课程编号:99900145 北京理工大学2014-2015学年第二学期
英国文学期末试题A卷
班级学号姓名成绩
I. Multiple Choice（50 points in all, 1for each）
Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answer the question or completes the statement. Write the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.
1.The sentence "Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?"is the beginning line of one of
Shakespeare’s ___.
A. comedies
B. tragedies
C. sonnets
D. histories
2.The major concern of ______fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological development of his
characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature.
A. Charles Dickens’s
B. D. H. Lawrence’s
C. Thomas Hardy’s
D. John Galsworthy’s
3.Daniel Defoe describes____ as a typical English middle-class man of the eighteenth century, the
very prototype of the empire builder or the pioneer colonist.
A. Tom Jones
B. Gulliver
C. Moll Flanders
D. Robinson Crusoe
4."She lived unknown, and few could know
When Lucy ceased to be;
But she is in her grave, and, oh,
The difference to me?"
The word "me" in the last line of the above stanza quoted from Wordsworth’s poem "She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways" may possibly refer to ____.
A. the poet
B. the reader
C. her one-sided lover
D. everybody
5._____ is a typical feature of Swift’s writings.
A. Bitter satire
B. Elegant style
C. Casual narration
D. Complicated sentence structure
6.The statement "It reveals the dehumanizing workhouse system and the dark, criminal
underworld life" may well sum up the main theme of Dickens’s____ .
A. David Copperfield
B. Bleak House
C. Great Expectations
D. Oliver Twist
7."Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? ... And
if God had gifted me with some beauty, and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you."
The above quoted passage is most probable taken from_____ .
A. Pride and Prejudice
B. Jane Eyre
C. Wuthering Heights
D. Great Expectations
8.The short story“Araby”is one of the stories in James Joyce’s collection_____.
A. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
B. Ulysses
C. Finnegans Wake
D. Dubliners
9.In William Blake’s poetry, the father (and any other in whom he saw the image of the father
such as God, priest, and king) was usually a figure of____ .
A. benevolence
B. admiration
C. love
D. tyranny
