自学考试《英国文学选读》试题及答案
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中31. As a naturalist writer, Theodore Dreiser was greatly influenced by _______.
A. Nathaniel Hawthorne
B. Charles Darwin
C. Henry James
D. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Answer: B
32. In Sister Carrie, Hurstwood, extremely hopeless and totally devastated, ends his life by turning on
the gas, while at the same time Carrie is rocking comfortably in her luxurious hotel room before she
boards a ship for _______.
A. New York
B. London
C. Paris
D, Geneva
Answer: B
33. In Henry James’ "Daisy Miller," the author tries to portray the protagonist as an embodiment of
______.
A. the force of convention
B. the decline of aristocracy
C. the free spirit of the New World
D. the corruption of the new rich
Answer: C
34. American writers of the first postwar era who were devoid of faith and alienated from the
civilization were commonly called "______."
A. sons of liberty
B. fatherless children
C. a beat generation
D. a lost generation
Answer: D
35. The raft with which Huck and Jim make their voyage down the Mississippi River may symbolize all the
following EXCEPT ______.
A. a return to nature
B. an escape from evils, injustices, and corruption of the civilized society
C. the heavenly kingdom of Christianity
D. a small world where people of different colors can live friendly and happily
Answer: C
36. Of the following American poets in the twentieth century, the one who has the best knowledge of
Chinese culture is _______.
A. Robert Frost
B. Allen Ginsberg
C. Ezra Pound
D. E. E. Cummings
Answer: C
37. Emily Grierson, the protagonist in Faulkner’s story "A Rose for Emily," can be regarded as a symbol
standing for all the following qualities EXCEPT _______.
A. no prejudice against the northerners
B. rigid ideas of social status
C. bigotry and eccentricity
D. grace and integrity
Answer: D
38. Robert Frost is a regional poet in the sense that his poems are mainly concerned about the _______.
A. life in New York
B. country life in New England
C. sea adventures
D. life on the Mississippi
Answer: B
39. In Hemingway’s story "Indian Camp" Nick, the protagonist, witnesses _______.
A. a tragic killing of the Indians by the white man
B. real friendship between the white men and the Indians
C. men’s senseless killing of each other
D. terrible scenes of birth and death
Answer: D
40. Great Gatsby, written by Fitzgerald in 1925, is a story about ______ who was destroyed by the
influence of the wealthy, pleasure-seeking people around him.
A. a vagabond
B. an idealist
C. an eccentric
D. an opportunist
Answer: B
PART TWO
II. Reading Comprehension
41. "Busy old fool, unruly sun,
Why dost thou thus,
Through windows and through curtains call on us?"
Questions:
A. Identify the poem and the poet.
B. What does the word "fool" refer to?
C. What idea does the quotation express?
参考答案:
A It is taken from Jone Donne’s "The Sun Rising" (P66)
B. "fool" refers to the sun.
C. Donne’s great prose works are his sermons, the quotation expresses a strong sense of rebellious
spirit, the author tried to break away from the conventional fashion of the Elizabethan love poetry.
(P63+66)
42. "Most mighty Emperor of Lilliput, delight and terror of the universe, whose dominions extend five
thousand blustrugs (about twelve miles in circumference) to the extremities of the globe; Monarch of all
Monarchs; taller than the sons of men; whose feet press down to the center, and whose head strikes
against the sun; at whose nod the princes of the earth shake their knees; pleasant as spring, comfortable
as summer, fruitful as autumn, dreadful as winter."
Questions:
A. Identify the work and the author.
B. What is the tone of the author?
C. What does the author parody here?
Answers:
A. The passage comes from "Gulliver’s Travels" written by Jonanthan Swift. (P115)
B. The author used the Ironic tone of the passage.
C. Romance (prose)/ Adventurous prose is the parody here.
43. "She thanked men -good! but thanked
Somehow -I know not how -as if she ranked
My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name
With anybody’s gift."
Questions:
A. Identify the poem and the poet.
B. What kind of tone does the speaker use here?
C. What idea does the quoted passage express?
Answers:
A. The poem is "My Last Duchess", by Robert Browning. (P286)
B. The speaker is Duke, he is a villain. The speaker uses the tone of arrogant (傲慢的) here.
C. The quoted passage reveals the duke is a self-conceited, cruel and tyrannical man. (P287)
44. "This is my letter to the World
That never wrote to Me -
The simple News that Nature told -
With tender Majesty"
Questions:
A. Identify the poet
B. What does the word "World" refer to?
C. What idea does the quoted passage express?
Answers:
A. The poet is Emily Dickinson. (P520)
B. "World" refers to the outside world.
C. The poem expresses Dickinson’s anxiety about her communication with the outside world. (P520)
III. Questions and Answers
45. "For herein Fortune shows herself more kind
Than in her custom; it is still her use
To let the wretched man outlive his wealth,
To view with hollow eye and wrinkled brow
An age of poverty; from which ling’ring penance
Of such misery doth she cut me off."
The above lines are taken from a speech made by Antonio, a major character in Shakespeare’s play The
Merchant of Venice. Why does Antonio say that Fortune is more kind to him than in her custom?
参考答案:
This sentence means she, Lady Fortune, is more kind to him because she is taking away both his wealth
and life. The speaker is Antonio, it’s said that his ship have all been lost, and he is penniless, and
will have to pay the pound of flesh. (Because Shylock has made a strange bond that requires Antonio to
pay him a pound of flesh if he can’t repay him, the money that he borrowed for his friend in due time.)
(P38)