北京理工大学2015-2016学年第一学期
英国文学期末试题A卷
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I. Multiple Choice（50 points in all, 1for each）
Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Write the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.
1. The sentence \"Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?\" is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare’s ___.
A. comedies B. tragedies
C. sonnets D. histories
2. The major concern of ______fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature.
A. Charles Dickens’s B. D. H. Lawrence’s
C. Thomas Hardy’s D. John Galsworthy’s
3. Daniel Defoe describes____ as a typical English middle-class man of the eighteenth century, the very prototype of the empire builder or the pioneer colonist. A. Tom Jones B. Gulliver
C. Moll Flanders D. Robinson Crusoe 4. \"She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be;
But she is in her grave, and, oh, The difference to me?\"
The word \"me\" in the last line of the above stanza quoted from Wordsworth’s poem \"She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways\" may possibly refer to ____.
A. the poet B. the reader C. her one-sided lover D. everybody 5. _____ is a typical feature of Swift’s writings.
A. Bitter satire B. Elegant style
C. Casual narration D. Complicated sentence structure
6. The statement \"It reveals the dehumanizing workhouse system and the dark, criminal underworld life\" may well sum up the main theme of Dickens’s____ . A. David Copperfield B. Bleak House C. Great Expectations D. Oliver Twist
7. \"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 probable taken from_____ .
A. Pride and Prejudice B. Jane Eyre C. Wuthering Heights D. Great Expectations
8. The short story “Eveline” is one of the stories in James Joyce’s collection_____.
A. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man B. Ulysses C. Finnegans Wake D. Dubliners
9. In William Blake’s poetry, the father (and any other in whom he saw the image of the father such as God, priest, and king) was usually a figure of____ . A. benevolence B. admiration C. love D. tyranny
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10. After reading the first chapter of Pride and Prejudice, we may come to know that Mrs. Bennet is a woman of____ .
A. simple character and quick wit
B. simple character and poor understanding C. intricate character and quick wit
D. intricate character and poor understanding
11. “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. 12. Christopher Marlow’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” is a (n)_____ . A. pastoral lyric B. elegy C. folk song D. epic
13. In Hardy’s Wessex novels, there is a apparent____ touch in his description of the simple and beautiful though primitive rural life.
A. humorous B. romantic C. nostalgic D. sarcastic
14. In which of the following works can you find the proper names “Lilliput,” “Brobdingnag,” “Houyhnhnm,” and “Yahoo”?
A. James Joyce’s Ulysses. B. Charles Dickens’s Bleak House. C. Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. D. D. H. Lawrence’s Women in love.
15. 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
16. “When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table.”(T. s. Eliot, “The Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock”) What does the image in the quoted lines suggest? A. Violence. B. Horror. C. Inability. D. Indifference.
17. Which of the following qualifies does NOT feature Jane Austen's style?
A. Austen's main literary concern is about human beings in their personal relationships.
B. Everything in Austen's novel results in an observation, of a quiet, uneventful and contented life of the English country.
C. Austen is a great realist and her characters are from all walks of life.
D. Austen's works show clearly her firm belief in the predominance of reason over passion.
18. The work that presented, for the first time in English literature, a comprehensive realistic picture of the medieval English society and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life is most likely______.
A. William Langland’s Piers Plowman B. Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales C. John Gower’ Confession Amantis D. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
19. \" Damn the fool! There he is’, cried Heathcliff, sinking back into his seat. ’Hush, my darling! Hush, hush, Catherine! I’ll stay. If he shot me so, I’d expire with a blessing in my lips.’\" The novel from which the passage is taken must be _________. A. Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
B. Charles Dickens’s The Old Curiosity Shop C. Samuel Richardson’s Pamela
D. Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights
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20. James Joyce is the author of all the following novels except ______.
A. Dubliners B. Jude the Obscure
C. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man D. Ulysses
21. Naturalism is evolved from realism when the author’s tone in writing becomes less serious and less sympathetic but more ironic and more ____.
A. rational B. humorous C. optimistic D. pessimistic
22. \"He was afraid of her - the small, severe woman with graying hair suddenly bursting out in such frenzy. The postman came running back, afraid something had happened. They saw his tripped cap over the short curtains. Mrs. Morel rushes to the door.\" The above passage is taken from _________.
A. Charlotte Bronte’s The Professor B. Charles Dickens’s Domebey and Son C. D. H. Lawrence ’s Sons and Lovers D. John Galsworthy’s The Forsyte Saga
23. Tess of the D’Urbervilles, one of Thomas Hardy’s best known novels, portrays man as ________.
A. being hereditarily either good or bad
B. being self-sufficient
C. having no control over his own fate
D. still retaining his own faith in a world of confusion
24. 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. Greek D. Primitive 25. \"Bassanio: Antonio, I am married to a wife
Which is as dear to me as life itself;
But life itself, my wife, and all the world, Are not with me esteem’d above thy life; I would lose all, ay, sacrifice them all, Here to the devil, to deliver you.
Portia: Your wife would give you little thanks for that, If she were by to hear you make the offer.\"
The above is a quotation taken from Shakespeare’s comedy The Merchant of Venice. The quoted part can be regarded as a good example to illustrate ______.
