《英美文学选读》模拟试卷一
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I.Multiple Choice. (1 point for each, altogether 30 points)
Directions:There are 30 sentences in this section. Beneath each sentence there are four choices respectively marked by letters A, B, C and D. Choose the word that you think best complete the sentence. Write your answers on the answer sheet.
1. Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his production of_______.
[A] Piers Plowman[B] Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
[C] Confessio Amantis[D] The Canterbury Tales
2. In "After Apple- Picking," Robert Frost wrote: "For I have had too much / Of apple -picking:
I am overtired/ Of the great harvest I myself desired." From these lines we can conclude that the speaker is_______.
[A] happy about the harvest
[B] still very much interested in apple-picking
[C] expecting a greater harvest
[D] indifferent to what he once desired
3.With Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the literary scene, _______became the major trend in American literature in the seventies and eighties of the 19th century.
[A] Sentimentalism[B] romanticism[C] realism[D] naturalism
4. Of the following American poets in the twentieth century, the one who has the best knowledge of Chinese culture is _______.
[A] Robert Frost[B] Allen Ginsberg[C] Ezra Pound[D] Cummings
5. _______is the first important governess novel in the English literary history.
[A] Jane Eyre[B] Emma
[C] Wuthering Heights[D] Middlemarch
6. The Hemingway Code heroes are best remembered for their_______.
[A] indestructible spirit[B] pessimistic view of life
[C] war experiences[D] masculinity
7. Which of the following is taken from John Keats’Ode to a Nightingale? _______
[A] "Beauty is truth, truth beauty."
[B] "Earth has not anything to show more fair."
[C] "They are both gone up to the church to pray."
[D] "was it a vision, or a waking dream?"8. Emily Dickinson wrote many short poems on various aspects of life. Which of the following is NOT a usual subject of her poetic expression? _______
[A] Religion and immortality[B] Life and death
[C] Love and marriage[D] War and peace
9. Henry David Thoreau＇s work_______, has always been regarded as a masterpiece of New England Transcendentalism.
[A] Walden[B] The Pioneers
[C] Nature[D] Song of Myself
10. George Bernard Shaw’s play _______ established his position as the leading play-wright of his time.
[B] Too True to Be Good
[A] Widowers’ Houses
[D] Candida
[C] Mrs. Warren’s Profession
11. Romance, which uses narrative verse or prose to tell stories of _______ adventures or other heroic deeds, is a popular literary form in the medieval period.
[A] Christian[B] knightly
[C] Greek[D] primitive
12. For Melville, as well as for the reader and _______ , the narrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, an ultimate mystery of the universe. .
[A] Ahab[B] Ishmael
[C] Stubb[D] Starbuck
13. Which of the following historical events does not directly help to stimulate the rising of the Renaisssance Movement? _______
[A] The rediscovery of ancient Greek and Roman culture
[B] The new discoveries in geography and astrology
[C] The Glorious revolution
[D] The religious reformation and the economic expansion
14. Which of the following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare's Sonnet 18?
[A] The speaker eulogizes the power of Nature
[B] The speaker satirizes human vanity
[C] The speaker praises the power of artistic creation
[D] The speaker meditates on man's salvation
15. “And we will sit upon the rocks,/Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks,/By shallow rivers to whose falls/Melodious birds sing madrigals.” The above lines are probably taken from _______.
[A] Spenser's The Faerie Queene
[B] John Donne's “The Sun Rising”
[C] Shakespeare's “Sonnet 18”
[D] Marlowe's “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”16. “Bassanio: Antonio, I am married to a wife which is as dear to me as life itself; But life itself, My wife, and all the world. Are not with me esteem'd above thy life; I would lose all, ay, sacrifice them all, Here to the devil, to deliver you. Portia: Your wife would give you little thanks for that, If she were by to hear you make the offer.” The above is a quotation taken from Shakespeare's comedy The Merchant of Venice. The quoted part can be regarded as a good example to illustrate _______.
[A] dramatic irony[B] personification
[C] allegory[D] symbolism
17. The true subject of John Donne's poem, “The Sun Rising,” is to _______.
[A] attack the sun as an unruly servant
[B] give compliments to the mistress and her power of beauty
[C] criticize the sun's intrusion into the lover's private life
[D] lecture the sun on where true royalty and riches lie
18. Of all the 18thcentury novelists Henry Fielding was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a “_______ in prose,” the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.
[A] tragic epic[B] comic epic
[C] romance[D] lyric epic
19. The Houyhnhnms depicted by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels are _______.
[A] horses that are endowed with reason
[B] pigmies that are endowed with admirable qualities
[C] giants that are superior in wisdom
[D] hairy, wild, low and despicable creatures, who resemble human beings not only in
appearance but also in some other ways.
20. Here are four lines from a literary work: “Others for language all their care express, /And
value books, as women men, for dress.” The work is _______.
[A] Thomas Gray's “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”
[B] John Milton's Paradise Lost
[C] Alexander Pope's Essay on Criticism
[D] Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream
21. The phrase “to urge people to abide by Christian doctrines and to seek salvation through constant struggles with their own weaknesses and all kinds of social evils” may well sum up the implied meaning of _______.
[A] Gulliver's Travels[B] The Rape of the Lock
[C] Robinson Crusoe[D] The pilgrim's Progress
22. 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 humble and rustic life as subject matter
[D] the use of elegant wording and inflated figures of speech
23. Which of the following is taken from John Keats’ “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 more fair”
[D] “Beauty is truth, truth beauty”
24.“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind!” is an epigrammatic line by _______.
[A] J.Keats[B] W.Blake
[C] W.Wordsworth[D] P.B.Shelley
25. “Ode o na 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…permanence
26. In the statement“—oh, God! would you like to live with your soul in the grave?” the term “soul” apparently refers to _______.
[A] Heathcliff himself[B] Catherine
[C] one's spiritual life[D] one's ghost
27. The typical feature of Robert Browning's poetry is the _______.
[A] bitter satire[B] larger-than-life caricature
[C] Latinized diction[D] dramatic monologue
28. The Victorian Age was largely an age of _______, eminently represented by Dickens and Thackeray.
[A] poetry[B] drama
[C] prose[D] epic prose
29. _______is the first important governess novel in the English literary history.
