1.William Faulkner is the author of _________.
a. For From the Madding Crowd
b. The Sound and Fury
c. For Whom the Bell Tolls
d. The Scarlet Letter
2. Robert Frost is a famous __________.
a. novelist
b. Playwright
c. poet
d. literary critic
3. The Old Man and the Sea is one of the great works by _________.
a. Jack London
b. Charles Dickens
c.Samuel Coleridge
d. Ernest Hemingway
4. Which of the following poets is different from the others?
a. John Donne.
b. John Keats.
c. Lord Byron.
d. Percy Bysshe Shelley
5. Which of the following is not written by William Shakespeare?
a. Othello.
b. The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus.
c. Romeo and Juliet.
d. The Twelfth Night.
6. Beowulf narrates a story taking place in _______.
a. the Mediterranean
b. Northern Europe
c. England
d. Scandinavia
7. __________ refers to some contrast or discrepancy between appearance and reality.
a. Allegory
b. Conflict
c. Irony
d.Flashback
8. William Wordsworth is an English ___________.
a. poet
b. novelist
c. playwright
d. critic
9. The great transcendental work by Henry David Thoreau is __________.
a. Nature
b. Walden
c. Experience
d. Essays
10. James Joyce is the author of all the following novels EXCEPT________.
a. Dubliners
b. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
c. Jude the Obscure
d. Ulysses
11. The Bronte Sisters published the following famous novels EXCEPT _______.
a. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
b. Jane Eyre
c. Wuthering Heights
d. Agnes Grey
12. In which novel can “Yahoo” be found?
a. John Bunyan’s P ilgrim’s Progress.
b. Edmund Spencer’s The Faerie Queen.
c. Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels.
d. Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones.
13. The Victorian Age was largely an age of _________, eminently represented by Dickens and
Thackeray.
a. pessimism
b. naturalism
c. modernism
d. critical realism
14. Mark Twain shaped the world’s view of America and made a combination of _______ and
serious literature.
a. American folk humor
b. funny jokes
c. English folklore
d. American values
15. Who was the first American to achieve an international literary reputation after the
Revolutionary War?
a. Fennimore Cooper.
b. Nathaniel Hawthorn.
c. Walt Whitman
d. Washington Irving.
16. Paradise Lost is a masterpiece by _________.
a. Christopher Marlow
b. John Milton
c. William Shakespeare
d. Ben Johnson
17. I Have a Dream is addressed by _________.
a. Abraham Lincoln
b. John F. Kennedy
c. Martin Luther King
d. Ralph Waldo Emerson
18. Which of the following is a poem by Emily Dickinson?
a. Song of Myself. B. The Raven. C. A Red Red Rose d. Because I Could Not Stop for
Death.
19. Eugene O’Neil is an American __________.
a. novelist
b. playwright
c. poet
d. essayist
20. The Romantic Age in England came to an end with the death of _________.
a. Jane Austin
b. Walter Scott
c. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
d. William Wordsworth
21. In the works of aesthetism, the theory of “art for art’s sake” is advocated by ________.
a. Oscar Wilde
b. Mrs. Gaskell
c. Alexander Pope
d. Charles Lamb
22. Whose works are characterized by stream-of-consciousness?
a. George Eliot.
b. Jane Austen.
c. Emily Bronte
d. James Joyc
e.
23. The most famous work by Chaucer is ________.
a. Beowulf
b. The Canterbury Tale
c. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
d. The Christ
24. The period from 1865-1914 has been referred to as the ________ in the literary history of
the United States.
a. Age of Realism
b. Age of Classicalism
c. Age of Romanticism
d. Age of Renaissance
25. ________ has been given 18 honorary degrees?
a. Ezra Pond
b. E.E. Cummings
c. Robert Frost
d. William Cullen Bryant
26. Which of th e following is NOT Shakespeare’s tragedies?
a. The Merchant of Venice
b. King Lear
c. Hamlet
d. The Tempest
27. Leaves of Grass is written by ________.
a.Walt Whitman
b. Carl Sandburg
c. Langston Hughes
d. Allen Ginsberg
28. William Make peace Thackeray’s most famous work is _________.
a. The School for Scandal
b. Past and Present
c. Major Barbara
d. Vanity Fair
29. Daver Beach is written by ________.
a. Robert Browning
b. Alfred Tennyson
c. Mathew Arnold
d. Dylan Thomas
30. The period of Old English literature refers to _________.
a. 449---1066
b. 14th century—mid 17th century
c. 14th century—mid 18th century
d. 16th century---mid 18th century
31. Moby Dick is the most important work by _________.
a. Jack London
b. Herman Melville
c. Sinclair Lewis
d. Ralph Ellison
32. O. Henry earned his fame mainly for his _________.
a. novels
b. poems
c. short stories
d. dramas
33. Which of the following is NOT Francis Bacon’s essay?
a. Of Studies. B. Of Travel. C. Of Wisdom. D. Of Love.
34. ________ is the most famous novel of Francis Scott Fitzgerald?
a. Tender Is the Night
b. This Side of Paradise
c. The Beautiful and Dammed
d. The Great Gatsby
35. “Morte d’Arthur” is a famous work by __________.
a. John Milton
b. Venerable Bede
c. Thomas Malory
d. Alfred the Great
36. Which of the following novels does NOT belong to Dreiser’s Trilogy of Desire?
a. The titan
b. The Financier.
c. The Genius
d. The Stoic.
37. The followings are all Dickens’ works EXCEPT _________.
a. Oliver Twist
b. The Vicar of Wakefield
c. Great Expectations
d. A Tale of Two Cities
38. It is generally regarded that Keats’s most important ant mature poems are in the form of
_______.
a. ode
b. elegy
c. epic
d. sonnet
39. The 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to __________.
a. William Faulkner
b. John Steinbeck
c. Saul Bellow
d. Ernest Hemingway
40. Sister Carrie is a masterpiece of _________ work.
a. romantic
b. classic
c. neo-classic
d. naturalistic
41. Who is the father of English poetry?
a. Shakespeare.
b. Edmund Spencer.
c. John Milton
d. Geoffrey Chaucer.
