英美文学选读试题

西安外国语大学考试试题（A）编号:

2012-2013学年第 1 学期系（院、部）：英语教育学院专业：英语

课程：英美文学选读班级：09级本科/11级专升本命题时间：命题教师：肖婉丽

以上栏目由命题教师填写，下栏由考生填写

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I. Multiple Choice (30 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. Mark the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the answer sheet.

1. The most important contribution of ______ is that he not only started the modern poetry, but also changed the course of English poetry by using ordinary speech of the language and by advocating a return to nature.

A. William Blake

B. William Wordsworth

C. G. G. Byron

D. John Keats

2. “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”This humorous speech is from__________.

A. Jane Austen’s Emma

B. Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

C. Charles Dickins’The Great Expectation

D. Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre

3. In the Victorian Period ______ became the most widely read and the most vital and challenging expression of progressive thought.

A. poetry

B. novel

C. prose

D. drama

4. Thomas Hardy’s ______ view of life predominates most of his wo rks and earns him

a reputation as a ________ writer.

A. pessimistic, naturalistic

B. pessimistic, humorous

C. romantic, realist

D. determinist, stylistic

5. “Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soull ess and heartless ... And if God had gifted me with some beauty, and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. ” The quoted lines are most probably taken from ________.

A. Great Expectations

B. Wuthering Heights

C. Jane Eyre

D. Pride and Prejudice

6. Jane Austen’ s first novel ________ tells a story about two sisters and their love affairs.

A. Sense and Sensibility

B. Pride and Prejudice

C. Northanger Abbey

D. Mansfield Park

7. “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind” comes from ________.

A. Shelley’s Ode to the West Wind

B. Walt Whitman’ s Leaves of Grass

C. John Milton’s Paradise Lost

D. John Keats’ Ode on a Grecian Ur n

8. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” i s ________ masterpiece on ________.

A. G. G. Byron’s, love

B. John Keats’, nature

C. P. B. Shelley’s, love

D. William Wordsworth’s, nature

9. . Eliot’s ______ not only presents a panorama of physical disorder and spiritual desolation in the modern Western world, but also reflects the prevalent mood of disillusionment and despair of a whole post-war generation.

A. The Hollow Men

B. The Waste Land

C. Murder in the Cathedral

D. Ash Wednesday

10. John Milton’s greatest poet ical work ________ is the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf.

A. Areopagitica

B. Paradise Lost

C. Lycidas

D. Samson Agonistes

11. “The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water.” This “iceberg” analogy about prose style was put forward by ________.

A. William Faulkner

B. Henry James

C. Ernest Hemingway

D. F. Scott Fitzgerald

12. Walt Whitman believed, by means of “________,” he has turned poet ry into an open field, an area of vital possibility where the reader can allow his own imagination to play.

A. free verse

B. strict verse

C. regular rhyming

D. standardized rhyming

13. Of all Herman Melville’s sea adventure stories, ________ pr oves to be the best.

A. Typee

B. Redburn

C. Moby Dick

D. Omoo

14. Nathaniel Hawthorne was affected by _______’s transcendentalist theory and struck up a very intimate relationship with him.

A. Herman Melville

B. Walt Whitman

C. R. W. Emerson

D. Washington Irving

15. Among the following writers _______is generally regarded as the great master of the 20th century “stream-of-consciousness” novels in British literature. A. T. S. Eliot B. James Joyce

C. William Faulkner

D. Henry James