2008年7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)PART ONE(40 POINTS)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. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet.1. Of all the eighteenth—century British novelists ______ was the first to set out,both in theory and practice,to write specially a “comic epic in prose”,the first to give the modern novel its structure and style. P121A. Thomas GrayB. Richard Brinsley SheridanC. Jonathan SwiftD. Henry Fielding2. The poem “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” established ______ as the leader of the sentimental poetry of the day,especially “the Graveyard School”.A. Thomas GrayB. Samuel JohnsonC. John BunyanD. John Milton3. “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 quoted part is taken from ______. P261A. Great ExpectationsB. Wuthering HeightsC. Jane EyreD. Pride and Prejudice4. The most famous dramatists in the Renaissance England are all the following EXCEPT ______. P12A. Francis BaconB. Christopher MarloweC. William ShakespeareD. Ben Jonson5. George Bernard Shaw’s play Mrs. Warren’s Profession is about______. P322A. slum landlordismB. the economic oppression of womenC. the political corruption in EnglandD. the religious corruption in England6. All of the following statements can correctly describe the Enlightenment Movement EXCEPT浙00604 英美文学选读试题第1 页(共9 页)______. P80A. The movement flourished in France.B. The movement was a furtherance of the Renaissance.C. The purpose of the movement was to enlighten the whole world.D. The purpose of the movement was to enhance the religious education.7. Among the three major poetical works by John Milton ______ is the most perfect example of the verse drama after the Greek style in English. P71A. Samson AgonistesB. Paradise LostC. Paradise RegainedD. Areopagitica8. The major British Romantic poets Blake,Wordsworth,Coleridge,Byron,Shelley and Keats started a rebellion against the neoclassical literature,which was later regarded as _____. P161 A. the poetic romance B. the poetic movementC. the poetic revolutionD. the poetic reformation9. Jane Austen’s main literary concern is about ______. P226A. human beings in their personal relationshipsB. the love story between the rich and the poorC. maturity achieved through the loss of illusionsD. the daily country life of the upper-middle-class English10. Among the following British Romantic poets __is regarded as a “worshipper of nature”. P176A. William BlakeB. William WordsworthC. George Gordon ByronD. John Keats11. Jonathan Swift’s greatest satiric work is ______. P106A. A Tale of a TubB. The Battle of BooksC. Gulliver’s TravelsD. “A Modest Proposal’’12. Among the following writers ______ is considered to be the best— known English dramatist since Shakespeare. P318A. Oscar WildeB. John GalsworthyC. W. B. YeatsD. George Bernard Shaw13. As a representative of the Enlightenment,______ was one of the first to introduce rationalism to England. P91浙00604 英美文学选读试题第2 页(共9 页)A. Francis BaconB. Alexander PopeC. Thomas GrayD. T. S. Eliot14. All of the following poets are regarded as “Lake Poets”EXCEPT ______. P175A. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeB. Robert SoutheyC. William WordsworthD. William Blake15. “To be, or not to be — that is the question;/whether’ tis nobler in the mind to suffer,/the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,/Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, /And by opposing end them?” The quoted lines are taken from ______. P55A. King LearB. Romeo and JulietC. OthelloD. Hamlet16. Daniel Defoe describes ______ as a typical English middle —class man of the eighteenth century,the very prototype of the empire builder,the pioneer colonist.P100A. Robinson CrusoeB. Moll FlandersC. GulliverD. Tom Jones17. The declaration that “I know that This World is a World of IMAGINA TION & Vision,” and that “The Nature of my work is visionary or imaginative’’ belongs to ______. P170A. William BlakeB. William WordsworthC. Samuel Taylor Coleridge D.George Gordon Byron18. Although writing from different points of view and with different techniques,writers in the Victorian Period shared one thing in common,that is,they were all concerned about ____.P236A. the fate of the upper classB. the reformation of the governmentC. the fate of the common peopleD. the future of their family clans19. “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?’’ The quoted line co mes from ______. P214A. Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind’’B. Walt Whitman’s Leaves of GrassC. John Milton’s Paradise Lost D.John Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn”20. Among the following figures ______ is Dickens’ first child hero. P243A.Little Nell B.David CopperfieldC.Oliver Twist D.Little Dorrit浙00604 英美文学选读试题第3 页(共9 页)21. In the play The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde,the upper — class people are described all of the following EXCEPT ______.A. corruptB. snobbishC. hypocriticalD. ambitious22. In Thomas Hardy’s Wessex novels, there is an apparent ______ touch in his description of the simple and beautiful though primitive rural life. P300A. nostalgicB. humorousC. romanticD.ironic23. “Life is but a losing battle, it is a struggle man can dominate in suc h a way that loss becomes dignity;man can be physically destroyed but never defeated spiritually.” This notion is typically held by ______.P602-603A. Mark TwainB. Ezra PoundC. William FaulknerD. Ernest Hemingway24. The literary spokesman of the Jazz Age is ______. P577A. Henry JamesB. Robert FrostC. F. Scott FitzgeraldD. William Faulkner25.North of Boston is described by the author,Robert Frost,as “a book of people,’’ which shows a brilliant insight into ______ character and the background that formed it.P561A. the cowboyB. New EnglandC. Ivy ColleagueD. ivory tower26.People generally regarded ______ as the forerunner of the 20th—century “stream- of-consciousness”novels and the founder of psychological realism. P498A. Theodore DreiserB. William FaulknerC. Henry James D.Mark Twain27. According to ______, “There is evil in every human heart,which may remain latent,perhaps,through the whole life;but circumstances may rouse it to activity.”P431A. Nathaniel HawthorneB. Edgar Ellen PoeC. William Faulkner D.Theodore Dreiser28. Hemingway once described _____ the one book from which “all modern American literature comes.” P479浙00604 英美文学选读试题第4 页(共9 页)A. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnB. The Adventures of Tom SawyerC. The Gilded AgeD. Innocents Abroad29. What Walt Whitman prefers for his new subject and new poetic feelings is “______,”that is,poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.P450A. fixed verseB. free verseC. fixed endingD. free ending30. By writing _______ Melville reached the most flourishing stage of his literary creativity. P459A. TypeeB. OmooC. MardiD. Moby-Dick31. Shortly before his death in 1945,______ joined the Communist Party. P525A. Theodore DreiserB. Mark TwainC. Henry JamesD. Ezra Pound32. Naturalism is ev olved from ______ when the author’s tone in writing becomes less serious and less sympathetic but more ironic and more pessimistic. P476A. RomanticismB. ModernismC. RealismD. Scientism33. One of the most familiar themes in American naturalism is the theme of human ______. P476A. peacefulnessB. joyfulnessC. bestialityD. civilization34. H awthorne’s view of man and human history originated,to a great extent,from ____. P432?A. TranscendentalismB. PuritanismC. HumanismD. Expressionism35. In general, the American woman poet _____ wanted to live simply as a complete independent being,and so she did,as a spinster. P517A. Anne BretB. Emily DickinsonC. Anna DickinsonD. Emily Shaw36. Theodore Dreiser’s ______ found expression in almost every book he wrote in which “kill or to be killed” was the law. P526A. romanticismB. naturalismC. cubismD. classicalism浙00604 英美文学选读试题第5 页(共9 页)37. William Faulkner creates his own mythical kingdom that mirrors not only the decline of the ______ society but also the spiritual wasteland of the whole American society. P612-613A. southernB. northernC. westernD. eastern38. Almost every book written by Hawthorne discusses _____,which reflects his unceasing interest in the “interior of the heart” of man’s being. P432A. sin and evilB. 1ove and hatredC. frustration and self - denialD. balance and self - discipline39. A preoccupation with the ______ view of original sin and the mystery of evil marked the works of Hawthorne,Melville and a host of lesser writers. P401A. optimisticB. CalvinisticC. PlatonicD. Socratic40. The American ______ as a cultural heritage exerted great influences over American moral values in the American Romantic period. P401A. Puritanism B.AtheismC. DeismD. CynicismPART TWO(60 POINTS)II. 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. “The fiver glideth at his own sweet will:Dear God! the very houses seem asleep;And all that mighty heart is lying still!”(from William Wordsworth’s “Composed upon Westminster Bridge”)Questions:A. What figure of speech is used in the quoted lines? personificationB. What does “that mighty heart’’ refer to?LondonC. What does the poem decribe? The fourth line expresses the idea that the river is flowing happily as a living things , which implies the beauty of the nature42. “When the stars threw down their spears,浙00604 英美文学选读试题第6 页(共9 页)And water’d heaven with their tears,Did he smile his work to see?Did he who made the Lamb make thee?”Questions:A. Identify the poet and the poem from which the quoted lines are taken. William Blake's "The Tyger"B. Whom does the “he’’ refer to?The godC. What does the “Lamb” symbolize?Symbol of peace and purity.43. “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 theirparents the same,I,now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin,Hoping to cease not till death”Questions:A. Identify the poet and the poem from which the quoted lines are taken. Walt Witman’s Song of MyselfB. What do “soil” and “air” represent in the first line?America, his country, his native landC. What does the poet try to say in the above four lines? The author implied that I was born and nurtrued by this land and shall from no on devote m whole life to the country.44. “I cannot rub the strangeness from my sightI got from looking through a pane of glassI skimmed this morning from the drinking troughAnd held against the world of hoary grass.”Questions:A. Identify the poet and the poem from which the quoted lines are taken. Robert Lee Frost’s After Apple-PickingB. What does the word “strangeness’’ refer to?C. What do the quoted lines imply?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 浙00604 英美文学选读试题第7 页(共9 页)corresponding space on the Answer Sheet.45. As a leading Romanticist,Byron’s chief contribution is his creation of the “Byronic Hero”.Briefly explain the literary term “Byronic Hero’’.不考46. TheWaste Land is T.S.Eliot’s most important single poem.Try to state the theme and the significance of the poem briefly. The Waste Land is a poem concerned with the spiritural breakup of a modern civilization in which human life has lost its meaning, significance and purpose. 47.What is the most famous theme in Henry James’s fiction?And what is his favourite approach in characterization,which makes him different from Mark Twain and W·D.Howells as a realist? Give two titles of his first period works in which this theme and this approach are employed.A.Henry James’s most famous theme is what is generally called “the international theme.”His novels or short stories of the theme are always set against a larger international background, usually between Europe and America. They center around the conflict of the two cultures, represented by and innocent American and a sophisticated European.B.James is regarded as the founder of psychological realism for his psychoanalytical approach to his characters.C.Daisy Miller, The Portrait of A Lady his representative works of this kind.48. As a leading spokesman of the “Imagist Movement”,what principles does Ezra Pound endorse? 不考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. Discuss Charles Dickens’ art of fiction:the setting,the character — portrayal,the language,etc.,based on his novel Oliver Twist.A.Setting: In the novel Mark Twain recreates a small-town world of America and presents the local color.nguage: 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.浙00604 英美文学选读试题第8 页(共9 页)50. Greatly and permanently affected by the war experiences, Hemingway formed his own writing style,together with his theme and hero. Please discuss Hemingway’s writing style in relation to his novels you have read.浙00604 英美文学选读试题第9 页(共9 页)。