【成人自考】【英美文学选读】【00604】2021年10月考试真题
(1).To support his family,in 1586 or 1587 ______ went to London,a wonderful environment for the development of drama.
A.John Milton正确答案B
B.Shakespeare
C.Henry Fielding
D.Bernard Shaw
(2).Daniel Defoe's language is______，smooth,colloquial and vernacular.
A.obscure正确答案C
B.complex
C.easy
D.rhetoric
(3).Charles Dickens altacks the dchumanizing ______and the criminal underworld life in Oliver Twist.
A.nursing home正确答案D
B.marriage clause
C.school conditions
D.workhouse system
(4).Joy,laughter,harmony and ______ are the prevailing notes of William Blake's early works.
A.love正确答案A
B.equality
C.freedom
D.romance
(5).In the modern period of English literature,______ held that only superior intellects could have the ability in achieving the goal of socialism.
A.T.S.Eliot正确答案B
B.Bernard Shaw
C.Jane Austen
D.Thomas Hardy
(6).John Milton composed the poem______ dedicaled to his fellow undergraduate.
A.Lycidas正确答案A
B.Areopagitica
C.Ode to Naples
D.The Rape of Lucrece
(7).The works A Tule of a Tub and The Batile of the Books established the name of______as a satirist.
A.Charles Dickens正确答案D
B.Henry Fielding
C.Daniel Defoe
D.Jonathan Swift
(8).According to the subjects,William Wordsworth's short poems fall into two groups:poems about ______ and poems about nature.
A.philosophy正确答案B
B.human life
C.religion
D.politics
(9).
In Charlotte 
novels,she liked to describe the following issues of the upper class EXCEPT ______。
A.hypocrisy正确答案C
B.cruclty
C.friendship
D.evils
(10).T.S.Eliot produced two major volumes of poetic works:______ and Four Quartets in his later period.
A.Murder in the Cathedral正确答案D
B.The Family Reunion
C.The Cocktail Party
D.Ash Wednesday
(11).In King Lear,Shakespeare has not only made a profound analysis of ______ ，but also criticized the bourgeois egoism.
A.historical events正确答案C
B.human progress
C.the social crisis
D.the economic development
(12).The novel Tom Jones brings______ the name of the“Prose Homer.”
A.Henry Fielding正确答案A
B.Charles Dickens
C.John Milton
D.Thomas Hardy
(13).Jane Austen wrote altogether ______ complete novels.
A.four正确答案C
B.five
C.six
D.seven
(14).As is known to all,Charlotie Bronte is a writer of ______ combined with romanticism.
A.naturalism正确答案D
B.perfectionism
C.symbolism
D.realism
(15).It is the first time for D.H. Lawrence to combine ______ with psychological exploration in his novel The Rainbow.
A.individual thoughts正确答案C
B.cultural conflicts
C.social criticism
D.religious belicf
(16).During the resi four years of his life,Percy Shelley traveled and lived in various ______ cities,producing all his major works.
A.Italian正确答案A
B.French
C.German
D.British
(17).In the novel ______，Daniel Defoe glorifies human labor and the Puritan fortitude in describing the hero's life on the island.
A.The Battle of the Books正确答案C
B.David Copperfield
C.Robinson Crusoe
D.Hard Times
(18).The play The Coffee-House Politician is written by ______。
A.Shakespeare正确答案B
B.Henry Fielding
C.John Milton
D.William Blake
(19).Thomas Hardy abandoned ______ and returned to poetry for the criticisms against his last two novels.
A.novel-writing正确答案A
B.drama-creating
C.play-creating
D.prose-writing
(20).In the______ part of Gulliver's Travels,Gulliver is left alone in Brobdingnag where pcople are too much taller and larger than ordinary human beings.
A.first正确答案B
B.second
C.third
D.last
(21).William Blake's Marriage of Heaven and Hell marks his entry into ______。
A.maturity正确答案A
B.success
C.career
D.failure
(22).The woman ______ is the main character in Bernard Shaw's Mrs.Warren 's Profession.
A.Jane正确答案D
B.Joan
C.Fanny
D.Vivie
(23).Gencrally speaking，______Murder in the Cathedral is the best of his plays.
