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Network Education College,BLCU 《英美文学选读》模拟试卷一 注意： 1.试卷保密，考生不得将试卷带出考场或撕页，否则成绩作废。请监考老师负责监督。 2.请各位考生注意考试纪律，考试作弊全部成绩以零分计算。 3.本试卷满分100分，答题时间为90分钟。 4.本试卷分为试题卷和答题卷，所有答案必须答在答题卷上，答在试题卷上不给分。
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I. Multiple Choice. (1 point foreach, altogether 30 points) Directions: There are 30 sentences in this section. Beneath each sentence there arefour choices respectively marked by letters A, B, C and D. Choose the word thatyou think best complete the sentence. Writeyour answers on the answer sheet. 1. Amongthe great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his productionof_______. | [A] Piers Plowman | [B] Sir Gawain and the Green Knight | | [C] Confessio Amantis | [D] The Canterbury Tales |
2. In"After Apple- Picking," Robert Frost wrote: "For I have had toomuch / Of apple -picking: I am overtired/ Of the great harvest I myselfdesired." From these lines we can conclude that the speaker is_______. | [A] happy about the harvest | | [B] still very much interested in apple-picking | | [C] expecting a greater harvest | | [D] indifferent to what he once desired |
3.WithHowells, James, and Mark Twain active on the literary scene, _______became the major trend in Americanliterature in the seventies and eighties of the 19th century. | [A] Sentimentalism | [B] romanticism | [C] realism | [D] naturalism |
4. Of thefollowing American poets in the twentieth century, the one who has the best knowledgeof Chinese culture is _______. | [A] Robert Frost | [B] Allen Ginsberg | [C] Ezra Pound | [D] Cummings |
5. _______isthe first important governess novel in the English literary history. | [A] Jane Eyre | [B] Emma | | [C] Wuthering Heights | [D] Middlemarch |
6. TheHemingway Code heroes are best remembered for their_______. | [A] indestructible spirit | [B] pessimistic view of life | | [C] war experiences | [D] masculinity |
7. Whichof the following is taken from John Keats’Ode to a Nightingale? _______ | [A] "Beauty is truth, truth beauty." | | [B] "Earth has not anything to show more fair." | | [C] "They are both gone up to the church to pray." | | [D] "was it a vision, or a waking dream?" |
8. EmilyDickinson wrote many short poems on various aspects of life. Which of thefollowing is NOT a usual subject of her poetic expression? _______ | [A] Religion and immortality | [B] Life and death | | [C] Love and marriage | [D] War and peace |
9. HenryDavid Thoreau＇s work_______, has always beenregarded as a masterpiece of New England Transcendentalism. | [A] Walden | [B] The Pioneers | | [C] Nature | [D] Song of Myself |
10. TheVictorian Age was largely an age of_______, eminently represented by Dickensand Thackeray. | [A] poetry | [B] drama | | [C] prose | [D] epic prose |
11. Romance,which uses narrative verse or prose to tell stories of _______ adventures or otherheroic deeds, is a popular literary form in the medieval period. | [A] Christian | [B] knightly | | [C] Greek | [D] primitive |
12. Among the great Middle English poets,Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his production of _______. | [A] Piers Plowman | [B] Sir Gawain and the Green Knight | | [C] Confessio Amantis | [D] The Canterbury Tales |
13. Which of thefollowing historical events does not directly help to stimulate the rising ofthe Renaisssance Movement? _______ | [A] The rediscovery of ancient Greek and Roman culture | | [B] The new discoveries in geography and astrology | | [C] The Glorious revolution | | [D] The religious reformation and the economic expansion |
14. Which of thefollowing statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare's Sonnet 18? | [A] The speaker eulogizes the power of Nature | | [B] The speaker satirizes human vanity | | [C] The speaker praises the power of artistic creation | | [D] The speaker meditates on man's salvation |
15. “And we willsit upon the rocks,/Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks,/By shallow riversto whose falls/Melodious birds sing madrigals.” The above lines are probablytaken from _______. | [A] Spenser's The Faerie Queene | | [B] John Donne's “The Sun Rising” | | [C] Shakespeare's “Sonnet 18” | | [D] Marlowe's “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” |
16. “Bassanio: Antonio, I am married to a wife whichis as dear to me as life itself; But life itself, My wife, and all the world.Are not with me esteem'd above thy life; I would lose all, ay, sacrifice themall, Here to the devil, to deliver you. Portia: Your wife would give you littlethanks for that, If she were by to hear you make the offer.” The above is aquotation taken from Shakespeare's comedy The Merchant of Venice. The quotedpart can be regarded as a good example to illustrate _______. | [A] dramatic irony | [B] personification | | [C] allegory | [D] symbolism |
17. The truesubject of John Donne's poem, “The Sun Rising,” is to _______. | [A] attack the sun as an unruly servant | | [B] give compliments to the mistress and her power of beauty | | [C] criticize the sun's intrusion into the lover's private life | | [D] lecture the sun on where true royalty and riches lie |
18. Of all the18thcentury novelists Henry Fielding was the first to set out, both in theoryand practice, to write specifically a “_______ in prose,” the first togive the modern novel its structure and style. | [A] tragic epic | [B] comic epic | | [C] romance | [D] lyric epic |
