12级英语阅读欣赏期末考试试卷

2013-2014学年第二学期

期末考试试卷

年级 13级大专 专业 各专业 层次 各层次 科目 英语阅读欣赏

I. Multiple Choice (30 points in all, 1 for each)

Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the

question or completes the statement. Mark the corresponding letter A, B,

C or

D on the answer sheet.

1. “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” This humorous speech is from___ B _______.

A. Jane Austen ’s Emma

B. Jane Austen ’s Pride and Prejudice

C. Charles Dickins ’ The Great Expectation

D. Charlotte Bronte ’s Jane Eyre The most

2. The important contribution of __ B ____ is that he not only started the modern poetry, but also changed the course of English poetry by using ordinary speech of the language and by advocating a return to nature.

A. William Blake

B. William Wordsworth

C. G. G. Byron

D. John Keats

3. In the Victorian Period __ B ____ became the most widely read and the most vital and challenging expression of progressive thought.

A. poetry

B. novel

C. prose

D. drama

4. Thomas Hardy’s _ A _____ view of life predominates most of his works and earns him a reputation as a ________ writer.

A. pessimistic, naturalistic

B. pessimistic, humorous

C. romantic, realist

D. determinist, stylistic

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 quoted lines are most probably taken from ___ C _____.

A. Great Expectations

B. Wuthering Heights

C. Jane Eyre

D. Pride and Prejudice

6. Jane Austen’ s first novel __A ______ tells a story about two sisters and their love affairs.

A. Sense and Sensibility

B. Pride and Prejudice

C. Northanger Abbey

D. Mansfield Park

7. “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” comes from __A______.

A. Shelley’s Ode to the West Wind

B. Walt Whitman’ s Leaves of Grass

C. John Milton’s Paradise Lost

D. John Keats’ Ode on a Grecian Ur n

8. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” is __D______ masterpiece on ________.

A. G. G. Byron’s, love

B. John Keats’, nature

C. P. B. Shelley’s, love

D. William Wordsworth’s, nature

9. T.S. Eliot’s __B____ not only presents a panorama of physical disorder and spiritual desolation in the modern Western world, but also reflects the prevalent mood of disillusionment and despair of a whole post-war generation.

A. The Hollow Men

B. The Waste Land

C. Murder in the Cathedral

D. Ash Wednesday

10. John Milton’s greatest poetical work __B______ is the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf.

A. Areopagitica

B. Paradise Lost

C. Lycidas

D. Samson Agonistes

11. “The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water.” This “iceberg” analogy about prose style was put forward by ___C_____.

A. William Faulkner

B. Henry James

C. Ernest Hemingway

D. F. Scott Fitzgerald

12. Among the following writers ___B____is generally regarded as the great master of the 20th century “s tream-of-consciousness” novels in British literature.

A. T. S. Eliot

B. James Joyce

C. William Faulkner

D. Henry James

13. In William Faulkner’s writings, the modern _A_____ technique was frequently and skillfully used to emphasize the reactions and inner musings of the narrator.

A. stream-of-consciousness

B. impressionism

C. imagism

D. dramatic monologue

14. “Byronic hero” is a figure of the following traits EXCEPT __D____.

A. being proud

B. being self-independent

C. being rebellious

D. being of humble origin

15. Charles Dickens' novel ___B___ is famous for its vivid descriptions of the workhouse and life

of the underworld in the nineteenth-century London.

A. The Pickwick Paper

B. Oliver Twist

C. David Copperfield

D. Nicholas Nickleby

16. ____C_____ is a novel by Nobel Prize-winning English author _______ about a group of British boys stuck on an uninhabited island who try to govern themselves, with disastrous results.

A. A Passage to India, E. M. Forster

B. The Rainbow, D. H. Lawrence

C. Lord of the Flies, William Golding