2023年10月自考00604英美文学选读试题及答案

2023 年 10 月高等教育自学考试

英美文学选读试题

课程代码:00604

1.请考生按规定用笔将所有试题的答案涂、写在答题纸上。

2.答题前,考生务必将自己的考试课程名称、姓名、准考证号用黑色字迹的签字笔或钢笔

填写在答题纸规定的位置上。

选择题部分

注意事项:

每小题选出答案后,用 2B 铅笔把答题纸上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动,用橡皮

擦干净后,再选涂其他答案标号。不能答在试题卷上。

一、单项选择题:本大题共 40 小题，每小题 1 分，共 40 分。在每小题列出的备选项中

只有一项是最符合题目要求的，请将其选出。

Multiple Choice (40 points in all, 1 for each)

Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or

completes the statement.

1. Generally speaking, the Old English poetry that has survived can be divided into two groups:

the____group and the secular one.

A.ancient

B. religious

C.Greek

D. Puritan

2.John Milton’s fundamental concern with freedom and choice lies at the center of the

conflict between____.

A. human love and spiritual duty

B. human love and social duty

C. spiritual love and human duty

D. spiritual love and social duty
3. Shakespeare’s long narrative poem is____.

A. The Tempest

B. Hamlet

C. Pericles

D. Venus and Adonis

4. Daniel Defoe’s sentences are sometimes short,___, and sometimes long and rambling.

A. obscure and tedious

B. obscure and rigid

C. crisp and plain

D. crisp and tedious

5. The novel “The History of Amelia” written by____is a maudlin picture of the social life at

the time.

A. Jonathan Swift

B. John Milton

C.Henry Fielding

D. Daniel Defoe

6. In Robinson Crusoe, when Robinson Crusoe ran away from home, he was an

inexperienced teenager full of____about the future.

A. great curiosity

B. bright fancies

C. much fear

D. ultimate anxiety

7. In 1726, Jonathan Swift wrote and published his greatest satiric work,____.

A. Gulliver’s Travels

B. A Tale ofa Tub

C. The Battle of the Books

D.The Drapier ‘s Letters

8. The following words EXCEPT can be used to describe Tom, the hero of The

History of Tom Jones.

A. honest
B. kind-hearted

C. loyal

D. low-spirited

9. Generally speaking, English Romanticism refers to the period of ____.

A.1660-1798

B.1770-1880

C.1798-1832

D.1836-1901

10.One of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s political lyrics is _, which was later to become a

rallying song of the British Communist Party.

A. “Men of England”

B.“Ode to Liberty”

C.“Ode to Naples”

D. “Sonnet: England in 1819”

11. After having read Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, we can know that Mrs. Bennet is an

_woman.

A. intelligent

B. intricate

C.elegant

D.empty-headed

12. In his later period, ____wrote many prophetic books, one of which is The Book of Urizen.

A. Percy Shelley

B. William Blake

C. William Wordsworth

D.Daniel Defoe

13. The following poems by William Wordsworth are masterpieces on nature EXCEPT_:

A. “An Evening Walk”

B. “My Heart Leaps Up”

C. “Tintern Abbey”

D. “The Thorn”
14. The writer _____ thinks that common life is the only subject of literary interest.

A. William Blake

B. Percy Bysshe Shelley

C. William Wordsworth

D. Charles Dickens

15. Jane Austen’s Persuasion__with the prudential calculations.

A. satirizes the hypocritical love

B. presents the hypocritical love

C. contrasts the true love

D. satirizes the true love

16. Born in 1812, often an enthusiastic participant or organizer of some charity activities,___

traveled to America twice, and widely on the Continent.

A. Thomas Hardy

B.Jonathan Swift

C. Daniel Defoe

D.Charles Dickens

17. As a novelist,_____writes within a very narrow sphere.

A. Jane Austen

B. Thomas Hardy

C.Bernard Shaw

D. Charlotte Bronte

18. In Jane Eyre, the selfish and cold-hearted person is____.

A.St.John Rivers

B. Miss Temple

C.Mrs. Reed

D.Helen

19. The __view of life predominates most of Thomas Hardy’s later works and earns him a

reputation as a naturalistic writer.

A. optimistic

B. pessimistic
C. realistic

D.critical

20.Jonathan Swift is making the most devastating protest against the inhuman exploitation

and oppression of the_people by the English ruling class.

A. German

B. French

C.American

D.Irish

21. In Charlotte Bronte’s mind, man’s life is composed of perpetual battle between_____,good

and evil.

A. man and nature

B. right and wrong

C. man and woman

D. sin and virtue

22. Modernism takes the irrational philosophy and____as its theoretical base.

A. Darwin’s evolutionary theory

B. the theory of psycho-analysis

C. the French symbolism

D. Utilitarianism

23. Bernard Shaw’s Doctor’s Dilemma is about ignorance, _____, arrogance and bigotry of the

medical profession.

A. incompetence

B. hypocrisy

C. cautiousness

D. indignation

24. T. S. Eliot’s work _bears a strong thematic resemblance to The Waste Land.

A. The Criterion

B. Prufrock

C. The Hollow Men

D.Gerontion
25. In D. H. Lawrence’s writings, he has expressed a strong reaction against____.

A. the mechanical civilization

B. the spiritual civilization

C. the corruption of the will

D. unhealthy interpersonal relationship

26. In the novel Sons and lovers,Paul’s father is described as the following words

EXCEPT___.

