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1、精品文檔，僅供學(xué)習(xí)與交流，如有侵權(quán)請聯(lián)系網(wǎng)站刪除 《英美文學(xué)選讀》助學(xué)平臺復(fù)習(xí)資料 1、In the Norman conquest of England, the Germanic tribes from the Northern Europe brought with them not only the ________ language, the basis of Modern English, but also a specific poetic tradition. 【正確答案】：C A. Mediterranean B. Christian C. Anglo-Saxon D

2、. Roman 2、It can be said that though essentially still a medieval writer, Geoffrey Chaucer bore marks of humanism and anticipated a new _______ to come. 【正確答案】：D A. man B. theory C. doctrine D. era 3、The play Romeo and Juliet, though a tragedy, is permeated with _______ spirit. 【正確答案】：A A. opt

3、imistic B. sad C. pessimistic D. indifferent 4、William Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies are: Hamlet, _______, King Lear, and _______. 【正確答案】：B A. Romeo and Juliet/Othello B. Othello/Macbeth C. The Tempest/Macbeth D. The Merchant of Venice/Romeo and Juliet 5、In The Merchant of Venice, Antonio, in

4、 order to help his friend Bassanio, has to borrow from _______, the Jewish _______. 【正確答案】：B A. Portia/judge B. Shylock/usurer C. Shylock/judge D. Portia/usurer 6、The real mainstream of the English renaissance is ________. 【正確答案】：A A. the Elizabethan drama B. the Elizabethan prose C. ancien

5、t poem D. romantic novel 7、 “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” this is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare’s _______. 8、 【正確答案】：B A. songs B. sonnets C. plays D. comedies 8、“To be, or not to be - that is the question; whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer, the slings and arrows o

6、f outragerous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them?” Who said these words? 【正確答案】：D A. King Lear B. Romeo C. Antonio D. Hamlet 9、Shakespeare has established his giant position in world literature with his _______ plays, 154 sonnets and 2 long poems. 【正確答案

7、】：D A. 47 B. 27 C. 52 D. 38 10、In his life, _______ shows himself a real revolutionary, a master poet and a great prose writer. He fought for freedom in all aspects as a Christian humanist, while his achievement in literature make him tower over all the other English writers of his time and exert a

8、 great influence over later ones. 【正確答案】：D A. William Shakespeare B. Edmund Spenser C. John Donne D. John Milton 11、“all is not lost: the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and courage never to submit or yield: and what is else not to be overcome?” 【正確答案】：B A. Dr. Faustus

9、B. Paradise Lost C. Paradise Regained D. Tambutlaine 12、William Caxton was the first person who introduced ________ into England. 【正確答案】：B A. writing B. printing C. heroic couplet D. defender 13、Humanism sprang from the endeavor to restore a medieval reverence for the antique authors and is freq

10、uently taken as the beginning of the Renaissance on its conscious, intellectual side, for the Greek and Roman civilization was based on such a conception that man is the ________ of all things. 【正確答案】：A A. measure B. king C. lover D. defender 14、In the following writings by Henry Fielding, wh

11、ich brings him the name of the “Prose Homer”? 【正確答案】：C A. the Coffee-House Politician B. The Tragedy of Tragedies C. the History of Tom Jones, a Foundling D. The History of Amelia 15、The most important representative work by Jonathan Swift is _______. 【正確答案】：D A. a Tale of a Tub B. the Battle o

12、f the Books C. A Modest Proposal D. Gulliver’s Travels 16、_______ is the typical feature of Swift’s writing. 【正確答案】：C A. Elegant style B. Casual narration C. Bitter satire D. Complicated sentence structure 17、The following comments on Daniel Defoe are right except that _______. 【正確答案】：C A. Rob

13、inson Crusoe is his first novel B. Robinson Crusoe is universally considered his masterpiece C. he was a member of the upper class D. in his novels, his sympathy for the downtrodden, unfortunate poor is shown 18、The eighteenth-century England is known as the Age of _______. 【正確答案】：D A. Romanticis

