1、英美文学选读模拟试题一五整合及答案Network Education College, BLCU英美文学选读模拟试卷一注意: 1.试卷保密,考生不得将试卷带出考场或撕页,否则成绩作废。请监考老师负责监督。2.请各位考生注意考试纪律,考试作弊全部成绩以零分计算。3.本试卷满分100分,答题时间为90分钟。4.本试卷分为试题卷和答题卷,所有答案必须答在答题卷上,答在试题卷上不给分。I.Multiple Choice. (1 point for each, altogether 30 points)Directions: There are 30 sentences in this section.
2、 Beneath each sentence there are four choices respectively marked by letters A, B, C and D. Choose the word that you think best complete the sentence. Write your answers on the answer sheet.1. Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his production of_.A Piers PlowmanB Sir
3、 Gawain and the Green KnightC Confessio AmantisD The Canterbury Tales2. In After Apple- Picking, Robert Frost wrote: For I have had too much / Of apple -picking: I am overtired/ Of the great harvest I myself desired. From these lines we can conclude that the speaker is_.A happy about the harvestB st
4、ill very much interested in apple-pickingC expecting a greater harvestD indifferent to what he once desired3.With Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the literary scene, _became the major trend in American literature in the seventies and eighties of the 19th century.A SentimentalismB romanticis
5、mC realismD naturalism4. Of the following American poets in the twentieth century, the one who has the best knowledge of Chinese culture is _.A Robert FrostB Allen GinsbergC Ezra PoundD Cummings5. _is the first important governess novel in the English literary history.A Jane EyreB EmmaC Wuthering He
6、ightsD Middlemarch6. The Hemingway Code heroes are best remembered for their_.A indestructible spiritB pessimistic view of lifeC war experiencesD masculinity7. Which of the following is taken from John KeatsOde to a Nightingale? _A Beauty is truth, truth beauty.B Earth has not anything to show more
7、fair.C They are both gone up to the church to pray.D was it a vision, or a waking dream?8. Emily Dickinson wrote many short poems on various aspects of life. Which of the following is NOT a usual subject of her poetic expression? _A Religion and immortalityB Life and deathC Love and marriageD War an
8、d peace9. Henry David Thoreaus work_, has always been regarded as a masterpiece of New England Transcendentalism.A WaldenB The PioneersC NatureD Song of Myself10. George Bernard Shaws play _ established his position as the leading play-wright of his time. A Widowers Houses B Too True to Be GoodC Mrs
9、. Warrens ProfessionD Candida11. Romance, which uses narrative verse or prose to tell stories of _ adventures or other heroic deeds, is a popular literary form in the medieval period.A ChristianB knightlyC GreekD primitive12. For Melville, as well as for the reader and _ , the narrator, Moby Dick is
10、 still a mystery, an ultimate mystery of the universe. .A AhabB Ishmael C StubbD Starbuck13. Which of the following historical events does not directly help to stimulate the rising of the Renaisssance Movement? _A The rediscovery of ancient Greek and Roman cultureB The new discoveries in geography a
11、nd astrologyC The Glorious revolutionD The religious reformation and the economic expansion14. Which of the following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeares Sonnet 18?A The speaker eulogizes the power of NatureB The speaker satirizes human vanityC The speaker praises the power of arti
12、stic creationD The speaker meditates on mans salvation15. “And we will sit upon the rocks,/Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks,/By shallow rivers to whose falls/Melodious birds sing madrigals.” The above lines are probably taken from _.A Spensers The Faerie QueeneB John Donnes “The Sun Rising”C S
13、hakespeares “Sonnet 18”D Marlowes “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”16. “Bassanio: Antonio, I am married to a wife which is as dear to me as life itself; But life itself, My wife, and all the world. Are not with me esteemd above thy life; I would lose all, ay, sacrifice them all, Here to the devi
14、l, to deliver you. Portia: Your wife would give you little thanks for that, If she were by to hear you make the offer.” The above is a quotation taken from Shakespeares comedy The Merchant of Venice. The quoted part can be regarded as a good example to illustrate _. A dramatic ironyB personificationC allegoryD symbolism17. The true subject of John Donnes poem, “The Sun Rising,” is to _.A attack the sun as an unruly servantB give compliments to the mistress and her power of beautyC criticize the suns intrusion into the lovers private lifeD lecture the sun on where true royalty
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