[考研类试卷]英语专业（英美文学）模拟试卷12及答案与解析.doc

1、英语专业（英美文学）模拟试卷 12 及答案与解析一、填空题1 D.H. Lawrences first important novel_is obviously_, which is a truthful representation of his childhood and early manhood.2 The Novel Ulysses written by_is well-known for its modernist technique of_.3 _is a strong advocator of the feminist movement among the 20th centu

2、ry writers, whose_is a detailed depiction of the inner world of a lady who is giving an evening party at her home in Westminster without traditional concept of plot.4 Structurally and thematically, Shaw followed the great tradition of_.5 One of the pioneers of modern fiction is D.H. Lawrence, who is

3、 known for his novels written under the influence of Sigmund Freuds theory of_.6 In 1923,_was awarded Nobel Prize in literature for his “always inspirited poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation“.7 The long poem _, one of the most remarkable landmarks

4、 in modernism, succeeded in gaining T.S. Eliot recognition as a voice of a disillusioned generation.8 The trilogy The Forsyte Saga consists of The Man of Property, In Chancery and_.9 _is a naturalist, whose best-known novel Of Human Bondage is a naturalistic novel, partly autobiographical, dealing w

5、ith the story of a deformed orphan trying vainly to be an artist.10 Katherine Mansfield wrote short stories, and was skilled in psychological analysis. Her favorite technique is the_.11 Robert Frost is always liked by the Americans because the subject and the landscaped of his poems are forever_and

6、his simplicity never fails to reveal some profound truth.12 Ezra Pound was undoubtedly a genius before gradating from university, he had mastered _language.13 Robinson produced a large body of works and was honored with the_prize in 1922, 1925 and 1928.14 At one time, Sandburgs reputation mainly res

7、ted on a multi-volume biography of_ including The Prairie Years and The War Year.15 In his work_, Eliot satirized the straw men, the Guy Fawkes men, whose world would end “not with a bang, but a whimper.“16 Early in the 1920s, the most prominent of the new American playwrights, whose name is _, esta

8、blished an international reputation.17 The most significant American poem of the 20th century was_.18 American writers of the first postwar era self-consciously acknowledged that they were a “_“, devoid of faith and alienated from a civilization.19 The American writers of the 1950s often used the ps

9、ychological insights taken from the writing of Sigmund_and his followers.20 _wrote about the disintegration of the old social system in the American southern states, and the lives of modern people, both black and white.二、名词解释21 Modernism22 The Angry Young Men23 Parody24 Anti-hero25 Oedipus Complex26

10、 Confessional poetry27 Conflict28 Avant-Garde三、单项选择题29 With their joint efforts, W.B.Yeats, Lady Gregory, and J. M. Synge started an Irish_ revival in the early 20th century.（A）moral（B） religious（C） dramatic（D）spiritual30 James Joyces Dubliners is_.（A）a short story（B） a collection of short stories（C

11、） an autobiography（D）a novel31 The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is intensely anti-romantic with an evasive_ atmosphere.（A）sublime（B） sensual（C） warm（D）hellish32 John Galsworthys The Forsyte Saga appears in the form of_.（A）epic（B） ballad（C） trilogy（D）short story33 In Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf

12、adopted a writing technique called_, in which the whole story was presented with the interior monologues of the characters.（A）Expressionism（B） Symbolism（C） Stream-of-consciousness（D）Naturalism34 The_can be regarded as one of the themes of Joyces story Araby.（A）loss of innocence（B） childish love（C） a

13、wareness of harsh life（D）false sentimentality35 Which of the following statements about D.H. Lawrence is NOT true?（A）He was strongly against the dehumanizing effect of the mechanical civilization.（B） He was daringly innovative in the techniques of novel creation.（C） His novel Sons and Lovers is larg

14、ely autobiographical.（D）He believed that the primacy of life force was a guarantee in the healthy development of an individuals personality.36 .the evening is spread out against the sky/ Like a patient etherized upon a table. In the above lines a simile is used to compare the evening with an etheriz

15、ed patient. What common quality is compared between the two entirely different things by using the simile?（A）Darkness.（B） Inertia.（C） Suffering.（D）Emptiness.37 Thematically speaking, Yeatss poem, The Lake Isle of Innisfree,_.（A）laments the loss of the Irish legendary tradition（B） laments the emptine

16、ss of the urban life and advocates a return to the simple and serene life of nature（C） criticizes the emptiness of the hermits life in the remote country（D）celebrates the rich and colorful life of the modern people38 In Shaws play, Mrs. Warrens Profession, Mrs. Warren once said: “If there is a thing

