D．Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, Othello, Hamlet

　　17．As one of the greatest masters of English prose, ________ defined a good style as “proper words in proper places”.
　　A．Henry Fielding
　　B．Jonathan Swift
　　C．Samuel Johnson
　　D．Alexander Pope

　　18．All of the following novels by Daniel Defoe are the first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower-class people EXCEPT ______.
　　A．Robinson Crusoe
　　B．Captain Singleton
　　C．Moll Flanders
　　D．Colonel Jack

　　19．Among the three major works by John Milton ______ is indeed the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf.
　　A．Paradise Regained
　　B．Samson Agonistes
　　C．Lycidas
　　D．ParadiseLost

　　20．English Romanticism, as a historical phase of literature, is generally said to have ended in 1832 with ______.
　　A．the passage of the first Reform Bill in the Parliament
　　B．the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads
　　C．the publication of T．S．Eliot’s The waste Land
　　D．the passage of the Bill of Rights in the Parliament

　　21．Contrary to the traditional romance of aristocrats, the modern English novel gives a realistic presentation of life of ______.
　　A．the common English people
　　B．the upper class
　　C．the rising bourgeoisie
　　D．the enterprising landlords

　　22．The major concern of ______ fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature.
　　A．John Galsworthy’s
　　B．Thomas Hardy’s
　　C．D．H．Lawrence’s
　　D．Charles Dickens’

　　23．The Nobel Prize Committee highly praised ______ for “his powerful style-forming mastery of the art” of creating modern fiction.
　　A．Ezra Pound
　　B．Ernest Hemingway
　　C．Robert Frost
　　D．Theodore Dreiser

　　24．In 1950,______ was awarded the Nobel Prize for the anti-racist Intruder in the Dust.
　　A．William Faulkner
　　B．Robert Frost
　　C．Ezra Pound
　　D．Ernest Hemingway

　　25．Herman Melville wrote his semi-autobiographical novel ______ concerning the sufferings of a genteel youth among brutal sailors.
　　A．Typee
　　B．Redburn
　　C．Moby-Dick
　　D．Mardi

　　26．The Adventures of Tom Sawyerand, especially, its sequence ______ proved themselves to be the milestone in the American literature.
　　A．The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
　　B．Life on the Mississippi
　　C．The Gilded Age
　　D．Roughing It

　　27．The Portrait of A Lady is generally considered to be ______ masterpiece, which describes the life journey of an American ________ in a European cultural environment.
　　A．Henry Adams’…widow
　　B．William James’…girl
　　C．Henry James’…girl
　　D．Theodore Dreiser’s…widow

　　28．Hawthorne intended to ______ in The Scarlet Letter.
　　A．tell a story of parental love
　　B．tell a story of sin and bloody violence
　　C．call the readers back to the plantation way of living
　　D．reveal the human psyche after they sinned

　　29．“The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water.” This “iceberg” analogy is put forward by ______.
　　A．Mark Twain
　　B．Ezra Pound
　　C．William Faulkner
　　D．Ernest Hemingway

　　30．In many of Hawthorne’s stories and novels, the Puritan concept of life is condemned, or the Puritan past is shown in an almost totally negative light, especially in his ______ and The Scarlet Letter.
　　A．Twice-Told Tales
　　B．The Blithedale Romance
　　C．The Marble Faun
　　D．The House of the Seven Gables

　　31．The white whale, Moby Dick, symbolizes ________ for Melville, for it is complex, unfathomable, malignant, and beautiful as well.
　　A．society
　　B．nature
　　C．ocean animals
　　D．both A and C

　　32．After the American Civil War, the literary interest in the so-called “reality” of life started a new period in the American literary writings know an the Age of ______. 转贴于：自考_考试大

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