英美文学试题选(供TEM8复习备考用)

Ⅰ. Multiple choice（40 points, 2 for each）
1. ________ employed the heroic couplet with true ease and charm for the first time in the history of English Literature.
A. Geoffrey Chaucer
B. George Gordon Byron
C. Edmund Spender
D. Robert Browning
2. Which of the following is William Shakespeare's history play?
A.
Macbeth
B. Henry IV
C. Romeo and
Juliet D. King Lear
3. For his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel, ________ has been regarded as “Father of the English Novel”.
A. Henry Fielding
B. Daniel Defoe
C. John Bunyan
D. James Joyce
4. “The a pparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough. “
4. These two lines are quoted from ________'s poem?
A. Emily
Dickinson B. Robert Frost
C. Ezra
Pound
D. William B. Yeats
5. Jane Austen wrote within a very narrow sphere. The subject matter, the social setting, and plots are all restricted to the provincial life of the ________.
A. late 19th
–century B. 17th -century
C. 20th
–century D. late 18th -century
6. Usually basing on her own experiences, Emily Dickinson addresses issues that concern the whole human beings. Which of the following is NOT a usual subject of her poetic expression?
A. Life and
Death
B. Religion
C. Love and
Nature
D. War and Peace
7. Walden is a ________.
A. Transcendentalist
work B. epic in prose
C. lyric
poem
D. short story
8. Henry James' realism is different from others, because he pays more attention to ________.
A. the traditional
style B. the common people
C. the inner world of human beings
D. the class struggle
9. ________ is considered Mark Twain's greatest achievement.
A. The Gilded
Age B. Innocents Abroad
C. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
D. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
10. At the beginning of Faulkner's A Rose for Emily, there is a detailed description of Emily's old house. The purpose of such description is to imply that the person living in it ________.
A. is a wealthy lady
B. is a conservative aristocrat
C. is a prisoner of the past
D. has good taste
11. ________ is NOT a Nobel Prize winner.
A. Eugene O'Neill
B. F. Scott Fitzgerald
C. Ernest Hemingway
D. William Faulkner
12. Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Mark Twain's language?
A.
Vernacular B. Elegant
C.
Colloquial D. Humorous
13. The most distinguishing feature of Charles Dicken's works lies in his ________.
A. social criticism
B. optimism
C. character－portrayal
D. social setting
14. As the representative of the Enlightenment, Pope was one of the first to introduce ________ to England.
A. rationalism
B. romanticism
C. criticism
D. realism
15. Shelley's greatest achievement is his four-act poetic drama ________.
A.
Adonais
B. To a Skylark
C. A Song: Men of England
D. Prometheus Unbound
16. The Victorian Age is most famous for its ________.
A. plays
B. novels
C. poems
D. essays
17. Which of the following women does not belong to the famous Bronte Sisters?
A. Mary Bronte
B. Charlotte Bronte
C. Emily Bronte
D. Anne Bronte
18. “Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. Abeunt studia in mores. ” This sentence appears in ________.
A. The Advancement of Learning
B. A Dictionary of the English Language
C. An Essay on Criticism
D. Of Studies
19. In his novel, Robinson Crusoe, Defoe eulogizes the hero of the ________?
A. aristocratic class
B. enterprising landlords
C. rising bourgeoisie
D. hard-working people
20. Which of the following works does not belong to John Milton?
A. Paradise Lost
B. Paradise Regained
C. Adonais
D. Llycidas
II Fill in the following blanks: ( 20 points, 2 for each )
1.John Milton wrote "Paradise Lost" in the form of epic, which describes the fall of ______in a grand style.
2. Walter Scott has been universally regarded as the founder and great master of the ______ novel.
3. Though ______ is not the first English novelist, he has generally been considered as "the father of English novel", for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.
4. Richard Brinsley Sheridan is the only important English _______of the eighteenth century. In his plays, morality is the constant theme.
5. The_______ couplet is a pair of rhymed iambic pentameter lines, a verse form first used by the 14th-century poet Geoffrey Chaucer.
6. Oscar Wilde, who advocated the idea of "______", represented the literary school of decadence in the late 19th century.
