(全新整理)4月浙江自考美国文学选读试卷及答案解析

1、精品自学考试资料推荐浙江省 2018年 4月高等教育自学考试美国文学选读试题课程代码： 10055PartChoose the relevant match from Column B for each item in Column A. (10 points in all, 1 point for each)Group 1Column AColumn B()1.Nathaniel Hawthornea.Sound and Fury()2.Henry David Thoreaub.The House of Seven Gables()3.Walt Whitmanc.Daisy Miller()

2、4.Henry Jamesd.Walden()5.William Faulknere.Leaves of GrassGroup 2Column AColumn B() 1. Mildred Douglasa. Moby Dick() 2. Ishmaelb. The Hairy Ape() 3. Hurstwoodc. Indian Camp()4. Nickd. Sister Carrie() 5. Adamse. The Great GatsbyPart : Each of the following statements below is followed by four alterna

3、tives. Choosethe one that wouldbest complete the statement. (50 points in all, 2 points foreach)1. Romantics put emphasis on the following EXCEPT . ( )A. common senseB. imaginationC. intuitionD. individualism2. was the first great belletrist, writing always for pleasure, to produce pleasure. ( )A. I

4、rvingB. CooperC. EmersonD. Whitman3. In 1836, a little book came out which made a tremendous impact on the intellectual life of America. It was entitled by Emerson. ( )A. American ScholarB. NatureC. The PoetD. Self-Reliance4. Which of the following statements concerning the basic tenets of American

5、Transcendentalismis Not correct? （A. Individualism is elevated by the Transcendentalists.B. Intuition is less important than experience.C. Nature is only another side of God.D. Transcendentalists have a new and delight thrill in nature.5. Melville s novel is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyag

6、e in pursuit of aseemingly supernatural white whale. （）A. TypeeB. OmooC. White JacketD. Moby Dick6. Hester Prynne is the heroine in Hawthorne s novel . （ ）A. Moses from an Old ManseB. Twice-Told TalesC. The Scarlet LetterD. The Blithedale Romance7. As a philosophical and literary movement, flourishe

7、d in New England from the 1830sto the Civil War. （ ）A. ModernismB. RationalismC. SentimentalismD. Transcendentalism8. Irving was best known for his famous short stories such as . （ ）A. Rip Van Winkle B. Legend of the Alhambra C. Life of Goldsmith D. Life of Washington9. Realism was a reaction agains

8、t or a move away from the bias towards romance andself-creating fictions, and paved the way to Modernism. （ ）A. RationalismB. RomanticismC. NeoclassicismD. Enlightenment10. had an evident influence on naturalism. It seemed to stress the animality of man, tosuggest that he was dominated by the irresi

9、stible forces of evolution. （）A. TranscendentalismB. DarwinismC. MarxismD. Freudianism11. Samuel Langhorne Clemens is better known by the pen name . （ ）A. Mark Twain B. Henry JamesC. William D. HowellsD. Theodore Dreiser12. is considered the founder of Psychological realism. （ ）A. Henry JamesB.C. Ma

10、rk TwainD.13. “ The Way of the Beaten: A Harp in the Wind. （ ）A. An American TragedyB.C. Dreiser Looks at RussiaD.Jack LondonNathaniel Hawthorne” is the title of one chapter in Dreiser s novelSister CarrieJannie Gerhardt14. Which of the following works concerns most concentratedly the Calvinistic vi

11、ew of original sin?（）A. The Waste LandB. The Scarlet LetterC. Leaves of GrassD. As I Lay Dying15. We can summarize that Walt Whitman s poems are characterized by all the following features EXCEPT that they are . （ ）A. conventional and casualB. lyrical and well structuredC. simple and rather crudeD.

12、free-flowing16. “ This is my letter to the World ” is a poetic expression of Emily Dickinson s abouther communication with the outside world. （）A. indifferenceB. angerC. anxietyD. sorrow17. The publication of The Waste Land, written by helped to establish a modern traditionof literature rich with le

13、arning and allusive thought. （ ） A. T. S. EliotB. Robert FrostC. Ezra Pound D. William Faulkner18. Fitzgerald summarized the experiences and attitudes of the 1920s decade in his masterpiece novel . （ ）A. This Side of Paradise B. Tender is the NightC. The Great GatsbyD. Tales of the Jazz Age19. Early

14、 in the 1920s, the most prominent of the new American playwrights, whose name is , established an international reputation. （ ）A. T. S. EliotB. William B.YeatsC. Eugene ONeillD. Bernard Shaw20. Which of the following novels can be regarded as typically belonging to the school of literary modernism?

