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 4 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.C 3.A 4.A 5.B 6.A 7.C 8.B 9.D 10.D 11.B 12.C 13.D 14.B 15.A 16.A 17.D 18.C 19.A 20.D 21.C 22.B 23.C 24.C 25.A 26.B 27.B 28.C 29.D 30.A 31.A 32.B 33.C 34.A 35
2、.B 36.C 37.D 38.A 39.C 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.William Blake;“The Tyger”.(2 分)B.The“Lamb”.(1 分)C.It means the well-proportioned body of the tiger.(1 分)42.A.Mrs.Warrens Profession.(1 分)B.Bernard Shaw.(1 分)C.About the economic oppression of women.(2 分)43.A.Mark Twain.(1 分)B.Adventur
3、es of Huckleberry Finn.(1 分)C.It reflects Hucks inner conflict about whether or not he should write a letter to tell Miss Watson where Jim is.(2 分)44.A.William Faulkner;“A Rose for Emily”.(2 分)B.“Deformed”or“eccentric”.(1 分)C.The Gothic devices in narration.(1 分)英美文学选读试题答案及评分参考第 2 页（共 3 页）三、简答题:本大题共
4、 4 小题，每小题 6 分，共 24 分。45.Each hero in Shakespeares four greatest tragedies has his weakness of nature:(1 分)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 his power to mak
5、e 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).46.Charles Dickens best-depicted characters are child characters:Oliver Twist,Little Nell,David Copperfield and Little Dorrit.(1 分)Those are innocent,virtuous
6、,persecuted,helpless.(1 分)The second group of characters are:Fagin,Bill Sikes and Quilp.(1 分)They are horrible and grotesque.(1 分)The third group of characters are Mr.Micawber,Sam Weller and Mrs.Gamp.(1分)They are humorous and comical.(1 分)47.Typical of this“iceberg”analogy is Hemingways style.(1 分)H
7、e thinks good literary writing should be able to make readers feel the emotion of the characters directly and the best way to produce the effect is to set down exactly every particular feeling(2 分)without any authorial comments,(1 分)without emotive language,and with a bare minimum of adjectives and
8、adverbs.(2 分)48.In some of her poems,she wrote about her doubt and belief about religious subjects.(1 分)While she desired salvation and immortality,she denied the orthodox view of paradise.(1 分)Although she believed in God,she sometimes doubted His benevolence.(1 分)Closely related to Dickinsons reli
9、gious poetry are her poems concerning death and immortality.(2 分)She looked at death from the view of both the living and the dying.(1 分)四、论述题:本大题共 2 小题，每小题 10 分，共 20 分。49.In structure,the four parts of the novel make an organic whole,with each contrived upon an independent structure,and yet complem
10、enting the others and contributing to the central concern of study of human nature and life.(2 分)The first two parts are generally considered the best paired-up work.The exaggerated smallness in Part 1 works just as effectively as the exaggerated largeness in Part 2.(2 分)The similarities between hum
11、an beings and the Lilliputians and the contrast between the Brobdingnagians and human beings both bear reference to the possibilities of human state.(2 分)Part 3,though seemingly a bit random,furthers the criticism of the 英美文学选读试题答案及评分参考第 3 页（共 3 页）western civilization and deals with different malpra
12、ctices and false illusions about science,philosophy,history and immortality.(2 分)The last part,where comparison is made through both similarities and differences,leads the reader a fundamental question:What on earth is a human being?(2 分)50.Whitmans poetic style is marked by the use of the poetic“I.
13、”Speaking in the voice of“I”,Whitman becomes all those people in his poems,and yet still remains“Walt Whitman”,hence a discovery of the self in the other with such an identification.(2 分)Whitman is also radically innovative in terms of the form of his poetry.What he prefers for his new subject and n
14、ew poetic feelings is“free verse”,that is,poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.(1分)By means of“free verse”,he has turned the poem into an open field,an area of vital possibility where the reader can allow his own imagination to play.(1 分)As a poet,Whitman can be conversational and cas
15、ual,in the fluid,expansive,and unstructured style of talking,like one of the ordinary men.However,there is a strong sense of the poems being rhythmical.Rather than giving a description of those concrete things,Whitman catalogues them.(2 分)Reading his poems,we feel the rhythm of Whitmans thought and
16、cadences of his feeling.Parallelism and phonetic recurrence at the beginning of the lines contribute to the musicality of his poems.(1 分)Contrary to the rhetoric of traditional poetry,Whitmans is relatively simple and even rather crude.One of the most often-used methods in Whitmans poems is to make colors and images fleet past the minds eye of the reader.(2 分)Another characteristic in Whitmans language is his strong tendency to use oral English.Whitmans vocabulary is amazing.(1 分)
