英美文学知识150题

1.Most of Emily Dickinson‟s poems were published __________.
A. when she was young
B. after her failed love affair
C. in her old age
D. after her death
2. __________is a kind of drama that expounds an existential ideology and views its task as essentially metaphysical. It represents a view of the absurdity of the human condition by the abandoning of rational devices and the nonrealistic form.
A. black humor
B. non-fiction
C. anti-hero
D. theater of the absurd
3. The Importance of Being Earnest is a comedy by__________.
A. George Bernard Shaw
B. Oscar Wilde
C. Richard Brinsley Sheridand
D. William Shakespeare
4. The Gothic style started in _________and quickly spread through all parts of western Europe.
A. French
B. English
C. Hebrew
D. Germanic
5. Ireland is called the Emerald Isle because of __________.
A. its connection with Britain
B. its green countryside
C. its unique shape
D. its abundant natural resources
6. __________is the oldest newspaper in Australia.
A. The Sydney Morning Herald
B. he Australia
C. Daily Mirror
D. Sun
7. __________ was once the president of the Royal Society for twenty-three years.
A. William Harvey
B. Francis Bacon
C. Isaac Newton
D. John Dalton
8. What is the relationship between the two words “flower/rose”?
A. Homonymy
B. Antonymy
C. Hyponymy
D. Polysemy
9. The function of the sentence “How are you?”
A. directive
B. informative
C. performative
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D. phatic
10. Homonyms __________.
A. are words that share the same phonetic features and the same semantic features
B. are words that share the same semantic features but have different sets of phonetic features
C. are words that share the same phonetic features but have different sets of semantic features
D. are two words that all but one of semantic feature in common
1-10.    D    D    B    A    B    A    C    C    D    C
11. The Ring and the Book is a masterpiece of ____.
A. Alfred Tennyson
B. Robert Browning
C. Thomas Hardy
D. Ralph Waldo Emerson
12. “Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability” is one of the epigrams
found in _____
数据组织A. Bacon‟s of Studies
B. Bunyan‟s The Pilgrim’s Progress
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D. Johnson‟s A Dictionary of the English Language
13. Who is Afraid of Virginia Woolf is written by ____.
A. Samuel Beckett
B. Virginia Wolf
C. Edward Albee
D. John Barth
14. The world‟s largest freshwater lake is Lake ____.
A. Superior
B. Ontario
C. Huron
D. Michigan
外高桥二期15. The state _____is rich in fishing and trapping.
A. Hawaii
B. California
C. Alaska
D. New York
16. The Australian National Day is set on January 26 to commemorate ____.
A. the first European settlement of the continent
B. the founding of the Commonwealth of Australia
C. the discovery of the great southern “unknown land”
D. Iacques Cartier‟s first voyage around Australia
17. In 1788 Australia was settled by the British as a colony founded ____.
A. to receive convicts from Britain
B. to receive free settlers
C. to supply Britain with wool and food
D. to expand Britain‟s imperial power
18. The distinction between langue and parole is proposed by ____.
A. Halliday
B. Saussure
C. Chomsky
D. Firth
19. In the following dialogue, the maxim of ____ is not observed.
A. quality
B. quantity
C. relevance
D. manner
20. ____ are linguistic units larger than sentences.
A. Moves
B. Discourses
C. Topics
D. Tendencies
11-20.    B    A    C    A    C    A    A    B    C    B
21. ____ is a classification of fiction in which a historical event is described in a way that exploits some of the devices of fiction, including a nonlineal time sequence and access to inner states of mind and feeling not commonly present in historical wirting.
A. New fiction
B. Nouveau Roman
C. Historical story
D. Nonfiction Novel
22. Ralph Waldo Emerson, the American Transcendentalist, argued for the following ideas except ____.
A. man‟s dependence on himself for spiritual perfection
B. Faith in Christianity
C. direct intuition of a spiritual God in nature
D. the importance of an independent American culture
23. In the line “So ling lives this, and this gives life to thee”of Sonnet 18,
Shakespeare ___
A. meditates on man‟s mortality
B. eulogizes the power of artistic creation
C. satirizes human vanity
D. presents a dream vision
24. Australia is the world‟s largest exporter of ____.
A. wheat
B. meat
C. daily products
D. wool
25. ____ is the most important work by Marx about Marxist economics.
A. Thesis on Feuerback
B. The German Ideology
C. Capital
D. The capital
26. Harvard University was founded in ____.
A. 1366
B. 1633
C. 1636
D. 1363
27. The state to which the Mayflower sailed is ____.
A. Florida
B. Maine
C. Virginia
D. Massachusetts
28. Which of the following two-term sets shows the feature of complementarity?
A. single/married
B. big/small
C. hot/cold
D. old/young
29. Usually ____refers to the use of linguistic research in language teaching, but linguistics is used in other areas, as well.
