《英美文学选读》模拟试题(1)

《英美文学选读》模拟试题（一）

一、单项选择题

1.The excerpt from Chapter 10 of Sons and Lovers ends with the conflict between Paul and his mother. The conflict is possibly caused by Paul and his mother’s different views towards _____.

A. Paul’s father

B. art

C. life

D. Paul’s brother

2.The _____ can be regarded as one of the themes of Joyce’s story “Araby”.

A. loss of innocence

B. childish love

C. awareness of harsh life

D. false sentimentality

3.After reading “Araby”, one more feel the s tory has a _____ tone.

A. joyous

B. harsh

C. solemn

D. painful

4.In “Araby”, Joyce’s diction evokes a sort of _____ quality that characterizes the boy on this otherwise altogether ordinary shopping trip.

A. religious

B. moral

C. sentimental

D. vulgar

5.The 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.

A. D. H. Lawrence’s

B. J. Galsworthy’s

C. W. Thackeray’s

D. T. Hardy’s

6.The mission of _____ drama was to reveal the moral, political and economic truth from a radical reformist point of view.

A. T. S. Eliot’s

B. J. Galsworthy’s

C. B. Shaw’s

D. W. B. Yeats’

7.Irving was best known for his famous short stories such as _____.

A. Rip Van Winkle

B. Young Goodman Brown

C. Life of Goldsmith

D. Life of Washington

8.Melville’s _____ is an encyclopedia of everything, history, philoso phy, religion, etc.

A. The Old Man and the Sea

B. Moby–Dick

C. White Jacket

D. Billy Budd

9.Mark Twain created, in _____, a masterpiece of American realism that is also one of the great books of world literature.

A. Huckleberry Finn

B. Tom Sowyer

C. The Gilded Age

D. The Mysterious Stranger

10.American literature produced only one female poet during the nineteenth century. This was _____.

A. Anne Bradsteet

B. Jane Austen

C. Emily Dickinson

D. T. S. Eliot

11.The main theme of _____ The Art of Fiction reveals his literary credo that representation of life should be the main object of the novel.

A. Henry James’

B. Mark Twain’s

C. Theodore Dreiser’s

D. William Howells’

12.In the 1920s, O’Neill established an international reputation with the plays ______.

A. The Emperor Jones

B. Anna Christle

C. The Hairy Ape

D. all of the above

13.In 1954, _____ was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature for his “mastery of the art of m odern narration.”

A. T. S. Eliot

B. Ernest Hemingway

C. John Steinbeck

D. William Faulkner

14.“The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.” This is the shortest poem written by _____.

A. T. S. Eliot

B. Robert Frost

C. Ezra Pound

D. Emily Dickinson

15.In Robert Frost’s famous poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”, there are four lines like these: “The woods are lovely, dark and deep, /But I have promises

to keep, /And miles to go before I sl eep, /And miles to go before I sleep”. The second sleep refers to _____.

A. die

B. calm down

C. fall into sleep

D. stop walking

16.Of the following American poets, whose work was first recognized in England and then in America?

A. Robert Frost

B. Walt Whitman

C. Emily Dickinson

D. Wallace Stevens

17.“For 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 _____.

A. is happy about the harvest

B. is tired of the work of apple-picking

C. is not tired when seeing the harvest

D. becomes indifferent of the job

18.Chinese poetry and philosophy had great influence on _____.

A. Robert Frost

B. Ralph Waldo Emerson

C. Ezra Pound

D. Emily Dickinson

19.The Hemingway code heroes are best remembered for their _____.

A. indestructible spirit

B. pessimistic view of life

C. war experiences

D. masculinity

20.Lots of people rushed to Gatsby’s party at the weekend and they clustered around Gatsby’s wealth like ____.

A. gluttons

B. flies

C. insects

D. moths

二、综合题

1.Read the quoted part carefully and answer the questions in English.

It may be that the gulfs will wash us down;

It may be we shall touch the Happy Tales,

And see the great Achilles, whom we knew,

Tho’ much is taken, much abides, and tho’

We are not now that strength which in old days

Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are;

One equal temper of heroic hearts,

Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

A. The passage is taken from the poem “___________”.

B. The author of the poem is ____________.

C. The poem is written in the form of _________.

D. The speaker is __________.

2.Read the quoted part carefully and answer the questions in English.

Whether fagged by the three days’ running chase, and the resistance to his swimming in the knotted hamper he bore; or whether it was some latent deceitfulness and malice in him: whichever was true, the white Whale’s way now began to abate, as it seemed, from the boat so rapidly nearing him once more; though indeed the whale’s last start had not been so long a one as before. And still as Ahab glidede over the waves the unpitying sharks accompanied him; and so pertinaciously stuck to the boat; and so continually bit at the plying oars, that the blades became jagged and crunched, and left small splinters in the sea, at almost every dip.

A From which novel is the paragraph taken?

B What is the name of the author?

C Who is Ahab?

D What is the theme of the novel?

3.Read the quoted part carefully and answer the questions in English.

Standing on the bare ground, ----- my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space, ------- all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.

A. Which work is this fragment taken from?

B. How do you understand the philosophical ideas in this words?

4.Read the quoted part carefully and answer the questions in English.

“if he be not apt to beat over matters, let him study the lawyer’s cases, so every defect of the mind may have a special receipt.”

