[考研类试卷]英语专业(英美文学)模拟试卷7.doc

[考研类试卷]英语专业（英美文学）模拟试卷7

一、填空题

1 Henry Fielding's first novel______is first intended as a burlesque of Samuel Richardson's novel Pamela.

2 In Gulliver's Travels, Yahoos are creatures living on______.

3 The 18th century England is known as the Age of Enlightenment or the Age of______.

4 The only important English dramatist in the 18th century is______.

5 "From the 1st of October to 24th, All these days entirely spent in many several voyages to get all I could out of the ship, which I brought on shore ever tide of flood upon rafts." This is the journal kept by the character______.

6 ______ is regarded as the Father of English novel.

7 The Yahoos are attacked by the writer named______in his fantasy work bearing the title

8 "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 the ground, encumbers him with help?......till I am solitary, and can't impart it. Till I am unknown, and do not want it." The above quotation was written by______in______.

9 The well-known verse of "Tyger, Tyger, Burning Bright/ In the forest of Night/ What immortal hand or eyes…" is written by ______.

10 In the 18th century,______ found its expression chiefly in poetry, especially that of William Blake and Robert Burns.

11 The period ranging from______ to______has been referred to as the Age of Realism in the literary history of the United States, which is actually a movement or tendency that dominated the spirit of American literature, especially American______, from the 1850s onwards.

12 The arbiter of 19th century literary realism in America was______.

13 Realism had originated in the country______as realism, a literary doctrine that called for "reality and truth" in the depiction of ordinary life.

14 In his cluster of poems called Leaves of Grass,______gave America its first genuine epic poem.

15 Realism was a reaction against______or a move away form the bias towards romance and self-creating Fictions, and paved the way to______.

16 As Whitman saw it,______ could play a vital part in the process of creating a new nation.

17 Norris's novel______has been called " the first full-bodied naturalistic American novel" and "a consciously naturalistic manifesto".

二、名词解释

18 Enlightenment Movement

19 Epistolary novel

20 Sentimentalism

21 Gothic romance

22 plot

23 Caroline Meeber

24 Trilogy of Desire

25 Mark Twain

26 Daisy Miller

27 Henry James

三、单项选择题

28 Alexander Pope worked painstakingly on his poems and finally brought to its last perfection ______Dryden had successfully used in his plays.

（A）the heroic couplet

（B）the free verse

（C）the bland verse

（D）the Spenserian stanza

29 _____ has been regarded by some as "Father of the English novel" for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.

（A）John Bunyan

（B）Henry Fielding

（C）Daniel Defoe

（D）Jonathan Swift

30 ______was the only important dramatist of the 18th century.

（A）Alexander Pope

（B）Richard Brinsley Sheridan

（C）Samuel Johnson

（D）George Bernard Shaw

31 ______brings Henry Fielding the name of the "prose Homer".

（A）The Pilgrim's Progress

（B）Tom Jones

（C）Robinson Crusoe

（D）Colonel Jack

32 ______is mainly a story about two brothers, the hypocritical Joseph Surface and the good-natured, imprudent and spendthrift Charles Surface.

（A）The Rivals

（B）The School for Scandal

（C）The Duenna

（D）Pizarro

33 The poem Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard is regarded as the most representative work of______.

（A）the Metaphysical School

（B）The Graveyard School

（C）the Gothic School

（D）the Romantic school

34 Alone with the fast economic development in the 18th century in England, the British______ also grew very rapidly.

（A）bourgeois

（B）proletarians

（C）aristocratic class

（D）royal family

35 In his novel Robinson Crusoe, Defoe eulogizes the hero of the______.

（A）aristocratic class

（B）enterprising landlords

（C）rising bourgeoisie

（D）hard-working people

36 ______is not written by Alexander pope.

（A）An Essay on Criticism

（B）The Essays

（C）An Essay on Man

（D）The Dunciad

37 ______by Pope is a comprehensive study of the theories of literary criticism, exerting great influence upon his contemporary writers in advocating the classical rules and popularizing the neoclassicist tradition in England.

（A）An Essay on Man

（B）The Dunciad

（C）The Essays

（D）An Essay on Criticism

38 Samuel Johnson wrote his letter To the Right Honorable the Earl of Chesterfield in order to______.

（A）make reconciliation with the Earl

（B）address the newly compiled dictionary to the Earl

（C）persuade the Earl to give up his hypocrisy

（D）show his indignation and resolution not to be reconciled

39 In the 18th century English literature, the representative writer of neoclassicism is______.

（A）Alexander Pope

（B）Jonathan Swift

（C）Daniel Defoe

（D）John Milton

40 ______, written by Alexander Pope satirized the idle and artificial life of the aristocracy.

