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2004
年
4
月
英美文学选读
试题
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
ans
wers
the
question
or
completes
the
statement.
Write your
correct ans
wer on the ans
wer
sheet
.
1.“And we
wi
ll sit upon the rocks, /Seeing the
shepherds feed their flocks,/By shallow
rivers to whose falls/Melodious
birds sing madrigals.” The above lines
are taken from ______.
A.
Milton?s
Paradise Lost
B. Marlowe?s “The
Passionate shepherd to His Love”
D. John Donne?s “The Sun Rising”
B.
drama and novel
D. romance and poetry
C. Shak
espeare?s “Sonnet
18”
A. poetry and drama
C. novel and
poetry
English Renaissance period
was an age of ______ .
are four lines
taken from Edmund Spenser?s
The Faerie Queene
: “But on
his brest a bloudie Crosse he bore,/The
deare remembrance of his dying
Lord,/For
whose 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. Beowu
lf
______.
A. his money was all
invested in the newly-emerging textile industry
B. his enterprise went
bankrupt
C. Bassanio was able to pay
his own debt
D. his ships
had all been lost
5. Which of the
following 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.
6. In English poetry, a four-line
stanza is called ______.
A. heroic
couplet
B. quatrain
C. Spenserian
stanza
D
.
terza
rima
7.
“Let
not
Ambit
ion
mock
their
useful
toil,/Their
homely
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 Pope?s
Essay on Criticism
B. Coleridge?s “Kubla Khan”
C. John Donne?s “The Sun
Rising”
D.
Thomas Gray?s “Elegy Written in a Country
Churchyard”
8.
By
making the truth-seeking
pilgrims suffer at the hands of the people of
V
anity Fair, John Bunyan intends to
show
the prevalent political and
religious ______of his time.
A.
persecution
B.
improvement
C. prosperity
D. disillusionment
9. The 18
th
century witnessed a new literary
form
－
the modern English
novel, which, contrary to the medieval romance,
gives a ______ presentation of life of
the common people.
A. romantic
B.
realistic
C. prophetic
D.
idealistic
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B.
King Arthur C. Jesus Christ
D. Jupiter
Shakespeare?s
Merchant
of
Venice
,
Antonio
could
not
pay
back
the
money
he borrowed
from
Shylock,
because
10.
As
a
whole,
______is
one
of
the
most
effective
and
devastating
criticisms
and
satires
of
all
aspects
in
the
then
English
and European life
—
socially, politically, religiously,
philosophically, scientifically, and morally.
A.
Moll Flanders
B.
Gulliver’
s
Travels
C.
Pilgrim’
s
Progress
D.
The School for Scandal
11. An honest, kind-hearted young man,
who is full of animal spirit and lacks
prudence, is expelled from the p
aradise
and
has
to
go
through
hard
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 work
.
A.
Jonathan W
ild
the Great
C.
The Coffe-House Politician
rich uncle is ______ .
A.
Charles Surface
C. Sir
Peter Teazle
A.
Robinson Crusoe
B. Joseph
Surface
D. Sir Benjamin Backbite
B.
Gulliver’
s
Travels
B.
Tom Jones
D.
Amelia
12. In Sheridan?s
The School
for scandal
, the man who wins the hand
of his beloved as well as the inheritance of his
13. Which of the following works best
represents the national spirit of the
18
th
-century England?
C.
Jonathan W
ild
the Great
A.
the Bible
D.
A Sentimental Journey
B. a German legend
D.
One Thousand and One Nights
B. great admiration
D. erroneous view
14. Shelle
y?s masterpiece,
Prometheus Unbound
, is a
verse drama, which borrows the basic story from
______ .
C. a Greek play
A. high opinion
C. low opinion
15. In the first part of
the novel
Pride and
prejudice
, Mr. Darcy has a (n) ______
of the Bennet family .
16. In Byron?s
poem “Song for the Luddites,” the word “Luddite”
refers to the ______ .
