高等教育自学考试英美文学选读课程模拟试题
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　　第一部分 选择题

　　I . Multiple Choice (40 points , 1point for each )

　　Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement . Mark your choice by blackening the corresponding letter A ,B,C or D on the answer sheet .

　　1． The Renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events, which one of the following is NOT such an event ?

　　A. The rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek cu lture.
　　B. England’s domestic rest.    C. New discovery in geography and astrology.
　　D. The religious reformation and the economic expansion.

　　2. is the successful religious allegory in the English language .

　　A. The Pilgrim’s Progress B. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners

　　C. The Life and Death of Mr. Badman D. The Holy War

　　3. Among the representatives of the Enlightenment, who was the first to introduce rationalism to England ?

　　A . John Bunyan   B. Daniel Defoe   C. Alexander Pope   D. Jonathan Swift

　　4.Of all the eighteenth-century novelists , who was the first to set out, both in theory and practice , to write specially a “comic epic in prose”, the first to give the modern novel its structure and style ?

　　A. Thomas Gray B. Richard Brinsley Sheridan

　　C. Johathan Swift D. Henry Fielding

　　5. Generally , the Renaissance refers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries, its essence is .

　　A. science B . philosophy

　　C. arts D. humanism

　　6 . “ So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, / So long lives this , and this gives life to thee.”(Shakespeare, Sonnets 18) What does “this” refer to ?

　　A. Lover B. Time

　　C. Summer D. Poetry

　　7. The giant Moby Dick may symbolize all EXCEPT .

　　A. mystery of the universe B. sin of the whale

　　C. power of the Great Nature D. evil of the world

　　8. It is alone who , for the first time in English literature, presented to us a comprehensive realistic picture of the English society of his time and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life.

　　A. Geoffrey Chaucer B. Martin Luther

　　C. William Langland D. John Gower

　　9. Fielding has been regarded by some as “_______________”,for his contribution to the estab- lishment of the form of the modern novel .

　　A . Best writer of the English novel B. Father of the English novel

　　C. the most gifted writer of the English novel D. conventional writer of English novel

　　10 .The sentence “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day ?” is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare’s .

　　A. comedies B. tragedies    C. histories D. sonnets

　　11. The unquenchable spirit of Robinson Crusoe struggling to maintain a substantial existence on a lonely island reflects .

　　A. man’s desire to return to nature B. the author’s criticism of the colonization

　　C. the ideal of the rising bourgeoisie D. the aristocrats’ disillusionment of the harsh social reality

　　12. Here are four lines from a long poem: “Others for language all their care express, / And value books, as women men , for dress.” The poem must be .

　　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

　　13. Gothic novels are mostly stories of , which take place in some haunted or dilapidated Middle Age castles .

　　A. love and marriage B . sea adventuresC. mystery and horror D. saints and martyrs

　　14. the Rime of the Ancient Mariner is a poem written in the form of .
    A. ballad          B. sonnet
    C. heroic couplet D. Spenserian stanza
    15. Which of the following words NOT appropriate to describe Mrs. Bennet, a character in pride and Prejudice .
A. Beautiful     B. Intelligent     C. Snobbish      D. Vulgar
　　16. “You and the girls may go ,or you may send them by themselves , which perhaps will be still better , for as you are as handsome as any of them , Mr. Bingley might like you the best of the party.” What figure of speech is used in the underlined part ?

　　A. Paradox   B. Simile   C. Irony    D. Antithesis

　　17. In Chapter III of Oliver Twist, Oliver is punished for that “impious and profane offence of asking for more” . What did Oliver ask for more?

　　A. More time to play B. More food to eat  C. More books to read D. More money to spend

　　18. The title of Alfred Tennyson’s poem “Ulysses” reminds the reader of the following EXCEPT

　　.
A. the Trojan War B. Homer’s OdysseyC. adventures over the sea D. religious quest

　　19. In Hardy’s Tess of D’urbervilles , the heroine’s tragic ending is due to .

　　A. her weak character B . her ambitionC . Angel Clare’s selfishness D. a hostile society

 20. “I will drink / life to the lees .” In the quoted line Ulysses is saying that he till the end of his life .

　　A. will keep traveling and exploring B. will go on drinking and being happy
　　C. would like to toast to his glorious life D. would like to drink the cup of wine

　　21. “ He was afraid of her---the small, severe woman with graying hair suddenly bursting out in such frenzy . The postman came running back, afraid something had happene 
d .They saw his tipped cap over the short curtains. Mrs. Morel rushed to the door.”

　　The above passage is taken from_____________.

　　A . Charlotte Bronte’ s The professor B . Charles Dickens’s Dombey and Son
　　C. D.H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers D. John Galsworthy’s The Forsyte Saga

　　22. James Joyce is the author of all the following novels EXCEPT .

　　A. Dubliners B . Jude the Obscure
　　C. A portrait of the Artist as a Young Man D. Ulysses

　　23. Which of the following works concerns most concentratedly about the Calvinistic view of original sin ?

　　A. The Wasteland B. The Scarlet Letter
　　C. Leaves of Grass D. AS I Lay Dying

　　24. We can perhaps summarize that Walt Whitman’s poems are characterized by all the following features EXCEPT that they are .

　　A. conversational and casual B. lyrical and well-structured
　　C. simple and rather crude D. free-flowing

　　25. Who exerts the single most important influence on literary naturalism, of which Theodore Dreiser and Jack London are among the best representative writers ?

　　A. Freud B. Darwin
　　C. W.D. Howells D. Emerson

　　26. Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his .

　　A. international theme B. waste- land imagery
　　C. local color D . symbolism

　　27. At the beginning of Faulkner’s A Rose for Emily , there’s detailed description of Emily’s old house . The purpose of such description is to imply that the person living in it .

　　A. is a wealth lady B. has good taste
　　C. is a prisoner of the past D . is a conservative aristocrat

　　28. The period before the American Civil War is commonly referred to as .

　　A. the Romantic Period B. the Realistic Period
　　C. the Naturalist Period D. the Modern Period

　　29. Most of Herman Melville’s novels are based on sea voyages and sea adventures. Which of the following is NOT the case ?

　　A. Typee B. Moby- Dick
　　C. Omoo D. The Confidence-Man

　　30. In Henry James’ Daisy Miller , the author tries to portray the young woman as an embodiment of .

　　A. the force of convention B . the free spirit of the New World
　　C. the decline of the aristocracy D. the corruption of the newly rich

　　31. Emily Dickinson’s verse is most aptly characterized as .

　　A. exposing the evils of the society
　　B. paving the way for the following generation of free verse poets
　　C. sharing the same poetic conventions as Walt Whitman
　　D. exhibiting a sensitiveness to the symbolic implications of experience ,such as love , death , immortality etc.

　　32. In fiction writing , Henry James’s primary concern is to present the .

　　A. inner life of human beings B. American Civil War and its effects
　　C. life on the Mississippi River D. Calvinistic view of original sin

　　33. In “After Apple-Picking”, Robert Frost wrote : “For I have had too much / Of apple-picking: I am overtired / Of the great harvest I myself desired .” From these lines we can conclude that the speaker is .

　　A happy about the harvest
　　B. wearing out the freshness of apple- picking
　　C .still desired of apple-picking when seeing the harvest
　　D. indifferent of what once desired

　　34. In The Emperor Jones and The Hairy Ape , O’Neill adopted the expression_rist techniques to portray the of human beings in a hostile universe .

　　A. helpless situation B. uncertainty
　　C. profound religious faith D. courage and perseverance

　　35. At the beginning of A Rose for Emily , Faulkner uses a figurative language to describe the place where Emily lives. The house is a perfect mirror image of the owner who is supposed to be

　　and deliberately detaches herself from the communal life in this small town.

　　A. friendly and generous B. wealthy and conservative
　　C polite and dignified D. stubborn and coquettish

　　36. Eugene O’Neill’s inventiveness seemingly knew no limits . He was constantly experimenting with new styles and forms for his plays, especially during the 1920’s when was in full swing .

　　A. imagism B post-modernism
　　C .expression_rism D .symbolism

　　37. Which essay of Emerson is regarded as an unofficial manifesto for the “Transcendental Club”?

　　A. Self-reliance B. Nature
  　C. The American Scholar D. The Over-soul

　　38. In Pride and Prejudice , Elizabeth Bennet finds out some weak points about herself in the process of judging others. Which of the following is NOT a weak point of found out by Elizabeth herself ?

　　A. Blindness  B. Partiality   C. Snobbishness  D. Over-confidence

　　39. A typical Forsyte , according to John Galsworthy, is a man with a strong sense of ,who never pays any attention to human feelings.

　　A. property   B . justice  C. morality   D. humor

　　40. Emerson based his religion on an intuitive belief in an ultimate unity ,which he called “ “.
　　A. the Spirit  B. the Over-lord  C. the over- soul  D. the Self

第二部分 非选择题

　　II. Reading comprehension ( 16 points, 4 for each )

　　Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English . Write your answer in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.

　　41. “And ever as he rode , his hart did earne, / To prove his puissance in battell brave”
　　Question :
　　A. Identify the poem and the poet.
　　B. What does the word “ puissance” mean?
　　C. Is the theme of the poem “Arms and the Man”? If not , 
tell your point and explain it briefly.

　　42. “A line in long array where they wind betwixt green islands,
　　They take a serpentine course , their arms flash in the sun-hark to the musical clank,
　　Be hold the silvery river , in it the splashing horses loitering stop to drink,
　　Behold the brown-faced men, each group, each person, a picture, the negligent rest on the saddles,
　　Some emerge on the opposite bank , others are just entering the ford-while,
　　Scarlet and blue and snowy white,
　　The guidon flags flutter gayly in the wind .”
　　Questions:
　　A. Who is the author of this poem?
　　B. What is the essence of this poem ?
　　C. What is the unique character in this poem?

　　43. “Break ,break , break , / On thy cold grey stones , O sea! / And I thought that my tongue could utter / The thoughts that arise in me.”
　　Questions:
　　A. Give the name of the author and the title of the literary work from which this stanza is taken .
　　B. Interpret this stanza.
　　C. Analyze the author’s art of this poem.

　　44. “ The apparition of the these faces in the crowed; / Petals on a wet, black bough”
　　Questions:
　　A: From which poem does the stanza come ? Who is the author?
　　B: What does the “petals” mean?
　　C: Briefly interpret the two lines.

III. Questions and Answers ( 24points in all , 6 points for each ) Give questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet

　　45. .In Hamlet’s soliloquy, when he says, “ To sleep, perchance to dream: ----ay, there’s the rub .” What is he primarily thinking about? Why does he think there is the rub ?

