《英美文学》1.Which of the following best describes the nature of Thoma...

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一、单选题：
1.Which of the following best describes the nature of Thomas Hardy’s later works?          (满分:2.5)
    A. Sentimentalism.
    B. Tragic sense.
    C. Surrealism.
    D. Comic sense.
2.Beowulf is a national epic of          (满分:2.5)
    A. Germany
    B. England
    C. Scandinavia
    D. France
3.“The novel is structured around the discovery of the hero’s origin.” This novel is most probably .          (满分:2.5)
    A. Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield
    B. James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
    C. Thomas Hardy’s Far from the Madding Growd
    D. Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones
4.Alexander Pope strongly advocated (    ), emphasizing that literary works should be judged by rules of order, reason, logic, restrained emotion, good taste and decorum.          (满分:2.5)
    A. sentimentalism
    B. romanticism
    C. idealism
    D. neoclassicism
5.Of the following poems , which is written by Poe ?          (满分:2.5)
    A. The Day of Doom
    B. To Helen
    C. To a Waterfowl
6.“The Forsyte Saga” is a trilogy by (    ).          (满分:2.5)
    A. John Galsworthy
    B. Thomas Hardy
    C. Charles Dickens
    D. H. Lawrence
7.the most significant idea of the Renaissance is(    ).          (满分:2.5)
    A. humanism
    B. realism
    C. naturalism
    D. skepticism
8.If Winter comes，can Spring be far behind?”is an epigrammatic line by(    ).          (满分:2.5)
    A. J．Keats
    B. W．Blake
    C. W. Wordsworth
    D. P.B．Shelley
9.Daisy Miller‘s tragedy of indiscretion is intensified and enlarged by its narration from the point of view of (    ) .          (满分:2.5)
    A. the author Henry James
    B. the Italian youth Giovanelli
    C. the American youth Winterbourne
    D. her mother Mrs. Miller
10.(    )(    )(    ) has always been regarded as a writer who “perfected the best classic style that American Literature ever produced”.          (满分:2.5)
    A. Edgar Ellen Poe
    B. Walt Whitman
    C. Henry David Thoreau
    D. Washington Irving
11.(    ) makes the climax of O‘Neill‘s literary career and the coming of age of American     drama .          (满分:2.5)
    A. The Hairy Ape
    B. Long Day‘s Journey into Night
    C. The Iceman Cometh
12.“Humor” according to Ben Jonson means          (满分:2.5)
    A. fun
    B. comedy
    C. thought
    D. temperament
13.The following poets are all Poet Laureate except(    )          (满分:2.5)
    A. Ben Jonson
    B. Thomas Gray
    C. Robert Southey
    D. William Wordsworth
14.The novelist who was born in Poland wrote          (满分:2.5)
    A. The portrait of A Lady
    B. A Passage to India
    C. The Heart of Darkness
    D. Dubliners
15.It is on his (    ) that Washington Irving‘s fame mainly rested.          (满分:2.5)
    A. childhood recollections
    B. sketches about his European tours
    C. early poetry
    D. tales about America
16.As an autobiographical play, O‘Neill‘s (    ) （1956）has gained its status as a world classic and simultaneously marks the climax of his literary career and the coming of age of American drama.          (满分:2.5)
    A. The Iceman Cometh
    B. Long Day‘s Journey Into Night
    C. The Hairy Ape
    D. Desire Under the Elms
17.The (    ) Movement appeared in the thirties of the 19th century. It showed the English workers were able to appear as an independent political force and were already realizing the fact that the industrial bourgeoisie was their principal enemy.          (满分:2.5)
    A. Enlightenment
    B. Renaissance
    C. Chartist
    D. Romanticist
18.Which of the following information about John Milton is NOT true?          (满分:2.5)
    A. John Milton was the greatest English Poets after Shakespeare.
    B. Milton was born in a Roman Catholic family and both his parents were understanding parents.
    C. He received education at Cambridge and in 1632 he completed his M.A
    D. His masterpiece is Paradise Lost
19.(    ) is often acclaimed literary spokesman of the Jazz Age .          (满分:2.5)
    A. Hemingway
    B. Fitzgerald
    C. Steinbeck
20.Most of the poems in Whitman‘s Leaves of Grass sing of the "en-mass" and the (    ) as well.          (满分:2.5)
    A. nature
    B. self-reliance
    C. self
    D. life
21.Which terms can best describe the modernists’ concern of the human situation in their fiction?          (满分:2.5)
