1、（ ）the first of the great tragedies, is generally regarded as Shakespeare’s most popular play on the stage. 单选题 1分

2、John Milton’s Paradise Lost is the only general acknowledged epic in English literature since （ ） 单选题 1分

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

4、Jonathan Swift is a satirist in English literature. His ( ) is taken as a perfect model. 单选题 1分

5、As a whole, ( ) is one of the most effective and devastating criticisms and satires of all aspects in the English and European life. 单选题 1分

6、Fielding’s sentences are always distinguished by ( ). 单选题 1分

7、Daniel Defoe’s works are all the following EXCEPT ( ). 单选题 1分

8、Henry Fielding has been regarded as “Father of the English ( ),”for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel. 单选题 1分

9、Literarily ( ) was the first important Romantic poet, showing a contempt for the rule of the reason, opposing the classical tradition of the 18th century. 单选题 1分

10、( ) is the central to William Blake’s concern in the Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience. 单选题 1分

11、It’s ( )that gives Wordsworth “strength and knowledge full of peace”. 单选题 1分

12、( ) is NOT written by William Wordsworth. 单选题 1分

13、Shelley’s political lyrics ( ) is a war cry calling upon all working people to rise up against their political oppressors. 单选题 1分

14、“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” is an epigrammatic line by ( ). 单选题 1分

15、Jane Austen’s main literary concern is about ( ) in their personal relationship. 单选题 1分

16、Because of author’s sensitivity to universal patterns of human behavior, ( ) has brought English novel, as an art of form, to its maturity. 单选题 1分

17、Mr. Micawber in David Copperfield and Sam Weller in Pickwick Papers are perhaps the best ( ) characters created by Charles Dickens. 单选题 1分

18、( ) is a master story-teller. With his first sentence he engages the reader’s attention and holds it to the end. 单选题 1分

19、( ) is the first important governess novel in the English literary history. 单选题 1分

20、( ) best describes the nature of Thomas Hardy’s later works. 单选题 1分

21、Charlotte Bronte’s works are all about the struggle of an individual consciousness towards ( ). 单选题 1分

22、The novel the White Peacock written by ( ) is a remarkable work of a talented young man. 单选题 1分

23、( ) produced several plays, exploring his idea of “Life Force”，the power that would create superior beings to be equal to God. 单选题 1分

24、D. H. Lawrence’s artistic tendency is mainly ( ) ，which combines dramatic scenes with an authoritative commentary. 单选题 1分

25、Widowers’ Houses, a play written by George Bernard Shaw, is a grotesquely realistic exposure of ( ). 单选题 1分

26、Generally speaking, ( ) is the best of T. S. Eliot’s plays in the sense that it contains the best poetry and the most coherent drama. 单选题 1分

27、( ) followed the traditions of realism, and took the modern social issues as his subjects with the aim of directing social reforms. 单选题 1分

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

29、Closely related to Dickinson’s religious poetry are her poems concerning ( ), ranging over the physical as well as the psychological and emotional aspects of death. 单选题 1分

30、Walt Whitman was a pioneering figure of American poetry. His innovation lies in his use of ( ), poetry without a fixed beat or a regular rhyme scheme. 单选题 1分

31、In 1849, Herman Melville published ( )，semi-autobiographical novel, concerning the sufferings of a genteel youth among brutal sailors. 单选题 1分

32、The finest example of Hawthorne’s symbolism can be found in ( ). 单选题 1分

33、Of the American novelists ( ) is known for his “black vision” 单选题 1分

34、From the first novel Sister Carrie on, Dreiser set himself to project the American values for what he had found them to be：( ) to the core. 单选题 1分

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

36、The main theme of The Art of Fiction written by ( ) clearly indicates that the aim of the novel is to present life. 单选题 1分

37、Robert Lee Frost’s first collection ( ) traces a boy’s development from self-centered idealism to maturity. 单选题 1分

38、As an active participant，F Scott Fitzgerald is acclaimed literary spokesman of the ( ). 单选题 1分

39、Ernest Hemingway’s novel ( ) describes the drifting life of American exiles in Europe. 单选题 1分

40、The 20th-century stream-of-consciousness technique was frequently and skillfully used by ( ) to emphasize the reactions and inner musings of the narrator. 单选题 1分

41、“I wandered lonely as a child 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. Identify the poem and the poet. B. What does the poet write in the poem? C. From the characteristics of this stanza, which period does it belong to? 简答题 4分

42、“It’s all very well, my boy. But, then, why don’t you go and talk to your father’s pals?” “But they’re rather different.” “Not at all. They’re the common people. After all, whom do you mix with now—among the common people? Those that exchange ideas，like the middle classes. The rest don’t interest you. ” “But—there’s the life—” “I don’t believe there’s a lot more life from Miriam than you could get from any educated girl—say Miss Miriam. It is you who are snobbish about class.” Questions: A. What is the title of the novel from which this passage is taken? Who is the author? B. Who is speaking to whom? C. What idea does the dialogue between them express? 简答题 4分

43、“There was a child went forth every day, And the first object he look’d upon, that object he became, And that object became part of him for the day or a certain part of the day, Or for many years or stretching cycles of years. ” Questions: A. Who is the author of the poem? B. What does the “child” refer to? C. What is the main idea of the poem? 简答题 4分

44、“We dasn’t stop again at any town, for days and days; kept right along down the river. We was down south in the warm weather, now, and a mighty long ways from home. We begun to come to trees with Spanish moss on them, hanging down from the limbs like long gray beards. It was the first I ever see it growing, and it made the woods look solemn and dismal. So now the frauds reckoned they was out of danger, and they begun to work the villages again. ” Questions: A. Identify the author and the title of the novel from which this passage is taken. B. Who do “we” refer to? C. What are the features of the language of this novel? 简答题 4分

45、What are the characteristics of Fielding’s language? 简答题 6分

46、Thomas Hardy is often regarded as a transitional writer. Some critics believe that emotionally traditional and intellectually advanced. How do you understand this idea? 简答题 6分

47、How do you understand the white whale, Moby Dick in Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick? 简答题 6分

48、Henry James’ literary criticism is an indispensable part of his contribution to literature. What’s his outlook in literary criticism? 简答题 6分

49、According to the setting of the poem Paradise lost，discuss the theme of it. 简答题 10分

50、The Great Gatsby is an examination of American myth in the 20th century. Fitzgerald deliberately depicts Gatsby as a mysterious person so as to achieve the effect that Gatsby is American Everyman. Please make a brief comment on The Great Gatsby. 简答题 10分