1、2017 年 4 月全国自考（英美文学选读）真题试卷及答案与解析一、单项选择题1 The Renaissance marks a transition from the_to the modern world.（A）medieval（B） romantic（C） Anglo-Saxon（D）Victorian2 Which of the following plays is NOT among William Shakespeare s four great tragedies?（A）Hamlet.（B） Twelfth Night.（C） Othello.（D）King Lear.3 Aft
2、er the restoration of_, Milton was imprisoned for a short time and then retired to private life.（A）Charles I（B） Charles II（C） James I（D）James II4 It was not until the reign of_that the Renaissance really began to show its effect in England.（A）Henry VII（B） Henry VIII（C） Charles I（D）Charles II5 In Par
3、adise Lost, the real hero created by Milton is_.（A）God（B） Adam（C） Eve（D）Satan6 The island of Lilliput can be found in_.（A）Robinson Crusoe（B） Gullivers Travels（C） The Adventures of Tom Sawyer（D）The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn7 The Enlightenment was a progressive intellectual movement throughout We
4、stern Europe in the _century.（A）17th（B） 18th（C） 19th（D）20th8 Henry Fielding is the author of the great 18th century English novel_.（A）Tom Jones（B） Pamela（C） Moll Fenders（D）The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy9 The publication of The Lyrical Ballads, written by _, marked the break with the conven
5、tional poetical tradition of the 18th century.（A）William Wordsworth and Robert Burns（B） William Blake and Coleridge（C） Wordsworth and Percy Bysshe Shelly（D）Wordsworth and Coleridge10 Generally, William Shakespeare s dramatic career can be divided into_periods.（A）3（B） 4（C） 5（D）611 “ It is a truth uni
6、versally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. “ The quoted part is taken from_.（A）Pride and Prejudice（B） Wuthering Heights（C） Jane Eyre（D）Sense and Sensibility12 William Wordsworth is regarded as a “worshipper of nature“. He can penetrate to the h
7、eart of things and give the reader the very life of_.（A）beauty（B） peace（C） nature（D）interest13 Jane Austen is an English woman novelist of the_century.（A）16th（B） 17th（C） 18th（D）19th14 Daniel Defoe started as a(n)_and all his life underwent many ups and downs.（A）lawyer（B） engineer（C） worker（D）merchan
8、t15 The writer who lived at the turn of century was_.（A）Thomas Hardy（B） George Eliot（C） Charles Dickens（D）Emily Bronte16 English Romanticism, as a historical phase of literature, is generally said to have begun in_.（A）1786（B） 1788（C） 1796（D）179817 Which of the following characters is NOT in Jane Eyr
9、e?（A）Mrs. Reed.（B） Catherine.（C） Mr. Rochester.（D）Bertha Mason.18 Who wrote Mrs Warrens Profession?（A）D. H. Lawrence.（B） William Butler Yeats.（C） T. S. Eliot.（D）George Bernard Shaw.19 William Blake began writing poetry at the age of_.（A）12（B） 13（C） 14（D）1520 The Modern English writers concentrated m
10、ore on the_affairs.（A）public（B） private（C） international（D）objective21 George Bernard Shaw was a(n)_, who composed Pygmalion.（A）playwright（B） poet（C） novelist（D）essayist22 Among Thomas Hardy s works_, is the most cheerful and idyllic.（A）Tess of the D Urbervilles（B） The Return of the Native（C） Under
11、the Greenwood Tree（D）The Mayor of Casterbridge23 Among Hawthorne s works_, is always regarded as the best.（A）The Scarlet Letter（B） Self-Reliance（C） Civil Disobedience（D）The Last Tycoon24 “Leaves of Grass“ has always been considered a monumental work which commands great attention because of its uniq
