王守仁英国文学选读考研真题答案复习重点笔记

第一部分为考研真题精选。本部分精选了名校的考研真题，按照题型分类，并提供了详细的参考答案。通过本部分，可以熟悉考研真题的命题风格和难易程度。

第二部分为章节题库。结合国内多所知名院校的考研真题和考查重点，根据该教材的章目进行编排，精选典型习题并提供详细答案解析，供考生强化练习。

第一部分　考研真题精选

一、填空题

1. Author _____ Title _____ [南京大学2007研]

At other times, the like battles have been fought between the Yahoos of several neighborhoods, without any visible cause: those of one district watching all opportunities to surprise the next, before they are prepared. But if they find their project has miscarried, they return home, and, for want of enemies, engage in what I call a civil war among themselves.

【答案】Author: Jonathan Swift；Title: Gulliver’s Travels查看答案

【解析】题中文段节选自乔纳森的《格列佛游记》。其通过幻想旅行中不可置信的奇遇和体验，及其尖锐地讽刺了英国统治者的腐败和愚行，无情地揭露了社会各领域的黑暗和罪恶。

2. Each literary movement can be seen as a strong reaction to the previous aesthetic principles. Romanticism in the history of English literature can be presented as a strong reaction to _____. [天津外国语2009研]

【答案】neoclassicism查看答案

【解析】浪漫主义重在打破新古典主义的桎梏，新古典主义强调理性，秩序和优雅的风趣，而浪漫主义则重在人的感情和自然美。

3. Of the four novels that Charlotte Brontë wrote, _____ has achieved lasting fame.[天津外国语2007研]

【答案】Jane Eyre查看答案

【解析】在夏洛特·勃朗特所写的四部小说中，《简·爱》获得了持久的名声。

4. “Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! —I have as much soul as you, —and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for, you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you.” This selection is taken from the novel _____. [天津外国语学院2011研]

【答案】Jane Eyre查看答案

【解析】文章出自Jane Eyre中女主人公Jane对男主人公Edward Rochester的一段话。

5. The English writer _____ set his major novels in the south and southwest of _____, which he called “Wessex”. [天津外国语学院2011研]

【答案】Thomas Hardy；England查看答案

【解析】韦塞克斯位于英国西南部，中古盎格鲁撒克逊人所建的王国，虽然在历史上确实存在这个地方，但在托马斯·哈代的小说中仍被赋予了虚拟的成分。

6. Among Hardy’s novels, the best-known are _____ and Jude the Obscure. [人大2006研]

【答案】Tess of the D’Urbervilles查看答案

【解析】托马斯·哈代的“性格和环境小说”有六部：《绿荫下》（Under the Greenwood Tree）、《远离尘嚣》（Far from the Madding Crowd）、《还乡》（The Return of the Native）、《卡斯特桥市长》（The Mayor of the Casterbridge）、《德伯家的苔丝》（Tess of the D’Urbervilles）、《无名的裘德》（Jude the Obscure）。其中最成功的是最后两部。）

7. The school of _____ in English literature and art in the last decades of the_____ century is mainly represented by Walter Paler and Oscar Wilde, with_____ as its chief authority and source of inspiration and_____ as its most popular spokesman. [国际关系学院2010研]

【答案】aestheticism；19th；Walter Pater；Oscar Wilde查看答案

【解析】唯美主义运动（Aesthetic movement）是于19世纪后期出现在英国艺术和文学领域中的一场运动。瓦尔特·佩特的一系列文章激发了当时的颓废主义者们的思想，这种思想继而在英国发展，其中最有名的代表则是奥斯卡·瓦尔德。

8. Lord Murchison tells of his love experience with a young woman who is mysterious in his actions.[武汉大学2010研]

Answer:“ _____” by _____.

【答案】“The Sphinx Without a Secret”；Oscar Wilde查看答案

9. Pygmalion is one of Bernard Shaw’s popular plays, one of whose themes is identified as the relationship between language and people’s_____.[天津外国语学院2011研]

【答案】class查看答案

【解析】《皮格马利翁》（改编后成为《窈窕淑女》搬上银幕）在一定意义上是关于爱情、英国等级社会和语言学习的人文喜剧，在剧中Eliza在语音学家Higgins的帮助下，通过改变下层社会的英语语音面貌成为一个具有上流社会风度的女性。

10. Surely some revelation is at hand;

Surely the Second Coming is at hand.

The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out

These lines are taken from a poem entitled _____by_____. [天津外国语2013研]

【答案】The Second Coming；William Butler Yeats查看答案

【解析】这个选段节选于叶芝的《第二次圣临》。

11. Modernist writers such as James Joyce and Virginia Woolf approached the internal world of characters in their novels by the technique of “stream of consciousness” which means _____.[天津外国语2010研]

【答案】a narrative mode that seeks to portray an individual’s point of view by giving the written equivalent of the character’s thought processes, either in a loose interior monologue, or in connection to his or her actions.查看答案

【解析】考查意识流的概念。意识流文学是现代主义文学的重要分支，主要成就局限在小说领域，在戏剧、诗歌中也有表现。乔伊斯和伍尔夫是意识流手法的代表作家。

12. The major theme of D. H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers is its exposition of the “_____”, an idea proposed by Sigmund Freud in his psychoanalysis. [天津外国语学院2011研]

【答案】Oedipus complex查看答案

【解析】恋母情结（Oedipus complex）在精神分析中指以本能冲动力为核心的一种欲望，指男性的一种服从和依恋母亲的心理倾向。

13. Author _____ Title _____[南京大学2008研]

Viciously, with full intention, he hurled his spear at Ralph. The point tore the skin and flesh over Ralph’s ribs, then sheared off and fell in the water. Ralph stumbled, feeling no pain but panic, and the tribe, screaming now like the Chief, began to advance.

【答案】Author: William Golding；Title: Lord of the Flies查看答案

【解析】题目节选自William Golding的 Lord of the Flies（《蝇王》）。《蝇王》是威廉·戈尔丁的代表作，是一本重要的哲理小说，借小孩的天真来探讨人性的恶这一严肃主题。

14. Author _____ Title _____ [南京大学2007研]

_____ Next day was cloudless, and they decided to finish the work in the basement. They felt excluded, shut in the grey cement basement fitting pipes, from the holiday atmosphere of London in a heat wave. At lunchtime they came up for some air, but while the married couples, and the men in shirt—sleeves or vests, were there, she was not there, either on her usual patch of roof or where she had been yesterday.