2007年北京第二外国语学院英语专业(英美文学)真题试卷.doc

2007年北京第二外国语学院英语专业（英美文学）真题试卷

(总分：42.00，做题时间：90分钟)

一、单项选择题(总题数：15，分数：30.00)

1.Generally speaking, it is____that the English Literary history starts.（分数：

2.00）

A.6th C.BC

B.5th

C.BC

C.6th C.A

D.

D.5th C.AD

2.Knights of the Round Table are characters serving____in legends, which depict chivalry in early literature.（分数：2.00）

A.Sir Lancelot

B.Sir Godwin

C.King Arthur

D.King Henry VIII

3.Of the following works, which is not written by John Milton?（分数：2.00）

A.Paradise Lost

B.MyAntonia

C.Paradise Regained

D.Samson Agonistes

4.As a literary trend in Britain,____came as a result of discount of certain enlighteners in social reality in the middle of 18th Century.（分数：2.00）

A.Sentimentalism

B.Imagism

C.Social Criticism

D.Modernism

5."Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested? Could be found in____.（分数：2.00）

A.Thomas Moore"s Utopia

B.Charles Dickson"s Great Expectations

C.John Bunyan"s The Pilgrim"s Progress

D.Francis Bacon"s Of Studies

6.British Renaissance breeds a lot of great writers, among whom are___. ① William Shakespeare

② John Milton ③ Edmund Spencer ④ Geoffrey Chaucer（分数：2.00）

A.①②③

B.①③

C.①②④

D.①②③④

7.The proposal of "art for art"s sake" is given by.___.（分数：2.00）

A.Oscar Wilde

B.Henry James

C.Henry Fielding

D.Charles Dickens

8.Thomas Hardy"s masterpiece setting on the British country life is____.（分数：2.00）

A.Pamela

B.Emma

C.Jane Eyre

D.Tess of the D" Urbervilles

9.Early in___, the English settlements in Virginia and Massachusetts started the main stream of the American national history.（分数：2.00）

A.14th. C

B.15th. C

C.17th. C

D.16th. C

10.Benjamin Franklin is not merely an outstanding politician, a talented inventor but also a famed literary giant. His autobiography set the example of practicing____moral disciplines which gave profound influences as the national spirit.（分数：2.00）

A.Quaker"s

B.Puritan

C.Anglican Christian

D.Easter"s

11.James Fennimore Cooper"s novel___ is the first to reveal the west and Native Americans" life in a passionate way.（分数：2.00）

A.Go Down, Moses

B.The Last of the Mohicans

C.Winesburg, Ohio

D.O" Pioneers!

12.Realism in American literature stretches from____to the end of 19th .C.（分数：2.00）

A.early 17th C

B.early 18th C

C.American Civil War

D.Spanish-American War

13.West Humor is best represented in___"s short story writing.（分数：2.00）

A.O" Henry

B.Flannery O" Connor

C.Henry James

D.Mark Twain

14.___are not only poets but also literary critics. ① Edgar Allan Poe ② Carl Sandburg ③ T. S. Eliot ④ Ezra Pound（分数：2.00）

A.①③④

B.①②③

C.①②④

D.①②③④

15."The Lost Generation" refers to the writes who relocated to Paris in the post WWI years to reject the values of American materialism. All the following but___are involved in this group.（分数：2.00）

A.F. S. Fitzgerald

B.Ernest Hemingway

C.Theodore Dreiser

D.John Dos Passos

二、名词解释(总题数：3，分数：6.00)

16.Harlem Renaissance (3 points)（分数：2.00）

__________________________________________________________________________________________ 17.Black Humor (3 points)（分数：2.00）

__________________________________________________________________________________________ 18.American Naturalism (3 points)（分数：2.00）

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