7."Pilgrim's Progress" is written as a book of religious instructions in the form of _______and dream.
8. In England, the literary technique of "stream of consciousness" is best represented in the works of James Joyce and _______.
9. In his novels, Arnold Bennett depicts life and society with a strong_
______tendency influenced by the French writer Zola and Guy de Maupassant.
10. Charles Dickens and William Thackeray were the two great representatives of the English critical realism in the _______century.
Ⅲ. Match authors in Column A with their literary works in Column B. Please write your answer on the Answer Sheet. （20 points, 2 for each pair）
1. John
Milton
A. The Canterbury Tales
2. Samuel
Johnson B. Mrs. Warren's Profession
3. Geoffrey
Chaucer C. Joseph Andrews
4. Jane
Austen
D. She Stoops to Conquer
5. Richard Brinsley Sheridan E. A Dictionary of the English Language
6. George Bernard Shaw F. Song of Innocence
7. William
Blake G. Samson Agonistes
8. Robert
Burns H. Pride and Prejudice
9. Thomas
Hardy I. My Heart’s in the Highlands
10. Henry
Fielding J. Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Ⅳ.Give a brief explanation to each of the following items. Please write your answer on the Answer Sheet. (10 points in total, 2 for each)
1. Epic
2. Popular ballad
3. Romance
4. Byronic hero
5. English Renaissance
Ⅴ. Answer the followi ng questions.(10 points)
What is the theme of The Wasted Land?
Ⅰ.Choose the ONE answer that is the most suitable to the sentence. (30 points in total, 2 for each)
( )1.The greatest poet of the Middle English period is ______,the father of English poetry.
A.Geoffrey Chaucer
B.John Lyly
C.William Langland
D.John Milton
( )2.Portia,the heroine in "______"is one of Shakespeare's ideal
women-beautiful,prudent,cultured and capable of rising to an emergency.
A."The Merchant of Venice"
B."As You Like It"
C."King Lear"
D."Twelfth Night"
( )3."Modern Fiction" is one of Woolf's important critical essays,in which the writer praises______ as "the most notable"of"several young writers."
A.Thomas Hardy
B.James Joyce
C.Joseph Conrad
D.T.S.Eliot
( )4."The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock" is T.S.Eliot's most striking early achievement.The poem is a sort of ______monologue.
A.private
B.personal
C.dramatic
D.poetic
( )5.______develops around the life of a middle-class Irish boy,Stephen Dedalus,from his infancy to his departure from Ireland some twenty years later.
A."Ulysses"
B."A Portrait of the Aritist as a Young Man"
C."Finnegans Wake"
D."Dubliners"
( )6.In "The Pilgrim's Progress" Christian and Faithful come to the ______where both are arrested as alien agitators and tried.
A.Vanity Fair
B.Doubting Castle
C.Celestial City
D.hell
( )7.John Milton's "On His Blindness" is written in the form of ______sonnet which consists of an octave(an eight-line stanza) and a sestet(a six-line stanza)
A.English
B.Italian
C.Russian
D.Chinese
( )8.In "Tom Jones"______ is depicted as a hypocritical,wicked man who is outwardly good but inwardly bad.
A.Tom
B.Blifil
C.Mr.Allworthy
D.Sophia
( )9.The heroine Tess in "Tess of the D'urbervilles"seems to be led to her final destruction step by step by ______,as Hardy says at the end of the novel:"Justice was done,and the President of the Immortals had ended his sport with Tess."
A.Angel Clare
B.Alec
C.Fate
D.Jude
( )10.Which of the following novels by wrence shows the influence of Freud's theory of psychoanalysis,especially that of the "Oedipus complex"?
A."The Rainbow"
B."Women in Love"
C."Sons and Lovers"
D."Lady
Chatterley's Lover"
( )11."If Winter comes,can Spring be far behind?"This is written by ______,one of the leading Romantic poets.
A.John Keats
B.William Wordsworth
C.Percy Bysshe Shelley
D.William Blake
( )12.Jonathan Swift's"Gulliver's Travels" gives an unparalleled______depiction of the vices of his age.
