2009年7月英美文学选读真题以及答案

2009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请将答案填在答题纸相应的位置上（全部题目用英文作答）PART ONE (40 POINTS)IMultiple 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. The first mass movement of the English working class and the early sign of the awakening of the poor, oppressed people is_. A. The Enclosure Movement B. The Protestant Reformation C. The Enlightenment Movement D. The Chartist Movement2. Daniel Defoes works are all the following EXCEPT_. A. Moll Flanders B. A Tale of a Tub C. A Journal of the Plague Year D. Colonel Jack3. “Metaphysical Poetry” refers to the works of the 17th - century writers who wrote under the influence of _. A. John Donne B. Alexander Pope C. Christopher Marlowe D. John Milton4. The most important play among Shakespeares comedies is _. A. A Midsummer Nights Dream B. The Merchant of Venice C. As You Like It D. Twelfth Night5. The most perfect example of the verse drama after Greek style in English is Miltons _. A. Paradise Lost B. Paradise Regained C. Samson Agonistes D. Areopagitica6. Which of the following descriptions of Enlightenment Movement is NOT true? A. It was a progressive intellectual movement that flourished in France. B. It was a furtherance of the Renaissance of the 15th and 16th centuries. C. The purpose was to enlighten the whole world with moderu philosophical and artistic ideas. D. The Enlighteners advocate individual education.7. Neoclassicists had some fixed laws and rules for prose EXCEPT_. A. being precise B. being direct C. being flexible D. being satiric8. A good style of prose“ proper works in proper places” was defined by_. A. John Milton B. Henry Fielding C. Jonathan Swift D.T.S. Eliot9. The major theme of Jane Austens novels is_. A. love and money B. money and social status C. social status and marriage D. love and marriage10. 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”11. William Blakes work _ marks his entry into maturity. A. Songs of Experience B. Marriage of Heaven and Hell C. Songs of Innocence D. The Book of Los12. Best of all the Romantic well- known lyric pieces is Shelleys_. A. “The Cloud” B. “To a Skylark” C. “Ode to a Nightingale” D. “Ode to the West Wind”13. In the Victorian Period _ became the most widely read and the most vital and challenging expression of progressive thought. A. poetry B. novel C. prose D. drama14. In Charles Dickensearly novels, he attacks one or more specific social evils, _is a good example of describing the dehumanizing workhouse system and the dark, criminal underworld life. A. David Copperfield B. Oliver Twist C. Great Expectations D. Dombey and Son15. Thomas Hardys most cheerful and idyllic work is_. A. The Return of the Native B. Far from the Maddin Crowd C. Under the Greenwood Tree D. The Woodlanders16. The rise of _ and new science greatly incited modernist writers to make new explorations on human natures and human relationships. A. the existentialistic idea B. the irrational philosophy C. scientific socialism D. social Darwinism17. In Modern English literature, the literary interest of _ lay in the tracing of the psychological development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehu-manizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature. A. George Bernard Shaw B.T.S. Eliot C. Oscar Wilde D.D.H. Lawrence18. George Bernard Shaws _ is a better play of the later period, with the authors almost nihilistic bitterness on the subjects of the cruelty and madness of WWI and the aimlessness and disillusion of the young. A. Too True to Be Good B. Mrs. Warrens Profession C. WidowersHouses D. Fannys First Play19. Renaissance first started in Italy, with the flowering of the following fields EXCEPT_. A. architecture B. painting C. sculpture D. literature20. English Romanticism,as a historical phase of literature,is generally said to have begun with the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridges_. A. Poetical Sketches B. A Defence of Poetry C. Lyrical Ballads D. The Prelude21. Charlotte Bronts work _ is famous for the depiction of the life of the middle - class working women, particularly governesses. A. Jane Eyre B. Wuthering Heights C. The Proffessor D. Shirley22. The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot is a poem concerned with the _ breakup of a modern civilization in which human life has lost its meaning, significance and purpose. A. spiritual B. religious C. political D. physical23. Perhaps Emily Dickinsons greatest interpretation of the moment of _ is to be found in “I heard a Fly buzz-when I died”, a poem universally regarded as one of her masterpieces. A. fantasy B. birth C. crisis D. death24. The fiction of the American _ period ranges from the comic fables of Washing-ton Irving to the social realism of Rebecca Harding Davis. A. Romantic B. Revolutionary C. Colonial D. Modernistic25. The modern _ technique was frequently and skillfully exploited by Faulkner to emphasize the reactions and inner musings of the narrator. A. stream - of - consciousness B. flashback C. mosaic D. narrative and argumentative26. By means of “_,” Whitman