英美文学选读练习(一)
北语 20春《英美文学选读》作业_1234
20春《英美文学选读》作业_1一、单选题( 每题5分, 共10道小题, 总分值50分)1.Because of her sensitivity to universal pattens of human behavior, ______ has brought the English novel, as an art of form, to its maturity.A. Charlotte BronteB. Jane AustenC. Emily BronteD. Henry Fielding答：B q：80·500·92612.What＇s the name of Hester and Dimmesdale ＇s daughter?A. AmyB. PearlC. NinaD. Berry答：B3." Charles Drouet ", " George Hustwood ", " Julia Hustwood " are most likely the names of the characters in ________.A. Shaw’s Mrs Warren’s ProfessionB. Dreiser’s Sister CarrierC. Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s LostD. Christopher Marlowe’s Dr.Faustus答：B4.Where did Shakespeare work in LondonA. farmB. theaterC. factoryD. office答：B5."＇I believe you are made of stone,＇he said, clenching his fingers so hard that he broke the fragile cup. …＇You seem to forget,＇she said,＇that cup is not!＇" .From the above quoted passage, we can find the woman＇s tone is very( ) .A. sarcasticB. amusingC. sentimentalD. facetious答：A6.The poem Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening is selected from____A. A Witness TreeB. Steeple BushC. New HampshireD. A Further Range答：C7.All of the following poems by William Wordsworth are masterpieces on nature EXCEPT ______.A. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”B. “An Evening Walk”C. “Tintern Abbey”D. “The Solitary Reaper”答：D8.George Bernard Shaw’s ______ is a grotesquely realistic exposure of slum landlordism.A. Widower’ s HouseB. Mrs. Warren’ s ProfessionC. The Apple CartD. Getting Married答：B9.Virginia Woolf was born in a____A. poor familyB. small familyC. rich familyD. talented family答：D10.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 the subject except _______.A. Mark Twain＇s The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnB. Dreiser＇s Sister CarrieC. Copper＇s Leather-Stocking TalesD. Thoreau＇s Walden答：B二、判断题( 每题5分, 共10道小题, 总分值50分)1.To the Lighthouse is divided into three sections and each different from the others in the treatment of time and structure.答：正确2.Critical realism is the period between 1875 and 1920 to apply the methods of realistic diction to the criticism of society and the examination of social issues.3."Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere; /Destroyer and Preserver; hear, O hear!" the line are taken from Shelley＇s "Ode to the West Wind".4.The name of the first and most successful section in To the Lighthouse is “Window”.5.The 18th century witnessed a new literary form -the modern English novel, which, contrary to the medieval romance, gives a realistic presentation of life of the common English people.6."To be, or not to be"is one of the question put forward by Hamlet at the beginning of the soliloquy.7.George Hustwood , a friend of Drouet’s, rescues Carrie from starvation and makes her his mistress.8.It was said that Shakespeare was forced to leave his hometown to seek refuge in London.9.The themes of Robert Frost’s poems include landscape and people of New England, loneliness and poverty of isolated farmers, beauty, terror, and tragedy in nature.10.Jane Austen’s style is possessed of a neat humor and a satirical touch.20春《英美文学选读》作业_2一、单选题( 每题5分, 共10道小题, 总分值50分)1.The name of the hero in Jane Eyre was___A. HeathcliffB. RochesterC. JamesD. David2.How many groups are there in Hardy＇s novels?A. twoB. threeC. fourD. five3.Which of the following is NOT a tragicomedy?A. Timon of AthensB. CymblineC. The winter＇s taleD. The tempest4.In the first part of the novel Pride and prejudice, Mr. Darcy has a （n）______ of the Bennet family.A. high opinionB. great admirationC. low opinionD. erroneous view5.Which is Dofoe’s masterpiece?A. Robinson CrusoeB. Queen MabC. The Revolt of IsiamD. The Taming of the Shrew6.The title of the novel “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ”written by James Joyce suggests a character study with strong _________ elements .A. autobiographicalB. sentimentalC. joyfulD. bitter7.The poem Ode to a Nightingale was written by___A. William WordsworthB. John KeatsC. ShelleyD. Coleridge8.Mr. Micawber in David Copperfield is perhaps the best ______ characters created by Charles Dickens.A. comicB. tragicC. roundD. sophisticated9.H. L. Mencken, a famous American critic, considered ______ “the true father of our national literature. ”A. Hamlin GarlandB. Joseph KirklandC. Mark TwainD. Henry James10.All of the following works are known as Hardy’s “novels of character and environment”EXCEPT ______.A. The Return of the NativeB. Tess of the D’ UrbervillesC. Jude the ObscureD. Far from the Madding Crowd二、判断题( 每题5分, 共10道小题, 总分值50分)1.Augustus Carmichael of To the Lighthouse is an elderly musician and friends of the Ramsays.2.“The horizon’s edge, the flying sea-crow, the fragrance of salt marsh and shore mud.”the author of this poem is Robert Frost.3.Each individual unit it collection of stressed and unstressed syllables is called a foot.4.The heroine of The Scarlet Letter is Hester Prynne5.In Pride and Prejudice,Mr. and Mrs. Bennet have five daughters.6.There were many literary artists involved in the groups known as the Lost Generation. The three best known areSherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos.7.Wordsworth’s attitude towards the French Revolution changed at his later years.8.There is a wild rosebush in chapter one of The Scarlet Letter beside the prison door, but it is withered.9.In Pride and Prejudice,Mr. Bingley and the eldest girl Jane Bennet fall in love.10.Ezra Pound gave Robert Frost a very good opinion about his poems and helped him to find British publishers.20春《英美文学选读》作业_3一、单选题( 每题5分, 共10道小题, 总分值50分)1.It was his masterpiece The Great Gatsby that made ______ one of the greatest American novelists.A. F. Scott FitzgeraldB. William FaulknerC. Ernest HemmingwayD. Gertrude Steinbeck2."Two roads diverged in a yellow wood /And sorry I could not travel both ..." In the above two lines of Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken, the poet, by implication, was referring to _______.A. a travel experienceB. a marriage decisionC. a middle-age crisisD. one’s c ourse of life3."Two roads diverged in a yellow wood /And sorry I could not travel both ..." /In the above two lines of Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken, the poet, by implication, was referring to _______.A. a travel experienceB. a marriage decisionC. a middle-age crisisD. one’s course of life4.’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 in my lips.’" The novel from which the passage is taken must be _________.A. Jane Austen’s Pride and PrejudiceB. Charles Dickens’s The Old Curiosity ShopC. Samuel Richardson’s PamelaD. Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights5.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?"6.Southey,Wordsworth,______and Shelley are the major Romantic poets.A. HardyB. ColeridgeC. ScottD. Frost7.Poetry is defined by ______ as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, which originates in emotion recollected in tranquility”.A. William WordsworthB. William BlakeC. Percy Bysshe ShelleyD. Robert Southey8.In 1837, ______ published Twice - Told Tales, a collection of short stories which attracted critical attention.A. EmersonB. MelvilleC. WhitmanD. Hawthorne9.Of all the eighteenth-century novelists, _______ was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a "comic epic in prose," and the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.A. Daniel DefoeB. Samuel RichardsonC. Henry FieldingD. Oliver Goldsmith10.Charles Dicken＇s early years were___A. happyB. difficultC. richD. sunny二、判断题( 每题5分, 共10道小题, 总分值50分)1.Robinson Crusoe retells the story in the first person singular2.The Scarlet Letter is set in the 17th-century Boston.3.William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated the use of elegant wording and inflated figures of speech.4.Crusoe travelled on the other side of the island for three month.5.Kitty is the fourth daughter of the Bennet family.6.The second section of To the Lighthouse is entitled “Time Passes”.7.Robert Frost left Harvard because he dislike the academic convention.8.According to Hawthorne, the scarlet letter "A" originally stood for "adultery" .9.The meaning of "To die, to sleep" is comparing "death" to "long sleep".10.Of all Dickens’s novels, Nicholas Nickleby is regarded as his masterpiece.20春《英美文学选读》作业_4一、单选题( 每题5分, 共10道小题, 总分值50分)1.Within her little lyrics Dickinson addresses those issues that concern ______, which include religion, death, immorality, love and nature.A. the whole human beingsB. the frontiersC. the African AmericansD. her relatives2.In “Sonnet 18 ”，Shakespeare has a profound meditation on the destructive power of _________ and the eternal __________ brought forth by poetry to the one he loves .A. death/ lifeB. death/ loveC. time / beautyD. hate / love3.Which of the following is NOT written by Wordsworth.A. Lines Written in Early SpringB. To the CuckooC. I Wandered Lonely as a CloudD. Moll Flanders4.Henry Fielding has been regarded by some as “_______”,for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.A. Father of the English NovelB. Father of the English PoetryC. Father of the English DramaD. Father of the English Short Story5."If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?" is an epigrammatic line byA. J. KeatsB. W. BlakeC. W. WordsworthD. P.Shelley6.As a naturalist writer, Theodore Dreiser was greatly influenced by _______.A. Nathaniel HawthorneB. Charles DarwinC. Henry JamesD. Ralph Waldo Emerson7.The Renaissance marks a transition from ______ to the modern world.A. the old EnglishB. the medievalC. the feudalistD. the capitalist8.Shakespeare’s four greatest tragedies are ________.A. Twelfth Night, Othello, King Lear, HamletB. Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, The Merchant of VeniceC. Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, MacbethD. Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, Othello, Hamlet9.Shelley’s political lyrics ______ is not only a war cry calling upon all working people to rise up against their political oppressors, but an address to them pointing out the intolerable injustice of economic exploitation.A. “Ode to Liberty”B. “Ode to Naples”C. “Ode to the West Wind”D. “Men of England”10.The Victorian Age was largely an age of___ , eminently represented by Dickens and Thackeray.A. poetryB. dramaC. proseD. verse二、判断题( 每题5分, 共10道小题, 总分值50分)1.In Pride and Prejudice,Mary is the third daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet.2.In Pride and Prejudice,Mr. Bennet regards Elizabeth as the most intelligent and spirited daughter.3.David Copperfield use the first person singular.4.To put the stress on traditional values is NOT a typical feature of Modernism5.Fitzgerald’s first novel brought his instant fame and money.6.Stylistically,poems of Robert Frost is characterized by simple language, a graceful style, and traditional forms of poetry.7.Robert Frost used symbols from everyday life to express profound ideas.8.In David Copperfield,Mr. Micawber is a rich squire who lives a comfortable life.9.Crusoe got spiritual support from his daily reading of the Bible.10.While studying at Lawrence High School, Frost wrote poems and finished his studies at the top of his class.。
英美文学选读试题及答案1
英美文学选读试题Ⅰ.Multiple Choice (40 points in all, 1 for each)Select from the four choices [A],[B],[C],[D] of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement and write the letter on the answer sheet.1.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.Christian2.Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his production of ___.A.Piers PlowmanB.Sir Gawain and the Green KnightC.Confessio AmantisD.The Canterbury Tales3.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.4.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.5.“And we will sit upon the rocks,/Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks,/By shallow rivers to whose falls/Melodious bird s sing madrigals.〞The above lines are probably taken from __.A.Spenser's The Faerie QueeneB.John Donne's “The Sun Rising〞C.Shakespeare's “Sonnet 18”D.Marlowe's “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love〞6.“Bassanio:Antonio,I am married to a wifeWhich 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 irony7.The ture subjec t of John Donne's 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 sun's intrusion into the lover's private lifeD. lecture the sun on where true royalty and riches lie8.Of all the 18thcentury novelists Henry Fielding was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specificall y a “___ in prose,〞the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.A.tragic epic B ic epicC.romanceD.lyric epic9.The Houyhnhnms depicted by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's 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.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 LostC.Alexander Pope's Essay on CriticismD.Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream11.The phrase “to urge people to abide by Christian doctrines a nd 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 TravelsB.The Rape of the LockC.Robinson CrusoeD.The pilgrim's Progress12.William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following EXCEPT ___.A.the use of everyday language spoken by the common peopleB.the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelingsC.the use of humble and rustic life as subject matterD.the use of elegant wording and inflated figures of speech13.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.“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind!〞is an epigrammatic line by __.A.J.KeatsB.W.BlakeC.W.Wordsworth15.“Ode o na Grecian Urn〞shows the contrast between the ___ of art and the ___ of human passion.A.glory …uglinessB.permanence…transienceC.transience…sordidnessD.glory…permanence16.In the statement“—oh,God! would you like to live with your soul in the grave?〞the term“soul〞apparently refers to ___.A.Heathcliff himselfC.one's spiritual lifeD.one's ghost17.The typical feature of Robet Browning's poetry is the ___.A.bitter satirerger-than-life caricaturetinized dictionD.dramatic monologue18.The Victorian Age was largely an age of ____,eminently represented by Dickens and Thackeray.A.poetryB.drama D.epic prose19.___is the first important governess(家庭女教师) novel in the English literary history.A.Jane EyreHeights20.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.wrence'sB.J.Galsworthy'sC.W.Thackeray’sD.T.Hardy’s21.___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.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.23.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.Henry David Thoreau's work,__,has always been regarded as a masterpiece of New England Transcendentalism.B.The pioneersC.NatureD.Song of Myself25.The famous 20-years sleep in “Rip Van Winkle〞helps to construct the story in such a way that we are greatly affected by Irving's ___.A.concern with the passage of timeB.expression of transient beautyC.satire on laziness and corruptibility of human beingsD.idea about supernatural manipulation of man's life26.Walt whitman was a pioneering figure of American poetry. His innovation first of all lies in his use of __,poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.A.blank verseB.heroic coupletC.free verseD.iambic pentameter27.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.Hester Pryme, Dimmsdale,Chillingworth and Pearl are most likely the names of the characters in ___.A.The Scarlet LetterB.The House of the Seven GablestC.The Portrait of a LadyD.The pioneers29.“This is my letter to the World〞is a poetic expression of Emily Dickinson's __ about her communication with the outside world.A.indifferenceB.anger30.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 19thcentury.31.After The adventures of Tom Sawyer, Twain gives a literary independence to Tom's buddy Huck in a book entitled ___.A.Life on the MississippiB.The Gilded AgeC.The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnD.A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court32.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.C.worldliness33.Generally speaking,all those writers with a naturalistic approach to human reality tend to be ___.A.transcendentalists34.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.35.In “After Apple-Picking,〞Robert Frost wrote:“For I have had too much/Of applepi cking:I am overtired/Of the great harvestI myself desired.〞From these lines we can conclude that the speaker is ___.A.happy about the harvestB.still very much interested in apple-pickingC.expecting a greater harvestD.indifferent to what he once desired36.Chinese poetry and philosophy have exerted great influence over ____.A.Ezra PoundB.Ralph Waldo EmersonC.Robert FrostD.Emily Dickinson37.The Hemingway Code heroes are best remembered for their __.A.indestructible spirtieB.pessimistic view of life38.IN The Emperor Jones and The Hairy Ape,O'Neill adopted the expressionist techniques to portray the ___ of human beings in a hostile universe.A.helpless situationC.profound religious faithD.courage and perseverance39.In Hemingway's “Indian Cmap〞,Nick's 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.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 symbol of the old values of the South.D.She is the victim of the past glory.PART TWOⅡ.Reading Comprehension (16 points, 4 for each)Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English.Write your answer in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.41.“Her eyes met his and he looked away.He neither believed nor disbelieved her,but he knew that he had made a mistake in asking;he never had known,never would know,what she was thinking.The sight of her inscrutable face,the thought of all the hundreds of evenings he had seen her sitting there like that,soft and passive,but so unreadable, unknown, enraged him beyond measure.〞Questions:A.Identify the writer and the work.B.What does the phrase “inscrutable face〞mean?C.What idea does the quoted passage express?42.“And when I am formulated,sprawling on a pin,When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall.Then how should beginTo spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways.〞Questions:A.Identify the poem and the poet.B.What does the phrase “butt-ends〞mean?C.What idea does the quoted passage express?43.“God knows,…I'm not myself—I'm somebody else—…and I'm changed,and I can't tell what's my name,or who I am.〞Questions:A.Identify the work and the author.B.The speaker says he is changed.Do you think he is changed, or the social environment has changed?C.What idea does the quoted sentence express?44.“I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence:Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by,And that has made all the difference.〞Questions:A.Idenfity the poem and the poet.B.What does the phrase “ages and ages hence〞mean?C.What idea does the quoted passage express?Ⅲ.Questions and Answers(24 points in all, 6 for each)Give brief answers to each of the following questions in English.Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.45.As a rule,an allegory is story in verse or prose with a double meaning: a surface meaning,and an implied meaning.List two works as examples of allegory.What is an allegory usually concerned with by its implied meaning?46.Inspiration for the romantic approach initially came from two great shapers of thought.Who are the two?And what ideas they expressed inspire the romantic writers?47.The white whale,Moby Dick,is the most important symbol in Melville's novel.What symbolic meaning can you draw from it?48.Nature is a philosophic work, in which Emerson gives an explicit discussion on his idea of the Qversoul.What is your understanding of Emersonian “Oversoul〞?Ⅳ.Topic Discussion(20 points in all, 10 for each)Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.49.How is Romanticism different from Neoclassicism?Provide brief evidence from the literary works you know best.50.Summerize the story of Mark twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in about 100 words,and comment on the theme of the novel.Ⅱ.Reading Comprehension (16 points, 4 for each)41.A.John Galasworthy:The Man of Property.B.A face does not show any emotion or reaction so that it is impossible to know how that person is feeling or what he is thinking about.C.it presents the inner mind of Soames in face of his wife's coldness.He can never know what is on his wife's mind because the makeup of his and her mentality is different. His wife Irene, whose mind is romantically inclined, is disgusted with her husband's possessiveness. Being unable to read his wife's mind is as good as saying that he really can't regard her as his property- this is the very reason why he is enraged beyond measure.42.A.T.S.Eliot:“The Love Song of J.Alfred Pruforck.