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1、全国自考(英美文学选读)模拟试卷 1 及答案与解析一、单项选择题1 Which of the following is not regarded as one of the characteristics of the Renaissance? ( )(A)Rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek culture.(B) Attempt to remove the old feudalist ideas in medieval Europe.(C) Introducing new ideas that expressed the interests of t

2、he rising bourgeoisie.(D)Praise of mans efforts in soul delivery and personal salvation.2 Which of the following is not true about the Renaissance? ( )(A)Humanism is the essence of the Renaissance.(B) Attitudes and feelings which had been characteristics of the 14th and 15 th centuries persisted wel

3、l down into the era of Humanism and Reformation.(C) It was Chaucer who initiated the Reformation.(D)The Elizabethan drama,in its totality,is the real main stream of the English Renaissance.3 Shakespeares_are mainly written under the principle that national unity under a mighty and just sovereign is

4、a necessi-ty. ( )(A)history plays(B) tragedies(C) comedies(D)plays4 “Shall I compare thee to a summer s day? /Thou art more lovely and more temperate:/Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,/And summers lease hath all too short a date“ , the above beautiful sonnet was written by ( )(A)John Don

5、ne(B) John Milton(C) William Shakespeare(D)Francis Bacon5 The British bourgeois or middle class believed in the following notions except . ( )(A)self-esteem(B) self-reliance(C) self-restraint(D)hard work6 In this part the hero of the story, Robinson Crusoe, narrates in how he goes to sea, gets shipw

6、recked and marooned on a lonely island, struggles to live for twenty-four years there and finally gets relieved and returns to England. ( )(A)the second person(B) the first person(C) the third person(D)Defoes mouth7 The best fictional work of Jonathan Swift is _. ( )(A)A Tale of a Tub(B) The Battle

7、of the Books(C) A Modest Proposal(D)Gullivers Travels8 The play The Tragedy of Tragedies is written by_. ( )(A)Marlowe(B) Fielding(C) Shakespeare(D)Sheridan9 _, defined by Coleridge, is the vital faculty that creates new wholes out of disparate elements. ( )(A)Exaggerater(B) Imagination(C) Rhetoric(

8、D)Soliloquy10 Literarily _was the first important Romantic poet, showing a contempt for the rule of reason, opposing the classical tradition of the 18th century, and treasuring the individual s imagination. ( )(A)William Wordsworth(B) William Blake(C) Robert Burns(D)Samuel Taylor Coleridge11 In the

9、Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience , by William Blake, what is central to Blakes concern? ( )(A)Youthhood.(B) Childhood.(C) Aged.(D)All the above are not.12 In 1805, Wordsworth completed a long autobiographical poem entitled “ “. ( )(A)Biographic literary(B) The Prelude(C) Lucy Poems(D)The L

10、yrical Ballad13 William Wordsworth asserts that poetry originates from _. ( )(A)form(B) thoughts(C) artistic devices(D)emotion14 Which is Shelleys masterpiece? ( )(A)Queen Mab.(B) Prometheus Unbound,(C) Prometheus Bound.(D)The Revolt of Islam,15 The Victorian Age was largely an age of_, eminently re

11、presented by Dickens and Thackeray. ( )(A)poetry(B) drama(C) novel(D)epic prose16 The success of the novel is due to its introduction to the English novel the first governess heroine. ( )(A)Wuthering Heights(B) Pride and Prejudice(C) Jane Eyre(D)Sister Carrie17 Which of the following descriptions of

12、 Thomas Hardy is wrong? ( )(A)Most of his novels are set in Wessex.(B) Tess of the DUrbervilles is one of the most representative of him as both a naturalistic and a critical realist writer.(C) Among Hardys major works, Under the Greenxvood Tree is the most cheerful and idyllic.(D)From The Mayor of

13、Casterbridge on, the tragic sense becomes the keynote of his novels.18 In the mid-19th century, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels put forward the theory of ( )(A)ideal socialism(B) materialism(C) scientific socialism(D)analytical psychology19 Modernism is, in many aspects, a reaction against It rejects

