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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 spirit

B. pessimistic view of life

C. war experiences

D. masculinity

答案：A q：80/500/9261

2.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 Gerhardt

B. An American Tragedy

C. The Genius

D. Sister Carrie

答案：D

3.Gatsby，Daisy，Nick are the characters of ( )

A. The Beautiful and Damned

B. Tender is the Night

C. The Great Gatsby

D. This Side of Paradise portrays

答案：C

4.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 York

B. London

C. Paris

D. Geneva

答案：B

5.which of Woolf＇novels was adapted into movie named The Hours?

A. Mrs.Dalloway

B. The Waves

C. The Common Reader

D. To the Light house

答案：A

6.Within her little lyrics Dickinson addresses those issues that concern ______, which include religion, death, immorality, love and nature.

A. the whole human beings

B. the frontiers

C. the African Americans

D. her relatives

答案：A

7.Which of the following is NOT written by Wordsworth.

A. Lines Written in Early Spring

B. To the Cuckoo

C. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

D. Moll Flanders

答案：D

8.Tess of the D’Urbervilles, one of Thomas Hardy’s best known novels, portrays man as ________.

A. being hereditarily either good or bad

B. being self-sufficient

C. having no control over his own fate

D. still retaining his own faith in a world of confusion

答案：C

9.Whitman＇s poems are characterized by all the following features EXCEPT ______ .

A. the strict poetic form

B. the free and natural rhythm

C. the easy flow of feelings

D. the simple and conversational language

答案：A

10."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 experience

B. a marriage decision

C. a middle-age crisis

D. one’s course of life

答案：D

11.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：D

12.The Hemingway Code heroes are best remembered for their