[考研类试卷]英语专业(英美文学)模拟试卷6.doc

[考研类试卷]英语专业（英美文学）模拟试卷6

一、填空题

1 ______is often given the credit for the discovery of the modern novel; but whether or not he deserves that honor remains an open question.

2 "If the censure of Yahoo could any way affect me, I should have great reason to complain that some of them are so bold as to think my book of travels a mere fiction out of mine own brain." This question is selected from______.

3 Henry Fielding has been regarded as "______", for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.

4 British novel came of age in______.

5 The Vicar of Wakefield is the only novel of______, which describes misfortunes falling on the central character and the family.

6 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by______is taken a model of sentimentalist poetry, esp. the Graveyard school.

7 Friday is a character in the novel______.

8 Among the representatives of the Enlightenment,______was the first to introduce rationalism to England.

9 Essay on Criticism is a didactic poem written in the form of______.

10 Auld Lang Syne written by______deals with the friendship and has long become a universal parting-song of all the English-speaking countries.

11 War in Crane's novel______is a plain slaughterhouse. There is nothing like valor or heroism on the battlefield, and if there is anything, it is the fear of death, cowardice, the natural instinct of man to run form danger.

12 The literary career of Henry James is generally divided into______periods, in the first period(1865-1882), James took great interest in______theme.

13 The name of the heroine in the Portrait of a Lady was______.

14 ______was the first literary giant born west of the Mississippi.

15 Dreiser visited the Soviet Union in 1927 and published______the following year.

16 Mrs. Stowe's masterpiece is______.

17 ______influences American literature a lot and led American romanticism turn into American realism.

18 Mark Twain made a more extensive combination of______and______than previous writers had ever done.

二、名词解释

19 The Graveyard School

20 Satire

21 Classicism

22 The Heroic Couplet

23 Meter

24 The Age of Realism

25 American Naturalism

26 Darwinism

27 Regionalism

28 First-person narrative

三、单项选择题

29 ______is the most successful religious allegory in the English language.

（A）Genesis A

（B）Exodus

（C）The Pilgrim's Progress

（D）The Holy War

30 The object of______novels was to present a faithful picture of life, "the just copies of human manners", with sound teaching woven into their texture, so as to teach them to know themselves, their proper spheres and appropriate manners.

（A）John Bunyan's

（B）Alexander Pope's

（C）Jonathan Swift's

（D）Henry Fielding's

31 Of all the 18th century novelists,______was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a "comic epic in prose".

（A）Henry Fielding

（B）Daniel Defoe

（C）John Bunyan

（D）Jonathan Swift

32 ______was very much concerned with the theme of the vanity of human wishes and tried to awaken men to this folly and hoped to cure them of it through his writing.

（A）Samuel Johnson

（B）Jonathan Swift

（C）Richard Brinsley Sheridan

（D）Thomas Gray

33 The Rivals and______are generally regarded as important links between the masterpieces of Shakespeare and those of Bernard Shaw.

（A）The School for Scandal

（B）The Duenna

（C）Widowers Houses

（D）The Doctor's Dilemma

34 ______is a sharp satire on the moral degeneracy of the aristocratic-bourgeois society in the 18th century England.

（A）The Rivals

（B）Gulliver's Travels

（C）Tom Jones

（D）The School for Scandal

35 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,______best and most representative work has been ranked among the best of the 18th century English Poetry.

（A）Alexander Pope's

（B）Thomas Gray's

（C）Samuel Johnson's

（D）William Blake's

36 As the representative of the Enlightenment, Pope was one of the first to introduce______to England.

（A）rationalism

（B）criticism

（C）romanticism

（D）realism

37 The Enlightenment Movement did not advocate_____.

（A）rationality, reason, order and rules

（B）return to the ancient classical works

（C）inner feelings of individuals

（D）universal education

38 An Essay on Criticism is a didactic poem written in______.

（A）heroic couplets

（B）English sonnet

（C）bland verse

（D）Italian sonnet

39 Which of the following comments on Thomas Gray's poetry is NOT true? （A）Distorted in word order.

（B）Highly artificial in diction.

（C）Calculated in rhythm.

（D）Light-hearted in tone.

40 In The Life of Jonathan Wild the Great the word "great" is used______.

（A）allegorically

（B）satirically

（C）objectively

（D）euphemistically

41 By writing in apparently admiring terms of the life of a notorious criminal in The Life of Jonathan Wild the Great Henry Fielding suggests that there is little difference between______.

（A）noted rogues and great politicians

（B）the nobles and the commons

（C）great rogues and lesser rogues.

（D）discovered criminals and secret sinners

42 What makes Jonathan Swift's satire all the more bitter, biting and poignant is that his satire is often masked by______on the part of the author.

（A）an apparent eagerness, gravity, sincerity and detachment in tone

（B）a softness and persuasiveness in manner and firmness and thoroughness in action （C）a strong indignation in tone and open defiance and challenge

（D）a friendliness and frankness in tone and the seeming indifference and nonchalance

43 Henry Fielding adopted "the third-person narration", which enables the author to present as the ______ not only the characters' external behavior but also the internal workings of their minds.