A.D.H.Lawrence's正确答案C
B.Thomas Hardy's
C.T.S.Eliot's
D.Bernard Shaw's
(24).Sons andd Lovers vividly presents the ______ between D.H.Lawrence's father and mother.
A.conflict正确答案A
B.care and love
C.marriage life
D.misunderstanding
(25).The publication of Far fron the Madding Crowd in 1874 cnabled Thomas Hardy to give up ______for writing.
A.painting正确答案D
B.engraving
C.teaching
D.architecture
(26).In 1870,Charles Dickens died of______， leaving his last novel unfinished.
A.disease正确答案B
B.overwork
C.poverty
D.depression
(27).Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote ______ to reveal his own experiences and his own methods as a psychological novelist.
A.The Blithedale Romunce正确答案A
B.The Marble Faun
C.The House of the Seven Gables
D.The Sound and the Fury
(28).Mark Twain's book Innocents is an account of ______。
A.British tourists in America正确答案C
B.British journalists in America
C.American tourists in Europe
D.American journalists in Europe
(29).______ A Musque of Reason and A Masque of Mercy are comic-serious dramatic narratives,in both of which biblical characters in modern settings discuss ethics and man's relations to God.
A.John Milton's正确答案B
B.Robert Frost's
C.Ezra Pound's
D.T.S.Eliot's
(30).Walt Whitman put forward his own set of ______ principles,Leaves of Grass was just the expression of these principles.
A.psychological正确答案D
B.religious
C.philosophical
D.aesthetic
(31).Of the following authors,______wrote the masterpiece The Portrait of A Lady.
A.Mark Twain正确答案C
B.Nathaniel Hlawthorne
C.Henry James
D.Herman Melville
(32).F.Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise portrays the emotional and spiritual collapse of ______ during an unstable marriage.
A.a wealthy young woman正确答案B
B.a wealthy young man
C.a poor young woman
D.a poor young man
(33).The following character ______ is the narrator in the novel Moby-Dick.
A.Ahab正确答案B
B.Ishmael
C.Starbuck
D.Stubb
(34).Emily Dickinson's poetry is ______ in its own way.
A.popular and conventional正确答案D
B.unique and conventional
C.vulgar and unconventional
D.unique and unconventional
(35).In 1954,______was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature and in 1961 he committed suicide.
A.Ernest Hemingway正确答案A
B.Robert Frost
C.Herman Melville
D.F.Scott Fitzgerald
(36).As ______saw it,poetry could play a vital part in the proeess of creating a new nation.
A.Ezra Pound正确答案D
B.T.S.Eliot
C.Robert Frost
D.Walt Whitman
(37).Penniless and“full of the illusions of______,”Carrie Meeber,the protagonist in Sister Carrie,leaves home to scek work in Chicago.
A.love and youth正确答案B
B.ignorance and youth
C.ignorance and love
D.future and love
(38).The following work______ is NOT written by William Faulkner.
A.The Great Gatsby正确答案A
B.Go Down,Moses
C.Light in August
D.Absalom,Absalom!
(39).Herman Melville's Billy Budd deals with the sea and sailors and the theme of a conflict between ______。
A.innocence and selflessness正确答案C
B.romance and freedom
C.innocence and corruption
D.justice and corruption
(40).For Whom the Bell Tolls concerns a volunteer ______ fighting in the Spanish Civil War.
A.French gucrrilla正确答案B
B.American guerrilla
C.French writer
D.American writer
(41).To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death—
The undiscover'd country,from whose bourn
No traveler returns -puzzles the will,
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pith and moment,
With this regard,their currents turn awry
And lose the name of action.
Questions:
A.Identify the author and the title of the work from which the quoted part is taken.
B.Who is the narrator?
C.What does the sentence“heir currents turn awry'mean?
A.Shakespeare;Hamlet.
B.Hamlet,Prince of Denmark.
C.It means to turn away from their original purpose.
(42).No Nightingale did ever chaunt
More welcome notes to weary bands
Of travelers in some shady haunt,
Among Arabian sands;
A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard
In springtime from the Cuckoo bird,
Breaking the silence of the seas
Among the farthest Hebrides.
Questions:
A.Identify the poet.
B.What does the poem suggest?
C.What is this poet regarded as?