[A] Jane Eyre[B] Emma
[C] Wuthering Heights[D] Middlemarch
30. The major concern of ______ fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature.
[A] D.H.Lawrence's [B] J.Galsworthy's
[C] W.Thackeray’s[D] T.Hardy’s
II. Match the writer with his/her works and Write your answers on the answer sheet. (2point for each, altogether 20points)
31. Henry Fielding A. The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
32. James Joyce B. Composed upon Westminster Bridge
33. Daniel Defoe C. The Moll on the Floss
34. Alfred Tennyson D. Break, Break, Break.
35. John Keats E. A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man
36. George Eliot F. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
37. William Bulter Yeats G. A Journal of the Plague Year
38. William Wordsworth H. Ode on a Grecian Urn
39. Walt Whitman I. The Lake Isle of Innisfree40. Christopher Marlowe J. There Was a Child Went Forth
III. Decide whether the following statements are true or false and write your answers in the brackets. (2 point for each, altogether10 points)
( )41．The preface to the Lyrical Ballads is best read as a statement of Keats’s principles of poetry.
( )42．Besides novel writing, Hawthorne is also a very good writer of short stories.
( )43．Robert Frost’s poems are New England in their setting, and are characterized by the familiar speaking voice.
( )44．George Hurstwood is a friend of Drouet’s who steals a great deal of money from his employer and actually kidnaps Carrie to Canada.
( )45．Renaissance had its beginning in Italy in the middle of the fifteenth century.
IV. Define the literary terms listed below and write your answers on the answer sheet. (5 point for each, altogether 10 points)
46. Romanticism
47. Stream of Consciousness
V. Give brief answers to the following questions. Write your answers on the answer sheet.
(5 point for each, altogether 15 points)
48. How do you understand the character of Robinson Crusoe?
49. In the novel To the Lighthouse, is Lily lonely while completing her picture? Please justify your ideas.
50. What is the implication of the description of roses beside the prison door in the first chapter of The Scarlet Letter?
Ⅵ.Write no less than 150 words on the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet. (15 point for each, altogether 15 points)
51.William Shakespeare is one of the most remarkable playwrights the world has ever known. ( 1) Name his four greatest tragedies.
(2) What are the characteristics of the four tragedies in common?
(3) Briefly summarize each hero' s weakness of nature.
《英美文学选读》模拟试卷一答案
II.Multiple Choice. (1 point for each, altogether 30 points)
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II. Match the writer with his/her works and write your answers in the brackets. (2point for each, altogether 20points)
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III. Decide whether the following statements are true or false and write your answers in the brackets. (2 point for each, altogether10 points)
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IV.
Define the literary terms listed below and write your answers in the brackets. (10%)
46.复习范围或考核目标：课件Course 03 William Wordsworth
47.复习范围或考核目标：课件Course06Virginia Woolf
V. Give brief answers to the following questions. Write your answers on the answer sheet. (15%)
48.复习范围或考核目标：课件Course 02 Daniel Defoe
49.复习范围或考核目标：课件Course06Virginia Woolf
50.复习范围或考核目标：课件course07 Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ⅵ.Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet. (15%)
51.复习范围或考核目标：课件course01William Shakespeare
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《英美文学选读》模拟试卷二
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1.试卷保密，考生不得将试卷带出考场或撕页，否则成绩作废。请监考老师负责监督。
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3.本试卷满分100分，答题时间为90分钟。
4.本试卷分为试题卷和答题卷，所有答案必须答在答题卷上，答在试题卷上不给分。III.Multiple Choice. (1 point for each, altogether 30 points)
Directions:There are 20 sentences in this section. Beneath each sentence there are four choices respectively marked by letters A, B, C and D. Choose the word that you think best complete the sentence. Write your answers on the answer sheet.
1. Who is NOT the major character in To the Lighthouse? _______
[A] Mrs. Ramsay[B] Mr.Ramsay[C] David[D] James
2. What kind of girl is Dora? _______
[A] pretty and clever[B] pretty and empty-headed
[C] plain-looking and understanding[D] lovely and clever
3. In Hardy＇s Wessex novels, there is an apparent _______ touch in his description of the simple and beautiful though primitive rural life.
[A] humorous[B] romantic[C] nostalgic[D] sarcastic
4. The name of the hero in Jane Eyre was_______
[A] Tom[B] Heathcliff[C] James[D] David
5. Which novel gave Woolf the reputation as an important psychological writer? _______
[A] To the Lighthouse[B] The waves
[C] Mrs.Dalloway[D] The Common Reader
6. Virginia Woolf was born in_______
[A] 1882[B] 1767[C] 1678[D] 10
7. which of Woolf’novels was adapted into movie named The Hours?
[A] Mrs.Dalloway[B] The Waves
[C] The Common Reader[D] To the Light house
8. How many groups are there in Hardy’s novels? _______
[A] two[B] three[C] four[D] five
9. After reading the first chapter of Pride and Prejudice, we may come to know that Mrs. Bennet is a woman of _______.
[A] simple character and quick wit
[B] simple character and poor understanding
[C] intricate character and quick wit
[D] intricate character and poor understanding
10. Which of the following is NOT written by Hardy?
[A] The Return of the native[B] A Tale of Two Cities
[C] Tess of d＇Urbervilles[D] Jude the Obscure
11．“For a week after the commission of the impious and profane offence of asking for more, Oliver remained a close prisoner in the dark and solitary room ...”(Dickens, Oliver Twist) What did Oliver ask for? _______
[A] More time to play[B] More food to eat
[C] More book to read[D] More money to spend
12．Mrs. Warren’s Profession is one of George Bernard Shaw’s plays. What is Mrs. Warren’sprofession then ? _______
[A] Real estate[B] Prostitution
[C] House-keeping[D] Farming
13．Dr. Faustus is a play based on the German legend of a magician aspiring for and finally meeting his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the Devil. _______
[A] immortality[B] political
[C] money[D] knowledge
14．The statement “A demanding mother turns away from her husband and gives all her affection to her sons” sums up the main plot of D. H. Lawrence′s _______.
[A] Lady Chatterley’s Lover[B] Women in love
[C] Sons and Lovers[D] The Plumed Serpent
15．“Come to me－come to me entirely now,” said he ; and added, in his deepest tone, speaking in my ear as his cheek was laid on mine, “Make my happiness－I will make yours.” The above passage presents a scene in_______ .
