1、全国自考（英美文学选读）模拟试卷 4 及答案与解析一、单项选择题1 Generally the Renaissance refers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries. It first started in Italy, with the flowering of painting, sculpture and literature. From the movement went to embrace the rest of Europe. ( )（A）Germany（B） Greek（C） Britain（D）Ita
2、ly2 In 1593 and 1594, Shakespeare published two narrative poems and The Rape of Lucrece. ( )（A）The Faerie Queen（B） Venus and Adonis（C） Measure for Measure（D）Sonnet 183 _shows how mankind, in the person of Christ, withstands the tempter and is established once more in the divine favor. ( )（A）Paradise
3、 Lost（B） Paradise Regained（C） Samson Agonistes（D）Beowulf4 All of the following statements can correctly describe the Enlightenment Movement except ( )（A）The movement flourished in France.（B） The movement was a furtherance of the Renaissance.（C） The purpose of the movement was to enlighten the whole
4、world.（D）The purpose of the movement was to enhance the religious education.5 _was written by Defoe and it brought him into jail and made him go through public exposure in the pillory. ( )（A）The Shortest Way with the Dissenters（B） The True-born Englishman（C） Colonel Jack（D）A Journal of the Plague Ye
5、ar6 You may have met the term “Yahoo“ on Internet, but you may also have met it in English literature. It is found in ( )（A）John Bunyans Pilgrims Progress（B） Samuel Johnsons The Vanity of Human Wishes（C） Jonathan Swifts Gullivers Travels（D）Henry Fieldings Tom Jones7 In_of Gullivers Travels , Jonatha
6、n Swift satirizes the western civilization including false illusions about science, philosophy, history and even immortality. ( )（A）the first voyage to Lilliput（B） the second voyage to Brobdingnag（C） the third voyage to the Flying Island（D）the fourth voyage to Houyhnhnm land8 For his contribution to
7、 the establishment of the form of the modern novel, has been regarded as “Father of the English Novel“. ( )（A）Henry Fielding（B） Daniel Defoe（C） John Bunyan（D）James Joyce9 The Romantic Age began in 1798 when Wordsworth and Coleridge published their joint work . ( )（A）Leaves of Grass（B） The Cantos（C）
8、Nature（D）Lyrical Ballads10 The Romantic Movement expressed a more or less _ attitude toward the existing social and political conditions that came with industrialization. ( )（A）positive（B） negative（C） neutral（D）indifferent11 In the Romantic Age, is a great critic on Shakespeare, E-lizabethan drama,
9、and English poetry. ( )（A）Byron（B） Jane Austen（C） William Hazlitt（D）William Blake12 In his poem “Tyger ,Tyger“, William Blake expresses his perception of the “fearful symmetry“ of the big cat. The phrase “fearful symmetry“ suggests . ( )（A）the tigers two eyes which are dazzlingly bright and symmetri
10、cally set（B） the poets fear of the predator（C） the analogy of the hammer and the anvil（D）the harmony of the two opposite aspects of Gods creation13 Wordsworth thought that_ is the only subject of literary interest. ( )（A）nation（B） past experience（C） common life（D）nature14 P.B.Shelleys greatest polit
11、ical lyrics is_. ( )（A）Men of England（B） An Essay on Criticism（C） The Prelude（D）A Defence of Poetry15 Prometheus Unbound is Shelleys greatest achievement. Prometheus, according to the Greek mythology, was chained by Zeus on Mount Caucasus and suffered the vultures feeding on his liver for _. ( )（A）p
12、lanning a revolt to dethrone God（B） misinterpreting Gods decree to reconcile man and nature（C） prophesying the arrival of spring in a winter season（D）stealing the fire from heaven and giving it to man16 The major themes of Jane Austens novels are the stories of _. ( )（A）love and money（B） money and s
13、ocial status（C） social status and marriage（D）love and marriage17 In the Victorian period, _ , that Wessex man, not only continued to expose and criticize all sorts of social iniquities, but finally came to question and attack the Victorian conventions and morals. ( )（A）Charles Dickens（B） William Mak