A. warm

B. vigorous

C. sensuous

D.ambitious

27.Nathaniel Hawthorne’s view of man and human history originates, to a great extent, in

_.

A. ancient Greek

B. Islam

C. Puritanism

D.Buddhism

28. According to Walt Whitman, poetry could enable Americans to celebrate their release

from

the Old World and the ____rule.

A. official

B. free

C.colonial

D. legislative

29. Of all Herman Melville’s sea adventure stories,___ proves to be the best.

A. Billy Budd

B. Typee

C. Moby-Dick

D. Pierre

30. Realism was a reaction against Romanticism and paved the way to ____.
A. Symbolism

B. Feminism

C. Post-Modernism

D. Modernism

31. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is best known for___’s wonderful characterization of

“Huck”, a typical American Boy.

A. Henry James

B. Mark Twain

C. William Faulkner

D. Theodore Dreiser

32. Henry James’s__tells a story about a young and innocent American confronting the

complexity of the European life.

A. Tender is the Night

B. The American

C. The Portrait of A Lady

D. Daisy Miller

33. Within Emily Dickinson’s little lyrics she addresses such issues as her own experiences,

her sorrows and joys that concern___, which include religion, death, immorality, love

and nature.

A. the whole human beings

B.the Europeans

C. the Americans

D. the fugitives

34. The work An American Tragedy is written by __.

A. Henry James

B.Walt Whitman

C. Theodore Dreiser

D. Herman Melville

35. Images and__in Robert Lee Frost’s poems are drawn from the simple country life and

the pastoral landscape.
A. personifications

B. metaphors

C. parallelisms

D. hyperboles

36.F. Scott Fitzgerald’s fictional world is the best embodiment of the spirit of ____.

A. the Gilded Age

B. the Golden Times

C.the Romantic Period

D.the Jazz Age

37. Written in 1926,____, Hemingway’s first true novel, casts light on a whole generation

after the First World War.

A. For Whom the Bell Tolls

B. The Old Man and the Sea

C. The Sun Also Rises

D. A Farewell to Arms

38. The major concern of William Faulkner’s__is primarily about the South as a state of

mind.

A. Light in August

B. The Sun Also Rises

C. The Sound and the Fury

D. The Fable

39. For over ten years, ___ supported himself by various means, ranging from shoe-making

to editing a country newspaper, and in 1912 he decided to venture everything on a literary

career.

A. Robert Lee Frost

B. William Faulkner

C.Scott Fitzgerald

D.T.S. Eliot

40. In the novel The Great Gatsby, __is the narrator of the story.

A. Jay Gatsby
B. Daisy

C. Myrtle Wilson

D. Nick Carraway

非选择题部分

注意事项:

用黑色字迹的签字笔或钢笔将答案写在答题纸上,不能答在试题卷上。

二、阅读理解题:本大题共 4 小题，每小题 4 分，共 16 分。

Reading Comprehension (16 points in all, 4 for each)

Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English.

41. Sophia was much pleased with the beauty of the girl, whom she pitied for her simplicity

in having dressed herself in that manner, as she saw the envy which it had occasioned among

her equals. She no sooner came home than she sent for the gamekeeper, and ordered him

to bring his daughter to her; saying she would provide for her in the family, and might possibly

place the girl about her own person, when her own maid, who was now going away, had left

her.

Questions:

A. Identify the author and the title of the work from which the quoted part is taken.

B.Who is Sophia?

C. On what subject is the work?

42. That same evening the gentleman in the white waistcoat most positively and decidedly

affirmed, not only that Oliver would be hung, but that he would be drawn and quartered into

the bargain. Mr. Bumble shook his head with gloomy mystery, and said he wished he might

come to good; whereunto Mr. Gamfield replied, that he wished he might come to him – which,

although he agreed with the beadle in most matters, would seem to be a wish of a totally

opposite description.

Questions:
A. Identify the author and the title of the work from which the quoted part is taken.

B. What is Mr. Gamfield?

C. What is the most distinguishing feature of this author’s works?

43.“That’s right,” he said; “I’m no good now. I was all right. I had money. I’m going to quit

this,” and, with death in his heart, he started down toward the Bowery. People had turned on

the gas before and died; why shouldn’t he? He remembered a lodging-house where there

were little, close rooms, with gas-jets in them, almost pre-arranged, he thought, for what he

wanted to do, which rented for fifteen cents. Then he remembered that he had no fifteen

cents.

Questions:

A. Identify the author and the title of the work from which the quoted part is taken.

B. Who is he in the quoted part?

C. What happened to him in the end?

44. And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.

Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,

I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I –

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made all the difference.

Questions:
A. Identify the poet.

B. What does the speaker tell us in this poem?

C. Forced to choose, which road did the speaker take?

三、简答题:本大题共 4 小题，每小题 6 分，共 24 分。

Questions and Answers (24 points in all, 6 for each)

Give a brief answer to each of the following questions in English.

45. What does the poem“The Chimney Sweeper”(from the Songs of Experience) reveal?

46. Being a drama critic, what’s Bernard Shaw’s viewpoint on drama?

47. Daisy Miller brought Henry James international fame for the first time. What’s the character

of Daisy Miller, the protagonist?

48. What kind of person is Emily Grierson, the protagonist of “A Rose for Emily” by William

Faulkner?

四、论述题:本大题共 2 小题，每小题 10 分，共 20 分。

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. Shakespeare’s four greatest tragedies have some characteristics in common. Briefly

discuss the features of each titular character and the intention that the author wants to

express.

50. Briefly discuss the allegory and symbolism in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s works.