[考研类试卷]英语专业（英美文学）模拟试卷5及答案与解析.doc

1、英语专业（英美文学）模拟试卷 5 及答案与解析一、填空题1 Walter Scott made a great contribution to English literature in_.2 Jane Austins novels centered on _and_.3 Shelleys famous_was borrowed from the Greek play.4 As a leading Romanticist, Byrons chief contribution is his creation of “_“, a proud, mysterious rebel figure of

2、noble origin.5 Modern essays originated from Montaignes_, which were translated into English by Florio and had on extensive influence on English literature.6 The line “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings“ was held by_.7 The awful shadow of some unseen power, Floats though unseen amongst us

3、, visiting, This various world with as inconstant wing, As summer winds that creep from flower to flower. This excerpt is selected from_by_.8 John Keats wrote o number of famous odes. In one of them he declared his idea of beautybeauty is truth and truth is beauty. The title of this famous ode is_.9

4、 The Bonnets are speedily pronounced to be the luckiest family in the world, though only a few weeks before when Lydia had first run away, they had been generally proved to be marked out for misfortune. This quotation is selected from_by_.10 _s grave bears the epitaph: “Here lies one whose name writ

5、 in water.“11 _, Breaking out of the narrow limits of local color fiction, described the breadth of American experience as no one had ever done before, or since.12 _is the novel into which Jack London put most of himself.13 Cranes novel_relates the story of a good womans downfall and destruction in

6、a slum environment.14 Henry Jamess first novel is_, which failed to make him famous. In 1881, Henry James published his novel_, which is generally considered as his masterpiece.15 The protagonists of Trilogy of Desire,_, is modeled after the Chicago speculator Charles T. Yerkes.16 There was only one

7、 female prose writer in the 19th century. This was_.17 Emily Dickinsons poems have no_, hence are always quoted by their first lines.18 _became Mark Twains masterpiece, as Hemingway noted “all modern American literature comes“.19 Henry Jamess The Ambassadors, The Golden Bowl and_are representing the

8、 summit of his art and he continues his “international theme“ in his third writing career.二、名词解释20 Lake Poets21 Gothic novel22 Canto23 Ottava Rima24 High comedy25 Naturalism26 Regionalism27 Darwinism28 Local Colorists29 The Age of Realism三、单项选择题30 The declaration that “I know that This World is a Wo

9、rld of IMAGINATION There, swan-like, let me sing and die; A land of slaves shall neer be mine Dash down yon cup of Samian wine!“ These lines are taken from_.（A）Song for the Luddites by George Gordon Byron（B） The Solitary Reaper by William Wordsworth（C） Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas

10、 Gray（D）The Isles of Greece by George Gordon Byron36 Which of the following comments on the poem Ode to the West Wind is NOT true?（A）The author of the poem is George Gordon Byron.（B） The poem is written in the form of terza rima.（C） The author gathers a wealth of symbolism in this poem.（D）In the poe

11、m, the author expresses his eagerness to enjoy the boundless freedom from the reality.37 In terms of Pride and Prejudice, which of the following statements is NOT true?（A）Pride and Prejudice is the most popular of Jane Austens novels.（B） Pride and Prejudice is originally drafted as “First Impression

12、s“.（C） Pride and Prejudice is a tragic novel.（D）Pride and Prejudice is about marriage and love.38 Of the following writers, which is NOT the representative of the Romantic Period?（A）William Blake.（B） John Keats.（C） William Wordsworth.（D）John Bunyan.39 _by William Blake marks his entry into maturity.

13、（A）Songs of Innocence（B） Marriage of Heaven and Hell（C） Songs of Experience（D）Milton40 William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following EXCEPT_（A）the use of everyday language spoken by the common people（B） the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings（C） the use of

14、humble and rustic life as subject matter（D）the use of elegant wording and inflated figures of speech41 Which of the following is taken from John Keatss Ode on a Grecian Urn?（A）I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!（B） They are both gone up to the church to pray.（C） Earth has not anything to show m

15、ore fair.（D）Beauty is truth, truth beauty.42 Ode on a Grecian Urn shows the contrast between the_of art and the_of human passion.（A）glory . ugliness（B） permanence . transience（C） transience . sordidness（D）glory. permanence43 Shelleys greatest achievement is his four-act poetic drama,_.（A）Antony and

16、Cleopatra（B） Measure for Measure（C） Too True to Be Good（D）Prometheus Unbound44 _expresses the contrast between the happy world of natural loveliness and human world of agony.（A）Ode on Melancholy（B） Ode to a Grecian Urn（C） Ode to a Nightingale（D）To Autumn45 _is the most delightful of Jane Austens wor

