北语17春《英美文学选读》作业1234答案
17春《英美文学选读》作业1一、单选题：
1.In Shakespeare＇s Merchant of Venice, Antonio could not pay back the money he borrowed from Shylock, because ( ). (满分:5)
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
2.The excerpt The Other Side of the Island was chosen from Chapter in Rubinson Crusoe. (满分:5)
A. Ⅸ
B. Ⅺ
C. Ⅹ
D. Ⅷ
3.Which of the following is NOT written by Defoe? (满分:5)
A. Captain Singleton
B. Sailor
C. Moll Flanders
D. Rubinson Crusoe
4.All the following poets belong to lake poets EXCEPT (满分:5)
A. Wordsworth
B. Coleridge
C. Robert Southey
D. Shelley
5.Which of the following is a tragedy? (满分:5)
A. Antony and Cleopatra
B. Twelfth Night
C. Julius Caesar
D. Much ado about Nothing
6."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 (满分:5)
A. Pride and Prejudice
B. Jane Eyre
C. Wuthering Heights
D. Great Expectations
7.In the conversation with his wife in Chapter One of Pride and Prejudice, Mr. Bennet uses a(n) ( ) tone with sarcastic humor. (满分:5)
A. solemn
B. harsh
C. arrogant
D. teasing
8.Hamlet is a prince of (满分:5)
A. England
B. Ireland
C. Britain
D. Denmark
9.Which of the following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare＇s Sonnet 18? (满分:5)
A. The speaker eulogizes the power of Nature
B. The speaker satirizes human vanity
C. The speaker praises the power of artistic creation
D. The speaker meditates on man＇s salvation.
10.Which of the following is NOT a tragicomedy? (满分:5)
A. Timon of Athens
B. Cymbline
C. The winter＇s tale
D. The tempest
11.The essence of humanism is to ( ). (满分:5)
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
12.It is generally regarded that Keats＇s most important and mature poems are in the form of ( ) . (满分:5)
A. ode
B. elegy
C. epic
D. sonnet
13.What does Wordsworth＇s poem "The Solitary Reaper" tell us about Romanticist? (满分:5)
A. To romanticists, poetry is an expression of an individual＇s feelings and experiences no matter how fragmentary and momentary these feelings and experiences are.
B. Romanticist take delight only in sound effect, the theme of a work is not their concern.
C. Ro
14.The poem I wandered Lonely as a Cloud was written by (满分:5)
A. Dorothy Wordsworth
B. William Wordsworth
C. Coleridge
D. John Keats
15.How many lines are there in a sonnet? (满分:5)
A. 16
B. 18
C. 14
D. 12
16.The term tone in literature means( )( ). (满分:5)
A. sound effect such as rhyme and metrical device
B. the pitch of a word used to determine its meaning in the given context
C. the manner of expression to indicate the speaker＇s attitude towards the subject
D. a shade of colour to reflect the change of the light
17.Defoe＇s Robinson Crusoe created the image of an enterprising Englishman, typical of the English bourgeoisie in the ( ) century. (满分:5)
A. 17th
B. 18th
C. 19th
D. 20th
18.How many periods are divided into inthe creation years of Shakespeare? (满分:5)
A. three
B. four
C. two
D. five
19.In English poetry the ( ) is regarded as the most common foot. (满分:5)
A. iamb
B. anapest
C. trochee
D. dactyl
20.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? (满分:5)
