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1、课程代码：0604 请将答案填在答题纸相应的位置上（全部题目用英文作答）I.Multiple 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 and write the corresponding letter on the answer sheet.1.In Renaissance,the European humanist thinkers and sch

2、olars made attempts to do the following EXCEPT _.A.getting rid of those old feudalist ideas B.getting control of the parliament and government C.introducing new ideas that expressed the interests of the rising bourgeoisie D.recovering the purity of the early church,from the corruption of the Roman C

3、atholic Church 2.The Petrarchan sonnet was first introduced into England by .A.Surrey B.Wyatt C.Sidney D.Shakespeare 3.As the best of Shakespeares final romances,_ is a typical example of his pessimistic view towards human life and society in his late years.A.The Tempest B.The Winter s Tale C.Cymbel

4、ine D.The Rape of Lucrece 4.John Miltons greatest poetical work _ is the only generally acknowledged epic in English literarure since Beowulf.A.Areopagitica B.Paradise Lost C.Lycidas D.Samson Agonistes 5.The British bourgeois or middle class believed in the following notions EXCEPT _ A.self-esteem B

5、.self-reliance C.self-restraint D.hard work 6.“Graveyard School”writers are the following sentimentalists EXCEPT _ A.James Thomson B.William Collins C.William Cowper D.Thomas Jackson 7.The best model of satire in the whole English literary history is Jonathan Swifts .A.A Modest Proposal B.A Tale of

6、a Tub D.The Battle of the Books C.Gulliver s Travels 案及评分参考课程代码任选位作家以上各题语言错误酌情扣分题考生只要能回答出每个要点中的关键词即可酌情给分语言错误酌情扣分以上各 14.Charlotte Brontes works are all about the struggle of an individual consciousness towards,about some lonely and neglected young women with a fierce longing for love,understanding an

7、d a full,happy life.16.Thomas Hardys pessimistic view of life predominated most of his later works and earns him a reputation as a _ writer.C.self-esteem D.self-consciousness 15.The symbolic meaning of“Book”in Robert Brownings long poem The Ring and the Book is _ A.the common sense B.the hard truth

8、C.the comprehensive knowledge D.the dead truth A.self-reliance B.self-realization 8.As a representative of the Enlightenment,was one of the first to introduce rationalism to England.A.John Bunyan B.Daniel Defoe C.Alexander Pope D.Jonathan Swift 9.For his contribution to the establishment of the form

9、 of the modern novel,has been regarded by some as Father of the English Novel A.Daniel Defoe B.Henry Fielding C.Jonathan Swift D.Samuel Richardson 10.Which of the following descriptions of Gothic Novels is NOT correct?A.It predominated in the early eighteenth century.B.It was one phase of the Romant

10、ic movement.C.Its principal elements are violence,horror and the supernatural.D.Works like The Mysteries of Udolpho and Frankenstein are typical Gothic romance.11.“Byronic hero”is a figure of the following traits EXCEPT A.being proud B.being of humble origin C.being rebellious D.being mysterious 12.

11、Robert Browning created by adopting the novelistic presentation of characters.A.the verse novel B.the blank verse C.the heroic couplet D.the dramatic poetry 13.Charles Dickens novel is famous for its vivid descriptions of the workhouse and life of the underworld in the nineteenth-century London.A.Th

12、e Pickwick Paper B.Oliver Twist C.David Copperfield D.Nicholas Nickleby 案及评分参考课程代码任选位作家以上各题语言错误酌情扣分题考生只要能回答出每个要点中的关键词即可酌情给分语言错误酌情扣分以上各B.naturalistic A.realistic 案及评分参考课程代码任选位作家以上各题语言错误酌情扣分题考生只要能回答出每个要点中的关键词即可酌情给分语言错误酌情扣分以上各D.stylistic 17.After the First World War,there appeared the following literar

