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1、英美文学选读试卷（二）本试题分两部分，第一部分为选择题，第二部分为非选择题。选择题40分，非选择题60分，满分100分。考试时间120分钟。请将答案写在答案写在答题纸相应位置上，否则不计分。PART ONE. Multiple Choice（40 points, 1 point for each） Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Mark your choice by blackening the corres
2、ponding letter A,B,C or D on the answer sheet.1. Henry Fielding has been regarded by some as “_A_”,for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel. AFather of the English Novel BFather of the English PoetryCFather of the English Drama DFather of the English Short Story2.TSE
3、liots most important single poem _B_has been hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th-century English poetry. AThe Hollow Man BThe Waste Land CMurder in the Cathedral DAsh Wednesday3. William Blakes central concern in the Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience is_B_, which gives the two book
4、s a strong social and historical reference. Ayouthhood BChildhood Chappiness Dsorrow4.Among the works by Charles Dickens _D_ presents his criticism of the Utilitarian principle that rules over the English education system and destroys young hearts and minds.ABleak House BPickwick Paper CGreat Expect
5、ations DHard Times5. The most distinguishing feature of Charles Dickens works is his _B_. Asimple vocabulary Bbitter and sharp criticism Ccharacter-portrayal Dpictures of happiness6. Because of her sensitivity to universal patterns of human behavior, _B_ has brought the English novel ,as an art of f
6、orm, to its maturity.ACharlotte Bront BJane Austen CEmily Bront DAnn Radcliffe7. All of the following poems by William Wordsworth are masterpieces on nature EXCEPT _D_.A“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” B“An Evening Walk”C“Tintern Abbey” D“The Solitary Reaper”8. Shakespeares four greatest tragedies are
7、 _C_.ARomeo and Juliet, Othello, King Lear, HamletBHamlet, Othello, Macbeth, The Merchant of VeniceCHamlet, Othello, King Lear, MacbethDRomeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, Othello, Hamlet9. As one of the greatest masters of English prose, _B_ defined a good style as “proper words in proper pla
8、ces”.AHenry Fielding BJonathan Swift CSamuel Johnson DAlexander Pope10. Among the three major works by John Milton _D_ is indeed the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf.AParadise Regained BSamson Agonistes CLycidas DParadise Lost11. English Romanticism, as a historic
9、al phase of literature, is generally said to have ended in 1832 with _A_.Athe passage of the first Reform Bill in the ParliamentBthe publication of Wordsworth and Coleridges Lyrical BalladsCthe publication of TSEliots The waste LandDthe passage of the Bill of Rights in the Parliament12. Contrary to
10、the traditional romance of aristocrats, the modern English novel gives a realistic presentation of life of _A_.Athe common English people Bthe upper class Cthe rising bourgeoisie Dthe enterprising landlords13. The major concern of _C_ fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological development of h
11、is characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature.AJohn Galsworthys BThomas Hardys CDHLawrences DCharles Dickens14. The Nobel Prize Committee highly praised _B_ for “his powerful style-forming mastery of the art” of creating m
12、odern fiction.AEzra Pound BErnest Hemingway CRobert Frost DTheodore Dreiser15. In 1950,_A_ was awarded the Nobel Prize for the anti-racist Intruder in the Dust.AWilliam Faulkner BRobert Frost CEzra Pound DErnest Hemingway16. The Portrait of A Lady is generally considered to be _C_ masterpiece, which
13、 describes the life journey of an American _ in a European cultural environment.AHenry Adamswidow BWilliam JamesgirlCHenry Jamesgirl DTheodore Dreiserswidow17. Hawthorne intended to _D_ in The Scarlet Letter.Atell a story of parental loveBtell a story of sin and bloody violenceCcall the readers back
14、 to the plantation way of livingDreveal the human psyche after they sinned18. “The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water.” This “iceberg” analogy is put forward by _D_.AMark Twain BEzra Pound CWilliam Faulkner DErnest Hemingway19. The white whale, Moby Dick, symbolizes _B_ for Melville, for it is complex, unfathomable, malignant, and beautiful as well.Asociety BNature Cocean animals Dboth A and C 20. After the American Civil War, the literary interest in the so-called “reali
