自考本科英语专业：2012年4月00604英美文学选读历年真题及答案

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全国2012年4月高等教育自学考试

英美文学选读试卷

(代码：00604    15日下午考)

本试卷分两部分，满分l00分，考试时间l50分钟。

    1．第一部分为选择题，应考者必须在“答题卷”的选择题答题区按要求填涂作答；

    2．第二部分为非选择题，应考者必须在“答题卷”的非选择题答题区作答，不能答在试卷上；

    3．全部题目必须用英文作答；

    4．请按照试卷的题号顺序在相应的答题区域内作答。

PART ONE  (40 POINTS)

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. Antonio, Bassanio and Portia are the characters in_______

   A. The Merchant of Venis                 B. Much Ado About Nothing

   C. Twelfth Night                        D. A Midsummer Night' s Dream

2.. John Milton wrote _____ to expose the ways of Satan and to "justify the ways of God to men. "

   A. Paradise Regained                    B. Paradise Lost

   C. Samson Agonistes                    D. Areopagitica

3. The work _______ written by Daniel Defoe brought him into jail and made him go through public pillory.

    A. The Shortest Way with the Dissenters   B. The True -born Englishman

    C. Robinson Crusoe                   D. A Journal of the Plague Year

4. In the first part of Gulliver" s Travels, Gulliver told his experience in _______ .

    A. Brobdingnag                          B. Lilliput

    C. Flying Island                          D. Houyhnhnm

5. For his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel, _______ has been regarded by some as "Father of the English Novel".

    A. Daniel Defoe                         B. Johatharn Swift

    C. Henry Fielding                        D. Charles Dickens

6. William Blake' s _______ was composed during the climax of the French Revolution and it plays the double role both as a satire and a revolutionary prophecy.

    A. Songs of Experience                B. Songs of Innocence

    C. Marriage of Heaven and Hell         D. Poetical Sketches

 7. _______ maintained that the scenes and events of everyday life and the speech of ordinary people were the raw material of which poetry could and should be made.

    A. William Blake                       B. William Wordsworth

    C.T.S. Eliot                          D. William Shakespeare

 8. Prometheus, the hero in Shelly' s poetic drama Prometheus Unbound, is a figure in

    A. The Bible                         B. Greek Mythology

    C. A German Legend                  D. Arabian Nights

 9. Jane Austen' s first novel is _______ .

    A. Pride and Prejudice                 B. Sense and Sensibility

    C. Emma                           D. Persuasion

10. All of the following statements are true of Dickens' later works EXCEPT _______

    A. There are fewer jokes and the comedy becomes harsher.

    B. There is always a happy ending.

    C. The novels are of great compactness and concenatration.

    D. Most of the works present a criticism of the more complicated and yet most funda-mental social institutions and morals of Victorian England.

11. Charlotte Bronte' s most autobiographical work, _______ is largely based on her experience in Brussels.

    A. Jane Eyre                         B. Shirley

    C. Villette                           D. The Professor

12. All of the following novels by Thomas Hardy reveal the conflict between the traditional and the modem EXCEPT_______.

    A. The Mayor of Casterbridge           B. Tess of the D' Urbervilles

    C. Jude the Obscur                    D. Uuder the Greenwood Tree

13. Much of Shavian drama is constructed around the _______ of a conventional theatrical situation.

     A. tradition                                B. inversion

     C. bordering                              D. distortion

14. As an important prose writer, in his famous essay, Tradition and Individual Talent, Eliot put great emphasis on the importance of _______ both in creative writing and in criticism.

     A. change                                 B. creativity

     C. ethic                                   D. tradition

15. D. H. Lawrence' s novel _______ is a remarkable novel in which the individual consciousness is subtly revealed and strands of themes are intricately wound up.

