(单选题)1: The term tone in literature means__________.
A: sound effect such as rhyme and metrical device
B: the pitch of a word used to determine its meaning in the given context
C: the manner of expression to indicate the speaker’s attitude towards the subject
D: a shade of colour to reflect the change of the light


(单选题)2: Shakespeare‘s tragedies include all the fOllowing except____.
A: Hamlet and King lear
B: Antony and Cleopatra and Macbeth
C: julius Caesar and Othello
D: the Merchant of Venice and A Midsummer Night`s Dream


(单选题)3: “Justice was done ; and the president of the Immortals had ended his sport” is a part of the quotation from
A: The Forsyte Saga
B: Jude the Obscure
C: The picture of Dorian Gray
D: Tess of D’ Urbervilles


(单选题)4: In Hardy‘s Wessex novels，there is an apparent____touch in his description of the simple though primitive rural life．
A: nostalgic
B: humorous
C: romantic
D: ironic


(单选题)5: Tess of the D’Urbervilles, one of Thomas Hardy’s best known novels, portrays man as ________.
A: being hereditarily either good or bad
B: being self-sufficient
C: having no control over his own fate
D: still retaining his own faith in a world of confusion


(单选题)6: “When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table.” (T. s. Eliot, “The Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock”) What does the image in the quoted lines suggest?
A: Violence.
B: Horror.
C: Inactivity.
D: Indifference.


(单选题)7: Of the below poets, has not been awarded Poet Laureate.
A: William Wordsworth
B: Thomas Gray
C: Alfred Tennyson
D: Ben Jon son


(单选题)8: Here are two lines taken from The Merchant of venice：“NOt on thy Sole，but on thy soul，harsh Jew /thou mak‘st thy knife keen．”What kind of figurative device is used in the above lines?
A: Simile．
B: Metonymy．
C: Pun．
D: Synecdoche．


(单选题)9: “For a week after the commission of the impious and profane offence of asking for more, Oliver remained a close prisoner in the dark and solitary room ...”(Dickens, Oliver Twist) What did Oliver ask for?
A: More time to play.
B: More food to eat.
C: More book to read.
D: More money to spend.


(单选题)10: 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


(单选题)11: In Chapter III of Oliver Twist, Oliver is punished for that “impious and profane offence of asking for more” . What did Oliver ask for more?
A: More time to play
B: More food to eat
C: More books to read
D: More money to spend


(单选题)12: The period before the American Civil War is generally referred to as the _______ period .
A: modern
B: naturalist
C: romantic


(单选题)13: 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


(单选题)14: Prometheus Unbound is Shelley’s greatest achievement. Prometheus, according to the Greek mythology, was chained by Zeus on Mount Caucasus and suffered the vulture’s feeding on his liver for_________.
A: planning a revolt to dethrone God
B: misinterpreting God’s decree to reconcile man and nature
C: prophesying the arrival of spring in a winter season
D: stealing the fire from heaven and giving it to man


(单选题)15: Dickinson’s poems include poems of _________.
A: nature
B: love
C: death
D: all the above


(单选题)16: Christoper Marlow’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” is a (n) .
A: pastoral lyric
B: elegy
C: eulogy
D: epic


(单选题)17: Macbeth is Shakespeare’s_______.
A: sonnet
B: comedy
C: history play
D: tragedy


(单选题)18: 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


(单选题)19: The Idylls of the King is written by
A: Browning
B: Tennyson
C: George Eliot
D: Carlyle


(单选题)20: 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


(判断题)21: With Bellow and Singer as Nobel Prize winners , the status of Jewish Literature as an important part of American Literature has been firmly established .
A: 错误
B: 正确


(判断题)22: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn reflects the moral growth of Tom Sawyer .
A: 错误
B: 正确


(判断题)23: The poetry of Sentimentalism is characterized by sympathy for the French Revolution .
A: 错误
B: 正确


(判断题)24: Pope established the heroic couplet as one of the principal English verse forms.
A: 错误
B: 正确


(判断题)25: Blake is often regarded as a symbolist and mystic.
A: 错误
B: 正确


(判断题)26: The style of Lambs essays is characterized by its humor, familiarity and archaism.
A: 错误
B: 正确


(判断题)27: Shakespeare was born in April 1564 and died in 1616.
A: 错误
B: 正确


(判断题)28: Whitman is granted the honor of being ‘‘ the American Goldsmith ‘‘ for his literary craftsmanship .
A: 错误
B: 正确


(判断题)29: All My Sons is the masterpiece of Arthur Miller .
A: 错误
B: 正确


(判断题)30: The Rape of the Lock gives an account of an anecdote of the court.
A: 错误
B: 正确


(判断题)31: Dreiser‘s novels usually have little detailed descriptions of characters and events .
A: 错误
B: 正确


(判断题)32: Human goodness is one of the most familiar themes in American naturalism .
A: 错误
B: 正确


(判断题)33: Both Hawthorne and Shakespeare influenced Melville‘s writing of Moby Dick .
A: 错误
B: 正确


(判断题)34: Morality play presents the conflict of good and evil with allegorical characters
A: 错误
B: 正确


(判断题)35: Native Son was considered the best book after WWⅡ in 1965 .
A: 错误
B: 正确


(判断题)36: Wilder demanded his audience to accept the fact that they were watching actors on the stage .
A: 错误
B: 正确


(判断题)37: The pasture is the setting for the work of Dr. Faustus.
A: 错误
B: 正确


(判断题)38: The most gifted of the University Wits was Shakespeare.
A: 错误
B: 正确


(判断题)39: King Lear distributed his territory among his three daughters.
A: 错误
B: 正确


(判断题)40: Hardy had written and published many poems before he achieved a reputation with his novels.
A: 错误
B: 正确

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