(单选题)1: "I have no monarch in my life." this was said by___ A: Walt Whitman B: Robert Frost C: John keats D: Emily Dickinson (单选题)2: Pride and Prejudice is mainly about the love between___ A: Jane and Bingley B: Elizabeth and Darcy C: Jane and Darcy D: Kitty and Bingley (单选题)3: According to Mark Twain, in river towns up and down the Mississippi, it was every boy's dream to some day grow up to be ______. A: Methodist preacher B: a justice of the peace C: a riverboat pilot D: a pirate on the Indian ocean (单选题)4: In Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, Antonio could not pay back the money he borrowed from Shylock, because ______. 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 (单选题)5: Great Gatsby, written by Fitzgerald in 1925, is a story about ______ who was destroyed by the influence of the wealthy, pleasure-seeking people around him. A: a vagabond B: an idealist C: an eccentric D: an opportunist (单选题)6: Of all the novels written by Dickens, which one did he like best? A: Oliver Twist B: David Copperfield C: A tale of Two Cities D: Pickwick Papers (单选题)7: After The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Twain gives a literary independence to Tom's buddy Huck in a book entitled ___ A: Life on the Mississippi B: The Gilded Age C: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn D: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (单选题)8: "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 p A: Pride and Prejudice B: Jane Eyre C: Wuthering Heights D: Great Expectations (单选题)9: David's second father's name is___ A: Micawber B: Michael C: Murdstone D: Stone (单选题)10: Which of the following is taken from John Keats'Ode to a Nightingale? A: "Beauty is truth, truth beauty." B: "Earth has not anything to show more fair." C: "They are both gone up to the church to pray." D: "was it a vision, or a waking dream?" (单选题)11: Robert Frost combined traditional verse forms - the sonnet, rhyming couplets, blank verse - with a clear American local speech rhythm, the speech of _______ farmers with its idiosyncratic diction and syntax. A: Southern B: Western C: New Hampshire D: New England (单选题)12: As a naturalist writer, Theodore Dreiser was greatly influenced by _______. A: Nathaniel Hawthorne B: Charles Darwin C: Henry James D: Ralph Waldo Emerson (单选题)13: Which of the following statements about writers in 1920s is true? A: Mark Twain published his last and most important novel. B: F. Scott Fitzgerald received the Nobel Prize. C: Freudian psychology influenced many modern writers. D: Most writers were politically radical. (单选题)14: The poem Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening is selected from____ A: A Witness Tree B: Steeple Bush C: New Hampshire D: A Further Range (单选题)15: When Robert Frost was 87, he read his poetry at the inauguration of President___ A: Bush B: Kennedy C: Clinton D: Fort (单选题)16: Which of the following is NOT a tragicomedy? A: Timon of Athens B: Cymbline C: The winter's tale D: The tempest (单选题)17: Which of the following is a tragedy? A: Antony and Cleopatra B: Twelfth Night C: Julius Caesar D: Much ado about Nothing (单选题)18: The Victorian Age was largely an age of___ , eminently represented by Dickens and Thackeray. A: poetry B: drama C: prose D: epic prose (单选题)19: Jane Austen passed away when she was___ A: 38 B: 48 C: 42 D: 52 (单选题)20: Auld Lang Syne was written by A: William Wordsworth B: John Keats C: Walt Whiteman D: Robert Burns (责任编辑:admin) |