2002年(上)英美文学选读试题及答案

1、2002年4月英美文学选读试题及答案2002年4月英美文学选读试题及答案课程代码：00604.Multiple Choice (40 points in all, 1 for each)Select from the four choices A,B,C,D of each itemthe one that best answers the question or completes thestatement and write the letter on the answer sheet.1.Romance,which uses narrative verse or prose to tel

2、l storiesof _ adventures or other heroic deeds, is a popular literaryform in the medieval period.A.Christian B.knightly C.GreekD.primitive2.Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer isknown for his production of _.A.Piers Plowman B.Sir Gawain and the Green KnightC.Confessio Amantis D.Th

3、e Canterbury Tales3.Which of the followinghistorical events does not directlyhelp to stimulate the rising of the Renaisssance Movement?A.The rediscovery of ancient Greek and Roman culture.B.The new discoveries in geography and astrology.C.The Glorious revolution.D.The religious reformation and the e

4、conomic expansion.4.Which of the following statements best illustrates the themeof Shakespeares Sonnet 18?A.The speaker eulogizes the power of Nature.B.The speaker satirizes human vanity.C.The speaker praises the power of artistic creation.D.The speaker meditates on mans salvation.5.And we will sit

5、upon the rocks,/Seeing the shepherds feedtheir flocks,/By shallow rivers to whose falls/Melodious birdssing madrigals.The above lines are probably taken from _.A.Spensers The Faerie QueeneB.John Donnes The Sun RisingC.Shakespeares Sonnet 18D.Marlowes The Passionate Shepherd to His Love6.BassaniAnton

6、io,I am married to a wifeWhich is as dear to me as life itself;But life itself, My wife, and all the world.Are not with me esteemd above thy life;I would lose all, ay, sacrifice them all,Here to the devil, to deliver you.Portia:Your wife would give you little thanks for that,If she were by to hear y

7、ou make the offer.The above is a quotation taken from Shakespeares comedy TheMerchant of Venice.The quoted part can be regarded as a good example toillustrate _.A.dramatic ironyB.personificationC.allegoryD.symbolism7.The ture subject of John Donnes poem,The Sun Rising, isto _.A.attack the sun as an

8、unruly servantB.give compliments to the mistress and her power of beautyC.criticize the suns intrusion into the lovers privatelifeD. lecture the sun on where true royalty and riches lie8.Of all the 18thcentury novelists Henry Fielding was thefirst to set out, both in theory and practice, to writespe

9、cifically a _in prose,the first to give the modernnovel its structure and style.A.tragic epicB.comic epicC.romanceD.lyric epic9.The Houyhnhnms depicted by Jonathan Swift in GulliversTravels are _.A.horses that are endowed with reasonB.pigmies that are endowed with admirable qualitiesC.giants that ar

10、e superior in wisdomD.hairy,wild, low and despicable creatures, who resemblehuman beings not only in appearance but also in some otherways.10.Here are four lines from a literary work:Others forlanguage all their care express,/And value books,as women men,for dress.The work is _.A.Thomas Grays Elegy

11、Written in a Country ChurchyardB.John Miltons Paradise LostC.Alexander Popes Essay on CriticismD.Shakespeares Midsummer Nights Dream11.The phrase to urge people to abide by Christian doctrinesand to seek salvation through constant struggles with theirown weaknesses and all kinds of social evils may

12、well sum upthe implied meaning of _.A.Gullivers Travels B.The Rape of the LockC.Robinson CrusoeD.The pilgrims Progress12.William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all thefollowing EXCEPT _.A.the use of everyday language spoken by the common peopleB.the expression of the spontaneous overflow of

13、powerfulfeelingsC.the use of humble and rustic life as subject matterD.the use of elegant wording and inflated figures of speech13.Which of the following is taken from John Keats Ode on aGrecian Urn?A.I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!B.They are both gone up to the church to pary.C.Earth has n

