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【题型：简答】【分数：4分】 得分：0分1Whats the theme of Emily Bronte s Wuthering Heights?答：The only major languag答案：a story of revenge;From the social point of view, it is a story about a poor man abused; it is also a love story.【题型：阅读】【分数：4分】 得分：0分243. “My tongue, every atom of my blood, form d from this soil, this air,Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their parents the same,I, now thirty- seven years old in perfect health begin,Hoping to cease not till death”Questions:A. Whos the poet of the quoted stanza, and whats the title of the poem?B. What do “soil” and “air” represent in the first line?C. What does the poet try to say in the above quoted lines?答：答案：Whitman, Song of Myself|America|devotion【题型：论述】【分数：10分】 得分：0分3Discuss the artistic features of Shelleys poems.答：答案：lyrical|poet|classical|mythological|allusions|figures of speech|metaphor|personification|description【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分4George Bernard Shaw s _ is a grotesquely realistic exposure of slum landlordism.AWidower s HouseBMrs. Warren s ProfessionCThe Apple CartDGetting Married答：答案：A【题型：简答】【分数：4分】 得分：0分5What is the language style of Mark Twain?答：答案：He uses vernacular and colloquial speech, concrete and direct words, simple and ungrammatical sentences.【题型：阅读】【分数：4分】 得分：0分6Shall I compare thee to a summers day?Thou are more lovely and more temperate.Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.Questions:A. Who is the author?B.What is the theme of the poem?C. What kind of poem is it?答：答案：Shakespeare, eternity of poetry, sonnet【题型：论述】【分数：10分】 得分：0分7Why are naturalists inevitably pessimistic in their view?答：答案：Darwin|theory|influence|social|environmental|forces|realism|Darwinsim【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分8Symbolism and complex narrative are employed more richly in D. H. Lawrences _, which are generally regarded as his masterpieces.AWomen in LoveBSons and LoversCLady Chatteleys LoverDFarewell to Arms答：答案：A【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分9In Hardys Wessex novels, there is an apparent _ touch in his description of the simple and beautiful though primitive rural life.AhumorousBromanticCnostalgicDsarcastic答：答案：C【题型：简答】【分数：4分】 得分：0分10Please comment on Alexander Popes literary achievements.答：答案：An Essay on Criticism follows the neoclassicist tradition. The Rape of the Lock mocks the epic. He uses heroic couplet.【题型：阅读】【分数：4分】 得分：0分11Had I as many souls as there be stars.Id give them all for Mephistophilis!By him Ill be great emperor of the world,And make a bridge through the moving airTo pass the ocean with a band of men;Ill join the hills that bing the Africa shoreAnd make that country continent to Spain,And both contributory to my crown;The Emperor shall not live by my leave,Nor any potentate of Germany.Now that I have obtained what I desireIll live in speculation of this art.Till Mephistophilis return again.”A. Identify the author and the title of the work from which the passage is taken.B. Based on the passage, write down in one or two sentences the theme of the play.答：答案：Dr. Faustus, Christopher Marlowe, Mans aspiration, bounding achievement【题型：阅读】【分数：4分】 得分：0分12Is dying hard, Daddy?No, I think its pretty easy, Nick. It all depends. ”Questions:A. Whos the author of the quoted part, and whats the title of the work?B. What was Nick preoccupied with when he asked the question?C. Why did the father add “It all depends” after he answered his sons question?答：答案：Hemingway, Indian Camp|life and death|Death can be both easy and hard.【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分13_ is the leading figure of the metaphysical school.AJohn MiltonBJohn DonneCJohn BunyanDJohn Keats答：答案：B【题型：简答】【分数：4分】 得分：0分14Briefly introduce Blake s Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience.答：答案：Songs of Innocence is a lovely volume of poems, presenting a happy and innocent world, though not without its evils; Songs of Experience paints a different world, a world of misery, disease, war and repression with melancholy tone; The two books hold the similar subject-matter, but the tone, emphasis and conclusion differ.【题型：简答】【分数：4分】 得分：0分15What are the features of Charles Dickens novels?答：答案：They provides a complete and realistic picture of the English bourgeoisie society. Many of them are about childhood experience and are famous for humor.