奥鹏作业网20春《英美文学选读》作业3
试卷总分:100 得分:100
一、单选题 (共 20 道试题,共 100 分)
1.According to Hawthorne, the scarlet letter “A” which originally stood for “_______” finally obtained the meaning of “able” or “angel” through Hester＇s efforts.
A.adultery
B.arrogance
C.accomplishment
D.agony
2.In Hardy＇s Wessex novels, there is an apparent _______ touch in his description of the simple and beautiful though primitive rural life.
A.humorous
B.romantic
C.nostalgic
D.sarcastic
3.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
4.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
5.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?”
6.”I have no monarch in my life.” this was said by___
A.Walt Whitman
B.Robert Frost
C.John keats
D.Emily Dickinson
7.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
8.Henry David Thoreau＇s work___, has always been regarded as a masterpiece of New England Transcendentalism.
A.Walden
B.The Pioneers
C.Nature
D.Song of Myself
9.Which of the following is NOT a tragicomedy?
A.Timon of Athens
B.Cymbline
C.The winter＇s tale
D.The tempest
10.Of the following American poets in the twentieth century, the one who has the best knowledge of Chinese culture is _______.
A.Robert Frost
B.Allen Ginsberg
C.Ezra Pound
D.E. Cummings
11.In English poetry the _______ is regarded as the most common foot.
A.iamb
B.anapest
C.trochee
D.dactyl
12.”This is my letter to the World” is a poetic expression of Emily Dickinson＇s___ about her communication with the outside world.
A.indifference
B.anger
C.anxiety
D.sorrow
13.What kind of girl is Dora?
A.pretty and clever
B.pretty and empty-headed
C.plain-looking and understading
D.lovely and clever
14.Jane Austen passed away when she was___
A.38
B.48
C.42
D.52
15.In May 1945, Dreiser joined the ___
A.American republican
B.labor party
C.democratic party
D.communist party
16.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 _______.
A.New York
B.London
C.Paris
D.Geneva
17.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.
A.Henry James
B.Scott Fitzgerald
C.Ernest Hemingway
D.William Faulkner
18.which of Woolf＇ novels was adapted into movie named The Hours?
A.Mrs.Dalloway
B.The Waves
C.The Common Reader
D.To the Light house
19.In “After Apple- Picking,” Robert Frost wrote: “For I have had too much / Of apple -picking: I am overtired/ Of the great harvest I myself desired.” From these lines we can conclude that the speaker is
A.happy about the harvest
B.still very much interested in apple-picking
C.expecting a greater harvest
D.indifferent to what he once desired
20.In David Copperfield, little David＇s second father treated him and his mother___
A.badly
B.kindly
C.nicely
D.well