12、uely poetic embodiment of American_.（A）culture（B） democratic ideals（C） realistic ideals（D）dream25 Melville s writings can be well divided into two groups, each with something in common in the light of_and imaginative focus.（A）individualism（B） the thematic concern（C） evils（D）American value26 Mark Twa
13、in is a great literary giant of America, whom_considered “the true father of our national literature“.（A）O. Henry（B） H. L. Mencken（C） James Michener（D）Emily Dickinson27 In American literature _, was the first American writer to conceive his career in international terms.（A）Henry James（B） Hawthorne（C
14、） Tom Pett（D）Poe28 Miss Emily Dickinson was born into_of Amherst, Massachusetts.（A）a Calvinist family（B） a poor family（C） a farmer s family（D）a teacher s family29 In American literature_, possessed none of the usual aids to a writer s career: no money, no friend in power, no formal education worthy
15、of mention, no family tradition in letters.（A）Theodore Dreiser（B） Jack London（C） Faulkner（D）Pound30 In any list of important poets in the twentieth century, regardless of nationality _, commands a place.（A）Robert Lee Frost（B） Jack London（C） Faulkner（D）Pound31 Ernest Hemingway s style, the particular
16、 type of hero in his_, and his life attitudes have been widely recognized and imitated.（A）poems（B） plays（C） science fictions（D）novels32 The Blithedale Romance is a novel Hawthorne wrote to reveal his own experiences_.（A）in London（B） in New York（C） on the Jocken Farm（D）on the Brook Farm33 In“Leaves o
17、f Grass“ , Walt Whitman is concerned with openness, freedom, and above all, _.（A）individualism（B） war（C） evils（D）sins34 Redburn is a semi-autobiographical novel by Melville, concerning the sufferings of a genteel youth among brutal_.（A）sailors（B） workers（C） policemen（D）soldiers35 Mark Twain, pen nam
18、e of_was born on November 30, 1835, in Missouri.（A）Samuel Langhorne Clemens（B） Jason Black（C） Tom Pett（D）Gerard Gibson36 Today with the development of the modern novel and the common acceptance of the Freudian approach, Henry James s importance as a_ and critic, has been all the more conspicuous.（A）
19、playwright（B） novelist（C） poet（D）politician37 Dickinsons poetry, despite its ostensible formal simplicity, is remarkable for its_, subtlety and richness.（A）freshness（B） variety（C） humor（D）beauty38 Apart from school education, Dreiser read voraciously by himself. His true literary influences were fro
20、m_, Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer.（A）Russell Ash（B） Balzac（C） Vincent Alsop（D）Zola39 Robert Lee Frost was the Pulitzer Prize winner on_occasions; the United States Senate passed resolutions honoring his birthday.（A）3（B） 4（C） 2（D）540 During World War I_served as an honorable junior officer in th
21、e American Red Cross Ambulance Corps.（A）Emily Dickinson（B） Jack London（C） Ernest Hemingway（D）Poe二、阅读理解41 “Are you in earnest? Do you truly love me? Do you sincerely wish me to be your wife?“ “I do; and if an oath is necessary to satisfy you, I swear it. “ “Then, sir, I will marry you. “ “ Edwardmy l