17、ks.（A）Sense and Sensibility（B） Pride and Prejudice（C） Emma（D）Mansfield Park46 The Romantic Movement expressed a more or less_attitude toward the existing social and political conditions.（A）positive（B） negative（C） neutral（D）indifferent47 It is_who established the cult of the individual and championed

18、 the freedom of human spirit.（A）Jean Jacques Rousseau（B） Edmund Burke（C） Thomas Paine（D）Johann Wolfgang von Goethe48 In Marriage of Heaven and Hell, the word “marriage“, to Blake, means the_.（A）reconciliation of the contraries（B） subordination of the one to the other（C） co-existence of the conflicti

19、ng parts（D）fighting of the conflicting parts49 In his poem, “The Chimney Sweeper“(from Songs of Experience), Blake depicted the miseries of the child sweepers in order to reveal the_ of Christianity.（A）false ideals（B） true faith（C） magic power（D）great ideals50 “Adonais“ is an elegy for_whose early d

20、eath from tuberculosis Shelley believed had been hastened by hostile reviews.（A）John Keats（B） Alfred Tennyson（C） William Blake（D）George Gordon Byron51 “You and the girls may go, or you may send them by themselves, which perhaps will be still better, for as you are as handsome as any of them, Mr. Bin

21、gley might like you the best of the party.“ The above passage is taken from Jane Austens Pride and Prejudice. The figure of speech used here is_.（A）paradox（B） irony（C） simile（D）hyperbole52 In Samuel Taylor Coleridges poem Kubla Khan, “A sunny pleasure dome with caves of ice“_.（A）symbolizes the recon

22、ciliation of the conscious and the unconscious（B） is the gift given to a beautiful girl called Abyssinian（C） vividly describes a building of poor quality（D）refers to the place where Kubla Khans father once lived53 Jane Austen presents most of the problems of the novel, Pride and Prejudice, from the_

23、 viewpoint.（A）masculine（B） neutral（C） objective（D）feminine54 Shelleys_and The Cenci, Byrons_, and Coleridges Remorse are generally regarded as the best verse plays in the Romantic Period.（A）Prometheus Unbound/ Mansfred（B） Waverley/ Cain（C） Cain/ Manfred（D）Prometheus Unbound/ Cain55 Generally speakin

24、g,_was a writer of the 18th century, though she lived mainly in the 19th century.（A）Mary Shelley（B） Ann Radcliffe（C） Jane Austen（D）George Eliot56 In the poem, She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways, Wordsworth writes: “A violet by a mossy stone / Half hidden from the eye!“ The figure of speech used here

25、 is_.（A）simile（B） hyperbole（C） metaphor（D）personification57 According to the subjects, Wordsworths short poems can be classified into two groups: poems about_and poems about_.（A）human life/ universe（B） nature/ human life（C） nature/ society（D）society/ universe58 “And because I am happy and dance and

26、sing, / They think they have done me no injury, / And are gone to praise God and his priest and king, / Who make up a heaven of our misery.“ The above four lines are taken from_.（A）Songs of Experience（B） Songs of Innocence（C） Poetical Sketches（D）Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard59 Coleridges act

27、ual achievement as a poet can be divided into two remarkably diverse groups: the demonic and the conversational. Which of the following poems belongs to the conversational group?（A）Kubla Khan.（B） Frost at Midnight.（C） Christabel.（D）The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.60 Mark Twain, one of the greatest 1

28、9th century American writers, is well-known for his_.（A）international theme（B） waste-land imagery（C） local color（D）symbolism61 _is called by Hemingway the one from which “all modern American literature comes.“（A）Adventures of Huckleberry Finn（B） The Adventures of Tom Sawyer（C） The Gilded Age（D）Life

29、on the Mississippi62 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.63 Sister Carrie is a masterpiece of_writing.（A）naturalistic（B） romantic（C） c

30、lassic（D）neo-classic64 Winterbourne is used as a_in Henry Jamess Daisy Miller.（A）protagonist（B） narrator of the events（C） a minor character（D）persona65 The novelistic technique of projecting the narrative through feelings and thoughts of the characters, reached a perfected form in the works of_.（A）W

31、illiam Dean Howells（B） Henry James（C） Washington Irving（D）Emily Dickinson66 In Henry Jamess Daisy Miller, the author tries to portray the young woman as an embodiment of_.（A）the force of convention（B） the free spirit of the New World（C） the decline of aristocracy（D）the corruption of the newly rich67

32、 Which of the following writers is NOT the dominant figure of the Realistic Period in American literature?（A）Herman Melville.（B） William Dean Howells.（C） Henry James.（D）Mark Twain.68 Choose the novel that is NOT written by Henry James.（A）The Ambassadors:（B） The Wings of the Dove.（C） The Bostonians.（

