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I. 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. Mark your choice by blackening the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the answer sheet.

1. Shakespeare has established his giant position in world literature with his ______ plays, 154 sonnets and 2 long poems.B

A. 27 B. 38

C.47 D. 52

2. john Milton’s literary achievement can be divided into three groups: the early poetic works, the middle prose pamphlets and the last ______.C

A. romances B. dramas

C. great poems D. ballads

3. The novels of ______ are the first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower— class people.C

A. John Milton B. Daniel Defoe

C. Hey Fielding D. Jonathan Swift

4. The work ranked by many critics as William Wordswoth’s greatest work was ______.B

A. Lyrical Ballads B. The Prelude

C. Poems in Two Volumes D. The Excursion

5. The author of The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling is ______.C

A. Daniel Defoe B. Johathan Swift

C. Hey Fielding D. William Blake

6. The works of ______ are famous for the depiction of the life of the middle — class women, particularly governess.*B

A. Charlotte Bronte B. D.H. Lawrence

C. Thomas Hardy D. Jane Austen

7. All of the following writings are created by William Wordsworth EXCEPT ______.D

A. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud. ”

B. “Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Septemer 3, 1802. ”

C. “The Solitary Reaper. ”

D. “The Chimney Sweeper. ”

8. The most important representative work by Jonathan Swift is ______.D

A. A Tale of a Tub B. The Battle of the Books

C. A Modest Proposal D. Gulliver's Travels

9 “If winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”comes from Shelly’s ______.D

A. “To a Skylark” B. “Adonais”

C. “Ode to Liberty” D. “Ode to the West Wind”

10. In Jane Austen' s first novel ______, she tells a story about two sisters and their love affairs.B

A. Pride and Prejudice B. Sense and Sensibility

C. Emma D. Persuasion

11. Charles Dickens is one of the greatest ______ writers of the Victorian Age.D

A. romantic B. modernist

C. socialist D. critical realist

12. Charlotte Bronte' s most autobiographical work, ______ is largely based on her experience in Brussels.A

A. Jane Eyre B. Shirley

C. Villette D. The Professor

13. William Wordsworth' s theory of poetry is calling for simple themes drawn from humble life expressed in the language of ordinary people. The preface to the second edition of ______ acts as a manifesto for the new school and sets forth his own critical creed.A

A. Lyrical Ballads B. The Prelude

C. Poems in Two Volums D. The Excursion

14. George Bernard Shaw' s play ______ established his position as the leading playwright of his time.*C

A. Widowers’Houses B. Too True to Be Good

C. Mrs. Warren' s Profession D. Candida

15. Eliot' s most important single poem ______, has been hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th-century English poetry.B

A. The Hollow Men B. The Waste Land

C. Prurrock and Other Observations D. Poems 1909-25

16. D. H.Lawrence’s autobiographical novel, ______ shows the conflict between the earthy, coarse, energetic but often drunken father and the refined, strong — willed and up — climbing mother.A

A. Sons and Lovers B. The White Peacock

C. The Trespasser D. The Rainbow

17. “To be, or not to be — that is the question; /Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer./The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,/ Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,/And by opposing end them?” These words are from ______.D

A. King Lear B. Romeo

C. Antonio D. Hamlet

18. John Milton’s last important work, ______ is the most powerful dramatic poem on the Greek model.A

A. Paradise Lost B. Paradise Regained

C. Samson Agonistes D. Lydidas

19. The author of Moll Flanders and Captain Singleton is ______.B

A. John Milton B. Daniel Defoe

C. Hey Fielding D. Jonathan Swift

20. Drapier is the pseudonym of ______.A

A. Jonathan Swift B. Daniel Defoe

C. Hey Fielding D. William Blake

21. One of Dickens' later works, ______ in which he presents a criticism of the governmental branches which run an indefinite procedure of management of affairs and keep the innocent in prison for life.B

A. Bleak House B. Little Dorrit

C. Hard Times D. A Tale of Two Cities

22. In the second part of Gulliver's Travels, Gulliver told his experience in ______.A

A. Brobdingnag B. Lilliput

C. Flying Island D. Houyhnhnm

23. Faulkner used the narrative techniques to construct his stories, which include ______ and mythological and biblical allusions.A

