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1、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2B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 o

2、ne that best an swers the questi onor completes the statement.Mark your choice by blackening the corresponding letterA, B, C or D on the an swer sheet.1. Shakespeare has established his giant position in world literature with his plays, 154 sonn ets and 2 long poems.B2. joh n Milt on s literary achi

3、eveme nt can be divided in to three groups: the earlypoetic works, the middle prose pamphlets and the last.CA. roma nces B. dramasC. great poems D. ballads3. The novels ofare the first literary works devoted to the study of problemsof the lower class people. CA. Joh n Milt on B. Da niel DefoeC. Henr

4、y Fieldi ng D. Jon athan Swift4. The work ranked by manycriticsas William Wordswoth s greatest work was. BA. Lyrical Ballads B. The PreludeC. Poems in Two Volumes D. The Excurs ion5. The author of The History of Tom Jon es, a Foun dli ng is.CA. Daniel Defoe B. Johathan SwiftC. Henry Fielding D. Will

5、iam Blake6. The works ofare famous for the depict ion of the life of the middleclass wome n, particularly gover ness.*BA. Charlotte Bron te B. D.H. Lawre nceC. Thomas Hardy D. Jane Auste n7. All of the followingwritingsare created by William Wordsworth EXCEPT.DA. “ I Wan dered Lon ely as a Cloud. ”B

6、. “ Composed upon Westm in ster Bridge, Septemer 3, 1802.”C. “ The Solitary Reaper. ”D. “The Chimney Sweeper. ”8. The most importa nt represe ntative work by Jon atha n Swift is.DA. A Tale of a Tub B. The Battle of the BooksC. A Modest Proposal D. Gullivers Travelscomes from Shelly s9 “ If win ter c

7、omes, can Spring be far beh ind?C. Ode to LibertyD. Ode to the West WindA. “To a Skylark ” B.“Adonais10. In Jane Auste n s first novel, she tells a story about two sisters andtheir love affairs. BA. Pride and Prejudice B. Sense and SensibilityC. Emma D. Persuasi on11. Charles Dicke ns is one of the

8、greatestwriters of the Victoria n Age.DA. roma ntic B. moder nistC. socialist D. critical realist12. Charlotte Brontes most autobiographicalwork,is largely based on herexperie nee in Brussels.AA. Jane Eyre B. ShirleyC. Villette D. The Professor13. WilliamWordsworth s theory of poetry is calli ng for

9、 simplethemes draw n fromhumble lifeexpressed in the Ianguage of ordinary people. The preface to the secondediti on ofacts as a mani festo for the new school and sets forth his owncritical creed. AA. Lyrical Ballads B. The PreludeC. Poems in Two Volums D. The Excurs ion14. George Bernard Shaw s play

10、established his positi on as the leadi ngplaywright of his time. *C15. Eliot s most importa nt single poem,has bee n hailed as a Ian dmark anda model of the 20th-century English poetry.BA. The Hollow Men B. The Waste LandC. Prurrock and Other Observati ons D. Poems 1909-2516. D. H.Lawrenee s autobio

11、graphicalnovel, shows the conflictbetween theearthy, coarse, energeticbut often drunken father and the refined,strong willedand up climb ing 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 tisnobler in the mindto

12、 suffer./The sli ngs and arrows of outrageous fortun e,/ Or to take arms aga insta sea of troubles,/And by opposing end them? ” These words are from. DA. Ki ng Lear B. RomeoC. Anton io D. Hamlet18. Joh n Milt on s last importa nt work,is the most powerful dramatic poemon the Greek model. A19. The au

13、thor of Moll Fla nders and Capta in Sin gleton is.BA. Joh n Milt on B. Da niel DefoeC. Henry Fieldi ng D. Jon athan Swift20. Drapier is the pseud onym of.AA. Jon athan Swift B. Daniel DefoeC. Henry Fielding D. William Blake21. One of Dicke ns later works,in which he prese nts a criticism of thegover

14、 nmen tal bran ches which run an in defi nite procedure of man ageme nt of affairs and keep the innocent in pris on 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 experienee in .AA. Brobdi ngnag B. Lilliput

15、C. Flying Island D. Houyhnhnm23. Faulk ner used the n arrativetech niq ues to con structhis stories, which in eludeand mythological and biblical allusi ons.A24. Ernest Hemin gway, had bee n tryi ng to dem on strate in his works an un vary ing code,known as “，” which is actually an attitude towards l

16、ife.BA. facing the reality B. grace un der pressureC. hon esty with ben evole nee D. security coming first25. The Blithedale Romance is a novel written by Hawthorne to reveal his ownexperie nce on the Brook Farm and his own methods as ano velist.CA. n aturalist B. imagistC. psychological D. feminist

