自考英美文学题型及复习资料.doc

自考英美文学题型与复习资料
一、单项选择题
1、 The first mass movement of the English working class and the early sign of the awakening of the poor, oppressed people is _A___.
A. the Chartist movement
B. enlightenment
C. Renaissance
D. enclosure
2、 Daniel Defoe’s works are all the following EXCEPT_A___.
A. Moll Flander
B. Macbeth
C. Hamlet
D. Ulysses
3、“Metaphysical Poetry” refers to the works of the 17th - century writers who wrote under the influence of __B__.
A. Milton
B. John Donne
C. Johnson
D. Fielding
4. The most important play among Shakespeare’s comedies is __D___.
A. Hamlet
B. The Twelfth Night
C. The Merchat of Venice
D. The Merchant of Venice
5. The most perfect example of the verse drama after Greek style in English is Milton’s __B.
A. paradise Regained
B. Paradise Lost
C. Ode to the West Wind
D. Ulysses
6. Which of the following descriptions of Enlightenment Movement is NOT true? D
A. It was a progressive intellectual movement that flourished in France.
B. It was a furtherance of the Renaissance of the 15th and 16th centuries.
C. The purpose was to enlighten the whole world with modern philosophical and artistic id
D. the Enlighteners advocates individual education.
7. Neoclassicists had some fixed laws and rules for prose EXCEPT___D__.
A. precison
B. directness
C. flexibility
D. satire
8. A good style of prose“ proper works in proper places” was defined by __C__.
A. Milton
B. Fielding
C. Swift
D. John Donne
9. The major theme of Jane Austen’s novels is___D__.
A. money
B. power
C. murder
D. love and marriage
10. Wordsworth’s__B___ is perhaps the most anthologized poem in English literature.
A. she dwelt among untrodden ways
B. I wandered lonely as a cloud
C. The Solitary reaper
D. Ulysses
11、11. William Blake’s work __B____ is about childhood.
A. Marriage of Heaven and Hell
B. songs of innocence
C. tiger, tiger
D. paradise lost
12. Best of all the Romantic well- known lyric pieces is Shelley’s___C__.
A. the cloud
B. To the skylark
C. Ode to the west wind
D. Ode tothe nightingale
13、In the Victorian Period ___B__ became the most widely read and the most vital and challenging expression of progressive thought.
A. prose
B. novel
C. drama
D. poetry
14、 In Charles Dickens’early novels, he attacks one or more specific social evils, ___A__is a good example of describing the dehumanizing workhouse system and the dark, criminal underworld life.
A. Oliver Twist
B. Bleak house
C. David Copperfield
D. Great Expectations
15. Thomas Hardy’s most cheerful and idyllic work is___B__.
A. Tess
B. Under the greenwood tree
C. The return of the native
D. Far from the madding crowd
16、One of Shelley’ s greatest political lyrics is ___B____, which was later to become a rallying song of the British Communist Party.
A. Men of England
B. Men of England
C. Ode to Liberty
D. Ode to the West Wind
17、In Charles Dickens’ work __A______, the Utilitarian principle rules over the English education system and destroys young hearts and minds.
A. Hard times
B. Oliver Twist
C. David Copperfield
D. Bleak House
18、The tragic sense turns into despair in Thomas Hardy’s ____D____, where cornered by the traditional social morality, the hero and the heroine have to kill their own will and passion and return to their former destructive way of life.
A. Tess
B. The Return of the Native
C. The Greenlanders
D. Jude the Obscure
19、As a critic of music and drama, __B____ held that art should serve social purposes by reflecting human life, revealing social contradictions and educating the common people.
A. Yeats
B. Oscar Wild
C. Bernard Shaw
D. Milton
20、Symbolism and complex narrative are employed more richly in D. H. Lawrence’s __A______, which are generally regarded as his masterpieces.
A. Women in Love
B. Sons and Lovers
C. Lady Chatteley's Lover
D. Farewell to Arms
21、 ___A___ is regarded as a “worshipper of nature” because he can penetrate to the heart of things and give the reader the very life of nature.
A. Wordsworth
B. Blake
C. Byron
D. Coleridge
22、In Spenser’s “The Faerie Queene”, _A_____ is the play role in each of the 12 major adventure
A. Arthur
B. Redcrosse
C. Una
D. Archimago
23、_D__ was regarded as “Father of the English novel”, for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.
A. Daniel Defoe
B. Jonathan Swift
C. Jane Austen
D. Henry Fielding
24、“They rose when she entered—a small, fat woman in black, with a thin gold chain descending to her waist and vanishing into her belt, leaning on an ebony cane with a tarnished gold head. Her skeleton was small and spare…” these sentences are taken from _B__
A. Charlotte Bronte’s The Professor
B. William Faulkner’s A Rose for Emily
C. Charles Dickens’ Dombey and Son
D. H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers
25、_A__ by Henry James tells a story about a young and innocent American confronting the complexity of the European life.