〞B.The ends of cigarettes,meaning trivial things here.C.Here,Prufrock's inability to do anything against the society he is in is made strikingly clear by using a sharp comparison .Prufrock imagines himself as a kind of insect pinned on the wall and struggling in vain to get free.This image vividly shows Prufrock's current predicament.43.A.Washington Irving:“Rip Van Winkle〞.B.The social environment is changed.C.When Rip is back home after a period of 20 years,he finds thta everything has changed.All those old values are gone,and he can hardly feel at home in a changed society.One of the functions that Rip serves in the story is to provide a measuring stick for change. It is through him that Irving drives home the theme that a desire for change,improvement,and progress could subvert stable society.44.A.Robert Frost:“The Road Not Taken〞.B.Many many years later.C.The speaker is telling his experience of making the choice of the roads.But he is conscious of the fact that his choice will have made all the difference in his life.He seems to be giving a suggestion to the reader.“Make good choice of your life.〞Ⅲ.Questions and Answers (24 points in all,6 for each)45.A.Buyan's pilgrim's Progress and Spenser's The Faerie Queene.B.It is usually concerned with moral ,religious,political,symbolic or mythical ideas.46.A.The French philosopher,Jean Jacques Rousseau and the German writer Johna Wolfgan von Goethe.B.It is Rousseau who established the cult of the individual and championed the freedom of the human spirit;his famous announcement was “I felt before I thought.〞Goethe and his compatriots extolled the romantic spirit.47.A.To Ahab,the whale is either an evil creature itself or the agent of an evil force that controls the universe,or perhaps both.B.To Ishmale,the whale is an astonishing force,an immense power,which defies rational explanation due to a sense of mystery it carries. It is beautiful,but malignant at the same time. It also represents the tremendous organic vitality of the universe,for it has a life force that surges onward irresistibly, impervious to the desires or wills of men.C.As to the reader, the whale can be viewed as a symbol of the physical limits that life imposes upon man. It may also be regarded as a symbol of nature, or an instrument of God's vengeance upon evil man. In general,the multiplicity and ambivalence of the symbolic meaning of the whale is such that it becomes a source of intense speculation, an object or profound curiosity for the reader.48.A.The Oversoul is believed to be an all-pervading power for goodness,omnipresent and omnipotent from which all things come and of which all are a part. It exists in nature and man alike and constitutes the chief element of the universe.B.According to Emerson,it is a supreme reality of mind, a spiritual unity of all beings, and a religion regarded as an emotional communication between an individual soul and the universal Over-soul of which it is a part.C.He holds that intuition is a more certain way of knowing than reason and that the mind could intuitively perceive the existence of the Oversoul and of certain absolutes.Ⅳ.Topic Discussion (20 points in all, 10 for each)49.a.Neoclassicists upheld that artistic ideals should be order,logic,restrained emoticon and accuracy,and that literature,should be judged in terms of its service to humanity,and thus,literary expressions should be of proportion,unity,harmony and grace.Pope's An Essay on Criticism advocates grace,wit (usually though satire/humour),and simplicity in language(and the poem itself is a demonstration of those ideals,too);Fielding's Tom Jones helped establish the form of novel;Gray's “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' displays elega nce in style,unified structure,serious tone and moral instructions.b.Romanticists tended to see the individual as the very center of all experience,including art,and thus,literary work should be “spontaneous overflow of strong feelings,〞and no matter how fragmentary those experiences were (Wordsworth's “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,〞or “The Solitary Reaper,) or Coleridge's “Keble Khan〞),the value of the work lied in the accuracy of presenting those unique feelings and particular attitudes.c.In a word, Neoclassicism emphasized rationality and form but Romanticism attached great importance to the individual's mind (emotion, imagination, temporary experience…)50.A.Mark Twain's novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a Sequa to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.The Story takes place along the Mississippi River before the Civil War in the United States, around 1850.Along the river, floats a small raft, with two people on it; One is an ignorant,uneducated black slave named Jim and the other is little uneducated outcast white boy about the age of thirteen, called Huckleberry Finn or Huck Finn.The novel relates the story of the escape of Jim from slavery and ,more important, how Huck Finn, floating along with Jim and helping him as best he could, changes his mind ,his prejudice, about Black people, and comes to accept Jim as a man and as a close friends as well.During their journey, they experience a series of adventures:coming across two frauds, the “Duke〞and the “King〞,witnessing the lynching and murder of a harmless drunkard, being lost in a fog and finally Tom's coming to rescue. B. The theme of the novel may be best summed in a word “freedom〞: Huck wants to escape from the bond of civilization and Jim wants to escape from the yoke of slavery. Mark Twain uses the raft's journey down the Mississippi River to express his thematic contrasts between innocence and experience, nature and culture, wilderness and civilizati。
英美文学选读练习（一）
英美⽂学选读练习（⼀）英美⽂学选读练习（⼀）I. Multiple ChoiceSelect 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.1. Shelley’ s political lyrics ______ is not only a war cry calling upon all working people to rise up against their political oppressors, but an address to them pointing out the intolerable injustice of economic exploitation.A. “Ode to Liberty”B. “Ode to Naples”C. “Ode to the West Wind”D. “Men of England”2. Jane Austen’ s practical idealism is that love should be justified by ______ and disciplined by self-control.A. reasonB. senseC. rationalityD. sensibility3. Shakespeare’ s ______, an elaborate and fantastic story, is known as the best of his final romances.A. The Winter’s TaleB. The TempestC. The Taming of the ShrewD. Love’ s Labour’ s Lost4. “To be, or not to be - that is the question;/Whether’ tis nobler in the mind to suffer / The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,/Or to take arms against a sea of troubles ,/And by opposing end then?” These lines are taken from ______.A. King LearB. Romeo and JulietC. OthelloD. Hamlet5. John Milton’ s most powerful dramatic poem on the Greek model is ______.A. Paradise LostB. Paradise RegainedC. Samson AgonistesD. Lycidas6. Because of her sensitivity to universal pattens of human behavior, ______ hasbrought the English novel, as an art of form, to its maturity.A. Charlotte BronteB. Jane AustenC. Emily BronteD. Henry Fielding7. Poetry is defined by ______ as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, which originates in emotion recollected in tranquility”.A. William WordsworthB. William BlakeC. Percy Bysshe ShelleyD. Robert Southey8. Jonathan Swift’ s ______ is generally regarded as the best model of satire, not only of the period but also in the whole English literary history.A. Gulliver’s TravelsB. The Battle of the BooksC. “A Modest Proposal”D. A Tale of a Tub9. Of all the eighteenth - century novelists ______ was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a “comic epic in prose”, the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.A. Henry FieldingB. Daniel DefoeC. Jonathan SwiftD. Laurence Sterne10. The belief of the eighteenth - century neoclassicists in England led them to seek the following EXCEPT ______.A. proportionB. unityC. harmonyD. spirit11. The Renaissance marks a transition from ______ to the modern world.A. the old EnglishB. the medievalC. the feudalistD. the capitalist12. The great political and social events in the English society of neoclassical period were the following EXCEPT ______.A. the Restoration of King Charles II in 1660B. the Great Plague of 1665C. the Great London Fire in 1666D. the Wars of Roses in 168913.In Renaissance, the European humanist thinkers and scholars made attempts to do the following EXCEPT ______.A.getting rid of those old feudalist ideasB.getting control of the parliament and governmentC.introducing new ideas that expressed the interests of the rising bourgeoisieD.recovering the purity of the early church, from the corruption of the Roman Catholic Church14.The Petrarchan sonnet (彼特拉克体⼗四⾏诗) was first introduced into England by ______.A.SurreyB.WyattC.SidneyD.Shakespeare15.As the best of Shakespeare's final romances,______ is a typical example of his pessimistic view towards human life and society in his late years.A.The TempestB.The Winter's TaleC.CymbelineD.The Rape of Lucrece16.John Milton's greatest poetical work ______ is the only generally acknowledged epic in English literarure since Beowulf.A.AreopagiticaB.Paradise LostC.LycidasD.Samson Agonistes17.“Graveyard School”writers are the following sentimentalists EXCEPT ______.A.James ThomsonB.William CollinsC.William CowperD.Thomas Jackson18.The best model of satire in the whole English literary history is Jonathan Swift's ______.A.A Modest ProposalB.A Tale of a TubC.Gulliver's TravelsD.The Battle of the Books19.As a representative of the Enlightenment, ______ was one of the first to introduce rationalism to England.A.John BunyanB.Daniel DefoeC.Alexander PopeD.Jonathan Swift20.For his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel,______ has been regarded by some as “Father of the English Novel”.A.Daniel DefoeB.Henry FieldingC.Jonathan SwiftD.Samuel Richardson21. Which of the following descriptions of Gothic Novels is NOT correct?A.It predominated in the early eighteenth century.B.It was one phase of the Romantic movement.C.Its principal elements are violence, horror and the supernatural.D.Works like The Mysteries of Udolpho and Frankenstein are typical Gothic romance.Gothic Novel, a type of romantic fiction that predominated in the early eighteenth century, was one phase of the Romantic movement. Its principal elements are violence, horror and the supernatural. P166, para.222. William Blake’s central concern in the Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience is_______, which gives the two books a strong social and historical reference.A. youthhoodB. childhoodC. happinessD. sorrow23. “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good for-tune, must be in want of a wife.” The quoted part is taken from ______.A. Jane EyreB. Wuthering HeightsC. Pride and PrejudiceD. Sense and Sensibility24. Shelley’s greatest achievement is his four-act poetic drama ______, which is an exultant work in praise of humankind’s potential.A. AdonaisB. Queen MabC. Prometheus UnboundD. A Defence of Poetry25. The assertion that poetry originates from “emotion recollected in tranquility”belongs to ______.A. William WordsworthB. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeC. Robert SoutheyD. William Blake26. 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”27. 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, Hamlet28. As one of the greatest masters of English prose, ________ defined a good style as “proper words in proper places”.A. Henry FieldingB. Jonathan SwiftC. Samuel JohnsonD. Alexander Pope29. All of the following novels by Daniel Defoe are the first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower-class people EXCEPT ______.A. Robinson CrusoeB. Captain SingletonC. Moll FlandersD. Colonel Jack30. English Romanticism, as a historical phase of literature, is generally said to have ended in 1832 with ______.A. the passage of the first Reform Bill in the ParliamentB. the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge’s Lyrical BalladsC. the publication of T．S ．Eliot’s The waste LandD. the passage of the Bill of Rights in the Parliament31. Contrary to the traditional romance of aristocrats, the modern English novel givesa realistic presentation of life of ______.A. the common English peopleB. the upper classC. the rising bourgeoisieD. the enterprising landlords32. The sentence “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare’s ______________.A. comediesB. tragediesC. sonnetsD. histories33. Paradise Lost is actually a story taken from ______________.A. the RenaissanceB. the Old TestamentC. Greek MythologyD. the New Testament34. ______________ is the essence of the Renaissance.A. PoetryB. DramaC. HumanismD. Reason35. “To be, or not to be —that is the question”is a line taken from______________.A. HamletB. OthelloC. King LearD. The Merchant of Venice36. 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 feeling 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 cultivationD. the former advocates the “return to nature”whereas the latter turns to the ancient Greek and Roman writers for its models.37. 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 JonesB. GulliverC. Moll FlandersD. Robinson Crusoe38. ______________ is a typical feature of Swift’s writings.A. Bitter satireB. Elegant styleC. Casual narrationD. Complicated sentence structure39. Which of the following poems is a landmark in English poetry?A. Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor ColeridgeB. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”by William WordsworthC. “Remorse ”by Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD. Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman40. The literary form which is fully developed and the most flourishing during the Romantic Period is ______________.A. proseB. dramaC. novelD. poetry41. The real mainstream of the English Renaissance is_____________.A. the Elizabethan dramaB. the Elizabethan proseC. ancient poemD. romantic novel42. Shakespeare has established his giant position in world literature with his_____________plays, 154 sonnets and 2 long poems.A. 47B. 27C. 52D. 3843. _____________shows how mankind, in the person of Christ, withstand the tempter and is established once more in the divine favor.A. Paradise LostB. Paradise RegainedC. Samson AgonistesD. Beowulf44. In the theatrical world of the neoclassical period, _____________was the leading figure among the host of playwrights.A. William BlakeB. Richard Brinsley SheridanC.Ben JohnsonD. George Bernard Shaw45. The eighteenth century England is also known as the Age of Enlightenment or the Age of_____________.A. IntellectB. ReasonC. RationalityD. Science46. As a whole, Jonathan Swift’s _____________is one of the most effective and devastating criticisms and satires of all aspects in the then English and European life---socially, politically, religiously, philosophically, scientifically, and morally.A. Moll FlandersB. Gulliver’s TravelsC. Pilgrim’s ProgressD. The School for Scandal47. _____________is a story on the subject of human nature by Henry Fielding.A. The History of AmeliaB. The History of Jonathan Wild the GreatC. The History of Tom Jones, a FoundlingD. The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and of his friend Mr. Abraham Adams48. The poems such as “The Chimney Sweeper”are found in both Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experienceby_____________.A. William WordsworthB. William BlakeC. John KeatsD. Lord Gordon Byron49. _____________is regarded as a “worshipper of nature”.A. John KeatsB. William BlakeC. William WordsworthD. Jane Austen50. The sentence “three or four families in a country village are the very thing to work on” can best reflect the writer’s personal knowledge and range of writing. This writer is ____________.A. Walter ScottB. Thomas HardyC. Jane EyreD. Jane Austen。
《英美文学选读》模拟试题(1)
《英美文学选读》模拟试题（一）一、单项选择题cadaa1.The excerpt from Chapter 10 of Sons and Lovers ends with the conflict between Paul and his mother. The conflict is possibly caused by Paul and his mother’s different views towards _____.A. Paul’s fatherB. artC. lifeD. Paul’s brother2.The _____ can be regarded as one of the themes of Joyce’s story “Araby”.A. loss of innocenceB. childish loveC. awareness of harsh lifeD. false sentimentality3.After reading “Araby”, one more feel the story has a _____ tone.A. joyousB. harshC. solemnD. painful4.In “Araby”, Joyce’s diction evokes a sort of _____ quality that characterizes the boy on this otherwise altogether ordinary shopping trip.A. religiousB. moralC. sentimentalD. vulgar5.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. D. H. Lawre nce’sB. J. Galsworthy’sC. W. Thackeray’sD. T. Hardy’s6.The mission of _____ drama was to reveal the moral, political and economic truth from a radical reformist point of view.A. T. S. Eliot’sB. J. Galsworthy’sC. B. Shaw’sD. W. B. Yeats’7.Irving was best known for his famous short stories such as _____.A. Rip Van WinkleB. Young Goodman BrownC. Life of GoldsmithD. Life of Washington8.Melville’s _____ is an encyclopedia of everything, history, p hilosophy, religion, etc.A. The Old Man and the SeaB. Moby–DickC. White JacketD. Billy Budd9.Mark Twain created, in _____, a masterpiece of American realism that is also one of the great books of world literature.A. Huckleberry FinnB. Tom SowyerC. The Gilded AgeD. The Mysterious Stranger10.American literature produced only one female poet during the nineteenth century. This was _____.A. Anne BradsteetB. Jane AustenC. Emily DickinsonD. T. S. Eliot11.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’sC. Theodore Dreiser’sD. William Howells’12.In the 1920s, O’Neill established an international reputation with the plays ______.A. The Emperor JonesB. Anna ChristleC. The Hairy ApeD. all of the above13.In 1954, _____ was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature for his “mastery of the ar t of modern narration.”A. T. S. EliotB. Ernest HemingwayC. John SteinbeckD. William Faulkner14.“The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.” This is the shortest poem written by _____.A. T. S. EliotB. Robert FrostC. Ezra PoundD. Emily Dickinson15.In Robert Frost’s famous poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”, there are four lines like these: “The woods are lovely, dark and deep, /But I have promises to keep, /And miles to go befor e I sleep, /And miles to go before I sleep”. The second sleep refers to _____.A. dieB. calm downC. fall into sleepD. stop walking16.Of the following American poets, whose work was first recognized in England and then in America?A. Robert FrostB. Walt WhitmanC. Emily DickinsonD. Wallace Stevens17.“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 _____.A. is happy about the harvestB. is tired of the work of apple-pickingC. is not tired when seeing the harvestD. becomes indifferent of the job18.Chinese poetry and philosophy had great influence on _____.A. Robert FrostB. Ralph Waldo EmersonC. Ezra PoundD. Emily Dickinson19.The Hemingway code heroes are best remembered for their _____.A. indestructible spiritB. pessimistic view of lifeC. war experiencesD. masculinity20.Lots of people rushed to Gatsby’s party at the weekend and they clustered around Gatsby’s wealth like ____.A. gluttonsB. fliesC. insectsD. moths二、综合题1.Read the quoted part carefully and answer the questions in English.It may be that the gulfs will wash us down;It may be we shall touch the Happy Tales,And see the great Achilles, whom we knew,Tho’ much is taken, much abides, and tho’We are not now that strength which in old daysMoved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are;One equal temper of heroic hearts,Made weak by time and fate, but strong in willTo strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.A. The passage is taken from th e poem “___________”.B. The author of the poem is ____________.C. The poem is written in the form of _________.D. The speaker is __________.2.Read the quoted part carefully and answer the questions in English.Whether fagged by the three days’ runnin g chase, and the resistance to his swimming in the knotted hamper he bore; or whether it was some latent deceitfulness and malice in him: whichever was true, the white Whale’s way now began to abate, as it seemed, from the boat so rapidly nearing him once more; though indeed the whale’s last start had not been so long a one as before. And still as Ahab glidede over the waves the unpitying sharks accompanied him; and so pertinaciously stuck to the boat; and so continually bit at the plying oars, that the blades became jagged and crunched, and left small splinters in the sea, at almost every dip.A From which novel is the paragraph taken?B What is the name of the author?C Who is Ahab?D What is the theme of the novel?3.Read the quoted part carefully and answer the questions in English.Standing on the bare ground, ----- my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space, ------- all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.A. Which work is this fragment taken from?B. How do you understand the philosophical ideas in this words?4.Read the quoted part carefully and answer the questions in English.