the "inner world" of man.
( )9. Dickinson's poetry is unique and unconventional in its own way. Her
poems have no titles hence are always quoted by their first lines. In her
poetry there is a particular stress pattern, in which dashes are used as a
musical device to create cadence and capital letters as a means of
emphasis.
( )10. Most of Faulkner's works are set in the American North, with his
emphasis on the Northern subjects and consciousness.
D. Name the author of the following literary works. (5×1 points)
1. The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
2. Composed upon Westminster Bridge
3. The Moll on the Floss
4. Break, Break, Break.
5. A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man
E. Define the literary terms listed below. (2×4 points)
1. The Heroic Couplet
2. Stream of Consciousness
F. For each of the quotations listed below please give the name of the
author and the title of the literary work from which it is taken and then
briefly interpret it. (2×4 points)
1. "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the les,
The plowman homeward plods his weary way,
And leaves the world to darkness and to me."
2. "Round the cape of a sudden came the sea,
And the sun looked over the mountain's rim:
And straight was a path of gold for him,
And the need of a world of men for me."
G. Give brief answers to the following questions. (3×5 points)
1. Make a comment on the image of Robinson Crusoe.
2. What are the features of Charles Dickens's novels?
3. What's Nathaniel Hawthorne's "black" vision of life and human beings?
H. Short essay questions. (2×7 points)
1. How is the fatalism revealed in Hardy's works?
2. Analyse the artistic features of Earnest Hemingway's novels.
全国高等教育自学考试模拟试卷（一）
英美文学选读参考答案
A.
1. A
2. A
3. D
4. B
5. A
6. A
7. B
8. B
9. B
10. C
11. A
12. A
13. A
14. D
15. C
16. D
17. D
18. C
19. B
20. A
B.
1. Humanism
2. allegory
3. Macbeth
4. rationalism
5. Daniel Defoe
6. heroic couplet
7. Childhood
8. Lake poets
9. Pride and Prejudice
10. The Ring and the Book
11. man's loneliness
12. the Angry Young Men
13. Moby - Dick
14. local colorism
15. damned human race
16. Adventures of Hucklebrry Finn
17. point of view
18. Confessional
19. American Dream
20. Yoknapatawpha
C.
1. T
2. T
3. F
4. T
5. T
6. T
7. T
8. F
9. T
10. F
D.
1. Christopher Marlowe
2. William Wordsworth
3. George Eliot
4. Alfred Tennyson
5. James Joyce
E.
1. The heroic couplet refers to iambic pentameter rhymed in two lines.
During the Restoration and the 18th century Alexander Pope perfected the
closed couplet, which means only a couplet xan express a compete idea, and
developed it to the heroic couplet. A good example in " The Rape of the
Lock" is: but when to mischiet mortals bend their will, how soon they find
fit instruments of ill!
2. In Joyce's opinion, the artist, who wants to reach the highest stage and
to gain the insights necessary for the creation of dramatic art, should
rise to the position of a godlike objectivity; he should have the complete
conscious control over the creative process and depersonalize his own
emotion in the artistic creation. He should appear as an omniscient author
and present unspoken materials directly from the psyche of the characters,
of making the characters tell their own inner thoughts in monologues. This
literary approach to the presentation of psychological aspects of
characters is usually termed as "stream of consciousness".
F.
1. The title of the literary work is "Elegy Written in a Country
Churchyard", and its author is Thomas Gray.
译文如下：
晚钟响起来一阵阵向白昼告别，
牛群在草原上迂回，吼声起落，
耕地人累了，回家走，脚步踉跄，
把整个世界留给了黄昏与我。
2. The author is Robert Browning, and the title of the poem is "Parting at
Morning".
译文如下：
绕过山岬，大海突然来迎接，
太阳从山顶上透出来注目：
他面前是一条笔直的黄金路，
我面前是需要男人的世界。
G.
1. In this novel, Defoe created the image of a true empire - builder, a
colonizer and a foreign trader, who has the courage and will to face
hardships, and who has determination to preserve himself and improve on his
livelihood by struggling against nature. Being a bourgeoisie writer, Defoe
glorifies the hero and defends the policy of colonialism of British
government.
2. (1) Dickens' novels offer a most complete and realistic picture of the
English bourgeois society of his age. They reflect the protest of the
people against capitalist exploitation, criticize the vices of capitalist
society,
(2) Dickens is a petty bourgeoise intellectual. He could not overstep the
limits of his class. He believed in the moral self - perfection of the
wicked propertied classes. He failed to see the necessity of a bitter
struggle of the oppressed against their oppressors. There is a definite
tendency for a reconciliation of the contradictions of capitalist society.
