105.The well-known soliloquy by Hamlet ―To be , or not to be‘ shows his a. hatred for his uncle b. love for life c. resolution of revenge d. inner- strife

106.― Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested;‖( Of Studies). Here Bacon compares reading to a. walking b. eating c. drinking d. acting

107.―That glory never shall his wrath or might/ extort from me.‖ (Paradise Lost). ―That glory‖ means

a. Satan‘s unconquerable will b. Satan‘s failure c. Satan‘s surrender to God d. God‘s victory

108.Which of the following shows in a more implicit way that the poet was touched by the song of the solitary reaper?

a. I listened, motionless land still b. Will no one tell me what she sings ? c. I saw her singing at her work. d. The music in my heart I bore.

109.‖Of two such lessons, why forget / The nobler and the manlier one ? ( The Isles of Greece )‖ The nobler and manlier one refers to

a. the Pyrrhic dance b. the Pyrrhic phalanx c. the glorious history d. the heroic leader

110. ―Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is…‖ (Ode to the West Wind )This

shows Shelly‘s wish to be a

a. propagator of revolutionary ideas. b. singer enjoying great fame c. man who can wander freely d. heroic fighter in the forest

Ⅱ. Decide whether the following statements are true or false and write your answers in the brackets.

( T ) 1. Leaves of Grass established Walt Whitman as the most popular American poet of the 19th century.

( F ) 2. The poem ―Song of Myself‖ got this title from the first edition.

( T ) 3. Puritanism and Calvinistic doctrine have great effects on Hawthorne‘s writing.

( T ) 4. According to Emerson, man is divine in nature and therefore forever perfectible.

( F ) 5. Walt Whitman is granted the honor of being ―the American Goldsmith‖ for his literary craftsmanship.

( F ) 6. Emersonian Transcendentalism inspired a whole generation of famous authors like Whitman, Dickinson and Mark Twain.

( F ) 7. As a Puritan, Hawthorne embraced the Puritanical doctrines and expresses them in his novels.

( F ) 8. In The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne intends to tell a love story and a story

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of sin.

( T ) 9. Hawthorne is a master of symbolism, which he took from the Puritan tradition and bequeathed to American literature in a revivified form.

( F ) 10. Walt Whitman follows only one theme in his Leaves of Grass, that is, the burgeoning life in cities.

( F ) 11. Most of the poems in Leaves of Grass are written in heroic couplet. ( F ) 12. Life on the Mississippi tells a story of Henry James‘s boyhood ambition to become a riverboat pilot up and down the Mississippi.

( T ) 13. Emily Dickinson‘s poems are usually based on her own experiences, her sorrows and joys.

( T ) 14. Theodore Dreiser is greatly influenced by Darwinism and it is not surprising to find in his fiction a world of jungle, where ―kill or to be killed‖ is the law.

( F ) 15. In ―This is my letter to the World‖ Dickinson expressed her reluctance to communicate with the outside world.

( F ) 16. Each of Emily Dickinson‘s poems has a well-chosen title.

( T ) 17. Emily Dickinson‘s poetry is unique and unconventional in its own way, covering love, death and nature.

( T ) 18. In Robert Lee Frost‘s poems, profound ideas are delivered under the disguise of the plain language and the simple form.

( F ) 19. Robert Lee Frost has long been well known as a poet who belongs to the new.

( F ) 20. Robert Frost wrote most of his poems in free verse.

( F ) 21. Eugene O‘Neil, Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams are together called ―founders of the American drama.‖

( F ) 22. Fitzgerald shows an interest both in the upper-class society and in the lower-class society.

( T ) 23. Hemingway develops the style of colloquialism initiated by Mark Twain.

( T ) 24. In his novels, William Faulkner exploits the modern steam-of –consciousness technique to emphasize the reactions and inner musings of the narrator.

( F ) 25. Benjamin Franklin is a early feminist, because he thinks that women should receive education.

( T ) 26. Emerson‘s lasting reputation was established by his masterpiece Essays.

( F ) 27. Ellen Poe wrote many poems, so he has a very important position as poet; he wrote about 70 short stories and is regarded as a pioneer of the detective fiction and the horror fiction in the west.

