[考研类试卷]英语专业(英美文学)模拟试卷8.doc
英语专业英美文学模拟试题
英语专业英美文学模拟试题•相关推荐英语专业英美文学模拟试题1. Define the following literary terms (40/150,10×4):1. Ahab as in Moby Dick2. Heathcliff as in Wuthering Heights3. Tess Durbeyfield4. Imagism5. Lady Macbeth6. Realism7. Romanticism8. Neoclassicism9. Allegory10. ConflictII. Literary Analysis (30/150, 2×15)1. Summarize Ernest Hemingway's literary achievements.2. Briefly introduce Ezra Pound’s view on the Imagist poetry.III. Questions about Literary Works. (80/150, 8×10)1. Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?Thou are more lovely and more temperate.Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines,And often is his gold complexion dimmed;And every fair from fair sometimes declines,By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimmed;But thy eternal summer shall not fade,Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow' stNor shall Death brag thou wand’ rest in h is shade,When in eternal lines to time thou grow' stSo long as men can breathe or eyes can seeSo long live this, and this gives life to thee.a. Identify the author and the work from which the passage is selected.b. What kind of sonnet is employed in the selection? What are the features of this kind of sonnet?c. Comment on the theme of the poem.2. To be, or not to be---that is the question;Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to sufferThe slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,And by opposing end them? To die, to sleep—No more; and by a sleep to say we endThe heart-ache and the thousand natural shocksThat flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummationDevoutly to be wished.a. From which work is this passage selected? And who is the author of this work?b. What literary form does this work belong to? What metrical form is used in this work?c. What is the hero of this work? What spiritual mood does this passage reveal abut the hero?3. A Voyage to Lilliput] As to the first, you are to understand, that for above seventy moons past, there have been two struggling parties in this empire, under the names of Tramecksan, and Slamecksan, from the high and low heels on their shoes, by which they distinguish themselves.It is allaged indeed, that the high heels are most agreeableto our ancient constitution: but however this be, his Majesty hath determined to make use of only low heels in the administration of the Government, and all offices in the gift of the Crown; as you cannot but observe; and particularly his Majesty’s imperial heels are lower at least by a druur than any of his court (drurr is a measure about the fourteenth part of an inch.) The animosities between these two parties run so high, that they will neither eat nor drink, nor talk with each other. […] It is allowed on all hands, that the primitive way of breaking eggs before we eat them, was upon the larger end: but his present Majesty’s grand-father, while he was a boy, going to eat an egg, and breaking it according to the ancient practice, happened to cut one of his finger, whereupon the emperor his father, published an edict, commanding all his subjects, upon great penalties, to break the smaller end of their eggs.a. Identify the author and the work from which the passage is selected.b. What is the theme of this work?c. What are the four parts of the work? How are four organic parts are structured in the work?4. By this time Mrs. Morel was trembling violently. Struggling of this kind often took place between her and her son, when she seemed to fight for his very life against his own will to die. He took her in his arms. She was ill and pitiful."Never mind, Little/' he murmured. " So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness."She pressed him to her."But I want you to be happy," she said pathetically.Eh, my dear---say rather you want me to live,"Mrs. Morel felt as if her heart would break for him. At this rate she knew he would not live. He had that poignant carelessness about himself, his own suffering, his own life., which is a form of slow- suicide. It almost broke her heart. With all the passion of her strong nature she hated Miriam for having in this subtle way undermine his joy. It did not matter to her that Miriam could not help it. Miriam did it, and she hated her.a. From what work is-this passage Selected ? Who is the author of this work?b. What is the name of the hero of this work? What is the relationship between the hero, Mrs. Morel and Miriam?c. What literary method is used in this work? Comment the relationship between the hero and Mrs. Morel by using Freud's-theory..5. But the point which drew all eyes, and, as it were, transfigured the wearer, —so that both men and women, who had been familiarly acquainted with Hester Prynne, were now impressed as if they beheld her for the first time, —was that scarlet letter, so fantastically embroidered and illuminated upon her bosom. It had the effect of a spell, taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity, and inclosing her in a sphere by herself.a. Identify the author and the work from which the passage is selected.b. Comment on the symbolic meaning of the letter the heroine wears.c. What is the theme of the work?6. I felt good and all washed clean of sin for the first time I had ever felt so in my life, and I know I could pray now. But I didn't do it straight oft, but laid the paper down and set therethinking----thinking how good it was all this happened so, and how near. I come to being lost and going to hell. And went on thinking. And got to thinking over our trip down the river; and I see Jim before me, all the time, in the day, and in the night-time, sometimes moonlight, sometimes storms, and we a floating along, talking, and singing, and laughing. But somehow I couldn't seem to strike no places to harden。
英语专业-英美文学试卷及答案-期末
英语专业-英美文学试卷及答案-期末英美文学试卷A共9页第I. Mark the following statements as true (T) or false (F). (10 x 1’=10’)1. ( ) Chaucer is the first English short-story teller and the founder of English poetry aswell as the founder of English realism. His masterpiece The Canterbury talescontains 26 stories.2. ( ) English Renaissance is an age of essay and drama.3. ( ) The rise of the modern novel is closely related to the rise of the middle class and anurban life.4. ( ) The French Revolution and the American War of Independence were two biginfluences that brought about the English Romantic Movement.5. ( ) Charlotte’s novels are all about lonely and neglected young women with a fiercelonging for life and love. Her novels are more or less based on her own experience and feelings and the life as she sees around.6. ( ) The leading figures of the naturalism at the turn of 19th century are Thomas Hardy,John Galsworthy and Bernard Shaw.7. ( ) Emily Dickinson is remembered as the “All American Writer”.8. ( )The Civil War divides the American literature into romantic literature and realistliterature.9. ( ) Mark Twain is the first American writer to discover an American language andAmerican consciousness.。
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Ⅰ. Multiple choice（40 points, 2 for each）1. ________ employed the heroic couplet with true ease and charm for the first time in the history of English Literature.A. Geoffrey ChaucerB. George Gordon ByronC. Edmund SpenderD. Robert Browning2. Which of the following is William Shakespeare's history play?A.MacbethB. Henry IVC. Romeo andJuliet D. King Lear3. For his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel, ________ has been regarded as “Father of the English Novel”.A. Henry FieldingB. Daniel DefoeC. John BunyanD. James Joyce4. “The a pparition of these faces in the crowd;Petals on a wet, black bough. “4. These two lines are quoted from ________'s poem?A. EmilyDickinson B. Robert FrostC. EzraPoundD. William B. Yeats5. Jane Austen wrote within a very narrow sphere. The subject matter, the social setting, and plots are all restricted to the provincial life of the ________.A. late 19th–century B. 17th -centuryC. 20th–century D. late 18th -century6. Usually basing on her own experiences, Emily Dickinson addresses issues that concern the whole human beings. Which of the following is NOT a usual subject of her poetic expression?A. Life andDeathB. ReligionC. Love andNatureD. War and Peace7. Walden is a ________.A. Transcendentalistwork B. epic in proseC. lyricpoemD. short story8. Henry James' realism is different from others, because he pays more attention to ________.A. the traditionalstyle B. the common peopleC. the inner world of human beingsD. the class struggle9. ________ is considered Mark Twain's greatest achievement.A. The GildedAge B. Innocents AbroadC. The Adventures of Tom SawyerD. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn10. At the beginning of Faulkner's A Rose for Emily, there is a detailed description of Emily's old house. The purpose of such description is to imply that the person living in it ________.A. is a wealthy ladyB. is a conservative aristocratC. is a prisoner of the pastD. has good taste11. ________ is NOT a Nobel Prize winner.A. Eugene O'NeillB. F. Scott FitzgeraldC. Ernest HemingwayD. William Faulkner12. Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Mark Twain's language?A.Vernacular B. ElegantC.Colloquial D. Humorous13. The most distinguishing feature of Charles Dicken's works lies in his ________.A. social criticismB. optimismC. character－portrayalD. social setting14. As the representative of the Enlightenment, Pope was one of the first to introduce ________ to England.A. rationalismB. romanticismC. criticismD. realism15. Shelley's greatest achievement is his four-act poetic drama ________.A.AdonaisB. To a SkylarkC. A Song: Men of EnglandD. Prometheus Unbound16. The Victorian Age is most famous for its ________.A. playsB. novelsC. poemsD. essays17. Which of the following women does not belong to the famous Bronte Sisters?A. Mary BronteB. Charlotte BronteC. Emily BronteD. Anne Bronte18. “Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. Abeunt studia in mores. ” This sentence appears in ________.A. The Advancement of LearningB. A Dictionary of the English LanguageC. An Essay on CriticismD. Of Studies19. In his novel, Robinson Crusoe, Defoe eulogizes the hero of the ________?A. aristocratic classB. enterprising landlordsC. rising bourgeoisieD. hard-working people20. Which of the following works does not belong to John Milton?A. Paradise LostB. Paradise RegainedC. AdonaisD. LlycidasII Fill in the following blanks: ( 20 points, 2 for each )1.John Milton wrote "Paradise Lost" in the form of epic, which describes the fall of ______in a grand style.2. Walter Scott has been universally regarded as the founder and great master of the ______ novel.3. Though ______ is not the first English novelist, he has generally been considered as "the father of English novel", for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.4. Richard Brinsley Sheridan is the only important English _______of the eighteenth century. In his plays, morality is the constant theme.5. The_______ couplet is a pair of rhymed iambic pentameter lines, a verse form first used by the 14th-century poet Geoffrey Chaucer.6. Oscar Wilde, who advocated the idea of "______", represented the literary school of decadence in the late 19th century.7."Pilgrim's Progress" is written as a book of religious instructions in the form of _______and dream.8. In England, the literary technique of "stream of consciousness" is best represented in the works of James Joyce and _______.9. In his novels, Arnold Bennett depicts life and society with a strong_______tendency influenced by the French writer Zola and Guy de Maupassant.10. Charles Dickens and William Thackeray were the two great representatives of the English critical realism in the _______century.Ⅲ. Match authors in Column A with their literary works in Column B. Please write your answer on the Answer Sheet. （20 points, 2 for each pair）1. JohnMiltonA. The Canterbury Tales2. SamuelJohnson B. Mrs. Warren's Profession3. GeoffreyChaucer C. Joseph Andrews4. JaneAustenD. She Stoops to Conquer5. Richard Brinsley Sheridan E. A Dictionary of the English Language6. George Bernard Shaw F. Song of Innocence7. WilliamBlake G. Samson Agonistes8. RobertBurns H. Pride and Prejudice9. ThomasHardy I. My Heart’s in the Highlands10. HenryFielding J. Tess of the D’UrbervillesⅣ.Give a brief explanation to each of the following items. Please write your answer on the Answer Sheet. (10 points in total, 2 for each)1. Epic2. Popular ballad3. Romance4. Byronic hero5. English RenaissanceⅤ. Answer the followi ng questions.(10 points)What is the theme of The Wasted Land?Ⅰ.Choose the ONE answer that is the most suitable to the sentence. (30 points in total, 2 for each)( )1.The greatest poet of the Middle English period is ______,the father of English poetry.A.Geoffrey ChaucerB.John LylyC.William LanglandD.John Milton( )2.Portia,the heroine in "______"is one of Shakespeare's idealwomen-beautiful,prudent,cultured and capable of rising to an emergency.A."The Merchant of Venice"B."As You Like It"C."King Lear"D."Twelfth Night"( )3."Modern Fiction" is one of Woolf's important critical essays,in which the writer praises______ as "the most notable"of"several young writers."A.Thomas HardyB.James JoyceC.Joseph ConradD.T.S.Eliot( )4."The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock" is T.S.Eliot's most striking early achievement.The poem is a sort of ______monologue.A.privateB.personalC.dramaticD.poetic( )5.______develops around the life of a middle-class Irish boy,Stephen Dedalus,from his infancy to his departure from Ireland some twenty years later.A."Ulysses"B."A Portrait of the Aritist as a Young Man"C."Finnegans Wake"D."Dubliners"( )6.In "The Pilgrim's Progress" Christian and Faithful come to the ______where both are arrested as alien agitators and tried.A.Vanity FairB.Doubting CastleC.Celestial CityD.hell( )7.John Milton's "On His Blindness" is written in the form of ______sonnet which consists of an octave(an eight-line stanza) and a sestet(a six-line stanza)A.EnglishB.ItalianC.RussianD.Chinese( )8.In "Tom Jones"______ is depicted as a hypocritical,wicked man who is outwardly good but inwardly bad.A.TomB.BlifilC.Mr.AllworthyD.Sophia( )9.The heroine Tess in "Tess of the D'urbervilles"seems to be led to her final destruction step by step by ______,as Hardy says at the end of the novel:"Justice was done,and the President of the Immortals had ended his sport with Tess."A.Angel ClareB.AlecC.FateD.Jude( )10.Which of the following novels by wrence shows the influence of Freud's theory of psychoanalysis,especially that of the "Oedipus complex"?A."The Rainbow"B."Women in Love"C."Sons and Lovers"D."LadyChatterley's Lover"( )11."If Winter comes,can Spring be far behind?"This is written by ______,one of the leading Romantic poets.A.John KeatsB.William WordsworthC.Percy Bysshe ShelleyD.William Blake( )12.Jonathan Swift's"Gulliver's Travels" gives an unparalleled______depiction of the vices of his age.A.religiousB.romanticC.satiricalic( )13.John keats' famous poem______expresses the contrast between the happy world of natural loveliness and human world of agony.A."Endymion"B."Ode to a Nightingale"C."Ode on a Grecian Urn"D."Ode to Psyche"( )14.The story of "Tom Jones"by Henry Fielding is told _______.A.in a series of lettersB.in the third-person narrationC.by Tom JonesD.in the form of diary( )15."The School for Scandal"by Richard Brinsley Sheridan has been regarded as the best ______since Shakespeare.A.tragedyB.proseedyD.fableⅡ. Fill the following blanks with proper information. (30 points in total, 2 for each)1. "The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus" is one of _____'s best plays.2. The epoch of Renaissance witnessed a particular development of English drama. Marlowe made ____the principal vehicle of expression in drama.3. Ben Jonson's best works include _______, ________, ______.4. The English drama experienced a process of decline after _________.5. "Tamburlaine" is a story of ________.6. "The Jew of Malta" depicts a man who _______.7. In __________, Marlowe created a man who sells his soul to the Devil.8. In 1642, civil war broke out in England between the royalists and ___________.9. The __________, led by Oliver Cromwell, defeated the royalists decisively in Naseby in 1645.10. The English Revolution was carried out in the disguise of the ________ Revolution.11. The Revolution of 1688 was often called _________. It caused England to become _________.12. As soon as the bourgeoisie won their victory over the monarch, they split with several groups: _________, _______, ________, ________.13. ____ maintained that "the poorest he that is in England hath a life to live as the greatest."14. ________ led peasants to open up the waste land in several places of England.15. ________ wrote his masterpiece "The Pilgrim's Progress" during his second imprisonment.Ⅱ. Decide whether the followi ng statements are true or false. (10 points in total, 2 for each)( ) 1. The English people were the first residents in England.( ) 2. Beowulf is the oldest poem in the English language, and also the oldest surviving epic in the English language.( ) 3. After the Roman Conquest, the English language developed very quickly. ( ) 4. Christianity was not introduced to England until after the English Conquest. ( ) 5. The Norman Conquest marked the rise of feudalism in England.Ⅲ. Explain the following terms b riefly. (10 points in total, 2 for each)1. The Miracle Play2. The Morality Play3. Sentimentalism4. Sonnet5. Free VerseI.Multiple choice:(15×1=15%)(In this part,there are 15 sentences;in each of them,there are four choices marked by A.B.C. and D.Choose the ONE answer that is the most suitable to the sentence and put the letter in the bracket.)