英美文学第一章练习1
英美文学知到章节答案智慧树2023年山东第一医科大学
英美文学知到章节测试答案智慧树2023年最新山东第一医科大学第一章测试1.The spirit of Renaissance is ultimately expressed by the intellectualmovement called （）.参考答案:humanism2.The word “Renaissance” means （）.参考答案:revival3.（） is not among the four great tragedies created by William Shakespeare.参考答案:The Merchant of Venice4.The Hamlet is the best work of William Shakespeare. （）参考答案:错5.Hamlet is a typical conservative prince. （）参考答案:错1.（）Satan is the most well-developed character in Paradise Lost参考答案:Satan2.Paradise Lost is a long epic in （） books.参考答案:123.Paradise Lost is an orthodox poem. （）参考答案:错4.Paradise Lost is widely regarded as the greatest epic poem in English.（）参考答案:对5.（） gains entrance into the Garden of Eden, where he finds Adam and Eveand becomes jealous of them.参考答案:Satan1.Shelley recognized （）as “the most perfect of my products.”参考答案:Prometheus Unbound2.The writing of Prometheus Unbound was inspired by （）’s PrometheusBound.参考答案:Aeschylus3.Percy Bysshe Shelley was in Italy when he heard the news of the PeterlooMassacre. He immediately responded by writing The Mask of Anarchy. （）参考答案:对4.Shelley, Byron and Keats are regarded as the three great poets of therevolutionary romanticism in England. （）参考答案:对5.Prometheus Unbound is a five-act lyrical drama, a closet drama. （）参考答案:错1.Victorian Period is the Age of prosperity and progress. It is the richest andmost powerful age of Britain. During this period British society had become the 1st urban and industrial one in the world. （）参考答案:对2.Who coined the expression “survival of the fittest”?（）。
英美文学前三章测试题1
English Literature Test（1）1.Of the four alternative answers, choose the one that would best complete thestatement.1.Romance,which uses narrative verse or prose to tell stories of ___ adventures or other heroic deeds, is a popular literary form in the medieval period.a. Christianb. knightlyc. Greekd. primitive2. Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his production of ___.a.Piers Plowmanb.Sir Gawain and the Green Knightc.Confessio Amantisd.The Canterbury Tale3 Spenser is regarded as one of the greatest poets in the English Renaissance. His masterpiece is _______________.a.Utopiab. The Song of Beowulfc. The Faerie Queened. The Canterbury Tales4 Which of the followi ng is not Malowe’s play?a.Tamlurlaine the Greatb. The Jew of Maltac. The Tragical History of Doctor Faustusd. Cymbeline5. “Hamlet” “Othello” “King Lear” and “_________” are regarded as Shakespeare’sfour great tragedies.a. Macbethb. Rom eo and Julietc. The Winter’s Taled. Tempest6. Of the following plays by Shakespeare, which is not a comedy?a. Midsummer Night Dreamb. The Merchant of Venicec. Twelfth Nightd. Romeo and Juliet7. Which of the following is not a historical play by Shakespeare?a. Henry VIb. Henry IVc. Richard III D. Charles I8. From the following choose the one which is not Francis Bacon’s work.a. The Advancement of Learningb. The New Instrumentc. Essaysd. Venus and Adonis9. “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” This is the beginning line of one ofShakespeare’s ___________________.a. songsb. playsc. comediesd. sonnets10. English Renaissance Period was an age of __________.a. prose and novelb. poetry and dramac. essays and journalsd. ballads and songs11. Of the following _______was the important metaphysical poet.a. John Donneb. Ben Johnsonc. John Miltond. George Peele12. Of the foll owing “________” was not written by Milton.a. Paradise Lostb. Paradise regainedc. Samson Agonistesd. Volpone13. “Dr. Faustus” is a play based on the _______legend of a magician aspiring forknowledge and finally meeting his tragic end.a. Englishb. Frenchc. German D. Irish14. Shakespeare has established his giant position in world literature with his_______plays. 154 sonnets and 2 long poems.a. 47b. 38c. 27d. 5215. The principle of Shakespeare’s hi storical play is that the national ______under amighty and jut sovereign is a necessity.a. peaceb. prosperityc. unityd. progress16. Francis Bacon lays the foundation for ______with his insistence on scientific wayof thinking and fresh observation as a basis for obtaining knowledge.a. English novelsb. poetic artc. modern scienced. modern literature17. The work that presented, for the first time in English literature, a comprehensiverealistic picture of the medieval English society and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life is most likely______.A. William Langland’s Piers PlowmanB. Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury TalesC. John Gower’s Confession AmantisD. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight18. Which of the following historical events does not directly help to stimulate therising of the Renaissance Movement?A.The rediscovery of ancient Greek and Roman culture.B.The new discoveries in geography and astrology.C.The Glorious revolution.D.The religious reformation and the economic expansion19. Which of the following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare'sSonnet 18?A.The speaker eulogizes the power of Nature.B.The speaker satirizes human vanity.C.The speaker praises the power of artistic creation.D.The speaker meditates on man's salvation.20.“And we will sit upon the rocks,/Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks,/Byshallow rivers to whose falls/Melodious birds sing madrigals.” The above lines are probably taken from __.A. Spenser’s The Faerie QueeneB.Jorn Donne's “The Sun Rising”C.Shakespeare's “Sonnet 18”D.Marlowe's “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”II .Define the literary terms listed below.1. Epic2. Alliteration3.ConceitII. For each of the quotations listed below please give the name of the author and the title of the literary work from which it is taken and then brieflyinterpret it.1.And every fair from fair sometimes declines.By chance or nature’s changing course untrimmed:But they eternal summer shall not fade.Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st.2.some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to bechewed and digested; that is some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read ,but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.3.And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell,And poppy or charms can make us sleep as wellAnd better than thy stroke; why swell’st thou then?One short sleep past, we wake eternallyAnd death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die4.Nine times the space that measures day and nightTo mortal men, he with his horrid crew,Lay vanquished, rolling in the fiery gulf,Confounded though immortal.III. Give brief answers to the following questions:1.What is the theme of “The Merchant of Venice”?2.What is the character of the prince Hamlet?3.Make a brief introduction to Paradise lost。
英美文学选读练习（一）
英美⽂学选读练习（⼀）英美⽂学选读练习（⼀）I. Multiple ChoiceSelect from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Write the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the answer sheet.1. Shelley’ s political lyrics ______ is not only a war cry calling upon all working people to rise up against their political oppressors, but an address to them pointing out the intolerable injustice of economic exploitation.A. “Ode to Liberty”B. “Ode to Naples”C. “Ode to the West Wind”D. “Men of England”2. Jane Austen’ s practical idealism is that love should be justified by ______ and disciplined by self-control.A. reasonB. senseC. rationalityD. sensibility3. Shakespeare’ s ______, an elaborate and fantastic story, is known as the best of his final romances.A. The Winter’s TaleB. The TempestC. The Taming of the ShrewD. Love’ s Labour’ s Lost4. “To be, or not to be - that is the question;/Whether’ tis nobler in the mind to suffer / The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,/Or to take arms against a sea of troubles ,/And by opposing end then?” These lines are taken from ______.A. King LearB. Romeo and JulietC. OthelloD. Hamlet5. John Milton’ s most powerful dramatic poem on the Greek model is ______.A. Paradise LostB. Paradise RegainedC. Samson AgonistesD. Lycidas6. Because of her sensitivity to universal pattens of human behavior, ______ hasbrought the English novel, as an art of form, to its maturity.A. Charlotte BronteB. Jane AustenC. Emily BronteD. Henry Fielding7. Poetry is defined by ______ as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, which originates in emotion recollected in tranquility”.A. William WordsworthB. William BlakeC. Percy Bysshe ShelleyD. Robert Southey8. Jonathan Swift’ s ______ is generally regarded as the best model of satire, not only of the period but also in the whole English literary history.A. Gulliver’s TravelsB. The Battle of the BooksC. “A Modest Proposal”D. A Tale of a Tub9. 