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英语专业英美文学试卷及答案

英美文学试卷A

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I. Mark the following statements as true (T) or false (F). (10 x 1’=10’)

1. ( ) Chaucer is the first English short-story teller and the founder of English poetry as well as

the founder of English realism. His masterpiece The Canterbury tales contains 26 stories.

2. ( ) English Renaissance is an age of essay and drama.

3. ( ) The rise of the modern novel is closely related to the rise of the middle class and an urban

life.

4. ( ) The French Revolution and the American War of Independence were two big influences

that brought about the English Romantic Movement.

5. ( ) Charlotte’s novels are all about lonely and neglected young women with a fierce longing

for life and love. Her novels are more or less based on her own experience and feelings and the life as she sees around.

6. ( ) The leading figures of the naturalism at the turn of 19th century are Thomas Hardy, John

Galsworthy and Bernard Shaw.

7. ( ) Emily Dickinson is remembered as the “All American Writer”.

8. ( )The Civil War pides the American literature into romantic literature and realist literature.

9. ( ) Mark Twain is the first American writer to discover an American language and American

consciousness.

10. ( ) In the decade of the 1910s, American literature achieved a new persity and reached its

greatest heights.

英语专业英美文学试卷及答案

II. Fill in the blanks. (20 x 1’=20’)

11. The most enduring shaping influence in American thought and American literature was ___________. 12. The War of Independence lasted eight years till__________. 13. Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay__________ has been regarded as "America's Declaration of Intellectual Independence". peculiarly American. 14. The American ___________ writers paid a great interest in the realities of life and described the integrity of human character reacting under various 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 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 the activities of _____________________. 17. Shakespeare’s earliest great success in tragedy is ____________, a play of youth and love, with the famous balcony scene. 18. There are three types of poets in 17th century English literature. They are Puritan poets, ___________ poets and ______________ poets. 19. Pope’s An Essay on Criticism is a didactic poem written in ___________________. 20. ___________ has been regarded by some as “Father of the English Novel” for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel. 21. “Beauty is truth, truth beauty” is an

epigrammatic line by _______________. 22. Lawrence’s most controversial novel is ___________, the best probably _________. It called on American writers to write about America in a way

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 since Beowulf. A. Paradise Regained C. Lycidas B. Samson Agonistes D. Paradise Lost

英语专业英美文学试卷及答案

24.

Francis Bacon’s essays are famous for their brevity, compactness and __________. B. complexity C. powerfulness D. mildness

A. complicity

25. As one of the greatest masters of English prose, _______ defined a good style as “proper words in proper places”. A. Henry Fielding C. Samuel Johnson B. Jonathan Swift D. Alexander Pope

26. The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan is often said to be concerned with the search for _________. A. material wealth C. universal truth B. spiritual salvation D. self-fulfillment

27. “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” The quoted part is taken from _________. A. Jane Eyre C. Pride and Prejudice B. Wuthering Heights D. Sense and Sensibility

28. Which of the following poems is a landmark in English poetry? A. Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge B. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” by William Wordsworth C. “Remorse” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge D. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman 29. The most distinguishing feature of Charles Dickens’ works is his _________. A. simple vocabulary C. character-portrayal B. bitter and sharp criticism D. pictures of happiness

30. “My Last Duchess” is a poem that best exemplifies Robert Browning’s ________. A. sensitive ear for the sounds of the English language B. excellent choice of words C. mastering of the metrical devices D. use of the dramatic monologue 31. ________ is the most outstanding stream of consciousness novelist, with ______as his encyclopedia-like masterpiece. A James Joyce, Ulysses B. E.M. Foster, A Passage to India C. D. H. Lawrence, Sons and lovers

英语专业英美文学试卷及答案

D. Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway 32. Which of the following comments on Charles Dickens is wrong? A. Dickens is one of the greatest critical realist writers of the Modern Period B. His serious intention is to expose and criticize all the poverty, injustice, 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 Cities is one of his late works. 33. _____was known as “the poets’ poet”. A. William Shakespeare C. John Donn …… 此处隐藏：9901字，全部文档内容请下载后查看。喜欢就下载吧 ……