英美文学选读2016年10月真题试题及答案解析（00604）

Give a brief comment on T. S. Eliot and his The Waste Land.

Hemingway's world is limited and he measures his limited range of characters against an unvarying code. Briefly discuss this code established by Hemingway through his writings.

How did Theodore Dreiser contribute to the American literature through his literary creation?

How do you comment on Whitman’ s literary innovation in terms of the form of his poetry?

So she vanquished them, horse and foot, just as she had vanquished their fathers thirty years before about the smell. That was two years after her father's death and a short time after her sweetheart--- the one we believed would marry her ---had deserted her. After her father’s death she went out very little after her sweetheart went away, people hardly saw her at all. A few of the ladies had the temerity to call, but were not received, and the only sign of life about the place was the Negro man--- a young man then--- going in and out with a market basket

Questions:

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

B.What does the phrase "horse and foot" in the first line mean?

C.What does the heroine of this story symbolize?

Why is Charlotte Bronte considered as a writer of realism combined with romanticism?

In what way is Thomas Hardy regarded as a transitional writer?

We paused before a House that seemed

A welling of the Ground ---

The Roof was scarcely visible---

The Cornice--- in the Ground---

Since then---'tis Centuries---and yet

Feels shorter than the Day

I first surmised the Horses' Heads

Were toward Eternity---

Questions:

A.Who wrote this poem?

B.What does the House in the first line refer to?

C.What is the theme of this poem?

“Oh, Cathy! Oh, my life! How can I bear it?" was the first sentence he uttered, in a tone that did not seek to disguise his despair.

And how he stared at her so earnestly that I thought the very intensity of his gaze would bring tears into his eyes; but they burned with anguish, they did not melt.

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?

I wandered lonely as a cloud

That floats on high o'er vales and hills,

When all at once I saw a crowd,

A host of golden daffodils;

...

For oft, when on my couch lie

In vacant or in pensive mood,

They flash upon that inward eye

Which is the bliss of solitude;

And then my heart with pleasure fills.

And dances with the daffodils.

Questions:

A.What is the title of the poem from which the stanzas are taken? Who is the author?

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

C.What do "they" and "inward eye" in the poem refer to in the last stanza?

The pursuit of_______ is approved of repeatedly and affectionately in Whitman' s poems.

Hawthorn's view of man and human history originates, to a great extent, in_______.

Like Hawthorne,_______is a master of allegory and symbolism.

The Portrait of a Lady incarnates the clash between the Old World and the New in the life journey of_______ in a European cultural environment.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is usually regarded as a classic book written for about their particular horrors and joys.

In 1961, in ill health, anxiety and deep depression,_______shot himself with a hunting gun.

Over 500 poems Dickinson wrote are about_______ in which her general skepticism about the relationship between man and nature is well-expressed.

With the publication of The Call of the Wild and other works, Dreiser became one of the most significant writers of the school later known as _______.

North of Boston is described by its author, Frost, as “_______", which shows a brilliant insight into New England character and the background that formed it.

In any list of important poets_______ regardless of nationality, Robert Lee Frost commands a place.

A Farewell to Arms by Hemingway tells us a story about the tragic love affair of a wounded American soldier with_______.

Dickinson' s greatest rendering of the moment of_______is to be found in her masterpiece, "I heard a Fly buzz--- when I died ---".

It is not surprising to find in Dreiser' s fiction a world of_______where “kill or to be killer" was the law.

Moby-Dick is difficult to read because much of the talk in the novel is_______ and much of the language is purposely old-fashioned and Elizabethan.

Life on the Mississippi tells a story of Mark Twain"s boyhood ambition to become_______.

Daisy Miller, a novel about_______who gets “killed” by the winter in Rome, brought James international fame for the first time.

"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." This sentence is taken from_______.

The Birthmark" drives home symbolically Hawthorn's point that _______ is man’s birthmark, something he is born with.

As Whitman saw it, _______could play a vital part in the process of creating a new nation.

The poem “Tyger" is chosen from_______by William Blake.

Who is the greatest critical realist writers of the Victorian Age?

Wessex novels by Thomas Hardy described the simple and beautiful though primitive_______, which was gradually declining and disappearing.

Shelly expressed his love for freedom in his poem_______.

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

The Waste Land is the most important single poem by_______.

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte is a story of a(an)_______which is based on her own experience.

D.H. Laurence's first novel,_______, is a remarkable work of a young man, acutely observant of nature and delighting in story.

Charles Dickens writes best when he writes from the_______,point of view.

Mrs. Warren's Profession. Written by_______ was a play about the economic oppression of women.

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

Who wrote one of the most enduring classic poems "Ode to the West Wind"?

Pride and Prejudice is the masterpiece of_______ which tells readers the importance of good judgment in our life.

Which of the following is regarded as a "worshipper of nature"?

A Tale of Two Cities by_______ presents a criticism of the social institutions and morals of Victorian England.

Daniel Defoe' s first novel_______was an immediate success in his life.

Which of the following female written did NOT belong to the Bronte sisters?

William Shakespeare is one of the giants of_______.

Paradise Lost by_______was finished in 1665 after seven years' labor in darkness.

Which of the following is NOT written by D. H. Lawrence?

Which of the following is considered to be the best known English dramatist since Shakespeare?