1、2016 年 10 月全国自考（英美文学选读）真题试卷及答案与解析一、单项选择题1 Which of the following is considered to be the best known English dramatist since Shakespeare?（A）Oscar Wilde.（B） John Galsworthy.（C） William Butler Yeats.（D）George Bernard Shaw.2 Paradise Lost by_was finished in 1665 , after seven years labor in darkness.（A）
2、Christopher Marlow（B） John Milton（C） William Shakespeare（D）Ben Johnson3 Which of the following is NOT written by D. H. Lawrence?（A）Women in Love.（B） Sons and Lovers.（C） The Rainbow.（D）The French Lieutenants Woman.4 William Shakespeare is one of the giants of_.（A）Aestheticism（B） Renaissance（C） Realis
3、m（D）Romanticism5 Which of the following female writers did NOT belong to the Bronte sisters?（A）Anne Bronte.（B） Charlotte Bronte.（C） Emily Bronte.（D）Mary Bronte.6 A Tale of Two Cities by_presents a criticism of the social institutions and morals of Victorian England.（A）William Shakespeare（B） John Kea
4、ts（C） Charles Dickens（D）George Bernard Shaw7 Daniel Defoe s first novel_was an immediate success in his life.（A）Robinson Crusoe（B） Gulliver s Travels（C） The Adventures of Tom Sawyer（D）The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn8 Pride and Prejudice is the masterpiece of_which tells readers the importance of
5、good judgment in our life.（A）Mary Shelley（B） Charlotte Bronte（C） John Keats（D）Jane Austen9 Who wrote one of the most enduring classic poems “Ode to the West Wind“?（A）William Wordsworth.（B） Alfred Tennyson.（C） Percy Bysshe Shelley.（D）David Burn.10 Which of the following is regarded as a “worshipper o
6、f nature“?（A）John Keats.（B） William Blake.（C） William Wordsworth.（D）Jane Austen.11 Among Thomas Hardy s major works, _is the most cheerful and idyllic.（A）Under the Greenwood Tree（B） Tess of the D Urbervilles（C） The Mayor of Casterbridge（D）The Return of the Native12 Mrs. Warren s Profession, written
7、by_, was a play about the economic oppression of women.（A）John Galsworthy（B） William Butler Yeats（C） T. S. Eliot（D）George Bernard Shaw13 Charles Dickens writes best when he writes from the_point of view.（A）poor s（B） child s（C） adult s（D）rich s14 Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte is a story of a(n)_which
8、 is based on her own experience.（A）explorer（B） peasant（C） worker（D）governess15 D. H. Laurence s first novel, _, is a remarkable work of a young man, acutely observant of nature and delighting in story.（A）The Trespasser（B） The Rainbow（C） Sons and Lovers（D）The White Peacock16 George Bernard Shaw was a
9、(n)_, who composed Pygmalion.（A）playwright（B） poet（C） novelist（D）essayist17 The Waste Land is the most important single poem by_.（A）George Bernard Shaw（B） W. B. Yeats（C） John Keats（D）T. S. Eliot18 Shelly expressed his love for freedom in his poem_.（A）To a Skylark（B） The Cloud（C） Queen Mab（D）Ode to L
10、iberty19 The poem “Tyger“ is chosen from_by William Blake.（A）Songs of Experience（B） Songs of Innocence（C） Marriage of Heaven and Hell（D）The Book of Los20 Who is the greatest critical realist writers of the Victorian Age?（A）Samuel Johnson（B） Charles Dickens（C） Jane Austen（D）D. H. Laurence21 “Wessex n
11、ovels “by Thomas Hardy described the simple and beautiful though primitive_, which was gradually declining and disappearing.（A）urban life（B） rural life（C） class struggle（D）social reform22 “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a w
