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( )43. Mr. Micawber, the character of David Copperfield, is a rich squire who lives a comfortable life.

( )44. In The Scarlet Letter, some housewives are gossiping about a woman named Hester and they think she is a shameful woman.

( )45. The two major characters in the novel of To the Lighthouse are Mr. and Mrs. Ramsay. IV. Define the literary terms listed below and write your answers on the answer sheet. (5 point for each, altogether 10 points) 46. Bloomsbury 47. Satire

V. Give brief answers to the following questions. Write your answers on the answer sheet. (5 point for each, altogether 15 points)

48.Read the excerpt of \ To the Lighthouse\questions.

(1) How do you comment on the relationship between Lily and Mr. William Bankes? (2) What is the relationship between Minta and Paul? Are they happy together? (3) What is Lily’s outlook on human relationship?

Ⅵ. Reading Comprehension. (15 point for each, altogether 15points)

49. Read the quoted parts carefully and give the name of the author and the title of the literary work from which it is taken and then briefly interpret it.

Two roads diverged1 in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth2;

《英美文学选读》模拟试卷四答案

VII. Multiple Choice. (1 point for each, altogether 30 points) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 题号 1 答案 B A C B A C C A C A 题号 答案 16 A 17 A 18 A 19 D 20 D 21 D 22 A 23 A 24 D 25 B 11 D 26 D 12 A 27 D 13 B 28 A 14 D 29 D 15 A 30 D II. Match the writer with his/her works and Write your answers on the answer sheet. (2 point for each, altogether 20 points) 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 题号 答案 J C F G B A H I D E III. Decide whether the following statements are true or false and write your answers in the brackets. (2 point for each, altogether 10 points) 题号 答案 41 T 42 F 43 F 44 T 45 T IV. Define the literary terms listed below and write your answers on the answer sheet. (5 point for each, altogether 10 points)

46、复习范围或考核目标:课件course06 Virginia Woolf 47、复习范围或考核目标:课件Course 02 Daniel Defoe

V. Give brief answers to the following questions. Write your answers on the answer sheet. (5 point for each, altogether 15 points)

48、复习范围或考核目标:课件course06 Virginia Woolf

Ⅵ. Reading Comprehension (15 point for each, altogether 15points) 49、复习范围或考核目标:课件Course09 Robert Frost

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《英美文学选读》模拟试卷五

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1.试卷保密,考生不得将试卷带出考场或撕页,否则成绩作废。请监考老师负责监督。 2.请各位考生注意考试纪律,考试作弊全部成绩以零分计算。 3.本试卷满分100分,答题时间为90分钟。

4.本试卷分为试题卷和答题卷,所有答案必须答在答题卷上,答在试题卷上不给分。 VIII. Multiple Choice. (1 point for each, altogether 30 points)

Directions: There are 30 sentences in this section. Beneath each sentence there are four choices respectively marked by letters A, B, C and [D] Choose the word that you think best complete the sentence. Write your answers on the answer sheet.

1. What does Wordsworth’s poem \

[A]To romanticists, poetry is an expression of an individual’s feelings and experiences no matter how fragmentary and momentary these feelings and experiences are.

[B] Romanticist take delight only in sound effect, the theme of a work is not their concern. [C] Romanticist are not patient people; they would leave before the revelation of the theme. [D] Poetry should present the apparent and tangible.

2. The lines, \found in _______.

[A] Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s \

[B] William Wordsworth’s \ [C]John Keats’s \

[D]Percy Bysshe Shelly’s \

3. \Hush, hush, Catherine! I’ll stay. If he shot me so, I’d expire with a blessing in my lips.’\novel from which the passage is taken must be _______. [A] Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

[B] Charles Dickens’s The Old Curiosity Shop [C]Samuel Richardson’s Pamela

[D] Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights

4. \ [A] sensitive ear for the sounds of the English language [B] excellent choice of words

[C]mastering of the metrical devices [D] use of the dramatic monologue

5. Here is a passage from Middlemarch, a novel by George Eliot: \youth stood there in a moral imprisonment which made itself one with the chill, colourless, narrowed landscape, with the shrunken furniture, the never-read books, and the ghostly stag in pale fanatic world that seemed to be vanishing from the daylight,\in the quoted passage? [A] Dorothea [B] Emma [C] Molly [D] Irene

