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his or her own situation and the true nature of that situation, that is dramatic irony.
B. In the given example, Portia, Bassanio' s newly-married wife, disguised herself as the lawyer to take charge of the case. Portia herself and the audience know all this, but Bassanio is ignorant of it. So when Bassanio offers in front of his disguised wife to sacrifice her in order to deliver Antonio, he makes himself behave in a ridiculous way in the eyes of the audience. Thus an effect of dramatic irony is achieved.
48. Henry James' s most famous theme is what is generally called \international
theme\His novels or short stories of the theme are always set against a larger international background,usually between Europe and America. They center around the conflict of the two cultures,represented by an innocent American and a sophisticated European. James is regarded as the founder of psychological realism for his psychoanalytical approach to his Characters. Daisy Miller, The Portrait of A Lady, The American, The Ambassadors are his representative works of this kind.
IV. Topic Discussion (20 points in all, 10 for each)
49. A. Motivation one: to pursue material interest through marriage; Wickham, Miss
Binley and Charlotte Lucas are examples of this kind.
B. Motivation two: to seek sensual pleasure and beauty; Lydia and Mr. Bennet are examples of this kind.
C. Motivation three: to search for trus love and also take personal merits and financial positions into consideration; Elizabeth Bennet is a typical example of this kind.
D. Austen celebrated the third kind of motivation of marriage while criticizing the first two wrong motivations.
50. The story of Moby-Dick is simple, telling the battle between Ahab, captain of the whaling ship Pequod and the monstrous white whale Moby Dick. Ahab is obsessed by his determination to revenge himself upon the fierce, cunning whale, because it has crippled him. After many days of search and pursuit, the white whale is finally sighted. Chapter 135 is a description of the third day' s chase. Three boats have been lowered in chase of the whale, but two of them are later destroyed
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by the whale. Although the whale is harpooned at last, the ship is sunk and all the people aboard are drowned except Ishmale, the narrator of the story who happens to be rescued by another whale ship. Moby-Dick is not merely a whaling tale or sea adventure. It is a tragic epic. The voyage the Pequod has made is a symbolic voyage of the mind in quest of the truth and knowledge of the universe, a spiritual exploration into man' s deep reality and psychology. The battle between Ahab and the white whale symbolizes the struggle between man and nature, man and fate, good and evil.
全国2004年4月高等教育自学考试
英美文学选读试题
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全部题目用英文作答，并将答案写在答题纸相应位置上，否则不计分。
PART ONE （40 POINTS）
Ⅰ.Multiple Choice (40 points in all, 1 for each)
Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Write your correct answer on the answer sheet.
1.―And we will sit upon the rocks, /Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks,/By shallow rivers to whose falls/Melodious birds sing madrigals.‖ The above lines are taken from ______. A. Milton‘s Paradise Lost
B. Marlowe‘s ―The Passionate shepherd to His Love‖ D. John Donne‘s ―The Sun Rising‖
B. drama and novel D. romance and poetry
C. Shakespeare‘s ―Sonnet 18‖ A. poetry and drama C. novel and poetry
2.The English Renaissance period was an age of ______ .
3.Here are four lines taken from Edmund Spenser‘s The Faerie Queene: ―But on his brest a bloudie Crosse he bore,/The deare remembrance of his dying Lord,/For whose sweete sake that glorious badge he wore,/And dead as living ever him adored.‖ Who is the ―dying Lord‖ discussed in the above lines? A. Beowulf
B. King Arthur
C. Jesus Christ
D. Jupiter
4.In Shakespeare‘s Merchant of Venice, Antonio could not pay back the money he borrowed from Shylock, because ______.
A. his money was all invested in the newly-emerging textile industry B. his enterprise went bankrupt
C. Bassanio was able to pay his own debt D. his ships had all been lost
5. Which of the following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare‘s Sonnet 18? A. The speaker eulogizes the power of Nature. B. The speaker satirizes human vanity.
C. The speaker praises the power of artistic creation. D. The speaker meditates on man‘s salvation.
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6. In English poetry, a four-line stanza is called ______. A. heroic couplet
B. quatrain
C. Spenserian stanza
D. terza rima
7. ―Let not Ambition mock their useful toil,/Their homely joys, and destiny obscure;/Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile /The short and simple annals of the poor.‖ The above lines are taken from . A. Alexander Pope‘s Essay on Criticism B. Coleridge‘s ―Kubla Khan‖ C. John Donne‘s ―The Sun Rising‖
D. Thomas Gray‘s ―Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard‖
8. By making the truth-seeking pilgrims suffer at the hands of the people of Vanity Fair, John Bunyan intends to show the prevalent political and religious ______of his time.
A. persecution B. improvement C. prosperity D. disillusionment 9. The 18th century witnessed a new literary form－the modern English novel, which, contrary to the medieval romance, gives a ______ presentation of life of the common people. A. romantic
B. realistic
C. prophetic
D. idealistic
10. As a whole, ______is one of the most effective and devastating criticisms and satires of all aspects in the then English and European life— socially, politically, religiously, philosophically, scientifically, and morally. A. Moll Flanders
B. Gulliver’s Travels
C. Pilgrim’s Progress
D. The School for Scandal
11. An honest, kind-hearted young man, who is full of animal spirit and lacks prudence, is expelled from the paradise and has to go through hard experience to gain knowledge of himself and finally to have been accepted both by a virtuous lady and a rich relative . The above sentence may well sum up the theme of Fielding‘s work . A. Jonathan Wild the Great
B. Tom Jones D. Amelia
C. The Coffe-House Politician
12. In Sheridan‘s The School for scandal, the man who wins the hand of his beloved as well as the inheritance of his rich uncle is ______ . A. Charles Surface C. Sir Peter Teazle
B. Joseph Surface D. Sir Benjamin Backbite B. Gulliver’s Travels D. A Sentimental Journey
13. Which of the following works best represents the national spirit of the 18th-century England? A. Robinson Crusoe C. Jonathan Wild the Great story from ______ . A. the Bible
