英美文学选读2018年10月真题试题及答案解析（00604）

Emest Hemingway's limited fictional world implies a much broader thematic pattern and serious philosophical concern. Discuss his writing style briefly.

Briefly discuss the features of Charles Dickens" works in terms of language and character portrayal.

As a literary spokesman of the Jazz Age, how does Scoot Fitzgerald exemplify the spirit of the Jazz Age through his art of fition?

What are the major ideas of Henry James's literary criticism reflected in his essay “The Art of Fiction"?

Working through the tradition of a Christian humanism, John Milton wrote Paradise Lost, What is his basic concern in this long epic?

As a realistic dramatist, what issues did Bernard Shaw take as his subjects?

I 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:

A.identify the author and the title of the poem from which the stanza is taken.

B.What is the rhyme scheme of this poem?

C.What are the two principal beliefs set forth by the poet in this poem?

My thoughts were now wholly employed about securing myself against either savages, if any should appear, or wild beasts, if any were in the island;, and I had many thoughts of the method how to do this and what kind of dwelling to make, whether I should make me a cave in the earth or a tent upon the earth; and, in short, I resolved upon both, the manner and the description of which may not be improper to give an account of.

Questions:

A.Identify the author and the title of the novel from which the quoted part is taken.

B.What caused the narrator to live an isolated life on the island?

C.What is the author"s deep concern shown in this novel?

For a long while we just stood there, looking down at the profound and fleshless grin. The body had apparently once lain in the attitude of an embrace, but [now the long sleep that outlasts love. that conquers even the grimace of love had cuckolded him.] What was let of him, rotted beneath what was left of the night- shirt, had become inextricable from the bed in which he lay; and upon him and upon the pillow beside him lay that even coating of the patient and biding dust.

Questions:

A.Identify the author and the title of the work from which the quoted part is taken.

B.What devices does the author use to narrate the story?

C.What does the underlined sentence mean?

Behold her, single in the field,

Yon solitary Highland lass!

Reaping and singing by herself;

Stop here, or gently pass!

Alone she cuts and binds the grain,

And sings a melancholy strain;

O listen!

For the Vale profound

Is overflowing with the sound.

Questions:

A.Identify the poet and the title of the poem from which the quoted part is taken.

B.What does “a melancholy strain" in the sixth line mean?

C.What does the poet intend to suggest in the poem?

In 1961, Robert Frost recited_______at President John F. Kennedy's inauguration.

Emest Hemingway's first true novel is_______ which casts light on the whole generation after the First World War.

Theadore Dreiser' s The Genius, a classic story of_______ was once condemned for obscenity and blasphemy".

Henry James is general regarded as the forerunner of the 20th-century "_______." novels and the founder of psychological realism.

Emily Dickenson’s poetry is unconventional in its own way. Her poems have no hence are always quoted by their first lines.

Walt Whitman shows concern for the whole hard-working people and_______.

In America, people regard_______ as the first American prose epic.

Mark Twain was restless when he was young and moved a lot, first eastward as a journeyman printer, up and down the Mississippi as_______.

In almost every book Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote, he discusses evil and_______.

Emest Hemingway served as an honorable junior oficer in the American Red Cross Ambulance Corps during_______.

Robert Frost considered the farm his home and its activities remained the focus of_______.

Altogether, Emily Dickenson wrote 1,775 poems, of which only_______ had appeared during her lifetime.

In 1915,_______ became a naturalized British citizen, largely in protest against America's failure to join England in the First World War.

In 1925 Theodore Dreiser' s greatest work An American Tragedy appeared. But it was banned in _______in 1927.

In “Leaves of Grass", Walt Whitman is concerned with openness individualism and_______.

Mark Twain is a great literary giant of America, whom H. L Mencken considered "_______of our national literature.".

At the age of 15, Herman Melville left school because of his father's death, did many jobs and at about 20 he went to _______.

William Blake had been both a(n)_______,and an engraver through all his life.

Nathaniel Hawthorne’ s literary world turns out to be a most disturbed, problematical and _______one which is possible to imagine.

Songs of Innocence is a lovely volume of poems, presenting _______world.

Henry Fielding' s novel Tom Jones consists of_______ books, each with an essay before it.

Sonnet is the literary achievement of_______·

Charles Dickens" Oliver Twist is famous for its description of the workhouse and life of the underworld in the 19th-century_______.

Most of T. S. Eliot' s early poems are about a_______ .

The autobiographical novel of D. H. Lawrence is_______.

One of the representatives of Lake Poets" is_______.

The woman novelist_______ was in the Romantic period of English literature.

Bernard Shaw is a great_______ in the 20th century.

The protagonist of The Return of the Native is_______ described by Thomas Hardy.

Living at the tum of 19th century,_______ is regarded as a transitional writer.

In The Rainbow, D. H. Lawrence illustrates a terrible social_______that accompanies the progress of human civilization.

The following figures are the horrible and grotesque characters depicted by Charles Dickens EXCEPT_______.

Charlotte Bronte showed readers her own experience in her famous novel_______.

One of Percy Bysshe Shelly' s greatest political lyrics is _______.

Henry Fielding has been regarded as_______ for his contribution to English literature.

Jane Austin's novel_______is original drafted as First Impression" in 1796.

Henry Fielding' s The History of Jonathan Wild the Great takes the life of a_______ as a theme.

In 1726, Jonathan Swift published his greatest_______work Gulliver s Travels.

One of the following poems written by William Blake is_______.

One of the following works_______ is NOT written by John Milton.