2014年10月全国自考英美文学选读考前密卷00604(含答案)一、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.第1题The most famous dramatists in the Renaissance England are________, William Sha kespeare, and Ben Johson.A. Christopher MarloweB. John MarloweC. John MiltonD. Edmund Spenser【正确答案】 A【你的答案】本题分数1分第2题A number of poems from the Songs of Innocence find a counterpart in the So ngs of Experience.“Infant Joy” is matched with “Infant Sorrow”, and the p ure “Lamb” is paired with the flaming “_________”.A. Chimney SweeperB. LondonC. SheepD. Tyger【正确答案】 D【你的答案】本题分数1分第3题 Jane Austen’s main literary concern is about___________.A. 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 middle-class English【正确答案】 A【你的答案】本题分数1分第4题Leaves of Grass commands great attention because of its uniquely poetic embod iment of_________, which are written in the founding documents of both the R evolutionary War and the Civil War in the United States.A. the democratic idealsB. the romantic idealsC. the self?reliance spiritsD. the religious ideals【正确答案】 A【你的答案】本题分数1分第5题The poetic style Whitman devised is now called__________, that is, poetry wit hout a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.A. heroic coupletB. dramatic monologueC. blank verseD. free verse【正确答案】 D【你的答案】本题分数1分第6题The_________ was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in the 18th century.A. RenaissanceB. EnlightenmentC. Religious ReformationD. Chartist Movement【正确答案】 B【你的答案】本题分数1分第7题For his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel, ________ has been regarded as “Father of the English Novel”.A. Henry FieldingB. Daniel DefoeC. John BunyanD. James Joyce【正确答案】 A【你的答案】本题分数1分第8题The Romantic period is an age of________. Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats are the major Romantic poets.A. novelB. dramaC. essayD. poetry【正确答案】 D【你的答案】本题分数1分第9题__________is perhaps the most anthologized poem in English literature, and one that takes us to the core of the poetic beliefs of William Wordsworth.A. The Solitary ReaperB. The Sailor’s MotherC. I Wandered Lonely as a CloudD. Ode to the West Wind【正确答案】 C【你的答案】本题分数1分第10题________represents those middle?class working women who are struggling for reco gnition of their basic rights and equality as a human being.A. CarrieB. Jane EyreC. CatherineD. Emily【正确答案】 B【你的答案】本题分数1分第11题Modernism is, in many aspects, a reaction against_______. It rejects rationali sm, which is the theoretical base of realism.A. romanticismB. humanismC. symbolismD. realism【正确答案】 D【你的答案】本题分数1分第12题__________, T.S.Eliot’s most important single poem, has been hailed as a lan dmark and a model of the 20th?century English poetry.A. The Waste LandB. Ash WednesdayC. Four QuartetsD. The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock【正确答案】 A【你的答案】本题分数1分第13题Walt Whitman is a poet with a strong sense of mission, having devoted all his life to the creation of the “single”poem,__________ .A. ChicagoB. My Lost YouthC. Leaves of GrassD. A Pact【正确答案】 C【你的答案】本题分数1分第14题In 1915__________ became a naturalized British citizen, largely in protest aga inst America’s failure to join England in the First World War.A. T.S.EliotB. Henry JamesC. W.D.HowellsD. George Eliot【正确答案】 B【你的答案】本题分数1分第15题Fitzgerald never spared an intimate touch in his fiction to deal with________ _ of the American Dream.A. the successB. the bankruptcyC. the fulfillmentD. the forming【正确答案】 B【你的答案】本题分数1分第16题Most of________’s works are set in the American South,with his emphasis on the Southern subjects and consciousness.A. FaulknerB. FitzgeraldC. HemingwayD. Steinbeck【正确答案】 A【你的答案】本题分数1分第17题 Which of the following descriptions of Gothic Novels is NOT correctA. It predominated in the early eighteenth century.B. It was one phase of the Romantic movement.C. Its principal elements are violence, horror and the supernatural.D.Works like The Mysteries of Udolpho and Frankenstein are typical Gothic roman ce.【正确答案】 A【你的答案】本题分数1分第18题Shelley’s masterpiece, Prometheus Unbound, is a verse drama, which borrows th e basic story from ___________.A. the BibleB. the Greek mythologyC. a Greek playD. One Thousand and One Nights【正确答案】 B【你的答案】本题分数1分第19题Returning to England from Germany in 1799, William Wordsworth and his sister settled at Dove Cottage in Grasmere, Westmoreland. The poet__________ as well as___________ lived nearby, and the three men became known as the “Lake Poets”.A. Samuel Taylor Coleridge/George Gordon ByronB. Robert Southey/Samuel Taylor ColeridgeC. John Keats/Robert SoutheyD. George Gordon Byron/Percy Bysshe Shelley【正确答案】 B【你的答案】本题分数1分第20题In 1950, _________was awarded the Nobel Prize for the anti?racist Intruder in the Dust.A. Robert FrostB. William FaulknerC. Ezra PoundD. Ernest Hemingway【正确答案】 B【你的答案】本题分数1分第21题Lawrence was recognized as a prominent novelist only after he published his third novel,________.A. The RainbowB. Women in LoveC. Sons and LoversD. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man【正确答案】 C【你的答案】本题分数1分第22题The Birthmark drives home symbolically Hawthorne’s point that ________ is man ’s birthmark, something he is born with.A. goodnessB. gratefulnessC. evilD. bitterness【正确答案】 C【你的答案】本题分数1分第23题According to Whitman, the genuine participation of a poet in a common cultur al effort was to behave as a supreme_________.A. democratB. individualistC. romanticistD. leader【正确答案】 B【你的答案】本题分数1分第24题 The Hemingway Code heroes are best remembered for their______.A. masculinityB. war experienceC. indestructible spiritD. pessimistic view of life【正确答案】 C【你的答案】本题分数1分第25题Tom Jones, the full title being The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, is generally considered the masterpiece of_________.A. John BunyanB. Daniel DefoeC. Jonathan SwiftD. Henry Fielding【正确答案】 D【你的答案】本题分数1分第26题The literary form which is fully developed and the most flourishing during t he Romantic period is________.A. dramaB. proseC. poetryD. novel【正确答案】 C【你的答案】本题分数1分第27题In his lyrics such as “Ode to Liberty”,“Ode to Naples”, Percy Bysshe S helley expressed his love for ___________and his hatred toward tyranny.A. the middle classB. the poorC. freedomD. the proletariat【正确答案】 C【你的答案】本题分数1分第28题Tess of the D’Urbervilles, one of Thomas Hardy’s best known novels, portray s man as________.A. being hereditarily either good or badB. having no control over his own fateC. being self?sufficientD. still retaining his own faith in a world of confusion【正确答案】 B【你的答案】本题分数1分第29题 The giant Moby Dick may symbolize all EXCEPT_________.A. mystery of the universeB. sin of the whaleC. power of the great natureD. evil of the world【正确答案】 B【你的答案】本题分数1分第30题___________shaped the world’s view of America and made a more extensive comb ination of American folk humor and serious literature than previous writers h ad ever done.A. Henry JamesB. Washington IrvingC. Theodore DreiserD. Mark Twain【正确答案】 D【你的答案】本题分数1分第31题In_________, Robert Frost compares life to a journey, and he is doubtful whe ther he will regret his choice or not when he is old, because the choice has made all the difference.A. After Apple?PickingB. The Road Not TakenC. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy EveningD. Fire and Ice【正确答案】 B【你的答案】本题分数1分第32题The play Romeo and Juliet, though a tragedy, is permeated with__________ spir it.A. optimisticB. sadC. pessimisticD. just【正确答案】 A【你的答案】本题分数1分第33题William Wordsworth is a poet in memory of the past. To him, life is a cyc lical journey. Its beginning finally turns out to be its end. His philosophy of life is presented in his masterpiece___________.A. The PreludeB. My Heart Leaps upC. Tintern AbbeyD. The Solitary Reaper【正确答案】 A【你的答案】本题分数1分第34题“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”is an epigrammatic line by_____ ______.A. John KeatsB. William BlakeC. William WordsworthD. P.B.Shelley【正确答案】 D【你的答案】本题分数1分第35题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 poor understandingB. simple character and quick witC. intricate character and quick witD. intricate character and poor understanding【正确答案】 A【你的答案】本题分数1分第36题_________, which bears a strong thematic resemblance to The Waste Land, is g enerally regarded as the darkest of T.S.Eliot’s poems.A. GerontionB. The Hollow MenC. The Love Song of J.Alfred PrufrockD. The Cocktail Party【正确答案】 B【你的答案】本题分数1分第37题 American Transcendentalists most typically believe that__________.A. art is superior to lifeB. man is divine in natureC. man can transform natureD. poetry is the highest form of art【正确答案】 B【你的答案】本题分数1分第38题Frost’s first collection A boy’s Will, whose lyrics trace a boy’s developm ent from self?centered idealism to maturity, is marked by an intense but res trained emotion and the characteristic flavor of________.A. England lifeB. New England lifeC. the Southern American lifeD. the Western American life【正确答案】 B【你的答案】本题分数1分第39题__________ is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th?century “strea m?of?consciousness”novels and the founder of psychological realism.A. Henry JamesB. Mark TwainC. Theodore DreiserD. Walt Whitman【正确答案】 A【你的答案】本题分数1分第40题Theodore Dreiser’s_________ found expression in almost every book he wrote in which “kill or to be killed”was the law.A. romanticismB. naturalismC. cubismD. classicalism【正确答案】 B二、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．