14、m B. Classicism C. Renaissance D. Enlightenment 19、The Enlightenment Movement’s purpose was to enlighten the whole world with the light of modern _______ and artistic ideas. 【正確答案】：D A. religious B. political C. areal D. philosophical 20、Crusoe is the hero in Robinson Crusoe by _______. 【正確答案】

15、：B A. Jonathan Swift B. Daniel Defoe C. George Eliot D. D. H. Lawrence 21、The cradle of the renaissance is ________. 【正確答案】：D A. Germany B. England C. America D. Italy _______ shows how mankind, in the person of Christ, withstands the tempter and is established once more in the divine favor. 【

16、正確答案】：B A. Paradise Lost B. Paradise Regained C. Samson Agonistes D. Beowulf 22、 One of the major results of the reformation in England was the fact that the ________ in English was placed in every church and services were held in English instead of Latin so that people could understand. 【正確答案】：B

17、 A. Canterbury tales B. Bible C. Old Testament D. Malorys Morte Darthur 23、 Of all the 18th 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. 【正確答案】：D A. Dani

18、el Defoe B. Samuel Johnson C. Oliver Goldsmith D. Henry Fielding 24、Daniel Defoe describes _______ as a typical English middle-class man of the 18th century, the very prototype of the empire builder or the pioneer colonist. 【正確答案】：A A. Robinson Crusoe B. Moll Flanders C. Gulliver D. Tom Jones 25

19、、In which of the following works can you find the proper names “Lilliput,” “Brobdingnag,” “Houyhnhnm,” and “Yahoo”? 【正確答案】：C A. James Joyce’s Ulysses. B. Charles Dickens’s Bleak House. C. Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. D. D. H. Lawrence’s Women in love. 26、 “The novel is structured around t

20、he discovery of the hero’s origin.” This novel is most probably ________. 【正確答案】：D A. Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield B. James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man C. Thomas Hardy’s Far from the Madding Growd D. Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones 27、Geoffrey Chaucer’s reputation has been se

21、curely established as one of the best English ________ for his wisdom, humor, and humanity. 【正確答案】：C A. novelists B. dramatists C. poets D. A and B 28、Which of the following novels is not written by Henry Fielding? 【正確答案】：B A. Jonathan Wild B. Moll Flanders C. Joseph Andrews D. Tom Jones 29、In

22、 the history of literature, Romanticism is generally regarded as _______. 【正確答案】：A A. the thought that designates a literary and philosophical theory which tends to see the individual as the very center of all life and all experience B. the thought that designates man as a social animal C. t

23、he orientation that emphasizes those features which men have in common D. the modes of thinking 30、 The Romantic Period is an age of poetry. Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats are the major poets. They started a rebellion against the neoclassical literature, which was later re

24、garded as _______. 【正確答案】：C A. the poetic romance B. the poetic movement C. the poetic revolution D. the poetic reformation 31、In the following writings by William Blake, which marks his entry into maturity? 【正確答案】：C A. Songs of innocence B. Songs of Experience C. Marriage of Heaven and Hell D.

25、 Milton 32、The declaration that “I know that This World is a World of IMAGINATION & Vision,” and that “The Nature of my work is visionary or imaginative” belongs to _______. 【正確答案】：A A. William Blake B. William Wordsworth C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge D. George Gordon Byron 33、In his poem “Tyger, T

26、yger,”William Blake expresses his perception of the“fearful symmetry”of the big cat. The phrase“fearful symmetry”suggests ________. 【正確答案】：D A. the tiger’s two eyes which are dazzlingly bright and symmetrically set B. the poet’s fear of the predator C. the analogy of the hammer and the anvil D. th

27、e harmony of the two opposite aspects of God’s creation 34、The tone of literature in “Songs of Experience” by William Blake is _______. 【正確答案】：A A. doleful B. lively C. plain D. utter 35、Which of the following writings is not created by William Wordsworth? 【正確答案】：D A. I wandered Lonely as a Cl

