《英美文学选读》模拟试题(3)

《英美文学选读》模拟试题（三）

一、单项选择题

1.“All

is

not

lost:

the

unconquerable

will,

and

the

study

of

revenge,

immortal

hate,

and courage never to submit or yield: and what is else not to be overcome?”

A. Dr. Faustus

B. Paradise Lost

C. Paradise Regained

D. Tamburlaine

,

disregarding

grammar

and

punctuation,

always

used

“i”

instead

of

“I”

to

refer to himself as a protest against self importance?

A. Cummings

B. Wallance Stevens

C. F. Scott. Fitzgerald

D. Ernest Hemingway

of

the

following

best

descri

bes

the

speaker

of

T.S

Eliot’s

“the

love

song

of J. Alfred Prufrock”?

A. He is a man of an action.

B. He is a man of apathy.

C. He is a man of inactivity.

D. All the above are not true.

m Wordsworth asserts that poetry originates from .

A. form

B. thoughts

C. artistic devices

D. emotion

5.“My

Last

Duchess”

is

a

poem

that

best

exemplifies

Robber

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

6.“Man shall find grace.” But he must lay hold of it by an act of free will. The

freedom of the will is the keystone of ____’s creed.

A. Milton

B. Jonathan Swift

C. Henry Fielding

D. Samuel Johnson

Coleridge’s

“The

Rime

of

the

Ancient

Mariner,”

the

mariner

suffers

the

horror

of death, because _____.

A. he experiences a shipwreck

B. he is tortured with starvation

C. he undergoes much suffering

D. he kills an albatross

Jame’s fame generally rests upon

his novels and stories with _____.

A. international theme

B. national theme

C. European theme

D. regional theme

Hardy’s

“Wessex”

novels,

there

is

an

apparent

_____

touch

in

his

description

of the simple and beautiful though primitive rural life.

A. nostalgic

B. humorous

C. romantic

D. sarcastic

lly, the Renaissance refers to the period between _____ and

_____ centuries.

A. 14th-mid--17th

B. 16th-mid--17th

C. 14th- mid--18th

D. 16th-mid--19th

the following poems by , which is hailed as a landmark and a model

of the 20th century English poetry?

A. Poems 1909----1925

B. The Hollow Men

C. Prufrock and Other Observations

D. The Waste Land

12.“It

is

not

so

expressed,

But

what

of

that?

Twere

good

you

do

so

much

for

charity.”

“What of that” in the above sentence means _____.

A. this is very important

B. this is not important

C. this is true

D. this is not true

of the following poems is a landmark in English Poetry?

A.

“Lyrical Ballads and Samuel Taylor Coleridge” by Will

iam Wordsworth.

B.

“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” by William Wordsworth

C.

“Remorse” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

D.

“Leaves of Grass” by Walt Whitman.

14.

Which

of

the

following

writings

is

praised

by

Hemingway

as

a

book

from

which

“all

modern American li

terature comes”？

A. Tom Sawyer.

B. Huckleberry Finn.

C. The Gilded Age.

D. Life on the Mississippi.

which of the following works, Hemingway presents his philosophy about life

and

death

through

the

depiction

of

the

bull-fight

as

a

kind

of

microcosmic

tragedy?

A. The Green Hills of Africa.

B. The Snows of Kilimanjaro.

C. To have and Have Not.

D. Death in the Afternoon.

protagonist

of

the

poem

“Love

Song

of

J.

Alfred

Prufrock”

is

a

kind

of

tragic

figure

caught in

a sense of deafted idealism and tortured by

satisfied desires. Of

the following descriptions of him, which isn’t suitable for him?

A. He is neurotic.

B. He is self-important.

C. He is illogical.

D. He is a man of an action.

17.“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? /Thou art more l

ovely and more

temperate:

/Rough

winds

do

shake

the

darling

buds

of

May,

/And

summer’s

lease

hath

all too short a date”, the above beautiful sonnets was written by _____.

A. John Donne

B. John Milton

C. William Shakespeare

D. Francis Bacon

is a s

entence from an essay, “Read not to contradict and confuse, nor to

believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and

consider”. The essay must be _____.

