东师英美文学17春在线作业答案
东师英美文学17春在线作业2一、单选题：
1.( ) makes the climax of O‘Neill‘s literary career and the coming of age of American drama . (满分:2.5)
A. The Hairy Ape
B. Long Day‘s Journey into Night
C. The Iceman Cometh
2.“Justice was done ; and the president of the Immortals had ended his sport” is a part of the quotation from (满分:2.5)
A. The Forsyte Saga
B. Jude the Obscure
C. The picture of Dorian Gray
D. Tess of D’ Urbervilles
3.The one who propose the story-telling in the Canterbury tales is (满分:2.5)
A. the poet
B. the knight
C. the boss
D. the pardoner
4.“Come to me－come to me entirely now,” said he ; and added, in his deepest tone, speaking in my ear as his cheek was laid on mine, “Make my happiness－I will make yours.” The above passage presents a scene in . (满分:2.5)
A. Emily Bronte’s Withering Heights
B. Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre
C. John Galsworthy′s The Forsyte Saga
D. Thomas Hardy′s Tess of the D′Urbervilles
5.A typical Forsyte，according to John Galsworthy,is a man with a strong sense of ( )，who never pays any attention to human feelings． (满分:2.5)
A. morality
B. justice
C. property
D. humor
6.The one who translated Homer’s epics into English is (满分:2.5)
A. Shakespeare
B. Marlowe
C. Chapman
D. Sidney
7.Dreiser‘s Trilogy of Desire includes three novels. They are The Financier, The Titan and ( ) . (满分:2.5)
A. The Genius
B. The Tycoon
C. The Stoic
D. The Giant
8.( )( ) was written by Mark Twain in collaboration with Warner . (满分:2.5)
A. Jumping Frog
B. The Gilded Age
C. Roughing It
9.Mark Twain‘s first book ( ) appeared in 1865 . (满分:2.5)
A. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
B. Jumping Frog
C. Life on the Mississippi
10.The giant Moby Dick may symbolize all except ( ) . (满分:2.5)
A. mystery of the universe
B. sin of the whale
C. evil of the world
11.As an autobiographical play, O‘Neill‘s ( ) （1956）has gained its status as a world classic and simultaneously marks the climax of his literary career and the coming of age of American drama. (满分:2.5)
A. The Iceman Cometh
B. Long Day‘s Journey Into Night
C. The Hairy Ape
D. Desire Under the Elms
12.In Hardy‘s Wessex novels, there is an apparent ( ) touch in his description of the simple and beautiful though primitive rural life. (满分:2.5)
A. humorous
B. romantic
C. nostalgic
D. sarcastic
13.Among the representatives of the Enlightenment, who was the first to introduce rationalism to England ? (满分:2.5)
A. John Bunyan
B. Daniel Defoe
C. Alexander Pope
D. Jonathan Swift
14.Of the below poets, has not been awarded Poet Laureate. (满分:2.5)
A. William Wordsworth
B. Thomas Gray
C. Alfred Tennyson
D. Ben Jon son
15.Which of the following best describes the nature of Thomas Hardy’s later works? (满分:2.5)
A. Sentimentalism.
B. Tragic sense.
C. Surrealism.
D. Comic sense.
16.“The history of the world is the biography of the great men” can sum up the book (满分:2.5)
A. Heroes and Hero-worship
B. The French Revolution
C. A Modern Comedy
D. Life of Schiller
17.Dryen’s contribution to England literature lies in the following except (满分:2.5)
A. he established the heroic couplet as one of the principal English verse forms
B. he clarified the English prose
C. he raised the English literary criticism to a new level
D. he raised English comedy to a higher level
18.In 1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson made a speech entitled ( ) at Harvard, which was hailed by Oliver Wendell Holmes as "Our intellectual Declaration of Independence." (满分:2.5)
A. "Nature"
B. "Self-Reliance"
C. "Divinity School Address"
D. "The American Scholar"
19.The statement"Studies serve for delight，for ornament，and for ability”opens one of well-known essays by( ). (满分:2.5)
A. Francis Bacon
B. Samuel Johnson
C. Alexander Pope
D. Jonathan Swift
20.Ode to The West Wind was written by ( ) (满分:2.5)
A. T.S Eliot
B. George Eliot
C. Ezra Pound
D. Shelley
21.In which of the following works can you find the proper names “Lilliput,” “Brobdingnag,” “Houyhnhnm,” and “Yahoo”? (满分:2.5)
