第一章 单元测试
1、单选题：
The ________ Viking raiders were known throughout Europe for their unmerciful violence. ( )
选项：
A:solicitous
B:discreet
C:Forged
D:infamous
答案: 【infamous】
2、多选题：
During England’s Anglo-Saxon period, seafaring was filled with ________ and ________. ( )
选项：
A:misery
B:reckoning
C:prevarication
D:Peril
答案: 【misery;Peril】
3、单选题：
Knights during the Medieval period were expected to be gallant and to aspire to attain ________. ( )
选项：
A:reason
B:humanist ideal
C:passion
D:the chivalrous ideal
答案: 【the chivalrous ideal】
4、单选题：
Anglo-Saxon poetry is filled with ________ imagery that conveys the themes of loss and misery. ( )
选项：
A:Intrepid
B:estimable
C:blithe
D:doleful
答案: 【doleful】
5、单选题：
The two ________ causes of death during the 1300s were war and the bubonic plague. ( )
选项：
A:foremost
B:disdainful
C:dauntless
D:Discreet
答案: 【foremost】
6、单选题：
The power of the ________ flourished during the Medieval period like at no other time. ( )
选项：
A:Humanism
B:church
C:literature
D:monarch
答案: 【church】
7、单选题：
Those who ________ in Europe’s monasteries dedicated their lives to work and prayer. ( )
选项：
A:blanched
B:dispersed
C:Perceived
D:dwelled
答案: 【dwelled】
8、判断题：
The last monster Beowulf killed was Grendel. ( ）
选项：
A:对
B:错
答案: 【错】
9、判断题：
The Canterbury Tales depicts people from all walks and contains over 100 stories. （ ）
选项：
A:错
B:对
答案: 【错】
10、判断题：
Geoffrey Chaucer is regarded as the father of English poetry. （ ）
选项：
A:对
B:错
答案: 【对】
第二章 单元测试
1、判断题：
Although many were executed for treachery in Tudor England, their actual crime was holding religious beliefs different from those of the monarch. （ ）
选项：
A:对
B:错
答案: 【对】
2、判断题：
To the humanists, human endeavor had dignity and worth in its own right. （ ）
选项：
A:错
B:对
答案: 【对】
3、多选题：
Many Renaissance thinkers believed that _________ and quiet ________ would prevail in the effort to completely remake society. （ ）
选项：
A:conducting experiments
B:contemplation
C:learning
D:fighting
答案: 【contemplation;learning】
4、单选题：
There is nearly ________ recognition of Shakespeare’s literary ________ among scholars. ( )
选项：
A:continual . . . strife
B:constant . . . virtues
C:vain . . . tempest
D:bitter . . . balm
答案: 【constant . . . virtues】
5、判断题：
If Shakespeare is the dazzling sun of English Renaissance, Spenser is the morning star. （ ）
选项：
A:对
B:错
答案: 【错】
6、单选题：
There was almost ________ violence between Catholics and Protestants in England and Europe throughout the Reformation. （ ）
选项：
A:wan
B:vain
C:continual
D:suppressed
答案: 【suppressed】
7、单选题：
Before the beginning of the Renaissance, the classics of ancient Greece and Rome had ________ in near obscurity. （ ）
选项：
A:languished
B:executed
C:subdued
D:scorned
答案: 【languished】
8、多选题：
Though barely able to endure the grief he felt after his wife’s death, Donne transformed his sorrow into powerful ________ and ________. （ ）
选项：
A:verse
B:music
C:drama
D:sermons
答案: 【verse;sermons】
9、单选题：
Some poets of the period, including Donne, attempted to strike a balance between the impermanent, ________ world and the divine. （ ）
选项：
A:meek
B:mortal
C:mute
D:wan
答案: 【wan】
10、多选题：
Shakespeare’s tragic masterpieces include ________. （ ）
选项：
A:Hamlet
B:King Lear
C:Macbeth
D:Othello
答案: 【Hamlet;King Lear;Macbeth;Othello】
第三章 单元测试
1、单选题：
The violent discord of the English Civil War ended with the execution of ________. （ ）
选项：
A:King James II
B:King James I
C:King Charles I
D:King Charles II
答案: 【】
2、单选题：
The harsh ten years after the end of the English Civil War were marked by zealous ________ rule. （ ）
