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《英美文学选读》(课程代码00604)

第一大题：单项选择题

1、“So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, / So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 includes three stanzas according to the content with these last two lines as a（）, which completes the sense of the above lines.

A.prelude

B.couplet

C.epigraph

D.exposition

2、“Therefore at this fair are all such merchandise sold, as houses, lands, trades, places, honors, preferments, titles, countries, kingdoms, lusts, pleasures, and delights of all sorts, as whores, bawds, wives, husbands, children, masters, servants…” The a bove sentences are taken from（）.

A.John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress

B.Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels

C.Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones

D.Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe

3、As a lexicographer, he distinguished himself as the author of the first English dictionary—A Dictionary of the English Language. What is his name?（）.

A.Jonathan Swift

B.Samuel Johnson

C.Ben Jonson

D.John Milton

4、The comp osition of “Kubla Khan”by S.T. Coleridge was based on （）.

A.a story

B.a dream

C.a dialogue

D.an experience

5、“Tiger! Tiger! Burning bright/ In the forests of the night, / What immortal hand or eye / Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”(“The Tiger”by William Blake) The above lines（）.

A.describe the tiger’s fierce eyes and forceful hands at night

B.express the poet’s curiosity for the skillful creation of the tiger

C.express the poet’s surprise at the sight of the tiger’s well-proportioned body

D.express the poet’s terror at the sight of the tiger in the forest

at night

6、“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a （）.”This quotation in Austen’s Pride and Prejudice sets the tone of the novel.

A.house

B.title

C.wife

D.fame

7、In Hardy’s Wessex novels, there is an apparent（）touch in his description of the simple and beautiful though primitive rural life.

A.realistic

B.nostalgic

C.romantic

D.sentimental

8、“If I’ve done wrong, I’m dying for it. It is enough! You left me too; but I won’t upbraid you! I forgive you. Forgive me!” These above lines are uttered by the heroine in（）.

A.Shapespeare’s Romeo and Juliet

B.Emily Bront ’s Wuthering Heights

C.Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervil les

D.Bernard Shaw’s Mrs. Warren’s Profession

9、Modernism takes（）as its theoretical base.

A.the irrational philosophy

B.Darwin’s evolutionary theory

C.the French symbolism

D.Utilitarianism

10、The beginning of “The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock”moves from

a series of fairly concrete physical settings—a cityscape( the famous“patient etherized upon a table”)and several interiors (women’s arms in the lamplight, coffee spoons, fireplaces)—to a series of vague ocean images. It aims to convey（）.

A.Prufrock’s emotional distance from the world a s he comes to

recognize his second-rate status

B.Prufrock’s eagerness to meet his dating lover

C.Prufrock’s reluctance to meet his dating lover

D.Prufrock’s excitement about the modern world

11、“North Richmond Street, being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers’ School set the boy free. An uninhabited house of two storeys stood at the blind end, detached from its neighbours in a square ground. The other houses of the street, conscious of decent lives within them, gazed at one another with brown imperturbable faces.”

The above passage is the first paragraph of Araby by James Joyce. It sets a(n)（）tone of the story.

A.optimistic

B.active

C.gloomy

D.serious

12、In Young Goodman Brown by Hawthorne, the nam e of Goodman Brown’s