14、ot anything to show more fair.D.Beauty is truth, truth beauty.14.If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind! is anepigrammatic line by _.A.J.KeatsB.W.Blake C.W.WordsworthD.P.B.Shelley15.Ode o na Grecian Urnshows the contrast between the _ ofart and the _ of human passion.A.glory ugliness B.permanence

15、transienceC.transiencesordidness D.glorypermanence16.In the statement-oh,God! would you like to live with yoursoul in the grave? the termsoul apparently refers to _.A.Heathcliff himselfB.CatherineC.ones spiritual lifeD.ones ghost17.The typical feature of Robet Brownings poetry is the _.A.bitter sati

16、reB.larger-than-life caricatureC.Latinized dictionD.dramatic monologue18.The Victorian Age was largely an age of _,eminentlyrepresented by Dickens and Thackeray.A.poetry B.drama C.proseD.epicprose19._is the first important governess novel in the Englishliterary history.A.Jane Eyre B.EmmaC.Wuthering

17、HeightsD.Middlemarch20.The major concern of_ fiction lies in the tracing ofthe psychological development of his characters and in hisenergetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of thecapitalist industrialization on humannature.A.D.H.Lawrences B.J.GalsworthysC.W.ThackeraysD.T.Hardys21._is consider

18、ed tobe the best-known English dramatistsince Shakespeare, and his representative works are playsinspired by social criticism.A.Richard SheridanB.Oliver GoldsmithC.Oscar Wilde D.Bernard Shaw22.Which of the following is NOT a typical feature ofModernism?A.To elevate the individual and inner being ove

19、r the socialbeing.B.To put the stress on traditional values.C.To portray the distorted and alienated relationshipsbetweenman and his environment.D.To advocate a conscious break with the past.23.The Romantic writers would focus on all the followingissues EXCEPT the _ in the American literary histrory

20、.A.individual feelings B.idea of survival of thefittestC.strong imaginationD.return to nature24.Henry David Thoreaus work,_,has always been regarded as amasterpiece of New England Transcendentalism.A.WaldenB.The pioneersC.NatureD.Song of Myself25.The famous 20-years sleep in Rip Van Winklehelps toco

21、nstruct the storyin such a way that we are greatlyaffected by Irvings _.A.concern with the passage of timeB.expression of transient beautyC.satire on laziness and corruptibility of human beingsD.idea about supernatural manipulation of mans life26.Walt whitman was a pioneering figure of American poet

22、ry.His innovation first of all lies in his use of _,poetrywithout a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.A.blank verse B.heroic coupletC.free verseD.iambic pentameter27.The literary characters of the American type in early 19thcentury are generally characterized by all the followingfeatures EXCEPT tha

23、t they _.A.speak local dialectsB.are polite and elegant gentlemenC.are simple and crude farmersD.are noble savages( red and white) untainted by society28.Hester Pryme, Dimmsdale,Chillingworth and Pearl are mostlikely the names of the characters in _.A.The Scarlet Letter B.The House of the SevenGable

24、stC.The Portrait of a Lady D.The pioneers29.This is my letter to the World is a poetic expression ofEmily Dickinsons _ about her communication with the outsideworld.A.indifference B.anger C.anxietyD.sorrow30.With Howells,James,and MarkTwain active on the literaryscene, _ became the major trend in Am

25、erican literature in theseventies and eighties of the 19thcentury.A.sentimentalismB.romanticismC.realism D.naturalism31.After The adventures of Tom Sawyer, Twain gives a literaryindependence to Toms buddy Huck in a book entitled _.A.Life on the MississippiB.The Gilded AgeC.The Adventures of Hucklebe

26、rry FinnD.A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court32.However,_,the keynote of Daisy Millers character,turnsout to be an admiring but a dangerous quality and her defianceof social taboos in the Old World finally brings her to adisaster in the clash between two different cultures.A.experienceB.sophi

27、sticationC.worldliness D.innocence33.Generally speaking,all those writers with a naturalisticapproach to human reality tend to be _.A.transcendentalistsB.idealistsC.pessimistsD.impressionists34.Emily Dickinsonwrote many short poems on various aspectsof life.Which of the following is NOT a usual subj