A. James Joyce’s Ulsses.
B. Charles Dickens’s Bleak House.
C. Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels.
D. D. H. Lawrence’s Women in love.
22.“For I have known them all already, known them all--／Have known the evenings，mornings，afternoons,/I have measured out my life with coffee spoons．”The abovelines are taken from( ). (满分:2.5)
A. Wordsworth‘s“The Solitary Reaper”
B. Eliot‘s“The Love Song of J．Alfred Prufrock，”
C. Coleridge‘s“Kubla Khan”
D. Yeats‘s“The Lake Isle of lnnisfree”
23.Daisy Miller is written by ( )( ). (满分:2.5)
A. Hawthorne
B. Twain
C. Melville
D. James
24.Whose writings almost always use youth as major characters ? (满分:2.5)
A. Singer‘s
B. Salinger‘s
C. Vonnegut‘s
25.The Elizabethan literature( )( )( ) (满分:2.5)
A. had a marked unity and the feeling of patriotism and devotion to the queen.
B. witnessed a decline of degeneration
C. expressed age and sadness
even the brightest hours were followed by gloom and pessimism.
D. was not romantic.
26.In Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, “A” may stands for ( ). (满分:2.5)
A. Adultery
B. Angel
C. Amiable
D. All the above
27.Each of the professions listed below is correctly paired with Dickens except (满分:2.5)
A. novelist
B. clerk
C. reporter
D. dramatist
28.( )( ) is famous for his international theme . (满分:2.5)
A. Howells
B. Mark Twain
C. Henry James
29.The realists of the 18th century and those of the 19th century have the following in common except both of them (满分:2.5)
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
30.Le More D’ Arthur is an important landmark in the development of English prose for its (满分:2.5)
A. lucid style
B. verbose style
C. complicate style
D. ornate style
31.The sentence “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day ?” is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare’s . (满分:2.5)
A. comedies
B. tragedies
C. histories
D. sonnets
32.Dr. Faustus is a play based on the German legend of a magician aspiring for and finally meeting his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the Devil. (满分:2.5)
A. immortality
B. political
C. money
D. knowledge
33.( ) believe that nature is ennobling and that the individual is important . (满分:2.5)
A. Puritans
B. realists
C. Transcendentalists
34.In his poem“Tyger,Tyger，”William Blake expresses his perception of the“fearful Symmetry”of the big cat．The phrase“fearful Symmetry”Suggests( ). (满分:2.5)
A. the tiger‘s two eyes Which are dazzlingly bright and Symmetrically set
B. the poet‘s fear of the predator
C. the analogy of the hammer and the anvil
D. the harmony of the two opposte aspects of God’s creation
35.Shakespeare‘s comedies are composed of ( ) (满分:2.5)
A. ordinary people and clowns
B. knights and nobles
C. witches and prophets
D. shrews and princes
36.( ) believes that man’s fate is predeterminedly tragic, driven by a combined force of “nature”, both inside and outside. (满分:2.5)
A. Charles Dickens
B. Thomas Hardy
C. Bernard Shaw
D. George Eliot
37.Who first used the term ‘‘ Beat Generation ‘‘ ? (满分:2.5)
A. Ginsberg
B. Mailer
C. Kerouac
38.Dramatic monologue was created by the author who wrote (满分:2.5)
A. Crossing the Bar
B. Ode to the West Wind
C. The Ring and the Book
D. Jude the Obscure
39.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. (满分:2.5)
A. Geoffrey Chaucer
B. Martin Luther
C. William Langland
D. John Gower
40.Naturalism is evolved from realism when the author‘s tone in writing becomes less serious and less sympathetic but more ironic and more ( ) . (满分:2.5)
