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问题 1 得 2 分，满分 2 分 Which writer belongs to “stream-of-consciousness” school? 正确答案： B. Virginia Woolf 问题 2 得 2 分，满分 2 分 The Golden Notebook is considered to be _s masterpiece, taken as a milestone work in Feminist Literature. 正确答案： Doris Lessing 问题 3 得 2 分，满分 2 分 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is s first novel. 正确答案： James Joyce 问题 4 得 2 分，满分 2 分 _is claimed as the best Irish poet since W.B.Yeats, and his work has been among the most profusely commented upon in the contemporary. The volumes of his verse include Death of a Naturalist (1966), The Haw Lantern(1987), and the spirit Level (1999). 正确答案： Seamus Heaney 问题 5 得 2 分，满分 2 分 In the beginning of 20th century, the seminal developments in the fields of philosophy and psychology that impacted literary creativity and criticism are Bergsons notion of _and Freuds theory of psychoanalysis. 正确答案： time 问题 6 得 2 分，满分 2 分 Which of following statements about Yeats is true? 正确答案： C. In a certain way, Yeatss experiments in drama anticipated the abstract movement of modern theater. 问题 7 得 2 分，满分 2 分 In My Last Duchess, “She smiled, no doubt,/ Wheneer I passed her/This grew; I gave commands; /Then all smiles stopped together.” The last line of the above quoted passage implies that she_. 正确答案： A. was murdered at the order of the duke 问题 8 得 2 分，满分 2 分 All of Joyces novels and short stories have the same setting of his native country Ireland especially the city of .正确答案： Dublin 问题 9 得 2 分，满分 2 分 G. B. Shaws play Mrs. Warrens Profession is a realistic exposure of the in the English society. 正确答案： C. economic exploitation of women 问题 10 得 2 分，满分 2 分 Eliots poem, The Waste Land, is mainly concerned with the _of a modern civilization. 正确答案： D. spiritual breakup 问题 11 得 2 分，满分 2 分 Artistically, Samuel Beckett has come under the strong influence of , whose works parody the unsympathetic world and mans wretched lot. 正确答案： D. James Joyce 问题 12 得 2 分，满分 2 分 The theory of psychoanalysis put forward first by _exerts great influence over modern literature. 正确答案： A. Sigmund Freud 问题 13 得 2 分，满分 2 分 The modernist writers such as Dorothy Richardson, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf are mainly concerned with the _. 正确答案： B. inner life of an individual 问题 14 得 2 分，满分 2 分 To create his modern OdysseyUlysses, Joyce adopts a kind of _ style. 正确答案： mock-heroic 问题 15 得 0 分，满分 2 分 Modernism upholds a new view of time by emphasizing the time over the chronological one. 正确答案： Psychic psychological 问题 16 得 2 分，满分 2 分 _is Galsworthys masterpiece which gives a profound and true-to-life picture of the English society from the 80s of the 19th century up to the 20s of the 20th century. 正确答案： The Forsyte Saga 问题 17 得 2 分，满分 2 分 Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Modernism? 正确答案： C. to put more emphasis on traditional values 问题 18 得 2 分，满分 2 分 William Goldings first novel_, which describes a group of boys working out their lives on an isolated island, paves the way for him to win the Nobel Prize in 1983. 正确答案： Lord of Flies、 问题 19 得 2 分，满分 2 分 In The French Lieutenants Woman, is an existentially independent woman, as she said in the novel, “No limit, no blame, can touch me.” 正确答案： C. Sarah 问题 20 得 2 分，满分 2 分 Between 1912 and 1922 there came a great poetry movement_ in England and America to express the modern sense of fragmentization and dislocation. T.E. Hulme is considered the first outstanding theorist of this movement. 正确答案： imagism 问题 21 得 2 分，满分 2 分 A typical Forsyte, according to John Galsworthy, is a man with a strong sense of , who never pays any attention to human feelings. 正确答案： D. property 问题 22 得 2 分，满分 2 分 Rudyard Kipling was the spokesman for imperialist sentiment. Which one is NOT his work? 正确答案： D. Dubliners 问题 23 得 2 分，满分 2 分 Sameul Beckett is an absurdist dramatist who is well known for his daring formal experimentation. His works are strongly suggestive of the two prominent literary phases modernism and postmodernism. The most famous of his plays is _written in 1952. 正确答案： Waiting for Godot 问题 24 得 0 分，满分 2 分 Virginia Woolfs novel , published in1925, made her reputation as an important psychological writer. 