[考研类试卷]英语专业（英美文学）模拟试卷3及答案与解析.doc

1、英语专业（英美文学）模拟试卷 3 及答案与解析一、填空题1 In point of chronology, she belonged to the age of Water Scott. However, her realism would place her among the realistic novelists about half a century later. Her settings and subjects are always similar, but within her limited, chosen area of experience there is a cons

2、iderable variety of human types, and the issues are frequently those of moral life and death. This writer here must be_.2 In English poetry, a four-line stanza is called_.3 Samuel Taylor Coleridge had ever composed a verse about a sailor who killed an albatross and his following atonement. The title

3、 of this verse is_.4 The poem Men of England was written by _.5 For the Romantics,_is not only the major source of poetic imagery, but also provides the dominant subject matter.6 The principal elements of_novel are violence, horror, and the supernatural, which strongly appeal to the readers emotion.

4、7 _is a poem based on a traditional Spanish Legend of a great lover and seducer of women.8 _is an elegy written by Shelley for John Keats.9 The two major novelists of the English Romantic Period are_and Jane Austin.10 The first line of William Blakes well-known poem The Tyger reads, “Tyger! Tyger! B

5、urning bright. The repeated word “Tyger“(tiger)with an exclamation mark suggests_.11 Freneau has been called the “_ of American Poetry“, and it is ultimately in a historical estimate that Freneau is important.12 From 1732 to 1758, Franklin wrote and published his famous_, an annual collection of pro

6、verbs.13 On January 10, 1776, Paines famous pamphlets_appeared.14 Cooper launched two kinds of immensely popular stories_and_.15 Two speeches_and _by Emerson made him famous.16 The central figure in the novels,_, goes by the various names of Leatherstocking, Deerslayer, Pathfinder, and Hawkeye.17 Th

7、e essay_stated Thoreaus belief that no man should violate his conscience at the command of a government.18 _deals with the effects of a curse, and though the tale itself is fiction, the germ of the story sprang from Hawthornes family history.二、名词解释19 Terza rima20 Ode21 Byronic hero22 Romanticism23 A

8、lliteration24 American Romanticism25 Symbolism26 The Autobiography27 Calvinism28 American Puritanism三、单项选择题29 The poetic view of_can be best understood from his remark about poetry, that is, “All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.“（A）Samuel Taylor Coleridge（B） John Keats（C

9、） William Wordsworth（D）Percy Bysshe Shelley30 In English poetry the_is regarded as the most common foot.（A）iamb（B） anapest（C） trochee（D）dactyl31 In Byrons poem Song for the Luddites, the word “Luddite“ refers to the_.（A）workers who destroyed the machines in their protest against unemployment（B） risi

10、ng bourgeoisie who fought against the aristocratic class（C） descendents of the ancient king, King Lud（D）poor country people who suffered under the rule of the landlord class32 “Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood and dale the sacred river ran Then reached the caverns measureless to

11、 man, And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean.“. The above lines are taken from_.（A）Wordsworths The Solitary Reaper（B） Blakes The Chimney Sweeper（C） Coleridges Kubla Khan（D）Keatss Ode on an Grecian Urn33 In his poem, “Ode to the West Wind“, Shelley intends to present his wind as a central_ around whi

12、ch the poem weaves various cycles of death and rebirth.（A）concept（B） symbol（C） simile（D）metonymy34 In the conversation with his wife in Chapter One of Pride and Prejudice, Mr. Bennet uses a(n)_tone with sarcastic humor.（A）solemn（B） harsh（C） arrogant（D）teasing35 What does Wordsworths poem The Solitar

13、y Reaper tell us about Romanticists?（A）To romanticists, poetry is an expression of an individuals feelings and experiences no matter how fragmentary and momentary these feelings and experiences are.（B） Romanticists take delight only in sound effect; the theme of a work is not their concern.（C） Roman

14、ticists are not patient people; they would leave before the revelation of the theme.（D）Poetry should present the apparent and tangible.36 The lines “It was a miracle of rare device, /A sunny pleasure dome with caves of ice“ are found in_.（A）Samuel Taylor Coleridges Kubla Khan（B） William Wordsworths

15、Lines Written in Early Spring（C） John Keatss Ode to Autumn（D）Percy Bysshe Shelleys Ode to the West Wind37 Prometheus Unbound is Shelleys greatest achievement. Prometheus, according to the Greek mythology, was chained by Zeus on Mount Caucasus and suffered the vultures feeding on his liver for_.（A）pl

16、anning a revolt to dethrone God（B） misinterpreting Gods decree to reconcile man and nature（C） prophesying the arrival of spring in a winter season（D）stealing the fire from heaven and giving it to man38 Generally speaking, English Romanticism refers to the period of_.（A）17981832（B） 16601798（C） 183619

