英美文学选读试题A

2021年1月25日发(作者：靠山吃山)
西安外国语大学考试试题（
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2012-2013
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英语教育学院






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英语






课程：英美文学选读

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09
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命题时间：
12.3
命题教师：肖婉丽


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I. Multiple Choice (30 points in all, 1 for each)
Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes
the statement. Mark the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the answer sheet.
1. The most important contribution of ______ is that he not only started the modern poetry, but
also
changed
the
course
of
English
poetry
by
using
ordinary
speech
of
the
language
and
by
advocating a return to nature.
A. William Blake

C. G. G
. Byron

B. William Wordsworth
D. John Keats
2.
“
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must
be in want of a wife.
”
This humorous speech is from__________.
A. Jane Austen
’
s
Emma























B. Jane Austen
’
s
Pride and Prejudice

C. Charles Dickins
’
The Great Expectation







D. Charlotte Bronte
’
s
Jane Eyre
3. In the Victorian Period ______ became the most widely read and the most vital and challenging
expression of progressive thought.
A. poetry

C. prose

reputation as a ________ writer.
A. pessimistic, naturalistic










B. pessimistic, humorous
C. romantic, realist
















D. determinist, stylistic
5. “Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am s
oulless and heartless? ... And
if God had gifted me with some beauty, and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to
leave
me,
as
it
is
now
for
me
to
leave
you.
”
The
quoted
lines
are
most
probably
taken
from
________.
A.
Great Expectations






B.
Wuthering Heights

C.
Jane Eyre













D.
Pride and Prejudice
6.
Jane Austen’ s first novel ________ tells a story about two sisters and their love affairs.

A.
Sense and Sensibility





B.
Pride and Prejudice

C.
Northanger Abbey









D.
Mansfield Park

7. “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” comes from ________.

B. novel
D. drama
4.
Thomas
Hardy’s
______
view
of
life
predominates
most
of
hi
s
works
and
earns
him
a
A. Shelley’s
Ode to the West Wind






B. Walt Whitman’ s
Leaves of Grass

C. John Milton’s
Paradise Lost










D. John Keats’
Ode on a Grecian Ur
n
8. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” is ________ masterpiece on ________.

A. G. G. Byron’s, love












B. John Keats’, nature

C. P. B. Shelley’s, love











D. William Wordsworth’s, nature

9. T.S. Eliot’s ______ not only presents a panorama of physical disorder and spiritual de
solation
in the modern Western world, but also reflects the prevalent mood of disillusionment and despair
of a whole post- war generation.
A.
The Hollow Men












B.
The Waste Land

C.
Murder in the Cathedral






D.
Ash Wednesday

10.
John
Milton’s
grea
test
poetical
work
________
is
the
only
generally
acknowledged
epic
in
English literature since
Beowulf
.
A.
Areopagitica










B.
Paradise Lost

C.
Lycidas














D.
Samson Agonistes

11. “The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one
-eig
hth of it being above water.”
This “iceberg” analogy about prose style was put forward by ________.

A. William Faulkner









B. Henry James
C. Ernest Hemingway









D. F. Scott Fitzgerald
12. Walt Whitman believed, by means of “________,” he has tu
rned poetry into an open field, an
area of vital possibility where the reader can allow his own imagination to play.
A. free verse









B. strict verse
C. regular rhyming

A.
Typee



D. standardized rhyming
13. Of all Herman Melville’s sea adventure stories, __
______ proves to be the best.










B.
Redburn

C.
Moby Dick











D.
Omoo

14. Nathaniel Hawthorne was affected by _______’s transcendentalist theory and struck up a very
intimate relationship with him.
A. Herman Melville









B. Walt Whitman
C. R. W. Emerson











D. Washington Irving
15. Among
the
following
writers
_______is
generally
regarded
as
the
great
master
of
the
20th
century “stream
-of-
consciousness” novels in British literature.

A. T. S. Eliot










B. James Joyce
C. William Faulkner





D. Henry James
16.
In
William
Faulkner’s
writings,
the
modern
______
technique
was
frequently
and
skillfully
used to emphasize the reactions and inner musings of the narrator.

