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英美文学——在线考试复习资料

一、单选题

1.With Howells, James, and MarkTwain active on the literary scene, ( ) became the major trend in American literature in the seventies and eighties of the 19thcentury.

A.sentimentalism

B.romanticism

C.realism

D.naturalism

2.“This is my letter to the World” is a poetic expression of Emily Dickinson’s ( ) about her communication with the outside world.

A.indifference

B.nger

C.nxiety

D.sorrow

3.Hester Pryme, Dimmsdale, Chillingworth and Pearl are most likely the names of the characters in( ).

A.The Scarlet Letter

B.The House of the Seven Gablest

C.The Portrait of a Lady

D.The Pioneers

4.The literary characters of the American type in early 19thcentury are generally characterized by all the following features EXCEPT that they ( ).

A.speak local dialects

B.re polite and elegant gentlemen

C.re simple and crude farmers

D.re noble savages (red and white) untainted by society

5.WaltWhitmanwas a pioneering figure of American poetry. His innovation first of all lies in his use of ( ), poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.

A.lank verse

B.heroic couplet

C.free verse

D.iambic pentameter

6.The famous 20-years sleep in “Rip Van Winkle” helps to construct the storyin such a way that we are greatly affected by Irving’s ( ).

A.oncern with the passage of time

B.xpression of transient beauty

C.satire on laziness and corruptibility of human beings

D.idea about supernatural manipulation of man’s life

7.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

8.The Romantic writers would focus on all the following issues EXCEPT the ( ) in the American literaryhistory.

A.individual feelings

B.idea of survival of the fittest

C.strong imagination

D.return to nature

9.Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Modernism?

A.To elevate the individual and inner being over the social being.

B.To put the stress on traditional values.

C.To portray the distorted and alienated relationships betweenmanand his environment.

D.To advocate a conscious break with the past.

10.( ) is considered tobe the best-known English dramatist since Shakespeare, and his representative works are plays inspired by social criticism.

A.Richard Sheridan

B.Oliver Goldsmith

C.Oscar Wilde

D.rnard Shaw

11.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 humannature.

A.

B.

C.

D.

12.( )is the first important governess novel in the English literary history.

A.Jane Eyre

B.mma

C.Wuthering Heights

D.Middlemarch

13.The Victorian Age was largely an age of( ), eminently represented by Dickens and Thackeray.

A.poetry

B.rama

C.prose

D.pic prose

14.The typical feature of Robet Browning’s poetry is the( ).

A.itter satire

B.larger-than-life caricature

C.Latinized diction

D.ramatic monologue

15.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.therine

C.one’s spiritual life

D.one’s ghost

16.“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

17.“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind!” is an epigrammatic line by( ).

A.

B.

C.

D.

18.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 pary.”

C.“Earth has not anything to show more fair.”

D.“Beauty is truth, truth beauty”.

19.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

20.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.ThePilgrim’s Progress

21.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’sElegy Written in a Country Churchyard

B.John Milton’sParadise Lost

C.lexander Pope’sEssay on Criticism

D.Shakespeare’sMidsummer Night’s Dream

22.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.

23.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.omic epic

C.romance

D.lyric epic

24.The true subject of John Donne’s poem, “The Sun Rising,” is to( ).

A.ttack the sun as an unruly servant

B.give compliments to the mistress and her power of beauty

C.riticize the sun’s intrusion into the lover’s private life

D.lecture the sun on where true royalty and riches lie

25.“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.ramatic irony

B.personification

C.llegory

D.symbolism

26.“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”

27.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.

28.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.

29.mong the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his production of( ).

A.Piers Plowman

B.Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

C.onfessio Amantis

D.The Canterbury Tales

30.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.hristian

B.knightly

C.Greek

D.primitive

二、简答题

31.What characterizes the literary works in the Romantic period?

32.Utopia

33.Heroic Couplet

34.Humanism

35.llad

36.Natureis a philosophic work, in which Emerson gives an explicit discussion on his idea of the Qversoul. What is your understanding of Emersonian“Oversoul”?

37.Romance

38.Ode

39.Romanticism

40.Renaissance

41.s a rule, an allegory is story in verse or prose with a double meaning: a surface meaning, and an implied meaning. List two works as examples of allegory. What is an allegory usually concerned with by its implied meaning?

42.Metaphysical Poetry

43.rwinism

44.Naturalism

45.Local color

三、复合题

“God knows, …I’m not myself—I’m somebody else—…and I’m changed, and I can’t tell what’s my name, or who I am.”

Questions:

46.Identify the work and the author.

47.The speaker says he is changed. o you think he is changed, or the social environment has changed?

48.What idea does the quoted passage express?

“And when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin,

When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall.

Then how should begin

To spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways.”

Questions:

49.Identify the poem and the poet.

50.What does the phrase “butt-ends” mean?

51.What idea does the quoted passage express?

“Her eyes met his and he looked away. He neither believed nor disbelieved her, but he knew that he had made a mistake in asking; he never had known, never would know, what she was thinking. The sight of her inscrutable face, the thought of all the hundreds of evenings he had seen her sitting there like that, soft and passive, but so unreadable, unknown, enraged him beyond measure.”

Questions:

52.Identify the writer and the work.

53.What does the phrase “inscrutable face” mean?

54.What idea does the quoted passage express?

英美文学——在线考试复习资料答案及要点

一、单选题

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二、简答题（略）

三、复合题

46.Washington Irving:“Rip Van Winkle”

47.The social environment is changed.

48.When Rip is back home after a period of 20 years, he findsthateverything has changed. ll those old values are gone, and he can hardly feel at home in a changed society. One of the functions that Rip serves in the story is to provide a measuring stick for change. It is through him that Irving drives home the theme that a desire for change,improvement, and progress could subvert stable society.

49.T. S. liot: “The Love Song of J. lfred Pruforck”

50.The ends of cigarettes, meaning trivial things here.

51.Here, Prufrock’s inability to do anything against the society he is in is made strikingly clear by using a sharp comparison. Prufrock imagines himself as a kind of insect pinned on the wall and struggling in vain to get free. This image vividly shows Prufrock’s current predicament.

52.John Galasworthy: The Man of Property.

53. face does not show any emotion or reaction so that it is impossible to know how that person is feeling or what he is thinking about.

54.It presents the inner mind of Soames in face of his wife’s coldness. He can never know what is on his wife’s mind because the makeup of his and her mentality is different. His wife Irene, whose mind is romantically inclined, is disgusted with her husband’s possessiveness. ing unable to read his wife’s mind is as good as saying that he really can’t regard her as his property- this is the very reason why he is enraged beyond measure.