　　46. “ I loaf and invite my soul, / I lean and loaf at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.”
　　What does the underlined  
part mean ?

　　47. “I fall upon the thorns of life ! I bleed !
　　A heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed
　　One too like thee : tameless, and swift, and proud.”
　　The above quotation is taken from Shelley’s poem “Ode to the West wind”. What does the underlined part mean?

　　48. In “ Indian Camp”, Hemingway makes a successful use of situational irony. Please illustrate this with some examples.

　　IV. Topic discussions ( 20 points in all , 10 for each )
　　Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English on the corresponding space on the answer sheet .

　　49. Charles Dickens is one of the greatest Victorian writers in his own unique way . Discuss Dickens’s art of novels : the setting, the language , and the characters, etc . based on his novel Oliver Twist.

　　50. “Sister Carrie” is the greatest literary work by Theodore Dreiser. Discuss Carrie Meeber, the protagonist of the novel .

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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 answers the question or completes the statement. Write your choice on the answer sheet.
1.The most significant idea of the Renaissance is（　　　）.
A. humanism B. realism
C. naturalism D. skepticism
2.Shakespeare’s tragedies include all the following except（　　　）.
A. Hamlet and King Lear
B. Antony and Cleopatra and Macbeth
C. Julius Caesar and Othello
D. The Merchant of Venice and A Midsummer Night’s Dream
3.The statement “Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability”opens one of well-known essays by（　　　）.
A. Francis Bacon B. Samuel Johnson
C. Alexander Pope D. Jonathan Swift
4.In Hardy’s Wessex novels, there is an apparent（　　　）touch in his description of the simple though primitive rural life.
A. nostalgic B. humorous
C. romantic D. ironic
5.Backbite, Sneerwell, and Lady Teazle are characters in the play The School for Scandal by（　　　）.
A. Christopher Marlowe B. Ben Jonson
C. Richard Brinsley Sheridan D. George Bernard Shaw
6.Of all the 18th century novelists Henry Fielding was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a“（　　　）in prose,”the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.
A. tragic epic B. comic epic
C. romance D. lyric epic
7.In his poem “Tyger, Tyger,”William Blake expresses his perception of the“fearful symmetry”of the big cat. The phrase“fearful symmetry”suggests（　　　）.
A. the tiger’s two eyes which are dazzlingly bright and symmetrically set
B. the poet’s fear of the predator
C. the analogy of the hammer and the anvil
D. the harmony of the two opposite aspects of God’s creation
8.“What is his name?”
“Bingley.”
“Is he married or single?”
“Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!”
The above dialogue must be taken from（　　　）.
A. Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
B. Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights
C. John Galsworthy’s The Forsyte Saga
D. George Eliot’s Middlemarch
9.The short story“Araby”is one of the stories in James Joyce’s collection（　　　）.
A. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
B. Ulysses
C. Finnegans Wake
D. Dubliners
10.William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following except（　　　）.
A. the using of everyday language spoken by the common people
B. the expression_r of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings
C. the humble and rustic life as subject matter
D. elegant wording and inflated figures of speech
11.Here are two lines taken from The Merchant of Venice:“Not on thy sole, but on thy soul, harsh Jew/Thou mak’st thy knife keen.”What kind of figurative device is used in the above lines?
（　　　）
A. Simile. B. Metonymy.
C. Pun. D. Synecdoche.
12.“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”is an epigrammatic line by（　　　）.
A. J. Keats B. W. Blake
C. W. Wordsworth D. P. B. Shelley
13.The poems such as“The Chimney Sweeper”are found in both Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience by（　　　）.
A. William Wordsworth B. William Blake
C. John Keats D. Lord Gordon Byron
14.John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress is often regarded as a typical example of（　　　）.
A. allegory B. romance
C. epic in prose D. fable
15.Alexander Pope strongly advocated neoclassicism, emphasizing that literary works should be judged by（　　　）rules of order, reason, logic, restrained emotion, good taste and decorum.
A. classical B. romantic
C. sentimental D. allegorical
16.In his essay“Of Studies,”Bacon said:“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and（　　　）.”
A. skimmed B. perfected
C. imitated D. digested
17.“For I have known them all already, known them all—/Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,/I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.”The above lines are taken from（　　　）.
A. Wordsworth’s “The Solitary Reaper”
B. Eliot’s“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
C. Coleridge’s“Kubla Khan”
D. Yeats’s“The Lake Isle of Innisfree”
18.(The)（　　　）was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in the 18th century.
A. Romanticism B. Humanism
C. Enlightenment D. Sentimentalism
19.A typical Forsyte, according to John Galsworthy, is a man with a strong sense of（　　　）, who never pays any attention to human feelings.
A. morality B. justice
C. property D. humor
20.The typical feature of Robert Browning’s poetry is the （　　　）.
A. bitter satire B. larger-than-life caricature
C. Latinized diction D. dramatic monologue
21.George Bernard Shaw’s play, Mrs. Warren’s Profession is a grotesquely realistic exposure of the（　　　）.
A. slum landlordism B. political corruption in England
C. economic oppression of women D. religious corruption in England
22.The story starting with the marriage of Paul’s parents Walter Morel and Mrs. Morel must be
（　　　）.
A. Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles
B. D. H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers
C. George Eliot’s Middlemarch
D. Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre
23.In American literature the first important writer who earned an international fame on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean is（　　　）.
A. Washington Irving
B. Ralph Waldo Emerson
C. Nathaniel Hawthorne
D. Walt Whitman
24.The American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne is known for his“black vision.”The term“black vision”refers to（　　　）.
A. Hawthorne’s observation that every man faces a black wall
B. Hawthorne’s belief that all men are by nature evil
C. that Hawthorne employed a dream vision to tell his story
D. that Puritans of Hawthorne’s time usually wore black clothes
25.Theodore Dreiser was once criticized for his（　　　）in style, but as a true artist his strength just lies in that his style is very serious and well calculated to achieve the thematic ends he sought.
A. crudeness B. elegance
C. conciseness D. subtlety
26.“He is the last of the romantic heroes, whose energy and sense of commitment take him in search of his personal Grail; his failure magnifies to a great extent the end of the American Dream.”The character referred to in the passage is most likely the protagonist of（　　　）.
A. Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
B. Dreiser’s An American Tragedy
C. Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls
D. Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
27.Almost all Faulkner’s heroes turned out to be tragic because（　　　）.
A. all enjoyed living in the declining American South
B. none of them was conditioned by the civilization and social institutions
C. most of them were prisoners of the past
D. none were successful in their attempt to explain the inexplicable
28.Yank, the protagonist of Eugene O’Neill’s play The Hairy Ape, talked to the gorilla and set it free because（　　　）.
A. he was mad, mistaking a beast for a human
B. he was told by the white young lady that he was like a beast and he wanted to see how closely he resembled the gorilla
C. he was caged with the gorilla after he insulted an aristocratic stroller
D. he could feel the kinship only with the beast
29.In（　　　）, Robert Frost compares life to a journey, and he is doubtful whether he will regret his choice or not when he is old, because the choice has made all the difference.
A. “After Apple-Picking”
B. “The Road Not Taken”
C. “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”
D. “Fire and Ice”
30.Though Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson were romantic poets in theme and technique, they differ from each other in a variety of ways. For one thing, whereas Whitman likes to keep his eye on human society at large, Dickinson often addresses such issues as（　　　）, immortality, religion, love and nature.
A. progress B. freedom
C. beauty D. death
31.The Romantic Writers would focus on all the following issues EXCEPT the（　　　）in the American literary history.
A. individual feeling B. survival of the fittest
C. strong imagination D. return to nature
32.Generally speaking, all those writers with a naturalistic approach to human reality tend to be（　　　）.
A. transcendentalists B. optimists
C. pessimists D. idealists
33.With Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the literary scene,（　　　）became the major trend in American literature in the seventies and eighties of the 19th century.
A. Sentimentalism B. Romanticism
C. Realism D. Naturalism
34.American writers after World War I self-consciously acknowledged that they were(a)“（　　　）,”devoid of faith and alienated from the Western civilization.
A. Lost Generation B. Beat Generation
C. Sons of Liberty D. Angry Young Men
35.In（　　　）, Washington Irving agrees with the protagonist on his preference of the past to the present, and of a dream-like world to the real world.
A. “Young Goodman Brown” B.“Rip Van Winkle”
C. “Rappaccini’s Daughter” D.“Bartleby, the Scrivener”
36.Hester Prynne, Dimmesdale, Chillingworth and Pearl are most likely characters in（　　　）.
A. The House of the Seven Gables B. The Scarlet Letter
C. The Portrait of a Lady D. The Pioneers
37.Like Nathaniel Hawthorne,（　　　）also manages to achieve the effect of ambiguity through symbolism and allegory in his narratives.
A. Mark Twain B. Henry James
C. R. W. Emerson D. Herman Melville
38.In his realistic fiction, Henry James’s primary concern is to present the（　　　）.
A. inner life of human beings B. American Civil War and its effects
C. life on the Mississippi River D. Calvinistic view of original sin
39.Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Mark Twain’s writing style?（　　　）
A. Simple vernacular. B. Local color.
C. Lengthy psychological analyses. D. Richness of irony and humor.
40.Which of the following statements about E. Grierson, the protagonist in Faulkner’s story“A Rose for Emily,”is NOT true?（　　　）
A. She has a distorted personality.
B. She is physically deformed and paralyzed.
C. She is the symbol of the old values of the South.
D. She is the victim of the past glory.
PART TWO (60 POINTS)
Ⅱ. Reading Comprehension (16 points, 4 for each)
Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answer in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.
41.“Words are like leaves; and where they most abound,
Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found”
Questions:
A. Identify the poem and the poet.
B. What idea do the two lines express?

42.“To be so distinguished, is an honor, which, being very little accustomed to favors from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge.”
Questions:
A. Identify the work and the author.
B. What is the tone of author?

43.“‘Faith! Faith!’cried the husband. ‘Look up to Heaven, and resist the Wicked One.’”
Questions:
A. Identify the work and the author.
B. What idea does the quoted sentence express?

44.“We passed the School, where Children strove
At Recess—in the Ring—
We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain—
We passed the Setting Sun—”
Questions:
A. Identify the poem and the poet.
B. What do“the School,” “the Fields”and“the Setting Sun”stand for respectively?

Ⅲ. Questions and Answers (24 points in all, 6 for each)
Give brief answers to each of the following questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.

