(空白B卷)09级英语本科主要英语国家文学史及文学作品选读2期末考试卷VB
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2011—2012学年第二学期闽江学院考试试卷
考试课程:主要英语国家文学史及文学作品选读2
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适用专业年级:09英语,09英教
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姓名 学号
题号 I II III IV V
总分
得分
I. Multiple choice.
(20 %)
得
分
1. Which is connected
with Benjamin Franklin?
A. Common Sense
B. The American Crisis
C. The Rights of Man
D. The Autobiography
2. Who was considered as
“the Father of American Poetry”?
A. Anne
Bradstreet. B. Edward Taylor.
C.
Michael Wigglesworth. D. Philip Freneau.
3. The Romantic Period in the history of
American literature started with the
publication of Washington Irving’s _________
and ended with Whitman’s Leaves of
Grass.
A. Drum Taps B. Song of Myself
C.
The Sketch Book D. Walden
4. They
were a group of serious, religious people,
advocating highly religious and
moral
principles. They wanted to purity their religious
beliefs and practices. They
accepted the
doctrine of predestination, original sin and total
depravity, and limited
atonement through a
special infusion of grace form God. The practice
and beliefs of
those people is what we
call_______.
A. Classicism B. Calvinism
C. Unitarianism D. Puritanism
5. As
a philosophical and literary movement,
transcendentalism flourished in New
England
from the 1830s to the Civil War, whose most
important representatives are
______.
A.
Emerson and Thoreau
B. Emerson and Whitman
C. Hawthorne and Melville
D. Edgar
Poe and James Cooper
6. Hawthorne’s unique
gift was for the creation of ______ which touch
the deepest
roots of man’s moral nature.
A. symbolic stories B. romantic stories
C. gothic stories D. humorous stories
7. Moby-Dick is usually considered ______.
A. a symbolic voyage of the mind in quest of
the truth and knowledge of the universe
B. a
spiritual exploration into man's deep reality and
psychology
C. a simple whaling tale or sea
adventure
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D. both A and B
8. In his poems, Walt
Whitman is innovative in the terms of the form of
his poetry,
which is called “______”.
A.
free verse B. blank verse
C. alliteration D. end rhyming
9. Uncle Tom’s Cabin is written by ______.
A Henry James B. O. Henry
C Harriet Beccher Stowe D. Mark Twain
10. As a genre, naturalism emphasized ________
as important deterministic forces
shaping
individualized characters who were presented in
special and detailed
circumstances.
A.
heredity and parentage natural environment and
landscapes
C. heredity and environment D.
men’s strong will power
11. Which of the
following indicates a permanent convention of
American literature
which is evident in both
of Cooper’s Leather-stocking Tales and Mark
Twain’s
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?
A. The desire for an escape from society and a
return to nature.
B. The desire to push
forward to the west frontier.
C. The self-
reliance and independence of the individual.
D. Both A and B.
12. As a realist, Mark
Twain concerned particularly about the local
character of a
region, which came about as
“_________.”
A. Naturalism B.
Transcendentalism
C. Local Colorism D.
both A and C
13. ______ is one of the three
world-known masters of short novels, with the
other
two De Maupassant and Chekhov.
A.
Mark Twain B.O. Henry C. Jack London D.
Henry James
14. Which of the following is not
written by Jack London?
A. The Sea Wolf B.
White Fang
C. Billy Budd D. Martin Eden
15. As one of the best-known American authors
of 20
th
century, Ernest Hemingway
wrote all the following novels EXCEPT______.
A. For Whom the Bell Tolls B. The Green Hills
of Africa
C. A Rose for Emily D. The Old Man
and the Sea
16. Chinese poetry and philosophy
have exerted great influence over _____.
A.
Ezra Pound B. Ralph Waldo Emerson
C. Robert
Frost D. Emily Dickinson
17. Which of the
following statements is right about Robert Frost’s
poetry?
A. He combined traditional verse
forms with a simple spoken language—the speech
of New England farmers.
B. He combined
traditional verse forms with the experimental.
C. He combined traditional verse forms with
the difficult and highly ornamental
language.
D. He combined traditional verse forms with
the pastoral language of the Southern
area.
18. The publication of The Waste Land, written
by ______ helped to establish a
modern
tradition of literature rich with learning and
allusive thought.
A. T. S. Eliot B. Robert
Frost
C. Ezra Pound D. William Faulkner
19. Fitzgerald summarized the experiences and
attitudes of the 1920s decade in his
masterpiece novel ______.