A. rational
B. humorous
C. optimistic
D. pessimistic
英美文学17春在线作业2
一、单选题：
1."So much the worse for me, that I an strong. Do I want to live? What kind of living will it be when you-oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?" In the above passage quoted from Emily Bronte‘s Wuthering Heights, the word "soul" apparently refers to ( ) . (满分:2.5)
A. Heathcliff
B. Catherine
C. ghost
D. one‘s spiritual lift
2.It is generally regarded that Keats‘s most important and mature poems are in the form of ( ) . (满分:2.5)
A. ode
B. elegy
C. epic
D. sonnet
3.Each of the professions listed below is correctly paired with Dickens except (满分:2.5)
A. novelist
B. clerk
C. reporter
D. dramatist
4.( ) believes that man’s fate is predeterminedly tragic, driven by a combined force of “nature”, both inside and outside. (满分:2.5)
A. Charles Dickens
B. Thomas Hardy
C. Bernard Shaw
D. George Eliot
5.The publication of ( ) established Emerson as the spokesman of Transcendentalism . (满分:2.5)
A. Nature
B. Self—reliance
C. The American Scholar
6."‘I believe you are made of stone,‘he said, clenching his fingers so hard that he broke the fragile cup. …‘You seem to forget,‘ she said,‘that cup is not!‘" From the above quoted passage, we can find the woman‘s tone is very ( ) . (满分:2.5)
A. sarcastic
B. amusing
C. sentimental
D. facetious
7.Which of the following works marks the beginning of real American Literature ? (满分:2.5)
A. Leaves of Grass
B. The Sketch Book
C. Nature
8.( ) first collection of short stories is Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque . (满分:2.5)
A. Irving‘s
B. Cooper‘s
C. Poe‘s
9.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 (满分:2.5)
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
10.Daisy Miller‘s tragedy of indiscretion is intensified and enlarged by its narration from the point of view of ( ) . (满分:2.5)
A. the author Henry James
B. the Italian youth Giovanelli
C. the American youth Winterbourne
D. her mother Mrs. Miller
11.Tennyson’s“Ulysses” is a ( ). (满分:2.5)
A. English sonnet
B. Thomas
C. Italian sonnet
D. Free verse
12.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. (满分:2.5)
A. Enlightenment
B. Renaissance
C. Chartist
D. Romanticist
13."To be so distinguished is an honor, which, being very little accustomed to favors from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge." The above quoted sentence is presented by Samuel Johnson with a（n） ( ) tone. (满分:2.5)
A. delightful
B. jealous
C. ironic
D. humorous
14.“You and the girls may go ,or you may send them by themselves , which perhaps will be still better , for as you are as handsome as any of them , Mr. Bingley might like you the best of the party.” What figure of speech is used in the underlined part ? (满分:2.5)
A. Paradox
B. Simile
C. Irony
D. Antithesis
15.The novelist who was born in Poland wrote (满分:2.5)
A. The portrait of A Lady
B. A Passage to India
C. The Heart of Darkness
D. Dubliners
16.( ) has been regarded as the “founder of the American Drama”. (满分:2.5)
A. Tennessee Williams
B. Eugene O’Neill
C. Arthur Miller
D. Hendrik Ibser
17." ’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 ( )( ). (满分:2.5)
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
18.“When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table.”(T. s. Eliot, “The Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock”) What does the image in the quoted lines suggest? (满分:2.5)