A. Blindness
B. Partiality
C. Snobbishness
D. Prejudice.
17春《英美文学选读》作业2
一、单选题：
1.which of Woolf＇ novels was adapted into movie named The Hours? (满分:5)
A. Mrs.Dalloway
B. The Waves
C. The Common Reader
D. To the Light house
2.In Hardy＇s Wessex novels, there is an apparent ( ) touch in his description of the simple and beautiful though primitive rural life. (满分:5)
A. humorous
B. romantic
C. nostalgic
D. sarcastic
3.Which of the following is NOT written by Jane Austen? (满分:5)
A. Sense and Sensibility
B. Pride and Prejudice
C. Jane Eyre
D. Emma
4.In David Copperfield, who got married with David at last? (满分:5)
A. Agnes
B. Dora
C. Amy
D. Beth
5.Pride and Prejudice is mainly about the love between (满分:5)
A. Jane and Bingley
B. Elizabeth and Darcy
C. Jane and Darcy
D. Kitty and Bingley
6.In David Copperfield, little David＇s second father treated him and his mother (满分:5)
A. badly
B. kindly
C. nicely
D. well
7.Mr. Micawber in David Copperfield and Sam Well in Pickwick Papers are perhaps the best ( ) characters created by Charles Dickens. (满分:5)
A. comic
B. tragic
C. round
D. sophisticated
8.Who is NOT the major character in To the Lighthouse? (满分:5)
A. Mrs. Ramsay
B. Mr.Ramsay
C. David
D. James
9.Virginai Woolf has a( ) health. (满分:5)
A. good
B. stable
C. poor
D. normal
10.Charles Dicken＇s early years were (满分:5)
A. happy
B. difficult
C. rich
D. sunny
11.Elizabeth Bennet was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet. (满分:5)
A. First
B. Second
C. Third
D. Fourth
12.Of all the novels written by Dickens, which one did he like best? (满分:5)
A. Oliver Twist
B. David Copperfield
C. A tale of Two Cities
D. Pickwick Papers
13.Virginia Woolf was born in (满分:5)
A. 1882
B. 1767
C. 1678
D. 1890
14.Jane Austen passed away when she was (满分:5)
A. 38
B. 48
C. 42
D. 52
15.David＇s second father＇s name is (满分:5)
A. Micawber
B. Michael
C. Murdstone
D. Stone
16.which of the following is NOT written by Hardy? (满分:5)
A. The Return of the native
B. A Tale of Two Cities
C. Tess of d＇Urbervilles
D. Jude the Obscure
17.Virginia Woolf was born in a( ) (满分:5)
A. poorfamily
B. small family
C. rich family
D. talented family
18.How many groups are there in Hardy＇s novels? (满分:5)
A. two
B. three
C. four
D. five
19.In the first part of the novel Pride and prejudice, Mr. Darcy has a （n） ( ) of the Bennet family . (满分:5)
A. high opinion
B. great admiration
C. low opinion
D. erroneous view
20.Which novel gave Woolf the reputation as an important psychological writer? (满分:5)
A. To the Lighthouse
B. The waves
C. Mrs.Dalloway
D. The Common Reader
17春《英美文学选读》作业3
一、单选题：
1.The story of the Scarlet Letter is set in (满分:5)
A. New York
B. England
C. Boston
D. Salt lake City
2.In all his novels Theodore Dreiser sets himself to project the ( ) American values. For example, in Sister Carrie, there is not one character whose status is not determined economically. (满分:5)
A. Puritan
B. materialistic
C. psychological
D. religious
3.What＇s the name of Hester and Dimmesdale ＇s daughter? (满分:5)
A. Amy
B. Pearl
C. Nina
D. Berry
4.Robert Frost won Plitzer prices. (满分:5)
A. two
B. three
C. four
D. five
5.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. (满分:5)
A. Southern
B. Western
C. New Hampshire
D. New England
6.Which of the following is not written by Robert Frost? (满分:5)
A. To Autumn
B. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
C. Mending Wall
D. A Boy＇s Will
7.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 ( ). (满分:5)
A. Methodist preacher
B. a justice of the peace
C. a riverboat pilot
D. a pirate on the Indian ocean
8.The pen name Mark Twain means (满分:5)
A. water
B. safe water
C. river
D. clear water
9.American writers of the first postwar era who were devoid of faith and alienated from the civilization were commonly called "( )." (满分:5)
A. sons of liberty
B. fatherless children
C. a beat generation
D. a lost generation
10.Dreiser＇s Trilogy of Desire includes three novels. They are The Financier, The Titan and ( ) . (满分:5)
A. The Genius
B. The Tycoon
C. The Stoic
D. The Giant
11.According to Hawthorne, the scarlet letter "A" which originally stood for "( )" finally obtained the meaning of "able" or "angel" through Hester＇s efforts. (满分:5)
A. adultery
B. arrogance
C. accomplishment
D. agony
12.Which of the following statements about writers in 1920s is true? (满分:5)
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.
