英美文学1.Apart from the dislocation of time and the modern stream-of-con...

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英美文学16秋在线作业1
一、单选题：
1.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
2.Stylistically, Henry James‘ fiction is characterized by (    ) .          (满分:2.5)
    A. short
     clear sentences
    B. abundance of local images
    C. ordinary American speech
    D. highly refined language
3."And where are they? And where art thou," My country? On thy voiceless shore The heroic lay is tuneless now- The heroic bosom beats no more!"（George Gordon Byron, Don Juan） In the above stanza, "art thou" literally means (    ) .          (满分:2.5)
    A. "are you"
    B. "art though"
    C. "are though"
    D. "art you"
4.Dubliners is writing of          (满分:2.5)
    A. realism
    B. modernism
    C. stream of consciousness
    D. none of the above
5.“Come to me－come to me entirely now,” said he ; and added, in his deepest tone, speaking in my ear as his cheek was laid on mine, “Make my happiness－I will make yours.” The above passage presents a scene in .          (满分:2.5)
    A. Emily Bronte’s Withering Heights
    B. Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre
    C. John Galsworthy′s The Forsyte Saga
    D. Thomas Hardy′s Tess of the D′Urbervilles
6.Robert Frost combined traditional verse forms - the sonnet, rhyming couplets, blank verse - with a clear American local speech rhythm, the speech of (    ) farmers with its idiosyncratic diction and syntax.          (满分:2.5)
    A. Southern
    B. Western
    C. New Hampshire
    D. New England
7.Of the following writers , who wrote the critical essay On Poetry and Poets ?          (满分:2.5)
    A. Pound
    B. Eliot
    C. Frost
8.(    ) deals with a limited range of characters in quite similar circumstances and measures     them against an unvarying code , known as ‘‘ grace under pressure ‘‘ .          (满分:2.5)
    A. Eliot
    B. Lewis
    C. Hemingway
9.Whose writings almost always use youth as major characters ?          (满分:2.5)
    A. Singer‘s
    B. Salinger‘s
    C. Vonnegut‘s
10.Of the following literary giants,       is not of Irish origin.          (满分:2.5)
    A. George Bernard Shaw
    B. William Butler Yeats
    C. T.S.Eliot
    D. James Joyce
11.Among the representatives of the Enlightenment, who was the first to introduce rationalism to England ?          (满分:2.5)
    A. John Bunyan
    B. Daniel Defoe
    C. Alexander Pope
    D. Jonathan Swift
12.In Samuel Taylor Coleridge′s “Kubla Khan,” “A sunny pleasure dome with caves of ice” .          (满分:2.5)
    A. refers to the palace where Kubla Khan once lived
    B. vividly describes a building of poor quality
    C. is the gift given to a beautiful girl called Abyssinian
    D. symbolizes the reconciliation of the conscious and the unconscious
13.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.
14.In which of the following poems by William Butler Yeats did you find the allusion to Helen and the TrojanWar?          (满分:2.5)
    A. "Sailing to Byzantium"
    B. " Leda and the Swan"
    C. "The Lake Isle if Innisfree".
    D. " Sown by the Sally Garden"
15.John Milton wrote his masterpieces after blindness expect           (满分:2.5)
    A. Paradise Lost
    B. Paradise Regained
    C. Samson Agonistes
    D. Areopagitica
16.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
17.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
18."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
19.“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?          (满分:2.5)
