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《英美文学选读》模拟试卷一注意： 1.试卷保密，考生不得将试卷带出考场或撕页，否则成绩作废。请监考老师负责监督。2.请各位考生注意考试纪律，考试作弊全部成绩以零分计算。3.本试卷满分 100 分，答题时间为 90 分钟。4.本试卷分为试题卷和答题卷，所有答案必须答在答题卷上，答在试题卷上不给分。I. Multiple Choice. (1 point for each, altogether 30 points)Directions: There are 30 sentences in this section. Beneath each sentence there are four choices respectively marked by letters A, B, C and D. Choose the word that you think best complete the sentence. Write your answers on the answer sheet.1. 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 Tales2. 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 desired3.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] naturalism4. 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] Cummings5. _______is the first important governess novel in the English literary history.[A] Jane Eyre [B] Emma[C] Wuthering Heights [D] Middlemarch6. The Hemingway Code heroes are best remembered for their_______.[A] indestructible spirit [B] pessimistic view of life

[C] war experiences [D] masculinity7. Which of the following is taken from John Keats’Ode to a Nightingale? _______[A] "Beauty is truth, truth beauty."[B] "Earth has not anything to show more fair."[C] "They are both gone up to the church to pray."[D] "was it a vision, or a waking dream?"8. Emily Dickinson wrote many short poems on various aspects of life. Which of the following is NOT a usual subject of her poetic expression? _______[A] Religion and immortality [B] Life and death[C] Love and marriage [D] War and peace9. 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 Myself10. The Victorian Age was largely an age of_______, eminently represented by Dickens and Thackeray.[A] poetry [B] drama[C] prose [D] epic prose11. 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] primitive12. 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 Tales13. Which of the following historical events does not directly help to stimulate the rising of the Renaisssance 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 expansion14. 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 salvation15. “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”

16. “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] symbolism17. The true subject of John Donne's poem, “The Sun Rising,” is to _______.[A] attack the sun as an 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 lie18. Of all the 18thcentury 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 epic19. 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.20. Here are four lines from a literary work: “Others for language all their care express, /And

value books, as 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 Dream21. 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 Progress22. William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following EXCEPT _______.[A] the use of everyday language spoken by the common people[B] the expression 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 speech23. 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”24.“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.Shelley25. “Ode o na 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…permanence26. 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 ghost27. The typical feature of Robert Browning's poetry is the _______.[A] bitter satire [B] larger-than-life caricature[C] Latinized diction [D] dramatic monologue28. The Victorian Age was largely an age of _______, eminently represented by Dickens and Thackeray.[A] poetry [B] drama[C] prose [D] epic prose29. _______is the first important governess novel in the English literary history.[A] Jane Eyre [B] Emma[C] Wuthering Heights [D] Middlemarch30. 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

II. Match the writer with his/her works and Write your answers on the answer sheet. (2point for each, altogether 20points)

31. Henry Fielding A. The Passionate Shepherd to His Love32. James Joyce B. Composed upon Westminster Bridge33. Daniel Defoe C. The Moll on the Floss34. Alfred Tennyson D. Break, Break, Break.35. John Keats E. A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man36. George Eliot F. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling37. William Bulter Yeats G. A Journal of the Plague Year38. William Wordsworth H. Ode on a Grecian Urn39. Walt Whitman I. The Lake Isle of Innisfree40. Christopher Marlowe J. There Was a Child Went Forth

III. Decide whether the following statements are true or false and write your answers in the brackets. (2 point for each, altogether10 points)(　)41．The preface to the Lyrical Ballads is best read as a statement of Keats’s principles of poetry.(　)42．Besides novel writing, Hawthorne is also a very good writer of short stories.(　)43．Robert Frost’s poems are New England in their setting, and are characterized by the familiar speaking voice.(　)44．George Hurstwood is a friend of Drouet’s who steals a great deal of money from his employer and actually kidnaps Carrie to Canada.(　)45．Renaissance had its beginning in Italy in the middle of the fifteenth century.

IV. Define the literary terms listed below and write your answers on the answer sheet. (5 point for each, altogether 10 points)46. Romanticism47. Stream of Consciousness

V. Give brief answers to the following questions. Write your answers on the answer sheet. (5 point for each, altogether 15 points)

48. How do you understand the character of Robinson Crusoe?49. In the novel To the Lighthouse, is Lily lonely while completing her picture? Please justify your ideas.50. What is the implication of the description of roses beside the prison door in the first chapter of The Scarlet Letter?

Ⅵ. Write no less than 150 words on the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet. (15 point for each, altogether 15 points) 51.William Shakespeare is one of the most remarkable playwrights the world has ever known.( 1) Name his four greatest tragedies.

(2) What are the characteristics of the four tragedies in common?(3) Briefly summarize each hero' s weakness of nature.

《英美文学选读》模拟试卷一答案II. Multiple Choice. (1 point for each, altogether 30 points)

题号 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

答案 D D C C A A D D A D B D C C D

题号 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30

答案 A B B A C D D D D B B D C A A

II. Match the writer with his/her works and write your answers in the brackets. (2point for each, altogether 20points)

题号 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40

答案 F E G D H C I B J A

III. Decide whether the following statements are true or false and write your answers in the brackets. (2 point for each, altogether10 points)

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答案 F T T T F

IV. Define the literary terms listed below and write your answers in the brackets. (10%)46. The English Romanticism is generally said to have begun in 1978 with the publication of Wordsworth and Colerdge's Lyrical Ballads and to have ended in 1832 with Sir Walter Scott's death and the passage of the first Reform Bill in the Parliament. Romanticists tended to see the individual as the very center of all experience, including art, and thus, literary work should be “spontaneous overflow of strong feelings,”and no matter how fragmentary those experiences were (Wordsworth's “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,” or “The Solitary Reaper,) or Coleridge's “Keble Khan”),the value of the work lied in the accuracy of presenting those unique feelings and particular attitudes.

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47. In Joyce's opinion, the artist, who wants to reach the highest stage and to gain the insights necessary for the creation of dramatic art, should rise to the position of a godlike objectivity;

he should have the complete conscious control over the creative process and depersonalize his own emotion in the artistic creation. He should appear as an omniscient author and present unspoken materials directly from the psyche of the characters, of making the characters tell their own inner thoughts in monologues. This literary approach to the presentation of psychological aspects of characters is usually termed as "stream of consciousness".复习范围或考核目标：课件 Course06 Virginia Woolf

V. Give brief answers to the following questions. Write your answers on the answer sheet. (15%)48. Tips: Robinson is a real hero, and we can sense many of his best qualities: his marvelous capacity for work, his boundless energy and persistence in overcoming difficulties. He is very practical and exact, always religious and at the same time mindful of his own profit.复习范围或考核目标：课件 Course 02 Daniel Defoe49. Tips: While she is painting her pictures, Lily recalls people and things in the past. She collects her impressions of the Rayleys, her memory of the relationship between herself and William Bankes, and most important of all, she collects her impression of Mrs. Ramsay. According to her memory, human beings are lonely in general. Even husband and wife could not understand each other. Lovers always remain separated spiritually. 复习范围或考核目标：课件 Course06 Virginia Woolf

50. Tips: The wild rose bush is covered with its delicate gems. In other words, the roses are in full blossom. They are very beautiful and fragrant. They are in the deep heart of Nature. According to our author, it may serve to “symbolize some sweet moral blossom, that may be found along the track, or relieve the darkening close of a tale of human frailty and sorrow”. 复习范围或考核目标：课件 course07 Nathaniel Hawthorne Ⅵ. Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet. (15%)51.

(1) Shakespeare's four greatest tragedies are: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth.(2) Each portrays some noble hero, who faces the injustice of human life and is caught in a difficult situation and whose fate is closely connected with the fate of the whole nation.(3) Each hero has his weakness of nature: Hamlet, the melancholic scholar; Othello' s inner weakness is made use of by the outside evil force; the old king Lear who is unwilling to totally give up his power; and Macbeth' s lust for power stirs up his ambition and leads him to incessant crimes.

