1、英美文学选读自考题-21 及答案解析(总分：100.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、B(总题数：36，分数：18.00)1.Which of the following brings little impact on the development of the 20th century literature? A. Friedrich Nietzsches assertions: “God is dead.“ B. Arthur Schopenhauers and Henry Bergsons philosophical ideas of irrationality. C. Oscar Wi
2、ldes idea of “Art for Arts Sake“. D. Freudian-Jungian psycho-analysis.（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.2.Modernism takes the irrational philosophy and _ as its theoretical base. A. the theory of psycho-analysis B. Darwins evolutionary theory C. the French symbolism D. Utilitarianism（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.3.The French _,
3、appearing in the late 19th century, heralded modernism. A. romanticism B. realism C. expressionism D. symbolism（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.4.After the First World War, there appeared the following literary trends of modernism except _. A. expressionism B. surrealism C. stream of consciousness D. black humour（分
4、数：0.50）A.B.C.D.5.The following except _ were outstanding realistic novelists of the 20th century. A. John Galsworthy B. Dorothy Richardson C. H.G. Wells D. Arnold Bennett（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.6.In the early 20th century, in his novels of social satire _ made realistic studies of the aspirations and frust
5、rations of the “Little Man“. A. H.G.Wells B. Arnold Bennett C. John Galsworthy D. Bernard Shaw（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.7.Which of the following figures is not known as “the Angry Young Men“? A. Thomas Hardy. B. John Wain. C. John Braine. D. Kingsley Amis.（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.8._ among the “Angry Young Men“ nove
6、lists in the mid-1950s and early 1960s was the first to start the attack on middle class privileges and power in his novel Lucky Jim. A. Kinsley Amis B. John Wain C. John Osborne D. John Braine（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.9.In Oscar Wildes masterpiece, _ he expressed a satirical and bitter attitude towards the
7、upper-class people by revealing their corruption, snobbery, hypocrisy. A. Solome B. The Importance of Being Earnest C. The Happy Prince D. A Woman of No Importance（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.10.The major concern of _ fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological development of his characters and in his ener
8、getic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature. A. John Galsworthys B. Thomas Hardys C. D.H. Lawrences D. Charles Dickens（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.11.The following except _ brought about the Irish National Theater Movement in the early 20th century. A. W. Yeats
9、 B. Lady Gregory C. J.M. Synge D. Oscar Wilde（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.12.Another original and distinguished artist the Abbey Theater produced was _, who dealt in his work with political and social themes of the Irish National Movement and with the sufferings of the Irish townspeople. A. W. Yeats B. Scan OCa
10、sey C. Lady Gregory D. Bernard Shaw（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.13.One of the early experimenters of poetic drama in England in the 1930s was _, who regarded dramas as the best medium of poetry. A. Bernard Shaw B. Oscar Wilde C.T.S. Eliot D. John Osborne（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.14.The most original playwright of the Th
11、eater of Absurd was _. A. Samuel Beckett B. John Osborne C. Bernard Shaw D. W. Yeats（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.15.As a critic of music and drama, _ held that art should serve social purposes by reflecting human life, revealing social contradictions and education the common people. A. T.S. Eliot B. Oscar Wilde
12、r C. George Bernard Shaw D. W. Yeats（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.16.G.B. Shaws play _ established his position as the leading playwright of his time. A. Widowers Houses B. Too True to Be Good C. Mrs. Warrens Profession D. Candida（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.17.The Doctors Dilemma by Bernard Shaw describes the medical profe
13、ssion as the following except _. A. ignorance B. incompetence C. ambitious D. arrogance and bigotry（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.18.Much of Shavian drama is constructed around the _ of a conventional theatrical situation. A. tradition B. inversion C. bordering D. distortion（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.19.George Bernard Shaw
