英美文学选读2019年4月真题试题及答案解析（00604）

Moby-Dick is not merely a whaling tale or sea adventure, considering that Herman Melville is a great symbolist. Please make an analysis on this viewpoint.

What are the characteristics of Robert Frost's poetry?

Robinson Crusoe is considered to be Daniel Defoe's masterpiece because the protagonist was a real middle-class hero. And his rest four novels manifest Defoe's deep concern for the poor and the unfortunate in his society. Please try to discuss their social significance.

What arc the each hero's weaknesses of the characteristics of the greatest tragedies written by William Shakespeare?

Sister Carrie best embodies Theodore Dreiser's naturalistic belief. How do you understand that?

Why is Jane Eyre one of the most popular and important novels of the Victorian Age?

Be it so. if you will. But. alas! It was a dream of evil omen for young goodman Brown. A stem, a saD、a darkly meditative, a distrustful, if not a desperate man. did he become, from the night of that fearful dream. On the Sabbath-day, when the congregation were singing a holy psalm, he could not listen, because an anthem of sin rushed loudly upon his ear, and drowned all the blessed strain.

Questions:

A、Identify the title of the story from which this part is taken.

B、Why docs Brown become stem, sad, and distrustful?

C、What does that fearful dream”, refer to?

I like to see it lap the Miles—

And lick the Valleys up—

And stop to feed itself at Tanks—

And then—prodigious step

Around a Pile of Mountains—

And supercilious peer

In Shanties—by the side of Roads—

And then a Quarry pare.

Questions:

A、Identify the name of the author.

B、What does “it” in the first line mean?

C、What! is the poem about?

MRS. WARREN, [galled by the Vivie’s indifference ] What do you know of men, child, to talk that way about them? You'll have to make up your mind to see a good deal of Sir George Crofts,as he’s a friend of mine.

VIVE.[quite unmoved]Why? [she site down and pens a book] Do you expect that we shall be much together? You and I,I mean?

Questions:

A、Identify the playwright and the title of the above quotation.

B、What's the relationship between the two speakers?

C、What's the theme of the play?

Wherefore feed and clothe and save

From the cradle to the grave

Those ungrateful drones who would

Drain your sweat—nay, drink your blood?

Wherefore, Bees of England，forge

Many a weapan. chain, and scourge,

That these stingless drones may spoil

The forced produce of your toil?

Questions:

A、Identify the poet and the poem from which the lines are taken.

B、What do you think the poet intends to say in the poem?

C、What does the phrase "Bees of England-' refer to?