42. The Red Badge of Courage is written by ________.
a. Frank Norris
b. Sherwood Anderson
c. Willa Cather
d. Stephen Crane
43. The most distinctive achievement of Elizabethan literature is _________.
a. drama
b. prose
c. novel
d. poetry
44. John Galsworthy won the 1932 Nobel Prize for his work _________.
a. Ulysses
b. Hard Times
c. The Forsyte Sage
d. Jude the Obscure
45. Which of the following poems is NOT written by George Gordon Byron?
a. She Walks in Beauty.
b. The Solitary Reaper.
c. When We Two Parte.
d. Childe Haro ld’s Pilgrimag
e.
46. _______ wrote several novels with the name of “Rabbit”.
a. Arthur Miller
b. Thomas Pynchon
c. John Updike
d. Wallace Stevens
47. The Road Not Taken is a poem written by _______.
a. Robert Frost
b. Longfellow
c. Ezra Pond
d. Carl Sandburg
48. It is _______ who first made blank verse the principle instrument of English drama.
a. Marlowe
b. Shakespeare
c. Spencer
d. Henry Howard
49. T. S. Eliot’s most famous long poem is __________.
a. I Wande red Lonely as a Cloud
b. A Boy’s Will
c. The Waste Land
d. The Golden Bough
50. Who has been regarded as the discoverer of the modern novel?
a. John Banyan
b. Henry Fielding.
c. Samuel Richardson
d. Daniel Defoe
51. The Portrait of a Lady is a great work by __________.
a. Henry James
b. Mark Twain
c. Dreiser
d. Stowe
52. Hester is a character in _________.
a. Gone with the Wind
b. The Fall of the House of Usher
c. Babbitt
d. The Scarlet
Letter
53. In Paradise Last, the real hero created by Milton is __________.
a. God
b. Adam
c. Eve
d. Satan
54. The island of Lilliput can be found in _________.
a. Robinson Crusoe
b. Gulliver’s Travels
c. Adventures of Tom Sawyer
d. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
55. “To be, or not to be” is quoted from __________.
a. King lear
b. Hamlet
c. Julius Caesar
d. Romeo and Juliet
56. Mr. Allworthy is a kind-hearted gentleman in __________.
a. A Tale of Two Cities
b. Great Expectations
c. Sons and lovers
d. The History of Torn Jones, a Foundling
57. The black man Jim is a character in Mark Twain’s __________.
a. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
b. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
c. Life on the Mississippi
d. The Prince and the Pauper
58. The Catcher in the Rye is written by __________.
a. J. D. Salinger
b. Jack London
c. Flannery O’Connor
d. Saul Bellow
59. Which of the following works is NOT written by D. H. Lawrence?
a. Women in Love
b. Sons and Lovers.
c. The Rainbow
d. The French Lieutenant’s
Woman.
60. Generally, the Renaissance refers to the period between _________ centuries.
a. 14th and mid-17th
b. 14th and mid-18th
c. 16th and mid-18th
d. 16th and mid-17th
61. The Grapes of Wrath is the masterpiece of ___________.
John Steinbeck b. John Cheever c. John Updike d. John Dos Passos
62. _________ is NOT a play written by Tennessee Williams.
a. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
b. The Glass Menagerie
c. Light is August
d. A Streetear Named Desire
63. Robert Burns is a poet from __________.
a. England
b. New England
c. Ireland
d. Seotland
64. The Zoo Story is a play written by _________.
a. Romance
b. Novel
c. Sonnet
d. Drama
65. _________ is a popular literary form in the medieval period.
a. Romance
b. Novel
c. Sonnet
d. Drama
66. The Enlightenment was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in
the _______ century.
a. 18th
b. 19th
c. 17th
d. 20th
67. _______ is the greatest songwriter in the world and the national poet of Scotland.
a. William Blake
b. Robert Burns
c. Byron
d. Keats
68. William Blake’s The Tiger is collected in __________.
a. Songs of Innocence
b. Songs of Experience
c. Marriage of Heaven and Hell
d. Poetical Sketches
69. The image of the famous “henpecked husband” is created by _________.
a. Washington Irving
b. Fennimore Cooper
c. Edith Wharton
d. William Dean Howells
70. __________ was the most important person of the transcendental club.
a. Shakespeare
b. Marlowe
c. Spenser
d. Donne
71. The literary spokesman of the Jazz is often thought to be _________.
a. O’Neil
b. Pound
c. Robert Frost
d. Scott Fitzgerald
72. _________ was the most important person of the transcendental club.
a. Hawthorn
b. Whitman
c. Emerson
d. Hemingway
73. Shylock is a character in _________.
a. The Merchant of Venice
b. The Twelfth Night
c. The Winter’s Tale
d. Macbeth
74. The compiler of A Dictionary of the English Language is ________.
a. Joseph Addison
b. Richard Steele
c. Samuel Johnson
d. Laurence Stern
75. The main theme of Emily Dickinson is the following EXCEPT __________.
a. friendship
b. love and marriage
c. life and death
d. war and peace
76. American fiction in the 1960s is referred to as ________.
a. imagism
b. black humor
c. new fiction
d. the Beat Generation
77. James Joyce mostly wrote about his hometown ________.
a. London
b. Dublin
c. New York
d. Edinburgh
78. This line “If winter comes, can spring be far behind?” is quoted from _________.
a. Dan Juan
b. Kubla Khan
c. To Autumn
d. Ode to the West Wind
79. Stephen Crane is famous for _________.
a. An American Tragedy
b. The Ambassadors
c. Main Street
d. The Red Badge of
Courage
80. _______ translated Homer’s Iliad (伊利亚特)and Odyssey (奥德赛)in Ameriean literary
history.
a. William Cullen Bryant
b. Philip Freneau
c. Edwin Arlington Robinson
d. Walt Whitman
81. The emotional effect and social significance made _________ the first well-known
sociological novel in American literature.
a. The Sun Alson Rises
b. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
c. The Old Man and The Sea
d. Sister
Carrie
82. _______ has been entitled the “Father of American Poetry”.
a. Philip Freneau
b. Ralph Waldo Emerson
c. William Cullen Bryant
d. Walt Whitman
83. Which of the following poems is written by William Butler Yeats?
a. Sailing to Brzantium.
b. To an Athlete Dying Young
c. Musee des Beaux Arts.
d. Church Going.