28、oud B. Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September3, 1802 C. The Solitary Reaper D. The Chimney Sweeper 36、 Which of the following is not the best examples to show Wordsworth’s genuine love for the natural beauty? 【正確答案】：A A. a Phantom of Delight B. To a Skylark C. To the Cuckoo D. To a Butterfly

29、 37、In his lyrics such as “Ode to Liberty”, “Ode to Naples”, Percy Bysshe Shelley expressed his love for _______ and his hatred toward tyranny. 【正確答案】：C A. the middle class B. the poor C. freedom D. the proletariat 38、“Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere;/ Destroyer and Preserver; hear, O h

30、ear!” the two lines are find in _______. 【正確答案】：B A. Young Goodman Brown by Hawthorne B. Ode to the West Wind by Shelley C. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman D. Ulysses by Joyce 39、In Shelley’s “To a Skylark”, the bird, suspended between reality and poetic image, pours forth an exultant song which

31、suggests to the poet _______. 【正確答案】：A A. both celestial rapture and human limitation B. both image creation and profound meaning C. both music and words D. both inspiration and skill of writing 40、Shelley’s greatest achievement is his four-act poetic drama, _______. 【正確答案】：B A. Men of England

32、B. Prometheus Unbound C. Ode to the West Wind D. The Revolt of Islam 41、The author of the work “Men of England” is _______. 【正確答案】：C A. T. S. Eliot B. Thomas Gray C. Shelley D. Walt Whitman 42、After reading the first chapter of Pride and Prejudice, we may come to know that Mrs. Bennet is a woman

33、 of _______. 【正確答案】：A A. simple character and poor understanding B. simple character and quick wit C. intricate character and quick wit D. intricate character and poor understanding 43、 All of the following works are known as Hardy’s “novels of character and environment” EXCETP _______. 【正確答案】：

34、D A. The Return of the Native B. Tess of the D’Urbervilles C. Jude the Obscure D. Far from the Madding Crowd 44、Who is the first “Angry Young Man”? 【正確答案】：A A. Osborne B. Eliot C. Christopher D. Bernard Shaw 45、G. B. Shaw’s play “Mrs. Warren’s Profession” is a realistic exposure of the _______.

35、 【正確答案】：D A. political corruption B. inequality between men and women C. slum landlordism D. economic exploitation of women 46、Of the following poems by T. S. Eliot, which is hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th century English poetry? 【正確答案】：D A. Poems 1909-25 B. The Hollow Men C. Prufr

36、ock and Other Observations D. The Waste Land 47、“The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the windowpanes,/ The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the windowpanes/ Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening,/ Lingered upon the pools that stand in drains.” The stanza is taken from _______.

37、【正確答案】：A A. T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” B. Emily Dickinson’s “ Because I could not stop for Death” C. Alfred Tennyson’s “Bread, Break, Break” D. William Wordsworth’s “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” 48、Which of the following best describes the speaker of “The Love Song of J. Af

38、red Prufrock”? 【正確答案】：C A. He is a man of an action. B. He is a man of apathy. C. He is a man of inactivity. D. All the above are wrong. 49、The Romantic Movement expressed a more or less _______ attitude toward the existing social and political conditions. 【正確答案】：B A. positive B. negative C. ne

39、utral D. indifferent 50、_______ is regarded as a “worshipper of nature”. 【正確答案】：C A. John Keats B. William Blake C. William Wordsworth D. Jane Austen 51、 Wordsworth’s short poems can be classified into two groups: poems about nature and poems about _______. 【正確答案】：B A. love B. human life C. fr

40、eedom D. social activities 52、Jane Austen’s first novel is _______. 【正確答案】：B A. Pride and Prejudice B. Sense and Sensibility C. Emma D. Plan of a Novel 53、Poetry has been traditionally regarded as an art governed by rules; but to the romantics, poetry should be free from all _______. 【正確答案】：C