“if he be not apt to beat over matters, let him study the lawyer’s cases, so every defect of the mind may have a special receipt.”A. what does “beat over matters” mean?B. what does “receipt” refer to?C. from which essay does the above sentences come?5.Give brief answers to the question in English.What is Lyrical Ballads?Why is Lyrical Ballads regarded as a landmark in English poetry?6.Give brief answers to the question in English.Do you think the two collections of poems written by William Blake are the same? If not, what is the difference?7.Give brief answers to the question in English.What are some of the general artistic features of Walt Whitman’s poetry?8.Give brief answers to the question in English.Can we say that when Brown （Hawthorne’s Young Goodman Brown） enters the dark forest he is really enter his own evil mind? If yes （or no）, please explain.9.This monologue, a psychological exploration of life and death, reveals the character of Hamlet as a man of contemplation rathe r than action. With the intolerable burden of the duty to revenge his father’s death and the challenge of evil forces, Hamlet seems to withdraw into a mental world which is thrown into a conflict or a choice between life and death. The philosophical speculation mixed up with a deep pessimistic outlook resists against action at first, but later awakens the hero out of his melancholy to a sense of the “enterprise of great pith and moment”, indicating that he is to do something for what he concerns himself wit h.10.Write no less than 150 words on the following topic in English.Make a comparison between Henry James’ realism and Mark Twain’s realism.答案部分一、单项选择题1. C2. A3. D4. A5. A6. C7. A8. B9. A10. C11. A12. D13. B14. C15. A16. A17. B18. C19.A20. D二、综合题1.【正确答案】 A. UlyssessB. Afred TennysonC. Dramatic MonologueD. Ulysses2.【正确答案】 A. Moby – DickB. Herman MelvilleC. The Captain of the whaling shipD. The rebellious struggle of Captain Ahab against the over-whelming, mysterious vastness of the universe and its awesome sometimes merciless forces.3.【正确答案】 A. NatureB. Emerson regards nature as the purest, and the most sanctifying moral influence on man, and advocated a direct intuition of a spiritual and immanent God in nature. The soul has completely transcended the limits of individuality and become part of the Over soul. Emerson sees spirit pervading everywhere, not only in the soul of man, but behind nature, throughout nature.4.【正确答案】 A. make through exam of things.B. cure, prescriptionC. of studies Francis Bacon5.【正确答案】 A. It is a collaboration of Wordsworth and Coleridge, the major representatives of the Romantic Movement.B. In the book, they explored new theories and innovated new techniques in poetry writing. They saw poetry as a healing energy; they believed that poetry could purify both individual souls and the society. The preface to the second edition of the Lyrical Ballads acts as a manifesto for the new school. Wordsworth’s poems in the Lyrical Ballads differs in marked ways from his early poetry, notably the uncompromising simplicity of much of the language, the strong sympathy not merely with the poor in general but with particular, dramatized examples of them, and the fusion of natural description with expressions of inward states of mind.6.【正确答案】 A. NoB. The two collections of poems written by William Blake, “Sons of Innocence” and “Sons of Experience”, hold the similar subject-matter, but the tone, emphasis and conclusion differ.7.【正确答案】Walt Whitman was an important poet in American literary history. His originality lies first of all in his use of the poetic form free verse, by means of which he becomes conversational and casual. He usually uses the first person pronoun “I” to stress individualism, and oral language to acquire symp athy from the common reader. His topics are sometimes sexual but his themes are far more than sexual.8.【正确答案】Hawthorne’s stories are generally read as allegories symbolic of human experience, so is “Young Goodman Brown”. Allegorically Brown’s night journey to the forest could be taken as a journey of the mind into the dark region of evil. It is especially true if we allow for some very important details about the light and the shadow, the dreamlike atmosphere, the words and phrases he uses to describe what Brown has experienced in the forest, none of which seems to be substantially solid or physically present.9.【正确答案】This monologue, a psychological exploration of life and death, reveals the character of Hamlet as a man of contemplation rather than action. With the intolerable burden of the duty to revenge his father’s death and the challenge of evil forc es, Hamlet seems to withdraw into a mental world which is thrown into a conflict or a choice between life and death. The philosophical speculation mixed up with a deep pessimistic outlook resists against action at first, but later awakens the hero out of his melancholy to a sense of the “enterprise of treat pith and moment”, indicating that he is to do something for what he concerns himself with.10.【正确答案】Although James and Twain both worked for realism, there were obvious differences between them. In thematic terms, James wrote mostly of the upper reaches of American society, whereas Mark Twain dealt largely with the lower strata of society. Technically, James pursued psychological realism, but Mark Twain’s contribution to the development of realism and to American literature as a whole was partly through his theories of Local Colorist in American fiction, and partly through his colloquial style.Henry James believed that reality lies in the impressions made by life on the spectator, and not in any facts of which the spectator is unaware, such realism is therefore merely the obligation that the artist assumes to represent life as he sees it, which may not be the same life as it “really” is. James shifted the ground of realistic art from the outer to the inner world.Mark Twain preferred to represent social life through portraits of local places which he knew best. He drew heavily from his own rich fund of knowledge of people and places. He confined himself to the life with which he was familiar. By quoting from his own experience, Mark Twain managed to transform into art the freedom and humor, in short, the finest elements of western culture.。
《英美文学选读》模拟试题(一-五)整合
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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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“To be, or not to be?”is uttered by whom? How to"To be or not to be, that is a question" is a highlight of Hamlet. These are the words Hamlet uttered when he was speaking to himself, and they are the most famous in Shakespeare, for Hamlet's words are not merely his soliloquies, but the thoughts of all men who think -- to be or not to be. The whole point is: "to suffer silently the cruel arrows of fate, or to rise up against the infinite sufferings of mankind... ... Which of these two actions is more noble
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17秋《英美文学选读》作业_1一、单选题1. Of all the novels written by Dickens, which one did he like best?A. Oliver TwistB. David CopperfieldC. A tale of Two CitiesD. Pickwick Papers答案B 加、80-500-92612. In Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth Bennet finds out some weak points about herself in the process of judging others. Which of the following is NOT a weak point of hers?A. BlindnessB. PartialityC. SnobbishnessD. Prejudice.答案C3. Dickens takes the French Revolution as the background of the novel “_______”.A. A Tale of Two CitiesB. Great ExpectationsC. Hard TimesD. David Copperfield答案A4. As a naturalist writer, Theodore Dreiser was greatly influenced by _______.A. Nathaniel HawthorneB. Charles DarwinC. Henry JamesD. Ralph Waldo Emerson答案B5. Behold her, single in the field,/Yon solitary Highland2 Lass!/Reaping and singing by herself;/Stop here, or gently pass!The above lines are taken from ______.A. Alexander Pope's Essay on CriticismB. Wordsworth's “The Solitary Reaper”C. Shakespeare's “Sonnet 18”D. Coleridge's “Kubla Khan”答案B6. Pride and Prejudice is mainly about the love between___A. Jane and BingleyB. Elizabeth and DarcyC. Jane and DarcyD. Kitty and Bingley7. Which of the following plays does not belong to Shakespeare’s great tragedies？A. MacbethB. King LearC. HamletD. The Comedy of Errors8."Two roads diverged in a yellow wood And sorry I could not travel both ..."In the above two lines of Robert Frost＇s The Road Not Taken, the poet, by implication, was referring to _______.A. a travel experienceB. a marriage decisionC. a middle-age crisisD. one＇s course of life9.Henry Fielding has been regarded by some as “_______”,for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.A. Father of the English NovelB. Father of the English PoetryC. Father of the English DramaD. Father of the English Short Story10.Which of the following plays by Shakespeare is NOT a comedy？A. The Merchant of VeniceB. A Midsummer Night's DreamC. As you like ItD. Romeo and Juliet11.Which of the following is a tragedy?A. Antony and CleopatraB. Twelfth NightC. Julius CaesarD. Much ado about Nothing12.The Romantic writers would focus on all the following issues EXCEPT the in the American literary history.A. individual feelingsB. idea of survival of the fittestC. strong imaginationD. return to nature13.Charles Dicken＇s early years were___A. happyB. difficultC. richD. sunny14.which of Woolf＇novels was adapted into movie named The Hours?A. Mrs.DallowayB. The WavesC. The Common ReaderD. To the Light house15.In Shakespeare＇s Merchant of Venice, Antonio could not pay back the money he borrowed from Shylock, because ______.A. his money was all invested in the newly-emerging textile industryB. his enterprise went bankruptC. Bassanio was able to pay his own debtD. his ships had all been lost二、判断题1. Robinson Crusoe was published in 1719答案正确2. The character of Robinson Crusoe saves a savage and names him Friday.答案正确3. In Pride and Prejudice,Mr. Darcy dislike Elizabeth.4. Each individual unit it collection of stressed and unstressed syllables is called a foot.5. Robinson Crusoe was as popular among the English readers as Bible6. Crusoe travelled on the other side of the island for three month.7. It was said that Shakespeare was forced to leave his hometown to seek refuge in London.8. Of all Dickens’s novels, Nicholas Nickleby is regarded as his masterpiece.9. Stylistically,poems of Robert Frost is characterized by simple language, a graceful style, and traditional forms of poetry.10. There were many literary artists involved in the groups known as the Lost Generation. The three best known areSherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos.17秋《英美文学选读》作业_2一、单选题1. All of the following works are known as Hardy’s “novels of character and environment”EXCEPT ______.A. The Return of the NativeB. Tess of the D’ UrbervillesC. Jude the ObscureD. Far from the Madding Crowd2.The English Romanticism is generally said to have begun in 1978 with the publication of ___.A. Religion and immortalityB. Life and deathC. Lyrical BalladsD. War and peace3.The excerpt The Other Side of the Island was chosen from Chapter___ in Rubinson Crusoe.A. ⅨB. ⅪC. ⅩD. Ⅷ4.The story of the Scarlet Letter is set in___A. New YorkB. EnglandC. BostonD. Salt lake City5.which of the following is NOT written by Hardy?A. The Return of the nativeB. A Tale of Two CitiesC. Tess of d＇UrbervillesD. Jude the Obscure6.The sentence "Shall I compare thee to a summer＇s day?" is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare＇s ________ .A. comediesB. tragediesC. sonnetsD. histories7.Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his production ofA. Piers PlowmanB. Sir Gawain and the Green KnightC. Confessio AmantisD. The Canterbury Tales8.We can easily find in Dreiser’s fiction a world of jungle, and ______ found expression in almost every book he wrote.A. naturalismB. romanticismC. transcendentalismD. cubism9.It is generally regarded that Keats＇s most important and mature poems are in the form of _______ .A. odeB. elegyC. epicD. sonnet10.William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following EXCEPTA. the use of everyday language spoken by the common peopleB. the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelingsC. the use of humble and rustic life as subject matterD. the use of elegant wording and inflated figures of speech11.Here are two lines from a ling poem: "Upon a great adventure he was bond, That greatest Gloriana to him gave." The poem must be_____.A. BeowulfB. John Milton’s Samson Ag onistesC. Thomas Gray’s Elegy Written in a County ChurchyardD. Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene12.When Robert Frost was 87, he read his poetry at the inauguration of President___A. BushB. KennedyC. ClintonD. Fort13.Which of the following statements about writers in 1920s is true?A. Mark Twain published his last and most important novel.B. F. Scott Fitzgerald received the Nobel Prize.C. Freudian psychology influenced many modern writers.D. Most writers were politically radical.14.Dofoe had flair for business and______.A. farmingB. economyC. politicsD. medicine15.In the first part of the novel Pride and prejudice, Mr. Darcy has a （n）______ of the Bennet family.A. high opinionB. great admirationC. low opinionD. erroneous view二、判断题1. Robinson Crusoe retells the story in the first person singular2. In David Copperfield,Mr. Micawber is a rich squire who lives a comfortable life.3. “American dream”refers to “An American ideal of a happy and successful life to which all may aspire”.4. As a literary figure, John Rivers appears in Austen’s Pride and Prejudice5. While studying at Lawrence High School, Frost wrote poems and finished his studies at the top of his class.6. Frost had rejected the revolutionary poetic principles of his contemporaries, choosing instead “the old-fashioned way to be new”.7. The heroine of The Scarlet Letter is Hester Prynne8. The Scarlet Letter is set in the 17th-century Boston.9. Robert Frost left Harvard because he dislike the academic convention.10. The Scarlet Letter relates the conflicts between the society and the individual.17秋《英美文学选读》作业_3一、单选题1. In Sister Carrie, Hurstwood, extremely hopeless and totally devastated, ends his life by turning on the gas, while at the same time Carrie is rocking comfortably in her luxurious hotel room before she boards a ship for _______.A. New YorkB. LondonC. ParisD. Geneva2.With the scarlet letter A as the biggest symbol of all, ______ proves himself to be one of the best symbolists.A. HawthorneB. DreiserC. JamesD. Faulkner3.When Shakespeare arrived in London in 1586 or 1587, which in following was popularity among the people.A. dramaB. poetryC. proseD. fiction4.The name of the hero in Jane Eyre was___A. HeathcliffB. RochesterC. JamesD. David5.Jane Austen’s practical idealism is that love should be justified by ______ and disciplined by self-control.A. reasonB. senseC. rationalityD. sensibility6.The literary characters of the American type in early 19th century are generally characterized by all the following features EXCEPT that theyA. speak local dialectsB. are polite and elegant gentlemenC. are simple and crude farmersD. are noble savages(red and white) untainted by society7.Auld Lang Syne was written byA. William WordsworthB. John KeatsC. Walt WhitemanD. Robert Burns8.Who is NOT the major character in To the Lighthouse?A. Mrs. RamsayB. Mr.RamsayC. DavidD. James9."Two roads diverged in a yellow wood /And sorry I could not travel both ..." /In the above two lines of Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken, the poet, by implication, was referring to _______.A. a travel experienceB. a marriage decisionC. a middle-age crisisD. one’s course of life10.Eliot＇s poem，The Waste Land，is mainly concerned with the（）of a modern civilization .A. social corruptionB. spiritual breakupC. physical breakupD. religious corruption11.According to Mark Twain, in river towns up and down the Mississippi, it was every boy＇s dream to some day grow up to be ______.A. Methodist preacherB. a justice of the peaceC. a riverboat pilotD. a pirate on the Indian ocean12."I have no monarch in my life." this was said by___A. Walt WhitmanB. Robert FrostC. John keatsD. Emily Dickinson13."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 ironyB. personificationC. allegoryD. symbolism14.Jane Austen passed away when she was___A. 38B. 48C. 42D. 5215.How many plays Shakespeare wrote in the first periodA. 25B. 20C. 30D. 21二、判断题1. F. Scott Fitzgerald received the Nobel Prize in 1920s.2. Capitalism came into its monopoly stage, the gap between the rich and the poor was further deepened during Victorian period.3. Fitzgerald’s first novel is The Beautiful and Damned.4. Robert Frost loved farming and wrote poetry about countryside because he was a good farmer.5. The first chapter of The Scarlet Letter depicts the prison door.6. The 20th -century stream- of- consciousness technique was frequently and skillfully used by Frost.7. In To the Lighthouse,Minta and Paul are happy together.8. Jane Austen’s novels deal with country landed gentry and world events.9. American writers of the first postwar era who were devoid of faith and alienated from the civilization were commonly called "a beat generation".10. The 18th century witnessed a new literary form -the modern English novel, which, contrary to the medieval romance, gives a realistic presentation of life of the common English people.17秋《英美文学选读》作业_4一、单选题1. " Charles Drouet ", " George Hustwood ", " Julia Hustwood " are most likely the names of the characters in ________.A. Shaw’s Mrs Warren’s ProfessionB. Dreiser’s Sister CarrierC. Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s LostD. Christopher Marlowe’s Dr.Faustus2.The Sun Also Rises casts light on a whole generation after WWI and the effects of the war by way of a vivid portrait of “______.”A. the Beat GenerationB. the Lost GenerationC. the Babybooming AgeD. the Jazz Age3.Which of the following is not written by Robert Frost?A. To AutumnB. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy EveningC. Mending WallD. A Boy＇s Will4.The ______ Age of the 1920s characterized by frivolity and carelessness is brought vividly to life in The Great Gatsby.A. LostB. JazzC. ReasonD. Gilded5.In Hawthorne’s novels and short stories, intellectuals usually appear as _______.A. commentatorsB. observersC. villainsD. saviors6.A typical feature of the English Victorian literature is that writers became social and moral ______ , exposing all kinds of social evils.A. revolutionariesB. idealistsC. criticsD. defenders7.Lots of people rushed to Gatsby＇s party at the weekend and they clustered around Castsby＇s wealth like（）.A. gluttonsB. fliesC. insectsD. moths8.Which of the following is NOT written by Wordsworth.A. Lines Written in Early SpringB. To the CuckooC. I Wandered Lonely as a CloudD. Moll Flanders9.Robert Frost described ______as “a book of people,”which shows a brilliant insight into New England character and the background that formed it.A. North of BostonB. A Boy’s WillC. A Witness TreeD. A Further Range10."This is my letter to the World" is a poetic expression of Emily Dickinson＇s___ about her communication with the outside world.A. indifferenceB. angerC. anxietyD. sorrow11.In 1837, ______ published Twice - Told Tales, a collection of short stories which attracted critical attention.A. EmersonB. MelvilleC. WhitmanD. Hawthorne12.Elizabeth Bennet was the___ daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet.A. FirstB. SecondC. ThirdD. Fourth13.It was his masterpiece The Great Gatsby that made ______ one of the greatest American novelists.A. F. Scott FitzgeraldB. William FaulknerC. Ernest HemmingwayD. Gertrude Steinbeck14.Virginia Woolf was born in___A. 1882B. 1767C. 1678D. 189015.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 nature二、判断题1. In To the Lighthouse,the relationship between James and Mrs. Ramsay is son and mother .2. Realism is true depiction of life as it really is.3. The second section of To the Lighthouse is entitled “Time Passes”.4. William Wordsworth was brought up by his relatives beacaus of the death of his parents.5. By the end of his life Robert Frost had become a national bard and he received honorary degrees from forty-four colleges and universities and won four Pulitzer Prizes.6. Fitzgerald became “the angel of the twenties”and his writings those of a man inside that legendary period.7. Kitty is the fourth daughter of the Bennet family.8. Augustus Carmichael of To the Lighthouse is an elderly musician and friends of the Ramsays.9. To the Lighthouse is divided into three sections and each different from the others in the treatment of time and structure.10. After reading the first chapter of Pride and Prejudice, we may come to know that Mrs. Bennet is a woman of simple character and poor understanding.。
