英美文学史及作品选读

问题 1In the beginning of 20 century, the seminal developments in the fields ofphilosophy and psychology that impacted literary creativity and criticism areBergson’s notion of ______and Freud’s theory of psychoanalysis.所选答案： time 正确答案： time 反馈： time问题 2得2 分，满分 2 分The statement that a sensitive young man is at first shaped byexcessively powerful and oppressive forces of his environment but gradually realizes the pressure and rebels against it andtries to find his own identity mat well sum up the major theme of _____.所选答案： B.Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man正确答案： B.Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man反馈：Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man问题 3得 2 分，满分 2 分Muriel Spark’s The Girls of Slender Means is set in a hostel in the city of__________ in 1945 when the detonation of an unexploded bomb sets fire to the hostel, a moment when characters’ spiritual world is depicted in a biting satire.所选答案： London 正确答案： London 反馈：London问题 4得 2 分，满分 2 分In The French Lieutenant’s Woman , is an existentially independent woman,as she said in the novel, “No limit, no blame, can touch me.”所选答案： D. Sarah正确答案： D. Sarah 反馈： Sarah问题 5Modernism upholds a new view of time by emphasizing the time over thechronological one.所选答案： Psychic psychological 正确答案： Psychicpsychological问题 6得0 分，满分 2 分T. S. Eliot’s poem_______, which is 433 lines long, is broadly acknowledgedas one of the most recognizable landmarks of modernism, the first part of thepoem is the Burial of the Dead.所选答案： The Waste Land 正确答案： The Waste Land问题 7The statement “A demanding mother turns away from her husband and gives all her affection to her sons” sums up the main plot of D. H. Lawrence’s .所选答案： C. Sons and Lovers正确答案： C. Sons and Lovers 反馈： Sons and Lovers问题 8 得 2 分，满分 2 分presents in his works strong Christian nihilism, which is reflected explicitly by his famous saying “The dirty dog, he doesn’t even exits!” in his playagainst the God, Endgame .所选答案： A. Samuel Beckett正确答案： A. Samuel Beckett 反馈： Samuel Beckett问题 9Which of the following novels was NOT written by H. G. Wells?所选答案：C. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 正确答案： C. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man反馈： A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man问题 10The Old Wives’ Tale was written by .所选答案： D. Arnold Bennett正确答案： D. Arnold Bennett反馈：Arnold Bennett问题11得 2 分，满分 2 分The theory of psychoanalysis put forward first by ______exerts great influence over modern literature.所选答案： B. Sigmund Freud正确答案： B. Sigmund Freud反馈：Sigmund Freud问题12William Golding’s Lord of the Flies deals with the conflict between theforces of reason and those of irrationality represented by .所选答案： C. Jack正确答案： C. Jack反馈：Jack问题13Joyce seems to mean that the novel_________ describes the mentalactivities of two Dubliners in a single day, while Finnegans Wake, hissecond novel, describes the sub-conscious world in which a man livesthrough a good part of his life.所选答案：Ulysses正确答案：Ulysses反馈：Ulysses问题14Between 1912 and 1922 there came a great poetry movement______ inEngland and America to express the modern sense of fragmentization anddislocation. T.E. Hulme is considered the first outstanding theorist of thismovement.所选答案：imagism正确答案：imagism反馈：imagism问题15得 2 分，满分 2 分The Golden Notebook is considered to be __________’s masterpiece, taken as a milestone work in Feminist Literature.所选答案：Doris Lessing正确答案：Doris Lessing反馈：Doris Lessing问题16______represents the much more readable novelists of the stream ofconsciousness school. She is a fine artist, a woman of sharp sensitivity who,in one of her frequent mental depressions, committed suicide.