1、To support his family, in 1586 or 1587（ ）went to London, a wonderful environment for the development of drama. 单选题 1分

2、Daniel Defoe's language is（ ）, smooth, colloquial and vernacular. 单选题 1分

3、Charles Dickens attacks the dehumanizing（ ）（ ）and the criminal underworld life in Oliver Twist. 单选题 1分

4、Joy,laughter, harmony and（ ）are the prevailing notes of William Blake's early works. 单选题 1分

5、In the modem period of English literature,（ ）held that only superior intellects could have the ability in achieving the goal of socialism. 单选题 1分

6、John Milton composed the poem（ ）dedicated to his fellow undergraduate. 单选题 1分

7、The works A Tale of a Tub and The Battle of the Books established the name of（ ）as a satirist. 单选题 1分

8、According to the subjects, William Wordsworth's short poems fall into two groups: poems about（ ）and poems about nature. 单选题 1分

9、In Charlotte Bronte’s novels, she liked to describe the following issues of the upper class EXCEPT（ ）. 单选题 1分

10、T. S. Eliot produced two major volumes of poetic works:（ ）and Four Quartets in his later period. 单选题 1分

11、In King Lear, Shakespeare has not only made a profound analysis of（ ）,but also criticized the bourgeois egoism. 单选题 1分

12、The novel Tom Jones brings（ ） the name of the"Prose Homer." 单选题 1分

13、Jane Austen wrote altogether（ ） complete novels. 单选题 1分

14、As is known to all, Charlotte Bronte is a writer of（ ）combined with romanticism. 单选题 1分

15、It is the first time for D. H.Lawrence to combine（ ）with psychological exploration in his novel The Rainbow. 单选题 1分

16、During the rest four years of his life, Percy Shelley traveled and lived in various（ ）cities, producing all his major works. 单选题 1分

17、In the novel（ ）,Daniel Defoe glorifies human labor and the Puritan fortitude in describing the hero's life on the island. 单选题 1分

18、The play The Coffee-House Politician is written by（ ）. 单选题 1分

19、Thomas Hardy abandoned（ ）and returned to poetry for the criticisms against his last two novels. 单选题 1分

20、In the（ ）part of Gulliver's Travels, Gulliver is left alone in Brobdingnag where people are too much taller and larger than ordinary human beings. 单选题 1分

21、William Blake's Marriage of Heaven and Hell marks his entry into （ ）. 单选题 1分

22、The woman is the main character in Bernard Shaw's Ms.Warren's Profession. 单选题 1分

23、Generally speaking, （ ） Murder in the Cathedral is the best of his plays. 单选题 1分

24、Sons and Lovers vividly presents the （ ）between D. H. Lawrence's father and mother. 单选题 1分

25、The publication of Far from the Madding Crowd in 1874 enabled Thomas Hardy to give up（ ）for writing. 单选题 1分

26、In 1870, this man of great heart and vitality died of （   ）, leaving his last novel unfinished 单选题 1分

27、Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote（ ）to reveal his own experiences and his own methods as a psychological novelist. 单选题 1分

28、Mark Twain's book Innocents Abroad is an account of（ ）. 单选题 1分

29、（ ）A Masque of Reason and A Masque of Mercy are comic-serious dramatic narratives, in both of which biblical characters in modem settings discuss ethics and man's relations to God. 单选题 1分

30、Walt Whitman put forward his own set of（ ） principles. Leaves of Grass was just the expression of these principles. 单选题 1分

31、Of the following authors, （ ）wrote the masterpiece The Portrait of A Lady. 单选题 1分

32、F. Scott Fitzgerald *s This Side of Paradise portrays the emotional and spiritual collapse of（ ）during an unstable marriage. 单选题 1分

33、The following character（ ）is the narrator in the novel Moby-Dick. 单选题 1分

34、Emily Dickinson's poetry is（ ）in its own way. 单选题 1分

35、In 1954, （ ）was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature and in )961 he committed suicide. 单选题 1分

36、As（ ）saw it, poetry could play a vita] part in the process of creating a new nation. 单选题 1分

37、Penniless and “full of the illusions of（ ）”Carrie Meeber, the protagonist in Sister Carriet leaves home to seek work m Chicago. 单选题 1分

38、The following work （ ）is NOT written by William Faulkner. 单选题 1分

39、Herman Melville's Billy Budd deals with the sea and sailors and the theme of a conflict between（ ） . 单选题 1分

40、For Whom the Bell Tolls concerns a volunteer（ ） fighting in the Spanish Civil War. 单选题 1分

41、To grunt and sweat under a weary life. But that the dread of something after death 一 The undiscovered country, from whose bourn No traveler returns — puzzles the will. And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought. And enterprises of great pith and moment. With this regard; their currents turn awry And lose the name of action. Questions: A.Identify the author and the title of the work from which the quoted part is taken. B.Who is the narrator? D.What does the sentence“their currents turn awry" mean? 简答题 4分

42、No Nightingale did ever chaunt More welcome notes to weary bands Of travelers in some shady haunt. Among Arabian sands; A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard In springtime from the Cuckoo bird. Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides. Questions: A.Identify the poet. B.What does the poem suggest? C.What is this poet regarded as? 简答题 4分

43、Young Goodman Brown came forth,at sunset, into the street of Salem village, but put his head back, after crossing the threshold, to exchange a parting kiss with his young wife. And Faith, as the wife was aptly named, thrust her own pretty head into the street,letting the wind play with the pink ribbons of her cap,while she called to Goodman Brown. Questions: A.Identify the author. B.What is the novel concerned with? C.What does the author set out to prove? 简答题 4分

44、Every Friday five crates of oranges and lemons arrived from a fruiterer in New York—every Monday these same oranges and lemons left his back door in a pyramid of pulpless halves. These was a machine in the kitchen which could extract the juice of two hundred oranges in half an hour if a little button was pressed two hundred times by a butler's thumb. Questions: A.Identify the author and the title of the work from which the quoted part is taken. B. What does the quoted part describe? C. What is the background of the novel? 简答题 4分

45、Neoclassicists had laws and rules for almost every genre of literature.How should poetry be? 简答题 6分

46、What are the main characteristics of Thomas Hardy's best local-colored works? 简答题 6分

47、What does Nathaniel Hawthorme's The Scarlet Letter tell us and what does he focus his attention on in this work? 简答题 6分

48、F. Scot Fitzgerald shows a particular interest in the upper-class young people. What were they like described by Fitzgerald in his novels? 简答题 6分

49、"The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock" is T.S.Eliot's most striking achievement. Briefly discuss the theme, the writing style, the characteristics of the protagonist, and the setting. 简答题 10分

50、The profound portrait of Huck is a great contribution of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to the legacy of American literature.Briefly analyze the character and the impacts upon the society. 简答题 10分