19. Eliot's poem ， The Waste Land ， is mainly concerned with the _________ of a modern civilization .
A. social corruption
B. spiritual breakup
C. physical breakup
D. religious corruption
20. Eliot 's “ The love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock ” is presented as a （n） __________， suggesting an ironic contrast between a pretended “ love song ” and a confession of his incapability of facing up to love and to life in a sterile upper-class world .
A. interior monologue
B. authentic dialogue
C. lyric song
D. religious confession
21. The excerpt from Chapter 10 of Sons and Lovers ends with the conflict between Paul and his mother . The conflict is possibly caused by Paul and his mother's different views towards __________ .
A. Paul's father
B. art
c. life
D. Paul's brother
22. The __________ can be regarded as one of the themes of Joyce's story “ Araby ” .
A. loss of innocence
B. childish love
c. awareness of harsh life
D. false sentimentality
23. After reading “ Araby ” ， one may feel the story has a _________ tone .
A. joyous
B. harsh
c. solemn
D. painful
24. In “Araby ” ， Joyce's diction evokes a sort of __________ quality that characterizes the boy on his otherwise altogether ordinary shopping trip .
A. religious
B. moral
C. sentimental
D. vulgar
25. The major concern of ___________ fiction lies in the tracing of the psycholoical development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature .
A. D. H. Lawrence 's
B. J. Galsworthy's
C. W. Thackeray 's
D. T. Hardy's
26. The mission of __________ drama was to reveal the moral ， political and economic truth from a radical reformist point of view .
A. T.S. Eliot's
B. J. Galsworthy's
C. W. Thackerary 's
D. T. Hardy 's
27. Irving was best know for his famous short stories such as ___________ .
A. Rip Van Winkle
B. Young Goodman Brown
C. Life of Goldsmith
D. Life of Washington
28. Melville's ___________ is an encycolopedia of everything ， history ， philosophy ， religion ， etc .
A. The Old Man and the Sea
B.Moby - Dick
C. White Jacket
D. Billy Budd
29 . Mark Twain created ， in ____________ ， a masterpiece of American realism that is also one of the great books of world literature .
A. Huckleberry Finn
B. Tom Sowyer
C. The Gilded Age
D. The Mysterious Stranger
30. American literature produced only one female poet during the ninetheenth century ， This was ___________ .
A. Anne Bradsteet
B. Jane Austen
c. Emily Dickinson
D. T. S. Eliot
31. The main theme of ___________ The Art of Fiction reveals his literary credo that representation of life should be the main object of the novel .
A. Henry James'
B. Mark Twain's
C. Theodore Dreiser's
D. William Howells'
32. In the 1920s， O'Neil established an international reputation with the plays _________.
A. The Emperor Jones
B. Anna Christle
C. The Hairy Ape
D. all of the above
33.In 1954 ， ___________ was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature for his “ mastery of the art of modern narration . ”
A. T.S. Eliot
B. Ernest Hemingway
C. John Steinbeck
D.William Faulkner
34. “The apparition of these faces in the crowd ； Petals on a wet ， black bough . ” This is the shortest poem written by _____________.
A. T.S. Eliot
B. Robert Frost
C. Ezra Pound
D. Emily Dickinson
35. In Robert Frost 's famous poems “ Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening ”， there are four lines like these ：“ The woods are lovely ，dark and deep ， /But I have promises to keep ， ？And miles to go before I sleep ， / And miles to go before I sleep ”。 The second sleep refers to _____________.
A. die
B. calm down
C. fall into sleep
D. stop walking
36. Of the following American poets ， whose work was first recognized in England and then in America ？ ___________.
A. Robert Frost
B. Walt Whitman
C. Emily Dickinson
D. Wallace Stevens
37. “ For I have had too much / Of apple-picking： I am overtired / Of the great harvest I myself desired ”。 From these lines we can conclude that the speaker ____________.
A. is happy about the harvest
B. is tired of the work of apple-picking
C. is not tired when seeing the harvest
D. becomes indifferent of the job
38. Chinese poetry and philosophy had great influence on _____ .
A. Robert Frost
B. Ralph Waldo Emerson