1、全国自考（英美文学选读）模拟试卷 15 及答案与解析一、单项选择题1 John Milton s_is the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf.（A）Paradise Lost（B） Paradise Regained（C） Samson Agonistes（D）Areopagitica2 As the best of Shakespeare s final romances, _is a typical example of his pessimistic view towards hu
2、man life and society in his late years.（A）The Tempest（B） The Winter s Tale（C） Cymbeline（D）The Rape of Lucrece3 _writings paved the way for the use of scientific method.（A）George Bernard shaw（B） T. S. Eliot（C） Francis Bacon（D）Alexander Pope4 With classical culture and the_humanistic ideas coming into
3、 England, the English Renaissance began flourishing.（A）French（B） German（C） Italian（D）Greek5 In the early stage of the English Renaissance, poetry and_were the most outstanding literary forms and they were carried on especially by William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson.（A）fiction（B） dramatic fiction（C） p
4、oetic drama（D）novel6 Shakespeare s _ are mainly written under the principle that national unity under a mighty and just sovereign is a necessity.（A）history plays（B） tragedies（C） comedies（D）plays7 William Shakespeare s greatest tragedies are: Hamlet, _, King Lear and_.（A）Romeo and Juliet; Othello（B）
5、Othello; Macbeth（C） The Tempest; Macbeth（D）Othello; Henry IV8 The sentence “Shall I compare thee to a summer s day?“ is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare s _.（A）comedies（B） tragedies（C） sonnets（D）history plays9 “The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune“is an example of_.（A）metaphor（B） simi
6、le（C） irony（D）personification10 _ s literary achievements can be divided into three groups: the early poetic works, the middle prose pamphlets and the last great poems.（A）William Shakespeare（B） Christopher Marlowe（C） John Donne（D）John Milton11 The neoclassical period in English literature refers to
7、the one between the return of the Stuarts to the English throne in 1660 and the full assertion of_ which came with the publication of Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge in 1798.（A）Realism（B） Humanism（C） Romanticism（D）Neoclassicism12 English enlighteners in the 18th century held _as the yard
8、stick for the measurement of all human activities and relations.（A）war（B） history（C） reason（D）love13 Robinson Crusoe by _ is universally considered as his masterpiece.（A）John Bunyan（B） Jonathan Swift（C） Henry Fielding（D）Daniel Defoe14 The best fictional work of Jonathan Swift is _.（A）A Tale of a Tub
9、（B） The Battle of the Books（C） A Modest Proposal（D）Gulliver s Travels 15 Of all the 18th-century novelists Henry Fielding was the first to set out, both in theory and practice , to write specifically a “_ in prose, “ the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.（A）tragic epic（B） comic
10、epic（C） romance（D）lyric epic16 The Romantic Age began with _published by Wordsworth and Coleridge.（A）Leaves of Grass（B） The Cantos（C） Nature（D）Lyrical Ballads17 _paints a world of misery, poverty, disease, war and repression with a melancholy tone.（A）Oliver Twist（B） A Tale of Two Cities（C） Songs of
11、Innocence（D）Songs of Experience18 The three poets William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey once lived in the English Lake District, and became known as the “_. “（A）University Wits（B） Metaphysical Poets（C） Lake Poets（D）Lost Generation19 Which of the following writings is not cre
12、ated by William Wordsworth?（A）I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.（B） Composed upon Westminster Bridge.（C） The Solitary Reaper.（D）The Chimney Sweeper.20 Best of all the well-known lyric pieces written by P.B. Shelley is the poet s _, here his rhapsodic and declamatory tendencies find a subject perfectly su
13、ited to them.（A）To a Skylark（B） The Cloud（C） Ode to the West Wind（D）Ode to a Nightingale21 Shelley s greatest achievement is his four-act poetic drama_.（A）Adonais（B） 7b a Skylark（C） A Song: Men of England（D）Prometheus Unbound22 “Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere;/Destroyer and Preserver; hear
