【学历类职业资格】英美文学选读自考题模拟21及答案解析.doc

1、英美文学选读自考题模拟 21及答案解析(总分：99.96，做题时间：90 分钟)1._ is a master satirist. His satire is usually masked by an outward gravity and an apparent earnestness which renders his satire all the more powerful.（分数：1.00）A.Jonathan SwiftB.Daniel DefoeC.Henry FieldingD.Thomas Gray2.In the Romantic Age, _ is a great crit

2、ic on Shakespeare, Elizabethan drama, and English poetry.（分数：1.00）A.ByronB.Jane AustenC.William HazlittD.William Blake3.Robert Browning who created the verse novel by adopting the novelistic presentation of characters, was among the famous _ poet.（分数：1.00）A.neoclassicalB.realisticC.experimentalD.vic

3、torian4.Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Modernism?（分数：1.00）A.To elevate the individual and inner being over the social being.B.To put the stress on traditional values.C.To portray the distorted and alienated relationships between man and his environment.D.To advocate a conscious b

4、reak with the past.5.After The adventures of Tom Sawyer, Twain gives a literary independence to Tom“s buddy Huck in a book entitled _.（分数：1.00）A.Life on the MississippiB.The Gilded AgeC.Adventures of Huckleberry FinnD.A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthu“s Court6.In Hemingway“s “Indian Camp,“ Nick“s n

5、ight trip to the Indian village and his experience inside the hut can be taken as _.（分数：1.00）A.an essential lesson about Indian tribesB.a confrontation with evil and sinC.an initiation to the harshness of lifeD.a learning process in human relationship7._ originally drafted as “First Impressions“ in

6、1796.（分数：1.00）A.Mansfield ParkB.Pride and PrejudiceC.EmmaD.Northanger Abbey8.One of the greatest critical realist writer of _ is Charles Dickens.（分数：1.00）A.the Victorian PeriodB.the Neoclassical PeriodC.the Renaissance PeriodD.the Romantic Period9.The 1930s witnessed great economic depressions, mass

7、 unemployment, and the rise of“ the Nazis. Facing such a severe situation, most of the young intellects started to turn to the left. And therefore the period was known as “the _ thirties.“（分数：1.00）A.blackB.redC.hardD.mad10.The outstanding realistic novelists in the early 20th-century England were _

8、, H. G. Wells and Arnold Bennett.（分数：1.00）A.George Bernard ShawB.John GalsworthyC.James JoyceD.S. Eliot11.“I like to see it lap the Miles“ is a poem written by _.（分数：1.00）A.Ezra PoundB.Walt WhitmanC.Robert FrostD.Emily Dickinson12.Shelley“s masterpiece, Prometheus Unbound, is a verse drama, which bo

9、rrows the basic story from _.（分数：1.00）A.the BibleB.a German LegendC.a Greek playD.One Thousand and One Nights13.In the first part of the novel Pride and Prejudice, Mr. Darcy has a(n) _ of the Bennet family.（分数：1.00）A.high opinionB.great admirationC.low opinionD.erroneous view14.Mr. Micawber in David

10、 Copperfield and Sam Well in The Pickwick Paper are perhaps the best _ characters created by Charles Dickens.（分数：1.00）A.comicalB.tragicC.roundD.sophisticated15.A typical feature of the English Victorian literature is that writers became social and moral _, exposing all kinds of social evils.（分数：1.00

11、）A.revolutionariesB.idealistsC.criticsD.defenders16.“Then all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.“ In the quoted sentence, the author might imply that _.（分数：1.00）A.nothing changes in the 5,000 years of human historyB.man“s desire to conquer natu

12、re can only end in his own destructionC.nature is evil as it was 5,000 years agoD.nature has the ultimate creative power17.Beside symbolism, all the following qualities EXCEPT _ are fused to make Melville“s Moby-Dick a world classic.（分数：1.00）A.narrative powerB.psychological analysisC.speculative agi

13、lityD.optimistic View of life18.In all his novels Theodore Dreiser sets himself to project the _ American values. For example, in Sister Carrie, there is not one character whose status, is not determined economically.（分数：1.00）A.PuritanB.materialisticC.psychologicalD.religious19.Which of the followin

14、g statements about E. Grierson, the protagonist in Faulkner“s story A Rose for Emily is NOT true?（分数：1.00）A.She has a distorted personality.B.She is physically deformed and paralyzed.C.She is the symbol of the old values of the South.D.She is the victim of the past glory.20.After his experiences in

