【真题+答案】2024年4月自考00604英美文学选读试题

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2024年4月高等教育自学考试

英美文学选读试题

课程代码:00604

1.请考生按规定用笔将所有试题的答案涂、写在答题纸上。
2. 答题前,考生务必将自己的考试课程名称、姓名、准考证号用黑色字迹的签字笔或钢笔填写在答题纸规定的位置上。

选择题部分

注意事项:
每小题选出答案后,用2B 铅笔把答题纸上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动,用橡皮擦干净后,再选涂其他答案标号。不能答在试题卷上。

一、单项选择题:本大题共20 小题,每小题1分,共20分。在每小题列出的备选项中只有一项是最符合题目要求的,请将其选出。
Multiple Choice (20 points in all, 1 for each)
Complete each of the following statements by choosing one appropriate answer from the
four options given.

1. Beowulf is composed around the ninth century in a form of_______.
A. lyrics B. folk songs C. epics D. sagas

2. Even though called a humanist scholar, _______did not have much in common with the humanists of his time.
A. John Skelton B. John Milton C. John Dryden D. John Lyly

3. John Lyly’s peculiar style came to be known as “_______”, which is a peculiar style of English prose.
A. dialect B. euphuism C. slang D. vulgarization

4.”That time of year thou mayst in me behold” is the beginning line of one of William Shakespeare’s
A. comedies B. tragedies C. novels D. sonnets_______.

5. “Reading makes a full man; conferences a ready man; and writing an exact man” could be found in_______.
A. Thomas More’s Utopia
B. Francis Bacon’s “Of Studies”
C. Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations
D. Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles

6. “From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be” is taken from the poem written by_______.
A. Geoffrey Chaucer
C. Edmund Spenser
B. John Donne
D. Thomas Gray

7. The following statements about Robinson Crusoe are true EXСЕРТ_______.
A. Crusoe rescues a prisoner, naming him Friday
B. it is written in the autobiographical form
C. it is a record of Defoe’s own experience
D. Crusoe is rescued by a British ship and returns to England

8. “Their heads and breasts were covered with a thick hair, some frizzled, and others lank” is the excerpt from Swift’s_______.
A. Gulliver ‘s Travels
C. The Battle of the Books
B. A Tale of a Tub
D. A Modest Proposal

9. That _______is NOT true about William Wordsworth.
A. he asserts that poetry must concern itself with “the primary laws of our nature”
B. Lyrical Ballads marks the beginning of the Romantic movement in literature
C. he had mixed joys and terrors of his boyhood
D. The Prelude is his most notable essay

10. One can see the deserted, poverty-stricken child in_______.
A. Great Expectations
C. Oliver Twist
B. Dombey and Son
D. David Copperfield

11. Of the following 4 writers, _______belongs to “the stream of consciousness” school.
A. Thomas Hardy
C. D. H. Lawrence
B. Virginia Woolf
D. Thomas More

12. In_______ one can read three couples who define their lives by their hatred of a tyrannical film producer.
A. A Better Class of Person
C. The Hotel in Amsterdam
B. Look Back in Anger
D. Inadmissible Evidence

13. William Bradford worked on_______ from 1630 to 1651, writing from notes, correspondence, and memory.
A. Mourt’s Relation
C. The History of New England
B. Governor Bradford’s Letter Book
D. Of Plymouth Plantation

14. Edward Taylor’s _______can be evidenced by the Poem “Upon a Wasp Chilled with Cold”.
A. fascination with nature
C. passion for music
B. enthusiasm about sport
D. hatred for oppression

15. Known as an American “saint”,_______ helped shape most of the important political, social,and intellectual developments in eighteenth-century America.
A. Philip Freneau
C. Washington Irving
B. Mark Twain
D. Benjamin Franklin

16. Born in western Africa, _______was remarkably the first African American of either sex to publish a collection of poetry in colonial America.
A. Jane Austen
C. Willa Cather
B. Emily Dickinson
D. Phillis Wheatley

17. “Success is counted sweetest” is taken from the poem “Success” written by_______.
A. Robert Frost
C. Emily Dickinson
B. John Keats
D. William Cullen Bryant

18.In 1850, _______was published, for which Nathaniel Hawthorne became famous.
A. Twice-Told Tales
C. Mosses from an Old Manse
B. The Scarlet Letter
D. The Marble Faun

19. Theodore Dreiser’s finest novel was_______ , which tells how an upstart businessman degenerates into a murderer and ends up in shame.
A. An American Tragedy
C. The Financier
B. Sister Carrie
D. Dawn

20.The novel_______ tells about Buck, who is half St. Bernard and half sheepdog.
A. The Call of the Wild
C. The Iron Heel
B. The Sea-Wolf
D. Martin Eden

非选择题部分

注意事项:
用黑色字迹的签字笔或钢笔将答案写在答题纸上,不能答在试题卷上。

二、填空题:本大题共10 小题,每小题3个空,每个空1分,共30分。
Blank Filling (30 points in all, 1 for each blank)
Complete each of the following statements or quotes by filling in the blanks with words/phrases given in parentheses.

