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PART ONE (40
POINTS)
I. Multiple Choice(40 points in all, 1
for each)
Select from the four choices of each
item the one that best answers the question or
completes the statement. Mark your
choice and
write the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the
answer sheet.
1. All of Charles Dickens’
works, with the exception of _________, present a
criticism of the more complicated and yet most
fundamental social institutions and morals of
the Victorian England.
A. Bleak House
C.
Great Expectations
B. Hard Times
D. A
Tale of Two Cities
2. From ____________ on,
the tragic sense becomes the keynote of Thomas
Hardy’s novels, the conflict between the
traditional and the moden is brought to the
center of the stage.
A. The Return of the
Native
C. Tess of the D’Urbervilles
B.
The Mayor of Casterbridge
D. Jude the Obscure
3. George Bernard Shaw’s play ____________
shows his almost nihilistic bitterness on the
subjects of the cruelty and
madness of World
War I and the aimlessness and disillusion of the
young.
A. Getting Married
C. Widowers’
Houses
B. Too True to Be Good
D. The
Apple Cart
4. It was only after the
publication of ____________ that D.H. Lawrence was
recognized as a
prominent novelist.
A.
The Trespasser
C. Sons and Lovers
B. The
White Peacock
D. The Rainbow
5. T. S.
Eliot’s poem ____________ is heavily indebted to
James Joyce in terms of the stream
- of
-consciousness technique, also a prelude to The
Waste Land.
A. “Prufrock”
C. The Hollow
Men
B. “Gerontion”
D. Lyrical Ballads
6. Charlotte Brontё’s ____________ is noted
for its sharp criticism of the existing society,
e. g. the religious hypocrisy of
charity
institutions.
A. The Professor
C.
Villette
B. Wuthering Heights
D. Jane
Eyre
7. Shelley’s greatest achievement is his
four - act poetic drama ____________ , which is an
ex- ultant work in praise of
humankind’s
potential.
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A.
Adonais
C. Prometheus Unbound
B. Queen
Mab
D. Kubla Khan
8. Among the Romantic
poets ____________ is regarded as a “worshipper of
nature”.
A. William Blake
C. George
Gordon Byron
B. William Wordsworth
D.
John Keats
9. The most perfect example of the
verse drama after Greek style in English is John
Milton’s ____________.
A. Paradise Lost
C. Samson Agonistes
B. Paradise Regained
D. Areopagitica
10. The major theme of
Jane Austen’s novels is____________.
A. love
and money
C. social status and marriage
B. money and social status
D. love and
marriage
11. T. S. Eliot’s most important
single poem ____________ has been hailed as a
landmark and a model of the 20
th
-century
English poetry.
A. The Hollow Men
C.
Murder in the Cathedral
B. The Waste Land
D. Ash Wednesday
12. According to the
subjects, William Wordsworth’s short poems can be
classified into two groups, poems
about____________.
A. nature and human
life
C. symbolism and imagination
B.
happiness and childhood
D. nature and
commonlife
13. Among the following writers
____________ is considered to be the best -known
English dramatist since Shakespeare.
A. Oscar
Wilde
C. W. B. Yeats
B. John Galsworthy
D. George Bernard Shaw
14. William Blake’s
____________ composed during the climax of the
French Revolution plays
the double role both
as a satire and a revolutionary prophecy.
A.
The Book of Urizen
C. Poetical Sketches
B. The Book of Los
D. Marriage of Heaven
and Hell
15. Charles Dickens’ works are
characterized by a mingling of ____________ and
pathos.
A. metaphor
C. satire
B.
passion
D. humor
16. Daniel Defoe
describes ____________ as a typical English middle
-class man of the eigh- teenth century, the very
prototype of the empire builder, the pioneer
colonist.
A. Robinson Crusoe
C. Gulliver
B. Moll Flanders
D. Tom Jones
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17. In Thomas Hardy’s Wessex
novels, there is an apparent ____________ touch in
his de- scription of the simple and
beautiful
though primitive rural life.
A. nostalgic
C. romantic
B. tragic
D. ironic
18. Of all the eighteenth - century novelists
____________ was the first to set out, both in
the-ory and practice, to write
specially a
“comic epic in prose”, the first to give the
modern novel its structure and style.
A.
Thomas Gray
C. Jonathan Swift
B. Richard
Brinsley Sheridan
D. Henry Fielding
19.
Shakespeare’s authentic non-dramatic poetry
consists of two long narrative poems: Venus and
Adonis
and____________.
A. Julius Caesar
C. The Rape of Lucrece
B. The Winter’s
Tale
D. The Two gentlemen of Verona
20.
John Milton’s ____________ is probably his most
memorable prose work, which is a great
plea
for freedom of the press.
A. Paradise Lost
C. Areopagitica
B. Paradise regained
D. Lycidas
21.D. H. Lawrence’s novels
____________ are generally regarded as his
masterpieces.
A. The Rainbow; Women in Love
B. The Rainbow; Sons and Lovers
C. Sons
and Lovers; Lady Chatterley’s Lover
D. Women
in Love; Lady Chatterley’s Lover
22. The best
representatives of the English humanists are
Thomas More, Christopher Mar-lowe and____________.
A. William Shakespeare
C. Henry Fielding
B. John Milton
D. Jonathan Swift
23.
Mark Twain’s particular concern about the local
character of a region came about as “local
colorism,” a unique variation
of American
literary____________.
A. romanticism
C.
modernism
B. nationalism
D. realism
24. As a poet with a strong sense of mission,
Walt Whitman devoted all his life to the creation
of the “single”
poem,____________.
A. Drum
Taps
C. A Boy’s Will
B. North of Boston
D. Leaves of Grass
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25. William Faulkner creates his own mythical
kingdom that mirrors not only the decline of the
____________ society of
America but also the
spiritual wasteland of the whole American society.
