专八人文知识(文学常识)

1、英美文学知识练习1 Beowulf is considered as the greatest epic in _. A. Anglo-Saxon timesB. The Roman OccupationC. The Middle Ages D. The renaissance2. _ is considered as “the Father of English Poetry”. A. Geoffrey Chaucer B. William Shakespeare C. John Milton D. Edmund Spenser 3. Which of the following is No

2、t an author of the English Renaissance? A. Sir Thomas More B. Christopher Marlowe C. Francis Bacon D. Geoffrey Chaucer 4. Which of the following is Not considered as one of Shakespeares four greatest tragedies? A. Hamlet B. Romeo and Juliet C. King Lear D. Macbeth 5. Portia is the famous character i

3、n Shakespeares play_. A. Hamlet B. Merchant of Venice C. The Tempest D. Othello 6John Miltons works included all the following except_. A. Paradise Lost B. Paradise Regained C. Samson Agonistes D. The Pilgrims Progress7. During 1711-1712 Richard Steele collaborated with _ in publishing the daily pap

4、er The Spectator. A. Joseph Addison B. Alexander Pope C. Samuel Johnson D. John Dryden 8. Which of the following is not considered as a so-called sentimentalist of 18th century? A. Thomas Gray B. John Keats C. Oliver Goldsmith D. Laurence Sterne 9. _ is considered as the first English psycho-analyti

5、cal novel. A. Pamela by Samuel Richardson B. The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith C. Daniel Defoes Robinson Crusoe D. Jonathon Swifts Gullivers Travels 10. Which of the following is not a novel by Henry Fielding? A. Jonathan Wild B. Tom Jones C. Joseph Andrews D. Don Quixote11. To be or not to

6、 be, that is a question is a famous line from the soliloquy of _. A. Hamlet B. King Lear C. Macbeth D. Shylock 12. Songs of Innocence is a collection of lyric poems composed by _. A. Robert Frost B. Mrs. BrowningC. William Blake D. Charles Swinburne 13. The poem Auld Lang Syne, now the universal par

7、ting-song of the English-speaking peoples, was occupied by _. A. Alfred Tennyson B. William Blake C. William Wordsworth D. Robert Burns 14. The preface to the “Lyrical Ballads” served as the manifesto of the English _ Movement in poetry. A. Romantic B. Classic C. Realistic D. Modernistic 15. The fol

8、lowing poets except _ have often been mentioned as the “Lake Poets”. A. William Wordsworth B. Samuel Taylor Coleridge C. Robert Southey D. Percy Bysshe Shelley 16. Don Juan is the masterpiece of _. A. Percy Bysshe Shelley B. George Gordon Byron C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge D. John Milton17. “If winter

9、 comes, can Spring be far behind?” is a world-famous line from “Ode to the West Wind” composed by _. A. George Gordon Byron B. Percy Bysshe Shelley C. John Keats D. Emily Dickinson 18. “Beauty is truth, truth is beauty” is a famous line from “Ode on a Grecian Urn” by_. A. George Gordon Byron B. Perc

10、y Bysshe Shelley C. John Keats D. William Wordsworth19. 萨克逊劫后英雄略is a Chinese translation of the English novel _. A. Walter Scotts Ivanhoe B. Daniel Defoes Robinson, Crusoe C. Jonathon Swifts Gullivers Travels D. Charles Dickenss The Pickwick Papers20. Which of the following novels is not written by

11、Charles Dickens? A. A Tale of Two Cities B. Oliver Twist C. David Copperfield D. Rob Roy21Vanity Fair is the great masterpiece of _. A. Charles Dickens B. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell C. William Makepeace Thackeray D. George Eliot 22. Which of the following novels is not written by Jane Austin? A. Sen

12、se and Sensibility B. Pride and Prejudice C. Mansfield Park D. The Mill on the Floss23. Wuthering Heights is the masterpiece of the English woman writer_. A. Charlotte Bront. B. Emily Bront C. Anne Bront D. George Eliot 24. The Seven Lamps of Architecture is one of the major works concerning art cri

13、ticism written by the famous prose-writer of Victorian England _. A. Matthew Arnold B. Thomas Carlyle C. John Ruskin D. Thomas Babington Macaulay 25. School for Scandal is the masterpiece of the most important 18th century English dramatist_. A. Richard Brinsley Sheridan B. Charles Lamb C. William S

14、hakespeare D. Oscar Wilde 26. Treasure Island is a romance written by_. A. Rudyard Kipling B. Robert Louis Stevenson C. Joseph Conrad D. Herbert George Wells 27. William Butler Yeats is a well-known Irish _. A. Novelist B. Poet C. Playwright D. Essayist 28. “Art for Arts sake” is a theory advanced b

15、y _. A. Henry James B. Oscar Wild C. Samuel Butler D. George Mereditn 29. Thomas Hardy wrote the following novels except_. A. Tess of the DUrbervilles B. Jude the Obscure C. Far from the Madding Crowd D. The Way of All Flesh 30. The Forsyte Saga, the first triology of the 20th century English critic

16、al realist John Galsworthy, consists of the following except_. A. The Man of Property B. In Chancery C. To Let D. The White Monkey 31. Which of the following plays is not written by Bernard Shaw? A. Major Barbara B. Mrs. Warrens Profession C. The Silver Box D. Heartbreak House 32. The Waste Land is

17、the masterpiece of the poet_. A. Thomas Stearns EliotB. Hilda Doolittle C. William Butler Yeats D. Walt Whitman 33. The founder of the Stream of consciousness school of novel writing James Joyces major works contains the following except_-. A. Ulysses B. Finnegans Wake C. Mrs DallowayD. Four Quartet

