英美文学选读试题答案二.doc

英美文学选读试题答案二 I． Multiple Choice(40 points in all, 1 for each) Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Write the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the answer sheet. 01-05:DDADA 06-10:BBDCB 11-15:BACDA 16-20:CACAD 21-25:BDADC 26-30:BCCBA 31-35:AADCA 36-40:BACCD II. Reading Comprehension (16 points in all, 4 for each) Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet. 41. A. Shelley A Song : Men of England. B. This poem was written in 1819, the year of the *Peterloo Massacre(彼得卢屠杀). * 1819年8月16日发生在英国曼彻斯特圣彼得广场上的一场流血惨案。由于镇压这次集会的军队，有的曾参加过滑铁卢战役，群众乃讥称这次流血惨案为彼得卢屠杀。 C. It is not only a war cry calling upon all working people to rise up against their political oppressors, but an address to them pointing out the intolerable injustice of economic exploitation. 42. A. It presents the meditation of an aging young man over the business of proposing marriage. B. dramatic monologue C. The poem is in a form of dramatic monologue, suggesting an ironic contrast between a pretended Love Song and a confession of the speakers incapability of facing up to love and to life in a sterile upper-class world. 43 A. Emily Dickinson B. Entitled thus, the poem expresses Dickinsons anxiety about her communication with the outside world.) C. In her poetry there is a particular stress pattern, in which dashes are used as a musical device to create cadence and capital letters as a means of emphasis. 44. A. the Jazz Age B. A masterpiece in American literature, the Great Gatsby evokes a haunting mood of a glamorous, wild time that seemingly will never come again. C. Gatsbys failure magnifies to a great extent the end of the American Dream. III. Questions and Answers (24 points in all, 6 for each) Give a brief answer to each of the following questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet. 45. At the cente