英美文学选读2015年4月真题试题及答案解析（00604）

Nathaniel Hawthorn's view of man and human history originates,' to a great extent, in Puritanism. What are the effects of Puritanism on Hawthorne?

Briefly discuss Ceorge Bernard Shaw’s dramatic achievement in terms of the major subjects and features of his plays.

Briefly discuss F. Scott Fitzgerald' s theme of bankruptcy of the American dream, focusing on his masterpiece The Great Gatsby.

In what way is Gulliver' s Travels by Jonathan Swift a significant work?

Emily Dickinson s poetry is unique and unconventional in its own way. What is her poetic style?

What are the major themes of Wordsworth’ s poetry?

He pretended to consider it.' "I'd much rather go to Chillon with you. "

“With me?" she asked without a shadow of emotion.

She didn't rise bushing, as a young person at Geneva would have done; and yet, conscious that he had gone. very far," he thought it possible she had drawn back. And with your mother," he answered very respectfully.

But it seemed that both his. audacity and his respect were lost on Miss Daisy Miller. "I guess mother wouldn't go for you ." she smiled. " And she ain' t bent on going, anyway. She don’t like to ride round in the afternoon. " After which she familiarly proceeded: “But did you really mean what you said just now that you'd like to go up there?”

Questions:

A.Identify the author and the title of the novel from which the above excerpt is taken.

B.From their conversation, do you know where Miss Daisy Miller and the man want to go?

C.Briefly comment on Miss Daisy Miller' s character.

When Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral: the men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house, which no one save an old man - servant a combined gardener and cook had seen in at least ten years.

Questions:

A.Identify the author and the title of the work from, which. the above excerpt is taken.

B.How do you explain "a fallen monument"?

C.For what different reasons did the men and women go to Miss Emily' s funeral?

Let us go then, you and I,

When the evening is spread out against the sky

Like a patient etherized upon a table;

Let us go, through certain half - deserted streets,

The muttering retreats

Of restless nights in one一night cheap hotels

And sawdust restaurants with oyster shells:

Streets that follow like a tedious argument

Of insidious intent

To lead you to an overwhelming question ...

Oh, do not ask,“What is it ?”

Let us go and make our visit.

Questions:

A.Identify the poet and the title of the poem from which the stanza is taken.

B.What are the characteristics of the protagonist in the poem?

C.What figure of speech is used in the second and third lines?

"Why, my dear, you must know, Mrs. Long says that Netherfield is taken by a young man of large fortune from the north of England; that he came down on Monday in a chaise and four to see the place, and was so much delighted with it that he agreed with Mr.. Morris immediately; that he is to take possession before Michaelmas, and some of his servants are to be in the house by the end of next week.

“What is his name?"

" Bingley. ".

Is he married or single?"

"Oh! single, my dear, to be sure!A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year.What a fine thing for our girls!"

" How so?how can it affect them?

"My dear Mr. Bennet," replied his wife , how can you be so tiresome! You must know that I am thinking of his marrying one of them. "

Questions:

A.Identify the author and the title of the novel from' which this passage is taken.

B.Who are the two speakers?

C.What does the dialogue tell us about the speakers?

Theodore Dreiser' s _______, a classic story of a misunderstood artist," was once condemned for obscenity and blasphemy.”

Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls concerns a volunteer American guerrilla Robert Jordan fighting in the_______.

The_______， Moby Dick, symbolizes nature for Melville, for it is complex, unfathomable, malignant and beautiful as well.

The Romantic period started with the publication of Washington Irving' s The Sketch Book and ended with_______.

Robert Frost wrote in both_______and the free verse, and sometimes he wrote in a form that borrows freely from the merits of both.

Fitzgerald follows the Jamesian tradition in using the_______method in his chapters, each one of which consists of one or more dramatic scenes.

Theodore Dreiser' a style has been a controversial aspect of his work from the beginning. For lack of_______,his writings appear more inclusive and less selective.

Henry James’s_______ tells a story about a young and innocent American confronting the complexity of the European life.

The Scarlet Letter always regarded as the best of Hawthorne’ s works , tells a simple but moving story in which four people living in a _______community are involved in and affected by the sin of adultery in different ways。

Melville s Billy Budd deals with the sea and sailors and the theme of a conflict between innocence and_______.

In Go Down, Moses, Faulkner skillfully employs _______as a symbol of the timeless freedom of the wilderness.

_______is a great literary giant of America, whom H. L Mencken considered “the true father of our national literature."

Henry James believed that the materialistic bent of America life and its lack of _______and sophistication could not provide him with enough materials for great literary works.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and especially its sequence _______ proved themselves to be the milestone in American literature.

Hawthorn's intellectuals are usually _______, dreadful because they are devoid of warmth and feeling.

William Faulkner' s work is difficult and is a text endlessly searched for_______·

As a genre, naturalism emphasized _______ and environment as important deterministic forces shaping individualized characters who were presented in special and detailed circumstances.

Robert Frost's A Masque of Reason and_______are comic-serious dramatic narratives, in both of which biblical characters in modem setting discuss ethics and man' s relations to God.

Of the following writers,_______is often compared with Shakespeare for his adeptness with the vernacular and large vocabulary with which he brings out many a wonderful verbal picture of man and scene.

T. S. Eliot’ s major achievement in play writing has been the creation of a_______in the 20th century to express the ideas and action of modern society with new accents of the contemporary speech.

In _______, by portraying a disillusioned man who attempts to save his integrity by running away again and again from his wife and children, D. H. Lawrence tries to show that every man is a sacred and holy individual whose integrity should never be violated or dominated.

All of the following poems is written by Shelly EXCEPT_______.

John Milton' s_______shows how mankind, in the person of Christ, withstands the tempter and is established once more in the divine favor.

The declaration that "I know that This World is a World of Imagination and Vision” and that “The nature of my work is visionary or imaginative". belongs to_______.

It is generally believed that the most important play among Shakespeare comedies is_______.

D. H. Lawrence' s novel _______ is a story about the three generations of the Brangwen family on the Marsh farm.

In his famous essay, Tradition and Individual Talent,_______put on the importance of tradition both in creative writing and in criticism.

Dickens’ best - depicted characters are the following EXCEPT_______.

The last two novels by Thomas Hardy are_______.

In_______’s novel, the subject matter, the character range, the social setting, and plots are all restricted to the provincial life of the late 18th century England, concerning three or four landed gentry families with their daily routine life.

In_______, one of Dickens' later works, Dickens presents a criticism of the Utilitarian principle that rules over the English education system and destroys young hearts and minds.

The success of Jane Eyre is not only because of its sharp criticism of the existing society, but also due to its introduction to the English novel the first_______heroine.

Shelly' s greatest achievement is his four-act poetic drama _______.

William Blake' s_______ marks his entry into maturity.

Poetry is defined by _______as " the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, which originates in emotion recollected in tranquility.”

Of all the eighteenth - century novelists, _______ was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a “comic epic in prose," the first to give the modem novel its structure and style.

Charlotte Bronte" s works are all about the struggle of an individual consciousness towards_______, about some lonely and neglected young women with a fierce longing for love, understanding and a full, happy life.

Daniel Defoe' s_______, an adventure story very much in the spirit of the time, is universally considered his masterpiece.

Romio and Juliet, though a tragedy, is permeated with _______spirit.

Among John Milton’ s major poetical works,_______ is the greatest, indeed the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf.