英美文学选读 习题10

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[1] It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good forturen must be in want of a wife.

However little known the feelings or views of such a man many be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrouding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters.

Questions:

A. Identify the author and the title from which the above passage is taken.

B. What is this passage describing?

答：The only major languag

答案：Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Mrs Bennet, considering her daughters' marriage

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[2] How did the Lost Generation come into being in the literary history of the United States? Who were the leading figures of this literary movement?

答：

答案：First World War|American|young men|disillusioned|expatriates|European countries|Pound|Frost|Fiztgerald|Hemingway|Faulkner

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[3] Jane Austen’s first novel ________ tells a story about two sisters and their love affairs.

A Mansfield Park

B Sense and Sensibility

C Pride and Prejudice

D Sons and Lovers

答：

答案： B

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[4]

Give the symbolic meanings of characters Gerald and Birkin in the novel Women in Love.

答：

答案： They are the symbols of spiritual deathand bourgeois ethics.

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[5] Discuss the artistic features of Shelley's poems.

答：

答案：lyrical|poet|classical|mythological|allusions|figures of speech|metaphor|personification|description

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[6]

“O prince, O chief of many throned powers, That led th’embattled seraphim to war Under thy

conduct, and in dreadful deeds Fearless, endangered Heaven’s perpetual King.”In the third line of the above passage quoted from Milton’s Paradise Los

A Satan’s

B God’s

C Adam’s

D Eve’s

答：

答案： A

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[7] What’s the theme of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights?

答：

答案： a story of revenge;From the social point of view, it is a story about a poor man abused; it is also a love story.

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[8] 43. “My tongue, every atom of my blood, form’d from this soil, this air,

Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their parents the same,

I, now thirty- seven years old in perfect health begin,

Hoping to cease not till death”

Questions:

A. Who’s the poet of the quoted stanza, and what’s the title of the poem?

B. What do “soil”and “air”represent in the first line?

C. What does the poet try to say in the above quoted lines?

答：

答案：Whitman, Song of Myself|America|devotion

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[9] Much of ____ drama is constructed around the inversion of a conventional theatrical situation.

A A. Yeats

B B. Gregory’s

C C. Galsworthy

D D. Shaw’s

答：

答案： D

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[10] What is the language style of Mark Twain?

答：

答案： He uses vernacular and colloquial speech, concrete and direct words, simple and

ungrammatical sentences.

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[11]

But it seemed that both his audacity and his respect were lost on Miss Daisy Miller. ‘I guess mother wouldn’t go—for you,’she smiled. ‘And she ain’t much bent on going, anyway. She don’t like to ride round in the afternoon.’After which she familiarly proceeded: ‘But did you really mean what you said just now—that you’d like to go up there?’Most earnestly I meant it, Winterbourne declared.

A. Identify the author and the work.

B. Where are they going to visit？

答：

答案：Henry James, Daisy Miller, visit an old castle

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[12] In Charles Dickens’work ________, the Utilitarian principle rules over the English education system and destroys young hearts and minds.

A Hard times

B Oliver Twist

C David Copperfield

D Bleak House

答：

答案： A

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[13] What is the most famous theme in Henry James's fiction? What distinguishes him from other realist writers such as Mark Twain and W. D. Howells?

答：

答案：The most famous theme is "the international theme". His novels or short stories of the theme are always set against a larger international background, usually between Europe and America. They center around the conflict of the two cultures, represented by an innocent American and a sophisticated European. James is the founder of phychological realism for his psychoanalytical approach to his characters.

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[14]

Had I as many souls as there be stars.

I’d give them all for Mephistophilis!

By him I’ll be great emperor of the world,

And make a bridge through the moving air

To pass the ocean with a band of men;

I’ll join the hills that bing the Africa shore

And make that country continent to Spain,

And both contributory to my crown;

The Emperor shall not live by my leave,

Nor any potentate of Germany.

Now that I have obtained what I desire

I’ll live in speculation of this art.

Till Mephistophilis return again.”

