华中师范大学《英美文学》期末考试必备题集

奥鹏期末考核

37434–华中师范大学《英美文学》奥鹏期末考试题库合集

单选题：
（1）The first long serious work of Shelly is ________________________.
A.The Necessity of Atheism
B.Queen Mab
C.The Spirit of Solitude
D.Ode to the West Wind
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（2）_______________________________ is Hemingway’s masterpiece, which is about the old fisherman Santiago and his losing battle with a giant marlin.
A.Farewell to Arms
B.For whom the Bell Tolls
C.The Sun Also Rises
D.The Old Man and The Sea
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（3）In 1689 Jonathan Swift became the __________________of Sir William.
A.House-keeper
B.servant
C.private secretary
D.steward
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（4）Scott Fitzgerald is often acclaimed literary spokesman of the ______________________.
A.modern time
B.young Americans
C.Jazz Age
D.Guilded Age
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（5）Keats’ father was a ______________.
A.landlord
B.apothecary
C.stable keeper
D.doctor
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（6）In _____, Whitman airs his sorrow at President Lincoln’s death.
A.“Cavalry Crossing a Ford”
B.“A Pact”
C.When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
D.There was a Child Went Forth”
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（7）Bacon is not only a essayist and philosopher, but also a _________________.
A.lawyer
B.scientist
C.historian
D.dramatist
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（8）Which of the following statements concerning Theodore Dreiser’s style is correct?
A.Dreiser’s Cowperwood trilogy includes The Financier, The Titan and The Genius
B.His novels have little detail descriptions of characters and events.
C.His novels are written in refined language.
D.His style is not polished but very serious.
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（9）Faulkner once said that ________ is a story of “ lost innocence,’ which proves itself to be and intensification of the theme of imprisonment in the past.
A.The Sound and the Fury
B.Light in August
C.Go Down, Moses
D.Absalom, Absalom!
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（10）The first volume of poems of Byron is “_______________________”.
A.Hours of Idleness
B.Don Juan
C.Childe Harold Pilgrimage
D.Cain
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（11）______ is called by Hemingway the one from which “all modern American literature comes.”
A.The adventures of Huckleberry Finn
B.The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
C.The Gilded Age
D.Life on the Mississippi
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（12）Altogether, Emily Dickinson wrote ______ poems, of which only severn had appeared during her lifetime.
A.1145
B.1775
C.897
D.785
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（13）Paradise lost is a great epic consisting _____________ books.
A.8
B.10
C.12
D.14
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（14）________ is a play that concerns the problem of modern man’s identity.
A.The Hairy Ape
B.Long Day’s Journey Into Night
C.The Iceman Cometh
D.The Emperor Jones
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（15）Most of the plays Eugene O’Neill wrote are _______________________.
A.comedies
B.romances
C.historical plays
D.tragedies
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（16）In ______, Hawthorne sets out to prove that everyone possesses some evil secret.
A.“The Custom-House”
B.“Young Goodman Brown”
C.“Rappaccini’s Daughter”
D.“The Birthmark"
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（17）One source of evil that Nathaniel Hawthorne is concerned most is overreaching intellect. Which of the following stories is one of this kind?
A.Rappaccini’s Daughter
B.Young Goodman Brown
C.The Minister’s Black Veil
D.The Birthmark
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（18）John Milton became blind mainly because of_______________.
A.reading
B.disease
C.hard work
D.accident
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（19）_______ is described by Mark Twain as a boy with “a sound heart and a deformed conscience.”
A.Tom Sawyer
B.Huckleberry Finn
C.Jim
D.Tony
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（20）Mark Twain’s first successful literary work is _____________________________.
A.The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
B.Life on the Mississippi
C.The Adventure of Tom Sawyer
D.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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（21）Ellen Poe began his literary career by writing ___________________;
A.short stories
B.plays
C.essays
D.poems
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（22）Ralph Waldo Emerson’s leading reputation began with the publication of_____________.
A.Essays
B.Nature
C.Oversoul
D.Self-Relience
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（23）The _______ techniques are used in some of Eugene O’Neil’s plays to highlight the theatrical effect of the rupture between the two sides of an individual human being, the private and the public.
