1、全国自考英美文学选读（综合）模拟试卷 3 及答案与解析一、阅读理解1 Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eyeCould frame thy fearful symmetry? Questions:A. Who is the author?B. What does “symmetry“ mean?C. What does “tyger“ refer to?2 “We passed the School, where Children stroveAt Recessin
2、the RingWe passed the Fields of Gazing GrainWe passed the Setting Sun“Questions:A. Identify the poem and the poet.B. What do “the School“ , “the Fields“ and “the Setting Sun“ stand for respectively?二、简答题3 What are the features of Defoe s writings?4 Discuss the historical background of Victorian peri
3、od.5 Analyze the features of G.B.Shaws characters.6 What are the characteristics of Whitman s free verse?7 How do you understand Hemingway s “ Iceberg principle“ according to his works?三、论述题8 Jonathan Swift s Gulliver s Travels, as a whole, is one of the most effective and devastating criticisms and
4、 satires of all aspects in the English and European life of his day. Please give a brief comment on Gullivers Travels.9 Discuss Thomas Hardys Tess of the DUrbervilles.10 Please make a comment on Theodore Dreiser s writing style.全国自考英美文学选读（综合）模拟试卷 3 答案与解析一、阅读理解1 【正确答案】 A. William Blake.B. The well-pr
5、oportioned body of the tiger.C. There are different opinions about the tiger. Some say the tiger is made by God. Others say it is made by men. One more idea thinks that The Tyger is a poem about work, about artistic creation.【知识模块】 阅读理解2 【正确答案】 A. Emily Dickinson, Because I could not stop for Death.
6、B. The three stages of life; youth; mature period; the end of life.【知识模块】 阅读理解二、简答题3 【正确答案】 Defoe was a very good story-teller. He had a gift for organizing minute details in such a vivid way that his stories could be both credible and fascinating. His sentences are sometimes short, crisp and plain,
7、 and sometimes long and rambling, which leave on the reader an impression of casual narration. His language is smooth, easy, colloquial and mostly vernacular. There is nothing artificial in his language: it is common English at its best.【知识模块】 简答题4 【正确答案】 A. The early years of the Victorian England
8、was a time of rapid economic development as well as serious social problems.B. The middle years of the Victorian England was a time of prosperity and relative stability.C. The last three decades of the century witnessed the decline of the British empire and the decay of the Victorian values.【知识模块】 简
9、答题5 【正确答案】 A. One feature of Shaw s characterization is that he makes the trick of showing up one character vividly at the expense of another.B. Another feature is that Shaw s characters are the representatives of ideas.C. Inversion is also used in character portrayal to achieve comic effects.【知识模块】
10、 简答题6 【正确答案】 A. It doesn t have fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.B. The poetic lines are simple and prose-like, varying in length, which allows him to express his ideas freely.C. Whitman also applies oral English in his free verse to make it an effective way to express freely the feelings of commo
11、n people.【知识模块】 简答题7 【正确答案】 A. Hemingway once said, “The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. “B. According to Hemingway, good literary writing should be able to make readers feel the emotion of the character directly and the best way to produce the ef
12、fect is to set down exactly every particular kind of feeling without any authorial comments, without conventionally emotive language, and with a bare minimum of adjectives and adverbs.【知识模块】 简答题三、论述题8 【正确答案】 A. As a whole, the book is one of the most effective and devastating criticisms and satires
13、of all aspects in the then English and European lifesocially, politically, religiously, philosophically, scientifically, and morally. Its social significance is great and its exploration into human nature profound.B. Gullivers Travels is an artistic masterpiece. Here we find its author at his best a
14、s a master of prose. In structure, the four parts make an organic whole, with each contrived upon an independent structure, and yet complementing the others and contributing to the central concern of study of human nature and life. The first two parts are generally considered the best paired-up work
15、.C. Here, man is observed from both ends of a telescope. The exaggerated smallness in Part 1 works just as effectively as the exaggerated largeness in Part 2. The similarities between human beings and the Lilliputians and the contrast between the Brobdingnagians and human beings both bear reference
16、to the possibilities of human state. Part 3 though seemingly a bit random, furthers the criticism of the western civilization and deals with different malpractices and false illusions about science, philosophy, history and even immortality. The last part, where comparison is made through both simila
17、rities and differences, leads the reader to a fundamental question; What on earth is a human being?【知识模块】 论述题9 【正确答案】 A. This novel is one of the best and most popular work by Hardy. It is a fierce attack on the hypocritical morality of the bourgeois society and the capitalist invasion into the coun
18、try and destruction of the English peasantry towards the end of the century.B. Tess, as a pure woman brought up with the traditional idea of womanly virtues, is abused and destroyed by both Alec and Angel, agents of the destructive force of the society. And the misery, the poverty and the heartfelt
19、pain she suffers and her final tragedy give rise to a most bitter cry of protest and denunciation of the society. Of course, naturalistic tendency is also strong in the novel.C. In a way, Tess seems to be led to her final destruction step by step by Fate. Coincidence adds one “wrong“ to another unti
20、l she is caught up in a dead-end. As Hardy says at the end of the novel; “Justice was done, and the President of the Immortals had ended his sport with Tess. “ To fully understand the novel, one has to take into consideration both its critical realist and naturalistic significance.【知识模块】 论述题10 【正确答案
21、】 A. Dreiser s style has been a point of heated discussion. The consensus that has been reached so far seems to be that, although Dreiser s novels are formless at times and awkwardly written, and his characterization is found deficient and his prose pedestrian and dull, yet his very energy proves to
22、 be more than a compensation.B. Dreiser s stories are always solid and intensely interesting with their simple but highly moving characters. Dreiser is good at employing the journalistic method of reiteration to burn a central impression into the reader s mind. His interest in painting is reflected in his taste for word-pictures, sharp contrast, truth in color, and movement in outline. Here lies the power and permanence that have made Dreiser one of America s foremost novelists.【知识模块】 论述题
