[考研类试卷]英语专业(英美文学)模拟试卷8.doc

[考研类试卷]英语专业（英美文学）模拟试卷8

一、填空题

1 Jonathan Swift's famous prose work______is a satirical dialogue between the Ancients and the Moderns in the character of the Bee and the Spider.

2 ______is William Blake's most important prose work, which is the manifesto of his spiritual independence.

3 Modern English novel arose in the______century.

4 ______was a progressive intellectual movement going on throughout Europe in the 18th century.

5 Dr. Primrose is the central character of the novel______.

6 The cross that Crusoe erects on the island serves______.

7 The English novel as a genre began to prosper in the______century.

8 John Bunyan's style was modeled after that of the English______, with concrete and living language and carefully observed and vividly presented details.

9 The Rape of the Lock by Pope is written in the form of a mock______, which describes the triviality of high society in a grand style.

10 In England, Neoclassicism was initiated by Dryden, culminated in Pope, and continued by______.

11 The______of the 1930s greatly weakened the American nation's self-confidence.

12 In 1920, Sinclair Lewis published his memorable denunciation of American small-town Provincialism in______.

13 The______County is a legendary kingdom created by Faulkner.

14 Pound was the leader of a new movement in poetry which he called the "______" movement.

15 After his death, Stevens previously uncollected works appeared in the title of______.

16 In 1954, Hemingway was awarded a______for his "mastery of the art of modern narration".

17 Fitzgerald's first novel______, with its portrayal of casual dissipations of "flaming youth", was an immediate commercial success.

18 ______is the first American to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature, but still he is called the worst important writer in American literature.

19 ______had been called "the first step that American fiction has taken since Henry James" by T. S. Eliot.

20 ______combined traditional verse forms with a clear American local speech rhythm, forming his own characteristic.

二、名词解释

21 Elegy

22 Allegory

23 Parable

24 Didactic

25 Neoclassicism

26 The Lost Generation

27 Anti-novel

28 Hemingway Hero

29 Impressionism

30 Jazz age

三、单项选择题

31 Which of the following is NOT found in comedy of manners with Sheridan's The School for Scandal as the best representative work?

（A）Wit.

（B）Mistaken identity.

（C）Sentimentalism.

（D）Dialogue.

32 In the lines "With gold and jewels cover every part, /And hide with ornaments their want of art"(An Essay on Criticism), Pope rejects______.

（A）the "Follow Nature" fallacy

（B）artificiality

（C）good taste

（D）aesthetic order

33 Daniel Defoe describes ______as a typical English middle-class man of the eighteenth century, the very prototype of the empire builder or the pioneer colonist. （A）Tom Jones

（B）Gulliver

（C）Moll Flanders

（D）Robinson Crusoe

34 "To be so distinguished is an honor, which, being very little accustomed to favors from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge." The above quoted sentence is presented by Samuel Johnson with a(n)______tone.

（A）delightful

（B）jealous

（C）ironic

（D）humorous

35 ______is a typical feature of Swift's writings.

（A）Bitter satire

（B）Elegant style

（C）Casual narration

（D）Complicated sentence structure

36 The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan is often said to be concerned with the search for______.

（A）material wealth

（B）spiritual salvation

（C）universal truth

（D）self-fulfillment

37 Of all the 18th century novelists Henry Fielding was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a "______in prose", the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.

（A）tragic epic

（B）comic epic

（C）romance

（D）lyric epic

38 The Houyhnhnms depicted by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's. Travels are______.

（A）horses that are endowed with reason

（B）pigmies that are endowed with admirable qualities

（C）giants that are superior in wisdom

（D）hairy, wild, low and despicable creatures, who resemble human beings not only in appearance but also in some other ways

39 Here are four lines from a literary work: "Others for language all their care express, and value books, as women men, for dress." The work is______.

（A）Thomas Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

（B）John Milton's Paradise Lost

（C）Alexander Pope's An Essay on Criticism

（D）Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream

40 The phrase "To urge people to abide by Christian doctrines and to seek salvation through constant struggles with their own weaknesses and all kinds of social evils" may well sum up the implied meaning of______ .

