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PART ONE (共 50 分)
I. Multiple Choice (50 points in all, 1 for each)
Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Mark your choice by blackening the corresponding letter [A], [B], [C]or[D]on the ANSWER SHEET.
1. Beowulf, a typical example of Old English poetry that evokes the Anglo-Saxon sense of the harshness of circumstance and the sadness of the human lot, is regarded today as __ of the Anglo-Saxons.
A. a romance B. the national epic
C. a religious poem D. the first blank verse
2. The early period of the English Renaissance was one of imitation and assimilation. Wyatt introduced __ into England. A. blank verse B. terza rima C. the Petrarchan sonnet D. sestina
3. The Renaissance marks a transition from the medieval to the modem world. The essence of Renaissance is . A. religious reformation B. humanism
C. economic expansion D. geographic discoveries
4. Which of the following plays is NOT one of William Shakespeare's great tragedies? A. King Lear B. Henry IV C. Othello D. Macbeth
5. In Paradise Lost, Adam's disobedience to God reflects the keystone of John Milton's creed, that is, __ A. the freedom of the will B. the importance of love
C. evil is at the core of human nature D. human life is full of temptations
6. The 18thcentury England is known as the Age of Enlightenment. The enlighteners held that __ should be the only, the final cause of any human thought and activities.
A. rationality B. equality C. science D. knowledge
7. In field of literature, the Enlightenment Movement brought about a(n)_ the old classical works. This tendency is known as neoclassicism.
A. revived interest in B. antagonism against C. rebellion against D. irrational imitation of
8. In the neoclassical period of British literature, __ is the leading figure in the theatrical world. A. William Collins B. Richard Brinsley Sheridan C. Mrs. Ann Radcliffe D.M.G. Lewis
9. Henry Fielding's first novel Joseph Andrews is intended as a burlesque of the dubious morality and sentimentality in__ A. Pamela B. Roxana
C. Gulliver's TraveLs D. The Faerie Queene
10. As one of the greatest masters of English prose,__ defined a good style as \"proper words in proper places. \" A. Alexander Pope B. Daniel Defoe C. Samuel Johnson D. Jonathan Swift
11. In the lines \"This City now doth, like a garment, wear / The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, / Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie / Open unto the fields, and to the sky,\" there is obviously a peculiar use of abundant commas. This works to create a special effect: __
A. to strengthen the effect of chaos through fragmentary listing
B. to show merely the beauty of London's morning landscape
C. to imitate the movement ot\" the speaker's eyes which go on tiptoe over the scene when exposed to the beauty and
the quietness of the morning D. to show the sense of isolation
12. In \"Ode to the West Wind,\" Percy Bysshe Shelly intends to present the wind as a central around which the poem weaves various cycles of death and rebirth.
A. symbol B. metaphor C. hyperbole D. synecdoche
13. __ is central to William Blake's concern in his Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, and this concern gives the two books a strong social and historical reference.
A. Politics B. Religion C. Childhood D. Manhood
14. William Wordsworth, on poetry writing, advocates all the following EXCEPT__ A. usage of ordinary speech in poetry
B. direct experience of senses as the source of poetry C. emphasis on refined form and elegant wordings
D. adoption of humble and rustic life as subject matter 15. Which of the following does NOT belong to \"Lake Poets\"?
A. Robert Southey B. William Wordsworth
C. John Keats D. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
16. Which of the following is NOT true about William Blake's Marriage of Heaven and Hell? A. This poem marks Blake's entry into maturity.
B. In this poem, Blake explores the relationship of the contraries like good and evil, innocence and experience,
body and soul.
C. The \"marriage\" to Blake means the subordination of one of the contraries to the other.
D. The poem was composed during the climax of the French Revolution and it plays the double role both as a satire
and a revolutionary prophecy.
17. \"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. \" This quotation is from __
A. Pride and Prejudice B. Waverley C. Wuthering Heights D. Jane Eyre
18. All the following prose writers EXCEPT __ were of the Victorian Age. A. Charles Lamb B. Thomas Carlyle C. John Ruskin D. Matthew Arnold 19. Charlotte Br6nte's works are famous for the depiction of __
A. virtuous, helpless child characters B. horrible and grotesque characters C. middle-class working women D. beautiful and innocent rural women 20. In Bleak House, Charles Dickens mainly attacks__
A. the Utilitarian principle that rules over the English education system and destroys young hearts and minds B. the overwhelming social environment which brings moral degeneration and destruction to people C. the legal system and practices that aim at devouring every penny of the clients D. the religious corruption in English churches
21. Among the following experimental poets, __ is the one who created verse novel by adopting the novelistic presentation of characters and brought some psycho-analytical element to the Victorian poetry. A. Alfred Tennyson B. Matthew Arnold C. Dante Gabriel Rossetti D. Robert Browning
22. Modem English novel is a natural product of the Industrial Revolution and a symbol of the growing importance of__ . A. the working class B. the middle class C. the English church D. the aristocratic
23. Which of the following statements about \"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock\" is NOT true? A. The poem is intensely romantic with visual images of gritty objects. B. The poem is in the form of dramatic monologue.