14、, O hear!“ The two lines are found in _.（A）Young Goodman Brown by Hawthorne（B） Ode to the West Wind by Shelley（C） Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman（D）Ulysses by Joyce23 As a_writer, Jane Austen considers it her duty to express in her works a discriminated and serious criticism of life, and to expose t
15、he follies and illusions of mankind.（A）romantic（B） sentimental（C） pessimistic（D）realistic24 _is regarded as “worshipper of nature. “（A）Coleridge（B） Wordsworth（C） T. S. Eliot（D）Robert Browning25 Although writing from different points of view and with different techniques, writers in the Victorian Per
16、iod shared one thing in common, that is, they were all concerned about_.（A）the fate of the upper class（B） the reformation of the government（C） the fate of the common people（D）the future of their family class26 Charles Dickens is one of the greatest critical realist writers of the _（A）Romantic Period
17、（B） Renaissance Period（C） Neoclassical Period（D）Victorian Period27 All of the later works written by Charles Dickens, with the exception of_, present a criticism of the more complicated and yet most fundamental social institutions and morals of the Victorian England.（A）Bleak House（B） A Tale of Two C
18、ities（C） Little Dorrit（D）Hard Times28 The novel Oliver Twist presents Oliver Twist as Charles Dickens first_hero.（A）female（B） male（C） child（D）imaginary29 Which of the following women does not belong to the famous Bronte Sisters?（A）Mary Bronte.（B） Charlotte Bronte.（C） Emily Bronte.（D）Anne Bronte.30 C
19、harlotte Bronte s works are all about the stmggle of an individual consciousness towards self-realization , about some lonely and neglected_with a fierce longing for love, understanding and a full, happy life.（A）young man（B） young women（C） children（D）old people31 The success of the novel_is due to i
20、ts introduction to the English novel the first governess heroine.（A）Wuthering Heights（B） Pride and Prejudice（C） Jane Eyre（D）Sister Carrie32 Thomas Hardy s novels are all Victorian in date. Most of them are set in _, the fictional primitive and crude rural region which is really the home place he bot
21、h loves and hates.（A）Sussex（B） Wessex（C） Casterbridge（D）Oxford33 _ believes that man s fate is predeterminedly tragic, driven by a combined force of “nature, “ both inside and outside.（A）Charles Dickens（B） Thomas Hardy（C） Bernard Shaw（D）T. S. Eliot34 The French_, appearing in the late 19th century,
22、heralded modernism.（A）romanticism（B） realism（C） modernism（D）symbolism35 _takes the irrational philosophy and the theory of psycho-analysis as its theoretical base.（A）Symbolism（B） Romanticism（C） Realism（D）Modernism36 In his novels of social satire, _made realistic studies of the aspirations and frust
23、rations of the “Little Man.“（A）Arnold Bennett（B） H. G. Wells（C） John Galsworthy（D）George Bernard Shaw37 _is considered to be the best-known English dramatist since William Shakespeare.（A）George Bernard Shaw（B） Richard Brinsley Sheridan（C） Christopher Marlowe（D）John Donne38 Which of the following bes
24、t describes the speaker of T. S. Eliot s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock“?（A）He is a man of inactivity.（B） He is a man of kindness.（C） He is a man of action.（D）He is a man of ambition.39 “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, “ in a form of dramatic monologue, presents the meditation of an aging
25、_man over the business of proposing marriage.（A）grown（B） lunatic（C） old（D）young40 The statement “A demanding mother turns away from her husband and gives all her affection to her sons“ sums up the main plot of D. H. Lawrence s_.（A）Women in Love（B） Sons and Lovers（C） Lady Chatterleys Lover（D）The Plum
26、ed Serpent二、阅读理解41 A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye! Fair as a star, when only oneIs shining in the sky. Questions:A. Identify the author and the title of the poem from which this stanza is taken.B. Pick out the metaphor used in this stanza.C. What quality does the author intend to