【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分16Nathaniel Hawthorne was affected by _s transcendentalist theory and struck up a very intimate relationship with him.AH. W. LongfellowBWalt WhitmanCR. W. EmersonDWashington Irving答：答案：C【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分17Which of the following writings is NOT completed by William Blake?ASongs of ExperienceBSongs of InnocenceCMarriage of Heaven and HellDEmma答：答案：D【题型：简答】【分数：4分】 得分：0分18Elizabeth Bennet is the heroine of Pride and Prejucide. What kind of character do you think Elizabeth Bennet is?答：答案：Elizabeth is clever, alert, and observant. She is able to match wits with Darcy several times and with Colonel Fizwilliam, earning their respect and admiration.Fearless and frank, not rattled by the attack of Lady Catherine de Bourgh, she wins a notable cictory, sending her ladyship away completely routed.She is independent but not infallible in her judgement- taken in by the charm of the worthless Wickham. She cannot be blamed for misjudging Darcy. She shows flexibility, discernment and honesty of mind when she reads Darcys defense in his letter and admits the justice of much of what he says.She is able to control her emotions at times of stress- when she first encounters Darcy at Pemberley; when she realizes that she loves Darcy and has good reason to fear that she has lost him, she waits without replying for time to bring a solution. She is witty, fun-loving, recognizing humor in herself and in others, but ridicuing only folly, nonsense, and inconsistencies. She recognizes the follies of her own family and their shortcomings as well as their virtues.【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分19The Sun Also Rises casts light on a whole generation after WWI and the effects of the war by way of a vivid portrait of “_.”Athe Lost GenerationBthe Beat GenerationCthe Babybooming AgeDthe Jazz Age答：答案：A【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分20All of the following works are known as Hardy s “novels of character and environment” EXCEPT _.AThe Return of the NativeBTess of the D UrbervillesCJude the ObscureDFar from the Madding Crowd答：答案：D【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分218. A good style of prose“ proper works in proper places” was defined by_.AMiltonBFieldingCSwiftDJohn Donne答：答案：C【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分22The protagonist of the poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is a kind of tragic figure caught in a sense of deafened idealism and tortured by unsatisfied desires. Of the following descriptions of him, which isnt suitable for him?AHe is neurotic.BHe is self-important.CHe is illogical.DHe is a man of action.答：答案：D【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分23_, the pioneering woman who, according to D. H. Lawrence, was the first novelist that “started putting all the actions inside”.AA. George EliotBB. Jane AustenCC. Mrs. GaskellDD. Charlotte Bronte答：答案：A【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分24InDeath in the Afternoon_ presents his philosophy about life and death through the depiction of the bullfight as a kind of microcosmic tragedy.A. William Faulkner &nbsAWilliam FaulknerBJack LondonCErnest HemingwayDMark Twain答：答案：C【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分25_ , which bears a strong resemblance to The Waste Land is generally regarded as the darkest of T. S. Eliots poems.A“Gerontion”BThe Hollow MenC“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”DThe Cocktail Party答：答案：B【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分26In Tender is the Night, _ traces the decline of a young American psychiatrist whose marriage to a beautiful and wealthy patient drains his personal energies and corrodes his professional career.ADreiserBFitzgeraldCFaulknerDJack London答：答案：B【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分27William Wordsworth, Coleridge and _ are known as the “Lake Poets”.AA. George Gordon ByronBB. Robert SoutheyCC. Percy Bysshe ShelleyDD. John Keats答：答案：B【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分28_ is not a fictional character inThe Scarlet Letter.AHesterBArthur DimmesdaleCRoger ChillingworthDIshmael答：答案：D【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分29In William Blakes later period, he wrote quite a few prophetic books including the following writing EXCEPT _.AThe Book of UrizenBThe Book of LosCMiltonDLyrical Ballads答：答案：D【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分30_ is Hemingways firt true novel, which portrays “The Lost Generation”.AA. For Whom the Bell TollsBB. The Old Man and the SeaCC. The Sun Also RisesDD. A Farewell to Arms答：答案：C【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分31All of the following