北语21秋《英美文学选读》作业4[答案]

北语21秋《英美文学选读》作业4[答案]答案

21秋《英美文学选读》作业4题目

试卷总分:100  得分:100

一、单选题 (共 20 道试题,共 100 分)

1.Which book marked the turning point of Hawthornw＇ career and his personal life?

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A.Twice-Told Tales

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B.Fanshawe

C.The Scarlet Letter

D.Mosess from an Old Manse

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2.In David Copperfield, little David＇s second father treated him and his mother___

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A.badly

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B.kindly

C.nicely

D.well

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3.Virginia Woolf was born in___

A.2182

B.1767

C.1678

D.2190

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4.Which of the following is a tragedy?

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A.Antony and Cleopatra

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B.Twelfth Night

C.Julius Caesar

D.Much ado about Nothing

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5."Two roads diverged in a yellow wood And sorry I could not travel both ..."In the above two lines of Robert Frost＇s The Road Not Taken, the poet, by implication, was referring to _______.

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A.a travel experience

B.a marriage decision

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C.a middle-age crisis

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D.one＇s course of life

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6.When we say that a poor young man from the West tried to make his fortune in the East but was disillusioned in the quest of an idealized dream, we are probably discussing about ______＇s thematic concern in his fiction writing.

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A.Henry James

B.Scott Fitzgerald

C.Ernest Hemingway

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D.William Faulkner

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7.Mr. Micawber in David Copperfield and Sam Well in Pickwick Papers are perhaps the best ______ characters created by Charles Dickens.

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A.comic

B.tragic

C.round

D.sophisticated

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8.O Captain, My Capain is written by___

A.Robert Burns

B.Robert Frost

C.Walt Whitman

D.John Keats

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9.In English poetry the _______ is regarded as the most common foot.

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A.iamb

B.anapest

C.trochee

D.dactyl

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10.Robert Frost is a regional poet in the sense that his poems are mainly concerned about the _______.

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A.life in New York

B.country life in New England

C.sea adventures

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D.life on the Mississippi

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11.With Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the literary scene,　___became the major trend in American literature in the seventies and eighties of the 19th century.

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A.Sentimentalism

B.romanticism

C.realism

D.naturalism

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12.What kind of girl is Dora?

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A.pretty and clever

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B.pretty and empty-headed

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C.plain-looking and understading

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D.lovely and clever

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13.Henry David Thoreau＇s work___, has always been regarded as a masterpiece of New England Transcendentalism.

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A.Walden

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B.The Pioneers

C.Nature

D.Song of Myself

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14.In "After Apple- Picking," Robert Frost wrote: "For I have had too much / Of apple -picking: I am overtired/ Of the great harvest I myself desired." From these lines we can conclude that the speaker is

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A.happy about the harvest

B.still very much interested in apple-picking

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C.expecting a greater harvest

D.indifferent to what he once desired

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15."If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?" is an epigrammatic line by

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A.Keats

B.W. Blake

C.W. Wordsworth

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D.P. B. Shelley

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16.Defoe＇s Robinson Crusoe created the image of an enterprising Englishman, typical of the English bourgeoisie in the ______ century.

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A.17th

B.21th

C.19th

D.20th

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17.Which of the following statements about writers in 1920s is true?

A.Mark Twain published his last and most important novel.

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B.Scott Fitzgerald received the Nobel Prize.

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C.Freudian psychology influenced many modern writers.

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D.Most writers were politically radical.

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21.After reading the first chapter of Pride and Prejudice, we may come to know that Mrs. Bennet is a woman of _______ .

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A.simple character and quick wit

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B.simple character and poor understanding

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C.intricate character and quick wit

D.intricate character and poor understanding

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19.The story of the Scarlet Letter is set in___

A.New York

B.England

C.Boston

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D.Salt lake City

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20.which of the following is NOT written by Dreiser?

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A.Jennie Gerhardt

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B.Go down, Moses

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C.An American Tragedy

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D.Sister Carrie

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北语21秋《英美文学选读》作业4[答案]历年参考题目如下：

福师《英美文学选读》在线作业一-0005

试卷总分:100    得分:0

一、 单选题 (共 50 道试题,共 100 分)

1.When workers are organized in trade unions, employers find it hard to lay them ________.

A.off

B.aside

C.out

D.down

 

 

2.The chairman of the board _____ on me the unpleasant job of dismissing good workers the firm can no longer afford to employ.

A.compelled

B.posed

C.pressed

D.tempted

 

 

3.Modern sonar makes it possible to ____ an under?water submarine.?

A.communicate

B.sink

C.search

D.locate?

 

 

4.It may be necessary to stop ______in the learning process and go back to the difficult points in the lessons.

A.at case

B.at length

C.at intervals

D.at a distance

 

 

5.____ the success of the product depends on its good quality.?

A.Objectively

B.Ultimately

C.Absolutely

D.Relatively

 

 

6.She hit the chair and ____ the coffee.? ?

A.spoiled

B.poured

C.spilled

D.splashed

 

 

7._________, Mr. Wells is scarcely in sympathy with the working class.

A.Although he is a socialist

B.Even if he is a socialist

C.Being a socialist

D.Since he is a socialist

 

 

8.Equipment not______ official safety standards has all been removed from the workshop.

A.conforming to

B.consistent with

C.predominant over

D.providing for

 

 

9.He knows the regulations, and if he refuses to ____ with them he must take the consequence. ?

A.accord

B.assist?

C.confirm

D.comply

 

 

10.His contribution to the program was ____ because 99 percent of the work was completed by his colleagues.?

A.invisible

B.negligible?

C.appreciable

D.considerable

 

 

11.Each individual is requested to state the ____ on which his judgments are based.?

A.requirements

B.measures?