（A）The Rape of the Lock

（B）The Rape of Lucree

（C）The School for Scandal

（D）Every Man in His Humor

41 Which of the following plays is regarded as the best English comedy since Shakespeare?

（A）The School for Scandal.

（B）She Stoops to Conquer.

（C）The Rivals.

（D）The Conscious Lover.

42 In The Pilgrim's Progress, John Bunyan describes "The Vanity Fair" in a______tone. （A）delightful

（B）satirical

（C）sentimental

（D）solemn

43 Defoe's Robinson Crusoe created the image of an enterprising Englishman, typical of the English bourgeoisie in the______century.

（A）17th

（B）18th

（C）19th

（D）20th

44 Literature of Neoclassicism is different from that of Romanticism in that______.

（A）the former celebrates reason, rationality, order and instruction while the latter sees literature as an expression of an individual's feelings and experiences.

（B）the former is heavily religious but the latter secular.

（C）the former is an intellectual movement the purpose of which is to arouse the middle class for political rights while the latter is concerned with the personal cultivation.

（D）the former advocates the "return to nature" whereas the latter turns to the ancient Greek and Roman writers for its models

45 You may have met the term "Yahoo" on internet, but you may also have met it in English literature. It is found in______.

（A）John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress

（B）Samuel Johnson's The Vanity of Human Wishes

（C）Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels

（D）Henry Fielding's Tome Jones

46 "Surface", "Sneerwell", "Backbite", and "Candor" are most likely the names of the characters in______.

（A）Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession

（B）Sheridan's The School for Scandal

（C）Shakespeare's Love's Labor's Lost

（D）Christopher Marlowe's Dr. Faustus

47 John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress is a(n)______.

（A）allegory

（B）romance

（C）comedy of manners

（D）realistic novel

48 The middle of the 18th century was predominated by a newly rising literary form, that is the modern English______, which gives a realistic presentation of life of the common English people.

（A）prose

（B）tragicomedy

（C）short story

（D）novel

49 Which of the following comments on Richard Brinsley Sheridan is NOT true?

（A）The School for Scandal is his masterpiece.

（B）In his plays, morality is the constant theme.

（C）He was the only important English dramatist of the 18th century.

（D）His plays The Rivals and The School for Scandal are generally regarded as true classics in English tragedy.

50 The sentence, "This fair is no new-erected business, but a thing of ancient standing; I will show you the original of it", are taken from______.

（A）The Pilgrim's Progress

（B）Gulliver's Travels

（C）Paradise Lost

（D）Robinson Crusoe

51 Which of the following is NOT Richard Brinsley Sheridan's work?

（A）Tom Jones.

（B）The School for Scandal.

（C）The Rivals.

（D）The Critic.

52 In field of literature, the Enlightenment brought about a(n)______ the old classical works. This tendency is known as neoclassicism.

（A）rebellion against .

（B）indifference to

（C）revived interest in

（D）rational scrutiny of

53 As a literary figure, Belinda appears in Alexander Pope's______.

（A）The Rape of the Lock

（B）An Essay on Criticism

（C）The Dunciad

（D）Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot

54 Which of the following is NOT a typical aspect of Defoe's language?

（A）Elegant.

（B）Colloquial.

（C）Vernacular.

（D）Smooth.

55 "The novel is structured around the discovery of the hero's origin." This novel most probably refers to______.

（A）The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

（B）The Vicar of the Wakefield

（C）David Copperfield

（D）Wuthering Heights

56 The School for Scandal, one of the great classics in English drama, is a______on the moral degeneracy of the aristocratic-bourgeois society in the 18th-century England. （A）high praise

（B）sharp satire

（C）bitter lament

（D）great irony

57 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.

（A）epic

（B）sonnet

（C）elegy

（D）ode

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

（A）An American Tragedy

（B）Sister Carrie

（C）The Financier

（D）The Titan

59 In 1900, London published his first collection of short stories, named______.

（A）The Sea Wolf

（B）The Son of the Wolf

（C）The Law of Life

（D）White Fang

60 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

61 Generally speaking, all those writers with a naturalistic approach to human reality tent to be______.

（A）transcendentalists

（B）idealists

（C）pessimists

（D）impressionists

62 One of Mark Twain's contributions to the American Literature is that he

made______an accepted standard literary medium.

（A）tall tale

（B）colloquial speech

（C）humor

（D）local colorism

63 The main theme of______The Art of Fiction reveals his literary credo that representation of life should be the main object of the novel.

