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英美文学选读模拟题二A. Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement and put the letter in the brackets. (201points)( ) 1. _is regarded as the pioneer of English drama.A. William ShakespeareB. Christopher Marlowe.C. Edmund SpenserD. John Donne( ) 2. She I compare thee to a summers day? This is the beginning line of Shakespeares _.A. songsB. playsC. comediesD. sonnets( ) 3. Thomas Grays masterpiece, _ once and for all established his fame ass the leader of the sentimental poetry of the day, especially The Graveyard School.A. Ode on the SpringB. Ode on a Distant Prospect Of Eton CollegeC. Hymn to AdversityD. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard( ) 4. Which play is regarded ass the best English comedy since Shakespeare?A. She Stoops to ConquerB. The RivalsC. The School for ScandalD. The Conscious Lovers( ) 5. The publication of _ marked the beginning of Romantic Age.A. Don JuanB. The Rime of the Ancient MarinerC. The Lyrical BalladsD. Queen Mab( ) 6. As a new kind of ideology, _ was widely accepted and practised in the later Victorian period.A. earnestnessB. utilitarianismC. respectabilityD. modesty( ) 7. In his novels, Charles Dickens depicted a lot of child characters except _.A. Oliver TwistB. Little NellC. Little DorritD. Charles Surface( ) 8. _ is acknowledged by many as the most original poet of the Victorian period.A. Robert BrowningB. Alfred TennysonC. George EliotD. John Keats( )9. _ is the last important novelist and poet of the 19th century.A. Thomas HardyB. George EliotC. Alfred TennysonD. Robert Browning( ) 10. _ does not belong to the post - modernism after the Second World War.A. Existentialist literatureB. Black HumorC. Heater of the AbsurdD. Stream of consciousness( ) 11. In the works of E. M. Forster and D. H. Lawrence, the subject matter is _.A. the social turmoilB. the hypocrisy of the capitalismC. love and marriageD. human relationships( ) 12. James Joyces works are popular with the readers for in his writings Joyce uses the following kinds of expressing methods.A. sentimental romanceB. historical stylisticsC. inversionD. counterpoint( ) 13. _s Leaves of Grass established him as the most popular American poet of the 19th century.A. Edger Allen PoeB. James Russel LowellC. John Greenleaf WhitterD. Walt Whitman( ) 14. In his essays, Ralph Waldo Emerson put forward his philosophy except of _.A. religionB. the over - soulC. the importance of the individualD. nature( )15. In the following statements, _ is not true about the local colorism in American literary realism.A. Their writings are concerned with the life of a small, well - defined region or province.B. The characteristic selling is the isolated small town.C. Their materials were extensive or wide - ranging, and the topics were connective.D. Local colorists were consciously nostalgic historians of a vanishing way of life, recorders of a present that faded before their eyes.( ) 16. _, a novella about a young American girl who gets killed by the winter in Rome, brought James international fame for the first time.A. The AmericanB. Daisy MillerC. The EuropeansD. The Portrait of a Lady( ) 17. In his _, Dreisers 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.A. Sister CarrieB. An American TragedyC. The GeniusD. Trilogy of Desire( ) 18. _ is not among those greatest figures in The Lost Generation or modern American literature.A. Ezra PoundB. Robert FrostC. Walt WhitmanD. William Carlos Williams( ) 19. Robert Frost recited _ at President Kennedys inauguration.A. The road Not TakenB. Mending the WallC. The Gift OutrightD. Birches( ) 20. Mark Twains best works were produced when he was in the prime of his life. All these masterworks drew upon_.A. the scenes and emotions of his boyhood and youthB. the hypocrisy of the capitalismC. the bleak view of human natureD. the miserable life of the lower - class poorB. Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase according to the textbook. ( 201 points)1. In The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer employed the _ with true ease and charm for the first time in the history of English literature.2. Christopher Marlowe is the most gifted of the _.3. The term _ is commonly used to name the work of the 17th - century writers who wrote under the influence of John Donne.4. Spenser is generally regarded as the greatest nondramatic poet of the Elizabethan age. His fame is chiefly based on his masterpiece _.5. Swift is a master _, his satire is usually masked by an outward gravity and an apparent earnestness which renders his satire all the more powerful.6. From the middle part to the end of the 