C.legislations

D.criteria

 

 

12.To speed up the ______of letters, the Post Office introduced automatic sorting.

A.treatment

B.transmission

C.departure

D.delivery

 

 

13.He is planning another tour abroad ,yet his passport will ______ at the end of this month.

A.expire

B.exceed

C.terminate

D.cease

 

 

14.Mr. Smith had an unusual _______ : he was first an office clerk , then a sailor , and ended up as a school teacher.

A.profession

B.occupation

C.position

D.career

 

 

15.The students showed ____when solving the difficult maths problems.?

A.validity

B.purity

C.ingenuity

D.reliability?

 

 

16.Radio reception wasn’t very good because of a disturbance in the atmosphere; the announcer’s voice sounded very ____.?

A.disputed

B.discarded

C.dismissed

D.distorted?

 

 

17.Children who stay away from school do ________ for different reasons.

A.them

B./

C.it

D.theirs

 

 

18.A system of strict discipline has a ____ effect on conduct.?

A.automatic

B.deliberate

C.beneficial

D.customary

 

 

19.I don’t know if the story is true, but I’ll try to ____ it.?

A.verify

B.reinforce

C.identify

D.conform

 

 

20.The meaning of this poem is very ____; I really do not understand it.?

A.conspicuous

B.intelligible?

C.obscure

D.dim

 

 

21.The Timber rattlesnake is now on the endangered species list, and is extinct in two eastern states in which it once______ .

A.thrived

B.swelled

C.prospered

D.flourished

 

 

22.The chairman was blamed for letting his secretary ________too much work last week.

A.take away

B.take out

C.take to

D.take on

 

 

23.To his great joy he discovered that his ear was becoming ____.?

A.sensational

B.sensitive

C.sentimental

D.sensible?

 

 

24.For three-quarters of its span on Earth, life evolved almost______ as microorganisms.

A.precisely

B.instantly

C.initially

D.exclusively

 

 

25.The bank refused to ______him any money, so he had to postpone buying a house.

A.loan

B.borrow

C.lease

D.credit

 

 

26.Because fuel supplies are finite and many people are wasteful, we will have to install _________ solar heating device in our home.

A.some type of

B.some types of a

C.some type of a

D.some types of

 

 

27.I have looked all over the office for my jar of glue. It seemed to have ____.?

A.vapoured

B.vanished?

C.vibrated

D.reduced?

 

 

28.Some people believe that since oil is scarce, the ____of the motor industry is uncertain.

A.estimate

B.terminal

C.fate

D.benefit

 

 

29.The more a nation‘s companies _______factories abroad, the smaller that country‘s recorded exports will be.

A.lie

B.locate

C.spot

D.stand

 

 

30.At first, the _____ of color pictures over a long distance seemed impossible ,but , with the painstaking efforts and at great expense ,it became a reality.

A.transaction

B.transmission

C.transformation

D.transition

 

 

31.I saw them bending with great ____ over the machines.? ?

A.concentration

B.endeavor?

C.tolerance

D.absorption

 

 

32.Foreign disinvestment and the ________ of South Africa from world capital markets after 1985 further weakened its economy.

A.displacement

B.elimination

C.exclusion

D.exception

 

 

33.A square is a flat area having four sides, any adjacent two sides of which ____ a right angle.? ?

A.make

B.advocate

C.adjoin

D.shape

 

 

34.As he failed to win the first prize in the badminton match, he had to ____ the second.?

A.settle in

B.settle for?

C.settle up

D.settle with?

 

 

35.The meeting was put off because we __________ a meeting without John.

A.objected having

B.were objected to having

C.objected to have

D.objected to having

 

 

36.Mr.Smith asked his secretary to ______a new paragraph in the annual report she was typing.

A.invade

B.install

C.insert

D.inject

 

 

37.If you know what the trouble is, why don’t you help them to ________ the situation?

A.simplify

B.modify

C.verify

D.rectify

 

 

38.The defense lawyer was questioning the old man who was one of the ______of the murder committed last month.

A.witnesses

B.audiences

C.viewers

D.observers

 

 

39.I can’t ________ what has happened to the vegetables, for they were freshly picked this morning.

A.figure out

B.draw out

C.look out

D.work out

 

 

40.You don’t have to install this radio in your new car . It’s an _______ extra.

A.excessive

B.optional

C.additional

D.arbitrary

 

 

41.If you explained the situation to your solicitor, he ________ able to advise you much better than I can.

A.would be

B.will have been

C.was

D.were

 

 

42.Some day software will translate both written and spoken language so well that the need for any common second language could _____ .

A.descend

B.decline

C.deteriorate

D.depress

 

 

43.James has just arrived, but I didn’t know he _________ until yesterday.

A.will come

B.was coming

C.had been coming

D.came

 

 

44.I know he failed his last test, but really he’s _________ stupid.

A.something but

B.anything but

C.nothing but

D.not but

 

 

45.The local people were joyfully surprised to find the price of vegetables no longer ______ according to the weather.

A.altered

B.converted

C.fluctuated

D.modified

 

 

46.These overseas students show great ______ for learning a new language.

A.faith

B.authority

C.enthusiasm

D.convention

 

 

47.The party will ____their leader very determinedly.? ?

A.adhere to

B.coincide with?

C.cling to

D.depend on

 

 

48.Preliminary estimation puts the figure at around $110 billion, _____ the $160 billion the President is struggling to get through the Congress.

A.in proportion to

B.in reply to

C.in relation to

D.in contrast to

 

 

49.It was no _____ that his car was seen near the bank at the time of the robbery .

A.coincidence

B.convention

C.certainty

D.complication

 

 

50.The portion of the total income of China’s railways which comes from carrying cargo is____80 percent.? ?

A.consequently

B.roughly

C.comparatively

D.incidentally