28、ect of herpoetic expression?A.Religion and immortality. B.Life and death.C.Love and marriage.D.War and peace.35.In After Apple-Picking,Robert Frost wrote:For I have hadtoo much/Of applepicking:I am overtired/Of the great harvest Imyself desired.From these lines we can conclude that thespeaker is _.A

29、.happy about the harvestB.still very much interested in apple-pickingC.expecting a greater harvestD.indifferent to what he once desired36.Chinese poetry and philosophy have exerted great influenceover _.A.Ezra PoundB.Ralph Waldo EmersonC.Robert FrostD.Emily Dickinson37.The Hemingway Code heroes are

30、best remembered for their _.A.indestructible spirtieB.pessimistic view oflifeC.war experiences D.masculinity38.IN The Emperor Jones and The Hairy Ape,ONeill adopted theexpressionist techniques to portray the _ of human beings ina hostile universe.A.helpless situationB.uncertaintyC.profound religious

31、 faithD.courage and perseverance39.In Hemingways Indian Cmap,Nicks night trip to theIndian village and his experience inside the hut can be takenas _.A.an essential lesson about Indian tribesB.a confrontation with evil and sinC.an initiation to the harshness of lifeD.a learning process in human rela

32、tionship40.which of the following statements aboutEmily Grierson,the protagonist in Faulkners story A Rose for Emily, is NOTtrue?A.She has a distorted personality.B.She is physically deformed and paralyzed.C.She is the symbol of the old values of the South.D.She is the victim of the past glory.PART

33、TWO.Reading Comprehension (16 points, 4 for each)Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions inEnglish.Write your answer in the corresponding space on theanswer sheet.41.Her eyes met his and he looked away.He neither believednor disbelieved her,but he knew that he had made a mistake ina

34、sking;he never had known,never would know,what she wasthinking.The sight of her inscrutable face,the thought of allthe hundreds of evenings he had seen her sitting there likethat,soft and passive,but so unreadable, unknown, enragedhimbeyond measure.Questions:A.Identify the writer and the work.B.What

35、 does the phrase inscrutable face mean?C.What idea does the quoted passage express?42.And when I am formulated,sprawling on a pin,When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall.Then how should beginTo spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways.Questions:A.Identify the poem and the poet.B.What does t

36、he phrase butt-ends mean?C.What idea does the quoted passage express?43.God knows,Im not myself-Im somebody else-and Imchanged,and I cant tell whats my name,or who I am.Questions:A.Identify the work and the author.B.The speaker says he is changed.Do you think he ischanged, or the social environment

37、has changed?C.What idea does the quoted sentence express?44.I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference.Questions:A.Idenfity the poem and the poet.B.What does the phrase ages

38、 and ages hence mean?C.What idea does the quoted passage express?.Questions and Answers(24 points in all, 6 for each)Give brief answers to each of the following questions inEnglish.Write your answers in the corresponding space on theanswer sheet.45.As a rule,an allegory is story in verse or prose wi

39、th adouble meaning: a surface meaning,and an implied meaning.Listtwo works as examples of allegory.What is an allegory usuallyconcerned with by its implied meaning?46.Inspiration for the romantic approach initially came fromtwo great shapers of thought.Who are the two?And what ideasthey expressed in

40、spire the romantic writers?47.The white whale,Moby Dick,is the most important symbol inMelvilles novel.What symbolic meaning can you draw from it?48.Nature is a philosophic work, in which Emerson gives anexplicit discussion on his idea of the Qversoul.What is yourunderstanding of Emersonian Oversoul

41、?.Topic Discussion(20 points in all, 10 for each)Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topicsin English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.49.How is Romanticism different from Neoclassicism?Providebrief evidence from the literary works you know best.50.Summerize the story