19. TheHouyhnhnms depicted by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels are _______. | [A] horses that are endowed with reason | | [B] pigmies that are endowed with admirable qualities | | [C] giants that are superior in wisdom | | [D] hairy, wild, low and despicable creatures, who resemble human beings not only in appearance but also in some other ways. |
20. Here arefour lines from a literary work: “Others for language all their care express,/And value books, as women men, for dress.” The work is _______. | [A] Thomas Gray's “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” | | [B] John Milton's Paradise Lost | | [C] Alexander Pope's Essay on Criticism | | [D] Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream |
21. The phrase“to urge people to abide by Christian doctrines and to seek salvation throughconstant struggles with their own weaknesses and all kinds of social evils” maywell sum up the implied meaning of _______. | [A] Gulliver's Travels | [B] The Rape of the Lock | | [C] Robinson Crusoe | [D] The pilgrim's Progress |
22. WilliamWordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following EXCEPT _______. | [A] the use of everyday language spoken by the common people | | [B] the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings | | [C] the use of humble and rustic life as subject matter | | [D] the use of elegant wording and inflated figures of speech |
23. Which of thefollowing is taken from John Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn”? _______ | [A] “I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!” | | [B] “They are both gone up to the church to pray” | | [C] “Earth has not anything to show more fair” | | [D] “Beauty is truth, truth beauty” |
24.“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind!” isan epigrammatic line by _______. | [A] J.Keats | [B] W.Blake | | [C] W.Wordsworth | [D] P.B.Shelley |
25. “Ode o naGrecian Urn”shows the contrast between the _______ of art and the _______ of human passion. | [A] glory …ugliness | [B] permanence…transience | | [C] transience…sordidness | [D] glory…permanence |
26. In thestatement“—oh, God! would you like to live with your soul in the grave?” theterm “soul” apparently refers to _______. | [A] Heathcliff himself | [B] Catherine | | [C] one's spiritual life | [D] one's ghost |
27. Thetypical feature of Robert Browning's poetry is the _______. | [A] bitter satire | [B] larger-than-life caricature | | [C] Latinized diction | [D] dramatic monologue |
28. TheVictorian Age was largely an age of _______, eminently represented by Dickens and Thackeray. | [A] poetry | [B] drama | | [C] prose | [D] epic prose |
29. _______is the first importantgoverness novel in the English literary history. | [A] Jane Eyre | [B] Emma | | [C] Wuthering Heights | [D] Middlemarch |
30. The majorconcern of ______ fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological developmentof his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect ofthe capitalist industrialization on human nature. | [A] D.H.Lawrence's | [B] J.Galsworthy's | | [C] W.Thackeray’s | [D] T.Hardy’s |
II. Match the writer with his/her works andWrite your answers on the answer sheet. (2point for each, altogether 20points) | 31. Henry Fielding | A. The Passionate Shepherd to His Love | | 32. James Joyce | B. Composed upon Westminster Bridge | | 33. Daniel Defoe | C. The Moll on the Floss | | 34. Alfred Tennyson | D. Break, Break, Break. | | 35. John Keats | E. A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man | | 36. George Eliot | F. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling | | 37. William Bulter Yeats | G. A Journal of the Plague Year | | 38. William Wordsworth | H. Ode on a Grecian Urn | | 39. Walt Whitman | I. The Lake Isle of Innisfree | | 40. Christopher Marlowe | J. There Was a Child Went Forth |
III. Decide whether the following statementsare true or false and write your answers in the brackets. (2 point for each,altogether10 points) ( )41．The preface to the Lyrical Ballads isbest read as a statement of Keats’s principles of poetry. ( )42．Besides novel writing, Hawthorne is also avery good writer of short stories. ( )43．Robert Frost’spoems are New England in their setting, and are characterized by the familiarspeaking voice. ( )44．George Hurstwood is a friend of Drouet’s who steals a great deal of money fromhis employer and actually kidnaps Carrie to Canada. ( )45．Renaissance had its beginning in Italy in themiddle of the fifteenth century. IV. Define the literary terms listed belowand write your answers on the answer sheet. (5 point for each, altogether 10 points)
46. Romanticism 47.Stream of Consciousness V. Give brief answers to the followingquestions. Write your answers on the answer sheet. (5 point for each, altogether 15 points) 48. How do you understand the character ofRobinson Crusoe? 49. In the novel To the Lighthouse, isLily lonely while completing her picture? Please justify your ideas. 50. What is the implication of thedescription of roses beside the prison door in the first chapter of The Scarlet Letter? Ⅵ. Write no less than 150 words onthe following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.(15 point for each, altogether 15 points) 51.William Shakespeare is one of the mostremarkable playwrights the world has ever known.
( 1) Name his four greatest tragedies.
(2) What are the characteristics of the four tragedies in common?
