英美文学选读2015年10月真题试题及答案解析（00604）

How in symbolism reflected in Moby Dick, the first American prose epic by Herman Melville?

Briefly discus the difference between Dickens' early works and later works.

Discuss the local color reflected in Mark Twain" s novels.

What significant contribution has Wordsworth made to English poetry?

What is your comment on The Waste Land by Eliot in terms of the themes and the mood?

How does Hawthorne prove himself to be one of the best symbolists?

And now Carrie had attained that which in the beginning seemed life's object, or, at least, such fraction of it as human beings ever attain of their original desires... Applause there was, and publicity once far off, essential things, but now grown trivial and indifferent. Beauty also --- her type of loveliness and yet she was lonely.[In her rocking chair she a when not otherwise engaged --- singing and dreaming.]

Questions:

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

Who is the author?

B.What is the core of American values according to the author?

C.What does the underlined sentence mean?

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,e

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same.

Questions:

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

B.What does " it was grassy and wanted wear" in tbhe third line mean?

C.What does the poet want to tell the reader in this meditative poem?

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighborhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds Of the surrounding families ,that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.

Questions:

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

Who is the author?

B.What is the author s main literary concern?

C.What is the style of this novel?

So please my lord the Duke and all the court,

To quit the fine for one half of his goods;

I am content, s0 he will let me have

The other half in use, to render it

Upon bis death unto the gentleman

That lately stole his daughter ---

Two things provided more: that, for this favor,

He presently become a Christian;

Questions:

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

B.What does "I" and "he" respectively refer to in the third line?

C.What is your comment on this play?

Robert Lee Frost considered_______ his home and its activities remained the focus of his poetry.

Emest Hemingway, had been trying to demonstrate in his works an unvarying code, known as "_______ " which is actually an attitude towards life.

Theodore Dreiser a focus shifted from the pathos of the helpless protagonists at the bottom of the society to the power of the American financial tycoons in the late 19th century in his work_______.

It is Henry James_______and his literary essays that make him a fascinating case in the American literary history.

Emily Dickinson frequently uses personage to render the tone more familiar to the reader, and_______to vivify some abstract ideas.

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County brought_______ recognition from a wider public.

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

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

Faulkner used the narrative techniques to construct his stories, which include and mythological and biblical allusions.

After World War I,_______ went to Paris a a foreign reporter, employed by The Toronto Star.

Frost sailed for England, where his first book ,_______ brought him to the attention of influential critics.

Dreiser is a prolific writer and many of his works are familiar to us Chinese renders. Among them,_______ is the best.

With the development of the modern novel and the common acceptance of the approach, Henry Jame's importance, as well as his wide influence as a novelist and critic, has been all the more conspicuous.

Dickerson's poetry writing began in the early 1850s. Altogether, she wrote 1, 755 poems, of which only_______had been published during her lifetime.

Twain was restless when be was young and moved a lot, first eastward s a journeyman printer, up and down_______as a steamboat pilot.

The genuine participation of a poet in a common cultural effort was, according to Whitman, to behave as_______.

With the publication of Pierre, a popular romance intended for the feminine market but provoking an outrageous repudiation,_______public fame was on the decline.

Who is the author of The Waste Land?

The masterpiece of George Bernard Shaw is_______.

A romance set in Italy, Hawthorn’s The Marble Faun is concerned about_______of the human spirit.

Which of the following works is NOT Dickens' work?

Modernism rose out of skepticism and discussion of_______.

The Victoria Age was largely an age of_______,eminently represented by Dickens and Thackeray.

David Herbert Lawrence’ s masterpiece is_______.

How does Oliver violate the rules of the workhouse?

In his work ,_______ sets out a full map and a large scale criticism of the 19th century England.

In the mid-18th century, a new literary movement called,_______came to Europe and then to England.

Which of the following is NOT a romantic poet?

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

Tn Charlotte Bronte’s novels, she liked to describe the following issues of the upper class EXCEPT_______.

As contrasted with the classicists_______ thought that it was nature that gave him "strength and knowledge full of peace" .

The novel Pride and Prejudice ends with_______.

Jane Austen wrote altogether_______ complete novels in her lifelong career.

In the Romantic period,_______ is the most prosperous literary form.

William Blake" "Tyger" is collected in_______.

During the remaining four years of his life, Shelly traveled and lived in various, elites and produced all his major works.

Mr. Allworthy is a kind-hearted gentleman in_______.

Henry Fielding was born in a(n)_______,family.

In Shakespeare's life, he had written altogether_______sonnets.

One of the greatest masters of English prose is _______ who defined a good style as “proper words in proper places."