英美文学史及作品选读.docx

问题 1
得 2 分，满分 2 分

In the beginning of 20th century, the seminal developments in the fields of philosophy and psychology that impacted literary creativity and criticism are Bergson’s notion of ______and Freud’s theory of psychoanalysis.

所选答案：
time
正确答案：
time

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time

问题 2
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The statement that a sensitive young man is at first shaped by excessively powerful and oppressive forces of his environment but gradually realizes the pressure and rebels against it and tries to find his own identity mat well sum up the major theme of _____.

所选答案：
B.
Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

正确答案：
B.
Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

问题 3
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Muriel Spark’s The Girls of Slender Means is set in a hostel in the city of __________ in 1945 when the detonation of an unexploded bomb sets fire to the hostel, a moment when characters’ spiritual world is depicted in a biting satire.

所选答案：
London
正确答案：
London

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London

问题 4
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In The French Lieutenant’s Woman, is an existentially independent woman, as she said in the novel, “No limit, no blame, can touch me.”

所选答案：
D. Sarah
正确答案：
D. Sarah

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Sarah

问题 5
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Modernism upholds a new view of time by emphasizing the time over the chronological one.

所选答案：
Psychic psychological
正确答案：
Psychic
psychological

问题 6
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T. S. Eliot’s poem_______, which is 433 lines long, is broadly acknowledged as one of the most recognizable landmarks of modernism, the first part of the poem is the Burial of the Dead.

所选答案：
The Waste Land
正确答案：
The Waste Land

问题 7
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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 .

所选答案：
C. Sons and Lovers
正确答案：
C. Sons and Lovers

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Sons and Lovers

问题 8
得 2 分，满分 2 分

presents in his works strong Christian nihilism, which is reflected explicitly by his famous saying “The dirty dog, he doesn’t even exits!” in his play against the God, Endgame.

所选答案：
A. Samuel Beckett
正确答案：
A. Samuel Beckett

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Samuel Beckett

问题 9
得 2 分，满分 2 分

Which of the following novels was NOT written by H. G. Wells?

所选答案：
C. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
正确答案：
C. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

问题 10
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The Old Wives’ Tale was written by .

所选答案：
D. Arnold Bennett
正确答案：
D. Arnold Bennett

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Arnold Bennett

问题 11
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The theory of psychoanalysis put forward first by ______exerts great influence over modern literature.

所选答案：
B. Sigmund Freud
正确答案：
B. Sigmund Freud

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Sigmund Freud

问题 12
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William Golding’s Lord of the Flies deals with the conflict between the forces of reason and those of irrationality represented by .

所选答案：
C. Jack
正确答案：
C. Jack

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Jack

问题 13
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Joyce seems to mean that the novel_________ describes the mental activities of two Dubliners in a single day, while Finnegans Wake, his second novel, describes the sub-conscious world in which a man lives through a good part of his life.

所选答案：
Ulysses
正确答案：
Ulysses

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Ulysses

问题 14
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Between 1912 and 1922 there came a great poetry movement______ in England and America to express the modern sense of fragmentization and dislocation. T.E. Hulme is considered the first outstanding theorist of this movement.

所选答案：
imagism
正确答案：
imagism

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imagism

问题 15
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The Golden Notebook is considered to be __________’s masterpiece, taken as a milestone work in Feminist Literature.

所选答案：
Doris Lessing
正确答案：
Doris Lessing

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Doris Lessing

问题 16
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______represents the much more readable novelists of the stream of consciousness school. She is a fine artist, a woman of sharp sensitivity who, in one of her frequent mental depressions, committed suicide.

所选答案：
Virginia Woolf
正确答案：
Virginia Woolf

问题 17
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The textual insinuation of Joyce’s Ulysses is parallel to Homeric epic_____, thus revealing the vast difference between the grandeur of the ancient Greek hero and the pettiness of the degraded modern anti-hero.

所选答案：
Odyssey
正确答案：
Odyssey

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Odyssey

问题 18
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written by Iris Murdoch is remarkable for its meta-fictional structure, containing various narrators and narrative descriptions, and its multi-dimensional psychology.

所选答案：
D. The Black Prince
正确答案：
D. The Black Prince

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The Black Prince

问题 19
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Virginia Woolf’s novel , published in1925, made her reputation as an important psychological writer.

所选答案：
Mrs. Dalloway
正确答案：
Mrs. Dalloway

问题 20
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______, which bears a strong thematic resemblance to “The Waste Land”, is generally regarded as the darkest of T. S. Eliot’s poems.

所选答案：
The Hollow Men
正确答案：
The Hollow Men

问题 21
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William Golding’s first novel_______, which describes a group of boys working out their lives on an isolated island, paves the way for him to win the Nobel Prize in 1983.

所选答案：
Lord of Flies
正确答案：
Lord of Flies

问题 22
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D. H. Lawrence’s poems fall roughly into three categories—satirical and comic poems, poems about human relationship and emotions, and poems about .

所选答案：
nature
正确答案：
nature

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nature

问题 23
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. __________ is the most outstanding stream-of-consciousness novelist of 20th century.

所选答案：
C.
James Joyce
正确答案：
C.
James Joyce

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James Joyce

问题 24
得 2 分，满分 2 分

G. B. Shaw’s play Mrs. Warren’s Profession is a realistic exposure of the in the English society.

所选答案：
C. economic exploitation of women
正确答案：
C. economic exploitation of women

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economic exploitation of women

问题 25
得 2 分，满分 2 分

Which of following statements about Yeats is true?

所选答案：
B.
In a certain way, Yeats’s experiments in drama anticipated the abstract movement of modern theater.
正确答案：
B.
In a certain way, Yeats’s experiments in drama anticipated the abstract movement of modern theater.

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In a certain way, Yeats’s experiments in drama anticipated the abstract movement of modern theater.

问题 26
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“She frankly wanted him to climb into the middle class, a thing not very difficult, she knew. And she wanted him in the end to marry a lady.” is taken from D. H. Lawrence’s novel .

所选答案：
Sons and Lovers
正确答案：
Sons and Lovers

问题 27
得 2 分，满分 2 分

Which of the following statements about D. H. Lawrence is NOT true?

所选答案：
C. He was daringly innovative in the techniques of novel writing.

正确答案：
C. He was daringly innovative in the techniques of novel writing.

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He was daringly innovative in the techniques of novel writing.

问题 28
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In his poem “The Lake Isle of Innifree,” W. B. Yeats expressed his _____.

所选答案：
B.
desire to escape the materialistic world

正确答案：
B.
desire to escape the materialistic world

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desire to escape the materialistic world

问题 29
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Rudyard Kipling was the spokesman for imperialist sentiment. Which one is NOT his work?

所选答案：
D.
Dubliners
正确答案：
D.
Dubliners

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Dubliners

问题 30
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In My Last Duchess, “She smiled, no doubt,/ Whene’er I passed her…/…This grew; I gave commands; /Then all smiles stopped together.” The last line of the above quoted passage implies that she_________.

所选答案：
A. was murdered at the order of the duke
正确答案：
A. was murdered at the order of the duke

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was murdered at the order of the duke

问题 31
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_______is claimed as the best Irish poet since W.B.Yeats, and his work has been among the most profusely commented upon in the contemporary. The volumes of his verse include Death of a Naturalist (1966), The Haw Lantern(1987), and the spirit Level (1999).

所选答案：
Seamus Heaney
正确答案：
Seamus Heaney

问题 32
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William Butler Yeats experienced a slow and painful change in his poetic creation, starting in the romantic tradition and finishing as a mature poet.

所选答案：
modernist modernism
正确答案：
modernist
modernism

问题 33
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In Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf adopted a writing technique called , in which the whole story was presented with the interior monologues of the characters.

所选答案：
stream-of-consciousness
正确答案：
stream-of-consciousness

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stream-of-consciousness

问题 34
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A typical Forsyte, according to John Galsworthy, is a man with a strong sense of , who never pays any attention to human feelings.

所选答案：
C. property
正确答案：
C. property

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property

问题 35
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The modernist writers such as Dorothy Richardson, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf are mainly concerned with the ______.

所选答案：
B. inner life of an individual
正确答案：
B. inner life of an individual

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inner life of an individual

问题 36
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As a literary figure, Leopold Bloom appears in ______

所选答案：
B. Joyce’s Ulysses
正确答案：
B. Joyce’s Ulysses

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Joyce’s Ulysses

问题 37
得 2 分，满分 2 分

Which writer belongs to “stream-of-consciousness” school?

所选答案：
C.
Virginia Woolf
正确答案：
C.
Virginia Woolf

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Virginia Woolf

问题 38
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By presenting a conventional hero as a villain, or a conventional villain as a hero,
intends to give a shocking impression to his audience and challenge the conventional way of thinking.