(3) Briefly summarize each hero' s weakness of nature. 《英美文学选读》模拟试卷一答案 II. Multiple Choice. (1 point foreach, altogether 30 points) II. Match the writer with his/her works andwrite your answers in the brackets. (2point for each, altogether 20points) III. Decide whether the following statementsare true or false and write your answers in the brackets. (2 point for each,altogether10 points) IV. Define the literary terms listed below and write your answers in thebrackets. (10%)
46. The English Romanticism is generally said to have begun in 1978 with thepublication of Wordsworth and Colerdge's Lyrical Ballads and to have ended in1832 with Sir Walter Scott's death and the passage of the first Reform Bill inthe Parliament. Romanticiststended to see the individual as the very center of all experience, includingart, and thus, literary work should be “spontaneous overflow of strongfeelings,”and no matter how fragmentary those experiences were (Wordsworth's “IWandered Lonely as a Cloud,” or “The Solitary Reaper,) or Coleridge's “KebleKhan”),the value of the work lied in the accuracy of presenting those uniquefeelings and particular attitudes. 复习范围或考核目标：课件Course 03 William Wordsworth 47. InJoyce's opinion, the artist, who wants to reach the highest stage and to gainthe insights necessary for the creation of dramatic art, should rise to theposition of a godlike objectivity; he should have the complete consciouscontrol over the creative process and depersonalize his own emotion in theartistic creation. He should appear as an omniscient author and presentunspoken materials directly from the psyche of the characters, of making thecharacters tell their own inner thoughts in monologues. This literary approachto the presentation of psychological aspects of characters is usually termed as"stream of consciousness". 复习范围或考核目标：课件Course06Virginia Woolf V. Give brief answers to the followingquestions. Write your answers on the answer sheet. (15%)
48. Tips: Robinson is a real hero,and we can sense many of his best qualities: his marvelous capacity for work,his boundless energy and persistence in overcoming difficulties. He is verypractical and exact, always religious and at the same time mindful of his ownprofit. 复习范围或考核目标：课件Course 02 Daniel Defoe 49. Tips: While she is painting her pictures,Lily recalls people and things in the past. She collects her impressions of theRayleys, her memory of the relationship between herself and William Bankes, andmost important of all, she collects her impression of Mrs. Ramsay. According toher memory, human beings are lonely in general. Even husband and wife could notunderstand each other. Lovers always remain separated spiritually. 复习范围或考核目标：课件Course06Virginia Woolf 50. Tips: The wild rose bush is covered with itsdelicate gems. In other words, the roses are in full blossom. They are verybeautiful and fragrant. They are in the deep heart of Nature. According to ourauthor, it may serve to “symbolize some sweet moral blossom, that may be foundalong the track, or relieve the darkening close of a tale of human frailty andsorrow”. 复习范围或考核目标：课件course07 Nathaniel Hawthorne Ⅵ. Write no less than 150 words oneach of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on theanswer sheet. (15%)
51. (1) Shakespeare'sfour greatest tragedies are: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth.
(2) Each portrays some noble hero, who faces the injustice of human life and iscaught in a difficult situation and whose fate is closely connected with thefate of the whole nation.
(3) Each hero has his weakness of nature: Hamlet, the melancholic scholar;Othello' s inner weakness is made use of by the outside evil force; the oldking Lear who is unwilling to totally give up his power; and Macbeth' s lustfor power stirs up his ambition and leads him to incessant crimes. 复习范围或考核目标：课件course01William Shakespeare Network Education College,BLCU 《英美文学选读》模拟试卷二 注意： 1.试卷保密，考生不得将试卷带出考场或撕页，否则成绩作废。请监考老师负责监督。 2.请各位考生注意考试纪律，考试作弊全部成绩以零分计算。 3.本试卷满分100分，答题时间为90分钟。 4.本试卷分为试题卷和答题卷，所有答案必须答在答题卷上，答在试题卷上不给分。
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III. Multiple Choice. (1 point for each, altogether 30 points) Directions: There are 20 sentences in this section. Beneath each sentence there arefour choices respectively marked by letters A, B, C and D. Choose the word thatyou think best complete the sentence. Writeyour answers on the answer sheet. 1. Who isNOT the major character in To the Lighthouse? _______ | [A] Mrs. Ramsay | [B] Mr.Ramsay | [C] David | [D] James |
2. Whatkind of girl is Dora? _______ | [A] pretty and clever | [B] pretty and empty-headed | | [C] plain-looking and understanding | [D] lovely and clever |
3. InHardy＇s Wessex novels, there is an apparent _______touch in his description of the simple and beautiful though primitive rurallife. | [A] humorous | [B] romantic | [C] nostalgic | [D] sarcastic |
4. Thename of the hero in Jane Eyre was_______ | [A] Tom | [B] Heathcliff | [C] James | [D] David |
5. Which novelgave Woolf the reputation as an important psychological writer? _______ | [A] To the Lighthouse | [B] The waves | | [C] Mrs.Dalloway | [D] The Common Reader |
6. Virginia Woolf was born in_______ | [A] 1882 | [B] 1767 | [C] 1678 | [D] 1890 |
7. which of Woolf’novels was adapted into movie named The Hours? | [A] Mrs.Dalloway | [B] The Waves | | [C] The Common Reader | [D] To the Light house |
8. How many groups are there in Hardy’s novels? _______ | [A] two | [B] three | [C] four | [D] five |
9. Afterreading the first chapter of Pride and Prejudice, we may come to know that Mrs.Bennet is a woman of _______. | [A] simple character and quick wit | | [B] simple character and poor understanding | | [C] intricate character and quick wit | | [D] intricate character and poor understanding |
10. Whichof the following is NOT written by Hardy? | [A] The Return of the native | [B] A Tale of Two Cities | | [C] Tess of d＇Urbervilles | [D] Jude the Obscure |
11．“For a week after thecommission of the impious and profane offence of asking for more, Oliverremained a close prisoner in the dark and solitary room ...”(Dickens, OliverTwist) What did Oliver ask for? _______ | [A] More time to play | [B] More food to eat | | [C] More book to read | [D] More money to spend |
