1、全国自考（英美文学选读）模拟试卷 8 及答案与解析一、单项选择题1 The Renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events. Which one of the following is not such an event? ( )（A）The rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek culture.（B） Englands domestic rest.（C） New discovery in geography and astrology.（D）T
2、he religious reformation and the economic expansion.2 The Renaissance refers to the period between 14th and mid-17th centuries,which was under the reign of Queen and absolute monarchy in England reached its summit, and in which the real mainstream was . ( )（A）Victoria,poetry（B） Elizabeth,drama（C） Ma
3、ry, novel（D）James, drama3 In the second period, Shakespeares style and approach became highly individualized. He wrote six comedies. Which one doesnt belong to them? ( )（A）Titus Andronicus.（B） A Midsummer Nights Dream.（C） The Merchant of Venice.（D）Twelfth Night.4 William Shakespeares greatest traged
4、ies are: Hamlet, _, King Lear and . ( )（A）Romeo and Juliet ,Othello（B） Othello,Macbeth（C） The Tempest,Macbeth（D）Othello, Henry IV5 Which of the following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeares Sonnet 181 ( )（A）The speaker eulogizes the power of nature.（B） The speaker satirizes human v
5、anity.（C） The speaker praises the power of artistic creation.（D）The speaker meditates on mans salvation.6 Milton once had an ambition to write an epic which England would “_“. ( )（A）justify the ways of God to men（B） lust all for men（C） not willingly let die（D）not let all lost7 _is not written by Joh
6、n Milton. ( )（A）Samson Agonistes（B） Paradise Lost（C） Paradise Regained（D）Tamburlaine8 In terms of the Age of Enlightenment, which comment is not true? ( )（A）The Age of Enlightenment is also thought as the Age of Reason.（B） Its purpose was to enlighten the whole world with the light of modern philoso
7、phical and artistic ideas.（C） The enlighteners advocated universal education.（D）John Milton is one of the representatives of the Enlightenment Movement.9 The modern English novel came into being in _. ( )（A）the middle of the 17th century（B） the 17 th century（C） the late 18 th century（D）the middle of
8、 the 18th century10 Daniel Defoes novels mainly focus on_. ( )（A）the struggle of the unfortunate for mere existence（B） the struggle of the shipwrecked persons for security（C） the struggle of the pirates for wealth（D）the desire of the criminals for property11 _is a typical feature of Swifts writings.
9、 ( )（A）Elegant style（B） Casual narration（C） Bitter satire（D）Complicated sentence structure12 Statement “_“ is true in describing Romanticists. ( )（A）To Romanticists,poetry is an expression of an individuals feeling and experiences no matter how fragmentary and momemtary these feelings and experience
10、s are（B） Romanticists are not patient people; they would leave before the revelation of the theme（C） Poetry should present the apparent and tangible（D）Romanticists take delight only in sound effect; the theme of a work is not their concern13 _is a lovely volume of poems,presenting a happy and innoce
11、nt world. ( )（A）Songs of Experience（B） Songs of Innocence（C） Song of Myself（D）There Was a Child Went Forth14 Wordsworth thought that _ is the only subject of literary interest. ( )（A）nation（B） past experience（C） common life（D）nature15 P.B.Shelleys greatest political lyric is “_“. ( )（A）Men of Englan
12、d（B） An Essay on Criticism（C） The Prelude（D）A Defence of Poetry16 The major themes of Jane Austens novels are the stories of _. ( )（A）love and money（B） money and social status（C） social status and marriage（D）love and marriage17 Robert Browning created the verse novel, transferring the thematic inter
13、est from mere narration of the story to revelation and study of characters inner world and brought to the Victorian poetry _. ( )（A）some psycho-analytical element（B） some romantic element（C） some realistic element（D）some classical element18 The most distinguishing feature of Charles Dickens works li