A.religious
B.romantic
C.satirical
ic
( )13.John keats' famous poem______expresses the contrast between the happy world of natural loveliness and human world of agony.
A."Endymion"
B."Ode to a Nightingale"
C."Ode on a Grecian Urn"
D."Ode to Psyche"
( )14.The story of "Tom Jones"by Henry Fielding is told _______.
A.in a series of letters
B.in the third-person narration
C.by Tom Jones
D.in the form of diary
( )15."The School for Scandal"by Richard Brinsley Sheridan has been regarded as the best ______since Shakespeare.
A.tragedy
B.prose
edy
D.fable
Ⅱ. Fill the following blanks with proper information. (30 points in total, 2 for each)
1. "The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus" is one of _____'s best plays.
2. The epoch of Renaissance witnessed a particular development of English drama. Marlowe made ____the principal vehicle of expression in drama.
3. Ben Jonson's best works include _______, ________, ______.
4. The English drama experienced a process of decline after _________.
5. "Tamburlaine" is a story of ________.
6. "The Jew of Malta" depicts a man who _______.
7. In __________, Marlowe created a man who sells his soul to the Devil.
8. In 1642, civil war broke out in England between the royalists and ___________.
9. The __________, led by Oliver Cromwell, defeated the royalists decisively in Naseby in 1645.
10. The English Revolution was carried out in the disguise of the ________ Revolution.
11. The Revolution of 1688 was often called _________. It caused England to become _________.
12. As soon as the bourgeoisie won their victory over the monarch, they split with several groups: _________, _______, ________, ________.
13. ____ maintained that "the poorest he that is in England hath a life to live as the greatest."
14. ________ led peasants to open up the waste land in several places of England.
15. ________ wrote his masterpiece "The Pilgrim's Progress" during his second imprisonment.
Ⅱ. Decide whether the followi ng statements are true or false. (10 points in total, 2 for each)
( ) 1. The English people were the first residents in England.
( ) 2. Beowulf is the oldest poem in the English language, and also the oldest surviving epic in the English language.
( ) 3. After the Roman Conquest, the English language developed very quickly. ( ) 4. Christianity was not introduced to England until after the English Conquest. ( ) 5. The Norman Conquest marked the rise of feudalism in England.
Ⅲ. Explain the following terms b riefly. (10 points in total, 2 for each)
1. The Miracle Play
2. The Morality Play
3. Sentimentalism
4. Sonnet
5. Free Verse
I.Multiple choice:(15×1=15%)
(In this part,there are 15 sentences;in each of them,there are four choices marked by A.B.C. and D.Choose the ONE answer that is the most suitable to the sentence and put the letter in the bracket.)
( )1.The greatest poet of the Middle English period is ______,the father of English poetry.
A.Geoffrey Chaucer
B.John Lyly
C.William Langland
D.John Milton
( )2.Portia,the heroine in "______"is one of Shakespeare's ideal
women-beautiful,prudent,cultured and capable of rising to an emergency.
A."The Merchant of Venice"
B."As You Like It"
C."King Lear"
D."Twelfth Night"
( )3."Modern Fiction" is one of Woolf's important critical essays,in which the writer praises______ as "the most notable"of"several young writers."
A.Thomas Hardy
B.James Joyce
C.Joseph Conrad
D.T.S.Eliot
( )4."The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock" is T.S.Eliot's most striking early achievement.The poem is a sort of ______monologue.
A.private
B.personal
C.dramatic
D.poetic
( )5.______develops around the life of a middle-class Irish boy,Stephen Dedalus,from his infancy to his departure from Ireland some twenty years later.
A."Ulysses"
B."A Portrait of the Aritist as a Young Man"
C."Finnegans Wake"
D."Dubliners"
( )6.In "The Pilgrim's Progress" Christian and Faithful come to the ______where both are arrested as alien agitators and tried.
A.Vanity Fair
B.Doubting Castle
C.Celestial City
D.hell
( )7.John Milton's "On His Blindness" is written in the form of ______sonnet which consists of an octave(an eight-line stanza) and a sestet(a six-line stanza)
A.English
B.Italian
C.Russian
D.Chinese
( )8.In "Tom Jones"______ is depicted as a hypocritical,wicked man who is outwardly good but inwardly bad.
