【正文】 mainly focus on the landscape and people in ______ , he wrote many poems that investigate the basic themes of man39。s most popular verse play is ______.A. Murder in the Cathedral B. The Cocktail PartyC. The Family Reunion D. The Waste Land23. The American writer ______ was awarded the Nobel Prize for the antiracist Intruder in the Dust in 1950.A. Ernest Hemingway B. Gertrude SteinC. William Faulkner . Eliot24. Hemingway39。 novel ______ is famous for its vivid descriptions of the workhouse and life of the underworld in the nineteenth century London. A. The Pickwick Paper B. Oliver Twist C. David Copperfield D. Nicholas Nickleby14. Charlotte Bronte39。s final romances,______ is a typical example of his pessimistic view towards human life and society in his late years. A. The Tempest B. The Winter39。s pessimistic view of life predominated most of his later works and earns him a reputation as a ______ writer.A. realistic B. naturalisticC. romantic D. stylistic17. After the First World War, there appeared the following literary trends of modernism EXCEPT ______.A. expressionism B. surrealismC. stream of consciousness D. black humour18. The masterpieces of critical realism in the early 20th century are the three trilogies of ______.A. Galsworthy39。s failure to join England in the First World War.A. Henry James C. D. Ezra Pound32. What Whitman prefers for his new subject and new poetic feelings is “______ ,” that is, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.A. blank verse B. free rhythmC. balanced structure D. free verse33. The American woman poet ______ wanted to live simply as a plete independent being, and so she did, as a spinster.A. Emily Shaw B. Anna DickinsonC. Emily Dickinson D. Anne Bret34. The Birthmark drives home symbolically ______ point that evil is a man39。 no doubt, an easy tool, Deferential, glad to be of use, Politic, cautious, and meticulous, Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse。 among which prose and the modern English novel predominated the age.46. Jane Eyre is one of the most popular and important novels of the Victorian Age. Why is Jane Eyre such a successful novel?Answer: A. The story opens with the titular heroine, Jane Eyre, a plain little orphan.B. This novel sharply criticize the existing society, . the religious hypocrisy of charity institutions, the social discrimination Jane experiences and the false social convention as concerning love and marriage.C. The success of the novel is also due to its introduction to the English novel the first governess heroine Jane Eyre.D. It is an intense moral fable at the same time. Jane, like Mr. Rochester, has to undergo a series of physical and moral tests to grow up and achieve her final happiness.47. Who are the three dominant figures of the American Age of Realism and what are the differences in their understanding of the “truth”?Answer: A. the three dominant figures of the American Age of Realism are Mark Twain, Howells, Henry James. B. Mark Twain and Howells seemed to have paid more attention to the life of the Americans, Henry James had apparently laid a greater emphasis on the “inner world” of man. Howells focused his discussion on the rising middle class and the way they lived, while Twain preferred to have his own region and people at the forefront of his stories.48. What39。s plays are wellknown for their adroit plot construction. He borrows them from some old plays or storybooks, or from ancient Greek and Roman sources. b. He would shorten the time and intensify the story. There are usually several threads running through the play. C. Language and style: a. Irony is a good means of dramatic presentation. Disguise is also an important device to create dramatic irony, usually with woman disguised as man. b. He has an amazing wealth of vocabulary and idiom. His influence on later writers is immeasurable. Almost all English writers after him have been influenced by him either in artistic point of view, in literary form or in language. 50. A. Mark Twain uses the Mississippi valley as his fictional kingdom, writing about the landscape and the people, the customs and the dialect of one particular region, is therefore known as a local colorist. B. He creates lifelike characters, especially the unconventional Huckleberry Finne, who runs away from civilization and stands opposite to convention village morality. C. He uses simple, direct vernacular language, totally diferent from any precious literary language. It is a kind of colloquial belonging to lower class, the living local American English. D. He has created a special humor to satirize and the decayed convention.2010年4月高等教育自學(xué)考試全國統(tǒng)一命題考試英美文學(xué)選讀試卷+答案請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. Write the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the answer sheet. 1. T. S. Eliot’ s ______ bearing a strong thematic resemblance to The Waste Land, is generally regarded as the darkest of Eliot’ s poems. A. “Gerontion” B. “Prufrock” C. Murder in the Cathedral D. The Hollow Men 2. Shelley’ s political lyrics ______ is not only a war cry calling upon all working people to rise up against their political oppressors, but an address to them pointing out the intolerable injustice of economic exploitation. A. “Ode to Liberty” B. “Ode to Naples” C. “Ode to the West Wind” D. “Men of England” 3. Charlotte’ s works are famous for the depiction of the life of ______ working women, particularly governesses. A. the middle class B. the lower class C. the upper middle class D. the upper class 4. All of the following works are known as Hardy’ s “novels of character and environment” EXCEPT ______. A. The Return of the Native B. Tess of the D’ Urbervilles C. Jude the Obscure D. Far from the Madding C