【正文】 they are individuals representing certain types. Each character has his or her own personalities. b. By applying a psychoanalytical approach, Shakespeare succeeds in exploring the characters39。 the works at the time, heavily didactic and moralizing。s life in his long poetic career.A. the west B. the southC. New England D. Alaska38. Most critics have agreed that Fitzgerald is both an insider and an outsider of ______ with a double vision.A. the Gilded Age B. the Rational AgeC. the Jazz Age D. the Magic Age39. In the American Romantic writings,______ came to function almost as a dramatic character that symbolized moral law.A. fire B. waterC. trees D. wilderness40. The desire for an escape from society and a return to ______ became a permanent convention of the American literature.A. the family life B. natureC. the ancient time D. fantasy of loveII. Reading Comprehension (16 points in all, 4 for each)Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.41. Wherefore feed and clothe and save From the cradle to the grave Those ungrateful drones who would Drain your sweat nay, drink your blood? Questions:A. Identify the poet and the title of the poem from which the stanza is taken. B. What figure of speech is used in Line 2?C. Whom does “drones” refer to?Answer: A: The Men of England by Percy Bysshe ShelleyB. Metaphor (不確定答案) C. Drones: the male of the honeybees that do not work, referring here to the parasitic class in human society.42. The following quotation is from one of the poems by T. S. Eliot: No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be。s second big success is ______ , which wrote the epitaph to a decade and to the whole generation in the 1920s, in order to tell us a story about the tragic love affair of a wounded American soldier with a British nurse.A. For Whom the Bell Tolls B. A Farewell to ArmsC. The Sun Also Rises D. The Old Man and the Sea25. With the publication of ______ , Dreiser was launching himself upon a long career that would ultimately make him one of the most significant American writers of the school later known as literary naturalism.A. Sister Carrie B. The TitanC. The Genius D. The Stoic26. Henry James is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20thcentury “stream ofconsciousness”novels and the founder of ______.A. neoclassicism B. psychological realismC. psychoanalytical criticism D. surrealism27. In 1849, Herman Melville published ______ ,a semiautobiographical novel, concerning the sufferings of a genteel youth among brutal sailors.A. Omoo B. MardiC. Redburn D. Typee28. As a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,______ marks the climax of Mark Twain39。s works are all about the struggle of an individual consciousness towards ______ about some lonely and neglected young women with a fierce longing for love, understanding and a full, happy life. A. self reliance B. self realization C. self esteem D. self consciousness15. The symbolic meaning of “Book” in Robert Browning39。. .. . ..英美文學(xué)歷年真題全國(guó)2009年4月英美文學(xué)選讀試題請(qǐng)將答案填在答題紙相應(yīng)的位置上(全部題目用英文作答)I. 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 pletes the statement and write the corresponding letter on the answer sheet.1. In Renaissance, the European humanist thinkers and scholars made attempts to do the following EXCEPT ______.A. getting rid of those old feudalist ideasB. getting control of the parliament and governmentC. introducing new ideas that expressed the interests of the rising bourgeoisieD. recovering the purity of the early church, from the corruption of the Roman Catholic Church2. The Petrarchan sonnet was first introduced into England by ______.A. Surrey B. WyattC. Sidney D. Shakespeare3. As the best of Shakespeare39。s long poem The Ring and the Book is ______.A. the mon sense B. the hard truthC. the prehensive knowledge D. the dead truth16. Thomas Hardy39。s literary activity.A. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn B. Life on the MississippiC. The Gilded Age D. Roughing It29. Realism was a reaction against ______ or a move away from the bias towards romance and self creating fictions, and paved the way to Modernism.A. Romanticism B. RationalismC. Postmodernism D. Cynicism30. When World War II broke out,______ began working for the Italian government, engaged in some radio broadcasts of anti Semitism and pro Fascism.A. Ezra Pound . EliotC. Henry James D. Robert Frost31. In 1915 ______ became a naturalized British citizen, largely in protest against America39。 Am an attendant lord, one that will do To swell a progress, start a scene or two Advise the prince。 having fixed laws and rules for every type of the literature。 inner mind. c. Shakespeare also prtrays his characters in pairs. Contrasts are frequently used to bring vividness to his characters. B. Construction: a. Shakespeare39。s major characters are neither merely individual ones nor type ones。 They celebrated reason/rationality, equality and science. They advocated universal education, which could make people rational and prefect, they believed. 4)In literature, The Enlightenment Movement brought about a revival of interest in the ancient Greek and Roman classical works。s35. The Financier ,The Titan and The Stoic written by ______ are called his “Trilogy of Desire”.A. Henry James B. Theodore DreiserC. Mark Twain D. Herman Melville36. Disregarding grammar and punctuation,______ always used “i” instead of “I” in his poems to show his protest against selfimportance.A. Wallace Stevens B. Ezra PoundC. Robert Frost D. 37. Though Robert Frost is generally considered a regional poet whose subject matters