42、 of Mark twains The Adventures ofHuckleberry Finn in about 100 words,and comment on the themeof the novel.全国2002年4月高等教育自学考试英美文学选读试题答案课程代码：00604.Multiple Choice(40 points in all,1 for each)1.B 2.D 3.C4.C5.D6.A 7.B 8.B9.A10.C11.D12.D13.D 14.D 15.B16.B17.D18.C 19.A 20.A21.D 22.B 23.B24.A 25.A26.C 27.B

43、28.A 29.C 30.C31.C 32.D 33.C 34.D 35.D36.A 37.A 38.A 39.C40.B.Reading Comprehension (16 points, 4 for each)41.A.John Galasworthy:The Man of Property.B.A face does not show any emotion or reaction so thatit is impossible to know how that person is feeling or what heis thinking about.C.it presents the

44、 inner mind of Soames in face of hiswifes coldness.He can never know what is on his wifes mindbecause the makeup of his and her mentality is different. Hiswife Irene, whose mind is romantically inclined, is disgustedwith her husbands possessiveness. Being unable to read hiswifes mind is as good as s

45、aying that he really cant regardher as his property- this is the very reason why he is enragedbeyond measure.42.A.T.S.Eliot:The Love Song of J.Alfred Pruforck.B.The ends of cigarettes,meaning trivial things here.C.Here,Prufrocks inability to do anything against thesociety he is in is made strikingly

46、 clear by using a sharpcomparison .Prufrock imagines himself as a kind of insectpinned on the wall and struggling in vain to get free.Thisimage vividly shows Prufrocks current predicament.43.A.Washington Irving:Rip Van Winkle.B.The social environment is changed.C.When Rip is back home after a period

47、 of 20 years,he findsthta everything has changed.All those old values are gone,andhe can hardly feel at home in a changed society.One of thefunctions that Rip serves in the story is to provide ameasuring stick for change. It is through him that Irvingdrives home the theme that a desire for change,im

48、provement,andprogress could subvert stable society.44.A.Robert Frost:The Road Not Taken.B.Many many years later.C.The speaker is telling his experience of making thechoice of the roads.But he is conscious of the fact that hischoice will have made all the difference in his life.He seemsto be giving a

49、 suggestion to the reader.Make good choice ofyour life.Questions and Answers (24 points in all,6 for each)45.A.Buyans pilgrims Progress and Spensers The FaerieQueene.B.It is usually concerned with moral,religious,political,symbolic or mythical ideas.46.A.The French philosopher,Jean Jacques Rousseau

50、and theGerman writer Johna Wolfgan von Goethe.B.It is Rousseau who established the cult of theindividual and championed the freedom of the human spirit;hisfamous announcement was I felt before I thought.Goethe andhis compatriots extolled the romantic spirit.47.A.To Ahab,the whale is either an evil c

51、reature itself orthe agent of an evil force that controls the universe,orperhaps both.B.To Ishmale,the whale is an astonishing force,an immensepower,which defies rational explanation due to a sense ofmystery it carries. It is beautiful,but malignant at the sametime. It also represents the tremendous

52、 organic vitality ofthe universe,for it has a life force that surges onwardirresistibly, impervious to the desires or wills of men.C.As to the reader, the whale can be viewed as a symbol ofthe physical limits that life imposes upon man. It may also beregarded as a symbol of nature, or an instrument

53、of Godsvengeance upon evil man. In general,the multiplicity andambivalence of the symbolic meaning of the whale is such thatit becomes a source of intense speculation, an object orprofound curiosity for the reader.48.A.The Oversoul is believed to be an all-pervading powerfor goodness,omnipresent and

54、 omnipotent from which all thingscome and of which all are a part. It exists in nature and manalike and constitutes the chief element of the universe.B.According to Emerson,it is a supreme reality of mind, aspiritual unity of all beings, and a religion regarded as anemotional communication between an individual soul and theuniversal Over-soul of which it is a part.C.He holds that intuition is a more certain way ofknowing than reason and that the mind could intuitivelyperceive the existence of the O