14、es in his . ( )（A）social criticism（B） optimism（C） character portrayal（D）social setting19 _represents those middle-class working women who are struggling for recognition of their basic rights and equality as a human being. ( )（A）Tess（B） Jane Eyre（C） Dorothea（D）Elizabeth20 In Thomas Hardys works,the c
15、onflict between the old and the modern is very pervasive. His attitude toward those traditional characters is_. ( )（A）contempt（B） sympathetic（C） indifferent（D）interested21 The trilogy of novels are masterpieces of critical realism in the early 20th century. ( )（A）Galsworthys Forsyte（B） Lewis Grassic
16、 Gibbons Sunset Song（C） D.H. Lawrences Women in Love（D）E. M. Fosters A Passage to India22 The leader of the Irish National Theater Movement in the early 20th century was_. ( )（A）W.B.Yeats（B） Lady Gregory（C） J. M. Synge（D）John Galsworthy23 The following comments on George Bernard Shaw are true except
17、 . ( )（A）George Bernard Shaws career as a dramatist began in 1892, when his first play Widowers Houses was put on by the Independent Theater Society（B） Shaw began his literary career by writing novels soon after his settling down in London（C） Shaws writings reflect the combination of realism and nat
18、uralism（D）Shaws plays can be termed as problems plays24 T. S. Eliots most popular verse play is_. ( )（A）Murder in the Cathedral（B） The Cocktail Party（C） The Family Reunion（D）The Waste Land25 _was one of the first novelists to introduce themes of psychology into his works. He believed that the health
19、y way of the individuals psychological development lay in the primacy of the sexual impulse. ( )（A）T. S. Eliot（B） George Eliot（C） James Joyce（D）D.H. Lawrence26 The desire for an escape from society and a return to_became a permanent convention of American literature. ( )（A）history（B） past（C） nature（
20、D）simple life27 _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 Miller28 Hawthorne intended to in The Scarlet Letter. (
21、 )（A）tell a story of parental love（B） tell a story of sin and bloody violence（C） call the readers back to the plantation way of living（D）reveal the human psyche after they sinned29 Whitman prefers for his new subject and new poetic feelings is “ ,“ that is, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhy
22、me scheme. ( )（A）blank verse（B） free rhythm（C） balanced structure（D）free verse30 Which of the following comments on the writings by Herman Melville is not true? ( )（A）Bartleby,the Scrivener is a short story.（B） Benito Cereno is a novella.（C） The Confidence-Man has something to do with the sea and sa
23、ilors.（D）Moby-Dick is regarded as the first American prose epic.31 Realism was a reaction against_or a move away from the bias towards romance and self-creating fictions,and paved the way to Modernism. ( )（A）Romanticism（B） Rationalism（C） Post-modernism（D）Cynicism32 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and,
24、especially, its sequence proved themselves to be the milestone in the American literature. ( )（A）Adventures of Huckleberry Finn（B） Life on the Mississippi（C） The Gilded Age（D）Roughing It33 The Portrait of A Lady is generally considered to be masterpiece, which describes the life journey of an Americ
25、an in a European cultural environment. ( )（A）Henry Adamss, widow（B） William Jamess,girl（C） Henry Jamess,girl（D）Theodore Dreisers,widow34 Which of the following works by Henry James is the most famous one during his last and major period? ( )（A）The Turn of the Screw.（B） The Middle Years.（C） What Mais
26、ie Knows.（D）The Portrait of A Lady.35 However,_, the keynote of Daisy Millers character, turns out to be an admiring but a dangerous quality and her defiance of social taboos in the Old World finally brings her to a disaster in the clash between two different cultures. ( )（A）experience（B） sophistica
27、tion（C） worldliness（D）innocence36 Which of the following is not a work of Emily Dickinsons? ( )（A）This is my letter to the World.（B） I heard a Fly buzz-when I died .（C） The Road Not Taken.（D）I like to see it lap the Miles .37 _ is another human desire that Dreiser explored to considerable lengths in