(3) Almost all his novels have happy endings.
(4) His novels tell much of the experiences of his childhood.
(5) Dickens is a great humorist. His novels are full of humor and laughter.
3. According to Hawthorne, "There is evil in every human heart, which may
remain latent, perhaps, through the whole life; but circumstances may rouse
it to activity." A piece of literary work should "show how we are all
wronged and wrongers, and avenge one another." So in almost every book he
wrote, Hawthorne discusses sin and evil. In "Young Goodman Brown", he sets
out to prove that everyone possesses some evil secret. "The Minister's
Black Veil" goes further to suggest that everyone tries to hold the evil
secret from one another in the way the minister tries to convince his
people with his black veil. "The Birthmark" drives home symbolically
Hawthorne's point that evil is man's birthmark, something he is born with.
H.
1. He read Darwin's "The Origin of Species" and accepted the idea of
"Survival of the fittest." He was also influenced by Speneser's the first
principle, which led him to the belief that man's fate is predeterminedly
tragic, driven by a combined force of "nature," both inside and outside. In
his works, man is shown inevitably bound by his own inherent nature and
hereditary traits which prompt him to go and search for some specific
happiness or success and set him in conflict with the environment. The
outside nature - the natural environment of nature herself - is shown as
some mysterious supernatural force, very powerful but half biting,
impulsive and uncaring to the individual's will, hope, passion or
suffering. It likes to play practical jokes upon human beings by producing
a series of mistimed actions and unfortunate coincidences. Man proves
impotent before fate, however he tries, and he seldom escapes his ordained
destiny. This pessimistic view of life played an important in the English
literature.
2. (1) Hemingway code hero. " In Our Time" is the first book to present a
Hemingway hero - Nick Adams. Exposed to and victimized by violence in
various forms, Nick becomes the prototype of the wounded hero who, with all
the dignity and courage he could master, confronts situations which are not
of his own choosing yet threaten his destruction.
(2) Reflection of "The Lost Generation".
"The Sun Also Rises" (1926) is Hemingway's first true novel. It casts light
on a whole generation after the First World War and the effects of the war
by way of a vivid portrait of "The Lost Generation," a group of young
Americans who left their native land and fought in the war and later
engaged themselves in writing in a new way about their own experiences.
(3) Grace under pressure.
Hemingway's world is limited. He deals with a limited range of characters
in quite similar circumstances and measures them against an unvarying code,
known as "grace under pressure," which is actually an attitude towards life
that Hemingway had been trying to demonstrate in his works. Those who
survive in the process of seeking to master the code with the honesty, the
discipline, and the restraint are Hemingway Code heroes.
(4) "Iceberg" analogy. And this concern is closely connected with the code,
even has the resonance that has come to mark his prose style. Hemingway
himself once said, "The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only
one - berg is due to only - eighth of it being above water." According to
Hemingway, good literary writing should be able to make readers feel the
emotion of the characters directly and the best way to produce the effect
is to set down exactly every particular kind of feeling without any
authorial comments, without conventionally emotive language, and with a
bare minimum of adjectives and adverbs.
(5) Colloquialism.
Hemingway develops the style of colloquialism initiated by Mark Twain. The
accents and mannerisms of human speech are so well presented that the
characters are full of flesh and blood and the use of short, simple and
conventional words and sentences has an effect of clearness, terseness and
great care.
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A. Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers.
Choose the one that would best complete the statement and put the letter in
the brackets. (20×1points)
( ) 1. ________is regarded as the pioneer of English drama.
A. William Shakespeare
B. Christopher Marlowe.
C. Edmund Spenser
D. John Donne
( ) 2. "She I compare thee to a summer's day?" This is the beginning line
of Shakespeare's _________.
A. songs
B. plays
C. comedies
D. sonnets
( ) 3. Thomas Gray's masterpiece, ________ once and for all established his
fame ass the leader of the sentimental poetry of the day, especially "The
Graveyard School".
A. Ode on the Spring
B. Ode on a Distant Prospect Of Eton College
C. Hymn to Adversity
D. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
( ) 4. Which play is regarded ass the best English comedy since
Shakespeare?
A. She Stoops to Conquer
B. The Rivals
C. The School for Scandal
D. The Conscious Lovers
( ) 5. The publication of "_______" marked the beginning of Romantic Age.
A. Don Juan
B. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
C. The Lyrical Ballads
D. Queen Mab
( ) 6. As a new kind of ideology, ____ was widely accepted and practised in
the later Victorian period.