( )1.The greatest poet of the Middle English period is ______,the father of English poetry.A.Geoffrey ChaucerB.John LylyC.William LanglandD.John Milton( )2.Portia,the heroine in "______"is one of Shakespeare's idealwomen-beautiful,prudent,cultured and capable of rising to an emergency.A."The Merchant of Venice"B."As You Like It"C."King Lear"D."Twelfth Night"( )3."Modern Fiction" is one of Woolf's important critical essays,in which the writer praises______ as "the most notable"of"several young writers."A.Thomas HardyB.James JoyceC.Joseph ConradD.T.S.Eliot( )4."The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock" is T.S.Eliot's most striking early achievement.The poem is a sort of ______monologue.A.privateB.personalC.dramaticD.poetic( )5.______develops around the life of a middle-class Irish boy,Stephen Dedalus,from his infancy to his departure from Ireland some twenty years later.A."Ulysses"B."A Portrait of the Aritist as a Young Man"C."Finnegans Wake"D."Dubliners"( )6.In "The Pilgrim's Progress" Christian and Faithful come to the ______where both are arrested as alien agitators and tried.A.Vanity FairB.Doubting CastleC.Celestial CityD.hell( )7.John Milton's "On His Blindness" is written in the form of ______sonnet which consists of an octave(an eight-line stanza) and a sestet(a six-line stanza)A.EnglishB.ItalianC.RussianD.Chinese( )8.In "Tom Jones"______ is depicted as a hypocritical,wicked man who is outwardly good but inwardly bad.A.TomB.BlifilC.Mr.AllworthyD.Sophia( )9.The heroine Tess in "Tess of the D'urbervilles"seems to be led to her final destruction step by step by ______,as Hardy says at the end of the novel:"Justice was done,and the President of the Immortals had ended his sport with Tess."A.Angel ClareB.AlecC.FateD.Jude( )10.Which of the following novels by wrence shows the influence of Freud's theory of psychoanalysis,especially that of the "Oedipus complex"?A."The Rainbow"B."Women in Love"C."Sons and Lovers"D."Lady Chatterley's Lover"( )11."If Winter comes,can Spring be far behind?"This is written by ______,one of the leading Romantic poets.A.John KeatsB.William WordsworthC.Percy Bysshe ShelleyD.William Blake( )12.Jonathan Swift's"Gulliver's Travels" gives an unparalleled______depiction of the vices of his age.A.religiousB.romanticC.satiricalic( )13.John keats' famous poem______expresses the contrast between the happy world of natural loveliness and human world of agony.A."Endymion"B."Ode to a Nightingale"C."Ode on a Grecian Urn"D."Ode to Psyche"( )14.The story of "Tom Jones"by Henry Fielding is told _______.A.in a series of lettersB.in the third-person narrationC.by Tom JonesD.in the form of diary( )15."The School for Scandal"by Richard Brinsley Sheridan has been regarded as the best______since Shakespeare.A.tragedyB.proseedyD.fableII Fill in the following blanks:(10×1=10%)1.John Milton wrote "Paradise Lost"in the form of epic,which describes the fall of______in agrand style.2.Walter Scott has been universally regarded as the founder and great master of the ______ novel.3.Though ______ is not the first English novelist,he has generally been considered as "the father of English novel",for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.4.Richard Brinsley Sheridan is the only important English_______of the eighteenth century,In his plays,morality is the constant theme.5.The_______couplet is a pair of rhymed iambic pentameter lines,a verse form first used by the 14th-century poet Geoffrey Chaucer.6.Oscar Wilde,who advocated the idea of "______",represented the literary school of decadence in the late 19th century.7."Pilgrim's Progress" is written as a book of religious instructions in the form of_______and dream.8.In England,the literary technique of "stream of consciousness" is best represented in the works of James Joyce and _______.9.In his novels,Arnold Bennett depicts life and society with a strong_______tendency influenced by the French writer Zola and Guy de Maupassant.10.Charles Dickens and William Thackeray were the two great representatives of the English critical realism in the _______century.III.Find the relevant match from Column B for each item in Column A.(10×1=10%)A BWriters Works( )1.Oscar Wilde a.Lucky Jim( )2.John Osborne b.Life of Ma Parker( )3.Kingsley Amis c.A passage to India( )4.Katherine Mansfield d.An Ideal Husband( )5.William Somersete.Of Human BondageMaugham( )6.Edward Morgan Forster f.Look Back in Anger( )7.John Galsworthy g.The Heart of the Matter( )8.Jane Austen h.The Forsyte Saga( )9.William Blake i.Pride and prejudice( )10.Graham Greene j.The TygerIV.Read the following quotations and then answer the questions.(30%) 1.I wander thro each charter'd street,Near where the charter'd Thames does flow,And mark in every face I meetMarks of weakness,marks of woe.In every cry of every Man,In every Infant's cry of fear,In every voice,in every ban,The mind-forg'd manacles I hear.How the Chimney-sweeper's cryEvery black'ing Church appalls;And the hapless Soldier's signRuns in blood down Palace walls.But most thro'midnight streets I hearHow the youthful Harlot's curseBlasts the new born Infant's tear,And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse.1)Who is the author of this po em and what is its title?(2×2=4%)2)Explain the following phrases coined by the author.(3×2=6%)a.chartered;b.the mind forged manacles;c.the marriage hearse.3)What does the poem gain by repeating "every" in the second stanza?(5%)2.Let us go then,you and I,When the evening is spread out against the skyLike a patient etherized upon a table;Let us go,through certain half-deserted streets,The muttering retreatsOf restless nights in one-night cheap hotelsAnd sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells;Streets that follow like a tedious argumentOf insidious intentTo lead you to an overwhelming question……1)This stanza is selected from a very famous English poem.What is its title and author?(2×2=4%)2)It is said that the "you and I"can be taken in two ways,What are the two ways do you think?(2×3=6%)3)The basic emotions of this stanza are fear and malice.Can you point out the suggest these emotions?(5%)V.Give brief answers to the following questions;(20%)1.What are the distinct features of Charles Dickens' novels?(12%)2.What are the major themes of Lawrence's "Sons and Lovers"?(8%)VI.Short essay:(1×15=15%)(In this part you are asked to write a short essay.You should concentrate on those important points and demonstrate your ideas with brief,apt episodes or quotations from the novel.Try your best to be logical in your essay.)Give a brief analysis to Jane Eyre,the main character in Charlotte Brontě's "Jane Eyre".In American literature, the eighteen century was the age of theEnlightenment. was the dominant spirit.A. HumanismB. RationalismC. RevolutionD. EvolutionWhich statement about Franklin is not true?A. He instructed his countrymen as a printer.B. He was a scientist.C. He was a master of diplomacy.D. He was a Puritan.Who is regarded as the first American prose epic.A. NatureB. The Scarlet LetterC. WaldenD. Moby-DickThe Romanic Period of American literature started with the publication of Washington Irving's and ended with Whiteman's Leaves of Grass.A. The Sketch BookB. Tales of a TravelerC. The AlhambraD. A history ofNew YorkIn Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, "A" may stand for .A. AdulteryB. AngelC. AmiableD. All the aboveThe period before the American Civil War is generally referred toas .A. the Naturalist PeriodB. the Modern PeriodC. the Romantic PeriodD. the Realistic PeriodThe Age of Realism is the literary history of the United States refers to the period from to .A. 1861 – 1914B. 1863 – 1918C. 1865 – 1914D. 1865 – 1918Who is described by Mark Twain as a boy with "a sound heart and a deformed conscience?"A. Tom SawyerB. Huckleberry FinnC. JimD. TonyMark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his .A. international themeB. waste-land imageryC. local colorD. symbolismThe impact of Darwin's evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the nineteenth-century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to yet another school of realism: American .A. modernismB. naturalismC. vernacularismD. local colorismIn 1900, London published his first collection of short stories,named .A. The son of the WolfB. The Sea WolfC. The Law of LifeD. White FangIn which of the following works, Hemingway presents his philosophy about life and death through the depiction of the bull-fight as a kind of microcosmic tragedy?A. The Green Hills of Africa.B. The Snows of Kilimanjaro.C. To Have and Have Not.D. Death in the Afternoon.Which of the following figures does not belong to "The Lost Generation"?A. Ezra PoundB. William Carlos WilliamsC. Robert FrostD. Theodore DreiserWho is a dramatist that holds the central position in American drama the modernistic period?A. Sinclair LevisB. Eugene O'NeilC. Arthur MillerD. Tennessee WilliamsThe following writers were awarded Nobel Prize for literatureexcept .A. William FaulknerB. F. Scott FitzgeraldC. John SteinbeckD. Ernest HemingwayIn 1954, was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature for his "mastery of the art of modern narration".A. T.S. EliotB. Ernest HemingwayC. John SteinbeckD. William FaulknerWho is the author of the work: "The Grapes of Wrath"?A. John SteinbeckB. Eugene O'NeilC. F. Scott FitzgeraldD. Theodore DreiserIn 1920 Sinclair Lewis published his memorable denunciation of American small-town provincialism in .A. Main StreetB. An American TragedyC. Winesburg, OhioD. Sister Carrie。
英语专业英美文学模拟试题
英语专业英美文学模拟试题2024英语专业英美文学模拟试题在日常学习、工作或生活中，大家都知道美文吧？美文是指不带实用目的专供直觉欣赏的作品，带有实用目的去写作，那么问题来了，怎样才能完成一篇优秀的美文呢？以下是本店铺帮大家整理的2024英语专业英美文学模拟试题，希望对大家有所帮助。
英语专业英美文学模拟试题 1 the author of each of the following works (1X 10= 10%):1.Paradise Lost2.Sons and Lovers3.Death of a Salesman4.The Scarlet Letter5.The Old Man and the Sea6.The Parliament of Fowls7.Samson Agonistes8.The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg9.Northanger Abbey10.Strange InterludeII.Choose any ONE of the following poets and make a comment (20 %)John Keats， T.S.Eliot， Walt Whitman， Emily DickinsonIII.(25 X 2 = 50%)Discussion1.Discuss the following statement and support your argument with specific eXamples from the story "A Woman on a Roof."Doris Lessings "A Woman on a Roof allows us to understand how some men view woman: as mere objects for display and possession.Lessing shows how each of the male characters reacts and deals with rejection from a woman sunbathing on a nearby rooftop.We discover how the three mens preoccupation with seX keeps them unaware of how their advances may be unwanted and ignorant of their actions possible consequences.2.What does the following statement suggest to you? Give your opinions.Virtues are， in the popular estimate， rather the eXception than the rule.There is the man and his virtues.Men do what is called a good action， as some piece of courage or charity，much as they would pay a fine in eXpiation of daily non-appearance on parade.Their works are done as an apology or eXtenuation of their living in the world，—as invalids and the insane pay a high board.Their virtues are penances.I do not wish to eXpiate， but to live.My life is for itself and not for a spectacle.I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain，so it be genuine and equal， than that it should be glittering and unsteady.I wish it to be sound and sweet， and not to need diet and bleeding.I ask primary evidence that you are a man，and refuse this appeal from the man to his actions.I know that for myself it makes no difference whether I do or forbear those actions which are reckoned eXcellent.I cannot consent to pay for a privilege where I have intrinsic right.Few and mean as my gifts may be， I actually am， and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony.V.Make a critical appraisal of your favorite English or American novel of the 20th century.(20 %)英语专业英美文学模拟试题 2SalmonEvery year， millions of salmon swim from the ocean into the mouths of rivers and then steadily up the rivers.Passing through waters， around rocks and waterfalls， the fish finally reach their original streams or lakes.They dig out nests in the riverbed and lay their eggs.Then， eXhausted by their journey，the parent salmon die.They have finished the task that nature has given them.Months， or years later， the young fish start their trip to the ocean.They live in the salt water from 2-7years，until they，too are ready to swim back to reproduce.Their life cycle helps man provide himself with a basic food-fish.When the adult salmon gather at the river mouths for the annual trip up the rivers， they are in the best possible condition， and nearly every harbor has its salmon fishing fleet ready to catch thousands for markets.Now， you have two minutes to check through your work.PART Ⅲ LISTENING COMPREHENSIONIn sections A， B and C， you will hear everything once only.Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow.Mark the correct answer to each question on your answer sheet.SECTION A STATEMENTIn this section， you will hear seven statements.At the end of each statement you will be given 10 seconds to answer the question.1.You must relaX.Dont work too hard.And do watch your drinking and smoking.2.We hadnt quite eXpected the committee to agree to rebuild the hospital， so we were taken aback when we got to know that it had finally agreed.3.The coach leaves the station every 20 minutes.Its 9:15now， and you have to wait for five minutes for the neXt one.4.Perhaps Jane shouldnt have got married in the first place.No one knows what she might have been doing now， but not washing up.Thats for sure!5.I happen to be working on a similar project at the moment.I am only too pleased to help you.6.The man arrived for the ceremony with patched jackets and faded jeans that the average person would save for mowing the lawn in his garden at the weekend.7.Mark! Here you are! This is the last place in the worldI would have eXpected to find you.SECTION B CONVERSATIONIn this section you will hear 10 short conversations between two speakers.At the end of each conversation， you will be given 10 seconds to answer the question.8.W: I couldnt stand this morning.My right leg went stiff.M: Im afraid its probably a side-effect from the drugs I put you on.9.W: How did your writing go this morning? Is the book coming along alright?M: Im not sure.I think the rest of it will be difficult to write.10.W: Is there anything you can do to make the cold go away more quickly?M: No， there isnt.And a cold isnt really serious enough for a visit to a doctor.11.W: Look! What have I got here!M: Oh.So you did go to that bookstore!12.M: EXcuse me.Has there been an emergency?W: Oh， no sir.Theres just a storm， so the plane will leavea little later this afternoon.13.W: I wish I hadnt hurt Lindas feeling like that yesterday.You know I never meant to.M: The great thing about Linda is that she doesnt hold any grudges.By tomorrow shell have forgotten all about it.14.M: My grades are not bad， but not good enough.I knowI didnt study at all this semester.Now I have to work very hard neXt semester to keep my scholarship.W: Ill see you in the library， then.15.W: Ill wear this blue jacket for the evening.I like the color on me， dont you think?M:I think it looks terrific on you-really!16.W: Do you know that Sam turned down that job offer bya travel agency?M: Yeah.The hours were convenient， but had he accepted it，he wouldnt have been able to make ends meet.17.W: At the rate it is being used， the printer is not going to make it through the rest of the year.M: The year? It is supposed to be good for four!SECTION C NEWS BROADCASTQuestions 18 and 19 are based on the following news.At the end of the news item you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions.Now listen to the news.The U.N resolution calls for greater international intelligence and law enforcement cooperation.And it requires states to change their banking laws in order to police the global network of terrorisms financiers.It makes providing funds for terror activities a criminal offence and would freeze bank accounts of those who sponsor terrorism.Questions 20 and 21 are based on the following news.At the end of the news item you will be given 20 seconds to answer the questions.Now listen to the news.A police spokesman said the devices were made safe by eXplosive eXperts in the Ardorn district， where a woman was shot in the leg and 13 police officers were injured during a second successive night of violence.Northern Irelands policechief had earlier called on community leaders to work together to end the violence.The violence has erupted sporadically throughout a summer of Sectarian tension in northern Belfast.。
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• But if our descendants know the answers to these questions and others that perplex us today, there would still be one field of which they do not know, namely the future. While exact our science, we cannot know it as we know the past. Philosophy may be described as argument about things of which we are ignorant. And where science gives us a hope of knowledge it is often reasonable to suspend judgment. That is one reason that Marx and Engels quite rightly wrote to many philosophical problems that interested in their contemporaries.
• 难点解析： • 1. moreover: is used to introduce a piece of information, a statement, or an opinion that adds to or supports the previous one. 再者，而且，此外 EG. The Opposition have consistently accused the Government of corruption. Moreover, they have named names… 2. suppose: suppose and supposing are used when you are considering a possible situation or course of action and trying to decide what results or effects it would have. 假如；假定…的话 EG. Suppose we don’t say a word, and somebody else finds out about it…… EG. Supposing something should go wrong, what would you do then?
