英美文学15秋在线作业1

李老师

英美文学15秋在线作业1
试卷总分：100       测试时间：--
单选题  


一、单选题（共 40 道试题，共 100 分。）V 1.  " ’Damn the fool! There he is’, cried Heathcliff, sinking back into his seat. ’Hush, my darling! Hush, hush, Catherine! I’ll stay. If he shot me so, I’d expire with a blessing in my lips.’" The novel from which the passage is taken must be _________.
A. Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
B. Charles Dickens’s The Old Curiosity Shop
C. Samuel Richardson’s Pamela
D. Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights
      满分：2.5  分
2.  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
      满分：2.5  分
3.  Dreiser‘s language style includes the following aspects except ______ .
A. being polished and graceful
B. lack of concision
C. massive detailed description
      满分：2.5  分
4.  The lake poets include all the following members except the author of the following work
A. The Prelude
B. Don Juan
C. The Ancient Mariner
D. Joan of Arc
      满分：2.5  分
5.  G.B.Shaw‘s play Mrs.Warren‘s Profession is a realistic exposure of the _______ in the English society.
A. slum landlordism
B. inequality between men and women
C. political corruption
D. economic exploitation of women
      满分：2.5  分
6.  Which of the following best describes the speaker of T.S.Eliot’s " The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock"?
A. He is an man of a action.
B. He is a man of apathy.
C. He is a man of passion.
D. He is a man of inactivity
      满分：2.5  分
7.  Of the following poems , which is written by Poe ?
A. The Day of Doom
B. To Helen
C. To a Waterfowl
      满分：2.5  分
8.  The one of the following not known as a dramatist is _______ .
A. Miller
B. Pound
C. O‘Neill
      满分：2.5  分
9.  Walt Whitman, whose ______________ established him as the most popular American poet of the 19th century.
A. Leaves of Grass
B. Go Down, Moses
C. The Marble Faun
D. As I Lay Dying
      满分：2.5  分
10.  Of all the 18th century novelists Henry Fielding was the first to set out，both in theory and practice，to write specifically a“____in prose,”the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.
A. tragic epic
B. comic epic
C. romance
D. lyric epic
      满分：2.5  分
11.  Maxine Hong Kingston‘s first novel is _______ .
A. The Woman Warrior
B. China Men
C. The Joy Luck Club
      满分：2.5  分
12.  The realists of the 18th century and those of the 19th century have the following in common except both of them
A. use the form of novel fully
B. present social and political events in details
C. indicate the broad social conflicts
D. describe the fate of individuals and of social classes
      满分：2.5  分
13.  Le Mort D’ Arthur deals with the following story except
A. search for Cup
B. life of King Arthur
C. fight against Roman invasion
D. illicit love
      满分：2.5  分
14.  Dreiser‘s 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
      满分：2.5  分
15.  Which of the following is not written by Hawthorne ?
A. The Scarlet Letter
B. White Jacket
C. The Marble Faun
      满分：2.5  分
16.  The theme of Austen’ s novels can be expressed by the following except
A. marriage
B. love
C. domestic duty
D. personal growth
      满分：2.5  分
17.  One of the earliest spokeswomen in English for the Chinese immigrant community is _____.
A. Lin Yutang
B. Sui Sin Far
C. Maxine Hong Kingston
      满分：2.5  分
18.  Here are four lines from a long poem: “Others for language all their care express, / And value books, as women men , for dress.” The poem must be
A. Thomas Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”
B. John Milton’s Paradise Lost
C. Alexander Pope’s Essay on Criticism
D. Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream
      满分：2.5  分
19.  After WWⅠ, many disillusioned American writers and artists left for Paris and formed a small community . They were ______ .
A. emigrants
B. expatriates
C. immigrants
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20.  Hawthorne generally concerns himself 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
      满分：2.5  分
21.  Whose writings almost always use youth as major characters ?
A. Singer‘s
B. Salinger‘s
C. Vonnegut‘s
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22.  the Rime of the Ancient Mariner is a poem written in the form of .
A. ballad
B. sonnet
C. heroic couplet
D. Spenserian stanza
      满分：2.5  分
23.  The Romantic Period, one of the most important periods in the history of American literature, stretches from the end of ______________ to the outbreak of ____________.
A. the 17th century … the American War of Independence
B. the 18th century … the American Civil War
C. the 17th century … the American Civil War
D. the 18th century … the U.S. – Mexican War
      满分：2.5  分
24.  Most of the poems in Whitman‘s Leaves of Grass sing of the "en-mass" and the _______ as well.
A. nature
B. self-reliance
C. self
D. life
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25.  In which of the following poems by William Butler Yeats did you find the allusion to Helen and the TrojanWar?
A. "Sailing to Byzantium"
B. " Leda and the Swan"
C. "The Lake Isle if Innisfree".
D. " Sown by the Sally Garden"
      满分：2.5  分
26.  “Justice was done ; and the president of the Immortals had ended his sport” is a part of the quotation from
A. The Forsyte Saga
B. Jude the Obscure
C. The picture of Dorian Gray
D. Tess of D’ Urbervilles
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27.  “To wage by force or guile eternal war, Irreconcilable to our grand Foe.”（John Milton, Paradise 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.
      满分：2.5  分
28.  The giant Moby Dick may symbolize all EXCEPT .
A. mystery of the universe
B. sin of the whale
C. power of the Great Nature
D. evil of the world
      满分：2.5  分
29.  Frost took a ______ style in his poetry .
A. simple
B. complicated
C. modern
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30.  Most of Bernard Shaw’s plays are concerned with_______.
A. political problems
B. religious problems
C. moral problems
D. all the above
      满分：2.5  分
31.  The typical feature of Robert Browning`s poetry is the_____.
A. bitter satire
B. larger-than-life caricature
C. Latinized diction
D. dramatic monologue
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32.  In Hardy’s Tess of D’urbervilles , the heroine’s tragic ending is due to .
A. her weak character
B. her ambition
C. Angel Clare’s selfishness
D. a hostile society
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33.  _______ is not the work by Robert Frost.
A. “I heard a Fly Buzz ---- when I died”
B. “ The Road Not Taken”
C. “Home burial”
D. “After Apple-picking”
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34.  “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
      满分：2.5  分
35.  The one who translated Homer’s epics into English is
A. Shakespeare
B. Marlowe
C. Chapman
D. Sidney
      满分：2.5  分
36.  Howells , Henry James and Mark Twain are representatives of American ______ .
A. romanticism
B. realism
C. naturalism
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37.  It is alone who , for the first time in English literature, presented to us a comprehensive realistic picture of the English society of his time and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life.
A. Geoffrey Chaucer
B. Martin Luther
C. William Langland
D. John Gower
      满分：2.5  分
38.  Author of Gulliver’s Ttravels also wrote
A. A Modest Proposal
B. Robinson Crusoe
C. Henry V
D. The Tyger
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39.  The ______ Movement appeared in the thirties of the 19th century. It showed the English workers were able to appear as an independent political force and were already realizing the fact that the industrial bourgeoisie was their principal enemy.
A. Enlightenment
B. Renaissance
C. Chartist
D. Romanticist
      满分：2.5  分
40.  Macbeth is Shakespeare’s_______.
A. sonnet
B. comedy
C. history play
D. tragedy
      满分：2.5  分