一、单项选择题

1.The work that presented , for the first time in English literature, a comprehensive realistic picture of the medieval English society and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life is most likely______.
A. William Langland ’ Piers Plowman
B. Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales
C. John Gower’Confessio Amantis
D. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

2."So much the worse for me, that I an strong. Do I want to live? What kind of living will it be when you-oh, God!
Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?"
In the above passage quoted from Emily Brontes Wuthering Heights, the word "soul" apparently refers to _______ .
A.Heathcliff
B.Catherine
C.ghost
D.ones spiritual lift

3.Here are two lines from a ling poem: "Upon a great adventure he was bond, That greatest Gloriana to him gave." The poem must be_____.
A. Beowulf
B. John Milton’s Samson Agonistes
C. Thomas Gray’s Elegy Written in a County Churchyard
D. Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene

4.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.Charles Dickenss
B.D.H.Lawrences
C.Thomas Hardys
D.John Galsworthys

5.When he writes, in An Essay on Criticism, "A vile conceit in pompous words expressed, / Is like a clown in regal purple dressed", Alexander Pope means that __________.
A. pompous words are always destructive to good taste
B. the purple colour is for the royal only and it is ridiculous to dress a clown in purple
C. conceits are always misleading
D. true wit is best in a plain style

6."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."
The above quoted sentence is presented by Samuel Johnson with a（n） _______ tone.
A.delightful
B.jealous
C.ironic
D.humorous

7."The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks."(Samuel Johnson, "To the Right Honorable the Earl of Chesterfield")The speaker here is ______.
A. cheerful
B. ironic
C. mysterious
D. nonchalant

8._______ is a typical feature of Swifts writings.
A.Bitter satire
B.Elegant style
C.Casual narration
D.Complicated sentence structure

9.The first line of William Blake’s well-known poem "The Tyger" reads, "Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright".The repeated word "tiger" (tiger) with an exclamation mark suggests_______.
A. joy
B. fear
C. pain
D. fondness

10."Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless?…And if God had gifted me with some beauty, and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you."
The above quoted passage is most probably taken from _______ .
A.Pride and Prejudice
B.Jane Eyre
C.Wuthering Heights
D.Great Expectations

11.The lines, "It was a miracle of rare device,/ A sunny pleasure dome with caves of ice," are found in __________.
A. Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s "Kubla Khan"
B. William Wordsworth’s "Lines Written in Early Spring"
C. John Keats’s "Ode to Autumn"
D. Percy Bysshe Shelly’s "ode to the West Wind"

12.G.B.Shaws play Mrs.Warrens Profession is a realistic exposure of the _______ in the English society.
A.slum landlordism
B.inequality between men and women
C.political corruption
D.economic exploitation of women

13.

" Damn the fool! There he is, cried Heathcliff, sinking back into his seat. Hush, my darling! Hush, hush, Catherine! I’ll stay. If he shot me so, I’d expire with a blessing in my lips." The novel from which the passage is taken must be _________.
A. Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
B. Charles Dickens’s The Old Curiosity Shop
C. Samuel Richardson’s Pamela
D. Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights

14."I believe you are made of stone,he said, clenching his fingers so hard that he broke the fragile cup. …You seem to forget, she said,that cup is not!"
From the above quoted passage, we can find the womans tone is very _______ .
A.sarcastic
B.amusing
C.sentimental
D.facetious

15.Here is a passage from Middlemarch, a novel by George Eliot: "Her blooming full-pulsed youth stood there in a moral imprisonment which made itself one with the chill, colourless, narrowed landscape, with the shrunken furniture, the never-read books, and the ghostly stag in pale fanatic world that seemed to be vanishing from the daylight," Who is the lady mentioned in the quoted passage?
A. Dorothea
B. Emma
C. Molly
D. Irene

16.Alexander Pope strongly advocated _______, emphasizing that literary works should be judged by rules of order, reason, logic, restrained emotion, good taste and decorum.
A.sentimentalism
B.romanticism
C.idealism
D.neoclassicism

17.Which of the following brings LITTLE impact on the development of 20th century literature?
A. Friedrich Nietzche’s assertions: "God is dead"
B. Arther Schopenharuer’s and Henry Bergson’s philosophical ideas of irrationality.
C. Oscar Wilde’s idea of "Art for Art’s Sake".
D. Freudian-Jungian psycho-analysis

18.Of all the eighteenth-century novelists, _______ was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a "comic epic in prose," and the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.
A.Daniel Defoe
B.Samuel Richardson
C.Henry Fielding
D.Oliver Goldsmith