21. In Ecclesiastical History of the English People, Bede writes:
On_______, when he did just that, he left the building of_______ and went out to_______, the care of which had been given to him that night.
(the drinking party, the animal shed, a certain occasion)

22. Here are the words from John Lyly’s “Advice to a Foreign Visitor to England”:
At thy coming into England be not too inquisitive of news, neither curious in_______ of State, in_______ ask no questions, either concerning_______or men.
(manners, matters, assemblies)

23. Quotes from Francis Bacon’s “Of Parents and Children”:
Let parents choose betimes the_______ they mean their children should take, for then they are most flexible; and let them not too much apply themselves to the_______ of their children, as thinking they will take best to that which they have most_______ to.
(mind, vocations and courses, disposition)

24. The following words are taken from Samuel Johnson’s “On What They can be Thinking?”.
It is reasonable to believe that_______ , like everything else, has its_______ ; that it must proceed from something known, done, or suffered; and must produce some_______.
(causes and effects, thought, action or event)

25. Readers may find the_______ of nature, the_______ of memory, and the_______ of sensation in “Daffodils”. (richness, companionship, endurance)

26. Bertrand Russell began his “What I Have Lived For” with this sentence:
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the_______ for love, the_______ for knowledge, and unbearable_______ for the suffering of mankind.
(search, pity, longing)

27. As an artist, Anne Bradstreet was unique in her_______ and progressed far beyond_______ reached by numerous religious and domestic_______ who flourished two centuries later.
(female writers, time and place, the level)

28. Benjamin Franklin began his Autobiography with this sentence:
I have been the more particular in this description of my_______, and shall be so of my first _______ into that city, that you may in your_______ compare such unlikely beginnings with the figure I have since made there. (entry, mind, journey)

29. According to Ralph Waldo Emerson’s famous essay “Nature”:
The_______ of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the_______ of infancy even into the of manhood.
(era, lover, spirit)

30. After a brief period of turbulence in his personal life during the mid-1950s, Arthur Miller returned to the American stage and produced many_______ of various_______ and social_______. (themes, settings, plays)

三、正误判断题:本大题共10 小题,每小题1分,共10分。
True or False Questions (10 points in all, 1 for each)
Read each of the following statements. Decide whether it is true or false. Write “T” for
true and “F” for false in the bracket provided.

31. ( ) Before Geoffrey Chaucer took to write, most texts in England were composed in Greek or Spanish.
32. ( ) The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus tells the story of a doctor Faustus who wishes to pursue the worldly power, luxury and sensual pleasure by magic.
33. ( ) “A little more than kin, and less than kind” can be found in William Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
34. ( ) Samuel Johnson’s classic The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire was published in six volumes between 1776 and 1788.
35. ( ) Much of Percy Bysshe Shelly’s early philosophy in poetry and politics is expressed in A Defence of Poetry.
36. ( ) W. B. Yeats wrote and produced At the Hawk’s Well in 1916 with Japanese-like masks.
37. ( ) On September 16, 1620, the Pilgrims set out for America on the Titanic.
38. ( ) Letters from an American Farmer by Crèvecoeur occupies a unique place in American literary history.
39. ( ) Walden became Ralph Waldo Emerson’s supreme achievement and one of the most accomplished works in American literature.
40. ( ) F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece, The Great Gatsby, is one of the most widely read American novels.

四、简答题:本大题共4小题,41~42 题,每题6分,43~44 题,每题9分,共30分。
Short Answer Questions (30 points in all, 12 for the first two, 18 for the last two)

41. Read the following excerpt from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. Summarize what this story is about within 100 words.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighborhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered the rightful property of someone or other of their daughters.

42. Read the following lines from Robert Burns’s “A Red, Red Rose”. Briefly tell about what they generally mean within 100 words.

O my luve’s like a red, red rose
That’s newly sprung in June;
O my luve’s like the melodie
That’s sweetly play’d in tune!
As fair art thou, my bonnie lass,
So deep in luve am I;
And I will luve thee still, my dear,
Till a’ the seas gang dry.

43.Give comments on the following passage from Virginia Woolf’s “The Death of the Moth” in terms of its theme within 150 words.

Moths that fly by day are not properly to be called moths; they do not excite that pleasant sense of dark autumn nights and ivy-blossom which the commonest yellow-underwing asleeр in the shadow of the curtain never fails to rouse in us. They are hybrid creatures, neither gay like butterflies nor sombre like their own species. Nevertheless the present specimen, with his narrow hay-coloured wings, fringed with a tassel of the same colour, seemed to be content with life.

44. Analyze the following stanza from Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself” within 150 words in terms of its artistic features.

