【题型：简答】【分数：4分】得分：4分[1]What are the characteristics of Byron's works?答：Although many of Byron’s works are debated by the critics, he is still one of the influential figures in th literature. In most of his works, we can see Byron's violent attack on" Cant politics, religion and morals, oriental scenery, the romantic character of Byronically hero and the easy, fluent and natural beauty of his ver though unequal and frequently faulty, has on a whole a freedom, copiousness and vigor. His descriptions are s often bring vivid objects before the reader. The glowing imagination of the poet r答案：they are violentattack on politics, religion and morals. They describe the novel scenery and shows the easy, fluent and natural beauty of his verse.【题型：简答】【分数：4分】得分：4分[2]Briefly state Mark Twain’ s magic power with language in his novels.答：A.Setting: In the novel Mark Twain recreates a small-town world of America and presents the local color.ngudirect language faithful to the colloquial speech, the vernacular language of the local people C.Character: two rebels and fugitives running away from civilization, especially Huckleberry Finn, an innocent boy who r conventional village morality D.Theme: The novel is a criticism of social injustice, hypocrisy, conservativ narrow-mindedness of the American small town society E.Style: The novel employs a humorous答案：His words are colloquial, concrete and direct in effect, and his sentence structu even ungrammatical spoken language; His characters speak with a strong accent, w his local colorism;Different characters from different literary or cultural back differently.【题型：简答】【分数：4分】得分：0分[3]What are the main features of Robert Browning’s poetry?答：Robert Browning’s poems are known for their irony, characterization, dark humor, social commentary, histo challenging vocabulary and syntax.答案：He uses dramatic monologue, fast, rough and unmusical rhythm. His works inclu compressed syntax, similes and illustrations,non-poetic jarring diction.【题型：简答】【分数：4分】得分：1分[4]What are the "Wessex novels" of Thomas Hardy?Thomas Hardy is one of the most excellent realistic novelist and poet in the 19~(th) century. His novels description of his hometown Wessex—a city in England, and therefore are called by the name "Wessex Novels"，as Novels of Character and Environment by Hardy himself. These novels describe the unexpected and huge changes economy, politics, ethics, and customs in England after the invasion of Capitalism, and the miserable fate of and discover the potential crisis of the society in England which is under the mask o答案：They are the fictional and crude rural region in Wessex andHardy's homeplace 【题型：简答】【分数：4分】得分：2分[5]Comment on the characteristics of Romantic writers in English history.答：It is a rebellion against the neoclassical literature, extols the faculty of imagination and nature答案：It is a rebellion against the neoclassical literature, extols the faculty of i nature.【题型：简答】【分数：4分】得分：4分[6] The white whale, Moby Dick is endowed with symbolic meaning. What do you think it symbolizes?答：To Ahab, the whale is an evil creature or the agent of an evil force that controls the universe.To Ishmael, the wh force, an immense power, which defies rational explanation due to a sense of mystery it carries. It is beau at the same time. To the reader, it may be regarded as a symbol of nature or an instrument of God's vengea 答案：To Ahab, the whale is an evil creature or the agent of an evil force that control To Ishmael, the whale is an astonishing force, an immense power, which defies ratio due to a sense of mystery it carries. It is beautiful, but malignant at the sam To the reader, it may be regarded as a symbol of nature or an instrument of God's evil man.【题型：论述】【分数：10分】得分：10分[7]Discuss the artistic features of Shelley's poems.答：lyrical|poet|classical|mythological|allusions|figures of speech|metaphor|personification|description答案：lyrical|poet|classical|mythological|allusions|figures ofspeech|metaphor|personification|description【题型：论述】【分数：10分】得分：10分[8]What does Wordsworth mean when he said "All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings recolleThis sentence is considered as the principle of Wordsworth’s poetry creation which was set forth in the pref Ballads”. As contrasted with the classicists who made reason, order and the old classical traditions the crite creations，Wordsworth based his own poetic talent on the premise that“all good poetry is the spontaneous feeling．” He appealed directly on individual sensations，i. e. pleasure，excitement and enjoyment，as t creation and appreciation of poetry. A poet’s emotion extends from human affairs to nature，but答案：principle|Wordsworth|poetic|creation|preface|Lyrical Ballads|individual|sensat 【题型：阅读】【分数：4分】得分：0分[9] When the minister spoke from the pulpit, with power and fervid eloquence, and, with his hands on the opentruths of our religion, and of saint-like lives and triumphant deaths, and of future bliss of misery unuttera 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.B. What had happened in the story before this church scene?C. Why was Goodman Brown afraid the roof might thunder down?答：A.Hawthorne’s Yong Goodman BrownB.Brown had attended a witches’party where he saw many prominent peopleminister included C.Brown was shocked by the minister,secretly a member of the evil club, who could talk of the reigion openly and unashamedly . He thought God would punish such hypocrites down on them.答案：young Goodman Brown, attend a witches' party,shocked by the minister【题型：阅读】【分数：4分】得分：0分[10]“I like to see it lap the Miles—And lick the Valleys up—And stop to feed itself at Tanks—And then-prodigiosu step”A. Please give the name of the author.B. What idea does this poem express?答：A.DickinsonB.This poem was shocked the world One of three big project -- North America big railway, the mdevelopment.