英美文学 适中难度.doc

1、1. What is the branch of linguistics which studies the characteristics of speech sounds and provides methods for their description, classification and transportation. A) Phonetics B) Phonology C) Phoneme D) Phonetic typology 2. VOA is an acronym.(F) Initialism3. A figure of speech in which one word

2、or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated, as in the use of Washington for the United States government or of the sword for military power. What is the use it is? (换喻或转喻，一种,一个词或词组被另一个与之有紧密联系的词或词组替换的修辞方法，如用华盛顿代替美政府或用剑代替军事力量，对面来了三个“红领巾“ 也是，以红领巾指代少先队员。) Metonymy4. Who wro

3、te Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained?A. John Milton B. Ralph Waldo Emerson C. Nathaniel Hawthorne D. Margaret Fuller5. Vanity Fair (名利场) was written by William Makepeace Thackeray 。6. Who was the first person to walk on the moon？A. Edwin Aldrin B. Michael Collins C. Neil Armstrong D. Sir Thomas Mo

4、re7. The policy and practice of imposing the social separation of races, as in schools, housing, and industry, especially so as to practice discrimination against people of color in a predominantly white society.( 强制实行种族的社会分离政策及实践，如在学校、居住和工业中，尤指在白人居多的社会中实行有色人种歧视的政策)A . Boycott B. Segregation C. Apar

5、theid D. Integration8. All of the following four except are the most eminent dramatists in the Renaissance England.A. Francis Bacon B. Christopher Marlowe C. William Shakespeare D. Ben Jonson 9. In Beowulf, fought against the monster Grendel and a five breathing dragon.A. the Anglo-Saxons B. Beowulf

6、 C. the Scandinavian D. the Winter Dragon 10. Francis Bacon is best known for his which greatly influenced the development of this literary form.A. essays B. poems C. works D plays 11. The modern English novel came into being in .A. the middle of the 17th century B. the 17th century C. the late 18th

7、 century D. the middle of the 18th century 12. Who is not the major figure of modernist movement?A. Eliot B. Joyce C. Charles Dickens D. Pound 13. Which of the following cannot describe “Byronic hero“?A. proud B. mysterious C. noble origin D progressive 14. The term “metaphysical poetry“ is commonly

8、 used to name the work of the 17th century writers who wrote under the influence of .A. John Milton B. John Donne C. John Keats D. John Bunyan 15. The 18th century England is known as the in the history.A. Romanticism B. Classicism C. Renaissance D. Enlightenment16. Which one of the following four b

9、ooks was written by Harriet Stowe? A) Roughing It in the Bush. B) Walden, or Life in the Woods. C) Adam Bede. D) Uncle Toms Cabin. B17. Major Newspapers and Magazines in the USA are , etc. A) New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Times B) New York Times, Washington Post, The Sun, Times

10、 C) New York Times, Washington Post, The Evening Post, Times D) New York Times, Washington Post, Sunday Times, Times A18. .Romance, which uses narrative verse or prose to tell stories of _ adventures or other heroic deeds, is a popular literary form in the medieval period.A. Christian B. knightly C.

11、 Greek D. primitive B 19. Which of the following historical events does not directly help to stimulate the rising of the Renaissance Movement?A. The rediscovery of ancient Greek and Roman culture.B. The new discoveries in geography and astrology.C. The Glorious revolution.D. The religious reformatio

12、n and the economic expansion. C 20. “And we will sit upon the rocks,/Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks,/By shallow rivers to whose falls/Melodious birds sing madrigals.” The above lines are probably taken from _.A. Spensers The Faerie QueeneB. John Donnes “The Sun Rising”C. Shakespeares “Sonnet

13、 18”D. Marlowes “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” D21. The ture subject of John Donnes poem, “The Sun Rising,” is to _.A. attack the sun as an unruly servantB. give compliments to the mistress and her power of beautyC. criticize the suns intrusion into the lovers private lifeD. lecture the sun o

14、n where true royalty and riches lie B22. Which of the following is taken from John Keats “Ode on a Grecian Urn”?A. “I fall upon the thorns of life ! I bleed!”B. “They are both gone up to the church to pary.”C. “Earth has not anything to show more fair.”D.“Beauty is truth, truth beauty”. D 23. “Ode o

15、 na Grecian Urn” shows the contrast between the _ of art and the _ of human passion.A. glory ugliness B. permanencetransienceC. transiencesordidness D. glorypermanence B24. Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Modernism? BA. To elevate the individual and inner being over the social bei

16、ng.B. To put the stress on traditional values.C. To portray the distorted and alienated relationships between man and his environment.D. To advocate a conscious break with the past.25. Henry David Thoreaus work, _,has always been regarded as a masterpiece of New England Transcendentalism.A. Walden B

17、. The pioneersC. Nature D. Song of Myself A26. Walt Whitman was a pioneering figure of American poetry. His innovation first of all lies in his use of _,poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.A. blank verse B. heroic coupletC .free verse D. iambic pentameter C27. Hester Pryme, Dimmsdale

18、, Chillingworth and Pearl are most likely the names of the characters in _.A. The Scarlet Letter B. The House of the Seven GablestC. The Portrait of a Lady D. The pioneers A28. With Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the literary scene, _ became the major trend in American literature in the se

19、venties and eighties of the 19thcentury.A. sentimentalism B. romanticismC. realism D. naturalism C 31. Generally speaking,all those writers with a naturalistic approach to human reality tend to be _.A. transcendentalists B. idealists C. pessimists D. impressionists C32. Chinese poetry and philosophy have exerted great influence over _.A. Ezra Pound B. Ralph Waldo Emerson AC. Robert Frost D. Emily Dickinson33. The Hemingway Code heroes are best remembered for their _.A. indestructible spirtie B. pessimistic view of lifeC. war experiences D. masculinity A