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《英美文学》练习题一参考答案练习题第1套参考答案I1-5 BACBD6-10 DBCAB11-15 ADCAAIIWhitman , Irving , Howells , James , FitzgeraldKerouac , Ellison , Amy Tan , Maxine Hong Kingston , O' NeillIII1.Lyrical Ballads; Romanticism2.blank verse; Paradise Lost3.horses; Yahoos4.Ireland; stream of consciousness5.Realism; ModernismIV1. intellectual movement developed as an American version of and peak of Romanticism ;/ led by Emerson ;/ rejected 18th century rationalism and established religion , celebrated the power of human imagination to commune with universe and transcend limitation of material world ;/ emphasized Oversoul , importance of individual and nature .2. a unique part of American Literature ; / can be defined as published creative writings by American Jewish writers dealing with Jew's experience in America from a Jewish perspective self–consciously .V1. The word Araby comes from Arabian which reminds the reader of the oriental land----a wonderful and dreamingworld.2) In his story, Araby is the name of a bazaar which symbolizes the dream, the ideal and the embodiment of beautyfor the boy.2.1) It tells the theme of the novel— marriage.2) It implies the plot— the process of finding a marriage partner.3) It implies the characters— young men and women.4) It tells the reader the convention of the society.5) It implies the style of the novel— irony.3. 1).Oral tradition in the form of songs , ballads , etc ;2). Abolitionist Movement brought a new impetus to Black Literature ;3). Black novel developed at the turn of the 20th century ;4). Harlem Renaissance in 1920s ;5). maturity in 1940s ;6). particular growth in 1960s with Civil Rights Movement .练习题第2套参考答案I1-5 b d c b c 6-10 c b a d c 11-15 c d b d aIIBradstreet , Hawthorne, Crane , Mark Twain , Steinbeck ,Ginsberg , Hughes , Frank Chin, Hellman , WilliamsIIIT , F , T , F , T , F , T , F , F , F , F , T , F , T , TIV1. influenced by Darwin's theory and 19th century French naturalism ; / evolved from realism;/ naturalists write in a more ironic and pessimistic tone and believe that human subject to heredity and environment ;/ familiar theme is human '' bestiality '' ; / Naturalists choose subject from lower ranks of society ;/ works are unsophisticated in language .2. referring to the decade of 1920s ;/ with Fitzgerald as the spokesman ;/ characterized by frivolity and carelessness .V1．1) Their writings afford a new code of social morality for the risings bourgeoisie.2) They give a true picture of social life of England in the 18th century.3) In the hands of Addison and Steele, the English essay had completely established itself as a literary genre.2．The characters are grouped into two groups: 1) represented by coachman, lady, gentleman, lawyer, surgeon, middle or upper class who are rich and well educated. But they are snobbish, selfish and coward; 2) represented by Joseph Andrews who is from lower class but sympathetic, selfless, warmhearted and kind.3．1. Fitzgerald—The Great Gatsby2. ①Wilson's neighbour who saw the killing of Wilson's wife ;②make clear ;③the person running the gas station at valley of ashes ;④Nick , the narrator ;⑤the sister of Wilson's wife .3.emptiness and failure of American dream .《英美文学》练习题二参考答案练习题第3套参考答案I1-5 d b c a a 6-10 a b d d d 11-15 a d b b dII. 6 , 5, 10, 1 , 3 , 8 , 2 , 7 , 4 , 9IIIF , T , T , F , F , T , T , F , T , F , T , T , F , F , TIV1. Metaphysical poetry is a kind of realistic, often ironic and witty, verse combing intellectual ingenuity and psychological insight written partly in reaction to the conventions of Elizabethan love poetry by such seventeenth-century poets as John Donne, George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, Thomas Traherne, and Andrew Marvell. One of its hallmarks is the metaphysical conceit, a particularly arresting and ingenious type of metaphor.2 A protagonist whose distinctive qualities are directly opposite to, or incompatible with, those associated with the traditional hero. Such an opposition by no means implies that the character is evil or villainous but often tends to reflect the author’s belief that modern life no longer tolerates or produces individuals capable of genuine heroism, in its classic sense.V1.1) Jane Austen is one of the realistic novelists. She drew vivid and realistic pictures of everyday life of the countrysociety in her novels.2) Austen’s work has a very narrow literary field. She confines herself to small country parishes, whose simple countrypeople became the characters of her novels, but within her own field, she is unrivaled.3) her novels show a wealth of humor, wit and delicate satire. Her pots are straight-forward; there is little action. Hercharacters are like real living creatures, with faults and virtues mixed as they are in real life. Her prose flows easily and naturally. Her dialogue is admirably true to life.2. The major contribution made by the 19th century critical realists is their perfection of the novel. Like the realists of the 18th century, the 19th century critical realist made use of the form of novel of full and detailed representations of social and political events, and of the fate of individuals and of whole social classes. However, the realistic novels of the 19th century went a step further than those of the 18th century in that they not only pictured the conflicts between individuals who stood for definite social strata, but also showed the broad social conflicts over and above the fate of mere individuals. Their artistic representation of vital social movements such as Chartism, and their vivid description of the dramatic conflicts of the time make the 19th century realistic novel “the epic of the bourgeois society”.3．1. Emily Dickinson——Because I Could Not Stop for Death2. ①school is an image of childhood ;②field is an image of adulthood ;③setting sun is an image of old age .3. (point only )cycle of life and death with 3 stages and a final stage of eternity .练习题第4套参考答案I 1—5 a a c d b 6—10 d d a c d 11—15 b a d b bII 10 , 1 , 5 , 6 , 3 , 8 , 2 , 4 , 7 , 9III1-5 F F T F F 6-10 T T T T TIV1.Irony is an implied discrepancy between what is said and what is meant.Three kinds of irony:1. verbal irony is when an author says one thing and means something else.2. dramatic irony is when an audience perceives something that a character in the literature does not know.3. irony of situation is a discrepency between the expected result and actual results.2. Aestheticism. The basic theory of the Aesthetic movement is “art for art’s sake”. Aestheticism places art above life,and holds that life should imitate art, not art imitate life. According to the aesthetes, all artistic creation is absolutely subjective as opposed to objective. Art should be free from any influence of egoism. Only when art is for art’s sake, can it be immortal. This was one of the reactions against the materialism and commercialism of the Victorian industrial era, as well as a reaction against the Victorian convention of art for morality’s sake, or art for money’s sake. The representatives are Oscar Wilde and Walter Pater.V1. 1). effect of Civil War ;2). development of industry and trade widen the gap between the rich and the poor ;3) closing of frontier .2As a novelist, he promoted the theory of realism in literary creation. He believed that a truthful artist’s duty was to produce human nature faithfully and accurately as he saw it. In novel writing, he had the principles of characterization and typification which modern English writers are still using. Though he is not the first English novelist, he has generally been considered as “the father of English novel”3Modernist English poetry has the following chief traits. 1. Modernist poets insisted on “direct treatment of things”and on the avoidance of all words “that do not contribute to the presentation” 2. Modernist poetry has freer metrical movement. 3. Modernism introduced into poetry a much higher degree of intellectual complexity because of the enthusiasm for metaphysical poetry. 4. The modernist poets frequently made use of symbolism 5. it brought poetic language and rhythm closer to that of conversation by the use of colloquial expressions and even slang. 6, it employed irony and puns which had been banished from serious poetry for over two hundred years 7. it was often international and urban in theme.练习题第5套参考答案I 1-5 c d b d a 6-10 c c b b dIIPoe , Dreiser , Dos Passos , Eliot , Heller ,Frost , Bellow , Jade Snow Wang , Miller , O'NeillIII1-5 F T F F T 6-10 T T T F TⅣ1. A term referring to theology advocated by a party within the Church of England ;/ in broader sense referring to attitudes and values held by Puritans ;/ as a cultural heritage exerted influence on American values and literature ;/ 3 concepts : original sin , predestination , salvation of selected few .2. 1920s saw a new upsurge of Black American Literature ;/ Langston Hughes known as Black America's poet Laureateis considered the most important person ;/ other black writers like Gwendolyn Brooks also contribute to it .V1.Similarities:1)the poems are the continuation of Romanticism and influenced by poems of Romanists.2)the poets show the practice in metrical patterns and literary styles.Dissimilarities:1) Browning is active and optimistic while Tennyson is pessimistic.2)Browning seeks for new styles while Tennyson follows conventions.2. It deals with dramas greatly which is also called Revival of Drama with the outstanding figures like Yeats, Synge and Beckett, etc. It aimed at the revival of the Irish language and independence from England3. 1. )carefully work–out structure and form to cater for the thematic concern ;2.) exploration of complexity of human psychology ;3.) symbolism ;4.) ambiguity .。
英美文学选读自考题-1_真题(含答案与解析)-交互
英美文学选读自考题-1(总分100, 做题时间90分钟)Ⅰ.Multiple ChoiceSelect from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement.1.In Renaissance, the European humanist thinkers and scholars made attempts to do the following EXCEPT ______.A. getting rid of those old feudalist-ideasB. getting control of the parliament and governmentC. introducing new ideas that expressed the interests of the rising bourgeoisieD. recovering the purity of the early church, from the corruption of the Roman Catholic ChurchSSS_SIMPLE_SINA B C D分值: 1答案:B主要考查的知识点为对文艺复兴的描述。
文艺复兴从本质上是欧洲人文主义者竭力摒弃中世纪欧洲的封建主义，推行代表新兴城市资产阶级利益的新思想，并恢复早期**的纯洁性，远离腐败的罗马天主教廷的一场运动。
2.______ was the first to start the attack on middle-class privileges and power in his novel Lucky Jim.A. JohnBraine B. Kingsley AmisC. AlanSillitoe D. John WainSSS_SIMPLE_SINA B C D分值: 1答案:B3.For his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel, ______ has been regarded as "Father of the English Novel. "A. DanielDefoe B. Jonathan SwiftC. Henry FieldingD. Oliver GoldsmithSSS_SIMPLE_SINA B C D分值: 1答案:C主要考查的知识点为英国小说之父。
英美文学选读期末练习题
《英美文学选读》期末考试练习一、搭配题二、判断题1.( F ) Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Antony and Cleopatra are Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies.2.(T ) The Elizabethan Drama is the real mainstream of the English Renaissance.3.'4.( T) Paradise Lost is a long epic divided into 12 books.5.( F) Captain Singleton, Moll Flanders, Colonel Jack, and A Journal of the Plague Year are the first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower-class people.6.( T) Jonathan Swift defined a good style as “proper words in proper places.”7.( T ) Henry Fielding has been regarded by some as “Father of the English Novel.”8.( F) William Blake, William Wordsworth, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge are regarded as the “Lake Poets.”9.{10.( T ) The British Romantic period is an age of prose.11.( T ) The major theme of Jane Austen’s novels is love and marriage.12.( T ) The Victoria period has been generally regarded as one of the most glorious in the English history.13.( F ) Far from the Madding Crowd is Thomas Hardy’s first novel.14.( T ) Modernism rose out of skepticism and disillusion of capitalism.15.<16.( T ) The major themes of the modernist literature are the distorted, alienated and ill relationships between man and nature, man and society, man and man, and man and himself. 17.( T) The early poems of Pound and Eliot and Yeats’s matured poetry marked rise of “modern poetry.”18.( T ) Shaw’s plays have one passion, and one only, that is, indignation.19.( F) Romeo and Juliet is one of Shakespeare’s four greatest tragedies.20.( T ) The first period of the English Renaissance was one of imitation and assimilation.21.%22.( T ) Paradise Lost is John Milton’s masterpiece.23.( F ) Captain Singleton, Moll Flanders, Colonel Jack, and A Journal of the Plague Year are the first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower-class people.24.( T ) In Jonathan Swift’s opinion, human nature is seriously and permanently flawed.25.( T) Henry Fielding was the first to write specifically a “comic in prose.”26.( F ) William Blake, William Wordsworth, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge are regarded as the “Lake Poets.”27.，28.( F ) The British Romantic period is an age of poetic drama.29.( T ) Shelley’s greatest achievement is his four-act poetic drama, Prometheus Unbound.30.( T ) Oscar Wilde and Walter Pater are advocators of the theory of “art for art’s sake.”31.( F ) From Under the Greenwood Tree, the tragic sense becomes the keynote of Thomas Hardy’s novels.32.( T ) The French symbolism heralded modernism.33.@34.( T ) The modernist writers pay more attention to the psychic time than the chronological one.35.( T) Kingsley Amis was the first to start the attack on middle-class privileges and power in his novel Lucky Jim.36.( T ) The Waste Land is a poem concerned with the spiritual breakup of a modern civilization in which human life has lost its meaning, significance and purpose.37.( F) Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy is Romeo and Juliet.38.( T) In the early stage of the English Renaissance, poetry and poetic drama were the most outstanding literary forms.39.{40.( T ) Samson Agonistes is the most perfect example of the verse drama after the Greek style in English.41.( F ) Captain Singleton, Moll Flanders, Colonel Jack, and A Journal of the Plague Year are the first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower-class people.42.( T ) Jonathan Swift is a master satirist.43.( T ) Henry Fielding was the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.44.( F ) William Blake, William Wordsworth, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge are regarded as the “Lake Poets.”45.$46.( F ) Novel was the most popular literary form in the British Romantic period.47.( T ) “A Song: Men of England” was written in 1819, the year of the Peterloo Massacre.48.( T) Charles Dickens and the Bronte Sisters are representatives of critical realism.49.( F ) Thomas Hardy belongs to one of the English romantic poets.50.( T ) Modernism takes the irrational philosophy and the theory of psycho-analysis as its theoretical base.51.!52.( T ) The modernist writers are mainly concerned with the inner being of an individual.53.( T ) James Joyce is the most outstanding stream-of-consciousness novelist.54.( T ) D. H. Lawrence was one of the first novelists to introduce themes of psychology into his works.三、名词解释1.Antagonist: A person or force opposing the protagonist in a narrative; a rival of thehero or heroine.2.>3.Allegory: A tale in verse or prose in which characters, actions, or settings representabstract ideas or moral qualities. An allegory is a story with two meanings, a literalmeaning and a symbolic meaning.4.Alliteration: The repetition of the initial consonant sounds in poetry.5.Canto: A section or division of a long poem.6.Characterization: the means by which a writer reveals that personality.edy: In general, a literary work that ends happily with a healthy, amicablearmistice between the protagonist and society.8.！9.Critical Realism: The critical realism of the 19th century flourished in the forties and inthe beginning of fifties. The realists first and foremost set themselves the task ofcriticizing capitalist society from a democratic viewpoint and delineated the cryingcontradictions of bourgeois reality. But they did not find a way to eradicate socialevils.10.Elegy: A poem of mourning, usually over the death of an individual. An elegy is atype of lyric poem, usually formal in language and structure, and solemn or evenmelancholy in tone.11.Epic: A long narrative poem telling about the deeds of a great hero and reflectingthe values of the society from which it originated. Many epics were drawn from anoral tradition and were transmitted by song and recitation before they were writtendown.12.Flashback: A scene in a short story, novel, play, or narrative poem that interruptsthe action to show an event that happened earlier.13.Imagery: Words or phrases that create pictures, or images, in the reader’s mind.Images can appeal to other senses as well: touch, taste, smell, and hearing.14.>15.Lyric: A poem, usually a short one, which expresses a speaker’s personal thoughts orfeelings. The elegy, ode, and sonnet are all forms of the lyric.16.Metaphor: A figure of speech that makes a comparison between two things whichare basically dissimilar. Unlike simile, a metaphor does not use a connective wordsuch as like, as, or resembles in making the comparison.17.Protagonist: The central character of a drama, novel, short story, or narrative poem.The protagonist is the character on whom the action centers and with whom thereader sympathizes most. Usually the protagonist strives against an opposing force,or antagonist, to accomplish something.18.Setting: The time and place in which the events in a short story, novel, play ornarrative poem occur. Setting can give us information, vital to plot and theme. Often,setting and character will reveal each other.19.Simile: It refers to a figure of speech that makes a comparison between two thingsthrough the use of a specific word of comparison, such as “like, as, or resemble”.The comparison must be between two essentially unlike things.20.【21.Soliloquy: In drama, an extended speech delivered by a character alone onstage.The character reveals his or her innermost thoughts and feelings directly to theaudience, as if thinking aloud.22.Sonnet: A fourteen-line lyric poem, usually written in rhymed iambic pentameter. Asonnet generally expresses a single theme or idea.23.Tragedy: In general, a literary work in which the protagonist meets an unhappy ordisastrous end. Unlike comedy, tragedy depicts the actions of a central characterwho is usually dignified or heroic.四、简答题1.What do the William Shakespeare’s tragedies have in common#Each portrays some noble hero ,who faces the injustices of human life and is caught in a difficult situation and whose fate is closely connected with the fate of the whole nation .Each hero has his weakness is made used of the nature: Hamlet the melancholic scholar-prince,faces the dilemma between action and mind ; Othello`s inner weakness is made use of by the outside evil force; the king lear who is unwilling to totally give up his power makes himself suffer from treachery and infidelity; and Macbeth`s lust for power stirs up his ambitions and leads him to incessant crimesShakespeare dramatizes the whole world around the hero.2.“Never did sun more beautifully steepIn his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill;-Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!The river glideth at his own sweet will:Dear God! the very houses seem asleep;And all that mighty heart is lying still!”(from Wordsworth’s sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge).Questions:A.What does this sonnet describeA vivid picture of a beautiful morning in LondonB. What does the word “mighty heart” refer toLondonB.【C.The sonnet follows strictly the Italian form. What is the feature of the Italian form sonnetThere is a clear division between the octave and the sestet; the rhyme scheme is abbaabba, cdcdcd.3.“Wherefore feed and clothe and save4.From the cradle to the grave5.Those ungrateful drones who would6.Drain your sweat- nay, drink your blood”Questions:A. Identify the poet and the title of the poem from which the stanza is taken.Percy Bysshe Shelley ; A song :Men of England.B. What figure of speech is used in Line 2`MetonymyC. Whom does “drones” refer toParasitic class in human society .7.Hardy is often regarded as a transitional writer. In him we see the influence from both the pastand the modern. Some critics believe that he is intellectually advanced and emotionally traditional. How do you understand this idea8.\9.What is the theme of Wuthering HeightsFrom the social point of view, it is a story about a poor man abused,betrayed and distorted by his social betters because he is a poor nobody . As a love story, this is one of the most moving : the passion between Heathcliff and Catherine proves the most in tense , the most beautiful and at the same time the most horrible passion ever to be found possible in human beings.10.“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s dayThou art more lovely and more temperate:：Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,And summer’s lease hath all too short a date:”Questions:A. Identify the poet and the poem from which the quoted lines are takenWilliam Shakespeare; Sonnet 18.！B. Name the figure of speech employed in the poem.The first line: rhetorical question ,C. What is the theme of the poemHe has a profound meditation on the destructive power of time and the eternal beauty brought forth by poetry to the one he loves .11.“When the stars threw down their spears,`And water’d heaven with their tears,Did he smile his work to seeDid he who made the Lamb make thee”Questions:A. Identify the poet and the poem from which the quoted lines are takenWilliam Blake , The TygerB. Whom does the “he’’ refer to&The god who create the Tyger.C. What does the “Lamb” symbolizeSymbol of peace and purity12.“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, a nd little, I am soulless and heartless —Youthink wrong!… 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…—it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as i f both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God’s feet, equal—as we are!”Questions:A.Identify the author and the novel from which the quoted part is taken.。
北京语言大学 18秋《英美文学选读》作业1满分答案