    A. Fragmentation and alienation.
    B. Courage and honor.
    C. Tradition and faith.
    D. Poverty and desperation.
22.In 1704, (    )(    )founded the periodicals “the Review”.          (满分:2.5)
    A. Swift
    B. Blake
    C. Milton
    D. Defoe
23.The publication of (    ) established Emerson as the spokesman of Transcendentalism .          (满分:2.5)
    A. Nature
    B. Self—reliance
    C. The American Scholar
24.(    ) is not the work by Robert Frost.          (满分:2.5)
    A. “I heard a Fly Buzz ---- when I died”
    B. “ The Road Not Taken”
    C. “Home burial”
    D. “After Apple-picking”
25.(    )(    ) was written by Mark Twain in collaboration with Warner .          (满分:2.5)
    A. Jumping Frog
    B. The Gilded Age
    C. Roughing It
26.In Hardy‘s Wessex novels，there is an apparent(    )touch in his description of the    simple though primitive rural life．          (满分:2.5)
    A. nostalgic
    B. humorous
    C. romantic
    D. ironic
27.It is alone who , for the first time in English literature, presented to us a comprehensive realistic picture of the English society of his time and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life.          (满分:2.5)
    A. Geoffrey Chaucer
    B. Martin Luther
    C. William Langland
    D. John Gower
28.Dreiser‘s Trilogy of Desire includes three novels. They are The Financier, The Titan and (    ) .          (满分:2.5)
    A. The Genius
    B. The Tycoon
    C. The Stoic
    D. The Giant
29.Which of the following is NOT typical of metaphysical poetry best represented by John Donne’s works?          (满分:2.5)
    A. Common speech.
    B. Conceit.
    C. Argument.
    D. Refined language.
30.Prometheus Unbound is Shelley’s greatest achievement. Prometheus, according to the Greek mythology, was chained by Zeus on Mount Caucasus and suffered the vulture’s feeding on his liver for(    )(    ).          (满分:2.5)
    A. planning a revolt to dethrone God
    B. misinterpreting God’s decree to reconcile man and nature
    C. prophesying the arrival of spring in a winter season
    D. stealing the fire from heaven and giving it to man
31.In Chapter III of Oliver Twist, Oliver is punished for that “impious and profane offence of asking for more” . What did Oliver ask for more?          (满分:2.5)
    A. More time to play
    B. More food to eat
    C. More books to read
    D. More money to spend
32.The following are all Steinbeck‘s works except (    ) .          (满分:2.5)
    A. Winesburg
     Ohio
    B. Of Mice and Men
    C. Grapes of Wrath
33.Generally , the Renaissance refers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries, its essence is .          (满分:2.5)
    A. science
    B. philosophy
    C. arts
    D. humanism
34.We can perhaps describe the west wind in Shelley‘s poem "Ode to the West Wind" with all the following terms except (    ) .          (满分:2.5)
    A. tamed
    B. swift
    C. proud
    D. wild
35.Dickinson’s poems include poems of (    )(    ).          (满分:2.5)
    A. nature
    B. love
    C. death
    D. all the above
36.The statement "It reveals the dehumanizing workhouse system and the dark, criminal underworld life" may well sum up the main theme if Dickens‘s (    ) .          (满分:2.5)
    A. David Copperfield
    B. Bleak House
    C. Great Expectations
    D. Oliver Twist
37.Apart from the dislocation of time and the modern stream-of-consciousness, the other narrative techniques Faulkner used to construct his stories include (    ) , symbolism and mythological and biblical allusions.          (满分:2.5)
    A. impressionism
    B. expressionism
    C. multiple points of view
    D. first person point of view
38.Walt Whitman, whose (    )(    )(    ) established him as the most popular American poet of the 19th century.          (满分:2.5)
    A. Leaves of Grass
    B. Go Down
     Moses
    C. The Marble Faun
    D. As I Lay Dying
39."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 the grave?" In the above passage quoted from Emily Bronte‘s Wuthering Heights, the word "soul" apparently refers to (    ) .          (满分:2.5)
    A. Heathcliff
    B. Catherine
    C. ghost
    D. one‘s spiritual lift
40.Christoper Marlow’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” is a(n) .          (满分:2.5)
    A. pastoral lyric
    B. elegy
    C. eulogy
    D. epic