英美文学选读-英国-现代时期-练习题汇总(选择大题)

I．Multiple Choice(40 points in all, 1 for each)

Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Write the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the answer sheet.

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22.Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Modernism?

A.To elevate the individual and inner being over the social being.

B.To put the stress on traditional values.

C.To portray the distorted and alienated relationships between man and his

environment.

D.To advocate a conscious break with the past.(024)

19.Modernism takes the irrational philosophy and（）as its theoretical base.

A. the theory of psycho-analysis

B. Darwin’s evolutionary theory

C. the French symbolism

D. Utilitarianism(057)

17．______________ is the most outstanding stream of consciousness novelist, with ___________ as his encyclopedia – like masterpiece .

A．James Joyce, Ulysses B．E.M. Foster, A Passage to India

C．D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers D．Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway（074）15．All of the following are stream –of- consciousness novels EXCEPT________. A．Pilgrimage B．Ulysses

C．Mrs. Dalloway D．Tess of the D’ Urbervilles（084）?

21. In the play The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde，the upper — class people are described all of the following EXCEPT ______.

A. corrupt

B. snobbish

C. hypocritical

D. ambitious(087)

17. After the First World War, there appeared the following literary trends of

modernism EXCEPT ______.

A. expressionism

B. surrealism

C. stream of consciousness

D. black humour(094)

18. The masterpieces of critical realism in the early 20th century are the three trilogies

of ______.

A. Galsworthy's Forsyte novels

B. Hardy' s Wessex novels(094)

C. Greene's Catholic novels

D. Woolf's stream-of-consciousness novels

19. In the mid - 1950s and early 1960s, there appeared ―______‖ who demonstrated a

particular disillusion over the depressing situation in Britain and launched a bitter protest against the outmoded social and political values in their society.5 A. The Beat Generation B. The Lost Generation

C. The Angry Young Men

D. Black Mountain Poets(094)

16. The rise of _____ and new science greatly incited modernist writers to make new explorations on human natures and human relationships.4

A. the existentialistic idea

B. the irrational philosophy

C. scientific socialism

D. social Darwinism（097）

22. The 20th century has witnessed a great achievement in English poetry, which are