英美文学选读 习题12

【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分1Among the three major poetical works by John Milton, _ is the most perfect example of verse drama after the Greek style in English.ASamson AgonistesBParadise LostCParadise RegainedDAreopagitica答：答案：A【题型：论述】【分数：10分】 得分：0分2Make 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：简答】【分数：4分】 得分：0分3What is expressionism?答：The only major languag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：阅读】【分数：4分】 得分：0分4“ 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：论述】【分数：10分】 得分：0分5A Modest Proposal is a satire written by Swift and it is generally taken as a perfect model of satire. Gullivers Travels is Swifts masterpiece. Based on them, discuss why Swift is a master satirist.答：答案：satirist|satires|corruption|religion|learning|Gullivers Travels|English society|earnestness|A Modest Proposal|sincerity and detachment【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分6Here 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：简答】【分数：4分】 得分：0分7Do 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：阅读】【分数：4分】 得分：0分8It 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：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分9Dickens s first child hero is _.ALittle NellBDavid CopperfieldCOliver TwistDLittle Dorrit答：答案：C【题型：阅读】【分数：4分】 得分：0分10“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11It is said that B. Shaw s plays reflect the dramatists Fabianist idea. Give one example.答：答案：Mrs.Warren s Profession【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分12Greatly 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：阅读】【分数：4分】 得分：0分13Shall I compare thee to a summers day?Thou are more lovely and more temperate.Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.Questions:A. Who is the author?B.What is the theme of the poem?C. What kind of poem is it?答：答案：Shakespeare, eternity of poetry, sonnet【题型：简答】【分数：4分】 得分：0分14List three characters of Tom Jones.答：答案：Tom, Blifil and Sophia【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分15All of the following are stream of- consciousness novels EXCEPT_.AThe Sound and the FuryBUlyssesCMrs. DallowayDJude the Obscure答：答案：D【题型：简答】【分数：4分】 得分：0分16What contributions did Geoffrey Chaucher make to English literature？答：答案：He celebratesearthly happiness and opposes asceticism and satirizes the social vices. His characters are with both typical qualities and individual dispositions. He uses the octosyllabic couplet and the heroic couplet. Canterbury Tales makes him the father of English poetry.【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分17In Coleridges “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” the mariner suffers the horror of death, because _.Ahe experiences a shipwreckBhe is tortured with starvationChe undergoes much sufferingDhe kills an albatross答：答案：D【题型：简答】【分数：4分】 得分：0分18Comment on the characteristics of Romantic writers in English history.答：答案：It is a rebellion against the neoclassical literature, extols the faculty of imagination and nature.【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分19_ 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20As 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21_ 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22Jane 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2310. Wordsworths_ is perhaps the most anthologized poem in English literature.Ashe dwelt among untrodden waysBI wandered lonely as a cloudCThe Solitary reaperDUlysses答：答案：B【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分24Beowulf 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25The 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26One 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27Joyces 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28The theme of Henry James essay “_” clearly indicates that the aim of the novel is to present life, so it is not surprising to find in his writings human experiences explored in every possible form.AThe AmericanBThe Art of FictionCThe Golden BowlDThe Europeans答：答案：B【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分29Of 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30Which 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31From 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32In 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33Henry Fielding s _ brings him the name of “Prose Homer”.AThe History of Jonathan Wild the GreatBThe History of AmeliaCThe History of Tom Jones, a FoundlingDThe History of Joseph Andrews答：答案：C【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分34George Bernard Shaw s _ is a grotesquely realistic exposure of slum landlordism.AWidower s HouseBMrs. Warren s ProfessionCThe Apple CartDGetting Married答：答案：A【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分35In Hardys Wessex novels, there is an apparent _ touch in his description of the simple and beautiful though primitive rural life.AhumorousBromanticCnostalgicDsarcastic答：答案：C【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分36_ is the leading figure of the metaphysical school.AJohn MiltonBJohn DonneCJohn BunyanDJohn Keats答：答案：B【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分37Which of the following writings is NOT completed by William Blake?ASongs of ExperienceBSongs of InnocenceCMarriage of Heaven and HellDEmma答：答案：D【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分38All of the following works are known as Hardy s “novels of character and environment” EXCEPT _.AThe Return of the NativeBTess of the D UrbervillesCJude the ObscureDFar from the Madding Crowd答：答案：D【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分399. The major theme of Jane Austens novels is_.AmoneyBpowerCmurderDlove and marriage答：答案：D【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分40The work that presented, for the first time in English literature, a comprehensive realistic picture of the medieval English society and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life is most likely _.AWilliam Langlands Peers PlowmanBGeoffrey Chaucers The Canterbury TalesCJohn Gowers Confessio AmantisDSir Gawain and the Green Knight答：答案：B【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分41Jonathan Swift is one of the greatest masters of English prose, and his best prose work is _.AA. “A Modest Proposal”BB. “Of Studies”CC. “Areopagitica”DD. “Tradition and Individual Talent”答：答案：A【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分4215. Thomas Hardys most cheerful and idyllic work is_.ATessBUnder the greenwood treeCThe return of the nativeDFar from the madding crowd答：答案：B【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分43Who, disregarding grammar and punctuation, always used “i” instead of “I” to refer to himself as a protest against self-importance?ACummingsBWallance StevensCF. Scott FitzgeraldDErnest Hemingway答：答案：A【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分44Melville is best - known as the author of his mighty book, _, which is one of the world s greatest masterpieces.ASister CarriedBSong of MyselfCMoby - DickDThe Marble Faun答：答案：C【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分45At the age of eighty -seven, _ read his poetry at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy in 1961.ARobert FrostBWalt WhitmanCEzra PoundDT. S. Eliot答：答案：A【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分46Washington 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47As an active participant of his age, Fitzgerald is often acclaimed literary spokesman of the _.AJazz AgeBAge of ReasonCLost GenerationDBeat Generation答：答案：A【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分48George 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【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分49In _s hands, “dramatic monologue” reaches its maturity and perfection.AAlfred TennysonBRobert BrowningCWilliam ShakespeareDGeorge Eliot答：答案：B【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分50The plays known as “the Lawrence trilogy” are all the followingEXCEPT_.AA Collier s Friday NightBThe Daughter - in - LawCLady Chatterley s LoverDThe Widowing of Mrs. Holroyed答：答案：C【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分51Don Juan is a long poem based on a traditional _ legend of a great lover and seducer of women.AA. SpanishBB. DutchCC. EnglishDD. Russian答：答案：A【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分52Christopher Marlowes second achievement is his creation of _ for the English drama.Athe Byronic heroBthe Renaissance heroCthe Realistic heroDthe Romantic hero答：答案：B