12、ife. “ This sentence is taken from_.（A）Pride and Prejudice（B） Wuthering Heights（C） Jane Eyre（D）Sense and Sensibility23 “The Birthmark“ drives home symbolically Hawthornes point that_is mans birthmark, something he is born with.（A）goodness（B） evil（C） generosity（D）faith24 As Whitman saw it, _could pla
13、y a vital part in the process of creating a new nation.（A）industry（B） agriculture（C） novels（D）poetry 25 Moby-Dick is difficult to read because much of the talk in the novel is_and much of the language is purposely old-fashioned and Elizabethan.（A）doctor s talk（B） sailor s talk（C） farmer s talk（D）sol
14、dier s talk 26 Life on the Mississippi tells a story of Mark Twain s boyhood ambition to become_.（A）a farmer（B） a policeman（C） a riverboat pilot（D）a driver27 Daisy Miller, a novella about_who gets “killed“ by the winter in Rome, brought James international fame for the first time.（A）a young American
15、 girl（B） a young American boy（C） a cab driver（D）a traveling salesman 28 Dickinson s greatest rendering of the moment of_is to be found in her masterpiece, “I heard a Fly buzzwhen I died“.（A）life（B） death（C） growth（D）illness 29 It is not surprising to find in Dreisers fiction a world of_, where “kill
16、 or to be killed“ was the law.（A）ocean（B） jungle（C） desert（D）imagination30 In any list of important poets_, regardless of nationality, Robert Lee Frost commands a place.（A）in the 17th century（B） in the 18th century（C） in the 19th century（D）in the 20th century31 Farewell to Arms by Hemingway tells us
17、 a story about the tragic love affair of a wounded American soldier with_.（A）a British nurse（B） a British doctor（C） an American nurse（D）an American doctor 32 . North of Boston is described by its author, Frost, as “_“, which shows a brilliant insight into New England character and the background tha
18、t formed it.（A）a book of animals（B） a book of people（C） a fiction of future（D）a fiction of civil war 33 In 1961 , in ill health, anxiety and deep depression, _shot himself with a hunting gun.（A）Jack London（B） Ernest Hemingway（C） Ezra Pound（D）Theodore Dreiser34 With the publication of Sister Carrie a
19、nd other works, Dreiser became one of the most significant writers of the school later known as_.（A）transcendentalism（B） magic realism（C） cubism（D）literary naturalism 35 Over 500 poems Dickinson wrote are about_, in which her general skepticism about the relationship between man and nature is well-e
20、xpressed.（A）war（B） polities（C） philosophy（D）nature36 The Portrait of a Lady incarnates the clash between the Old World and the New in the life journey of_in a European cultural environment.（A）an American girl（B） an American boy（C） an American poet（D）an American farmer37 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
21、is usually regarded as a classic book written for_about their particular horrors and joys.（A）farmers（B） politicians（C） old women（D）boys38 Like Hawthorne, _is a master of allegory and symbolism.（A）Jack London（B） Henry James（C） Herman Melville（D）William Faulkner39 The pursuit of_is approved of repeate
