專八人文知識模擬試題(13)

1、 “The Graveyard Poets” got the name because ___.
A they chose to live near graveyards
B they often wrote about death and melancholy
C they always wrote about dead people
D they often use “graveyard” as the title
2、 It is generally understood that the recurrent theme in many of Thomas Hardy’s novel is ___.
A man against nature
B love and marriage
C social criticism
D fate and destiny
3、The Romantic Period in English literature began with the publication of ___.
A William Blake’s Songs of Innocence
B Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
C Wordsworth’s and Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads
D a piece of land
4、 It is generally regarded that Keats’ most important and mature poems are in the form of ___.
A ode
B elegy
C epic
D sonnet
5、G.B. Shaw’s play Mrs. Warren’s Profession is a realistic exposure of the ___ in the English society.
A slum landlordism
B inequality between men and women
C political corruption
D economic exploitation of women
6、The Preface to Shakespeare and Lives of the Poets are the works of critic ___.
A G.B. Shaw
B Samuel Johnson
C Ben Johnson
D E.M. Foster
7、The Ring and the Book is a masterpiece of ___.
A Alfred Tennyson
B Robert Browning
C Thomas Hardy
D Ralph Waldo Emerson
8、Matthew Arnold is the writer of ___.
A Dover Beach
B My last Duchess
C Break, Break, Break
D The Eagle
9、The writer of Heart of Darkness is also the one of ___.
A Time of Machine
B Jim
C Lord Jim
D A Passage to India
10、Of Human Bondage is a novel by ___.
A Herbert George Wells
B Arnold Bennett
C William Somerset Maugham
D John Galsworthy

參考答案(反白可見):
1. 選B?!澳古吓伞笔侵?8世紀(jì)那些描寫死亡的哀挽的詩人。代表作有托馬斯.格雷《墓園挽歌》(Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard),托馬斯.巴奈爾的《死亡之夜》(Night Piece on Death),愛德華. 揚(yáng)《夜思》(Night Thoughts)和羅伯特.布萊爾的《墳?zāi)埂罚═he Grave)。
2. 選D。在哈代(Thomas Hardy)的作品中,他那悲劇色彩的哲學(xué)觀告訴我們,人生的一切都是命運(yùn)安排,是不可抗拒的。人在命運(yùn)的面前束手無策,無論人們怎樣努力,都很難逃脫命運(yùn)的折磨和戲弄。
3. 選C。威廉.華茲華斯(William Wordsworth),于1798同柯勒律治(Samuel Tayor Coleridge)合作出版了著名的《抒情歌謠集》(Lyrical Ballads),該詩第二版的“序”被認(rèn)為是英國浪漫主義的宣言。
4. 選A。濟(jì)慈的代表作品有《夜鶯頌》(Ode to a Nightingale),《希臘古甕頌》(Ode on a Grecian Urn),《憂郁頌》(Ode on Melancholy),《秋頌》(To Autumn)等?!绊灐北徽J(rèn)為是濟(jì)慈最具有代表性和最為成功的詩歌形式。
5. 選D。蕭伯納的劇作《華倫夫人的職業(yè)》(Mrs. Warren’s Profession)塑造了一個在經(jīng)濟(jì)重壓下普通婦女的形象,該劇揭露了一個令人憤怒的事實(shí):在資本主義社會,娼妓業(yè)也成了一種剝削方式。
6. 選B。塞繆爾.約翰遜18世紀(jì)英國人文主義文學(xué)批評的巨匠,《莎士比亞戲劇集序言》(The Preface to Shakespeare),和《詩人傳》(Lives of the Poets)是他對文學(xué)批評做出的餓突出貢獻(xiàn)。
7. 選B?!吨腑h(huán)與書》(The Ring and the Boo)是羅伯特.勃郎寧(Robert Browning)的詩作。
8. 選A?!抖喾鸷罚―over Beach)是阿諾德(Matthew Arnold)詩歌中的名篇之一,反映了19世紀(jì)西方社會中的宗教信仰在新知識的沖擊下普遍淪喪的時代風(fēng)貌。
9. 選C?!逗诎档男摹罚℉eart of Darkness)和《吉姆老爺》(Lord Jim)都是約瑟夫.康德拉的小說,《吉姆》(Jim)是同時期另一位作家迪亞德.吉卜林的作品。
10.選C。威廉.薩默塞特.毛姆(William Somerset Maugham)的創(chuàng)作深受法國自然主義的影響,他的長篇小說《人性的枷鎖》(Of Human Bondage)展現(xiàn)了主人公擺脫精神枷鎖的過程。?