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

B. Based on the passage, write down in one or two sentences the theme of the play.

答：

答案：Dr. Faustus, Christopher Marlowe, Man's aspiration, bounding achievement

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[15] The following statement ______ is WRONG in describing Transcendentalism.

A It absorbed some ideological concerns of American Puritanism and European Romanticism.

B It advocates the importance of Individual and Nature.

C Trancendentalists believed that there should be an emotional communication between an indi

D It emphasizes that man is the measure of all things.

答：

答案： D

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[16] Briefly introduce Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience.

答：

答案： Songs of Innocence is a lovely volume of poems, presenting a happy and innocent world, though not without its evils; Songs of Experience paints a different world, a world of misery, disease, war and repression with melancholy tone; The two books hold the similar subject-matter, but the tone, emphasis and conclusion differ.

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[17] 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 Widower’s Houses

D The Doctor’s Dilemma

答：

答案： A

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[18] List three works of James Joyce

答：

答案：Dubliners, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake

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[19]

Man is a “victim of forces over which he has no control. ”This is a notion held strongly by ________.

A Robert Frost

B Theodore Dreiser

C Henry James

D Waltman

答：

答案： B

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[20]

Emily Dickinson wrote many short poems on various aspects of life. Which of the following is not a usual subject of her poetic expression?

A religion

B life and death

C love

D war

答：

答案： D

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[21] The 20th -century stream- of- consciousness technique was frequently and skillfully used by ______ to emphasize the reactions and inner musings of the narrator.

A Hemingway

B Frost

C Faulkner

D Whitman

答：

答案： C

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[22] The Advancement of Learning is a great tract on _____.

A A. history

B B. literature

C C. policy

D D. education

答：

答案： D

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[23] 6. Which of the following descriptions of Enlightenment Movement is NOT true?

A It was a progressive intellectual movement that flourished in France.

B B. It was a furtherance of the Renaissance of the 15th and 16th centuries.

C C. The purpose was to enlighten the whole world with moderu philosophical and artistic id

D D. The Enlighteners advocate individual education.

答：

答案： D

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[24] _____ 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

答：

答案： B

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[25] 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”, the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.

A Henry Fielding

B Daniel Defoe

C Jonathan Swift

D Laurence Sterne

答：

答案： A

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[26]

The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one -eighth of it being above water. ”This “iceberg”analogy about prose style was put forward by ________.

A William Faulkner

B F·Scott Fitzgerald

C Henry James

D Ernest Hemingway

答：

答案： D

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[27]

. “‘Damn the fool! There he is’, cried Heathcliff, sinking back into his seat, ‘Hush, my darling! Hush, hush, Catherine! I’ll stay. If he shot me so, I’d expire with a blessing in my lips.’”The novel from which the passage is taken is _______.<

A Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

B Charles Dickens’s The Old Curiosity Shop

C Samuel Richardson’s Pamela

D Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights

答：

答案： D

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[28] With the scarlet letter A as the biggest symbol of all, ______ proves himself to be one of the best symbolists.

A Hawthorne

B Dreiser

C James

D Faulkner

答：

答案： A

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[29] In _____, James Joyce intends to present a microcosm of the whole human life by providing an instance of how a single event contains all the events of its kind, and how history is recapitulated in the happenings of one day.

A A. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

B B. Dubliners

C C. Ulysses

D D. Finnegans Wake

答：

答案： C

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[30] As the representative of the Enlightenment, Pope was one of the first to introduce _____ to England.

A rationalism

B criticism

C romanticism

D realism

答：

答案： A

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[31] In 1847, the Bronte sisters published the following famous novels EXCEPT “______”.

A Jane Eyre

B Shirley

C Wuthering Heights

D The Tenant of Windfall Hall

答：

答案： B

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[32] Jane Austen’s practical idealism is that love should be justified by ______ and disciplined by self-control.

A reason

B sensibility

C sense

D rationality

答：

答案： A

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[33]

Beowulf describes the hero in fighting against the monster Grendel, his revengeful mother and a _____.

