2002年英美文学选读试卷及答案 http://english.fjii.com
日期：2004-12-28 作者：Cathy  

PART ONE
I. Multiple Choice

1. Romance, which uses narrative verse or prose to tell stories of
adventures or other heroic deeds, is a popular literary form in the medieval period.
A. Christian
B. Knightly
C. Greek
D. Primitive
Answer: B

2. Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his production of
A. Piers Plowman
B. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
C. Confessio Amantis
D. The Canterbury Tales
Answer: D

3. Which of the following historical events does not directly help to stimulate the rising of the Renaissance Movement?
A. The rediscovery of ancient Greek and Roman culture.
B. The new discoveries in geography and astrology.
C. The Glorious revolution.
D. The religious reformation and the economic expansion.
Answer: C

4. Which of the following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18?
A. The speaker eulogizes the power of Nature.
B. The speaker satirizes human vanity.
C. The speaker praises the power of artistic creation.
D. The speaker meditates on man’s salvation.
Answer: C

5. "And we will sit upon the rocks, /Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks, /By shallow rivers to whose falls/ Melodious birds sing madrigals." The above lines are probably taken from
A. Spenser’s The Faerie Queene
B. John Donne’s "The Sun Rising"
C. Shakespeare’s "Sonnet 18"
D. Marlowe’s "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"
Answer: D

6. "Bassanio: Antonio, I am married to a wife
Which is as dear to me as life itself;
But life itself, my wife, and all the world,
Are not with me esteem’d above thy life;
I would lose all, ay, sacrifice them all,
Here to the devil, to deliver you.
Portia: Your wife would give you little thanks for that,
If she were by to hear you make the offer."
The above is a quotation taken from Shakespeare’s comedy The Merchant of Venice. The quoted part can be regarded as a good example to illustrate
A. dramatic irony
B. personification
C. allegory
D. symbolism
Answer: A

7. The true subject of John Donne’s poem, "The Sun Rising," is to
A. attack the sun as unruly servant
B. give compliments to the mistress and her power of beauty
C. criticize the sun’s intrusion into the lover’s private life
D. lecture the sun on where true royalty and riches lie
Answer: B

8. Of all the 18th century novelists Henry Fielding was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a " in prose," the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.
A. tragic epic
B. comic epic
C. romance
D. lyric epic
Answer: B

9. The Houyhnhnms depicted by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver’s travels are
A. horses that are endowed with reason
B. pigmies that are endowed with admirable qualities
C. giants that are superior in wisdom
D. hairy, wild, low and despicable creatures, who resemble human beings not only in appearance but also in some other ways
Answer: D

10. Here are four lines from a literary work: "Others for language all their care express,/And value books, and women men, for dress." The work is
A. Thomas Gray’s "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"
B. John Milton’s Paradise Lost
C. Alexander Pope’s Essay on Criticism
D. Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream
Answer: C

11. The phrase "to urge people to abide by Christian doctrines and to seek salvation through constant struggles with their own weaknesses and all kinds of social evils" may well sum up the implied meaning of
A. Gulliver’s Travels
B. The Rape of the Lock
C. Robinson Crusoe
D. The Pilgrim’s Progress
Answer: D

12. William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following EXCEPT
A. the use of everyday language spoken by the common people
B. the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings
C. the use of humble and rustic life as subject matter
D. the use of elegant wording and inflated figures of speech
Answer: D

13. Which of the following is taken from John Keats’ "Ode on a Grecian Urn"?
A. "I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!"
B. "They are both gone up to the church to pray."
C. "Earth has not anything to show more fair."
D. "Beauty is truth, truth beauty."
Answer: D

14. "If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?" is an epigrammatic line by
A. J. Keats
B. W. Blake
C. W. Wordsworth
D. P. B. Shelley
Answer: D

15. "Ode on a Grecian Urn" shows the contrast between the of art and the of human passion.
A. glory...ugliness
B. permanence... transience
C. transience ... sordidness
D. glory ... permanence
Answer: B

16. In the statement "-oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?" the term "soul" apparently refers to
A. Heathcliff himself
B. Catherine
C. one’s spiritual life
D. one’s ghost
Answer: D

17. The typical feature of Robert Browning’s poetry is the
A. bitter satire
B. larger-than-life caricature
C. Latinized diction
D. dramatic monologue
Answer: D

18. The Victorian Age was largely and age of , eminently represented by Dickens and Thackeray.
A. poetry
B. drama
C. prose
D. epic prose
Answer: D

19. is the first important governess novel in the English literary history.
A. Jane Eyre
B. Emma
C. Wuthering Heights
D. Middlemarch
Answer: A

20. The major concern of fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature.
A. D. H. Lawrence’s
B. J. Galsworthy’s
C. W. Thackeray’s
D. T. Hardy’s
Answer: A

21. is considered to be the best-known English dramatist since Shakespeare, and his representative works are plays inspired by social criticism.
A. Richard Sheridan
B. Oliver Goldsmith
C. Oscar Wilde
D. Bernard Shaw
Answer: D

22. Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Modernism?
A. To elevate the individual and inner being over the social being.
B. To put the stress on traditional values.
C. To portray the distorted and alienated relationships between
man and his environment.
D. To advocate a conscious break with the past.
Answer: B

23. The Romantic writers would focus on all the following issues EXCEPT the in the American literary history.
A. individual feelings
B. idea of survival of the fittest
C. strong imagination
D. return to nature
Answer: B

24. Henry David Thoreau’s work, has always been regarded as a
masterpiece of New England Transcendentalism.
A. Walden
B. The Pioneers
C. Nature
D. Song of Myself
Answer: A

25. The famous 20-year sleep in "Rip Van Winkle" helps to construct
the story in such a way that we are greatly affected by Irving’s
A. concern with the passage of time
B. expression of transient beauty
C. satire on laziness and corruptibility of human beings
D. idea about supernatural manipulation of man’s life
Answer: D

26. Walt Whitman was a pioneering figure of American poetry. His innovation first of all lies in his use of , poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.
A. bland verse
B. heroic couplet
C. free verse
D. iambic pentameter
Answer: C

27. The literary characters of the American type in early 19th century are generally characterized by all the following features EXCEPT that they
A. speak local dialects
B. are polite and elegant gentlemen
C. are simple and crude farmers
D. are noble savages(red and white) untainted by society
Answer: B

28. Hster Pryme, Dimmesdale, Cillingworth, and Pearl are most likely the names of the characters in
A. The Scarlet Letter
B. The House of the Seven Gablest
C. The portrait of a Lady
D. The Pioneers
Answer: A

29. "This is my letter to the World" is a poetic expression of Emily Dickinson’s about her communication with the outside world.
A. indifference
B. anger
C. anxiety
D. sorrow
Answer: C

30. With Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the literary scene,
became the major trend in American literature in the seventies and eighties of the 19th century.
A. Sentimentalism
B. romanticism
C. realism
D. naturalism
Answer: C