09年英語專業(yè)八級人文知識精講NO.31

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__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
    答案:
    1. 選B?!澳古吓伞笔侵?8世紀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《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觀告訴我們,人生的一切都是命運安排,是不可抗拒的。人在命運的面前束手無策,無論人們怎樣努力,都很難逃脫命運的折磨和戲弄。
    3. 選C。威廉.華茲華斯(William Wordsworth),于1798同柯勒律治(Samuel Tayor Coleridge)合作出版了的《抒情歌謠集》(Lyrical Ballads),該詩第二版的“序”被認為是英國浪漫主義的宣言。
    4. 選A。濟慈的代表作品有《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為是濟慈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)濟重壓下普通婦女的形象,該劇揭露了一個令人憤怒的事實: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世紀英國人文主義文學批評的巨匠,《莎士比亞戲劇集序言》(The Preface to Shakespeare),和《詩人傳》(Lives of the Poets)是他對文學批評做出的餓突出貢獻。
    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貌。
    9. 選C。《黑暗的心》(Heart 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。