1、全国自考（英美文学选读）模拟试卷 19 及答案与解析一、单项选择题1 The major theme of Jane Austen s novels is _.（A）love and money（B） money and social status（C） social status and marriage（D）love and marriage2 Jonathan Swift s _ is generally regarded as the best model of satire, not only of the period but also in the whole English l
2、iterary history.（A）Gulliver s Travels（B） The Battle of the Books（C） A Modest Proposal（D）A Tale of a Tub3 The Renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events, such as the rediscovery of ancient_and _ culture, the new discoveries in geography and astrology, the religious
3、 reformation and the economic expansion.（A）Chinese; Indian（B） Hebrew; Egyptian（C） Roman; Greek（D）Britain; American4 _, the first important English essayist, is also the founder of modern science in England and one of the representatives of the English Renaissance.（A）Christopher Marlowe（B） Francis Ba
4、con（C） Thomas More（D）William Shakespeare5 Soliloquy is a natural means of writing in revealing the prince s inner conflict and psychological predicament in Shakespeare s_.（A）King Lear（B） Othello（C） Hamlet（D）The merchant of Venice6 “To be, or not to bethat is the question“ is a line taken from _.（A）H
5、amlet（B） Othello（C） King Lear（D）The Merchant of Venice7 The progressive intellectual movement_spread over Western Europe in the 18th century.（A）Renaissance（B） Enlightenment（C） Religious Reformation（D）Chartist Movement8 As a representative of the Enlightenment, _was one of the first to introduce rati
6、onalism to England.（A）John Bunyan（B） Alexander Pope（C） Thomas Gray（D）Daniel Defoe9 _ is a typical feature of Swift s writings.（A）Elegant style（B） Causal narration（C） Bitter satire（D）Complicated sentence structure10 For his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel, Henry Fiel
7、ding has been regarded as “_. “（A）Father of the English Novel（B） Father of the English Poetry（C） Father of the English Short Story（D）Father of the English Drama11 The Romantic period is an age of_. Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats are the major Romantic poets.（A）novel（B） drama（
8、C） essay（D）poetry12 _is a lovely volume of poems, presenting a happy and innocent world.（A）Songs of Experience（B） Songs of Innocence（C） Song of Myself（D）There Was a Child Went Forth13 _is perhaps the most anthologized poem in English literature, and one that takes us to the core of the poetic belief
9、s of William Wordsworth.（A）The Solitary Reaper（B） The Sailors Mother（C） / Wandered Lonely as a Cloud（D）Ode to the West Wind14 In Shelley s “To a Skylark, “ the bird, suspended between reality and poetic image, pours forth an exultant song which suggests to the poet_.（A）both celestial rapture and hum
10、an limitation（B） both image creation and profound meaning（C） both music and words（D）both inspiration and skills of writing15 In his _, Shelley eulogized the powerful west wind and expressed his eagerness to enjoy the boundless freedom from the reality.（A）Prometheus Unbound（B） Ode to the West Wind（C）
11、 Adonais（D）A Defence of Poetry16 _makes the declaration that “I know that This World is a World of IMAGINATION or whether it was some latent deceitfulness and malice in him. Questions:A. Where is it taken from?B. Who is the author?C. What does “he, his, him“ refer to?43 Two roads diverged in a yello
12、w wood, And sorry I could not travel both. Questions:A. Who is the author?B. What does “diverged“ mean?C. What does the line imply?44 .Only Miss Emilys house was left, lifting its stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton wagons and the gasoline pumpsan eyesore among eyesores. Questions;A. Iden
13、tify the author and the tide of the story from which the quoted lines are taken.B. What is the meaning of “an eyesore among eyesores“?C. What does this quoted passage indicate?三、简答题45 What are the major themes of modernist literature?46 How do you philosophically define Transcendentalism?47 Why has
