英美文学试卷 A
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I. Mark the following statements as true (T) or false (F). (10 x 1’=10’)
1. ( ) Chaucer is the first English short-story teller and the founder of English poetry as well as
the founder of English realism. His masterpieceThe Canterbury talescontains 26 stories.
2. ( ) English Renaissance is an age of essay and drama.
3. ( ) The rise of the modern novel is closely related to the rise of the middle class and an urban
life.
4. ( ) The French Revolution and the American War of Independence were two big influences
that brought about the English Romantic Movement.
5. ( ) Charlotte’s novels are all about lonely and neglected young women with a fierce longing
for life and love. Her novels are more or less based on her own experience and feelings
and the life as she sees around.
6. ( ) The leading figures of the naturalism at the turn of 19 th century are Thomas Hardy, John
Galsworthy and Bernard Shaw.
7. ( ) Emily Dickinson is remembered as the“All American Writer ”.
8. ( )The Civil War divides the American literature into romantic literature and realist literature.
9. ( ) Mark Twain is the first American writer to discover an American language and American
consciousness.
10. ( ) In the decade of the 1910s, American literature achieved a new diversity and reached its
greatest heights.
II. Fill in the blanks. (20 x 1’=20’)
11. The most enduring shaping influence in American thought and American literature was
___________.
12. The War of Independence lasted eight years till__________.
13. Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay__________has been regarded as "America's Declaration of
Intellectual Independence". It called on American writers to write about America in a way
peculiarly American.
14. The American ___________ writers paid a great interest in the realities of life and described
the integrity of human character reacting under various circumstances and pictured the pioneers of
the Far West, the new immigrants and the struggles of the working class. The leading figures were
____________, ____________, ____________, ____________, etc.
15. No period in American history is more eventful than that between the two world wars. The
literary features of the time can be seen in the writings of those ________ writers as Ezra Pound,
and the writers of the Lost Generation as ___________.
16. Two features of English Renaissance are the curiosity for ___________ and the interest in the
activities of _____________________.
17. Shakespear’e s earliest great success in tragedy is ____________, a play of youth and love, with
the famous balcony scene.
18. There are three types of poets in 17th century English literature. They are Puritan poets,
___________ poets and ______________ poets.
19. Pope’s An Essay on Criticism is a didactic poem written in ___________________.
20. ___________ has been regarded by some a“s Father of the English Novel”f or his contribution
to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.
21. “B eauty is truth, truth beauty”i s an epigrammatic line by _______________.
22. Lawrence’s most controversial novel is ___________, the best probably _________.
III. Multiple choice. (20 x 1’=20’)
23. Among the three major works by John Milton ________ is indeed the only generally
acknowledged epic in English literature sinceBeowulf .
A. Paradise Regained
B. Samson Agonistes
C. Lycidas
D. Paradise Lost
24. Francis Bacon’s essays are famous for their brevity, compactness and __________.
A. complicity
B. complexity
C. powerfulness
D. mildness
25. As one of the greatest masters of English prose, _______ defined a good style“a psroper words in proper places”.
A. Henry Fielding
B. Jonathan Swift
C. Samuel Johnson
D. Alexander Pope
26. The Pilgrim ’s Progress by John Bunyan is often said to be concerned with the search for _________.
A. material wealth
B. spiritual salvation
C. universal truth
D. self-fulfillment
27. “I t is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.”T he quoted part is taken from _________.
A. Jane Eyre
B. Wuthering Heights
C. Pride and Prejudice
D. Sense and Sensibility
28. Which of the following poems is a landmark in English poetry?
A. Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
B. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”b y William Wordsworth
C. “R emorse”b y Samuel Taylor Coleridge
D. Leaves of Grassby Walt Whitman
29. The most distinguishing feature of CharlesDickens ’w orks is his _________.
A. simple vocabulary
B. bitter and sharp criticism
C. character-portrayal
D. pictures of happiness
30. “M y Last Duchess”i s 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
31. ________ is the most outstanding stream of consciousness novelist, with ______as his encyclopedia-like masterpiece.
A James Joyce,Ulysses
B. E.M. Foster, A Passage to India
C. D. H. Lawrence, Sons and lovers
D. Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
32. Which of the following comments on Charles Dickens is wrong?
A. Dickens is one of the greatest critical realist writers of the Modern Period
B. His serious intention is to expose and criticize all the poverty, injustice, hypocrisy and
corruptness he sees all around him.
C. The later works show the development of Dickens towards a highly conscious artist of the
modern type.
D. A Tale of Two Citiesis one of his late works.
33. _____was known as “the poets ’poet ”.
A. William Shakespeare
B. Edmund Spenser
C. John Donne
D. John Milton
34. Which of the following poet belongs to the active Romantic poet?
A. Keats
B. Southey
C. Wordsworth
D. Coleridge
35. ______ is regarded today as the national epic of the Anglo-Saxons.
A. Beowulf
B. The Canterbury Tales
C. Don Juan
D. Paradise Lost
36. ___________ is the first modern American novel.
A. Tom Sawyer
B. Huckleberry Finn
C. The Sketch Book
D. The Leatherstocking Tales
37. Which of the following statements is NOT true of American Transcendentalism?
A. It can be clearly defined as a part of American Romantic literary movement.
B. It can be defined philosophically as “t he recognition in man of the capacity of knowing truth
intuitively ”.