45.As a rule, and allegory is a story in verse or prose with a double meaning: a surface meaning, and an implied meaning. List two works as examples of allegory. What is the implied meaning an allegory is usually concerned with?
46.“Let it not be supposed by the enemies of‘the system,’that during the period of his solitary incarceration, Oliver was denied the benefit of exercise, the pleasure of society, or the advantages of religious consolation.”
What do you think Charles Dickens intends to say in the above ironic statement taken from Oliver Twist?
47.Whitman has made radical changes in the form of poetry by choosing free verse as his medium of expression_r. What are the characteristics of Whitman’s free verse?
48.Some of Hemingway’s heroes are regarded as the Hemingway code heroes. Whatever the differences in experience and age, they all have something in common which Hemingway values. What are the characteristics of the Hemingway code hero?

Ⅳ. Topics for Discussion (20 points in all, 10 for each)
Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.

49.Elizabeth Bennet, the heroine in Pride and Prejudice, is often regarded as the most successful character created by Jane Austen. Make a brief comment on Elizabeth’s character.
50.Take Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as an example to illustrate the statement that Mark Twain was a unique writer in American literature.

 

 

英美文学资料总结（完整版）1
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English and America literatures

Introduction of English literature

1.  England’s inhabitants is Celts. And it is conquered by Romans , Anglo Saxons and Normans. The Anglo-Saxons brought the Germanic language and culture to England, while Normans brought the Mediterranean civilization, including Greek culture , Rome law and the Christian religion.

2.  the old English literature extends from about 450 to 1066, the year of the Norman conquest of England.

3.  Old English literature has survived divided into two groups.

Religious group :       Genesis A

Genesis B     based on biblical themes the Old Testament

Exodus

                            The Dream of the Rood
The secular one:          The Wanderer

                            Deor                   

                            The seafarer

                            The wife’s complaint

Beowulf: a typical example of Old English poetry, is regarded as the national epic of the Anglo-Saxons. It is an example of the mingling of nature myths and heroic legends.

After the Norman’ s conquest, three languages co-existed in England. French if the official language that is used by king and the Norman lords. Latin is the principal tongue of church affairs and in universities. Old English was spoken only by the common English people.

In the second half of 14th century, Geroffery Chaucer, William Langland, John Gower, and others

Recite:

1.       Romance: which uses narrative verse or prose to sing knightly adventures or other heroic deeds is a popular literary form in the medieval period. It has developed the characteristic medieval motifs of the quest, the test, the meeting with the evil giant and the encounter with the beautiful beloved. The hero is usually the knight, who sets out on a journey to accomplish some missions. There is often mysteries and fantasies in romance. Romantic love is an important part of the plot in romance. Characterization is standardized, While the structure is loose and episodic, the language is simple and straightforward. The importance of the romance itself can be seen as a means of showing medieval aristocratic men and women in relation to their idealized view of the world.

2.       heroic couplet: Heroic couplet is a rhymed couplet of iambic pentameter. It is Chaucer who used it for the first time in English in his work The Legend of Good Woman.

3.       Define the period of Old English literature and medieval literature:

The period of Old English literature begins with the Anglo-Saxons settlement in England at about 450 to 1066, the year of the Norman Conquest of England . The Medieval Period in English literature start at 1066, the year of the Norman Conquest, and ends at about the 15th century, is almost a barren one in literary creation. While in the later period, starting from the second half of the 14th century, English literature flourishes with the appearance of writers like Geoffrey Chaucer, William Langland, John Gower, and others,

4.       The theme of Beowulf: the poem presents a vivid picture of how the primitive people wage heroic struggles against the hostile forces of the natural world under a wise and mighty leader. The poem is an example of the mingling of the nature myths and heroic legends.

5.       What does the character the wife of Bath in The Canterbury Tales represent? And how does the author develop his characterization?

The Wife of Bath is depicted as the new bourgeois wife asserting her independence. Chaucer develops his characterization to a higher artistic level by presenting characters with both typical qualities and individual dispositions.

6.       Chaucer is called “the father of English poetry” and has made great contributions to English poetry and English literature. Please discuss Chaucer’s literary achievement and why he is called ”the father of English poetry”

Chaucer’s achievement:

1.       he presented a comprehensive realistic picture of his age and created a whole gallery of vivid characters in his works, especially in The Canterbury Tales. 2. He anticipated a new ear, the Renaissance, to come under the influence of the Italian writers. 3. He developed his characterization to a higher level by presenting characters with both typical qualities and individual dispositions. 4. he greatly contributed to the maturing of English poetry. Today, Chaucer’s reputation has been securely established as one of the best English poets for his wisdom, humor and humanity.

2.       why he is called “the father of English poetry”:

originally, Old English poems are mainly alliterative verses with few variations. Chaucer introduced from France the rhymed stanzas of various types to English poetry to replace it. In The Romaunt of the Rose, he first introduced to the English the octosyllabic couplet. In The Legend of Good Women, he used for the first time in English heroic couplet. And in his masterpiece, The Canterbury Tales, he employed heroic couplet with true ease and charm for the first time in the history of English literature . His art made him one of the greatest poets in English, John Dryden called him “the father of English poetry”.

Chapter I  The Renaissance Period
1.       Renaissance: it is marks a transition from the medieval to the modern world. Generally, it refers to the period between the 14th and mid 17th centuries. It first started from Italy and then spread all over Europe. The renaissance, which means “rebirth” or “revival”, is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events, such as the rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek culture, the new discoveries in geography and astrology, the religious reformation and the economic expansion. The Renaissance, therefore, in essence, is a historical period in which the European humanist thinkers and scholars made attempts to get rid of those old feudalist ideas in medieval Europe, to introduce new ideas that expressed the interests of the rising bourgeoisie, and to recover the purity of the early church from the corruption of the Roman Catholic Church.

2.       the background of the England

The England is unrest, and is a volcanic period of English history. The war-like nobles seized the power of England and turned it into self-destruction. The frightful reign of Richard III marked the end of civil wars, until the reign of Henry VIII (1509-1547) that the Renaissance really began to show its effect in England

3.       Humanism: it is the essence of the Renaissance. Humanism is a system of beliefs upheld by writers and artists of the Renaissance period in their fighting against medieval asceticism. It states that man is godly, that man is able to find truth, goodness and beauty, and that man is in control of the present life rather than being controlled by God. Briefly, humanism puts man at the center of their beliefs and takes man to be the measure of every thing while the former asceticism puts God at the center of their beliefs and takes personal salvation to be the most important thing on the earth for man.

4.       Religious reformation: it is Martin Luther, a German Protestant, who initiated the Reformation. Luther believed that every true Christian was his own priest and was entitled to interpret the Bible for himself.

Henry VIII was regarded as the faithful son of the Catholic, his wife cut the ties with Rome

Edward VI  the reform of the church’s doctrine and teaching was carried out

Mary     there was a violent swing to Catholicism.

Elizabeth’s reign   Protestantism has been firmly established .

The religious reformation was actually a reflection of the class struggle waged by the new rising bourgeoisie against the feudal class and its ideology.

5.       blank verse: is the unrhymed iambic pentameter line, It was Surrey who first brought it in and Marlowe who perfected it with his “mighty line”

6.       metaphysical poetry: The term “metaphysical poetry” is commonly used to name the work of the 17th century writers who wrote under the influence of John Donne. With a rebellious spirit, the metaphysical poets tried to break away from the conventional fashion of the Elizabethan love poetry. The diction is simple and echoes the words and cadences of common speech. The imagery is drawn from the actual life. The form is frequently that of an argument with the poet’s beloved, with God, or with himself. Modern poets like T.S. Eliot have been mostly affected by the metaphysical influence.

7.       The Renaissance her is Marlowe’s creation, Such a hero is always individualistic and full of ambition, facing bravely the challenge from both gods and men. He embodies Marlowe’s humanistic ideal of human dignity and capacity. Different from the tragic hero in medieval plays, who seeks the way to heaven through salvation and God’s will, he is against conventional morality and contrives to obtain heaven on earth through his own efforts, With the endless aspiration for power, knowledge, and glory, the hero interprets the true Renaissance spirit. Both Tamburlaine and Faustus are typical in possessing such a spirit.

8.       give a great incentive to something

9.       William Caxton, who introduced printing into England. Including  The Canterbury Tables and Malory’s Morte Darthur

10.   it’s the mainstream of the sth

11.   it could be dated back to the ……

12.   interludes and morality plays thriving in the medieval period

13.   but the development of the drama into a sophisticated art form

14.   they made a vivid depiction of the sharp conflicts between feudalism and the rising bourgeoisie in a transitional period.

15.   Francis Bacon (1561-1626), the first important English essayist, is best known for his essays which greatly influenced the development of this literary form. He was also the founder of modern science in England. His writings paved the way for the use of scientific method. Thus, he is undoubtedly one of the representatives of the English Renaissance.

16.   the main writers

A.      Edmund Spenser(1552-1599)  received education first at Merchant Taylor’s School and then at Pembroke College, Cambridge. The Shepheardes Canlender , Epithalamion—the most beautiful wedding hymns for their marriage. Spenser’s masterpiece is The Faerie Queene, to fashion a gentleman or noble person in virtuous and gentle discipline. The Redcrosse knight in Book I and Sir Guyon in Book II

The five main qualities of Spenser’s poetry are: a. a perfect melody; b. a rare sense of beauty; c. a splendid imagination; d. a lofty moral purity and seriousness; e. a dedicated idealism. In addition to the above, Spenser uses strange forms of speech and obsolete words in order to increase the rustic effect. It is Spenser’s idealism, his love of beauty, and his exquisite melody that make him know as “the poets” poet.

B.      Christopher Marlowe : (1564-1593) a son of a Canterbury shoemaker. First to the King’s School, then Cambridge. As a man of letters. Play Tamburlaine,  Dr Faustus,  is gifted of the “University Wits”, The Jew of Malta, Edward II, non-dramatic poetry includes Hero and Leander, “the Passionate Shepherd to His Love” and a verse translation of Ovid’s Amores,  pioneer of English drama

Tamburlaine is a play about an an ambitious and pitiless Tartar conqueror in the fourteenth century who rose from a shepherd to an overpowering king. By flouting the given order and trampling on despairing princes, Tamburlaine displayed a high-aspiring mind that was self-created and carried by love and dreams beyond the limits of moral existence. His victories were a triumph of immense natural energy and of ruthlessness over equally cruel but weak and decadent civilizations. By depicting a great hero with high ambition and sheer brutal force in conquering one enemy after another. Being a cruel conqueror, finds consummate happiness in subduing other kingdoms. No enemy, except Death, can defeat him, his death ends in glory although he finally admits his limitations of achievements, and even his limitations as a human being.

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　　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. Write your answer on the answer sheet.

　　1.With classical culture and the（　　　）humanistic ideas coming into England, the English Renaissance began flourishing.

