1、全国自考英美文学选读（综合）模拟试卷 1 及答案与解析一、阅读理解1 To be, or not to bethat is the question; Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles. Questions: A. Who is the author of the play?B. Who is the speaker?C. What does he mean when he
2、says “To be,or not to bethat is the question“ ?2 “ Faith! Faith! cried the husband. Look up to Heaven, and resist the Wicked One.Questions:A. Identify the work and the author.B. What idea does the quoted sentence express?3 “There was music from my neighbor s house through the summer nights. In his b
3、lue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars. At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft, or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motor-boats slit the waters of the Sound, drawi
4、ng aquaplanes over cataracts of foam. On week-ends his Rolls-Royce became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city between nine in the morning and long past midnight, while his station wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug to meet all trains. And on Mondays eight servants, including an ext
5、ra gardener, toiled all day with mops and scrubbing-brushes and hammers and garden-shears, repairing the ravages of the night before. “Questions;A. Identify the author and the title of the novel from which this passage is taken.B. What can you imply by reading this passage?C. What do the “ moths“ sy
6、mbolize?二、简答题4 What is the Gothic novel?5 Whats the theme of “Jane Eyre“?6 Analyze the characteristics of D. H. Lawrence s novels.7 _ was the first American writer to conceive his career in international terms.三、论述题8 Please analyze Hamlet by Shakespeare.9 Please discuss the significance of William W
7、ordsworth s poetry in the history of English literature.10 Discuss the way symbolism is used in Melville s Moby-Dick.全国自考英美文学选读（综合）模拟试卷 1 答案与解析一、阅读理解1 【正确答案】 A. William Shakespeare.B. Hamlet.C. To live on in this world or to die; to suffer or to take action.【知识模块】 阅读理解2 【正确答案】 A. Nathaniel Hawthorne
8、, Young Goodman Brown.B. Goodman Brown here is obviously addressing the image of his wife, urging her to resist the devil. At the same time he is exhorting himself to have faith, to look heavenward, to withstand the infernal eloquence of the Wicked One.【知识模块】 阅读理解3 【正确答案】 A. F. Scott Fitzgerald, The
9、 Great Gatsby.B. This passage describes Gatsby s extravagance.C. Moths are used metaphorically to refer to those people who are drawn to the party simply for its glamour, for the wealth of Gatsby.【知识模块】 阅读理解二、简答题4 【正确答案】 Gothic novel, a type of romantic fiction that predominated in the late eighteen
10、th century, was one phase of the Romantic movement. Its principal elements are violence, horror , and the supernatural, which strongly appeal to the readers emotion. With its descriptions of the dark, irrational side of human nature, the Gothic form has exerted a great influence over the writers of
11、Romantic period. Works like The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley are typical Gothic romance.【知识模块】 简答题5 【正确答案】 A. The work is one of the most popular and important novels of the Victorian Age. It is noted for its sharp criticism of the existing society, e. g. th
12、e religious hypocrisy of charity institutions such as Lowood school where poor girls are trained, through constant starvation and humiliation, to be humble slaves, the social discrimination Jane experiences first as a dependent at her aunt s house and later as a governess at Thornfield, and the fals
13、e social convention of love and marriage.B. At the same time, it is an intense moral fable. Jane, like Mr. Rochester, has to undergo a series of physical and moral tests to grow up and achieve her final happiness.【知识模块】 简答题6 【正确答案】 A. The writer expresses a strong reaction against the dehumanizing e
14、ffect of mechanical civilization on the sensual tenderness of human nature, and it is this agonized concern that haunts his writing.B. Lawrence, introducing psychological elements into his works, holds that human sexuality is the dominating “ Life Force“ , and defiantly and frankly describes scenes
15、of sex.C. As far as artistic tendency is concerned, the writer is mainly realistic, though not without the use of poetic imagination, symbolism and psychological description in his writing.【知识模块】 简答题7 【正确答案】 A. His most famous theme is international theme.B. Psychological approach.C. The Portrait of
16、 A Lady; Daisy Miller.【知识模块】 简答题三、论述题8 【正确答案】 A. Shakespeare depicts the image of Hamlet as a Renaissance humanist to embody the dramatist s own ideals, personal ideal, and social and political one.B. In Hamlet s case, first and foremost it is his own personal ideal of filial piety and a strong sens
17、e of justice that demands revenge. But he has his social and political ideals too. On the one hand, he eulogizes the infinite capabilities of man: “ What a piece of work is man; how noble in reason! How infinite in faculty!“ On the other hand he sees and hopes to get rid of the social evils besettin
18、g human beings, as he speaks of a “sea of troubles“.C. So Hamlet engages himself in personal revenge but at the same time intends to set right the “time“ that is “out of joint“. The burden of these duties makes Hamlet a man of contemplation rather than of action, which leads to the soliloquies revea
19、ling the inner working of his mind. Then, the struggle between good and evil dominatively controls the scene of Hamlet s tragedy, a tragedy of a humanist who is always to see and construct a better world.【知识模块】 论述题9 【正确答案】 A. First of all, Wordsworth s theory, as stated in his “Preface“ to the secon
20、d edition of the “Lyrical Ballads“ , serves as a manifesto of Romanticism. The poet takes the direct experience of the senses as the source of poetic truth as poetry comes from the “emotion recollected in tranquility“. The significance of the “Preface“ also presents itself in the poet s advocation o
21、f the writing of the common people in ordinary language.B. Secondly, his practice is what his theory implies, for the joys and sorrows of the common people are themes in many of his poems such as the “ Lucy poems“.C. Thirdly, natural scenery with its beauty and mystery acts also as one of his favori
22、te themes and the sympathy out of the poet s nature towards the poor in rural places becomes part of his concern.D. Fourthly, as one of the leading Romantic poets, the inner workings of individual s mind remains what Wordsworth likes to reveal in his depiction of natural scenery, and the spiritual g
23、rowth of his own makes his masterpiece The Prelude.E. Finally, the seemingly simplicity of the poet both in diction and description is immersed in a profound and sympathetic longing for a better world. So the most important contribution he has made is that he has not only started the modern poetry,
24、the poetry of his growing inner self, but also changed the course of English poetry by using ordinary speech of the language and by advocating a return to nature.【知识模块】 论述题10 【正确答案】 A. To Ahab, the whale is either an evil creature itself or the agent of an evil force that controls the universe, or p
25、erhaps both. The chase of the white whale symbolizes Ahab s pursuit of truth and fighting against the evil power.B. To Ishmael, the whale is an astonishing force, an immense power, which defies rational explanation to the sense of mystery it carries.C. It also represents the tremendous organic vital
26、ity of the universe.D. To the readers, the whale can be viewed as a symbol of the physical limits that life imposes upon man.E. It may also be regarded as a symbol of nature. At the end of the chapter, the author says “. the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago. “ Here the sea symbolizes nature that remains moving but unmoved.【知识模块】 论述题