C. Ralph Waldo Emerson was the chief advocate of this spiritual movement.
D. It sprang from South America in the late l9th century.
38. The theme of Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkleis _________.
A. the conflict of human psyche
B. the fight against racial discrimination
C. the familial conflict
D. the nostalgia for the unrecoverable past
39. The Nobel Prize Committee highly praised ________ for “h is powerful style-forming mastery
of the art”o f creating modern diction.
A. Ezra Pound
B. Ernest Hemingway
C. Robert Frost
D. Theodore Dreiser
40. Who exerts the single most important influence on literary naturalism?
A. Emerson
B. Jack London
C. Theodore Dreiser
D. Darwin
41. ________ is NOT true in describing American naturalists.
A. they were deeply influenced by Darwinism
B. they were identified with French novelist and theorist Emile Zola
C. they chose their subjects for the lower ranks or society
D. they used more serious and more sympathetic tone in writing than realists
42. Henry James’s fame generally rests upon his novels and stories with ________.
A. international theme
B. national theme
C. European theme
D. regional theme
IV. Explain the following literary items.(4x 5’=20’)
43. Spenserian Stanza
44. Lake Poets
45. Humanism
46. Ballad
V. Questions. (3x 10’=30’)
47. “R obinson Crusoe”is usually considered as Daniel Defoe’s masterpiece. Discuss why it became so successful when it was published?
48. What is "Byronic hero"?
49. Mark Twain and Henry James are two representativesof the realistic writers in American literature. How is Twain’s realism different form James’s realism?
参考答案：
I. Mark the following statements as true (T) or false (F).( 本题共10 空，每空1 分，共
10 分)
1-5: FFTTT 6-10: FFTTF
II. Fill in the blanks. ( 本题共20 小题，每题 1 分，共20 分)
11. (American) Puritanism
12. 1783
13. The American Scholar
14. realistic; Mark Twain; Henry James; Jack London; Theodore Dreiser.
15. Imagist; Hemingway.
16. the classical literature; humanity.
17. Romeo and Juliet
18. Cavalier; Metaphysical
19. heroic couplet
20. Henry Fielding
21. John Keats
22. Lady Chatterley s l’over; The Rainbow
III. Multiple choice. （本题共20 小题，每题 1 分，共20 分)
题
23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 号
答
D C B B C A C D A A B A A B D D B D D A 案
IV. Explain the following literary items. （本题4 小题, 每小题5 分, 共20 分）
43. Spenserian Stanza:it refers to a verse form created by Edmund Spenser for his poems. Each stanza has nine lines. Each of the first eight lines is in iambic pentameter, and the ninth line is an
iambic hexameter line. The rhythm scheme is ababbcbcc
44. Lake Poets: it refers to those English romantic poets at the beginning of th e19th century,
William Wordsworth, for example, who lived in the heart of the Lake District in the north-western
part of England and enjoyed the experience of living close to nature, and these poets were the older
generation of Romantic poets who had been deeply influenced by the French Revolution of 1789
and its effects. In their writings, they described the beautiful scenes and the country people of the
area.
45. Humanism refers to the literary culture in the Renaissance.Humanists emphasize the
capacities of the human mind and the achievements of human culture. Humanism became the
central theme of English Renaissance.Thomas More and William Shakespeareare the best
representatives of the English humanists.
46. Ballad: a story told in songs, usually in 4-line stanzas, with the second and fourth rhymed.
V. Questions（. 本题 3 小题, 每小题10 分, 共30 分）
47.
A: Robinson Crusoe is supposedly based o n the real adventure of an Alexander Selkirk who
once stayed alone on the uninhabited island for five year4s. Actually, the story is an imagination.
B: In Robinson Crusoe, Defoe traces the growth of Robinson from a n a v?e and artless youth into
a shrewd and hardened man, tempered by numerous trials in his eventful life.
C. In the novel, Robinson is a real hero and he is an embodiment of the rising middle-class
virtues in the mid-eighteenth century England. Robinson is a true empire-builder, a colonizer and a
foreign trader, who has the courage and will to face hardships and who has determination to
preserve himself and improve his livelihood by struggling against nature.
D. Robinson Crusoe is an adventure story very much in the spirit of the time. Because of the
above reasons, w hen it was published, people all liked that story, and it became a n immediate
success.
48. Byronic hero is a proud, mysterious rebel figure of noble origin. With immense superiority in
his passions and powers, this Byronic hero would carry on his shoulders the burden of righting all
the wrongs in a corrupt society, and would rise single-handedly against any kind of tyrannical rules
wither in government, in religion, or in moral principles with unconquerable wills and
inexhaustible energies. The conflict is usually one of rebellious individuals against outworn social
systems and conventions. Such a hero appeared in many of his works, for example, "Don Juan".
The figure is somewhat modeled on the life and personality of Byron himself, and makes Byron
famous both at home and abroad.
49.
A. Mark Twain’s realism is tainted with local color, preferring to have his won region and people at the forefront of his stories.
B. James’s realism is concerned with the“inner world”of man and the international theme.
C. Twain’s language is simple and colloquial and he employs humor in his writing.
D. James’s language is elaborate and refined with lengthy psychological analyses.