    A. Violence.
    B. Horror.
    C. Inactivity.
    D. Indifference.
20.Le More D’ Arthur is an important landmark in the development of English prose for its          (满分:2.5)
    A. lucid style
    B. verbose style
    C. complicate style
    D. ornate style
21.The statement"Studies serve for delight，for ornament，and for ability”opens one of well-known essays by(    ).          (满分:2.5)
    A. Francis Bacon
    B. Samuel Johnson
    C. Alexander Pope
    D. Jonathan Swift
22.The three trilogies of (    ) Forsyte novels are masterpieces of critical realism in the early 20th century.          (满分:2.5)
    A. D.H. Lawrence’s
    B. John Galsworthy’s
    C. James Joyce’s
    D. Thomas Hardy’s
23.“For I have known them all already, known them all--／Have known the evenings，mornings，afternoons,/I have measured out my life with coffee spoons．”The abovelines are taken from(    ).          (满分:2.5)
    A. Wordsworth‘s“The Solitary Reaper”
    B. Eliot‘s“The Love Song of J．Alfred Prufrock，”
    C. Coleridge‘s“Kubla Khan”
    D. Yeats‘s“The Lake Isle of lnnisfree”
24.“I will drink / life to the lees .” In the quoted line Ulysses is saying that he till the end of his life .          (满分:2.5)
    A. will keep traveling and exploring
    B. will go on drinking and being happy
    C. would like to toast to his glorious life
    D. would like to drink the cup of wine
25.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
26.In Hardy‘s Wessex novels, there is an apparent (    ) touch in his description of the simple and beautiful though primitive rural life.          (满分:2.5)
    A. humorous
    B. romantic
    C. nostalgic
    D. sarcastic
27.William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all of the following except .          (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
28.Of all the eighteenth-century novelists, (    ) was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a "comic epic in prose," and the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.          (满分:2.5)
    A. Daniel Defoe
    B. Samuel Richardson
    C. Henry Fielding
    D. Oliver Goldsmith
29."She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and, oh, The difference to me!" The word "me" in the last line of the above stanza quoted from Wordsworth‘s poem "She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways" may possibly refer to (    ) .          (满分:2.5)
    A. the poet
    B. the reader
    C. her lover
    D. everybody
30.Which of the following information about John Donne is NOT true?          (满分:2.5)
    A. he was born in a Roman Catholic family
    B. he received his education at Oxford and Cambridge
    C. later he gave up his Catholic faith and took orders in the Anglican Church.
    D. he wrote only religious poems.
31.(    ) is a play that concerns the problem of modern man‘s identity .          (满分:2.5)
    A. The Hairy Ape
    B. Long Day‘s Journey into Night
    C. The Iceman Cometh
32.“What is his name?”    “Bingley．”    “Is he married or Single?”    “Oh! Single，my dear, to be sure! A Single man of large fortune；four or five    thousand a year．What a fine thing for our girls!”     The above dialogue must be taken from(    ).          (满分:2.5)
    A. Jane Austen‘s pride and prejudice
    B. Emily Bronte‘s Wuthering Heights
    C. John Galsworthy‘s The Forsyte Saga
    D. George Eliot‘s Middlemarch
33.Who is the writer that wrote about frontier adventures ?          (满分:2.5)
    A. Irving
    B. Cooper
    C. Melville
34.Shakespeare‘s comedies are composed of (    )          (满分:2.5)
    A. ordinary people and clowns
    B. knights and nobles
    C. witches and prophets
    D. shrews and princes
35.(    ) has been regarded as the “founder of the American Drama”.          (满分:2.5)
    A. Tennessee Williams
    B. Eugene O’Neill
    C. Arthur Miller
    D. Hendrik Ibser
36.All of the following are written by Hemingway except (    ) .          (满分:2.5)
    A. The Sun Also Rises
    B. For Whom the Bell Tolls
    C. Sartoris
37.The 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.          (满分:2.5)
    A. Charles Dickens‘s
    B. D.H.Lawrence‘s
    C. Thomas Hardy‘s
    D. John Galsworthy‘s
38.Romanticism extended from 1798 when Lyrical Ballads was published and in 1832 when          (满分:2.5)
    A. Austen died
    B. Wordsworth died
    C. Scott died
    D. Shelley died
39.Dreiser‘s Trilogy of Desire includes 3 novels : The Financier , The Titan and (    ) .          (满分:2.5)
    A. The Tycoon
    B. The Giant
    C. The Stoic
40.The following are all Steinbeck‘s works except (    ) .          (满分:2.5)
    A. Winesburg
     Ohio
    B. Of Mice and Men
    C. Grapes of Wrath