【期末高分题集】[东北师范大学]《英美文学（高起本）》考核必备36

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69648–《英美文学（高起本）》2022年东北师范大学期末复习题集

单选题：
（1）Mrs. Warren’s Profession is one of George Bernard Shaw’s plays. What is Mrs. Warren’s profession then ?
A.Real estate.
B.Prostitution.
C.House-keeping.
D.Farming.
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（2）Generally , the Renaissance refers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries, its essence is .
A.science
B.philosophy
C.arts
D.humanism
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（3）The unquenchable spirit of Robinson Crusoe struggling to maintain a substantial existence on a lonely island reflects .
A.man’s desire to return to nature
B.the author’s criticism of the colonization
C.the ideal of the rising bourgeoisie
D.the aristocrats’ disillusionment of the harsh social reality
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（4）The plot of ______ is divided into three parts.
A.Native Son
B.Invisible Man
C.Song of Solomon
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（5）Black humor refers to the use of the morbid and the absurd for darkly _____ purposes .
A.comic
B.tragic
C.entertaining
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（6）One of the earliest spokeswomen in English for the Chinese immigrant community is _____.
A.Lin Yutang
B.Sui Sin Far
C.Maxine Hong Kingston
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（7）The statement “A demanding mother turns away from her husband and gives all
her affection to her sons” sums up the main plot of D. H. Lawrence′s .
A.Lady Chatterley’s Lover
B.Women in love
C.Sons and Lovers
D.The Plumed Serpent
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（8）“You and the girls may go ,or you may send them by themselves , which perhaps will be still better , for as you are as handsome as any of them , Mr. Bingley might like you the best of the party.” What figure of speech is used in the underlined part ?
A.Paradox
B.Simile
C.Irony
D.Antithesis
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（9）______ is often acclaimed literary spokesman of the Jazz Age .
A.Hemingway
B.Fitzgerald
C.Steinbeck
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（10）the Rime of the Ancient Mariner is a poem written in the form of .
A.ballad
B.sonnet
C.heroic couplet
D.Spenserian stanza
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（11）“My last Duchess” is a poem that best exemplifies Robert Browning’s ______________.
A.sensitive ear for the sounds of the English language
B.excellent choice of words
C.mastering of the metrical devices
D.use of the dramatic monologue
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（12）Toni Morrison is the first and the only American black writer to become ______ .
A.poet laureate
B.Nobel Prize winner
C.Pulitzer Prize winner
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（13）The statement"Studies serve for delight，for ornament，and for ability”opens one of well-known essays by____.
A.Francis Bacon
B.Samuel Johnson
C.Alexander Pope
D.Jonathan Swift
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（14）In which of the following poems by William Butler Yeats did you find the
allusion to Helen and the TrojanWar?
A."Sailing to Byzantium"
B." Leda and the Swan"
C."The Lake Isle if Innisfree".
D." Sown by the Sally Garden"
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（15）Apart from the dislocation of time and the modern stream-of-consciousness,
the other narrative techniques Faulkner used to construct his stories include
_______ , symbolism and mythological and biblical allusions.
A.impressionism
B.expressionism
C.multiple points of view
D.first person point of view
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（16）A typical Forsyte，according to John Galsworthy,is a man with a strong sense of ____，who never pays any attention to human feelings．
A.morality
B.justice
C.property
D.humor
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（17）The typical feature of Robert Browning`s poetry is the_____.
A.bitter satire
B.larger-than-life caricature
C.Latinized diction
D.dramatic monologue
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（18）The first novel of Thomas Pynchon is ______ .
A.V.
B.The Crying of Lot 49
C.Entropy
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（19）For quite sometime after its appearance , Catch–22 was seen as a structural ______ despite its
narrative power .
A.success
B.failure
C.miracle
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（20）In 1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson made a speech entitled _______ at Harvard, which
was hailed by Oliver Wendell Holmes as "Our intellectual Declaration of
Independence."
A."Nature"
B."Self-Reliance"
C."Divinity School Address"
D."The American Scholar"
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（21）(The)____was a progressive intellecrual movement throughout Western Europe in the 18th century．
A.Romandcism
B.Humanism
C.Enlightenment
D.Sentimentalism
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（22）Whose writings almost always use youth as major characters ?
