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【题型：简答】【分数：4分】得分：4分

[1]

What are the characteristics of Byron's works?

答：

Although many of Byron’s works are debated by the critics, he is still one of the influential figures in th literature. In most of his works, we can see Byron's violent attack on" Cant politics, religion and morals, oriental scenery, the romantic character of Byronically hero and the easy, fluent and natural beauty of his ver though unequal and frequently faulty, has on a whole a freedom, copiousness and vigor. His descriptions are s often bring vivid objects before the reader. The glowing imagination of the poet r

答案：they are violentattack on politics, religion and morals. They describe the novel scenery and shows the easy, fluent and natural beauty of his verse.

【题型：简答】【分数：4分】得分：4分

[2]

Briefly state Mark Twain’ s magic power with language in his novels.

答：

A.Setting: In the novel Mark Twain recreates a small-town world of America and presents the local color.

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direct language faithful to the colloquial speech, the vernacular language of the local people C.Character: two rebels and fugitives running away from civilization, especially Huckleberry Finn, an innocent boy who r conventional village morality D.Theme: The novel is a criticism of social injustice, hypocrisy, conservativ narrow-mindedness of the American small town society E.Style: The novel employs a humorous

答案：His words are colloquial, concrete and direct in effect, and his sentence structu even ungrammatical spoken language; His characters speak with a strong accent, w his local colorism;Different characters from different literary or cultural back differently.

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[3]

What are the main features of Robert Browning’s poetry?

答：

Robert Browning’s poems are known for their irony, characterization, dark humor, social commentary, histo challenging vocabulary and syntax.

答案：He uses dramatic monologue, fast, rough and unmusical rhythm. His works inclu compressed syntax, similes and illustrations,non-poetic jarring diction.

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[4]

What are the "Wessex novels" of Thomas Hardy?

Thomas Hardy is one of the most excellent realistic novelist and poet in the 19~(th) century. His novels description of his hometown Wessex—a city in England, and therefore are called by the name "Wessex Novels"，as Novels of Character and Environment by Hardy himself. These novels describe the unexpected and huge changes economy, politics, ethics, and customs in England after the invasion of Capitalism, and the miserable fate of and discover the potential crisis of the society in England which is under the mask o

答案：They are the fictional and crude rural region in WessexandHardy'shomeplace. 【题型：简答】【分数：4分】得分：2分

[5]

Comment on the characteristics of Romantic writers in English history.

答：

It is a rebellion against the neoclassical literature, extols the faculty of imagination and nature

答案：It is a rebellion against the neoclassical literature, extols the faculty of i nature.

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[6] The white whale, Moby Dick is endowed with symbolic meaning. What do you think it symbolizes?

答：

To Ahab, the whale is an evil creature or the agent of an evil force that controls the universe.To Ishmael, the wh force, an immense power, which defies rational explanation due to a sense of mystery it carries. It is beau at the same time. To the reader, it may be regarded as a symbol of nature or an instrument of God's vengea 答案：To Ahab, the whale is an evil creature or the agent of an evil force that control To Ishmael, the whale is an astonishing force, an immense power, which defies ratio due to a sense of mystery it carries. It is beautiful, but malignant at the sam To the reader, it may be regarded as a symbol of nature or an instrument of God's evil man.

【题型：论述】【分数：10分】得分：10分

[7]

Discuss the artistic features of Shelley's poems.

答：

speech|metaphor|personification|description

【题型：论述】【分数：10分】得分：10分

[8]

What does Wordsworth mean when he said "All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings recolle

This sentence is considered as the principle of Wordsworth’s poetry creation which was set forth in the pref Ballads”. As contrasted with the classicists who made reason, order and the old classical traditions the crite creations，Wordsworth based his own poetic talent on the premise that“all good poetry is the spontaneous feeling．” He appealed directly on individual sensations，i. e. pleasure，excitement and enjoyment，as t creation and appreciation of poetry. A poet’s emotion extends from human affairs to nature，but

[9] When the minister spoke from the pulpit, with power and fervid eloquence, and, with his hands on the open

truths of our religion, and of saint-like lives and triumphant deaths, and of future bliss of misery unutterab Brown turn pale, dreading, lest the roof should thunder down upon the gray blasphemer and his hearers.

