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《英美文学选读》模拟试卷一
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4.本试卷分为试题卷和答题卷，所有答案必须答在答题卷上，答在试题卷上不给分。 I. Multiple Choice. (1 point for each, altogether 30 points)
Directions: There are 30 sentences in this section. Beneath each sentence there are four choices respectively marked by letters A, B, C and D. Choose the word that you think best complete the sentence. Write your answers on the answer sheet.
1. Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his production of_______.
[A] Piers Plowman [B] Sir Gawain and the Green Knight [C] Confessio Amantis [D] The Canterbury Tales
2. In \I am overtired/ Of the great harvest I myself desired.\the speaker is_______. [A] happy about the harvest
[B] still very much interested in apple-picking [C] expecting a greater harvest
[D] indifferent to what he once desired
3.With Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the literary scene, _______became the major trend in American literature in the seventies and eighties of the 19th century. [A] Sentimentalism [B] romanticism [C] realism [D] naturalism
4. Of the following American poets in the twentieth century, the one who has the best knowledge of Chinese culture is _______. [A] Robert Frost [B] Allen Ginsberg [C] Ezra Pound [D] Cummings 5. _______is the first important governess novel in the English literary history. [A] Jane Eyre [B] Emma [C] Wuthering Heights [D] Middlemarch
6. The Hemingway Code heroes are best remembered for their_______. [A] indestructible spirit [B] pessimistic view of life [C] war experiences [D] masculinity
7. Which of the following is taken from John Keats’Ode to a Nightingale? _______ [A] \
[B] \[C] \[D] \
8. Emily Dickinson wrote many short poems on various aspects of life. Which of the following is NOT a usual subject of her poetic expression? _______ [A] Religion and immortality [B] Life and death [C] Love and marriage [D] War and peace
9. Henry David Thoreau＇s work_______, has always been regarded as a masterpiece of New England Transcendentalism. [A] Walden [B] The Pioneers [C] Nature [D] Song of Myself
10. George Bernard Shaw’s play _______ established his position as the leading play-wright of his time.
[B] Too True to Be Good [A] Widowers’ Houses
[D] Candida [C] Mrs. Warren’s Profession
11. 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] Christian [B] knightly [C] Greek [D] primitive 12. For Melville, as well as for the reader and _______ , the narrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, an ultimate mystery of the universe. .
[A] Ahab [B] Ishmael [C] Stubb [D] Starbuck
13. Which of the following historical events does not directly help to stimulate the rising of the Renaisssance 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 expansion
14. Which of the following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare's Sonnet 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
15. ―And we will sit upon the rocks,/Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks,/By shallow rivers to whose falls/Melodious birds sing madrigals.‖ The above lines are probably taken from _______.
[A] Spenser's The Faerie Queene [B] John Donne's ―The Sun Rising‖ [C] Shakespeare's ―Sonnet 18‖
[D] Marlowe's ―The Passionate Shepherd to His Love‖
16. ―Bassanio: Antonio, I am married to a wife which is as dear to me as life itself; But life itself, My wife, and all the world. Are not with me esteem'd above thy life; I would lose all, ay,
sacrifice them all, Here to the devil, to deliver you. Portia: Your wife would give you little
thanks for that, If she were by to hear you make the offer.‖ The above is a quotation taken from Shakespeare's comedy The Merchant of Venice. The quoted part can be regarded as a good example to illustrate _______.
[A] dramatic irony [B] personification [C] allegory [D] symbolism
17. The true subject of John Donne's poem, ―The Sun Rising,‖ is to _______. [A] attack the sun as an unruly servant
[B] give compliments to the mistress and her power of beauty [C] criticize the sun's intrusion into the lover's private life [D] lecture the sun on where true royalty and riches lie
18. Of all the 18thcentury novelists Henry Fielding was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a ―_______ in prose,‖ the first to give the modern novel its structure and style. [A] tragic epic [B] comic epic [C] romance [D] lyric epic
19. The Houyhnhnms depicted by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels are _______. [A] horses that are endowed with reason
[B] pigmies that are endowed with admirable qualities [C] giants that are superior in wisdom
[D] hairy, wild, low and despicable creatures, who resemble human beings not only in appearance but also in some other ways.
