英美文学选读2016年4月真题试题及答案解析（00604）

Robert Frost has long been well known as a poet who cam hardy be classified with the old or the new. Briefly discuss the style of his poetry.

As a novelist Jane Austen writes within a very narrow sphere. In her novels, there is little reflection on the events hat sired the whole Europe at the time. Briefly discus the weak points and strong points of the narrowness of her writings.

How do you interpret the meaning of"he damned human race" with reference to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain?

"Young Goodman Brown" by Hawthorne exemplifies the power of blackness in society in genera. What is the metaphorical meaning of Brown's experience in the woods?

What is your comment on the main features of Bernard Shaw's plays in terms of the plots or the talk?

“Who is he" I demanded.“Do you know?" 

“He's just a man named Gatsby." 

"Where is he from, I mean? And what does he do?"

"Now you’re me stared on the subject," she answered with a wan smile.

"Well, he told me once he was an Oxford man."

[A dim background started to take shapes behind him. but at her next remark it faded away.]

However, I don't believe it."

"Why not?"I don't know," she insisted, "I just don't think he went there."

Questions:

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

B.What does Gatsby's failure stand for?

C.What does the underlined sentence mean?

what are the general features of Shakespeare’s romantic comedies?

Almost simultaneously, with a mighty vlitiono of unadulterated, instantaneous swiftness the White Whale darted through the weltering sea. But when Ahab cried out to the steersman to take new tums with the line, and hold, it so; and commanded the crew to turn round on their seats, and tow the boat up to the mark; the moment the treacherous line felt that double strain and tug. it sapped in the empty air!

Questions:

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

B.What scene is depicted in this excerpt?

C.What does the white whale symbolize? And why?

Too well I see and rue the dire event

That with sad overthrow and foul defeat

Hath lost us Heaven, and all this mighty host

In horrible destruction laid thus low,

As far as gods and heavenly essences

Can perish for the mind and spirit remains

Invincible, and vigor so0n returns,

Though all our glory extinct, and happy state

Here swallowed up in endless misery.

Questions:

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

B.What does “the dire event" refer to in the first line?

C.What is the theme of this poem?

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

Beside the lake, beneath the trees,

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Questions:

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

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

C.What is the poet's attitude toward nature?

Dreiser was influenced by many writers, but his true literary influences were from_______, Balzac and Charles Darwin.

"New Hampshire" won Frost the first of four_______.

Hemingway's second big success is_______, which wrote the epitaph to a decade and to the whole generation in the 1920s.

In some of Dickinson' s poems she wrote about her doubt and belief about_______.

All Mark Twain's masterworks drew upon the scenes and_______ of his boyhood and youth.

It is Henry James’ _______and his novels that make him a fascinating case in the American literary history.

Moby-Dick is regarded as the first American_______.

Whitman shows concern for_______and the burgeoning life of cities.

Frost is generally considered a regional poet whose subject matters mainly focus on the landscape and people in _______.

Hemingway's first true novel is_______.

In almost every book by Hawthorne, he discusses sin and_______.

Henry James toured England, France and Italy, and met Flaubert, Maupassant, Turgenev and _______, who exerted a great influence on James.

In 1925 Dreiser' s greatest work_______appeared. But it was banned in Boston in 1927.

Dickinson' s poems are usually based on her awn experiences,_______.

Billy Budd by Melville deals with the sea and_______and the theme of a conflict between innocence and corruption.

Mark Twain's best works were produced when_______.

The abundance of themes in Whitman’ s poetry voices_______.

T. S. Eliot' s_______has been hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th century English poetry.

Which of the following is NOT the major figure of English modernist movement?

Hawthorn's literary world turns out to be a most ditubed, tormented and_______one possible to imagine.

Which of the following works was NOT written by David Herbert Laurence?

The success of Jane Eyre is partly due to is introduction to the English novel the first_______heroine.

Daniel Defoe describes_______as a typical English middle class man of the 18th century, the very prototype of the empire builder, the pioneer colonist.

The greatest English critical realist novelist was_______,who criticized the bourgeois civilization and showed the misery of the common people.

Henry Fielding’ s_______brings him the name of " Prose Homer.

Which of the following novels is NOT written by Dickens?

The poetic line "If winter comes, can spring be far behind? is quoted from_______ .

William Blake' s_______,marks his entry into maturity.

The novel Emma is written by _______.

Shelly's greatest achievement is his four-act poetic dramas_______.

As a critic of music and drama,_______ thought that art should serve social purposes by reflecting human life, revealing social contradictions and educating the common people.

Which of the following is NOT true in terms of Pride and Prejudice?

T. S. Eliot won the Nobel Prize of Literature in_______.

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

The person who can penetrate to the heart of things and give the readers the very life of nature_______.

In which novel can the word "Yahoo" be found?

The typical representatives of G. B. Shaw's early play are_______.

William Shakespeare wrote_______history plays in the first period of his dramatic career.

Paradise Lost is a masterpiece by_______.

The tragic sense tuns into despair in Thomas Hardy' s_______, where the protagonists have to kill their own will and passion and return to their former destructive way of life.