1、2012 年四川大学英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷及答案与解析一、名词解释1 Charles Lamb2 Waiting for Godot3 The theatre of the absurd4 Tales of the Grotesque and the Arabesque5 Carl Sandburg二、单项选择题6 Most of Thomas Hardys novels are set in_, the fictional erode rural region which is really the home place he both loves and hates.（A）Susse
2、x（B） Wessex（C） Casterbridge（D）Dorsetshire7 Dickens takes the sinister aspect of the British legal system as the theme of his novel_（A）Great Expectation（B） Bleak House（C） Oliver Twist（D）Hard times8 Beowulf, a typical example of_, is regarded today as the national epic of the Anglo-Saxons.（A）modern dr
3、ama（B） medieval drama（C） modem poetry（D）Old English poetry9 Peter is one of the major characters in_.（A）Lord of the Flies（B） Waiting for Godot（C） Lycidas（D）The Pilgrims Progress10 The word which best describes the tone of the poem When We Two Parted is_.（A）sentimental（B） ironic（C） paradoxical（D）real
4、istic11 Which one of the following is the author of The Hairy Ape?（A）Tennessee Williams（B） Arthur Miller（C） Eugene ONeill（D）T. S. Eliot12 A Farewell to Arms is about the traumatic war experience in_.（A）World War II（B） Spanish Civil War（C） World War I（D）Vietnam War13 Which one of the following writer
5、s does not belong to the school of the Lost Generation?（A）Ernest Hemingway（B） Scott Fitzgerald（C） John Dos Passos（D）Joseph Heller14 Which one of the following works deals with the war experience in American Civil War?（A）The Red Badge of Courage（B） For Whom the Bell Tolls（C） The Last of the Mohicans（
6、D）Light in August15 Moby-Dick is the name of_（A）an octopus（B） a whale（C） the captain（D）the narrator三、问答题16 Make a comment on Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare.17 Make a statement about the use of the techniques of stream of consciousness and interior monologue in modern American fiction.2012 年四川大
7、学英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷答案与解析一、名词解释1 【正确答案】 Charles Lamb is a famous British essayist in the Age of Romanticism. His major works are Tales from Shakespeare, Essays of Ilia and Last Essays of Ilia. His essays are expressions of his own feelings, taking insignificant things and daily events as their subject ma
8、tter, especially the recollections of the good old days.2 【正确答案】 Waiting for Godot is written by Samuel Beckett. It is a play about two people, Estragon and Vladimir, waiting for Godot under a tree. The play has two parts, but in both parts, Godot never appears. In the play, Beckett is discussing th
9、e absurdity of life.3 【正确答案】 “Theatre of the Absurd“ is a term for particular plays written by a number of primarily European playwrights in the late 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, as well as the style of theatre which has evolved from their work. The representative dramatists are such as Eugene Ionesco w
10、ith his The Bald Soprano, Samuel Beckett with his Waiting for Godot, Harold Pinter and a few others who share a pessimistic vision of humanity are struggling vainly to find a purpose and to control their fate.4 【正确答案】 It is a collection of short stories by Edgar Allan Poe. The grotesque stories are
11、those where the character becomes a caricature or satire, as in The Man That Was Used Up. The arabesque stories focus on a single aspect of a character, often psychological, such as The Fall of the House of Usher.5 【正确答案】 Carl Sandburg was one of the Mid-west prairie poets that became known in the C
12、hicago Renaissance. He wrote in the Whitmanesque tradition and like Whitman, he contains “multitudes“. His ideal was to be “the word of the people,“ to articulate ordinary peoples thoughts and feelings, as in “The People, Yes“.二、单项选择题6 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 哈代的许多作品都是描写英国南部农村的生活，作者自己称这一地区为威赛克斯。因此，诸如远离尘嚣(Far
