[考研类试卷]英语专业（英美文学）模拟试卷11及答案与解析.doc

1、英语专业（英美文学）模拟试卷 11 及答案与解析一、填空题1 _written by George Eliot is largely autobiographical in its early chapters.2 Vanity Fair was subtitled as “_“.3 The greatest English critical realist novelist was_, who criticized the bourgeoisie civilization and showed the misery of the common people.4 In 1844, Thomas

2、 Hood wrote the poem_which through the mouth of a poor seamstress voiced the great misery of the women workers.5 Mr. Harthouse professed himself in the highest degree instructed and refreshed by this condensed epitome of the whole of Coketown question.The passage above is selected from_by_.6 Of the

3、four novels that Charlotte Bronte wrote,_has achieved lasting fame.7 Wuthering Heights was written by_.8 In English history, the mid and late 19th century is called the_because the reign of Queen Victoria covered the period 1837-1901.9 The_took place in the second half of the 18th century. It not on

4、ly affected the economy and industries, but also changed the class structure in English society.10 The “Big Three“ poets in Victorian poetry include Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning and_.11 _stands as a great dividing line between the 19th century and the contemporary American literature.12 T. S. El

5、iot wrote seven plays, the best of which is_, a verse play on an ancient historical subject, written in 1935.13 _of the 1920s characterized by frivolity and carelessness is brought vividly to life in The Great Gatsby.14 The leading playwright of the modern period in American literature, if not the m

6、ost successful in all his experiments, is_.15 The 1950s American woman writer named_who had lived in Paris since 1903. Welcomed the young expatriates to her literary salon, and gave them a name “the Lost Generation.“16 The most recognizable literary movement that gave rise to the 20th century Americ

7、an literature, or we may say, the second American Renaissance, is the_movement.17 Pound was the leader of a new movement in poetry which he called the “_“ movement.18 Sandburgs live of folksong developed in time into a rather modern tendency to represent it in literature such as in his_.19 Frosts se

8、cond volume of poems was _.20 For the publication of his collected poems, Wallace Stevens received_and the Pulitzer prize.二、名词解释21 Character22 Naturalism23 Sentimentality24 Protagonist and antagonist25 Aestheticism26 Black humor27 Bohemianism28 style三、单项选择题29 In My Last Duchess, the_, as he talks ab

9、out the portrait of his last Duchess, reveals bit by bit his cruelty and possessiveness.（A）Duke（B） poet（C） lover（D）governor30 In the novel Tess of the DUrbervilles, naturalistic tendency is also strong. In a way, Tess seems to be led to her final destruction step by_.（A）nature（B） fate（C） god（D）error

10、31 English critical realism found its expression chiefly in the form of_. The critical realists described with vividness and artistic skill the chief traits of the English society and criticized the capitalist system.（A）novel（B） drama（C） poetry（D）verse32 In Alfred Tennysons poem Ulysses, he depicts_

11、who, old as he is, persuades his old followers to go with him and to set sail again to pursue a new world and new knowledge.（A）Telemachus（B） Ulysses（C） Achilles（D）Stephen Dadalus33 Charlotte Brontes works are all about the struggle of an individual consciousness towards self-realization, about some

12、lonely and neglected young_with a fierce longing for love, understanding and a full, happy life.（A）man（B） woman（C） men（D）lady34 The novel Jane Eyre mainly tells a story about the love affairs of Jane Eyre and_.（A）Mr. Rochester（B） Mr. Bumble（C） Mr. Linton（D）Mr. Heathcliff35 The story of Wuthering Hei

13、ghts is told mainly by Nelly,_s old nurse, to Mr. Lockwood, a temporary tenant at Grange. The latter gives an account of what he sees at Wuthering Heights.（A）Hindley（B） Heathcliff（C） Catherine（D）Linton36 _is the most representative Victorian poet of whose poetry voices the doubt and the faith, the g

14、rief and the joy of English people in an age of fast change.（A）Alfred Tennyson（B） Thomas Hardy（C） Robert Browning（D）George G. Byron37 “She smiled, no doubt,/ Wheneer I passed her . / . This grew; I gave commands; /Then all smiles stopped together. The quoted lines imply that she _.（A）obeyed his orde

15、r and stopped smiling at everybody, including the duke（B） obeyed his order and stopped smiling at anybody except the duke（C） refused to obey the order and never smiled again（D）was murdered at the order of the duke38 “I have talked, face to face, with what I reverence; with what I delight in with an

16、original, a vigorous, an expanded mind. Here in the quoted passage, Jane is really saying that she has talked face to face with _.（A）God who appears in her dream（B） the reverent priest（C） Mr. Rochester（D）Miss Ingram39 A typical feature of the English Victorian literature is that writers became_, exp

17、osing all kinds of social evils.（A）didactic writers（B） individual idealists（C） moral critics（D）religious advocators40 Mr. Micawber in David Copperfield and Sam Well in Pickwick Paper are perhaps the best _characters created by Charles Dickens.（A）comic（B） tragic（C） round（D）sophisticated41 George Elio