22、ittle wife!“ “ Dear Edward!“ Come to mecome 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 happinessI will make yours. “ Questions:A. What is the title of the novel from which the excerpt is taken? Who is the author?B. Who a
23、re the two speakers?C. What does this excerpt tell us about the speakers?42 Shall I compare thee to a summer s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer s lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines And often
24、 is his gold complexion dimmed;But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow st; ( From Shakespeare s “ Sonnet 18“) Questions:A. What does “thee“ refer to in the first line of the stanza?B. What figure of speech is used in the fifth line?C. What is the theme of this
25、 poem?43 He knew the tune; it was a familiar one in the choir of the village meeting-house. The verse died heavily away, and was lengthened by a chorus, not of human voices, but of all the sounds of the benighted wilderness, pealing in awful harmony together. Goodman Brown cried out; and his cry was
26、 lost to his own ear, by its unison with the cry of the desert.Questions:A. What is the title of the story from which the excerpt is taken? Who is the author?B. Where is the protagonist now? And why did he go there?C. What is the author s major concern in this story?44 And I keep hearing from the ce
27、llar bin The rumbling soundOf load on load of apples coming in.For I have had too muchOf apple-picking; I am overtiredOf the great harvest I myself desired.Questions:A. What is the title of the poem from which the stanza is taken? Who is the author?B. What does “The rumbling sound“ in the second lin
28、e refer to?C. What does the poet want to tell the readers through this poem?三、简答题45 In what way is Swift regarded as one of the greatest masters of English prose?46 Why can Bernard Shaw s plays be termed as problem plays?47 According to Theodore Dreiser, what is the core of American values? And what
29、 is their effect on people s life ?48 Due to her deliberate seclusion, Emily Dickinsons poems tend to be very personal and meditative. What is the style of her poetry?四、论述题49 Briefly discuss Jane Austen s notion about human beings in their personal relationships.50 Ernest Hemingways style, the parti
30、cular type of hero in his novels, and his life attitudes have been widely recognized and imitated all over the world. Discuss Hemingway Code heroes briefly.2017 年 4 月全国自考（英美文学选读）真题试卷答案与解析一、单项选择题1 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 文艺复兴是标志着中世纪的结束和现代社会的开始的一个过渡时期。一般来说，文艺复兴时期指的是从 14 世纪到 17 世纪中叶的这一时期。2 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 威廉-莎士比
31、亚是英国伟大的戏剧大师、诗人，欧洲文艺复兴时期的文学巨匠。他的四大悲剧是哈姆雷特奥赛罗李尔王和麦克白。3 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 1660 年，查理二世复辟，弥尔顿被捕入狱，不久又被释放。从此他专心写诗，为实现伟大的文学抱负而艰苦努力，他写出了他的三部伟大诗作失乐园复乐园和力士参孙。4 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 文艺复兴浪潮波及英国的速度缓慢，直到亨利八世统治期间，文艺复兴的春风才吹入英国。在亨利八世的鼓励下，牛津的改革派、学者和人文主义者们将古典文学引入英国。自此，英国的文艺复兴开始了。5 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 弥尔顿的失乐园主要讲述叛逆之神撒旦因为反抗上帝的权威被打入地狱
32、，却毫不屈服，为复仇寻至伊甸园。此史诗第一次在文学创作领域内把反面人物撒旦作为主人公来塑造，这颠覆了文学创作中描绘正面形象的传统风格。6 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 格列佛游记是斯威夫特最佳的小说作品，全书共四卷，叙述了格列佛遭遇海难后，在利立浦特(小人国)、布罗卜丁奈格(大人国)、飞岛国、慧骃国的不同寻常的历险。在书的结构上，四部分构成了一个有机整体，并有着相对的独立性，同时每一卷与其他三卷互为补充，体现了对人类本性与生活探索的主题。7 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 英国的 18 世纪同时也是启蒙主义时代，或日理性时代。启蒙运动是进步的知识分子运动，兴盛于法国，后来席卷整个西欧。这次运动是
