1、全国自考英美文学选读（综合）模拟试卷 4 及答案与解析一、阅读理解1 For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Questions:A. Identify the author and the title.B. What does the phrase “inward eye“ mean?C. Write out the main idea of the passage in plain English.2 “ I shall be telling
2、this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence;Two roads diverged in a wood, and II took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference. “Questions:A. Identify the author and the title of the poem from which the quoted lines are taken.B. What additional meaning do the two roads have?C.
3、 What dilemma is the speaker facing?二、简答题3 Briefly discuss the features of Fielding s writings.4 “Let it not be supposed by the enemies of the system , that, during the period of his solitary incarceration , Oliver was denied the benefit of exercise, the pleasure of society, or the advantages of rel
4、igious consolation. “What do you think Charles Dickens intends to say in the above ironic statement taken from Oliver Twist?5 Please analyze The Waste Land by Eliot.6 Mark Twain and Henry James are two representatives of the realistic writers in American literature. How is Mark Twain s realism diffe
5、rent from James s realism?三、论述题7 What are the differences between the Neoclassical period and the Romantic period?8 Please mark a brief comment on Hawthorne s Young Goodman Brown.9 Symbolism is an important literary practice in literature and it has been widely used by many American writers. Discuss
6、 the way symbolism is used in Faulkner s story A Rose for Emily.全国自考英美文学选读（综合）模拟试卷 4 答案与解析一、阅读理解1 【正确答案】 A. Wordsworth, I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud.B. Human soul.C. The poet expresses his love for the daffodils.【知识模块】 阅读理解2 【正确答案】 A. Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken.B. Life is here compared to a jo
7、urney. The two roads stand for the choice one has to make at a critical moment in his life.C. Since where the road leads to is uncertain, one has to wait to see the result of the choice until one s life is coming to an end. Then it will be too late. The speaker acknowledges the limits of life, yet h
8、e indulges himself in the notion that we could be really different from what we have become, because life is unpredictable.【知识模块】 阅读理解二、简答题3 【正确答案】 Fielding s language is easy, unlaboured and familiar, but extremely vivid and vigorous. His sentences are always distinguished by logic and rhythm, and
9、his structure carefully planned towards an inevitable ending. His works are also noted for lively, dramatic dialogues and other theatrical devices such as suspense, coincidence and unexpectedness.【知识模块】 简答题4 【正确答案】 A. The sentence is a typical example of irony. What Dickens intends to say is just th
10、e opposite of the sentence s literal meaning.B. For the “benefit“ of exercise, Oliver was whipped every morning in a stone yard; for the “pleasure“of society, he was carried every other day into the dining hall and flogged as a public warning and example to the boys; and as for the “advantages“of re
11、ligious consolation, he was kicked into the same apartment every evening at prayer time and listened to the boys prayer to be guarded against his sins and vices.C. The ironic statement is, in fact, a bitter denunciation and fierce attack at the brutal, inhuman treatment of the poor orphan by the wor
12、khouse authority.【知识模块】 简答题5 【正确答案】 A. With bold technical innovations in versification and style, the poem not only presents a panorama of physical disorder and spiritual desolation in the modern Western world, but also reflects the prevalent mood of disillusionment and despair of a whole post-war
13、generation.B. The Waste Land is a poem concerned with the spiritual breakup of a modern civilization in which human life has lost its meaning, significance and purpose. The poem has developed a whole set of historical, cultural and religious themes; but it is often regarded as being primarily a refl
14、ection of the 20th-century people s disillusionment and frustration in a sterile and futile society.【知识模块】 简答题6 【正确答案】 A. Mark Twain s realism is tainted with local color, preferring to have his own region and people at the forefront of his stories.B. James s realism is concerned with the “inner wor
15、ld“ of man.C. James s realism is also concerned with the international theme.D. Mark Twain s language is simple and colloquial.E. Mark Twain employs humor in his writing.F. James s language is elaborate and refined with lengthy psychological analyses.【知识模块】 简答题三、论述题7 【正确答案】 A. Neo-classicists upheld
16、 that artistic ideals should be order, logic, restrained emotion and accuracy, and that literature should be judged in terms of its service to humanity, and thus, literary expressions should be of proportion, unity , harmony and grace. Pope s An Essay on Criticism advocates grace, wit (usually throu
17、gh satire/humour) , and simplicity in language (and the poem itself is a demonstration of those ideals, too) ; Fielding s Tom Jones helped establish the form of novel; Gray s “ Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard“ displays elegance in style, unified structure, serious tone and moral instruction.B.
18、 Romanticists tended to see the individual as the very center of all experience, including art, and thus, literary work should be “spontaneous overflow of strong feelings“ , and no matter how fragmentary those experiences were ( Wordsworth s “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud“ , or “The Solitary Reaper“
19、, or Coleridge s “Kubla Khan“ ) , the value of the work lied in the accuracy of presenting those unique feelings and particular attitudes.C. In a word, Neo-classicism emphasized rationality and form but Romanticism attached great importance to die individual s mind ( emotion, imagination, temporary
20、experience.).【知识模块】 论述题8 【正确答案】 A. Goodman Brown, a Puritan who lives in the village of Salem, leaves his wife Faith, who pleads him not to go, to attend a witches Sabbath in the woods. There, he astonishingly finds lots of prominent people of the village and the church. When he is about to be confi
21、rmed into the group, he finds his wife Faith is also there beside him. He immediately cries out “look up to Heaven and resist the wicked one“ , only to find he is alone in the forest. He returns to his home, but since then lives a dismal and gloomy life because he is never able to believe in goodnes
22、s or piety again.B. Young Goodman Brown is one of Hawthorne s most profound tales. In the manner of its concern with guilt and evil, it exemplifies what Melville called the “ power of blackness“ in Hawthorne s work. Its hero, a naive young man who accepts both society in general and his fellow men a
23、s individuals worth his regard, is confronted with the vision of human evil in one terrible night, and becomes thereafter distrustful and doubtful. Allegorically, our protagonist becomes an Everyman named Brown, a “young“ man, who will be aged in one night by an adventure that makes everyone in this
24、 world a fallen idol. However, the story is manipulated in such a way that we as readers feel that Hawthorne poses the question of Good and Evil in man but withholds his answer, and he does not permit himself to determine whether the events of the night of trial are real or the mere figment of a dre
25、am.【知识模块】 论述题9 【正确答案】 A. Rose, as a symbol of love, may refer to the love between Emily and the Northerner, yet used rather ironically, in the way it is associated with decay and death in the story.B. Rose could also stand for the pity, sympathy, or the lament “we“ shows for Emily.C. The pity and lament goes not only to Emily but all those who are imprisoned in the past and fail to adapt to the change.D. Discuss in relation to the story.【知识模块】 论述题
