1、The tragic sense turns into despair in Thomas Hardy’s （ ）, where the protagonists have to kill their own will and passion and return to their former destructive way of life. 单选题 1分

2、William Shakespeare wrote ( ) history plays in the first period of his dramatic career. 单选题 1分

3、Paradise Lost is a masterpiece by ( ). 单选题 1分

4、The typical representatives of G.B. Shaw’s early plays are ( ) 单选题 1分

5、The person who can penetrate to the heart of things and give the readers the very life of nature is （ ） 单选题 1分

6、In which novel can the word “Yahoo” be found? ( ) 单选题 1分

7、T. S. Eliot won the Nobel Prize of Literature in ( ). 单选题 1分

8、Which of the following is NOT true in terms of Pride and Prejudiced? ( ) 单选题 1分

9、Thomas Hardy’s pessimistic view of life predominates most of his later works and earns him a reputation as a ( ) writer. 单选题 1分

10、Shelley’s greatest achievement is his four-act poetic drama ( ) 单选题 1分

11、The novel Emma is written by ( ) 单选题 1分

12、As a critic of music and drama, ( ) thought that art should serve social purposes by reflecting human life, revealing social contradictions and educating the common people. 单选题 1分

13、The poetic line “If winter comes, can spring be far behind?” is quoted from ( ) 单选题 1分

14、Which of the following novels is NOT written by Dickens? ( ) 单选题 1分

15、William Blake’s ( ) marks his entry into maturity. 单选题 1分

16、Henry Fielding’s ( ) brings him the name of “Prose Homer ” 单选题 1分

17、Daniel Defoe describes ( ) as a typical English middle-class man of the 18th century, the very prototype of the empire builder, the pioneer colonist. 单选题 1分

18、The greatest English critical realist novelist was ( ), who criticized the bourgeois civilization and showed the misery of the common people. 单选题 1分

19、The success of Jane Eyre is partly due to its introduction to the English novel the first ( ) heroine. 单选题 1分

20、Which of the following works was NOT written by David Herbert Laurence? ( ) 单选题 1分

21、T. S. Eliot’s ( ) has been hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th century English poetry. 单选题 1分

22、Which of the following is NOT the major figure of English modernist movement? ( ) 单选题 1分

23、Hawthorne’s literary world turns out to be a most disturbed, tormented and ( ) one possible to imagine. 单选题 1分

24、The abundance of themes in Whitman’s poetry voices ( ). 单选题 1分

25、“Billy Budd” by Melville deals with the sea and ( ) and the theme of a conflict between innocence and corruption. 单选题 1分

26、Mark Twain’s best works were produced when ( ). 单选题 1分

27、Henry James toured England, France and Italy, and met Flaubert, Maupassant, Turgenev and ( )，who exerted a great influence on James. 单选题 1分

28、Dickinson’s poems are usually based on her own experiences, ( ). 单选题 1分

29、In 1925 Dreiser’s greatest work ( ) appeared. But it was banned in Boston in 1927. 单选题 1分

30、Frost is generally considered a regional poet whose subject matters mainly focus on the landscape and people in ( ) 单选题 1分

31、Hemingway’s first true novel is ( ) 单选题 1分

32、In almost every book by Hawthorne, he discusses sin and ( ). 单选题 1分

33、Whitman shows concern for ( ) and the burgeoning life of cities. 单选题 1分

34、Moby-Dick is regarded as the first American ( ). 单选题 1分

35、All Mark Twain’s masterworks drew upon the scenes and ( ) of his boyhood and youth. 单选题 1分

36、It is Henry James’ ( ) and his novels that make him a fascinating case in the American literary history. 单选题 1分

37、In some of Dickinson’s poems she wrote about her doubt and belief about ( ). 单选题 1分

38、Dreiser was influenced by many writers, but his true literary influences were from ( ), Balzac and Charles Darwin. 单选题 1分

39、“New Hampshire” won Frost the first of four ( ). 单选题 1分

40、Hemingway’s second big success is ( )，which wrote the epitaph to a decade and to the whole generation in the 1920s. 单选题 1分

41、Too well I see and rue the dire event That with sad overthrow and foul defeat Hath lost us Heaven, and all this mighty host In horrible destruction laid thus low, As far as gods and heavenly essences Can perish: for the mind and spirit remains Invincible, and vigor soon returns, Though all our glory extinct, and happy state Here swallowed up in endless misery. Questions: A. What is the title of the poem from which the stanza is taken? Who is the author? B. What does “the dire event” refer to in the first line? C. What is the theme of this poem? 简答题 4分

42、I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Questions: A. What is the title of the poem from which the stanza is taken? Who is the author? B. What is the figure of speech used in the first line? C. What is the poet’s attitude toward nature? 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. What is the title of the novel from which the excerpt is taken? Who is the author? B. What scene is depicted in this excerpt? C. What does the white whale symbolize? And why? 简答题 4分

44、“Who is he” I demanded. “Do you know?” “He’s just a man named Gatsby.” “Where is he from, I mean? And what does he do?” “Now you’ re started on the subject，” she answered with a wan smile. “Well，he told me once he was an Oxford man.”A dim background started to take shape behind him, but at her next remark it faded away. “However，I don’t believe it.” “Why not?” “I don’t know，” she insisted, “I just don’t think he went there.” Questions: A.  What is the title of the novel from which the excerpt is taken? Who is the author? B.  What does Gatsby’s failure stand for? C.  What does the underlined sentence mean? 简答题 4分

45、What are the general features of Shakespeare’s romantic comedies? 简答题 6分

46、What is your comment on the main features of Bernard Shaw’s plays in terms of the plots or the talk? 简答题 6分

47、How do you interpret the meaning of “the damned human race” with reference to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain? 简答题 6分

48、“Young Goodman Brown” by Hawthorne exemplifies the power of blackness in society in general. What is the metaphorical meaning of Brown’s experience in the woods? 简答题 6分

49、As a novelist Jane Austen writes within a very narrow sphere. In her novels, there is little reflection on the events that stirred the whole Europe at the time. Briefly discuss the weak points and strong points of the narrowness of her writings. 简答题 10分

50、Robert Frost has long been well known as a poet who can hardly be classified with the old or the new. Briefly discuss the style of his poetry. 简答题 10分