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英美文学选读自考题-3
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[单项选择]Perhaps the most anthologized poem in English literature is Wordsworth's ______.
A. "To a Skylark"
B. "I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud"
C. "An Evening Walk"
D. "My Heart Leaps up/
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[单项选择]Theodore Dreiser belonged to the school of literary ______ which .emphasized heredity and environment as important deterministic forces shaping individualized characters who were presented in special and detailed circumstances.
A. naturalism
B. realism
C. determinism
D. humanism
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[单项选择]Milton's ______ is a long epic divided into 12 books.
A. Paradise Lost
B. Paradise Regained
C. Areopagitica
D. Samson Agonistes
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[多项选择]Please mark a brief comment on Hawthorne’s Young Goodman Brown.
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[单项选择]Literarily ______ was the first important Romantic-. poet, showing a contempt for the rule of reason, opposing the classical tradition of the 18th century, and treasuring the individual's imagination.
A. William Wordsworth
B. William Blake
C. Robert Burns
D. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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[单项选择]The English Romantic period produced two major novelists. They are ______.
A. Lamb and Hazlitt
B. Byron and Shelley
C. Scott and Austen
D. Keats and Coleridge
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[单项选择]As one of the first novelists to introduce the themes of psychology into his works, D. H. Lawrence uses ______ to present the psychological aspects of his characters.
A. stream of consciousness
B. dramatic monologue
C. romantic and realistic tradition
D. poetic imagination and symbolism
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[多项选择]How do you philosophically define Transcendentalism
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[单项选择]"Because I could not stop for Death-" is a poem written by ______.
A. Ezra Pound
B. Walt Whitman
C. Robert Frost
D. Emily Dickinson
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[单项选择]In ______, Shelley created a Platonic symbol of the spirit of man, a force of beauty and regeneration.
A. "My Heart Leaps up"
B. "The Cloud"
C. "Ode to Liberty"
D. "Adonais/
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[单项选择]Returning to England from Germany in 1799, William Wordsworth and his sister settled at Dove Cottage in Grasmere, Westmoreland. The poet ______ as well as ______ lived nearby, and the three men became known as the "Lake Poets."
A. Samuel Taylor Coleridge; George Gordon Byron
B. Robert Southey; Samuel Taylor Coleridge
C. John Keats; Robert Southey
D. George Gordon Byron; Percy Bysshe Shelley
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[单项选择]Most of George Bernard Shaw's plays are concerned with political, economic, moral, or religious problems, and thus, can be termed as ______ plays.
A. comic
B. tragic
C. problem
D. realistic
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[单项选择]North of Boston is described by the author, Robert Frost, as "a book of people," which shows a brilliant insight into ______ character and the background that formed it.
A. the cowboy
B. New England
C. Ivy League
D. ivory tower
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[单项选择]A preoccupation with the ______ view of original sin and the mystery of evil marked the works of Hawthorne, Melville and a host of lesser writers.
A. optimistic
B. Calvinistic
C. Platonic
D. Socratic
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[单项选择]In ______ of Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift satirizes the western civilization including false illusions about science, philosophy, history and even immortality.
A. the first voyage to Lilliput
B. the second voyage to Brobdingnag
C. the third voyage to the Flying Island
D. the fourth voyage to Houyhnhnm land
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[单项选择]In Henry James' Daisy Miller, the author tries to portray the young woman as an embodiment of ______.
A. the corruption of the newly rich
B. the free spirit of the New World
C. the decline of aristocracy
D. the force of convention
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[单项选择]The Birthmark drives home symbolically Hawthorne's point that ______ is man's birthmark, something he is horn with.
A. goodness
B. original sin
C. evil
D. kindness
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[单项选择]The impact of Darwin's evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the nineteenth-century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to yet another school of realism: American ______.
A. modernism
B. colloquialism
C. naturalism
D. humanism
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[单项选择]The most distinguishing feature of Charles Dickens's works lies in his ______.
A. social criticism
B. optimism
C. character-portrayal
D. social setting
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[单项选择]Samuel Langhorne Clemens is better known by the pen name ______.
A. Mark Twain
B. Henry James
C. William Faulkner
D. Theodore Dreiser
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[单项选择]In Hardy's Wessex novels, there is an apparent ______ touch in his description of the simple and beautiful though primitive rural life.
A. realistic
B. nostalgic
C. romantic
D. sentimental
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[单项选择]In 1950, ______ was awarded the Nobel Prize for the anti-racist Intruder in the Dust.
A. Robert Frost
B. William Faulkner
C. Ezra Pound
D. Ernest Hemingway
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[单项选择]The Petrarchan sonnet was first introduced into England by ______.
A. Surrey
B. Wyatt
C. Blake
D. Milton
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[单项选择]As a novelist ______ writes within a very narrow sphere, the provincial life of the late 18th-century England.
A. Jonathan Swift
B. Jane Austen
C. Thomas Hardy
D. Henry Fielding
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[单项选择]The Renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events EXCEPT ______.