[A] Emily Bronte’s Withering Heights
[B] Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre
[C] John Galsworthy′s The Forsyte Saga
[D] Thomas Hardy′s Tess of the D′Urbervilles
16．Which of the following is NOT written by William Butler Yeats? _______
[A] “Sailing to Byzantium”[B] “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”
[C] “Leda and the Swan”[D] The Waste Land”
17. “Drive my dead thought over the universe Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth.”
(Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Ode to the West Wind”) What rhetorical device does the poet use in the quoted lines? _______
[A] Synecdoche[B] Metaphor
[C] Simile[D] Onomatopoeia
18．Crusoe is the hero in The life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Grusoe, of York, Mariner (also known as Robinson Crusoe)by . _______
[A] Jonathan Swift[B] Daniel Defoe
[C] George Eliot[D] D.H.Lawrence
19．“Beauty is truth, truth beauty” is an epigrammatic line by . _______
[A] John Keats[B] William Blake
[C] William Wordsworth[D] Percy Bysshe Shelley
20．Christoper Marlow’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” is a (n) . _______
[A] pastoral lyric[B] elegy
[C] eulogy[D] epic
21．Which of the following is NOT regarded as one of the characteristics of Renaissance humanism? _______
[A] Cultivation of the art of this world and this life
[B] Tolerance of human foibles
[C] Search for the genuine flavor of ancient culture
[D] Glorification of religious faith22．“In dream vision Arthur witnessed the loveliness of Gloriana, and upon awaking resolves to seek her.” The two literary figures Arthur and Gloriana are form_______.
[A] Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene
[B] William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet
[C] Christopher Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His love”
[D] John Donne’s “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”
23．Which of the following best describes the nature of Thomas Hardy’s later works? _______
[A] Sentimentalism[B] Tragic sense
[C] Surrealism[D] Comic sense
24．“...This grew: I gave commands; Then all smiles stopped altogether....” (Robert Browning, “My Last Duchess”) The above lines imply that. _______
[A] the Duchess was killed by her husband
[B] the Duchess stopped smiling at her husband’s order
[C] the Duchess died of laughing too much
[D] the Duchess did not want to smile as much as her husband requested
25．In which of the following works can you find the proper names “Lilliput,” “Brobdingnag,” “Houyhnhnm,” and “Yahoo”? _______
[A] James Joyce’s Ulsses[B] Charles Dickens’s Bleak House
[C] Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels[D] D. H. Lawrence’s Women in love 26．As a literary figure, Belinda appears in Alexander Pope’s. _______
[A] “The Dunciad”[B] “An Essay on Man”
[C] “An Essay on Criticism”[D] “The Rape of the lock”
27．“The novel is structured around the discovery of the hero’s origin.” This novel is most probably. _______
[A] Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield
[B] James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
[C] Thomas Hardy’s Far from the Madding Growd
[D] Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones
28．“To wage by force or guile eternal war, Irreconcilable to our grand Foe.”（John Milton, Paradise lost)
By what means were Satan and his followers to wage this war against God? _______
[A] Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield
[B] James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
[C] Thomas Hardy’s Far from the Madding Growd
[D] Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones
29．“When the evening is spread out against the sky. Like a patient etherized upon a table.” (T. s. Eliot, “The Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock”) What does the image in the quoted lines suggest? _______
[A] Violence[B] Horror
[C] Inactivity[D] Indifference
30. Which of the following is NOT typical of metaphysical poetry best represented by JohnDonne’s works? _______
[A] Common speech[B] Conceit
[C] Argument[D] Refined language
II. Match the writer with his/her works and Write your answers on the answer sheet. (2 point for each, altogether 20 points)
31. John Milton A. The Leaves of Grass
32. Samuel Johnson
B. Mrs. Warren’s Profession
33. Walt Whitman C. Art of Fiction
34. Jane Austen D. The Merchant of Venice
35. William Shakespeare E. A Dictionary of the English Language
36. George Bernard Shaw F. The Return of the Native
37. Henry James G. Samson Agonistes
38. Washington Irving H. Pride and Prejudice
39. Thomas Hardy I. Rip Van Winkle
J. The Emperor Jones
40. Eugene O’Neill
III. Decide whether the following statements are true or false and write your answers in the brackets. (2 point for each, altogether 10 points)
( )41. "Dr. Faustus" is a play based on the English Legend of a magician aspiring for knowledge and finally meeting his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the Devil.
( )42. Swift is a master satirist. His satire is usually masked by an outward gravity and an apparent earnestness which renders his satire all the more powerful. His "A Modest Proposal" is generally taken as a perfect model.
( )43. Shelley's greatest achievement is his four - act poetic drama, "Prometheus Unbound". (1820)
( )44. Though Naturalism seems to have played an important part in Hardy's works, there is also bitter and sharp criticism and even open challenge as the irrational, hypocritical and unfair Victorian institutions, conventions and morals which strangle the individual will and destroy natural human emotions and relationships.
( )45. Hardy is the founder of the "stream of consciousness" school of novel writing.
IV. Define the literary terms listed below and write your answers on the answer sheet. (5 point for each, altogether 10 points)
46. Foreshadowing
47. critical realism
V. Give brief answers to the following questions. Write your answers on the answer sheet.
(5 point for each, altogether 15 points)
48. Comment on Jane Austen’s use of dialogue in Pride and Prejudice.
49. Analyze the poem of Stopping by woods on a Snowy Evening.
50. What is American Naturalism?Ⅵ.Write no less than 150 words on the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet. (15 point for each, altogether 15points)
51. Charles Dickens is one of the greatest Victorian writers in his own unique way. Discuss Dickens’s art of novels: the setting, the language, and the characters, etc. based on his novel Oliver Twist.
