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 period

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 “the love song of J. Alfred Prufrock”?
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         .
A. form
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 language
B. excellent choice of words
C. mastering of the metrical devices
D. use of the dramatic monologue

Robert Browning:”My Last Duchess” 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 creed.
A. John Milton
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 albatross

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 theme
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 life.
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 Land

12.“It is not so expressed, But what of that? 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 important
C. this is true
D. this is not true

13.Which of the following poems is a landmark in English Poetry?
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 Finn.
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 action.

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 Bacon
C. Novum Organum by Francis Bacon
D. Essays by Francis Bacon

19.Which of the following is considered to be a better-structured novel?
A. Women in Love
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 nature
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----that is the question; 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
B. Romeo
C. Antonio
D. Hamlet

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.”
A. ironic
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 Sheridan
C. Ben Johnson
D. George Bernard Shaw

Neoclassica 造謠學校 The School of Scandal

25.Among the works by John Milton, which is indeed the only generally acknowledge epic in English literature since Beowulf?
A. Paradise Regained
B. Samson Agonists
C. Areopagitica
D. Paradise Lost

Milton 三部偉大的詩作誕生:

Paradise lost: 是Beowulf 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?
A. The Tempest 暴風雨
B. King Lear
C. Hamlet
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 bacon
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 of          and pathos.
A. metaphor
B. passion
C. satire
D. humor

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
D. Herman Melville

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 chewed and digested;...” are quoted from          
A. Novum Organum
B. Of Studies By Bacon
C. The Advancement Of Learning
D. Essays

34.The advancement of learning is a great tract on          .
A. history
B. literature
C. policy
D. education

35.Most of the poems in Whitman’s leaves of grass sing of the “en-mass” and the          as well.
A. nature
B. life
C. self
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 Carrie
B. Copper’s Leather Stocking Tales
C. Thoreau’s Walden
D. D Mark Twain’s The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn

38.“Wild spirit, which art moving everywhere; destroyer and preserver; hear, O hear!”
The two lines are found in         .
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 bed.
‘What’s the use?’ he said, weakly, as he stretched himself to rest.”
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          movement.
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 English.
“I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills
When all at once I saw a crowd
A host, of golden daffodils;
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 English.
“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.”
Question:
A. Who is the author of the poem?

Robert Lee Frost
B. Identify the title of the short poem from which this part is taken?

The Road Not Taken
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 English.
“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

Question:
A. Tell the title of the poem.

Dr. Faustus
B. What does “rack” mean?

Torment 折磨
C. What is the play based on and give a brief introduction of it.

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 man

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.         A type of romantic fiction that predominated in the late 18^th century, was one phase of the Romantic Movement

B.         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.

C.         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 novels?

A.         Hardy, Tess of D’Urbevilles  Victorian period

B.         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

C.         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

D.         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.

A.         In “Young Goodman Brown” he sets out to prove that everyone possesses some evil secret

B.         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”

C.         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.

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 15^th and 16^th centuries

B.         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 English.
“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.”
Question:
A. Which writing is the stanza taken from? Who is the author?

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

答案部分

一、单项选择题

1.
【正确答案】 B

2.
【正确答案】 A

3.
【正确答案】 C

4.
【正确答案】 D

5.
【正确答案】 D

6.
【正确答案】 A

7.
【正确答案】 D

8.
【正确答案】 A

9.
【正确答案】 A

10.
【正确答案】 A

11.
【正确答案】 D

12.
【正确答案】 B

13.
【正确答案】 A

14.
【正确答案】 B

15.
【正确答案】 D

16.
【正确答案】 D

17.
【正确答案】 C

18.
【正确答案】 A

19.
【正确答案】 A

20.
【正确答案】 C

21.
【正确答案】 A

22.
【正确答案】 D

23.
【正确答案】 A

24.
【正确答案】 B

25.
【正确答案】 D

26.
【正确答案】 A

27.
【正确答案】 A

28.
【正确答案】 A

29.
【正确答案】 B

30.
【正确答案】 D

31.
【正确答案】 A

32.
【正确答案】 D

33.
【正确答案】 B

34.
【正确答案】 D

35.
【正确答案】 C

36.
【正确答案】 C

37.
【正确答案】 A

38.
【正确答案】 B

39.
【正确答案】 C

40.
【正确答案】 D

二、综合题

1.
【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 nature
C. The Romantic Period

2.
【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”.

3.
【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.

4.
【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.”

5.
【正确答案】 A. 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 man.
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.

6.
【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.

7.
【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 writer.

8.
【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, through the whole life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.”
C. In dealing with the theme of guilt and sin, Hawthorne exemplifies the “power of blackness”.

9.
【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.

10.
【正确答案】 A. George Gordon Byron, Don Juan.
B. An ancient Greek poetess known for her passionate love poems.
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.