1、英语专业（英美文学）模拟试卷 20 及答案与解析一、问答题1 It is true, a child just dropped from its dam may be supported by her milk for a solar year, with little other nourishment; at most not above the value of two shillings, which the mother may certainly get, or the value in scraps, by her lawful occupation of begging;2 A
2、nd on the pedestal these words appear: “My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings: Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!“3 “I dont want to kill,“ Bigger shouted. But what I killed for, I am! It must have been pretty deep in me to make me kill.4 In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave m
3、e some advice that Ive been turning over in my mind ever since. “Whenever you feel like criticizing any one,“ he told me, “just remember that all the people in this world havent had the advantages that youve had.“5 I placed a jar in Tennessee, And round it was, upon a hill. It made the slovenly wild
4、erness Surround that hill.6 One of the pair was Angel Clare, the other a tall budding creature - half girl, half woman - a spiritualized image of Tess, slighter than she, but with the same beautiful eyes - Clares sister-in-law, “Liza-Lu. Their pale faces seemed to have shrunk to half their natural s
5、ize. They moved on hand in hand, and never spoke a word, the drooping of their heads being that of Giottos Two Apostles“.7 I sit in the top of the wood, my eyes closed. Inaction, no falsifying dreamBetween my hooked head and hooked feet: Or in sleep rehearse perfect kills and eat.8 It goes a long wa
6、y back, some twenty years. All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was. I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory. I was naive. I was looking for myself and asking everyone except m
7、yself questions which I, and only I, could answer.9 The bowls never wanted washing. The boys polished them with their spoons till they shone again; and when they had performed this operation(which never took very long, the spoons being nearly as large as the bowls), they would sit staring at the cop
8、per, with such eager eyes, as if they could have devoured the very bricks of which it was composed; employing themselves, meanwhile, in sucking their fingers most assiduously, with the view of catching up any stray splashes of gruel that might have been cast thereon.10 When I consider how my light i
9、s spentEre half my days in this dark world and wide And that one talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he returning chide;(John Milton, On His Blindness)10 Read the poem and answer the questions b
10、elow.(40 points)Song John DonneGo and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me where all past years are, Or who cleft the Devils foot, Teach me to hear mermaids singing, Or to keep off envys stinging, And find What wind Serves to advance an honest mind.If thou best born to stran
11、ge sights, Things invisible to see, Ride ten thousand days and nights, Till age snow white hairs on thee; Thou, when thou returnst, wilt tell me All strange wonders that befell thee, And swear No whereLives a woman true, and fair.If thou findst one, let me know,Such a pilgrimage were sweet;Yet do no
12、t, I would not go,Though at next door we might meet:Though she were true, when you met her,And last, till you write your letter,Yet sheWill beFalse, ere I come, to two or three.11 What do these lines talk about?(8 points)12 What is the prominent linguistic feature of the first nine lines?(5 points)1
13、3 What is the speakers claim about an honest mind and a woman who is both true and fair? How do the first nine lines relate to this claim?(7 points)14 Whats the tone of the poem and the speakers attitude towards woman?(8 points)15 Whats your opinion on woman and love? Write an essay to justify it.(1
14、2 points)15 Read the short story or an excerpt from a novel and answer the questions.(40 points)Winesbury, OhieSherwood AndersonYoung George Willard got out of bed at four in the morning. It was April and the young tree leaves were just coining out of their buds. The trees along the residence street
15、s in Winesburg are maple and the seeds are winged. When the wind blows they whirl crazily about, filling the air and making a carpet underfoot.George came downstairs into the hotel office carrying a brown leather bag. His trunk was packed for departure. Since two oclock he had been awake thinking of
16、 the journey he was about to take and wondering what he would find at the end of his journey. The boy who slept in the hotel office lay on a cot by the door. His mouth was open and he snored lustily. George crept past the cot and went out into the silent deserted main street. The east was pink with
17、the dawn and long streaks of light climbed into the sky where a few stars still shone.Beyond the last house on Trunion Pike in Winesburg there is a great stretch of open fields. The fields are owned by farmers who live in town and drive homeward at evening along Trunion Pike in light creaking wagons