18th century, in English literature _ flourished. They were mostly stories of mystery and horror which take place in some haunted or dilapidated middle age castles.7. As a leading romanticist, Byrons chief contribution is his creation of the _, a proud, mysterious rebel figure of noble origin.8. _ is regarded as a worshipper of nature.9. All of Charles Dickenss later works, with the exception of _(1859), present a criticism of the more complicated and yet most fundamental social institutions and morals of the Victorian England.10. Bernard Shaw began his career as a dramatist in 1892, when his first play _(1892) was put on by the independent theater society.11. _ was regarded as father of the American short stories.12. The way in which _ wrote The Scarlet Letter suggests that American Romanticism adapted itself to American puritan moralism.13. The most important feature of Mark Twains language is the use of vernacular, or _.14. _ is Brownings best - known dramatic monlogue.15. Ezra Pounds major work of poetry is the long poem called _.16. Hemingways _ (1936) tells a brilliant short story about a martially wounded American writer who attempts to redeem his imagination from the corrosions of wealth and domestic strife.17. _ stands as a great dividing line between the nineteenth century and the contemporary American literature.18. Pound was the leader of a now movement in poetry which he called the _ movement.19. After Apple - Picking is a well - known poem written by _.20. George Eliots greatest achievement is _.C. Decide whether the following statements are true or false and write your answers in the brackets. (101 points)( ) 1. Dr. Faustus is a play based on the English Legend of a magician aspiring for knowledge and finally meeting his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the Devil.( )2. Swift is a master satirist. His satire is usually masked by an outward gravity and an apparent earnestness which renders his satire all the more powerful. His A Modest Proposal is generally taken as a perfect model.( )3. Shelleys greatest achievement is his four - act poetic drama, Prometheus Unbound. (1820)( )4. Though Naturalism seems to have played an important part in Hardys works, there is also bitter and sharp criticism and even open challenge as the irrational, hypocritical and unfair Victorian institutions, conventions and morals which strangle the individual will and destroy natural human emotions and relationships.( )5. Hardy is the founder of the stream of consciousness school of novel writing.( )6. American romanticism was in a way derivative; American romantic writing was some of them modeled on English and European works.( )7. With the publication of Daisy Miller, Henry James reputation was firmly established on both sides of the Atlantic and Daisy Miller has ever since become the American girl in Europe, a celebrated cultural type who embodies the spirit of the old world.( )8. Altogether, Dickinson wrote 1775 poems of which most had appeared during her lifetime.( )9. Hemingway develops the style of colloquialism initiated by Thomas Hardy.( )10. Transcendentalism exalted reason over feeling, individual expression over the restraints of law and custom.D. Name the author of the following literary works. (51 points)1. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling2. A Journal of the Plague Year3. Ode on a Grecian Urn4. The Lake Isle of Innisfree5. There Was a Child Went ForthE. Define the literary terms listed below. (24 points)1. Dramatic Monologue2. SymbolismF. For each of the quotations listed below please give the name of the author and the title of the literary work from which it is taken and then briefly interpret it. ( 24 points)1. I wandered lonely as a cloudThat floats on high oer vales and hills,When all at once I saw a crowd,A host, of golden daffodils;Beside the lake, beneath the trees,Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.2. The apparition of these faces in the crowd;Petals on a wet, black bough.G. Give brief answers to the following questions. (35 points)1. Whats the theme of Jane Eyre?2. Whats the theme of John Galsworthys The Man of Property?3. How did Walt Whitman make use of the poetic I in his works?H. Short essay questions. (27 points)1. Read the excerpt from chapter I of Pride And Prejudice in our textbook, and answer the following questions.(1) What is this passage describing?(2) Whats the style of this passage?(3) Analyze the characters of the main roles of this passage: Mr. And Mrs. Bennet.