2020年7月全国自考英美文学选读试题及答案解析

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全国自考2018年7月英美文学选读试题

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PART ONE(40 POINTS)

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. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet.

1. Of all the eighteenth—century British novelists ______ was the first to set out，both in theory and practice，to write specially a “comic epic in prose”，the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.

A. Thomas Gray

B. Richard Brinsley Sheridan

C. Jonathan Swift

D. Henry Fielding

2. The poem “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” established ______ as the leader of the sentimental poetry of the day，especially “the Graveyard School”.

A. Thomas Gray

B. Samuel Johnson

C. John Bunyan

D. John Milton

3. “Do you think, because I am poor，obscure，plain，and little，I am soulless and heartless?... And if God had gifted me with some beauty，and much wealth，I should have made it as hard for you to leave me. as it is now for me to leave you. ”The quoted part is taken from ______.

A. Great Expectations

B. Wuthering Heights

C. Jane Eyre

D. Pride and Prejudice

4. The most famous dramatists in the Renaissance England are all the following EXCEPT ______.

A. Francis Bacon

B. Christopher Marlowe

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C. William Shakespeare

D. BenJonson

5. George Bernard Shaw’s play Mrs. Warren’s Profession is about______.

A. slum landlordism

B. the economic oppression of women

C. the political corruption in England

D. the religious corruption in England

6. All of the following statements can correctly describe the Enlightenment Movement EXCEPT ______.

A. The movement flourished in France.

B. The movement was a furtherance of the Renaissance.

C. The purpose of the movement was to enlighten the whole world.

D. The purpose of the movement was to enhance the religious education.

7. Among the three major poetical works by John Milton ______ is the most perfect example of the verse drama after the Greek style in English.

A. Samson Agonistes

B. Paradise Lost

C. Paradise Regained

D. Areopagitica

8. The major British Romantic poets Blake，Wordsworth，Coleridge，Byron，Shelley and Keats started a rebellion against the neoclassical literature，which was later regarded as _____.

A. the poetic romance

B. the poetic movement

C. the poetic revolution

D. the poetic reformation

9. Jane Austen’s main literary concern is about ______.

A. human beings in their personal relationships

B. the love story between the rich and the poor

C. maturity achieved through the loss of illusions

D. the daily country life of the upper-middle-class English

10. Among the following British Romantic poets ______ is regarded as a “worshipper of nature”.

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A. William Blake

B. William Wordsworth

C. George Gordon Byron

D. John Keats

11. Jonathan Swift’s greatest satiric work is ______.

A. A Tale of a Tub

B. The Battle of Books

C. Gulliver’s Travels

D. “A Modest Proposal’’

12. Among the following writers ______ is considered to be the best—known English dramatist since Shakespeare.

A. Oscar Wilde

B. John Galsworthy

C. W. B. Yeats

D. George Bernard Shaw

13. As a representative of the Enlightenment，______ was one of the first to introduce rationalism to England.

A. Francis Bacon

B. Alexander Pope

C. Thomas Gray

D. T. S. Eliot

14. All of the following poets are regarded as “Lake Poets” EXCEPT ______.

A. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

B. Robert Southey

C. William Wordsworth

D. William Blake

15. “To be, or not to be — that is the question；／wheth er’ 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?” The quoted lines are taken from ______.

A. King Lear

B. Romeo and Juliet

C. Othello

D. Hamlet

16. Daniel Defoe describes ______ as a typical English middle — class man of the eighteenth century，the very prototype of the empire builder，the pioneer colonist．

A. Robinson Crusoe

B. Moll Flanders

C. Gulliver

D. Tom Jones

17. The declaration that “I know th at This World is a World of IMAGINATION & Vision，”

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and that “The Nature of my work is visionary or imaginative’’ belongs to ______.

A. William Blake

B. William Wordsworth

C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge D．George Gordon Byron

18. Although writing from different points of view and with different techniques，writers in the Victorian Period shared one thing in common，that is，they were all concerned about ______．

A. the fate of the upper class

B. the reformation of the government

C. the fate of the common people

D. the future of their family clans

19. “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?’’ The quoted line comes from ______.

A. Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind’’

B. Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass

C. John Milton’s Paradise Lost D．John Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn”

20. Among the following figures ______ is Dickens’ first child hero.

A．Little Nell B．David Copperfield

C．Oliver Twist D．Little Dorrit

21. In the play The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde，the upper — class people are described all of the following EXCEPT ______.

A. corrupt

B. snobbish

C. hypocritical

D. ambitious

22. In Thomas Hardy’s Wessex novels, there is an apparent ______ touch in his description of the simple and beautiful though primitive rural life.

A. nostalgic

B. humorous

C. romantic

D.ironic

23. “Life is but a losing battle, it is a struggle man can dominate in such a way that loss becomes dignity；man can be physically destroyed but never defeated spiritually.” This notion

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is typically held by ______．

A. Mark Twain

B. Ezra Pound

C. William Faulkner

D. Ernest Hemingway

24. The literary spokesman of the Jazz Age is ______.

A. Henry James

B. Robert Frost

C. F. Scott Fitzgerald

D. William Faulkner

25．North of Boston is described by the author，Robert Frost，as “a book of people，’’ which shows a brilliant insight into ______ character and the background that formed it．

A. the cowboy

B. New England

C. Ivy Colleague

D. ivory tower

26．People generally regarded ______ as the forerunner of the 20th — century “stream- of-consciousness”novels and the founder of psychological realism.

