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英美文学选读自考题-5
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[单项选择]Although writing from different points of view and with different techniques, 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 class
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[单项选择]The neoclassical period in English literature refers to the one between the return of the Stuarts to the English throne in 1660 and the full assertion of ______ which came with the publication of Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge in 1798.
A. Realism
B. Humanism
C. Romanticism
D. Neoclassicism
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[简答题]To be, or not to be—that is the question;
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
Questions:
A. Who is the author of the play
B. Who is the speaker
C. What does he mean when he says "To be, or not to be—that is the question"
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[单项选择]The three poets William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey once lived in the English Lake District, and became known as the "______."
A. University Wits
B. Metaphysical Poets
C. Lake Poets
D. Lost Generation
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[单项选择]John Milton's ______ is the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf.
A. Paradise Lost
B. Paradise Regained
C. Samson Agonistes
D. Areopagitica
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[单项选择]The best fictional work of Jonathan Swift is ______.
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[单项选择]The French ______, appearing in the late 19th century, heralded modernism.
A. romanticism
B. realism
C. modernism
D. symbolism
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[多项选择]Robinson Crusoe is universally considered as Daniel Defoe’s masterpiece. Robinson, apparently, is cast as a typical 18th-century pioneer colonist. Give a brief comment on Robinson Crusoe.
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[单项选择]English enlighteners in the 18th century held ______ as the yardstick for the measurement of all human activities and relations.
A. war
B. history
C. reason
D. love
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[单项选择]Charlotte Brontё's works are all about the struggle of an individual consciousness towards self-realization, about some lonely and neglected ______ with a fierce longing for love, understanding and a full, happy life.
A. young man
B. young women
C. children
D. old people
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[单项选择]Thomas Hardy's novels are all Victorian in date. Most of them are set in ______, the fictional primitive and crude rural region which is really the home place he both loves and hates.
A. Sussex
B. Wessex
C. Casterbridge
D. Oxford
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[多项选择]English Romanticism is generally said to have begun in 1798 with the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads. Why is Lyrical Ballads considered the milestone to mark the beginning of English Romanticism
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[单项选择]Which of the following women does not belong to the famous Brontё Sisters
A. Mary Brontё.
B. Charlotte Brontё.
C. Emily Brontё.
D. Anne Brontё.
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[单项选择]Which of the following writings is not created by William Wordsworth
A. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.
B. Composed upon Westminster Bridge.
C. The Solitary Reaper.
D. The Chimney Sweeper.
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[单项选择]The success of the novel ______ is due to its introduction to the English novel the first governess heroine.
A. Wuthering Heights
B. Pride and Prejudice
C. Jane Eyre
D. Sister Carrie
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[单项选择]______ writings paved the way for the use of scientific method.
A. George Bernard shaw
B. T. S. Eliot
C. Francis Bacon
D. Alexander Pope
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[单项选择]"Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere; /Destroyer and Preserver; hear, O hear!" The two lines are found in ______.
A. Young Goodman Brown by Hawthorne B. Ode to the West Wind by Shelley
B. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
C. Ulysses by Joyce
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[多项选择]Wherefore feed and clothe and save
From the cradle to the grave
Those ungrateful drones who would
Drain your sweat—nay, drink your blood
Questions:
A. Who wrote the poem What’s its name
B. Explain "drones. "
C. Interpret the passage.
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[单项选择]Of all the 18th-century novelists Henry Fielding was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a "______ in prose, " the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.
A. tragic epic
B. comic epic
C. romance
D. lyric epic
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[单项选择]The novel Oliver Twist presents Oliver Twist as Charles Dickens' first ______ hero.
A. female
B. male
C. child
D. imaginary
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[多项选择]Please cite examples from "Gulliver’s Travels" to explain briefly how did Swift criticize and allude to the government and the society.
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[单项选择]"The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune" is an example of ______.
A. metaphor
B. simile
C. irony
D. personification
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[单项选择]______ is regarded as "worshipper of nature. "
A. Coleridge
B. Wordsworth
C. T. S. Eliot
D. Robert Browning
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[单项选择]The Romantic Age began with ______ published by Wordsworth and Coleridge.
A. Leaves of Grass
B. The Cantos
C. Nature
D. Lyrical Ballads
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[多项选择]I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A. Questions: Who is the author
B. What does "A host, of" mean
C. Give a short explanation of the quotation.
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[单项选择]______ believes that man's fate is predeterminedly tragic, driven by a combined force of "nature, " both inside and outside.
