PART ONE
Ⅰ.Multiple Choice (40 points in all, 1 for each)
Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Write the answers on the answer sheet.
1. “For a week after the commission of the impious and profane offence of asking for more, Oliver remained a clo prisoner in the dark and solitary room ……”(Dickens, Oliver Twist) What did Oliver ask for?
[A]More time to play. [B]More food to eat.
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[C]More book to read. [D]More money to spend.
2. Mrs. Warren's Profession is one of George Bernard Shaw's plays. What is Mrs. Warren's profession then ?
[A]Real estate. [B]Prostitution.
[C]Hou-keeping. [D]Farming.
宋江的人物形象 3. Dr. Faustus is a play bad on the German legend of a magician aspiring for
and finally meeting his tragic end as a result of lling his soul to the Devil.
[A]immortality [B]political
[C]money [D]knowledge
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4. The statement “A demanding mother turns away from her husband and gives all her affection to her sons” sums up the main plot of D. H. Lawrence′s .
[A]Lady Chatterley's Lover [B]Women in love
[C]Sons and Lovers [D]The Plumed Serpent
5.“Come to me-come to me entirely now,” said he ; and added, in his deepest tone, speaking in my ear as his cheek was laid on mine, “Make my happiness-I will make yours.”
The above passage prents a scene in .
[A]Emily Bronte's Withering Heights
[B]Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre
[C]John Galsworthy′s The Forsyte Saga
[D]Thomas Hardy′s Tess of the D′Urbervilles
6.Which of the following is NOT written by William Butler Yeats?
[A] “Sailing to Byzantium.” [B] “The Lake Isle of Innisfree.”
[C] “Leda and the Swan.” [D] “The Waste Land.”
7. “Drive my dead thought over the univer
Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth.“
(Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Ode to the West Wind”)
What rhetorical device does the poet u in the quoted lines?
[A]Synecdoche. [B]Metaphor.
[C]Simile. [D]Onomatopoeia.
8.Crusoe is the hero in The life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Grusoe, of York, Mariner (also known as Robinson Crusoe)by .
[A]Jonathan Swift [B]Daniel Defoe
[C]George Eliot [D]D.H.Lawrence
9. “Beauty is truth, truth beauty” is an epigrammatic line by .
[A]John Keats [B]William Blake
[C]William Wordsworth [D]Percy Bysshe Shelley
10.Christoper Marlow's “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” is a (n) .
[A]pastoral lyric [B]elegy [C]eulogy [D]epic
11.Which of the following is NOT regarded as one of the characteristics of Renaissance humanism?
[A]Cultivation of the art of this world and this life.
[B]Tolerance of human foibles.
[C]Search for the genuine flavor of ancient culture.
遇人不淑的意思 [D]Glorification of religious faith.
12. “In dream vision Arthur witnesd the loveliness of Gloriana, and upon awaking resolves to ek her.” The two literary figures Arthur and Gloriana are form .
[A]Edmund Spenr's The Faerie Queene
[B]William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
[C]Christopher Marlowe's “The Passionate Shepherd to His love”
[D]John Donne's “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”
13.Which of the following best describes the nature of Thomas Hardy's later works?
[A]Sentimentalism. [B]Tragic n.
[C]Surrealism. [D]Comic n.
14. “……This grew: I gave commands;
Then all smiles stopped altogether……“
(Robert Browning, “My Last Duchess”)
The above lines imply that .
[A]the Duchess was killed by her husband
[B]the Duchess stopped smiling at her husband's order
[C]the Duchess died of laughing too much
[D]the Duchess did not want to smile as much as her husband requested
15.In which of the following works can you find the proper names “Lilliput,” “Brobdingnag,” “Houyhnhnm,” and “Yahoo”?
[A]James Joyce's Ulss.
[B]Charles Dickens's Bleak Hou.
[C]Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels.
[D]D. H. Lawrence's Women in love.
16.As a literary figure, Belinda appears in Alexander Pope's .