附：答案 全国高等教育自学考试模拟试卷（二）英美文学选读参考答案A.1. B2. D3. D4. C5. C6. B7. D8. A9. A10. D11. D12. C13. D14. A15. C16. B17. D18. C19. C20. AB.1. heroic couplet2. University Wits3. metaphysical poetry4. The Faerie Queene5. satirist6. Gothic novels7. Byronic hero8. Wordsworth9. A Tale of Two Cities10. Widowers House11. Washington Irving12. Hawthorne13. Colloquialism14. My Last Duchess15. The Cantos16. The Snows of Kilimanjaro17. The First World War18. Imagist19. Robert Frost20. MiddlemarchC.1. F2. T3. T4. T5. F6. T7. F8. F9. F10. FD.1. Henry Fielding2. Daniel Defoe3. John Keats4. William Bulter Yeats5. Walt WhitmaE.1. A kind of narrative poem in which one character speaks to one or more listeners whose replies are not giver in the poem. The occasion is usually a crucial one in the speakers life, and the dramatic monologue reveals the speakers of a dramatic monologue is My Last Duchess by Robert Browning. In the poems including My Last Duchess, Browning chooses a dramatic moment or a crisis, in which his characters are made to talk about their lives, and about their minds and hearts. In listening to those one - sided talks, readers can form their own opinions and judgements about the those one - sided personality and about what has really happened.2. Symbolism is the writing technique of using symbols. A symbol is something that conveys two kinds of meaning; it is simply itself, and it stands for something other than itself. In other words, a symbol is both literal and figurative. People, places, things and even events can be used symbolically. A symbol is a way of telling a story and a way of conveying meaning. The best symbols are those that are believable in the lives of the characters and also convincing as they convey a meaning beyond the literal level of the story. Hawthorne and Melville were the two masters of symbolism. For example, the scarlet letter a on Hesters breast can give you symbolic meanings. If the symbol is obscure or ambiguous, then the very obscurity and the ambiguity may also be apt of the meaning of the story.F.1. The name of the author is William Wordsworth, and the title of the literary work is I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud.译文如下：我独自游荡，像一朵孤云高高地飞越峡谷和山巅，突然，我望见密密的一群，那是一大片金黄色水仙;它们在那湖边的树荫里，在阵阵微风中舞姿飘逸。2. The author is Erza Pound, and the title of this poem is In a Station of the Metro.译文如下：出现在人群里这一张张面孔;湿的黑树枝上的一片片花瓣G.1. 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, e. g. the religious hypocrisy of charity institutions such as Lowood school where poor girls are trained, through constant starvation and humiliation, to be humble slaves, the social discrimination Jane experiences first as a dependent at her aunts house and later as a governess at Thornfield, and the false social convention love and marriage. At the same time, it is an intense moral fable. Jane, like Mr. Rochester, has to undergo a series of physical and moral tests to grow up and achieve her final happiness.2. The theme of this novel is that of the predominant possessive instinct of the Forsytes and its effects upon the personal relation - ships of the family with the underlying assumption that human relationships of the contemporary English society are merely and extension of property relationships. The harsh satire on this inhuman sense of property is brought out very effectively in the early Chapters of the novel. But in the later part of the novel, the harsh tone gradually changes into a more tolerant one, and finally it becomes a distinctly sentimental one, thus weakening the effect of the novel.3. Whitmans poetic style is marked, first of all, by the use of the poetic I. Speaking in the voice of I, Whitman becomes all those people in his poems, and yet still remains What Whitman, hence a discovery of the self in the other with such an identification. Usually, the relationship Whitman is dramatizing is a triangular one: I. the poet, the subject in the poem, and you, the reader. In such a manner, Whitman invites us, as we read his lines, to participate in the process of sympathetic identification.H.1. (1) It is describing the parents of Bennet girls. Mr. And Mrs. Bennet are busy considering the prospects of their daughters marriages, shortly after hearing of the arrival of a rich, unmarried young man as their neighbour, mild satire may be found here in the authors seemingly matter - of - fact description of a very ordinary, practical family conversation, though unmistakable sympathy is given to both Mr. and Mrs. Bennet(2) This passage is taken from the first chapter of the novel. Chapter I has been universally acknowledged to be very well - written as an opening chapter. The style is lucid and graceful, with touches of humor and mild satire. The conversations are interesting and amusing, and immediately bring the characters to life. Th