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《英美文学》练习测试题库
I
Of
the
four
alternative
answer
,
choose
the
one
that
would
best
complete
the
statement:
（选择题）
1.
Benjamin
Franklin was born in the family of a small
_____________.
A. Landlord
B.
merchant
C. lawyer
D. clergyman
2.
Ralph
Waldo
Emerson‘s
leadi
ng
reputation
began
with
the
publication
of_____________.
A.
Essays
B
.
Nature
C.
Oversoul
D.
Self-Relience
3.
Ellen Poe was
both a poet and a _____________________.
A. dramatist
B. essayist
C
actor
D
. fiction writer.
4.
Nathaniel
Hawtho
rne‘s
view
of
man
and
human
history
originates
in
__________________.
A
. Puritanism
B. Socialism
C. Transcendentalism D.
naturalism
5.
Walt Whitman was born and brought up in
a family of a ______________.
A. Peasant
B.
carpenter
C. captain
D. printer
6.
Mark
Twain‘s
first
successful
literary
work
is
_____________________________.
A
.
The Celebrated
Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
B
. Life on the Mississippi
C.
The Adventure of Tom
Sawyer
D.
The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
7.
Closely
related
to
E
mily
Dickinson‘s
religious
poetry
are
her
poems
concerning
_______________.
A. Childhood
and happiness
C. loneliness
D
. death and immortality
8.
Among
the
works
of
Dreiser,
the
bet
known
to
the
Chinese
readers
is
_________________.
A.
An American
Tragedy
B
.
Sister Carrie
C.
Th Financier
D.
The Titan
9.
Robert
Frost‘s
works
mainly
focus
on
the
landscape
and
people
in
_________________.
A. the West
B. American South
C.
New England
D.
Mississippi
10.
Most of the plays Eugene O‘Neill wrote
are
_______________________.
A. comedies
B. . romances
C. historical plays
D
tragedies
11.
Scott
Fitzgerald
is
often
acclaimed
literary
spokesman
of
the
______________________.
A. modern time
B. young Americans
C.
Jazz Age
D.
Guilded Age
12.
_______
_____________________
___
is
Hemingway‘s
masterpiece,
which
is
about the old
fisherman Santiago and his losing
battle with a giant marlin.
A.
Farewell to
Arms
B.
For whom the Bell Tolls
C.
The Sun Also Rises
D.
The Old Man and The Sea
13.
As
a
great
fiction
writer,
William
Faulker
devotes
most
of
his
works
to
the
description of the life
and the people in the __________________________.
1
A.
American West
B.
New England in America
C.
American South
D.
American North
14.
When
he
was
young,
Benjamin
Franklin
became
an
apprentice
in
a
__________________.
A. printing house
B. store
C.
Tailor‘s shop
D. factory
答案：
A
15.
Ralph Emerson
was born in a family of a _____________________.
A. merchant
B. businessman
C. clergyman
D. writer
答案：
C
16.
Ellen Poe
began his literary career by writing
___________________;
A.
short stories
B. plays
C.
essays
D. poems
答案：
D
17.
According
to
Nathaniel
Hawthorne,
there
is
_________
in
every
heare
r,
which
may remain latent,
perhaps, through the whole life; but circumstances
may rouse it
to activity
.
A. evil
B. virtue
C. kindness
D.
tragedy
答案：
A
18.
Whitman is
radically innovative in term of form of his
poetry
. What he prefers for
his new subjects and new feelings is
_____________.
A. blank
verse
B.
free verse
C.
heroic couplet
D. sonnet
答案：
B
19.
Mark
Twain
shaped
the
world‘s
view
of
America
and
made
a
combination
of
serious literature and _______.
A. American folk humor
B.
English
folklore
C. American
traditional values
D.
funny jokes
答案：
A
20.
Altogether,
Emily
Dickinson
wrote
______
poems,
of
which
only
severn
had
appeared during her lifetime.
A. 1145
B. 1775
C.
897
D. 785
答案：
B
21.
Theodore
Dreiser
is
generally
acknowledged
as
one
of
America‘s
literary
________________.
A. realists
B. naturalists
C.
romantists
D. modernists
答案：
B
22.
In
Frost‘s
poems,
images
and
metaphor
s
in
his
poems
are
drawn
from
_________________.
A. the simple country life
B.
the urban life
C. the life
on the sea
D. the adventures and trips
答案：
A
23.
