《英美文学》东师17秋在线作业12资料
英美文学17秋在线作业1
一、单选题:【40道,总分:100分】
1.provides the main source of influence on American naturalism. (满分:2.5)
A. The puritan heritage
B. Howells’ ideas of realism
C. Darwin’s theory of evolution
D. The pioneer spirit of the wild west
2.In Hawthorne‘s novels and short stories , intellectuals usually appear as ( ) . (满分:2.5)
A. saviors
B. villains
C. observers
3.In his essay“of Studies，”Bacon Said：“Some books are to be tasted，others to be swallowed，and some few to be chewed and( ). (满分:2.5)
A. Skimmed
B. perfected
C. imitated
D. digested
4.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
5.(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
6.Of all the eighteenth-century novelists , who was the first to set out, both in theory and practice , to write specially a “comic epic in prose”, the first to give the modern novel its structure and style ? (满分:2.5)
A. Thomas Gray
B. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
C. Johathan Swift
D. Henry Fielding
7.Who is the writer of Moby Dick ? (满分:2.5)
A. Irving
B. Cooper
C. Melville
8.Of the following poems , which is written by Poe ? (满分:2.5)
A. The Day of Doom
B. To Helen
C. To a Waterfowl
9.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
10.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
11."She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and, oh, The difference to me!" The word "me" in the last line of the above stanza quoted from Wordsworth‘s poem "She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways" may possibly refer to ( ) . (满分:2.5)
A. the poet
B. the reader
C. her lover
D. everybody
12.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
13.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
14.“...This grew: I gave commands; Then all smiles stopped altogether....”(Robert Browning, “My Last Duchess”) The above lines imply that . (满分:2.5)
A. the Duchess was killed by her husband
B. the Duchess stopped smiling at her husband’s order
C. the Duchess died of laughing too much
D. the Duchess did not want to smile as much as her husband requested
15.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
16.The Romantic Period, one of the most important periods in the history of American literature, stretches from the end of ( )( )( ) to the outbreak of ( )( )( ). (满分:2.5)
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
17.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
18.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
19.Dickinson’s poems include poems of ( )( ). (满分:2.5)
A. nature
B. love
C. death
D. all the above
20.“For a week after the commission of the impious and profane offence of asking for more, Oliver remained a close prisoner in the dark and solitary room ...”(Dickens, Oliver Twist) What did Oliver ask for? (满分:2.5)
A. More time to play.
B. More food to eat.
C. More book to read.
D. More money to spend.
21.Which group of writers are among those who may be called early pioneers of American literature? (满分:2.5)
A. Mark Twain and Henry James.
B. Fenimore Cooper and Washington lrving.
C. C Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner
D. Jack London and O’Henry.
22.After WWⅠ, many disillusioned American writers and artists left for Paris and formed a small community . They were ( ) . (满分:2.5)
A. emigrants
B. expatriates
C. immigrants
23.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
24.Which of the following brings LITTLE impact on the development of 20th century literature? (满分:2.5)
A. Friedrich Nietzche’s assertions: "God is dead"
B. Arther Schopenharuer’s and Henry Bergson’s philosophical ideas of irrationality.
C. Oscar Wilde’s idea of "Art for Art’s Sake".
D. Freudian-Jungian psycho-analysis
25.( ) is not the work by Robert Frost. (满分:2.5)
A. “I heard a Fly Buzz ---- when I died”
B. “ The Road Not Taken”
C. “Home burial”
D. “After Apple-picking”
26."‘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
27.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
28." ’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
29.“My last Duchess” is a poem that best exemplifies Robert Browning’s ( )( )( ). (满分:2.5)
A. sensitive ear for the sounds of the English language
B. excellent choice of words
C. mastering of the metrical devices
D. use of the dramatic monologue
30.“Humor” according to Ben Jonson means (满分:2.5)
A. fun
B. comedy
C. thought
D. temperament
31.( ) 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
32.In Chapter III of Oliver Twist, Oliver is punished for that “impious and profane offence of asking for more” . What did Oliver ask for more? (满分:2.5)
A. More time to play
B. More food to eat
C. More books to read
D. More money to spend
33.( )( )( ) 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
34.Of the following literary giants, is not of Irish origin. (满分:2.5)
A. George Bernard Shaw
B. William Butler Yeats
C. T.S.Eliot
D. James Joyce
35.All the qualities can be contributed to Portia except (满分:2.5)
A. nosy
B. cultured
C. courteous
D. kind-hearted
36.Whose writings almost always use youth as major characters ? (满分:2.5)
A. Singer‘s
B. Salinger‘s
C. Vonnegut‘s
37.( )is the essence of the Renaissance. (满分:2.5)
A. Individualism
B. Reason
C. Irrationalism
D. Humanism
38.In Hawthorne‘s "Young Goodman Brown," a satanic figure leads the credulous protagonist to a witches‘ Sabbath in the woods. There he recognizes many pillars of Salem‘s Puritan society as well as his wife, Faith. The story illustrates Hawthorne‘s allegorical theme of human evil or what Melville called the "power of ( ) ." (满分:2.5)
A. blackness
B. whiteness
C. terror
D. hypocrisy
39.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
40.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
英美文学17秋在线作业2
一、单选题:【40道,总分:100分】
1.( ) 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
2.( ) was written by James Joyce. (满分:2.5)
A. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
B. Portrait of a Lady
C. Picture of Dorian Gray
D. To the Lighthouse
3.Of the following all were written by Amy Tan except ( ) . (满分:2.5)
A. The Joy Luck Club
B. The Kitchen God‘s Wife
C. China Men
4.As a literary figure, Belinda appears in Alexander Pope’s . (满分:2.5)
A. “The Dunciad”
B. “An Essay on Man”
C. “An Essay on Criticism”
D. “The Rape of the lock”
5.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
6.Howells , Henry James and Mark Twain are representatives of American ( ) . (满分:2.5)
A. romanticism
B. realism
C. naturalism
7.All the characters appear in Sons and Lovers except (满分:2.5)
A. Clara
B. Gertrude
C. Miriam
D. Sue
8.(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
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.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
11.Which of the following brings LITTLE impact on the development of 20th century literature? (满分:2.5)
