火烈鸟的英文《英语语言学》概论总习题

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《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 Spencer
C. John Milton














D. John Donne
2. ______ is regarded today as the national epic of the Anglo- Saxons.
A.
Beowulf












B.
The Canterbury Tales

C.
Don Juan












D.
Paradise Lost
3.
The Merchant of Venice
is a ________.
A. tragedy






B. comedy







C. history play




D. tragicomedy
4. Hamlet faces the dilemma between ______.
A. action and mind







B. dream and reality
C. money and power





D. hate and love
5. John Milton
’
s masterpiece is his ______.
A.
Paradise Lost











B.
Paradise Regained

C.
Samson Agonistes







D.
Areopagitica
6. Robert Frost is a regional poet in the sense that his poems depict mostly ______.
A. the frontier life
















B. The sea adventures
C. the Puritan community










D. New England landscape
7. The novel ________ is not written by Henry James.
A.
The Ambassadors














B.
The Wings of the Dove

C.
The Bostonians
















D.
The Mysterious Stranger

8. In the 1920s decade, O
’
Neill established an international reputation with such plays as ______.

A.
The Emperor Jones














B.
Anna Christie

C.
The Hairy Ape


















D. all of the above
9. Fitzgerald
’
s fictional world is the best embodiment of the spirit of the Jazz Age, in which he
shows a particular interest in ______ society.
A. the middle- class
















B. the upper-class
C. the lower-middle-class











D. the working-class
10. Apart from the dislocation of time and the modern stream-of- consciousness, the other narrative
techniques
Faulkner
used
to
construct
his
stories
include
______,
symbolism
and
mythological
and biblical allusions.
A. impressionism















B. expressionism
C. multiple points of view








D. first person point of view
11. The following are Shakespeare
’
s greatest tragedies except __________.
A.
Hamlet







B.
Othello








C.
Twelfth Night





D.
King Lear

12. __________ is a novella about a young American 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 lady

13. John Donne is the leading figure of ________.
A. Lake Poets











B. Graveyard School

C. Satanic Poets









D. Metaphysical School
14. In Jane Austen
’
s novels, life and human nature are exposed __________________.
A. at moments of crisis


















B. during the battles
C. in the most trivial incidents of everyday


D. through the traveling
15. The following writers were awarded Nobel Prize for literature except ________.
A. William Faulkner










B. F. Scott Fitzgerald


C. John Steinbeck












D. Ernest Hemingway

II. Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase.


(30 points,
2

points each)

16. Edmund Spenser
’
s masterpiece is _________, a great poem of its age.
17. Marlowe
’
s greatest achievement lies in that he perfected _________ and made it the principle
medium of English 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. Pope
’
s
An Essay on Criticism
is a didactic poem written in _________.
20. _________ has 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 _____________, 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
_________ way
24. One of the most familiar themes in American naturalism is the 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 the Norman Conquest starts the ________ Period in English Literature.
28. Emily Bronte
’
s masterpiece is ___________
29.

Ulysses
gives an account of man
’
s 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
background,
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 title 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 ow
’
st;


Nor shall death brag thou wander
’
st in his shade,


When in eternal lines to time thou grow
’
st:


So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,


So long lives 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, it
’
s 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.
“
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 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)
e,which uses narrative verse or prose to tell stories of ___ adventures or other
heroic deeds, is a popular literary form in the medieval period.

ian
ly

ive
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

of the following
historical events does not directly help to stimulate the rising of
the Renaisssance Movement?

rediscovery of ancient Greek and Roman culture.

new discoveries in geography and astrology.

Glorious revolution.

religious reformation and the economic expansion.
of the following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare's Sonnet 18?

speaker eulogizes the power of Nature.

speaker satirizes human vanity.

speaker praises the power of artistic creation.

speaker meditates on man's salvation.
5.
“
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 __.

r's
The Faerie Queene


Donne's
“
The Sun Rising
”


peare's
“
Sonnet 18
”


e's
“
The Passionate Shepherd to His 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 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 offer.
”

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 ____.

ic irony
ification

ry
ism
ture subject of John Donne's poem,
“
The Sun Rising,
”

is to ___.

the sun as an unruly servant

compliments to the mistress and her power of beauty

ize the sun's intrusion into the lover's private life

D. lecture the sun on where true royalty and riches lie
all the 18
th
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.

epic
epic

e
epic
Houyhnhnms depicted by Jonathan Swift in
Gulliver's Travels
are ___.

that are endowed with reason

s that are endowed with admirable qualities

that are superior in wisdom

,wild, low and despicable creatures, who resemble human beings not only in
appearance but also in some other ways.
are four lines from a literary work:
“
Others for language all their care express,/And
value books,as women men, for dress.
”
The work is ___.

