C. Ezra Pound
D. Emily Dickinson
39. The Hemingway code heroes are best remembered for their ________________ .
A. indestructible spirit
B. pessimistic view of life
C. war experiences
D. masculinity
40. Lots of people rushed to Gatsby's party at the weekend and they clustered around Castsby 's wealth like ______________ .
A. gluttons
B. flies
C. insects
D. moths
1.C 2.A 3.A 4.B 5.A 6.B 7.B 8.C 9.C 10.A 11.C 12.A 13.A 14.D 15.C 16.B 17.D 18.D 19.B 20 A 21.C 22.A 23.D 24.A 25.A 26.C 27.A 28.B 29.A 30. C 31.A 32.D 33.B 34.C 35.A 36.A 37.B 38.C 39.A 40.D
高等自学考试指定教材冲刺模拟试卷1
I Multiple Choice （ 40 points in all ， 1 for each ）
1. The Renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events ， such as the rediscovery of ancient _____ and ______ culture ， the new discoveries in geography and astrology ， the religious reformation and teh economic expansion .
A. Chinese / Indian
B. Hebrew / Egyptian
C. Roman / Greek
D. Britain / American
2. Geoffrey Chaucer develops his characterization to a higher artistic level by presenting characters with both typical qualities and _____ dispositions .
A. individual
B. collective
C. social
D. natural
3. William Shakespeare's history plays are mainly written under the _____ that national unity under a mighty and just sovereigh is a ______ .
A. fact / possibility
B. story / probability
C. principle / necessity
D. reality / truth
4. The _____ was a progressive intellectual movement throughout western Europe in the 18th century .
A. Renaissance
B. Enlightenment
C. Religious
D. Chartist Movement
5. The two collections of poems written by William Blake ， ______ and ____________ ， hold the similar subject-matter ， but the tone ， emphasis and conclusion differ .
A. Songs of Innocence / Songs of Experience
B. Poetical Sketches / Songs of Innocence
C. Poetical Sketches / Marriage of Heaven and Hell
D. Songs fo Innocenced / Songs of Experienced
6. As a leading Romanticist ， George Gordon Byron's chief contribution is his creation of the “____” hero ， a proud ， mysterious rebel figure ， of noble origin .
A. Byronic
B. Romantic
C. Oriented
D. Optimistic
7. The ________ are generally regarded as John Keats' most important and natural works .
A. epics
B. lyrics
C. odes
D. poetry
8. John Keats ' Ode to a Nightingale expresses the contrast between the happy world of ____ loveliness and human of agony .
A. fairy
B. natural
C. pastoral
D. optimistic
9. The novel Jane Eyre mainly tells a story about the love affair of Jane Eyre and Mr. _____.
A. Rochester
B. Bumble
C. Linton
D. Hindley
10. The story of Wuthering Heights is told mainly by Nelly ， _______ s' old nurse ， to Mr. Lockwood ， a temporary tenant at Grange . The latter gives an account of what he sees at wuthering Heights .
A. Heathcliff
B. Catherine
C. Hindley
D. Jane Eyre
11. The theme of the novel The Man of Property is that of the predominant _______ instinct of the Forsytes and its effects upon the personal relationships of the family with the underlying assumption that human relationships of the contemporary English society are merely an extension of property relationships .
A. sexual
B. human
C. possessive
D. cruel
12. The Waste Land is a poem concerned with the spiritual _____ of a modern civilization in human life which has lost its meaning ， significance and purpose .
A. breakup
B. conform
C. happiness
D. disappointment
13. Ulysses ， James Joyce's masterpiece ， gives an account of man's life during one day （16 June ， 1904 ） in Dublin ， The whole novel is divided into
18 episodes in correspondence with the ____ hours of the day.
A. 24
B. 20
C. 12
D. 18
14. The three major characters in Ulysses are ______ ， an Irish Jew ， his wife ， Marion Tweedy Bloom .
A. Leopold Bloom
B. Stephen Dedalus
C. Paul Morel
D. Afred Prufrock
15. As a philosophical and literary movement ， _______ flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War .
A. modernism
B. rationalism
C. sentimenetalism
D. transcendentalism
16. Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocate in ______and Thoreau .
A. Jefferson
B. Emerson
C. Freneau
D. Oversoul
17. Mark Twain created ， in _______ ， a masterpiece of American realism