14、 rationalism which is the theoretical base of realism. ( )(A)Romanticism(B) humanism(C) symbolism(D)realism20 The following are English stream-of-consciousness novels except_. ( )(A)Pilgrimage(B) Ulysses(C) Mrs. Dalloway(D)A Passage to India21 Mrs. Warrens Profession is one of George Bernard Shaws p

15、lays. What is Mrs. Warrens profession then? ( )(A)Real estate.(B) Prostitution.(C) House keeping.(D)Farming.22 “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock“, in a form of dramatic monologue, presents the meditation of an aging man o-ver the business of proposing marriage. ( )(A)grown(B) lunatic(C) old(D)you

16、ng23 Which of the following writings is not the novel of D.H. Lawrences? ( )(A)Sons and Lovers.(B) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.(C) The White Peacock.(D)The Rainbow.24 The development of the American society nurtured “the of a great nation“. ( )(A)literature(B) painting(C) music(D)art25 O

17、f the following works by Hawthorne, which one was a romance set in Italy? ( )(A)The House of the Seven Gables.(B) The Blithedale Romance.(C) The Marble Faun.(D)Twice-Told Tales.26 Which of the following works best illustrates the Calvinistic view of original sin? ( )(A)Mrs. Stowes Uncle Toms Cabin.(

18、B) Jamess The Portrait of a Lady.(C) Hemingways A Farewell to Arms.(D)Hawthornes The Scarlet Letter.27 Whitmans poems are characterized by all the following features except . ( )(A)the strict poetic form(B) the free and natural rhythm(C) the easy flow of feelings(D)the simple and conversational lang

19、uage28 Herman Melville wrote his semi-autobiographical novel concerning the sufferings of a genteel youth among brutal sailors. ( )(A)Typee(B) Redburn(C) Moby-Dick(D)Mardi29 After the American Civil War, the literary interest in the so-called “reality“ of life started a new period in the American li

20、terary writings known as the Age of_. ( )(A)Realism(B) Reason and Revolution(C) Romanticism(D)Modernism30 Generally speaking, all those writers with a naturalistic approach to human reality tend to be_. ( )(A)transcendentalists(B) optimists(C) pessimists(D)idealists31 As a sequel to The Adventures o

21、f Tom Sawyer, _marks the climax of Mark Twains literary activity. ( )(A)Adventures of Huckleberry Finn(B) Life on the Mississippi(C) The Gilded Age(D)Roughing It32 Linguistically, compared with the writings of Mark Twain, Henry Jamess fiction is noted for his_. ( )(A)frontier vernacular(B) rich coll

22、oquialism(C) vulgarly descriptive words(D)refined elegant language33 Which of the following works does not show Dickinsons confusion and doubt about the role of women in the 19 th century America? ( )(A)Im “wife“ Ive finished that(B) I heard a Fly buzzWhen I died(C) I cannot live with You(D)Im ceded

23、 Ive stopped being theirs34 The Financier, The Titan and The Stoic written by are called his “Trilogy of Desire“. ( )(A)Henry James(B) Theodore Dreiser(C) Mark Twain(D)Herman Melville35 Which terms can best describe the modernists concern of the human situation in their fiction? ( )(A)Fragmentation

24、and alienation.(B) Courage and honor.(C) Tradition and faith.(D)Poverty and desperation.36 The first book Robert Frost wrote was_. ( )(A)Mountain Interval(B) New Hampshire(C) A Further Range(D)A Boys Will37 In_, Robert Frost compares life to a journey, and he is doubtful whether he will regret his c

25、hoice 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 Ice38 In the beginning paragraph of Chapter 3, The Great Gats-by, Fitzgerald describes a big party by saying that “men and gi