A.
workers who destroyed the machines in their
protest against unemployment
B. rising bourgeoisie who fights
against the aristocratic class
C. descendents of the ancient king ,Lud
D. poor country people who suffered
under the rule of the landlord class
17.
Mr.
Micawber
in
David
Copperfield
and
Sam
Well
in
Pickwick
Papers
are
perhaps the
best
______
characters
created by
Charles Dickens.
A. comic
C. round
ticated
18. A typical
feature of the English
V
ictorian literature is that
writers became social and
moral
____
__ ,
exposing all
kinds of social evils.
A. revolutionaries
B. idealists
C. critics
D. defenders
19.
“Is
it
not
sufficient
for
your
infernal
selfishness,
that
while
you
are
at
peace
I
shall
writhe
in
the
torments
of
hell?”(Heathcliff uttered the
sent
ence in the death scene of
Catherine
from
Chapter XV of
W
uthering
Heights
.) The
word “hell” at
the end of the quoted sentence refers to
______ .
A. Heaven
B. Hades
C.
the next world
D. this world
20. A typical
Forsyte, according to John
Galsworthy,
is a
man with a strong sense of
______ ,who never pays any
attention to human feelings.
A. justice
B. humor
C.
morality
D.
property
21.
“He
was
silent
with
conceit
of
his
son.
Mrs.
Morel
sniffed,
as
if
it
were
nothing.”(
Sons
and
Lovers
by
wrence)From
the above quotation, we can see that Mrs. Morel?s
attitude to her husband is ______ .
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A. sincerely warm
C.
seemingly angry
B. genuinely
kind
D. merely contemptuous
22. 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 up the major theme of ______.
A. Eliot?s poem
The love
Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
B. Bernard shaw?s p
lay
Mrs. W
arren’
s
Profession
C. Joyce?s story
Araby
D.
Lawrence?s story
The Horse
Dealer’
s Daughter
23. Linguistically, compared with the
writings of Mark Twain, Henry James?s fiction is
noted for his ______.
A.
frontier vernacular
B. rich
colloquialism
D. refined elegant
language
C. vulgarly descriptive
words
24. 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 the
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
individual, 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
com
munication between an individual
soul and the universal “Oversoul.”
D. Evil and sin are ever present in
human heart and will pass on from one generation
to another.”
26. Whitman?s
poems are characterized by all the following
features EXCEPT ______ .
A.
the strict poetic form
B. the free and
natural rhythm
D. the simple and
conversational language
C. the easy
flow of feelings
27. “Then
all collapsed, and the great shroud 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 history
B. man?s desire
to conquer nature can only end in his own
destruction
C. nature is
evil as it was 5000 years ago
D. nature
has the ultimate creative power
28.
“S
tanding
on
the
bare
ground,
—
my
head
bathed
by
the
blithe
air,
and
uplifted
into
infinite
space
,
—
all
mean
egotism
vanishes.
I
become
a
transparent
eye-ball.
I
am
nothing.
I
see
all.
The
currents
of
the
Universal
Being
circulate through me;
I am part or par
ticle of
God.”
The above passage is
taken from ______.
A. Stowe?s
Uncle Tom’
s Cabin
C. Emerson?s “Nature”
B. Cooper?s
“Leatherstocking Tales”
D.
Dreiser?s
Sister Carrie
B. James?s
The Portrait of a Lady
.
D. Hawthorne?s
The Scarlet
Letter
.
29. Which of the
following works best illustrates the Calvinistic
view of original sin?
A. Stowe?s
Uncle Ton’
s Cabin
C. Hemingway?s
A Farewell to
Arms
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30.
Beside
symbolis
m,
all
the
following
qualities
EXCEPT
______are
fused
to
make
Melville?s
Moby-
Dick
a
world
A. narrative power
B.
psychological analysis
D.
optimistic view of life
C. speculative
agility
31. In all his
novels Theodore Dreiser sets himself to project
the ______ American values. For example, in
Sister Carrie
,
there is not one character whose status
is not determined economically.
