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北语 20春《英美文学选读》作业_1234

北语 20春《英美文学选读》作业_1234

20春《英美文学选读》作业_1一、单选题( 每题5分, 共10道小题, 总分值50分)1.Because of her sensitivity to universal pattens of human behavior, ______ has brought the English novel, as an art of form, to its maturity.A. Charlotte BronteB. Jane AustenC. Emily BronteD. Henry Fielding答:B q:80·500·92612.What's the name of Hester and Dimmesdale 's daughter?A. AmyB. PearlC. NinaD. Berry答:B3." Charles Drouet ", " George Hustwood ", " Julia Hustwood " are most likely the names of the characters in ________.A. Shaw’s Mrs Warren’s ProfessionB. Dreiser’s Sister CarrierC. Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s LostD. Christopher Marlowe’s Dr.Faustus答:B4.Where did Shakespeare work in LondonA. farmB. theaterC. factoryD. office答:B5."'I believe you are made of stone,'he said, clenching his fingers so hard that he broke the fragile cup. …'You seem to forget,'she said,'that cup is not!'" .From the above quoted passage, we can find the woman's tone is very( ) .A. sarcasticB. amusingC. sentimentalD. facetious答:A6.The poem Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening is selected from____A. A Witness TreeB. Steeple BushC. New HampshireD. A Further Range答:C7.All of the following poems by William Wordsworth are masterpieces on nature EXCEPT ______.A. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”B. “An Evening Walk”C. “Tintern Abbey”D. “The Solitary Reaper”答:D8.George Bernard Shaw’s ______ is a grotesquely realistic exposure of slum landlordism.A. Widower’ s HouseB. Mrs. Warren’ s ProfessionC. The Apple CartD. Getting Married答:B9.Virginia Woolf was born in a____A. poor familyB. small familyC. rich familyD. talented family答:D10.In American literature, escaping from the society and returning to nature is a common subject. The following titles are all related, in one way or another, to the subject except _______.A. Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnB. Dreiser's Sister CarrieC. Copper's Leather-Stocking TalesD. Thoreau's Walden答:B二、判断题( 每题5分, 共10道小题, 总分值50分)1.To the Lighthouse is divided into three sections and each different from the others in the treatment of time and structure.答:正确2.Critical realism is the period between 1875 and 1920 to apply the methods of realistic diction to the criticism of society and the examination of social issues.3."Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere; /Destroyer and Preserver; hear, O hear!" the line are taken from Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind".4.The name of the first and most successful section in To the Lighthouse is “Window”.5.The 18th century witnessed a new literary form -the modern English novel, which, contrary to the medieval romance, gives a realistic presentation of life of the common English people.6."To be, or not to be"is one of the question put forward by Hamlet at the beginning of the soliloquy.7.George Hustwood , a friend of Drouet’s, rescues Carrie from starvation and makes her his mistress.8.It was said that Shakespeare was forced to leave his hometown to seek refuge in London.9.The themes of Robert Frost’s poems include landscape and people of New England, loneliness and poverty of isolated farmers, beauty, terror, and tragedy in nature.10.Jane Austen’s style is possessed of a neat humor and a satirical touch.20春《英美文学选读》作业_2一、单选题( 每题5分, 共10道小题, 总分值50分)1.The name of the hero in Jane Eyre was___A. HeathcliffB. RochesterC. JamesD. David2.How many groups are there in Hardy's novels?A. twoB. threeC. fourD. five3.Which of the following is NOT a tragicomedy?A. Timon of AthensB. CymblineC. The winter's taleD. The tempest4.In the first part of the novel Pride and prejudice, Mr. Darcy has a (n)______ of the Bennet family.A. high opinionB. great admirationC. low opinionD. erroneous view5.Which is Dofoe’s masterpiece?A. Robinson CrusoeB. Queen MabC. The Revolt of IsiamD. The Taming of the Shrew6.The title of the novel “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ”written by James Joyce suggests a character study with strong _________ elements .A. autobiographicalB. sentimentalC. joyfulD. bitter7.The poem Ode to a Nightingale was written by___A. William WordsworthB. John KeatsC. ShelleyD. Coleridge8.Mr. Micawber in David Copperfield is perhaps the best ______ characters created by Charles Dickens.A. comicB. tragicC. roundD. sophisticated9.H. L. Mencken, a famous American critic, considered ______ “the true father of our national literature. ”A. Hamlin GarlandB. Joseph KirklandC. Mark TwainD. Henry James10.All of the following works are known as Hardy’s “novels of character and environment”EXCEPT ______.A. The Return of the NativeB. Tess of the D’ UrbervillesC. Jude the ObscureD. Far from the Madding Crowd二、判断题( 每题5分, 共10道小题, 总分值50分)1.Augustus Carmichael of To the Lighthouse is an elderly musician and friends of the Ramsays.2.“The horizon’s edge, the flying sea-crow, the fragrance of salt marsh and shore mud.”the author of this poem is Robert Frost.3.Each individual unit it collection of stressed and unstressed syllables is called a foot.4.The heroine of The Scarlet Letter is Hester Prynne5.In Pride and Prejudice,Mr. and Mrs. Bennet have five daughters.6.There were many literary artists involved in the groups known as the Lost Generation. The three best known areSherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos.7.Wordsworth’s attitude towards the French Revolution changed at his later years.8.There is a wild rosebush in chapter one of The Scarlet Letter beside the prison door, but it is withered.9.In Pride and Prejudice,Mr. Bingley and the eldest girl Jane Bennet fall in love.10.Ezra Pound gave Robert Frost a very good opinion about his poems and helped him to find British publishers.20春《英美文学选读》作业_3一、单选题( 每题5分, 共10道小题, 总分值50分)1.It was his masterpiece The Great Gatsby that made ______ one of the greatest American novelists.A. F. Scott FitzgeraldB. William FaulknerC. Ernest HemmingwayD. Gertrude Steinbeck2."Two roads diverged in a yellow wood /And sorry I could not travel both ..." In the above two lines of Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken, the poet, by implication, was referring to _______.A. a travel experienceB. a marriage decisionC. a middle-age crisisD. one’s c ourse of life3."Two roads diverged in a yellow wood /And sorry I could not travel both ..." /In the above two lines of Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken, the poet, by implication, was referring to _______.A. a travel experienceB. a marriage decisionC. a middle-age crisisD. one’s course of life4.’Damn the fool! There he is’, cried Heathcliff, sinking back into his seat. ’Hush, my darling! Hush, hush, Catherine! I’ll stay. If he shot me so, I’d expire with a blessing in my lips.’" The novel from which the passage is taken must be _________.A. Jane Austen’s Pride and PrejudiceB. Charles Dickens’s The Old Curiosity ShopC. Samuel Richardson’s PamelaD. Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights5.Which of the following is taken from John Keats'Ode to a Nightingale?A. "Beauty is truth, truth beauty."B. "Earth has not anything to show more fair."C. "They are both gone up to the church to pray."D. "was it a vision, or a waking dream?"6.Southey,Wordsworth,______and Shelley are the major Romantic poets.A. HardyB. ColeridgeC. ScottD. Frost7.Poetry is defined by ______ as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, which originates in emotion recollected in tranquility”.A. William WordsworthB. William BlakeC. Percy Bysshe ShelleyD. Robert Southey8.In 1837, ______ published Twice - Told Tales, a collection of short stories which attracted critical attention.A. EmersonB. MelvilleC. WhitmanD. Hawthorne9.Of all the eighteenth-century novelists, _______ was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a "comic epic in prose," and the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.A. Daniel DefoeB. Samuel RichardsonC. Henry FieldingD. Oliver Goldsmith10.Charles Dicken's early years were___A. happyB. difficultC. richD. sunny二、判断题( 每题5分, 共10道小题, 总分值50分)1.Robinson Crusoe retells the story in the first person singular2.The Scarlet Letter is set in the 17th-century Boston.3.William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated the use of elegant wording and inflated figures of speech.4.Crusoe travelled on the other side of the island for three month.5.Kitty is the fourth daughter of the Bennet family.6.The second section of To the Lighthouse is entitled “Time Passes”.7.Robert Frost left Harvard because he dislike the academic convention.8.According to Hawthorne, the scarlet letter "A" originally stood for "adultery" .9.The meaning of "To die, to sleep" is comparing "death" to "long sleep".10.Of all Dickens’s novels, Nicholas Nickleby is regarded as his masterpiece.20春《英美文学选读》作业_4一、单选题( 每题5分, 共10道小题, 总分值50分)1.Within her little lyrics Dickinson addresses those issues that concern ______, which include religion, death, immorality, love and nature.A. the whole human beingsB. the frontiersC. the African AmericansD. her relatives2.In “Sonnet 18 ”,Shakespeare has a profound meditation on the destructive power of _________ and the eternal __________ brought forth by poetry to the one he loves .A. death/ lifeB. death/ loveC. time / beautyD. hate / love3.Which of the following is NOT written by Wordsworth.A. Lines Written in Early SpringB. To the CuckooC. I Wandered Lonely as a CloudD. Moll Flanders4.Henry Fielding has been regarded by some as “_______”,for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.A. Father of the English NovelB. Father of the English PoetryC. Father of the English DramaD. Father of the English Short Story5."If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?" is an epigrammatic line byA. J. KeatsB. W. BlakeC. W. WordsworthD. P.Shelley6.As a naturalist writer, Theodore Dreiser was greatly influenced by _______.A. Nathaniel HawthorneB. Charles DarwinC. Henry JamesD. Ralph Waldo Emerson7.The Renaissance marks a transition from ______ to the modern world.A. the old EnglishB. the medievalC. the feudalistD. the capitalist8.Shakespeare’s four greatest tragedies are ________.A. Twelfth Night, Othello, King Lear, HamletB. Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, The Merchant of VeniceC. Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, MacbethD. Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, Othello, Hamlet9.Shelley’s political lyrics ______ is not only a war cry calling upon all working people to rise up against their political oppressors, but an address to them pointing out the intolerable injustice of economic exploitation.A. “Ode to Liberty”B. “Ode to Naples”C. “Ode to the West Wind”D. “Men of England”10.The Victorian Age was largely an age of___ , eminently represented by Dickens and Thackeray.A. poetryB. dramaC. proseD. verse二、判断题( 每题5分, 共10道小题, 总分值50分)1.In Pride and Prejudice,Mary is the third daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet.2.In Pride and Prejudice,Mr. Bennet regards Elizabeth as the most intelligent and spirited daughter.3.David Copperfield use the first person singular.4.To put the stress on traditional values is NOT a typical feature of Modernism5.Fitzgerald’s first novel brought his instant fame and money.6.Stylistically,poems of Robert Frost is characterized by simple language, a graceful style, and traditional forms of poetry.7.Robert Frost used symbols from everyday life to express profound ideas.8.In David Copperfield,Mr. Micawber is a rich squire who lives a comfortable life.9.Crusoe got spiritual support from his daily reading of the Bible.10.While studying at Lawrence High School, Frost wrote poems and finished his studies at the top of his class.。

