英美文学选读1

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英美文学选读模拟试题（一）

（课程代码：0604）

(全部题目用英文作答)

PART ONE(40 POINTS)

I. Multiple Choice (40 points in all，1 for each)

Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet.

1. Among the group of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poems, Frost at Midnight is the most important.

A. demonic

B. conversational

C. pastoral

D. optimistic

2. Poetry has been traditionally regarded as an art governed by rules; but to the Romantics, poetry should be free from all .

A. rhymes

B. rhythm

C. stanza

D. rules

3. In Sonnet 18, Shakespeare has a profound meditation on the destructive power of and the eternal brought forth by poetry to do the one he loves.

A. love/ hate

B. death/ life

C. death/ love

D. time/ beauty

4. In the medieval period in English literature, it is Chaucer alone who, for the first time in English literature, presented to us a comprehensive picture of the English society of his time and created a whole gallery of vivid from all walks of life in his masterpiece The Canterbury Tales.

A. realistic/ characters

B. romantic/ men

C. visionary/ women

D. natural/ figures

5. The most famous dramatists in the Renaissance England are Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare and .

A. Ben Jonson

B. Edmund Spenser

C. Francis Bacon

D. Geoffrey Chaucer

6. It is said that the poem written by Coleridge was composed in a dream after the poet took the opium. But when he was writing the lines down, a stranger interrupted him and the vision was never recaptured. Only 54 lines survived.

A. The Rime of the Ancient Marine

B. Kubla Khan

C. Frost at Midnight

D. Don Juan

7. P. B. Shelley’s greatest political lyrics is .

A. Men of England

B. An Essay on Criticism

C. The Prelude

D. A Defence of Poetr y

8. Charles Dickens’best-depicted characters are those innocent, virtuous, persecuted, helpless characters such as Oliver Twist, Little Nell, David Copperfield and Little Dorrit.

A. girl

B. boy

C. woman

D. child

9. The story starting with the marriage of Paul’s parents Walter Morel and Mrs. Morel must be .

A. Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’ Urbervilles

B. D. H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers

C. George Eliot’s Middlemarch

D. Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre

10. By joining the worlds of inward propensity and outward circumstances and showing them both operating in the lives of her characters in her novel, initiates a new type of realism and sets into motion a variety of developments, leading in the direction of both naturalistic and psychological novel.

A. Charlotte Bronte

B. George Eliot

C. Emily Bronte

D. Jane Austen

11. The Waste Land, T. S. Eliot’s most important single poem, is 433 lines long and is divided into sections, which are not logically constructed or connected.

A. four

B. three

C. five

D. six

12. Prufrock, the protagonist of the poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, is neurotic, self-important, illogical and of action.

A. capable

B. incapable

C. love

D. hate

13. Paul Morel is a character in the novel .

A. Lady Chatterley’s Love r

B. Sons and Lovers

C. Women in Love

D. The Rainbow

14. is the protagonist in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man written by James Joyse, being also one of the major characters of the novelist’s Ulysses.

A. Leopold Bloom

B. Maron Tweedy Bloom

C. Stephen Dedalus

D. Alfred Prufrock

15. “If winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” is an epigrammatic line by .

A. John Keats

B. William Blake

C. William Wordsworth

D. P. B. Shelley

16. In , Robert Frost compares life to a journey, and he is doubtful whether he will regret his choice or not when he is old, because the choice has made all the difference.

A. After Apple-picking

B. The Road Not Taken

C. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

D. Fire and Ice