C. The setting of the poem resembles the \"polite society\" of Pope's \"The Rape of the Lock. \" D. It presents the meditation of an aging young man over the business of a proposing marriage.
24. Writers like Dorothy Richardson, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf concentrated their efforts on digging into the human __ A. dignity\" B. passion
C. morality D. consciousness
25. Leopold Bloom, who becomes the symbol of everyday man in the post-World-War-I Europe, is a character in 's novel.
A. George Eliot B. Charles Dickens C. Jane Austen D. James Joyce
26. T. S. Eliot's poem, The Waste Land, is mainly concerned with the __ of modern civilization. A. political corruption B. physical, breakup C. religious corruption D. spiritual breakup
27. In George Bernard Shaw's play, Mrs. Warren's Profession, Mrs. Warren once said: \"If there is a thing I hate in a woman, it's want of character.\" The word \"want\" here means . A. desire B. lack C. possession D. need
28. Of the following plays by T. S. Eliot, __ is the best in the sense that it contains the best poetry and the most coherent drama.
A. Murder in the Cathedral B. The Family Reunion C. The Cocktail Party D. The Elder Statesman
29. Among the following writers, __ is NOT known as one of \"the Angry Young Men. \" A. Kingsley Amis B. John wain
C. John Braine D. John Galsworthy
30. In the early 20th century, Irish playwrights like W. B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, and __ brought about, the Irish National Theatre Movement.
A. J. M. Synge B. John Osborne C. E. M. Forster D. Oscar Wilde
31. Which of the following statements about the literary productions of \" the American Renaissance\" is NOT tree? A. The famous literary figures like Irving and Cooper wrote in neo-classical style of England. B. New emphasis was placed on the imaginative qualities of literature. C. Much attention was given to the free expression of emotions.
D. The ordinary men and their existence, instead of generals and great battles, were celebrated in the literary
works of the time.
32. According to __, human beings are basically depraved and corrupted, hence they should obey God to atone for their sins.
A. American Naturalism B. Calvinism C. Transcendentalism D. Unitarianism
33. According to __, \"There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity. \"
A. Theodore Dreiser B. Mark Twain C. Nathaniel Hawthorne D. Herman Melville 34. Which of the following statements about Walt Whitman is NOT true? A. Whitman prefers \"free verse\" and his poems are seldom rhythmical.
B. In celebrating the self, Whitman gives emphasis to the physical dimension of the self and openly and joyously
celebrates sexuality.
C. Another characteristic in Whitman's language is his strong tendency to use vernacular.
D. In \"There Was a Child Went Forth,\" Whitman's own early experience may well be identified with the childhood
of a young, growing America.
35. Which of the following works does NOT show a desire for an escape from society and a return to nature? A. Leather-Stocking Tales B. Walden
C. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn D. Sister Carrie
36. \"Oh, lonely death on lonely life! Oh, now I feel my topmost greatness lies in my topmost grief. Ho, ho ! From all your furthest bounds, pour ye now in, ye bold billows of my whole foregone life, and top this one piled comber of my death!\" This quotation is taken from . A. \"Young Goodman Brown\" B. Sister Carrie C. Daisy Miller D. Moby-Dick
37. Of the following writers,__ develops the style of colloquialism initiated by Mark Twain. A. William Faulkner B.F. Scott Fitzgerald
C. Saul Bellow D. Ernest Hemingway
38. Which of the following statements about Nathaniel Hawthorne and his works is true?
A. Some of his writings are concerned with the moral and psychological consequences of secret guilt that manifest
themselves in human beings.
B. The Scarlet Letter is strictly based on the tradition of a curse pronounced on the author's family when his
great-grandfather was a judge in the Salem witchcraft trials.
