2001-1英美文学试卷.doc

第一部分 选择题 I. Multiple Choice 1. The work that presented, for the first time in English literature, a comprehensive realistic picture of the medieval English society and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life is most likely_. A. William Langlands Piers Plowman B. Geoffrey Chaucers The Canterbury Tales C. John Gowers Confession Amantis D. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Answer: B 2. The tragedy of Dr.Faustus, the protagonist in Christopher Marlowes The Tragic History of Dr.Faustus, is the very face that_. A. man is confined to time B. he tried to join Africa to Spain C. he became a man without soul after he sold it D. he conjured up Helen, the lady who was the very course of the Trojan War Answer: A 3. Here are two lines from a ling poem: Upon a great adventure he was bond, That greatest Gloriana to him gave. The poem must be_. I. Beowulf J. John Miltons Samson Agonistes K. Thomas Grays Elegy Written in a County Churchyard L. Edmund Spensers The Faerie Queene Answer: D 4. Literature of Neoclassicism is different from that of Romanticism in that _. A .the former celebrates reason, rationality, order and instruction while the latter sees literature as an expression of an individuals feeling and experiences B. the former is heavily religious but the latter secular C. the former is an intellectual movement the purpose of which is to arouse the middle class for political rights while the latter is concerned with the personal cultivation. D. the former advocates the return to nature whereas the latter turns to the ancient Greek and Roman writers for its models Answer: A 5. When he writes, in An Essay on Criticism, A vile conceit in pompous words expressed, / Is like a clown in regal purple dressed, Alexander Pope means that _. A. pompous words are always destructive to good taste B. the purple colour is for the royal only and it is ridiculous to dress a clown in purple C. conceits are always misleading D. true wit is best in a plain style Answer: D 6. You may have meet the term Yahoo on internet, but you may also have met it in English literature .It is found in _ A. John Bunyans Pilgrims Progress B. Samuel Johnsons The Vanity of Human Wishes C. Jonathan Swifts Gullivers Travels D. Henry Fieldings tom Jones Answer: C 7. The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks.(Samuel Johnson, To the Right Honorable the Earl of Chesterfield)The speaker here is _. A. cheerful B. ironic C. mysterious D. nonchalant Answer: B 8. Surface, Sneerwell, Backbite, and Candour are most likely the names of the characters in _. A. Shaws Mrs Warrens Profession B. Sheridans The School for Scandal C. Shakespeares Loves Labours Lost D. Christopher Marlowes Dr.Faustus Answer: B 9. The first line of William Blakes well-known poem The Tyger reads, Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright.The repeated word tiger (tiger) with an exclamation mark suggests_. A. joy B. fear C. pain D. fondness Answer: B 10. What does Wordsworths poem The Solitary Reaper tell us about Romanticist? A. To romanticists, poetry is an expression of an individuals feelings and experiences no matter how fragmentary and momentary these feelings and experiences are. B. Romanticist take delight only in sound effect, the theme of a work is not their concern. C. Romanticist are not patient people; they would leave before the revelation of the theme. D. Poetry should present the apparent and tangible. Answer: A 11. The lines, It was a miracle of rare device,/ A sunny pleasure dome with caves of ice, are found in _. A. Samuel Taylor Coleridges Kubla Khan B. William Wordsworths Lines Written in Early Spring C. John Keatss Ode to Autumn D. Percy Bysshe Shellys ode to the West Wind Answer: A 12. Prometheus Unbound is Shelleys greatest achievement. Prometheus, according to the Greek mythology, was chained by Zeus on Mount Caucasus and suffered the vultures feeding on his liver for_. A. planning a revolt to dethrone God B. misinterpreting Gods decree to reconcile man and nature C. prophesying the arrival of spring in a winter season D. stealing the fire from heaven and giving it to man Answer: D 13. Damn the fool! There he is, cried Heathcliff, sinking back into his seat. Hush, my darling! Hush, hush, Catherine! Ill stay. If he shot me so, Id expire with a blessing in my lips. The novel from which the passage is taken must be _. A. Jane Austens Pride and Prejudice B. Charles Dickenss The Old Curiosity Shop C. Samuel Richardsons Pamela D. Emily Brontes Wuthering Heights Answer: D 14. My Last Duchess is a poem that best exemplifier Robert Brownings _. A. sensitive ear for the sounds of the English language B. excellent choice of words C. mastering of the metrical devices D. use of the dramatic monologue Answer: D 15. Here is a passage from Middlemarch, a novel by George Eliot: Her blooming full-pulsed youth stood there in a moral imprisonment which made itself one with the chill, colourless, narrowed landscape, with the shrunken furniture, the never-read books, and the ghostly stag in pale fanatic world that seemed to be vanishing from the daylight, Who is the lady mentioned in the quoted passage? A. Dorothea B. Emma C. Molly D. Irene Answer: A 16. Tess of the DUrbervilles, one of Thomas Hardys best known novels, portrays man as _. A. being hereditarily either good or bad B. being self-sufficient C. having no control over his own fate D. still retaining his own faith in a world of confusion Answer: C 17. Which of the following brings LITTLE impact on the development of 20th century