believed, he has turned the poem into an open field, an area of vital possibility where the reader can allow his own imagination to play. A. balanced structure B. free verse C. fixed verse D. regular rhythm27. In 1954, _ was awarded the Nobel Prize for “his powerful style -forming mas tery of the art” of creating modern fiction. A. Ernest Hemingway B. Sherwood Anderson C. Stephen Crane D. Henry James28. The period ranging from 1865 to 1914 has been referred to as the Age of _ in the literary history of the United States, which is actually a movement or tendency that dominated the spirit of American literature. A. Rationalism B. Romanticism C. Realism D. Modernism29. When he was eighty - seven he read his poetry at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy in 1961. This poet was_. A. Ezra Pound B. Robert Frost C. E. E. Cummings D. Wallace Stevens30. The renowned American critic H. L. Mencken regarded _ as “the true father of our national literature.” A. Bret Harte B. Walt Whitman C. Washington Irving D. Mark Twain31. We can easily find in Theodore Dreisers fiction a world of jungle, where “kill or to be killed” was the law. Dreisers _ found expression in almost every book he wrote. A. naturalism B. romanticism C. cubism D. classicalism32. A preoccupation with the Calvinistic view of _ and the mystery of evil marked the works of Hawthorne, Melville and a host of lesser writers. A. love and mercy B. bitterness and hatred C. original sin D. eternal life33. “He possessed none of the usual aids to a writer s career: no money, no friend in power, no formal education worthy of mention, no family tradition in letters. ” This is a description most suitable to the American writer_. A. Henry James B. Theodore Dreiser C. W. D. Howells D. Nathaniel Hawthorne34. People generally considered _ to be Henry James masterpiece, which incar nates the clash between the Old World and the New in the life journey of an American girl in a European cultural environment. A. The Europeans B. Daisy Miller C. The Portrait of A Lady D. The Private Life35. The Jazz Age of the 1920s characterized by frivolity and carelessness is brought vividly to life in_. A. The Great Gatsby B. The Sun Also Rises C. The Grapes of Wrath D. Tales of the Jazz Age36. Guided by the principle of adhering to the truthful treatment of life, the American _ introduced industrial workers and farmers, ambitious businessmen and vagrants, prostitutes and unheroic soldiers as major characters in fiction. A. romanticists B. modernists C. psychologists D. realists37. The American literary spokesman of the Jazz Age is often acclaimed to be_.A. Henry James B. Robert FrostC. William Faulkner D.F. Scott Fitzgerald38. By writing Moby - Dick, _ reached the most flourishing stage of his literary creativity. A. Herman Melville B. Edgar Ellen Poe C. William Faulkner D. Theodore Dreiser39. Faulkner once said that _ is a story of “lost innocence,” which proves itself to be an intensification of the theme of imprisonment in the past. A. Light in August B. The Sound and the Fur y C. Absalom, Absalom! D. The Hamlet40. Hawthorne was not a Puritan himself, but his view of man and human history origina ted, to a great extent, in_. A. Calvinism B. Puritanism C. Realism D. NaturalismPART 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. Behold her, single in the field,Yon solitary Highland lass!Reaping and singing by herself;Stop here, or gently pass!Alone she cuts and binds the grain,And sings a melancholy strain;O listen! For the Vale profoundIs overflowing with the sound.Questions:A. Identify the poet.B. What s the rhyme scheme for the stanza?C. Whats the theme of the poem?42. The following quotation is from Mrs. Warrens Profession: VIVIE: intensely interested by this time No; but why did you choose that business? Saving money and good management will succeed in any business.MRS. WARREN: Yes, saving money. But where can a woman get the money to save in any other business? Could you save out of four shillings a week and keep yourself dressed as well? Not you. Of course, if you re a plain woman and cant earn anything more ; or if you have a turn for music, or the stage, or newspaper - writing ; thats different.Questions :A. Identify the playwright of the above quotation.B. What business do you think Mrs. Warren is involved in?C. Whats the theme of the play?43. My little horse must think it queerTo stop without a farmhouse nearBetween the woods and frozen lakeThe darkest evening of the year.Questions:A. Identify the poet and the title of the poem from which this stanza is taken.B. What figure of speech is used in this stanza?C. Briefly interpret the meaning of this stanza.44. “Where are we going, Dad?” Nick asked. “Over to the Indian camp. There is an Indian lady very sick. ” “Oh,” said Nick. Across the bay they found the other boat beached. Uncle George was smoking a cigar in the dark. The young Indian pulled the boat way up on the beach. Uncle George gave both the Indians cigars. Questions : A. Identify the author and the title of the work from which the passage is taken. B. What