     A. Sons and Lovers                       B. The Rainbow

     C. Women in Love                        D. Lady Chatterley' s Lover

16. All of the following plays are among Shakespeare' s four greated tragedies EXCEPT _______

     A. Hamlet                              B. Macbeth

     C. Romio and Juliet                       D. Othello

17. The work _______ shows how mankind, in the person of Christ, withstands the tempter and is established once more in the divine favor.

     A. Paradise Regained                      B. Paradise Lost

     C. Samson Agonistes                      D. Areopagitica

18. As one of the greatest masters of English prose, _______ defined a good style as "proper words in proper places. "

     A. Henry Fielding                          B. Jonathan Swift

     C. Daniel Defoe                            D. William Blake

19. Dickens' best depicted characters are those innocent, virtuous, persecuted and helpless ______

     A. child characters                           B. females

     C. laborors                                 D. farmers

20. The author of the work The Return of the Native is _______

    A. Thomas Hardy                            B.D.H. Lawrence

C. Charles Dickens                         D. George Bernard Shaw

21. "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", Eliot' s most striking early achievement, presents the meditation of an aging young man over the business of _______

     A. proposing marriage                      B. pursuing the truth

     C. losing idealism                          D. making a choice

22. D. H. Lawrence' s two novels, _______ and Women in Love, are generally regarded as his masterpieces.

     A. Sons and Lovers                       B. The Rainbow

     C. Kangaroo                            D. Lady Chatterley' s Lover

23. Hemingway' s To Have and Have Not is one of many to show his characteristics pattern of  _______ struggling against nature and the environment.

     A. a military army                           B. a vulnerable group

     C. a human society                           D. a lonely individual

24. According to Hawthorne, there is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole life; but _______ may rouse it to activity.

     A. music                                   B. circumstances

     C. memory                                 D. love

25. _______ is best - known as the author of his mighty book, Moby - Dick, which is one of the world' s greatest masterpieces.

     A. Herman Melville                           B. Mark Twain

     C. Ernest Hemingway                         D. Virginia Woolf

26. Walt Whitman is a poet with a strong sense of mission, having devoted all his life to the creation of the "single" poem, _______

     A. Innocents Abroad                       B. The Lost Paradise

     C. Leaves of Grass                        D. The Waste Land

27. While Mark Twain and Howells seemed to have paid more attention to the "life" of the Americans, Henry James had apparently laid a greater emphasis on the“_______ ”of man.

    A. outer world                                B. inner world

    C. physical world                              D. domestic world

28. Greatly and permanently affected by the _______, Hemingway formed his own writing style, together with his theme and hero.

    A. war experiences                           B. love experiences

    C. marriage                                  D. education

29. Emily Dickinson' s poetry is unique and _______ in its own way. For example, her poems have no titles.

    A. traditional                                 B. unconventional

    C. ordinary                                   D. unbelievable

30. Theodore Dreiser entitled his greatest work with _______ intending to tell us that it is the social pressure that makes Clyde's downfall inevitable.

     A. Death in the Woods                   B. Tender Is the Night

     C. The Sound and the Fury                D. An American Tragedy

31. Robert Lee Frost' s _______ won him the first Pulitzer Prizes, which includes "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening. "

      A. North Boston                         B. "The Gift Outright"

      C. New Hampshire                       D. A Boy' s Will

32. Fitzgerald is a great _______ in American literature and his style is closely related to his themes.

     A. poet                                   B. critic

     C. essayist                                D. stylist

33. It is Henry James' novels and his _______ that make him a fascinating case in the American literary history and a conspicuous figure in world literature.

     A. literary essays                           B. travel accounts

     C. poems                                 D. plays

34. The major concern of Faulkner' _______ is primarily about the South as a state of mind.

     A. The Sun Also Rises                     B. Light in August

     C. The Fable                             D. The Mansion

35. Compelled by an unceasing interest in the " interior of the heart" of man' s being, Hawthorne discusses _______ in almost ever3, book he wrote.

