英美文学选读 习题10

【题型：阅读】【分数：4分】 得分：0分1It 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：The only major languag答案：Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Mrs Bennet, considering her daughters marriage【题型：论述】【分数：10分】 得分：0分2How did the Lost Generation come into being in the literary history of the United States? Who were the leading figures of this literary movement?答：答案：First World War|American|young men|disillusioned|expatriates|European countries|Pound|Frost|Fiztgerald|Hemingway|Faulkner【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分3Jane Austen s first novel _ tells a story about two sisters and their love affairs.AMansfield ParkBSense and SensibilityCPride and PrejudiceDSons and Lovers答：答案：B【题型：简答】【分数：4分】 得分：0分4Give the symbolic meanings of characters Gerald and Birkin in the novelWomen in Love.答：答案：They are the symbols of spiritual deathand bourgeois ethics.【题型：论述】【分数：10分】 得分：0分5Discuss the artistic features of Shelleys poems.答：答案：lyrical|poet|classical|mythological|allusions|figures of speech|metaphor|personification|description【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分6“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 MiltonsParadise LosASatansBGodsCAdamsDEves答：答案：A【题型：简答】【分数：4分】 得分：0分7Whats 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：阅读】【分数：4分】 得分：0分843. “My tongue, every atom of my blood, form d from this soil, this air,Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their parents the same,I, now thirty- seven years old in perfect health begin,Hoping to cease not till death”Questions:A. Whos the poet of the quoted stanza, and whats the title of the poem?B. What do “soil” and “air” represent in the first line?C. What does the poet try to say in the above quoted lines?答：答案：Whitman, Song of Myself|America|devotion【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分9Much of _ drama is constructed around the inversion of a conventional theatrical situation.AA. YeatsBB. GregorysCC. GalsworthyDD. Shaws答：答案：D【题型：简答】【分数：4分】 得分：0分10What is the language style of Mark Twain?答：答案：He uses vernacular and colloquial speech, concrete and direct words, simple and ungrammatical sentences.【题型：阅读】【分数：4分】 得分：0分11But it seemed that both his audacity and his respect were lost on Miss Daisy Miller. I guess mother wouldnt gofor you, she smiled. And she aint much bent on going, anyway. She dont like to ride round in the afternoon. After which she familiarly proceeded: But did you really mean what you said just nowthat youd like to go up there? Most earnestly I meant it, Winterbourne declared.A. Identify the author and the work.B. Where are they going to visit？答：答案：Henry James, Daisy Miller, visit an old castle【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分12In Charles Dickens work _, the Utilitarian principle rules over the English education system and destroys young hearts and minds.AHard timesBOliver TwistCDavid CopperfieldDBleak House答：答案：A【题型：简答】【分数：4分】 得分：0分13What is the most famous theme in Henry Jamess fiction? What distinguishes him from other realist writers such as Mark Twain and W. D. Howells?答：答案：The most famous theme is the international theme. His novels or short stories of the theme are always set against a larger international background, usually between Europe and America. They center around the conflict of the two cultures, represented by an innocent American and a sophisticated European. James is the founder of phychological realism for his psychoanalytical approach to his characters.【题型：阅读】【分数：4分】 得分：0分14Had I as many souls as there be stars.Id give them all for Mephistophilis!By him Ill be great emperor of the world,And make a bridge through the moving airTo pass the ocean with a band of men;Ill join the hills that bing the Africa shoreAnd make that country continent to Spain,And both contributory to my crown;The Emperor shall not live by my leave,Nor any potentate of Germany.Now that I have obtained what I desireIll live in speculation of this art.Till Mephistophilis return again.”A. Identify the author and the title of the work from which the passage is taken.B. Based on the passage, write down in one or two sentences the theme of the play.答：答案：Dr. Faustus, Christopher Marlowe, Mans aspiration, bounding achievement【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分15The following statement _ is WRONG in describing Transcendentalism.AIt absorbed some ideological concerns of American Puritanism and European Romanticism.BIt advocates the importance of Individual and Nature.CTrancendentalists believed that there should be an emotional communication between an indiDIt emphasizes that man is the measure of all things.答：答案：D【题型：简答】【分数：4分】 得分：0分16Briefly introduce Blake s Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience.答：答案：Songs of Innocence is a lovely volume of poems, presenting a happy and innocent world, though not without its evils; Songs of Experience paints a different world, a world of misery, disease, war and repression with melancholy tone; The two books hold the similar subject-matter, but the tone, emphasis and conclusion differ.【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分17The Rivals and _ are generally regarded as important links between the masterpieces of Shakespeare and those of Bernard Shaw.AThe School for ScandalBThe DuennaCWidowers HousesDThe Doctors Dilemma答：答案：A【题型：简答】【分数：4分】 得分：0分18List three works of James Joyce答：答案：Dubliners, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分19Man is a “victim of forces over which he has no control. ” This is a notion held strongly by _.ARobert FrostBTheodore DreiserCHenry JamesDWaltman答：答案：B【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分20Emily Dickinson wrote many short poems on various aspects of life. Which of the following is not a usual subject of her poetic expression?AreligionBlife and deathCloveDwar答：答案：D【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分21The 20th -century stream- of- consciousness technique was frequently and skillfully used by _ to emphasize the reactions and inner musings of the narrator.AHemingwayBFrostCFaulknerDWhitman答：答案：C【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分22The Advancement of Learning is a great tract on _.AA. historyBB. literatureCC. policyDD. education答：答案：D【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分236. Which of the following descriptions of Enlightenment Movement is NOT true?AIt was a progressive intellectual movement that flourished in France.BB. It was a furtherance of the Renaissance of the 15th and 16th centuries.CC. The purpose was to enlighten the whole world with moderu philosophical and artistic idDD. The Enlighteners advocate individual education.