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《英美文学》练习测试题库及答案




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I Of the four alternative answer, choose the one that would best complete the statement:





1.



Benjamin Franklin was born in the family of a small _____________.



A. Landlord B. merchant C. lawyer D. clergyman



2.



Ralph Waldo Emerson’s le


ading 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 Haw


thorne’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


r


elated


to


Emily


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’Neil


l 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 __________________________.



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




15.



Ralph Emerson was born in a family of a _____________________.



A. merchant B. businessman C. clergyman D. writer




16.



Ellen Poe began his literary career by writing ___________________;



A. short stories B. plays C. essays D. poems






17.



According


to


Nathaniel


Hawthorne,


there


is


_________


in


every


hearer,


which


may


remain


latent,


perhaps, through the whole life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.



A. evil B. virtue C. kindness D. tragedy




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




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




20.



Altogether, Emily Dickinson wrote ______ poems, of which only severn had appeared during


her lifetime.



A. 1145 B. 1775 C. 897 D. 785




21.



Theodore


Dreiser


is


generally


acknowledged


as


one


of


America’s


literary


________________.



A. realists B. naturalists C. romantists D. modernists




22.



In Frost’s poems, images and metaphors 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




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




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




26.



William Faulkner was born in a family of a _______________________.



A. merchant B. colonel C. manager D. doctor




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 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.



The 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



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 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



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 Valleys 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



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



65


.The 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


Wordswort


h


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


__________.



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 life.



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 r


epresentative 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



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 fro


m 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



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. Decide whether the following statements are true or false and write your answers in the


brackets.




( ) 1.


Leaves of Grass


established Walt Whitman as the most popular American poet of the


19


th


century.



( ) 2. The poem



Song of Myself



got this title from the first edition.



( ) 3. Puritanism and Calvinistic doctrine have great effects on Hawthorne



s writing.



( ) 4. According to Emerson, man is divine in nature and therefore forever perfectible.



( ) 5. Walt Whitman is granted the honor of being



the American Goldsmith



for his


literary craftsmanship.



( ) 6. Emersonian Transcendentalism inspired a whole generation of famous authors like


Whitman, Dickinson and Mark Twain.



( ) 7. As a Puritan, Hawthorne embraced the Puritanical doctrines and expresses them in


his novels.



( ) 8. In


The Scarlet Letter


, Hawthorne intends to tell a love story and a story of sin.



( ) 9. Hawthorne is a master of symbolism, which he took from the Puritan tradition and


bequeathed to American literature in a revivified form.



( )


10.


Walt


Whitman


follows


only


one


theme


in


his


Leaves


of


Grass


,


that


is,


the


burgeoning




life in cities.



( ) 11. Most of the poems in


Leaves of Grass


are written in heroic couplet.



( ) 12.


Life


on


the


Mississippi


tells


a


story


of


Henry


James



s


boyhood


ambition


to


become


a riverboat pilot up and down the Mississippi.



( ) 13. Emily Dickinson



s poems are usually based on her own experiences, her sorrows


and joys.



( ) 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.



( ) 15. In



This is my letter to the World



Dickinson expressed her reluctance to


communicate with the outside world.



( ) 16. Each of Emily Dickinson



s poems has a well-chosen title.



( ) 17.


Emily


Dickinson



s


poetry


is


unique


and


unconventional


in


its


own


way,


covering


love, death and nature.



( ) 18. In Robert Lee Frost



s poems, profound ideas are delivered under the disguise


of the plain language and the simple form.



( ) 19. Robert Lee Frost has long been well known as a poet who belongs to the new.



( ) 20. Robert Frost wrote most of his poems in free verse.



( ) 21. Eugene O



Neil, Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams are together called



founders of the American drama.




( ) 22. Fitzgerald shows an interest both in the upper-class society and in the


lower- class society.



( ) 23. Hemingway develops the style of colloquialism initiated by Mark Twain.



( ) 24. In his novels, William Faulkner exploits the modern steam-of



consciousness


technique to emphasize the reactions and inner musings of the narrator.



( ) 25.


Benjamin


Franklin


is


a


early


feminist,


because


he


thinks


that


women


should


receive


education.



( ) 26. Emerson



s lasting reputation was established by his masterpiece Essays.



( ) 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.



( ) 28.


In


style,


her


poems


are


characterized


by


their


brevity,


directness


and


plainness



( ) 29. Philosophically, the naturalists believe that the real and true is always


completely hidden from the understanding of the individual or beyond his control.



( ) 30. The defining formal characteristics of the modernistic works are discontinuity


and fragmentation.



( ) h critical realism found its expression chiefly in the form of drama.



( ) greatest English playwright of the


18th century was Goldsmith, whose


best


play


is



( ) 33. In 1805, Southey completed a long autobiographical poem entiled



( )


34.


The


Romantic


Age


began


in


1789


when


Wordsworth


and


Coleridge


published


their


joint


work



( ) 35. Paradise Lost is


Milton's


masterpiece; the


story is taken


from the Old


Testament:


Satan and other angels rebel against God.



( ) 36. George Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin, Scotland.



( ) 37. Byron's masterpiece is Tom Jones.



( ) 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.



( ) 39. Shakespeare'a prime creating period lies in his third period when his greatest


tragedies were written.



( ) 40. Tess is arrested and hanged because she murders her seducer Clare.




III. Paraphrase the following quotations:



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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