14. In his Finnegan''s Wake ， an encycleopedic work ， James Joyce ambitiously attempted to pack the whole history of mankind into _______ .

　　A. one man''s mind

　　B. one night''s dream

　　C. one story

　　D. one lyric poem

　　15. Transcendentalists recognized _____ as the “ highest power of the soul ”。

　　A. intuition

　　B. Thoreau

　　C. Mark Twain

　　D. Dreiser

　　17. Where Mark Twain satirized European manners at times ， ________ was an admirer .

　　A. O.Henry

　　B. Henry James

　　C. Walt Whitman

　　D. Jack London

　　18. “ The Way of the Beaten ： A Harp in the Wind ，” this is the title of one chapter in Dreiser'' s novel _______ .

　　A. An American Tragedy

　　B. Sister Carrie

　　C. Dreiser Looks at Russia

　　D. Jannie Gerhardt

　　19. The American “ Thirties ” ， lasted from the crash ， through the ensuing Great Depression ， until the outbreak of the Second World War 1939 . This was a period of _____ .

　　A. poverty

　　B. important social movement

　　C. a new social consciousness

　　D. all of the above

　　20. In the pre-war period ， such writers as _______ ， pointed out the contradictions between what American preached and they practiced .

　　A. Mark Twain

　　B. Stephen Grane

　　C. Theodore Dreise

　　D. all of the above

　　21. The period of the old English literature extends from about 450 to 1066 ， the year of the ______ of England .

　　A. religious Reformation

　　B. Norman Conquest

　　C. Roman Invasion

　　D. the centralization of power

　　22. The ______ movement in the eighteenth century Europe was a furtherance of the Renaissance of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries .

　　A. Enlightenment

　　B. Renaissance

　　C. Sentimental

　　D. Transcendental

　　23. As a lexicographer ， Samuel Johnson distinguished himself as the author of the first English _______ by an Englishman .

　　A. novel

　　B. drama

　　C. poetry

　　D. dictionary

　　24. The novel Oliver Twist presents Oliver Twist as Charles Dickens'' first ______ hero .

　　A. female

　　B. male

　　C. child

　　D. imaginary

　　25. _______ is considered to be the best-known English dramatist since William Shakespeare .

　　A. George Bernard Shaw

　　B. Richard Brinsley Sheridan

　　C. Christopher Marlowe

　　D. John Donne

　　26. T.S. Eliot ''s classic expression of the temper of his age is ________ .

　　A. The Waste Land

　　B. Ash Wednesday

　　C. Four Quartets

　　D. The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock

[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]