17、26. Theodore Dreiser s focus shifted from the pathos of the helpless protagonistsat the bottom of the society to the power of the American financial tycoons in thelate 19th cen tury in his work.DA. The Gen ius B. An America n TragedyC. Dreiser Looks at Russia D.“ Trilogy of Desire ”27. Emily Dick in

18、son freque ntly uses pers onae to ren der the tone more familiar tothe reader, andto vivify some abstract ideas.D28. I n his later works,Melville becomes more recon ciled with the, in whichhe admits, one must live by rules.BA. wome n B. world of manC. family D. politicia ns29. Walt Whitma n shas alw

19、ays bee n con sidered a monumen tal work whichcomma nds great atte nti on in America.BA. The Pilgrim s Progress B. Leaves of GrassC. A Passage to In dia D. Rip Van Win kle30. Mark Twa in s full literary career bega n to blossom in 1869 with a travel book, an acco unt of America n tourists in Europe.

20、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 commonacceptanee of the approach, Henry James s importa nee, as well as his wide in flue nee as a no velist and critic, has bee n all the more con spicuous.AA.

21、 dec on struct ion B. roma nticC. Freudia n D. an alytic32. Emily Dickinson addresses the issues that concern the whole human beings in herpoems, which in clude religio n, death, love, and n ature.AC. power D. politicsA. immortality B. wealththe purposeless ness of life and attack ing the conven ti

22、onal moral sta ndards.B34. Profo und ideas in Robert Frosts poems are delivered un der the disguise of.AA. the plain Ianguage and the simple form B. the vivid descriptionsC. metaphors D. the complicated n arratio n35. InHemin gway prese nts his philosophy about life and death through thedepict ion o

23、f 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 Faulkner s literary works, four novels are masterpieces by any standards:The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, Absalom, Absalom ! and.A3

24、7. As Whitma n saw it,could play a vital part in the process of creat inga new n ati on.CA. music B. fictio nC. poetry D. painting38. In many of Hawthornes stories and novels, the Puritan concept of life iscondemn ed, especially in his The house of the Seven Gables and.BA. Go Down, Moses B. The Scar

25、let LetterC. As I Lay Dying D. Song of Myself39. Henry James is gen erally regarded as the forerunner of the and the foun derof psychological realism. BA. “stream -of- consciousness ” novels B. m etaphysical poemsC. short stories D. literary criticism40. Gen erally con sidered to be Henry James s ma

26、sterpiece,incarn ates theclash between the Old World and the New in the life journey of an American girl in a Europe an cultural environment.B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. Readi ng Comprehe nsion (16 points in all, 4 for each)Read the quoted parts carefully and an swer the questi ons

27、 in En glish. Write your an swers in the corresp onding space on the an swer sheet.41. Wherefore, Bees of En gla nd, forgeMany a weap on, cha in, and scourge,That these sti ngless drones may spoilThe forced produce of your toil?Questio ns.A. Ide ntify the poet and the poem from which the sta nza is

28、take n.Song to the Men of England - Percy ShelleyB. What do you know about the poem s writing background?This poem was writtenat a time of turbulentunrest. On August 16, 1819, when about60000 people were holdi ng a rally in St.Peter s field n ear Man Chester, dema ndinguniversal suffrage, parliament

29、ary reform and the repeal of the Corn Law, a troopof cavalry opened fire on them, killed more than a dozen and wounded several hundreds. The killing was ironically referred to as“ Peterloo Massacre ” . Shelley, beingexiled in Italy, wrote several political lyrics in protest against the government s

30、barbarous action and calling the working people to rise up and overthrow the ruleof 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

31、 the n, you and I,When the evening is spread out aga inst the skyLike a patient etherized upon a table;Let us go, through certa in half -deserted streets,The mutteri ng retreatsOf restless ni ghts in one-ni ght cheap hotelsAnd sawdust restaura nts with oyster-shells:(The lines above are taken from“T

32、he Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock ” by T. SEliot.)Questio ns.A. What does the poem prese nt?As for En gla nd, the aftershocks of World War I directly con tributed to the dissolutionof the British Empire. Eliot saw society as paralyzed and wounded, andhe imagined that culture was crumbling and disso

33、lving. “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufro ck ” dem on strates this sense of in decisive paralysis as the titular speaker won ders whether he should eat a piece of fruit, make a radical cha nge, or if he has the fortitude to keep livi ng.B. What form is the poem composed in?“ Prufrock ” isa variation

34、 onthe dramatic monologue,a type of poem popular withEliot s predecessors. Dramatic monologues are similar to soliloquies inplays.The rhyme scheme of this poem is irregular but not ran dom.C. What does the poem suggest?It is an exam in atio n of the tortured psyche of the prototypical moder nman ove

35、reducated, eloque nt, n eurotic, and emoti on ally stilted. Prufrock, thepoem s speaker, seems to be addressing apotential lover, with whom hewould liketo “force the moment to its crisis” by somehow consummating theirrelati on ship.43. My long two-po in ted ladders stick ing through a treeBeside it,

