自考英美文学选读00604考前串讲(6)

2021年1月25日发(作者：iiq)
英美文学考前串讲（
6
）


Chapter 5 The Modern Period

I. Choose the right answer:
1. The three trilogies of_____Forsyte novels are masterpieces of critical realism in the early
20th century.
A. D. H. Lawrence
’
s
B. John Galsworthy
’
s
C. James Joyce
’
s
D. Thomas Hardy
’
s
Answer: B (P337)


2. ____is the most outstanding stream-consciousness novelist.
A. T.S. Eliot
B. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
C. James Joyce
D. Oscar Wilder
Answer: D (P317)

3. In his famous poem_____, Yeats explores the problems of death, love, old age and art.
A.
B.
C.
D.
Answer: D (P354)

4. ____is a poem concerned with the spiritual breakup of a modern civilization in which human
life has lost its meaning, significance and purpose.
A. Ulysses
B. The Waste Land
C. The Confidential Clerk
D. Dubliners
Answer: B (P360)

5. The Rainbow and_____are generally regarded as D.H. Lawrence
’
s masterpieces.
A. Women in Love
B. Son s and Lovers
C. Lady Chatterley
’
s Lover
D. The Plumed Serpent
Answer: A (P370)

6. In ____, James Joyce intends to present a microcosm of the whole human life by providing an

instance
of
how
a
single
event
contains
all
the
events
of
its
kind,
and
how
history
is
recapitulated
in the happenings of one day.
A. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
B. Dubliners
C. Ulysses
D. Finnegans Wake
Answer: C (P388)

7. Structurally and thematically, George Bernard Shaw follows the great tradition _______.
A. Modernism
B. Romanticism
C. Realism
D. Naturalism
Answer: C (P323)

8. Galsworthy was a _____writer, having inherited the fine traditions of the great Victorian
novelists of the critical realism such as Dickens and Thackeray.
A. naturalistic
B. romantic
C. realistic
D. conventional
Answer: D (P338)

9.
In

Forsyte
Saga
by
John
Galsworthy,
a
typical
Forsyte
has
a
remarkable
characteristic -----a strong sense of______.
A. money
B. property
C. success
D. privilege
Answer: B (P339)

10. In
A. hope to go abroad
B. desire to escape into a
C. love for common life
D. hatred for war
Answer: B (P356)

11. In which of the following poems by Yeats did you find the allusion to Helen and Trojan War?
A. Sailing to Byzantium
B. Down by the Sally Garden
C. The Lake Isle of Innisfree
D. Leda and the Swan
Answer: D (P354)

12. Of the following poems by T.S. Eliot, which is hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th
Century English Poetry?
A. Poems 1909----1925
B. The Hollow Men
C. Prufrock and Other Observations
D. The Waste Land
Answer: D (P359)

13.

yellow
fog
that
rubs
its
back
upon
the
windowpanes,/
The
yellow
smoke
that
rubs
its
muzzle
on the windowpanes/ Linked its tongue into the corners of the evening,/ Lingered upon the pools
that stand in drains.
A. T.S. Eliot
’
s
B. Emily Dickinson
’
s
C. Alfred Tennyson
’
s
D. William Wordsworth
’
s
Answer: A (P363---364)

14.
Which of
the following best
describes the speaker
of
’
The Love Song
of
J. Alfred
Prufrock
A. He is a man of an action.
B. He is a man of apathy.
C. He is a man of inactivity.
D. All the above are wrong.
Answer: C (P363)

15. Of the following works by D.H. Lawrence, _______established his position as novelist.
A. The White Peacock
B. The Trespasser
C. Women in Love
D. Sons and Lovers
Answer: D (P370)

16. Which of the following is considered to be a better-structured novel?
A. Women in Love
B. Son s and Lovers
C. The Rainbow
D. Lady Chatterley
’
s Lover
Answer: A (P372)

17.
’
The Lawrence trilogy
A. A Collier
’
s Friday Night]
B. The Daughter -in-Law
C. The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyed
D. Lady Chatterley
’
s Lover
Answer: D (P373)


18. Which of the following writings is not the novel of D.H. Lawrence
’
s?
A. Sons and Lovers
B. A Portrait of the Artist as a Yong Man
C. The White Peacock.
D. The Rainbow
Answer: B (P369---370)

19.
Of
the
following
writings
by
James
Joyce,
which
is
a
prime
example
of
modernism
in
literature?
A. Ulysses
B. A Portrait of the Artist as a Yong Man
C. Dubliners
D. Finnegans Wake
Answer: A (P386)

20. Which of the following is not true according to James Joyce?
A. Ulysses has become a prime example of modernism in literature.
B. Joyce is regarded as the most prominent stream-of-consciousness novelist.
C. Joyce is a realistic writer in English literature history.
D. His novel
’
s bitter experiences and his final artistic and spiritual liberation.
Answer: C (P386---389)

II. Read the quoted part and answer the questions:
1. Analyze the poem of T. S. Eliot -
1)
Talking of Michelangelo

<1> Why does the sentence repeat in the poem for several times?

Answer:
The sentence symbolizes the remote and faraway things, it implies the inability to face up with
the reality and the life of the hero. (P363)

2)
For the yellow smoke that slides along the street, ...
There will be time, there will be time ....

<1> What deep implication can you get from the passage?

Answer:
The
hero
was
unable
to face
up with the life and reality bravely, but he was anxious to find
time