1、英语专业（英美文学）模拟试卷 16 及答案与解析一、问答题1 She wore a coral trinket on her arm,A set of beads, the gaudies tricked in green, Whence hung a golden brooch of brightest sheen On which there first was graven a crowned A, And lower, Amor vincit onmia.2 Young George Willard got out of bed at four in the morning. It w
2、as April and the young tree leaves were just coining out of their buds.3 Symptoms of disorganization had appeared as he left the camp. He ran over the menu: an English breakfast, porridge and mutton chops, but some Indian dishes to cause conversation, and pan afterwards. He had never liked Miss Ques
3、ted as much as Mrs. Moore, and had little to say to her, less than ever now that she would marry a British official.4 The quality of mercy is not straind,It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest.5 At the little town of Vevey, in Switzerland, there is a par
4、ticularly comfortable hotel. There are, indeed, many hotels, for the entertainment of tourists is the business of the place, which, as many travelers will remember, is seated upon the edge of a remarkably blue lake a lake that it behooves every tourist to visit.6 And what shoulder, and what art, Cou
5、ld twist the sinews of thy heart? And when thy heart began to beat, What dread hand? And what dread feet?7 Seven years, my Lord, have now past since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties of which it is us
6、eless to complain, and have brought it, at last, to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favour. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a Patron before.8 The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petal on a wet, black bough.9
7、 Yossarian waved goodbye fondly to his new pals and sauntered out onto the balcony corridor, almost bursting into song the instance was alone. He was home free: he had pulled it off; his act of rebellion had succeeded; he was safe, and he had nothing to be ashamed of to anyone.10 Tis hard to say, if
8、 greater want of skill Appear in writing or in judging ill;But, of the two, less dangrous is th offence To tire our patience, than mislead our sense.10 As virtuous men pass mildly away, And whisper to their souls to go, Whilst some of their sad friends do say The breath goes now, and some say, No; S
9、o let us melt, and make no noise, No tear-floods, nor sigh tempests move, Twere profanation of our joys To tell the laity our love.Moving of th earth brings harms and fears.Men reckon what it did and meant; But trepidation of the spheres, Though greater far, is innocent.Dull sublunary lovers love(Wh
10、ose soul is sense)cannot admit Absence, because it doth remove Those things which elemented it.But we by a love so much refined That our selves know not what it is, Inter-assured of the mind, Care less, eyes, lips and hands to miss.Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not
11、 yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat.If they be two, they are two soAs stiff twin compasses are two;Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no showTo move, but doth, it ths other do.And though it in the center sit,Yet when the other far doth roam,It leans and hearkens after it,An
12、d grows erect, as that comes home.Such wilt thou be to me, who must Like ths other foot, obliquely run; Thy firmness makes my circle just, And makes me end where I begun.11 Identify the poet and the title as well as the meaning of the title of the poem.(5 points)12 Identify the most important image
13、used in this poem and make a brief comment on the literary tradition of this image.(10 points)13 Illustrate the poem in terms of theme and poetic device.(25 points)13 Read the short story or an excerpt from a novel and answer the questions.(40 points)Story of an HourKate ChopinKnowing that Mrs. Mall
14、ard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husbands death.It was her sister Josephine who told her, in broken sentences; veiled hints that revealed in half concealing. Her husbands friend Richards was there, too near her. It was
15、 he who had been in the newspaper office when intelligence of the railroad disaster was received, with Brently Mallards name leading the list of “killed.“ He had only taken the time to assure himself of its truth by a second telegram, and had hastened to forestall any less careful, less tender frien
16、d in bearing the sad message.She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same, with a paralyzed inability to accept its significance. She wept at once, with sudden, wild abandonment, in her sisters arms. When the storm of grief had spent itself she went away to her room alone. She would
17、have no one follow her.There stood, facing the open window, a comfortable roomy armchair, Into this she sank, pressed down by a physical exhaustion that haunted her body and seemed to reach into her soul.She could see in the open square before her house the tops of trees that were all aquiver with t
