全国英美文学选读试题及答案Word下载.docx

1、AThe Hollow Man BThe Waste LandCMurder in the Cathedral DAsh Wednesday4George Bernard Shaws play _ established his position as the leading play-wright of his time. AWidowers Houses BToo True to Be GoodCMrs. Warrens Profession DCandida5William Blakes central concern in the Songs of Innocence and Song

2、s of Experience is_, which gives the two books a strong social and historical reference. Ayouthhood BchildhoodChappiness Dsorrow6All of the following works are known as Hardys “novels of character and environment” EXCETP_.AThe Return of the Native BTess of the DUrbervillesCJude the Obscure DFar from

3、 the Madding Crowd7Among the works by Charles Dickens _ presents his criticism of the Utilitarian principle that rules over the English education system and destroys young hearts and minds.ABleak House BPickwick PaperCGreat Expectations DHard Times8The most distinguishing feature of Charles Dickens

4、works is his _. Asimple vocabulary Bbitter and sharp criticismCcharacter-portrayal Dpictures of happiness9Among the following writers _ created the verse novel by adopting the novelistic presentation of characters.ARobert Browning BMatthew Arnold CAlfred Tennyson DEdward Fitzgerald 10“It is a truth

5、universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good for-tune, must be in want of a wife.” The quoted part is taken from _.AJane Eyre BWuthering HeightsCPride and Prejudice DSense and Sensibility11Because of her sensitivity to universal patterns of human behavior, _ has brought the En

6、glish novel ,as an art of form, to its maturity.ACharlotte Bront BJane Austen CEmily Bront DAnn Radcliffe12Shelleys greatest achievement is his four-act poetic drama _, which is an exultant work in praise of humankinds potential.AAdonais BQueen MabCPrometheus Unbound DA Defence of Poetry13The assert

7、ion that poetry originates from “emotion recollected in tranquility” belongs to _.AWilliam Wordsworth BSamuel Taylor ColeridgeCRobert Southey DWilliam Blake14All of the following poems by William Wordsworth are masterpieces on nature EXCEPT _.A“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” B“An Evening Walk”C“Tinte

8、rn Abbey” D“The Solitary Reaper”15All of the following are stream of- consciousness novels EXCEPT_.APilgrimage BUlyssesCMrs. Dalloway DTess of the D Urbervilles16Shakespeares four greatest tragedies are _.ARomeo and Juliet, Othello, King Lear, Hamlet BHamlet, Othello, Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice

9、CHamlet, Othello, King Lear, MacbethDRomeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, Othello, Hamlet17As one of the greatest masters of English prose, _ defined a good style as “proper words in proper places”.AHenry Fielding BJonathan SwiftCSamuel Johnson DAlexander Pope18All of the following novels by Da

10、niel Defoe are the first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower-class people EXCEPT _.ARobinson Crusoe BCaptain SingletonCMoll Flanders DColonel Jack19Among the three major works by John Milton _ is indeed the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf

11、.AParadise Regained BSamson Agonistes CLycidas DParadise Lost20English Romanticism, as a historical phase of literature, is generally said to have ended in 1832 with _.Athe passage of the first Reform Bill in the Parliament Bthe publication of Wordsworth and Coleridges Lyrical BalladsCthe publicatio

12、n of TSEliots The waste LandDthe passage of the Bill of Rights in the Parliament21Contrary to the traditional romance of aristocrats, the modern English novel gives a realistic presentation of life of _.Athe common English people Bthe upper classCthe rising bourgeoisie Dthe enterprising landlords22T

13、he major concern of _ fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature.AJohn Galsworthys BThomas HardysCDHLawrences DCharles Dickens23The Nobel Prize Committee

14、highly praised _ for “his powerful style-forming mastery of the art” of creating modern fiction.AEzra Pound BErnest Hemingway CRobert Frost DTheodore Dreiser24In 1950,_ was awarded the Nobel Prize for the anti-racist Intruder in the Dust.AWilliam Faulkner BRobert FrostCEzra Pound DErnest Hemingway25

15、Herman Melville wrote his semi-autobiographical novel _ concerning the sufferings of a genteel youth among brutal sailors.ATypee BRedburnCMoby-Dick DMardi26The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and, especially, its sequence _ proved themselves to be the milestone in the American literature.AThe Adventures of

16、 Huckleberry Finn BLife on the MississippiCThe Gilded Age DRoughing It27The Portrait of A Lady is generally considered to be _ masterpiece, which describes the life journey of an American _ in a European cultural environment.AHenry Adamswidow BWilliam JamesgirlCHenry Jamesgirl DTheodore Dreiserswido

17、w28Hawthorne intended to _ in The Scarlet Letter.Atell a story of parental love Btell a story of sin and bloody violenceCcall the readers back to the plantation way of living Dreveal the human psyche after they sinned29“The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being abov

18、e water.” This “iceberg” analogy is put forward by _.AMark Twain BEzra PoundCWilliam Faulkner DErnest Hemingway30In many of Hawthornes stories and novels, the Puritan concept of life is condemned, or the Puritan past is shown in an almost totally negative light, especially in his _ and The Scarlet L

19、etter.ATwice-Told Tales BThe Blithedale RomanceCThe Marble Faun DThe House of the Seven Gables31The white whale, Moby Dick, symbolizes _ for Melville, for it is complex, unfathomable, malignant, and beautiful as well.Asociety BnatureCocean animals Dboth A and C 32After the American Civil War, the li

20、terary interest in the so-called “reality” of life started a new period in the American literary writings know an the Age of _.ARealism BReason and Revolution CRomanticism DModernism 33HLMencken considered _ “the true father of our national literature”.ABret Harte BMark TwainCWashington Irving DWalt

21、 Whitman 34Altogether, Emily Dickinson wrote 1775 poems, of which only _ had appeared during her lifetime.Athree BfiveCseven Dnine35The _ Age of the 1920s characterized by frivolity and carelessness is brought vividly to life in The Great Gatsby.ALost BJazzCReason DGilded36Robert Frost is generally

22、considered a regional poet whose subject matters mainly focus on the landscape and people in _.Athe west Bthe south CAlaska DNew England37As _ saw it, poetry could play a vital part in the process of creating a new nation. It could enable Americans to celebrate their release from the Old World and t

23、he colonial rule.AWordsworth Longfellow BWilliam BryantCWalt Whitman DRobert Frost38Walt Whitman is a poet with a strong sense of mission, having devoted all his life to the creation of the “single” poem, _.AThe Love Song of JAlfred Prufrock BThe Waste LandCMurder in the Cathedral DLeaves of Grass39

24、Realism was a reaction against Romanticism and paved the way to _.AModernism BScientismCPost-Modernism DFeminism40Mark Twain employed an unpretentious style of _ in his novels which is best described as “vernacular”.Astandard English BAfro-American English Ccolloquialism DurbanismIIReading Comprehen

25、sion （16 points in all,4 for each）Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the Answer Sheet.41“Shall I compare thee to a summers day?Thou art more lovely and more temperate:Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,And s

26、ummers lease hath all too short a date:”Questions:AIdentify the poet and the poem from which the quoted lines are taken.BName the figure of speech employed in the poem.CWhat is the theme of the poem?42“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You thin

27、k wrong! 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 youit is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at Gods feet, equalas we are!AIdentify the author and the novel from which the quoted part is taken.BTo whom is the speaker speaking?CWhat does the quoted part imply about the speaker?43“The woods are lovely, dark and deep,B