84. Mary Barton is a masterpiece of ________.
a.Georg e Eliot
b. Samuel Butler
c. Mrs. Gaskell
d. Flannery O’Connor
85. Among the following poets, which is NOT a lake poet?
a. William Wordsworth
b. Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
c. Robert Southey
d. William Collins.
86. Henry Fielding is the author of the great 18th century English novel _________.
a. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
b. Pamela
c. Moll Flander
d. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
87. Tess is a character created by _________.
a. D. H. Lawrence
b. James Joyce
c. Thomas Hardy
d. Dylan Thomas
88. Which of the following is NOT true for Benjamin Franklin?
a. He was a famous writer.
b. He was a member to draft The Declaration of Independence.
c. He was a great scientist.
d. He was once elected American President.
89. “Gold Rush” was vividly depicted in _________ novels.
a.Hemingway’s
b. Mark Twain’s
c. Henry James’s
d. Faulkner’s
90. __________ is a nineteenth century European literary movement that sought to portray
familiar characters, situations, and settings in a realistic manner.
a. Realism
b. Modernism
c. Naturalism
d. Romanticism
91. Utopia is _________ work.
a. Thomas More’s
b. Francis Bacon’s
c. John Dryden’s
d. George Herbert’s
92. Mr. Rochester is a figure in _________.
a. Wuthering Heights
b. Jane Eyre
c. Vanity Fair
d. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
93. “Beauty is truth, truth beauty” is an epigrammatic line by ________.
a. John Keats
b. William Blake
c. William Wordsworth
d. Percy Bysshe Shelley
94. Whitman’s poems are characterized by all the following features EXCEPT __________.
a. a strict poetic form
b. a simple and conversational language
c. a free and natural rhythmic pattern
d. an easy flow of feelings
95. Who initiated the name of the Lost Generation?
a. Hemingway.
b. Fitzgerald.
c. Gertrude Stein.
d. William Faulkner.
96. My Last Duchess is a monologue poem written by _________.
a. William Shakespeare
b. Robert Browning
c. Ben Jonson
d. Robert Herrick
97. The high tide of Romanticism in American literature occurred around _________.
a. 1820
b. 1850
c. 1880
d. 1920
98. The title of Alfred Tennyson’s poem Ulysses reminds the reader of the following EXCEPT
___________.
a. the Trojan War
b. Homer’s Odyssey
c. adventures over the sea
d. religious quest
99. As a literary figure, Heathcliff appears in __________.
a. Jane Eyre
b. Oliver Twist
c. Wuthering Heights
d. Middlemarch
100. The publication of __________ established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of the New England Transcendentalism.
a. Nature
b. Self-Reliance
c. The Over Soul
d. The American Scholar
101. _________ is considered to be the best known English dramatist since Shakespeare, and his representative works and plays inspired by social criticism.
a. Richard Sheridan
b. Oliver Goldsmith
c. Oscar Wilde
d. The American Scholar 102. Lyrical Ballads is the joint work between Wordsworth and his friend _________.
a. Coleridge
b. Bryon
c. Keats
d. Shelly
103. The success of Jane Eyre is partly due to its introduction to the English novel the first _________ heroine.
a. explorer
b. peasant
c. worker
d. governess
104. _________ is the representative work of the Jazz Age.
a. The Great Gatsby
b. On the Road
c. Look Back in Anger
d. The Sun Also Rises 105. Invisible Man is a famous work by _________.
a. Tennessee Williams
b. Arthur Miller
c. Ralph Ellison
d. John Updike
106. _________ is commonly used to describe an original pattern or model from which all other things of the same kind are made.
a. Allusion
b. Alliteration
c. Allegory
d. Archetype
107 The title of Thackeray’s Vanity Fair is taken from _________.
a. The Holy Bible
b. The Faerie Queen
c. The Pilgrim’s Progress
d. Paradise Lost 108. _________ was a southerner from Mississippi who produced 18 novels and 3 volumes of short stories in his lif
e.
a. William Faulkner
b. Earnest Hemingway
c. Mark Twain
d. Robert Frost
109. The theme of A Tale of Two Cities is _________.
a. revolution
b. was
c. love
d. brotherhood
110. Which of the following statements is NOT true for the Lost Generation?
a. Those young people were cut off from old values.
b. They wondered pointlessly and restlessly.
c. They were aware that the world was crazy and meaningless.
d. They boasted that people should return to natur
e.
111. Who is considered the Poet of the American Revolution?
a. Philip Freneau.
b. William Cullen Bryand.
c. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
d. Henry David Thoreau.
112. In America, there is “a little woman started a great war”. Who is she?
a. Anne Bradstreet.
b. Harriet Beecher Stowe.
c. Edith Wharton.
d. Catharine Anne Porter.
113. Waiting for Godot is a _______.
a. poem
b. play
c. short story
d. novel
114. Which of the following writers has once won the Nobel Prize?
a. William Butler Yeats.
b. Thomas Hardy
c. Wystan Hugh Auden.
d. Dylan Thomas. 115. _________is NOT written by Edgar Allan Po
e.
a. The Raven
b. Annabel Lee
c. The Fall of the House of Usher
d. Song to Celia 116. Arthur Miller is an American __________.
a. novelist
b. poet
c. playwright
d. essayist
117. Mr. Darcy is a character in _________.
a. Tess of the D’Urbervilles
b. Pride and Prejudice
c. Happy Prince
d. The Mill on the Floss
118. Besides The Great Gatsby, Scott Fitzgerald wrote another famous novel _________, which was his second masterpiece.
a. As I Lay Dying
b. a Good Man Is Hard to Find
c. Tender Is the Night
d. The Dangling Man
119. Among Shakespeare’s tragedies, _________ is the most complex in plot and most painful.
a. King Lear
b. Hamlet
c. Romeo and Juliet
d. Othello
120. _______ created the style of euphuism.
a. Sir Philip Sidney
b. John Lyly
c. Henry Howard
d. Thomas Wyatt
121. A Voldielion: Forbiding Mouming is the masterpiece of ________
a. William Shakaspeare
b. Edrnund spencer
c. John Milton
d. John Donne 122. Which of the following is not Virginia Woolf’s greatest _______ writers.