12．Mrs. Warren’s Professionis one of George Bernard Shaw’s plays. What is Mrs. Warren’s profession then ? _______ | [A] Real estate | [B] Prostitution | | [C] House-keeping | [D] Farming |
13．How many groups are there inHardy’s novels? _______ | [A] two | [B] three | [C] four | [D] five |
14．The statement “Ademanding mother turns away from her husband and gives all her affection to hersons” sums up the main plot of D. H. Lawrence′s _______. | [A] Lady Chatterley’s Lover | [B] Women in love | | [C] Sons and Lovers | [D] The Plumed Serpent |
15．“Come to me－come to meentirely now,” said he ; and added, in his deepest tone, speaking in my ear ashis cheek was laid on mine, “Make my happiness－I will make yours.” Theabove passage presents a scene in_______ . | [A] Emily Bronte’s Withering Heights | | [B] Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre | | [C] John Galsworthy′s The Forsyte Saga | | [D] Thomas Hardy′s Tess of the D′Urbervilles |
16．Which of the followingis NOT written by William Butler Yeats? _______ | [A] “Sailing to Byzantium” | [B] “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” | | [C] “Leda and the Swan” | [D] The Waste Land” |
17. “Drive mydead thought over the universe Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth.” (Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Ode to the West Wind”)What rhetorical device does the poet use in the quoted lines? _______ | [A] Synecdoche | [B] Metaphor | | [C] Simile | [D] Onomatopoeia |
18．Crusoe is the hero inThe life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Grusoe, of York, Mariner(also known as Robinson Crusoe)by . _______ | [A] Jonathan Swift | [B] Daniel Defoe | | [C] George Eliot | [D] D.H.Lawrence |
19．“Beauty is truth, truthbeauty” is an epigrammatic line by . _______ | [A] John Keats | [B] William Blake | | [C] William Wordsworth | [D] Percy Bysshe Shelley |
20．Christoper Marlow’s “ThePassionate Shepherd to His Love” is a (n) . _______ | [A] pastoral lyric | [B] elegy | | [C] eulogy | [D] epic |
21．Which of the followingis NOT regarded as one of the characteristics of Renaissance humanism? _______ | [A] Cultivation of the art of this world and this life | | [B] Tolerance of human foibles | | [C] Search for the genuine flavor of ancient culture | | [D] Glorification of religious faith |
22．“In dream vision Arthurwitnessed the loveliness of Gloriana, and upon awaking resolves to seek her.”The two literary figures Arthur and Gloriana are form_______. | [A] Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene | | [B] William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet | | [C] Christopher Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His love” | | [D] John Donne’s “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” |
23．Which of the followingbest describes the nature of Thomas Hardy’s later works? _______ | [A] Sentimentalism | [B] Tragic sense | | [C] Surrealism | [D] Comic sense |
24．“...This grew: I gavecommands; Then all smiles stopped altogether....” (Robert Browning, “My LastDuchess”) The above lines imply that. _______ | [A] the Duchess was killed by her husband | | [B] the Duchess stopped smiling at her husband’s order | | [C] the Duchess died of laughing too much | | [D] the Duchess did not want to smile as much as her husband requested |
25．In which of thefollowing works can you find the proper names “Lilliput,” “Brobdingnag,”“Houyhnhnm,” and “Yahoo”? _______ | [A] James Joyce’s Ulsses | [B] Charles Dickens’s Bleak House | | [C] Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels | [D] D. H. Lawrence’s Women in love |
26．As a literary figure,Belinda appears in Alexander Pope’s. _______ | [A] “The Dunciad” | [B] “An Essay on Man” | | [C] “An Essay on Criticism” | [D] “The Rape of the lock” |
27．“The novel is structuredaround the discovery of the hero’s origin.” This novel is most probably. _______ | [A] Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield | | [B] James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | | [C] Thomas Hardy’s Far from the Madding Growd | | [D] Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones |
28．“To wage by force orguile eternal war, Irreconcilable to our grand Foe.”（John Milton,Paradise lost) By what means were Satan and his followers to wage thiswar against God? _______ | [A] Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield | | [B] James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | | [C] Thomas Hardy’s Far from the Madding Growd | | [D] Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones |
29．“When the evening isspread out against the sky. Like a patient etherized upon a table.” (T. s.Eliot, “The Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock”) What does the image in the quotedlines suggest? _______ | [A] Violence | [B] Horror | | [C] Inactivity | [D] Indifference |
30. Which of thefollowing is NOT typical of metaphysical poetry best represented by JohnDonne’s works? _______ | [A] Common speech | [B] Conceit | | [C] Argument | [D] Refined language |
II. Match the writer with his/her works and Writeyour answers on the answer sheet. (2 point for each, altogether 20 points) | 31. John Milton | A. The Leaves of Grass | | 32. Samuel Johnson | B. Mrs. Warren’s Profession | | 33. Walt Whitman | C. Art of Fiction | | 34. Jane Austen | D. The Merchant of Venice | | 35. William Shakespeare | E. A Dictionary of the English Language | | 36. George Bernard Shaw | F. The Return of the Native | | 37. Henry James | G. Samson Agonistes | | 38. Washington Irving | H. Pride and Prejudice | | 39. Thomas Hardy | I. Rip Van Winkle | | 40. Eugene O’Neill | J. The Emperor Jones |
III. Decide whetherthe following statements are true or false and write your answers in thebrackets. (2 point for each, altogether 10 points) ( )41."Dr. Faustus" is a play based on the English Legend of a magicianaspiring for knowledge and finally meeting his tragic end as a result ofselling his soul to the Devil.