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 FieldingB. Daniel DefoeC. Jonathan SwiftD. Laurence Sterne10. The belief of the eighteenth - century neoclassicists in England led them to seek the following EXCEPT ______.A. proportionB. unityC. harmonyD. spirit11. The Renaissance marks a transition from ______ to the modern world.A. the old EnglishB. the medievalC. the feudalistD. the capitalist12. 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 1660B. the Great Plague of 1665C. the Great London Fire in 1666D. the Wars of Roses in 168913.In Renaissance, the European humanist thinkers and scholars made attempts to do the following EXCEPT ______.A.getting rid of those old feudalist ideasB.getting control of the parliament and governmentC.introducing new ideas that expressed the interests of the rising bourgeoisieD.recovering the purity of the early church, from the corruption of the Roman Catholic Church14.The Petrarchan sonnet (彼特拉克体⼗四⾏诗) was first introduced into England by ______.A.SurreyB.WyattC.SidneyD.Shakespeare15.As the best of Shakespeare's final romances,______ is a typical example of his pessimistic view towards human life and society in his late years.A.The TempestB.The Winter's TaleC.CymbelineD.The Rape of Lucrece16.John Milton's greatest poetical work ______ is the only generally acknowledged epic in English literarure since Beowulf.A.AreopagiticaB.Paradise LostC.LycidasD.Samson Agonistes17.“Graveyard School”writers are the following sentimentalists EXCEPT ______.A.James ThomsonB.William CollinsC.William CowperD.Thomas Jackson18.The best model of satire in the whole English literary history is Jonathan Swift's ______.A.A Modest ProposalB.A Tale of a TubC.Gulliver's TravelsD.The Battle of the Books19.As a representative of the Enlightenment, ______ was one of the first to introduce rationalism to England.A.John BunyanB.Daniel DefoeC.Alexander PopeD.Jonathan Swift20.For his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel,______ has been regarded by some as “Father of the English Novel”.A.Daniel DefoeB.Henry FieldingC.Jonathan SwiftD.Samuel Richardson21. Which of the following descriptions of Gothic Novels is NOT correct?A.It predominated in the early eighteenth century.B.It was one phase of the Romantic movement.C.Its principal elements are violence, horror and the supernatural.D.Works like The Mysteries of Udolpho and Frankenstein are typical Gothic romance.Gothic Novel, a type of romantic fiction that predominated in the early eighteenth century, was one phase of the Romantic movement. Its principal elements are violence, horror and the supernatural. P166, para.222. William Blake’s central concern in the Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience is_______, which gives the two books a strong social and historical reference.A. youthhoodB. childhoodC. happinessD. sorrow23. “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good for-tune, must be in want of a wife.” The quoted part is taken from ______.A. Jane EyreB. Wuthering HeightsC. Pride and PrejudiceD. Sense and Sensibility24. Shelley’s greatest achievement is his four-act poetic drama ______, which is an exultant work in praise of humankind’s potential.A. AdonaisB. Queen MabC. Prometheus UnboundD. A Defence of Poetry25. The assertion that poetry originates from “emotion recollected in tranquility”belongs to ______.A. William WordsworthB. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeC. Robert SoutheyD. William Blake26. All of the following poems by William Wordsworth are masterpieces on nature EXCEPT ______.A.“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”B. “An Evening Walk”C.“Tintern Abbey”D. “The Solitary Reaper”27. Shakespeare’s four greatest tragedies are ________.A. Romeo and Juliet, Othello, King Lear, HamletB. Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, The Merchant of VeniceC. Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, MacbethD. Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice , Othello, Hamlet28. As one of the greatest masters of English prose, ________ defined a good style as “proper words in proper places”.A. Henry FieldingB. Jonathan SwiftC. Samuel JohnsonD. Alexander Pope29. All of the following novels by Daniel Defoe are the first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower-class people EXCEPT ______.A. Robinson CrusoeB. Captain SingletonC. Moll FlandersD. Colonel Jack30. English Romanticism, as a historical phase of literature, is generally said to have ended in 1832 with ______.A. the passage of the first Reform Bill in the ParliamentB. the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge’s Lyrical BalladsC. the publication of T．S ．Eliot’s The waste LandD. the passage of the Bill of Rights in the Parliament31. Contrary to the traditional romance of aristocrats, the modern English novel givesa realistic presentation of life of ______.A. the common English peopleB. the upper classC. the rising bourgeoisieD. the enterprising landlords32. The sentence “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare’s ______________.A. comediesB. tragediesC. sonnetsD. histories33. Paradise Lost is actually a story taken from ______________.A. the RenaissanceB. the Old TestamentC. Greek MythologyD. the New Testament34. ______________ is the essence of the Renaissance.A. PoetryB. DramaC. HumanismD. Reason35. “To be, or not to be —that is the question”is a line taken from______________.A. HamletB. OthelloC. King LearD. The Merchant of Venice36. 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 feeling and experiencesB. the former is heavily religious but the latter secularC. 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 cultivationD. the former advocates the “return to nature”whereas the latter turns to the ancient Greek and Roman writers for its models.37. 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 JonesB. GulliverC. Moll FlandersD. Robinson Crusoe38. ______________ is a typical feature of Swift’s writings.A. Bitter satireB. Elegant styleC. Casual narrationD. Complicated sentence structure39. Which of the following poems is a landmark in English poetry?A. Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor ColeridgeB. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”by William WordsworthC. “Remorse ”by Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD. Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman40. The literary form which is fully developed and the most flourishing during the Romantic Period is ______________.A. proseB. dramaC. novelD. poetry41. The real mainstream of the English Renaissance is_____________.A. the Elizabethan dramaB. the Elizabethan proseC. ancient poemD. romantic novel42. Shakespeare has established his giant position in world literature with his_____________plays, 154 sonnets and 2 long poems.A. 47B. 27C. 52D. 3843. _____________shows how mankind, in the person of Christ, withstand the tempter and is established once more in the divine favor.A. Paradise LostB. Paradise RegainedC. Samson AgonistesD. Beowulf44. In the theatrical world of the neoclassical period, _____________was the leading figure among the host of playwrights.A. William BlakeB. Richard Brinsley SheridanC.Ben JohnsonD. George Bernard Shaw45. The eighteenth century England is also known as the Age of Enlightenment or the Age of_____________.A. IntellectB. ReasonC. RationalityD. Science46. As a whole, Jonathan Swift’s _____________is one of the most effective and devastating criticisms and satires of all aspects in the then English and European life---socially, politically, religiously, philosophically, scientifically, and morally.A. Moll FlandersB. Gulliver’s TravelsC. Pilgrim’s ProgressD. The School for Scandal47. _____________is a story on the subject of human nature by Henry Fielding.A. The History of AmeliaB. The History of Jonathan Wild the GreatC. The History of Tom Jones, a FoundlingD. The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews and of his friend Mr. Abraham Adams48. The poems such as “The Chimney Sweeper”are found in both Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experienceby_____________.A. William WordsworthB. William BlakeC. John KeatsD. Lord Gordon Byron49. _____________is regarded as a “worshipper of nature”.A. John KeatsB. William BlakeC. William WordsworthD. Jane Austen50. The sentence “three or four families in a country village are the very thing to work on” can best reflect the writer’s personal knowledge and range of writing. This writer is ____________.A. Walter ScottB. Thomas HardyC. Jane EyreD. Jane Austen。