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英美文学考研真题试卷一、选择题（每题2分，共20分）1. 以下哪部作品是威廉·莎士比亚的悲剧？A.《罗密欧与朱丽叶》B.《仲夏夜之梦》C.《威尼斯商人》D.《第十二夜》2. 以下哪位作家被称为“美国文学之父”？A. 爱德加·爱伦·坡B. 华盛顿·欧文C. 纳撒尼尔·霍桑D. 马克·吐温3. 以下哪部作品是查尔斯·狄更斯的代表作？A.《大卫·科波菲尔》B.《简·爱》C.《傲慢与偏见》D.《呼啸山庄》4. 以下哪位诗人被誉为“英国浪漫主义诗人”？A. 威廉·华兹华斯B. 约翰·弥尔顿C. 托马斯·哈代D. 罗伯特·弗罗斯特5. 以下哪部作品是乔治·奥威尔的反乌托邦小说？A.《1984》B.《动物农场》C.《美丽新世界》D.《我们》6. 以下哪位作家是现代主义文学的代表人物？A. 弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫B. 简·奥斯汀C. 奥斯卡·王尔德D. 乔治·艾略特7. 以下哪部作品是海明威的代表作？A.《老人与海》B.《了不起的盖茨比》C.《太阳照常升起》D.《永别了，武器》8. 以下哪部作品是弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫的代表作？A.《到灯塔去》B.《简·爱》C.《呼啸山庄》D.《傲慢与偏见》9. 以下哪位作家是后现代主义文学的代表人物？A. 托马斯·品钦B. 詹姆斯·乔伊斯C. 弗朗茨·卡夫卡D. 阿尔贝·加缪10. 以下哪部作品是简·奥斯汀的代表作？A.《理智与情感》B.《傲慢与偏见》C.《曼斯菲尔德庄园》D.《爱玛》二、简答题（每题10分，共30分）11. 简述《了不起的盖茨比》中盖茨比的美国梦及其破灭的原因。
12. 分析《简·爱》中简·爱的性格特点及其对女性独立意识的影响。
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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。
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[考研类试卷]英语专业（英美文学）模拟试卷7一、填空题1 Henry Fielding's first novel______is first intended as a burlesque of Samuel Richardson's novel Pamela.2 In Gulliver's Travels, Yahoos are creatures living on______.3 The 18th century England is known as the Age of Enlightenment or the Age of______.4 The only important English dramatist in the 18th century is______.5 "From the 1st of October to 24th, All these days entirely spent in many several voyages to get all I could out of the ship, which I brought on shore ever tide of flood upon rafts." This is the journal kept by the character______.6 ______ is regarded as the Father of English novel.7 The Yahoos are attacked by the writer named______in his fantasy work bearing the title8 "Is not a Patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached the ground, encumbers him with help?......till I am solitary, and can't impart it. Till I am unknown, and do not want it." The above quotation was written by______in______.9 The well-known verse of "Tyger, Tyger, Burning Bright/ In the forest of Night/ What immortal hand or eyes…" is written by ______.10 In the 18th century,______ found its expression chiefly in poetry, especially that of William Blake and Robert Burns.11 The period ranging from______ to______has been referred to as the Age of Realism in the literary history of the United States, which is actually a movement or tendency that dominated the spirit of American literature, especially American______, from the 1850s onwards.12 The arbiter of 19th century literary realism in America was______.13 Realism had originated in the country______as realism, a literary doctrine that called for "reality and truth" in the depiction of ordinary life.14 In his cluster of poems called Leaves of Grass,______gave America its first genuine epic poem.15 Realism was a reaction against______or a move away form the bias towards romance and self-creating Fictions, and paved the way to______.16 As Whitman saw it,______ could play a vital part in the process of creating a new nation.17 Norris's novel______has been called " the first full-bodied naturalistic American novel" and "a consciously naturalistic manifesto".二、名词解释18 Enlightenment Movement19 Epistolary novel20 Sentimentalism21 Gothic romance22 plot23 Caroline Meeber24 Trilogy of Desire25 Mark Twain26 Daisy Miller27 Henry James三、单项选择题28 Alexander Pope worked painstakingly on his poems and finally brought to its last perfection ______Dryden had successfully used in his plays.（A）the heroic couplet（B）the free verse（C）the bland verse（D）the Spenserian stanza29 _____ has been regarded by some as "Father of the English novel" for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.（A）John Bunyan（B）Henry Fielding（C）Daniel Defoe（D）Jonathan Swift30 ______was the only important dramatist of the 18th century.（A）Alexander Pope（B）Richard Brinsley Sheridan（C）Samuel Johnson（D）George Bernard Shaw31 ______brings Henry Fielding the name of the "prose Homer".（A）The Pilgrim's Progress（B）Tom Jones（C）Robinson Crusoe（D）Colonel Jack32 ______is mainly a story about two brothers, the hypocritical Joseph Surface and the good-natured, imprudent and spendthrift Charles Surface.（A）The Rivals（B）The School for Scandal（C）The Duenna（D）Pizarro33 The poem Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard is regarded as the most representative work of______.（A）the Metaphysical School（B）The Graveyard School（C）the Gothic School（D）the Romantic school34 Alone with the fast economic development in the 18th century in England, the British______ also grew very rapidly.（A）bourgeois（B）proletarians（C）aristocratic class（D）royal family35 In his novel Robinson Crusoe, Defoe eulogizes the hero of the______.（A）aristocratic class（B）enterprising landlords（C）rising bourgeoisie（D）hard-working people36 ______is not written by Alexander pope.（A）An Essay on Criticism（B）The Essays（C）An Essay on Man（D）The Dunciad37 ______by Pope is a comprehensive study of the theories of literary criticism, exerting great influence upon his contemporary writers in advocating the classical rules and popularizing the neoclassicist tradition in England.（A）An Essay on Man（B）The Dunciad（C）The Essays（D）An Essay on Criticism38 Samuel Johnson wrote his letter To the Right Honorable the Earl of Chesterfield in order to______.（A）make reconciliation with the Earl（B）address the newly compiled dictionary to the Earl（C）persuade the Earl to give up his hypocrisy（D）show his indignation and resolution not to be reconciled39 In the 18th century English literature, the representative writer of neoclassicism is______.（A）Alexander Pope（B）Jonathan Swift（C）Daniel Defoe（D）John Milton40 ______, written by Alexander Pope satirized the idle and artificial life of the aristocracy.（A）The Rape of the Lock（B）The Rape of Lucree（C）The School for Scandal（D）Every Man in His Humor41 Which of the following plays is regarded as the best English comedy since Shakespeare?（A）The School for Scandal.（B）She Stoops to Conquer.（C）The Rivals.（D）The Conscious Lover.42 In The Pilgrim's Progress, John Bunyan describes "The Vanity Fair" in a______tone. （A）delightful（B）satirical（C）sentimental（D）solemn43 Defoe's Robinson Crusoe created the image of an enterprising Englishman, typical of the English bourgeoisie in the______century.（A）17th（B）18th（C）19th（D）20th44 Literature of Neoclassicism is different from that of Romanticism in that______.（A）the former celebrates reason, rationality, order and instruction while the latter sees literature as an expression of an individual's feelings and experiences.（B）the former is heavily religious but the latter secular.（C）the former is an intellectual movement the purpose of which is to arouse the middle class for political rights while the latter is concerned with the personal cultivation.（D）the former advocates the "return to nature" whereas the latter turns to the ancient Greek and Roman writers for its models45 You may have met 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 Progress（B）Samuel Johnson's The Vanity of Human Wishes（C）Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels（D）Henry Fielding's Tome Jones46 "Surface", "Sneerwell", "Backbite", and "Candor" are most likely the names of the characters in______.（A）Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession（B）Sheridan's The School for Scandal（C）Shakespeare's Love's Labor's Lost（D）Christopher Marlowe's Dr. Faustus47 John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress is a(n)______.（A）allegory（B）romance（C）comedy of manners（D）realistic novel48 The middle of the 18th century was predominated by a newly rising literary form, that is the modern English______, which gives a realistic presentation of life of the common English people.（A）prose（B）tragicomedy（C）short story（D）novel49 Which of the following comments on Richard Brinsley Sheridan is NOT true?（A）The School for Scandal is his masterpiece.（B）In his plays, morality is the constant theme.（C）He was the only important English dramatist of the 18th century.（D）His plays The Rivals and The School for Scandal are generally regarded as true classics in English tragedy.50 The sentence, "This fair is no new-erected business, but a thing of ancient standing; I will show you the original of it", are taken from______.（A）The Pilgrim's Progress（B）Gulliver's Travels（C）Paradise Lost（D）Robinson Crusoe51 Which of the following is NOT Richard Brinsley Sheridan's work?（A）Tom Jones.（B）The School for Scandal.（C）The Rivals.（D）The Critic.52 In field of literature, the Enlightenment brought about a(n)______ the old classical works. This tendency is known as neoclassicism.（A）rebellion against .（B）indifference to（C）revived interest in（D）rational scrutiny of53 As a literary figure, Belinda appears in Alexander Pope's______.（A）The Rape of the Lock（B）An Essay on Criticism（C）The Dunciad（D）Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot54 Which of the following is NOT a typical aspect of Defoe's language?（A）Elegant.（B）Colloquial.（C）Vernacular.（D）Smooth.55 "The novel is structured around the discovery of the hero's origin." This novel most probably refers to______.（A）The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling（B）The Vicar of the Wakefield（C）David Copperfield（D）Wuthering Heights56 The School for Scandal, one of the great classics in English drama, is a______on the moral degeneracy of the aristocratic-bourgeois society in the 18th-century England. （A）high praise（B）sharp satire（C）bitter lament（D）great irony57 The Rape of the Lock by Pope is written in the form of a mock______, which describes the triviality of high society in a grand style.（A）epic（B）sonnet（C）elegy（D）ode58 ______is considered to be Theodore Dreiser's greatest work.（A）An American Tragedy（B）Sister Carrie（C）The Financier（D）The Titan59 In 1900, London published his first collection of short stories, named______.（A）The Sea Wolf（B）The Son of the Wolf（C）The Law of Life（D）White Fang60 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.（A）experience（B）sophistication（C）worldliness（D）innocence61 Generally speaking, all those writers with a naturalistic approach to human reality tent to be______.（A）transcendentalists（B）idealists（C）pessimists（D）impressionists62 One of Mark Twain's contributions to the American Literature is that hemade______an accepted standard literary medium.（A）tall tale（B）colloquial speech（C）humor（D）local colorism63 The main theme of______The Art of Fiction reveals his literary credo that representation of life should be the main object of the novel.（A）Henry James'（B）William Dean Howells'（C）Mark Twain's（D）Jack London's64 ______is not a novel by Henry James dealing with the international theme. （A）What Maisie Knows（B）The Wings of the Dove（C）The Ambassadors（D）The Golden Bowl65 The following authors are famous American realist novelists except______. （A）Henry James（B）Jack London（C）Mark Twain（D）Stephen Crane66 Mark Twain wrote most of his literary works with a______language.（A）grand（B）pompous（C）Simple（D）vernacular67 Stylistically, Henry James's fiction is characterized by______.（A）highly refined language（B）ordinary American speech（C）short, clear sentences（D）abundance of local images68 Which of the following writings is by Hemingway described the novel the one book from which "all modern American literature comes"?（A）Tom Sawyer（B）Huckleberry Finn（C）The Gilded Age（D）Life on the Mississippi69 ______ explores the scrupulous individualism in a world of fantastic speculation and unstable values, and gives its name to the get-rich-quick years of the post Civil War era. （A）Innocents Abroad（B）The Gilded Age（C）Roughing It（D）The Middle Years70 ______described by Mark Twain as a boy with "a sound heart and a deformed conscience.（A）Tom Sawyer（B）Huckleberry Finn（C）Jim（D）Tony71 While embracing the socialism of Marx, London also believed in the triumph of the strongest individuals. This contradiction is most vividly projected in the patently autobiographical novel______.（A）The Call of the Wild（B）The Sea Wolf（C）Martin Eden（D）The Iron Heel72 The setting of______is American, where some Europeans, who are actually expatriated Americans, learn with difficulty to adapt themselves to the American life. （A）Middlemarch（B）The Europeans（C）Daisy Miller（D）The Portrait of a Lady73 However, innocence, the keynote of Daisy Miller's character, turns out to be an admiring but dangerous quality and her ______of social taboos in the Old World finally brings her to a disaster in the clash between two different cultures.（A）admiration（B）defiance（C）sympathy（D）disgusting74 Theodore Dreiser is generally regarded as one of America's______.（A）naturalists（B）realists（C）modernists（D）romanticists75 ______exerts the single most important influence on literary naturalism, of which Theodore Dreiser and Jack London are among the best representative writers.（A）Freud.（B）Emerson（C）Darwin（D）W.D.Howells.76 The impact of Darwin's evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the 19th century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to yet another school of realism: American______.（A）modernism（B）naturalism（C）vernacularism（D）local colorism77 Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his______.（A）international theme（B）waste-land imagery（C）local color（D）symbolism78 "I" was letting on to give up sin, but always inside of me I was holding on to the biggest one of all. The sentence, which is taken from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, is written in a(n)______tone.（A）ironic（B）regretful（C）sincere（D）delightful79 Dreiser's Trilogy of Desire includes three novels. They are The Financier, The Titan and______.（A）The Stoic（B）The Giant（C）The Tycoon（D）The Genius80 The novelistic technique of projecting the narrative through feelings and thoughts of the characters, reached a perfected form in the works of______.（A）William Dean Howells（B）Henry James（C）Washington Irving（D）Emily Dickinson81 Emily Dickinson's poetry is most aptly characterized as .______.（A）exposing the evils of the society（B）paving the way for the following generation of free verse poets（C）exhibiting a sensitiveness to the symbolic implications of experience, such as love, death, immortality and nature, etc.（D）sharing the same poetic conventions as Walt Whitman82 In Henry James's Daisy Miller, the author tries to portray the young woman as an embodiment of______.（A）force of convention（B）are polite and elegant gentlemen（C）are simple and crude farmers（D）are noble savages untainted by society83 ______is NOT characteristic of Dreiser's writing.（A）Naturalism（B）Tragic Ending（C）Romantic quality（D）Redundancy84 The book from which "all modern American literature comes" refers to______.（A）The Great Gatsby（B）The Sun Also Rises（C）The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn（D）Moby-Dick85 ______is usually regarded as a classic book written for boys about their particular horrors and joys.（A）The Adventures of Tom Sawyer（B）Adventures of Huckleberry Finn（C）Innocents Abroad（D）Life on the Mississippi86 Which of the following writers is NOT the dominant figure of the Realistic Period in American literature?（A）Herman Melville.（B）William Dean Howells.（C）Henry James.（D）Mark Twain.87 With Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the literary scene, ______became the major trend in American literature in the 70s and 80s of 19th century.（A）sentimentalism（B）romanticism（C）realism（D）naturalism四、问答题88 "And, moreover, at this fair there is at all times to be seen jugglings, cheats, games, plays, fools, apes, knaves, and rogues, and that of every kind, here are to be seen, too, and that for nothing, thefts, murders, adulteries, false swears, and that of a blood-red color."A. Identify the author and the title of the novel from which this passage is taken.B. Identify the name of the fair.C. Summarize the meaning of the passage.89 "Two days after this adventure, the Emperor, having ordered that part of his army which quarters in and about his metropolis to be in a readiness, took a fancy of diverting himself in a very singular manner. He desired I would stand like a colossus, with my legs as far asunder as I conveniently could. He then commanded his general(who was an old experienced leader, and a great patron of mine)to draw up the troops in close order, and march them under me;...A. Identify the author and the title of the novel from which this passage is taken.B. Who is the narrator?C. What does the passage tell us?90 "Why, I believe I should be obliged to borrow a little of your morality, that's all.—But brother, do you know now that you surprise me exceedingly, by naming me with Lady Teazle—for faith, I always thought you were her favorite."A. Identify the author and the title of the work from which this passage is taken.B. Who is the speaker?C. Whom does "brother" refer to?91 "Seven years, my lord, have now passed since I waited in your outward rooms, or was repulsed from your door; during which time I have been pushing on my work through difficulties of which it is useless to complain, and have brought it, at last, to the verge of publication, without one act of assistance, one word of encouragement, or one smile of favor. Such treatment I did not expect, for I never had a patron before."A. Identify the author and the work.B. What is the author's tone in composing this work?C. What idea does the passage express?92 "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea,The plowman homeward plods his weary way,And leaves the world to darkness and to me."A. Scan the first line of the stanza.B. Find the irregular foot in the second line.C. Briefly explain the significance of this irregularity.93 Because I could not stop for Death —He kindly stopped fro me —The Carriage held but just Ourselves —And Immortality.A. Who is the writer of these lines?B. In which category this poem belongs to?C. Give a brief introduction to the author.94 A cold muzzle thrust against his cheek, and at its touch his soul leaped back to the present. His hand shot into the fire and dragged out a burning faggot. Overcome for the nonce 17 by his hereditary fear of man, the brute retreated, raising a prolonged call to his brothers; and greedily they answered, till a ring of crouching, jaw-slobbered 18 gray was stretched round about. The old man listened to the drawing in of this circle. He waved his brand wildly, and sniffs turned to snarls; but the panting brutes refused to scatter. Now one wormed his chest forward, dragging his haunches after, now a second, now a third; but never a one drew back. Why should he cling to life? He asked, and dropped theblazing stick into the snow. It sizzled and went out. The circle grunted uneasily, but held its own. Again he saw the last stand of the old bull moose, and Koskoosh dropped his head wearily upon his knees. What did it matter after all? Was it not the law of life?A. Identify the author and the name of the work from which this passage is taken.B. Give a brief introduction to the author.95 Edna walked on down to the beach rather mechanically, not noticing anything special except that the sun was hot. She was not dwelling upon any particular train of thought. She had done all the thinking which was necessary after Robert went away, when she lay awake upon the sofa till morning.She had said over and over to herself: "To-day it is Arobin; to-morrow it will be some one else. It makes no difference to me, it doesn't matter about Leonce Pontelier—but Raoul and Etienne!" She understood now clearly what she had meant long ago when she said to Adele Ratigolle that she would give up the unessential, but she would never sacrifice herself for her children.A. Identify the author and the name of the work from which this passage is taken.B. Give a brief introduction to the author.96 Sue found Behrman smelling strongly of juniper berries in his dimly lighted den below. In one corner was a blank canvas on an easel that had been waiting there for twenty-five years to receive the first line of the masterpiece. She told him of Johnsy's fancy, and how she feared she would, indeed, light and fragile as a leaf herself, float away, when her slight hold upon the world grew weaker.A. This passage is excerpted from the short story The Last Leaf, which is writtenby______.B. Give a brief introduction to the author.五、论述题97 Give a brief comment on "Neoclassicism".98 What's the theme of John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress?99 How much do you know about Thomas Gray's poetry?100 Why is Tom Jones a successful novel?101 Give a brief comment on Samuel Johnson's literary outlook.102 What are the features of Mark Twain and Henry James in the writing style?103 What is Theodore Dreiser's point of view in writing? 104 What led to the rise of American Realism?。
