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2020年10月高等教育自学考试
英美文学选读
（课程代码:00604）
一、单项选择题:本大题共40小题,每小题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. Numbers 1-126 of Shakespeare's sonnets are addressed to a______.
A.Dark Lady B. prince C. young man D. young woman
2. John Milton's Samson Agonistes is the most powerful dramatic poem on the ______model.
A. Greek B.Gothic C.Roman D.Latin
3.The last part of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels is a most interesting account of Gulliver's discoveries in the______.
A.Lilliput B.Houyhnhnm land C.Brobdingnag D. Flying Island
4. The Renaissance refers to the period between the ______ and mid-17th centuries.
A.12th B.13th C.14th D.15th
5.Jane Austen's novel Emma gives the thought over the self-deceptive______.
A.innocence B.ignorance C.arrogance D.vanity
6.Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is a successful______.
A.romantic comedy B.romantic tragedy C.dark comedy D. history play
7. In Henry Fielding's novel Tom Jones, Tom, intending to go to sea, wrongly takes the road to______.
A.New York B.Paris C.Rome E.London
8.John Milton wrote______ for his fellow undergraduate
A.Paradise Regained B.Areopagitica C.Paradise Lost D.Lycidas
9. In Songs of Innocence, William Blake experimented in meter and and ______ introduced bold metrical innovations.
A.scheme B.rhyme C.genre D.imagery
10. The following words best describe Mrs. Bennet, a character in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice EXCEPT______.
A. Beautiful B. empty-headed C. intelligent D. snobbish
11. Charles Dickens described the debtor's prison in______.
A.David Copperfield B.Nicholas Nickleby
C.A Tale of Two Cities D. The Pickwick Paper
12. Percy Shelley's poem______ became a rallying song of the British Communist Party.
A. The Cloud B. To a Skylark C. Ode to Liberty D. Men of England
13. Charlotte Bronte's most autobiographical work, ______ is largely based on her
experience in Brussels
A. Jane Eyre B. Shirley C. Villette D. The Professor
14. After Candida was produced in New York in 1903, the position of______ as the leading playwright of his time was established.
A. William Wordsworth B. Shakespeare C. Bernard Shaw D.Charles Dickens
15. The Return of the Native is one of the works known as Thomas Hardy's "novels of character and______.
A. Environment B. color C. local D. theme
16. A child character, ______is described by Charles Dickens in Dombey and Son.
A. Little Nell B. Little Paul C. Huck D. Jim
17. The character Mrs. Reed is the______ of the heroine of Jane Eyre.
A. Teacher B. maidservant C. aunt D. adoptive mother
18. The real success of ______ came with Under the Greenwood Tree in 1872.
A. Thomas Hardy B. Jonathan Swift C. Bernard Shaw D. William Blake
19. T.S. Eliot's______ is concerned with the quest for the immortal element, the stillness with time or history.
A. Ash Wednesday B. Four Quartets
C. The Cocktail Party D. Murder in the Cathedral
20.D. H. Lawrence is from a ______ family and he is one of the greatest English novelists of the 20th century.
A. lower-class B. working-class C. wealthy D. upper-class
21.T. S. Eliot's early poems are dominated by the dark horror of an earthly hell and the following are the ones EXCEPT______.
A. The Waste Land B. The Hollow Men
C. The Daughter-in-Law D. Prufrock
22. In his long dramatic career, Bernard Shaw wrote more than______ plays, touching a variety of subjects.
A.twenty B.thirty C.forty D.fifty
23.D. H. Lawrence's ______ends with Paul's rejection of despair and his determination to face the future.
A. Women in Love B. Aaron's Rod
C. Sons and Lovers D. Lady Chatterley's Lover
24. Nathaniel Hawthome was born into a prominent______ family in 1804 and this had a deep effect on him.
A. Catholic B. Puritan C. Calvinist D. Protestant
25. Leaves of Grass was just the expression of Walt Whitman's own set of ______principles.
A. Philosophic B. psychological C. moral D. aesthetic
26. Which one of the following works is NOT written by Herman Melville?
A. Typee B. Omoo C. The Europeans D.Pierre
27. The tales in Mosses from an Old Manse demonstrate the obsession of ______ with the moral and psychological consequences of pride, selflessness, and guilt.
A.Mark Twain B.Robert Frost C.Nathaniel Hawthorne D. Emily Dickinson
28. Moby-Dick is difficult to read because much of the language is purposely old-fashioned and______.
A.Greek B.Elizabethan C.Latin D.Victorian
29. In There was a Child Went Forth, the early experience of______ is well identified with the childhood of a young, growing America.
A. Scott Fitzgerald B. Herman Melville C. Henry James D. Walt Whitman30. Mark Twain's best works drew upon the scenes and______ of his boyhood and youth, one of which is Roughing It.
