1.Charles Dickens takes the French Revolution as the background of his novel ______.
A.Great Expectations
B.A Tale of Two Cities
C.Bleak
House D.Oliver Twist
【参考答案】: B
2."Two roads diverged in a yellow wood And sorry I could not travel both ..."In the above two lines of Robert Frost＇s The Road Not Taken, the poet, by implication, was referring to _______.
A.a travel experience
B.a marriage decision
C.a middle-age
crisis D.one＇s course of life
【参考答案】: D
3.Which of the following is NOT written by Defoe?
A.Captain Singleton
B.Sailor
C.Moll Flanders
D.Rubinson Crusoe
【参考答案】: B
4.Which of the following statements about writers in 1920s is true?
A.Mark Twain published his last and most important novel.
B.F. Scott Fitzgerald received the Nobel Prize.
C.Freudian psychology influenced many modern writers.
D.Most writers were politically radical.
【参考答案】: C
5.Which of the following is not written by Robert Frost?
A.To Autumn
B.Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
C.Mending Wall
D.A Boy＇s Will
【参考答案】: A
6.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
【参考答案】: C
7.Defoe＇s Robinson Crusoe created the image of an enterprising
Englishman, typical of the English bourgeoisie in the ______
century.
A.17th
B.18th
C.19th
D.20th
【参考答案】: B
8.Whitman＇s poems are characterized by all the following features
EXCEPT ______ .
A.the strict poetic form
B.the free and natural rhythm
C.the easy flow of feelings
D.the simple and conversational language
【参考答案】: A
9.The Victorian Age was largely an age of___ , eminently
represented by Dickens and Thackeray.
A.poetry
B.drama
C.prose
D.epic prose
【参考答案】: D
10.Which of the following is taken from John Keats＇Ode to a
Nightingale?
A."Beauty is truth, truth beauty."
B."Earth has not anything to show more fair."
C."They are both gone up to the church to pray."
D."was it a vision, or a waking dream?"
【参考答案】: D
11.In the conversation with his wife in Chapter One of Pride and
Prejudice, Mr. Bennet uses a(n) ______ tone with sarcastic
humor.
A.solemn
B.harsh
C.arrogant
D.teasing
【参考答案】: D
12.Auld Lang Syne was written by
A.William Wordsworth
B.John Keats
C.Walt Whiteman
D.Robert Burns
【参考答案】: D
13.Charles Dickens was born in___
A.1765
B.1889
C.1812
D.1870
【参考答案】: C
14.How many periods are divided into in the creation years of
Shakespeare?
A.three
B.four
C.two
D.five
【参考答案】: A
15.In Fitzgerald＇s The Great Gatsby, there are detailed
descriptions of big parties. The purpose of such descriptions is
so show _______.
A.emptiness of life
B.the corruption of the upper class
C.contrast of the rich and the poor
D.the happy days of the Jazz Age
【参考答案】: A
16.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
【参考答案】: C
17.The poem Ode to a Nightingale was written by___
A.William Wordsworth
B.John Keats
C.Shelley
D.Coleridge
【参考答案】: B
18.Which of the following is a tragedy?
A.Antony and Cleopatra
B.Twelfth Night
C.Julius Caesar
D.Much ado about Nothing
【参考答案】: A
19.How many groups are there in Hardy＇s novels?
A.two
B.three
C.four
D.five
【参考答案】: B
20.When Robert Frost was 87, he read his poetry at the inauguration of President___
A.Bush
B.Kennedy
C.Clinton
D.Fort
【参考答案】: B。