Gray's
“
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
”


Milton's
Paradise Lost


der Pope's Essay on Criticism

peare's Midsummer Night's Dream
phrase
“
to urge people to abide by Christian doctrines 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 ___.

A.
Gulliver's Travels
B.
The Rape of the Lock


C.
Robinson Crusoe
D.
The pilgrim's Progress

m Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following EXCEPT ___.

use of everyday language spoken by the common people

expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings

use of humble and rustic life as subject matter

use of elegant wording and inflated figures of speech
of the following is taken from John Keats
’

“
Ode on a Grecian Urn
”
?

A.
“
I fall upon 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 __.



orth
y
15.
“
Ode o na Grecian Urn
”
shows the contrast between the ___ of art and the ___ of human
passion.


?
ugliness
ence
?
transience

ence
?
sordidness

?
permanence
Ⅱ
.Reading Comprehension (20 points,)


Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in your
answer in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.

16.
“
Her eyes met his and he looked 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
sight of her inscrutable face,the thought of all the hundreds of evenings he had seen
her sitting there like that,soft and passive,but so unreadable, unknown, enraged
him beyond
measure.
”

Questions:

fy the writer and the work.

does the phrase
“
inscrutable face
”

mean?

idea does the quoted passage express?
17.
“
And when I am formulated,sprawling on a pin,

When 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:

fy the poem and the poet.

does the phrase
“
butt-ends
”

mean?

idea does the quoted passage express?
Ⅲ
.Questions and Answers(30 points in all, 15 for each)


Give brief answers to each of the following questions in English. Write your answers
in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.

a rule,an allegory is story in verse or prose with a double meaning: a surface meaning,
and an implied two works as examples of allegory. What is an allegory usually
concerned with by its implied meaning?
ation 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?
Ⅳ
.Topic Discussion(20 points)

Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the
corresponding space on the answer sheet.

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)
the statement
“—
oh,God! would you like to live with your soul in the grave?
”

the term
“
soul
”

apparently refers to ___.

liff himself
ine

's spiritual life
's ghost
typical feature of Robet Browning's poetry is the ___.

satire
-than-life caricature

zed diction
ic monologue
Victorian Age was largely an age of ____,eminently represented by Dickens and
Thackeray.




prose
4.___is the first important governess novel in the English literary history.

A.
Jane Eyre
B.
Emma


C.
Wuthering Heights

D.
Middlemarch

major concern of
______ fiction lies 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.

ce's
rthy's

ray
’
s

’
s
6.___is considered to
be the best-known English dramatist since Shakespeare, and his
representative works are plays inspired by social criticism.

d Sheridan
Goldsmith

Wilde
d Shaw
of the following is NOT a typical feature of Modernism?

elevate the individual and inner being over the social being.

put the stress on traditional values.

portray the distorted and alienated relationships between
man and his environment.

advocate a conscious break with the past.
Romantic writers would focus on all the following issues EXCEPT the ___ in the
American literary histrory.

dual feelings
of survival of the fittest

imagination
to nature
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

famous 20-years sleep in
“
Rip Van Winkle
”
helps to construct the story
in such a
way that we are greatly affected by Irving's ___.

n with the passage of time

sion of transient beauty

on laziness and corruptibility of human beings

about supernatural manipulation of man's life
whitman was a pioneering figure of American poetry. His innovation first of all lies
in his use of __,poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.

verse
couplet

verse
pentameter
literary characters of the American type in early 19
th
century are generally
characterized by all the following features EXCEPT that they ___.

local dialects

polite and elegant gentlemen

simple and crude farmers

noble savages( red and white) untainted by society
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 Portrait of a Lady

D.
The pioneers

14.
“
This is my letter to the World
”

is a poetic expression of Emily Dickinson's __ about her
communication with the outside world.

erence

y

Howells,James,and Mark
Twain active on the literary scene, __ became the major
trend in American literature in the seventies and eighties of the 19
th
century.

entalism
icism

m
lism

Ⅱ
.Reading Comprehension (16 points, 4 for each)


Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in your
answer in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.

16.
“
God knows,
?
I'm not myself
—
I'm somebody else
—?
and I'm changed,and I can't tell
what's my name,or who I am.
”

Questions:

fy the work and the author.

speaker says he is you think he is changed, or the social environment
has changed?

idea does the quoted sentence express?
17.
“
I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence: