Ⅰ.Multiple Choice Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Mark your choice by blackening the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the answer sheet.
1. Gulliver's Travels contains ______. parts, each dealing with one particular voyage during his extraordinary adventures on some remote island.
3. ______ novels are all Victorian in date. Most of them are set in Wessex, the fictional primitive and crude rural region which is really the home place he both loves and hates.
A.Hardy's
B.Bronte's
C.Lawrence's
D.Joyce's
A B C D
A
4. The author of the book "Dombey and son" is ______.
A.Charles Dickens
B.Henry James
C.Robert Browning
D.Robert Lee Frost
A B C D
A
[解析] 本题主要考查的知识点为狄更斯作品的特点。 《董贝父子》的作者是狄更斯。
5. T. S. Eliot's early poems are marked by ______ in comparison to his later ones.
A.a philosophical and emotional calm
B.a set of historical, cultural and religions themes
C.a dreamy quality, expressing melancholy and self-indulgent feelings
D.a mood of disillusionment and the sufferings of modem people
6. The frank discussion of ______ in his novel Lady Chatterley's Lover is the chief reason why D. H. Lawrence had been accused of pornographic writing.
11. The 18th century witnessed a new literary form—the modern English novel, which, contrary to the medieval romance, gives a ______ presentation of life of the common people.
12. "An honest, kind-hearted young man, who is full of animal spirit and lacks prudence, is expelled from the paradise and has to go through hard experience to gain knowledge of himself and finally to have been accepted both by a virtuous lady and a rich relative." The above sentence may well sum up the theme of Fielding's work ______.
13. "He was silent with conceit of his son. Mrs. Morel sniffed, as if it were nothing." (Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence) From the above quotation, we can see that Mrs. Morel's attitude to her husband is ______.
19. "What is his name?" "Bingley." "Is he married or single?" "Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!" The above dialogue must be taken from ______.
A.Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
B.Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights
C.John Galsworthy's The Forsyte Saga
D.George Eliot's Middlemarch
A B C D
A
[解析] 本题主要考查的知识点为《傲慢与偏见》的内容。 本段节选自简·奥斯汀的小说《傲慢与偏见》。
20. Here are two lines taken from The Merchant of Venice: "Not on thy sole, but on thy soul, harsh Jew/Thou mak'st thy knife keen." What kind of figurative device is used in the above lines?
21. In ______, Robert Frost compares life to a journey, and he is doubtful whether he will regret his choice or not when he is old, because the choice has made all the difference.
22. Though Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson were romantic poets in theme and technique, they differ from each other in a variety of ways. For one thing, whereas Whitman likes to keep his eye on human society at large, Dickinson often addresses such issues as ______, immortality, religion, love and nature.
23. With Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the literary scene, ______ became the major trend in American literature in the seventies and eighties of the 19th century.
25. As a realist dramatist, George Bernard Shaw is concerned with social, economic, moral and religious problems in his works. The general mood he expressed in his plays is ______.
31. The Romantic Period, one of the most important periods in the history of American literature, stretches from the end of ______ to the outbreak of ______.
A.the 17th century ;the American War of Independence
33. Hemingway's "Indian Camp" is one of the fourteen short stories collected under the title of ______. This title is very ironic because there is no peace at all in the stories.
34. Walt Whitman was a pioneering figure of American poetry. His innovation first of all lies in his use of ______, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.
35. The keynote of Daisy Miller's character, ______, 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 in the clash between two different cultures.
37. ______ is a collection of poems incorporating Walt Whitman' s emotions and feelings before and during the Civil War when he stood firmly on the side of the North.
Ⅱ.Reading Comprehension Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet. My gentleness and good behaviour had gained so far on the Emperor and his court, and indeed upon the army and people in general, that I began to conceive hopes of getting my liberty in a short time. I took all possible methods to cultivate this favorable disposition. Questions:
1. A. Identify the author and the title of the novel from which this passage is taken.
A. Jonathan Swift; Gulliver's Travels.
2. B. What does this passage imply?
B. My good manner and deeds had made such a good impression on the emperor and his subjects that I began to hope that I could be set free soon. I tried my best to develop my good image.
The next morning, the public were once more informed that Oliver Twist was again To Let, and that five pounds would be paid to anybody who would take possession of him. Questions:
3. A. Identify the author and the novel.
A. Charles Dickens; Oliver Twist.
4. B. Why was Oliver Twist again To Let?
B. Oliver Twist is punished for that" impious and profane offence of asking for more" and to be sold, at three pound ten, to Mr. Gamfield, the notorious chimney-sweeper, but failed.