A. The American
B. The Europeans
C. Daisy Miller
D. The Portrait of a Lady
26、Don Juan is a long poem based on a traditional _A_____ legend of a great lover and seducer of women.
A. Spanish
B. Dutch
C. English
D. Russian
27、__B___ by Melville is a novella about a ship whose black slave cargo mutiny holds their captain a terrorized hostage.
A. “Bartleby, the Scrivener”
B. Benito Cereno
C. The Confidence-Man
D. Billy Bud
29、Which of the following accounts is NOT true for Ralph Waldo Emerson?
A. He is the chief spokesman of New England Transcendentalism. B
B. Emerson is generally known as a dramatist.
C. His works were usually derived from his journals or lectures he had already given.
D. In Nature, he employed “a transparent eyeball” to illustrate his philosophical discussi
30、William Wordsworth, Coleridge and ___B____ are known as the “Lake Poets”.
A. George Gordon Byron
B. Robert Southey
C. Percy Bysshe Shelley
D. John Keats
31、A____ is NOT a dramatist who holds the central position in American drama in the modernistic period.
A. Sinclair Lewis
B. Eugene O’Neill
C. Arthur Miller
D. Tenessee Williams
32、Theodore Dreiser’s forgiving treatment of the career of his heroine in _A___drew heavily upon the naturalistic understanding of sexuality.
A. Sister Carrie
B. The Financier
C. The Titan
D. The American Tragedy
33、___A__ tells a very simple but very moving story in which four people living in a Puritan community are involved in and affected by the sin of adultery in different ways.
A. The Scarlet Letter
B. Twice-told Tales
C. The House of the Seven Gables
D. The Marble Faun
34、Which of the following is NOT true according to James Joyce? C
A. Ulysses has become a prime example of modernism in literature.
B. Joyce is regarded as the most prominent stream-of-consciousness novelist.
C. Joyce is a realistic writer in English literature history.
D. His novel “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” is a naturalistic account of the he
35、_D___ is a great critic on Shakespeare, Elizabethan Drama, and English poetry.
A. Charles Lamb
B. Jane Austen
C. Walter Scott
D. William Hazlitt
36、_C___ is Hemingway’s firt true novel, which portrays “The Lost Generation”.
A. For Whom the Bell Tolls
B. The Old Man and the Sea
C. The Sun Also Rises
D. A Farewell to Arms
37、George Bernard Shaw’s career as a dramatist began in 1892, when his first play _B___ was put on by the Independent Theatre Society.
A. Candida
B. Widower’s Houses
C. Mrs. Warren’s Profession
D. The Apple Cart
38、In Milton’s works, “_A___” is the greatest, indeed the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since “Beowulf”.
A. Paradise Lost
B. B. Paradise Regained
C. C. Samson Agonistes
D. D. Lycidas
39、The Advancement of Learning is a great tract on __D___.
A. A. history
B. B. literature
C. C. policy
D. D. education
40、Rousseau published two books that electrified Europe—Du contrat Social and __A__ in which he explored new ideas about nature, society and education.
A. A. Emile
B. B. Declaration of Rights of Man
C. C. Life of Napoleon
D. D. The Advancement of Learning
41、Modernism rejects rationalism, which is the theoretical base of ___D__.
A. A. classicism
B. B. neo-classicism
C. C. romanticism
D. D. realism
42、The most important characteristics in Ulysses by Alfred Tennyson is __C__.
A. A. mastering of language
B. B. excellent choice of words
C. C. use of the dramatic monologue
D. D. excellent metaphor
43、Nigger Jeff, Old Rogaum and His Theresa are all _D____ by Dreiser. （分数：1分）
A. A. novels
B. B. novellas
C. C. plays
D. D. short stories
44、The statement “Beauty is truth, truth beauty” is quoted from _D____.
A. A. “Ode on Melancholy”
B. B. “To Autumn”
C. C. “Ode to Psyche”
D. D. “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
45、Which of the following masterpieces doesn’t belong to the tragedies of Shakespeare? B A. A. Romeo and Juliet
B. B. The Merry Wives of Windsor
C. C. Julius Caesar
D. D. King Lear
46、In 1892, Yeats wrote his first play, __C__, which is an Irish myth about a noblewoman who sells her soul to the devil in order to save starving peasants.
A. A. The Land of Heart’s Desire
B. B. The Shadowy Waters
C. C. The Countess Cathleen
D. D. Purgatory
47、 ___A__, the pioneering woman who, according to D. H. Lawrence, was the first novelist that “started putting all the actions inside”.
A. A. George Eliot
B. B. Jane Austen
C. C. Mrs. Gaskell
D. D. Charlotte Bronte
48、Jonathan Swift is one of the greatest masters of English prose, and his best prose work is __A____.
A. A. “A Modest Proposal”
B. B. “Of Studies”
C. C. “Areopagitica”
D. D. “Tradition and Individual Talent”
49、The period of Old English literature refers to _A_____.