13、y trends of modernism EXCEPT A.expressionism B.surrealism C.stream of consciousness D.black humour 18.The masterpieces of critical realism in the early 20th century are the three trilogies of A.Galsworthys Forsyte novels B.Hardy s Wessex novels C.Greenes Catholic novels D.Woolfs stream-of-consciousn

14、ess novels 19.In the mid-1950s and early 1960s,there appeared“_”who demonstrated a particular disillusion over the depressing situation in Britain and launched a bitter protest.against the outmoded social and political values in their society.A.The Beat Generation B.The Lost Generation C.The Angry Y

15、oung Men D.Black Mountain Poets 20.The following are English stream-of-consciousness novels EXCEPT _ A.Pilgrimage B.Ulysses C.Mrs.Dalloway D.A Passage to Inida C.romantic 案及评分参考课程代码任选位作家以上各题语言错误酌情扣分题考生只要能回答出每个要点中的关键词即可酌情给分语言错误酌情扣分以上各 21.The leader of the Irish National Theater Movement in the early

16、20th century was A.W.B.Yeats B.Lady Gregory C.J.M.Synge D.John Galworthy 22.T.S.Eliots most popular verse play is A.Murder in the Cathedral B.The Cocktail Party C.The Family Reunion D.The Waste Land 23.The American writer was awarded the Nobel Prize for the anti-racist In-truder in the Dust in 1950.

17、A.Ernest Hemingway B.Gertrude Stein C.William Faulkner D.T.S.Eliot 24.Hemingways second big success is,which wrote the epitaph to a decade and to the whole generation in the 1920s,in order to tell us a story about the tragic love affair of a wounded American soldier with a British nurse.A.For Whom t

18、he Bell Tolls B.A Farewell to Arms C.The Sun Also Rises D.The Old Man and the Sea 25.With the publication of,Dreiser was launching himself upon a long career that would ultimately make him one of the most significant American writers of the school later known as literary naturalism.A.Sister Carrie B

19、.The Titan C.The Genius D.The Stoic 26.Henry James is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th-century stream-of-consciousness”novels and the founder of A.neoclassicism B.psychological realism C.psychoanalytical criticism D.surrealism 27.In 1849,Herman Melville published,a semi-autobiographi

20、cal novel,con-cerning the sufferings of a genteel youth among brutal sailors.A.Omoo B.Mardi C.Redburn D.Typee 28.As a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,marks the climax of Mark Twains literary activity.A.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn B.Life on the Mississippi C.The Gilded Age D.Roughing It

21、 案及评分参考课程代码任选位作家以上各题语言错误酌情扣分题考生只要能回答出每个要点中的关键词即可酌情给分语言错误酌情扣分以上各29.Realism was a reaction against _ or a move away from the bias towards romance and self creating fictions,and paved the way to Modernism.A.Romanticism B.Rationalism C.Post-modernism D.Cynicism 30.WhenWorld War II broke out,_ began work

22、ing for the Italian government,engaged in some radio broadcasts of anti-Semitism and pro-Fascism.A.Ezra Pound B.T.S.Eliot C.Henry James D.Robert Frost 31.In 1915 _ became a naturalized British citizen,largely in protest against Americas failure to join England in the First World War.A.Henry James B.

23、T.S.Eliot C.W.D.Howells D.Ezra Pound 32.What Whitman prefers for his new subject and new poetic feelings is that is,poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.A.blank verse B.free rhythm C.balanced structure D.free verse wanted to live simply as a complete independent being,and so she did,a

24、s a spinster.B.Anna Dickinson C.Emily Dickinson he was born with.A.Whitmans C.Hawthornes to show his protest against self-importance.A.Wallace Stevens D.E.E.Cummings of mans life in his long poetic career.33.The American woman poet A.Emily Shaw D.Anne Bret 34.The Birthmark drives homesymbolically po