A.naturalistic
B.expressionistic
C.stream-of-consciousness
D.metaphysical
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（24）Whitman is radically innovative in term of form of his poetry. What he prefers for his new subjects and new feelings is _____________.
A.blank verse
B.free verse
C.heroic couplet
D.sonnet
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（25）Keats was born in the family of a ______________.
A.landlord
B.apothecary
C.stable keeper
D.doctor
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（26）“The Isles of Greece” is a part of Byron’s masterpiece “___________________”
A.Don Juan
B.Childe Harold’s Prigrimage
C.Oriental Tales
D.Manfred
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（27）Most of Hardy’s later works show his ___________ view of life.
A.optimistic
B.pessimistic
C.practical
D.ironical
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（28）“ In your rocking-chair, by your window, shall you dream such happiness as you may never feel.” This is the last sentence of _______ .
A.Sister Carrie
B.An American Tragedy
C.The Genius
D.Jane Eyre
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（29）As far as Nathaniel Hawthorne’s art is concerned, which of the following statement is true?
A.His The Scarlet Letter tells a love story.
B.His art is deeply influenced by Puritanism because he was a puritan himself.
C.Young Goodman Brown is a story about superstition.
D.Ambiguity is one of the salient characteristics of his art.
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（30）Jane Austen was the daughter of a ____________________.
A.landlord
B.merchant
C.lawyer
D.rector
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（31）As a great fiction writer, William Faulker devotes most of his works to the description of the life and the people in the __________________________
A.American West
B.New England in America
C.American South
D.American North
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（32）Shakespeare is one of the greatest playwrights and _________________________ the world has ever known.
A.poets
B.novelists
C.essayists
D.critics
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（33）The representative play Sheridan wrote is “ __________________”.
A.The School for Scandal
B.The Critic
C.A Trip to Scarborough
D.The Rivals
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（34）The total number of the essays published by Bacon is_________________.
A.10
B.26
C.45
D.58
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（35）Percy Shelly’s greatest achievement is his four- act poetic drama “_____________”.
A.Men of England
B.Prometheus Unbound
C.Ode to the West Wind
D.The Revolt of Islam
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（36）The leading playwright of the modern period in American literature, if not the most successful in all his experiments, is _______
A.Arthur Miller
B.Tennessee William
C.George Bernard Shaw
D.Eugene O’Neil
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（37）Bronte Sisters are all outstanding ________________.
A.essayists
B.playwrights
C.poets
D.novelists
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（38）Ralph Emerson was born in a family of a _____________________.
A.merchant
B.businessman
C.clergyman
D.writer
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（39）The first novel written by Thomas Hardy is “__________________”.
A.Desperate Remedies
B.Under the Greenwood
C.The Return of the Native
D.The Mayor of Casterbridge
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（40）Shakespeare was the son of a _________________________.
A.clerk
B.landlord
C.trader
D.lawyer
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（41）_______ is Hemingway’s first true novel in which he depicts a vivid portrait of “The lost Generation.”
A.The Sun Also Rises
B.A Farewell to Arms
C.In Our Time
D.For Whom the Bell Tolls
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（42）Walt Whitman was born and brought up in a family of a ______________.
A.Peasant
B.carpenter
C.captain
D.printer
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（43）When he was young, Benjamin Franklin became an apprentice in a __________________.
A.printing house
B.store
C.Tailor’s shop
D.factory
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（44）In A Rose for Emily, Faulkner makes best use of the _______ devices in narration.
A.Romantic
B.Realistic
C.Gothic
D.Modernist
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（45）Shakespeare wrote ___________sonnets.
A.125
B.154
C.245
D.138
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（46）Closely related to Emily Dickinson’s religious poetry are her poems concerning _______________.
A.Childhood
B.youth and happiness
C.loneliness
D.death and immortality
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（47）The only dramatist ever to win a Nobel Prize was ___________.
A.Bernard Shaw
B.Eugene O’Neil
C.Richard Brinsley Sheridan
D.William Shakespeare
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（48）Structurally and thematically Bernad Shaw followed the great traditions of _________
A.realism
B.romanticism
C.modernism
D.classicism
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（49）The story of Paradise lost is taken from __________________.
A.a legend
B.Bible
C.an epic
D.a folklore
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（50）At the age of fifteen, Keats became an apprentice to a ______________.
A.landlord
B.apothecary
C.stable keeper
D.doctor
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（51）Lyrical Ballads is the cooperative work of William Wordsworth and _________________.
A.Samuel Coleridge
B.Robert Southey
C.John Keats
D.Percy Bysshe Shelley
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（52）William Faulkner was born in a family of a _______________________.
A.merchant
B.colonel
C.manager
D.doctor
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（53）_______ is usually regarded as a classic book written for boys about their particular horrors and joys.
A.The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
B.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
C.Innocents Abroad
D.Life on the Mississippi
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（54）Romance,which uses narrative verse or prose to tell stories of（　　）adventures or other heroic deeds, is a popular literary form in the medieval period.
A.Christian
B.knightly
C.Greek
D.primitive
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（55）“And we will sit upon the rocks,/Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks,/By shallow rivers to whose falls/Melodious birds sing madrigals.”The above lines are probably taken from（　　）.
A.Spenser's The Faerie Queene
B.John Donne's “The Sun Rising”
C.Shakespeare's “Sonnet 18”
D.Marlowe's “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”
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（56）“Bassanio:Antonio,I am married to a wife Which is as dear to me as life itself; But life itself, My wife, and all the world. Are not with me esteem'd above thy life; I would lose all, ay, sacrifice them all, Here to the devil, to deliver you. Portia:Your wife would give you little thanks for that, If she were by to hear you make the offer.” The above is a quotation taken from Shakespeare's comedy The Merchant of Venice. The quoted part can be regarded as a good example to illustrate（　　）.
A.dramatic irony
B.personification
C.allegory
D.symbolism
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（57）William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following EXCEPT （　　）.
A.normal contemporary speech patterns
B.humble and rustic life as subject matter
C.elegant wording and inflated figures of speech
D.intensely subjective feeling toward individual experience
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（58）If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind!” is an epigrammatic line by （　　）.
A.J.Keats
B.W.Blake
C.W.Wordsworth
D.P.B.Shelley
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判断题：
（1）In Robert Lee Frost’s poems, profound ideas are delivered under the disguise of the plain language and the simple form.
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（2）Robert Lee Frost has long been well known as a poet who belongs to the new.
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（3）According to Emerson, man is divine in nature and therefore forever perfectible.
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（4）Ellen Poe wrote many poems, so he has a very important position as poet; he wrote about 70 short stories and is regarded as a pioneer of the detective fiction and the horror fiction in the west.
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（5）In his novels, William Faulkner exploits the modern steam-of –consciousness technique to emphasize the reactions and inner musings of the narrator.
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（6）Emily Dickinson’s poems are usually based on her own experiences, her sorrows and joys.
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（7）In “This is my letter to the World” Dickinson expressed her reluctance to communicate with the outside world.
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（8）In The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne intends to tell a love story and a story of sin.
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（9）Byron's masterpiece is Tom Jones.
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（10）As a Puritan, Hawthorne embraced the Puritanical doctrines and expresses them in his novels.
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（11）Each of Emily Dickinson’s poems has a well-chosen title.
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（12）Novel writing made a big advance in the 18th century. the main characters in the novels were no longer common people, but the kings and nobles.
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（13）Most of the poems in Leaves of Grass are written in heroic couplet.
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（14）The defining formal characteristics of the modernistic works are discontinuity and fragmentation.
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（15）Life on the Mississippi tells a story of Henry James’s boyhood ambition to become a riverboat pilot up and down the Mississippi.
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（16）Emersonian Transcendentalism inspired a whole generation of famous authors like Whitman, Dickinson and Mark Twain.
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（17）Leaves of Grass established Walt Whitman as the most popular American poet of the 19th century.
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（18）The greatest English playwright of the 18th century was Goldsmith, whose best play is "The School for Scandal".
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（19）Walt Whitman is granted the honor of being “the American Goldsmith” for his literary craftsmanship.
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（20）Philosophically, the naturalists believe that the real and true is always completely hidden from the understanding of the individual or beyond his control.
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（21）Shakespeare'a prime creating period lies in his third period when his greatest tragedies were written.
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（22）In style, her poems are characterized by their brevity, directness and plainness
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（23）Walt Whitman follows only one theme in his Leaves of Grass, that is, the burgeoning life in cities.
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（24）George Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin, Scotland.
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