英美文学选读2011年4月真题试题及答案解析（00604）

Why are naturalists inevitably pessimistic in their view?

Daisy Miller brought Henry James international fame for the first time. What’s the character of Daisy Miller, the protagonist?

Make a comment on the character of Jane Eyre, the heroine of the novel by Charlotte Bronte.

What’s the theme of Nathaniel Hawthorne’ s Young Goodman Brown?

What’s the theme of Emily Bronte’ s Wuthering Heights?

It is said that B. Shaw’ s play Mrs. Warren’ s Profession, has a strong realistic theme, which fully reflects the dramatist’s Fabianist idea. What’s the theme of the work?

“My tongue, every atom of my blood, form’ d from this soil, this air,

Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their parents the same,

I, now thirty- seven years old in perfect health begin,

Hoping to cease not till death”

Questions:

A.Who’s the poet of the quoted stanza, and what’s the title of the poem?

B.What do “soil” and “air” represent in the first line?

C.What does the poet try to say in the above quoted lines?

“ ‘Is dying hard, Daddy?’

‘No, I think it’s pretty easy, Nick. It all depends. ’”

Questions:

A.Who’s the author of the quoted part, and what’s the title of the work?

B.What was Nick preoccupied with when he asked the question?

C.Why did the father add “It all depends” after he answered his son’s question?

“Shah I compare thee 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:”

Questions:

A.Who’s the poet of the quoted stanza, and what’s the title of the poem?

B.What figure of speech is employed in the poem?

C.What is the theme of the poem?

“When the stars threw down their spears,

And water’ d heaven with their tears,

Did he smile his work to see?

Did he who made the Lamb make thee ?”

Questions:

A.Who’s the poet of the quoted stanza, and what’s the title of the poem?

B.Whom does the “he” refer to?

C.What does the “Lamb” symbolize?

The Marble Faun by Nathaniel Hawthorne, a romance set in______, is concerned about the dark aberrations of the human spirit.

Among the following writers ________ is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th -century “stream - of - consciousness” novels and the founder of psychological realism.

Walt Whitman wrote down a great many poems to air his sorrow for the death of President ______, and one of the famous is “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’ D. ”

With the publication of ________, Theodore Dreiser was launching himself upon a long career that would ultimately make him one of the most significant American writers of the school later known as literary naturalism.

Nathaniel Hawthorne was affected by ________’s transcendentalist theory and struck up a very intimate relationship with him.

Man is a “victim of forces over which he has no control. ” This is a notion held strongly by ________.

Of all Herman Melville’s sea adventure stories, ________ proves to be the best.

While Mark Twain seemed to have paid more attention to the “life” of the Americans, ________ had apparently laid a greater emphasis on the “inner world” of man.

At the age of eighty -seven, ________ read his poetry at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy in 1961.

In 1920, ________ published his first novel This Side of Paradise which was, to some extent, his own story.

Herman Melville’s second famous work, ________, was not published until 1924, 33 years after his death.

Unlike his contemporaries in the early 20th century, ________ did not break up with the poetic tradition nor made any experiment on form.

Walt Whitman believed, by means of “________,” he has turned poetry into an open field, an area of vital possibility where the reader can allow his own imagination to play.

In Death in the Afternoon ________ presents his philosophy about life and death through the depiction of the bullfight as a kind of microcosmic tragedy.

William Faulkner once said that ________ is a story of “lost innocence,” which proves itself to be an intensification of the theme of imprisonment in the past.

“The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one -eighth of it being above water. ” This “iceberg” analogy about prose style was put forward by ________.

In Go Down, Moses, ________ illuminates the problem of black and white in Southern society as a close- knit destiny of blood brotherhood.

The work ________ by William Blake is a lovely volume of poems, presenting a happy world, though not without its evils and sufferings.

The plays known as “the Lawrence trilogy” are all the following EXCEPT ________.

Greatly and permanently affected by the ________ experiences, Hemingway formed his own writing style, together with his theme and hero.

T.S. Eliot’ s ________ not only presents a panorama of physical disorder and spiritual desolation in the modern Western world, but also reflects the prevalent mood of disillusionment and despair of a whole post- war generation.

In ________, Shakespeare has not only made a profound analysis of the social crisis in which the evils can be seen everywhere, but also criticized the bourgeois egoism.

John Milton’s greatest poetical work ________ is the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf.

Henry Fielding’ s ________ brings him the name of “Prose Homer”.

Among the three major poetical works by John Milton, ________ is the most perfect example of verse drama after the Greek style in English.

William Blake’s ________ marks his entry into maturity.

Jane Austen’ s first novel ________ tells a story about two sisters and their love affairs.

All of the following poems by William Wordsworth are masterpieces on nature EXCEPT________.

“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” the quoted line comes from ________.

The most distinguishing feature of Charles Dickens’ works is ________.

G. B. Shaw’ s play ________ established his position as the leading playwright of his time.

Thomas Hardy’s pessimistic view of life predominates most of his later works and earns him a reputation as a ________ writer.

T. S. Eliot won the Nobel Prize of Literature in ________.

“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? ... And if God had gifted me with some beauty, and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. ” The quoted lines are most probably taken from ________.

Symbolism and complex narrative are employed more richly in D. H. Lawrence’s ________, which are generally regarded as his masterpieces.

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

The tragic sense turns into despair in Thomas Hardy’s ________, where cornered by the traditional social morality, the hero and the heroine have to kill their own will and passion and return to their former destructive way of life.

In Charles Dickens’ work ________, the Utilitarian principle rules over the English education system and destroys young hearts and minds.

The typical representatives of G. B. Shaw’ s early plays are ________.

One of Shelley’ s greatest political lyrics is ________, which was later to become a rallying song of the British Communist Party.