北语 19春《英美文学选读》作业_1234

北语 19春《英美文学选读》作业_1234

19春《英美文学选读》作业_1一、单选题( 每题4分, 共20道小题, 总分值80分)1.The Hemingway code heroes are best remembered for their _______ .A. indestructible spiritB. pessimistic view of lifeC. war experiencesD. masculinity答案:A q:80/500/92612.Dreiser once wrote, “It is not intended as a piece of literary craftsmanship, but as a picture of conditions done as simply and effectively as the English language will permit.”which works did Dreiser remarks about?A. Jennie GerhardtB. An American TragedyC. The GeniusD. Sister Carrie答案:D3.Gatsby,Daisy,Nick are the characters of ( )A. The Beautiful and DamnedB. Tender is the NightC. The Great GatsbyD. This Side of Paradise portrays答案:C4.In Sister Carrie, Hurstwood, extremely hopeless and totally devastated, ends his life by turning on the gas, while at the same time Carrie is rocking comfortably in her luxurious hotel room before she boards a ship for _______.A. New YorkB. LondonC. ParisD. Geneva答案:B5.which of Woolf'novels was adapted into movie named The Hours?A. Mrs.DallowayB. The WavesC. The Common ReaderD. To the Light house答案:A6.Within her little lyrics Dickinson addresses those issues that concern ______, which include religion, death, immorality, love and nature.A. the whole human beingsB. the frontiersC. the African AmericansD. her relatives答案:A7.Which of the following is NOT written by Wordsworth.A. Lines Written in Early SpringB. To the CuckooC. I Wandered Lonely as a CloudD. Moll Flanders答案:D8.Tess of the D’Urbervilles, one of Thomas Hardy’s best known novels, portrays man as ________.A. being hereditarily either good or badB. being self-sufficientC. having no control over his own fateD. still retaining his own faith in a world of confusion答案:C9.Whitman's poems are characterized by all the following features EXCEPT ______ .A. the strict poetic formB. the free and natural rhythmC. the easy flow of feelingsD. the simple and conversational language答案:A10."Two roads diverged in a yellow wood /And sorry I could not travel both ..." /In the above two lines of Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken, the poet, by implication, was referring to _______.A. a travel experienceB. a marriage decisionC. a middle-age crisisD. one’s course of life答案:D11.All of the following poems by William Wordsworth are masterpieces on nature EXCEPT ______.A. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”B. “An Evening Walk”C. “Tintern Abbey”D. “The Solitary Reaper”答案:D12.The Hemingway Code heroes are best remembered for theirA. indestructible spiritB. pessimistic view of lifeC. war experiencesD. masculinity13.“The apparition of these faces in the crowd ;Petals on a wet ,black bough . ”This is the shortest poem written by _________.A. T.S. EliotB. Robert FrostC. Ezra PoundD. Emily Dickinson14.Which of the following works best represents the national spirit of the 18th-century England?A. Robinson CrusoeB. Gulliver's TravelsC. Jonathan Wild the GreatD. A Sentimental Journey15.which of writer is the friend of famous poet Longfellow?A. HawthorneB. John MiltonC. Thomas GrayD. John Keats16."So much the worse for me, that I an strong. Do I want to live? What kind of living will it be when you-oh, God! /Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?"/In the above passage quoted from Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, the word "soul" app arently refers to _______ .A. HeathcliffB. CatherineC. ghostD. one's spiritual lift17.Virginia Woolf was born in___A. 1882B. 1767C. 1678D. 189018.In I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud ,“daffodil”stands for___.A. womanB. natureC. loveD. spring19.Robert Frost won___ Plitzer prices.A. twoB. threeC. fourD. five20.The Renaissance marks a transition from ______ to the modern world.A. the old EnglishB. the medievalC. the feudalistD. the capitalist二、判断题( 每题4分, 共5道小题, 总分值20分)1.David Copperfield was born into a wealthy family.答案:错误2.The heroine of The Scarlet Letter is Hester Prynne答案:正确3.Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe created the image of an enterprising Englishman, typical of the English bourgeoisie in the 18th century.答案:正确4.Robert Frost used symbols from everyday life to express profound ideas.答案:正确5.In Pride and Prejudice,Mr. Bingley and the eldest girl Jane Bennet fall in love.答案:正确19春《英美文学选读》作业_2一、单选题( 每题4分, 共20道小题, 总分值80分)1.In Robert Frost's famous poems"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" ,there are four lines like these:"The woods are lovely,dark and deep,/But I have promises to keep ,/And miles to go before I sleep ,/ And miles to go before I sleep ".The second sleep refers to( ).A. calm downB. fall into sleepC. dieD. stop walking2.Charles Dickens was born in___A. 1765B. 1889C. 1812D. 18703."The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks."(Samuel Johnson, "To the Right Honorable the Earl of Chesterfield")The speaker here is ( ).A. cheerfulB. ironicC. mysteriousD. nonchalant4.William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following EXCEPTA. the use of everyday language spoken by the common peopleB. the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelingsC. the use of humble and rustic life as subject matterD. the use of elegant wording and inflated figures of speech5.’Damn the fool! There he is’, cried Heathcliff, sinking back into his seat. ’Hush, my darling! Hush, hush, Catherine! I’ll stay. If he shot me so, I’d expire with a blessing in my lips.’" The novel from which the passage is taken must be _________.A. Jane Austen’s Pride and PrejudiceB. Charles Dickens’s The Old Curiosity Sh opC. Samuel Richardson’s PamelaD. Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights6.We can easily find in Dreiser’s fiction a world of jungle, and ______ found expression in almost every book he wrote.A. naturalismB. romanticismC. transcendentalismD. cubism7.Which of the following is a tragedy?A. Antony and CleopatraB. Twelfth NightC. Julius CaesarD. Much ado about Nothing8.The Sun Also Rises casts light on a whole generation after WWI and the effects of the war by way of a vivid portrait of “______.”A. the Beat GenerationB. the Lost GenerationC. the Babybooming AgeD. the Jazz Age9.English Romanticism, as a historical phase of literature, is generally said to have ended in 1832with ______.A. the passage of the first Reform Bill in the ParliamentB. the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge’s Lyrical BalladsC. the publication of T.S.Eliot’s The waste LandD. the passage of the Bill of Rights in the Parliament10.Charlotte’s works are famous for the depiction of the life of ______ working women, particularly governesses.A. the middle - classB. the lower - classC. the upper - middle - classD. the upper - class11.Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his production ofA. Piers PlowmanB. Sir Gawain and the Green KnightC. Confessio AmantisD. The Canterbury Tales12."And where are they? And where art thou,"/My country? On thy voiceless shore /The heroic lay is tuneless now- /The heroic bosom beats no more!"(George Gordon Byron, Don Juan),In the above stanza, "art thou" literally means _______ .A. "are you"B. "art though"C. "are though"D. "art you"13.Dreiser's Trilogy of Desire includes three novels. They are The Financier, The Titan and _______ .A. The GeniusB. The TycoonC. The StoicD. The Giant14.The Winter’s Tale of Shakespeare’s works was composed in ______.A. 1595B. 1600C. 1610D. 161215.Here are two lines from a ling poem: "Upon a great adventure he was bond, That greatest Gloriana to him gave." The poem must be_____.A. BeowulfB. John Milton’s Samson AgonistesC. Thomas Gray’s Elegy Written in a County ChurchyardD. Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene16.Charles Dickens’novel, ______, is famous for its vivid descriptions of the work-house and life of the underworld in the nineteenth-century London.A. The Pickwick PaperB. Oliver TwistC. David CopperfieldD. Nicholas Nickleby17.How many periods are divided into in the creation years of Shakespeare?A. threeB. fourC. twoD. five18.Of the following American poets in the twentieth century, the one who has the best knowledge of Chinese culture is _______.A. Robert FrostB. Allen GinsbergC. Ezra PoundD. E. E. Cummings19.Dickens takes the French Revolution as the background of the novel “_______”.A. A Tale of Two CitiesB. Great ExpectationsC. Hard TimesD. David Copperfield20."This is my letter to the World" is a poetic expression of Emily Dickinson's___ about her communication with the outside world.A. indifferenceB. angerC. anxietyD. sorrow二、判断题( 每题4分, 共5道小题, 总分值20分)1.Each individual unit it collection of stressed and unstressed syllables is called a foot.2.In Pride and Prejudice,Mary is the third daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet.3.F. Scott Fitzgerald received the Nobel Prize in 1920s.4.Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind is a famous quote from WaltWhitman’s writings.5.Crusoe got spiritual support from his daily reading of the Bible.19春《英美文学选读》作业_3一、单选题( 每题4分, 共20道小题, 总分值80分)1.Hamlet by Shakespeare reflects the light of the English ______.A. RenaissanceB. ModernismC. ScientismD. Feminism2."O prince, O chief of many throned powers," /That led th'embattled seraphim to war /Under thy conduct, and in dreadful deeds /Fearless, endangered Heaven's perpetual King." /In the third line of the above passage quoted from Milton's Paradise Lost, the phrase "thy conduct" refers to ( ).A. Satan'sB. God'sC. Adam'sD. Eve's3.In Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth Bennet finds out some weak points about herself in the process of judging others. Which of the following is NOT a weak point of hers?A. BlindnessB. PartialityC. SnobbishnessD. Prejudice.4.Mr. Micawber in David Copperfield is perhaps the best ______ characters created by Charles Dickens.A. comicB. tragicC. roundD. sophisticated5.Which of the following plays does not belong to Shakespeare’s great tragedies?A. MacbethB. King LearC. HamletD. The Comedy of Errors6.The statement that a man gained the whole world but lost his own soul makes a good summary of the main plot of ______.A. Paradise LostB. The Merchant of VeniceC. HamletD. The Tragic History of Doctor Faustus7."Do you think, because I am poor, obscur e, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless?…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." The above quoted passage is most probably taken from _______ .A. Pride and PrejudiceB. Jane EyreC. Wuthering HeightsD. Great Expectations8.In the conversation with his wife in Chapter One of Pride and Prejudice, Mr. Bennet uses a(n) ______ tone with sarcastic humor.A. solemnB. harshC. arrogantD. teasing9.Charles Dicken's early years were___A. happyB. difficultC. richD. sunny10.which of the following is NOT written by Dreiser?A. Jennie GerhardtB. Go down, MosesC. An American TragedyD. Sister Carrie11.Because of her sensitivity to universal pattens of human behavior, ______ has brought the English novel, as an art of form, to its maturity.A. Charlotte BronteB. Jane AustenC. Emily BronteD. Henry Fielding12.The lines, "The only other sound’s the sweep/Of easy wind and downy flake" ,are found in __________.A. Robert Frost’s Stopping by woods on a Snowy Evening"B. William Wordsworth’s "Lines Written in Early Spring"C. John Keats’s "Ode to Autumn"D. Percy Bysshe Shelly’s "ode to the West Wind"13.George Bernard Shaw’s ______ is a grotesquely realistic exposure of slum landlordism.A. Widower’ s HouseB. Mrs. Warren’ s ProfessionC. The Apple CartD. Getting Married14.Many people today tend to regard the play “The Merchant of Venice ”as a satire of the hypocrisy of __________ and their false standards of friendship and love ,their cunning ways of pursuing worldliness and their unreasoning prejudice against _________ .A. Christians / JewsB. Jews / ChristiansC. oppressors / oppressedD. people / Jews15.In Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, Antonio could not pay back the money he borrowed from Shylock, because ______.A. his money was all invested in the newly-emerging textile industryB. his enterprise went bankruptC. Bassanio was able to pay his own debtD. his ships had all been lost16.What's the name of Hester and Dimmesdale 's daughter?A. AmyB. PearlC. NinaD. Berry17.In Sister Carrie, Hurstwood, extremely hopeless and totally devastated, ends his life by turning on the gas, while at the same time Carrie is rocking comfortably in her luxurious hotel room before she boards a ship for _______.A. New YorkB. LondonC. ParisD. Geneva18.When we say that a poor young man from the West tried to make his fortune in the East but was disillusioned in the quest of an idealized dream, we are probably discussing about ______'s thematic concern in his fiction writing.A. Henry JamesB. Scott FitzgeraldC. Ernest HemingwayD. William Faulkner19.The work Shakespeare wrote in 1600 is______.A. King learB. Twelfth NightC. Julius CaesarD. Much ado about Nothing20.Which of the following is not a work of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s?A. The House of the Seven Gables.B. The Blithedale RomanceC. The Marble FaunD. White Jacket.二、判断题( 每题4分, 共5道小题, 总分值20分)1.By the end of his life Robert Frost had become a national bard and he received honorary degrees from forty-four colleges and universities and won four Pulitzer Prizes.2.“American dream”refers to “An American ideal of a happy and successful life to which all may aspire”.3.The meaning of "To die, to sleep" is comparing "death" to "long sleep".4.Dickens’s first child hero is Oliver Twist.5.Robert Frost received the Bollingen Prize in 1963 just before his death.19春《英美文学选读》作业_4一、单选题( 每题4分, 共20道小题, 总分值80分)1."The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks."(Samuel Johnson, "To the Right Honorable the Earl of Chesterfield")The speaker here is ______.A. cheerfulB. ironicC. mysteriousD. nonchalant2.During her lifetime, who published all novels anonymously?A. Jane AustenB. Charlotte BronteC. Robert FrostD. Emily Dickinson3.In May 1945, Dreiser joined the ___A. American republicanB. labor partyC. democratic partyD. communist party4.Jane Austen passed away when she was___A. 38B. 48C. 42D. 525.In American literature, escaping from the society and returning to nature is a common subject. The following titles are all related, in one way or another, to the subject except _______.A. Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnB. Dreiser's Sister CarrieC. Copper's Leather-Stocking TalesD. Thoreau's Walden6.What does Wordsworth's poem "The Solitary Reaper" tell us about Romanticist?A. To romanticists, poetry is an expression of an individual's feelings and experiences no matter how fragmentary and momentary these feelings and experiences are.B. Romanticist take delight only in sound effect, the theme of a work is not their concern.C. Romanticist are not patient peopleD. they would leave before the revelation of the theme.E. Poetry should present the apparent and tangible.7.According to Hawthorne, the scarlet letter "A" which originally stood for "_______" finally obtained the meaning of "able" or "angel" through Hester's efforts.A. adulteryB. arroganceC. accomplishmentD. agony8.Walt Whitman was a pioneering figure of American poetry. His innovation first of all lies in his use of , poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.A. bland verseB. heroic coupletC. free verseD. iambic pentameter9.Elizabeth Bennet was the___ daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet.A. FirstB. SecondC. ThirdD. Fourth10.Where does Sister Carrier go to pursue her American dream?A. ChicagoB. New YorkC. BostonD. Los Angeles11.H. L. Mencken, a famous American critic, considered ______ “the true father of our national literature. ”A. Hamlin GarlandB. Joseph KirklandC. Mark TwainD. Henry James12.Realism was a reaction against Romanticism and paved the way to ______.A. ModernismB. ScientismC. Post-ModernismD. Feminism13..Dreiser’s Trilogy of Desire includes three novels. They are The Financier, The Titan and _______ .A. The GeniusB. The TycoonC. The StoicD. The Giant14."Bassanio: Antonio, I am married to a wife Which is as dear to me as life itself;But life itself, my wife, and all the world,Are not with me esteem'd above thy life;I would lose all, ay, sacrifice them all,Here to the devil, to deliver you.Portia: Your wife would give you little thanks for that,If she were by to hear you make the offer."The above is a quotation taken from Shakespeare's comedy The Merchant of Venice. The quoted part can be regarded as a good example to illustrate___A. dramatic ironyB. personificationC. allegoryD. symbolism15.Which of the following statements about The Scarlet Letter is NOT true?A. It explores man's never-ending search for the satisfaction of materialistic desires.B. It relates the conflicts between the society and the individual.C. It is about the effect of sin on the people involved and the society as a whole.D. It presents a psychological analysis of the inward tensions of the characters.16.The term tone in literature means__________.A. sound effect such as rhyme and metrical deviceB. the pitch of a word used to determine its meaning in the given contextC. the manner of expression to indicate the speaker's attitude towards the subjectD. a shade of colour to reflect the change of the light17.Of all the novels written by Dickens, which one did he like best?A. Oliver TwistB. David CopperfieldC. A tale of Two CitiesD. Pickwick Papers18.Lots of people rushed to Gatsby's party at the weekend and they clustered around Castsby's wealth like().A. gluttonsB. fliesC. insectsD. moths19.Of the following American poets ,whose work was first recognized in England and then in America?A. Walt WhitmanB. Robert FrostC. Emily DickinsonD. Wallace Stevens20.After reading the first chapter of Pride and Prejudice, we may come to know that Mrs. Bennet is a woman of _______ .A. simple character and quick witB. simple character and poor understandingC. intricate character and quick witD.intricate character and poor understanding二、判断题( 每题4分, 共5道小题, 总分值20分)1.Hester Prynne,the heroine of The Scarlet Letter, is a woman of oriental beauty who falls in love with the young minister after she comes to America alone and is separated from her husband.2.Ezra Pound gave Robert Frost a very good opinion about his poems and helped him to find British publishers.3.Daniel Defoe was born in a teacher’s family.4.The last section of To the Lighthouse is entitled “The Lighthouse”.5.Hawthorne managed to evoke readers emotional sympathy for the heroine of The Scarlet Letter.。

