东师《英美文学》18秋在线作业2(第二版本)(满分)

(单选题) 1: In Hardy‘s Wessex novels，there is an apparent____touch in his description of the simple though primitive rural life．

A: nostalgic

B: humorous

C: romantic

D: ironic

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(单选题) 2: In his masterpieces ______ , Pound traces the rise and fall of eastern and western empires and the moral and social chaos of the modern world .

A: Make It New

B: The Cantos

C: Polite Essays

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(单选题) 3: One of the earliest spokeswomen in English for the Chinese immigrant community is _____.

A: Lin Yutang

B: Sui Sin Far

C: Maxine Hong Kingston

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(单选题) 4: The subject matter of Robert Frost’s Poems focuses on .

A: ordinary country people and scenes

B: battle scenes of ancient Greek and Roman legends

C: struggling masses and crowded urban quarters

D: fantasies and mythical happenings

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(单选题) 5: " ’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 i s taken must be _________. A: Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

B: Charles Dickens’s The Old Curiosity Shop

C: Samuel Richardson’s Pamela

D: Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights

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(单选题) 6: ______________ has always been regarded as a writer who “perfected the best classic style that American Literature ever produced”.

A: Edgar Ellen Poe

B: Walt Whitman

C: Henry David Thoreau

D: Washington Irving

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(单选题) 7: A typical Forsyte，according to John Galsworthy,is a man with a strong sense of ____，who never pays any attention to human feelings．

A: morality

B: justice

C: property

D: humor

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(单选题) 8: ______ saw a new upsurge of Black American Literature in what has come to be known as the Harlem Renaissance .

A: 1900s

B: 1910s

(单选题) 9: Daisy Miller‘s tragedy of indiscretion is intensified and enlarged by its narration from the point of view of _______ .

A: the author Henry James

B: the Italian youth Giovanelli

C: the American youth Winterbourne

D: her mother Mrs. Miller

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(单选题) 10: In Mar k Twain’s The Adventures of huckleberry Finn, Huck writes a letter to inform against Jim, the escaped slave, and then he tears the letter up. This fact reveals that .

A: Huck has a mixed feeling of love and hate

B: there is a conflict between society and conscience in Huck

C: Huck is always an indecisive person

D: Huck has very little education

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(单选题) 11: Dr. Faustus is a play based on the German legend of a magician aspiring for and finally meeting his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the Devil.

A: immortality

B: political

C: money

D: knowledge

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(单选题) 12: Shakespeare‘s tragedies include all the fOllowing except____.

A: Hamlet and King lear

B: Antony and Cleopatra and Macbeth

C: julius Caesar and Othello

D: the Merchant of Venice and A Midsummer Night`s Dream

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(单选题) 13: Alexander Pope strongly advocated neoclassicism，emphasizing that literary works should be judged by____rules of order,reason，logic，restrained emotion，good taste and decorum．

A: Classical

B: romantic

C: sentimental

D: allegorical

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(单选题) 14: As an autobiographical play, O‘Neill‘s _______ （1956）has gained its status as a world classic and simultaneously marks the climax of his literary career and the coming of age of American drama.

A: The Iceman Cometh

B: Long Day‘s Journey Into Night

C: The Hairy Ape

D: Desire Under the Elms

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(单选题) 15: The hightide of Romanticism in American literature occurred around .

A: 1820

B: 1850

C: 1880

D: 1920

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(单选题) 16: It is generally regarded that Keats‘s most important and mature poems are in the