A. what does “beat over matters” mean?

B. what does “receipt” refer to?

C. from which essay does the above sentences come?

5.Give brief answers to the question in English.

What is Lyrical Ballads?

Why is Lyrical Ballads regarded as a landmark in English poetry?

6.Give brief answers to the question in English.

Do you think the two collections of poems written by William Blake are the same? If not, what is the difference?

7.Give brief answers to the question in English.

What are some of the general artistic features of Wal t Whitman’s poetry?

8.Give brief answers to the question in English.

Can we say that when Brown （Hawthorne’s Young Goodman Brown） enters the dark forest he is really enter his own evil mind? If yes （or no）, please explain.

9.This monologue, a psychological exploration of life and death, reveals the character of Hamlet as a man of contemplation rather than action. With the intolerable burden of the duty to revenge his father’s death and the challenge of evil forces, Hamlet seems to withdraw into a mental world which is thrown into a conflict or a choice between life and death. The philosophical speculation mixed up with a deep pessimistic outlook resists against action at first, but later awakens the hero out of his melancholy to a sense of the “enterprise of great pith and moment”, indicating that he is to do something for what he concerns himself with.

10.Write no less than 150 words on the following topic in English.

Make a comparison between Henry James’ realism and Mark Twain’s realism.

答案部分

一、单项选择题

1.C

2.A

3.D

4.A

5.A

6.C

7.A

8.B

9.A 10.C 11.A 12.D 13.B 14.C 15.A 16.A 17.B 18.C 19.A 20.D 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38.

39. 41.

二、综合题

1.

【正确答案】 A. Ulyssess

B. Afred Tennyson

C. Dramatic Monologue

D. Ulysses

2.

【正确答案】 A. Moby – Dick

B. Herman Melville

C. The Captain of the whaling ship

D. The rebellious struggle of Captain Ahab against the over-whelming, mysterious vastness of the universe and its awesome sometimes merciless forces.

3.

【正确答案】 A. Nature

B. Emerson regards nature as the purest, and the most sanctifying moral influence

on man, and advocated a direct intuition of a spiritual and immanent God in nature. The soul has completely transcended the limits of individuality and become part of the Over soul. Emerson sees spirit pervading everywhere, not only in the soul of man, but behind nature, throughout nature.

4.

【正确答案】 A. make through exam of things.

B. cure, prescription

C. of studies Francis Bacon

5.

【正确答案】 A. It is a collaboration of Wordsworth and Coleridge, the major representatives of the Romantic Movement.

B. In the book, they explored new theories and innovated new techniques in poetry writing. They saw poetry as a healing energy; they believed that poetry could purify both individual souls and the society. The preface to the second edition of the Lyrical Ballads acts as a manifesto for the new school. Wordsworth’s poems in the Lyrical Ballads differs in marked ways from his early poetry, notably the uncompromising simplicity of much of the language, the strong sympathy not merely with the poor in general but with particular, dramatized examples of them, and the fusion of natural description with expressions of inward states of mind.

6.

【正确答案】 A. No

B. The two collections of poems written by William Blake, “Sons of Innocence” and “Sons of Experience”, hold the similar subject-matter, but the tone, emphasis and conclusion differ.

7.

【正确答案】 Walt Whitman was an important poet in American literary history. His originality lies first of all in his use of the poetic form free verse, by means of which he becomes conversational and casual. He usually uses the first person pronoun “I” to stress individualism, and oral language to acquire sympathy from the common reader. His topics are sometimes sexual but his themes are far more than sexual.

8.

【正确答案】Hawthorne’s stories are generally read as allegories symbolic of human experience, so is “Young Goodman Brown”. Allegorically Brown’s night journey to the forest could be taken as a journey of the mind into the dark region of evil. It is especially true if we allow for some very important details about the light and the shadow, the dreamlike atmosphere, the words and phrases he uses to describe what Brown has experienced in the forest, none of which seems to be substantially solid or physically present.

9.

【正确答案】 This monologue, a psychological exploration of life and death, reveals the character of Hamlet as a man of contemplation rather than action. With the intolerable burden of the duty to revenge his father’s d eath and the challenge of evil forces, Hamlet seems to withdraw into a mental world which is thrown into a

conflict or a choice between life and death. The philosophical speculation mixed up with a deep pessimistic outlook resists against action at first, but later awakens the hero out of his melancholy to a sense of the “enterprise of treat pith and moment”, indicating that he is to do something for what he concerns himself with.

10.

【正确答案】 Although James and Twain both worked for realism, there were obvious differences between them. In thematic terms, James wrote mostly of the upper reaches of American society, whereas Mark Twain dealt largely with the lower strata of society. Technically, James pursued psychological realism, but Mark Twain’s contribution to the development of realism and to American literature as a whole was partly through his theories of Local Colorist in American fiction, and partly through his colloquial style.

Henry James believed that reality lies in the impressions made by life on the spectator, and not in any facts of which the spectator is unaware, such realism is therefore merely the obligation that the artist assumes to represent life as he sees it, which may not be the same life as it “really” is. James shifted the ground of realistic art from the outer to the inner world.

Mark Twain preferred to represent social life through portraits of local places which he knew best. He drew heavily from his own rich fund of knowledge of people and places. He confined himself to the life with which he was familiar. By quoting from his own experience, Mark Twain managed to transform into art the freedom and humor, in short, the finest elements of western culture.