18秋《英美文学选读》作业1When Robert Frost was 87, he read his poetry at the inauguration of President___A.BushB.KennedyC.ClintonD.Fort正确答案:BEmily 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 immortalityB.Life and deathC.Love and marriageD.War and peace正确答案:DIn the first part of the novel Pride and prejudice, Mr. Darcy has a （n） ______ of the Bennet family .A.high opinionB.great admirationC.low opinionD.erroneous view正确答案:CRobert Frost won___ Plitzer prices.A.twoB.threeC.fourD.five正确答案:CThe story of the Scarlet Letter is set in___A.New YorkB.EnglandC.BostonD.Salt lake City正确答案:CWhich of the following is a comedy?A.King learB.MacbethC.HamletD.The Merry Wives of Windsor正确答案:DWalt Whitman was a pioneering figure of American poetry. His innovation first of all lies in his use of , poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.A.bland verseB.heroic coupletC.free verseD.iambic pentameter正确答案:CIn Fitzgerald＇s The Great Gatsby, there are detailed descriptions of big parties. The purpose of such descriptions is so show _______.A.emptiness of lifeB.the corruption of the upper classC.contrast of the rich and the poorD.the happy days of the Jazz Age正确答案:AIn all his novels Theodore Dreiser sets himself to project the ______ American values. For example, in Sister Carrie, there is not one character whose status is not determined economically.A.PuritanB.materialisticC.psychologicalD.religious正确答案:BWhitman＇s poems are characterized by all the following features EXCEPT ______ .A.the strict poetic formB.the free and natural rhythmC.the easy flow of feelingsD.the simple and conversational language正确答案:Awhich of the following is NOT written by Dreiser?A.Jennie GerhardtB.Go down, MosesC.An American TragedyD.Sister Carrie正确答案:BMr. Micawber in David Copperfield and Sam Well in Pickwick Papers are perhaps the best ______ characters created by Charles Dickens.icB.tragicC.roundD.sophisticated正确答案:AIn English poetry the _______ is regarded as the most common foot.A.iambB.anapestC.trocheeD.dactyl正确答案:AJane Austen passed away when she was___A.38B.48C.42D.52正确答案:CWhich 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?"正确答案:DThe pen name Mark Twain means___A.waterB.safe waterC.riverD.clear water正确答案:BWhich of the following is a tragedy?A.Antony and CleopatraB.Twelfth NightC.Julius CaesarD.Much ado about Nothing正确答案:AAfter reading the first chapter of Pride and Prejudice, we may come to know that Mrs. Bennet is a woman of _______ .A.simple character and quick witB.simple character and poor understandingC.intricate character and quick witD.intricate character and poor understanding正确答案:BYou may have meet 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 ProgressB.Samuel Johnson＇s The Vanity of Human WishesC.Jonathan Swift＇s Gulliver＇s TravelsD.Henry Fielding＇s tom Jones正确答案:CWhat kind of girl is Dora?A.pretty and cleverB.pretty and empty-headedC.plain-looking and understadingD.lovely and clever正确答案:B。
2023年自考专业英语英美文学选读强化练习1
自考专业(英语)英美文学选读强化练习1一、单项选择题。
以下各小题所给出的四个选项中，只有一项最符合题目要求。
1、Generally the Renaissance refers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries. It first started in Italy, with the flowering of painting, sculpture and literature. From the movement went to embrace the rest of Europe. ( )A．GermanyB．GreekC．BritainD．Italy2、In 1593 and 1594, Shakespeare published two narrative poems and The Rape of Lucrece. ( )A．The Faerie QueenB．Venus and AdonisC．Measure for MeasureD．Sonnet 183、______shows how mankind, in the person of Christ, withstands the tempter and is established once more in the divine favor. ( )A．Paradise LostB．Paradise RegainedC．Samson AgonistesD．Beowulf4、All of the following statements can correctly describe the Enlightenment Movement except ( )A．The movement flourished in France.B．The movement was a furtherance of the Renaissance.C．The purpose of the movement was to enlighten the whole world. D．The purpose of the movement was to enhance the religious education.5、______was written by Defoe and it brought him into jail and made him go through public exposure in the pillory. ( ) A．The Shortest Way with the DissentersB．The True-born EnglishmanC．Colonel JackD．A Journal of the Plague Year6、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 ProgressB．Samuel Johnson's The Vanity of Human WishesC．Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's TravelsD．Henry Fielding's Tom Jones7、In______of Gulliver's Travels , Jonathan Swift satirizes the western civilization including false illusions about science, philosophy, history and even immortality. ( )A．the first voyage to LilliputB．the second voyage to BrobdingnagC．the third voyage to the Flying IslandD．the fourth voyage to Houyhnhnm land8、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 Joyce9、The Romantic Age began in 1798 when Wordsworth and Coleridge published their joint work . ( )A．Leaves of GrassB．The CantosC．NatureD．Lyrical Ballads10、The Romantic Movement expressed a more or less ______attitude toward the existing social and political conditions that came with industrialization. ( )A．positiveB．negativeC．neutralD．indifferent11、In the Romantic Age, is a great critic on Shakespeare, E-lizabethan drama, and English poetry. ( )A．ByronB．Jane AustenC．William HazlittD．William Blake12、In his poem "Tyger ,Tyger", William Blake expresses his perception of the "fearful symmetry" of the big cat. The phrase "fearful symmetry" suggests . ( )A．the tiger's two eyes which are dazzlingly bright and symmetrically setB．the poet's fear of the predatorC．the analogy of the hammer and the anvilD．the harmony of the two opposite aspects of God's creation 13、Wordsworth thought that______ is the only subject of literary interest. ( )A．nationB．past experienceC．common lifeD．nature14、P.B.Shelley's greatest political lyrics is______. ( ) A．Men of EnglandB．An Essay on CriticismC．The PreludeD．A Defence of Poetry15、Prometheus Unbound is Shelley's greatest achievement. Prometheus, according to the Greek mythology, was chained by Zeus on Mount Caucasus and suffered the vulture's feeding on his liver for ______. ( )A．planning a revolt to dethrone GodB．misinterpreting God's decree to reconcile man and nature C．prophesying the arrival of spring in a winter seasonD．stealing the fire from heaven and giving it to man16、The major themes of Jane Austen's novels are the stories of ______. ( )A．love and moneyB．money and social statusC．social status and marriageD．love and marriage17、In the Victorian period, ______ , that Wessex man, not only continued to expose and criticize all sorts of social iniquities, but finally came to question and attack the Victorian conventions and morals. ( )A．Charles DickensB．William Makepeace ThackerayC．Thomas HardyD．Charlotte Bronte18、In the following writings, which is not the work by Charles Dickens? ( )A．Oliver Twist.B．David Cop per field.C．A Tale of Two Cities.D．The Ring and the Book.19、Charles Dickens is one of the greatest critical realist writers of______. ( )A．the Romantic PeriodB．the Renaissance PeriodC．the Neoclassical PeriodD．the Victorian Period20、______is a master story-teller. With his first sentence,he engages the reader's attention and holds it to the end. ( ) A．Charles DickensB．Emily BronteC．Thomas HardyD．George Eliot21、Charlotte Bronte's first novel The Professor was rejected by the publisher, but her second one, ______, won immediate success and today it remains one of the most popular novels. ( )A．Wuthering HeightsB．Pride and PrejudiceC．Jane EyreD．Agnes Grey22、Thomas Hardy's most cheerful and idyllic work is______. ( )A．The Return of the NativeB．Far from the Madding CrowdC．Under the Greenwood TreeD．The Woodlanders23、Mrs. Warren's Profession, written by______,is a play about the economic oppression of women. ( )A．George Bernard ShawB．John GalsworthyC．Richard Brinsley SheridanD．William Butler Yeats24、T. S. Eliot's most popular verse play is______. ( ) A．Murder in the CathedralB．The Cocktail PartyC．The Family ReunionD．The Waste Land25、The frank discussion of in his novel Lady Chatterley's Lover is the chief reason why D.H. Lawrence had been accused of pornographic writing. ( )A．hellB．deathC．sexD．love26、Nathaniel Hawthorne held an unceasing interest in the "interior of the heart" of man's being. So in almost every book he wrote, Hawthorne discusses______. ( )A．love and hatredB．sin and evilC．frustration and self-denialD．balance and self-discipline27、______has always been considered a monumental work which commands great attention because of its uniquely poetic embodiment of American democratic ideals. ( )A．Leaves of GrassB．NatureC．In a Station of the MetroD．After Apple Picking28、Beside symbolism,all the following qualities except ______are used to make Melville's Moby-Dick a world classic. ( )A．narrative powerB．psychological analysisC．speculative agilityD．optimistic view of life29、Realism was a reaction against Romanticism or a move a-way from the bias towards romance and self-creating fictions, and paved the way to ( )A．CynicismB．ModernismC．TranscendentalismD．Neoclassicalism30、The impact ol Darwin's evolutionary theory on the Americanthought 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．colloquialismC．naturalismD．humanism31、Hemingway once described Mark Twain's novel the one book from which "all modern American literature comes". ( )A．Adventures of Huckleberry FinnB．The Adventures of Tom SawyerC．The Gilded AgeD．Roughing It32、______'s fame generally rests upon his novels and stories with the international theme. ( )A．Mark TwainB．Theodore DreiserC．Henry JamesD．Ernest Hemingway33、As a genre, naturalism emphasized as important deterministic forces shaping individualized characters who were presented in special and detailed circumstances. ( )A．theological doctrinesB．heredity and environmentC．education and hard workD．various opportunities and economic success34、Among the following writers, almost all of whose works have tragic endings? ( )A．Mark Twain.B．Henry James.C．Emily Dickinson.D．Theodore Dreiser.35、North of Boston is described by the author, Robert Frost, as "a book of people",which shows a brilliant insight into character and the background that formed it. ( )A．the cowboyB．New EnglandC．Ivy LeagueD．ivory tower36、A masterpiece in American literature, evokes a haunting mood of a glamorous, wild time that seemingly will never come again. ( )A．This Side of ParadiseB．Tender Is the NightC．The American DreamD．The Great Gatsby37、In a tragic sense, is a representation of life as a struggle against unconquerable forces in which only a partial victory is possible. ( )A．The Sun Also RisesB．For Whom the Bell TollsC．The Old Man and the SeaD．In Our Time38、Typical of the "iceberg" analogy is______'s style. ( ) A．T. S. EliotB．Ernest HemingwayC．John SteinbeckD．William Faulkner39、In ______, William Faulkner illuminates the problem of black and white in the American Southern society as a close knit destiny of blood brotherhood. ( )A．Go Down , MosesB．Light in AugustC．The Marble FaunD．As I Lay Dying40、In A Rose for Emily, Faulkner makes best use of the______devices in narratioa ( ) A．RomanticB．RealisticC．GothicD．Post-Modernist参考答案：【一、单项选择题】1~5DBBDA6~10CCADB11~40点击下载查看答案。
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练习题英国文学部分1.Anglo—Saxon conquest happened in the _15th_ century。
2.Angles, Saxons and _jutes_ usually known as Anglo—Saxons are the first Englishman.3._Beowulf_ is the most important specimen of Old English literature and also the oldestsurviving epic in the English language。
4.The first known religious poet in England is _Caedmon_。
5.Today Chaucer is acclaimed not only as “the father of English poetry”, but alsoas “the father of English fiction”. His masterpiece is _The Cabterbury Tales__.6.The Canterbury Tales contains in fact a general prologue and only __24_ tales, ofwhich two are left unfinished。
7.The _General Prologue_ provides a framework for the tales in The Canterbury Tales，and it comprises a group of vivid pictures of various medieval figures。
8.The Canterbury Tales is Chaucer’s greatest work and the greater part of it was writtenin _heroic__ couplet.9.The pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales are on the way to the shrine of St. Thomas aBecket at a place named __Cabterbury__.10.Chaucer’s learning was wide in scope. He obtained a good knowledge of _Italin__,_Latin__， and __French____.11.____Troilus and Criseyde__ is Chaucer’s longest complete poem and his greatestartistic achievement.12.Chaucer’s earliest work of any length is his Romaunt_of the Rose__, a freetranslation of French poem names Roman de la Rose。
英美文学选读考试题
英美文学选读考试题一．9 authors, 20 works. (20)William Shakespearean: The tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.Venus and Adonis, Rape of Lucrece.Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders. Captain SingletonRobert Burns: My heart’s in the Highlands, A Red Red Rose. Auld Lang Syne.William Wordsworth:“The Solitary Reaper”. “We are S even”, “Lucy”, “Michael”, “Simon Lee””Lucy”I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, The Solitary Reaper.John Keats: On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer, On a Grecian Urn, To Psyche, TO a Nightingale. “Ode to Autumn”, “Ode on Melancholy”, “Ode on a Grecian Urn”and “Ode to a Nightingale”. All were written in 1819 with the praise of beauty as their general theme.Jane Austen: Novels: Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, EmmaCharles Dickens: long novel: Pickwick Papers Novels: Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, Barnaby Rudge, Great Expectations, OurMutual FriendsCharlotte Bronte: The Professor, Jane Eyre.Thomas Hardy: The Return of the Native, The Mayer of Casterbridge, Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Jude the Obscure 二，对错（10）1. Act three is the best known and most important of Hamlet’s soliloqui es among all the soliloquies in the play. In this soliloquy, Hamlet reveals his innermost thoughts and emotions, his hesitation in particular, before taking decisive action.2. Robinson Crusoe retells, in the first person singular, a sailor’s adventure on an inhabitated island.3. Defoe traces the development of Robison Crusoe from a innocent and artless youth into a clever and hardened man, tempered by numerous trials in his eventful life.4. Burn s’s poetry was written in the Scottish dialect on a variety of subjects. A large number of his poems deal with themes of love, friendship, Scottish life and nature.5. A second edition 1800 contained more poems and a preface by Wordsworth. The preface to Lyrical Ballads best read as a statement of his principle of poems.6. According to Wordsworth, he believed that “All goodpoetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.” Thus he located many of his poems in “common life” and his poetry is distinguished by the simplicity and purity of his language.7. There he lives a life of poverty and misery, and makes friends with the lively and penniless Mr. Micawder.8. Jane Eyre maintains that women should have equal rights with men, thus this novel has drawn the feminists’ attention in t he twentieth century.三，选择（10）According to Wordsworth, he believed that “All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.”He located many of his poems in “common life” and his poetry is distinguished by the simplicity and purity of his language.四，读选文，回答问题（两诗歌，三小说）作者名字（5个40分）1.Sonnet18: Shakespearian.What is the theme of this sonnet? -- Runs in iambic pentameter, rhymed ABAB CDCD EFEF GG.2.The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark: Shakespearian.What dos e the “to or not to be” soliloquy tell us about Hamlet’s state of mind?―The soliloquy opens with a question,and there two other extended questions in the passage, all of which suggests that Hamlet is undecided, and either unable or unwilling to make up his mind, contemplating suicide, and disenchanted with the suffering of human life. He is cynical, but comforts himself with reflection, even though he is clearly suffering greatly and aware of his own sins and weakness.Why Hamlet hesitates before taking decisive action? -- Hamlet is often indecisive and hesitant, but at other times prone to rash and impulsive acts. Even at the end of this whole narrative of Hamlet's, he still doesn't decide on anything. He's just speaking his thoughts; he's not committing to anything. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud: William Wordsworth.3. I wandered lonely as a cloud: William Wordsworth.What does “daffodil” stand for? ---Daffodil stand for nature in this poem, but the poet does not depict it simply as part of nature. As for Wordsworth, he dose not just want to depict the natural landscape, moreover, he pays much attention to the interaction between mature and human nature. He perceives nature as a stone of truths about human nature.Analyze the form of this poem by taking the first two lines as example. ---This poem consists of four stanzas and in eachstanza there are six lines. In each line there are four feet with a weak- strong sound pattern. The rime scheme in each stanza is a b a b c c.I wandered lonely as a cloud aThat floats on high o’er vales and hills, bWhen all at once I saw a crowd, aA host of golden daffodils; bBeside the lake, beneath the trees cFluttering and dancing in the breeze. C4.To Autumn: John Keats.What are the images used in this poem? Are they carefully arranged? --- Visual image, olfactory image, gustatory image, tactile image, auditory image. Through a series of images, make readers announcement of its scene, feeling rich concrete images.In the poem of To Autumn, he used visual image, auditory image, tactile image, gustatory image, kinaesthetic image and abstractimage to make the abstract impression of autumn specific, appreciable and more colorful. The pursuit to beauty is the way that Keats loves life, nature and also is the way he observes and enjoys life and nature. The pursuit to beau ty is his critique to the darkness of life and society. It also tells how he wanted beautifula nd ideal life in his short life.5.Pride and Prejudice: Jane Austen.Do you agree with the opening statement of the novel? What has the sentence to do with tone of the whole novel? --- Opening statement of the novel set the tone for whole novel. Writer is very serious in stating a universal truth, but what follows, however, is a very common topic of everyday life―marriage. Thus a humorous and ironic effect is achieved. Two key words appear in the statement: marriage and money, which in effect ate subject matter of the whole novel, the focus here is on the link between money and marriage.Based on your reading of the first two chapters of the novels, can you summarize the characteristics of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet? ―Mr. Bennet: he behaved sarcastically humorous, witty and capricious, and insightful in the process of showing his disrespect and dislike of Mrs. Bennet. Her mind was less difficult to develop. She was woman of mean understanding, little information, and uncertain temper. When she was discounted, she fancied herself nervous, the business of her life was to get her daughters married; its solace was visiting and news.What is your understanding of the relationship betweenmoney and marriage? --- A happy and strong marriage takes time to build and must be based on mutual feeling, understanding, and respect. Marriage can not built on the basis of money. If there is no real love between the couple, their marriage will become a tragedy eventually. Even though money can give people the comfortable house and the luxurious life, it can not buy a beautiful marriage6.David Copperfield: Charles Dickens.Dose David enjoys his life described in this chapter? How do you know? ---- David works very hard in the factory, but he could simply pay for his living. The real difficulty is that he feels very lonely, because from Monday morning until Saturday night, he has no advice, no encouragements, and no assistance of any kind. Luckily, his stay with the Micawber family in his leisure time turns out to be quite pleasant. They form a very precious friendship.Why dose the novel use the first point of view? --- It helps the author to select details. Only the events and details that David could have seen and experienced can logically be introduced into the story. The narrator’s limited view may create the effect o f suspense. 7.Jane Eyre: Charlotte BronteGive common: 性格特点：Jane Eyre is Straightforward andfeminism. Showed her concerns for the position of women particularly in English society.五，回答问题（20）William Shakespearean154 sonnets. Long poems: Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece. 38 plays.Daniel Defoe1. What are the characteristics of Crusoe from the selected reading?--- Self-reliance; patient; cheerful; clarity, courage and persistence in overcoming difficulties he start a new life in the desolate island, which demands a lot of courage and daring.Robert Burns―ScotlandA Red, Red Rose: wrote in 1794, published in 1796.1. An outstanding feature of this poem is the skillful use simile at the beginning of the poem. Draw on specific lines to explain its effect.