2010年7月高等教育自学考试全国统一命题考试试卷 (2).doc

2010年7月高等教育自学考试全国统一命题考试英美文学选读试题课程代码：00604全部题目用英文作答，并将答案写在答题纸相应位置上PART ONE (40 POINTS). 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 in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.1. T. S. Eliots _ is a poem of dramatic monologue and a prelude to The Waste Land, helping to point up the continuity of Eliots thinking.A. “Prufrock”B. “Gerontion”C. The Hollow Men D. Four Quartets2. Defoes group of four novels are the first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower-class people. They are the following EXCEPT _.A. Captain SingletonB. Moll FlandersC. RoxanaD. Robinson Crusoe3. Charles Dickens novel, _, is famous for its vivid descriptions of the work-house and life of the underworld in the nineteenth-century London.A. The Pickwick Paper B. Oliver TwistC. David Copperfield D. Nicholas Nickleby4. D. H. Lawrences autobiographical novel is _.A. The Rainbow B. Women in LoveC. Sons and LoversD. Lady Chatterleys Lover5. Jonathan Swifts greatest satiric work is _.A. A Tale of a TubB. The Battle of the BooksC. Gullivers Travels D. A Modest Proposal6. Dickensbest- depicted characters are the following. EXCEPT _.A. innocent, virtuous, persecuted and helpless child charactersB. horrible and grotesque charactersC. broadly humorous or comical charactersD. simple, innocent and faithful women characters7. George Bernard Shaws _ explored his idea of “Life Force”, the power that would create superior beings to be equal to God and to solve all the social, moral, and metaphysical problems of human society.A. Man and Superman B. The Apple CartC. Pygmalion D. Too True to Be Good8. For his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel, _ has been regarded as “Father of the English Novel”.A. Daniel DefoeB. Jonathan SwiftC. Henry FieldingD. Oliver Goldsmith9. Charlotte Brontes autobiograghical work _ largely based on her experience in Brussels.A. The ProfessorB. ShirleyC. Villette D. Jane Eyre10. D. H. Lawrences artistic tendency is mainly _ , which combines dramatic scenes with an authoritative commentary.A. romanticism B. realismC. naturalismD. modernism11. In _ opinion, human nature is seriously and premanently flawed. To better human life, enlightenment is needed, but to redress it is very hard.A. Daniel Defoes B. Charles DickensC. Jonathan SwiftsD. Henry Fieldings12. The major theme of Jane Austens novels is _ toward which she holds on a practical idealism.A. love and moneyB. marriage and moneyC. love and family D. love and marriage13. Hardys _ is a fierce attack on the hypocritical morality of the bourgeois society and the capitalist invasion into the country and destruction of the English peasantry towards the end of the century.A. Tess of the DUrbervilles B. The Mayor of Caste BridgeC. The Return of the Native D. Jude the Obscure14. Henry Fielding adopted “_” to relate a story in his novel in which the author becomes the “all- knowing God”.A. the first- person narrationB. the epistolary formC. the picaresque formD. the third -person narration15. In _ , Shelley created a Platonic symbol of the spirit of man, a force of beauty and regeneration.A. “To a Skylark” B. “The Cloud”C. “Ode to Liberty” D. Adonais16. The success of _ is also due to its introduction to the English novel the first governess heroine.A. The ProfessorB. Jane EyreC. Wuthering HeightsD. Far from the Madding Crowd17. John Miltons _ is the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf.A. Paradise Lost B. Paradise RegainedC. Samson AgonistesD. Areopagitica18. Wordsworths _ is perhaps the most anthologized poem in English literature.A. “To a Skylark” B. “I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud”C. “An Evening Walk” D. “My Heart Leaps Up”19. As the best of Shakespeares final romances, _ is a typical example of his pessimistic view towards human life and society in his late years.A. The TempestB. The Winters TaleC. CymbelineD. The Rape of Lucrece20. The major representatives of the poetic revolution in English Romantic period were Samuel Taylor Coleridge and _.A. William Blake B. William WordsworthC. John Keats D. Percy Bysshe Shelley21. Samson Agonistes by _ is the most perfect example of the verse drama after the Greek style in English.A. John Milton B. William BlakeC. Henry FieldingD. William Wordsworth22. The declaration that “I know that This World is a World of IMAGINATION & Vision,” and that “The Nature of my work is visionary or imaginative” belongs to _.A. William Blake B. William WordsworthC. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD. George Gordon Byron23. Two people could be “twain yet one” : their paths could be different, and yet they could achieve a kind of transcendent contact, _ believed.A. Walt WhitmanB. Ezra PoundC. Washington IrvingD. Nathaniel Hawthorne24. Most literary critics think that Fitzgerald is both an insider and an outsider of _ with a double vision.A. the Jazz Age B. the Age of Reason and RevolutionC. the Babybooming Age D. the Post- Modern Age25. The Nobel Prize Committee highly praised _ for “his powerful styleforming mastery of the art” of creating modern fiction.A. T. S. EliotB. Ernest HemingwayC. William Faulkner D. Mark Twain26. The attitude towards life that _ had been trying to demonstrate in his works is known as “grace under pressure”.A. William Faulkner B. Theodore DreiserC. Ernest Hemingway D. FScott Fitzgerald27. In 1841, _ went to the South Seas on a whaling ship, where he gained the first- hand information about whaling that he used later in Moby -Dick.A. Herman Melville B. Nathaniel HawthorneC. Robert Lee FrostD.T.S. Eliot28. In most of his writings, _ deliberately broke up the chronology of his narrative by juxtaposing the past with the present, in the way the montage does in a movie.A. Walt WhitmanB. William FaulknerC. Ernest Hemingway D.F. Scott Fitzgerald29. In 1950, one of the leading American writers _ was awarded the Nobel Prize for the anti-racist Intruder in the Dust.A. Robert FrostB. Theodore DreiserC. William Faulkner D.F. Scott Fitzgerald30. Walt Whitman s _ is a collection of poems incorporating his emotions and feelings before and during the Civil War when he stood firmly on the side of the North.A. Leaves of Grass B. “Cavalry Crossing a Ford”C. “Song of Myself” D. Drum Taps31. It was his masterpiece The Great Gatsby that made _ one of the greatest American novelists.A. F. Scott FitzgeraldB. William FaulknerC. Ernest Hemmingway D. Gertrude Steinbeck32. The childhood of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn in the Mississippi is a record of a vanished way of life in the _ Mississippi valley.A. pre - War of IndependenceB. post - War of IndependenceC. pre - Civil War D. post - Civil War33. In Moby-Dick, for the character Ahab, the white whale represents only _.A. evil B. natureC. societyD. purity34. Melvilles semi- autobiographical novel, _, concerns the sufferings of a genteel youth among brutal sailors.A. Moby-Dick B. RedburnC. Mardi D. Typee35. Closely related to Dickinsons religious poetry are her poems concerning _, ranging over the physical as well as the psychological and emotional aspects of death.A. love and nature B. death and universeC. death and immortalityD. family and happiness36. The effect of Darwinist idea of “survival of the fittest” was shattering in _ s fictional world of jungle, where “kill or to be killed” was the law.A. Mark Twain B. Henry JamesC. Theodore Dreiser D. Walt Whitman37. Though Robert Frosts subject matters mainly focus on the landscape and people in _, he wrote many poems that investigate the basic themes of mans life in his long poetic career.A. the South B. the WestC. England D. New England38. Like all naturalists, _ was restrained from finding a solution to the social problems that appeared in his novels and accordingly almost all his works have tragic endings.A. Theodore Dreiser B. Henry JamesC. Washington IrvingD. Walt Whitman39. “The Birthmark” drives home symbolically Hawthornes point that _ is mans birthmark, something he is born with.A. purityB. generosityC. evil D. love40. The Blithedale Romance is a novel _ wrote to reveal his own experiences on the Brook Farm and his own methods as a psychological novelist.A. Herman Melville B. Nathaniel HawthorneC. Washington IrvingD. Walt Whitman PART TWO (60 POINTS). 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. “To be, or not to be that is the question;Whether tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,And by opposing end them?”Questions:A. Who is the writer of this work? Whats the title of the work?B. What does the phrase “to take arms against a sea of troubles ” mean?C. How do you understand the quotation “To be, or not to be -that is the question”?42. “Beside a pumice isle in Baiaes bay,And saw in sleep old palaces and towersQuivering within the waves intenser day,All overgrown with azure moss and flowers So sweet, the sense faints picturing them! ThouFor whose path the Atlantics level powers”(From Shelleys“ Ode to the West Wind”)Questions:A. In what form is the poem written?B. What does the quotation“ the sense faints picturing them” mean?C. What idea does Shelley express in this poem?43. “ We passed the School, where Children stroveAt Recess- in the Ring-We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain -We Passed the Setting Sun- ”( From Emily Dickinsons poem Because I could not stop for Death)Questions:A. What does the phrase “Fields of Gazing Grain” symbolize?B. What figure of speech is used in the poem?C. What are Dickinsons unique writing features?44. (A lot of common objects have been enumerated in the previous lines, and here are the last two lines of the poem. )“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? What is the title of the poem?B. What does the child stand for in the poem?C. How do you understand “ These became part of the child” ?. 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 charact