《英美文学选读》模拟试题（三）
一、单项选择题
1.“All is not lost: the unconquerable will, and the study of
revenge, immortal hate, and courage never to submit or yield: and
what is else not to be overcome?”
A. Dr. Faustus
B. Paradise Lost
C. Paradise Regained
D. Tamburlaine
John Milton: Paradise Lost Renaissance
2.Who, disregarding grammar and punctuation, always used “i”
instead of “I” to refer to himself as a protest against self
importance?
A. Cummings
B. Wallance Stevens
C. F. Scott. Fitzgerald
D. Ernest Hemingway
3.Which of the following best describes the speaker of T.S Eliot’s
A. He is a man of an action.
B. He is a man of apathy.
C. He is a man of
inactivity.
D. All the above are not true.
T.S Eliot:Modern
period&& the love song of
J.Alfred Prufrock
4.William Wordsworth asserts that poetry originates
from&&&&&&&&&.
B. thoughts
C. artistic devices
D. emotion
詩當然是感情
5.“My Last Duchess” is a poem that best exemplifies Robbert
Browning’s&&&&&&&&&.
A. sensitive ear for the sounds of the English
B. excellent choice of words
C. mastering of the metrical devices
D. use of the dramatic
Robert Browning:”” The Victorian Period
6.“Man shall find grace.” But he must lay hold of it by an act of
free will. The freedom of the will is the keystone of ____’s
B.&Jonathan Swift
C.&Henry Fielding
D.&Samuel Johnson
John milton 在paradise lost 中,貫穿了基督教人文主義的傳統，意欲揭露撒旦的行為,並為上帝對人類的懲罰的辯護，在人類愛情與精神道德義務之間的矛盾中展示了彌爾頓對自由與決擇的關心
人類應找到體面與尊嚴，可同時人類必須要保持意志自由,意志上的自由是Milton作品的主旨
他的詩作是想讓讀者明白圣經中不變的真理,即掌握天機的上帝是公正的，他允許亞當同夏娃受到引誘，並讓他們自主選擇罪惡與不可避免的懲罰。由此，又為基督自愿獻身開辟了道路，這也顯示出上帝欲將人類從罪惡與苦難中拯救出來的同情心
7.In Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” the mariner
suffers the horror of death, because _____.
A.&he experiences a shipwreck
B.&he is tortured with starvation
C.&he undergoes much suffering
D.&he kills an
古航海家之歌，講述了一位水手的曆險故事，這位水手不顧法律，打死了一只信天翁
8.Henry Jame’s fame generally rests upon his novels and stories
with _____.
A.&international
B.&national theme
C.&European theme
D.&regional theme
9.In Hardy’s “Wessex” novels, there is an apparent _____ touch in
his description of the simple and beautiful though primitive rural
A.&nostalgic
B.&humorous
C.&romantic
D.&sarcastic
10.Generally, the Renaissance refers to the period between _____
and _____&centuries.
A.&14th-mid--17th
B.&16th-mid--17th
C.&14th-mid--18th
D.&16th-mid--19th
11.Of the following poems by T.S.Eliot, which is hailed as a
landmark and a model of the 20th century English poetry?
A.&Poems 1909----1925
B.&The Hollow Men
C.&Prufrock and Other Observations
D.&The Waste
12.“ Twere
good you do so much for charity.” “What of that” in the above
sentence means _____.
A.&this is very important
B.&this is not
C.&this is true
D.&this is not true
13.Which of the following poems is a landmark in English
A.&“Lyrical Ballads
and Samuel Taylor Coleridge” by William Wordsworth.
B.&“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” by William
Wordsworth
C.&“Remorse” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
D.&“Leaves of Grass” by Walt Whitman.
14.Which of the following writings is praised by Hemingway as a book from which
“all modern American literature comes”？
A.&Tom Sawyer.
B.&Huckleberry
C.&The Gilded Age.
D.&Life on the Mississippi.
15.In which of the following works, Hemingway presents his
philosophy about life and death through the depiction of the
bull-fight as a kind of microcosmic tragedy?