　　A. French        B. German

　　C. Italian        D. Greek

　　2."Come live with me and be my love, / And we will all the pleasures prove / That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, / Woods, or steepy mountain yields."

　　The above lines are taken from Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love", which derives from the（　　　）tradition.

　　A. pastoral       B. heroic

　　C. romantic       D. realistic

　　3."Metaphysical conceit"is a strategy characteristic of John Donne's poetry. It is（　　　）.

　　A. a confession that avoids questions of moral accountability

　　B. the linking of images from very different ranges of experience

　　C. self-definition through images based on the four primal elements

　　D. the chaining of images representing solid and gaseous elements

　　4."So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, / So long lives this, and this gives life to thee."Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 includes three stanzas according to the content with these last two lines as a（　　　）, which completes the sense of the above lines.

　　A. prelude       B. couplet

　　C. epigraph       D. exposition

　　5."Therefore at this fair are all such merchandise sold, as houses, lands, trades, places, honors, preferments, titles, countries, kingdoms, lusts, pleasures, and delights of all sorts, as whores, bawds, wives, husbands, children, masters, servants…" The above sentences are taken from（　　　）.

　　A. John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress  B. Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels

　　C. Henry Fielding's Tom Jones   D. Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe

　　6.Jonathan Swift is a master satirist in English literature. His A Tale of a Tub is an attack on（　　　）.

　　A. the government      B. greed

　　C. the church       D. the abuse of power

　　7.Chaucer was the first English writer to adopt heroic couplet in his writhing of poems. In the early 18th century, the chief proponent of the heroic couplet was（　　　）.

　　A. Alexander Pope      B. William Wordsworth

　　C. Lord Byron       D. Thomas Gray

　　8.As a lexicographer, he distinguished himself as the author of the first English dictionary-A Dictionary of the English Language. What is his name?（　　　）.

　　A. Jonathan Swift      B. Samuel Johnson

　　C. Ben Jonson       D. John Milton

　　9.Which of the following statements about Neo-Classicism and Enlightenment Movement is true?（　　　）.

　　A. The Enlightenment was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in the 17th century.

　　B. Neo-Classicism found its artistic models in the classical literature of the ancient Greek and Roman writers like Homer, Virgil, Horace, Ovid, etc. and in the contemporary French writers such as Voltaire and Diderot.

　　C. Neo-Classicism put the stress on the classical artistic ideals of order, logic, proportion, spontaneous emotion, and passion.

　　D. Satire was much used in writing in the neo-classic works. English literature of this age produced a distinguished satirist Daniel Defoe.

　　10.A poet asserted that poetry originated form "emotion recollected in tranquillity". He maintained that the scenes and events of everyday life and the speech of ordinary people were the raw material of which poetry could and should be made. Who is that poet?（　　　）.

　　A. William Blake       B. Alfred Lord Tennyson

　　C. William Wordsworth     D. John Keats

　　11.The composition of "Kubla Khan"by S.T. Coleridge was based on （　　　）.

　　A. a story        B. a dream

　　C. a dialogue       D. an experience

　　12.Romanticism was a literary trend prevailing in English during the period from 1798 to 1832. The Romantic writers（　　　）.

　　A. paid great attention to the spiritual and emotional life of man

　　B. were discontent with the development of industrialism and capitalism, and presented the social evils minutely in their works

　　C. took pains to portray a world of harmony and balance

　　D. tended to glorify Rome and advocated rational Italian and French art as superior to the native traditions

　　13."Tiger! Tiger! Burning bright/ In the forests of the night, / What immortal hand or eye / Could frame thy fearful symmetry?"("The Tiger"by William Blake) The above lines（　　　）.

　　A. describe the tiger's fierce eyes and forceful hands at night

　　B. express the poet's curiosity for the skillful creation of the tiger

　　C. express the poet's surprise at the sight of the tiger's well-proportioned body

　　D. express the poet's terror at the sight of the tiger in the forest at night

　　14.Which of the following statements about Victorian literature is NOT true?（　　　）

　　A. Novels became the most widely read and the most vital and challenging expression_r of progressive thought.

　　B. Victorian novelists were angry with the inhuman social institutions, the decaying social morality, the widespread misery, poverty and injustice.

　　C. Influenced by a particularly strict set of moral standards, Victorian writers like Oscar Wilde, advocated the old moderate, respectable life-style.

　　D. Victorian prose writers joined forces with the critical realist novelists in exposing and criticizing the social reality.

　　15."It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a （　　　）."This quotation in Austen's Pride and Prejudice sets the tone of the novel.

　　A. house        B. title

　　C. wife        D. fame

　　16.Tennyson's poem Ulysses not only expresses the poet's own determination and courage to brave the struggle of life, but also reflects the restlessness and aspiration of the age. The poem is written in the form of（　　　）.

　　A. epic        B. elegy

　　C. dramatic monologue     D. ode

　　17.In Hardy's Wessex novels, there is an apparent（　　　）touch in his description of the simple and beautiful though primitive rural life.

　　A. realistic       B. nostalgic

　　C. romantic       D. sentimental

　　18."If I've done wrong, I'm dying for it. It is enough! You left me too; but I won't upbraid you! I forgive you. Forgive me!" These above lines are uttered by the heroine in（　　　）.

　　A. Shapespeare's Romeo and Juliet

　　B. Emily Bront 's Wuthering Heights

　　C. Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles

　　D. Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession

　　19.Modernism takes the irrational philosophy and（　　　）as its theoretical base.

　　A. the theory of psycho-analysis   B. Darwin's evolutionary theory

　　C. the French symbolism    D. Utilitarianism

　　20.The beginning of "The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock"moves from a series of fairly concrete physical settings-a cityscape( the famous"patient etherized upon a table")and several interiors (women's arms in the lamplight, coffee spoons, fireplaces)-to a series of vague ocean images. It aims to convey（　　　）.

　　A. Prufrock's emotional distance from the world as he comes to recognize his second-rate status

　　B. Prufrock's eagerness to meet his dating lover

　　C. Prufrock's reluctance to meet his dating lover

　　D. Prufrock's excitement about the modern world

　　21."North Richmond Street, being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers' School set the boy free. An uninhabited house of two storeys stood at the blind end, detached from its neighbours in a square ground. The other houses of the street, conscious of decent lives within them, gazed at one another with brown imperturbable faces."

　　The above passage is the first paragraph of Araby by James Joyce. It sets a(n)（　　　）tone of the story.

　　A. optimistic       B. active

　　C. gloomy       D. serious

　　22."I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, / And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made: / Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee, / And live alone in the bee-loud glade." ("The Lake Isle of Innisfree" by Samuel Butler Yeats) The above lines present the state of a(n)（　　　）life.

　　A. quiet        B. lonely

　　C. ambitious       D. unstable

　　23.In Young Goodman Brown by Hawthorne, the name of Goodman Brown's wife is（　　　）, which also contains many symbolic meanings.

　　A. Ruth        B. Hester

　　C. Faith        D. Mary

　　24.The Romantic Period, one of the most important periods in the history of American literature, stretches from the end of __________ to the outbreak of ___________.（　　　）

　　A. the 17th century…the American War of Independence

　　B. the 18th century…the American Civil War

　　C. the 17th century…the American Civil War

　　D. the 18th century…the U.S.-Mexican War

　　25."The apparition of these faces in the crowd; / Petals on a wet, black bough." This is the shortest poem written by（　　　）.

　　A. E.E. Cummings      B. T.S. Eliot

　　C. Ezra Pound       D. Robert Frost

　　26.Emily Dickinson's poem"This is my letter to the World"expresses her（　　　）about her communication with the outside world.

　　A. anxiety       B. eagerness

　　C. curiosity       D. optimistic outlook

　　27.Realism was a reaction against Romanticism or a move away from the bias towards romance and self-creating fictions, and paved the way to（　　　）.

　　A. Cynicism       B. Modernism

　　C. Transcendentalism     D. Neo-Classicalism

　　28.In（　　　）, William Faulkner illuminates the problem of black and white in the American Southern society as a close-knit destiny of blood brotherhood.

　　A. Go Down, Moses     B. Light in August

　　C. The Marble Faun     D. As I Lay Dying

　　29.The theme of Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle is（　　　）.

　　A. the conflict of human psyche

　　B. the fight against racial discrimination

　　C. the familial conflict

　　D. the nostalgia for the unrecoverable past

　　30.Hemingway once described Mark Twain's novel（　　　）the one book from which "all modern American literature comes."

　　A. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

　　B. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

　　C. The Gilded Age

　　D. The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

　　31.As a genre, naturalism emphasized（ 　　 ）as important deterministic forces shaping individualized characters who were presented in special and detailed circumstances.

　　A. theological doctrines

　　B. heredity and environment

　　C. education and hard work

　　D. various opportunities and economic success

　　32.（ 　　 ）is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th century "stream-of-consciousness"novels and the founder of psychological realism.

　　A. Theodore Dreiser    B. William Faulkner

　　C. Henry James    D. Mark Twain

　　33.（ 　　 ）is considered to be a spokesman for the alienated youth in the post-war era and his The Catcher in the Rye is regarded as a students' classic.

　　A. Allen Ginsberg    B. E.E. Cummings

　　C. J.D. Salinger    D. Henry James

　　34.Which one of the following statements in NOT true of Indian Camp by Hemingway?

　　（ 　　 ）

　　A. A young Indian woman had been trying to have her baby for two days.

　　B. Nick's father delivered this woman of a baby by Caesarian section, with a jack-knife and without anesthesia.

　　C. Nick witnessed the violence of both birth and death in the Indian camp.

　　D. This woman's husband was murdered while she was in labor.

　　35.（ 　　 ）is often acclaimed literary spokesman of the Jazz Age.

　　A. Carl Sandburg    B. Edwin Arlington Robinson

　　C. William Faulkner    D. F.Scott Fitzgerald

　　36.Nathaniel Hawthorne held an unceasing interest in the"interior of the heart" of man's being. So in almost every book he wrote, Hawthorne discussed（ 　　 ）

　　A. love and hatred      B. sin and evil

　　C. frustration and self-denial    D. balance and self-discipline

　　37.Which of the following has gained its status as a world classic and simultaneously marks the climax of Eugene O'Neill's literary career and the coming of the age of American drama?

　　（ 　　 ）

　　A. The Hairy Ape    B. Long Day's Journey Into Night

　　C. Desire Under the Elms    D. Lazarus Laughed

　　38.In the last chapter of Sister Carrie, there is a description about Hurstwood, one of the protagonists of the novel,"Now he began leisurely to take off his clothes, but stopped first with his coat, and tucked it along the crack under the door. His vest he arranged in the same place."Why did he do this? Because （ 　　 ）.