A. earnestness
B. utilitarianism
C. respectability
D. modesty
( ) 7. In his novels, Charles Dickens depicted a lot of child characters
except _________.
A. Oliver Twist
B. Little Nell
C. Little Dorrit
D. Charles Surface
( ) 8. _______ is acknowledged by many as the most original poet of the
Victorian period.
A. Robert Browning
B. Alfred Tennyson
C. George Eliot
D. John Keats
( )9. _______ is the last important novelist and poet of the 19th century.
A. Thomas Hardy
B. George Eliot
C. Alfred Tennyson
D. Robert Browning
( ) 10. ______ does not belong to the post - modernism after the Second
World War.
A. Existentialist literature
B. Black Humor
C. Heater of the Absurd
D. Stream of consciousness
( ) 11. In the works of E. M. Forster and D. H. Lawrence, the subject
matter is ________.
A. the social turmoil
B. the hypocrisy of the capitalism
C. love and marriage
D. human relationships
( ) 12. James Joyce's works are popular with the readers for in his
writings Joyce uses the following kinds of expressing methods.
A. sentimental romance
B. historical stylistics
C. inversion
D. counterpoint
( ) 13. _______'s "Leaves of Grass" established him as the most popular
American poet of the 19th century.
A. Edger Allen Poe
B. James Russel Lowell
C. John Greenleaf Whitter
D. Walt Whitman
( ) 14. In his essays, Ralph Waldo Emerson put forward his philosophy
except of ______.
A. religion
B. the over - soul
C. the importance of the individual
D. nature
( )15. In the following statements, _______ is not true about the local
colorism in American literary realism.
A. Their writings are concerned with the life of a small, well - defined
region or province.
B. The characteristic selling is the isolated small town.
C. Their materials were extensive or wide - ranging, and the topics were
connective.
D. Local colorists were consciously nostalgic historians of a vanishing way
of life, recorders of a present that faded before their eyes.
( ) 16. "_____", a novella about a young American girl who gets "killed" by
the winter in Rome, brought James international fame for the first time.
A. The American
B. Daisy Miller
C. The Europeans
D. The Portrait of a Lady
( ) 17. In his "______", Dreiser'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.
A. Sister Carrie
B. An American Tragedy
C. The Genius
D. Trilogy of Desire
( ) 18. ______ is not among those greatest figures in "The Lost Generation"
or modern American literature.
A. Ezra Pound
B. Robert Frost
C. Walt Whitman
D. William Carlos Williams
( ) 19. Robert Frost recited "______" at President Kennedy's inauguration.
A. The road Not Taken
B. Mending the Wall
C. The Gift Outright
D. Birches
( ) 20. Mark Twain's best works were produced when he was in the prime of
his life. All these masterworks drew upon________.
A. the scenes and emotions of his boyhood and youth
B. the hypocrisy of the capitalism
C. the bleak view of human nature
D. the miserable life of the lower - class poor
B. Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase
according to the textbook. ( 20×1 points)
1. In "The Canterbury Tales", Chaucer employed the _________ with true ease
and charm for the first time in the history of English literature.
2. Christopher Marlowe is the most gifted of the " ________".
3. The term "_________" is commonly used to name the work of the 17th -
century writers who wrote under the influence of John Donne.
4. Spenser is generally regarded as the greatest nondramatic poet of the
Elizabethan age. His fame is chiefly based on his masterpiece "_________".
5. Swift is a master ______, his satire is usually masked by an outward
gravity and an apparent earnestness which renders his satire all the more
powerful.
6. From the middle part to the end of the 18th century, in English
literature _______ flourished. They were mostly stories of mystery and
horror which take place in some haunted or dilapidated middle age castles.
7. As a leading romanticist, Byron's chief contribution is his creation of
the "________", a proud, mysterious rebel figure of noble origin.
8. _________ is regarded as a "worshipper of nature".
9. All of Charles Dickens's later works, with the exception of
"_________"(1859), present a criticism of the more complicated and yet most
fundamental social institutions and morals of the Victorian England.
10. Bernard Shaw began his career as a dramatist in 1892, when his first
play "_______"(1892) was put on by the independent theater society.
11. __________ was regarded as father of the American short stories.
12. The way in which ______ wrote "The Scarlet Letter" suggests that
American Romanticism adapted itself to American puritan moralism.
13. The most important feature of Mark Twain's language is the use of
vernacular, or __________.
14. "_________" is Browning's best - known dramatic monlogue.
