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英美文学试题

2011年7月试题

1.AllofCharlesDickens’works,withtheexceptionof

_________,presentacriticismofthemorecomplicatedandyet

mostfundamentalsocialinstitutionsandmoralsoftheVictorian

England.

A.BleakHouse

B.HardTimes

C.GreatExpectations

D.ATaleofTwoCities

2.From____________on,thetragicsensebecomesthe

keynoteofThomasHardy’snovels,theconflictbetweenthe

traditionalandthemodenisbroughttothecenterofthestage.

A.TheReturnoftheNative

B.TheMayorofCasterbridge

C.TessoftheD’Urbervilles

D.JudetheObscure

3.GeorgeBernardShaw’splay____________showshisalmost

nihilisticbitternessonthesubjectsofthecrueltyandmadnessof

WorldWarIandtheaimlessnessanddisillusionoftheyoung.

A.GettingMarried

B.TooTruetoBeGood

C.Widowers’Houses

D.TheAppleCart

4.Itwasonlyafterthepublicationof____________thatD.H.

Lawrencewasrecognizedasaprominentnovelist.

A.TheTrespasser

B.TheWhitePeacock

C.SonsandLovers

D.TheRainbow

5.T.S.Eliot’spoem____________isheavilyindebtedtoJames

Joyceintermsofthestream-of-consciousnesstechnique,also

apreludetoTheWasteLand.

A.“Prufrock”

B.“Gerontion”

C.TheHollowMen

D.LyricalBallads

6.CharlotteBrontё’s____________isnotedforitssharp

criticismoftheexistingsociety,

e.g.thereligioushypocrisyofcharityinstitutions.

A.TheProfessor

B.WutheringHeights

C.Villette

D.JaneEyre

7.Shelley’sgreatestachievementishisfour-actpoetic

drama____________,whichisanex-ultantworkinpraiseof

humankind’spotential.

A.Adonai