A.life B.emotions C.education D. experiences
31. Emily Dickinson's poems are short, rarely more than______lines.
A.ten B.fifteen C.twenty D.twenty-five
32. During the last two decades of his life, ______ turned away from fiction, involved himself in political activities and joined the Communist Party.
A.Theodore Dreiser B.Henry James C.Robert Frost D.Herman Melville.
33. The couple in the novel ______were modeled after Scott Fitzgerald himself and his wife.
A.Tender is the Night B.Tales of the Jazz Age
C.This Side of Paradise D.The Last Tycoon
34. Robert Frost's subject matters mainly focus on the landscape and people in______.
A.New Hampshire B.New England C.Boston D.Alaska
35. One of Henry James' literary techniques innovated to cater for this psychological emphasis is his______.
A. narrative "point of view" B.way of using allegory
C. way of using symbols D.logic "view of liberty"
36. A Farewell to Arms tells us a story about the love affair of a wounded American soldier with a______.
A.French nurse B.French reporter C.British reporter D.British nurse
37. At the age of seventy, ______took up a religious question, most notably in the poem After Apple-Picking.
A.Henry James B.Robert Frost C.Scot Fitzgerald D. Mark Twain
38. The ______ Age of the 1920s characterized by frivolity and carelessness is vividly brought to life in The Great Gatsby.
A.Golden B.Lost C.Jazz D.Gilded
39.William Faulkner once said that ______ is story of "lost innocence.”
A.The Sound and the Fury B.A Farewell to Arms
C.The Great Gatsby D.In Our Time
40. "Grace under pressure" is an attitude towards life that had been trying to
demonstrate in his works.
A.Herman Melville B.Scot Fitzgerald
C.William Faulkner D.Ernest Hemingway
二、阅读理解题:本大题共4小题,每小题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. Duke. What, is Antonio here?
Ant. Ready, so please your grace.
Duke. I am sorry for thee; thou art come to answer A stony adversary, an inhuman wretch,Uncapable of pity, void and empty From any dram of mercy.
Questions:
A. Identify the author and the title of the work from which the quoted part is taken.
B. Where does the situation happen?
C. What's wrong with Antonio?
42."You, Jane, I must have you for my own-entirely my own. Will you be mine? Say yes, quickly."
"Mr. Rochester, let me look at your face: turn to the moonlight."
"Why? "
"Because want to read your countenance; turn!"
Questions:
A. Identify the author.
B. What's the relationship between Jane and Mr. Rochester?
C. What does Jane represent?
43. I hardly know whether it was the analogies or the differences that were uppermost in the mind of a young American, who, two or three years ago, sat in the garden of the "Trois Couronnes," looking about him rather idly at some of the graceful objects I have mentioned. It was a beautiful summer morning, and in whatever fashion the young American looked at things they must have seemed to him charming.
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 this work deal with?
44. I willed my Keepsakes-Signed away
What portion of me be
Assignable-and then it was
There interposed a Fly-
With Blue-uncertain stumbling Buzz-
Between the light-and met-
And then the Windows failed-and-then
I could not see to see-
Questions:
A. Identify the author and the title of the work from which the quoted part is taken.
B. How does the author look at death?
C. What period does the author belong to?
三、简答题:本大题共4小题,每小题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. How does Daniel Defoe deal with his rest four novels after Robinson Crusoe?
46. What are the characteristics of Modernism?
47. Why is Nathaniel Hawthorne extraordinary as a man of literary craftsmanship?
48. Why is Adventures of Huckleberry Finn significant in many ways?
四、论述题:本大题共2小题,每小题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. Briefly analyze William Wordsworth's short poems according to the subjects.
50. Briefly discuss the characteristics of Scott Fitzgerald's novels based on The Great Gatsby.
2020年10月高等教育自学考试答案
英美文学选读
（课程代码:00604）
一、单项选择题:本大题共40小题,每小题1分,共40分
1.C 2.A 3.B 4.C 5.D 6.B 7.D 8.D 9.B 10.C 11.A 12.D 13.C 14.C 15.A 16.B
17.C 18.A 19.B 20.B 21.C 22.D 23.C 24.B 25.D 26.C 27.C 28.B 29.D
30.B 31.C 32.A 33.C 34.B 35.A 36.D 37.B 38.C 39.A 40.D
二、阅读理解题:本大题共4小题,每小题4分,共16分
41. A. Shakespeare; The Merchant of Venice. (1分)
B. In the court of justice. (1分)
C. To help his friend Bassanio he has to borrow from Shylock who has made a strange bond that requires Antonio himself to surrender a pound of his flesh if he fails to repay him within a period of time. (2分)
42.A. Charlotte Bronte.(1分)
B. A governess who loves her master Mr. Rochester. (1分)
C. The middle-class working women struggling for recognition of rights and equality as human being.(2分)
43.A. Henry James; Daisy Miller.(2分)
B. Winterbourne, an American expatriate. (1分)
C. It deals with the international theme. (1分)
44. A. Emily Dickins on; I heard a Fly buzz-when I died-. (2分)
B. From the point of view of both the living and the dying. (1分)
C. The Realistic Period. (1分)
三、简答题:本大题共4小题,每小题6分,共24分。
45. A. His rest four novels deal with the personal history of hero or heroine, usually a whore, pirate, pickpocket, rogue and some other criminal.(1分)
B. Their history is traced from their childhood to their final prosperity or repentance and death. The influence of material circumstances or social environment upon the
thoughts and actions of the hero or the heroine is highlighted. (2分)
C. The struggle of the poor unfortunate for existence, mixed with their desire for wealth, comes into conflict with the social environment which prevents them from obtaining the goal and forces them into criminal action and adventures. (2分)
D. The four novels manifest Daniel Defoe's deep concern for the poor in his society.
They are the first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower-cl ass people. (1分)
46. A. It takes the irrational philosophy and the theory of psycho-analysis as its theoretical base. The major themes of modernist literature are the distorted, alienated and ill relationships between man and nature, man and society, man and man, and man and himself.(2分)
B. The writers concentrate more on the private than on the public, more on the subjective than on the objective. They are concerned with the inner being of an individual. (2分)
C. The writers pay more attention to the psychic time than the chronological one. In their writings, the past, the present and the future are mingled together and exist at the same time in the consciousness of an individual. (2分)
47.A. The structure and the form are carefully worked out to cater for the thematic
concern. (2分)
B. With his interest in the psychological aspect of human beings, he is good at exploring the complexity of human psychology. So his drama is full of mental activities. (2分)
C. He is a great allegorist and almost every story can be read allegorically. (1分)
D. He is a m aster of symbolism which he took from the Puritan tradition and bequeathed to American literature in revivified form. (1分)
48. A. The novel is written in a language different from the rhetorical language. It is not grand, pompous, but simple, direct, lucid, and faithful to the colloquial speech.
Speaking in vernacular, a wild and uneducated Huck is vividly brought to life. (2分)
B. The great strength of the book comes from the shape by the course of the raft's
journey down the Mississippi as Huck and Jim seek their freedom. The portrait of
Huck is a great contribution to the legacy of American literature. (2分)
C. Mark Twain is known as local colorist. The rich material of his boyhood experience
on the Mississippi became the endless-resources for his fiction. (1分)
D. Mark Twain's humor is remarkable. The novel is funny, containing jokes, comic
details, and witty rem arks. (1分)
四、论述题:本大题共2小题,每小题10分,共20分
49.A. Wordsworth is regarded as of nature. He can penetrate to the heart of things and give the reader the life of nature. (2分)
B. Beyond the pleasure of the picturesque with their emphasis on the eye and the
external aspects of nature, lies a moral awareness, a sense of completeness in multiplicity. (1分)
C. As he is aware of his communion with all things, nature becomes an in spiring force of rapture, a power revealing the workings of the soul. To Wordsworth, nature acts as a substitute for imaginative and intellectual engagement with the development of embodied human beings in their diverse circumstances. It is nature that gives him“strength and knowledge full of peace”(3分)
D. Wordsworth thinks common life is the subject of literary interest. The joys and
sorrows of the common people are his themes. His sympathy goes to the suffering
poor. (1分)
E. When we read poems like: "The Thorn" "Michael," and so on, we find ourselves in the presence of poverty, crime, insanity, ruined innocence, solitary anguish, and
despair. The "Lucy poems" describe a young country girl living a simple life in a village. And the poem "The Solitary Reaper" and "To a Highland Girl" use rural figures to suggest the mystery of humanity and its beauty. In its use of subject matter and sense of the authenticity of the experience of the poorest, "Resolution and Independence" is the conclusion of ide as developed in the Lyrical Ballads. (3分)
50. A. Fitzgerald's fictional world is the embodiment the spirit of the Jazz Age, in which he shows interest in the upper-class society, especially the upper-class young man. (2分)
B. Young men and young women in the 1920s had a sense of reckless confidence about money and about life. (1分)
C. Beneath their masks of relaxation and joviality there was sterility, meaninglessness and futility and amid the grandeur and extravagance a spiritual wasteland and a hint of decadence and m oral decay. This juxtaposition of appearance with reality is easily recognizable in Fitzgerald's novels. (2分)
D. Fitzgerald deals with the bankruptcy of the American Dream, which is highlighted by the disillusionment of the protagonists' dreams due to the clashes between their
rom antic vision of life and the reality. The protagonist of The Great Gatsby had fallen in love with Daisy whose family is we when he was poor army lieutenant. At the end of the story Gatsby did not realize his dream. Gatsby is a mythical figure whose intensity of dream partakes of a state of mind that embodies America itself. (3分)
E. Gatsby's pursuit of his dream proves to be futile since what he seeks is an illusion,
and a nightmare. His failure magnifies the end of the American Dream. (2分)