15、the forest, Goodman Brown returns to Salem _.（分数：1.00）A.desperate and gloomyB.renewed in his faithC.wearing a black veilD.unaware of his own sin21._ was the leader of the Irish National Theater Movement in the early 20th century.（分数：1.00）A.B. YeatsB.Lady GregoryC.M. SyngeD.John Galsworthy22.The poem

16、s such as “The Chimney Sweeper“ are found in both Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience by _.（分数：1.00）A.William WordsworthB.William BlakeC.John KeatsD.George Gordon Byron23.“For I have known them all already, known them all/Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, /I have measured out my

17、life with coffee spoons.“ The above lines are taken from _.（分数：1.00）A.Wordsworth“s The Solitary ReaperB.Eliot“s The Love Song of J. Alfred PrufrockC.Coleridge“s Kubla KhanD.Yeats“s The Lake Isle of Innisfree24.The story starting with the marriage of Paul“s parents Walter Morel and Mrs. Morel must be

18、 _.（分数：1.00）A.Thomas Hardy“s Tess of the D“UrbervillesB.H. Lawrence“s Sons and LoversC.George Eliot“s MiddlemarchD.Charlotte Bronte“s Jane Eyre25.Theodore Dreiser was once criticized for his _ in style, but as a true artist his strength just lies in that his style is very serious and well calculated

19、 to achieve the thematic ends he sought.（分数：1.00）A.crudenessB.eleganceC.concisenessD.subtlety26.“He is the last of the romantic heroes, whose energy and sense of commitment take him in search of his personal grail; his failure magnifies to a great extent the end of the American Dream.“ The character

20、 referred to in the passage is most likely the protagonist of（分数：1.00）A.Fitzgerald“s The Great GatsbyB.Dreiser“s An American TragedyC.Hemingway“s For Whom the Bell TollsD.Twain“s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn27.American writers after World War I self-consciously acknowledged that they were (a)“_,“

21、devoid of faith and alienated from the Western civilization.（分数：1.00）A.Lost GenerationB.Beat GenerationC.Sons of LibertyD.Angry Young Men28.In his realistic fiction, Henry James“s primary concern is to present the _.（分数：1.00）A.inner life of human beingsB.American Civil War and its effectsC.life on t

22、he Mississippi RiverD.Calvinistic view of original sin29._ is a natural means of writing in revealing the prince“s inner conflict and psychological predicament in Shakespeare“s Hamlet.（分数：1.00）A.DialogueB.SoliloquyC.Dramatic monologueD.Satire30.The hero of one of his main works is an Israel“s mighty

23、 champion, blind, alone, and fighting against his thoughtless enemies. This hero“s experience is in close resemblance to the poet himself. The poet“s name is _.（分数：1.00）A.John MiltonB.John BunyanC.Edmund SpenserD.Christopher Marlowe31.The sentence “three or four families in a country village are the

24、 very thing to work on“ can best reflect the writer“s personal knowledge and range of writing. This writer is _.（分数：1.00）A.Walter ScottB.Thomas HardyC.Charlotte BronteD.Jane Austen32.In comparison to T. S. Eliot“s later poems, his early ones are marked by _.（分数：1.00）A.a dreamy quality, expressing me

25、lancholy and self-indulgent feelingsB.a mood of disillusionment and the sufferings of modern peopleC.a philosophical and emotional calmD.a set of historical, cultural and religious themes33.“Cavalry Crossing a Ford“ by Whitman reminds its readers of a picture, or a photo, of a scene of _.（分数：1.00）A.

26、the American War of IndependenceB.the Westward MovementC.the U. S. -Spanish WarD.the American Civil War34.Which one of the following statements about Hawthorne“s The Scarlet Letter is true?（分数：1.00）A.Hawthorne intended to tell a love story in this novel.B.Hawthorne intended to tell a story of sin in

27、 this novel.C.Hawthorne intended to reveal the human psyche after they sinned, so as to show people the tension between society and individuals.D.Hawthorne focused his attention on consequences of the sin on the people in general, so as to call the readers back to the conventional Puritan way of liv

28、ing.35.Literature of Neoclassicism is different from that of Romanticism in that _.（分数：1.00）A.the former celebrates reason, rationality, order and instruction while the latter sees literature as an expression of an individual“s feeling and experiencesB.the former is heavily religious but the latter

29、secularC.the former is an intellectual movement, the purpose of which is to arouse the middle class for political rights while the latter is concerned with the personal cultivationD.the former advocates the “return to nature“ whereas the latter turns to the ancient Greek and Roman writers for its mo

