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《英美文学选读》自考真题试题及答案解析

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《英美文学选读》自考真题试题及答案解析

卷面总分:100分 答题时间:80分钟 试卷题量:50题

一、单选题 (共50题,共100分)

1.( )is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th —century “stream— of —consciousness ” novels and the founder of psychological realism.

A.Theodore Dreiser B.William Faulkner C.Henry James D.Mark Twain

正确答案: C

本题解析:

亨利 . 詹姆斯是美国现实主义文学大师, 他的作品往往涉及美国之外的主题, 其作品的风格是“心理活动”。被誉为 20 世纪美国意识流文学的先驱。

2.Closely relate d to Dickinson ’s religious poetry are her poems concerning( ),ranging over the physical as well as the psychological and emotional aspects of death.

A.love and nature

• B.death and universe C.death and immortality D.family and happiness

正确答案: C

本题解析:

迪金森的诗歌涉及宗教和爱情两方面,而其涉及宗教的诗歌往往是以死亡和永恒为主题的,

3.considered( ) “the true father of our national literature ”.

A.Bret Harte B.Mark Twain C.Washington Irving D.Walt Whitman

正确答案: B

本题解析:

马克 . 吐温是美国文学巨匠, 他以两部“历险记”创造可美国文学史上的一个奇迹,那就是开创了美国文学的一个新时代,所以将他誉为“真正的美国文学之父”。

4.Among the following writers( )is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th - century “stream - of - consciousness ” novels and the founder of psychological realism.

A. T. S. Eliot B.James Joyce C.William Faulkner D.Henry James

正确答案: D

本题解析:

詹姆斯现实主义文风的特点是注重心理分析和心理描写,所以,他被誉为是 20 世纪意识流派的先驱,也是心理现实主义的奠基人。

5.The childhood of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn in the Mississippi is a record of a vanished way of life in the( )Mississippi valley

A.pre - War of Independence B.post - War of Independence C.pre - Civil War D.post - Civil War

正确答案: C

本题解析:

马克吐温是以为地方主义作家,他的作品主题是密西西比河流域和美国的西部。而汤姆索亚和亨克贝利的故事发生在美国内战前的密西西比河流域。

6.The Portrait of A Lady is generally considered to

be( )masterpiece,which describes the life journey of an American( )in a European cultural environment.

A.Henry Adams’…widow B.William James ’…girl C.Henry James’…girl

D.Theodore Dreiser ’s…widow

正确答案: C

本题解析:

詹姆斯的作品大多涉及 international theme, 一般是美欧文化的冲突,其中《贵妇画像》,就是其中之一,讲的是一个美国姑娘在欧洲的遭遇。

7.Which of the following statements is NOT true of Emily Dickinson and her poetry?

A.She remained unmarried all her life

• B.She wrote,1,775 poems,and most of them were published during her

life time.

• C.Her poems have no titles,hence are always quoted by their first lines. D.Her limited private world has never confined the limitless power of her

creativity and imagination.

正确答案: B

本题解析:

艾米莉 . 迪金森属于美国现实主义流派的诗人,她虽然身居深闺, 但一生创作了数千首诗歌,主要涉及两大主题-死亡和爱情。在她抑郁而死后,她的作品才公之于世

8.Henry James’ fame generally rests upon his novels and stories with the( )theme.

A.international B.local C.colonial D.post-modern

正确答案: A

本题解析:

美国现实主义小说家主要有三位,马克吐温,亨利詹姆斯和豪威尔斯。其中,詹姆斯的作品是国际主题,通常情节是一个纯真的美国姑娘或是小伙在欧洲的不幸遭遇。

9.After the American Civil War,the literary interest in the so- called “reality ” of life started a new period in the American literary writings know an the Age of( ).

A.Realism

B.Reason and Revolution C.Romanticism D.Modernism

正确答案: A

本题解析:

这是一个文学常识题,美国文学的发展是迎头赶上的,殖民时期的文学还没有登上世界文学的舞台,从独立战争前后,美国文学发展进入浪漫主义时期,接着是内战之后进入现实主义时期。

10.Mark Twain employed an unpretentious style of( )in his novels which is best described as “vernacular ”.