14、s _ is a grotesquely realistic exposure of slum landlordism. A. Widowers House B. Mrs. Warrens Profession C. The Apple Cart D. Getting Married（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.20.T.S. Eliots _ bearing a strong thematic resemblance to The Waste Land, is generally regarded as the darkest of Eliots poems. A. Gerontion
15、B. Pru frock C. Murder in the Cathedral D. The Hollow Men（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.21.T.S. Eliot won the Nobel Prize of Literature in _. A. 1945 B. 1948 C. 1952 D. 1956（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.22.Which of the following poems by T.S. Eliot is hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th-century English poetry? A. Poe
16、ms 19091925. B. The Hollow Men. C. Pru frock and Other Observations. D. The Waste Land.（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.23.Generally speaking, _ is the best of T.S. Eliots plays in the sense that it contains the best poetry and the most coherent drama. A. Murder in the Cathedral B. The Cocktail Party C. The Elder S
17、tatesman D. The Family Reunion（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.24.As an important prose writer, in his famous essay, Tradition and Individual Talent, Eliot put great emphasis on the importance of _ both in creative writing and in criticism. A. change B. creativity C. ethic D. tradition（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.25.“The Love
18、Song of J. Alfred Prufrock“, Eliots most striking early achievement, presents the meditation of an aging young man over the business of _. A. proposing marriage B. pursuing the truth C. losing idealism D. making a choice（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.26.Symbolism and complex narrative are employed more richly in
19、D.H. Lawrences _, which are generally regarded as his masterpieces. A. Women in Love; Sons and Lovers B. The Rainbow; Women in Love C. Sons and Lovers; Lady Chatterleys Lover D. Lady Chatterleys Lover; The Rainbow（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.27.Lawrence was recognized as a prominent novelist only after he publi
20、shed his third novel, _. A. The Rainbow B. Women in Love C. Sons and Lovers D. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.28.D.H. Lawrences _ is a remarkable novel in which the individual consciousness is subtly revealed and strands of themes are intricately wound up. A. Sons and Lovers
21、 B. The Rainbow C. Women in Love D. Lady Chatterleys Love（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.29.Which of the following writings by D. H. Lawrence is regarded to be a more profoundly ordered novel than any other written by him? A. The Rainbow. B. Sons and Lovers. C. The White Peacock. D. Women in Love.（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.
22、30.The plays known as “the Lawrence trilogy“ are all the following except _. A. A Colliers Friday Night B. Lady Chatterleys Lover C. The Daughter-in-Law D. The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyed（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.31.D.H. Lawrences poems fall roughly into the following three categories except _. A. satirical an
23、d comic poems B. poems about human relationships and emotions C. poems about nature D. poems about life（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.32.The statement “A demanding mother turns away from her husband and gives all her affection to her sons“ sums up the main plot of D.H. Lawrences _. A. Lady Chatterleys Lover B. Wo
24、men in Love C. Sons and Lovers D. The Plumed Serpent（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.33.The excerpt from Chapter 10 of Sons and Lovers ends with the conflict between Paul and his mother. The conflict is possibly caused by Pauls and his mothers different views towards _. A. Pauls father B. art C. life D. Pauls broth
25、er（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.34.As one of the first novelists to introduce the themes of psychology into his works, D.H. Lawrence uses _ to present the psychological aspects of his characters. A. dramatic monologue B. stream of consciousness C. poetic imagination and symbolism D. romantic and realistic tradit
26、ion（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.35.The story starting with the marriage of Pauls parents Walter Morel and Mrs. Morel must be _. A. Thomas Hardys Tess of the DUrbervilles B. D. H. Lawrences Sons and Lovers C. George Eliots Middlemarch D. Charlotte Bronts Jane Eyre（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.36.“He was silent with conceit o
27、f his son. Mrs. Morel sniffed, as if it were nothing.“ (Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence)From the above quotation, we can see that Mrs. Morels attitude to her husband is _. A. sincerely warm B. genuinely kind C. seemingly angry D. merely contemptuous（分数：0.50）A.B.C.D.二、B(总题数：5，分数：45.00)Read the quot