　　A. he wanted to commit suicide

　　B. he wanted to keep the room warm

　　C. he didn't want to be found by others

　　D. he wanted to enjoy the peace of mind

　　39.In Moby-Dick, the white whale symbolizes（ 　　 ）for Melville, for it is complex, unfathomable, malignant, and beautiful as well.

　　A. nature    B. human society

　　C. whaling industry    D. truth

　　40.（ 　　 ）,disregarding grammar and punctuation, always used"i"instead of "I"in his poetry to show his protest against self-importance.

　　A. Wallace Stevens    B. Ezra Pound

　　C. E.E. Cummings    D. William Carlos Williams

　　Ⅱ. Reading Comprehension (16 points, 4 for each)

　　Reading the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answer in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.

　　41."Not on thy sole, but on thy soul, harsh Jew,

　　Thou mak'st thy knife keen; but no metal can,

　　No, not the hangman's axe, bear half the keenness

　　Of thy sharp envy."

　　Questions:

　　A. Identify the author and the title of the play from which this part is taken.

　　B. What figure of speech is used in this quoted passage?

　　C. What idea does the passage express?

　　42."Whene'er I passed her; but who passed without

　　Much the same smile? This grew; I gave commands;

　　Then all smiles stopped together."

　　Questions:

　　A. Identify the poem and the poet.

　　B. What does the line "Then all smiles stopped together"imply?

　　C. What kind of person do the lines indicate the speaker is?

　　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. Identify the poem and the poet.

　　B. What does the word"sleep"mean?

　　C. What idea do the four lines express?

　　44."I celebrate myself, and sing myself,

　　And what I assume you shall assume,

　　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 grass."

　　(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 grass"symbolize?

　　Ⅲ. Questions and Answers(24 points in all, 6 for each)

　　Give brief answers to each of the following questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.

　　45.Edmund Spenser is one of the poets of English Renaissance. What are the qualities of his poetry?

　　46.The Man of Property is the first novel of the Forsyte trilogies by Galsworthy. What is the theme and the tone of the novel?

　　47.Eugene O' Neill, America's greatest playwright, was constantly experimenting with new styles and forms for his plays, especially during the twenties when Expressionism was in full swing. What techniques did O' Neill use in his expression_ristic plays?

　　48.Emerson's book Nature established him ever since as the most eloquent spokesman of New England Transcendentalism. In this book Emerson discusses his idea of the Oversoul. How do you understand the Emersonian "Oversoul"?

　　Ⅳ. Topic Discussion(20 points in all, 10 for each)

　　Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.

　　49.Discuss Charles Dickens's art of fiction: the setting, the character-portrayal, the language, etc, based on his novel Oliver Twist.

　　50.A Rose for Emily is one of Faulkner's short stories. Comment on the character of the protagonist, Emily Grierson, and analyze how this character is depicted.

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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 answers the question or completes the statement. Write your correct answer on the answer sheet.
1.“And we will 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”
 C. Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 18”   D. John Donne’s “The Sun Rising”
2.The English Renaissance period was an age of ______ .
 A. poetry and drama       B. drama and novel
 C. novel and poetry       D. romance and poetry
 3.Here 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. Beowulf    B. King Arthur C. Jesus Christ   D. Jupiter
4.In Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice, Antonio could not pay back the money he borrowed from Shylock, because ______.
 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 Ambition 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 Vanity Fair, John Bunyan intends to show the prevalent political and religious ______of his time.
 A. persecution   B. improvement   C. prosperity   D. disillusionment
 9. The 18th 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
 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 paradise 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 Wild the Great       B. Tom Jones
 C. The Coffe-House Politician      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 rich uncle is ______ .
 A. Charles Surface         B. Joseph Surface
 C. Sir Peter Teazle        D. Sir Benjamin Backbite
13. Which of the following works best represents the national spirit of the 18th-century England?
 A. Robinson Crusoe        B. Gulliver’s Travels
 C. Jonathan Wild the Great       D. A Sentimental Journey
14. Shelley’s masterpiece, Prometheus Unbound, is a verse drama, which borrows the basic story from ______ .
 A. the Bible          B. a German legend
 C. a Greek play          D. One Thousand and One Nights
 15. In the first part of the novel Pride and prejudice, Mr. Darcy has a (n) ______ of the Bennet family .
 A. high opinion         B. great admiration
 C. low opinion         D. erroneous view
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     B.tragic     C. round   D.sophisticated
18. A typical feature of the English Victorian 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 sentence in the death scene of Catherine from Chapter XV of Wuthering 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 D.H.Lawrence)From the above quotation, we can see that Mrs. Morel’s attitude to her husband is ______ .
 A. sincerely warm        B. genuinely kind  
 C. seemingly angry        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 play Mrs. Warren’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
 C. vulgarly descriptive  words      D. refined elegant language
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 communication 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
 C. the easy flow of feelings     D. the simple and conversational language
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. “Standing 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 particle of God.”
 The above passage is taken from ______.
 A. Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin    B. Cooper’s “Leatherstocking Tales”
 C. Emerson’s “Nature”     D. Dreiser’s Sister Carrie
29. Which of the following works best illustrates the Calvinistic view of original sin?
 A. Stowe’s Uncle Ton’s Cabin    B. James’s The Portrait of a Lady.
 C. Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms   D. Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter.
 30. Beside symbolism, all the following qualities EXCEPT ______are fused to make Melville’s Moby-Dick a world classic.
 A. narrative power      B. psychological analysis
 C. speculative agility      D. optimistic view of life
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
 C. psychological       D. religious
32. In Daisy Miller, Henry James reveals Daisy’s ______ by showing her relatively unreserved manners.
 A. hypocrisy       B. cold and indifference
 C. grace and patience      D. Americanness
33. 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 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 regarded 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
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
C. The Iceman Cometh      D. Long Day’s Journey Into Night
38. When we say that a poor young man from the West tried to make his fortune in the East but was disillusioned 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
 C. Ernest Hemingway       D. William Faulkner
39.After his experiences in the forest, Young Goodman Brown returns to Salem ______.
 A. desperate and gloomy       B. renewed in his faith
 C. wearing a black veil      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 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
 
PART TWO (60POINTS)
Ⅱ.Reading comprehension(16 points,4 for each)
Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answer in the corresponding space on the answer 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.
B.What 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 Answers(24 points in all, 6 for each)
Give brief answers to each of the following questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.
45. It is said that B. Shaw’s play, Mrs. Warren’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 Wuthering Heights. Try to tell Bronte’s way of narration briefly.
 47. “In your rocking-chair, by your window dreaming, shall you long, alone. In your rocking-chair, by your window, shall you dream such happiness as you may never feel.” The two sentences are taken from Theodore Dreiser’s novel, Sister Carrie. What idea can you draw from the “rocking-chair”?
 48. The literary school of naturalism was quite popular in the late 19th century. What are the major characteristics of naturalism?
Ⅳ. Topic Discussion(20 points in all, 10 for each)
 Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.
49. Discuss the possible theme in W.B. Yeats’s “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” and how that theme is presented in the poem.
 50. “My faith is gone!” cried he (Goodman Brown), after one stupefied moment. “There is no good on earth; and sin is but a name. Come, devil! For to thee is this world given.”
 Comment on this passage from Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown”.

英美文学选读模拟试题第二套
 
 
　　I Mulitple choice （ 40 points in all ， 1 for each ）

　　1. which of the following is NOT regarded as one of the characteristics of Renaissance ？

　　A. Exaltation of the man's pursuit of happiness in this life .

　　B. Cultivation of the genuine flavor of ancient culture .

　　C. Tolerance of human foibles

　　D. Praise of man's efforts in having his soul delivered .

　　2. The most significant intellectual movement of the Renaissance was __________ .

　　A. the Reformation

　　B. humanism

　　C. the Italian revival

　　D. geographical explorations

　　3.What is the relationship between Claudius and Hamlet ？

　　A. Cousins

　　B. Uncle and nephew .

　　C. Father-in-law and son-in-law .

　　D. Father and son .

　　4. Which of the following plays does not belong to Shakespeare's great tragedies ？

　　A. Romeo and Juliet

　　B. King Lear

　　C. Hamlet

　　D. Macbeth

　　5. Which statement about the Elizabethan age is not ture ？

　　A. It is the age of translation .

　　B. It is the age of bourgeois revolution .

　　C. It is the age of exploration .

　　D. It is the age of the protestant reformation .

　　6.Una in The Faerie Queene stands for _______ .

　　A. chastity

　　B. holiness

　　C. truth

　　D. error

　　7. In Hamlet's soliloquy ， when he says ， “ To sleep ， perchance to dream ： ——ay， there's the rub . ” What is the primarily thinking about ？

　　A.The bad dreams that have recently been troubling him .

　　B. The fact that if dying is like going to sleep ， then perhaps after death we have bad dreams .

　　C. The sinful behavior of Gertrude ， whose guilty dreams he would like to know .

　　D. His desire to sleep so that he will not have to take vengeful action .

　　8. __________ first made blank verse the principle instrument of English drama .

　　A. Shakespeare

　　B. Wyatt

　　C. Sidney

　　D. Marlowe

　　9. “ the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune ” is an example of ______ .

　　A. allegory

　　B. simile

　　C. metaphor

　　D. irony

　　10. In “ Not on thy sole ， but on thy soul ， harsh Jew ， / Thou mak'st thy knife keen ” ， Gratiano （ a character in The Merchant of Venice ） uses a rhetorical device called ____.

　　A. hyperbole

　　B. homonym

　　C. paradox

　　D. pun

　　11. In The Faerie Queene Spenser impresses us with his skillful blending of religious and historical ________ with chivalric _________ .

　　A. symbolism …… lyricism

　　B. allegory …… romance

　　C. elegy …… narrative

　　D. personification …… irony

　　12. Milton's paradise Lost took its material from ______ .

　　A. the Bible
　　B. Greek myth
　　C. Roman myth
　　D. French romance

　　13. Christopher Marlowe wrote all the following plays except _______ .

　　A. Tamburlaine the Great
　　B. The Jew or Malta
　　C. Cymbeline
　　D. The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus

　　14. Which of the following plays by Shakespeare is NOT a comedy ？

　　A. The Merchant of Venice
　　B. A Midsummer Night's Dream
　　C. As you like It
　　D. Romeo and Juliet

　　15. _______ is the most common foot in English poetry .

　　A. The iamb
　　B. The anapest
　　C. The trochee
　　D. The dactyl

　　16. “ In a dream vision ， Arthur witnessed the loveliness of Gloriana ， and upon awakening resolves to seek her . ” The two literary figures “ Arthur ” and “ Gloriana ” are from ____ .