A. Violence.
B. Horror.
C. Inactivity.
D. Indifference.
19.Daisy Miller is written by ( )( ). (满分:2.5)
A. Hawthorne
B. Twain
C. Melville
D. James
20.The following poets are all Poet Laureate except( ) (满分:2.5)
A. Ben Jonson
B. Thomas Gray
C. Robert Southey
D. William Wordsworth
21.To Theodore Dreiser, life is “so sad, so strange, so mysterious and so inexplicable.” No wonder the characters in his books are often subject to the control of the natural forces, especially those of and heredity. (满分:2.5)
A. fate
B. morality
C. social conventions
D. environment
22.Most of ( ) works are set in the American South, with emphasis on the southern subjects and consciousness . (满分:2.5)
A. Hemingway‘s
B. Fitzgerald‘s
C. Faulkner‘s
23.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. (满分:2.5)
A. Charles Dickens‘s
B. D.H.Lawrence‘s
C. Thomas Hardy‘s
D. John Galsworthy‘s
24.Which of the following is NOT typical of metaphysical poetry best represented by John Donne’s works? (满分:2.5)
A. Common speech.
B. Conceit.
C. Argument.
D. Refined language.
25.“Beauty is truth, truth beauty” is an epigrammatic line by . (满分:2.5)
A. John Keats
B. William Blake
C. William Wordsworth
D. Percy Bysshe Shelley
26."O prince, O chief of many throned powers," That led th‘ embattled seraphim to war Under thy conduct, and in dreadful deeds Fearless, endangered Heaven‘s perpetual King." In the third line of the above passage quoted from Milton‘s Paradise Lost, the phrase "thy conduct" refers to ( ) conduct. (满分:2.5)
A. Satan‘s
B. God‘s
C. Adam‘s
D. Eve‘s
27.In Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, “A” may stands for ( ). (满分:2.5)
A. Adultery
B. Angel
C. Amiable
D. All the above
28.Generally , the Renaissance refers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries, its essence is . (满分:2.5)
A. science
B. philosophy
C. arts
D. humanism
29.All of the following are written by Hemingway except ( ) . (满分:2.5)
A. The Sun Also Rises
B. For Whom the Bell Tolls
C. Sartoris
30.The statement"Studies serve for delight，for ornament，and for ability”opens one of well-known essays by( ). (满分:2.5)
A. Francis Bacon
B. Samuel Johnson
C. Alexander Pope
D. Jonathan Swift
31.American Literature produced only one female poet during the 19th century. This was ( ). (满分:2.5)
A. Jane Austen
B. Watt Whitman
C. Emily Dickinson
D. Harriet Beccher Stowe
32.is the successful religious allegory in the English language . (满分:2.5)
A. The Pilgrim’s Progress
B. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
C. The Life and Death of Mr. Badman
D. The Holy War
33.Milton was nicknamed “the lady of Christ’s” because he was (满分:2.5)
A. a lady
B. as serious as a lady
C. as handsome as a lady
D. as gentle as a lady
34.The 18th century is called Age of ( ) (满分:2.5)
A. Chaucer
B. Shakespeare
C. Pope
D. Reason
35.Romanticism shares the following common features except (满分:2.5)
A. imagination
B. intuition
C. restraint
D. natural sentiment
36.Metaphysical Poetry is characterized by fantastical (满分:2.5)
A. mysticism
B. romanticism
C. lyricism
D. decadence
37.Which of the following is NOT written by William Butler Yeats? (满分:2.5)
