英語專業(yè)英美文學(xué)試卷與答案期末

1、英美文學(xué)試卷A共1頁第1頁1. Mark the following statements as true (T) or false (F). (10 x 1=10 )2. () Chaucer is the first English short-story teller and the founder of English poetry as well asthe founder of English realism. His masterpieceThe Canterbury talescontains 26 stories.3. () English Renaissance is an

2、 age of essay and drama.4. () The rise of the modern novel is closely related to the rise of the middle class and an urbanlife.5. () The French Revolution and the American War of Independence were two big influencesthat brought about the English Romantic Movement.6. () Charlotte s novels are all abo

3、ut lonely and neglected young women with a fierce longingfor life and love. Her novels are more or less based on her own experience and feelings and the life as she sees around.7. () The leading figures of the naturalism at the turn of 19century are Thomas Hardy, JohnGalsworthy and Bernard Shaw.8. (

4、) Emily Dickinson is remembered as the All American Writer .9. ()The Civil War divides the American literature into romantic literature and realist literature.10. () Mark Twain is the first American writer to discover an American language and Americanconsciousness.11. () In the decade of the 1910s,

5、American literature achieved a new diversity and reached itsgreatest heights.12. Fill in the blanks. (20 x 1=20)11. The most enduring shaping influence in American thought and American literature was12. The War of Independence lasted eight years till.13. Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay has been rega

6、rded as "'America's Declaration ofIntellectual Independence'1. It called on American writers to write about America in a way peculiarly American.14. The American writers paid a great interest in the realities of life and describedthe integrity of human character reacting under vario

7、us circumstances and pictured the pioneers of the Far West, the new immigrants and the struggles of the working class. The leading figures were*，etc.15. No period in American history is more eventful than that between the two world wars. The literary features of the time can be seen in the writings

8、of those writers as Ezra Pound,and the writers of the Lost Generation as.16. Two features of English Renaissance are the curiosity for and the interest in theactivities of.17. Shakespeare earliest great success in tragedy is, a play of youth and love, with the famous balcony scene, thare Puritan18.

9、There are three types of poets in 17century English literature,poets, poets and poets.19. Popeb An Essay on Criticism is a didactic poem written in.20. has been regarded by some 由Father of the English Novelfor his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.21. Beauty is truth,

10、 truth beautyis an epigrammatic line by.22. Lawrence§ most controversial novel is, the best probably.III. Multiple choice. (20 x 1 =20)23. Among the three major works by John Milton is indeed the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature sinceBeowulf.A. Paradise RegainedB. Samson A

11、gonistesC. LycidasD. Paradise Lost24. Francis Bacon§ essays are famous for their brevity, compactness and.A. complicityB. complexityC. powerfulnessD. mildness25. As one of the greatest masters of English prose,defined a good stylepoqs- words in proper places?A. Henry FieldingB. Jonathan SwiftC.

12、 Samuel JohnsonD. Alexander Pope26. The Pilgrim s Progress by John Bunyan is often said to be concerned with the search for*A. material wealthB. spiritual salvationC. universal truthD. self-fulfillment27. Tt is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must b

13、e in want of a wife.The quoted part is taken from.A. Jane EyreB. Wuthering HeightsC. Pride and PrejudiceD. Sense and Sensibility28. Which of the following poems is a landmark in English poetry?A. Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor ColeridgeB. T Wandered Lonely as a Cloudby W川iam

14、 WordsworthC. Remorseby Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD. Leaves of Grassby Walt Whitman29. The most distinguishing feature of CharlesDickens Works is his.A. simple vocabularyB. bitter and sharp criticismC. character-portrayalD. pictures of happiness30. My Last Duchessfe a poem that best exemplifies Robert

15、Browning.A. sensitive ear for the sounds of the English languageB. excellent choice of wordsC. mastering of the metrical devicesD. use of the dramatic monologue31.is the most outstanding stream of consciousness novelist, with as hisencyclopedia-like masterpiece.A James Joyce,UlyssesB. E.M. Foster, A

16、 Passage to IndiaC D, H, Lawrence LSoos-and-kwersD. Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway32 . Which of the following comments on Charles Dickens is wrong?A. Dickens is one of the greatest critical realist writers of the Modern PeriodB. His serious intention is to expose and criticize all the poverty, injust

17、ice, hypocrisy and corruptness he sees all around him.C. The later works show the development of Dickens towards a highly conscious artist of the modern type.D. A Tale of Two Citiesis one of his late works.33 .was known as “ the poets ' poetA. William ShakespeareB. Edmund SpenserC. John DonneD.

