Exercises-for-20th-British-Literature-20世纪英国文学

Exercises-for-20th-British-Literature-20

世纪英国文学

问题 1 得 2 分，满分 2 分 Which

writer

belongs

to

“stream-of-consciousness” school? 正确答案： B.

Virginia Woolf

问题 2 得 2 分，满分 2 分

The Golden Notebook is considered to be __________’s masterpiece, taken as a milestone work in Feminist Literature.

正确答案： Doris Lessing

问题 3 得 2 分，满分 2 分

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is ’s first novel.

正确答案： James Joyce

问题 4 得 2 分，满分 2 分

_______is claimed as the best Irish poet since W.B.Yeats, and his work has been among the

most profusely commented upon in the contemporary. The volumes of his verse include Death of a Naturalist (1966), The Haw Lantern(1987), and the spirit Level (1999). 正确答案： Seamus Heaney

问题 5 得 2 分，满分 2 分

In the beginning of 20th century, the seminal developments in the fields of philosophy and psychology that impacted literary creativity and criticism are Bergson’s notion of ______and Freud’s theory of psychoanalysis. 正确答案： time

问题 6 得 2 分，满分 2 分

Which of following statements about Yeats is true?

正确答案： C.

In a certain way, Yeats’s experiments in drama anticipated the abstract movement of modern theater.

问题 7 得 2 分，满分 2 分

In My Last Duchess, “She smiled, no doubt,/ Whene’er I passed her…/…This grew; I gave commands; /Then all smiles stopped together.” The last line of the above quoted passage implies that she_________.

正确答案： A. was murdered at the order of the duke

问题 8 得 2 分，满分 2 分

All of Joyce’s novels and short stories have the same setting of his native country Ireland especially the city of .正确答案： Dublin

问题 9 得 2 分，满分 2 分

G. B. Shaw’s play Mrs. Warren’s Profession is a realistic exposure of the in the English society.

正确答案： C. economic exploitation of women

问题 10 得 2 分，满分 2 分 Eliot’s poem, The Waste Land, is mainly concerned with the ______of a modern civilization.

正确答案： D. spiritual breakup

问题 11 得 2 分，满分 2 分 Artistically, Samuel Beckett has come under the strong influence of , whose works parody the unsympathetic world and man’s wretched lot.

正确答案： D. James Joyce

问题 12 得 2 分，满分 2 分 The theory of psychoanalysis put forward first by ______exerts great influence over modern literature.

正确答案： A. Sigmund Freud

问题 13 得 2 分，满分 2 分 The modernist writers such as Dorothy Richardson, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf are mainly concerned with the ______.

正确答案： B. inner life of an individual

问题 14 得 2 分，满分 2 分 To create his modern Odyssey—Ulysses, Joyce adopts a kind of ________ style.

正确答案： mock-heroic

问题 15 得 0 分，满分 2 分 Modernism upholds a new view of time by emphasizing the time over the chronological one. 正确答案： Psychic

psychological

问题 16 得 2 分，满分 2 分 ____is Galsworthy’s masterpiece which gives a profound and true-to-life picture of the English society from the 80’s of the 19th century up to the 20’s of the 20th century. 正确答案： The Forsyte Saga

问题 17 得 2 分，满分 2 分 Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Modernism?

正确答案： C. to put more emphasis on traditional values

问题 18 得 2 分，满分 2 分 William Golding’s first novel_______, which describes a group of boys working out their lives on an isolated island, paves the way for him to win the Nobel Prize in 1983.

正确答案： Lord of Flies 、

问题 19 得 2 分，满分 2 分 In

The

French

Lieutenant’s

Woman,

is an existentially independent woman, as she said in the novel, “No limit, no blame, can touch me.”

正确答案： C. Sarah

问题 20 得 2 分，满分 2 分 Between 1912 and 1922 there came a great poetry movement______ in England and America to express the modern sense of fragmentization and dislocation. T.E. Hulme is considered the first outstanding theorist of this movement.

正确答案： imagism

问题 21 得 2 分，满分 2 分

A typical Forsyte, according to John Galsworthy, is a man with a strong sense of , who never pays any attention to human feelings.

正确答案： D. property

问题 22 得 2 分，满分 2 分 Rudyard Kipling was the spokesman for imperialist sentiment. Which one is NOT his work?

正确答案： D.

Dubliners

问题 23 得 2 分，满分 2 分 Sameul Beckett is an absurdist dramatist who is well known for his daring formal experimentation. His works are strongly suggestive of the two prominent literary phases modernism and postmodernism. The most famous of his plays is _______written in 1952.

正确答案： Waiting for Godot

问题 24 得 0 分，满分 2 分 Virginia Woolf’s novel , published in1925, made her reputation as an important psychological writer. 正确答案： Mrs. Dalloway

问题 25 得 2 分，满分 2 分 Which of the following statements about writers in 1920s is true?

正确答案： A. Freudian psychology influenced many modern writers.

问题 26 得 2 分，满分 2 分 Which of the following novels was NOT written by H. G. Wells?

