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1、专业.专注.学习参考 .英美文学作品选读试题 5 I.Find the items in the right column which fit the left column the best and write your letters in the blank.(20 points in all,2 for each)1.Chaucer A.Mary Ann Evans 2.Hamlet B.The father of English poetry 3.Coleridge C.Jane Austen 4.The Waste Land D.T.S.Eliot 5.Theodore Dreis

2、er E.John Milton 6.Carl Jung F.Collective Unconscious 7.self-reliance G.An American Tragedy 8.Greorge Eliot H.blood and thunder thrille 9.Pride and Prejudice I.Ralph Waldo Emerson 10.Paradise Lost J Lake Poet 1._ 2._ 3._ 4._ 5._ 6._ 7._ 8._ 9._ 10._ II.Complete each of the following statements with

3、a proper word or a phrase.(20 points in all,2 for each)1.In the field of literature,the Enlightenment Movement brought about a revival of interest in the old classical works.This tendency is known as_.专业.专注.学习参考 .2.Swift is one of the greatest masters of English prose.He is almost unsurpassed in the

4、 writing of simple,direct,precise prose.He defined a good style as“_.”3.Wordsworth is regarded as a“_.”He can penetrate to the heart of things and give the reader the very life of nature.4._ is the most distinguishing feature of Charles Dickens works.5.In his long dramatic career,Shaw wrote more tha

5、n _ plays.6.James Joyce is regarded as the most prominent _ novelist,concentrating on the revealing in his novels the psychic being of the characters.7.Galsworthy is essentially a bourgeois liberal,a_.8.Structurally and thematically,Shaw followed the great tradition of _.9.Most of Faulkners works ar

6、e about people from a small region in _,Yoknapatawpha County.10.In Our Times is the first book to present a Hemingway hero_.III.Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers.Choose the one that would best complete the statement and write you answer in the blanks.(20 points in

7、all,2 for each)专业.专注.学习参考 .1._ is regarded as“worshipper of nature.”A.Coleridge B.Wordsworth C.T.S.Eliot D.Robert Browning 2.Marlowes play Dr.Faustus is based on _ of a magician aspiring for knowledge and finally meeting his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the devil.A.the Scandinavian

8、B.the German C.the ancient English D.the French 3.Who defined a good style as“proper words in proper places?”A.Jonathan Swift B.Charles Dickens C.Edmund Spencer D.George Bernard Shaw 4._ is central to Blakes concern in the Sogns of Innocence and Songs of Experience?A.innocence and experience B.the p

9、oor C.society D.childhood 5.As a novelist _ wrote within a very narrow sphere,the provincial life of the late 18th-century England.A.Jonathan Swift B.Jane Austen C.Thomas Hardy D.Henry Fielding 6.“Trust thyself,”Emerson wrote in his_.A.The American Scholar B.The Sketch Book C.Self-Reliance D.Nature

10、专业.专注.学习参考 .7.Hawthornes view of man and human history originates,to a great extent,in _.A.Puritanism B.Transcendentalism C.his childhood D.his unhappy marriage 8.As _ saw it,poetry could play a vital part in the process of creating a new nation.A.Emerson B.Hawthorne C.Whitman D.Emily Dickinson 9._

11、was the first American writer to conceive his career in international terms.A.Emerson B.Henry James C.Mark Twain D.Ernest Hemingway 10.According to Faulkner,The Sound and the Fury is a story of“_.”A.lost generation B.lost innocence C.farmers D.industrial labors IV.For each of the questions listed be

12、low please give the name of the author and the title of the literary work.(20 points in all,4 for each)1.“Come live with me and be my love,And we will all the pleasures prove That valleys,groves,hills,and fields,Woods,or steepy mountain yields,专业.专注.学习参考 .And we will sit upon the rocks,Seeing the sh

13、epherds feed their flocks,By shallow rivers to whose falls,Melodious birds sing madrigals.”2.“The apparition of these faces in the crowd;Petals on a wet,black bough.”3.“He pulled back the blanket from the Indians head.His hand came away wet.He mounted on the edge of the lower bunk with the lamp in o

14、ne hand and looked in.The Indian lay with his face toward the wall.His throat had been cut from ear to ear.”4.“Then I saw in my dream,that when they were got out of the wilderness,they presently saw a town before them,and the name of that town is vanity;and at that town there is a fair kept,called v

15、anity Fair,”5.“And because I am happy&dance&sing They think they have done me no injury,And are gone to praise God&his Priest&king,Who make up a heaven of our misery.”V.Give brief answers to the following questions.(20 points in all,5 for 专业.专注.学习参考 .each)1.Why has Fielding been regarded as“Father o

16、f the English novel?”2.Whats the symbolic meaning of Browning s poem,“The Ring and the Book?”3.What is literary naturalism?4.Describe Yeats writing style 参考答案：专业.专注.学习参考 .I.Find the items in the right column which fit the left column the best and write your letters in the blanks.(20 points in all,2

17、for each)1.B 2.H 3.J 4.D 5.G 6.F 7.I 8.A 9.C 10.E II.Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase.(20%)1.neoclassicism 2.proper words in proper places 3.worshiper of nature 4.character portrayal 5.50 6.stream-of-consciousness 7.reformist 8.realism 9.Northern Mississippi 1

18、0.Nick Adams III.Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers.Choose the one that would best complete the statement and write you answer in the blanks.(20 points in all,2 for each)1.B.2.B.3.A.4.D 5.B 6.C.7.A 8.C 9.B 10.B IV.For each of the questions listed below please give t

19、he name of the author and the title of the literary work.(20 points in all,4 for each)1.Christopher Marlowe,The Passionate Shepherd to his Love 2.Ezra Pond,In a Station of the Metro 3.Indian Camp,Hemingway 4.John Bunyan,The Pilgrims Progress 5.William Blake,The Chimney Sweeper V.Give brief answers t

20、o the following questions.(20 points in all,5 for each)专业.专注.学习参考 .1.Why has Fielding been regarded as“Father of the English novel?”Fielding has been regarded as“Father of the English novel”for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.Of all the 18th century novelists,he

21、 was the first to set out both in theory and practice to write specifically a“comic epic in prose,”the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.He adopted a third person narration.2.Whats the symbolic meaning of Browning s poem,“The Ring and the Book?”The symbolic meaning can be explai

22、ned by the goldsmiths techniques of annoying gold in making rings.The“book”is the pure gold of objective facts,the hard truth.Yet pure gold is not workable in making rings unless it is alloyed with other materials.A poets fancy and imagination are just the alloying ingredients.The brought the dead t

23、ruth to life.3.What is literary naturalism?As a genre,naturalism regards man as merely an animal driven by greed and lust in a struggle for existence in which only the“fittest,”the most ruthless,survive.Man is like a mechanism reacting to chemic compulsions,and human tragedy comes as a result of the collision between mans biological needs and societys ruthless manipulation.4.Describe Yeats writing style.Yeats style is tough,complex and symbolical.专业.专注.学习参考 .