1、全国自考（英美文学选读）模拟试卷 17 及答案与解析一、单项选择题1 The belief of the eighteenth-century neoclassicists in England led them to seek the following EXCEPT_.（A）proportion（B） grace（C） harmony（D）spirit2 “Graveyard School“ writers are the following sentimentalists of_.（A）James Thomson and William Collins（B） William Collin
2、s and William Blake（C） Robert Burns and James Thomson（D）Thomas Jackson and James Thomson3 The most perfect example of the verse drama after the Greek style in English is Samson Agonistes by_.（A）John Milton（B） William Blake（C） Henry Fielding（D）William Wordsworth4 The first period of the English Renai
3、ssance was one of imitation and _.（A）Elizabethan drama（B） poetry（C） reformation（D）assimilation5 It is generally believed that the most important play among Shakespeare s comedies is_.（A）A Midsummer Nights Dream（B） As You Like It（C） Twelfth Night（D）The Merchant of Venice6 _, an elaborate and fantasti
4、c story, is known as the best of the final romances written by William Shakespeare.（A）The Tempest（B） Venus and Adonis（C） Henry IV（D）Romeo and Juliet7 _is not written by John Milton.（A）Samson Agonistes（B） Paradise Lost（C） Paradise Regained（D）Dr. Faustus 8 The 18th-century England is known as the Age
5、of_in the history.（A）Romanticism（B） Classicism（C） Renaissance（D）Enlightenment9 _described by Daniel Defoe is a typical English middle-class man of the eighteenth-century , the very prototype of the empire builder or the pioneer colonist.（A）Tom Jones（B） Gulliver（C） Robinson（D）Moll Flanders10 In which
6、 of the following works can you find the proper names “Lilliput, “ “ Brobdingnag, “ “Houyhnhnm“ and “Yahoos“?（A）The Pilgrims Progress.（B） The Faerie Queene.（C） Gullivers Travels.（D）The School of Scandal.11 Tom Jones, the full title being The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, is generally considered
7、 the masterpiece of_.（A）John Bunyan（B） Daniel Defoe（C） Jonathan Swift（D）Henry Fielding12 The literary form which is fully developed and the most flourishing during the Romantic period is_.（A）drama（B） prose（C） poetry（D）novel13 _novel, a type of romantic fiction that predominated in the late eighteent
8、h century, was one phase of the Romantic movement. Its principal elements are violence, horror, and the supernatural, which strongly appeal to the reader s emotion.（A）Gothic（B） Sentimental（C） Pastoral（D）Romantic14 The tone of literature in “Songs of Experience“ by William Blake is_.（A）melancholy（B）
9、lovely（C） plain（D）utter15 The English Romantic Age began with the publication of Lyrical Ballads which was written by_.（A）William Wordsworth（B） Wordsworth and Coleridge（C） George Gordon Byron（D）Percy Bysshe Shelley16 Wordsworth thinks that_is the only subject of literary interest.（A）nation（B） past e
10、xperience（C） common life（D）nature17 In his lyrics such as “Ode to Liberty, “ “Ode to Naples, “ Percy Bysshe Shelley expressed his love for_and his hatred toward tyranny.（A）the middle class（B） the poor（C） freedom（D）the proletariat18 In_ s Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, the speaker literally st
11、ops his horse in the winter twilight to observe the beauty of the forest scene, and then is moved to continue his journey.（A）Robert Lee Frost（B） William Faulkner（C） Ezra Pound（D）Percy Bysshe Shelley19 _mainly tells of the love story between a rich, proud young man Darcy and the beautiful and intelli
12、gent Elizabeth Bennet.（A）Jane Eyre（B） Wuthering Heights（C） Pride and Prejudice（D）Oliver Twist20 Among the famous novelists of the Victorian period were the critical realists like _, William Makepeace Thackeray, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Mrs. Gaskell and Anthony Trollope, etc.（A）Jonathan Swift（
13、B） Charles Dickens（C） John Keats（D）Jane Austen21 In 1925 Dreiser s greatest work_appeared. But it was banned in Boston in 1927.（A）An American Tragedy（B） The Stoic（C） The Financier（D）The Titan22 “Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong
14、! I have as much soul as youand full as much heart! .“ This part of quotation comes from_.（A）G.B. Shaw s Mrs. Warren s Profession（B） John Galsworthy s The Man of Property（C） Charlotte Bronte s Jane Eyre（D）Jane Austen s Pride and Prejudice 23 Tess of the D Urbervilles, one of Thomas Hardy s best know
15、n novels, portrays man as_.（A）being hereditarily either good or bad（B） having no control over his own fate（C） being self-sufficient（D）still retaining his own faith in a world of confusion24 _among “the Angry Young Men“ novelist in the mid-1950s and early 1960s was the first to start the attack on mi
16、ddle-class privileges and power in his novel Lucky Jim.（A）John Wain（B） Kingsley Amis（C） John Braine（D）Alan Sillitoe25 In 1948, _ was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.（A）W. B. Yeats（B） D. H. Lawrence（C） Hemingway（D）T. S. Eliot26 _is a poem concerned with the spiritual breakup of a modern civili
17、zation in which human life has lost its meaning, significance and purpose.（A）Ulysses（B） The Waste Land（C） The Confidential Clerk（D）Dubliners27 Of the following works by D. H. Lawrence, _established his position as a prominent novelist.（A）The White Peacock（B） Lady Chatterleys Lover（C） Women in Love（D
18、）Sons and Lovers28 The desire for a return to_became a permanent convention of American literature.（A）the family life（B） nature（C） the ancient time（D）fantasy of love29 Hester Prynne is the heroine in Hawthorne s novel_.（A）The House of the Seven Gables（B） The Scarlet Letter（C） Moby-Dick（D）Daisy Mille
19、r30 Beside symbolism, all the following qualities EXCEPT _ are fused to make Melville s Moby-Dick a world classic.（A）narrative power（B） optimistic view of life（C） speculative agility（D）psychological analysis31 Most of the poems in_sing of the “en-masse“ and the self as well.（A）Drum Taps（B） North of
20、Bosten（C） The Cantos（D）Leaves of Grass32 the giant Moby Dick may symbolize all EXCEPT_.（A）mystery of the universe（B） sin of the whale（C） power of the great nature（D）evil of the world33 _provides the main source of influence on American naturalism.（A）The puritan heritage（B） Howells ideas of realism（C
21、） Darwin s theory of evolution（D）The pioneer spirit of the wild west34 _ shaped the world s view of America and made a more extensive combination of American folk humor and serious literature than previous writers had ever done.（A）Henry James（B） Washington Irving（C） Theodore Dreiser（D）Mark Twain35 I
22、n his The Art of Fiction, _clearly indicates that the aim of the novel is to present life.（A）Henry James（B） Mark Twain（C） Theodore Dreiser（D）William Dean Howells36 In general, the 19th-century American woman poet_wanted to live simply as a complete independent being.（A）Emily Bronte（B） Emily Dickinso
23、n（C） Anna Dickinson（D）Emily Shaw37 _possessed none of the usual aids to a writer s career; no money, no friend in power, no formal education worthy of mention, no family tradition in letters.（A）Theodore Dreiser（B） W.D. Howells（C） Nathaniel Hawthorne（D）Henry James38 In_, Robert Frost compares life to
24、 a journey, and he is doubtful whether he will regret his choice or not when he is old, because the choice has made all the difference.（A）After Apple-Picking（B） The Road Not Taken（C） Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening（D）Fire and Ice39 The “iceberg“ analogy is_ s style.（A）T. S. Eliot（B） Ernest Hemi
25、ngway（C） John Steinbeck（D）William Faulkner40 Faulkner once said that _ is a story of “lost innocence, “ which proves itself to be an intensification of the theme of imprisonment in the past.（A）Intruder in the Dust（B） The Sound and the Fury（C） A Rose for Emily（D）Go Down, Moses二、阅读理解41 This is my lett
26、er to the World That never wrote to Me The simple News that Nature told With tender Majesty Questions:A. Who is the author?B. What does “the World“ mean?C. What does the author think about “Nature“?42 I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence; Two roads diverged in a wood, an