33、 15、16 世纪文艺复兴的延续与发展，其宗旨便是用当代哲学与艺术思想的晨光启迪整个世界。8 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 在所有 18 世纪的小说家中，亨利-菲尔丁第一次在理论与实践上创造了“散文体喜剧史诗”，并第一个为现代小说确立了结构与风格。菲尔丁的代表作汤姆-琼斯以对人性的讽刺为主题。这部作品为菲尔丁赢得了“散文荷马”的美誉。9 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 华兹华斯与科勒律治的抒情歌谣集的出版标志着 18 世纪传统的诗歌传统的结束和英国浪漫主义时期的开始。10 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 因为许多莎士比亚戏剧准确的写作时间无法确定，所以评论家对于莎士比亚的戏剧生涯的划分持不同的意见
34、。但是，一般来说，他的戏剧生涯可分为4 个时期。11 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 傲慢与偏见原名第一印象，是简-奥斯汀最出色、最著名的作品，是关于贝内特一家五位姐妹寻找如意郎君的事。这本小说的名句是“世上有条众人皆知的真理：但凡有钱的单身男子，必定想找位太太。”12 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 威廉-华兹华斯是英国浪漫主义诗人，他被称为“大自然的膜拜者”。他能看透自然万物的本质，并将其细致入微地剖析给读者。13 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 浪漫主义时期的代表小说家有简-奥斯汀与沃尔特-司各特。作为 18世纪英国女性小说家，奥斯汀作品的主题为爱情与婚姻。14 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】
35、丹尼尔-笛福是英国现代小说的先驱之一。因为笛福对经商感兴趣，所以他最开始时是一名商人，他的一生经历了许多的起伏。15 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 托马斯-哈代处在世纪之交，常被认为是一位承前启后的作家，他的作品深受新旧两种文学理论的影响。16 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 文学历史阶段之一的英国浪漫主义时期一般被认为始于 1798 年，标志为华兹华斯与科勒律治的抒情歌谣集的出版。17 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 简-爱是夏洛特-布朗蒂的代表作。小说讲述一位从小变成孤儿的英国女子简-爱在各种磨难中不断追求自由与尊严，坚持自我，最终获得幸福的故事。其他主要人物有里德太太、罗切斯特先生和博萨-马
36、森。凯瑟琳是呼啸山庄里的人物。18 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 萧伯纳在戏剧方面被公认为自莎士比亚之后英国最优秀的戏剧大师。他早期的主要作品有鳏夫的房产华伦夫人的职业康蒂坦凯撒和克莉奥佩特拉。19 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 威廉-布莱克是英国浪漫主义时期的代表诗人之一。12 岁时，他就开始写诗歌，他的代表作主要有天真之歌经验之歌等。20 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 现代主义以非理性哲学和心理分析原理作为理论基础。现代派文学的主题便是反映人与自然、人与社会、人与人、人与自我之间被扭曲的、渐渐疏远的、病态的关系。现代派作家注重描写个人而非公众，强调主观而非客观。21 【正确答案】 A【试题
37、解析】 萧伯纳是英国现代杰出的现实主义戏剧作家。他一生共写了 50 多部戏，皮格马利翁是他中期创作的戏剧之一。22 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 托马斯-哈代是维多利亚文学时期的代表作家之一。在他所有的作品中，格林伍德的绿林荫下是最喜悦、最抒情的。23 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 红字是霍桑的代表作，讲述的是四个生活在清教社区以不同方式犯有通奸罪的人的故事，情节简单，但内容感人。24 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 惠特曼是个有强烈使命感的诗人，他毕生所创作的唯一一本诗集是关于美国民主思想的草叶集。草叶集绝大部分作品也都是歌颂整个美国以及自我的。25 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 麦尔维尔的作
38、品可以很好地分为两种类型，这两种类型在主题关注和想象的焦点上具有一些共同之处。26 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 马克-吐温是美国文学巨匠。门肯认为他是“我们真正的民族文学之父”。27 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 亨利-詹姆斯是第一个按国际标准考虑自己职业的美国作家，他羡慕欧洲文明，于 1876 年定居伦敦，1915 年加入英国籍。28 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 美国女诗人艾米莉-狄金森出生在美国马萨诸塞州艾摩斯特市的一个加尔文教的家庭，她过着简朴而又独立的生活，自始至终守身如玉。29 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 西奥多-德莱塞是美国著名的自然主义作家。他并不具有任何文学上的家学渊源或
39、其他务件：没有钱，没有有权的朋友，没有值得一提的正规教育。然而德莱塞最终成为了美国的重要作家之一。30 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 罗伯特-弗洛斯特是 20 世纪的重要诗人之一，被称为羡国文学中的桂冠诗人。31 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 欧内斯特-海明威是诺贝尔文学奖的获得者，也是美国著名作家之一。他的写作风格、他小说中人物的特定类型和他的生活态度已经得到了全世界的认可，并被模仿。32 【正确答案】 D【试题解析】 福谷传奇是霍桑作为心理小说家反映他在布鲁克农场的亲身经历的小说。33 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 惠特曼的草叶集是浪漫主义时期文学的压卷之作。在草叶集中，惠特曼主要涉及谈论