A.&The Green Hills of Africa.
B.&The Snows of Kilimanjaro.
C.&To have and Have Not.
D.&Death in the
Afternoon.
午后的死亡中，海明威通過描寫斗牛，表明了他和生死觀
16.The protagonist of the poem “Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is
a kind of tragic figure caught in a sense of deafted idealism and
tortured by satisfied desires. Of the following descriptions of
him, which isn’t suitable for him?
A.&He is neurotic.神經質的
B.&He is self-important.
C.&He is illogical.不合邏輯的
D.&He is a man of an
17.“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? /Thou art more lovely
and more temperate: /Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
/And summer’s lease hath all too short a date”, the above beautiful
sonnets was written by _____.
A.&John Donne
B.&John Milton
C.&William
Shakespeare
D.&Francis Bacon
18.Here is a sentence from an essay, “Read not to contradict and
confuse, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and
discourse, but to weigh and consider”. The essay must be
A.&Of Studies by
Francis Bacon
B.&The Advancement of Learning by Francis
C.&Novum Organum by Francis Bacon
D.&Essays by Francis Bacon
19.Which of the following is considered to be a better-structured
A.&Women in
B.&Sons and Lovers
C.&The Rainbow
D.&Lady Chatterley’s lover
20.With so many poems such as “The Sparrow’s Nest,” “To a Skylark,”
“To the Cuckoo” and “To a Butterfly”, William Wordsworth is
regarded as a “____”.
A.&poet of genius
B.&royal poet
C.&worshipper of
D.&conservative poet
21.In the first part of Gulliver’s Travels, Gulliver told his
experience in _____.
A.&Lilliput
B.&Brobdingnag
C.&Houyhnhnm
D.&England
22.“To be, or not to be---- whethertis nobler
in the mind to suffer. The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end
them?” Who said these words?
A. King Lear
C. Antonio
23.“to be so distinguished is an honor, which, being very little
accustomed to favors from the great, I know not well how to receive
or in what terms to acknowledge.”
B. jealous
C. delightful
D. humorous
Samuel Johnson
24.In the theatrical world of the neoclassical
period,&&&&&&&&&
&was the leading figure among the host of
playwrights.
A. William Blake
B. Richard Brinsley
C. Ben Johnson
D. George Bernard Shaw
Neoclassica
造謠學校 The School of
25.Among the works by John Milton, which is indeed the only
generally acknowledge epic in English literature since
A.&Paradise Regained
B.&Samson Agonists
C.&Areopagitica
D.&Paradise
三部偉大的詩作誕生:
Paradise lost:
之后唯一的一部公認的英國文學中的史詩
Samson Agonists
是古希腊詩劇體在英文中的完美體現
26.Which writing is a typical example of Shakespeare’s pessimistic
view towards human life and society in his late years?
B.&King Lear
D.&Othello
暴風雨是他創作后期的代表作，劇中到處都有現實人間不可能發生的事情，狂野的風暴變得有魔法，可以回應不幸的米闌大公普洛斯彼羅的每一個信號,Shakespeare借助了超自然的神話氣氛及夢幻來解決人世間的各種沖突，對shakespeare 來說，人的一生不歸於一場夢幻由此看來，暴風雨典型地反映了他晚年對人生，對社會持有的悲觀態度
27.Who, one of the most important poets in his time, is a leading
spokesman of the “imagist movement”?
A.&J. D. Salinger &塞林杰是戰后孤獨的青年的代言人，他的裸麥田里的接手被認為是學生的經典作品
B.&Ezra Pound
C.&Richard Wright
D.&Ralph Emerson
28._____ lays the foundation for modern science with his insistence
on scientific way of thinking and fresh observation rather than
authority as a basis for obtaining knowledge.
A.&Francis
B.&Thomas hardy
C.&Charles dickens
D.&William Blake
29.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.&idealism
B.&neoclassicism
C.&romanticism
D.&sentimentalism
30.Dickens’s works are characterized by a mingling
& &and pathos.
