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1、2004 年 4 月英美文学选读英美文学选读试题PARTPARTONEONE（40 POINTS40 POINTS）.Multiple Choice(40 points in all,1 for each).Multiple Choice(40 points in all,1 for each)SelectSelect fromfrom thethe fourfour choiceschoices ofof eacheach itemitem thethe oneone thatthat bestbest answersanswers thethe questionquestion oror

2、completescompletes thethe statement.statement.Write your correct answer on the answer sheetWrite your correct answer on the answer sheet.1.“And we will sit upon the rocks,/Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks,/By shallow rivers to whose falls/Melodiousbirds sing madrigals.”The above lines are take

3、n from _.A.Miltons Paradise LostB.Marlowes“The Passionate shepherd to His Love”D.John Donnes“The Sun Rising”B.drama and novelD.romance and poetryC.Shakespeares“Sonnet 18”A.poetry and dramaC.novel and poetry2.The English Renaissance period was an age of _.3.Here are four lines taken from Edmund Spens

4、ers The Faerie Queene:“But on his brest a bloudie Crosse he bore,/Thedeare remembrance of his dying Lord,/For whose sweete sake that glorious badge he wore,/And dead as living everhim adored.”Who is the“dying Lord”discussed in the above lines?A.Beowulf_.A.his money was all invested in the newly-emer

5、ging textile industryB.his enterprise went bankruptC.Bassanio was able to pay his own debtD.his ships had all been lost5.Which of the following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeares Sonnet 18?A.The speaker eulogizes the power of Nature.B.The speaker satirizes human vanity.C.The speak

6、er praises the power of artistic creation.D.The speaker meditates on mans salvation.6.In English poetry,a four-line stanza is called _.A.heroic couplet B.quatrainC.Spenserian stanzaD.terza rima7.“Let not Ambition mock their useful toil,/Their homely joys,and destiny obscure;/Nor Grandeur hear with a

7、disdainful smile/The short and simple annals of the poor.”The above lines are taken from.A.Alexander PopesEssay on CriticismB.Coleridges“Kubla Khan”C.John Donnes“The Sun Rising”D.Thomas Grays“Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”8.By making the truth-seeking pilgrims suffer at the hands of the peop

8、le of Vanity Fair,John Bunyan intends to showthe prevalent political and religious _of his time.A.persecutionB.improvementC.prosperityD.disillusionment9.The 18th century witnessed a new literary formthe modern English novel,which,contrary to the medieval romance,gives a _ presentation of life of the

9、 common people.A.romanticB.realisticC.propheticD.idealistic-第 1 页 共 10 页-B.King Arthur C.Jesus ChristD.Jupiter4.In Shakespeares Merchant of Venice,Antonio could not pay back the money he borrowed from Shylock,because10.As a whole,_is one of the most effective and devastating criticisms and satires o

10、f all aspects in the thenEnglish and European life socially,politically,religiously,philosophically,scientifically,and morally.A.Moll FlandersB.Gullivers TravelsC.Pilgrims ProgressD.The School for Scandal11.An honest,kind-hearted young man,who is full of animal spirit and lacks prudence,is expelled

11、from the paradiseand has to go through hard experience to gain knowledge of himself and finally to have been accepted both by avirtuous lady and a rich relative.The above sentence may well sum up the theme of Fieldings work.A.Jonathan Wild the GreatC.The Coffe-House Politicianrich uncle is _.A.Charl

12、es SurfaceC.Sir Peter TeazleA.Robinson CrusoeB.Joseph SurfaceD.Sir Benjamin BackbiteB.Gullivers TravelsB.Tom JonesD.Amelia12.In Sheridans The School for scandal,the man who wins the hand of his beloved as well as the inheritance of his13.Which of the following works best represents the national spir

13、it of the 18th-century England?C.Jonathan Wild the GreatA.the BibleD.A Sentimental JourneyB.a German legendD.One Thousand and One NightsB.great admirationD.erroneous view14.Shelleys masterpiece,Prometheus Unbound,is a verse drama,which borrows the basic story from _.C.a Greek playA.high opinionC.low

14、 opinion15.In the first part of the novel Pride and prejudice,Mr.Darcy has a(n)_ of the Bennet family.16.In Byrons poem“Song for the Luddites,”the word“Luddite”refers to the _.A.workers who destroyed the machines in their protest against unemploymentB.rising bourgeoisie who fights against the aristo

15、cratic classC.descendents of the ancient king,LudD.poor country people who suffered under the rule of the landlord class17.Mr.Micawber in David Copperfield and Sam Well in Pickwick Papers are perhaps the best_ characterscreated by Charles Dickens.A.comicB.tragicC.roundD.sophisticated18.A typical fea