25、int that evil is a mans birthmark,something B.Melvilles D.Emersons 35.The Financier,The Titan and The Stoic written by are called his Trilogy of Desire A.Henry James B.Theodore Dreiser C.Mark Twain D.Herman Melville 36.Disregarding grammar and punctuation,always used“i”instead of“I in his poems B.Ez

26、ra Pound C.Robert Frost 37.Though Robert Frost is generally considered a regional poet whose subject matters mainly focus on the landscape and people in,he wrote many poems that investigate the basic themes 案及评分参考课程代码任选位作家以上各题语言错误酌情扣分题考生只要能回答出每个要点中的关键词即可酌情给分语言错误酌情扣分以上各 B.the south C.New England D.Al

27、aska 38.Most critics have agreed that Fitzgerald is both an insider and an outsider of with a double vision.A.the Gilded Age B.the Rational Age C.the Jazz Age D.the Magic Age 39.In the American Romantic writings,_ came to function almost as a dramatic character that symbolized moral law.A.fire B.wat

28、er C.trees D.wilderness 40.The desire for an escape from society and a return to became a permanent convention of the American literature.A.the family life B.nature C.the ancient time D.fantasy of love II.R eading Comprehension(16 points in all,4 for each)Read the quoted parts carefully and answer t

29、he questions in English.Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.41.Wherefore feed and clothe and save From the cradle to the grave Those ungrateful drones who would Drain your sweat-nay,drink your blood?Questions:A.Identify the poet and the title of the poem from which the

30、stanza is taken.B.What figure of speech is used in Line 2?C.Whom does“drones”refer to?42.The following quotation is from one of the poems by T.S.Eliot:No!I am not Prince Hamlet,nor was meant to be;Am an attendant lord,one that will do To swell a progress,start a scene or two Advise the prince;no dou

31、bt,an easy tool,Deferential,glad to be of use,Politic,cautious,and meticulous,Full of high sentence,but a bit obtuse;A.the west 案及评分参考课程代码任选位作家以上各题语言错误酌情扣分题考生只要能回答出每个要点中的关键词即可酌情给分语言错误酌情扣分以上各Questions:A.Identify the title of the poem from which the quoted part is taken.B.Whos the speaker of the quote

32、d lines?C.What does the first line show about the speaker?43 There was a child went forth every day,And the first object he lookd upon,that object he became,And that object became part of him for the day or a certain part of the day,Or for many years or stretching cycles of years.Questions:A.Identif

33、y the poet.B.From which poem and which collection of the poet are these lines taken?C.What does the poet describe in the poem?44.I heard a Fly buzz-when I died-The Stillness in the Room Was like the Stillness in the Air Between the Heaves of Storm-The Eyes around-had wrung them dry-And Breaths were

34、gathering firm For that last Onset-when the King Be witnessed-in the Room Questions:A.Identify the poet.B.What does“the King”refer to?C.What moment is the poem trying to describe?III.Questions and Answers(24 points in all,6 for each)Give brief answers to each of the following questions in English.Wr

35、ite your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.45.List at least two leading neoclassicists in England.What did Neoclassicists celebrate in literary creation?46.Jane Eyre is one of the most popular and important novels of the Victorian Age.Why is Jane Eyre such a successful novel?47.

36、Whoare the three dominant figures of the American Age of Realism and what are the differences in their understanding of the 48.Whats Dreiser s naturalistic belief?Please discuss the question with Carrie,a character in Sister Carrie as an example.truth 案及评分参考课程代码任选位作家以上各题语言错误酌情扣分题考生只要能回答出每个要点中的关键词即可酌

37、情给分语言错误酌情扣分以上各IV.Topic Discussion(20 points in all,10 for each)Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.49.Briefly discuss William Shakespeares artistic achievements in characterization,plot construction and language.50.Br