28、 his novels to reveal the dark side of human nature. ( )（A）Sex（B） Hunger（C） Thirst（D）Competition38 The defining formal characteristics of the modernistic works are . ( )（A）discontinuity and fragmentation（B） contorted and obscure（C） traditional and glorious（D）prosperous and innovative39 Most critics
29、have agreed that is both an insider and an outsider of the Jazz Age with a double vision. ( )（A）F. Scott Fitzgerald（B） Robert Lee Frost（C） E. E. Cummings（D）Ernest Hemingway40 “Grace under pressure“ is a major feature of s novels. ( )（A）William Faulkner（B） Henry James（C） Theodore Dreiser（D）Ernest Hem
30、ingway二、阅读理解41 The following lines are from The Merchant of Venice:“For herein Fortune shows herself more kind/Than is her custom. It is still her use/To let the wretched man outlive his wealth,/To view with hollow eye and wrinkled brow/An age of poverty; from which lingring penance /Of such misery
31、doth she cut me off. “ Questions:A. Who is the author of the play?B. What does “she“ refer to?C. What does the statement mean?42 “I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!A heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed One too like thee: tameless,and swift,and proud. “ Questions:A. Identify the author
32、and the title of the poem from which this passage is taken.B. What does the word “thee“ in the third line refer to?C. What does the author eulogize in this poem?43 “ Whether fagged by the three days running chase,and the resistance to his swimming in the knotted hamper he bore; or whether it was som
33、e 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?44 “Dont, mention it,“he enjoined me eagerly. “Dont give it another thought,old sport. “ The familiar expression held no more familiarity than the hand which re
34、assuringly brushed my shoulder. “And dont forget were going up in the hydroplane tomorrow morning,at nine oclock. “Questions:A. Which novel is this passage taken from? B. Who is the author of this novel? C. Say something about the writing style?三、简答题45 List at least two leading Neoclassicists in Eng
35、land. What did Neoclassicists celebrate in literary creation?46 Charles Dickens is one of the greatest critical realist writers of the Victoria Age. Make a brief comment on his novels.47 What are the influences of Darwinism and French Naturalism on American literature in its Realistic Period?48 How
36、do you understand Hemingways “Iceberg Principle“ according to his works?四、论述题49 Discuss what is “stream-of-consciousness“ in novel writing.50 Under the influence of the leading romantic thinkers like Kant and the Post-Kantians, Romanticists demonstrated a strong reaction against the dominant modes o
37、f thinking of the 18th-centurys Neoclassicists. Discuss the relation to the works you know, the difference between Romanticism and Neoclassicism.全国自考（英美文学选读）模拟试卷 8 答案与解析一、单项选择题1 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 文艺复兴是由一系列历史事件激发推动的，其中包括对古希腊罗马文化的重新发现，地理天文领域的新发现，宗教改革及经济发展。2 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 文艺复兴时期指的是 14 世纪到 17 世纪中期。这一时期的英国
38、处于女王伊丽莎白统治下，并且君主专制在英国达到顶峰。这一时期的文学主流是戏剧。3 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 在第二阶段，莎翁已表现出十分明显的个性化风格与手法。莎士比亚第二阶段创作的六部喜剧是仲夏夜之梦、威尼斯商人、无事生非、皆大欢喜、第十二夜、温莎的风流娘儿们。泰托斯.安东尼是莎士比亚第一阶段的作品。4 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 莎士比亚的四大悲剧是：哈姆雷特、奥赛罗、李尔王与麦克白。5 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 第 18 号十四行诗里，作者歌颂了艺术创造的力量。6 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 弥尔顿一度计划写一部能长久流传的英国史诗，但是他的梦想被英国资产阶级革命打碎了，当时
39、他头脑中充满了为人类自由而战的思想。7 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 失乐园(1667 年)、复乐园(1671 年)以及力士参孙(1671年)是弥尔顿在 1660 年王朝复辟后的三部伟大诗作。8 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 英国的十八世纪也同时是启蒙主义时代，或日理性时代。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。启蒙主义者们还倡导全民普及教育。英国著名的启蒙主义文学家有约翰.德莱顿、亚历山大.蒲柏、约瑟夫.艾迪森与理查.斯蒂尔(这两位是现代散文的先驱)、乔纳森.斯威夫特、丹尼尔.笛福、理查.B.谢立丹、亨利.费尔丁和塞缪尔.约翰逊等。弥尔顿不在其列。9 【正确答案】 D【试题解析
