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?

In A Rose for Emily. William Faulkner makes best use of the____devices in narration.

The author______said, The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water.

Ernest Hemingway's novel______describes the drifting life of American exiles in Europe.

Scoot Fitzgerald's fictional world is the embodiment of the spirit of the Jazz Age, in which he shows a particular interest in______.

Scon Fitzgerald's short-story collections won him popularity, and one of them is_______ .

The poet_______ was awarded Pulitzer Prize the firs because of Hampshire.

In 1912 in England his first book. A Boy’s Will, brought _______ to the attention of influential critics.

It is Henry James’literary essays and _________ that make him a fascinating case in the American literary history and a conspicuous figure in the world literature.

The book An American Tragedy is written by____.

Emily Dickinson wrote more than _________ poems about nature, in which her general skepticism about the relationship between man and nature is well-expressed.

The raft with which Huck and Jim make their voyage down the Mississippi River may symbolize_______.

Most of Herman Melville's novels arc about sea adventure stories EXCKPT____.

For the death of President Lincoln.______wrote down many poems to air his sorrow, one of which is “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d."

As an important prose writer,______put great emphasis on the importance of tradition both in creative writing and in criticism in his essay Tradition and Individual Talent.

Nathaniel Hawthorne focuses his attention on the moral, emotional, and______effects of the sin on the people in general and those main characters in The Scarlet Letter.

D.H. Lawrence was recognized as a prominent novelist only after publishing his third novel,______

The more important poems by T. S. Eliot arc dominated by the dark horror of an earthly hell EXCEPT_________

As a realistic dramatist _______took the modem social issues as his subjects with the aim of directing social reforms.

The Doctor’s Dilemma is written by _______.

T. S. Eliot regarded _______as the best medium of poetry. He wrote several verse plays and made a considerable success.

In Tess of the D'Urbervilles, _______forces Tess to claim kinship with sham but rich d’Urbervilles.

All of the following works are known as Thomas Hardy’s novels of character and environment'' EXCEPT_______.

In 1842. Charlotte Bronte and her sister went to_______to improve their foreign language to open up a school.

Charles Dickens' works arc characterized by a mingling of_______and pathos.

As far as Emily Bronte's literary creation is concerned, she is, first of all. a_______.

Percy Shelley's greatest achievement is his four-act poetic drama,_______.

William Wordsworth is regarded as a “worshipper of_______.”

David Copperfield is regarded as the semi-autobiography of_______, in which the early life of the hero is largely based on the author's early life.

Jane Austen's practical idealism is that love should be justified by reason and disciplined by_______.

The work Songs of Innocence is written by___.

Many critics regard _______ as one of the greatest of all English poets.They point especially to his lyrics.

In_____. Percy Shelley created a Platonic symbol of the spirit of man, a force of beauty and regeneration.

Henry Fielding has been regarded by some as Father of the English Novel.' for his contribution to the establishment of the_____of the modem novel.

Lycidas is a typical work of John Milton written for___

The following works are all written by Jonathan Swift EXCEPT_______.

The best part of the novel Robinson Crusoe is the realistic account of the successful struggle of Robinson against_______.

The Renaissance first started in ______. with the flowering of painting, sculpture and literature.

Shakespeare's playwright The Tempest resorts to the　　______atmosphere and to dreams to solve the conflict.

John Milton wrote______to expose the ways of Satan and to “justify the ways of God to man.”