A. “Sailing to Byzantium.”
B. “The Lake Isle of Innisfree.”
C. “Leda and the Swan.”
D. “The Waste Land.”
38.The theme of Austen’ s novels can be expressed by the following except (满分:2.5)
A. marriage
B. love
C. domestic duty
D. personal growth
39.Here is a passage from Middlemarch, a novel by George Eliot: "Her blooming full-pulsed youth stood there in a moral imprisonment which made itself one with the chill, colourless, narrowed landscape, with the shrunken furniture, the never-read books, and the ghostly stag in pale fanatic world that seemed to be vanishing from the daylight," Who is the lady mentioned in the quoted passage? (满分:2.5)
A. Dorothea
B. Emma
C. Molly
D. Irene
40.Dubliners is writing of (满分:2.5)
A. realism
B. modernism
C. stream of consciousness
D. none of the above
英美文学17春在线作业1
一、单选题：
1.Tennyson’s“Ulysses” is a ( ). (满分:2.5)
A. English sonnet
B. Thomas
C. Italian sonnet
D. Free verse
2.Most of the poems in Whitman‘s Leaves of Grass sing of the "en-mass" and the ( ) as well. (满分:2.5)
A. nature
B. self-reliance
C. self
D. life
3.Which of the following information about John Milton is NOT true? (满分:2.5)
A. John Milton was the greatest English Poets after Shakespeare.
B. Milton was born in a Roman Catholic family and both his parents were understanding parents.
C. He received education at Cambridge and in 1632 he completed his M.A
D. His masterpiece is Paradise Lost
4.“The Forsyte Saga” is a trilogy by ( ). (满分:2.5)
A. John Galsworthy
B. Thomas Hardy
C. Charles Dickens
D. H. Lawrence
5.The one of the following not known as a dramatist is ( ) . (满分:2.5)
A. Miller
B. Pound
C. O‘Neill
6.The following poets are all Poet Laureate except( ) (满分:2.5)
A. Ben Jonson
B. Thomas Gray
C. Robert Southey
D. William Wordsworth
7.(The)( )was a progressive intellecrual movement throughout Western Europe in the 18th century． (满分:2.5)
A. Romandcism
B. Humanism
C. Enlightenment
D. Sentimentalism
8.Whose writings almost always use youth as major characters ? (满分:2.5)
A. Singer‘s
B. Salinger‘s
C. Vonnegut‘s
9.The realists of the 18th century and those of the 19th century have the following in common except both of them (满分:2.5)
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
10.Of the following writers , who wrote the critical essay On Poetry and Poets ? (满分:2.5)
A. Pound
B. Eliot
C. Frost
11.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 . (满分:2.5)
A. Lady Chatterley’s Lover
B. Women in love
C. Sons and Lovers
D. The Plumed Serpent
12."Not on thy sole but on thy soul, harsh Jew,/Thou mak‘st thy knife keen." In the above quotation taken form The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare employs a（n）( ) . (满分:2.5)
A. oxymoron
B. pun
C. simile
D. synecdoche
13.Sir Gawain and Green Knight was created by (满分:2.5)
A. Chaucer
B. Langland
C. Bede
D. None of the above
14.Maxine Hong Kingston‘s first novel is ( ) . (满分:2.5)
A. The Woman Warrior
B. China Men
C. The Joy Luck Club
15.The giant Moby Dick may symbolize all EXCEPT . (满分:2.5)
A. mystery of the universe
B. sin of the whale
C. power of the Great Nature
D. evil of the world
16.Emily Dickinson‘s poem（441）"This is my letter to the World" expresses the poet‘s ( ) about her communication with the outside world. (满分:2.5)
A. indifference
B. joy
C. anxiety
D. indignation
17.( ) has been regarded as the “founder of the American Drama”. (满分:2.5)
A. Tennessee Williams
B. Eugene O’Neill
C. Arthur Miller
D. Hendrik Ibser
18.( )( )( ) has always been regarded as a writer who “perfected the best classic style that American Literature ever produced”. (满分:2.5)
A. Edgar Ellen Poe
B. Walt Whitman
C. Henry David Thoreau
D. Washington Irving
19."To be so distinguished is an honor, which, being very little accustomed to favors from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge." The above quoted sentence is presented by Samuel Johnson with a（n） ( ) tone. (满分:2.5)
A. delightful
B. jealous
C. ironic
D. humorous
20.In 1704, ( )( )founded the periodicals “the Review”. (满分:2.5)
A. Swift
B. Blake
C. Milton
D. Defoe
21."Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless?…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." The above quoted passage is most probably taken from ( ) . (满分:2.5)
A. Pride and Prejudice
B. Jane Eyre
C. Wuthering Heights
D. Great Expectations
22.the Rime of the Ancient Mariner is a poem written in the form of . (满分:2.5)
A. ballad
B. sonnet
C. heroic couplet
D. Spenserian stanza
23.( ) was the first and the only American playwright to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature . (满分:2.5)
A. Arthur Miller
B. Eugene O‘Neill
C. Tennessee Williams
24.“Ode to the West Wind” is the representative work of( ) . (满分:2.5)
A. P.B. Shelley’s
B. John Keats’s
C. Samuel Coleridge’s
D. Lord Byron’s
25.Which of the following is NOT written by William Butler Yeats? (满分:2.5)
