英美文学选读2017年4月真题试题及答案解析（00604）

Ernest Hemingway's style, the particular type of hero in his novels. and his life attitudes have been widely recognized and imitated all over the world Discuss Hemingway Code heroes briefly.

Briefly discuss Jane Austen' s notion about human beings in their personal relationships.

Due to her deliberate seclusion, Emily Dickinson' s poems tend to be very personal and meditative. What is the style of her poetry?

According to Theodore Dreiser, what is the core of American values? And what is their effect on people's life?

Why can Bernard Shaw's plays be termed as problem plays?

In what way is Swift regarded as one of the greatest masters of English prose?

And I keep hearing from the cellar bin

The rumbling sound

Of load on load of apples coming in.

For l have had too much

Of apple-picking I am overtired

Of the great harvest I myself desired.

Questions:

A.What is the tide of the poem from which the stanza is taken?Who is the author?

B.What does -The rumbling sound" in the second line refer to?

C.What does the poet want to tell the readers through this poem?

Shall I compare the to a summer's day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate:

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer's lease hath all too short a date:

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines

And often is his gold complexion dimmed;

......

But thy eternal summer shall not fade,

Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;

(From Shakespeare's "Sonnet 18”)

Questions:

A.What does "thee" refer to in the first line of the stanza?

B.What figure of speech is used in the fifth line?

C.What is the theme of this poem?

"Are you in earnest? -Do you truly love me? Do you sincerely wish me to be your wife?”

"I do; and if an oath is necessary to satisfy you, I swear it."

"Then, sit, I will marry you."

"Edward -my little wife!"

“Dear Edward!"

"Come to me -come to me entirety now," said he;and added, in his deepest tone, speaking in my ear as his cheek was laid on mine, "Make my happiness -l will make yours."

Questions:

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

B.Who are the two speakers?

C.What does this excerpt tell us about the speakers?

He knew the tune, it was a familiar one in the choir of the ill meting house. The verse died heavily away, and was lengthened by a chorus, not of human voice, but of all the sounds of the benighted wildness, pealing in awful harmony together. Goodman Brown cried out, and his cry was lost to his own ear, by its unison with the cry of the desert.

Questions:

A.What is the title of the story from which the excerpt is taken?Who is the author?

B.Where is the protagonist now? And why did he go there?

C.What is the author's major concern in this story?

During World War I_______served as an honorable junior officer in the American Red Cross Ambulance Corps.

Robert Lee Frost was the Pulitzer Prize winner on_______occasions; the United States Senate passed resolutions honoring his birthday.

Today with the development of he modern novel and he common acceptance of the Freudian approach, Henry James's importance as a_______and critic, has been all the more conspicuous.

Dickinson' s poetry, despite its ostensible formal simplicity, is remarkable for its_______subtlety and richness.

Apart from school education, Dreiser read voraciously by himself. His true literary influences were from_______, Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer.

Mark Twain, pen name of _______ was born on 30th, November, 1835, in Missouri.

Redburn is a semi-autobiographical novel by Melville concerning the sufferings of a genteel youth among brutal_______.

In "Leaves of Grass", Walt Whitman is concerned with openness freedom, and above all,_______.

In any list of important poets in the twentieth century, regardless of nationality, commands a place.

The Blithedale Romance is a novel Hawthorne wrote to reveal his own experiences_______.

Ernest Hemingway's style, the particular type of hero in his_______,and his life attitude have been widely recognized and imitated.

In American literature,_______possessed none of the usual aids to a writer's career: no money,no friend in power, no formal education worthy of mention, no family tradition in letters.

Miss Emily Dickinson was born into_______of Amherst, Massachusetts

In American literature,_______was the first American writer to conceive his carer in international terms.

Mark Twain is a great literary giant of America, whom_______considered “the true father of our national literature."

Melville's writings can be well divided into two groups, each with something in common in the light of_______and imaginative focus.

“Leaves of Grass" has always been considered a monumental work which commands great attention because of its uniquely poetic embodiment of American _______.

Among Hawthorn's works,_______is always regarded as the best.

Among Thomas Hardy' s works,_______is the mast cheerful and idyllic.

William Blake began writing poetry at the age of_______.

The Modern English writers concentrated more on the_______affairs.

George Bernard Shaw was a(n)_______, who composed Pygmalion.

Who wrote Mrs Warren's Profession?

Which of the following characters is NOT in Jane Eyre?

English Romanticism, as a historical phase of literature is generally said to have begun in_______.

The writer who lived at the turn of century was _______.

Daniel Defoe started as a(n) _______and all his life underwent many ups and downs.

William Wordsworth is regarded as a “worshipper of nature." He can penetrate to the heart of things and give the reader the very life of_______.

Jane Austen is an English woman novelist of the_______century.

"his a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." The quoted part is taken from_______.

The publication of The Lyrical Ballads, written by _______ marked the break with the conventional poetical tradition of the 18th century.

Henry Fielding is the author of the great 18th century English novel_______.

Generally, William Shakespeare's dramatic career can be divided into periods.

The Enlightenment was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in the_______ century.

The island of Lilliput can be found in_______.

In Paradise Lost, the real hero created by Milton is_______.

It was not until the reign of_______that the Renaissance rally began o show its effect in England.

After the restoration of _______. Milton was imprisoned for a short time and then retired to private life.

The Renaissance marks a transition from the_______ to the modern world.

Which of the following plays is NOT among William Shakespeare's four great tragedies?