A. A. from the year of 450 to the year of 1066
B. B. from 14th to mid-17th
C. C. from 14th to mid-18th
D. D. from 16th to mid-18
50、Much of __D__ drama is constructed around the inversion of a conventional theatrical situation. A. A. Yeats
B. B. Gregory’s
C. C. Galsworthy
D. D. Shaw’s
51、The only dramatist ever to win a Nobel Prize was _B__.
A. A. Bernard Shaw
B. B. Eugene O’Neill
C. C. Richard Brinsley
D. D. William Shakespeare
52、__A__ is the author of the play “The Hairy Ape”.
A. Eugene O’Neill
B. Henry James
C. Herman Melville
D. Charles Dickens
53、__B____ is the leading figure of the English Romantic poetry, the focal poetic voice of the period.
A. William Blake
B. William Wordsworth
C. George Gordon Byron
D. Percy Bysshe Shelley
54、Daisy Miller is one of Henry James’ early works that dealt with _A_.
A. the international theme
B. local colorism
C. psychological analysis
D. patriotism
55、Which of the following novels is not written by Henry Fielding? B
A. Jonathan Wild
B. Moll Flanders
C. Joseph Andrews
D. Tom Jones
56、The Rivals and ___A__ are generally regarded as important links between the masterpieces of Shakespeare and those of Bernard Shaw.
A. The School for Scandal
B. The Duenna
C. Widower’s Houses
D. The Doctor’s Dilemma
57、As he is a leading spokesman of the “Imagist Movement”, _C____ famous one-image poem “In a Station of the Metro” would serve as a typical example of the imagist ideas.
A. T. S. Eliot’s
B. Robert Frost’s
C. Ezra Pound’s
D. Wallace Stevens’
58、__B____ is a poem based on a traditional Spanish legend of a great lover and seducer of women.
A. Adonais
B. Don Juan
C. Prometheus Unbound
D. The Revolt of Islam
59、__B___ is the leading figure of the metaphysical school.
A. John Milton
B. John Donne
C. John Bunyan
D. John Keats
60、In Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” the mariner suffers the horror of death, because __D_.
A. he experiences a shipwreck
B. he is tortured with starvation
C. he undergoes much suffering
D. he kills an albatross
61、Statement ___B___ is WRONG in describing Nathaniel Hawthorne.
A. One source of evil that Hawthorne is concerned most is over-reaching intellect
B. Hawthorne is a realistic writer
C. Hawthorne is also a great allegorist
D. Hawthorne is a master of symbolism
62、_B______ is the most distinguishing feature of Charles Dickens’ works.
A. Language
B. Character portrayal
C. Humor
D. Plot
63、___D___ shows the contrast between the performance of art and the transience of human passion.
A. Ode to the West Wind
B. Ode to a Nightgale
C. Ode to Psyche
D. Ode on a Grecian Urn
64、 The literary form which is fully-developed and the most flourishing during the Romantic period is ____D_____.
A. prose
B. drama
C. novel
D. poetry
65、Christopher Marlowe’s second achievement is his creation of __B____ for the English drama. A. the Byronic hero
B. the Renaissance hero
C. the Realistic hero
D. the Romantic hero
66、____A___ is indeed the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf. A. Paradise Lost
B. Paradise Regained
C. Samson Agonistes
D. The Faerie Queene
67、In 1847, the Bronte sisters published the following famous novels EXCEPT “____B__”.
A. Jane Eyre
B. Shirley
C. Wuthering Heights
D. The Tenant of Windfall Hall
68、In Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” the mariner suffers the horror of death, because ____D_____.
A. he experiences a shipwreck
B. he is tortured with starvation
C. he undergoes much suffering
D. he kills an albatross
69、In William Blake’s later period, he wrote quite a few prophetic books including the following writing EXCEPT ___D_.
A. The Book of Urizen
B. The Book of Los
C. Milton
D. Lyrical Ballads
70、Romance, a popular literary form in the medieval period reflects a ____A_ age.
A. chivalric
B. heroic
C. realistic
D. modern
71、Which writing is a typical example of Shakespeare’s pessimistic view towards human life and society in his late years? A
A. The Tempest
B. King Lear
C. Hamlet
D. Othello
72、Among the works by John Milton, which is indeed the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf？ D
A. Paradise Regained
B. Samson Agonistes
C. Areopagitica
D. Paradise Lost
73、__B____ is often acclaimed literary spokesman of the Jazz Age.
A. Ernest Hemingway
B. F. Scott Fitzgerald
C. William Faulkner
D. Ezra Pound
74、“Man shall find grace.” But he must lay hold of it by an act of free will. The freedom of the will is the key stone of ___A____ creed.
A. Milton’s
B. Jonathan Swift’s
C. Henry Fielding’s
D. Samual Johnson’s
75、“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?/Thou art more lovely and more temperate/ Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May/And summer’s lease hath all too short a date,” the above