17、01（D）1789183239 In his lyrics such as Ode to Liberty, Ode to Naples, Percy Bysshe Shelley expressed his love for _and his hatred toward tyranny.（A）the middle class（B） freedom（C） the poor（D）the working class40 English Romanticism, as a historical phase of literature, is generally said to have ended i

18、n 1832 with_.（A）Sir Walter Scotts death and the passage of the first Reform Bill in the Parliament（B） the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridges Lyrical Ballads（C） the publication of The Sketch Book（D）the publication of Leaves of Grass41 Among all his poems, the_are regarded as Keats most importan

19、t and mature works.（A）Ode to Psyche（B） Odes（C） Ode on a Grecian Urn（D）Ode to a Nightingale42 Compared to the fact that the Augustans emphasized those features that men have in common, the Romantics emphasized the_.（A）special qualities of each individuals mind（B） ambition（C） the inner world of the hu

20、man spirit（D）sympathy to each other43 Romanticism does not emphasize_.（A）the special qualities of each individuals mind（B） the inner world of the human spirit（C） individuality（D）the features that men have in common44 _is a Romantic novelist but is impressed with neoclassic strains.（A）Walter Scott（B）

21、 Mary Shelley（C） Jane Austen（D）Ann Radcliff45 _is not characteristic of William Blakes writing.（A）plain and direct language（B） compression of meaning（C） supernatural quality（D）symbolism46 Wordsworth thinks that_is the only subject of literary interest.（A）the life of rising bourgeoisie（B） aristocrati

22、c life（C） the life of the royal family（D）common life47 _is not a novel written by Jane Austen.（A）Jane Eyre（B） Sense and Sensibility（C） Pride and Prejudice（D）Emma48 “And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree; And here were forests ancient as the hil

23、ls, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.“ The above lines are taken from_.（A）Keatss Ode on an Grecian Urn（B） Coleridges Kubla Khan（C） Wordsworths The Solitary Reaper（D）Blakes The Chimney Sweeper49 Poetry has been traditionally regarded as an art governed by rules; but to the Romantics, poetry should b

24、e free from all_.（A）rhymes（B） rhythm（C） rules（D）meter50 In the Romantic Age,_is a great critic on Shakespeare, Elizabethan drama, and English poetry.（A）Walter Scott（B） Jane Austen（C） William Hazlitt（D）John Milton51 _novel, a type of romantic fiction that predominated in the late eighteenth century,

25、was one phase of the Romantic Movement. Its principal elements are violence, horror, and the supernatural, which strongly appeal to the readers emotion.（A）Gothic（B） Sentimentalist（C） Pastoral（D）Realist 52 The two collections of poems written by William Blake,_and_, hold the similar subject-matter, b

26、ut the tone, emphasis and conclusion differ.（A）Songs of Innocence/ Songs of Experience（B） Poetical Sketches/ Songs of Innocence（C） Poetical Sketches/ Marriage of Heaven and Hell（D）Songs of Experience/ Poetical Sketches53 A number of poems from the Songs of Innocence find a counterpart in the Songs o

27、f Experience. For instance, the Infant Joy is matched with the Infant Sorrow, and the pure Lamb is paired with the flaming_.（A）the Chimney Sweeper（B） London（C） Tyger（D）Fire54 Returning to England from Germany in 1799, William Wordsworth and his sister settled at Dove Cottage in Grasmere, Westmorelan

28、d, the loveliest spot in the English Lake District. The poet _as well as_lived nearby, and the three became known as the Lake Poets.（A）Robert Southey/ Samuel Taylor Coleridge（B） Samuel Taylor Coleridge / George Gordon Byron（C） John Keats /Robert Southey（D）George Gordon Byron/ Percy Bysshe Shelley55

29、In the “Preface“ to the Second edition of the_, William Wordsworth asserted that poetry originates from “emotion recollected in tranquility“.（A）Biographia Liter aria（B） Lyrical Ballads（C） Confessions of an English Opium Eater（D）I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud56 133. P.B. Shelleys work of literary criti

30、cism is_.（A）Men of England（B） An Essay on Criticism（C） A Defence of Poetry（D）Cain57 William Wordsworth is a poet in memory of the past. To him, life is a cyclical journey. Its beginning finally turns out to be its end. His philosophy of life is presented in his masterpiece_.（A）The Prelude（B） My hear

31、t Leaps Up（C） Tintern Abbey（D）Ode to the West Wind58 Among the_group of Samuel Taylor Coleridges poems, Frost at Midnight is the most important.（A）demonic（B） conversational（C） pastoral（D）sentimental59 _ has always been regarded as a writer who perfected the best classic style that American Literatur

32、e ever produced.“（A）Hawthorne（B） Irving（C） Melville（D）Whitman60 Rip Van Winkle reveals the theme of_the past.（A）nostalgia for（B） rejection to（C） detachment from（D）dislike for61 _is not the work by Whitman.（A）Cavalry Crossing a Ford（B） When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom d（C） There Was a Child Wen

