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绝密考试结束前全国2014年4月高等教育自学考试英美文学选读试题课程代码：00604请考生按规定用笔将所有试题的答案涂、写在答题纸上。全部题目用英文作答。选择题部分注意事项：1答题前，考生务必将自己的考试课程名称、姓名、准考证号用黑色字迹的签字笔或钢笔 填写在答题纸规定的位置上。2每小题选出答案后，用2 B铅笔把答题纸上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡 皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。不能答在试题卷上。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. Mark your choice by blackening the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the answer sheet.1. Shakespeare has established his giant position in world literature with his _ plays, 154 sonnets and 2 long poems.BA. 27 B. 38C.47 D. 522. john Miltons literary achievement can be divided into three groups: the early poetic works, the middle prose pamphlets and the last _.CA. romances B. dramasC. great poems D. ballads3. The novels of _ are the first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower class people.CA. John Milton B. Daniel DefoeC. Henry Fielding D. Jonathan Swift4. The work ranked by many critics as William Wordswoths greatest work was _.BA. Lyrical Ballads B. The PreludeC. Poems in Two Volumes D. The Excursion5. The author of The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling is _.CA. Daniel Defoe B. Johathan SwiftC. Henry Fielding D. William Blake6. The works of _ are famous for the depiction of the life of the middle class women, particularly governess.*BA. Charlotte Bronte B. D.H. LawrenceC. Thomas Hardy D. Jane Austen7. All of the following writings are created by William Wordsworth EXCEPT _.DA. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud. ”B. “Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Septemer 3, 1802. ”C. “The Solitary Reaper. ”D. “The Chimney Sweeper. ”8. The most important representative work by Jonathan Swift is _.DA. A Tale of a Tub B. The Battle of the BooksC. A Modest Proposal D. Gullivers Travels9 “If winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”comes from Shellys _.DA. “To a Skylark” B. “Adonais”C. “Ode to Liberty” D. “Ode to the West Wind”10. In Jane Austen s first novel _, she tells a story about two sisters and their love affairs.BA. Pride and Prejudice B. Sense and SensibilityC. Emma D. Persuasion11. Charles Dickens is one of the greatest _ writers of the Victorian Age.DA. romantic B. modernistC. socialist D. critical realist12. Charlotte Bronte s most autobiographical work, _ is largely based on her experience in Brussels.AA. Jane Eyre B. ShirleyC. Villette D. The Professor13. William Wordsworth s theory of poetry is calling for simple themes drawn from humble life expressed in the language of ordinary people. The preface to the second edition of _ acts as a manifesto for the new school and sets forth his own critical creed.AA. Lyrical Ballads B. The PreludeC. Poems in Two Volums D. The Excursion14. George Bernard Shaw s play _ established his position as the leading playwright of his time.*CA. WidowersHouses B. Too True to Be GoodC. Mrs. Warren s Profession D. Candida15. Eliot s most important single poem _, has been hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th-century English poetry.BA. The Hollow Men B. The Waste LandC. Prurrock and Other Observations D. Poems 1909-2516. D. H.Lawrences autobiographical novel, _ shows the conflict between the earthy, coarse, energetic but often drunken father and the refined, strong willed and up climbing mother.AA. Sons and Lovers B. The White PeacockC. The Trespasser D. The Rainbow17. “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?” These words are from _.DA. King Lear B. RomeoC. Antonio D. Hamlet18. John Miltons last important work, _ is the most powerful dramatic poem on the Greek model.AA. Paradise Lost B. Paradise RegainedC. Samson Agonistes D. Lydidas19. The author of Moll Flanders and Captain Singleton is _.BA. John Milton B. Daniel DefoeC. Henry Fielding D. Jonathan Swift20. Drapier is the pseudonym of _.AA. Jonathan Swift B. Daniel DefoeC. Henry Fielding D. William Blake21. One of Dickens later works, _ in which he presents a criticism of the governmental branches which run an indefinite procedure of management of affairs and keep the innocent in prison for life.BA. Bleak House B. Little DorritC. Hard Times D. A Tale of Two Cities22. In the second part of Gullivers Travels, Gulliver told his experience in _.AA. Brobdingnag B. LilliputC. Flying Island D. Houyhnhnm23. Faulkner used the narrative techniques to construct his stories, which include _ and mythological and biblical allusions.AA. symbolism B. free indirect speechC. contrast D. dialogue24. Ernest Hemingway, had been trying to demonstrate in his works an unvarying code, known as “_,” which is actually an attitude towards life.BA. facing the reality B. grace under pressureC. honesty with benevolence D. security coming first25. The Blithedale Romance is a novel written by Hawthorne to reveal his own experience on the Brook Farm and his own methods as a _ novelist.CA. naturalist B. imagistC. psychological D. feminist26. Theodore Dreiser s focus shifted from the pathos of the helpless protagonists at the bottom of the society to the power of the American financial tycoons in the late 19th century in his work _.DA. The Genius B. An American TragedyC. Dreiser Looks at Russia D. “Trilogy of Desire”27. Emily Dickinson frequently uses personae to render the tone more familiar to the reader, and _ to vivify