文档介绍：《英美文学选读》历年4月全国试题及答案
2000年4月英美文学选读试卷
本试题分两部分,第一部分为选择题,第二部分为非选择题。选择题40分,非选择题60分,满分100分。考试时间150分钟。全部题
目用英文作答,并将答案写在答案写在答题纸相应位置上,否则不计分。
PART ONE
Ⅰ.Multiple Choice(40 points, 1 point for each)
Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question pletes the statement. Mark your choice by blackening the corresponding letter A,B,C or D on the answer sheet.
sentence "Shall pare thee to a summer's day?" is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare's ________ .
edies
2."So much the worse for me, that I an strong. Do I want to live? What kind of living will it be when you-oh, God!
Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?"
In the above passage quoted from Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, the word "soul" apparently refers to _______ .
's spiritual lift
3."And where are they? And where art thou,"
My country? On thy voiceless shore
The heroic lay is tuneless now-
The heroic bosom beats no more!"(e Gordon Byron, Don Juan)
In the above stanza, "art thou" literally means _______ .
A."are you" B."art though" C."are though" D."art you"
major concern of _______ fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature.
Dickens's 's Hardy's Galsworthy's
Defoe describes _______ as a typical English Middle-class man of the eighteenth century, the very prototype of the empire builder or the pioneer colonist.
Jones Flanders Crusoe
6."To be so distinguished is an honor, which, being very little accustomed to favors from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge."
The above quoted sentence is presented by Samuel Johnson with a(n) _______ tone.
7."