　　A. The Fairie Queene

　　B. Romeo and Juliet

　　C. Dr. Faustus

　　D. Paradise Lost

　　17. In “ Sonnet 18 ” ， William Shakespeare _______ .

　　A. meditates on man's mortality

　　B. eulogizes the power of artistic creation

　　C. satirizes human vanity

　　D. presents a dream vision

　　18. The 18th century witnessed that in England there appeared two political parties ____， which were satirized by Swift in his “ Gulliver's Travels . ”

　　A. the whigs and Tories

　　B. the Senate and the House of Representative

　　C. the upper House and lower House

　　D. the House of Lords and the House of Commons

　　19 . __________ compiled the “ the Dictionary of the English language ” which became the foundation of all the subsequent English dictionaries .

　　A. Ben Johnson
　　B. Samuel Johnson
　　C. Alexander Pope
　　D. John Dryden

　　20. The publication of “___________” marked the beginning of Romantic Age .

　　A. Don Juan
　　B. the Rime of the Ancient Mariner
　　C. The Lyrical Ballads
　　D. Queen Mab

　　21. In 1850 ， Wordsworth completed a long autobiographical poem entitled “________” .

　　A. Biographic literaria
　　B. The Prelude
　　C. Lucy poems
　　D. The Lyrical Ballads

　　22. Which is Shelley's masterpiece ？

　　A. Queen Mab
　　B. Prometheus Unbound
　　C. Prometheus Bound
　　D. The Revolt of Isiam

　　23. Which is Shelley's work of literary criticism ？

　　A. An Essay on criticism

　　B. A Defence of Poetry
　　C. On the Necessity of Atheism
　　D. Of Studies

　　24. In the 19th century English literature ， a new literary trend _____ appeared And it flourished in the forties and in the early fifties .

　　A.romantism
　　B. naturalism
　　C. realism
　　D. critical realism

　　25. The greatest English critical realist novelist was _____ ， who criticized the bourgeois civilization and showed the misery of the common people .

　　A. william Makepeace Thackeray
　　B. Charles Dickens
　　C. charlotte Bronte
　　D. Emily Dickinson

　　26. ______ was a critical realist and also a severe exposer of contemporary society . His novels ， such as “ Vanity Fair ” ， are mainly a satirical portrayal of the upper strata of society .

　　A. George Eliot
　　B. Elizabeth Gaskell
　　C. William Makepeace Thackeray

　　D. John Bunyan

　　27. Dickens takes the French Revolution as the background of the novel “_______” .

　　A. A Tale of Two Cities

　　B. Great Expectations

　　C. Hard Times

　　D. David Copperfield

　　28. “________ ” is often regarded as the semiautobiography of the author Dickens in which the early life of the hero is largely based on the author's early life .

　　A. Tom Jones

　　B. David Copperfiels

　　C. Oliver Twist

　　D. Great Expectation

　　29. Which is Thackeray's masterpiece ？

　　A. The virginians

　　B. Vanity Fair

　　C. The Books of Snobs

　　D. The Newcomes

　　30.The title of the novel “ Vanity Fair” was taken from Bunyan's masterpiece “_________”。

　　A. The Dilgrim's Progress

　　B. Child Harold's Pilgrimage

　　C. Gulliver's Travels

　　D. The Canterbury Tales

　　31. Of all the following issues ， ______ is definitely NOT the focus of the Romantic writers in the American literary history .

　　A. Puritan morality

　　B. human bestiality

　　C. noble savages

　　D. divinity of man

　　32. Henry David Thoreau's work ， ______ ， has always been regarded as a masterpiece of the New England Transcendental Movement .

　　A. Walden

　　B. The pioneers

　　C. Nature

　　D. “ Song of Myself ”

　　33. “ Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind ” is a famous quote from ______'s writings .

　　A. Walt Whitman

　　B. Henry David Thoreau

　　C. Herman Melville

　　D. Ralph Waldo Emerson

　　34. The famous 20 -year sleep in “ Rip Van Winkle ” helps to construct the story in such a way that we are greatly affected by Irving's _______ .

　　A. involvement with the passage of time
　　B. transient beauty
　　C. laziness and corruptibility of human beings .
　　D. supernatural manipulation of man's life

　　35. According to Emerson ， man's capacity is _______ .

　　A. ambiguous
　　B. limited
　　C. infinite
　　D. subsidiary to god

　　36. Moby Dick ， the big white whale ， is possibly read as symbolic of all the following EXCEPT _________ .

　　A. malignancy
　　B. beauty
　　C.adultery
　　D. God

　　37.According to Nathaniel Hawthorne ， romance should be _______ .

　　A. both imaginative and creative

　　B. full of adventures

　　C. a true record of human life

　　D. a mixture of facts and fancy

　　38. Which of the following is NOT emphasized by the New England Transcendentalism ？

　　A. Nature is not purely of matter ， but alive with God's overwhelming presence .

　　B. Individual human beings are depraved ， hence they should be improved .

　　C. Material economy is good for spiritual wealth .

　　D. In every single human being there dwells the divine spirit .

　　39. The pink ribbon appears three times in respectively three places in “ Young Goodman Brown”， which might possibly suggest that ______ .

　　A. Goodman Brown's night trial in the forest might be an illusion .

　　B. Faith is seen to be there with Brown at the witch meeting .

　　C. Hawthorne uses it as an indication of Brown's physical pressence in the forest .

　　D. the pink ribbon is not Faith's

　　40. Walt Whitman was a founding figure of American poetry . His innovation first of all lies in his use of _____ ， poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme .

　　A. blank verse

　　B. heroic couplet

　　C. free verse

　　A. blank verse

　　B. heroic couplet

　　C. free verse

英美文学选读40选择题强化训练

 
　　1.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 complets the statement . Mark your choice by blackening the corresponding letter A.B.C or D on the answer sheet .

　　1. In the medieval period ， it is Chaucer alone who ， for the first time in English literature ， presented to usa comprehensive ___________ picture of the English society of his time and created a whole galery of vivid ___________ from all walks of life in his masterpiece “the Canterbury Tales ”。

　　A. visionary / women
　　B. romantic /men
　　C. realistic / characters
　　D. natural / figures

　　2. Humanism spmg from the endeavor to restore a medieval reverence for the antique authors and is frequently taken as the beginning of the Renaissance on its conscious ， intellectual side ，for the Greek and Roman civilization was based on the conception that man is the __________ of all things .

　　A. measure
　　B. king
　　C. lover
　　D. rule

　　3. Many people today tend to regard the play “ The Merchant of Venice ” as a satire of the hypocrisy of __________ and their false standards of friendship and love ， their cunning ways of pursuing worldliness and their unreasoning prejudice against _________ .

　　A. Christians / Jews
　　B. Jews / Christians
　　C. oppressors / oppressed
　　D. people / Jews

　　4. In “ Sonnet 18 ” ， Shakespeare has a profound meditation on the destructive power of _________ and the eternal __________ brought forth by poetry to the one he loves .

　　A. death/ life

　  B. death/ love
　　C. time / beauty
　　D. hate / love

　　5. In the 18th century English literature ， the representative writer of neo-classicism is __________ .

　　A. Pope
　　B. Swift
　　C. Defoe
　　D. Milton

　　6. The ______ was a progressive intellectual movement throughout western Europe in the 18th century .

　　A. Renaissance
　　B. Enlightenmrent
　　C. Religious Reformation
　　D. Chartist Movement
　　7. Blake ， Wordsworth ， ___________ ， Byron ， Shelley and __________ are the major Romantic poets .

　　A. Coleridage / Southey
　　B. Coleridge / Keats
　　C. Keats / Scott
　　D. Scott / Coleridge

　　8. Best of all the well -known lyric pieces written by P.B. Shelley is the poet “________” ， for here his rhapsodic and declamatory tendencies find a subject perfectly suited to him .

　　A. To a skylark
　　B. The Cloud
　　C. Ode to the West Wind
　　D. Men of England

　　9.In his early novels ， Charles Dickens attacks one or more specific social evils in each ： for example ， the dehumanizing workhouse system and the dark ， criminal underworld life in “______________” .

　　A.The pickwich Paper
　　B.David Copperfield
　　C.Oliver Twist
　　D.A Tale of Two Cities

　　10. The title of the novel “ Vanity Fair ” was taken from Bunyan's masterpiece __________.

　　A. The pilgrim's Progress
　　B. Gulliver's Travels
　　C. Hard Times
　　D. Wuthering Heights

　　11. G.B. Shaw's plays have plots ，but they do not work by plots . It is the vitality of the __________ that takes primacy over mere story .

　　A. characterization
　　B. depiction
　　C. talk
　　D. metaphor

　　12. The title of the novel “ A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ” written by James Joyce suggests a character study with strong _________ elements .

　　A. autobiographical
　　B. sentimental
　　C. joyful
　　D. bitter

　　13. A typical Forsyte ， according to John Galsworthy ， is a man with a strong sense of __________ ， who never pays any attention to human feelings .

　　A. property
　　B. justice
　　C. morality
　　D. humor

　　14. According to D.H. Lawrence ， the __________ is most resposible for the alienation of the human relationships and the perversion of human personality .

　　A. pride of the aristocratic class
　　B. vanity of the middle class
　　C. man's desire for power and money
　　D. capitalist mechanical civilization

　　15. G.B. Shaw's play ， Mrs . Warren's frofession is a grotesquely realistic exposure of the _______________.

　　A. slum landlordism
　　B. political corruption in England
　　C. economic oppression of women
　　D. religious corruption in England

　　16.In Shaw 's play ， Mrs Warren's Profession ， Mrs. Warren once said ：“ If there is a thing I hate in a woman ，it's want of character. ” The word “want ” here means __________.

　　A.desire
　　B. lack
　　C.possession
　　D. need

　　17. According to the ideas discussed in Chapter 13 of The Man of Property ， the tense relationship between Soames ， the husband ，and Irene ， the wife ， is caused by __________.

　　A.Irene's free-minded way of thinking
　　B.Irene's love for Bosinney
　　C. Soames's love for Irene
　　D. Soames's strong desire to possess Irene

　　18. Thematically Yeats's poem ， “ The Lake Isle of Innisfree ”，__________________.

　　A. celebrates the rich and colorful life of the modern people
　　B.criticizes the emptiness of the hermit's life in the remote country .
　　C. laments the loss of the Irish legendary tradition
　　D. laments the emptiness of the urban life and advocates a return to the simple and serene life of nature documentary precision are main features of his writing .