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Chapter 1 Literature of Colonial AmericaDecide whether the statements are true or false.F 1. American literature is the oldest of all national literature.T 2. American poetry of the 18th century has an imitative character, imitating the reigning English models of the 18th centuryChoose the best answer or answers for each of the following statements.( C ) 1. The Puritan philosophy known as is the most enduring shaping influence in American thought and literature.A. RevolutionismB. ReasonC. American PuritanismD. Rationalism( B ) 2. Anne Bradstreet was a Puritan poet. Her poems made such a stir in England that she became known as the who appeared in America.A. Ninth MuseB. Tenth MuseC. Best MuseD. First Muse( B ) 3. The secular ideals of the American Enlightenment were exemplified in the life and career of .A. Thomas HoodB. Benjamin FranklinC. Thomas JeffersonD. George Washington(B)4. Thomas Paine’s famous pamphlet “” is often regarded as the gre atest of the Revolutionary pamphlets. The argument is characteristic of plainness. A. The Rights of Man B. Common Sense C. The American Crisis D. Declaration of IndependenceChapter 2 Early Romantics；Chapter 3 Transcendentalism；Chapter 4 High RomanticsChoose the best answer or answers for each of the following statements.( A ) 1. Transcendentalists recognized as the “highest power of soul”.A.intuitionB. logicC. data of the sensesD. Thinking(B C D) 2. Choose the poems written by Edgar Allan Poe from the following.A. “To Helen”B. The RavenC. “Annabel Lee”D. “The Bells”(A B C D) 3. Choose the characters which appear in the novel The Scarlet Letter.A. Hester PrynneB. Arthur DimmesdaleC. Roger ChillingworthD. Pearl( A B ) 4. Washington Irving was best known for his famous short stories such as “” and “”.A. Rip Van Winkle B The Legend of Sleepy Hollow C. Life of Goldsmith D. Life of Washington(B) 5. Herman Melville’s is an encyclopedia of everything: history, philosophy, religion, etc. in addition to a detailed account of the operations of the whaling industry.A. The Old Man and the SeaB. Moby DickC. White JacketD. Billy Budd( A ) 6. Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay has been regarded as “America’s Declaration of Intellectual Independence”. It called on American writers to write about America in a way peculiarly American.A. The American ScholarB. NatureC. The Rights of ManD. Self-Reliance( B ) 7. A superb book entitled came out of Henry David Thoreau’s two-year experiment at Walden Pond.A. The American ScholarB. WaldenC. The Rights of ManD. Self-Reliance( C )8. From Henry David Thoreau’s Concord jail experience came his famous essay “”.A. The Rights of ManB. Common SenseC. Civil DisobedienceD. Declaration of Independence( B ) 9. The central figure in the Leatherstocking Tales is , who goes by the various names of Leatherstocking, Deerslayer, Pathfinder and Hawkeye.A. NatureB. Natty BumppoC. DeerD. sailor( A) 10. was the first to develop the short story as a distinctive art form and to elaborate criteria by which it can be judged. Therefore he was often regarded as the father of the modern short story.A. Washington IrvingB. Philip FreneauC. William Cullen BryantD. Edgar Allan Poe( C ) 11. The Scarlet Letter was written by , who tended to write about the , and believed that evil was at the core of human life. He was proclaimed as the first American romancer.A. Washington Irving; pastB. Philip Freneau; futureC. Nathaniel Hawthorne; pastD. Edgar Allan Poe; future( A ) 12. Dickinson’s poems demonstrate and .A. inconsistency; indirectionB. consistency; indirectionC. inconsistency; directionD. consistency; direction( D ) 13. The poetic style Walt Whitman applied is now called , that is poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.A. balladB. blank verseC. sonnetD. free verse( A ) 14. Dickinson’s greatest lyrics are on the theme of , personified as a monarch, a lord, or a kind but irresistible lover.A. deathB. friendshipC. politicsD. artChapter 5 Realism；Chapter 6 Local Colorism；Chapter 7 NaturalismChoose the best answer or answers for each of the following statements.( ABCD ) 1. Choose the works written by Mark Twain.A. The Adventures of Tom SawyerB. Innocents AbroadC. The Gilded AgeD. The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson( B ) 2. Whereas Mark Twain and William Dean Howells satirized European manners at times, was an admirer.A. O. HenryB. Henry JamesC. Walt WhitmanD. Jack London( ABCD ) 3. Choose the novels written by Henry James.A. Daisy MillerB. The Portrait of a LadyC. The Wings of the DoveD. The Ambassadors(ABCD) 4. Choose Jack London’s works from the following.A. The Call of the WildB. White FangC. The Sea WolfD. Martin Eden( A ) 5. The novel which was described by an American critic as “an outrage to American girlhood” is Henry James’s .A. Daisy MillerB. The Portrait of a LadyC. The Wings of the DoveD. The Ambassadors( B ) 6. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s masterpiece is , which is considered to be the greatest of all anti-slavery literature, and help bring the North to fight the slave-holding South in the Civil War.A. Daisy MillerB. Uncle Tom’s CabinC. “The Gift of the Magi”D. The Color Purple( C ) 7. Hemingway once wrote: “All modern American literature comes from one book by called Huckleberry Finn...”A. Henry JamesB. William Dean HowellsC. Mark TwainD. O. Henry( D ) 8. Regionalism, or Local Colorism is a subordinate order of .A. ColonialismB. PuritanismC. RomanticismD. Realism( C ) 9. Naturalists held that humans are controlled by laws of and .A. heredity; PuritanismB. Puritanism; totalityC. heredity; environmentD. truth; beauty( A ) 10. Theodore Dreiser neither condemned nor praised the protagonist of .A. Sister CarrieB. White FangC. The Red Badge of CourageD. Martin EdenAnswer the following question in your own words.What are the differences between American romantic writers, realist writers and naturalist writers in their attitudes toward human beings in their literary creation?Romanticists place the individual at the center of art and make literature most valuable as an expression of his or her unique feelings and particular attitudes and make its accuracy a portraying the individual’s expriencesRealists described with much vividness and great artistic skill the chief traits of the English society and criticized the capitalist system from a democratic viewpoint. They not only gave a satirical portrayal of the bourgeoisie and all the ruling classes, but also showed profound sympathy for the common people. But they did not find a way to eradicate social evils and did not realize the necessity of changing the bourgeois society.According to the theory of naturalism, literature must be true to life and exactly reproduce real life, including all its details without any selection. Naturalist writers usually write about the lives of the poor and oppressed, or the slum life, but by giving all the details of life without discrimination, they can only represent the extend appearance instead of the inner essence of real life.Chapter 8 PoetryDecide whether the statements are true or false.T 1. When the other modernist poets were obscure and difficult to understand, Robert Frost could be understood by the average person.T 2. Unlike Wallace Stevens, who experimented in his language, the New England poets E. A. Robinson and Robert Frost were modern in their themes about the wasted, blighted, or impoverished lives, but NOT modern in their techniques and verse forms. They used traditional verse forms and made their poems of modernist themes more easily understood by the public.T 3. Robert Frost wrote about the universal matters of life and death, good and evil, with the deceptive, rustic simplicity.F 4. Robert Frost did write pastoral poetry as a way to escape from modern life.F 5. In the decade of 1910s, American literature achieved a new diversity and reached its greatest heights.Choose the best answer or answers for each of the following statements.