A. Theodore Dreiser

B. William Faulkner

C. Henry James D．Mark Twain

27. According to ______, “There is evil in every human heart，which may remain latent，perhaps，through the whole life；but circumstances may rouse it to activity．”

A. Nathaniel Hawthorne

B. Edgar Ellen Poe

C. William Faulkner D．Theodore Dreiser

28. Hemingway once described _____ the one book from which “all modern American literature comes.”

A. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

B. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

C. The Gilded Age

D. Innocents Abroad

29. What Walt Whitman prefers for his new subject and new poetic feelings is “______，”that is，poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme．

A. fixed verse

B. free verse

C. fixed ending

D. free ending

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30. By writing _______ Melville reached the most flourishing stage of his literary creativity.

A. Typee

B. Omoo

C. Mardi

D. Moby-Dick

31. Shortly before his death in 1945，______ joined the Communist Party.

A. Theodore Dreiser

B. Mark Twain

C. Henry James

D. Ezra Pound

32. Naturalism is evolved from ______ when the author’s tone in writing becomes less serious and less sympathetic but more ironic and more pessimistic.

A. Romanticism

B. Modernism

C. Realism

D. Scientism

33. One of the most familiar themes in American naturalism is the theme of human ______.

A. peacefulness

B. joyfulness

C. bestiality

D. civilization

34. Hawthorne’s view of man and human history originated，to a great extent，from ______.

A. Transcendentalism

B. Puritanism

C. Humanism

D. Expressionism

35. In general, the American woman poet _____ wanted to live simply as a complete independent being，and so she did，as a spinster.

A. Anne Bret

B. Emily Dickinson

C. Anna Dickinson

D. Emily Shaw

36. Theodore Dreiser’s ______ found expression in almost every book he wrote in which “kill or to be killed” was the law.

A. romanticism

B. naturalism

C. cubism

D. classicalism

37. William Faulkner creates his own mythical kingdom that mirrors not only the decline of the ______ society but also the spiritual wasteland of the whole American society.

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A. southern

B. northern

C. western

D. eastern

38. Almost every book written by Hawthorne discusses _____，which reflects his unceasing interest in the “interior of the heart” of man’s being.

A. sin and evil

B. 1ove and hatred

C. frustration and self - denial

D. balance and self - discipline

39. A preoccupation with the ______ view of original sin and the mystery of evil marked the works of Hawthorne，Melville and a host of lesser writers.

A. optimistic

B. Calvinistic

C. Platonic

D. Socratic

40. The American ______ as a cultural heritage exerted great influences over American moral values in the American Romantic period.

A. Puritanism B．Atheism

C. Deism

D. Cynicism

PART TWO(60 POINTS)

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. “The fiver glideth at his own sweet will：

Dear God! the very houses seem asleep；

And all that mighty heart is lying still!”

(from William Wordsworth’s “Composed upon Westminster Bridge”)

Questions：

A. What figure of speech is used in the quoted lines?

B. What does “that mighty heart’’ refer to?

C. What does the poem decribe?

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42. “When the stars threw down their spears,

And water’d heaven with their tears,

Did he smile his work to see?

Did he who made the Lamb make thee?”

Questions：

A. Identify the poet and the poem from which the quoted lines are taken

B. Whom does the “he’’ refer to?

C. What does the “Lamb” symbolize?

43. “My tongue，every atom of my blood，form’d from this soil，this air,

Born here of parents born here from parents the same，and their

parents the same，

I，now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin，

Hoping to cease not till death”

Questions：

A. Identify the poet and the poem from which the quoted lines are taken.

B. What do “soil” and “air” represent in the first line?

C. What does the poet try to say in the above four lines?

44. “I cannot rub the strangeness from my sight

I got from looking through a pane of glass

I skimmed this morning from the drinking trough

And held aga inst the world of hoary grass.”

Questions：

A. Identify the poet and the poem from which the quoted lines are taken.

B. What does the word “strangeness’’ refer to?

C. What do the quoted lines imply?

III．Questions and Answers(24 points in all，6 for each)

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Give a brief answer to each of the following questions in English．Write your answers in the corresponding space on the Answer Sheet．

45. As a leading Romanticist，Byron’s chief contribution is his creation of the “Byronic Hero”．Briefly explain the literar y term “Byronic Hero’’.

46. TheWaste Land is T．S．Eliot’s most important single poem．Try to state the theme and the significance of the poem briefly.

47．What is the most famous theme in Henry James’s fiction?And what is his favourite approach in characterization，which makes him different from Mark Twain and W·D.Howells as a realist? Give two titles of his first period works in which this theme and this approach are employed.

48. As a leading spokesman of the “Imagist Movement”，what principles does Ezra Pound endorse?

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. Discuss Charles Dickens’ art of fiction：the setting，the character —portrayal，the language，etc．，based on his novel Oliver Twist．

50. Greatly and permanently affected by the war experiences, Hemingway formed his own writing style，together with his theme and hero. Please discuss Hemingway’s writing style in relation to his novels you have read.

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