　　19. Eliot's poem ， The Waste Land ， is mainly concerned with the _________ of a modern civilization .

　　A. social corruption
　　B. spiritual breakup
　　C. physical breakup
　　D. religious corruption

　　20. Eliot 's “ The love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock ” is presented as a （n） __________， suggesting an ironic contrast between a pretended “ love song ” and a confession of his incapability of facing up to love and to life in a sterile upper-class world .

　　A. interior monologue
　　B. authentic dialogue
　　C. lyric song
　　D. religious confession

　　21. The excerpt from Chapter 10 of Sons and Lovers ends with the conflict between Paul and his mother . The conflict is possibly caused by Paul and his mother's different views towards __________ .

　　A. Paul's father
　　B. art
　　c. life
　　D. Paul's brother

　　22. The __________ can be regarded as one of the themes of Joyce's story “ Araby ” .

　　A. loss of innocence
　　B. childish love
　　c. awareness of harsh life
　　D. false sentimentality

　　23. After reading “ Araby ” ， one may feel the story has a _________ tone .

　　A. joyous
　　B. harsh
　　c. solemn
　　D. painful

　　24. In “Araby ” ， Joyce's diction evokes a sort of __________ quality that characterizes the boy on his otherwise altogether ordinary shopping trip .

　　A. religious
　　B. moral
　　C. sentimental
　　D. vulgar

　　25. The major concern of ___________ fiction lies in the tracing of the psycholoical development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature .

　　A. D. H. Lawrence 's
　　B. J. Galsworthy's
　　C. W. Thackeray 's
　　D. T. Hardy's

　　26. The mission of __________ drama was to reveal the moral ， political and economic truth from a radical reformist point of view .

　　A. T.S. Eliot's
　　B. J. Galsworthy's
　　C. W. Thackerary 's
　　D. T. Hardy 's

　　27. Irving was best know for his famous short stories such as ___________ .

　　A. Rip Van Winkle
　　B. Young Goodman Brown
　　C. Life of Goldsmith
　　D. Life of Washington

　　28. Melville's ___________ is an encycolopedia of everything ， history ， philosophy ， religion ， etc .

　　A. The Old Man and the Sea
　　B.Moby - Dick
　　C. White Jacket
　　D. Billy Budd

　　29 . Mark Twain created ， in ____________ ， a masterpiece of American realism that is also one of the great books of world literature .

　　A. Huckleberry Finn
　　B. Tom Sowyer
　　C. The Gilded Age
　　D. The Mysterious Stranger

　　30. American literature produced only one female poet during the ninetheenth century ， This was ___________ .

　　A. Anne Bradsteet
　　B. Jane Austen
　　c. Emily Dickinson
　　D. T. S. Eliot

　　31. The main theme of ___________ The Art of Fiction reveals his literary credo that representation of life should be the main object of the novel .

　　A. Henry James'
　　B. Mark Twain's
　　C. Theodore Dreiser's
　　D. William Howells'

　　32. In the 1920s， O'Neil established an international reputation with the plays _________.

　　A. The Emperor Jones
　　B. Anna Christle
　　C. The Hairy Ape
　　D. all of the above

　　33.In 1954 ， ___________ was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature for his “ mastery of the art of modern narration . ”

　　A. T.S. Eliot
　　B. Ernest Hemingway
　　C. John Steinbeck
　　D.William Faulkner

　　34. “The apparition of these faces in the crowd ； Petals on a wet ， black bough . ” This is the shortest poem written by _____________.

　　A. T.S. Eliot
　　B. Robert Frost
　　C. Ezra Pound
　　D. Emily Dickinson

　　35. In Robert Frost 's famous poems “ Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening ”， there are four lines like these ：“ 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 ”。 The second sleep refers to _____________.

　　A. die
　　B. calm down

　　C. fall into sleep
　　D. stop walking

　　36. Of the following American poets ， whose work was first recognized in England and then in America ？ ___________.

　　A. Robert Frost
　　B. Walt Whitman
　　C. Emily Dickinson
　　D. Wallace Stevens

　　37. “ For I have had too much / Of apple-picking： I am overtired / Of the great harvest I myself desired ”。 From these lines we can conclude that the speaker ____________.

　　A. is happy about the harvest
　　B. is tired of the work of apple-picking
　　C. is not tired when seeing the harvest
　　D. becomes indifferent of the job

　　38. Chinese poetry and philosophy had great influence on _____ .

　　A. Robert Frost

　　B. Ralph Waldo Emerson

　　C. Ezra Pound

　　D. Emily Dickinson

　　39. The Hemingway code heroes are best remembered for their ________________ .

　　A. indestructible spirit

　　B. pessimistic view of life

　　C. war experiences

　　D. masculinity

　　40. Lots of people rushed to Gatsby's party at the weekend and they clustered around Castsby 's wealth like ______________ .

　　A. gluttons

　　B. flies

　　C. insects

　　D. moths

　　1.C 2.A 3.A 4.B 5.A 6.B 7.B 8.C 9.C 10.A 11.C 12.A 13.A 14.D 15.C 16.B 17.D 18.D 19.B 20 A 21.C 22.A 23.D 24.A 25.A 26.C 27.A 28.B 29.A 30. C 31.A 32.D 33.B 34.C 35.A 36.A 37.B 38.C 39.A 40.D
 

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31. After The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Twain gives a literary independence to Tom’s buddy Huck in a book entitled
A. Life on the Mississippi
B. The Gilded Age
C. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
D. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
Answer: C

32. However, the keynote of Daisy Miller’s character, turns out to be an admiring but a dangerous quality and her defiance of social taboos in the Old World finally brings her to a disaster in the clash between two different cultures.
A. experience
B. sophistication
C. worldliness
D. innocence
Answer: D

33. Generally speaking, all those writers with a naturalistic approach to human reality tend to be
A. transcendentalists
B. idealists
C. pessimists
D. impressionists
Answer: C

34. Emily Dickinson wrote many short poems on various aspects of life. Which of the following is NOT a usual subject of her poetic expression_r?
A. Religion and immortality
B. Life and death
C. Love and marriage
D. War and peace
Answer: D

35. In "After Apple- Picking," Robert Frost wrote: "For I have had too much / Of apple -picking: I am overtired/ Of the great harvest I myself desired." 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
Answer: D

36. Chinese poetry and philosophy have exerted great influence over

A. Ezra Pound
B. Ralph Waldo Emerson
C. Robert Frost
D. Emily Dickinson
Answer: A

37. The Hemingway Code heroes are best remembered for their
A. indestructible spirit
B. pessimistic view of life
C. war experiences
D. masculinity
Answer: A

38. In The Emperor Jones and The Hairy Ape, O’Neill adopted the expression_rist techniques to portray the of human beings in a hostile universe.
A. helpless situation
B. uncertainty
C. profound religious faith
D. courage and perseverance
Answer: A

39. In Hemingway’s "Indian Camp", Nick’s night trip to the Indian village and his experience inside the hut can be taken as
A. an essential lesson about Indian tribes
B. a confrontation with evil and sin
C. an initiation to the harshness of life
D. a learning process in human relationship
Answer: C

40. Which of the following statements about Emily Grierson, the protagonist in Faulkner’s story " A Rose for Emily," is NOT true?
A. She has a distorted personality.
B. She is physically deformed and paralyzed.
C. She is the symbol of the old values of the South.
D. She is the victim of the past glory.
Answer: B

PART TWO
Ⅱ Reading Comprehension
41. "Her eyes met his and he looked away. He neither believed nor disbelieved her, but he knew that he had made a mistake in asking; he never had known, never know, what she was thinking. The sight of her inscrutable face, the thought of all the hundreds of evenings he had seen her sitting there like that, soft and passive, but so unreadable, unknown, enraged him beyond measure."
Questions:
A. Identify the writer and the work.
B. What does the phrase "inscrutable face" mean?
C. What idea does the quoted passage express?

Answers:
A. John Galsworthy "The man of property"
B. It means that in his eyes, she is mysterious and cannot be understood by him.
C. It expresses that Soames doesn’t understand his wife, Irene, and the predominant possessive instinct of the Forsytes and its effects upon the personal relationship of the family with the underlying assumption that human relationship of the contemporary English society are merely and extension of property relationship.

42. "And when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin,
When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall,
Then how should I begin
To spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways."
Questions:
A. Identify the poem and the poet.
B. What does the phrase "butt-ends" mean?
C. What idea does the quoted passage express?

Answers:
A. T. S. Eliot "The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
B. It means the speaker’s unsatisfied desires.
C. It expresses the speaker’s incapability of facing up to love and to life in a sterile upper-class world.

43. "God knows, ... I’m not myself-I’m somebody else-- ... and I’m changed, and I can’t tell what’s my name, or who I am."
Questions:
A. Identify the work and author.
B. The speaker says he is changed. Do you think he is changed, or the social environment has changed?
C. What idea does the quoted sentence express?

Answers:
A. Washington Irving " Rip van winkle"
B. The social environment has changed.
C. It expresses the background of the inevitably changing America.

44. "I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I---
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."
Questions:
A. Identify the poem and the poet.
B. What does the phrase "ages and ages hence" mean?
C. What idea does the quoted passage express?

Answers:
A. Robert Lee Frost "The Road Not Taken"
B. It means a long time later from now.
C. It expresses that man is learning form nature the zones of his own limitations.

Ⅲ. Questions and Answers
45. As a rule, an allegory is a story in verse or prose with a double meaning: a surface meaning, and an implied meaning. List two works and examples of allegory. What is an allegory usually concerned with by its implied meaning?
Answer:
John Bunyan’s "The pilgrim progress"
John Milton’s "Paradise Lost"
It is concerned with something spiritual and the relevance to the time.

46. Inspiration for the romantic approach initially came from two great shapers of thought. Who are the two? And what ideas they expressed inspire the romantic writers?
Answer:
Jean- Jacques Rousseau and Thomas Paine
The new ideas about nature, society and education, that is liberty, equality and fraternity they expressed inspire the romantic writers.

47. The white whale, Moby Dick, is the most important symbol in Melville’s novel. What symbolic meaning can you draw from it?
Answer:
Its symbolic meaning is a voyage of the mind in quest of the truth and knowledge of the universe, a spiritual exploration in man’s deep reality and psychology.

48. Nature is a philosophic work, in which Emerson gives an explicit discussion on his idea of the Over-soul. What is your understanding of Emersonian "Over-soul"?
Answer:
It means the religion on an intuitive belief in an ultimate unity.

