一、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

2.The tragedy of Dr. Faustus, the protagonist in Christopher Marlowe’s The Tragic History of Dr. Faustus, is the very face that _______.
A. man is confined to time
B. he tried to join Africa to Spain
C. he became a man without soul after he sold it
D. he conjured up Helen, the lady who was the very course of the Trojan War

Marlowe’s  Dr. Faustus   The Passionate Sheperd to His Love

3.Which of the following historical events does not directly help to stimulate the rising of the Renaissance Movements?

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.

4.Literature of Neoclassicism is different from that of Romanticism in that _______.
A .the former celebrates reason, rationality, order and instruction while the latter sees literature as an expression of an individual’s feelings and experiences
B. the former is heavily religious but the latter secular
C. the former is an intellectual movement the purpose of which is to arouse the middle class for political rights while the latter is concerned with the personal cultivation.
D. the former advocates the "return to nature" whereas the latter turns to the ancient Greek and Roman writers for its models

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.Spensers The Faerie Queene
B.John Donnes “The Sun Rising”
C.Shakespeares “Sonnet 18”
D.Marlowes “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”

6.You may have meet the term "Yahoo" on internet, but you may also have met it in English literature .It is found in _______.
A. John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress
B. Samuel Johnson’s The Vanity of Human Wishes
C. Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels
D. Henry Fielding’s tom Jones

7.The ture subject of John Donnes poem,“The Sun Rising,” is to _______.
A.attack the sun as an unruly servant
B.give compliments to the mistress and her power of beauty
C.criticize the suns intrusion into the lovers private life
D. lecture the sun on where true royalty and riches lie.

8."Surface", "Sneerwell", "Backbite", and "Candour" are most likely the names of the characters in _______.
A. Shaw’s Mrs Warren’s Profession
B. Sheridan’s The School for Scandal
C. Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost
D. Christopher Marlowe’s Dr.Faustus

9.The Houyhnhnms depicted by Jonathan Swift in Gullivers 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.

10.What does Wordsworth’s poem "The Solitary Reaper" tell us about Romanticist?
A. To romanticists, poetry is an expression of an individual’s feelings and experiences no matter how fragmentary and momentary these feelings and experiences are.
B. Romanticist take delight only in sound effect, the theme of a work is not their concern.
C. Romanticist are not patient people; they would leave before the revelation of the theme.
D. Poetry should present the apparent and tangible.

11.The phraseo 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. Gullivers Travels
B. The Rape of the Lock
C. Robinson Crusoe
D. The pilgrims Progress

12. Prometheus Unbound is Shelley’s greatest achievement. Prometheus, according to the Greek mythology, was chained by Zeus on Mount Caucasus and suffered the vulture’s feeding on his liver for _______.
A. planning a revolt to dethrone God
B. misinterpreting God’s decree to reconcile man and nature
C. prophesying the arrival of spring in a winter season
D. stealing the fire from heaven and giving it to man

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 pary.”
C.“Earth has not anything to show more fair.”
D.“Beauty is truth, truth beauty”.

14."My Last Duchess" is a poem that best exemplifier Robert 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

15.“Ode o na 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

16.Tess of the D’Urbervilles, one of Thomas Hardy’s best known novels, portrays man as _______.
A. being hereditarily either good or bad
B. being self-sufficient
C. having no control over his own fate
D. still retaining his own faith in a world of confusion

17.The typical feature of Robet Brownings poetry is the _______.
A.bitter satire
B.larger-than-life caricature
C.Latinized diction
D.dramatic monologue

18.The term tone in literature means _______.
A. sound effect such as rhyme and metrical device
B. the pitch of a word used to determine its meaning in the given context
C. the manner of expression to indicate the speaker’s attitude towards the subject
D. a shade of colour to reflect the change of the light

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

20.In which of the following poems by William Butler Yeats did you find the allusion to Helen and the TrojanWar?
A. "Sailing to Byzantium"
B. " Leda and the Swan"
C. "The Lake Isle if Innisfree".
D. " Sown by the Sally Garden"

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

22.James Joyce is the author of all the following novels except _______.
A. Dubliners
B. Jude the Obscure --Hardy
C. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
D. Ulysses