A. symbolism B. free indirect speech

C. contrast D. dialogue

24. Ernest Hemingway, had been trying to demonstrate in his works an unvarying code, known as “______,” which is actually an attitude towards life.B

A. facing the reality B. grace under pressure

C. honesty with benevolence D. security coming first

25. The Blithedale Romance is a novel written by Hawthorne to reveal his own experience on the Brook Farm and his own methods as a ______ novelist.C

A. naturalist B. imagist

C. psychological D. feminist

26. Theodore Dreiser' s focus shifted from the pathos of the helpless protagonists at the bottom of the society to the power of the American financial tycoons in the late 19th century in his work ______.D

A. The Genius B. An American Tragedy

C. Dreiser Looks at Russia D. “Trilogy of Desire”

27. Emily Dickinson frequently uses personae to render the tone more familiar to the reader, and ______ to vivify some abstract ideas.D

英美文学选读答案篇二：英美文学选读历年试题及答案(最全整理)

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Ⅰ.Multiple Choice（40 points, 1 point for each）

1.The sentence "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare's ________ .

A.comedies C.sonnets

B.tragedies D.histories

2."So much the worse for me, that I an strong. Do I want to live? What kind of living will it be when you-oh, God!

Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?"

In the above passage quoted from Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, the word "soul" apparently refers to _______ .

A.Heathcliff C.ghost

B.Catherine D.one's spiritual lift

3."And where are they? And where art thou,"

My country? On thy voiceless shore

The heroic lay is tuneless now-

The heroic bosom beats no more!"（George Gordon Byron, Don Juan）

In the above stanza, "art thou" literally means _______ .

A."are you" C."are though"

B."art though" D."art you"

4.The major concern of _______ fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature.

A.Charles Dickens's C.Thomas Hardy's

B.D.H.Lawrence's D.John Galsworthy's

5.Daniel Defoe describes _______ as a typical English Middle-class man of the eighteenth century, the very prototype of the empire builder or the pioneer colonist.

A.Tom Jones C.Moll Flanders

B.Gulliver D.Robinson Crusoe

6."To be so distinguished is an honor, which, being very little accustomed to favors from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge."

The above quoted sentence is presented by Samuel Johnson with a（n） _______ tone.

A.delightful C.ironic

B.jealous D.humorous

7."She lived unknown, and few could know

When Lucy ceased to be;

But she is in her grave, and, oh,

The difference to me!"

The word "me" in the last line of the above stanza quoted from Wordsworth's poem "She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways" may possibly refer to _______ .

A.the poet C.her lover

B.the reader D.everybody

8._______ is a typical feature of Swift's writings.

A.Bitter satire C.Casual narration

B.Elegant style D.Complicated sentence structure

9.The statement "It reveals the dehumanizing workhouse system and the dark, criminal underworld life" may well sum up the main theme if Dickens's _______ .

A.David Copperfield C.Great Expectations

B.Bleak House D.Oliver Twist

10."Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless?…And if God had gifted me with some beauty, and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for

me to leave you."

The above quoted passage is most probably taken from _______ .

A.Pride and Prejudice C.Wuthering Heights

B.Jane Eyre D.Great Expectations

11.It is generally regarded that Keats's most important and mature poems are in the form of _______ .

A.ode C.epic

B.elegy D.sonnet

12.G.B.Shaw's play Mrs.Warren's Profession is a realistic exposure of the _______ in the English society.

A.slum landlordism C.political corruption

B.inequality between men and women D.economic exploitation of women

13.In William Blake's poetry, the father（and any other in whom he saw the image of the father such as God, priest, and king）was usually a figure of _______ .

A.benevolence C.love

B.admiration D.tyranny

14."'I believe you are made of stone,'he said, clenching his fingers so hard that he broke the fragile cup. …'You seem to forget,' she said,'that cup is not!'"

From the above quoted passage, we can find the woman's tone is very _______ .

A.sarcastic C.sentimental

B.amusing D.facetious

15.The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan is often said to be concerned with the search for _______ .

