2020年8月英美文学选读真题答案答案与解析一、单项选择题：1.D 萧伯纳是戏剧评论家也是剧作家。

2.B T.S.Eliot 使用诗体戏剧，著名的是《教堂里的谋杀案》。

3.A D.H Lawrence 在《侵犯者》一书中描写了人与人丧失了温暖。

4.C T.S.Eliot 晚期两本重要的诗作是“Ash Wednesday &Four Quartets”.5.B G.B.Shaw 在《医生的进退两难》中描写一个无知、无能、自大的医学教授。

6.D Charles Dickens 第一个描写的少年英雄的 Oliver Twist。

7.A Charlotte Bronte 的第一部小说是《教授》。

8.C Thomas Hardy 被熟知的“人物与环境为纲”-novels of character andenvironment.9.D Thomas Hardy“The Mayor of Casterbridge”Henchard 是个守旧派的自负古董。

10.B Charles Dickens 在“Great Expectations”呈现了社会环境对人的迫害。

11.B Charlotte Bronte 在布鲁塞尔爱上了一位教授。

12.A wrence 在《彩虹》中描写了社会的腐败。

13.A Jane Austen在“Persuasion”中将真爱与精打细算做了对比。

14.C P.B.Shelley在18岁的时候写了《无神论的重要性》，被逐出学校。

15.D William Wordsworth的诗歌“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”最能体现他思想核心。

16.C Jane Austen的小说主题是爱情与婚姻，她的态度是Practical idealism。

17.C 《序曲》是William Wordsworth的名篇。

18.B William Blake 在“Songs of Experience”中呈现悲伤的语气。

19.A Jonathan Swift 是讽刺大师，satire。

20.D Henry Fielding 在“Tom Jones”的主题是人类天性，Human nature.21.B “Marriage of Heaven and Hell”是William Blake的成名之篇。

22.B Robinson Crusoe是典型的十八世纪英国中产阶级的代表，new England代表的是美国。

23.D “The Tragedy of Tragedies”是Henry Fielding的著作。

24.D Gulliver’s Travel第四部是人马国的故事。

25.C William Shakespeare 在“Romeo and Juliet”中表现的对爱和幸福信心。

26.A John Milton 写的“Samson Agonistes”取自圣经。

27.A 莎士比亚得到安南普敦伯爵(the Earl of Southampton)的资助，写了这两部。

28.C Robinson Crusoe在岛屿上救了星期五（Friday）。

29.D 美国时期Herman Melville采用第三人称写法。

30.B Nathaniel Hawthorne 几乎在每本书里都讨论sin and evil。

31.A Walt Whitman 唯一一部诗歌集“Leaves of Grass”。

32.C Moby-Dick 描写的就是追逐白鲸的故事。

33.B Huck被寡妇Douglas说教。

34.D Henry James 在《小说的艺术》中指出，小说的目的就是呈现生活。

35.C Emily Dickinson 是美国最重要的女诗人，写了1775首诗，生前发表7首。

36.A “An American Tragedy”是Theodore Dreiser写的。

37.A Ernest Hemingway 描写了战后一代的迷茫与绝望。

38.D Robert Lee Frost曾说“North of Boston”是一部讲人的书。

39.C Nick是“The Great Gatsby”的叙述者，职业是sell bonds。

40.D William Faulkner 写了19本小说与75本短片故事，Mississippi二．阅读理解41.A. Daniel Defoe;Robinson Crusoe.B.Robinson Crusoe.C.When the narrator went to sea,gets shipwrecked and marooned on anisland,he had to live in the tent.42.A. William Blake.B.When the smith is hammering the heated metal,the fire sparkles likeshooting stars which are often called as angle’s tears by children.C.Symbol of peace and purity.43.A.Emily Dickinson.B.The relatives and friends cried and cried so that were no tears anylonger.C.The God of Death.44. A.William Faulkner;A Rose for Emily.B.It means the most unpleasant thing to look at.C.The Gothic Devices.45. A.It is told by Nelly,Catherine’s old nurse,to Mr.Lockwood,a temporarytenant.The latter gives an account of what he sees at Wuthering Heights.B.And part of story is told through Isabella’s letters to Nelly.C.While the central is maintained,the sequence of its development isdisordered by flashbacks making the story all the more enticing and genuine.46. A.He makes the trick of showing up a character at the expense oranother.B.He would take an unconventional character,a person with the gift ofinsight a freedom,and impinge it upon a group of conventional social animals.C.G.B.Shaw’s characters are the representatives of ideas,points ofview,that shift and alter during the play.47. A.The chose their subjects from the lower ranks of society.B.They portrayed misery and poverty of the “underdogs”who werevictims of society and nature.C.One of the most familiar themes is the theme of human “bestiality”as an explanation of sexual desire.48. A.The disillusionment of the protagonists’personal dream is due tothe clashes between their romantic vision of life and the reality.B.His many stories started with the situation in which a rising youngman of the middle-class is in love with the daughter of a rich family.The man’s real dream is that of achieving a new status and a new essence.C.That is why Daisy seems so charming to Gatsby and that is why Gatsbyhas directed his whole life to winning back her love.49. A.The theme is the “Fall of Man”,i.e.man’s disobedience and the lossof Paradise,with its prime cause-Satan. Miltonintended to expose the ways of Satan and to “justify the ways of God to men”.B.At the center of the conflict between human love and spiritual dutylies Milton’s concern with freedom and choices;the freedom to submit to God’s prohibition on eating the apple and choice of disobedience for love.ton’s poem attempts to convince us that the truth of Biblicalrevelation means that God was just in allowing Adam and Eve to be tempted and ,of their free will,to choose sin and its punishment.D.The poem opens the way for the sacrifice of Christ which showed themercy of God in bringing good out of evil.50.A.Hawthorn’s literary world turns out to be a most disturbed,tormentedand problematical one possible to imagine.B.This has much to do with his “black”version of life and humanbeings.According to Hawthorn,there is evil in every human heart through the whole life ;but circumstances may rouse it to activity.C.Literary work should “show how are all wronged and wronged and avengeone another”.In every book he wrote,Hawthorne discusses sin and evil.D.One source of evil that Hawthorne is concerned most is over-reachingintellect,referring to someone who is too proud,too sure of himself.His view of man and human history originates in Puritanism.E.In many of his stories and novels, the Puritan concept of life iscondemned or the Puritan past is shown in an almost totally negative light.。