所选答案：Virginia Woolf正确答案：Virginia Woolf问题17得 2 分，满分 2 分The textual insinuation of Joyce’s Ulysses is parallel to Homeric epic_____, thus revealing the vast difference betweenthe grandeur of the ancient Greek hero and the pettiness ofthe degraded modern anti-hero.所选答案：Odyssey正确答案：Odyssey反馈：Odyssey问题18得 2 分，满分 2 分written by Iris Murdoch is remarkable for its meta-fictional structure,containing various narrators and narrative descriptions, and itsmulti-dimensional psychology.所选答案： D. The Black Prince正确答案： D. The Black Prince反馈：The Black Prince问题19得0 分，满分 2 分Virginia Woolf’s novel, published in1925, made her reputation as animportant psychological writer.所选答案：Mrs. Dalloway正确答案：Mrs. Dalloway问题20得0 分，满分 2 分______, which bears a strong thematic resemblance to “The Waste Land”,is generally regarded as the darkest of T. S. Eliot’s poems.所选答案：The Hollow Men正确答案：The Hollow Men问题21William Golding’s first novel_______, which describes a group of boys working out their lives on an isolated island, paves the way for him to win the Nobel Prize in 1983.所选答案：Lord of Flies正确答案：Lord of Flies问题22得 2 分，满分 2 分D. H. Lawrence’s poems fall roughly into three categories—satirical andcomic poems, poems about human relationship and emotions, and poemsabout .所选答案：nature正确答案：nature反馈：nature问题23得 2 分，满分 2 分. __________ is the most outstanding stream-of-consciousness novelist of20th century.所选答案： C.JamesJoyce正确答案： C.JamesJoyce反馈：JamesJoyce问题24G. B. Shaw’s play Mrs. Warren’s Profession is a realistic exposure of the inthe English society.所选答案： C. economic exploitation of women正确答案： C. economic exploitation of women反馈：economic exploitation of women 问题25Which of following statements about Yeats is true?所选答案：B.In a certain way, Yeats’s experiments in drama anticipated theabstract movement of modern theater.正确答案：B.In a certain way, Yeats’s experiments in drama anticipated theabstract movement of modern theater.反馈：In a certain way, Yeats’s experiments in drama anticipated the abstract movement of modern theater.问题26得0 分，满分 2 分“She frankly wanted him to climb into the middle class, a thing not verydifficult, she knew. And she wanted him in the end to marry a lady.” istaken from D. H. Lawrence’s novel .所选答案：Sons and Lovers正确答案：Sons and Lovers问题27得 2 分，满分 2 分Which of the following statements about D. H. Lawrence is NOT true?所选答案： C. He was daringly innovative in the techniques of novel writing.正确答案： C. He was daringly innovative in the techniques of novel writing.反馈：He was daringly innovative in the techniques of novel writing.问题28In his poem “The Lake Isle of Innifree,” W. B. Yeats expressed his _____.所选答案： B.desire to escape the materialistic world正确答案： B.desire to escape the materialistic world反馈：desire to escape the materialistic world 问题29Rudyard Kipling was the spokesman for imperialist sentiment. Which one is NOT his work?所选答案： D.Dubliners正确答案： D.Dubliners反馈：Dubliners问题30得 2 分，满分 2 分In My Last Duchess, “She smiled, no doubt,/ Whene’er I passed her…/…This grew; I gave commands; /Then all smilesstopped together.” The last line of the above quotedpassage implies that she_________.所选答案： A. was murdered at the order of the duke正确答案： A. was murdered at the order of the duke反馈：was murdered at the order of the duke问题31得0 分，满分 2 分_______is claimed as the best Irish poet since W.B.Yeats, and his work has been among the most profusely commented upon in the contemporary.The volumes of his verse include Death of a Naturalist (1966), The HawLantern(1987), and the spirit Level (1999).