教师公开招聘考试小学英语-英美文学、跨文化交际work Information Technology Company.2020YEAR教师公开招聘考试小学英语-英美文学、跨文化交际一、单项选择(总题数:55,分数:100.00)1.The Canterbury Tales , a collection of stories told by a group of pilgrims on their way to Canterbury, is an important poetic work by ______.A.William LanglandB.Geoffrey Chaucer √C.William ShakespeareD.Alfred Tennyson解析:The Canterbury Tales (《坎特伯雷故事集》)是Geoffrey Chaucer(杰弗雷·乔叟)的代表作。
2.Francis Bacon is best known for his ______.A.essays √B.novelsC.paintingsD.poetry解析:弗朗西斯·培根(1561—1626),英国散文作家、哲学家、政治家,是古典经验论的始祖。
他在1624年出版的《论说文集》文笔非常优美,是值得一读的佳作。
3.John Dryden was an English ______.A.poet and dramatist √B.novelistC.playwrightD.essayist解析:考查英国文学知识。
约翰·德莱顿(John Dryden)是英国古典主义最杰出的代表,是17世纪后期一位享有盛名的桂冠诗人,也是一位杰出的戏剧家。
他所处的时期被称为“德莱顿”时代。
4.Robert Burns was a ______ poet.A.EnglishB.Scottish √C.WelshD.Irish解析:罗伯特·彭斯是一位苏格兰诗人。
他有名的抒情诗有A Red,Red Rose《一朵红红的玫瑰》和Auld Lang Syne《往昔时光》。
5."If winter comes, Call spring be far behind" is all epigrammatic line by.A.KeatsB.WordsworthC.BlakeD.B. Shelley √解析:题目问“如果冬天来了,春天还会远吗”是由哪位诗人所写。
此句出自雪莱的《西风颂》,故选D。
6.The novel Oliver Twist is written by ______.A.Charles Dickens √B.William ShakespeareC.Henry JamesD.Henry解析:Oliver Twist (《雾都孤儿》)是英国作家查尔斯·狄更斯的著名作品。
他的著名代表作还有David Copperfield (《大卫·科波菲尔》),A Tale of Two Cities (《双城记》),Great Expectations (《远大前程》)等。
7.The play Pygmalion later adapted to the musical comedy My Fair Lady was written by ______.A.Charles DickensB.Jack LondonC.Mark TwainD.Bernard Shaw √解析:萧伯纳的名作《皮格马利翁》(又名《卖花女》)通过描写教授如何训练一名贫苦卖花女并最终成功被上流社会所认可的故事,抨击当时英国的腐朽保守的等级意识。
后来它被改编成音乐剧《窈窕淑女》。
8.Which of the following works is NOT written by D.H. Lawrence?A.Women in LoveB.Sons and LoversC.The RainbowD.The French Lieutenant"s Woman √解析:The French Lieutenant"s Woman (《法国中尉的女人》)是英国小说家John Robert Fowles(约翰·罗伯特·福尔斯)的代表作之一。
9.Being a boy"s book specially written for adults, ______ is Mark Twain"s mostrepresentative work, describing a journey down the Mississippi undertaken by Huck and Jim.A.Innocent AbroadB.A dventures of Huckleberry Finn √C.Life on the MississippiD.The Gilded Age解析:根据后半句“此作品描述了哈克和吉姆沿着密西西比河的旅行”可知此作品为《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》。
故选B。
10.Which writer who won the Nobel Prize was famous for his writing skills by using simple English and sentence structures?A.William FaulknerB.Ernest Hemingway √C.Eugene O"NeillD.Sinclair Lewis解析:海明威1954年获得诺贝尔文学奖,他的写作以简洁著称。
11.In the medieval period, it is Chaucer alone who, for the first time in English literature, presented to use comprehensive ______ picture of the English society of his time and created a whole gallery of vivid ______ from all walks of life in his masterpiece The Canterbury Tales .A.visionary; womenB.romantic; menC.realistic; characters √D.natural; figures解析:12.In literature a story in verse or prose with a double meaning is defined as ______.A.allegory √B.sonnetC.blank verseD.rhyme解析:13.In Sonnet 18, Shakespeare has a profound meditation on the destructive power of ______and the eternal ______ brought forth by poetry to the one he loves.A.death; lifeB.death; loveC.time; beauty √D.hate; love解析:14.Which of the following is the work of Francis Bacon?A.UtopiaB.Paradise LostC.Songs of InnocenceD.Essays √解析:15.Blake, Wordsworth, ______, Byron, Shelley and ______ are the major Romantic poets.A.Coleridge; SoutheyB.Coleridge; Keats √C.Keats; ScottD.Scott; Coleridge解析:16.Best of all the well-known lyric pieces written by P.B. Shelley is the poem ______, for here his rhapsodic and declamatory tendencies find a subject perfectly suited to him.A.To a SkylarkB.The CloudC.Ode to the West Wind √D.Men of England解析:17.In his early, novels, Charles Dickens attacks one or more specific social evils in each: for example, the dehumanizing workhouse system and the dark, criminal underworld life in______.A.The Pickwick PapersB.David CopperfieldC.Oliver Twist √D.A Tale of Two Cities解析:18.The title of the novel Vanity Fair was taken from Bunyan"s masterpiece ______.A.The Pilgrim"s Progress √B.Gulliver"s TravelsC.Hard TimesD.Wuthering Heights解析:19.G.B. Shaw"s plays have plots, but they do not work by plots. It is the vitality of the ______ that takes primacy over mere story.A.characterizationB.depictionC.talk √D.metaphor解析:20.Who wrote the famous pamphlet, The Common Sense , before the American Revolution?A.Thomas JeffersonB.Thomas Paine √C.John AdamsD.Benjamin Franklin解析:21.Virginia Woolf was an