(ABC ) 1. The Imagist writers followed three principles, they respectively are .A. direct treatmentB. economy of expressionC. clear rhythmD. blank verse(C ) 2. “The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.” This is written by .A. T. S. EliotB. Robert FrostC. Ezra PoundD.E. E. Cummings(A ) 3. showed great interest in Chinese literature and translated the poetry of Li Po (Li Bai) into English, and was influenced by Confucian ideas.A. Ezra PoundB. Robert FrostC. T. S. EliotD.E. E. Cummings(B ) 4. Ezra Pound’s long poem contained more than one hundred poems loosely connected.A. The Waste LandB. The CantosC. Don JuanD. Queen Mab(C ) 5. “Richard Cory” and “Miniver Cheevy” are good examples of E. A. Robinson’s attitude.A. romanticB. futurismC. realisticD. materialistic(B ) 6. In 1922 Thomas Stearns Eliot published his great work The Waste Land, which catches precisely the state of culture and society after the Second World War and graphically illustrates the spiritual poverty of the of the time. It has been regarded as a central text of modernism.A. EastB. WestC. NorthD. South(D ) 7. Robert Frost is famous for his lyric poems. Which of the following lyric poem was not written by Robert Frost?A. “The Road Not Taken”B. “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”C. “After Apple-Picking”D. “Richard Cory”(B) 8. , oe of the essays in The Sacred Wood, is the earliest statement of T. S. Eliot’s aesthetic s, which provided a useful instrument for modern criticism.A. “Sweeny Agonistes”B. “Tradition and the Individual Talent”C. “A Primer of Modern Heresy”D. “Gerontion”( ABCD) 9. was/were written by T. S. Eliot.A. The Waste LandB. The Hollow MenC. Ash WednesdayD. Four Quartets( ABC) 10. T. S. Eliot was a .A. poetB. playwrightC. literary criticD. novelist(C ) 11.The Waste Land reads like the manifesto of the “Lost Generation.” It consists of segments.A. threeB. fourC. fiveD. six(B ) 12. The essence of , which began in Germany in the 1890s, and ended in the early 1940s, was a break with the past, and it also fostered a belief in art and literature as an avenue to self-fulfillment.A. RealismB. ModernismC. NaturalismD. Sentimentalism( D) 13. dramatized discontinuity and imminent severance from the past while making determined efforts to use the past, its values and artistic forms by incorporating them in new literary production.A. SentimentalismB. RealismC. NaturalismD. Modernism( A) 14. Modernists had a sense of fragmentation in social communities and the fragmentation within the individual himself. Hence became a common theme in modernist writing.A. fragmentationB. orderC. reasoningD. ethics( D) 15. An is a person who the modernist writers used in presenting their theme, and he is the person who is the main focus of the work as a hero should be. However, he is weak, ineffective, inapt, not like the romantic hero who is strong, brave, and courageous. He achieves success through bungling, through not being as effective as he would think that he could be.A. heroB. antagonistC. orderD. anti-hero(C ) 16. Unlike Victorian poetry which was characteristic of moralizing tendencies, overpadding of extra-poetic matter, and traditional iambic pentameter, imagist poetry stressed free choice of subject matters (often dealing with single, concentrated moments of experience), concreteness of imagery, musical phrases, economy of expression, and the use of a dominant , or a quick succession of related images. It aimed at instantaneous effect, visual and concise.A. toneB. speakerC. imageD. persona(D ) 17. earned a reputation as a pessimist poet because of his fascination with the interior drama of human defeat in his “Tilbury town” poems. A. T. S. Eliot B. Robert Frost C. Ezra Pound D. E. A. Robinson( D) 18. E. A. Robinson had much examination of failure, loneliness, isolation, defeat, frustration, sorrow, endurance, despair, emptiness and alienation. He had been called the poet laureate of .A. pastoralB. classicalC. imageD. failure(A ) 19. The most significant American poem of the 20th century was by T. S. Eliot. Its publication helped to establish a modern tradition of literature rich with learning and allusive thought.A. The Waste LandB. The CantosC. Don JuanD. Queen Mab( D) 20. Ezra Pound was the leader of a new movement in poetry which he called the movement.A. SentimentalismB. RealismC. NaturalismD. ImagismChapter 9 Modern Fiction before 1945Decide whether the statements are true or false.T 1. To Hemingway, man’s greatest achievement is to show “grace under pressure.”T 2. Hemingway’s iceberg theory is famous. His sentences only gave one small bit of the meaning. The rest is implied. One must go very deep beneath the surface to understand the full meaning of his writing.F 3. Hemingway did have some realistic techniques, but on the whole he was not like the realistic writers because he was more interested in conveying his personal emotion. And this is the goal of many modernist writers – create proper feelings of the situation or experience in the reader, arouse an involuntary subjective response.F 4. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote symbolically about poor, oppressed California farmers, migrants, laborers, and the unemployed, making their lives and sorrows very understandable to his readers.Choose the best answer or answers for each of the following statements.( ABCD ) 1. Choose the novels written by F. Scott Fitzgerald.A. The Great GatsbyB. Tender is the NightC. This Side of ParadiseD. The Beautiful and the Damned( ABCD ) 2. Ernest Hemingway wrote .A. The Old Man and the SeaB. For Whom the Bell TollsC. The Sun Also RisesD. A Farewell to Arms( B ) 3. , a saga of a family of Olahoma farmers named Joad, who are driven by fearful draught and the Great Depression to migrate to California, and are scornfully called “Okies” and suffer mistreatment and exploitation, is generally regarded as John Steinbeck’s masterp iece.A. This Side of ParadiseB. The Grapes of WrathC. The Sun Also RisesD. A Farewell to Arms( ABD ) 4. This Side of Paradise by Francis Scott Fitzgerald reflects the new norms of the 1920s which was also known as the , and .A. roaring 20sB. Jazz AgeC. Great DepressionD. Dollar Decade( A ) 5. With the publication of The Sun Also Rises, a novel about the disillusionment of the lost generation, became the spokesman for what Gertrude Stein had called “a Lost Generation”.A. Ernest HemingwayB. FitzgeraldC. Allan PoeD. Gertrude Stein( B ) 6. is generally regarded as the spokesman of the Dollar Decade, the peculiar decade that combined the postwar economic boom and the sense of spiritual disorientation.A. Ernest HemingwayB. Francis Scott FitzgeraldC. Allan PoeD. Gertrude Stein( C ) 7. The Great Gatsby deals symbolically with the frustration and despair resulting from the failure of the , which means that in America one might hope to satisfy every material desire and thereby achieve happiness.A. OceanB. lawC. American dreamD. East( D ) 8. There is a particular term, the , who is with stoic courage and lives by a pattern which gives life meaning and value for Hemingway’s character.A. anti-heroB. antagonistC. heroD. code hero( A ) 9. Hemingway had only a single theme – how man face in a world stripped of all values, except that of intensity.A. code heroB. tragedyC. successD. hero( A ) 10. is regarded as the foremost writer of the Great Depression during the 1930s. He was a great spokesman for the oppressed, writing about the poverty-stricken people in their sufferings.A. John SteinbeckB. Francis Scott FitzgeraldC. Allan PoeD. Hemingway( A ) 11. American writers of the first postwar era self-consciously acknowledged that they were a “Generation”, devoid of faith and alienated from a civilization.A. LostB. BeatC. Great DepressionD. Dollar Decade( A ) 12. Francis Scott Fitzgerald summarized the experiences and attitudes of the 1920s decade in his masterpiece novel .A. The Great GatsbyB. The Grapes of WrathC. The Sun Also RisesD. A Farewell to ArmsChapter 10 Postwar Realism in FictionDecide whether the statements are true or false.F 1. Postwar realists revolt against the obscurities of literary modernism and call for a return to faithful treatment of material.T 2. Postwar realism combines the time-honored realism with the effective achievements of various literary trends, including modernism.T 3. Postwar realism has brought a new moral emphasis to fiction, a hunger to overcome despair, nihilism, and brutality through applying moral energy to culture.Choose the best answer or answers for each of the following statements.( D ) 1. The title of J. D. Salinger’s novel The Catcher in the Rye comes from the poem “If a body catch a body coming from the rye” by .A. William BlackB. William WordsworthC. Alfred TennysonD. Robert Burns( ABCD ) 2. John Updike is best known for his “Rabbit” pentalogy, namely .A. Rabbit, RunB. Rabbit RedeuxC. Rabbit Is RichD. Rabbit at RestE. Licks of Love( B ) 3. American modernist fiction declined during and after the World War.A. FirstB. SecondC. CivilD. Spanish( C ) 4. John Cheever’s second collection of short stories established his place in American short fiction.A. The Triumph of the EggB. The RavenC. The Enormous Radio and Other StoriesD. The Golden Bowl( D ) 5. Truman Capote is generally regarded as the pioneer of the genre in the postwar era.A. fictionB. realismC. modernismD. non-fiction( A ) 6. Salinger’s literary significance lies in his crea tion of two kinds of character: vulgarian and outsider in .A. The Catcher in the RyeB. Rabbit RedeuxC. A Farewell to Arms D The Golden Bough。