内容简介

　　托马斯·哈代（1840-1928），英国小说大师，著名诗人。《无名的裘德》是哈代最优秀的作品之一，哈代自称要写出“灵与肉的生死搏斗”。

　　小说以悲怆的笔调叙述了乡村青年裘德一生的悲剧。裘德好学深思、刻苦自修，却始终被拒之于大学 门外。女主人公淑聪颖美貌，更重要的是具有独立的人格和思想，蔑视世俗和僵化的宗教，但她跟裘德的爱情却为教会所不容、世俗所不齿。裘德壮志不酬、谋职无 路、告贷无门，绝望中，他的长子同弱妹幼弟

一同吊死。淑遭此惨变，终向命运和教会屈服，离开了深爱的裘德，自由的思想、独立的人格均遭毁弃。裘德则终日纵 酒，郁郁成疾，年未满三十即含恨而终。
23.The Romantic writers would focus on all the following issues EXCEPT the _______ in the American literary histrory.

A.individual feelings
B.idea of survival of the fittest
C.strong imagination
D.return to nature

24.We can perhaps summarize that Walt Whitman’s poems are characterized by all the following features except that they are _______.
A. conversational and crude
B. lyrical and well-structured
C. wimple and rather crude
D. free-flowing

25.he famous 20-years sleep in “Rip Van Winkle”helps to construct the story in such a way that we are greatly affected by Irvings _______.
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 mans life

26.Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his _______.
A. international theme
B. waste-land imagery
C. local color
D. symbolism

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

28.The period before the American Civil War is commonly referred to as _______.
A. the Romantic Period
B. the Realistic Period
C. the Naturalist Period
D. the Modern Period

29.“This is my letter to the World” is a poetic expression of Emily Dickinsons _______ about her communication with the outside world.
A.indifference
B.anger
C.anxiety
D.sorrow

30.In Henry James’ Daisy Miller, the author tries to portray the young woman as an embodiment of _______.
A. the force of convention
B. the free spirit of the New World
C. the decline of aristocracy
D. the corruption of the newly rich

31.After The adventures of Tom Sawyer, Twain gives a literary independence to Toms buddy Huck in a book entitled _______.
A.Life on the Mississippi
B.The Gilded Age
C.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
D.A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court

32.The Transcendentalists believe that, first, nature is ennobling, and second, the individual is _______.
A. insignificant
B. vicious by nature
C. divine
D. forward-looking

33.Generally speaking,all those writers with a naturalistic approach to human reality tend to be _______.

A.transcendentalists
B.idealists
C.pessimists
D.impressionists

34.In Heminway’s short story Indian Camp, through a story of a woman giving birth, the protagonist, Nick Adams, receives an education of _______.
A. birth and violent death
B. charity and benevolence
C. racial inequality
D. devotion and kinship

35.In “After Apple-Picking,”Robert Frost wrote:“For I have had too much/Of applepicking:I am overtired/Of the great harvest I myself desired.”From these lines we can conclude that the speaker is _______.
A.happy about the harvest
B.still very much interested in apple-picking
C.expecting a greater harvest
D.indifferent to what he once desired

36.Besides sketches, tales and essays, Washington Irving also published a book on _______, which is also considered an important part of his creative writing.
A. poetic theory
B. French  art
C. history of New York
D. life of George Washington

37.The Hemingway Code heroes are best remembered for their _______.
A.indestructible spirtie
B.pessimistic view of life
C.war experiences
D.masculinity

38.In American literature, escaping from the society and returning to nature is a common subject. The following titles are all related, in one way or another, to the subject except _______.
A. Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
B. Dreiser’s Sister Carrie
C. Copper’s Leather-Stocking Tales
D. Thoreau’s Walden

39.In Hemingways “Indian Camp”, Nicks night trip to the Indian village and his experience inside the hut can be taken as _______.
A.an essential lesson about Indian tribes
B.a confrontation with evil and sin
C.an initiation to the harshness of life
D.a learning process in human relationship

40.Emily Dickinson wrote many short poems on various aspects of life. Which of the following is not a usual subject of her poetic expression?
A. Religion.
B. Life and death.
C. Love and marriage.
D. War and peace.

二、Reading Comprehension

1.Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English.

(1)."And the native hue of resolution/Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought." (Shakespeare, Humlet)
Questions:
A. What does the "native hue of resolution" mean?

determination
B. What does the "pale cast of thought" stand for?

consideration
C. What idea do the two lines express?

