1、全国自考（英美文学选读）模拟试卷 11 及答案与解析一、单项选择题1 _ is a master satirist. His satire is usually masked by an outward gravity and an apparent earnestness which renders his satire all the more powerful.（A）Jonathan Swift（B） Daniel Defoe（C） Henry Fielding（D）Thomas Gray2 In the Romantic Age, _is a great critic on Shake
2、speare, Elizabethan drama, and English poetry.（A）Byron（B） Jane Austen（C） William Hazlitt（D）William Blake3 Robert Browning who created the verse novel by adopting the novelistic presentation of characters, was among the famous_poet.（A）neoclassical（B） realistic（C） experimental（D）victorian4 Which of th
3、e following is NOT a typical feature of Modernism?（A）To elevate the individual and inner being over the social being.（B） To put the stress on traditional values.（C） To portray the distorted and alienated relationships between man and his environment.（D）To advocate a conscious break with the past.5 A
4、fter The adventures of Tom Sawyer, Twain gives a literary independence to Tom s buddy Huck in a book entitled _.（A）Life on the Mississippi（B） The Gilded Age（C） Adventures of Huckleberry Finn（D）A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthu s Court6 In Hemingways “Indian Camp, “ Nicks night trip to the Indian vi
5、llage and his experience inside the hut can be taken as_.（A）an essential lesson about Indian tribes（B） a confrontation with evil and sin（C） an initiation to the harshness of life（D）a learning process in human relationship7 _, originally drafted as “First Impressions“ in 1796.（A）Mansfield Park（B） Pri
6、de and Prejudice（C） Emma（D）Northanger Abbey8 One of the greatest critical realist writer of_ is Charles Dickens.（A）the Victorian Period（B） the Neoclassical Period（C） the Renaissance Period（D）the Romantic Period9 The 1930s witnessed great economic depressions, mass unemployment, and the rise of the N
7、azis. Facing such a severe situation, most of the young intellects started to turn to the left. And therefore the period was known as “the_thirties. “（A）black（B） red（C） hard（D）mad10 The outstanding realistic novelists in the early 20th-century England were_, H. G. Wells and Arnold Bennett.（A）George
8、Bernard Shaw（B） John Galsworthy（C） James Joyce（D）T. S. Eliot11 “I like to see it lap the Miles“ is a poem written by_.（A）Ezra Pound（B） Walt Whitman（C） Robert Frost（D）Emily Dickinson12 Shelleys masterpiece, Prometheus Unbound, is a verse drama, which borrows the basic story from _.（A）the Bible（B） a G
9、erman Legend（C） a Greek play（D）One Thousand and One Nights13 In the first part of the novel Pride and Prejudice, Mr. Darcy has a( n)_of the Bennet family.（A）high opinion（B） great admiration（C） low opinion（D）erroneous view14 Mr. Micawber in David Copperfield and Sam Well in The Pickwick Paper are per
10、haps the best _characters created by Charles Dickens.（A）comical（B） tragic（C） round（D）sophisticated15 A typical feature of the English Victorian literature is that writers became social and moral_, exposing all kinds of social evils.（A）revolutionaries（B） idealists（C） critics（D）defenders16 “Then all c
11、ollapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago. “ In the quoted sentence, the author might imply that_.（A）nothing changes in the 5 , 000 years of human history（B） man s desire to conquer nature can only end in his own destruction（C） nature is evil as it was
12、5 , 000 years ago（D）nature has the ultimate creative power17 Beside symbolism, all the following qualities EXCEPT_ are fused to make Melville s Moby-Dick a world classic.（A）narrative power（B） psychological analysis（C） speculative agility（D）optimistic view of life18 In all his novels Theodore Dreiser
13、 sets himself to project the_American values. For example , in Sister Carrie, there is not one character whose status is not determined economically.（A）Puritan（B） materialistic（C） psychological（D）religious19 Which of the following statements about E. Grierson, the protagonist in Faulkner s story A R