19.Which of the following best describes the speaker of T.S.Eliot’s " The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock"?
A. He is an man of a action.
B. He is a man of apathy.
C. He is a man of passion.
D. He is a man of inactivity

20.In Hardys Wessex novels, there is an apparent _______ touch in his description of the simple and beautiful though primitive rural life.
A.humorous
B.romantic
C.nostalgic
D.sarcastic

21. "He was afraid of her -the small, severe woman with greying hair suddenly bursting out in such frenzy. The postman came running back, afraid something had happened. /they saw his tripped cap over the short curtains. Mrs Morel rushes to the door." The above passage id taken from _________.
A. Charlotte Bronte’s The Professor
B. Charles Dickens’s Domebey and Son
C. D.H.Lawrence ’s Sons and Lovers
D. John Galsworthy’s The Forsyte Saga

22.We can perhaps describe the west wind in Shelleys poem "Ode to the West Wind" with all the following terms except
_______ .
A.tamed
B.swift
C.proud
D.wild

23.Which of the following works concerns most concentrated the Calvinistic view of original sin?
A. The Wasteland.
B. The Scarlet Letter.
C. Leaves of Grass.
D. As I Lay Dying

24.In Hawthornes "Young Goodman Brown," a satanic figure leads the credulous protagonist to a witches Sabbath in the woods. There he recognizes many pillars of Salems Puritan society as well as his wife, Faith. The story illustrates Hawthornes allegorical theme of human evil or what Melville called the "power of _______ ."
A.blackness
B.whiteness
C.terror
D.hypocrisy

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.Most of the poems in Whitmans Leaves of Grass sing of the "en-mass" and the _______ as well.
A.nature
B.self-reliance
C.self
D.life

27.At the beginning of Faulkner’s A Rose For Emily, there is a 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.Which of the following statements about writers in 1920s is true?
A.Mark Twain published his last and most important novel.
B.F. Scott Fitzgerald received the Nobel Prize.
C.Freudian psychology influenced many modern writers.
D.Most writers were politically radical.

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.Mark Twains first novel _______ , written in collaboration with Charles D. Warner and published in 1873,though not an artistic success, gives its name to the America of the post-Civil War period which it attempts to
satirize.
A.The Gilded Age
B.The Age of Innocence
C.The Roughing Time
D.The Jazz Age

31."Two roads diverged in a yellow wood
And sorry I could not travel both ..."
In the above two lines of Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken, the poet, by implication, was referring to _______.
A. a travel experience
B. a marriage decision
C. a middle-age crisis
D. one’s course of life

32.Daisy Millers tragedy of indiscretion is intensified and enlarged by its narration from the point of view of
_______ .
A.the author Henry James
B.the Italian youth Giovanelli
C.the American youth Winterbourne
D.her mother Mrs. Miller

33.Which of the following is not a work of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s?
A. The House of the Seven Gables.
B. The Blithedale Romance.
C. The Marble Falun.
D. White Jacket.

34.In Hawthorne’s novels and short stories, intellectuals usually appear as _______.
A. commentators
B. observers
C. villains
D. saviors

35.Most recognizable literary movement that gave rise to the twentieth-century American literature, or we may say, the second American Renaissance, is the _______ movement.
A.transcendental
B.leftist
C.expatriate
D.expressionistic

36.In Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, there are detailed descriptions of big parties. The purpose of such descriptions is so show _______.
A. emptiness of life
B. the corruption of the upper class
C. contrast of the rich and the poor
D. the happy days of the Jazz Age

37.As an autobiographical play, ONeills _______ （1956）has gained its status as a world classic and
simultaneously marks the climax of his literary career and the coming of age of American drama.
A.The Iceman Cometh
B.Long Days Journey Into Night
C.The Hairy Ape
D.Desire Under the Elms

38.Which of the following novels can be regarded as typically belonging to the school of literary modernism?
A. The Sound and the Fury
B. Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
C. Daisy Miller.
D. The Gilded Age.

39.Stylistically, Henry James fiction is characterized by _______ .
A.short, clear sentences
B.abundance of local images
C.ordinary American speech
D.highly refined language

二、阅读理解（二）。

1.Give brief answers to each of the following questions in English.

(1).The following quotation is the ending of a poem by Robert Browning:
Nay, well go
Together down, sir, Notice Neptune, though,
Taming a sea horse, though a rarity,
Which Claus of Innsbruck cast in bronze for me.
What is the title of the poem? Who is the speaker? What is the importance of the allusion "Neptune…/Taming a sea horse" in the whole poem? A."My Last Duchess"
B.The Duke, or the husband of the Duchess.
C.Placed at the end of the poem, the allusion serves as the conclusion that tells the reader-listener that the speaker is a tyrant.

