2012年7月全国自考英美文学选读试题
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21. Shakespeare’s ______ is generally regarded as the most popular play on the stage, for it has the qualities of a “blood-and-thunder” thriller and a philosophical exploitation of life and death.（ ）
A. Hamlet
B. Othello
C. King Lear
D. Macbeth
22. T. S. Eliot’s most striking early achievement ______ is in a form of dramatic monologue. （ ）
A. “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
B. “Gerontion”
C. The Waste Land
D. The Hollow Men
23. For Whom the Bell Tolls clearly represents a new beginning in Ernest Hemingway’ s career as a writer, which concerns a volunteer American guerrilla Robert Jordan fighting in ______.（ ）
A. the Spanish Civil War
B. the American Civil War
C. World War I
D. World War II
24. According to Nathaniel Hawthorne, “There is ______ in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.”
A. evil
B. homesickness
C. libido
D. competiveness
25. The Snows of Kilimanjaro by ______ tells a brilliant short story about a mortally wounded American writer who attempts to redeem his imagination from the corrosions of wealth and domestic strife. （ ）
A. Ernest Hemingway
B. Henry James
C. William Faulkner
D. Herman Melville
26. The Nobel Prize Committee highly praised ______ for “his powerful style-forming mastery of the art” of creating modern fiction.（ ）
A. John Steinbeck
B. Henry James
C. William Faulkner
D. Ernest Hemingway
27. Nathaniel Hawthorne was affected by R. W. Emerson’s ______ theory and struck up a very intimate relationship with him.（ ）
A. transcendentalist
B. egoist
C. post-modernist
D. imagist
28. Robert Frost’s first collection ______ is marker by an intense but restrained emotion and the characteristic flavor of New England life.（ ）
A. North of Boston
B. A Boy’s Will
C. A Witness Tree
D. A Further Range
29. One of F·Scott Fitzgerald’ s best short stories is “______,” which depicts an American’ s return to Paris in the 1930s and his regretful realization that the past is beyond his reach.（ ）
A. The Birthmark
B. To Build a Fire
C. Death in the Woods
D. Babylon Revisited
30. Robert Frost combined traditional verse forms with a clear American local speech rhythm, the speech of ______ with its idiosyncratic diction and syntax. （ ）
A. New England farmers
B. England farmers
C. the Western cowboys
D. the Southerners
31. One of the most often-used methods in ______’s poems is to make colors and images fleet past the mind’s eye of the reader. （ ）
A. Ezra Pound
B. Walt Whitman
C. H.W. Longfellow
D. Robert Frost
32. The theme of Henry James’ essay ______ clearly indicates that the aim of the novel is to present life, so it is not surprising to find in his writings human experiences explored in every possible form.（ ）
A. The American
B. The Europeans
C. The Art of Fiction
D. The Golden Bowl
33. Earthly existence was “a welter of inscrutable forces,” in which was trapped each individual human being. This is a typical notion held by ______.（ ）
A. Theodore Dreiser
B. Robert Frost
C. Henry James
D. Walt Whitman
34. Shortly before his death in 1945, the American naturalist ______ joined the Communist Party.（ ）
A. Mark Twain
B. Robert Frost
C. Henry James
D. Theodore Dreiser
35. If two persons are really in love, “what is to us what the rest do or think?” This is a notion strongly held by ______.（ ）
A. Emily Dickinson
B. Washington Irving
C. Nathaniel Hawthorne
D. Walt Whitman
36. In William Faulkner’s writings, the modern ______ technique was frequently and skillfully used to emphasize the reactions and inner musings of the narrator.（ ）
A. stream-of-consciousness
B. deconstructionist
C. archetypal
D. structuralist
37. Mark Twain’s ______ shows the disastrous effects of slavery on the victimizer and the victim alike.（ ）
A. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
B. Life on the Mississippi
C. Roughing it
D. The Tragedy of Puddn’ head Wilson
38. In order to protest against America’s failure to join England in WWI, ______ became a naturalized British citizen in 1915.（ ）
A. William Faulkner
B. Henry James
C. Earnest Hemingway
D. Ezra Pound
39. The Gilded Age is a social satire written by ______ in 1873.（ ）
A. W. D. Howells
B. William Faulkner
C. Ernest Hemingway
D. Mark Twain
40. As the first American prose epic, ______ is not merely a whaling tale or sea adventure, it is also regarded as a spiritual exploration into man’ s deep reality and psychology.（ ）
A. Moby-Dick
B. Redburn
C. Billy Budd
D. Omoo
PART TWO (60 POINTS)
Ⅱ. Reading Comprehension (16 points in all, 4 for each)
Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.
41. “ For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils. ”
Questions:
A. Who is the poet of the quoted stanza? What is the title of the poem?
B. What does “that inward eye” stand for?
C. What idea do these quoted lines carry?
42. “Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? ——You think wrong! …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…——it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God’s feet, equal-as we are!”
Questions:
A. Who is the author of the quoted part? What is the title of the work?
B. To whom is the speaker speaking?
C. What does the quoted part imply about the speaker?
43. (A lot of common objects have been enumerated in the previous lines, and here are the last two lines of the poem.)
“The horizon’s edge, the flying sea-crow, the fragrance of salt marsh and shore mud.
These became part of that child who went forth every day, and who now goes, and will always go forth every day. ”
Questions:
A. Who is the poet of the quoted lines? What is the title of the poem?
B. What does the child stand for in the poem?
C. How do you understand “These became part of the child”?
44. “I cannot rub the strangeness from my sight
I got from looking through a pane of glass
I skimmed this morning from the drinking trough
And held against the world of hoary grass.”
Questions:
A. Who is the poet of the quoted stanza? What is the title of the poem?
B. What does the word “strangeness” refers to?
C. What does the quoted part imply?
Ⅲ. Questions and Answers (24 points in all, 6 for each)
Give a brief answer to each of the following questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.
45. What’ s the theme of Shakespeare’ s great tragedy Hamlet?
46. What’s the theme of Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind”? What does the west wind symbolize?
47. What issuses does Emily Dickinson address in her poems? What are features of her poems?
48. What’s Ernest Hemingway’s “iceberg” analogy?
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. Make a comment on Thomas Hardy’s contribution to English literature.
50. Based on the novel The Great Gatsby, discuss the features of F·Scott Fitzgerald’s works.