A. “Sailing to Byzantium.”
B. “The Lake Isle of Innisfree.”
C. “Leda and the Swan.”
D. “The Waste Land.”
26.We can perhaps describe the west wind in Shelley‘s poem "Ode to the West Wind" with all the following terms except ( ) . (满分:2.5)
A. tamed
B. swift
C. proud
D. wild
27.The term tone in literature means( )( ). (满分:2.5)
A. sound effect such as rhyme and metrical device
B. the pitch of a word used to determine its meaning in the given context
C. the manner of expression to indicate the speaker’s attitude towards the subject
D. a shade of colour to reflect the change of the light
28.For Melville, as well as for the reader and ( ) , the narrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, an ultimate mystery of the universe. (满分:2.5)
A. Ahab
B. Ishmael
C. Stubb
D. Starbuck
29.Which of the following is NOT typical of metaphysical poetry best represented by John Donne’s works? (满分:2.5)
A. Common speech.
B. Conceit.
C. Argument.
D. Refined language.
30.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 Theater of Absurd. (满分:2.5)
A. Waiting for Godot
B. Murder in the Cathedral
C. Too True to Be Good
D. Mrs. Warren’s Profession
31.( ) believes that man’s fate is predeterminedly tragic, driven by a combined force of “nature”, both inside and outside. (满分:2.5)
A. Charles Dickens
B. Thomas Hardy
C. Bernard Shaw
D. George Eliot
32.The title of Alfred Tennyson’s poem “Ulysses” reminds the reader of the following EXCEPT (满分:2.5)
A. the Trojan War
B. Homer’s Odyssey
C. adventures over the sea
D. religious quest
33.Daisy Miller is written by ( )( ). (满分:2.5)
A. Hawthorne
B. Twain
C. Melville
D. James
34.John Milton wrote his masterpieces after blindness expect (满分:2.5)
A. Paradise Lost
B. Paradise Regained
C. Samson Agonistes
D. Areopagitica
35.To Theodore Dreiser, life is “so sad, so strange, so mysterious and so inexplicable.” No wonder the characters in his books are often subject to the control of the natural forces, especially those of and heredity. (满分:2.5)
A. fate
B. morality
C. social conventions
D. environment
36.Which of the following works marks the beginning of real American Literature ? (满分:2.5)
A. Leaves of Grass
B. The Sketch Book
C. Nature
37.Gothic novels are mostly stories of , which take place in some haunted or dilapidated Middle Age castles . (满分:2.5)
A. love and marriage
B. sea adventures
C. mystery and horror
D. saints and martyrs
38.The 18th century is called Age of ( ) (满分:2.5)
A. Chaucer
B. Shakespeare
C. Pope
D. Reason
39.Most of Bernard Shaw’s plays are concerned with( ). (满分:2.5)
A. political problems
B. religiousproblems
C. moral problems
D. all the above
40.John Bunyan‘s pilgrim`s progress is often regarded as a typical example of( ). (满分:2.5)
A. allegory
B. romance
C. epic in prose
D. fable
英美文学17春在线作业1
一、单选题：
1.All the characters appear in Sons and Lovers except (满分:2.5)
A. Clara
B. Gertrude
C. Miriam
D. Sue
2.Generally , the Renaissance refers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries, its essence is . (满分:2.5)