    A. love and hatred                         B. sin and evil

    C. frustration and self - denial                D. balance and self - discipline

36. The purpose of Melville' s fictional tales, exotic or philosophical, is to penetrate as deeply as possible into the metaphysical, theological, moral, psychological, and social truths of

    A. human existenee                        B. polities

    C. religion                               D. arts

37. According to Whitman, poetry, could enable Americans to celebrate their release from the Old World and the _______ rule.

    A. academic                                  B. official

    C. colonial                                   D. legislative

38. Being a boy' s book specially written for the adults, _______ is Mark Twain' s most representative work, describing a journey down the Mississippi undertaken by Huck and Jim.

     A. Innocents Abroad                     B. The Gilded Age

     C. Life on the Mississippi                 D. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

39. One of Henry James' literary techniques innovated to cater for the psychological emphasis is his _______

     A. narrative "point of view"               B. rhetorical devices

     C. way of using metaphors                D. way of using symbols

40. More than five hundred poems Emily Dickenson wrote are about nature, in which her general _______ about the relationship between man and nature is well -expressed.

     A. skepticism                              B. belief

     C. appreciation                             D. passion

PART TWO  (60 POINTS)

]I. Reading Comprehension (16 points in all, 4 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.  Into this fence or fortress, with infinite labour, I carry' d all my fiches, all my provisions, ammunition, and stores, of which you have the account above; and I made me a large tent, which, to preserve me from the rains that in one part of the year are very violent there, I made double, viz. one smaller tent within, and one larger tent above it, and covered the uppermost with a large tarpaulin which I had saved among the sails.

    Questions:

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

    B. Who is the narrator?

    C. What are the narrator's characteristics and whom does he represent?

42.  MRS. WARREN. [ after looking at her helplessly, begins to whimper ] Vivie VIVIE. [ springing up sharply ] Now pray dont begin to cry. Any thing but that. I really cannot stand whimpering. I will go out of the room if you do.

        MRS. WARREN. [ piteously] Oh, my darling, how can you be so hard on me? Have I no rights over you as your mother?

        VIVIE. Are you my mother?

        MRS. WARREN. [ appalled ] Am I your mother! Oh, Vivie!

        VlVIE. Then where are our relatives? my father? our family friends? You claim the rights of a mother: the right to call me fool and child; to speak to me as no woman in authority over me at college dare speak to me; to dictate my way of life; and to force on me the acquaintance of a brute whom anyone can see to be the most vicious sort of London man about town. Before I give myself the trouble to resist such claims, I may as well find out whether they have any real existence.

     Questions :

     A. Identify the author and the title of the play from which the part is taken.

     B. Summarize the theme of the play in one or two sentences.

     C. What kind of person is the protagonist Vivie?

 43. I celebrate myself, and sing myself.

     And what I assume you shall assume,

     For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

     Questions :

     A. Identify the poet and the title of the poem from which the stanza is taken.

     B. What does the word "you" refer to?

     C. What does the poet express in the stanza?

44. We slowly drove—He knew no haste,

     And I had put away

     My labor and my leisure too,

     For His Civility—

     We passed the School, where Children strove

     At Recess—in the Ring—

     We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain—

     We passed the Setting Sun—

     Questions:

     A. Identify the poet and the title of the poem from which the above stanzas are taken.

     B. What figure of speech is used in Line 1 and Line 4?

     C. What do "the School", "the Fields of Gazing Grain" and "the Setting Sun" represent?

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

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

45. What is the theme of Jane Austen' Pride and Prejudice?

46. What does the poem "The Chimney Sweeper (from Songs of Experience)"reveal?

47. What is " Hemingway Code Heroes"?

48. Give a brief analysis of Emily Grierson, the protagonist of A Rose for Emily by Faulkner.

Ⅳ. Topic Discussion(20 points in all, l0 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. Discuss briefly Thomas Hardy' s literary achievement in terms of the setting, the literary tendency and literary features.

50. Comment briefly on Robert Frost' s nature poetry.

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