全国自考英美文学选读（综合）模拟试卷2
一、阅读理解
1 To bow and sue for grace
With suppliant knee, and deify his power
...—that were low indeed,
That were an ignominy, and shame beneath
This downfall;...
Questions:
A. Who is the author?
B. What is the title of the poem?
C. What is the main idea?
2 I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
Questions:
A. Identify the author and the work.
B. What are the two principal beliefs that the poet set in this poem?
3 "...Only Miss Emily' s house was left, rifting its stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton wagons and the gasoline pumps—an eyesore among eyesores. " Questions:
A. Identify the author and the title of the story from which the quoted lines are taken.
B. What is the meaning of "an eyesore among eyesores" ?
C. What does this quoted passage indicate?
二、简答题
4 As a novelist Jane Austen writes within a very ______ sphere. The subject matter, the character range, the social setting, and plots are all restricted to the ______ of the late 18th-century England, concerning three or four landed gentry families with their daily routine life.
5 Analyze the character of Jane Eyre taken from Jane Eyre.
6 What are the features of Whitman' s poetry?
7 Some of Hemingway' s heroes are regarded as the Hemingway code heroes. Whatever the differences in experience and age, they all have something in common which Hemingway values. What are the characteristics of the Hemingway code hero?
三、论述题
8 Robinson Crusoe is universally considered as Daniel Defoe' s masterpiece. Robinson, apparently, is cast as a typical 18th-century pioneer colonist. Give a brief comment on Robinson Crusoe.
9 Make a brief comment on Elizabeth ' s character in Pride and Prejudice.
10 Take Mark Twain' s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as an example to illustrate the statement that Mark Twain was a unique writer in American literature.。