18、John Milton34 . Which of the following poet belongs to the active Romantic poet?A. Ke示sB. Southey C. Wordsworth D. Coleridge35 .is regarded today as the national epic of the Anglo-Saxons.A. BeowulfB. The Canterbury TalesC. Don JuanD. Paradise Lost36.is the first modern American novel.A. Tom SawyerB.

19、 Huckleberry FinnC. The Sketch BookD. The Leatherstocking Tales37. 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

20、of knowing truth intuitively 7C. Ralph Waldo Emerson was the chief advocate of this spiritual movement.D. It sprang from South America in the late 19th century.38. The theme of Washington Irving' Rip Van Winkleis.A. the conflict of human psycheB. the fight against racial discriminationC. the fam

21、ilial conflictD. the nostalgia for the unrecoverable past39. The Nobel Prize Committee highly praised for his powerful style-forming masteryof the artbf creating modern diction.A. Ezra PoundB. Ernest HemingwayC. Robert FrostE). Th£QdQ£ 40. Who exerts the single most important influence on

22、literary naturalism?A. EmersonB. Jack LondonC. Theodore Dreiser D. Darwin41.is NOT true in describing American naturalists.A. they were deeply influenced by DarwinismB. they were identified with French novelist and theorist Emile ZolaC. they chose their subjects for the lower ranks or societyD. they

23、 used more serious and more sympathetic tone in writing than realists42. Henry Jamessfame generally rests upon his novels and stories with.A. international themeB. national themeC. European themeD. regional themeIV. Explain the following literary items.(4x 520)43. Spenserian Stanza44. Lake Poets45.

24、Humanism46. BalladV. Questions. (3x 10=30)47. Robinson Crusoe's usually considered as Daniel Defoe§ masterpiece. Discuss why it became so successful when it was published?48. What is "Byronic hero"?49. Mark Twain and Henry James are two representativesof the realistic writers in A

25、merican literature. How is Twain§ realism different form James§ realism?£±Z 參考答泰1. Mark the following statements as true (T) or false (F).(本題共 10 空 每空 1 分，共10分)1-5: FFTTT6-10: FFTTFIL Fill in the blanks.（本題共2o小題，每題1分，共20分）11. (American) Puritanism12. 178313. The American Scholar1

26、4. realistic; Mark Twain; Henry James; Jack London; Theodore Dreiser.15. Imagist; Hemingway.16. the classical literature; humanity.17. Romeo and Juliet18. Cavalier; Metaphysical19. heroic couplet20. Henry Fielding21. John Keats22. Lady Chatterley s lover; The Rainbow43. Spenserian Stanza:it refers t

27、o a verse form created by Edmund Spenser for his poems. Each stanza has nine lines. Each of the first eight lines is in iambic pentameter, and the ninth line is an iambic hexameter line. The rhythm scheme is ababbcbcc44. Lake Poets: it refers to those English romantic poets at the beginning of th e1

28、9th century, William Wordsworth, for example, who lived in the heart of the Lake District in the north-western part of England and enjoyed the experience of living close to nature, and these poets were the older generation of Romantic poets who had been deeply influenced by the French Revolution of

29、1789 and its effects. In their writings, they described the beautiful scenes and the country people of the area.45. Humanism refers to the literary culture in the Renaissance.Humanists emphasize the capacities of the human mind and the achievements of human culture. Humanism became the central theme

30、 of English Renaissance.Thomas More and William Shakespeareare the best representatives of the English humanists.46. Ballad: a story told in songs, usually in 4-line stanzas, with the second and fourth rhymed.V.Questions .體:題3小題,每小題io分，共30分） 47.A. Robinson Crusoe is supposedly basedon the real adven

31、ture of an Alexander Selkirk who once stayed alone on the uninhabited island for five year4s. Actuallyf the story is an imagination.B. In Robinson Crusoe, Defoe traces the growth of Robinson from a naife and artless youth into a shrewd and hardened man, tempered by numerous trials in his eventful li

32、fe.C. In the novel, Robinson is a real hero and he is an embodiment of the rising middle-class virtues in the mid-eighteenth century England. Robinson is a true empire-builder, a colonizer and a foreign trader, who has the courage and will to face hardships and who has determination to preserve himself and improve his livelihood by struggling against nature.D. Robinson Crusoe is an adventure story very much in the spirit of the time. Because of the above reasons,when it was published, people all liked that story, and it becamean immediate success