选项：
A:Roman
B:Puritan
C:Protestant
D:Catholic
答案: 【
3、单选题：
The Enlightenment sprang, in part, from a newfound veneration of the power of ________ by writers and philosophers. （ ）
选项：
A:Emotion
B:Reason
C:devotion
D:imagination
答案: 【
4、判断题：
John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress can be seen as an English “proto-novel”. （ ）
选项：
A:对
B:错
答案: 【】
5、单选题：
Slowly it became clear that the Puritan Commonwealth was not a benevolent purveyor of liberty but instead was ________ and oppressive. （ ）
选项：
A:reconciled
B:impetuous
C:intuitive
D:malicious
答案: 【
6、判断题：
Enlightenment thinkers rejected irrational and unsound ideas while embracing the modern works of Western civilization. （ ）
选项：
A:对
B:错
答案: 【】
7、判断题：
The ‘English’ that Milton created for Paradise Lost is heavily, at times overpoweringly, ‘Latinised’ – it’s almost as if he never could shake off the intention of writing the poem in the antique language. （ ）
选项：
A:对
B:错
答案: 【】
8、单选题：
The Restoration led to a reversal of the ban on theater, music, and other ________ that were popular at the time. （ ）
选项：
A:diversions
B:stratagems
C:vigilance
D:edifices
答案: 【
9、判断题：
As a Neoclassic poet, Alexander Pope strove to revolutionize English poetry and wrote poems in experimental forms. （ ）
选项：
A:错
B:对
答案: 【】
10、判断题：
Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe marks the emergence of realistic novel in English literature. （ ）
选项：
A:对
B:错
答案: 【
第四章 单元测试
1、单选题：
William Wordsworth is an English __________.（ ）
选项：
A:novelist
B:playwright
C:critic
D:poet
答案: 【
2、单选题：
It is generally regarded that Keats’s most important and mature poems are in the form of __________.( )
选项：
A:elegy
B:epic
C:sonnet
D:ode
答案: 【】
3、单选题：
Which of the following poems is NOT written by George Gordon Byron? ( )
选项：
A:She Walks in Beauty
B:The Solitary Reaper
C:Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
D:When We Two Parted
答案:
4、单选题：
Robert Burns is a poet from _________.( )
选项：
A:Ireland
B:England
C:New England
D:Scotland
答案: 【
5、单选题：
The poet of the peasants” is a title given to_____.( )
选项：
A:Chatterton
B:Blake
C:Burns
D:Gray
答案: 【
6、单选题：
“The Lake School ” includes all the following members except _____.( )
选项：
A:Southey
B:Wordsworth
C:Keats
D:Coleridge
答案: 【】
7、单选题：
The Romantic Age began with the publication of “The Lyrical Ballads” which was written by ________. ( )
选项：
A:Wordsworth and Coleridge
B:Samuel Johnson
C:Samuel Taylor Coleridge
D:William Wordsworth
答案: 【】
8、单选题：
The Romantic Age came to an end with the death of the last well-known romantic writer ________. ( )
选项：
A:Samuel Taylor Coleridge
B:Walter Scott
C:Jane Austen
D:William Wordsworth
答案: 【
9、单选题：
The first poem in “The Lyrical Ballads” is Coleridge’s masterpiece “___________”. ( )
选项：
A:Tintern Abbey
B:Kubla Khan
C:The Rime of Ancient Mariner
D:The Prelude
答案: 【
10、单选题：
Choose the historical novel written by Scott. ( )
选项：
A:Mansfield Park
B:Marmion
C:Rob Roy
D:The Lady of the Lake
答案: 【
第五章 单元测试
1、单选题：
The Victorian Age was largely an age of __________, eminently represented by Dickens and Thackeray. （ ）
选项：
A:pessimism
B:critical realism
C:modernism
D:naturalism
答案: 【
2、单选题：
The Bronte Sisters published the following novels EXCEPT __________. ( )
选项：
A:Jane Eyre
B:The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
C:Agnes Grey
D:Wuthering Heights
答案: 【
3、单选题：
William Makepeace Thackeray’s most famous work is _________. ( )
选项：
A:Past and Present
B:Major Barbara
