⾃考英美⽂学选读00604考前串讲（6）
英美⽂学考前串讲（6）
Chapter 5 The Modern Period
I. Choo the right answer:
1. The three trilogies of_____Forsyte novels are masterpieces of critical realism in the early 20th century.
A. D. H. Lawrence’s
B. John Galsworthy’s
C. James Joyce’s
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D. Thomas Hardy’s
Answer: B (P337)
2. ____is the most outstanding stream-consciousness novelist.
A. T.S. Eliot
B. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
C. James Joyce
D. Oscar Wilder
Answer: D (P317)
3. In his famous poem_____, Yeats explores the problems of death, love, old age and art.
产业园规划设计A. "Leda and the Swan"
B. "No Second Troy"
C. "September 1913"
D. "Sailing to Byzantium"
Answer: D (P354)
4. ____is a poem concerned with the spiritual breakup of a modern civilization in which human life has lost its meaning, significance and purpo.
A. Ulyss
B. The Waste Land
C. The Confidential Clerk
D. Dubliners
Answer: B (P360)
5. The Rainbow and_____are generally regarded as D.H. Lawrence’s masterpieces.
A. Women in Love
B. Son s and Lovers
C. Lady Chatterley’s Lover
D. The Plumed Serpent
Answer: A (P370)
6. In ____, James Joyce intends to prent a microcosm of the whole human life by providing an
instance of how a single event contains all the events of its kind, and how history is recapitulated in the happenings of one day.
A. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
B. Dubliners
C. Ulyss
D. Finnegans Wake
Answer: C (P388)
7. Structurally and thematically, George Bernard Shaw follows the great tradition _______.
A. Modernism
B. Romanticism
C. Realism
D. Naturalism
Answer: C (P323)
8. Galsworthy was a _____writer, having inherited the fine traditions of the great Victorian novelists of the critical realism such as Dickens and Thackeray.
A. naturalistic
B. romantic
C. realistic
D. conventional
Answer: D (P338)
9. In "The Forsyte Saga" by John Galsworthy, a typical Forsyte has a remarkable characteristic-----a strong n of______.
A. money带字图片伤感
B. property
C. success
D. privilege
Answer: B (P339)
10. In "The Lake Isle of Innisfree", William Bulter Yeats express his ____________.
A. hope to go abroad
B. desire to escape into a "fairyland"
C. love for common life
D. hatred for war
Answer: B (P356)
11. In which of the following poems by Yeats did you find the allusion to Helen and Trojan War?
A. Sailing to Byzantium
B. Down by the Sally Garden
C. The Lake Isle of Innisfree
D. Leda and the Swan
Answer: D (P354)
12. Of the following poems by T.S. Eliot, which is hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th Century English Poetry?
A. Poems 1909----1925
B. The Hollow Men
C. Prufrock and Other Obrvations
D. The Waste Land
Answer: D (P359)
13. "The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the windowpanes,/ The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the windowpanes/ Linked its tongue into the corners of the evening,/ Lingered upon the pools that stand in drains." The stanza is taken
from_________.
A. T.S. Eliot’s "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
B. Emily Dickinson’s "Becau I could not stop for Death"
C. Alfred Tennyson’s "Break, Break, Break"
D. William Wordsworth’s "I wandered Lonely as a Cloud"
Answer: A (P363---364)
14. Which of the following best describes the speaker of ’The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"?
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.
Answer: C (P363)
故宫英文15. Of the following works by D.H. Lawrence, _______established his position as novelist.
A. The White Peacock
B. The Trespasr
C. Women in Love
D. Sons and Lovers
Answer: D (P370)
16. Which of the following is considered to be a better-structured novel?
A. Women in Love
B. Son s and Lovers
C. The Rainbow
D. Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Answer: A (P372)
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17. ’The Lawrence trilogy" refers to the following three plays except ______.
稍怎么组词A. A Collier’s Friday Night]
B. The Daughter -in-Law
C. The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyed
D. Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Answer: D (P373)
18. Which of the following writings is not the novel of D.H. Lawrence’s?
A. Sons and Lovers
B. A Portrait of the Artist as a Yong Man
C. The White Peacock.
D. The Rainbow
Answer: B (P369---370)
19. Of the following writings by James Joyce, which is a prime example of modernism in literature?
A. Ulyss
B. A Portrait of the Artist as a Yong Man
C. Dubliners
D. Finnegans Wake
Answer: A (P386)
20. Which of the following is not true according to James Joyce?
A. Ulyss has become a prime example of modernism in literature.
B. Joyce is regarded as the most prominent stream-of-consciousness novelist.
C. Joyce is a realistic writer in English literature history.
D. His novel "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young man" is a naturalistic account of the hero’s bitter experiences and his final artistic and spiritual liberation.
Answer: C (P386---389)
II. Read the quoted part and answer the questions:
1. Analyze the poem of T. S. Eliot -"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
1) "In the room the women come and go
Talking of Michelangelo"
<1> Why does the ntence repeat in the poem for veral times?
Answer:
The ntence symbolizes the remote and faraway things, it implies the inability to face up with the reality and the life of the hero. (P363)
2) "And indeed there will be time
For the yellow smoke that slides along the street, ...
There will be time, there will be time ...."
<1> What deep implication can you get from the passage?
固定资产的定义Answer:
The hero was unable to face up with the life and reality bravely, but he was anxious to find time
passing so quickly that he was very depresd. The passage shows the tragic character of the indecision of the young man. (P363)
3) "I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;
I know the voices dying with a dying fall
Beneath the music from the father room.
So how should I presume?
<1> What did the speaker presume?
<2> Interpret the excerpt.
Answer:
<1> He will propo marriage to a girl, but he dare not.
<2> The Excerpt shows the futile and boring life of the upper class. (Every day, they drink coffee, listen to music, but they can’t really enjoy the pleasure of life, leading a boring life.)
4) "I should have been a pair of ragged claws
Scuttling across the floor of silent as."
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<1> Interpret it.
Answer:
If he had been a crab on the ocean bed, maybe he would have been better. The motion of the crab suggests futility and growing old. (P368 注释5)
5) "But as if a magic lantern threw the nerves in patterns on a screen:
Would it have been worthwhile" (此节选部分在P367)
<1> Interpret it.
Answer:
The ntence implies the speaker’s incapability of facing up to love and to life. He is always fearful that others will e through his ideas and truth of falling love, which makes himlf live in frightening and restlessness. (P363)
2. "I will ari and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honeybee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade"
1) Identify the poem and poet;
2) Interpret the poem.
Answer:
1) The poem is "The Lake Isle of Innisfree", which was written by William Butler Yeats. (P355)
2) In the poem, the poet imagined a place where he could live like a hermit, implying that he was tired of the life of his day, he sought to escape into and ideal "fairyland" where he could live calmly as a hermit and enjoyed the beauty of the nature.
3. "North Richmond Street, being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers’ school t the boys free ..., gazed at one another with brown imperturbable faces."
