bytheway英美文学选读模拟题二

2021年1月20日发(作者：瓶子)
英美文学选读模拟题二

A. Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that
would best complete the statement and put the letter in the brackets. (20×1points)



( ) 1. ________is regarded as the pioneer of English drama.
A. William Shakespeare
B. Christopher Marlowe.
C. Edmund Spenser
D. John Donne


( ) 2.
_________.
A. songs
B. plays
C. comedies
D. sonnets


(
)
3.
Thomas
Gray's
masterpiece,
________
once
and
for
all
established
his
fame
ass
the
leader
of the sentimental poetry of the day, especially
A. Ode on the Spring
B. Ode on a Distant Prospect Of Eton College
C. Hymn to Adversity
D. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard


( ) 4. Which play is regarded ass the best English comedy since Shakespeare?
A. She Stoops to Conquer
B. The Rivals
C. The School for Scandal
D. The Conscious Lovers


( ) 5. The publication of
A. Don Juan
B. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
C. The Lyrical Ballads
D. Queen Mab


( ) 6.
As a new kind of ideology,
____ was widely
accepted and practised in the
later
Victorian
period.
A. earnestness

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B. utilitarianism
C. respectability
D. modesty


( ) 7. In his novels, Charles Dickens depicted a lot of child characters except _________.
A. Oliver Twist
B. Little Nell
C. Little Dorrit
D. Charles Surface


( ) 8. _______ is acknowledged by many as the most original poet of the Victorian period.
A. Robert Browning
B. Alfred Tennyson
C. George Eliot
D. John Keats


( )9. _______ is the last important novelist and poet of the 19th century.
A. Thomas Hardy
B. George Eliot
C. Alfred Tennyson
D. Robert Browning


( ) 10. ______ does not belong to the post - modernism after the Second World War.
A. Existentialist literature
B. Black Humor
C. Heater of the Absurd
D. Stream of consciousness


( ) 11. In the works of E. M. Forster and D. H. Lawrence, the subject matter is ________.
A. the social turmoil
B. the hypocrisy of the capitalism
C. love and marriage
D. human relationships


( ) 12. James Joyce's works are popular with the readers for in his writings Joyce uses the
following kinds of expressing methods.
A. sentimental romance
B. historical stylistics
C. inversion
D. counterpoint



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( ) 13. _______'s
19th century.
A. Edger Allen Poe
B. James Russel Lowell
C. John Greenleaf Whitter
D. Walt Whitman


( ) 14. In his essays, Ralph Waldo Emerson put forward his philosophy except of ______.
A. religion
B. the over - soul
C. the importance of the individual
D. nature


( )15. In the following statements, _______ is not true about the local colorism in American
literary realism.
A. Their writings are concerned with the life of a small, well - defined region or province.
B. The characteristic selling is the isolated small town.
C. Their materials were extensive or wide - ranging, and the topics were connective.
D.
Local
colorists
were
consciously
nostalgic
historians
of
a vanishing
way
of
life,
recorders
of a present that faded before their eyes.


( ) 16.
about a young
American
girl who gets
by the winter
in
Rome,
brought James international fame for the first time.
A. The American
B. Daisy Miller
C. The Europeans
D. The Portrait of a Lady


( ) 17. In his
at the bottom of the society to the power of the American financial tycoons in the late 19th
century.
A. Sister Carrie
B. An American Tragedy
C. The Genius
D. Trilogy of Desire


( ) 18. ______ is not among those greatest figures in
literature.
A. Ezra Pound
B. Robert Frost
C. Walt Whitman
D. William Carlos Williams


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( ) 19. Robert Frost recited
A. The road Not Taken
B. Mending the Wall
C. The Gift Outright
D. Birches


( ) 20. Mark Twain's best works were produced when he was in the prime of his life. All these
masterworks drew upon________.
A. the scenes and emotions of his boyhood and youth
B. the hypocrisy of the capitalism
C. the bleak view of human nature
D. the miserable life of the lower - class poor


B. Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase according to the
textbook. ( 20×1 points)



1. In
first time in the history of English literature.


2. Christopher Marlowe is the most gifted of the


3. The term
wrote under the influence of John Donne.


4. Spenser is generally regarded as the greatest nondramatic poet of the Elizabethan age. His
fame is chiefly based on his masterpiece


5.
Swift
is
a
master ______,
his
satire
is
usually
masked
by
an
outward
gravity
and an
apparent
earnestness which renders his satire all the more powerful.


6.
From
the
middle
part
to
the
end
of
the
18th
century,
in
English
literature
_______
flourished.
They were mostly stories of mystery and horror which take place in some haunted or dilapidated
middle age castles.


7. As a leading romanticist, Byron's chief contribution is his creation of the
proud, mysterious rebel figure of noble origin.



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8. _________ is regarded as a


9. All of Charles Dickens's later works, with the exception of
criticism of the more complicated and yet most fundamental social institutions and morals of
the Victorian England.


10. Bernard Shaw began his career as a dramatist in 1892, when his first play
was put on by the independent theater society.


11. __________ was regarded as father of the American short stories.


12.
The
way
in
which
______
wrote

Scarlet
Letter
suggests
that
American
Romanticism
adapted
itself to American puritan moralism.


13.
The
most
important
feature
of
Mark
Twain's
language
is
the
use
of
vernacular,
or
__________.


14.


15. Ezra Pound's major work of poetry is the long poem called _________.


16. Hemingway's
American
writer
who
attempts
to
redeem
his
imagination
from
the
corrosions
of
wealth
and
domestic
strife.


17. __________ stands as a great dividing line between the nineteenth century and the
contemporary American literature.


18. Pound was the leader of a now movement in poetry which he called the


19.


20. George Eliot's greatest achievement is


C. Decide whether the following statements are true or false and write your answers in the
brackets. (10×1 points)


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