22、dly and affectionately in Whitman s poems.（A）independence and liberty（B） love and happiness（C） social reform and innovation（D）logic and reason40 Hawthorne s view of man and human history originates, to a great extent, in_.（A）Puritanism（B） Platonism（C） Romanticism（D）Realism二、阅读理解41 I wandered lonely
23、as a cloudThat floats on high o er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils;For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daf
24、fodils. Questions:A. What is the title of the poem from which the stanzas are taken? Who is the author?B. What figure of speech is used in the first line?C. What do “they“ and “inward eye“ in the poem refer to in the last stanza?42 O, Cathy! Oh, my life! How can I bear it? was the first sentence he
25、uttered, in a tone that did not seek to disguise his despair.And how he stared at her so earnestly that I thought the very intensity of his gaze would bring tears into his eyes; but they burned with anguish, they did not melt. Questions:A. What is the title of the novel from which the excerpt is tak
26、en? Who is the author?B. Who are the two speakers?C. What does this excerpt tell us about the speakers?43 We paused before a House that seemed A Swelling of the GroundThe Roof was scarcely visible The Cornicein the Ground Since then tis Centuriesand yet Feels shorter than the Day I first surmised th
27、e Horses Heads Were toward Eternity Questions:A. Who wrote this poem?B. What does the “House“ in the first line refer to?C. What is the theme of this poem?44 So she vanquished them, horse and foot, just as she had vanquished their fathers thirty years before about the smell. That was two years after
28、 her father s death and a short time after her sweetheartthe one we believed would marry herhad deserted her. After her father s death she went out very little; after her sweetheart went away, people hardly saw her at all. A few of the ladies had the temerity to call, but were not received, and the
29、only sign of life about the place was the Negro mana young man thengoing in and out with a market basket.Questions:A. What is the title of the story from which the excerpt is taken? Who is the author?B. What does the phrase “horse and foot“ in the first line mean?C. What does the heroine of this sto
30、ry symbolize?三、简答题45 Why is Charlotte Bronte considered as a writer of realism combined with romanticism?46 In what way is Thomas Hardy regarded as a transitional writer?47 How do you comment on Whitman s literary innovation in terms of the form of his poetry?48 How did Theodore Dreiser contribute t
31、o the American literature through his literary creation?四、论述题49 Give a brief comment on T. S. Eliot and his The Waste Land.50 Hemingways world is limited and he measures his limited range of characters against an unvarying code. Briefly discuss this code established by Hemingway through his writings
32、.2016 年 10 月全国自考（英美文学选读）真题试卷答案与解析一、单项选择题1 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 萧伯纳是英国现代杰出的现实主义戏剧作家，在戏剧方面被公认为自莎士比亚之后英国最优秀的戏剧大师。2 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 失乐园是约翰-弥尔顿的杰作，于 1665 年完成。故事取材于旧约，是继贝奥武甫之后唯一的一部公认的英国文学中的史诗。3 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 戴维-赫伯特-劳伦斯是 20 世纪最伟大的小说家之一，他的主要作品有恋爱中的女人儿子与情人虹。法国中尉的女人是约翰-福尔斯的作品。4 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 亨利八世统治期间，文艺复兴的春风吹入英国。在