17、 I hate in a woman, its want of character.“ The word “want“ here means_.（A）desire（B） lack（C） possession（D）need39 The modernist writers such as Richardson, Joyce and Woolf are mainly concerned with the_.（A）external world（B） inner life of an individual（C） social activities of human beings（D）public lif

18、e of an individual40 The mission of_drama was to reveal the moral, political and economic truth from a radical reformist point of view.（A）T. S. Eliots（B） J. Galsworthys（C） George Bernard Shaws（D）W.B.Yeatss41 In his famous essay Tradition and Individual Talent,_puts great emphasis on the importance o

19、f tradition both in creative writing and in criticism.（A）T. S. Eliot（B） D.H. Lawrence（C） James Joyce（D）George Bernard Shaw42 _, which bears a strong thematic resemblance to “The Waste Land“, is generally regarded as the darkest of T. S. Eliots poems.（A）Gerontion（B） The Hollow Men（C） The Love Song of

20、 J. Alfred Prufrock（D）The Cocktail Party43 The most original playwright of the Theater of Absurd is Samuel Beckett and his first play, _, is regarded as the most famous and influential play of the Theater of Absurd.（A）Mrs. Warrens Profession（B） Murder in the Cathedral（C） Waiting for Godot（D）Too True

21、 to Be Good44 The most celebrated dramatists in the last decade of the 19th century were Oscar Wilde and_.（A）T. S. Eliot（B） George Bernard Shaw（C） Richard Bringsley Sheridan（D）James Joyce45 As a young man in the last decades of the 19th century, W.B.Yeats began his poetic career in the _tradition.（A

22、）romantic（B） realist（C） modernist（D）naturalist46 The French_, appearing in the late 19th century, heralded modernism.（A）romanticism（B） realism（C） symbolism（D）transcendentalism47 As its title implies, Women in Love is a novel about_pairs of lovers, around whom a series of episodes are dramatically pr

23、esented.（A）two（B） three（C） four（D）five48 In his Finnegans Wake, an encyclopedic work, James Joyce ambitiously attempted to pack the whole history of mankind into_.（A）one mans mind（B） one nights dream（C） one story（D）one days activity49 WidowersHouse, a play by George Bernard Shaw, is a grotesquely re

24、alistic exposure of_.（A）prostitution（B） Life Force（C） slum landlordism（D）working system50 The girl Vivie is a character in the play_.（A）Widoers Houses（B） Pygmalion（C） The School for Scandal（D）Mrs. Warrens Profession51 Generally speaking,_is the best of T. S. Eliots plays in the sense that it contain

25、s the best poetry and the most coherent drama.（A）Murder in the Cathedral（B） The Family Reunion（C） The Cocktail Party（D）The Waste Land52 The theme of the novel The Man of Property is that of the predominant_instinct of the Forsytes and its effects upon the personal relationships of the family with th

26、e underlying assumption that human relationships of the contemporary English society are merely an extension of property relationships.（A）human（B） sexual（C） possessive（D）natural53 Modernism is, in many aspects, a reaction against_.（A）romanticism（B） realism（C） post-modernism（D）all the above54 Accordi

27、ng to D.H. Lawrence,_was the first novelist that “started putting all the actions inside“.（A）Thomas Hardy（B） George Eliot（C） Thomas Carlyle（D）Charlotte Bronte55 Who is the first “Angry Young Man“?（A）John Osborne.（B） T. S. Eliot.（C） Christopher Marlowe（D）Bernard Shaw56 “The yellow fog that rub its ba

28、ck upon the windowpanes, /The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the windowpanes/Linked its tongue into the corners of the evening,/Lingered upon the pools that stand in drains. The stanza is taken from_.（A）T. S. Eliots The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock（B） Emily Dickinsons Because I could not st

29、op for Death（C） Alfred Tennysons Break, Break, Break（D）William Wordsworths I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud57 “He was afraid of her the small, severe woman with graying hair suddenly bursting out in such frenzy. The postman came running back, afraid something had happened. They saw his tipped cap over t

30、he short curtains. Mrs. Morel rushed to the door. The above passage is taken from_.（A）Charlotte Brontes The Professor（B） Charles Dickens Dombey and Son（C） D.H. Lawrences Sons and Lovers（D）John Galsworthys The Forsyte Saga58 Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Modernism?（A）To elevate t

31、he individual and inner being over the social being.（B） To put the stress on traditional values.（C） To portray the distorted and alienated relationships between man and his environment.（D）To advocate a conscious break with the past.59 Faulkner once said that_is a story of “lost innocence,“ which pro

32、ves itself to be an intensification of the theme of imprisonment in the past.（A）The Sound and the Fury（B） Light in August（C） Go Down, Moses（D）Absalom, Absalom60 In the pre-war period, such writers as_, pointed out the contradictions between what American preached and what they practiced.（A）Mark Twai