[A] “The Dunciad” [B] “An Essay on Man”
[C] “An Essay on Criticism” [D] “The Rape of the lock”
17. “The novel is structured around the discovery of the hero's origin.” This novel is most probably .
[A]Charles Dickens's 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
18. “To wage by force or guile eternal war,
Irreconcilable to our grand Foe.“(John Milton, Paradi lost)
By what means were Satan and his followers to wage this war against God?
[A]By planting a tree of knowledge in the Garden of Eden.
[B]By turning into poisonous snakes to threaten man's life.
[C]By removing God from His throne.
[D]By corrupting man and woman created by God.
19. “When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table.“
(T. s. Eliot, “The Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock”)
What does the image in the quoted lines suggest?
[A]Violence. [B]Horror. [C]Inactivity. [D]Indifference.
20.Which of the following is NOT typical of metaphysical poetry best reprented by John Donne's works?
[A]Common speech. [B]Conceit.
[C]Argument. [D]Refined language.
21.William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all of the following except .
[A]normal contemporary speech patterns
[B]humble and rustic life as subject matter
[C]elegant wording and inflated figures of speech
[D]intenly subjective feeling toward individual experience
22.In Samuel Taylor Coleridge′s “Kubla Khan,” “A sunny pleasure dome with caves of ice” .
[A]refers to the palace where Kubla Khan once lived
[B]vividly describes a building of poor quality
[C]is the gift given to a beautiful girl called Abyssinian
[D]symbolizes the reconciliation of the conscious and the unconscious
23.The hightide of Romanticism in American literature occurred around .
[A]1820 [B]1850 [C]1880 [D]1920
24.The subject matter of Robert Frost's Poems focus on .
经典唐诗100首 [A] ordinary country people and scenes
[B]battle scenes of ancient Greek and Roman legends
[C]struggling mass and crowded urban quarters
[D]fantasies and mythical happenings
25.Which group of writers are among tho who may be called early pioneers of American literature?
[A]Mark Twain and Henry James.
[B]Fenimore Cooper and Washington lrving.
[C]Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner
[D]Jack London and O'Henry.
26.To Theodore Dreir, life is “so sad, so strange, so mysterious and so inexplicable.” No wonder the characters in his books are often subject to the control of the natural forces, especially tho of and heredity.
[A]fate [B]morality
[C]social conventions [D]environment
27.Hawthorne generally concerns himlf with such issues as in his fiction.
[A]the evil in man's heart [B]the material pursuit
[C]the racial conflict [D]the social inequality
云霄将军山公园 28. provides the main source of influence on American naturalism.
[A]The puritan heritage
[B]Howells' ideas of realism
[C]Darwin's theory of evolution
[D]The pioneer spirit of the wild west
29.In Mark Twain's The Adventures of huckleberry Finn, Huck writes a letter to inform against Jim, the escaped slave, and then he tears the letter up. This fact reveals that .
[A]Huck has a mixed feeling of love and hate
[B]there is a conflict between society and conscience in Huck
[C]Huck is always an indecisive person
[D]Huck has very little education
30.Which terms can best describe the modernists' concern of the human situation in their fiction?
[A]Fragmentation and alienation.
[B]Courage and honor.
[C]Tradition and faith.
[D]Poverty and desperation.
31.Whitman's poems are characterized by all the following features except .北京地铁广告
[A]a strict poetic form
[B]a simple and conversational language
[C]a free and natural rhythmic pattern
[D]an easy flow of feelings
32.All his novels reveal that, as time went on, Mark Twain became increasingly .
[A]prolific [B]artistic.
[C]optimistic [D]pessimistic
33.The poem “I like to e it lap the Miles-” is an interesting poem written by Emily Dickinson. What does “it” in the poem stand for?
[A]The hound. [B]The star.
[C]The hor. [D]The train.
34.Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Henry James's writing style?
[A] exquisite and elaborate language
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