( )42. Swiftis a master satirist. His satire is usually masked by an outward gravity and anapparent earnestness which renders his satire all the more powerful. His"A Modest Proposal" is generally taken as a perfect model.
( )43.Shelley's greatest achievement is his four - act poetic drama, "PrometheusUnbound". (1820)
( )44.Though Naturalism seems to have played an important part in Hardy's works,there is also bitter and sharp criticism and even open challenge as theirrational, hypocritical and unfair Victorian institutions, conventions andmorals which strangle the individual will and destroy natural human emotionsand relationships.
( )45. Hardyis the founder of the "stream of consciousness" school of novelwriting. IV. Define the literary terms listed below andwrite your answers on the answer sheet. (5 point for each, altogether 10 points)
46. Foreshadowing 47. critical realism V. Give brief answers to the following questions. Write your answers onthe answer sheet. (5 point for each,altogether 15 points)
48. Comment on Jane Austen’s use of dialogue in Pride and Prejudice. 49. Analyze the poem ofStopping by woods on a Snowy Evening. 50. What is American Naturalism? Ⅵ.Write no lessthan 150 words on the following topics in English in the corresponding space onthe answer sheet. (15 point for each,altogether 15points) 51. Charles Dickens is one ofthe greatest Victorian writers in his own unique way. Discuss Dickens’s art ofnovels: the setting, the language, and the characters, etc. based on his novelOliver Twist. 《英美文学选读》模拟试卷二答案 IV. Multiple Choice. (1 point foreach, altogether 30 points) II. Match the writer with his/her works andwrite your answers in the brackets. (20%) III. (2 point for each, altogether 10 points) IV. Define the literary terms listed belowand write your answers in the brackets. (10%) 46、 “Foreshadowing”refers to “an indication or a suggestion of what is coming”; or “a feeling oran intuition of what is going to occur; a presentiment”. It is a writingtechnique of arranging events and information in a narrative in such a way thatlater events are prepared for or shadowed forth beforehand. 复习范围或考核目标：Course08 Theodore Dreiser 47. It is a term applied to the realisticdiction in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It refers to the tendency ofwriters and intellectuals in the period between 1875 and 1920 to apply themethods of realistic diction to the criticism of society and the examination ofsocial issues. 复习范围或考核目标：course05Charles Dickens V. Give brief answers to the followingquestions. Write your answers in the brackets. (15%)
48. Tips: Jane Austen is very good at using dialogue to depict the characteristicsof her characters. The characters are made to reveal themselves through theirown words. For example, in the first chapter, it is Mrs. Bennet who is talkingmost of the time, which clearly indicates that this person is quite talkativeand of mean understanding. Whereas the fact that the husband does not talk muchhelps to indicate that he is a gentleman of bookish nature. Thus the writer’streatment of conservation is quite skilful. 复习范围或考核目标：课件Course 04Jane Austen
49. The poem is written in iambic tetrameter with interlocking enclosed rhyme.That is to say, the first, the second and the fourth lines of each stanza sharea same rhyme, whereas the last syllabus of the third line becomes the rhyme forthe first line of the next stanza. To be more exact, the rhyme scheme of thispoem is aaba, bbcb, ccdc, dddd. (Note: the last two lines are repetition.)