答案：Emily Dichinson, suspicion of the relationship between man and nature【题型：阅读】【分数：4分】得分：3分[11]"To be or not to be-- that is the question."Questions:A. Identify the author.B. From which work is the above sentence taken?答：A.William ShakespeareB.Hamlett答案：Shakespeare, Hamlet【题型：阅读】【分数：4分】得分：2分[12]Had I as many souls as there be stars.I’d give them all for Mephistophilis!By him I’ll be great emperor of the world,And make a bridge through the moving airTo pass the ocean with a band of men;I’ll join the hills that bing the Africa shoreAnd make that country continent to Spain,And both contributory to my crown;The Emperor shall not live by my leave,Nor any potentate of Germany.Now that I have obtained what I desireI’ll live in speculation of this art.Till Mephistophilis return again.”A. Identify the author and the title of the work from which the passage is taken.B. Based on the passage, write down in one or two sentences the theme of the play.答：A.Dr.Faustus, a play by Christopher Marlowe.B.Man's aspiration, bounding achievements, and the inevitab 答案：Dr. Faustus, Christopher Marlowe, Man's aspiration, bounding achievement【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分[13]______ by Melville is a novella about a ship whose black slave cargo mutiny holds their captain a terrorA A. “Bartleby, the Scrivener”B B. Benito CerenoC C. The Confidence-ManD D. Billy Bud答：B答案： B【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分[14]The great political and social events in the English society of neoclassical period were the followingA the Restoration of King Charles II in 1660B the Great Plague of 1665C the Great London Fire in 1666D the Wars of Roses in 1689答：D答案： D【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：0分[15]All of the following are stream –of- consciousness novels EXCEPT________.A The Sound and the FuryB UlyssesC Mrs. DallowayD Jude the Obscure答：A答案： D【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分[16]Greatly and permanently affected by the ________ experiences, Hemingway formed his own writinghis theme and hero.A. mining &nbsA miningB farmingC warD sea答：C答案： C【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：0分[17]Which of the following masterpieces doesn’t belong to the tragedies of Shakespeare?A A. Romeo and JulietB B. The Merry Wives of WindsorC C. Julius CaesarD D. King Lear答：D答案： B【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分[18]Here is a sentence from an essay, “Read not to contradict and confuse, nor to believe and take for grant and discourse, but to weight and consider”. The essay must be ______.A Of Studies by Francis BaconB The Advancement of Learning by Francis BaconC Novum Organum by Francis BaconD Essays by Francis Bacon答：A答案： A【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分[19]7. Neoclassicists had some fixed laws and rules for prose EXCEPT_____.A precisonB directnessC flexibilityD satire答：D答案： D【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分[20]Rousseau published two books that electrified Europe—Du contrat Social and ____ in which he explored new society and education.A A. EmileB B. Declaration of Rights of ManC C. Life of NapoleonD D. The Advancement of Learning答：A答案： A【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分[21]With the help of his friends Phil Stone and Sherwood Anderson, ______ published a volume of po and his first novel Soldiers’ Pay.A FaulknerB HemingwayC Ezra PoundD Fitzgerald答：A答案： A【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分[22]Statement ____ is NOT true in describing Gothic novel.A Gothic novel is a type of romantic fictionB Gothic novel predominated in the early 18th centuryC Its principal elements are violence, horror and supernaturalD The Mystery of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe is typical Gothic romance答：B答案： B【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分[23]“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” the quoted line comes from ________.A Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind”B Walt Whitman’ s Leaves of GrassC John Milton’s Paradise LostD John Keats’“ Ode on a Grecian Urn”答：A答案： A【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分[24]The Transcendentalists believe that, first, nature is ennobling, and second, the individual is____A insignificantB evilC divineD silly答：C答案： C【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分[25]The author of Leaves of Grass , a giant of American letters, is ______.A FaulknerB DreiserC . JamesD Whitman答：D答案： D【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分[26]In Go Down, Moses, ________ illuminates the problem of black and white in Southern society as a close- kbrotherhood.A. William Faulkner &nbsA William FaulknerB Jack LondonC Herman MelvilleD Nathaniel Hawthorne答：A答案： A【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分[27]In 1892, Yeats wrote his first play, ____, which is an Irish myth about a noblewoman who sells her soul t to save starving peasants.A A. The Land of Heart’s DesireB B. The Shadowy WatersC C. The Countess CathleenD D. Purgatory答：C答案： C【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分[28]A proud, mysterious rebel figure of noble origin is called _____ hero in Romantic Period of EngliA RomanticB RealisticC RenaissanceD Byronic答：D答案： D【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分[29]_____ explores the scrupulous individualism in a world of fantastic speculation and unstable values, athe get-rich-quick years of the post-Civil War era.A Innocents AbroadB The Gilded AgeC Roughing ItD The Middle Years答：B答案： B【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分[30]The Advancement of Learning is a great tract on _____.A A. historyB B. literatureC C. policyD D. education答：D答案： D【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分[31]The 20th -century stream- of- consciousness technique was frequently and skillfully used by ___ reactions and inner musings of the narrator.A HemingwayB FrostC FaulknerD Whitman答：C答案： C【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分[32]Man is a “victim of forces over which he has no control. ” This is a notion held strongly by ___A Robert FrostB Theodore DreiserC Henry JamesD Waltman答：B答案： B【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分[33]The following statement ______ is WRONG in describing Transcendentalism.A It absorbed some ideological concerns of American Puritanism and European Romanticism.B It advocates the importance of Individual and Nature.C Trancendentalists believed that there should be an emotional communication between an indiD It emphasizes that man is the measure of all things.