38、iefly discuss Mark Twains art of fiction in terms of the setting,the language,and the characters,etc.,based on his novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.2009 年 4 月全国高等教育自学考试 英美文学选读试题答案及评分参考（课程代码 0604）I.Multiple Choice(40 points in all,1 for each)1.B 2.B 3.A 4.B 5.A 6.D 7.A 8.C 9.B 10.A 11.B 12.A

39、13.B 14.B 15.B 16.B 17.D 18.A 19.C 20.D 21.A 22.A 23.C 24.B 25.A 26.C 27.C 28.A 29.A 30.A 31.A 32.D 33.C 34.C 35.B 36.D 37.C 38.C 39.D 40.B II.Reading Comprehension(16 points in all,4 for each)41.A.From Percy Shelley s“Men of England”(1)B.Metonymy(1)C.Here“drones”refers to the parasitic class in hum

40、an society.(2)42.A.“The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock”(1)B.J.Alfred Prufrock(1)C.Prufrock is conscious of the fact that he is like Hamlet in some respects.But he is sensible enough that he cannot be compared with Hamlete.(2)43.A.Walt Whitman(1)B.“There Was a Child Went Forth”from“Leaves of Grass”(1

41、)C.The poem describes the growth of a child who learned about the world around him and improved himself accordingly.In the poem,Whitman s own early experience may well be identified with the childhood of a young,growing American.(2)44.A.Emily Dickinson(1)B.The God of Death.(1)C.The poem is trying to

42、 describe the moment of death.(2)III.Questions and Answers(24 points in all,6 for each)45.A.Alexander Pope,John Dryden,Samuel Johnson(任选 2 位作家).(2)B.They believed that the artistic ideals should be order,logic,restrained emotion and accuracy and that literature should be judged in terms of its servi

43、ce to humanity.(2)They seek proportion,unity,harmony and grace in literacy expression,in an effort to delight,instruct and correct human beings.Thus a polite,elegant,witty and intellectual art developed.(2)案及评分参考课程代码任选位作家以上各题语言错误酌情扣分题考生只要能回答出每个要点中的关键词即可酌情给分语言错误酌情扣分以上各46.A.It is noted for its sharp c

44、riticism of the existing society.(2)B.It is an intense moral fable.(2)C.The success of the novel is also due to its introduction to the English novel the first governess heroine.(2)47.A.William Dean Howells,Mark Twain,Henry James.(3)B.Mark Twain an d Howells seemed to have paid more attention to the

45、“life”of the Americans.Howells focused his discussion on the rising middle class and the way they lived;Mark Twain preferred to have his own region and people at the forefront of his stories;Henry James had apparently laid a greater emphasis on the“inner world”of man.(3)48.A.Dreiser believes that wh

46、ile men are controlled and conditioned by heredity,instinct and chance,a few extraordinary and unsophisticated human beings refuse to accept their fate wordlessly and instead strive,unsuccessfully,to find meaning and purpose for their existence.(3)B.Carrie,as one of such,senses that she is merely a

47、cipher in an uncaring world yet seeks to grasp the mysteries of life and thereby satisfies her desires for social status and material comfort,but in spite of her success,she is lonely and dissatisfied.(3)以上各题语言错误酌情扣分。IV Topic Discussion(20 points in all,10 for each)49.A.Shakespeare s major character

48、s are neither merely individual ones nor type ones;they represent certain types;they are individuals representing certain types.By employing a psycho-analytical approach,Shakespeare succeeds in exploring the characters inner world.Shakespeare also portrays his characters in pairs.Contrasts are frequ

49、ently used to bring vividness to his characters.(3)B.Shakespeare seldom invents his own plot;instead,he borrows them from old plays or storybooks,from ancient Greek or Roman sources.In order to make the play more lively and compact,he would shorten the time and intensify the story.There are usually

50、several clues running through the play,thus providing the story with the suspense and apprehension.(3)C.Shakespeare can write skillfully in different poetic forms,such as the sonnet,the blank verse and the rhymed couplet.He has an amazing wealth of vocabulary and idiom.His coinage of new words and d