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全国2009年7月高等教育自学考试 英美文学选读试题
PART ONE(40 POINTS)I．Multiple Choice(40 points in all, 1 for each)
1.The first ma movement of the English working cla and the early sign of the awakening of the poor, oppreed people is_____.A.The Enclosure Movement B.The Protestant Reformation C.The Enlightenment Movement D.The Chartist Movement 2.Daniel Defoe's works are all the following EXCEPT_____.A.Moll Flanders B.A Tale of a Tub C.A Journal of the Plague Year D.Colonel Jack 3.“Metaphysical Poetry” refers to the works of the 17thcla working women, particularly governees.A.Jane Eyre B.Wuthering Heights C.The Proffeor D.Shirley
22.The Waste Land by T.S.Eliot is a poem concerned with the _____ breakup of a modern civilization in which human life has lost its meaning, significance and purpose.A.spiritual B.religious C.political D.physical 23.Perhaps Emily Dickinson's greatest interpretation of the moment of _____ is to be found in “I heard a Fly buzz--when I died—”, a poem universally regarded as one of her masterpieces.A.fantasy B.birth C.crisis D.death 24.The fiction of the American _____ period ranges from the comic fables of Washing-ton Irving to the social realism of Rebecca Harding Davis.A.Romantic B.Revolutionary C.Colonial D.Modernistic 25.The modern _____ technique was frequently and skillfully exploited by Faulkner to emphasize the reactions and inner musings of the narrator.A.streamconsciousne B.flashback C.mosaic D.narrative and argumentative 26.By means of “_____,” Whitman believed, he has turned the poem into an open field, an area of vital poibility where the reader can allow his own imagination to play.A.balanced structure B.free verse C.fixed verse D.regular rhythm 27.In 1954, _____ was awarded the Nobel Prize for “his powerful style-forming mas tery of the art” of creating modern fiction.A.Ernest Hemingway B.Sherwood Anderson C.Stephen Crane D.Henry James 28.The period ranging from 1865 to 1914 has been referred to as the Age of _____ in the literary history of the United States, which is actually a movement or tendency that dominated the spirit of American literature.A.Rationalism B.Romanticism C.Realism D.Modernism 29.When he was eightyDick, _______ reached the most flourishing stage of his literary creativity.A.Herman Melville B.Edgar Ellen Poe C.William Faulkner D.Theodore Dreiser 39.Faulkner once said that _____ is a story of “lost innocence,” which proves itself to be an intensification of the theme of imprisonment in the past.A.Light in August B.The Sound and the Fur y C.Absalom, Absalom!D.The Hamlet 40.Hawthorne was not a Puritan himself, but his view of man and human history origina ted, to a great extent, in_______.A.Calvinism B.Puritanism C.Realism D.Naturalism PART TWO(60 POINTS)Ⅱ.Reading Comprehension(16 points in all, 4 for each)41.Behold her, single in the field, Yon solitary Highland la!Reaping and singing by herself;Stop here, or gently pa!Alone she cuts and binds the grain, And sings a melancholy strain;O listen!For the Vale profound Is overflowing with the sound.Questions:
A.Identify the poet.B.What' s the rhyme scheme for the stanza? C.What's the theme of the poem? 42.The following quotation is from Mrs.Warren's Profeion: VIVIE: [ intensely interested by this time] No;but why did you choose that busine? Saving money and good management will succeed in any busine.MRS.WARREN: Yes, saving money.But where can a woman get the money to save in any other busine? Could you save out of four shillings a week and keep yourself dreed as well? Not you.Of course, if you' re a plain woman and cant earn anything more;or if you have a turn for music, or the stage, or newspaper-writing;that's different...Questions :
A.Identify the playwright of the above quotation.B.What busine do you think Mrs.Warren is involved in? C.What's the theme of the play? 43.My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year.Questions:
A.Identify the poet and the title of the poem from which this stanza is taken.B.What figure of speech is used in this stanza? C.Briefly interpret the meaning of this stanza.44.“Where are we going, Dad?” Nick asked.“Over to the Indian camp.There is an Indian lady very sick.” “Oh,” said Nick.Acro the bay they found the other boat beached.Uncle George was smoking a cigar in the dark.The young Indian pulled the boat way up on the beach.Uncle George gave both the Indians cigars.Questions :
A.Identify the author and the title of the work from which the paage is taken.B.What does Dad imply when he says “There is an Indian lady very sick”? C.Why is Dad going to the Indian camp?
Ⅲ.Questions and Answers(24 points in all, 6 for each)45.What' s the literary style of Shelley as a Romantic poet? 46.What are the main features of Bernard Shaw's plays with regard to the theme, charac-terization and plot? 47.Henry James' literary criticism is an indispensable part of his contribution to literature.What's his outlook in literary criticiam? 48.Local colorism is a unique variation of American literary realism.Who is the most famous local colorist? What are local colorists most concerned? IV.Topic Discuion(20 points in all, 10 for each)
49.Define modernism in English literature.Name two major modernistic British writers and list one major work by each.50.Briefly discu the term “The Lost Generation”and name the leading figures of this literary movement(Give at least three).