所选答案：Seamus Heaney正确答案：Seamus Heaney问题32得0 分，满分 2 分William Butler Yeats experienced a slow and painful change in his poeticcreation, starting in the romantic tradition and finishing as a mature poet.所选答案：modernist modernism正确答案：modernistmodernism问题33得 2 分，满分 2 分In Mrs. Dallowaywhich the whole story was presented with the interior monologues of the characters.所选答案：stream-of-consciousness正确答案：stream-of-consciousness反馈：stream-of-consciousness问题34Atypical Forsyte, according to John Galsworthy, is a man with a strong sense of , who never pays any attention to human feelings.所选答案： C. property正确答案： C. property反馈：property问题35得 2 分，满分 2 分The modernist writers such as Dorothy Richardson, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf are mainly concerned with the ______.所选答案： B. inner life of an individual正确答案： B. inner life of an individual反馈：inner life of an individual问题36得 2 分，满分 2 分As a literary figure, Leopold Bloom appears in ______所选答案： B. Joyce’s Ulysses正确答案： B. Joyce’s Ulysses反馈：Joyce’s Ulysses问题37Which writer belongs to “stream-of-consciousness” school?所选答案： C.Virginia Woolf正确答案： C.Virginia Woolf反馈：Virginia Woolf问题38得 2 分，满分 2 分By presenting a conventional hero as a villain, or a conventional villain as ahero,intends to give a shocking impression to his audience and challenge the conventional way of thinking.所选答案： B. George Bernard Shaw 正确答案：B. George Bernard Shaw反馈： George Bernard Shaw问题 39Sameul Beckett is an absurdist dramatist who is well known for his daringformalexperimentation. His works are strongly suggestive of the two prominent literary phases modernism and postmodernism. The most famous of his plays is _______written in 1952.所选答案： Waiting for Godot 正确答案： Waiting for Godot问题 40得 2 分，满分 2 分Artistically, Samuel Beckett has come under the strong influence of , whoseworks parody the unsympathetic world and man’s wretched lot.所选答案： D. James Joyce正确答案： D. James Joyce 反馈： James Joyce问题 41 得 0 分，满分 2 分In his famous essay “Tradition and Individual Talent” puts great emphasison the importance of tradition both in creative writing and in criticism.所选答案： T. S. Eliot 正确答案： T. S. Eliot问题 42得 0 分，满分 2 分A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is ’s first novel.所选答案： James Joyce 正确答案： James Joyce问题 43得 2 分，满分 2 分All of Joyce’s novels and short stories have the same setting of his native country Ireland especially the city of .所选答案： Dublin 正确答案： Dublin 反馈： Dublin问题 44得 2 分，满分2 分Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Modernism?所选答案： C. to put more emphasis on traditional values正确答案： C. to put more emphasis on traditional values反馈： to put more emphasis on traditional values问题 45 得 0 分，满分 2 分____is Galsworthy’s masterpiece which gives a profound and true -to-life picture of the English society from the 80’s of the 19th century up to the20’s of the 20th century.所选答案： The Forsyte Saga 正确答案： The Forsyte Saga问题 46得 0 分，满分 2 分John Fowles’s novel _________is a metafiction model of postmodernist form of writing fiction in the form of fiction, trying to use burlesque and parody as a means to reveal the discrepancy between the imitation and the original.所选答案： French Lieutenant’s Woman 正确答案： French Lieutenant’s Woman问题 47To create his modern Odyssey —Ulysses, Joyce adopts a kind of ________style.所选答案： mock-heroic正确答案： mock-heroic 反馈： mock-heroic问题 48Which of the following statements about writers in 1920s is true?所选答案： B. Freudian psychology influenced many modern writers.正确答案： B. Freudian psychology influenced many modern writers.