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英美文学考试试题(二)

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本试题分两部分，第一部分为选择题，第二部分为非选择题。选择题40分，非选择题60分，满分100分。考试时间120分钟。请将答案写在答案写在答题纸相应位置上，否则不计分。

PART ONE

Ⅰ. Multiple Choice（40 points, 1 point for each）

Select from the four choices of each 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. Henry Fielding has been regarded by some as “___A___”,for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.

A．Father of the English Novel B．Father of the English Poetry

C．Father of the English Drama D．Father of the English Short Story

2.T．S．Eliot’s most important single poem ___B___has been hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th-century English poetry.

A．The Hollow Man B．The Waste Land C．Murder in the Cathedral D．Ash Wednesday

3. William Blake’s central concern in the Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience is___B____, which gives the two books a strong social and historical reference.

A．youthhood B．Childhood C．happiness D．sorrow

4.Among the works by Charles Dickens ___D___ presents his criticism of the Utilitarian principle that rules over the English education system and destroys young hearts and minds.

A．Bleak House B．Pickwick Paper C．Great Expectations D．Hard Times

5. The most distinguishing feature of Charles Dickens’ works is his ___B___.

A．simple vocabulary B．bitter and sharp criticism C．character-portrayal D．pictures of happiness

6. Because of her sensitivity to universal patterns of human behavior, __B__ has brought the English novel ,as an art of form, to its maturity.

A．Charlotte Bront?B．Jane Austen C．Emily Bront?D．Ann Radcliffe

7. All of the following poems by William Wordsworth are masterpieces on nature EXCEPT ___D___.

A．“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”B．“An Evening Walk”

C．“Tintern Abbey”D．“The Solitary Reaper”

8. Shakespeare’s four greatest tragedies are ___C___.

A．Romeo and Juliet, Othello, King Lear, Hamlet

B．Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice

C．Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth

D．Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, Othello, Hamlet

9. As one of the greatest masters of English prose, __B__ defined a good style as “proper words in proper places”. A．Henry Fielding B．Jonathan Swift C．Samuel Johnson D．Alexander Pope

10. Among the three major works by John Milton __D__ is indeed the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf.

A．Paradise Regained B．Samson Agonistes C．Lycidas D．Paradise Lost

11. English Romanticism, as a historical phase of literature, is generally said to have ended in 1832 with __A__.

A．the passage of the first Reform Bill in the Parliament

B．the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads

C．the publication of T．S．Eliot’s The waste Land

D．the passage of the Bill of Rights in the Parliament

12. Contrary to the traditional romance of aristocrats, the modern English novel gives a realistic presentation of life of __A__.

A．the common English people B．the upper class C．the rising bourgeoisie D．the enterprising landlords

13. The major concern of ___C___ fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature.

A．John Galsworthy’s B．Thomas Hardy’s C．D．H．Lawrence’s D．Charles Dickens’

14. The Nobel Prize Committee highly praised __B__ for “his powerful style-forming mastery of the art”of creating modern fiction.

A．Ezra Pound B．Ernest Hemingway C．Robert Frost D．Theodore Dreiser

15. In 1950,__A__ was awarded the Nobel Prize for the anti-racist Intruder in the Dust.

A．William Faulkner B．Robert Frost C．Ezra Pound D．Ernest Hemingway

16. The Portrait of A Lady is generally considered to be ___C___ masterpiece, which describes the life journey of an American ________ in a European cultural environment.

A．Henry Adams’…widow B．William James’…girl

C．Henry James’…girl D．Theodore Dreiser’s…widow

17. Hawthorne intended to __D__ in The Scarlet Letter.

A．tell a story of parental love

B．tell a story of sin and bloody violence

C．call the readers back to the plantation way of living

D．reveal the human psyche after they sinned

18. “The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water.” This “iceberg” analogy is put forward by ___D___.

A．Mark Twain B．Ezra Pound C．William Faulkner D．Ernest Hemingway

19. The white whale, Moby Dick, symbolizes ___B___ for Melville, for it is complex, unfathomable, malignant, and beautiful as well.

A．society B．Nature C．ocean animals D．both A and C

20. After the American Civil War, the literary interest in the so-called “reality” of life started a new period in the American literary writings know an the Age of __A__.

A．Realism B．Reason and Revolution C．Romanticism D．Modernism

21. H．L．Mencken considered ___B___ “the true father of our national literature”.

A．Bret Harte B．Mark Twain C．Washington Irving D．Walt Whitman

22. Altogether, Emily Dickinson wrote 1775 poems, of which only __C__ had appeared during her lifetime.

A．three B．Five C．seven D．nine

23. The ___B___ Age of the 1920s characterized by frivolity and carelessness is brought vividly to life in The Great Gatsby. A．Lost B．Jazz C．Reason D．Gilded

24. Robert Frost is generally considered a regional poet whose subject matters mainly focus on the landscape and people in ___D___.