18、s 34. Lady Chatterleys Lover is a famous novel written by _. A. David Herbert LawrenceB. Virginia Woolf C. William Somerset Maugham D. Katherine Mansfield 35. Thomas Paine was one of these political pamphleteers and the most persuasive rhetorician for the cause of independence. He wrote the followin

19、g woks except_.A. Common Sense B. The Rights of Man C. The Age of ReasonD. Poor Richards Almanac36. The Song of Hiawatha, the first American epic in Blank verse about the American Indians is composed by _. A. William Cullen Bryant B. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow C. William Wordsworth D. Washington Irv

20、ing37. The author of The Leatherstocking Tales is _. A. James Fenimore CooperB. Edgar Allan Poe C. Jack LondonD. Nathaniel Hawthorne38. Rip Van Winkle and the The Legend of Sleepy Hollow are the most outstanding of the stories that _ wrote. A. Washington Irving B. James Fenimore Cooper C. Lawrence S

21、terne D. Oliver Goldsmith39. Nature, which has been called “ the manifesto of American transcendentalism” was written by _. A. Thomas PaineB. Henry David ThoreauC. Nathaniel HawthorneD. Ralph Waldo Emerson40. Walden; or, Life in the Woods is a recording of life and meditation of _ when living alone

22、in Walden Pond. A. Ralph Waldo EmersonB. Nathaniel HawthorneC. Henry David ThoreauD. William Wordsworth41. Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque was written by_, who has been regarded as the father of modern short story. A. Henry David ThoreauB. Nathaniel HawthorneC. Edgar Allan Poe D. Washington Irv

23、ing42. Leaves of Grass, which ran nine editions with more than 400 poems all written in fee verse form, is the great masterpiece of _. A. Henry Wadsworth LongfellowB. Walt WhitmanC. William Butler Yeats D. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson 44. The most important book written by Herman Melville is _. A. Type

24、eB. Moby Dick C. Pierre D. The Prairies 45. Known as O. Henry, _ was one of the most prolific modern American short story writers and wrote about 300 short stories, including the famous “The Cop and the Anthem”, The Four Million, and so on. A. William Sidney PorterB. Katherine Anne PorterC. William

25、Dean HowellsD. Sherwood Anderson46. _ has been called the first of the “Modern psychological novelists,” and “a realist of the inner life”. And he wrote such great novels as The Ambassadors, The Turn of the Screw, The Wings of the Dove, The Golden Bowl, and The Portrait of a Lady. A. Earnest Hemingw

26、ayB. William Guthbert FaulknerC. William James D. Henry James47. Mark Twain is the penname of _. A. Samuel Langhorne ClemensB. William Sidney PorterC. Sherwood Anderson D. Sarah Orne Jewtt48.Which of the following is not written by Mark Twain?A. Innocents Abroad B. The Gilded AgeC. Tom SawyerD. The

27、American49. The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Sketches is the best collection of tales written by _. A. HemingwayB. Hanmlin Garland C. Francis Bret HarteD. Harriet Beecher Stowe50. Uncle Toms Cabin is a great masterpiece written by which of the following women writers_?A. Kate ChopinB. Mary E. Wilk

28、ings FreemC. Alice BrownD. Harriet Beecher Sowe51. The most famous book written by Stephen Crane about the American Civil War is _. A. The Red Badge of CourageB. Maggie, A Girl of the Streets C. Georges Mother D. The Third Violet52. “The Trilogy of Desire” by Theodors Dreiser includes the following

29、except_. A. The FinancierB. The Stoic C. The TitanD. Sister Carrie53. The trilogy “Epic of the Wheat” written by Frank Norris includes the following but_.A. The OctopusB. The PitC. The WolfD. Mcteague54. Jack London wrote the following works except _. A. The People of the AbyssB. The Sea WolfC. The

30、American TragedyD. Martin Eden55. Cathay, a collection of translation of Chinese poems, was done by the American poet_. A. Ezra Pond B. Emily DickinsonC. Wallace Stevens D. E.R. Robinson56. Which of the following is not a work of T. S. Eliot?A. The Waste LandB. The Love Song of J.Alfred PrufrockC. M

31、urder in the Cathedral D. Don Juan 57. Which of the following is not a representative of the so-called Chicago poets in the 1920s and 1930s America?A. Vachel LindsayBEdgar Lee Masters C. Carl SandburgD. Kenneth Koch58. In the later 1950s and the whole 1960s Beat Poet _ made his voice heard as the po

32、et laureate of the Beat Generation. A. Allan GinsbergB. Robert Penn WarrenC. Robert Lowell D. Charles Olson59. Earnest Hemingway, generally regarded as spokesman for the Lost Generation, wrote the following novels except_. A. The Sun Also Rises B. A Farewell to Arms C. The old man and the sea.D. Thi

33、s Side of Paradise60. Francis Scott Fitzgerald, known as the “Roaring 20s”, and “Jazz Age”, wrote the following but_. A. For whom the Bell TollsB. The Beautiful and DamnedC. The Great Gatsby D. Tender Is the Night61. _, the first American writer to receive the Nobel Prize for literature, is the auth

34、or of Babbit and Main Street. A. Earnest HemingwayB. Sinclair LewisC. John SteinbeckD. Gertrude Stein 62. _ is usually considered as the masterpiece of John Steinbeck. A. The Grapes of WrathB. The Pearl C. East of Eden D. Moon is Down 63. The Catcher in the Rye is the first and only novel written by_. A. Truman CapoteB. Jerome David SalingerC. James Thurber D. John Updike 64. The Female Man, a significan