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全国2011年7月高等教育自学考试
I.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.Mark your choice and write the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the answer sheet.1.All of Charles Dickens’ works, with the exception of _________, present a criticism of the more complicated and yet most fundamental social institutions and morals of the Victorian England.A.Bleak House
C.Great ExpectationsB.Hard Times D.A Tale of Two Cities
2.From ____________ on, the tragic sense becomes the keynote of Thomas Hardy’s novels, the conflict between the traditional and the moden is brought to the center of the stage.A.The Return of the Native
C.Te of the D’UrbervillesB.The Mayor of Casterbridge D.Jude the Obscure
3.George Bernard Shaw’s play ____________ shows his almost nihilistic bitterne on the subjects of the cruelty and madne of World War I and the aimlene and disillusion of the young.A.Getting Married
C.Widowers’ HousesB.Too True to Be Good D.The Apple Cart
4.It was only after the publication of ____________ that D.H.Lawrence was recognized as a
prominent novelist.A.The Trespaer
C.Sons and LoversB.The White Peacock D.The Rainbow
5.T.S.Eliot’s poem ____________ is heavily indebted to James Joyce in terms of the stream
-of-consciousne technique, also a prelude to The Waste Land.A.“Prufrock”
C.The Hollow MenB.“Gerontion” D.Lyrical Ballads
6.Charlotte Brontё’s ____________ is noted for its sharp criticism of the existing society, e.g.the religious hypocrisy of charity institutions.A.The Profeor
C.VilletteB.Wuthering Heights D.Jane Eyre
7.Shelley’s greatest achievement is his fourcentury novelists ____________ was the first to set out, both in the-ory and practice, to write specially a “comic epic in prose”, the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.A.Thomas Gray
C.Jonathan SwiftB.Richard Brinsley Sheridan D.Henry Fielding
19.Shakespeare’s authentic non-dramatic poetry consists of two long narrative poems: Venus and Adonis and____________.A.Julius Caesar
C.The Rape of LucreceB.The Winter’s Tale D.The Two gentlemen of Verona
20.John Milton’s ____________ is probably his most memorable prose work, which is a great
plea for freedom of the pre.A.Paradise Lost
C.AreopagiticaB.Paradise regained D.Lycidas
21.D.H.Lawrence’s novels ____________ are generally regarded as his masterpieces.A.The Rainbow;Women in Love
B.The Rainbow;Sons and Lovers
C.Sons and Lovers;Lady Chatterley’s Lover
D.Women in Love;Lady Chatterley’s Lover
22.The best representatives of the English humanists are Thomas More, Christopher Mar-lowe and____________.A.William Shakespeare
C.Henry FieldingB.John Milton D.Jonathan Swift
23.Mark Twain’s particular concern about the local character of a region came about as “local colorism,” a unique variation of American literary____________.A.romanticism
C.modernismB.nationalism D.realism
24.As a poet with a strong sense of miion, Walt Whitman devoted all his life to the creation of the “single”
poem,____________.A.Drum Taps
C.A Boy’s WillB.North of Boston D.Leaves of Gra
25.William Faulkner creates his own mythical kingdom that mirrors not only the decline of the ____________ society of America but also the spiritual wasteland of the whole American society.A.Eastern
C.SouthernB.Western D.Northern
26.In his final years, Herman Melville turned again to prose fiction and wrote what is probably his second famous work, ____________ , which was published after his death.A.Billy Budd
C.MobyDickD.Omoo
29.According to ____________ , the lifeTold Tales, a collection of ____________ which attracted critical attention.C.eaysD.plays
39.William Faulkner set most of his works in the American ____________ , with his emphasis on the ________subjects and consciousne.A.North...Northern
C.West...WesternB.East...Eastern D.South...Southern
40.The House of the Seven Gables was based on the tradition of a curse pronounced on ____________’s family when his great-grandfather was a judge in the Salem witchcraft trials.A.Nathaniel Hawthorne
C.Ezra PoundB.Washington Irving D.Walt Whitman
PART TWO(60 POINTS)
II.Reading Comprehension(16 points in all, 4 for each)
Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English.Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.41.“Nor lose poeion of that fair thou ow’st;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade,When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”
Questions:
A.Who’s the poet of the quoted stanza, and what’s the title of the poem?
B.What does the word “this” in the last line refer to?
C.What idea do the quoted lines expre?
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!”
(From Wordsworth’s sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge)
Questions:
A.What does this sonnet describe?
B.What does the phrase “mighty heart” refer to?
C.The sonnet follows strictly the Italian form.What is the feature of the Italian form of sonnet?
43.“ The woods are lovely, dark and deep,But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep,And miles to go before I sleep.”
Questions:
A.Who’s the poet of the quoted stanza, and what’s the title of the poem?
B.What does the word “sleep” mean?
C.What idea do the four lines expre?
44.“ I celebrate myself, and sing myself,And what I aume you shall aume,For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.I loafe and invite my soul,I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer gra.”
(From Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself)
Questions:
A.Who does “myself ” refer to?
B.How do you understand the line “I loafe and invite my soul” ?
C.What does “a spear of summer gra” symbolize?
III.Questions and Answers(24 points in all, 6 for each)
Give a brief answer to each of the following questions in English.Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.45.What’s the theme of the poem Paradise Lost? What’s the author’s intention to create it and the implication that the poem exprees?
46.The Waste Land is T.S.Eliot’s most important single poem.What’s the theme of the poem?
47.In American literature, Emily Dickinson’s poetry is unique and unconventional in its own way.What are the features of Dickinson’s poems?
48.What’s the theme of F.Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby?
IV.Topic Discuion(20 points in all, 10 for each)
Write no le than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.49.Discu Charles Dickens’ art of fiction: the setting, the character-portrayal, the language, etc., based on his novel Oliver Twist.50.Summarize Ernest Hemingway’s artistic features.