(2).Novum Organum（"New Instrument"）, along with other works, won the author the honour "Father of modern science." Who is the author? What is the main concern of the work? Why the work is so important for the development of modern science? A.Francis Bacon.
B.The work is an argument for the inductive reasoning in place of the Aristotelian deductive reasoning.
C.The Aristotelian reasoning only states the fact, not capable of discovery while the inductive reasoning, although starting with a hypothesis and developing with experiments, may lead to the discovery of true knowledge.

(3).Ezra Pound is one of the pioneers in modern poetry. What is the poetic school of which he is a chief member?
What is Pounds representative work of many years of poetic creation? What is the title of his frequently quoted one-image poem?Pound has translated some literary works from two great ancient civilizations.
One is Greece. What is the other? How do you understand his famous comment "The image itself is the speech"? A.Imagism.
B.The Cantos.
C."In a Station of the Metro"
D.China.
E.Pound means that image should not be ornaments only, but should be the focus of poetic expression. By emphasizing the exterior object, Pound hopes to avoid moralizing and achieve clarity and exactness.

(4).William Faulkner, a Nobel Prize winner, has an important position in American literature. Name two of his Major novels. Do you know anything about"Yoknapatawpha County?" What is unique of Faulkners fiction, historically and geographically?
Ⅳ.Topic Discussion（20 points, 10 points for each）
Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet. A.下列作品中任何两本：SoldiersPay, Sartoris, The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Light in August, Absalom, Absalom!, The Hamlet, The Town, The Mansion, and Intruder in the Dust.
B.Yoknapatawpha County is an imagined place based on Faulkners own hometown, a place that he took for the setting of 15 of his 19 novels and many short stories. This small region in the American South becomes in Faulkners fiction an allegory or a parable of the Old South.
C.His literary representation of the Old South; and his theme of the deterioration, loss and moral decay of the Old South when it was falling apart.

三、阅读理解（三）。

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

(1).A possible theme of James Joyces short story "Araby" is disillusionment. Briefly discuss the symbolism Joyce employs in presenting this theme.

(2).What makes Mark Twains The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn more than a childs adventure story? Briefly discuss the question from THREE of the following aspects: the setting, the language, the character（s）, the theme and the style.

四、阅读理解

1.Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English.

(1).Read the quotation carefully and then answer the questions:
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,
The lowing herd wind slowly oer the lea,
The plowman homeward plods his weary way,
And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
A.Scan the first line of the stanza.
B.Find the irregular foot in the second line.
C.Briefly explain the significance of this irregularity.

(2).The following is a passage taken from a dramatic work:
Had I as many souls as there be stars
Id give them all for Mephistophilis!
By him Ill be great emperor of the world,
And make a bridge thorough the moving air
To pass the ocean with a band of men;
Ill join the hills that bind the Afric shore
And make that country continent to Spain,
And both contributory to my crown;
The emperor shall not live but by my leave,
Nor any potentate of Germany.
Now that I have obtained what I desire
Ill live in speculation of this art
Till Mephistophilis return again.
A.Name the playwright and the title of the work from which the passage is taken.
B.Name the speaker of the passage quoted above.
C.Use the above passage as a guide and write down in one or two sentences the theme of the play.

(3).Read the following passage and then answer the questions:
…I glanced back once. A wafer of a moon was shining over Gatsbys house, making the night fine as before, and surviving the laughter and the sound of his still glowing garden. A sudden emptiness seemed to flow now from the windows and the great doors, endowing with complete isolation the figure of the host, who stood on the porch, his hand up in a formal gesture of farewell.
A.Identify the author and the title of the novel from which this passage is taken.
B.The passage describes the end of an event. What is it?
C.What implied meaning can you get from reading this passage?

(4).Read the following part of a poem and then answer the questions:
My tongue, every atom of my blood, formd from this soil, this air,
Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their parents the same,
I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin,
Hoping to cease not till death.
A.Identify the poet and the title of the poem.
B.What do "soil" and "air" represent in the first line?
C.What does the poet try to say in the above four lines?