A. applied linguistics
B. theoretical linguistics
C. contextual linguistics
D. general linguistics
30. Two words that are differentiated by one phoneme, such as “cat” and “rat”, are known as a ___
A. distinctive feature
B. argument
C. code
D. minimal pair
21-30.    D    B    B    D    C    C    D    A    A    D
31. “Utopia” was written by __________.
A. Thomas More
B. Francis Bacon
C. Daniel Defoe
D. Jonathan Swift
32. The Preface to Shakespeare and Lives of the Poets are the works of critic __________.
A. G..
B. Shaw    B. Samuel Johnson
C. Ben Johnson
D. F. M. Foster
33. 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
34. The U.S.A is known as a “Melting Pot” for its __________.
A. mixture of nationalities
B. mixture of climates
C. mixture of habits
D. mixture of religions
35. __________ is regarded as the cradle of the Renaissance?
A. Greece
B. Italy
C. Germany
D. England
36. Who was “The father of psychoanalysis” and the author of The Interpretations of
Dreams?
A. Monet
B. Sigmund Freud
C. Yeats
D. James Joyce
37. As far as Australian culture is concerned, the history of Australia can be divided into the following phases with the exception of __________.
A. the period of the original culture of Aboriginal people
B. the period of the dominant British culture
C. the period of Asian culture
D. the period of a multicultural society
38. __________ is often regarded as the founder of the study of sociolinguistics.
A. Saussaure
B. Halliday
C. Chomsky
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D. Labov
39. __________ is the academic discipline concerned with the study of the processes by which people learn languages in addition to their native tongue.
A. IPA
B. IC Analysis
C. SLA
D. TG
40. The __________ is the primary lexical units of a word, which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents.
A. bound morphemes
B. affix
C. root
D. prefix
31-40.    A    B    D    A    B    B    C    D    C    C
41. ____ is Mark Twain‟s master work, the one book from which as Ernest Hemingway noted, “all modern American literature comes.”
A. The Gilded Age
B. The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
C. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
D. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
42. 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
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D. first person point of view
43. Murder on the Orient Express is written by ____ a novelist of detective fiction.
A. Arthur Conan Doyle
B. Edgar Allan Poe
C. Agatha Christie
D. John Fowels
44. Who was the first woman Prime Minister in British history?
A. Elizabeth I
B. Elizabeth II
C. Margaret Thatcher
D. Diana Princess of Wales
45. The important thing done in the Second Continental Congress was that ____.
A. “the Declaration of the Independence” was signed
B. the Revolutionary Was ended
C. a new government was discussed
D. Washington was appointed commander of the army
46. Whose book Evolution and Ethics was translated into Chinese in 1897 by Yan Fu?
A. Darwin
B. Thomas Huxley
C. Malthus
D. Herbert Spencer
47. Who is the author of On the Principle of Population?
A. Darwin
B. Thomas Hulxley
C. Malthus
D. Herbert Spencer
48. In terms of Searle‟s classification system of illocutionary acts, the sentence …Ten bucks say that The Yankee will win the game‟ used to bet belongs to _____.
A. representative
B. commissive
C. directive
D. declaration
49. Three factors involved in describing vowels are ____.
A. place of articulation/part of the tongue raised/voicing
B. tongue height/ part of the tongue raised/lip rounding
C. articulators/extreme vowel positions/voicing
D. teeth position alveolar ridge position/voicing
50. In ____ the structure of words is studied.
A. phonetics
B. phonology
C. morphology
D. syntax
41-50.    D    C    C    C    D    B    C    A    B    C
51.“The Three Unities”, formulated by Renaissance dramatists, are the unities of the following elements but ____.
A. time
B. place
C. action
D. character
52. “The founder of English materialist philosophy” is ____.
A. Geoffrey Chaucer
B. Edmund Spenser
C. Francis Bacon
D. John Donne
53. Babbitt is written by ____ who is also the writer of Main Street.
A. William Faulkner
B. Sinclair Lewis
C. John Steinbeck
D. Jack London
54. Under the Whitlam government “God Save the Queen” was replaced by ____ as Australian national anthem.
A. “Waltzing Matilda”
B. “Click Go the Shears”
C. “Advance Australia Fair
D. “My Country”
55. Australia is the world‟s largest exporter of ____.
A. wheat
B. meat
C. daily products
D. wool
56. The United States is ____ populous country in the world.
A. the third most
B. the second most
C. the most
D. the fourth most
57. Which of the following is the father of the modern mode of painting?
A. Raphael
B. Titian
C. da Vinci
D. Michelangelo
58. If we begin interpretation of a sentence spontaneously and automatically on the basis of whatever information is available to us, that is called ___.
A. top-down processing
B. hotttom-up processing
C. inductive analysis
D. Comparative analysis
59. ____ is a personal dialect of an individual speaker that combines elements regarding regional, social, gender, and age variations.
A. Dialect
B. Idiolect
C. Ethnic dialect
D. Linguistics repertoire
60. Of the following words, ____ is an initialism.
A. UN
B. NATO
C. BASIC
D. UNESCO
51-60:    D    C    B    C    D    A    B    A    B    A

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