《英美文学选读》模拟试题(1)答案

《英美文学选读》模拟试题（一）

一、单项选择题

1.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

2.The _____ can be regarded as one of the themes of Joyce’s story “Araby”. A. loss of innocence 在所有有關童年故事中，孩子都是同叔叔同姨媽同住，父母則不在身邊—這便是一種象征，象征父母與孩子之間骨肉親情的隔絕和一種正常關系的缺失.

B. childish love

C. awareness of harsh life D. false sentimentality 錯誤的多愁善感

3.After reading “Araby”, one more feel the story has a _____ tone. A. joyous B. harsh

C. solemn D. painful

4.In “Araby”, Joyce’s diction evokes a sort of _____ quality that characterizes the boy on this otherwise altogether ordinary shopping trip. A. religious B. moral

C. sentimental D. vulgar

5.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

6.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. B. Shaw’s D. W. B. Yeats’

7.Irving was best known for his famous short stories such as _____. A. Rip Van Winkle B. Young Goodman Brown C. Life of Goldsmith D. Life of Washington

8.Melville’s _____ is an encyclopedia of everything, history, philosophy, religion, etc.

A. The Old Man and the Sea B. Moby–Dick

C. White Jacket D. Billy Budd

9.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

10.American literature produced only one female poet during the nineteenth century. This was _____.

A. Anne Bradsteet B. Jane Austen

C. Emily Dickinson D. T. S. Eliot

11.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’s

小說的藝朮一文中明確指出，小說的目的是現實生活，所以他作品中表現了各種形式生活是不足為奇的，如幻覺，絕望，回報，折磨，靈感，歡樂等.他還主張藝朮家有自由去寫作任何與他相關的東西，甚至是異端的，丑的和普通的東西，藝朮家應能夠感受生活，理解人性，然后將忠實地將這些錄入作品

12.In the 1920s, O’Neill established an international reputation with the plays ______.

A. The Emperor Jones 瓊斯皇帝

B. Anna Christle 個人思想的復雜性，表明了生活是一個具備了各种可能性的封閉了的圈子，任何人無法擺脫

C. The Hairy Ape 毛猿 D. all of the above

13.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

14.“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

15.In Robert Frost’s famous poem “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

16.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

17.“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

他乘船去了英國，出版了第一本書“一個男孩的愿望”，以抒情的筆調追蹤一個男孩以自我為中心的理想主義發展到成熟的過程，詩篇充滿激情和新英格闌的生活情調

第二本詩集“波士頓以北”出版后，Frost決定回國住進自已的農場：被作者自已稱為寫“人的一本書”，對新英格闌的人物及其背景寫得很深刻，他的許多重要作品都收入了這本書

18.Chinese poetry and philosophy had great influence on _____. A. Robert Frost B. Ralph Waldo Emerson C. Ezra Pound D. Emily Dickinson

19.The Hemingway code heroes are best remembered for their _____. A. indestructible spirit B. pessimistic view of life

C. war experiences D. masculinity 20.Lots of people rushed to Gatsby’s party at the weekend and they clustered around Gatsby’s wealth like ____. A. gluttons B. flies

C. insects D. moths 二、综合题

1.Read the quoted part carefully and answer the questions in English. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down; It may be we shall touch the Happy Tales, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew, Tho’ much is taken, much abides, and tho’ We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts,

Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

A. The passage is taken from the poem “___________”. Ulysses

B. The author of the poem is ____________. Tennyson

C. The poem is written in the form of _________. Dramatic Monologue

D. The speaker is __________. Ulysses

2.Read the quoted part carefully and answer the questions in English. Whether fagged by the three days’ running chase, and the resistance to his swimming in the knotted hamper he bore; or whether it was some latent deceitfulness and malice in him: whichever was true, the white Whale’s way now began to abate, as it seemed, from the boat so rapidly nearing him once more; though indeed the whale’s last start had not been so long a one as before. And still as Ahab glidede over the waves the unpitying sharks accompanied him; and so pertinaciously stuck to the boat; and so continually bit at the plying oars, that the blades became jagged and crunched, and left small splinters in the sea, at almost every dip. A From which novel is the paragraph taken? Moby Dick

B What is the name of the author? Herman Melville

C Who is Ahab?

Captain of the whaling ship

D What is the theme of the novel?

The rebellious struggle of Captain Ahab against the over-whelming,mysterious vastness of the universe and its awesome sometimes merciless forces, the voyage of the mind will forever remain a rearch of the truth. 補充．《白鲸》的象征意义

Melville is a master of allegory and symbolism.

Different people on the board the ship are representation of different ideas and different social and ethnic groups.

The Peauod is the microcosm of human society and the voyage becomes a search for truth. The white whale, Moby Dick, symbolizes nature for Melville, and for Ahab, the whale represents only evil, as well as for reader and Ishmael, the marrator, Moby Dick is still mystery , an ultimate mystery of the universe, inscrutable(不能预测的) and ambivalent(矛盾的), and the voyage of the mind will forever remain a rearch of the truth.

3.Read the quoted part carefully and answer the questions in English.

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 eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God. A. Which work is this fragment taken from? Nature

B. How do you understand the philosophical ideas in this words?

Emerson regards nature as the purest ,and most sanctifying moral influence on man, And advocated a direct intuition of a spiritual and immanent God in nature. The soul has compeletly transcended the limits of individuality and become part of over soul.Emerson sees spirit pervading everywhere,not only in the soul of man, but behind nature, troughout nature

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