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PART ONE (40 POINTS)
L Multiple Choice (40 points in all, 1 for each)
Select from the four choices of each item the one that bett answers the qaestion or completes the slatemciit 1 .The tragic sense turns into despair in Thomas Hardy's 一 ■ where the protagonists have to kill their own will
and passion and return to their former destructive way of life. A.
The Return of the Native B. The Mayor cfCasterhrid^ C Tess of D 'UHrvUhs
D. Me the Obscun
2. William Shakespeare wrote ___________________ history plays in the first period of his dramatic career.
A, 3
B. 4
C5
D ? 6
3. Paradise Lost is a masterpiece by____________________ ?
A ? Cluistopher Marlow
B ? John Milton C. William Shakespeare
D. Ben Johnson
4. The typical representatives of G ? B. Shaw's early plays are
A- Man and Superman; The Apple Cart B. Widower § House \ Mrs.
ir Professiwt
C. Candida; Hiirren i fmfession
D ? The Apple Cart\ Widower > House
5? The person who can penetrate to the heart of things and Qve the readers the very life of nature is ?
A ? William Wordsworth C. Daniel Defoe
2. 3. 4.
B. John Milton
D ? William Shakespeare
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6. In whidi novel can the word **Yahoo*' be found?
A.
John Bunyan's Pilgrim i Progress.
B ? Edmund Spencer's The Faerie Queen.
C Jonathan Swift's Gulliver 、Thrveb
D. Henry Fielding's Tom Jones,
7. T. S, Eliot won the Nobel Prize ofLiterature in
?
A.
1935
B ? 194S
C. 1962
D. 1976
g. Which of the following is NOT true in terms of Pride emd Prejudice?
A. It is the most popular of Jane Austen's novels.
B. It is originally drafted as **First Impressions**.
C.
hisa tragic novel.
D ? It explores the relationship between great love and realistic benefits.
9? Thomas Hardy's pessimistic view of li/e predominates most of his later wwks and eanu him a reputation as a
_______________________________ writer.
A. roalistic
B. naturalistic
C. romantic 10- Shelley's greatest achievement is hts four-act poetic drama _
A. Hellas
B. Prometheus UrAaund
C. Zastmzzi
D. Queen Mab
11 ? The novel Emma is written by __________________ ?
A. Mary Shelley
B. Charione Bronte C- Elizabeth
C. Gaskell
D, Jane Austen
12. As a critic of music and drama, _____________________ t hou^t that art should serve social purposes by
reflecting human life, revealing social contradictions and educating the common people. A-T, S- Eliot
B ? Oscar Wilde
C George Bernard Shaw
D. W, B. Yeats
13- The poetic line **If winter comes, can spring be 仙 behind 厂 is quoted from _________________
?
A. Don Juan
B. Kubla Khan
C. Jb Autumn
D. Ode to the Wind
14. Which of the following novels is NOT wrinen by Dickens?
A, A Tale cfTwo Cifies. B. The MiH wi the C> The Pickwick Papers.
D ? Great Expectations, 15. Williafn Blake's ________________ marks bis entry into maturity.
A- Poetical Sketches
B. Songs of Innocence
C. Marriage of Heaven and Hell
D.
ofExperience
16. Henry Fielding's ________________ brings him the name of" Prose Homef*.
A, Tht Histcry "Jonathan Wild the Gnat B. Th^ History tjfTbm Jona, a Fctmdhng C. The History cf Amelia
D. The History of Joseph Afutrews
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17. Daniel Defoe describes __________________as a typical English ntiddle-class man of the I 胪century,
(he very prototype of the empire builder, the pioncer colonist, A. Robinson Cnisoc B? Moll Flanders
27. Henry James loun
_____________ who A. Russell Ash
C. Gulliver D? Tome Jones
1& The greatest English critical realist novelist was _______________________ * who criticized Ihc bourgeois civilization and showed the misery of the common people.
A. William Makepeace Thackeray
B. Jane Austen
C. Charles Dickens
C. Vincent Alsop 2& Dickinson's poem
A. her sorrows an
C- her illness
D? Charlotte Bronte
19.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
20.Which of the following works was NOT written by David Herbert Laurence?
A. Lady Chatteyleyl bver. B?The Picture of Dorkm G?.
C, Sons and Lovers. D. Women in Leve,
21.T. S. Eliofs _________________ has been hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20* century
English poetry.
A- Four Quartets
29? In 1925 Dreiser's A?Death in the H
C. An American J
30. Frost is generally scape and people A. New
England
31 ? Hemingway^s fir
A- The Sun Also d
B, The Waste Land
C. Ash mdnesday D?Collected Poems 22- Which of the following is NOT the major figure of English modernist movement?
A. James Joyce.
B. Ezra Pound.
C. T. S, Eliot
C- An American.
32. In almost every t
A. evil
C- American dre
D? Charles Dickens.
23.Hawthorne's literary world turns out to be a most disturbed, tormented and possible to
imagine.
A? humorous B. bright C? p roblcmaticaJ
24.The abundance of themes in Whiiman'i poeOty voices __________________________ ?
A. evil sins C. darkness
one D. complex
D. freshness
25.Billy Budd by Melville deals with the sea and and the theme of a conflict between
innocence and corruption, A. workers B. sailors
33.Whitman shows A- Amencan pot C. American
no'
34.Moby^Dick is re
A. novel
35.All Marie Twai
youth.