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《英美概况（一）》练习题一一、1. Fill in the blanks in the following sentences by referring to the text.1)The literature career of Bronte sisters has close relationship with one of the geographic features inYorkshire County, where they were born and raised, which is _______.2)The river ________ in UK has been an important trade and transport route since prehistoric times.3)The overall climate in England is called temperate ________.4)The Anglo-Saxons spoke a language that we now call______.5)Following the Wars of the Roses was the rule of the House of the_________.6)On July 7th, 1937, Japan began an all-out attack on _____.7)On December 7th, 1941, Japan's planes from carriers at sea made a swift and sudden raid on the UnitedStates' naval base at ________.8)Britain, under the leadership of _______, defeated Germany's attempt to destroy its air force and airdefenses in the Battle of Britain and escaped invasion.9)Margaret Thatcher gained her reputation as “the ________ lady” for her tight control of Britain'smonetary policy.10) The British Parliament is often referred to as ________--- the body that makes or unmakes laws.11)The Church of England today is all-inclusive, having the ability to be both Protestant and ________.12)Buddhism was originated in ______ about 500 B.C.13)Overseas commodity trade alone accounts for about _________ of the country's national income.14)There are three academic degrees in Britain: the_______, Master's degree and Doctor's degree.15)The best-known scientific achievement in the nineteenth century was Charles Robert Darwin'sdevelopment of a theory of ____ .2. Decide whether the following statements are True or False.1)Among the three regions of UK, Scotland is the largest in size.2)For ninety-six years after the nominal conquest by Julius Caesar, Britain was left in peace and freedom.3)The Chartists advocated violence.4)There was no advertising on any BBC program, either sound or television.5) It can be said that the Thatcher Era is the longest ministry of last century in UK.6)The life of Parliament in UK is fixed at five years.7) A lot of people in UK regularly attend church. （三-9 五-19）8)The British economy was the first to have been fully industrialized. （四-19。
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美国文学部分大作业Exercises for Chapter One of American Literature(第一章)1. 选择题1. Which of the following statements is NOT a famous concept of Transcendentalism?[A]Nature is ennobling[B] The individual is divine and self-reliant.[C] Man is capable of knowing truth by intuition[D] Man is corrupted in nature.2. Which of the following works began to make Irving internationally known?[A] The Sketch Book[B] A History of New York to the End of the Dutch Dynasty[C] Bracebridge Hall[D] Tales of Traveler3. Which of the following is NOT true concerning Irving?[A] He is the father of the American short stories.[B] He is the American Goldsmith.[C] He is the first American writer[D] He is the first writer to declare the independence of American literature.4. The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne is mainly concerned with ___________.:[A] the corruption of the society[B] the consequence of sin and guilt[C] the wrong doing of one generation that lives in,, successive ones[D] "overreaching intellect"5. Rip Van Winkle has taken from ________.[A] Spanish stories [B] A German Legend[C] English tales [D] Italian folktales6. "But it would have been worth any statesman's money to have heard the profound discussions that sometimes took place, when by chance an old newspaper fell into their hands, from some passing traveler. " What is the rhetorical device used in this sentence?[A] Hyperbole. [B] Metaphor. [C] Irony. [D] Paradox.7. Which of the following statements about Emerson is NOT true?[A] He was generally known as an essayist.[B] He was the chief spokesman of Transcendentalism.[C] He practiced the theory by living a simple life.[D] For him, nature is symbolic.8. For Emerson, nature could symbolize the following except ________.[A] God [B] Spirit [C] Oversoul [D] the whole universe9. What is Hawthorne's attitude toward Puritanism?[Al Negative. [B] Affirmative. [C] Indifferent. [D] Mixed.10. One typical feature of Irving's writing is _________.[A] always preaching [B] his best classic style[C] short and difficult to [D] symbolic11. " I celebrate myself, and sing myself,And what I assume you shall assume,For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. "Who could have written these lines?[A] Edgar Allen Poe. [B] Walt Whitman.[C] Ralph Waldo Emerson. [D] Henry David Thoreau.12. Which of the following is NOT true with Transcendentalism?[A] It inherited much from American Puritanism and European realism.[B] It focused on the intuitive knowledge.[C] Nature is its unofficial manifesto.[D] It is related in some way with the German idealism.13. What kind of narrative point of view is adopted in Moby Dick?[A] The first person.[B] The second person.[C] The third person limited.[D] The third person omniscient.14. Which of the following has influenced Melville's: EXCEPT ________.[A] Shakespearean tragic vision [B] Emersonian Transcendentalism [C] Hawthorne's black vision of life [D] Irving's writing15. Which of the following writers is NOT optimistic about human nature?[A] Ralph Waldo Emerson. [B] Nathaniel Hawthorne[C] Walt Whitman. [D] Henry David Thoreau16. Which of the following cannot poetry?[A] Elegant and gentle. [B] Simple and open.[C] Unconventional. [D] Colloquial.17. When Emerson states in the introduction to his Nature:"Our age is retrospective. " Which of the following is closest to its understanding?[A] We are conservative.[B] We see this world through our ancestors' eyes.[C] We usually look back upon the good old days.[D] We write a lot of books about the past.18. Which of the following novels does not represent the theme return to nature?[A] Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.[B] Thoreau's Walden .[C] Cooper's Leather-Stocking Tales.[D] Melville's Moby Dick .19. Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of the American Romantic writings?[A] Expression of the artist's imaginations, emotions, impressions, or beliefs.[B] Emphasis on rules of order, reason, logic, restrained emotion, good taste and decorum.[C] Love for the remote, supernatural, mysterious, exotic and illogical quality of things.[D] To see nature as a source of mental cleanness and spiritual understanding.20. The statement that a man's journey to the dark forest and his encounter with the devil are symbolic of man's life journey from innocence to knowledge, from good to evil may well sum up one of the major themes of ________.[A] Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"[B] Edgar Allen Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher"[C] Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown"[D] O. Henry's "The Cop and the Anthem"21. Here is a short passage from a story: "He recognized on the sign, however, the ruby face of King George, under which he had smoked so many a peaceful pipe, …and underneath was painted in large characters, GENERAL WASHINGTON. " The story must be ________.[A] Cooper's "Leather-stocking Tales"[B] Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown"[C] Irving's "Rip Van Winkle"[D] Hemingway's "Indian Camp"22. "The universe is composed of Nature and the soul . . present everywhere. " This is the voice of the book _______ which pushed American Romanticism into a new phase of New England Transcendentalism.[A] Walden by Thoreau [B] The Scarlet Lette r by Hawthorne[C] Moby Dick by Melville [D] Nature by Emerson23. In Whitman's giant work, Leaves of Grass, and, above all, ________.are all that concerned him.