中国大学MOOC英国文学导读期末试卷考试答案

中国大学MOOC英国文学导读期末试卷考试答案
1单选(1分)
Written in 1837-38, ______ tells the story of an orphan boy who fell into the hands of thieves after getting out of the workhouse, and whose adventures provide material for a description of the lower depths of London. 得分/总分A.
A Tale of Two Cities
B.
Oliver Twist
C.
David Copperfield
D.
Little Dorrit正确答案：B你没选择任何选项
2单选(1分)
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” This is the beginning of the novel _____________.得分/总分 A. Middlemarch
B.
Sense and Sensibility
C.
Pride and Prejudice
D.
Jane Eyre正确答案：C你没选择任何选项
3单选(1分)
________ is about a young Swiss student who discovers the secret of animating lifeless matter and, by assembling body parts, creates a monster who vows revenge on his creator after being rejected from society.得分/总分A.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
B.
Pamela
C.
Vanity Fair
D.
Frankenstein正确答案：D你没选择任何选项
4单选(1分)
In English poetry, a four-line stanza is called ________________.得分/总分A.
terza rima
B.
quatrain
C.
heroic couplet
D.
Spenserian stanza正确答案：B你没选择任何选项
5单选(1分)
Literature of Neoclassicism is different from that of Romanticism in that ___________.得分/总分A.
the former is an intellectual movement, the purpose of which is to arouse the middle class for political rights while the latter is concerned with the personal cultivation
B.
the former is heavily religious but the latter secular
C.
the former celebrates reason, rationality, order and instruction while the latter sees literature as an expression on an individual’s feeling s and experiences
D.
the former advocates the “return to nature” whereas the latter turns to the ancient Greek and Roman writers for its models 正确答案：C你没选择任何选项
6单选(1分)
Romantic writers employ all the following EXCEPT _________ as their poetic materials.得分/总分A.
the commonplace
B.
the abstract
C.
the simple
D.
the natural正确答案：B你没选择任何选项
7单选(1分)
________ believes that man’s fate is predetermined tragic, driven by a combined force of “nature,” both inside and outside.得分/总分A.
Charles Dickens
B.
George Bernard Shaw
C.
T. S. Eliot
D.
Thomas Hardy正确答案：D你没选择任何选项
8单选(1分)
G. B. Shaw’s play Mrs. Warren’s Profession is a realistic exposure of the ___ in the English society.得分/总分A.
inequality between men and women
B.
economic exploitation of women
C.
slum landlordism
D.
political corruption正确答案：B你没选择任何选项
9单选(1分)
We can perhaps describe the west wind in Shelley’s poem “Ode to the West Wind” with all the following terms EXCEPT __________.得分/总分A.
wild
B.
tamed
C.
proud
D.
swift正确答案：B你没选择任何选项
10单选(1分)
_________ is the first important governess novel in the English literary history famous for the protagonist’s lines such as “I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God’s feet, equal-as we are!”得分/总分A.
Jane Eyre
B.
Emma
C.
Middlemarch
D.
Wuthering Heights正确答案：A你没选择任何选项
11单选(1分)
___________ by Wordsworth describe the rare elusive beauty of a young country girl living a simple life in a remote village far from the civilized world.得分/总分A.
“Lucy poems”
B.
“My heart leaps up”
C.
“I wandered lonely as a cloud”
D.
“Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey”正确答案：A你没选择任何选项
12单选(1分)
William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following EXCEPT ________.得分/总分A. the use of humble and rustic life as subject matter
B.
the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings
C.
the use of everyday language spoken by the common people
D.
the use of elegant wording and inflated figures of speech正确答案：D你没选择任何选项
13单选(1分)
Gothic novels are mostly stories of _________, which take place in some haunted or dilapidated Middle Age castles.得分/总分A.
mystery and horror
B.
love and marriage
C.
sea adventures
D.
saints and martyrs正确答案：A你没选择任何选项
14单选(1分)
You may have met the term “Yahoo” on the Internet, but you may also have met it in English literature. It is found in _______. 得分/总分A.
Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones
B.
Samuel Richardson’s Pamela
C.
John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress
D.
Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels正确答案：D你没选择任何选项
15单选(1分)
_________ is said to be written in a dream after the poet took opium and fell asleep.得分/总分A.“Christabel”
B.
“Ode to Nightingale”
C.
“The Rime of Ancient Mariner”
D.
“Kubla Khan”正确答案：D你没选择任何选项
16单选(1分)
In Paradise Lost, Raphael warned Adam ______.得分/总分A.
not to speak to Serpent
B.
not to speak to Eve
C.
not to eat the fruit on the tree of knowledge
D.
not to follow Satan正确答案：C你没选择任何选项
17单选(1分)
______ marks the appearance of modern novels.得分/总分A.
Pamela
B.
Gulliver’s Travels
C.
Robinson Crusoe
D.
Tom Jones正确答案：C你没选择任何选项
18单选(1分)
“Beauty is truth, truth beauty” is the most famous line of the poem ______.得分/总分A.“Ode on a Grecian Urn”
B.
“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”
C.
“Ode to the West Wind”
D.
