1、Which of the following is considered to be the best known English dramatist since Shakespeare? ( ) 单选题 1分

2、Paradise Lost by ( ) was finished in 1665, after seven years’ labor in darkness. 单选题 1分

3、Which of the following is NOT written by D. H. Lawrence? ( ) 单选题 1分

4、William Shakespeare is one of the giants of ( ) 单选题 1分

5、Which of the following female writers did NOT belong to the Bronte sisters? ( ) 单选题 1分

6、A Tale of Two Cities by ( ) presents a criticism of the social institutions and morals of Victorian England. 单选题 1分

7、Daniel Defoe's first novel ( ) was on immediate success in his life. 单选题 1分

8、Pride and Prejudice is the masterpiece of ( ) which tells readers the importance of good judgment in our life. 单选题 1分

9、Who wrote one of the most enduring classic poems “Ode to the West Wind? ( ) 单选题 1分

10、Which of the following is regarded as a “worshipper of nature”? ( ) 单选题 1分

11、Among Thomas Hardy's major works, ( ) is the most cheerful and idyllic. 单选题 1分

12、Mrs .Warren’s Profession, written by ( ) ，was a play about the economic oppression of women. 单选题 1分

13、Charles Dickens writes best when he writes from the ( ) point of view. 单选题 1分

14、Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte is a story of a(an) ( ) which is based on her own experience. 单选题 1分

15、D.H. Laurence’s first novel, ( ), is a remarkable work of a young man, acutely observant of nature and delighting in story. 单选题 1分

16、George Bernard Shaw was a(n) ( ), Who composed Pygmalion. 单选题 1分

17、The Waste land is the most important single poem by ( ). 单选题 1分

18、Shelly expressed his love for freedom in his poem ( ). 单选题 1分

19、The poem “Tyger” is chosen from ( ) by William Blake. 单选题 1分

20、Who is the greatest critical realist writers of the Victorian Age? ( ) 单选题 1分

21、“Wessex novels” by Thomas Hardy described the simple and beautiful though primitive ( ), which was gradually declining and disappearing. 单选题 1分

22、“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” This sentence is taken from ( ). 单选题 1分

23、“The Birthmark” drives home symbolically Hawthorne's point that ( ) is man’s birthmark, something he is born with. 单选题 1分

24、As Whitman saw it, ( ) could play a vital part in the process of creating a new nation. 单选题 1分

25、Moby-Dick is difficult to read because much of the talk in novel is ( ) and much of the language is purposely old-fashioned and Elizabethan. 单选题 1分

26、Life on the Mississippi tells a story of Mark Twain's boyhood ambition to become ( ) 单选题 1分

27、Daisy Miller, a novella about ( ) who gets “killed” by the winter in Rome, brought James international fame for the first time. 单选题 1分

28、Dickinson's greatest rendering of the moment of ( ) is to be found in her masterpiece. “I heard a Fly buzz -when I died-”. 单选题 1分

29、It is not surprising to find in Dreiser’s fiction “a world of ( )”, where “kill or to be killed” was the law. 单选题 1分

30、In any list of important poets ( ), regardless of nationality, Robert Lee Frost commands a place. 单选题 1分

31、A Farewell to Arms by Hemingway tells us a story about the tragic love affair of a wounded American soldier with ( ). 单选题 1分

32、North of Boston is described by its author. Frost, as “( )” which shows a brilliant insight into New England character and the background that formed it. 单选题 1分

33、In 1961, in ill health, anxiety and deep depression, ( ) shot himself with a hunting gun. 单选题 1分

34、With the publication of Sister Carrie and other works, Dreiser became one of the most significant writers of the school later known as ( ) 单选题 1分

35、Over 500 poems Dickinson wrote are about ( ), in which her general skepticism about the relationship between man and nature is well-expressed. 单选题 1分

36、“The Portrait of a Lady” incarnates the clash between the Old World and the New in the life journey of ( ) in a European cultural environment. 单选题 1分

37、The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is usually regarded as a classic book written for ( ) about their particular horrors and joys. 单选题 1分

38、Like Hawthorne, ( ) is a master of allegory and symbolism. 单选题 1分

39、The pursuit of ( ) is approved of repeatedly and affectionately in Whitman’s poems. 单选题 1分

40、Hawthorne’s view of man and human history originates, to a great extent, in ( ). 单选题 1分

41、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; … For oft. When on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; And then my heart with pleasure fills. And dances with the daffodils. Questions: A. What is the title of the poem from which the stanzas are taken? Who is the author? B. What figure of speech is used in the first line? C. What do “they”，and “inward eye” in the poem refer to in the last stanza? 简答题 4分

42、“Oh, Cathy! Oh, my life! How can I bear it?” was the first sentence he uttered, in a tone that did not seek to disguise his despair. And how he stared at her so earnestly that I thought the very intensity of his gaze would bring tears into his eyes; but they burned with anguish, they did not melt. Questions: A. What is the title of the novel from which the excerpt is taken? Who is the author? B. Who are the two speakers? C. What does this excerpt tell us about the speakers? 简答题 4分

43、We paused before a House that seemed A Swelling of the Ground— The Roof was scarcely visible— The Cornice — in the Ground — Since then — “tis Centuries — and yet Feels shorter than the Day I first surmised the Horses” Heads Were toward Eternity — Questions: A. Who wrote this poem? B. What does the “House” in the first line refer to? C. What is the theme of this poem? 简答题 4分

44、So she vanquished them, horse and foot, just as she had vanquished their fathers thirty years before about the smell. That was two years after her father's death and a short time after her sweetheart— the one we believed would marry her — had deserted her. After her father’s death she went out very little; after her sweetheart went away, people hardly saw her at all. A few of the ladies had the temerity to call, but were not received, and the only sign of life about the place was the Negro man— a young man then — going in and out with a market basket. Questions： A. What is the title of the story from which the excerpt is taken? Who is the author? B. What does the phrase “horse and foot” in the first line mean? C. What does the heroine of this story symbolize? 简答题 4分

45、Why is Charlotte Bronte considered as a writer of realism combined with romanticism? 简答题 6分

46、In what way is Thomas Hardy regarded as a transitional writer? 简答题 6分

47、How do you comment on Whitman’s literary innovation in terms of the form of his poetry? 简答题 6分

48、How did Theodore Dreiser contribute to the American literature through his literary- creation? 简答题 6分

49、Give a brief comment on T. S. Eliot and his The Waste Land. 简答题 10分

50、Hemingway's world is limited and he measures his limited range of characters against an unvarying code. Briefly discus this code established by Hemingway through his writings. 简答题 10分