A. Friedrich Nietzche’s assertions: "God is dead"
B. Arther Schopenharuer’s and Henry Bergson’s philosophical ideas of irrationality.
C. Oscar Wilde’s idea of "Art for Art’s Sake".
D. Freudian-Jungian psycho-analysis
12.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
13.Each of the professions listed below is correctly paired with Dickens except (满分:2.5)
A. novelist
B. clerk
C. reporter
D. dramatist
14.Who first used the term ‘‘ Beat Generation ‘‘ ? (满分:2.5)
A. Ginsberg
B. Mailer
C. Kerouac
15.In Mark Twain’s The Adventures of huckleberry Finn, Huck writes a letter to inform against Jim, the escaped slave, and then he tears the letter up. This fact reveals that . (满分:2.5)
A. Huck has a mixed feeling of love and hate
B. there is a conflict between society and conscience in Huck
C. Huck is always an indecisive person
D. Huck has very little education
16.G.B.Shaw‘s play Mrs.Warren‘s Profession is a realistic exposure of the ( ) in the English society. (满分:2.5)
A. slum landlordism
B. inequality between men and women
C. political corruption
D. economic exploitation of women
17.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
18.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.
19.Le Mort D’ Arthur deals with the following story except (满分:2.5)
A. search for Cup
B. life of King Arthur
C. fight against Roman invasion
D. illicit love
20.Which of the following words NOT appropriate to describe Mrs. Bennet, a character in pride and Prejudice . (满分:2.5)
A. Beautiful
B. Intelligent
C. Snobbish
D. Vulgar
21.If Winter comes，can Spring be far behind?”is an epigrammatic line by( ). (满分:2.5)
A. J．Keats
B. W．Blake
C. W. Wordsworth
D. P.B．Shelley
22.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
23.Beowulf is a national epic of (满分:2.5)
A. Germany
B. England
C. Scandinavia
D. France
24.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
25.“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? (满分:2.5)
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.
26.The lines, "It was a miracle of rare device,/ A sunny pleasure dome with caves of ice," are found in ( )( ). (满分:2.5)
A. Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s "Kubla Khan"
B. William Wordsworth’s "Lines Written in Early Spring"
C. John Keats’s "Ode to Autumn"
D. Percy Bysshe Shelly’s "ode to the West Wind"
27.Willam Wordsworth，a romantic poet，advocated all the following except( ). (满分:2.5)
A. the using of everyday language Spoken by the common people
B. the expression of the Spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings
C. the humble and rustic life as subject matter
D. elegant wording and inflated figures of speech
28.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
29.( ) 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
30.Shakespeare‘s tragedies include all the fOllowing except( ). (满分:2.5)
A. Hamlet and King lear
B. Antony and Cleopatra and Macbeth
C. julius Caesar and Othello
D. the Merchant of Venice and A Midsummer Night`s Dream
31.“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
32.In his masterpieces ( ) , Pound traces the rise and fall of eastern and western empires and the moral and social chaos of the modern world . (满分:2.5)
A. Make It New
B. The Cantos
C. Polite Essays
33.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
34.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
35.The one of the following not known as a dramatist is ( ) . (满分:2.5)
A. Miller
B. Pound
C. O‘Neill
36.Of all the eighteenth-century novelists, ( ) was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a "comic epic in prose," and the first to give the modern novel its structure and style. (满分:2.5)
A. Daniel Defoe
B. Samuel Richardson
C. Henry Fielding
D. Oliver Goldsmith
37.Hardy started as a poet and ended as a (满分:2.5)
A. playwright
B. novelist
C. poet
D. critic
38.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
39.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
40.“What is his name?” “Bingley．” “Is he married or Single?” “Oh! Single，my dear, to be sure! A Single man of large fortune；four or five thousand a year．What a fine thing for our girls!” The above dialogue must be taken from( ). (满分:2.5)
A. Jane Austen‘s pride and prejudice
B. Emily Bronte‘s Wuthering Heights
C. John Galsworthy‘s The Forsyte Saga
D. George Eliot‘s Middlemarch
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