(单选题)1: We can perhaps describe the west wind in Shelley‘s poem "Ode to the West
Wind" with all the following terms except
_______ .
A: tamed
B: swift
C: proud
D: wild
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(单选题)2: 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
D: first person point of view
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(单选题)3: ______ is a play that concerns the problem of modern man‘s identity .
A: The Hairy Ape
B: Long Day‘s Journey into Night
C: The Iceman Cometh
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(单选题)4: Frost took a ______ style in his poetry .
A: simple
B: complicated
C: modern
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(单选题)5: Of all the 18th century novelists Henry Fielding was the first to set out，both in theory and practice，to write specifically a“____in prose,”the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.
A: tragic epic
B: comic epic
C: romance
D: lyric epic
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(单选题)6: The subject matter of Robert Frost’s Poems focuses on .
A: ordinary country people and scenes
B: battle scenes of ancient Greek and Roman legends
C: struggling masses and crowded urban quarters
D: fantasies and mythical happenings
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(单选题)7: “For a week after the commission of the impious and profane offence of asking
for more, Oliver remained a close prisoner in the dark and solitary room
...”(Dickens, Oliver Twist) What did Oliver ask for?
A: More time to play.
B: More food to eat.
C: More book to read.
D: More money to spend.
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(单选题)8: For quite sometime after its appearance , Catch–22 was seen as a structural ______ despite its
narrative power .
A: success
B: failure
C: miracle
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(单选题)9: “...This grew: I gave commands;
Then all smiles stopped altogether....”
(Robert Browning, “My Last Duchess”)
The above lines imply that .
A: the Duchess was killed by her husband
B: the Duchess stopped smiling at her husband’s order
C: the Duchess died of laughing too much
D: the Duchess did not want to smile as much as her husband requested
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(单选题)10: The plot of ______ is divided into three parts.
A: Native Son
B: Invisible Man
C: Song of Solomon
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(单选题)11: Each of the professions listed below is correctly paired with Dickens except
A: novelist
B: clerk
C: reporter
D: dramatist
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(单选题)12: Black humor refers to the use of the morbid and the absurd for darkly _____ purposes .
A: comic
B: tragic
C: entertaining
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(单选题)13: 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
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(单选题)14: _______ has been regarded as the “founder of the American Drama”.
A: Tennessee Williams
B: Eugene O’Neill
C: Arthur Miller
D: Hendrik Ibser
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(单选题)15: In Chapter III of Oliver Twist, Oliver is punished for that “impious and profane offence of asking for more” . What did Oliver ask for more?
A: More time to play
B: More food to eat
C: More books to read
D: More money to spend
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(单选题)16: Beowulf is a national epic of
A: Germany
B: England
C: Scandinavia
D: France
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(单选题)17: The impact of Darwin‘s evolutionary theory on the American thought and the
influence of the nineteenth-century
French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to yet another school
of realism: American ________ .
A: local colorism
B: vernacularism
C: modernism
D: naturalism
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(单选题)18: Mrs. Warren’s Profession is one of George Bernard Shaw’s plays. What is Mrs. Warren’s profession then ?
A: Real estate.
B: Prostitution.
C: House-keeping.
D: Farming.
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(单选题)19: John Bunyan‘s pilgrim`s progress is often regarded as a typical example of____.
A: allegory
B: romance
C: epic in prose
D: fable
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(单选题)20: ______________ has always been regarded as a writer who “perfected the best classic style that American Literature ever produced”.
A: Edgar Ellen Poe
B: Walt Whitman
C: Henry David Thoreau
D: Washington Irving
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(判断题)21: The “dark comedy” refers to those written by Jonson in his third period of dramatic career.
A: 错误
B: 正确
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(判断题)22: The Lost Generation was first named by Hemingway .
A: 错误
B: 正确
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(判断题)23: The most striking similarities between Milton and Samson Agonistes are their blindness and unhappy marriage.
A: 错误
B: 正确
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(判断题)24: In her works , Amy Tan wrote beautifully about the contrast between Chinese and American cultures .
A: 错误
B: 正确
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(判断题)25: Hardy had written and published many poems before he achieved a reputation with his novels.
A: 错误
B: 正确
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(判断题)26: Neo-classicism saw its decline in Dryden.
A: 错误
B: 正确
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(判断题)27: Wordsworth’s best poems are description of mountains, rivers, flowers, birds .
A: 错误
B: 正确
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(判断题)28: Black Humor is defined as modern humor caused by anger .
A: 错误
B: 正确
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(判断题)29: The short story “The Rocking Horse Winner” was written by Lawrence.
A: 错误
B: 正确
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(判断题)30: A ballad is written in 4-line stanza with the first and third lines rhymes.
A: 错误
B: 正确
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(判断题)31: Mr. Bennet’s favorite daughter is Jane.
A: 错误
B: 正确
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(判断题)32: King Lear distributed his territory among his three daughters.
A: 错误
B: 正确
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(判断题)33: The Neo-classicism saw its decline in Johnson.
A: 错误
B: 正确
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(判断题)34: Most of English ballads were collected in the 18th century.
A: 错误
B: 正确
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(判断题)35: Dreiser‘s novels usually have little detailed descriptions of characters and events .
A: 错误
B: 正确
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(判断题)36: The Celestial City in the Pilgrim’s Progress stands for an ideal happy society.
A: 错误
B: 正确
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(判断题)37: Scott’s literary career marked the transition from romanticism to realism.
A: 错误
B: 正确
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(判断题)38: The Joy Luck Club is a group of separate stories happening in men‘s club located in San Francisco Chinatown .
A: 错误
B: 正确
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(判断题)39: Whitman is granted the honor of being ‘‘ the American Goldsmith ‘‘ for his literary craftsmanship .
A: 错误
B: 正确
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(判断题)40: Marlowe mainly wrote tragedies .
A: 错误
B: 正确
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