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英美文学选读试题A英美文学选读试题A英美文学选读试题A资料仅供参考文件编号：2022年4月英美文学选读试题A版本号：A修改号：1页次：1.0审核：批准:发布日期：西安外国语大学考试试题（A）编号:2012-2013学年第1学期系（院、部）：英语教育学院专业：英语课程：英美文学选读班级：09级本科/11级专升本命题时间：命题教师：肖婉丽以上栏目由命题教师填写，下栏由考生填写学号：姓名：系（院）：专业：班级：I.MultipleChoice(30pointsinall,1foreach)Selectfromthefourchoicesofeachitemtheonethatbestanswersthequestionorcompletesthestatement.MarkthecorrespondingletterA,B,CorDontheanswersheet.1.Themostimportantcontributionof______isthathenotonlystartedthemodernpoetry,butalsochangedthecourseofEnglishpoetrybyusingordinaryspeechofthelanguageandbyadvocatingareturntonature.A.WilliamBlake B.WilliamWordsworthC.G.G.Byron D.JohnKeats2.“Itisatruthuniversallyacknowledged,thatasinglemaninpossessionofagoodfortune,mustbeinwantofawife.”Thishumorousspeechisfrom__________.A.JaneAusten’sEmmaB.JaneAusten’sPrideandPrejudiceC.CharlesDickins’TheGreatExpectationD.CharlotteBronte’sJaneEyre3.IntheVictorianPeriod______becamethemostwidelyreadandthemostvitalandchallengingexpressionofprogressivethought.A.poetry B.novelC.prose D.drama4.ThomasHardy’s______viewoflifepredominatesmostofhisworksandearnshimareputationasa________writer.A.pessimistic,naturalisticB.pessimistic,humorousC.romantic,realist D.determinist,stylistic5.“Doyouthink,becauseIampoor,obscure,plain,andlittle,Iamsoullessandheartless...AndifGodhadgiftedmewithsomebeauty,andmuchwealth,Ishouldhavemadeitashardforyoutoleaveme,asitisnowformetoleaveyou.”Thequotedlinesaremostprobablytakenfrom________.A.GreatExpectations B.WutheringHeightsC.JaneEyre D.PrideandPrejudice6.JaneAusten’sfirstnovel________tellsastoryabouttwosistersandtheirloveaffairs.A.SenseandSensibility B.PrideandPrejudiceC.NorthangerAbbey D.MansfieldPark7.“IfWintercomes,canSpringbefarbehind”comesfrom________.A.Shelley’sOdetotheWestWind B.WaltWhitman’sLeavesofGrassC.JohnMilton’sParadiseLost D.JohnKeats’OdeonaGrecianUrn8.“IWanderedLonelyasaCloud”is________masterpieceon________.A.G.G.Byron’s,love B.JohnKeats’,natureC.P.B.Shelley’s,loveD.WilliamWordsworth’s,nature9..Eliot’s______notonlypresentsapanoramaofphysicaldisorderandspiritualdesolationinthemodernWesternworld,butalsoreflectstheprevalentmoodofdisillusionmentanddespairofawholepost-wargeneration.A.TheHollowMen B.TheWasteLandC.MurderintheCathedral D.AshWednesday10.JohnMilton’sgreatestpoeticalwork________istheonlygenerallyacknowledgedepicinEnglishliteraturesinceBeowulf.A.Areopagitica B.ParadiseLostC.Lycidas D.SamsonAgonistes11.“Thedignityofmovementofanicebergisduetoonlyone-eighthofitbeingabovewater.”This“iceberg”analogyaboutprosestylewasputforwardby________.A.WilliamFaulkner B.HenryJamesC.ErnestHemingway D.F.ScottFitzgerald12.WaltWhitmanbelieved,bymeansof“________,”hehasturnedpoetryintoanopenfield,anareaofvitalpossibilitywherethereadercanallowhisownimaginationtoplay.A.freeverse B.strictverseC.regularrhyming D.standardizedrhyming13.OfallHermanMelville’sseaadventurestories,________provestobethebest.A.Typee B.RedburnC.MobyDick D.Omoo14.NathanielHawthornewasaffectedby_______’stranscendentalisttheoryandstruckupaveryintimaterelationshipwithhim.A.HermanMelville B.WaltWhitmanC.R.W.Emerson D.WashingtonIrving15.Amongthefollowingwriters_______isgenerallyregardedasthegreatmasterofthe20thcentury“stream-of-consciousness”novelsinBritishliterature.A.T.S.Eliot B.JamesJoyceC.WilliamFaulkner D.HenryJames16.InWilliamFaulkner’swritings,themodern______techniquewasfrequentlyandskillfullyusedtoemphasizethereactionsandinnermusingsofthenarrator.A.stream-of-consciousness B.impressionismC.imagism D.dramaticmonologue17.“Byronichero”isafigureofthefollowingtraitsEXCEPT______.A.beingproud B.beingself-independentC.beingrebellious D.beingofhumbleorigin18.CharlesDickens'novel______isfamousforitsvividdescriptionsoftheworkhouseandlifeoftheunderworldinthenineteenth-centuryLondon.A.ThePickwickPaper B.OliverTwistC.DavidCopperfield D.NicholasNickleby19.________usedChristianimageryregardingtheApocalypseandsecondcomingasallegorytodescribetheatmosphereinpost-warEuropeinhispoem,whichisconsideredamajorworkofModernistpoetry.A.W.B.Yeats B.T.S.EliotC.EzraPound D.RobertFrost20._______,withitsemphasison________,gainedmomentumasanartisticmovementinBritainafterthepublicationoftheLyricalBalladsbyWilliamWordsworthandSamuelTaylorColeridgeA.Classicism,reasonB.modernism,innovationC.Realism,objectiverepresentationD.Romanticism,imaginationandemotion21._________isanovelbyNobelPrize-winningEnglishauthor_______aboutagroupofBritishboysstuckonanuninhabitedislandwhotrytogovernthemselves,withdisastrousresults.A.APassagetoIndia,E.M.ForsterB.TheRainbow,D.H.LawrenceC.LordoftheFlies,WilliamGoldingD.TotheLighthouse,VirginiaWoolf22.JaneAusteniswell-knownforherelaborativedepictionoffivedifferentmarriagesinhernovel________.A.EmmaB.SenseandSensibilityC.MansfieldParkD.PrideandPrejudice23._______beginsandendsbyposingthequestionofwhetheritispossibleforanEnglishmanandanIndiantoeverbefriends,atleastwithinthecontextofBritishcolonialism.A.E.M.Forster’sAPassagetoIndiaB.JosephConrad’sHeartofDarknessC.D.H.Lawrence’sSonsandLoversD.EmilyBronte’sWutheringHeights24.“Beautyistruth,truthbeauty”,whichcomesfrom________famouspoem________,issurelythemostfamousmetaphysicalequation.A.JohnKeats’OdeonaGrecianUrnB.Shelley’sToaSkylarkC.Byron’sSheWalksinBeautyD.WilliamWordsworth’sTheSolitaryReaper25.RobinsonCrusoeisthetrueprototypeoftheBritishcolonist.ThewholeAnglo-SaxonspiritisinCrusoeexcept_________.A.themanlyindependenceB.thepersistenceC.theslowyetefficientintelligenceD.thethirstforknowledge26.RalphWaldoEmerson,wholedthe________movementacrosstheUnitedStatesinthemid-19thcentury,wasseenasachampionofindividualism.A.RomanticB.RealistC.TranscendentalistD.Naturalist27.Muchof________writingcentersonNewEngland,manyworksfeaturingmoralallegorieswithaPuritaninspiration.Hisfictionworksareconsideredpartofthe_______.A.Melville’s,DarkromanticismB.Emerson’s,activeRomanticismC.Hawthorne's,DarkromanticismD.BenjaminFranklin,AmericanRealism28.TheWhiteWhaleswambeforehimasthemonomaniacincarnationofallthosemaliciousagencieswhichsomedeepmenfeeleatinginthem,tilltheyareleftlivingonwithhalfaheartandhalfalung.Thisismostprobablyfrom________.A.Gulliver’sTravelB.MobyDickC.TheScarletLetterD.RobinsonCrusoe29.When_______stated“TheUnitedStatesthemselvesareessentiallythegreatestpoem”inhisPrefaceto______,hemeantthatthediversityofgeography,culture,beliefsandworkallcombinetocreateawonderfulcountry.