B. a German legend
D. One Thousand and One Nights
14. Shelley‘s masterpiece, Prometheus Unbound, is a verse drama, which borrows the basic
C. a Greek play family .
A. high opinion C. low opinion
15. In the first part of the novel Pride and prejudice, Mr. Darcy has a (n) ______ of the Bennet
B. great admiration D. erroneous view
16. In Byron‘s poem ―Song for the Luddites,‖ the word ―Luddite‖ refers to the ______ . A. workers who destroyed the machines in their protest against unemployment B. rising bourgeoisie who fights against the aristocratic class
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C. descendents of the ancient king ,Lud
D. poor country people who suffered under the rule of the landlord class
17. Mr. Micawber in David Copperfield and Sam Well in Pickwick Papers are perhaps the best ______ characters created by Charles Dickens. A. comic
B.tragic
C. round
D.sophisticated
18. A typical feature of the English Victorian literature is that writers became social and moral ______ , exposing all kinds of social evils. A. revolutionaries
B. idealists
C. critics
D. defenders
19. ―Is it not sufficient for your infernal selfishness, that while you are at peace I shall writhe in the torments of hell?‖(Heathcliff uttered the sentence in the death scene of Catherine from Chapter XV of Wuthering Heights.) The word ―hell‖ at the end of the quoted sentence refers to ______ . A. Heaven
B. Hades
C. the next world D. this world
20. A typical Forsyte, according to John Galsworthy, is a man with a strong sense of ______ ,who never pays any attention to human feelings. A. justice
B. humor
C. morality
D. property
21. ―He was silent with conceit of his son. Mrs. Morel sniffed, as if it were nothing.‖(Sons and Lovers by D.H.Lawrence)From the above quotation, we can see that Mrs. Morel‘s attitude to her husband is ______ . A. sincerely warm C. seemingly angry
B. genuinely kind
D. merely contemptuous
22. A boy makes a quest of his idealized childish love through painful experience up to the point of losing his innocence and coming to see the drabness and harshness of the adult world.
The above sentence may well sum up the major theme of ______. A. Eliot‘s poem The love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock B. Bernard shaw‘s play Mrs. Warren’s Profession C. Joyce‘s story Araby
D. Lawrence‘s story The Horse Dealer’s Daughter
23. Linguistically, compared with the writings of Mark Twain, Henry James‘s fiction is noted for his ______. A. frontier vernacular
B. rich colloquialism D. refined elegant language
C. vulgarly descriptive words
24. Which of the following statements about Washington Irving is NOT true? A. Literary imagination should breed in a land rich in the past culture.
B. He is preoccupied with the Calvinistic view of original sin and the mystery of evil. C. His stories are among the best of the American literature.
D. Some of his works are based on the materials of the European legendary tales.
25. Which of the following is NOT one of the main ideas advocated by Emerson, the chief spokesman of New England Transcendentalism?
A. As an individual, man is divine and can develop and improve himself infinitely. B. Nature exercises a healthy and restorative influence on human beings.
C. There exists an emotional communication between an individual soul and the universal ―Oversoul.‖
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D. Evil and sin are ever present in human heart and will pass on from one generation to another.‖
26. Whitman‘s poems are characterized by all the following features EXCEPT ______ . A. the strict poetic form C. the easy flow of feelings
B. the free and natural rhythm
D. the simple and conversational language
27. ―Then all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.‖ In the quoted sentence, the author might imply that ______. A. nothing changes in the 5000 years of human history
B. man‘s desire to conquer nature can only end in his own destruction C. nature is evil as it was 5000 years ago
D. nature has the ultimate creative power
28. ―Standing on the bare ground,—my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space ,—all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball. I am nothing. I see all. The currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.‖ The above passage is taken from ______. A. Stowe‘s Uncle Tom’s Cabin C. Emerson‘s ―Nature‖
B. Cooper‘s ―Leatherstocking Tales‖ D. Dreiser‘s Sister Carrie B. James‘s The Portrait of a Lady. D. Hawthorne‘s The Scarlet Letter.
29. Which of the following works best illustrates the Calvinistic view of original sin? A. Stowe‘s Uncle Ton’s Cabin C. Hemingway‘s A Farewell to Arms Moby-Dick a world classic. A. narrative power
B. psychological analysis D. optimistic view of life
C. speculative agility
30. Beside symbolism, all the following qualities EXCEPT ______are fused to make Melville‘s
31. In all his novels Theodore Dreiser sets himself to project the ______ American values. For example, in Sister Carrie, there is not one character whose status is not determined economically. A. Puritan
B. materialistic D. religious
C. psychological
32. In Daisy Miller, Henry James reveals Daisy‘s ______ by showing her relatively unreserved manners. A. hypocrisy
B. cold and indifference D. Americanness
C. grace and patience
33. The raft with which Huck and Jim make their voyage down the Mississippi River may symbolize all the following EXCEPT ______. A. a return to nature
B. an escape from evils, injustices, and corruption of the civilized society C. the American society in the early 19th century
D. a small world where people of different colors can live friendly and happily
34. Emily Grierson, the protagonist in Faulkner‘s story ―A Rose for Emily,‖ can be regarded as a symbol for all the following qualities EXCEPT______. A. old values
B. rigid ideas of social status D. harmony and integrity
C. bigotry and eccentricity
35. As a Modernist poet ,Pound is noted for his active involvement in the ______ .
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