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Afterreading“Araby”,onemorefeelthestoryhasa_____tone.

A.joyous      

B.harsh

C.solemn      

D.Painful

“Theapparitionofthesefacesinthecrowd;Petalsonawet,blackbough.”Thisistheshortestpoemwrittenby_____.

A.T.S.Eliot        

B.RobertFrost

C.EzraPound       

D.EmilyDickinson

Chinesepoetryandphilosophyhadgreatinfluenceon_____.

A.RobertFrost          

B.RalphWaldoEmerson

C.EzraPound          

D.EmilyDickinson

The four great tragedies by William Shakespeare are _Hamlet_, _Othello_, _King Lear_, Macbeth. 

John Milton’s three great poems are _Paradise Lost__, _Paradise Regained_, _Samson Agonistes. 

Daniel Defoe’s first novel was _Robinson Crusoe_, which made him the first important English novelist.

William Blake was a precursor of Romanticism in English poetry. His most famous works are _Songs of Innocence__ and __Songs of Experience_. 

George Gordon Byron’s masterpiece is _Don Juan

Waiting for Gdot is a representative play of the new post-modernist school called _Theater of Absurb.

Hardy‘snovelsculminatedwiththetwogreatest,TessoftheD’Urbevilles1891,andJudetheObscure1896.

InspiteofdoingmostofhiswritinginTrieste,Zurich,andParis,JoycewroteonlyandalwaysaboutDublin

OfBacon’sliteraryworks,themostimportantaretheEssays

ParadiseLosttellshow_Satan,rebelledagainstGodandhowAdamandEveweredrivenoutofEden

Mr.Bennet’sfavoritedaughterisElizabeth.

ThetwocitiesinATaleofTwoCitieswrittenbyCharlesDickensareLondonandParis.

ATaleofTwoCitieswashishistoricalnovelabouttheFrenchRevolution.

BothJaneEyreby_____andWutheringHeights_____broughttothenovelanintrospectionandanintenseconcentrationontheinnerlifeofemotion. 

“Dramaticmonologue”wascreatedbyRobertBrowning.

“MyLastDuchess”writtenby_____iswrittenintheformofdramaticmonologue.

BothHardy’spoemsandnovelsaretransitionfromrealismtomodernism.

"APureWoman（FaithfullyPresented）" isthesubtitleofthenovel______.

GeoffreyChauce’smasterpiece,____TheCanterburyTales_________isacollectionofshortstoriestoldbyagroupofpilgrims.

“Studiesservefordelight,forornament,andforability”.TheseimmortalwordsarespokenbythegreataEnglishessayist_____Bacon___________.

MyLastDuchessiswrittenby____RobertBrowning_______.

WhatisthestrengthandweaknessofEnglishcriticalrealism?

GiveabriefanalysisoftheCharacterRobinsonCrusoeinDanielDefoe’smasterpieceTheLifeandStrangeSurprisingAdventuresofCrusoe.

Theworkthatpresented,forthefirsttimeinEnglishliterature,acomprehensiverealisticpictureofthemedievalEnglishsocietyandcreatedawholegalleryofvividcharactersfromallwalksoflifeismostlikely______________.（0704）

A.WilliamLangland’sPiersPlowman

B.GeoffreyChaucer’sTheCanterburyTales

C.JohnGower’sConfessionAmantis

D.SirGawainandtheGreenKnight

【答案】B

TheRenaissanceisactuallyamovementstimulatedbyaseriesofhistoricaleventsEXCEPT_________.（0804）

A.therediscoveryofancientRomanandGreekculture

B.thevastexpansionofBritishcoloniesinNorthAmerica

C.thenewdiscoveriesingeographyandastrology

D.thereligiousreformationandtheeconomicexpansion

【答案】B

ParadiseLostisactuallyastorytakenfrom______________.（0704）

A.theRenaissance

B.theOldTestament

C.GreekMythology

D.theNewTestament

【答案】B

WhichofthefollowingpoemsisalandmarkinEnglishpoetry?

（0704）

A.LyricalBalladsbyWilliamWordsworthandSamuelTaylorColeridge

B.“IWanderedLonelyasaCloud”byWilliamWordsworth

C.“Remorse”bySamuelTaylorColeridge

D.LeavesofGrassWaltWhitman

【答案】A

WilliamBlake’scentralconcernintheSongsofInnocenceandSongsofExperiences_______,whichgivesthetwobooksastrongsocialandhistoricalreference.（0804）

A.youthhoodB.childhood

C.happinessD.Sorrow

【答案】B

“Itisatruthuniversallyacknowledged,thatasinglemaninpossessionofagoodfortune,mustbeinwantofawife.”Thequotedpartistakenfrom______.（0804）

A.JaneEyre

B.WutheringHeights

C.PrideandPrejudice

D.SenseandSensibility

【答案】C

ThomasHardy'spessimisticviewoflifepredominatedmostofhislaterworksandearnshimareputationasa______writer.（0904）

A.realisticB.naturalistic

C.romanticD.stylistic

【答案】B

______________isthemostoutstandingstreamofconsciousnessnovelist,with___________ashisencyclopedia–likemasterpiece.

A.JamesJoyce,Ulysses

B.E.M.Foster,APassagetoIndia

C.D.H.Lawrence,SonsandLovers

D.VirginiaWoolf,Mrs.Dalloway

【答案】A

T.S.Eliot’smostimportantsinglepoem_______hasbeenhailedasalandmarkandamodelofthe20th-centuryEnglishpoetry.（0804）

A.TheHollowMan

B.TheWasteLand

C.MurderintheCathedral

D.AshWednesday

【答案】B

TheEnglishRenaissanceperiodwasanageof______.

