《英语语言学》概论总习题

1、英语语言学概论总习题第一套复习试卷I. Choose the one that would best complete the statement below. (30 points, 2 points each)1. John Dryden called _ the father of English poetry.A. Geoffrey Chaucer B. Edmund SpencerC. John Milton D. John Donne2. _ is regarded today as the national epic of the Anglo-Saxons.A. Beowulf

2、B. The Canterbury TalesC. Don Juan D. Paradise Lost3. The Merchant of Venice is a _.A. tragedy B. comedy C. history play D. tragicomedy4. Hamlet faces the dilemma between _.A. action and mind B. dream and realityC. money and power D. hate and love5. John Miltons masterpiece is his _.A. Paradise Lost

3、 B. Paradise RegainedC. Samson Agonistes D. Areopagitica6. Robert Frost is a regional poet in the sense that his poems depict mostly _.A. the frontier life B. The sea adventuresC. the Puritan community D. New England landscape7. The novel _ is not written by Henry James.A. The Ambassadors B. The Win

4、gs of the DoveC. The Bostonians D. The Mysterious Stranger8. In the 1920s decade, ONeill established an international reputation with such plays as _. A. The Emperor Jones B. Anna ChristieC. The Hairy Ape D. all of the above9. Fitzgeralds fictional world is the best embodiment of the spirit of the J

5、azz Age, in which he shows a particular interest in _ society.A. the middle-class B. the upper-classC. the lower-middle-class D. the working-class10. Apart from the dislocation of time and the modern stream-of-consciousness, the other narrative techniques Faulkner used to construct his stories inclu

6、de _, symbolism and mythological and biblical allusions.A. impressionism B. expressionismC. multiple points of view D. first person point of view11. The following are Shakespeares greatest tragedies except _.A. Hamlet B. Othello C. Twelfth Night D. King Lear12. _ is a novella about a young American

7、girl who gets “killed” by the winter in Rome, and it brought Henry James international fame for the first time.A. The American B. The Europeans C. Daisy Miller D. The Portrait of A lady13. John Donne is the leading figure of _.A. Lake Poets B. Graveyard School C. Satanic Poets D. Metaphysical School

8、14. In Jane Austens novels, life and human nature are exposed _.A. at moments of crisis B. during the battlesC. in the most trivial incidents of everyday D. through the traveling15. The following writers were awarded Nobel Prize for literature except _.A. William Faulkner B. F. Scott Fitzgerald C. J

9、ohn Steinbeck D. Ernest HemingwayII. Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase. (30 points, 2 points each)16. Edmund Spensers masterpiece is _, a great poem of its age.17. Marlowes greatest achievement lies in that he perfected _ and made it the principle medium of Eng

10、lish drama.18. As a lexicographer, Samuel Johnson distinguished himself as the author of the first English dictionary by an Englishman: _, a gigantic task which Johnson undertook single-handedly and finished in over seven years.19. Popes An Essay on Criticism is a didactic poem written in _.20. _ ha

11、s been regarded by some as “Father of the English Novel” for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.21. Mark Twain preferred to have his own region and people at the forefront of his stories. This particular concern about the local character of a region came about as _

12、, a unique variation of American literary realism.22. Pound was the leader of a new movement in Poetry which he called “_” movement.23. Dreiser broke away form the genteel tradition of literature and dramatized the life in a very _ way24. One of the most familiar themes in American naturalism is the

13、 theme of human _, especially as an explanation of sexual desire.25. Two major figures of black fiction in America are _ and Ralph Ellison.26. Apart from Darwinism, the two thinkers whose ideas had the greatest impact on the Modernism period were the German _ and the Austrian Sigmund Freud.27. With

14、the Norman Conquest starts the _ Period in English Literature.28. Emily Brontes masterpiece is _29. Ulysses gives an account of mans life during one day in _30. In the mid-1950s and early 1960s, there appeared a group of young novelists and playwrights with lower-middle-class or working class backgr

15、ound, they demonstrated a particular disillusion over the depressing situation in Britain and launched a bitter protest against the outmoded social and political values in their society. They were known as “_”.III. For each of the quotations listed below please give the name of the author and the ti

16、tle of the literary work from which it is taken and then briefly interpret it. (18 points, 6 points each)31“Nor lose possession of that fair thou owst; Nor shall death brag thou wanderst in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou growst: So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long liv

17、es this, and this gives life to thee.”32. His father picked the baby up and slapped it to make it breathe and handed it to the old woman. “See, its a boy, Nick,” he said. “How do you like being an internee?” Nick said, “All right.” He was looking away so as not to see what his father was doing.33. “

18、Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth;”IV. Give brief answers to the following questions. (22 points, 11 points each)34. Why do we say Hawthorne is a master of

