1、全国自考（英美文学选读）模拟试卷 14 及答案与解析一、单项选择题1 In Renaissance, the European humanist thinkers and scholars made attempts to do the following EXCEPT_.（A）getting rid of those old feudalist ideas（B） getting control of the parliament and government（C） introducing new ideas that expressed the interests of the rising
2、 bourgeoisie（D）recovering the purity of the early church, from the corruption of the Roman Catholic Church2 _was the first to start the attack on middle-class privileges and power in his novel Lucky Jim.（A）John Braine（B） Kingsley Amis（C） Alan Sillitoe（D）John Wain3 For his contribution to the establi
3、shment of the form of the modern novel, _ has been regarded as “ Father of the English Novel. “（A）Daniel Defoe（B） Jonathan Swift（C） Henry Fielding（D）Oliver Goldsmith4 The Renaissance marks a transition from the medieval to the _world.（A）new English（B） modern（C） feudal（D）capital5 The most famous dram
4、atists in the Renaissance England are_, William Shakespeare, and Ben Jonson.（A）Christopher Marlowe（B） John Marlowe（C） John Milton（D）Edmund Spenser6 _ is generally regarded as Shakespeare s most popular play on the stage, for it has the qualities of a “ blood-and-thunder“ thriller and a philosophical
5、 exploration of life and death.（A）Hamlet（B） King Lear（C） Romeo and Juliet（D）Othello7 Which of the following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare s Sonnet18 ?（A）The speaker eulogizes the power of nature.（B） The speaker satirizes human vanity.（C） The speaker praises the power of artist
6、ic creation.（D）The speaker meditates on man s salvation.8 Paradise Lost is actually a story taken from_.（A）the Renaissance（B） Greek Mythology（C） the Old Testament（D）the New Testament9 Neoclassicists had some fixed laws and rules for prose EXCEPT_.（A）being precise（B） being direct（C） being flexible（D）
7、being satiric10 In 1724, _published, under the pseudonym of Drapier, a series of letters that called on the whole country to refuse the newly-minted English copper coins which would further debase the coinage of the already poverty-stricken country.（A）Jonathan Swift（B） Charles Dickens（C） Edmund Spen
8、ser（D）George Bernard Shaw11 Of all the 18th-century novelists_was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specially a “comic epic in prose. “（A）Henry Fielding（B） Daniel Defoe（C） Jonathan Swift（D）John Bunyan12 Romanticism is a period of British literature roughly ranging from_.（A）
9、1660-1798（B） 1798-1832（C） 1483-1546（D）1836-190113 _s philosophy of life is presented in his masterpiece The Prelude.（A）William Blake（B） William Wordsworth（C） Samuel Taylor Coleridge（D）John Keats 14 The two collections of poems written by William Blake, _ and_hold the similar subject-matter, but the
10、tone, emphasis and conclusion differ.（A）Songs of Innocence; Songs of Experience（B） Poetical Sketches; Songs of Innocence（C） Poetical Sketches; Marriage of Heaven and Hell（D）The Book of Urizen; The Book of Los15 A number of poems from the Songs of Innocence find a counterpart in the Songs of Experien
11、ce. “Infant Joy“ is matched with “Infant Sorrow, “ and the pure “Lamb“ is paired with the flaming“_.“（A）Chimney Sweeper（B） London（C） Sheep（D）Tyger16 _is regarded as a “worshipper of nature. “He can penetrate to the heart of things and give the reader the very life of nature.（A）John Keats（B） William
12、Wordsworth（C） John Donne（D）Samuel Taylor Coleridge17 The Solitary Reaper written by_ uses rural figures to suggest the timeless mystery of sorrowful humanity and its radiant beauty.（A）Samuel Taylor Coleridge（B） William Wordsworth（C） John Keats（D）George Gordon Byron18 Percy Bysshe Shelley is one of t
13、he leading_poets, an intense and original lyrical poet in the English language.（A）realistic（B） symbolic（C） romantic（D）imagist19 Jane Austen s main literary concern is about_.（A）maturity achieved through the loss of illusions（B） the love story between the rich and the poor（C） human beings in their pe