27、 show by using the metaphor?42 I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. Questions:A. Identify the author and the work.B. What are the two principal beliefs that the poet sets forth in this poem?43 Poor little Fait
28、h! thought he, for his heart smote him. What a wretch am I, to leave her on such an errand! She talks of dreams, too. Methought, as she spoke, there was trouble in her face, as if a dream had warned her what work is to be done tonight. But, no, no! t would kill her to think it. Well; she s a blessed
29、 angel on earth; and after this one night, Ill cling to her skirts and follow her to Heaven. Questions:A. Identify the author and the title of the work.B. Who is Faith?C. How do you interpret the speaker s feeling?44 The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go b
30、efore I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep. Questions:A. Who is the writer of this poem and what is the tide of his poem?B. What kind of feeling does this stanza show?C. How do you appreciate this poem?三、简答题45 Some critics believe that the transitional writer Thomas Hardy is emotionally tradition
31、al and intellectually advanced. How do you understand this idea?46 William Faulkner is one of the greatest American novelists. What do you know about his narrative techniques?47 Try to state the theme and the significance of T. S. Eliot s most important single poem The Waste Land briefly.48 Identify
32、 Henry James s most famous theme in his fiction and his favourite approach in characterization, which makes him different from Mark Twain and W. D. Howells as realists. Please give two titles of his works in which this theme and this approach are employed.四、论述题49 Please make a comment on American li
33、terary naturalist Theodore Dreiser s writing style.50 The Great Gatsby is an examination of American myth in the 20th century. Fitzgerald deliberately depicts Gatsby as a mysterious person so as to achieve the effect that Gatsby is American Everyman. Please make a brief comment on The Great Gatsby.全
34、国自考（英美文学选读）模拟试卷 15 答案与解析一、单项选择题1 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 弥尔顿的失乐园是英国文学史上继贝奥武甫之后唯一的一部公认的史诗。2 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 对莎士比亚来说，人的一生不啻于一场梦幻，暴风雨典型地反映了他晚年对人生、对社会所持的悲观态度。3 【正确答案】 C4 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 随着古典文化与意大利人文主义思潮的涌入，英国的文艺复兴开始进入繁盛期。5 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 在英国文艺复兴早期，诗歌与诗剧是最杰出的文学形式，莎士比亚与本-琼生继承了这种形式。6 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 莎士比亚的历史剧都有这样一个主题：在
35、一个强大英明的君主统领下的国家，统一是非常必要的。7 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 莎士比亚的四大悲剧是：哈姆雷特、奥赛罗、李尔王与麦克白。8 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 “我可否把你比作夏日?”是莎士比亚的作品十四行诗第 18 首的首句。9 【正确答案】 A10 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 约翰-弥尔顿的文学作品可分为三类：早期的诗作、中期的散文小册子和后期的伟大诗作。11 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 英国文学上的新古典主义时期是从 1660 年英国斯图亚特王朝复辟到以华兹华斯和科勒律治于 1798 年合作出版的抒情歌谣集为创始标志的浪漫主义时期为止的时代。12 【正确答案】 C13
36、【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 鲁滨逊漂流记是丹尼尔-笛福的代表作。14 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 格列佛游记是斯威夫特写的最精彩的一部小说。15 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 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。16 【正确答案】 D17 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 布莱克的诗集经验之歌描绘了一个充满苦难、贫穷、疾病与战争的世界，在笔调上也极为忧伤压抑。18 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 华兹华斯、骚塞、科勒律治三位诗人都曾居住在英格兰大湖区，三人并称为著名的“湖畔诗人”。19 【正确答案】 D20
37、【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 雪莱最著名的抒情诗当属西风颂，这首诗语气狂热、易于诵读。21 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 雪莱最有造诣的作品是他的四幕诗剧解放了的普罗米修斯。22 【正确答案】 B23 【正确答案】 D24 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 华兹华斯被称为“大自然的膜拜者”。25 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 尽管堆多利亚时代的小说家们的创作角度与风格各不相同，但共同特点是关心普通百姓的命运。26 【正确答案】 D27 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 在狄更斯后期所有的作品中，除了双城记，如：荒凉山庄、小多利特、艰难时期、远大前程及我们共同的朋友等都对更加复杂也更为基础的英国维多利亚
