北京语言大学英美文学选读期末考试高分题库全集含答案

31975--北京语言大学英美文学选读期末备考题库31975奥鹏期末考试题库合集

单选题：

（1）The name of the hero in Jane Eyre was_______.

A.Rochester

B.Heathcliff

C.James

D.David

正确答案：A

（2）Virginia Woolf was born in_______.

A.1882

B.1767

C.1678

D.1890

正确答案：A

（3）which of Woolf’novels was adapted into movie named The Hours? _______

A.Mrs.Dalloway

B.The Waves

C.The Common Reader

D.To the Light house

正确答案：A

（4）“Bassanio: Antonio, I am married to a wife which is as dear to me as life itself; But life itself, My wife, and all the world. Are not withmeesteem'dabove thy life; I would lose all, ay, sacrifice them all, Here to the devil, to deliver you. Portia: Your wife would give you little thanks for that, If she were by to hear you make the offer.” The above is a quotation taken from Shakespeare's comedy The Merchant of Venice. The quoted part can be regarded as a good example to illustrate _______.

A.dramatic irony

B.personification

C.allegory

D.symbolism

正确答案：A

（5）The Houyhnhnms depicted by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels are

_______.

A.horses that are endowed with reason

B.pigmies that are endowed with admirable qualities

C.giants that are superior in wisdom

D.hairy, wild, low and despicable creatures, who resemble human beings

not only in appearance but also in some other ways.

正确答案：A

（6）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

正确答案：A

（7）'I believe you are made of stone, 'he said, clenching his fingers so hard that he broke the fragile cup. …'You seem to forget,' she said, 'that cup is not!' From the above quoted passage, we can find the woman's tone is very _______ .

A.sarcastic

B.amusing

C.sentimental

D.facetious

正确答案：A

（8）In Fitzgerald’ s The Great Gatsby, there are detailed descriptions of big parties. The purpose of such descriptions is so show _______

A.emptiness of life

B.the corruption of the upper class

C.contrast of the rich and the poor

D.the happy days of the Jazz Age

正确答案：A

（9）_______is the first important governess novel in the English literary history

A.Jane Eyre

B.Emma

C.Wuthering Heights

D.Middlemarch

正确答案：A