1、精品自學(xué)考試資料推薦全國 2019 年 4 月高等教育自學(xué)考試英美文學(xué)選讀試題課程代碼： 00604全部題目用英文作答，并將答案寫在答題紙相應(yīng)位置上，否則不計(jì)分。PARTONE （ 40 POINTS ） .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 completesthe statement. Write your correct answer on the answer sh

2、eet.1. “ And we will sit upon the rocks, /Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks,/By shallow rivers towhose falls/Melodious birds sing madrigals.” The aboveaken fromlines are t.A. MiltonParadise LostB. Marlowe s “ The Passionate shepherd to His Love”C. Shakespeare s “ Sonnet 18”D. John Donne s “ The

3、 Sun Rising”2.The English Renaissance period was an age of _ .A. poetry and dramaB. drama and novelC. novel and poetryD. romance and poetry3.Here are four lines taken from Edmund Spenser Thes Faerie Queene: “ Buton his brest abloudie Crosse he bore,/The deare remembrance of his dying Lord,/For whose

4、 sweete sake that glorious badge he wore,/And dead as living ever him adored. ”Who is the “ dying Lord ” discussed in the above lines?A. BeowulfB. King ArthurC. Jesus ChristD. Jupiter4.In ShakespeareMerchants of Venice , Antonio could not pay back the money he borrowed fromShylock, because _.A. his

5、money was all invested in the newly-emerging textile industryB. his enterprise went bankruptC. Bassanio was able to pay his own debtD. his ships had all been lost5. Which of the following statements best illustrates the themeof Shakespeare s Sonnet 18?A. The speaker eulogizes the power ofNature.B. T

6、he speaker satirizes human vanity.C. The speaker praises the power of artistic creation.D. The speaker meditates on man s salvation.6. In English poetry, a four-line stanza is called _.A. heroic coupletB. quatrainC. Spenserian stanzaD. terza rima7. “ Let not Ambition mock their useful toil,/Their ho

7、mely joys, and destiny obscure;/Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile /The short and simple annals of the poor . ”The above lines are taken from.A. Alexander PopeEssay on CriticismB. Coleridge s “ Kubla Khan”1精品自學(xué)考試資料推薦C. John Donne s “ The Sun Rising”D. Thomas Gray s “ Elegy Written in a Countr

8、y Churchyard”8. By making the truth-seeking pilgrims suffer at the hands of the people of Vanity Fair, John Bunyan intends to show the prevalent political and religious _of his time.A. persecutionB. improvementC. prosperityD. disillusionment9. The 18 th century witnessed a new literary formthe moder

9、n English novel, which, contrary tothe medieval romance, gives a _ presentation of life of the common people.A. romanticB. realisticC. propheticD. idealistic10. As a whole, _is one of the most effective and devastating criticismsand satires of allaspects in the then English and European life sociall

10、y, politically, religiously, philosophically,scientifically, and morally.A. Moll FlandersB. Gulliver s TravelsC. Pilgrim s ProgressD. The School for Scandal11. An honest, kind-hearted young man, who is full of animal spirit and lacks prudence, is expelled from the paradise and has to go through hard

11、 experience to gain knowledge of himself and finally to have been accepted both by a virtuous lady and a rich relative .The above sentence may well sum up the theme of Fielding. s workA. Jonathan Wild the GreatB. Tom JonesC. The Coffe-House PoliticianD. Amelia12. In SheridanTheSchools for scandal ,

12、the man who wins the hand of his beloved as well as theinheritance of his rich uncle is _ .A. Charles SurfaceB. Joseph SurfaceC. Sir Peter TeazleD. Sir Benjamin Backbite13. Which of the following works best represents the national spirit of the 18th-century England?A. Robinson CrusoeB. Gulliver s Tr

13、avelsC. Jonathan Wild the GreatD. A Sentimental Journey14. Shelley s masterpiece,Prometheus Unbound , is a verse drama, which borrows the basic story from _ .A. the BibleB. a German legendC. a Greek playD. One Thousand and One Nights15. In the first part of the novelPride and prejudice , Mr. Darcy h