复习范围或考核目标：课件Course 09 Robert Lee Frost
50. Naturalism, a term applied to the method of literary composition. Itdevelops out of realism but is more inclusive and less selective than realism.As is defined in The American College Dictionary, naturalism is “a theory, aspracticed by Emila Zola, Stephen Crane, and others, which applied scientificconcepts and methods to such problems as plot development andcharacterization.” Darwin’s evolutionary theory, Emila Zola, the Frenchnovelist and theorist, all had impact on American naturalism. The Americannaturalist movement arose in the 1890’sand continued well into the twentieth century. Writers like Theodore Dreiser,Frank Norris and Stephen Crane dealt with the lives of ordinary people. Theysympathized with the lower ranks of society and portrayed misery and poverty ofthe downtrodden. Philosophically, they used scientific concepts as a basis andassumed that the forces at work in nature are the only forces at work in mantoo, and that man is subject to the law of nature. The common theme of theirfiction is not pleasant hope or romantic idealism by the human instinct toward“bestiality”, especially sexual desire. Artistically they often used,deliberately, blunt and unliterary language and factual details in an attemptto recreate the very look and texture of American society, and their writingslack in what is called “literary skills” and seem unweidy and loose instructure
复习范围或考核目标：Course08 Theodore Dreiser Ⅵ. Write no less than 150 words oneach of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on theanswer sheet. (15%)
51.A. In setting. He uses a mixture ofthe contemporary and recollected past as his fictional settings. B. In language. With his firstsentence, he engages the reader’s attention and holds it to the end. He isoften compared with Shakespeare for his adeptness with the vernacular and largevocabulary. C. In character-portrayal. Hisbest-depicted characters are those innocent, virtuous, persecuted, helplesschild characters such as Oliver Twist. And he is also famous for thedepiction of those horrible and grotesque characters Fagin and those broadlyhumorous or comical ones like Mr. Micawber. In conclusion, the figures that hedepicted, marked out by some peculiarity in physical, speech or manner, areboth types and individuals. D. Dickens’ works are alsocharacterized by a mingling of humor and pathos. 复习范围或考核目标：course05Charles Dickens Network Education College,BLCU 《英美文学选读》模拟试卷三 注意： 1.试卷保密，考生不得将试卷带出考场或撕页，否则成绩作废。请监考老师负责监督。 2.请各位考生注意考试纪律，考试作弊全部成绩以零分计算。 3.本试卷满分100分，答题时间为90分钟。 4.本试卷分为试题卷和答题卷，所有答案必须答在答题卷上，答在试题卷上不给分。
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V. Multiple Choice. (1 point for each, altogether 30 points) Directions: There are 30 sentences in this section. Beneath each sentence there arefour choices respectively marked by letters A, B, C and D. Choose the word thatyou think best complete the sentence. Writeyour answers on the answer sheet. 1. The sentence "Shall I compare thee toa summer's day?" is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare's ________. | [A] comedies | [B] tragedies | [C] sonnets | [D] histories |
2. "So much the worse for me, that I anstrong. Do I want to live? What kind of living will it be when you-oh, God!Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?"
In the above passage quoted from Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, the word"soul" apparently refers to _______ . | [A] Heathcliff | [B] Catherine | [C] ghost | [D] one's spiritual lift |
3. Robert Frost combined traditionalverse forms - the sonnet, rhyming couplets, blank verse - with a clear Americanlocal speech rhythm, the speech of _______ farmers with its idiosyncraticdiction and syntax. | [A] Southern | [B] Western | [C] New Hampshire | [D] New England |
4. Americanwriters of the first postwar era who were devoid of faith and alienated fromthe civilization were commonly called"______." | [A] sons of liberty | [B]fatherless children | [C] a beat generation | [D] a lost generation |
5. InFitzgerald’ s The Great Gatsby, there are detailed descriptions of big parties.The purpose of such descriptions is so show _______. | [A] emptiness of life | | [B] the corruption of the upper class | | [C] contrast of the rich and the poor | | [D] the happy days of the Jazz Age |
6. Accordingto Mark Twain, in river towns up and down the Mississippi, it was every boy’ sdream to some day grow up to be ______. | [A] Methodist preacher | | [B] a justice of the peace | | [C] a riverboat pilot | | [D] a pirate on the Indian ocean |
7. GreatGatsby, written by Fitzgerald in 1925, is a story about ______ who wasdestroyed by the influence of the wealthy,pleasure-seeking people around him. | [A] a vagabond | [B]an idealist | [C] an eccentric | [D] an opportunist |
8. "Tworoads diverged in a yellow wood And sorry I could not travel both ..."Inthe above two lines of Robert Frost’ s The Road Not Taken, the poet, byimplication, was referring to _______. | [A] a travel experience | [B] a marriage decision | | [C] a middle-age crisis | [D] one’ s course of life |
9. RobertFrost is a regional poet in the sense that his poems are mainly concerned aboutthe _______. | [A] life in New York | [B] country life in New England | | [C] sea adventures | [D] life on the Mississippi |
10. What’s the name of Hester and Dimmesdale’ s daughter? | [A] Amy | [B] Pearl | [C] Nina | [D] Berry |
11. Thesentence "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" is the beginningline of one of Shakespeare's ________ . | [A] comedies | [B] tragedies | [C] sonnets | [D] histories |
12. "Somuch the worse for me, that I an strong. Do I want to live? What kind of livingwill it be when you-oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in thegrave?"
