要求学生初步了解英美小说的特点，了解英美小说的主题、情节、人物、视角、象征、结构等基本要素，了解英美小说发展的历史与传统，主要流派及其代表作家与代表作品，并且具有较强的小说文本整体分析和感悟能力。
二．考试内容选取：
1. John Updike: A & P
2. James Joyce: Araby
3.Flannery O’Connor: Everything That Rises Must Converge
4.Frank O’Connor: First Confession
5.William Carlos Williams: The Use of Force
6.Ernest Hemingway: Soldier’s Home
7.Shirley Jackson: The Lottery
8.Bernard Malamud The Magic Barrel
9.Isaac Bashevis Singer: Gimpel the Fool
10.F. Scott Fitzgerald: Babylon Revisited
11.Saki: The Open Window
12.William Faulkner: A Rose for Emily
13.John Steinbeck: The Snake
14.Kate Chopin: The Story of an Hour
15.Langston Hughes: On the Road
16.D. H. Lawrence: Tickets, Please
