一、Multiple Choice |
1.The ntence "Shall I compare thee to a summers day?" is the beginning line of one of Shakespeares ________ . A.comedies B.tragedies C.sonnets D.histories |
2.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 |
3."And where are they? And where art thou," My country? On thy voiceless shore The heroic lay is tuneless now- The heroic bosom beats no more!"（George Gordon Byron, Don Juan） In the above stanza, "art thou" literally means _______ . A."are you" B."art though" C."are though" D."art you" |
4.Which of the following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeares Sonnet 18? A.The speaker eulogizes the power of Nature. B.The speaker satirizes human vanity. C.The speaker prais the power of artistic creation. D.The speaker meditates on mans salvation. |
5.Daniel Defoe describes _______ as a typical English Middle-class man of the eighteenth century, the very prototype of the empire builder or the pioneer colonist. A.Tom Jones B.Gulliver C.Moll Flanders D.Robinson Crusoe |
6.“Bassanio:Antonio,I am married to a wife Which is as dear to me as life itlf; But life itlf, My wife, and all the world. Are not with me esteemd above thy life; I would lo 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 Shakespeares 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 |
7."She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy cead to be; But she is in her grave, and, oh, The difference to me!" The word "me" in the last line of the above stanza quoted from Wordsworths poem "She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways" may possibly refer to _______ . A.the poet B.the reader C.her lover D.everybody |
8.Of all the 18thcentury novelists Henry Fielding was the first to t out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a “___ in pro,”the first to give the modern novel its structure and style. A.tragic epic B.comic epic C.romance D.lyric epic |
9.The statement "It reveals the dehumanizing workhou system and the dark, criminal underworld life" may well sum up the main theme if Dickenss _______ . A.David Copperfield B.Bleak Hou C.Great Expectations D.Oliver Twist |
10.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 Grays “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” B.John Miltons Paradi Lost C.Alexander Popes Essay on Criticism D.Shakespeares Midsummer Nights Dream |
11.It is generally regarded that Keatss most important and mature poems are in the form of _______ . A.ode B.elegy C.epic D.sonnet |
12.William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following EXCEPT ___. A.the u of everyday language spoken by the common people B.the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings 导热油 C.the u of humble and rustic life as subject matter D.the u of elegant wording and inflated figures of speech |
13.In William Blakes poetry, the father（and any other in whom he saw the image of the father such as God, priest, and king）was usually a figure of _______ . A.benevolence B.admiration C.love D.tyranny |
14.“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 |
15.The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan is often said to be concerned with the arch for _______ . A.material wealth B.spiritual salvation C.universal truth D.lf-fulfillment |
16.In the statement“—oh,God! would you like to live with your soul in the grave?” the term“soul” apparently refers to ___. A.Heathcliff himlf B.Catherine C.ones spiritual life D.ones ghost |
17.After reading the first chapter of Pride and Prejudice, we may come to know that Mrs. Bennet is a woman of _______ . A.simple character and quick wit B.simple character and poor understanding C.intricate character and quick wit D.intricate character and poor understanding |
18.The Victorian Age was largely an age of ____,eminently reprented by Dickens and Thackeray. A.poetry B.drama C.pro D.epic pro |
19."Not on thy sole but on thy soul, harsh Jew,/Thou makst thy knife keen." In the above quotation taken form The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare employs a（n）_______ . A.oxymoron B.pun C.simile D.synecdoche |
20.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.Lawrences B.J.Galsworthys 你比我猜C.W.Thackeray’s D.T.Hardy’s |
21."O prince, O chief of many throned powers," That led th embattled raphim to war Under thy conduct, and in dreadful deeds Fearless, endangered Heavens perpetual King." In the third line of the above passage quoted from Miltons Paradi Lost, the phra "thy conduct" refers to _______ conduct. A.Satans B.Gods C.Adams D.Eves |