答：D答案： D【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分[34]Jonathan Swift’ s ______ is generally regarded as the best model of satire, not only of the period b English literary history.A Gulliver’s TravelsB The Battle of the BooksC “A Modest Proposal”D A Tale of a Tub答：C答案： C【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：0分[35]In 1847, the Bronte sisters published the following famous novels EXCEPT “______”.A Jane EyreB ShirleyC Wuthering HeightsD The Tenant of Windfall Hall答：D答案： B【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分[36]The major concern of ______ fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological development of his characterscriticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature.A John Galsworthy’sB Thomas Hardy’sC D．H．Lawrence’sD Charles Dickens’答：C答案： C【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分[37]In _____, James Joyce intends to present a microcosm of the whole human life by providing an instance of how a s all the events of its kind, and how history is recapitulated in the happenings of one day.A A. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManB B. DublinersC C. UlyssesD D. Finnegans Wake答：C答案： C【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分[38]With the scarlet letter A as the biggest symbol of all, ______ proves himself to be one ofA HawthorneB DreiserC JamesD Faulkner答：A答案： A【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分[39]. “‘Damn the fool! There he is’, cried Heathcliff, sinking back into his seat, ‘Hush, my darling! Hu I’ll stay. If he shot me so, I’d expire with a blessing in my lips.’” The novel from which the passage iA Jane Austen’s Pride and PrejudiceB Charles Dickens’s The Old Curiosity ShopC Samuel Richardson’s PamelaD Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights答：D答案： D【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分[40]The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one -eighth of it being above water. ” This “iceprose style was put forward by ________.A William FaulknerB F·Scott FitzgeraldC Henry JamesD Ernest Hemingway答：D答案： D【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分[41]Joyce’s masterpiece, ______ gives an account of man’s life during one day in Dublin.A DublinersB Finnegans WakeC UlyssesD A Portrait of the Artist答：C答案： C【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分[42]In Charles Dickens’ work ________, the Utilitarian principle rules over the English education system and dand minds.A Hard timesB Oliver TwistC David CopperfieldD Bleak House答：A答案： A【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分[43]Poetry is defined by ______ as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, which originates inin tranquility”.A WordsworthB ShellyC KeatsD Wialliam Blake答：A答案： A【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分[44]“O prince, O chief of many throned powers, That led th’ embattled seraphim to war Under thy conddeeds Fearless, endangered Heaven’s perpetual King.” In the third line of the above passage qParadise LosA Satan’sB God’sC Adam’sD Eve’s答：A答案： A【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分[45]Jane Austen’ s first novel ________ tells a story about two sisters and their love affairs.A Mansfield ParkB Sense and SensibilityC Pride and PrejudiceD Sons and Lovers答：B答案： B【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分[46]Shakespeare’ s ______, an elaborate and fantastic story, is known as the best of his final romances.A The Winter’s TaleB The TempestC The Taming of the ShrewD Love’ s Labour’ s Lost答：B答案： B【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分[47]6. Which of the following descriptions of Enlightenment Movement is NOT true?A It was a progressive intellectual movement that flourished in France.B B. It was a furtherance of the Renaissance of the 15th and 16th centuries.C C. The purpose was to enlighten the whole world with moderu philosophical and artistic idD D. The Enlighteners advocate individual education.答：D答案： D【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分[48]In Milton’s works, “____” is the greatest, indeed the only generally acknowledged epic in English literatuA A. Paradise LostB B. Paradise RegainedC C. Samson AgonistesD D. Lycidas答：A答案： A【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分[49]From the first novel Sister Carrie on, Dreiser set himself to project the American values for wh to be: ______ to the core.A altruisticB politicalC religiousD materialistc答：D答案： D【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分[50]The three trilogies of ______’s Forsyte novels are masterpieces of critical realism in the early 20A John GalsworthyB Arnold BennetC James JoyceD H. G. Wells答：A答案： A【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分[51]Of all Herman Melville’s sea adventure stories, ________ proves to be the best.A TypeeB ReburnC Moby – DickD Omoo答：C答案： C【题型：单选】【分数：1分】得分：1分[52]The Rivals and _____ are generally regarded as important links between the masterpieces of Shakespeare Shaw.A The School for ScandalB The DuennaC Widower’s HousesD The Doctor’s Dilemma答：A答案： A。