英美文学选读-英国-维多利亚时期-练习题汇总(选择大题)

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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 corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the

answer sheet.

chapter

18.

The

Victorian

Age

was

largely

an

age

of

____,

eminently

represented

by

Dickens

and

Thackeray.

prose

(024)

18. A

typical

feature

of

the

English Victorian

literature

is

that

writers

became

social

and

moral

______, exposing all kinds of social evils.

A. revolutionaries

A. plays

C. poems

B. idealists

C. critics

D. defenders

(044)

16.

The Victorian Age is most famous for its ________.

B. novels

D. essays

(047)

14.

Which

of

the

following

statements

about

Victorian

literature

is

NOT

true?

（

）

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A. Novels became the most widely read and the most vital and challenging expression

of progressive thought.

B. Victorian novelists were angry with the inhuman social institutions, the decaying

social morality, the widespread misery, poverty and injustice.

C.

Influenced

by

a

particularly

strict

set

of

moral

standards,

Victorian

writers

like

Oscar Wilde, advocated the old moderate, respectable life-style. (057)

D. Victorian prose writers joined forces with the critical realist novelists in exposing

and criticizing the social reality.

18.

Although

writing

from

different

points

of

view

and

with

different

te chniques

，

writers in the Victorian Period shared one thing in common

，

that is

，

they were all

concerned about ______

．

A. the fate of the upper class

B. the reformation of the government

C. the fate of the common people

D. the future of their family clans

(087)

1.

The

first

mass

movement

of

the

English

working

class

and

the

early

sign

of

the

awakening of the poor, oppressed people is_____.

3

A. The Enclosure Movement

B. The Protestant Reformation

C. The Enlightenment Movement

D. The Chartist Movement

（

097

）

13. In the Victorian Period

_____

became the most widely read and the most vital and

challenging expression of progressive thought.

2

A. poetry

B. novel

C. prose

D. drama

（

097

14.

All

of

the

following

statements

about

the

Victorian

period

is

true

EXCEPT

______.

1

A. England was the “workshop of the world”.

B. The early years was a time of rapid economic development as well as serious social

1

problems.

C. Towards the mid -century, England had reached its highest point of development as

a world power.

D. Capitalism came into its monopoly stage, the gap between the rich and the poor

was further deepened. (104)

18. Which of the following can't be included in the critical realists of the Victorian Period?

a. Charlotte and Emily Bronte

b. Charles Dickens and William M. Thackeray

c. Thomas Hardy and George Eliot

d. D. H. Laurence and James Joyce

（浙

0210

）

19. English critical realism found its expression chiefly in the form of _____.

a. novel

b. drama

c. poetry

d. sonnet

（浙

）

19.

The

first

mass

movement

of

the

English

working

class

was

______,

which

signified the awakening of the poor, oppressed people.

Charles Dickens

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?

4

[A]More time to play.

[B]More food to eat.

[C]More book to read.

[D]More money to spend.

(034)

17.

Mr. Micawber in

David Copperfield

and Sam Well in

Pickwick Papers

are perhaps

the best

______ characters created by Charles Dickens.

3

A. comic

C. round

ticated

(044)

?13.

The most distinguishing feature of Charles Dicken

’

s works lies in his ________.

A. social criticism

B. optimism

D. social setting

(047)

C. character

－

portrayal

?

22

．

Dickens? works are characterized by a mingling of ______________ and pathos.

A

．

humor

B

．

satire

C

．

passion

D

．

metaphor

（

074

）

7

．

Among

the

works

by

Charles

Dickens

_______

presents

his

criticism

of

the

Utilitarian

principle

that

rules

over

the

English

education

system

and

destroys

young hearts and minds.

2

A

．

Bleak House

B

．

Pickwick Paper

C

．

Great Expectations

D

．

Hard Times

084

）

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．

The most distinguishing feature of Charles Dic

kens? works is his _______.

A

．

simple vocabulary

B

．

bitter and sharp criticism ?

C

．

character- portrayal

D

．

pictures of hap piness

（

084

）

20.

Among the following figures ______ is Dickens? first child hero.

A

．

Little Nell

B

．

David Copperfield

2

C

．

Oliver Twist

D

．

Little Dorrit

(087)

13.