A. This Side of
Paradise B. Tender is the Night
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C. The Great Gatsby D.
Tales of the Jazz Age
20. John Steinbeck is a
novelist of the 1930s. His novel _______ is a
record of the life
of the dispossessed and the
wretched farmers during The Great Depression.
A. The Grapes of Wrath B. The Waste
Land
C. The Sun Also Rises D. The Sound
and the Fury
II. True of false
(Please mark T OR F) (10 %)
得
分
( ) 21. Benjamin Franklin is an early
feminist, because he thinks that women should
receive education.
( ) 22. “We hold these
truths to be self-evident, that all Men are
created equal...”
The sentence is cited from
The American Crisis.
( ) 23. James Fennimore
Cooper launched two kinds of immensely popular
stories:
the sea adventure tale and the
frontier saga.
( ) 24. To a Waterfowl and
The Raven were written by William Cullen Bryant.
( ) 25. Edgar Allan Poe is father of many
things, one of which is psychoanalytic
criticism, the other being the detective
story.
( ) 26. Walden and Self-reliance are
Henry David Thoreau’s masterpieces.
( ) 27.
The most scholarly of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s
writings is his
translation of Dante’s Divine
Comedy.
( ) 28. Sister Carrie, Theodore
Dreiser’s first novel, was a best-seller upon its
publication.
( ) 29. Henry James’ most
distinguished literary technique is his technique
of stream
of consciousness.
( ) 30. A
Rose for Emily, written by William Faulkner,
decpicts a woman who
refused to adapt to
changes of time.
III. Define the
following terms. (30 %)
得
分
31. Imagism
32. Local Colorism
33.
Lost Generation
IV. Poetry appreciation
and segment Reading (20 %)
得
分
34.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence;
Two roads
diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one I
less traveled by,
And that has made all the
difference.
Questions:
1). Identify the
poet and the name of the poem.
2). What does
“ages and ages hence” refer to?
3). How do you
understand the last two lines?
35.
Standing on the bare ground, —my head bathed
by the blithe air and uplifted into
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infinite space, —all mean egotism
vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am
nothing; I see all; the currents of the
Universal Being circulate through me; I am part
or particle of God.
Questions:
1).
Which work is this fragment taken from? Who is the
author?
2). How do you understand the
philosophical ideas in those words?
V.
Comments. (20 %)
得
分
36. Why do we
say Hawthorne is a master of symbolism? Give at
least two examples of
symbols from The Scarlet
Letter. Analyze the major themes of Hawthorne.
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2011—2012学年第二学期闽江学
院《主要英语国家文学史以及作品选读2》考试
试卷B卷答案以及评分标准
ⅠMultiple Choice. ( 20 %) 每小题1分,共20分。
1-5
D D C D A 6-10 B D A D C 11-15 D D B C C
16-20 A A A C A
ⅡTrue or false. (10 %)
每小题1分,共10分。判断题中若学生答案出现全部写
“T”或全部写“F”,则不给分。
21-25 F F T F T 26-30 F T F T T
ⅢDefine the following terms. (30 %) 每题10分,共30分
。在每一小题中,学生
解答符合事实、文字流畅、论证有力、论据充分,即可得到满分或接近满分;学<
br>生只提出主要观点,但没有展开论证,则酌情扣3-4分;学生解答不够全面,则
按点给分;学生
解答有少数语法错误或表达问题,酌情扣2分;若有严重语法错
误或者文字表达混乱,无法澄清观点,则
酌情扣3-4分;若答非所问或学生不安
要求解答,出现明显错误,不给分;
31.
It’s a poetic movement of England and the U.S.
flourished from 1909 to
movement insists on
the creation of images in poetry by “the direct
treatment of the
thing” and the economy of
wording. The leaders of this movement were Ezra
Pound
and Amy Lowell.
32. Local Colorism
or Regionalism as a trend first made its presence
felt in the late
1860s and early seventies in
America. It may be defined as the careful
attegogoms in
speech, dress or behavior
peculiar to a geographical locality. The ultimate
aim of the
local colorists is to create the
illusion of an indigenous little world with
qualities that
tell it apart from the world
outside. The social and intellectual climate of
the country
provided a stimulating milieu for
the growth of local color fiction in America.
Local
colorists concerned themselves with
presenting and interpreting the local character of
their regions. They tended to idealize and
glorify, but they never forgot to keep an eye
on the truthful color of local life. They
formed an important part of the realistic
movement. Although it lost its momentum toward
the end of the 19th century, the
local spirit
continued to inspire and fertilize the imagination
of author. Mark Twain is
a master of local
colorism.
