英美文学选读模拟试卷一

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《英美文学选读》模拟试卷一

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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 Tales

2. 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 desired

3.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] naturalism

4. 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] Cummings

5. _______is the first important governess novel in the English literary history.

[A] Jane Eyre [B] Emma

[C] Wuthering Heights [D] Middlemarch

6. The Hemingway Code heroes are best remembered for their_______.

[A] indestructible spirit [B] pessimistic view of life

[C] war experiences [D] masculinity

7. 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 peace

9. 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 Myself

10. 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] Candida

11. 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] primitive

12. 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] Starbuck

13. Which of the following historical events does not directly help to stimulate the rising of the Renaisssance 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 expansion

14. 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 salvation

15. “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 fro m _______.