（A）Gulliver's Travels

（B）The Rape of the Lock

（C）Robinson Crusoe

（D）The Pilgrim's Progress

41 Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels is the greatest______work in English literature.

（A）realistic

（B）satiric

（C）romantic

（D）sentimental

42 The 18th century England is known as the______in the history.

（A）Romanticism

（B）Enlightenment

（C）Classicism

（D）Renaissance

43 "Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds;" The above stanza is taken from______.

（A）Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

（B）The Passionate Shepherd to His Love

（C）Hamlet

（D）Paradise Lost

44 The following comments on John Bunyan are wrong EXCEPT______.

（A）He was a stout Puritan.

（B）Bunyan's works belong to Gothic novels.

（C）Bunyan's style is different from that of the English Bible.

（D）A Modest Proposal is his representative work.

45 "Hold! See whether it is or not before you go to the door — I have a particular message for you if it should be my brother." The two sentences are found in______. （A）The Scheming Lieutenant

（B）Wuthering Heights

（C）The School for Scandal

（D）The Rivals

46 Statement"______" is NOT true in describing Gothic novel.

（A）Gothic novel is a type of romantic fiction

（B）Gothic novel predominated in the early 18th century

（C）Its principal elements are violence, horror and supernatural

（D）The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe is typical Gothic romance

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

（A）The Rivals

（B）The Pilgrim's Progress

（C）The Life and Death of Mr. Badman

（D）Paradise Lost

48 Among the representatives of the Enlightenment, who was the first to introduce rationalism to England?

（A）John Bunyan.

（B）Daniel Defoe.

（C）Jonathan Swift.

（D）Alexander Pope.

49 Fielding has been termed by some as "______", for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.

（A）Best Writer of the English Novel

（B）Father of the English Novel

（C）conventional writer of the English Prose

（D）the most talented writer of the English Novel

50 Which of the following statements on The Neoclassical Period is NOT true?

（A）The Neoclassical Period is prior to the Romantic Period.

（B）Henry Fielding is one of the representatives of the Neoclassical Period.

（C）The modern English novel came into being in the Neoclassical Period.

（D）The Neoclassical Period is also known as the Age of Enlightenment.

51 Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Samuel Johnson's language style? （A）His sentences are long and well-structured.

（B）His sentences are interwoven with parallel phrases.

（C）He tends to use informal and colloquial words.

（D）His sentences are complicated, but his thoughts are clearly expressed.

52 Samuel Johnson was the______great neoclassicist enlightener in the later 18th century.

（A）last

（B）only

（C）first

（D）merely

53 In Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, Thomas Gray reveals his sympathy for______, but mocks the great ones who despise them and bring havoc on them. （A）the middle class

（B）the landlords

（C）the poor and the unknown

（D）the working class

54 Which of the following comments on the Enlightenment Movement is NOT true? （A）It advocated individual education.

（B）The purpose of the movement was to enlighten the whole world.

（C）The Enlightenment Movement flourished in France.

（D）The Enlightenment Movement was a furtherance of the Renaissance.

55 In the first part of Gulliver's Travels, Gulliver told his experience in______.

（A）Lilliput

（B）Brobdingnag

（C）Houyhnhnm

（D）England

56 In the theatrical world of the neoclassical period,______was the leading figure among the host of playwrights.

（A）Richard Bringsley Sheridan

（B）George Bernard Shaw

（C）Ben Johnson

（D）William Blake

57 Alexander Pope strongly advocated______, emphasizing that literary works should be judged by classical rules of order, reason, logic, restrained emotion, good taste and decorum.