33. This term has been used again
and again to describe the people of the postwar
years. It describes the Americans who remained
in Paris as a colony of “ expatriates”
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or exiles. It describes the
writers like Hemingway who lived in semi poverty.
It
describes the Americans who returned to
their native land with an intense awareness
of
living in an unfamiliar changing world. The young
English and American
expatriates, men and
women, were caught in the war and cut off from the
old values
and yet unable to come to terms
with the new era when civilization had gone mad.
They wandered pointlessly and restlessly,
enjoying things like fishing, swimming,
bullfight and beauties of nature, but they
were aware all the while that the world is
crazy and meaningless and futile. Their whole
life is undercut and defeated.
Ⅳ. Poem
appreciation sand segment Reading ( 20%) 每题10分,共20
分。在每一
小题中,学生解答符合事实、文字流畅、论证有力、论据充分,即可得到满分或
接近
满分;学生只提出主要观点,但没有展开论证,则酌情扣3-4分;学生解答
不够全面,则按点给分;学
生解答有少数语法错误或表达问题,酌情扣2分;若
有严重语法错误或者文字表达混乱,无法澄清观点,
则酌情扣3-4分;若答非所
问或学生不安要求解答,出现明显错误,不给分;
34.
1).Robert Frost: “The Road Not Taken”. (4分)
2).Many many years later. (2分)
3).The
speaker is telling his experience of making the
choice of the he is
conscious of the fact
that his choice will have made all the difference
in his
seems to be giving a suggestion to the
reader.“Make good choice of your life.” (4分)
35.
1)Nature by Emerson (4分)
2)Emerson regards nature as the purest, and
the most sanctifying moral influence on
man,
and advocated a direct intuition of a spiritual
and immanent God in nature. The
soul has
completely transcended the limits of individuality
and become part of the
Over soul. Emerson sees
spirit pervading everywhere, not only in the soul
of man, but
behind nature, throughout nature.
This philosophy is what we call transcendalism.
Emerson’s Nature has been called the
“Manifesto of American
Transcendentalism”.
(共6分)
ⅤComments. (20 %)
本大题20分。学生解答符合事实、文字流畅、论证有力、
论据充分,即可得到满分或接近满分;学生只
提出主要观点,但没有展开论证,
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则酌情
扣5-6分;学生解答不够全面,则按点给分;学生解答有少数语法错误或
表达问题,酌情扣2-3分;
若有严重语法错误或者文字表达混乱,无法澄清观点,
则酌情扣5-6分;若答非所问或学生不安要求解
答,出现明显错误,不给分;
36.
1. (本大点共10分)Hawthorne
is a master of symbolism, which he took from the
Puritan tradition and bequeathed to American
literature in a revivified form. (2分)
The
symbol can be found everywhere in his writing, and
his masterpiece provides the
most conclusive
proof. By using Pearl as a thematic symbol,
Hawthorne emphasizes
the consequence the sin
of adultery has brought to the community and
people living in
that community. With the
scarlet Letter A as the biggest symbol of all,
Hawthorne
proves himself to be one of the best
symbolists. As a key to the whole novel, the
letter
A takes on different layers of symbolic
meanings as the plot develops, but people
come
up with different interpretations and they do not
know which one is definite. The
scarlet letter
A is ambiguous. And the ambiguity is one of the
salient characteristics of
Hawthorne’s art.
(两个例子,每个4分)
2. (本大点共10分)The themes and
characteristic of Hawthorne:
Hawthorne was a
man with inquiring imagination, meditative mind
and dark vision to
life. (1分)His themes in
writing are:
1) Sin and Evil(2分)
Man was
born with evil and sin, one source of them is
over-reaching intellect, whose
image was
always villain; (Chllingworth e.g.) He believed
Calvinistic ideas, thinking
man was depraved
and corrupted; they should obey God for saving the
spirits;
2) History and Antiquity(3分)
Hawthorne was influenced greatly by
Puritanism, while he criticized it bitterly;
Puritan New England is used as a background
and setting in many tales. He concerned
the
moral life of man and human history;
3)
Alienation - a character is in a state of
isolation because of self-cause, or societal
cause, or a combination of both. (2分)
4)
Other themes include individual vs. society, self-
fulfillment vs. frustration,
hypocrisy vs.
integrity, love vs. hate, and fate vs. free will,
etc. (2分)
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