14、epeace Thackeray（C） Thomas Hardy（D）Charlotte Bronte18 In the following writings, which is not the work by Charles Dickens? ( )（A）Oliver Twist.（B） David Cop per field.（C） A Tale of Two Cities.（D）The Ring and the Book.19 Charles Dickens is one of the greatest critical realist writers of_. ( )（A）the Ro
15、mantic Period（B） the Renaissance Period（C） the Neoclassical Period（D）the Victorian Period20 _is a master story-teller. With his first sentence, he engages the readers attention and holds it to the end. ( )（A）Charles Dickens（B） Emily Bronte（C） Thomas Hardy（D）George Eliot21 Charlotte Brontes first nov
16、el 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 Prejudice（C） Jane Eyre（D）Agnes Grey22 Thomas Hardys most cheerful and idyllic work is_. ( )（A）The Return of the Nativ
17、e（B） Far from the Madding Crowd（C） Under the Greenwood Tree（D）The Woodlanders23 Mrs. Warrens Profession, written by_,is a play about the economic oppression of women. ( )（A）George Bernard Shaw（B） John Galsworthy（C） Richard Brinsley Sheridan（D）William Butler Yeats24 T. S. Eliots most popular verse pl
18、ay is_. ( )（A）Murder in the Cathedral（B） The Cocktail Party（C） The Family Reunion（D）The Waste Land25 The frank discussion of in his novel Lady Chatterleys Lover is the chief reason why D.H. Lawrence had been accused of pornographic writing. ( )（A）hell（B） death（C） sex（D）love26 Nathaniel Hawthorne hel
19、d an unceasing interest in the “interior of the heart“ of mans being. So in almost every book he wrote, Hawthorne discusses_. ( )（A）love and hatred（B） sin and evil（C） frustration and self-denial（D）balance and self-discipline27 _has always been considered a monumental work which commands great attent
20、ion 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 Picking28 Beside symbolism,all the following qualities except _are used to make Melvilles Moby-Dick a world classic. ( )（A）narrative power（B） psycho
21、logical analysis（C） speculative agility（D）optimistic view of life29 Realism was a reaction against Romanticism or a move a-way from the bias towards romance and self-creating fictions, and paved the way to ( )（A）Cynicism（B） Modernism（C） Transcendentalism（D）Neoclassicalism30 The impact ol Darwins evo
22、lutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the nineteenth century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to yet another school of realism; American . ( )（A）modernism（B） colloquialism（C） naturalism（D）humanism31 Hemingway once described Mark Twains novel the one
23、book from which “all modern American literature comes“. ( )（A）Adventures of Huckleberry Finn（B） The Adventures of Tom Sawyer（C） The Gilded Age（D）Roughing It32 _s fame generally rests upon his novels and stories with the international theme. ( )（A）Mark Twain（B） Theodore Dreiser（C） Henry James（D）Ernes
24、t Hemingway33 As a genre, naturalism emphasized as important deterministic forces shaping individualized characters who were presented in special and detailed circumstances. ( )（A）theological doctrines（B） heredity and environment（C） education and hard work（D）various opportunities and economic succes
25、s34 Among the following writers, almost all of whose works have tragic endings? ( )（A）Mark Twain.（B） Henry James.（C） Emily Dickinson.（D）Theodore Dreiser.35 North of Boston is described by the author, Robert Frost, as “a book of people“,which shows a brilliant insight into character and the backgroun
26、d that formed it. ( )（A）the cowboy（B） New England（C） Ivy League（D）ivory tower36 A masterpiece in American literature, evokes a haunting mood of a glamorous, wild time that seemingly will never come again. ( )（A）This Side of Paradise（B） Tender Is the Night（C） The American Dream（D）The Great Gatsby37 I
27、n a tragic sense, is a representation of life as a struggle against unconquerable forces in which only a partial victory is possible. ( )（A）The Sun Also Rises（B） For Whom the Bell Tolls（C） The Old Man and the Sea（D）In Our Time38 Typical of the “iceberg“ analogy is_s style. ( )（A）T. S. Eliot（B） Ernes
28、t Hemingway（C） John Steinbeck（D）William Faulkner39 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 in August（C） The Marble Faun（D）As I Lay Dying 40 In A Rose for Emily, Fau