19、 symbolism? Give at least two examples of symbols from The Scarlet Letter.35. Why is Thomas Hardy often regarded as a transitional writer?第二套复习试卷I. Choose the one that would best complete the statement below. (30 points, 2 points each)1.Romance,which uses narrative verse or prose to tell stories of

20、_ adventures or other heroic deeds, is a popular literary form in the medieval period. A.Christian B.knightly C.Greek D.primitive2.Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his production of _. A.Piers Plowman B.Sir Gawain and the Green Knight C.Confessio Amantis D.The Cant

21、erbury Tales3.Which of the following historical events does not directly help to stimulate the rising of the Renaisssance Movement? A.The rediscovery of ancient Greek and Roman culture. B.The new discoveries in geography and astrology. C.The Glorious revolution. D.The religious reformation and the e

22、conomic expansion.4.Which of the following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeares Sonnet 18? A.The speaker eulogizes the power of Nature. B.The speaker satirizes human vanity. C.The speaker praises the power of artistic creation. D.The speaker meditates on mans salvation.5.“And we wil

23、l sit upon the rocks,/Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks,/By shallow rivers to whose falls/Melodious birds sing madrigals.”The above lines are probably taken from _. A.Spensers The Faerie Queene B.John Donnes “The Sun Rising” C.Shakespeares “Sonnet 18” D.Marlowes “The Passionate Shepherd to His

24、Love”6.“Bassanio:Antonio,I am married to a wife Which is as dear to me as life itself; But life itself, My wife, and all the world. Are not with me esteemd above thy life; I would lose all, ay, sacrifice them all, Here to the devil, to deliver you. Portia:Your wife would give you little thanks for t

25、hat, If she were by to hear you make the offer.”The above is a quotation taken from Shakespeares comedy The Merchant of Venice.The quoted part can be regarded as a good example to illustrate _. A.dramatic irony B.personification C.allegory D.symbolism7.The ture subject of John Donnes poem,“The Sun R

26、ising,” is to _. A.attack the sun as an unruly servant B.give compliments to the mistress and her power of beauty C.criticize the suns intrusion into the lovers private life D. lecture the sun on where true royalty and riches lie8.Of all the 18thcentury novelists Henry Fielding was the first to set

27、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 epic9.The Houyhnhnms depicted by Jonathan Swift in Gullivers Travels are _. A.horses that are endowed with reason B.pigmies

28、that are endowed with admirable qualities C.giants that are superior in wisdom D.hairy,wild, low and despicable creatures, who resemble human beings not only in appearance but also in some other ways.10.Here are four lines from a literary work:“Others for language all their care express,/And value b

29、ooks,as women men, for dress.”The work is _. A.Thomas Grays “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” B.John Miltons Paradise Lost C.Alexander Popes Essay on Criticism D.Shakespeares Midsummer Nights Dream11.The phrase “to urge people to abide by Christian doctrines and to seek salvation through const

30、ant struggles with their own weaknesses and all kinds of social evils” may well sum up the implied meaning of _. A.Gullivers Travels B.The Rape of the Lock C.Robinson Crusoe D.The pilgrims Progress12.William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following EXCEPT _. A.the use of everyday lan

31、guage spoken by the common people B.the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings C.the use of humble and rustic life as subject matter D.the use of elegant wording and inflated figures of speech13.Which of the following is taken from John Keats “Ode on a Grecian Urn”? A.“I fall up

32、on the thorns of life! I bleed!” B.“They are both gone up to the church to pray.” C.“Earth has not anything to show more fair.” D.“Beauty is truth, truth beauty”.14.“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind!” is an epigrammatic line by _. A.J.Keats B.W.Blake C.W.Wordsworth D.P.B.Shelley15.“Ode o na

33、 Grecian Urn”shows the contrast between the _ of art and the _ of human passion. A.glory ugliness B.permanencetransience C.transiencesordidness D.glorypermanence.Reading Comprehension (20 points,) Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English.Write your answer in the correspond

34、ing space on the answer sheet.16.“Her eyes met his and he looked away.He neither believed nor disbelieved her,but he knew that he had made a mistake in asking;he never had known,never would know,what she was thinking.The sight of her inscrutable face,the thought of all the hundreds of evenings he ha

35、d seen her sitting there like that,soft and passive,but so unreadable, unknown, enraged him beyond measure.”Questions: A.Identify the writer and the work. B.What does the phrase “inscrutable face” mean? C.What idea does the quoted passage express?17.“And when I am formulated,sprawling on a pin, When