正确答案： A. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

问题 27 得 0 分，满分 2 分 John Fowles’s novel _________is a metafiction model of postmodernist form of writing fiction in the form of fiction, trying to use burlesque and parody as a means to reveal the discrepancy between the imitation and the original. 正确答案： French Lieutenant’s Woman

问题 28 得 0 分，满分 2 分 In his famous essay “Tradition and Individual Talent” puts great emphasis on the importance of tradition both in creative writing and in criticism. 正确答案： T. S. Eliot

问题 29 得 2 分，满分 2 分 William Butler Yeats experienced a slow and painful change in his poetic creation, starting in the romantic tradition and finishing as a mature poet.

正确答案： modernist

modernism

问题 30 得 2 分，满分 2 分 written by Iris Murdoch is remarkable for its meta-fictional structure, containing various narrators and narrative descriptions, psychology.

正确答案： A. The Black Prince

问题 31 得 2 分，满分 2 分 In Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf adopted a writing technique called , in which the whole story was presented with the interior monologues of the characters.

正确答案： stream-of-consciousness

问题 32 得 2 分，满分 2 分 “She frankly wanted him to climb into the middle class, a thing not very difficult, she knew. And she wanted him in the end to marry a

and

its

multi-dimensional

lady.” is taken from D. H. Lawrence’s novel .

正确答案： Sons and Lovers

问题 33 得 2 分，满分 2 分 Muriel Spark’s The Girls of Slender Means is set in a hostel in the city of __________ in 1945 when the detonation of an unexploded bomb sets fire to the hostel, a moment when characters’ spiritual world is depicted in a biting satire.

正确答案： London

问题 34 得 2 分，满分 2 分

______represents the much more readable novelists of the stream of consciousness school. She is a fine artist, a woman of sharp sensitivity who, in one of her frequent mental depressions, committed suicide. 正确答案： Virginia Woolf

问题 35 得 2 分，满分 2 分

T. S. Eliot’s poem_______, which is 433 lines long, is broadly acknowledged as one of the most recognizable landmarks of modernism, the first part of the poem is the Burial of the Dead. 正确答案： The Waste Land

问题 36 得 2 分，满分 2 分 The textual insinuation of Joyce’s Ulysses is parallel to Homeric epic_____, thus revealing the vast difference between the grandeur of the ancient Greek hero and the pettiness of the degraded modern anti-hero. 正确答案： Odyssey

问题 37 得 2 分，满分 2 分

D. H. Lawrence’s poems fall roughly into three categories—satirical and comic poems, poems about human relationship and emotions, and poems about . 正确答案： nature

问题 38 得 2 分，满分 2 分

Joyce seems to mean that the novel_________ describes the mental activities of two Dubliners in a single day, while Finnegans Wake, his second novel, describes the sub-conscious world in which a man lives through a good part of his life.

正确答案： Ulysses

问题 39 得 2 分，满分 2 分 The statement that a sensitive young man is at first shaped by excessively powerful and oppressive forces of his environment but gradually realizes the pressure and rebels against it and tries to find his own identity mat well sum up the major theme of _____. 正确答案： A.

Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

问题 40 得 2 分，满分 2 分

As a literary figure, Leopold Bloom appears in ______

正确答案： D. Joyce’s Ulysses

问题 41 得 2 分，满分 2 分 . __________ is the most outstanding stream-of-consciousness novelist of 20th century.

正确答案： B.

James Joyce

问题 42 得 2 分，满分 2 分 The

Old

Wives’

Tale

was

written

by .

正确答案： D. Arnold Bennett

问题 43 得 2 分，满分 2 分

William Golding’s Lord of the Flies deals with the conflict between the forces of reason and those of irrationality represented by . 正确答案： A. Jack

问题 44 得 2 分，满分 2 分

The statement “A demanding mother turns

away from her husband and gives all her affection to her sons” sums up the main plot of D. H. Lawrence’s .

正确答案： B. Sons and Lovers

问题 45 得 2 分，满分 2 分

By presenting a conventional hero as a villain, or a conventional villain as a hero, intends to give a shocking impression to his audience and challenge the conventional way of thinking.

正确答案： D. George Bernard Shaw

问题 46 得 2 分，满分 2 分

presents in his works strong Christian nihilism, which is reflected explicitly by his famous saying “The dirty dog, he doesn’t even exits!” in his play against the God, Endgame.

正确答案： D. Samuel Beckett

问题 47 得 2 分，满分 2 分

Which of the following statements about D. H. Lawrence is NOT true?

正确答案： C. He was daringly innovative in the techniques of novel writing.

问题 48 得 2 分，满分 2 分

“The Bliss” is one of ’s famous short stories. She was skilled in psychological analysis, whose favorite technique is the flash-back. 正确答案： Katherine Mansfield

问题 49 得 2 分，满分 2 分

______, which bears a strong thematic resemblance to “The Waste Land”, is generally regarded as the darkest of T. S. Eliot’s poems. 正确答案： The Hollow Men

问题 50 得 2 分，满分 2 分

In his poem “The Lake Isle of Innifree,” W. B. Yeats expressed his _____. 正确答案： A.