英美文学选读 习题1

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[1] We can easily find in Dreiser’ s fiction a world of jungle, and ______ found expression in almost every book he wrote. A naturalism B romanticism C transcendentalism D cubism 答： 答案： A

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[2] Why is Hardy regarded as a naturalistic writer in English literature? Discuss in relation to his novels you know. 答：

答案： survival|fittest|fate|mysterious |supernatural|force|impotent|Fate

【题型：阅读】【分数：4分】 得分：0分 [3] 1. “When the stars threw down their spears, And water’ d heaven with their tears, Did he smile his work to see?

Did he who made the Lamb make thee ?” Questions:

A. Who’s the poet of the quoted stanza? B. Whom does the “he” refer to?

C. What does the “Lamb” symbolize? 答：

答案： William Blake;God; peace and purity

【题型：简答】【分数：4分】 得分：0分 [4] What are the characteristics of Byron's works? 答： The only major languag

答案： they are violentattack on politics, religion and morals. They describe the novelty of oriental scenery and shows the easy, fluent and natural beauty of his verse.

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[5] Make a comment on the character of Jane Eyre, the heroine of the novel by Charlotte Bronte. 答：

答案： orphan|child|poor|plain|governess|middle class |working|woman

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[6] ____ is Hemingway’s firt true novel, which portrays “The Lost Generation”. A A. For Whom the Bell Tolls B B. The Old Man and the Sea C C. The Sun Also Rises D D. A Farewell to Arms 答： 答案： C

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“ ‘Do you think I can stay to become nothing to you? So you think I am an automoton?—a machine without feelings? And can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched from my lips, and my drop of living water dashed from my cup? Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless?—You think wrong!—I have as much as you and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty, and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, or even of mortal flesh: — it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God’s feet, equal —as we are!’”

A. Identify the author and the work. B. Summarize the speaker’s meaning. 答：

答案： Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, Jane doesn't want to become his accessory. Mr. Rochester doesn't treat her as an equal being.

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What is expressionism? 答：

答案： It is a reaction against materialism, describes individual's internal state of mind. the representatives are August Strinberg,Frank Wedeking and Eugene O'Neill.

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All of the following poems by William Wordsworth are masterpieces on nature EXCEPT ________. A “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” B “An Evening Walk” C “Tinter Abbey” D “The Solitary Reaper” 答：

答案： D

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[10] It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good forturen must be in want of a wife.

However little known the feelings or views of such a man many be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrouding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some one or other of their daughters. Questions:

A. Identify the author and the title from which the above passage is taken. B. What is this passage describing? 答：

答案： Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Mrs Bennet, considering her daughters' marriage

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[11] Do you know something about \County?\What are the characteristics of Faulkner's fiction? 答：

答案： Yoknapatawpha County is an imagined place based on Faulkner's own hometown, a place that he took for the setting of 15 of his 19 novels and many short stories. This small region in the American South becomes in Faulkner's fiction an allegory or a parable of the old south.

Characteristics: representation of the Old South; his theme of the deterioration, loss and moral decay of the Old South when it was falling apart.

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[12] “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?/Thou art more lovely and more temperate/ Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May/And summer’s lease hath all too short a date,” the above beautiful sonnet was written by ______. A John Donne B John Milton C William Shakespeare D Francis Bacon 答： 答案： C

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“Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st; Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st: So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. ” Questions:

A. Who’s the poet of the quoted stanza, and what’s the title of the poem?

B. What does the word “this” in the last line refer to? C. What idea do the quoted lines express? 答：

答案： Shakespeare, Sonnet 18, permance of poetry

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[14] What’s the theme of Emily Bronte’ s Wuthering Heights? 答：

答案： a story of revenge;From the social point of view, it is a story about a poor man abused; it is also a love story.

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[15] All of the following statements about the Victorian period is true EXCEPT ______. A England was the “workshop of the world”. B The early years was a time of rapid economic development as well as serious social problem C Towards the mid -century, England had reached its highest point of development as a world D Capitalism came into its monopoly stage, the gap between the rich and the poor was further 答： 答案： D

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答案： the aims, ways and infulence of studies

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The work ________ by William Blake is a lovely volume of poems, presenting a happy world, though not without its evils and sufferings. A. Songs of Innocence &n A Songs of Innocence B Songs of Experience C Poetical Sketches D Lyrical Ballads 答： 答案： A

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[18]

Please comment on Alexander Pope’s literary achievements. 答：

答案： An Essay on Criticism follows the neoclassicist tradition. The Rape of the Lock mocks the epic. He uses heroic couplet.

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The assertion that poetry originates from “emotion recollected in tranquility” belongs to ______. A Wordsworth B Coleridge C Shelley D Blake 答： 答案： A

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[20] ______ is a poem based on a traditional Spanish legend of a great lover and seducer of women. A Adonais B Don Juan C Prometheus Unbound D The Revolt of Islam 答： 答案： B

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[21] _____ by Henry James tells a story about a young and innocent American confronting the complexity of the European life. A A. The American B B. The Europeans C C. Daisy Miller D D. The Portrait of a Lady 答： 答案： A

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[22] Generally, the Renaissance refers to the period between ____ and _____ centuries. A 14th; mid-17th B 16th; mid-17th C 14th; mid-18th D 16th; mid-19th 答： 答案： A

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