英美文学选读2018年4月真题试题及答案解析（00604）

Briefly discuss why Jonathan Swift is a master satirist based on his greatest novel Gulliver’ s Travels.

Briefly discuss the theme of Walt Whitman’ s volume of poems Leaves of Grass.

What does Ernest Hemingway tell about in his short story Indian Camp?

How does Emily Dickinson deal with the subject love?

Why is character-portrayal the most distinguishing feature of Charles Dickens’ works?

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one travel, long I stood

And looked down as far as I could

To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;

Though as far that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same.

Question:

A.Identify the poet.

B.What does the phrase “wanted wear” mean?

C.What does the speaker want to tell us?

What does Shakespeare write in his history plays?

I grow old...I grow old...

I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.

Shall I part my hair behind?

Do I dare to eat a peach?

I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beath.

I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.

I do not think that they will sing to me.

Question:

A.Identify the poet.

B.Is it a romantic poem?

C.What’s the theme of the poem?

By chance of nature’ s changing course untrimmed;

But thy eternal summer shall not fade,

Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;

Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in hist shade,

When it eternal lines to time thou grow’st:

So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,

So long lives this, and thus gives life to thee.

Question:

A.Identify the poet of the stanza.

B.What’s the theme of the poem?

C.What do the last two lines express?

We passed the School, where Children strove

At Recess---in the Ring---

We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain---

We passed the Setting Sun---

Or rather---He passed Us---

The Dews drew quivering and chill---

For only Gossamer, my Grown---

My Tipper---only Tulle---

Question:

A.Identify the poet.

B.What do “ the School” and “the Setting Sun” represent?

C.What does the poet want to express in this poem?

_______found expression in almost every book Theodore Dreiser wrote. He expressed his pursuit in the novel Sister Carrie.

Like Hawthorne, Herman Melville is a master of allegory and _______in his narratives.

Before and during the Civil War,_______stood firmly on the side of the North and wrote a series of poems gathered as a collection under the title of Drum Taps.

Most of the works by_______are set in the American South with his emphasis on the Southern subjects and consciousness.

Henry Jame’s short fiction _______tells a story about the troubled and abnormal psychology of oppressed children.

_______represents a new beginning in Ernest Hemingway’s career as a writer, concerning a volunteer American guerrilla fighting in Spanish Civil War.

_______was thought of in his day as a short-story writer, one of whose best short story is Babylon Revisited.

Robert lee Frost described_______as “a book of people,” which shows an insight into New England character and the background.

Emily Dickinson’ s greatest rending of the moment of _______is to be found in a poem “I heart a Fly buzz---when I died---.”

Nathaniel Hawthorne expressed his concern about the dark aberrations of the human_______in his work The Marble Faun.

_______tells a story of Mark Twain’ s boyhood ambition to become a riverboat pilot.

The plots of Jane Austin’s novels are restricted to the life of the _______ England.

In the lyric The cloud,_______created a Platonic symbol of the spirit of man, a force of beauty and regeneration.

D. H. Lawrence portrayed a man attempting to save his integrity by running away from his wife and children in the novel_______.

Ursula Brangwen and her sister Gudrun are two heroines in the novel_______.

The story of the novel Paradise Lost is taken from_______.

_______had written in his lifetime five full-length plays, one of which is The Cocktail Party.

_______began writing poetry at the age of 12 and Poetical Sketches is his first collection.

Best of the well-known lyric pieces is _______by Peter Bysshe Shelley.

Widowers’ House is a famous play written by_______.

The following words_______best describe Mrs. Bennet, a character in Pride and Prejudice.

The poem_______is indebted to James Joyce in terms of the stream-of-consciousness technique largely employed in T. S.Eliot’ s later writings.

Charles Dickens is famous for the depiction of various characters. The horrible and grotesque ones are like_______.

_______is a drama critic who is against the credo of “art for art’s sake.”

The poet of the greatest poetic drama Prometheus Unbound is _______.

Many critics rank_______as William Wordsworth’ s greatest work.

Jane Austen’ s novel_______tells a story about two sisters and their love affairs.

All the following Thomas Hardy’ s works are known as “novels of character and environment” EXCEPT _______.

William Blake’ s poem_______was composed during the French Revolution and it plays double role both as a satire and a prophecy.

The most famous work The Dynasts by _______is an epic-drama on the Napoleonic Wars.

In the Victorian period,_______held the idea that man’s life is composed of battle between sin and virtue, good and evil.

William Wordsworth’ s poem _______takes us to the core of his poetic belief.

Charlotte Bronte’ s most autobiographical work is _______.

_______composed the volume of poems Songs of Innocence, a lovely volume of poems.

In 1724. Jonathan Swift published a series of letters calling on the country to refuse the English_______. So he is still respected in Ireland.

All Charles Dickens’ works present a criticism of the fundamental social institutions and morals of the Victorian England EXCEPT_______.

The play_______,though a tragedy, is permeated with optimistic spirit.

Henry Fielding is a good story-teller. He has a gift for organizing _______.

Daniel Defoe had a zest for _______. He wrote many pamphlets on the current issues.

John Milton’ s most powerful dramatic poem on the Greek model is_______.