大洋洲英语英语专业 英美文学试卷及答案 期末

2021年1月20日发(作者：懂事)

英美文学试卷
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I. Mark the following statements as true (T) or false (F). (10 x 1
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=10
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)






1. (


) Chaucer is the first English short-story teller and the founder of English poetry as well as
the founder of English realism. His masterpiece
The Canterbury tales
contains 26 stories.
2. (


) English Renaissance is an age of essay and drama.

3. (


) The rise of the modern novel is closely related to the rise of the middle class and an urban
life.

4. (


) The French Revolution and the American War of Independence were two big influences
that brought about the English Romantic Movement.
5. (


) Charlotte
’
s novels are all about lonely and neglected young women with a fierce longing
for life and love. Her novels are more or less based on her own experience and feelings
and the life as she sees around.
6. (


) The leading figures of the naturalism at the turn of 19
th
century are Thomas Hardy, John
Galsworthy and Bernard Shaw.
7. (


) Emily Dickinson is remembered as the
“
All American Writer
”
.
8. (


)The Civil War divides the American literature into romantic literature and realist literature.

9. (


) Mark Twain is the first American writer to discover an American language and American
consciousness.
10. (


) In the decade of the 1910s, American literature achieved a new diversity and reached its
greatest heights.





II.
Fill in the blanks. (20 x 1
’
=20
’
)
11.
The
most
enduring
shaping
influence
in
American
thought
and
American
literature
was
___________.
12. The War of Independence lasted eight years till__________.

13.
Ralph
Waldo
Emerson's
essay__________
has
been
regarded
as

Declaration
of
Intellectual
Independence
It
called
on
American
writers
to
write
about
America
in
a
way
peculiarly American.

14. The American ___________ writers paid a great interest in the realities of life and described
the integrity of human character reacting under various circumstances and pictured the pioneers of
the Far West, the new immigrants and the struggles of the working class. The leading figures were
____________, ____________, ____________, ____________, etc.

15. No
period in
American history is
more eventful
than that between the two
world wars. The
literary features of the time can be seen in the writings of those ________ writers as Ezra Pound,
and the writers of the Lost Generation as ___________.
16. Two features of English Renaissance are the curiosity for ___________ and the interest in the
activities of _____________________.
17. Shakespeare
’
s earliest great success in tragedy is ____________, a play of youth and love, with
the famous balcony scene.
18.
There
are
three
types
of
poets
in
17
th

century
English
literature.
They
are
Puritan
poets,
___________ poets and ______________ poets.

19. Pope
’
s
An Essay on Criticism
is a didactic poem written in ___________________.
20. ___________ has been regarded by some as
“
Father of the English Novel
”
for his contribution
to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.
21.
“
Beauty is truth, truth beauty
”
is an epigrammatic line by _______________.
22. Lawrence
’
s most controversial novel is ___________, the best probably _________.

III. Multiple choice. (20 x 1
’
=20
’
)
23.
Among
the
three
major
works
by
John
Milton
________
is
indeed
the
only
generally
acknowledged epic in English literature since
Beowulf
.
A.
Paradise Regained













B.
Samson Agonistes

C
. Lycidas






















D.
Paradise Lost



24.

Francis Bacon
’
s essays are famous for their brevity, compactness and __________.
A. complicity






B. complexity






C. powerfulness







D. mildness
25. As one of the greatest masters of English prose, _______ defined a good style as
“
proper words
in proper places
”
.
A. Henry Fielding















B. Jonathan Swift









C. Samuel Johnson














D. Alexander Pope
26.
The
Pilgrim
’
s
Progress

by
John
Bunyan
is
often
said
to
be
concerned
with
the
search
for
_________.
A. material wealth















B. spiritual salvation










C. universal truth
















D. self- fulfillment
27.
“
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must
be in want of a wife.
”
The quoted part is taken from _________.
A.
Jane Eyre




















B.
Wuthering Heights







C.
Pride and Prejudice












D.
Sense and Sensibility

28. Which of the following poems is a landmark in English poetry?
A.
Lyrical Ballads
by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
B.
“
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
”
by William Wordsworth
C.
“
Remorse
”
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
D.
Leaves of Grass
by Walt Whitman
29. The most distinguishing feature of Charles
Dickens’
works is his _________.
A. simple vocabulary













B. bitter and sharp criticism
C. character- portrayal













D. pictures of happiness
30.
“
My Last Duchess
”
is a poem that best exemplifies Robert Browning
’
s ________.
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
31. ________ is the most outstanding stream of consciousness novelist, with ______as his
encyclopedia-like masterpiece.
A James Joyce,
Ulysses

B. E.M. Foster,
A Passage to India

C. D. H. Lawrence,
Sons and lovers