16、ture of the English Victorian literature is that writers became social and moral_,exposing allkinds of social evils.A.revolutionariesB.idealistsC.criticsD.defenders19.“Is it not sufficient for your infernal selfishness,that while you are at peace I shall writhe in the torments ofhell?”(Heathcliff ut

17、tered the sent ence in the death scene of Catherine from Chapter XV ofWuthering Heights.)Theword“hell”at the end of the quoted sentence refers to_.A.HeavenB.HadesC.the next worldD.this world20.A typical Forsyte,according to John Galsworthy,is a man with a strong sense of_,who never pays anyattention

18、 to human feelings.A.justiceB.humorC.moralityD.property21.“He was silent with conceit of his son.Mrs.Morel sniffed,as if it were nothing.”(Sons and Lovers byD.H.Lawrence)From the above quotation,we can see that Mrs.Morels attitude to her husband is _.-第 2 页 共 10 页-A.sincerely warmC.seemingly angryB.

19、genuinely kindD.merely contemptuous22.A boy makes a quest of his idealized childish love through painful experience up to the point of losing his innocenceand coming to see the drabness and harshness of the adult world.The above sentence may well sum up the major theme of _.A.Eliots poem The love So

20、ng of J.Alfred PrufrockB.Bernard shaws play Mrs.Warren s ProfessionC.Joyces story ArabyD.Lawrences story The Horse Dealers Daughter23.Linguistically,compared with the writings of Mark Twain,Henry Jamess fiction is noted for his _.A.frontier vernacularB.rich colloquialismD.refined elegant languageC.v

21、ulgarly descriptivewords24.Which of the following statements about Washington Irving is NOT true?A.Literary imagination should breed in a land rich in the past culture.B.He is preoccupied with the Calvinistic view of original sin and the mystery of evil.C.His stories are among the best of the Americ

22、an literature.D.Some of his works are based on the materials of the European legendary tales.25.Which of the following is NOT one of the main ideas advocated by Emerson,the chief spokesman of New EnglandTranscendentalism?A.As an individual,man is divine and can develop and improve himself infinitely

23、.B.Nature exercises a healthy and restorative influence on human beings.C.There exists an emotional communication between an individual soul and the universal“Oversoul.”D.Evil and sin are ever present in human heart and will pass on from one generation to another.”26.Whitmans poems are characterized

24、 by all the following features EXCEPT _.A.the strict poetic formB.the free and natural rhythmD.the simple and conversational languageC.the easy flow of feelings27.“Then all collapsed,and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.”In the quotedsentence,the author migh

25、t imply that _.A.nothing changes in the 5000 years of human historyB.mans desire to conquer nature can only end in his own destructionC.nature is evil as it was 5000 years agoD.nature has the ultimate creative power28.“Standing on the bare ground,my head bathed by the blithe air,and uplifted into in

26、finite space,all meanegotism vanishes.I become a transparent eye-ball.I am nothing.I see all.The currents of the Universal Beingcirculate through me;I am part or particle of God.”The above passage is taken from _.A.StowesUncle Tom s CabinC.Emersons“Nature”B.Coopers“Leatherstocking Tales”D.Dreisers S

27、ister CarrieB.Jamess The Portrait of a Lady.D.Hawthornes The Scarlet Letter.29.Which of the following works best illustrates the Calvinistic view of original sin?A.StowesUncle Ton s CabinC.Hemingways A Farewell to Armsclassic.-第 3 页 共 10 页-30.Beside symbolism,all the following qualities EXCEPT _are

28、fused to make Melvilles Moby-Dick a worldA.narrative powerB.psychological analysisD.optimistic view of lifeC.speculative agility31.In all his novels Theodore Dreiser sets himself to project the _ American values.For example,in Sister Carrie,there is not one character whose status is not determined e

29、conomically.A.PuritanB.materialisticD.religiousC.psychologicalA.hypocrisy32.In Daisy Miller,Henry James reveals Daisys _ by showing her relatively unreserved manners.B.cold and indifferenceD.AmericannessC.grace and patienceEXCEPT _.A.a return to natureB.an escape from evils,injustices,and corruption

30、 of the civilized societyC.the American society in the early 19th centuryD.a small world where people of different colors can live friendly and happily34.Emily Grierson,the protagonist in Faulkners story“A Rose for Emily,”can be regarde d as a symbol for all thefollowing qualities EXCEPT_.A.old valu

31、esB.rigid ideas of social statusC.bigotry and eccentricityD.harmony and integrity33.The raft with which Huck and Jim make their voyage down the Mississippi River may symbolize all the following35.As a Modernist poet,Pound is noted for his active involvement in the _.A.cubist school of modern paintin

32、gB.Imagist MovementC.stream-of-consciousness techniqueD.German Expressionism36.The statement that a boys night journey to an Indian village to witness the violence of both birth and death providesall the possibilities of a learning experience may well sum up the major theme of _.A.Faulkners story“A

33、Rose for Emily”B.Hemingways story“Indian Camp”C.Irvings story“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”D.Jamess story“Daisy Miller”37.Which of the following plays by ONeill can be read autobiographically?A.The Hairy ApeB.The Emperor JonesD.Long Days Journey Into NightC.The Iceman Cometh38.When we say that a poor

34、 young man from the West tried to make his fortune in the East but was disillusioned in thequest of an idealized dream,we are probably discussing about _s thematic concern in his fiction writing.A.Henry JamesB.Scott FitzgeraldD.William FaulknerB.renewed in his faithC.Ernest HemingwayA.desperate and

35、gloomyC.wearing a black veilup to be _.A.Methodist preacherB.a justice of the peace-第 4 页 共 10 页-39.After his experiences in the forest,Young Goodman Brown returns to Salem _.D.unaware of his own sin40.According to Mark Twain,in river towns up and down the Mississippi,it was every boys dream to s om

36、e day growC.a riverboat pilotD.a pirate on the Indian oceanPART TWO(60POINTS)PART TWO(60POINTS).Reading comprehension(16 points,4 for each).Reading comprehension(16 points,4 for each)Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English.Write your answer in the correspondingRead the qu

37、oted parts carefully and answer the questions in English.Write your answer in the correspondingspace on the answer sheet.space on the answer sheet.41.“One short sleep past,we wake eternally,And death shall be no more;death,thou shalt die.”Questions:Questions:A.Identify the poem and the poet.B.What d

38、oes the word“sleep”mean?C.What idea do the two lines express?42.“Never did sun more beautifully steepIn his first splendor,valley,rock,or hill;Neer saw I,never felt,a calm so deep!The river glideth at his own sweet will:Dear God!The very houses seem asleep;And all that mighty heart is lying still!”(

39、William Wordsworths sonnet:“Composed upon Westminster Bridge”September 3,1802)Questions:Questions:A.What does the word“glideth”in the fourth line mean?B.What kind of figure of speech is used by wordsworth to describe the“river”?C.What idea does the fourth line express?43.“With Blueuncertain stumblin

40、g BuzzBetween the lightand meAnd then the Windows failedand thenI could not see to see”Questions:Questions:A.Identify the poem and the poet.B.What do“Windows”symbolically stand for?C.What idea does the quoted passage express?44.“Is dying hard,Daddy?No,I think its pretty easy,Nick,It all depends.”Que

41、stions:Questions:A.Identify the work and the author.B.What was Nick preoccupied with when he asked the question?C.Why did the father add“It all depends”after he answered his sons question?.Questions and Answers(24 points in all,6 for each).Questions and Answers(24 points in all,6 for each)GiveGive b

42、riefbrief answersanswers toto eacheach ofof thethe followingfollowing questionsquestions inin English.English.WriteWrite youryour answersanswers inin thethe correspondingcorrespondingspace on the answer sheet.space on the answer sheet.45.It is said that B.Shaws play,Mrs.Warren s Profession,has a str

43、ong realistic theme,which fully reflects thedramatists Fabianist idea.Try to summarize this theme briefly.46.Emily Bronte used a very complicated narrative technique in writing her novel Wuthering Heights.Try to tellBrontes way of narration briefly.-第 5 页 共 10 页-47.“In your rocking-chair,by your win

44、dow dreaming,shall you long,alone.In your rocking-chair,by your window,shall you dream such happiness as you may never feel.”The two sentences are taken from Theodore Dreisers novel,Sister Carrie.What idea can you draw from the“rocking-chair”?48.The literary school of naturalism was quite popular in

45、 the late 19th century.What are the major characteristics ofnaturalism?.Topic Discussion(20 points in all,10 for each).Topic Discussion(20 points in all,10 for each)WriteWrite nono lessless thanthan 150150 wordswords onon eacheach ofof thethe followingfollowing topicstopics inin EnglishEnglish inin

46、thethe correspondingcorresponding spacespace onon thetheanswer sheet.answer sheet.49.Discuss the possible theme in W.B.Yeatss“The Lake Isle of Innisfree”and how that theme is presented in thepoem.50.“My faith is gone!”cried he(Goodman Brown),after one stupefied moment.“There is no good on earth;and sin isbut a name.Come,devil!For to thee is this world given.”Comment on this passage from Hawthornes“Young Goodman Brown”.-第 6 页 共 10 页-第 7 页 共 10 页-第 8 页 共 10 页-第 9 页 共 10 页-第 10 页 共 10 页-