Scott
Fitzgerald
never
spared
an
intimate
touch
in
his
fiction
to
deal
with
the
bankruptcy of the
_______________________________.
A. American Dream
B.
ruling classes
B. American
Capitalists
an bourgeoisie
2
答案：
A
24.
Eugene
O‘Neill is regarded as the founder of American
_____________________.
A. poetry
B
.
drama
C. fiction
D. literature
25.
___________________ is Hemingway‘s
masterpiece, which tells a story about the
tragic love of a wounded American
soldier with a British nurse.
A.
A Farewell to Arms
B.
The Sun Also Rises
C
. For Whom the Bell Tolls
D
.
In Our Time
答案：
A
26.
William
Faulkner was born in a family of a
_______________________.
A.
merchant
B. colonel
C. manager
D.
doctor
答案：
A
27.
In his essays, ______ put forward his philosophy
of the over soul, the important of
the
Individual and Nature.
A.
Nathaniel
Hawthorne
B.
Washington
Irving
C.
Mark
Twain
D.
Ralph
Waldo Emerson
28.
The chief
spokesman of New England Transcendentalism is
__________
A. Nathaniel Hawthorne
B
. Ralph Waldo
Emerson
C. Henry David
Thoreau
D. Washington
Irving
29.
______
literary
world
turns
out
to
be
a
most
disturbed,
tormented
and
problematical
one,
which
has
much
to
do
with
his
―
black
‖
vision
of
life
and
human beings.
A. Herman
Melville
‘
s
B. Washington
Irving
‘
s
C.
Nathaniel
Hawthorne
‘
s
D. Walt
Whitman
‘
s
30.
Most of the
poems in _____ sing of the
―
en-
masse
‖
and the self as well.
A.
Leaves of Grass
B.
Drum Taps
C. North of Boston
D. The Cantos
31.
In _____,
Whitman airs his sorrow at President
Lincoln
‘
s death.
A.
―
Cavalry
Crossing a Ford
‖
B.
―
A
Pact
‖
C
.
When
Lilacs
Last
in
the
Dooryard
Bloom
‘
d
D.
There
was
a
Child
Went
Forth
‖
32.
In
_____,
Whitman‘s
own
early
experience
may
well
be
identified
with
the
childhood of a young
growing America.
A.
―
A
Pact
‖
B.
―
Song of
Myself
‖
C
.
―
There was a Child Went
Forth
‖
D.
―
Cavalry Crossing a
Ford
‖
33.
In ______,
Hawthorne sets out to prove that everyone
possesses some evil secret.
A.
―
The Custom-
House
”
B
.
―
Young Goodman
Brown
‖
C.
―
Rappaccini
’
s
Daughter
‖
D.
―
The
Birthmark
34.______
is
called
by
Hemingway
the
one
from
which
―
all
modern
American
literature
comes.
‖
A
.
The adventures
of Huckleberry Fin
n
B.
The Adventures of Tom
S
awyer
C.
The Gilded Age
D.
Life on the
Mississippi
35.
Theodore
Dreiser
‘
s forgiving
treatment of the career of his heroine in ______
also
draws heavily upon the
naturalistic understanding of
sexuality
.
A
McTeague
B.
An American
Tragedy
C
.
Sister
Carri
e
D.
The Genius
36.
_______
is
a
great
giant
of
American,
whom
n
considers
―
the
true
3
father of our national
literature.
‖
A.
Henry
James
B.
Washington
Irving
C
.
Mark
Twain
D.
Theodore
Dreiser
37.
_______
is
usually
regarded
as
a
classic
book
written
for
boys
about
their
particular horrors and joys.
A.
The Adventures
of Tom Sawyer
B.
The Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn
C.
Innocents
Abroad
D.
Life on the Mississippi
38.
_______ is
described by Mark Twain as a boy with
―
a sound heart and a
deformed
conscience.
‖
A.
Tom
Sawyer
B
.
Huckleberry
Finn
C.
Jim
39.
_________ is considered to be Theodore
Dreiser
‘
s greatest work.
A
.
An American
Tragedy
B.
Sister Carrie
C.
The Financier
D.
The
Titan
40.