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《英美⽂学选读》模拟试题（2）答案《英美⽂学选读》模拟试题（⼆）⼀、单项选择题1.D. Father and son in the medieval period, it is Chaucer alone who, for the first time in English literature, presented to us a comprehensive _____ picture of the English society of his time and created a whole gallery of valid _________ from all walks of life in his masterpiece “the Canterbury Tales”.A. visionary/womenB. romantic/menC. realistic/charactersD. natural/figures2.Humanism sprang from the endeavor to restore a medieval reverence for the antique authors and is frequently taken as the beginning of the Renaissance on its conscious, intellectual side, for the Greek and Roman civilization was based on the conception that man is the _____ of all things.A. measureB. kingC. loverD. rule3.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/Jews傳統的理論認為該劇的主題是褒揚安東尼奧Antonio與巴塞尼奧Bassanio之間的友誼，贊美鮑西婭Portia的完美:美貌，智慧與堅貞，並揭露了Jews--Shylock的貪婪與殘忍但是經曆了⼏個世紀對對Jews不會平的待遇,今天許多⼈將該劇的主題看作chritains的hypocrisy ,為追求世俗利益⽽不擇⼿段以及對Jews不公正的偏⾒補充閱讀1) Bassanio——Portia2) Antonio——ShylockThe traditional theme of the play is to praise the friendship betweem Antonio and Bassanio, to idealize Portia as a heroine of greate beaulity, wit and loyalty, and to expose the insatiable greed and brutality o f the Jew. Tody, many people tend to regard the play as a satire of the christians’ hypocrisy and their false standards of frindship and love, their cunning way of pursuing worldliness(俗⼼, 俗⽓) and their unreasoning prejudice against Jews.4.Which of th e following plays does not belong to Shakespeare’s great tragedies?A. Romeo and JulietB. King LearC. Hamlet5.Which statement about the Elizabethan age is not true?A. It is the age of translation.B. It is the age of bourgeois revolutionC. It is the age of explorationD. It is the age of the protestant reformation. 新教改⾰Elizabthan age 是renaissance period6.Una in The Faerie Queene stands for ______.A. chastity 純潔B. holiness 神圣C. truthD. error補充閱讀1.《仙后》⼀部寓⾔(allegory), ⼈物象征意义与主题.The Faerie is an allegory.The Red-crosse Knight stands for St.George, the patron saint of England, and he also represent Holiness.A lovely Ladie, virgin Una, symbolizes the thruth or the true faith of religion.A milke white lambe reprents the God.Dragon and infernall feend refer the Satan 惡魔The theme is not “Arms and the man,” but something more romantic—“fiece warres and faithful loves”.7._____ first make blank verse the principle instrument of English drama.A. ShakespeareB. WyattC. SidneyD. MarloweThe passionate Sheherd to his loveDr Fauctus⾺洛的藝朮成就在於他完善了無韻體詩，並使之成為英國戲劇中最主要的⽂體形式8.“The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune” is an example of _____.A. allegoryB.simileC. metaphorD. irony9.In “Not only sole, but on thy soul, harsh Jew, /Thou mak’st thy knife keen”, Gratiano (a character in The Merchant of Venice) uses a rhetorical device called _____.A. hyperboleC. paradoxD. pun10.In The Faerie Queene Spenser impresses us with his skillful blending of religious and historical _____ with chivalric_____.A. symbolism … lyricismB. allegory … romanceC. elegy … narrativeD. personification … ironyton’s paradise Lost took its material from ______.A. the BibleB. Greek mythC. Roman mythD. French romance12.Christopher Marlowe wrote all the following plays except _____.A. Tamburlaine the Great 帖⽊兒B. The Jew or Malta ⾺⽿他島的JewC. Cymbeline ---⾟⽩林，ShakespeareD. The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus13.Which of the following plays by Shakespeare is NOT a comedy?A. The Merchant of VeniceB. A Midsummer Night’s Dream仲夏之夜C. As You like It皆⼤欢喜D. The dactyl 是古代希腊的著名的悲剧(恰恰是'史诗的诗歌')，英⽂名字是"The Odyssey". Homer写的,800-600 BC左右14._____ is the most common foot in English poetry.A. The iamb 抑楊格短⾧格B. The anapestC. The trocheeD. The dactyl15.“In a dream vision, Arthur witnessed the loveliness of Glo riana, and upon awakening resolves to seek her.” The two literary figures “Arthur” and “Gloriana” are from ______.A. The Fairie QueeneB. Remeo and JulietC. Dr. FaustusD. Paradise Lost仙后格勞麗安娜，所有12個英雄就是按照她的旨意，從她的宮殿出發，踏上各⾃的曆險征程的，⽽⼀號主⾓Arthur 亞瑟王⼦的任務就是尋找仙后，他本⼈已在夢中與仙后墜⼊情網16.In “Sonnet 18”, William Shakespeare _____.A. meditates on man’s mortality.B. eulogizes the power of artistic creationC. satirizes human vanityD. presents a dream vision17.The 18th century witnessed that in England there appeared two political parties, _____, which were satirized by Swift in his “Gulliver’s Travels.”A. the Whigs and ToriesB. the Senate and the House of RepresentativeC. the upper House and lower HouseD. the House of Lords and the House of Commons18._____ compiled the “The Dictionary of the English language” which became the foundation of all the subsequent English dictionaries.A. Ben JohnsonB. Samuel JohnsonC. Alexander PopeD. John DrydenSamuel Johnson:Neoclassical period---to the Right Honorable the Earl of Chesterfield19.The publication of “______” marked the beginning of Romantic Age.A. Don JuanB. the Rime of the Ancient MarinerC. The Lyrical BalladsD. Queen Mab20.In 1805, Wordsworth completed a long autobiographical poem entitled “_____”.A. Biographic literaryB. The Prelude 序曲C. Lucy PoemsD. The Lyrical Ballads序曲的創作始於1790年，1805年，經曆了⼤幅度的修改於1850年在作者去世后發表,許多評論家將序曲看作wordsworth最偉⼤的作品21.Which is Shelley’s masterpiece?A. Queen MabB. Prometheus UnboundC. Prometheus BoundD. The Revolt of Islam22.Which is Shelley’s work of literary criticism?A. An Essay on criticismB. A Defence of Poetry 詩辨C. On the Necessity of AtheismD. Of studies23.In the 19th century English literature, a new literary trend ______ appeared and it flourished in the forties and in the early fifties.A. RomanismB. naturalismC. realismD. critical realism---victorian period Dickens Eliot等24.The greatest English critical realist novelist was _____, who criticized the bourgeois civilization and showed the misery of the common people.A. William Makepeace ThackerayB. Charles DickensC. charlotte BronteD. Emily DickinsonDickens 是偉⼤的批判理實主義作家，他以揭露評擊社會的不公，虛偽，腐敗為已任他的⼤部分作品，包含那些⼀時靈感驅動的創作，都扎根在他深⼊了解的城市⼩資產階級⽣活中。
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[考研类试卷]英语专业（英美⽂学）模拟试卷5.doc[考研类试卷]英语专业（英美⽂学）模拟试卷5⼀、填空题1 Walter Scott made a great contribution to English literature in______.2 Jane Austin's novels centered on _____and______.3 Shelley's famous______was borrowed from the Greek play.4 As a leading Romanticist, Byron's chief contribution is his creation of "______", a proud, mysterious rebel figure of noble origin.5 Modern essays originated from Montaigne's______, which were translated into English by Florio and had on extensive influence on English literature.6 The line "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" was held by______.7 The awful shadow of some unseen power, Floats though unseen amongst us, —visiting, This various world with as inconstant wing, As summer winds that creep from flower to flower. This excerpt is selected from______by______.8 John Keats wrote o number of famous odes. In one of them he declared his idea of beauty—beauty is truth and truth is beauty. The title of this famous ode is______.9 The Bonnets are speedily pronounced to be the luckiest family in the world, though only a few weeks before when Lydia had first run away, they had been generally proved to be marked out for misfortune. This quotation is selectedfrom______by______.10 ______'s grave bears the epitaph: "Here lies one whose name writ in water."11 ______, Breaking out of the narrow limits of local color fiction, described the breadth of American experience as no one had ever done before, or since.12 ______is the novel into which Jack London put most of himself.13 Crane's novel______relates the story of a good woman's downfall and destruction in a slum environment.14 Henry James's first novel is______, which failed to make him famous. In 1881, Henry James published his novel______, which is generally considered as his masterpiece.15 The protagonists of Trilogy of Desire,______, is modeled after the Chicago speculator Charles T. Yerkes.16 There was only one female prose writer in the 19th century. This was______.17 Emily Dickinson's poems have no______, hence are always quoted by their first lines.18 ______became Mark Twain's masterpiece, as Hemingway noted "all modern American literature comes".19 Henry James's The Ambassadors, The Golden Bowl and______are representing the summit of his art and he continues his "international theme" in his third writing career.⼆、名词解释20 Lake Poets21 Gothic novel22 Canto23 Ottava Rima24 High comedy25 Naturalism26 Regionalism27 Darwinism28 Local Colorists29 The Age of Realism三、单项选择题30 The declaration that "I know that This World is a World of IMAGINATION & Vision," and that "That Nature of my work is visionary or imaginative" belongs to which of the following poets?（A）George Gordon Byron（B）William Wordsworth（C）William Blake（D）Samuel Taylor Coleridge31 The tone of literature in Songs of Experience by William Blake is______.（A）utter（B）lively（C）plain（D）doleful32 The Romantic Period is an age of poetry. Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats are the major poets. They started a rebellion against the neoclassical literature, which was later regarded as______.（A）the poetic romance（B）the poetic movement（C）the poetic revolution（D）the poetic reformation33 "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!" These lines are taken from______.（A）Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights（B）F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby（C）George Gordon Byron's Don Juan（D）Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre34 Who wrote the poem Men of England!（A）Shelley.（B）Thomas Gray.（C）Walt Whitman.（D）T. S. Eliot.35 "Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep; There, swan-like, let me sing and die; A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine— Dash down yon cup of Samian wine!" These lines are takenfrom______.（A）Song for the Luddites by George Gordon Byron（B）The Solitary Reaper by William Wordsworth（C）Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray（D）The Isles of Greece by George Gordon Byron36 Which of the following comments on the poem Ode to the West Wind is NOT true? （A）The author of the poem is George Gordon Byron.（B）The poem is written in the form of terza rima.（C）The author gathers a wealth of symbolism in this poem.（D）In the poem, the author expresses his eagerness to enjoy the boundless freedom from the reality.37 In terms of Pride and Prejudice, which of the following statements is NOT true?（A）Pride and Prejudice is the most popular of Jane Austen's novels.（B）Pride and Prejudice is originally drafted as "First Impressions".（C）Pride and Prejudice is a tragic novel.（D）Pride and Prejudice is about marriage and love.38 Of the following writers, which is NOT the representative of the Romantic Period?（A）William Blake.（B）John Keats.（C）William Wordsworth.（D）John Bunyan.39 ______by William Blake marks his entry into maturity.（A）Songs of Innocence（B）Marriage of Heaven and Hell（C）Songs of Experience（D）Milton40 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 speech41 Which of the following is taken from John Keats's 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.42 Ode on a Grecian Urn shows the contrast between the______of art and the______of human passion.（A）glory ... ugliness（B）permanence ... transience（C）transience ... sordidness（D）glory... permanence43 Shelley's greatest achievement is his four-act poetic drama,______.（A）Antony and Cleopatra（B）Measure for Measure（C）Too True to Be Good（D）Prometheus Unbound44 ______expresses the contrast between the happy world of natural loveliness and human world of agony.（A）Ode on Melancholy（B）Ode to a Grecian Urn（C）Ode to a Nightingale（D）To Autumn45 ______is the most delightful of Jane Austen's works.（A）Sense and Sensibility（B）Pride and Prejudice（C）Emma（D）Mansfield Park46 The Romantic Movement expressed a more or less______attitude toward the existing social and political conditions.（A）positive（B）negative（C）neutral（D）indifferent47 It is______who established the cult of the individual and championed the freedom of human spirit.（A）Jean Jacques Rousseau（B）Edmund Burke（C）Thomas Paine（D）Johann Wolfgang von Goethe48 In Marriage of Heaven and Hell, the word "marriage", to Blake, means the______. （A）reconciliation of the contraries （B）subordination of the one to the other（C）co-existence of the conflicting parts（D）fighting of the conflicting parts49 In his poem, "The Chimney Sweeper"(from Songs of Experience), Blake depicted the miseries of the child sweepers in order to reveal the_____ of Christianity.（A）false ideals（B）true faith（C）magic power（D）great ideals50 "Adonais" is an elegy for______whose early death from tuberculosis Shelley believed had been hastened by hostile reviews.（A）John Keats（B）Alfred Tennyson（C）William Blake（D）George Gordon Byron51 "You and the girls may go, or you may send them by themselves, which perhaps will be still better, for as you are as handsome as any of them, Mr. Bingley might like you the best of the party." The above passage is taken from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. The figure of speech used here is______.（A）paradox（B）irony（C）simile（D）hyperbole52 In Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem Kubla Khan, "A sunny pleasure dome with caves of ice"______.（A）symbolizes the reconciliation of the conscious and the unconscious（B）is the gift given to a beautiful girl called Abyssinian（C）vividly describes a building of poor quality（D）refers to the place where Kubla Khan's father once lived53 Jane Austen presents most of the problems of the novel, Pride and Prejudice, from the______ viewpoint.（A）masculine（B）neutral（C）objective（D）feminine54 Shelley's______and The Cenci, Byron's______, and Coleridge's Remorse are generally regarded as the best verse plays in the Romantic Period.（A）Prometheus Unbound/ Mansfred（B）Waverley/ Cain（C）Cain/ Manfred（D）Prometheus Unbound/ Cain55 Generally speaking,______was a writer of the 18th century, though she lived mainly in the 19th century.（A）Mary Shelley（B）Ann Radcliffe（C）Jane Austen（D）George Eliot56 In the poem, She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways, Wordsworth writes: "A violet by a mossy stone / Half hidden from theeye!" The figure of speech used here is______.（A）simile（B）hyperbole（C）metaphor（D）personification57 According to the subjects, Wordsworth's short poems can be classified into two groups: poems about______and poems about______.（A）human life/ universe（B）nature/ human life（C）nature/ society（D）society/ universe58 "And because I am happy and dance and sing, / They think they have done me no injury, / And are gone to praise God and his priest and king, / Who make up a heaven of our misery." The above four lines are taken from______.（A）Songs of Experience（B）Songs of Innocence（C）Poetical Sketches（D）Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard59 Coleridge's actual achievement as a poet can be divided into two remarkably diverse groups: the demonic and the conversational. Which of the following poems belongs to the conversational group?（A）Kubla Khan.（B）Frost at Midnight.（C）Christabel.（D）The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.60 Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well-known for his______.（A）international theme（B）waste-land imagery（C）local color（D）symbolism61 ______is called by Hemingway the one from which "all modern American literature comes."（A）Adventures of Huckleberry Finn（B）The Adventures of Tom Sawyer（C）The Gilded Age（D）Life on the Mississippi62 Who exerts the single most important influence on literary naturalism, of which Theodore Dreiser and Jack London are among the best representative writers?（A）Freud.（B）Darwin.（C）W.D.Howells.（D）Emerson.63 Sister Carrie is a masterpiece of______writing.（A）naturalistic（B）romantic（C）classic（D）neo-classic64 Winterbourne is used as a______in Henry James's Daisy Miller.（A）protagonist（B）narrator of the events（C）a minor character（D）persona65 The novelistic technique of projecting the narrative through feelings and thoughts of the characters, reached a perfected form in the works of______.（A）William Dean Howells（B）Henry James（C）Washington Irving（D）Emily Dickinson66 In Henry James's Daisy Miller, the author tries to portray the young woman as an embodiment of______.（A）the force of convention（B）the free spirit of the New World（C）the decline of aristocracy（D）the corruption of the newly rich67 Which of the following writers is NOT the dominant figure of the Realistic Period in American literature?（A）Herman Melville.（B）William Dean Howells.（C）Henry James.（D）Mark Twain.68 Choose the novel that is NOT written by Henry James.（A）The Ambassadors:（B）The Wings of the Dove.（C）The Bostonians.（D）The Mysterious Stranger.69 Dickinson's poems include poems of______.（A）nature（B）love（C）death（D）all the above70 Emily Dickinson wrote many poems on various aspects of life. Which of the following is NOT a usual subject of her poetic expression?（A）Religion.（B）Life and death.（C）Love and marriage.