In the above passage quoted from Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, the word"soul" apparently refers to _______ . | [A] Heathcliff | [B] Catherine | [C] ghost | [D] one's spiritual lift |
13. "Andwhere are they? And where art thou," My country? On thy voiceless shore The heroic lay is tuneless now The heroic bosom beats no more!"（George Gordon Byron, DonJuan）
In the above stanza, "art thou" literally means _______ . | [A] "are you" | [B] "art though" | [C] "are though" | [D] "art you" |
14. The major concern of _______fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological development of his charactersand in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalistindustrialization on human nature. | [A] Charles Dickens's | [B] D.H.Lawrence's | | [C] Thomas Hardy's | [D] John Galsworthy's |
15. Daniel Defoe describes _______ as a typical EnglishMiddle-class man of the eighteenth century, the very prototype of the empirebuilder or the pioneer colonist. | [A] Tom Jones | [B] Gulliver | [C] Moll Flanders | [D] Robinson Crusoe |
16. "To beso distinguished is an honor, which, being very little accustomed to favorsfrom the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms toacknowledge."
The above quoted sentence is presented by Samuel Johnson with a（n） _______ tone. | [A] delightful | [B] jealous | [C] ironic | [D] humorous |
17. "Shelived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in hergrave, and, oh, The difference to me!" The word "me" in the lastline of the above stanza quoted from Wordsworth's poem "She Dwelt Amongthe Untrodden Ways" may possibly refer to _______ . | [A] the poet | [B] the reader | [C] her lover | [D] everybody |
18. _______ is atypical feature of Swift's writings. | [A] Bitter satire | [B] Elegant style | | [C] Casual narration | [D] Complicated sentence structure |
19. Thestatement "It reveals the dehumanizing workhouse system and the dark,criminal underworld life" may well sum up the main theme if Dickens's_______ . | [A] David Copperfield | [B] Bleak House | | [C] Great Expectations | [D] Oliver Twist |
20. "Do youthink, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless andheartless?…And if God had gifted me with some beauty, and much wealth, I shouldhave made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leaveyou." The above quoted passage is most probably taken from _______. | [A] Pride and Prejudice | [B] Jane Eyre | | [C] Wuthering Heights | [D] Great Expectations |
21. It isgenerally regarded that Keats's most important and mature poems are in the formof _______. | [A] ode | [B] elegy | [C] epic | [D] sonnet |
22. G.B.Shaw'splay Mrs.Warren's Profession is a realistic exposure of the _______ in theEnglish society. | [A] slum landlordism | [B] inequality between men and women | | [C] political corruption | [D] economic exploitation of women |
23. In WilliamBlake's poetry, the father（and any other in whom he saw the image of thefather such as God, priest, and king）was usually a figure of _______ . | [A] benevolence | [B] admiration | [C] love | [D] tyranny |
24. " 'I believe you are made of stone, 'hesaid, clenching his fingers so hard that he broke the fragile cup. …'You seemto forget,' she said, 'that cup is not!' "
From the above quoted passage, we can find the woman's tone is very _______ . | [A] sarcastic | [B] amusing | [C] sentimental | [D] facetious |
25. ThePilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan is often said to be concerned with the searchfor _______ . | [A] material wealth | [B] spiritual salvation | | [C] universal truth | [D] self-fulfillment |
26 .AlexanderPope strongly advocated _______, emphasizing that literary works should bejudged by rules of order, reason, logic, restrained emotion, good taste anddecorum. | [A] sentimentalism | [B] romanticism | [C] idealism | [D] neoclassicism |
27. In Fitzgerald’ s The Great Gatsby, there are detailed descriptions ofbig parties. The purpose of such descriptions is so show _______.. | [A] the corruption of the upper class | | [B] emptiness of life | | [C] contrast of the rich and the poor | | [D] the happy days of the Jazz Age |
28．Of all the eighteenth-century novelists, _______ was thefirst to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a"comic epic in prose," and the first to give the modern novel itsstructure and style. | [A] Daniel Defoe | [B] Samuel Richardson | | [C] Henry Fielding | [D] Oliver Goldsmith |
29．"Not on thy sole but on thy soul, harsh Jew,/Thoumak'st thy knife keen."
In the above quotation taken form The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare employs a（n）_______ . | [A] oxymoron | [B] pun | [C] simile | [D] synecdoche |
30．In Hardy's Wessex novels, there is an apparent _______touch in his description of the simple and beautiful though primitive rurallife. | [A] humorous | [B] romantic | [C] nostalgic | [D] sarcastic |
II. Match the writer with his/her works andwrite your answers on the answer sheet. (2 point for each, altogether 20 points) | 31. William Shakespeare | A. Sense and Sensibility | | 32. Daniel Defoe | B. Oliver Twist | | 33. Nathaniel Hawthorne | C. Robinson Crusoe | | 34. William Wordsworth | D. Hamlet | | 35. Theodore Dreiser | E. Sister Carrie | | 36. Jane Austen | F. The Great Gatsby | | 37. Charles Dickens | G. “Young Goodman Brown” | | 38. Robert Frost | H. To the Lighthouse | | 39. F. Scott Fitzgerald | I. "The Solitary Reaper" | | 40. Virginia Woolf | J. “Mending Wall” |
III. Decide whetherthe following statements are true or false and write your answers in thebrackets. (2point for each, altogether 10 points)
( )41. In hispoetry, Donne frequently applies conceits, i. e. extended metaphors involvingdramatic contrasts.
( )42."The Pilgrim's Progress" is the most successful religious allegory inthe English language.
( )43. The 19thcentury produced the first English novelists, who fall into two groups thesentimentalist novelists and the realist novelists.
