1、 英美文学选读试题答案及评分参考第 1 页(共 3 页)绝密启用前 2023 年 10 月高等教育自学考试全国统一命题考试 英美文学选读英美文学选读试试题题答案及评分答案及评分参考参考(课程代码 00604)一、单项选择题:本大题共 40 小题,每小题 1 分,共 40 分。1.B 2.A 3.D 4.C 5.C 6.B 7.A 8.D 9.C 10.A 11.D 12.B 13.D 14.C 15.C 16.D 17.A 18.C 19.B 20.D 21.D 22.B 23.A 24.C 25.A 26.D 27.C 28.C 29.C 30.D 31.B 32.B 33.A 34.C 3
2、5.B 36.D 37.C 38.A 39.A 40.D 二、阅读理解题:本大题共 4 小题,每小题 4 分,共 16 分。41.A.Henry Fielding;The History of Tom Jones,a Foundling(or Tom Jones).(2 分)B.Daughter of the well-off squire Western.(1 分)C.Human nature.(1 分)42.A.Charles Dickens;Oliver Twist(2 分)B.A chimney-sweeper.(1 分)C.Character-portrayal.(1 分)43.A.
3、Theodore Dreiser;Sister Carrie.(2 分)B.Hurstwood.(1 分)C.He turned on the gas in a cheap lodging-house and ended his life.(1 分)英美文学选读试题答案及评分参考第 2 页(共 3 页)44.A.Robert Lee Frost.(1 分)B.The speaker tells us how the course of his life was determined when he came upon two roads that diverged in a wood.(2 分
4、)C.The speaker took the road less traveled by.(1 分)三、简答题:本大题共 4 小题,每小题 6 分,共 24 分。45.The poem“The Chimney Sweeper”is a good example to reveal the relation between an economic circumstance,(2 分)and an ideological circumstance.(1 分)The poem from the Songs of Experience reveals the true nature of relig
5、ion(1 分)which helps bring misery to the poor children.(2 分)46.He attacked the Neo-Romantic tradition and the fashionable drawing-room drama.(1 分)He was strongly against the credo of“art for arts sake”.(1 分)He held that art should serve social purposes by reflecting human life,revealing social contra
6、dictions and educating the common people.(2 分)The mission of his drama was to reveal the moral,political and economic truth from a radical reformist point of view.(2 分)47.Daisy Miller has become the American Girl in Europe,embodying the spirit of the New World.(2 分)Innocence,the keynote of her chara
7、cter,turns out to be an admiring but a dangerous quality and(2 分)her defiance of social taboos in the Old World brings her to a disaster in the clash between two different cultures.(2 分)48.She is an eccentric spinster(1 分)who refuses to accept the passage of time,or the inevitable change and loss th
8、at accompanies it.(2 分)As a descendent of the Southern aristocracy,(1 分)Emily is typical of those in Faulkners Yoknapatwapha stories(1 分)who are the symbols of the Old South but the prisoners of the past.(1 分)英美文学选读试题答案及评分参考第 3 页(共 3 页)四、论述题:本大题共 2 小题,每小题 10 分,共 20 分。49.Shakespeares four greatest tr
9、agedies are:Hamlet,Othello,King Lear,and Macbeth.Each portrays some noble hero.(2 分)Each hero has his weakness of nature:Hamlet,faces the dilemma between action and mind;(1 分)Othellos inner weakness is made use of by the outside evil force;(1 分)the old king Lear who is unwilling to totally give up h
10、is power makes himself suffer from treachery and infidelity;(2 分)and Macbeths lust for power stirs up his ambition and leads him to incessant crimes.(1 分)With the concentration on the tragic hero,Shakespeare dramatizes the whole world around the hero.(1 分)Along with the portrayal of the weakness or
11、bias of the hero,we see the sharp conflicts between the individual and the evil force in the society,which shows that Shakespeare is a great realist in the true sense.(2 分)50.Nathaniel Hawthorne is a great allegorist and almost every story can be read allegorically,as is the case in Young Goodman Br
12、own.(2 分)In Young Goodman Brown,he sets out to prove that everyone possesses some evil secret.(1 分)The“Birthmark”drives home symbolically his point that evil is mans birthmark,something he is born with.(2 分)Whereas allegory is used to hold fast against the crushing blows of reality,the symbol serves
13、 as a weapon to attack and penetrate it.(2 分)Nathaniel 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.(1 分)