A. dramatic irony B. personification C. simile D. symbolism
26. \"If Winter comes, can spring be far behind?\" is an epigrammatic line by ______. A. J. Keats B. W. Blake C. W. Wordsworth D. P. B. Shelley
27. The Victorian Age was largely and age of ______, eminently represented by Dickens and Thackeray.
A. poetry B. drama
C. prose D. novel
28. Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Modernism?
A. To elevate the individual and inner being over the social being. 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.
29. \"And we will sit upon the rocks, /Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks, /By shallow rivers to
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whose falls/ Melodious birds sing madrigals.\" The above lines are probably taken from ______. A. John Milton’s Paradise Lost B. John Donne’s \"The Sun Rising\"
C. Shakespeare’s \"Sonnet 18\"
D. Marlowe’s \"The Passionate Shepherd to His Love\"
30. The Romantic writers would focus on all the following issues EXCEPT the ____ in the American literary history.
A. individual feelings B. idea of survival of the fittest
C. strong imagination D. return to nature 31. 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
32. The poetic view of ______ can be best understood from his remark about poetry, that is, \"all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.\" A. Samuel Taylor Coleridge B. John Keats
C. William Wordsworth D. Percy Bysshe Shelly
33. In his poem, \"Ode to the West Wind,\" Shelley intends to present his wind as a central _______ around which the poem weaves various cycles of death and rebirth. A. concept B. symbol
C. simile D. personification
34. “Come to me－come to me entirely now,” said he ; and added, in his deepest tone, speaking in my ear as his cheek was laid on mine, “Make my happiness－I will make yours.” The above passage presents a scene in____ .
A. Emily Bronte’s Withering Heights B. Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre
C. John Galsworthy’s The Forsyte Saga D. Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D′ Urbervilles 35. Which of the following best describes the nature of Thomas Hardy’s later works? A. Sentimentalism. B. Tragic sense.
C. Surrealism. D. Comic sense. 36. A possible theme of James Joyce’s short story \"Araby\" is______.
A. hope B. disillusionment C. puppy love D. loss
37. The Normans brought the Mediterranean civilization, include ______to England.
A. Greek culture B. Roman law C. the Christian religion D. all of above 38. The Enlighteners believed in______EXCEPT_____.
A. They believed in self-restraint, self-reliance and hard work. B. They believed in God and fate.
C. They celebrated reason/rationality, equality and science.
D. They advocated universal education, which could make people rational and perfect, they believed.
39. In the poem “A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye!－Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky.” What literary devices are used?
A. simile and personification B. simile and metaphor C. metaphor and symbol D. simile and pun
40. In Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, Antonio could not pay back the money he borrowed from Shylock, because_______.
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A．his money was all invested in the newly-emerging textile industry B．his enterprise went bankrupt
C．Bassanio was able to pay his own debt D．his ships had all been lost
41. In the first part of Gulliver’s Travels, Gulliver told his experience in . A. Brobdingnag B. Lilliput
C. Flying Island D. Houyhnhnm
42. All of the following novels by Thomas Hardy reveal the conflict between the traditional and the
modern EXCEPT
A. The Mayor of Casterbridge B. Tess of the D’Urbervilles C. Jude the Obscure D. Under the Greenwood Tree
43. D. H. Lawrence’s novel is a remarkable novel in which the individual consciousness is
subtly revealed and strands of themes are intricately wound up. A. Sons and Lovers B. The Rainbow
C. Woman in Love D. Lady Chatterley’s Lover
44. All of the following plays are among Shakespeare’s four greatest tragedies EXCEPT 。
A. Hamlet B. Macbeth C. Romeo and Juliet D. Othello
45. Dickens’ best depicted characters are those innocent, virtuous, persecuted and helpless . A. child characters B. females C. Laborers D. farmers
46. “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, Eliot’s most striking early achievement presents the
meditation of an aging young man over the business of . A. proposing marriage B. pursuing the truth C. losing idealism D. making a choice
47. John Milton's greatest poetical work ______ is the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf. A. Areopagitica B. Paradise Lost C. Lycidas D. Samson Agonistes
48. After the First World War, there appeared the following literary trends of modernism EXCEPT
______.
A. expressionism B. surrealism C. stream of consciousness D. black humour 49. “Byronic hero” is a figure of the following traits EXCEPT ______.
A. being proud B. being of humble origin C. being rebellious D. being mysterious
50. The leader of the Irish National Theater Movement in the early 20th century was ______.
A. W.B.Yeats B. Lady Gregory C. J.M.Synge D. John Galworthy
II．Reading Comprehension （20 points in all, 10 for each）
Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the Answer Sheet.
51. \"Then naked &white, all their bags left behind they rise upon clouds, and sport in the wind. And the angle told Tom, if he'd be a good boy, He'd have God for his father, and never want joy.
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Questions:
(1) Identify the poem and its poet; (2) What does the poem implies?
52. “Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? —You think wrong!… 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…—it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God’s feet, equal—as we are!” Questions:
(1) Identify the author and the novel from which the quoted part is taken. (2) What does the quoted part imply about the speaker?
III. Topic Discussion（30 points in all, 10 for each）
Write no less than 100 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the Answer Sheet.
53. Please analyze the style of Charles Dickens:
54. Briefly discuss William Shakespeare's artistic achievements in characterization, plot construction and language.
55. How do you know about Renaissance? Give a summary about English literature in the period.
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