英美文学选读试题及答案1

英美文学选读试题及答案1

英美文学选读试题Ⅰ.Multiple Choice (40 points in all, 1 for each)Select from the four choices [A],[B],[C],[D] of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement and write the letter on the answer sheet.1.Romance,which uses narrative verse or prose to tell stories of ___ adventures or other heroic deeds, is a popular literary form in the medieval period.A.Christian2.Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his production of ___.A.Piers PlowmanB.Sir Gawain and the Green KnightC.Confessio AmantisD.The Canterbury Tales3.Which of the following historical events does not directly help to stimulate the rising of the Renaisssance Movement?A.The rediscovery of ancient Greek and Roman culture.B.The new discoveries in geography and astrology.C.The Glorious revolution.D.The religious reformation and the economic expansion.4.Which of the following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare's Sonnet 18?A.The speaker eulogizes the power of Nature.B.The speaker satirizes human vanity.C.The speaker praises the power of artistic creation.D.The speaker meditates on man's salvation.5.“And we will sit upon the rocks,/Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks,/By shallow rivers to whose falls/Melodious bird s sing madrigals.〞The above lines are probably taken from __.A.Spenser's The Faerie QueeneB.John Donne's “The Sun Rising〞C.Shakespeare's “Sonnet 18”D.Marlowe's “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love〞6.“Bassanio:Antonio,I am married to a wifeWhich is as dear to me as life itself;But life itself, My wife, and all the world.Are not with me esteem'd above thy life;I would lose all, ay, sacrifice them all,Here to the devil, to deliver you.Portia:Your wife would give you little thanks for that,If she were by to hear you make the offer.〞The above is a quotation taken from Shakespeare's comedy The Merchant of Venice.The quoted part can be regarded as a good example to illustrate ____.A.dramatic irony7.The ture subjec t of John Donne's poem,“The Sun Rising,〞is to ___.A.attack the sun as an unruly servantB.give compliments to the mistress and her power of beautyC.criticize the sun's intrusion into the lover's private lifeD. lecture the sun on where true royalty and riches lie8.Of all the 18thcentury novelists Henry Fielding was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specificall y a “___ in prose,〞the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.A.tragic epic B ic epicC.romanceD.lyric epic9.The Houyhnhnms depicted by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels are ___.A.horses that are endowed with reasonB.pigmies that are endowed with admirable qualitiesC.giants that are superior in wisdomD.hairy,wild, low and despicable creatures, who resemble human beings not only in appearance but also in some other ways.10.Here are four lines from a literary work:“Others for language all their care express,/And value books,as women men, for dress.〞The work is ___.A.Thomas Gray's “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard〞B.John Milton's Paradise LostC.Alexander Pope's Essay on CriticismD.Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream11.The phrase “to urge people to abide by Christian doctrines a nd to seek salvation through constant struggles with their own weaknesses and all kinds of social evils〞may well sum up the implied meaning of ___.A.Gulliver's TravelsB.The Rape of the LockC.Robinson CrusoeD.The pilgrim's Progress12.William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following EXCEPT ___.A.the use of everyday language spoken by the common peopleB.the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelingsC.the use of humble and rustic life as subject matterD.the use of elegant wording and inflated figures of speech13.Which of the following is taken from John Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn〞?A.“I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!〞B.“They are both gone up to the church to pary.〞C.“Earth has not anything to show more fair.〞D.“Beauty is truth, truth beauty〞.14.“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind!〞is an epigrammatic line by __.A.J.KeatsB.W.BlakeC.W.Wordsworth15.“Ode o na Grecian Urn〞shows the contrast between the ___ of art and the ___ of human passion.A.glory …uglinessB.permanence…transienceC.transience…sordidnessD.glory…permanence16.In the statement“—oh,God! would you like to live with your soul in the grave?〞the term“soul〞apparently refers to ___.A.Heathcliff himselfC.one's spiritual lifeD.one's ghost17.The typical feature of Robet Browning's poetry is the ___.A.bitter satirerger-than-life caricaturetinized dictionD.dramatic monologue18.The Victorian Age was largely an age of ____,eminently represented by Dickens and Thackeray.A.poetryB.drama D.epic prose19.___is the first important governess(家庭女教师) novel in the English literary history.A.Jane EyreHeights20.The major concern of ______ fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature.wrence'sB.J.Galsworthy'sC.W.Thackeray’sD.T.Hardy’s21.___is considered to be the best-known English dramatist since Shakespeare, and his representative works are plays inspired by social criticism.A.Richard SheridanB.Oliver GoldsmithC.Oscar WildeD.Bernard Shaw22.Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Modernism?A.To elevate the individual and inner being over the social being.B.To put the stress on traditional values.C.To portray the distorted and alienated relationships between man and his environment.D.To advocate a conscious break with the past.23.The Romantic writers would focus on all the following issues EXCEPT the ___ in the American literary histrory.A.individual feelingsB.idea of survival of the fittestC.strong imaginationD.return to nature24.Henry David Thoreau's work,__,has always been regarded as a masterpiece of New England Transcendentalism.B.The pioneersC.NatureD.Song of Myself25.The famous 20-years sleep in “Rip Van Winkle〞helps to construct the story in such a way that we are greatly affected by Irving's ___.A.concern with the passage of timeB.expression of transient beautyC.satire on laziness and corruptibility of human beingsD.idea about supernatural manipulation of man's life26.Walt whitman was a pioneering figure of American poetry. His innovation first of all lies in his use of __,poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.A.blank verseB.heroic coupletC.free verseD.iambic pentameter27.The literary characters of the American type in early 19th century are generally characterized by all the following features EXCEPT that they ___.A.speak local dialectsB.are polite and elegant gentlemenC.are simple and crude farmersD.are noble savages( red and white) untainted by society28.Hester Pryme, Dimmsdale,Chillingworth and Pearl are most likely the names of the characters in ___.A.The Scarlet LetterB.The House of the Seven GablestC.The Portrait of a LadyD.The pioneers29.“This is my letter to the World〞is a poetic expression of Emily Dickinson's __ about her communication with the outside world.A.indifferenceB.anger30.With Howells,James,and Mark Twain active on the literary scene, __ became the major trend in American literature in the seventies and eighties of the 19thcentury.31.After The adventures of Tom Sawyer, Twain gives a literary independence to Tom's buddy Huck in a book entitled ___.A.Life on the MississippiB.The Gilded AgeC.The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnD.A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court32.However,___,the keynote of Daisy Miller's character,turns out to be an admiring but a dangerous quality and her defiance of social taboos in the Old World finally brings her to a disaster in the clash between two different cultures.C.worldliness33.Generally speaking,all those writers with a naturalistic approach to human reality tend to be ___.A.transcendentalists34.Emily Dickinson wrote many short poems on various aspects of life.Which of the following is NOT a usual subject of her poetic expression?A.Religion and immortality.B.Life and death.C.Love and marriage.D.War and peace.35.In “After Apple-Picking,〞Robert Frost wrote:“For I have had too much/Of applepi cking:I am overtired/Of the great harvestI myself desired.〞From these lines we can conclude that the speaker is ___.A.happy about the harvestB.still very much interested in apple-pickingC.expecting a greater harvestD.indifferent to what he once desired36.Chinese poetry and philosophy have exerted great influence over ____.A.Ezra PoundB.Ralph Waldo EmersonC.Robert FrostD.Emily Dickinson37.The Hemingway Code heroes are best remembered for their __.A.indestructible spirtieB.pessimistic view of life38.IN The Emperor Jones and The Hairy Ape,O'Neill adopted the expressionist techniques to portray the ___ of human beings in a hostile universe.A.helpless situationC.profound religious faithD.courage and perseverance39.In Hemingway's “Indian Cmap〞,Nick's night trip to the Indian village and his experience inside the hut can be taken as ____.A.an essential lesson about Indian tribesB.a confrontation with evil and sinC.an initiation to the harshness of lifeD.a learning process in human relationship40.which of the following statements about Emily Grierson, the protagonist in Faulkner's story “A Rose for Emily,〞is NOT true?A.She has a distorted personality.B.She is physically deformed and paralyzed.C.She is the symbol of the old values of the South.D.She is the victim of the past glory.PART TWOⅡ.Reading Comprehension (16 points, 4 for each)Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English.Write your answer in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.41.“Her eyes met his and he looked away.He neither believed nor disbelieved her,but he knew that he had made a mistake in asking;he never had known,never would know,what she was thinking.The sight of her inscrutable face,the thought of all the hundreds of evenings he had seen her sitting there like that,soft and passive,but so unreadable, unknown, enraged him beyond measure.〞Questions:A.Identify the writer and the work.B.What does the phrase “inscrutable face〞mean?C.What idea does the quoted passage express?42.“And when I am formulated,sprawling on a pin,When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall.Then how should beginTo spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways.〞Questions:A.Identify the poem and the poet.B.What does the phrase “butt-ends〞mean?C.What idea does the quoted passage express?43.“God knows,…I'm not myself—I'm somebody else—…and I'm changed,and I can't tell what's my name,or who I am.〞Questions:A.Identify the work and the author.B.The speaker says he is changed.Do you think he is changed, or the social environment has changed?C.What idea does the quoted sentence express?44.“I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference.〞Questions:A.Idenfity the poem and the poet.B.What does the phrase “ages and ages hence〞mean?C.What idea does the quoted passage express?Ⅲ.Questions and Answers(24 points in all, 6 for each)Give brief answers to each of the following questions in English.Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.45.As a rule,an allegory is story in verse or prose with a double meaning: a surface meaning,and an implied meaning.List two works as examples of allegory.What is an allegory usually concerned with by its implied meaning?46.Inspiration for the romantic approach initially came from two great shapers of thought.Who are the two?And what ideas they expressed inspire the romantic writers?47.The white whale,Moby Dick,is the most important symbol in Melville's novel.What symbolic meaning can you draw from it?48.Nature is a philosophic work, in which Emerson gives an explicit discussion on his idea of the Qversoul.What is your understanding of Emersonian “Oversoul〞?Ⅳ.Topic Discussion(20 points in all, 10 for each)Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.49.How is Romanticism different from Neoclassicism?Provide brief evidence from the literary works you know best.50.Summerize the story of Mark twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in about 100 words,and comment on the theme of the novel.Ⅱ.Reading Comprehension (16 points, 4 for each)41.A.John Galasworthy:The Man of Property.B.A face does not show any emotion or reaction so that it is impossible to know how that person is feeling or what he is thinking about.C.it presents the inner mind of Soames in face of his wife's coldness.He can never know what is on his wife's mind because the makeup of his and her mentality is different. His wife Irene, whose mind is romantically inclined, is disgusted with her husband's possessiveness. Being unable to read his wife's mind is as good as saying that he really can't regard her as his property- this is the very reason why he is enraged beyond measure.42.A.T.S.Eliot:“The Love Song of J.Alfred Pruforck.〞B.The ends of cigarettes,meaning trivial things here.C.Here,Prufrock's inability to do anything against the society he is in is made strikingly clear by using a sharp comparison .Prufrock imagines himself as a kind of insect pinned on the wall and struggling in vain to get free.This image vividly shows Prufrock's current predicament.43.A.Washington Irving:“Rip Van Winkle〞.B.The social environment is changed.C.When Rip is back home after a period of 20 years,he finds thta everything has changed.All those old values are gone,and he can hardly feel at home in a changed society.One of the functions that Rip serves in the story is to provide a measuring stick for change. It is through him that Irving drives home the theme that a desire for change,improvement,and progress could subvert stable society.44.A.Robert Frost:“The Road Not Taken〞.B.Many many years later.C.The speaker is telling his experience of making the choice of the roads.But he is conscious of the fact that his choice will have made all the difference in his life.He seems to be giving a suggestion to the reader.“Make good choice of your life.〞Ⅲ.Questions and Answers (24 points in all,6 for each)45.A.Buyan's pilgrim's Progress and Spenser's The Faerie Queene.B.It is usually concerned with moral ,religious,political,symbolic or mythical ideas.46.A.The French philosopher,Jean Jacques Rousseau and the German writer Johna Wolfgan von Goethe.B.It is Rousseau who established the cult of the individual and championed the freedom of the human spirit;his famous announcement was “I felt before I thought.〞Goethe and his compatriots extolled the romantic spirit.47.A.To Ahab,the whale is either an evil creature itself or the agent of an evil force that controls the universe,or perhaps both.B.To Ishmale,the whale is an astonishing force,an immense power,which defies rational explanation due to a sense of mystery it carries. It is beautiful,but malignant at the same time. It also represents the tremendous organic vitality of the universe,for it has a life force that surges onward irresistibly, impervious to the desires or wills of men.C.As to the reader, the whale can be viewed as a symbol of the physical limits that life imposes upon man. It may also be regarded as a symbol of nature, or an instrument of God's vengeance upon evil man. In general,the multiplicity and ambivalence of the symbolic meaning of the whale is such that it becomes a source of intense speculation, an object or profound curiosity for the reader.48.A.The Oversoul is believed to be an all-pervading power for goodness,omnipresent and omnipotent from which all things come and of which all are a part. It exists in nature and man alike and constitutes the chief element of the universe.B.According to Emerson,it is a supreme reality of mind, a spiritual unity of all beings, and a religion regarded as an emotional communication between an individual soul and the universal Over-soul of which it is a part.C.He holds that intuition is a more certain way of knowing than reason and that the mind could intuitively perceive the existence of the Oversoul and of certain absolutes.Ⅳ.Topic Discussion (20 points in all, 10 for each)49.a.Neoclassicists upheld that artistic ideals should be order,logic,restrained emoticon and accuracy,and that literature,should be judged in terms of its service to humanity,and thus,literary expressions should be of proportion,unity,harmony and grace.Pope's An Essay on Criticism advocates grace,wit (usually though satire/humour),and simplicity in language(and the poem itself is a demonstration of those ideals,too);Fielding's Tom Jones helped establish the form of novel;Gray's “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' displays elega nce in style,unified structure,serious tone and moral instructions.b.Romanticists tended to see the individual as the very center of all experience,including art,and thus,literary work should be “spontaneous overflow of strong feelings,〞and no matter how fragmentary those experiences were (Wordsworth's “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,〞or “The Solitary Reaper,) or Coleridge's “Keble Khan〞),the value of the work lied in the accuracy of presenting those unique feelings and particular attitudes.c.In a word, Neoclassicism emphasized rationality and form but Romanticism attached great importance to the individual's mind (emotion, imagination, temporary experience…)50.A.Mark Twain's novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a Sequa to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.The Story takes place along the Mississippi River before the Civil War in the United States, around 1850.Along the river, floats a small raft, with two people on it; One is an ignorant,uneducated black slave named Jim and the other is little uneducated outcast white boy about the age of thirteen, called Huckleberry Finn or Huck Finn.The novel relates the story of the escape of Jim from slavery and ,more important, how Huck Finn, floating along with Jim and helping him as best he could, changes his mind ,his prejudice, about Black people, and comes to accept Jim as a man and as a close friends as well.During their journey, they experience a series of adventures:coming across two frauds, the “Duke〞and the “King〞,witnessing the lynching and murder of a harmless drunkard, being lost in a fog and finally Tom's coming to rescue. B. The theme of the novel may be best summed in a word “freedom〞: Huck wants to escape from the bond of civilization and Jim wants to escape from the yoke of slavery. Mark Twain uses the raft's journey down the Mississippi River to express his thematic contrasts between innocence and experience, nature and culture, wilderness and civilizati。

2012秋福师《英美文学选读》在线作业一

2012秋福师《英美文学选读》在线作业一
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28. The ____ of the sun almost blinded them.

