全国2014年4月00604英美文学选读自考试题

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 2 B 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 ea

2、ch item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Mark your choice by blackening the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the answer sheet.1. Shakespeare has established his giant position in world literature with his plays, 154sonnets and 2 long poems.A. 27B. 38C.47D. 522.

3、john Milton 's literary achievement can be divided into three groups: the early poetic works, the middle prose pamphlets and the last .A. romancesB. dramasC. great poemsD. ballads3. The novels of are the first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower class people.C. Henry Fie

4、lding D. Jonathan Swift4. The work ranked by many critics as William Wordswoth 's greatest work was .A. Lyrical Ballads B. The PreludeC. Poems in Two Volumes D. The Excursion5. The author of The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling is .A. Daniel DefoeB. Johathan SwiftC. Henry Fielding D. William Bl

5、ake6. The works of are famous for the depiction of the life of the middle class women,particularly governess.A. Charlotte BronteB. D.H. LawrenceC. Thomas HardyD. Jane Austen7. All of the following writings are created by William Wordsworth EXCEPT .A. “ I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud. ”B. “ Composed up

6、on Westminster Bridge, Septemer 3, 1802. ”C. “ The Solitary Reaper. ”D. “ The Chimney Sweeper. ”8. The most important representative work by Jonathan Swift is .A. A Tale of a TubB. The Battle of the BooksC. A Modest ProposalD. Gulliver's Travels9 “ If winter comes, can Spring be far behind? ”com

7、es from Shelly s _'.A. “To a Skylark ”B. “Adonais ”C. “ Ode to Liberty ” D. “ Ode to the West Wind ”10. In Jane Austen' s first novel , she tells a story about two sisters and their love affairs.A. Pride and PrejudiceB. Sense and SensibilityC. EmmaD. Persuasion11. Charles Dickens is one of t

8、he greatest writers of the Victorian Age.A. romanticB. modernistC. socialistD. critical realist12. Charlotte Bronte' s most autobiographical work, is largely based on her experience inBrussels.A. Jane EyreB. ShirleyC. VilletteD. The Professor13. William Wordsworth' s theory of poetry is call

9、ing for simple themes drawn from humble life expressed in the language of ordinary people. The preface to the second edition of acts as amanifesto for the new school and sets forth his own critical creed.A. Lyrical Ballads B. The Prelude C. Poems in Two Volums D. The Excursion14. George Bernard Shaw

10、' s play established his position as the leading playwright of histime.A. Widowers 'HousesB. Too True to Be GoodC. Mrs. Warren' s Profession D. Candida15. Eliot' s most important single poem , has been hailed as a landmark and a model of the20th-century English poetry.A. The Hollow M

11、enB. The Waste LandC. Prurrock and Other ObservationsD. Poems 1909-2516. D. H.Lawrence 's autobiographical novel, shows the conflict between the earthy, coarse,energetic but often drunken father and the refined, strong willed and up climbing mother. A. Sons and LoversB. The White PeacockC. The T

12、respasser D. The Rainbow17. “ To be, or not to be that is the question; /Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer./The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,/ Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,/And by opposing end them?” These words are from .A. King LearB. RomeoC. AntonioD. Hamlet18.

13、 John Milton 's last important work, is the most powerful dramatic poem onthe Greekmodel.A. Paradise LostB. Paradise RegainedC. Samson AgonistesD. Lydidas19. The author of Moll Flanders and Captain Singleton is .A. John MiltonB. Daniel DefoeC. Henry Fielding D. Jonathan Swift20. Drapier is the p

14、seudonym of .A. Jonathan SwiftB. Daniel DefoeC. Henry Fielding D. William Blake21. One of Dickens' later works, in which he presents a criticism of the governmentalbranches which run an indefinite procedure of management of affairs and keep the innocent in prison for life.A. Bleak House B. Littl

15、e DorritC. Hard Times D. A Tale of Two Cities22. In the second part of Gulliver's Travels , Gulliver told his experience in .A. BrobdingnagB. LilliputC. Flying IslandD. Houyhnhnm23. Faulkner used the narrative techniques to construct his stories, which include andmythological and biblical allusi

16、ons.A. symbolismB. free indirect speechC. contrastD. dialogue24. Ernest Hemingway, had been trying to demonstrate in his works an unvarying code, known as “ ,” which is actually an attitude towards life.A. facing the realityB. grace under pressureC. honesty with benevolenceD. security coming first25