30、dels36.Which of the following poem by T. S. Eliot is hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th-century English poetry?（分数：1.00）A.The CriterionB.The Hollow MenC.Prufrock and Other ObservationsD.The Waste Land37._ has long been well known as a poet who can hardly be classified with the old or the n

31、ew.（分数：1.00）A.Emily DickinsonB.William FaulknerC.Robert Lee FrostD.Ezra Pound38.It is the greatest masters of English prose _ that defined a good style as “proper words in proper places.“（分数：1.00）A.Henry FieldingB.Jonathan SwiftC.Samuel JohnsonD.Alexander Pope39._ defined poetry as “the spontaneous

32、overflow of powerful feelings, which originates in emotion recollected in tranquillity.“（分数：1.00）A.William WordsworthB.William BlakeC.Percy Bysshe ShelleyD.Robert Southey40.In the way the montage does in a movie, _ deliberately broke up the chronology of his narrative by juxtaposing the past with th

33、e present, in most of his writings.（分数：1.00）A.Walt WhitmanB.William FaulknerC.Ernest HemingwayD.Scott FitzgeraldThere 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. At hig

34、h tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft, or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motor-boats slit the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of foam. On week-ends his Rolls-Royce became an omnibus, bearing parties to and fro

35、m the city between nine in the morning and long past midnight, while his station wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug to meet all trains. And on Mondays eight servants, including an extra gardener, toiled all day with mops and scrubbing-brushes and hammers and garden-shears, repairing the ravages

36、 of the night before. Questions:（分数：3.99）(1).A. Identify the author and the title of the novel from which this passage is taken.（分数：1.33）_(2).B. What can you imply by reading this passage?（分数：1.33）_(3).C. What do the “moths“ symbolize?（分数：1.33）_Whether fagged by the three days“running chase-, and th

37、e resistance to his swimming in the knotted hamper he bore; or whether it was some latent deceitfulness and malice in him. Questions:（分数：3.99）(1).A. Where is it taken from?（分数：1.33）_(2).B. Who is the author?（分数：1.33）_(3).C. What does “he, his, him“ refer to?（分数：1.33）_Two roads diverged in a yellow w

38、ood, And sorry I could not travel both. Questions:（分数：3.99）(1).A. Who is the author?（分数：1.33）_(2).B. What does “diverged“ mean?（分数：1.33）_(3).C. What does the line imply?（分数：1.33）_44 Only Miss Emily“s house was left, lifting its stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton wagons and the gasoline p

39、umpsan eyesore among eyesores. Questions:（分数：3.99）(1).A. Identify the author and the title of the story from which the quoted lines are taken.（分数：1.33）_(2).B. What is the meaning of “an eyesore among eyesores“?（分数：1.33）_(3).C. What does this quoted passage indicate?（分数：1.33）_41.William Shakespeare i

40、s one of the most remarkable playwrights the world has ever known. Name his four greatest tragedies and summarize the characteristics of the four tragedies in common. （分数：6.00）_42.Emily Dickinson is now recognized not only a great poetess on her own right but as a poetess of considerable influence u

41、pon American poetry of the present century. What is the theme of Dickinson“s poem? （分数：6.00）_43.Whitman is one of the representative poets in America. He employs brand-new means in his poetry. What are the features of his poetry? （分数：6.00）_44.Inspiration for the romantic approach initially came from

42、 two great shapers of thought. Who are the two? And what ideas they expressed inspire the romantic writers? （分数：6.00）_45.Literarily, William Blake was the first important romantic poet. Please make a brief comment on his poetry. （分数：10.00）_46.Elizabeth Bennet, the heroine in Pride and Prejudice, is

43、often regarded as the most successful character created by Jane Austen. Make a brief comment on Elizabeth“s character. （分数：10.00）_英美文学选读自考题模拟 21答案解析(总分：99.96，做题时间：90 分钟)1._ is a master satirist. His satire is usually masked by an outward gravity and an apparent earnestness which renders his satire a

44、ll the more powerful.（分数：1.00）A.Jonathan Swift B.Daniel DefoeC.Henry FieldingD.Thomas Gray解析：解析 本题主要考查的知识点为斯威夫特的文学地位。 斯威夫特是讽刺作品大师，他的讽刺笔触极具力度。2.In the Romantic Age, _ is a great critic on Shakespeare, Elizabethan drama, and English poetry.（分数：1.00）A.ByronB.Jane AustenC.William Hazlitt D.William Blake解