全国2011年4月高等教育自学考试英美文学选读试题
答案及评分参考
（课程代码 00604）
I. Multiple Choice (40 points in all, 1 for each)
1-5: DBDBC 6-10: BBBCC 11-15: DAADC 16-20: BABCB
21-25: ABCCA 26-30: CBADA 31-35: BBACB 36-40: ACDBD
II. Reading Comprehension (16 points in all, 4 for each)
41. A. Sonnet 18, Shakespeare;
B. Personification
C. A nice summer’s day is usually transient, but the beauty in poetry can last for ever.
A、B点各1分，C点2分。语言错误酌情扣分。
42. A. The Tyger, William Blake
B. The God
C. Lamb symbolizes peace and purity.
A、B点各1分，C点2分。语言错误酌情扣分。
43. A. Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself”;
B. His native land, America or his country
C. I was born and nurtured by this land and shall from now on devote my whole life to the country
A、B点各1分，C点2分。语言错误酌情扣分。
44. A. Ernest Hemingway, India Camp
B. Life and death
C. When the father says that dying is pretty easy, he might be thinking about the self-murdered husband. But when he reflects on the wife’s miracle survival of the violent pain in the whole process of birth, he adds the final sentence. Dying is both hard and easy, it all depends on individuals.
A、B点各1分，C点2分。语言错误酌情扣分。
III Questions and Answers (24 points in all, 6 for each)
45. A. The novel is a riddle which means different things to different people.
B. From a social point of view, it is a story about a poor man abused;
C. As a love story, beautiful and horrible passion in human beings.
A、B、C三点各2分，语言错误酌情扣分。
46. A. As one of the influential members of the Fabian Society, Shaw regarded the establishment of socialism by the emancipation of land and industrial capital from individual and class ownership as the final goal.
B. As a realistic dramatist, he took the modern social issues as his subjects. Most of his plays are concerned with political, economic, moral, or religious problems.
C. Mrs. Warren’s Profession is a play about the economic oppression of women.
A、B点各1分，C点2分。语言错误酌情扣分。
47. A. Young Goodman Brown is essentially an allegory. It is concerned with a young Puritan who attends a witches’ Sabbath in the woods. (1分)
B. Goodman Brown’s journey is a symbolic journey of discovering sin and evil in human hearts. The discovery is horrible in that it makes Brown a distrust and doubtful man forever. (2分)
C. In dealing with the theme of guilt and sin, Hawthorne exemplifies the “power of blackness”. (1分)
D. The story faithfully reflects Hawthorne’s Puritan belief: “There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity”. (2分)
语言错误酌情扣分。
48. A. the American Girl in Europe, embodying the spirit of the New World.
B. Innocence turns out to be an admiring but a dangerous quality and her defiance of social taboos in the Old World finally brings her to a disaster.
A、B两点各三分，语言错误酌情扣分。
IV. Topic Discussion (20 points in all, 10 for each)
49. A. Jane Eyre is an orphan child with a fiery spirit and a longing for love and be loved. (3分)
B. She is a poor, plain, little governess who dares to love her master and cuts a completely new woman image. (3分)
C. Jane Eyer represent those middle-class working women who are struggling for recognition of their basic rights and equality as a human being. (4分)
语言错误酌情扣分。
50. A. Naturalism was greatly influenced by Darwin’s evolutionary theory and French literature. (2分)
B. Naturalists accepted the more negative implications of Darwin’s theory and used it to count for the behavior of those characters in literary works who were conceived as more or less complex combinations of inherited attributes, their habits conditioned by social and economic forces. (5分)
C. Naturalism is evolved from realism when the author’s tone in writing becomes less serious and less sympathetic but more ironic and more pessimistic. (3分)
语言错误酌情扣分。