14、ose for Emily is NOT true?（A）She has a distorted personality.（B） She is physically deformed and paralyzed.（C） She is the symbol of the old values of the South.（D）She is the victim of the past glory.20 After his experiences in the forest, Goodman Brown returns to Salem_.（A）desperate and gloomy（B） ren
15、ewed in his faith（C） wearing a black veil（D）unaware of his own sin21 _was the leader of the Irish National Theater Movement in the early 20th century.（A）W.B. Yeats（B） Lady Gregory（C） J. M. Synge（D）John Galsworthy22 The poems such as “The Chimney Sweeper“ are found in both Songs of Innocence and Song
16、s of Experience by_.（A）William Wordsworth（B） William Blake（C） John Keats（D）George Gordon Byron23 “For I have known them all already, known them all/Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, /I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. “ The above lines are taken from_.（A）Wordsworth s The So
17、litary Reaper（B） Eliot s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock（C） Coleridge s Kubla Khan（D）Yeats s The Lake Isle of Innisfree24 The story starting with the marriage of Paul s parents Walter Morel and Mrs. Morel must be_.（A）Thomas Hardy s Tess of the D Urbervilles（B） D.H. Lawrence s Sons and Lovers（C）
18、George Eliot s Middlemarch（D）Charlotte Bronte s Jane Eyre25 Theodore Dreiser was once criticized for his_in style, but as a true artist his strength just lies in that his style is very serious and well calculated to achieve the thematic ends he sought.（A）crudeness（B） elegance（C） conciseness（D）subtle
19、ty26 “He is the last of the romantic heroes, whose energy and sense of commitment take him in search of his personal grail; his failure magnifies to a great extent the end of the American Dream. “ The character referred to in the passage is most likely the protagonist of_.（A）Fitzgerald s The Great G
20、atsby（B） Dreiser s An American Tragedy（C） Hemingway s For Whom the Bell Tolls（D）Twain s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn27 American writers after World War I self-consciously acknowledged that they were (a) “_, “ devoid of faith and alienated from the Western civilization.（A）Lost Generation（B） Beat Ge
21、neration（C） Sons of Liberty（D）Angry Young Men28 In his realistic fiction, Henry James s primary concern is to present the_.（A）inner life of human beings（B） American Civil War and its effects（C） life on the Mississippi River（D）Calvinistic view of original sin29 _is a natural means of writing in revea
22、ling the prince s inner conflict and psychological predicament in Shakespeare s Hamlet.（A）Dialogue（B） Soliloquy（C） Dramatic monologue（D）Satire30 The hero of one of his main works is an Israel s mighty champion, blind, alone, and fighting against his thoughtless enemies. This hero s experience is in
23、close resemblance to the poet himself. The poet s name is_.（A）John Milton（B） John Bunyan（C） Edmund Spenser（D）Christopher Marlowe31 The sentence “three or four families in a country village are the very thing to work on“ can best reflect the writer s personal knowledge and range of writing. This writ
24、er is_.（A）Walter Scott（B） Thomas Hardy（C） Charlotte Bronte（D）Jane Austen32 In comparison to T. S. Eliot s later poems, his early ones are marked by_.（A）a dreamy quality, expressing melancholy and self-indulgent feelings（B） a mood of disillusionment and the sufferings of modern people（C） a philosophi
25、cal and emotional calm（D）a set of historical, cultural and religious themes33 “Cavalry Crossing a Ford“ by Whitman reminds its readers of a picture, or a photo, of a scene of_.（A）the American War of Independence（B） the Westward Movement（C） the U. S. -Spanish War（D）the American Civil War34 Which one
26、of the following statements about Hawthorne s The Scarlet Letter is true?（A）Hawthorne intended to tell a love story in this novel.（B） Hawthorne intended to tell a story of sin in this novel.（C） Hawthorne intended to reveal the human psyche after they sinned, so as to show people the tension between