40、开放性、自由，尤其是个人主义。34 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 麦尔维尔的雷得本是半自传性的小说，写一个高雅的青年在野蛮的水手中的遭遇。35 【正确答案】 A【试题解析】 马克-吐温的真实姓名是萨缪尔-兰亨-克莱门，他的代表作品有小说密西西出河上的生活汤姆索亚历险记和哈克贝里 费恩历险记等。36 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 随着现代小说的发展和弗洛伊德分析法的普遍接受，作为小说家和评论家的亨利-詹姆斯的重要性更为明显了。37 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 虽然狄金森的诗歌表面形式简单，但是她的诗歌以多样、微妙和丰富而著称。38 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 西奥多-德莱塞除了在学校阅读书籍
41、外，自己还在课外大量地阅读书籍。对他的文学起到真正影响的作家有巴尔扎克、查尔斯-达尔文和赫伯特-斯宾塞。39 【正确答案】 B【试题解析】 罗伯特-弗洛斯特获过 4 次普利策文学奖，并且美国参议院通过决议纪念他的生日。40 【正确答案】 C【试题解析】 一战期间，海明威在美国红十字会当男护士，1918 年两腿严重受伤。战后，他去巴黎作外国记者。受安德森、史蒂芬-克兰、格特鲁德-斯坦恩等人的影响和指导，他成了作家，并受到读者注意。二、阅读理解41 【正确答案】 A. Jane Eyre. Charlotte Bronte. B. Mr. Rochester and Jane Eyre. C. T
42、hey passionately and earnestly fell in love with each other.42 【正确答案】 A. beauty in poetry. B. personification. C. A nice summers day is usually transient, but the beauty in poetry can last for ever. Thus Shakespeare has a faith in the permanence of poetry.43 【正确答案】 A. “Young Goodman Brown“. Hawthorn
43、e. B. In the woods. He went there to attend a witches Sabbath. C. Hawthorne is mainly concerned with the theme of guilt and evil in this story.44 【正确答案】 A. “After Apple-Picking“. Frost. B. The sound of apples running down onto a pile from a basket. C. His experience on the farm in which the end of l
44、abor leaves him with a sense of fulfillment yet finds him blocked from success by physical weariness.三、简答题45 【正确答案】 Swift is almost unsurpassed in the writing of simple, direct, precise prose. Clear, simple, concrete diction, uncomplicated sentence structure, economy and conciseness of language mark
45、 all his writings; essays, poems and novels.46 【正确答案】 Most of his plays are concerned with political, economic, moral, or religious problems, and, thus, can be termed as problem plays. And his plays have one passion, and one only, i. e. indignation, indignation against oppression and exploitation, a
46、gainst poverty, dirt and disorder.47 【正确答案】 From his first novel Sister Carrie on, Dreiser set himself to project the American values for what he had found them to bematerialistic to the core. Living in such a society with such a value system, the human individual is obsessed with a never-ending, ye
47、t meaningless search for satisfaction of his desires.48 【正确答案】 Dickinson s poetry is unique and unconventional in its own way. In her poetry there is a particular stress pattern, in which dashes are used as a musical device to create cadence and capital letters as a means of emphasis. Her poetic idi
48、om is noted for its laconic brevity, directness and plainness.四、论述题49 【正确答案】 It is her conviction that a man s relationship to his wife and children is at least as important a part of his life as his concerns about his belief and career. If one wants to know about a man s nature and temper, one shou
49、ld see him at home. Austen shows a human being not at moments of crisis, but in the most trivial incidents of everyday life. For life is made up of small things, and human nature reveals itself in them as fully as in big ones. A picnic in the woods shows up selfishness, kindness, vanity or sincerity just a