18、t holds that individual life is determined basically by two major forces:_.（A）the spiritual self and the physical self（B） the good and the evil（C） the individuals personality and the outer social circumstances（D）the divided self and the integrated self42 “The magistrates are not called upon to prono

19、unce any opinion on the matter“, said the second old gentleman sharply. “Take the boy back to the workhouse, and treat him kindly. He seems to want it.“ The above passage must be taken from_.（A）Charles Dickenss Oliver Twist（B） William Thackerays Vanity Fair（C） George Eliots Middlemarch（D）Thomas Hard

20、ys Tess of the DUrbevilles43 _believes that mans fate is pre-determinedly tragic, driven by a combined force of “nature“, both inside and outside.（A）Charles Dickens（B） Thomas Hardy（C） Bernard Shaw（D）T. S. Eliot44 One of the typical features of Dickenss novels is_.（A）complicated narration（B） exaggera

21、ted caricature（C） compressed syntax（D）streams of consciousness45 In style, Thomas Hardy is a traditionalist, though there are obvious traits of_in thematic matters.（A）neo-classicism（B） modernism（C） romanticism（D）utilitarianism46 Tennyson expressed two different attitudes towards_in Crossing the Bar

22、and Ulysses.（A）salvation（B） death（C） pilgrimage（D）happiness47 _initiates a new type of realism and sets into motion a variety of developments, leading in the direction of both the naturalistic and psychological novel.（A）Charles Dickens（B） George Eliot（C） Charlotte Bronte（D）Thomas Hardy48 Most of Har

23、dys novels are set in_, the fictional primitive and crude region which is really the home place he both loves and hates.（A）London（B） Yoknapatawpha（C） Wessex（D）Paris49 The sentences “ Come to me come to me entirely now, he added, in his deepest tone, speaking in my ear as his cheek was laid on mine,

24、Make my happinessI will make yours“are found in_.（A）Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte（B） Lines Written in Early Spring by William Wordsworth（C） Tom Jones by Henry Fielding（D）The School for Scandal by Sheridan50 Tennysons poem, Idylls of the king, was based on_.（A）the Celtic legends（B） an Italian documen

25、t（C） a Roman murder case（D）the Bible51 Tennysons Ulysses gets its inspiration from the following works or writers EXCEPT_.（A）Homers Odessey（B） Joyces Ulysses（C） Dante（D）Greek Mythology52 In the 19th century English literature, a new literary trend_appeared. And it flourished in the 1840s and in the

26、early 1850s.（A）romanticism（B） naturalism（C） realism（D）critical realism53 In the novel Middlemarch, man protagonist Lydgate is described as_.（A）conceited（B） pessimistic（C） proud and ambitious（D）realistic54 _not only continued to expose and criticize all sorts of social iniquities, but finally came to

27、 question and attack the Victorian conventions and morals.（A）George Eliot（B） Thomas Hardy（C） D.H. Lawrence（D）Charles Dickens55 Robert Browning created the verse novel, transferring the thematic interest from mere narration of the story to revelation and study of characters inner world and brought to

28、 the Victorian Poetry_.（A）some psycho-analytical element（B） some romantic element（C） some realistic element（D）some classical element56 Dickens works are characterized by a mingling of_and pathos.（A）metaphor（B） passion（C） satire（D）humor57 _is the first important governess novel in the English literar

29、y history.（A）Jane Eyre（B） Emma（C） Wuthering Heights（D）Middlemarch 58 My Last Duchess is a poem that best exemplifies Robert Brownings_.（A）sensitive ear for the sounds of the English language（B） excellent choices of words（C） mastering of the metrical devices（D）use of the dramatic monologue59 “The app

30、arition 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 Dickinson60 In which of the following works, Hemingway presents his philosophy about life and death through the depiction of the bull-fight

31、as a kind of micro-cosmic tragedy:（A）The Green Hills of Africa（B） The Snows of Kilimanjaro（C） To Have and Have Not（D）Death in the Afternoon61 Sandburg had also taken interest in folksongs which he tried to collect and sing during his travels. These folk songs appeared eventually in print in his well

32、-known_.（A）Good morning, America（B） The People, Yes（C） In Rechness Ecstasy（D）The American Songbag62 _, one of the essays in The Sacred Wood, is the earliest statement of T.S. Eliots aesthetics, which provided a useful instrument for modern criticism.（A）Sweeny Agonistes（B） Tradition and Individual Ta

33、lent（C） A Primer of Modern Heresy（D）Gerontion63 In which of the following poems by Ezra Pound do you find the allusion to Vi-Shang?（A）In a Station of the Metro.（B） A Pact.（C） The River-Merchants Wife: A Letter.（D）Hugh Selwyn Mauberley.64 _was a most representative figure of the 1920s, who was mirror