---Simile means a comparison between two unlike items that includes like or as. For example, the first line of this poem: “Oh, my love is like a red, red rose"; al so, in this poem, "My love is like the melody". By comparing the speaker' s love to a red, red rose and a melody, readers canclearly sense the speaker's appreciation and deep love to his lover.2. This short poem is actually composed of a series of overstatements. What is the function of them? Give examples to illustrate your point. --- Overstatement is intentional exaggeration, which is, saying more that is actually meant. In this poem, when the speaker says that he will love his lady until all the seas go dry, he is using overstatement. By using this, the poet can attract readers’ attention and the sentence will leave a deep impression on the reader’s mind.William Wordsworth“The break with the conventional poetical tradition of the 18th century”. A second edition in 1800 contained more poems and a preface by Wordsworth. The preface to lyrical Ballads is best read as a statement or his principles of poetry.John KeatsJane AustenThe Plot Pride and Prejudice---Major characters: Elizabeth Bennet(the second eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet); Jane Bennet(first); Lydia Bennet(fifth); Mr. Bingley: a rich, single. Mr. Darcy (Mr. Bingley’sfriend who is a rich and proud young man)Theme: money and marriage.Writing style: Clarity, economy, skillful use of dialogue and tight plotting are the main features of Jane Austen’s style.Subject: Houses, money, estates run.Charles Dickens:David Copperfield:theme: the hero of the novel. The novel depicts David’s life experiences from an innocent boy to a famous wr iter. Style: Of Dickens’s fictional art, the most distinguishing feature is his successful characterization, especially male characters. Dickens was also a great story-teller. His plots were always very large, varied and complicated. However, the plots of his novels changed dramatically as he got older. In his later years, plots primarily became the vehicles for his characterization of thematic concerns, as readers may find in this novel.Charlotte Bronte-Jane Eyre four girls except Ann weres send to Charity School，三个姐妹中最大的,Unhappy life in charity school, with Emily go to Charlotte study. 性格特点：Straightforward直白的人feminism女权主义Romantic浪漫主义Thoughtful1.Give t hree instances in which Jane Eyre draws fromCharlotte Bronte’s background 1). Jane’s life in Lo wood is depicted based on the author’s own experiences in charity school where she spent some unhappy years of her childhood. 2) In Thornfield, Jane falls in love with Mr. Rochester, a rich squire who turns out to have had a mad wife. This is by and large Charlotte’s experience in Brussels where she falls in a married professor. 3) In Thronfield, Jane works as governess, and Charlotte herself worked as teachers and governess during 1837 to 1840.2.Discuss the symbolic use of names in this novel.1)“Eyre”, the surname of Jane, has the same pronunciation as “air”, which may symbolize Jane’s pursuit of freedom. 2) “Blanche”, the given name of Miss. Ingram, has its Fre nch origin, which actually means “white” in English. And it may symbolize the shallowness of Miss. Ingram.3.How does Mr. Rochester treat Jane in this chapter? What Jane’s character attract him ?To start with, Mr. Rochester shows some cruelty in his courtship of Jane so as to make Jane jealous. On hearing this, Jane could not help telling him her true feelings that she longs for equality and does not want to depart with him.?When Mr. Rochester confesses his real intention, Jane feels hurt and refuses his courtship at first.?Then she realizes his intention and accepts his love.?Her self-respect, her desire for independence, her courage, her moral strength, her passion and her personal loyalty and devotion, all these work together to make Mr.Rochester greatly attracted by her.Thomas Hardy:Hardy was a poet before he was a novelist. It was because his early verses could not be accepted that he turned to novel writing.Plot of the novel: Tess of the d’Unbervilles, Hardy’s most famous novel, has a subtitle, which is, A Pure Woman Faithfully Portrayed. It tells a tragic life story of a beautiful,naive country girl, Tess Durbeyfield.General features and comments: The whole story is filled with a feeling of dismal foreboding and doom. Father circumstances and tragic coincidences abound in the book. 12春《英美文学选读》作业1一、单选题1. How many periods are divided into in the creation years of Shakespeare? Three2. Defoe＇s Robinson Crusoe created the image of anenterprising Englishman, typical of the English bourgeoisie in the 18th century.3. In English poetry the _ iamb _is regarded as the most common foot.4. The excerpt The Other Side of the Island was chosen from Chapter_Ⅸ__ in Robinson Crusoe.5. "Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little,I am soulless and heartless?。
英美文学选读-英国-新古典主义时期-练习题汇总
1.The 18th-ce ntury En gla nd is known as （（浙0710）A. the Age of Purita nism B. the Age of Reas onC. the Era of CapitalismD. the Age of Glory2.En glish En lighte ners in the 18 th century held _______________ a s the yardstick for the measureme nt of all huma n activities and relati ons. （一）1A.propertyB. educati onC. emoti onD. reas on3.In the Enlightenment Movement, the progressive representatives intended ____________ . （浙0810）A.to call the people to fight aga inst poverty and hardshipB.to tell people to econo mize and to accumulate wealthC.to en lighte n the whole world with the light of moder n philosophical and artistic ideasD.to in struct people to obta in their prese nt social status through hard work4.As to education, the enlighteners thought that __________ . （浙0310 ）A.huma n beings were limited, dualistic, imperfect, and not capable of rati on ality and perfecti onthrough educati on.B.uni versal educati on was unn ecessary.C.if the com mon people were well educated, there would be great cha nee for a democraticand equal huma n society.D.most of the human beings were perfect themselves, so only a few needed further education.5.Why did the enlighteners regard education the major means to improve the society and thepeople?（）（浙0710）A.Because most of the human beings were perfect themselves, so only a few needed further educati on.B.If the com mon people were well educated, there would be great cha nee for a democratic and equal huma n society.C.Because universal education was limited , dualistic, imperfect, and unnecessary.D.Because huma n beings were not capable of rati on ality and perfecti on through educati on.6.About reason , the enlighteners thought _________ .（浙0210 ）A.reas on or rati on ality should be the only, the final cause of any huma n thought andactivitiesB.reas on could n't lead to truth and justiceC.superstiti on was above reas on and rati on alityD.equality and scie nee is con trary to reas on and rati on ality7.In the field of literature, the En lighte nment Moveme nt brought about the tendency of （）A.realismB. purita nismC. n eoclassicismD. roma nticism8.Which of the following statements about Neo-Classicism and Enlightenment Movement is true?A.The Enlightenment was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europe inthe 17th century .B.Neo-Classicism found its artistic models in the classical literature of the ancient Greekand Roma n writers like Homer, Virgil, Horace, Ovid, etc. and in the con temporary French writers.C.Neo-Classicism put the stress on the classical artistic ideals of order, logic, proportion, spontan eous emoti on, and passi on.D.Satire was much used in writing in the neo-classic works. English literature of this age produced a disti nguished satirist Daniel Defoe.9.Which of the follow ing descripti ons of En lighte nment Moveme nt is NOT true? ()A.It was a progressive in tellectual moveme nt that flourished in Fra nee.B.It was a furthera nee of the Ren aissa nee of the 15th and 16th cen turies.C.The purpose was to enlighten the whole world with modern philosophical and artistic ideas.D.The En lighte ners advocate in dividual educati on. (com mon people )10.The enlighteners placed much emphasis on reason, because they thought ( )(浙0710)A.superstiti on was above reas on and rati on ality.B.reas on and emoti on both could lead to truth and justice.C.reason or rationality should be the only, the final cause of any human thought and activities.D.equality and scie nee is con trary to reas on and rati on ality.11.All of the following statements can correctly describe the Enlightenment Movement EXCEPTA.The moveme nt flourished in Fran ce.B.The moveme nt was a furthera nee of the Ren aissa nee.C.The purpose of the movement was to enlighten the whole world.D.The purpose of the movement was to enhance the religious education.12.As a represe ntative of the En lighte nment, _________ w as one of the first to in troduce rati on alismto En gla nd. (094)A.John Bun yanB. Daniel DefoeC. Alexa nder PopeD. Jon athan Swiftth 13.(The) ( ) was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in the 18ce ntury. (054)A.Roma nticismB. Huma nismC. En lighte nmentD. Sen time ntalism14.According to the neoclassicists, all forms of literature were to be modeled after the classicalworks of the ancient Greek and ___________ writers. (浙0210 )B. BritishD. Roma n15. Which of the following statements is true according to the principles of the neoclassicists?(浙 0801)A. All forms of literature were to be modeled after the classical works of the ancient Greek andRoma n writers.B. They tried to delight, in struct and correct huma n beings as social ani mals.C. They tried to develop a polite, urbane, witty and intellectual art.D. All of the above.16. The neoclassicists did not believe that ( )(浙 0710)A. the literature should be used to delight and in struct huma n bein gs.B. the artistic ideals should be order, logic, restrained emotion and accuracy.C. the literary works should be created in depe nden tly and origi nally.D. both A and C17. The great political and social events in the English society of neoclassical period were the follow ing EXCEPT ___________ .(104)A. the Restoration of King Charles II in 1660B. the Great Plague of 1665C. the Great London Fire in 1666D. the Wars of Roses in 1689(1455-1487 )th18. The 18 cen tury wit nessed a new literary form — the moder n En glish no vel, which, con trary to the medieval roma nee, gives a __________ prese ntati on of life of the com mon people. (044)A. roma nticB. realisticC. propheticD. idealistic19. Which of the following terms can be used to refer to the 18th-century English literature?A. The Age of Roma nee.B. The Age of Drama .C. The Age of Prose.D. The Age of Poetry.20. The belief of the eighteenth - century neoclassicists in England led them to seek the following EXCEPT __________ . (104)A. proporti onB. UnityC. harm onyD. spirit21. The British bourgeois or middle class believed in the followi ng notio ns EXCEPT ___________ 094)A. self - esteemB. self - relia neeC. self - restra intD. hard work22. I n the 18th cen tury, the British gover nment was main ly con trolled by two political parties inA. Italia n C. Germa nturn. They are ( ) (浙0801)A.the upper House and the lower House.B.the House of Lords and the House of Represe ntatives.C.the Whigs and the Tories.D.the Sen ate and the House of Represe ntatives.23. Contrary to the traditional romanee of aristocrats, the modern English novel gives a realisticprese ntati on of life of . (084)A. the com mon En glish people C. the rising bourgeoisieB. the upper classD. the enterprising landlords24. The pri ncipal eleme nts of ______________ i n the late eightee nth cen tury are viole nee, horror, and the super natural, which str on gly appeal to reader 'emoti on.( ) (一) 3 (浙0601) A. history no vel B. Gothic no vel C. roma ntic no vel D. sen time ntal no vel25. Graveyard School " writers are the followi ng sen time ntalists EXCEPT ___________ . (094)A. James Thoms onC. William Cowper古墓派诗人一汤姆森-科林斯-库伯B. William Colli ns D. Thomas Jacks on26. The poem Elegy Writte n in a Country Churchyard "墓园挽诗established _____________ as the leaderof the sen time ntal poetry of ()(047)A. Thomas Gray 汤姆斯-曷雷the day , especially the Graveyard School ”.B. Samuel Joh nsonD. John Milt on27. Neoclassicists had some fixed laws and rules for prose EXCEPT ____________________ . (一) 4 ()A. being precise C. being flexibleB. being direct D. being satiric28. In the theatrical world of the neoclassical period, ________________ was the leading figure among thehost of playwrights.A. William BlakeB. Richard Brinsley Sheridan 理查德上匕.谢立丹D . Bernard Shaw29. Richard Brinsley Sheridan was the only English dramatist of the ______________ century. (浙0810)A. sixtee nthB. seve ntee nth (一) 5C. eightee nthD. nin etee nth30. In the last few decades of the 18 cen tury, the n eoclassicism was gradually replaced by __.( 浙0510)A. roma nticism C. moder nismB. critical realism D. n aturalism31. The middle of the 18th century saw a newly rising literary form —( ) (浙0301)A. the moder n En glish novelB. the moder n En glish poetryC. the moder n En glish dramaD. both A and B32. Britain witnessed two major romantic poets in the later half of the 18th century. They are( ) (浙0701 ) A. Joh n Milt on and William Blake (一) 6B. Robert Bur ns and Joh n KeatsC. George Herbert and Joh n DonneD. Robert Burns and William Blake33. ______ was the last greatest n eoclassicist en lighte ner in the later 18 th cen tury. A. Henry Fieldi ng B. Alexa nder PopeC. Richard SteeleD. Samuel Joh nson34. ______ was the last great neoclassicist enlightener in the later eighteenth century. He was very much concerned with the theme of the vanity of human wishes.（ ） （一） 7 （浙 0901 ）A. William BlakeB. S amuel Joh nsonC. Thomas GrayD. H enry Fielding35. Which of the follow ing authors does not bel ong to the en lighte ners of the 18th cen tury?（浙0701 ）A. Jonathan Swift.B. Walter Scott .C. Daniel Defoe.D. He nry Fieldi ng.Daniel Defoe36. Which of the following is not Daniel Defoe 'works?（浙 0710）A. Gulliver ' Travels Jonathan SwiftB. Captai n Sin glet onC. Moll Fla ndersD. Rob inson Crusoequalities of middle-class menB. religious devoti on D. pioneering spirit（ ）（一） 8 （浙 0710）B. in depe ndence and stro ng will.（浙 0501）37. In Robinson Crusoe , Daniel Defoe glorifies all the following EXCEPTA. the in dig nity of labourC. loyalty to the king38. In Robinson Crusoe , the writer glorifies A. pride and happ in ess.D. hard work and success.40. The novels of ______________ a re the first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower-class people. A. Bunyan C. Fielding41. Defoe 'group of four novels are the first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower-class people. They are the following EXCEPT ____________________ .（一） 9 （107 ）A. Capta in Sin glet onB. Moll Fla ndersD. Rob inson Crusoe42. Dan iel Defoe, at the age of n early 60, started his first novel ______________________________ ,which is uni versallycon sidered his masterpiece.(浙 0410)A. Rob inson Crusoe B . Moll Fla ndersC. Col on el JackD. Capta in Sin glet on43. Daniel Defoe ' ___________ is uni versally con sidered as his masterpiece. (104)A. Colonel JackB. Robinson CrusoeC. Capta in Sin glet onD. A Journal of the Plague Year44. Daniel Defoe 'works are all the following EXCEPT __________________ . ()A. Moll Fla ndersB. A Tale of a TubC. A Journal of the Plague YearD. Colo nel Jack45. Daniel Defoe describes ______________________ as a typical English Middle- class man of the eighteenthcen tury, the very prototype of the empire builder or the pion eer coloni st.()A. Tom JonesB . GulliverC .Moll FlandersD . Robinson Crusoe46. Daniel Defoe describes ______________ a s a typical English middle — class man of the eighteenth century , the very prototype of the empire builder , the pioneer colonist .()A. Robi nso n CrusoeB. Moll Fla ndersC. GulliverD. Tom Jones47. The hero Robinson Crusoe is a typical( ) man, who has a great capacity for work,39. The lan guage in Robinson Crusoe is （A. easy, smooth and colloquialC. le ngthy and imagi native ）.B. difficult and artificial D. obsce ne and difficult（浙 0310 ）B . DefoeD . SwiftC. Roxanain exhaustible en ergy, courage, patie nee and persiste nee in overco ming obstacles and struggling against the hostile natural environment. (浙0510)A.seve ntee nth-ce ntury En glish upper classB.eightee nth-ce ntury En glish middle classC.seve ntee nth-ce ntury En glish work ing classD.eightee nth-ce ntury En glish lower classth48.The hero Robinson Crusoe is a typical 18 century English middle-calss man who __.( 浙0610)A.has a great capacity for work, in exhaustible en ergy, courage, patie nee and persiste nee in overco ming obstacles and struggli ng aga inst the hostile n atural environment.B.has strong will, but can 'tendure life 'loneliness.C.has a great capacity for work, but is frightened by the hostile natural environment.D.thinks all the people are born equal.49.The hero in Robinson Crusoe is the prototype of ( ) (一) 10 (浙0210)(浙0810 )A. the the n progressive bourgeoisieB. the empire builderC. the pion eer colonistD. all of the above50. In his novel, Robinson Crusoe, Defoe eulogizes the hero of the ____________________ ?(047)A. aristocratic classB. en terpris ing lan dlordsC. rising bourgeoisieD. hard-work ing people51. ________ ,an adve nture story very much in spirit of the time, is uni versally con sidered Defoe 'masterpiece. (浙0501) A. Moll Fla nders B. Colo nel JackC. Rob inson CrusoeD. Roxa na52. Which of the follow ing works best represe nts the n ati onal spirit of the 18 th -ce ntury En gla nd?A. Robinson CrusoeC. Jon athan Wild the GreatB. Gulliver' Travels (044) D. A Sen time ntal Journey53.Crusoe is the hero in The life and Strange Surpris ing Adve ntures of Robinson Grusoe, of York, Mariner (also known as Robinson Crusoe )by . (034)A. Jon athan SwiftB. Da niel DefoeC. George EliotD. wre nee54.All of the following novels by Daniel Defoe are the first literary works devoted to the study ofproblems of the lower-class people EXCEPT __________________ . (084)A. Robinson Crusoe C. Moll FlandersB. Captain Singleton D. Colonel Jack55. Which of the following is NOT Defoe 'work?( ) (浙0401)A. Moll Fla nders C. Silas MarnerB. Colo nel Jack D. Roxa naJon atha n Swift56. Which of the following is true about Jonathan Swift' thoughts as a representative of theenlightenment movement? ( ) (一) 11 (浙0701)A.To better huma n life, en lighte nment is unn ecessary.B.Huma n n ature is simple and n aive.C. Huma n n ature was dest ined and could n 'be cha nged.D.It 'possible to reform and improve huma n n ature and huma n in stituti ons.57.En glish literature of the 18 th cen tury produces some excelle nt satirists, among whom _________________ i sa master satirist.A. Jonathan Swift .B. Henry Fielding D. Thomas Gray58.As a master satirist, Swift 'satire is usually masked by ( ) (一) 12 (浙0710)A. outward gravity and appare nt earn est nessB. appare nt eager ness and sin cerityC. pessimism and bitter nessD. seem in gly gen tle ness and sweet ness59.1 n the book Gulliver 'Travels the hero traveled to the following places except （）（浙0810 ）A. the In dia n Isla ndB. Brobd ingnagC. LilliputD. the Houyh nhnm land6O.ln which of the following works can you find the proper names Lilliput, ” Brobdingnag, ”Houyhnhnm, ” and Yahoo "”（034）A.James Joyce ' Ulsses.B.Charles Dicke ns ' Bleak House.C.Jonathan Swift ' Gulliver 'Travels.D. D. H. Lawrenee ' Women in love.61. Lilliput is ________ in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift. （浙0301）A.the n ame of the hero who made deep-sea voyagesB.an imagi nary isla nd in habited by people not more tha n six in ches highC. a minor character who accompa nied the hero duri ng his voyagesD.the cou ntry of horses en dowed with huma n in tellige nee62.Brobdingnag is an imaginary island where the inhabitants are _________ . （一）13 （浙0301）A.ten times taller and larger tha n the ord inary huma n beingsB.the horses who are hairy, wild, low and despicableC.the Yahoos who are wise and intelligentD.the small people who are only six inches tall63.The Houyh nhnms depicted by Jon atha n Swift in Gulliver's Travels are _______ .（）A.horses that are en dowed with reas onB.pigmies that are en dowed with admirable qualitiesC.gia nts that are superior in wisdomD.hairy,wild, low and despicable creatures, who resemble human beings not only in appearancebut also in some other ways.64.The Honyhnhnm Land is an imaginary island where ___________ .（浙0501）A.horses are en dowed with reas on and all good and admirable qualities.B.yahoos are gover ning class.C.horses are hairy, wild, low and despicable brutes, who resemble human beings not only in appeara nce but alsoalmost every other way.D.yahoos are possessed of reas on.65.In the Houyh nhnm land, Gulliver found that _________ were hairy, wild, low and despicable bruteswhile _________ a re en dowed with reas on and all good and admirable qualities. （一）14A. the horses ... the YahoosB. the horses ... human beings （浙0710）C. the Yahoos ... the horsesD. the Yahoos ... huma n beings66.In ______________ of Gulliver' Travels, Jon atha n Swift satirizes the wester n civilizati on in clud ingfalse illusi ons about scie nee, philosophy, history and immortality. A . the first voyage to Lilliput小人国-利利普特，仅 6英寸高，B . the sec ondt voyage to Brobdi ngnag 巨人岛-布鲁布丁鲁那可，国王 60英尺C . the third voyage to the Flying Isla nd 飞岛一与世隔绝的世界D . the fourth voyage to Houyh nhnm land 智慧岛一马-高度智慧-圈养YAHOOS67. As a whole, ___________ isone of the most effective and devastating criticisms and satires of all (044)B. Gulliver ' Travels (一) 15D. The School for Scandal68. Which of the followi ng is true about the book Gulliver's Travels ?