( )44. The mostimportant contribution Byron has made is that he has not only started themodern poetry, the poetry of the growing inner self, but also changed thecourse of English poetry by using ordinary speech of the language and byadvocating a return to nature.
( )45.Generally speaking, Jane Austen was a writer of the 18th - century, though shelived mainly in the nineteenth century. IV. Define the literary terms listed below andwrite your answers on the answer sheet. (5 point for each, altogether 10 points)
46. The Jazz Age 47.Symbolism V. Give brief answers to the followingquestions. Write your answers on the answer sheet. (5 point for each, altogether 15 points)
48. Make a comment on the image of Robinson Crusoe. 49.What are the features of Charles Dickens's novels? 50.What's Nathaniel Hawthorne's "black" vision of life and human beings?
Ⅵ.Write no lessthan 150 words on the following topics in English in the corresponding space onthe answer sheet. (15 point for each,altogether 15 points) 51. “Sister Carrie” is the greatest literary work by Theodore Dreiser.Discuss Carrie Meeber, the protagonist of the novel. 《英美文学选读》模拟试卷三答案 VI. Multiple Choice. (1 point foreach, altogether 30 points) II. Match the writer with his/her works andwrite your answers in the brackets. (20%) III. Decide whether the following statementsare true or false and write your answers in the brackets. (2 point for each,altogether 10 points) IV. Define the literary terms listed below.(10%) 46.“Jazz”: A style of music, native to America, characterized by a strong butflexible rhythmic understructure with solo and ensemble improvisations on basictunes and chord patterns and, more recently, a highly sophisticated harmonicidiom.
“Jazz age”: in the words of Malcolm Cowley, it is “not so much a historicalperiod as a legend of glitter, of recklessness, and of talents in such aprofusion that it was sown broadcast like wild oats.” It was a legend of“America’s adolescence before pain set in.” Fitzgerald became “the angel of thetwenties” and his writings those of a man inside that legendary period. 复习范围或考核目标：课件course10Scott Fitzgerald 47. Symbolismis the writing technique of using symbols. A symbol is something that conveystwo kinds of meaning; it is simply itself, and it stands for something otherthan itself. In other words, a symbol is both literal and figurative. People,places, things and even events can be used symbolically. A symbol is a way oftelling a story and a way of conveying meaning. The best symbols are those thatare believable in the lives of the characters and also convincing as theyconvey a meaning beyond the literal level of the story. Hawthorne and Melvillewere the two masters of symbolism. For example, the scarlet letter"a" on Hester's breast can give you symbolic meanings. If the symbolis obscure or ambiguous, then the very obscurity and the ambiguity may also beapt of the meaning of the story. 复习范围或考核目标：课件course07 Nathaniel Hawthorne V. Give briefanswers to the following questions. Write your answers in the brackets. (15%)
48. In this novel, Defoe created the image of a true empire - builder, acolonizer and a foreign trader, who has the courage and will to face hardships,and who has determination to preserve himself and improve on his livelihood bystruggling against nature. Being a bourgeoisie writer, Defoe glorifies the heroand defends the policy of colonialism of British government.
复习范围或考核目标：课件Course 02 Daniel Defoe 49 (1) Dickens' novels offer a most completeand realistic picture of the English bourgeois society of his age. They reflectthe protest of the people against capitalist exploitation, criticize the vicesof capitalist society,
(2) Dickens is a petty bourgeoise intellectual. He could not overstep thelimits of his class. He believed in the moral self - perfection of the wickedpropertied classes. He failed to see the necessity of a bitter struggle of theoppressed against their oppressors. There is a definite tendency for areconciliation of the contradictions of capitalist society.
(3) Almost all his novels have happy endings.
(4) His novels tell much of the experiences of his childhood.
(5) Dickens is a great humorist. His novels are full of humor and laughter.
复习范围或考核目标：course05 Charles Dickens 50.According to Hawthorne, "There is evil in every human heart, which mayremain latent, perhaps, through the whole life; but circumstances may rouse itto activity." A piece of literary work should "show how we are allwronged and wrongers, and avenge one another." So in almost every book hewrote, Hawthorne discusses sin and evil. In "Young Goodman Brown", hesets out to prove that everyone possesses some evil secret. "The Minister'sBlack Veil" goes further to suggest that everyone tries to hold the evilsecret from one another in the way the minister tries to convince his peoplewith his black veil. "The Birthmark" drives home symbolicallyHawthorne's point that evil is man's birthmark, something he is born with. 复习范围或考核目标：课件course07 Nathaniel Hawthorne Ⅵ.Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics inEnglish in the corresponding space on the answer sheet. (15%)
51. A. Social background: The impact ofDarwin’s evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the19th century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to yetanother school of realism: American naturalism. B. Sister Carrie best embodies Dreiser’snaturalistic belief that while men are controlled and conditioned by heredity,instinct and chance, a few unsophisticated human beings refuse to accept theirfate and try to find meaning and purpose for their existence . Carrie, as oneof such, senses that she is merely a cipher in an nearing world yet seeks tograsp the mysteries of life and there-by satisfies her desire for social statusand material comfort. 复习范围或考核目标：Course08 Theodore Dreiser
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