正确答案： Mrs. Dalloway 问题 25 得 2 分，满分 2 分 Which of the following statements about writers in 1920s is true? 正确答案： A. Freudian psychology influenced many modern writers. 问题 26 得 2 分，满分 2 分 Which of the following novels was NOT written by H. G. Wells? 正确答案： A. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 问题 27 得 0 分，满分 2 分 John Fowless novel _is a metafiction model of postmodernist form of writing fiction in the form of fiction, trying to use burlesque and parody as a means to reveal the discrepancy between the imitation and the original. 正确答案： French Lieutenants Woman 问题 28 得 0 分，满分 2 分 In his famous essay “Tradition and Individual Talent” puts great emphasis on the importance of tradition both in creative writing and in criticism. 正确答案： T. S. Eliot 问题 29 得 2 分，满分 2 分 William Butler Yeats experienced a slow and painful change in his poetic creation, starting in the romantic tradition and finishing as a mature poet. 正确答案： modernist modernism 问题 30 得 2 分，满分 2 分 written by Iris Murdoch is remarkable for its meta-fictional structure, containing various narrators and narrative descriptions, and its multi-dimensional psychology. 正确答案： A. The Black Prince 问题 31 得 2 分，满分 2 分 In Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf adopted a writing technique called , in which the whole story was presented with the interior monologues of the characters. 正确答案： stream-of-consciousness 问题 32 得 2 分，满分 2 分 “She frankly wanted him to climb into the middle class, a thing not very difficult, she knew. And she wanted him in the end to marry a lady.” is taken from D. H. Lawrences novel . 正确答案： Sons and Lovers 问题 33 得 2 分，满分 2 分 Muriel Sparks The Girls of Slender Means is set in a hostel in the city of _ in 1945 when the detonation of an unexploded bomb sets fire to the hostel, a moment when characters spiritual world is depicted in a biting satire. 正确答案： London 问题 34 得 2 分，满分 2 分 _represents the much more readable novelists of the stream of consciousness school. She is a fine artist, a woman of sharp sensitivity who, in one of her frequent mental depressions, committed suicide. 正确答案： Virginia Woolf 问题 35 得 2 分，满分 2 分 T. S. Eliots poem_, which is 433 lines long, is broadly acknowledged as one of the most recognizable landmarks of modernism, the first part of the poem is the Burial of the Dead. 正确答案： The Waste Land 问题 36 得 2 分，满分 2 分 The textual insinuation of Joyces Ulysses is parallel to Homeric epic_, thus revealing the vast difference between the grandeur of the ancient Greek hero and the pettiness of the degraded modern anti-hero. 正确答案： Odyssey问题 37 得 2 分，满分 2 分 D. H. Lawrences poems fall roughly into three categoriessatirical and comic poems, poems about human relationship and emotions, and poems about . 正确答案： nature 问题 38 得 2 分，满分 2 分 Joyce seems to mean that the novel_ describes the mental activities of two Dubliners in a single day, while Finnegans Wake, his second novel, describes the sub-conscious world in which a man lives through a good part of his life. 正确答案： Ulysses 问题 39 得 2 分，满分 2 分 The statement that a sensitive young man is at first shaped by excessively powerful and oppressive forces of his environment but gradually realizes the pressure and rebels against it and tries to find his own identity mat well sum up the major theme of _. 正确答案： A. Joyces A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 问题 40 得 2 分，满分 2 分 As a literary figure, Leopold Bloom appears in _ 正确答案： D. Joyces Ulysses 问题 41 得 2 分，满分 2 分 . _ is the most outstanding stream-of-consciousness novelist of 20th century. 正确答案： B. James Joyce 问题 42 得 2 分，满分 2 分 The Old Wives Tale was written by . 正确答案： D. Arnold Bennett 问题 43 得 2 分，满分 2 分 William Goldings Lord of the Flies deals with the conflict between the forces of reason and those of irrationality represented by . 正确答案： A. Jack 问题 44 得 2 分，满分 2 分 The statement “A demanding mother turns away from her husband and gives all her affection to her sons” sums up the main plot of D. H. Lawrences . 正确答案： B. Sons and Lovers 问题 45 得 2 分，满分 2 分 By presenting a conventional hero as a villain, or a conventional villain as a hero, intends to give a shocking impression to his audience and challenge th