（A）all-knowing God

（B）intimate participant

（C）invisible man

（D）ignorant narrator

44 The novel, which prospered in the hands of Swift, Defoe and Fielding, gives a realistic presentation of life of the common English people. This is quite contrary to the traditional ______of aristocrats.

（A）elegy

（B）epic

（C）romance

（D）morality play

45 The chief force that motivated John Bunyan to write The Pilgrim's Progress was his______.

（A）political commitment

（B）religious fervency

（C）artistic pursuit.

（D）long suffering in the person

46 As a result of the conscientious study he made of the Bible, Bunyan's language was______.

（A）satiric, concise and well-balanced

（B）concrete, living and colloquial

（C）general, Latinate and polysyllabic

（D）comic, neat and decent

47 The enlighteners believed that if the masses were well educated, there would be greater chance for a______human society.

（A）reasonable

（B）progressive

（C）democratic

（D）enlightened

48 Alexander Pope's An Essay on Criticism is a(n)______poem.

（A）ironic

（B）didactic

（C）sarcastic

（D）exaggerated

49 The tone of Jonathan Swift's novel Gulliver's Travels is______.

（A）sad

（B）sarcastic

（C）praising

（D）detached

50 The______was a progressive intellectual movement throughout western Europe in the 18th century.

（A）Renaissance

（B）Enlightenment

（C）Religious Reformation

（D）Chartist Movement

51 During the reign of reason the enlightenment meant education of people to free them from all the unreasonable fetters which include______.

（A）theology

（B）conventional ideology

（C）feudal government

（D）all the above

52 Which of the following is NOT Samuel Johnson's work?

（A）London.

（B）Tom Jones.

（C）Lives of the Poets.

（D）A Dictionary of the English Language.

53 "Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?" The above passage is taken from______.

（A）Francis Bacon's Of Studies

（B）William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice

（C）Samuel Johnson's To the Right Honorable the Earl of Chesterfield

（D）Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal

54 The 18th century witnesses a new literary form — the modern English novel, which, contrary to the medieval romance, gives a______presentation of life of the common English people.

（A）romantic

（B）idealistic

（C）prophetic

（D）realistic

55 In Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, Thomas Gray compared the common folk with the great ones, wondering what the commons could have achieved if they had had the______.

（A）chance

（B）love

（C）money

（D）material sources

56 When he writes, in An Essay on Criticism, "A vile conceit in pompous words expressed, / Is like a clown in regal purple dresses," Alexander Pope means that______. （A）pompous words are always destructive to good taste

（B）the purple color is for the royal only and it is ridiculous to dress a clown in purple （C）conceits are always misleading

（D）true wit is best set in a plain style

57 "The shepherd in Virgin grew at last acquainted with Love, and found him a native of rocks."(Samuel Johnson's To the Right Honorable the Earl of Chesterfield)The speaker here is______.

（A）cheerful

（B）ironic

（C）mysterious

（D）nonchalant

58 "He has a servant called Friday." "He" in the quoted sentence is a character in______. （A）Henry Fielding's Tom Jones

（B）John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress

（C）Richard Bringsley Sheridan's The School for Scandal

（D）Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe

59 Which of the following is NOT written by Theodore Dreiser?

（A）The Genius.

（B）The Titan.

（C）Light in August.

（D）Jennie Gerhardt.

60 One of the most familiar themes in American naturalism is the theme of human"______".

（A）bestiality

（B）goodness

（C）compassion

（D）greed

61 Which of the following writings is NOT a poem of Emily Dickinson's?

（A）This is my letter to the World.

（B）I heard a Fly buzz—When I died.

（C）The Road Not Taken.

（D）I like to see it lap the Miles.

62 Mark Twain created, in______, a masterpiece of American realism that is also one of the great books of world literature.

（A）Huckleberry Finn

（B）Tom Sawyer

（C）The Man That Corrupted Hadleybury

（D）The Gilded Age

63 What is the analogy that Emily Dickinson uses in her poem Because I Could not Stop for Death?

（A）Horse and carriage.

（B）Stage and performance.

（C）Cloud and shade.

（D）Ship and harbor.

64 Here is a passage from a novel: "The man gave him a last push and closed the door. As he did so, Hurstwood slipped and fell in the snow. It hurt him, and some vague sense of shame returned. He began to cry and swear foolishly. The novel must be______. （A）Dreiser's Sister Carrie

（B）Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath

（C）London's Martin Eden

（D）Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

65 However, innocence, the keynote of Daisy Miller's character, turns out to be an admiring but dangerous quality and her______of social taboos in the Old World finally brings her to a disaster in the clash between two different cultures.

