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2007年4月高等教育自学考试全国统一命题考试 英美文学选读 试卷 (考试时间:4月14日上午8:30—11:00) 本试卷分为两部分,满分100分;考试时间150分钟。 第一部分为选择题,1页至8页,共8页。应考者必须在“答题卡”上按要求填涂,不能答在试卷上。 第二部分为非选择题,9页至14页,共6页。应考者必须在试卷上直接答题。
PART ONE
Ⅰ.Multiple Choice (50 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 your choice by blackening the corresponding letter [ A ], [ B ], [ C ] or [ D ] on the ANSWER SHEET.
1.With the ________ Conquest starts the medieval period in English literature, which covers about four centuries. A.Roman B.Anglo-Saxon C.Norman D.Greek
2.In the first period of English Renaissance, ________ introduced into England blank verse, i. e. the unrhymed iambic pentameter. A.Spenser B.Surrey C.Sydney D.Wyatt
3.Concerning the English Renaissance, which of the following statements is NOT true? A.The Renaissance was slow in reaching England not only because of England’s separation from the European Continent but also because of its domestic unrest. B.Humanism is the essence of the Renaissance. Humanism began to take hold in England when the Dutch scholar Erasmus came to teach the classical learning, first at Oxford and then at Cambridge. C.The first period of the English Renaissance was one of imitation and assimilation. D.The Elizabethan poetry, in its totality, is the real mainstream of the English Renaissance.
4.Marlowe’s play ________ is based on the German legend of a magician aspiring for knowledge and finally meeting his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the Devil. A.Dr. Faustus B.Tamburlaine C.The Jew of Malta D.Edward Ⅱ
5.Which of the following plays by Shakespeare is NOT a comedy? A.Measure for Measure B.Antony and Cleopatra C.Love’s Labour’s Lost D.Much Ado About Nothing
6.Among Milton’s works, ________ is a great plea for freedom of the press. A.Areopagitica B.Paradise Lost C.Paradise Regained D.Samson Agonistes
7.Which of the following matches is right? A.Mr. Allworthy The Pilgrim’s Progress B.Christian Tom Jones C.Heathcliff Jane Eyre D.Stephen Dedalus A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
8.Alexander Pope’s An Essay on Criticism is a didactic poem written in ________. A.heroic couplets B.blank verse C.terza rima D.free verse
9.In 1704, Jonathan Swift published ________ and The Battle of Books. These two powerful satires on corruption in religion and learning established his name as a master satirist. A.“A Modest Proposal” B.A Tale of a Tub C.The Drapier’s Letters D.Gulliver’s Travels
10.Which one of Henry Fielding’s works was first intended as a burlesque of the dubious morality and false sentimentality of Richardson’s Pamela? A.The History of Jonathan Wild the Great B.The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling C.The History of Amelia D.The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and of his Friend Mr. Abraham Adams
11.“I have been lately informed, by the proprietor of The World, that two papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honor, which, being very little accustomed to favors from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. ” These sentences were written by ________. A.Samuel Johnson B.Jonathan Swift C.Richard Brinsley Sheridan D.Francis Bacon
12.Which of the following statements about English Romanticism is NOT true? A.English Romanticism is generally said to have begun in 1798 with the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads. B.Romanticism actually constitutes a change of direction from attention to the inner world of human spirit to the outer world of social civilization. C.Nature is not only the major source of poetic imagery, but also provides the dominant subject matter. D.To the Romantics, poetry should be free from all rules.
