1、全国自考（英美文学选读）模拟试卷 16 及答案与解析一、单项选择题1 Dickens later works present a criticism of the more complicated and yet most fundamental social institutions and morals of the Victorian England. Which of the followings is among his later works?（A）A Tale of Two Cities.（B） Sketches by Boz.（C） Hard Times.（D）Villette
2、.2 As a representative of the_, Alexander Pope was one of the first to introduce rationalism to England.（A）Renaissance（B） Rationalism（C） Enlightenment（D）Romanticism3 Which of the following is NOT regarded as one of the characteristics of Renaissance?（A）Rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek culture.
3、（B） Attempt to remove the old feudalist ideas in medieval Europe.（C） Introducing new ideas that expressed the interests of the rising bourgeoisie.（D）Praise of man s efforts in soul delivery and personal salvation.4 The Renaissance refers to the period between 14th and mid-17th centuries, which was u
4、nder the reign of Queen _ and absolute monarchy in England reached its summit, and in which the real mainstream was _.（A）Victoria; poetry（B） Elizabeth; drama（C） Mary; novel（D）James; drama5 The play Romeo and Juliet, though a tragedy, is permeated with _spirit.（A）optimistic（B） sad（C） pessimistic（D）ju
5、st6 In _, Shakespeare has not only made a profound analysis of the social crisis in which the evils can be seen everywhere, but also criticized the bourgeois egoism.（A）Hamlet（B） King Lear（C） The Tempest（D）Romeo and Juliet7 Among the three major poetical works by John Milton, _is the most perfect exa
6、mple of the verse drama after the Greek style in English.（A）Samson Agonistes（B） Paradise Lost（C） Paradise Regained（D）Areopagitica8 The Enlightenment Movement brought about a revival of interest in the old classical works in the field of literature. This tendency is known as_.（A）humanism（B） realism（C
7、） symbolism（D）neoclassicism9 In 1726, Jonathan Swift wrote and published his greatest satiric work, _.（A）A Tale of a Tub（B） The Battle of the Books（C） Gullivers Travels（D）A Modest Proposal10 Which of the following writings by Henry Fielding brings him the name of the “Prose Homer“?（A）The Coffee-Hous
8、e Politician.（B） The Tragedy of Tragedies.（C） The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling.（D）The History of Amelia.11 Which of the following works best represents the national spirit of the 18th-century England?（A）A Sentimental Journey.（B） Gulliver s Travels.（C） Jonathan Wild the Great.（D）Robinson Crusoe.
9、12 The major British Romantic poets Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats started a rebellion against the neoclassical literature, which was later regarded as _.（A）the poetic romance（B） the poetic movement（C） the poetic revolution（D）the poetic reformation13 Which of the following is
10、 the Gothic novel?（A）P.B. Shelley s Prometheus Unbound.（B） John Keats Lamia.（C） Mary Shelley s Frankenstein.（D）Jane Austen s Pride and Prejudice.14 Childhood is central to William Blake s concern in the Songs of Innocence and _.（A）Songs of Experience（B） Song of Myself（C） Poetical Sketches（D）Marriage
11、 of Heaven and Hell15 According to the subjects, William Wordsworth s short poems can be classified into two groups: poems about _and poems about human life.（A）love（B） friendship（C） nature（D）truth16 William Wordsworth is a poet in memory of the past. To him, life is a cyclical journey. Its beginning
12、 finally turns out to be its end. His philosophy of life is presented in his masterpiece_.（A）The Prelude（B） My Heart Leaps up（C） Tintern Abbey（D）The Solitary Reaper17 “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?“ is an epigrammatic line taken from _ s poem.（A）John Keats（B） William Blake（C） William Wo
13、rdsworth（D）P.B. Shelley18 The novel Pride and Prejudice mainly deals with the five Bennet sisters and their search for suitable husbands, centering on the love story between_and _.（A）Jane/Bingley（B） Lydia/Wickham（C） Elizabeth/Darcy（D）Jane/Rochester19 After reading the first chapter of Pride and Prej