18、he new spring life. The delicious breath of rain was in the air. In the street below a peddler was crying his wares. The notes of a distant song which some one was singing reached her faintly, and countless sparrows were twittering in the eaves.There were patches of blue sky showing here and there t
19、hrough the clouds that had met and piled one above the other in the west facing her window.She sat with her head thrown back upon the cushion of the chair, quite motionless, except when a sob came up into her throat and shook her, as a child who has cried itself to sleep continues to sob in its drea
20、ms.She was young, with a fair, calm face, whose lines bespoke repression and even a certain strength. But now there was a dull stare in her eyes, whose gaze was fixed away off yonder on one of those patches of blue sky. It was not a glance of reflection, but rather indicated a suspension of intellig
21、ent thought.There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully. What was it? She did not know; it was too subtle and elusive to name. But she felt it, creeping out of the sky, reaching toward her through the sounds, the scents, the color that filled the air.Now her bosom rose an
22、d fell tumultuously. She was beginning to recognize this thing that was approaching to possess her, and she was striving to beat it back with her willas powerless as her two white slender hands would have been.When she abandoned herself a little whispered word escaped her slightly parted lips. She s
23、aid it over and over under her breath: “free, free, free!“ The vacant stare and the look of terror that had followed it went from her eyes. They stayed keen and bright. Her pulses beat fast, and the coursing blood warmed and relaxed every inch of her body.She did not stop to ask if it were or were n
24、ot a monstrous joy that held her. A clear and exalted perception enabled her to dismiss the suggestion as trivial.She knew that she would weep again when she saw the kind, tender hands folded in death; the face that had never looked save with love upon her, fixed and gray and dead. But she saw beyon
25、d that bitter moment a long procession of years to come that would belong to her absolutely. And she opened and spread her arms out to them in welcome.There would be no one to live for her during those coming years; she would live for herself. There would be no powerful will bending hers in that bli
26、nd persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow creature. A kind intention or a cruel intention made the act seem no less a crime as she looked upon it in that brief moment of illumination;And yet she had loved himsometimes. Often she had not.
27、 What did it matter! What could love, the unsolved mystery, count for in face of this possession of self-assertion which she suddenly recognized as the strongest impulse of her being!“Free! Body and soul free!“ she kept whispering.Josephine was kneeling before the closed door with her lips to the ke
28、yhole, imploring for admission. “Louise, open the door! I beg; open the dooryou will make yourself ill. What are you doing, Louise? For heavens sake open the door.“Go away. I am not making myself ill.“ No; she was drinking in a very elixir of life through that open window.Her fancy was running riot
29、along those days ahead of her. Spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own. She breathed a quick prayer that life might be long. It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be long.She arose at length and opened the door to her sisters importuni
30、ties. There was a feverish triumph in her eyes, and she carried herself unwittingly like a goddess of Victory. She clasped her sisters waist, and together they descended the stairs, Richards stood waiting for them at the bottom.Some one was opening the front door with a latchkey. It was Brently Mall
31、ard who entered, a little travel-stained, composedly carrying his grip-sack and umbrella. He had been far from the scene of accident, and did not even know there had been one. He stood amazed at Josephines piercing cry; at Richards quick motion to screen him from the view of his wife.But Richards wa
32、s too late.When the doctors came they said she had died of heart diseaseof joy that kills.14 Give a brief summary of the plot of this story.(10 points)15 The writers representative work should be The Awakening, make comment on the topic “womanhood and marriage in terms of feminism“ with textual anal
33、ysis if necessary.(30 points)二、作文16 Write an essay no less than 200 words on the following topics.(40 points, 20 for each) American Transcendentalism from attempting to swim to swimming independently she finishes her process of recognizing and realizing herself. Louise is ecstatic when she realizes