A. stream-of-consciousness

C. imagism

B. impressionism
D. dramatic monologue
17. “Byronic hero” is a figure of the following traits
EXCEPT
______.
A. being proud

C. being rebellious

B. being self-independent

D. being of humble origin
18. Charles Dickens' novel ______ is famous for its vivid descriptions of the workhouse and life

of the underworld in the nineteenth-century London.
A.
The Pickwick Paper


C.
David Copperfield


B.
Oliver Twist

D.
Nicholas Nickleby

19. ________ used Christian imagery regarding the Apocalypse and second coming as allegory to
describe
the
atmosphere
in
post-war
Europe
in
his
poem,
which
is
considered
a
major
work
of
Modernist poetry.
A. W. B. Yeats

C. Ezra Pound

B. T. S. Eliot
D. Robert Frost
20.
_______,
with
its
emphasis
on
________,
gained
momentum
as
an
artistic
movement
in
Britain
after
the
publication
of
the
Lyrical
Ballads
by
William
Wordsworth
and
Samuel
Taylor
Coleridge
A. Classicism, reason




















B. modernism, innovation
C. Realism, objective representation








D. Romanticism, imagination and emotion

21.
_________
is
a
novel
by
Nobel
Prize- winning
English
author
_______
about
a
group
of
British boys stuck on an uninhabited island who try to govern themselves, with disastrous results.

A.
A Passage to India,
E. M. Forster
B.
The Rainbow,
D. H. Lawrence
C.
Lord of the Flies,
William Golding

D. To the Lighthouse
, Virginia Woolf
22.
Jane
Austen
is
well-known
for
her
elaborative
depiction
of
five
different
marriages
in
her
novel ________.
A.
Emma












B.
Sense and Sensibility
C.
Mansfield Park






D.
Pride and Prejudice

23. _______begins and ends by posing the question of whether it is possible for an Englishman
and an Indian to ever be friends, at least within the context of British colonialism.
A.

E. M. Forste
r’s
A Passage to India










B. Joseph Conrad’s
Heart of Darkness

C. D. H. Lawrence’s
Sons and Lovers










D. Emily Bronte’s
Wuthering Heights

24. “Beauty is truth, truth beauty”, which comes from ________ famous poem ________, is surely
the most famous metaphysical equation.

A. John Keats’
Ode on a Grecian Urn







B. Shelley’s
To a Skylark

C. Byron’s
She Walks in Beauty













D. William Wordsworth’s
The Solitary Reaper

25. Robinson Crusoe is the true prototype of the British colonist. The whole Anglo-Saxon spirit is
in Crusoe except_________.
A. the manly independence














B. the persistence
C. the slow yet efficient intelligence







D. the thirst for knowledge

26. Ralph Waldo Emerson, who led the ________movement across the United States in the
mid-19th century, was seen as a champion of individualism.
A. Romantic













B. Realist

C. Transcendentalist







D. Naturalist
27. Much of ________writing centers on New England, many works featuring moral allegories
with a Puritan inspiration. His fiction works are considered part of the _______.
A. Melville’s,
Dark romanticism









B. Emerson’s, active Romanticism

C. Hawthorne's, Dark romanticism







D. Benjamin Franklin, American Realism
28.
The
White
Whale
swam
before
him
as
the
monomaniac
incarnation
of
all
those
malicious
agencies which some deep men feel eating in them, till they are left living on with half a heart and
half a lung. This is most probably from ________.
A.
Gulliver’s Tra
vel











B.
Moby Dick

C
. The Scarlet Letter











D.
Robinson Crusoe

29.
When _______ stated “The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem” in his
Preface to______, he meant that the diversity of geography, culture, beliefs and work all combine
to create a wonderful country.


A. R. W. Emerson,
Self-reliance













B. Emily Dickenson,
Complete Poems

C. Henry. W. Longfellow,
A Psalm of Life




D. Walt Whitman,
Leaves of Grass

30. ________'s poems reflect the auhtor
’
s lifelong fascination with dying and death, for instance,
O
ne
dignity delays for all.


A. Emily Dickinson








B. Walt Whitman
C. T. S. Eliot













D. Mathew Arnold

II. Decide whether the following statements are true or false. Mark the corresponding letter
T or F on the answer sheet.

(10 points in all, 1 for each)

1. In
first time in the history of English literature.
2. The term metaphysical poetry is commonly used to name the work of the 17th century writers
who wrote under the influence of John Donne.
3.
Jonathan
Swift
is
a
master
satirist,
which
is
usually
masked
by
an
outward
gravity
and
an
apparent earnestness which renders his satire all the more powerful.
4. From the middle part to the end of the 18th century, in English literature naturalism flourished.
They were mostly stories of mystery and horror which take place in some haunted or dilapidated
middle age castles.
5. Charles Dickens's later works like
Oliver Twist
present a criticism of the more complicated and
yet most fundamental social institutions and morals of the Victorian England.
6. Nearly all
Bernard Shaw’s
writings address prevailing social problems, but have a vein of
comedy which makes their stark themes more palatable.