英美文学北京历年真题.docx

1、英美文学北京历年真题英美文学北京历年真题（00-04） 2000年(上)英美文学选读试卷及答案 PART ONE. Multiple Choice1. The sentence Shall I compare thee to a summers day? is the beginning line of one of Shakespeares .A. comediesB. tragediesC. sonnetsD. historiesAnswer: C2. So much the worse for me, that I am strong. Do I want to live? What k

2、ind 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. HeathcliffB. CatherineC. ghost D. ones spiritual lifeAnswer: B3. And where are they? and where art t

3、hou,My country? On thy voiceless shoreThe heroic lay is tuneless now-The heroic bosom beats no more!(George Gordon Byron, Don Juan)In the above stanza, art thou literally means .A. are youB. art thoughC. are thoughD. art youAnswer: A4. The major concern of fiction lies in the tracing of the psycholo

4、gical development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature.A. Charles DickenssB. D. H. LawrencesC. Thomas HardysD. John GalsworthysAnswer: B5. Daniel Defoe describes as a typical English middle-class man of the ei

5、ghteenth century, the very prototype of the empire builder or the pioneer colonist.A. Tom JonesB. GulliverC. Moll Flanders D. Robinson CrusoeAnswer: D6. 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

6、to acknowledge.The above quoted sentence is presented by Samuel Johnson with a(n) A. delightfulB. jealousC. ironicD. humorousAnswer: C7. She lived unknown, and few could knowWhen 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

7、quoted from Wordsworths poem She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways may possibly refer to .A. the poetB. the readerC. her loverD. everybodyAnswer: C8. is a typical feature of Swifts writings.A. Bitter satireB. Elegant styleC. Casual narrationD. Complicated sentence structureAnswer: A9. The statement It

8、reveals the dehumanizing workhouse system and the dark, criminal underworld life may well sum up the main theme of Dickenss .A. David CopperfieldB. Bleak HouseC. Great ExpectationsD. Oliver TwistAnswer: D10. Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? .

9、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 probable taken from .A. Pride and PrejudiceB. Jane EyreC. Wuthering HeightsD. Great ExpectationsAnswer: B11. It is generall

10、y regarded that Keatss most important and mature poems are in the form of .A. odeB. elegyC. epicD. sonnetAnswer: A12. G. B. Shaws play Mrs. Warrens Profession is a realistic exposure of the in the English society.A. slum landlordismB. inequality between men and womenC. political corruptionD. economi

11、c exploitation of womenAnswer: D13. In William Blakes 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. benevolenceB. admirationC. love D. tyrannyAnswer: D14. I believe you are made of stone, he said, clenching his fin

12、gers so hard that he broke the fragile cup . You seem to forget, she said, that cup is not! From the above pouted passage, we can find the womans tone is very .A. sarcasticB. amusingC. sentimentalD. facetiousAnswer: A15. The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan is often said to be concerned with the sea

13、rch for .A. material wealthB. spiritual salvationC. universal truthD. self-fulfillmentAnswer: B16. Alexander Pope strongly advocated , emphasizing that literary works should be judged by rules of order, reason, logic, restrained emotion, good taste and decorum.A. sentimentalismB. romanticismC. ideal

14、ismD. neoclassicismAnswer: D17. 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 witB. simple character and poor understandingC. intricate character and quick witD. intricate character and poor understandingAnsw

15、er: B18. 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 DefoeB. Samuel RichardsonC. Henry fieldingD. Oliver GoldsmithAnswer: C19. Not

16、 on thy sole but on thy soul, harsh Jew, /Thou makst thy knife keen.In the above quotation taken from The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare employs a(n) .A. oxymoronB. punC. simileD. synecdocheAnswer: B20 In Hardys Wes* novels, there is a apparent touch in his description of the simple and beautiful t

17、hough primitive rural life.A. humorousB. romanticC. nostalgicD. sarcasticAnswer: C21. O prince, O chief of many throned powers,That led thembattled seraphim to warUnder thy conduct, and in dreadful deesFearless, endangered Heavens perpetual King.In the third line of the above passage quoted from Mil

18、tons Paradise Lost, the phrase the conduct refers to conduct.A. SatansB. Gods C. AdamsD. EvesAnswer: A22. We can perhaps describe the west wind in Shelleys poem Ode to the West Wind with all the following terms except .A. tamedB. swiftC. proudD. wildAnswer: A23. In 1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson made a s

19、peech entitled at Harvard, Which was hiled by Oliver Wendell Holmes as Our intellectual Declaration of Independence.A. NatureB. self-RelianceC. Divinity School AddressD. The American ScholarAnswer: D24. In Hawthornes Young Goodman Brown, a satanic figure leads the credulous protagonist to a witches

20、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. blacknessB. whitenessC. terrorD. hypocrisyAnswer: A25. For Melville, as well as for t

21、he reader and , the narrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, an ultimate mystery of the universe.A. AhabB. IshmaelC. StubbD. StarbuckAnswer: B26. Most of the poems in Whitmans Leaves of Grass sing of the en-mass and the as well. A. natureB. self-relianceC. selfD. lifeAnswer: C27. Emily Dickinsons poe

22、m (441) This is my letter to the World expresses the poets about her communication with the outside world.A. indifferenceB. joy C. anxietyD. indignationAnswer: C28. Which of the following statements about writers in 1920s is true?A. Mark Twain published his last and most important novelB. F. Scott F

23、itzgerald received the Nobel PrizeC. Freudian psychology influenced many modern writersD. Most writers were politically radicalAnswer: C29. Naturalism is evolved from realism when the authors tone in writing becomes less serious and less sympathetic but more ironic and more .A. rationalB. humorousC.

24、 optimisticD. pessimisticAnswer: D30. 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 AgeB. The Age of InnocenceC. T

25、he Roughing TimeD. The Jazz AgeAnswer: A31. Dreisers Trilogy of Desire includes three novels. They are The Financier, The Titan and .A. The GeniusB. The TycoonC. The StoicD. The GiantAnswer: C32. Daisy Millers tragedy of indiscretion is intensified and enlarged by its narration from the point of vie

26、w of .A. the author Henry JamesB. the Italian youth GiovanelliC. the American youth WinterbourneD. her mother Mrs. MillerAnswer: C33. The impact of Darwins evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the nineteenth-century French literature on the American men of letters gave ri

27、se to yet another school of realism: American .A. local colorism B. vernacularismC. modernismD. naturalismAnswer: D34. It is on his that Washington Irvings fame mainly rested.A. childhood recollectionsB. sketches about his European toursC. early poetryD. tales about AmericaAnswer: D35. If honest lab

28、or be unremunerative and difficult to endure; if it be the long, long road which never reaches beauty, but wearies the feet and the heart; if the drag to follow beauty be such that one abandons the admired way, taking rather the despised path leading to her dreams quickly, who shall cast the first s

29、tone?Where is the underlined phrase taken from?A. The BibleB. MiltonC. ShakespeareD. HawthorneAnswer: A36. 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. transcendentalB. leftistC. ex

30、patriateD. expressionisticAnswer: C37. 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. SouthernB. WesternC. New HampshireD. New EnglandAnswer: D38.

31、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 ComethB. Long Days Journey Into NightC. The Hairy ApeD. Desire Under the ElmsAnswer: B39. Apart from the dislocation of time and the