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英美文学选读考试题

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一．9 authors, 20 works. (20)

William Shakespearean: The tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.Venus and Adonis, Rape of Lucrece.

Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders. Captain Singleton

Robert Burns: My heart’s in the Highlands, A Red Red Rose. Auld Lang Syne.

William Wordsworth:“The Solitary Reaper”. “We are S even”, “Lucy”, “Michael”, “Simon Lee””Lucy”I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, The Solitary Reaper.

John Keats: On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer, On a Grecian Urn, To Psyche, TO a Nightingale. “Ode to Autumn”, “Ode on Melancholy”, “Ode on a Grecian Urn”and “Ode to a Nightingale”. All were written in 1819 with the praise of beauty as their general theme.

Jane Austen: Novels: Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma

Charles Dickens: long novel: Pickwick Papers Novels: Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, Barnaby Rudge, Great Expectations, Our Mutual Friends

Charlotte Bronte: The Professor, Jane Eyre.

Thomas Hardy: The Return of the Native, The Mayer of Casterbridge, Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Jude the Obscure

二，对错（10）

1. Act three is the best known and most important of Hamlet’s soliloquies among all the soliloquies in the play. In this soliloquy, Hamlet reveals his innermost thoughts and emotions, his hesitation in particular, before taking decisive action.

2. Robinson Crusoe retells, in the first person singular, a sailor’s adventure on an inhabitated island.

3. Defoe traces the development of Robison Crusoe from a innocent and artless youth into a clever and hardened man, tempered by numerous trials in his eventful life.

4. Burn s’s poetry was written in the Scottish dialect on a variety of subjects. A large number of his poems deal with themes of love, friendship, Scottish life and nature.

5. A second edition 1800 contained more poems and a preface by Wordsworth. The preface to Lyrical Ballads best read as a statement of his principle of poems.

6. According to Wordsworth, he believed that “All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.” Thus he located many of his poems in “common life” and his poetry is distinguished by the simplicity and purity of his language.

7. There he lives a life of poverty and misery, and makes friends with the lively and penniless Mr. Micawder.

8. Jane Eyre maintains that women should have equal rights with men, thus this novel has drawn the feminists’ attention in the twentieth century.

三，选择（10）

According to Wordsworth, he believed that “All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.”

He located many of his poems in “common life” and his poetry is distinguished by the simplicity and purity of his language.

四，读选文，回答问题（两诗歌，三小说）作者名字（5个40分）

1.Sonnet18: Shakespearian.

What is the theme of this sonnet? -- Runs in iambic pentameter, rhymed ABAB CDCD EFEF GG.

2.The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark: Shakespearian.

What dose the “to or not to be” soliloquy tell us about Hamlet’s state of mind?—The soliloquy opens with a question, and there two other extended questions in the passage, all of which suggests that Hamlet is undecided, and either unable or unwilling to make up his mind, contemplating suicide, and disenchanted with the suffering of human life. He is cynical, but comforts himself with reflection, even though he is clearly suffering greatly and aware of his own sins and weakness.

Why Hamlet hesitates before taking decisive action? -- Hamlet is often indecisive and hesitant, but at other times prone to rash and impulsive acts. Even at the end of this whole narrative of Hamlet's, he still doesn't decide on anything. He's just speaking his thoughts; he's not committing to anything. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud: William Wordsworth.

3. I wandered lonely as a cloud: William Wordsworth.

What does “daffodil” stand for? ---Daffodil stand for nature in this poem, but the poet does not depict it simply as part of nature. As for Wordsworth, he dose not just want to depict the natural landscape, moreover, he pays much attention to the interaction between mature and human nature. He perceives nature as a stone of truths about human nature.

Analyze the form of this poem by taking the first two lines as example. ---This poem consists of four stanzas and in each stanza there are six lines. In each line there are four feet with a weak- strong sound pattern. The rime scheme in each stanza is a b a b c c.

I wandered lonely as a cloud a

That floats on high o’er vales and hills, b

When all at once I saw a crowd, a

A host of golden daffodils; b

Beside the lake, beneath the trees c

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. C

4.To Autumn: John Keats.

What are the images used in this poem? Are they carefully arranged? --- Visual image, olfactory image, gustatory image, tactile image, auditory image. Through a series of images, make readers announcement of its scene, feeling rich concrete images.

In the poem of To Autumn, he used visual image, auditory image, tactile image, gustatory image, kinaesthetic image and abstractimage to make the abstract impression of autumn specific, appreciable and more colorful. The pursuit to beauty is the way that Keats loves life, nature and also is the way he observes and enjoys life and nature. The pursuit to beau ty is his critique to the darkness of life and society. It also tells how he wanted beautiful a nd ideal life in his short life.

5.Pride and Prejudice: Jane Austen.

Do you agree with the opening statement of the novel? What has the sentence to do with tone of the whole novel? --- Opening statement of the novel set the tone for whole novel. Writer is very serious in stating a universal truth, but what follows, however, is a very common topic of everyday life—marriage. Thus a humorous and ironic effect is achieved. Two key words appear in the statement: marriage and money, which in effect ate subject matter of the whole novel, the focus here is on the link between money and marriage.