20. Here are four lines from a literary work: ―Others for language all their care express, /And value books, as women men, for dress.‖ The work is _______. [A] Thomas Gray's ―Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard‖ [B] John Milton's Paradise Lost
[C] Alexander Pope's Essay on Criticism
[D] Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream
21. The phrase ―to urge people to abide by Christian doctrines and to seek salvation through constant struggles with their own weaknesses and all kinds of social evils‖ may well sum up the implied meaning of _______. [A] Gulliver's Travels [B] The Rape of the Lock [C] Robinson Crusoe [D] The pilgrim's Progress
22. William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following EXCEPT _______. [A] the use of everyday language spoken by the common people [B] the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings [C] the use of humble and rustic life as subject matter
[D] the use of elegant wording and inflated figures of speech
23. Which of the following is taken from John Keats’ ―Ode on a Grecian Urn‖? _______ [A] ―I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!‖
[B] ―They are both gone up to the church to pray‖
[C] ―Earth has not anything to show more fair‖ [D] ―Beauty is truth, truth beauty‖
24.―If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind!‖ is an epigrammatic line by _______. [A] J.Keats [B] W.Blake [C] W.Wordsworth [D] P.B.Shelley
25. ―Ode o na Grecian Urn‖shows the contrast between the _______ of art and the _______ of human passion.
[A] glory …ugliness [B] permanence…transience [C] transience…sordidness [D] glory…permanence
26. In the statement―—oh, God! would you like to live with your soul in the grave?‖ the term ―soul‖ apparently refers to _______. [A] Heathcliff himself [B] Catherine [C] one's spiritual life [D] one's ghost 27. The typical feature of Robert Browning's poetry is the _______. [A] bitter satire [B] larger-than-life caricature [C] Latinized diction [D] dramatic monologue
28. The Victorian Age was largely an age of _______, eminently represented by Dickens and Thackeray. [A] poetry [B] drama [C] prose [D] epic prose
29. _______is the first important governess novel in the English literary history. [A] Jane Eyre [B] Emma [C] Wuthering Heights [D] Middlemarch
30. The major concern of ______ fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature. [A] D.H.Lawrence's [B] J.Galsworthy's [C] W.Thackeray’s [D] T.Hardy’s
II. Match the writer with his/her works and Write your answers on the answer sheet. (2point for each, altogether 20points) 31. Henry Fielding A. The Passionate Shepherd to His Love 32. James Joyce B. Composed upon Westminster Bridge 33. Daniel Defoe C. The Moll on the Floss 34. Alfred Tennyson D. Break, Break, Break. 35. John Keats E. A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man 36. George Eliot F. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 37. William Bulter Yeats G. A Journal of the Plague Year 38. William Wordsworth H. Ode on a Grecian Urn 39. Walt Whitman I. The Lake Isle of Innisfree 40. Christopher Marlowe J. There Was a Child Went Forth
III. Decide whether the following statements are true or false and write your answers in the brackets. (2 point for each, altogether10 points)
( )41．The preface to the Lyrical Ballads is best read as a statement of Keats’s principles of poetry.
( )42．Besides novel writing, Hawthorne is also a very good writer of short stories.
( )43．Robert Frost’s poems are New England in their setting, and are characterized by the familiar speaking voice.
( )44．George Hurstwood is a friend of Drouet’s who steals a great deal of money from his employer and actually kidnaps Carrie to Canada.
( )45．Renaissance had its beginning in Italy in the middle of the fifteenth century.
IV. Define the literary terms listed below and write your answers on the answer sheet. (5 point for each, altogether 10 points) 46. Romanticism
47. Stream of Consciousness
V. Give brief answers to the following questions. Write your answers on the answer sheet. (5 point for each, altogether 15 points)
48. How do you understand the character of Robinson Crusoe?
49. In the novel To the Lighthouse, is Lily lonely while completing her picture? Please justify your ideas.
50. What is the implication of the description of roses beside the prison door in the first chapter of The Scarlet Letter?
Ⅵ. Write no less than 150 words on the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet. (15 point for each, altogether 15 points)
51.William Shakespeare is one of the most remarkable playwrights the world has ever known. ( 1) Name his four greatest tragedies.
(2) What are the characteristics of the four tragedies in common? (3) Briefly summarize each hero' s weakness of nature.
《英美文学选读》模拟试卷一答案
II. Multiple Choice. (1 point for each, altogether 30 points) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 题号 1 答案 D D C C A A D D A D 题号 答案 16 A 17 B 18 B 19 A 20 C 21 D 22 D 23 D 24 D 25 B 11 B 26 B 12 B 27 D 13 C 28 C 14 C 29 A 15 D 30 A