( )A. It is a study of huma n n ature and life.B. It has high artistic skills in making the story an orga nic whole.C. It makes criticisms and satires of all aspects in the con temporary En glish and Europea n life.D. It is not a book of satire though it is a book of rebellion.69. The social significanee of Gulliver' Travels lies in _________________ . (浙 0210)A. the devastating criticisms and satires of all aspects in the then English and European life.B. his artistic skill in making the story an organic wholeC. his cen tral concern of study of huma n n ature and lifeD. both B and C70. As one of the greatest masters of English prose, ________________ defined a good style as properwords in proper places ”. (084)A . Henry FieldingB . Jonathan Swift (一) 16C. Samuel JohnsonD . Alexander Pope71. Who defined a good style as proper words in proper places? ” (浙0307)A. Jon athan SwiftB. Charles Dicke nsC. Edmu nd Spen cerD. George Bern ard Shaw72. A good style of prose "proper works in proper places ” was defined by ________________ . ()A. Joh n Milt onB. He nry Fieldi ngC. Jon athan SwiftD.T.S. Eliot73. Jonathan Swift 'greatest satiric work is ______________ . A. A Tale of a TubB. The Battle of the BooksC. Gulliver ' TravelsD. A Modest Proposalaspects in the the n En glish and Europea n life—socially, politically, religiously, philosophically,scientifically, and morally. A. Moll Fla nders C. Pilgrim 'Progress74.Jon atha n Swift' s ____________is gen erally regarded as the best model of satire, not only of theperiod but also in the whole En glish literary history. （一）17 （104）A. Gulliver s TravelsB. The Battle of the BooksC. A Modest Proposal ”D. A Tale of a Tub75.The best model of satire in the whole English literary history is Jonathan Swift's ______________ . （094）A. A Modest ProposalB. A Tale of a TubC. Gulliver's TravelsD. The Battle of the Books76.Jonathan Swift is a master satirist in English literature. His A Tale of a Tub is an attack on （）.A. the governmentB. greed （一）18C. the churchD. the abuse of power77. __________________ is a typical feature of Swift's writings. （）A. Bitter satireB. Elegant styleC. Casual narrationD. Complicated sentence structure78.Which of the following is not Swift 'works? （浙0310）A. A Tale of a TubB. The Battle of the BooksC. Gulliver 'TravelsD. Tom Jones79.Henry Fielding is mainly concerned about ___________ in his works. （浙0701）A.the miserable life of the middle-class peopleB.the ordi nary and usually ridiculous life of the com mon peopleC.the special life style of some groupsD.the real life of the upper-class people80. ______ i s gen erally con siered Fieldi ng 'masterpiece. （浙0610）A. Joseph An drewsB. Jon athan Wild the GreatC. Tom JonesD. Gulliver 'Travels82. Of all the eightee nth - cen tury no velists __________ w as the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a comic epic in prose ”， the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.（104）A. He nry Fieldi ng B. Da niel DefoeC. Jon atha n SwiftD. Laure nee Sterneth83.Of all the 18 century novelists Henry Fielding was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to writespecifically a ___ in prose, "the first to give the modern novel its structureand style. A.tragic epic C.roma nee84 Of the eighteenth-century novelists Henry Fielding was the first to A. in struct the people through his writ ingB. give the moder n no vel its structure and styleC. amuse the people through his worksD. adopt the third-pers on n arrati on85. In Tom Jones , the hero Tom is _________________ in contrast with Blifil who is _______________ .（浙 0301） A. innocent and kind-hearted ... hypocritical and wicked B. hypocritical and wicked ... innocent and kindhearted C. rude and stubbor n ... cunning and speculati ng D. cunning and speculati ng ... rude and stubbor n86. An hon est, kin d-hearted you ng man, who is full of ani mal spirit and lacks prude nee, is expelled from the paradise and has to go through hard experience to gain knowledge of himself and fin ally to have bee n accepted both by a virtuous lady and a rich relative . （一） 20（044）The above sentence may well sum up the theme of Fielding 'work _____________________ . A. Jon athan Wild the Great B. Tom JonesC. The Coffe-House Politicia nD. Amelia87. Henry Fielding adopted __ to relate a story in his novel in which the author becomes theall- knowing God ”.（107）A. the first- pers on n arrati onB. the epistolary formC. the picaresque formD. the third -pers on n arrati on88. Henry Fielding adopted _____________ a s his way to relate the story in a novel. （浙 0601 ）A. the epistolary formB. the picaresque formC. the third-pers on n arrati onD. flashback89. For his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel, ________________ h as beenregarded as Father of the En glish Novel ”.（047）A. He nry Fieldi ngB. Da niel DefoeC. Joh n BunyanD. James Joyce90. For his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel, ___________ has been regarded by some as Father of the English Novel ”.（浙 0301 ）A. Da niel DefoeB. He nry Fieldi ngC. Jon athan SwiftD. Samuel Richards on（）ic epicD.lyric epic（浙 0210）91 . Henry Fielding has been regarded by some as _ _,for his contribution to theestablishment of the form of the modern novel. （浙0310 ）92. Henry Fielding has been regarded as “_ for his contribution to the establishment of theform of the modern ________ . （浙 0810）（浙 0210 ）（浙 0510 ）A. Father of En glish Poetry...poetryB. Father of En glish Novel... novelC. Father of Moder n En glish Poetry...poetryD. Father of Modern En glish Novel... novelIII. Questi ons and An swers （24 points in all, 6 for each ）45. List at least two leading neoclassicists in England. What did Neoclassicists celebrate in literary creation? （094） |（一） 4845. A. Alexa nder Pope, Joh n Dryde n, Samuel Joh nson.B. They believed that the artistic ideals should be order, logic, restrained emotion and accuracy and that literature should be judged in terms of its service to humanity. They seek proporti on, uni ty, harm ony and grace in literary expressi ons, in an effort to delight, in struct and correct huma n bein gs. Thus a polite, elega nt, witty, and in tellectual art developed.IV. Topic Discussi on （20 points in all, 10 for each ）49 . Daniel Defoe ' novel Robinson Crusoe was a great success partly because the protagonist was a real middle-class hero. Discuss Crusoe, the protag onist of the no vel, as an embodime nt of the rising middle-class virtues in the mid-eighteenth century England.（084 ）1. Give a brief comment on the hero in The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe.（浙 0810）1. A. Fieldi ng has bee n regarded as Father of the En glish no vel ”，for his con tributi onto the establishment of the form of the modern novel.B. Of all the eightee nth-ce ntury no velists Field ing was the first to set out, both in theory andpractice, to write specifically a comic epic in prose, ” the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.C. Before him, the relating go a story in a novel was either in the epistolary form （a series ofletters ）, as in Richards on ' Pamela , or the picaresque form （adve nturous wan der ings ） through the mouth of the pr in cipal character, as in Defoe' Robinson Crusoe , but Field ingadopted the third-person narration, ” in which the author becomes the all-knowing God. f D. In planning his stories, he tries to retain the grand epical form of the classical works but atthe same time keeps faithful to his realistic prese ntati on of com mon life as it is.A . Father of the English NovelC . Father of the English Drama B. Father of the English Poetry D. Father of the English Short Story。
英美文学选读 习题1
答案：survival|fittest|fate|mysterious |supernatural|force|impotent|Fate
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[3]1.“When the stars threw down their spears,
And water’d heaven with their tears,
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee ?”
Questions:
A. Who’s the poet of the quoted stanza?
B. Whom does the“he”refer to?
C. What does the“Lamb”symbolize?
Bromanticism
Ctranscendentalism
Dcubism
答：
答案：A
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[2]Why is Hardy regarded as a naturalistic writer in English literature? Discuss in relation to his novels you know.
DD. A Farewell to Arms
答：
答案：C
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“‘Do you think I can stay to become nothing to you? So you think I am an automoton?—a machine without feelings? And can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless?—You think wrong!—I have as much as you and full as much heart! 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. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, or even of mortal flesh:—it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God’s feet, equal—as we are!’”
北语18春《英美文学选读》
北语18春《英美⽂学选读》18春《英美⽂学选读》作业_1⼀、单选题( 每题5分, 共10道⼩题, 总分值50分)1.Charlotte’s works are famous for the depiction of the life of ______ working women, particularly governesses.A. the middle - classB. the lower - classC. the upper - middle - classD. the upper - class答案：A2.As a naturalist writer, Theodore Dreiser was greatly influenced by _______.A. Nathaniel HawthorneB. Charles DarwinC. Henry JamesD. Ralph Waldo Emerson答案：B3.From the first novel Sister Carrie on, Dreiser set himself to project the American values for what he had found them to be: ______ to the core.A. altruisticB. politicalC. religiousD. materialistic答案：D4.Jane Austen passed away when she was___A. 38B. 48C. 42D. 52答案：C5.The pen name Mark Twain means___A. waterB. safe waterC. riverD. clear water答案：B6.In his poetry, Whitman shows concern for ______ and the burgeoning life of cities.A. the colonistsB. the capitalistsC. the whole hard -working peopleD. the intellectuals7.After The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Twain gives a literary independence to Tom＇s buddy Huck in a book entitled ___A. Life on the MississippiB. The Gilded AgeC. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnD. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur＇s Court8.The ______ Age of the 1920s characterized by frivolity and carelessness is brought vividly to life in The Great Gatsby.A. LostB. JazzC. ReasonD. Gilded9.In his poetry, Wordsworth shows concern for nature and______ .A. the colonistsB. the capitalistsC. the labouring peopleD. the intellectuals10.What kind of girl is Dora?A. pretty and cleverB. pretty and empty-headedC. plain-looking and understadingD. lovely and clever⼆、判断题( 每题5分, 共10道⼩题, 总分值50分)1.William Wordsworth was brought up by his relatives beacaus of the death of his parents.答案：正确2.In Pride and Prejudice,Mary is the third daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet.3.In To the Lighthouse,Minta and Paul are happy together.4.Pip, Estella, Havisham, Magwitch, and Joe Gargery are most likely names of characters in Oliver Twist.5.In Pride and Prejudice,Mr. Bennet regards Elizabeth as the most intelligent and spirited daughter.6.In Pride and Prejudice,Mr. Darcy dislike Elizabeth.7.Ezra Pound gave Robert Frost a very good opinion about his poems and helped him to find British publishers.8.William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated the use of elegant wording and inflated figures of speech.9.The 20th -century stream- of- consciousness technique was frequently and skillfully used by Frost.10.As a literary figure, John Rivers appears in Austen’s Pride and Prejudice18春《英美⽂学选读》作业_2⼀、单选题( 每题5分, 共10道⼩题, 总分值50分)1."Two roads diverged in a yellow wood /And sorry I could not travel both ..." /In the above two lines of Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken, the poet, by implication, was referring to _______.A. a travel experienceB. a marriage decisionC. a middle-age crisisD. one’s course of life2.The literary characters of the American type in early 19th century are generally characterized by all the following features EXCEPT that theyA. speak local dialectsB. are polite and elegant gentlemenC. are simple and crude farmersD. are noble savages(red and white) untainted by society3.Which of the following is not written by Robert Frost?A. To AutumnB. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy EveningC. Mending WallD. A Boy＇s Will4.When Robert Frost was 87, he read his poetry at the inauguration of President___A. BushB. KennedyC. ClintonD. Fort5.which of writer is the friend of famous poet Longfellow?A. HawthorneB. John MiltonC. Thomas GrayD. John Keats6.American literature produced only one female poet during the ninetheenth century ，This was _______ .A. Anne BradsteetB. Jane AustenC. Emily DickinsonD. T. S. Eliot7.As an active participant of his age, Fitzgerald is often acclaimed literary spokesman of the ______.A. Jazz AgeB. Age of ReasonC. Lost GenerationD. Beat Generation8.Here are some lines from a literary work:I shall be telling this with a sigh,/Somewhere ages and ages hence:/Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—/I took the one less traveled by,/And that has made all the difference.The work is ___.A. Robert Frost'sThe Road Not TakenB. John Milton's Paradise LostC. Alexander Pope's Essay on CriticismD. Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream9.William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following EXCEPTA. the use of everyday language spoken by the common peopleB. the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelingsC. the use of humble and rustic life as subject matterD. the use of elegant wording and inflated figures of speech10.According to Hawthorne, the scarlet letter "A" which originally stood for "_______" finally obtained the meaning of "able" or "angel" through Hester＇s efforts.A. adulteryB. arroganceC. accomplishmentD. agony⼆、判断题( 每题5分, 共10道⼩题, 总分值50分)1.Kitty is the fourth daughter of the Bennet family.2.The themes of Robert Frost’s poems include landscape and people of New England, loneliness and poverty of isolated farmers, beauty, terror, and tragedy in nature.3.The last section of To the Lighthouse is entitled “The Lighthouse”.4.Pearl in The Scarlet Letter is the daughter of Hester and Chillingworth.5.Crusoe travelled on the other side of the island for three month.6.Fitzgerald’s greatness lies in the fact that he found intuitively in his personal experience the embodiment of that of the nation and created a myth out of American life.7.The publication of Twice-told Tales marked a turning point both in Hawthorne’s career and personal life.8.Capitalism came into its monopoly stage, the gap between the rich and the poor was further deepened during Victorian period.9.Critical realism is the period between 1875 and 1920 to apply the methods of realistic diction to the criticism of society and the examination of social issues.10.Frost had rejected the revolutionary poetic principles of his contemporaries, choosing instead “the old-fashioned way to be new”18春《英美⽂学选读》作业_3⼀、单选题( 每题5分, 共10道⼩题, 总分值50分)1.The ______ was a progressive intellectual movement throughout western Europe in the 18th century .A. EnlightenmrentB. RenaissanceC. Religious ReformationD. Chartist Movement2.Which is Dofoe’s masterpiece?A. Robinson CrusoeB. Queen MabC. The Revolt of IsiamD. The Taming of the Shrew3.The title of the novel “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ”written by James Joyce suggests a character study with strong _________ elements .A. autobiographicalB. sentimentalC. joyfulD. bitter4.What＇s the name of Hester and Dimmesdale ＇s daughter?A. AmyB. PearlC. NinaD. Berry5.Virginia Woolf was born in a____A. poor familyB. small familyC. rich familyD. talented family6.Of the following American poets ，whose work was first recognized in England and then in America？A. Walt WhitmanB. Robert FrostC. Emily DickinsonD. Wallace Stevens7.Robert Frost is the author of all the following books of poetry except ______.A. A Witness TreeB. Steeple BushC. A Masque of MercyD. Jude the Obscure8.Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his ____.A. international themeB. waste-land imageryC. local colorD. symbolism9.The statement that a man gained the whole world but lost his own soul makes a good summary of the main plot of ______.A. Paradise LostB. The Merchant of VeniceC. HamletD. The Tragic History of Doctor Faustus10.The excerpt The Other Side of the Island was chosen from Chapter___ in Rubinson Crusoe.A. ⅨB. ⅪC. ⅩD. Ⅷ⼆、判断题( 每题5分, 共10道⼩题, 总分值50分)1.Robinson Crusoe was published in 17192.The character of Robinson Crusoe saves a savage and names him Friday.3.Robinson Crusoe retells the story in the first person singular4.The Scarlet Letter is set in the 17th-century Boston.5.The second section of To the Lighthouse is entitled “Time Passes”.6.In Pride and Prejudice,Mr. Bingley and the eldest girl Jane Bennet fall in love.7.Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe created the image of an enterprising Englishman, typical of the English bourgeoisie in the 18th century.8.The 18th century witnessed a new literary form -the modern English novel, which, contrary to the medieval romance, givesa realistic presentation of life of the common English people.9.David Copperfield was born into a wealthy family.10.The name of the first and most successful section in To the Lighthouse is “Window”.18春《英美⽂学选读》作业_4⼀、单选题( 每题5分, 共10道⼩题, 总分值50分)1."＇I believe you are made of stone,＇he said, clenching his fingers so hard that he broke the fragile cup. …＇You seem to forget,＇she said,＇that cup is not!＇" .From the above quoted passage, we can find the woman＇s tone is very( ) .A. sarcasticB. amusingC. sentimentalD. facetious2."Two roads diverged in a yellow wood /And sorry I could not travel both ..." In the above two lines of Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken, the poet, by implication, was referring to _______.A. a travel experienceB. a marriage decisionC. a middle-age crisisD. one’s course of life3.We can perhaps describe the west wind in Shelley＇s poem "Ode to the West Wind" with all thefollowing terms exceptA. tamedB. swiftC. proudD. wild4.Here are two lines from a ling poem: "Upon a great adventure he was bond, That greatest Gloriana to him gave." The poem must be_____.A. BeowulfB. John Milton’s Samson AgonistesC. Thomas Gray’s Elegy Written in a County ChurchyardD. Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene5.Hamlet by Shakespeare reflects the light of the English ______.A. RenaissanceB. ModernismC. ScientismD. Feminism6.All the following poets belong to lake poets EXCEPTA. WordsworthB. ColeridgeC. Robert SoutheyD. Shelley7.Because of her sensitivity to universal pattens of human behavior, ______ has brought the English novel, as an art of form, to its maturity.A. Charlotte BronteB. Jane AustenC. Emily BronteD. Henry Fielding8.Who try a new creative method of “stream of consciousness”in writing？A. Arnold BennettB. John GalsworthyC. H. G. WellsD. Virginia Woolf9."The shepherd in Virgil grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of the rocks."(Samuel Johnson, "To the Right Honorable the Earl of Chesterfield")The speaker here is ( ).A. cheerfulB. ironicC. mysteriousD. nonchalant10.The poem Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening is selected from____A. A Witness TreeB. Steeple BushC. New HampshireD. A Further Range⼆、判断题( 每题5分, 共10道⼩题, 总分值50分)1.In Robinson Crusoe，Crusoe read magazine everyday2.There were many literary artists involved in the groups known as the Lost Generation. The three best known areSherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos.3.By the end of his life Robert Frost had become a national bard and he received honorary degrees from forty-four colleges and universities and won four Pulitzer Prizes.4.Fitzgerald became “the angel of the twenties”and his writings those of a man inside that legendary period.5.Wordsworth’s attitude towards the French Revolution changed at his later years.6.The Scarlet Letter relates the conflicts between the society and the individual.7.Of all Dickens’s novels, Nicholas Nickleby is regarded as his masterpiece.8.In David Copperfield,Mr. Micawber is a rich squire who lives a comfortable life.9.Daniel Defoe was born in a teacher’s family.10.Charles Dickens is one of the greatest critical realist writers of the Victorian Age.。
《英美文学选读》英美文学选读模拟题一及答案.doc