[A] individualism [B] divine love[C] sympathy [D] the power of blackness24. Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Hawthorn "Young Goodman Brown"?[A] Allegory. [B] Ambiguity.[C] Interior monologue. [D] Symbolism.25. In Irving's "Rip Van Winkle" all the drastic changes lapsed 20 years displeased Rip EXCEPT that ________.[A] he has got his neck out of the yoke of matrimony[B] the country has finally got its independence from the yoke of the British colonial rule[C] there comes now the scramble for powers between parties.[D] past glories and a tranquil life of the small village are gone.B. 阅读理解题(Reading comprehension)1. "In like manner, nature is already, in its forms and describing its own design. Let us interrogate apparition, that shines so peacefully around us. Let to what end is nature?"Questions :A. Identify the work and the author.B. What is "the great apparition"?C. What is the writing style?2.... Had Goodman Brown fallen asleep in the forest, and only dreamed a wild dream of witch-meeting?Be it so, if you will. But, alas! It was a dream of evil omen for young Goodman Brown. A stern, a sad, a darkly meditative, a distrustful, if not a desperate man, did he become; from the night of that fearful dream. "Questions:A. Identity the work and the author.B. What is the general idea of this passage?C. Did the author tell for sure whether it was only a dream or not?3. "I loafe and invite my soul,I learn and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass. "Questions:A. Identify the poem and the poet.B. What is the meaning of the phrase "a spear of summer grass" ?C. What is the implied meaning of the two lines?4. "Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled 5, 000 years ago.Questions:A. Identify the work and the author.B. What is the basic tone of this passage?C. What is the meaning of the underlined part?5. "God knows, ... I'm not myself-I'm somebody else-. . . I'm changed, and I can't tell what's my name, or who I am.Questions:A. Identify the work and the author.B. The speaker says he is changed. Do you think changed, or the social environment changed?C. What idea does the quoted sentence express?6. "Standing on the bare ground, -my head bathed by the blitl air and uplifted into infinite space, -all mean egotism vanishI become a transparent eyeball. I am nothing. I see all. Tl currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am pa or particle of God. "Questions:A. Identify the work and the author.B. What does the word "blithe" mean here?C. What idea does the quoted passage express?C. 回答题(Questions and answers)1. Nature is a philosophic work, in which Emerson gives an explicit discussion on his idea of the Oversoul. What is your understanding of Emersonian " Oversoul " and its relationship with "a transparent eyeball"?2. One of the most distinctive features of Hawthorne's writing is his art of ambiguity. Exemplify it with his story, "Young Goodman Brown".3. Like Hawthorne, Melville is fond of symbolism in his writings. The white whale, Moby-Dick, is the most important symbol in the novel. What symbolic meaning does Moby Dick stand for?4. Whitman is one of the most important figures in American poetic history. He has carried on a sort of experiment on the form of poetry by choosing free verse as his medium of expression. What are the characteristics of Whitman's free verse?5. Literary critics have seen Rip Van Winkle as a symbol of several aspects of America. What are the aspects that the story and its hero symbolize?D. 论述题(Topic discussion)1 . Melville's Moby Dick is more than a great whale story that reflects the American whale industry in 19th century; it is capable of multiple interpretations. Discuss the themes you can find in the fiction.2. In his whole life, Hawthorne is preoccupied with sin and evil in man; and in almost every novel he wrote, Hawthorne discussed sin and evil. Then what makes Hawthorne obsessed with all this sin and evil?Exercises for Chapter One of American Literature(第二章)A．多项选择(Multiple choice questions)1: Who is generally considered to be the one “with but a deformed conscience" in Mark Twain's works ？[A] Tom Sawyer.[B] Huckleberry Finn.[C] Hank Morgan. [D] Widow Douglas2. Which of the following is Twain's language?[A] Vernacular. [B] Colloquial.[C] Elegant. [D] Humorous.3. Which of the following writers is famous for his "international theme"?[A] Henry James. [B] William James.[C] Mark Twain. [D] Theodore Dreise4. Winterbourne is used as a narrator of the events in Henry James __________.[A ] Daisy Miller[B] The American[C] The Turn of the Screw[D] The Wing of the Dove5.Which of the following statements about Emily Dickinson is true?[A] Since she scarcely goes out of her house, she pays little attention to the outsideworld.[B] She prefers to explore the inner life of herself rather that the social one.[C] She is strongly influenced by Calvinism and has a firm: belief in after-life.[D] She is not interested in love because she herself never gets married.6. Which of the following does NOT belong to Theodore Dreiser's Trilogy of Desire? "[A] The Financier'.[B] The American[C] The Titan. [D] The Stoic.7. Which' of the following is a correct match between the writer¬ and his work? , .[A] Mark Twain: The Financier[B] Theodore Dreiser: Daisy Miller[C] Henry James; The Turn of the Screw[D] Emily Dickinson: The Wing of the Dove8. " Her Message is committed/To hands I can not see---" The above two lines are taken from________.[A] Whitman's: "Song of Myself"[B] Dickinson's "This is my letter to the World"[C] Pound's: "A Pact"[D] Frost's: "The Road Not Taken"9. Theodore Dreiser gives his novel the title of "An American Tragedy" mostlybecause__________.[A] he tries to give an ironical meaning to the story.[B] he attempts-,to reproduce an authentic trial fictionally[C] it is the typical thing that can happen to an American in the pursuit of riches[D] he is surprised that such tragedy should happen in America.10.Isabel, the heroine in The Portrait of a Lady, returns to her unhappy home in Rome at the end of the novel because__________.[A] she is still naive and immature[B] she wants to be responsible to her husband[C] she- wants to be responsible to her own choice[D] she has nowhere else to go11.. Which of the following statements is NOT true?[A] Mark Twain became doubtful about the' idea of develop¬ment and skeptical of the goodness of human nature in his later years.[B] Henry James; who never: criticizes his fellowmen, is the spokesman for the wealthy and leisured class in America.[C] From Emily Dickinson's poetry, one can hardly find any traces of political movement in the society of her time.[D] To Theodore Dreiser, communism is a likely means improving the social organizationof man. , :12. During the period after the Civil War, the American society entered in what Mark Twain, referred to as __________.[A] the Golden Age [B] the Puritan Age[C] the Gilded Age [D] the Modern Age13. Local colorism is a unique variation, of American literary realism, the representatives of which does NOT include __________.[A] Sarah Orne Jewett [B] Bret Harte[C] Hamlin Garland [D] Stephen Crane ,14. "I was letting on to give up sin, but away. inside of me; I was holding on to the biggest oneof all. " The sentence, which taken from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, is written: in a(n) __________ tone.[A] ironic, [B] regretful[C] sincere [D] delightful15. Henry James' idea of realism differs from that of the realist writers because his emphasisis on man's__________.[A] language [B] inner world[C] surroundings [D] real actions16. As a naturalist writer, Theodore Dreiser was greatly influenced by __________.[A] Mark Twain [B] Charles Darwin[C] Henry James [DI Ralph Wa1do Emerson17. However, innocence, the keynote of Daisy Miller's character, turns out to be an admiringbut a 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] sympathy,[C] disgusting [D] defiance18. Which of the following statements about Emily Dickinson's verse is true?[A] It exposes the evils of the society.[B] It paves the way for the following generation of free verse poets; .[C] It shares the same poetic conventions with Walt Whitman.[D] It exhibits a sensitiveness to the symbolic implications of her experience oflove, death, and immortality.19. 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 words20. By the end of Sister Carrie, Dreiser writes; "It was forever to be the pursuit of thatradiance of delight which tints the distant hilltops of the world. " Dreiser implies that__________.