a. To the Lighthouse
b. Mrs. Dalloway
c. The Waves
d. Modern Painters
123. Theodore Dreiser was one of America’s greatest _______ writers.
a. naturalistic
b. realistic
c. modernistic
d. romantic
124. _________ is the first American professional writer and the first writer of detective story in the world.
a. Ezra Pound
b. Washington Irving
c. Nathaniel Hawthorne
d. Edgar Allan Poe 125. Pygmalion is a famous play written by ________.
a. William Shakespeare
b. Tobias George Smollett
c. Charles Lamb
d. Bernard Shaw
126. The Renaissance was a European Phenomenon, which originated in _______.
a. France
b. Britain
c. Italy
d. Spain
127. _______ was the greatest poet between Milton and Pope and was poet laureate for 20 years.
a. Edmund Spencer
b. John Dryden
c. John Donne
d. George Herbert
128. Which of the following is NOT Jane Austen’s work?
a. Pride and Prejudice
b. Sense and Sensibility
c. Emma
d. Sister Carri
e.
129. Richard Brinsley Sheridan was a famous _______.
a. poet
b. novelist
c. dramatist
d. essayist
130. The major representatives of America’s transcendentalist group a re _______.
a. Emerson and Henry David Thoreau
b. Washington Irving and Emerson
c. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Irving
d. Natheaniel Hawthorne and Henry David Thoreau 131. Among the following novels, _______ is Thomas Hardy’s best-known novel.
a. The Return of the Native
b. Far From the Madding Crowd
c. The Mayor of Casterbridge
d. Tess of the D’Urbervilles
132. _______ was recognized as the greatest poet of Victorian England.
a. Tennyson
b. Robert Browning
c. Mrs. Browning
d. Robert Burns
133. _______ is D.H. Lawrence’s semi-autographical novel.
a. Sons and Lovers
b. Women is Love
c. Rainbow
d. Lady Chatterley’s lover
134. _______ was once in the same class with Franklin Pierce, America’s 14th President.
a. Henry James
b. Jack London
c. Edwin Arlington Robinson
d. Nathaniel Hawthorne 135. Richard Steele and Joseph Addison has the following contributions to English literature EXCEPT that _______.
a. their writings provide a new code of social morality for the rising bourgeoisie
b. they give a true picture of social life of England in the 18th century
c. the English essay completed established itself as a literary genre in their hands
d. they were representatives of the realistic tradition in English literature
136. ________ is the representative among the writers of aestheticism and decadence.
a. Stevenson
b. George Gissing
c. Oscar Wilde
d. Ralph Fox
137.The Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays is the work by _______.
a. William Hazlitt
b. Charles Lamb
c. Leigh Hunt
d. De Quincy
138. Ruskin’s social and economic thoughts have exerted deep influence on many writers and poet except _______.
a. William Morris
b. Waliter Scott
c. Oscar Wilde
d. Bernard Shaw
139. Whitman’s _______has been praised as “Democratic Bible” and as American Epic.
a. Leaves of Grass
b. Son of Myself
c. In a Metro Station
d. Evangeline
140. _______ killed himself with a gun, just as his father did.
a. Jack London
b. Eamest Hemingway
c. Fitzgerald
d. Mark Twain
141. ________ c alled himself “the trumpeter of a new age”. He was England’s first essayist.
a. Richard Steele
b. Joseph Addison
c. Francis Bacon
d. Alexander Pope
142. Don Juan is the masterpiece of _______.
a. Byron
b. Robert Frost
c. Wordsworth
d. Longfellow
143. Which of the following is NOT true for Ralph Waldo Emerson?
a. A great thinker.
b. A famous novelist.
c. A well-known essayist.
d. A poet.
144. _______ was the first English woman novelist.
a. Charlotte Bronte
b. Virginia Woolf
c. Jane Austen
d. George Eliot
145. On the Road is the masterpiece of _______.
a. Arthur Miller
b. J.D. Salinger
c. Allen Ginsberg
d. Jack Kerouac
146. Soames Forsyte is famous figure in ______ novel.
a. Theodore Dreiser’s
b. Henry James’s
c. William Faulkner’s
d. John Galsworthy’s 147. Which of the following is not an American romantic writer?
a. Nathaniel Hawthorne
b. Herman Melville
c. Mark Twain
d. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
148. The story of Prometheus Unbound is taken from _______.
a. Greek mythology
b. Roman mythology
c. Bible
149. Language spoken by the Anglo-Saxons is called the _______, which is the foundation of English language and literature.
a. Modern English
b. Old English
c. Ancient English
d. Medieval English
150. ______ refers to the use of one object to represent another.
a. Metaphor
b. Irony
c. Symbolism
d. Imagism
1. b
2. c
3. d
4. a
5. b
6. d
7. c
8. a
9. b
10.c
11.a
12.c
13.d
14.a
15.d
16.b
17.c
18.d
19.b
20.b
21.a
22.d
23.b
24.a
25.c
26.a
27.a
28.d 29.c
30.a
31.b
32.c
33.d
34.d
35.c
36.c
37.b
38.a
39.d
40.d
41.d
42.d
43.a
44.c
45.b
46.c
47.a
48.a
49.c
50.d
51.a
52.d
53.d
54.b
55.b
56.d
57.b
58.a
59.d
60.a
61.a
62.c
63.d
64.c
65.a
66.a
67.b
68.b
69.a
70.c
71.d
72.c
73.a
74.c
75.d
76.b
77.b
78.d
79.d
80.a
81.b
82.a
83.a
84.c
85.d
86.a
87.c
88.d
89.b
90.a
91.a
92.b
93.a
94.a
95.c
96.b
97.a
98.d
99.c
100. d
101. d
102. a
103. d
104. a
105. c
106. d
107. c
108. a
109. a
110. d
111.a
112. b
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114. a
115. d
116. c
117. b
118. c
119. a
120. b
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3专八人文知识:英国地理概况 the english channel: the channel is a narrow sea passage which separates england and france and connects the atlantic ocean and north sea. 英吉利海峡：英吉利海峡是一道狭长的海峡，分割英法两国，连接大西洋和北海。 the dee estuary: a small sea ( in irish sea) where the dee river enters. 迪河河口：是迪河流入的一个小海。 "the act of union of 1801": in 1801 the english parliament passed an act by which scotland, wales and the kingdom of england were constitutionally joined as the kingdom of great britain. 1801合并法：1801年英国议会通过法令，规定英格兰、苏格兰和威尔士根据宪法合并成为大不列颠王国。 gaelic: it is one of the celtic language, and is spoken in parts of the highlands. 盖尔语：是盖尔特语言的一种，在高地地区仍有人说这种语言。 the "backbone of england": it refers to the pennies, the board ridge of hills.
