[考研类试卷]英语专业（英美文学）模拟试卷7及答案与解析.doc

1、英语专业（英美文学）模拟试卷 7 及答案与解析一、填空题1 Henry Fieldings first novel_is first intended as a burlesque of Samuel Richardsons novel Pamela.2 In Gullivers Travels, Yahoos are creatures living on_.3 The 18th century England is known as the Age of Enlightenment or the Age of_.4 The only important English dramatist

2、in the 18th century is_.5 “From the 1st of October to 24th, All these days entirely spent in many several voyages to get all I could out of the ship, which I brought on shore ever tide of flood upon rafts.“ This is the journal kept by the character_.6 _ is regarded as the Father of English novel.7 T

3、he Yahoos are attacked by the writer named_in his fantasy work bearing the title8 “Is not a Patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached the ground, encumbers him with help?till I am solitary, and cant impart it. Till I am unknown,

4、 and do not want it.“ The above quotation was written by_in_.9 The well-known verse of “Tyger, Tyger, Burning Bright/ In the forest of Night/ What immortal hand or eyes“ is written by _.10 In the 18th century,_ found its expression chiefly in poetry, especially that of William Blake and Robert Burns

5、.11 The period ranging from_ to_has been referred to as the Age of Realism in the literary history of the United States, which is actually a movement or tendency that dominated the spirit of American literature, especially American_, from the 1850s onwards.12 The arbiter of 19th century literary rea

6、lism in America was_.13 Realism had originated in the country_as realism, a literary doctrine that called for “reality and truth“ in the depiction of ordinary life.14 In his cluster of poems called Leaves of Grass,_gave America its first genuine epic poem.15 Realism was a reaction against_or a move

7、away form the bias towards romance and self-creating Fictions, and paved the way to_.16 As Whitman saw it,_ could play a vital part in the process of creating a new nation.17 Norriss novel_has been called “ the first full-bodied naturalistic American novel“ and “a consciously naturalistic manifesto“

8、.二、名词解释18 Enlightenment Movement19 Epistolary novel20 Sentimentalism21 Gothic romance22 plot23 Caroline Meeber24 Trilogy of Desire25 Mark Twain26 Daisy Miller27 Henry James三、单项选择题28 Alexander Pope worked painstakingly on his poems and finally brought to its last perfection _Dryden had successfully u

9、sed in his plays.（A）the heroic couplet（B） the free verse（C） the bland verse（D）the Spenserian stanza29 _ has been regarded by some as “Father of the English novel“ for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.（A）John Bunyan（B） Henry Fielding（C） Daniel Defoe（D）Jonathan Swi

10、ft30 _was the only important dramatist of the 18th century.（A）Alexander Pope（B） Richard Brinsley Sheridan（C） Samuel Johnson（D）George Bernard Shaw31 _brings Henry Fielding the name of the “prose Homer“.（A）The Pilgrims Progress（B） Tom Jones（C） Robinson Crusoe（D）Colonel Jack32 _is mainly a story about

11、two brothers, the hypocritical Joseph Surface and the good-natured, imprudent and spendthrift Charles Surface.（A）The Rivals（B） The School for Scandal（C） The Duenna（D）Pizarro33 The poem Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard is regarded as the most representative work of_.（A）the Metaphysical School（B）

12、 The Graveyard School（C） the Gothic School（D）the Romantic school34 Alone with the fast economic development in the 18th century in England, the British_ also grew very rapidly.（A）bourgeois（B） proletarians（C） aristocratic class（D）royal family35 In his novel Robinson Crusoe, Defoe eulogizes the hero o

13、f the_.（A）aristocratic class（B） enterprising landlords（C） rising bourgeoisie（D）hard-working people36 _is not written by Alexander pope.（A）An Essay on Criticism（B） The Essays（C） An Essay on Man（D）The Dunciad37 _by Pope is a comprehensive study of the theories of literary criticism, exerting great inf

14、luence upon his contemporary writers in advocating the classical rules and popularizing the neoclassicist tradition in England.（A）An Essay on Man（B） The Dunciad（C） The Essays（D）An Essay on Criticism38 Samuel Johnson wrote his letter To the Right Honorable the Earl of Chesterfield in order to_.（A）mak

15、e reconciliation with the Earl（B） address the newly compiled dictionary to the Earl（C） persuade the Earl to give up his hypocrisy（D）show his indignation and resolution not to be reconciled39 In the 18th century English literature, the representative writer of neoclassicism is_.（A）Alexander Pope（B） J

16、onathan Swift（C） Daniel Defoe（D）John Milton40 _, written by Alexander Pope satirized the idle and artificial life of the aristocracy.（A）The Rape of the Lock（B） The Rape of Lucree（C） The School for Scandal（D）Every Man in His Humor41 Which of the following plays is regarded as the best English comedy

