奥鹏作业网英美文学19秋在线作业1题目
试卷总分:100 得分:100
一、单选题 (共 20 道试题,共 50 分)
1.American romanticism started with the publication of _______ and ended with Leaves of Grass .
A.The Sketch Book
B.Nature
C.Leatherstocking Tales
2.In his essay“of Studies，”Bacon Said：“Some books are to be tasted，others to be swallowed，and some few to be chewed and____.
A.perfected
B.imitated
C.digested
D.Skimmed
3.Of all the eighteenth-century novelists , who was the first to set out, both in theory and practice , to write specially a “comic epic in prose”, the first to give the modern novel its structure and style ?
A.Thomas Gray
B.Richard Brinsley Sheridan
C.Johathan Swift
D.Henry Fielding
4.”So much the worse for me, that I an strong. Do I want to live? What kind of living will it be when you-oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?” In the above passage quoted from Emily Bronte‘s Wuthering Heights, the word “soul” apparently refers to _______ .
A.one‘s spiritual lift
B.ghost
C.Heathcliff
D.Catherine
5.“Come to me－come to me entirely now,” said he ; and added, in his deepest tone, speaking in my ear as his cheek was laid on mine, “Make my happiness－I will make yours.” The above passage presents a scene in .
A.Thomas Hardy′s Tess of the D′Urbervilles
B.John Galsworthy′s The Forsyte Saga
C.Emily Bronte’s Withering Heights
D.Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre
6.______ deals with a limited range of characters in quite similar circumstances and measures them against an unvarying code , known as ‘‘ grace under pressure ‘‘ .
A.Lewis
B.Hemingway
C.Eliot
7.Beowulf is a national epic of
A.Scandinavia
B.Germany
C.France
D.England
8.As an autobiographical play, O‘Neill‘s _______ （1956）has gained its status as a world classic and simultaneously marks the climax of his literary career and the coming of age of American drama.
A.The Iceman Cometh
B.The Hairy Ape
C.Long Day‘s Journey Into Night
D.Desire Under the Elms
9.Milton was nicknamed “the lady of Christ’s” because he was
A.as serious as a lady
B.as handsome as a lady
C.as gentle as a lady
D.a lady
10.The one of the following not known as a dramatist is _______ .
A.Pound
B.O‘Neill
C.Miller
11.The realists of the 18th century and those of the 19th century have the following in common except both of them
A.use the form of novel fully
B.present social and political events in details
C.indicate the broad social conflicts
D.describe the fate of individuals and of social classes
12.“Humor” according to Ben Jonson means
A.thought
B.temperament
C.fun
D.comedy
13.Stylistically, Henry James‘ fiction is characterized by _______ .
A.short, clear sentences
B.ordinary American speech
C.highly refined language
D.abundance of local images
14.The following poets are all Poet Laureate except_____
A.William Wordsworth
B.Thomas Gray
C.Robert Southey
D.Ben Jonson
15.“In dream vision Arthur witnessed the loveliness of Gloriana, and upon awaking resolves to seek her.” The two literary figures Arthur and Gloriana are form .
A.William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet
B.John Donne’s “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”
C.Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene
D.Christopher Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His love”
16.Of the below poets, has not been awarded Poet Laureate.
A.William Wordsworth
B.Thomas Gray
C.Ben Jon son
D.Alfred Tennyson
17.Author of Gulliver’s Ttravels also wrote
A.The Tyger
B.Robinson Crusoe
C.Henry V
D.A Modest Proposal
18.”Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless?…And if God had gifted me with some beauty, and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you.” The above quoted passage is most probably taken from _______ .
A.Wuthering Heights
B.Pride and Prejudice
C.Jane Eyre
D.Great Expectations
19.In Hardy‘s Wessex novels，there is an apparent____touch in his description of the simple though primitive rural life．
A.romantic
B.nostalgic
C.ironic
D.humorous
20.Here are four lines from a long poem: “Others for language all their care express, / And value books, as women men , for dress.” The poem must be
A.Thomas Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”
B.Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream
C.John Milton’s Paradise Lost
D.Alexander Pope’s Essay on Criticism
二、判断题 (共 20 道试题,共 50 分)
21.The Celestial City in the Pilgrim’s Progress stands for an ideal happy society.
22.The most gifted of the University Wits was Shakespeare.
23.Morality play presents the conflict of good and evil with allegorical characters
24.The story of Catch–22 develops chronologically in a traditional structure .
25.Auld Lang Syne was composed by Burns.
26.Stephen Crane was also a poet who influenced Imagist poetry .
27.Hardy had written and published many poems before he achieved a reputation with his novels.
28.Faulkner‘s artistic techniques include the exploration of reality , the nature of time and the relation of the past to the present .
29.The most striking similarities between Milton and Samson Agonistes are their blindness and unhappy marriage.
30.Monks tried hard to trap Oliver Twist.
31.The stories in the Canterbury Tales are only connected by the host of Tabard Inn.
32.Native Son was considered the best book after WWⅡ in 1965 .
33.Steinbeck is a sociological writer and his Babbitt presents a documentary picture of the narrow and limited middle class mind .
34.The Jazz Age characterized by frivolity and carelessness is brought vividly to life in The Great Gatsby .
35.Scott’s literary career marked the transition from romanticism to realism.
36.Both Hawthorne and Shakespeare influenced Melville‘s writing of Moby Dick .
37.A ballad is written in 4-line stanza with the first and third lines rhymes.
38.Human goodness is one of the most familiar themes in American naturalism .
39.Naturalism is evolved from Romanticism .
40.Romanticism rose and grew under the impetus of the French Revolution.