Old English Literature 古英语文学 （450-1066年） Beowulf （贝奥武甫）---The first English national epic 中世纪英语文学（1066-1500） Geoffrey Chaucer(乔叟，c. 1343–1400) was an English poet. He is remembered for his The Canterbury Tales《坎特伯雷故事集》, called the father of English litera ture―英国文学之父‖William Langland (朗格兰，1330?-1400?),the author of the 14th-century English long narrative poem Piers Plowman《农夫皮尔斯》. 文艺复兴（16-17世纪） William Shakespeare (莎士比亚，1564-1616), English poet and playwright, his surviving works consist of 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems Venus and Adonis 《维拉斯和阿多尼斯》The Rape of Lucrece.《鲁克丽丝受辱记》 Shakespeare‘s greatest works: greatest tragedies are King Lear 《李尔王》,Macbeth《麦克白》,Hamlet《哈姆雷特》, Othello 《奥赛罗》,Romeo and Juliet 《罗密欧与朱丽叶》 grea t comedies: A Midsumme r Night‘s Dream《仲夏夜之梦》,As You Like It 《皆大欢喜》,The Merchant of Venice 《威尼斯商人》, Twelfth Night 《第十二夜》 great historical plays: Richard III 《理查三世》,Henry IV 《亨利四世》, Henry V 《亨利五世》, Henry VII 《亨利八世》 John Milton (弥尔顿, 1608-1674)was an English poet and civil servant for the Commonwealth of England. He is best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost《失乐园》, Paradise Regained《复乐园》Samson 《力士参孙》. 18世纪文学和新古典主义 Alexander Pope (浦柏,1688-1744 ) is generally regarded as the greatest English poet of the eighteenth century, best known for his satirical epigram 讽刺隽语and heroic couplet英雄双韵体.His major works include mock epic satirical poem An Essay on Man 《人论》and An Essay on Criticism 《论批评》 Daniel Defoe ( 笛福，1660—1731)was an English writer who gained enduring fame for his novel Robinson Crusoe《鲁滨逊漂流记》, spokesman for middle-class people Henry Fielding (菲尔丁, 1707 ---1754) ，an English novelist known for his novel:The History of Tom Jones. Jonathan Swift (斯威夫特,1667-1745), was an Anglo-Irish novelist, satirist. He is remembered for novel such as Gulliver‘s Travels《格列佛游记》. Richard Sheridan ( 谢立丹，1751—1816), Irish playwright ,known for his satirical play School of Scandal(造谣学校). He was a represntative writer of Comedies of Manners. Laurence Sterne (斯特恩,1713—1768 ), an English novelist. He is best known for his novel Tristram Shandy （《商第传》）. Oliver Goldsmith （哥尔德斯密斯，1728-1774）English novelist, known for his novel Vicar of Wakefield (《威克菲尔德牧师传记》) Thomas Gray (托马斯?格雷1716—1771 )，an English poet, author of Elegy Written in a
1.An Analysis of Hardy’ s Comparisons inTess of the d'Urbervilles 浅析哈代在《德伯家的苔丝》中对比手法的运用 2.The Use of Hemingway’ s Iceberg Theory in The Old Man and the Sea 海明威“冰山原理”在《老人与海》中的运用 3. An Analysis of Alec’ s Personalities Tessin of the d'Urbervilles 解读《德伯家的苔丝》中阿雷克的性格 4.An Interpretation of the Female Character Estella in Great Expectations 《远大前程》中女性形象艾丝黛拉解读 5.An Interpretation of the Female Character Miss Havisham in Great Expectations 《远大前程》中女性形象郝维辛小姐解读 6.The Use of Stream of Consciousness in Mrs. Dalloway 浅析《达洛维夫人》中的意识流运用 7.Fatalism in Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy 哈代的宿命论在《德伯家的苔丝》中的体现 8.An Analysis of Thomas Hardy’ s Attitudes towards the Heroine in Tess of the d'Urbervilles 哈代对《德伯家的苔丝》中女主人公的态度解读 9. An Interpretation on the Themes of the Poems Written by Emily Dickenson 艾米莉·狄金森诗歌主题解读 10. A Comparative Study between the Heroines’ Personalities inJane Eyre and Wuthering Heights 《简·爱》与《呼啸山庄》女主人公性格对比研究 11.An Analysis on the Causes of Tess's Tragedy 苔丝悲剧人生的成因分析 12.An Interpretation of the 18th-cen tury English Female’ s Choice of Husbands from Jane Austen ’ s Novels 从简·奥斯丁作品解读十八世纪英国女性择偶观 14.A Comparative Study of Three Chinese Versions of“ Of Studies ” 《论学习》三种汉译本比较研究 15.Translation Strategies and Techniques of Long Sentences in TEM 8 英语专业八级中长句的翻译策略与技巧 16. A Survey on the Status of English and American Literary Classics’ Reading of English Majors 英语专业学生阅读英美文学名著状况调查 17. A Survey on the Current Teaching Situation of English and American Literatures in Universities of China 关于我国高校英美文学教学现状的调查报告 18.A Survey on the English Majors ’ Current Learning Situation of English and American Literatures in Universities of China 高校英语专业学生英美文学学习现状调查报告 19. A Survey on the Current Situation and Countermeasures of the Course of English and American Literatures’ Marginalizatio 英美文学课程“边缘化”现状调查与对策研究 20. A Survey on the English Majors’ Use of Electronic Dictionaries in Learning English and