（A）neoclassicism

（B）sentimentalism

（C）idealism

（D）romanticism

58 The following comments on Daniel Defoe are true EXCEPT "______".

（A）In his novels, his sympathy for the downtrodden, unfortunate poor is shown

（B）He was a member of the upper class

（C）Robinson Crusoe is universally considered his masterpiece

（D）Robinson Crusoe is his first novel

59 The Dunciad is generally considered to be Pope's best______work.

（A）praising

（B）allegorical

（C）satiric

（D）fabulous

60 "The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike the inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave." In the above quoted stanza, Thomas Gray tries to say that great family, power, beauty and wealth______.

（A）will never prevent people no matter who they are from reaching their final destination—grave

（B）are the very best things to lead people to their glories

（C）will inevitably make people realize their glorious dreams

（D）will never make people lead to the same destination—paths of glory

61 ______, disregarding grammar and punctuation, always used "i" instead of "I" to refer to himself as a protest against self-importance.

（A）Wallace Stevens

（B）E. E. Cummings

（C）Robert Frost

（D）William Carlos Williams

62 Which of the following statements about writers in 1920s is TRUE?

（A）F. Scott Fitzgerald received the Nobel Prize.

（B）Most writers were politically radical.

（C）Freudian psychology influenced many modern writers.

（D）Mark Twain published his last and most important novel.

63 ______sought inspiration from the east in his poetry writing.

（A）Walt Whitman

（B）Emily Dickinson

（C）T.S.Eliot

（D）Ezra Pound

64 Hemingway won his Nobel Prize for the book entitled______.

（A）The Sun Also Rises

（B）A Farewell to Arms

（C）The Old Man and the Sea

（D）For Whom the Bell Tolls

65 Sherwood Anderson explores the motivations and frustrations of his fictional characters in terms of Freud's theory of psychology, particularly in one book entitled______.

（A）Winesburg, Ohio

（B）Babbit

（C）The Grapes of Wrath

（D）The Catcher in the Rye

66 Sinclair Lewis Babbit presents a documentary picture of the narrow and

limited______.

（A）up-class mind

（B）middle-class mind

（C）proletarian

（D）ordinary people

67 William Faulkner's works mainly concern the American______.

（A）New England

（B）Mid West

（C）South

（D）West

68 A typical modern work will NO longer have ONE of the following statements as its trademark, that is, a______ .

（A）record of sequence and coherence

（B）book that begins arbitrarily, advances without explanation, and end without solution

（C）juxtaposition of the past and present, of the history and memory

（D）book of fragments drawn from diverse areas of experience

69 Statement"______" is NOT true in describing Ezra Pound.

（A）He is a leading spokesman of the "Imagist Movement"

（B）His famous one-image poem In a Station of the Metro would serve as a typical example of the Imagist ideas

（C）A Pact is his masterpiece

（D）He was politically controversial

70 The leading playwright of the modern period in American literature, if not the most successful in all his experiments, is______.

（A）Arthur Miller

（B）Tennessee William

（C）George Bernard Shaw

（D）Eugene O'Neil

71 ______is not among those greatest figures in modern American literature.

（A）Ezra Pound

（B）Robert Frost

（C）Walt Whitman

（D）William Carlos Williams

72 From Eugene O'Neil's works, we can see he is______.

（A）a man of apathy

（B）a man of inactivity

（C）a man of pessimism

（D）a man of optimism

73 F. Scott Fitzgerald is NOT the author of______.

（A）The Great Gatsby

（B）In Our Time

（C）Tender is the Night

（D）This Side of Paradise

74 The Hemingway Code heroes are best remembered for their______.

（A）indestructible spirit

（B）pessimistic view of life

（C）war experiences

（D）masculinity

75 As he is a leading spokesman of the "Imagist Movement",______famous one-image poem In a Station of the Metro would serve as a typical example of the imagist ideas. （A）T. S. Eliot's

（B）Robert Frost's

（C）Ezra Pound's

（D）Wallace Stevens's

76 Which of the following statements about Faulkner is NOT true?

（A）Indian Camp is Faulkner's masterpiece.

（B）Almost all his heroes turn out to be tragic.

（C）Most of Faulkner's works are set in the American South, with his emphasis on the Southern subjects and consciousness.