33、D）The Mysterious Stranger.69 Dickinsons poems include poems of_.（A）nature（B） love（C） death（D）all the above70 Emily Dickinson wrote many poems on various aspects of life. Which of the following is NOT a usual subject of her poetic expression?（A）Religion.（B） Life and death.（C） Love and marriage.（D）War

34、 and peace.71 _ explores the scrupulous individualism in a world of fantastic speculation and unstable values, and gives its names to the get-rich-quick years of the post-Civil War era.（A）Innocents Abroad（B） The Gilded Age（C） Roughing It（D）The Middle Years72 The main theme of_The Art of Fiction reve

35、als his literary credo that representation of life should be the main object of the novel.（A）Henry James（B） Mark Twains（C） Theodore Dreisers（D）William Dean Howells73 Which statement is NOT true in describing American naturalists?（A）They were deeply influenced by Darwinism（B） They were identified wit

36、h French novelist and theorist Emile Zola（C） They chose their subjects from the lower ranks of society.（D）They used more serious and more sympathetic tone in writing than realists74 In Henry Jamess Daisy Miller, the “Americanness“ in Daisy is revealed by her_.（A）vulgarity in language and taste（B） ex

37、pensive jewels and clothes（C） lack of grace and patience（D）relatively unreserved manners75 _, in his “McTeague“, describes the relations of a crude dentist, who is compared to a draft-horse, a dog, a bear, with a superficially refined German-American girl.（A）Theodore Dreiser（B） Frank Norris（C） Henry

38、 James（D）Mark Twain76 _ is an account of American tourists in Europe which pokes fun at the pretentious, decadent and undemocratic Old World in a satirical tone.（A）The Adventures of Tom Sawyer（B） Innocents Abroad（C） A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court（D）Roughing it77 The raft on which Huck an

39、d Jim float along the river in Mark Twains Adventures of Huckleberry Finn may symbolize all the following EXCEPT_.（A）spiritual freedom（B） escape from different sorts of social oppression（C） mobility and instability（D）a small society where people of different color can live like brothers78 Which of t

40、he following statements about Emily Dickinson is true?（A）Since she scarcely goes out of her house, she pays little attention to the outside world.（B） She prefers to explore the inner life of herself rather than the social one.（C） She is strongly influenced by Calvinism and has a firm belief in after

41、-life.（D）She is not interested in love because she herself never gets married.79 Here are a few lines from a poem: “With Blueuncertain stumbling Buzz / Between the light and me / And then the Windows failedand then /1 could not see to see . The poem must be_.（A）Emily Dickinsons / heard a Fly buzz wh

42、en I died（B） Edgar Allen Poes Annabel Lee（C） Walt Whitmans Song of Myself（D）Robert Frosts After Apple-Picking80 Theodore Dreiser gives his novel the title of An American Tragedy mostly because_.（A）he tries to give an ironical meaning to the story（B） he attempts to reproduce an authentic trial fictio

43、nally（C） he is surprised that such tragedy should happen in America（D）it is the typical thing that can happen to an American in the pursuit of riches81 Theodore Dreisers forgiving treatment of the career of his heroine in_also draws heavily upon the naturalistic understanding of sexuality.（A）McTeagu

44、e（B） An American Tragedy（C） Sister Carrie（D）The Genius82 One of the characteristics that have made Mark Twain one of the major literary figures in the 19thcentury American literature is the use of_.（A）vernacular（B） interior monologue（C） point of view（D）photographic description83 Winterbourne is used

45、 as a narrator of the events in Henry Jamess_（A）The American（B） Daisy Miller（C） The Turn of the Screw（D）The Wings of the Dove84 _is described by Mark Twain as a boy with “a sound heart and a deformed conscience.“（A）Tom Sawyer（B） Huckleberry Finn（C） Jim（D）Tony85 The Way of the Beaten: A Harp in the W

46、ind this is the title of one chapter in Dreisers novel_.（A）An American Tragedy（B） Sister Carrie（C） Dreiser Looks at Russia（D）Jannie Gerhardt86 The author of The Portrait of a Lady is best at _.（A）probing into the secret part of human life（B） an incarnation of the clash between the Old World and the

47、New in the life journey of an American girl in a European cultural environment（C） a truthful description of the motives, the impulses, the principles that shape the lives of actual men and women（D）disclosing the social injustices and evils of a civilized society after the Civil War 87 During the per

48、iod after the Civil War, the American society entered in what Mark Twain referred to as_.（A）the Golden Age（B） the Puritan Age（C） the Gilded Age（D）the Modern Age88 _is NOT characteristic of Dreisers writing.（A）Naturalism（B） Tragic Ending（C） Romantic quality（D）Redundancy89 _is usually regarded as a classic book written for boys about their particular horrors and joys.（A）The Adventures of Tom Sawyer（B） Adventures of Huckleberry Finn（C） Innocents Abroad（D）Life on the Mississippi四、问答题90 “What is his