22.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. 政治理论学习内容 C.To portray the distorted and alienated relationships between man and his environment. D.To advocate a conscious break with the past. |
23.In 1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson made a speech entitled _______ at Harvard, which was hailed by Oliver Wendell Holmes as "Our intellectual Declaration of Independence." A."Nature" B."Self-Reliance" C."Divinity School Address" D."The American Scholar" |
24.Henry David Thoreaus work,__,has always been regarded as a masterpiece of New England Transcendentalism. A.Walden B.The pioneers C.Nature D.Song of Mylf |
25.For Melville, as well as for the reader and _______ , the narrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, an ultimate mystery of the univer. A.Ahab B.Ishmael C.Stubb D.Starbuck |
26.Walt whitman was a pioneering figure of American poetry. His innovation first of all lies in his u of __,poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme. A.blank ver B.heroic couplet C.free ver D.iambic pentameter |
27.Emily Dickinsons poem（441）"This is my letter to the World" express the poets _______ about her communication with the outside world. A.indifference B.joy C.anxiety D.indignation |
28.Hester Pryme, Dimmsdale,Chillingworth and Pearl are most likely the names of the characters in ___. A.The Scarlet Letter B.The Hou of the Seven Gablest C.The Portrait of a Lady D.The pioneers |
29.Naturalism is evolved from realism when the authors tone in writing becomes less rious and less sympathetic but more ironic and more _______ . A.rational B.humorous C.optimistic D.pessimistic |
30.With Howells,James,and Mark Twain active on the literary scene, __ became the major trend in American literature in the venties and eighties of the 19thcentury. A.ntimentalism B.romanticism C.realism D.naturalism |
31.Dreirs Trilogy of Desire includes three novels. They are The Financier, The Titan and _______ . A.The Genius B.The Tycoon C.The Stoic D.The Giant |
32.However,___,the keynote of Daisy Millers character,turns out to be an admiring but a dangerous quality and her defiance of social taboos in the Old World finally brings her to a disaster in the clash between two different cultures. A.experience B.sophistication C.worldliness D.innocence |
33.The impact of Darwins evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the nineteenth-century French literature on the American men of letters gave ri to yet another school of realism: American ________ . A.local colorism B.vernacularism C.modernism D.naturalism |
34.The impact of Darwins evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the nineteenth-century French literature on the American men of letters gave ri to yet another school of realism: American ________ . A.local colorism B.vernacularism C.modernism D.naturalism |
35."If honest labor be unremunerative and difficult to endure; if it be the long, long road which never reaches beauty, but wearies the feet and the heart; if the drag to follow beauty be such that one abandons the admired way, taking rather the despid path leading to her dreams quickly, who shall cast the first stone?" Where is the underlined phra taken from? A.The Bible. B.Milton. C.Shakespeare. D.Hawthorne |
36.Chine poetry and philosophy have exerted great influence over ____. A.Ezra Pound B.Ralph Waldo Emerson C.Robert Frost D.Emily Dickinson |
37.Robert Frost combined traditional ver forms - the sonnet, rhyming couplets, blank ver - with a clear American local speech rhythm, the speech of _______ farmers with its idiosyncratic diction and syntax. A.Southern B.Western C.New Hampshire D.New England |
38.IN The Emperor Jones and The Hairy Ape,ONeill adopted the expressionist techniques to portray the ___ of human beings in a hostile univer. A.helpless situation B.uncertainty C.profound religious faith D.courage and perverance |
39.Apart from the dislocation of time and the modern stream-of-consciousness, the other narrative techniques Faulkner ud to construct his stories include _______ , symbolism and mythological and biblical allusions. A.impressionism B.expressionism C.multiple points of view D.first person point of view |
40.which of the following statements about Emily Grierson, the protagonist in Faulkners story “A Ro for Emily,” is NOT true? A.She has a distorted personality. B.She is physically deformed and paralyzed. C.She is the symbol of the old values of the South. D.She is the victim of the past glory. |
二、Reading Comprehension |