A.Singer‘s
B.Salinger‘s
C.Vonnegut‘s
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（23）“The history of the world is the biography of the great men” can sum up the book
A.Heroes and Hero-worship
B.The French Revolution
C.A Modern Comedy
D.Life of Schiller
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（24）_______ is not the work by Robert Frost.
A.“I heard a Fly Buzz —- when I died”
B.“ The Road Not Taken”
C.“Home burial”
D.“After Apple-picking”
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（25）______ saw a new upsurge of Black American Literature in what has come to be known as
the Harlem Renaissance .
A.1900s
B.1910s
C.1920s
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（26）provides the main source of influence on American naturalism.
A.The puritan heritage
B.Howells’ ideas of realism
C.Darwin’s theory of evolution
D.The pioneer spirit of the wild west
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（27）The poems such as，“The Chimney Sweeper”are found in both Songs of lnnocence and SongS of Experience by____.
A.William Wordsworth
B.William Blake
C.John Keats
D.Lord Gordon Byron
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（28）The most original playwright of the Theater of Absurd is Samuel Beckett and his first play, _______, is regarded as the most famous and influential play of the Theater of Absurd.
A.Waiting for Godot
B.Murder in the Cathedral
C.Too True to Be Good
D.Mrs. Warren’s Profession
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（29）Willam Wordsworth，a romantic poet，advocated all the following except____.
A.the using of everyday language Spoken by the common people
B.the expression of the Spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings
C.the humble and rustic life as subject matter
D.elegant wording and inflated figures of speech
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（30）Alexander Pope strongly advocated neoclassicism，emphasizing that literary works should be judged by____rules of order,reason，logic，restrained emotion，good
taste and decorum．
A.Classical
B.romantic
C.sentimental
D.allegorical
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（31）Which terms can best describe the modernists’ concern of the human situation
in their fiction?
A.Fragmentation and alienation.
B.Courage and honor.
C.Tradition and faith.
D.Poverty and desperation.
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（32）Dryen’s contribution to England literature lies in the following except
A.he established the heroic couplet as奥鹏期末考核 one of the principal English verse forms
B.he clarified the English prose
C.he raised the English literary criticism to a new level
D.he raised English comedy to a higher level
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（33）_______ was the first and the only American playwright to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature .
A.Arthur Miller
B.Eugene O‘Neill
C.Tennessee Williams
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（34）The one who tempts Eve to eat an apple from the forbidden tree is
A.God
B.Satan
C.Adam
D.Raphael
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（35）Le Mort D’ Arthur deals with the following story except
A.search for Cup
B.life of King Arthur
C.fight against Roman invasion
D.illicit love
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（36）Fielding has been regarded by some as “_______________”,for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel .
A.Best writer of the English novel
B.Father of the English novel
C.the most gifted writer of the English novel
D.conventional writer of English novel
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（37）Sir Gawain and Green Knight was created by
A.Chaucer
B.Langland
C.Bede
D.None of the above
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（38）Ode to The West Wind was written by _______
A.T.S Eliot
B.George Eliot
C.Ezra Pound
D.Shelley
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（39）____ believes that man’s fate is predeterminedly tragic, driven by a combined force of “nature”, both inside and outside.
A.Charles Dickens
B.Thomas Hardy
C.Bernard Shaw
D.George Eliot
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（40）“To wage by force or guile eternal war,
Irreconcilable to our grand Foe.”（John Milton, Paradise lost)
By what means were Satan and his followers to wage this war against God?
A.By planting a tree of knowledge in the Garden of Eden.
B.By turning into poisonous snakes to threaten man’s life.
C.By removing God from His throne.
D.By corrupting man and woman created by God.
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（41）The hightide of Romanticism in American literature occurred around .
A.1820
B.1850
C.1880
D.1920
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（42）In Hardy‘s Wessex novels, there is an apparent _______ touch in his
description of the simple and beautiful though primitive rural life.
A.humorous
B.romantic
C.nostalgic
D.sarcastic
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（43）The short srory“Araby”is one of the srories in James Joyce‘s colletion____.
