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学校： 班别： 姓名： 学号： 湛江一中培才学校2015-2016学年第二学期期末测试PGA国际班高三英语科试卷 时间：90分钟 满分：100分 命题教师：CYT.Multiple Choice（40 points, 1 point for each） Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Mark your choice by blackening the corresponding letter A,B,C or D on the answer sheet. 1.The sentence Shall I compare thee to a summers day? is the beginning line of one of Shakespeares _ . A.comedies B.tragedies C.sonnets D.histories 2.So much the worse for me, that I an strong. Do I want to live? What kind of living will it be when you-oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave? In the above passage quoted from Emily Brontes Wuthering Heights, the word soul apparently refers to _ . A.Heathcliff B.Catherine C.ghost D.ones spiritual lift 3.And where are they? And where art thou, My country? On thy voiceless shore The heroic lay is tuneless now- The heroic bosom beats no more!（George Gordon Byron, Don Juan） In the above stanza, art thou literally means _ . A.are you B.art though C.are though D.art you 4.The major concern of _ fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature. A.Charles Dickenss B.D.H.Lawrences C.Thomas Hardys D.John Galsworthys 5.Daniel Defoe describes _ as a typical English Middle-class man of the eighteenth century, the very prototype of the empire builder or the pioneer colonist. A.Tom Jones B.Gulliver C.Moll Flanders D.Robinson Crusoe 6.To be so distinguished is an honor, which, being very little accustomed to favors from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. The above quoted sentence is presented by Samuel Johnson with a（n） _ tone. A.delightful B.jealous C.ironic D.humorous 7.She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and, oh, The difference to me! The word me in the last line of the above stanza quoted from Wordsworths poem She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways may possibly refer to _ . A.the poet B.the reader C.her lover D.everybody 8._ is a typical feature of Swifts writings. A.Bitter satire B.Elegant style C.Casual narration D.Complicated sentence structure 9.The statement It reveals the dehumanizing workhouse system and the dark, criminal underworld life may well sum up the main theme if Dickenss _ . A.David Copperfield B.Bleak House C.Great Expectations D.Oliver Twist 10.Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless 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 above quoted passage is most probably taken from _ . A.Pride and Prejudice B.Jane Eyre C.Wuthering Heights D.Great Expectations 11.It is generally regarded that Keatss most important and mature poems are in the form of _ . A.ode B.elegy C.epic D.sonnet 12.G.B.Shaws play Mrs.Warrens Profession is a realistic exposure of the _ in the English society. A.slum landlordism B.inequality between men and women C.political corruption D.economic exploitation of women 13.In William Blakes poetry, the father（and any other in whom he saw the image of the father such as God, priest, and king）was usually a figure of _ . A.benevolence B.admiration C.love D.tyranny 14.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 womans tone is very _ . A.sarcastic B.amusing C.sentimental D.facetious 15.The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan is often said to be concerned with the search for _ . A.material wealth B.spiritual salvation C.universal truth D.self-fulfillment 16.Alexander Pope strongly advocated _, emphasizing that literary works should be judged by rules of order, reason, logic, restrained emotion, good taste and decorum. A.sentimentalism B.romanticism C.idealism D.neoclassicism 17.After reading the first chapter of Pride and Prejudice, we may come to know that Mrs. Bennet is a woman of _ . A.simple character and quick wit B.simple character and poor understanding C.intricate character and quick wit D.intricate character and poor understanding 18.Of all the eighteenth-century novelists, _ was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a comic epic in prose, and the first to give the modern novel its structure and style. A.Daniel Defoe B.Samuel Richardson C.Henry Fielding D.Oliver Goldsmith 19.Not on thy sole but on thy soul, harsh Jew,/Thou makst thy knife keen. In the above quotation taken form The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare employs a（n）_ . A.oxymoron B.pun C.simile D.synecdoche 20.In Hardys Wessex novels, there is an apparent _ touch in his description of the simple and beautiful though primitive rural life. A.humorous B.romantic C.nostalgic D.sarcastic 21.O prince, O chief of many throned powers, That led th embattled seraphim to war Under thy conduct, and in dreadful deeds Fearless, endangered Heavens perpetual King. In the third line of the above passage quoted from Miltons Paradise Lost, the phrase thy conduct refers to _ conduct. A.Satans B.Gods C.Adams D.Eves 22.We can perhaps describe the west wind in Shelleys poem Ode to the West Wind with all the following terms except _ . A.tamed B.swift C.proud D.wild 23.In 1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson made a speech entitled _ at Harvard, which was hailed by Oliver Wendell Holmes as Our intellectual Declaration of Independence. A.Nature B.Self-Reliance C.Divinity School Address D.The American Scholar 24.In Hawthornes Young Goodman Brown, a satanic figure leads the credulous protagonist to a witches Sabbath in the woods. There he recognizes many pillars of Salems Puritan society as well as his wife, Faith. The story illustrates Hawthornes allegorical theme of human evil or what Melville called the power of _ . A.blackness B.whiteness C.terror D.hypocrisy 25.For Melville, as well as for the reader and _ , the narrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, an ultimate mystery of the universe. A.Ahab B.Ishmael C.Stubb D.Starbuck 26.Most of the poems in Whitmans Leaves of Grass sing of the en-mass and the _ as well. A.nature B.self-reliance C.self D.life 27.Emily Dickinsons poem（441）This is my letter to the World expresses the poets _ about her communication with the outside world. A.indifference B.joy C.anxiety D.indignation 28.Which of the following statements about writers in 1920s is true? A.Mark Twain published his last and most important novel. B.F. Scott Fitzgerald received the Nobel Prize. C.Freudian psychology influenced many modern writers. D.Most writers were politically radical. 29.Naturalism is evolved from realism when the authors tone in writing becomes less serious and less sympathetic but more ironic and more _ . A.rational B.humorous C.optimistic D.pessimistic 30.Mark Twains first novel _ , written in collaboration with Charles D. Warner and published in 1873,though not an artistic success, gives its name to the America of the post-Civil War period which it attempts to satirize. A.The Gilded Age B.The Age of Innocence C.The Roughing Time D.The Jazz Age 31.Dreisers Trilogy of Desire includes three novels. They are The Financier, The Titan and _ . A.The Genius B.The Tycoon C.The Stoic D.The Giant 32.Daisy Millers 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 33.The impact of Darwins evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the nineteenth-century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to yet another school of realism: American _ . A.local colorism B.vernacularism C.modernism D.naturalism 34.It is on his _ that Washington Irvings fame mainly rested. A.childhood recollections B.sketches about his European tours C.early poetry D.tales about America 35.If honest labor be unremunerative and difficult to endure; if it be the long, long road which never reaches beauty, but wearies the feet and the heart; if the drag to follow beauty be such that one abandons the admired way, taking rather the despised path leading to her dreams quickly, who shall cast the first stone? Where is the underlined phrase taken from? A.The Bible. B.Milton. C.Shakespeare. D.Hawthorne. 36.Most recognizable literary movement that gave rise to the twentieth-century American literature, or we may say, the second American Renaissance, is the _ movement. A.transcendental B.leftist C.expatriate D.expressionistic 37.Robert Frost combined traditional verse forms - the sonnet, rhyming couplets, blank verse - with a clear American local speech rhythm, the speech of _ farmers with its idiosyncratic diction and syntax. A.Southern B.Western C.New Hampshire D.New England 38.As an autobiographical play, ONeills _ （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 Days Journey Into Night C.The Hairy Ape D.Desire