1单选(2分)
To the pious Puritan, the physical world was spiritual, nothing but a symbol of
God. The world, therefore, was one of multiple meanings. This idea was later distinguishable in the works of Emerson, ______ , Melville and Edgar Allan Poe.
得分/总分
A.Sherwood Anderson
B.Ezra Pound
C.Mark Twain
D.Hawthorne
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正确答案：D你选对了
2单选(2分)
Realist fiction becomes popular in English literature in the ____.
得分/总分
A.17th century
B.19th century
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C.18th century
D.20th century
正确答案：B你选对了
3单选(2分)
Which of the following can be identified as internal research?
得分/总分
A.cultural Marxism
B.feminism
C.post-colonialism
D.formalism
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正确答案：D你选对了
4单选(2分)
To the pious Puritan, the physical world was spiritual, nothing but a symbol of
God. The world, therefore, was one of multiple meanings. This idea was later distinguishable in the works of Emerson, , Melville and Edgar Allan Poe.
得分/总分
A.Sherwood Anderson
B.Ezra Pound
C.Hawthorne
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D.Mark Twain
正确答案：C你选对了
5单选(2分)
is Jane Austen's first published novel and the one now most scrutinized by historicist and feminist scholars, who offer new, complex readings of the work.
得分/总分
A.Persuasion
B.Sense and Sensibility
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C.Pride and Prejudice
D.Emma
正确答案：B你选对了
6单选(2分)
The novel Pride and Prejudice opens with this famous statement: “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” The opening line sets the tone for the entire novel, in that the whole work is a masterpiece of .
得分/总分
A.symbolism
B.humor
C.irony
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D.tragedy
正确答案：C你选对了
7单选(2分)
Like other western literature, apart from its colonial period, American literature
has also gone through the age of Romanticism, the age of and Modern American Literature.
得分/总分
A.Local Colorism
B.Rationalism
C.Realism
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D.Journalism
正确答案：C你选对了
8单选(2分)
Which one of the following works was NOT written by Nathaniel Hawthorne?
得分/总分
A.The White Fang
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B.Young Goodman Brown
C.The Birthmark
D.The House of the Seven Gables
正确答案：A你选对了
9单选(2分)
is the main character of The Scarlet Letter, a young married woman who has borne an illegitimate child named Pearl while living away from her husband in a village in Puritan New England in the late 17th century.
得分/总分
A.Hester Prynne
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B.Elizabeth Bennet
C.Sophia Peabody
D.Catherine Earnshaw
正确答案：A你选对了
10单选(2分)
(1987) won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction and in 2006 was selected by the New York Times Book Review as the best novel of the preceding twenty-five years.
得分/总分
A.Home
B.A Mercy
C.Beloved
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D.Sula
正确答案：C你选对了
11单选(2分)
As the first African-American writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, she published 11 novels in her life, which include her debut work The Bluest Eye (1970), and her last work .
得分/总分
A.Song of Solomon
B.Beloved
C.God Help the Child
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D.Tar Baby
正确答案：C你选对了
12单选(2分)
Which of the following novels was NOT written by Toni Morrison?
得分/总分
A.The Bluest Eye
B.Song of Solomon
C.Sula
D.The Color Purple
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正确答案：D你选对了
13单选(2分)
The first American writer of local color to achieve wide popularity was .
得分/总分
A.Bret Harte
B.Henry James
C.Mark Twain
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D.William Dean Howells
正确答案：C你选对了
14单选(2分)
Which one of the following statements is NOT true of William Faulkner?
得分/总分
A.He often depicts slum life in New York and Chicago.
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B.He represents a new group of Southern writers
C.He is master of stream-of-consciousness narrative.
D.His writing is often complex and difficult to understand.
正确答案：A你选对了
15单选(2分)
read his poetry at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy.
得分/总分
A.Robert Frost
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B.T. S. Eliot
C.Carl Sandburg
D.Ezra Pound
正确答案：A你选对了
16单选(2分)
Robert Frost is generally considered to be a regional poet in the sense that his subject matters mainly focus on the landscape and people in _____.
得分/总分
A.New York
B.Mid West
C.New England
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D.the West
正确答案：C你选对了
17单选(2分)
Which of the following is NOT a poem by Robert Frost?