（D）War and peace.71 ______ explores the scrupulous individualism in a world of fantastic speculation and unstable values, and gives its names to the get-rich-quick years of the post-Civil War era. （A）Innocents Abroad（B）The Gilded Age（C）Roughing It（D）The Middle Years72 The main theme of______The Art of Fiction reveals his literary credo that representation of life should be the main object of the novel.（A）Henry James'（B）Mark Twain's（C）Theodore Dreiser's（D）William Dean Howells'73 Which statement is NOT true in describing American naturalists?（A）They were deeply influenced by Darwinism（B）They were identified with French novelist and theorist Emile Zola（C）They chose their subjects from the lower ranks of society.（D）They used more serious and more sympathetic tone in writing than realists74 In Henry James's Daisy Miller, the "Americanness" in Daisy is revealed byher______.（A）vulgarity in language and taste（B）expensive jewels and clothes（C）lack of grace and patience（D）relatively unreserved manners75 ______, in his "McTeague", describes the relations of a crude dentist, who is compared to a draft-horse, a dog, a bear, with a superficially refined German-American girl.（A）Theodore Dreiser（B）Frank Norris（C）Henry James（D）Mark Twain76 _____ is an account of American tourists in Europe which pokes fun at the pretentious, decadent and undemocratic OldWorld in a satirical tone.（A）The Adventures of Tom Sawyer（B）Innocents Abroad（C）A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court（D）Roughing it77 The raft on which Huck and Jim float along the river in Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn may symbolize all the following EXCEPT______.（A）spiritual freedom（B）escape from different sorts of social oppression（C）mobility and instability（D）a small society where people of different color can live like brothers78 Which of the following statements about Emily Dickinson is true?（A）Since she scarcely goes out of her house, she pays little attention to the outside world.（B）She prefers to explore the inner life of herself rather than the social one.（C）She is strongly influenced by Calvinism and has a firm belief in after-life.（D）She is not interested in love because she herself never gets married.79 Here are a few lines from a poem: "With Blue—uncertain stumbling Buzz— / Between the light— and me— / And then the Windows failed—and then /1 could not see to see— . The poem must be______.（A）Emily Dickinson's / heard a Fly buzz— when I died—（B）Edgar Allen Poe's Annabel Lee（C）Walt Whitman's Song of Myself（D）Robert Frost's After Apple-Picking80 Theodore Dreiser gives his novel the title of An American Tragedy mostly because______.（A）he tries to give an ironical meaning to the story（B）he attempts to reproduce an authentic trial fictionally（C）he is surprised that such tragedy should happen in America（D）it is the typical thing that can happen to an American in the pursuit of riches81 Theodore Dreiser's forgiving treatment of the career of his heroine in______also draws heavily upon the naturalistic understanding of sexuality.（A）McTeague（B）An American Tragedy（C）Sister Carrie（D）The Genius82 One of the characteristics that have made Mark Twain one of the major literary figures in the 19thcentury American literature is the use of______.（A）vernacular（B）interior monologue（C）point of view（D）photographic description83 Winterbourne is used as a narrator of the events in Henry James's______..（A）The American（B）Daisy Miller（C）The Turn of the Screw（D）The Wings of the Dove84 ______is described by Mark Twain as a boy with "a sound heart and a deformed conscience."（A）Tom Sawyer（B）Huckleberry Finn（C）Jim（D）Tony85 The Way of the Beaten: A Harp in the Wind this is the title of one chapter in Dreiser's novel______.（A）An American Tragedy（B）Sister Carrie（C）Dreiser Looks at Russia（D）Jannie Gerhardt86 The author of The Portrait of a Lady is best at ______.（A）probing into the secret part of human life（B）an incarnation of the clash between the Old World and the New in the life journey of an American girl in a European cultural environment（C）a truthful description of the motives, the impulses, the principles that shape the lives of actual men and women （D）disclosing the social injustices and evils of a civilized society after the Civil War87 During the period after the Civil War, the American society entered in what Mark Twain referred to as______.（A）the Golden Age（B）the Puritan Age（C）the Gilded Age。
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《英美文学选读》模拟试题（4）《英美文学选读》模拟试题(四)一、Multiple Choice1.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. ChristianB. knightlyC. GreekD. primitive2.The tragedy of Dr. Faustus, the protagonist in Christopher Marlowe’s The Tragic History of Dr. Faustus, is the very face that _______.A. man is confined to timeB. he tried to join Africa to SpainC. he became a man without soul after he sold itD. he conjured up Helen, the lady who was the very course of the Trojan War3.Which of the following historical events does not directly help to stimulate the rising of the Renaissance Movements? 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.Literature of Neoclassicism is different from that of Romanticism in that _______.A .the former celebrates reason, rationality, order and instruction while the latter sees literature as an expression of an individual’s feelings and experiencesB. the former is heavily religious but the latter secularC. the former is an intellectual movement the purpose of which is to arouse the middle class for political rights while the latter is concerned with the personal cultivation.D. the former advocates the "return to nature" whereas the latter turns to the ancient Greek and Roman writers for its models5.“And we will sit upon the rocks,/Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks,/By shallow rivers to whose falls/Melodious birds sing madrigals.” The above lines are probably taken from _______.A.Spensers The Faerie QueeneB.John Donnes “The Sun Rising”C.Shakespeares “Sonnet 18”D.Marlowes “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”6.You may have meet the term "Yahoo" on internet, but you may also have met it inEnglish literature .It is found in _______.A. John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s ProgressB. Samuel Johnson’s The Vanity of Human Wis hesC. Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s TravelsD. Henry Fielding’s tom Jones7.The ture subject of John Donnes 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 suns intrusion into the lovers private lifeD. lecture the sun on where true royalty and riches lie.8."Surface", "Sneerwell", "Backbite", and "Candour" are most likely the names of the characters in _______.A. Shaw’s Mrs Warren’s ProfessionB. Sheridan’s The School for ScandalC. Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s LostD. Christopher Marlowe’s Dr.Faustus9.The Houyhnhnms depicted by Jonathan Swift in Gullivers 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.What does Wordsworth’s poem "The Solitary Reaper" tell us ab out 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 people; they would leave before the revelation of the theme.D. Poetry should present the apparent and tangible.11.The phrase 搕o 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. Gullivers TravelsB. The Rape of the LockC. Robinson CrusoeD. The pilgrims Progress12. Promet heus Unbound is Shelley’s greatest achievement. Prometheus, according to the Greek mythology, was chained byZeus on Mount Caucasus and suffered the vulture’s feeding on his liver for _______.A. planning a revolt to dethrone GodB. misinterpreting God’s d ecree to reconcile man a nd natureC. prophesying the arrival of spring in a winter seasonD. stealing the fire from heaven and giving it to man13.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."My Last Duchess" is a poem that best exemplifier Robert Browning’s _______.A. sensitive ear for the sounds of the English languageB. excellent choice of wordsC. mastering of the metrical devicesD. use of the dramatic monologue15.“Ode o na Grecian Urn”shows the contrast between the _______ of art and the _______ of human passion.A.glory …uglinessB.pe rmanence…transie nceC.transience…sordidnessD.glory…permanence16.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 confusion17.The typical feature of Robet Brownings poetry is the _______.A.bitter satire/doc/d414799372.html,rger-than-life caricature/doc/d414799372.html,tinized dictionD.dramatic monologue18.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 light19._______ is the first important governess novel in the English literary history.A.Jane EyreB.EmmaC.Wuthering HeightsD.Middlemarch20.In which of the following poems by William Butler Yeats did you find the allusion to Helen and the TrojanWar?A. "Sailing to Byzantium"B. " Leda and the Swan"C. "The Lake Isle if Innisfree".D. " Sown by the Sally Garden"21._______ 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.James Joyce is the author of all the following novels except _______.A. DublinersB. Jude the ObscureC. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManD. Ulysses23.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.We can perhaps sum marize that Walt Whitman’s poems are characterized by all the following features except that they are _______.A. conversational and crudeB. lyrical and well-structuredC. wimple and rather crudeD. free-flowing25.he famous 20-years sleep in “Rip Van Winkle”helps to construct the story in such a way that we are greatly affected by Irvings _______.A.concern with the passage of timeB.expression of transient beautyC.satire on laziness and corruptibility of human beingsD.idea about supernatural manipulation of mans life26.Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his _______.A. international themeB. waste-land imageryC. local colorD. symbolism27.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.The period before the American Civil War is commonly referred to as _______.A. the Romantic PeriodB. the Realistic PeriodC. the Naturalist PeriodD. the Modern Period29.“This is my letter to the World” is a poetic expression of Emily Dickinsons _______ about her communication with the outside world.A.indifferenceB.angerC.anxietyD.sorrow30.In Henry James’ Daisy Miller, the author tries to portray the young woman as an embodiment of _______.A. the force of conventionB. the free spirit of the New WorldC. the decline of aristocracyD. the corruption of the newly rich31.After The adventures of Tom Sawyer, Twain gives a literary independence to Toms buddy Huck in a book entitled _______.A.Life on the MississippiB.The Gilded AgeC.The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnD.A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court32.The Transcendentalists believe that, first, nature is ennobling, and second, the individual is _______.A. insignificantB. vicious by natureC. divineD. forward-looking33.Generally speaking,all those writers with a naturalistic approach to human reality tend to be _______.A.transcendentalistsB.idealistsC.pessimistsD.impressionists34.In Heminway’s short story Indian Camp, through a story of a woman givi ng birth, the protagonist, Nick Adams, receives an education of _______.A. birth and violent deathB. charity and benevolenceC. racial inequalityD. devotion and kinship35.In “After Apple-Picking,”Robert Frost wrote:“For I have had too much/Of app lepicking:I am overtired/Of the great harvest I myself desired.”From these lines we can conclude thatthe speaker is _______.A.happy about the harvestB.still very much interested in apple-pickingC.expecting a greater harvestD.indifferent to what he once desired36.Besides sketches, tales and essays, Washington Irving also published a book on _______, which is also considered an important part of his creative writing.A. poetic theoryB. French artC. history of New YorkD. life of George Washington37.The Hemingway Code heroes are best remembered for their _______.A.indestructible spirtieB.pessimistic view of lifeC.war experiencesD.masculinity38.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 thesubject except _______.A. Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnB. Dreiser’s Sister CarrieC. Copper’s Leather-Stocking TalesD. Thoreau’s Walden39.In Hemingways “Indian Cmap”, Nicks 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.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.B. Life and death.C. Love and marriage.D. War and peace.二、Reading Comprehension1.Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English.(1)."And the native hue of resolution/Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought." (Shakespeare, Humlet)Questions:A. What does the "native hue of resolution" mean?B. What does the "pale cast of thought" stand for?C. What idea do the two lines express?(2)."Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere; /Destroyer and Preserver; hear, O hear!"Questions:A. Identify the poem and the poet.B. What is the "Wild Spirit"?C. What does the "Wild Spirit" destroy and preserve?(3)."When the minister spoke from the pulpit, with power and fervid eloquence, and, with his hands on the open bible, of the sacred truths of our religion, and of saint-like lives and triumphant deaths, and of future bliss or misery unutterable, then did Goodman Brown turn pale, dreading, lest the roof shouldthunder down upon the gray blasphemer and his hearers.Questions:A. Identify the title of the short story from which this part is taken.B. What had happened in the story before this church scene?C. Why was Goodman Brown afraid the roof might thunder down?(4).(A lot of common objects have been enumerated before, and here are the last two lines of There Was a Child Went Forth :) The horizon’s edge, the flying sea-crow, the fragrance of salt marsh and shore mud. These became part of that child who went forth every day, and who now goes, and will always go forth every day.Questions:A. Who is the author of this poem?B. What does the "Child" stand for in the poem?C. In one or two sentences, interpret the implied meaning of the two lines.三、Questions and Answers 。
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英美文学选读模拟题A.Each of the following below is followed by four alternative answer・ Choose the onethat would bet complete the statement and put the letter in the blank.（每小题1 分，共30 分）1.Generally, the Renaissance refers to the period between ________ a nd _______ centuries.A.14th...mid-17thB. 14th...mid-18thC. 16th...mid-18thD. 16th...mid-17th2. ______ f requently applied conceits in his poems.A.SpenserB. DonneC. BlakeD. Thomas Gray3. ______ i s known as "the poefs poet".A.ShakespeareB. MarloweC. SpenserD. Donne4.The 18th century England is known as the _______ in the history.A.RenaissanceB. ClassicismC. EnlightenmentD. Romanticism5. ______ a nd William Shakespeare are the best representatives of the English humanism.A.Edmund Spenser, Christoper MarloweB.Thomas More, Christoper MarloweC.John Donne, Edmund SpenserD.John Milton, Thomas More6.The middle of the 18th century was predominated by a newly rising literary form, that is the modern English ______ , which gives a realistic presentation of life of the common English people. A. prose B. short story C. novel D. tragicomedy7. ______ i s the central concern to Blake's concern in the Song of Innocence and Song of Experience.A. childhoodB. womanC. poetryD. happiness8.Among the following plays which is not written by Marlowe? _______A. Dr. FaustusB. The Jew of MaltaC. Edward IID. School for scandal9.Shakespeare's greatest tragedies are ________ .A.Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and MacbethB.Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Romeo and JulietC.Hamlet, Coriolanus, King Lear and MacbethD.Hamlet, Julius caesar, Othello and Macbeth10.Among the pioneers of the 18th century novelists were Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, Henry fielding and ________ .A. Laurance SterneB. John DrydenC. Charles DickensD. Alexander Pope11.Which of the following Gothic novels was not written in the 18th century? ________A.The Castle of OtrantoB.The ItalianC.The MonkD.The Fall of the House of Usher12.In the theatrical world of the neoclassical period, _________ was the leading figure among the host of playwrights.A. William BlakeB. Richard SheridanC. Ben JohnsonD. Bernard Shaw13.Dickens* works are characterized by a mingling of _______ and pathos.A. humorB. satireC. passionD. metaphor14.The success of Jane Eyre is not only because of its sharp criticism of the existing society, but also due to its introduction to the English novel the first _______ heroine.A. explorerB. peasantC. workerD. governess15.In ______ T ennyson dealt with the theme of women*s rights and position.A. PoemB. The PrincessC. In MemorianD. Idylls of the King16."The Custom-House" is an introductory note to _______ .A. Moby-DickB. The Scarlet LetterC. The Marble FaunD. The Blithedale Romance17.The publication of ______ established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of the NewEngland Transcendentalism.A. NatureB. Self-RelianceC. The Over-SoulD. The American Scholar18."When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed" is most probably a poem ________ .A.that celebrates the burgeoning life of citiesB.that sings highly freedom and democracyC.that condemns violence and bloodshedD.that mourns for the death of Lincoln19. _____ is not a dominant figure of the Realistic Period.A. William Dean HowellsB. Mark TwainC. Henry JamesD. James F. Cooper20.The book from which "all modern American literature comes" refers to _________.A. Moby-DickB. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnC. The Sun Also RisesD. The Great Gatsby21.Strong affinity to the Chinese and Oriental literature can be found in the works of __________ .A. Mark TwainB. Ezra PoundC. Emily DikinsonD. Arthur Miller22."In a Station of the Metro" is regarded by critics as a classic specimen of__________ .A. the absurd poetryB. the transcendental poetryC. the romantic poetryD. the imagist poetry23.The founder of the American drama is ________ .A. Arthur MillerB. Eugene O'NeillC. Tennesee WilliamsD. Clifford Odets24. F. Scott Fitzgerald is not the author of ________ .A. This Side of ParadiseB. Tender is the NightC. The Great GatsbyD. In Our Time25. _____ is not a fictional character in the Scarlet Letter.A. HesterB. Arthur DimmersdaleC. Roger ChillingworthD. Ishmael26.The period ranging from 1865 to 1914 has been referred to as _______ .A. the Age of ColonicalismB. the Age of RomanticismC. the Age of RealismD. the Age of Modernism27.Statement _______ is NOT true in describing American naturalists.A.They were deeply influenced by Darwinism.B.They were identified with French novelist and theorist Emile Zola.C.They chose their subjects from the lower ranks of society.D.They used more serious and more sympathetic tone in writing than realists.28. _____ is considered by H.L.Mencken as "the true father of our national literature."A. HemingwayB. PoeC. IrvingD. Twain29.they all shared the same thematic concern except________ .A. Robert Penn WarrenB. Flannery O'ConnerC. William FaulknerD. Norman Mailer30. _______ draws on the Jewish experience and tradition and examines subtly the dismantlingof the self by an intolerable modern history.A.Allen GinsbergB. John UpdikeC. Saul BellowD. J.D. SalingerB.Give the author and genre of each of the following literary works.（每小题2 分，共20 分）1.The Shepheardes Calender2.Farewell to love3.Much Ado About Nothing4.Childe Harold's Pilgrmage5.Dombey and the Son6.The Iceman Cometh7.The Road Not Taken8.The Cantos9.The Grapes of Wrath10.BabbitC・ Define the literary terms listed below・（每小题5 分,共10 分）1.Utilitarianism2.Free VerseD・ 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•（每小题5 分, 共15分）1.Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?Thou are more lovely and more temperate:Rough winds do shake the daring buds of May,And summer's least hath all too short a date:Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shinesAnd often is his gold complexion dimmed;2.I heard a Flay buzz—when I died-The Stillness in the RoomWas like the Stillness in the AirBetween the Heaves of Storm-3.There is music from my neighbor's house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and stars. At hightide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft, or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motor-boats slit the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of foam. On week-ends his Rolls-Royce became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city between nine in the morning and long past midnight, while his station wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug to meet all trains. And on Mondays eight servants, including an extra gardener, toiled all day with mops and scrubbing-brushes and hammers and garden-shears, repairing the ravages of the night before...E.Give brief answers to the following questions・（每小题5 分,共10 分）1.What is Bernard Shaw's viewpoint on literature?2.What does the night journey young Goodman Brown makes symbolize?F・ Short Essay Questions（共15 分）1.What is the striking feature of Paul, the main character in Sons and lovers?（7分）2.Give a brief analysis of Emily Grierson In "A Rose for Emily".（8 分）。
