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【北京语言大学】19秋《英美文学选读》作业_2
试卷总分:100 得分:100
第1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2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3题,Which of the following plays does not belong to Shakespeare’s great tragedies?
A、Macbeth
B、King Lear
C、Hamlet
D、The Comedy of Errors
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第4题,Two roads diverged in a yellow wood
<br/>And sorry I could not travel both ... In the above two lines of Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken, the poet, by implication, was referring to _______.
A、a travel experience
B、a marriage decision
C、a middle-age crisis
D、one’s course of life
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第5题,In Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth Bennet finds out some weak points about herself in the process of judging others. Which of the following is NOT a weak point of hers?
A、Blindness
B、 Partiality
C、 Snobbishness
D、 Prejudice.
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第6题,American literature produced only one female poet during the ninetheenth century , This was _______ .
A、Anne Bradsteet
B、Jane Austen
C、Emily Dickinson
D、T. S. Eliot
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第7题,Robert Frost is the author of all the following books of poetry except ______.
A、A Witness Tree
B、 Steeple Bush
C、 A Masque of Mercy
D、Jude the Obscure
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第8题,"So much the worse for me, that I an strong. Do I want to live? What kind of living will it be when you-oh, God! /Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?"/In the above passage quoted from Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, the word "soul" apparently refers to _______ .
A、Heathcliff
B、Catherine
C、ghost
D、one's spiritual lift
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第9题,George Bernard Shaw’ s ______ is a grotesquely realistic exposure of slum landlordism.
A、Widower’ s House
B、Mrs. Warren’ s Profession
C、The Apple Cart
D、Getting Married
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第10题,With the scarlet letter A as the biggest symbol of all, ______ proves himself to be one of the best symbolists.
A、Hawthorne
B、Dreiser
C、James
D、 Faulkner
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第11题,"O prince, O chief of many throned powers," /That led th'embattled seraphim to war /Under thy conduct, and in dreadful deeds /Fearless, endangered Heaven's perpetual King." /In the third line of the above passage quoted from Milton's Paradise Lost, the phrase "thy conduct" refers to ( ).
A、Satan's
B、God's
C、Adam's
D、Eve's
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第12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
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第13题,In Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, there are detailed descriptions of big parties. The purpose of such descriptions is so show _______.
A、emptiness of life
B、 the corruption of the upper class
C、 contrast of the rich and the poor
D、 the happy days of the Jazz Age
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第14题,With Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the literary scene, ___became the major trend in American literature in the seventies and eighties of the 19th century.
A、Sentimentalism
B、 romanticism
C、 realism
D、 naturalism
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第15题,Auld Lang Syne was written by
A、William Wordsworth
B、 John Keats
C、 Walt Whiteman
D、 Robert Burns
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第16题,William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated the use of elegant wording and inflated figures of speech.
√、对
×、错
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第17题,David Copperfield use the first person singular.
√、对
×、错
正确资料:√
第18题,The life of school at Hawkshead greatly affected Wordsworth’s poetry.
√、对
×、错
正确资料:√
第19题,Darwin exerts the single most important influence on literary naturalism, of which Theodore Dreiser and Jack London are among the best representative writers.
√、对
×、错
正确资料:√
第20题,The meaning of "To die, to sleep" is comparing "death" to "long sleep".
√、对
×、错
正确资料:√
第21题,The Scarlet Letter is set in the 17th-century Boston.
√、对
×、错
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第22题,William Wordsworth was brought up by his relatives beacaus of the death of his parents.
√、对
×、错
正确资料:√
第23题,Stylistically,poems of Robert Frost is characterized by simple language, a graceful style, and traditional forms of poetry.
√、对
×、错
正确资料:√
第24题,Kitty is the fourth daughter of the Bennet family.
√、对
×、错
正确资料:√
第25题,Augustus Carmichael of To the Lighthouse is an elderly musician and friends of the Ramsays.
√、对
×、错
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