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IV. Define the literary terms listed below and write your answers on the answer sheet. (5 point for each, altogether 10 points)
46. Foreshadowing
文学作品中伏笔（foreshadowing）和倒叙（flashback）
在西方名著William Golding 的"Lord of the flies" 中，Simon 的被误认为魔鬼并被围欧而死及Jack 的开始用颜料涂脸foreshadow 了Ralph 领的学生团与Jack 领的学生团必然发生的冲突及Piggy 的死亡。
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47. critical realism
V. Give brief answers to the following questions. Write your answers on the answer sheet.
(5 point for each, altogether 15 points)
48. Comment on Jane Austen’s use of dialogue in Pride and Prejudice.
49. Analyze the poem of Stopping by woods on a Snowy Evening.
50. What is American Naturalism?
Ⅵ.Write no less than 150 words on the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet. (15 point for each, altogether 15points)
51. Charles Dickens is one of the greatest Victorian writers in his own unique way. Discuss Dickens’s art of novels: the setting, the language, and the characters, etc. based on his novel Oliver Twist.
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注意：
1.试卷保密，考生不得将试卷带出考场或撕页，否则成绩作废。请监考老师负责监督。
2.请各位考生注意考试纪律，考试作弊全部成绩以零分计算。
3.本试卷满分100分，答题时间为90分钟。
4.本试卷分为试题卷和答题卷，所有答案必须答在答题卷上，答在试题卷上不给分。
IV.Multiple Choice. (1 point for each, altogether 30 points)
Directions:There are 30 sentences in this section. Beneath each sentence there are four choices respectively marked by letters A, B, C and D. Choose the word that you think best complete the sentence. Write your answers on the answer sheet.
1. The story of the Scarlet Letter is set in_______.
[A] New York[B] England[C] Boston[D] Salt lake City
2. The poem Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening is selected from_______.
[A] Witness Tree[B] Steeple Bush
[C] New Hampshire[D] A Further Range
3.Robert Frost combined traditional verse forms - the sonnet, rhyming couplets, blank verse - with a clear American local speech rhythm, the speech of _______ farmers with its idiosyncratic diction and syntax.
[A] Southern[B] Western[C] New Hampshire[D] New England
4. American writers of the first postwar era who were devoid of faith and alienated from the civilization were commonly called "______."
[A] sons of liberty[B]fatherless children[C] a beat generation[D] a lost generation
5. In Fitzgerald’ s The Great Gatsby, there are detailed descriptions of big parties. The purpose
of such descriptions is so show _______.
[A] emptiness of life
[B] the corruption of the upper class
[C] contrast of the rich and the poor
[D] the happy days of the Jazz Age
6. According to Mark Twain, in river towns up and down the Mississippi, it was every boy’ s dream to some day grow up to be ______.
[A] Methodist preacher
[B] a justice of the peace
[C] a riverboat pilot
[D] a pirate on the Indian ocean
7. 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 opportunist
8. "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood And sorry I could not travel both ..."In the above two lines of Robert Frost’ s The Road Not Taken, the poet, by implication, was referring to
_______.
[A] a travel experience[B] a marriage decision
[C] a middle-age crisis[D] one’ s course of life
9. 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 the Mississippi
10. What’ s the name of Hester and Dimmesdale’ s daughter?
[A] Amy[B] Pearl[C] Nina[D] Berry
11. The sentence "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare's ________ .
[A] comedies [B] tragedies [C] sonnets[D] histories
12. "So much the worse for me, that I an strong. Do I want to live? What kind of living will it be when you-oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?"
In the above passage quoted from Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, the word "soul" apparently refers to _______ .
[A] Heathcliff [B] Catherine [C] ghost[D] one's spiritual lift
13. "And where are they? And where art thou,"
My country? On thy voiceless shore
The heroic lay is tuneless now
The heroic bosom beats no more!"（George Gordon Byron, Don Juan）
In the above stanza, "art thou" literally means _______ .
[A] "are you"[B] "art though"[C] "are though"[D] "art you"
14. The major concern of _______ fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature.
[A] Charles Dickens's[B] D.H.Lawrence's
[C] Thomas Hardy's[D] John Galsworthy's
15. Daniel Defoe describes _______ as a typical English Middle-class man of the eighteenth century, the very prototype of the empire builder or the pioneer colonist.
[A] Tom Jones[B] Gulliver[C] Moll Flanders [D] Robinson Crusoe
16. "To be so distinguished is an honor, which, being very little accustomed to favors from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge."
The above quoted sentence is presented by Samuel Johnson with a（n）_______ tone.
[A] delightful [B] jealous[C] ironic [D] humorous
17. "She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and, oh, The difference to me!" The word "me" in the last line of the above stanza quoted from Wordsworth's poem "She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways" may possibly refer to _______ .
[A] the poet [B] the reader[C] her lover [D] everybody
18. _______ is a typical feature of Swift's writings.
[A] Bitter satire[B] Elegant style
[C] Casual narration[D] Complicated sentence structure
19. The statement "It reveals the dehumanizing workhouse system and the dark, criminal underworld life" may well sum up the main theme if Dickens's _______ .[A] David Copperfield[B] Bleak House
[C] Great Expectations [D] Oliver Twist
20. "Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless?…And if God had gifted me with some beauty, and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you." The above quoted passage is most probably taken from _______.
[A] Pride and Prejudice[B] Jane Eyre
[C] Wuthering Heights[D] Great Expectations
21. It is generally regarded that Keats's most important and mature poems are in the form of _______.
[A] ode[B] elegy [C] epic[D] sonnet
22. G.B.Shaw's play Mrs.Warren's Profession is a realistic exposure of the _______ in the English society.
[A] slum landlordism [B] inequality between men and women
[C] political corruption[D] economic exploitation of women
23. In William Blake's poetry, the father（and any other in whom he saw the image of the father such as God, priest, and king）was usually a figure of _______ .
[A] benevolence[B] admiration[C] love [D] tyranny
24. " 'I believe you are made of stone, 'he said, clenching his fingers so hard that he broke the fragile cup. …'You seem to forget,' she said, 'that cup is not!' "
From the above quoted passage, we can find the woman's tone is very _______ .
[A] sarcastic [B] amusing[C] sentimental [D] facetious
25. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan is often said to be concerned with the search for _______ .
[A] material wealth[B] spiritual salvation
[C] universal truth[D] self-fulfillment
26 .Alexander Pope strongly advocated _______, emphasizing that literary works should be judged by rules of order, reason, logic, restrained emotion, good taste and decorum.