反馈： Freudian psychology influenced many modern writers.问题 49得 0分，满分 2 分Eliot’s poem, The Waste Land, is mainly concerned with the______of a modern civilization.所选答案： A. spiritual breakup正确答案： C. spiritual breakup问题 50 得 0 分，满分 2 分“The Bliss” is one of ’s famous short stories. She was skilled in psychological analysis, whose favorite technique is the flash-back.所选答案： Katherine Mansfield 正确答案： Katherine Mansfield问题 1The following are the common characters shared by the three Bronte sistersEXCEPT .所选答案：C.unmarried正确答案：C.unmarried反馈： unmarried问题2得 2 分，满分2 分The Oxford Movement reflectedthe desire of the perplexed Victorians tocling to the old faith in face of doubt and emotional stress.所选答案： 对正确答案： 对 反馈： T问题 3 得 2 分，满分 2 分Which one is William Makepeace Thackeray’s historical novel?所选答案：A. The History of Henry Esmond 正确答案： A. The History of Henry Esmond反馈：The History of Henry Esmond问题 4Macaulay’s History of England was warmly received by his contemporaries because it had presented a faithful picture of historical events.所选答案： 错正确答案： 错 反馈： F问题 5Which of the following is about the discussion of Tennyson’s aesthetic view of art and artistic creation.所选答案：C.The Lady of Shalott正确答案：C.The Lady of Shalott反馈： The Lady of Shalott问题 6Which one is NOT included in Trollope’s Barsetshire novels?所选答案： A. Autobiography正确答案： A. Autobiography反馈： Autobiography问题 7得 2 分，满分 2分opposed Darwin’s explanation of evolution, finding it too mechanistic, and he expoundedhis owntheories in Evolution Old and New, UnconsciousMemory, and Luck or Cunning .所选答案： C. Samuel Butler 正确答案： C. Samuel Butler反馈：Samuel Butler问题 8得 2 分，满分 2 分Tess of the D’Urbervilles , one of Thomas Hardy’s best -known novels,portrays man as .所选答案：B. having no control over his own fate 正确答案： B. having no control over his own fate反馈： having no control over his own fate问题 9 得 2 分，满分 2 分Ruskin’s aesthetics and the Pre -Raphaelite artistic pursuits anticipate the Art-for-Art’s Sake school represented By Oscar Wilds.所选答案： 对正确答案： 对 反馈： T问题 10 得 0 分，满分 2 分John Ruskin’s book entitled _________ is actually not about painters; it isabout the beauty of nature and the importance of the appreciation ofnature.所选答案： Modem Painters 正确答案： Modern Painters问题 11得 2 分，满分 2 分’s works are all about the struggle of an individual consciousness towards self-realization, about some lonely and neglected young women with afierce longing for love, understanding and a full happy life.所选答案： C. George Eliot 正确答案：C. George Eliot反馈： George Eliot问题 12得 2 分，满分2 分Written in 1837-38, CharlesDickens’s novel tells the story of an orphan boy, whose adventures provide material for a description of the lowerdepths of poverty in the city of London所选答案： Oliver Twist 正确答案： Oliver Twist 反馈： Oliver Twist问题 13Besides being a successful novelist, Charlotte Bronte is also gaining areputation as a good poet.所选答案： 错正确答案： 错 反馈： F问题 14 得 2 分，满分 2 分Which one is NOT Charlotte Bronte’s novel?所选答案：A. Agnes Grey 正确答案： A. Agnes Grey反馈： Agnes Grey问题 15 得 2 分，满分 2 分One of Charles Dickens’s best works is ______, which is written in the firstperson and is the most autobiographical of all his books. In writing the novel, Dickens threw into it deep feelings and much of his own experience in his younger days.所选答案： David Copperfield 正确答案： David Copperfield 反馈： David Copperfield问题 16The Victorian drama scene, did not quite regain its value until George Bernard Shaw came on the scene. ________is among one of his mostpopular early works, the first of its kind to present a prostitue as its major character.