英美文学选读网上测试习题集.doc

题型：简答】【分数：4分】 得分：0分[1] What’s the theme of Emily Bronte’ s Wuthering Heights? 答： The only major languag答案： a story of revenge;From the social point of view, it is a story about a poor man abused; it is also a love story.  【题型：阅读】【分数：4分】 得分：0分[2] 43. “My tongue, every atom of my blood, form’ d from this soil, this air,Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their parents the same,I, now thirty- seven years old in perfect health begin,Hoping to cease not till death”Questions:A. Who’s the poet of the quoted stanza, and what’s the title of the poem?B. What do “soil” and “air” represent in the first line?C. What does the poet try to say in the above quoted lines?答： 答案： Whitman, Song of Myself|America|devotion【题型：论述】【分数：10分】 得分：0分[3] Discuss the artistic features of Shelley's poems.答： 答案： lyrical|poet|classical|mythological|allusions|figures of speech|metaphor|personification|description【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分[4]  George Bernard Shaw’ s ______ is a grotesquely realistic exposure of slum landlordism.  A Widower’ s House B Mrs. Warren’ s Profession C The Apple Cart D Getting Married答： 答案： A【题型：简答】【分数：4分】 得分：0分[5] What is the language style of Mark Twain? 答： 答案：  He uses vernacular and colloquial speech, concrete and direct words, simple and ungrammatical sentences.【题型：阅读】【分数：4分】 得分：0分[6] Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?Thou are more lovely and more temperate.Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.Questions:A. Who is the author?B. What is the theme of the poem?C. What kind of poem is it?答： 答案： Shakespeare, eternity of poetry, sonnet【题型：论述】【分数：10分】 得分：0分[7]  Why are naturalists inevitably pessimistic in their view?答： 答案： Darwin|theory|influence|social|environmental|forces|realism|Darwinsim【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分[8] Symbolism and complex narrative are employed more richly in D. H. Lawrence’s ________, which are generally regarded as his masterpieces. A Women in Love B Sons and Lovers C Lady Chatteley's Lover D Farewell to Arms答： 答案： A【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分[9]  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答： 答案： C【题型：简答】【分数：4分】 得分：0分[10]  Please comment on Alexander Pope’s literary achievements.答： 答案：  An Essay on Criticism follows the neoclassicist tradition. The Rape of the Lock mocks the epic. He uses heroic couplet.【题型：阅读】【分数：4分】 得分：0分[11]  Had I as many souls as there be stars.I’d give them all for Mephistophilis!By him I’ll be great emperor of the world,And make a bridge through the moving airTo pass the ocean with a band of men;I’ll join the hills that bing the Africa shoreAnd make that country continent to Spain,And both contributory to my crown;The Emperor shall not live by my leave,Nor any potentate of Germany.Now that I have obtained what I desireI’ll live in speculation of this art.Till Mephistophilis return again.”A.    Identify the author and the title of the work from which the passage is taken.B.     Based on the passage, write down in one or two sentences the theme of the play.答： 答案： Dr. Faustus, Christopher Marlowe, Man's aspiration, bounding achievement【题型：阅读】【分数：4分】 得分：0分[12] ‘Is dying hard, Daddy?’‘No, I think it’s pretty easy, Nick. It all depends. ’”Questions:A. Who’s the author of the quoted part, and what’s the title of the work?B. What was Nick preoccupied with when he asked the question?C. Why did the father add “It all depends” after he answered his son’s question?答： 答案： Hemingway, Indian Camp|life and death|Death can be both easy and hard.【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分[13] _____ is the leading figure of the metaphysical school. A John Milton B John Donne C John Bunyan D John Keats答： 答案： B【题型：简答】【分数：4分】 得分：0分[14]  Briefly introduce Blake’ s Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience.答： 答案：  Songs of Innocence is a lovely volume of poems, presenting a happy and innocent world, though not without its evils; Songs of Experience paints a different world, a world of misery, disease, war and repression with melancholy tone; The two books hold the similar subject-matter, but the tone, emphasis and conclusion differ.【题型：简答】【分数：4分】 得分：0分[15] What are the features of Charles Dickens' novels?答： 答案： They provides a complete and realistic picture of the English bourgeoisie society. Many of them are about childhood experience and are famous for humor.【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分[16]   Nathaniel Hawthorne was affected by ________’s transcendentalist theory and struck up a very intimate relationship with him.  A H. W. Longfellow B Walt Whitman C R. W. Emerson D Washington Irving答： 答案： C【题型：单选】【分数：1分】 得分：0分[17] Which of the following writings is NOT completed by William Blake? A Songs of。