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《英美文学选读》模拟试卷二注意： 1.试卷保密，考生不得将试卷带出考场或撕页，否则成绩作废。请监考老师负责监督。2.请各位考生注意考试纪律，考试作弊全部成绩以零分计算。3.本试卷满分 100 分，答题时间为 90 分钟。4.本试卷分为试题卷和答题卷，所有答案必须答在答题卷上，答在试题卷上不给分。III. Multiple Choice. (1 point for each, altogether 30 points)Directions: There are 20 sentences in this section. Beneath each sentence there are four choices respectively marked by letters A, B, C and D. Choose the word that you think best complete the sentence. Write your answers on the answer sheet.1. Who is NOT the major character in To the Lighthouse? _______

[A] Mrs. Ramsay [B] Mr.Ramsay [C] David [D] James2. What kind of girl is Dora? _______[A] pretty and clever [B] pretty and empty-headed[C] plain-looking and understanding [D] lovely and clever3. In Hardy＇s 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] sarcastic4. The name of the hero in Jane Eyre was_______

[A] Tom [B] Heathcliff [C] James [D] David5. Which novel gave Woolf the reputation as an important psychological writer? _______[A] To the Lighthouse [B] The waves[C] Mrs.Dalloway [D] The Common Reader6. Virginia Woolf was born in_______

[A] 1882 [B] 1767 [C] 1678 [D] 18907. which of Woolf’novels was adapted into movie named The Hours?[A] Mrs.Dalloway [B] The Waves[C] The Common Reader [D] To the Light house

8. How many groups are there in Hardy’s novels? _______[A] two [B] three [C] four [D] five

9. After reading the first chapter of Pride and Prejudice, we may come to know that Mrs. Bennet is a woman of _______.[A] simple character and quick wit[B] simple character and poor understanding[C] intricate character and quick wit[D] intricate character and poor understanding10. Which of the following is NOT written by Hardy?[A] The Return of the native [B] A Tale of Two Cities[C] Tess of d＇Urbervilles [D] Jude the Obscure11 ．“For a week after the commission of the impious and profane offence of asking for more, Oliver remained a close prisoner in the dark and solitary room ...”(Dickens, Oliver Twist) What did Oliver ask for? _______[A] More time to play [B] More food to eat[C] More book to read [D] More money to spend12 ． Mrs. Warren’s Profession is one of George Bernard Shaw’s plays. What is Mrs. Warren’s profession then ? _______[A] Real estate [B] Prostitution[C] House-keeping [D] Farming13．How many groups are there in Hardy’s novels? _______[A] two [B] three [C] four [D] five14 ． The statement “A demanding mother turns away from her husband and gives all her affection to her sons” sums up the main plot of D. H. Lawrence′s _______.[A] Lady Chatterley’s Lover [B] Women in love[C] Sons and Lovers [D] The Plumed Serpent15．“Come to me－come to me entirely now,” said he ; and added, in his deepest tone, speaking in my ear as his cheek was laid on mine, “Make my happiness－I will make yours.” The above passage presents a scene in_______ . [A] Emily Bronte’s Withering Heights[B] Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre[C] John Galsworthy′s The Forsyte Saga[D] Thomas Hardy′s Tess of the D′Urbervilles16．Which of the following is NOT written by William Butler Yeats? _______[A] “Sailing to Byzantium” [B] “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”[C] “Leda and the Swan” [D] The Waste Land”17. “Drive my dead thought over the universe Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth.”

(Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Ode to the West Wind”) What rhetorical device does the poet use in the quoted lines? _______

[A] Synecdoche [B] Metaphor

[C] Simile [D] Onomatopoeia18．Crusoe is the hero in The life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Grusoe, of York, Mariner (also known as Robinson Crusoe)by . _______[A] Jonathan Swift [B] Daniel Defoe[C] George Eliot [D] D.H.Lawrence19．“Beauty is truth, truth beauty” is an epigrammatic line by . _______[A] John Keats [B] William Blake[C] William Wordsworth [D] Percy Bysshe Shelley20．Christoper Marlow’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” is a (n) . _______[A] pastoral lyric [B] elegy[C] eulogy [D] epic21 ．Which of the following is NOT regarded as one of the characteristics of Renaissance humanism? _______[A] Cultivation of the art of this world and this life[B] Tolerance of human foibles[C] Search for the genuine flavor of ancient culture[D] Glorification of religious faith22 ． “ In dream vision Arthur witnessed the loveliness of Gloriana, and upon awaking resolves to seek her.” The two literary figures Arthur and Gloriana are form_______.[A] Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene[B] William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet[C] Christopher Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His love”[D] John Donne’s “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”23 ． Which of the following best describes the nature of Thomas Hardy’s later works? _______[A] Sentimentalism [B] Tragic sense[C] Surrealism [D] Comic sense24 ． “ ...This grew: I gave commands; Then all smiles stopped altogether....” (Robert Browning, “My Last Duchess”) The above lines imply that. _______[A] the Duchess was killed by her husband[B] the Duchess stopped smiling at her husband’s order[C] the Duchess died of laughing too much[D] the Duchess did not want to smile as much as her husband requested25 ． In which of the following works can you find the proper names “Lilliput,” “Brobdingnag,” “Houyhnhnm,” and “Yahoo”? _______[A] James Joyce’s Ulsses [B] Charles Dickens’s Bleak House[C] Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels [D] D. H. Lawrence’s Women in love26．As a literary figure, Belinda appears in Alexander Pope’s. _______[A] “The Dunciad” [B] “An Essay on Man”[C] “An Essay on Criticism” [D] “The Rape of the lock”

27．“The novel is structured around the discovery of the hero’s origin.” This novel is most probably. _______[A] Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield[B] James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man[C] Thomas Hardy’s Far from the Madding Growd[D] Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones28 ． “ To wage by force or guile eternal war, Irreconcilable to our grand Foe.” （ John Milton, Paradise lost) By what means were Satan and his followers to wage this war against God? _______[A] Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield[B] James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man[C] Thomas Hardy’s Far from the Madding Growd[D] Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones29．“When the evening is spread out against the sky. Like a patient etherized upon a table.” (T. s. Eliot, “The Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock”) What does the image in the quoted lines suggest? _______[A] Violence [B] Horror[C] Inactivity [D] Indifference30. Which of the following is NOT typical of metaphysical poetry best represented by John Donne’s works? _______[A] Common speech [B] Conceit[C] Argument [D] Refined language

II. Match the writer with his/her works and Write your answers on the answer sheet. (2 point for each, altogether 20 points)

31. John Milton A. The Leaves of Grass32. Samuel Johnson B. Mrs. Warren’s Profession33. Walt Whitman C. Art of Fiction34. Jane Austen D. The Merchant of Venice35. William Shakespeare E. A Dictionary of the English Language36. George Bernard Shaw F. The Return of the Native37. Henry James G. Samson Agonistes 38. Washington Irving H. Pride and Prejudice39. Thomas Hardy I. Rip Van Winkle40. Eugene O’Neill J. The Emperor Jones

III. Decide whether the following statements are true or false and write your answers in the brackets. (2 point for each, altogether 10 points)( 　 )41. "Dr. Faustus" is a play based on the English Legend of a magician aspiring for knowledge and finally meeting his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the Devil.

(　)42. Swift is a master satirist. His satire is usually masked by an outward gravity and an apparent earnestness which renders his satire all the more powerful. His "A Modest Proposal" is generally taken as a perfect model.(　)43. Shelley's greatest achievement is his four - act poetic drama, "Prometheus Unbound". (1820)(　)44. Though Naturalism seems to have played an important part in Hardy's works, there is also bitter and sharp criticism and even open challenge as the irrational, hypocritical and unfair Victorian institutions, conventions and morals which strangle the individual will and destroy natural human emotions and relationships.(　)45. Hardy is the founder of the "stream of consciousness" school of novel writing.IV. Define the literary terms listed below and write your answers on the answer sheet. (5 point for each, altogether 10 points)46. Foreshadowing47. critical realismV. Give brief answers to the following questions. Write your answers on the answer sheet. (5 point for each, altogether 15 points)48. Comment on Jane Austen’s use of dialogue in Pride and Prejudice.49. Analyze the poem of Stopping by woods on a Snowy Evening.50. What is American Naturalism?Ⅵ. Write no less than 150 words on the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet. (15 point for each, altogether 15points)

51. 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.

《英美文学选读》模拟试卷二答案

IV. Multiple Choice. (1 point for each, altogether 30 points)

题号 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

答案 C B C B C A A B B B B B D C B

题号 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30

答案 D C B A A D A B A C D D D C D

II. Match the writer with his/her works and write your answers in the brackets. (20%)

题号 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40

答案 G E A H D B C I F J

III. (2 point for each, altogether 10 points)

题号 41 42 43 44 45

答案 F T T T F

IV. Define the literary terms listed below and write your answers in the brackets. (10%)46、 “Foreshadowing” refers to “an indication or a suggestion of what is coming”; or “a

feeling or an intuition of what is going to occur; a presentiment”. It is a writing technique of arranging events and information in a narrative in such a way that later events are prepared for or shadowed forth beforehand.