36、 I am pinned and wriggling on the wall. Then how should begin To spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways.”Questions: A.Identify the poem and the poet. B.What does the phrase “butt-ends” mean? C.What idea does the quoted passage express?.Questions and Answers(30 points in all, 15 for each) Giv

37、e brief answers to each of the following questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.18.As a rule,an allegory is story in verse or prose with a double meaning: a surface meaning, and an implied meaning.List two works as examples of allegory. What is an all

38、egory usually concerned with by its implied meaning?19.Inspiration for the romantic approach initially came from two great shapers of thought. Who are the two? And what ideas they expressed inspire the romantic writers?.Topic Discussion(20 points)Write no less than 150 words on each of the following

39、 topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.20.How is Romanticism different from Neoclassicism? Provide brief evidence from the literary works you know best.第三套复习试卷I. Choose the one that would best complete the statement below. (30 points, 2 points each)1.In the statement“oh,Go

40、d! would you like to live with your soul in the grave?” the term“soul” apparently refers to _. A.Heathcliff himself B.Catherine C.ones spiritual life D.ones ghost2.The typical feature of Robet Brownings poetry is the _. A.bitter satire B.larger-than-life caricature C.Latinized diction D.dramatic mon

41、ologue3.The Victorian Age was largely an age of _,eminently represented by Dickens and Thackeray. A.poetry B.drama C.prose D.epic prose4._is the first important governess novel in the English literary history. A.Jane Eyre B.Emma C.Wuthering Heights D.Middlemarch5.The major concern of _ fiction lies

42、in the tracing of the psychological development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature. A.D.H.Lawrences B.J.Galsworthys C.W.Thackerays D.T.Hardys6._is considered to be the best-known English dramatist since Shak

43、espeare, and his representative works are plays inspired by social criticism. A.Richard Sheridan B.Oliver Goldsmith C.Oscar Wilde D.Bernard Shaw7.Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Modernism? A.To elevate the individual and inner being over the social being. B.To put the stress on tr

44、aditional values. C.To portray the distorted and alienated relationships between man and his environment. D.To advocate a conscious break with the past.8.The Romantic writers would focus on all the following issues EXCEPT the _ in the American literary histrory. A.individual feelings B.idea of survi

45、val of the fittest C.strong imagination D.return to nature9.Henry David Thoreaus work,_,has always been regarded as a masterpiece of New England Transcendentalism. A.Walden B.The pioneers C.Nature D.Song of Myself10.The famous 20-years sleep in “Rip Van Winkle”helps to construct the story in such a

46、way that we are greatly affected by Irvings _. A.concern with the passage of time B.expression of transient beauty C.satire on laziness and corruptibility of human beings D.idea about supernatural manipulation of mans life11.Walt whitman was a pioneering figure of American poetry. His innovation fir

47、st of all lies in his use of _,poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme. A.blank verse B.heroic couplet C.free verse D.iambic pentameter12.The literary characters of the American type in early 19th century are generally characterized by all the following features EXCEPT that they _. A.spe

48、ak local dialects B.are polite and elegant gentlemen C.are simple and crude farmers D.are noble savages( red and white) untainted by society13.Hester Pryme, Dimmsdale,Chillingworth and Pearl are most likely the names of the characters in _. A.The Scarlet Letter B.The House of the Seven Gablest C.The

49、 Portrait of a Lady D.The pioneers14.“This is my letter to the World” is a poetic expression of Emily Dickinsons _ about her communication with the outside world. A.indifference B.anger C.anxiety D.sorrow15.With Howells,James,and Mark Twain active on the literary scene, _ became the major trend in A

50、merican literature in the seventies and eighties of the 19thcentury. A.sentimentalism B.romanticism C.realism D.naturalism.Reading Comprehension (16 points, 4 for each) Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English.Write your answer in the corresponding space on the answer shee

51、t.16.“God knows,Im not myselfIm somebody elseand Im changed,and I cant tell whats my name,or who I am.”Questions: A.Identify the work and the author. B.The speaker says he is changed.Do you think he is changed, or the social environment has changed? C.What idea does the quoted sentence express?17.“I

52、 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, And that has made all the difference.”Questions: A.Idenfity the poem and the poet. B.What does the phrase “ages and ages hence” mean? C.What idea does the quoted pas

53、sage express?.Questions and Answers (24 points in all,6 for each)18.The white whale,Moby Dick,is the most important symbol in Melvilles novel.What symbolic meaning can you draw from it?19.Nature is a philosophic work, in which Emerson gives an explicit discussion on his idea of the Qversoul.What is your understanding of Emersonian “Oversoul”?.Topic Discussion(20 points in all, 10 for each)20.Summerize the story of Mark twains The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in about 100 words,and comment on the theme of the novel.第四套复习试卷I. Choose the one that would best complete the statement below