33、亨利八世的鼓励下，牛津的改革派、学者和人文主义者们将古典文学引入英国。自此，英国的文艺复兴开始了。英国，尤其是英国文学进入了黄金时代。这个时期涌现出了莎士比亚、斯宾塞、琼生、锡德尼、马洛、培根和邓恩等一大批文学巨匠。5 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 布朗蒂姐妹是指夏洛特-布朗蒂、埃米莉-布朗蒂和安妮-布朗蒂。6 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 双城记是查尔斯-狄更斯的代表作。它是一部以法国大革命为背景所写成的长篇历史小说对维多利亚时期英国的社会机构及道德观念进行了批判。7 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 丹尼尔-笛福的第一部也是最受欢迎的小说鲁滨逊漂流记是一部体现时代精神的游记历险小说，是他公认的
34、代表作。8 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 傲慢与偏见是英国著名女性小说家简-奥斯汀的代表作之一。在这部小说中，奥斯汀通过讲述一位富有、骄傲的年轻人达西和漂亮聪明的姑娘伊丽莎白-贝内特之间的爱情故事，微妙地探索了英国上流社会对婚姻、财产、阴谋的价值观，旨在讲述生活中正确判断的重要性。9 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 珀-比- 雪莱最著名的抒情诗当属西风颂。这首诗语气狂热、易于诵读。经典名句“如果冬天来了，春天还会远吗?”便是此诗的结尾句。10 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 威廉-华兹华斯被称为“大自然的膜拜者”。他能看透自然万物的本质，并将其细致入微地剖析给读者。短诗麻雀巢致云雀致杜鹃及致蝴蝶都
35、是他对自然之美的倾心热爱。11 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 在托马斯-哈代所有作品中，格林伍德的绿林荫下是最喜悦、最抒情的。12 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 萧伯纳一生共写了 50 多部戏，主题非常丰富。他早年的作品都与社会问题有关，坦率地揭露了当时的社会、经济、道德、宗教中的罪恶。萧伯纳的戏剧华伦夫人的职业反映了妇女们在经济上受到的压迫。13 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 查尔斯-狄更斯对人物的塑造是他小说中的一大优点。他刻画得最鲜灵生动的形象是那些无辜又深受迫害的儿童。14 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 夏洛特-布朗蒂的小说简-爱是维多利亚时期最重要也是最受欢迎的小说之一。小说讲述了一
36、位家庭女教师在各种磨难中不断追求自由与尊严，坚持自我，最终获得幸福的故事。15 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 白孔雀是英国文学家戴维-赫伯特-劳伦斯的第一部小说，创作于 1911 年。小说主要讲述了一个年轻人热衰于观察大自然的故事。16 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 萧伯纳是英国现代杰出的现实主义戏剧作家。他一生共写了 50 多部戏，皮格马利翁是他中期创作的戏剧之一。17 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 T-S-艾略特是著名诗人、剧作家和文学批评家，现代派诗歌运动领袖，1922 年发表的荒原为他赢得了国际声誉，被评论界看作 20 世纪最有影响力的一部诗作，被认为是英美现代诗歌的里程碑。18 【正
37、确答案】 D【试题解析】 雪莱是英国最伟大的诗人之一，尤其是在抒情诗方面。自由颂是他极为优秀的作品之一，他在此诗中表达了对自由的热爱。19 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 威廉-布莱克是英国一位重要的浪漫主义诗人。经验之歌是他早期的代表作之一，描绘了个截然不同的世界，一个充满苦难、贫穷、疾庙与战争的世界，笔调也极为忧伤压抑。老虎是经验之歌中一首象征性很强的革命抒情诗。20 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 查尔斯-狄更斯是维多利亚时期伟大的批判现实主义作家之一，他以揭露、抨击社会的贫穷、不公、虚伪与腐败为己任。21 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 托马斯-哈代常被认为是一位承前启后的作家，他的作品深受
38、新旧两种文学理论的影响。像一些人说的一样，在写作技巧与才思方面他属于新派，而在情感上却十分传统。在他的“威塞克斯小说”中有一种明显的怀旧情结饱含深情地描写尽管落后却美丽单纯的乡村，以及对这种乡村生活随着英国进入工业时代而渐渐衰落的惆怅。22 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 “世上有条众人皆知的真理：但凡有钱的单身男子，必定想找位太太。”这句引言出自简-奥斯汀的小说傲慢与偏见。23 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 在胎记中霍桑一针见血地指出邪恶就是人类与生俱来的胎记。24 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 惠特曼认为，诗歌可以塑造一个新的民族精神，可以帮助脱离欧洲思想和殖民地统治的影响，还可以帮助美国人
39、民理解其新的地位和在新的充满无限可能的国家里给自己定位。25 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 在麦尔维尔有关航海历险的书中，白鲸最好，达到了他创作的高峰。它不仅仅是海上生活的生动描述，而且也象征追求宇宙真理的心路历程，对人类现实和心理的精神探索。白鲸这部小说之所以难以读懂在于小说大部分是关于水手们的谈论，特意使用过时的和伊丽莎白时代的语言。26 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 马克-吐温的密西西比河上的生活讲述了他童年时代想当领航员乘船在密西西比河上穿梭的理想。27 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 中篇小说黛西-米勒发表于 1878 年，是詹姆斯早期有关国际主题的小说之一。这部小说使詹姆斯在国际上一
40、举成名。黛西-米勒从此成为在欧洲的美国姑娘的形象，是美国精神的代表。28 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 艾米莉-狄金森与宗教有关的诗是关于死亡和不朽的，包括身体、心理和情感三个方面。狄金森最伟大的关于死之时刻的描写是“我死时听见一只苍蝇嗡鸣”，这首诗被普遍认为是她的杰作。29 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 达尔文关于“适者生存”的思想对德莱塞影响巨大。他的小说中整个世界就是一片丛林，那里的法则是“要么杀人，要么被杀”，自然主义几乎在他的每本书里都得到了体现。30 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 罗伯特-弗洛斯特是 20 世纪的重要诗人之一。他获过 4 次普利策文学奖，被称之为美国文学中的桂冠诗人
