1、全国自考（英美文学选读）模拟试卷 18 及答案与解析一、单项选择题1 The American Romantic period stretches from the end of the 18th century to the outbreak of the _.（A）Civil War（B） World War II（C） Independent War（D）World War I2 The American _as a cultural heritage exerted great influences over American moral values in the American
2、Romantic Period.（A）Puritanism（B） Atheism（C） Deism（D）Cynicism3 _tells a simple but very moving story in which four people living in a Puritan community are involved in and affected by the sin of adultery in different ways.（A）Young Goodman Brown（B） Moby-Dick（C） The Scarlet Letter（D）Daisy Miller4 In ma
3、ny of Hawthorne s stories and novels, the Puritan concept of life is condemned, or the Puritan past is shown in an almost totally negative light, especially in his_and The Scarlet Letter.（A）Twice-Told Tales（B） The Blithedale Romance（C） The Marble Faun（D）The House of the Seven Gables5 Nathaniel Hawth
4、orne held an unceasing interest in the “interior of the heart“ of man s being. So in almost every book he wrote, Hawthorne discussed _.（A）love and hatred（B） sin and evil（C） frustration and self-denial（D）balance and self-discipline6 _has always been considered a monumental work which commands great a
5、ttention because of its uniquely poetic embodiment of American democratic ideals.（A）Leaves of Grass（B） Nature（C） In a Station of the Metro（D）After Apple-Picking7 As _saw it, poetry could play a vital part in the process of creating a new nation.（A）Emerson（B） Hawthorne（C） Whitman（D）Emily Dickinson8 _
6、clearly represents a new beginning in Hemingway s career as a writer, which concerns a volunteer American guerrilla Robert Jordan fighting in the Spanish Civil War.（A）For Whom the Bell Tolls（B） The Sun Also Rises（C） A Farewell to Arms（D）Indian Camp9 “Cavalry Crossing a Ford“ by Whitman reminds its r
7、eaders 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 War10 _is regarded as the first American prose epic.（A）The Scarlet Letter（B） Moby-Dick（C） Sister Carrie（D）Daisy Miller11 Realism was a reaction
8、against Romanticism or a move away from the bias towards romance and self-creating fictions, and paved the way to _.（A）Cynicism（B） Modernism（C） Transcendentalism（D）Neoclassicism12 _ exerts the most important influence on literary naturalism.（A）Emerson（B） Jack London（C） Theodore Dreiser（D）Darwin 13 O
9、ne of the most familiar themes in American naturalism is the theme of human _.（A）common life（B） spiritual breakup（C） bestiality（D）sadness14 Mark Twain s full literary career began to blossom in 1869 with a travel book _, an account of American tourists in Europe.（A）Adventures of Huckleberry Finn（B）
10、The Gilded Age（C） Innocents Abroad（D）An American Tragedy15 _explores the scrupulous individualism in a world of fantastic speculation and unstable values, and gives its name to the get-rich-quick years of the post-Civil War era.（A）Innocents Abroad（B） Roughing It（C） The Gilded Age（D）The Middle Years1
11、6 Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th-century American writers, is well-known for his _.（A）international theme（B） local color（C） symbolism（D）written language17 While Mark Twain and William Dean Howells satirized European manners at times, _was an admirer of ancient European civilization.（A）Washingt
12、on Irving（B） Henry James（C） Walt Whitman（D）Jack London18 _ s fame generally rests upon his novels and stories with the international theme.（A）Mark Twain（B） Theodore Dreiser（C） Henry James（D）Ernest Hemingway19 Stylistically, Henry James s fiction is characterized by_.（A）short, clear sentences（B） high
13、ly refined language（C） ordinary American speech（D）abundance of local images20 Like Nathaniel Hawthorne, _also manages to achieve the effect of ambiguity through symbolism and allegory in his narratives.（A）Mark Twain（B） Henry James（C） R. W. Emerson（D）Herman Melville21 American literature produced onl
14、y one female poet during the nineteenth century. This was_.（A）Anne Bradsteet（B） Jane Austen（C） Emily Dickinson（D）Harriet Beecher22 Which of the following is NOT a usual subject of poetic expression of Emily Dickinson?（A）War and peace.（B） Love and nature.（C） Life and death.（D）Religion.23 “This is my