考研英语真题模拟试卷
考研英语真题模拟试卷一、听力部分（共30分）Section ADirections: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, a question will be asked about what was said. After each question, there will be a short pause. The conversations and questions will be spoken only once. For each question, choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C), and D).1. What does the man suggest the woman do?A) Take a rest.B) Go to the doctor.C) Stay at home.D) Work harder.2. Why is the woman upset?A) She lost her job.B) She missed her bus.C) She failed the exam.D) She lost her keys.[...]8. What does the man mean by saying "It's a small world"?A) He's surprised by the coincidence.B) He thinks the world is getting smaller.C) He's interested in geography.D) He's suggesting they travel.Long Conversation 1Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversation you have just heard.9. What is the main topic of the conversation?A) A book signing event.B) A new novel.C) A writing competition.D) A literary festival.10. What does the woman think about the author?A) She admires her greatly.B) She finds her arrogant.C) She doesn't like her writing style.D) She thinks she's overrated.Long Conversation 2Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you havejust heard.12. Why did the man decide to quit his job?A) He was offered a better position.B) He wanted to start his own business.C) He was unhappy with his boss.D) He wanted to travel the world.[...]二、阅读理解部分（共40分）Passage 1[文章内容略]Questions 16 to 18 are based on Passage 1.16. What is the main idea of the passage?A) The importance of a balanced diet.B) The benefits of regular exercise.C) The impact of technology on health.D) The role of sleep in a healthy lifestyle.17. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT a reason for poor sleep quality?A) Stress from work.B) An irregular sleep schedule.C) Consuming too much caffeine.D) A comfortable sleeping environment.Passage 2[文章内容略]Questions 19 to 21 are based on Passage 2.19. What does the author's experience suggest about the job market?A) It is highly competitive.B) It requires a specific set of skills.C) It is dominated by large corporations.D) It offers many opportunities for advancement.Passage 3[文章内容略]Questions 22 to 25 are based on Passage 3.22. What is the author's purpose in writing the passage?A) To persuade readers to adopt a new technology.B) To inform readers about a breakthrough in science.C) To critique the current state of environmental policy.D) To analyze the economic impact of climate change. [...]三、完形填空部分（共20分）[文章内容略]26. A) Despite B) Because C) Although D) Since27. A) predicted B) suggested C) proposed D) recommended28. A) benefits B) drawbacks C) consequences D) advantages29. A) However B) Therefore C) Nevertheless D) Thus30. A) contribute to B) result in C) lead to D) give rise to [...]四、翻译部分（共20分）将下列句子从英语翻译成中文。
英美文学史模拟卷
《英美文学史》模拟卷考试形式：闭卷考试时间：90分钟I. Fill in the Following Blanks：Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase according to the textbook. (10×1。
5´= 15´）1. The _______ style of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has impacted American literature so much that the books before and after it are quite different。
2. Writers who are ___________ tend to develop and promote mannerism，dress, speech, customs of a particular region。
They try to be informative about the peculiarities of a given region and emphasize verisimilitude of details about dialect，local geographical feature and the like.3. In his novel ________________, Theodore Dreiser portrays a girl who is totally at the mercy of forces she cannot control. Alone and helpless，she moves along like a mechanism driven by desire and catches blindly at any opportunities for a better existence, opportunities as offered first by Druet and then by Hurst wood.4。
[考研类试卷]英语专业（英美文学）模拟试卷10.doc
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[考研类试卷]英语专业（英美⽂学）模拟试卷10.doc[考研类试卷]英语专业（英美⽂学）模拟试卷10⼀、填空题1 Charles Dickens's last novel was______.2 Ah, love, let us be true To one another! For the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; The lines above are selectedfrom______by______.3 There are no typically positive characters in______written by Thackeray.4 The novel The Return of the Native was written by______, whose novels were known as "novels of characters and environment".5 Tennyson's poem,______, was based on the Celtic legends—King Arthur and Round Table Knights.6 ______described the life of the laboring people and criticizing the privileged classes, but the power of exposure became much weaker in her work. The significance of her work lies rather in the portrayal of the pettiness and stagnancy of English provincial life.7 There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass, Or night-dews on still waters between walls Of shadowy granite, in a gleaming pass; Music that gentler on the spirit lies, Than tiered eyelids upon tired eyes; The quotation is selecte4 from______by______.8 Jane Eyre and the greater Wuthering Heights by______brought to the novel introspection and an intense concentration on the inner life of emotion which before them had been the province of poetry alone.9 The greatest and the longest work of Robert Browning is______, which consisted of 20,000 lines.10 Sonnets from Portuguese is the representative work of______.11 ______is generally regarded as Steinbeck's masterpiece.12 T. S. Eliot's "the progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality" can be found in his______.13 In the novel The Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway portrayed an old fisherman named ______, who shows triumphant even in defeat.14 Hemingway's stature as a writer was confirmed with the publication of hisnovel______in 1929. the novel portrayed a farewell both to war and to love.15 ______has been regarded as American's greatest novelist in the 20th century.16 Robert Frost's poetry focused on the landscape and people in______.17 In the short novel ______, Steinbeck portrayed the tragic friendship between two migrant workers.18 ______has been considered as America's greatest playwright.19 Steinbeck's post-war novel______reflected his bitter feelings against those greedy, rapacious elements of society which made the war possible.20 ______has an average man of decidedly masculine tastes, sensitive and intelligent wit action and few words.⼆、名词解释21 Psychological novel22 Narration23 Ambiguity24 Allusion25 Plot26 The Beat Generation27 Feminism28 Harlem Renaissance29 New Criticism30 American dream三、单项选择题31 The major part of the story in Wuthering Heights is told by .______.（A）Mr. Lockwood（B）Nelly（C）Isabella（D）Catherine32 Among George Eliot's 7 novels,______is essentially an autobiographic account of her life.（A）Felix Holt, the Radical（B）Daniel Deronda（C）Middlemarch（D）The Mill on the Floss33 The author of______makes clear in the novel that it is wrong to discriminate on the basis of social status and it is cruel and destructive to break genuine, natural human passions.（A）Jane Eyre（B）Wuthering Heights（C）Pride and Prejudice（D）less of the D'Urbervilles34 "I will drink/Life to the lees." In the quoted line Ulysses is saying that he______till the end of his life.（A）will keep traveling and exploring（B）will go on drinking and being happy（C）would like to toast to his glorious life（D）would like to drink the cup of wine35 Which of the following words is NOT appropriate to describe the Duke in My Last Duchess?（A）Intelligence.（B）Kindness.（C）Jealousy.（D）Brutality.36 "A waft of wind came sweeping down the laurel-walk, and trembled through the boughs of the chestnut: it wandered away—away—to an indefinite distance—it died. The nightingale's song was then the only voice of the hour: in listening to it, I again wept." The above passage must be taken from______.（A）Charles Dickens's Great Expectations（B）William Thackeray's Vanity Fair（C）Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre（D）Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native37 The four lines "Though much is taken, much abides; and though/We are not now that strength which in old days/Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are — /One equal temper of heroic hearts, /Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will/To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield must be taken from______.（A）Tennyson's Ulysses（B）Browning's Meeting at Night（C）Wordsworth's I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud（D）Keats's Ode to a Nightingale38 While telling of the punishment of Oliver for asking for more and denouncing the inhuman, hypocritical workhouse system of England for abusing and dehumanizing the poor children, the narrator uses a seemingly______tone.（A）innocent（B）ironic（C）indignant（D）bitter39 In Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles, the heroine's tragic ending is due to______.（A）her weak character（B）her ambition（C）Angel Clare's selfishness（D）a hostile society40 The character Rochester in Jane Eyre can be well termed as a______.（A）conventional hero（B）Byronic hero（C）chivalrous aristocrat（D）Homeric hero41 A contemporary of Alfred Tennyson,______is acknowledged by many as the most original and experimental poet of the time.（A）Thomas Carlyle（B）Thomas B.Macaulay（C）T. S. Eliot（D）Robert Browning42 "As for society, he was carried every other day into the hall where the boys dined, and there socially flogged as a public warning and example. What figure of speech is used in the above sentence?（A）Irony.（B）Metaphor.（C）Simile.（D）Overstatement.43 In Hard Times, Dickens attacks______that rules over the English educational system and destroys young hearts and minds.（A）bourgeois commercialism（B）the utilitarian principle（C）political corruptness（D）religious hypocrisy44 Which of the following best describes the nature of Hardy's later novels?（A）Sentimentalism.（B）Surrealism.（C）Comic sense.（D）Tragic sense.45 Charles Dickens's best-depicted characters are those innocent, virtuous, persecuted, helpless ______ characters such as Oliver Twist, Little Nell, David Copperfield and Little Dorrit.（A）child（B）woman（C）lady（D）girl46 When they were young, the Bronte sisters were sent to a school for clergymen's daughters. The eldest two died there due to the poor and unhealthy conditions. This experience inspired the later portrayal of Lowood School in the novel______.（A）Jane Eyre（B）Wuthering Heights（C）The Professor（D）Emma47 Reading______'s Crossing the Bar, we can feel his fearlessness towards death, his faith in God and an afterlife.（A）John Keats（B）Alfred Tennyson（C）Robert Browning（D）Thomas Hardy48 The publication of______, Robert Browning's masterpiece, in 1869, finally established the poet's position as one of the greatest English poets.（A）In Memoriam（B）The Ring and the Book（C）Maud（D）Ulysses49 The novel Middlemarch, a Study of Provincial Life provides a panoramic view of life in a small English town,______, and its surrounding countryside in the mid-nineteenth century.（A）Middlemarch（B）Lowick Manor（C）Oxford（D）Wessex50 In Thomas Hardy's novels, the outside nature, the natural environment or______of herself, is shown as some mysterious supernatural force, very powerful but half-blind, impulsive and uncaring to the individual's will, hope, passion or suffering.（A）nature（B）fate（C）fortune（D）destiny51 The greatest English critical realist novelist was_____,who criticized the bourgeois civilization and showed the misery of the common people.（A）Charles Dickens（B）Emily Bronte（C）Thomas Hardy（D）Charlotte Bronte52 Emily Bronte wrote only one novel which is entitled______.（A）Wuthering Heights（B）Jane Eyre（C）Emma（D）The Professor53 George Eliot was the pseudonym of______.（A）Mary Ann Evans（B）Charles Dickens（C）Emily Bronte（D）Samuel Clemens54 In the long poem The Ring and the Book, the "book" is compared to______.（A）love（B）comprehensive knowledge（C）the hard truth（D）the method of study55 "Self-conceited", "cruel" and "tyrannical" are most likely the words to describe the character in______.（A）Robert Browning's My Last Duchess（B）Sheridan's The School for Scandal（C）Christopher Marlowe's Dr. Faustus（D）Shakespeare's Love's Labor's Lost56 As a literary figure, John Rivers appears in______.（A）Fielding's Tom Jones（B）Dickens's Oliver Twist（C）Bronte's Jane Eyre（D）Austen's Pride and Prejudice57 The statement that those extraordinary people, seeking something beyond the provincial life, have finally to subject themselves to the limitations of the reality either due to their own weakness or the conventional force of the social environment may well sum up one of the major themes of______.（A）Fielding's Tom Jones（B）Defoe's Robinson Crusoe（C）Austen's Pride and Prejudice（D）Eliot's Middlemarch58 The success of Jane Eyre is not only because of its sharp criticism of the existing society, but also due to its introduction to the English novel the first______heroine.（A）worker（B）peasant（C）governess（D）teacher59 Which of the following descriptions of Thomas Hardy is NOT true?（A）Most of his novels are set in Wessex.（B）Tess of the D'Urbervilles is one of the most representative of him as both a naturalistic and a critical realist writer.（C）Among Hardy's major works, Under the Greenwood Tree is the most cheerful and idyllic.（D）From The Mayor of Casterbridge on, the tragic sense becomes the keynote of his novels.60 ... and then how they met I hardly saw, but Catherine made a spring, and he caught her, and they were locked in an embrace.(Wuthering Heights) In the above quoted passage, Emily Bronte tells the story in______point of view.（A）the third person（B）the first person（C）the second person（D）the omnipresent61 In Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, he used a technique called______, in which the whole story was told through the thoughts of one character.（A）stream of consciousness（B）imagism（C）symbolism（D）naturalism62 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 victim of the past glory.（D）She is the symbol of the old values of the South.63 Robert Frost combined traditional verse forms—the sonnet, rhyming couplets, blank verse—with a clear American local speech rhythm, the speech of______farmers with its idiosyncratic diction and syntax.（A）Western（B）New England（C）New Hampshire（D）southern64 ______is a play that concerns the problem of modern man's identity.（A）The Emperor Jones（B）Desire Under the Elms（C）Long Day's Journey Into Night（D）The Hairy Ape65 In The Emperor Jones and The Hairy Ape, O'Neil adopted the expressionist techniques to portray the______of human beings in a hostile universe.（A）uncertainty（B）helpless situation（C）profound religious faith（D）courage and perseverance66 Which of the following novels can be regarded as typically belonging to the school of literary modernism?（A）The Sound and the Fury.（B）Uncle Tom's Cabin.（C）Daisy Miller.（D）The Gilded Age.67 Faulkner's novel______describes the decay and downfall of an old southern aristocratic family, symbolizing the old social order, told from four different points of view.（A）The Sound and the Fury（B）Startoris（C）The Unvanquished（D）The Town68 A Rose for Emily is Faulkner's first short story published in 1930. The story focuses on Emily Grierson, aneccentric______who refuses to accept the passage of time. （A）spinster（B）young lady（C）philosopher（D）prophet69 O'Neil's inventiveness seemingly knew no limits. He was constantly experimenting with new styles and forms for his plays, especially during the twenties when______was in full swing.（A）Symbolism（B）Realism（C）Expressionism（D）Romanticism70 ______marks the climax of Eugene O'Neil's literary career and the coming of age of American drama.（A）The Iceman Cometh（B）The Hairy Ape（C）The Emperor Jones（D）Long Day's Journey Into Night71 In the following comments, which is NOT true?（A）Robert Frost is generally considered a regional poet whose subject matters mainly focus on the landscape and people in New England.（B）The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter is actually an adaptation from a classical Chinese poem by LiPo.（C）Bacon's essays are famous for their brevity, compactness and powerfulness.（D）The Pilgrim's Progress is the most successful religious story of conventions in English language.72 In "petals on a wet, black bough", the figure of speech used here is______.（A）metaphor（B）hyperbole（C）pun（D）simile73 ______stems from the ambiguity of the speaker's choice between safety and the unknown.（A）Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening（B）Mending the Wall（C）Home Burial（D）The Road Not Taken74 Robert Frost is a regional poet in the sense that his poems are mainly concerned about the______.