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英国文学
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1 、 单选题
In his novels, Charles Dickens depicted a lot of child characters except _____.
A ： Oliver Twist
B ： Little Nell
C ： Little Dorrit
D ： Charles Surface
2 、 单选题
The statement“A demanding mother turns away from her husband and gives all her
affection to her sons”sums up the main story of D.H.Lawrence’s_____.
A ： Sons and Lovers
B ： The Rainbow
C ： Women in Love
D ： Lady Chatterley’s Lover
3 、 单选题
The word which best describes the tone of the poem?When We Two Parted?is _____.
A ： sentimental
B ： ironic
C ： paradoxical
D ： realistic
4 、 单选题
Which one of the following words is most appropriate when you describe the
character of Katherine in?Wuthering Heights?
A ： generous
B ： capricious
C ： charitable
D ： frivolous5 、 单选题
John Donne wrote what were later called _____ poetry, which are complex, high-
intellectual verse, with metaphors.
A ： romantic
B ： modem
C ： realistic
D ： metaphysical
6 、 单选题
The epoch of Renaissance witnessed a particular development of English _____.
A ： dramatic monologue
B ： drama
C ： blank verse
D ： poetry
7 、 单选题
Peter is one of the major characters in _____.
A ： Lord of the Flies
B ： Waiting for Godot
C ： Lycidas
D ： The Pilgrim’s Progress
8 、 单选题
The works of the metaphysical poets are characterized by _____ in content and _____in
form.
A ： mysticism...fantasticality
B ： naturalism...novelty
C ： symbolism...absurdity
D ： postmodernism...sensibility
9 、 单选题
In his poem,?Ode to the West Wind, Shelley intends to present his wind as a central
_____ around which the poem weaves various cycles of death and rebirth.
A ： concept
B ： symbol
C ： simile
D ： metonymy
10 、 单选题The publication of“_____” marked the beginning of Romantic Age.
A ： Don Juan
B ： The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
C ： The Lyrical Ballads
D ： Queen Mab
11 、 单选题
Ode to the West Wind?was written by_____.
A ： William Blake
B ： William Wordsworth
C ： Samuel Taylor Coleridge
D ： Percy B.Shelley
12 、 单选题
_____ wrote some of the most beautiful odes in the English language, which had the
eulogy of beauty as their themes.
A ： William Wordsworth
B ： Lord Byron
C ： Shelley
D ： John Keats
13 、 单选题
The English Renaissance period was an age of _____.
A ： poetry and drama
B ： drama and novel
C ： novel and poetry
D ： romance and poetry
14 、 单选题
Which of the following is not directly related to Neo-classicism in the eighteenth
century?
A ： Reason rather than emotion is emphasized.
B ： Most of the writings were didactic and satirical.
C ： Lyrical poetry flourished.
D ： Poets found closed couplet the only possible verse form for serious work.
15 、 单选题
_____is one of Shakespeare’s narrative poems.
A ： The Winter’s Tale
B ： Venus and AdonisC ： Romeo and Juliet
D ： The House of Fame
16 、 单选题
Of all the 18th century 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
17 、 单选题
The Victorian Age was largely an age of _____, eminently represented by Dickens and
Thackeray.
A ： poetry
B ： drama
C ： prose
D ： epic prose
A ： Bernard Shaw’s
B ： Oscar Wilde’s
C ： James Joyce’s
D ： Thomas Hardy’s
18 、 单选题
The author of?Tess of the d’Urbervilles?is_____.
A ： T.S.Eliot
B ： James Joyce
C ： Thomas Hardy
D ： Henry James
19 、 单选题
The Romantics emphasized _____.
A ： those features that men have in common
B ： man as a social animal
C ： the special qualities of each individual’s mind
D ： the animality of an individual
20 、 单选题
Wordsworth was a masterhand in searching and revealing the feelings of _____.A ： the common people
B ： the noble class
C ： all the people
D ： the romanticists
21 、 单选题
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
22 、 单选题
Mr.Allworthy is a character in a novel by_____.
A ： Jonathan Swift
B ： Thomas Gray
C ： Henry Fielding
D ： Charles Dickens
23 、 单选题
Defoe’s?Robinson Crusoe?created the image of an enterprising Englishman, typical
of the English bourgeoisie in the _____ century.
A ： 17th
B ： 18th
C ： 19th
D ： 20th
24 、 单选题
With great force and truthfulness, he/she pictures bourgeois civilization, showing the
miserary and sufferings of the common people.
A ： Emily Bronte
B ： George Eliot
C ： harles Dickens
D ： Elizabeth Gaskell
25 、 单选题
_____was regarded as the declaration of Romanticism in Britain.
A ： The Song of Innocence
B ： Ode to the West WindC ： The Lyrical Ballads
D ： To Autumn
26 、 单选题
The heroine in Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights is _____.
A ： Jane
B ： Elizabeth
C ： atherine
D ： Chalortte
27 、 单选题
His masterpiece?Ulysses?records the mental activities of three _____ people in about
nineteen hours.
A ： British
B ： American
C ： Irish
D ： French
28 、 单选题
Which of the following is NOT directly related to Humanism during the Renaissance
period?
A ： to emphasize the dignity of human beings and the importance of the present life
B ： to regard human beings as creatures capable of development in the direction of
perfection
C ： to prepare peopled souls for a future life in heaven
D ： to restore a medieval reverence for the ancient Greek and Roman authors
29 、 单选题
_____ is a typical feature of Swift’s writings.
A ： Elegant style
B ： Casual narration
C ： Bitter satire
D ： Complicated sentence structure
30 、 单选题
Which of the following is not written by Daniel Defoe?
A ： Tom Jones
B ： Robinson Crusoe
C ： Moll Flanders
D ： A Journey of the Plague Year31 、 单选题
_____ is the last important novelist and poet of the 19th century.
A ： Thomas Hardy
B ： George Eliot
C ： Alfred Tennyson
D ： Robert Browning
32 、 单选题
The greatness of the English realists lies not only in their satirical portrayal of
bourgeoisie and in the exposure of the greed and hypocrisy of the ruling classes, but
also in their profound _____ which is revealed in their sympathy for the laboring
people.
A ： humanism
B ： realism
C ： sentimentalism
D ： naturalism
33 、 单选题
Chaucer greatly contributed to the founding of English literary language, the basis of
which was formed by the _____, so profusely used by the poet.
A ： English dialect
B ： London dialect
C ： Norman dialect
D ： standard English
34 、 单选题
Oscar Wilde established himself both as a writer and as a spokesman for the school
of _____.
A ： Naturalism
B ： Structuralism
