keylogger英美文学试卷三

2021年1月20日发(作者：katsu)
英美文学试卷三




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. Write the answers on the answer sheet.



1.
“
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
？




[A]More time to play. [B]More food to eat.



[C]More book to read. [D]More money to spend.



2. Mrs. Warren
‘
s Profession is one of George Bernard Shaw
’
s plays. What is Mrs. Warren
‘
s profession then
？




[A]Real estate. [B]Prostitution.



[C]House- keeping. [D]Farming.



3. 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.



[A]immortality [B]political



[C]money [D]knowledge



4.
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



5.
“
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
？。




[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



of the following is NOT written by William Butler Yeats
？




[A]
“
Sailing to Byzantium.
”

[B]
“
The Lake Isle of Innisfree.
”




[C]
“
Leda and the Swan.
”

[D]
“
The Waste Land.
”




7.
“
Drive my dead thought over the universe



Like withered lexdyes to quicken a new birth.
“




（
Percy Bysshe Shelley
，

“
Ode to the West Wind
”
）




What rhetorical device does the poet use in the quoted lines
？




[A]Synecdoche. [B]Metaphor.



[C]Simile. [D]Onomatopoeia.



is the hero in The life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Grusoe
，

of
York
，

Mariner
（
also known as Robinson Crusoe
）
by
？。




[A]Jonathan Swift [B]Daniel Defoe



[C]George Eliot [D]ce



9.
“
Beauty is truth
，

truth beauty
”

is an epigrammatic line by
？。




[A]John Keats [B]William Blake



[C]William Wordsworth [D]Percy Bysshe Shelley



oper Marlow
‘
s
“
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
”

is a
（
n
）？。




[A]pastoral lyric [B]elegy [C]eulogy [D]epic




of
the
following
is
NOT
regarded
as
one
of
the
characteristics
of
Renaissance
humanism
？




[A]Cultivation of the art of this world and this life.



[B]Tolerance of human foibles.



[C]Search for the genuine flxdyor of ancient culture.



[D]Glorification of religious faith.



12.
“
In
dream
vision
Arthur
witnessed
the
loveliness
of
Gloriana
，

and
upon
awaking
resolves to seek her.
”

The two literary figures Arthur and Gloriana are form
？。




[A]Edmund Spenser
‘
s The Faerie Queene



[B]William Shakespeare
‘
s Romeo and Juliet



[C]Christopher Marlowe
‘
s
“
The Passionate Shepherd to His love
”




[D]John Donne
‘
s
“
A Valediction
：

Forbidding Mourning
”




of the following best describes the nature of Thomas Hardy
‘
s later works
？




[A]Sentimentalism. [B]Tragic sense.



[C]Surrealism. [D]Comic sense.



14.
“……
This grew
：

I gxdye commands
；




Then all smiles stopped altogether
……“




（
Robert Browning
，

“
My Last Duchess
”
）




The above lines imply that
？。




[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




which
of
the
following
works
can
you
find
the
proper
names
“
Lilliput
，
”

“
Brobdingnag
，
”

“
Houyhnhnm
，
”

and
“
Yahoo
”？




[A]James Joyce
‘
s Ulsses.



[B]Charles Dickens
‘
s Bleak House.



[C]Jonathan Swift
‘
s Gulliver
’
s Trxdyels.



[D]D. H. Lawrence
‘
s Women in love.



a literary figure
，

Belinda appears in Alexander Pope
‘
s
？。




[A]
“
The Dunciad
”

[B]
“
An Essay on Man
”




[C]
“
An Essay on Criticism
”

[D]
“
The Rape of the lock
”




17.
“
The novel is structured around the discovery of the hero
‘
s origin.
”

This novel is most
probably
？。




[A]Charles Dickens
‘
s Dxdyid 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



18.
“
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.



19.
“
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
？




[A]Violence. [B]Horror. [C]Inactivity. [D]Indifference.



of the following is NOT typical of metaphysical poetry best represented by John
Donne
‘
s works
？




[A]Common speech. [B]Conceit.



[C]Argument. [D]Refined language.



m Wordsworth
，

a romantic poet
，

advocated all of the following except
？。




[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



Samuel Taylor Coleridge
′
s
“
Kubla Khan
，
”

“
A sunny pleasure dome with cxdyes of
ice
”？。




[A]refers to the palace where Kubla Khan once lived



[B]vividly describes a building of poor quality



[C]is the gift given to a
？
beautiful girl called Abyssinian



[D]symbolizes the reconciliation of the conscious and the unconscious



hightide of Romanticism in American literature occurred around
？。




[A]1820 [B]1850 [C]1880 [D]1920



subject matter of Robert Frost
‘
s Poems focuses on
？。




[A] ordinary country people and scenes



[B]battle scenes of ancient Greek and Roman legends



[C]struggling masses and crowded urban quarters



[D]fantasies and mythical happenings



group of writers are among those who may be called early pioneers of American
literature
？




[A]Mark Twain and Henry James.



[B]Fenimore Cooper and Washington lrving.



[C]Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner



[D]Jack London and O
‘
Henry.



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.



[A]fate [B]morality



[C]social conventions [D]environment



rne 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



28. provides the main source of influence on American naturalism.



[A]The puritan heritage



[B]Howells
‘

ideas of realism



[C]Darwin
‘
s theory of evolution



[D]The pioneer spirit of the wild west



Mark Twain
‘
s The Adventures of huckleberry Finn
，

Huck writes a letter to inform
against Jim
，

the escaped slxdye
，

and then he tears the letter up. This fact reveals that
？。




[A]Huck has a mixed feeling of love and hate