A.A Portrait of the Artist as Young Man
B.ulysses
C.Finnegans Wake
D.Dubliners
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（44）The statement "It reveals the dehumanizing workhouse system and the dark,
criminal underworld life" may well sum up the main theme if Dickens‘s _______ .
A.David Copperfield
B.Bleak House
C.Great Expectations
D.Oliver Twist
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（45）Dubliners is writing of
A.realism
B.modernism
C.stream of consciousness
D.none of the above
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（46）In 1704, ___________founded the periodicals “the Review”.
A.Swift
B.Blake
C.Milton
D.Defoe
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（47）Robert Frost combined traditional verse forms – the sonnet, rhyming couplets,
blank verse – with a clear American local speech rhythm, the speech of _______
farmers with its idiosyncratic diction and syntax.
A.Southern
B.Western
C.New Hampshire
D.New England
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（48）Dickens’ works are characterized by a mingling of ______________ and pathos.
A.humor
B.satire
C.passion
D.metaphor
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（49）All the characters appear in Sons and Lovers except
A.Clara
B.Gertrude
C.Miriam
D.Sue
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（50）“For I have known them all already, known them all–／Have known the evenings，mornings，afternoons,/I have measured out my life with coffee spoons．”The abovelines are taken from____.
A.Wordsworth‘s“The Solitary Reaper”
B.Eliot‘s“The Love Song of J．Alfred Prufrock，”
C.Coleridge‘s“Kubla Khan”
D.Yeats‘s“The Lake Isle of lnnisfree”
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（51）Stylistically, Henry James‘ fiction is characterized by _______ .
A.short, clear sentences
B.abundance of local images
C.ordinary American speech
D.highly refined language
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（52）In Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,Huck writes a letter to inform against Jim, the escaped slave, and then he tears the letter up. This fact reveals that .
A.Huck has a mixed feeling of love and hate
B.there is a conflict between society and conscience in Huck
C.Huck is always an indecisive person
D.Huck has very little education
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判断题：
（1）Amy Tan‘s first book published in 1976 called The Woman Warrior won the National Book Critic‘s Circle Award .
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（2）The main technique applied to the novel Ulysses by Joyce is symbolism.
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（3）Beowulf was brought by Anglo-Saxon people from the Continent to England.
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（4）One of the most important features in Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice is the use of dramatic languages.
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（5）Naturalism is evolved from Romanticism .
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（6）Black Humor is defined as modern humor caused by anger .
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（7）Human goodness is one of the most familiar themes in American naturalism .
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（8）The protagonist of Catch–22 is called Herzog .
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（9）Irving was best known for his short stories such as Rip Van Winkle .
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（10）The style of Lambs essays is characterized by its humor, familiarity and archaism.
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（11）Native Son was considered the best book after WWⅡ in 1965 .
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（12）The story of Catch–22 develops chronologically in a traditional structure .
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（13）Morrison is the first black writer to win the Nobel Prize .
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（14）The imaginary place of Yoknapatawpha functions as an allegory of the American South .
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（15）Morality play presents the conflict of good and evil with allegorical characters
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（16）The stories in the Canterbury Tales are only connected by the host of Tabard Inn.
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（17）Shakespeare was born in April 1564 and died in 1616.
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（18）Wuthering Heights deals with a story of love and violence.
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（19）The Rape of the Lock gives an account of an anecdote of the court.
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（20）Mr. Bennet’s favorite daughter is Jane.
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（21）Romanticism rose and grew under the impetus of the French Revolution.
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（22）Williams‘ sister Rose became the model for Laura in The Glass Menagerie .
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（23）Whitman is granted the honor of being ‘‘ the American Goldsmith ‘‘ for his literary craftsmanship .
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（24）The most gifted of the University Wits was Shakespeare.
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（25）Thoreau , Whitman and Hawthorne are considered the three great Transcendental figures in the 19th century .
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（26）Most of Saul Bellow‘s heroes are Jewish intellectuals or writers who try to discover the queerness of existence .
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（27）The short story “The Rocking Horse Winner” was written by Lawrence.
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（28）Essays of Elia was written by Mary Lame when she worked in East India House.
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（29）In Shakespeare’s comedies the heroes and heroines attained their victory without much struggle.
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