A.standard English B.Afro-American English C.colloquialism

• D.urbanism

正确答案: C

本题解析:

马克 . 吐温的写作特点素有“地方色彩主义”的美称,也就是语言口语化,取材地方化。

11.The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and,especially,its sequence( )proved themselves to be the milestone in the American literature.

A.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn B.Life on the Mississippi C.The Gilded Age D.Roughing It

正确答案: A

本题解析:

马克 . 吐温的小说《汤姆 . 索亚历险记》和《亨克 . 贝利 . 芬历险记》开创了美国文学的新纪元,正如海明威所言:“这两部小说标志着美国现代文学的到来”

12.Mark Twain’s particular concern about the local character of a region came about as “local colorism, ” a unique va riation of American literary( ).

A.romanticism

• B.nationalism C.modernism D.realism

正确答案: D

本题解析:

马克吐温作品的选材多是美国西部和密西西比河流域的事情,所以被誉为美国地方色彩主义作家,也是美国现实主义作家的代表人物。

13.Hemingway’s “Indian Camp ” is one of the fourteen short stories collected under the title of( ).This title is very ironic because there is no peace at all in the stories.

A.Three Stories and Ten Poems B.Across the River and into the Trees C.The Green Hills of Africa D.In Our Time

正确答案: D

本题解析:

海明威的《印第安人营地》中的十四个小故事的题目是 In Our Time 是一个及其有讽刺意义的选择,它暗示的是: Give us peace in our time,O Lord.

14.At the age of eighty -seven,( )read his poetry at the inauguration of President John in 1961.

A.Robert Frost B.Walt Whitman C.Ezra Pound

正确答案: A

本题解析:

佛罗斯特在美国声望极高,曾四次获得普利斯奖项,美国国会参议院专门为他的生日设立纪念庆典日,那么他的肯尼迪总统的就职典礼上朗诵自己的诗也就是顺理成章的了。

15.

Unlike his contemporaries in the early 20th century,( )did not break up with the poetic tradition nor made any experiment on form.

A.Walt Whitman B.Robert Frost C.Ezra Pound

正确答案: B

本题解析:

很难说佛罗斯特是属于新派诗人还是旧派诗人,因为他从来就没有脱离过旧派诗人的文风,也没有尝试着做任何的革新,但是他是生活在新派年代的。

16.With the publication of( ),Theodore Dreiser was launching himself upon a long career that would ultimately make him one of the most significant American writers of the school later known as literary naturalism.

A.Sister Carrie B.The Titan

C.An American Tragedy D.The Stoic

正确答案: A

本题解析:

德莱赛的成名作就是《嘉莉妹妹》,也是其所有作品中成就最高的一部。

17.“The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one- eighth of it being above water. ” This “iceberg ” analogy is put forward by( ).

A.Mark Twain B.Ezra Pound C.William Faulkner D.Ernest Hemingway

正确答案: D

本题解析:

海明威的这一比喻实际上是来形容自己的写作风格的,做为?迷失的一代“的代言人,海明威的文风是经过不懈的努力而形成的,所以才有这样的比喻。

18.“My last Duchess ” is a poem that best exemplifies Robert Browning ’s( ).

A.sensitive ear for the sounds of the English language B.excellent choice of words C.mastering of the metrical devices D.use of the dramatic monologue

正确答案: D

本题解析:

戏剧独白”是在维多利亚时期英国诗歌的一种创作形式,它由坦尼桑首创,由布朗宁来完善。所以,布朗宁的作品中,对“戏剧独白”的应用已是相当的娴熟。

19.Most literary critics think that Fitzgerald is both an insider and an outsider of( )with a double vision.