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B. flare
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D. glare
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29. The football club decide to ____ its working contract with the head coach because of its team’s poor performance during his coaching.
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15. The party will ____their leader very determinedly.

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《英美文学选读》模拟试题(一-五)整合

《英美文学选读》模拟试题(一-五)整合

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I. Multiple Choice. (1 point for each, altogether 30 points)Directions: There are 30 sentences in this section. Beneath each sentence there are four choices respectively marked by letters A, B, C and D. Choose the word that you think best complete the sentence. Write your answers on the answer sheet.1. Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his production of_______.[A] Piers Plowman [B] Sir Gawain and the Green Knight[C] Confessio Amantis [D] The Canterbury Tales2. In "After Apple- Picking," Robert Frost wrote: "For I have had too much / Of apple -picking: I am overtired/ Of the great harvest I myself desired." From these lines we can conclude that the speaker is_______.[A] happy about the harvest[B] still very much interested in apple-picking[C] expecting a greater harvest[D] indifferent to what he once desired3.With Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the literary scene, _______became the major trend in American literature in the seventies and eighties of the 19th century.[A] Sentimentalism [B] romanticism [C] realism [D] naturalism4. Of the following American poets in the twentieth century, the one who has the best knowledge of Chinese culture is _______.[A] Robert Frost [B] Allen Ginsberg [C] Ezra Pound [D] Cummings5. _______is the first important governess novel in the English literary history.[A] Jane Eyre [B] Emma[C] Wuthering Heights [D] Middlemarch6. The Hemingway Code heroes are best remembered for their_______.[A] indestructible spirit [B] pessimistic view of life[C] war experiences [D] masculinity7. Which of the following is taken from John Keats’Ode to a Nightingale? _______[A] "Beauty is truth, truth beauty."[B] "Earth has not anything to show more fair."[C] "They are both gone up to the church to pray."[D] "was it a vision, or a waking dream?"8. Emily Dickinson wrote many short poems on various aspects of life. Which of the following is NOT a usual subject of her poetic expression? _______[A] Religion and immortality [B] Life and death[C] Love and marriage [D] War and peace9. Henry David Thoreau’s work_______, has always been regarded as a masterpiece of New England Transcendentalism.[A] Walden [B] The Pioneers[C] Nature [D] Song of Myself10. George Bernard Shaw’s play _______ established his position as the leading play-wright of his time.[A] Widowers’ Houses [B] Too True to Be Good[C] Mrs. Warren’s Profession[D] Candida11. Romance, which uses narrative verse or prose to tell stories of _______ adventures or other heroic deeds, is a popular literary form in the medieval period.[A] Christian [B] knightly[C] Greek [D] primitive12. For Melville, as well as for the reader and _______ , the narrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, an ultimate mystery of the universe. .[A] Ahab [B] Ishmael[C] Stubb [D] Starbuck13. Which of the following historical events does not directly help to stimulate the rising of the Renaissance Movement? _______[A] The rediscovery of ancient Greek and Roman culture[B] The new discoveries in geography and astrology[C] The Glorious revolution[D] The religious reformation and the economic expansion14. Which of the following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare's Sonnet 18?[A] The speaker eulogizes the power of Nature[B] The speaker satirizes human vanity[C] The speaker praises the power of artistic creation[D] The speaker meditates on man's salvation15. ―And we will sit upon the rocks,/Seein g the shepherds feed their flocks,/By shallow rivers to whose falls/Melodious birds sing madrigals.‖ The above lines are probably taken from _______.[A] Spenser's The Faerie Queene[B] John Donne's ―The Sun Rising‖[C] Shakespeare's ―Sonnet 18‖[D] Marlow e's ―The Passionate Shepherd to His Love‖16. ―Bassanio: Antonio, I am married to a wife which is as dear to me as life itself; But life itself, My wife, and all the world. Are not with me esteem'd above thy life;I would lose all, ay, sacrifice them all, Here to the devil, to deliver you. Portia: Your wife would give you little thanks for that, If she were by to hear you make the offer.‖ The above is a quotation taken from Shakespeare's comedy The Merchant of Venice. The quoted part can be regarded as a good example to illustrate _______.[A] dramatic irony [B] personification[C] allegory [D] symbolism17. The true subject of John Donne's poem, ―The Sun Rising,‖ is to _______.[A] attack the sun as an unruly servant[B] give compliments to the mistress and her power of beauty[C] criticize the sun's intrusion into the lover's private life[D] lecture the sun on where true royalty and riches lie18. Of all the 18thcentury novelists Henry Fielding was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to wri te specifically a ―_______ in prose,‖ the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.[A] tragic epic [B] comic epic[C] romance [D] lyric epic19. The Houyhnhnms depicted by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels are _______.[A] horses that are endowed with reason[B] pigmies that are endowed with admirable qualities[C] giants that are superior in wisdom[D] hairy, wild, low and despicable creatures, who resemble human beings not only in appearance but also in some other ways.20. Here are four lines from a literary work: ―Others for language all their care express, /And value books, as women men, for dress.‖ The work is _______.[A] Thomas Gray's ―Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard‖[B] John Milton's Paradise Lost[C] Alexander Pope's Essay on Criticism[D] Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream21. The phrase ―to urge people to abide by Christian doctrines and to seek salvation through constant struggles with their own weaknesses and all kinds of social evils‖ may well sum up the implied meaning of _______.[A] Gulliver's Travels [B] The Rape of the Lock[C] Robinson Crusoe [D] The pilgrim's Progress22. William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following EXCEPT _______.[A] the use of everyday language spoken by the common people[B] the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings[C] the use of humble and rustic life as subject matter[D] the use of elegant wording and inflated figures of speech23. Which of the following is taken from John Keats’ ―Ode on a Grecian Urn‖? _______[A] ―I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!‖[B] ―They are both gone up to the church to pray‖[C] ―Earth has not anything to show more fair‖[D] ―Beauty is truth, truth beauty‖24.―If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind!‖ is an epigr ammatic line by _______.[A] J.Keats [B] W.Blake[C] W.Wordsworth [D] P.B.Shelley25. ―Ode o na Grecian Urn‖shows the contrast between the _______ of art and the _______ of human passion.[A] glory …ugliness[B] permanence…transience[C] transience…sordid ness [D] glory…permanence26. In the statement―—oh, God! would you like to live with your soul in the grave?‖ the term ―soul‖ apparently refers to _______.[A] Heathcliff himself [B] Catherine[C] one's spiritual life [D] one's ghost27. The typical feature of Robert Browning's poetry is the _______.[A] bitter satire [B] larger-than-life caricature[C] Latinized diction [D] dramatic monologue28. The Victorian Age was largely an age of _______, eminently represented by Dickens and Thackeray.[A] poetry [B] drama[C] prose [D] epic prose29. _______is the first important governess novel in the English literary history.[A] Jane Eyre [B] Emma[C] Wuthering Heights [D] Middlemarch30. The major concern of ______ fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature.[A] wrence's [B] J.Galsworthy's[C] W.Thackeray’s[D] T.Hardy’sII. Match the writer with his/her works and Write your answers on the answer sheet. (2point for each, altogether 20points)31. Henry Fielding A. The Passionate Shepherd to His Love32. James Joyce B. Composed upon Westminster Bridge33. Daniel Defoe C. The Moll on the Floss34. Alfred Tennyson D. Break, Break, Break.35. John Keats E. A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man36. George Eliot F. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling37. William Bulter Yeats G. A Journal of the Plague Year38. William Wordsworth H. Ode on a Grecian Urn39. Walt Whitman I. The Lake Isle of Innisfree40. Christopher Marlowe J. There Was a Child Went ForthIII. Decide whether the following statements are true or false and write your answers in the brackets. (2 point for each, altogether10 points)()41.The preface to the Lyrical Ballads is best read as a statement of Keats’s principles of poetry.()42.Besides novel writing, Hawthorne is also a very good writer of short stories.()43.Robert Frost’s poems are New England in their setting, and are characterized by the familiar speaking voice.()44.George Hurstwood is a friend of Drouet’s who steals a great deal of money from his employer and actually kidnaps Carrie to Canada.()45.Renaissance had its beginning in Italy in the middle of the fifteenth century. IV. Define the literary terms listed below and write your answers on the answer sheet. (5 point for each, altogether 10 points)46. Romanticism47. Stream of ConsciousnessV. Give brief answers to the following questions. Write your answers on the answer sheet. (5 point for each, altogether 15 points)48. How do you understand the character of Robinson Crusoe?49. In the novel To the Lighthouse, is Lily lonely while completing her picture? Please justify your ideas.50. What is the implication of the description of roses beside the prison door in the first chapter of The Scarlet Letter?Ⅵ. Write no less than 150 words on the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet. (15 point for each, altogether 15 points) 51.William Shakespeare is one of the most remarkable playwrights the world has ever known.( 1) Name his four greatest tragedies.(2) What are the characteristics of the four tragedies in common?(3) Briefly summarize each hero' s weakness of nature.《英美文学选读》模拟试卷一答案II. Multiple Choice. (1 point for each, altogether 30 points)题号 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15答案 D D C C A A D D A D B B C C D题号16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30答案 A B B A C D D D D B B D C A AII. Match the writer with his/her works and write your answers in the brackets. (2point for each, altogether 20points)题号31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40答案 F E G D H C I B J AIII. Decide whether the following statements are true or false and write your answers in the brackets. (2 point for each, altogether10 points)题号41 42 43 44 45答案 F T T T FIV.Define the literary terms listed below and write your answers in the brackets. (10%) 46.复习范围或考核目标:课件Course 03 William Wordsworth47.复习范围或考核目标:课件Course06 Virginia WoolfV. Give brief answers to the following questions. Write your answers on the answer sheet. (15%)48.复习范围或考核目标:课件Course 02 Daniel Defoe49.复习范围或考核目标:课件Course06 Virginia Woolf50.复习范围或考核目标:课件course07 Nathaniel HawthorneⅥ. Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet. (15%)51.复习范围或考核目标:课件course01 William ShakespeareNetwork Education College, BLCU《英美文学选读》模拟试卷二注意:1.试卷保密,考生不得将试卷带出考场或撕页,否则成绩作废。

福师《英美文学选读》在线作业一答卷

福师《英美文学选读》在线作业一答卷

福师《英美文学选读》在线作业一答卷福师《英美文学选读》在线作业一-0002试卷总分:100 得分:100一、单选题 (共 50 道试题,共 100 分)1.Poor health and lack of money may both be ____ to educational progress.A.stainsB.scarcitiesC.restraintsD.barriers答案:D2.The purpose of the official inquiry is to ____ the true facts leading to the loss of the ship at sea./doc/598436832.html,e over/doc/598436832.html,e into/doc/598436832.html,e for/doc/598436832.html,e at答案:D3.The ____ of the sun almost blinded them.A.sparksB.glitterC.glareD.flare答案:C4.The London Marathon is a difficult race._______, thousands of runners participate every year.A.ThereforeB.NeverthelessC.FurthermoreD.Accordingly答案:B5.A system of strict discipline has a ____ effect on conduct.A.automaticB.deliberateC.beneficialD.customary答案:C6.John cannot afford to go to university, _______going abroad.A.not to speak ofB.nothing to speak ofC.nothing butD.anything but答案:A7.James has just arrived, but I didn’t know he _________ until yesterday.A.will comeB.was comingC.had been comingD.came答案:B8.My students found the book ________: it provided them with an abundance of information on the subject.A.enlighteningB.distractingC.confusingD.amusing答案:A9._______ to some parts of South America is still difficult ,because parts of the continent are still covered with thick forests .A.OrientationB.AccessC.ProcessionD.Voyage答案:B10.______recent developments we do not think your scheme is practical.A.In view ofB.In memory ofC.In favor ofD.In case of答案:A11.He knows the regulations, and if he refuses to ____ with them he must take the consequence.A.accordB.assistC.confirm/doc/598436832.html,ply答案:D12.The editor told me that if I could ____ my story to 5,000 words, they would take it.A.cut offB.cut downC.cut acrossD.cut in答案:B13.Children who stay away from school do ________ for different reasons.A.themB.theirsC.itD./答案:B14.Astronomers were happy to know that their ____ about stars in the universe were correct.A.philosophyB.descriptionsC.consumptionsD.assumptions答案:D15.The chairman of the board _____ on me the unpleasant job of dismissing good workers the firm can no longer afford to employ.A.temptedB.pressedC.posed/doc/598436832.html,pelled答案:B16.To speed up the ______of letters, the Post Office introduced automatic sorting.A.treatmentB.transmissionC.departureD.delivery答案:D17.I have looked all over the office for my jar of glue. It seemed to have ____.A.vibratedB.vapouredC.vanishedD.reduced答案:C18.If you don’t like to swim, you _____as well stay at home.A.wouldB.shouldC.mayD.can答案:C19.The portion of the total income of China’s railways which comes from carrying cargo is____80 percent.A.roughlyB.incidentallyC.consequently/doc/598436832.html,paratively 答案:A20.Some people believe that sin。

英美文学选读自考题-1_真题(含答案与解析)-交互

英美文学选读自考题-1_真题(含答案与解析)-交互

英美文学选读自考题-1(总分100, 做题时间90分钟)Ⅰ.Multiple ChoiceSelect from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement.1.In Renaissance, the European humanist thinkers and scholars made attempts to do the following EXCEPT ______.A. getting rid of those old feudalist-ideasB. getting control of the parliament and governmentC. introducing new ideas that expressed the interests of the rising bourgeoisieD. recovering the purity of the early church, from the corruption of the Roman Catholic ChurchSSS_SIMPLE_SINA B C D分值: 1答案:B主要考查的知识点为对文艺复兴的描述。