The
leading
playwright
of
the
modern
period
in
American
literature,
if
not
the
most successful in all his experiments,
is _______
A. Arthur Miller
B. Tennessee
William
C. George
Bernard Shaw
D.
Eugene
O
‘
Neil
41.
_______ stems
from the ambiguity of the
speaker
‘
s choice between
safety and the
unknown.
A.
―
Mending the
Wall
‖
B.
―
Home
Burial
‖
C.
―
The Road Not
Taken
‖
D.
―
Stopping by Woods on a
Snowy Evening
42.
________ is a play that concerns the
problem of modern man
‘
s
identity
.
A
.
The Hairy
Ape
B.
Long
Day
’
s Journey Into
Night
C.
The Iceman Cometh
D.
The Emperor Jones
43.
In
a
tragic
sense,
_______
is
a
representation
of
life
as
a
struggle
against
unconquerable forces in which only a
partial victory is possible.
A.
For
Whom
the
Bell
Tolls
B.
In
Our
Time
C
.
The
Old
Man
and
the
Sea
D.
A
Farewell to Arms
44.
Faulkner
once
said
that
________
is
a
story
of
―
lost
innocence,
‘
which
proves
itself to be and intensification of the
theme of imprisonment in the past.
A
.
The Sound and
the Fury
B.
Light in August
C.
Go Down, Moses
D.
Absalom,
Absalom
!
45.
In
A Rose for Emily
, Faulkner
makes best use of the _______ devices in
narration.
A. Romantic
B. Realistic
C
. Gothic
D. Modernist
46.
_______
is
Hemingway
‘
s
first
true
novel
in
which
he
depicts
a
vivid
portrait
of
―
The lost
Generation.
‖
A
.
The Sun Also
Rises
B.
A Farewell to Arms
C.
In Our
Time
D.
For Whom the
Bell Tolls
47.
The only
dramatist ever to win a Nobel Prize was
___________.
A.
Bernard
Shaw
B
.
Eugene
O
‘
Neil
C.
Richard
Brinsley
Sheridan
D.
William
Shakespeare
48.
By
means of
―
free
verse,
‖
_______
believes that
he
has
turned the poem
into an
open
field,
an
area
of
vital
possibility
where
the
reader
can
allow
his
own
4
imagination to
play
.
A. Emily Dickinson
B.
Walt Whitman
C. Robert Frost
D. Ezra Pound
49.
An eccentric
woman
who refuses to accept
the passage of time, or
the
inevitable
change and loss
that accompanies it may probably refer to _______.
A. Irene in The Man of Property
B.
Emily in A
Rose for Emily
C.
Catherine
in
Wuthering
Heights
D.
the
widow
Douglas
in
Adventures
of
Huckleberry Finn
50.
One
source
of
evil
that
Nathaniel
Hawthorne
is
concerned
most
is
overreaching
intellect.
Which of the following stories is one of this
kind?
A
.
Rappaccini
’
s
Daughter
B.
Young Goodman Brown
C.
The
Minister
’
s Black
Veil
D.
The Birthmark
51.
―
In
your rocking-chair, by
your
window, shall
you dream such
happiness as
you
may never
feel.
‖
This is the last
sentence of _______ .
A
.
Sister Carrie
B.
An American Tragedy
C.
The Genius
D.
Jane
Eyre
52.
In Walt Whitman
‘
s
―
There was a Child Went
Forth,
‖
the child refers to
________.
A. the poet himself as a
child
B. any American
child
C.
the
young America
D. one of the
poet
‘
s neighbor
53.
The _______
techniques are
used
in some
of
Eugene O
‘
Neil<
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‘
s plays
to
highlight
the theatrical
effect of the rupture between
the
two sides of an
individual
human
being, the private and
the public.
A.
naturalistic
B
.
expressionistic
C.
stream-of-
consciousness
D.
metaphysical
54.
Which of the
following is true as far as Emily
Dickinson
‘
s poetry is
concerned?
A. She seldom uses dashes.
B. All her poems are about
death or immorality.
C
. Her poems are very
personal and meditative
D.
Her poems usually have well-chosen titles.
55.
In his poems,
Whitman tends to use ______.
A.
oral
English
B.
the
King
‘
s
English
C.
American
English
D.
old
English
56.
