【北语网院】18秋《英美文学选读》作业_3(答案)

【北京语言大学】18秋《英美文学选读》作业_3

试卷总分:100 得分:100

第1题,The ______ was a progressive intellectual movement throughout western Europe in the 18th century .

A、Enlightenmrent

B、Renaissance

C、 Religious Reformation

D、Chartist Movement

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第2题,All of the following poems by William Wordsworth are masterpieces on nature EXCEPT ______.

A、“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”

B、“An Evening Walk”

C、“Tintern Abbey”

D、“The Solitary Reaper”

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第3题,Many people today tend to regard the play “ The Merchant of Venice ” as a satire of the hypocrisy of __________ and their false standards of friendship and love ， their cunning ways of pursuing worldliness and their unreasoning prejudice against _________ .

A、Christians / Jews

B、Jews / Christians

C、oppressors / oppressed

D、people / Jews

正确答案:

第4题,Which of the following is NOT written by Jane Austen?

A、Sense and Sensibility

B、 Pride and Prejudice

C、 Jane Eyre

D、 Emma

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第5题,In Tender is the Night, ______ traces the decline of a young American psychiatrist whose marriage to a beautiful and wealthy patient drains his personal energies and corrodes his professional career.

A、Dreiser

B、Faulkner

C、Fitzgerald

D、Jack London

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第6题,It is generally regarded that Keats＇s most important and mature poems are in the form of _______ .

A、ode

B、 elegy

C、 epic

D、 sonnet

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第7题,"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 probably taken from _______ .

A、Pride and Prejudice

B、 Jane Eyre

C、 Wuthering Heights

D、 Great Expectations

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第8题,Dofoe had flair for business and______.

A、farming

B、economy

C、politics

D、medicine

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第9题,The Sun Also Rises casts light on a whole generation after WWI and the effects of the war by way of a vivid portrait of “______.”

A、the Beat Generation

B、the Lost Generation

C、the Babybooming Age

D、the Jazz Age

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第10题,In Robert Frost＇s famous poems"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" ,there are four lines like these:"The woods are lovely,dark and deep,/But I have promises to keep ,/And miles to go before I sleep ,/ And miles to go before I sleep ".The second sleep refers to( ).

A、calm down

B、fall into sleep

C、die

D、stop walking

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第11题,Dickens’best- depicted characters are the following. EXCEPT ______.

A、innocent, virtuous, persecuted and helpless child characters

B、horrible and grotesque

C、broadly humorous or comical characters

D、simple, innocent and faithful women characters

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第12题,Realism was a reaction against Romanticism and paved the way to ______.

A、Modernism

B、Scientism

C、Post-Modernism

D、Feminism

正确答案:

第13

题,“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind!” is an epigrammatic line by __.

A、J.Keats

B、W.Blake

C、W.Wordsworth

D、P.Shelley

正确答案:

第14题,The essence of humanism is to ______.

A、restore a medieval reverence for the church

B、 avoid the circumstances of earthly life

C、 explore the next world in which men could live after death

D、 emphasize human qualities

正确答案:

第15题,"I have no monarch in my life." this was said by___

A、Walt Whitman

B、 Robert Frost

C、 John keats

D、 Emily Dickinson

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第16题,Meter is simply a rhythm that has been chosen by the poet and which he repeats and uses consistently over the length of a stanza or complete poem.

√、对

×、错

正确答案:√

第17题,Fitzgerald’s first novel is The Beautiful and Damned.

√、对

×、错

正确答案:×

第18题,Robert Frost left Harvard because he dislike the academic convention.

√、对

×、错

正确答案:√

第19题,Wordsworth’s attitude towards the French Revolution changed at his later years.

√、对

×、错

正确答案:√

第20题,While studying at Lawrence High School, Frost wrote poems and finished his studies at the top of his class.

√、对

×、错

正确答案:√

第21题,Charles Dickens is one of the greatest critical realist writers of the Victorian Age.

√、对

×、错

正确答案:√

第22题,The 18th century witnessed a new literary form -the modern English novel, which, contrary to the medieval romance, gives a realistic presentation of life of the common English people.

√、对

×、错

正确答案:√

第23题,Capitalism came into its monopoly stage, the gap between the rich and

the poor was further deepened during Victorian period.

√、对

×、错

正确答案:×

第24题,There were many literary artists involved in the groups known as the Lost Generation. The three best known areSherwood Anderson, Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos.

√、对

×、错

正确答案:×

第25题,According to Hawthorne, the scarlet letter "A" originally stood for "adultery" .

√、对

×、错

正确答案:√