27、d II took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. Questions:A. Who is the author?B. What does “diverged“ mean?C. What does the author try to tell us?43 It is when the feet weary and hope seems vain that the heartaches and the longings arise. Know, then, that for you is neithe
28、r surfeit nor content. In your rocking-chair, by your window dreaming, shall you long, alone. In your rocking-chair, by your window, shall you dream such happiness as you may never feel. Questions:A. Identify the author and the work.B. What does the rocking-chair symbolize?44 There was a child went
29、forth every day, And the first object he look d upon, that object he became, And that object became part of him for the day or a certain part of the day, Or for many years or stretching cycles of years.Questions:A. Who s the poet?B. From which poem and which collection of the poet is the quotation t
30、aken?C. What does the poet describe in the poem?三、简答题45 What s the theme of Jane Eyre?46 How did Walt Whitman make use of the poetic “I“ in his works?47 What are the characteristics of English romantic literature? Please discuss the above question in relation to one or two examples.48 Robinson Cruso
31、e is universally considered as Daniel Defoe s masterpiece. Discuss why it became so successful when it was published.四、论述题49 Literarily, William Blake was the first important romantic poet. Please make a brief comment on his poetry.50 Elizabeth Bennet, the heroine in Pride and Prejudice, is often re
32、garded as the most successful character created by Jane Austen. Make a brief comment on Elizabeth s character.全国自考（英美文学选读）模拟试卷 17 答案与解析一、单项选择题1 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 新古典主义者们对文学作品的观点使该时期的作家在创作时寻求表达与措辞上的协调、统一、和谐与典雅。2 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 感伤派诗人，或曰“古墓派诗人”有詹姆新-汤姆森、威廉-考林斯和威廉-柯柏等。3 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 弥尔顿的力士参孙是古希腊诗剧体在英语中的完美
33、体现。4 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 莎士比亚最重要的喜剧是威尼斯商人。5 【正确答案】 D6 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 暴风雨是莎士比亚创作后期的代表作，是一个精致奇妙的故事。7 【正确答案】 D8 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 英国的 18 世纪是启蒙主义时代，又叫理性时代。9 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 笛福把鲁滨逊描述成一个真正的英雄：一个典型的英国 18 世纪中产阶级人士，是帝国缔造者的典范，是殖民主义者的先锋。10 【正确答案】 C11 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 小说汤姆-琼斯的全名是汤姆-琼斯一个弃儿的故事，它被认为是菲尔丁最杰出的作品。12 【正确答案】 C13 【
34、正确答案】 A【试题解析】 哥特式小说是浪漫主义文学的一部分，它盛行于 18 世纪末。这种小说的主要题材是对暴力、恐怖及超自然的描写，这些内容极能吸引读者的情感。14 【正确答案】 A15 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 英国浪漫主义时期一般被认为始于 1798 年，标志为华兹华斯与科勒律治的抒情歌谣集的出版。16 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 华兹华斯认为普通人的生活是文学情趣的唯一主题。17 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 雪莱对自由的渴望及对暴政的憎恶都体现在诗作中，如自由颂、那不勒斯颂、十四行诗：英格兰 1819等。18 【正确答案】 A19 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 傲慢与偏见主要讲
35、述了漂亮聪明的伊丽莎白与年轻高傲的富家公子达西之间的爱情故事。20 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 在维多利亚时期著名小说家中，批判现实主义作家有狄更斯、萨克雷、布朗蒂姐妹、哥斯凯尔夫人与特罗洛普等人。斯威夫特属于新古典主义时期，奥斯汀和济慈属于浪漫主义时期的作家。21 【正确答案】 A22 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 本段节选自夏洛特-布朗蒂的小说简-爱。23 【正确答案】 B24 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 20 世纪 50 年代中期到 60 年代早期，文坛出现了一群年轻的小说家与剧作家。他们出身卑微，被称为“愤怒的年轻人”。他们对英国败落的境况表现出绝望，并极力反对过时的政治与社会价值
36、观。金斯雷-阿米斯是这一派的代表人物之一，他首先在他的小说幸运的吉姆中抨击了中产阶级的特权。25 【正确答案】 D26 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 荒原一诗的主题是表现现代文明中人们精神的堕落与崩溃，人生已失去了意义与目的。27 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 在第三部小说儿子与情人出版后，劳伦斯才确立了杰出小说家的地位。28 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 浪漫主义时期的美国文学以自然景物为人们品格的象征，形成了美国文学中离开尘世、心向自然的传统。29 【正确答案】 B30 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 除了象征手法以外，麦尔雏尔的语言才华、创作才华、心理分析能力、敏捷的观察以及叙述能力都使白
37、鲸成为世界名著。31 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 在惠特曼的草叶集中，绝大部分诗歌都是歌颂整个美国以及自我的。32 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 在白鲸中，白鲸象征着宇宙的秘密、大自然的力量、世界的邪恶。33 【正确答案】 C34 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 马克-吐温塑造了美国的世界观，并且将美国民间幽默和严肃文学更加完美地结合起来。35 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 在小说的艺术一书中，詹姆斯明确指出，小说的目的是展示现实生活。36 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 美国 19 世纪的女诗人狄金森过着简朴而又独立的生活，自始至终守身如玉。37 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 德莱塞不具有任何