Questions:

A. Identify the title of the short story from which this part is taken.

B. What had happened in the story before this church scene?

C. Why was Goodman Brown afraid the roof might thunder down?

答：

A.Hawthorne’s Yong Goodman Brown

B.Brown had attended a witches’party where he saw many prominent people

minister included C.Brown was shocked by the minister,secretly a member of the evil club, who could talk of the reigion openly and unashamedly . He thought God would punish such hypocrites down on them.

答案：young Goodman Brown, attend a witches' party,shocked by the minister

【题型：阅读】【分数：4分】得分：0分

[10]

“I like to see it lap the Miles—

And lick the Valleys up—

And stop to feed itself at Tanks—

And then-prodigiosu step”

A. Please give the name of the author.

B. What idea does this poem express?

答：

A.Dickinson

B.This poem was shocked the world One of three big project -- North America big railway, the m

development.

答案：Emily Dichinson, suspicion of the relationship between man and nature

【题型：阅读】【分数：4分】得分：3分

[11]

"To be or not to be-- that is the question."

Questions:

A. Identify the author.

B. From which work is the above sentence taken?

答：

A.William Shakespeare

B.Hamlett

答案：Shakespeare, Hamlet

【题型：阅读】【分数：4分】得分：2分

[12]

Had I as many souls as there be stars.

I’d give them all for Mephistophilis!

By him I’ll be great emperor of the world,

And make a bridge through the moving air

To pass the ocean with a band of men;

I’ll join the hills that bing the Africa shore

And make that country continent to Spain,

And both contributory to my crown;

The Emperor shall not live by my leave,

Nor any potentate of Germany.

Now that I have obtained what I desire

I’ll live in speculation of this art.

Till Mephistophilis return again.”

A. Identify the author and the title of the work from which the passage is taken.

B. Based on the passage, write down in one or two sentences the theme of the play.

答：

A.Dr.Faustus, a play by Christopher Marlowe.

B.Man's aspiration, bounding achievements, and the inevitab 答案：Dr. Faustus, Christopher Marlowe, Man's aspiration, bounding achievement

【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分

[13]

______ by Melville is a novella about a ship whose black slave cargo mutiny holds their captain a terror

A A. “Bartleby, the Scrivener”

B B. Benito Cereno

C C. The Confidence-Man

D D. Billy Bud

答：

答案： B

【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分

[14]

The great political and social events in the English society of neoclassical period were the following

A the Restoration of King Charles II in 1660

B the Great Plague of 1665

C the Great London Fire in 1666

D the Wars of Roses in 1689

答：

答案： D

【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：0分

[15]

All of the following are stream –of- consciousness novels EXCEPT________.

A The Sound and the Fury

B Ulysses

C Mrs. Dalloway

D Jude the Obscure

答：

答案： D

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[16]

Greatly and permanently affected by the ________ experiences, Hemingway formed his own writing

his theme and hero.

A. mining &nbs

A mining

B farming

C war

D sea

答：

答案： C

【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：0分

[17]

Which of the following masterpieces doesn’t belong to the tragedies of Shakespeare?

A A. Romeo and Juliet

B B. The Merry Wives of Windsor

C C. Julius Caesar

D D. King Lear

答：

答案： B

【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分

[18]

Here is a sentence from an essay, “Read not to contradict and confuse, nor to believe and take for grant and discourse, but to weight and consider”. The essay must be ______.

A Of Studies by Francis Bacon

B The Advancement of Learning by Francis Bacon

C Novum Organum by Francis Bacon

D Essays by Francis Bacon

答：

答案： A

【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分

[19]

7. Neoclassicists had some fixed laws and rules for prose EXCEPT_____.

A precison

B directness

C flexibility

D satire

答：

答案： D

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[20]

Rousseau published two books that electrified Europe—Du contrat Social and ____ in which he explored new society and education.

A A. Emile

B B. Declaration of Rights of Man

C C. Life of Napoleon

D D. The Advancement of Learning

答：

答案： A

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[21]

With the help of his friends Phil Stone and Sherwood Anderson, ______ published a volume of poe and his first novel Soldiers’ Pay.

A Faulkner

B Hemingway

C Ezra Pound

D Fitzgerald

答：

答案： A

【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分

[22]

Statement ____ is NOT true in describing Gothic novel.

