英美文学选读习题

【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分1We can easily find in Dreiser s fiction a world of jungle, and _ found expression in almost every book he wrote.AnaturalismBromanticismCtranscendentalismDcubism答：答案：A【题型：论述】【分数：10分】 得分：0分2Why is Hardy regarded as a naturalistic writer in English literature? Discuss in relation to his novels you know.答：答案：survival|fittest|fate|mysterious |supernatural|force|impotent|Fate【题型：阅读】【分数：4分】 得分：0分31. “When the stars threw down their spears,And water d heaven with their tears,Did he smile his work to see?Did he who made the Lamb make thee ?”Questions:A. Whos the poet of the quoted stanza?B. Whom does the “he” refer to?C. What does the “Lamb” symbolize?答：答案：William Blake;God; peace and purity【题型：简答】【分数：4分】 得分：0分4What are the characteristics of Byrons works?答：The only major languag答案：they are violentattack on politics, religion and morals. They describe the novelty of oriental scenery and shows the easy, fluent and natural beauty of his verse.【题型：论述】【分数：10分】 得分：0分5Make a comment on the character ofJane Eyre, the heroine of the novel by Charlotte Bronte.答：答案：orphan|child|poor|plain|governess|middle class |working|woman【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分6_ 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：阅读】【分数：4分】 得分：0分7“ Do you think I can stay to become nothing to you? So you think I am an automoton?a machine without feelings? And can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless?You think wrong!I have as much as you and full as much heart! 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. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, or even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at Gods feet, equal as we are!”A. Identify the author and the work.B. Summarize the speakers meaning.答：答案：Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, Jane doesnt want to become his accessory. Mr. Rochester doesnt treat her as an equal being.【题型：简答】【分数：4分】 得分：0分8What is expressionism?答：答案：It is a reaction against materialism,describesindividuals internal state of mind. the representatives are August Strinberg,Frank Wedeking and Eugene ONeill.【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分9All 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：阅读】【分数：4分】 得分：0分10It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good forturen must be in want of a wife.However little known the feelings or views of such a man many be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrouding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.Questions:A. Identify the author and the title from which the above passage is taken.B. What is this passage describing?答：答案：Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Mrs Bennet, considering her daughters marriage【题型：简答】【分数：4分】 得分：0分11Do you know something about Yoknapatawpha County? What are the characteristics of Faulkners fiction?答：答案：Yoknapatawpha County is an imagined place based on Faulkners own hometown, a place that he took for the setting of 15 of his 19 novels and many short stories. This small region in the American South becomes in Faulkners fiction an allegory or a parable of the old south.Characteristics: representation of the Old South; his theme of the deterioration, loss and moral decay of the Old South when it was falling apart.【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分12“Shall I compare thee to a summers day?/Thou art more lovely and more temperate/ Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May/And summers lease hath all too short a date,” the above beautiful sonnet was written by _.AJohn DonneBJohn MiltonCWilliam ShakespeareDFrancis Bacon答：答案：C【题型：阅读】【分数：4分】 得分：0分13“Nor lose possession of that fair thou owst;Nor shall Death brag thou wanderst in his shade,When in eternal lines to time thou growst:So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. ”Questions:A. Whos the poet of the quoted stanza, and whats the title of the poem?B. What does the word “this” in the last line refer to?C. What idea do the quoted lines express?答：答案：Shakespeare, Sonnet 18, permance of poetry【题型：简答】【分数：4分】 得分：0分14Whats the theme of Emily Bronte s Wuthering Heights?答：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：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分15All 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：简答】【分数：4分】 得分：0分16what is Bacons Of Studies about?