18、. In the fields are planted berries and small fruits. In the late afternoon in the hot summers when the road and the fields are covered with dust, a smoky haze lies over the great flat basin of land. To look across it is like looking out across the sea. In the spring when the land is green the effec
19、t is somewhat different. The land becomes a wide green billiard table on which tiny human insects toil up and down.All through his boyhood and young manhood George Willard had been in the habit of walking on Trunion Pike. He had been in the midst of the great open place on winter nights when it was
20、covered with snow and only the moon looked down at him; he had been there in the fall when bleak winds blew and on summer evenings when the air vibrated with the song of insects. On the April morning he wanted to go there again, to walk again in the silence. He did walk to where the road dipped down
21、 by a little stream two miles from town and then turned and walked silently back again. When he got to Main Street clerks were sweeping the sidewalks before the stores. “Hey, you George. How does it feel to be going away?“ they asked.The westbound train leaves Winesburg at seven forty-five in the mo
22、rning. Tom Little is conductor. His train runs from Cleveland to where it connects with a great trunk line railroad with terminals in Chicago and New York. Tom has what in railroad circles is called an “easy run.“ Every evening he returns to his family. In the fall and spring he spends his Sundays f
23、ishing in Lake Erie. He has a round red face and small blue eyes. He knows the people in the towns along his railroad better than a city man knows the people who live in his apartment building.George came down the little incline from the New Willard House at seven oclock. Tom Willard carried his bag
24、. The son had become taller than the father.On the station platform everyone shook the young mans; hand. More than a dozen people waited about. Then they talked of their own affairs. Even Will Henderson, who was lazy and often slept until nine, had got out of bed. George was embarrassed. Gertrude Wi
25、lmot, a tall thin woman of fifty who worked in the Winesburg post office, came along the station platform. She had never before paid any attention to George. Now she stopped and put out her hand. In two words she voiced what everyone felt. “Good luck,“ she said sharply and then turning went on her w
26、ay.When the train came into the station George felt relieved. He scampered hurriedly aboard. Helen White came running along Main Street hoping to have a parting word with him, but he had found a seat and did not see her. When the train started Tom Little punched his ticket, grinned and, although he
27、knew George well and knew on what adventure he was just setting out, made no comment. Tom had seen a thousand George Willard go out of their towns to the city. It was a commonplace enough incident with him. In the smoking car there was a man who had just invited Tom to go on a fishing trip to Sandus
28、ky Bay. He wanted to accept the invitation and talk over details.George glanced up and down the car to be sure no one was looking, then took out his pocketbook and counted his money. His mind was occupied with a desire not to appear green. Almost the last words his father had said to him concerned t
29、he matter of his behavior when he got to the city. “Be a sharp one,“ Tom Willard had said. “Keep your eyes on your money. Be awake. Thats the ticket. Dont let anyone think youre a greenhorn.“After George counted his money he looked out of the window and was surprised to see that the train was still
30、in Winesburg.The young man, going out of his town to meet the adventure of life, began to think but he did not think of anything very big or dramatic. Things like his mothers death, his departure from Winesburg, the uncertainty of his future life in the city, the serious and larger aspects of his li
31、fe did not come into his mind.He thought of little thingsTurk Smollet wheeling boards through the main street of his town in the morning, a tall woman, beautifully gowned, who had once stayed overnight at his fathers hotel, Butch Wheeler the lamp lighter of Winesburg hurrying through the streets on
32、a summer evening and holding a torch in his hand, Helen White standing by a window in the Winesburg post office and putting a stamp on an envelope.The young mans mind was carried away by his growing passion for dreams. One looking at him would not have thought him particularly sharp. With the recoll
33、ection of little things occupying his mind he closed his eyes and leaned back in the car seat. He stayed that way for a long time and when he aroused himself and again looked out of the car window the town of Winesburg had disappeared and his life there had become but a background on which to paint
34、the dreams of his manhood.16 Identify the author and the title of this excerpt.(5 points)17 Whats the role of George Willard with reference to the whole book?(10 points)18 The author of this excerpt is also known for his psychoanalysis, whats the difference between his psychoanalysis and that of Nat