Too much thinking made activity impossible

(2)."Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere; /Destroyer and Preserver; hear, O hear!"
Questions:
A. Identify the poem and the poet.

Shelley’s “ ode to the west wind”
B. What is the "Wild Spirit"?

The west wind
C. What does the "Wild Spirit" destroy and preserve?

It destroys things /thoughts/ideas that are dead ,it preserves new life(or seeds that represent new life or new birth)

(3)."When the minister spoke from the pulpit講道壇， with power and fervid eloquence, and, with his hands on the open bible, of the sacred truths of our religion, and of saint-like lives and triumphant deaths, and of future bliss or misery unutterable, then did Goodman Brown turn pale, dreading, lest the roof should thunder down upon the gray blasphemer and his hearers.
Questions:
A. Identify the title of the short story from which this part is taken.

Hawthorne’s  Yong Goodman Brown
B. What had happened in the story before this church scene?

Brown had attended a witches’party where he saw many prominent people of the village ,the minister included
C. Why was Goodman Brown afraid the roof might thunder down?

Brown was shocked by the minister,secretly a member of the evil club, who could talk about sacred truths of the reigion openly and unashamedly . He thought God would punish such hypocrites down on them.

(4).(A lot of common objects have been enumerated before, and here are the last two lines of There Was a Child Went Forth :)
The horizon’s edge, the flying sea-crow, the fragrance of salt marsh and shore mud.
These became part of that child who went forth every day, and who now goes, and will always go forth every day.
Questions:
A. Who is the author of this poem?

Walt Whiteman
B. What does the "Child" stand for in the poem?

Child: the young growing America
C. In one or two sentences, interpret the implied meaning of the two lines.

The poet uses his childhood experience of growing up and learning about the world around him to imply that young America will grow and develop like that

三、Questions and Answers 。

1.Give brief answers to each of the following questions in English.

(1)."My boy!" said the old gentleman, leaning over the desk. Oliver started at the sound. He might be excused for doing so, for the words were kindly said, and strange sounds frighten one. He trembled violently, and burst into tears." (Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist-Victorian Period)
Explain why the boy [Oliver Twist] started first, then trembled violently and burst into tears when the words were "kindly" said.

The boy started at the words because kind words were not expected;It is the first time in all his life that boy had ever been kindly greeted

Strange sounds may predict another suffering   

(2).Here is the last stanza of Byron’s "The Isles of Greece": --Romantical period
Place me on sunium’s mardle steep,  
Where nothing, save the waves and I,
There, swan-like, let me sing and die:
May hear our marbled murmurs sweep;
A land of slaves shall ne’er be mine ---
Dash down you cup of Samian wine!
Determine the speaker first and then discuss BRIEFLY the main idea of the stanza or of the whole excerpt. You may want to consider the possible implications of the last two lines.

Speaker is a Greek Singer (or Byron speaks through a Greek singer)

(3).Why are naturalists inevitably pessimistic in their view?
Please discuss the above question in relation to the basic principles of literary naturalism.

(4)."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."
They above is quoted from Thoedore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie. Briefly tell the situation that leads to the suicide and interpret Hurstwood’s final words -"What’s the use?"

四、Topic Discussion。

1.Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.

(1).Daniel Defoe’s novel Robinson Crusoe was a great success partly because the protagonist was a real middle-class hero. Discuss Crusoe, the protagonist of the novel, as an embodiment of the rising middle class virtues in the mid-eighteenth century England.

(2).Mark Twain presented the 19th century America in his own unique way. Discuss Twain’s art of fiction: the setting, the language, and the characters, etc., based on his novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

答案部分

一、Multiple Choice

1.
【正确答案】 B

2.
【正确答案】 A

3.
【正确答案】 C

4.
【正确答案】 A

5.
【正确答案】 D

6.
【正确答案】 C

7.
【正确答案】 B

8.
【正确答案】 B

9.
【正确答案】 A

10.
【正确答案】 A

11.
【正确答案】 D

12.
【正确答案】 D

13.
【正确答案】 D

14.
【正确答案】 D

15.
【正确答案】 B

16.
【正确答案】 C

17.
【正确答案】 D

18.
【正确答案】 C

19.
【正确答案】 A

20.
【正确答案】 B

21.
【正确答案】 D

22.
【正确答案】 B

23.
【正确答案】 B

24.
【正确答案】 B

25.
【正确答案】 A

26.
【正确答案】 C

27.
【正确答案】 B

28.
【正确答案】 A

29.
【正确答案】 C

30.
【正确答案】 B

31.
【正确答案】 C

32.
【正确答案】 C

33.
【正确答案】 C

34.
【正确答案】 A

35.
【正确答案】 D

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、Reading Comprehension

1.