As
far
as
Nathaniel
Hawthorne
‘
s
art
is
concerned,
which
of
the
following
statement is true?
A. His
The Scarlet
Letter
tells a love story
.
B. His art is deeply influenced by
Puritanism because he was a puritan
himself.
C.
Young
Goodman Brown
is a story about
superstition.
D.
Ambiguity
is one of the salient characteristics of his art.
57.
―
I
like to see it lap the
Miles
—
And lick
the V
alleys up
—
And stop to feed itself at
Tanks
—
And then
—?
‖
(Emily Dickinson,
―
I like to see it lap the
Miles
—
―
)
Here
―
it
‖
refers to ______ .
A. love
B. death
C. a fly
D
. the train
58.
Which of the
following statements concerning Theodore
Dreiser
‘
s style is correct?
A. Dreiser
‘
s
Cowperwood trilogy includes
The
Financier
,
The
Titan
and
The
Genius
5
B. His novels have little detail
descriptions of characters and events.
C. His novels are written in refined
language.
D
. His style is
not polished but very serious.
59.
______ has
long been well known as a poet who can
hardly be classified with the
old or
the new.
A. Ezra Pound
B
. Robert Lee
Frost
C. T. S. Eliot
D. Emily
Dickinson
60.
F.
Scott
Fitzgerald
skillfully
employs
the
device
of
having
events
observe
by
_______ to his great advantage.
A.
a
―
central
consciousness
‖
B. his double vision
C. more than one witness D. the
protagonists
61.
Shakespeare wrote
___________sonnets.
a. 125
b
. 154
c. 245
d. 138
62.
Francis
Bacon
is
not only a
great
____________, but also the
founder of
modern
science.
a. poet
b
.
essayist
c. dramatist
d.
novelist
63. John Milton became blind
mainly because of_______________.
a. reading
b. disease
c.
hard work
d. accident
64. Paradise lost is a great __________
consisting of 12 books.
a
. epic
b. story
c. lyric poem
d. narrative
poem
most
important
representative
work
by
Jonathan
Swift
is
―___________________‖.
a.
A Tale of a Tub
b. The Battle of the Books
c.
A Modest Proposal
d
.
Gulliver‘s
Travels
66. The first comedy
Sheridan wrote is __________________.
a. The School
for Scandal
b. The Critic
c. A Trip to
Scarborough
d
.
The Rivals
67
.‖____________________‖
is
the
cooperative
work
of
William
Wordsworth
and
Samuel Coleridge.
a. Tintern
Abbey
b. The Rime of
the Ancient Mariner
c
. Lyrical
Ballads
d. Prelude
68
.―The Isles of Greece‖ is
a part of Byron‘s masterpiece
―___________________‖
a.
Don Juan
b.
Childe Harold‘s Prigrimage
c.
Oriental Tales
d. Manfred
69
.Percy
Shelly‘s
greatest
achievement
is
his
four
-
act
poetic
drama
―_____________‖.
a. Men of
England
b
. Prometheus Unbound
c.
Ode to the West Wind
d. The Revolt of Islam
the age of fifteen, Keats became an
apprentice to a ______________.
a.
landlord
b
. apothecary
c. stable
keeper
d.
doctor
Austen was the daughter of a
____________________.
a. landlord
b. merchant
c. lawyer
d
. rector
novel
Pride
and
prejudice
by
Austen
mainly
centres
round
the
relationship
between
__________.
6
a.
and
b
. Darcy and Elizabeth
c. Bingley and Jane
d. Sir William
and Luccas
73. Bronte Sisters are all
outstanding ________________.
a.
essayists
b. playwrights
c. poets
d
.
novelists
74
.Most of Hardy‘s
later works show his ___________ view of
lif
e.
a. optimistic
b
. pessimistic
c. practical
d. ironical
75.
Structurally
and
thematically
Bernad
Shaw
followed
the
great
traditions
of
_________
a
. realism
b. romanticism.
c. modernism
d. classicism
peare
is
one
of
the
greatest
playwrights
and
_________________________ the world has
ever known.
a.
poets
b. novelists
c. essayists
d. critics
greatest plays
Shakespeare creates are________________.
a.
histories
b. comedies
c.
tragedies
d.
tragicomedies
78. Bacon is not only a
essayist and philosopher, but also a
_________________.
a. lawyer
b.
scientist
c. historian
d. dramatist
Milton is a great poet in the
_____________________ Peorid.
a.