[A] sentimentalism[B] romanticism[C] idealism[D] neoclassicism
27. After reading the first chapter of Pride and Prejudice, we may come to know that Mrs. Bennet is a woman of _______ .
[A] simple character and quick wit
[B] simple character and poor understanding
[C] intricate character and quick wit
[D] intricate character and poor understanding
28．Of all the eighteenth-century novelists, _______ was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a "comic epic in prose," and the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.
[A] Daniel Defoe[B] Samuel Richardson
[C] Henry Fielding[D] Oliver Goldsmith
29．"Not on thy sole but on thy soul, harsh Jew,/Thou mak'st thy knife keen."
In the above quotation taken form The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare employs a（n）_______ .
[A] oxymoron[B] pun[C] simile[D] synecdoche 30．In Hardy's Wessex novels, there is an apparent _______ touch in his description of the simple and beautiful though primitive rural life.
[A] humorous[B] romantic[C] nostalgic[D] sarcastic
II. Match the writer with his/her works and write your answers on the answer sheet. (2 point for each, altogether 20 points)
31. William Shakespeare A. Sense and Sensibility
32. Daniel Defoe B. Oliver Twist
33. Nathaniel Hawthorne C. Robinson Crusoe
34. William Wordsworth D. Hamlet
35. Theodore Dreiser E. Sister Carrie
36. Jane Austen F. The Great Gatsby
37. Charles Dickens G. “Young Goodman Brown”
38. Robert Frost H. To the Lighthouse
39. F. Scott Fitzgerald I. "The Solitary Reaper"
40. Virginia Woolf J. “Mending Wall”
III. Decide whether the following statements are true or false and write your answers in the brackets. (2point for each, altogether 10 points)
( )41. In his poetry, Donne frequently applies conceits, i. e. extended metaphors involving dramatic contrasts.
( )42. "The Pilgrim's Progress" is the most successful religious allegory in the English language.
( )43. The 19th century produced the first English novelists, who fall into two groups the sentimentalist novelists and the realist novelists.
( )44. The most important contribution Byron has made is that he has not only started the modern poetry, the poetry of the growing inner self, but also changed the course of English poetry by using ordinary speech of the language and by advocating a return to nature.
( )45. Generally speaking, Jane Austen was a writer of the 18th - century, though she lived mainly in the nineteenth century.
IV. Define the literary terms listed below and write your answers on the answer sheet. (5 point for each, altogether 10 points)
46. The Jazz Age
47. Symbolism
V. Give brief answers to the following questions. Write your answers on the answer sheet.
(5 point for each, altogether 15 points)
48. Make a comment on the image of Robinson Crusoe.
49. What are the features of Charles Dickens's novels?
50. What's Nathaniel Hawthorne's "black" vision of life and human beings?Ⅵ.Write no less than 150 words on the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet. (15 point for each, altogether 15 points)
51. “Sister Carrie” is the greatest literary work by Theodore Dreiser. Discuss Carrie Meeber, the protagonist of the novel.
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V.Multiple Choice. (1 point for each, altogether 30 points)
题号1234567101112131415答案C C D D A C B D B B C B A B D
题号161718192021222324252627282930答案C C A D B A D D A B D B C B C
II. Match the writer with his/her works and write your answers in the brackets. (20%)
题号31323334353637383940
答案D C G I E A B J F H
III. Decide whether the following statements are true or false and write your answers in the brackets. (2 point for each, altogether 10 points)
题号4142434445
答案T T F T T
IV. Define the literary terms listed below. (10%)
46.复习范围或考核目标：课件course10Scott Fitzgerald
47. 复习范围或考核目标：课件course07 Nathaniel Hawthorne
V. Give brief answers to the following questions. Write your answers in the brackets. (15%)
48.复习范围或考核目标：课件Course 02 Daniel Defoe
49．复习范围或考核目标：course05 Charles Dickens
50. 复习范围或考核目标：课件course07 Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ⅵ.Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet. (15%)
51. 复习范围或考核目标：Course08 Theodore DreiserNetwork Education College, BLCU
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注意：
1.试卷保密，考生不得将试卷带出考场或撕页，否则成绩作废。请监考老师负责监督。
2.请各位考生注意考试纪律，考试作弊全部成绩以零分计算。
3.本试卷满分100分，答题时间为90分钟。
4.本试卷分为试题卷和答题卷，所有答案必须答在答题卷上，答在试题卷上不给分。VI.Multiple Choice. (1 point for each, altogether 30 points)
Directions:There are 30 sentences in this section. Beneath each sentence there are four choices respectively marked by letters A, B, C and D. Choose the word that you think best complete the sentence. Write your answers on the answer sheet.
1. The work that presented for the first time in English literature a comprehensive realistic picture of the medi English society and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life is most likely _______.
[A] William Langland’ s Piers Plowman
[B] Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales
[C] John Gower’s Confession Amantis
[D] Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
2. The tragedy of Dr. Faustus the protagonist in Christopher Marlowe’s The Tragic History of Dr. Faustus is the very fact that_______.
[A] man is confined to time[B] he tried to join Africa to Spain
[C] he became a man without soul after he sold it
[D] he conjured up Helen the lady who was partially responsible for the breaking-up of the Trojan War
3．Which of the following plays does not belong to Shakespeare's great tragedies ？
[A] Hamlet [B] King Lear [C] Romeo and Juliet [D] Macbeth 4．Paradise Lost is actually a story taken from _______.
[A] the Renaissance[B] the Old Testament
[C] Greek Mythology[D] the New Testament
5．Spenser’s masterpiece _____________ is a great poem of its time.
[A] The Faerie Queene [B] The Shepheardes Calender
[C] The Canterbury Tales [D] metamorphoses
6．_______ is the essence of the Renaissance.
[A] Poetry[B] Drama
[C] Humanism[D] Reason
7．The most famous dramatists in the Renaissance England are Christopher Marlowe William Shakespeare and _______.
[A] John Milton[B] John Marlowe
[C] Ben Jonson[D] Edmund Spenser
8．“To be or not to be—that is the question”is a line taken from_______.
[A] Hamlet[B] Othello
[C] King Lear[D] The merchant of venice
9．Francis Bacon’s essays are famous for their brevity compactness and _______.
[A] complicity[B] complexity [C] powerfulness [D] mildness 10．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 individual’s feeling 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 to nature” whereas the latter turns to the ancient Greek and Roman writers for its models.