A. Charles Dickens
B. Thomas Hardy
C. Bernard Shaw
D. T. S. Eliot
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[单项选择]"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, " in a form of dramatic monologue, presents the meditation of an aging ______ man over the business of proposing marriage.
A. grown
B. lunatic
C. old
D. young
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[多项选择]Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry
Questions:
A. Who is the author
B. What does "symmetry" mean
C. What does "tyger" refer to
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[单项选择]In the early stage of the English Renaissance, poetry and ______ were the most outstanding literary forms and they were carried on especially by William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson.
A. fiction
B. dramatic fiction
C. poetic drama
D. novel
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[单项选择]As a ______ writer, Jane Austen considers it her duty to express in her works a discriminated and serious criticism of life, and to expose the follies and illusions of mankind.
A. romantic
B. sentimental
C. pessimistic
D. realistic
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[单项选择]Shelley's greatest achievement is his four-act poetic drama ______.
A. Adonais
B. To a Skylark
C. A Song: Men of England
D. Prometheus Unbound
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[单项选择]______ paints a world of misery, poverty, disease, war and repression with a melancholy tone.
A. Oliver Twist
B. A Tale of Two Cities
C. Songs of Innocence
D. Songs of Experience
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[单项选择]The statement "A demanding mother turns away from her husband and gives all her affection to her sons" sums up the main plot of D. H. Lawrence's ______.
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[单项选择]The sentence "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day" is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare's ______.
A. comedies
B. tragedies
C. sonnets
D. history plays
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[单项选择]Best of all the well-known lyric pieces written by P. B. Shelley is the poet's ______, here his rhapsodic and declamatory tendencies find a subject perfectly suited to them.
A. To a Skylark
B. The Cloud
C. Ode to the West Wind
D. Ode to a Nightingale
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[单项选择]______ takes the irrational philosophy and the theory of psycho-analysis as its theoretical base.
A. Symbolism
B. Romanticism
C. Realism
D. Modernism
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[多项选择]Mrs. Warren’s Profession by George Bernard Shaw, has a strong realistic theme, which fully reflects the dramatist’s Fabianist idea. Try to summarize this theme briefly.
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[单项选择]All of the later works written by Charles Dickens, with the exception of ______, present a criticism of the more complicated and yet most fundamental social institutions and morals of the Victorian England.
A. Bleak House
B. A Tale of Two Cities
C. Little Dorrit
D. Hard Times
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[单项选择]In his novels of social satire, ______ made realistic studies of the aspirations and frustrations of the "Little Man. "
A. Arnold Bennett
B. H. G. Wells
C. John Galsworthy
D. George Bernard Shaw
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[多项选择]Jane Eyre is the greatest governess image in the literature history; please analyze briefly the character of her.
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[单项选择]William Shakespeare's greatest tragedies are: Hamlet, ______, King Lear and ______.
A. Romeo and Juliet; Othello
B. Othello; Macbeth
C. The Tempest; Macbeth
D. Othello; Henry IV
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[单项选择]Charles Dickens is one of the greatest critical realist writers of the ______.
A. Romantic Period
B. Renaissance Period
C. Neoclassical Period
D. Victorian Period
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[单项选择]Robinson Crusoe by ______ is universally considered as his masterpiece.
A. John Bunyan
B. Jonathan Swift
C. Henry Fielding
D. Daniel Defoe
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[单项选择]With classical culture and the ______ humanistic ideas coming into England, the English Renaissance began flourishing.
A. French
B. German
C. Italian
D. Greek
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[单项选择]Shakespeare's ______ are mainly written under the principle that national unity under a mighty and just sovereign is a necessity.
A. history plays
B. tragedies
C. comedies
D. plays
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[多项选择]Hamlet is the first of the great tragedies. It is generally regarded as Shakespeare’s most popular play on the stage, because it has the qualities of a "blood-and-thunder" thriller and a philosophical exploration of life and death. Try to give a brief comment on the theme of Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
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[单项选择]______'s literary achievements can be divided into three groups: the early poetic works, the middle prose pamphlets and the last great poems.
A. William Shakespeare
B. Christopher Marlowe
C. John Donne
D. John Milton
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[单项选择]Which of the following best describes the speaker of T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
A. He is a man of inactivity.
B. He is a man of kindness.
C. He is a man of action.
D. He is a man of ambition.
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[单项选择]As the best of Shakespeare's final romances, ______ is a typical example of his pessimistic view towards human life and society in his late years.
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[单项选择]______ is considered to be the best-known English dramatist since William Shakespeare.
A. George Bernard Shaw
B. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
C. Christopher Marlowe
D. John Donne