33、n（B） Jack London（C） Stephen Crane（D）all of the above61 Hemingways writing style, together with his theme and the hero, is greatly and permanently influenced by his experiences_.（A）in his childhood（B） in the war（C） in America（D）in Africa62 The following writers were awarded Nobel Prize for literature

34、 except_.（A）William Faulkner（B） F. Scott Fitzgerald（C） John Steinbeck（D）Ernest Hemingway63 Which of the following descriptions of Ernest Hemingway is APPROPRIATE?（A）A Farewell to Arms represents his climax in writing.（B） For Whom the Bell Tolls is Hemingways masterpiece.（C） A Farewell to Arms is Hem

35、ingways first big success.（D）In Our Time is the first book to present a Hemingway heroNick Adam.64 Most of Eugene ONeills plays are tragedies, dealing with_.（A）class conflicts（B） human existence and predicament（C） racial discrimination（D）domestic affairs65 _is not considered to be one of the masters

36、 in the field of America fiction in the modernistic period.（A）F. Scott Fitzgerald（B） Ernest Hemingway（C） Arthur Miller（D）William Faulkner66 Robert Frost combined traditional verse forms the sonnet, rhyming couplets, blank verse with a clear American local speech rhythm, the speech of_farmers with it

37、s idiosyncratic diction and syntax.（A）southern（B） western（C） New Hampshire（D）New England67 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） Sartoris（C） The U

38、nvanquished（D）The Town68 There was music from my neighbors house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars . , the two sentences are taken from_.（A）The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald（B） Sister Carr

39、ie by Theodore Dreiser（C） Daisy Miller by Henry James（D）Moby Dick by Herman Melville69 In a tragic sense,_is a representation of life as a struggle against unconquerable forces in which only a partial victory is possible.（A）For Whom the Bell Tolls（B） In Our Time（C） The Old Man and the Sea（D）A Farewe

40、ll to Arms70 Hemingway was badly wounded in Italy and sent to a hospital where he fell in love with a nurse. These two persons later became the characters of his novel _.（A）The Old Man and the Sea（B） For Whom the Bell Tolls（C） The Sun Also Rises（D）A Farewell to Arms71 Who, one of the most important

41、poets in his time, is a leading spokesman of the “Imagist Movement“?（A）J.D.Salinger.（B） Ezra Pound.（C） Richard Wright.（D）Ralph Ellison.72 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）po

42、verty（B） bleakness（C） important social movements（D）all of the above73 Which of the following best describes the protagonist of William Faulkners A Rose for Emily?（A）She is a conservative aristocrat.（B） She is a wealthy lady.（C） She is a prisoner of the past.（D）She has good taste.74 The first America

43、n to win the Nobel Prize for Literature was a sharp social critic, whose name was_.（A）Sinclair Lewis（B） T.S. Eliot（C） Ernest Hemingway（D）William Faulkner75 Eliots first major poem(1917)_, has been called the first masterpiece of modernism in English.（A）The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock（B） The Wast

44、e Land（C） Four Quartets（D）Preludes76 In Hemingways Indian Camp, Nicks night trip to the Indian village and his experience inside the hut can be taken as_.（A）a learning process in human relationship（B） a confrontation with evil and sin（C） an essential lesson about Indian tribes（D）an initiation to the

45、 harshness of life77 In which of the following poems by Ezra Pound did you find the allusion to Vi-Shang?（A）In a Station of the Metro（B） The River-Merchants Wife: A Letter（C） A Pact（D）Hugh Selwyn Mauberley78 The American social upheavals and the literary concerns of the Great Depression years ended

46、with the prosperity and turmoil brought by the_.（A）First World War（B） Second World War（C） Civil War（D）War of Independence79 _, a poetic tragedy on the betrayal of Thomas Becket, is a drama of impressive spiritual power.（A）The Confidential Clerk（B） The Cocktail Party（C） The Family Reunion（D）Murder in

47、 the Cathedral80 The Fitzgeralds lived so extravagantly that they frequently spent more money than Fitzgerald earned for parties, liquor, entertaining their friends and traveling. It was this living style that nicknamed the decade of the 1920s as_.（A）The Roaring Age（B） The Jazz Age（C） The Dollar Dec

48、ade（D）All of the above81 At the beginning of Faulkners A Rose for Emily, there is a detailed description of Emilys old house. The purpose of such description is to imply that the person living in it_.（A）is a wealthy lady（B） has good taste（C） is a prisoner of the past（D）is a conservative aristocrat82 The most recognizable literary movement that gave rise to the twentieth century American literature, or we may say,_, is the expatriate movement.（A）the second American Renaissance（B） the realistic perio