东师《英美文学》18秋在线作业2(满分)

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(单选题) 1: 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

正确答案:

(单选题) 2: In his masterpieces ______ , Pound traces the rise and fall of eastern and western

empires and the moral and social chaos of the modern world .

A: Make It New

B: The Cantos

C: Polite Essays

正确答案:

(单选题) 3: One of the earliest spokeswomen in English for the Chinese immigrant community is

_____.

A: Lin Yutang

B: Sui Sin Far

C: Maxine Hong Kingston

正确答案:

(单选题) 4: The subject matter of Robert Frost’s Poems focuses on .

A: ordinary country people and scenes

B: battle scenes of ancient Greek and Roman legends

C: struggling masses and crowded urban quarters

D: fantasies and mythical happenings

正确答案:

(单选题) 5: " ’Damn the fool! There he is’, cried Heathcliff, sinking back into his

seat. ’Hush, my darling! Hush, hush, Catherine! I’ll stay. If he shot me so, I’d expire

with a blessing in my lips.’" The novel from which the passage is taken must be _________.

A: Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

B: Charles Dickens’s The Old Curiosity Shop

C: Samuel Richardson’s Pamela

D: Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights

正确答案:

(单选题) 6: ______________ has always been regarded as a writer who “perfected the best

classic style that American Literature ever produced”.

A: Edgar Ellen Poe

B: Walt Whitman

C: Henry David Thoreau

D: Washington Irving

正确答案:

(单选题) 7: 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

正确答案:

(单选题) 8: ______ 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

正确答案:

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(单选题) 9: Daisy Miller‘s tragedy of indiscretion is intensified and enlarged by its

narration from the point of view of _______ .

A: the author Henry James

B: the Italian youth Giovanelli

C: the American youth Winterbourne

D: her mother Mrs. Miller

正确答案:

(单选题) 10: 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

正确答案:

(单选题) 11: Dr. Faustus is a play based on the German legend of a magician aspiring for and

finally meeting his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the Devil.

A: immortality

B: political

C: money

D: knowledge

正确答案:

(单选题) 12: 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

正确答案:

(单选题) 13: 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

正确答案:

(单选题) 14: As an autobiographical play, O‘Neill‘s _______ （1956）has gained its status as

a world classic and simultaneously marks the climax of his literary career and the coming of

age of American drama.

A: The Iceman Cometh

B: Long Day‘s Journey Into Night

C: The Hairy Ape

D: Desire Under the Elms

正确答案:

(单选题) 15: The hightide of Romanticism in American literature occurred around .

A: 1820

B: 1850

C: 1880

D: 1920

正确答案:

(单选题) 16: It is generally regarded that Keats‘s most important and mature poems are in the

form of _______ .

A: ode

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B: elegy

C: epic

D: sonnet

正确答案:

(单选题) 17: Mr. Spectator stands for the ideas of

A: the 16th century

B: 17th century

C: the 18th century

D: the19th century

正确答案:

(单选题) 18: Which is the movement that was popular in 1970s?

A: Women‘s Liberation Movement

B: Civil Rights Movement

C: McCarthy Era

正确答案:

(单选题) 19: 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

正确答案:

(单选题) 20: The English novelist_______ has been regarded as the “Prose Homer”.

A: Daniel Defoe

B: Jonathan Swift

C: Henry Fielding

D: Samuel Richardson

正确答案:

(判断题) 1: Whitman is granted the honor of being ‘‘ the American Goldsmith ‘‘ for his

literary craftsmanship .

A: 错误

B: 正确

正确答案:

(判断题) 2: Both Hawthorne and Shakespeare influenced Melville‘s writing of Moby Dick .

A: 错误

B: 正确

正确答案:

(判断题) 3: On one hand Byron is a violent reformer and on the other hand he is a wanderer.

A: 错误

B: 正确

正确答案:

(判断题) 4: As a Jewish writer , Salinger concerns himself only with Jewish subject .

A: 错误

B: 正确

正确答案:

(判断题) 5: Auld Lang Syne was composed by Burns.

A: 错误

B: 正确

正确答案:

(判断题) 6: The style of Lambs essays is characterized by its humor, familiarity and archaism.

A: 错误

B: 正确

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正确答案:

(判断题) 7: Dreiser‘s novels usually have little detailed descriptions of characters and

events .

A: 错误

B: 正确

正确答案:

(判断题) 8: The pasture is the setting for the work of Dr. Faustus.

A: 错误

B: 正确

正确答案:

(判断题) 9: The Rape of the Lock gives an account of an anecdote of the court.

A: 错误

B: 正确

正确答案:

(判断题) 10: Beowulf was created in England.

A: 错误

B: 正确

正确答案:

(判断题) 11: Bellow‘s themes are concerned with the struggle of city dwellers to define their

roles and responsibility in modern world .

A: 错误

B: 正确

正确答案:

(判断题) 12: Most of Saul Bellow‘s heroes are Jewish intellectuals or writers who try to

discover the queerness of existence .

A: 错误

B: 正确

正确答案:

(判断题) 13: Wordsworth’s best poems are description of mountains, rivers, flowers, birds .

A: 错误

B: 正确

正确答案:

(判断题) 14: Romanticism rose and grew under the impetus of the French Revolution.

A: 错误

B: 正确

正确答案:

(判断题) 15: Scott’s literary career marked the transition from romanticism to realism.

A: 错误

B: 正确

正确答案:

(判断题) 16: Morrison is the first black writer to win the Nobel Prize .

A: 错误

B: 正确

正确答案:

(判断题) 17: In her works , Amy Tan wrote beautifully about the contrast between Chinese and

American cultures .

A: 错误

B: 正确

正确答案:

(判断题) 18: Most of English ballads were collected in the 18th century.

A: 错误

B: 正确

正确答案:

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(判断题) 19: Amy Tan‘s first book published in 1976 called The Woman Warrior won the National

Book Critic‘s Circle Award .

A: 错误

B: 正确

正确答案:

(判断题) 20: The most gifted of the University Wits was Shakespeare.

A: 错误

B: 正确

正确答案:

(单选题) 1: 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

正确答案:

(单选题) 2: In his masterpieces ______ , Pound traces the rise and fall of eastern and western

empires and the moral and social chaos of the modern world .

A: Make It New

B: The Cantos

C: Polite Essays

正确答案:

(单选题) 3: One of the earliest spokeswomen in English for the Chinese immigrant community is

_____.

A: Lin Yutang

B: Sui Sin Far

C: Maxine Hong Kingston

正确答案:

(单选题) 4: The subject matter of Robert Frost’s Poems focuses on .

A: ordinary country people and scenes

B: battle scenes of ancient Greek and Roman legends

C: struggling masses and crowded urban quarters

D: fantasies and mythical happenings

正确答案:

(单选题) 5: " ’Damn the fool! There he is’, cried Heathcliff, sinking back into his seat. ’Hush, my darling! Hush, hush, Catherine! I’ll stay. If he shot me so, I’d expire with a

blessing in my lips.’" The novel from which the passage is taken must be _________.

A: Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

B: Charles Dickens’s The Old Curiosity Shop

C: Samuel Richardson’s Pamela

D: Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights

正确答案:

(单选题) 6: ______________ has always been regarded as a writer who “perfected the best

classic style that American Literature ever produced”.

A: Edgar Ellen Poe

B: Walt Whitman

C: Henry David Thoreau

D: Washington Irving

正确答案:

(单选题) 7: 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

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C: property

D: humor

正确答案:

(单选题) 8: ______ 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

正确答案:

(单选题) 9: Daisy Miller‘s tragedy of indiscretion is intensified and enlarged by its

narration from the point of view of _______ .

A: the author Henry James

B: the Italian youth Giovanelli

C: the American youth Winterbourne

D: her mother Mrs. Miller

正确答案:

(单选题) 10: 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

正确答案:

(单选题) 11: Dr. Faustus is a play based on the German legend of a magician aspiring for and

finally meeting his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the Devil.

A: immortality

B: political

C: money

D: knowledge

正确答案:

(单选题) 12: 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

正确答案:

(单选题) 13: 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

正确答案:

(单选题) 14: As an autobiographical play, O‘Neill‘s _______ （1956）has gained its status as

a world classic and simultaneously marks the climax of his literary career and the coming of

age of American drama.

A: The Iceman Cometh

B: Long Day‘s Journey Into Night

C: The Hairy Ape

D: Desire Under the Elms

正确答案:

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(单选题) 15: The hightide of Romanticism in American literature occurred around .

A: 1820

B: 1850

C: 1880

D: 1920

正确答案:

(单选题) 16: It is generally regarded that Keats‘s most important and mature poems are in the

form of _______ .

A: ode

B: elegy

C: epic

D: sonnet

正确答案:

(单选题) 17: Mr. Spectator stands for the ideas of

A: the 16th century

B: 17th century

C: the 18th century

D: the19th century

正确答案:

(单选题) 18: Which is the movement that was popular in 1970s?

A: Women‘s Liberation Movement

B: Civil Rights Movement

C: McCarthy Era

正确答案:

(单选题) 19: 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

正确答案:

(单选题) 20: The English novelist_______ has been regarded as the “Prose Homer”.

A: Daniel Defoe

B: Jonathan Swift

C: Henry Fielding

D: Samuel Richardson

正确答案:

(判断题) 1: Whitman is granted the honor of being ‘‘ the American Goldsmith ‘‘ for his

literary craftsmanship .

A: 错误

B: 正确

正确答案:

(判断题) 2: Both Hawthorne and Shakespeare influenced Melville‘s writing of Moby Dick .

A: 错误