A.R.W.Emerson,Self-relianceB.EmilyDickenson,CompletePoemsC.Henry.W.Longfellow,APsalmofLifeD.WaltWhitman,LeavesofGrass30.________'spoemsreflecttheauhtor’slifelongfascinationwithdyinganddeath,forinstance,Onedignitydelaysforall.A.EmilyDickinsonB.WaltWhitmanC.T.S.EliotD.MathewArnoldII.Decidewhetherthefollowingstatementsaretrueorfalse.MarkthecorrespondingletterTorFontheanswersheet.(10pointsinall,1foreach)1.In"TheCanterburyTales",ChauceremployedtheblankversewithtrueeaseandcharmforthefirsttimeinthehistoryofEnglishliterature.2.Thetermmetaphysicalpoetryiscommonlyusedtonametheworkofthe17thcenturywriterswhowroteundertheinfluenceofJohnDonne.3.JonathanSwiftisamastersatirist,whichisusuallymaskedbyanoutwardgravityandanapparentearnestnesswhichrendershissatireallthemorepowerful.4.Fromthemiddleparttotheendofthe18thcentury,inEnglishliteraturenaturalismflourished.Theyweremostlystoriesofmysteryandhorrorwhichtakeplaceinsomehauntedordilapidatedmiddleagecastles.5.CharlesDickens'slaterworkslikeOliverTwistpresentacriticismofthemorecomplicatedandyetmostfundamentalsocialinstitutionsandmoralsoftheVictorianEngland.6.NearlyallBernardShaw’swritingsaddressprevailingsocialproblems,buthaveaveinofcomedywhichmakestheirstarkthemesmorepalatable.7.ErnestHemingway’s1954NobelPrizewinningstoryTheOldManandtheSeacentersuponSantiago,anagingfishermanwhostruggleswithagiantmarlinfaroutintheGulfStream.8.Americanromanticismwasinawayderivative;AmericanromanticwritingwassomeofthemmodeledonEnglishandEuropeanworks.9.Transcendentalismexaltedreasonoverfeeling,individualexpressionovertherestraintsoflawandcustom.10.HeartofDarknessbyJosephConradpresentsapsychologicaljourneyintothecoreofevilor"heartofdarkness"inone'sownmind,asheorsheprogressesthroughthewildSouthAmericanland.III.Answerthefollowingquestions.(60pointsinall,15foreach)1.WhatdidNeoclassicistscelebrateinliterarycreation?Pleaseillustrateitwithexamples.2.WhyisWilliamShakespearecalledahumanist

Pleaseexplainitthroughoneortwoofhisworks.

3.WhatisthecommonthemeofThomasHardy’sworks

PleaseillustrateitthroughTessoftheD’Urbervilles.4.WhatisthecommonthemeofNathanielHawthorne’sworks

Pleaseexplainitthroughoneortwoofhisworks.

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