17、. The Blithedale Romance is a novel written by Hawthorne to reveal his own experience on the Brook Farm and his own methods as a novelist.A. naturalistB. imagistC. psychologicalD. feminist26. Theodore Dreiser' s focus shifted from the pathos of the helpless protagonists at the bottom of the soci

18、ety to the power of the American financial tycoons in the late 19th century in his workC. Dreiser Looks at RussiaD. “ Trilogy of Desire ”27. Emily Dickinson frequently uses personae to render the tone more familiar to the reader, and to vivify some abstract ideas.A. imagesB. metaphorC. symbolsD. per

19、sonification28. In his later works, Melville becomes more reconciled with the , in which he admits, onemust live by rules.A. womenB. world of manC. familyD. politicians29. Walt Whitman' s has always been considered a monumental work which commandsgreat attention in America.A. The Pilgrim ' s

20、 ProgressB. Leaves of GrassC. A Passage to India D. Rip Van Winkle30. Mark Twain ' s full literary career began to blossom in 1869 with a travel book , anaccount of American tourists in Europe.A. Innocents AbroadB. The Portrait of A LadyC. The Grapes of WrathD. The Great Gatsby31. With the devel

21、opment of the modern novel and the common acceptance of the approach, Henry James' s importance, as well as his wide influence as a novelist and critic, has been all the more conspicuous.A. deconstructionB. romanticC. FreudianD. analytic32. Emily Dickinson addresses the issues that concern the w

22、hole human beings in her poems, which include religion, death, , love, and nature.A. immortalityB. wealthC. powerD. politics33. In Sister Carrie Theodore Dreiser expressed his pursuit by expounding thepurposelessness of life and attacking the conventional moral standards.C. naturalistic D. modernist

23、ic34. Profound ideas in Robert Frost's poems are delivered under the disguise of .A. the plain language and the simple formB. the vivid descriptionsC. metaphors D. the complicated narration35. In Hemingway presents his philosophy about life and death through the depiction ofthe bullfight as a ki

24、nd of microcosmic tragedy.A. The Green Hills of AfricaB. Death in the AfternoonC. The Snows of KilimanjaroD. 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 .A. Go Down, MosesB.

25、The FableC. The Snows of KilimanjaroD. To Have and Have Not37. As Whitman saw it, could play a vital part in the process of creating a new nation.A. musicB. fictionC. poetryD. painting38. In many of Hawthorne' s stories and novels, the Puritan concept of life is condemned, especially in his The

26、house of the Seven Gablesand .A. Go Down, MosesB. The Scarlet LetterC. As I Lay DyingD. Song of Myself39. Henry James is generally regarded as the forerunner of the and the founder ofpsychological realism.A. “ stream-of-consciousness”novelsB. metaphysical poemsC. short storiesD. literary criticism40

27、. Generally considered to be Henry James ' s masterpiece, incarnates the clash betweenthe Old World and the New in the life journey of an American girl in a Europe an cultural environment.A. The AmbassadorsB. Daisy MillerC. The AmericanD. The Portrait of A Lady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

28、能答在试题卷上。II. 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. Wherefore, Bees of England, forgeMany a weapon, chain, and scourge,That these stingless drones ma

29、y spoilThe forced produce of your toil?Questions.A. Identify the poet and the poem from which the stanza is taken.B. What do you know about the poem' s writing background?C. What do you think the poet intends to say in the poem?42. Let us go then, you and I,When the evening is spread out against

30、 the skyLike a patient etherized upon a table;Let us go, through certain half -deserted streets,The muttering retreatsOf restless nights in one-night cheap hotelsAnd sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells:(The lines above are taken from “ The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock ” by T. S Eliot. ) Questi

31、ons.A. What does the poem present?B. What form is the poem composed in?C. What does the poem suggest?43. My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a treeToward heaven still,And there's a barrel that I didn't fillBeside it, and there may be two or threeApples I did n't pick upon some bough.Questions.A. Identify the poet and the title of the poem from which the above lines are taken.B. What experie nee does the poem describe?C. What are the feelings of the speaker?44. This is my letter to the WorldThat n ever wrote to Me The simple News that Nature told With ten der Maj