A.William Wordsworth.
B.It suggests the timeless mystery of sorrowful humanity and its beauty.
C.He is regarded as a“worshipper of nature."(l分)
(43).Young Goodman Brown came forth,at sunsei,into the strect of Salem village,but put his head back,after crossing the threshold,to exchange a parting kiss with his young wife.And Faith,as the wife was aptly named,thrust her own pretty head into the strect,leiting the wind play with the pink ribbous of her cap,while she called to Goodman Brown.
Questions:
A.Identify the author.
B.What is the novel concerned with?
C.What does the author set out to prove?
A.Nathaniel Hawthome.
B.Guilt and evil.(l分)
C.Everyone possesses some evil secret.
(44).Every Friday five crates of oranges and lemons arrived from a fruiterer in New York——every Monday these same oranges and lemons left his back door in a pyramid of pulpless halves.These was a machine in the kitchen which could extract the juice of two hundred oranges in half an hour if a little bution was pressed two hundred times by a butler's thumb.
Questions:
A.Identify the author and the title of the work from which the quoted part is taken.
B.What does the quoted part describe?
C.What is the background of the novel?
A.F.Scott Fitzgerald;The Great Gatsby.
B.A description of Gatsby's party.
C.It is set against the ending of the war.(l分)
(45).Neoclassicists had laws and rules for almost every genre of literature.How should poetry be?
Poetry should be lyrical，epical，didactic，satiricor dramatic.
(46).What are the main characteristics of Thomas Hardy's best local-colored works?
His best local-colored works are known as“novels of character and environment." They are the most representative of him as both a naturalistic and a critical realist writer.The conflict between the old and the modern becomes more intense in his last two novels.In him we see the influence from both the past and the modern.
(47).What does Nathaniel Hlawthorne's The Scarlel Letter telt us and what does he focus his attention on in this work?
The work tells us a simple but very moving storyin which four people living in a Puritan community are involved in and affected by the sin of adultery in different ways.He focuses his attention on the moral,emotional,and psychological effects or consequences of the sin on the people and those main characters,so as to show us the tension between society and individuals.
(48).F.Scott Fitzgerald shows a particular interest in the upper-class young people.What were they like described by Fitzgerald in his novels?
They had a sense of reckless confidence about money and life in general.They felt excused from seeking the good.Plunging into their personal adventures, engaging themselves in casual sex and heavy drinking,they took risks and spent money extravagantly and enjoyed themselves to their hearts'content.Beneath their masks of relaxation and joviality there was only sterility,meaninglessness and futility.
(49)."The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock"is T.S.Eliot's most striking achievement.Briefly discuss the theme,the writing style,the characieristics of the protagonist.and the setting.
The poem presents the meditation on an aging young man over the business of proposing marriage.(l分)The poem is in a form of dramatic monologue, suggesting an ironic contrast between a pretended "love song"and a confession of the speaker's incapability of facing up to love and to life in a sterile upper-class world.The protagonist is neurotic,self-important,illogical and incapable of action.He is a tragic figure caught in a sense of defeated idealism and tortured by unsatisfied desires.The setting of the poem resembles the“polite society"of Pope's“The Rape of the Lock,"in which a tea party is a significant event and a game of cards is the only way to stave off boredom.
(50).The prolound portrait of Huck is a great contribution of of uckleberry Finn to the legacy of American literature.Briefly analyze the character and the impacis upon the socicty.
The novel begins with a description of how Widow Douglas attempts to civilize Huck and ends with him deciding not to let it happen again at the hands of Aunt Sally. The climax arises with Huck’s inner struggle on the Mississippi, when Huck is polarized by the two opposing forces between his heart and his head, between his affection for Jim and the laws of the society against those who help slaves escape. Huck’s final decision is to follow his own good-hearted moral impulse rather than conventional village morality. With the eventual victory his moral conscience over his social awareness, Huck grows. Huck is a typical American Boy whom its creator described as a boy with “a sound heart and a deformed conscience.” Through the eyes of Huck, the innocent and reluctant rebel, we see the pre-Civil War American society fully exposed and at the same time we are deeply impressed by Mark Twain’s thematic contrasts between innocence and experience, nature and culture, wilderness and civilization.
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