15. Ezra Pound's major work of poetry is the long poem called _________.
16. Hemingway's "____________" (1936) tells a brilliant short story about a
martially wounded American writer who attempts to redeem his imagination
from the corrosions of wealth and domestic strife.
17. __________ stands as a great dividing line between the nineteenth
century and the contemporary American literature.
18. Pound was the leader of a now movement in poetry which he called the
"________" movement.
19. "After Apple - Picking" is a well - known poem written by __________.
20. George Eliot's greatest achievement is "_________".
C. Decide whether the following statements are true or false and write your
answers in the brackets. (10×1 points)
( ) 1. "Dr. Faustus" is a play based on the English Legend of a magician
aspiring for knowledge and finally meeting his tragic end as a result of
selling his soul to the Devil.
( )2. Swift is a master satirist. His satire is usually masked by an
outward gravity and an apparent earnestness which renders his satire all
the more powerful. His "A Modest Proposal" is generally taken as a perfect
model.
( )3. Shelley's greatest achievement is his four - act poetic drama,
"Prometheus Unbound". (1820)
( )4. Though Naturalism seems to have played an important part in Hardy's
works, there is also bitter and sharp criticism and even open challenge as
the irrational, hypocritical and unfair Victorian institutions, conventions
and morals which strangle the individual will and destroy natural human
emotions and relationships.
( )5. Hardy is the founder of the "stream of consciousness" school of novel
writing.
( )6. American romanticism was in a way derivative; American romantic
writing was some of them modeled on English and European works.
( )7. With the publication of "Daisy Miller", Henry James' reputation was
firmly established on both sides of the Atlantic and Daisy Miller has ever
since become the American girl in Europe, a celebrated cultural type who
embodies the spirit of the old world.
( )8. Altogether, Dickinson wrote 1775 poems of which most had appeared
during her lifetime.
( )9. Hemingway develops the style of colloquialism initiated by Thomas
Hardy.
( )10. Transcendentalism exalted reason over feeling, individual expression
over the restraints of law and custom.
D. Name the author of the following literary works. (5×1 points)
1. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
2. A Journal of the Plague Year
3. Ode on a Grecian Urn
4. The Lake Isle of Innisfree
5. There Was a Child Went Forth
E. Define the literary terms listed below. (2×4 points)
1. Dramatic Monologue
2. Symbolism
F. For each of the quotations listed below please give the name of the
author and the title of the literary work from which it is taken and then
briefly interpret it. ( 2×4 points)
1. "I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze."
2. "The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough".
G. Give brief answers to the following questions. (3×5 points)
1. What's the theme of "Jane Eyre"?
2. What's the theme of John Galsworthy's "The Man of Property"?
3. How did Walt Whitman make use of the poetic "I" in his works?
H. Short essay questions. (2×7 points)
1. Read the excerpt from chapter I of "Pride And Prejudice" in our
textbook, and answer the following questions.
(1) What is this passage describing?
(2) What's the style of this passage?
(3) Analyze the characters of the main roles of this passage: Mr. And Mrs.
Bennet.
全国高等教育自学考试模拟试卷（二）
英美文学选读参考答案
A.
1. B
2. D
3. D
4. C
5. C
6. B
7. D
8. A
9. A
10. D
11. D
12. C
13. D
14. A
15. C
16. B
17. D
18. C
19. C
20. A
B.
1. heroic couplet
2. University Wits
3. metaphysical poetry
4. The Faerie Queene
5. satirist
6. Gothic novels
7. Byronic hero
8. Wordsworth
9. A Tale of Two Cities
10. Widowers' House
11. Washington Irving
12. Hawthorne
13. Colloquialism
14. My Last Duchess
15. The Cantos
16. The Snows of Kilimanjaro
17. The First World War
18. Imagist
19. Robert Frost
20. Middlemarch
C.
1. F
2. T
3. T
4. T
5. F
6. T
7. F
8. F
9. F
10. F
D.
1. Henry Fielding
2. Daniel Defoe
3. John Keats
4. William Bulter Yeats
5. Walt Whitman
E.
1. A kind of narrative poem in which one character speaks to one or more
listeners whose replies are not giver in the poem. The occasion is usually
a crucial one in the speaker's life, and the dramatic monologue reveals the
speaker's of a dramatic monologue is "My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning.
In the poems including "My Last Duchess", Browning chooses a dramatic
moment or a crisis, in which his characters are made to talk about their
lives, and about their minds and hearts. In "listening" to those one -
sided talks, readers can form their own opinions and judgements about the
those one - sided personality and about what has really happened.