11．Daniel Defoe describes _______ as a typical English Middle- class man of the eighteenth century the very prototype of the empire builder or the pioneer colonist.
[A] Tom Jones[B] Gulliver[C] Moll Flanders[D] Robinson Crusoe 12．_______ is a typical feature of Swift’s writings.
[A] Bitter satire[B] Elegant style
[C] Casual narration[D] Complicated sentence structure 13．The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan is often said to be concerned with the search for _______.
[A] material wealth[B] spiritual salvation
[C] universal truth[D] self- fulfillment
14．Alexander Pope strongly advocated _______ emphasizing that literary works should be judged by rules of order reason logic restrained emotion good taste and decorum.
[A] Sentimentalism[B] Romanticism
[C] Idealism[D] Neoclassicism
15．“metaphysical poetry” refers to the works of the 17th- century writers who wrote under the influence of _______.
[A] John Donne[B] Alexander Pope
[C] Christopher Marlowe[D] John Milton
16．It is generally regarded that Keats’ s most important and mature poems are in the form of _______.
[A] ode[B] elegy [C] epic [D] sonnet
17．_______ is the most outstanding stream of consciousness novelist with _______ as his encyclopedia –like masterpiece .
[A] James Joyce Ulysses[B] E.M. Foster A Passage to India
[C] D.H. Lawrence Sons and Lovers[D] Virginia Woolf Mrs Dalloway 18．Which of the following poems is a landmark in English poetry?
[A] Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
[B] “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” by William Wordsworth
[C] “Remorse ”by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
[D] Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman
19．The literary form which is fully developed and the most flourishing during the Romantic Period is _______.
[A] prose[B] drama[C] novel[D] poetry 20．Which of the following poems by T.S. Eliot is hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th century English poetry?
[A] Poems 1909-1925[B] The Hollow Man
[C] Prufrock and Other Observations[D] The Waste Land
21．“My last Duchess” is a poem that best exemplifies Robert Browning’s _______.
[A] sensitive ear for the sounds of the English language
[B] excellent choice of words
[C] mastering of the metrical devices
[D] use of the dramatic monologue
22．Dickens’ works are characterized by a mingling of _______ and pathos.
[A] humor[B] satire[C] passion[D] metaphor23．Walt Whitman, whose _______ established him as the most popular American poet of the 19th century.
[A] Leaves of Grass[B] Go Down Moses
[C] The Marble Faun[D] As I Lay Dying
24．_______ has always been regarded as a writer who “perfected the best classic style that American Literature ever produced”.
[A] Edgar Ellen Poe[B] Walt Whitman
[C] Henry David Thoreau[D] Washington Irving
25．The Romantic Period one of the most important periods in the history of American literature stretches from the end of _______ to the outbreak of _______.
[A] the 17th century…the American War of Independence
[B] the 18th century…the American Civil War
[C] the 17th century…the American Civil War
[D] the 18th century…the U.S. –Mexican War
26．Which of the following statements is NOT true of American Transcendentalism?
[A] It can be clearly defined as a part of American Romantic literary movement.
[B] It can be defined philosophically as “the recognition in man of the capacity of knowing truth intuitively”.
[C] Ralph Waldo Emerson was the chief advocate of this spiritual movement.
[D] It sprang from South America in the late 19th century.
27．The theme of Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle is _______.
[A] the conflict of human psyche
[B] the fight against racial discrimination
[C] the familial conflict
[D] the nostalgia for the unrecoverable past
28．Hemingway’s “Indian Camp ” is one of the fourteen short stories collected under the title of _______.
[A] Three Stories and Ten Poems[B] Across the River and into the Trees
[C] The Green Hills of Africa[D] In Our Time
29. Eugene O’Neill’s first full—length play _______ won him the first Pulitzer Prize. Its theme is the choice between life and death the interaction of subjective and objective factors.
[A] Bound East for Cardiff[B] The Hairy Ape
[C] Desire Under the Elms[D] Beyond the Horizon
30. Ezra Pound a leading spokesman of the “_______” was one of the most important poets in his time.
[A] Imagist Movement[B] Cubist Movement
[C] Reformist Movement[D] Transcendentalist Movement
II. Match the writer with his/her works and Write your answers on the answer sheet. (2 point for each, altogether 20 points)
31. Daniel Defoe A. Great Expectations
32. William Wordsworth B. A Mid-Summer Night’s Dream33. Nathaniel Hawthorne C. Lines Written in Early Spring
34. Jane Austen D. Stopping by woods on a Snowy Evening
35. William Shakespeare E. The Beautiful and Damned
36. Charles Dickens F. The Scarlet Letter
37. Virginia Woolf G. Mansfield Park
38. Theodore Dreiser H. A Room of One’s Own
39. Robert Frost I. Dreiser Looks at Russia
40. Scott Fitzgerald J. Colonel Jacque
III. Decide whether the following statements are true or false and write your answers in the brackets. (2 point for each, altogether 10 points)
( )41. "The apparition of these faces in the crowd/Petals on a wet, black bough". the title of this poem is "In a Station of the Metro
( )42. In The Scarlet Letter, when Hester goes out of the prison alone, she feels very proud of herself.
( )43. Mr. Micawber, the character of David Copperfield, is a rich squire who lives a comfortable life.
( )44. In The Scarlet Letter, some housewives are gossiping about a woman named Hester and they think she is a shameful woman.
( )45. The two major characters in the novel of To the Lighthouse are Mr. and Mrs. Ramsay. IV. Define the literary terms listed below and write your answers on the answer sheet. (5 point for each, altogether 10 points)
46. Bloomsbury
47. Satire
V. Give brief answers to the following questions. Write your answers on the answer sheet.
(5 point for each, altogether 15 points)
48.Read the excerpt of "To the Lighthouse" in our textbook, and answer the following questions.
(1) How do you comment on the relationship between Lily and Mr. William Bankes?
(2) What is the relationship between Minta and Paul? Are they happy together?
(3) What is Lily’s outlook on human relationship?
Ⅵ.Reading Comprehension. (15 point for each, altogether 15points)
49. Read the quoted parts carefully and give the name of the author and the title of the literary work from which it is taken and then briefly interpret it.
