2022年4月成都自考00604《英美文学选读》真题

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2022年4月高等教育自学考试全国统一命题考试英美文学选读

（课程代码00604）

注意事项：

1. 本试卷分为两部分，第一部分为选择题，第二部分为非选择题。
2. 应考者必须按试题顺序在答题卡（纸）指定位置上作答，答在试卷上无效。
3. 涂写部分、画图部分必须使用2B铅笔，书写部分必须使用黑色字迹签字笔。

第一部分选择题

一、单项选择题:本大题共40小题，每小题1分，共40分。在每小题列出的备选项中 只有一项是最符合题目要求的，请将其选出。

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 completes the statement.

1. Antonio and Bassanio are the characters in Shakespeare?s .
2. Twelfth Night The Merchant of Venice
3. Hamlet D. Othello
4. John Milton5s Paradise Lostis a long . 
5. sonnet play
6. epic ： D. essay , ■
7. The character __ described by Henry Fielding is a national hero and stands fbr a wayfaring Everyman expelling from the paradise and going through hard experience.
8. Tom Jones Robinson Crusoe
9. Gulliver D. Friday
10. Stories of provide the major themes in all Jane Austen’s novels, in which female characters play an active part.
11. love and marriage freedom and equality
12. human nature and life D. belief and career
13. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Clublifted  

fortune.

1. Charles Dickens
2. Thomas Hardy
3. Most English writers have been influenced by Shakespeare in his artistic point of view, in literary form or in .
4. language
5. plot
6. John Milton’s powerful written during almost twenty years of his life make him the greatest prose writer of his age.
7. essays
8. pamphlets
9. The work brought Daniel Defoe into jail and made him go through public exposure in the pillory.
10. The battle of the Books
11. “A Modest Proposal”
12. In the last part of Gulliver’s Travels,

arouse readers thinking.

1. exaggeration
2. parallelism
3. Percy Shelley’s political lyric

economic exploitation.

A . “Men Of England”

1. “I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud”
2. Jane Austen’s novel tells of the love story between Elizabeth and Darcy.
3. A Tale of Two Cities B. Pride and Prejudice
4. Emma D. Sense and Sensibility
5. Charles Dickens sets out a full map and a large-scale of the 19th-century England, particularly London in his works.
6. realism
7. symbolism

Thomas Hardy5s later works are the most representative of him as both a and a

The success of Jane Eyreis due to its introduction to the English novel the first

critical realist writer.

1. romantic
2. naturalistic
3. satiric
4. stylistic

All the works of Thomas Hardy are noted for the rustic and a poetic flavor.

14. Symbolism and complex narrative are employed more richly in D. H. Lawrence’s works

than in the earlier ones.

The Rainbow and  

1. Women in Love
2. Aaron’s Rod
3. Widowers ‘Houses
4. Jude the Obscure

One of the following poems is NOT written by William Blake.

15. Bernard Shaw’s The Apple Cartis about
16. marriage
17. politics
18. religion
19. morals

William Wordsworth’s presents his philosophy of life.

16. Being a drama critic,

drawing-room drama.

1. Walt Whitman

directed his attacks on the Neo-Romantic tradition and the

1. Herman Melville

The part of the novel Robinson Crusoeis most well-known and widely read.

17. Mark Twain
18. Bernard Shaw
19. Nathaniel Hawthorne5s The Scarlet Letteris about

people in a Puritan community

affected by the sin of adultery.

18. Most of T. S. Eliofs early works are about a state of mind. There is little “ ” in a
19. three
20. four
21. five
22. six
23. The poet

has devoted all his life to the creation of the “single” poem Leaves of

Grass.

19. Tom Brangwen and Lydia Lensky are the characters in D. H. Lawrence’s work
20. William Faulkner
21. Walt Whitman
22. Herman Melville5s
23. Nathaniel Hawthorne
24. Theodore Dreiser

deals with the sea, sailors and the conflict between innocence

Inversion is used by and one of the typical inversions is in his work How He Lied

and corruption.

1. Billy Budd
2. Omoo
3. Mark Twain wrote about the

the one he himself had lived.