5. C. What does the author want to show us in this novel?
C. In Oliver Twist, Dickens attacks the dehumanizing workhouse system and the dark, criminal underworld life.
Because I could not stop for Death— He kindly stopped for me— The Carriage held but just Ourselves— And Immortality. Questions:
6. A. Who is the author of the poem?
A. Emily Dickinson.
7. B. What does "He" refer to?
B. Death.
8. C. What does "Carriage" refer to?
C. Hearse or carriage for carrying a coffin at a funeral.
Do you think I was brought up like you? able to pick and choose my own way of life? Do you think I did what I did because I liked it, or thought it right...? Questions:
9. A. Where is it taken from?
A. Mrs. Warren's Profession.
10. B. Who is the author of the play?
B. George Bernard Shaw.
11. C. What does the statement mean?
C. Although Mrs. Warren did not think what she did was right and did not like it, she could not change her way of life. She had no other choice in her time. It is a exposure of the economic oppression of women.
Ⅲ.Questions and Answers Give a brief answer to each of the following questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.
1. Some of Hemingway's heroes are regarded as the Hemingway Code heroes. Whatever the differences in experience and age, they all have something in common which Hemingway values. What are the characteristics of the Hemingway Code hero?
A. They have seen the cold world and for one cause or another, they boldly and courageously face the reality; whatever the result is, they are ready to live with grace under pressure. B. Almost all his heroes are "soldiers" either in a narrow or broad sense. They are out there to fight against nature or the world, or even themselves. But no matter where the battleground is and how tragic the ending is, they will never be defeated. C. Hemingway himself is one of those Code heroes; some critics say his protagonists are autobiographical, for they share something that is Hemingway.
2. Why is Wordsworth regarded as the leading figure of the English romantic poetry?
William Wordsworth has not only started the modern poetry, the poetry of the growing inner self, but also changed the course of English poetry by using ordinary, speech of the language and by advocating a return to nature. As a result, he is regarded as the leading figure of the English romantic poetry.
3. The literary school of naturalism was quite popular in the late 19th century. What are the major characteristics of naturalism?
A. Strongly influenced by social Darwinism, naturalism emphasizes the determining power of the crushing forces of environment and heredity. B. Being devoid of the freedom of choice and incapable of shaping their own destinies, men and women are helpless and insignificant in a cold and indifferent world. C. The naturalistic writers reported truthfully and objectively, with a passion for scientific accuracy and overwhelming accumulation of factual detail.
4. Mark Twain and Henry James are two representatives of the realistic writers in American literature. How is Twain's realism different from James's realism?
A. Mark Twain's realism is tainted with local color, preferring to have his own region and people at the forefront of his stories. James' realism is concerned with the "inner world" of man. James' realism is also concerned with the international theme. B. Twain's language is simple and colloquial. Twain employs humor in his writing. James' language is elaborate and refined with lengthy psychological analyses.
Ⅳ.Topic Discussion Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.
1. "My faith is gone!" cried he, after one stupefied moment. "There is no good on earth; and sin is but a name. Come, devil! For to thee is this world given." Comment on this passage.
A. This passage is taken from Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown, Here Goodman Brown utters this cry when he finds his wife Faith, together with tots of prominent people of the village and the church, attending a witches' Sabbath in the woods. B. His cry shows his great surprise and disillusionment. Thereafter, he becomes distrustful and doubtful. He lives a dismal and gloomy life because he is never able to believe in goodness or piety again. Here the author makes a pun of the word "faith." Goodman Brown loses not only his faith in religion and life, but also his faith in his wife, for his wife's name is Faith. C. From this story, we also can see that Hawthorne is a great allegorist and a master of symbolism. The story itself is an allegory and is full of symbols such as the forest, the night, and the pink ribbon.
2. Symbolism is an important literary practice in literature and it has been widely used by many American writers. Discuss the way symbolism is used in Melville's Moby-Dick.
A. To Ahab, the whale is either an evil creature itself or the agent of an evil force that controls the universe, or perhaps both. The chase of the white whale symbolizes Ahab's pursuit of truth and fighting against the evil power. B. To Ishmael, the whale is an astonishing force, an immense power, which defies rational explanation due to a sense of mystery it carries. C. It also represents the tremendous organic vitality of the universe. D. To the readers, the whale can be viewed as a symbol of the physical limits that life imposes upon man. E. It ,nay also be regarded as a symbol of nature. At the end of the chapter, the author says "...the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago." Here the sea symbolizes nature that remains moving but unmoved. F. Different people on board the ship are representations of different ideas and different social and ethnic groups. The Pequod is the microcosm of human society and the voyage becomes a search for truth.