1.Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English.Write your answer in the corresponding space on the answer sheet. |
(1).“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 en her sitting there like that,soft and passive,but so unreadable, unknown, enraged him beyond measure.” Questions: A.Identify the writer and the work. B.What does the phra “inscrutable face” mean? C.What idea does the quoted passage express? |
(2).“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: A.Identify the poem and the poet. B.What does the phra “butt-ends” mean? C.What idea does the quoted passage express? |
(3).“God knows,…Im not mylf—Im somebody el—…and Im changed,and I cant tell whats my name,or who I am.” Questions: A.Identify the work and the author. B.The speaker says he is changed.Do you think he is changed, or the social environment has changed? C.What idea does the quoted ntence express? |
(4).“I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.” Questions: A.Idenfity the poem and the poet. B.What does the phra “ages and ages hence” mean? C.What idea does the quoted passage express? |
三、Questions and Answers 。 |
1.Give brief answers to each of the following questions in English.Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet. |
(1).As a rule,an allegory is story in ver or pro 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? |
(2).Inspiration for the romantic approach initially came from two great shapers of thought.Who are the two?And what ideas they expresd inspire the romantic writers? |
(3).The white whale,Moby Dick,is the most important symbol in Melvilles novel.What symbolic meaning can you draw from it? |
(4).Nature is a philosophic work, in which Emerson gives an explicit discussion on his idea of the Qversoul.What is your understanding of Emersonian “Oversoul”? |
四、Topic Discussion。 |
1.Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet. |
(1).How is Romanticism different from Neoclassicism?Provide brief evidence from the literary works you know best. |
(2).Summerize the story of Mark twains The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in about 100 words,and comment on the theme of the novel. |
答案部分 |
一、Multiple Choice |
1. 【正确答案】 C |
2. 【正确答案】 D |
3. 【正确答案】 A |
4. 游泳馆【正确答案】 C |
5. 【正确答案】 D |
6. 【正确答案】 A |
7. 【正确答案】 C |
8. 【正确答案】 B |
9. 【正确答案】 D |
10. 【正确答案】 C |
11. 【正确答案】 A |
12. 【正确答案】 D |
13. 【正确答案】 D |
14. 【正确答案】 D |
15. 【正确答案】 B |
16. 【正确答案】 B |
17. 【正确答案】 B |
18. 【正确答案】 C |
19. 【正确答案】 B |
20. 【正确答案】 A |
21. 【正确答案】 A |
22. 【正确答案】 B |
23. 【正确答案】 D |
24. 【正确答案】 A |
25. 【正确答案】 B |
26. 【正确答案】 C |
27. 【正确答案】 C |
28. 【正确答案】 A |
29. 【正确答案】 D |
30. 【正确答案】 C |
31. 【正确答案】 C |
32. 【正确答案】 D |
33. 【正确答案】 D |
34. 【正确答案】 D |
35. 【正确答案】 A |
36. 【正确答案】 A |
37. 【正确答案】 D |
38. 【正确答案】 A |
39. 【正确答案】克丽丝丁 C |
40. 【正确答案】 B |
二、Reading Comprehension |
1. |
(1). |
【正确答案】 A.John Galasworthy:The Man of Property. B.A 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. C.it prents the inner mind of Soames in face of his wifes coldness.He can never know what is on his wifes mind becau the makeup of his and her mentality is different. His wife Irene, who mind is romantically inclined, is disgusted with her husbands posssiveness. Being unable to read his wifes mind is as good as saying that he really cant regard her as his property- this is the very reason why he is enraged beyond measure. |
(2). |
【正确答案】 A.T.S.Eliot:“The Love Song of J.Alfred Pruforck.” B.The ends of cigarettes,meaning trivial things here. C.Here,Prufrocks inability to do anything against the society he is in is made strikingly clear by using a sharp comparison .Prufrock imagines himlf as a kind of inct pinned on the wall and struggling in vain to get free.This image vividly shows Prufrocks current predicament |
(3). |
【正确答案】 A.Washington Irving:“Rip Van Winkle”. B.The social environment is changed. C.When Rip is back home after a period of 20 years,he finds thta everything has changed.All tho old values are gone,and he can hardly feel at home in a changed society.One of the functions that Rip rves 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. |
(4). |
【正确答案】 A.Robert Frost:“The Road Not Taken”. B.Many many years later. C.The speaker is telling his experience of making the choice of the roads.But he is conscious of the fact that his choice will have made all the difference in his life.He ems to be giving a suggestion to the reader.“荸荠的功效及吃法Make good choice of your life.” |
三、Questions and Answers 。 |
1. |
(1). |
【正确答案】 A.Buyans pilgrims Progress and Spenrs The Faerie Queene. B.It is usually concerned with moral ,religious,political,symbolic or mythical ideas. |