35、haniel Hawthorne and Henry James.(10 points)19 The book has ever been called “the fable of American alienation“; analyze the theme of the book with reference to the comment. Provide textual information if necessary.(15 points)二、作文20 Write an essay in no less than 200 words on the following topics.(4
36、0 points, 20 for each) Make a comparison between the characters Huck in Huckleberry Finn and Holden in Catcher in the Rye.21 Compare and contrast the attitude towards death in the representative work of the following writers: Walt Whitman, Sherwood Anderson and William Faulkner.英语专业（英美文学）模拟试卷 20 答案与
37、解析一、问答题1 【正确答案】 Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal2 【正确答案】 Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias3 【正确答案】 Richard Wright, The Native Son4 【正确答案】 F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby5 【正确答案】 Wallace Stevens, Anecdote of the Jar6 【正确答案】 Thomas Hardy, Tess of DUrbervilles7 【正确答案】 Ted Hughes, Hawk Roosting8 【
38、正确答案】 Ralph Ellison, The Invisible Man9 【正确答案】 Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist10 【正确答案】 Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist11 【正确答案】 John Donne proposes six impossible things in these linescatching a falling star, get with child a mandrake root and cleft the Devils foot etc. all these thing cant be accompli
39、shed. By using an analogy, the poet then points out that to find a woman so true and pure is impossible.12 【正确答案】 The first nine lines are the most forceful, employing the imperative to achieve a sense of command. In addition, there are six metaphors and images in these lines.13 【正确答案】 The poet clai
40、ms that an honest mind cant be advanced or prompted; while a woman both true and fair is nowhere to find. In the first nine lines, the poet firstly lists the things impossible to achieve; obviously this is an analogy to advance an honest mind and to fins a woman true and fair.14 【正确答案】 Chiefly conce
41、rning the lack of constancy in women, the poem is predominantly light and mocking in tone. We can see the speaker shows his disdain and cynicism towards women.15 【正确答案】 Omit.16 【正确答案】 This excerpt is from Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson, and the title of this excerpt is Departure.17 【正确答案】 Wine
42、sburg, Ohio is a collection of 23 interrelated stories with the subtitle Tales of Small Town Life, and a book of grotesque, which lays bare the alienated, lonely and twisted life in a small town named Winesburg in the mid-west of America. The central character of this collection is George Willard, a
43、 young reporter on the Winesburg Eagle; As the only sane individual among the grotesques, George Willard is the witness of all the miserable lives of all the grotesques in the small town. He is both outsider and insider. As an outsider, he served as a keen observer and an audience of the stories. As
44、 an insider, he himself also suffered from repression, frustration and the longing for a new life.18 【正确答案】 Psychological description is a line going through American literature. Beginning with the psychological romancer Hawthorne whose focus is on the psychological darkness, the device is also favo
45、red by Poe. Henry James initiated psychological realism, which is the subjective realism based on subjective observation. In modern period, there is also the psychological description represented by Sherwood Anderson, but his was mostly based on Freudian psychoanalysis exploring the motivations and
46、the frustrations of his fictional characters.19 【正确答案】 Winesburg, Ohio(1919)gave Anderson a foremost position in contemporary American letters. He wrote about the loneliness, alienation, deformity and frustration of his characters imposed by their society and environment. They were driven to be grot
47、esque and emotionally stunted, and became the victims of modern existence. They were inarticulate; and they needed to break the obstacles of communication, conquer the inner fear and came to mutual understanding.Each story involves a lonely introvert who struggles with a burning firewhich still smol
48、ders inside his or her. Each moment described in each story turns to be an epiphany concerning some truth about life. The stores are brief but vivid and subtle glimpses of failing and psychologically disordered people living in a small town where they are both physically and mentally isolated. The b
49、ook is often called the fable of American alienation. In this book, Anderson takes Winesburg as a microcosm of the universal where characters symbolize flaws and struggles in the universal human experience. The book reflects Andersons philosophy of community and interpersonal relationships and explores the motif of human isolation. To some extent, it is a story about George Willards initiationthe painful journey from innocence to experience. He hates the stagnant, the narrow-minded, the lonely, and the desperate atmosphere of the small town, and wants to see
