英美文学水平测试题

2011英语专业考研指导：英美文学水平测试题

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1.The sentence "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" is the beginning of one of Shakespear's ______.

A. comedies B. tragedies C. sonnet D. Histories

2. In the following writings, _____has been recognized as an important landmark in the development of English prose.

A. Of Studies by Francis Bacon B. The Adventure of Learning

C. Essays by Francis Bacon D. Novum Organum

3. The white whale Moby-Dick is a symbol of _______.

A. nature B. God C. culture D. knowledge

4. Which of the following is NOT one of the main ideas advocated by Emerson, the chief spokesman of American Romanticism?

A. Important of the Individual B. Faith in Christianity

C. The over-Soul D. Self Reliance

5. William Wordsworth is a poet in memory of the past. To him, life is a cyclical journey. Its beginning finally turns out to be its end. His philosophy of life is presented in his masterpiece_______.

A. The Prelude B. My heart Leaps Up

C. Tintern Abbey D. Ode to the West Wind

6. Ode on an Grecian Urn by John Keats shows the contrast between the permanence of ______.

A. poetry B. art C. music D. love

7. William Wordsworth asserts that poetry originates from______.

A. form B. thoughts C. artistic devices D. emotion

8. "And because I am happy and dance and sing,/ They think they have done me no injury,/ And are gone to praise God and his priest and king,/ Who make up a heaven of our misery."

The above four lines are taken from______.

A. Songs of Experience B. Songs of Innocence

C. Poetical Sketches D. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

9. In Henry James Daisy Miller, the author tries to portray the protagonist as an embodiment of ______.

A. the force of convention B. the decline of aristocracy

C. the free spirit of the D. the corruption of the new rich

10. Which of the following is NOT Richard Brinsley Sheridan's work?

A. Tom Jones B. The school for Scandal

C. The Rivals D. The Critic

11. Alexander Pope strongly advocated _______, emphasizing that literary works should be judged by classical rules of order, reason, logic, restrained emotion, good taste and decorum.

A. Neoclassicism B. Sentimentalism C. Idealism D.Romanticism

12. ______showed great interest in Chinese literature and translated the poetry of Li Po into English, and was influenced by Confucian ideas.

A. Ezra Pound B. Robert Frost

B. C. T.S Eliot D. Emily Dickenson

13. The greatest English critical realist novelist was ______, who criticize the bourgeois civilization and showed the misery of the common people.

A. Charles Dickens B. Emily Bronte

C. Thomas Hardy D. Charlotte Bronte

14. "The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough." This is the shortest poem written by ______.

A. T.S. Eliot B. Robert Frost C. Ezra Pound D. Emily Dickinson

15. Faulkner once said that ______is a story of "lost innocence," which proves itself to be an intensification of the theme of imprisonment in the past.

A. The sound and Fury B. Light in August

C. Go Down, Moses D. Absalom, Absalom

16. The most recognizable literary movement that gave rise to the twentieth century American literature, or we may say, ______, is the expatriate movement.

A. The second American Renaissance B. The realistic period

C. The romanticism D. Neoclassicism

17. In the 18 century English literature, the representative writer of neoclassicism is ______.

A. Alexander Pope B. Jonathan Swift

C. Daniel Defoe D. John Milton

18. F.Scott Fitzgerald is NOT the author of ______.

A. the frontier life B. the sea adventures

C. Puritan community D. The landscape and people in New England

19. Robert Browning's style is ______.

A. identical with that of the other other Victorian B.William Shakespeare th

C. Rough and disproportionate D. Perfectly artistic

20. In the novel ______, George Eliot sets herself to paint what she describes as "a life of mistake,the offspring of a certain spiritual grandeur ill-matched with the meanness of opportunity."

A. Adam Bede B. The Mill on the Floss C. Middlemarch D. Silas Marner Keys:

1—5 CCABA 6—10 BDACA

11—15 AAACA 16—20 AABDC