英美文学选读模拟试题

12.G.B.Shaws play Mrs.Warrens Profession is a realistic exposure of the _______ in the English society. A.slum landlordism

B.inequality between men and women C.political corruption

D.economic exploitation of women 13.

\Catherine! I‘ll stay. If he shot me so, I‘d expire with a blessing in my lips.\taken must be _________.

A. Jane Austen‘s Pride and Prejudice B. Charles Dickens‘s The Old Curiosity Shop C. Samuel Richardson‘s Pamela D. Emily Bronte‘s Wuthering Heights

14.\seem to forget, she said,that cup is not!\

From the above quoted passage, we can find the womans tone is very _______ . A.sarcastic B.amusing C.sentimental D.facetious

15.Here is a passage from Middlemarch, a novel by George Eliot: \moral imprisonment which made itself one with the chill, colourless, narrowed landscape, with the shrunken furniture, the never-read books, and the ghostly stag in pale fanatic world that seemed to be vanishing from the daylight,\ A. Dorothea B. Emma C. Molly D. Irene

16.Alexander Pope strongly advocated _______, emphasizing that literary works should be judged by rules of order, reason, logic, restrained emotion, good taste and decorum. A.sentimentalism B.romanticism C.idealism D.neoclassicism

17.Which of the following brings LITTLE impact on the development of 20th century literature? A. Friedrich Nietzche‘s assertions: \

B. Arther Schopenharuer‘s and Henry Bergson‘s philosophical ideas of irrationality. C. Oscar Wilde‘s idea of \

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D. Freudian-Jungian psycho-analysis

18.Of all the eighteenth-century novelists, _______ was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a \ A.Daniel Defoe B.Samuel Richardson C.Henry Fielding D.Oliver Goldsmith

19.Which of the following best describes the speaker of T.S.Eliot‘s \ A. He is an man of a action. B. He is a man of apathy. C. He is a man of passion. D. He is a man of inactivity

20.In Hardys Wessex novels, there is an apparent _______ touch in his description of the simple and beautiful though primitive rural life. A.humorous B.romantic C.nostalgic D.sarcastic

21. \postman came running back, afraid something had happened. /they saw his tripped cap over the short curtains. Mrs Morel rushes to the door.\ A. Charlotte Bronte‘s The Professor B. Charles Dickens‘s Domebey and Son C. D.H.Lawrence ‘s Sons and Lovers D. John Galsworthy‘s The Forsyte Saga

22.We can perhaps describe the west wind in Shelleys poem \except _______ . A.tamed B.swift C.proud D.wild

23.Which of the following works concerns most concentrated the Calvinistic view of original sin? A. The Wasteland. B. The Scarlet Letter. C. Leaves of Grass. D. As I Lay Dying

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24.In Hawthornes \in the woods. There he recognizes many pillars of Salems Puritan society as well as his wife, Faith. The story illustrates Hawthornes allegorical theme of human evil or what Melville called the \ A.blackness B.whiteness C.terror D.hypocrisy

25.Who exerts the single most important influence on literary naturalism, of which Theodore Dreiser and Jack London are among the best representative writers? A. Freud B. Darwin. C. W. D. Howells. D. Emerson

26.Most of the poems in Whitmans Leaves of Grass sing of the \ A.nature B.self-reliance C.self D.life

27.At the beginning of Faulkner‘s A Rose For Emily, there is a detailed description of Emily‘s old house. The purpose of such description is to imply that the person living in it ______. A. is a wealth lady B. has good taste C. is a prisoner of the past D. is a conservative aristocrat

28.Which of the following statements about writers in 1920s is true? A.Mark Twain published his last and most important novel. B.F. Scott Fitzgerald received the Nobel Prize.

C.Freudian psychology influenced many modern writers. D.Most writers were politically radical.

29.Most of Herman Melville‘s novels are based on sea voyages and sea adventures. Which of the following is not the case? A. Typee. B. Moby-Dick. C. Omoo.

D. The Confidence-Man

30.Mark Twains first novel _______ , written in collaboration with Charles D. Warner and published in

1873,though not an artistic success, gives its name to the America of the post-Civil War period which it attempts to satirize.

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A.The Gilded Age B.The Age of Innocence C.The Roughing Time D.The Jazz Age

31.\ And sorry I could not travel both ...\

In the above two lines of Robert Frost‘s The Road Not Taken, the poet, by implication, was referring to _______. A. a travel experience B. a marriage decision C. a middle-age crisis D. one‘s course of life

32.Daisy Millers tragedy of indiscretion is intensified and enlarged by its narration from the point of view of _______ .

A.the author Henry James B.the Italian youth Giovanelli C.the American youth Winterbourne D.her mother Mrs. Miller

33.Which of the following is not a work of Nathaniel Hawthorne‘s? A. The House of the Seven Gables. B. The Blithedale Romance. C. The Marble Falun. D. White Jacket.

34.In Hawthorne‘s novels and short stories, intellectuals usually appear as _______. A. commentators B. observers C. villains D. saviors

35.Most recognizable literary movement that gave rise to the twentieth-century American literature, or we may say, the second American Renaissance, is the _______ movement. A.transcendental B.leftist C.expatriate D.expressionistic

36.In Fitzgerald‘s The Great Gatsby, there are detailed descriptions of big parties. The purpose of such descriptions is so show _______. A. emptiness of life

B. the corruption of the upper class C. contrast of the rich and the poor

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