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47. It is a term applied to the realistic diction in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It refers to the tendency of writers and intellectuals in the period between 1875 and 1920 to apply the methods of realistic diction to the criticism of society and the examination of social issues.复习范围或考核目标：course05 Charles Dickens

V. Give brief answers to the following questions. Write your answers in the brackets. (15%)48. Tips: Jane Austen is very good at using dialogue to depict the characteristics of her characters. The characters are made to reveal themselves through their own words. For example, in the first chapter, it is Mrs. Bennet who is talking most of the time, which clearly indicates that this person is quite talkative and of mean understanding. Whereas the fact that the husband does not talk much helps to indicate that he is a gentleman of bookish nature. Thus the writer’s treatment of conservation is quite skilful.复习范围或考核目标：课件 Course 04 Jane Austen

49. The poem is written in iambic tetrameter with interlocking enclosed rhyme. That is to say, the first, the second and the fourth lines of each stanza share a same rhyme, whereas the last syllabus of the third line becomes the rhyme for the first line of the next stanza. To be more exact, the rhyme scheme of this poem is aaba, bbcb, ccdc, dddd. (Note: the last two lines are repetition.)

复习范围或考核目标：课件 Course 09 Robert Lee Frost

50. Naturalism, a term applied to the method of literary composition. It develops out of realism but is more inclusive and less selective than realism. As is defined in The American College Dictionary, naturalism is “a theory, as practiced by Emila Zola, Stephen Crane, and others, which applied scientific concepts and methods to such problems as plot development and characterization.” Darwin’s evolutionary theory, Emila Zola, the French novelist and theorist, all had impact on American naturalism. The American naturalist movement arose in

the 1890’s and continued well into the twentieth century. Writers like Theodore Dreiser, Frank Norris and Stephen Crane dealt with the lives of ordinary people. They sympathized with the lower ranks of society and portrayed misery and poverty of the downtrodden. Philosophically, they used scientific concepts as a basis and assumed that the forces at work in nature are the only forces at work in man too, and that man is subject to the law of nature. The common theme of their fiction is not pleasant hope or romantic idealism by the human instinct toward “bestiality”, especially sexual desire. Artistically they often used, deliberately, blunt and unliterary language and factual details in an attempt to recreate the very look and texture of American society, and their writings lack in what is called “literary skills” and seem unweidy and loose in structure 复习范围或考核目标：Course08 Theodore Dreiser Ⅵ. Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet. (15%) 51.A. In setting. He uses a mixture of the contemporary and recollected past as his fictional settings.　　B. In language. With his first sentence, he engages the reader’s attention and holds it to the end. He is often compared with Shakespeare for his adeptness with the vernacular and large vocabulary.　 　 C. In character-portrayal. His best-depicted characters are those innocent, virtuous, persecuted, helpless child characters such as Oliver Twist.　　And he is also famous for the depiction of those horrible and grotesque characters Fagin and those broadly humorous or comical ones like Mr. Micawber. In conclusion, the figures that he depicted, marked out by some peculiarity in physical, speech or manner, are both types and individuals.　　D. Dickens’ works are also characterized by a mingling of humor and pathos.复习范围或考核目标：course05 Charles Dickens

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V. Multiple Choice. (1 point for each, altogether 30 points)Directions: There are 30 sentences in this section. Beneath each sentence there are four choices respectively marked by letters A, B, C and D. Choose the word that you think best complete the sentence. Write your answers on the answer sheet.1. 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] sonnets [D] histories 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 Bronte's Wuthering Heights, the word "soul" apparently refers to _______ .

[A] Heathcliff [B] Catherine [C] ghost [D] one's spiritual lift 3. Robert Frost combined traditional verse forms - the sonnet, rhyming couplets, blank verse - with a clear American local speech rhythm, the speech of _______ farmers with its idiosyncratic diction and syntax.

[A] Southern [B] Western [C] New Hampshire

[D] New England

4. 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

5. 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 Age6. 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 ocean7. 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

8. "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 life9. 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 Mississippi10. What’ s the name of Hester and Dimmesdale’ s daughter?

[A] Amy [B] Pearl [C] Nina [D] Berry11. 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] sonnets [D] histories 12. "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 Bronte's Wuthering Heights, the word "soul" apparently refers to _______ .