14、as a (n) _ of the Bennetfamily .A. high opinionB. great admirationC. low opinionD. erroneous view16. In Byron s poem “ Song for the Luddites,” the word“ Luddite ” refers to the _ .A. workers who destroyed the machines in their protest against unemploymentB. rising bourgeoisie who fights against the

15、aristocratic classC. descendents of the ancient king ,LudD. poor country people who suffered under the rule of the landlord class17. Mr. Micawber in David Copperfield and Sam Well inPickwick Papers are perhaps the best_ characters created by Charles Dickens.2精品自學(xué)考試資料推薦A. comicB.tragicC. roundD.sophi

16、sticated18. A typical feature of the English Victorianliterature is that writers became social and moral_ , exposing all kinds of social evils.A. revolutionariesB. idealistsC. criticsD. defenders19. “ Is it not sufficient for your infernal sel fishness, that while you are at peace I shall writhe in

17、the torments of hell? ” (Heathcliffuttered the sentence in the death scene of Catherine fromChapter XV ofWuthering Heights .) The word“ hell” at the end of the quoted sentence refers to_ .A. HeavenB. HadesC. the next worldD. this world20. A typicalForsyte, according to John Galsworthy,is a man witha

18、 strongsense of_ ,who never pays any attention to human feelings.A. justiceB. humorC. moralityD. property21. “ Hewas silent with conceit of his son. Mrs. Morel sniffed, as if it were nothing.Sons and”(Lovers by D.H.Lawrence)From the above quotation, we can see that Mrs. Morel s attitude to herhusban

19、d is _ .A. sincerely warmB. genuinely kindC. seemingly angryD. merely contemptuous22. A boy makes a quest of his idealized childish love through painful experience up to the point of losing his innocence and coming to see the drabness and harshness of the adult world.The above sentence may well sum

20、up the major theme of _.A. Eliot s poemThe love Song of J. Alfred PrufrockB. Bernard shaw s Mrsplay. Warren s ProfessionC. Joyce s storyAabyD. Lawrence s storyThe Horse Dealer s Daughter23. Linguistically, compared with the writings ofMark Twain, Henry James s fiction is noted forhis _.A. frontier v

21、ernacularB. rich colloquialismC. vulgarly descriptivewordsD. refined elegant language24. Which of the following statements about Washington Irving is NOT true?A. Literary imagination should breed in a land rich in the past culture.B. He is preoccupied with the Calvinistic view of original sin and th

22、e mystery of evil.C. His stories are among the best of the American literature.D. Some of his works are based on the materials of the European legendary tales.25. Which of the following is NOT one of the main ideas advocated by Emerson, the chief spokesman of New England Transcendentalism?A. As an i

23、ndividual, man is divine and can develop and improve himself infinitely.B. Nature exercises a healthy and restorative influence on human beings.C. There exists an emotional communication between an individual soul and the universal“ Oversoul. ”D. Evil and sin are ever present in human heart and will

24、 pass on from one generation to another. ”3精品自學(xué)考試資料推薦26. Whitman s poems are characterized by all the following features EXCEPT _ .A. the strict poetic formB. the free and natural rhythmC. the easy flow of feelingsD. the simple and conversational language27. “ Then all collapsed, and the great shrou

25、d of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago. ” In the quoted sentence, the author might imply that _.A. nothing changes in the 5000 years of human historyB. man s desire to conquer nature can only end in hiswno destructionC. nature is evil as it was 5000 years agoD. nature has the ul

26、timate creative power28. “ Standingon the bare ground, my head bathed by the blitheair, and upliftedinto infinitespace , all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball. I am nothing. I see all. Thecurrents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.”The abo

27、ve passage is taken from _.A. Stowe Uncles Tom sCabinB. Cooper s “ Leatherstocking Tales”C. Emerson s “ Nature ”D . DreiserSisterCarrie29. Which of the following works best illustrates the Calvinistic view of original sin?A. Stowe Uncles Ton s CabinB. JamesThes Portrait of a Lady .C. Hemingway AsFar

