2008年四川大学英语专业(英美文学)真题试卷及答案

2008年四川大学英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷及答案

一、单项选择题

1 Which of the following is NOT directly related to the literature of Victorian Age in England?

（A）The growth of urban population resulted in the appearance of a new reading public.

（B）Many libraries were set up so that books were now available to readers who could not afford to buy them.

（C）The plot of novels is unfolded against a social background which is broader than what it had been in previous novels.

（D）Most of the novels were not first published in serial form, that is, by installment, before they were fully published in a single book.

2 Romance was a type of literature that was very popular in the______.

（A）Renaissance period

（B）seventeenth century

（C）Middle Ages

（D）eighteenth century

3 Jonathan Swift wrote all the following works EXCEPT______.

（A）The Battle of Books

（B）The Pilgrim's Progress

（C）Gulliver's Travels

（D）A Tale of the Tub

4 The following statements about neo-classicism are all true EXCEPT______.

（A）Elegance, correctness, appropriateness and restraint were preferred

（B）It results in the rise of novels as a dominant literary genre

（C）It is unsympathetic towards the \"rude\" masters of old literature—towards Chaucer, Spenser, and even Shakespeare

（D）It is almost exclusively a \"town\" poetry, catering to the interests of the society in great cities.

5 Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Romanticism in England?

（A）Spontaneity in expressing feelings.

（B）Emphasis on reason.

（C）Worship of nature.

（D）Simplicity in language.

6 Which ONE of the following is the author of The Leather-Stocking Tales?

（A）Henry David Thoreau

（B）Washington Irving

（C）Edgar Allan Poe

（D）James Fennimore Cooper

7 Which ONE of the following is the author of the poem Song of Myself?

（A）Walt Whitman

（B）Stephen Crane

（C）Edgar Allan Poe

（D）Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

8 Which one of the following statements is applicable to the understanding of Transcendentalism?

（A）It is strongly influenced by social Darwinism.

（B）Belief in individualism, independence of mind, and self-reliance.

（C）Man has no free-will.

（D）It holds that determinism governs everything.

9 Mark the novelist whose major works are characterized by the elements of the \"grotesque\"?

（A）Philip Freneau

（B）Edgar Allan Poe

（C）Washington Irving

（D）Emily Dickson

10 All the following concepts can be found in American naturalistic fiction EXCEPT______.

（A）determinism

（B）survival of the fittest

（C）effects of hereditary and environmental forces

（D）search for identity

二、名词解释

11 Oscar Wilde

12 A Modest Proposal

13 James Joyce

14 Transcendentalism

15 The Octopus

三、问答题

16 Answer the following questions IN ABOUT 150 WORDS each:(20 points) Make a comment on Emily Bronte' s novel Wuthering Heights.

17 Make a comment on Herman Melville' s novel Moby-Dick.

一、单项选择题

1 【正确答案】 D

【试题解析】 Most of the novels were first published in serial form，that is，by installment，before theywere fully published in a single book．(参见罗经国编的《新编英国文学选读下》第118页。)

2 【正确答案】 C

【试题解析】 Romance是富有浪漫色彩的恋爱故事或冒险故事，是中世纪在欧洲非常流行的一种文学体裁，著名作品如《亚瑟王之死》、《特里斯坦和伊瑟》等。

3 【正确答案】 B

【试题解析】 The Pilgrim’s Progress《天路历程》是John Bunyan(班扬)的作品。

4 【正确答案】 B

【试题解析】 新古典主义的主要文体是诗歌，代表人物是亚历山大·蒲伯和约翰·德莱顿。

5 【正确答案】 B

【试题解析】 18世纪的启蒙思想家们强调理性，而浪漫主义恰恰表达了对理性的一种反抗，所以选项B是错误的。著名浪漫主义诗人华兹华斯曾经说过：“诗歌是强烈感情的自然

流露”；浪漫主义诗人们歌颂自然，崇尚自然，抛弃华丽的藻饰，用最简洁的语言表达最优美的思想。

6 【正确答案】 D

【试题解析】 James Fenimore Cooper(库柏)，美国早期作家，The Leather-Stocking Tales(《皮袜子故事集》)是他的经典之作。

7 【正确答案】 A

【试题解析】 Walt Whitman(瓦尔特·惠特曼)，美国著名诗人，Song of Myself(《自我之歌》)代表其创作的最高峰，后来收录在他的Leaves of Grass(《草叶集》)中。