A.the Jazz Age

B.the Age of Reason and Revolution

• C.the Babybooming Age D.the Post- Modern Age

正确答案: A

本题解析:

菲茨杰拉德是 20 世纪 20 年代的杰出文学代表人物,他所处的年代正是美国拜金主义,名利主义泛滥时期,也是美国人物质生活丰富,精神生活空虚的年代,菲茨杰拉德的言行放荡不羁,菲茨杰拉德的作品批判现实,所以,无论从哪个角度讲,他都是那个时代的人物。

20.“The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one -eighth of it being abov e water. ” This “iceberg ” analogy about prose style was put forward by( ).

A.William Faulkner B.Henry James C.Ernest Hemingway D.F· Scott Fitzgerald

正确答案: C

本题解析:

这里的“冰山”指的是海明威的写作风格,海明威自己称其为冰山一角,没有完全展现给读者。

21.The Nobel Prize Committee highly praised( )for “his powerful style - forming mastery of the art ” of creating modern fiction.

A.Ezra Pound B.Ernest Hemingway C.Robert Frost D.Theodore Dreiser

正确答案: B

本题解析:

海明威是美国文学发展到现代主义时期的一位大师,他将由马克 . 吐温开创的口语体小说发展到了顶峰时期,为美国现代文学的发展作出了卓越的贡献。

22.In 1950,one of the leading American writers( )was awarded the Nobel Prize for the anti-racist Intruder in the Dust.

A.Robert Frost B.Theodore Dreiser C.William Faulkner D.Fitzgerald

正确答案: C

本题解析:

福克纳的反种族歧视政治观点在他的作品中得以体现,他也因此被授予了诺贝尔文学奖。

23.Greatly and permanently affected by the( )experiences,Hemingway formed his own writing style,together with his theme and hero.

A.mining B.farming C.war D.sailing

正确答案: C

本题解析:

海明威人生经历丰富,做过战地记者,在战地救护车上工作过,所以他的作品也大多和战争有关,也形成了自己独特的写作风格。

24.Like all naturalists,( )was restrained from finding a solution to the social problems that appeared in his novels and accordingly almost all his works have tragic endings.

A.Theodore Dreiser

• B.Henry James C.Washington Irving D.Walt Whitman

正确答案: A

本题解析:

美国自然主义作家的的通病是:深刻地洞察到社会问题,但是都无法解决这些问题,这些是由于他们汲取的是进化论中得糟粕部分,德莱塞也是如此,所以他的作品大多是悲剧结局。

25.It was his masterpiece The Great Gatsby that made( )one of the greatest American novelists.

A. Fitzgerald B.William Faulkner C.Ernest Hemmingway D.Gertrude Steinbeck

正确答案: A

本题解析:

《了不起的盖茨比》是菲茨杰拉德的代表作,也使其成为了美国文坛上得一颗明星。

26.The Financier,The Titan and The Stoic by Theodore Dreiser are called his “Trilogy of( ). ”

A.Hatred B.Death C.Desire D.Fate

正确答案: C

本题解析:

德莱赛在 1912 到 1914 年间创作的三部小说,合称为《欲望三部曲》

27.In Death in the Afternoon( )presents his philosophy about life and death through the depiction of the bullfight as a kind of microcosmic tragedy.

A.William Faulkner B.Jack London C.Ernest Hemingway D.Mark Twain

正确答案: C

本题解析:

《死在午后》是海明威的早期作品,在该小说中,作者将生与死通过微小的斗牛事件表现的淋漓尽致。

28.Eugene O’Neill ’s first full — length play,( ),won him the first Pulitzer theme is the choice between life and death,the interaction of subjective and objective factors.

A.Bound East for Cardiff B.The Hairy Ape C.Desire Under the Elms D.Beyond the Horizon

正确答案: D

本题解析:

欧内尔,是美国有史以来最伟大的剧作家,一生创作了许多的戏剧,其中,《天边外》为他赢得了普利兹奖。

29.In 1920,( )published his first novel This Side of Paradise which was,to some extent,his own story.

