1、The Renaissance marks a transition from the （ ） to the modem world. 单选题 1分

2、Which of the following plays is NOT among William Shakespeare’s four great tragedies? （ ） 单选题 1分

3、After the restoration of （ ） ，Milton was imprisoned for a short time and then retired to private life. 单选题 1分

4、It was not until the reign of （ ） that the Renaissance really began to show its effect in England. 单选题 1分

5、In Paradise Lost, the real hero created by Milton is （ ）. 单选题 1分

6、The island of Lilliput can be found in （ ） . 单选题 1分

7、The Enlightenment was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in the ( ) century. 单选题 1分

8、Henry Fielding is the author of the great 18th century English novel ( ). 单选题 1分

9、The publication of The Lyrical Ballads, written by ( ) , marked the break with the conventional poetical tradition of the 18th century. 单选题 1分

10、Generally, William Shakespeare’s dramatic career can be divided into ( ) periods. 单选题 1分

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

12、William Wordsworth is regarded as a “worshipper of nature.” He can penetrate to the heart of things and give the reader the very life of ( ). 单选题 1分

13、Jane Austen is an English woman novelist of the ( ) century. 单选题 1分

14、Daniel Defoe started as a(n) ( ) and all his life underwent many ups and downs. 单选题 1分

15、The writer who lived at the turn of century was ( ). 单选题 1分

16、English Romanticism, as a historical phase of literature, is generally said to have begun in ( ) 单选题 1分

17、Which of the following characters is NOT in Jane Eyre? ( ) 单选题 1分

18、Who wrote Mrs Warren's Profession? ( ) 单选题 1分

19、William Blake began writing poetry at the age of ( ). 单选题 1分

20、The Modern English writers concentrated more on the ( ) affairs. 单选题 1分

21、George Bernard Shaw was a(n) ( ),who composed Pygmalion. 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、Among Thomas Hardy’s works, ( ) is the most cheerful and idyllic 单选题 1分

24、“Leaves of Grass” has always been considered a monumental work which commands great attention because of its uniquely poetic embodiment of American ( ) . 单选题 1分

25、Melville’s writings can be well divided into two groups, each with something in common in the light of ( ) and imaginative focus. 单选题 1分

26、Mark Twain is a great literary giant of America, whom ( ) considered “the true father of our national literature.” 单选题 1分

27、In American literature, ( ) was the first American writer to conceive his career in international terms. 单选题 1分

28、Miss Emily Dickinson was born into ( ) of Amherst, Massachusetts. 单选题 1分

29、In American literature, ( ) possessed none of the usual aids to a writer’s career: no money, no friend in power, no formal education worthy of mention, no family tradition in letters 单选题 1分

30、In any list of important poets in the twentieth century, regardless of nationality, ( ) commands a place. 单选题 1分

31、Ernest Hemingway’s style, the particular type of hero in his ( ),and his life attitudes have been widely recognized and imitated. 单选题 1分

32、The Blithedale Romance is a novel Hawthorne wrote to reveal his own experiences ( ). 单选题 1分

33、In “Leaves of Grass”，Walt Whitman is concerned with openness, freedom, and above all,( ). 单选题 1分

34、Redburn is a semi-autobiographical novel by Melville, concerning the sufferings of a genteel youth among brutal ( ) . 单选题 1分

35、Mark Twain, pen name of ( ) was born on 30th, November, 1835, in Missouri. 单选题 1分

36、Today with the development of the modern novel and the common acceptance of the Freudian approach, Henry James’s importance as a ( ) and critic, has been all the more conspicuous. 单选题 1分

37、Dickinson’s poetry, despite its ostensible formal simplicity, is remarkable for its ( ), subtlety and richness. 单选题 1分

38、Apart from school education, Dreiser read voraciously by himself. His true literary influences were from ( ), Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer. 单选题 1分

39、Robert Lee Frost was the Pulitzer Prize winner on ( ) occasions; the United States Senate passed resolutions honoring his birthday. 单选题 1分

40、During World War I ( ) served as an honorable junior officer in the American Red Cross Ambulance Corps. 单选题 1分

41、“Are you in earnest? -Do you truly love me? - Do you sincerely wish me to be your wife?” “I do; and if an oath is necessary to satisfy you, I swear it.” “Then, sir, I will marry you.” “Edward -my little wife!” “Dear Edward!” “Come to me -come to me entirely now,” said he; And added, in his deepest tone, speaking in my ear as his cheek was laid on mine, “Make my happiness -I will make yours.” 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

42、Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines And often is his gold complexion dimmed; …… But thy eternal summer shall not fade, Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st; (From Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 18”） Questions: A. What does “thee” refer to in the first line of the stanza? B. What figure of speech is used in the fifth line? C. What is the theme of this poem? 简答题 4分

43、He knew the tune; it was a familiar one in the choir of the village meeting-house. The verse died heavily away, and was lengthened by a chorus, not of human voices, but of all the sounds of the benighted wilderness, pealing in awful harmony together. Goodman Brown cried out; and his cry was lost to his own ear, by its unison with the cry of the desert. Questions: A. What is the title of the story from which the excerpt is taken? Who is the author? B. Where is the protagonist now? And why did he go there? C. What is the author’s major concern in this story? 简答题 4分

44、And I keep hearing from the cellar bin The rumbling sound Of load on load of apples coming in. For I have had too much Of apple-picking: I am overtired Of the great harvest I myself desired. Questions: A. What is the title of the poem from which the stanza is taken? Who is the author? B. What does “The rumbling sound” in the second line refer to? C. What does the poet want to tell the readers through this poem? 简答题 4分

45、In what way is Swift regarded as one of the greatest masters of English prose? 简答题 6分

46、Why can Bernard Shaw’s plays be termed as problem plays? 简答题 6分

47、According to Theodore Dreiser, what is the core of American values? And what is their effect on people’s life? 简答题 6分

48、Due to her deliberate seclusion, Emily Dickinson’s poems tend to be very personal and meditative. What is the style of her poetry? 简答题 6分

49、Briefly discuss Jane Austen’s notion about human beings in their personal relationships. 简答题 10分

50、Ernest Hemingway’s style, the particular type of hero in his novels，and his life attitudes have been widely recognized and imitated all over the world. Discuss Hemingway Code heroes briefly. 简答题 10分