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英美文学选读试题A

西安外国语大学考试试题（A）编号:

2012-2013学年第 1 学期系（院、部）：英语教育学院专业：英语

课程：英美文学选读班级：09级本科/11级专升本命题时间：12.3 命题教师：肖婉丽

以上栏目由命题教师填写，下栏由考生填写

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I. Multiple Choice (30 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. Mark the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the answer sheet.

1. The most important contribution of ______ is that he not only started the modern poetry, but also changed the course of English poetry by using ordinary speech of the language and by advocating a return to nature.

A. William Blake

B. William Wordsworth

C. G. G. Byron

D. John Keats

2. “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”This humorous speech is from__________.

A. Jane Austen’s Emma

B. Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

C. Charles Dickins’The Great Expectation

D. Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre

3. In the Victorian Period ______ became the most widely read and the most vital and challenging expression of progressive thought.

A. poetry

B. novel

C. prose

D. drama

4. Thomas Hardy’s ______ view of life predominates most of hi s works and earns him

a reputation as a ________ writer.

A. pessimistic, naturalistic

B. pessimistic, humorous

C. romantic, realist

D. determinist, stylistic

5. “Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am s oulless 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 lines are most probably taken from ________.

A. Great Expectations

B. Wuthering Heights

C. Jane Eyre

D. Pride and Prejudice

6. Jane Austen’ s first novel ________ tells a story about two sisters and their love affairs.

A. Sense and Sensibility

B. Pride and Prejudice

C. Northanger Abbey

D. Mansfield Park

7. “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” 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 Ur n

8. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” is ________ masterpiece on ________.

A. G. G. Byron’s, love

B. John Keats’, nature

C. P. B. Shelley’s, love

D. William Wordsworth’s, nature

9. T.S. Eliot’s ______ not only presents a panorama of physical disorder and spiritual desolation in the modern Western world, but also reflects the prevalent mood of disillusionment and despair of a whole post-war generation.

A. The Hollow Men

B. The Waste Land

C. Murder in the Cathedral

D. Ash Wednesday

10. John Milton’s grea test poetical work ________ is the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf.

A. Areopagitica

B. Paradise Lost

C. Lycidas

D. Samson Agonistes

11. “The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water.” This “iceberg” analogy about prose style was put forward by ________.

A. William Faulkner

B. Henry James

C. Ernest Hemingway

D. F. Scott Fitzgerald

12. Walt Whitman believed, by means of “________,” he has tu rned poetry into an open field, an area of vital possibility where the reader can allow his own imagination to play.

A. free verse

B. strict verse

C. regular rhyming

D. standardized rhyming

13. Of all Herman Melville’s sea adventure stories, ________ proves to be the best.

A. Typee

B. Redburn

C. Moby Dick

D. Omoo

14. Nathaniel Hawthorne was affected by _______’s transcendentalist theory and struck up a very intimate relationship with him.

A. Herman Melville

B. Walt Whitman

C. R. W. Emerson

D. Washington Irving

15. Among the following writers _______is generally regarded as the great master of the 20th century “stream-of-consciousness” novels in British literature. A. T. S. Eliot B. James Joyce

C. William Faulkner

D. Henry James

16. In William Faulkner’s writings, the modern ______ technique was frequently and skillfully used to emphasize the reactions and inner musings of the narrator. A. stream-of-consciousness B. impressionism

C. imagism

D. dramatic monologue

17. “Byronic hero” is a figure of the following traits EXCEPT ______.

A. being proud

B. being self-independent

C. being rebellious

D. being of humble origin

18. Charles Dickens' novel ______ is famous for its vivid descriptions of the

workhouse and life

of the underworld in the nineteenth-century London.

A. The Pickwick Paper

B. Oliver Twist

C. David Copperfield

D. Nicholas Nickleby

19. ________ used Christian imagery regarding the Apocalypse and second coming as allegory to describe the atmosphere in post-war Europe in his poem, which is considered a major work of Modernist poetry.

A. W.

B. Yeats B. T. S. Eliot

C. Ezra Pound

D. Robert Frost

20. _______, with its emphasis on ________, gained momentum as an artistic movement in Britain after the publication of the Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A. Classicism, reason

B. modernism, innovation

C. Realism, objective representation

D. Romanticism, imagination and emotion

21. _________ is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning English author _______ about a group of British boys stuck on an uninhabited island who try to govern themselves, with disastrous results.

A. A Passage to India, E. M. Forster

B. The Rainbow, D. H. Lawrence

C. Lord of the Flies, William Golding

D. To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf

22. Jane Austen is well-known for her elaborative depiction of five different marriages in her novel ________.

A. Emma

B. Sense and Sensibility

C. Mansfield Park

D. Pride and Prejudice

23. _______begins and ends by posing the question of whether it is possible for an

Englishman and an Indian to ever be friends, at least within the context of British colonialism.

A.E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India

B. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness

C. D. H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers D. Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights

24. “Beauty is truth, truth beauty”, which comes from ________ famous poem ________, is surely the most famous metaphysical equation.