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北语19秋《英美文学选读》作业1 辅导答案

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)1. William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following EXCEPTA. the use of everyday language spoken by the common peopleB. the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelingsC. the use of humble and rustic life as subject matterD. the use of elegant wording and inflated figures of speech答案:D2. The excerpt The Other Side of the Island was chosen from Chapter___ in Rubinson Crusoe.A. ⅨB. ⅪC. ⅩD. Ⅷ答案:A3. Defoe's Robinson Crusoe created the image of an enterprising Englishman, typical of the English bourgeoisie in the ______ century.A. 17thB. 18thC. 19thD. 20th答案:B4. In the conversation with his wife in Chapter One of Pride and Prejudice, Mr. Bennet uses a(n) ______ tone with sarcastic humor.A. solemnB. harshC. arrogantD. teasing答案:D5. In Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth Bennet finds out some weak points about herself in the process of judging others. Which of the following is NOT a weak point of hers?A. Blindness。

北语20新上《英美文学选读》作业1答案01

北语20新上《英美文学选读》作业1答案01

(单选题)1: In Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, there are detailed descriptions of big parties. The purpose of such descriptions is so show _______.A: emptiness of lifeB: the corruption of the upper classC: contrast of the rich and the poorD: the happy days of the Jazz Age正确答案: A(单选题)2: In American literature, escaping from the society and returning to nature is a common subject. The following titles are all related, in one way or another, to the subject except _______.A: Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnB: Dreiser's Sister CarrieC: Copper's Leather-Stocking TalesD: Thoreau's Walden正确答案: B(单选题)3: The poem I wandered Lonely as a Cloud was written by ___A: Dorothy WordsworthB: William WordsworthC: ColeridgeD: John Keats正确答案: B(单选题)4: Who is NOT the major character in To the Lighthouse?A: Mrs. RamsayB: Mr.RamsayC: DavidD: James正确答案: C(单选题)5: Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his production ofA: Piers PlowmanB: Sir Gawain and the Green KnightC: Confessio AmantisD: The Canterbury Tales正确答案: D(单选题)6: Hamlet is a prince of ___A: EnglandB: IrelandC: BritainD: Denmark。

北语16春《英美文学选读》作业1

北语16春《英美文学选读》作业1

16春《英美文学选读》作业1一、单选题(共 20 道试题,共 100 分。

)1. Willim Worsworth, romnti pot, vot ll th following XPT. th us of vryy lngug spokn y th ommon popl. th xprssion of th spontnous ovrflow of powrful flings. th us of huml n rusti lif s sujt mttr. th us of lgnt woring n inflt figurs of sph正确答案:2. Th xrpt Th Othr Si of th Isln ws hosn from hptr___ in Ruinson ruso.. Ⅸ. Ⅺ. Ⅹ. Ⅷ正确答案:3. fo's Roinson ruso rt th img of n ntrprising nglishmn, typil of th nglish ourgoisi in th ______ ntury.. 17th. 18th. 19th. 20th正确答案:4. In th onvrstion with his wif in hptr On of Pri n Prjui, Mr. nnt uss (n) ______ ton with srsti humor.. solmn. hrsh. rrognt. tsing正确答案:5. In Pri n Prjui, lizth nnt fins out som wk points out hrslf in th pross of juging othrs. Whih of th following is NOT wk point of hrs?. linnss. Prtility. Snoishnss. Prjui.正确答案:6. Th ssn of humnism is to ______.. rstor mivl rvrn for th hurh. voi th irumstns of rthly lif. xplor th nxt worl in whih mn oul liv ftr th. mphsiz humn qulitis正确答案:7. ll th following pots long to lk pots XPT. Worsworth. olrig. Rort Southy. Shlly正确答案:8. Whih of th following is NOT writtn y fo?. ptin Singlton. Silor. Moll Flnrs. Ruinson ruso正确答案:9. It is gnrlly rgr tht Kts's most importnt n mtur poms r in th form of _______ . . o. lgy. pi. sonnt正确答案:10. Whih of th following is omy?. King lr. Mth. Hmlt. Th Mrry Wivs of Winsor正确答案:11. In Shkspr's Mrhnt of Vni, ntonio oul not py k th mony h orrow from Shylok, us ______.. his mony ws ll invst in th nwly-mrging txtil inustry. his ntrpris wnt nkrupt. ssnio ws l to py his own t. his ships h ll n lost正确答案:12. Th pom I wnr Lonly s lou ws writtn y ___. orothy Worsworth. Willim Worsworth. olrig. John Kts正确答案:13. hrls ikns tks th Frnh Rvolution s th kgroun of his novl ______.. Grt xpttions. Tl of Two itis. lk Hous. Olivr Twist正确答案:14. Wht os Worsworth's pom "Th Solitry Rpr" tll us out Romntiist?. To romntiists, potry is n xprssion of n iniviul's flings n xprins no mttr how frgmntry n momntry ths flings n xprins r.. Romntiist tk light only in soun fft, th thm of work is not thir onrn.. Ro正确答案:15. Whih of th following sttmnts st illustrts th thm of Shkspr's Sonnt 18?. Th spkr ulogizs th powr of Ntur. Th spkr stirizs humn vnity. Th spkr priss th powr of rtisti rtion. Th spkr mitts on mn's slvtion.正确答案:16. Whih of th following is NOT trgiomy?. Timon of thns. ymlin. Th wintr's tl. Th tmpst正确答案:17. How mny lins r thr in sonnt?. 16. 18. 14. 12正确答案:18. Th pom O to Nightingl ws writtn y___. Willim Worsworth. John Kts. Shlly. olrig正确答案:19. Hmlt is prin of ___. ngln. Irln. ritin. nmrk正确答案:20. How mny prios r ivi into in th rtion yrs of Shkspr?. thr. four. two. fiv正确答案:。

《英美文学选读》习题与答案

《英美文学选读》习题与答案

《英美文学选读》(课程代码:00604)I.The following passage is an extract from Letter to Lord Chesterfield by Samuel Johnson, the leading figure of British neoclassicists. In 1747, when Samuel Johnson, began his Dictionary of the English language, Lord Chesterfield had at first indicated that he could be his patron, but when Johnson came to him for concrete help, Lord Chesterfield neglected him to the point of ignoring him; Johnson was insulted and furious. In 1775 when the Dictionary was published and acclaimed, Chesterfield openly recommended, hoping to get some credit for it as Johnson’s patron. Samuel Johnson wrote as reply his famous Letter to Lord Chesterfield in which he vented his feeling of hurt pride. Read it carefully, paying special attention to the rhetorical devices used, and answer the question. (20 points)①Is not patron, my lord, one who looked with unconcernupon man struggling for a life in the water, and when he hadreached to the safety of ground, encumbered him with help?②The notice you have taken of my Labour, had it beenearly, had been kind, but it had been delayed till I amindifferent, and can’t enjoy it; till I am solitary, and can’timpart it; till I am known, and do not want it. ③I hope thatit is no very asperity not to confess obligation where nobenefit have been received, or to be unwilling that thePublic should consider me as owing that to a patron, whichProvidence had enabled me to do for myself.Question:⑴what syntactic devices the author used in sentence ? And whatare their stylistic functions? (10 points)⑵point out the figure of speech used in sentences①and ③. (10 points)II. The following critical paper is about George Bernard Shaw’s famous drama “Pygmalion”. Read it carefully and answer the questions set on it. (20 points) 1 What we discover in Pygmalion is that phonetics and correct pronunciation are systems of markers superficial in themselves but endowed with tremendous social significance. Eliza's education in the ways that the English upper classes act and speak provides an opportunity for the playwright to explore the very foundations of social equality and inequality. Higgins himself observes that pronunciation is the deepest gulf that separates class from class and soul from soul. Playwright and character differ, however, in that instead of criticizing the existence of this gulf, Higgins accepts it as natural and uses his skills to help those who can afford his services (or are taken in as experiments, like Liza) to bridge it.2“At Mrs. Higgins's ““At Home reception,” Liza is fundamentally the same person she was in Act I, although she differs in what we learnto appreciate as superficialities of social disguise (according to Mugglestone): details of speech and cleanliness. Act III of Pygmalion highlights the importance of Liza's double transformation, by showing her suspended between the play's beginning and its conclusion. In modern society, however, as Shaw illustrates, it is precisely these superficial details which tend to be endowed with most significance. Certainly the Eynsford Hills view such details as significant, as Liza's entrance produces for them what Shaw's stage directions call “an impression of ... remarkable distinction and beauty.”3 Ironically, however, Liza's true transformation is yet to occur. She experiences a much more fundamental change in her consciousness when she realizes that Higgins has more or less abandoned her at the conclusion of his experiment.At first, Liza experiences a sense of anxiety over not belonging anywhere: she can hardly returnto flower peddling, yet she lacks the financial means to makeher new, outward identity a social reality. “What am I fit for?”She demands of Higgins. “What have you left me fit for? Wheream I to go? What am I to do? What's to become of me?” Berst wrote that while Pickering is generous, Eliza is shoved intothe wings by Higgins. The dream has been fulfilled, midnighthas tolled for Cinderella, and morning reality is at hand. Lizamust break away from Higgins when he shows himself incapableof recognizing her needs. This response of Higgins is well withinhis character as it has been portrayed in the play. Indeed, fromhis first exposure to Liza, Higgins denied Liza any social oreven individual worth. Calling Liza a squashed cabbage leaf, Higgins states that a woman who utters such depressing anddisgusting sounds has no right to be anywhere no right to live. Question 1: Explain what is Liza’s Double Transformation?(10 points)Question 2: What makes Liza feel she is in an embarrassing situation when she is transformed into a lady in speechand appearance? (10 points)III.The following critical essay is about Thomas Hardy’s most well-known tragic novel “Tess of d’Urbervilles”. Peruse it and then answer the questions set on it (30 points)The social background of Tess of d’Urbervilles was in a time of difficult social upheaval, when England was making its slow, painful transition from an old-fashioned, agricultural nation to amodern, industrial one. Businessmen and entrepreneurs, or “new money,” joined the ranks of the social elite, as some families of the ancient aristocracy, or “old money,” faded into obscurit y. Tess’s family in Tess of the d’Urbervilles illustrates this change, as Tess’s parents, the Durbeyfields, lose themselves in the fantasy of belonging to an ancient and aristocratic family, the d’Urbervilles.Hardy’s novel strongly suggests that such a f amily history is not only meaningless but also utterly undesirable. Hardy’s views on the subject were appalling to conservative and status-conscious British readers and Tess of the d’Urberville s was met in England with widespread controversy. Beyond her social symbolism, Tess represents fallen humanity in a religious sense, as the frequent biblical allusions in the novel remind us. Just as Tess’s clan was once glorious and powerful but is now sadly diminished, so too did the early glory of the first humans, Adam and Eve, fade with their expulsion from Eden, making humans sad shadows of what they once were. Tess thus represents what is known in Christian theology as original sin, the degraded state in which all humans live, even when—like Tess herself after killing Prince or succumbing to Alec—they are not wholly or directly responsible for the sins for which they are punished. This torment represents the most universal side of Tess: she is the myth of the human who suffers for crimes that are not her own and lives a life more degraded than she deserves.Angel represents a rebellious striving toward a personal vision of goodness A freethinking son born into the family of a provincial parson and determined to set himself up as a farmer instead of going to Cambridge like his conformist brothers,. He is a secularist who yearns to work for the “honor and glory of man,” as he tells his father in Chapter XVIII, rather than for the honor and glory of God in a more distant world. A typical young nineteenth-century progressive, Angel sees human society as a thing to be remolded and improved, and he fervently believes in the nobility of man. He rejects the values handed to him, and sets off in search of his own. His love for Tess, a mere milkmaid and his social inferior, is one expression of his disdain for tradition. This independent spirit contributes to his aura of charisma and general attractiveness that makes him the love object of all the milkmaids with whom he works at Talbothays. As his name—in French, close to “Bright Angel”—suggests, Angel is not quite of this world, but floats above it in a transcendent sphere of his own. The narrator says that Angel shines rather than burns and that he is closer to the intellectually aloof poet Shelley than to the fleshly and passionate poet Byron.His love for Tess may be abstract, as we guess when he calls her “Daughter of Nature” or “Demeter.” Tess may be more an archetype or ideal to him than a flesh and blood woman with a complicated life. Angel’s ideals of human purity are too elevated to be applied to actual people: Mrs. Durbeyfield’s easygoing moral beliefs are much more easily accommodated to real lives such as Tess’s. Angel awakens to the actual complexities of real-world morality after hisfailure in Brazil, and only then he realizes he has been unfair to Tess. His moral system is readjusted as he is brought down to Earth. Ironically, it is not the angel who guides the human in this novel, but the human who instructs the angel, although at the cost of her own life.Question 1: Why Tess is said to be a paragon of “fallen humanity”?(15 points)Question 2: Why Tess converted the idealist Angle into a realist Angle in terms of her own tragedy? (15 points)IV.The following paragraphs are taken from chapter VIII ofbook IV in Gulliver’s Travels. This section pictures an ideal rational existence, the Houyhnhnms kingdom whose life is governed by sense and moderation of which philosopherssince Plato have long dreamed. Read them and answer thefollowing questions. (30 points)1Courtship, love, presents, jointures, settlements haveno place in their thoughts, or terms whereby to expressthem in their language. The young couple meet,and are joined, merely because it is the determinationof their parents and friends; it is what they see doneevery day, and they look upon it as one of the necessaryactions of a reasonable being.2 But the violation of marriage, or any other unchastity,was never heard of; and the married pair pass their liveswith the same friendship and mutual benevolence, thatthey bear to all others of the same species who come intheir way, without jealousy, fondness, quarrelling, ordiscontent. When the matron Houyhnhnms have produced one of each sex, they no longer accompany with their consorts, except they lose one of their issue by some casualty, which very seldom happens; but in such a case they meet again; or when the like accident befalls a person whose wife is past bearing, some other couple bestow on him one of their own colts, and then go together again until the mother is pregnant. This caution is necessary, to prevent the country from being overburdened with numbers. But the race of inferior Houyhnhnms, bred up to be servants, is not so strictly limited upon this article: these are allowed to produce three of each sex, to be domestics in the noble families3 Every fourth year, at the vernal equinox, there is arepresentative council of the whole nation, which meets in a plain about twenty miles from our house, and continues about five or six days. Here they inquire into the state and condition of the several districts; whether they abound or be deficient in hay or oats, or cows, or Yahoos; and wherever there is any want (which is but seldom) it is immediately supplied by unanimous consent and contribution. Here likewise the regulation of children is settled: as for instance, ifa Houyhnhnm has two males, he changes one of them withanother that has two females; and when a child has been lost by any casualty, where the mother is past breeding, it is determined what family in the district shall breed another to supply the loss.Question1.The satire in this work is seen entirely in a discrepancybetween Swift and the Gulliver, the typical rational scientist in the age of enlightenment? Comment on it. (15points)Question2. In what ways does the author satirize the rationalism ofHouyhnhnms society, for example, the rational idea onmarriage, and the family-planning? (15 points)《英美文学选读》试卷参考答案I. 【20分】Answer:The author used repetition and parallelism to make this satirical prose daintier and more repugnant in tone. This piece of prose is typical of neoclassical prose which set great store by elegance of the language which was achieved by way of rhetorical richness. 【10分】The author used sarcasm in these two sentences to openly deny Lord Chesterfield’s patronage and attack his insolent and blatant behavior. The sarcasm made in a circumlocutious way renders this satirical prose more taunting and bitter. 【10分】II【20分】Question 1: What is Liza’s Double Transformation?Act III of Pygmalion highlights the importance of Liza's double transformation, by showing her suspended between the play's beginning and its conclusion. “At Mrs. Higgins's ““At Home reception,” Liza is fundamentally the same person she was in Act I, although she differs in what we learn to appreciate as superficialities of social disguise (according to Mugglestone): details of speech and cleanliness. In modern society, however, as Shaw illustrates, it is precisely these superficial details which tend to be endowed with most significance. Certainly the Eynsford Hills view such details as significant, as Liza's entrance produces for them what Shaw's stage directions call “animpression of ... remarkable distinction and beauty.” Ironically, however, Liza's true transformation is yet to occur. She experiences a much more fundamental change in her consciousness when she realizes that Higgins has more or less abandoned her at the conclusion of his experiment. 【10分】Question 2:What is Liza’s Predicament?Liza experiences a sense of anxiety over not belonging anywhere: she can hardly return to flower peddling, yet she lacks the financial means to make her new, outward identity a social reality. “What am I fit for?” She demands of Higgins. “What have you left me fit for? Where am I to go? What am I to do? What's to become of me?” While Pickering is generous, Eliza is shoved into the wings by Higgins. The dream has been fulfilled, midnight has tolled for Cinderella, and morning reality is at hand. Liza must break away from Higgins when he shows himself incapable of recognizing her needs. This response of Higgins is well within his character as it has been portrayed in the play. Indeed, from his first exposure to Liza, Higgins denied Liza any social or even individual worth. Calling Liza a squashed cabbage leaf, Higgins states that a woman who utters such depressing and disgusting sounds has no right to be anywhere no right to live. 【10分】III.【30分】Question 1: Why Tess is said to be a paragon of fallen humanity?Tess represents fallen humanity in a religious sense, as the frequent biblical allusions in the novel remind us. Just as Tess’s clan was once glorious and powerful but is now sadly diminished, so too did the early glory of the first humans, Adam and Eve, fade with their expulsion from Eden, making humans sad shadows of what they once were. Tess thus represents what is known in Christian theology as original sin, the degraded state in which all humans live, even when—like Tess herself after killing Prince or succumbing to Alec—they are not wholly or directly responsible for the sins for which they are punished. This torment represents the most universal side of Tess: she is the myth of the human who suffers for crimes that are not her own and lives a life more degraded than she deserves. 【15分】Question 2: Discuss why Tess changes the idealist Angle into a realist Angle in a tragic way?Angel is closer to the intellectually aloof poet Shelley than to the fleshly and passionate poet Byron. His love for Tess may be abstract, as we guess when he calls her “Daughter of Nature” or “Demeter.” Tess may be more an archetype or ideal to him than a flesh and blood woman with a complicated life. Angel’sideals of human purity are too elevated to be applied to actual people: Mrs. Durbeyfield’s eas ygoing moral beliefs are much more easily accommodated to real lives such as Tess’s. Angel awakens to the actual complexities of real-world morality after his failure in Brazil, and only then he realizes he has been unfair to Tess. His moral system is readjusted as he is brought down to Earth. Ironically, it is not the angel who guides the human in this novel, but the human who instructs the angel, although at the cost of her own life. 【15分】IV【30分】Question1. This work is called a satire which is seen entirely in a discrepancy between Swift and the Gulliver, the typical rational scientist in the age of enlightenment? Comment on it. 【15分】There are echoes of Plato’s Republic in the Houyhnhnms’rejection of light entertainment and vain displays of luxury, their appeal to reason rather than any holy writings as the criterion for proper action, and their communal approach to family planning.The Gulliver’s Travels is a book of subtle satire. The satire comes mainly from the discrepancy between Gulliver who is fitted out as the archetypal man of the enlightenment movement, susceptible to rationalism of 18th century. Swift on the other hand is very critical of his time, especially its rational thinking. Whereas Gulliver takes Houyhnhnm society as ideal utopia one, the author finds its rationality totally intolerable.Question2.In what ways does the author satirize the rational Houyhnhnms society, for example, the rational ideal on marriage, and the family-planning? 【15分】Paragons of virtue and rationality, the horses are also dull, simple, and lifeless. Their language is impoverished, their mating loveless, and their understanding of the complex play of social forces naïve. What is missing in the horses is exactly that which makes human life rich: the complicated interplay of selfishness, altruism, love, hate, and all other emotions. In other words, the Houyhnhnms’ society is perfect for Houyhnhnms, but it is hopeless for humans. Houyhnhnm society is, in stark contrast to the societies of the first three voyages, devoid of all that is human.But we may be less ready than Gulliver to take the Houyhnhnms as ideals of human existence. They have no names in the narrative nor any need for names, since they are virtually interchangeable, with little individual identity. Their lives seem harmonious and happy, although quite lacking in vigor, challenge, and excitement. Indeed, this apparent ease may be why Swift chooses to makethem horses rather than human types like every other group in the novel. He may be hinting, to those more insightful than Gulliver, that the Houyhnhnms should not be considered human ideals at all. In any case, they symbolize a standard of rational existence to be either espoused or rejected by both Gulliver and us.。