A.&metaphor
B.&passion
31.“self-conceited”, “cruel” and “tyrannical” are most likely the
names of the characters
in&&&&&&&&
A.&Robert Browning’s
My Last Duchess
B.&Christopher Marlowe’s Dr. Faustus
C.&Shakespeare’s love’s Labour’s lost
D.&Sheridan’s the School for Scandal
32.Who is the author of the writing “Moby Dick”?
A.&S. T .Coleridge
B.& John Keats
C.&Henry Fielding
33.The sentences “studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for
ability”, and “some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed,
and some few to be...” are quoted
from&&&&&&&&&&
A.&Novum Organum
B.&Of Studies By
C.&The Advancement Of Learning
34.The advancement of learning is a great tract
on&&&&&&&&
A.&history
B.&literature
D.&education
35.Most of the poems in Whitman’s leaves of grass sing of the
“en-mass” and
&& as well.
D.&self reliance
詩人的主要目的就是在世界上確定自我，更具體地就是要在整個美國確定自我
36.Which of the following is not true according to
James Joyce?
A.&Ulysses has become a prime example of modernism
in literature.
B.&Joyce is regarded as the most prominent stream
of consciousness novelist
C.&Joyce is a
realistic writer in English literature history.
D.&His novel “a portrait of the artist as a young
man” is a naturalistic account of the hero’s bitter experiences and
his final artistic and spiritual liberation.
37.The following titles are all related to the subject that escapes
from the society and returns to nature
except&&&&&&&&
A.&Dreiser’s Sister
B.&Copper’s Leather Stocking Tales
C.&Thoreau’s Walden
D.&D Mark Twain’s The Adventures Of Huckleberry
38.“Wild spirit, which a destroyer and
hear, O hear!”
The two lines are found
A.&Young Goodman Brown By Hawthorne
B.&Ode To The West
Wind By Shelley
C.&Leaves Of Grass By Walt Whitman
D.&Ulysses By Joyce
39.“Even then he stood there, hidden wholly in that kindness which
is night, while the uprising fumes filled the room. When the odor
reached his nostrils, he quit his attitude and fumbled for the
‘What’s the use?’ he said, weakly, as he stretched himself to
The passage is taken
from&&&&&&&&&.
A.&Sons And Lovers By Lawrence
B.&Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
C.&Sister Carrie By
Thoedore Dreiser
D.&Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
The Realistic Period : Thoedore Dreiser
40.Most recognizable literary movement that gave rise to the 20th
century American literature, or we may say, the second American renaissance, is
the&&&&&&&&&
A.&leftist
B.&transcendental
C.&expressionistic
D.&expatriate
移居國外的
二、综合题
1.Read the quoted part carefully and answer the questions in
“I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills
When all at once I saw a crowd
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.”
Questions:
A.&Identify the poem and the poet.
I wondered lonely as &a cloud by
william wordsworth
B.&In several sentences, interpret the meaning of
this stanza.
Like a cloud flying over the valley and mountains,
I was traveling. Suddenly to my surprise , I saw a grove
of& dafodils at the side of lake, how beautifule
they were,fluttering and dancing in the wind. This poem typically
depicts the author respect for nature
C.&From the characteristics of
this stanza, we can deduce which period it belongs to.
Romantic period
2.Read the quoted part carefully and answer the questions in
“I shall be telling this with a sign
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I ---
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
A. Who is the author of the poem?
Robert Lee Frost
B. Identify the title of the short poem from which this part is
C. In one or two sentences, interpret the implied
meaning of the last two lines.
Confronted dilemma ,one should be decisive and
“took the one less traveled”
3.Read the quoted part carefully and answer the questions in
“That was the cause, but yet per accidents,
這是起因，這也是偶然
For when we hear one rack the name of god,
因為我們一聽到有人侮辱上帝的名字
Abjure the scriptures and his Savoiour Christ,
放棄圣經和他的救主基督
We fly in hope to get his glorious soul.”