A. the rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek culture
B. the vast expansion of British colonies in North America
C. the new discoveries in geography and astrology
D. the religious reformation and the economic expansion
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[单项选择]Which of the following descriptions of the Enlightenment Movement is NOT correct
A. The movement flourished in France.
B. The movement was a furtherance of the Renaissance.
C. The purpose of the movement was to enlighten the whole world.
D. The purpose of the movement was to enhance the religious education.
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[单项选择]______ turns out to be a symbolic voyage of the mind in quest of the truth and knowledge of the universe, a spiritual exploration into man's deep reality and psychology.
A. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
B. The Great Gatsby
C. Moby-Dick
D. The Scarlet Letter
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[多项选择]Thomas Hardy is not an analyst of human life or nature, but a meditative story-teller or romancer. Please make a brief comment on Hardy’s Tess of the D’ Urbervilles.
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[单项选择]P. B. Shelley's greatest political lyrics is ______.
A. Men of England
B. An Essay on Criticism
C. The Prelude
D. A Defence of Poetry
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[单项选择]Lawrence was recognized as a prominent novelist only after he published his third novel ______.
A. The Rainbow
B. Women in Love
C. Sons and Lovers
D. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
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[单项选择]______ is a master satirist. His satire is usually masked by an outward gravity and an apparent earnestness which renders his satire all the more powerful.
A. Jonathan Swift
B. Daniel Defoe
C. Henry Fielding
D. Thomas Gray
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[单项选择]According to Whitman, the genuine participation of a poet in a common cultural effort was to behave as a supreme
A. democrat
B. individualist
C. romanticist
D. leader
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[多项选择]What is "the Enlightenment Movement"
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[单项选择]The Hemingway Code heroes are best remembered for their ______.
A. masculinity
B. war experience
C. indestructible spirit
D. pessimistic view of life
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[多项选择]Why has Fielding been regarded as "Father of the English Novel"
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[简答题]I consulted several things in my situation which I found would be proper for me: 1st, health and fresh water I just now mentioned; 2ndly, shelter from the heat of the sun; 3rdly, security from ravenous creatures, whether men or beasts; 4thly, a view to the sea, that if God sent any ship in sight, I might not lose any advantage for my deliverance, of which I was not willing to banish all my expectation yet.
Questions:
A. Identify the author and the work.
B. What idea does the quoted passage express
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[单项选择]The Waste Land, ______'s most important single poem, has been hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th-century English poetry.
A. Fitzgerald
B. Faulkner
C. Hemingway
D. T. S. Eliot
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[单项选择]The Romantic Movement expressed a more or less ______ attitude toward the existing social and political conditions that came with industrialization.
A. positive
B. negative
C. neutral
D. indifferent
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[单项选择]Many people today tend to regard the play The Merchant of Venice as a satire of the hypocrisy of ______ and their false standards of friendship and love, their cunning ways of pursuing worldliness and their unreasoning prejudice against ______.
A. Christians/Jews
B. Jews/Christians
C. oppressors/oppressed
D. men/women
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[简答题]The Eyes around—had wrung them dry—
And Breaths were gathering firm
For that last Onset—when the King
Be witnessed—in the Room—
Questions:
A. From which poem is the stanza taken
B. What does "the King" refer to
C. What does the first line mean
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[单项选择]Which of the following descriptions of Gothic Novels is NOT correct
A. It predominated in the early eighteenth century.
B. It was one phase of the Romantic movement.
C. Its principal elements are violence, horror and the supernatural.
D. Works like The Mysteries of Udolpho and Frankenstein are typical Gothic romance.
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[简答题]For herein Fortune shows herself more kind
Than is her custom. It is still her use
To let the wretched man outlive his wealth,
To view with hollow eye and wrinkled brow
An age of poverty; from which ling’ring penance
Of such misery doth she cut me off.
Questions:
A. Who is the author of the play
B. What does "she" refer to
C. What does the statement mean
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[单项选择]In the Victorian period, ______, that Wessex man, not only continued to expose and criticize all sorts of social iniquities, but finally came to question and attack the Victorian conventions and morals.
A. Charles Dickens
B. William Makepeace Thackeray
C. Thomas Hardy
D. Charlotte Bronte
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[多项选择]What are the major themes of modernist literature
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[单项选择]The outstanding realistic novelists in the early 20th-century England were ______, H. G. Wells and Arnold Bennett.
A. George Bernard Shaw
B. John Galsworthy
C. James Joyce
D. T. S. Eliot
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[单项选择]______ by Henry James tells a story about a young and innocent American confronting the complexity of the European life.
A. The American
B. Daisy Miller
C. The Europeans
D. The Portrait of A Lady
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[单项选择]Shelley's masterpiece, ______, is a verse drama, which borrows the basic story from the Greek mythology.
A. The Revolt of Islam
B. Prometheus unbound
C. Ode to the West Wind
D. Adonais
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[单项选择]For the Romantics, ______ is not only the major source of poetic imagery, but also provides the dominant subject matter.
A. love
B. man
C. nature
D. death
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[单项选择]The most famous dramatists in the Renaissance England are all the following EXCEPT ______.
A. Francis Bacon
B. Christopher Marlowe
C. William Shakespeare
D. Ben Jonson
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[多项选择]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 less traveled by,
A. Questions: Identify the author and the title of the poem from which the quoted lines are taken.
B. What additional meaning do the two roads have
C. What dilemma is the speaker facing