28、ed parts carefully and answer the question in English.MRS. WARREN. after looking at her helplessly, begins to whimper VivieVIVIE. springing up sharply Now pray dont begin to cry. Anything but that. I really cannot stand whimpering. I will go out of the room if you do.MRS. WARREN. piteously? Oh, my d
29、arling, how can you be so hard on me? Have I no rights over you as your mother?VIVIE. Are you my mother?MRS. WARREN. appalled Am I your mother! Oh, Vivie!ViVIE. Then where are our relatives? my father? our family friends? You Claim the rights of a mother: the right to call me fool and child; to spea
30、k to me as no woman in authority over me at college dare speak to me; to dictate my way of life; and to force on me the acquaintance of a brute whom anyone can see to be the most vicious sort of London man about town. Before I give myself the trouble to resist such claims, I may as well find out whe
31、ther they have any real existence.（分数：9.00）(1).Identify the author and the title of the play from which the part is taken.（分数：3.00）_(2).Summarize the theme of the play in one or two sentences.（分数：3.00）_(3).What kind of person is the protagonist Vivie?（分数：3.00）_“The yellow fog that rubs its back upon
32、 the windowpanes, /The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the windowpanes/Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening, / Lingered upon the pools that stand in drains.“（分数：9.00）(1).Identify the author and the title of the work from which this stanza is taken.（分数：3.00）_(2).Write down the chara
33、cteristic of the protagonist in the poem.（分数：3.00）_(3).What is the setting of the poem?（分数：3.00）_The following quotation is from one of the poems by T.S. Eliot:No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be; /Am an attendant lord, one that will do/To swell a progress, start a scene or two/Advise th
34、e prince; no doubt, an easy tool, / Deferential, glad to be of use, /Politic, cautious, and meticulous; /Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse;（分数：9.00）(1).Identify the title of the poem from which the quoted part is taken.（分数：3.00）_(2).Whos the speaker of the quoted lines?（分数：3.00）_(3).What does
35、the first line show about the speaker?（分数：3.00）_“He went out to dinner several times in his evening suit that had been Williams. Each time his mothers heart was firm with pride and joy. He was started now. The studs she and the children had bought for William were in his shirt-front; he wore one of
36、Williams dress shirts. But he had an elegant figure. His face was rough, but warm-looking and rather pleasing. He did not look particularly a gentleman, but she thought he looked quite a man.“（分数：9.00）(1).What is the title of the novel from which this passage is taken? Who is the author?（分数：3.00）_(2
37、).Why each time his mothers heart was firm with pride and joy?（分数：3.00）_(3).What idea does this passage express?（分数：3.00）_“You never give it a chance, she said. Then suddenly all her passion of grief over him broke out. But it does matter! she cried. And you ought to be happy, you ought to try to be
38、 happy, to live to be happy. How could I bear to think your life wouldnt be a happy one!“（分数：9.00）(1).From which work is this quotation taken?（分数：3.00）_(2).Who is speaking to whom?（分数：3.00）_(3).Why couldnt she bear to think his life wouldnt be a happy one?（分数：3.00）_三、B(总题数：3，分数：15.00)37.George Berna
39、rd Shaw is the leading playwright of his time. Whats Bernard Shaws viewpoint on literature?（分数：5.00）_38.What are the themes of George Bernard Shaw in his works?（分数：5.00）_39.It is said that B. Shaws play Mrs. Warrens Profession, has a strong realistic theme, which fully reflects the dramatists Fabian
40、ist idea. Whats the theme of the work?（分数：5.00）_四、B(总题数：3，分数：22.00)40.Comment on the characteristics of Modernist literature.（分数：7.00）_41.Discuss briefly the features of Bernard Shaws works.（分数：8.00）_42.The Waste Land is T.S. Eliots most important single poem. Try to state the theme and the signific
41、ance of the poem briefly.（分数：7.00）_英美文学选读自考题-21 答案解析(总分：100.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、B(总题数：36，分数：18.00)1.Which of the following brings little impact on the development of the 20th century literature? A. Friedrich Nietzsches assertions: “God is dead.“ B. Arthur Schopenhauers and Henry Bergsons philosophical ideas of irrationality. C. Oscar Wildes idea of “Art for Arts Sake“. D. Freudian-Jungian psycho-analysis.（分数：0.50）A.B.C. D.解析：解析 十九世纪末二十世纪初，西欧产生了许多哲学思想。其中，弗洛伊德的精神分析法改变了人们对人性的认识。叔本华的悲观主义与反理性哲学强调了人的意愿与直觉的重要性。尼采进一步反叛理性主义与基督教精神，推崇强权与霸权。伯格森在前人基础上创立了非理性哲学，强调创造力、直觉、