some abstract ideas.DA. images B. metaphorC. symbols D. personification28. In his later works, Melville becomes more reconciled with the _, in which he admits, one must live by rules.BA. women B. world of manC. family D. politicians29. Walt Whitman s _ has always been considered a monumental work which commands great attention in America.BA. The Pilgrims Progress B. Leaves of GrassC. A Passage to India D. Rip Van Winkle30. Mark Twains full literary career began to blossom in 1869 with a travel book _, an account of American tourists in Europe.AA. Innocents Abroad B. The Portrait of A LadyC. The Grapes of Wrath D. The Great Gatsby31. With the development of the modern novel and the common acceptance of the _ approach, Henry James s importance, as well as his wide influence as a novelist and critic, has been all the more conspicuous.AA. deconstruction B. romanticC. Freudian D. analytic32. Emily Dickinson addresses the issues that concern the whole human beings in her poems, which include religion, death, _, love, and nature.AA. immortality B. wealthC. power D. politics33. In Sister Carrie Theodore Dreiser expressed his _ pursuit by expounding the purposelessness of life and attacking the conventional moral standards.BA. romantic B. realisticC. naturalistic D. modernistic34. Profound ideas in Robert Frosts poems are delivered under the disguise of _.AA. the plain language and the simple form B. the vivid descriptionsC. metaphors D. the complicated narration35. In _ Hemingway presents his philosophy about life and death through the depiction of the bullfight as a kind of microcosmic tragedy.BA. The Green Hills of Africa B. Death in the AfternoonC. The Snows of Kilimanjaro D. To Have and Have Not36 Of Faulkners literary works, four novels are masterpieces by any standards: The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, Absalom, Absalom ! and _.AA. Go Down, Moses B. The FableC. The Snows of Kilimanjaro D. To Have and Have Not37. As Whitman saw it, _ could play a vital part in the process of creating a new nation.CA. music B. fictionC. poetry D. painting38. In many of Hawthorne s stories and novels, the Puritan concept of life is condemned, especially in his The house of the Seven Gables and _.BA. Go Down, Moses B. The Scarlet LetterC. As I Lay Dying D. Song of Myself39. Henry James is generally regarded as the forerunner of the _ and the founder of psychological realism.BA. “stream-of-consciousness” novels B. metaphysical poemsC. short stories D. literary criticism40. Generally considered to be Henry Jamess masterpiece, _ incarnates the clash between the Old World and the New in the life journey of an American girl in a Europe an cultural environment.BA. The Ambassadors B. Daisy MillerC. The American D. The Portrait of A Lady非选择题部分注意事项：用黑色字迹的签字笔或钢笔将答案写在答题纸上，不能答在试题卷上。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. Wherefore, Bees of England, forgeMany a weapon, chain, and scourge,That these stingless drones may spoilThe forced produce of your toil?Questions.A. Identify the poet and the poem from which the stanza is taken.Song to the Men of England - Percy ShelleyB. What do you know about the poem s writing background?This poem was written at a time of turbulent unrest. On August 16, 1819, when about 60000 people were holding a rally in St.Peters field near Manchester, demanding universal suffrage, parliamentary reform and the repeal of the Corn Law, a troop of cavalry opened fire on them, killed more than a dozen and wounded several hundreds. The killing was ironically referred to as “Peterloo Massacre”. Shelley, being exiled in Italy, wrote several political lyrics in protest against the governments barbarous action and calling the working people to rise up and overthrow the rule of the idle class.C. What do you think the poet intends to say in the poem?The poem was intended to depict the clash of two classes of society and the fact that workers toil all for the benefit of the rich.42. Let us go then, you and I,When the evening is spread out against the skyLike a patient etherized upon a table;Let us go, through certain half -deserted streets,The muttering retreatsOf restless nights in one-night cheap hotelsAnd sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells:(The lines above are taken from “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T. S Eliot. )Questions.A. What does the poem present?As for England, the aftershocks of World War I directly contributed to the dissolution of the British Empire. Eliot saw society as paralyzed and wounded, and he imagined that culture was crumbling and dissolving. “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” demonstrates this sense of indecisive paralysis as the titularspeakerwonders whether he should eat a piece of fruit, make a radical change, or if he has the fortitude to keep living.B. What form is the poem composed in?“Prufrock” is a variation on the dramatic monologue, a type of poem popular with Eliots predecessors. Dramatic monologues are similar to soliloquies in plays.The rhyme scheme of this poem is irregular but not random.C. What does the poem suggest?It is an examination of the tortured psyche of the prototypical modern manovereducated, eloquent, neurotic, and emotionally stilted. Prufrock, the poems speaker, seems to be addressing a potential lover, with whom he would like to “force the moment to its crisis” by somehow consummating their relationship.43. My long two-pointed ladders sticking through a treeToward heaven still,And theres a barrel that I didnt fillBeside it, and there may be two or threeApples I didnt pick upon some bough.Questions.A. Identify the poet and the title of the poem from which the above lines are taken.After Apple-Picking - Robert FrostB. What experience does the poem describe?After a long days work, the speaker is tired of apple picking. He has felt drowsy and dreamy since the morning when he looked through a sheet of ice lifted from the surface of a water trough. Now he feels tired, feels sleep coming on, but wonders whether it is a normal, end-of-the-day sleep or something deeper.C. What are the feelings of the speaker?How we ultimately interpret the tone of the poem has much to do with how we interpret the harvest. Has it been a failure? Certainly there is a sense of incompleteness”a barrel that I didnt fill.” The speakers inner resources give out before the outer resources are entirely collected. On the other hand, the poet speaks only of “two or three apples” remaining, and these only “may” be left over. Do we detect satisfaction, then? The speaker has done all that was within his power; whats left is the result of minor, inevitable human imperfection. Is this, then, a poem about the rare skill of knowing when to quit honorably? This interpretation seems reasonable.44. This is my letter to the WorldThat never wrote to Me The simple News that Nature told With tender MajestyQuestions.A. Identify the poet.Emily DickinsonB. What idea does the poem express?The authors contemporaries could not understand her, so she rested her hope on later generations, and asked them to judge her tenderly.C. Why does the poet use dashes and capital letters in the poem?The dashes are the substitute of the punctuation and provide feeling of music and better rhythm.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 corresponding space on the answer sheet.45. What are the features of George Bernard Shaws characterization in his plays?Hemakesthe trick ofshowinguponecharactervividlyat theexpenseof another.46. Briefly introduce Blakes Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience.Songs of Innocence and of Experience is a rare and wonderful book, its seeming simplicity belying its visionary wisdom. Internationally recognised as a masterpiece of English literature, it also occupies a key position in the history of western art. Innocence and Experience are definitions of consciousness that rethinkMiltons existential-mythic states of Paradise and the Fall. Blakes categories are modes of perception that tend to coordinate with a chronology that would become standard inRomanticism: childhood is a state of protectedinnocencerather thanoriginal sin, but not immune to the fallen world and its institutions. This world sometimes impinges on childhood itself, and in any event becomes known through experience, a state of being marked by the loss of childhood vitality, by fear and inhibition, by social and political corruption, and by the manifold oppression of Church, State, and the ruling classes. The volumes Contrary States are sometimes signalled by patently repeated or contrasted titles: inInnocence,Infant Joy, inExperience,Infant Sorrow; inInnocence,The Lamb, inExperience,The FlyandThe Tyger. The stark simplicity of poems such asThe Chimney SweeperandThe Little Black Boydisplay Blakes acute sensibility to the realities of poverty and exploitation that accompanied the dark satanic mills of theIndustrial Revolution.47. Why does Sister Carrie best embody Dreiser s naturalistic belief?Sister Carrie best embodies Dreisers naturalistic belief that while men are controlled and conditioned by heredity, instinct and chance,a few extraodinary and unsophisticated human beings refuse to accept their fate wordlessly and instead strive,unsuccessfully,to find meaning and purpose for their existence.Carrie,as one of such,senses that she is merely a cipher in an uncaring world yet seeks to grasp the mysteries of life and thereby satisfies her desires for social status and material comfort.48. Briefly state Mark Twain s magic power with language in his novels.1)UseofColloquialLanguage.The book is written in a colloquial style, in the general standard speech of uneducated Americans.2)Vernacular Language3)LocalColorIV. 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. Why is Jane Eyre a successful novel? Give a brief analysis of the theme and charaterization of the novel.The work is one of the most popular and important novels of the Victorian age. It is noted for its sharp criticism of the existing society. Morality :Jane refuses to become Mr. Rochesters paramour because of her impassioned self-respect and moral conviction. She rejects St. John Rivers religious fervour as much as the libertine aspects of Mr. Rochesters character. Instead, she works out a morality expressed in love, independence, and forgiveness. God and religion: Throughout the novel, Jane endeavours to attain anequilibriumbetween moral duty and earthly happiness. She despises the hypocrisy of Mr. Brocklehurst, and sees the deficiencies in St. John Rivers indulgent yet detached devotion to his Christian duty. As a child, Jane admires Helen Burns lifes philosophy of turning the other cheek, which in turn helps her in adult li