A.Tom
B.Blifil
C.Mr.Allworthy
D.Sophia
( )9.The heroine Tess in "Tess of the D'urbervilles"seems to be led to her final destruction step by step by ______,as Hardy says at the end of the novel:"Justice was done,and the President of the Immortals had ended his sport with Tess."
A.Angel Clare
B.Alec
C.Fate
D.Jude
( )10.Which of the following novels by wrence shows the influence of Freud's theory of psychoanalysis,especially that of the "Oedipus complex"?
A."The Rainbow"
B."Women in Love"
C."Sons and Lovers"
D."Lady Chatterley's Lover"
( )11."If Winter comes,can Spring be far behind?"This is written by ______,one of the leading Romantic poets.
A.John Keats
B.William Wordsworth
C.Percy Bysshe Shelley
D.William Blake
( )12.Jonathan Swift's"Gulliver's Travels" gives an unparalleled______depiction of the vices of his age.
A.religious
B.romantic
C.satirical
ic
( )13.John keats' famous poem______expresses the contrast between the happy world of natural loveliness and human world of agony.
A."Endymion"
B."Ode to a Nightingale"
C."Ode on a Grecian Urn"
D."Ode to Psyche"
( )14.The story of "Tom Jones"by Henry Fielding is told _______.
A.in a series of letters
B.in the third-person narration
C.by Tom Jones
D.in the form of diary
( )15."The School for Scandal"by Richard Brinsley Sheridan has been regarded as the best
______since Shakespeare.
A.tragedy
B.prose
edy
D.fable
II Fill in the following blanks:(10×1=10%)
1.John Milton wrote "Paradise Lost"in the form of epic,which describes the fall of______in a
grand style.
2.Walter Scott has been universally regarded as the founder and great master of the ______ novel.
3.Though ______ is not the first English novelist,he has generally been considered as "the father of English novel",for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.
4.Richard Brinsley Sheridan is the only important English_______of the eighteenth century,In his plays,morality is the constant theme.
5.The_______couplet is a pair of rhymed iambic pentameter lines,a verse form first used by the 14th-century poet Geoffrey Chaucer.
6.Oscar Wilde,who advocated the idea of "______",represented the literary school of decadence in the late 19th century.
7."Pilgrim's Progress" is written as a book of religious instructions in the form of_______and dream.
8.In England,the literary technique of "stream of consciousness" is best represented in the works of James Joyce and _______.
9.In his novels,Arnold Bennett depicts life and society with a strong_______tendency influenced by the French writer Zola and Guy de Maupassant.
10.Charles Dickens and William Thackeray were the two great representatives of the English critical realism in the _______century.
III.Find the relevant match from Column B for each item in Column A.(10×1=10%)
A B
Writers Works
( )1.Oscar Wilde a.Lucky Jim
( )2.John Osborne b.Life of Ma Parker
( )3.Kingsley Amis c.A passage to India
( )4.Katherine Mansfield d.An Ideal Husband
( )5.William Somerset
e.Of Human Bondage
Maugham
( )6.Edward Morgan Forster f.Look Back in Anger
( )7.John Galsworthy g.The Heart of the Matter
( )8.Jane Austen h.The Forsyte Saga
( )9.William Blake i.Pride and prejudice
( )10.Graham Greene j.The Tyger
IV.Read the following quotations and then answer the questions.(30%) 1.I wander thro each charter'd street,
Near where the charter'd Thames does flow,
And mark in every face I meet
Marks of weakness,marks of woe.
In every cry of every Man,
In every Infant's cry of fear,
In every voice,in every ban,
The mind-forg'd manacles I hear.
How the Chimney-sweeper's cry
Every black'ing Church appalls;
And the hapless Soldier's sign
Runs in blood down Palace walls.
But most thro'midnight streets I hear
How the youthful Harlot's curse
Blasts the new born Infant's tear,
And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse.
1)Who is the author of this po em and what is its title?(2×2=4%)
2)Explain the following phrases coined by the author.(3×2=6%)
a.chartered;
b.the mind forged manacles;
c.the marriage hearse.