38、时期的社会机构及道德观念进行了批判。28 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 奥立佛-特威斯特是狄更斯笔下第的一个儿童形象。29 【正确答案】 A30 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 夏洛特的作品主题几乎都是有关个人自觉地为实现自我价值而奋斗，有关一些孤独而卑微的年轻女子对爱情、理解与完整幸福的生活的强烈渴求。31 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 小说简-爱的成功之处在于它在英国小说史上第一次成功地塑造出了家庭女教师的形象。32 【正确答案】 B33 【正确答案】 B34 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 19 世纪晚期法国的象征主义预示着现代主义的诞生。35 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 现代主义以非理性
39、主义哲学和精神分析原理作为理论基础。36 【正确答案】 B37 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 萧伯纳在戏剧方面被公认为是自莎士比亚之后英国最优秀的大师。38 【正确答案】 A39 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 艾略特的J阿尔弗雷德普鲁弗洛克的情歌主要讲述了一位上了年纪的年轻男人对求婚问题的深思不定，全诗的形式是戏剧独白。40 【正确答案】 B二、阅读理解41 【正确答案】 A. William Wordsworth; She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways.B. A violet is used as a metaphor.C. By comparing a co
40、untry girl to a violet, the poet intends to show her quality of beauty and her virtue which are often neglected by the common people just like a wild flower blooming by an untrodden road.42 【正确答案】 A. Walt Whitman; Song of Myself.B. The two beliefs are the theory of universality and the belief in the
41、 singularity and equality of all beings in value.43 【正确答案】 A. Nathaniel Hawthorne; Young Goodman Brown.B. Goodman Brown s wife.C. He feels guilty of his evil deed and is determined to return to his wife after it, never leaving her again.44 【正确答案】 A. Robert Lee Frost; Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Eve
42、ning.B. It shows a kind of sad, sentimental but also-strong and responsible feeling.C. It is one of the most quietly moving of Frost s lyrics. On the surface, it seems to be simple, descriptive records of close observation, graphic and homely pictures. It uses the simplest terms and commonest words.
43、 But it is deeply meditative , adding far-reaching meanings to the homely music. It uses its superb craftsmanship to come a climax of responsibility: the promise to be kept, the obligation to be fulfilled.三、简答题45 【正确答案】 A. On the one hand, in his Wessex novels, there is an apparent nostalgic touch i
44、n his description of the simple and beautiful though primitive rural life, which was gradually declining and disappearing as England marched into an industrial country. And with those traditional characters he is always sympathetic.B. On the other hand, the immense impact of scientific discoveries a
45、nd modern philosophic thoughts upon the man is quite obvious.C. In his works, man is shown inevitably bound by his own inherent nature and hereditary traits which prompt him to go and search for some specific happiness or success and set him in conflict with the environment.D. Though Naturalism seem
46、s to have played an important part in Hardy s works, there is also bitter and sharp criticism and even open challenge of the irrational, hypocritical and unfair Victorian institutions, conventions and morals which strangle the individual will and destroy natural human emotions and relationships. The
47、 conflicts between the traditional and the modern, between the old rural value of respectability and honesty and the new utilitarian commercialism, between the old, false social moral and the natural human passion, etc. are all closely set in a realistic background true to the very lime and use very
48、 place.46 【正确答案】 A. He would never step between the characters and the reader to explain, hut let the characters explain themselves and hinder as little as possible the reader s direct experience of the work of art. The most characteristic way of structuring his stories is to fragment the narrative
49、by juxtaposing the past with the present, in the way the montage does in a movie.B. The interior monologue Faulkner used helps him achieve the most desirable effect of exploring the nature of human consciousness.C. Faulkner was good at presenting multiple points of view, which gave the story a circular form, wherein one event i