1. Typee
2. Mardi

people because he knew them well and their life was

21. Charles Dickens is famous for the depiction of those horrible and characters like Fagin, Bill Sikes, and Quilp.
22. lower-class
23. middle-class
24. upper-class
25. upper-middle-class
26. Emily Dickinson’s poems are closely related to her religious poetry about

immortality.

22. Charlotte Bronte’s works are famous for the depiction of the life of , particularly governess.
23. death
24. spirit
25. mind
26. power
27. Canie, the protagonist of Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie,accepted

his mistress after a period of unemployment and loneliness.

1. George Hurstwood B. Charles Drouet
2. Frederich
3. Henry James* novel

Rome.

1. Tender is the Night
2. Daisy Miller Lady Chatterley’s Lover
3. Theodore Dreiser is generally acknowledged as one of America’s literary
4. naturalists B. essayists
5. satirists
6. Robert Frost is a poet who can hardly be classified with the new or the old. He did not break up with the poetic nor made any experiment on form.
7. language B. tradition
8. rhyme D. length
9. Henry James’ The Portrait of A Ladyis about the life journey of an American girl in a(n)   cultural environment.
10. African
11. European
12. Of the nineteen novels and seventy-five short stories, fifteen novels and many of stories are about people from a small region in Northern Mississippi, Yoknapatawpha County.
13. Mark Twain5s
14. Most critics have agreed that

a double vision.

1. Scott Fitzgerald
2. Indian Campis taken from Ernest Hemingway’s  .
3. The Sun Also Rises B.A Farewell to Arms
4. For Whom the Bell Tolls as a symbol of the timeless freedom of the wilderness.
5. crafty bear
6. clever fox

第二部分非选择题

二、阅读理解题:本大题共4小题，每小题4分，共16分。

Reading Comprehension (16 points in all, 4 for each)

Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English.

41. There is likewise another diversion, which is only shown before the Emperor and Empress, and first minister, upon particular occasions. The Emperor lays on a table three fine silken threads of six inches long. One is blue, the other red, and the third green. These threads are proposed as prizes for those persons whom the Emperor hath a mind to distinguish by a peculiar mark of his favor. The ceremony is performed in his Majesty5s great chamber of state; where the candidates are to undergo a trial of dexterity very different from the former, and such as I have not observed the least resemblance of in any other country of the old or the new world.

Questions:  .

1. Identify the author.
2. Who is the narrator?
3. What does the description of the competitions hint?
4. He neither spoke, nor loosed his hold some five minutes, during which period he bestowed more kisses than ever he gave in his life before, I dare say; but then my mistress had kissed him first, and I plainly saw that he could hardly bear, for downright agony, to look into her face! The same conviction had stricken him as me, from the instant he beheld her, that there was no prospect of ultimate recovery there — she was fated, sure to die.：”；—

Questions:

1. Identify the author and the title of the work from which the quoted part is taken.
2. Who does the boldfaced word “He” refbr to?
3. What is the story about? ■■-

43.1 celebrate myself and sing myself

And what I assume you shall assume,

For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

I loafe and invite my soul,

I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass..

Questions:

1. Identify the author.
2. Whafs the author’s purpose by writing this poem?
3. What does the author set forth in this poem?
4. At least once a fortnight a corp of caterers came down with several hundred feet of canvas and enough colored lights to make a Christmas tree of Gatsby’s enormous garden. On buffet tables, garnished with glistening hors-d5oeuvre, spiced baked hams crowded against salads of harlequin designs and pastry pigs and turkeys bewitched to a dark gold. Questions:
5. Identify the author.
6. Who is the narrator?
7. What is the relationship between the narrator and Gatsby?

三、 简答题:本大题共4小题，每小题6分，共24分。

Questions and Answers (24 points in all, 6 for each)

Give a brief answer to each of the following questions in English.

45. What is Romanticism?
46. Structurally and thematically, how did Bernard Shaw follow the great traditions of realism?
47. What is the writing style of Mark Twain?
48. What are the characteristics of Robert Frosfs poems about the country life and the pastoral landscape?

四、 论述题:本大题共2小题，每小题10分，共20分。

Topic Discussion (20 points in all, 10 for each)

Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.

49. Briefly discuss the timeless appeal of the mighty drama
50. Briefly discuss the allegory and symbolism in Herman Melville’s work Moby-Dick.