36、 and there may be two or threeApples I did nt pick upon some bough.Questio ns.A. Identifythe poet and the title of the poem from which the above lines are taken.After Apple-Picking - Robert FrostB. What experie nee does the poem describe?After a long day s work, the speaker is tired of apple picking

37、. He has felt drowsy and dreamysince 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?Howwe ulti

38、mately interpret the tone of the poemhas much to do with how we interpret the harvest. Has it been a failure? Certainly there is a sense of incompletenessa barrel that I didn tfill. ” The speaker s inner resources give out before the outer reso urces are entirely collected. On the other hand, the po

39、et speaks only of “two or three apples ” remaining, and these only amay be left over. Do we detect satisfaction,then? The speaker has done all that was within his power;what s left is the result of minor, inevitable human imperfection. Is this, then, a poem aboutthe rare skill of knowing when to qui

40、t honorably? This interpretation seems reasonable.44. This is my letter to the WorldA. Ide ntify the poet.Emily DickinsonB. What idea does the poem express?The author s contemporaries could not understand her, so she rested her hope on latergenerations, and asked them to judge her tenderly.C. Why do

41、es 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. Questi ons and An swers (24 points in all, 6 for each)Give a brief answer to each of the followingquestions in English. Write your answersin the

42、 corresp onding space on the an swer sheet.45. What are the features of George Bernard Shaw s characterization in his plays? He makes the trick of show in gup one character vividly at the expe nse of ano ther.46. Briefly introduce Blake s Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experienee.Songs of Innocence

43、 and of Experienee is a rare and wonderful book, its seeming simplicity belyi ng its visi onary wisdom .Intern ati on ally recog ni sed as a |masterpiece of En glish literature, it also occupies a key positi on in the historyof western art. Innocence and Experieneeare definitionsof consciousness tha

44、trethi nkMilt ons existe ntial-mythic states ofParadise and the Fall. Blakescategories are modes of percepti on that tend to coord in ate with a chrono logy that would become sta ndard inRoma nticism: childhood is a state ofprotected innocence rather thanoriginal sin, but not immune to the fallen wo

45、rldand its in stituti ons.This world sometimes imp in ges on childhood itself, and in anyevent becomes known through experienee, a state of being marked by the loss of childhood vitality, by fear and inhibition, by social and political corruption,andby the mani fold oppressi on of Church, State, and

46、 the ruli ng classes. The volumesContrary States are sometimes sig nailed by patentlyrepeated or contrastedtitles:in Innocence, Infant Joy, inExperie nee,Infant Sorrow; inInnocence,TheLamb, in Experienee, The Fly and The Tyger. The stark simplicity of poems such as The Chimney Sweeper and The Little

47、 Black Boy display Blakes acute sensibility to the realities of poverty and exploitationthat accompanied the darksata nic mills of theIn dustrial Revoluti on.47. Why does Sister Carrie best embody Dreiser s n aturalistic belief?Sister Carrie best embodies Dreisers n aturalistic belief that while men

48、 arecon trolled and con diti onedby heredity, in sti net and cha nce,a few extraodi nary andun sophisticated huma n beings refuse to accept their fate wordlessly and in steadstrive,unsuccessfully,tofind meaning and purpose for their existence.Carrie,as oneof such,se nses that she is merely a cipher

49、in an un cari ng world yet seeks to graspthe mysteries of life and thereby satisfies her desires for social status and material comfort.48. Briefly state Mark Twai ns magic power with Ian guage in his no vels.1) Use of ColloquialLanguage.The book is written in a colloquial style, in thegen eral sta

50、ndard speech of un educated America ns.2) Vern acular Lan guage3) Local ColorIV. Topic Discussi on(20 points in all, 10 for each)Write no less tha n 150 words on each of the follow ing topics in En glish in the corresp onding space on the an swer sheet.49. Why is Jane Eyre a successful novel? Give a

51、 brief an alysis 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 no ted for its sharp criticism of the exist ing society.Morality :Ja ne refuses to become Mr. Rochesters paramour because of her impassi oned self-respe

52、ct and moral con victio n. She rejects St. Joh n Rivers religious fervour as much as the liberti ne aspects of Mr. Rochesters character. In stead,she works out a morality expressed in love, in depe ndence, and forgiven ess.God and religi on: Throughout the no vel, Jane en deavours to atta in an equi

53、libriumbetwee n moral duty and earthly happ in ess. She despises thehypocrisy of Mr. Brocklehurst, and sees the deficiencies in St. John Rivers indulgentyet detached devotion to his Christianduty. As a child, Jane admires HelenBurn s lifes philosophy of tur ning the other cheek, which in tur n helps her in adult life to forgive Aunt Reed and the Reed cous ins for their cruelty.