A.
Puritan
B. materialistic
D. religious
C.
psychological
A. hypocrisy
32. In
Daisy
Miller,
Henry James reveals
Daisy?s ______ by showing her relatively
unreserved manners.
B. cold
and indifference
D.
A
mericanness
C. grace and
patience
EXCEPT ______.
A. a return to nature
B. an escape from evils,
injustices, and corruption of the civilized
society
C. the American society in the
early 19th century
D. a small world
where people of different colors can live friendly
and happily
34.
Emily
Grierson, the
protagonist in Faulkner?s story “A Rose for
Emily,” can be regarde
d as a
symbol for all the
following qualities
EXCEPT______.
A. old values
B. rigid ideas of social
status
C. bigotry and eccentricity
D.
harmony and integrity
33.
The raft
with which Huck and Jim
make their voyage down the Mississippi
River
may symbolize all the following
35. As a Modernist poet ,Pound is noted
for his active involvement in the ______ .
A. cubist school of modern painting
B. Imagist Movement
C. stream-of-consciousness technique
D. German Expressionism
36.
The statement that a boy?s night journey to an
Indian village to witness the violence of both
birth and death provides
all the
possibilities of a learning experience may well
sum up the major theme 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 following
plays by O?Neill can be read
autobiographically?
A.
The Hairy Ape
B.
The Emperor Jones
D.
Long Day’
s
Journey Into Night
C.
The Iceman Cometh
38. When we say that a poor
young man from the West tried to make his fortune
in the East but was disil
lusioned in
the
quest of an idealized dream, we are
probably discussing about ______?
s
thematic concern in his fiction
writing.
A. Henry
James
B. Scott Fitzgerald
D. William Faulkner
B. renewed in his
faith
C. Ernest Hemingway
A. desperate and gloomy
C. wearing a black veil
up to be ______.
A. Methodist preacher
B. a justice of the peace
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his experiences in the forest, Y
oung
Goodman Brown returns to Salem ______.
D. unaware of his own sin
40. According to Mark Twain, in river
towns up and down the Mississippi, it was every
boy?s dream to s
ome day grow
C. a riverboat pilot
D. a pirate on the Indian ocean
PART TWO (60POINTS)
Ⅱ
.Reading comprehension(16
points,4 for each)
Read the
quoted
parts carefully
and answer the
questions in
E
nglish. Write your
ans
wer in the corresponding
space on the ans
wer sheet.
41. “One short sleep past, we wake
eternally,
And death shall
be no more; death, thou shalt die.”
Questions:
A. Identify the
poem and the poet.
does the word
“sleep” mean?
C. What idea
do the two lines express?
42. “Never
did sun more beautifully steep
In his first splendor, valley, rock, or
hill;
Ne?er saw I, never
felt, a calm so deep!
The
river glideth at his own sweet will:
Dear God! The very houses seem asleep;
And all that 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 express?
43. “With
Blue—
uncertain stumbling
Buzz
—
Between the
light
—
and
me
—
And then the
Windows failed
—
and then
I 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?
Ⅲ
. Questions and
Ans
wers(24 points in all, 6 for each)
Give
brief
ans
wers
to
each
of
the
following
questions
in
English.
Write
your
ans
wers
in
the
corres
ponding
space on the ans
wer sheet.
45.
It
is
said
that
B.
Shaw?s
play,
Mrs
.
W
arren’
s
Profession
,
has
a
strong
realistic
theme,
which
fully
reflects
the
dramatist?s Fabianist idea. Try to
summarize this theme briefly.
46.
Emily
Bronte
used
a
very
complicated
narrative
technique
in
writing
her
novel
W
uthering
Heights.
Try
to
tell
Bronte?s
way of narration bri
efly.
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