自学考试《英国文学选读》试题及答案_第3页

　　31. As a naturalist writer, Theodore Dreiser was greatly influenced by _______.

　　A. Nathaniel Hawthorne

　　B. Charles Darwin

　　C. Henry James

　　D. Ralph Waldo Emerson

　　Answer: B

　　32. In Sister Carrie, Hurstwood, extremely hopeless and totally devastated, ends his life by turning on

　　the gas, while at the same time Carrie is rocking comfortably in her luxurious hotel room before she

　　boards a ship for _______.

　　A. New York

　　B. London

　　C. Paris

　　D, Geneva

　　Answer: B

　　33. In Henry James’ "Daisy Miller," the author tries to portray the protagonist as an embodiment of

　　______.

　　A. the force of convention

　　B. the decline of aristocracy

　　C. the free spirit of the New World

　　D. the corruption of the new rich

　　Answer: C

　　34. American writers of the first postwar era who were devoid of faith and alienated from the

　　civilization were commonly called "______."

　　A. sons of liberty

　　B. fatherless children

　　C. a beat generation

　　D. a lost generation

　　Answer: D

　　35. The raft with which Huck and Jim make their voyage down the Mississippi River may symbolize all the

　　following EXCEPT ______.

　　A. a return to nature

　　B. an escape from evils, injustices, and corruption of the civilized society

　　C. the heavenly kingdom of Christianity

　　D. a small world where people of different colors can live friendly and happily

　　Answer: C

　　36. Of the following American poets in the twentieth century, the one who has the best knowledge of

　　Chinese culture is _______.

　　A. Robert Frost

　　B. Allen Ginsberg

　　C. Ezra Pound

　　D. E. E. Cummings

　　Answer: C

　　37. Emily Grierson, the protagonist in Faulkner’s story "A Rose for Emily," can be regarded as a symbol

　　standing for all the following qualities EXCEPT _______.

　　A. no prejudice against the northerners

　　B. rigid ideas of social status

　　C. bigotry and eccentricity

　　D. grace and integrity

　　Answer: D

　　38. Robert Frost is a regional poet in the sense that his poems are mainly concerned about the _______.

　　A. life in New York

　　B. country life in New England

　　C. sea adventures

　　D. life on the Mississippi

　　Answer: B

　　39. In Hemingway’s story "Indian Camp" Nick, the protagonist, witnesses _______.

　　A. a tragic killing of the Indians by the white man

　　B. real friendship between the white men and the Indians

　　C. men’s senseless killing of each other

　　D. terrible scenes of birth and death

　　Answer: D

　　40. Great Gatsby, written by Fitzgerald in 1925, is a story about ______ who was destroyed by the

　　influence of the wealthy, pleasure-seeking people around him.

　　A. a vagabond

　　B. an idealist

　　C. an eccentric

　　D. an opportunist

　　Answer: B

　　PART TWO

　　II. Reading Comprehension

　　41. "Busy old fool, unruly sun,

　　Why dost thou thus,

　　Through windows and through curtains call on us?"

　　Questions:

　　A. Identify the poem and the poet.

　　B. What does the word "fool" refer to?

　　C. What idea does the quotation express?

　　参考答案：

　　A It is taken from Jone Donne’s "The Sun Rising" (P66)

　　B. "fool" refers to the sun.

　　C. Donne’s great prose works are his sermons, the quotation expresses a strong sense of rebellious

　　spirit, the author tried to break away from the conventional fashion of the Elizabethan love poetry.

　　(P63+66)

　　42. "Most mighty Emperor of Lilliput, delight and terror of the universe, whose dominions extend five

　　thousand blustrugs (about twelve miles in circumference) to the extremities of the globe; Monarch of all

　　Monarchs; taller than the sons of men; whose feet press down to the center, and whose head strikes

　　against the sun; at whose nod the princes of the earth shake their knees; pleasant as spring, comfortable

　　as summer, fruitful as autumn, dreadful as winter."

　　Questions:

　　A. Identify the work and the author.

　　B. What is the tone of the author?

　　C. What does the author parody here?

　　Answers:

　　A. The passage comes from "Gulliver’s Travels" written by Jonanthan Swift. (P115)

　　B. The author used the Ironic tone of the passage.

　　C. Romance (prose)/ Adventurous prose is the parody here.

　　43. "She thanked men -good! but thanked

　　Somehow -I know not how -as if she ranked

　　My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name

　　With anybody’s gift."

　　Questions:

　　A. Identify the poem and the poet.

　　B. What kind of tone does the speaker use here?

　　C. What idea does the quoted passage express?

　　Answers:

　　A. The poem is "My Last Duchess", by Robert Browning. (P286)

　　B. The speaker is Duke, he is a villain. The speaker uses the tone of arrogant (傲慢的) here.

　　C. The quoted passage reveals the duke is a self-conceited, cruel and tyrannical man. (P287)

　　44. "This is my letter to the World

　　That never wrote to Me -

　　The simple News that Nature told -

　　With tender Majesty"

　　Questions:

　　A. Identify the poet

　　B. What does the word "World" refer to?

　　C. What idea does the quoted passage express?

　　Answers:

　　A. The poet is Emily Dickinson. (P520)

　　B. "World" refers to the outside world.

　　C. The poem expresses Dickinson’s anxiety about her communication with the outside world. (P520)

　　III. Questions and Answers

　　45. "For herein Fortune shows herself more kind

　　Than in her custom; it is still her use

　　To let the wretched man outlive his wealth,

　　To view with hollow eye and wrinkled brow

　　An age of poverty; from which ling’ring penance

　　Of such misery doth she cut me off."

　　The above lines are taken from a speech made by Antonio, a major character in Shakespeare’s play The

　　Merchant of Venice. Why does Antonio say that Fortune is more kind to him than in her custom?

　　参考答案:

　　This sentence means she, Lady Fortune, is more kind to him because she is taking away both his wealth

　　and life. The speaker is Antonio, it’s said that his ship have all been lost, and he is penniless, and

　　will have to pay the pound of flesh. (Because Shylock has made a strange bond that requires Antonio to

　　pay him a pound of flesh if he can’t repay him, the money that he borrowed for his friend in due time.)

　　(P38)