自学考试00604英美文学选读历年真题全套试题

自学考试00604英美文学选读历年真题全套试题内容摘要：

to project the ______ American values. For example, in Sister Carrie, there is not one character whose status is not determined economically. A. Puritan B. materialistic C. psychological D. religious 32. In Daisy Miller, Henry James reveals Daisy‘s ______ by showing her relatively unreserved manners. A. hypocrisy B. cold and indifference C. grace and patience D. Americanness 33. The raft with which Huck and Jim make their voyage down the Mississippi River may symbolize all the following EXCEPT ______. A. a return to nature B. an escape from evils, injustices, and corruption of the civilized society C. the American society in the early 19th century D. a small world where people of different colors can live friendly and happily 34. Emily Grierson, the protagonist in Faulkner‘s story ―A Rose for Emily,‖ can be regarded as a symbol for all the following qualities EXCEPT______. A. old values B. rigid ideas of social status C. bigotry and eccentricity D. harmony and integrity 35. As a Modernist poet ,Pound is noted for his active involvement in the ______ . A. cubist school of modern painting B. Imagist Movement C. streamofconsciousness technique D. German Expressionism 36. The statement that a boy‘s night journey to an Indian village to witness the violence of both birth and death provides all the possibilities of a learning experience may well sum up the major theme of ______ . A. Faulkner‘s story ―A Rose for Emily‖ 自考 00604《英美文学选读》历年真题集电子书 8 B. Hemingway‘s story ―Indian Camp‖ C. Irving‘s story ―The Legend of Sleepy Hollow‖ D. James‘s story ―Daisy Miller‖ 37. Which of the following plays by O‘Neill can be read autobiographically? A. The Hairy Ape B. The Emperor Jones C. The Iceman Cometh D. Long Day’s Journey Into Night 38. When we say that a poor young man from the West tried to make his fortune in the East but was disillusioned in the quest of an idealized dream, we are probably discussing about ______‘s thematic concern in his fiction writing. A. Henry James B. Scott Fitzgerald C. Ernest Hemingway D. William Faulkner his experiences in the forest, Young Goodman Brown returns to Salem ______. A. desperate and gloomy B. renewed in his faith C. wearing a black veil D. unaware of his own sin 40. According to Mark Twain, in river towns up and down the Mississippi, it was every boy‘s dream to some day grow up to be ______. A. Methodist preacher B. a justice of the peace C. a riverboat pilot D. a pirate on the Indian ocean PART TWO (60POINTS) Ⅱ .Reading prehension(16 points,4 for each) Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answer in the corresponding space on the answer sheet. 41. ―One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And death shall be no more。 death, thou shalt die.‖ Questions: A. Identify the poem and the poet. does the word ―sleep‖ mean? C. What idea do the two lines express? 42. ―Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendor, valley, rock, or hill。 Ne‘er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! The river glideth at his own sweet will: Dear God! The very houses seem asleep。 And all that mighty heart is lying still!‖ (William Wordsworth‘s son: ―Composed upon Westminster Bridge‖ September 3, 1802) Questions: A. What does the word ―glideth‖ in the fourth line mean? B. What kind of figure of speech is used by wordsworth to describe the ―river‖? C. What idea does the fourth line express? 43. ―With Blue—uncertain stumbling Buzz— Between the light—and me— And then the Windows failed—and then 自考 00604《英美文学选读》历年真题集电子书 9 I could not see to see—‖ Questions: A. Identify the poem and the poet. B. What do ―Windows‖ symbolically stand for? C. What idea does the quoted passage express? 44. ―‗Is dying hard, Daddy?‘ ‗No, I think it‘s pretty easy, Nick, It all depends.‖‘ Questions: A. Identify the work and the author. B. What was Nick preoccupied with when he asked the question? C. Why did the father add ―It all depends‖ after he answered his son‘s question? Ⅲ . Questions and Answers(24 points in all, 6 for each) Give brief answers to each of the following questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet. 45. It is said that B. Shaw‘s play, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, has a strong realistic theme, which fully reflects the dramatist‘s Fabianist idea. Try to summarize this theme briefly. 46. Emily Bronte used a very plicated narrative technique in writing her novel Wuthering Heights. Try to tell Bronte‘s way of narration briefly. 47. ―In your rockingchair, by your window dreaming, shall you long, alone. In your rockingchair, by your window, shall you dream such happiness as you may never feel.‖ The two sentences are taken from Theodore Dreiser‘s novel, Sister Carrie. What idea can you draw from the ―rockingchair‖? 48. The literary school of naturalism was quite popular in the late 19th century. What are the major characteristics of naturalism? Ⅳ . Topic Discussion(20 points in all, 10 for each) Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet. 49. Discuss the possible theme in . Yeats‘s ―The Lake Isle of Innisfree‖ and how that theme is presented in the poem. 50. ―My faith is gone!‖ cried he (Goodman Brown), after one stupefied moment. ―There is no good on earth。 and sin is but a name. Come, devil! For to thee is this world given.‖ Comment on this passage from Hawthorne‘s ―Young Goodman Brown‖. 00604 英美文学选读 202004 2020 年上半年高等教育自学考试全国统一命题考试 英美文学选读 （试卷） 课程代码 :0604 PART ONE (40 POINTS) 自考 00604《英美文学选读》历年真题集电子书 10 I． Multiple Choice， (40points)。 Select form the four choices of each th one that best answers the question or。