Charles

Dickens'

novel

______

is

famous

for

its

vivid

descriptions

of

the

workhouse and life of the underworld in the nineteenth- century London.

A.

The Pickwick Paper

B.

Oliver Twist

C.

David Copperfield

D.

Nicholas Nickleby

(094)

14.

In

Charles

Dickens?early

novels,

he

attacks

one

or

more

specific

social

evils,

_____

is a good example of describing the dehumanizing workhouse system and the

dark, criminal underworld life.

A.

David Copperfield

B.

Oliver Twist

C.

Great Expectations

D.

Dombey and Son

（

097

）

16.

Dickens? s first child hero is ______.

A. Little Nell

B. David Copperfield

C. Oliver Twist

D. Little Dorrit

(104)

19.

Dickens

attacks

the

Utilitarian

principle

that

rules

over

the

English

education

system and destroys young hearts and minds in ______.

A.

Hand Times

B.

Great Expectations

C.

Our Mutual Friend

D.

Bleak House

(104)

3.

Charles

Dickens?

novel,

______,

is

famous

for

its

vivid

descriptions

of

the

work-house and life of the underworld in the nineteenth- century London.

A. The Pickwick Paper

B. Oliver Twist

C. David Copperfield

D. Nicholas Nickleby

（

107

）

6.

Dickens?best

- depicted characters are the following.

EXCEPT

______.

1

A. innocent, virtuous, persecuted and helpless child characters

B. horrible and grotesque characters

C. broadly humorous or comical characters

D. simple, innocent and faithful women characters

（

107

）

2 Charlotte Bronte

19.___is the first important governess novel in the English literary history.

A.

Jane Eyre

B.

Emma

C.

Wuthering Heights

D.

Middlemarch

(024)

5.“Come to me

－

come to me entirely now,” said he and ad

ded, 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

.

(034)

[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

17.

Which of the following women does not belong to the famous Bronte Sisters?

4

A. Mary Bronte

C. Emily Bronte

B. Charlotte Bronte

D. Anne Bronte

(047)

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3. “Do you think, because I am poo

，

obscure

，< /p>

plain

，

and little

，

I am soulless and

heartless?... And if God had gifted me with some beauty

，

and much wealth

，

I should

have

made

it

as

hard

for

you

to

leave

me.

as

it

is

now

for

me

to

leave

you.

”The

quoted part is taken from ______.

3

A. Great Expectations

B. Wuthering Heights

C. Jane Eyre

D. Pride and Prejudice

(087)

14. Charlotte Bronte's works are all about the struggle of an individual consciousness

towards ______, about some lonely and neglected young women with a fierce

longing for love, understanding and a full, happy life.

2

A. self - reliance

B. self - realization

C. self - esteem

D. self - consciousness

(094)

?

?s

work

_____

is

famous

for

the

depiction

of

the

life

of

the

e

21.

Charlotte

Bront

?

middle - class working women, particularly governesses.

A.

Jane Eyre

B.

Wuthering Heights

C.

The Proffessor

D.

S hirley

（

097

）

3.

Charlotte?

s

works

are

famous

for

the

depiction

of

the

life

of

______

working

women, particularly governesses.

A. the middle - class

B. the lower - class

C. the upper - middle - class

D. the upper - class

(104)

9.

Charlotte Bronte?s autobiograghical work ______ largely based on her experience

in Brussels.

1

A. The Professor

B. Shirley

C. Villette

D. Jane Eyre

（

107

）

16.

The success of ______ is also due to its introduction to the English novel the first

governess heroine.

A. The Professor

B. Jane Eyre

C. Wuthering Heights

D. Far from the Madding Crowd

（

107

）

8.

“Do

you

think,

because

I

am

poor,

obscure,

plain,

and

l

ittle,

I

am

soulless

and

heartless?

—

You think wrong! ---- I have as much soul as you --- and full as much

heart!...” This part of quotation comes from _______.

A.

G

. B. Shaw? s

Mrs. Warren’ s Profession

B. John Galsworthy?s

The Man of Property

C. Charlot

te Bronte?s

Jane Eyre

D. Jane Austen?s

Pride and Prejudice

3 Thomas Hardy

13.

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

5

[A]Sentimentalism.

[B]Tragic sense.

[C]Surrealism.

[D]Comic sense.

(034)

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