13.________ is the first major historical novelist, exerting great influence both in Britain and on the European Continent throughout the 19th century. A.Jane Austen B.Ann Radcliffe C.Walter Scott D.Mary Shelley
14.“Wherefore feed and clothe and save / From the cradle to the grave / Those ungrateful drones who would / Drain your sweat — nay, drink your blood? ” These lines are taken from Shelley’s poem ________. A.“Ode to the West Wind” B.“Ode to Liberty” C.“To a Skylark” D.“A Song: Men of England”
15.“Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard / Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on; / Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear’d / Pipe to the spirit ditties of nc tone. ” These lines are taken from Keat’s poem ________. A.“Ode on Melancholy” B.“Ode to Psyche” C.“Ode on a Grecian Urn” D.“Ode to a Nightingale”
16.After Thomas Paine’s Declaration of Rights of Man, ________ urged the equal rights for women in A Vindication of the Rights of Women. A.William Godwin B.Mary Wollstonecraft C.Thomas Carlyle D.Mary Shelley
17.Ideologically, the Victorians experienced fundamental changes. Among all works, The Origin of Species and The Descent of Man by ________ shook the theoretical basis of the traditional faith. A.Thomas Carlyle B.Matthew Arnold C.John Ruskin D.Charles Darwin
18.Charles Dickens is one of the greatest critical realist writers of the Victorian age. In ________, he attacks the dehumanizing workhouse system and the dark, criminal underworld life in England. A.Nicholas Nickleby B.Bleak House C.Oliver Twist D.Hard Times
19.“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? —You think wrong! —I have as much soul as you—and full as much heart! … 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! ” This quotation is from ________. A.Wuthering Heights B.Jane Eyre C.The Tenant of Wildfell Hall D.The Professor
20.Of the following poets, whose name is NOT associated with the term “dramatic monologue? ” A.Thomas Gray B.Alfred Tennyson C.T. S. Eliot D.Robert Browning
21.________, appearing in the late 19th century, heralded modernism. A.The French symbolism B.Expressionism C.Imagism D.Stream of consciousness
22.James Joyces is often associated with the term ________. A.epiphany B.mock epic C.dramatic monologue D.verse novel
23.Among the following playwrights, ________ has written Waiting for Godot. A.Lady Gregory B.John Osborne C.J. M. Synge D.Samuel Beckett
24.“The quality of mercy is not strain’d; / It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven / Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: / It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. ” These lines are taken from ________. A.Hamlet B.Dr. Faustus C.The Merchant of Venice D.“The Sun Rising”
25.“One short sleep past, we wake eternally / And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die. ” In the quoted lines, the poet uses a rhetorical device called ________. A.paradox B.hyperbole C.pun D.synecdoche
26.“…for now Goody Brown — whom Zekiel Brown caressed in his arms; nor he alone, but half the parish besides; so famous was she in the fields of Venus, nor indeed less in those of Mars. The trophies of both these her husband always bore about on his head and face; for if ever human head did by its horns display the amorous glories, of a wife, Zekiel’s did. Nor his well-scratched face less denote her talents (or rather talons) of a different kind. ” This quotation is an example of ________. A.dramatic monologue B.epiphany C.comic epic in prose D.dramatic irony
27. “For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, / Or busy housewife ply her evening care; / No children run to lisp their sire’s return, / Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share. ” These lines are written by ________. A.William Wordsworth B.William Blake C.S. T. Coleridge D.Thomas Gray
28.In Byron’s “Song for the Luddites, ” the line “As the liberty lads o’er the sea is mainly of ________ movement. A.iambic B.anapestic C.trochaic D.dactylic
29.“As thus with thee in prayer in my sore need. / Oh! Lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! / I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed! ” These lines are taken from ________. A.“Ode on a Grecian Urn” B.“Ode to the West Wind” C.“Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat” D.“Ode: Imitations of Immortality”
30.The Romantic Period in American literature started with the publication of ________ The Sketch Book and ended with Whitman’s Leaves of Grass. A.Cooper’s B.Irving’s C.Poe’s D.Freneau’s
31.American Romanticists differed in their understanding of human nature. To Hawthorne and ________, everybody is potentially a sinner and moral courage is indispensable for the improvement of human nature. A.Emerson B.Thoreau C.Melville D.Whitman
32.“Trust thyself, ” Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote in ________, by which he means to convince people that the possibilities for man to develop and improve himself are infinite. A.Nature B.The American Scholar C.The Over-Soul D.Self-Reliance
33.________ is a realist of the inner life. A.William Dean Howells B.Mark Twain C.Henry James D.Theodore Dreiser
34.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.Puritanism D.Realism
35.With the publication of The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and ________, the change in Mark Twain from an optimist to an almost despairing pessimist could be felt and his cynicism and disillusionment with the “damned human race” became obvious. A.Innocents Abroad B.The Adventures of Tom Sawyer C.The Gilded Age D.The Mysterious Stranger
36.Which of the following written by Henry James is not a work on the international theme? A.The Turn of the Screw B.The Portrait of a Lady C.Daisy Miller D.The Wings of the Dove
37.The lines “This is my letter to the World / That never wrote to Me —” were written by ________. A.Robert Frost B.Ezra Pound C.Emily Dickinson D.Walt Whitman
38.The Jazz Age, characterized by frivolity and carelessness, refers to ________. A.1910s B.1920s C.1930s D.1960s
39.Which of the following writers is NOT at the forefront of the so-called “new fiction” in the ________ 1960s and 1970s? A.Kurt Vonnegut B.Joseph Heller C.John Bath D.William Faulkner