得分/总分
A.“Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening”
B.“The Red Wheelbarrow”
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C.The Road Not Taken”
D.“Mending Wall”
正确答案：B你选对了
18单选(2分)
Which of the following is a novel from Mark Twain?
得分/总分
A.The Old Man and the Sea
B.Sister Carrie
C.The Portrait of a Lady
D.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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正确答案：D你选对了
19单选(2分)
Which one is not written by Faulkner?
得分/总分
A.The Old Man and the Sea
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B.Absalom, Absalom!
C.Light in August
D.The Sound and the Fury
正确答案：A你选对了
20单选(2分)
Stanley and Stella’s relationship could best be described as
得分/总分
A.indifferent and cold
B.intellectual, almost academic
C.sexual and passionate
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D.platonic and familiar
正确答案：C你选对了
21单选(2分)
Which of these is NOT one of the words Blanche uses to describe Stanley?
得分/总分
A.sub-human
B.She uses all these words.
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C.ape-like
D.common
正确答案：B你选对了
22单选(2分)
Arthur Miller’s After the Fall is said to be about:
得分/总分
A.Joer DiMaggio
B.Marilyn Monroe
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C.World War II
D.The Great Depression
正确答案：B你选对了
23单选(2分)
Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, although set several hundred years ago, is said to be about this more modern problem.
得分/总分
A.slavery and segregation
B.McCarthyism
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C.government corruption
- D.Imperialism
正确答案：B你选对了
24单选(2分)
What is Willy constantly dreaming about?
得分/总分
A.success
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B.cars
C.the past
D.sex
正确答案：A你选对了
25单选(2分)
Which of the following is NOT true about John Milton’s family background?
得分/总分
A.His father was a very rich man living not far from the center of London.
B.His grandfather was a Catholic, but his father was a Protestant.
C.His family went bankrupt when he was about to begin college.
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D.He grew up in a place frequented by culturally important people.
正确答案：C你选对了
26单选(2分)
Which of the following was considered a very bold decision when Milton published his Paradise Lost?
得分/总分
A.the use of “passionate” language.
B.the use of blank verse in a poem.
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C.the use of Latin words.
D.the use of religious themes.
正确答案：B你选对了
27单选(2分)
Besides Jane Eyre, which of the following novels was also written by Charlotte Bronte?
得分/总分
A.Agnes Grey
B.Pride and Prejudice
C.Wuthering Heights
D.The Professor
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正确答案：D你选对了
28单选(2分)
Who wrote a famous biography of Charlotte Bronte?
得分/总分
A.Susan Gubar
B.Elizabeth Gaskell
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C.Lord Tennyson
D.George Smith
正确答案：B你选对了
29单选(2分)
___________ is a masterly bildungsroman largely based on Dickens’ only life experiences from infancy to maturity.
得分/总分
A.Little Dorrit
B.David Copperfield
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C.A Tale of Two Cities
D.The Pickwick Papers
正确答案：B你选对了
30单选(2分)
What was Magwitch’s lifelong goal in Great Expectations?
得分/总分
A.making Pip a gentleman
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B.clearing his own debt
C.killing the one who sent him to jail
D.proving his innocence in court
正确答案：A你选对了
31填空(2分)
During his stay at Walden Pond, Thoreau lived alone in a house which he had built himself, and earned his living by the labor of his hands only. The fact that he lived alone, and the fact that he earned his living by his hands both indicate he was practicing Emerson’s doctrine of ______.
得分/总分
Self-Reliance
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正确答案：Self-Reliance
32填空(2分)
Charles Dickens’ novel Great Expectations can be read as a _________, which is a word from German, meaning a coming-of-age story.
得分/总分
Bildungsroman
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正确答案：Bildungsroman
33填空(2分)
The absurdity of ________ confronting the Great Depression affected Arthur Miller’s way of thinking, gave him "a sence of the invisible world" and a compassionate understanding of life, and brought out important themes in his major plays such as All My Sons and Death of a Salesman.
得分/总分
the American Dream
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正确答案：the American Dream
34填空(2分)
_____wrote about the disintegration of the old social system in the American Southern States, and its effect on the lives of modern people, both black and white.
得分/总分
William Faulkner
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正确答案：William Faulkner
35填空(2分)
Mark Twain’s preference for his own region and people at the forefront of his stories made him well known as “local colorist”, then______became a unique variation of American literary realism.
得分/总分
local colorism
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正确答案：local colorism