14、udice, we may come to know that Mrs. Bennet is a woman of_.（A）simple character and poor understanding（B） simple character and quick wit（C） intricate character and quick wit（D）intricate character and poor understanding20 According to D. H. Lawrence, _was the first novelist that “started putting all t
15、he actions inside. “（A）George Eliot（B） Thomas Hardy（C） Charles Dickens（D）T. S. Eliot21 Charlotte Bronte s first novel The Professor was rejected by the publisher, but her second one, _, won immediate success and today it remains one of the most popular novels.（A）Wuthering Heights（B） Pride and Prejud
16、ice（C） Jane Eyre（D）Agnes Grey22 Emily Bronte is, first of all, a poet. But she is better known today as the author of that most fascinating novel_.（A）Jane Eyre（B） Pride and Prejudice（C） Wuthering Heights（D）Agnes Grey23 “ Every day, every hour, brought to him one more little stroke of her nature, and
17、 to her one more of his, “ the sentence is found in _.（A）Middlemarch by George Eliot（B） Tess of the D Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy（C） Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte（D）Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte24 George Bernard Shaw s play Mrs. Warren s Profession is about_.（A）slum landlordism（B） the economic o
18、ppression of women（C） the political corruption in England（D）the religious corruption in England25 _, which bears a strong thematic resemblance to The Waste Land, is generally regarded as the darkest of T. S. Eliot s poems.（A）Gerontion（B） The Hollow Men（C） The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock（D）The Co
19、cktail Party26 Generally speaking, _ is the best of T. S. Eliot s plays in the sense that it contains the best poetry and the most coherent drama.（A）Murder in the Cathedral（B） The Cocktail Party（C） Gerontion（D）The Family Reunion27 The Rainbow and_are generally regarded as D. H. Lawrence s masterpiec
20、es.（A）Sons and Lovers（B） Women in Love（C） Lady Chatterleys Lover（D）The Plumed Serpent28 American Transcendentalists most typically believe that_.（A）art is superior to life（B） man is divine in nature（C） man can transform nature（D）poetry is the highest form of art29 “ There is evil in every human hear
21、t, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity. “ , which author of the following authors does the mention belong to?（A）Washington Irving.（B） Ralph Waldo Emerson.（C） Nathaniel Hawthorne.（D）Walt Whitman.30 In Young Goodman Brown by Hawthorne, t
22、he name of Brown s wife is_, which also contains many symbolic meanings.（A）Ruth（B） Faith（C） Mary（D）Hester31 Frost s first collection A boy s Will, whose lyrics trace a boy s development from self-centered idealism to maturity, is marked by an intense but restrained emotion and the characteristic fla
23、vor of_.（A）England life（B） New England life（C） the Southern American life（D）the Western American life 32 The period, which has been referred to as _ in the literary history of the United States, is ranging from 1865 to 1914.（A）the Age of Realism（B） the Age of Romanticism（C） the Age of Renaissance（D）
24、the Age of Transcendentalism33 _ is evolved from Realism when the author s tone in writing becomes less serious and less sympathetic but more ironic and more pessimistic.（A）Romanticism（B） Modernism（C） Naturalism（D）Scientism34 _was Mark Twain s masterpiece from which “all modern American literature c
25、omes. “（A）The Adventures of Tom Sawyer（B） Adventures of Huckleberry Finn（C） Innocents Abroad（D）The Gilded Age35 _ is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th-century “ stream-of-consciousness“ novels and the founder of psychological realism.（A）Henry James（B） Mark Twain（C） Theodore Dreiser（D）
26、Walt Whitman36 More than live hundred poems that Dickinson wrote are about nature, in which her general _ about the relationship between man and nature is well-expressed.（A）skepticism（B） eulogy（C） happiness（D）denial37 Theodore Dreiser s _found expression in almost every book he wrote in which “ kill
