英美文学1.Frost took a ( ) style in his poetry . A. simple

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一、单选题：
1.Frost took a (    ) style in his poetry .          (满分:2.5)
    A. simple
    B. complicated
    C. modern
2.In his essay“of Studies，”Bacon Said：“Some books are to be tasted，others to be swallowed，and some few to be chewed and(    ).          (满分:2.5)
    A. Skimmed
    B. perfected
    C. imitated
    D. digested
3.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
4.In Hardy’s Tess of D’urbervilles , the heroine’s tragic ending is due to .          (满分:2.5)
    A. her weak character
    B. her ambition
    C. Angel Clare’s selfishness
    D. a hostile society
5.Shakespeare‘s tragedies include all the fOllowing except(    ).          (满分:2.5)
    A. Hamlet and King lear
    B. Antony and Cleopatra and Macbeth
    C. julius Caesar and Othello
    D. the Merchant of Venice and A Midsummer Night`s Dream
6.The term tone in literature means(    )(    ).          (满分:2.5)
    A. sound effect such as rhyme and metrical device
    B. the pitch of a word used to determine its meaning in the given context
    C. the manner of expression to indicate the speaker’s attitude towards the subject
    D. a shade of colour to reflect the change of the light
7.The English novelist(    )    has been regarded as the “Prose Homer”.          (满分:2.5)
    A. Daniel Defoe
    B. Jonathan Swift
    C. Henry Fielding
    D. Samuel Richardson
8.Of the following writers , who wrote the critical essay On Poetry and Poets ?          (满分:2.5)
    A. Pound
    B. Eliot
    C. Frost
9.Richardson was noted as story-telling , letter writer and a          (满分:2.5)
    A. critic
    B. moralizer
    C. poet
    D. playwright
10.Ode to The West Wind was written by (    )          (满分:2.5)
    A. T.S Eliot
    B. George Eliot
    C. Ezra Pound
    D. Shelley
11.(    )(    ) was written by Mark Twain in collaboration with Warner .          (满分:2.5)
    A. Jumping Frog
    B. The Gilded Age
    C. Roughing It
12.the most significant idea of the Renaissance is(    ).          (满分:2.5)
    A. humanism
    B. realism
    C. naturalism
    D. skepticism
13.Which of the following brings LITTLE impact on the development of 20th century literature?          (满分:2.5)
    A. Friedrich Nietzche’s assertions
14.Which of the following words NOT appropriate to describe Mrs. Bennet, a character in pride and Prejudice .          (满分:2.5)
     "God is dead"
    B. Arther Schopenharuer’s and Henry Bergson’s philosophical ideas of irrationality.
    C. Oscar Wilde’s idea of "Art for Art’s Sake".
    D. Freudian-Jungian psycho-analysis
15."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. Beautiful
    B. Intelligent
    C. Snobbish
    D. Vulgar
16.(    ) makes the climax of O‘Neill‘s literary career and the coming of age of American     drama .          (满分:2.5)
    A. Heathcliff
    B. Catherine
    C. ghost
    D. one‘s spiritual lift
17.William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all of the following except .          (满分:2.5)
    A. The Hairy Ape
    B. Long Day‘s Journey into Night
    C. The Iceman Cometh
18.In 1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson made a speech entitled (    ) at Harvard, which was hailed by Oliver Wendell Holmes as "Our intellectual Declaration of Independence."          (满分:2.5)
    A. normal contemporary speech patterns
    B. humble and rustic life as subject matter
    C. elegant wording and inflated figures of speech
    D. intensely subjective feeling toward individual experience
19.The Rape of the Lock gives an account of a          (满分:2.5)
    A. "Nature"
    B. "Self-Reliance"
    C. "Divinity School Address"
    D. "The American Scholar"
20.In Leaves of Grass, (    ) is all that concerned Whitman.          (满分:2.5)
    A. bull fighting
    B. knight duel
    C. writer’s life
    D. anecdote of the court
