浙江7月自考英美文學選讀試題及答案解析

1、浙江省 2018 年 7 月高等教育自學考試英美文學選讀試題課程代碼： 00604 .Find the items in the right column which fit the left column the best and write your letterson the Answer Sheet.(10%)1.ChaucerA. Mary Ann Evans2.HamletB. The father of English poetry3.ColeridgeC. Jane Austen4.The Waste Land5.Theodore DreiserE. John Milton6.

2、Carl JungF. Collective Unconscious7.self-relianceG. An American Tragedy8.Greorge EliotH. blood and thunder thrille9.Pride and PrejudiceI. Ralph Waldo Emerson10.Paradise LostJ Lake Poet .Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase according to thetextbook.(20%)1.In the fi

3、eld of literature, the Enlightenment Movement brought about a revival of interest in theold classical works. This tendency is known as.2.Swift is one of the greatest masters of English prose. He is almost unsurpassed in the writing of simple, direct, precise prose. He defined a good style as “ _.”3.

4、Wordsworth is regarded as a“ _.” He can penetrate to the heart of things and give thereader the very life of nature.4._ is the most distinguishing feature of Charles Dickensworks.5.In his long dramatic career, Shaw wrote more than _ plays.6.James Joyce is regarded as the most prominent _ novelist, c

5、oncentrating on the revealingin his novels the psychic being of the characters.7.Galsworthy is essentially a bourgeois liberal, a_.8.Structurally and thematically, Shaw followed the great tradition of _.9.Most of Faulkner s works are about people from a small region in _, YoknapatawphaCounty.10.In O

6、ur Timesis the first book to present a Hemingway hero _. .Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one thatwould best complete the statement and write you answer on the Answer Sheet.(10%)1._ is regarded as “ worshipper of nature. ”A. ColeridgeB. WordsworthD. R

7、obert Browning2.Marlowe s play Dr.Faustus is based on _ of a magician aspiring for knowledge and finally1meeting his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the devil.A. the ScandinavianB. the GermanC. the ancient EnglishD. the French3.Who defined a good style as“ proper words in proper places

8、? ”A. Jonathan SwiftB. Charles DickensC. Edmund SpencerD. George Bernard Shaw4._ is central to Blake s concern in the Sogns of Innocence andSongs of Experience?A. innocence and experienceB. the poorC. societyD. childhood5.As a novelist _ wrote withina very narrow sphere, the provinciallifeof the lat

9、e1818-century England.A. Jonathan SwiftB. Jane AustenC. Thomas HardyD. Henry Fielding6.“ Trust thyself, ” Emerson wrote in his_.A. The American ScholarB. The Sketch BookC. Self-RelianceD. Nature7.Hawthorne s view of man and human history originates, to a great extent ,in _.A. PuritanismB. Transcende

10、ntalismC. his childhoodD. his unhappy marriage8.As _ saw it, poetry could play a vital part in the process of creating a new nation.A. EmersonB. HawthorneC. WhitmanD. Emily Dickinson9._ was the first American writer to conceive his career in international terms.A. EmersonB. Henry JamesC. Mark TwainD

11、. Ernest Hemingway10.According to Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury is a story of “ _.”A. lost generationB. lost innocenceC. farmersD. industrial labors .For each of the questions listed below please give the name of the author and the title of theliterary work.(20%)1.“ Come live with me and be my lo

12、ve,And we will all the pleasures proveThat valleys, groves, hills, and fields,Woods, or steepy mountain yields,And we will sit upon the rocks,Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks,By shallow rivers to whose falls,Melodious birds sing madrigals. ”2.“ The apparition of these faces in the crowd;Petals

13、 on a wet, black bough.”3“. He pulled back the blanket from the Indian s head. His hand came away wet. He mounted on the2edge of the lower bunk with the lamp in one hand and looked in. The Indian lay with his face toward the wall. His throat had been cut from ear to ear. ”4.“ Then I saw in my dream,

14、 that when they were got out of the wilderness, they presently saw a town before them, and the name of that town is vanity; and at that town there is a fair kept, called vanity Fair, ”5.“And because I am happy & dance & singThey think they have done me no injury,And are gone to praise God & his Priest & king,Who make up a heaven of our misery. ”.Give brief answers to the following questions.(20%)1.Why has Fielding been regarded as “Father of the English nov