A Gothic novel is a type of romantic fiction

B Gothic novel predominated in the early 18th century

C Its principal elements are violence, horror and supernatural

D The Mystery of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe is typical Gothic romance

答：

答案： B

【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分

[23]

“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”

答：

答案： A

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[24]

The Transcendentalists believe that, first, nature is ennobling, and second, the individual is____

A insignificant

B evil

C divine

D silly

答：

答案： C

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[25]

The author of Leaves of Grass , a giant of American letters, is ______.

A Faulkner

B Dreiser

C . James

D Whitman

答：

答案： D

【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分

[26]

In Go Down, Moses, ________ illuminates the problem of black and white in Southern society as a close- k

brotherhood.

A. William Faulkner &nbs

A William Faulkner

B Jack London

C Herman Melville

D Nathaniel Hawthorne

答：

答案： A

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[27]

In 1892, Yeats wrote his first play, ____, which is an Irish myth about a noblewoman who sells her soul t to save starving peasants.

A A. The Land of Heart’s Desire

B B. The Shadowy Waters

C C. The Countess Cathleen

D D. Purgatory

答：

答案： C

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[28]

A proud, mysterious rebel figure of noble origin is called _____ hero in Romantic Period of Engli

A Romantic

B Realistic

C Renaissance

D Byronic

答：

答案： D

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[29]

_____ explores the scrupulous individualism in a world of fantastic speculation and unstable values, a

the get-rich-quick years of the post-Civil War era.

A Innocents Abroad

B The Gilded Age

C Roughing It

D The Middle Years

答：

答案： B

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[30]

The Advancement of Learning is a great tract on _____.

A A. history

B B. literature

C C. policy

D D. education

答：

答案： D

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[31]

The 20th -century stream- of- consciousness technique was frequently and skillfully used by ___ reactions and inner musings of the narrator.

A Hemingway

B Frost

C Faulkner

D Whitman

答：

答案： C

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[32]

Man is a “victim of forces over which he has no control. ” This is a notion held strongly by ___

A Robert Frost

B Theodore Dreiser

C Henry James

D Waltman

答：

答案： B

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[33]

The following statement ______ is WRONG in describing Transcendentalism.

A It absorbed some ideological concerns of American Puritanism and European Romanticism.

B It advocates the importance of Individual and Nature.

C Trancendentalists believed that there should be an emotional communication between an indi

D It emphasizes that man is the measure of all things.

答：

答案： D

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[34]

Jonathan Swift’ s ______ is generally regarded as the best model of satire, not only of the period b English literary history.

A Gulliver’s Travels

B The Battle of the Books

C “A Modest Proposal”

D A Tale of a Tub

答：

答案： C

【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：0分

[35]

In 1847, the Bronte sisters published the following famous novels EXCEPT “______”.

A Jane Eyre

B Shirley

C Wuthering Heights

D The Tenant of Windfall Hall

答：

答案： B

【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分

[36]

The major concern of ______ fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological development of his characters

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’

答：

答案： C

【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分

[37]

In _____, James Joyce intends to present a microcosm of the whole human life by providing an instance of how a s all the events of its kind, and how history is recapitulated in the happenings of one day.

A A. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

B B. Dubliners

C C. Ulysses

D D. Finnegans Wake

答：

答案： C

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[38]

With the scarlet letter A as the biggest symbol of all, ______ proves himself to be one of t

A Hawthorne

B Dreiser

C James

D Faulkner

答：

答案： A

【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分

[39]

. “‘Damn the fool! There he is’, cried Heathcliff, sinking back into his seat, ‘Hush, my darling! Hu I’ll stay. If he shot me so, I’d expire with a blessing in my lips.’” The novel from which the passage i

A Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

B Charles Dickens’s The Old Curiosity Shop

C Samuel Richardson’s Pamela

D Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights

答：

答案： D

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[40]

The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one -eighth of it being above water. ” This “ice

prose style was put forward by ________.

A William Faulkner

B F·Scott Fitzgerald

C Henry James

D Ernest Hemingway

答：

答案： D

【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分

[41]

Joyce’s masterpiece, ______ gives an account of man’s life during one day in Dublin.

A Dubliners

B Finnegans Wake

C Ulysses

D A Portrait of the Artist

答：

答案： C

【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分

[42]

In Charles Dickens’ work ________, the Utilitarian principle rules over the English education system and d

and minds.