我們就飛速而至來攫起他的靈魂
A. Tell the title of the poem.
Dr. Faustus
B. What does “rack” mean?
C. What is the play based on and give a brief introduction of
It is based on German Legend of a magician
aspiring for knowledge and finally meeting his tragic end as a
result of selling his soul to the devil
4.Give brief answers to the question in English.
In American literature what is the significance of “adventures of
huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain?
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and ,especially,its
sequence Adventures of Huckleberry Finn proved themselves to be the
milestone in American literature,and thus firmly established
Twain’s position in the literary world
The childhood of Tom Sawyer and Huck Fin in the
Mississippi is a record of a vanished way of life in the pre-Civil
War Mississippi valley and it has moved millions of people
of different ages and conditions all over the world
Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn marks the
climax of Twain’s literary creativity . Hemingway once
described the novel the one book forms which “a modern American
literature comes”
5.Give brief answer to the question in English.
What are the similarities and differences between the three
literary giants? Howells, Mark Twain, Henry James, in terms of
their literary orientation?
Mark Twain and Howells seemed to have paid more
attention to the “life “of the Americans. Henry James had
apparently laid a greater emphasis on the “inner world” of
Howells focused his discussion on the rising
middle class and the way they lived,while Twain preferred to
have his own region and people at the forefront of his
stories. This particular concern about the local character of a
region about as “Local colorist” a unique,a unique variation
of American literary realism
6.Give brief answer to the question in English.
What are gothic novels?
A type of romantic fiction that predominated in
the late 18th century, was one phase of the Romantic
Its principal elements are violence
,horror, and the supernatural,which strongly appeal
to the reader’s emotion,with its descriptions of the
dark,irrational& side of human nature.
The Gothic form has exerted a great influence over
the writers of the romantic period
7.Give brief answer to the question in English.
How are naturalism and criticism reflected in Hardy’s
Hardy, Tess of D’Urbevilles&
Victorian period
In his works,man is shown inevitably bound by his
own inherent nature and hereditary traits which
prompt him to go and search for some specific happiness or success
and set him in conflict with the environment
The outside nature---the natural
environment or nature herself—is shown as some mysterious
supernature force,it like to play practical jokes upon human beings
by producing a series of mistimed actions and unfortunate
coincidences
The pessimistic view of life predominates most Hardy’s later works and
earns him a reputation as a naturalistic writer
8.Write no less than 150 words on the topic in English.
Try to discuss the theme of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s works.
In “Young Goodman Brown” he sets out to prove that
everyone possesses some evil secret
According to Hawthorne, “there is evil in very
human heart,which may remain latent,perhaps,through the whole life,
but circumstance may rouse it to activity”
In dealing with the theme of guilt and sin,
Hawthorne exemplifies the “power of blackness”
9.Write no less than 150 words on the topic in English.
Enlightenment movement.
It was a progressive intellectual movement which
flourished in france and swept through the whole Western Europe at
the time,it was a furtherance of the renaissance of the
15th and 16th centuries
To Enlighten the whole world with the light of
modern philosophical and artistic ideas.
Neoclassical period
10.Read the quoted part carefully and answer the questions in
“The isles of Greece, isles of Greece!
Where burning Sappho loved and sung,
Where grew the arts of war and peace,
Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung!
Eternal summer gilds them yet,
But all, except their sun, is set.”
A. Which writing is the stanza taken from? Who is the
The Isles of Greece---Don Juan Byron
B. What does the “Sappho”mean?
An ancient Greek poetess known for her passionate
love poems
Sappho—莎浮
公元彰6世紀前后的希腊女詩人
C. Try to explain the setting of the stanza.
The stanza was finished at the romantic period
when Greece was under the rule of Turk. By constrasting the freedom
of ancient Greece and present enslavement ,the poet appealed to
people to struggle for liberty
一、单项选择题
【正确答案】&B
【正确答案】&A
【正确答案】&C
【正确答案】&D
【正确答案】&D
【正确答案】&A
【正确答案】&D
【正确答案】&A
【正确答案】&A
【正确答案】&A
【正确答案】&D
【正确答案】&B
【正确答案】&A
【正确答案】&B
【正确答案】&D
【正确答案】&D
【正确答案】&C
【正确答案】&A
【正确答案】&A
【正确答案】&C
【正确答案】&A
【正确答案】&D
【正确答案】&A
【正确答案】&B
【正确答案】&D
【正确答案】&A
【正确答案】&A
【正确答案】&A
【正确答案】&B
【正确答案】&D
【正确答案】&A
【正确答案】&D
【正确答案】&B
【正确答案】&D
【正确答案】&C
【正确答案】&C
【正确答案】&A
【正确答案】&B
【正确答案】&C
【正确答案】&D
二、综合题
【正确答案】&A. “I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud” By
William Wordsworth.
B. Like a cloud flying over valleys and mountains, I was traveling.
Suddenly to my surprise, I saw a grove of daffodils at the side of
the lake, how beautiful they were, fluttering and dancing in the
wind. This poem typically depicts the author respect for
C. The Romantic Period
【正确答案】&A. Robert lee Frost
B. The Road Not Taken
C. confronted dilemma, one should be decisive and “took the one
less traveled”.
【正确答案】&A. Dr. Faustus
B. Torment
C. It is based on the German legend of a magician aspiring for
knowledge and finally meeting his tragic end as a result of selling
his soul to the devil.
【正确答案】&The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
and, especially, its sequence Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn proved themselves to be the milestone in American
literature, and thus firmly established Twain’s position in the
literary world.
The childhood of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn in the Mississippi is a
record of a vanished way of life in the pre-Civil War Mississippi
valley and it has moved millions of people of different ages and
conditions all over the world. Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn marks the climax of Twain’s literary creativity.
Hemingway once described the novel the one book forms which “a
modern American literature comes.”
【正确答案】&A. Mark Twain and Howells seemed to have
paid more attention to the “life” of the A Henry James had
apparently laid a greater emphasis on the “inner world” of
B. Howells focused his discussion on the rising middle class and
the way they lived, while Twain preferred to have his own region
and people at the forefront of his stories. This particular concern
about the local character of a region about as “local
colorist,”& a unique variation of American
literary realism.
【正确答案】&A type of romantic fiction that
predominated in the late 18th century, was one phase of the
Romantic Movement. Its principal elements are violence, horror, and
the supernatural, which strongly appeal to the reader’s emotion,
with its descriptions of the dark, irrational side of human nature.
The gothic form has exerted a great influence over the writers of
the romantic period.
【正确答案】&In his works, man is shown inevitably
bound by his own inherent nature and hereditary traits which prompt
him to go and search for some specific happiness or success and set
him in conflict with the environment.
The outside nature—the natural environment or nature herself- is
shown as some mysterious supernatural force, it likes to play
practical jokes upon human beings by producing a series of mistimed
actions and unfortunate coincidences.
This pessimistic view of life predominates most of Hardy’s later
works and earns him a reputation as a naturalistic
【正确答案】&A. In “Young Goodman Brown”, he sets out
to prove that everyone possesses some evil secret.
B. According to Hawthorne, “There is evil in every human heart,
which may remain latent, perhaps, th but
circumstances may rouse it to activity.”
C. In dealing with the theme of guilt and sin, Hawthorne
exemplifies the “power of blackness”.
【正确答案】&A. It was a progressive intellectual
movement which flourished in France and swept through the whole
Western Europe at the time. It was a furtherance of the renaissance
of the 15th and 16th centuries.
B. To enlighten the whole world with the light of modern
philosophical and artistic ideas.
【正确答案】&A. George Gordon Byron, Don Juan.
B. An ancient Greek poetess known for her passionate love
C. The stanza was finished at the romantic period when Greece was
under the rule of Turk. By contrasting the freedom of ancient
Greece and the present enslavement the poet appealed to people to
struggle for liberty.
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