北京语言大学 18秋《英美文学选读》作业1满分答案

北京语言大学 18秋《英美文学选读》作业1满分答案

18秋《英美文学选读》作业1When Robert Frost was 87, he read his poetry at the inauguration of President___A.BushB.KennedyC.ClintonD.Fort正确答案:BEmily Dickinson wrote many short poems on various aspects of life. Which of the following is NOT a usual subject of her poetic expression?A.Religion and immortalityB.Life and deathC.Love and marriageD.War and peace正确答案:DIn the first part of the novel Pride and prejudice, Mr. Darcy has a (n) ______ of the Bennet family .A.high opinionB.great admirationC.low opinionD.erroneous view正确答案:CRobert Frost won___ Plitzer prices.A.twoB.threeC.fourD.five正确答案:CThe story of the Scarlet Letter is set in___A.New YorkB.EnglandC.BostonD.Salt lake City正确答案:CWhich of the following is a comedy?A.King learB.MacbethC.HamletD.The Merry Wives of Windsor正确答案:DWalt Whitman was a pioneering figure of American poetry. His innovation first of all lies in his use of , poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.A.bland verseB.heroic coupletC.free verseD.iambic pentameter正确答案:CIn Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, there are detailed descriptions of big parties. The purpose of such descriptions is so show _______.A.emptiness of lifeB.the corruption of the upper classC.contrast of the rich and the poorD.the happy days of the Jazz Age正确答案:AIn all his novels Theodore Dreiser sets himself to project the ______ American values. For example, in Sister Carrie, there is not one character whose status is not determined economically.A.PuritanB.materialisticC.psychologicalD.religious正确答案:BWhitman's poems are characterized by all the following features EXCEPT ______ .A.the strict poetic formB.the free and natural rhythmC.the easy flow of feelingsD.the simple and conversational language正确答案:Awhich of the following is NOT written by Dreiser?A.Jennie GerhardtB.Go down, MosesC.An American TragedyD.Sister Carrie正确答案:BMr. Micawber in David Copperfield and Sam Well in Pickwick Papers are perhaps the best ______ characters created by Charles Dickens.icB.tragicC.roundD.sophisticated正确答案:AIn English poetry the _______ is regarded as the most common foot.A.iambB.anapestC.trocheeD.dactyl正确答案:AJane Austen passed away when she was___A.38B.48C.42D.52正确答案:CWhich of the following is taken from John Keats'Ode to a Nightingale?A."Beauty is truth, truth beauty."B."Earth has not anything to show more fair."C."They are both gone up to the church to pray."D."was it a vision, or a waking dream?"正确答案:DThe pen name Mark Twain means___A.waterB.safe waterC.riverD.clear water正确答案:BWhich of the following is a tragedy?A.Antony and CleopatraB.Twelfth NightC.Julius CaesarD.Much ado about Nothing正确答案:AAfter reading the first chapter of Pride and Prejudice, we may come to know that Mrs. Bennet is a woman of _______ .A.simple character and quick witB.simple character and poor understandingC.intricate character and quick witD.intricate character and poor understanding正确答案:BYou may have meet the term "Yahoo" on internet, but you may also have met it in English literature .It is found in _____A.John Bunyan's Pilgrim's ProgressB.Samuel Johnson's The Vanity of Human WishesC.Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's TravelsD.Henry Fielding's tom Jones正确答案:CWhat kind of girl is Dora?A.pretty and cleverB.pretty and empty-headedC.plain-looking and understadingD.lovely and clever正确答案:B。

北京语言大学《英美文学选读》作业4答卷

北京语言大学《英美文学选读》作业4答卷

20秋《英美文学选读》作业4试卷总分:100 得分:100一、单选题 (共 20 道试题,共 100 分)1. Which book marked the turning point of Hawthornw' career andhis personal life?A. Twice-Told TalesB. FanshaweC. The Scarlet LetterD. Mosess from an Old Manse答案:A2.In David Copperfield, little David's second father treated him and his mother___A. badlyB. kindlyC. nicelyD. well答案:A3.Virginia Woolf was born in___A. 1882B. 1767C. 1678D. 1890答案:A4.Which of the following is a tragedy?A. Antony and CleopatraB. Twelfth NightC. Julius CaesarD. Much ado about Nothing答案:A5."Two roads diverged in a yellow wood And sorry I could not travel both ..."In the above two lines of Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken, the poet, by implication, was referring to _______.A. a travel experienceB. a marriage decisionC. a middle-age crisisD. one's course of life答案:D6.When we say that a poor young man from the West tried to make his fortune in the East but was disillusioned in the quest of an idealized dream, we are probably discussing about ______'s thematic concern in his fiction writing.A. Henry JamesB. Scott FitzgeraldC. Ernest HemingwayD. William Faulkner答案:B7.Mr. Micawber in David Copperfield and Sam Well in Pickwick Papers are perhaps the best ______ characters created by Charles Dickens.A. comicB. tragicC. roundD. sophisticated答案:A8.O Captain, My Capain is written by___A. Robert BurnsB. Robert FrostC. Walt WhitmanD. John Keats答案:C9.In English poetry the _______ is regarded as the most common foot.A. iambB. anapestC. trocheeD. dactyl答案:A10.Robert Frost is a regional poet in the sense that his poems are mainly concerned about the _______.A. life in New YorkB. country life in New EnglandC. sea adventuresD. life on the Mississippi答案:B11.With Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the literary scene, ___became the major trend in American literature in the seventies and eighties of the 19th century.A. SentimentalismB. romanticismC. realismD. naturalism答案:C12.What kind of girl is Dora?A. pretty and cleverB. pretty and empty-headedC. plain-looking and understadingD. lovely and clever答案:B13.Henry David Thoreau's work___, has always been regarded as a masterpiece of New England Transcendentalism.A. WaldenB. The PioneersC. NatureD. Song of Myself答案:A14.In "After Apple- Picking," Robert Frost wrote: "For I have had too much / Of apple -picking: I am overtired/ Of the great harvest I myself desired." From these lines we can conclude that the speakerisA. happy about the harvestB. still very much interested in apple-pickingC. expecting a greater harvestD. indifferent to what he once desired答案:D15."If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?" is an epigrammatic line byA. KeatsB. W. BlakeC. W. WordsworthD. P. B. Shelley答案:D16.Defoe's Robinson Crusoe created the image of an enterprising Englishman, typical of the English bourgeoisie in the ______ century.A. 17thB. 18thC. 19thD. 20th答案:B17.Which of the following statements about writers in 1920s is true?A. Mark Twain published his last and most important novel.B. Scott Fitzgerald received the Nobel Prize.C. Freudian psychology influenced many modern writers.D. Most writers were politically radical.答案:C18.After reading the first chapter of Pride and Prejudice, we may come to know that Mrs. Bennet is a woman of _______ .A. simple character and quick witB. simple character and poor understandingC. intricate character and quick witD. intricate character and poor understanding答案:B19.The story of the Scarlet Letter is set in___A. New YorkB. EnglandC. BostonD. Salt lake City答案:C20.which of the following is NOT written by Dreiser?A. Jennie GerhardtB. Go down, MosesC. An American TragedyD. Sister Carrie答案:B。

英美文学选读 习题4

英美文学选读 习题4
答:
答案:First World War|American|young men|disillusioned|expatriates|European countries|Pound|Frost|Fiztgerald|Hemingway|Faulkner
【题型:阅读】【分数:4分】得分:0分
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Had I as many souls as there be stars.
Fearless and frank, not rattled by the attack of Lady Catherine de Bourgh, she wins a notable cictory, sending her ladyship away completely routed.
She is independent but not infallible in her judgement-- taken in by the charm of the worthless Wickham. She cannot be blamed for misjudging Darcy. She shows flexibility, discernment and honesty of mind when she reads Darcy's defense in his letter and admits the justice of much of what he says.
I’d give them all for Mephistophilis!
By him I’ll be great emperor of the world,
And make a bridge through the moving air