26、rls came and went like moths“. The author most likely indicates that _. ( )(A)there was a crowd of party goers(B) such life does not have real meaning(C) these people were light-hearted(D)these were crazy and ignorant characters39 In Hemingways Indian Camp , Nicks night trip to the Indian village an

27、d his experience inside the hut can be taken as _. ( )(A)an essential lesson about Indian tribes(B) a confrontation with evil and sin(C) an initiation to the harshness of life(D)a learning process in human relationship40 The American writer_was awarded the Nobel Prize for the anti-racist Intruder in

28、 the Dust in 1950. ( )(A)Ernest Hemingway(B) Gertrude Stein(C) William Faulkner(D)T. S. Eliot二、阅读理解41 “Nor lose possession of that fair thou owst;/Nor shall death brag thou wanderst in his shade,/When in eternal lines to time thou growst; /So long as men can breathe,or eyes can see, /So long lives t

29、his,and this gives life to thee. “Questions:A. Where does the poem come from? Who wrote it?B. What does “lines“ mean?C. What does the word “this“ in the last line refer to?42 “Never did sun more beautifully steep/In his first splendor, valley,rock, or hill;/Neer saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!/Th

30、e river glideth at his own sweet will;/Dear God! the very houses seem a-sleep;/And all that mighty heart is lying still!“ (William Wordsworths sonnet “Composed upon Westminster Bridge“,September 3,1802) Questions:A. What does the word “glideth“ in the fourth line mean?B. What kind of figure of speec

31、h is used by Wordsworth to describe the “river“?C. What idea does the fourth line express?43 “My tongue,every atom of my blood,formd from this soil, this air,/Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their parents the same,/I,now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin,/Hopin

32、g to cease not till death. “Questions:A. Identify the poet and the title of the poem.B. What do “soil“ and “air “represent in the first line?C. What does the poet try to say in the above four lines?44 “Because I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for meThe Carriage held but just Ourselves An

33、d Immortality. “ Questions:A. Who is the author of the poem?B. What does “He“ refer to? C. What does “Carriage“ refer to?三、简答题45 Whats Swifts achievements?46 What are the main characteristics of the English critical realism?47 Theodore Dreiser is a celebrated American novelist in the realistic perio

34、d. What does he discuss in his novels? Give examples to prove your viewpoint.48 Give a comment on Robert Frosts The Road Not Taken.四、论述题49 Thomas Hardy, living at the turn of the century, is often regarded as a transitional writer. In him we see the influence from both the past and the modern. Tess

35、of the DUrbervilles is one of his greatest works. Try to discuss the fate of Tess in this work.50 Symbolism is an important literary practice in literature and it has been widely used by many American writers. Discuss the way of symbolism which is used in Faulkners story A Rose for Emily.全国自考(英美文学选读

36、)模拟试卷 1 答案与解析一、单项选择题1 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 文艺复兴的特点是:对古希腊、罗马文化的重新发现;竭力祛除中世纪欧洲的封建主义;推动代表新兴资产阶级利益的新思想。2 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 人文主义是文艺复兴的核心。但英国的文艺复兴并未使新文学与旧时代彻底决裂,带有十四、十五世纪特点的创作态度与情感依然贯穿于人文主义与改革时代。总体上讲,伊丽莎白时期的戏剧是英国文艺复兴的文学主流。宗教改革是由德国新教徒马丁.路德发起的。3 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 莎翁的历史剧都有这样一个主题:在一个强大英明的君主统领下的国家统一是非常必要的。4 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】

37、 题干中的这一选段是莎士比亚十四行诗第 18 号,是最优美的一首。5 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 英国的城市资产阶级通过自己的奋斗获取社会地位,因此他们理解劳动人民的穷困与艰苦。他们信奉自律、自立和劳动致富。6 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 在第一部中,小说主人公鲁滨逊用第一人称讲述了他是怎样出海,遇到海难翻船,并漂至一片孤岛,从此在岛上挣扎生存了二十四年,最后终于获救返回英国的。7 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 斯威夫特最有代表性的小说是格列佛游记。8 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 悲剧中的悲剧是菲尔丁的名篇。9 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 科勒律治认为想象是在全无联系的各种元素上创立新