14、rsonal relationships（D）the daily country life of the middle-class English20 Chronologically the Victorian period roughly coincides with the reign of_ who ruled over England from 1836 to 1901.（A）Queen Victoria（B） Queen Elizabeth I（C） King Henry VIII（D）King Edward VI21 The novel _ written by Charles D
15、ickens is famous for its vivid descriptions of the work house and life of the underworld in the 19th-century London.（A）David Copperfield（B） Bleak House（C） Great Expectations（D）Oliver Twist22 Charlottes works are famous for the depiction of the life of the middle-class working women, particularly_.（A
16、）clerks（B） governesses（C） baby-sitters（D）managers23 _is Thomas Hardy s most cheerful and idyllic work.（A）The Return of the Native .（B） Far from the Madding Crowd（C） Under the Greenwood Tree（D）The Woodlanders24 Modernism is_, in many aspects, a reaction against realism. It rejects rationalism, which
17、is the theoretical base of_.（A）classicism（B） romanticism（C） realism（D）symbolism25 Widowers Houses is a grotesquely realistic exposure of_.（A）prostitution（B） life force（C） social evil（D）slum landlordism26 The childhood of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn in the Mississippi is a record of a vanished way of li
18、fe in the_Mississippi valley.（A）early 16th-century（B） late 16th-century（C） post-Civil War（D）pre-Civil War27 In his famous essay, “Tradition and Individual Talent, “ _put great emphasis on the importance of tradition both in creative writing and in criticism.（A）James Joyce（B） D. H. Lawrence（C） George
19、 Bernard Shaw（D）T. S. Eliot28 “The Lawrence trilogy“ refers to the following three plays EXCEPT_.（A）A Colliers Friday Night（B） The Daughter-in-Law（C） Lady Chatterleys Lover（D）The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyed29 In the following works, which signs the beginning of the American literature?（A）The Sketch Bo
20、ok.（B） Leaves of Grass.（C） Leather-Stocking Tales.（D）Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.30 The heroine in Hawthorne s The Scarlet Letter is_.（A）Pearl（B） Faith（C） Ruth（D）Hester Prynne31 In_, Hawthorne discusses sin and evil and sets out to prove that everyone possesses some evil secret.（A）The Scarlet Let
21、ter（B） Young Goodman Brown（C） Sister Carrie（D）Daisy Miller32 Leaves of Grass commands great attention because of its uniquely poetic embodiment of_, which are written in the founding documents of both the Revolutionary War and the Civil War in the United States.（A）the democratic ideals（B） the romant
22、ic ideals（C） the self-reliance spirits（D）the religious ideals33 The poetic style Whitman devised is now called_, that is, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.（A）heroic couplet（B） dramatic monologue（C） blank verse（D）free verse34 The period ranging from 1865 to 1914 has been referred t
23、o as_.（A）the Age of Colonialism（B） the Age of Romanticism（C） the Age of Realism（D）the Age of Modernism35 Generally speaking, all those writers with a naturalistic approach to human reality tend to be_.（A）idealists（B） pessimists（C） transcendentalists（D）impressionists36 Mark Twain wrote most of his li
24、terary works with a_language.（A）grand（B） pompous（C） simple（D）vernacular37 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 sin38 Closely relat
25、ed to Emily Dickinson s religious poetry are her poems concerning_.（A）childhood（B） youth and happiness（C） loneliness（D）death and immortality39 In_, Dreiser expressed his naturalistic pursuit by expounding the purposelessness of life and attacking the conventional moral standards.（A）An American Trage
26、dy（B） Sister Carrie（C） The Financier（D）The Stoic40 The modern stream-of-consciousness technique was frequently and skillfully exploited by _to emphasize the reactions and inner musings of the narrator.（A）William Faulkner（B） T. S. Eliot（C） Robert Frost（D）William Wordsworth二、阅读理解41 Wherefore feed and