6. Tess of the D’Urbervilles, one of Thomas Hardy’s best known novels, portrays man as ________.

[A] being hereditarily either good or bad [B] being self-sufficient

[C]having no control over his own fate

[D] still retaining his own faith in a world of confusion

7. Which of the following brings LITTLE impact on the development of 20th century literature? [A] Friedrich Nietzche’s assertions: \

[B] Arther Schopenharuer’s and Henry Bergson’s philosophical ideas of irrationality. [C]Oscar Wilde’s idea of \ [D] Freudian-Jungian psycho-analysis

8. The term tone in literature means_______.

[A] sound effect such as rhyme and metrical device

[B] the pitch of a word used to determine its meaning in the given context

[C]the manner of expression to indicate the speaker’s attitude towards the subject [D] a shade of colour to reflect the change of the light

9. Which of the following best describes the speaker of T.S.Eliot’s \Prufrock\

[A] He is an man of a action [B] He is a man of apathy [C] He is a man of passion [D] He is a man of inactivity

10. In which of the following poems by William Butler Yeats did you find the allusion to Helen and the TrojanWar?

[A] \[B] \[C] \[D] \

11. \such frenzy. The postman came running back, afraid something had happene[D] /they saw his tripped cap over the short curtains. Mrs Morel rushes to the door.\from _______.

[A] Charlotte Bronte’s The Professor [B] Charles Dickens’s Domebey and Son [C] D.H.Lawrence ’s Sons and Lovers [D] John Galsworthy’s The Forsyte Saga 12. James Joyce is the author of all the following novels except ______. [A] Dubliners [B] Jude the Obscure [C] A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man [D] Ulysses

13. Which of the following works concerns most concentrated the Calvinistic view of original sin?

[A] The Wasteland [B] The Scarlet Letter [C] Leaves of Grass [D] As I Lay Dying

14. We can perhaps summarize that Walt Whitman’s poems are characterized by all the following features except that they are _______. [A] conversational and crude [B] lyrical and well-structured [C] wimple and rather crude [D] free-flowing

15. Who exerts the single most important influence on literary naturalism, of which Theodore Dreiser and Jack London are among the best representative writers? [A] Freud [B] Darwin [C] W. [D] Howells [D] Emerson 16. Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his _______.

[A] international theme [B] waste-land imagery [C] local color [D] symbolism

17. At the beginning of Faulkner’s A Rose For Emily, there is a detailed description of Emily’s old house. The purpose of such description is to imply that the person living in it ______.

[A] is a wealth lady [B] has good taste [C] is a prisoner of the past [D] is a conservative aristocrat 18. The period before the American Civil War is commonly referred to as _______. [A] the Romantic Period [B] the Realistic Period

[C] the Naturalist Period [D] the Modern Period

19. Most of Herman Melville’s novels are based on sea voyages and sea adventures. Which of the following is not the case? [A] Typee [B] Moby-Dick [C] Omoo [D] The Confidence-Man

20. In Henry James’ Daisy Miller, the author tries to portray the young woman as an embodiment of _______. [A] the force of convention [B] the free spirit of the New World [C] the decline of aristocracy [D] the corruption of the newly rich 21. \ And sorry I could not travel both ...\

In the above two lines of Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken, the poet, by implication, was referring to _______. [A] a travel experience [B] a marriage decision [C] a middle-age crisis [D] one’s course of life

22. The Transcendentalists believe that, first, nature is ennobling, and second, the individual is _______.

[A] insignificant [B] vicious by nature [C] divine [D] forward-looking 23. Which of the following is not a work of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s? [A] The House of the Seven Gables [B] The Blithedale Romance [C] The Marble Falun [D] White Jacket

24. In Heminway’s short story Indian Camp, through a story of a woman giving birth, the protagonist, Nick Adams, receives an education of _______. [A] birth and violent death [B] charity and benevolence [C] racial inequality [D] devotion and kinship

25. In Hawthorne’s novels and short stories, intellectuals usually appear as _______. [A] commentators [B] observers [C] villains [D] saviors

26. Besides sketches, tales and essays, Washington Irving also published a book on ______, which is also considered an important part of his creative writing. [A] poetic theory [B] French art [C] history of New York [D] life of George Washington

27. In Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, there are detailed descriptions of big parties. The purpose of such descriptions is so show _______. [A] emptiness of life [B] the corruption of the upper class [C] contrast of the rich and the poor [D] the happy days of the Jazz Age

28. In American literature, escaping from the society and returning to nature is a common subject. The following titles are all related, in one way or another, to the subject except _______.

[A] Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn [B] Dreiser’s Sister Carrie