所选答案：
B. George Bernard Shaw
正确答案：
B. George Bernard Shaw

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George Bernard Shaw

问题 39
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Sameul Beckett is an absurdist dramatist who is well known for his daring formal experimentation. His works are strongly suggestive of the two prominent literary phases modernism and postmodernism. The most famous of his plays is _______written in 1952.

所选答案：
Waiting for Godot
正确答案：
Waiting for Godot

问题 40
得 2 分，满分 2 分

Artistically, Samuel Beckett has come under the strong influence of , whose works parody the unsympathetic world and man’s wretched lot.

所选答案：
D. James Joyce
正确答案：
D. James Joyce

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James Joyce

问题 41
得 0 分，满分 2 分

In his famous essay “Tradition and Individual Talent” puts great emphasis on the importance of tradition both in creative writing and in criticism.

所选答案：
T. S. Eliot
正确答案：
T. S. Eliot

问题 42
得 0 分，满分 2 分

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is ’s first novel.

所选答案：
James Joyce
正确答案：
James Joyce

问题 43
得 2 分，满分 2 分

All of Joyce’s novels and short stories have the same setting of his native country Ireland especially the city of .

所选答案：
Dublin
正确答案：
Dublin

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Dublin

问题 44
得 2 分，满分 2 分

Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Modernism?

所选答案：
C. to put more emphasis on traditional values

正确答案：
C. to put more emphasis on traditional values

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to put more emphasis on traditional values

问题 45
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____is Galsworthy’s masterpiece which gives a profound and true-to-life picture of the English society from the 80’s of the 19th century up to the 20’s of the 20th century.

所选答案：
The Forsyte Saga
正确答案：
The Forsyte Saga

问题 46
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John Fowles’s novel _________is a metafiction model of postmodernist form of writing fiction in the form of fiction, trying to use burlesque and parody as a means to reveal the discrepancy between the imitation and the original.

所选答案：
French Lieutenant’s Woman
正确答案：
French Lieutenant’s Woman

问题 47
得 2 分，满分 2 分

To create his modern Odyssey—Ulysses, Joyce adopts a kind of ________ style.

所选答案：
mock-heroic
正确答案：
mock-heroic

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mock-heroic

问题 48
得 2 分，满分 2 分

Which of the following statements about writers in 1920s is true?

所选答案：
B. Freudian psychology influenced many modern writers.
正确答案：
B. Freudian psychology influenced many modern writers.

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Freudian psychology influenced many modern writers.

问题 49
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Eliot’s poem, The Waste Land, is mainly concerned with the ______of a modern civilization.

所选答案：
A. spiritual breakup
正确答案：
C. spiritual breakup

问题 50
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“The Bliss” is one of ’s famous short stories. She was skilled in psychological analysis, whose favorite technique is the flash-back.

所选答案：
Katherine Mansfield
正确答案：
Katherine Mansfield

问题 1
得 2 分，满分 2 分

The following are the common characters shared by the three Bronte sisters EXCEPT .

所选答案：
C.
unmarried
正确答案：
C.
unmarried

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unmarried

问题 2
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The Oxford Movement reflected the desire of the perplexed Victorians to cling to the old faith in face of doubt and emotional stress.

所选答案：
对
正确答案：
对

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T

问题 3
得 2 分，满分 2 分

Which one is William Makepeace Thackeray’s historical novel?

所选答案：
A. The History of Henry Esmond
正确答案：
A. The History of Henry Esmond

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The History of Henry Esmond

问题 4
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Macaulay’s History of England was warmly received by his contemporaries because it had presented a faithful picture of historical events.

所选答案：
错
正确答案：
错

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F

问题 5
得 2 分，满分 2 分

Which of the following is about the discussion of Tennyson’s aesthetic view of art and artistic creation.

所选答案：
C.
The Lady of Shalott
正确答案：
C.
The Lady of Shalott

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The Lady of Shalott

问题 6
得 2 分，满分 2 分

Which one is NOT included in Trollope’s Barsetshire novels?

所选答案：
A. Autobiography
正确答案：
A. Autobiography

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Autobiography

问题 7
得 2 分，满分 2 分

opposed Darwin’s explanation of evolution, finding it too mechanistic, and he expounded his own theories in Evolution Old and New, Uncons