A．the west B．the south C．Alaska D．New England

25. As __C__ saw it, poetry could play a vital part in the process of creating a new nation. It could enable Americans to celebrate their release from the Old World and the colonial rule.

A．Wordsworth Longfellow B．William Bryant C．Walt Whitman D．Robert Frost

26. Walt Whitman is a poet with a strong sense of mission, having devoted all his life to the creation of the “single” poem, ___D___.

A．The Love Song of J．Alfred Prufrock B．The Waste Land

C．Murder in the Cathedral D．Leaves of Grass

27. Realism was a reaction against Romanticism and paved the way to __A__.

A．Modernism B．Scientism C．Post-Modernism D．Feminism

28. Mark Twain employed an unpretentious style of ___C___ in his novels which is best described as “vernacular”. A．standard English B．Afro-American English C．colloquialism D．urbanism

29. The Petrarchan sonnet was first introduced into England by ___B___.

A. Surrey

B. Wyatt

C. Sidney

D. Shakespeare

30.The British bourgeois or middle class believed in the following notions EXCEPT ___A___.

A. self - esteem

B. self – reliance

C. self - restraint

D. hard work

31. “Graveyard School”writers are the following sentimentalists EXCEPT ___D___.

A. James Thomson

B. William Collins

C. William Cowper

D. Thomas Jackson

32. As a representative of the Enlightenment,___C___ was one of the first to introduce rationalism to England.

A. John Bunyan

B. Daniel Defoe

C. Alexander Pope

D. Jonathan Swift

33. Charles Dickens' novel ___B___ 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

34. Hemingway's second big success is __B__ , 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 the Bell Tolls

B. A Farewell to Arms

C. The Sun Also Rises

D. The Old Man and the Sea

35. Henry James is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th -century “stream -of-consciousness”novels and the founder of __B__.

A. neoclassicism

B. psychological realism

C. psychoanalytical criticism

D. surrealism

36. Realism was a reaction against ___A___ 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

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

A. blank verse

B. free rhythm

C. balanced structure

D. free verse

38. The Financier ,The Titan and The Stoic written by __B__ are called his “Trilogy of Desire”.

A. Henry James

B. Theodore Dreiser

C. Mark Twain

D. Herman Melville

39. Most critics have agreed that Fitzgerald is both an insider and an outsider of __C__ with a double vision.

A. the Gilded Age

B. the Rational Age

C. the Jazz Age

D. the Magic Age

40. Charlotte’ s works are famous for the depicti on of the life of ___A___ working women, particularly governesses.

A. the middle - class

B. the lower - class

C. the upper - middle - class

D. the upper - class

PART TWO

Ⅱ. Reading Comprehension（16 points, 8 points 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.“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate:

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer’s lease hath all too short a date:”

我能不能把你比作夏天？但你比夏天更可爱更温和，狂风摇撼着心爱的五月的蓓蕾，和夏天的租期实在是太短。Questions:

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

识别诗人和这首诗是从哪里引用的。

B．Name the figure of speech employed in the poem.

这首诗用了什么修辞方法

C．What is the theme of the poem?

这首诗的主题是什么

A.Shakespeare; Sonnet 18

B.Personification

C. A nice summer’s day is usually transient ,but the beauty in poetry can last for ever.

42.“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? —You think wrong!… 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…—it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God’s feet, equal—as we are!”

Questions:

A．Identify the author and the novel from which the quoted part is taken.

识别作者和这部小说的出处。

B．To whom is the speaker speaking?

说这句话的人是在对谁说这句话的。

C．What does the quoted part imply about the speaker?

引用的这部分表达了说话者的什么含义。

A.Charlotte Bronte; Jane Eyre

B.Jane Eyre is speaking to Rochester.

C.Jane Eyre loves Rochester but she values her basic rights and equality as a human being.

Ⅲ. Questions and Answers （24 points, 8 points for each）

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

43. It is said that B. Shaw’s play, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, has a strong realistic theme, which fully reflects the dramatist’s Fabianist idea. Try to summarize this theme briefly.

A. As one of the influential members of the Fabian society, Shaw regarded the establishment of socialism by the emancipation of land and industrial capital from individual and class ownership as the final goal.

B. As a realistic dramatist , he took the modern social issues as his subjects, Most of his plays are concerned with political, economic, moral, or religious problems.

C. Mrs. Warren’s Profession is a play about the economic oppression of women.

44. “In your rocking-chair, by your window dreaming, shall you long, alone. In your rocking-chair, by your window, shall you dream such happiness as you may never feel.”（from Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie）

What idea can you draw from the “rocking-chair”?

A.The rocking-chair is a symbol standing for fate. It is like a cradle that makes one feel

peaceful.

B.It is also like a tide that ever goes on with life , the destiny of which is uncertain. Ⅳ. Translation （English-Chinese）（20 points，10 points for each）

45. The apparition of these faces in the crowd;

Petals on a wet, black bough.

46.Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability.

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