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问题 1 得 2 分，满分 2 分 Which one is NOT Charlotte Brontes novel? 反馈： Agnes Grey 问题 2 得 0 分，满分 2 分 Thomas Hardys , one of the centurys finest novels, traces the rise and fall of Michael Henchard, a tough, egotistical fellow who, having committed the folly of drunkenly selling his wife and baby at a fair, turns teetotal and by sheer perseverance rises to wealth as a corn-factor and to respectability as Mayor of Casterbridge. 正确答案： The Mayor of the Casterbridge问题 3 得 0 分，满分 2 分 Dickens and Thackeray are novelists of social manners while Hardy and Emily Bronte are well known for their descriptions of romantic passions.正确答案： 错 问题 4 得 2 分，满分 2 分 Middlemarch offers a panorama of social life. Although subtitled _, it is meant to be a miniature of 19th-century English life. 正确答案： A Study of Provincial Life问题 5 得 2 分，满分 2 分 Hardys principal works are the Wessex novels, i.e., novels describing the characters and environment of his native countryside. is NOT included. 正确答案： A. A Pair of Blue Eyes问题 6 得 2 分，满分 2 分 The Victorian poetry was mainly characterized by experiments with new styles and new ways of expression. Among these famous experimental poets was_who created the verse novel by adopting the novelistic presentation of characters. 正确答案： C. Robert Browning 问题 7 得 2 分，满分 2 分 Written in 1837-38, Charles Dickenss novel tells the story of an orphan boy, whose adventures provide material for a description of the lower depths of poverty in the city of London正确答案： Oliver Twist问题 8 得 2 分，满分 2 分 The Oxford Movement reflected the desire of the perplexed Victorians to cling to the old faith in face of doubt and emotional stress. 正确答案： 对 问题 9 得 0 分，满分 2 分 Between 1859 and 1885 Alfred Tennyson worked this narrative poems based on the stories of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table. Those poems were gathered together as .正确答案： Idylls of the King问题 10 得 2 分，满分 2 分 , the pioneering woman, according to D. H. Lawrence, was the first novelist that “started putting all the actions inside”. 正确答案： B. George Eliot 问题 11 得 2 分，满分 2 分 History of the French Revolution” is written by . 正确答案： B. Thomas Carlyle 问题 12 得 2 分，满分 2 分 “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 a shard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you.” The above quoted passage is most probably taken from .正确答案： C. Jane Eyre问题 13 得 2 分，满分 2 分 Mrs. Gaskell, George Eliot, Charlotte Bronte and Emily Bronte are NOT all . 正确答案： D. pseudonymous novelists 问题 14 得 2 分，满分 2 分 Oscar Wildes first play is _opened in February1892. 正确答案： C. Lady Windermeres Fan问题 15 得 2 分，满分 2 分 1. In more than one sense the Victorian period was an age of the novel, and all great Victorian novels follow the moral standards. 正确答案： 对 问题 16 得 0 分，满分 2 分 s works are all about the struggle of an individual consciousness towards self-realization, about some lonely and neglected young women with a fierce longing for love, understanding and a full happy life. 正确答案： C. George Eliot 问题 17 得 2 分，满分 2 分 Which of the following is about the discussion of Tennysons aesthetic view of art and artistic creation. 正确答案： C. The Lady of Shalott 问题 18 得 2 分，满分 2 分 Thackerays most successful novel is _, which gets its title from Bunyans novel The Pilgrims Progress正确答案： Vanity Fair问题 19 得 2 分，满分 2 分 believes that mans fate is predeterminedly tragic, driven by a combined force of “nature”, both inside and outside. 正确答案： D. Thomas Hardy问题 20 得 2 分，满分 2 分 Which one is NOT William Makepeace Thackerays works?正确答案： A. Sylvias Lover 问题 21 得 2 分，满分 2 分 opposed Darwins explanation of evolution, finding it too mechanistic, and he expounded his own theories in Evolution Old and New, Unconscious Memory, and Luck or Cunning. 正确答案： B. Samuel Butler 问题 22 得 2 分，满分 2 分 The statement “It reveals the dehumanizing workhouse system and the dark, criminal underworld life” may well sum up the main theme of Dickenss . 