答：答案：D【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分24_ explores the scrupulous individualism in a world of fantastic speculation and unstable values, and gives its name to the get-rich-quick years of the post-Civil War era.AInnocents AbroadBThe Gilded AgeCRoughing ItDThe Middle Years答：答案：B【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分25Of all the eighteenth - century novelists _ was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a “comic epic in prose”, the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.AHenry FieldingBDaniel DefoeCJonathan SwiftDLaurence Sterne答：答案：A【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分26The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one -eighth of it being above water. ” This “iceberg” analogy about prose style was put forward by _.AWilliam FaulknerBFScott FitzgeraldCHenry JamesDErnest Hemingway答：答案：D【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分27. “ Damn the fool! There he is, cried Heathcliff, sinking back into his seat, Hush, my darling! Hush, hush, Catherine! Ill stay. If he shot me so, Id expire with a blessing in my lips.” The novel from which the passage is taken is _.AJane Austens Pride and PrejudiceBCharles Dickenss The Old Curiosity ShopCSamuel Richardsons PamelaDEmily Brontes Wuthering Heights答：答案：D【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分28With the scarlet letter A as the biggest symbol of all, _ proves himself to be one of the best symbolists.AHawthorneBDreiserCJamesDFaulkner答：答案：A【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分29In _, James Joyce intends to present a microcosm of the whole human life by providing an instance of how a single event contains all the events of its kind, and how history is recapitulated in the happenings of one day.AA. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManBB. DublinersCC. UlyssesDD. Finnegans Wake答：答案：C【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分30As the representative of the Enlightenment, Pope was one of the first to introduce _ to England.ArationalismBcriticismCromanticismDrealism答：答案：A【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分31In 1847, the Bronte sisters published the following famous novels EXCEPT “_”.AJane EyreBShirleyCWuthering HeightsDThe Tenant of Windfall Hall答：答案：B【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分32Jane Austen s practical idealism is that love should be justified by _ and disciplined by self-control.AreasonBsensibilityCsenseDrationality答：答案：A【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分33Beowulf describes the hero in fighting against the monster Grendel, his revengeful mother and a _.AtigerBdrgonCbearDwolf答：答案：B【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分34The period of Old English literature refers to _.AA. from the year of 450 to the year of 1066BB. from 14th to mid-17thCC. from 14th to mid-18thDD. from 16th to mid-18答：答案：A【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分35One of Shelley s greatest political lyrics is _, which was later to become a rallying song of the British Communist Party.AMen of EnglandBMen of EnglandCOde to LibertyDOde to the West Wind答：答案：B【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分36Joyces masterpiece, _ gives an account of mans life during one day in Dublin.ADublinersBFinnegans WakeCUlyssesDA Portrait of the Artist答：答案：C【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分37Of all Herman Melvilles sea adventure stories, _ proves to be the best.ATypeeBReburnCMoby DickDOmoo答：答案：C【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分38Which writer does not belong to the group of American Romantic writers?AWilliam C. BryantBHenry W. LongfellowCEdgar Allan PoeDAnn Bradstreet答：答案：D【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分39From the first novel Sister Carrie on, Dreiser set himself to project the American values for what he had found them to be: _ to the core.AaltruisticBpoliticalCreligiousDmaterialistc答：答案：D【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分40In Miltons works, “_” is the greatest, indeed the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since “Beowulf”.AA. Paradise LostBB. Paradise RegainedCC. Samson AgonistesDD. Lycidas答：答案：A【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分415. The most perfect example of the verse drama after Greek style in English is Miltons _.Aparadise RegainedBParadise LostCOde to the West WindDUlysses答：答案：B【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分42Here is a sentence from an essay, “Read not to contradict and confuse, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weight and consider”. The essay must be _.AOf Studies by Francis BaconBThe Advancement of Learning by Francis BaconCNovum Organum by Francis BaconDEssays by Francis Bacon答：答案：A【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分43Dickens s first child hero is _.ALittle NellBDavid CopperfieldCOliver TwistDLittle Dorrit答：答案：C【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分44Greatly and permanently affected by the _ experiences, Hemingway formed his own writing style, together with his theme and hero.A. mining &nbsAminingBfarmingCwarDsea答：答案：C【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分45All of the following are stream of- consciousness novels EXCEPT_.AThe Sound and the FuryBUlyssesCMrs. DallowayDJude the Obscure答：答案：D【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分46The great political and social events in the English society of neoclassical period were the following EXCEPT _.Athe Restoration of King Charles II in 1660Bthe Great Plague of 1665Cthe Great London Fire in 1666Dthe Wars of Roses in 1689答：答案：D【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分47_ by Melville is a novella about a ship whose black slave cargo mutiny holds their captain a terrorized hostage.AA. “Bartleby, the Scrivener”BB. Benito CerenoCC. The Confidence-ManDD. Billy Bud答：答案：B【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分48_ is indeed the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf.AParadise LostBParadise RegainedCSamson AgonistesDThe Faerie Queene答：答案：A【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分49G. B. Shaw s play _ established his position as the leading playwright of his time.AMrs Warrens professionBHamletCWidowers HousesDCandida答：答案：D【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分50Which of the following novels is not written by Henry Fielding?AJonathan WildBMoll FlandersCJoseph AndrewsDTom Jones答：答案：B【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分51Washington Irving was one of the first American writers to earn international fame and was regarded as _.Afather of American dramaBfather of American poetryCfather of American literatureDfather of short stories答：答案：D【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分52George Bernard Shaws career as a dramatist began in 1892, when his first play _ was put on by the Independent Theatre Society.AA. CandidaBB. Widowers HousesCC. Mrs. Warrens ProfessionDD. The Apple Cart答：答案：B