A. science
B. philosophy
C. arts
D. humanism
3.In Hardy‘s Wessex novels，there is an apparent( )touch in his description of the simple though primitive rural life． (满分:2.5)
A. nostalgic
B. humorous
C. romantic
D. ironic
4.Dreiser‘s Trilogy of Desire includes 3 novels : The Financier , The Titan and ( ) . (满分:2.5)
A. The Tycoon
B. The Giant
C. The Stoic
5.To Theodore Dreiser, life is “so sad, so strange, so mysterious and so inexplicable.” No wonder the characters in his books are often subject to the control of the natural forces, especially those of and heredity. (满分:2.5)
A. fate
B. morality
C. social conventions
D. environment
6.William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all of the following except . (满分:2.5)
A. normal contemporary speech patterns
B. humble and rustic life as subject matter
C. elegant wording and inflated figures of speech
D. intensely subjective feeling toward individual experience
7.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. (满分:2.5)
A. Enlightenment
B. Renaissance
C. Chartist
D. Romanticist
8.The unquenchable spirit of Robinson Crusoe struggling to maintain a substantial existence on a lonely island reflects . (满分:2.5)
A. man’s desire to return to nature
B. the author’s criticism of the colonization
C. the ideal of the rising bourgeoisie
D. the aristocrats’ disillusionment of the harsh social reality
9.The title of Alfred Tennyson’s poem “Ulysses” reminds the reader of the following EXCEPT (满分:2.5)
A. the Trojan War
B. Homer’s Odyssey
C. adventures over the sea
D. religious quest
10.Which terms can best describe the modernists’ concern of the human situation in their fiction? (满分:2.5)
A. Fragmentation and alienation.
B. Courage and honor.
C. Tradition and faith.
D. Poverty and desperation.
11.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 . (满分:2.5)
A. Lady Chatterley’s Lover
B. Women in love
C. Sons and Lovers
D. The Plumed Serpent
12.Ode to The West Wind was written by ( ) (满分:2.5)
A. T.S Eliot
B. George Eliot
C. Ezra Pound
D. Shelley
13.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. (满分:2.5)
A. tragic epic
B. comic epic
C. romance
D. lyric epic
14.The realists of the 18th century and those of the 19th century have the following in common except both of them (满分:2.5)
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
15.Apart from the dislocation of time and the modern stream-of-consciousness, the other narrative techniques Faulkner used to construct his stories include ( ) , symbolism and mythological and biblical allusions. (满分:2.5)
A. impressionism
B. expressionism
C. multiple points of view
D. first person point of view
16.Emily Dickinson‘s poem（441）"This is my letter to the World" expresses the poet‘s ( ) about her communication with the outside world. (满分:2.5)
A. indifference
B. joy
C. anxiety
D. indignation
17.Which of the following information about John Donne is NOT true? (满分:2.5)