C:Vanity Fair
D:The School for Scandal
答案: 【
4、单选题：
The following are all Dickens’ works EXCEPT ________. ( )
选项：
A:A Tale of Two Cities
B:Great Expectations
C:Oliver Twist
D:The Vicar of Wakefield
答案: 【
5、单选题：
The greatest English novelist in 19th century was ________, who criticized the bourgeois civilization and showed the misery of the common people. ( )
选项：
A:Charles Dickens
B:Charlotte Bronte
C:Thomas Hardy
D:Thackeray
答案: 【
6、单选题：
English critical realism found its expression chiefly in the form of ________. ( )
选项：
A:poetry
B:novel
C:drama
D:essay
答案: 【
7、单选题：
“________” is often regarded as the semi autobiography of the author in which the early life of the hero is largely based on the author’s early life. ( )
选项：
A:A Tale of Two Cities
B:Oliver Twist
C:David Copperfield
D:Great Expectation
答案: 【
8、单选题：
The sub-title of “Vanity Fair” is “________”. ( )
选项：
A:A Pure Woman Faithfully Portrayed
B:The Spirit and the Flesh
C:Two Women’s Story
D:A Novel Without a Hero
答案: 【
9、单选题：
Who of the following writers dose not belong to the Bronte sisters? They were all talented writers all of them died young. ( )
选项：
A:Charlotte
B:Emily
C:Anne
D:Catherine
答案: 【
10、单选题：
Which doesn’t belong to Hardy’s Wessex novels or Novels of character and environment? ()
选项：
A:The Mayor of Casterbridge
B:The Return of the Native
C:Emma
D:Under the Greenwood Tree
答案: 【
第六章 单元测试
1、单选题：
James Joyce is the author of all the following novels EXCEPT __________. ( )
选项：
A:A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
B:Ulysses
C:Jude the Obscure
D:Dubliners
答案: 【】
2、单选题：
Whose works are characterized by stream-of-consciousness? ( )
选项：
A:George Eliot
B:James Joyce
C:Jane Austen
D:Emily Bronte
答案: 【
3、单选题：
Which of the following works is NOT written by D.H. Lawrence? ( )
选项：
A:The Rainbow
B:Sons and Lovers
C:Women in Love
D:The French Lieutenant’s Woman
答案: 【
4、单选题：
The Waste land was mainly encouraged by the author’s study of_____. ( )
选项：
A:Bible
B:Paradise Lost
C:Ulysses
D:Golden Bough
答案: 【
5、单选题：
In Which poem are the sterility and chaos of the contemporary world after 1st World War expressed? ( )
选项：
A:The Invisible Man
B:The Waste Land
C:Ash-Wednesday
D:The Hollow Men
答案: 【
6、单选题：
The dominant poetic technique used in The waste land is ________. ( )
选项：
A:romanticism
B:impressionism
C:symbolism
D:expressionism
答案: 【】
7、单选题：
Henry James is the forerunner of the _____. ( )
选项：
A:impressionism
B:Imagism
C:stream of consciousness
D:Chartism
答案: 【
8、单选题：
____ is a great novel spending James Joyce seven years of hard working to complete. ( )
选项：
A:Finnegans Wake
B:Dubliners
C:A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
D:Ulysses
答案: 【】
9、单选题：
Which is not written by Virginia Woolf? ()
选项：
A:The Waves
B:Mrs. Dalloway
C:Orlando
D:To the Lighthouse
答案: 【】
10、单选题：
____ was a leader of the modernist movement in English poetry and a great innovator of verse technique. ()
选项：
A:D. H. Lawrence
B:T. S. Eliot
C:W. B. Yeats
D:G. B. Shaw
答案: 【
第七章 单元测试
1、单选题：
Persecution in England motivated the Pilgrims to ______ on a very ______ voyage across the Atlantic Ocean. （ ）
选项：
A:abhor . . . insidious
B:embark . . . arduous
C:revive . . . copious
D:temper . . . abominable
答案: 【
2、单选题：
The Native American oral tradition is populated with powerful ______ , animals, and ancestral spirits. （ ）
选项：
A:conjurers
B:vaults
C:scruples
D:mortifications
答案: 【
3、单选题：
Thomas Jefferson hoped to protect America’s prosperity from tyranny when he drafted ________. （ ）