A.F·Scott Fitzgerald B.Ernest Hemingway C.William Faulkner D.Emily Dickinson

正确答案: A

本题解析:

菲茨杰拉德是美国现在主义作家,他的第一部小说是《乐园的这一边》,出版于 1920 年。

30.Man is a “victim of forces over which he has no control. ” This is a notion held strongly by( ).

A.Robert Frost B.Theodore Dreiser C.Henry James D.Hamlin Garland

正确答案: B

本题解析:

德莱赛是美国自然主义流派的代表作家,在他看来,人的罪恶是源于无法自控的本能的。

31.The attitude towards life that( )had been trying to demonstrate in his works is known as “grace under pressure ”.

A.William Faulkner B.Theodore Dreiser C.Ernest Hemingway

• D.F·Scott Fitzgerald

正确答案: C

本题解析:

“压力下的优雅”正是海明威要成功塑造的人物性格,海明威曾极力将自己笔下的主人公塑造成这个样子。

32.Robert Frost is generally considered a regional poet whose subject matters mainly focus on the landscape and people in( ).

A.the west B.the south C.Alaska D.New England

正确答案: D

本题解析:

美国作家中有很多人的作品都是有着重点关注的地区的,如, 马克 . 吐温的密西西比河流域;福克纳的南方体裁等等;弗罗斯特关注的是新英格兰。

33.In most of his writings,( )deliberately broke up the chronology of his narrative by juxtaposing the past with the present,in the way the montage does in a movie.

• A.Walt Whitman B.William Faulkner C.Ernest Hemingway D. Fitzgerald

正确答案: B

本题解析:

福克纳的写作风格和技巧可以说是独树一帜的,他把电影制作中得蒙太奇手法应用到小说写作中,结合意识流派的风格,使得他的作品能够让读者很容易就感受的主人公的悲欢。

34.Ezra Pound,a leading spokesman of the “( ) ”,was one of the most important poets in his time.

A.Imagist Movement B.Cubist Movement C.Reformist Movement D.Transcendentalist Movement

正确答案: A

本题解析:

意向主义是美国文学发展到现代时期的一个流派,在这个流派当中,以庞德的成就最高。

35.The effect of Darwinist idea of “survival of the fittest ” was shattering in() ’s fictional world of jungle,where “kill or to be killed ” was the law.

A.Mark Twain B.Henry James C.Theodore Dreiser D.Walt Whitman

正确答案: C

本题解析:

德莱塞是美国自然主义作家的杰出代表,受达尔文进化论中“物竞天择,适者生存”的影响,其作品中体现了弱肉强食的原则,《嘉莉妹妹》就是典型的此类作品。

36.William Faulkner set most of his works in the American( ),with his emphasis on the( )subjects and consciousness.

A.North...Northern B.East...Eastern C.West...Western D.South...Southern

正确答案: D

本题解析:

福克纳被称为南方作家,他的作品主要关注南方的衰败,以及南方的种族问题。

37.The( )Age of the 1920s characterized by frivolity and carelessness is brought vividly to life in The Great Gatsby.

A.Lost B.Jazz C.Reason D.Gilded

正确答案: B

本题解析:

斐茨杰拉德的作品,通过对 20 世纪 20年代的上层社会的年轻人的描写河刻画,很好的体现了爵士时代的时代特点。《了不起的盖茨比》是其代表作,同样也反映这一主题。

38.In 1950,( )was awarded the Nobel Prize for the anti-racist Intruder in the Dust.

A.William Faulkner B.Robert Frost C.Ezra Pound D.Ernest Hemingway

正确答案: A

本题解析:

福克纳是典型的美国南方作家,他的作品多涉及南方的种族问题,主要反映在种族歧视下,南方黑人的生活。正是因为如此,他才获得了诺贝尔文学奖。

39.William Faulkner once said that( )is a story of “lost innocence, ” which proves itself to be an intensification of the theme of imprisonment in the past.

