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2021年10月高等教育考试
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。
I.To support his family,in 1586 or 1587 ______ went to London,a wonderful environment for the development of drama.
A.John Milton B.Shakespeare C.Henry Fielding D.Bernard Shaw
2.Daniel Defoe's language is______，smooth,colloquial and vernacular.
A.obscure B.complex C.easy D.rhetoric
3.Charles Dickens altacks the dchumanizing ______and the criminal underworld life in Oliver Twist.
A.nursing home 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 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 B.Bernard Shaw C.Jane Austen D.Thomas Hardy
6.John Milton composed the poem______ dedicaled to his fellow undergraduate.
A.Lycidas 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 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 B.human life C.religion D.politics
9.In Charlotte 注图S1@@ novels,she liked to describe the following issues of the upper class EXCEPT ______。
A.hypocrisy B.cruclty C.friendship D.evils
10.T.S.Eliot produced two major volumes of poctic works:______ and Four Quartels in his later period.
A.Murder in the Cathedral 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 B.human progress
C.the social crisis D.the economic development
12.The novel Tom Jones brings______ the name of the“Prose Homer.”
A.HHenry Fielding B.Charles Dickens C.John Milton D.Thomas Hardy
13.Jane Austen wrote altogether ______ complete novels.
A.four B.five C.six D.seven
14.As is known to all,Charlotie Bronte is a writer of ______ combined with romanticism.
A.naturalism 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 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 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 B.David Copperfield
C.Robinson Crusoe D.Hard Times
18.The play The Coffee-House Politician is written by ______。
A.Shakespeare 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 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 B.second C.third D.last
21.William Blake's Marriage of Heaven and Hell marks his entry into ______。
A.maturity B.success C.career D.failure
22.The woman ______ is the main character in Bernard Shaw's Mrs.Warren 's Profession.
A.Jane B.Joan C.Fanny D.Vivie
23.Gencrally speaking，______Murder in the Cathedral is the best of his plays.
A.D.H.Lawrence's 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 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 B.engraving C.teaching D.architecture
26.In 1870,Charles Dickens died of______， leaving his last novel unfinished.
A.disease 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 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 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 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 B.religious C.philosophical D.aesthetic
31.Of the following authors,______wrote the masterpiece The Portrait of A Lady.
A.Mark Twain 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 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 B.Ishmael C.Starbuck D.Stubb
34.Emily Dickinson's poetry is ______ in its own way.
A.popular and conventional 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 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 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 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 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 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 B.American guerrilla
C.French writer D.American writer
二、阅读理解题：本大题共4小题，每小题4分，共16分
Reading Comprchension (16 poinis in all,4 for cach)
Read the quoted parts carefully ad answer the questions in English.
41.To grunt and sweat under a weary life,But that the dread of something after death—The undiscover'd country,from whose bournNo 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?
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?
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?
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?
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.Neoclassicists had laws and rules for almost every genre of literature.How should poetry be?
46.What are the main characteristics of Thomas Hardy's best local-colored works?
47.What does Nathaniel Hlawthorne's The Scarlel Letter telt us and what does he focus his attention on in this work?
48.F.Scott Fitzgerald shows a particular interest in the upper-class young people.What were they like described by Fitzgerald in his novels?
四、论述题：本大题共2小题，每小题10分，共20分。
Topic Discnssion (20 poinis in all,10 for cach)
Write no less than 150 words on cach of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.
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.
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.
2021年10月高等教育考试答案
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.B 2.C 3.D 4.A 5.B 6.A 7.D 8.B 9.C 10.D 11.C 12.A 13.C 14.D 15.C 16.A 17.C
18.B 19.A 20.B 21.A 22.D 23.C 24.A 25.D 26.B 27.A 28.C 29.B 30.D 31.C 32.B 33.B
34.D 35.A 36.D 37.B 38.A 39.C 40.B
二、阅读理解题：本大题共4小题，每小题4分，共16分。
41.A.Shakespeare;Hamlet.(2分)
B.Hamlet,Prince of Denmark.(1分)
C.It means to turn away from their original purpose.(1分)
42.A.William Wordsworth.(1分)
B.It suggests the timeless mystery of sorrowful humanity and its beauty.(2分)
C.He is regarded as a“worshipper of nature."(l分)
43.A.Nathaniel Hawthome.(1分)
B.Guilt and evil.(l分)
C.Everyone possesses some evil secret.(2分)
44.A.F.Scott Fitzgerald;The Great Gatsby.(2分)
B.A description of Gatsby's party.(1分)
C.It is set against the ending of the war.(l分)
三、简答题：本大题共4小题，每小题6分，共24分。
45.Poetry should be lyrical(1分)，epical(1分)，didactic(1分)，satiric(1分)or dramatic(2分).
46.His best local-colored works are known as“novels of character and environment." (1分)They are the most representative of him as both a naturalistic and a critical realist writer.(2分)The conflict between the old and the modern becomes more intense in his last two novels.(1分)In him we see the influence from both the past and the modern.(2分)
47.The work tells us a simple but very moving story(1分)in which four people living in a Puritan community are involved in and affected by the sin of adultery in different ways.(2分)He focuses his attention on the moral,emotional,and psychological effects or consequences of the sin on the people and those main characters,(2分)so as to show us the tension between society and individuals.(1分)
48.They had a sense of reckless confidence about money and life in general.They felt excused from seeking the good.(2分)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.(2分)Beneath their masks of relaxation and joviality there was only sterility,meaninglessness and futility.(2分)
四、论述题：本大题共2小题，每小题10分，共20分。
49.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.(3分)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.(3分)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.(3分)
50. 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. (3 分) 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. (2 分) Huck is a typical American Boy whom its creator described as a boy with “a sound heart and a deformed conscience.”(2 分) 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. (3 分)
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