poems by William Wordsworth are masterpieces on natureEXCEPT_.A“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”B“An Evening Walk”C“Tinter Abbey”D“The Solitary Reaper”答：答案：D【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分32_ is a play based on the German legend of a magician aspiring for knowledge and finally meeting his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the Devil.ATamburlaineBHero and LeanderCDr. FaustusDAmores答：答案：C【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分33All of the following statements about the Victorian period is true EXCEPT _.AEngland was the “workshop of the world”.BThe early years was a time of rapid economic development as well as serious social problemCTowards the mid -century, England had reached its highest point of development as a worldDCapitalism came into its monopoly stage, the gap between the rich and the poor was further答：答案：D【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分34As a critic of music and drama, _ held that art should serve social purposes by reflecting human life, revealing social contradictions and educating the common people.AYeatsBOscar WildCBernard ShawDMilton答：答案：B【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分35The assertion that poetry originates from “emotion recollected in tranquility” belongs to _.AWordsworthBColeridgeCShelleyDBlake答：答案：A【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分36_ is a poem based on a traditional Spanish legend of a great lover and seducer of women.AAdonaisBDon JuanCPrometheus UnboundDThe Revolt of Islam答：答案：B【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分37Generally, the Renaissance refers to the period between _ and _ centuries.A14th; mid-17thB16th; mid-17thC14th; mid-18thD16th; mid-19th答：答案：A【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分38Charlottes works are famous for the depiction of the life of _ working women, particularly governesses.Athe middle - classBthe lower classCthe upper - middle - classDthe upper - class答：答案：A【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分39A proud, mysterious rebel figure of noble origin is called _ hero in Romantic Period of English literature.ARomanticBRealisticCRenaissanceDByronic答：答案：D【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分40Which of the following accounts is NOT true for Ralph Waldo Emerson?AA. He is the chief spokesman of New England Transcendentalism.BB. Emerson is generally known as a dramatist.CC. His works were usually derived from his journals or lectures he had already given.DD. In Nature, he employed “a transparent eyeball” to illustrate his philosophical discussi答：答案：B【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分41In Coleridges “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” the mariner suffers the horror of death, because _.Ahe experiences a shipwreckBhe is tortured with starvationChe undergoes much sufferingDhe kills an albatross答：答案：D【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分42“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” the quoted line comes from _.AShelleys “Ode to the West Wind”BWalt Whitman s Leaves of GrassCJohn Miltons Paradise LostDJohn Keats“ Ode on a Grecian Urn”答：答案：A【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分43Francis Bacon is best known for his _ which greatly influenced the development of this literary form.AessaysBpoemsCnovelsDplays答：答案：A【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分44Jonathan Swift s _ is generally regarded as the best model of satire, not only of the period but also in the whole English literary history.AGullivers TravelsBThe Battle of the BooksC“A Modest Proposal”DA Tale of a Tub答：答案：C【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分45The tragic sense turns into despair in Thomas Hardys _, where cornered by the traditional social morality, the hero and the heroine have to kill their own will and passion and return to their former destructive way of life.ATessBThe Return of the NativeCThe GreenlandersDJude the Obscure答：答案：D【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分46Which of the following comments on William Blake is not true?AThe Book of Loss is his masterpiece.BChildhood is central to Blakes concern in the Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience.CBlakes Marriage of Heaven and Hell marks his entry into maturity.DSymbolism in wide range is a distinctive feature of his poetry.答：答案：C【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分47As he is a leading spokesman of the “Imagist Movement”, _ famous one-image poem “In a Station of the Metro”