所选答案：Mrs. Warren’s Profession正确答案：Mrs. Warren’s Profession反馈：Mrs. Warren’s Profession问题17believes that man’s fate is predeterminedly tragic, driven by a combined force of “nature”, both inside and outside.所选答案： D. Thomas Hardy正确答案： D. Thomas Hardy反馈：Thomas Hardy问题18得 2 分，满分 2 分Between 1859 and 1885 Alfred Tennyson worked this narrative poems based on the stories of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table.Those poems were gathered together as .所选答案：Idylls of the King正确答案：Idylls of the King反馈：Idylls of the King问题19得 2 分，满分 2 分Hardy’s principal works are the Wessex novels, i.e., novels describing thecharacters and environment of his native countryside. is NOT included.所选答案： C. A Pair of Blue Eyes正确答案： C. A Pair of Blue Eyes反馈： A Pair of Blue Eyes问题20得 2 分，满分 2 分These works are written by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell EXCEPT .所选答案： A. Little Dorrit正确答案： A. Little Dorrit反馈：Little Dorrit问题21得 2 分，满分 2 分Thomas Hardy’s , one of the century’s finest novels, traces the rise and fall of Michael Henchard, a tough, egotistical fellow who, having committed the folly of drunkenly selling his wife and baby at a fair,turns teetotal and by sheer perseverance rises to wealth as a corn-factor and to respectability as Mayor of Casterbridge.所选答案： The Mayor of the Casterbridge 正确答案： The Mayor of the Casterbridge 反馈： The Mayor of the Casterbridge问题 22得 2分，满分 2 分_________ is Matthew Arnold’s representative work in social criticism, in which the author divides the Victorian people into 3 categories: the Barbarians, the Philistines and the Populace. Arnolds recommendsHellenism as a cure for the Victorian society to uphold the sweetness and light of the Greek civilization can offer.所选答案： Culture and Anarchy 正确答案： Culture and Anarchy 反馈： Culture and Anarchy问题 23 得 2 分，满分 2 分The Victorian poetry was mainly characterized by experiments with new styles and new ways of expression. Among these famous experimental poets was______who created the verse novel by adopting the novelistic presentation of characters.所选答案： D. Robert Browning 正确答案：D. Robert Browning反馈： Robert Browning问题 24is one that introduces to the English novel the first governess heroine.所选答案：B. Jane Eyre 正确答案： B. Jane Eyre反馈： Jane Eyre问题 25 得 2 分，满分 2 分Which one is NOT written by Dante Gabriel Rossetti?所选答案： B. Goblin Market 正确答案： B. Goblin Market反馈：Goblin Market问题26得 2 分，满分2 分The wide currency of Utilitarianism in the Victorian age on the whole dominated popular thinking, but it provoked strong criticism from themajor authors of the time, among others, Carlyle and Arnold.所选答案： 对 正确答案： 对 反馈： T问题 27Mrs. Gaskell, George Eliot, Charlotte Bronte and Emily Bronte are NOTall .所选答案：A. pseudonymous novelists 正确答案： A. pseudonymous novelists反馈： pseudonymous novelists问题 28The purpose of both The Seven Lamps of Architecture and The Stones ofVenice is to glorify , an architecture style distinguished by its high and sharply-pointed arches, which had prevailed in Western Europe from the 12th to the 16th centuries.所选答案： gothic architecture 正确答案： gothic architecturegothic building反馈： gothic architecture, gothic building问题 29 得 2 分，满分 2 分The Mill on the Floss is George Eliot’s novel with a heavy autobiographicaltouch whereas ______is often regarded as her masterpiece.所选答案： Middlemarch正确答案： Middlemarch 反馈： Middlemarch问题 30 得 2 分，满分 2 分Middlemarch offers a panorama of social life. Although subtitled ________,it is meant to be a miniature of 19th -century English life.