9933【优质】英美文学选读模拟试卷一

2021年1月20日发(作者：汉斯)

Network Education College, BLCU
《英美文学选读》模拟试卷一

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I.

Multiple Choice. (1 point for each, altogether 30 points)
Directions:

There
are
30
sentences
in
this
section.
Beneath
each
sentence
there
are
four
choices respectively marked by letters A, B, C and D. Choose the word that you think best
complete the sentence.
Write your answers on the answer sheet.

1.
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 Canterbury Tales
2.
In

Apple-
Picking,
Robert
Frost
wrote:

I
have
had
too
much
/
Of
apple
-picking:
I
am
overtired/
Of
the
great
harvest
I
myself
desired.
From
these
lines
we
can
conclude that the speaker is_______.
[A] happy about the harvest
[B] still very much interested in apple-picking
[C] expecting a greater harvest
[D] indifferent to what he once desired
Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the literary scene,


_______became the
major trend in American literature in the seventies and eighties of the 19th century.

[A] Sentimentalism
[B] romanticism
[C] realism
[D] naturalism
4.
Of
the
following
American
poets
in
the
twentieth
century,
the
one
who
has
the
best
knowledge of Chinese culture is _______.

[A] Robert Frost
[B] Allen Ginsberg
[C] Ezra Pound
[D] Cummings
5. _______is the first important governess novel in the English literary history.
[A] Jane Eyre
[B] Emma
[C] Wuthering Heights
[D] Middlemarch
6. The Hemingway Code heroes are best remembered for their_______.
[A] indestructible spirit
[B] pessimistic view of life
[C] war experiences
[D] masculinity
7. Which o
f the following is taken from John Keats’Ode to a Nightingale?
_______
[A]
[B]
[C]
[D]
8.
Emily
Dickinson
wrote
many
short
poems
on
various
aspects
of
life.
Which
of
the
following is NOT a usual subject of her poetic expression? _______
[A] Religion and immortality
[B] Life and death
[C] Love and marriage
[D] War and peace
9. Henry David Thoreau
＇
s work_______, has always been regarded as a masterpiece of New
England Transcendentalism.
[A] Walden
[B] The Pioneers
[C] Nature
[D] Song of Myself
10. George Bernard Shaw’s play _______ established his position as the leading play
-wright
of his time.

[B] Too True to Be Good
[A] Widowers
’

Houses

[D] Candida
[C] Mrs. Warren
’
s Profession
11.
Romance,
which
uses
narrative
verse
or
prose
to
tell
stories
of
_______
adventures
or
other heroic deeds, is a popular literary form in the medieval period.
[A] Christian
[B] knightly
[C] Greek
[D] primitive
12. For Melville, as well as for the reader and _______ , the narrator, Moby Dick is still a
mystery, an ultimate mystery of the universe. .
[A] Ahab
[B] Ishmael

[C] Stubb
[D] Starbuck
13. 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 economic expansion
14. Which of the following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare's 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 man's salvation
15.
“And we will 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] Spenser's The Faerie Queene
[B]
John Donne's “The Sun Rising”

[C]
Shakespeare's “Sonnet 18”

[D]
Marlowe's “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”

16.
“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 esteem'd 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 that, If she were by to hear you make the offe
r.” The above is a quotation
taken from Shakespeare's 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] symbolism
17. The true subject of John
Donne's poem, “The Sun Rising,” is to
_______.
[A] attack the sun as an unruly servant
[B] give compliments to the mistress and her power of beauty
[C] criticize the sun's intrusion into the lover's private life
[D] lecture the sun on where true royalty and riches lie
18. Of all the 18thcentury 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
19. The Houyhnhnms depicted by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels are _______.
[A] horses that are endowed with reason
[B] pigmies 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.
20.
Here are four lines from a literary work: “Others for language all their care express, /And
value
books, as women men, for dress.” Th
e work is _______.
[A]
Thomas Gray's “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”

[B] John Milton's Paradise Lost
[C] Alexander Pope's Essay on Criticism
[D] Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream
21.
The phrase “to urge people to abide by Christian doctrine
s and to seek salvation through
constant struggles with their own weaknesses and all kinds of social evils” may well sum up
the implied meaning of _______.