(1).

【正确答案】 Answers:
A. determination (determinedness, action, activity, ...)
B. consideration (indecision, inactivity, hesitation, ...)
C. Too much thinking (consideration,...) made (makes) activity (action) impossible.

(2).

【正确答案】 Answers:
A. Shelley’s "Ode to the West Wind"
B. The West Wind; "breath of Autumn’s being"
C. It destroys things/thoughts/ideas that are dead (obsolete, ...); it preserves new life (or seeds that represent new life or new birth).

(3).

【正确答案】 Answers:
A. Hawthorne’s Young Goodman Brown.
B. Brown had attended a witches’ party where he saw many prominent people of the village, the minister included.
C. Brown was shocked by the minister, secretly a member of the evil club, who could talk about sacred truths of the religion openly and unashamedly. He thought God would punish such hypocrites down on them

(4).

【正确答案】 Answers:
A. Walt Whitman.
B. The young growing America.
C. The poet uses his childhood experience of growing up and learning about the world around him to imply that young America will grow and develop like that.

三、Questions and Answers 。

1.

(1).

【正确答案】 Answers:
The boy started at the words because kind words were not expected; it is (was, must be) the first time in all his life that the boy [Oliver Twist] had ever been "kindly" greeted; strange sounds may predict another suffering/misfortune/torture/...) (At least one example from the text is expected to back up the above statement)

(2).

【正确答案】 Answers:
A. The speaker is a Greek singer (or Byron in a Greek Singer’s disguise or Byron speaks through a Greek singer).
B. The excerpt presents a strong resentment for the Turk’s conquest of Greece and calls on the Greek people to rise and fight for freedom.
C. Thus, the last line may suggest resolution to take immediate action to free Greece from enslavement.

(3).

【正确答案】 Answers:
A. They accept the negative implication of Darwin’s theory of evolution, and believe that society is a "jungle" where survival struggles go on.
B. They believe that man’s instinct, the environment and other social and economic forces play an overwhelming role and man’s fate is "determined" by such forces beyond his control.

(4).

【正确答案】 Answers:
A. Sister Carrie has made a great success. As her fame arises, she deserts her former lover Hurstwood. In a cold winter, Hurstwood makes a last attempt to seek help from Carrie, but has failed, so I desperation, he decides to kill himself by turning on the gas.
B. By making that comment, Hurstwood seems to have realized that it is useless to continue to fight against fate. His fate is not controlled by his own efforts but by some social forces too strong for him to resist, so he decides to give up.

四、Topic Discussion。

1.

(1).

【正确答案】 Answers:
A. Social background: The Eighteenth Century England witnessed the growing importance of the bourgeois or middle class.
a. The Industrial Revolution
b. The expansion of international markets;
c. Values/virtues/moral standards/...different from those of the feudal aristocratic class -courageous, full of energy, hard working, practical, resourceful, self-reliant, etc; thus
d. Literature should give/provide a realistic presentation of the life of the common people; it should meet the demand/interest of the middle class people.
B. Robinson Crusoe embodies the virtue of the middle class people.
a. Crusoe as an adventurous/courageous man full of energy and courage: (example from the text):
b. Crusoe as a practical man: (example from the text);
c. Crusoe as a resourceful/self-reliant man: (example from the text);
d. Crusoe as a patient/persistent man: (example from the text);
e. And others.

(2).

【正确答案】 Answers:
A. Mark Twain uses the Mississippi alley as his fictional kingdom, writing about the landscape and people, the customs and the dialects of one particular region, and is therefore known as a local colorist.
B. He creates life-like characters, especially the unconventional Huckleberry Finn, who runs away from civilization and stands opposite to conventional village morality.
C. He uses a simple, direct vernacular language, totally different from any precious literary language. It is the kind of colloquial belonging to the lower class, the living local American English.
D. He has created a special humor to satirize and the decayed convention