29、lkner makes best use of the_ devices in narratioa ( )（A）Romantic（B） Realistic（C） Gothic（D）Post-Modernist二、阅读理解41 “Mr. Western had an estate in this parish;and as his house stood at little greater distance from this church than from his own,he very often came to Divine Service here; and both he and t
30、he charming Sophia happened to be present at this time. “ Questions:A. Identify the author and the title of the book.B. What name does this book bring to the author?C. What is the social significance of the book?D. What are the scenes in this book?42 The following quotation is from one of the poems
31、by T. S. Eliot: No! I am not Prince Hamlet,nor was meant to be;Am an attendant lord,one that will doTo swell a progress,start a scene or twoAdvise the prince;no doubt,an easy tool,Deferential,glad to be of use,Politic,cautious,and meticulous,Full of high sentence,but a bit obtuse;Questions:A. Identi
32、fy the title of the poem from which the quoted part is taken. B. Whos the speaker of the quoted lines? C. What does the first line show about the speaker?43 “A11 right,then,Ill go to hell“and tore it up. “(The above sentence is taken from one of Mark Twains works. )Questions:A. From which work is th
33、e above sentence taken?B. Under what circumstances did Huck Finn say this?C. And what did he tear up?44 “ Where are we going,Dad?Nick asked.Over to the Indian camp. There is an Indian lady very sick. Oh, said Nick.“Questions:A. Identify the author and the title of the work from which the passage is
34、taken.B. What does Dad imply when he says “There is an Indian lady very sick“?C. Why is Dad going to the Indian camp?三、简答题45 Why is Wordsworth regarded as the leading figure of the English romantic poetry?46 It is said that B. Shaws play, Mrs. Warrens Profession , has a strong realistic theme, which
35、 fully reflects the dramatists Fabianist idea. Try to summarize this theme briefly.47 Whitman is one of the representative poets in America. He employs brand new means in his poetry. What are the features of his poetry?48 How do you understand Hemingways “Iceberg Principle“ according to his works?四、
36、论述题49 Daniel Defoes novel Robinson Crusoe was a great success partly because the protagonist was a real middle-class hero. Discuss Crusoe, the protagonist of the novel, as an embodiment of the rising middle-class virtues in the mid-eighteenth century England.50 Brief the features of Bernard Shaws wo
37、rks.全国自考（英美文学选读）模拟试卷 4 答案与解析一、单项选择题1 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 一般来说，文艺复兴时期是从 14 世纪到 17 世纪中叶。它从意大利兴起，伴随着绘画、雕塑和文学领域的百花齐放，而后文艺复兴浪潮从意大利席卷了整个欧洲。2 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 1591 年到 1611 年这段时期是莎士比亚创作的黄金时代。除了戏剧他还分别于 1593 年和 1594 年发表了两首叙事诗维纳斯与安东尼斯及鲁克丽斯受辱记，这两首诗都是献给南安普敦伯爵的。3 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 复乐园是根据新约.马太福音描述以耶稣为代表的人类如何抵御诱惑的故事而创作的。4 【正
38、确答案】 D【试题解析】 启蒙运动是进步的知识分子运动，兴盛于法国，后席卷整个西欧。这个运动是 15、16 世纪文艺复兴的延续与发展。运动的宗旨是用当代哲学与艺术思想的晨光启迪整个世界。5 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 丹尼尔.笛福的成为异教徒的捷径使他蹲监狱，以至于戴着颈手枷曝光于大庭广众之下。6 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 在斯威夫特的格列佛游记中格列佛最后一次航海到了慧驷国，在那他遇到了丑恶、贪婪、淫乱、好战的兽类亚胡。7 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 小说格列佛游记的第三部分主要讲了格列佛意外地来到了飞岛国。乔纳森批判了西方文明以及科学、哲学、历史领域的不良风气，讽刺了一些人对长生不
39、老的虚妄幻想。8 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 菲尔丁被一些人尊为“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。9 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 英国浪漫主义时期始于 1798 年，标志为华兹华斯与科勒律治的抒情歌谣集的出版。10 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 浪漫主义运动或多或少地表现出对工业革命时期现存的社会和政治条件的否定态度。11 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 在英国文学的浪漫主义时期，威廉.赫兹利特是专门评论莎翁作品、伊丽莎白戏剧及英国诗歌的伟大评论家。12 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 在 Tyger，Tyger ，的第一节中，作者假想自己在夜晚的森林中邂逅老虎，被它