选项：
A:The Crisis
B:Autobiography
C:the Declaration of Independence
D:Common Sense
答案: 【
4、单选题：
During his lifetime, Benjamin Franklin created many ______ things. （ ）
选项：
A:insidious
B:copious
C:ingenious
D:petrified
答案: 【
5、判断题：
Bradford’s Of Plymouth Plantation, is one of the most important narratives of early colonial life. （ ）
选项：
A:对
B:错
答案: 【】
6、判断题：
Walter Whitman was the first published poet in America. （ ）
选项：
A:错
B:对
答案: 【】
7、多选题：
Persuasion is often based on three types of appeal: ________. （ ）
选项：
A:appeal to emotions
B:ethical appeal
C:appeal to reason, logic, and evidence
D:appeal to imagination
答案: 【
8、单选题：
The rhetorical device used in the following sentence is ________. “The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.” （ ）
选项：
A:figurative language
B:hyperbole
C:parallelism
D:understatement
答案: 【
9、判断题：
Native Americans saw animals, plants, and the forces of nature as part of a great sacred cycle of life that human beings must treat with deep respect. （ ）
选项：
A:对
B:错
答案: 】
10、判断题：
The Puritans’ elaborate style showed in their writing, which employed elevated language and often focused on secular life. （ ）
选项：
A:对
B:错
答案: 【】
第八章 单元测试
1、单选题：
For the writers of the era, Romanticism was a way to ______ political and literary values. ( )
选项：
A:surmise
B:speculate
C:beguile
D:integrate
答案: 【
2、判断题：
The agrarian South had few cities, whereas the myriad cities in the North were heavily industrialized. （ ）
选项：
A:对
B:错
答案: 【】
3、单选题：
The size and clamor of the cities drove ________ into nature and a quiet life of seclusion. （ ）
选项：
A:Hawthorne
B:Poe
C:Emerson
D:Thoreau
答案: 【
4、多选题：
Thoreau’s life at Walden Pond was a response to his own inquiry to live ________ and ________. （ ）
选项：
A:colorfully
B:deliberately
C:romantically
D:simply
答案: 【
5、判断题：
In their writings, Poe and Hawthorne often deal with evil, or iniquity. （ ）
选项：
A:错
B:对
答案: 【】
6、单选题：
________, the perennial concern of the Transcendentalists, remains an important issue to this day. （ ）
选项：
A:Romanticism
B:Idealism
C:Puritanism
D:Individualism
答案: 【
7、单选题：
Poe crafted his ________ stories of the ________ in order to convey a sense of horror to the reader. （ ）
选项：
A:melancholy . . . occult
B:irreproachable . . . culture
C:sublime . . . sage
D:sagacious . . . culture
答案: 【
8、单选题：
Ralph Waldo Emerson was a ________ writer and philosopher, known as “The Sage of Concord.” （ ）
选项：
A:popular
B:sinister
C:venerable
D:pessimistic
答案: 【
9、单选题：
Hawthorne was drawn to the moral ______ of the Puritan’s past. （ ）
选项：
A:torpor
B:iniquity
C:fortitude
D:discord
答案: 【
10、判断题：
Known primarily as a master of horror and suspense tales, Nathaniel Hawthorne is also credited with inventing the detective story and contributing to the development of science fiction. （ ）
选项：
A:对
B:错
答案: 【】
第九章 单元测试
1、单选题：
Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth both fought to ______ slavery. （ ）
选项：
A:pervade
B:adorn
C:vanquish
D:consecrate
答案: 【
2、单选题：
A common ________ of slave owners was that they were “civilizing” the people they held in bondage. （ ）
选项：
A:perusal
B:allusion
C:delusion
D:cathedral
答案: 【
3、单选题：
In the end, the South could not ________ with the North’s overwhelming force. （ ）
选项：
A:contend
B:assent
C:protrude
D:induce
答案: 【
4、单选题：
The ‘great war’, according to no less an admirer than Abraham Lincoln himself, was started by Harriet Beecher Stowe with her anti-slavery novel, ________. （ ）
选项：
A:Invisible Man
B:My Bondage and My Freedom
C:Native Son