I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
I loafe and invite my soul,
I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.

My tongue, every atom of my blood, form’d from this soil, this air,
Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their parents the same,
I, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin,
Hoping to cease not till death.

五、论述题:本题 10分。
Essay Question (10 points)
45. Write a short essay of 250~300 words in English on the American Dream embodied in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novels.

2024年4月高等教育自学考试全国统一命题考试

《英美文学选读》答案及评分参考

课程代码：00604

一、单项选择题:本大题共 20 小题，每小题1分，共 20分。
1.C 2.A 3.B 4.D 5.B

三、正误判断题:本大题共 10 小题，每小题1分，共 10 分。
31.F 32.T 33.T 34.F 35.F
36.T 37.F 38.T 39.F 40.T
(说明:41~45 题所给答案和所给分值点仅供阅卷教师参考，阅卷教师可根据学生的答题情况酌情给分。)

四、简答题:本大题共4小题，41~42题，每题6分，43~44题，每题9分，共30分
41. Pride and Prejudice tells the story of Mr, and Mrs. Bennet, a somewhat absurd couple, andtheir five young,unmarried daughters. The plot revolves mainly around the seconddaughter, Elizabeth, and her troublesome romance with the wealthy but arrogant Mr. Darcy(2分)Mr Darcy represents the pride of the novel’s title, while the prejudice is represented by Elizabeth’s attitude toward Mr. Darcy.(2分)After many twists and turnsmisunderstandings disappear and they are happily united. In the process of judging othersElizabeth finds out something about herself: her blindness, prejudice and absurdity.(2 分)

42. “A Red, Red Rose” opens with the speaker comparing his beloved to a red rose and praisingher beauty.(2 分) He declares that his love for her is so deep and everlasting that it willsuryive until the sea dries up.(2分)He likens his love to a rose because the flower is associated with romance, and red symbolizes passionate love. Also, flowers are associated with the warm, growing seasons of the year.(2分)

43. In “The Death of the Moth”, Virginia Woolf gives a detailed description of how a mothbegins a battle to right itself before death overtakes it. (1分) The moth in the essay, as ametaphor of life and death, embodies the nature of life and exhibits a kind of heroism inhis unremitting efforts to fight against death.(2 分)Though trivial and humble by itself,even with litle attention, the moth dances almost inexhaustibly and enjoys its life to thefull, illustrating what life is-to live, to strive, and to appreciate one’s own existence.(2分) Woolf draws the moth as a noble creature with great dignity and perseverance. The moth also reveals the tragic side of death for its i nsignificance compared with the outside world.(2 分) The main themes in theessayare threefold: the will to live, the strangeness of lifeand death, and the mutability and futility of an individual life.(2分)

44. “Songs of Myself* consisting of 1345 lines in all, is the longest poem in “Leaves of Grass”(1分)Walt Whitman does not follow a patterned rhyme scheme nor any regularity ofmetre, which is called free verse, fitting his subject matter with feeling. In his poem, linesand sentences of different lengths are left lying side by side just as things are, undisturbed and separate.(2 分) As usual, the relationship Walt Whitman is dramatizing is a triangle one: “I”the poet, the subject in the poem,and you”the reader. (2分) Walt Whitman Is conversational and casual, in te fluid, expansive, and unstructured style of talkingHowever, there is a strong sense of the poems being rhythmical.(2分)Whitman’s poeticstyle is marked, first of all, by the use ofthe poetic“I.”(2分)

五、论述题:本题 10 分。

45.Fitzgerald’s fictions often deal with the bankruptcy of the American Dream, which ishigh lighted by the disillusionment of the protagonists’ personal dreams due to the clashesbetween their romantic vision of life and the sordid reality,(2 分)American Dream is theU.S. ideal, according to which, equality of opportunity permits any American to aspire tohigh attainment and material success.(2分)Yet in the 1920s, the American Dream was* bankrupt in the sense that the wealthy, people were spiritually disorientated and morally corrupted. The fact that the rich people turned to be more indifferent and careless brought forth the disillusionment of American Dream.(2分)

A great number of Fitzgerald’s stories started with the basic situation in which a risingyoung man of the middle class is in love with the daughter of a very rich family. Actually,in the man’s eyes, money is only a convenient and inadequate symbol for what he dreamsof earning, and love is merely a vehicle that can transport him to a magic world of eternahappiness. On the contrary, the man’s real dream is, as Malcolm Cowley suggested, that of achieving a new status and a new essence, of fiising to a loftier place in the mysterious dierarchy of human worth.(2分)

Fitzgerald was the victim of his “Ämerican Dream.” He was fascinated with’materia!wealth by writing hard only to find that he was bewildered with the wealth, fully aware ofthe underlying spiritual disorientation and moral decay. Finally his life was ruined by hisalcoholism, loneliness and despair, his dream backfiring him.(2分)