41、A. rhymes B. rhythm C. rules D. emotion 54、The most distinguishing feature of Charles Dickens’ works is his _______. 【正確答案】：C A. simple vocabulary B. bitter and sharp criticism C. character-portrayal D. pictures of happiness 55、The following comments on George Bernard Shaw are true except ______

42、_. 【正確答案】：C A. George Bernard Shaw’s career as a dramatist began in 1892, when his first play Widowers’ House was put on by the Independent Theater Society. B. Shaw began his literary career by writing novels soon after his settling down in London. C. Shaw’s writings reflect the combination

43、of realism and naturalism D. Shaw’s plays can be termed as problems plays. 56、_______ is considered to be the best-known English dramatist since Shakespeare. 【正確答案】：D A. Oscar Wilde B. John Galsworthy C. W. B. Yeats D. George Bernard Shaw 57、In terms of Pride and Prejudice, which is not true?

44、 【正確答案】：C A. Pride and Prejudice is the most popular of Jane Austen’s novels. B. Pride and Prejudice is originally drafted as “First Impressions”. C. Pride and Prejudice is a tragic novel. D. In this novel, the author explores the relationship between great love and realistic benefits. 58、In Hawth

45、orne’s novels and short stories, intellectuals usually appear as _______. 【正確答案】：B A. Saviors B. villains C. commentators D. observers 59、All of the following are works by Nathaniel Hawthorn except _______. 【正確答案】：B A. The House of the Seven Gables B. White Jacket C. The Marble Faun D. The Blit

46、hedale Romance 60、_______ is the author of “The Scarlet Letter”. 【正確答案】：C A. John Bunyan B. Daniel Defoe C. Nathaniel Hawthorne D. George Eliot 61、 Walt Whitman is radically innovative in the form of his poetry. What he prefers for his new subject is _______. 【正確答案】：A A. free verse B. blank ve

47、rse C. lyric poem D. heroic couplet 62、Which of the following features cannot characterize poems by Walt Whitman? 【正確答案】：A A. lyrical and well-structed B. free-flowing C. simple and rather crude D. conversational and casual 63、The giant Moby Dick may symbolize all except _______. 【正確答案】：B A. m

48、ystery of the universe B. sin of the whale C. power of the great nature D. evil of the world 64、Which of the following writers is not the dominant figure of the realistic period in American? 【正確答案】：A A. Herman Melville B. William Dean Howells C. Henry James D. Mark Twain 65、Which of the followin

49、g comments on the writings by Herman Melville is not true? 【正確答案】：C A. “Bartleby, the Scrivener” is a short story. B. “Benito Cereno” is a novella. C. “The Confidence-Man” has something to do with the sea and sailors. D. “Moby-Dick” is regarded as the first American prose epic. 66、The period rang

50、ing from 1865 to 1914 has been referred to as _______. 【正確答案】：A A. the Age of Realism B. the Age of Modernism C. the Age of Romanticism D. the Age of Colonialism 67、Naturalism is evolved from realism when the author’s tone in writing becomes less serious and less sympathetic but more ironic and m

51、ore _______. 【正確答案】：B A. optimistic B. pessimistic C. humorous D. rational 68、One of the most familiar themes in American naturalism is the theme of human _______. 【正確答案】：A A. bestiality B. goodness C. compassion D. greed 69、Statement “_______” is not true in describing American naturalists.