英美文学选读模拟题一A. Each of the statements below is following by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement and put the letter in the brackets. (20x1 points)()1. In Spenser's "The Faerie Queene", _______ is the play role in each of the 12 major adventures.A. ArthurB. RedcrosseC. UnaD. Archimago()2. In Milton's works, H" is the greatest, indeed the only generally acknowledged epic inEnglish literature since "Beowulf".A. Paradise LostB. Paradise RegainedC. Samson AgonistesD. Lycidas()3. _______ was regarded as "Father of the English Novel", for his contribution to theestablishment of the form of the modern novel.A. Daniel DefoeB. Jonathan SwiftC. Jane AustenD. Henry Fielding()4. _______ compiled the "The Die廿onary of the English Language" which became the foundationof all the subsequent English dictionaries.A. Ben JohnsonB. Samuel JohnsonC. Alexander PopeD. John Dryden()5. The "Byronic hero** first appears in Byron's works, n__________ ”.A. Childe Harold's PilgrimageB. Don JuanC. Oriented TalesD. Manfred()6. _______ made criticism on Elizabethan drama, which renewed interest in Shakespeare and ledto the discovery of his contemporaries.A. ColeridgeB. ByronC. WordsworthD. Keats()7. _______ is the most distinguishing feature of Charles Dickens* works.A. Language*s Forsyte novels are masterpieces of critical realism in theB. Character - PortrayalC. HumorD. Plot()8 In 1847, the Bronte Sisters published the following famous novels except ” ___________ ”.A. Jane EyreB. ShirleyC. Wuthering HeightsD. The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall()9. In _______ 's hands, "drama 廿c monologue" reaches its maturity and perfection.A. Alfred TennysonB. Robert BrowningC. William ShakespeareD. George Eliot()10.As a woman of exceptional intelligence and life experience, George Eliot shows a particular concern for ______________ .A. the feminismB. the education for womenC. the des 廿ny of womenD. the low status of women()11. Symbolism appeared in the late 19th century in ______________ .A. FranceB. GermanyC. EnglandD. Italy ()12. The three trilogies of early 20th century.A. John GalswortryB. Arnold BennettC. Jame JoyceD. H. G. Wells()13. In the following statements, ____________ is Bernard Shaw's political point of view.A. He regarded the establishment of socialism by the emancipation of land and industrial capital from individual and class ownership as the final goal.B. He was for the means of violent revolution of armed struggle in achieving the goal of socialism.C. He had a trust of the uneducated working class in fighting against capitalists.D. He held that both those superior intellects and those industrial workers could have the ability to shoulder the task of fighting against the capitalism.()14. The New England transcendentalism was from the very beginning a local phenomenon restricted only to those people living in new England, who carried out the movement as a reaction against the cold, rigid rationalism of______________________ in Boston.A. PuritanismB. CalvinismC. ClassicismD. Unitarianism()15. In the following statements, __________ is not true as to Washington lrving*s famous story ”Rip Van Winkle".A. The story is a tale remembered mostly for Rip's 20 - year sleep, set against the background of the inevitably changing America.B. In the story Irving skillfully presents to us paralleled juxtapositions of two totally different worlds before and after Rip's 20 years' sleep.C. Irving describes Rip's response and reaction in dramatic way, so that we see clearly both the narrator and Irving agree on the preferability of the present to the past, and the preferability of the real world to a dream - like one.D. The social conservatism and literary preference for the past is revealed, to some extent, in the story.()16. _______ is not among the artistic features of Whitman's writing.A. The use of the poetic "l MB. Free verseC. Musicality or rhythmD. Allegory()17. Henry James's fame generally rests upon his novels and stories with _____________ .A. the love and marriage themeB. the theme of humor and satire on lifeC. the theme of revealing the miserable life of the poor and criticizing the capitalismD. the international theme()18. In the following statements, __________ is not true as to the backgrounds for the American literature between the two world wars.A. The United states had become the most powerful industrialized nation in the world.B. The technological revolution had brought about great changes in the life of the American people.C. The Crash marked the beginning of "The Great Economic Depression" in the 1920s.D. Despite its booming industry and material prosperity, there was a sense of unease and restlessness underneath.()19. Ezra Pound's "The Cantos" is ________ .A. lyricsB. epic poemC. odeD. pastoral()20. _______ is acknowledged by many as the most original poet of the Victorian period.A. Robert BrowningB. Alfred TennysonC. George EliotD. John KeatsB. Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase according to the textbook. (20x1 points)1. _____ i s the essence of the Renaissance.2. In "The Faerie Queene", the Redcrosse knight in Book I stands for St. George, and Sir Guyon in Book II Represents Temperance. Such kind of writing style is called _____________ .3. "H amlet”，"Othello”，"King Lear" and " ______ " are generally regarded as Shakespeare's four great tragedies.4. As a represents廿ve of the enlightenment, Pope was one of the first to introduce _____________ to England.5. _____ *s novels are the first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower - class people.6. The literary form of neo - classicism is of the strict symmetry. The prevailing genre ofneoclassical literature is ________ w hich consists of two riming lines of iambic pentameter, and the second line completes the thoughts expressed by the couplet.7. _____ i s central to Blake's concern in the "Songs of Innocence" and "Songs of Experience".8. The poet Robert Southey as well as Coleridge and Wordsworth lived nearby and the three men became known as the ”_________ ”.9. Jane AusteiYs masterpiece is " _____________10. ________ is Robert Browning's masterpiece.11. The realistic novels of the 1920s and 1930s were more or less touched by a pessimistic mood, preoccupied with the theme of ___________ , and shaped in different forms.12 In the mid - 1950s and early 1960s, there appeared a group or young novelists and playwrights with lower - middle - class background, who were known as ”___________________ ”.13. Melville is best known as the author of one book named ______________ , which is, critics have agreed, one of the world's greatest masterpieces.14. The particular concern about the local character of a region came about as ”_________ ", a unique variation of American literary realism.15. By the turn of the century, with the publics廿on of "The Man That Corrupted Hadleybury** (1900) and "The Mysterious Stranger" (1916), the change in Mark Twain from an optimist to an almost despairing pessimist could be fell and his cynicism and disillusionment with what Twain referred to regularly as the " _______________________ " became obvious.16. As a sequel to "Tom Sawyer", " __________ ” marks the climax of Twain*s literary creativity.17. One of James's literary techniques innovated to cater for the psychological emphasis is his narrative ” ________ H.18. The postwar poet Robert Lowell is the leading figure of _____________ poetry.19. In Fitzgerald's great fiction, there's always full of the main theme of the bankruptcy of the" _____ ”, especially in "The Great Gatsby" (1925).20. Most of Faulkner's works are set in the American South about people from a small region in Northern Messissippi, ____________ County.C. Decide whether the following statements are true or false and write your answers in the brackets. (10x1 points)( )1. In his poetry, Donne frequently applies conceits, i. e. extended metaphors involvingdrama廿c contrasts.( )2. "The Pilgrim's Progress** is the most successful religious allegory in the English language.()3. The 19th century produced the first English novelists, who fall into two groups the sen廿mentalist novelists and the realist novelists.()4. The most important contribution Byron has made is that he has not only started the modern poetry, the poetry of the growing inner self, but also changed the course of English poetry by using ordinary speech of the language and by advocating a return to nature.()5. Generally speaking, Jane Austen was a writer of the 18th - century, though she lived mainly in the nineteenth century.()6. In the Victorian period, the novel became the most widely read and the most vital and challenging expression of progressive thought.()7. "The Waste Land", Eliofs most important single poem, has been hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th - century English poetry, comparable to Wordsworth's "Lyrical Ballads".()8. While Mark Twain and Henry James seemed to have paid more ail ention to the "life" of the Americans, Howells had apparently laid a greater emphasis on the "inner world" of man.()9. Dickinson's poetry is unique and unconventional in its own way. Her poems have no titles hence are always quoted by their first lines. In her poetry there is a particular stress pattern, in which dashes are used as a musical device to create cadence and capital letters as a means of emphasis.()10. Most of Faulkner's works are set in the American North, with his emphasis on the Northern subjects and consciousness.D. Name the author of the following literary works. (5x1 points)1. The Passionate Shepherd to His Love: Marloew2. Composed upon Westminster Bridge: Wordsworth3. The Moll on the Floss4. Break, Break, Break. :Tennyson5. A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man: JoyceE. Define the literary terms listed below. (2x4 points)1. The Heroic Couplet2. Stream of ConsciousnessF. 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. (2x4 points)1. "The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the les,The plowman homeward plods his weary way,And leaves the world to darkness and to me."2. "Round the cape of a sudden came the sea,And the sun looked over the mountains rim:And straight was a path of gold for him,And the need of a world of men for me."G. Give brief answers to the following questions. (3x5 points)1. Make a comment on the image of Robinson Crusoe.2. What are the features of Charles Dickens's novels?3. What's Nathaniel Hawthorne's "black" vision of life and human beings?H. Short essay questions. (2x7 points)I. How is the fatalism revealed in Hardy's works?(Naturalist)2. Analyse the artistic features of Earnest Hemingway*s novels.附：答案全国高等教育自学考试模拟试卷(一)英美文学选读参考答案A.1. A2. A3. D4. B5. A6. A7. B8. B9. B10. C11. A12. A13. A14. D15. C16. D17. D18. C19. B20. AB.1. Humanism2. allegory3. Macbeth4. ra廿onalism5. Daniel Defoe6. heroic couplet7. Childhood8. Lake poets9. Pride and Prejudice10. The Ring and the Book11. man's loneliness12. the Angry Young Men13. Moby - Dick14. local colorism15. damned human race16. Adventures of Hucklebrry Finn17. point of view18. Confessional19. American Dream20. YoknapatawphaC.1. T2. T3. F4. T5. T6. T7. T8. F9. T10. FD.1. Christopher Marlowe2. William Wordsworth3. George Eliot4. Alfred Tennyson5. James JoyceE.1. The heroic couplet refers to iambic pentameter rhymed in two lines. During the Restoration and the 18th century Alexander Pope perfected the closed couplet, which means only a couplet xan express a compete idea, and developed it to the heroic couplet. A good example in " The Rape of the Lock" is: but when to mischiet mortals bend their will, how soon they find fit instruments of ill!2. In Joyce's opinion, the artist, who wants to reach the highest stage and to gain the insights necessary for the crea廿on of dramatic art, should rise to the position of a godlike objectivity; he should have the complete conscious control over the creative process and depersonalize his own emotion in the artistic creation. He should appear as an omniscient author and present unspoken materials directly from the psyche of the characters, of making the characters tell their own inner thoughts in monologues. This literary approach to the presentation of psychological aspects of characters is usually termed as "stream of consciousness**.1. The 廿tie of the literary work is "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard'*, and its author is Thomas Gray.译文如下：晚钟响起来一阵阵向白昼告别，牛群在草原上迂回，吼声起落，耕地人累了，回家走，脚步踉跄，把整个世界留给了黄昏与我。
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英美文学选读练习（一）I. Multiple ChoiceSelect 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.1. Shelley’ s political lyrics ______ is not only a war cry calling upon all working people to rise up against their political oppressors, but an address to them pointing out the intolerable injustice of economic exploitation.A. “Ode to Liberty”B. “Ode to Naples”C. “Ode to the West Wind”D. “Men of England”2. Jane Austen’ s practical idealism is that love should be justified by ______ and disciplined by self-control.A. reasonB. senseC. rationalityD. sensibility3. Shakespeare’ s ______, an elaborate and fantastic story, is known as the best of his final romances.A. The Winter’s TaleB. The TempestC. The Taming of the ShrewD. Love’ s Labour’ s Lost4. “To be, or not to be - that is the question;/Whether’ tis nobler in the mind to suffer / The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,/Or to take arms against a sea of troubles ,/And by opposing end then?” These lines are taken from ______.A. King LearB. Romeo and JulietC. OthelloD. Hamlet5. John Milton’ s most powerful dramatic poem on the Greek model is ______.A. Paradise LostB. Paradise RegainedC. Samson AgonistesD. Lycidas6. Because of her sensitivity to universal pattens of human behavior, ______ hasbrought the English novel, as an art of form, to its maturity.A. Charlotte BronteB. Jane AustenC. Emily BronteD. Henry Fielding7. Poetry is defined by ______ as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, which originates in emotion recollected in tranquility”.A. William WordsworthB. William BlakeC. Percy Bysshe ShelleyD. Robert Southey8. Jonathan Swift’ s ______ is generally regarded as the best model of satire, not only of the period but also in the whole English literary history.A. Gulliver’s TravelsB. The Battle of the BooksC. “A Modest Proposal”D. A Tale of a Tub9. Of all the eighteenth - century novelists ______ was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a “comic epic in prose”, the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.A. Henry FieldingB. Daniel DefoeC. Jonathan SwiftD. Laurence Sterne10. The belief of the eighteenth - century neoclassicists in England led them to seek the following EXCEPT ______.A. proportionB. unityC. harmonyD. spirit11. The Renaissance marks a transition from ______ to the modern world.A. the old EnglishB. the medievalC. the feudalistD. the capitalist12. The great political and social events in the English society of neoclassical period were the following EXCEPT ______.A. the Restoration of King Charles II in 1660B. the Great Plague of 1665C. the Great London Fire in 1666D. the Wars of Roses in 168913.In Renaissance, the European humanist thinkers and scholars made attempts to do the following EXCEPT ______.A.getting rid of those old feudalist ideasB.getting control of the parliament and governmentC.introducing new ideas that expressed the interests of the rising bourgeoisieD.recovering the purity of the early church, from the corruption of the Roman Catholic Church14.The Petrarchan sonnet (彼特拉克体十四行诗) was first introduced into England by ______.A.SurreyB.WyattC.SidneyD.Shakespeare15.As the best of Shakespeare's final romances,______ is a typical example of his pessimistic view towards human life and society in his late years.A.The TempestB.The Winter's TaleC.CymbelineD.The Rape of Lucrece16.John Milton's greatest poetical work ______ is the only generally acknowledged epic in English literarure since Beowulf.A.AreopagiticaB.Paradise LostC.LycidasD.Samson Agonistes17.“Graveyard School”writers are the following sentimentalists EXCEPT ______.A.James ThomsonB.William CollinsC.William CowperD.Thomas Jackson18.The best model of satire in the whole English literary history is Jonathan Swift's ______.A.A Modest ProposalB.A Tale of a TubC.Gulliver's TravelsD.The Battle of the Books19.As a representative of the Enlightenment, ______ was one of the first to introduce rationalism to England.A.John BunyanB.Daniel DefoeC.Alexander PopeD.Jonathan Swift20.For his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel,______ has been regarded by some as “Father of the English Novel”.A.Daniel DefoeB.Henry FieldingC.Jonathan SwiftD.Samuel Richardson21. Which of the following descriptions of Gothic Novels is NOT correct?A.It predominated in the early eighteenth century.B.It was one phase of the Romantic movement.C.Its principal elements are violence, horror and the supernatural.D.Works like The Mysteries of Udolpho and Frankenstein are typical Gothic romance.Gothic Novel, a type of romantic fiction that predominated in the early eighteenth century, was one phase of the Romantic movement. Its principal elements are violence, horror and the supernatural. P166, para.222. William Blake’s central concern in the Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience is_______, which gives the two books a strong social and historical reference.A. youthhoodB. childhoodC. happinessD. sorrow23. “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good for-tune, must be in want of a wife.” The quoted part is taken from ______.A. Jane EyreB. Wuthering HeightsC. Pride and PrejudiceD. Sense and Sensibility24. Shelley’s greatest achievement is his four-act poetic drama ______, which is an exultant work in praise of humankind’s potential.A. AdonaisB. Queen MabC. Prometheus UnboundD. A Defence of Poetry25. The assertion that poetry originates from “emotion recollected in tranquility”belongs to ______.A. William WordsworthB. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeC. Robert SoutheyD. William Blake26. 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”27. 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, Hamlet28. As one of the greatest masters of English prose, ________ defined a good style as “proper words in proper places”.A. Henry FieldingB. Jonathan SwiftC. Samuel JohnsonD. Alexander Pope29. All of the following novels by Daniel Defoe are the first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower-class people EXCEPT ______.A. Robinson CrusoeB. Captain SingletonC. Moll FlandersD. Colonel Jack30. English Romanticism, as a historical phase of literature, is generally said to have ended in 1832 with ______.A. the passage of the first Reform Bill in the ParliamentB. the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge’s Lyrical BalladsC. the publication of T．S ．Eliot’s The waste LandD. the passage of the Bill of Rights in the Parliament31. Contrary to the traditional romance of aristocrats, the modern English novel givesa realistic presentation of life of ______.A. the common English peopleB. the upper classC. the rising bourgeoisieD. the enterprising landlords32. The sentence “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare’s ______________.A. comediesB. tragediesC. sonnetsD. histories33. Paradise Lost is actually a story taken from ______________.A. the RenaissanceB. the Old TestamentC. Greek MythologyD. the New Testament34. ______________ is the essence of the Renaissance.A. PoetryB. DramaC. HumanismD. Reason35. “To be, or not to be —that is the question”is a line taken from______________.A. HamletB. OthelloC. King LearD. The Merchant of Venice36. 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 feeling 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 cultivationD. the former advocates the “return to nature”whereas the latter turns to the ancient Greek and Roman writers for its models.37. 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 JonesB. GulliverC. Moll FlandersD. Robinson Crusoe38. ______________ is a typical feature of Swift’s writings.A. Bitter satireB. Elegant styleC. Casual narrationD. Complicated sentence structure39. Which of the following poems is a landmark in English poetry?A. Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor ColeridgeB. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”by William WordsworthC. “Remorse ”by Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD. Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman40. The literary form which is fully developed and the most flourishing during the Romantic Period is ______________.A. proseB. dramaC. novelD. poetry41. The real mainstream of the English Renaissance is_____________.A. the Elizabethan dramaB. the Elizabethan proseC. ancient poemD. romantic novel42. Shakespeare has established his giant position in world literature with his_____________plays, 154 sonnets and 2 long poems.A. 47B. 27C. 52D. 3843. _____________shows how mankind, in the person of Christ, withstand the tempter and is established once more in the divine favor.A. Paradise LostB. Paradise RegainedC. Samson AgonistesD. Beowulf44. In the theatrical world of the neoclassical period, _____________was the leading figure among the host of playwrights.A. William BlakeB. Richard Brinsley SheridanC.Ben JohnsonD. George Bernard Shaw45. The eighteenth century England is also known as the Age of Enlightenment or the Age of_____________.A. IntellectB. ReasonC. RationalityD. Science46. As a whole, Jonathan Swift’s _____________is one of the most effective and devastating criticisms and satires of all aspects in the then English and European life---socially, politically, religiously, philosophically, scientifically, and morally.A. Moll FlandersB. Gulliver’s TravelsC. Pilgrim’s ProgressD. The School for Scandal47. _____________is a story on the subject of human nature by Henry Fielding.A. The History of AmeliaB. The History of Jonathan Wild the GreatC. The History of Tom Jones, a FoundlingD. The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and of his friend Mr. Abraham Adams48. The poems such as “The Chimney Sweeper”are found in both Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience by_____________.A. William WordsworthB. William BlakeC. John KeatsD. Lord Gordon Byron49. _____________is regarded as a “worshipper of nature”.A. John KeatsB. William BlakeC. William WordsworthD. Jane Austen50. The sentence “three or four families in a country village are the very thing to work on” can best reflect the writer’s personal knowledge and range of writing. This writer is ____________.A. Walter ScottB. Thomas HardyC. Jane EyreD. Jane Austen。