全国2017年10月高等教育自考英美文学选读试题

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选择题部分

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一、单项选择题：本大题共40小题，每题1分，共40分。在每小题列出的备选项中只 有一项是最符合题目要求的，请将其选出。

Multiple Choice (40 points in all, 1 for each)

Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement

1 .___________, the first of the great tragedies, is generally regarded as Shakespeare’s most popular play on the stage.

A. Hamlet B. Othello

C. King Lear D. Macbeth

2. John Milton’s Paradise Lost is the only general acknowledged epic in English literature since _____________.

A. Beowulf B. Paradise Regained

C. Samson Agonistes D. Areopagitica

3. Daniel Defoe describes Robinson Crusoe as a typical English middle-class man of the _____________ century-the very prototype of the empire builder, the pioneer colonist.

A. 16th B. 17th

C. 18th D. 19th

4. Jonathan Swift is a satirist in English literature. His_____ is taken as a perfect model.

A. Gulliver's Travels B. The Battle of the Books

C. A Modest Proposal D. A Tale of a Tub

5. As a whole,______is one of the most effective and devastating criticisms and satires of all aspects in the English and European life.

A. Moll Flanders B. Gulliver’s Travels

C. Pilgrim’s Progress D. The School for Scandal

6. Fielding’s sentences are always distinguished by _____.

A. logic and structure B. rhythm and structure

C. powerfulness and logic D. logic and rhythm

7. Daniel Defoe’s works are all the following EXCEPT________.

A. Moll Flanders B. A Tale of a Tub

C. A Journal of the Plague Year D. Colonel Jack

8. Henry Fielding has been regarded as “Father of the English________,”for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modem novel.

A. Novel B. Poetry

C. Play D. Essay

9. Literarily __________was the first important Romantic poet, showing a contempt for the rule of the reason, opposing the classical tradition of the 18th century.

A. William Wordsworth B. William Blake

C. Robert Bums D. Samuel Coleridge

10 .___is the central to William Blake’s concern in the Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience.

A. Freedom B. Nature

C. Love D. Childhood

11. It’s________that gives Wordsworth “strength and knowledge full of peace”.

A. nation B. past experience

C. common life D. nature

12 .________ is NOT written by William Wordsworth.

A. To a Skylark B. The chimney Sweeper

C. An Evening Walk D. My Heart Leaps Up

13. Shelley’s political lyrics_is a war cry calling upon all working people to rise up against their political oppressors.

A. Ode to Liberty B. Ode to Naples

C. Ode to the West Wind D. Men of England

14. “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” is an epigrammatic line by ________.

A. John Keats B. William Blake

C. William Wordsworth D. Shelley

15. Jane Austen，s main literary concern is about______in their personal relationship.

A. human beings B. rich people

C. the lovers D. only women

16. Because of author’s sensitivity to universal patterns of human behavior, ____________ has brought English novel, as an art of form, to its maturity.

A. Charlotte Bronte B. Jane Austen

C. Emily Bronte D. Henry Fielding

17. Mr. Micawber in David Copperfield and Sam Weller in Pickwick Papers are perhaps the best_______characters created by Charles Dickens.

A. comical B. tragic

C. round D. sophisticated

18 ._________is a master story-teller. With his first sentence he engages the reader’s attention and holds it to the end.

A. Charles Dickens B. Emily Bronte

C. Thomas Hardy D. George Eliot

19 .__________is the first important governess novel in the English literary history.

A. Jane Eyre B. Emma

C. Wuthering Heights D. Middlemarch.

20 .___________best describes the nature of Thomas Hardy’s later works.

A. Sentimentalism B. Tragic sense

C. Surrealism D. Comic sense

21. Charlotte Bronte’s works are all about the struggle of an individual consciousness towards___________.

A. self-reliance B. self-realization

C. self-esteem D. self-consciousness

22. The novel the White Peacock written by__________is a remarkable work of a talented

young man.

A. George Bernard Shaw B. T. S. Eliot

C. D. H. Lawrence D. Charles Dickens

23 ._________ produced several plays, exploring his idea of “Life Force”, the power that would create superior beings to be equal to God.

A. Bernard Shaw B. Thomas Hardy

C. D.H.Lawrence D. T.S.Eliot

24. D.H.Lawrence’s artistic tendency is mainly____, which combines dramatic scenes with an authoritative commentary.

A. romanticism B. realism

C. naturalism D. modernism

25. Widowers’ Houses, a play written by George Bernard Shaw, is a grotesquely realistic exposure of ________.

A. prostitution B. life force

C. social evil D. slum landlordism

26. Generally speaking,___________ is the best of T. S. Eliot’s plays in the sense that it contains the best poetry and the most coherent drama.

A. Murder in the Cathedral B. The Cocktail Party

C. The Family Reunion D. The Waste Land

27 .____ followed the traditions of realism, and took the modem social issues as his subjects with the aim of directing social reforms.

A. Bernard Shaw B. Thomas Hardy

C. D. H. Lawrence D. T. S. Eliot

28. Thomas Hardy’s pessimistic view of life predominated most of his later works and earns him a reputation as a _____ writer.