27、clothe and save From the cradle to the grave Those ungrateful drones who would Drain your sweatnay, drink your blood? Questions:A. Who wrote the poem? What s its name?B. Explain “drones. “C. Interpret the passage.42 To be, or not to bethat is the question; Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer Th
28、e slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them?Questions:A. Who is the author of the play?B. Who is the speaker?C. What does he mean when he says “To be, or not to bethat is the question“?43 Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests o
29、f the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?Questions:A. Who is the author?B. What does “symmetry“ mean?C. What does “tyger“ refer to?44 I wandered lonely as a cloudThat floats on high o er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Besi
30、de the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Questions:A. Who is the author?B. What does “A host, of“ mean?C. Give a short explanation of the quotation.三、简答题45 As a unique variation of American literary realism, local colorism makes American literature a different. Who is th
31、e most famous local colorist? What are local colorists most concerned?46 Whats Henry James outlook, which is an indispensable part of his contribution to literature, in literary criticism?47 Related to the theme, characterization and plot of Bernard Shaw s plays, what are the main features?48 As a R
32、omantic poet, Shelley has his own literary style. What s it?四、论述题49 Please discuss the significance of William Wordsworth s poetry in the history of English literature.50 Retell in a few sentences the story of the last chapter (Chapter 135) “The ChaseThird Day“ of Melville s novel Moby-Dick. Discuss
33、 the meaning of the ending of the story.全国自考（英美文学选读）模拟试卷 14 答案与解析一、单项选择题1 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 文艺复兴从本质上是欧洲人文主义者竭力摒弃中世纪欧洲的封建主义，推行代表新兴城市资产阶级利益的新思想，并恢复早期宗教的纯洁性，远离腐败的罗马天主教廷的一场运动。2 【正确答案】 B3 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 菲尔丁被一些人称为“英国小说之父”，因为他为现代小说模式的创立作出了很大的贡献。4 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 文艺复兴是标志着中世纪的结束和现代社会的开始的一个过渡时期。5 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 文
34、艺复兴时期英国最著名的戏剧家有克里斯托夫-马洛、威廉-莎士比亚与本-琼生。6 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 哈姆雷特是莎士比亚最负盛名的一部悲剧，因为剧中充满了险象环生的情节与对生和死极富哲理的剖析。7 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 在十四行诗第 18 首中，莎士比亚认为夏日的美好是转瞬即逝的，但诗中的美丽却能永存。由此可见莎士比亚对诗歌的永恒性深信不疑，同时也表现了他对艺术创作的赞美。8 【正确答案】 C9 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 新古典主义者们设定了创作的规矩与条框：散文必须精确、直接、通顺、灵活。而具有讽刺性是对诗歌的要求。10 【正确答案】 A11 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】
35、在所有 18 世纪的小说家中，亨利-菲尔丁第一次在理论与实践上创造了“散文体喜剧史诗”，并第一个为现代小说确立了结构与风格。12 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 英国浪漫主义时期一般认为始于 1798 年，标志为抒情歌谣集的出版，终于 1832 年，标志为沃尔特-司各特的去世及议会第一个改革提案的通过。13 【正确答案】 B14 【正确答案】 A15 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 本题在主要考查的知识点为人真之歌与经验之歌的对应。16 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 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。17 【正确答案】 B18 【正确答案】 C1
36、9 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 简-奥斯汀的创作主题总是与个人的生活及人际关系有关。20 【正确答案】 A21 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 狄更斯的雾都孤儿以生动地描写十九世纪伦敦那非人道的工厂厂房与黑暗的充满罪恶的下层生活而著名。22 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 夏洛特的作品擅长描写中产阶级的职业女性，尤其是家庭教师。23 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 在哈代所有的作品中，格林伍德的林荫下是最欢快、最抒情的。24 【正确答案】 C25 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 萧伯纳的戏剧鳏夫的房产揭露了贫民窟里不公平的租房制度。26 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 汤姆和哈克在密西西比河上度过的童