（A）life in New York（B）country life in New England（C）sea adventures（D）life on the Mississippi River .75 The Great Gatsby, written by Fitzgerald in 1925, is a story about______who was destroyed by the influence of the wealthy, pleasure-seeking people around him.（A）a vagabond（B）an idealist（C）an eccentric（D）an opportunist76 Emily Grierson, the protagonist in Faulkner's story A Rose for Emily, can be regarded as a symbol standing for all the following qualities EXCEPT______.（A）old values（B）rigid ides of social status（C）bigotry and eccentricity（D）harmony and integrity77 In The Emperor Jones and The Hairy Ape, O'Neil adopted the______to portray the helpless situation of human beings ina hostile universe.（A）expressionist techniques（B）surrealistic approach（C）romantic approach（D）dramatic monologue78 Robert Frost is generally considered as a regional poet in the sense that his subject matters mainly focus on the landscape and people in______.（A）New York（B）the West（C）New England（D）Mid West79 ______wrote about the society in the South by inventing families which represented different social forces: the old decaying upper class; the rising, ambitious, unscrupulous class of the "Poor Whites"; and the Negroes who labored for both of them.（A）Faulkner（B）Fitzgerald（C）Hemingway（D）Steinbeck80 "Nick Adams" is a character who frequently appears in______stories.（A）William Faulkner's（B）Theodore Dreiser's（C）Ernest Hemingway's（D）Mark Twain's81 The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promise to keep, And miles to go before I sleep." The above four lines are taken from______.（A）Dickinson's Because I could not stop for Death—（B）Frost's After Apple-Picking（C）Frost's Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening（D）Dickinson's I heard a Fly buzz—when I died—82 In his masterpiece,______, Pound traces the rise and fall of eastern and western empires, the moral and social chaos ofthe modern world, especially the corruption of America after the heroic time of Jefferson.（A）Make it New（B）Polite Essays（C）The Cantos（D）Confucius83 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）wearing out the freshness of apple-picking（C）still desired of apple-picking when seeing the harvest（D）indifferent to what once desired84 Most recognizable literary movement that gave rise to the twentieth-century American literature, or we may say, the second American Renaissance, isthe______movement.（A）expatriate（B）transcendental（C）leftist（D）expressionistic85 Of the following American poets, whose works was first recognized in England and then in America?（A）Robert Frost.（B）Walt Whitman.（C）Emily Dickinson.（D）Wallace Stevens.86 In writing the poem The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter, Pound took its material from the ancient ______poetry.（A）Japanese（B）Chinese（C）French（D）Italian。
英语专业试题-英美文学及比较文学
英语专业试题-英美文学及比较文学三峡大学（由/doc/50f65304bed5b9f3f90f1cf5.html 整理）2004年研究生入学考试试题考试科目：英美文学及比较文学（答案必须写在答题纸上）I. Choose the One that best completes the sentence. (20 points)(Write your answer on the answer sheet)1. Who is the only American poet to be honored with a bust in the Poet’s Corner of Westminster Abbey?a. Edagr Allan Poeb. Ezra Poundc. Walt Whitmand. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow2. The novel The Gilded Age was written by _________.a. Charles Dickensb. Herman Melvillec. Samuel Langhorne Clemensd. Jack London3. Thomas Hardy was good not only at writing Novel, but also at writing _________.a. essaysb. playsc. poemsd. short stories4. The following authors are famous English critical realist novelists except _________.a. William M. Thackerayb. Charles Dickensc. Mrs. Gaskelld. Walter Scott5. In A Tale of Two Cities, the "two cities" refer to London and _________.a. Dublinb. Parisc. New Y orkd. V ienna“___________” is often regarded as the semi-autobiography of the author Dickens in which the early life of the hero is largely based on the author's owna. Oliver Twistb. Little Dorritc. Great Expectationsd. David Copperfield7. The Lyrical Ballads written by Wordsworth and Coleridge was published in ________.a. 1789b. 1798c. 1829d. 19038. Both John Bunyan and William Makepeace Thackery once wrote ________.a. Paradise Lostb. Of Studiesc. V anity Faird. Oliver Twist9. The trumpet of a prophecy! O Wind,/ If Winter comes, canSpring be far behind? This is from ________.a. Shelley's Ode to the West Windb. Keat's Ode to a Nightingalec. Byron's The Isles of Greeced. Milton's Paradise Lost10. The Novel "_______" describes a country where disease is considered tobe a kind of crime while theft and other vices are considered to be diseases.a. News from Nowhereb. Erewhon Revisitedc. The Way of All Fleshd. Erewhon11. _______ is the representative of Aestheticism and Decadence in English literature.a. R. L. Stevensonb. Oscar Wildec. Samuel Butlerd. Charles Dickens12. Which of the following novels does not belong to the "stream of consciousness"school of novel writing?a. Ulyssesb. Mrs. Dallowayc. The Rainbowd. To the Lighthouse13. "One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk" (Ode to a Nightingale)Lethe is the river of _______.a. happinessb. sleepc. memoryd. forgetfulness14. Which of the following plays written by George Bernard Shaw deals with the problem of correct pronunciation in English language learning?a. Widowers' Housesb. Pygmalionc. Mrs. Warren's Professiond. Major Barbara15. The following writers were awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature except ______.a. G. B. Shawb. T. S. Eliotc. Emily Bront?d. John Galsworthy16. "Please, Sir, I want some more."The master was a fat, healthy man, but he turned very pale…This description is from ______.a. Oliver Twistb. A Modest Proposalc. Tom Jonesd. Hard Times17. "When little birds are busy with their song/Who sleep with open eyes the whole night long/Life sirs their hearts and tingles in them so,”This means the birds cannot sleep at night because they ____________.a. keep singing the whole nightb. are excited by the beauty of naturec. have a heart full of loved. are busy with picking seeds18. “Because I could not stop for Death__/ He kindly stopped for me___/ The Carriage hel d but just Ourselves __/And Immortality.”Who wrote this stanza?a. William Wordsworthb. Emily Dickinsonc. Robert Frostd. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow19. John Keats loved literature so much that he soon abandoned _________to devote himself to poetry.a. businessb. paintingc. medicined. philosophy20. The first successful novel of Charles Dickens is "____________".a. David Copperfieldb. Oliver Twistd. The Old Curiosity Shop d. The Pickwick Papersthe relevant match from Column B for each item in Column A.(20 points)(Write your answer on the answer sheet)1. ( ) Edmund Spenser A. Women In Love2. ( ) Oliver Goldsmith B. Sense and Sensibility;3. ( ) Laurence Sterne C. Queen Mab4. ( ) Daniel Defoe D. Y oung Goodman Brown5. ( ) Henry Fielding E. The Portrait of A Lady6. ( ) George Gordon Byron F. The Sound and the Fury7. ( ) Percy Bysshe Shelley G. The Great Gatsby8. ( ) Jane Austen H. For Whom the Bell Tolls9. ( ) Sir Walter Scott I. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage10. ( ) Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell J. The Faerie Queene11. ( ) George Eliot K. Ivanhoe12. ( ) John Galsworthy L. Mary Barton13. ( ) Washington Irving M. The Forsyte Saga14. ( ) Nathaniel Hawthorne N. Robinson Crusoe15. ( ) Henry James O. Tom Jones16. ( ) Theodore Dreiser P. The V icar of Wakefield17. ( ) Scott Fitzgerald Q. A Sentimental Journey18. ( ) Ernest Hemingway R. American Tragedy19. ( ) William Faulkner S. Middlemarch20. ( ) David Herbert Lawrence T. Rip V an WinkleIII. Read the following excerpts and answer the following questions (30 points) (Write your answer on the answer sheet)A. I cannot see what flowers are at my feet,Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs,But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweetWherewith the seasonable month endowsThe grass, the thicket, and the furit-tree wild;White hawthorn, and the pastoral eglantine;Fast fading violets cover'd up in leaves;And mid-May's eldest child,The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine,The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves.Questions:1. Who is the writer of this poem?2. This stanza is taken from a well-known ode. What is the title of this poem?3. This stanza consists of 10 lines of iambic verse and the rime scheme is _____.4. What kind of images have the poet given us in this stanza?B. Neat was her wimple in its every plait,Her nose well formed, her eyes as gray as slate.Her mouth was very small and soft and red.She had so wide a brow I think her headWas nearly a span broad, for certainly,She was not undergrown, as all could see.Questions:5. The above lines of poetry are taken from a famous poem. What is the title of it?6. Who is the writer of this poem?7. What kind of metrical form is used in the poem?8. The description is about a young beautiful lady. Do you think Chinese people describe beauty of a lady just like this? Write some sentences about the comparison.C. Helen, thy beauty is to meLike those Nic?an barks of yore,That gently, o’er a perfumed sea,The weary, way-worn wanderer boreTo his own native shore.Questions:9. What is the title of the poem?10. Who is the author of it?11. Explain the stanza in your own words.IV. Choose any six of the following and tell briefly what you know about each. (30 points) (Write your answer on the answer sheet)1. Romanticism2. Lost Generation1. Heroic Couplet2. Ballad3. Blank V erse4. Narrative Poem5. Epic6. Sonnet7. Shylock8. Hamlet11. Leaves of Grass12. The Old Man and the SeaV. Discuss the following questions and write a short critical essay on each one. (50%)(Write your answer on the answer sheet)1. Hawthorne is a master of symbolism. In his novel The Scarlet Letter, the letter A is the biggest symbol, but it is ambiguous and there are different interpretations, such as adultery, able, angel, admirable, Arthur, America, etc. What is your interpretation about the symbol A? (Write about 200 words to comment on it. ): (20 points)2. In Emily Bront?’s Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff seems entirely wicked, or a criminal. Y et Emily Bront? manages him at least a sympathetic figure. Do you think he is a hero or a villain? Please write about 300 words to support your idea and compare the characters of Heathcliff and Mr Rochester in Jane Eyre. (30 points)。
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一、Muliple choice1. "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"This is the beginning line of Shakespeare's.A.songs B.PlaysediesD.Sonnets2.Which of the followings is not Shakespeare’s work?A.The merchant of VeniceB. Romeo and JulietC. King LearD. Of Truth3.___is regarded as the pioneer of English drama.A.William ShakespeareB.Christopher MarloweC.Edmund SpenserD.John Donne4. ___are Shakespeare's two narrative poems.A.Venus and AdonisB.The Two Noble KinsmenC.The Rape of lucreceD.The Winter's Tale5.English Renaissance Period was an age of____.A.prose and novelB.poetry and dramaC.essays and journalsD.ballads and songs6."Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"This is the beginning line of Shakespeare's______.A.songsB.playsediesD.sonnets7.Which play is not a comedy?A.A Midsummer Night'sB.The Merchant of VeniceC.Twelfth NightD.Romeo and JulietE.As You Like It8.In1847,the Bronte Sisters published the following famous novels except______.A.Jane EyreB.ShirleyC.Wuthering HeightsD.The Tenant of Wildfell Hall9.In_____'s hands,"dramatic monologue"reaches its maturity and perfection.A.Alfred TennysonB.Robert BrowningC.Williams ShakespeareD.George Eliot10.___is a natural medium for Hamlet to release his anguish.A.conversationB.speechC.soliloquyD.action11．The Renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events EXCEPT_ ________.A．the rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek cultureB．the vast expansion of British colonies in North AmericaC．the new discoveries in geography and astrologyD．the religious reformation and the economic expansion12. William Shakespeare,Christopher Marlowe and____are the best representatives of the English humanists.A.Edmund SpenserB.Francis BaconC.John MiltonD.Thomas More13. ___is not a comedy.A.As You Like ItB.Romeo and JulietC.A Midsummer Night DreamD.The Twelfth Night14.Marlowe's____is a play based on the German legend of a magician aspiring for knowledge a nd finally meeting his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the Devil.A. Dr.FaustusB.TamburlaineC.The Jew of MaltaD.Edward II15.All the following poets except___belong to the metaphysical school.A. DonneB.HerbertC.Marvellton16.The publication of___established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of New England t ranscendentalism.A.NatureB.Self-relianceC.The American ScholarD.The Over-soul17.American Romanticism started with the publication of___and ended with Leaves of Grass.A.The Sketch BookB.NatureC.The AlhambraD.Leatherstocking Tales18.Being a period of the great flowering of American literature,the___period is also called"the American Renaissance".A.PuritanB.RomanticC.RealisticD.modern19.The American___as a cultural heritage exerted great influence over American moral values a nd literature.A.democracyB.idealC.PuritanismD.Romanticism20.___is considered by H.L.Mencken as"the true father of our national literature."A.Ernest HemingwayB.Edgar Allan PoeC.Washington IrvingD.Mark Twain21．“It is a truth universally acknowledged,that a single man in possession of a good for-tune,m ust be in want of a wife.”The quoted part is taken from______.A．Jane Eyre B ．Wuthering HeightsC．Pride and Prejudice D．Sense and Sensibility22．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”23．All of the following are stream–of- consciousness novels EXCEPT________. A．Pilgrimage B．Ulysses C．Mrs.Dalloway D．Tess of the D’Urbervilles24．Shakespeare’s four greatest tragedies are________.A．Romeo and Juliet,Othello,King Lear,HamletB．Hamlet,Othello,Macbeth,The Merchant of VeniceC．Hamlet,Othello,King Lear,MacbethD．Romeo and Juliet,The Merchant of Venice,Othello,Hamlet25．All of the following novels by Daniel Defoe are the first literary works devoted to the study o f problems of the lower-class people EXCEPT______.A．Robinson Crusoe B．Captain Singleton C．Moll Flanders D．Colonel Jack二、True or False1.English Renaissance is an age of essay and drama.2.Ode to the West Wind is Bysshe Shelley’s work.3.Jane Austin is the author of Pride and Prejudice.4.Oliver Twist is written by Charles Dickens.5.The leading figures of the naturalism at the turn of19th century are Thomas Hardy,John Galsworthy and Bernard Shaw.6.If Winters comes, can Spring be far behind? is from Ozymandias.7.Emily Dickinson is remembered as the“All American Writer”.8.The Civil War divides the American literature into romantic literature and realist literature.9.Mark Twain is the first American writer to discover an American language and Americanconsciousness.10.In the decade of the1910s,American literature achieved a new diversity and reached its greatest heights.三、1.Enlightenment2.Humanism3.Renaissance4.Allusion5.Byronic Hero1.选择DDBABDDDBCBDBADCABCDCDACA2.正误FTTTFFFTTF3.名词解释1.Enlightenment1>Enlightenment movement was a progressive philosophical and artistic movement which flouris hed in france and swept through western Europe in the18th century.2>the movement was a furtherance of the Renaissance from14th century to the mid-17th century.3>its purpose was to enlighten the whole world with the light of modern philosophical and artistic ideas.4>it celebrated reason or rationality,equality and science.It advocated universal education.5>famous among the great enlighteners in england were those great writers like Alexander pope.J onathan swift.etc.2.Humanism1>Humanism is the essence of the Renaissance.2>it emphasizes the dignity of human beings and the importance of the present life.Humanists voiced their beliefs that man was the center of the universe and man did not only have the right to enjoy the beauty of the present life,but had the ability to perfect himself and to perform wonders.3.Renaissance1>The word“Renaissance”means“rebirth”,it meant the reintroduction into westerm Europe of the full cultural heritage of Greece and Rome.2>the essence of the Renaissance is Humanism.Attitudes and feelings which had been characterist ic of the14th and15th centuries persisted well down into the era of Humanism and reformation.3>the real mainstream of the english Renaissance is the Elizabethan drama with william shakespe are being the leading dramatist.4.AllusionA reference to a person,a place,an event,or a literary work that a writer expects the reader to reco gnize and respond to.An allusion may be drawn from history,geography,literature,or religion.5.Byronic Hero1>Byronic hero refers to a proud,mysterious rebel figure of noble origin.2>with immense superiority in his passions and powers,this Byronic Hero would carry on his sho ulders the burden of righting all the wrongs in a corrupt society.And would rise single-handedly a gainst any kind of tyrannical rules either in government,in religion,or in moral principles with un conquerable wills and inexhaustible energies.3>Byrons chief contribution to English literature is his creation of the“Byronic Hero”。