C. His The House of the Seven Gables is a novel revealing his own experiences on the Brook Farm. D. Together with Emerson, Thoreau and other transcendentalists, Hawthorne celebrates the infinity of human heart.
39. The famous American critic H. L. Mencken referred to as \" the true father of our national literature. \" A. Washington Irving B. Ralph Waldo Emerson C. Mark Twain D. Walt Whitman 40. Among Henry James's works, __ satirizes the women liberation movement. A. The Portrait of A Lady B. The American
C. Daisy Miller D. The Bostonians
41. To Walt Whitman, especially in his younger years, the fast growth of industry and wealth in cities means . A. a lively future for a young, growing America B. a moral degeneration of American \"Newman\" C. a destruction of natural environment
D. a betrayal of Puritan ideals such as frugality and abstinence
42. Moby-Dick can be read as an initiation story about __, the outcast, finding himself in a real world of hard work and
danger and an unreal world of speculation and mystery.
A. Queequeg B. Ishmael C. Stubb D. Starbuck
43. \"Whose woods these are I think I know. / His house is in the village though; / He will not see me stopping here / To
watch his woods fill up with snow. \"These lines are written by A. Walt Whitman B. Robert Frost
C. Ezra Pound D. Emily Dickinson
44. Among Ernest Hemingway's works, __ is the first book to present a Hemingway hero -- Nick Adams. A. In Our Time B. The Sun Also Rises C. A Farewell to Arms D. For Whom the Bell Tolls
45. Most of William Faulkner's works are set in __, and he even created an imaginary place, Yoknapatawpha County. A. the American Frontier B. the American South C. the American North D. New England 46. The Grapes of Wrath, as a novel of social protest, is a record of__
A. the Great Depression B. the Beat Movement C. the Jazz Age D. the Gilded Age
47. In \"A Rose for Emily,\" William Faulkner makes the best use of the devices in narration.
A. comic B. Gothic C. ironic D. poetic
48. In which of the following works is the first-person narration employed?
A. \"Indian Camp\" B. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn C. Daisy Miller D. \"A Rose for Emily\" 49. Among the following American writers, __ has won a Nobel Prize for literature. A. Gertrude Stein B. Sherwood Anderson C.F. Scott Fitzgerald D. William Faulkner
50. The postwar poets, with __ in the lead, would typically write about an object or a situation which could express or classify- their own feeling, showing a growing sense of resistance to the existing culture and at the same time an assertion of the self. Hence their poems are confessional.
A. Allen Ginsberg B. Joseph Heller C. Thomas Pynchon D. Robert Lowell
PART TWO ( 共50分)
II. Questions and Answers (30 points in all, 6 for each)
Give brief answers to each of the following questions in English. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the ANSWER SHEET. 51. All is not lost: the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome? That glory never shall his wrath or might Extort from me. To bow or sue for grace With suppliant knee, and deify his power Questions :
A. Identify the poet and the poem. B. What does the \"study\" mean?
C. Who is the speaker in the poem? What idea does he express? 52. She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and, oh, The difference to me! Questions:
A. Identify the poet and the poem.
B. Explain in your own words the first two lines of the quotation. C. What idea do the lines express? 53. Tarry a little; there is something else.
This bond doth give thee here no jot of blood: The words expressly are 'a pound of flesh'.
Take then thy bond, take thou thy pound of flesh; But, in the cutting it, if thou dost shed
One drop of Christian blood, thy lands and goods Are, by the laws of Venice, confiscate Unto the state of Venice.
Questions :
A. Identify the author and the work. B. Who is the speaker?
C. How does the speaker outwit the antagonist in the work?
54. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same
And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I- I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Questions:
A. Identify the author and the poem.
B. What does \"wanted wear\" in the second stanza mean? C. Analyze the theme of the poem.
55. \"Anyhow, he gives large parties,\" said Jordan, changing the subject with an urban distaste for the concrete. \"And I like large parties. They're so intimate. At small parties there isn't any privacy. \"
Questions :
A. Identify the author and the work.
B. Whom does \"he\" refer to? Does Jordan care who he is?
C. Under what background does the story take place and what is the spirit of its time? II. Topic Discussion (20 points in all, 10 for each)
Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the corresponding space on the ANSWER SHEET.
56. D.H. Lawrence is one of the greatest 20s'century British novelists. Analyze his attitudes towards mechanical civilization and human sexuality and comment on his artistic feature as a realistic writer.
57. Although foreign influences are strong, the great works among American Romantic writings are typically American. Discuss those typical American features of American Romanticism.
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