论《雾都孤儿》的幽默艺术 Tom Jones, a Dissipated but Kindhearted Man 放荡而又善良的汤姆琼斯 The Free Will and Rebellious Spirit in Paradise Lost 《失乐园》中的自由意志和反叛精神 On the Development of Shylock’s Character 论夏洛克的性格发展 Morality and Criticism in Tom Jones 评《汤姆?琼斯》中的道德观与批评观 On Imogen，the New Feminine Image in Cymbeline 论《辛白林》中伊慕琴的新女性形象 Burns’View on Love and Friendship 论彭斯的爱情友谊观 The Reflection of Art and Life in Ode on a Grecian Urn and Ode on a Nightingale 《希腊古瓮颂》与《夜莺颂》中艺术与生活的对照 The Womanism in "The Color Purple" On the Differences between Chinese and Westerners in Non-language Communication 谈中国人和英美人非语言交际的差异 On the Contribution of the American Blacks during American Civil War 美国黑人在美国历史上的贡献 On American Black English 浅谈美国黑人英语 On the Differences of the Marriage Concept between Chinese and American 浅谈中美婚姻观念的差异 A Contrastive Analysis of Table Manners and Culture between China and Western Countries On the Ideological Content in Bacon’s Essays 论培根散文的思想性 Women's Movement in 1960s in American 美国六十年代的妇女运动 Analysis the negative effects of violent television and movie on children 浅析影视暴力对青少年儿童的负面影响 The Influence of Chinese Cultural Circumstances on English Learning 汉语环境对英语学习的影响 A Comprehension of Male Centrad Literature through A Doll’s House 黑色的坚毅——小说《飘》主人公的性格分析Black Determination——An Analysis of the Personalities of the Main Character in Gone with the Wind 从浪漫走向世俗的新型女性——《理智与情感》中玛丽安的性格分析 人性的扭曲信任的危机--重读《奥》剧杂感Random Thoughts on Othello
美文学这门科目庞大之极，堪称英本自考之最。自己一个人看那么厚的一本书，不用说能不能看下来，能记住多少实在不好说！ 我在复习的时候，总结了一些规律，与大家分享，望对你有用，帮你顺利通过！ 1.题型分析： 一般来讲，肯定是这种类型：a.单项选择题（40道，40分） b.引文简析（无非就是问问作者是谁，出自哪个作品，主题意象什么的，4道，16分）c.简答题（4道，24分）d.论述题（无非就是分析加读后感，20分） 经验：你应该可以看出来了，重点当然是单选了，分数大，又好得分，实在不行还可以蒙。建议尽可能把书看一遍，但不要看作者生平，那肯定不会考。有个印象就可以了，不用去背，如果你汉语文学功底好，可以省去不少时间。 2.比例分析 据本人统计，历年来英美文学的国考试卷中英国文学占52%，美国文学占48%。（2003年4月例外，其中英国部分58%）其中，可以看出 单选题：前22题肯定为英国部分，其余为美国部分。 大题部分：基本上是一人一半，各占50% 经验：书上共652页，英国411页，美国241页。英国作家共38位，美国15位。其中，美国部分中，诗歌作品也比较少，比较好确认。结论：死学美国，顺带英国。 3.内容分析 历年命题的趋势逐渐由课文内容向选读作品转移，选读的比重越来越大。 经验：课文内容作到大体了解，但要特别重视作家艺术特色。选读部分加大力度，多注意书上的注释及选文大意和某些细节，尽量作到能用英语复述。实在不行，也至少作到能用汉语复述。 4.真题解析及预测 自学考试的一大特点就是重复率高，所以历年试题是必惫的复习材料，不可缺少。有人说：“一套真题等于3套模拟题！”这话绝对没错。所以要花大力气在上面。记得我考那回就有一道10分大题和前一年的一模一样。 注：马克吐温的《哈克贝里费恩历险记》的分析在2000~2002年中，连续考了三次。 经验：注意历年真题，尤其是去年的。去年的10分大题大致如下： a.《傲慢与偏见》中的三种婚姻 b.《白鲸》选文作品复述几分析象征意义。 ================================================ 4月14日]投机取巧教你过英美文学[压题篇] 本文是投机取巧过英美文学的最后一篇，收录北京市2004年4月10日英美文学考试的试题(除选择题外)，是我在北京自考论坛处网友处所得，特此对提供帮助的朋友表示感谢。 二、1、Thomas Gray：Elegy in the Country Churchyard的第一段 2、Yeats的Down by the sallen garden，考的是他俩站在河边，那个女孩*在他肩头，他觉得自己年轻懵懂，而且泪流满面。 3、Emyly Bronte的Whuthering Heights里面Hethcliff在他lover临死之前的那段表现，还问了narrator 是谁 4、Emlily Dikinson的I Heard a Fly Buzz--When I died，问那个blue Buzz是什么意思
英国文学 一、古英语时期的英国文学（499-1066） 1、贝奥武夫 2、阿尔弗雷德大帝：英国散文之父 二、中古英语时期的英国文学 1、allegory体非常盛行 2、Romance开始上升到一定的高度 3、高文爵士和绿衣骑士 4、Willian Langlaud 《农夫皮尔斯的幻象》 5、乔叟坎特伯雷故事集（英雄双韵体） 6、托马斯.马洛礼《亚瑟王之死》 三、文艺复兴时期的英国文学（伊丽莎白时代）（14-16世纪） 1、托马斯.莫尔《乌托邦》 2、Thomas Wyatt 和Henry Howard引入sonnet 3、Philips Sidney 《The defense of Poesie》 《阿卡迪亚》描述田园生活；现代长篇小说的先驱 4、斯宾塞《仙后》诗人中的诗人；斯宾塞体诗节； 5、莎士比亚： 长篇叙事诗：《维纳斯和阿多尼斯》、《露克丝受辱记》 四大悲剧：哈姆雷特、李尔王、奥赛罗、麦克白 7、本.琼森风俗喜剧（comedy of manners）《人性互异》 8、约翰.多恩“玄学派”诗歌创始人
9、George Herbert 玄学派诗圣 10、弗朗西斯.培根现代科学和唯物主义哲学创始人之一 《Essays》英国发展史上的里程碑 《学术的推进》和《新工具》 四、启蒙时期（18世纪） 1、约翰、弥尔顿：《失乐园》、《为英国人民争辩》 2、约翰、班扬：《天路历程》religious allegory 3、约翰、德莱顿：英国新古典主义的杰出代表、桂冠诗人； 《论戏剧诗》 4、亚历山大.蒲柏：英国新古典主义诗歌的重要代表；英雄双韵体的使用达到登峰造极的使用；《田园组诗》是其最早田园诗歌代表作 5、托马斯、格雷：感伤主义中墓园诗派的代表人物《墓园挽歌》 6、威廉、布莱克：天真之歌、经验之歌； 7、罗伯特、彭斯：苏格兰最杰出的农民诗人； 8、Richard Steel和Joseph Addison合作创办《The tatler》和《the spectator》 9、Samuel defoe 英国现实主义小说的奠基人之一；《鲁滨逊漂流记》；《铲除非国教徒的捷径》，仪表达自己的不满； 10、Jonathan Swift 《一个小小的建议》；《格列佛游记》；《桶的故事》； 11、Samuel Richardson 英国现代小说的创始人；帕米拉；克拉丽莎；查尔斯.格蓝迪森爵士的历史； 12、Henry Fielding 英国现实主义小说理论的奠基人；《约瑟夫。安德鲁》；《汤姆.琼斯》，英国现实主义小说的最高成就； 13、劳伦斯、斯特恩：感伤主义小说的杰出代表，《项狄传》，第一部开创了意识流小说的先驱之作品；《感伤的旅行》
英语专八人文知识考试总结 1 专八考试人文知识考试内容总结 其中英美文学包括英国文学和美国文学。英国文学主要分为六个时期： 1. Old and Medieval English Literature（中古英国文学）。 2. The Renaissance Period（文艺复兴时期）。 3. The Neoclassical Period（新古典主义时期）。 4. The Romantic Period（维多利亚时期）。 5. The Victorian Period（维多利亚时期）。 6. The Modern Period（现代时期）。 美国文学主要分为四个时期： 1. The Literature Around the Revolution of Independence（独立革命前后的文学）。 2. American Romanticism（美国浪漫主义文学）。 3. American Realism（美国现实主义文学）。 4. American Modernism（美国现代主义文学）。 语言学，考生不光要知道语言的本质还要掌握语音学，音位学，形态学，句法学，语义学和语言学的知识。 关于英语国家概况，英语专业的学生都会开设英美概况这门课程，但是专八考试的中需要考生了解的是英语国家概况，不光包括英国和美国，还有其他一些说英语的地区，包括爱尔兰概况，加拿大概况，澳大利亚概况和新西兰概况。 3专八人文知识:英国地理概况 the english channel: the channel is a narrow sea passage which separates england and france
