表弟英美文学史及作品选读

问题

1

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2

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分

In the beginning of 20

th

century, the seminal developments in the fields of

philosophy and psychology that impacted literary creativity and criticism are

Bergson’s notion of ______and Freud’s theory of psychoanalysis.

所选答案：

time

正确答案：

time

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time

问题

2

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The statement that a sensitive young man is at first shaped by

excessively

powerful

and

oppressive

forces

of

his

environment

but

gradually

realizes

the

pressure

and

rebels

against

it

and

tries

to

find

his

own

identity

mat

well

sum

up

the

major

theme

of _____.

所选答案：

B.

Joyce’s

A

Portrait

of

the

Artist

as

a

Young

Man

正确答案：

B.

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Joyce’s

A

Portrait

of

the

Artist

as

a

Young

Man

Joyce’s

A

Portrait

of

the

Artist

as

a

Young

Man

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2

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问题

3

Muriel

Spark’s

The Girls of

Slender

Means

is set

in

a hostel in the city

of

__________

in

1945

when

the

detonation

of

an

unexploded

bomb

sets

fire to the hostel, a moment when characters’ spiritual world is depicted

in a biting satire.

所选答案：

London

正确答案：

London

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London

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问题

4

In

The French Lieutenant’s Woman

, is an existentially independent woman,

as she said in the novel, “No limit, no blame, can touch me.”

所选答案：

D. Sarah

正确答案：

D. Sarah

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Sarah

问题

5

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分

Modernism upholds a new view of time by emphasizing the time over the

chronological one.

所选答案：

Psychic psychological

正确答案：

Psychic

psychological

问题

6

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分

T. S. Eliot’s poem_______, which is 433 lines long, is broadly acknowledged

as one of the most recognizable landmarks of modernism, the first part of the

poem is

the Burial of the Dead.

所选答案：

The Waste Land

正确答案：

The Waste Land

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2

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分

问题

7

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

.

所选答案：

C.

Sons and Lovers

正确答案：

C.

Sons and Lovers

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Sons and Lovers

问题

8

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presents in his works strong Christian nihilism, which is reflected explicitly

by his famous saying “The dirty dog, he doesn’t even exits!” in his play

against the God,

Endgame

.

所选答案：

A. Samuel Beckett

正确答案：

A. Samuel Beckett

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Samuel Beckett

问题

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Which of the following novels was NOT written by H. G. Wells?

所选答案：

C.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

C.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

正确答案：

反馈：

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

问题

10

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The Old Wives’ Tale was written by .

所选答案：

正确答案：

D. Arnold Bennett

D. Arnold Bennett

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Arnold Bennett

问题

11

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The theory of psychoanalysis put forward first by ______exerts

great influence over modern literature.

所选答案：

B. Sigmund Freud

正确答案：

B. Sigmund Freud

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Sigmund Freud

问题

12

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2

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William

Golding’s

Lord

of

the

Flies

deals

with

the

conflict

between

the

forces of reason and those of irrationality represented by .

所选答案：

C. Jack

正确答案：

C. Jack

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Jack

问题

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Joyce

seems

to

mean

that

the

novel_________

describes

the

mental

activities

of

two

Dubliners

in

a

single

day,

while

Finnegans

Wake

,

his

second

novel,

describes

the

sub-conscious

world

in

which

a

man

lives

through a good part of his life.

所选答案：

Ulysses

正确答案：

Ulysses

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Ulysses

问题

14

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2

分，满分

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分

Between

1912

and

1922

there

came

a

great

poetry

movement______

in

England and America to express the modern sense of fragmentization and

dislocation. T.E. Hulme is considered the first outstanding theorist of this

movement.

所选答案：

imagism

正确答案：

imagism

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imagism

问题

15

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The Golden Notebook

is considered to be __________’s masterpiece, taken

as a milestone work in Feminist Literature.

所选答案：

Doris Lessing

正确答案：

Doris Lessing

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Doris Lessing

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问题

16

______represents the much more readable novelists of the stream of

consciousness school. She is a fine artist, a woman of sharp sensitivity who,

in one of her frequent mental depressions, committed suicide.

所选答案：

Virginia Woolf

正确答案：

Virginia Woolf

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问题

17

The textual insinuation of Joyce’s

Ulysses

is parallel to

Homeric

epic_____,

thus

revealing

the

vast

difference

between

the grandeur of the ancient Greek hero and the pettiness of

the degraded modern anti-hero.

所选答案：

Odyssey

正确答案：

Odyssey

反馈：

Odyssey

问题

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written

by

Iris

Murdoch

is

remarkable

for

its

meta-fictional

structure,

containing

various

narrators

and

narrative

descriptions,

and

its

multi- dimensional psychology.

所选答案：

D.

The Black Prince

正确答案：

D.

The Black Prince

反馈：

The Black Prince

问题

19

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Virginia

Woolf’s

novel

,

published

in1925,

made

her

reputation

as

an

important psychological writer.

所选答案：

Mrs. Dalloway

正确答案：

Mrs. Dalloway

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问题

20

______, which bears a strong thematic resemblance to “The Waste Land”,

is generally regarded as the darkest of T. S. Eliot’s poems.

所选答案：

The Hollow Men

正确答案：

The Hollow Men

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问题

21

William

Golding’s

first

novel_______,

which

describes

a

group

of

boys

working out their lives on an isolated island, paves the way for him to

win the Nobel Prize in 1983.

所选答案：

Lord of Flies

正确答案：

Lord of Flies

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问题

22

D.

H.

Lawrence’s

poems

fall

roughly

into

three

categories—

satirical

and

comic poems, poems about human relationship and emotions, and poems

about .

所选答案：

nature

正确答案：

nature

反馈：

nature

问题

23

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.

__________

is

the

most

outstanding

stream-of-consciousness

novelist

of

20th century.

所选答案：

C.

James

Joyce

正确答案：

C.

James

Joyce

反馈：

James

Joyce

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问题

24

G. B. Shaw’s play Mrs. Warren’s Profession is a realistic

exposure of the in

the English society.

所选答案：

正确答案：

C. economic exploitation of women

C. economic exploitation of women