3)What does the poem gain by repeating "every" in the second stanza?(5%)
2.Let us go then,you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table;
Let us go,through certain half-deserted streets,
The muttering retreats
Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels
And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells;
Streets that follow like a tedious argument
Of insidious intent
To lead you to an overwhelming question……
1)This stanza is selected from a very famous English poem.What is its title and author?(2×2=4%)
2)It is said that the "you and I"can be taken in two ways,What are the two ways do you think?(2×3=6%)
3)The basic emotions of this stanza are fear and malice.Can you point out the suggest these emotions?(5%)
V.Give brief answers to the following questions;(20%)
1.What are the distinct features of Charles Dickens' novels?(12%)
2.What are the major themes of Lawrence's "Sons and Lovers"?(8%)
VI.Short essay:(1×15=15%)
(In this part you are asked to write a short essay.You should concentrate on those important points and demonstrate your ideas with brief,apt episodes or quotations from the novel.Try your best to be logical in your essay.)
Give a brief analysis to Jane Eyre,the main character in Charlotte Brontě's "Jane Eyre".
In American literature, the eighteen century was the age of the
Enlightenment. was the dominant spirit.
A. Humanism
B. Rationalism
C. Revolution
D. Evolution
Which statement about Franklin is not true?
A. He instructed his countrymen as a printer.
B. He was a scientist.
C. He was a master of diplomacy.
D. He was a Puritan.
Who is regarded as the first American prose epic.
A. Nature
B. The Scarlet Letter
C. Walden
D. Moby-Dick
The Romanic Period of American literature started with the publication of Washington Irving's and ended with Whiteman's Leaves of Grass.
A. The Sketch Book
B. Tales of a Traveler
C. The Alhambra
D. A history of
New York
In Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, "A" may stand for .
A. Adultery
B. Angel
C. Amiable
D. All the above
The period before the American Civil War is generally referred to
as .
A. the Naturalist Period
B. the Modern Period
C. the Romantic Period
D. the Realistic Period
The Age of Realism is the literary history of the United States refers to the period from to .
A. 1861 – 1914
B. 1863 – 1918
C. 1865 – 1914
D. 1865 – 1918
Who is described by Mark Twain as a boy with "a sound heart and a deformed conscience?"
A. Tom Sawyer
B. Huckleberry Finn
C. Jim
D. Tony
Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his .
A. international theme
B. waste-land imagery
C. local color
D. symbolism
The impact of Darwin's evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the nineteenth-century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to yet another school of realism: American .
A. modernism
B. naturalism
C. vernacularism
D. local colorism
In 1900, London published his first collection of short stories,
named .
A. The son of the Wolf
B. The Sea Wolf
C. The Law of Life
D. White Fang
In which of the following works, Hemingway presents his philosophy about life and death through the depiction of the bull-fight as a kind of microcosmic tragedy?
A. The Green Hills of Africa.
B. The Snows of Kilimanjaro.
C. To Have and Have Not.
D. Death in the Afternoon.
Which of the following figures does not belong to "The Lost Generation"?
A. Ezra Pound
B. William Carlos Williams
C. Robert Frost
D. Theodore Dreiser
Who is a dramatist that holds the central position in American drama the modernistic period?
A. Sinclair Levis
B. Eugene O'Neil
C. Arthur Miller
D. Tennessee Williams
The following writers were awarded Nobel Prize for literature
except .
A. William Faulkner
B. F. Scott Fitzgerald
C. John Steinbeck
D. Ernest Hemingway
In 1954, was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature for his "mastery of the art of modern narration".
A. T.S. Eliot
B. Ernest Hemingway
C. John Steinbeck
D. William Faulkner
Who is the author of the work: "The Grapes of Wrath"?
A. John Steinbeck
B. Eugene O'Neil
C. F. Scott Fitzgerald
D. Theodore Dreiser
In 1920 Sinclair Lewis published his memorable denunciation of American small-town provincialism in .
A. Main Street
B. An American Tragedy
C. Winesburg, Ohio
D. Sister Carrie。