所选答案： A Study of Provincial Life正确答案： A Study of Provincial Life 反馈：A Study of Provincial Life问题 31, the pioneering woman, according to D. H. Lawrence, was the first novelistthat “started putting all the actions inside”.所选答案：A. George Eliot 正确答案： A. George Eliot反馈： George Eliot问题 32 得 2 分，满分 2 分One of the features of the Victorian age was people’s emphasis on respectability.所选答案： 对正确答案： 对 反馈： T问题 33 得 2 分，满分 2 分In what region of England was Emily Bronte raised?所选答案：B. Yorkshire 正确答案： B. Yorkshire反馈： Yorkshire问题 34“The Sea of Faith// was once, too, at the full, and round earth’s shore// Latlike the folds of a bright girdle furled.” are the lines from Arnold’spoem________.所选答案： Dover Beach 正确答案： Dover Beach 反馈： Dover Beach问题 35 得 2 分，满分 2 分Dickens and Thackeray are novelists of social manners while Hardy andEmily Bronte are well known for their descriptions of romantic passions.所选答案：错正确答案：错反馈： F问题36“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 a shard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you.”The above quoted passage is most probably taken from .所选答案： D. Jane Eyre正确答案： D. Jane Eyre反馈：Jane Eyre问题37得 2 分，满分 2 分“History of the French Revolution” is written by .所选答案： B. Thomas Carlyle正确答案： B. Thomas Carlyle反馈：Thomas Carlyle问题38Emily Bronte’s novel ________is a pathetic story of love, but a powerful attack on the bourgeois marriage system. It shows that true love in aclass society is impossible of attainment.所选答案：Wuthering Height正确答案：Wuthering Height反馈：Wuthering Height问题39Which one is NOT William Makepeace Thackeray’s works?所选答案： A. Sylvia’s Lover正确答案： A. Sylvia’s Lover反馈：Sylvia’s Lover问题 40Oscar Wilde’s first play is __________opened in February1892.所选答案：C. Lady Windermere’s Fan 正确答案： C. Lady Windermere’s Fan反馈： Lady Windermere’s Fan问题 41 得 2 分，满分 2 分Which one does NOT belong to Robert Louis Stevenson’s writingsmanipulating the genres associated with children?所选答案：B. The Black Arrow 正确答案： B. The Black Arrow反馈： The Black Arrow问题 42 得 2 分，满分 2 分Almost all the Victorian prose writers oppose philistinism and emphasize spiritual and cultural values of human life.所选答案： 对正确答案： 对 反馈： T问题 43Thackeray’s most successful novel is ________, which gets its title from Bunyan’s novel The Pilgrim’s Progress所选答案： Vanity Fair正确答案： Vanity Fair 反馈： Vanity Fair问题 44Which of the following best describes the nature of Thomas Hardy’s later works?所选答案：D. Tragic sense 正确答案：D. Tragic sense反馈： Tragic sense问题45’s works are characterized by a mingling of humor and pathos.所选答案：C. Charles Dickens 正确答案： C. Charles Dickens反馈： Charles Dickens问题 46The book News from Nowhere is a , telling the story of a man who falls asleep after an evening at a Socialist League meeting. He wakes in the future to find England transformed into a communist paradise where men and women are free, healthy, and equal.所选答案： Utopian fantasy 正确答案： Utopian fantasyUtopian story反馈： Utopian fantasy, Utopian story问题 471. In more than one sense the Victorian period was an age of the novel, andall great Victorian novels follow the moral standards.所选答案： 对正确答案： 对 反馈： T问题 48 得 2 分，满分 2 分Both Carlyle and Arnold advocate the power of heroes as a solution to Victorian social problems.所选答案： 错正确答案： 错 反馈： F问题 49My Last Duchess is one of the masterpieces of Robert Browning who madethe ________a norm as a poetic form for presenting the internal worldof the characters.所选答案： dramatic monologue 正确答案： dramatic monologue反馈：dramatic monologue问题50The statement “It reveals the dehumanizing workhouse system and the dark, criminal underworld life” may well sum up the main theme of Dickens’s . 所选答案： D. Oliver Twist正确答案： D. Oliver Twist反馈：Oliver Twist。