13、 from the Madding Crowd)、德伯家的苔丝(Tess of the Durberviles)、无名的裘德 (Judethe Obscure)、还乡(The Return of the Natives)等作品则被称为“威赛克斯小说”(Wessex Novels)。7 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 狄更斯(Charles Dickens，18121870)是维多利亚时代著名的现实主义作家，荒凉山庄(BleakHouse)是其最长的作品之一，它以错综复杂的情节揭露了英国法律制度和司法机构的黑暗。8 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 古英语时期(The Old English)，又称盎
14、格鲁撒克逊时期(The Anglo-Saxon)，指的是从公元 450 年起日耳曼部落开始入侵以凯尔特人为主的英格兰，到 1066 年诺曼底公爵带领部队攻占英格兰为止。在这一时期，贝奥武夫(Beowulf)是第一首完整保存下来的古诗。9 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 利西达斯(Lycidas)是弥尔顿(John Milton，1608 一 1674)的长诗，在该诗在第 109 行中出现的“thePilot of the Galilean lake”通常被认为是圣约翰的象征。10 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 昔日依依别(When We Two Parted)是英国著名浪漫主义诗人拜伦(Geor
15、ge Gordon Byron，17881824)的作品，诗歌对比了昔日诗人与爱人分别的依依不舍之情与今日爱人将自己抛弃忘记的冷酷之情，伤感之情溢于言表。11 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 毛猿(The Hairy Ape)是尤金奥尼尔 (Eugene ONeill，1888 一1953)的代表剧作。该剧描写一个名叫杨克的邮船锅炉工的悲剧人生。是一部用表现主义手法创作的象征戏。12 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 永别了，武器(A Farewell to Arms)是美国作家海明威(Ernest Hemingway，1899 一 1961)以第一次世界大战为背景的战争小说。小说描写了在意大利作战
16、的美籍救护车司机亨利(Frederick Henry)和其爱人凯瑟琳(Catherine)的故事，批判了战争的荒谬、虚无、非理性。13 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 迷惘的一代(the Lost Generation) 指的是一战后期旅居欧洲的美国人，他们处在一个特殊的时代，旧的价值观已经破碎，新的观念正在形成，他们找不到前进的方向，对未来感到很迷茫，代表人有海明威、福克纳(William Faulkner 18971962)、菲茨杰拉德(FScott Fitzgerald，1896 一 1940)、帕索斯(John DosPassos 1896 一 1970)、肯明斯(EECummings
17、1894 一 1962)等。而约瑟夫 海勒(Joseph Heller，1923 一 1999)的代表作第二十二条军规(Catch-22)是以其二战的经历来写的一部反战小说。14 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 红色英勇勋章(The Red Badge of Courage)是斯蒂芬克莱恩(Stephen Crane，1871 一 1900)的一部以美国内战为背景的小说。作者从一个士兵的角度描写战争，把战争中士兵的恐惧和悲伤、懦弱和勇敢描写的淋漓尽致。小说力图表明，现代战争是毫无意义的大屠杀；人在战争这一恶魔的控制下，只能向命运屈服、作暴力的牺牲品。15 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 白鲸，又称
18、莫比迪克(Moby Dick)。这是一部冒险小说，讲述了海上捕鲸的惊险故事，MobyDick 是捕鲸者给一头著名的白鲸起的名字。三、问答题16 【正确答案】 Julius Caesar is a historical play written by William Shakespeare in 1599. The play is a great one because it is concerned with several themes. One of them is whether ones life is determined by his fate or by his free wil
19、l. In Caesars case, he recognizes that some things like death are beyond humans control, but to live passively is not a heros choice. The best course for him is to face death head-on, to die bravely and honorably. Another theme is inflexibility versus comprise. To gain ones goal, sometimes one needs
20、 to make some concessions and comprises. If one is as stubborn and inflexible as Caesar and Brutus, one has to pay a heavy price. On the contrary, if one is like Antony who can act according to the circumstances, he would win in the end. On the whole, the play is very enlightening because it provide
21、s multiple interpretations.17 【正确答案】 Stream of consciousness, or interior monologue, is one of the modern literary techniques. It is the style of writing that attempts to imitate the natural flow of a characters thoughts, feelings, reflections, memories and mental images as the character experiences
22、 them. It was first used in 1922 by the Irish novelist James Joyce. Later, it was advanced by the American modern writer William Faulkner. For example, in his work 77ie Sound and the Fury, stream of consciousness is skillfully used. In the novel, time sequence is dislocated. Past and present happenings are interwoven. Characters are immersed in their inner musings of either the good old days or of the complaints on the meaningless present. The narrative often breaks trough the bounds of time and space, and depicts the unconscious activity of the mind fast changing and flowing incessantly.