52、 【正確答案】：D A. they were deeply influenced by Darwinism. B. they were identified with French novelist and theorist Emile Zola. C. they chose their subjects from the lower ranks of society. D. they used more serious and more sympathetic tone in writing than realists. 70、_______ is considered by H.L. M

53、encken as “the true father of our national literature”? 【正確答案】：D A. Hemingway B. Pope C. Irving D. Mark Twain 71、Mark Twain shaped the world’s view of America and made a combination of _______ and serious literature. 【正確答案】：C A. English folk lore B. funny jokes C. American folk humor D. American

54、traditional values 72、The book from which “all modern American literature comes” refers to _______. 【正確答案】：C A. The Great Gatsby B. The Sun Also Rises C. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn D. Moby Dick 73、In the following writers, who is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th century “

55、stream of consciousness” novels and the founder of psychological realism? 【正確答案】：A A. Henry James B. Mark Twain C. Emily Dickinson D. Theodore Dreiser 74、Stylistically, Henry James’ fiction is characterized _______. 【正確答案】：A A. highly refined language B. ordinary American speech C. short, clear

56、 sentences D. abundance of local images 75、 In Henry James’ Daisy Miller, the author tries to portray the young woman as an embodiment of _______. 【正確答案】：B A. the corruption of the newly rich B. the free spirit of the New World C. the decline of aristocracy D. the force of convention 76、Daisy Mi

57、ller’s tragedy of indiscretion is intensified and enlarged by its narration from the point of view of _______. 【正確答案】：A A. the American youth Winterbourne B. the author of Henry James C. her mother Mrs. Miller D. the Italian youth Giovanelli 77、“Because I could not stop for Death” is a famous poe

58、m written by _______. 【正確答案】：D A. Ezra pound B. Walt Whitman C. Robert Frost D. Emily Dickinson 78、The period before the American civil war is generally referred to as _______. 【正確答案】：C A. the naturalist period B. the modern period C. the romantic period D. the realistic period 79、In the follo

59、wing works, which signs the beginning of the American literature? 【正確答案】：A A. The Sketch Book B. Leaves Of Grass C. Leather Stocking Tales D. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 80、“Moby-Dick” is regarded as the first American _______. 【正確答案】：A A. prose epic B. comic epic C. dramatic fiction D. poet

60、ic fiction 81、Mark Twain wrote most of his literary works with a _______ language. 【正確答案】：D A. grand B. pompous C. simple D. vernacular 82、Henry James’s fame generally rests upon his novels and stories with the _______. 【正確答案】：A A. international theme B. national theme C. European theme D. reg

61、ional theme 83、_______ is the most ambivalent writer in the American literary history. 【正確答案】：A A. Nathaniel Hawthorne B. Walt Whitman C. Ralph Waldo Emerson D. Mark Twain 84、“There is evil in every human hear, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole life; but circumstances may rouse

62、 it to activity.” Which is the author of it? 【正確答案】：C A. Washington Irving B. Ralph Waldo Emerson C. Nathaniel Hawthorne D. Walt Whitman 85、Who exerts the single most important influence on literary naturalism? 【正確答案】：D A. Emerson B. Jack London C. Theodore Dreiser D. Darwin 86、“The horizo

63、n’s edge, the flying sea-crow, the fragrance of salt marsh and shore mud. These became part of that child who went forth every day, and who now goes, and will always go forth every day.” The two lines are taken from _______. 【正確答案】：A A. “There Was a Child Went Forth” by Walt Whitman B. “In a Stati

64、on of the Metro” by Ezra Pound C. “Cavalry Crossing a Ford” by Walt Whitman D. “Ulysses” by Joyce 87、The first book Robert Frost wrote was _______. 【正確答案】：D A. Mountain Interval B. New Hampshire C. A Further Range D. A Boy’s Will 88、Which of the following comments on the novel The Great Gatsby i

65、s not true？ 【正確答案】：D A. The Great Gatsby is a novel that is a set against the ending of the war. B. Gatsby is a mystical figure whose intensity of dream partakes of a state of mind that embodies American itself. C. Gatsby is the last of the romantic heroes. D. Gatsby is wealthy but unintel

66、ligent and brutal. 89、"There was music from my neighbors house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the chamoagne and the stars……", the two sentences are taken from _______. 【正確答案】：A A. The Great Gatsby by Fitzgerald B. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser C. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville D. Daisy Miller by Henry James 90、“I shall be telling this with a sign 【正確答案】：A A. Robert Lee Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” B. Alfred