A.poetryanddramaB.dramaandnovel

C.novelandpoetryD.romanceandpoetry

Themajorconcernof_______fictionliesinthetracingofthepsychologicaldevelopmentofhischaractersandinhisenergeticcriticismofthedehumanizingeffectofthecapitalistindustrializationonhumannature.

A.CharlesDickens"sB.D.H.Lawrence"sC.ThomasHardy"sD.JohnGalsworthy"s

DanielDefoedescribes_______asatypicalEnglishMiddle-classmanoftheeighteenthcentury,theveryprototypeoftheempirebuilderorthepioneercolonist.

A.TomJonesB.GulliverC.MollFlandersD.RobinsonCrusoe

The18thcenturywitnessedanewliteraryform－themodernEnglishnovel,which,contrarytothemedievalromance,givesa______presentationoflifeofthecommonpeople.

A.romanticB.realisticC.propheticD.idealistic

ItisgenerallyregardedthatKeats"smostimportantandmaturepoemsareintheformof_______.

A.odeB.elegyC.epicD.sonnet

AfterreadingthefirstchapterofPrideandPrejudice,wemaycometoknowthatMrs.Bennetisawomanof_______.

A.simplecharacterandquickwit

B.simplecharacterandpoorunderstanding

C.intricatecharacterandquickwit

D.intricatecharacterandpoorunderstanding

WecanperhapsdescribethewestwindinShelley"spoem"OdetotheWestWind"withallthefollowingtermsexcept_______.

A.tamedB.swiftC.proudD.wild

_______isregardedas“worshipperofnature.”

A.ColeridgeB.Wordsworth

C.T.S.EliotD.RobertBrowning

Asanovelist_______wrotewithinaverynarrowsphere,theprovinciallifeofthelate1818-centuryEngland.

A.JonathanSwiftB.JaneAusten

C.ThomasHardyD.HenryFielding

AtypicalfeatureoftheEnglishVictorianliteratureisthatwritersbecamesocialandmoral______,exposingallkindsofsocialevils.

A.revolutionariesB.idealistsC.criticsD.defenders

AsaModernistpoet,Poundisnotedforhisactiveinvolvementinthe______.

A.cubistschoolofmodernpainting

B.ImagistMovement

C.stream-of-consciousnesstechnique

D.GermanExpressionism

Shakespeare’s____aremainlywrittenundertheprinciplethatnationalunityunderamightyandjustsovereignisanecessity.

A.historyplaysB.tragedies

C.comediesD.plays

Wordsworththoughtthat____istheonlysubjectofliteraryinterest.

A.nationB.pastexperience

C.commonlifeD.nature

____isthefirstimportantEnglishessayistandthefounderofmodernscienceinEngland.

A.FrancisBaconB.EdmundSpenser

C.WilliamCarxtonD.Sidney

WhichofthebelowisNOTwrittenbyJamesJoyce?

A.Dubliners

B.APortraitoftheArtistasaYoungMan

C.Ulysses

D.Leather-StockingTales

LiteratureofNeoclassicismisdifferentfromthatofRomanticisminthat______.

A.theformercelebratesreason,rationality,orderandinstructionwhilethelatterseesliteratureasanexpressionofanindividual'sfeelingandexperiences

B.theformerisheavilyreligiousbutthelattersecular

C.theformerisanintellectualmovementthepurposeofwhichistoarousethemiddleclassforpoliticalrightswhilethelatterisconcernedwiththepersonalcultivation.

D.theformeradvocatesthe"returntonature"whereasthelatterturnstotheancientGreekandRomanwritersforitsmodels

ThefirstlineofWilliamBlake'swell-knownpoem"TheTyger"reads,"Tyger!

Tyger!

Burningbright".Therepeatedword"tiger"（tiger）withanexclamationmarksuggests_______.

A.joyB.fearC.painD.fondness　

Eliot’spoem,TheWasteLand,ismainlyconcernedwiththe_____________ofsmorderncivilization.

A.socialcorruptionB.spiritualbreakup

C.physicalbreakupD.religiouscorruption.　

"MyLastDuchess"isapoemthatbestexemplifierRobertBrowning's________.

A.sensitiveearforthesoundsoftheEnglishlanguage

B.excellentchoiceofwords

C.masteringofthemetricaldevices

D.useofthedramaticmonologue　

WhichofthefollowingbringsLITTLEimpactonthedevelopmentof20thcenturyliterature?

A.FriedrichNietzche'sassertions:

"Godisdead"

B.ArtherSchopenharuer'sandHenryBergson'sphilosophicalideasofirrationality.

C.OscarWilde'sideaof"ArtforArt'sSake".

D.Freudian-Jungianpsycho-analysis　

“Doyouthink,becauseIampoor,obscure,plain,andlittle,Iamsoullessandheartless?

—Youthinkwrong!

…AndifGodhadgiftedmewithsomebeauty,andmuchwealth,Ishouldhavemadeitashardforyoutoleaveme,asitisnowformetoleaveyou…—itismyspiritthataddressesyourspirit;justasifbothhadpassedthroughthegrave,andwestoodatGod’sfeet,equal—asweare!

”

Questions:

A．Identifytheauthorandthenovelfromwhichthequotedpartistaken.

B．Towhomisthespeakerspeaking?

C．Whatdoesthequotedpartimplyaboutthespeaker?

Whyarenaturalistsinevitablypessimistic