奥鹏北京语言大学21春《英美文学选读》作业1.doc

奥鹏北京语言大学21春《英美文学选读》作业1.doc

1.Which of the following is taken from John Keats'Ode to aNightingale?A."Beauty is truth, truth beauty."B."Earth has not anything to show more fair."C."They are both gone up to the church to pray."D."was it a vision, or a waking dream?"【参考答案】: D2.Who is NOT the major character in To the Lighthouse?A.Mrs. RamsayB.Mr.RamsayC.DavidD.James【参考答案】: C3.Virginia Woolf was born in a____A.poor familyB.small familyC.rich familyD.talentedfamily【参考答案】: D4.The essence of humanism is to ______.A.restore a medieval reverence for the churchB.avoid the circumstances of earthly lifeC.explore the next world in which men could live after deathD.emphasize human qualities【参考答案】: D5.Which of the following is a tragedy?A.Antony and CleopatraB.Twelfth NightC.Julius CaesarD.Much ado about Nothing【参考答案】: A6.___is the first important governess novel in the Englishliterary history.A.Jane EyreB.EmmaC.Wuthering HeightsD.Middlemarch【参考答案】: A7.Which of the following is NOT a tragicomedy?A.Timon of AthensB.CymblineC.The winter's taleD.The tempest【参考答案】: A8.The Victorian Age was largely an age of___ , eminentlyrepresented by Dickens and Thackeray.A.poetryB.dramaC.proseD.epic prose【参考答案】: D9."I have no monarch in my life." this was said by___A.Walt WhitmanB.Robert FrostC.John keatsD.Emily Dickinson【参考答案】: D10.The name of the hero in Jane Eyre was___A.HeathcliffB.RochesterC.JamesD.David【参考答案】: B11.The poem Ode to a Nightingale was written by___A.William WordsworthB.John KeatsC.ShelleyD.Coleridge【参考答案】: B12.Which of the following is NOT written by Jane Austen?A.Sense and SensibilityB.Pride and PrejudiceC.JaneEyre D.Emma【参考答案】: C13.The poem I wandered Lonely as a Cloud was written by ___A.Dorothy WordsworthB.William WordsworthC.ColeridgeD.John Keats【参考答案】: B14.Virginai Woolf has a____ health.A.goodB.stableC.poorD.normal【参考答案】: C15.Which of the following is a comedy?A.King learB.MacbethC.HamletD.The Merry Wives ofWindsor【参考答案】: D16.Emily Dickinson wrote many short poems on various aspects oflife. Which of the following is NOT a usual subject of her poeticexpression?A.Religion and immortalityB.Life and deathC.Love andmarriage D.War and peace【参考答案】: D17."This is my letter to the World" is a poetic expression of Emily Dickinson's___ about her communication with the outside world.A.indifferenceB.angerC.anxietyD.sorrow【参考答案】: C18.Charles Dickens takes the French Revolution as the background of his novel ______.A.Great ExpectationsB.A Tale of Two CitiesC.BleakHouse D.Oliver Twist【参考答案】: B19.Robert Frost won___ Plitzer prices.A.twoB.threeC.fourD.five【参考答案】: C20.In Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth Bennet finds out some weak points about herself in the process of judging others. Which of the following is NOT a weak point of hers?A.BlindnessB.PartialityC.SnobbishnessD.Prejudice.【参考答案】: C。

北语18春《英美文学选读》

北语18春《英美文学选读》

北语18春《英美⽂学选读》18春《英美⽂学选读》作业_1⼀、单选题( 每题5分, 共10道⼩题, 总分值50分)1.Charlotte’s works are famous for the depiction of the life of ______ working women, particularly governesses.A. the middle - classB. the lower - classC. the upper - middle - classD. the upper - class答案:A2.As a naturalist writer, Theodore Dreiser was greatly influenced by _______.A. Nathaniel HawthorneB. Charles DarwinC. Henry JamesD. Ralph Waldo Emerson答案:B3.From the first novel Sister Carrie on, Dreiser set himself to project the American values for what he had found them to be: ______ to the core.A. altruisticB. politicalC. religiousD. materialistic答案:D4.Jane Austen passed away when she was___A. 38B. 48C. 42D. 52答案:C5.The pen name Mark Twain means___A. waterB. safe waterC. riverD. clear water答案:B6.In his poetry, Whitman shows concern for ______ and the burgeoning life of cities.A. the colonistsB. the capitalistsC. the whole hard -working peopleD. the intellectuals7.After The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Twain gives a literary independence to Tom's buddy Huck in a book entitled ___A. Life on the MississippiB. The Gilded AgeC. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnD. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court8.The ______ Age of the 1920s characterized by frivolity and carelessness is brought vividly to life in The Great Gatsby.A. LostB. JazzC. ReasonD. Gilded9.In his poetry, Wordsworth shows concern for nature and______ .A. the colonistsB. the capitalistsC. the labouring peopleD. the intellectuals10.What kind of girl is Dora?A. pretty and cleverB. pretty and empty-headedC. plain-looking and understadingD. lovely and clever⼆、判断题( 每题5分, 共10道⼩题, 总分值50分)1.William Wordsworth was brought up by his relatives beacaus of the death of his parents.答案:正确2.In Pride and Prejudice,Mary is the third daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet.3.In To the Lighthouse,Minta and Paul are happy together.4.Pip, Estella, Havisham, Magwitch, and Joe Gargery are most likely names of characters in Oliver Twist.5.In Pride and Prejudice,Mr. Bennet regards Elizabeth as the most intelligent and spirited daughter.6.In Pride and Prejudice,Mr. Darcy dislike Elizabeth.7.Ezra Pound gave Robert Frost a very good opinion about his poems and helped him to find British publishers.8.William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated the use of elegant wording and inflated figures of speech.9.The 20th -century stream- of- consciousness technique was frequently and skillfully used by Frost.10.As a literary figure, John Rivers appears in Austen’s Pride and Prejudice18春《英美⽂学选读》作业_2⼀、单选题( 每题5分, 共10道⼩题, 总分值50分)1."Two roads diverged in a yellow wood /And sorry I could not travel both ..." /In the above two lines of Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken, the poet, by implication, was referring to _______.A. a travel experienceB. a marriage decisionC. a middle-age crisisD. one’s course of life2.The literary characters of the American type in early 19th century are generally characterized by all the following features EXCEPT that theyA. speak local dialectsB. are polite and elegant gentlemenC. are simple and crude farmersD. are noble savages(red and white) untainted by society3.Which of the following is not written by Robert Frost?A. To AutumnB. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy EveningC. Mending WallD. A Boy's Will4.When Robert Frost was 87, he read his poetry at the inauguration of President___A. BushB. KennedyC. ClintonD. Fort5.which of writer is the friend of famous poet Longfellow?A. HawthorneB. John MiltonC. Thomas GrayD. John Keats6.American literature produced only one female poet during the ninetheenth century ,This was _______ .A. Anne BradsteetB. Jane AustenC. Emily DickinsonD. T. S. Eliot7.As an active participant of his age, Fitzgerald is often acclaimed literary spokesman of the ______.A. Jazz AgeB. Age of ReasonC. Lost GenerationD. Beat Generation8.Here are some lines from a literary work:I shall be telling this with a sigh,/Somewhere ages and ages hence:/Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—/I took the one less traveled by,/And that has made all the difference.The work is ___.A. Robert Frost'sThe Road Not TakenB. John Milton's Paradise LostC. Alexander Pope's Essay on CriticismD. Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream9.William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following EXCEPTA. the use of everyday language spoken by the common peopleB. the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelingsC. the use of humble and rustic life as subject matterD. the use of elegant wording and inflated figures of speech10.According to Hawthorne, the scarlet letter "A" which originally stood for "_______" finally obtained the meaning of "able" or "angel" through Hester's efforts.A. adulteryB. arroganceC. accomplishmentD. agony⼆、判断题( 每题5分, 共10道⼩题, 总分值50分)1.Kitty is the fourth daughter of the Bennet family.2.The themes of Robert Frost’s poems include landscape and people of New England, loneliness and poverty of isolated farmers, beauty, terror, and tragedy in nature.3.The last section of To the Lighthouse is entitled “The Lighthouse”.4.Pearl in The Scarlet Letter is the daughter of Hester and Chillingworth.5.Crusoe travelled on the other side of the island for three month.6.Fitzgerald’s greatness lies in the fact that he found intuitively in his personal experience the embodiment of that of the nation and created a myth out of American life.7.The publication of Twice-told Tales marked a turning point both in Hawthorne’s career and personal life.8.Capitalism came into its monopoly stage, the gap between the rich and the poor was further deepened during Victorian period.9.Critical realism is the period between 1875 and 1920 to apply the methods of realistic diction to the criticism of society and the examination of social issues.10.Frost had rejected the revolutionary poetic principles of his contemporaries, choosing instead “the old-fashioned way to be new”18春《英美⽂学选读》作业_3⼀、单选题( 每题5分, 共10道⼩题, 总分值50分)1.The ______ was a progressive intellectual movement throughout western Europe in the 18th century .A. EnlightenmrentB. RenaissanceC. Religious ReformationD. Chartist Movement2.Which is Dofoe’s masterpiece?A. Robinson CrusoeB. Queen MabC. The Revolt of IsiamD. The Taming of the Shrew3.The title of the novel “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ”written by James Joyce suggests a character study with strong _________ elements .A. autobiographicalB. sentimentalC. joyfulD. bitter4.What's the name of Hester and Dimmesdale 's daughter?A. AmyB. PearlC. NinaD. Berry5.Virginia Woolf was born in a____A. poor familyB. small familyC. rich familyD. talented family6.Of the following American poets ,whose work was first recognized in England and then in America?A. Walt WhitmanB. Robert FrostC. Emily DickinsonD. Wallace Stevens7.Robert Frost is the author of all the following books of poetry except ______.A. A Witness TreeB. Steeple BushC. A Masque of MercyD. Jude the Obscure8.Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his ____.A. international themeB. waste-land imageryC. local colorD. symbolism9.The statement that a man gained the whole world but lost his own soul makes a good summary of the main plot of ______.A. Paradise LostB. The Merchant of VeniceC. HamletD. The Tragic History of Doctor Faustus10.The excerpt The Other Side of the Island was chosen from Chapter___ in Rubinson Crusoe.A. ⅨB. ⅪC. ⅩD. Ⅷ⼆、判断题( 每题5分, 共10道⼩题, 总分值50分)1.Robinson Crusoe was published in 17192.The character of Robinson Crusoe saves a savage and names him Friday.3.Robinson Crusoe retells the story in the first person singular4.The Scarlet Letter is set in the 17th-century Boston.5.The second section of To the Lighthouse is entitled “Time Passes”.6.In Pride and Prejudice,Mr. Bingley and the eldest girl Jane Bennet fall in love.7.Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe created the image of an enterprising Englishman, typical of the English bourgeoisie in the 18th century.8.The 18th century witnessed a new literary form -the modern English novel, which, contrary to the medieval romance, givesa realistic presentation of life of the common English people.9.David Copperfield was born into a wealthy family.10.The name of the first and most successful section in To the Lighthouse is “Window”.18春《英美⽂学选读》作业_4⼀、单选题( 每题5分, 共10道⼩题, 总分值50分)1."'I believe you are made of stone,'he said, clenching his fingers so hard that he broke the fragile cup. …'You seem to forget,'she said,'that cup is not!'" .From the above quoted passage, we can find the woman's tone is very( ) .A. sarcasticB. amusingC. sentimentalD. facetious2."Two roads diverged in a yellow wood /And sorry I could not travel both ..." In the above two lines of Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken, the poet, by implication, was referring to _______.A. a travel experienceB. a marriage decisionC. a middle-age crisisD. one’s course of life3.We can perhaps describe the west wind in Shelley's poem "Ode to the West Wind" with all thefollowing terms exceptA. tamedB. swiftC. proudD. wild4.Here are two lines from a ling poem: "Upon a great adventure he was bond, That greatest Gloriana to him gave." The poem must be_____.A. BeowulfB. John Milton’s Samson AgonistesC. Thomas Gray’s Elegy Written in a County ChurchyardD. Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene5.Hamlet by Shakespeare reflects the light of the English ______.A. RenaissanceB. ModernismC. ScientismD. Feminism6.All the following poets belong to lake poets EXCEPTA. WordsworthB. ColeridgeC. Robert SoutheyD. Shelley7.Because of her sensitivity to universal pattens of human behavior, ______ has brought the English novel, as an art of form, to its maturity.A. Charlotte BronteB. Jane AustenC. Emily BronteD. Henry Fielding8.Who try a new creative method of “stream of consciousness”in writing?A. Arnold BennettB. John GalsworthyC. H. G. WellsD. Virginia Woolf9."The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks."(Samuel Johnson, "To the Right Honorable the Earl of Chesterfield")The speaker here is ( ).A. cheerfulB. ironicC. mysteriousD. nonchalant10.The poem Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening is selected from____A. A Witness TreeB. Steeple BushC. New HampshireD. A Further Range⼆、判断题( 每题5分, 共10道⼩题, 总分值50分)1.In Robinson Crusoe,Crusoe read magazine everyday2.There were many literary artists involved in the groups known as the Lost Generation. The three best known areSherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos.3.By the end of his life Robert Frost had become a national bard and he received honorary degrees from forty-four colleges and universities and won four Pulitzer Prizes.4.Fitzgerald became “the angel of the twenties”and his writings those of a man inside that legendary period.5.Wordsworth’s attitude towards the French Revolution changed at his later years.6.The Scarlet Letter relates the conflicts between the society and the individual.7.Of all Dickens’s novels, Nicholas Nickleby is regarded as his masterpiece.8.In David Copperfield,Mr. Micawber is a rich squire who lives a comfortable life.9.Daniel Defoe was born in a teacher’s family.10.Charles Dickens is one of the greatest critical realist writers of the Victorian Age.。