英美文学 1. William Faulkner is the author of ______. A. Far From the Modeling Crowd B. Sound and Fury C. For Whom the Bell Tolls D. Scarlet Letter 1. Robert Frost is a famous ______. A. novelist B. playwright C. poet D. literary critic 3. The Old Man and the Sea is one of the great works by ______ A. Jack London B. Charles Dickens C. Samuel Coleridge DEmest Hemingway 4. Which of the following poets is different from the others? A. John Donne. B. John Keats. C. Lord Byron. D. Percy Bysshe Shelley. 5. Which of the following is not written by William Shakespeare? A. Othello. B. The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus. C. Romeo and Juliet. D. The Twelfth Night. 6. Beowulf narrates a story taking place in ______. A. the Mediterranean B. Northern Europe C. England D. Scandinavia 7. ______ refers to some contrast or discrepancy between appearance and reality. A. Allegory B. Conflict C. Irony D. Flashback 8. William Wordsworth is an English _____. A. poet B. novelist C. playwright D. critic 9. The great transcendental work by Henry David Thoreau is ______. A. Nature B. Walden C. Experience D. Essays 10. James Joyce is the author of all the following novels EXCEPT ______. A. Dubliners B. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man C. Jude the Obscure D. Ulysses 11. The Bronte Sisters published the following famous novels EXCEPT ______. A. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall B. Jane Eyre C. Wuthering Heights D. Agnes Grey 12. In which novel can "Yahoo" be found? A. John Bunyan' s Pilgrim' s Progress. B. Edmund Spencer' s The Faerie Queen. C. Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels. D. Henry Fielding's Tom Jones. 13. The Victorian Age was largely an age of ______, eminently represented by Dickens and Thackeray. A. pessimism B. naturalism C. modernism D. critical realism 14. Mark Twain shaped the world' s view of America and made a combination of ______ and
Part One：English Poetry 1.William Shakespeare Sonnet 18 ?Why does the poet compare `thee` to a summer?s day? And who could `thee` be? Because summer?s day and thee both represent beauty . thee could be beauty, love. ?What picture have you got of English summer, and could you explain why? Warm, beautiful, sunshine. Because summer is the best season of a year ,the most beautiful season. It is like our May. ?How does the poet answer the question he puts forth in the first line? Thee is more beautiful than summer. ?What makes the poet think that “thou” can be more fair than summer and immortal? Because humanism is more eternal than summer and immortal. ?What figures of speech are used in this poem? Simile, metaphor, personification, oxymoron and so on . ?What is the theme of the poem? Love conquers all, Beauty lives on. 2. Thomas Nashe Spring ?Read the poem carefully, pay attention to those image- bearing words, and see how many images the poet created in the poem and what sense impressions you can get from those images. There is “Blooms each thing, maids dance in a ring, the pretty birds do sing, the palm and may make country houses gay, Lambs frisk' and play, the shepherds pipe all day, And we hear aye birds tune this merry lay, The fields breathe sweet, the daisies kiss our feet, Young lovers meet, old wives a-sunning sit, In every street these tunes bur ears do greet!” The “Young lovers meet, old wives a-sunning sit，”impressions me most because of the harmony of the people?s relationship. ?Can you point out and explain the sound and their musical effect in the poem? In the Poem, each section has four lines, each line has ten syllables ( five tone step ) . In order to give the reader a spring breeze , streams , flowers , winding , Song Xin texture of sound and light flavor, Naixi greater uses English word S , z , f , V , R , L , and θconsonants means. In Naixi's poem, the use of phonological is also very harmonious, very smooth , very mellow. Section I of the poetry has Three pairs [ ing ] , section II of the poem has three pairs [ ei ] and the third quarter has three pairs [ i : ]. 3.John Donne A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning ?What is a “valediction” any way? Is the speaker in the poem about to die? Why does the speaker forbid mourning? No, it is about the lover s?separation. As the poem metaphors, the poet believed he and his wife?s love is sacred, he didn?t hope they cry when separation comes, let their love be stained by the ordinary and mundane.