Based on your reading of the first two chapters of the novels, can you summarize the characteristics of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet? —Mr. Bennet: he behaved sarcastically humorous, witty and capricious, and insightful in the process of showing his disrespect and dislike of Mrs. Bennet. Her mind was less difficult to develop. She was woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper. When she was discounted, she fancied herself nervous, the business of her life was to get her daughters married; its solace was visiting and news.

What is your understanding of the relationship between money and marriage? --- A happy and strong marriage takes time to build and must be based on mutual feeling, understanding, and respect. Marriage can not built on the basis of money. If there is no real love between the couple, their marriage will become a tragedy eventually. Even though money can give people the comfortable house and the luxurious life, it can not buy a beautiful marriage

6.David Copperfield: Charles Dickens.

Dose David enjoys his life described in this chapter? How do you know? ---- David works very hard in the factory, but he could simply pay for his living. The real difficulty is that he feels very lonely, because from Monday morning until Saturday night, he has no advice, no encouragements, and no assistance of any kind. Luckily, his stay with the Micawber family in his leisure time turns out to be quite pleasant. They form a very precious friendship.

Why dose the novel use the first point of view? --- It helps the author to select details. Only the events and details that David could have seen and experienced can logically be introduced into the story. The narrator’s limited view may create the effect of suspense. 7.Jane Eyre: Charlotte Bronte

Give common: 性格特点：Jane Eyre is Straightforward and feminism. Showed her concerns for the position of women particularly in English society.

五，回答问题（20）

William Shakespearean

154 sonnets. Long poems: Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece. 38 plays.

Daniel Defoe

1. What are the characteristics of Crusoe from the selected reading?--- Self-reliance; patient; cheerful; clarity, courage and persistence in overcoming difficulties he start a new life in the desolate island, which demands a lot of courage and daring.

Robert Burns—Scotland

A Red, Red Rose: wrote in 1794, published in 1796.

1. An outstanding feature of this poem is the skillful use simile at the beginning of the poem. Draw on specific lines to explain its effect.

---Simile means a comparison between two unlike items that includes like or as. For example, the first line of this poem: "Oh, my love is like a red, red rose"; al so, in this poem, "My love is like the melody". By comparing the speaker' s love to a red, red rose and a melody, readers can

clearly sense the speaker's appreciation and deep love to his lover.

2. This short poem is actually composed of a series of overstatements. What is the function of them? Give examples to illustrate your point. --- Overstatement is intentional exaggeration, which is, saying more that is actually meant. In this poem, when the speaker says that he will love his lady until all the seas go dry, he is using overstatement. By using this, the poet can attract readers’ attention and the sentence will leave a deep impression on the reader’s mind.

William Wordsworth

“The break with the conventional poetical tradition of the 18th century”. A second edition in 1800 contained more poems and a preface by Wordsworth. The preface to lyrical Ballads is best read as a statement or his principles of poetry.

John Keats

Jane Austen

The Plot Pride and Prejudice---

Major characters: Elizabeth Bennet(the second eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet); Jane Bennet(first); Lydia Bennet(fifth); Mr. Bingley: a rich, single. Mr. Darcy (Mr. Bingley’s friend who is a rich and proud young man)

Theme: money and marriage.

Writing style: Clarity, economy, skillful use of dialogue and tight plotting are the main features of Jane Austen’s style.

Subject: Houses, money, estates run.

Charles Dickens:

David Copperfield:theme: the hero of the novel. The novel depicts David’s life experiences from an innocent boy to a famous writer. Style: Of Dickens’s fictional art, the most distinguishing feature is his successful characterization, especially male characters. Dickens was also a great story-teller. His plots were always very large, varied and complicated. However, the plots of his novels changed dramatically as he got older. In his later years, plots primarily became the vehicles for his characterization of thematic concerns, as readers may find in this novel.

Charlotte Bronte-Jane Eyre four girls except Ann weres send to Charity School，三个姐妹中最大的,Unhappy life in charity school, with Emily go to Charlotte study. 性格特点：Straightforward直白的人feminism女权主义Romantic浪漫主义Thoughtful

1.Give t hree instances in which Jane Eyre draws from Charlotte Bronte’s background 1). Jane’s life in Lowood is depicted based on the author’s own experiences in charity school where she spent some unhappy years of her childhood. 2) In Thornfield, Jane falls in love with Mr. Rochester, a rich squire who turns out to have had a mad wife. This is by and large Charlotte’s experience in Brussels where she falls in a married professor. 3) In Thronfield, Jane works as governess, and Charlotte herself worked as teachers and governess during 1837 to 1840.

2.Discuss the symbolic use of names in this novel.

1)“Eyre”, the surname of Jane, has the same pronunciation as “air”, which may symbolize Jane’s pursuit of freedom. 2) “Blanche”, the given name of Miss. Ingram, has its Fre nch origin, which actually means “white” in English. And it may symbolize the shallowness of Miss. Ingram.

3.How does Mr. Rochester treat Jane in this chapter? What Jane’s character attract him ?To start with, Mr. Rochester shows some cruelty in his courtship of Jane so as to make Jane jealous. On hearing this, Jane could not help telling him her true feelings that she longs for equality and does not want to depart with him.