21.The poems such as，“The Chimney Sweeper”are found in both Songs of lnnocence and SongS of Experience by(    ).          (满分:2.5)
    A. individualism
    B. the spirit of democracy
    C. freedom
    D. all the above
22.The most original playwright of the Theater of Absurd is Samuel Beckett and his first play, (    ), is regarded as the most famous and influential play of the Theater of Absurd.          (满分:2.5)
    A. William Wordsworth
    B. William Blake
    C. John Keats
    D. Lord Gordon Byron
23.Irving‘s Rip Van Winkle is famous for (    ) .          (满分:2.5)
    A. Waiting for Godot
    B. Murder in the Cathedral
    C. Too True to Be Good
    D. Mrs. Warren’s Profession
24.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. Rip‘s escape into the mountain
    B. Rip‘s seeking for happiness
    C. Rip‘s 20–year sleep
25.American Literature produced only one female poet during the 19th century. This was (    ).          (满分:2.5)
    A. David Copperfield
    B. Bleak House
    C. Great Expectations
    D. Oliver Twist
26.Angry Young Man of the 1950’s most came from          (满分:2.5)
    A. Jane Austen
    B. Watt Whitman
    C. Emily Dickinson
    D. Harriet Beccher Stowe
27.Of all the eighteenth-century novelists , who was the first to set out, both in theory and practice , to write specially a “comic epic in prose”, the first to give the modern novel its structure and style ?          (满分:2.5)
    A. the lower class
    B. the upper class
    C. peasants
    D. workers
28.Most of Bernard Shaw’s plays are concerned with(    ).          (满分:2.5)
    A. Thomas Gray
    B. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
    C. Johathan Swift
    D. Henry Fielding
29.“The history of the world is the biography of the great men” can sum up the book          (满分:2.5)
    A. political problems
    B. religious  problems
    C. moral problems
    D. all the above
30.Sir Gawain and Green Knight was created by          (满分:2.5)
    A. Heroes and Hero-worship
    B. The French Revolution
    C. A Modern Comedy
    D. Life of Schiller
31.(    ) is often acclaimed literary spokesman of the Jazz Age .          (满分:2.5)
    A. Chaucer
    B. Langland
    C. Bede
    D. None of the above
32.provides the main source of influence on American naturalism.          (满分:2.5)
    A. Hemingway
    B. Fitzgerald
    C. Steinbeck
33.(    ) has been regarded as the “founder of the American Drama”.          (满分:2.5)
    A. The puritan heritage
    B. Howells’ ideas of realism
    C. Darwin’s theory of evolution
    D. The pioneer spirit of the wild west
34.(    ) is not the work by Robert Frost.          (满分:2.5)
    A. Tennessee Williams
    B. Eugene O’Neill
    C. Arthur Miller
    D. Hendrik Ibser
35.Who is the writer that wrote about frontier adventures ?          (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”
36.Among the representatives of the Enlightenment, who was the first to introduce rationalism to England ?          (满分:2.5)
    A. Irving
    B. Cooper
    C. Melville
37.Crusoe is the hero in The life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Grusoe, of York, Mariner(also known as Robinson Crusoe)by .          (满分:2.5)
    A. John Bunyan
    B. Daniel Defoe
    C. Alexander Pope
    D. Jonathan Swift
38.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. Jonathan Swift
    B. Daniel Defoe
    C. George Eliot
    D. D.H.Lawrence
39.Fielding has been regarded by some as “(    )(    )(    )”,for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel .          (满分:2.5)
    A. Geoffrey Chaucer
    B. Martin Luther
    C. William Langland
    D. John Gower
40.Which of the following works marks the beginning of real American Literature ?          (满分:2.5)
    A. Best writer of the English novel
    B. Father of the English novel
    C. the most gifted writer of the English novel
    D. conventional writer of English novel