1、Shakespeare has established his giant position in world literature with（ ）plays, 154 sonnets and 2 long poems. 单选题 1分

2、Daniel Defoe's first novel is（ ）. 单选题 1分

3、Shakespeare uses the following words to describe Portia, heroine of The Merchant of Venice, EXCEPT（ ）. 单选题 1分

4、John Milton's most memorable prose work Areopagitica is a great plea for（ ）of the press. 单选题 1分

5、In 1704 Jonathan Swift published two satires on corruption in religion and（ ） . 单选题 1分

6、In his later period,（ ）wrote quite a few prophetic books, and one of them is The Book of Urizen. 单选题 1分

7、Jane Austen tries to say it is wrong to marry just for money or for （ ）, but it is also wrong to marry without it. 单选题 1分

8、During a span of nine years (1729-37),（ ） turned out 26 plays and became the most successful living playwright of the time. 单选题 1分

9、（ ）is regarded as a "worshipper of nature." 单选题 1分

10、John Milton wrote（ ）, intending to expose the ways of Satan and to "justify the ways of God to men.” 单选题 1分

11、Jew Fagin, a character of Oliver Twist, is a （ ）. 单选题 1分

12、Percy Shelley's best of all the well-known lyric pieces is（ ）· 单选题 1分

13、Jane Eyre, heroine of Jane Eyre, represents those middle-class working women struggling for recognition of their（ ） as a human being. 单选题 1分

14、Emily Bronte has created 193 poems, mostly devoted to the matter of（ ）. 单选题 1分

15、Charles Dickens's work（ ）is about legal fraud. 单选题 1分

16、The most cheerful and idyllic work Under the Greenwood Tree is written by （ ）. 单选题 1分

17、The following play（ ）is regarded as the typical representative of Bernard Shaw's early plays. 单选题 1分

18、Thomas Hardy thinks that man proves impotent before Fate. This pessimistic view of life earns him a reputation as a（ ）writer. 单选题 1分

19、Bernard Shaw produced several plays, exploring his idea of"（ ） "the power that would create superior beings to be equal to God. 单选题 1分

20、T. S. Eliot had written （ ）full-length plays in his lifetime, and one is Murder in the Cathedral. 单选题 1分

21、In D. H. Lawrence's opinion, it is the（ ） civilization that is responsible for the unhealthy development of human personalities. 单选题 1分

22、T. S. Eliot had written （ ）full-length plays in his lifetime, and one is Murder in the Cathedral. 单选题 1分

23、In 1853 （ ）went to Europe and traveled in France and Italy, and the experience helped him produce a book The Marble Faun. 单选题 1分

24、Herman Melville uses （ ）both as a character and a narrator, which gives the novel Moby-Dick a moral magnitude. 单选题 1分

25、Henry James was the first American writer to conceive his career in （ ）terms. 单选题 1分

26、Emily Dickinson's T heard a Fly buss --when I died --" is a description of the （ ）of death. 单选题 1分

27、As Walt Whitman saw it, poetry plays a vital part in the process of creating a new（ ）. 单选题 1分

28、In Nathaniel Hawthorne's works, intellectuals are usually（ ）, because they are devoid of warmth and feeling. 单选题 1分

29、Samuel Langhorne Clemens is better known as（ ）. 单选题 1分

30、Herman Melville's novella（ ）is about a ship whose black slave cargo mutiny holds their captain a terrorized hostage. 单选题 1分

31、Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie traces the material rise of Carrie Meeber and the tragic decline of （ ）. 单选题 1分

32、In 1913,（ ） brought Robert Frost to the attention of influential critics. 单选题 1分

33、In the novel Daisy Miller,（ ） is the narrator of the story. 单选题 1分

34、In 1950,（ ）was awarded the Nobel Prize for his Intruder in the Dust. 单选题 1分

35、Theodore Dreiser's（ ） found expression in almost every book he wrote. 单选题 1分

36、In the poem"Mending the Wall", Robert Frost saw man as learning from（ ） the zones of his own limitations. 单选题 1分

37、Ernest Hemingway's novel（ ）represents a new beginning in his career as a writer. 单选题 1分

38、In Go Down, Moses William Faulkner illuminates the problem of（ ）in Southern society. 单选题 1分

39、The short story "Babylon Revisited" is written by（ ）. 单选题 1分

40、Henry James described an American girl who embodies the（ ）in his novel Daisy Miller. 单选题 1分

41、As Mr. Gamfield did happen to labor under the slight imputation of having bruised three or four boys to death already, it occurred to him that the board had, perhaps, in some unaccountable freak, taken it into their heads that this extraneous circumstance ought to influence their proceedings. It was very unlike their general mode of doing business, if they had; but still, as he had no particular wish to revive the rumour,he twisted his cap in his hands, and walked slowly from the table. Questions: A.Identify the author and the title of the work from which the quoted part is taken. B. What's Mr. Gamfield? C. What does the novel describe? 简答题 4分

42、In the room the women come and go Talking of Michelangelo. The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the windowpanes, The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the windowpanes Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening, Lingered upon the pools that stand in drains, Let fall upon its back the soot that falls from chimneys, Slipped by the terrace,made a sudden leap, And seeing that it was a soft October night, Curled once about the house,and fell asleep. Questions: A. Identify the poet. B.What characteristics does the protagonist of the poem have? C. What does the poem present? 简答题 4分

43、Almost simultaneously,with a mighty volition of ungraduated, instantaneous swiftness,the White Whale darted through the weltering sea. But when Ahab cried out to the steersman to take new turns with the line, and hold it so; and commanded the crew to turn round on their seats, and tow the boat up to the mark; the moment the treacherous line felt that double strain and tug, it snapped in the empty air! Questions: A.Identify the author and the title of the novel from which the quoted part is taken. B.What's"Ahab"? C. What does the phrase"the White Whale"symbolize? 简答题 4分

44、Hurstwood moved on, wondering. The sight of the large,bright coin pleased him a little. He remembered that he was hungry and that he could get a bed for ten cents. With this, the idea of death passed, for the time being, out of his mind.It was only when he could get nothing but insults that death seemed worth while. Questions: A.Identify the author and the title of the work from which the quoted part is taken. B.What kind of person is Hurstwood? C. What happened to Hurstwood in the last chapter of the work? 简答题 4分

45、What is the Renaissance? 简答题 6分

46、The book Gulliver’s Travels contains four parts. What does each part deal with? 简答题 6分

47、What concerned Walt Whitman most in his poem Leaves of Grass? 简答题 6分

48、Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is best known for Mark Twain's wonderful characterization of "Huck". From the eyes of Huck, what do we see and what are we deeply impressed by? 简答题 6分

49、Literarily William Blake was the first important Romantic poet. Briefly make a comment on his poetry. 简答题 10分

50、Briefly discuss Ernest Hemingway's art of fiction: his writing style and his attitude towards life in his works respectively known as"iceberg" and"grace under pressure." 简答题 10分