[考研类试卷]英语专业（英美文学）模拟试卷10及答案与解析.doc

1、英语专业（英美文学）模拟试卷 10 及答案与解析一、填空题1 Charles Dickenss last novel was_.2 Ah, love, let us be true To one another! For the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; T

2、he lines above are selected from_by_.3 There are no typically positive characters in_written by Thackeray.4 The novel The Return of the Native was written by_, whose novels were known as “novels of characters and environment“.5 Tennysons poem,_, was based on the Celtic legendsKing Arthur and Round T

3、able Knights.6 _described the life of the laboring people and criticizing the privileged classes, but the power of exposure became much weaker in her work. The significance of her work lies rather in the portrayal of the pettiness and stagnancy of English provincial life.7 There is sweet music here

4、that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass, Or night-dews on still waters between walls Of shadowy granite, in a gleaming pass; Music that gentler on the spirit lies, Than tiered eyelids upon tired eyes; The quotation is selecte4 from_by_.8 Jane Eyre and the greater Wuthering Height

5、s by_brought to the novel introspection and an intense concentration on the inner life of emotion which before them had been the province of poetry alone.9 The greatest and the longest work of Robert Browning is_, which consisted of 20,000 lines.10 Sonnets from Portuguese is the representative work

6、of_.11 _is generally regarded as Steinbecks masterpiece.12 T. S. Eliots “the progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality“ can be found in his_.13 In the novel The Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway portrayed an old fisherman named _, who shows triumphant ev

7、en in defeat.14 Hemingways stature as a writer was confirmed with the publication of his novel_in 1929. the novel portrayed a farewell both to war and to love.15 _has been regarded as Americans greatest novelist in the 20th century.16 Robert Frosts poetry focused on the landscape and people in_.17 I

8、n the short novel _, Steinbeck portrayed the tragic friendship between two migrant workers.18 _has been considered as Americas greatest playwright.19 Steinbecks post-war novel_reflected his bitter feelings against those greedy, rapacious elements of society which made the war possible.20 _has an ave

9、rage man of decidedly masculine tastes, sensitive and intelligent wit action and few words.二、名词解释21 Psychological novel22 Narration23 Ambiguity24 Allusion25 Plot26 The Beat Generation27 Feminism28 Harlem Renaissance29 New Criticism30 American dream三、单项选择题31 The major part of the story in Wuthering H

10、eights is told by ._.（A）Mr. Lockwood（B） Nelly（C） Isabella（D）Catherine32 Among George Eliots 7 novels,_is essentially an autobiographic account of her life.（A）Felix Holt, the Radical（B） Daniel Deronda（C） Middlemarch（D）The Mill on the Floss33 The author of_makes clear in the novel that it is wrong to

11、discriminate on the basis of social status and it is cruel and destructive to break genuine, natural human passions.（A）Jane Eyre（B） Wuthering Heights（C） Pride and Prejudice（D）less of the DUrbervilles34 “I will drink/Life to the lees.“ In the quoted line Ulysses is saying that he_till the end of his

12、life.（A）will keep traveling and exploring（B） will go on drinking and being happy（C） would like to toast to his glorious life（D）would like to drink the cup of wine35 Which of the following words is NOT appropriate to describe the Duke in My Last Duchess?（A）Intelligence.（B） Kindness.（C） Jealousy.（D）Br

13、utality.36 “A waft of wind came sweeping down the laurel-walk, and trembled through the boughs of the chestnut: it wandered awayawayto an indefinite distanceit died. The nightingales song was then the only voice of the hour: in listening to it, I again wept.“ The above passage must be taken from_.（A

14、）Charles Dickenss Great Expectations（B） William Thackerays Vanity Fair（C） Charlotte Brontes Jane Eyre（D）Thomas Hardys The Return of the Native37 The four lines “Though much is taken, much abides; and though/We are not now that strength which in old days/Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we

15、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 must be taken from_.（A）Tennysons Ulysses（B） Brownings Meeting at Night（C） Wordsworths I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud（D）Keatss Ode to a Nightingale38 While telling of th

16、e punishment of Oliver for asking for more and denouncing the inhuman, hypocritical workhouse system of England for abusing and dehumanizing the poor children, the narrator uses a seemingly_tone.（A）innocent（B） ironic（C） indignant（D）bitter39 In Hardys Tess of the DUrbervilles, the heroines tragic end

17、ing is due to_.（A）her weak character（B） her ambition（C） Angel Clares selfishness（D）a hostile society40 The character Rochester in Jane Eyre can be well termed as a_.（A）conventional hero（B） Byronic hero（C） chivalrous aristocrat（D）Homeric hero41 A contemporary of Alfred Tennyson,_is acknowledged by ma