38、整体的一种超凡的官能。10 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 在文学史上,布莱克是第一位重要的浪漫主义诗人,表现出对理性的轻视,对 18 世纪古典主义的叛逆及对个人幻想的珍重。11 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 天真之歌与经验之歌的主题都是关于童年的。12 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 许多评论家认为序曲是华兹华斯最著名的作品。华兹华斯是 18世纪末开始写序曲的。1805 年完稿做了大量的校对后,在华兹华斯去世后的 1850 年才出版的。13 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 华兹华斯强调诗歌创作最要紧的是把握真实素材的来源,他反对当时不少人对诗歌形式的过分重视,反对那种使诗歌了无生趣的学院派作诗法,

39、他的创作理论的核心便是普通人的生活经历,普通人的词汇语言都是诗人应该也能够汲取的素材。14 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 雪莱最有造诣的作品是他的四幕诗剧被解放的普罗米修斯。15 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 维多利亚时代的文学以小说为主,主要代表作家是狄更斯和萨克雷。16 【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。17 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 哈代的小说在时间上都是维多利亚时期。多数小说都以一个叫“威塞克斯”的地方为背景,统称“威塞克斯小说”。在哈代的所有小说中,绿林荫下是最喜悦、最抒情的。但从还乡开始,悲剧成分便成了哈

40、代作品的主调。18 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 19 世纪中叶,马克思和恩格斯提出了科学社会主义的理论。19 【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根基。20 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 20 世纪最初的 30 年是现代主义小说的黄金时期,现代派小说家都致力于挖掘人类的各种潜意识,他们开创了史无前例的意识流小说,如理查森的朝觐、乔伊斯的尤利西斯及沃尔夫的黛洛维夫人。21 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 华伦夫人出身贫寒,年轻时在姐姐引导下由卖淫而开妓院,成了有钱人。22 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 阿尔弗雷德普鲁弗洛克的情歌讲述

41、了一位上了年纪的男人对求婚问题的深思,全诗的形式是戏剧独自。23 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 劳伦斯早斯的作品有白孑 L 雀、恋爱中的女人和虹;后期作品有亚伦神杖、袋鼠、羽蛇和查泰莱夫人的情人。24 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 美国社会的发展培育了“一个伟大民族的文学”。25 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 霍桑自 1853 年赴欧任美国驻利物浦领事馆领事,然后赴法国和意大利旅行,这段经历助他写成了另一部书玉石雕像。这是一个发生在意大利的故事,讲的是人类精神失常方面的故事。26 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 霍桑抨击宗教狂热和教会虚伪,又把加尔文教派的善恶观念当作认识社会的标准;他擅长揭示人

42、物内心冲突和心理描写,充满丰富想象,惯用象征手法,且潜心挖掘隐藏在事物后面的深层意义,但往往带有浓厚的宗教气氛和神秘色彩。其代表作是以殖民时期新英格兰生活为背景的长篇小说红字。27 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 在风格上,惠特曼彻底摒弃了古板的格律,用自由体的形式、简单的语言抒发自由的思想。28 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 麦尔维尔的早期创作是在 1846 至 1852 年间,这是他创作的最佳时期。他文思泉涌,雷得本(Redburn,1849 年)是半自传性的小说,写一个高雅的青年在野蛮的水手中的遭遇。29 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 内战以后的文学界与战前大不相同。人们对内战的痛苦记忆,

43、对英雄形象的幻灭和实际生活的无情现实使浪漫主义无立足之地。人们的兴趣现在已转到了日常生活的方方面面,注意到现实的野蛮、肮脏,直接公开描写阶级斗争,这时的作家已能描写人物在各种条件或环境下的反应,描述远西、新移民和劳动阶级的斗争,这些作家受到广大读者的欢迎。这一注意现实生活的创作倾向形成了美国现实主义时期的文学。30 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 常识题。自然主义流派忽视人的社会属性,将人类看作自然界的一个简单的组成部分,依博立特.泰纳(18281893 年)为自然主义的发展提供了哲学上的依据,他深信人类性格和命运的形成取决于遗传因素、周遭环境以及所处之年代。自然主义虽然风靡一时,但由于其过于悲