34、 of the exciting age in almost every way.（A）Ernest Hemingway（B） Robert Frost（C） Eugene ONeill（D）F. Scott Fitzgerald65 Fitzgeralds fictional world is the best embodiment of the spirit of_.（A）the Jazz Age（B） the Romantic Period（C） the Renaissance Period（D）the Neoclassical Period66 In Hemingways short

35、story Indian Camp, through a story of a woman giving birth, the protagonist, Nick Adams, receives an education of_.（A）birth and violent death（B） devotion and kinship（C） racial inequality（D）charity and benevolence67 _is often acclaimed literary spokesman of the Jazz Age.（A）Ernest Hemingway（B） F. Scot

36、t Fitzgerald（C） William Faulkner（D）Ezra Pound68 “It was a big, squarish frame house that had once been white, decorated with cupolas and spires and scrolled balconies in the heavily lightsome style of the seventies, set on what had once been our most select street.“ these sentences are taken from_.（

37、A）The Hairy Ape by Eugene ONeil（B） Indian Camp by Ernest Hemingway（C） A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner（D）The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald69 _(1926)is Hemingways first true novel. It casts light on a whole generation after the First World War and effects of the war by way of a vivid portra

38、it of “The Lost Generation“（A）In Our Times（B） The Sun Also Rises（C） For Whom the Bell Tolls（D）The Old Man and the Sea70 Which of the following figures does not belong to “The Lost Generation“?（A）Ezra Pound.（B） William Carlos Williams.（C） Robert Frost.（D）Theodore Dreiser.71 In the Modern Period, many

39、 theories had great impact upon literature. They mainly include the theories of_.（A）Marxs（B） Freuds（C） Darwins（D）All the above72 _ s role as a leading spokesman of the famous Imagist Movement in the history of American literature can never be ignored and his one-image poem best demonstrates his prin

40、ciples of what a new poetry should be（A）William Carlos Williams（B） Robert Frost（C） F. Scott Fitzgerald（D）Ezra Pound 73 Those expatriate writers were named by an American writer,_, also an expatriate, “The Lost Generation.“（A）Ernest Hemingway（B） Gertrude Stein（C） William Faulkner（D）Eugene O Neill74 _

41、is Hemingways first true novel in which he depicts a vivid portrait of “The Lost Generation“.（A）The Sun Also Rises（B） A Farewell to Arms（C） In Our Time（D）For Whom the Bell Tolls 75 From Eugene ONeills works, we can see he is a man of_.（A）optimism（B） pessimism（C） apathy（D）inactivity76 _is a dramatist

42、 who holds the central position in American drama the modernistic period.（A）Sinclair Lewis（B） Tennessee Williams（C） Arthur Miller（D）Eugene ONeill77 Most of the writers in the Modern Period were able to probe into the inner world of human reality on the base of_.（A）Carl Jungs “collective unconscious“

43、 and “archetypal symbol“（B） Sigmund Freuds “interpretation of dreams“（C） William Jamess “stream of consciousness“（D）All the above78 In the 1920s decade, ONeill established an international reputation with such plays as_.（A）The Emperor Jones（B） Anna Christie（C） The Hairy Ape（D）All of the above79 _is

44、said to be a “historical novel“ by Faulkner.（A）Go Down, Moses（B） Light in August（C） Absalom, Absalom（D）The Sound and the Fury80 _stems from the ambiguity of the speakers choice between safety and the unknown.（A）Mending the Wall（B） Home Burial（C） The Road Not Taken（D）Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Even

45、ing81 Ben Jonson Entertains a Man from Stratford, this poem was written by Robinson. It is a brilliant commentary on_s character.（A）Ben Jonson（B） Shakespeare（C） John Milton（D）Samuel Johnson82 When Robert Frost was eighty-seven, he read his poetry at the inauguration of President_.（A）Thomas Jefferson

46、（B） Theodore Roosevelt（C） Abraham Lincoln（D）John F. Kennedy83 In writing In a Station of the Metro, Pound got his inspiration from_.（A）English sonnet（B） Chinese classical poetry（C） Japanese haiku（D）French84 Tender is the Night is a_by Fitzgerald.（A）short story（B） novella（C） poem（D）novel85 Early in t

47、he 20th century,_published works that would change the nature of American poetry.（A）Ezra Pound（B） T.S. Eliot（C） Robert Frost（D）Both A and B86 The best-selling American books in the first decades of the twentieth century were_.（A）traveling books（B） commercial books（C） historical romances（D）news repor

48、ts87 In the 1920s decade, ONeil established an international reputation with such plays as_.（A）The Emperor Jones（B） Anna Christie（C） The Hairy Ape（D）All of the above88 The American “Thirties“, lasted from the Crash, through the ensuing Great Depression, until the outbreak of the second World War 1939. This was a period of_.（A）poverty（B） important social movements（C） a new social consciousness（D）all of the above四、问答题89 “I should say, three pound ten was p