17、since Shakespeare?（A）The School for Scandal.（B） She Stoops to Conquer.（C） The Rivals.（D）The Conscious Lover.42 In The Pilgrims Progress, John Bunyan describes “The Vanity Fair“ in a_tone.（A）delightful（B） satirical（C） sentimental（D）solemn43 Defoes Robinson Crusoe created the image of an enterprising

18、Englishman, typical of the English bourgeoisie in the_century.（A）17th（B） 18th（C） 19th（D）20th44 Literature of Neoclassicism is different from that of Romanticism in that_.（A）the former celebrates reason, rationality, order and instruction while the latter sees literature as an expression of an indivi

19、duals feelings and experiences.（B） the former is heavily religious but the latter secular.（C） the former is an intellectual movement the purpose of which is to arouse the middle class for political rights while the latter is concerned with the personal cultivation.（D）the former advocates the “return

20、 to nature“ whereas the latter turns to the ancient Greek and Roman writers for its models45 You may have met the term “Yahoo“ on internet, but you may also have met it in English literature. It is found in_.（A）John Bunyans Pilgrims Progress（B） Samuel Johnsons The Vanity of Human Wishes（C） Jonathan

21、Swifts Gullivers Travels（D）Henry Fieldings Tome Jones46 “Surface“, “Sneerwell“, “Backbite“, and “Candor“ are most likely the names of the characters in_.（A）Shaws Mrs. Warrens Profession（B） Sheridans The School for Scandal（C） Shakespeares Loves Labors Lost（D）Christopher Marlowes Dr. Faustus47 John Bu

22、nyans The Pilgrims Progress is a(n)_.（A）allegory（B） romance（C） comedy of manners（D）realistic novel48 The middle of the 18th century was predominated by a newly rising literary form, that is the modern English_, which gives a realistic presentation of life of the common English people.（A）prose（B） tra

23、gicomedy（C） short story（D）novel49 Which of the following comments on Richard Brinsley Sheridan is NOT true?（A）The School for Scandal is his masterpiece.（B） In his plays, morality is the constant theme.（C） He was the only important English dramatist of the 18th century.（D）His plays The Rivals and The

24、 School for Scandal are generally regarded as true classics in English tragedy.50 The sentence, “This fair is no new-erected business, but a thing of ancient standing; I will show you the original of it“, are taken from_.（A）The Pilgrims Progress（B） Gullivers Travels（C） Paradise Lost（D）Robinson Cruso

25、e51 Which of the following is NOT Richard Brinsley Sheridans work?（A）Tom Jones.（B） The School for Scandal.（C） The Rivals.（D）The Critic.52 In field of literature, the Enlightenment brought about a(n)_ the old classical works. This tendency is known as neoclassicism.（A）rebellion against .（B） indiffere

26、nce to（C） revived interest in（D）rational scrutiny of53 As a literary figure, Belinda appears in Alexander Popes_.（A）The Rape of the Lock（B） An Essay on Criticism（C） The Dunciad（D）Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot54 Which of the following is NOT a typical aspect of Defoes language?（A）Elegant.（B） Colloquial.（C

27、） Vernacular.（D）Smooth.55 “The novel is structured around the discovery of the heros origin.“ This novel most probably refers to_.（A）The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling（B） The Vicar of the Wakefield（C） David Copperfield（D）Wuthering Heights56 The School for Scandal, one of the great classics in Eng

28、lish drama, is a_on the moral degeneracy of the aristocratic-bourgeois society in the 18th-century England.（A）high praise（B） sharp satire（C） bitter lament（D）great irony57 The Rape of the Lock by Pope is written in the form of a mock_, which describes the triviality of high society in a grand style.（

29、A）epic（B） sonnet（C） elegy（D）ode58 _is considered to be Theodore Dreisers greatest work.（A）An American Tragedy（B） Sister Carrie（C） The Financier（D）The Titan59 In 1900, London published his first collection of short stories, named_.（A）The Sea Wolf（B） The Son of the Wolf（C） The Law of Life（D）White Fang

30、60 However,_, the keynote of Daisy Millers character, turns out to be an admiring but a dangerous quality and her defiance of social taboos in the Old World finally brings her to a disaster in the clash between two different cultures.（A）experience（B） sophistication（C） worldliness（D）innocence61 Gener

31、ally speaking, all those writers with a naturalistic approach to human reality tent to be_.（A）transcendentalists（B） idealists（C） pessimists（D）impressionists62 One of Mark Twains contributions to the American Literature is that he made_an accepted standard literary medium.（A）tall tale（B） colloquial s

32、peech（C） humor（D）local colorism63 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） William Dean Howells（C） Mark Twains（D）Jack Londons64 _is not a novel by Henry James dealing with the international th

33、eme.（A）What Maisie Knows（B） The Wings of the Dove（C） The Ambassadors（D）The Golden Bowl65 The following authors are famous American realist novelists except_.（A）Henry James（B） Jack London（C） Mark Twain（D）Stephen Crane66 Mark Twain wrote most of his literary works with a_language.（A）grand（B） pompous（C

34、） Simple（D）vernacular67 Stylistically, Henry Jamess fiction is characterized by_.（A）highly refined language（B） ordinary American speech（C） short, clear sentences（D）abundance of local images68 Which of the following writings is by Hemingway described the novel the one book from which “all modern Amer

35、ican literature comes“?（A）Tom Sawyer（B） Huckleberry Finn（C） The Gilded Age（D）Life on the Mississippi69 _ explores the scrupulous individualism in a world of fantastic speculation and unstable values, and gives its name to the get-rich-quick years of the post Civil War era.（A）Innocents Abroad（B） The

36、Gilded Age（C） Roughing It（D）The Middle Years70 _described by Mark Twain as a boy with “a sound heart and a deformed conscience.（A）Tom Sawyer（B） Huckleberry Finn（C） Jim（D）Tony71 While embracing the socialism of Marx, London also believed in the triumph of the strongest individuals. This contradiction

37、 is most vividly projected in the patently autobiographical novel_.（A）The Call of the Wild（B） The Sea Wolf（C） Martin Eden（D）The Iron Heel72 The setting of_is American, where some Europeans, who are actually expatriated Americans, learn with difficulty to adapt themselves to the American life.（A）Midd

38、lemarch（B） The Europeans（C） Daisy Miller（D）The Portrait of a Lady73 However, innocence, the keynote of Daisy Millers character, turns out to be an admiring but dangerous quality and her _of social taboos in the Old World finally brings her to a disaster in the clash between two different cultures.（A

39、）admiration（B） defiance（C） sympathy（D）disgusting74 Theodore Dreiser is generally regarded as one of Americas_.（A）naturalists（B） realists（C） modernists（D）romanticists75 _exerts the single most important influence on literary naturalism, of which Theodore Dreiser and Jack London are among the best rep

40、resentative writers.（A）Freud.（B） Emerson（C） Darwin（D）W.D.Howells.76 The impact of Darwins evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the 19th century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to yet another school of realism: American_.（A）modernism（B） naturalis

41、m（C） vernacularism（D）local colorism77 Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his_.（A）international theme（B） waste-land imagery（C） local color（D）symbolism78 “I“ was letting on to give up sin, but always inside of me I was holding on to the biggest one of all.

42、 The sentence, which is taken from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, is written in a(n)_tone.（A）ironic（B） regretful（C） sincere（D）delightful79 Dreisers Trilogy of Desire includes three novels. They are The Financier, The Titan and_.（A）The Stoic（B） The Giant（C） The Tycoon（D）The Genius80 The novelist

43、ic technique of projecting the narrative through feelings and thoughts of the characters, reached a perfected form in the works of_.（A）William Dean Howells（B） Henry James（C） Washington Irving（D）Emily Dickinson81 Emily Dickinsons poetry is most aptly characterized as ._.（A）exposing the evils of the s

44、ociety（B） paving the way for the following generation of free verse poets（C） exhibiting a sensitiveness to the symbolic implications of experience, such as love, death, immortality and nature, etc.（D）sharing the same poetic conventions as Walt Whitman82 In Henry Jamess Daisy Miller, the author tries

45、 to portray the young woman as an embodiment of_.（A）force of convention（B） are polite and elegant gentlemen（C） are simple and crude farmers（D）are noble savages untainted by society83 _is NOT characteristic of Dreisers writing.（A）Naturalism（B） Tragic Ending（C） Romantic quality（D）Redundancy84 The book

46、 from which “all modern American literature comes“ refers to_.（A）The Great Gatsby（B） The Sun Also Rises（C） The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn（D）Moby-Dick85 _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

47、 Huckleberry Finn（C） Innocents Abroad（D）Life on the Mississippi86 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.87 With Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the li

48、terary scene, _became the major trend in American literature in the 70s and 80s of 19th century.（A）sentimentalism（B） romanticism（C） realism（D）naturalism四、问答题88 “And, moreover, at this fair there is at all times to be seen jugglings, cheats, games, plays, fools, apes, knaves, and rogues, and that of every kind, here are to be seen, too, and that for nothing, thefts, murders, adulteries, false swears, and that of a blood-red color.“A. Identify the author and the title of the no