《英美文学选读》英美文学选读模拟题一及答案.doc

《英美文学选读》英美文学选读模拟题一及答案.doc

英美文学选读模拟题一A. Each of the statements below is following by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement and put the letter in the brackets. (20x1 points)()1. In Spenser's "The Faerie Queene", _______ is the play role in each of the 12 major adventures.A. ArthurB. RedcrosseC. UnaD. Archimago()2. In Milton's works, H" is the greatest, indeed the only generally acknowledged epic inEnglish literature since "Beowulf".A. Paradise LostB. Paradise RegainedC. Samson AgonistesD. Lycidas()3. _______ was regarded as "Father of the English Novel", for his contribution to theestablishment of the form of the modern novel.A. Daniel DefoeB. Jonathan SwiftC. Jane AustenD. Henry Fielding()4. _______ compiled the "The Die廿onary of the English Language" which became the foundationof all the subsequent English dictionaries.A. Ben JohnsonB. Samuel JohnsonC. Alexander PopeD. John Dryden()5. The "Byronic hero** first appears in Byron's works, n__________ ”.A. Childe Harold's PilgrimageB. Don JuanC. Oriented TalesD. Manfred()6. _______ made criticism on Elizabethan drama, which renewed interest in Shakespeare and ledto the discovery of his contemporaries.A. ColeridgeB. ByronC. WordsworthD. Keats()7. _______ is the most distinguishing feature of Charles Dickens* works.A. Language*s Forsyte novels are masterpieces of critical realism in theB. Character - PortrayalC. HumorD. Plot()8 In 1847, the Bronte Sisters published the following famous novels except ” ___________ ”.A. Jane EyreB. ShirleyC. Wuthering HeightsD. The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall()9. In _______ 's hands, "drama 廿c monologue" reaches its maturity and perfection.A. Alfred TennysonB. Robert BrowningC. William ShakespeareD. George Eliot()10.As a woman of exceptional intelligence and life experience, George Eliot shows a particular concern for ______________ .A. the feminismB. the education for womenC. the des 廿ny of womenD. the low status of women()11. Symbolism appeared in the late 19th century in ______________ .A. FranceB. GermanyC. EnglandD. Italy ()12. The three trilogies of early 20th century.A. John GalswortryB. Arnold BennettC. Jame JoyceD. H. G. Wells()13. In the following statements, ____________ is Bernard Shaw's political point of view.A. He regarded the establishment of socialism by the emancipation of land and industrial capital from individual and class ownership as the final goal.B. He was for the means of violent revolution of armed struggle in achieving the goal of socialism.C. He had a trust of the uneducated working class in fighting against capitalists.D. He held that both those superior intellects and those industrial workers could have the ability to shoulder the task of fighting against the capitalism.()14. The New England transcendentalism was from the very beginning a local phenomenon restricted only to those people living in new England, who carried out the movement as a reaction against the cold, rigid rationalism of______________________ in Boston.A. PuritanismB. CalvinismC. ClassicismD. Unitarianism()15. In the following statements, __________ is not true as to Washington lrving*s famous story ”Rip Van Winkle".A. The story is a tale remembered mostly for Rip's 20 - year sleep, set against the background of the inevitably changing America.B. In the story Irving skillfully presents to us paralleled juxtapositions of two totally different worlds before and after Rip's 20 years' sleep.C. Irving describes Rip's response and reaction in dramatic way, so that we see clearly both the narrator and Irving agree on the preferability of the present to the past, and the preferability of the real world to a dream - like one.D. The social conservatism and literary preference for the past is revealed, to some extent, in the story.()16. _______ is not among the artistic features of Whitman's writing.A. The use of the poetic "l MB. Free verseC. Musicality or rhythmD. Allegory()17. Henry James's fame generally rests upon his novels and stories with _____________ .A. the love and marriage themeB. the theme of humor and satire on lifeC. the theme of revealing the miserable life of the poor and criticizing the capitalismD. the international theme()18. In the following statements, __________ is not true as to the backgrounds for the American literature between the two world wars.A. The United states had become the most powerful industrialized nation in the world.B. The technological revolution had brought about great changes in the life of the American people.C. The Crash marked the beginning of "The Great Economic Depression" in the 1920s.D. Despite its booming industry and material prosperity, there was a sense of unease and restlessness underneath.()19. Ezra Pound's "The Cantos" is ________ .A. lyricsB. epic poemC. odeD. pastoral()20. _______ is acknowledged by many as the most original poet of the Victorian period.A. Robert BrowningB. Alfred TennysonC. George EliotD. John KeatsB. Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase according to the textbook. (20x1 points)1. _____ i s the essence of the Renaissance.2. In "The Faerie Queene", the Redcrosse knight in Book I stands for St. George, and Sir Guyon in Book II Represents Temperance. Such kind of writing style is called _____________ .3. "H amlet”,"Othello”,"King Lear" and " ______ " are generally regarded as Shakespeare's four great tragedies.4. As a represents廿ve of the enlightenment, Pope was one of the first to introduce _____________ to England.5. _____ *s novels are the first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower - class people.6. The literary form of neo - classicism is of the strict symmetry. The prevailing genre ofneoclassical literature is ________ w hich consists of two riming lines of iambic pentameter, and the second line completes the thoughts expressed by the couplet.7. _____ i s central to Blake's concern in the "Songs of Innocence" and "Songs of Experience".8. The poet Robert Southey as well as Coleridge and Wordsworth lived nearby and the three men became known as the ”_________ ”.9. Jane AusteiYs masterpiece is " _____________10. ________ is Robert Browning's masterpiece.11. The realistic novels of the 1920s and 1930s were more or less touched by a pessimistic mood, preoccupied with the theme of ___________ , and shaped in different forms.12 In the mid - 1950s and early 1960s, there appeared a group or young novelists and playwrights with lower - middle - class background, who were known as ”___________________ ”.13. Melville is best known as the author of one book named ______________ , which is, critics have agreed, one of the world's greatest masterpieces.14. The particular concern about the local character of a region came about as ”_________ ", a unique variation of American literary realism.15. By the turn of the century, with the publics廿on of "The Man That Corrupted Hadleybury** (1900) and "The Mysterious Stranger" (1916), the change in Mark Twain from an optimist to an almost despairing pessimist could be fell and his cynicism and disillusionment with what Twain referred to regularly as the " _______________________ " became obvious.16. As a sequel to "Tom Sawyer", " __________ ” marks the climax of Twain*s literary creativity.17. One of James's literary techniques innovated to cater for the psychological emphasis is his narrative ” ________ H.18. The postwar poet Robert Lowell is the leading figure of _____________ poetry.19. In Fitzgerald's great fiction, there's always full of the main theme of the bankruptcy of the" _____ ”, especially in "The Great Gatsby" (1925).20. Most of Faulkner's works are set in the American South about people from a small region in Northern Messissippi, ____________ County.C. Decide whether the following statements are true or false and write your answers in the brackets. (10x1 points)( )1. In his poetry, Donne frequently applies conceits, i. e. extended metaphors involvingdrama廿c contrasts.( )2. "The Pilgrim's Progress** is the most successful religious allegory in the English language.()3. The 19th century produced the first English novelists, who fall into two groups the sen廿mentalist novelists and the realist novelists.()4. The most important contribution Byron has made is that he has not only started the modern poetry, the poetry of the growing inner self, but also changed the course of English poetry by using ordinary speech of the language and by advocating a return to nature.()5. Generally speaking, Jane Austen was a writer of the 18th - century, though she lived mainly in the nineteenth century.()6. In the Victorian period, the novel became the most widely read and the most vital and challenging expression of progressive thought.()7. "The Waste Land", Eliofs most important single poem, has been hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th - century English poetry, comparable to Wordsworth's "Lyrical Ballads".()8. While Mark Twain and Henry James seemed to have paid more ail ention to the "life" of the Americans, Howells had apparently laid a greater emphasis on the "inner world" of man.()9. Dickinson's poetry is unique and unconventional in its own way. Her poems have no titles hence are always quoted by their first lines. In her poetry there is a particular stress pattern, in which dashes are used as a musical device to create cadence and capital letters as a means of emphasis.()10. Most of Faulkner's works are set in the American North, with his emphasis on the Northern subjects and consciousness.D. Name the author of the following literary works. (5x1 points)1. The Passionate Shepherd to His Love: Marloew2. Composed upon Westminster Bridge: Wordsworth3. The Moll on the Floss4. Break, Break, Break. :Tennyson5. A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man: JoyceE. Define the literary terms listed below. (2x4 points)1. The Heroic Couplet2. Stream of ConsciousnessF. For each of the quotations listed below please give the name of the author and the title of the literary work from which it is taken and then briefly interpret it. (2x4 points)1. "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the les,The plowman homeward plods his weary way,And leaves the world to darkness and to me."2. "Round the cape of a sudden came the sea,And the sun looked over the mountains rim:And straight was a path of gold for him,And the need of a world of men for me."G. Give brief answers to the following questions. (3x5 points)1. Make a comment on the image of Robinson Crusoe.2. What are the features of Charles Dickens's novels?3. What's Nathaniel Hawthorne's "black" vision of life and human beings?H. Short essay questions. (2x7 points)I. How is the fatalism revealed in Hardy's works?(Naturalist)2. Analyse the artistic features of Earnest Hemingway*s novels.附:答案全国高等教育自学考试模拟试卷(一)英美文学选读参考答案A.1. A2. A3. D4. B5. A6. A7. B8. B9. B10. C11. A12. A13. A14. D15. C16. D17. D18. C19. B20. AB.1. Humanism2. allegory3. Macbeth4. ra廿onalism5. Daniel Defoe6. heroic couplet7. Childhood8. Lake poets9. Pride and Prejudice10. The Ring and the Book11. man's loneliness12. the Angry Young Men13. Moby - Dick14. local colorism15. damned human race16. Adventures of Hucklebrry Finn17. point of view18. Confessional19. American Dream20. YoknapatawphaC.1. T2. T3. F4. T5. T6. T7. T8. F9. T10. FD.1. Christopher Marlowe2. William Wordsworth3. George Eliot4. Alfred Tennyson5. James JoyceE.1. The heroic couplet refers to iambic pentameter rhymed in two lines. During the Restoration and the 18th century Alexander Pope perfected the closed couplet, which means only a couplet xan express a compete idea, and developed it to the heroic couplet. A good example in " The Rape of the Lock" is: but when to mischiet mortals bend their will, how soon they find fit instruments of ill!2. In Joyce's opinion, the artist, who wants to reach the highest stage and to gain the insights necessary for the crea廿on of dramatic art, should rise to the position of a godlike objectivity; he should have the complete conscious control over the creative process and depersonalize his own emotion in the artistic creation. He should appear as an omniscient author and present unspoken materials directly from the psyche of the characters, of making the characters tell their own inner thoughts in monologues. This literary approach to the presentation of psychological aspects of characters is usually termed as "stream of consciousness**.1. The 廿tie of the literary work is "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard'*, and its author is Thomas Gray.译文如下:晚钟响起来一阵阵向白昼告别,牛群在草原上迂回,吼声起落,耕地人累了,回家走,脚步踉跄,把整个世界留给了黄昏与我。

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B. the pitch of a word used to determine its meaning in the given context
C. the manner of expression to indicate the speaker's attitude towards the subject
D. the use of elegant wording and inflated figures of speech
正确答案:D
7. All the following poets belong to lake poets EXCEPT
A. Wordsworth
B. Coleridge
A. 17th
B. 18th
C. 19th
D. 20th
正确答案:B
3. In English poetry the _______ is regarded as the most common foot.
A. iamb
B. anapest
C. trochee
D. dactyl
C. Robert Southey
D. ห้องสมุดไป่ตู้helley
正确答案:D
8. In Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, Antonio could not pay back the money he borrowed from Shylock, because ______.
A. Pride and Prejudice
B. Jane Eyre
C. Wuthering Heights
D. Great Expectations
正确答案:B
6. William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following EXCEPT
A. the use of everyday language spoken by the common people
B. the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings
C. the use of humble and rustic life as subject matter
A. dramatic irony
B. personification
C. allegory
D. symbolism
正确答案:A
10. In the conversation with his wife in Chapter One of Pride and Prejudice, Mr. Bennet uses a(n) ______ tone with sarcastic humor.
正确答案:D
9. "Bassanio: Antonio, I am married to a wife Which is as dear to me as life itself; But life itself, my wife, and all the world, Are not with me esteem'd above thy life; I would lose all, ay, sacrifice them all, Here to the devil, to deliver you. Portia: Your wife would give you little thanks for that, If she were by to hear you make the offer." The above is a quotation taken from Shakespeare's comedy The Merchant of Venice. The quoted part can be regarded as a good example to illustrate___
A. William Wordsworth
B. John Keats
C. Shelley
D. Coleridge
正确答案:B
17. In Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth Bennet finds out some weak points about herself in the process of judging others. Which of the following is NOT a weak point of hers?
A. Blindness
B. Partiality
C. Snobbishness
D. Prejudice.
正确答案:C
18. Hamlet is a prince of ___
A. England
B. Ireland
C. Britain
D. Denmark
正确答案:D
19. Charles Dickens takes the French Revolution as the background of his novel ______.
D. a shade of colour to reflect the change of the light
正确答案:C
12. What does Wordsworth's poem "The Solitary Reaper" tell us about Romanticist?
A. To romanticists, poetry is an expression of an individual's feelings and experiences no matter how fragmentary and momentary these feelings and experiences are.
正确答案:A
4. The excerpt The Other Side of the Island was chosen from Chapter___ in Rubinson Crusoe.
A. Ⅸ
B. Ⅺ
C. Ⅹ
D. Ⅷ
正确答案:A
5. "Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless?…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." The above quoted p
C. Julius Caesar
D. Much ado about Nothing
正确答案:A
15. How many lines are there in a sonnet?
A. 16
B. 18
C. 14
D. 12
正确答案:C
16. The poem Ode to a Nightingale was written by___
B. Romanticist take delight only in sound effect, the theme of a work is not their concern.
C. Ro
正确答案:A
13. Which of the following is NOT a tragicomedy?
B. William Wordsworth
C. Coleridge
D. John Keats
正确答案:B
A. Great Expectations
B. A Tale of Two Cities
C. Bleak House
D. Oliver Twist
正确答案:B
20. The poem I wandered Lonely as a Cloud was written by ___
A. Dorothy Wordsworth
A. his money was all invested in the newly-emerging textile industry
B. his enterprise went bankrupt
C. Bassanio was able to pay his own debt
D. his ships had all been lost
A. Timon of Athens
B. Cymbline
C. The winter's tale
D. The tempest
正确答案:A
14. Which of the following is a tragedy?
A. Antony and Cleopatra
B. Twelfth Night
A. solemn
B. harsh
C. arrogant
D. teasing
正确答案:D
11. The term tone in literature means__________.
A. sound effect such as rhyme and metrical device
12春《英美文学选读》作业1
一、单选题
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