40、那威严的目光所慑服。既有造物，必有造物主，哪个万能的造物主能塑造出老虎那可怕的对称身体?13 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 华兹华斯认为普通人的普通生活应是文学的主题。他的作品大多描写普通百姓的喜怒哀乐。诗人心中充满了对穷苦人民的同情。14 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 雪莱最著名的政治抒情诗是致英格兰人民。15 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 雪莱最有造诣的作品是他的四幕诗剧解放了的普罗米修斯。诗剧源于希腊神话及古希腊悲剧家埃斯库罗斯的剧作被缚的普罗米修斯。普罗米修斯为人类的生存盗取天火，被万神之王宙斯拴缚在高加索山上，饱受折磨。16 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 由于奥斯汀乐于研究日常生活中
41、的人际关系，她也特别热衷描写男女爱情。她的多部小说都与婚恋有关系，其中女主角总是主动角色。17 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 在维多利亚时期，作家托马斯.哈代不仅揭露和批判社会丑恶现象，还大胆地向维多利亚传统道德观发起攻击。18 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 查尔斯.狄更斯的主要作品有雾都孤儿、大卫.科波菲尔、双城记、荒凉山庄和远大前程等。19 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 狄更斯是维多利亚时期伟大的批判现实主义作家。20 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 狄更斯具有惊人的讲故事能力，他的小说第一旬就能完全吸引住读者，引导其读到最后一页。21 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 夏洛特.布朗蒂的首部小说
42、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】 在哈代所有的作品中，格林伍德的林荫下是最欢快、最抒情的。23 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 萧伯纳的戏剧沃伦夫人的职业的主题是妇女们经济上所受的压迫。24 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 教堂里的谋杀是艾略特最优秀的戏剧作品，因为它含有最优秀的诗句及最完美的首尾呼应的情节。25 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 在小说查泰莱夫人的情人中，大胆直白地谈到“性”是劳伦斯一度被控诉为“淫秽作家”的主要原因。26 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 霍桑极富想象、喜欢沉思，对人类的内心
43、世界具有极大兴趣。所以他几乎在每部书中都讨论罪行和邪恶。27 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 惠特曼的草叶集是一部历史性的著作，他的诗体现了美国的民主思想，反映了独立战争和内战的重大史实。28 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 白鲸(Moby 一 Dick)是一本扣人心弦的捕杀白鲸的冒险小说。更重要的是，它所描述的乃是一场人同自然和命运相抗衡的噩梦，具有悲观主义色彩。白鲸是美国文学中运用象征手法的一个典型。在作者笔下，“白鲸”颇有神秘主义色彩。29 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 现实主义正视现实，不尚空想。在反对浪漫主义的同时，又为现代主义文学铺平了道路。30 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 达尔文的
44、进化论对美国人思想的影响以及 19 世纪法国文学对美国文学家的影响使美国产生了另一个现实主义的文学流派：美国自然主义。31 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 海明威曾把哈克贝利.芬历险记看作是“所有现代美国文学之源”。32 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 詹姆斯的声誉主要在于他关于国际主题的小说上。33 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 作为一种创作手法，自然主义强调遗传和环境在特定条件下对个性塑造的决定性力量。34 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 德莱塞从来没有忘记生活中人类的欲望是没有止境的。这些欲望就像强大的“磁场”控制着人类的生存。同所有的自然主义作家一样，德莱塞找不到解决问题的办法，所以他的作品
45、几乎都是以悲剧收场。35 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 波士顿以北被弗洛斯特称为是“一本关于人的书”，对新英格兰的人物及其背景写得很深刻。36 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 了不起的盖茨比是美国文学的杰作，描述了那个再也不会重来的疯狂时代。37 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 老人与海讲的是古巴渔夫圣地亚哥与大鱼搏斗的故事，表明人生是与不可战胜的自然力的抗争，只能取得部分的胜利，但小说却蕴含着对人类斗争的尊敬。38 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 海明威的风格就是典型的“冰山”原则。39 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 在摩西，走下去这部小说中，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
46、的血亲兄弟关系。40 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 在小说给艾米莉的玫瑰中，福克纳充分利用了哥特式的叙述方法，将艾米莉畸形的性格和与她男友的不正常的行为表现得淋漓尽致。二、阅读理解41 【正确答案】 A. The author is Henry Fielding and the title of the novel is Tom Jones.B. This novel brings its author the name of the “Prose Homer“.C. This novel provides a panoramic view of the 18th century .Engli
47、sh country and city life with scores of different places and a whole gallery of about 40 characters.D. The three scenes in the novel are: in the country,on the highway and in. London. 42 【正确答案】 A. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. B. J. Alfred Prufrock. C. Prufrock is conscious of the fact that h
48、e is like Hamlet in some respects. But he is sensible enough that he cannot be compared with Hamlet.43 【正确答案】 A. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.B. When he decided not to sell his friend Jim.C. The short note he wrote. 44 【正确答案】 A.Ernest Hemingways Indian Camp.B. He implies that the lady is going to
49、give birth to a baby.C. Dad is going to help the lady give birth. 三、简答题45 【正确答案】 William Wordsworth has not only started the modern poetry, the poetry of the growing inner self, but also changed the course of English poetry by using ordinary speech of the language and by advocating a return to nature. As a result, he is regarded as the leading figure of the English romantic poe