15、letter to the World“ is a poem expressing Emily Dickinson s_about her communication with the outside world.（A）happiness（B） anger（C） anxiety（D）sorrow24 Though secluded herself in her own house, Emily Dickinson was never really indifferent of the outside world, as could be seen in her poems such as “I
16、 like to see it lap the Miles“ , which describes a(n)_, an embodiment of modern civilization.（A）snake（B） animal（C） the road（D）train25 Dreisers “Trilogy of Desire“ includes three novels. They are The Financier, The Titan and_.（A）The Tycoon（B） The Stoic（C） The Genius（D）The Giant26 “The Way of the Beat
17、en; A Harp in the Wind“ , this is the title of one chapter in Dreiser s novel_.（A）An American Tragedy（B） Sister Carrie（C） Dreiser Looks at Russia（D）Jannie Gerhardt27 _, disregarding grammar and punctuation, always used “i“ instead of “I“ in his poetry to show his protest against self-importance.（A）W
18、allace Stevens（B） Ezra Pound（C） E. E. Cummings（D）William Carlos Williams 28 Allen Ginsberg, whose “Howl“ became the manifesto of_.（A）the Utopian Movement（B） the Beat Movement（C） the Westward Movement（D）the Deistic Movement29 _is considered to be a spokesman for the alienated youth in the post-war er
19、a and his The Catcher in the Rye is regarded as a students classic.（A）Allen Ginsberg（B） E. E. Cummings（C） J.D. Salinger（D）Henry James30 The American woman poet_wanted to live simply as a complete independent being, and so she did, as a spinster.（A）Emily Bronte（B） Anna Dickinson（C） Emily Dickinson（D）
20、Anne Bret31 When he was eighty-seven, he read his poetry at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy in 1961. This poet was_.（A）Henry James（B） Robert Frost（C） William Faulkner（D）Wallace Stevens32 After Apple-Picking is a well-known poem written by_.（A）Robert Lee Frost（B） Ezra Pound（C） Walt Whit
21、man（D）T. S. Eliot33 Most critics have agreed that Fitzgerald is both an insider and an outsider of_with a double vision.（A）the Gilded Age（B） the Rational Age（C） the Jazz Age（D）the Magic Age34 Fitzgerald wrote one novel_, in which he traces the decline of a young American psychiatrist whose marriage
22、to a beautiful and wealthy patient drains his personal energies and corrodes his professional career.（A）Tender is the Night（B） The Great Gatsby（C） Red Burn（D）The Last Tycoon35 _ evokes a haunting mood of a glamorous, wild time that seemingly will never come again.（A）This Side of Paradise（B） Tender i
23、s the Night（C） The American Dream（D）The Great Gatsby36 _is the first book to present a Hemingway heroNick Adams.（A）The Sun Also Rises（B） A Farewell to Arms（C） In Our Time（D）The Old Man and the Sea37 Hemingways second big success is _, which wrote the epitaph to a decade and to the whole generation i
24、s the 1920s in telling us a story about the tragic love affair of a wounded American soldier with a British nurse.（A）The Old Man and the Sea（B） For Whom the Bell Tolls（C） The Sun Also Rises（D）A Farewell to Arms38 “Though life is but a losing battle, it is a struggle man can dominate in such a way th
25、at loss becomes dignity; man can be physically destroyed but never defeated spiritually. “ This notion is typically held by_.（A）Mark Twain（B） Herman Melville（C） William Faulkner（D）Ernest Hemingway 39 According to Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury is a story of “_. “（A）lost generation（B） lost innocenc
26、e（C） farmers（D）industrial labors40 In A Rose for Emily, Faulkner makes best use of the _ devices in narration.（A）Gothic（B） realistic（C） romantic（D）modern二、阅读理解41 A little black thing among the snowCrying “ weep! weep!“ in notes of woe! “Where are thy father William Blake. B. “notes of woe“means the
27、songs/notes of sadness.C. The sentence implies : religion is the instrument of their repression /oppression; its nature is to help bring misery to the poor children.42 【正确答案】 A. T. S. Eliot; The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.B. The ends of cigarettes, meaning trivial things here.C. Here, Prufrock
