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1、The Modern Period(200504)1. The short story “Araby” is one of the stories in James Joyces collection ( ).A. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManB. UlyssesC. Finnegans WakeD. Dubliners P3902. “For I have known them all already, known them all/Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,/I have m
2、easured out my life with coffee spoons.”The above lines are taken from ( ).A. Wordsworths “The Solitary Reaper”B. Eliots “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” P365 C. Coleridges “Kubla Khan”D. Yeatss “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”?3. A typical Forsyte, according to John Galsworthy, is a man with a str
3、ong sense of（）, who never pays any attention to human feelings.A.morality B. justiceC.property D. humor4. George Bernard Shaws play, Mrs. Warrens Profession is a grotesquely realistic exposure of the（ ）.A. slum landlordismB. political corruption in EnglandC. economic oppression of womenD. religious
4、corruption in England5. The story starting with the marriage of Pauls parents Walter Morel and Mrs. Morel must be( ).A. Thomas Hardys Tess of the DUrbervillesB. D. H. Lawrences Sons and LoversC. George Eliots MiddlemarchD. Charlotte Brontes Jane Eyre(200604)6. As a realist dramatist, George Bernard
5、Shaw is concerned with social, economic, moral and religious problems in his works. The general mood he expressed in his plays is ( ).A. indignationB. satisfactionC. optimismD. pessimism7. In the late nineteenth century, modernism flourished in English literature. Unlike modern poets and novelists,
6、modern dramatists ( ).A. showed not only satirical attitude toward bourgeois class, but also optimistic emotion toward lifeB. did not make so many innovations in techniques and formsC. inherited the romantic fuzziness and self-indulged emotionalismD. took the irrational philosophy and the theory of
7、psycho analysis as its theoretical base8. In ( ), James Joyce intended to record the four aspects of the moral history of his country, namely childhood, adolescence, maturity and public life.A. DublinersB. UlyssesC. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManD. Finnegans Wake9. In Sons and Lovers, D. H.
8、 Lawrence presented Paul as a(n) ( ) man and artist.A. independentB. ambitiousC. strong-willedD. sensitive10. T.S. Eliots early poems are marked by ( ) in comparison to his later ones.A. a philosophical and emotional calmB. a set of historical, cultural and religious themesC. a dreamy quality, expre
9、ssing melancholy and self-indulgent feelingsD. a mood of disillusionment and sufferings of modern people(醒悟，理想破灭)(200607)11. Which of the following poems is believed to best reflect the 20th century peoples disillusionment and frustration in a meaningless society?A. T.S Eliots Four QuartetsB. T.S El
10、iots The Waste LandC. S. B. Yeatss “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”D. S. B. Yeatss Down by the Salley Gardens （不依惯例的;不符合习俗的; 非常规的）？12. In shaping characters, G. B. Shaw would usually take an unconventional character in contrast to conventional social ones. In Mrs. Warrens Profession, ( ) is unconvention
11、al in regards with the thought, ambition and philosophy.A. Mrs. WarrenB. VivieC. FrankD. Liz13. Among the three stages of his poetic career,W. B. Yeatss major concern in the second stage is ( ).A. dichotomous in subject matter, such as youth and age, love and war, body and soulB. a mock of the bourg
12、eois philistines and their meanness of spirit and selfish materialismC. about Celtic legends, local folk tales, or storiesD. Love and War, the two primary passions of human beings(200704)14. _ is the most outstanding stream of consciousness novelist, with _ as his encyclopedia like masterpiece .AJam
13、es Joyce, Ulysses BE.M. Foster, A Passage to IndiaC D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers DVirginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway15. Which of the following poems by T.S. Eliot is hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th century English poetry?APoems 1909-1925 BThe Hollow ManC Prufrock and Other Observations DThe
14、 Waste Land(200707)16. The three trilogies of _ novels are masterpieces of critical realism in the early 20th century.A. Galsworthys ForsyteB. Lewis Grassic Gibbons Sunset SongC. D. H. Lawrences Women in LoveD. E. M. Fosters A Passage to India17. _ is considered to be the best-known English dramatis
15、t since Shakespeare.A. Oscar WildeB. Christopher MarloweC. John DrydenD. Bernard Shaw18. _ was awarded Nobel Prize for literature in 1923.A. Bernard ShawB. John GalsworthyC. W. B. YeatsD. T. S. Eliot19. The Rainbow and _ are generally regarded as D.H. Lawrences masterpieces.A. Women in LoveB. Sons and LoversC. Lady Chatterleys LoverD. The Plumed Serpent20. In Oscar Wildes masterpiece _, he expressed a satirical and bitter attitude towards the upper-class people by revealing their corruption, snobbe