A. John Keats’ Ode on a Grecian Urn

B. Shelley’s To a Skylark

C. Byron’s She Walks in Beauty

D. William Wordsworth’s The Solitary Reaper

25. Robinson Crusoe is the true prototype of the British colonist. The whole Anglo-Saxon spirit is in Crusoe except_________.

A. the manly independence

B. the persistence

C. the slow yet efficient intelligence

D. the thirst for knowledge

26. Ralph Waldo Emerson, who led the ________movement across the United States in the mid-19th century, was seen as a champion of individualism.

A. Romantic

B. Realist

C. Transcendentalist

D. Naturalist

27. Much of ________writing centers on New England, many works featuring moral allegories with a Puritan inspiration. His fiction works are considered part of the _______.

A. Melville’s, Dark romanticism

B. Emerson’s, active Romanticism

C. Hawthorne's, Dark romanticism

D. Benjamin Franklin, American Realism

28. The White Whale swam before him as the monomaniac incarnation of all those malicious agencies which some deep men feel eating in them, till they are left living on with half a heart and half a lung. This is most probably from ________.

A. Gulliver’s Travel

B. Moby Dick

C. The Scarlet Letter

D. Robinson Crusoe

29. When _______ stated “The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem” in his Preface to______, he meant that the diversity of geography, cu lture, beliefs and work all combine to create a wonderful country.

A. R. W. Emerson, Self-reliance

B. Emily Dickenson, Complete Poems

C. Henry. W. Longfellow, A Psalm of Life

D. Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

30. ________'s poems reflect the auhtor’s lifelong fascination with dying and death, for instance, O ne dignity delays for all.

A. Emily Dickinson

B. Walt Whitman

C. T. S. Eliot

D. Mathew Arnold

II. Decide whether the following statements are true or false. Mark the corresponding letter T or F on the answer sheet. (10 points in all, 1 for each) 1. In "The Canterbury Tales", Chaucer employed the blank verse with true ease and charm for the first time in the history of English literature.

2. The term metaphysical poetry is commonly used to name the work of the 17th century writers who wrote under the influence of John Donne.

3. Jonathan Swift is a master satirist, which is usually masked by an outward gravity and an apparent earnestness which renders his satire all the more powerful.

4. From the middle part to the end of the 18th century, in English literature naturalism flourished. They were mostly stories of mystery and horror which take place in some haunted or dilapidated middle age castles.

5. Charles Dickens's later works like Oliver Twist present a criticism of the more complicated and yet most fundamental social institutions and morals of the Victorian England.

6. Nearly all Bernard Shaw’s writings address prevailing social problems, but have

a vein of comedy which makes their stark themes more palatable.

7. Ernest Hemingway’s 1954 Nobel Prize winn ing story The Old Man and the Sea centers upon Santiago, an aging fisherman who struggles with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream.

8. American romanticism was in a way derivative; American romantic writing was some of them modeled on English and European works.

9. Transcendentalism exalted reason over feeling, individual expression over the restraints of law and custom.

10. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad presents a psychological journey into the core of evil or "heart of darkness" in one's own mind, as he or she progresses through the wild South American land.

III. Answer the following questions. ( 60 points in all, 15 for each)

1. What did Neoclassicists celebrate in literary creation? Please illustrate it with

examples.

2. Why is William Shakespeare called a humanist? Please explain it through one or two of his works.

3. What is the common theme of Thomas Hardy’s works? Please illustrate it through Tess of the D’Urbervilles .

4. What is the common theme of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s works? Please explain it through one or two of his works.

西安外国语大学考试试卷（A）

科目：英美文学选读

答卷注意事项：

1、学生答题前必须先将试卷上的院（系）、专业、班级、姓名、学号、考试日期及考试

科目填写清楚。

2、答题字迹要工整清楚，与试题无关的内容不得在试卷上出现。

I. Multiple Choice (30 points in all, 1 for each)

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II. True or false. (10 points in all, 1 for each)

1. T F

2. T F

3. T F

4. T F

5. T F

6. T F

7. T F 8. T F 9. T F 10. T F

III. Answer the following questions. ( 60 points in all, 15 for each)

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西安外国语大学2012-2013学年第一学期

英美文学选读考试命题原则、答案及评分标准（A）

一、命题原则

1.考查内容主要涵盖本学期所学内容。

2.难易程度适中。

二、答案

I．1-5 BBBAC 6-10 AADBB 11-15 CACCB 16-20 ADBAD

21-25 CDAAD 26-30 CCBDA

II. 1-5 FTTFF 6-10 TTTFF

III. 略。

三、评分标准

I. 选择填空总分30分, 每小题1分。

II．判断正误总分10分, 每小题1分。

III. 回答问题部分总分60分, 每小题15分。给分点如下:

1. 13-15分: 回答内容充分、有新意，表达清楚，文字通畅，连贯性好，基本无语言错误。

2. 11-13分: 回答内容充分、但没有新意，表达清楚，思路清晰，无大的语言错误。

3. 9-11分: 回答了大部分内容, 但不够完整，思路不太清晰，语言表达与连贯性稍差。

4. 6-9分: 回答内容有一半错误或不充分, 或者语言表达与连贯性很差。

5. 0-6分：回答内容大部分错误或没有回答出来, 或者语言表达与连贯性很差。

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