历年4月全国英美文学选读试题及答案分析.doc

《英美文学选读》历年4月全国试题 及答案 0.Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless?…And if God had gifted me with some beauty, and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. The above quoted passage is most probably taken from _______ . A.Pride and Prejudice B.Jane Eyre C.Wuthering Heights D.Great Expectations 23.In 1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson made a speech entitled _______ at Harvard, which was hailed by Oliver Wendell Holmes as Our intellectual Declaration of Independence. A.Nature B.Self-Reliance C.Divinity School Address D.The American Scholar 24.In Hawthornes Young Goodman Brown, a satanic figure leads the credulous protagonist to a witches Sabbath in the woods. There he recognizes many pillars of Salems Puritan society as well as his wife, Faith. The story illustrates Hawthornes allegorical theme of human evil or what Melville called the power of _______ . A.blackness B.whiteness C.terror D.hypocrisy 25.For Melville, as well as for the reader and _______ , the narrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, an ultimate mystery of the universe. A.Ahab B.Ishmael C.Stubb D.Starbuck 26.Most of the poems in Whitmans Leaves of Grass sing of the en-mass and the _______ as well. A.nature B.self-reliance C.self D.life 27.Emily Dickinsons poem（441）This is my letter to the World expresses the poets _______ about her communication with the outside world. A.indifference B.joy C.anxiety D.indignation 28.Which of the following statements about writers in 1920s is true? A.Mark Twain published his last and most important novel. B.F. Scott Fitzgerald received the Nobel Prize. C.Freudian psychology influenced many modern writers. D.Most writers were politically radical. 29.Naturalism is evolved from realism when the authors tone in writing becomes less serious and less sympathetic but more ironic and more _______ . A.rational B.humorous C.optimistic D.pessimistic