33、t Forth（D）Fire and Ice62 _is the narrator in Moby-Dick.（A）Ahab（B） Ishmael（C） Flask（D）Queequeg63 The Romantic Period in the history of American Literature began at_.（A）the beginning of the 18th century（B） the end of the 18th century（C） the Civil War（D）the beginning of the 19th century64 Transcendenta

34、lism was put forward by the people from_.（A）Mid-West（B） West（C） New England（D）England65 _literary world turns out to be a most disturbed, tormented and problematical one, which has much to do with his “black“ vision of life and human beings.（A）Herman Melvilles（B） Washington livings（C） Nathaniel Hawt

35、hornes（D）Walt Whitmans66 Most of the poems in_sing of the en-masse and the self as well.（A）Leaves of Grass（B） Drum Taps（C） North of Boston（D）The Cantos67 In 1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson made a speech entitled_at Harvard, which was hailed by Oliver Wendell Holmes as “Our Intellectual Declaration of Inde

36、pendence.“（A）Nature（B） Self-Reliance（C） Divinity School Address（D）The American Scholar68 In Hawthornes Young Goodman Brown, a satanic figure leads the credulous protagonist to a witches Sabbath in the woods. There he recognizes many pillars of Salems Puritan society as well as his wife, Faith. The s

37、tory illustrates Hawthornes allegorical theme of human evil or what Melville called the “power of_.“（A）blackness（B） whiteness（C） terror（D）hypocrisy69 Which of the following is NOT one of the main ideas advocated by Emerson, the chief spokesman of American Romanticism?（A）Importance of the Individual.

38、（B） Faith in Christianity.（C） The Over-Soul.（D）Self-Reliance.70 We can perhaps summarize that Walt Whitmans poems are characterized by all the following features EXCEPT that they are_.（A）conversational and casual（B） lyrical and well-structured（C） simple and rather crude（D）free-flowing71 Melvilles_is

39、 an encyclopedia of everything, history, philosophy, religion, etc, in addition to a detailed account of the operations of the whaling industry.（A）The Old Man and the Sea（B） Moby-Dick（C） White Jacket（D）Billy Budd72 “The universe is composed of Nature and the soul. Spirit is present everywhere.“ This

40、 is the voice of the book Nature written by Emerson, which pushed American Romanticism into a new phase, the phase of New England_.（A）Romanticism（B） Transcendentalism（C） Naturalism（D）Symbolism73 Which of the following works began to make Irving internationally known?（A）The Sketch Book.（B） Bracebridg

41、e Hall.（C） A History of New York to the End of the Dutch Dynasty.（D）Tales of Traveller.74 Which of the following is NOT true concerning Washington Irving?（A）He is the father of the American short stories.（B） He is the American Goldsmith.（C） He is the first American writer to win international fame.（

42、D）He is the first American writer to declare the independence of American literature.75 The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne is mainly concerned with_.（A）the corruption of the society（B） the consequence of sin and guilt（C） the wrong doing of one generation that lives into the successive ones（D）overreachi

43、ng intellect76 Which of the following writers is NOT optimistic about the human nature?（A）Ralph Waldo Emerson（B） Nathaniel Hawthorne（C） Walt Whitman（D）Henry David Thoreau77 The famous 20-year sleep in Rip Van Winkle helps to construct the story in such a way that we are greatly affected by livings_.

44、（A）involvement with the passage of time（B） transient beauty（C） laziness and corruptibility of human beings（D）supernatural manipulation of mans life78 Henry David Thoreaus work,_, has always been regarded as a masterpiece of the New England Transcendental Movement.（A）Walden（B） The Pioneers（C） Nature（

45、D）Song of Myself79 The pink ribbon appears three times in respectively three places in Young Goodman Brown, which might possibly suggest that_.（A）Goodman Browns night trial in the forest might be an illusion（B） faith is seen to be there with Brown at the witch meeting（C） Hawthorne uses it as an indi

46、cation of Browns physical presence in the forest（D）the pink ribbon is not Faiths80 “Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind“ is a famous quote from_ writings.（A）Walt Whitmans（B） Henry David Thoreaus（C） Herman Melvilles（D）Ralph Waldo Emersons81 Which of the following statements a

47、bout The Scarlet Letter is NOT true?（A）It explores mans never-ending search for the satisfaction of materialistic desires.（B） It relates the conflicts between the society and the individual.（C） It is about the effect of sin on the people involved and the society as a whole.（D）It presents a psycholog

48、ical analysis of the inward tensions of the characters.82 The theme of_may be well stated as “It sings of nationalism and of the nature of the self in relation to the cosmos and the meaning and purpose of birth and death.“（A）Edgar Allan Poes To Helen（B） Robert Frosts The Road Not Taken（C） Walt Whitmans Song of Myself（D）Emily Dickinsons Because I could not stop for Death83 The American Puritanism as a cultural heritage benefited the Americans in_.（A）strengthening their moral value