14、Fielding been regarded as “Father of the English Novel“?48 What is “the Enlightenment Movement“?四、论述题49 “My faith is gone!“ cried he, after one stupefied moment. “There is no good on earth; and sin is but a name. Come, devil! For to thee is this world given. “ Comment on this passage.50 Symbolism is
15、 an important literary practice in literature and it has been widely used by many American writers. Discuss the way symbolism is used in Melville s Moby-Dick.全国自考（英美文学选读）模拟试卷 19 答案与解析一、单项选择题1 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 简-奥斯汀的多部小说都是关于爱情和婚姻主题的。2 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 斯威夫特的一个温和的建议被公认为英国文学史上讽刺作品的经典。3 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 文艺复兴是由
16、一系列历史事件激发推动的，其中包括对古罗马和希腊文化的重新发现，地理和天文领域的新发现，宗教改革及经济发展等。4 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 培根是英国历史上最重要的散文家，是英国现代科学的奠基人，是英国文艺复兴时期当之无愧的代表人物。5 【正确答案】 C6 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 “生存，还是毁灭，这是个问题”选自莎士比亚的作品哈姆雷特。7 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 启蒙主义运动是进步的知识分子运动，在 18 世纪席卷西欧。8 【正确答案】 B【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。9 【正确答案】 C10 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 菲尔丁被一
17、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。11 【正确答案】 D12 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 布莱克的代表作天真之歌是一部受人喜爱的诗集，它描述了一个愉快而纯洁的世界。13 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 我如行云独自游一诗是英国诗歌中的奇葩，把我们带入了华兹华斯诗歌宗旨的核心。14 【正确答案】 A15 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 在西风颂中，雪莱描述了西风强大的威力，表达了自己对西风自由驰骋的羡慕和让西风将其呐喊传遍全世界的愿望。16 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 生活在启示光辉中的布莱克热切地宣布：“我认为人世是一个充满想象与幻想的世界，我的作品也如人世
18、一样充满想象与幻想。”17 【正确答案】 C18 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 狄更斯的作品有一个特点：是将幽默与哀伤的泪水交汇起来，正如人生就是欢乐与痛苦的结合。19 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 简-爱代表了中产阶级的劳动妇女，她们为自己争取社会对她们基本权利以及平等地位的认可。20 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 哈代晚年的作品最富地方色彩，这些作品是著名的“性格与环境小说”，最好地代表了作者自然主义与批判现实主义的写作特点。21 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 现代主义从各方面看都是对现实主义的反叛。它摒弃理性，而理性是现实主义的理论基础。22 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 华伦夫人的职业
19、的作者是萧伯纳，这是一部有关妇女经济上所受的压迫的戏剧。23 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 荒原是艾略特最重要的独立诗篇，被誉为 20 世纪英国诗歌的代表与典范。24 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 儿子与情人的作者是劳伦斯。25 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 劳伦斯是首先将心理透析引入作品的小说家之一，他认为人类心理的健康发展主要在于生命原始的冲动。26 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 浪漫主义时期的美国文学以自然景为人们品格的象征，形成了美国文学中离开尘世、心向自然的传统。27 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 超验主义者认为自然是高尚的，个人是神圣的，因此人必须自助。28 【正确答案】 A29
20、【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 在一定程度上，霍桑对人类及人类历史的看法起源于清教主义。30 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 惠特曼是个有强烈使命感的诗人，他毕生所创作的是他的唯一一本诗集草叶集。31 【正确答案】 C32 【正确答案】 C33 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 马克吐温是美国文学巨匠。门肯认为他是“我们真正的民族文学之父”。34 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 詹姆斯 1915 年加入英国国籍，这主要是因为一战时美国没有加入英国一方。35 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 黛西-米勒是詹姆斯早期有关国际主题的小说之一。36 【正确答案】 A37 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 了不起的盖茨比
21、生动地反映了 20 世纪 20 年代爵士时期人们的轻浮和冷漠。38 【正确答案】 B39 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 海明威在 1954 年获得诺贝尔文学奖，诺贝尔文学奖评委会评价其艺术风格简短有力，开创了现代小说的先河。40 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 福克纳的大多数作品都以美国南方为背景，强调南方主题和南方意识。二、阅读理解41 【正确答案】 A. F. Scott Fitzgerald; The Great Gatsby.B. This passage describes Gatsby s extravagance.C. Moths are used metaphorically t
22、o refer to those people who are drawn to the party simply for its glamour, for the wealth of Gatsby.42 【正确答案】 A. Moby-Dick.B. Herman Melville.C. The white whale. All through the novel, the whale is personified and referred to as “ he. “43 【正确答案】 A. Robert Lee Frost.B. “ Diverged“ means separated and