40.Which of the following poets was once accused of treason for his engagement in some radio broadcasts of anti-Semitism and pro-Fascism? A.Ezra Pound B.Wallace Stevens C.E. E. Cummings D.Robert Frost
41.Most critics have agreed that ________ is both an insider and an outsider of the Jazz Age with a double vision. A.Sherwood Anderson B.Sinclair Lewis C.F. Scott Fitzgerald D.John Steinbeck
42.________ ’s The Sun Also Rises casts light on a whole generation after the First World War and the effects of the war by way of a vivid portrait of “The Lost Generation. ” A.J. D. Salinger B.Ralph Ellison C.Saul Bellow D.Ernest Hemingway
43.The story “Indian Camp” can be read as ________ ‘s initiation into the pain and violence of birth and death. A.Yank B.Nick Adams C.Ishmael D.Nick Carraway
44.Faulkner once said his ________ is a story of “lost innocence, ” in which the world of the Compson brothers’ childhood is juxtaposed with their present experience, with Caddy as the focal point of juxtaposition. A.The Sound and the Fury B.Light in August C.Absalom, Absalom! D.Go Down, Moses
45.________ is a poet who can hardly be classified with the old or the new, because he did not break up with the poetic tradition like his contemporaries in the early 20th century. A poem, in his version, is “a momentary stay against confusion. ” A.Robert Frost B.Ezra Pound C.Emily Dickinson D.E. E. Cummings
46.“I become a transparent eye-ball. I am nothing. I see all. " The above quotation is taken from ________. A.Thoreau’s Walden B.Emerson’s Nature C.Melville’s Moby-Dick D.Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter
47.The lines “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — / I took the one less traveled by, / And that has made all the difference” are taken from a poem by ________. A.Emily Dickinson B.Ezra Pound C.Robert Frost D.Walt Whitman
48.“‘Faith !’shouted goodman Brown, in a voice of agony and desperation; and the echoes of the forest mocked him, crying — ‘Faith! Faith!’ as if bewildered wretches were seeking her, all through the wilderness, ” The above is taken from ________ ’s work. A.Washington Irving B.Herman Melville C.Henry James D.Nathaniel Hawthorne
49.“There was music from my neighbor’s house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. ” The above is taken from ________. A.Henry James’s Daisy Miller B.F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby C.Ernest Hemingway’s “Indian Camp” D.William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily”
50.“Oh, Carrie, Carrie! Oh, blind strivings of the human heart! ” is taken from ________ ’s work. A.Mark Twain B.Henry James C.Theodore Dreiser D.Emily Dickinson
PART TWO Ⅱ.Questions and Answers (30 points in all, 6 for each) Give brief answers to each of the following questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the ANSWER SHEET.
51.But my dear Lady Teazle, ’tis your own fault if you suffer it — when a husband entertains a groundless suspicion of his wife and withdraws his confidence from her, the original compact is broken and she owes it to the honour of her sex to endeavour to outwit him. Questions A.Identify the author and the play. B.Who is the speaker? What is the relationship between the speaker and Lady Teazle? C.What does the above quoted suggest? ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ 52.Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have more cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. Abeunt studia in mores. Questions A.Identify the author. B.What is the author’s language style. C.Generally speaking, what is the author’s major concern in his writing? ___________________________________________________________________________ 53.And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething, / As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing, / A mighty fountain momently was forced: / Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst / Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, / Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher’s flail: / And ‘mid these dancing rocks at once and ever / It flung up momently the sacred river. Questions A.Identify the poet and the poem. B.What is the main idea of the quoted lines? C.What is the poem mainly about? ___________________________________________________________________________ 54.Because I could not stop for Death — He kindly stopped for me — The Carriage held but just Ourselves — And Immortality. … Since then — ’ tis Centuries — and yet Feels shorter than the Day I first surmised the Horses’ Heads Were toward Eternity — Questions A.The above stanzas are taken from Emily Dickinson’s poem “Because I could not stop for Death —”. What kind of technique does Dickinson use to talk about her idea about death? B.What is her attitude toward death as revealed here? C.What can the difference in tense in the last stanza tell about the persona “I”? ___________________________________________________________________________ 55.“All right, then, I’ll go to hell” — and tore it up. It was awful thoughts, and awful words, but they was said. And I let them stay said; and never thought no more about reforming. I shoved the whole thing out of my head; and said I would take up wickedness again, which was in my line, being brung up to it, and the other warn’t. And for a starter, I would go to work and steal Jim out of slavery again; and if I could think up anything worse, I would do that, too… Questions A.Identify the author and the title of the work. B.Who is the narrator? What has he decided to do? C.What does this tell about his character? ___________________________________________________________________________
Ⅲ.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.
56.Alfred Tennyson and Robert Browning are two great poets of the Victorian age. Explain why the former is acknowledged as the most representative poet of his time, while the latter as the most original one. ___________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________ 57.Explain the historical background against which the Modern American fiction arose. Choose two modern American writers to analyze the differences in form, technique and perspective with those of traditional fiction.
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