（A）admiration

（B）defiance

（C）sympathy

（D）disgusting8. American

66 In Henry James Daisy Miller, the author tries to portray the protagonist as an embodiment of______.

（A）the force of convention

（B）the decline of aristocracy

（C）the free spirit of the New World

（D）the corruption of the new rich

67 The three dominant figures of the American Realistic Period are William Dean Howells, Mark Twain, and______.

（A）Emily Dickinson

（B）Henry James

（C）Theodore Dreiser

（D）Ezra Pound

68 As a naturalist writer, Theodore Dreiser was greatly influenced by______.

（A）Nathaniel Hawthorne

（B）Charles Darwin

（C）Henry James

（D）Ralph Waldo Emerson

69 Henry James's idea of realism differs from that of the other realist writers because his emphasis is on man's______.

（A）language

（B）inner world

（C）surroundings

（D）real actions

70 Emily Dickinson got inspiration from______in her writing of poetry.

（A）hymns

（B）sonnets

（C）free verse

（D）heroic couplets

71 Henry James is mostly concerned with______in his fiction.

（A）the inner life of human beings

（B）violent events in history

（C）small-town life in backward regions

（D）sufferings of the aged

72 "Even then he stood there, hidden wholly in that kindness which is night, while the uprising fumes filled the room. When the odor reached his nostrils, he quit his attitude and fumbled for the bed. 'What's the use?' he said, weakly, as he stretched himself to rest." The passage is taken from______.

（A）Sons and Lovers by D.H. Lawrence

（B）Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

（C）Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser

（D）Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

73 ______, a novella about a young American girl who gets "killed" by the winter in Rome, brought its author international fame for the first time.

（A）The American

（B）Daisy Miller

（C）The Portrait of a Lady

（D）The Europeans

74 By the end of Sister Carrie, Dreiser writes: "It was forever to be the pursuit of that radiance of delight which tints the distant hilltops of the world." Dreiser implies

that______.

（A）there is a bright future lying ahead

（B）one should always have forward looking

（C）one can never fulfill one's desire

（D）happiness is found in the end

75 After Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Twain gives a literary independence to Tom's buddy Huck in a book entitled______.

（A）Life on the Mississippi

（B）The Gilded Age

（C）The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

（D）A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

76 However,______, the keynote of Daisy Miller's character, turns out to be an admiring but a dangerous quality and her defiance of social taboos in the Old World finally brings her to a disaster in the clash between two different cultures.

（A）experience

（B）sophistication

（C）worldliness

（D）innocence

77 "I was letting on to give up sin, but always inside of me I was holding on to the biggest one of all. The sentence, which is taken from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, is written in a(n)______tone.

（A）ironic

（B）regretful

（C）sincere

（D）delightful

78 In I heard a fly buzz — When I died and Because I could not stop for Death, Emily Dickinson's attitude toward death is that of______.

（A）eager embrace

（B）helpless anxiety

（C）peaceful acceptance

（D）terrified despair

79 ______is considered to be Theodore Dreiser's greatest work.

（A）An American Tragedy

（B）Sister Carrie

（C）The Financier

（D）The Titan

80 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is best known for Mark Twain's wonderful characterization of "______" a typical American boy.

（A）Jim

（B）Tom Sawyer

（C）Huck

（D）Miss Watson

81 Where Mark Twain satirized European manners at times,______was an admirer.

（A）O. Henry

（B）Henry James

（C）Walt Whitman

（D）Jack London

82 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）sentimentalism

（B）romanticism

（C）realism

（D）naturalism

83 In the following writers,______is regarded as "the true father of our national literature."

（A）H. L. Menken

（B）Mark Twain

（C）Frank Noris

（D）Theodore Dreiser

84 The sentence "only the fittest can survive in a competitive, amoral society" may be regarded as an appropriate summary of______.

（A）Jack London's Martin Eden

（B）Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls

（C）Dreiser's Sister Carrie

（D）Melville's Moby Dick

85 ______was the first American writer to conceive his career in international terms. （A）Washington Irving

（B）T. S. Eliot

（C）Ezra Pound

（D）Henry James

86 Compared with the writings of Mark Twain's, Henry James's fiction is noted for their______.

（A）frontier vernacular

（B）rich colloquialism

（C）refined elegant language

（D）vulgarly descriptive words

87 In Sister Carrie, Hurstwood, extremely hopeless and totally devastated, ends his life by turning on the gas, while at the same time Carrie is rocking comfortably in her luxurious hotel room before she boards a ship for______.

（A）New York

（B）London

（C）Paris

（D）Geneva

88 Which of the following best describes the young woman in Henry James's Daisy Miller?

（A）She is an embodiment of the force of convention.

（B）She means the decline of aristocracy.

（C）She represents the free spirit of the New World.

（D）She is reflection of the corruption of the newly rich.

四、问答题

89 "Most mighty Emperor of Lilliput, delight and terror of he universe, whose dominions extend five thousand blustrugs(about twelve miles in circumference)to the extremities of the globe; Monarch of all Monarchs; taller than the sons of men; whose feet press down to the center, and whose head strikes against the sun; at whose nod the princes of the earth shake their knees; pleasant as spring, comfortable as summer, fruitful as autumn, dreadful as winter."

A. Identify the work and the author.

B. What is the tone of the author?

C. What does the author parody here?

90 "I consulted several things in my situation which I found would be proper for me: first, health and fresh water I just now mentioned; secondly, shelter from the heat of the