Ⅳ. Topic Discussion
49. How is Romanticism different from Neoclassicism? Provide brief evidence from the literary works you know best.
Answer:
In the field of literature, the Enlightenment Movement brought about a revival of interest in the old classical works. This tendency is known as neoclassicism. It requires that all forms of literature are to be modeled after the classical works of the ancient Greek and Roman writers and those of the contemporary French ones, artistic ideals should be order, logic, restrained emotion and accuracy, and that literature should be judged in terms of its service to humanity. In this case, Human beings are instructed and corrected primarily as social animals. Romanticism emphasizes the special qualities of each individual’s mind and constitutes a change of direction from attention to the outer world of social civilization to the inner world of human spirit. It tends to see the individual as the very center of all life and all experience. It also places the individual at the center of are. For example, "An essay on criticism"(Neoclassicism) is orderly and logical with restrained emotion and accuracy while "I wondered loely as a cloud" (Romanticism) is just the opposite.

50. Summarize the story of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in about 100 words, and comment on the theme of the novel.
Answer:
Huck escapes from a lonely cabin where he has been punished by his father. He meets Jim, a run-away slave, and they start down the river on a raft. After several adventures, the raft is hit and they are separated. Huck is saved and later he discovers Jim. They set out again, giving refuge to a gang of frauds. Huck interferes on behalf of three daughter but fails. Then he finds that Jim has been sold by the "King". He and Tom try to rescue Jim. In the rescue, Tom is shot and Jim is recaptured. Later, Tom reveals that the rescue is necessary only because he wants the adventure of it. At last, Huck is safe because his father dies.
The theme of the novel is to expose the pre-civil war American society. It presents a sample of the small -town world of America and a survey of the social world from the bank of the river that runs through the heart of the country.

 

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PART ONE
I. Multiple Choice

1. Romance, which uses narrative verse or prose to tell stories of
adventures or other heroic deeds, is a popular literary form in the medieval period.
A. Christian
B. Knightly
C. Greek
D. Primitive
Answer: B

2. 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
Answer: D

3. Which of the following historical events does not directly help to stimulate the rising of the Renaissance 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.
Answer: C

4. 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.
Answer: C

5. "And we will sit upon the rocks, /Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks, /By shallow rivers to whose falls/ Melodious birds sing madrigals." The above lines are probably taken 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"
Answer: D

6. "Bassanio: Antonio, I am married to a wife
Which is 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 them all,
Here to the devil, to deliver you.
Portia: Your wife would give you little thanks for that,
If she were by to hear you make the offer."
The above is a quotation taken from Shakespeare’s comedy The Merchant of Venice. The quoted part can be regarded as a good example to illustrate
A. dramatic irony
B. personification
C. allegory
D. symbolism
Answer: A

7. The true subject of John Donne’s poem, "The Sun Rising," is to
A. attack the sun as 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
Answer: B

8. Of all the 18th century novelists Henry Fielding was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a " in prose," the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.
A. tragic epic
B. comic epic
C. romance
D. lyric epic
Answer: B

9. The Houyhnhnms 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
Answer: D

10. Here are four lines from a literary work: "Others for language all their care express,/And value books, and 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
Answer: C

11. The phrase "to urge people to abide by Christian doctrines and to seek salvation through constant struggles with their own weaknesses and all kinds of social evils" may well sum up the implied meaning of
A. Gulliver’s Travels
B. The Rape of the Lock
C. Robinson Crusoe
D. The Pilgrim’s Progress
Answer: D

12. William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following EXCEPT
A. the use of everyday language spoken by the common people
B. the expression_r 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
Answer: D

13. Which of the following 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."
Answer: D

14. "If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?" is an epigrammatic line by
A. J. Keats
B. W. Blake
C. W. Wordsworth
D. P. B. Shelley
Answer: D

15. "Ode on a Grecian 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
Answer: B

16. In the statement "-oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?" the term "soul" apparently refers to
A. Heathcliff himself
B. Catherine
C. one’s spiritual life
D. one’s ghost
Answer: D

17. The typical feature of Robert Browning’s poetry is the
A. bitter satire
B. larger-than-life caricature
C. Latinized diction
D. dramatic monologue
Answer: D

18. The Victorian Age was largely and age of , eminently represented by Dickens and Thackeray.
A. poetry
B. drama
C. prose
D. epic prose
Answer: D

19. is the first important governess novel in the English literary history.
A. Jane Eyre
B. Emma
C. Wuthering Heights
D. Middlemarch
Answer: A

20. The major concern of fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature.
A. D. H. Lawrence’s
B. J. Galsworthy’s
C. W. Thackeray’s
D. T. Hardy’s
Answer: A

21. is considered to be the best-known English dramatist since Shakespeare, and his representative works are plays inspired by social criticism.
A. Richard Sheridan
B. Oliver Goldsmith
C. Oscar Wilde
D. Bernard Shaw
Answer: D

22. Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Modernism?
A. To elevate the individual and inner being over the social being.
B. To put the stress on traditional values.
C. To portray the distorted and alienated relationships between
man and his environment.
D. To advocate a conscious break with the past.
Answer: B

23. The Romantic writers would focus on all the following issues EXCEPT the in the American literary history.
A. individual feelings
B. idea of survival of the fittest
C. strong imagination
D. return to nature
Answer: B

24. Henry David Thoreau’s work, has always been regarded as a
masterpiece of New England Transcendentalism.
A. Walden
B. The Pioneers
C. Nature
D. Song of Myself
Answer: A

25. The famous 20-year sleep in "Rip Van Winkle" helps to construct
the story in such a way that we are greatly affected by Irving’s
A. concern with the passage of time
B. expression_r of transient beauty
C. satire on laziness and corruptibility of human beings
D. idea about supernatural manipulation of man’s life
Answer: D

26. Walt Whitman was a pioneering figure of American poetry. His innovation first of all lies in his use of , poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.
A. bland verse
B. heroic couplet
C. free verse
D. iambic pentameter
Answer: C

27. The literary characters of the American type in early 19th century are generally characterized by all the following features EXCEPT that they
A. speak local dialects
B. are polite and elegant gentlemen
C. are simple and crude farmers
D. are noble savages(red and white) untainted by society
Answer: B

28. Hster Pryme, Dimmesdale, Cillingworth, and Pearl are most likely the names of the characters in
A. The Scarlet Letter
B. The House of the Seven Gablest
C. The portrait of a Lady
D. The Pioneers
Answer: A

29. "This is my letter to the World" is a poetic expression_r of Emily Dickinson’s about her communication with the outside world.
A. indifference
B. anger
C. anxiety
D. sorrow
Answer: C

30. With Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the literary scene,
became the major trend in American literature in the seventies and eighties of the 19th century.
A. Sentimentalism
B. romanticism
C. realism
D. naturalism
Answer: C

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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)

46. "The first shot I made among these creatures, I killed a she-goat which had a little kid by her which

she gave suck to, which grieved me heartily; but when the old one fell, the kid stood stock still by her

till I came and took her up, and not only so, but when I carried the old one with me upon my shoulders,

the kid followed me quite to my enclosure, upon which I laid down the dam, and took the kid in my arms,

and carried it over my pale, in hopes to have it bred up tame, but it would not eat, so I was forced to

kill it and eat it myself; these two supplied me with flesh a great while, for I ate sparingly; and saved

my provisions (my bread especially) as much as possibly I could."

This is a very significant sentence with great details that reveals the character of Robinson Crusoe.

What aspects of Crusoe’s character are revealed then?

参考答案:
1) In most of his works, Defoe gave his praise to the hard-working, sturdy middle class and showed his

sympathy for the lower-class people. Robinson Crusoe was such a character.

2) Robison goes out to sea, gets shipwrecked and marooned/landed on a lonely island, struggles to live

for 24 years there and finally is saved by a ship and returns to England. During the period Robinson

leads a harsh and lonely life and survives by growing corps, taming animals, etc. growing from a na?ve

young man into a hardened man.

3) With a great capacity for work, inexhaustible energy (精力充沛), courage and persistence in overcoming

difficulties（在克服困难方面持之以恒）, in struggling against nature, Crusoe becomes the prototype /

representative of the empire builder, the pioneer colonist. （他是大英帝国缔造者的完美典范，同时也是殖民

者的先驱）．

4) In the novel, Defoe glorified human labor and the puritan fortitude which the middle class praised

highly, so he can be regarded as a spokesman of the bourgeois. (P98-100)

47. Situational irony occurs when what happens turns out to be quite different from what is expected;

sometimes what happen is just the opposite of what is expected. In "Indian Camp," Hemingway makes a

successful use of this kind of irony.

Please illustrate it with some examples.
(本题属于超纲题，书上没有现成的答案，可忽略不计)

48. "The only thing I don’t like, she proceeded, is the society." ("Daisy Miller" by Henry James)

What kind of society does Daisy not like? Why?

参考答案:
She doesn’t like the old world ---European life. Because she is the American Girl in Europe, a

celebrated cultural type who embodies the spirit of the New World. However, innocence, the keynote of her

character, turns out to be an admiring but a dangerous quality and her defiance of social taboos in the

Old World finally brings her to a disaster in the clash between two different cultures. (P499---500)

IV Topic Discussion
49. List three distinctive features of English Renaissance movement in literature and then illustrate

each with proofs from either the concerned chapter in your textbook or your own reading.

参考答案:
1) The first period of the English Renaissance was one of imitation and assimilation. Petrarch was

regarded as the fountainhead of literature by the English writers. Wyatt introduced the Petrachan sonnet

into England and Surrey brought in blank verse.
2) The Elizabethan drama, in its totality, is the real mainstream of the English Renaissance. The Greek

and Roman Drams had a great influence on the Elizabeth Drama, especially on Shakespeare’s tragedies. E.g.

Hamlet, the first of the great tragedies, is regarded as Shakespeare’s most popular play on the stage.

3) Francis Bacon, the first important English essayist, is best known for his essays which greatly

influenced the development of his literary form. He was the founder of modern science in England.
(P10---12)

50. "My faith is gone!" cried he (Goodman Brown), after one stupefied moment. "There is no good on earth;

and sin is but a name. Come, devil! for to thee is this world given."

Comment on this passage from Hawthorne’s "Young Goodman Brown".

参考答案:
1) Allegorically, Young Goodman Brown becomes an Everyman called Brown, who will be aged in one night by

an evil adventure, and the evilness makes everyone a fallen idol in the world.

2) "My Faith is gone" is a pun, it means my wife has disappeared or my faith to God has gone. In the

angle of Symbol: "Brown look up to the Heaven and resist the wicked one" symbols Brown has the force to

resist the evilness of the Nature and he still has the faith to God; but "he is alone in the forest"

symbols the society is the place full of sins and evilness, Brown’s strength is not enough at all; then

after returning, he lives a dismal and gloomy life symbols he has been crushed down by the social

evilness and lost his belief in goodness and piety. (P434—435)