A. realistic B. naturalistic

C. romantic D. stylistic

29. Closely related to Dickinson’s religious poetry are her poems concerning________，ranging over the physical as well as the psychological and emotional aspects of death.

A. love and nature B. death and universe

C. death and immortality D. family and happiness

30. Walt Whitman was a pioneering figure of American poetry. His innovation lies in his use of_________, poetry without a fixed beat or a regular rhyme scheme.

A. blank verse B. heroic couplet

C. free verse D. limbic pentameter

31. In 1849, Herman Melville published____，semi-autobiographical novel, concerning the sufferings of a genteel youth among brutal sailors.

A. Omoo B. Mardi

C. Redburn D. Typee

32. The finest example of Hawthome’s symbolism can be found in _______.

A. The Scarlet Letter B. The House of the Seven Gables

C. The Marble Faun D. The Ambitious Guest

33.Of the American novelists_ is known for his “black vision”.

A. Nathaniel Hawthorne B. Bernard Shaw

C. T. S. Eliot D. William Wordsworth

34.From the first novel Sister Carrie on, Dreiser set himself to project the American values for what he had found them to be： _________to the core.

A. bestiality B. political

C. religious D. materialistic

35.______is a great literary giant of America, whom Mencken considered “the true father of our national literature”.

A. Theodore Dreiser B. Herman Melville

C. Mark Twain D. Robert Lee Frost

36.The main theme of The Art of Fiction written by_____clearly indicates that the aim of the novel is to present life.

A. Henry James B. Mark Twain

C. Theodore Dreiser D. Ernest Hemingway

37. Robert Lee Frost’s first collection ___traces a boy’s development from self-centered  idealism to maturity.

A. A Boy’s Will  B. North of Boston

C. New Hampshire  D. A Witness Tree

38. As an active participant，F Scott Fitzgerald is acclaimed literary spokesman of the _______.

A. Jazz Age  B. Age of Reason

C. Lost Generation D. Beat Generation

39. Ernest Hemingway’s novel ____________ describes the drifting life of American exiles in Europe.

A. The Sun Also Rises   B. A Farewell to Arms

C. For Whom the Bell Tolls  D. The Old Man And the sea

40.The 20th-century stream-of-consciousness technique was frequently and skillfully used by ______to emphasize the reactions and inner musings of the narrator.

A. Hemingway B. Frost

C. Faulkner D. Whitman

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二、阅读理解题：本大题共4小题，每题4分，共16分。

Reading Comprehension (16 points in all, 4 for each)

Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English.

41. “I wandered lonely as a child

That floats on high o’er vales and hills,

When all at once I saw a crowd,

A host, of golden daffodils;

Beside the lake, beneath the trees,

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. ”

Questions:

A. Identify the poem and the poet.

B. What does the poet write in the poem?

C. From the characteristics of this stanza, which period does it belong to?

42. “It’s all very well, my boy. But, then, why don’t you go and talk to your father’s pals?” “But they’re rather different.”

“Not at all. They’re the common people. After all, whom do you mix with now—among the common people? Those that exchange ideas, like the middle classes. The rest don’t interest you. ”

“But—there’s the life—’’

“I don’t believe there，s a lot more life from Miriam than you could get from any educated girl—say Miss Miriam. It is you who are snobbish about class. ”

Questions:

A. What is the title of the novel from which this passage is taken? Who is the author?

B. Who is speaking to whom?

C. What idea does the dialogue between them express?

43. “There was a child went forth every day,

And the first object he look’d upon, that object he became,

And that object became part of him for the day or a certain part of the day,

Or for many years or stretching cycles of years. ”

Questions：

A. Who is the author of the poem?

B. What does the “child” refer to?

C. What is the main idea of the poem?

44. “We dasn’t stop again at any town, for days and days; kept right along down the river. We was down south in the warm weather, now, and a mighty long ways from home. We begun to come to trees with Spanish moss on them, hanging down from the limbs like long gray beards. It was the first I ever see it growing, and it made the woods look solemn and dismal. So now the frauds reckoned they was out of danger, and they begun to work the villages again.”　　

Questions:

A. Identify the author and the title of the novel from which this passage is taken.

B. Who do “we” refer to?

C. What are the features of the language of this novel?

三、简答题：本大题共4小题，每题6分，共24分。

Questions and Answers (24 points in all, 6 for each)

Give a brief answer to each of the following questions in English.

45. What are the characteristics of Fielding’s language?

46. Thomas Hardy is often regarded as a transitional writer. Some critics believe that emotionally traditional and intellectually advanced. How do you understand this idea?

47. How do you understand the white whale, Moby Dick in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick?

48. Henry James’ literary criticism is an indispensable part of his contribution to literature.What’s his outlook in literary criticism?

四、论述：本大题共2小题，每题10分，共20分。

Topic Discussion (20 points in all, 10 for each)

Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet

49. According to the setting of the poem Paradise lost, discuss the theme of it.

50. The Great Gatsby is an examination of American myth in the 20th century. Fitzgerald deliberately depicts Gatsby as a mysterious person so as to achieve the effect that Gatsby is American Everyman. Please make a brief comment on The Great Gatsby.