A.material wealth C.universal truth

B.spiritual salvation D.self-fulfillment

16.Alexander Pope strongly advocated _______, emphasizing that literary works should be judged by rules of order, reason, logic, restrained emotion, good taste and decorum.

A.sentimentalism C.idealism

B.romanticism D.neoclassicism

17.After reading the first chapter of Pride and Prejudice, we may come to know that Mrs. Bennet is a woman of _______ .

A.simple character and quick wit C.intricate character and quick wit

B.simple character and poor understanding D.intricate character and poor understanding

18.Of all the eighteenth-century novelists, _______ was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a "comic epic in prose," and the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.

A.Daniel Defoe C.Hey Fielding

B.Samuel Richardson D.Oliver Goldsmith

19."Not on thy sole but on thy soul, harsh Jew,/Thou mak'st thy knife keen."

In the above quotation taken form The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare employs a（n）_______ .

A.oxymoron C.simile

B.pun D.synecdoche

20.In Hardy's Wessex novels, there is an apparent _______ touch in his description of the simple and beautiful though primitive rural life.

A.humorous C.nostalgic

B.romantic D.sarcastic

21."O prince, O chief of many throned powers,"

That led th' embattled seraphim to war

Under thy conduct, and in dreadful deeds

Fearless, endangered Heaven's perpetual King."

In the third line of the above passage quoted from Milton's Paradise Lost, the phrase "thy conduct" refers to _______

conduct.

A.Satan's C.Adam's

B.God's D.Eve's

22.We can perhaps describe the west wind in Shelley's poem "Ode to the West Wind" with all the following terms except

_______ .

A.tamed C.proud

B.swift D.wild

23.In 1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson made a speech entitled _______ at Harvard, which was hailed by Oliver Wendell Holmes as "Our intellectual Declaration of Independence."

A."Nature" C."Divinity School Address"

B."Self-Reliance" D."The American Scholar"

24.In Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown," a satanic figure leads the credulous protagonist to a witches'

Sabbath in the woods. There he recognizes many pillars of Salem's Puritan society as well as his wife, Faith. The story illustrates Hawthorne's allegorical theme of human evil or what Melville called the "power of _______ ."

A.blackness C.terror

B.whiteness D.hypocrisy

25.For Melville, as well as for the reader and _______ , the narrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, an ultimate mystery of the universe.

A.Ahab C.Stubb

B.Ishmael D.Starbuck

26.Most of the poems in Whitman's Leaves of Grass sing of the "en-mass" and the _______ as well.

A.nature C.self

B.self-reliance D.life

27.Emily Dickinson's poem（441）"This is my letter to the World" expresses the poet's _______ about her communication with the outside world.

A.indifference C.anxiety

B.joy D.indignation

28.Which of the following statements about writers in 1920s is true?

A.Mark Twain published his last and most important C.Freudian psychology influenced many modern writers. novel. D.Most writers were politically radical.

B.F. Scott Fitzgerald received the Nobel Prize.

29.Naturalism is evolved from realism when the author's tone in writing becomes less serious and less sympathetic

but more ironic and more _______ .

A.rational C.optimistic

B.humorous D.pessimistic

30.Mark Twain's first novel _______ , written in collaboration with Charles D. Warner and published in

1873,though not an artistic success, gives its name to the America of the post-Civil War period which it attempts to

satirize.

A.The Gilded Age C.The Roughing Time

B.The Age of Innocence D.The Jazz Age

31.Dreiser's Trilogy of Desire includes three novels. They are The Financier, The Titan and _______ .

A.The Genius C.The Stoic

B.The Tycoon D.The Giant

32.Daisy Miller's tragedy of indiscretion is intensified and enlarged by its narration from the point of view of _______ .

A.the author Hey James C.the American youth Winterbourne

B.the Italian youth Giovanelli D.her mother Mrs. Miller

33.The impact of Darwin's evolutionary 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.local colorism C.modernism

B.vernacularism D.naturalism

34.It is on his _______ that Washington Irving's fame mainly rested.