A tiger

B drgon

C bear

D wolf

答：

答案： B

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[34] The period of Old English literature refers to ______.

A A. from the year of 450 to the year of 1066

B B. from 14th to mid-17th

C C. from 14th to mid-18th

D D. from 16th to mid-18

答：

答案： A

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[35] One of Shelley’s greatest political lyrics is ________, which was later to become a rallying song of the British Communist Party.

A Men of England

B Men of England

C Ode to Liberty

D Ode to the West Wind

答：

答案： B

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[36] Joyce’s masterpiece, ______ gives an account of man’s life during one day in Dublin.

A Dubliners

B Finnegans Wake

C Ulysses

D A Portrait of the Artist

答：

答案： C

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[37]

Of all Herman Melville’s sea adventure stories, ________ proves to be the best.

A Typee

B Reburn

C Moby –Dick

D Omoo

答：

答案： C

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[38]

Which writer does not belong to the group of American Romantic writers?

A William C. Bryant

B Henry W. Longfellow

C Edgar Allan Poe

D Ann Bradstreet

答：

答案： D

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[39] From the first novel Sister Carrie on, Dreiser set himself to project the American values for what he had found them to be: ______ to the core.

A altruistic

B political

C religious

D materialistc

答：

答案： D

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[40] In Milton’s works, “____”is the greatest, indeed the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since “Beowulf”.

A A. Paradise Lost

B B. Paradise Regained

C C. Samson Agonistes

D D. Lycidas

答：

答案： A

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[41] 5. The most perfect example of the verse drama after Greek style in English is Milton’s _____.

A paradise Regained

B Paradise Lost

C Ode to the West Wind

D Ulysses

答：

答案： B

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[42] Here is a sentence from an essay, “Read not to contradict and confuse, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weight and consider”. The essay must be ______.

A Of Studies by Francis Bacon

B The Advancement of Learning by Francis Bacon

C Novum Organum by Francis Bacon

D Essays by Francis Bacon

答：

答案： A

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[43] Dickens’s first child hero is ______.

A Little Nell

B David Copperfield

C Oliver Twist

D Little Dorrit

答：

答案： C

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[44]

Greatly and permanently affected by the ________ experiences, Hemingway formed his own writing style, together with his theme and hero.

A. mining &nbs

A mining

B farming

C war

D sea

答：

答案： C

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[45]

All of the following are stream –of- consciousness novels EXCEPT________.

A The Sound and the Fury

B Ulysses

C Mrs. Dalloway

D Jude the Obscure

答：

答案： D

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[46] The great political and social events in the English society of neoclassical period were the following EXCEPT ______.

A the Restoration of King Charles II in 1660

B the Great Plague of 1665

C the Great London Fire in 1666

D the Wars of Roses in 1689

答：

答案： D

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[47] ______ by Melville is a novella about a ship whose black slave cargo mutiny holds their captain a terrorized hostage.

A A. “Bartleby, the Scrivener”

B B. Benito Cereno

C C. The Confidence-Man

D D. Billy Bud

答：

答案： B

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[48] _______ is indeed the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf.

A Paradise Lost

B Paradise Regained

C Samson Agonistes

D The Faerie Queene

答：

答案： A

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[49] G. B. Shaw’s play ________ established his position as the leading playwright of his time.

A Mrs Warren's profession

B Hamlet

C Widowers' Houses

D Candida

答：

答案： D

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[50] Which of the following novels is not written by Henry Fielding?

A Jonathan Wild

B Moll Flanders

C Joseph Andrews

D Tom Jones

答：

答案： B

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[51]

Washington Irving was one of the first American writers to earn international fame and was regarded as _____.

A father of American drama

B father of American poetry

C father of American literature

D father of short stories

答：

答案： D

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[52] George Bernard Shaw’s career as a dramatist began in 1892, when his first play ____ was put on by the Independent Theatre Society.

A A. Candida

B B. Widower’s Houses

C C. Mrs. Warren’s Profession

D D. The Apple Cart

答：

答案： B