A. Eastern
C. Southern
B. Western
D. Northern
26. In his final years, Herman
Melville turned again to prose fiction and wrote
what is probably his second famous work,
____________ , which was published after his
death.
A. Billy Budd
C. Moby - Dick
B. Redburn
D. Typee
27. The Sun Also
Rise casts light on a whole generation after
____________ and the effects of the war by way of
a vivid
portrait of “the Lost Generation. ”
A. the Spanish Civil War
C. WWI
B.
the American- Mexican War
D. WWII
28.
Herman Melville went to the South Seas on a
whaling ship in 1841, where he gained the first
-hand information about
whaling that he used
later in____________.
A. Typee
C. Moby -
Dick
B. Redburn
D. Omoo
29. According
to ____________ , the life - death cycle, the
spring and winter of the earth, the birth and
death of the animals
is reality.
A.
Theodore Dreiser
C. Henry James
B.
William Faulkner
D. F·Scott Fitzgerald
30.
“Though life is but a losing battle, it is a
struggle man can dominate in such a way that loss
becomes dignity. ” This is an
outlook towards
life that ____________ had been trying to
illustrate in his works.
A. F·Scott Fitzgerald
C. Theodore Dreiser
B. Ernest Hemingway
D. William Faulkner
31. More than five
hundred poems ____________ wrote are about nature,
in which his (her) general skepticism about the
relationship between man and nature is well
-expressed.
A. Robert Frost
C. Ezra Pound
B. Emily Dickinson
D. Walt Whitman
32.
In 1954, the Nobel Prize for literature was
granted to ____________ , one of the greatest of
American writers.
A. Ernest Hemingway
C.
Henry James
B. Robert Frost
D. Theodore
Dreiser
33. North of Boston is described by
Robert Frost as “a book of poople,” which shows a
brilliant insight into ____________
character
and the background that formed it.
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A. Eastern
C. Southern
B. Western
D. New England
34. Walt
Whitman is radically innovative in terms of the
form of his poetry. What he prefers for his new
poetic feelings is
“ ____________ ”.
A.
standardized rhyming
C. free verse
B.
regular rhyming
D. strict verse
35. Henry
James’ fame generally rests upon his novels and
stories with the____________ theme.
A.
international
C. colonial
36. The
Financier, The Titan and The Stoic by Theodore
Dreiser are called his “Trilogy of _________. ”
A. Hatred
C. Desire
B. Death
D.
Fate
B. local
D. post-modern
37. In
1920, F·Scott Fitzgerald’s first novel
____________ was published, which was, to some
extent, his own story.
A. This Side of
Paradise
C. All the Sad Young Men
B.
Tales of the Jazz Age
D. Taps at Reveille
38. In 1837, Nathaniel Hawthorne published
Twice - Told Tales, a collection of ____________
which attracted critical
attention.
A.
poems
C. essays
B. short stories
D.
plays
39. William Faulkner set most of his
works in the American ____________ , with his
emphasis on the ________subjects
and
consciousness.
A. North... Northern
C.
West... Western
B. East... Eastern
D.
South... Southern
40. The House of the Seven
Gables was based on the tradition of a curse
pronounced on ____________’s family when his
great - grandfather was a judge in the Salem
witchcraft trials.
A. Nathaniel Hawthorne
C. Ezra Pound
B. Washington Irving
D.
Walt Whitman
PART TWO (60 POINTS)
II.
Reading Comprehension (16 points in all, 4 for
each)
Read the quoted parts carefully and
answer the questions in English. Write your
answers in the corresponding
space on the
answer sheet.
41. “Nor lose possession of that
fair thou ow’st;
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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?
42. “Never did sun more
beautifully steep
In his first splendor,
valley, rock or hill;
Ne’er saw I, never
felt, a calm so deep !
The river glideth at
his own sweet will:
Dear God! The very houses
seem asleep;
And all that mighty heart is
lying still!”
( From Wordsworth’s sonnet
Composed upon Westminster Bridge)
Questions:
A. What does this sonnet describe?
B.
What does the phrase “mighty heart” refer to?
C. The sonnet follows strictly the Italian
form. What is the feature of the Italian form of
sonnet?
43. “ The woods are lovely, dark and
deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And
miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go
before I sleep. ”
Questions:
A. Who’s
the poet of the quoted stanza, and what’s the
title of the poem?
B. What does the word
“sleep” mean?
C. What idea do the four lines
express?
44. “ I celebrate myself, and sing
myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good
belongs to you.
I loafe and invite my
soul,
I lean and loafe at my ease observing a
spear of summer grass. ”
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( From Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself)
Questions:
A. Who does “myself ” refer to?
B. How do you understand the line “I loafe
and invite my soul” ?
C. What does “a spear
of summer grass” symbolize?
III. Questions and
Answers (24 points in all, 6 for each)
Give
a brief answer to each of the following questions
in English. Write your answers in the
corresponding space
on the answer sheet.
45. What’s the theme of the poem Paradise
Lost? What’s the author’s intention to create it
and the implication that the poem
expresses?
46. The Waste Land is T. S. Eliot’s most
important single poem. What’s the theme of the
poem?
47. In American literature, Emily
Dickinson’s poetry is unique and unconventional in
its own way. What are the features of
Dickinson’s poems?
48. What’s the theme of
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby?
IV.
Topic Discussion(20 points in all, 10 for each)
Write no less than 150 words on each of the
following topics in English in the corresponding
space on the answer sheet.
49. Discuss Charles
Dickens’ art of fiction: the setting, the
character- portrayal, the language, etc. , based
on his novel
Oliver Twist.
50. Summarize
Ernest Hemingway’s artistic features.
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