41、。31 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 永别了，武器是海明威第 2 部成名作。小说讲的是一个受伤的美国士兵与一个英国护士的爱情悲剧，反映的是 20 年代整个年代和整代人的面貌。32 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 弗洛斯特的波士顿以北被称为“一本关于人的书”，对新英格兰的人物及其背景写得很深刻。33 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 1961 年，迫于多病、焦虑和抑郁，欧内斯特-海明威用猎枪开枪自杀。34 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 德莱塞是美国著名的自然主义作家。他为大家所知的作品有嘉丽妹妹黑人杰夫老罗高姆和他的特丽萨金融家巨头斯多葛天才美国悲剧德莱塞眼中的俄国等。35 【正确答案】 D【试题解析
42、】 狄金森的诗歌创作开始于 19 世纪 50 年代的早期，她总共写了 1775首诗，在她生前只有 7 首发表。她有 500 多首诗是关于自然的，诗中很好地表达了她对人与自然关系的怀疑。36 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 贵妇人的画像被认为是詹姆斯的代表作，具体表现了一个美国姑娘在欧洲文化氛围中的生活历程及欧美文化的冲突。37 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 马克-吐温的汤姆-索亚历险记是就儿童恐惧和高兴的事儿写的一部儿童经典。38 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 赫尔曼-麦尔维尔和霍桑都是文学大师，擅长寓言体叙事和象征主义手法。39 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 惠特曼是美国浪漫主义时期的重要诗人
43、之一，他的作品中洋溢着对爱情和幸福的热情追求。40 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 在一定程度上，霍桑对人类及人类历史的看法起源于清教。他认为“一代人的错误行为会遗传到下几代人”，并怀疑自己遗传了他先辈的罪恶。二、阅读理解41 【正确答案】 A. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud“. William Wordsworth. B. Simile. C. “They“ refers to daffodils and “inward eye“ refers to mind.42 【正确答案】 A. Wuthering Heights. Emily Bronte. B. Cat
44、herine and Heathcliff. C. The love and revenge between Catherine and Heathcliff.43 【正确答案】 A. Dickinson. B. It refers to the grave. C. In this poem Dickinson personifies death and immortality so as to make her message strongly felt.44 【正确答案】 A. “A Rose for Emily“. Faulkner. B. It means “completely“.
45、C. She is the symbol of the Old South but the prisoner of the past.三、简答题45 【正确答案】 She presents a vivid realistic picture of the English society by exposing the hypocrisy and evils of the upper classes, and the misery of the poor. Her writings are marked throughout by an intensity of vision and passi
46、on. Her writing are the truthful presentation of the economical, moral, social life of the time.46 【正确答案】 In Thomas Hardy s works, we can see the influence from both the past and the modern. He is intellectually advanced and emotionally traditional. In his Wessex novels, there is an apparent nostalg
47、ic touch of the simple and beautiful rural life. The impact of scientific discoveries and modern philosophic thoughts upon the man is quite obvious.47 【正确答案】 Whitman is radically innovative in terms of the form of his poetry. What he prefers for his new subject and new poetic feelings is “free verse
48、“ , that is, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme. A looser and more open-ended syntactical structure is frequently favored. Lines and sentences of different lengths are left lying side by side just as things are, undisturbed and separate.48 【正确答案】 He broke away from the genteel tradition of literature and dramatized the life in a very realistic way. There is no comment, no judgment but facts of life in the stories. His style is not polished but very serious and well calculated to achieve the thematic ends he sought.四、论述题49 【正确答案】 T. S. Eliot was an American-born Brit