正确答案： C. Oliver Twist 问题 23 得 2 分，满分 2 分 Besides being a successful novelist, Charlotte Bronte is also gaining a reputation as a good poet.正确答案： 错 问题 24 得 2 分，满分 2 分 These works are written by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell EXCEPT . 正确答案： D. Little Dorrit 问题 25 得 2 分，满分 2 分 One of Charles Dickenss best works is_, which is written in the first person and is the most autobiographical of all his books. In writing the novel, Dickens threw into it deep feelings and much of his own experience in his younger days.正确答案： David Copperfield问题 26 得 0 分，满分 2 分 The Victorian drama scene, did not quite regain its value until George Bernard Shaw came on the scene. _is among one of his most popular early works, the first of its kind to present a prostitue as its major character. 正确答案： Mrs. Warrens Profession问题 27 得 2 分，满分 2 分 “The Sea of Faith/ was once, too, at the full, and round earths shore/ Lat like the folds of a bright girdle furled.” are the lines from Arnolds poem_.正确答案： Dover Beach问题 28 得 2 分，满分 2 分 The following are the common characters shared by the three Bronte sisters EXCEPT . 正确答案： A. unmarried 问题 29 得 2 分，满分 2 分 Macaulays History of England was warmly received by his contemporaries because it had presented a faithful picture of historical events.正确答案： 错 问题 30 得 0 分，满分 2 分 Emily Brontes novel _is a pathetic story of love, but a powerful attack on the bourgeois marriage system. It shows that true love in a class society is impossible of attainment. 正确答案： Wuthering Height问题 31 得 2 分，满分 2 分 Which of the following best describes the nature of Thomas Hardys later works?正确答案： D. Tragic sense问题 32 得 2 分，满分 2 分 The purpose of both The Seven Lamps of Architecture and The Stones of Venice is to glorify , an architecture style distinguished by its high and sharply-pointed arches, which had prevailed in Western Europe from the 12th to the 16th centuries. 正确答案： gothic architecture gothic building问题 33 得 2 分，满分 2 分 Which one is NOT written by Dante Gabriel Rossetti? 正确答案： B. Goblin Market 问题 34 得 2 分，满分 2 分 Tess of the DUrbervilles, one of Thomas Hardys best-known novels, portrays man as . e 正确答案： D. having no control over his own fate 问题 35 得 2 分，满分 2 分 _ is Matthew Arnolds representative work in social criticism, in which the author divides the Victorian people into 3 categories: the Barbarians, the Philistines and the Populace. Arnolds recommends Hellenism as a cure for the Victorian society to uphold the sweetness and light of the Greek civilization can offer.正确答案： Culture and Anarchy问题 36 得 2 分，满分 2 分 Which one is William Makepeace Thackerays historical novel? 正确答案： D. The History of Henry Esmond问题 37 得 2 分，满分 2 分 John Ruskins book entitled _ is actually not about painters; it is about the beauty of nature and the importance of the appreciation of nature.正确答案： Modern Painters问题 38 得 2 分，满分 2 分 The Mill on the Floss is George Eliots novel with a heavy autobiographical touch whereas _is often regarded as her masterpiece.正确答案： Middlemarch 问题 39 得 2 分，满分 2 分 The book News from Nowhere is a , telling the story of a man who falls asleep after an evening at a Socialist League meeting. He wakes in the future to find England transformed into a communist paradise where men and women are free, healthy, and equal. 正确答案： Utopian fantasy问题 40 得 2 分，满分 2 分 Ruskins aesthetics and the Pre-Raphaelite artistic pursuits anticipate the Art-for-Arts Sake school represented By Oscar Wilds.正确答案： 对 问题 41 得 0 分，满分 2 分 Which one does NOT belong to Robert Louis Stevensons writings manipulating the genres associated with children? 正确答案： A. The Black Arrow 问题 42 得 2 分，满分 2 分 One of the features of the Victorian age was peoples emphasis on respectability. 正确答案： 对 问题 43 得 2 分，满分 2 分 The wide currency of Utilitarianism in the Victorian age on the whole dominated popular thinking, but it provoked strong criticism from the major authors of the time, among others, Carlyle and Arnol