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

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