[A] Heathcliff [B] Catherine [C] ghost [D] one's spiritual lift 13. "And where are they? And where art thou," My country? On thy voiceless shoreThe heroic lay is tuneless nowThe heroic bosom beats no more!"（George Gordon Byron, Don Juan） In the above stanza, "art thou" literally means _______ .

[A] "are you" [B] "art though" [C] "are though" [D] "art you" 14. 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 Dickens's [B] D.H.Lawrence's[C] Thomas Hardy's [D] John Galsworthy's15. Daniel Defoe describes _______ as a typical English Middle-class man of the eighteenth century, the very prototype of the empire builder or the pioneer colonist.

[A] Tom Jones [B] Gulliver [C] Moll Flanders [D] Robinson Crusoe 16. "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] humorous17. "She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and, oh, The difference to me!" The word "me" in the last line of the above stanza quoted from Wordsworth's poem "She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways" may possibly refer to _______ .

[A] the poet [B] the reader [C] her lover [D] everybody

18. _______ is a typical feature of Swift's writings.[A] Bitter satire [B] Elegant style[C] Casual narration [D] Complicated sentence structure19. The statement "It reveals the dehumanizing workhouse system and the dark, criminal underworld life" may well sum up the main theme if Dickens's _______ . [A] David Copperfield [B] Bleak House[C] Great Expectations [D] Oliver Twist20. "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 Expectations21. It is generally regarded that Keats's most important and mature poems are in the form of _______.

[A] ode [B] elegy [C] epic [D] sonnet22. G.B.Shaw's play Mrs.Warren's 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 women23. In William Blake's poetry, the father（and any other in whom he saw the image of the father such as God, priest, and king）was usually a figure of _______ .

[A] benevolence [B] admiration [C] love [D] tyranny 24. " '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 woman's tone is very _______ .

[A] sarcastic [B] amusing [C] sentimental [D] facetious25. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan is often said to be concerned with the search for _______ .[A] material wealth [B] spiritual salvation[C] universal truth [D] self-fulfillment26 .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] neoclassicism27. In Fitzgerald’ s The Great Gatsby, there are detailed descriptions of big parties. The purpose of such descriptions is so show _______..[A] the corruption of the upper class[B] emptiness of life[C] contrast of the rich and the poor[D] the happy days of the Jazz Age

28．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 Goldsmith29．"Not on thy sole but on thy soul, harsh Jew,/Thou mak'st thy knife keen." In the above quotation taken form The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare employs a（n）_______ .

[A] oxymoron [B] pun [C] simile [D] synecdoche30．In Hardy's 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

II. Match the writer with his/her works and write your answers on the answer sheet. (2 point for each, altogether 20 points)31. William Shakespeare A. Sense and Sensibility32. Daniel Defoe B. Oliver Twist33. Nathaniel Hawthorne C. Robinson Crusoe34. William Wordsworth D. Hamlet35. Theodore Dreiser E. Sister Carrie36. Jane Austen F. The Great Gatsby37. Charles Dickens G. “Young Goodman Brown” 38. Robert Frost H. To the Lighthouse39. F. Scott Fitzgerald I. "The Solitary Reaper"40. Virginia Woolf J. “Mending Wall”

III. Decide whether the following statements are true or false and write your answers in the brackets. (2point for each, altogether 10 points)(　)41. In his poetry, Donne frequently applies conceits, i. e. extended metaphors involving dramatic contrasts.( 　 )42. "The Pilgrim's Progress" is the most successful religious allegory in the English language.(　)43. The 19th century produced the first English novelists, who fall into two groups the sentimentalist novelists and the realist novelists.(　)44. The most important contribution Byron has made is that he has not only started the modern poetry, the poetry of the growing inner self, but also changed the course of English poetry by using ordinary speech of the language and by advocating a return to nature.(　)45. Generally speaking, Jane Austen was a writer of the 18th - century, though she lived mainly in the nineteenth century.IV. Define the literary terms listed below and write your answers on the answer sheet. (5

point for each, altogether 10 points)46. The Jazz Age 47. SymbolismV. Give brief answers to the following questions. Write your answers on the answer sheet. (5 point for each, altogether 15 points)48. Make a comment on the image of Robinson Crusoe. 49. What are the features of Charles Dickens's novels? 50. What's Nathaniel Hawthorne's "black" vision of life and human beings?