18、ny as the most original and experimental poet of the time.（A）Thomas Carlyle（B） Thomas B.Macaulay（C） T. S. Eliot（D）Robert Browning42 “As for society, he was carried every other day into the hall where the boys dined, and there socially flogged as a public warning and example. What figure of speech is

19、 used in the above sentence?（A）Irony.（B） Metaphor.（C） Simile.（D）Overstatement.43 In Hard Times, Dickens attacks_that rules over the English educational system and destroys young hearts and minds.（A）bourgeois commercialism（B） the utilitarian principle（C） political corruptness（D）religious hypocrisy44

20、Which of the following best describes the nature of Hardys later novels?（A）Sentimentalism.（B） Surrealism.（C） Comic sense.（D）Tragic sense.45 Charles Dickenss best-depicted characters are those innocent, virtuous, persecuted, helpless _ characters such as Oliver Twist, Little Nell, David Copperfield a

21、nd Little Dorrit.（A）child（B） woman（C） lady（D）girl46 When they were young, the Bronte sisters were sent to a school for clergymens daughters. The eldest two died there due to the poor and unhealthy conditions. This experience inspired the later portrayal of Lowood School in the novel_.（A）Jane Eyre（B）

22、 Wuthering Heights（C） The Professor（D）Emma47 Reading_s Crossing the Bar, we can feel his fearlessness towards death, his faith in God and an afterlife.（A）John Keats（B） Alfred Tennyson（C） Robert Browning（D）Thomas Hardy48 The publication of_, Robert Brownings masterpiece, in 1869, finally established

23、the poets position as one of the greatest English poets.（A）In Memoriam（B） The Ring and the Book（C） Maud（D）Ulysses49 The novel Middlemarch, a Study of Provincial Life provides a panoramic view of life in a small English town,_, and its surrounding countryside in the mid-nineteenth century.（A）Middlema

24、rch（B） Lowick Manor（C） Oxford（D）Wessex50 In Thomas Hardys novels, the outside nature, the natural environment or_of herself, is shown as some mysterious supernatural force, very powerful but half-blind, impulsive and uncaring to the individuals will, hope, passion or suffering.（A）nature（B） fate（C） f

25、ortune（D）destiny51 The greatest English critical realist novelist was_,who criticized the bourgeois civilization and showed the misery of the common people.（A）Charles Dickens（B） Emily Bronte（C） Thomas Hardy（D）Charlotte Bronte52 Emily Bronte wrote only one novel which is entitled_.（A）Wuthering Height

26、s（B） Jane Eyre（C） Emma（D）The Professor53 George Eliot was the pseudonym of_.（A）Mary Ann Evans（B） Charles Dickens（C） Emily Bronte（D）Samuel Clemens54 In the long poem The Ring and the Book, the “book“ is compared to_.（A）love（B） comprehensive knowledge（C） the hard truth（D）the method of study55 “Self-co

27、nceited“, “cruel“ and “tyrannical“ are most likely the words to describe the character in_.（A）Robert Brownings My Last Duchess（B） Sheridans The School for Scandal（C） Christopher Marlowes Dr. Faustus（D）Shakespeares Loves Labors Lost56 As a literary figure, John Rivers appears in_.（A）Fieldings Tom Jon

28、es（B） Dickenss Oliver Twist（C） Brontes Jane Eyre（D）Austens Pride and Prejudice57 The statement that those extraordinary people, seeking something beyond the provincial life, have finally to subject themselves to the limitations of the reality either due to their own weakness or the conventional forc

29、e of the social environment may well sum up one of the major themes of_.（A）Fieldings Tom Jones（B） Defoes Robinson Crusoe（C） Austens Pride and Prejudice（D）Eliots Middlemarch58 The success of Jane Eyre is not only because of its sharp criticism of the existing society, but also due to its introduction

30、 to the English novel the first_heroine.（A）worker（B） peasant（C） governess（D）teacher59 Which of the following descriptions of Thomas Hardy is NOT true?（A）Most of his novels are set in Wessex.（B） Tess of the DUrbervilles is one of the most representative of him as both a naturalistic and a critical re

31、alist writer.（C） Among Hardys major works, Under the Greenwood Tree is the most cheerful and idyllic.（D）From The Mayor of Casterbridge on, the tragic sense becomes the keynote of his novels.60 . and then how they met I hardly saw, but Catherine made a spring, and he caught her, and they were locked

32、in an embrace.(Wuthering Heights) In the above quoted passage, Emily Bronte tells the story in_point of view.（A）the third person（B） the first person（C） the second person（D）the omnipresent61 In Faulkners The Sound and the Fury, he used a technique called_, in which the whole story was told through th

33、e thoughts of one character.（A）stream of consciousness（B） imagism（C） symbolism（D）naturalism62 Which of the following statements about Emily Grierson, the protagonist in Faulkners story A Rose for Emily is NOT true?（A）She has a distorted personality.（B） She is physically deformed and paralyzed.（C） Sh