literature? A. Friedrich Nietzsches assertions: God is dead B. Arthur Schopenhauers and Henry Bergsons philosophical ideas of irrationality. C. Oscar Wildes idea of Art for Arts Sake. D. Freudian-Jungian psycho-analysis Answer: C 18. The term tone in literature means_. A. sound effect such as rhyme and metrical device B. the pitch of a word used to determine its meaning in the given context C. the manner of expression to indicate the speakers attitude towards the subject D. a shade of colour to reflect the change of the light Answer: C 19. Which of the following best describes the speaker of T. S. Eliots The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock? A. He is a man of a action. B. He is a man of apathy. C. He is a man of passion. D. He is a man of inactivity Answer: D 20. In which of the following poems by William Butler Yeats did you find the allusion to Helen and the Trojan War? A. Sailing to Byzantium B. Leda and the Swan C. The Lake Isle if Innisfree. D. Down by the Sally Garden Answer: B 21. He was afraid of her -the small, severe woman with greying hair suddenly bursting out in such frenzy. The postman came running back, afraid something had happened. /they saw his tripped cap over the short curtains. Mrs Morel rushes to the door. The above passage id taken from _. A. Charlotte Brontes The Professor B. Charles Dickenss Domebey and Son C. D.H.Lawrence s Sons and Lovers D. John Galsworthys The Forsyte Saga Answer: C 22. James Joyce is the author of all the following novels except _. A. Dubliners B. Jude the Obscure C. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man D. Ulysses Answer: B 23. Which of the following works concerns most concentrated the Calvinistic view of original sin? A. The Wasteland. B. The Scarlet Letter. C. Leaves of Grass. D. As I Lay Dying Answer: B 24. We can perhaps summarize that Walt Whitmans poems are characterized by all the following features except that they are _/ A. conversational and crude B. lyrical and well-structured C. wimple and rather crude D. free-flowing Answer: B 25. Who exerts the single most important influence on literary naturalism, of which Theodore Dreiser and Jack London are among the best representative writers? A. Freud B. Darwin. C. W. D. Howells. D. Emerson Answer: B 26. Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his _. A. international theme B. waste-land imagery C. local color D. symbolism Answer: C 27. At the beginning of Faulkners A Rose For Emily, there is a detailed description of Emilys old house. The purpose of such description is to imply that the person living in it _. A. is a wealth lady B. has good taste C. is a prisoner of the past D. is a conservative aristocrat Answer: C 28. The period before the American Civil War is commonly referred to as _. A. the Romantic Period B. the Realistic Period C. the Naturalist Period D. the Modern Period Answer: A 29. Most of Herman Melvilles novels are based on sea voyages and sea adventures. Which of the following is not the case? A. Typee. B. Moby-Dick. C. Omoo. D. The Confidence-Man Answer: D 30. In Henry James Daisy Miller, the author tries to portray the young woman as an embodiment of _. A. the force of convention B. the free spirit of the New World C. the decline of aristocracy D. the corruption of the newly rich Answer: B 31. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood And sorry I could not travel both . In the above two lines of Robert Frosts The Road Not Taken, the poet, by implication, was referring to _. A. a travel experience B. a marriage decision C. a middle-age crisis D. ones course of life Answer: D 32. The Transcendentalists believe that, first, nature is ennobling, and second, the individual is _. A. insignificant B. vicious by nature C. divine D. forward-looking Answer: C 33. Which of the following is not a work of Nathaniel Hawthornes? A. The House of the Seven Gables. B. The Blithedale Romance. C. The Marble Falun. D. White Jacket. Answer: D 34. In Heminways short story Indian Camp, through a story of a woman giving birth, the protagonist, Nick Adams, receives an education of _. A. birth and violent death B. charity and benevolence C. racial inequality D. devotion and kinship Answer: A 35. In Hawthornes novels and short stories, intellectuals usually appear as _. A. commentators B. observers C. villains D. saviors Answer: C 36. Besides sketches, tales and essays, Washington Irving also published a book on _, which is also considered an important part of his creative writing. A. poetic theory B. French art C. history of New York D. life of George Washington Answer: C 37. In Fitzgeralds The Great Gatsby, there are detailed descriptions of big parties. The purpose of such descriptions is so show _. A. emptiness of life B. the corruption of the upper class C. contrast of the rich and the poor D. the happy days of the Jazz Age Answer: A 38. In American literature, escaping from the society and returning to nature is a common subject. The following titles are all related, in one way or another, to the subject except _. A. Mark Twains The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn B. Dreisers Sister Carrie C. Coppers Leather-Stocking Tales D. Thoreaus Walden Answer: B 39. Which of the following novels can be regarded as typically belonging to the school of literary modernism? A. The Sound and the Fury B. Uncle Toms Cabin. C. Daisy Miller. D. The Gilded Age. Answer: A 40. Emily Dickinson wrote many short poems on various aspects of life. Which of the following is not a usual subject of her poetic expression? A. Religion. B. Life and death. C. Love and marriage. D. War and peace. Answer: D II. Reading Comprehension 41. And the native hue of resolution/Is sicklied oer with the pale cast of thought. (Shakespeare, Humlet) Questions: A. What does the native hue of resolution mean? B. What does the pale cast of thought stand for? C. What idea do the two lines express? Answers: A. determination (determinedness, action, activity, .) B. consideration (indecision, inactivity, hesitation, .) C. Too much thinking (consideration,.) made (makes) activity (action) impossible. 42. Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere; /Destroyer and Preserver; hear, O hear! Questions: A. Identify the poem and the poet. B. What is the Wild Spirit? C. What does the Wild Spirit destroy and preserve? Answers: A. Shelleys Ode to the West Wind B. The West Wind; breath of Autumns being C. It destroys things/thoughts/ideas that are dead (obsolete, .); it preserves new life (or seeds that represent new life or new birth). 43. When the minister spoke from the pulpit, with power and fervid eloquence, and, with his hands on the open bible, of the sacred truths of our religion, and of saint-like lives and triumphant deaths, and of future bliss or misery unutterable, then did Goodman Brown turn pale, dreading, lest the roof should thunder down upon the gray blasphemer and his hearers. Questions: A. Identify the title of the short story from which this part is taken. B. What had happened in the story before this church scene? C. Why was Goodman Brown afraid the roof might thunder down? Answers: A. Hawthornes Young Goodman Brown. B. Brown had attended a witches party where he saw many prominent people of the village, the minister included. C. Brown was shocked by the minister, secretly a member of the evil club, who could talk about sacred truths of the religion openly and unashamedly. He thought God would punish such hypocrites down on them. 44. (A lot of common objects have been enumerated before, and here are the last two lines of There Was a Child Went Forth :) The horizons edge, the flying sea-crow, the fragrance of salt marsh and shore mud. These became part of that child who went forth every day, and who now goes, and will always go forth every day. Questions: A. Who is the author of this poem? B. What does the Child stand for in the poem? C. In one or two sentences, interpret the implied meaning of the two lines. Answers: A. Walt Whitman. B. The young growing America. C. The poet uses his childhood experience of growing up and learning about the world around him to imply that young America will grow and develop like that. 第二部分 非选择题 III. Questions and Answers 45. My boy! said the old gentleman, leaning over the desk. Oliver started at the sound. He might be excused for doing so, for the words were kindly said, and strange sounds frighten one. He trembled violently, and burst into tears. (Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist) Explain why the boy Oliver Twist started first, then trembled violently and burst into tears when the words were kindly said. Answers: The boy started at the words because kind words were not expected; it is (was, must be) the first time in all his life that the boy Oliver Twist had ever been kindly greeted; strange sounds may predict another suffering/misfortune/torture/.) (At least one example from the text is expected to back up the above statement) 46. Here is the last stanza of Byrons The Isles of Greece: Place me on suniums mardle steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I, There, swan-like, let me sing and die: May hear our marbled murmurs sweep; A land of slaves shall neer be mine - Dash down you cup of Samian wine! Determine the speaker first and then discuss BRIEFLY the main idea of the stanza or of the whole excerpt. You may want to consider the possible implications of the last two lines. Answers: A. The speaker is a Greek singer (or Byron in a Greek Singers disguise or Byron speaks through a Greek singer). B. The excerpt presents a strong resentment for the Turks conquest of Greece and calls on the Greek people to rise and fight for freedom. C. Thus, the last line may suggest resolution to take immediate action to free Greece from enslavement. 47. Why are naturalists inevitably pessimistic in their view? Please discuss the above question in relation to the basic principles of literary naturalism. Answers: A. They accept the negative implication of Darwins theory of evolution, and believe that society is a jungle where survival struggles go on. B. They believe that mans instinct, the environment and other social and economic forces play an overwhelming role and mans fate is determined by such forces beyond his control. 48. 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. Whats the use? he said, weakly, as he stretched himself to rest. They above is quoted from Thoedore Dreisers Sister Carrie. Briefly tell the situation that leads to the suicide and interpret Hurstwoods final words -Whats the use? Answers: A. Sister Carrie has made a great success. As her fame arises, she deserts her former lover Hurstwood. In a cold winter, Hurstwood makes a last attempt to seek help from Carrie, but has failed, so I desperation, he decides to kill himself by turning on the gas. B. By making that comment, Hurstwood seems to have realized that it is useless to continue 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. IV. Topic Discussion 49. Daniel Defoes novel Robinson Crusoe was a great success partly because the protagonist was a real middle-class hero. Discuss Crusoe, the protagonist