Renaissance
b. Neoclassical
c. Romantic
d.
Realist
story of
Paradise
lost
is taken from __________________.
a.
a legend
b.
Bible
c. an epic
d. a folklore
1689 Jonathan
Swift became the __________________of Sir William.
a.
House-keeper
b. servant
c.
private secretary
d. steward
82
.
The representative play Sheridan wrote is ―
__________________‖.
a
.
The School for Scandal
b. The Critic
c. A Trip to
Scarborough
d. The Rivals
83.
Lyrical
Ballads
is
the
cooperative
work
of
William
Wordsworth
and
_________________.
a.
Samuel Coleridge
b. Robert Southey
c. John Keats
d. Percy Bysshe Shelley
84.
The Isles of Greece
of Byron is taken from
―_______________________‖.
a. Hours of
Idleness
b.
Don Juan
c. Childe
Harold Pilgrimage
d. Cain
85. The first long serious work of
Shelly is ________________________.
a. The
Necessity of Atheism
b.
Queen Mab
Spirit of Solitude
d. Ode to the
West Wind
86
. Keats‘ father
was a ______________.
a. landlord
b.
apothecary
c. stable
keeper
d.
doctor
87. Jane Austen was the daughter
of a ____________________.
a.
landlord
b.
merchant
c. lawyer
d
. rector
88. As a novelist, Emily Bronte was
also good at writing________________.
a. essays
b. plays
c.
poems
d.
stories
7
89
．
The first
novel written
by Thomas Hardy is
―__________________‖.
a.
Desperate Remedies
b. Under
the
Greenwood
c.
The Return of
the Native
d. The Mayor of Casterbridge
peare was the
son of a _________________________.
a. clerk
b.
landlord
c
. trader
d. lawyer
91
.‖_______________‖ is NOT
one of the four great tragedies of
Shakespeare.
a. Othello
b. King Lear
c.
Romeo and
Juliet
d. Macbeth
total number of the essays published by Bacon
is_________________.
a.10
b.26
c.45
d.
58
Milton became blind at the age of
48,mainly because of_______________.
a. reading
b. desease
c
. hard work
d. accident
se lost is a great epic consisting
_____________ books.
a.
8
b.
10
c.
12
d. 14
1689 Jonathan Swift
became the __________________of Sir William.
a.
House-keeper
b. servant
c
. private secretary
d. steward
96
.
The
first comedy Sheridan
wrote is ― __________________‖.
a.
The School for Scandal
b. The Critic
c. A Trip to
Scarborough
d
. The Rivals
97
.‖____________________‖
is
the
cooperative
work
of
William
Wordsworth
and
Samuel Coleridge.
a. Tintern
Abbey
b. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
c
. Lyrical Ballads
d. Prelude
98
. The first volume of
poems of Byron is
―_______________________‖.
a
.
Hours of Idleness
b. Don Juan
c. Childe
Harold Pilgrimage
d. Cain
99. Percy Shelly
was
expelled
from Oxford
University because
he
wrote a pamphlet
― On the
Necessity of _____________‖.
a
. Atheism
b.
Aesthetics
c. Athletics
d. Ethics
100. Keats was
born in the family of a ______________.
a.
landlord
b. apothecary
c
. stable keeper
d. doctor
101. Jane Austen was the daughter of a
____________________.
a.
a.
landlord
b. merchant
c.
lawyer
d
. rector
102. As
a novelist, Emily Bronte was also good at
writing________________.
a. essays
b. plays
c.
poems
d. stories
103
．
The first
novel written
by Thomas Hardy is
―__________________‖.
a.
Desperate Remedies
b
. Under the Greenwood
c. The Return of the Native
d. The Mayor of Casterbridge
104. In 1884 Bernad Shaw joined
__________ and became one of its most influential
members.
a
.
Chartist Movement
b. Fabian Society
c. Socialist Movement
d. Trade Union
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well-
known soliloquy by Hamlet ―To be ,
or not to be‘ shows his
a.
hatred for his uncle
b. love for life
c.
resolution of revenge
d
. inner- strife
106
.―
Some
books
are
to
be
tasted,
others
to
be
swallowed,
and
some
few
to
be
chewed and
digested;‖( Of Studies). Here Bacon compares
reading to
a. walking
b
. eating
c. drinking
d. acting
107
.―That
glory
never
shall
his
wrath
or
might/
extort
from
me.‖
(Paradise
Lost).
