环球时代：2013英语专业考研(英美文学)模拟题(9)

环球时代：2013英语专业考研英美文学

模拟试卷（9）

I.British literature.(75points)

A.Fill out the following blanks.(10points,1for each)

1.Thomas Carlyle proved his favorite view of history:“The History of the World is the Biography of the Great Men”in his book____________________.

2.___________by Charlotte Bronte is a realistic description of her sad and miserable experiences at a boarding school in Brussels.()

3.The most autobiographical work in the creation of Charles Dickens is______________.

4.In the literary field,the Victoria Period produced a group of women novelists,including the Bronte sisters,Mrs.Gaskell and_____________,though most of them used men’s names as pseudonyms because of the social prejudice against women.

5.The Aesthetic Movement,represented by Oscar Wilde,who advocated his theory or slogan “___________”emerged towards the end of Victorian Age.

6.When in1895Hardy was shocked and sickened by the reception of his last novel, ___________________,he was confirmed in his determination to write no more novels and to write only poetry.

7.Among“The Big Three”of Victorian poets,Tennyson was the most popular and gained the title of“___________”.

8.______________was imitated by many poets after Browning and brought to its most sophisticated form by T.S.Eliot in his The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock.

9.In the late Victorian Period,British imperialism found his voice in the creation of Joseph Rudyard Kipling,who was the________English writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907.

10.The representative novel of Oscar Wilde is________________,whose hero is an embodiment of the aesthetic way of life.

B.Define the following terms.(15points,3for each)

1Dramatic monologue2Victoria Period3point of view

4Flashback5critical realism

C.Multiple Choice.(15points,0.5for each)

1.Pip,Estella,Havisham,Magwitch,and Joe Gargery are most likely names of characters in

__________.

A.Oliver Twist

B.David Copperfield

C.Bleak House

D.Great Expectations

2.A typical feature of the English__________literature is that writers became social and moral

critics,exposing all kinds of social evils.

A.Renaissance

B.Romantic

C.Victorian

D.Medieval

3.“So much the worse for me,that I am strong.Do I want to live?What kind of living will it be

when you—oh,God!Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?”

In the above passage quoted from Emily Brontё’s Wuthering Heights,the word“soul”

apparently refers to__________.

A.Heathcliff

B.Catherine

C.ghost

D.one’s spiritual life

4.“Do you think,because I am poor,obscure,plain,and little,I am soulless and heartless?...And

if God had gifted me with some beauty,and much wealth,I should have made it as hard for you to leave me,as it is now for me to leave you The above quoted passage is most probably taken from__________.

A.Pride and Prejudice

B.Jane Eyre

C.Wuthering Heights

D.Great Expectations

5.In Hardy’s Wessex novels,there is an apparent__________touch in his description of the

simple and beautiful though primitive rural life.

A.humorous

B.romantic

C.nostalgic

D.sarcastic

6.Robert Browning’s My Last Duchess is composed in the form of a(n)__________.

A.dramatic monologue

B.extended metaphor

C.syllogistic argument

D.dialogue

7.“Oliver remained a close prisoner in the dark and solitary room to which he had been consigned

by the wisdom and mercy of the board.Oliver Twist)

In the above passage,Dickens uses the words“wisdom”and“mercy”__________.

A.nonchalantly

B.carelessly

C.ironically

D.impartially

8.The title of Alfred Tennyson’s poem Ulysses reminds the reader of the following EXCEPT

__________.

A.the Trojan War

B.Homer

C.quest

D.Christ

9.“Damn the fool!There he is,cried Heathcliff,sinking back into his seat.‘Hush,my darling!

Hush,hush,Catherine!I’ll stay.If he shot me so,I’d expire with a blessing on my lips.’”The novel from which the passage is taken must be__________.

A.Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

B.Charles Dickens’s The Old Curiosity Shop

C.Samuel Richardson’s Pamela

D.Emily Brontё’s Wuthering Heights

10.Here is a passage from Middlemarch,a novel by George Eliot:

“Her blooming full-pulsed youth stood there in a moral imprisonment which made itself one with the chill,colorless,narrowed landscape,with the shrunken furniture,the never-read books, and the ghostly stag in a pale fantastic world that seemed to be vanishing from the daylight.”

Who is the lady mentioned in the quoted passage?

A.Dorothea.

B.Emma.

C.Molly.

D.Irene.

11.The term tone in literature means__________.

A.sound effect such as rhyme and metrical device

B.the pitch of a word used to determine its meaning in the given context