A. Of Studies by Francis Bacon

B. The Advancement of Learning by Francis Bacon

C. Novum Organum by Francis Bacon

D. Essays by Francis Bacon

of the following is considered to be a better-structured novel?

A. Women in Love

B. Sons and Lovers

C. The Rainbow

D.

Lady Chatterley’s lover

so many poems such as “The Sparrow’s Nest,” “To a Skylark,” “To the

Cuckoo” and “To a Butterfly”, William Wordsworth is regarded as a “____”.

A. poet of genius

B. royal poet

C. worshipper of nature

D. conservative poet

the

first

part

of

Gulliver’s

Travels,

Gulliver

told

his

experience

in

_____.

A. Lilliput

B. Brobdingnag

C. Houyhnhnm

D. England

22.“To be, or not to be

----that is the question; whethertis nobler in the mind to

suffer. The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea

of troubles, and

by opposing end them?” Who said these words?

A. King Lear

B. Romeo

C. Antonio

D. Hamlet

23.“to be so distinguished is an honor, which, being very little accustomed to

favors from the great, I know not well how to receive or in what terms to

acknowledge.

”

A. ironic

B. jealous

C. delightful

D. humorous

the theatrical world of the neoclassical period, was the leading

figure among the host of playwrights.

A. William Blake

B. Richard Brinsley Sheridan

C. Ben Johnson

D. George Bernard Shaw

the works by John Milton, which is indeed the only generally acknowledge

epic in English literature since Beowulf?

A. Paradise Regained

B. Samson Agonists

C. Areopagitica

D. Paradise Lost

writing is a typical example of Shakespe

are’s pessimistic view towards

human life and society in his late years?

A. The Tempest

B. King Lear

C. Hamlet

D. Othello

, one of the most important poets in his time, is a leading spokesman of the

“imagist movement”?

A. J. D. Salinger

B. Ezra Pound

C. Richard Wright

D. Ralph Emerson

28._____ lays the foundation for modern science with his insistence on scientific

way

of

thinking

and

fresh

observation

rather

than

authority

as

a

basis

for

obtaining

knowledge.

A. Francis bacon

B. Thomas hardy

C. Charles dickens

D. William Blake

der pope strongly advocated , emphasizing that literary works

should be judged by classical rules of order, reason, logic, restrained emotion,

good taste and decorum.

A. idealism

B. neoclassicism

C. romanticism

D. sentimentalism

s’s works are characterized by a mingling of

and pathos.

A. metaphor

B. passion

C. satire

D. humor

31.“self

-

conceited”, “cruel” and “tyrannical” are most likely the names of

the characters in .

A.

Robert Browning’s My Last Duchess

B.

Christopher Marlowe’s Dr. Faustus

C.

Shakespeare’s love’s Labour’s lost

D.

Sheridan’s the School for Scandal

is the author of the writing “Moby Dick”?

A. S. T .Coleridge

B. John Keats

C. Henry Fielding

D. Herman Melville

sentences

“studies

serve

for

delight,

for

ornament,

and

for

ability”,

and

“some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed

and digested;...” are quoted from

A. Novum Organum

B. Of Studies By Bacon

C. The Advancement Of Learning

D. Essays

advancement of learning is a great tract on .

A. history

B. literature

C. policy

D. education

of the poems in Whitman’s leaves of grass sing of the “en

-

mass” and

the as well.

A. nature

B. life

C. self

D. self reliance

of the following is not true according to James Joyce?

A. Ulysses has become a prime example of modernism in literature.

B. Joyce is regarded as the most prominent stream of consciousness novelist

C. Joyce is a realistic writer in English literature history.

D.

His novel “a portrait of the artist as a young man” is a naturalistic account

of

the

hero’s

bitter

experiences

and

his

final

artistic

and

spiritual

liberation.

following

titles

are

all

related

to

the

subject

that

escapes

from

the

society

and returns to nature except .

A.

Dreiser’s Sister Carrie

B.

Copper’s Leather Stocking Tales

C.

Thoreau’s Walden

D.

D Mark Twain’s The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn

38.“Wild

spirit, which art moving everywhere; destroyer and preserver; hear, O

hear!”