2. Symbolism is the writing technique of using symbols. A symbol is
something that conveys two kinds of meaning; it is simply itself, and it
stands for something other than itself. In other words, a symbol is both
literal and figurative. People, places, things and even events can be used
symbolically. A symbol is a way of telling a story and a way of conveying
meaning. The best symbols are those that are believable in the lives of the
characters and also convincing as they convey a meaning beyond the literal
level of the story. Hawthorne and Melville were the two masters of
symbolism. For example, the scarlet letter "a" on Hester's breast can give
you symbolic meanings. If the symbol is obscure or ambiguous, then the very
obscurity and the ambiguity may also be apt of the meaning of the story.
F.
1. The name of the author is William Wordsworth, and the title of the
literary work is "I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud".
译文如下：
我独自游荡，像一朵孤云
高高地飞越峡谷和山巅，
突然，我望见密密的一群，
那是一大片金黄色水仙;
它们在那湖边的树荫里，
在阵阵微风中舞姿飘逸。
2. The author is Erza Pound, and the title of this poem is "In a Station of
the Metro".
译文如下：
出现在人群里这一张张面孔;
湿的黑树枝上的一片片花瓣。
G.
1. 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,
e. g. the religious hypocrisy of charity institutions such as Lowood school
where poor girls are trained, through constant starvation and humiliation,
to be humble slaves, the social discrimination Jane experiences first as a
dependent at her aunt's house and later as a governess at Thornfield, and
the false social convention love and marriage. At the same time, it is an
intense moral fable. Jane, like Mr. Rochester, has to undergo a series of
physical and moral tests to grow up and achieve her final happiness.
2. The theme of this novel is that of the predominant possessive instinct
of the Forsytes and its effects upon the personal relation - ships of the
family with the underlying assumption that human relationships of the
contemporary English society are merely and extension of property
relationships. The harsh satire on this inhuman sense of property is
brought out very effectively in the early Chapters of the novel. But in the
later part of the novel, the harsh tone gradually changes into a more
tolerant one, and finally it becomes a distinctly sentimental one, thus
weakening the effect of the novel.
3. Whitman's poetic style is marked, first of all, by the use of the poetic
"I". Speaking in the voice of "I," Whitman becomes all those people in his
poems, and yet still remains "What Whitman," hence a discovery of the self
in the other with such an identification. Usually, the relationship Whitman
is dramatizing is a triangular one: "I." the poet, the subject in the poem,
and "you", the reader. In such a manner, Whitman invites us, as we read his
lines, to participate in the process of sympathetic identification.
H.
1. (1) It is describing the parents of Bennet girls. Mr. And Mrs. Bennet
are busy considering the prospects of their daughter's marriages, shortly
after hearing of the arrival of a rich, unmarried young man as their
neighbour, mild satire may be found here in the author's seemingly matter -
of - fact description of a very ordinary, practical family conversation,
though unmistakable sympathy is given to both Mr. and Mrs. Bennet
(2) This passage is taken from the first chapter of the novel. Chapter I
has been universally acknowledged to be very well - written as an opening
chapter. The style is lucid and graceful, with touches of humor and mild
satire. The conversations are interesting and amusing, and immediately
bring the characters to life. The author only inserts her observations
ccasionally.
(3) Mr. Bennet is skeptical of conventional marriage and has no good words
for his beautiful wife. Mrs. Bennet is a beautiful but empty - headed,
snobbish and vulgar woman. Her only goal in life is to marry her five
daughters to rich, handsome young men.
2 Although James and Twain both worked for realism, there were obvious
differences between them. In thematic terms, James wrote mostly of the
upper reaches of American society, where as Mark Twain dealt largely with
the lower strata of society. Technically, James pursued the psychological
realism, but Mark Twain's contribution to the development of realism and to
American literature as a whole was partly through his theories of local
colorism in American fiction, and partly through his colloquial style.
Henry James believed that reality lies in the impressions made by life on
the spectator, and not in any facts of which the spectator is unaware. Such
realism is therefore merely the obligation that the artist assumes to
represent life as he sees it, which may not be the same life as it "really"
is. James shifted the ground of realistic art from the outer to the inner
world.
Mark Twain preferred to represent social life through portraits of local
places which he knew best. He drew heavily from his own rich fund of
knowledge of people and places. He confined himself to the life with which
he was familiar. By quoting from his own experience, Mark Twain managed to
transform into art the freedom and humor, in short, the fines elements of
western culture.
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