英美文学-英国现代时期模拟测试题
I. Fill out the following blanks. (10 points, 1 for each)
1. D. H. Lawrence’s first important novel ________________ is obviously ____________, which is a truthful reprentation of his childhood and early manhood. (Sons and Lovers, autobiographical)
2. The Novel Ulyss written by ______________ is well-known for its modernist technique of _________________. (James Joyce, stream of consciousness)
3. ____________ is a strong advocator of the feminist movement among the 20th century writers, who _______________ is a detailed depiction of the inner world of a lady who is giving an evening party at her home in Westminster without traditional concept of plot. (Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway)
4. Structurally and thematically, Shaw followed the great tradition of _____________. (realism)
5. One of the pioneers of modern fiction is D. H. Lawrence, who is known for his novels written under the influence of Sigmund Freud’s theory of ______________.(psychoanalysis)
6. In 1923, ____________ was awarded Nobel Prize in literature for his “always inspirited poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation”. . Yeats)
7. The long poem ______________, one of the most remarkable landmarks in modernism, succeeded in gaining . Eliot recognition as a voice of a disillusioned generation. (The Waste Land)
8. The trilogy The Forsyte Saga consists of The Man of Property, In Chancery and ___________. (To Let)
9. _____________ is a naturalist, who best-known novel Of Human Bondage is a naturalistic novel, partly autobiographical, dealing with the story of a deformed orphan trying vainly to be an artist. . Maugham)
10. Katherine Mansfield wrote short stories, and was skilled in psychological analysis. Her favorite technique is the _______________. (flash-back)
II. Define the following terms. (15 points, 3 for each)
1 Modernism
2 The Angry Young Men
3 Parody
4 Anti-hero
5 Oedipus Complex
Answer:
1. ① Modernism is a comprehensive but vague term for a movement (or tendency) ,
which began to get under way in the closing years of the 19th century, and which has had a wide influence internationally during much of the 20th century.
②The term pertains to all the creative arts, especially poetry, fiction, drama,
painting, music and architecture.
③ In England from early in the 20th century and during the 1920s and 1930s, in
America from shortly before the First World War and on during the inter-war period, modernist tendencies were at their most active and fruitful.
④As far as literature is concerned modernism reveals a breaking away from
established rules, traditions and conventions, fresh ways of looking at man’s position and function in the univer and many experiments in form and style.
It is particularly concerned with language and how to u it and with writing itlf.
⑤ James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf and William Faulkner are prominent
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modernist writers.
2. ① In the mid-1950s and early 1960s, there appeared a group of young novelists
and playwrights with lower-middle-class or working-class background, who were known as “The Angry Young Men”.
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②They demonstrated a particular disillusion over the depressing situation in
Britain and launched a bitter protest against the outmoded social and political values in their society.
3. ① It means mimicry of a work or a style of expression.
②Sometimes the mimicry is undertaken to make fun of what is parodied;
sometimes it is done in a sincere effort to gain the understanding that comes from painstaking imitation.
4. ①The protagonist of a modern play or novel, an anti-hero is a character who
lacks the qualities needed for heroism.
② An anti-hero does not posss nobility of life or mind and does not have an
attitude marked by high purpo and lofty aim. Anti-heroes typically distrust conventional values and are unable to commit themlves to any ideals. They generally feel helpless in a world, over which they have no control. Anti-heroes usually accept, succumbs to, and often celebrate, their positions as social outcasts.
③Flaubert’s Emma Bovary (in Madame Bovary, 1857), Joyce’s Leopold Bloom (in
Ulyss, 1922), and Kingsley Amis’s Jim Dixon in Lucky Jim (1954), Jimmy Porter in John Osborne’s play Look Back in Anger (1956) and Yossarian in Joph Heller’s novel Catch -22 (1961), are outstanding examples of anti-hero.
5.①It is a term coined by Sigmund Freud to designate a son’s subconscious feeling
of love toward his mother and jealousy and hatred toward his father.
②D. H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers is a ca in point.
III. Multiple Choice. (15 points, for each)
1. With their joint efforts, W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, and J. M. Synge started an Irish
__________ revival in the early 20th century.
A. moral
B. religious
C. dramatic
D. spiritual
2. James Joyce’s Dubliners is _________.
A. a short story
B. a collection of short stories
C. an autobiography
D. a novel
3. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is intenly anti-romantic with an evasive
__________ atmosphere.
A. sublime
B. nsual
schiffC. warm
D. hellish
4. John Galsworthy’s The Forsyte Saga appears in the form of __________.
A. epic
yoice
B. ballad
C. trilogysdd
D. short story
5. In Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf adopted a writing technique called __________,
ncsin which the whole story was prented with the interior monologues of the characters.
A. Expressionism
B. Symbolism
C. Stream-of-consciousness
D. Naturalism
6. The __________ can be regarded as one of the themes of Joyce’s story Araby.
A. loss of innocence
B. childish love
faithfulC. awareness of harsh life
D. fal ntimentality
7. Which of the following statements about D. H. Lawrence is NOT true?
A. He was strongly against the dehumanizing effect of the mechanical civilization.
B. He was daringly innovative in the techniques of novel creation.
C. His novel Sons and Lovers is largely autobiographical.
D. He believed that the primacy of life force was a guarantee in the healthy
development of an individual’s personality.
led是什么< the evening is spread out against the sky/ Like a patient etherized upon a table.
In the above lines a simile is ud to compare the evening with an etherized patient. What common quality is compared between the two entirely different
things by using the simile?
A. Darkness.
B. Inertia.
C. Suffering.
D. Emptiness.
9. Thematically speaking, Yeats’s poem, The Lake Isle of Innisfree, __________.
A. laments the loss of the Irish legendary tradition
B. laments the emptiness of the urban life and advocates a return to the simple
and rene life of nature
deeplinkC. criticizes the emptiness of the hermit’s life in the remote country
D. celebrates the rich and colorful life of the modern people
10. In Shaw’s play, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Mrs. Warren once said: “If there is a
thing I hate in a woman, it’s want of character.” The word “want” here means __________.
A. desire
B. lack
C. posssion
D. need
11. The modernist writers such as Richardson, Joyce and Woolf are mainly concerned
with the __________.
A. external world
B. inner life of an individual
C. social activities of human beings
D. public life of an individual
12. The mission of __________ drama was to reveal the moral, political and
economic truth from a radical reformist point of view.
A. T. S. Eliot’s
B. J. Galsworthy’s
C. George Bernard Shaw’s
D. W. B. Yeats’s
13. In his famous essay Tradition and Individual Talent,__________ puts great
emphasis on the importance of tradition both in creative writing and in criticism.
A. T. S. Eliot
B. D. H. Lawrence
C. James Joyce
D. George Bernard Shaw
14. __________, which bears a strong thematic remblance to “The Waste Land”, is
generally regarded as the darkest of T. S. Eliot’s poems.
A. Gerontion
fredoB. The Hollow Men
C. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
D. The Cocktail Party
15. The most original playwright of the Theater of Absurd is Samuel Beckett and his
first play, __________, is regarded as the most famous and influential play of the