38、文学上的家学渊源或其他条件：没有钱，没有有权的朋友，没有值得一提的正规教育。38 【正确答案】 B39 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 海明威的风格是典型的“冰山”原则。40 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 福克纳说过喧嚣与骚动是一部“失去天真”的小说，表现主人公束缚在过去思想中的强烈的主题。二、阅读理解41 【正确答案】 A. Emily Dickinson.B. The human world.C. In Dickinson s eye, nature is more friendly than the human world. She could communicate with natur
39、e easily. Nature usually reveals the truth of life, i. e. the simple news.42 【正确答案】 A. Robert Lee Frost.B. Separated and went on in different directions.C. He is just conscious of the fact that his choice will have made all the difference in his life. He seems to give us a suggestion; “ Make good ch
40、oice of your life. “43 【正确答案】 A. Theodore Dreiser; Sister Carrie.B. It symbolizes that Carrie s fate is unstable and she is unable to control her own life.44 【正确答案】 A. Walt Whitman.B. “There Was a Child Went Forth“ from Leaves of Grass.C. In the poem, the poet describes the growth of a child who lea
41、rned about the world around him and improved himself accordingly. In the poem. Whitman s own early experience may well be identified with the childhood of a young, growing America.三、简答题45 【正确答案】 A. The work is one of the most popular and important novels of the Victorian Age. It is noted for its sha
42、rp criticism of the existing society, e. g. the religious hypocrisy of charity institutions such as Lowood School where poor girls are trained, through constant starvation and humiliation , to be humble slaves, the social discrimination Jane experiences first as a dependent at her aunt s house and l
43、ater as a governess at Thornfield, and the false social convention as concerning love and marriage. B. At the same time, it is an intense moral fable. Jane, like Mr. Rochester, has to undergo a series of physical and moral tests to grow up and achieve her final happiness.46 【正确答案】 A. Whitman s poeti
44、c style is marked, first of all, by the use of the poetic “ I. “ Speaking in the voice of “I, “ Whitman becomes all those people in his poems, and yet still remains “ Walt Whitman, “ hence a discovery of the self in the other with such an identification. B. Usually, the relationship Whitman is drama
45、tizing is a triangular one; “I“ the poet, the subject in the poem, and “you“ the reader. In such a manner, Whitman invites us, as we read his lines, to participate in the process of sympathetic identification.47 【正确答案】 A. In poetry writing, the Romantics explored new theories and innovated new techn
46、iques, for example, Wordsworth s theory of poetry is calling for simple themes drawn from humble life expressed in the language of ordinary people.B. The Romantics not only extol the faculty of imagination, but also elevate the concepts of spontaneity and inspiration, regarding them as something cru
47、cial for true poetry. C. Nature is not only the major source of poetic imagery, but also provides the dominant subject matter.D. Romantics also tend to be nationalistic, defending the great poets and dramatists of their own national heritage against the advocates of classical rules.48 【正确答案】 A. Robi
48、nson Crusoe is supposedly based on the real adventure of an Alexander Selkirk who once stayed alone on the uninhabited island Juan Fernandez for five years. In fact, the story is an imagination.B. In Robinson Crusoe, Defoe traces the growth of Robinson from a naive and artless youth into a shrewd an
49、d hardened man, tempered by numerous trials in his eventful life.C. In the novel, Robinson is a real hero and he is an embodiment of the rising middle-class virtues in the mid-eighteenth-century England.D. Robinson Crusoe is an adventure story very much in the spirit of the time. Because of the above reasons, when it was publi