A.childhood recollections C.early poetry

B.sketches about his European tours D.tales about America

35."If honest labor be uemunerative and difficult to endure; if it be the long, long road which never reaches beauty, but wearies the feet and the heart; if the drag to follow beauty be such that one abandons the admired way, taking rather the despised path leading to her dreams quickly, who shall cast the first stone?"

Where is the underlined phrase taken from?

A.The Bible. C.Shakespeare.

B.Milton. D.Hawthorne.

36.Most recognizable literary movement that gave rise to the twentieth-century American literature, or we may say, the second American Renaissance, is the _______ movement.

A.transcendental C.expatriate

B.leftist D.expressionistic

37.Robert Frost combined traditional verse forms - the sonnet, rhyming couplets, blank verse - with a clear American local speech rhythm, the speech of _______ farmers with its idiosyncratic diction and syntax.

A.Southern C.New Hampshire

B.Western D.New England

38.As an autobiographical play, O'Neill's _______ （1956）has gained its status as a world classic and simultaneously marks the climax of his literary career and the coming of age of American drama.

A.The Iceman Cometh C.The Hairy Ape

B.Long Day's Journey Into Night D.Desire Under the Elms

39.Apart from the dislocation of time and the modern stream-of-consciousness, the other narrative techniques Faulkner used to construct his stories include _______ , symbolism and mythological and biblical allusions.

A.impressionism C.multiple points of view

B.expressionism D.first person point of view

40.Stylistically, Hey James' fiction is characterized by _______ .

A.short, clear sentences C.ordinary American speech

B.abundance of local images D.highly refined language

PART TWO

Ⅱ.Reading Comprehension（16 points, 4 points for each）

Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.

41.Read the quotation carefully and then answer the questions:

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,

The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea,

The plowman homeward plods his weary way,

And leaves the world to darkness and to me.

A.Scan the first line of the stanza.

B.Find the irregular foot in the second line.

C.Briefly explain the significance of this irregularity.

42.The following is a passage taken from a dramatic work:

Had I as many souls as there be stars

I'd give them all for Mephistophilis!

By him I'll be great emperor of the world,

And make a bridge thorough the moving air

To pass the ocean with a band of men;

I'll join the hills that bind the Afric shore

And make that country continent to Spain,

And both contributory to my crown;

The emperor shall not live but by my leave,

Nor any potentate of Germany.

Now that I have obtained what I desire

I'll live in speculation of this art

Till Mephistophilis return again.

A.Name the playwright and the title of the work from which the passage is taken.

B.Name the speaker of the passage quoted above.

C.Use the above passage as a guide and write down in one or two sentences the theme of the play.

43.Read the following passage and then answer the questions:

…I glanced back once. A wafer of a moon was shining over Gatsby's house, making the night fine as before, and surviving the laughter and the sound of his still glowing garden. A sudden emptiness seemed to flow now from the windows and the great doors, endowing with complete isolation the figure of the host, who stood on the porch, his hand up in a formal gesture of farewell.

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

B.The passage describes the end of an event. What is it?

C.What implied meaning can you get from reading this passage?

44.Read the foll(来自:WwW.ZHaOqt.nEt 蒲公英文 摘:英美文学选读答案)owing part of a poem and then answer the questions:

My tongue, every atom of my blood, form'd 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,

Hoping to cease not till death.

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?

Ⅲ.Questions and Answers （24 points, 6 points for each）

Give brief answers to each of the following questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.

45.The following quotation is the ending of a poem by Robert Browning:

Nay, we'll go

Together down, sir, Notice Neptune, though,

Taming a sea horse, though a rarity,

Which Claus of Innsbruck cast in bronze for me.

What is the title of the poem? Who is the speaker? What is the importance of the allusion "Neptune…/Taming a sea horse" in the whole poem?

46.Novum Organum（"New Instrument"）, along with other works, won the author the honour "Father of modern science." Who is the author? What is the main concern of the work? Why the work is so important for the development of modern science?

47.Ezra Pound is one of the pioneers in modern poetry. What is the poetic school of which he is a chief member? What is Pound's representative work of many years of poetic creation? What is the title of his frequently quoted one-image poem?Pound has translated some literary works from two great ancient civilizations.

