PGA高三期末

湛江一中培才学校2015-2016学年第二学期期末测试 PGA 国际班高三英语科试卷 时间：90分钟 满分：100分 命题教师：CYT Ⅰ.Multiple Choice （40 points, 1 point for each ） Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Mark your choice by blackening the corresponding letter A,B,C or D on the answer sheet. 1.The sentence "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare's ________ . edies B.tragedies C.sonnets D.histories 2."So much the worse for me, that I an strong. Do I want to live? What kind of living will it be when you-oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?" In the above passage quoted from Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, the word "soul" apparently refers to _______ . A.Heathcliff B.Catherine C.ghost D.one's spiritual lift 3."And where are they? And where art thou," My country? On thy voiceless shore The heroic lay is tuneless now- The heroic bosom beats no more!"（George Gordon Byron, Don Juan ） In the above stanza, "art thou" literally means _______ . A."are you" B."art though"

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C."are though"

D."art you"

4.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.Charles Dickens's

wrence's

C.Thomas Hardy's

D.John Galsworthy's

5.Daniel Defoe describes _______ as a typical English Middle-class man of the eighteenth century, the very prototype of the empire builder or the pioneer colonist.

A.Tom Jones

B.Gulliver

C.Moll Flanders

D.Robinson Crusoe

6."To be so distinguished is an honor, which, being very little accustomed to favors from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge."

The above quoted sentence is presented by Samuel Johnson with a（n）_______ tone.

A.delightful

B.jealous

C.ironic

D.humorous

7."She lived unknown, and few could know

When Lucy ceased to be;

But she is in her grave, and, oh,

The difference to me!"

The word "me" in the last line of the above stanza quoted from Wordsworth's poem "She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways" may possibly refer to _______ .

A.the poet

B.the reader

D.everybody

8._______ is a typical feature of Swift's writings.

A.Bitter satire

B.Elegant style

C.Casual narration

plicated sentence structure

9.The statement "It reveals the dehumanizing workhouse system and the dark, criminal underworld life" may well sum up the main theme if Dickens's _______ .

A.David Copperfield

B.Bleak House

C.Great Expectations

D.Oliver Twist

10."Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless?…And if God had gifted me with some beauty, and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you."

The above quoted passage is most probably taken from _______ .

A.Pride and Prejudice

B.Jane Eyre

C.Wuthering Heights

D.Great Expectations

11.It is generally regarded that Keats's most important and mature poems are in the form of _______ .

A.ode

B.elegy

C.epic

D.sonnet

12.G.B.Shaw's play Mrs.Warren's Profession is a realistic exposure of the _______ in the English society.

A.slum landlordism

B.inequality between men and women