[A] there is a bright future lying ahead[B] one can never fulfill one's desire[C] one should 'always :have forward looking[D] happiness is found in the end21. Emily Dickinson wrote many short' poems .an various' aspects of life. Which of thefollowing is NOT a usual subject of her poetic expression? .[A] Religion and immortality [B] Life and death.[C] War and peace. [D] Nature and society22. In Daisy Miller, James chose the Castle of Chillon as the setting of the story clearlybecause of its status-as a shrine to ___________, consecrated by Byron in his association with Daisy whose American habits of free social intercourse runs up the elaborately regulated code of manners in Europe.[A] integrity [B] freedom[C] constancy . [D] autocracy23. The sentence "only the fittest can survive in a completive amoral society" may beregarded as an appropriate summary of _________.[A] Jack London's Martin Eden [B] `Hemingway's For Whom. the bell Tolls[C] Drsiser's Sister Carrie[D] Melv ille’s Moby Dick24. Here is a passage from, a novel: "The man gave him a last push and closed the door. As hedid 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 Sawyer25. Here are a few lines from a poem: " With Blue-uncertain stumbling Buzz─/Betweenthe light ─and me─/And the Windows failed─and then/I could not see .to see─." The poem must be _______.[A] Emily Dickenson's “I Heard a Fly buzz-when I died─"[B] Edgar Allen Poe's "Annabel Lee"[C] Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" .[D] Robert Frost's. "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"B.阅读理解题(Reading comprehension)1. “I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself: `All right, then;:I'll go, to hell' -,─and tore it up."Questions:A. Identify the novel and the writer.B. Why do "I" decide to go to hell?C. How do you understand this decision of going to hell?2. "Tell All the Truth, but Tell it Slant. "Questions:A. Identify the poet.B. What special feature can you draw from the form-of this line?C. What idea does this statement convey?3. "And neigh like boanerges─Then─prompter than a StarStop─docile and omnipotentAt its own stable door, ─(Emily Dickinson: “I like to see it lag the:Miles”)Questions:A. What is being described *in, this, poem?B. What rhetoric devices are used in this stanza?C. What is the poet's attitude toward this object being described?4. "In your rocking-chair, by your window dreaming, shall you long, alone. In yourrocking-chair, by your, window, shall y dream such hap piness as you may never feel.”(Theodore Dreiser: Sister Carrie)Questions:A. Who does "you" in the quotation refer to?B. What mood; do you think, was the narrator in, judging from this quotation?C. What idea can you draw from the "rocking-chair"?5 . "'Terrible-! ' said, that little lady, joining her, “ I hope it snows enough to go sleigh riding.“ “ Oh, dear,”said Carrie, with whom the sufferings of Father Goriot were still keen.“That's all you think of.Aren't you sorry for the people who haven’t anything tonight?"”(Theodore Dreiser: Sister Carrie )Questions:A. What does snow mean to the little lady?B. What kind of mood, do you think, was Carrie in, judo from the above dialogue?C. What idea does the quoted passage express?C. 回答题(Questions and answers)1. "Poor Winterbourne was amused, perplexed-above all he' a charmed. He has never yetheard a young girl express herself just this fashion; ... Certainly she was very charming, but how extraordinarily communicative and how tremendously easy(Daisy Miller by Henry James)Question: What kind of narrative point of view is employed 114 What does this quotation reveal of the character of the young (Daisy Miller)?2. "Since then─'tis Centuries─:.and yet Feels shorter than the DayI first surmised the Horses 's Heads Were toward Eternity─"("Because I could not stop for Death-" by Emily Dickinson.Question: What kind of meaning, can you get from the first two lines in the above quotation?What is Dickinson's understanding of death?3. Mark Twain and Henry James are both; considered to be great realistic writers. What are thedifferences ,between ;them in the aspects of theme and language?4; What literary group does Theodore Dreiser belong t©? What are the characteristics of this group? Name two more American representatives that belong to this group.5. "The only thing I don't like, she proceeded, is, the. society. "(Daisy Miller by Henry James)Question: What kind of society does Daisy not like? Why?D论述题(Topic discussions)1. Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn:. can be interpreted in many, ways and, has-won its :lasting, place in the American canon. Discuss the image ©f Huck Finn,and the social significance bf this character.2. Henry James is regarded as an -international messenger who bridges the New-America withthe Old Europe: His characters are inevitably encountered with cultural conflicts. Take -Daisy Miller as an example to analyze the two characters; Daisy Miller and Winterbourne and the cultural conflicts they undergo.综合美国文学第三章综合练习(Exercises)A. 多项选择(Multiple choice questions)1. “The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep. ”The above four lines are taken from_______.[A] Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"[B] Dickinson's "I heard a Fly buzz-when I died-"[C] Frost's "After Apple-Picking"[D] Dickinson's “Because I could not stop for Death”2. In writing the poem “The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter”Pound took its material from the ancient _______ poetry:[A] French [B] Italian[C] Chinese [D] Japanese3. In "After Apple-Picking", Robert Frost wrote: "For I have too much/Ofapple-picking: I am overtired/Of the great harvest I myself desired. " From these lines we can conclude that the speaker is ________.[A] happy about the harvest[B] wearing out the freshness of apple-picking[C] still desired of apple-picking when seeing the harvest[D] indifferent of what once desired4. In The Emperor Jones and The Hairy Ape, O'Neill adopted ______ to portraythe helpless situation of human beings in a hostile universe.[A] expressionist techniques [B] surrealistic approach[C] romantic approach [D] dramatic monologues5. In " petals on a wet, black bough", the f igure of speech used here is______.[A] metaphor [B] hyperbole[C] pun [D] simile6. "My little horse must think it queer/To stop without a farm house near."The above two lines are taken from Frost’s "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", a beautifully structured poem which follows______.[A] iambic tetrameter [B] iambic pentameter[C] trochaic tetrameter [D] trochaic pentameter7. Here are four lines from a short poem: "I feel the ladder sway as the boughsbend. /And I keep hearing from the cellar bin/The rumbling sound/Of load on load of apples coming in. " The poem must be______.[A] Frost's "After Apple-Picking"[B] Dickenson's "Because I could not stop for Death"[C] Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"[D] Whitman's "There Was a Child Went Forth"8. Eugine O'Neill's play, The Hairy Ape, is often said to be concernedwith______.[A] the wretched situation of working people[B] the problem of modern man's identity[C] the conflict between illusion and reality[D] the inevitability of man's final salvation9. Which of the following statements is NOT a typical feature of Frost's poetry?[A] It is usually presented in the dramatic monologue.[B] It is rich in images, metaphors and symbols.[C] Nature is one of the most impor tant thematic concerns in his poetry.[D] Most of his poems are written in the form of free verse.10.Which of the following plays is regarded as a semi-autobiographic play byO'Neill?[A] Beyond the Horizon. [B] he Emperor Jones.[C] Long Day's Journey Into Night. [D] The Iceman Cometh.11.Nick Carraway is both a character and a narrator in the novel: entitled[A] This Side of Paradise [B] The Sun Also Rises[C] Tender is the Night [D] The Great Gatsby12，Who is the person that used the term "The Lost Generation" fc - the first time.to refer to writers like Hemingway?[A] Gertrude Stein [B] T. S. Eliot[C] Sherwood Anderson [D] Ezra Pound13. “Grace under pressure” is a major feature of______'s novels.[A] William Faulkner[B] Henry James[C]Theodore Dreiser[D] Ernest Hemingway14.Hemingway won his Nobel Prize for the book entitled______.[A] The Sun Also Rises[B] The Old Man and the Sea[C] A Fare-veil to arms[D] For Whom the Bell Tolls16. William Faulkner was worldly famous not only for his ingenuous mastery ofthe streams of consciousness technique, but also for imaginative creation of a mythic kingdom called______.