44、观的基调和极端冷峻的风格,始终未能如现实主义或浪漫主义一样形成一种世界范围内的大观。31 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 作为汤姆.索亚历险记的续篇,哈克贝利.芬历险记是马克.吐温文学创作的高峰。32 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 亨利.詹姆斯(18431916),美国著名小说家、文学评论家,著有长篇小说一位女士的画像鸽翼使节金碗,中短篇小说黛西.米勒螺丝在拧紧等,作品文风独树,语言精致文雅,这奠定了其在美国现代文学史上不可动摇的地位。33 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 狄金森写了一些有关婚姻的诗,引起了评论界的关注。我已退出,不再与他们为伍、我是妻,那时已完成一等作品反映了作者对 19 世纪美

45、国妇女作用的迷惘。34 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 德莱塞创作的欲望三部曲包括金融家、巨头和斯多葛。35 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 现代主义开始于一战结束以后,资本主义世界受到了空前的冲击,文学界也有一批青年唱出了反叛的口号。他们受到奥地利心理学家弗洛伊德的精神分析理论的影响,主张忽略人的行为、世界的存在这些客体,而力求从人的思想和意识中探求真实。现代主义作家从人内心中的矛盾冲突人手,它反映的是分裂和疏远的人类处境。36 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 在 1912 年弗洛斯特准备闯荡文坛,于是他乘船去了英国,在那里出版了他的第一本书一个男孩的愿望,这引起了许多评论家的关注。37 【正确答

46、案】 B【试题解析】 “The Road Not Taken” 这首诗表面是写自然之路,实际是写人生道路。诗人所写的重点不是那条已选择的路,而是那条未选择的路。诗人感叹人生有许多道路可供选择,但一个人往往只能走一条路,而其他许多条路,因为人生短暂,更因为人生没有返程而只能放弃。38 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 小说通过完美的艺术形式描写了 20 年代贩酒暴发户盖茨比所追求的“美国梦”的幻灭揭示了美国社会的悲剧。书中内涵深刻的比喻把盖茨比对“美国梦”的追求描绘得惟妙惟肖,跃然纸上。作者用五光十色的音符谱出了一曲凄惨的悲歌,给人留下无限的思索。文中开头这句话是说那些所谓上流社会的人们的生活毫无意

47、义。39 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 印第安人营地(Indian Camp)写一个小男孩 Nick 随做医生的父亲到一个印第安人的营地去为一位难产的妇女接生。医生用简陋的器具,为她施行了剖腹产。但是那个做丈夫的,早已用一把剃须刀把自己的喉咙割开自杀了。作者以此暗示生命的艰难与生活的残酷。而对于 Nick 来说,这种艰难才刚刚开始。40 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 1950 年,福克纳因反法西斯作品红尘入侵者而获诺贝尔文学奖。二、阅读理解41 【正确答案】 A. The poem is “Sonnet 18“. Shakespeare.B. Lines mean the lines of t

48、he poem and other sonnets.C. A nice summers day is usually transient,but the beauty in poetry can last for ever.42 【正确答案】 A. To move smoothly and quietly,as if no effort was being made.B. Personification. Here the river is personified so that it has its own will.C. Wordsworth emphasizes that the riv

49、er runs freely in the early morning because there is no barges or steamers or other kind of man-made burdens imposed on it to hinder its running.43 【正确答案】 A. Walt Whitman, Song of Myself.B. America,his country,his native land.C. I was born and nurtured by this land and shall from now on devote my whole life to the country.44 【正确答案】 A. Emily Dicki nson.B. Death.C. Hearse or

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