“Is dying hard, Daddy?”“No, I think it’s pretty easy, Nick. It all depends.”第1题Identify the author and the work.【正确答案】 (P609)Ernest Hemingway, Indian Camp.【你的答案】修改分数本题分数1分你的得分第2题 What was Nick preoccupied with when he asked the question?【正确答案】 Life and death.【你的答案】本题分数1分修改分数你的得分第3题Why did the father add “It all depends”after he answered his son’s questi on?【正确答案】When the father says that dying is pretty easy, he might be thinking about the self?m urdered husband. But when he reflects on the wife’s miracle survival of the violent pain in the whole process of birth, he adds the final sentence. Dying is both hard and easy, it all depends on individuals.【你的答案】本题分数 2分你的得分修改分数“I consulted several things in my situation which I found would be proper for me: 1s t, health and fresh water I just now mentioned; 2ndly, shelter from the heat of the sun; 3rdly, security from ravenous creatures, whether men or beats; 4thly, a view to t he sea, that if God sent any ship in sight, I might not lose any advantage for my deliverance, of which I was not willing to banish all my expectation yet.” 第1题Identify the author and the work.【正确答案】 (P100~101)Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe. 【你的答案】本题分数 2 分你的得分修改分数第2题 What idea does the quoted passage express?【正确答案】Robinson is considering the measures that must be taken in his situation. 【你的答案】本题分数 2 分你的得分修改分数Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere;Destroyer and Preserver; hear, O hear! 第1题 Identify the poet and the poem.【正确答案】 (P212)It is “Ode to the West Wind” of Shelley. 【你的答案】本题分数1分你的得分修改分数第2题 What does the “Wild Spirit”refer to?【正确答案】“Wild Spirit” refers to west wind.【你的答案】本题分数1分你的得分修改分数第3题 Why called it “Destroyer and Preserver”at the same time?【正确答案】Because west wind buried the dead year and year and prepared for a new spring.【你的答案】本题分数2分你的得分修改分数The early lilacs became part of this child,And grass and white and red morning?glories, and white and red clover, and the song o f the phoebe?bird,And the Third?month lambs and the sow’s pink?faint litter, and the mare’s foal and t he cow’s calf,And the noisy brood of the barnyard or by the mire of the pondside,And the fish suspending themselves so curiously below there, and the beautiful curious liquid,And the water?plants with their graceful flat heads, all became part of him.第1题Name the author of the poem.【正确答案】 (P452)Walt Whitman.【你的答案】本题分数1分修改分数你的得分第2题 What is the poetic style called?【正确答案】 Free style.【你的答案】修改分数本题分数1分你的得分第3题 What does the passage describe?【正确答案】The passage describes the growth of a child who is wandering and admiring the scene ar ound him. In the poem, the early experience of the poet may well be identified with the childhood of a young and growing America.【你的答案】三、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 corresponding space on the Answer Sheet．第1题“Even then he stood there, hidden wholly in that kindness which is night, while the uprising fumes filled the room. When the odor reached his nostrils , he quit his attitude and fumbled for the bed.‘What’s the use?’ he said, weakly, as he stretched himself to rest.”They above is quoted from Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie.Briefly tell the situation that leads to the suicide and interpret Hurstwood’s final words—“What’s the use?”【正确答案】 (P528)A.When they live together, Carrie becomes mature in intellect and emotion, while Hurstwood, away from the atmosphere of success on which his life has been based, steadily declines. So their relations become strained. At last, she thinks him too great a bu rden and leaves him. After Carrie deserts Hurstwood, he is in great despair. Feeble a nd penniless, Hurstwood wanders in a cold winter night with nobody trying to help. Ex tr?emely hopeless and totally devastated, he turns the gas on in a cheap lodging?hous e and ends his life.B.By making that comment, Hurstwood seems to have realized that it is useless to cont inue to fight against fate. His fate is not controlled by his own efforts but by some social forces too strong for him to resist, so he decides to give up. 