A, sadness
C. farmers D? polkemen
36? It is Henry Ja
Americin litera
26? Mark Twain*s best works were produced when _________________________ -
A. he was in the prime of his life B? he was in London
C. he got married D? he went to Europe
A. literary essaj
37. In some of Did
A. love
C. family
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27. Henry James toured England, France and Italy, and met Flaubert, Maupassant, Turgenev and * who exerted a
great influence on James.
B. ZoU
A? Russell Ash
C. Mncent Alsop D? Elizabeth Amherst
2& Dickinsont poems are usually based on her own experiences, _____________________________ .
A. her sorrows and joys B? her marriage
C. her illness D? her family
29- In 1925 Dreisefs greatest work ____________________ appeared. But it was banned in Boston in 1927.
A. Death in tfw Woods
B. Old Rogaum and His Theresa
C, An American Tragedy D. The Call of the Wild
30. Frost b generally considered a regional poet whose subject matters mainly focus on the landscape and people
in _ —?
A. New England
B? Boston C Chicago D. New York
31 ? Hemingway's first true novel is __________________ ?
A. Sun Abe RT
B. Dreiier Look at Russia
C, A/t American TYagecfy D?Old Ragaum and His Thera
3Z In almost every book by Hawthorne, he discusses sin and __________________________ ?
A. evU
B. politics
C- American druni D? culture
33.Whitman shows concern for _____________________ and the burgeoning life of cities.
A. American poets
B. the whole hardworking people
C. American novelists
D. political leaders
34.Moby-Dick is regarded as the first American _?
A. novel
B. drama
C. prose epic
35.All Mark Turin's masterworks drew upon the scenes and _______________________
youth
A.sadness
B. love
D. poem of his
boyhood and
D? emotions
C? happiness
and his novels that make him a fascinating case in the
36.It is Henry James* _________
American literary history.
A. literary essays
B. autobiogi叩hies
C. travel accounts
D. book reviews
37.In some of Dickinson'$ poems she wrote about her doubt and belief about ―
A. love
B. politics
D. religious subjects
C? family
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3& Dreiser was influenced by many writers, but his true literary influences were from ?Balzac and Charles Darwiit
A. Soame Jenyns C. Elinor James
B, Herbert Spencer D.
Sciwyn Jepson
39. ?*New Hampshire" won Frost the first of four A. Le
Prix Goncourts B? David Cohen Prizes
C. Pulitzer Prizes a Nobel Prizes
40. Hemingway's second big success is the whole
generation in the 1920s. A. The Scarlet
Letter C. Civil Disobtdience A Sich wrote the epitaph to a decade and to
B?A Farewell to Arms
D. The Last Tycoon
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PART TWO (60 POINTS)
1L Reading ComprcheuiOD (16 points In all, 4 for each) Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in
English.
41.Too well I see and me the dire event
That with sad overthrow and foul defeat
Hath lost us Heaven, and all this mighty host
In horrible destniction laid thus low,
As far as gods and heavenly essences
to a decade and to
Can perish: for the mind and spirit remains
Invincible, and vigor soon returns. Though all our glory extinct, and happy state Here swallowed up in endless
misery.
Questioni:
A.What is the titk of the poem from which the stanza is taken? Who is the author?
B?What does ?*lhc diro event" refer to in the first line?
C. What is the theme of this poem?
42? I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills.
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees.
Fluttering and dancing in the bnc2c.
Questions:
A.What is the title of the poem from which the stanza n taken? Who is the author?
B.What is the figure of speech used in the first line?
C- What is the poct*s attitude toward nature?
43.Almost simultaneously, with a mighty volition of ungraduated, instantaneous swiftness, the White Whale darted
through the weltering SOL But wtien Ahab cried out to the steersman to take new turns with the lin& apd hold K
so; and commAnded the crew to turn round on their
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seats, and tow the boat up to the mark; tfie moment the treacherous line fch that double strain and tug, it
snapped in the empty air!
Questions:
A.What is the title of the novel from which the excerpt is taken? Who k the author?
B.What scene is depicted in this excerpt?
C.What does the white whale symbolize? And why?
44.“Who is he" 1 demanded. "Do you know?*'
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"He's jusla man named Gatsby."
**Where is he from. I mean? And what does he doT*
*'Now you*re started on the subject/* she answered with a wan smile. ?"Well, he told me once he was an Oxford man."
A dim background started to take shape behind him, but at her next remark it faded away,
**Howcvcr, I don't believe if*
-Why notr
“I don't know,** she insisted, '?I just don't think he went there.”
Qncstioas:
A.Whai b the title of the novel from which the excerpt is taken? Who is the author?
B.What does Gatsby's feilure stand for?
C- Whal does the underlined sentence mean?
in. Questions and Answen (24 points in &!!? 6 for each) Give a brief answer to each of the following questions in EngUsb.
45,What are the general features of Shakespeare's romantic comedies?
46.What is your comment on the main features of Bernard Shawl plays in terms of the plots or the talk?
47.How do you interpr et the meaning of ?*the damned human race” with reference to The Adventures cffHuckleberry
Finn by Mark Twain?
48,“Young Goodman Brown** by Hawthorne exemplifies the power of blackness in society in general. Whal is the tneta(^rical meaning of Brown*s experience in the woods?
IV Topic Discossion (20 points in alK 10 for each)
Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in fiDgltsb.
49.As a novelist Jane Austen writes within a very narrow sphere. In her novels, there is little reflection on the
events that stirred the whole Europe at the time. Briefly discuss the weak points and strong points of the narrowness of her writings-
50,Robert Frost has long been well known as a poet can hardly be classified witfi the old or the new. Briefly discuss the style of his poetry.
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