D:Uncle Tom’s Cabin
答案: 【
5、判断题：
When Walt Whitman first published Leaves of Grass in 1855, it marked the beginning of a revolution in poetry. ( ）
选项：
A:对
B:错
答案: 【】
6、判断题：
Whitman was nurtured by the transcendentalists, and he took great delight in the quiet joys of nature. （ ）
选项：
A:错
B:对
答案: 【】
7、单选题：
Whitman wrote in ________, which revolutionized the form of poetry. ( )
选项：
A:ballad
B:blank verse
C:free verse
D:sonnet
答案: 【
8、判断题：
Emily Dickinson’s poetry could turn the ordinary into the deeply meaningful. （ ）
选项：
A:对
B:错
答案: 【】
9、单选题：
Which of the following is not the feature of Dickinson’s distinctive style? ( )
选项：
A:Use of dashes
B:Free verse
C:Fondness of riddles
D:Traditional meter
答案: 【
10、多选题：
Dickinson’s poems could be categorized in conventional terms—________—but she brought irony and keen observation to these common topics. ()
选项：
A:love
B:eternity
C:death
D:loneliness
答案: 【
第十章 单元测试
1、单选题：
In his novel The Jungle, Upton Sinclair exposed the ________ conditions in the meat-packing industry. ( )
选项：
A:palpable
B:venerable
C:wallowing
D:degenerate
答案: 【
2、单选题：
Sinclair wanted to change public ________ and arouse empathy for the workers’ plight to inspire concrete action. ( )
选项：
A:poise
B:perception
C:valedictory
D:reverence
答案:
3、单选题：
Which of the following writers is not an American colorist? ( )
选项：
A:Henry James
B:Mark Twain
C:Bret Harte
D:Willa Cather
答案: 【】
4、判断题：
Ernest Hemingway stated that “all modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Tom Sawyer.” （ ）
选项：
A:对
B:错
答案: 【】
5、单选题：
________ was the first female writer in the United States to portray frankly the passions and discontents of women confined to traditional roles as wives and mothers. （ ）
选项：
A:Emily Dickinson
B:Kate Chopin
C:Willa Cather
D:Edith Wharton
答案: 【
6、单选题：
________ became the master chronicler of the inner lives of his characters, and he used his subtle innovations in narrative point of view to probe the complex relationship between wealth and culture. （ ）
选项：
A:Stephen Crane
B:Mark Twain
C:Jack London
D:Henry James
答案: 【
7、多选题：
Stephen Crane’s novels include _________. （ ）
选项：
A:Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
B:The Red Badge of Courage
C:The Call of the Wild
D:War Is Kind
答案: 【
8、判断题：
Naturalists were strongly influenced by Charles Darwin’s scientific theory of evolution by natural selection, and adopted the view that people had little control over their own lives. （ ）
选项：
A:错
B:对
答案: 【】
9、判断题：
In his work, Crane embraced a pessimistic realism that undermined earlier, romanticized visions of human experiences. （ ）
选项：
A:对
B:错
答案: 【】
10、判断题：
Naturalists denied the existence of the supernatural and saw human beings as alone in the universe. Transcendentalists believed people could shape their lives through intuition, self-reliance, and inspiration. （ ）
选项：
A:错
B:对
答案: 【】
第十一章 单元测试
1、单选题：
Ezra Pound believed that modern poetry should be built on the literature of the past and yet also _____. （ ）
选项：
A:haughty
B:impeded
C:intimidated
D:unique
答案: 【
2、单选题：
Much of the U.S. public was ________ to the conflict in Europe until the United States entered the war. （ ）
选项：
A:dutiful
B:indifferent
C:withered
D:ingenious
答案: 【
3、单选题：
Many critics were unimpressed by the bold declarations and ________ of some of the Modernist writers. （ ）
选项：
A:brazenness
B:snickers
C:hypocrisy
D:piety
答案: 【
4、单选题：
The writers of the Harlem Renaissance refused to ________ themselves to second-class citizenship. （ ）
选项：
A:jostle
B:resign