A.The Great Gatsby B.The Sound and the Fury C.Absalom,Absalom! D.Go Down,Moses

正确答案: B

本题解析:

福克纳的小说《喧嚣与愤怒》被称为是“丢失的童真”,因为作者在书中通过对孩子的描述,想人们传达的却是美国南方从过去到现在的衰败。

40.In Go Down,Moses,( )illuminates the problem of black and white in Southern society as a closeknit destiny of blood brotherhood.

A.William Faulkner

• B.Jack London C.Herman Melville D.Nathaniel Hawthorne

正确答案: A

本题解析:

福克纳的小说大多取材于美国南方,在《下去吧,摩西》一书中,作者想多着呈现的是美国南方黑人和白人的各种社会冲突,精神冲突等。

41.This type of desk and chair can be adjusted ________ the height of students at different ages

A.with B.for C.to D.in

正确答案: C

本题解析:

译文:这款桌椅可以根据学生的不同年龄调整高度。本题考查短语搭配。 be adjusted to 调整为…。

42.The teacher told us the fact _______.

A.which the earth moves around the sun B.that the earth moved around the sun C.that the sun moves around the earth D.that the earth moves around the sun

正确答案: D

本题解析:

名词性从句中主句和从句中时态要保持一致。 但是在此句中, 后面讲述的是一个客观存在的事实规律,所以要选答案 D。

43.What he had done is _______

A.value B.of valuable C.of no value D.of no valuable

正确答案: C

本题解析:

of+n=adj ,可以作表语。 of no value :没有一点价值。 value 是名词,不能作表语,也不能形容主语的性质。 B 和 D 都是 of+adj 的结构,是错误的。

44.That is the house _______ you can enjoy the scenery.

A. in that B.that C.which D.from which

正确答案: D

本题解析:

句意:你从中能欣赏外面风景的就是这座房子。在定语从句中判断用关系代词还是用关系副词,需要弄明白在从句中需要什么语法成分,也就是说,要看关系词在定语从句中担任什么成分,本题的定语从句中少地点状语,先行词又是表地点的名词,故可选用where。观察四个选项后,我们发现并无 where 一词,我们可以用“介词 + which ”来代替。注意,本句话所表达的应该是: You can enjoy the scenery from the house ,故可排除 A 选项,选 D。

45.Some persons gain goal and direction from their tensions;others ________ under pressure.

A.fall out B.fall apart

• C.fall back on D.fall in with

正确答案: B

本题解析:

译文:一些人因为压力达到了目的,而另一些人在压力下则精神崩溃。本题考查短语区分。 A .脱落,争吵; B.崩溃,垮了; C.指望,依靠,退到;D.赞成,同意。

46.She disagrees ______ him ______ everything.

A.with, on B./, on C.with, at D.on, with

正确答案: A

本题解析:

本题运用了 disagree with sb on sth 这个结构。

47.Nobody but you _______ what he said.

A. agrees with B.agrees out

• C.agree with D.agree to

正确答案: A

本题解析:

主语为 nobody 时,谓语动词用单数,如果主语被 but, as well as, with 等短语修饰,谓语仍与主语的数保持一致。该题易误选 C、D,选 D 的原因在于词组记忆不清,用介词 to 时之后应加具体项目。而选择 C 就在于误把 you 作为主语对待了。而实际上nobody才是主语。

48.In the original test,all the animals in a test group are given a substance _______ half of them die

A.unless B.until C.lest D.provided

正确答案: B

本题解析:

本题考查词义辨析。 until:直到。符合句意,表示 given a substance 持续到 half of them die 。

49.Now many major employers are beginning to demand _______ the completion of school

A.more than B.rather than C.other than D.better than

正确答案: A

本题解析:

more than:多于,不只。句意:现在很多雇主开始不仅仅要求学业的完成。

50.Opposition leaders will be watching carefully to see how the Prime Minister ________ the crisis.

A.handles B.conducts C.observes D.directs

正确答案: A

本题解析:

A 应付,对付,控制 B 引导,进行,实施 C 观察,监测,遵守 D 指导,监督

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