8 【正确答案】 B

【试题解析】 超验主义肯定人的神圣性，主张人能超越感觉和理性而直接认识真理，“相信你自己”，是超验主义者的座右铭。

9 【正确答案】 B

【试题解析】 Edgar Allan Poe(爱伦·坡)，美国著名诗人、短篇小说家、文学评论家。他的短篇小说着意描写人的内心世界，对表现人的思想病态尤其感兴趣。其后期的短篇小说，经常充满一种恐怖气氛，情节阴森古怪，令人毛骨悚然。

10 【正确答案】 D

【试题解析】 自然主义小说家们推崇生物决定论和适者生存，认为生理遗传和社会环境都是人类社会发展的决定性因素。

二、名词解释

11 【正确答案】 Oscar Wilde: Oscar Wilde(18 - 1900)is a one of the most

accomplished writers in the Victorian Age, the advocator of \"art for art' s sake\". Wilde demonstrated a breaking away from the conventional well-made plays of the 1870s and 1880s and expressed a satirical and bitter attitude towards the upper-class people in his plays. The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Importance of Being Ernest are regarded as his masterpieces in fiction and drama respectively.

12 【正确答案】 A Modest Proposal; A Modest Proposal is a famous satire written by Jonathan Swift. Assuming the cool tone of an impartial outsider, the author suggests that children of the poor Irish people be sold at one year old as food

for the English nobles. Written with much conciseness and terseness, the \"proposal\" is by far the most consummate artistic expression of Swift' s

indignation toward the terrible oppression and exploitation of the Irish people by the English ruling class.

13 【正确答案】 James Joyce; James Joyce is one of the most prominent literary figures of the first half of the 20 century. His virtuoso experiment in writing has recreated the form of modern novel. All his works have the same setting—

Ireland, especially Dublin, and the same subject—the Irish people and their life. His major works include: Dubliners, A portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses.

14 【正确答案】 Transcendentalism; Transcendentalism is a New England movement, which flourished from about 1835 to 1860. Basically religious, it emphasized the role and importance of the individual conscience , and the value of intuition in matters of moral guidance and inspiration. The group of people was also social reformers, including Emerson, Bronson Alcott, Henry David Thoreau and Nathaniel Hawthorne.

15 【正确答案】 The Octopus: The Octopus is a novel by Frank Norris. It describes the raising of wheat in California, and conflict between the wheat growers and a railway company. Inspired by role of the Southern Pacific Railroad, it depicts the tension between the corrupt railroad and the ranchers and the ranchers' League. The book emphasized the control of \"forces\" such as wheat and railroads over individuals.

三、问答题

16 【正确答案】 Wuthering Heights tells the tale of the all-encompassing and passionate, yet thwarted, love between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, and how this unresolved passion eventually destroys them and many around them. It is

generally considered one of the most original works. In many aspects, it is unique and has no counterparts in mode as well as in manner of writing.

First, there is the combination of extremely simple, austere and unadorned language with the most mighty and intensified effects. In terms of its intent, it is obviously descriptive-narrative oriented; there is no digressive talk or

omniscient analysis or deliberate comment like many other contemporary works, but its narrative form is as confusing as its theme. Despite the trace of the

tradition limit, the personality of intense emotion and an unbounded free spirit of the author prove the most remarkable in the novel. Besides, the novel contains many Gothic and supernatural elements, which adds its uniqueness.

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【试题解析】 (本题为开放性题目，可从主题、风格、写作特色、人物等方面进行阐述。)

17 【正确答案】 Moby-Dick is often referred to as \"the Great American Novel\" and is considered one of the treasures of world literature.

In Moby-Dick, Melville employs stylized language, symbolism, and metaphor to explore numerous complex themes. Through the main character' s journey, the

concepts of class and social status, good and evil, and the existence of gods are all examined as Ishmael speculates upon his personal beliefs and his place in the universe.

Moby-Dick is a symbolic work, but also includes chapters on natural history. Major themes include obsession, religion, and idealism versus pragmatism, revenge, racism, sanity, hierarchical relationships, and politics. All of the members of the crew have biblical-sounding, improbable , or descriptive names, and the narrator deliberately avoids specifying the exact time of the events and some other similar details. These together suggest that the narrator is deliberately casting his tale in an epic and allegorical mode. The white whale has also been seen as a symbol for many things, including nature and those elements of life that are out of human control.

【试题解析】 (本题属于开放性题目，可从小说的主题、艺术特色等方面进行阐述。)