28、s inability to do anything against the society made him strikingly clear by using a sharp comparison. Prufrock imagines himself as a kind of insect pinned on the wall and struggling in vain to get free. This image vividly shows Prufrock s current predicament.43 【正确答案】 A- Emily Dickinson.B. The Schoo
29、l, the Fields of Gazing Grain, the Setting Sun symbolize three stages of one s life: youth, mature period and end of life.C. “We“were riding in a hearse, heading toward Eternity.44 【正确答案】 A. Ernest Hemingway Indian Camp.B. Nick was preoccupied with tlte pain and violence of death.C. When the father
30、says that dying is pretty easy, he might be thinking about the self-murdered husband. But when he reflects on the wife s miracle survival of the violent pain in the whole process of birth, he adds the final sentence. Dying is both hard and easy, it all depends on individuals.三、简答题45 【正确答案】 A. Shakes
31、peare s four greatest tragedies are: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth. B. Each portrays some noble hero, who faces the injustice of human life and is caught in a difficult situation and whose fate is closely connected with the fate of the whole nation.46 【正确答案】 Dickinson s poems are usually b
32、ased on her own experiences, her sorrows and joys. But within her little lyrics Dickinson addresses those issues that concern the whole human beings, which include religion, death, immortality, love, and nature.47 【正确答案】 A. His poetic style is marked by the use of the poetic “ I. “ B. He adopted “fr
33、ee verse, “ poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.C. The image in his poems is unconventional.D. He uses oral English.E. His vocabulary is amazing.F. Parallelism and phonetic recurrence are used at the beginning of the fines48 【正确答案】 A. The French philosopher, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and
34、 the German writer Johna Wolfgan von Goethe. B. It is Rousseau who established the cult of the individual and championed the freedom of the human spirit; his famous announcement was“I felt before I thought. “ Goethe and his compatriots extolled the romantic spirit. 四、论述题49 【正确答案】 A. This novel is on
35、e of the best and most popular works by Hardy. It is a fierce attack on the hypocritical morality of the bourgeois society and the capitalist invasion into the country and destruction of the English peasantry towards the end of the century.B. Tess, as a pure woman brought up with the traditional ide
36、a of womanly virtues, is abused and destroyed by both Alec and Angel, agents of the destructive force of the society. And the misery, the poverty and the heartfelt pain she suffers and her final tragedy give rise to a most bitter cry of protest and denunciation of the society. Of course, naturalisti
37、c tendency is also strong in the novel.C. In a way, Tess seems to be led to her final destruction step by step by Fate. Coincidence adds one “wrong“ to another until she is caught up in a dead-end. 50 【正确答案】 A. Young Goodman Brown is one of Hawthorne s most profound tales. In the manner of its conce
38、rn with guilt and evil, it exemplifies what Melville called the “power of blackness“ in Hawthorne s work.B. Its hero, a naive young man who accepts both society in general and his fellow men as individuals worth his regard, is confronted with the vision of human evil in one terrible night, and becom
39、es thereafter distrustful and doubtful.C. Allegorically, our protagonist becomes an Everyman named Brown, a “young“ man, who will be aged in one night by an adventure that makes everyone in this world a fallen idol.D. However, the story is manipulated in such a way that we as readers feel that Hawthorne poses the question of Good and Evil in man but withholds his answer, and he does not permit himself to determine whether the events of the night of trial are real or the mere figment of a dream.
