英美文学选读2017年10月真题试题及答案解析（00604）

The Great Gatsby is an examination of American myth in the 20th century. Fitzgerald deliberately depicts Gatsby as a mysterious person so as to achieve the effect that Gatsby is American Everyman. Please make a brief comment on The Great Gatsby.

Henry James' literary criticism is an indispensable part of his contribution to literature. What's his outlook in literary criticism?

According to the setting of the poem Paradise lost, discuss the theme of it.

How do you understand the white whale, Moby Dick in Herman Melville' s Moby-Dick?

What are the characteristics of Fielding' s language?

Thomas Hardy is often regarded as a transitional write. Some critics believe that emotionally traditional and intellectually advanced. How do you understand this idea?

We doesn’t stop again at any town, for days and days; kept right along down the river. We was down south in the warm weather, now, and a mighty long ways from home. We begun to come to trees with Spanish moss on them, hanging down from the limbs like long gray beards. It was the first I ever see it growing. and it made the woods look solemn and dismal. So now the frauds reckoned they was out of danger, and they begun to work the villages again. "

Questions:

A.Identify the author and the title of the novel from which this passage is taken.

B.Who do “we" refer to?

C.What are the features of the language of this novel?

"It's all very well, my boy. But, then, why don't you go and talk to your father's pals?"

But they're rather different."

Not at all.

They're the common people.

After all, whom do you mix with now- -among the common people?

Those that exchange ideas, like the middle classes.

The rest don’t interest you. "

"But ---there"s the life---”

"T don’t believe there's a lot more life from Miriam than you could get from any educated girl say Miss Miriam.

It is you who are snobbish about class. "

Questions:

A.What is the title of the novel from which this passage is taken?Who is the author?

B.Who is speaking to whom?

C.What idea does the dialogue between them express?

There was a child went forth every day,

And the first object he look'd upon, that object he became,

And that object became part of him for the day or a certain part of the day,

Or for many years or stretching cycles of years. "

Questions:

A.Who is the author of the poem?

B.What does the “child” refer to?

C.What is the main idea of the poem?

The 20th-century stream-of- consciousness technique was frequently and skillful used by _______to emphasize the reactions and inner musings of the narrator.

“I wandered lonely as a child

That floats on high o'er vales and hills,

When all at once I saw a crowd,

A host, of golden daffodils;

Beside the lake, beneath the trees,

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. "

Questions:

A.Identify the poem and the poet.

B.What does the poet write in the poem?

C.From the characteristics of this stanza, which period does it belong to?

Robert Lee Frost's first collection_______traces a boy's development from self-centered idealism to maturity.

As an active participant , F Scott Fitzgerald is acclaimed literary spokesman of the_______.

Ernest Hemingway's novel_______describes the drifting life of American exiles in Europe.

_______is a great literary giant of America, whom Mencken considered "the true father of our national literature.

The main theme of The Art of Fiction written by_______ clearly indicates that the aim of the novel is to present life.

From the first novel Sister Carrie on, Dreiser set himself to project the American values for what he had found them to be_______ to the core.

The finest example of Hawthorn's symbolism can be found in_______.

Of the American novelists_______is known for his "black vision".

Walt Whitman was a pioneering figure of American poetry. His innovation lies in his use of_______, poetry without a fixed beat or a regular rhyme scheme.

Closely related to Dickinson' s religious poetry are her poems concerning_______,ranging over the physical as well as the psychological and emotional aspects of death.

In 1849, Herman Melville published _______semi -autobiographical novel, concerning the sufferings of a genteel youth among brutal sailors.

Generally speaking,_______is the best of T. S. Eliot' s plays in the sense that it contains the best poetry and the most coherent drama.

_______ followed the traditions of realism, and took the modem social issues as his subjects with the aim of directing social reforms.

Thomas Hardy' s pessimistic view of life predominated most of his later works and earns him a reputation as a_______writer.

D. H. Lawrence’ s artistic tendency is mainly_______, which combines dramatic scenes with an authoritative commentary.

Widowers" Houses, a play written by George Bernard Shaw, is a grotesquely realistic exposure of_______.

_______produced several plays, exploring his idea of "Life Force", the power that would create superior beings to be equal to God.

Charlotte Bronte's works are all about the struggle of an individual consciousness towards_______.

The novel the White Peacock written by_______is a remarkable work of a talented young man.

_______ is the first important governess novel in the English literary history.

_______ is a master story teller. With his first sentence he engages the reader's attention and holds it to the end.

_______ best describes the nature of Thomas Hardy' s later works.

Mr. Micawber in David Copperfield and Sam Weller in Pickwick Papers are perhaps the best_______characters created by Charles Dickens.

Jane Austen"s main literary concern is about_______in their personal relationship.

Because of author's sensitivity to universal patterns of human behavior,_______ had brought English novel, as an art of form, to its maturity.

If Winter comes, can Spring be fur behind?" is an epigrammatic line by _______.

_______is NOT written by William Wordsworth.

Shelly's political lyrics_______ .is a war cry calling upon ail working people to rise up against their political oppressors.

It’s_______ that gives Wordsworth strength and knowledge full of peace".

_______ is the central to William Blake' s concern in the Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience.

Daniel Defoe's works are all the following EXCEFT_______.

Henry Fielding has been regarded as “Father of the English_______," for his contribution to the establishment of the for of the modem novel.

Literately_______ was the first important Romantic poet, showing a contempt for the rule of the reason, opposing the classical tradition of the 18th century.

As a whole, _______is one of the most effective and devastating criticisms and satires of all aspects in the English and European life.

Fielding' s sentences are always distinguished by_______.

Jonathan Swift is a satirist in English literature. His_______is taken as a perfect model.

John Milton' s Paradise Lost is the only general acknowledged epic in English literature since_______.

Daniel Defoe describes Robinson Crusoe as a typical English middle-class man of the_______century- the very prototype of the empire builder, the pioneer colonist.

_______ , the first of the great tragedies is generally regarded 5 Shakespeare's most popular play on the stage.