2009年北京第二外国语学院英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷
(总分：40.00，做题时间：90分钟)
一、单项选择题(总题数：15，分数：30.00)
1.The history of English literature begins in the______century.（分数：2.00） A.7th B.6th C.5th D.4th
2.______is often considered as the \"poets\" poet\" because of his considerable influence on later poets.（分数：2.00） A.Edmund Spenser B.William Shakespeare C.Thomas Wyatt D.Ben Johnson
3.The epic of Paradise Lost is based on the stories from______.（分数：2.00） A.The New Testament B.The Old Testament C.The Ancient Greek Myths D.The Ancient Roman Myths
4.Which of the following is NOT true about Robinson Crusoe?（分数：2.00） A.It is written in the autobiographical form. B.It is a record of Defoe\"s own experience.
C.Robinson spends 28 years of isolated life on the island. D.It is set in the middle of the 17th century.
5.From her novel we can deduce Jane Austen\"s view of life is______.（分数：2.00） A.romantic B.sentimental C.realistic D.pessimistic
6.In______, common sense and moral propriety took the place of the principle of Romanticism and became the predominant preoccupation in literary works.（分数：2.00） A.Renaissance
B.the Elizabethan period C.the gilded age D.the Victorian period
7.Sheridan is considered usually as a great______writer.（分数：2.00） A.comedy B.tragedy C.essay D.short fiction
8.The first permanent English settlement in North America was established at______.（分数：2.00） A.Jamestown B.New York C.Boston D.Concord
9.The first symbol of self-made American man is______.（分数：2.00） A.George Washington
B.Washington Irving C.Thomas Jefferson D.Benjamin Franklin
10.American Renaissance started from______.（分数：2.00） A.Pragmatism B.Utilitarian
C.New England Transcendentalism D.the age of Realism
11.The most influential novelist in Romantic period is______.（分数：2.00） A.Nathaniel Hawthorne B.Edgar Allan Poe C.Emily Dickinson D.Fennimore Cooper
12.______divides the 19th century into the age of Romanticism and Realism in American literature.（分数：2.00）
A.The Spanish-American war B.The Civil War C.WWI D.WWII
13.William Dean Howells explores the life of______Americans.（分数：2.00） A.lower-class B.upper-class C.working-class D.middle-class
14.______addressed Ernest Hemingway and his peers as \"the Lost Generation\" which entitled a generation in the 1930s.（分数：2.00） A.Gertrude Stein B.William Dean Howells C.Sherwood Anderson D.Henry James
15.Catch-22 is a novel with outstanding .（分数：2.00） A.euphemism B.black humor C.allusion
D.stream of consciousness
二、名词解释(总题数：3，分数：6.00)
16.art for art\"s sake（分数：2.00）
__________________________________________________________________________________________ 17.self-reliance（分数：2.00）
__________________________________________________________________________________________ 18.the Jazz Age（分数：2.00）
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三、分析题(总题数：1，分数：4.00)
The following poem is written for the mourning of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.Read it and answer the questions:O Captain! My Captain!O Captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done; The ship has weather\"d every rack, the prize we sought is won,The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring.But O heart! Heart! Heart!O the bleeding drops of red!Where on the deck my Captain lies,Fallen cold and dead.O captain! My Captain! Rise up and hear the bells;Rise up—for you the
flag is flung—for you the bugle trills,For you bouquets and ribbon\"d wreaths—for you the shores crowding,For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;Here Captain! Dear father!This arm beneath your head;It is some dream that on the deckYou\"ve fallen cold and dead.My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still,My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will;The ship is anchor\"d safe and sound, its voyage closed and done;From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won;Exult, O shores! And ring, O bells!But I, with mournful tread,Walk the deck my Captain lies,Fallen cold and dead.（分数：4.00）
(1).The writer of this famous poem is one of the most influential poets at the age of Romanticism. Can you give out his name and present his contribution in literature briefly? (3 points)（分数：2.00）
__________________________________________________________________________________________ (2).Can you enlist at least two major figures of speech used in this poem and illustrate their functions respectively? (8 points)（分数：2.00）
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