东师《英美文学》15春在线作业1最新.docx

1、东师英美文学15春在线作业1最新东师英美文学15春在线作业1一、单选题（共 40 道试题，共 100 分。）V 1.ChineseAmerican Literature can be defined as literature by and about _ in America .A. Chinese immigrantsB. Chinese studentsC. Asian immigrants 满分：2.5分2._ is not the work by Robert Frost.A. “I heard a Fly Buzz - when I died”B. “ The Road Not T

2、aken”C. “Home burial”D. “After Apple-picking” 满分：2.5分3.The one of the following not known as a dramatist is _ .A. MillerB. PoundC. ONeill 满分：2.5分4.So much the worse for me, that I an strong. Do I want to live? What kind of living will it be when you-oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in

3、the grave? In the above passage quoted from Emily Brontes Wuthering Heights, the word soul apparently refers to _ .A. HeathcliffB. CatherineC. ghostD. ones spiritual lift 满分：2.5分5.G.B.Shaws play Mrs.Warrens Profession is a realistic exposure of the _ in the English society.A. slum landlordismB. ineq

4、uality between men and womenC. political corruptionD. economic exploitation of women 满分：2.5分6.Willam Wordsworth，a romantic poet，advocated all the following except_.A. the using of everyday language Spoken by the common peopleB. the expression of the Spontaneous overflow of powerful feelingsC. the hu

5、mble and rustic life as subject matterD. elegant wording and inflated figures of speech 满分：2.5分7._ believe that nature is ennobling and that the individual is important .A. PuritansB. realistsC. Transcendentalists 满分：2.5分8.Walt Whitman, whose _ established him as the most popular American poet of th

6、e 19th century.A. Leaves of GrassB. Go Down, MosesC. The Marble FaunD. As I Lay Dying 满分：2.5分9.“When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table.” (T. s. Eliot, “The Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock”) What does the image in the quoted lines suggest?A. Violence.B. H

7、orror.C. Inactivity.D. Indifference. 满分：2.5分10.Tennysons“Ulysses” is a _.A. English sonnetB. ThomasC. Italian sonnetD. Free verse 满分：2.5分11.Ode to The West Wind was written by _A. T.S EliotB. George EliotC. Ezra PoundD. Shelley 满分：2.5分12.The statement “A demanding mother turns away from her husband

8、and gives all her affection to her sons” sums up the main plot of D. H. Lawrences .A. Lady Chatterleys LoverB. Women in loveC. Sons and LoversD. The Plumed Serpent 满分：2.5分13.Not on thy sole but on thy soul, harsh Jew,/Thou makst thy knife keen. In the above quotation taken form The Merchant of Venic

9、e, Shakespeare employs a（n）_ .A. oxymoronB. punC. simileD. synecdoche 满分：2.5分14.The plot of _ is divided into three parts.A. Native SonB. Invisible ManC. Song of Solomon 满分：2.5分15.In Hawthornes novels and short stories , intellectuals usually appear as _ .A. saviorsB. villainsC. observers 满分：2.5分16.

10、“Rip Van Winkle” reveals the theme of _ the past.A. nostalgia forB. rejection toC. detachment fromD. nothing related to 满分：2.5分17.“Justice was done ; and the president of the Immortals had ended his sport” is a part of the quotation fromA. The Forsyte SagaB. Jude the ObscureC. The picture of Dorian

11、GrayD. Tess of D Urbervilles 满分：2.5分18.The 18th century is called Age of _A. ChaucerB. ShakespeareC. PopeD. Reason 满分：2.5分19.Which group of writers are among those who may be called early pioneers of American literature?A. Mark Twain and Henry James.B. Fenimore Cooper and Washington lrving.C. C Erne

12、st Hemingway and William FaulknerD. Jack London and OHenry. 满分：2.5分20.Mark Twains first novel _ , written in collaboration with Charles D. Warner and published in 1873,though not an artistic success, gives its name to the America of the post-Civil War period which it attempts to satirize.A. The Gild

13、ed AgeB. The Age of InnocenceC. The Roughing TimeD. The Jazz Age 满分：2.5分21.The impact of Darwins evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the nineteenth-century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to yet another school of realism: American _ .A. local c

14、olorismB. vernacularismC. modernismD. naturalism 满分：2.5分22.(The)_was a progressive intellecrual movement throughout Western Europe in the 18th centuryA. RomandcismB. HumanismC. EnlightenmentD. Sentimentalism 满分：2.5分23.The statement It reveals the dehumanizing workhouse system and the dark, criminal

15、underworld life may well sum up the main theme if Dickenss _ .A. David CopperfieldB. Bleak HouseC. Great ExpectationsD. Oliver Twist 满分：2.5分24.Which of the following works marks the beginning of real American Literature ?A. Leaves of GrassB. The Sketch BookC. Nature 满分：2.5分25.Daisy Millers tragedy o

16、f indiscretion is intensified and enlarged by its narration from the point of view of _ .A. the author Henry JamesB. the Italian youth GiovanelliC. the American youth WinterbourneD. her mother Mrs. Miller 满分：2.5分26.The period before the American Civil War is generally referred to as the _ period .A.

17、 modernB. naturalistC. romantic 满分：2.5分27._ pen name was Mark Twain .A. Samuel Langhorne ClemensB. Henry JamesC. William Dean Howells 满分：2.5分28.In Hardys Wessex novels，there is an apparent_touch in his description of the simple though primitive rural lifeA. nostalgicB. humorousC. romanticD. ironic 满

18、分：2.5分29.In Leaves of Grass, _ is all that concerned Whitman.A. individualismB. the spirit of democracyC. freedomD. all the above 满分：2.5分30.The subject matter of Robert Frosts Poems focuses on .A. ordinary country people and scenesB. battle scenes of ancient Greek and Roman legendsC. struggling mass

19、es and crowded urban quartersD. fantasies and mythical happenings 满分：2.5分31.The three trilogies of _ Forsyte novels are masterpieces of critical realism in the early 20th century.A. D.H. LawrencesB. John GalsworthysC. James JoycesD. Thomas Hardys 满分：2.5分32.Robert Frost combined traditional verse for

20、ms - the sonnet, rhyming couplets, blank verse - with a clear American local speech rhythm, the speech of _ farmers with its idiosyncratic diction and syntax.A. SouthernB. WesternC. New HampshireD. New England 满分：2.5分33.Each of the professions listed below is correctly paired with Dickens exceptA. n

21、ovelistB. clerkC. reporterD. dramatist 满分：2.5分34.Of the following writers , who wrote the critical essay On Poetry and Poets ?A. PoundB. EliotC. Frost 满分：2.5分35.Le Mort D Arthur deals with the following story exceptA. search for CupB. life of King ArthurC. fight against Roman invasionD. illicit love

22、 满分：2.5分36.Of the following all were written by Dreiser except _ .A. Sister CarrieB. McTeagueC. The Financier 满分：2.5分37.The giant Moby Dick may symbolize all EXCEPT .A. mystery of the universeB. sin of the whaleC. power of the Great NatureD. evil of the world 满分：2.5分38._ saw a new upsurge of Black A

23、merican Literature in what has come to be known as the Harlem Renaissance .A. 1900sB. 1910sC. 1920s 满分：2.5分39.“Beauty is truth, truth beauty” is an epigrammatic line by .A. John KeatsB. William BlakeC. William WordsworthD. Percy Bysshe Shelley 满分：2.5分40.We can perhaps describe the west wind in Shelleys poem Ode to the West Wind with all the following terms except _ .A. tamedB. swiftC. proudD. wild 满分：2.5分