40、】 英国现代小说兴起于 18 世纪中叶。10 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 丹尼尔.笛福的作品主要以贫苦的下层人民为焦点。11 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 斯威夫特是位讽刺作品大师。他的讽刺笔触极具力度。尖刻的讽刺是其作品的典型特征。12 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 对于浪漫主义者来说，散文是个人情感和经历的表达，无论他们的情感和经历是微不足道的，或是伟大高贵的。13 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 布莱克的代表作天真之歌(1809 年)是一部受人喜爱的诗集，表述了一个愉快而纯洁的世界。14 【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。15 【正确答案】 A【试
41、题解析】 致英格兰人民是雪莱最著名的政治抒情诗，诗中号召工人，农民起来斗争，在宪章运动时期成为英国共产党的战歌。16 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 简.奥斯汀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】 A【试题解析】 诗人罗伯特.布朗宁。创造了一种诗体小说，即把小说中对人物的塑造方式引用到诗歌中。这使得诗体小说的重点，从单纯对故事的叙述向人物内心世界的探究转变，使得维多利亚时期的诗歌带有心理分析的因素。18 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 狄更斯对人物的塑造是他小说的最大特点。19 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 简.爱代表了整个中产阶级职业女性，表达了她们渴望女权、渴望
42、平等的心情。20 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 对作品中那传统型角色，哈代都是带着深切同情去塑造的。21 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 高尔斯华绥的弗尔塞特小说三部曲是二十世纪批判现实主义的代表作，作品揭露了腐败的资本主义世界。22 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 20 世纪初期，爱尔兰剧作家 wB叶芝、格利高里夫人及JM辛格联合发起 “爱尔兰民族戏剧运动 ”，从而带来了爱尔兰戏剧复兴潮流。叶芝，20 世纪一位杰出诗人，是这场运动的领袖。23 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 萧伯纳早年的作品都与社会问题有关，坦率地揭露当时的社会、经济、道德、宗教中的罪恶，表现了自己作为左翼社会主义改良派的观点。2
43、0 世纪30 年代，萧伯纳的戏剧讽刺意味逐渐减弱。在结构与主题方面，他承袭了现实主义。24 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 T.S.艾略特的最重要的诗体小说是教堂里的谋杀。25 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 劳伦斯是首先将心理分析引入作品的小说家之一，他认为人类心理的健康主要在于生命的冲动，或日性冲动，性行为是生命活力的体现。26 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 离开尘世、回归自然成为了美国文学中的普遍话题。27 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 红字(1850 年)是霍桑的代表作，讲述的是四个生活在清教社区以不同方式犯有通奸罪的人的故事，情节简单，但内容感人。28 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 霍桑
44、并不是要讲一个爱情或是一个犯罪的故事，而是集中表现道德、情感和心理对大众的作用，尤其是对书中主要人物的作用，来揭示社会与个人的紧张矛盾。29 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 惠特曼认为，“自由体诗”把诗歌带入了一片新天地，引起读者自由想象和共鸣。30 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 白鲸、泰比、奥穆、玛地、雷得本都是赫尔曼.麦尔维尔著作中关于航海历险的书。自信人(1857 年)探索信仰的矛盾以及美国生活的乐观主义和虚伪性。31 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 现实主义是对浪漫主义的一种反动。它正视现实，不尚空想。现实主义文学又为现代主义文学铺平了道路。32 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 汤姆.索亚历
45、险记，尤其是其续篇哈克贝利.芬历险记是美国文学的里程碑，牢牢地奠定了马克.吐温在文学界的地位。33 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 贵妇人的画像(1881 年)是詹姆斯的代表作，具体表现了一个美国姑娘在欧洲文化氛围中的生活历程及欧美文化的冲突。34 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 亨利.詹姆斯的文学创作后期为 1895-1900 年。这一时期他又回到了“国际主题”。他写了几个中短篇，最著名的是梅西所知道的(1897 年)。35 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 黛西.米勒的天真是令人羡慕而又具有危险性质。她对欧洲社会禁忌的公然蔑视最终给她带来了两种文化冲突的灾难。36 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 这
46、就是我给世人的书信、我死时听见一只苍蝇嗡鸣、我喜欢看它舔食着一路向前都是艾米莉.狄金森的作品。C 项不是。37 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 性是德莱塞揭露人性阴暗的另一个欲望。38 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 美国现代文学作品的特点可以说是反传统，求创新。39 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 大多数批评家都认为菲兹杰拉德能从内部和外部两个视角来看待爵士时代。40 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 “在生活的重压下保持自尊”，这是海明威一直在表现的一种人生态度。二、阅读理解41 【正确答案】 A. William Shakespeare.B. Fortune.C. Antonio thinks F
47、ortune is more kind toward him because Fortune is taking away both his wealth and life, which means Antonio will not feel the pain of losing everything.42 【正确答案】 A. Shelley; Ode to the West Wind.B. The West Wind.C. The author eulogizes the powerful west wind and expressed his eagerness to enjoy the
48、boundless freedom from the reality.43 【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“.44 【正确答案】 A. The Great Gatsby. B. F. Scott Fitzgerald. C. Fitzgerald is a great stylist in American literature. His style, closely
49、related to his themes, is explicit and chilly. His accurate dialogues, his careful observation of mannerism,styles,models and attitudes provide the reader with a vivid sense of reality. The accurate details, the completely original diction and metaphors,the bold impressionistic and colorful quality have all proved his consummate artistry. 三、简答题45 【正确答案】 A. Alexander Pope, J