(2). |
【正确答案】 A.The French philosopher,Jean Jacques Rousau and the German writer Johna Wolfgan von Goethe. B.It is Rousau who established the cult of the individual and championed the freedom of the human spirit;his famous announcement was “I felt before I thought.”Goethe and his compatriots extolled the romantic spirit. |
(3). |
【正确答案】 A.To Ahab,the whale is either an evil creature itlf or the agent of an evil force that controls the univer,or perhaps both. B.To Ishmale,the whale is an astonishing force,an immen power,which defies rational explanation due to a n of mystery it carries. It is beautiful,but malignant at the same time. It also reprents the tremendous organic vitality of the univer,for it has a life force that surges onward irresistibly, impervious to the desires or wills of men. C.As to the reader, the whale can be viewed as a symbol of the physical limits that life impos upon man. It may also be regarded as a symbol of nature, or an instrument of Gods vengeance upon evil man. In general,the multiplicity and ambivalence of the symbolic meaning of the whale is such that it becomes a source of inten speculation, an object or profound curiosity for the reader. |
(4). |
【正确答案】 A.The Oversoul is believed to be an all-pervading power for goodness,omniprent and omnipotent from which all things come and of which all are a part. It exists in nature and man alike and constitutes the chief element of the univer. B.According to Emerson,it is a supreme reality of mind, a spiritual unity of all beings, and a religion regarded as an emotional communication between an individual soul and the universal Over-soul of which it is a part. C.He holds that intuition is a more certain way of knowing than reason and that the mind could intuitively perceive the existence of the Oversoul and of certain absolutes. |
四、Topic Discussion。 |
1. |
(1). |
【正确答案】 a.Neoclassicists upheld that artistic ideals should be order,logic,restrained emoticon and accuracy,and that literature,should be judged in terms of its rvice to humanity,and thus,literary expressions should be of proportion,unity,harmony and grace.Popes An Essay on Criticism advocates grace,wit (usually though satire/humour),and simplicity in language(and the poem itlf is a demonstration of tho ideals,too);Fieldings Tom Jones helped establish the form of novel;Grays “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard displays elegance in style,unified structure,rious tone and moral instructions. b.Romanticists tended to e the individual as the very center of all experience,including art,and thus,literary work should be “spontaneous overflow of strong feelings,”and no matter how fragmentary tho experiences were (Wordsworths “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,半竿斜日旧关城” or “The Solitary Reaper,) or Coleridges “Keble Khan”),the value of the work lied in the accuracy of prenting tho unique feelings and particular attitudes. c.In a word, Neoclassicism emphasized rationality and form but Romanticism attached great importance to the individuals mind (emotion, imagination, temporary experience…) |
(2). |
【正确答案】 A.Mark Twains novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a Sequa to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.The Story takes place along the Mississippi River before the Civil War in the United States, around 1850. Along the river, floats a small raft, with two people on it; One is an ignorant,uneducated black slave named Jim and the other is little uneducated outcast white boy about the age of thirteen, called Huckleberry Finn or Huck Finn. The novel relates the story of the escape of Jim from slavery and ,more important, how Huck Finn, floating along with Jim and helping him as best he could, changes his mind ,his prejudice, about Black people, and comes to accept Jim as a man and as a clo friends as well. During their journey, they experience a ries of adventures:coming across two frauds, the “Duke” and the “King”,witnessing the lynching and murder of a harmless drunkard, being lost in a fog and finally Toms coming to rescue. B. The theme of the novel may be best summed in a word “freedom”: Huck wants to escape from the bond of civilization and Jim wants to escape from the yoke of slavery. Mark Twain us the rafts journey down the Mississippi River to express his thematic contrasts between innocence and experience, nature and culture, wilderness and civilization. |
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