* William Langland(朗兰1332-1400)：The Vision of Piers Plowman《农夫皮尔斯之幻象》: 普通人眼中的社会抗议 b. 15th C, English ballads: Thomas Malory (1395-1471):Morte D’Arthur《亚瑟王之死》- 圆桌骑士 二、The Renaissance Period英国文艺复兴(1500-1660): humanism 十四行诗，文艺复兴，无韵诗，伊丽莎白戏剧 1) 诗歌Henry Howard(霍华德1516-1547) a. Thomas Wyatt (怀亚特1503-1542): the first to introduce the sonnet into English literature b. Sir Philip Sidney(雪尼爵士1554-1586)：代表了当时的理想- “the complete man”Defense of Poetry《为诗辩护》 Astrophel and Stella; Arcadia《阿卡狄亚》: a prose romance filled with lyrics; a forerunner of the modern world c.Edmund Spenser(斯宾塞1552-1599): the poets’ poet; non-dramatic poet of伊丽莎白时代- long allegorical romance 文风：a perfect melody, a rare sense of beauty and a splendid imagination. The Shepherd Calendar The Faerie Queen《仙后》：long poem for Queen Elizabeth; Allegory - nine-line verse stanza/ the Spenserian Stanza Spenserian Stanza(斯宾塞诗体): Nine lines, the first eight lines is in iambic(抑扬格) pentameter(五步诗), and the ninth line is an iambic hexameter(六步诗) line. 2) Prose 散文 a. Thomas More(莫尔1478-1535): 欧洲早期空想社会主义创始人Utopia《乌
英国文学(English Literature) 一、Old and Medieval English Literature中古英语文学(8世纪-14世纪) 1) The Old English Period / The Anglo-Saxon Period古英语时期(449-1066) a. pagan poetry(异教诗歌): Beowulf《贝奥武甫》- 最早的诗歌；长诗(3000行) heroism & fatalism & Christian qualities the folk legends of the primitive northern tribes; a heroic Scandinavian epic legend; 善恶有报b. religious poetry: Caedmon(凯德蒙610-680): the first known religious poet; the father of English song Cynewulf(基涅武甫9C): The Christ c. 8th C, Anglo-Saxon prose: Venerable Bede(673-735); Alfred the Great(848-901) 2) The Medieval Period中世纪(1066-ca.1485 / 1500): a. Romance中世纪传奇故事(1200-1500): the Middle Ages; 英雄诗歌 无名诗人- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight《高文爵士与绿色骑士》: Celtic legend; verse-romance; 2530 lines ~ 14th C,Age of Chaucer: * Geoffrey Chaucer(乔叟1340-1400): 文风：vivid and exact language, his poetry is full of vigor and swiftness the father of English poetry; the father of English fiction; 首创“双韵体”couplet; 首位用伦敦方言写作英国作家 The Canterbury Tales:pilgrims stories 受Boccaccio(薄伽丘) - Decameron《十日谈》启发 The House of Fame; Troilus and Criseyde; The Romaunt of the Rose《玫瑰罗曼史》(译作) * William Langland(朗兰1332-1400)：The Vision of Piers Plowman《农夫皮尔斯之幻象》: 普通人眼中的社会抗议 b. 15th C, English ballads: Thomas Malory (1395-1471):Morte D’Arthur《亚瑟王之死》- 圆桌骑士 二、The Renaissance Period英国文艺复兴(1500-1660): humanism十四行诗，文艺复兴，无韵诗，伊丽莎白戏剧 1) 诗歌Henry Howard(霍华德1516-1547) a. Thomas Wyatt (怀亚特1503-1542): the first to introduce the sonnet into English literature b. Sir Philip Sidney(雪尼爵士1554-1586)：代表了当时的理想- “the complete man”Defense of Poetry《为诗辩护》 Astrophel and Stella; Arcadia《阿卡狄亚》: a prose romance filled with lyrics; a forerunner of the modern world c.Edmund Spenser(斯宾塞1552-1599): the poets’ poet; non-dramatic poet of伊丽莎白时代- long allegorical romance 文风：a perfect melody, a rare sense of beauty and a splendid imagination. The Shepherd Calendar The Faerie Queen《仙后》：long poem for Queen Elizabeth; Allegory - nine-line verse stanza/ the Spenserian Stanza Spenserian Stanza(斯宾塞诗体): Nine lines, the first eight lines is in iambic(抑扬格) pentameter(五步诗), and the ninth line is an iambic hexameter(六步诗) line.
英美文学复习 F ? Scott Fitzgerald 1. F ? Scott Fitzgerald is not the author of ______. A. This Side of Paradise B. Tender is the night C. The Great Gatsby D. In Our Time 2. F ? Scott Fitzgerald shows an interest in the spiritual predicament of ______ i n his fiction. A. the working-class people B. the upper-class society C. the exiles in Paris D. intellectuals and artists 3. In Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, there are detailed descriptions of big parties.The purpose of such descriptions is to show______. A. emptiness of life B. the corruption of the upper class C. contrast of the rich and the poor D. the happy days of the Jazz Age 4. “He is the last of the romantic heroes, whose energy and sense of commitment take him in search of the Ame rican Dream.” The character referred to in the passage is most likely the protagonist of ______. A. Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby B. Dreiser’s An American Tragedy C. Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls D. Twain’s The Adventures of Hucklebe 5. When we say that a poor young man from the West tried to make his fortune in the East but was disillusioned in the quest of an idealized dream, we are probably discussing about ______’s thematic concern in his fiction writing. A. Henry James B. Scott Fitzgerald C. Ernest Hemingway D. William Faulkner 6. In the beginning paragraph of Chapter 3, The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald describes a big party by saying that “men and girls came and went like moths.” The author most likely indicates that ______. A. there was a crowd of party-goers B. such life does not have real meaning C. these people were light-hearted D. these were crazy and ignorant characters 7. “He smiled understandingly—much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faces—or seemed to face—the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your in your favor.” A. Identify the author and the title of the novel from which the passage is taken. B. Who is “He” ? C. What is going on in this part of the novel? 答案： A. F. Scoot Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby; B. Gatsby; C. A luxurious party is being held in Gatsby's house.