28、ewell to ArmsD. Hawthorne Thes Scarlet Letter .30. Beside symbolism, all the following qualities EXCEPT _are fused to make MelvilleMoby-Dick a world classic.A. narrative powerB. psychological analysisC. speculative agilityD. optimistic view of life31. In all his novels Theodore Dreiser sets himself

29、toproject the _ American values.Forexample, in Sister Carrie , there is not one character whose status is not determinedeconomically.A. PuritanB. materialisticC. psychologicalD. religious32. In Daisy Miller, Henry James reveals Daisy sby showingher relativelyunreservedmanners.A. hypocrisyB. cold and

30、 indifferenceC. grace and patienceD. Americanness33. The raft with which Huck and Jim make theirvoyage down the MississippiRivermaysymbolize all the following EXCEPT _.A. a return to natureB. an escape from evils, injustices, and corruption of the civilized societyC. the American society in the earl

31、y 19th centuryD. a small world where people of different colors can live friendly and happily34. Emily Grierson, the protagonist in Faulkner s story“ A Rose for Emily,” can be regardesymbol for all the following qualities EXCEPT_.A. old valuesB. rigid ideas of social statusC. bigotry and eccentricit

32、yD. harmony and integrity4精品自學(xué)考試資料推薦35. As a Modernist poet ,Pound is noted for his active involvement in the _ .A. cubist school of modern paintingB. Imagist MovementC. stream-of-consciousness techniqueD. German Expressionism36. The statement that a boyght journeysni to an Indian village to witness

33、 the violence of bothbirth and death provides all the possibilities of a learning experience may well sum up the majortheme of _ .A. Faulkner s story“ A Rose for Emily”B. Hemingway s story“ Indian Camp”C. Irving s story“ The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”D. James s story“ Daisy Miller”37. Which of the fol

34、lowing plays by O Neill can be read autobiographically?A. The Hairy ApeB. The Emperor JonesC. The Iceman ComethD. Long Day sJourney Into Nig ht38. When we say that a poor young man from the West tried to make his fortune in the East but was disillusioned in the quest of an idealized dream, we are pr

35、obably discussing about _thematic concern in his fiction writing.A. Henry JamesB. Scott FitzgeraldC. Ernest HemingwayD. William Faulkner39.After his experiences in the forest, Young Goodman Brown returns to Salem _.A. desperate and gloomyB. renewed in his faithC. wearing a black veilD. unaware of hi

36、s own sin40. According to Mark Twain, in river towns up and down the Mississippi, it was every boy s dream to some day grow up to be _.A. Methodist preacherB. a justice of the peaceC. a riverboat pilotD. a pirate on the Indian oceanPART TWO (60POINTS) .Reading comprehension(16 points,4 for each)Read

37、 the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answer in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.41. “ One short sleep past, we wake eternally,And death shall be no more; d eath, thou shalt die.”Questions:A. Identify the poem and the poet.B.What does the word“ sleep

38、” mean?C. What idea do the two lines express?42. “ Never did sun more beautifully steepIn his first splendor, valley, rock, or hill;Ne er saw I, never felt,a calm so deep!5th century. What are the major精品自學(xué)考試資料推薦The river glideth at his own sweet will:Dear God! The very houses seem asleep;And all th

39、at mighty heart is lying still!”(William Wordsworth s sonnet:“ Composed upon Westminster Bridge” September 3, 1802)Questions:A. What does the word “ glideth” in the fourth line mean?B. What kind of figure of speech is used by wordsworth to describe the“ river”?C. What idea does the fourth line expre

40、ss?43. “ With Blueuncertain stumbling Buzz Between the light and meAnd then the Windows failed and thenI could not see to see”Questions:A. Identify the poem and the poet.B. What do“ Windows ” symbolically stand for?C. What idea does the quoted passage express?44.“ Is dying hard, Daddy? No, I think it s pretty easy, Nick, It all depends.”Questions:A. Identify the work and the author.B. What was Nick preoccupied with when he asked the question?C. Why did the father add“ It all depends” after he answered his son s question? . Questions and Answers(24 points in all, 6 for each)Give brief answ