15、（ ）A. The Sound and the FurryB. Uncle Toms CabinC. Daisy MillerD. The Gilded Age21. Pound was the leader of a new movement in poetry which he called “ ” movement.（）A. naturalisticB. imagistC. modernisticD. impressionist22. Hemingway was badly wounded in Italy and sent to a hospital where he fell in

16、love with anurse. These two persons later became the characters of his novel . （ ）A. The Old Man and the SeaB. For Whom the Bell TollsC. The Sun Also RisesD. A Farewell to Arms23. wrote about the society in the South by inventing families which represented differentsocial forces: the old decaying up

17、per class, the rising, ambitious, unscrupulous class of the “Poor Whites” , and the Negroes who labored for both of them. （）A. FaulknerB. FitzgeraldC. HemingwayD. Steinbeck24. “ For I have too much /Of apple-picking: I am overtired/ Of the great harvest I myself desired” . From these lines we can co

18、nclude that the speaker .（ ）A. is happy about the harvestB. is tired of the work of apple-pickingC. is not tired when seeing the harvestD. becomes indifferent to the job25. Which of the following statements about Hemingway s works is Not true? （）A. Man can be physically destroyed and spiritually def

19、eated.B. Hemingway s style is actually polished and tightly controlled, but highly suggestive and connotative.C. Hemingway develops the style of colloquialism initiated by Mark Twain.D. “ Grace under pressure” is actually an attitude towards life that Hemingway had been trying to demonstrate in his

20、works.Part : Interpretation (20 points in all, 5 points for each)Read the following selections and then answer the questions. Passage 1There was, as usual, a crowd of folk about the door, but none that Rip recollected. The very character of the people seemed changed. There was a busy, bustling, disp

21、utatious tone about it, instead of the accustomed phlegm and drowsy tranquility. He looked in vain for the sage Nicholas Vedder, .Questions:1. Who is the author and where is this passage taken from?2. Whom does “ He” refer to? How many years have passed since he left? Passage 2Two roads diverged in

22、a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Questions:1. Who is the poet and which poem is this stanza taken from?2. What does the quoted stanza express? Passage 3So I was full of troubl

23、e, full as I could be; and didn t know what to do. At last I had an idea; and I says, I ll go and write the letter - and then see if I can pray. Why, it was astonishing, the way I felt as light as a feather , right straight off, and my troubles all gone. So I got a piece of paper and a pencil, all g

24、lad and excited, and set down and wrote:Miss Watson, your runaway nigger Jim is down here two mile below Pikesville, and Mr. Phelps has got him and he will give him up for the reward if you send.Huck Finn.I felt good and all washed clean of sin for the first time I had ever felt so in my life, and I

25、knowed I could pray now. But I didn t do it straight off, but laid the paper down and set there thinking - thinking how good it was all this happened so, and how near I come to being lost and going to hell. And went on thinking. And got to thinking over our trip down the river; and I see Jim before

26、me , all the time: in the day and in the night-time, sometimes moonlight, sometimes storms, and we a floating along, talking and singing and laughing. But somehow I couldnt seemto strike no places to harden me against him, but onlythe other kind. I d see him standing mywatch on top of his instead of

27、 calling me, so I could go on sleeping; and see him how glad he was when I come back out of the fog; and when I come to him again in the swamp, up there where the feud was; and such-likes times; and would always call me honey, and pet me and do everything he could think of for me, and how good he al

28、ways was; and at last I struck the time I saved him by telling the men we had small-pox aboard, and he was so grateful, and said I was the best friend old Jim ever had in the world, and the ONLY one hes got now; and then I happened to look around and see that paper.It was a close place. I took it up

29、, and held it in my hand. I was a trembling because I d got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself:“ All right, then, I ll go to hell ” and tore it up.Questions:1. Which novel is this passage taken from? Who is the author?2. What is the quoted