A. he was born in a Roman Catholic family
B. he received his education at Oxford and Cambridge
C. later he gave up his Catholic faith and took orders in the Anglican Church.
D. he wrote only religious poems.
18.Backbite，Sneerwell，and Lady Teazle are characters in the play the School for Scandal by( ). (满分:2.5)
A. Christopher Marlowe
B. Ben Jonson
C. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
D. George Bernard Shaw
19.American Literature produced only one female poet during the 19th century. This was ( ). (满分:2.5)
A. Jane Austen
B. Watt Whitman
C. Emily Dickinson
D. Harriet Beccher Stowe
20.Daisy Miller‘s tragedy of indiscretion is intensified and enlarged by its narration from the point of view of ( ) . (满分:2.5)
A. the author Henry James
B. the Italian youth Giovanelli
C. the American youth Winterbourne
D. her mother Mrs. Miller
21.Mr. Spectator stands for the ideas of (满分:2.5)
A. the 16th century
B. 17th century
C. the 18th century
D. the19th century
22.Hawthorne generally concerns himself with such issues as in his fiction. (满分:2.5)
A. the evil in man’s heart
B. the material pursuit
C. the racial conflict
D. the social inequality
23.Romanticism extended from 1798 when Lyrical Ballads was published and in 1832 when (满分:2.5)
A. Austen died
B. Wordsworth died
C. Scott died
D. Shelley died
24.“For I have known them all already, known them all--／Have known the evenings，mornings，afternoons,/I have measured out my life with coffee spoons．”The abovelines are taken from( ). (满分:2.5)
A. Wordsworth‘s“The Solitary Reaper”
B. Eliot‘s“The Love Song of J．Alfred Prufrock，”
C. Coleridge‘s“Kubla Khan”
D. Yeats‘s“The Lake Isle of lnnisfree”
25.“Rip Van Winkle” reveals the theme of ( ) the past. (满分:2.5)
A. nostalgia for
B. rejection to
C. detachment from
D. nothing related to
26.The Elizabethan literature( )( )( ) (满分:2.5)
A. had a marked unity and the feeling of patriotism and devotion to the queen.
B. witnessed a decline of degeneration
C. expressed age and sadness
even the brightest hours were followed by gloom and pessimism.
D. was not romantic.
27.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. (满分:2.5)
A. Tom Jones
B. Gulliver
C. Moll Flanders
D. Robinson Crusoe
28.Who is the writer that wrote about frontier adventures ? (满分:2.5)
A. Irving
B. Cooper
C. Melville
29.Irving was regarded as ( ) . (满分:2.5)
A. father of American drama
B. father of American poetry
C. father of American Literature
30.“You and the girls may go ,or you may send them by themselves , which perhaps will be still better , for as you are as handsome as any of them , Mr. Bingley might like you the best of the party.” What figure of speech is used in the underlined part ? (满分:2.5)
A. Paradox
B. Simile
C. Irony
D. Antithesis
31.As an autobiographical play, O‘Neill‘s ( ) （1956）has gained its status as a world classic and simultaneously marks the climax of his literary career and the coming of age of American drama. (满分:2.5)
A. The Iceman Cometh
B. Long Day‘s Journey Into Night
C. The Hairy Ape
D. Desire Under the Elms
32.In Hawthorne‘s novels and short stories , intellectuals usually appear as ( ) . (满分:2.5)
A. saviors
B. villains
C. observers
33.Here is a passage from Middlemarch, a novel by George Eliot: "Her blooming full-pulsed youth stood there in a moral imprisonment which made itself one with the chill, colourless, narrowed landscape, with the shrunken furniture, the never-read books, and the ghostly stag in pale fanatic world that seemed to be vanishing from the daylight," Who is the lady mentioned in the quoted passage? (满分:2.5)
A. Dorothea
B. Emma
C. Molly
D. Irene
34.Dreiser‘s language style includes the following aspects except ( ) . (满分:2.5)
A. being polished and graceful
B. lack of concision
C. massive detailed description
35.Most of the poems in Whitman‘s Leaves of Grass sing of the "en-mass" and the ( ) as well. (满分:2.5)
A. nature
B. self-reliance
C. self
D. life
36.Dubliners is writing of (满分:2.5)
A. realism
B. modernism
C. stream of consciousness
D. none of the above
37." ’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 ( )( ). (满分:2.5)
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
38.The three trilogies of ( ) Forsyte novels are masterpieces of critical realism in the early 20th century. (满分:2.5)
A. D.H. Lawrence’s
B. John Galsworthy’s
C. James Joyce’s
D. Thomas Hardy’s
39.Dr. Faustus is a play based on the German legend of a magician aspiring for and finally meeting his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the Devil. (满分:2.5)
A. immortality
B. political
C. money
D. knowledge
40.Among the representatives of the Enlightenment, who was the first to introduce rationalism to England ? (满分:2.5)
A. John Bunyan
B. Daniel Defoe
C. Alexander Pope
D. Jonathan Swift
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