[A] The Mississippi River[B] Yoknapatawpha County[C] Oxford County[D] The Town of Jeffeson17. Which of the following works by Faulkner involves Shakespearean allusion inits title?[A] The Sound and the Fury. [B] Light in August.[C] Absalom , Absalom [D] Go Down, Moses.18. "A week later the mayor wrote her himself, offering to call or to send his carfor her, and received in reply a note on paper of an archaic shape, in a thin, flowingcalligraphy in faded ink, to the effect that she no longer went out at all. The tax noticewas also enclosed, without comment. " The above two sentences must be taken from______.[A] Irving's story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"[B] Faulkner's story "A Rose for Emily"[C] Hemingway's story "Indian Camp"[D] James's story "Daisy Miller"19. The statement that a poor young man from the West trying make his fortune inthe East but disillusioned in the quest of idealized dream may well sum up the theme of______. .[A] The Hairy Ape[B] For Whom the Bell Tolls[C] The Great Gatsby [D] Go Down , Moses20. "In a Station of the Metro"is a typical imagist poem that fully displaysPound's definition of image, which is______..[A] to present an intellectual and emotional instant of time[B] to reveal a poet's instantaneous experience of life[C] to bring out a natural outburst of the poet's emotions 689[D] to retell a poet's past moment of experience21. That profound ideas are delivered under the disguise of the plain language andthe simple form may be a very appropriate statement to describe ______'s poetry.[A] T.S. Eliot [B] Ezra Pound[C] Robert Frost [DI Emily Dickenson22. "Later when he started to operate Uncle George and three Indian men held thewoman still. She bit Uncle George on the arm and Uncle George said, 'Damn squaw bitch! ' and the young Indian who had rowed Uncle George over laughed at him.” The above two sentences must be taken from______.[A] Irving's story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"[B] Faulkner's story "A Rose for Emily"[C] James's story "Daisy Miller"[D] Hemingway's story "Indian Camp"23. Which of the following statements i s NOT a typical feature imagism?[A] To use the language of common speech, but to employ always the exact word.[B] To create new rhythms, as the expressions of a new mood[C] To recommend heroic couplet as a preferable verse form.[D] To allow absolute freedom in the choice of subject.24. When we say that a boy's night journey to an Indian village witness theviolence of both birth and death provides all i possibilities of a learning experience, we are probably discussi about______'s thematic concern i n his fiction writing.[A] William Faulkner [B] Ernest Hemingway[C] Mark Twain [D] Henry James25. Emily Grierson, the protagonist in Faulkner's story "A Rose 2~ Emily", can beregarded as a symbol standing for all the following qualities EXCEPT______.[A] old values [B] rigid ideas of social status[C] bigotry and eccentricity [D] harmony and integrityB. 阅读理解题(Reading comprehension)1. "The apparition of these faces in the crowd Petals on a wet, black bough. "Questions:A. Identify the poem and the poet.B. What kind of mood does the image in the second line convey?C. Why is "apparition " a better word choice than, say, 11 appearance" or "sight2. " For I have had too muchOf apple-picking: I am overtiredOf the great harvest I myself desired. "Questions:A. Identify the poem and the poet.B. Who is the speaker?C. What idea do the quoted lines expr ess?3. "When Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral: the menthrough a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the women mostly out of curiosity to see the inside of her house, which no one save an old man-servant-a combined gardener and cook-had seen in at least ten years."Questions:A. Identify the work and the author.B. Why is Miss Emily called "the fallen monument"?C. Under what kind of historical background does this stor) take place?4. " Is dying hard, Daddy?'。
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19秋《英美文学选读》作业1一、单选题（共 20 道试题，共 100 分。
）1. William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following EXCEPTA. the use of everyday language spoken by the common peopleB. the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelingsC. the use of humble and rustic life as subject matterD. the use of elegant wording and inflated figures of speech答案：D2. The excerpt The Other Side of the Island was chosen from Chapter___ in Rubinson Crusoe.A. ⅨB. ⅪC. ⅩD. Ⅷ答案：A3. Defoe＇s Robinson Crusoe created the image of an enterprising Englishman, typical of the English bourgeoisie in the ______ century.A. 17thB. 18thC. 19thD. 20th答案：B4. In the conversation with his wife in Chapter One of Pride and Prejudice, Mr. Bennet uses a(n) ______ tone with sarcastic humor.A. solemnB. harshC. arrogantD. teasing答案：D5. In Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth Bennet finds out some weak points about herself in the process of judging others. Which of the following is NOT a weak point of hers?A. Blindness。
英美文学选读英国部分第一章文艺复兴时期
英美文学选读中文翻译及重点习题答案英国文学(AMERICAN LITERATURE)第一章文艺复兴时期(The Renaissance Period)二、背景知识(Background knowledge)1、历史文化背景(Historical and cultural background)(1)文艺复兴是从中世纪向近代过渡时期发生在欧洲许多国家的一场思想文化运动。
它是在一些历史因素的合力作用下而引发的，如对希腊罗马古典文化的重新发现，宗教改革运动，地理和自然科学领域的探索，以及资本主义经济的扩张等。
(2)人文主义是文艺复兴的主要特征。
它颂扬人性，强调以“人”为本，宣传个性解放，反对神秘主义和中古神权，反对野蛮和兽性。
(3)16世纪的宗教改革导致了新教的创立。
英格兰同罗马教皇的决裂最初源于国王亨利八世决定与其第一位妻子离婚但遭到教皇否决。
宗教教义的改革则发生在后来的爱德华六世和女王伊丽莎白一世统治期间。
(4)工商业持续发展，中产阶级逐渐壮大，非神职人员获得受教育的机会，王权巩固，宫廷成为文化生活的中心，以及海外扩张和科学探索日益拓展人们的视野，所有这些都为文学提供了新的推动力和发展方向。
威廉·卡克斯顿首次将印刷术介绍到英国，使那里的出版社迅速增加，随之而来的是印刷书籍的繁荣。
2、英国文艺复兴时期文学的特点(Features of English Renaissance literature)(1) 诗歌(Poetry)开创文艺复兴时期一代新的华丽诗风的两个最重要的人物是菲利普·悉尼爵士和埃德蒙·斯宾塞。
在他们的抒情和叙事作品中，展现出一种词藻华丽、精雕细琢的文风。
到16世纪末，出现了两类新的诗歌风格。
第一类以约翰·邓恩和其他玄学派诗人为代表；第二类风格的典范是本·琼森和他所代表的流派。
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Part One Early and Medieval English Literature
Ⅰ. Multiple Choice
1. In 1066, ____, with his Norman army, succeeded in invading and defeating
England.
A. William the Conqueror
B. Julius Caesar
C. Alfred the Great
D. Claudius
2. In the 14th century, the most important writer (poet) is ____ .
A. Langland
B. Wycliffe
C. Gower
D. Chaucer
3. The prevailing form of Medieval English literature is ____.
A. novel
B. drama
C. romance
D. Essay
4. The story of ___ is the culmination of the Arthurian romances.
A. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
B.Beowulf
C. Piers the Plowman
D. The Canterbury Tales
5. William Langland’s ____ is written in the form of a dream vision.
A. Kubla Khan
B. Piers the Plowman
C. The Dream of John Bull
D. Morte d’Arthur
6. After the Norman Conquest, three languages existed in England at that time. The
Normans spoke _____.
A. French
B. English
C. Latin
D. Swedish
7. ______ was the greatest of English religious reformers and the first translator of
the Bible.
A. Langland
B. Gower
C. Wycliffe
D. Chaucer
8. Piers the Plowman describes a series of wonderful dreams the author dreamed,
through which, we can see a picture of the life in the ____ England.
A. primitive
B. feudal
C. bourgeois
D. modern
9. The theme of ____ to king and lord was repeatedly emphasized in romances.
A. loyalty
B. revolt
C. obedience
D. mockery
10. The most famous cycle of English ballads centers on the stories about a legendary
outlaw called _____.
A. Morte d’Arthur
B. Robin Hood
C. The Canterbury Tales
D. Piers the Plowman
11. ______, the “father of English poetry” and one of the gre atest narrative poets of
England, was born in London in about 1340.
A. Geoffrey Chaucer
B. Sir Gawain
C. Francis Bacon
D. John Dryden
12. Chaucer died on October 25th, 1400, and was buried in ____.
A. Flanders
B. France
C. Italy
D. Westminster Abbey
Ⅱ.Fill in the following blanks
1._______ can be justly termed England’ national epic and its hero_______----one
of the national heroes of the English people.
2.The most important work of _______________is the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles,
which is regarded as the best monument of the old English prose.
3.In the year ______,at the battle of _______,the _______headed by William, Duke
of Normandy, defeated the Anglo-Saxons
4.Geoffrey Chaucer, the _________________and one of the greatest narrative poets
of England, was born in England in about the year 1340.
5.Chaucer’s masterpiece is __________________, one of the most famous works in
all literature.
6.Two lines which rhyme (a couplet) are written in iambic pentameter is
called________________。