?When Mr. Rochester confesses his real intention, Jane feels hurt and refuses his courtship at first.

?Then she realizes his intention and accepts his love.

?Her self-respect, her desire for independence, her courage, her moral strength, her passion and her personal loyalty and devotion, all these work together to make Mr.

Rochester greatly attracted by her.

Thomas Hardy:

Hardy was a poet before he was a novelist. It was because his early verses could not be accepted that he turned to novel writing.

Plot of the novel: Tess of the d’Unbervilles, Hardy’s most famous novel, has a subtitle, which is, A Pure Woman Faithfully Portrayed. It tells a tragic life story of a beautiful,

naive country girl, Tess Durbeyfield.

General features and comments: The whole story is filled with a feeling of dismal foreboding and doom. Father circumstances and tragic coincidences abound in the book. 12春《英美文学选读》作业1

一、单选题

1. How many periods are divided into in the creation years of Shakespeare? Three

2. Defoe＇s Robinson Crusoe created the image of an enterprising Englishman, typical of the English bourgeoisie in the 18th century.

3. In English poetry the _ iamb _is regarded as the most common foot.

4. The excerpt The Other Side of the Island was chosen from Chapter_Ⅸ__ in Robinson Crusoe.

5. "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 p” Jane Eyre

6. William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following EXCEPT the use of elegant wording and inflated figures of speech

7. All the following poets belong to lake poets EXCEPT Shelley

8. In Shakespeare＇s Merchant of Venice, Antonio could not pay back the money he borrowed from Shylock, because _ his ships had all been lost _.

9. "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_ dramatic irony __

10. In the conversation with his wife in Chapter One of Pride and Prejudice, Mr. Bennet uses a(n) __ teasing ____ tone with sarcastic humor.

11. The term tone in literature means: the manner of expression to indicate the speaker＇s attitude towards the subject

12. What does Wordsworth＇s poem "The Solitary Reaper" tell us about Romanticist? To romanticists, poetry is an expression of an individual＇s feelings and experiences no matter how fragmentary and momentary these feelings and experiences are.

13. Which of the following is NOT a tragicomedy? Timon of Athens

14. Which of the following is a tragedy? Antony and Cleopatra

15. How many lines are there in a sonnet? 14

16. The poem Ode to a Nightingale was written by_ John Keats __

17. In Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth Bennet finds out some weak points about herself

in the process of judging others. Which of the following is NOT a weak point of hers? Snobbishness

18. Hamlet is a prince of _ Denmark __

19. Charles Dickens takes the French Revolution as the background of his novel A Tale of Two Cities

20. The poem I wandered Lonely as a Cloud was written by _ William Wordsworth __ 12春《英美文学选读》作业3

一、单选题

1. The story of the Scarlet Letter is set in_ Boston __

2. What＇s the name of Hester and Dimmesdale ＇s daughter? Pearl

3. Which of the following statements about The Scarlet Letter is NOT true?

A. It explores man＇s never-ending search for the satisfaction of materialistic desires.

B. It relates the conflicts between the society and the individual.

C. It is about the effect of sin on the people involved and the society as a whole.

D. It presents a p

正确答案：B

4. 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 riverboat pilot ____.

5. The pen name Mark Twain means_ safe water __

6. O Captain, My Capain is written by_ Walt Whitman __

7. Dreiser＇s Trilogy of Desire includes three novels. They are The Financier, The Titan and __ The Stoic _____ .

8. In American literature, escaping from the society and returning to nature is a common subject. The following titles are all related, in one way or another, to the subject except _______.

A. Mark Twain＇s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

B. Dreiser＇s Sister Carrie

C. Copper＇s Leather-Stocking Tales

D. Thoreau＇s Walden

正确答案：B

9. As a naturalist writer, Theodore Dreiser was greatly influenced by _ Charles Darwin .

10. Great Gatsby, written by Fitzgerald in 1925, is a story about an idealist who was destroyed by the influence of the wealthy, pleasure-seeking people around him.

11. When we say that a poor young man from the West tried to make his fortune in the East but was disillusioned in the quest of an idealized dream, we are probably discussing about Scott Fitzgerald＇s thematic concern in his fiction writing.

12. Robert Frost won_ four __ Plitzer prices.

13. Robert Frost combined traditional verse forms - the sonnet, rhyming couplets, blank

verse - with a clear American local speech rhythm, the speech of New England farmers with its idiosyncratic diction and syntax.

14. Which of the following is not written by Robert Frost? To Autumn

15. "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 one＇s course of life

16. In Fitzgerald＇s The Great Gatsby, there are detailed descriptions of big parties. The purpose of such descriptions is so show emptiness of life.

17. Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his local color.

18. Robert Frost is a regional poet in the sense that his poems are mainly concerned about the country life in New England.

19. Which of the following statements about writers in 1920s is true?

A. Mark Twain published his last and most important novel.

B. F. Scott Fitzgerald received the Nobel Prize.

C. D. Most writers were politically radical.

正确答案：C

20. The poem Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening is selected from_ New Hampshire ___

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