Two roads diverged1 in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth2;《英美文学选读》模拟试卷四答案
VII.Multiple Choice. (1 point for each, altogether 30 points)
题号1234567101112131415答案B A C B A C C A C A D A B D A
题号161718192021222324252627282930答案A A A D D D A A D B D D A D D
II. Match the writer with his/her works and Write your answers on the answer sheet. (2 point for each, altogether 20 points)
题号31323334353637383940答案J C F G B A H I D E
III. Decide whether the following statements are true or false and write your answers in the brackets. (2 point for each, altogether 10 points)
题号4142434445
答案T F F T T
IV. Define the literary terms listed below and write your answers on the answer sheet. (5 point for each, altogether 10 points)
46、复习范围或考核目标：课件course06 Virginia Woolf
47、复习范围或考核目标：课件Course 02 Daniel Defoe
V. Give brief answers to the following questions. Write your answers on the answer sheet.
(5 point for each, altogether 15 points)
48、复习范围或考核目标：课件course06 Virginia Woolf
Ⅵ.Reading Comprehension (15 point for each, altogether 15points)
49、复习范围或考核目标：课件Course09 Robert FrostNetwork Education College, BLCU
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注意：
1.试卷保密，考生不得将试卷带出考场或撕页，否则成绩作废。请监考老师负责监督。
2.请各位考生注意考试纪律，考试作弊全部成绩以零分计算。
3.本试卷满分100分，答题时间为90分钟。
4.本试卷分为试题卷和答题卷，所有答案必须答在答题卷上，答在试题卷上不给分。VIII.Multiple Choice. (1 point for each, altogether 30 points)
Directions:There are 30 sentences in this section. Beneath each sentence there are four choices respectively marked by letters A, B, C and [D] Choose the word that you think best complete the sentence. Write your answers on the answer sheet.
1. What does Wordsworth’s poem "The Solitary Reaper" tell us about Romanticist?
[A]To romanticists, poetry is an expression of an individual’s feelings and experiences no matter how fragmentary and momentary these feelings and experiences are.
[B] Romanticist take delight only in sound effect, the theme of a work is not their concern.
[C] Romanticist are not patient people; they would leave before the revelation of the theme.
[D] Poetry should present the apparent and tangible.
2. The lines, "It was a miracle of rare device,/ A sunny pleasure dome with caves of ice," are found in _______.
[A] Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s "Kubla Khan"
[B] William Wordsworth’s "Lines Written in Early Spring"
[C]John Keats’s "Ode to Autumn"
[D]Percy Bysshe Shelly’s "ode to the West Wind"
3. " ’Damn the fool! There he is’, cried Heathcliff, sinking back into his seat. ’Hush, my darling! Hush, hush, Catherine! I’ll stay. If he shot me so, I’d expire with a blessing in my lips.’" The novel from which the passage is taken must be _______.
[A] Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
[B] Charles Dickens’s The Old Curiosity Shop
[C]Samuel Richardson’s Pamela
[D] Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights
4. "My Last Duchess" is a poem that best exemplifier Robert Browning’s _______.
[A] sensitive ear for the sounds of the English language
[B] excellent choice of words
[C]mastering of the metrical devices
[D] use of the dramatic monologue
5. Here is a passage from Middlemarch, a novel by George Eliot: "Her blooming full-pulsed youth stood there in a moral imprisonment which made itself one with the chill, colourless, narrowed landscape, with the shrunken furniture, the never-read books, and the ghostly stag in pale fanatic world that seemed to be vanishing from the daylight," Who is the lady mentionedin the quoted passage?
[A] Dorothea[B] Emma[C] Molly[D] Irene
6. Tess of the D’Urbervilles, one of Thomas Hardy’s best known novels, portrays man as ________.
[A] being hereditarily either good or bad
[B] being self-sufficient
[C]having no control over his own fate
[D] still retaining his own faith in a world of confusion
7. Which of the following brings LITTLE impact on the development of 20th century literature?
[A] Friedrich Nietzche’s assertions: "God is dead"
[B] Arther Schopenharuer’s and Henry Bergson’s philosophical ideas of irrationality.
[C]Oscar Wilde’s idea of "Art for Art’s Sake".
[D] Freudian-Jungian psycho-analysis
8. The term tone in literature means_______.
[A] sound effect such as rhyme and metrical device
[B] the pitch of a word used to determine its meaning in the given context
[C]the manner of expression to indicate the speaker’s attitude towards the subject
[D] a shade of colour to reflect the change of the light
9. Which of the following best describes the speaker of T.S.Eliot’s " The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock"?
[A] He is an man of a action[B] He is a man of apathy
[C] He is a man of passion[D] He is a man of inactivity
10. In which of the following poems by William Butler Yeats did you find the allusion to Helen and the TrojanWar?
[A] "Sailing to Byzantium"[B] " Leda and the Swan"
[C] "The Lake Isle if Innisfree"[D] " Sown by the Sally Garden"
11. "He was afraid of her -the small, severe woman with greying hair suddenly bursting out in such frenzy. The postman came running back, afraid something had happene[D] /they saw his tripped cap over the short curtains. Mrs Morel rushes to the door." The above passage id taken from _______.
[A] Charlotte Bronte’s The Professor[B] Charles Dickens’s Domebey and Son
[C] D.H.Lawrence ’s Sons and Lovers[D] John Galsworthy’s The Forsyte Saga
12. James Joyce is the author of all the following novels except ______.
[A] Dubliners[B] Jude the Obscure
[C] A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man[D] Ulysses
13. Which of the following works concerns most concentrated the Calvinistic view of original sin?
[A] The Wasteland[B] The Scarlet Letter
[C] Leaves of Grass[D] As I Lay Dying
14. We can perhaps summarize that Walt Whitman’s poems are characterized by all the following features except that they are _______.
[A] conversational and crude[B] lyrical and well-structured
[C] wimple and rather crude[D] free-flowing
15. 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
16. 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] symbolism
17. At the beginning of Faulkner’s A Rose For Emily, there is a detailed de%26#115;cription of Emily’s old house. The purpose of such de%26#115;cription is to imply that the person living in it ______.