A Hard times

B Oliver Twist

C David Copperfield

D Bleak House

答：

答案： A

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[43]

Poetry is defined by ______ as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, which originates in

in tranquility”.

A Wordsworth

B Shelly

C Keats

D Wialliam Blake

答：

答案： A

【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分

[44]

“O prince, O chief of many throned powers, That led th’ embattled seraphim to war Under thy cond

deeds Fearless, endangered Heaven’s perpetual King.” In the third line of the above passage q

Paradise Los

A Satan’s

B God’s

C Adam’s

D Eve’s

答：

答案： A

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[45]

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

A Mansfield Park

B Sense and Sensibility

C Pride and Prejudice

D Sons and Lovers

答：

答案： B

【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分

[46]

Shakespeare’ s ______, an elaborate and fantastic story, is known as the best of his final romances.

A The Winter’s Tale

B The Tempest

C The Taming of the Shrew

D Love’ s Labour’ s Lost

答：

答案： B

【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分

[47]

6. Which of the following descriptions of Enlightenment Movement is NOT true?

A It was a progressive intellectual movement that flourished in France.

B B. It was a furtherance of the Renaissance of the 15th and 16th centuries.

C C. The purpose was to enlighten the whole world with moderu philosophical and artistic id

D D. The Enlighteners advocate individual education.

答：

答案： D

【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分

[48]

In Milton’s works, “____” is the greatest, indeed the only generally acknowledged epic in English literatu

A A. Paradise Lost

B B. Paradise Regained

C C. Samson Agonistes

D D. Lycidas

答：

答案： A

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[49]

From the first novel Sister Carrie on, Dreiser set himself to project the American values for wh to be: ______ to the core.

A altruistic

B political

C religious

D materialistc

答：

答案： D

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[50]

The three trilogies of ______’s Forsyte novels are masterpieces of critical realism in the early 20

A John Galsworthy

B Arnold Bennet

C James Joyce

D H. G. Wells

答：

答案： A

【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分

[51]

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

A Typee

B Reburn

C Moby – Dick

D Omoo

答：

答案： C

【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分

[52]

The Rivals and _____ are generally regarded as important links between the masterpieces of Shakespeare Shaw.

A The School for Scandal

B The Duenna

C Widower’s Houses

D The Doctor’s Dilemma

答：

答案： A

英美文学选读-英国-新古典主义时期-练习题汇总

1. The 18th-century England is known as ( ) (浙0710) A. the Age of Puritanism B. the Age of Reason C. the Era of Capitalism D. the Age of Glory 2. English Enlighteners in the 18th century held ________ as the yardstick for the measurement of all human activities and relations. （一）1 A. property B. education C. emotion D. reason 3. In the Enlightenment Movement, the progressive representatives intended ______. (浙0810) A. to call the people to fight against poverty and hardship B. to tell people to economize and to accumulate wealth C. to enlighten the whole world with the light of modern philosophical and artistic ideas D. to instruct people to obtain their present social status through hard work 4. As to education, the enlighteners thought that ______. （浙0310） A. human beings were limited, dualistic, imperfect, and not capable of rationality and perfection through education. B. universal education was unnecessary. C. if the common people were well educated, there would be great chance for a democratic and equal human society. D. most of the human beings were perfect themselves, so only a few needed further education. 5. Why did the enlighteners regard education the major means to improve the society and the people? ( ) (浙0710) A. Because most of the human beings were perfect themselves, so only a few needed further education. B. If the common people were well educated, there would be great chance for a democratic and equal human society. C. Because universal education was limited , dualistic, imperfect, and unnecessary. D. Because human beings were not capable of rationality and perfection through education. 6. About reason , the enlighteners thought _____. （浙0210） A. reason or rationality should be the only, the final cause of any human thought and activities B. reason couldn't lead to truth and justice C. superstition was above reason and rationality D. equality and science is contrary to reason and rationality 7. In the field of literature, the Enlightenment Movement brought about the tendency of ( ) A. realism B. puritanism C. neoclassicism D. romanticism 8. Which of the following statements about Neo-Classicism and Enlightenment Movement is true? A. The Enlightenment was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in the

2020年7月全国自考英美文学选读试题及答案解析

全国自考2018年7月英美文学选读试题课程代码：00604 请将答案填在答题纸相应的位置上(全部题目用英文作答) 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 1

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