“Kubla Khan”正确答案：A你没选择任何选项
19单选(1分)
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way…” This is the beginning of _______.得分/总分A.
David Copperfield
B.
Oliver Twist
C.
Hard Times
D.
A Tale of Two Cities正确答案：D你没选择任何选项
20单选(1分)
Tess of the D’Urbervilles is considered to be a representative work of ______ which accepts the theory of “survival of the fittest” and believes in pessimistic determinism. 得分/总分A. romanticism
B.
realism
C.
naturalism
D.
modernism正确答案：C你没选择任何选项
21判断(1分)
Friday is a character from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe.得分/总分A.B.
正确答案：B你没选择任何选项
22判断(1分)
An Essay of Criticism is written by Alexander Pope.得分/总分A.B.
正确答案：A你没选择任何选项
23判断(1分)
Vanity Fair is known as a novel "without heroes" and the heroines are Becky Sharp and Dorothea Brook. 得分/总分A.B.
正确答案：B你没选择任何选项
24判断(1分)
Antonio and Bassanio are characters from Don Juan. 得分/总分A.B.
正确答案：A你没选择任何选项
25判断(1分)
In Pride and Prejudice, Mrs. Bennet is so eager to marry her daughters to single young men with large fortunes because she does not have a male heir and the family property will be inherited by
an outsider.得分/总分A.B.
正确答案：B你没选择任何选项
26判断(1分)
Shylock is the merchant of Venice in Shakespeare’s play The Merchant of Venice.得分/总分A.B.正确答案：A你没选择任何选项27判断(1分)
Mrs. Dalloway details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway in London.得分/总分A.B.
正确答案：A你没选择任何选项
28判断(1分)
Songs of Innocence is a lovely volume of poems which praise the beauty of nature and the innocence of the child. 得分/总分A.B.
正确答案：B你没选择任何选项
29判断(1分)
“A Red, Red Rose” is one of Burns’ most popular songs in Scottish dialect which praises the natural beauty of roses. 得分/总分A.B.
正确答案：B你没选择任何选项
30判断(1分)
Byron makes a great contribution to English literature by
introducing a new style of character, “Byronic Hero”.得分/总分A.B.
正确答案：B你没选择任何选项
31填空(2分)
_______ is considered the first great English dramatist and the most important Elizabethan playwright before Shakespeare.得分/总分你没有填写答案
正确答案：Christopher Marlowe 或Marlowe
32填空(2分)
_____ was the last English novelist who embodied many of the dreams of a declining British Empire and the first English writer who was awarded the Noble Prize for Literature.得分/总分你没有填写答案
正确答案：Rudyard Kipling 或Kipling 或Joseph Rudyard Kipling
33填空(2分)
In the Victorian period, the ________ (literary genre) became the most widely read and the most vital and challenging expression of progressive thought.得分/总分你没有填写答案正确答案：novel
34填空(2分)
Renaissance in British literary history is the age of ________ and the age of drama.得分/总分你没有填写答案
正确答案：sonnet 或sonnets
35填空(2分)
________ has been regarded as the greatest dramatist in the early 20th century in British literary history and his plays are important problem plays.得分/总分你没有填写答案
正确答案：G. B. Shaw 或George Bernard Shaw 或Bernard Shaw 或Shaw
36填空(2分)
__________ is called the Father of the English Novel because he used third-person narration which contributes to the progress of novel writing.得分/总分你没有填写答案
正确答案：Henry Fielding 或Fielding
37填空(2分)
R obert Browning’s reputation mainly rests on his development and his masterly creation of the “___________ monologue,” a poetic form used by a lot of poets.得分/总分你没有填写答案
正确答案：dramatic
38填空(2分)
According to the subjects, Wordsworth’s short poems can be classified into two groups: poems about common people and poems about ______.得分/总分你没有填写答案
正确答案：nature
39填空(2分)
__________, which is 433 lines long written by T. S. Eliot, is broadly acknowledged as one of the most recognizable landmarks of the manifesto of modernist poetry in the 20th century.得分/总分你没有填写答案
正确答案：The Waste Land 或Waste Land
40填空(2分)
English Romanticism is generally said to have begun in 1798 with the publication of __________.得分/总分你没有填写答案正确答案：Lyrical Ballads 或The Lyrical Ballads
41填空(2分)
Alexander Pope is called the advocator of ________, a great verse satirist, and the high priest of the Age of Reason.得分/总分你没有填写答案
正确答案：Neoclassicism 或neoclassicism
42填空(2分)
________ foot is foot in which an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.得分/总分你没有填写答案
正确答案：Iambic 或iambic
43填空(2分)
The two key figures who made the __________ novel known to the world are Virginia Woolf and James Joyce.得分/总分你没有填写答案
正确答案：stream-of-consciousness 或stream of consciousness
44填空(2分)
George Eliot’s most famous novels is ______, w hich is about the lives of Dorothea Brooke and Tertius Lydgate in a provincial town in 19th century. 得分/总分你没有填写答案
正确答案：Middlemarch
45填空(2分)
Alfred Tennyson succeeded Wordsworth as the __________ in 1850, appointed by Queen Victoria and served 42 years.得分/总分你没有填写答案
正确答案：Poet Laureate 或poet laureate。