27、 or to be killed“ was the law.（A）romanticism（B） naturalism（C） cubism（D）classicalism38 _ was a most representative figure of the 1920s, and he was often acclaimed literary spokesman of the Jazz Age.（A）Ernest Hemingway（B） F. Scott Fitzgerald（C） William Faulkner（D）Ezra Pound39 The following s are all H
28、emingway s works EXCEPT_.（A）The Green Hills of Africa（B） North of Boston（C） Death in the Afternoon（D）The Snows of Kilimanjaro40 In _, William Faulkner illuminates the problem of black and white in the American Southern society as a close-knit destiny of blood brotherhood.（A）Go Down, Moses（B） Light i
29、n August（C） The Marble Faun（D）As I Lay Dying二、阅读理解41 Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere; Destroyer and Preserver; hear, O hear! Questions:A. Identify the poet and the poem.B. What does the “Wild Spirit“ refer to?C. Why is it called “Destroyer and Preserver“ at the same time?42 I like to see it
30、 lap the Miles And lick the Valleys up And stop to feed itself at Tanks And thenprodigious step Questions:A. Please give the name of the author.B. What idea does this poem express?43 The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go bef
31、ore I sleep. Questions:A. Who is the author of the poem?B. What does “promise“ refer to?C. What does the repetition serve as?44 The early lilacs became part of this child, And grass and white and red morning-glories, and white and red clover, and the song of the phoebe-bird, And the Third-month lamb
32、s and the sow s pink-faint litter, and the mare s foal and the cow s calf, And the noisy brood of the barnyard or by the mire of the pondside, And the fish suspending themselves so curiously below there, and the beautiful curious liquid, And the water-plants with their graceful flat heads, all becam
33、e part of him. Questions:A. Name the author and the title of the poem.B. What is the poetic style called?C. What does the passage describe?三、简答题45 Sea adventures are Melville s favorite subject; “ Moby-Dick“ is a great novel in the theme, which is also noted for its symbolism. Please analyze it in d
34、etail.46 Take Mark Twain s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as an example to illustrate the statement that Mark Twain was a unique writer in American literature.47 Whitman has made radical changes in the form of poetry by choosing free verse as his medium of expression. What are the characteristic of
35、Whitman s free verse?48 William Faulkner, a Nobel Prize winner, has an important position in American literature. Name two of his major novels. Do you know anything about “Yoknapatawpha County“? What is unique of Faulkner s fiction, historically and geographically?四、论述题49 Please give a short introdu
36、ction to the major characteristics of D. H. Lawrence s literary creation in novel writing.50 How is Romanticism different from Neoclassicism? Provide brief evidence from the literary works you know best.全国自考（英美文学选读）模拟试卷 16 答案与解析一、单项选择题1 【正确答案】 C2 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 作为启蒙主义时期的代表人物，蒲伯第一个将理性主义引入英国。3 【正确答案】
37、D【试题解析】 由常识可知 D 项不是文艺复兴的特点。4 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 文艺复兴指的是 14 世纪到 17 世纪中叶在女王伊丽莎白的统治下的一段时期，英国的文学主流是戏剧。5 【正确答案】 A6 【正确答案】 B7 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 约翰-弥尔顿创作了三部伟大的诗作：失乐园、复乐园、力士参孙。最后一部力士参孙是古希腊诗剧体在英语中的完美体现。8 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 在文学领域，启蒙主义运动使人们重新对古典时代的著作产生兴趣。这股思潮便是新古典主义。9 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 在 1726 年，斯威夫特写作并出版了他最伟大的讽刺小说格列佛游记。10 【
38、正确答案】 C【试题解析】 汤姆-琼斯为菲尔丁赢得了“散文荷马”的盛名。11 【正确答案】 D12 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 浪漫主义时代是诗歌的时代。代表诗人有布莱克、华兹华斯、科勒律治、拜伦、雪莱和济慈。他们发起了对新古典主义的反叛，这便是后来的“诗歌革命”，华兹华斯和科勒律治是这场革命的代表人物。13 【正确答案】 C14 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 在经验之歌与天真之歌中，童年是布莱克描述的中心。15 【正确答案】 C16 【正确答案】 A17 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 “如果冬天来了，春天还会远吗?”这是雪莱的诗西风颂中的经典句子。18 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 傲慢与
39、偏见讲述了贝内特一家五姐妹寻找如意郎君的过程，这部小说以伊丽莎白和达西的爱情故事为中心。19 【正确答案】 A20 【正确答案】 A21 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 夏洛特-布朗蒂的首部小说教授遭出版商拒绝未能出版，但第二部小说简-爱问世后立即大获成功，并且一直到今天仍然非常受欢迎。22 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 艾米莉-布朗蒂首先是一个诗人，但今天她更多地因为小说呼啸山庄而闻名于世。23 【正确答案】 B24 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 萧伯纳的戏剧华伦夫人的职业的主题是关于妇女们经济上的压迫。25 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 空洞的人在主题上十分近似荒原，被认为是艾略特最黑暗的诗
40、。26 【正确答案】 A27 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 虹和恋爱中的女人被认为是劳伦斯的代表作。28 【正确答案】 B29 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 霍桑认为，人人内心都有邪恶，这种邪恶也许一生都潜藏在内心，但在一定的条件下就会表现出来。30 【正确答案】 B31 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 弗洛斯特的第一本诗集一个男弦的愿望以抒情的笔调追踪一个男孩从以自我为中心的理想主义发展到成熟的过程，诗篇充满了激情和新英格兰的生活情调。32 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 1865 年至 1914 年间是美国文学史上的现实主义时期。33 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 自然主义产生于现实主义，只是
41、在创作上少了一些严肃和同情，更加讽刺、更加悲观，它是另一种哲学途径的现实主义。34 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 哈克贝里-费恩历险记是马克-吐温的杰作，该书被看作“所有现代美国文学之源”。35 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 亨利-詹姆斯被普遍认为是 20 世纪意识流小说的先驱和心理现实主义的奠基者。36 【正确答案】 A37 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 德莱塞的小说受达尔文“适者生存”思想的影响，小说中整个世界就是一片丛林，那里的法则就是“要么杀人，要么被杀”。他的自然主义几乎在他的每本书里都得到了体现。38 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 司各特-菲兹杰拉德是 20 世纪 20 年代最有代
42、表性的作家，他被认为是爵士时代的代言人。39 【正确答案】 B40 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 在下去吧，摩西这部小说中，福克纳把美国南方社会的黑人和白人的关系看成命运休戚相关的血亲兄弟关系。二、阅读理解41 【正确答案】 A. Shelley; Ode to the. West, Wind.B. “Wild Spirit“refers to west wind.C. Because west wind buried the dead year and prepared for a new spring.42 【正确答案】 A. Emily Dickinson.B. The poem exp
43、resses the author s suspicion of the relationship between man and nature.43 【正确答案】 A. Robert I.ee Frost.B. It has several kinds of meaning. It might be promises to a person. It might refer to the abstract obligation of a human being. The poet is fully aware of his social responsibility.C. On the one
44、 hand, the repetition is a technical solution for the rhyme scheme. On the other hand, the poet remembers his social obligations. The road is also the road of life. He has to fulfill his promises before he can sleep or die.44 【正确答案】 A. Walt Whitman; There Was a Child Went Forth.B. Free verse.C. The
45、passage describes the growth of a child who is wandering and admiring the scene around him. In the poem, the early experience of the poet may well be identified with the childhood of a young and growing America.三、简答题45 【正确答案】 A. About the sea adventure; It symbols the voyage of the mind in quest of
46、the truth and knowledge of the universe; a spiritual exploration into man s deep reality and psychology.B. About the boat; It symbols the society. and the crew symbol all kinds of people with different social and ethnic ideas.C. About the white whale: To the author, it symbols nature, is complex, un
47、fathomable and beautiful. To the captain Ahab, it is evilness, is a wall. So he will lead all his crew to cut through the wall to dig out all the unknown, mysterious things behind it. To the narrator, Ishmael, it is a mystery.46 【正确答案】 A. Mark Twain shaped the world s view of America and made an ext
48、ensive combination of American folk humor and serious literature. The novel has become a great contribution to the legacy of American literature. B. The novel is written in a language that is totally different from the rhetorical language used by the contemporary writers such as Emerson, Poe and Mel
49、ville. It is simple, direct, lucid and faithful to the colloquial speech. This style of colloquialism is best described as “ vernacular. “ He successfully used local color and historical settings to illustrate and shed light on the contemporary society. That s why he is known as a local colorist. Besides, different characters from d