答：答案：the aims, ways and infulence of studies【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分17The work _ by William Blake is a lovely volume of poems, presenting a happy world, though not without its evils and sufferings.A.Songs of Innocence&nASongs of InnocenceBSongs of ExperienceCPoetical SketchesDLyrical Ballads答：答案：A【题型：简答】【分数：4分】 得分：0分18Please 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：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分19The 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20_ 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21_ by Henry James tells a story about a young and innocent American confronting the complexity of the European life.AA. The AmericanBB. The EuropeansCC. Daisy MillerDD. The Portrait of a Lady答：答案：A【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分22Generally, 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23The literary form which is fully-developed and the most flourishing during the Romantic period is _.AproseBdramaCnovelDpoetry答：答案：D【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分24Charlottes 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257. Neoclassicists had some fixed laws and rules for prose EXCEPT_.AprecisonBdirectnessCflexibilityDsatire答：答案：D【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分26Charlotte Brontes autobiograghical work _ largely based on her experience in Brussels.AThe ProfessorBShirleyCVilletteDJane Eyre答：答案：D【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分27In 1892, Yeats wrote his first play, _, which is an Irish myth about a noblewoman who sells her soul to the devil in order to save starving peasants.AA. The Land of Hearts DesireBB. The Shadowy WatersCC. The Countess CathleenDD. Purgatory答：答案：C【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分28In Charles Dickensearly novels, he attacks one or more specific social evils, _is a good example of describing the dehumanizing workhouse system and the dark, criminal underworld life.AOliver TwistBBleak houseCDavid CopperfieldDGreat Expectations答：答案：A【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分29_ , 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30The author of Leaves of Grass , a giant of American letters, is _.AFaulknerBDreiserC. JamesDWhitman答：答案：D【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分31While Mark Twain seemed to have paid more attention to the “life” of the Americans, _ had apparently laid a greater emphasis on the “inner world” of man.AWilliam HowellsBHenry JamesCBret HarteDHamlin Garland答：答案：B【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分32The Transcendentalists believe that, first, nature is ennobling, and second, the individual is_.AinsignificantBevilCdivineDsilly答：答案：C【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分33_ is a great critic on Shakespeare, Elizabethan Drama, and English poetry.AA. Charles LambBB. Jane AustenCC. Walter ScottDD. William Hazlitt答：答案：D【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分34“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35“Man shall find grace.” But he must lay hold of it by an act of free will. The freedom of the will is the key stone of _ creed.AMiltonsBJonathan SwiftsCHenry FieldingsDSamual Johnsons答：答案：A【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分36Jonathan 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37John Miltons greatest poetical work _ is the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature sinceBeowulf.AAreopagiticaBParadise LostCLycidasDSamson Agonistes答：答案：B【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分38Which 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39As he is a leading spokesman of the “Imagist Movement”, _ famous one-image poem “In a Station of the Metro” would serve as a typical example of the imagist ideas.AT. S. EliotsBRobert FrostsCEzra PoundsDWallace Stevens答：答案：C【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分40“They rose when she entereda small, fat woman in black, with a thin gold chain descending to her waist and vanishing into her belt, leaning on an ebony cane with a tarnished gold head. Her skeleton was small and spare” these sentences are taken from _AA. Charlotte Brontes The ProfessorBB. William Faulkners A Rose for EmilyCC. Charles Dickens Dombey and SonDD. D. H. Lawrences Sons and Lovers答：答案：B【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分41Statement _ is NOT true in describing Gothic novel.AGothic novel is a type of romantic fictionBGothic novel predominated in the early 18th centuryCIts principal elements are violence, horror and supernaturalDThe Mystery of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe is typical Gothic romance答：答案：B【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分42_ shows the contrast between the performance of art and the transience of human passion.AOde to the West WindBOde to a NightgaleCOde to PsycheDOde on a Grecian Urn答：答案：D【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分43Shelley s political lyrics _ is not only a war cry calling upon all working people to rise up against their political oppressors, but an address to them pointing out the intolerable injustice of economic exploitation.A“Ode to Liberty”B“Ode to Naples”C“Ode to the West Wind”D“Men of England”答：答案：D【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分44D. H. Lawrences autobiographical novel is _.AThe RainbowBWomen in LoveCSons and LoversDLady Chatterleys Lover答：答案：C【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分45In the Victorian Period _ became the most widely read and the most vital and challenging expression of progressive thought.AproseBnovelCdramaDpoetry答：答案：B【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分46In which of the following works, Hemingway presents his philosophy about life and death through the depiction of the bull-fight as a kind of microcosmic tragedy?AThe Green Hi