C:jilt
D:exalt
答案:
5、单选题：
In their writing, Imagists often tried to transform elements from the ________, everyday world into something remarkable. （ ）
选项：
A:ingenious
B:withered
C:ominous
D:mundane
答案: 【
6、单选题：
With the spread of jazz came a great deal of ________ and disapproval among older people, who felt it was corrupting the youth. （ ）
选项：
A:patronage
B:piety
C:perturbation
D:vanity
答案:
7、单选题：
Many African Americans felt ________ and alienated from the mainstream culture in the United States. （ ）
选项：
A:tactful
B:dutiful
C:withered
D:detached
答案: 【】
8、判断题：
Frost relied largely on free verse, and his language is frequently colloquial. （ ）
选项：
A:对
B:错
答案: 【】
9、判断题：
American poet Gertrude Stein remarked to a new American expatriate, F. Scott Fitzgerald, that young people of the time were a “lost generation.” （ ）
选项：
A:对
B:错
答案: 【】
10、多选题：
________ and ________ were central figures in the Imagist movement. （）
选项：
A:Robert Frost
B:E. E. Cummings
C:H.D.
D:Amy Lowell
答案: 【
第十二章 单元测试
1、单选题：
The ______ rations of many families during the Great Depression led to near-starvation conditions in both urban and rural areas. （ ）
选项：
A:meager
B:retractable
C:amiable
D:diplomatic
答案: 【
2、单选题：
The wild, ________ music and style of dress during the 1920s gave way to the desperate and ________ days of the 1930s. ( )
选项：
A:amorphous . . grave
B:ceremonial . . enamored
C:ravenous . . ceremonial
D:animated . . morose
答案: 【
3、判断题：
The 1916 performance of Eugene O’Neill’s Bound East for Cardiff by the Provincetown Players marked the rise of American drama. （ ）
选项：
A:错
B:对
答案: 【】
4、多选题：
O’Neill’s plays, including ________ reflect his New England background, his Irish American heritage, his reading of the Scandinavian playwrights Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, and his fascination with the theories and discoveries of modern psychology. ( )
选项：
A:A Streetcar Named Desire
B:The Iceman Cometh
C:Long Day’s Journey into Night
D:Strange Interlude
答案: 【
5、单选题：
Along with William Faulkner, Carson McCullers, and Tennessee Williams, ________ is sometimes classified as a Southern Gothic writer because of her detailed renderings of small town Southern life and her flair for creating eccentric—even grotesque—characters. （ ）
选项：
A:Zora Neale Hurston
B:Willa Cather
C:Kate Chopin
D:O’Connor
答案: 【
6、多选题：
Faulkner’s style often makes his writing difficult to follow because he experimented with repetition, ________, and ________. （ ）
选项：
A:stream of consciousness
B:dramatic monologue
C:multiple points of view
D:international theme
答案:
7、单选题：
Steinbeck’s greatest work, ________, was among the most widely read novels of the twentieth century. （ ）
选项：
A:The Sound and the Fury
B:The Great Gatsby
C:The Grapes of Wrath
D:The Sun Also Rises
答案: 【
8、判断题：
Unlike the local colorists of the late 1800s, the Regionalists of the mid-twentieth century were less concerned with peculiarities of local dialect or dress than with the deeper impact of setting on character. （ ）
选项：
A:错
B:对
答案: 【】
9、判断题：
In order to analyze the effects that Southern history had on its people, Faulkner wrote stories based on his hometown Yoknapatawpha County. （ ）
选项：
A:错
B:对
答案: 【】
10、单选题：
While people in the United States were ________ in the economic recovery effort, Europe was about to ________ to another deadly war. （ ）
选项：
A:intimidated . . grapple
B:premeditated . . loiter
C:enamored . . grapple
D:engrossed . . succumb
答案: 【】
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