（A）Henry James'

（B）William Dean Howells'

（C）Mark Twain's

（D）Jack London's

64 ______is not a novel by Henry James dealing with the international theme. （A）What Maisie Knows

（B）The Wings of the Dove

（C）The Ambassadors

（D）The Golden Bowl

65 The following authors are famous American realist novelists except______. （A）Henry James

（B）Jack London

（C）Mark Twain

（D）Stephen Crane

66 Mark Twain wrote most of his literary works with a______language.

（A）grand

（B）pompous

（C）Simple

（D）vernacular

67 Stylistically, Henry James's fiction is characterized by______.

（A）highly refined language

（B）ordinary American speech

（C）short, clear sentences

（D）abundance of local images

68 Which of the following writings is by Hemingway described the novel the one book from which "all modern American literature comes"?

（A）Tom Sawyer

（B）Huckleberry Finn

（C）The Gilded Age

（D）Life on the Mississippi

69 ______ explores the scrupulous individualism in a world of fantastic speculation and unstable values, and gives its name to the get-rich-quick years of the post Civil War era. （A）Innocents Abroad

（B）The Gilded Age

（C）Roughing It

（D）The Middle Years

70 ______described by Mark Twain as a boy with "a sound heart and a deformed conscience.

（A）Tom Sawyer

（B）Huckleberry Finn

（C）Jim

（D）Tony

71 While embracing the socialism of Marx, London also believed in the triumph of the strongest individuals. This contradiction is most vividly projected in the patently autobiographical novel______.

（A）The Call of the Wild

（B）The Sea Wolf

（C）Martin Eden

（D）The Iron Heel

72 The setting of______is American, where some Europeans, who are actually expatriated Americans, learn with difficulty to adapt themselves to the American life. （A）Middlemarch

（B）The Europeans

（C）Daisy Miller

（D）The Portrait of a Lady

73 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）disgusting

74 Theodore Dreiser is generally regarded as one of America's______.

（A）naturalists

（B）realists

（C）modernists

（D）romanticists

75 ______exerts the single most important influence on literary naturalism, of which Theodore Dreiser and Jack London are among the best representative writers.

（A）Freud.

（B）Emerson

（C）Darwin

（D）W.D.Howells.

76 The impact of Darwin's evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the 19th century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to yet another school of realism: American______.

（A）modernism

（B）naturalism

（C）vernacularism

（D）local colorism

77 Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his______.

（A）international theme

（B）waste-land imagery

（C）local color

（D）symbolism

78 "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

79 Dreiser's Trilogy of Desire includes three novels. They are The Financier, The Titan and______.

（A）The Stoic

（B）The Giant

（C）The Tycoon

（D）The Genius

80 The novelistic technique of projecting the narrative through feelings and thoughts of the characters, reached a perfected form in the works of______.

（A）William Dean Howells

（B）Henry James

（C）Washington Irving

（D）Emily Dickinson

81 Emily Dickinson's poetry is most aptly characterized as .______.

（A）exposing the evils of the society

（B）paving the way for the following generation of free verse poets

（C）exhibiting a sensitiveness to the symbolic implications of experience, such as love, death, immortality and nature, etc.

（D）sharing the same poetic conventions as Walt Whitman

82 In Henry James's Daisy Miller, the author tries to portray the young woman as an embodiment of______.

（A）force of convention

（B）are polite and elegant gentlemen

（C）are simple and crude farmers

（D）are noble savages untainted by society

83 ______is NOT characteristic of Dreiser's writing.

（A）Naturalism

（B）Tragic Ending

（C）Romantic quality

（D）Redundancy

84 The book from which "all modern American literature comes" refers to______.

（A）The Great Gatsby

（B）The Sun Also Rises

（C）The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

（D）Moby-Dick

85 ______is usually regarded as a classic book written for boys about their particular horrors and joys.

（A）The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

（B）Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

（C）Innocents Abroad

（D）Life on the Mississippi

86 Which of the following writers is NOT the dominant figure of the Realistic Period in American literature?

（A）Herman Melville.

（B）William Dean Howells.

（C）Henry James.

（D）Mark Twain.

87 With Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the literary scene, ______became the major trend in American literature in the 70s and 80s of 19th century.

（A）sentimentalism

（B）romanticism

（C）realism

（D）naturalism

四、问答题

88 "And, moreover, at this fair there is at all times to be seen jugglings, cheats, games, plays, fools, apes, knaves, and rogues, and that of every kind, here are to be seen, too, and that for nothing, thefts, murders, adulteries, false swears, and that of a blood-red color."

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

B. Identify the name of the fair.

C. Summarize the meaning of the passage.

89 "Two days after this adventure, the Emperor, having ordered that part of his army which quarters in and about his metropolis to be in a readiness, took a fancy of diverting himself in a very singular manner. He desired I would stand like a colossus, with my legs as far asunder as I conveniently could. He then commanded his general(who was an old experienced leader, and a great patron of mine)to draw up the troops in close order, and march them under me;...

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

B. Who is the narrator?

C. What does the passage tell us?