( T ) 28. In style, her poems are characterized by their brevity, directness and plainness

( F ) 29. Philosophically, the naturalists believe that the real and true is always completely hidden from the understanding of the individual or beyond his control. ( T ) 30. The defining formal characteristics of the modernistic works are

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discontinuity and fragmentation.

( F ) 31.English critical realism found its expression chiefly in the form of drama. ( F ) 32.The greatest English playwright of the 18th century was Goldsmith, whose best play is \

( F ) 33. In 1805, Southey completed a long autobiographical poem entiled \Prelude\

( T ) 34. The Romantic Age began in 1789 when Wordsworth and Coleridge published their joint work \

( T ) 35. Paradise Lost is Milton's masterpiece; the story is taken from the Old Testament: Satan and other angels rebel against God.

( F ) 36. George Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin, Scotland. ( F ) 37. Byron's masterpiece is Tom Jones.

( F ) 38. Novel writing made a big advance in the 18th century. the main characters in the novels were no longer common people, but the kings and nobles. ( T ) 39. Shakespeare'a prime creating period lies in his third period when his greatest tragedies were written.

( F ) 40. Tess is arrested and hanged because she murders her seducer Clare. ( T ) 41. Paradise Lost is one of Milton's masterpiece.

( F ) 42. Thomas Hardy is one of the representatives of English critical romanticism at the turn of 19th century.

( F ) 43. The Revolution period produced one of the most important poets in English literature, William Shakespeare.

( T ) 44. The publication of \Lyrical Ballads\marked the break with classicism and the beginning of the Romantic Age.

( F ) 45. Song to the Men of England is Byron's political lyric. ( T ) 46. Man and Superman is shaw's play.

( F ) 47. Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abey is written by Coleridge.

( F ) 48. “Shall i compare thee to a summer's day?” is a line in sonnet 18 written by Bacon.

( F ) 49. Paradise Lost is a novel divided into 12 books.

( F ) 50. John Milton towers over his age as Byron towers over the Elizabethan Age, and as Chaucer towers over the medieval period.

( F ) 51. Women as poets appeared in the Romantic Age, such as Jane Austen. ( F ) 52. Queen Mab is the first long poem written by Keats. ( F ) 53. Manfred and Cain were Byron's two poems.

( F ) 54. The Pride and Prejudice is the masterpiece of Charles Dickens.

( F ) 55. In Of Studies, \in line \make men wise; Poets, witty...\means \

( F ) 56. Paradise Lost took its material from Greek mythology.

( F ) 57. Hamlet, Shakespeare's first of the great tragedies, was based on a widespread legend in northern Europe.

( F ) 58. Optimism and positivism are strongly reflected in Hardy's writings. ( F ) 59. Hardy is a dramatist before he was a novelist.

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( F ) 60. Defoe's masterpiece is \

III. Paraphrase the following quotations: （改写解释题） 1. The Eyes around—had wrung them dry— And Breaths were gathering firm For that last Onset—when the King Be witnessed—in the Room—

( Dickinson: I heard a fly buzz—when I died )

答案：My relatives and friends had cried so that there were no tears any more. I hold my breath and got ready for the last attack of Death when he appeared in the room.

2. To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from

society. I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me. But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things. ( Emerson: Nature )

答案：To be solitary, a man should also leave his room.When I am reading or writing, I amnot alone. When a man looks at the stars, his mind can be purified and above the dirty things.

3. I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence;

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one I less traveled by, And that has made all the difference

Robert Frost: The Road Not Taken

答案：In the future I shall tell this with some regret: facing the two roads, I chose a road few people had traveled by, and that has decided my whole life.

4. Whether ?tis nobler in the mind to suffer

The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them?

( Hamlet )

答案：We are facing two choices: to endure suffering in our life patiently or to take up arms and fight. Which is nobler?

5. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgement and disposition of business. ( Of Studies )

答案：To get pleasure of reading, you should be alone; to show your elequence, you should talk with others; to improve your ability, you should use the bookish knowledge in the judgement and arrangement of business.

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