34、that “there would be no powerful will bending hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow creature.“ Whether one is acting out of love or not, Chopin seems to be making a comment on the 19th centurys marriages, its perplexi
35、ty and predicament.Both of the heroines died at the end of story, which brings the story more ambiguity and provocation. Mrs. Mallards death is a paradox. We may say that it was joy that killed her. But it wasnt the joy of seeing her husband alive, but the despondent prospects of being no longer fre
36、e from her husbands control. If she hadnt experienced the joy of freedom, she wouldnt have been so sad when she realized she would lose her freedom again. It was the extreme disappointment that her husbands safe return has brought about that killed her. She died of, not heart attack, but disillusion
37、ment of her dream of living for herself. In other words, “what murdered her was, indeed, a monstrous joy, the birth of individual self, and the erasure of that joy when her husband and, necessarily, her old self returned.“二、作文16 【正确答案】 In terms of etymology, the word “transcendent“ means “climbing b
38、eyond or climbing across“, so ultimately, transcendentalism is a way of knowing, the belief that man can intuitively transcend the limits of logic and the senses and receive directly the higher truths and greater knowledge.American transcendentalism refers to the religion and philosophical doctrines
39、 of Emerson and other followers in New England, especially in Concord in the middle 19th century, which emphasized the importance of individual inspiration and intuition, the over-soul, and the nature. Other concepts that accompanied Transcendentalism include the idea that nature is ennobling and th
40、e idea that individual is divine and, therefore, self-reliant. The three main points in Emersons Transcendentalism are: the soul is divine and identical in all men; nature is just another side of God; God is the Over-soul, thus has unobstructed access to each soul, and vice versa. It is the product
41、of a combination of the Native American Puritanism and European Romanticism, of which such European philosophers as Kant and Carlyle gave great influence on it. Socially speaking, American transcendentalism is also the response to the growing materialism and worldliness of the US in 1830s-1840s. Ess
42、entially, it was an ethical guide to life for a young nation. It appealed to the best side of human nature, and it was also a call to throw off the shackles of customs and traditions in order to go forward to the development of a new and distinctively American culture. Its great emphasis on individu
43、alism, self-reliance etc are just another form of American dream. However, American transcendentalism was also accused of its weaknesses such as “bland mysticism“, “shallow optimism“, “anarchistic impulses“ etc.Nature(1836)is considered as the unofficial manifesto for the transcendentalist club. The
44、 essay established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman for New England Transcendentalism. It contains an introduction and eight brief chapters, in which discusses the love of nature, the uses of naturej the idealist philosophy in relation to nature, evidences of spirit in the material universe, a
45、nd the potential expansion of human soul and works that will result from a general return to direct, immediate contact with the natural environment. In expressing his belief in the mystical “unity of nature“, Emerson developed the concept of “over soul“ or “universal mind“.Some enlightening lines in
46、 the essay include: “the universe is composed of Nature and the Soul. Spirit is present everywhere.“ According to Emerson, nature is alive filled with Gods omnipresence and an expression of the divine spirit. The following lines about the paradoxical state in the perception of experience are most fa
47、mous: “Standing on the bare ground,my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball. I am nothing. I see all. The currents of the Universal Being circulated through me; I am part or particle of God. “ In the lines above, E
48、merson employed the famous metaphor of “a transparent eyeball“ to illustrate his philosophical discussion, that is, when one is merged into the nature he will get the unique perception of experience. Emerson believes in the unity of humanity and nature. A universal soul lies behinds physical objects
49、, and nature is Gods enlightenment towards human beings.17 【正确答案】 Hardys novels are usually called “the novels of character and environment“, in which pessimism and even determinism prevail. He depicts the protagonists from the countryside and their futile struggle to construct a position in the universe. Tess of the DUrbervilles is generally regarded as Hardys finest novel, a tale of seduction, love, betrayal and murder. The novel yields to narrative convention by punishing Tesss sin, but boldly exposes this standard denouement of the unforgiving morali