27、society and individuals.（D）Hawthorne focused his attention on consequences of the sin on the people in general, so as to call the readers back to the conventional Puritan way of living.35 Literature of Neoclassicism is different from that of Romanticism in that_.（A）the former celebrates reason, rati
28、onality, order and instruction while the latter sees literature as an expression of an individual s feeling and experiences（B） the former is heavily religious but the latter secular（C） the former is an intellectual movement, the purpose of which is to arouse the middle class for political rights whi
29、le the latter is concerned with the personal cultivation（D）the former advocates the “return to nature“ whereas the latter turns to the ancient Greek and Roman writers for its models36 Which of the following poem by T. S. Eliot is hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th-century English poetry?（A
30、）The Criterion（B） The Hollow Men（C） Prufrock and Other Observations（D）The Waste Land37 _has long been well known as a poet who can hardly be classified with the old or the new.（A）Emily Dickinson（B） William Faulkner（C） Robert Lee Frost（D）Ezra Pound 38 It is the greatest masters of English prose_that
31、defined a good style as “proper words in proper places. “（A）Henry Fielding（B） Jonathan Swift（C） Samuel Johnson（D）Alexander Pope39 _ defined poetry as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, which originates in emotion recollected in tranquillity. “（A）William Wordsworth（B） William Blake（C） Pe
32、rcy Bysshe Shelley（D）Robert Sou they 40 In the way the montage does in a movie, _ deliberately broke up the chronology of his narrative by juxtaposing the past with the present, in most of his writings.（A）Walt Whitman（B） William Faulkner（C） Ernest Hemingway（D）F. Scott Fitzgerald二、阅读理解41 For herein F
33、ortune shows herself more kind Than is her custom. It is still her use To let the wretched man outlive his wealth, To view with hollow eye and wrinkled brow An age of poverty; from which ling ring penance Of such misery doth she cut me off. Questions:A. Who is the author of the play?B. What does “sh
34、e“ refer to?C. What does the statement mean?42 The Eyes aroundhad wrung them dry And Breaths were gathering firmFor that last Onsetwhen the King Be witnessedin the Room Questions:A. From which poem is the stanza taken?B. What does “the King“ refer to?C. What does the first line mean?43 I shall be te
35、lling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I I 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 road
36、s have?C. What dilemma is the speaker facing?44 I consulted several things in my situation which I found would be proper for me: 1st, health and fresh water I just now mentioned; 2ndly, shelter from the heat of the sun; 3rdly, security from ravenous creatures, whether men or beasts; 4thly, a view to
37、 the sea, that if God sent any ship in sight, I might not lose any advantage for my deliverance, of which I was not willing to banish all my expectation yet. Questions:A. Identify the author and the work.B. What idea does the quoted passage express?三、简答题45 Some of Hemingway s heroes are regarded as
38、the Hemingway Code heroes. Whatever the differences in experience and age, they all have something in common which Hemingway values. What are the characteristics of the Hemingway Code hero?46 Why is Wordsworth regarded as the leading figure of the English romantic poetry?47 The literary school of na
39、turalism was quite popular in the late 19th century. What are the major characteristics of naturalism?48 Mark Twain and Henry James are two representatives of the realistic writers in American literature. How is Twain s realism different from James s realism?四、论述题49 Jonathan Swifts Gullivers Travels