答案部分

一、单项选择题

1.
【正确答案】 B

2.
【正确答案】 B

3.
【正确答案】 D

4.
【正确答案】 B

5.
【正确答案】 D

6.
【正确答案】 C

7.
【正确答案】 B

8.
【正确答案】 A

9.
【正确答案】 B

10.
【正确答案】 B

11.
【正确答案】 A

12.
【正确答案】 D

13.
【正确答案】 D

14.
【正确答案】 A

15.
【正确答案】 A

16.
【正确答案】 D

17.
【正确答案】 C

18.
【正确答案】 C

19.
【正确答案】 D

20.
【正确答案】 C

21.
【正确答案】 C

22.
【正确答案】 A

23.
【正确答案】 B

24.
【正确答案】 A

25.
【正确答案】 B

26.
【正确答案】 C

27.
【正确答案】 C

28.
【正确答案】 C

29.
【正确答案】 D

30.
【正确答案】 A

31.
【正确答案】 D

32.
【正确答案】 C

33.
【正确答案】 D

34.
【正确答案】 C

35.
【正确答案】 C

36.
【正确答案】 A

37.
【正确答案】 B

38.
【正确答案】 A

39.
【正确答案】 D

二、阅读理解（二）。

1.

(1).

【正确答案】 A."My Last Duchess"
B.The Duke, or the husband of the Duchess.
C.Placed at the end of the poem, the allusion serves as the conclusion that tells the reader-listener that the speaker is a tyrant.

(2).

【正确答案】 A.Francis Bacon.
B.The work is an argument for the inductive reasoning in place of the Aristotelian deductive reasoning.
C.The Aristotelian reasoning only states the fact, not capable of discovery while the inductive reasoning, although starting with a hypothesis and developing with experiments, may lead to the discovery of true knowledge.

(3).

【正确答案】 A.Imagism.
B.The Cantos.
C."In a Station of the Metro"
D.Chian.
E.Pound means that image should not be ornaments only, but should be the focus of poetic expression. By emphasizing the exterior object, Pound hopes to avoid moralizing and achieve clarity and exactness.

(4).

【正确答案】 A.下列作品中任何两本：SoldiersPay, Sartoris, The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Light in August, Absalom, Absalom!, The Hamlet, The Town, The Mansion, and Intruder in the Dust.
B.Yoknapatawpha County is an imagined place based on Faulkners own hometown, a place that he took for the setting of 15 of his 19 novels and many short stories. This small region in the American South becomes in Faulkners fiction an allegory or a parable of the Old South.
C.His literary representation of the Old South; and his theme of the deterioration, loss and moral decay of the Old South when it was falling apart.

三、阅读理解（三）。

1.

(1).

【正确答案】 A."Short days of winter," "silent" the street of "blind end," "dark muddy lanes" with "feeble lanterns," "dark dripping gardens," and many others foretell the inevitable failure of the boys attempt to reach his desire.
B.Mangans sister, for whom the boy had tender feelings, symbolizes hope/aspiration, but she was symbolically confined（"have a retreat in her convent"）.
C.The journey to the bazaar is a quest for the fulfillment of the aspiration, but the journey was "intolerably" delayed, and when the boy got to the bazaar, half of it was already dark. Whats more,the young lady at the door of a stall was "not encouraging," and spoke to the boy "out of sense of duty." When the upper part of the hall was completely dark, the boys disillusionment was announced. And thus, "Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger."

(2).

【正确答案】 A.Setting: In the novel Mark Twain recreates a small-town world of America and presents the local color.
B.Language: He uses simple, direct language faithful to the colloquial speech, the vernacular language of the local people.
C.Character（s）: The author recreates two rebels and fugitives running away from civilization, especially Huckleberry Finn, an innocent boy who refuses to accept the conventional village morality.
D.Theme: The novel is a criticism of social injustice, hypocrisy, conservativeness and narrow-mindedness of the American small town society.
E.Style: The novel employs a humorous style of narration and is also highly symbolic with the central symbol.

四、阅读理解

1.

(1).

【正确答案】 A.Iambic pentameter with the rhyming scheme of abab.
B.The third foot contains two accented syllables.
C.Two accented syllables slow down the pace in keeping with the literary meaning of the phrase "wind slowly."

(2).

【正确答案】 A.Dr.Faustus, a play by Christopher Marlowe.
B.Dr.Faustus.
C.Mans aspiration, bounding achievements, and the inevitable failure.

(3).

【正确答案】 A.Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby.
B.It is a description of the end of a big party.
C.The passage hints at the meaninglessness, spiritual emptiness and vanity of such a lift of pleasure-seeking.
There is a tragic sense that the "party" will be over.

(4).

【正确答案】 A.Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself"（早期几版诗人曾用过"Poem of Walt Whitman, an American" 和 "Walt Whitman", 也应算
对）.
B.America, his country, his native land.
C.I was born and nurtured by this land and shall from now on devote my whole life to the country.