Ⅵ. Write no less than 150 words on the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet. (15 point for each, altogether 15 points)51. “Sister Carrie” is the greatest literary work by Theodore Dreiser. Discuss Carrie Meeber, the protagonist of the novel.

《英美文学选读》模拟试卷三答案

VI. Multiple Choice. (1 point for each, altogether 30 points)

题号 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

答案 C B D D A C B D B B C B A B D

题号 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30

答案 C C A D B A D D A B D B C B C

II. Match the writer with his/her works and write your answers in the brackets. (20%)

题号 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40

答案 D C G I E A B J F H

III. Decide whether the following statements are true or false and write your answers in the brackets. (2 point for each, altogether 10 points)

题号 41 42 43 44 45

答案 T T F T T

IV. Define the literary terms listed below. (10%)46. “Jazz”: A style of music, native to America, characterized by a strong but flexible rhythmic understructure with solo and ensemble improvisations on basic tunes and chord patterns and, more recently, a highly sophisticated harmonic idiom.“Jazz age”: in the words of Malcolm Cowley, it is “not so much a historical period as a legend of glitter, of recklessness, and of talents in such a profusion that it was sown broadcast like wild oats.” It was a legend of “America’s adolescence before pain set in.” Fitzgerald

became “the angel of the twenties” and his writings those of a man inside that legendary period.复习范围或考核目标：课件 course10Scott Fitzgerald

47. Symbolism is the writing technique of using symbols. A symbol is something that conveys two kinds of meaning; it is simply itself, and it stands for something other than itself. In other words, a symbol is both literal and figurative. People, places, things and even events can be used symbolically. A symbol is a way of telling a story and a way of conveying meaning. The best symbols are those that are believable in the lives of the characters and also convincing as they convey a meaning beyond the literal level of the story. Hawthorne and Melville were the two masters of symbolism. For example, the scarlet letter "a" on Hester's breast can give you symbolic meanings. If the symbol is obscure or ambiguous, then the very obscurity and the ambiguity may also be apt of the meaning of the story.复习范围或考核目标：课件 course07 Nathaniel Hawthorne

V. Give brief answers to the following questions. Write your answers in the brackets. (15%)48. In this novel, Defoe created the image of a true empire - builder, a colonizer and a foreign trader, who has the courage and will to face hardships, and who has determination to preserve himself and improve on his livelihood by struggling against nature. Being a bourgeoisie writer, Defoe glorifies the hero and defends the policy of colonialism of British government.复习范围或考核目标：课件 Course 02 Daniel Defoe

49 (1) Dickens' novels offer a most complete and realistic picture of the English bourgeois society of his age. They reflect the protest of the people against capitalist exploitation, criticize the vices of capitalist society,(2) Dickens is a petty bourgeoise intellectual. He could not overstep the limits of his class. He believed in the moral self - perfection of the wicked propertied classes. He failed to see the necessity of a bitter struggle of the oppressed against their oppressors. There is a definite tendency for a reconciliation of the contradictions of capitalist society.(3) Almost all his novels have happy endings.(4) His novels tell much of the experiences of his childhood.(5) Dickens is a great humorist. His novels are full of humor and laughter.复习范围或考核目标：course05 Charles Dickens

50. According to Hawthorne, "There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity." A piece of literary work should "show how we are all wronged and wrongers, and avenge one another." So in almost every book he wrote, Hawthorne discusses sin and evil. In "Young Goodman Brown", he sets out to prove that everyone possesses some evil secret. "The Minister's Black

Veil" goes further to suggest that everyone tries to hold the evil secret from one another in the way the minister tries to convince his people with his black veil. "The Birthmark" drives home symbolically Hawthorne's point that evil is man's birthmark, something he is born with.复习范围或考核目标：课件 course07 Nathaniel Hawthorne

Ⅵ.Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet. (15%) 51. A. Social background: The impact of Darwin’s evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the 19th century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to yet another school of realism: American naturalism.

B. Sister Carrie best embodies Dreiser’s naturalistic belief that while men are controlled and conditioned by heredity, instinct and chance, a few unsophisticated human beings refuse to accept their fate and try to find meaning and purpose for their existence . Carrie, as one of such, senses that she is merely a cipher in an nearing world yet seeks to grasp the mysteries of life and there-by satisfies her desire for social status and material comfort.复习范围或考核目标：Course08 Theodore Dreiser