【你的答案】本题分数6分你的得分 修改分数第2题“Robinson Crusoe”is universally considered as Daniel Defoe’s masterpiece. Dis cuss why it became so successful when it was published?【正确答案】 (P98~100)A.Robinson Crusoe is supposedly based on the real adventure of an Alexander Selkirk w ho once stayed alone on the uninhabited island Juan Fernandez for five years. In fact , the story is an imagination.B.In Robinson Crusoe, Defoe traces the growth of Robinson from a naive and artless yo uth into a shrewd and hardened man, tempered by numerous trials in his eventful life.C.In the novel, Robinson is a real hero and he is an embodiment of the rising middle?class virtues in the mid?eighteenth century England.D.Robinson Crusoe is an adventure story very much in the spirit of the time. Because of the above reasons, when it was published, people all liked that story, and it beca me an immediate success. 【你的答案】本题分数 6分你的得分修改分数第3题 What is “the Enlightenment Movement”?【正确答案】 (P80~81)A.The Enlightenment Movement was a progressive intellectual movement which flourished in France and swept through the whole Western Europe at the time. The movement was a furtherance of the Renaissance of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.B.Its purpose was to enlighten the whole world with the light of modern philosophical and artistic ideas. The enlighteners celebrated reason or rationality, equality and science. They held that rationality or reason should be the only, the final cause of any human thought and activities.C.The enlighteners advocated universal education. They believed that human beings wer e limited, dualistic, imperfect, and yet capable of rationality and perfection throug h education. 【你的答案】本题分数 6分你的得分修改分数第4题What is the most famous theme in Henry James’s fiction? And what is his f avourite approach in characterization, which makes him different from Mark Twa in and W.D.Howells as realists? Give two titles of his works in which this theme and this approach are employed.【正确答案】 (P496?498)A.The international theme.B.James’s psychological approach.C.The Portrait of A Lady incarnated the clash between the Old World and the New in thelife journey of an American girl in European cultural environment. The Princess Casam assima, which exposed the anarchist conspiracy in the slum of London, were written ina naturalistic mode.【你的答案】四、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.第1题The Great Gatsby is an examination of American myth in the 20th century. Fi tzgerald deliberately depicts Gatsby as a mysterious person so as to achievethe effect that Gatsby is American Everyman. Please make a brief comment on The Great Gatsby.【正确答案】 (P582)A.The Great Gatsby is a masterpiece in American literature. It evokes a haunting moodof a glamorous, wild time that seemingly will never come again.B.Besides, the loss of an ideal and the disillusionment that comes with the failure are exploited fully in the personal tragedy of a young man whose “incorruptible dream” is “smashed into pieces by the relentless reality”.C.Gatsby is a mythical figure whose intensity of dream partakes of a state of mind that embodies America itself; Gatsby is the last of the romantic heroes, whose energy and sense of commitment takes him in search of his personal grail; Gat sby’s failure m agnifies to a great extent the end of the American Dream.【你的答案】本题分数1你的得分修改分数分第2题Theodore Dreiser is generally acknowledged as one of America’s literary natur alists. Please make a comment on Theodore Dreiser’s writing style.【正确答案】A.Dreiser’s style has been a point of heated discussion. The consensus that has been reached so far seems to be that, although Dreiser’s novels are formless at times and awkwardly written, and his characterization is found deficient and his prose pedestria n and dull, yet his very energy proves to be more than a compensation.B.Dreiser’s stories are always solid and intensely interesting with their simple but highly moving characters. Dreiser is good at employing the journalistic method of reit eration to burn a central impression into the reader’s mind. His interest in painting is reflected in his taste for word?pictures, sharp contrast, truth in color, and move ment in outline. Here lies the power and permanence that have made Dreiser one of Amer ica’s foremost novelists.【你的答案】。