34、e is the victim of the past glory.（D）She is the symbol of the old values of the South.63 Robert Frost combined traditional verse formsthe sonnet, rhyming couplets, blank versewith a clear American local speech rhythm, the speech of_farmers with its idiosyncratic diction and syntax.（A）Western（B） New

35、England（C） New Hampshire（D）southern64 _is a play that concerns the problem of modern mans identity.（A）The Emperor Jones（B） Desire Under the Elms（C） Long Days Journey Into Night（D）The Hairy Ape65 In The Emperor Jones and The Hairy Ape, ONeil adopted the expressionist techniques to portray the_of huma

36、n beings in a hostile universe.（A）uncertainty（B） helpless situation（C） profound religious faith（D）courage and perseverance66 Which of the following novels can be regarded as typically belonging to the school of literary modernism?（A）The Sound and the Fury.（B） Uncle Toms Cabin.（C） Daisy Miller.（D）The

37、 Gilded Age.67 Faulkners novel_describes the decay and downfall of an old southern aristocratic family, symbolizing the old social order, told from four different points of view.（A）The Sound and the Fury（B） Startoris（C） The Unvanquished（D）The Town68 A Rose for Emily is Faulkners first short story pu

38、blished in 1930. The story focuses on Emily Grierson, an eccentric_who refuses to accept the passage of time.（A）spinster（B） young lady（C） philosopher（D）prophet69 ONeils inventiveness seemingly knew no limits. He was constantly experimenting with new styles and forms for his plays, especially during

39、the twenties when_was in full swing.（A）Symbolism（B） Realism（C） Expressionism（D）Romanticism70 _marks the climax of Eugene ONeils literary career and the coming of age of American drama.（A）The Iceman Cometh（B） The Hairy Ape（C） The Emperor Jones（D）Long Days Journey Into Night71 In the following comment

40、s, which is NOT true?（A）Robert Frost is generally considered a regional poet whose subject matters mainly focus on the landscape and people in New England.（B） The River-Merchants Wife: A Letter is actually an adaptation from a classical Chinese poem by LiPo.（C） Bacons essays are famous for their bre

41、vity, compactness and powerfulness.（D）The Pilgrims Progress is the most successful religious story of conventions in English language.72 In “petals on a wet, black bough“, the figure of speech used here is_.（A）metaphor（B） hyperbole（C） pun（D）simile73 _stems from the ambiguity of the speakers choice b

42、etween safety and the unknown.（A）Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening（B） Mending the Wall（C） Home Burial（D）The Road Not Taken74 Robert Frost is a regional poet in the sense that his poems are mainly concerned about the_.（A）life in New York（B） country life in New England（C） sea adventures（D）life on t

43、he Mississippi River .75 The Great Gatsby, written by Fitzgerald in 1925, is a story about_who was destroyed by the influence of the wealthy, pleasure-seeking people around him.（A）a vagabond（B） an idealist（C） an eccentric（D）an opportunist76 Emily Grierson, the protagonist in Faulkners story A Rose f

44、or Emily, can be regarded as a symbol standing for all the following qualities EXCEPT_.（A）old values（B） rigid ides of social status（C） bigotry and eccentricity（D）harmony and integrity77 In The Emperor Jones and The Hairy Ape, ONeil adopted the_to portray the helpless situation of human beings in a h

45、ostile universe.（A）expressionist techniques（B） surrealistic approach（C） romantic approach（D）dramatic monologue78 Robert Frost is generally considered as a regional poet in the sense that his subject matters mainly focus on the landscape and people in_.（A）New York（B） the West（C） New England（D）Mid Wes

46、t79 _wrote about the society in the South by inventing families which represented different social forces: the old decaying upper class; the rising, ambitious, unscrupulous class of the “Poor Whites“; and the Negroes who labored for both of them.（A）Faulkner（B） Fitzgerald（C） Hemingway（D）Steinbeck80 “

47、Nick Adams“ is a character who frequently appears in_stories.（A）William Faulkners（B） Theodore Dreisers（C） Ernest Hemingways（D）Mark Twains81 The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promise to keep, And miles to go before I sleep.“ The above four lines are taken from_.（A）Dickinsons Because I c

48、ould not stop for Death（B） Frosts After Apple-Picking（C） Frosts Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening（D）Dickinsons I heard a Fly buzzwhen I died82 In his masterpiece,_, Pound traces the rise and fall of eastern and western empires, the moral and social chaos of the modern world, especially the corruption of America after the heroic time of Jefferson.（A）Make it New（B） Polite Essays（C） The Cantos（D）Confucius83 In After Apple-Picking, Robert Frost wrote: “For I have had too much/