40、, as a whole, is one of the most effective and devastating criticisms and satires of all aspects in the English and European life of his day. Please give a brief comment on Gullivers Travels.50 Summarize the story of Mark Twain s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in about 100 words, and comment on the
41、theme of the novel.全国自考（英美文学选读）模拟试卷 11 答案与解析一、单项选择题1 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 斯威夫特是讽刺作品大师，他的讽刺笔触极具力度。2 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 在英国文学的浪漫主义时期，威廉-赫兹利特是专门评论莎士比亚、伊丽莎白戏剧及英国诗歌的伟大评论家。3 【正确答案】 C4 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 本题主要考查的知识点为现代主义的典型特征。5 【正确答案】 C6 【正确答案】 C7 【正确答案】 B8 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 狄更斯是堆多利亚时期伟大的批判现实主义作家。9 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 20 世纪 30 年
42、代出现了大规模的经济危机、失业，纳粹诞生了。面对这种严峻的社会环境，许多青年知识分子开始转向左翼，因而这一时期被称为“红色的 30 年代”。10 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 20 世纪初英国的现实主义小说家代表有约翰-高尔斯华绥、H.G.韦尔斯及阿诺得.贝奈特。11 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 我喜欢看它奔驰数里是艾米莉.狄金森的诗作。12 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 本题主要考查的知识点为解放了的普罗米修斯的出处。13 【正确答案】 C14 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 麦考伯先生和山姆.韦勒等是狄更斯塑造的幽默滑稽的角色。15 【正确答案】 C16 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 “接
43、着，一切都消失了，大海这块巨大的裹尸布滚滚而去，就像五千年前一样。”这句话暗示着人们征服自然的欲望没有实现，以大海为象征的自然仍然像 5 000 年前一样，岿然不动。17 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 除象征以外，麦尔维尔的语言才华、创造才华、心理分析能力、敏捷的观察以及生动的描述都使该书成为世界名著。18 【正确答案】 B19 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 在给艾米莉小姐的玫瑰中，艾米莉被看作传统的化身，古老生活方式的楷模。福克纳充分利用了哥特式的叙述方法，将艾米莉畸形的性格和她与男友的不正常行为表现得淋漓尽致。20 【正确答案】 A21 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 20 世纪初期，爱尔兰
44、剧作家 WB叶芝、格利高里夫人及JM辛格联合发起 “爱尔兰民族戏剧运动 ”，从而带来了爱尔兰文艺复兴潮流。叶芝是这场运动的领袖。22 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 本题在 2008 年 4 月真题第一大题 5 小题考查过，主要考查的知识点为布莱克的经验之歌和天真之歌。23 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 “因为我早已知道他们，知道了他们所有人的早已知道那些晚上、上午和下午的情景，我用咖啡匙量走了我的生命。”是艾略特的J阿尔弗雷德普鲁弗洛克的情歌中的句子。24 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 劳伦斯的小说儿子与情人开始于保罗父母的婚姻。25 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 西奥多德莱塞曾因写作风格粗糙
45、而受到批评，但是他的作品内容严肃，与表现的主题十分相符。26 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 菲兹杰拉德的了不起的盖茨比中的盖茨比是最后一个浪漫主义人物。盖茨比的失败表明了美国梦的破灭。27 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 一战后的美国作家意识到他们是“迷惘的一代”，他们没有信仰，远离西方文明。28 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 在亨利詹姆斯的现实主义小说中，他首要关注的是人物内心的生活。29 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 本题主要考查的知识点为哈姆雷特的描述特色。30 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 本题主要考查的知识点为弥尔顿的力士参孙。31 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 奥斯汀的写作素材十分狭
46、窄。主题、角色、社会背景及情节都离不开 18 世纪英国的乡村中产阶级生活，总是三、四口之家的日常生活、舞会、茶点、人际关系、闭言碎语等。因此答案为 D。32 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 与晚期的作品相比，艾略特早期的作品主要表现现代人的幻灭、痛苦和绝望。33 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 惠特曼的诗歌“涉水的骑兵”给读者描述了美国内战时期的景象。34 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 在霍桑的小说红字中，作者并不是要讲一个爱情故事或者是一个犯罪的故事，而是集中表现道德、情感和心理对大众的作用，来揭示社会与个人的紧张矛盾。因此答案为 C。35 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 本题主要考查的知识点为新
47、占典主义时期与浪漫主义时期文学的不同点。36 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 荒原是艾略特最重要的独立诗篇，被誉为 20 世纪英国诗歌的代表与典范，可与华兹华斯的抒情歌谣集相媲美。37 【正确答案】 C38 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 斯威夫特擅长写简练朴素的散文，他创立了一种良好的文风，即“在恰当的地方用恰当的词”。39 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 华兹华斯认为诗人是对着广大人民讲话的人，而诗歌是强烈情感的自发流露，发乎于虚静后的情感。40 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 福克纳的小说故意打乱时间结构，把过去同现在混杂在一起，同电影中的蒙太奇手法一样。二、阅读理解41 【正确答案】 A. W
48、illiam Shakespeare. B. Fortune.C. Antonio thinks Fortune is more kind toward him because Fortune is taking away both his wealth and life.42 【正确答案】 A. “I heard a Fly buzzwhen I died“by Emily Dickinson.B. The God of death.C. The relatives and friends had cried and cried so that there were no tears any
49、 more.43 【正确答案】 A. Robert Frost; The Road Not Taken.B. Life is here compared to a journey. 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.
