考研专业课备考：2012英语专业英美文学模拟试题三

　　I. Name the author of each of the following works (1x 10= 10%):
　　1. Paradise Lost
　　2. Sons and Lovers
　　3. Death of a Salesman
　　4. The Scarlet Letter
　　5. The Old Man and the Sea
　　6. The Parliament of Fowls
　　7. Samson Agonistes
　　8. The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
　　9. Northanger Abbey
　　10. Strange Interlude
　　
　　II. Choose any ONE of the following poets and make a comment (20 %)
　　John Keats, T.S.Eliot, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson
　　
　　III. (25 x 2 = 50%) Discussion
　　1. Discuss the following statement and support your argument with specific examples from the story "A Woman on a Roof."
　　Doris Lessing's "A Woman on a Roof allows us to understand how some men view woman: as mere objects for display and possession. Lessing shows how each of the male characters reacts and deals with rejection from a woman sunbathing on a nearby rooftop. We discover how the three men's preoccupation with sex keeps them unaware of how their advances may be unwanted and ignorant of their action's possible consequences.
　　2. What does the following statement suggest to you? Give your opinions.
　　Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the exception than the rule. There is the man and his virtues. Men do what is called a good action, as some piece of courage or charity, much as they would pay a fine in expiation of daily non-appearance on parade. Their works are done as an apology or extenuation of their living in the world, —as invalids and the insane pay a high board. Their virtues are penances. I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady. I wish it to be sound and sweet, and not to need diet and bleeding. I ask primary evidence that you are a man, and refuse this appeal from the man to his actions. I know that for myself it makes no difference whether I do or forbear those actions which are reckoned excellent. I cannot consent to pay for a privilege where I have intrinsic right. Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony.
　　
　　V. Make a critical appraisal of your favorite English or American novel of the 20th century. (20 %)