important female ______ in the 20th-century England.A.poetB.biographerC.playwrightD.novelist √解析:22.According to D.H. Lawrence, the ______ is most responsible for the alienation of the human relationships and the perversion of human personality.A.pride of the aristocratic classB.vanity of the middle classC.man"s desire for power and moneyD.capitalist mechanical civilization √解析:23.G.B. Shaw"s play, Mrs. Warren"s Profession is a grotesquely realistic exposure of the______.A.slum landlordismB.political corruption in EnglandC.economic oppression of women √D.religions corruption in England解析:24.All of the following are well-known female writers in 20th-century Britain EXCEPT ______.A.Muriel SparkB.Iris MurdochC.Doris LessingD.George Eliot √解析:25.Thematically Yeats"s poem, The Lake Isle of lnnisfree , ______.A.celebrates the rich and colorful life of the modern peopleB.criticizes the emptiness of the hermit"s life in the remote countryments the loss of the Irish legendary traditionments the emptiness of the urban life and advocates a return to the simple and serene life √解析:26.Eliot"s poem, The Waste Land , is mainly concerned with the ______ of a modern civilization.A.social corruptionB.spiritual breakup √C.physical breakupD.religious corruption解析:27.Eliot"s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is presented as a(n) ______, suggesting an ironic contrast between a pretended "love song" and a confession of his incapability of facing up to love and to life in a sterile upper-class world.A.interior monologue √B.authentic dialogueC.lyric songD.religious confession解析:28.Paradise Lost is a masterpiece by ______.A.Christopher MarlowB.William ShakespeareC.John Milton √D.Ben Johnson解析:29.The ______ can be regarded as one of the themes of Joyce"s Araby .A.loss of innocence √B.childish loveC.awareness of harsh lifeD.false sentimentality解析:30.After reading Araby , one may feel the story has a ______ tone.A.joyousB.harshC.solemnD.painful √解析:31.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 thecapitalist industrialization on human nature.A.H. Lawrence"s √B.Galsworthy"sC.Thackeray"sD.Hardy"s解析:32.Irving was best known for his famous short stories such as ______.A.Rip Van Winkle √B.Young Goodman BrownC.Life of GoldsmithD.Life of Washington解析:33.James Joyce is the author of all the following novels EXCEPT ______.A.Jude the Obscure √B.A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManC.DublinersD.Ulysses解析:34.Mark Twain created, in ______, a masterpiece of American realism that is also one of the great books of world literature.A.Huckleberry Finn √B.Tom SawyerC.The Gilded AgeD.The Mysterious Stranger解析:35.American literature produced only one female poet during the nineteenth century. This was ______.A.Anne BradstreetB.Jane AustenC.Emily Dickinson √D.S. Eliot解析:36.The main theme of ______ The Art of Fiction reveals his literary credo that representation of life should be the main object of the novel.A.Henry James" √B.Mark Twain"sC.Theodore Dreiser"sD.William Howells"解析:37.In the 1920s, O"Neil established an international reputation with ______.A.The Emperor JonesB.Anna ChristieC.The Hairy ApeD.All of the above √解析:38.In 1954, ______ was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature for his "mastery of the art of modern narration".A.S. EliotB.Ernest Hemingway √C.John SteinbeckD.William Faulkner解析:39."The apparition of these faces in the crowd; petals on a wet, black bough." This is the shortest poem written by ______.A.S. EliotB.Robert FrostC.Ezra Pound √D.Emily Dickinson解析:40.In Robert Frost"s famous poem Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening , there are four lines like these: "The woods are lovely, dark and deep, / But I have promises to keep, / And miles to go before I sleep, / And miles to go before I sleep". The second sleep refers to ______.A.die √B.calm downC.fall into sleepD.stop walking解析:41.Culture also affects the experiences through which children"s earliest literacy and number knowledge are ______.A.acquired √B.receivedC.expectedD.supported解析:nguage is accompanied by a continuous flow of nonverbal communication, which involves not only ______ but also ______ and ______.A.the tone; gaze; postureB.the voice; the face; the bodyC.the pitch; gaze; gesture √D.the pace; the distance; touch解析:非言语交际交往主要是指身势语,它既包括动姿(手势、面部表情和身体任何部位的动作),也包括静姿。