13.In Sister Carrie, Hurstwood, extremely hopeless and totally devastated, ends his life by turning on the gas, while at the same time Carrie is rocking comfortably in her luxurious hotel room before she boards a ship for ( ). (满分:5)
A. New York
B. London
C. Paris
D. Geneva
14."Two roads diverged in a yellow wood 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 ( ). (满分:5)
A. a travel experience
B. a marriage decision
C. a middle-age crisis
D. one＇s course of life
15.In Fitzgerald＇s The Great Gatsby, there are detailed descriptions of big parties. The purpose of such descriptions is so show ( ). (满分:5)
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
16.The poem Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening is selected from( ) (满分:5)
A. A Witness Tree
B. Steeple Bush
C. New Hampshire
D. A Further Range
17.In American literature, escaping from the society and returning to nature is a common subject. The following titles are all related, in one way or another, to the subject except ( ). (满分:5)
A. Mark Twain＇s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
B. Dreiser＇s Sister Carrie
C. Copper＇s Leather-Stocking Tales
D. Thoreau＇s Walden
18.When we say that a poor young man from the West tried to make his fortune in the East but was disillusioned in the quest of an idealized dream, we are probably discussing about ( )＇s thematic concern in his fiction writing. (满分:5)
A. Henry James
B. Scott Fitzgerald
C. Ernest Hemingway
D. William Faulkner
19.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. (满分:5)
A. a vagabond
B. an idealist
C. an eccentric
D. an opportunist
20.As a naturalist writer, Theodore Dreiser was greatly influenced by ( ). (满分:5)
A. Nathaniel Hawthorne
B. Charles Darwin
C. Henry James
D. Ralph Waldo Emerson
17春《英美文学选读》作业4
一、单选题：
1.When did William Faulkner win Nobel Price for Literature? (满分:5)
A. 1939
B. 1949
C. 1940
D. 1950
2.You may have meet the term "Yahoo" on internet, but you may also have met it in English literature .It is found in ( ) (满分:5)
A. John Bunyan＇s Pilgrim＇s Progress
B. Samuel Johnson＇s The Vanity of Human Wishes
C. Jonathan Swift＇s Gulliver＇s Travels
D. Henry Fielding＇s tom Jones
3.The sentence "Shall I compare thee to a summer＇s day?" is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare＇s ( )( ) . (满分:5)
A. comedies
B. tragedies
C. sonnets
D. histories
4.Walt Whitman was a pioneering figure of American poetry. His innovation first of all lies in his use of , poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme. (满分:5)
A. bland verse
B. heroic couplet
C. free verse
D. iambic pentameter
5."If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?" is an epigrammatic line by (满分:5)
A. J. Keats
B. W. Blake
C. W. Wordsworth
D. P. B. Shelley
6.The literary characters of the American type in early 19th century are generally characterized by all the following features EXCEPT that they (满分:5)
A. speak local dialects
B. are polite and elegant gentlemen
C. are simple and crude farmers
D. are noble savages(red and white) untainted by society
7.The Hemingway Code heroes are best remembered for their (满分:5)
A. indestructible spirit
B. pessimistic view of life
C. war experiences
D. masculinity
8.The Romantic writers would focus on all the following issues EXCEPT the in the American literary history. (满分:5)
A. individual feelings
B. idea of survival of the fittest
C. strong imagination
D. return to nature
9.is the first important governess novel in the English literary history. (满分:5)
A. Jane Eyre
B. Emma
C. Wuthering Heights
D. Middlemarch
10.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. (满分:5)
A. Sentimentalism
B. romanticism
C. realism
D. naturalism
11.Whitman＇s poems are characterized by all the following features EXCEPT ( ) . (满分:5)
A. the strict poetic form
B. the free and natural rhythm
C. the easy flow of feelings
D. the simple and conversational language
12."I have no monarch in my life." this was said by (满分:5)
A. Walt Whitman
B. Robert Frost
C. John keats
D. Emily Dickinson
13.The Victorian Age was largely an age of , eminently represented by Dickens and Thackeray. (满分:5)
A. poetry
B. drama
C. prose
D. epic prose
14.Of the following American poets in the twentieth century, the one who has the best knowledge ofChinese culture is ( ). (满分:5)
A. Robert Frost
B. Allen Ginsberg
C. Ezra Pound
D. E. E. Cummings
15.Henry David Thoreau＇s work, has always been regarded as a masterpiece of New England Transcendentalism. (满分:5)
A. Walden
B. The Pioneers
C. Nature
D. Song of Myself
16.which of the following is NOT written by Dreiser? (满分:5)
A. Jennie Gerhardt
B. Go down, Moses
C. An American Tragedy
D. Sister Carrie
17.Which of the following is taken from John Keats＇Ode to a Nightingale? (满分:5)
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?"
18.Emily Dickinson wrote many short poems on various aspects of life. Which of the following is NOT a usual subject of her poetic expression? (满分:5)
A. Religion and immortality
B. Life and death
C. Love and marriage
D. War and peace
19.Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his production of (满分:5)
A. Piers Plowman
B. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
C. Confessio Amantis
D. The Canterbury Tales
20.After The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Twain gives a literary independence to Tom＇s buddy Huck in a book entitled (满分:5)
A. Life on the Mississippi
B. The Gilded Age
C. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
D. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur＇s Court
竟然都是满分答案。。太给力了
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