37、年是内战前该条河谷生活方式的实录，感动了全世界数以百万计的各个年龄段的人。27 【正确答案】 D28 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 劳伦斯的三部戏剧作品，称为“劳伦斯三部曲”。这三部戏剧是矿工的周五夜晚、儿媳、守寡的霍尔罗伊德夫人。29 【正确答案】 A30 【正确答案】 D31 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 在小说小伙子布朗中，霍桑讨论了罪行和邪恶，说明了每个人都有邪恶的秘密。32 【正确答案】 A33 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 惠特曼创造了“自由体诗”，没有固定的节奏和规则的韵律。34 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 1865 年至 1914 年闻的美国文学在美国文学史上被称为是现实主义
38、时期。35 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 一般来说，自然主义作家的观点往往是悲观的。36 【正确答案】 D37 【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。38 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 狄金森与宗教有关的诗是关于死亡和不朽的。39 【正确答案】 B40 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 福克纳娴熟地运用现代意识流技法来强调叙述者的反应和内心沉思。二、阅读理解41 【正确答案】 A. Shelley; A Song: Men of England.B. The male of the honey-bees that don t work, ref
39、erring here to the parasitic class in human society.C. The poet called all working people to rise up against their political oppressors, but pointed out to them the intolerable injustice of economic exploitation. It expressed the love for freedom and the hatred to tyranny of the author.42 【正确答案】 A.
40、William Shakespeare.B. Hamlet.C. To live on in this world or to die; to suffer or to take action.43 【正确答案】 A. William Blake.B. The well-proportioned 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 think
41、s that The Tyger is a poem about work, about artistic creation.44 【正确答案】 A. William Wordsworth.B. A large number of.C. While the poet was taking a walk in the woods, he felt lonely and detached from earthly fellowship just like a lonely cloud, wandering and floating in the sky.三、简答题45 【正确答案】 A. Mark
42、 Twain is the most famous local colorist.B. Local colorists writings are concerned with the life of a small, well-defined region or province.C. They worked from personal experience; they recorded the facts of a unique environment and suggested that the native life was shaped by the curious condition
43、s of the locale.46 【正确答案】 A. It is both concerned with form and devoted to human values.B. He also advocates the freedom of the artist to write about anything that concerns him, even the disagreeable, the ugly and the commonplace.C. The artist should be able to “feel“ the life, to understand human n
44、ature, and then to record them in his own art form.47 【正确答案】 A. Structurally and thematically, Shaw followed the great traditions of realism. He took the modern social issues as his subjects with the aim of directing social reforms.B. One feature of Shaw s characterization is that he makes the trick
45、 of showing up one character vividly at the expense of another.C. Much of Shavian drama is constructed around the inversion of a conventional theatrical situation.D. Shaw s plays have plots, but they do nut work by plots.48 【正确答案】 A. Shelley is one of the leading Romantic poets, an intense and origi
46、nal lyrical poet in the English language.B. He has a reputation as a difficult poet; erudite, imagistically complex, full of classical and mythological allusions.C. His style abounds in personification and metaphor and other figures of speech which describe vividly what we see and feel, or express w
47、hat passionately moves us.四、论述题49 【正确答案】 A. First of all, Wordsworth s theory, as stated in his “Preface“ to the second 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 “
48、emotion recollected in tranquillity. “ The significance of the “Preface“ also presents itself in the poet s advocation of 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 arc his themes. It can b
49、e seen 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 favorite themes and the sympathy out of the poet s nature towards the poor in rural places becomes part of his concern.D. Fourthly, the inner workings of individual s mind remain what Wordsworth likes to reve