―That glory‖ means
a.
Satan‘s
unconquerable will
b.
Satan‘s
failure
c
.
Satan‘s surrender to God
d.
God‘s victory
of
the
following shows
in a
more
implicit way that the poet
was
touched
by
the song of the solitary reaper?
a
. I listened, motionless
land still
b. Will no one tell me what
she sings ?
c. I saw her singing at her
work.
d. The music in my heart I bore.
109
.‖Of two such lessons,
why forget / The nobler and th
e manlier
one ? ( The Isles of
Greece )‖ The
nobler and manlier one refers to
a. the Pyrrhic dance
b
.
the Pyrrhic phalanx
c. the glorious
history
d. the heroic leader
110
.
―Make
me
thy
lyre,
even
as
the
forest
is…‖
(Ode
to
the
West
Wind
)This
shows
Shelly‘s wish to be a
a
. propagator of
revolutionary ideas.
b.
singer enjoying great fame
c. man who
can wander freely
d. heroic fighter in the forest
Ⅱ
.
Decide
whether
the
following
statements
are
true
or
false
and
write
your
answers in the brackets.
(
T
)
1.
Leaves
of
Grass
established
Walt
Whitman
as
the
most
popular
American poet of the
19
th
century
.
(
F
)
2.
The poem
―
Song of
Myself
‖
got this title from
the first edition.
(
T
)
3. Puritanism
and Calvinistic doctrine
have
great effects on
Hawthorne
‘
s
writing.
(
T
)
4.
According
to
Emerson,
man
is
divine
in
nature
and
therefore
forever
perfectible.
(
F
)
5. Walt Whitman is granted
the honor of being
―
the
American Goldsmith
‖
for his literary craftsmanship.
(
F
)
6.
Emersonian
Transcendentalism
inspired a
whole
generation of
famous
authors like Whitman, Dickinson and
Mark Twain.
(
F
)
7.
As
a
Puritan,
Hawthorne
embraced
the
Puritanical
doctrines
and
expresses them in his
novels.
(
F
)
8. In
The Scarlet
Letter
, Hawthorne intends to tell a
love story and a story
9
of sin.
(
T
)
9.
Hawthorne
is
a
master
of
symbolism,
which
he
took
from
the
Puritan
tradition and bequeathed to American
literature in a revivified form.
(
F
)
10. Walt
Whitman
follows only one theme
in
his
Leaves of
Grass
, that
is,
the burgeoning life in cities.
(
F
)
11. Most of the poems in
Leaves of Grass
are written
in heroic couplet.
(
F
)
12.
Life
on
the
Mississippi
tells
a
story
of
Henry
James
‘
s
boyhood
ambition to become a
riverboat pilot up and down the Mississippi.
(
T
)
13. Emily
Dickinson
‘
s poems
are
usually based on
her own
experiences,
her sorrows and joys.
(
T
)
14.
Theodore
Dreiser
is
greatly
influenced
by
Darwinism
and
it
is
not
surprising
to
find
in
his
fiction
a
world
of
jungle,
where
―
kill
or
to
be
killed
‖
is
the
law.
(
F
) 15. In
―
This
is
my
letter to the
World
‖
Dickinson
expressed
her
reluctance
to communicate with the outside world.
(
F
)
16. Each of Emily
Dickinson
‘
s poems has a
well-chosen title.
(
T
)
17. Emily
Dickinson
‘
s poetry is unique
and unconventional in its own way
,
covering love, death and nature.
(
T
)
18.
In
Robert
Lee
Frost
‘
s
poems,
profound
ideas
are
delivered
under
the
disguise of the plain
language and the simple form.
(
F
)
19. Robert
Lee Frost
has
long been well known as a poet
who belongs to
the new.
(
F
)
20. Robert Frost wrote most of his
poems in free verse.
(
F
)
21.
Eugene
O
‘
Neil,
Arthur
Miller
and
Tennessee
Williams
are
together
called
―
founders
of the American drama.