23、 went on in different directions.C. One has to make choice, especially, in the course of one s life.44 【正确答案】 A. Faulkner; A Rose for Emily.B. The most unpleasant thing to look at.C. The house is a perfect mirror image of the owner who is stubborn and coquettish and deliberately detaches herself fro
24、m the communal life in this small town. 三、简答题45 【正确答案】 The major themes of the modernist literature are the distorted, alienated and ill relationships between man and nature, man and society, man and man, and man and himself.46 【正确答案】 A. Transcendentalism has been defined philosophically as “the rec
25、ognition in man of the capacity knowing truth intuitively, or of attaining knowledge transcending the reach of the senses, “ B. Other concepts that accompanied Transcendentalism include the idea that nature is ennobling and the idea that the individual is divine and, therefore, self-reliant.47 【正确答案
26、】 A. Fielding has been regarded as “ Father of the English Novel, “ for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel. B. Of all the eighteenth-century novelists he was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a “comic epic in prose, “ the firs
27、t to give the modern novel its structure and style.48 【正确答案】 A. The Enlightenment Movement was a progressive intellectual movement which flourished in France and swept through the whole Western Europe at the time. The movement was a furtherance of the Renaissance of the fifteenth and sixteenth centu
28、ries.B. Its purpose was to enlighten the whole world with the light of modern philosophical and artistic ideas. The enlighteners celebrated reason or rationality , equality and science. They held that rationality or reason should be the only, the final cause of any human thought and activities.C. Th
29、e enlighteners advocated universal education. They believed that human beings were limited, dualistic, imperfect, and yet capable of rationality and perfection through education.四、论述题49 【正确答案】 A. This passage is taken from Hawthorne s Young Goodman Brown. Here Goodman Brown utters this cry when he f
30、inds his wife Faith, together with lots of prominent people of the village and the church, attending a witches Sabbath in the woods.B. His cry shows his great surprise and disillusionment. Thereafter, he becomes distrustful and doubtful. He lives a dismal and gloomy life because he is never able to
31、believe in goodness or piety again. Here the author makes a pun of the word “faith. “Goodman Brown loses not only his faith in religion and life, but also his faith in his wife, for his wife s name is Faith.C. From this story, we also can see that Hawthorne is a great allegorist and a master of symb
32、olism. The story itself is an allegory and is full of symbols such as the forest, the night, and the pink ribbon.50 【正确答案】 A. To Ahab, the whale is either an evil creature itself or the agent of an evil force that controls the universe , or perhaps both. The chase of the white whale symbolizes Ahab
33、s pursuit of truth and fighting against the evil power.B. To Ishmael, the whale is an astonishing force, an immense power, which defies rational explanation due to a sense of mystery it carries.C. It also represents the tremendous organic vitality of the universe.D. To the readers, the whale can be
34、viewed as a symbol of the physical limits that life imposes upon man.E. It may also be regarded as a symbol of nature. At the end of the chapter, the author says “ .the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago. “Here the sea symbolizes nature that remains moving but unmoved.F. Different people on board the ship are representations of different ideas and different social and ethnic groups. The Pequod is the microcosm of human society and the voyage becomes a search for truth.