[A] is a wealth lady[B] has good taste
[C] is a prisoner of the past[D] is a conservative aristocrat
18. The period before the American Civil War is commonly referred to as _______.
[A] the Romantic Period[B] the Realistic Period
[C] the Naturalist Period[D] the Modern Period
19. Most of Herman Melville’s novels are based on sea voyages and sea adventures. Which of the following is not the case?
[A] Typee[B] Moby-Dick
[C] Omoo[D] The Confidence-Man
20. In Henry James’ 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 rich
21. "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood
And sorry I could not travel both ..."
In the above two lines of Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken, the poet, by implication, was referring to _______.
[A] a travel experience[B] a marriage decision
[C] a middle-age crisis[D] one’s course of life
22. The Transcendentalists believe that, first, nature is ennobling, and second, the individual is _______.
[A] insignificant[B] vicious by nature
[C] divine[D] forward-looking
23. Which of the following is not a work of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s?
[A] The House of the Seven Gables[B] The Blithedale Romance
[C] The Marble Falun[D] White Jacket
24. In Heminway’s short 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] charity and benevolence
[C] racial inequality[D] devotion and kinship25. In Hawthorne’s novels and short stories, intellectuals usually appear as _______.
[A] commentators[B] observers
[C] villains[D] saviors
26. Besides sketches, tales and essays, Washington Irving also published a book on ______, which is also considered an important part of his creative writing.
[A] poetic theory[B] French art
[C] history of New York[D] life of George Washington
27. In Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, there are detailed descriptions of big parties. The purpose of such descriptions is so show _______.
[A] emptiness of life[B] the corruption of the upper class
[C] contrast of the rich and the poor[D] the happy days of the Jazz Age
28. In American literature, escaping from the society and returning to nature is a common subject. The following titles are all related, in one way or another, to the subject except _______.
[A] Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
[B] Dreiser’s Sister Carrie
[C]Copper’s Leather-Stocking Tales
[D] Thoreau’s Walden
29. 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 Tom’s Cabin
[C] Daisy Miller[D] The Gilded Age
30. Emily Dickinson wrote many short 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 and peace
II. Match the writer with his/her works and Write your answers on the answer sheet. (2 point for each, altogether 20 points)
31. Daniel Defoe A. The Winter’s Tale
32. William Wordsworth B. Captain Singleton
33. Nathaniel Hawthorne C. Sense and Sensibility
34. Jane Austen D. Oliver Twist
35. William Shakespeare E. To the Cuckoo
36. Charles Dickens
F. The House of the Seven Gables
37. Virginia Woolf G. The Waves
38. Theodore Dreiser H. This Side of Paradise
39. Robert Frost I. An American Tragedy
40. Scott Fitzgerald J. North of Boston
III. Decide whether the following statements are true or false and write your answers in the brackets. (2 point for each, altogether 10 points)( )41. American romanticism was in a way derivative; American romantic writing was some of them modeled on English and European works.
( )42. With the publication of "Daisy Miller
( )43. Altogether, Dickinson wrote 1775 poems of which most had appeared during her lifetime. ( )44. Hemingway develops the style of colloquialism initiated by Thomas Hardy.
( )45. Transcendentalism exalted reason over feeling, individual expression over the restraints of law and custom.
IV. Define the literary terms listed below and write your answers on the answer sheet. (5 point for each, altogether 10 points)
46. Burlesque
47. Lake poets
V. Give brief answers to the following questions. Write your answers on the answer sheet.
(5 point for each, altogether 15 points)
48. Read the excerpt from chapter I of "Pride And Prejudice" in our textbook, and answer the following questions.
(1) What is this passage describing?
(2) What's the style of this passage?
(3) Analyze the characters of the main roles of this passage: Mr. And Mrs. Bennet.
Ⅵ.Reading Comprehension. (15 point for each, altogether 15points)
49. Read the quoted parts carefully and give the name of the author and the title of the literary work from which it is taken and then briefly interpret it.
"I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze."
IX.Multiple Choice. (1 point for each, altogether 30 points)
题号1234567101112131415答案A A D D A C C C D B C B B B B
题号161718192021222324252627282930答案C C A D B D C D A C C A B A D
II. Match the writer with his/her works and Write your answers on the answer sheet. (2 point for each, altogether 20 points)题号31323334353637383940
答案B E F C A D G I J H III. Decide whether the following statements are true or false and write your answers in the brackets. (2 point for each, altogether 10 points)
题号4142434445
答案T F F F F
IV. Define the literary terms listed below and write your answers on the answer sheet. (5 point for each, altogether 10 points)
46、复习范围或考核目标：课件Course 02 Daniel Defoe
47、复习范围或考核目标：复习范围或考核目标：课件Course 03 William Wordsworth V. Give brief answers to the following questions. Write your answers on the answer sheet.
(5 point for each, altogether 15 points)
48、复习范围或考核目标：课件Course 04 Jane Austen
Ⅵ.Reading Comprehension (15 point for each, altogether 15points)
49、Read the quoted parts carefully and give the name of the author and the title of the literary work from which it is taken and then briefly interpret it.
复习范围或考核目标：课件Course 03 William Wordsworth
《英美文学选读》模拟试卷五答案
X.Multiple Choice. (1 point for each, altogether 30 points)
题号1234567101112131415答案A A D D A C C C D B C B B B B
题号161718192021222324252627282930答案C C A D B D C D A C C A B A D
II. Match the writer with his/her works and Write your answers on the answer sheet. (2 point for each, altogether 20 points)
题号31323334353637383940
答案B E F C A D G I J H III. Decide whether the following statements are true or false and write your answers inthe brackets. (2 point for each, altogether 10 points)
题号4142434445
答案T F F F F
IV. Define the literary terms listed below and write your answers on the answer sheet. (5 point for each, altogether 10 points)
46、复习范围或考核目标：课件Course 02 Daniel Defoe
47、复习范围或考核目标：复习范围或考核目标：课件Course 03 William Wordsworth V. Give brief answers to the following questions. Write your answers on the answer sheet.
(5 point for each, altogether 15 points)
48、复习范围或考核目标：课件Course 04 Jane Austen
Ⅵ.Reading Comprehension (15 point for each, altogether 15points)
49、Read the quoted parts carefully and give the name of the author and the title of the literary work from which it is taken and then briefly interpret it.
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