‖
(
F
)
22. Fitzgerald shows an
interest both
in
the
upper-class society and
in
the
lower-
class society
.
(
T
)
23.
Hemingway
develops
the
style
of
colloquialism
initiated
by
Mark
Twain.
(
T
)
24.
In
his
novels,
William
Faulkner
exploits
the
modern
steam-of
–
consciousness
technique
to
emphasize
the
reactions
and
inner
musings
of
the
narrator.
(
F
)
25.
Benjamin
Franklin
is
a
early
feminist,
because
he
thinks
that
women
should
receive education.
(
T
)
26.
Emerson
‘
s
lasting
reputation
was
established
by
his
masterpiece
Essays.
(
F
)
27.
Ellen
Poe
wrote
many
poems,
so
he
has
a
very
important
position
as
poet;
he
wrote
about
70
short
stories
and
is
regarded
as
a
pioneer
of
the
detective
fiction and the horror fiction in the
west.
(
T
)
28.
In
style,
her
poems
are
characterized
by
their
brevity
,
directness
and
plainness
(
F
)
29.
Philosophically,
the
naturalists
believe
that
the
real
and
true
is
always
completely hidden from the
understanding of the individual or beyond his
control.
(
T
)
30.
The
defining
formal
characteristics
of
the
modernistic
works
are
10
discontinuity and fragmentation.
(
F
) h critical realism found its
expression chiefly in the form of
drama.
(
F
)
greatest
English
playwright
of
the
18th
century
was
Goldsmith,
whose best play
is
(
F
) 33. In 1805, Southey
completed a
long
autobiographical poem entiled
Prelude
(
T
)
34.
The
Romantic
Age
began
in
1789
when
Wordsworth
and
Coleridge
published their
joint work
(
T
)
35.
Paradise
Lost
is
Milton's
masterpiece;
the
story
is
taken
from
the
Old
Testament: Satan and
other angels rebel against God.
(
F
)
36. George Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin,
Scotland.
(
F
) 37. Byron's masterpiece
is Tom Jones.
(
F
)
38.
Novel
writing
made
a
big
advance
in
the
18th
century
.
the
main
characters in the novels were no longer
common people, but the kings and
nobles.
(
T
)
39.
Shakespeare'a
prime
creating
period
lies
in
his
third
period
when
his
greatest
tragedies were written.
(
F
) 40. Tess is
arrested and hanged because she murders her
seducer Clare.
(
T
) 41. Paradise
Lost is one of Milton's masterpiece.
(
F
)
42.
Thomas
Hardy
is
one
of
the
representatives
of
English
critic
al
romanticism at the turn of 19th
century
.
(
F
)
43.
The
Revolution
period
produced
one
of
the
most
important
poets
in
English literature,
William Shakespeare.
(
T
)
44.
The
publication
of
Lyrical
Ballads
marked
the
break
with
classicism and the beginning of the
Romantic Age.
(
F
) 45. Song to
the Men of England is Byron's political lyric.
(
T
) 46. Man and Superman is shaw's
play
.
(
F
)
47.
Lines
Composed
a
Few
Miles
above
Tintern
Abey
is
written
by
Coleridge.
(
F
) 48.
“
Shall i compare thee to a
summer's day?
”
is
a line in sonnet 18 written
by Bacon.
(
F
) 49. Paradise Lost is a novel divided
into 12 books.
(
F
)
50.
John
Milton
towers
over
his
age
as
Byron
towers
over
the
Elizabethan
Age, and as
Chaucer towers over the medieval period.
(
F
) 51. Women as poets appeared in the
Romantic Age, such as Jane Austen.
(
F
)
52. Queen Mab is the first long poem written by
Keats.
(
F
) 53. Manfred and Cain were
Byron's two poems.
(
F
) 54. The
Pride and Prejudice is the masterpiece of Charles
Dickens.
(
F
) 55.
In Of
Studies,
in
line
make
men
wise; Poets,
witty
...
means
(
F
)
56. Paradise Lost took its material from Greek
mythology
.
(
F
)
57.
Hamlet,
Shakespeare's
first
of
the
great
tragedies,
was
based
on
a
widespread legend in northern Europe.
(
F
) 58. Optimism and positivism are
strongly reflected in Hardy's writings.
(
F
) 59. Hardy is a dramatist before he
was a novelist.