One is Greece. What is the other? How do you understand his famous comment "The image itself is the speech"?

48.William Faulkner, a Nobel Priza winner, has an important position in American literature. Name two of his Major novels. Do you know anything about"Yoknapatawpha County?" What is unique of Faulkner's fiction, historically and geographically?

英美文学选读答案篇三：英美文学选读试卷答案

《英美文学选读》试题参考答案

Part I. Multiple Choice (20%, 20*1)

1. D 6. D

2. B 7. A. 12. B

3. C 8. B 13. B 18. B

4. B 9. A 14. D 19. D

5. C 10. A 15. A 20. C

11. A16. A

17. D

Part II. Read the poems and answer the following questions (30%, 6*5) Poem 1:

21. It expresses his grief /sorrow over the death of a close friend of his. 22. It creates the contrasting effect, which helps to emphasize the poet’s inner suffering.

23. It is his friend’s voice that he will no longer hear. Poem 2:

24. It is a psychological monologue of the haughty / arrogant hawk, who thinks he can kill everything as he pleases.

25. The hawk sits on the top of the wood resting with closed eyes and locked feet; he flies to kill the living animal if he pleases.

26. It reveals that the hawk is merciless and brutal. It gives us some reflections on the destruction caused by human beings

Part III. Short-answer questions (20%, 10*2)

27. What are the main qualities of Edmund Spenser's poetry? A. a perfect melody B. a rare sense of beauty C. a splendid imagination

D. a lofty moral purity & seriousness E. a dedicated idealism

28. What is Shakespeare’s contribution to English language? And what are his effects

on English literature? 1） Contributions to language

Many words and commonly used phrases have been added to everyday English vocabulary through their appearance in Shakespeare's works. 2） Effects on literature

Shakespeare's plays & poetry have had a pervasive influence on world literature. Most of the great literary figures of the world have been inspired & stimulated by his achievement.

On the whole， however， Shakespeare's contribution has been to the language & spirit of later writing rather than to its form. References & parallels to Shakespeare's phraseology have occurred in literature since the 16th century. Perhaps the greatest inspiration to subsequent authors has been Shakespeare's capacity to depict life in all its complexity & to illuminate man's character & destiny.

Part IV. Short essay questions (30%, 15*2) 29. Give a brief analysis of The Vanity Fair.

1） Theme： The Pilgrim's Progress is the most successful religious allegory in the English language. Its purpose is to urge people to comply with Christian doctrines & seek salvation through constant struggles with their own weakness & all kinds of social evils. It is not only about something spiritual but also beats much relevance to the time. Its predominant metaphor-life as a journey-is simple & familiar.

2） Vanity Fair is the most famous part of The Pilgrim's Progress. It tells how Christian & his friend Faithful come to Vanity Fair on their way to heaven，"a fair where in should be sold all sorts of vanity & that it should last all the year long： therefore at this fair all such merchandise sold，as houses，lands，trades，places， honors，preferments，titles，countries，kingdoms，lusts，pleasures & delights of all sorts as harlots，wives，husbands，children，masters，servants，lives，blood， bodies， souls，silver，gold，pearls，precious stones & what not." As they refuse to buy anything but truth，they are beaten & put in a cage & then taken out & led in chains up & down the fair. They are sentenced to death-to be put to the most cruel death that can be

invented." Vanity Fair" is a satirical picture of English society，law & religion in Bunyan's day.

30. Why is Jane Eyre a successful novel?

The work is one of the most popular & important novels of the Victorian age by charlotte Bronte. It is noted for its sharp criticism of the existing society，e.g. the religious hypocrisy of charity institutions，the social discrimination & the false social convention as concerning love & marriage. At the same time，it is an intense moral fable. Jane，like Mr. Rochester，has to undergo a series of physical & moral tests to grow up & achieve her final happiness. The success of the novel is also due to its introduction to the English novel the first governess heroine. Jane Eyre is a completely new woman image. She represents those middle-class workingwomen who are struggling for recognition of their rights & equality as a human being. The vivid description of her intense feelings & her thought & inner conflicts brings her to the heart of the audience.

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