（D）Faulkner has always been regarded as a man with great might of invention and experimentation.

77 Robert Frost is a regional poet in the sense that his poems depict mostly______.

（A）the frontier life

（B）the sea adventures

（C）Puritan community

（D）the landscape and people in New England

78 In A Rose for Emily, Faulkner makes best use of the______devices in narration.

（A）Romantic

（B）Realistic

（C）Gothic

（D）Modernist

79 Which of the following works by Faulkner involves Shakespearean allusion in its title?

（A）The Sound and the Fury

（B）Light in August

（C）Absalom, Absalom!

（D）Go Down, Moses

80 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.

（A）multiple points of views

（B）first person point of view

（C）expressionism

（D）impressionism

81 In a class, which discusses the Imagist Movement in the United States, we will definitely NOT include______.

（A）William Carlos Williams

（B）Ezra Pound

（C）Ernest Hemingway

（D）Wallace Stevens

82 "A week later the mayor wrote her himself, offering to call or to send his car for her, and received in reply a note on paper of an archaic shape, in a thin, flowing calligraphy in faded ink, to the effect that she no longer went out at all. The tax notice was also enclosed, without comment." The above two sentences must be taken from______.

（A）Irving's story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

（B）James's story Daisy Miller

（C）Faulkner's story A Rose for Emily

（D）Hemingway's story Indian Camp

83 Lots of people rushed to Gatsby's party at the weekend and they clustered around Gatsby's wealth like______.

（A）gluttons

（B）flies

（C）insects

（D）moths

84 Chinese poetry and philosophy have exerted great influence over______.

（A）Ralph Waldo Emerson

（B）Emily Dickinson

（C）Robert Frost

（D）Ezra Pound

85 Of the following American writers,______has not won the Nobel Prize.

（A）William Faulkner

（B）Ernest Hemingway

（C）F. Scott Fitzgerald

（D）John Steinbeck

86 Fitzgerald's fictional world is the best embodiment of the spirit of______.

（A）the Jazz Age

（B）the Romantic Period

（C）the Renaissance Period

（D）the Neoclassical Period

87 Which of the following comments on the novel The Great Gatsby is NOT true?

（A）The Great Gatsby is a novel that is set against the ending of the war.

（B）Gatsby is wealthy but unintelligent and brutal.

（C）Gatsby is a mystical figure whose intensity of dream partakes of a state of mind that embodies America itself.

（D）Gatsby is the last of the romantic heroes.

88 "Grace under pressure" is a major feature of______'s novel.

（A）Theodore Dreiser

（B）Ernest Hemingway

（C）William Faulkner

（D）Henry James

89 Yank's sense of belonging nowhere, hence homeless and rootless. The Hairy Ape is thus a play that concerns the problem of modern man's______.

（A）love

（B）development

（C）harmonious relations

（D）identity

90 The statement that a poor young man from the West trying to make his fortune in the East but disillusioned in the quest of an idealized dream may well sum up the theme

of______.

（A）The Hairy Ape

（B）For Whom the Bell Tolls

（C）Go Down, Moses

（D）The Great Gatsby

四、问答题

91 "But now Fortune, fearing she had acted out of character, and had inclined too long to the same side, hastily turned about: for now Goody Brown — whom Zekiel Brown caressed in his arms; nor he alone, but half the parish besides; so famous was she in the fields of Venus, for indeed less in those of Mars. The trophies of both these her husband always bore about on his head and face; for if ever human head did by its horns display the amorous glories, of a wife, Zekiel's did. Nor his well-scratched face less denote her talents(or rather talons)of a different kind."

A. Identify the author and the work.

B. What are the tone and style of this quoted passage?

C. Why does the author use Venus, Mars and other allusions to describe Goody Brown?

92 "Others for language all their care express,

And value books, as women men, for dress.

Their praise is still—the style is excellent:

The sense they humbly take upon content."

A. Identify the author and the title of the work from which this passage is taken.

B. What does the phrase "take upon content" mean?

C. What is the author's main concern in this passage?