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(
F
) 60. Defoe's masterpiece is
III. Paraphrase the
following quotations:
（改写解释题）
1.
The Eyes
around
—
had wrung them
dry
—
And Breaths
were gathering firm
For that last
Onset
—
when the King
Be
witnessed
—
in the
Room
—
(
Dickinson:
I heard a fly
buzz
—
when I died
)
答案：
My relatives
and friends had cried so that there were no tears
any more. I hold
my breath and got
ready for the last attack of Death when he
appeared in the room.
2.
To
go
into
solitude,
a
man
needs
to
retire
as
much
from
his
chamber
as
from
society
. I am not solitary
whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me.
But
if a man would be alone, let him
look at the stars. The rays that come from those
heavenly worlds, will separate between
him and vulgar things.
( Emerson:
Nature )
答案：
To be
solitary
, a
man should also
leave
his I am reading or
writing, I amnot alone. When a
man
looks at the stars,
his
mind can be purified and
above the dirty things.
3.
I shall be telling this
with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages
hence;
Two roads diverged in a wood,
and I
—
I took the one I less traveled
by
,
And that has
made all the difference
Robert
Frost:
The Road Not Taken
答案：
In the future I shall
tell this with some regret:
facing the two roads, I chose a
road few people had traveled
by
, and that has decided my whole life.
4.
Whether
?tis 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?
(
Hamlet )
答案：
We are facing
two choices: to endure suffering in our life
patiently or to take up
arms and fight.
Which is nobler?
5.
Their
chief
use
for
delight
is
in
privateness
and
retiring;
for
ornament,
is
in
discourse; and for ability, is in the
judgement and disposition of business.
( Of Studies )
答案：
To get
pleasure of reading, you should be alone; to show
your elequence,
you
should
talk
with
others;
to
improve
your
ability,
you
should
use
the
bookish
knowledge in the
judgement and arrangement of business.
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6.
Must we but
weep o‘er days more blest ?
Must we but blush
?
—
Our father bled.
(The Isles of Greece )
答案：
Must we only weep for the
past happy time ?
Must we only feel
ashamed , our fathers fought and died.
So we must take up arms and fight.
7.
When old age
this generation waste,
Thou shall
remain, in midst of other woe
Than
ours, a fiend to man, to whom thou
say‘st;
―Beauty is truth,
truth beauty
.‖ –
that is all
Y
e know on earth, and all ye
need to know.
( Ode on a
Grecian Urn )
答案：
When
the
old
generation
die,
you
shall
live
in
the
sorrows
of
another
generation. Y
ou tell the
people that truth and beauty are one, and that
is all
you know
and need to know.
8.
The
sun
illuminates
only
the
eye
of
the
man,
but
shines
into
the
eye
and
the
heart of the child.
Emerson:
Nature
答案：
The sun only
lights
up the adult
superficially
, but
it
lights
up both the eye and
the depth of the soul of the child
.This means the child is purer than the adult.
9.
It
is
when
the
feet
weary
and
hope
seems
vain
that
the
heartaches
and
the
longings
arise.
Know
then,
that
for
you
is
neither
surfeit
nor
content.
In
your
rocking-chair,
by
your
window
dreaming,
shall
you
long,
alone.
In
your
rocking-
chair,
by
your
window,
shall
you
dream
such
happiness
as
you
may
never feel.
Theodore
Dreiser:
Sister Carrie
答案：
When you are tired and
hopeless, desire will appear in your heart. When
you sit
in
your
arm-chair
by
the
window,
you
are
dreaming
of
the
happiness,
but
you
can
never get
it.
10.
A
wafer
of
moon
was
shining
over
Gatsby‘s
house,
making
the
night
fine
as
before,
and
surviving
the
laughter
and
the
sound
of
his
glowing
garden.
A
sudden
emptiness
seemed
to
flow
now
from
the
windows
and
the
great
doors,
endowing
with complete
isolatio the
fighre of the
host who stood othe porch, his hand up
in as
formal gesture of
farewell.
(Scott Fitzgerald:
Great Gatsby)
答案：
After the
guests
left, the
laughter and the
music
faded, but
the
moon
was still
thining
and the
night
was still
fine. An
emptiness
overwhelmed
the
whole place,
the
figure of Gatsby became
very lonely and isolated.
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