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[考研类试卷]英语专业（英美文学）模拟试卷8一、填空题1 Jonathan Swift's famous prose work______is a satirical dialogue between the Ancients and the Moderns in the character of the Bee and the Spider.2 ______is William Blake's most important prose work, which is the manifesto of his spiritual independence.3 Modern English novel arose in the______century.4 ______was a progressive intellectual movement going on throughout Europe in the 18th century.5 Dr. Primrose is the central character of the novel______.6 The cross that Crusoe erects on the island serves______.7 The English novel as a genre began to prosper in the______century.8 John Bunyan's style was modeled after that of the English______, with concrete and living language and carefully observed and vividly presented details.9 The Rape of the Lock by Pope is written in the form of a mock______, which describes the triviality of high society in a grand style.10 In England, Neoclassicism was initiated by Dryden, culminated in Pope, and continued by______.11 The______of the 1930s greatly weakened the American nation's self-confidence.12 In 1920, Sinclair Lewis published his memorable denunciation of American small-town Provincialism in______.13 The______County is a legendary kingdom created by Faulkner.14 Pound was the leader of a new movement in poetry which he called the "______" movement.15 After his death, Stevens previously uncollected works appeared in the title of______.16 In 1954, Hemingway was awarded a______for his "mastery of the art of modern narration".17 Fitzgerald's first novel______, with its portrayal of casual dissipations of "flaming youth", was an immediate commercial success.18 ______is the first American to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature, but still he is called the worst important writer in American literature.19 ______had been called "the first step that American fiction has taken since Henry James" by T. S. Eliot.20 ______combined traditional verse forms with a clear American local speech rhythm, forming his own characteristic.二、名词解释21 Elegy22 Allegory23 Parable24 Didactic25 Neoclassicism26 The Lost Generation27 Anti-novel28 Hemingway Hero29 Impressionism30 Jazz age三、单项选择题31 Which of the following is NOT found in comedy of manners with Sheridan's The School for Scandal as the best representative work?（A）Wit.（B）Mistaken identity.（C）Sentimentalism.（D）Dialogue.32 In the lines "With gold and jewels cover every part, /And hide with ornaments their want of art"(An Essay on Criticism), Pope rejects______.（A）the "Follow Nature" fallacy（B）artificiality（C）good taste（D）aesthetic order33 Daniel Defoe describes ______as a typical English middle-class man of the eighteenth century, the very prototype of the empire builder or the pioneer colonist. （A）Tom Jones（B）Gulliver（C）Moll Flanders（D）Robinson Crusoe34 "To be so distinguished is an honor, which, being very little accustomed to favors from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge." The above quoted sentence is presented by Samuel Johnson with a(n)______tone.（A）delightful（B）jealous（C）ironic（D）humorous35 ______is a typical feature of Swift's writings.（A）Bitter satire（B）Elegant style（C）Casual narration（D）Complicated sentence structure36 The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan is often said to be concerned with the search for______.（A）material wealth（B）spiritual salvation（C）universal truth（D）self-fulfillment37 Of all the 18th century novelists Henry Fielding was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write 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 epic38 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 ways39 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 An Essay on Criticism（D）Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream40 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 Progress41 Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels is the greatest______work in English literature.（A）realistic（B）satiric（C）romantic（D）sentimental42 The 18th century England is known as the______in the history.（A）Romanticism（B）Enlightenment（C）Classicism（D）Renaissance43 "Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds;" The above stanza is taken from______.（A）Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard（B）The Passionate Shepherd to His Love（C）Hamlet（D）Paradise Lost44 The following comments on John Bunyan are wrong EXCEPT______.（A）He was a stout Puritan.（B）Bunyan's works belong to Gothic novels.（C）Bunyan's style is different from that of the English Bible.（D）A Modest Proposal is his representative work.45 "Hold! See whether it is or not before you go to the door — I have a particular message for you if it should be my brother." The two sentences are found in______. （A）The Scheming Lieutenant（B）Wuthering Heights（C）The School for Scandal（D）The Rivals46 Statement"______" is NOT true in describing Gothic novel.（A）Gothic novel is a type of romantic fiction（B）Gothic novel predominated in the early 18th century（C）Its principal elements are violence, horror and supernatural（D）The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe is typical Gothic romance47 ______is the most successful religious allegory in the English language.（A）The Rivals（B）The Pilgrim's Progress（C）The Life and Death of Mr. Badman（D）Paradise Lost48 Among the representatives of the Enlightenment, who was the first to introduce rationalism to England?（A）John Bunyan.（B）Daniel Defoe.（C）Jonathan Swift.（D）Alexander Pope.49 Fielding has been termed by some as "______", for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.（A）Best Writer of the English Novel（B）Father of the English Novel（C）conventional writer of the English Prose（D）the most talented writer of the English Novel50 Which of the following statements on The Neoclassical Period is NOT true?（A）The Neoclassical Period is prior to the Romantic Period.（B）Henry Fielding is one of the representatives of the Neoclassical Period.（C）The modern English novel came into being in the Neoclassical Period.（D）The Neoclassical Period is also known as the Age of Enlightenment.51 Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Samuel Johnson's language style? （A）His sentences are long and well-structured.（B）His sentences are interwoven with parallel phrases.（C）He tends to use informal and colloquial words.（D）His sentences are complicated, but his thoughts are clearly expressed.52 Samuel Johnson was the______great neoclassicist enlightener in the later 18th century.（A）last（B）only（C）first（D）merely53 In Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, Thomas Gray reveals his sympathy for______, but mocks the great ones who despise them and bring havoc on them. （A）the middle class（B）the landlords（C）the poor and the unknown（D）the working class54 Which of the following comments on the Enlightenment Movement is NOT true? （A）It advocated individual education.（B）The purpose of the movement was to enlighten the whole world.（C）The Enlightenment Movement flourished in France.（D）The Enlightenment Movement was a furtherance of the Renaissance.55 In the first part of Gulliver's Travels, Gulliver told his experience in______.（A）Lilliput（B）Brobdingnag（C）Houyhnhnm（D）England56 In the theatrical world of the neoclassical period,______was the leading figure among the host of playwrights.（A）Richard Bringsley Sheridan（B）George Bernard Shaw（C）Ben Johnson（D）William Blake57 Alexander Pope strongly advocated______, emphasizing that literary works should be judged by classical rules of order, reason, logic, restrained emotion, good taste and decorum.（A）neoclassicism（B）sentimentalism（C）idealism（D）romanticism58 The following comments on Daniel Defoe are true EXCEPT "______".（A）In his novels, his sympathy for the downtrodden, unfortunate poor is shown（B）He was a member of the upper class（C）Robinson Crusoe is universally considered his masterpiece（D）Robinson Crusoe is his first novel59 The Dunciad is generally considered to be Pope's best______work.（A）praising（B）allegorical（C）satiric（D）fabulous60 "The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike the inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave." In the above quoted stanza, Thomas Gray tries to say that great family, power, beauty and wealth______.（A）will never prevent people no matter who they are from reaching their final destination—grave（B）are the very best things to lead people to their glories（C）will inevitably make people realize their glorious dreams（D）will never make people lead to the same destination—paths of glory61 ______, disregarding grammar and punctuation, always used "i" instead of "I" to refer to himself as a protest against self-importance.（A）Wallace Stevens（B）E. E. Cummings（C）Robert Frost（D）William Carlos Williams62 Which of the following statements about writers in 1920s is TRUE?（A）F. Scott Fitzgerald received the Nobel Prize.（B）Most writers were politically radical.（C）Freudian psychology influenced many modern writers.（D）Mark Twain published his last and most important novel.63 ______sought inspiration from the east in his poetry writing.（A）Walt Whitman（B）Emily Dickinson（C）T.S.Eliot（D）Ezra Pound64 Hemingway won his Nobel Prize for the book entitled______.（A）The Sun Also Rises（B）A Farewell to Arms（C）The Old Man and the Sea（D）For Whom the Bell Tolls65 Sherwood Anderson explores the motivations and frustrations of his fictional characters in terms of Freud's theory of psychology, particularly in one book entitled______.（A）Winesburg, Ohio（B）Babbit（C）The Grapes of Wrath（D）The Catcher in the Rye66 Sinclair Lewis Babbit presents a documentary picture of the narrow andlimited______.（A）up-class mind（B）middle-class mind（C）proletarian（D）ordinary people67 William Faulkner's works mainly concern the American______.（A）New England（B）Mid West（C）South（D）West68 A typical modern work will NO longer have ONE of the following statements as its trademark, that is, a______ .（A）record of sequence and coherence（B）book that begins arbitrarily, advances without explanation, and end without solution（C）juxtaposition of the past and present, of the history and memory（D）book of fragments drawn from diverse areas of experience69 Statement"______" is NOT true in describing Ezra Pound.（A）He is a leading spokesman of the "Imagist Movement"（B）His famous one-image poem In a Station of the Metro would serve as a typical example of the Imagist ideas（C）A Pact is his masterpiece（D）He was politically controversial70 The leading playwright of the modern period in American literature, if not the most successful in all his experiments, is______.（A）Arthur Miller（B）Tennessee William（C）George Bernard Shaw（D）Eugene O'Neil71 ______is not among those greatest figures in modern American literature.（A）Ezra Pound（B）Robert Frost（C）Walt Whitman（D）William Carlos Williams72 From Eugene O'Neil's works, we can see he is______.（A）a man of apathy（B）a man of inactivity（C）a man of pessimism（D）a man of optimism73 F. Scott Fitzgerald is NOT the author of______.（A）The Great Gatsby（B）In Our Time（C）Tender is the Night（D）This Side of Paradise74 The Hemingway Code heroes are best remembered for their______.（A）indestructible spirit（B）pessimistic view of life（C）war experiences（D）masculinity75 As he is a leading spokesman of the "Imagist Movement",______famous one-image poem In a Station of the Metro would serve as a typical example of the imagist ideas. （A）T. S. Eliot's（B）Robert Frost's（C）Ezra Pound's（D）Wallace Stevens's76 Which of the following statements about Faulkner is NOT true?（A）Indian Camp is Faulkner's masterpiece.（B）Almost all his heroes turn out to be tragic.（C）Most of Faulkner's works are set in the American South, with his emphasis on the Southern subjects and consciousness.（D）Faulkner has always been regarded as a man with great might of invention and experimentation.77 Robert Frost is a regional poet in the sense that his poems depict mostly______.（A）the frontier life（B）the sea adventures（C）Puritan community（D）the landscape and people in New England78 In A Rose for Emily, Faulkner makes best use of the______devices in narration.（A）Romantic（B）Realistic（C）Gothic（D）Modernist79 Which of the following works by Faulkner involves Shakespearean allusion in its title?（A）The Sound and the Fury（B）Light in August（C）Absalom, Absalom!（D）Go Down, Moses80 Apart from the dislocation of time and the modern stream-of-consciousness, the other narrative techniques Faulkner used to construct his stories include______, symbolism and mythological and biblical allusions.（A）multiple points of views（B）first person point of view（C）expressionism（D）impressionism81 In a class, which discusses the Imagist Movement in the United States, we will definitely NOT include______.（A）William Carlos Williams（B）Ezra Pound（C）Ernest Hemingway（D）Wallace Stevens82 "A week later the mayor wrote her himself, offering to call or to send his car for her, and received in reply a note on paper of an archaic shape, in a thin, flowing calligraphy in faded ink, to the effect that she no longer went out at all. The tax notice was also enclosed, without comment." The above two sentences must be taken from______.（A）Irving's story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow（B）James's story Daisy Miller（C）Faulkner's story A Rose for Emily（D）Hemingway's story Indian Camp83 Lots of people rushed to Gatsby's party at the weekend and they clustered around Gatsby's wealth like______.（A）gluttons（B）flies（C）insects（D）moths84 Chinese poetry and philosophy have exerted great influence over______.（A）Ralph Waldo Emerson（B）Emily Dickinson（C）Robert Frost（D）Ezra Pound85 Of the following American writers,______has not won the Nobel Prize.（A）William Faulkner（B）Ernest Hemingway（C）F. Scott Fitzgerald（D）John Steinbeck86 Fitzgerald's fictional world is the best embodiment of the spirit of______.（A）the Jazz Age（B）the Romantic Period（C）the Renaissance Period（D）the Neoclassical Period87 Which of the following comments on the novel The Great Gatsby is NOT true?（A）The Great Gatsby is a novel that is set against the ending of the war.（B）Gatsby is wealthy but unintelligent and brutal.（C）Gatsby is a mystical figure whose intensity of dream partakes of a state of mind that embodies America itself.（D）Gatsby is the last of the romantic heroes.88 "Grace under pressure" is a major feature of______'s novel.（A）Theodore Dreiser（B）Ernest Hemingway（C）William Faulkner（D）Henry James89 Yank's sense of belonging nowhere, hence homeless and rootless. The Hairy Ape is thus a play that concerns the problem of modern man's______.（A）love（B）development（C）harmonious relations（D）identity90 The statement that a poor young man from the West trying to make his fortune in the East but disillusioned in the quest of an idealized dream may well sum up the themeof______.（A）The Hairy Ape（B）For Whom the Bell Tolls（C）Go Down, Moses（D）The Great Gatsby四、问答题91 "But now Fortune, fearing she had acted out of character, and had inclined too long to the same side, hastily turned about: for now Goody Brown — whom Zekiel Brown caressed in his arms; nor he alone, but half the parish besides; so famous was she in the fields of Venus, for indeed less in those of Mars. The trophies of both these her husband always bore about on his head and face; for if ever human head did by its horns display the amorous glories, of a wife, Zekiel's did. Nor his well-scratched face less denote her talents(or rather talons)of a different kind."A. Identify the author and the work.B. What are the tone and style of this quoted passage?C. Why does the author use Venus, Mars and other allusions to describe Goody Brown?92 "Others for language all their care express,And value books, as women men, for dress.Their praise is still—the style is excellent:The sense they humbly take upon content."A. Identify the author and the title of the work from which this passage is taken.B. What does the phrase "take upon content" mean?C. What is the author's main concern in this passage?93 "Now, as I said, the way to the Celestial City lies just through this town where his lusty fair is kept; and he that will go to the city, and yet not go through this town, must needs 'go out of the world'. The Prince of princes himself, when here, went through this town to his own country, and that upon a fair day, too."A. Identify the author and the work.B. What does the "Prince of princes" refer to?C. What idea does the passage express?94 "False eloquence, like the prismatic glass,Its gaudy colors spreads on every place;The face of Nature we no more survey,All glares alike, without distinction gay.A. Identify the author and the work.B. What does the phrase "False eloquence" mean?C. What idea does the stanza express?95 "Such impression did this make upon me, that after the storm was over, I laid aside all my works, my building and fortifying, and applied myself to make bags and boxes to separate the powder, and to keep it a little and a little in a parcel, in hope, that whatever might come, it might not all take fire at once and to keep it so apart that it should not be possible to make one part fire another: I finished this in about a fortnight, and I think my powder, which in all was about 240 lb. weight, was divided in not less than a hundred parcels; as to the barrel that had been wet, I did not apprehend any danger from that, so I placed it in my new cave, which in my fancy I called my kitchen, and the rest I hid up and down holes among the rocks, so that not wet might come to it, marking very carefully where I laid it.A. Identify the author and the work.B. What does the passage mean?C. Why does the author use such great details in his description?96 "And why wouldn't yuh get me? Ain't we both members of de same club de Hairy Apes?"A. Identify the author of the passage.B. Whom is the speaker in the passage speaking to?C. Comment briefly on the passage.97 "I make a pact with you, Walt Whitman—I have detested you long enough,I come to you as a grown childWho has had a pig-headed father;I am old enough now to make friends."A. Identify the poem and the poet.B. What does the word "pact" mean?C. Comment briefly on this stanza.98 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.A. Identify the author of the passage and the title of the work from which this passage is taken.B. What does the second "sleep" refer to?C. Comment briefly on the passage.99 "Where are we going, Dad?" Nick asked."Over to the Indian camp. There is an Indian lady very sick.""Oh," said Nick.Across the bay they found the other boat beached. Uncle George was smoking a cigar in the dark.The young Indian pulled the boat way up on the beach. Uncle George gave both the Indian cigars."A. Identify the author and the title of the work from which this passage is taken.B. What does Dad imply when he says "There is an Indian lady very sick"?C. Why is Dad going to the Indian camp?100 "And so she died. Fell ill in the house filled with dust and shadows, with only a doddering Negro man to wait on her, we did not even know she was sick; we had long since given up trying to get any information from the Negro. He talked to on one, probably not even to her, for his voice had grown harsh and rusty, as if from disuse."A. Identify the author and the name of the work from which this passage is taken.B. Who dies in the passage?C. What kind of relationship exists between her and her neighbors?五、论述题101 What is An Essay on Criticism chiefly about?102 Give a brief analysis of Robinson Crusoe, the protagonist in Robinson Crusoe.103 What's the significance of Samuel Johnson's letter To the Right Honorable the Earl of Chesterfield?104 What characterizes Samuel Johnson's language style?105 What's the theme of Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard?106 How do you understand the themes in Eugene O'Neil's plays?107 Ernest Hemingway, a winner of Nobel Prize for literature, is one of the greatest American writers. Discuss Hemingway's art of fiction: his style, the particular type of hero in his novels, and his life attitudes, etc..108 Briefly analyze Gatsby's tragedy in Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.109 Please interpret Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken.110 Comment on the symbolic use of rose in Faulkner's A Rose for Emily in relation to its theme and character.。